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161 ermine Journal Fonndrd JUI Eery Evening roanded IK" I I Eretilng Journal an Every Erasing 1 Cvnaolidatea- Jan. 8. 1933. Wilmington, Delaware, Monday, July 12, 1943 20 Pages Price Three Cents (1 ri uv uiyj to Juv 7 Counter-Attacks by Enemy Tanks Repulsed Yanks Attorneys Will Hear Alliccl iu Sic Auto Cases Panels in One County Have Refusal to Pass Judgment On Their INeiphhors; Dissatisfaction Is Expressed Over OPA Action in Poultry Cases 4 i I iNs Allies Seize 2,000 Prisoners; Furious Air Action Reported British Armv Races Toward Catania After Capturing Svracusc: Americans Holding Bridgehead 25 Miles T.ong And 10 Miles Deep on Southern Coast Because of refusal of Sussex County war prire and rationing boards to hold hearings on pleasure driving of tnp Kent County boards to conduct uui.Mue wic cuunues wnere me motorists resiae win conauct such hearings in the future. Charles W.

Hardesty. state OPA director, said Charles L. Harmonson A Magee of Kent County in Kent, Sussex ban cases and the disinclination such cases, paid attorneys from win near tne bussex county cases and Houston Wilson and I. Dolphus Short II of Sussex County will hear the Kent County cases. Members of the Sussex County war price and rationing boards said the boards have refused to conduct hearings in cases of suspected violation of the pleasure driving ban because of unpopularity of the ban and because of dissatisfaction of poukrymen of Sussex County with the OPA handling of the poultry price situation in the county.

"For quite some time." Mr. Hardesty said, in a statement this morning, "we have been concerned 19" -Wxr 71 By Associated Press ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, JuJy 12. Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's British armies raced toward Catania from captured Syracuse in a tremendous push up Sicily's east coast today after American and Allied forces had captured nine other important ports and towns, turned back seven counter-attacks by enemy tanks, and captured 2.000 prisoners, mostly Italians.

Jap Hit 3 Others In Kiska Raid Intercept Army Bomhrrs Carpi Fleet 280 Miles Off Holtz Ba; Munda Badly Battered During Raid on Four Knemv ite By Associated Frrs WASHINGTON. July 12 American bombers, battering four Japanese cargo vessels apparently attempting to supply the enemy base at Kiska, sank one Japanese ship, left a second Jn a sinking condition, and badly damaged the other two in the grrnjp. The Navy, reporting this today, paid that Army heavy and medium bombers and Navy patrol bombers intercepted the rargo fleet 230 miles southwest of Holtz Bay. Attu Island. That location would put the ships on a direct line from Japan to Kiska.

The Navy also reported a new bombardment of Japanese positions Gertrude Cove pn Kiska and on Li'tle Kiska Island during Sunday morning. Th enemy did not return the fire from the guns of a single United i P'ates surface vessel. i 8848,295,883 Farm Supply Bill Is Signed Boo.evelt Beprets Congress Ignored Funds For Crop Insurance Plan WASHINGTON. July 12 Lieut. -Gen.

'atton President Roosevelt signed today regarding the probable inconveni-the Agriculture Denart-1 pnce and. in some embar- Lieut. -Gen. George s. mtton.

is commanding United States forces Sicily while Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery is commander-in-chief of the British forces, an official statement in Valletta. Malta, said today. A partial list of senior officers commanding the present, combined operation in the Mediterranean under Gen.

Dwiqht D. Eisenhower follows: Commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean-Admiral Sir Andrewl Browne Cunningham. Air commander-in-chief. Mediterranean Air CommandAir chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder. Commander.

