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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-02
CAPTURED
BY ALLIED ARMY
Il Italian Towns Fall As
Clark's Forces Drive
Forward
By EDWARD KENNEDY

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AL
giers, Nov. 1.-lRAThe Allied Fifth
and Eighth armies, laboring for
ward in mud and rain, have cap
tured 81 more Italian towns and
villages, including Teano, in grim
fighting at the approaches to the
Germans massive new trans-pen-
insula defense barrier.
Teano, important road junction
10 miles northeast of the enemy's
towering Mt. Massico stronghold,
fell to 1t. Gen. Mark W. Clark S
American Fifth Army after a one
mile uphill fight against elements
of the crack Hermann Goering dl-
vision, a headquarters communl-
que announced today.
In another spectacular thrust,
American troops advanced flv e
miles through downpours and up
dizzy mountain slopes to take Val
leagricola, perched on a 2,O00-foot
hill four miles north of Raviscanl-
ma. In the two advances Clark S
men also enveloped the villages OF
Anfitica, Otello, Mancanello n d
Neviere.
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgom-
ery's British Eighth Army w a S
pinned down by heavy rain and
stiff Nazi resistance along the Trlg-
no river near the Adriatic end Of
the battle line, but in the noun
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-02
Rv KIRKE L. SIMPSON

Heavy blows at German morale
rained upon Nazidom yesterday,
with publication of the four-power
Moscow covenant of war and peace
and the accompanying declara-
tons.
The sweeping scope of the main
document, pledging China as well
as Britain, Soviet Russia and the
United States to fight on against
those Axis powers with winch
they respectively are at war until
such powers have laid down their
arms on the basis OF unconoleloi'ai
surrender is breath-taklng.
It could leave even japan, no.
specifically mentioned, in no doubt IT
as to where Russia ultimately WI,
stand in the global battle TO eno
everywhere the menace OF ag-
gression.' +b.+ the
It goes without saying 'ha' 'ne
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-02

Moscow declarations as to Ger
many will be followed soon by
similar American British Chi
nese announcements of a similar
nature, booming Japanese military
and political personnel responsible
for war atrocities as the Churchill
Roosevelt-Stalin pledge dooms 9TH
er Axis war criminals. Steps to
that end had been taken in Wash
ington, London and Chungking be-
fore the Moscow deliberations be-
gan.
But it is upon the Nazi front,
military as well as at home in the
Reich, that the blow conceived and
executed in Moscow to match the
ever widening cycle of Nazi mill
tary disasters, must fall most
heavily.
And it is a fair assumption that
III addition to the tons of bombs
that Allied planes carry to blast
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-02

as symphony orchestra lead
er's, sketching designs in the air
as he made points in discussing
the conference.
Hull believes firmly that any
isolationism on the part of either
of the three powers is not a pos
sibility.
After the conclusion of the con-
ferences with British Foreign Sec
rotary Anthony Eden and Soviet
Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav
Molotov, Hull sat in soft brown
leather chair in the official resi-
dence of Ambassador W. Averell
Hartman and talked about what
he thought about the world be-
fore the war, what he thought
about the world before he came
to Russia and what he thought
about it now.
The secretary thinks things are
going to be a lot better between
the Allies. He thinks we have
IndQe Dig SISpS CoW dlu WIIllllIlS
the peace and he thinks the United
States and Russia are better
friends because of this conference
than they could have been with
out it.
He has been deeply impressed
by the Soviets and they have been
impressed by him.
Some one asked Hull what he
thought about Stain.
The secretary closed his eyes
waved his long hand in the air,
and said he thought Stain was a
very remarkable person, a man
of unusual ability, fine judgment
and broad practical grasp of
the subjects which come to his at
tention. He added that Stain was
one of the three leaders today
who have a responsibility such as
no other three people will have
for perhaps another five centu-
ries.
Continued on Page Seven; Col, g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-02
HOUSE APPROVES
POSTAL INCREASE
Penny Rise Seen In Cost
OF Stamps For Out
Of-Town Mail

WASHINGTON, Nov. l. Up "A
penny increase in the three-cent
postal rate on out-of-town letters
was approved today by the House
Ways and Means committee as it
virtually completed action on a
new tax bill providing So, 1873, 000,-
900 of additional revenue-80 per
cent short of the $40, 500, 100000 re-
quested by the Administration.
The committee, which previously
jumped the local letter rate from
two to three cents, also:
l. Put the airmail rate at eight
cents instead of 10 cents as ap-
proved earlier. The present rate
is six cents.
2. Doubled second class postal
rates, but exempted newspapers
and religious and church papers
which retain present charges.
3. Cut back to 20 per cent the
previously approved 80 per c e n
rate against general admissions to
amusement places. The rate is 10
per cent.
4. Passed through the excise list
without reconsidering its previous
/rI..J 40 Doro Tuo. CnJ X
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-02
GERMANS BEGIN
PUSH ON GREEKS
Foe Trying To Take Ad-
vantage OF Dissen-
ton In Balkans

