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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-20

The ground work for an active
tuberculosis. organization in New
Hanover county was laid Thurs
day afternoon when representa-
tive group of 80 citizens met at
the county health buildings to dis
cuss the associations prospects
with Mrs. Ralph J.. Andrews, field
secretary of the North Carolina
tuberculosis association, Raleigh.
A nominating committee COM
posed of Mrs. j. B. Sudbury, Mrs.
Winder Hughes, and J. R. Chaston
was named to submit a slate OF
officers at the meeting of the
group next Thursday at 4:30 p. m.
The organizational structure and
constitution are expected to be
developed at that session.
The association will be support
ed by funds realized from the
sale of Christmas seals. This mo-
ney has heretofore been donated
to the Red Cross sanitorium, but
with the operation of the institu-
ton practically assured from tax
paid funds, seal collection in part
will be used to promote a program
Of health education, study OF case
findings, and organization of pub
llic opinion on the subject of tuber-
culosis.
High tribute was paid by the
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-20
JOIN OTHER FORCE
Allied Heavy Artillery And
Battle Planes Con-
tinue Attacks
PEOPLE ARE WARNED
Algiers Radio Again Tells
Occupied Lands To
Begin Planning

ALLIED HEADQUAR-
TIERS IN NORTH AFRICA,
Aug. 19-(P)-United States
warships freed from coastal
duty by the conquest of Sicily
have Joined Allied heavy ar
tillery and battle planes in
the swelling bombardment of
the Italian mainland, it was
disclosed today.
President Roosevelt con-
graduated Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower in a message from
Quebec on the successful con-
clusion of the Sicilian cam
paign Sin accordance with the
timing and planning Of the
Allies"
New forces were massed
at strategic points all along
the Allies 2,000-mile Medl-
terranean line.
Blow May Come Soon
There is little doubt that the
next blow will come soon against
the walls of Hitler's European
fortress.
(The United Nations radio at
Agiers told the people of occu-
pied Europe for the second suc-
cessive night to perfect their pre-
invasion preparations and that the
time of action might be near.)
The hammering of Italy and re-
cent heavy air raids on southern
France and Rumania, pl us re-
serves newly built up apparently
are giving the Nazis and their
satellites their worst moment in
nearly four years of war.
Emulating its tactics of the pc
riod before the invasion Of Sicily,
the Berlin radio repeatedly broad
cast that large Allied naval and
Continued on Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-20

the Philippine republic shall be
established once Japan's power is
destroyed, and declared in a
broadcast:
''President Roosevelt makes no
promises lightly. He spoke with
the power and might of the strong
est nation on earth standing be-
hind every word he said"
Mr.. Roosevelt added to t h t
pledge today, saying in a birthday
message to Quezon, II am certain
that in the not too distant future
your country and people will be
freed from our common enemy. "
General Douglas Macarthur,
who saw first hand the heroism
of Filipinos at Bataan and Cor
regidor, sent a message asking
Gods blessings for Quezon and
adding: MAY he preserve you for
that coming great birthday of the
Philippine republic"
From Chang Kai-shek, China S
generalissimo, came "Best wishes
for your personal welfare and the
prosperity of your nation"
The Quezon family is at Sara
mac Lake, N. Y, where the Phil
ippine president is recuperating
from an illness.
Quezon replied to President
Roosevelt's message that he was
Continued on Page Two;n Col. "
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-20
UTILITIES GROUP
HEARS ACL PLEA
Railroad Ass For Discon.
tinuance OF Schedule
To Fayetteville

