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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-15
JAPANESE PREFER
BARCES TO SHIPS
Enemy Cannot Win That
Way But Death Comes
Slower
BY HAROLD STREETER
Associated Press Staff Writer

The Japanese, faced with grow
ing peril in the northern Solomons,
still prefer barges to battleships
in fighting the battle of Bougain-
vile, now fast becoming the Bat
tie for Rabaul.
They can't win that way. But
eeath comes slower.
Allied military leaders scarce
ly disguised their belief that the
Invasion of Bougainville was the
logical spot for the Japanese navy
to come out and fight.
Announcing the invasion. Gener-
al Macarthur said he would well
come the enemy fleet. Admiral
Halsey added the sooner the bet
ter. Navy Secretary Knox said
the japanese navy was afraid to
come out. Admiral Nimitz said so
too.
It was a rather large invitation.
And it looked for time last week
as though the Japanese may have
decided to accept Several groups
OF destroyers and cruisers were
seen by American aerial scouts
sailing south from Truk to Rabaul.
But time after time now those
warships have been attacked, some
sunk, many others damaged-and
always inside the harbor Of Ra-
baul.
The only truly COMPREHENSIVE
move made by the Japanese, the
one which came nearest to getting
anywhere, consisted of sending
down 81 of those self-propelled
targes from Buka to put a few
hundred japanese soldiers ashore
on the north end of the Ameri>
Continued on Page Two; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-15
Walter Lippmann Says:
Realism Is New Name
For Capital Pessin1ism

The other day I heard man
say that something or other de-
pended on whether you take an
optimistic or a realistic view of
the situation" Now I happen to
know that in 1910 he predicted as
realist that Britain would fall,
in 1941 and 1912 that Russia would
be knocked out of the war and in
1913 that Russia would make a
separate peace with Germany.
Yet he is still functioning as a
professional realist. He will, !
suppose, go on functioning. For if
a man says that something terri
Die IS going to happen and it does
not happen we are all so relieved
that our pleasure hides his error.
But If he predicts something plea
SAINT and it does not happen we
nave to take our disappointment
out on some one, and there he is,
sitting on the end of a limb.
That is why in Washington
realism has become another name
Tor pessimism. There is safety in
pesslmism, whereas to have faith
is to take risks.
Now it has been the fashion to
say that war is frightful but just
wait until peace breaks out. Per-
maps SO. But I think we may risk
the belief that the problems OF
peace, however hard and conpli-
cateo' Will not be nearly so terri.
1ylng-When we face up to them
IN practical and factual way-as
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-15
ALEXISHAFEN HIT
BY ALLIED BOMBS
223 Tons OF High Ex-
plosives Cascaded On
Jap Stronghold
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC ALLIED

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC ALLIED
HEADQUARTERS, Monday, Nov.
Is. - Up - Liberator and Mitchell
bombers, following up a strafing
raid by fighter planes, plastered
Aiexishafen and Madang with 223
tons of bombs Saturday morning
in the heaviest aerial assault yet
thrown against the japanese on
New Guinea.
P-40 and P-3S fighters swept the
airstrips at Alexishafen shortly
after dawn, leaving fires at the
expense of one craft shot down by
intense anti-aircraft opposition.
Then came waves of Liberators
al medium height. followed by Nit
ohells at tree-top height, to give
the enemy a thorough going over.
A strong force of PATS and P
40's was on hand as a protective
cover. but not a Japanese plane
was in the air.
Since earlier attacks on the We.
wax and Madang airstrips kept
the japanese from aerial interfer-
ence with the Australians pro.
gress up the Markham and down
the Ramu valleys, it was presum-
ed that giant assault such as
this was intended to hamper the
enemy's aerial supply of troops in
forward areas.
The only heavier attack on bomb
tonnage was the October IL raid
on Rabaul. New Britain. which
received $50 tons of explosives.
The previous record tonnage on
New Guinea was the 221 tons drop
ped on Sattelberg last October 81.
There was no new word of the
ground situation at Augusta bay,
the Bougainville island bridgehead
(Coufinuod m Do no Five. rnl ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-15
Jap Plane Transport,
s Merchantmen Sunk
By American U-Boats

