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Details an Page 27. FULL SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, VISITED PRESS AJS'D INTERNA SEWS SERVICE 1 TO TVT 1 Journal Foondrd 18 I Eveninc Jonroal and Ery Etening Ola la- 11 0. ii eeninf Founded 1871 Consolidated Jan. 1933. Wilmington, Delaware, Thursday, January 20, 1944 30 Pages Price Three Cents Eve Pail-America '2 Delaware Soldiers Killed; Eleds 2 Others Wounded in Action ure Cspt TT Lewis, Green Meet to End Long Breach Nazi Area Key grad.

in JLenin Clark's British Units Extend Bridgeheads; Cut Appian Way Berlin Admits Fall of Minturno, 76 Miles From Rome, After Invaders Take Three Villages in Two-Mile Surge; Yanks Prohing Nazi Defenses Corp. John F. Schisley I s' a i I I I I i ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Jan. 20 (4). The American Fifth Army in Italy enlarged its bridgeheads above the Ganglia no River Leaders Hold Conference In Washington Secretly To Discuss Tonus Frr to a.

f. l. Miners Return MIAMI. Jan. 20 iJ-l After an eight-year estrangement, John L.

Lewis and A. F. L. President Wil- liam Green have met secretly on the 'question of readmitting Lewis i United Mine Workers to the A F. it can be revealed today.

Green and Lewis parted company when Lewis founded the C. I. O. in 1935. The break was confirmed a year or so later when Lewis had Green expelled from the miners' union.

After that, their speaking terms were epithets at long range. The ultimate results, and the' de- tails, of their meeting remain to be disclosed. It can not be called a reconciliation, at lrast not yet. Green refuses to discuss it. This much is known: The meeting was held in Washington recently, strictly on an off-the-record basis.

The conference was not sought by Green. It was proposed either by Lewis or by an A. F. L. intermediary who was interested in expediting the return of Lewis to the federation.

It is but one evidence of great pressure being brought to bear in Lewis' favor, not only by his friends on the A. F. L. executive council, but by leaders of A. F.

L. unions who are pressuring the council. One evidence of such pressure is letter sent to council members by an official of the A. F. L.

United Auto Workers, who said that many members of the C. I. O. United Auto Workers, the world's largest union, held Lewis in great respect and that his return to the A. F.

L. would start an A. F. L. movement among that union of more than a million members.

Marine Corporal Dies in South Pari fie, Former Attorney Loses Life in West Coast Plane Crash; Award Of Two Purple Hearts Disclosed The deaths of two Delaware wounding in action of two others isavy urpeu unrui Two Purple Heart awards, one posthumous, havealso been announced. The dead are: Policy Cost Six Butler Claims Reiterates His Charpex Of Extravagance, Waste In Itemizing Expenses Of 'Good Neighbor' Plan During Last Three Years By Associated Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 20. Reiterating an earlier assertion that the United States has spent "extravagant" sums of money on Latin America in furtherance of the good neighbor policy.

Senator Butler (R-Neb) submitted in the Senate today a second accounting placing total U. S. "spending, commitments, and extensions of credit" at $5,733,953,543 during the last three years. Butler attached to the report a itemization stating the figures were gleaned from government departments, official reports and let ters, and congressional testimony, i and described the findings as "a complete refutation" of administra- i lion aeiliaih ills t-iiiuri cjimiarc that various forms of American aid to Latin America topped 000. Senator McKellar D-Tenn, chairman of the Senate appropria- tions committee, recently countered Butler's original estimate with administration figures putting total, outlays at $1,483,373,000.

and de-, scribed Butler as "about 95 per cent wrong" In his figures. "I was not '95 per cent wrong and five per cent right' but 95.5 per cent right and 4.5 per cent wrong," But- (See BUTLER rae 4) Four Diphtheria Cases Reported City Health Commissioner Gives Instructions On Control Reports of four cases of diphtheria have been made to the Wil mington Health Department during the past week. Dr. James A. Dolce, city health commissioner, in announcing the reports, also outlined precautions to be exercised to prevent the spread of the disease.

