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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-16
new BALKAN PUSH
APPEARS NEARING
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pied by Italian troops. Other re-
ports said two divisions of partisan
troops were moving toward Serbia
and there were reports of large
scale fighting throughout Bosnia.
The German news agency DNB
in a Berlin broadcast, however,
claimed the entire Dalmation and
Albanian coastline was in German
hands.
Advices reaching here tonight. ac-
cording to the Yugoslav informa-
ton bureau, said a patriots army
had captured Gorade 4 the Drina
river, cutting the raii. DAD line be-
tween Belgrade and Seraieyo.
The late advices, according to
the information bureau, said the
patriots were holding fast to the
Adriatic coast territory they cap
tured yesterday and that the siege
OF Split was continuing.
A broadcast heard in London nv
the Associated Press from the AL
giers radio declared that import
ant new military DEVELOPMENTS
are imminent"
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ALLIES PIERCE
Lac OUTER RIM
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largely of Australians. veterans OF
African campaigns against TIL e
Germans, who are gravely men
acing the bigger of Lae's two air
dromes. This force is one which
landed from the sea September 4.
Ahead of the Markham valley
troops, Mitchell medium bombers
raked enemy positions along the
valley road with bombs and STRAIT
ing bullets.
The valley troops now are with.
in five and a half miles Of Lac,
having also overrun Whittaker's
Plantation. The latest reports COW
cred advances achieved Tuesday.
The Japanese did put up a rath-
err stiff fight at Heath's Planta-
ton, after having offered only pa
troll opposition previously to Ell
Their of the Allied pincer forces.
At Heath's, the enemy had erect
ed pillboxes, prepared trenches
and dugouts and installed ma
chineguns, artillery and anti-air-
craft. The enemy also attempted
stands at Whittaker's and Yer
mons.
Dislodged by Australians, TIL e
Japanese fled into jungles, leav-
ing behind 100 dead and m h
equipment, including machineguns
and ammunition
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Adopted Southport Son
Leads Air-Borne Attack

came the Aussies, happy, care
free, tough looking and competent
We saw one another and wi +
gleeful shouts American and Aus
tralians began running towards one
another. Perfect strangers, we
Rugged each. other like brother y
An officers wife for Is years,
with Colonel, then captain, Kinslel
when he served in the PHILIPPINES
and later in Panama, Mrs. Kinsle1
was thrilled when press relation
messages came through detailing
the exploits of the Colonel Kinsle1
paratroopers. The feeling was
shared by the 10-year-old son Of
the couple. Although understand,
ing fairly definitely that her hus-
band was in Australia all letters
and cables from him had been
sans origin.
When the news broke few days
ago about the paratroopers land
ing at Lac, Mrs. Kinsler instinc-
lively felt that it was her husband
and the Fort Bragg trained boys.
This belief was confirmed by open
dispatches from the press relations
offices and from the correspond
ents of various news gathering
agencies who were present at Lac.
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INDUSTRY DRAFT
NEEDED BY ARMY
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would be impossible to conduct
major campaigns simultaneously
against both tt Japanese and the
Germans if fathers get blanket de-
ferment from the armed services.
He told the legislators that the
collapse of Italy lad brought no
change in the high commands es-
innate that an army of 7,70O, 900
by the end of this year lis the
minimum force required for the
tasks ahead"
Amy curtail. lent, reduction or
postponement'' of plans to raise
that army, he continued, will ne
cessitate a change in our strate-
gical commitments.
Whoever initiates such a
change must assume the grave re-
sponsibility for ignoring the con-
sidered judgment of our military
leaders arrived at after careful
and prolonged stlldies'
The overall army figure, he
added, includes 100, 900 nurses and
Wacs
McNarney agreed to give in a
closed session more details on the
need for an army of that size.
Upon the demand of Senator
Downey Cd. -Calif). McNarney also
was instructed to present in closed
session figures on the number of
men in the Canadian army and
navy. McNarney was told it would
be all right to ask the Canadian
general staff representatives for
such information as they cared
to disclose. Senator Revercomb
(R.-W. Va also requested that
comparable figures be furnished
relating to the war effort of all
our allies.
Wheeler pressed McNarney for
information on why men of SO or
over are not used for non-combat
service.
"Our experience with men over
38 has been very l lsatisfac tory,"
the witness replied. Their hos
pitalizaticn rate was about five
times the general army average"
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NHISKEY OUTLOOK
CONTINUES BAD
WPB Rules Out New Bev.
erage Manufacture For
Remainder OF Year

