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Detroit evening times., 1943-09-05
RESTRICTED To BASE

Commander of Seifridge Field
from April q. 1912. Col. Colman
was relieved from duty on May g.
He was placed under arrest after
the alleged shooting and has been
restricted to the air base since.
ON July II, the war department
announced charges had been filed
against Col Colman and others at
Selfridge Field. these charges
growing out OF an investigation
by the inspector generals depart
ment on alleged irregularities and
misconduct.
Names OF the others 10 be tried
and dates ef their trials have not
been revealed although II was
xs2nounced the cases would not be
tugft IUtO court until compile
Nbn of the Colman trial.
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-05
Court Martial Opens
AT Selfridge Monday
Col. Colman Faces
Trial for Shooting
Negro Chauffeur
BY JERRY PETIT

Ten colonels and one lieutenant
colonel will sit in judgment on
Col. William T. Colman. former
commanding officer of Selfridge
Field, when he is brought TO trial
before a general court-martial at
the air base, starting at 9 a. m.
Monday.
Col. Colman is charged with
violation Of several articles Of
war. The only specific charge
against him which has been made
public officially is the alleged
shooting of Pvt William McRae,
2f-year-oid Negro soldier, on the
morning of last May 5.
Pvt. McRae was serving as a
chauffeur for the base motor pool
al the time. He has recovered, has
been released from the station
hospital. and recently visited his
home in Morven, r.. G, on a 10
day furlough.
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-05
JACKSON TRANSFER

Among Irregularities alleged
was one instance Of Aug. ] when
six prisoners were transported 20
Jackson and vouchers for mileage
for three arS-and expenses for
three guards was charged when
only one GlLard accompanied
transfer deputies.
Pictro Christie, a member Of
the ShcYiH'S staff for nine years.
SAID that on that trip he and
Larry Cruthers. guard, rode
with three prisoners in one car
while Nipar drove two prisoners
and a man named Robert Grant
drove the sixth prisoner. There
were no guards in Nipsr's or
Grants cars, Christie said
TELLS or VOUCHER SIGNING
Christie admitted 10 LoCicero
that vouchers. in some instances,
were signed on Saturday for Sun
day trips. Sometimes. he added
the trips were never made.
IncenScd by the witness testi-
monN. LOCicerO remarked:
Those were legal records,
sworn statements. I have never
seen anything handled so slop-
PLY
Tyuillard, an earlier witness,
told Of the practice Of sheriffs 5
employees endorsing blank state
vouchers Baird explained the prac-
uce has since been stopped.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-15
Souiets Fight Within Kharkou;
Press New Central Front Drive
KILL 5000 NAZIS
Heavy Fighting Also Re.
ported On Approaches
To Karachev
BY RUSSELL c. LANDsTROM

LONDON, Sunday, Aug. 15-RN
Russian troops fought in the
streets of Kharkov last night,
front dispatches said, while So
Wet midnight communique issued
early today told of battles on the
approaches to Karachev in the
Bryansk offensive and the killing
of 5000 Germans in the new drive
from Spas Demensk on the cen.
trail front.
Wild fighting ragged on the blaz'
ing 500-mile Russian front where
Soviet troops killed nearly 10000
Germans during the day, seized
more than 80 villages and reaped
great quantities of war material
intact. Scores of enemy tanks
were knocked out or captured.
Wreck Many Tanks
One Russian unit alone, in three
days fighting around Spas Dem
ensk. killed 5000 Germans, wreck
ed So tanks, 1913 guns and demol-
ished 200 blockhouses studding the
deep German dsfenses, the bulle-
tin said. In another sector an i'm
portant store of railway equip
ment, including nine locomotives,
1874 freight cars and 1875 flat cars
fell into Red army hands intact,
said the communique recorded
here by the Soviet monitor.
.Kharkov, battered from several
sides by the Russians organized
into the new "Voronezh steppe
'front.' army, echoed to the roar
of artillery and the chatter OF
machineguns, and in two sectors
the Russians had already pene'
trated to the streets of the city
front dispatches said.
Last Ditch Stand
The Germans, with a narrowing
escape corridor still open to the
southwest, elected to fight las
ditch stand for the great Ukran
ian steel center and were battling
the Russians who penetrated into
the city, apparently from the
northeast and southeast.
Captured Kharkov would be the
third major victory in the Soviet
summer campaign. Orel and Bel
gorod to the northeast were taken
Aug. S.
The Germans were suffering
enormous losses" in manpower,
the communique said, as they
hurled tanks and infantry into vic.
lent counter-atta cks. One Russian
unit threw back the enemy with
a loss of 26 German tanks, in.
Guiding ten of the Cotton Tiger
tanks. In another sector 900 Ger.
mans were killed and seven tanks
destroyed.
In the fighting on the approach
es to Karachev-26 miles east OF
Bryansk-the Russians killed $500
Continued on Page IL: Column q
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-15
ALLIED B0MBERS
RAID BALIKPAPAN
Refineries and Tankers Set
Afire In Attack On
Borneo City