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14-(R
American submarines in new
raids on Japanese supply lines
have sunk plane transport
and six merchant ships and
damaged two othes merchant
vessels.
Boosting the total Of enemy
vessels sunk or damaged by
submarines to 1876, the Navy
issued the following communi-
que today:
"Pacific and Fa , East:
81. u. S. submarines have
reported the sinking of seven
enemy vessels and the damag-
ing of two others in operations
against the enemy i'll waters of
these areas, as follows:
"Smlk: One plane transport,
one large freighter, one me-
dunn cargo transport and four
medium freighters.
Damaged: One large freight
er, one medium freighter.
p2. These actions have not
been announced by any pre-
vious Navy Department COM
nunique."
Japanese ships successfully
attacked by Americas under
sea raiders now stand at 346
sunk, sc possibly sunk and ia
damaged.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-15
FRENCH CLASH
WITH LEBANESE
Disorders Break Out In
Egypt Among Student
Demonstrators

CAIRO, Nov. 14.-tP) - Sharp
clashes between French troops and
Lebanese over the issue of free
Lebanese government continued
today along the eastern coast Of
the Mediterranean and disorders
broke out in Egypt where student
mobs in sympathy demonstrations
stoned the French committee S
headquarters in Cairo shouting
down with France! Down with
de Gaulle!"
Egyptian students also stoned a
French officer and tore down
French flags at Alexandria.
French authorities, contendira
that the fighting in Lebanon is not
as serious as has been reported.
rushed Gen. Georges Catroux from
Algiers to Cairo by plane to con-
| fer with Egyptian Premier Nahas
| Pasha. Catroux is on his way tc
Lebanon with power delegated by
the French National Committee te
soothe the situation.
Before the conference, Premier
i Nahas told vast gathering at
the opening of the three-day Wat.
dist jubilee last night that Egypt
would use her influence with the
United Nations to force the French
committee to release imprisoned
members of the Lebanese govern.
ment.
The Arab news agency reported
that Lebanese deputies still at Lib.
erty had formed a ''free govern.
ment" cabinet and moved to 81.
kaa to function while their presi.
dent and prime minister are de.
tanned by the French.
From its seat at Baalbeck in
the hills Of eastern Lebanon, the
provisional government was re
ported to have ordered a contin.
uation of organized resistance
against the French.
Conflicting advices have been
received here concerning the ex-
tent of the actual fighting.
A French communique issued
today said only four persons had
been wounded during the lates.
disturbances, but reported a stu
dent demonstration at Damascus,
the capital of Syria, and acknow-
lodged some fighting and contin-
ued manifestations at the Leb,
anese capital of Beirut.
Various unofficial reports have
told of numerous deaths and
scores wounded BY machine-gun
fire. A French officer was said to
have been killed by a mob when
he attempted to prevent the de-
struction of a French flag.
There was no question. however
about the determination of the
student demonstrators here. The
grounds about the headquarters OF
the. French committee were lit
tered with broken glass. Stones
and name plates were ripped from
doors. The building remained
tightly, suffered today.
Protests against the French
were coming in from other parts
of the Arab world. One report
from Bagdad said that Iraq's par
lament at special meeting today
adopted a resolution protesting
the French stand.
lCQntiuued on Pare TWo. Col 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-15
House Moving
Toward Vote
On Subsidies
Supporters OF Bill Pin
Hopes On Comprom-
Use Measure
VETO MAY BE USED
FDR May Step In If Hold
The Line Plan
Rebuffed

WASHINGTON, Nov. IA.
|,-(P)-The House moves to-
ward a verdict this week in
the long controversy over the
Administrations use of sub
sidy payments to keep down
the size of grocery bills.
Amid indications that the
issue will have a part in next
years elections, subsidy sup
porters pinned their hopes on
a compromise but counted
also upon a presidential veto
if Congress again rebuffs the
Administrations method for
CARRYING out this portion of
its "hold- the-line" program
against Initiation.
Showdown This Week
The showdown viii. come Thurs
day or Friday on measure to ex-
tend the life of the Commodity
credit Corporation. The House
Banking Committee wrote into the
bill a stringent ban against future
use of subsidies and clause pro-
hibiting the fixing of ceiling prices
Gu food below production-incen
levels.
Even the most ardent hackers of
the subsidy program admitted that
their chances are slim in the House
and Senate unless they can muster
new strength behind compromise
which would postpone a final deci-
sion by extending CCC and subsi-
dies for limited period.
The chief trouble said Rep.
Monroney D-Okla) advocate Of
subsidies, lis that the public does
not realize just what this pro-
gram is doing to combat infla-
ton. If subsidies are removed, the
grocery bills are going 10 get big
ger. If the bills increase, you are
going to get demands for higher
wages. That's how the spiral of
initiation begins
Against their argument. repre-
sentatives of the Farm Bloc argued
that food is just as important in
the war effort as munitions, that
removal of subsidies will allow the
price of agricultural products to
ries to their natural levels and
(COntinuefi On Pare Five: Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-15
new TRAP IS SEEN
Berlin Announces Huge
Force OF Russians In
Dnieper Bend
RETREAT MAY BE NEAR
Germans Possibly Prepar.
ing For Large Evac-
uation In South