WASHINGTON, Sept. Is Up -
The War Production Board ruled
out new whisky today for the rest
of 1913.
Much to the surprise of the dis
filling industry, WPB held that dis
tilleries, all of which have been
converted to industrial alcohol,
must stay on that job.
A spokesman for WPB Chair
man Donald M. Nelson added to
the gloom of the beverage alcohol
producers wi h the declaration
that he did not believe industry
representative had o e n given
anv reason to believe the govern
ment attitude would change with
the new year. The beverage alco-
hol advisory committee met here
today and received the bad news.
WPB was known to have been
considering for the last two weeks
a proposal to grant the distillers
a two-weeks Holiday to replen-
ish fast-dwindling stocks OF whisky
and alcohol for blending.
The question of permitting re-
sumption of whisky output long
has been hot potato with no
official anxious t. risk the crltl-
cism which might result from the
diversion of grain into whisky
making at a time of possible food
shortage.
However, WPB officials acknowl
edged recently that the stock pile
of industrial alcohol, built up over
many months in anticipation OF
heavy demands for synthetic rub
Der along with mounting military
requirements for explosives, was
approaching a satisfactory level.
In addition, the resumption OF
shipping from the West Indies ap-
peared to pave the way for an
early shift of East Coast indus
trial alcohol distillers to black
strap molasses instead of grain.
Improvement in the corn r o p
over earlier forecasts also W a S
considered a favor BILE factor.
The sum of these factors led
many officials to believe that a
relaxation was imminent. and Mel
sons spokesman said the industry
people present to d ay seemed
pretty sure they were going to get
a vacation until they were mott
fled otherwise. One official source
said that the War Food Admins
tration had notified WPB that it
felt holiday" at this time would
be bad psychology" in view of
the Agriculture Departments pres
ent campaign for increased food
production.
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RUSSIANS DRIVE
TOWARD DNIEPER
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fantry and tank units" the com.
munique said.
Over 1000 Germans were killed
and quantities of tanks and guns
destroyed or captured while over
SUI prisoners were taken in this
battle. Soviet planes were lending
support day and night to the south
ern drive and brought down "a Ger
man planes.
There we're at least three other
major Soviet drives tanning into
The heart of tn eUkraine but to
the north still another Soviet Of
fensive drew tighter around Bry-
ansk, which the Gremans had an
nounced they evacuated. Making
no claims of it's capture-hinting
perhaps, that the German an
nouncement was a trap-the Rus
slams reported only the capture of
Dyatkovo, 20 miles to the north
Large quantities of war material
and ammunition were declared
captured
The Russian battle for the Tx
raine was fought against time. for
already the first pre-autumn rains
were softening the rutted roads,
caklng the tank treads and wheels
OF war with mud.
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0DT AGAIN CUTS
DELIVERY TRAVEL
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are cut to once a week. The same
Limitation is placed on ice cream,
sherbets or ices, magazines and
periodicals, and cut flowers.
A maximum of three deliveries
a week is permitted for fresh or
frozen meat, poultry, eggs, fruits,
vegetables, fish and she'll fish, but
five wholesale deliveries OF these
products may be made. Similarly,
three deliveries are the retail
maximum for bread and perish
able bakery products, but SIX
wholesale deliveries are permitted.
Only one delivery a week OF
malt beverages may be made tc
consumers. The same limit is
placed on bottled malt beverages
at wholesale but two deliveries Of
beer or ale in kegs are permitted
Two deliveries a week may be
made by laundries, dry cleaners
and tailors, while the wholesale
limit on such services is five de-
hveries.
Other wholesale delivery limi
tations follow:
Alcoholic beverages, one
week; soft drinks, tobacco ano
onfectioneries, two deliveries
ice cream or sherbets, four; mag
azines and periodicals, four; ice
seven; repair parts, six; cut flow
ers, five.
Two deliveries, both at whole
sale and retail, are the maximum
for any commodity not listed by
ODT.
The order requires all deliver,
truck operators to eliminate du
plicating or overlapping routes
ODT explained, however, that thi:
does not mean that one operator
may not duplicate the routes o.
another; it requires merely tina
no carrier operate over a delivery
route which overlaps another O.
his own routes.
Limitations on retail milk de.
liveries will apply to all horse
drawn vehicles as well as trucks
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Allies Repulse Big Maxi
Counterblow At Saler1o

