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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-20
Three Power.
|salks Begin.
In Red City
Hull, Eden And Molotov
To Speak Frankly
On War Plans
GROUNDWORK IS SEEN
Conference Will Pave Way
For Meeting OF Ma
tons Heads

MOSCOW, Oct. 19.-(P)-
Foreign secretaries of the
United States, Britain and
Soviet Russia sat down
around a conference table
today in the opening formal
session of the long-awaited
three-power conference to
tell one another, as a spokes-
man phrased it tonight,
frankly and freely what's on
one another's mind"
Although U. S. Secretary
Of State Cordell Hull, British
Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden and Soviet Foreign
Commissar Vyacheslav Molo-
TOW held informal preliminary
discussions last night soon
after the arrival of the visit
ing officials, today's sessions
marked the first transaction
of real business.
Eden-Hull Confer
Early in the day Eden went to
Spasso house, official residence of
the U. S. ambassador. where Hull
is staying, and talked with the
secretary of state. Later, Mo1otov
returned HulPs call of last night.
Then the three got down to work
at 6 pm.
An American spokesman d
Hull had no agenda prepared in
advance of his coming to Moscow
and that topics would form as the
went forward.
Much of the important ground
work will be laid here for future
conversations a m on g
United Nations leaders which will
be far-reaching in scope.
prime Minister Churchill h a
said that it is hoped a Roosevelt
Churchill-Stalin meeting can be
held before the end of the year,
The Hull confer
ence is not expected to run into
any permanent snags despite the
fact that vitality important mat
tiers will come up for discussion
for the first time. AS a ground
work conference it is expected that
it will settle numerous matters be-
fore other leaders meet.
TIL first statements made by
Hull and Eden upon their arrival
were printed on the front pages
of Moscow newspapers today, al
though none of the papers COM
editorially on the confer
ence.
All newspapers carried l a rg e
pictures Of Hull, Eden
and Molotov at the airport, and
stood in long lines to
buy them.
The foreign secretaries are be-
lieved to be discussing not only
wartime but postwar matters of
a military, political and economic
nature, and the Russians h We
said that one of the important top
les to be brought up will be that
of a Second front" in Western
Europe.
There was full realization in
the American and British delega-
IN Pare Six. Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-20
FOE BADLY MAULED
Axis Main Escape Route
To West Is Cut
By Russians
1900 MEN CAPTURED
Pyatikhatka, Inside Dnie-
per River, Is Latest
Soviet Prize

LONDON, Wednesday, Oct
20,-(P)-Red army troops
pouring through a major
breakthrough southeast OF
Kremenchug, badly mauled
four German divisions yester-
day to win a railway juno
ton deep behind large Ger
man forces in the Dnieper
river bend and cut the Nazls'
main escape route to the
west, Moscow announced ear
ly today.
The midnight communique,
broadcast by Moscow and re-
corded here by the Soviet
monitor, said that in this one
operation alone the Red ar
my troops captured 1900
German officers and men,
while 1000 German officers
and men were killed on an
other sector.
Pyatikhatka, a rail juno
ton more than 80 miles in
side the Dnieper at its near
est point, was the major
prize to fall to the Russians.
Artillery Unit Rou,ed
Soviet tank units first routed a
defending Nazi artillery regiment
at Zaporozhye, nine miles north
Of Pyatikhatka, the war bulletin
said, and the capture of Pyatikhat.
ka followed.
The ninth and 23rd German tank
divisions, the 161st German infan-
try division and the greater Ger
many SIS division suffered "se-
we're losses" the conmunique said
in the fighting for Pyatikhatka,
which is full 70 miles west of
German-held Dnepropetrovsk and
astride the main railway from that
city west to Znamenka.
In this advance, which carried
forward for from nine to IL miles,
the Red army rolled over more
than 100 towns and villages.
North of Kiev Soviet o r S
completed the annlhilation Of
remnants of a motorized infantry
division which had been routed
earlier, the communique said.
A Moscow dispatch said the all
Slavonic committee meeting in the
Soviet capital announced that Po-
fish patriots fighting with the Red
army participated in the crossing
of the Dnieper.
Both Berlin and Moscow describ-
ed the fighting southeast Of Krem-
enchug as extremely bloody. In
that area the Russians also cap
tured Shchastlivaya and elyena-
va, respectively 20 and Is miles
west of Pyatikhatka.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-20
each additional child. The meas
ure now goes to the White House.