"Diphtheria is an acute infection, generally of the air passages, especially the tonsils, throat and nose," Dr. Dolce said. Grayish membrane forms on the affected parts. The germ causing this disease is known as the diphtheria bacillus. "The first step in the control of diphtheria is for the family to call a physician at the first sign of illness.

"The public health nurse will visit the family to give instructions regarding the protection of the contacts in the family and the procedure to prevent the spread of the disease to others. "Measures are taken to exclude children from school and exclusion from work of any individuals in the family who work in food establishments or have contact with children." In Today's Paper Page 4-6 22-23 8 27-28-29 26 22 27 8 27 27 22 24 10-11 22 WAR NEWS Amusements Answers to Questions Classified Comics Culbertson on Contract Death Notices Editorials Financial Obituary Radio Sports Society Women's Interests One important angle of the Lewis- nouw minimum aaowance as too Grepn meetjn? ls that Grpen heidjlow," but another senator, who the balance of power on the miners' asked that his name not be used at application at the council meeting1 this time, said he thought "the in Chicago last August. A motion House has a better bill." after capturing three villages. In they had abandoned Minturno, that British troops of the Fifth Loss of Lives In Industry Tops War Toll Fatal Plant Accidents 7,000 A hove Battle Deaths Since Pearl Harhor, OWI States WASHINGTON. Jan.

20 Wartime industrial accidents killed 7.000 more persons than battle wounds up to Jan. 1. Workingmen's injuries since Pearl Harbor are responsible for the loss four times as many man-hours production as strikes. The damage and destruction ot equipment in workers' accidents "far exceeds the value of American cargoes that have been sunk." Lost work time from on-the-job accidents totals 450.000.000 man-days, enough to have built 7,500 average size merchant ships. The Office of War Information in presenting these figures today, declared accidents in war plants are "a major production and manpower problem." with the wartime safety program lagging far behind the needs of expanded production lines.

Under the tight delivery problem exacted by the war. OWI said it is literally true that "the death or dis- ability of a skilled war worker here can mean the death of several fight ing men overseas." OWI quoted Verne A. Zimmer, Labor Department director of labor standards, as declaring that "a majority of the nation's 100.000 war plants are operating without realis- (See PLANT ACCIDENTS Page 4) New Ceilings to Lower Prices of Dried Peas WASHINGTON. Jan. 20 Retail prices on whole dry peas and dried split peas, will be reduced IS to 2 cents a pound as a result of Office of Price Administration action fixing ceiling prices on these commodities at country shipper levels.

The new figures were established on the basis of 1942 support prices, but adjustments were made to cover cleaning, handling and bagging charges. Typical maximum prices established include: U. S. No. 1, smooth whole green and white peas, $5.65 a hundredweight; U.

S. No. 1, green and yellow split peas, $7.15 a hundredweight. All prices are f. o.

b. country shipping point. King George Grants Eisenhower Audience LONDON. Jan. 20 (U.R).

King George VI received Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower, supreme commander of Allied western front forces, in audience at Buckingham Palace today. Eisenhower and the King chatted alone for nearly 20 minutes, during which they presumably discussed preparations for the Allied invasion of northwestern Europe. ase House, benatc Seek Veterans' Pay Harmony Military Affairs Groups Hope to Reconcile Wide Variance in Allowances WASHINGTON.

Jan. 20 iJT. Sen- ate and House military committees two-billion dollar difference of opin- ion over discharge payments to mombers of the armed forces. The Hou.se cut Senate allowances by approximately that total yester- dav in a noisv session in wnich advocates of even higher payments were scouted down at every turn. Despite the uproar, the final House action was unanimous, 387 to 0.

Where the Senate previously voU 1 discharge pay running from $200 to $500, the voted $100 for men and women with less than 60 days" service, and $300 for tho.se discharged after a longer period. It also eliminated payments for officers with more than $200 monthly base pay, (limiting allowances to the rank of captain', where the Senate had approved payments through the rank of full colonel. Chairman May (D-Ky) of the House military committee estimated the Senate's version would cost compared with a House total of $3,600,000,000. Senate Majority Leader Barkley Kv told reporters he thought the "I think there will be strong sup- port for the lower allowances in view of the fact that the higher payments might imperil later attempts at adjusted compensation or bonus legislation in the post-war period." this senator said. Despite his protest that even the higher Senate allowances were "niggardly," Representative Lemke R-ND saw his proposal for a $100 to $700 graduated scale of payments shouted down by voice vote.