1T Cen George S. Patton, Jr.,
which fought in Sicily. GA London
dispatch via Stockholm and Tur-
kew said the British Ninth Army,
normally based in Syria, had en-
harked for an unknown destlna-
ton. 1.-The Algiers radio said I'M
portant new military developments
are imminent. /.
| German broadcasts shifted
abruptly from boasting assertions
that the Fifth Army was embark
ing in beaten retreat from Saler-
no, and said the Allies were resist
ing near the coast under naval
gunfire cover. The midday Ger
man news summary omitted the
Italian front, which the Nazi COM
munique treated in this fashion:
c"Great successes were scored
Yesterday in an attack launched
against the Anglo-North American
landing formations at Salerno and
Ebol. One enemy group was en-
circled and another was destroy
ed. The figures on booty and pris-
oners are steadily growing. The
enemy, who was thrown backyes-
enemy, who was thrown back yes
east of Salerno}, has again put
up resistance close to the coast
under the cover of his ships ar
tillery.")
Montgomery's Eighth Army had
added virtually all the Italian toe
to it's conquest. 1t was driving
through rough country and over
and around effective Nazi demo
litions. Despite its speed, til e
opinion at headquarters was that
it might be several days before it
reached a junction W h Clark.
Montgomery was driving | a g e
elements of at least one German
division before him. The retreat
ing foe gave no sign of standing
to fight.
Across the peninsula above the
heel, another British force which
had captured Bari, laramie a n
Brindisi made contact with a rear
guard of the German first para
chute division at Gioia, % miles
above laramie and inland. Italian
troops in the laramie area were
said to be assisting the British.
Some 300 Allied prisoners, includ-
ing two Greek generals, were lib
Grated.
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night bombings of Allied planes
which flew more than 1000 sor-
ties in the "a hours ended at dawn
today. The 18th and 18th German
armored and the Hermann Goer-
ing divisions previously were in
the combat, striving powerfully to
erase the Fifth Army bridgehead
and throw the Allies into the sea.
The NaZi attacks were supported
strongly by tanks, which wei e
driven back by blistering Allied
fire. One U. S. combat team alone
destroyed IS enemy tanks. Grey
warships slipped close to shore.
emptying salvo after salvo from
their smoking steel rifles into Nazi
tanks and machine-gun nests. One
U. S. cruiser alone fired 1856 rounds
yesterday.
AS dusk fell over the blood
stained battlefield, Allied troops
were compelled to yield S m e
ground to straighten their lines
and consolidate h i r positions
against expected night assaults.
Despite the withdrawal mill
tary spokesman asserted at the
end of the day:
1.-The situation is little more
in our favor"
The heaviest and most sustained
German drives were made from
the village of Exscevilla and Ar
monina in high ground overlook
ing the entire southern part of
the Fifth Army holding in the
Sele river valley. The Allies with
drew in that sector, leaving the
villages in German hands.
Clark's problem was to hold and
expand the bridgehead while driv-
ing into the high ground and push
ing German batteries beyond the
range of the beaches. One of his
officers summarized the situation
thus:
THE enemy is attacking inces-
sanity because he realizes this IS
his best opportunity. Allied forces
have proven they can beat the
Germans and know that they can
do it again"
The office added that frontline
reports said the Americans and
Britons had great confidence.
Thara ctiJJ u,oc M ,,prd fro,,,
the American Seventh Army of
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-16
By BILL KEZIAH

