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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-09
By WALTER LIPPMANN

What is lacking in the Teasury
tax program is a convincing and
ineligible explanation of the prob
lem which it is designed to deal
with. An explanation which the
country and Congress can under
stand is at this stage much more
important than discussion OF the
rates and specific proposals. In
fact, the program cannot be sup
ported effectively or criticized
constructively until there is gen
eral understanding and agreement
on what we are trying to do and
why.
Mr.. Morgenthau's failure to ex-
plain sufficiently is evident in his
own figures. He is primarily con-
cerned, of course-as every one is
Commemorative the fact that the
money income of our people is to-
day enormously greater than the
civilian goods available for sale at
the present level of prices. This
excess spending money is, as he
says, dangerous money" - dan
gerous because it cannot buy more
goods but, if spent now, can only
raise the prices of goods. The pur-
pose of the Treasury is to protect
the nation against the dangers OF
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SENATOR TAKEN TO TASK
FOR BOMBER BASE PLAM:l
JAP NAVY UNITS BEATFy
House Group Charges
Draft Officials With
Twisting Law Around

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8. Up
- The House Military commit
tee accused draft officials to-
day of twisting the law to
suit their own ends, as it al
ranged for floor action We'd
nesday on higher payments to
families of men called to war.
A formal report disapproved
with emphasis" what the
committee said appears to BE
an effort on the part of those
charged with the administra-
ton of the Selective Service
system to use that law, design
ed as a military measure only,
to force men of families to
leave one kind of employment
to engage in another and differ
ent employment"
"This, within itself, amounts
to a willful perversion of the
purpose, spirit and intent ,of
the law" it added.
Even before the general draft
of pre-war fathers became ef-
fective October 1, men who
were in designated monde
ferrable" job had been listed
as liable for drafting regard
less of how many children they
had, unless they got into war
work.
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Kirke Simpson Says:
Maxi East Front Seems
On Verge OF Disaster

the vast Dnieper drainage basin
have failed to check it. There are
Russian breaches already made
in the Hitler proclaimed eastern
blood Wall'' at every critical
point from the Volkhov salient
southeast of Leningrad to the
Red break-through across the
Dnieper southeast Of Kremen-
chug.
Nor can it be doubted in Berlin
that with the Taman peninsula in
the Caucasus about mopped up, a
Russian counter invasion of the
Crimean peninsula via Kerch
strait is impending as well as in
creased Red pressure south of
Zaporozhe on the lower bend of
the Dnieper. A Russian break
through there to the Perikop 18TH
mus would trap the Nazi garrison
of the Crimea unless it retreats
before it is too late.
The Moscow announcement of
west bank Red bridgeheads es-
tablished across the Dnieper both
above Kiev near the vital Pripet
mouth. and down river south of
Pereyaslav and southeast of Kre
Continued on Page Six; Col. p
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BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON

Rocked throughout its whole
length by Russian blows in the
critical center and on both flanks
the Nazi east front from the Bal
tic to the Black sea is tottering
and on the verge of new and
deep retreat or even utter dis
aster.
With Russian forces battering at
critical gateways north of the
Dnieper and holding strategic
bridgeheads west of the river
above and below Kiev, there
seems small prospect that the in
vaders of Russia can escape an
other backward trek. Otherwise,
both the north and south wings OF
the over-extended Nazi line would
be in grave danger of entrap-
ment and humiliation, and the
central core of resistance on the
Dnieper perilously close to being
knitted apart at the Pripet conflu-
ence.
The scope and power of the
Russian offensive along the whole
front as disclosed in Moscow bull
letins and undenied from Berlin
is staggering. Rain and mud in
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BREMEN BLASTED
BY Raj BOMBERS
Friedrichshafen And Num-
ich Scared By Fire OF
Allied Raiders