The House bill would deny discharge pay to students in service schools and to men and women dis- teu own request in order to take war PlantJ)s' An effo totJncue merchant seamen under the bills benefits doWn' rii Made luinher to liOOSt Retail Footwear Prices WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 Rubbers, arctics and other types of waterproof rubber footwear will cost more at retail soon as a result of increased substitution of synthetic for reclaimed and crude rubber in these items, the Office of Price Administration indicated today. Retail price ceilings have not been set as yet for the new types, but manufacturers and wholesalers were given maximum prices which are approximately 9 per cent above those for the so-called victory line product, made entirely of reclaimed and crude rubber. OPA said wholesalers would be allowed to "pass on the higher prices," which means a boost at retail. Wearing quality of the new line, OPA stated, will be higher because of reduction of the amount of reclaimed rubber used.

Increased production and processing costs were given as the reason for the ceiling price hike, which is- effective for manufacturers Jan. 20 and wholesalers Jan. 26. 2 Boys Locked in Room By Parents Die in Fire BRIDGEPORT, Jan. 20 o.

Joseph Ramos, 4, and his 20-months-old brother, Clifton, died just before midnight last night when fire broke out in a locked room where police said their parents had left them. Lieut. Joseph Morris said police were seeking to determine why the children, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Tony Ramos, were left alone.

state by Mr. DeFiore, assisted in Kent County by Irvin Snellenburg and in Sussex County by Edward Evans. Edgar Doob has been named director of public relations for the drive while Lewis s. Black will be chairman of New Castle County. Th motion picture theatre com- (See MARCH OF DIMES rage 4) Fall of Novgorod On Sixth Day of Big Offensive Opens Way For Thrust Toward Baltic 250,000 German Troops Face Trap Bulk of Foe's Long-Range Artillery Massed to Batter Former Capital Are Taken by Soviet Army By Associated Press LONDON, Jafr.

20. Marshal Joseph Stalin announced in an order of the day today the capture of Novgorod at the northern tip of Lake Hmen in the sixth day of the Russian's Leningrad offensive. Novgorod had been the lower peg of German defenses in the Leningrad area. It is approximately 100 miles southeast of Leningrad. WTith this long-standing bastion swept away, the Rd Army wa3 freed for a mighty push northward in an effort to join Gen.

Leonid A. Govorov's forces shoving southward from' Leningrad. The way also was cleared for the Russians to thrust westward toward the Baltic. Stalin's order of the day, addressed to Gen. Kirkill A.

Merets-kov, said the Volkhov army had forced both the Volkhov river and the upper part of Lake Ilmen, presumably by crossing on the ice. The bastion thus was outflanked both on the north and south sides. Earlier today the German High Command had announced evacuation of the important communications center. "In the course of local opera tiona to shorten the front in this sector, the town of Novgorod was evacuated," the Berlin communique said. Novgorod lies on one of the main north-south railways leading from Leningrad and on another line lead ing west to Luga, a junction on the Leningrad-Pskov railway.

The railway was cut north and south of the city yesterday, the latest Russian communique disclosed. The Germans captured the city on Aug. 22, 1941, and had converted it into a strong hedgehog defense (See RUSSIAN WAR Page 4) Foreign Service Leaves Speeded War Department Sees Shipping Situation Aiding Policy WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (JF). The War Department has notified Representative Gordon Canfield fR-NJi that rehabilitation leaves and furloughs for members of the armed services in foreign theatres may become more frequent now that the shipping situation has eased.