ANKARA, Turkey. Nov. Up
Already confronted by chatic
guerrilla warfare in Yugoslavia,
the Germans have opened full
fladged offensive AGAINST $4,000
Greeks banded in disputing camps
The Germans obviously are seek
ing to take advantage of patriot
! dissension and put down armed
resistance before it gets out of
hand
The German campaign, accord
ing to reliable information receiv-
ed here today, is being directed
against the Elias group of patriots
of Col. Seraenhis in Thessaly, and
the rival Edes army of Col. Ter
vas in Epirus.
Careful investigation from wide
spread sources indicates the real
root of their conflict is a disagree
ment over whether King George
| II should be allowed to return to
his throne and if SO under what
conditions.
The Elias (also known as the
Elias Andarts), estimated at about
10000 fighters, are the military
and national Greek political Or
ganization called AEM which has
opposed the kings return.
AEM political leaders are re-
ported to have sent an envoy to
Cairo recently with the massage
to the Greek government in exile
that their support for the king
could be secured only if George re-
turned to his country Immediately,
Joined the Elias in their mountain
hideouts and personally led the
resistance movement.
According to independent lnfor'
nation here, the British support
ed the AEM and its subsidiary
Elias UP to the time their de-
mands ree~~ding the king became
so definite.
According to some reports, the
AEM tends to be Communist.
The Edes are believed to number
about 20, 900 and are unquestlonlng'
ly followed the orders and dlrec.
tives of Gen, Sir. Henry Maitland
Wilson, Allied Middle East Com
mander at Cairo.
A1oof from both the Elias and
Edes groups is Greece's committee
of party leaders, which has been
the handspring of resistance since
shortly after the German occupa'
ton and which favors a plebisclte
to precede the kings return.
While leaning hard that AEM
this communique is reported tc
have largely Withdrawn its support
in order to bring the two warning
groups in line.
(Heanwhile did and fratri
cidal struggle continued in Yugo
slavia, according to communique
issued by the Partisans of Josir
BroZ - Drug Tito - which report
ed a new outbreak along the
Siberian-Bosnian border between
the Partisans, who wear red stars,
and the Chetniks of Yugoslav War
Minister Gen. Draja Mihailovlc
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-02
Secretary Hull Pleased
With Conference Results

MOSCOW, Nov. 1.-(F)-Secretary of State Cordell
Hull is pleased with the results of the rpower conference
concluded here today; there is doubt about it.
The three big powers, along with China told the world
they jointly determined to crush their enemies into
unconditional surrender and then work together for Inter
national peace and security
The Secretary of State pale but his voice firm
and steady he in Spasso house, his right leg swung
over his left and his long taperng hands, expressive
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-02

They end definitely Nazi hopes
Of an Allied break over war or
postwar policies. They make up
dramatic appeal not only to Aus
trians, restless under the Hitherto
coke, but to war-weary Germans
at home or in the fighting ranks
to have done with the evil Nazi
influences that have brought them
to this pass.
The four-power pact itself and
the seven specific declarations it
contains, while in general terms,
appear to cover the whole field
of relations for both war and posi-
war purposes SO fully that there
remains little for face-to-face
meeting between Churchill, Roose-
welt and Stain to accomplish.
The Moscow conference unques-
tionably went far beyond the most
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-02
SIGNS ARE TESTED
Many Persons See Will
mington's Night Beau
ty For First Time
SHADOWS FINISHED
Half Human ii a pes In
Darkness Revealed As
Lowly Fire Plugs