LONDON, Oct. 8.-tPj- Bremen,
Germany North sea U-boat and
shipbuilding center, was hit hard
today by the Flying Fortresses
which followed up night attacks
by powerful Raj bomber fleets
on Stuttgart, Friedrichshafen and
Munich.
The Germans themselves attest
ed to the weight of the American
attack on Bremen when the Nazi
news agency DNB quickly report
ed particularly heavy destruc-
ton" in the center Ct Bremen
with casualties to the population
as a result of the terror raid.
AS the U. S. Flying Fortresses
streaked to their home bases in
the late afternoon a great force of
medium bombers escorted by many
squadrons of fighters swept across
the Straits of Dover towards the
continent to continue the great Al
lied bomb barrage On Adolph Hit
Ter European Fortress.
Shortly after dark London had
brief alert-it's third in row
but the all clear signal sounded
without gunfire or bomb explo-
sions having been heard in down.
town London. At the same time
the Berlin and other continental
radio stations went off the air,
indicating the approach of Allied
planes.
While the heavy Fortresses were
blasting Bremen, lighter Allied
fighters in offensive operations
over the continent were reported
to have shot down ten enemy air.
craft.
Two Allied planes were lost, but
the pilot of one was reported to
have been saved.
The Fortresses were accompan-
led on their trip to Bremen by
PAT Thunderbolts. Bremen, which
has been strained to increase its
industrial output since the demoli-
ton of Hamburg, was last hit by
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REVISION ASKED
Plan Would Encourage Do.
nations To Churches
And Colleges

WASHINGTON, Oct. s.-LR-A
revision of the pay-as-you-go tax
law, under which 20 per cent de-
auctions are made from taxable
portions of wages and salaries,
was proposed to Congress today
to encourage contributions to
churches, schools and other pri-
vately supported philanthropy.
Rep. Curtis (R-Neb), who said
he appeared in behalf of religious
and education organizations, asked
the House Ways and Means com
mittee to set up in the tax laws
a "pay-as-you-go' credit for such
donations.
The proposal would permit an
employe to declare at the begin
ming of a taxable year what his
religious, educational and char
table contributions would be per
payroll period and have that
amount exempted in the applica'
ton of the 20 per cent withhold
ing tax.
DR.. Guy E. snavely, executive
director of the Association of
American Colleges, New York, ap-
peared with Curtis in support OF
the plan. Such an amendment,
Curtis said, would "greatly add
to the contributions made to our
churches, colleges and charitable
institutions.
If the individuals in charge of
the money-raising program for a
church or a Christian college or
some other institution can point
out to the taxpayer that he can
get the advance tax reduction by
budgeting and paying his contri-
buttons as he goes, it will mean
much to these fine institutions, y
he added.
The Nebraskan and Snavely de-
clared that from 1923 to 194z
Continued on Page Two; Col. p
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FOE DISPLEASED
WITH FRENCHMEN
Germa ans Preparing To
Wipe Out Vichy Home
Government

LONDON, Oct 8-lRl-The Ger
mans are preparing to take over
the whole government of France,
wiping out any pretense of Vlchy
home rule. both Axis and Allied
reports indicated tonight, as the
Nazis strove to meet mounting
resistance with wholesale arrests
throughout the country.
Robert de Beauplan, Nazi mouth
piece on the Paris radio, admit
ted a wave of sabotage in France
and asserted the Germans would
take over if French authorities
are unable to cope with terror
ism"
A few hours later. Radio France,
the Free French station at Alglers,
said the Nazis already had laid
plans to seize the government and
that they would be put into effect
Amy day now
For weeks it has been reported
in neutral capitals that the Nazis
were far from satisfied with Pier
re Laval and there have even been
that Laval himself was try
ing to drop his role of Quisling.
The French station in Algiers,
quoting French diplomat who had
lust arrived in North Africa from
Vichy, said a ''netword of de Gaul-
list officials have been discover
ed in the ministry of interior, the
foreign ministry and in the French
of information in France. ="
"a wave of arrests is sweep
ing through the whole country
this announcer said. 1.-THE move
ment of resistance among the
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ARMY MANP0WER
GOAL MAY RISE
Patterson Says 100000
Quota MAY Have To
Be Increased

WASHINGTON, Oct. ST.
Undersecretary of War Robert P.
Patterson told a Senate commit
tee today that the Armys goal OF
10000 in uniform by the end
of the year may have to be IN
creased"
An upward revision would mean
a heavier draft of pre-Pearl Har-
Dor fathers than is now contem-
plated. Selective Service officials
have estimated 446,000 will have
to be called to meet the current
goal.
Patterson mentioned the posi-
bility of boost in the Army's
planned size in testimony before
the Byrd committee, inquiring in
to the War Departments fiscal af-
fairs and civilian employment.
He recalled that an Army of g.
100000 by the end OF this year
originally was planned, but the
program was scaled down to T.
700, 900 after the African victories.
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WILMINGTON MAN
LOST IN BLAST
Newton c. Fisher, Jr., Re.
ported Missing Follow
ing Explosion