Canfield has been pressing both the War and Navy Departments to give relief, when possible, to men or women who have served as much as 18 months in a battle area. The War Department wrote the representative the shortage of shipping, which has been a deterring factor, has been partially alleviated and that all efforts will be made to rotate troops who have been in arduous service for a considerable length of time. The War Department has a policy of furlough-ing men after two years when feasible and the Navy after 18 months. throughout the state, plans were being formulated for rallies in the Wilmington area. Among those scheduled are sports nights, a movie premiere, a chemical warfare demonstration in the mid-city district and scores of meetings sponsored by churches, featured organizations and community groups.

The chemical warfare demonstration which will be a realistic "attack" upon the city, will he staged Saturday afternoon, Jan. 29. by the EdgVwood Arsenal troops through the courtesy of Brig. -Gen. Pat Avery, commanding office of the arsenal, and Brig -Gen.

Alexander Wilson, commandinp officer of chemical warfare school. Discussions relative to the show have been held by the officials with the Delaware War Finance Com- (See BOND DRIVE Page 4) Today to a depth of two miles in places today addition the Germans broadcast that A headquarters announcement Army naa enveiopea me villages oi Arsento, Tufo and Suio the capture Gf Tufo carrving the thrust across1 he A jan Wav itseifand that thei battl for Mmturno was under Later Berlin said the town had been evacuated. 7fi oir frm Rome; near the ancient highway mat it-aus imu me capital German opposition was reported severe all along the front of at least seven miles where the British began their drive with a night attack Monday. Yanks Probe Defenses In the area north of Cassino, now under fire of American artillery, Yank patrols again crossed the Rapido River to probe out German defenses there. Still farther inland French troops of the Fifth Army made contact with the enemy, but no details were announced.

The British crossing of the Gari-crliann thp first, action on this sec- tnr in two months. was achieved under cover of a smoke screen, and was supported by an amphibious operation in which some troops were moved by sea to a point on the Tyrrhenian coast just above the river's mouth. Some troops moved across the stream on rafts and small boats while others swam the river. The river averages 70 yards in width in its lower reaches and is too deep for wading. Prisoners Identify Defenders Prisoners taken indicated the German defense was largely in the hands of the 94th Infantry division, (See ITALY Page 4) Pres id en i veil $100 for Bullets Refugee Send Money To Help Avenge Axis Wrongs WASHINGTON, Jan.

20 (INS). The story of a naturalized Greek who has been sending his meager savings to President Roosevelt to help drive the German oppressors from his homeland and save his wife and three children was revealed today. This 57-year-old man, his name undisclosed, has not heard from his wife and children since his escape to this nation shortly before the invasion of Greece. Now working as a sponge fisherman in Tarpon Springs, he is too old to fight so he saves what he can and sends it to the President. The Treasury disclosed that Mr.

Roosevelt received the first letter in March 1942. containing a $50 check. The letter explained that the sender was a man who hated the enemy for what they had probably done to his family, and said: kindly this to buy more bullets with which to kill more and more Italians, Germans, and Jap anese rats as I am not able to get any other revenge for the sufferings they have caused to my loved one." The money was turned over to the Treasury war fund. This month a similar letter came to the President with another $50 check. Delaware Flag Is Given To Gen.

Thomas Terrv A Delaware flag, was presented to Ma j. -Gen. Thomas A. Terry, commanding general of the Second Service Command, New York, by Gov. Walter W.

Bacon. The fla 2 was provided by the office of Col. William J. Storey, secretary of state. Governor Bacon had it sent, directly to General Terry.

The Delaware flag, along with those of New York and New Jersey, the other states in the command, and the United States flag. Is on a stand in the office of General Terry. Influenza Death Rate Drops in Major Cilies WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 UP). The death rate in major cities continued its downward trend last week, indicating that the recent influenza epidemic has ben broken.

The census bureau reported today that deaths last week showed a 13.4 per cent drop from the preceding week. said of of Lieut. Paul B. Selbe men in the armed services and the have been announced in War and Supreme Court Calls Candidate Law Invalid Reverses Superior Court And I'nholds Buckingham And As -Mavor of Middletown The State Supreme Court reversed a decision by Judge Charles L. Terry in Superior Court and declared unconstitutional an act passed by the 1941 State Legislature barring members of the judiciary, including justices of the peace, from being candidates for elective offices during their term of office and for six months thereafter.