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sun
day, Aug. 10. .-P)e Allied planes,
ranging $500 miles, have bomb
ed .Balikpapan on Borneo, Gen.
Douglas Macarthur announced to-
day.
Refineries, reservoirs and tank
ers were set afire in the record
breaking raid which carried the
bonbers a greater distance than
they have covered previously in
the Pacific war.
Balikpapan is on the southwest
coast of Borneo.
At Salamaua, Japan's northeast
L ern New Guinea air base, raiders
have dropped 172 more tons OF
bombs, the communique said. This
followed raid on Friday in which
1T tons were dropped after which
General Macarthur announced
the area was in ruins.
In the Solomons, the slow ad-
vance of jungle troops seeking to
eliminate the last Japanese hold
ing out on the Kula Gulf coast
of New Georgia continues, the
Communique reported.
To the northeast of New Georgia,
American planes heavily bombed
Santa Isabel Island, on which the
continued on Page IL; Column A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-15
VINO TO RESTRICT
LABOR MIGRATION
Acts To Prevent Nations
Workers From Moving
Here And There

WASHINGTON, Aug. IA. -tP-
The War Manpower Commission
acted tonight to prevent workers
anywhere in the nation from NOV.
ing from one town to another to
take a new job without VINO $
consent.
Similar "embargp" provisions
already are included in many
VINO regional and area job-stabi-
lization programs, officials said,
and now they must be put into all
such programs by October Is so
they will have a nationwide effect.
This was ordered as part of a
Tightening up of VINO job-trans-
fer controls in an effort to meet
labor shortages now reported in
creasingly acute and admittedly
beginning to impair war produc-
ton in some sections.
At the same time, the VINO re,
laxed its restrictions on changing
jobs for higher pay. The restric-
tions were imposed under the pre-
sident's directive last April II
to 'hold-the- e-line'' against initiation.
Under the new rule, worker
may take a higher paying job with
another employer if his current
wages are below state or fede-
raj standards or below the "going
rate" established by the War La
Dor board for such work in his
community.
The job-transfer tembargo" was
set up, VINO Chairman Paul V.
McNutt said, Sin order to control
migration" It affects workers OF
all kinds, whether they have been
in essential or non-essential work.
Under this provision, employers
are forbidden to hire new workers
who have mot lived or worked IN
the locality of the new employ
ment throughout the preceding 80
day period" unless the U. S. EN-
ployment Service, VINO hiring
unit, gives its approval.
The prohibition applies even
where the workers get release,
termed statement of availabl-
llity," from their former employ
ers.
workers who wish to leave a
community to seek employment
Continued on Page Eight; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-15
Thousands May Be Called
If They Are Holding
Non-War Jobs
ISSUE NEW ORDERS
Seek To Furnish Men For
Army Without Cutting
War Production
Rv CHARLES MOLONY