ure now goes TO the WlllIe AAoo0S'
Republicans on the tax-framlng
House Ways and Means commit
tee lined up solidly against any in
crease in taxes on individual and
corporation taxes, virtually DOOM
ing the Administrations propos'
ed $40. SOC. 1000, 900 revenue raising
plan. They advocated greater gov
eminent economy, instead.
A further reduction in the use
of newsprint - on which news
papers are printed - may be
necessary, the War Production
Board reported. Supplies OF the
paper in November will run 10
per cent below demands, the
board said, suggesting slashes in
inventories as possible alterna-
tive to further reductions IN con-
sumption.
Twin moves to cement closer
relations with Russia were dis
closed. A new Lend-Lease agree
ment gives the Soviet greater sup
plies of war materials, while
reorganization of the United States
military mission in Russia shifts
to Moscow American officers with
reputation for getting along well
with the Soviet.
James G. Patton, president OF
Ac4ztinued on Page Two; Col. s.
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|AIR SUPPORT Gone
Fifth Army Rips Yawning
Breach In Vohurno
River Line
PHASE IS COMPLETED
Bloody Battle For Stream
Ends With Big AL
lied Triumph

A L l. I E D HEADQUAR
TIERS, Algiers, Oct. 1872
mauled in six day
of heavy attacks by Amer
can and British troops, tn
German army guarding tn,
gateways to Rome fell bacl
on new mountain positions
today under fresh onslaughts
by 1t. Gen. Mark w. Clark's
Fifth Army after surrender
ing eight more Italian towns
and villages.
The enemy, shorn Of air
support, fled from his last
positions overlooking the
lower Volturno river when
American forces ripped a
yawning breach in Nazi de-
fenses 80 miles inland from
the Mediterranean coast,
where the Volturno swings
in a northwesterly direction.
The bloody and furiously
fought battle of the Voltur-
no, as such, ended when AM
erican troops rammed their
way from three to five miles
through the Germans strong
mountain defenses to seize
five towns in twin thrusts on
either side of the upper VOL
turno. These villages, taken
in bitter, hard-won infantry
advances, were Gioia, Liberi,
Faicchio, Pontelatone and AL
vignano.
Gains Are Valuable
These gains on the mountain
heights are where they count"
said an Allied military spokesman.
IF the mountains are taken the
Germans will be forced to aban.
don the lowlands along the coast"
That the enemy already was
feeling this pressure was indicated
in an announcement that British
amphibious forces which landed
near the mouth of the Volturno
last week had captured the town
of Bressa, near the coast, just
north of the river.
The end of the Volturno battle
conceded with fresh gains by Gen.
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's
Eighth Army on the central and
Adriatic sectors of til e fighting
line and the first heavy blow by
Italy-based American bombers and
fighters at the key Yugoslav COM
center Of Skoplje, on
the only rail line between Bel
grade and Athens.
Some of the days hardest fight
ing developed in the Eighth
Army's capture of Santo Stefano
after a four-mile advance. The
Germans concentrated furious
ly time and again, but were re.
PEELED by Montgomery's veterans.
Possession of Montecilfone, neal
the Adriatic coast, was firmly Sc.
cured after a day of hard stree,
fighting.
Striking with a speed and pre-.
cision that caught tn e German
anti-aircraft defenses hatfooted
medium bombers and
Continued on Page Two = Col. q
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-20
WEATHER

FORECAST:
NORTH CAROLINA: Continued mild
Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
METEOROLOGICAL data for the ~ hours
ending 7:3O p. M, yesterday.
TEMPERATURE
1880 a. M, So; 1880 a. M, 48; ~ -
p. M, rs; 7:3o p. M. 60, o. N Man' g. ~
Minimum At; Mean 6z; Noriha1
30 a. M, 81; 7:3o a. m, "a; 1880
n. M, 10; 1880 p. M, 60;
r. ''''' PRECIPITATION
Total for the "a hou's ending 1880
r Total since the first OF the moh'n'
m ipcheg
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1943-09-17
1T HAPPENED
THIS WEEK
BY MILTON BROWN, JTA
ITALY

