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War Bond Sales Are Nearing
HALF Way Mark In Wilmington

Returns are incomplete, and
many Of the campaign plans have
been set in motion only within the
past few days, but figures quoted
Thursday by officials Of the Third
War Loan drive indicate that bond
sales are approaching the half
way mark.
The total that War Finance COM
mitteemen could put their fingers
on Thursday night amounted to
$2,778, 600.
Fourteen more days remain for
New Hanover county to reach its
goal Of $6,O53, 900.
The bond booth in the Tide Wa
ter Power company building re-
ported much activity in its fourth
day of operation, with uptown So
licitations netting $lO,815.30. No
collections from house to house
canvassers were included in the
sum.
The Belk Williams department
store booth reported $500 in sales
Thursday.
From the women's division came
assurances that the door-knocker
phase Of the bond drive is progress
ing "even better than we antici-
pated."
Officials of the women's divi-
sion described the efforts of block
messengers - Citizens Service
Corps members and other volun-
teers-as enthusiastic"
The large indicator to be erected
on the postoffice lawn Thursday
was not completed on schedule,
but is expected to be set up by
Friday afternoon, Junior Chamber
of Commerce officials declared.
Richard. S. Rogers, area War
Loan drive head, whose territory
comprises IA counties in the east,
has left the city for tour of
other headquarters cities. Mr.. Rog-
ers revealed that sales are as en-
couraging throughout his territory
as they are in New Hanover.
county.
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Allied Air Power Blasts
German Army At Salemo
LARGE BARRAGE
Most Lethal Combination
Of Aerial Might In
Mediterranean Seen

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, Sept. 16.-(R-
The most lethal concentration of
air power in the history of the
Mediterranean conflict is blast
ing and tearing at the Germans in
the Salerno area in support of
hard-fighting American and Brit
ish ground forces.
Far more than 1900 sorties
were flown over the critical bat
tlefield both yesterday and the
previous day by this Allied arma-
da, and an official declared the
tonnage of bombs rained on the
Nazis was vastly greater" than
that which brought about the ca
pitulation of Pantelleria island
earlier in the summer.
The record-breaking array of
bombers and fighters was spray
ing bombs and cannonfire with
deadly precision on enemy supply
d u mps, communications and
troops only a short distance be-
hind the smoke and flame of the
actual fighting front. The Ger
mans, almost devoid of effective
aerial support, were helpless to
avoid the devastating attack from
the skies.
German fighter pilots continued
to avoid conflict if at all possible,
and in two days of unprecedented
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LEVY
REPEAL LIKELY
increase In Normal In
come Tax Rate May
Take Care OF Revenue

WASHINGTON, Sept. IS R -
Repeal Of the S per cent victory
tax, with an increase of the nor.
NAL income tax rate to bring in
the 81, SOU, 900, 900 now collected an
nually by the victory levy, appear
ed likely today as the House Ways
and Means committee set to work
to simplify the tax-paying process.
Ways and Means Chairman
Doughton ON c. and Chair
man George .D.-Ga.) Of the Sem
ate Finance committee both ex-
pressed hope that the victory tax
could be absorbed with the nor
NAL income tax for individuals in
1914.
George suggested that this might
be accomplished by raising the
normal income rate from 6 to 10
per cent.
Doughton announced h is COM
mittee would open public hearings
probably September q or 20 on
the 1914 general revenue la w,
which no doubt will embrace lev
les outdoing the present record
taxes.
The hearings were postponed
from September 20 because the
Treasury and the tax staff en-
ployed by Congress were not ready
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Vital Yugoslauian
Port Is Captured
By Guerrilla Army