RALEIGH. Aug. 1e.-lR-The
State Utilities Commission heard
arguments today into the appli-
cation of the Atlantic Coast Line
railway to discontinue all passen-
ger service between Wilmington
and Fayetteville.
The application was opposed by
more than 100 citizens of h e
Fayetteville area, who said that
abandonment of passenger serv-
ice on the line would take away
their principal means of travel
from the area served by the road.
The railways application would
also add one train day each way
between Wilmington nd Rocky
Mount, via Goldsboro, to facili-
tate the movement Of furloughing
servicemen stationed in the Will
mington area.
Both applications have been ap-
proved by the Office of Defense
Transportation and the addition Of
trains on the Wilmington-to-R Rocky
Mount run is being supported by
military and naval authorities.
Commissioner Stanley Winborne
said that military authorities from
Camp Davis, Camp Lejeune, and
Seymour Johnson field at Colds
boro, had complained CT the lack
of sufficient transportation for SOL
diers going north from the area
on weekend leaves and furloughs.
The ACL in its petition to aban-
don passenger service between
Wilmington and Fayetteville said
it would transfer equipment now
operating on the Wilmington-Fay-
etteville run to the Wilmington
Rocky Mount run. The company
now operates only one passenger
train each way each day between
Wilmington and Fayetteville.
Winborne said the hearing would
probably last three days. Scores
of witnesses for and against the
application are scheduled to tes-
tify,
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-20

LONDON, Aug. 10. -P- An
unconfirmed, roundabout report
said today that "the whole Ger
man government has left Berlin, ;"
and the Nazis were also said to
be rushing troops from their At
lantic wall to defend bases in
northern Italy.
The transfer Of the German
government from Berlin was re-
ported in Bern, Switzerland, dis
patch, quoting Hitler's Voelkischer
Beobachter broadcast by the Uni
ted Nations radio at Algiers, to-
day.
There was no amplification of
the report. Such a move might be
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-20
New Demonstrations
For Peace Are Seen
In The Eternal City

BERN, Aug. 10. -(P)- New
peace demonstrations in Rome
were reported today as soldiers
patrolled the northern indus
trial region to check or pre-
vent disturbances, dispatches
reaching here said.
A food crisis was reported
in the Como region and else
where in Piedmont and Lom-
bardy where hundreds of thou
sa~ds of homeless Milanese,
driven from their homes by
A bombs, sought refuge.
Dispatches here said vast
throngs of bombed-out men,
women and children, concen-
trated in the provinces Of Co.
mo, Bergamo, Varese and
Pavia, were causing a grave
food problem.
The Milan newspaper, Cor
rlere Della Sera. said the food
crisis there continued extreme
Iy grave and that very few
stores were able to operate.
The paper added that, be-
ginning today, 100000 bread
rations were being prepared
and distributed daily by the
municipal authorities.
Telegraphic communications
were restored today between
Switzerland and Italy after
three days of interruption. Te-
lephonic communications, how
ever, remained broken.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-20
F>OrtreSSeS TakeOverJob
OfBlasting NaziMachine

LONDON Aug. 19-(F)-Amercan Flying Fortresses
took the aerial offensive against Germaned Europe
today with daylight attack two airfeds in Holland
while u s. Marauders and Raj Mtches battered arfelds
at Polk and Amiens Gissy in France.
Thunderbolts, the most powerfully armed of American
fighters teamed with Raj Dominion and Allied Sptfires
to escort the big American bombers in their blast at Hit
ler's airplane nests
The daylight show kept big and medium bonbers
and their fighter escorts streaming across the Strait
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-20
Allied Var Conference Is Laying Plans
To P|ab, Burn And Destroy The Enemy;
u. >. Warships Shell Italian Mainland
Special British Party
Arrives In America To
Lay Plans Against Japs

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19-(R
The British Information Ser
vice said tonight that special
British nilsson headed by Ma
jor General j. S. Lethbridge,
Royal Engineers, has arrived
here for studies looking to
"maximum British coopera-
ton with the United States in
future operations against Ja-
pam"
The mission is composed
from all three British fight
ing services, most of whom
have served in the Far East.
After completing studies in
this country it will move to
the Pacific battle fronts for
first hand surveys.
The information service, an
agency of the British govern
ment, said the group was
formed after Prime Minister
Churchill, in his Guildhall
speech of June 80 last, pro-
missed that when Germany has
been crushed, "every man,
every ship, and every airplane
in the Kings service that can
be moved to the Pacific" will
be sent there to aid in smash
ing the Japanese.
General Lethbridge's mis-
sion to the United States and
the Pacific" said the announce
ment, Indicates that the Brit
lsh government does not con-
slider it premature to formu-
late plans for it's future opera
tions against Japan in concert
with the United States and
other members of the British
Commonwealth when their full
combined forces can be
brought to bear against the
common enemy in the Pacific"
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-20