II ALI
The transcending Jewish news
OF the week was ItaIy's surrender.
The swift pace of Allied victories
may prove the means of saving
such Jews as have thus far sur
vived the butchery of Hitler.
The capitulation of Italy will of
course mean the ending of all
Fascist racial laws in Italy and
reports from Europe echo the
general belief that the effects will
be Immediately felt in the near
by Balkan countries.
In France, according to reports
reaching neutral countries, the re-
percuSsiOns of the Allied victories
are having not so happy an effect
ON the Jews.
"AEMS TRIAL"
The Arms trial. in Palestine
continued this week. The trial
seemingly has reached a second
phase, where the prosecution is
attempting not so much to prove
the guilt of any single defendants
as to prove the existence of a
general conspiracy on the part of
the Jewish community to estab-
lish secret defense organizations.
One of the Jewish defense wit
neSSes, Coda MeirsOn of the
Histadruth succeeded in turning
the tables on the prosecution.
Have you ever heard about an
organization called Machneh ?"
asked the prosecutor.
EYES," replied the witness. 1.-THE
first time 1 heard of it was when
the German army was at the
doors of Palestine, and if the
worst would have happened,
Machneh was supposed to have
been ready for any assignment"
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1943-09-17
FROM SICILY CAME WORD
FROM FORMER CAMP
BLANDING CHAPLAIN

Wherever American soldiers are
fighting and dying, there Jewish
chaplains can be found encourage
ing the spirit and Strengthening
the faith of the Jewish soldiers.
On this Rosh Hashonah there will
be fifty-five Jewish chaplains con-
Quoting High Holy Days services
for American service men and
women on all five continents and
a score of island bases, more than
a fourfold increase from a year
ago-while 1877 Jewish chaplains
in the United States will be doing
the same for Jewish men and
women stationed here.
Chaplains Stone (who served at
Camp Blanding, Florida), Topper
and Teitelbaum accompanied the
American troops into Sicily and
are now conducting the first pub
lie Jewish services held there
since the expulsion in 1912. Chap
lain Stone writes:
II was the first Jewish chaplain
to hit the island. Chaplain Sam
Teitelbaum joined me here about
ten days later and Chaplain Irv-
ing Topper, of course, came in
with his outfit.
There is no synagogue on the
island at all. There were about
30 Jewish families in the city
here (Palermo) and all save four
remained. One of them, doctor
of Rumanian extraction, held pri-
vate services in his home on var
ious occasions. He tells me that
centuries ago there was flour
ishing Jewish community in Sic
lily, but during 1892 the Jews
were expelled and were never
granted permission to settle here.
$50 my service was really the
first one held in the city and
island as a public, advertised and
official service"
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1943-09-17

Nearly half million Jewish young men and women
serving the Armed Forces of the United States Our
and daughters in the Armed Forces are often asked
questions about their faith and their people, about Paes-
n about the part Jews have played in the discovery and
building of America. Their nOnJewish comrades expect
them to be Informed these matters Those who know
proud of their knowledge Those who do not feel sorry
for their ignorance Whether they proud sorry de-
ponds upon their Jewish education
When your children men and women will they be
intelligent informed and sefrespectng Jews? VIII they
appreciate their heritage? Will they be able to share In
Jewish life and experienced? Will they know how to cee-
brate Jewish festivals? Will they feel themselves part
OF the Jewish people? Will they be proud and grate1u 10
you for having given them Jewish education? The an
swer lies with you Jewish parents Enroll your child in
Jewish school, and do it when the new school year
commences
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1943-09-17
An Arab Visitor

When Emir Feisal arrives in the United States the
st Of the State Department he will be welcomed by all
who understand the amenities of being hosts
The third son born to King Abdul Azz bn Saud of Saudi
Aha is reported to be visiting the United States in order
to strengthen the relations between this country and
rwerfu MOsIem ruler The interests of world and
free International be improved by the closer
understanding be developed among the various nations
of the earth. !.
But there is aspect of Emir Fesals imminent visit
which is cause of concern to American Jews. RumOrS
which have not yet been adequately disposed Of ege that
certain influences in the State Department have made
mitments to bn Saud which involve the postwar status of
Palestine and of the Jewish community 1t to be hoped
ruors nothing but the web of untruh born of impotence
or anxiety. In the meanwhile, it will not be lost on
he State Department that the United States Gov
eminent not merely through declarations by its President
but through written treaties part of the covenant whose
fument must take the form of the establishment OF
Jewish Commonwealth in Palestine.
rare opportunity exists for that diplomat President
Roosevelt Emr Feisa of American interest in the
development of Saudi Arabia and of the whole Middle East
and at the time to make clear that while millions Of
acres arabic but unsettled lands owned by the Ahabs
justice requires that the of Palestine be reserved for
the salvation of maximum number of Jews without doing
hurt to the economic religious cultural status OF the local
Arabs When Arab leades made OF that fact by
the dominant figure in the United Nations far step will
have been taken toward the regeneration of the Middle East
and the the Jewish people for ageess wander
ing and suffering.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1943-09-17