LONDON, Monday, Nov.
15.-(P)-Gen. Nikolai F.
Vatutin's northern Ukraine
army drove to within 20 miles
of the Korosten rail junction
yesterday, while Berlin ear
ly today announced that
nearly 100000 Russians had
broken through German Dni-
eper bend defenses in a new
assault aimed at closing a
giant trap en- the huge Axis
forces in the south.
A Moscow communique and
midnight supplement an.
nounced the continuing So
Wet drive toward the old Po-
fish border, less than so miles
away in which SO towns were
overrun, but did not mention
the big push in the Dnieper
bend.
Broadcast from Moscow,
the bulletins were recorded
by the Soviet monitor.
German Lines Snapped
A Berlin broadcast, possibly
preparing the homeland for a
grand scale retreat IN the south,
said 30 Red army rifle divisions
and numerous tank formations had
snapped German lines between
Zaporozhe and the area north and
northwest of Krivoi Rog lat heavy
COST and that big battle was
continuing through the night.
MoscoW's silence is customary
at the unfolding of each new often.
sive, and the late German bulle-
tin bore out previous German pro-
raganda indications that a Nazi
retreat to avoid enlightenment in
the south might be impending if
not underway
Tanning out from the rail and
highway hub of Zhitomir, which
It took yesterday after an all
night battle. Gen. Nikolai Light.
ming" Vatutin's army was within
"a miles of Korosten and % miles
of Berdchev.
Frontally the Russians were
striking down the broad asphalt
highway toward Novograd Volinsk.
Korosten is the upper anchor of
the last German rail line short of
the old Polish border, and Berdi.
chev is only go miles from the
vital Lwow-Odessa line over which
men and armament flow to the
Germans facing disaster in lower
Russia.
A communique broadcast by
Moscow and recorded by the Soc
Wet monitor named Chukovichi as
one of the towns seized by the
Russians. That could not be 10.
Gated on available maps, and the
name may be Chepovichi, which
is only Is miles southeast Of Koro-
stem,
The horse-plus-armor sweep Of
the Russians toward the Polish
and Rumanian borders moved
ahead with about the same speed
that carried the Russians IS miles
from Kiev to Zhitomir in week
Of steady fighting, and caused
Continued on Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-15
WEATHER

NORTH cAp FORECAST:
Somewhat CTAaEE!oLINA: Partly cloudy and
Fs msilner Monday.
a., Eastern Standard Tina,
ending data for t5a are "a no,,rs
y; m, yesterday.
4;5o d. ~. 'ss a eat
Nai r3 49, 100 p M. 81 m, 81, -; 81
'0i'l 50, Mean 81. Norn, aiii re o.
IN, Is. 7 M m 60, 7;3o a. NJ, g., / 30
Total r.. Precipitation
r n, 900 inches sis "a hours ending 1880
vs. i'm jnc, since the first of tho n,,,..s
;, From +,a Tides de. For Today
U. 5. co me Tide Tables published b,
coast and Geodetic sMrver DS
'llfnlnston High Low
No., ------- 6:45a
"ssonboro I,,.f -, 12:09p 7:27t
"'ie' s:44a $3.50
ns3ss s. S. :, NJ Sunset l' ;ss p t2 a
or s9,d rear River stage Al s; 20 a.
'a'' at a. M, s.s feet
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-15