United States Naval Forces Vrce-Admiral. Henry K. fiCWitt Commanding general. Northwest African Air Force Lieut Carl A. Spaatz.

i Leading the western crescent of the attack. Americans under George S. Patton, crushed the heaviest of the enemy armored counter-attacks in the Licata-Gela area some 80 miles west of Syracuse and advanced northward of Gela. TI u- riti, a- Heading units of his famous British Eighth Army, which fought in epic battles from El Aiamein, Egypt, across North Africa, General Montgomery plunged toward Messina and the strategic straits some 8fJ miles northWard after securing firmly the advantageous port of Syracuse, a city of 53,000 and potential springboard for invasion of the Italian mainland. Americans Hold Bridgehead rassment caused by the necessity 1UP mr -m for local boards or special panels of hli ack from Belgorod a to conduct hearings and impose PsMble search for an easier spot, penalties for violations of the non- breach thc unyicldinB Russian essential driving ban.

especially in linPS- the smaller and less densely pbpu- German communique, broari-lated sections." i cast by Berlin radio and recorded District Mr. Hardesty i by the Associated Press, said an continued, "were authorized on June important Russian force had been 1 to appoint qualified persons to; encircled and wiped out between Ocl a Be Igor od. Se ver al thousa nd Commanding general, DonUttlc. Strategic fThe Americans were holding a bridgehead 25 miles long and 10 miles deep after taking Licata and Gela on the south coast, said a dispatch from the Allied command post by Edward Gilling, repre-! senting the combined British press. Their equipment already was being unloaded at these ports.

(Floridia, eight miles inland from Syracuse, already is in British hands, said another dispatoji. Allied warplanes already were sweeping the skies from airfields captured in Sicily. en. Bernard Montgomery Air Force James H. 1 of the battle for the Mediterranean trom Berlin and Rome conceded that! four bridgeheads in Sicily and looked Virplane Plant 1 i I i Jittery Enemy Capitals Alert For New Lightning Allied Drive Berlin, Romp Concpilp Bridgehead Set I in Sicily By Invaders; 'Atmosphere Heaviest' in Rome; Faeist Party Again Purged Allies Repulsed Thp sinking of the one cargo ves-1 Mr Roosevelt commented that srl and damaging of others, raised weather is the major hazard of to a total of fin the number of Japa-; agriculture and said- -Certainly in r.ese ships sunk, damaged or prob- lh wnPn lv armPr ably sunk in the Aleutians cam- bpng ur2Pd t0 produre more paign.

That total include 1 snt mp grpafer rjsk shnuld to th. bottom, seven probably sunk nnt sfop a wnich i nf and 36 damaged. such trcmendous potential value to: them." I Mlirwla Bears Bnint Saying that Congress dropped! crop insurance on the claim that! Ul TOUT Allien WOWjit wa5 too expensive, Mr. Roosevelt! ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN -said th program had not yet been THE SOUTH PACIFIC, July 12. given a fair trial, and recalled that American bombers pounded, four similar criticisms of cost had been.

as Axis leaders in Germany and Cloudburst Damages Roads Area Nrar Ml. Pleasant Ami MarJanl Line Is Washed Out pleaant Dirt roads between Mt and the Maryland-Delaware state line, south of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal were washed out in several places by a local cloudburst yesterday afternoon. Traffic, which was light, was interrupted in several places on the dirt roads west of Mt. Pleasant and east of Chesapeake City when several culverts were washed out. Traffic was restored late yesterday by maintenance crews of the State Highway Department.

In some places fills were made and others short detours established. C. C. Reynolds, New Castle County rilvision engineer for the depart' ment, is today visiting the area on an inspection trip. While traffic was held up, damage is not believed serious as repairs will be made easily, Mr.