Don't you know that it is il
legal?" continued the prosecutor.
II know that the authorities
knew about it's existence at the
time when it was organized and
that it was organized with the
help of the British army" re-
piled the witness.
1t is scarcely what the English
call "cricket" for the English
government to attack an organi-
cation which it itself helped to
organize when the situation i'm
Palestine appeared acute.
The President of the Military
tribunal also indicated this week
that he was displeased at the fact
that the enlistment of Jews in the
British military forces in PaIes-
tine was conducted under the
aegis of the Jewish country. "In
no country is any group allowed
to conduct recruiting activities
except the lawful. government"
said the president of the court.
DIR. Philip Joseph, lawyer for the
defense, pointed out that the Brit
ish military authorities had not
voiced any objections when the
Jewish Agency succeeded in re-
cruiting $4,000 men for the armed
forces.
ARABS AND JEWS
The London News Chronicle this
week published statements con-
tradicting other alarming state
ments recently published of in
creasing tension between Arabs
and Jews. The London paper
quoted prominent Jews and Arabs
in Palestine as denying these re-
ports.
In Haifa this week, the city hall
was the scene of exercises partic-
ipated in jointly by Jews and
Arabs. The gathering was for
the purpose of forming education
al committees, for the supervision
of the education of the poor of
the city.
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-05
Schools Here
End Vacation
300. 900 Pupils Face
CaIIback This Week

Summer doesn't officially end
until Sept Il. bat for some 800
coo boys and girls Of school age IT
Will end this week when classes
resume.
Public school students Will re-
port al $50 a m. Wednesday IN
grade and intermediate schools, -
S a. m. in high schools. Parochial
stud entS report A, $50 a m
Thursday.
Registration for the law and
graduate schools late afternoon
and evening classes az W a y n c
University will begin Monday
Sept l3 and evening classes will
get under way Immediately Reg
iStration for all other colleges and
schools in the university will heCir
4zFiatfe|tidys Scpt. IT, and aSt the
entire week
Classes AZ the university wi T.
begin Monday Sept 20
An incrc case from $1,000 tC
20 600 students IN Dctroit'S Cath.
ollc schools because OF expanded
facilities is forcSeen by the Rev
Fr Carroll F. Deadly Superintend.
ent Of paroChlal schools
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-05
DENIES PARTY DIVIDED

National Chairman Harrison +.
Spangler. conscious Of a wide di-
vcrgcncc of opinion among the
Republicans ne named 10 write
the party'S doctrine. hastily eN-
planned today that The argument
should not be taken As evidence
that the COP IS divided
The fact that the members
OF this committee have differ
cnt views j. a healthy sign" nc
said. "Out of this discussion
will come agreement on policy
pointing the direction 10 be fol-
lowed by the Republican Party
in the postwar world"
Spans l4.F=t.>t ffssiiiiffFft-rt ff1r dId not
invite Willkie. Landon or former
President Hoover because ne
wanted member, hip limited TO
elected public officials and a few
members Of the Republican com
ml'tce lie designated all Of the
nations - COP governors. five
senators. II congressman and nine
national committeeman. including
himself There are five absenteeS.
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-05
JeHefs Quits
As Chief OF
Rubber Se;tup
Roosevelt Accepts
Resignation; Program
Now Over the Hump

WASHINGTON. Sept 4 INS)
William NJ. Jeffers tonight re-
signed as rubber director and was
handed an official well done
from President r Roose velt for
carrying the nations synthetic
rubber program over the hump.
The Chief Executive sent the
two-hSted trouble-shooter back 10
hrs JOB as president Of the Union
Pacific Railroad with Dear
Bill letter reluctantly accepting
the resignation and naming Col.
Bradley Dewey of Boston 10 take
over direction Of the rubber pro-
gram.
Dewey. who has been JefferS'
executive assistant. is the presi-
dent of the chemical firm Of
Dewey e. Almy.
In contrast 10 many another
wartime official. Jeffers stepped
out of the government without
any blast al his associates or rival
federal agencies.
He could not resist. however. a
parting swing az the WIPE, with
which he has feuded for months
over priorlties on m ter a :
needed 10 complete tho network
Of synthetic rubber plants.
After declaring that the biz
lob covered by the recommenda-
ti0nS Of the Baruch report iS
done JefferS added in his letter
Of rcS gnation 10 the President.
THE problem Of taking care
Of the requirements Of the
armed forces and keeping the
country on rubber. meanwhile
conserving the nations stock
pile Of natural crude, is well in
hand. though there Is present
and prospective shortage of tire
fabric. which Is the responsible
ity Of the NPB."
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-05
Messina Strait Dominated