Dover virtually the entire day.
The Berlin radio went off the
air shortly before midnight for
what was announced as technical
reasons suggesting the possibil-
ity of more night raids into the
heart of Germany.
The days score in aerial gun
ming matches was well in the Al
lies favor.
More than 16 German fighters
were shot down, in addition to
others doubtless smashed on the
airfields.
Of the total, the Marauders got
one, Allied fighters in swee p S
over France accounted for S i X
more, and a later announcement
said nine others were downed in
attacks that continued on into the
evening.
The Fortresses were reported
also to have destroyed a number
of enemy planes over Holland,
(COntinued m Pare Three. Col ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-20
First Official Meet
OF N. T.. Aeronautics
Association Slated

CHARLOTTE, Aug. 19.-(P)-
The first official meeting of the
North Carolina Aeronautics Com
mission - forerunner of series of
six other sessions to be held
throughout the state - will be
held here September IL, Chairman
Roy Rowe of Burgaw announced
today. -.
The commission will invite to its
meeting representatives of munich
palities and counties, avlatofs'
aviation officials and (other per-
sons interested in aviation, and ask
for ideas on postwar operation,
conservation of airport facilities
and regulatory needs.
The meeting here will be follow
ed by ones in Asheville, Green's
boro. Winston-Salem, Raleigh, Ed
enton and Wilmington.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-20
RUSSIANS CLOSING
GRIP ON KHARKO1
Seven Miles Gained And 30
Villages Taken In Sum-
mer Offensive

LONDON, Aug. 19. -(P)-Rus'
sian tank armies crushing strong
German counterattacks gained Sc.
ven miles and captured more
than 30 villages today in their
closing grip or Kharkov, it was
announced tonight in Moscow.
More than 20 villages also fell
to the Red army converging or
Bryansk, 240 miles north of Khar
kov, said the daily communique
recorded by the Soviet monitor.
A British radio report placed one
Russian unit less than nine miles
south of Kharkov where Soviet
assault troops have been fighting
in the northeastern suburbs for 9
week. The bulletin did not speci
fically identify the areas where
the fresh gains were made.
A Berlin radio commentator
Capt. Ludwig Sertorius, acknow
lodged that the Russianc were "at
tacking with great tenacity, par
ticularly southeast of Kharkov." "
where the Red army had plunged
across the Donets river yesterday
to capture Zmyev, 20 miles be-
low the big Ukraine city.
Germany's beseiged Kharkov gar.
rison now has only single es'
cape route-the railway leading
southwest from the city, Moscow
dispatches said.
In Wednesdays fighting the Rus
si"rs firmly held the initiative.
The charging Russians, rolling
forward again after a three-day
lCantinued IN Page Three: Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-20
ALLIES CHOKING
SALAMAUA BASE
Troops Slowly nd Methodi.
cally Hacking Away
At Jap Defense

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Fri
day, Aug. 20.-(P - Allied jungle
troops have tightened their grip on
the southern approaches to Japan's
air base of Salamaua, the high
command said today.
In slow, methodical fighting, AL
lied jungle troops have been hack
ing away at enemy ridge positions
for some time within five miles of
Salamaua, a base largely in ruins
as the result of being pounded
within the past month by more
than 1000 tons of Allied bombs.
Seven hundred and fifty miles
to the west on the other arm of
the Pacific offensive, Americans
are liquidating Japanese resistance
on small islands off New Georgia
near to the captured airfield of
Munda, today's communicate said.
From some of these isles, the
enemy has been shelling Munda,
Continued on Page Two; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-20
Non-Deferrable Fathers
MavBeTakenIn In October
SOME MAY MISS CALL
Quota For Month Will Ap-
Droximate $4,000 Men
For Armed Forces