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.-R-
Thousands of pre-Pearl Harbor
fathers holding non-War jobs TO-
night were laid open to possible
induction even before their class
becomes vulnerable as whole Oc-
tober l.
This was apparent in a sweep
ing series of new orders aimed
frankly at using selective service
as a powerful instrument in the
labor-military manpower situation
to:
1. Hold essential workers on
war-useful jobs if they are so en-
ployed now,
2. Assure movement of other
workers from "unessentiaP' tasks
to Jobs considered important to the
war effort, and
8. Furnish men needed for the
armed services without cutting
war production.
Must Increase Production
1--WE must increase war produc-
ton and at the same time give
our armed forces the men they
need" said Chairman Paul V. Nc.
Mutt of the war manpower com.
mission (WMC), which embraces
selective service.
This program, bolstered by
Tightening of VINO controls over
movement of women and men
workers outside the reach of Sc
lective service, was described au
thoritatively as about the ultimate
manpower move by the adminis
tration short of a general labor
draft.
(New VINO standards for per
mitting transfers from job to jot
are to be written into employment
stabilization plans by October Is
Primarily, these are intended tt
stimulate transfer from less essen
tial to more essential war jobs.)
Lawrence A. Appley, executive
director of the VINO, said it could
not be guaranteed to make ar
outright labor draft unnecessary
although he hoped the new orders
would have that effect.
Draft Section
The selective service part OF
the program was embraced in or.
ders:
1. Broadening the list OF non.
deferrable activities and occupa.
tions, making fathers who stay in
these subject to possible reclassi.
fication for induction before Octo.
ber unless drafting them would
result in extreme hardship and
privation" to their families. Add
ed were % activities and u speci.
fic job-occupations.
2. Creating a list of 149 "criti.
cal occupations. principally SUD.
ervisory or high-skill jobs in the
Continued on Page IL; Column p
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-15
OREGON SETS GOAL
AT y FREICHTERS
Record Will Be Sought To
Assure Continued Pro-
(. duction At Yard

Portland, Ore, Aug 14-tR-Ore-
gon Shipbuilding Corporation, Hen
ry J. Kaiser's original hurry-up
yard, disclosed today in the midst
of record-breaking launching
furry by Portland yards Sep
tember goal of % Liberty ships.
Edgar F. Kaiser, general man.
ager of his fathers three Port
land area yards, disclosed the
September goal of two ships per
way for Oregon shipbuilding in an
address prepared for delivery at
the launching of the c. j. Jones,
the yards 235th Liberty.
The record will be sought, Kais-
er said, to assure the yards con-
tinued production of victory ships
after the Liberty ship program
has been finished. Three other
ships also went down the way in
Portland yards to make a total
of IL launchings in 8 days.
Oregon shipbuilding has built and
delivered II Liberties month
since April for an average of 1.54
ships per way.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-15
LEADERS MEET In u. S.
Chiefs OF Staff Engaged
On Plans For Future
Course OF Allies

QUEBEC, Aug. 14-lR-President
Roosevelt and Prime Minister
Churchill already have held pre-
liminary meeting, in advance of
coming to Quebec for full-scale
war talks, somewhere in the Unit
ed States.
Churchill left here Wednesday
night, appeared briefly Thursday
morning at Niagara Falls, N. Y,
and apparently met the American
chief executive shortly thereafter
at an undisclosed point in the Unit
ed States.
Staffs Confer
When they will reach Quebec,
where their chiefs of staff already
are engaged in deliberations on
the future course of Allied arms
in the war, cannot be announced.
Canadian officials said it had
become permissible to announce
tonight that the two Allied lead
ers had met.
Previously, it had become known
definitely that British Foreign Sec
retary Anthony Eden also would
attend the Quebec war councils.
Presumably the American secre'
tary of state, Cordell Hull, or
under-secretary Sumner Welless,
also will join the deliberations.
That would serve to give great
er emphasis to political considera-
tions at the meetings here, al.
though the best available informa-
ton indicates that military mat
tiers will remain uppermost on the
conference agenda.
Primary Objective
Figuring out the ways Of root.
ing the enemy out of Europe and
the Pacific naturally must remain
the primary objective of the An
glo-American combined chiefs OF
staff, and of President Roosevelt
and Prime Minister Churchill
when they join the conferees here.
Nevertheless, the nearer the AL.
lies come to breaking into Europe,
the more closly must they survey
the political aspects of an invasion
of the continent.
If Allied troops breach the de-
fenses of Norway or Belgium, fol
example, the question immediate
ly would be Pre- sented whether the
Norwegian or Belgian governments
in exile would take over in the
| (Continued nm Page Eight: Col, 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-15

