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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-22
City Completes Tie
With FWA Water Line
To Maffitt Village

The city has completed its
physical connection between the
municipal water mains at
Greenfield Lake and the Feder-
al Works agency-constructed
line leading to Maffitt village
and is awaiting word from the
Housing Authority of the City
of Wilmington to turn on the
water, City Manager A. c.
Nichols said Wednesday.
He said that the city would
be able to supply a small
quantity of water to the huge
war housing project until the
new filter plant at Hilton is
completed early next month,
when the supply will be in
creased to its maximum.
According to City Engineer
j O. Loughlin, the bulk of the
needed valves and other ma
terial for the completion of the
plant, which were delayed by
priorities, have arrived and
work on the plant at Hilton is
proceeding on schedule.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-22
ByrnesRs g
For Ir
Pub. y1apply
War Mobilization Director
Sees Possibility OF
Extra Goods
STRESSES WAR OUTPUT
Primary Purpose In Re-
cent Directive For Re-
view Is Production

WASHINGTON, July 2f.-
P-A possibility of releas-
Ing more supplies for civilian
use was advanced today by
War Mobilization Director
James F. Byrnes as he dis
cussed a current survey of
overall war material needs.
He emphasized, however,
that the chance for an in
creased flow of goods to the
home front was a "hope, not
a prediction,' and declared
that the prime purpose of his
recent directive to all war
agencies to review their pro-
curement schedules is increas-
ed efficiency in the war pro-
duction effort.
Fuel Oil Gets Priority
At his third press conference
since he was named virtual boss
of the home front, Byrnes also:
1-Said his present gasoline-fuel-
oil survey, as far as the surplus
for civilian ALLEGATION is concerned,
must give precedence to next Win
ter's fuel oil for heating of homes.
This is more important than
present-day gasoline needs for mo-
torists," he said.
2-Disclosed that Leo T. Crow
ley, head of the new Office of
Economic Warfare, must consult
the State Department "as to what
constitutes roNcy" so the DEW
does not cross from the foreign
economic to Secretary Hulps po-
litical field abroad. Along t h t
line. he said that the State De-
partment's new Office of Foreign
Economic Operation under Dean
Acheson already h appointed
three area directors" to u n f y
American economic activities pri-
marily in liberated regions, in
cluding North Africa.
3-Announced the appointment
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County Notes
New Mark In
Yearlylncone'
,l.6os,327.35 Is Collect
ed By New Hanover Of
{ices During Period
rsTIMATES EXCEEDED
Revenues $355,377.l3 Be-
vond Expectations OF
Auditors Office

The s1,606,327.35 paid into
New Hanover's treasury dur
ing the past fiscal year repre-
.sa+ed .aS the highest annual sum
over collected by the county,
srS' snd was s355,377.13 beyond
anf aonticipations, County Auditor
I A, Orrell announced We'd
nesday.
In addition, Mr.. Orrell said,
the unexpended balance of
sl55,959.O5 on hand at the
YEAR $ close was the highest
his office has ever reported.
Property Taxes Rise
Sources of county revenue show
ns the greatest gains were pro-
pertv taxes; back taxes; ABC
find receipts; costs in Recorders
court: fines, forfeitures and soli-
ctors' fees; and United States
ewernment contributions more
ts $4,000 beyond estimate;
ABC collections of 1928 1853,
tance. (s7,224; port development,
Calecuons on property taxes,
s'3?4.457.49 were more than $780,
600 beyond the estimate; back
taxes in the amount of S144,295. IS,
Sl35.OOO above anticipations; costs
in Recorders court of S29, 1853. 16
nearly $4,000 above anticipations;
fines in the amount of S52,083. 80,
$4,000 in excess of estimates;
government contributions of $685.
639.3S we're over $4,000 beyond
expectations.
Unexpended balances were re-
ported in the county home fund;
(S5.236.47; dependent childrens
assistance (S4,055); the general
fund, (s41. .647.35): old age assis-
tance, (S7,22N; port development,
(S64455l; salary fund, SA,122.l0 ;
welfare department (S2.572.06) :
school buildings, (S9e,536.9o; deb
service, (S113.7N.
Major expenditures were show
to be in the general fund, SIT,
O26.31; old age assistance, 1885
school fund, 116,395.26; schoc
supplement, S282, ,41O.33; schoc
buildings, $533, ,3O7.32; school bonds
S96, ,500.72
Continued on Page 2; Column 81
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! IS Billion Dollars
Is War Loan Drive
Goal For September