LONDON, Sept. Is. - Up
Split, Yugoslavia's most inn
portant seaport, has fallen to
guerrilla patriot armies after
two days siege, a Yugoslav
communique said tonight.
The communique, issued in
the name of the Yugoslav army
Of liberation, said the Axis gar
rison of the Adriatic seaport
was believed to have surren-
dered in the last "a hours.
The guerrillas were report
ed attacking Ogulin, 80 miles
inland from the Adriatic in
northern Yugoslavia. Guerril-
las already hold a large part
of the Susak-Zagreb railway in
that region east Of Fiume.
German motorized divisions
attempting to pierce the Yugo-
slav lines near Kiln were re-
ported driven off with 300 kill
ed and 500 wounded.
The Italian Bergamo divi-
sion was said to have surren-
dered and the Italians, wish
ing to fight alongside the parti-
san patriots against the Ger
mans, were reported mustered
into a "Garibaldi division"
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Scion Suggests Probe OF Labor boarding In Industry

unteers, he said, it rejects many
because of their immaturity.
In other Washington develop
ments:
A grand jury indicted Rep.
James NJ. Curley D-Mass.) and
five others on charges of using
the mails to defraud in connection
with alleged operation Of firm
offering to get government con-
tracts on a fee basis for manufac-
turing firms.
The House Ways ;. and Meals
committee. heard representatives
of the United States Chamber of
Commerce urge repeal of the law
providing for renegotiation of war
contracts to prevent excess prof
it's" E. C. Alvord, appearing for
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AMERICANS TRY
new TWILIGHT
RAIDINC PLAN

LONDON, Sept. 16.- R Allied
British-based aerial armadas have
launched new round-the-clock as
sault on Nazi war installations
from the French coast to Berlin,
with American bombers embarked
on a new and significant twilight
raiding technique.
American Flying Fortresses
made their second raid of the new,
two-day assault by bombing naval
installations at the French Loire
river port Of Nantes today. More
formations were heard heading
across the channel at dusk, indi-
eating the raids were going on
into the second night.
The Allied aerial drive opened
last night when fleet Of For
tresses, Liberators and Marauders
bombarded three Paris airplane
factories and a number of Nazi
air bases in northern France,
while Raj medium and fighter
bombers raided a half dozen adj
ditional air fields.
The Paris radio said tonight that
sections of the city were in ruins
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the chamber, contended the law
is dangerous and un-American,"
that the power of taxation is the
only one ''by which profits in the
possession of citizen can be TAX
en- for the use of his government. :"
The War Department reported
that about ITO, 900 of the 1000 war
prisoners who have been brought
to the United States are engaged
In work on farms or elsewhere.
From Jacobs and Maj. Gen.
Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Serv-
Ice director, the Senate committee
received statistics to back up
earlier testimony of Army and
Navy officials that fathers must
De drafted if the armed services
are to reach manpower goals.
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Senate's Truman committee had
"'been buried"
The question Of drafting 17-year-
olds, rather than fathers, also was
raised but quickly passed over.
Chairman Reynolds D-N.C.) OF
the Senate Military committee
brought it up when Rear Admiral
Randall Jacobs, Naval personnel
chief, was in the witness chair.
Reynolds said he was not advocat-
ing this step himself, but that some
persons had and ne would like to
have Jacobs views.
Jacobs replied that the percent
age of reflections among selectees
would increase considerably if the
draft age were lowered. While the
Navy takes some 17-year-old VOL
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Hershey testified that the Army
and Navy have asked for 1,221, 1000
more men during the last four
months of this year. He said there
are only about 775,000 non-fathers
available for the draft, leaving a
deficiency of 446, 1000 which must
be met by inducing men with
children.
Jacobs said the Navy, Marine
Corps and Coast Guard had 2,343,-
209 male officers and men on ac-
tive duty August l and would need
532, 1852 additional by January l.
eff the Navy is to be expected
to carry out its mission in this
effort, and if ships and aircraft
now under construction are to be
manned, it is necessary that these
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Continued on Page Eleven; Col. ~ i

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.-tR)-
A proposal that the general draft
of fathers be deferred pending a
Congressional investigation OF
labor boarding" by war plants
was advanced with bipartisan
backing today at hearings on the
Wheeler bill.
Senator Wheeler (D-Mont., spon-
sor of the bill to forbid induction
of fathers, suggested it and
promptly got support from Sena-
tor Holman (R-Ore). Both con-
tended that workers, including
single men eligible for the draft,
are being employed in unneces-
sary numbers by some war plants.
Holman said a report on the SUBJ
ject by an investigator for the
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PUBLIC OPINION
NEEDED BY 0PA
State Director Says People
Must Rise Against
Price Violations