Campbell Fisher, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Newton Fisher of 615 Prin-
cess street, was one of three men
reported missing following the ex-
plosion of gasoline barge in the
Gibbs shipyard at Jacksonville,
Fla. Wednesday which took a toll
OF six known dead. according to
an Associated Press dispatch
from Jacksonville Friday.
Justice of the Peace T. 0.
Holmes said parts of one or more
bodies,' which might be those OF
the missing workmen, were still
unidentified at a Jacksonville I'M
dertaking establishment, the dis
patch said.
A pair of shoes and hat, found
at the scene of the explosion,
were identified by Mrs. Ellen Fish
err of 1916 NorvenWood road, Jack
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ETHERIDCE HEADS
PLANNING BOARD
Conservation Department
Chairman Leads State
Organization

RALEIGH, Oct. 8.-R. Bruce
Etheridge, director of the State
Department Of Conservation a n d
Development, was elected secre-
tary of the new state planning
board at it's organizational meet
ing here today.
Etheridge will serve the board
at all it's meetings, but actual ad-
ministration of the boards affairs
will be handled by a director and
a permanent staff which will be
selected later when offices are set
up here.
The board appointed commit
tee composed of Chairman George
Ivey of Charlotte, Capus Waynick
of High Point and Etheridge to
formulate plans for setting up the
boards offices and to secure Of
flee space.
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
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DEBATE STARTED
Fellow Republican Criti-
cizes Lodge For
Siberian Ideas
FOREIGN POLICY TALK
Remark Termed 'Unfor-
tunate' And lnaccur-
ate By Solons
DISTINCTION, Oct. s.

WASHINGTON, Oct: s.
,p' - In a stormy Senate
70 behind barred doors,
Senator Lodge (R-Mass) was
taken to task by three globe
@irdling comrades today for
saving that a million Ameri-
csn lives might be saved if
Russia opened Siberian bases
IA Allied bombers. The re-
mark was termed "unfortu-
nate" and inaccurate.
This attack, launched by a
fellow Republican, Senator
Brewster of Maine and sup
wrred by Senators Russell
D.Gs) and Mead (D-NY,
plunged the Senate into acri-
rOniOus debate that took on
the nature of a full-fledged
discussion of foreign policy.
Second Secret Session
The secret session, second in two
GAYS. was called to hear further
reports by the five senators just
returned from visits to world bat
tlefroats. Besides the attack on
Lodges statement, the sessions
Developments included:
!. A warning by Democratic
Leader Barley (KyD and Sena-
tor Lucas D-Ill.) that senators
must not divulge information CIV
en- them in executive sessions, sup
plemented by the reading by Vice
President Wallace of a section OF
the rules which provides for ex-
pulsion Of violators of this conf
dence.
2. A charge by Brewster that
Lend-Lease is being mismanaged,
with, for instance, 10000 trucks
being shipped in a year to Aus
traia for civilian use there, while
the United States gets along on
5000 new ones a year.
3. Defense by Chairman Connal-
ly Tex, concurred in by Sen
ator Vandenberg (R,-Mich.), of the
Foreign Relations committees de
lay in reporting out a postwar
foreign policy resolution.
g. A plea by Senator Chandler
continued on Page Two; Col. p
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CRUISER IS SUI. :
Two Destroyers Sent To
Bottom By American
Naval Force
U. S. DlSRUPTS PLAN
Nipponese Make Desperate
Bid For Removal OF
Their Men
U. S. DISRUPTS PLAN

ALLIED HEADQUAR-
TIERS IN THE SOUTHWEST
PACIFIC, Saturday, Oct. 9.
-(P)-Units of the Japan
csc navy, coming out of hid
ing in a desperate bid for re-
moval of troops fleeing the
central Solomons, were de-
cisively beaten, with one cruz
ser and two destroyers sunk
and two others damaged, in
a night battle Wednesday
with American warships.
Taking advantage of a
tropical half moon which
lighted the scene northwest
of Vella Lavella and Kolom-
bangara, the United States
ships Unanswered into firing
line and slammed their steel
with such deadly accuracy
that two other groups of Jap
anese warships to the rear
elected to turn tail and run.
U. S. Losses Moderate
American losses were "moder-
ate" Gen. Douglas Macarthur said
in communicate today disclosing
the action.
Shell fire caused the enemy light
cruiser and one destroyer to ex-
plode. A torpedo sent another de-
stroyer down, adding to Japanese
warship losses in the Solomons
which now approximate Is since
the Allied drive opened June 80
against New Georgia.
The enemy warships apparently
were trying to rescue troops now
Continued on Page Six; Col. s.
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REDS SURPRISED
AT NEW CAMPAIGN
People OF Moscow Had
Resigned Selves To
Long Quiet Period