Hundreds of persons who
have moved to Wilmington
in the last year since the dim
out regulations went into ef-
feet experienced something
of the feeling of a child who
is led blindfolded in to a par
~ to see his first birthday
cake with candles alight for
the first time when the
downtown lights came on
again Monday night.
tn those who have never seen
the CITY except in an all-too-per-
fading gloom it looked as though
the spectrum had done a highland
nmo and come to rest in neon
1,bes for once again the theater
n7aruuees, shops and restaurants
are brightly illuminated to aug
ment the winking reds, greens and
vellows of the traffic signs.
Two sailors were frankly enjoy
ing the sparkling puzzle of dots
and dashes on one theater mar
mee. One of them who had an
imaginative turn of mind thought
perhaps his future lay in an in
vention for leaving messages for
friends on a similar board-just
in case he was called out of town
aurriedly.
Down on the river front it was
again light enough to S e e that
Spar" (she's the female compile
nent, the lads will tell YOU'D, the
Coast Guards mascot t e r r,
hasn't grown a mite in the six
months she's called Wilmington
her home port and that her spots
are really dark brown and not the
black they had always seemed.
A misty new moon that might
portend rain for parching vege-
tation hung high over Brunswick
county directly across the river,
but farther down the stream lights
danced reflections in time to the
muted sounds of engines.
The baubles in jewelry shop win
d6ws have their accustomed and
wish-provoking glitter, the apples
III grocery shops look red as a
magazine illustration, that l n g
DIN line which heretofore resem-
bled blurred queue turns out to
be only ones neighbors waiting to
80 to the movies. and those Quasi
modo-shaped blobs are only regu-
lation fire plugs.
Except for trucks, most S
still had dim-out paint on head
lights, but a few had scraped off
the black paint. Buses seemed to
have kept their dimness on thus
lar, too, and the cabs were I'M
lighted other than at stops. One
service man at busy filling sta
ton said he had no requests for
removing paint nor had he heard
anyone talking about it. He said
that he felt folks had gotten used
tc it and didn't care one way or
the other.
The darknest stretch in down.
town Wilmington seemed to be on
second street between Market and
Princess Monday night, which was
unllghted except for one small
shop' But the clock in the court
mouse tower which has continued
10 be beacon all during the dim
Out to graveyard shift" workers,
was still shedding its friendly light
"hleh now seemed dim in com.
paIIson with the glitter of Whining
Ton aHght again. The blue neon
arrow at the police station which
also has been exempt from dim.
ouv cohtnues as before, the quail.
NY OF its light depending on the
sUl1Se ehce Of the locker, it is pre-.
Local patrolmen and military DO
"onnhued on Page Two: Gel, 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-02

Those of Merchant seamen
who bring the conveys through,
find needed rest and recreation
in homes and centers operated
for the United Seamen's Ser
vice in Cooperation with the
War Shipping Administration in
ports in two hemispheres of
the world. The United Sea-
mems Service is just one of ~
agencies in the Community
War Chest of Wilmington and
New Hanover county.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-02
WEATHER

ko, FORECAST.
today. 'oAiSA: MILO temperature
10 eastern Standard Time)
Mo- ny U. 5. Weather Bureau)
.nding '11o!oglcal data for the "a hours
4e ;5o p. m, yesterday.
I'm Temperature
~ a; m, so, 7:3o a. M, IS, 1870
Miri ~ 49, 1:30 p. m. g. Maximum rs,
'-''iuih %, Mean 66, Normal 60.
LON Humidity
y l;so a: M, 80, 7:ao a. M, ss, 1:sC
= ni 50, 7:30 p. M, "a.
r Precipitation
'oai Tor the "a hours ending 7:3(
= m', 600 inches
vA 1o'al since the first of the month
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-02

3r Huhrise' 6:33 a. M, Sunset, 5:1s p. M
Csse; o:57 a., Moonset, 9:23 p.
nm 9S rear River stage at Fayetteville
''' monday, at a. M. 9.14 feet,
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Evening star., 1943-05-05
Attempt Is Reported
.0n Life Of No. 2Fascisi
Scorzo, Porty Secretary,
Ranks Next to II Duce
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 5.-A roundabout
report received here last night said
an attempt had been made on the
life of Carlo Scorza, new secretary
of the Fascist party and second only
to Mussolini in current rascist rank
ings.
A Soviet news agency dispatch
from Turkey, broadcast from Mos
COW and recorded by the Soviet
Monitor, said numerous members of
the Fascist youth organization had
been arrested as result of the
attempt.
There was no immediate indica-
ton whether Scorza had been in
jured.
Scorza. veteran party member
who q decade ago was head OF
the youth group, was elevated to
general secretary of the party April
| II in a reshuffie which ousted Aldo
Vidussoni, reported a favorite of the
youth organization. Scorza had been
undersecretary.
| DlSpatcneS from neutral countries
at that time said it was understood
that Mussolini made the changes to
bring old and tried members of the
party into his closest councils and
to counteract increasing dissatisfac-
ton reported sweeping through the
younger element of the party.
A Rome radio broadcast recorded
in New York by the Federal Com
munications Commission reported
meanwhile that Mussolini has just
named a new group of Fascist party
inspectors to supervise local activi-
ties of the party.
The broadcast said the list had
been published In the Fascist party
newspaper and that all incumbents
not named thereon are released
from their functions"
Evening star., 1943-05-05
Mrs. Creedon Takes Oath
With III New Citizens