WASHINGTON, July 2l. -CP)-
"A Slo. oO0,OQ0,OOO goal for the Third
war Loan Drive was announced
,onlght 10 by Treasury Secretary
Mofsenthau, who said only non.
banking N sources will participate.
Inc goal for the largest financ-
ing III -. program in world history is
sz'OOO,OOO,O0O above that of the
second War Loan Drive in April,
Walch aa brought in a total of s18..
yOVVOO,OOO. but of that amount
oGa "snAs bought more than $4,000. OoO.-
Inc Third War Loan drive will
open " Septmeber 9, and Morgen-
.ado SAID the securities, to be es-
SsI5 Ssn5laAy the same types as those
s0lo IN the Second War Loan, will
ns,,Sl W. onered only to individuals, cor
pU!anons, p,s Insurance companies
anu s.r otner non-banking sources.
IAlS goal and the Third War
loan ~ program" he said, was
oe,eImlned st.a by Treasury officials
s s',ef receiving recommendations
F; FVn cAalrmen of the State War
=, nance committees and officials
VI sns me IN Federal Reserve System
.-.u s lAe American Bankers Associa-
rs,. ,uli' Getting this amount of mo.
ra,, WY Will be a huge task and will
nrg ,rpaeseht the largest financing
NOrld. 'olS VI tlie
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-22
Reds 0verrun
80 Areas In
Push On 0rel
Charging Russian Armies
Within 9 Miles North
east OF City
|NAZIS ARE RESISTING
Soviet Forces Improve Po-
sitions Near Izyum And
Voroshilovgrad

LONDON, July 21.-P-|
Charging Russian armies
stormed to within nine miles
northeast of Orel and II miles
to east today in advances of
four to nine miles which over
ran more than 80 populated
places on the fringes of the
great German base, 200 miles
south of Moscow.
Even as the German armies
were forced back, they were
fighting resolutely, mounting
repeated counterattacks with
tanks and infantry, a special
|Soviet communique announced
tonight.
To the south in the Donets
basin to which the violent
summer battle had spread, the
Russians said they improved
their positions south of .Izyum
and southwest of Voroshilov-
CAD in Fighting of local i'm
portance." Earlier Moscow
dispatches had suggested that
these skirmishes might be a
prelude to a mighty Russian
effort to liberate the whole
rich Ukraine, and places them
within reach of the Balkans.
Railway Stations Seized
laundering down from the north
upon Orel, which is threatened with
encirclement, Russian army was
said to have seized 40 populated
places including three railway
stations. one Of them Is kilometers
g miles, northeast of Orel." The
station was rot named. but prob
ably was Optukha, which is at the
location named.
A second army driving in from
tally from the east occupied over
so populated places" said t n e
communique, recorded by the So
Wet monitor. These included the
district center and railway sta
ton of Mokhovaya, and the rail-
way station u olotarevo, IL miles
east of Orel. Five Of the captured
localities were described as large.
The third Russian army driving
up from the south was meeting the
toughest German opposition.
I'm the face OF heavy fire, ene'
my resistance and counterattacks.
our troops forged ahead" tn e
Russians SAID.
The threat was most imminent
to Orel, but an equally important
German base and rail hub at Bry
ansk was also imperilled. A Rus
sian column had captured Bulky
and was within IS miles of Bry-
ansk and within five miles of the
crucial railway linking Bryansk to
Orel. Bulky is about 40 miles to
the west of Orel.
For the second day, the Rus
slams said their troops had ad-
vanced in the Belgorod region 1853
miles south of Orel. It was there
that the Germans scored their lone
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REPRODUCTION
STILL IN SLUMP
Output Little Better In
June Than In Pre-
ceding Month