Theodore S. Johnson, state di-
rector of the Office of Price Adj
ministration, has admitted in a
letter to the Junior Chamber Of
Commerce that nothing but an
aroused and enlightened public
opinion" can hope to halt the
fragrant violation Of OPA regula-
tons reported to exist in Will
mington.
Mr.. Johnson's letter came in
answer to a telegram forwarded
to him and Governor J. Melville
Broughton last week by the Jay
Gees, in which it was contended
that enforcement measures to
back up price ceilings here were
Intellectual and needed immediate
strengthening. "
The core Of the state Director
message follows:
II will admit that the compll-
ance situation in Wilmington has
/1~-k.-I nn,n E7Ioxyons Cn1 ~
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N. c, STATE GUARD
RESPONDS T0CALL
Local Company Issues Mo.
bilization Order For
Test; Results Good

The First company Of the state
guard here responded to a test
mobilization at til e Wilmington
Light Infantry armory at 7:30 pm.
Thursday in fashion described
by Lieut.. Frederick Willetts, adj
iutant of the First battalion, as
1.-THE most remarkable perform
ance I have seen in the entire
North Carolina State guard"
After placing the company on
an alerted basis Wednesday, Lieut..
Willetts said he gave the mobiliza-
ton order to Captain Leo Sykes
of the First company at $50 pm.
Thursday.
Two hours later, he said, he in
spected the full strength of the
company, in uniform and with all
equipment.
The mobilization order went out
to the men by radio and by tele-
phone. A check of the company's
personnel at the close of the alert
revealed that the telephone meth
cd was the most effective.
Lieut.. Willetts said that the men
of the First company have now
completed their basis training and
"are now ready to handle any sit
uation," including riots, disasters,
or any conceivable wartime emer-
gency.
The practice mobilization, + o r
the purpose of determining how
swiftly the company could organ
ize for action, was the second such
to be held in the First battalion,
which includes Dunn, Wilson, Kin
ston, Goldsboro and Wilmington.
The first was held at Dunn.
Without doubt, Wilmington
now has one of the finest guard
companies in the state" Lieut..
Willetts said.
After Lieut.. Willetts inspected
the company, he made short
address. He was followed by Cap
tain Sykes, after which the COM
pany was dismissed for a dinner
in the armory.
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COUNCIL MEETS
ON WATER Line
Housing Authority Heads
And City Leaders Dis
cuss Pipe Operation

The city council, headed by
Mayor Bruce B. Cameron, met
with Representatives of the Fed
eral Works agency, the Federal
Public Housing authority and the
Housing Authority of the City of
Wilmington, Thursday morning in
a discussion on the operation of
the 10-inch water line from the
city limits to Maffitt Village, huge
shipyard housing area.
The 10,00O-foot line, built by the
Federal Works agency at an ap-
proximate cost of S,1O4, is now
carrying city water to shipyard
worker homes in the area.
Thursday mornings discussion,
City Manager Nichols said, w S
over the basis of operation of the
line.
The city, Mr.. Nichols said, is
willing for the FWA to operate the
line and purchase water from the
city, if suitable agreement can
be worked out. Failing that, he
said, outright purchase and oper-
alton of the line by the city is
a definite alternative.
The Federal Works agency was
represented Thursday morning by
c. E. Gallagher, financial agent
for the Richmond FWA district,
who will report back to district
FWA headquarters on the confer
ence.
Purchase of the waterline, in
addition to serving as a source
of revenue, would be in line with
the city's campaign to extend the
municipal limits since city water
could be furnished to residents in
the Sunset Park area through ex-
tensions to the line.
The local housing authority was
represented at the meeting by
Henry R. Emory, its executive di-
rector.
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personnel be procured according to
schedule" he added.
Wheeler asked Hershey how
many men were in class 2B - the
draft classification for men of
military age who work in ship
yards, aircraft factories and other
war plants.
Told there were 1888, 900, Wheel
er said 'tthis is class which ought
to be checked over thoroughly"
He saw young men failing all OYER
each other" he added, when he
visited West Coast airplane fac
tories two years ago.
Hershey said Selective Service
is seeking the withdrawal of de-
terment for young men, but that
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.48 JAP PLANES
ARE DESTROYED
Allied Bombers And Fight
ers Take Heavy Toll
OF Foes Power