Reynolds said. Soulier Killed, 6 Others I I I i Nazis' Tanks! paj tQ rKQn Belgorod Gaj Soviets Also Ahsorh Best Offered by Foe in Step Up Of Orel-Kursk Conflict; Enemy Halted, Red Sav MOSCOW. July 12 Ty The bat tie of the Belgorod breach con tinned with undiminished fury to day with the Russians insisting that they have effectively prevented German tanks from enlarging the wedge they drove into the Red Army lines five days ago. Field Marshal Guenther Von Kluge's armored columns were aiso smashing with fresh emphasis on the Orel-Kursk end of the Kursk salient, but here. too.

the Russians i claim, they were absorbing the that the Nazis could give. The Kursk sector blazed into more furious action as the second week of the German offensive began, but it was not yet clear whether Von priaoners were taken, the com-! munique said, ana Keo tanKS were destroyed. Numerous (runs and I other war material were (The communique claimed a total of 220 Russian tanks and 70 air-j planes were destroyed on this sec-! tor and added that Fed army losses since July 5 totalled 23.000 prisoners. jl.640 tanks and 1.400 guns de-j Isiroyed.) I In any event the Russians de- dared that the Germans were fignt- ing in general on much the same ground as when they began their offensive, which has cost them 500 tanks and 1.063 planes in a single week. Thpre are ew details available on the present situation in the (See RVSSIAN WAR Pace 41 Raids 'Inhuiuaiv Italians Protest It Makes a Difference Whose Cilies Are Hit, Axis Nation Finds WASHINGTON, July 12 (UP).

The Italians today are calling the Allied bombing of Italy -barbaric and inhuman," but a couple of years ago, when the Germans were doing The Office of War Information checking over the record, bring hark nne infamous statement in pa i Hnni.r tr. rominrf the Italian lead-! ers of their own record. It was uttered by Mussolini's son, Vittorio, describing a bombardment of Ethi- i opia "One group of horsemen gave me the impression of a budding rose I unfolding as the bomb fell in their midst and blew them up. It was exceptionally good fun." Zoot-Suit Boy Burglar Hunted After Shooting r-MTTSTTTTJ Pa. Julv 12 Police of five states joined today in a search for a 15-year-old Negro Zoot-suit burglar who shot and critically wounded a matron in the escatw from the Chester Juvenile Detention Home.

i The youth, Carl Lee Ehring of Baltimore, nephew of a Negro clergy-i man, was arrested Thursday at Lans-Idowne, on suspicion of burglary. folice sald ne conIessed Iour Dur 11 ic smith sa in the bodv. Police sav from th. buildine after threatening Mrs. head matron.

Emma Barder, Two Delaware Plants Given Arniy-lavy 'E' WASHINGTON, July 12 War Department granted the Army-Navy production award today to 16 plants for outstanding per- formance for war contracts. Among them were: Becton, Dick- inson and Company. Rutherford, N. L. D.

Caulk Company, Milford Jersey plant, Dye Works, Wilmirig 'ton, Del. i I i i I I They had left Catania, the next objective of the British march, aflame, and they had divebombed columns of Axis troops being brought up for counter-attacks, de-' stroving 400 or more of the enemy's Reinforcement Landed Allied naval forees, unhampered iwiwu iicc, luiuumru Wj pour men ana supplies into tne: bridgeheads stretching for 100 miles along Sicily's southeastern coast for the rapid push up Sicily's eastern shore, and hurled shells into the enemy's communications and de- en ses. Licata, 80 miles to the west on the south coast; Gela: Pachino. on Cape Passero at the extreme southeastern tip pf tnp island; Avola and Noto. midway between Syracuse and Pachino: Pozzallo sit of an im- portant air base on the south coast; Scoglitti; Ispica, and Rosolmi were among the captured places listed in today's Allied headquarters com munique.

ment supply bill but said that he! "regretted exceedingly that Congress failed to provide funds to continue" the crop insurance program. In a statement to the press after making the appropriation bill law, the President said: "I certainly hope that when Congress returns from its recess, funds will be nrovfcled to continue this program which will mean so much to our farmers and at the same time enable agriculture to be piaced on a more stable basis than ever before made in the past with regard to rural free delivery of mail fwid more recently in connection with the program of rural electrification. Both of these programs, the President said, "are now recognized as a great blessing to our rural population" and have been made to work on a practical basis." He added: "If we can make crop insurance work, it will, in my opinion, prove one of the greatest steps ever taken dv tne government, rawam nwsins farming a sound and profitable occupation." Hull Terms Invasion Second Hii Allied Step WASHINGTON. July 12 iTi. Secretary of State Hull today char- acifrwa mp mi-a n.v Sicily a.s the second great historic step toward invasion ana occupation of Europe.