In the second day of the penetration into Hters Euro
pean fortress British and Canadian infantry and armored
units of Gen Montgomerys Eighth Army, assisted by
massive air and naval bombardments secured complete
domination of Messina Strait.
They forged ahead in several directions moving inland
and along the western and southern shores of Iays Gala
brian tip Resistance surprisingly weak and herds of
Italian prisoners taken Tommes occupied Reggie
di Calabra and San Giovanni well Calico and Catona
in between those ports.
"A Berlin broadcast said first Allied landings just before
dawn Friday in Calabra opposite Sicily had been fol-
lowed by argescale debarkaons between Meito and
Cape Spartveno respectively Is and 25 miles southeast Of
Reggie,
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-05
Motherless TWins, Days Old,
To Be Flown Here for Dad

tho New London Council Of Girl
Scouts, viii meet them. Tucked
Snugly in a special basket the
twins will be taken aboard a plane
~ LaGuardia field Tuesday and
flown 10 Detroit.
In Detroit. Miss Birmingham
will turn the babies over 10 their
maternal grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Earl J. Bach Of Pontiac The
Scout official is interrupting her
vacation 10 make the trip.
The babies will be Just a month
old when they make their first
flight.
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-05
Churchill 10 Speak
AT Noon on Monday

WASHINGTON. Sept. 4 INS)
The White House tonight an
nounced that Prime MlniSte
Churchill will deliver brief ad-
dress in an undlSclosed city on
Monday.
Tho address. which. will he made
on program beginning Al noon,
EWT. will be broadcast II is not
expected that II will be of especial
political significance.
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-05
Landings RepuIsed, Foe Says

(The Nazi-rum Paris radio said Allied para
troops had landed Saturday behind the Axis lines
in southern Italy after Berlin broadcast claimed
Illustration of further seaborne landings north of
San Giovanni in the vicinity of Scilla
The Agiers radio added that Italian soldiers
surrendering in groups just they did in Sicily.
Late Saturday night the Paris radio admitted that
the British Eighth Army had consolidated its hold
solid strip of the Italian coast at least % miles long
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-05
MICHIGAN SPoKEsMEN

Besides Vandenberg, Michigans
SpokeSmen include Gov Kelly,
National Committeewoman Mrs
Dudley c. Hay Of Detroit and
Congressman Roy Woodruff of
Bay City
Coy. Thomas F Dewey Of New
York is in OwosSo visiting his
mother and will arrive here Sun
day 10 take A leading role in the
proceedings.
If Senator NandenherC has his
way. the outcome at the final
session Tuesday evening viii be- a
resolution declaring that the
United States Will collaboratc
with other nations IN the postwar
world. bat az the same time the
party will faithfully recognize
merican responsibilities and
American interests"
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-05
5OO-Pound Woman Moued
To Hospital by II Men "

II took II men 10 remove 500
pound Mrs. Irene Faber. 5S, Of
1900 Lovett. to Receiving Hospital
late Saturday night,
-Four m b III a nc 2 attendants
found her in an upstairs room un-
able 10 walk because of a leg in
Election Their efforts 10 remove
her falling. they called for rein
forcements. and a fire department
rescue squad OF five mon and two
policemen responded
Irene weighs at least 500
pounds" her husband, Stanley,
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-05

NEW LONDON, Conn Sept {
CUP) Ion Aug Z, tho wife OF
Electrician Mate Charles r.
johnson. L. s. y. gave birth 10
twin boys.
Complications developed and the
mother Thelma. 20, died soon
afterward Unable 10 care for his
babies. the grief-Stricken father
appealed for aid
Next Monday the twins viii he
taken 10 New York where Miss
Jessie Brittingham, director Of
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-05
Sudden Attacks Probable

CThe Rome radio acknowledged that Sudden attacks
possble-nay probableagainst other parts of the
Italian peninsula and the whole of Italy is exposed to
future blows 1t warned of probable Allied landings
"n the next few hours in the next few days. and de-
clared all Italy is in "a state of alert.
Can Algiers broadcast said the Eighth Army
advancing satisfactorily while massive reinforce
ments poured onto the beachheads and Italian auhori
ties began evacuatng civilians in the path of the ad
Vancel
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-05
Latest on MussoIini:
He S on Isle OF Ponza

LONDON, Sept 4 tINS)-MuS-
solini l. confined "a the Isle Of
Ponza. IS miles west and slightly
north of Naples, where he lS
guarded by German troops. Reu-
terS reported today
Quoting the Stockholm SvenSka
Dageblatt the agency declared
the Germans had refused 10 de-
liver MuSSolini 10 the Italians