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Friday,
Sept. 17.-R-Allied bombers and
fighters slot down 48 Japanese
fighters and destroyed at least 10
grounded bombers during great
air battle over the big enemy base
at Wewak, New Guinea, General
Douglas Macarthur announced to-
day.
Details of the smashing victory
were contained in a communique,
which also told of the capture of
Malahang anchorage near Mala-
hang airdrome two miles east of
Lac.
The Wewak attack followed the
recent naturalization of Dagua and
But airdromes there was con-
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SON IS KILLED

COLUMBIA, Ky, Sept. 1e.-tR
U. V. W. Darlington of
Huntington, W. Va, opened the
18th annual Louisville conference
of the Methodist church here to-
day by announcing that the War
Department had just advised him
his son had been killed in action in
the Middle East theater of war. -
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fsptry poured through great
gaps in the crumbling Ger
man east wall.
Marshal Stain in an order
Of the day ending with the
usual exclamation, death to
! the German INVADERS" said
the Caucasian naval base of
Novorossisk on the Black Sea
had fallen to Russian troops,
sailors and airmen after a
five-dav battle in which COM
bined Soviet arms routed ap-
proximately $4,000 Axis
troops - three German divi-
sions, one Rumanian Alpine
division, and attachments OF
German marines.
Land. Sea and Air Attack
It. Gen. Ivan Petrov, who COM
handed Soviet land forces in the
siege Of sevastopol, led the forces
which recaptured Novorossisk in
cooperation with the ships OF the
Black sea fleet and the Red air
force, Moscow said.
The Russians now are in q posi-
ton to erase the narrow 45-mile
vide German foothold across the
neck at the Taman peninsula op-
posite the Crimea where Axis for
ces also are imperiled by Soviet
troops approaching the Kharkov-
Crimea railway just east OF the
Dnieper river bend,
The railway, northern land ar
terry for the Axis troops in the Cri
mea, already has been cut at Lo-
zovaya, junction on the Stalino-
Kiev railway Is miles south of
Kharkov. Other Russian units roll
ing westward were reported only
81 miles from Zaporozhe, another
station on the line where it skirts
the Dnieper river bend,
A few hours after the announce
ment Of the Novorossisk victory,
tl7e Of Novgorod Seversh, an i'm
der Of the day telling of the cap
Marshal Stain issued g second or
portant strongpoint on the west
bank of the Desna river in the
northern Ukraine.
The smashing of the enemy in
mat sector, midway between i'm
perlled Bryansk and recaptured
Nezhln, released 4 Soviet horde
FACING toward the border OF White
russia 80 miles away. Gomel,
another German strongpoint, lies
only 20 miles inside the White
Russia frontier.
a 'otdl OF more than 225 towns
md villages, many Of them OF
great strategical inmoptance, were
.a0,ufed during the day. Moscow
me Germans were being ham,
alefed back steadily toward the
v--eper river, last natural defense
1lle snort Of the Dniester on the
Hananian frontier. At their present
v, " the Russians should reach
a.S's approaches and other points
VII ae curving Dnieper within a
w.t. unless the fall rains bog
"S2 their strong armored forces.
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Novg0r0d Severski
Falls AS Red Arnnv
Lunges At Invader
Moscow s Victory Guns Boom Successive Sa.
lutes In Celebration Of Greatest Vic
tory Gained In Single Day

LONDON, Sept. 16.-(F)-Russia announced tonipht
the apte of Novorossisk springboard for assault up
the Crea the seizure of Novgorod Seversk on the road
White Russia and nine mile plunge down the shorten
ing trail to the Ukraine capital of Kiev.
Moscows victory guns doomed successive salutes in
celebration of the greatest daily roll of riumphs vet scored
BY combined Soviet the Red armys tanks and in
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Bridgehead Firmly Secured
AS Clark's Men Push Ahead:
British Nearing Objective
Mghtest Single Allied Force Action The Mediterranean
Suddenly Surges Forward To Throw Foe On Defensive;
Nazis Still Resisting Allied Advances

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
this of - ' " ~
British
fishing village Saa
Americans
predicting
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WEATHER
NoD-- FORECAST
'0N1H CAROLINA: Cooler today.