WASHINGTON, July 21.- tR -
War production was better b u
still in the doldrums during June,
it was learned tonight, with air
craft repeatedly showing gain
of fewer than so planes over May.
The monthly report of the War
Production Board is not due for
several days, but sources within
the agency disclosed their concern
over the continued ''plateau' in
production which should still be
rising steadily.
In most categories production
was up, but not sufficiently so to
meet the production rate neces-
sary to achieve the 1943 goals.
The fact that only a few more
planes were turned out in June
than in May does not truly reflect
progress in the aircraft program,
since each month brings empha-
sis on heavier warplanes. Still it
was understood that u t p u in
terms of dollar value of planes
; and related munitions would not
i match the five per cent gain shown
| in May.
WPB officials have not given up
hopes that the 1943 war produc-
ton goals actually will be achiev-
ed, but they acknowledge that q
vigorous squirt must take place in
the last six months of this year
to attain them.
Officials who are daily puzzling
how to shake off the slump said
a psychological let-down, caused
by recent military victories, and
over-confidence in an early end
to the war, undoubtedly had some
thing to do with the lag.
On top of this, they fear, is a
tendency on part of management
and labor to ease up on the pro-
duction because of fears that they
might soon work themselves out
of government contracts.
WPB Chairman Donald M. Mel
son has acknowledged t h a t "it
would be human nature" for a
plant to slow down when other
firms in a city have been slowed
or temporarily taken out OF pro-
duction, as has happened in the
recent cut back of some munitlon
programs. He emphasized how
ever, that there is no occasion to
worry since the cutback has beer
imposed on only a handful Of pro
ducers and since overall produc'
ton schedules call for a vigorous
increase.
Factors other than psychological.
ones have played a major part
Design changes have slowed uI
certain Army vehicles. Difficult
ties in getting an engine into mass
production is holding up a new
type plane. Bugs" which devel
oped in the substitution of steel
shell castings for brass ones have
necessitated further tinkering with
production in that field. A bottle
neck in axles is hurting heavy
truck output.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-22
EAST COAST OIL
STOCKS INCREASE
Fuel Available To Civil
ians Continues Upward
Course During Week

WASHINGTON, July 21.-dR)-
The East's stocks of oil products
available to civilians continued
their upward climb during the
week ended last Saturday, gaining
one point to IS per cent of pre-
rationing normal, Secretary Ickes
announced today in his role of pc
troleum administrator.
Ickes compared this level, how
ever, to the 52.6 figure of a year
ago and observed that although
deliveries to the east are larger,
military demands also are much
larger and heating oil stocks must
be built up for the approaching
winter.
Deputy Administrator Ralph K.
Davies said railroad deliveries to
the East last week dropped %, 1913
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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
Thursday, July e. tR Allied
bombers, lasning fiercely at Japa-
rese defenses on New Georgia is
land, dropped 1873 tons of bombs
on Bairoko yesterday.
This heaviest raid of the South
west Pacific war was announced
in today's communique from Cen
eral Douglas MacArthur's head
quarters.
Bairoko is located on the south
ern end of Kula gulf, north of Mum
da, site of the great japanese CEN
trail Solomons airbase.
At Munda itself, enemy counter
attacks against American ground
forces were repulsed with heavy
losses.
Sharp ground skirmishes fared
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-22
U. S. Warships Pour
New Destruction On
Japs Holding Kiska