He told his nress conierence it was not. surprising but nevertheless a natter of great gratification that i the military operations on Sicily, i nus lar naa aui.v A-ked if the State Department. through the office of foreign relief and rehabilitation operations, had formulated plans for feeding inhabitants of Sicily, Hull replied Probe Up held' Womi(lrl in Rire bombing, they were writing OlIlKled 111 UaCC IxlOl Lheir papers -Hurrah for brutality; July 12 (UP). England must be destroyed." Julv 12 (UP). England American troops in tne una pos.

and in one sector compelled beat off counter-attacks by the thrm to rtreat the war' bulletin Italians' Fourth Livomo Division acifjPd. and 45 tanks in the heaviest of all advices reported mas atr the seven enemy counter-blows. i raids near Gela which inflicted heavy The 54th Napoli Division was on airfields and commumca-driven out of Syracuse by the Brit- tions The attackers were said to ish a lightning blow at the fnd hgv. met heavv anti-aircraft and of the second day of the Allied in- filter -opposition. Troop ooncen-vasion which appeared to be a seri- trations were shelled intensely.

-w Patt CI SO 11! I iWar Chief Minimizes il- nation at Ohio Factory Of Wright Firm, Thouph WASHINGTON. July 12 iTi. Undersecretary of War Patterson today that the situation at the Lockland, Ohio, plant of the Wright Aeronautical Corporation, charged by the Truman committee with supplying defective aircraft engines to the Army, "have been much less sensational than some of the in-! ferences drawn in recently pub-j lished statements." Patterson said, however, that the Army's own investigation, headed by William S. Knudsen, found "a falling off in inspection procedures at tne plant, and confirmed the greater part of the information furnished by the Truman committee." 1 w.riolv-vparated Japanese bases in th Southwest Pacific Sunday, stnk- (Se PAflFIC WAR Page 4 Lairoa rd ia Off rrs Liquor for trat 'Liltlp Flower Makes Swap Proposition To 1 t-anaoian NEW YORK. July 12 (INSI.

Mayor 7. LaGuarlia today was willing; to swap New York liquor for Canadian meat. Tn his weekly broadcast to his the mayor spoke of Canada's liquor shortage, saying: "Up hpre Canada, they're not' quite as short of meat as we are in iho Fast but they're rather snort nf liquor I told them I'd be glad to swap liquor for mpat. and I think we'd get th best of the bargain" Th messes was specially tran-i-nrribed and revealed that La-Gnardia expected to spend today in Fairbanks. Alaska, on a mission for, th permanent joint board of de-1 fmse for the U.

and Canada. Invasion Foree (iets i Nickname WBT Armv; ALLIRD HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA. July 12 (INS! The srmv of liberation that is now the island of Sicily was givn a new name by news correspondents tdav, nd it promi.s to stick. Th name is the "ABC army, springs from the simple fact is rnrr.pcv-Ad of Americans, British and Canadians. ous handicap to tne enemy oring- The Morocco radio, in a broadrast ing up reinforcements to meet a recorded by the Associated Press, rapidly swelling penetration into thejqU0ted pilots returning from flights interior of the island.