MOSCOW, Oct. g. Up Nobody
was more surprised by the Red
army's new offensive along the
entire front than the Russian peo-
I pie themselves, and as the wide
scale of the fighting and its stra-
tegic possibilities became clearer
today some Muscovites believed
that the end of the war might be
in sight.
When Wednesday nights COM
munique announced mo important
changes, Moscow resigned itself
to relatively long period of quiet
on the front and the temporary
loss of fireworks and salutes which
enlivened their summer evenings.
They were both startled and de-
lighted when the very next eve
ming brought new display of
pyrotechnics and t h e announce
ment that after the briefest of OPP
irrational pauses the Red army
was once more rolling west.
The general impression here had
been that the Red army would go
into motion again about mid-No-
vember when the counter-o offensive
began from Stalingrad in 1912 and
when early winter fronts had put
q hard coating over sWamps and
stream.
The feeling that the war might
end soon was expressed by Ye-
melyan Yaroslavsky, member Of
the central committee of the Com
munist party who said in a Pravda
article:
'In the sudden offensive of the
Red army, the people feel ap-
preaching the day of liberation Of
our country from the Fascist rob,
hers -
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AT V0LTURN0
Allies Face Hitlerites On
Is Mile Front Near
Coast
RESISTANCE CRUSHED
Defense Lines Weakened
By Withdrawal OF
Armored Units

ALLIED HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Algiers, Oct. 8.-(R)
Advancing 10 miles through
rain and mud, the American
Fifth Army has captured the
important communications
and air center of Capua, less
than 100 airline miles from
Rome, and has reached the
swollen Volturno river to
face the Germans on a To-
mile front from Capua to the
sea, headquarters announced
today.
Nazi defense lines south of
the Volturno, weakened by
the withdrawal of the ia
nous 10th armored division
to oppose the British Eighth
Army on the Adriatic end of
the front, collapsed suddenly
yesterday and the American
and British troops of 1t. Gen,
Mark W. Clark surged
through to the south banks
Of the stream.
Castel Volturno Taken
Capua, Castel Volturno at the
rivers mouth, and all the towns
between them and Naples fell be-
fore the Allied punch, which wip-
ed out strong German pockets of
resistance left behind on the south
bank. There appeared scant like
lihood that the river itself could
long hold up the Allied advance
or that the Nazis had been able to
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SEC P0STP0NES
twp HEARINGS
Action Taken After Gen.
eral Gas Firm Asks For
Stay OF Action

The Securities and Exchange
commission Friday postponed from
october 10 to October Is hearing
on corporation simplification pro-
ceedlngs instituted by tn e SEC
against the Tide Water Power COM
pahy here. a subsidiary of the
General Gas and Electric COM
pahE' according to an Associated
PtesS dispatch from Philadelphia.
The action was taken during a
nearing in Philadelphia at which
the SEC denied a motion by Gen
erdi Gas to stay the proceedings
against Tide Water. The SEC also
uehled request for oral argu-
"iellI by counsel on the notion to
stay.
however, it extended from Fri
tdY until October 10, the deadline
NJ me Tide Water lawyers to file
"On'lnued on Page Six; Col. g.
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Wind Velocity Hits
New High For City
During Past Month

A wind velocity of IS miles
per hour was shown for Sep
TENDER 9, this being the high
est ever recorded by this sta
ton, according to Paul Hess,
weather bureau official. The to-
tai rainfall for September in
this locality was 2.20 inches,
which is 2.31 inches below nor
NAL. The greatest rainfall in
any one day was 80.
The highest temperature re-
corded for the month was 80
degrees with so as the low.
The average maximum tenn
perature was 8O.5 with the nor
NAL $40; average maximum
was 63.3 with normal 65.2;
mean normal was 71.9 with
73.l as normal. 1898 was the
highest barometric pressure
with the lowest 1886.
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FIERCE STRUGGLE
Over $500 Enemy Troops
Fall In Very Heavy
Fighting
"a TANKS DISABLED
81 Axis Planes Knocked
From Sky By Soviet
Air Power
"a TANKS DISABLED