WASHINGTON, July al
R-For the sixth time this
month American warships
poured shells into Japanese de-
lenses on Kiska island Tuesday,
the Navy reported today, and
once more enemy guns made
no reply.
The Navy communique said
the targets of the latest bonn
bardment. which was carried
out by two light units, presum-
ably destroyers or cruisers,
were the enemy's main camp
on Kiska and the Gertrude
cove area.
Authorities here assume that
Japanese guns withheld their
fire in order not to disclose
their positions and lay them
selves open to direct attack
Kiska has also been bombed
II times during July in a con-
tinuing sea-air offensive ap-
parently designed to soften the
island for conquest.
The communique also re-
ported that on Tuesday morn
ing three Japanese bombers
dropped Several bombs" on
Funafuti island in the Ellice
group in the South Central
Pacific. "No damage was re-
ported and no personnel in
juries were sustained" the Ma
w said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-22
State Banking Group
Denies Application
Of Wilmington Firm

RALEIGH, July 21.-P)- The
State Banking Commission grant
ed one and denied six requests of
industrial banks that they be al
lowed to accept deposits subject to
check. One request was left open.
The only bank given permission
to open checking accounts was
the Home Industrial Bank of
Greensboro. Those disapproved
were the Morris Plan Bank of
Wilmington, the Morris Plan of
Charlotte, Citizens Savings and
Loan company of Charlotte, In
dustrial Loan and Investment
Bank of Charlotte, Morris Plan
Industrial Bank of Durham and
the Industrial Bank of Fayette-
vile.
Application of the Salisbury
Morris Plan company was held
open.
Approval was given the applica-
tion of the Scottish Bank of Lum-
berton to open branch at St.
Pauls and to take over the assets
and liabilities of the st. Pauls
branch of the Bank of Rowland.
Also approved was the applica-
tion of the Bank of Pinehurst to
open a branch at Camp MacKau
The commission held that the
Greensboro banks request was
the only application for checking
accounts that was backed by suf-
ficient evidence to show the need
for additional banking service.
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deepening, widening, and dredg-
ing has, for all practical purposes,
been abandoned and by-passed IN
the movement of lend-lease and
war materials"
He said that lit is the feeling
of those who have given some
study to the matter that Whining
ton has the facilities and the
waterway to move these goods
expeditiously and economically.
'Tt is further felt that since all
these goods are paid for by tax
payers and moved in tax-bought
ships that we are, entitled to have
a portion Of this business, other
wise the facilities will so dlsln-
tegrate, physically and financially,
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War Shipping Official
TOCOnfer On Port Use

:, III ,, lne lnerest of using the Port
v "llhlngton for lend-lease ship
a,Vl'S, aN, Captain Granville CONWAY.
Sb;ac SsIac coast director of the War
fij;ppiAg Administration, Army Of
~i,1i, , state officials, and indus
BE- S.ls'S b,S VIII begin conference. to
ninn4 ~elo under auspices of the Will
dsr rs[oA ". Port Cimmission, Thurs
me- he co,s oyrus D. Hogue, chairman of
n NOinmlssion has announced.
paa,,ja pa a statement issued by Mr..
kes 30, p ne pointed out that "while
iair,ss sofP n Of Wilmington was used
pna' frequently by private ship
TIM. operators D before the war,
,ont,,,h me government has taken
seaTr l., over all shipping, the Cape
e.nrooIIIV IIVer upon which the gov
l' has spent millions for
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-07-22
Allies Plaster BairOkO
With133TOnSOfBOmb

anew on New Guinea and 282 jap
anese dead were counted in the
vicinity of Komiatum, seven miles
from the enemy base at Salamaua.
Nineteen japanese planes were
destroyed and II more probably
we're shot down in an air battle
ever Madang, enemy base on the
northeast coast of New Guinea,
which was heavily bombed.
The assault on Bairoko harbor
was made by torpedo and dive.
bombers escorted BY fighters. Nu
merous attacks were made dur.
ing the day in support Of the
ground forces, tn communique
said.
"One hundred thirty-three tons
of bombs were dropped and the
Continued on Page Six; Col. =
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CATANIA SHELLED
Warships Of British Pour
More Explosives Into
Besieged Garrison
ADVANCE CONTINUING
Americans And Canadians
Pursue Enemy Troops
Toward Coast