N Eastern Standard Time)
MAtony L. s. Weather Bureau)
Gdingg :-o'nlooglcal data for the "a hours
'''o p. m, yesterday.
lm Temperature
, m o.. m, Is; 7:30 a. M, 70; l 80
aIinimrpnoo 80 $50 p. m, II. Maximum IS;
'''' ~, Mean 70; Normal 70.
l3O Humidity
> N. a.. m, o6; 1880 a. m, 80; 1870
W. 1870 p. In., 81.
Total % for the ee u hours ending 7:so
093 inob slnce the first of the month,
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Tides For Today

Sr,.. Eastern Standard)
oonrjse' S 30, a. NJ; Sunset, 6:16 p. M;
Cape Fe.os; o1 p; Moonset, 9:33 a.
ThursSaar river stage at Fayetteville
ua9' at a. M, 9.25 feet.
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Continued on Page Ten; Col. y
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-17

NNIHEN King Solomon the wise Judge
w was confronted with the case OF two
w women who claimed the same baby
he solved IT neatly by offering 10 cut the dis
puted infant in half; his bluff worked when
the real mother demonstrated her love by
Fastening 20 drop her claim,
But IN the problem that currently con-
fronts Superior Judge Maxwell McNutt Of
Redwood city, California which mother
and VIII are laying violent claim 10 the same
young man the wisdom Of Solomon might
not be advisable.
The battle that started out with a simple
annulment petition has become so bitter that
IT is very likely that the two women would
stand by and let the Judge cut the hapess
youth in half before yielding an inch
Mrs June Coburn Fraser twenty-five
year-old titan-haircd. long-lmbed showgirl,
is the wife Mrs Esther r. Fraser socialite of
the san Francisco peninsula, the mother;
in between IS twonty-one-year John p.
Fraser Jr.
He's just bcwildcred bystander, while his
mother and his rcdhaired wife engage in a
knock -doWn-and- drag -out suggest that is fol-
lowed avidly by double gallery the PENN
sular social set on the one side and the San
Francisco night life coterie the other.
No one paid much attention last January
when Mrs Esther Fraser of Menlo Park Cali
fornia wife of John u. Jock Fraser. the
big mining engineer filed routine complaint
in the Redwood City Superior Court.
II was labelled Compliant for Annulment
or Divorce on Ground OF Extreme Cruelty"
II was filed by middle.aged Mrs Fraser in
behalf of her son. John, who then only
twenty years old, She stated that she was
bringing the suit as his guardian because he
was under age.
The complaint set forth that John had
gone TO Laredo. Texas. and without the con-
sent of his parents married one June Colburn.
This happened IN September OF 1871.
Mrs Fraser explained, in dignified legal
language that June had forced John 10 marry
her, by telling him falsely that a little Fraser
was on the way The complaint related that
John had left June month later when he
found that he wasn't going to be a father
at all.
Mrs Esther Fraser set forth further that
June had been married thrice before-once
while i'm her teens, then TO man named Ron
aid Colburn in Chicago (where she was born),
and then TO a New Yorker named Young, who
was described as "a hoofer and singer"
June herself is one of the 1.-THE and provoca-
tive beauties who packed them in at the
spectacular Folies Bergerc on Treasure Island
during the Golden Gate Exposition. Later,
she worked at Sally Rands -fated night club
in San Francisco and became known TO an
even wider public through an intriguing photo
graph which circulated all over the country.
II showed her arraycd in soap studs and
seated in a bathtub.
No doubt this photograph had something