in the region, but instead set up
standards for key occupations in
four types of labor market areas.
"Wage rates are related to the
industry as well as the area" Van
Hecke said. Common labor rates
range from 1880 cents an hour
in the highest paid area to 35-45
cents in the lowest paid. Rates
for truck drivers range from as
to rs cents. The top rate is $1.2O
an hour for class A mechanics. :"
Also included in the schedules
are certain types of office work
ers. Bookkeepers wages range
from 68 to SO cents an hour, secre-
taries to executives from So to
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-15
FOOD COSTS NOT
| DECREASING HERE
'ufVey u. Shows That Condi-
lions Not In Keeping
With u S. Trend

/, wilmington is apparently not one
fa,, 'iie cities in which the cost Of
FOOD ., is going down: "
;ra '''eA'ly A, Ford Hinrichs, act
,oa COMMISSIONER of labor statistics,
asp0rted ass that living costs were de.
1oL~ ~ . IN the United States. but
mn tan,i A. sheehan, assistant secre-
.bor. Oh the chamber of commerce
tbat !. found in a survey Saturday
yanoa. "'ing costs have steadily ad.
casas Ian, ana that shortages in some
se te nave caused inflationary pric.
eoros,1l ne made no comment about the
cper's trs chamber official added his
ANY,. 10 that Of hundreds of othe,
costs vi'eans ca $ in asking where the
ssid 1S q, o. living have dropped. He
sa~. u 'he prices of fresh vegetables
s7 ths n apparently advanced, citins
cents eport i of a man who paid 81
~, quart for lima beans.
bort ' - labor Department, whose re
V d reduction In food price.
oea on Page EiKht, Col. n
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-15

ATLANTA, Aug. IA -tR- Mini
mum wage rates for wartime Ia
Dor market areas in the southeast,
which will provide yardsticks for
judging applications for wage in
creases, were announced today by
the Fourth regional War Labor
Board.
Regional Chairman NJ. T. Van
Hecke said the minimum pay
levels will not be compulsory, but
will serve as guides to employers
and employees in making applica-
ton for wage adjustments, and to
the board in it's rulings.
He said the rates did not attempt
TO cover all dob elassifications
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-15
Roosevelt And Churchill
Hold Preliminary Parley
RAF Believed Staging
Another Turin Attack


CHIASSO, On The Swiss-ItaI-
ian Frontier, Sunday, Aug Is
- up Heavy explosions heard
from the direction of Turin in
dicated early today that the
RAF again was attacking
northern Italy.
The roar from the engines of
many bombers could be heard
here as well as the explosions.
Turin and Milan were attack
ed early Friday morning in
one of the heaviest attacks of
the war in the converging Al
lied effort to force Italy out
of the conflict.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-15
AMERICANS RAID
WIENER NEUSTADT
Bombers Make 2,5OO-Mile
Round Trip To Blast
Aircraft Factory