Mrs. Myrtle Creedon. COL Nine
teenth street NV, wife of Frank
r. Creedon, assistant deputy direc-
tor in charge of new synthetic rub
Der plants. described yesterday as
the "happiest day" of her life-be-
cause she became an American citi-
zen.
Mrs. Creedon was among the III
new citizens sworn in before Justice
F. Dickinson Let's of District Court
during naturalizat ton ceremonies.
A native of Nova Scotia, Mrs.
Creedon was married to Mr.. Creedon
in 1896. She has lived in this coun-
try for number of years and for
the last three years has been a res
ldent of Washington.
Solomon Siegfried Hirsch, 81. of
1918 Jocelyn street NV, principal
consultant of the Board of Eco
nomlc warfare, also was naturalized
yesterday.
Born in Berlin, his application
for citizenship gives his nationality
as a Palestinian. He emigrated to
this country from Canada in 1889
but prior to then had often visited
this Nation. He is an expert on cop-
per and other metals.
Evening star., 1943-05-05
ton of actions leading up to pas.
sage of the tax bill:

ton of actions leading up to pas
sage of the tax bill:
l. The House, sitting as a COM
mittee, approved by tellers' tally
of 1877 to 166, the Republican-spon-
sored modified Ruml plan.
2. Then, by the margin Of four
votes, 206 to 202, rejected on a roll
call the Ruml skip-a-year plan.
3. Immediately, the House ordered
the measure recommitted. by roll
call vote of 230 to 180, to the Ways
and Means Committee with instruc-
tions to report out the Forand-Rob-
ertson compromise.
4. The committee took that step
within matter of minutes. The
Forand Robertson bill already had
been drafted.
5. BY standing vote of 233 to lis,
the House promptly accepted it as
substitute to the measure drafted
by the Democratic majority of the
committee.
6. AS the final step. by roll call
vote of 3l3 to 95, the House approved
the bill.
Mr.. Robertson said the fight had
been hard and sometimes unpleas-
ant He emphasized that the Robert
son Forand measure involves no
doubling-up, that is the payment of
more than one years taxes within
one year
Those not made fully current by
the bill, - he said, would continue to
pay In the future as in the past, but
with their 1912 tax liability reduced.
For a man with million dollar
taxable income, the amount of for
glveness under this bill would be
about $4,000
Evening star., 1943-05-05
Rev. D. f. Power Of 6. U.
Becomes Army CHAPLAIN

The Rev. Daniel E. Power. S. j..
OF Georgetown University was one
of threes Catholic priests from
Washington who were graduated
today from the Army Chaplain
School at Cambridge. Mass, the
War Department announced.
Father Power, formerly professor
OF history, is the fourth Jesuit from
Georgetown to become a chaplain
In the armed services. The others
from Washington are the Rev. Hugh
G. Gaffney and the Rev. Francis P.
Wagner.
The graduating class at the chap
lain school, which is maintained at
Harvard University, included 284
ministers of various denominations
Evening star., 1943-05-05