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. - Up =
War Manpower Commission Off
cials. disclosing that October's
draft quota will approximate 3l2,-
900. said tonight that there was
a strong possibility that the only
pre-Pearl Harbor fathers to be
taken then would be those in non
deferrable jobs.
The months total was described
as 'iust a shade under septem,
hers call and the officials reit-
Grated that it appeared definite
that induction Of the pre-war ia
theirs Chose with children borl
nrior to September IS, 1e42) woul'
actually begin October l.
Furthermore, they told report
ers. they have received no wore
| from military authorities thai
n there Will be any cut in the long
proclaimed goal of total of TO-
q 100000 men and women in the
armed forces by the end of this
year. There have been persistent
h 8reports that such cut was COM
zing,
On the other hand, it appeared
from figures released this week
by Secretary of the Navy Knox
that the number in the armed
4 forces by next January l may be
even greater than any prospective
total hitherto announced-11, ,061,-
: OO0 not counting Navy nurses or
/ college youths in the Navy's en-
4 listed reserves.
4 Knox said the Navy. Marines,
and Coast Guard already had O.
4 f65 900 in uniform exclusive of
nurses and enlisted reserves-a
i greater number than the W a r
n ManpoWer Commission had figur-
/ ed they would have by the end Of
1 this year-and would have 2,861,-
OOO by January /. The Army goal
is set at 100000 by January /,
4 including nurses and college re-
serves.
VINO has counted on a further
expansion Of 100000 in the size of
me sea services during the first
nan Of next year while the Army,
although still drafting for replace
mentS, has announced it will hold
us level at 100000 after attain
ing that size.
lawrence A. Appley, executive
u!Iec'oF and William Haber, as
ol sls.aAl executive director, said the
us.o0er .ar quota was received this
l,elAoon from the military serv-
CO. CO. Ihey stressed that Selective
'slNee does not fix the size of
''On'lhued on Page Three; Col. "
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-20
STRIKE DELAYS
ARMY TRAINING
Workers AT West Point
Airfield Refuse
To Work

WEST POINT, N. Y, Aug. 10.
-P)-@A strike of 800 workers at
West Points Stewart field and at
an auxiliary field at Galeville
threatened to interrupt flight
training of the United States mill
tary academy aviation cadets, Of.
ficials said today.
i Col. A. B. Jones of the Corps OF
Engineers issued a statement, in
New York stating that the strike
was called by the building trades
council of Newburgh, N. Y, and
that sit was intilnated that they
desired the district engineer to
force" a contractor at Montgom-
cry airport, nearby, ''to enter into
IA union agreement" The union
could not be reached for comment.
The strike, involving principally
operating engineers, teamsters,
and chauffeurS, which began Tues
day, was holding up completion OF
paving projects and other wa1
contracts in the vicinity, academy
officials said.
Col. Jones called the strike "a
clear violation of the agreement
Of July %, 1941." between govern
ment defense construction agen'
cies and the construction trades
department of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor, which he said pro-
vided that "there shall be no stop
page of work on account Of juris'
dictiona1 disputes Or for any other
cause"
Maj. Gen. Francis B. Wilby,
academy superintendent, said il
the work was stopped any length
of time, the war effort would be
seriously affected because Of in
terruption of the cadet flight train.
ing program.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-20

intended to save records and ar
chives from bombing or, less like
ly, might be a first step toward
seeking "open city" status for
Berlin.
Recent neutral reports said some
governmental offices were being
moved to Vienna, or possibly Linz
or Breslau. Removal of the whole
governmental force would be a
stupendous transfer, for it is esti-
mated that 100000 of Berlin's S
4, 300, 900 people are connected with
civil or military government.
Bern reports said a substantial
part of the government, including
many sections of the foreign Of
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-20