ALLIED HEADQUAR-
TIERS IN NORTH AFRICA.
July 21.-(P)-American and
Canadian troops have captur-
ed the central road hub of En-
ma to control half of Sicily,
and tonight demoralized Axis
troops had begun a general
retreat toward the escape
port of Messina two miles op-
posite the Italian mainland.
Emma also is the back door
to Catania 40 miles to the
east where the British Eighth
Army had pressed back a
stubbord German foe to the
southern suburbs of that port.
British warships still were
pumping shells into the city
whose fall would pave the way
for an Axis rout similar to
the Cap Bon disaster in North
Africa.
Of the ferocious struggle
around Catania, key to east
ern Sicily, Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower, Allied command
er-in-chief, said:
"The Germans had attempt
ed to establish a very strong
line, including Mount Etna,
on the east and to do so
brought certain formations
from the Italian mainland"
Germans Withdraw Eastward
American and Canadian armor-
ed columns seized the mountain
fortress of Emma yesterday, and
pounded on after an enemy whom
Allied observers said was with
drawing northeastWard apparently
for last stand in the Messina
area or below there on the F5-
mile road leading to Catania.
The fall of Emma, a war prize
through the centuries, d
large numbers of Axis troops in
western Sicily, whose only effec-
tive means of escape is along a
northern coastal road 80 miles
above the advancing Americans
and Canadians.
Gerbini and its neighboring air.
dromes are 30 miles east OF Emma,
and the Germans apparently had
withdrawn most of their u S
from central Sicily to defend the
Catania area. General EisenhoW-
er, in his interview, said that the
Americans were meeting weaker
resistance in their rapid advance,
'"thus over running substantial
portions of the island and confin-
ing the enemy to progressively
smaller areas"
The general expressed conf
dence in a complete Allied VIC
tory on the island, but said the
British and Canadian forces faced
bitter fighting and the prospect ol
generally slow advance.
Ahead of the Allied columns
splitting Sicily in half raced air
men strafing the enemy's road OF
retreat. But the targets were be-
coming SO slim in Sicily for the
Allied airmen they were aislng
their sights generally to attack
Sardinia, island above Sicily, and
airports on the southern Italian
mainland.
Italian prisoners captured in cen
trail Sicily also declared that Ger
man forces had sped eastward.
They complained that the Nazis
were deserting them, grabbing all
| Continued on Page Two; Col. y
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Axis Acknowledge Fall
OfEnna To Allied Armv

LONDON, July 21.-P)-OfficiaI Axis communicates
acknowledged today the fall of indicated the
plight Of their fortunes in Sicily with the phrases used
to cover earlier >reverses in Africa and Russia.
Rome said that Emma had been evacuated, but that
"Axs troops have taken up positions" and Ber-
lin-speaking of this where Allied headquar-
ters reported surgng drive to cut the island in twosad
that German and Italian troops unmoested by the enemy
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executed ordered movements ac-
cording to plan"
The Germans also stated that
at Catania, British attacks were
repulsed "and local penetrations
were Strengthened out by immedi-
ate counterattacks," while the
Vichy radio said the British Eighth
Army: hurting powerful forces into
battle, "at some points succeeded
in breaking Axis S lines" The
breaches "soon were sealed off, :"
it added.
An apparent sudden silencing of
most semi official radio commen-
tators indicated Axis propagandists
were being most cautious, b t
Transocean's military correspond
ent, Capt. Ludwig Sertorius, took
to the air as usual, and said there
was further stiffening of German
and Italian resistance in the coast
al sector.''
He asserted heavy casualties
hao been inflicted on the British,
and said that in central and west
err Sicily fighting "now as be-
fore is determined by elastic de-
fense tactics"
Such tactics, he added, permit
ted the bulk of Axis troops to es-
cale trap when Americans at
tempted a breakthrough in t n e
centl al area.
(Coptinuad IN PaUe Six. Col A.
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NOTICE.!