Sicily as confirming that "vio- Civilian Population Pleased lent fighting now is in progress six The civilian population "seemed and eight miles from Gela," in the more pleased to see us than they sector invaded by American forces, had been to see the Huns," said one The Berlin radio declared that the observer. fight for supremacy in the air over In One Area, Italians Assert Reports Success ful CounterRaids During Fierce, Continuous Clash LONDON. July 12 The Italians asserted in a communique today that Axis forces in Sicily hd counter-attacked successfully against Allied invasion forces and that fighting continued fierce and un interrupted." The communique, broadcast from Rome and recorded by the Associated Press, also said "the Allied forces vainly tried to increase the of the occupied coastal areas." "Italian and German troops decisively went over to counter-attacks. beat, at enemy units at several Sicily and the Mediterranean had taking place over Sicily and surrounding waters yesterday and to- day. "Anglo-American attacks against Axis airports in Sicily will not be 'able to paralyze German-Italian air activity," said the broadcast, recorded by the Associated Press.

TVio auiiuuiiiciiicm assenea four Allied rniisprt nurd tnrruHu-H nt llKl I age 4) WorId Aped 10, Found In Wilmington Bus Ten year old Lawrence Cloud. of Camden. N. described by police as an "habitual" runaway, waLS found at 2 o'clock this morning curled up and sleeping in one of the trackless trolleys in the csr barn. He had left his home yesterday afternoon with a little money in his pockets, also some socks and was on his way to see the world He told police he had dined on hot dogs and soda.

He ai placed in the Juvenile Detention Home pending the arrival of his father. T2TTT3V 11 rV TV, onlir. Italy anxiously watched the progress island of Sicily. Dispatches reaching here today the Allies had established at least ahead glumly to a day not far distant when they expect invasion barges to grate upon other shores along the Mediterranean. Of the two Axis capitals Berlin took the news of the invasion mor calmly, pointing out that it had ion oeen expectea ana aeciarmg mat advance Allied parachutists and airborne units had been annihilated or surrounded and captured.

Axis sources gave few details, however, on the progress of the fighting in Sicily. There was mounting tension in Rome and on the mainland of Italy, One dispatch from Milan said that Premier Mussolini and King Vit- (See FOF. JITTFRY Page 4) rA I WO I ImWllPfl A 1 J1VU As Boat Upsets Third Youth Almost Lost Life in Attempting To 1 Pull Companions to Shore CHESTERTOWN. July 12 (Special). Two boys were drowned in Island Creek, a branch of the Chester River, near here yesterday afternoon and a third almost lost his life trying to rescue them when a small boat which they were rock- ing capsized.

The youths who lost their lives are James E. Elburn, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Elburn of near onesiertown, ana waiter womngs- worth, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Wal ter Hollingsworth of Church Hill. The youth who nearly lost his life trying to rescue Hollingsworth was Ralph McGinnis of Church Hill, who tried heroically to help the frantic drowning boy until he was nearly Elburn and Hollingsworth witn McGinnis were rowing in the nar- row creek when they began rocking the boat to make waves. Unex-i pectedly the craft capsized and the boys were thrown into the deep water. Eiburn disappeared under the water and McGinnis tried his best to get Hollingsworth in a position so he could rescue him, but the terrified youth got a grip on him that him under the water once.

When McGinnis finally shore he got in touch with the Chestertown Fire Company With members of the state police from Easton, the firemen recovered the bodies of the boys about 5 o'clock. An effort was made to revive them with inhalator. but they had been i in the water too long. today for new lightning Allied thrusts i vigorous remedial action, was 0f ports and towns along a 100-mile i not yet started, although the immediately, Patterson's stretch of Sicily's southeastern coast; cast spoke of violent air encounters that Director Herbert Lehman ot cupied by the whites, the OFTtRO was cooperating with The statement of the public rela-Army authorities, but that he was Rations office did not make clear not in a position to discuss the de-what happened after the Negro sol-tails. diers began firing.

(See TRUMAN FROBE Pape 20) Tivo Delaimreans Reported 300 Soldiers and 76 Civilians Begin State University Courses Held as Prisoners of Enemy gcldier was killed and six others wpre WOunded in fighting among Negro and white trooos at the chpnancn Pprsnnnpl Rpniarompnt. Depot near here lata night, it was announced today. According to the camp's public re- ianons oince. a group oi iNegro soi- diers. following a dispute with white troops, broke into a supply building in their battalion area, armed them- selves with rifles and ammunition and began firing into the area oc- In accordance with instruction from Dean George E.