SOUTHPORT, Sept. 15.-A little
over year ago important Off
Gals reviewed practice landing OF
paratroopers at Fort Bragg. Pic.
lures were made and generally
used in the newspapers. The men
floating down by the scores were
an inspiring sight.
On Sunday, September S, tn e
same paratroopers, more than q
900 of them, in what has been
described as the greatest air
borne assault in history. stepped
out over Lac, the northwestern
New Guinea base, held by the
japanese. This second jump was
viewed by General Douglas Mac
Arthur, himself, from a Flying
Fortress. The first man to step
out from the transports was Colo
mel Kenneth H. Kinsler, native
of Davenport. Iowa. Colonel Kin
s1er is a North Carolinian by adop-
ton.
Colonel Kinsler has been in the
army for II years. marrying
Southport girl, Miss Katherine
Thompson. daughter OF Mrs. j. w.
and the late j. W. Thompson OF
Southport the same year that he
obtained his first commission as
a lieutenant. Mrs. Kinsler and the
1o-year.o1d son. Kenneth, Jr., re-
side at Southport while the Colonel
Is abroad. Following him as the
first Jumper among the enlisted
men. at Lac, was Cpl. Joseph H.
Winzak of Everson, Pa. Shortly
before the embarkation on the mis-
sion enlisted men Of the regiment
had formed a pool Of $4,000. This
was won by Corporal Winzak. In
addition to getting the money the
winning also entitled him to be
the first enlisted man to Jump,
and he is also entitled to a 30-day
furlough in Sydney, as soon as
the mission at Lac is finished.
The third man to 60 over ana
out was Captain Harris I. Mitch
OIL a Huntsville, Ala, man. Cap
tain Mitchell had won a $500 pool
formed by the officers. with the
money went the first officers jump
privileges, after Colonel Kinsler
The Captain will also get a 3O-day
leave when the troops return to
Sydney.
The troops that followed t n e
lump of Colonel Kinsler has been
described as probably the largest
naratroop landing in history. 1t is
also said to have been one OF the
most perfect. 1t came as a com,
nlete surprise to the japanese and
sealed the fate of the heavy forces
thew had in the Lac sector.
Thousands Of North Carolina
people probably have an idea OF
what General T.1acArthur meant
when he described the descending
naratroopers as beautiful. tr y
wonderful. The same men. unoer
the same Colonel Kinsler, were IN
| training at Fort Bragg III VI
summer of last year and photo
graphs of the skies clouded with
the descending troopers and their
parachutes were widely published:
Lieutenant Monte Kleban, OF
Texas. assistant press relation OF
ficer on General MacArthur's staff
travelled with the paratroopers and
jumped with them in the attack
which carried the Markham valley
airstrip. In his eyewitness account
of the event. he says: Colonel
Kinsler, when l landed. was per-
sonally directing group OF men
who were laying out ground pan
els for the planes overhead. l was
too awed to speak to him, he was
the only man I met who had shaw
ed that day." Then came an ex-
hilarating note: Through a field
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FIFTH ARMY line
HOLDING GROUND
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meantime, from this observation
post 1t looks as though the fight
ing OF the past several days is
u'eVeloplng into a battle wherein
lne Germans are counting heavily
tanks.
Altogether, five German divi.
SONS including the 10th Panzer
anu hermann Goering divisions.
Army. Vial" "''
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-16
RIVERS OF SILVER

In colonial days rivers of sill
yer" flowed from the Peruvian
highlands to Lima, and thence to
the markets of the world. The ca
tastrophic fall in the price of sill
yer in the last century hit silver
mining hard. Yet Peru is so rich
in this metal that even when sill
yer is worked as a by-product it
gives profita BILE results.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-16

Manpower commission. Ao,,
employed women the nera '''ns
of those As or older has rersa image
at a steady % to % per cent '1 @,
commission is urging that o, +a'
women be given equal con.. g'asf
ton with men for emplovnoou0e.'a
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-16
OLDER WOMEN WORKERS

Though over one-third of the
total number of persons employed
early this year were As years of
age or older, older women are not
being employed as rapidly as men,
according to a report of the War
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-16
AER SHOW TICKET
SALE PROGRESSING
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accrue to the fund; that those who
attend will be highly entertained
and will earn the satisfaction of
doing our fighting men good
turn.
Col. Adam E. Potts is scheduled
lor radio talk over the same
night.
women who attend the special
SNOW next Wednesday plan to wear
evening attire,
The Apache sentinel., 1943-08-20
USO TABLOID TROUPE IS.
Is HERE FOR THE EMONTH|