MADRID, Nov. IA Up - The
Nazis are readylng surprise win
ter operation from southern bases,
probably COMPREHENSIVE in
Italy, in the opinion of persons re-
Gently returned from extensive
tours in Germany and occupied
Europe.
They base their belief partly on
recent southwark troop movements
and on Germany's urgent need of
a victory for it's effects both on
the home front on an satellite
Europe.
The German hierarchy is torn by
inner quarrels. these travellers say,
but the German war machine has
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-15
Nazis Believed Shaping
New Winter OffenSiVeS

plenty OF punch left. They insist
there is something more than mere
propaganda in the Nazi claim that
the defensive strategy on the Rus
sian front makes more reserves
available than Germany had at her
command last winter.
These reserves are estimated al
$50 divisions. Few of them, the
Germans are said to believe, Will
be needed in the Balkans because
of differences among tn Anti Ger
man elements there. me freheh
are rated as incapable of real re-
volt, according to the ln1orfl'dh's'
Continued on Page FlVe' ,ot' o
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-15
ATU7W'S WARRIORS
PUSH TO WITHIN 20
MILES OF KOROSTEN
u. S. Improves Positions
Despite Nazi Artillery

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS Algiers, Nov. 14.-LP
The Germans blasted out with heavy artillery all day
long the Gargano river front and sent large numbers
of fighters into swrng dogfghts to protect the road
Rome yesterday but American troops improved their DO
stions and the British Eighth Army advanced slightly at
the eastern end Of the battle front.
The Nazi air blows the heaviest since Salerno
American troops advanced despite many German coun-
teratacks in hard fighting in the mountains north and
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-15
Badoglio Will Quit Job
When Allies Reach Rome
ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS

ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS IN
ITALY, Nov. IA. .-P)- Premier
Marshal 2ietro Badoglio. who has
been waging an apparently unsuc.
cessful fight to save the throne
Of King Vittorio Emanuele, pledg-
ed tonight to present my resig-
nation as head of the government
and retire" when the Allies reach
Rome.
At a press conference and in an
official statement Badoglio made
the declaration which meant that
the King will stand alone against
the United front of Italian political
parties which is seeking his abdi-
cation once the Allied armies re-
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-15

lease the capital from the Ger
mans.
Genial as always, but plainly
worn by the high speed politics of
the past three weeks, the aged
marshal frankly explained that he
had formed technical admins
tration because he was unable to
form representative government
and confirmed reports that Count
Carlo SforZa, pre-Fascist foreign
minister, and Other political lead
ers had declined to join any gov
eminent under king they consid-
er tainted from Fascism.
Continued on Page Five; Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-15
Labor Pounds
On Doors For
Pay Increase.
Senator's Accuse WLB OF
surrendering To John
L. Lewis
RAISES INEVITABLE
Byrd Says Action With
Miners Will Create
New Trouble

WASHINGTON, Nov. A.
P,--Organized labor pound
cd harder at the door to pay
Increases today while Sena-
torial accusation sounded that
the War Labor Board has
Surrendered" to John L.
Lewis and thus cracked the
barrier against uncontrolled
initiation.
Chief criticism came from
Senator Byrd (D-Va) who
declared that the boards
sanction of a wage raise to
Lewis United Mine Workers
makes general pay increases
and a boost in living costs
almost inevitable.
Battle RACES Hotter
Labor's battle to push up the
nv ceiling ragged hotter as spokes-
mn for more than 100000 nom
writing rail workers appealed
b ttzens for support of legisla-
r. 70 permit a flat eight cents
amur increase.
imultaneously. the Congress of
hIustrial Organizations news SER
t'e asserted that Congress has
tafad to adopt a sound tax sys-
tenn. Shocked effective action to
control prices and, as a result. is
partly responsible that living
cost have risen far beyond the
level Of the little steel formula
vage freeze
The CIO organ renewed a de-
mand for scrapping of the little
steel formula and "an upward adj
justment of wages"
Commenting on a complaint of
some WLB members that the
board lacked adequate means of
forcing compliance with its orders
Senator Connally (D-Tex). one Of
the co-authors of the anti-strike
act said the teeth in that law
seemed plain to him.
Why don't they tell us speci-
Hcally what they want?" he de-
landed. 'IH face the issue if
tE will do that. I won't dodge
f.
Byrd remarked that he was
surely disappointed that the board
had not seer fit to employ a sec
ton of the act which makes it I'M
lawful for any person to instigate
Or encourage a strike.
He suggested that WLB "could
al least have ordered an investi-
gator" to determine whether
Lewis, the United Mine Workers
chef, was encouraging a strike
and observed that they certainly
should not have approved con-
tract while the miners were out on
strike
No action taken by the Admin
@Iatlon in long time" he ad-
uea' .Wlll have the far reaching
and disastrous effect of this sur
render to John Lewis when he was
0pe-rly oetylng the government.
inns decision giving the min
'S wage increase of about $3.50
uay means that there will be a
f folIenn. increase in wage scales,
1 nole by an increase in the
ds Nan, VI lvlng and then by more
, u,a spiral Of initiation will become
. me rail workers appeal was in
1 WORK. J5Oa s' over the NBC net
pres a oy George M. Harrison,
Railwsm' - Of the Brotherhood of
berg, co,, o.eIks, and Donald Rich
unions Oh 'O r for Is incorporating
the w. Confessional adoption of
certifr ti,a,lnlan-Crosser resolution,
hour 'j inas that the eight-cents an
StabiIizo+:eaS conforms with the
mi, thai program, would per-
s. 1-eir prepared speeches said.
''ued on Page Five; Col. ~
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-10
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
FOX THIRTY PIECES OF sILvER9