CAIRO, Aug. IA 4-R- American
Liberator bombers, flying a round
trip of nearly $500 miles from
their African bases, dumped more
than $4,000 pounds of high ex-
plosives yesterday on German
aircraft factory at Wiener Neustadt
which has been credited with pro-
duction of a third Of all the Mes
serschmitt fighters used by the
Nazi air force.
Catching enemy defenses COM
pletely by surprise, the four-en-
gined bombers completed the lorg
daylight trip to the Danube river
city, q miles south of Vienna,
with every plane accounted for,
a communique from U. S. 9th Air
Force headquarters announced.
Returning airmen said bomb
bursts blanketed the factory, ma
chine shops and great u-shaped
assembly plant which covered L.
1890 square feet. The plant, one
of the largest of the Axis, was
fCOntinued on Page 12. Column 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-15
Minimum Wage Rates Set For City,
Other Southeastern Labor Mart Areas

$1.10 an hour, stenographers from
80 to IS cents, and typists from
S. to IS cents.
The wage levels, with four ex-
ceptions, will be regarded as "sta-
bilized and not subject to change, "
Van Hecke said.
''Wage RACES below the minima
may, with the approval of the
board, be raised up to the mini
mum rate for the job classifica-
ton involved. Increases above the
minimum were provided only un-
der the cost of living formula per-
mitting raises up to Is per cent
(Continued on Page Eight, Col. D
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-15
ITALY DECIDES TO DECLARE
ROME OPEN CITY BUT ALLIES
AWAITING DElMlLI7ARLZAnON
Allied Air, Sea Forces Draw Ring
Of Fire Around Strait Of Messina

Piraino on the north coast,
Floresta in the middle section
of the front. and Riposto, Gil
ARE and Milo on the east
coast.
They were encountering stiff
resistance from well-organized
, and fiercely determined rear
guards who were putting ev-
cry obstacle. in the way that
ingenuity could devise but Al
lied spokesmen said the enc
my's retreat was accalerating
and that the end Of the Sicilian
campaign was now only
matter of days.
Although the Germans were
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-15
U. S. SUBS SINK
SEVEN JAP SHIPS
Continue War OF Attrition
On The Enemy's Mari
time Power

WASHINGTON, Aug. IA R -
Destruction of seven more Japa-
nese merchant vessels by Ameri-
can submarines waging a relent-
less war of attrition on enemy
maritime power was announced to-
day by the Navy.
In addition five enemy ships were
reported damaged.
The successful attacks announc-
ed in Navy communique raised
to total of 309 the number of
enemy ships of all types which
have been reported blasted by
'gunfire or torpedoes of undersea
raiders since the war started. This
Continued on Pare 12: Column A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-15
LEADERS REPORT
Churchill And Roosevelt
Say Nazis Have Large
Reserve Force
SHIP LOSSES LIGHT
Main Weapon Hitler Count
ed On To Defend His
Fortress Fails
Bv JOHN NJ. HIGHTO"EH

r.tsH1SGToN, Aug. 1e.-(P}-
prosident Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Churchill triumphantly
ourcad today that "a total of
over 90 U-boats' were sent 10 'ne
hot+om of the seas during heavy
s;oh+irg in May, June and July.
A. +he same time, the American
49,, British leaders declared in a
a san+ statement, which indicated
tha two have already met for their
WV anrront war talks, that the Nazls
stiiI have large reserve forces OF
nnders4a raiders and that the AL
ros ran expect continued success
in tho al.ipportant battle of supply
lines to Europe only if the most ef-
foctive measures possible are con-
tin,od in force and even improved
in results:
Weapon Fails
The statistics and tone OF the
statement seemed to make 1t clear
that the one weapon on which
Adolf Hitler had counted to keep
his fortress of Europe impregnable
had failed completely at the stra-
tegic time due to the overwhelm-
Ing success of Allied counter-meas-
ures.
Out of $500 vessels involved III
the operations against Sicily and In
moving large numbers Of reinforce
ments follwing up the initial inva-
sion, the report noted, only $4,000
tons had been lost.
Moreover, it was disclosed that
new ships completed by the Allies
in 1943 exceed all sinkings from
all causes by upwards of three mil
lion tons"
Hitler had relied on the subma.
rine to sink so many American,
8British and Allied ships and de-
sBtroy such quantities of munitions
dispatched from this country to the
European theater that 1t would be
mpossible for the Allies to bring
fhe full force of their productive
4poWer to bear at the battle front.
To this end months ago he ap-
pointed Admiral Karl Doenitz, g.
ruthless submarine warfare expert.
to head the German navy and SUBJ
ordinated all other naval activities
to those of submarine production
Iand operation.
Subs Fail
The subs, however, failed to ston
Tie accumulation of men and ma.
teMals for the Sicilian invasion. the
transport of supplies for air raids
against Germany and the delivery
OF munitions to Russia. The state
meht by Roosevelt and Churchill
iilaue IT clear that barring a let
down in Allied antisubmarine oner-
arons the U-boats would not be
aole 10 disrupt sea communications
ps'"eeh the United States and Eu-
rope IN the future any more than
.leS nave been in the last several
months. ~ W
me statement declared that Of
'e"slVe operations now are contin-
'00n''nued on Page Eight; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-15
By RICHARD G. MASsOCK