If your carrier fails to
leave your copy of the Will
mington Morning st tar,
Phone 2-3311 before 900 a.
m. and one will be sent to
you by special messenger.
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WEATHER
FORECAST
NORTH CAROLINA: Continued

eastern Standard Time) 8
By U. S. Weather Bureau
Meteoro1ogical data for the "a hours
ending 7:3o p. M, yesterday.
i 80 a. M, II; 1880 a. M, 30; l:3o
.. m, ss; 7:3o p. m. Maximum ssl;
MINIMUM 76: mean 80; normal 79.
Humidity
80 a. M, SO; 7:3o a. M, 80; 1:3o
n. M, St; 1880 p. M. 95.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 1880
r Total since the first Of the month,
8,56 inches.
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it. finally be forced into
through
flat
almost unbroken from Venice Bn
defense which Italian High
Command has split the Adac Within the portion the Fa
portion
open Allied its entrance too deep for
nets barges.
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IAU times Eastern Standard)
Sunrise, Sis a. M; sunset, 20 p. M;
noonrise, rs p. moonset, 1886 a.
cape Fear River stage at Fayetteville
on Wednesday, at a. M, 14.25 feet.
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Evening star., 1943-05-21
Prisoner May Have Died
In Ndzi Sub Scutt|ino
1y The Associated Press

r, he Associated Press
RECIFE. Brazil. Nav Ala dis
abled German submarine which was
scuttled off Brazil when overtake
by a British DESTROYER NAV have
carried the captain of the torpedoed
Greek freighter Edifots to his death
as manacled prisoner, it was re-
ported here today.
The sinking of the Africa bound
frelghter on May l. which became
known here only yesterday. occurred
In the same general area in which a
British destroyer surprised a Ger
man submarine with insufficient fuel
TO reach port and unable to sub
merge because of engine trouble,
mutlnv was reported in progress
aboard the U-boat when the DESTROY
er appeared, and shortly after crew
members had taken to the water and
been picked up by the British a
violent explosion sent the enemy
craft to the bottom.
Survivors Of both the Edifots and
the U-boat have reached Recife,
Eighteen survivors from the Greek
boat were picked up from the Bra
lillian island of Fernando Noronha
which they reached in one lifeboat.
They said their captain was ia
ken prisoner aboard the submarine
which sank their freighter.
Evening star., 1943-05-21
EVENING WASHINGTON D. c. FRIDAY MAY 2 1s4

Guinea's Papuan Peninsula, have
moved up more than 100 miles to
menace Japanese-h Salamaua.
New Guinea Points Raided.
Today's communique listed strikes
at four New Guinea points by q
Japanese planes as the enemy con-
tinued to show more inclination to
mix it than he has In many weeks.
The communique also reported
the third Allied raid within less
than q week on the enemy's air
stronghold of Rabaul, Northern New
Britain, as we'll as 4 continuation
Of daily attacks on Gasmata and
Cape Gloucester, Southern New
Britain airdromes which are within
a short overwater hop of New
Guinea.
Sinking Of 12-ton boat and dam
aging Of 52-tonner at Douglas har-
Dor, northwest Of Buna. and the f1r-
ing Of a fuel dump at Milne Bay
were all the enemy had to show for
the bombs his 81 planes dropped
there, at Dobodura, near Buna, and
at Port Moresby, nearest Allied New
Guinea base to Australia.
Fires Started At Rabaul.
On the other hand. the crews
Of the Liberators and Fortresses
raiding Rabaul came back with re-