USO Tabloid Troupe No S. clever and entertaining
variety show of SIX arrived at Fort Huachuca
Gently and will remain here for the remainder of the month
of August
Comedy sequences in the show provided by the
nimtable team of Ferde and Flo whose Boogie Woogie
Court Room Scene from Basin Street. is really scream.
Ferde Ferde Robinson the dmnutive fellow played
the part of "koKo in the "Hot MIado." Flo is his wife
IN private life, and well known the stage Flo Brown
unique feature of the show is the man of mystery,
Fetaque Saunders suave gentleman the high silk topper,
who proves that the hand is quicker than the eye
limitations of all the instruments in band as well as
nincy of various outstanding bands styles and vocaIsts
are given by Bobby Wallace, the human instrument"
Mistress of ceremonies with the show is husky-voced
Fear Bailey swing songstress Swing pianist and she
swing plenty, is Basil Spears accompanist.
The Apache sentinel., 1943-08-20
"Going To England" on
"Around the World" Tour

Service Club No. 2, presenting it's
reg ular Saturday evening pro-
gramme around the World" last
week, took large audience to Eng
land. Fayard Nicholas who made a
trip to England with his brother
Harold in pre-war days, showed pic
lures that Illuminated conditions in
that country in happier times.
Captain Edmonds told interesting
episodes of his tour of the British
Isles, made under the sponsorship of
the Rosenwald Fellowship in 1888,
which will go down in history as the
year of the Munich crisis. This
made his talk specially significant.
an informative. :
Mrs. Aretas Phillips sang "The
White Cliffs of Dover" and Mrs.
Hetty Williams gave dramatic
reading of 'The House by the Side
of the Road"
The Apache sentinel., 1943-08-20

Chauncy c. Lee, coordinator be-
tween U.S.O. Camp Shows, Inc. and
Special Service Division, is director
under supervision of Col. c. E. Nell
son.
Mr.. Lee began his musical career
IN l0l5, later studying with the fam
Gus Italian teacher, Antonio Clan
ELI. Notable as a guitar soloist, he
mas appeared on the concert stage
and with symphony orchestras
throughout the country.
Employing the int terpr etatiye
method used by Walter Damrosch in
his Music Hour in Carnegie Hall,
New York, for his radio concerts.
Mr.. Lee plays the themes on the gui-
tar to faniliarize his audiences with
the motif or key movement of the
symphony to be played. The SYM
phony is then played on the record
1ngS OF the leading Symphony or
cheStras.
Judging from the response in at
tendance, and the intelligent appre-
c1ation evinced by audiences, there
Is noteworthy contingent of genu-
Inc music lovers at Fort Huachuca
both in military and civilian circles.
Mr.. Lee is the author of many au-
thoritative articles on musical sub
jectS.
Classical Music versus "SwinS,'
Discussing symphonic music ver-
sus swing recently, Mr.. Lee said:
There is no denying that swing is
typically the music Of the day. It's
wild barbaric nature fits well with
the present chaotic state of world
affairs. 1t is unhampered by any
rules of harmony or rhythm. The
symphony is at once the most i'm
portant and the most highly deyel-
oped and elaborate of muiscal forms.
In its ultimate development, it is
also the most expressive and the
most emotional and complete type
of music in the sense that it is self
contained, In presenting these pro-
grammes," he added, "it is the hope
Of the Music and Education Depart
The Apache sentinel., 1943-08-20

ments of the Post Special Service
Office, that the men and women at
Fort Huachuca interested in the
more serious music might find pleas
ure and perhaps some enlightment
in the recorded works of the Old
Masters. These records are at the
office of Special Service on the Post
and those who wish to make more
thorough study of them are invited
to do so. On future programmes we
hope to present or give demonstra-
tions of the various instruments of
the orchestra. To be able to recog-
nlze the voices of these instruments
will, we feel sure, add greatly to
the enjoyment anG understanding
of the orchestra"
The Apache sentinel., 1943-08-20
Irving Ashby, Guitarist,
Is Father Of a Daughter

Pvt. Irving. Ashby, Special Service
guitarist, who was formerly with
Lionel Hampton's orchestra, became
a father Monday, August 16, when
ihs wife gave birth to daughter in
Los Angeles.
Mrs. Ashby is the former Corinne
Howe of Boston. She holds a MA.
degree in history and languages
from Boston university and is a
member of Alpha Kappa Alpha So
rority. Pvt. Ashby, a graduate of
the Boston Conservatory of Music,
came into the Army from Los An
geles, where he served as staff gui-
tarist and copyist for Twentieth
Century-F'ox, and was on call at
Metros -Glodwyn- Mayor Studio.
In Los Angeles, Mrs. Ashby is one
of the head teachers of the Pueblo
Del Rio Nursery School and second
on the list of eligibles for the city
supervisor of nursery schools.