direction" of war production under
a man with authority to pass on all
questions and decide all conflicts.
The report will be based on the
four day hearing into the now
settled controversy between Mr..
Jefers and Undersecretary of War
Patterson over the rubber-gasoline
programs.
Even though Judge Patterson
and Mr.. Jeffers apparently have
settled their controversy, the basis
for the controversy apparently is
inherent in our production setup,
Senator Truman asserted.
He declared an overall control,
coupled with the use of diplomacy
in soothing ruffled feelings. would go
a long way toward meeting this
problem"
Evening star., 1943-05-05
New Jeffers-NeIson
Battle Expected Over
Whifeside' S Job
Rubber Director Sees
interference; WPB Chief
ExpIoins New Office
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press. -
Growing impatience with Wash
ington wrangling was reflected
on Capitol Hill today as a new
word battle threatened to erupt.
Latest dissension was over the
creation by War Production Chief
Donald M. Nelson of an once OF
Civilian Requirements under A. D.
Whiteside.
Rubber Director William M. JEFF
fers was known to have told some
members of the Truman Committee
privately that he believed the Nelson
move to give WPB agency control
over civilian rubber ALLEGATION had
wiped me out"
Sees Interference
He referred to it also in his tes-
timony at the committees hearing
on the rubber aviation gasoline con-
troversy as an apparent Inter
ference" with his rubber program.
MIR. Nelson, however, mildly gave
assurance that his order wouldn't
make ANY change whatsoever" in
Mr.. Jeffers' functions.
Aides of the rubber chief. saying
they feared a Nelson-Jeffers col
lision," said Mr.. Jeffers apparently
felt the order might be interpreted
as giving Mr.. Whiteside voice in
the synthetic rubber plant construc-
ton, through his stated authority to
determine the volume of civilian
needs.
Mr.. Nelson brushed this aside,
saying. Nobody but Jeffers has re-
sponsibility for production" The
broad language of the order. he went
on, meant only that Mr.. Whiteside
will, for me, review the arrange
ments made by Mr. Jeffers for civil
ian end-productS"
For instance, Mr.. Nelson said. if
Mr.. Whiteside decided the rubber
going into passenger car tires should
be made into truck tires to relieve
shortage in supply for farmers
trucks, he could direct Mr.. Jeffers
to, shift the emphasis. If differ
ence of opinion developed Mr.. Nell
son would be the arbiter.
Authority to Step In.
Mr.. WhiteSide has the authority
to step in, just as 1 have had it in
the past. So far l haven't had to
step in.
''Mr. Jeffers remains completely
responsible for the development of
Evening star., 1943-05-05
Truman Drafting Report.

Meanwhile, Chairman Truman
and his colleagues began drafting a
report. for issuance. tomorrow or
Friday. calling for ;"co-ordinated
Evening star., 1943-05-05
Pleasure DRIVING
Continued From First Page.

purposes, drivers will be interviewed
by police and OPA Investigators
where possible so as to screen out
-viOlatOrS."
Honor System Fails.
In instances where such inter-
views cannot be held. he added, IL
cense numbers will be taken down
and drivers will be asked to explain
their activities either to district Of
fees or their local rationing board.
Initiation of the new drive against
pleasure motoring represented an
admission by Mr.. Brown that his
honor system" method of enforc-
ing regulations had failed. He ended
strict enforcement of the winter ban
on pleasure driving in March, assail-
ing methods introduced by Leon
Henderson. former price admin
istrator. Motorists were put on their
honor to drive no more than neces-
sary. The new Brown order ap-
peared to observers quite similar to
the old Henderson restriction.
Gasoline supplies have been so low
in the East in recent weeks that
OPA sereval times considered dras-
tic action to curb driving. Suspen-
sion Of ration books has been con-
sidered. though the situation cur
rently is held to be easier"
1T Is our hope" Mr.. Brown de-
clared, that any motorist stopped
by police for any city ordinance or
other local law violation will be
questioned to determine whether he
is also violating rationing regula-
tions.
Will Watch Resorts.
Police also will be asked to re-
port motorists visiting distant re-
sort and recreation spots. We shall
also ask their help in turning in
license numbers of those motorists
whose visits to to race tracks and
other places of amusements are out
of keeping with their gas allow
ance."
He pointed out that warm
weather not only adds to the temp
tation to engage in unnecessary
| oToSCt, O0V AAoO ulCdllS AAdlOCI WCdI
on tires
| Mr.. Brown said violators fall into
two classes: One embodies individ-
uals who are thoughtless or fail
to realize the seriousness of the
situation" and "willfull violatorS
- that group of selfish individ-
uals who buy gasoline from un-
scrupulous filing stations which
cover up sales without ration cou-
pons by purchasing them from
criminal elements in the community
for the sake of their, mutual profit.
These motorists as well as their sup
plies must expect stern treatment.
Other willfull yiolators are persons
who use their B and G books for
nom essential driving"
Meanwhile, Mr.. Brown and Trans
portation Director Joseph B. East
man decided to study the possibility
Of stretching rationing regulations
to enable weary wal workers to en-
Evening star., 1943-05-05

joy some time this summer at vaca-
ton spots.
Told by Gov. Harry F. Kelly of
Michigan that travel restrictions
stand in the way of weary workers
and spell of fishing.1 swimming or
other recreation. Mr.. Brown and
Mr.. Eastman ordered a thorough
study Of the question and promised
quick, final ruling.
The war agency officials cautioned
the Governor not to expect too
much, for war production and rub
ber and fuel conservation must
come first, but they gave assurance
that they recognized the Importance
of recreation in wartime and would
make it available to war workers if
at all possible.