LONDON, Saturday, Oct.
9,-(P)-Russia's "battle Of
the bridgeheads" rose toward
a climax today as Soviet
spearheads battered back
German counter-attacks and
famed out in the three pock-
cts built on the west bank of
the Dnieper river, Moscow
announced. Over 1000 Ger
mans fell in the struggles
which assumed a very fierce
character"
Reinforced German units,
battling frantically to stem
the Soviet menace to Kiev
and the entire eastern de-
tense line, hurled tanks,
planes and men against the
Soviet lines.
The Moscow communique,
recorded by the Soviet moni-
tor, said the Russians repuls-
ed the German thrusts and
disabled or burned "a tanks
and eight self-propelled guns.
Soviet airmen covering vul-
nerable Russian communica-
ton lines brought down 32
German planes in air COM
bats.
ALL OUT STAND SEEN
Moscow dispatches suggested the
Germans finally were turning to
make an about stand for til e
Dnieper as they abandoned their
retreat and elastic Defense"
The Germans admitted marked
accentuation' of Russian attempts
to widen their cross-river footholds
north and south of Kiev and near
Kremenchug and reported Soviet
attempts to establish new ones.
Major battles also ragged in the
north where 3,400 Germans were
declared to have fallen before the
Soviet drives aimed at Vitebsk and
the Latvian border. In the ex-
IRENE south the last suicide rear
guard of Germans was falling as
the Red army cleaned up the final
German foothold in the Caucasus.
The Germans fought viciously
before Vitebsk, falling back to de-
Tense posts organized in expecta-
ton of retreat. But Moscow said
the Russians routed them out and
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HITLER ATTEMPTS
T0B00ST MORALE
Nazi Leader Tells Party
Chiefs That People
Must Hold Up

LONDON, Oct. 8.-tR)-Adolf Hit
Ter, attempting to bolster morale
OH the German home front, as
sembled Nazi party chiefs a d
military and home front leaders
at his headquarters Thursday and
told them the German people must
not be discouraged by reverses,
the Berlin radio disclosed official
ly tonight.
Hitler mentioned the possibility
of defeat, and the theme of his
talk seemed to be: Germany will
win, if
1.-The NazD party's struggle for
power set an example for today S
struggle of destiny by the German
people," Hitler said. THE party
never allowed itself to be discour-
aged by setbacks.'
Arms alone mean nothing" he
said, eff not backed up by the
will of men"
The Nazi party's firm deter
mlnat1on and utmost preparedness
to help" are inspiring the people
today, Hitler was quoted as say
ing, Especially under the hard
conditions of the air war"
THE Fuehrer then continued, :"
said Berlin's official broadcast,
that if the German people keep
UP this spirit, which has stood the
test on the battlefields as well as
at home, the war can never be
lost and must and will bring a
great German victory
Hitler was quoted directly as
having concluded his address in
this way:
'Take along with you in your
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no FORECAST:
IN 'tohIH CAROLINA: Little change
Ill temperature.
Eastern Standard Time)
No' ny L. S. Weather Bureau)
meteorological data for the "a hours
3i'is 80 p. M. yesterday.
La Temperature
D n Nv .; M. 81; 80 a. m, so; 1880
Win NJ oo; 30 p. m, II. Maximum 3d.;
'-'i'ilam 10; Mean 10; Normal SO.
19o Humidity
r , NJ a. a. m, 10; 7:3o a. M, "a; 1880
r. H. 48; 7:3o p. M, 96.
IT,, Precipitation
1o VI Tor or the "a hours ending 1890
LOG IA a. since the first of the month,
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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-02-20
Says Predictions OF War
In The Bible 'Unheeded'

Every war that has married the
peace of the world was predicted in
the Bible, and each conflict could
have been avoided If the people
hadn't strayed from the path of
righteousness the Rev. B VI. Not
tage declared in sermon Sunday.
Blaming the sins OF man for world
conflict and unjust treatment Of
minority groups, Rev. Nottsge re-
vealed parallels in the Bible for
conditions OF today. and pointed out
that every happening OF the present
time was predicted in Biblical his
tory. Especially revealing, he SAID.
is the story OF Noah and the story
OF Lot and the calamities that fol-
lowed when people taught b. these
two B blical characters refused 10
obey the commands Of God.
As u was in the days OF Noah,
so shall it be also in the days of
the son Of man" He said. "In those