The opinion, delivered by Judge Richard S. Rodney, states that Warren W. Buckingham who was a justice of the peace was not ineligible to be a candidate for the office of mayor of Middletown. Buckingham's opponent for the post of mayor in Middletown was Dr. Louis Levinson.

Buckingham was elected by a 21-vote margin in March of 1943, defeating Dr. Levin-son, who had been mayor for 12 years. However, the Middletown Town Council several days later ousted Buckingham and appointed Dr. Levinson in his The council took this action on the basis of the Wl law which was the center of the legal controversy. Buckingham supporters immediately took the pise into the courts.

Superior Court of New Castle County last November upheld ac- (See SUPREME COURT rage 4) Kent, Sussex Fair Date Set Event Will Be Resumed In July Following 2-Year Break HARRINGTON. Jan. 20 (Special). The Kent and Sussex County Fair will be held during the last week in July. For the past two years the fair had not been held because of lighting restrictions impaled by the Army, but with the lifting of the restrictions in the Second Corps area, the directors of the fair association yesterday at the office of the secretary, Ernest Raughley, decided to hold the event.

A victory theme will be carried out. All exhibits will be pointed toward the importance of the farm in winning victory for the Allied cause. Harness racing will again be on the program. B. I.

Shaw, president of the fair association, announced that the midway and carnival attractions will) again be arranged. Brides of Double Army Wedding Widowed Now FORT EVENS, Jan. 20 iJP). Two young women who became the brides of soldiers in a gay double ceremony shortly before their unit went overseas met in sorrowful reunion yesterday to receive Silver Stars and Purple Hearts awarded posthumously to their husbands. The awards were for heroic action in the Sicilian campaign.

They were presented to Mrs. Irene (Beau-chesne) Johnson, the bride of Pfc. Eugene Johnson of Beaumont, and Mrs. Anne (O'Brien) Perlman, the wife of Pfc. Lester R.

Pearlman of Mattapan. Mass. a arrent the M. W. back into (See LABOR Page 4) State Will Test Reconversion WPB to Authorize Small Plants to Produce Civilian Goods Manufacturing plants in Wilming- ton and New Castle County employ- tag fewer than 25 persons, and in Kent and Sussex Counties employ-! ing 50 persons or under, are eligible to participate in the projected Wari Production Board "laboratory test" I plan for reconversion of small plants I to production of civilian poods.

Goods manufactured in the small; plants would be sold without re- cards to priority standing of pur- chasers. States with regional headquarters in Pmladelphia. Cleveland. and Kansas City. have been selected by Donald M.

Nelson. WPB chairman, for a try-out of the plan. Orville Bullitt, regional WPB director, and T. E. Doremus, Delaware district director, are awaiting details on the plan.

The plan would lift arbitrary bans and limitations on use of iron, steel, aluminum, and copper but it does not contemplate making of allocations of these metals for civilian goods. The small plants would have to buy idle and surplus stocks. Veteran Casts His First Vote; Wins in Election NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 20 (JP).

A 24-year-old war veteran voted for the first time in his life Tuesday and was elected to the state house of representatives on the same day. John Joseph Hannan. defeated three opponents for the post in New Orleans' first ward. Hannan lost a leg in an accident somewhere in the south Pacific area while on duty with a tank-destroyer battalion. He said that from the time he received his medical discharge from the Army some months ago "I began taking an interest in politics." Hannan's 1881 votes in the Democratic primary were more than the combined votes of the opposition.

Marine Corporal John F. Schisley, 25, Kirkwood, killed in action in the South Pacific Nov. 20. 1943. Lieut.

Paul B. Selbe, former member of the legal department of the DuPont Company, killed in an airplane crash Tuesday at Oakland, Calif. The wounded: Pfc. Clarence M. Garvine.

27, of Rockland Road. Wilmington, In action in Italy. Pfc. Joseph J. Maliszewski.

20. 110 Logan Street. Wilmington, also in action in Italy. Purple Heart Awards: Posthumously to First Lieut. James W.

Bishop. Army Air Corps, a bomber pilot, killed in action In North Africa in December. 1942. To Private Francis Sielsky, wounded in action in Italy, Nov. 1.