Dutton, t-a i ct for Kfl i'M-r-iti- civiiian sludents registered Saturday mnrn in Km startea on scneauie. without imrtna rrTt 1 1 cii-rt i i -j- In addition tf the class room worK the sOidier students will re- house, in Sigma Phi Epsuon and 1 Sigma Nu Fraternity houses. Three hundred privates of the U. S. Army and 76 civilians started courses at the University of Dela Votvorlr tnHav nn t'np war-time scneauie.

University officials said the 300 cfartort ai'h thpir rla.ss rnnm The swift occupation of the string; 1 (See SICILY Pajre 41 Private Adams enlisted in the Army in July, 1940, and was stationed in the Philippine Islands. The War Department's notification to the parents June 28 was the first word they have received concerning him since November. 1941. Pfc. Thomas W.

McGee, son of Mrs. Elsie McGee, 410 Record Street, i Salisbury, is also listed as interned i by the Japs. 98 Prisoner Listed American prisoners on the latest1 casualty list total 93, with 63 an- nounced as held by Germany and i 35 reported prisoners of Japan. The Flying Fortress gunner from this city. Staff Sergt.

Willard M. Parker, is the son of Mrs. Gertrude i Parker of 629 Harrington Street. Sergeant Parker has been rerorted missing in action over Europe since June 22. Tech.

Sergt. Richard O. Maculley, son of Mrs. Mary Maculley, 49 East rwenty-second Street. Chester, is' also reported missing in the Europ- 'ean theatre.

i Two Delawareans are Axis prisoners, one of the Germans and another of the Japanese, the War Department announoed today. The department today also listed a Salisbury. resident as a Japa nese prisoner, and yesterday reported a Wilmington Flying Fortress waist gunner as missing in action in the European area. Lieut. Robert J.

McCormick II. son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel F. McCormick of 2715 Broom Street, is a prisoner of the Nazis.

Lieutenant McCormick, pilot of the B-25 bomber "Question Mark," first was missing in action in the North African area June 10. Eleven days later the adjutant general's office in- formed his parents that he was a i prisoner. Prisoner of Jap Held by the Japanese is Pfc. John E. Adams.

22, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Adams, for- merly lived at Laurel but now re- 'de near Georgetown. schedule at o'clock this morning 1 Ashbndge, supervisor of the mili-I without conflict.

In the classes a tary trammg program, said, few civilian students were markedly Tke Training noticeable in their civilian clothing. The soldier students are all tak-i Included in the engineering lnS the basic military engineering courses, for the first time as far as i course 'hlfh 1S for 12 dura-jthe staff of the Women's College tlon- At tn conclusion of this could immediately recall, were anotner group is expected women engineering students, Miss to take a "ew course and it i Frances B. Cummins. Dover, taking 15 expected an advanced military i an electrical engineering course, and! engineering course may be insti-! Miss Frances E. Pettviohn.

Milford. tuted at that time, also. ln Today's Paper Pate WAR NrWS 4-5 ImgvmmU 14 An.wrm Question Clarified 17-18-13 Cmlr lfi Culhertson Contract rth NnMfM 11 Fdttnrial fi Financial 15 Ohitoarr 17 Radio 13 Sport 12-13 Sv-T 9 WwBrni Interests 8 talrinir rhpmirnl ensineerinc Manv StndT Engineering Of the 76 civilian nudents who i ceive instruction in drill and ori- plant, Milford, Conmar Prod-started courses today 63 are taking entation. Soldiers are housed in i ucts Corporation, Newark, N. engineering courses with the soldiers I Harter Hall, in the athletic training Ethyl Corporation, Deep Water (New and the remainder, arts and science I courses..