and the Ruhr got.
The Berlin newspaper Mach
tausgabe, quoting by the Owl, de.
|nied last Saturday that the gov
ernment is leaving Berlin, but ad-
mitted that certain documents and
staffs to handle them have been
evacuated.
(The newspaper said "as vans
are seen waiting outside some
public offices and the staff is
seen loading document into them,
naturally gossip is, ready with the
explanation that the Reich gov
ernment is leaving Berlin. There
Continued on Page Three; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-20
Entire German Government Is Reported
To Haze Left Berlin For New Location


flee, high command, war, navy
and home affairs have been trans
ferred to Vienna since August l
A~German legation press bulletin
issued in Bern today said Berlin
had no illusions about the bombing
fate in store for the capital.
Berlin is preparing, it said, but
mo metropolis, no front and no
government in the world, not even
the United States of America, is
in position to give the civil po-
pulation as adequate protection
as that given front soldiers"
No one doubted, it added, that
the Anglo-Saxons were willing and
able to give Berlin what Hamburg
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-20
Quezon Tells Filipinos
Redemption Not Far Off

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 lR =
President Manue Quezon of the
Philippines, IS years old today,
sent a birthday message to his
people saying 'the time of re-
demption is not far off,
Exiled and long ill, Quezon took
heart from President Roosevelt S
pledge in a speech last week that
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-20
Groundwork Is Started
For tuberculosis Fund

citizens to the efforts of DR.. j. G..
VESSEL, who has led the fight
against tuberculosis almost single
handed in New Hanover county.
DR.. VESSEL, present at the meet
ing, was assured that his leader
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-20
WEATHER

Today. 0ANoLlNA; Continued mild
~ nLastern Standard Time)
Metenro,o =: ). Weather Bureau)
sading 7.po ol0gleal data for the "a hours
''5o p. m, yesterday.
l2o Temperature
}. NJ d d m. SO, 7:3O a. M, rs, 1:30
mnjm,,to,I' 'l,' o. a;3O p. m, IS. Maximum 81;
--''O'll t5, mean rs; normal rs.
Ian Humidity
J. NJ NJ a a. m. IS, 80 a. M, II, 1870
Totsl Precipitation
B. n, ooe oP me "a hours ending 7:30
Asa Inches eli''e the first of the month,
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Sunrise =. Eastern standaral
99o1Arise 1o,9z 1lc d, m.' sunset 6 6:54 p. M,
- Faar p'' moonset 10: AT a.
Vile on T,,er aslyer stage at Fayette-
thursday, at 8 a. m, 1913
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Maritime Commission
Plans Super Nursery
For Kaiser Shipyards
Will Spend 100000
For Project to Ease
Working Mothers Tasks
= the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PORTLAND, Greg, April a.
Practically every time the Henry
Kaiser organization and the Mari
time Commission get together some
thing big seems to result. Now 1t
has to do with babies.
The commission announced after
a conference with Kaiser officials
here that it would build what pos
sibly will be the Nations largest
nursery, to care for small children
of the women who work in Kaiser
lickety-split shipyards.
Like almost everything else
springing from the Kaiser-commis-
sion combination, the nursery is en-
visioned by its sponsors as some
thing bigger, better and faster.
Contractors will 60 to work in
about Is days. Forty days later the
project, costing more than 81 900, 900,
Is scheduled to be complete.
There will be three buildings, each
to occupy four city blocks and each
to handle at least 500 children.
They will be operated around the
clock to accommodate day, swing
and graveyard shifts. Under pres
ent plans the mothers will be
charged less than 81 day for each,
this rate including the child's three
meals.
AS in other Kaiser commission en-
terprises there are innovations-for
instance, a plan to spare mothers
the drudgery Of cooking at home
after work. While picking up chill
dref1 at the nursery, they may also
pick up the main course of a dinner,
cooked and ready to be taken home
for relocating.
All this is put forward by the
Kaiser organization as an induce
ment to women to work in the
Kaiser shipyards, which, like most
other industries, are confronted with
tightening manpoWer situation.