The parents of Corporal Schisley. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Schisley of Kirkwood, were notified of his death Jan. 5, in a telegram from the Navy Department.

No other details were given. The last word they had received from their son was on Oct. 24, when stationed at Camp Elliott, at which tune he said he was well and expected to "ship out." Corporal Schisley enlisted in the Marine Corps on Nov. 8. 1940, receiving his basic training at Parris Island, S.

C. Later he was transferred to the American Embassy in London, where he served 18 months. Upon his return to this country. Corporal Schisley spent a two-week furlough with his parents and then went' on to Camp Elliott. He received his early schooling at St.

Georges and at the Middle-(See CASUALTIES Page 4) Molasses Barge Sinks ISear Cherry Island A large steel molasses barge sank in the Delaware River Monday morning just east of Cherry Island, the United States Engineering office notified all mariners in warnings sent out today. The barge was the property of the Gulf and Atlantic Transportation Company, Jacksonville, Fla. The warning, signed by Col. Clarence Renshaw, Corps of Engineers, said the barge sank just east of the centerline of Cherry Island Range approximately 1.000 feet upstream from bell buoy 1C marking the intersection of Cherry Island Range with Deepwater Point Range below Wilmington. A gas buoy marking the location of the barge has been established by the Coast Guard about 200 feet downstream from the wreck.

which has been licensed by Geigy and New York City, for the manufacture and sale of the insecticide which was first synthesized by a German chemist and patented in 1939 by a Swiss Firm, Geisv, Inc Design engineering and equipment procurement has been rushed for the plant to meet greatly expanded military requirements. Some conception of DDT's potency may be had from the fact that a single application dusted on cloth -in gives protection from disease-carrying vermin for one month. DDT was previously employed largely as a moth repellent and 'a plant lice control, and the U. S. DeparVnent of Agriculture revealed last Msy that its scientists had suc- (See INSECTICIDE Fage 4) Court Action Speeds New Castle, Dover Toward War Loan Goals DuPont Co.

to Manufacture Potent Insecticide for V. S. State Theatres Out to Surpass 1943 'March oi Dimes' Record Working with the slogan. "Make Theatre and Loew's Aldine initiated It More In '44." Delaware's motion collections, and it Is expected that picture theatres are out to surpass I Sunday all additional" theatres last year's effort in the "March of aCtU'ly engaged in the cam Dimes" campaign to assist infantile; fhe effort will bs directed in thp New Castle and Dover are each $56,000 closer to their Fourth War Loan goals thanks to nn order of Chancellor W. W.

Harrington. Arthur G. Logan, Wilmington attorney and resident of New Castle, and former-Gov. William D. Den-ney of Dover are receivers for International Reinsurance Corporate on.

They have been authorized by-Chancellor Harrington to invest $112,000 of the receivership funds in Fourth War Loan bonds. Dover and New Castle are each to take credit for half of the sum. In the meantime, Delaware was pushing along at a rapid clip past the $3,000,000 mark toward the over all coal of $43,000,000. While house-to-house solicitors were beginning their rounds 1 A half-million dollar plant to be built at government request and operated by the DuPont Company, will soon be turning out great quantities of DDT, a synthetic insecticide, to protect the armed forces from typhus carriers and almost all other crawl ins insects. A difficult compound to make, DDT (an abbreviation of a 31 Jetter word, dichloro-diphenyl-trichloro-ethane) is such an effective insecticide that the Army recently flew the first 500 pound batch produced at a DuPont pilot plant to an overseas front.

The tonnage manufacture from the new plant will be entirely de-vo'ed to Army and Navy use. Work Is expected to start almost immediately by the Grasselli Chemicals Department of the DuPont Company, paralysis nuums, accuiujiig iu Joseph DeFiore, of the campaign which had already opened in Wilmington houses. The opening of the collection drive in Wilmington was made by the Rialto Theatre which, because ofj its change-of-features policy, inaugurated the program last week. Today the staffs of the Warner i Bond Make the Fourth War Loan a SuccessBuy That Extra.