WASHINGTON, Aug. IA -(R-
Sumner Welles, Undersecretary OF
State and Anthony Eden, the Bri-
tish Foreign Secretary, may fly
to Moscow to talk with Soviet
leaders after the Roosevelt -Chur-
chill conference.
Disclosing this tonight, ID. c.
Speaker" who stands for authori-
tative sources which will not or
can not permit use of their names,
said definite arrangements had not
been made, but that the joint trip
is under consideration.
It's purpose would be a discus
sion Of war strategy and peace
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-15
Welles, Eden May Talk
With Leaders In Russia

aims, in an effort to reach a clos
er understanding with Premier
Stain on United Nations COLA
boration.
The possibility of Eden's com.
ing to Quebec Or Washington in
connection with the conversations
between President Roosevelt and
Prime Minister Churchill has been
reported from London. Such a Wis
it would enable him to coordin-
ate British and American policy
preliminary to going to Moscow.
The suggestion that Welles ac-
company Eden to Moscow was
Continued on Page Eight; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-15
WEATHER
,-.t --. FORECAST
NORTH CAROLINA-Not quite
so warm Sunday, scattered thun-
dershowers in mountains.

Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau
Meteorological data for the "a hour!
ending 7 80 p. M, yesterday.
Temperature
80 a. M. 70, 7:3o a. M, 76, 1;se o3!
p. M, SO, Z 80 p. m, "a. Maximum 80;
minimum Is; mean 80; normal u.
Humidity
80 a. M, 95, 1880 a. m, 81, :st
p. M, GO, 1880 p. m, 10
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 7:st
p M, 600 inches.
Total since the first of the month
800 inches.
Tides For Today =.
(Fron the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
High Low
wilrnin oton 9:12A 4:04A
9:48P 4:19F
Masonboro inlet 6:56A / 1:01A
7:32P 1:10F
Sunrise, 5:33 a. M, sunset Spy p. M
moonrise 1908 p, moonset 1908 a.
Cape Fear River stage at Fayetteville
on Aug. IA, at a. m, 10.lS feet.
Continued on Page Eight Col. y
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attempting to carry out an or
dered evacuation the situation
in other respects resembied
the closing phases at Cap Bon
in Tunisia three months ago,
and it was doubtful if they
would be aole to carry away
much of tEeir heavy equip.
ment.
As the Germans crowded in
to the narrow funnel of Messi-
ma peninsula American and
British warplanes of almost
every type except the heavy
Flying FOrtresses bore down
Continued on Page Eight; Col. Z
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-15
BY REIMAN NORM

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. IA.
-R-Allied air and naval for
ces drew a ring Of fire
around the Strait of Messina
today in a bombing and she'll
ing battle against dazed Ger
man troops who had begun a
wholesale withdrawal from ST.
cily for stand in Italy.
Only about 81 miles from
Messina, American and Brit
ish troops moved up, fast on
all sides after smashing
through the fire-swept cross
roads of Eandazzc, capturing
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-15

Continued on Page Eight; Col. 81