A letter from members of the 750th
Tank Battalion, Company A, at Fort Knox
Een,ucly, to workers who recently struck il
3 Wal industry, sail in part:
We feel deeply hurt to think that you
would let the boys overseas down. Just what
90 you think would happen to this country
il The boys oversees would sit down, and quit
fighting, because they just make $50 a
,srth? We need more fighting equipment
What you Americans want? More mem
ey.now and slavery later, or less money ana
freedom? Just think how sonle of your sons
and brothers over there would feel if they
knew how you were selling them out, and
that's what you are doing when you stop
production"
There is a Bible story of sell-out for
30pieccs of silver. Read it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-10
RUMoRs AS TO SPAIN

There are new rumors relating to
Spain, with some reports asserting that the
Germans are making desperate efforts to
persuade Gen. Franco to actively partici-
pate in the war on the side of the Axis.
There is no way to test the accuracy
OF such reports but it seems unlikely that
the spanish dictator, having waited this
long. will now risk the consequences that
are likely to follow his espousal of the Axis
side. The facts OF war are against such a
move, even il Frances sympathies are def
nitely with the Axis powers.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-10
LEGAL.S

IN THE cIRcuiT COURT or
THE ELEVENTH JUDICIAL
CIRCUIT IN AND FOR MON
ROE COUNTY. STATE OF
FLORIDA. III EHANCERY.
Case No. g. SO
WINIFORD lone p ALAZZOLA.
Plaintiff,
VS.. DIVORCE ACTION
HENRY PALAZZOLA. -.t,e
a - Defendants ii,
ORDER OF PUBLICATION
10; HARRY PAEAZZOEA.' y 3 q
Residence Unkn2w;l.5 90 p. r.
You are, hereby required t. gao7
pear to the Bill of ComplaintI for
divorce in the above styled cause
on the 3rd day of May, A. D. 1913.
otherwise the allegations therein
will be taken as confessed.
Done and Ordered this Bird dav
of April, A D. 1943.
SEAL Ross G Sau,ve,
Clerk of the Circuit Court
Monroe County. Florida.
By: SD Kathleen Nottage.
Deputy Clerk.
THOMAS 6. CARO-.
Solicitor for the Plaintiff.
apr3- 10-l7-24, 1913
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-10
GROWING AIR POWER

The United Nations are counting on
overwhelming superiority in the air
which they are rapidly attaining-to de
eide the war in their favor, not only in En-
rope but in the Pacific.
Air power also must be depended on to
large extent to offset the U-boat campaign
in the Atlantic, on which the Germans are
expected to stake everything this suing
and summer. FITTING Of Az agaibst
land applies especial E1fopes W her Die
Allies land on the continent; they are Ger
tain to be temporarily outnumbered
In the Pacific, 166 &6tuatfansis sa1le
what different The need for air power is
just as great, if not greater. Use of land
troops on large scale is ruled out for the
present by the nature of the battle-ground.
1t is spread out over thousands of miles and
among hundreds of islands. some large,
some small.
Forces of occupation are needed but in
comparatively small numbers on most of the
islands. The real work is done by the All
Force and the Navy. The United States i
just getting into its stride in the air 1t had
10 train pilots and build bombers. Both uil-
dertakings are far advanced