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3 HATTIE URQ Top Flat Rate On Many Items VOL. XLVII No. 207 HATTIESBURG, MISSISSIPPI, TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1943 Associated Press and Wide World Leased Wire Report S)vS JJ tin So AMERICAN (SOTfr'fPro) wm store is required to display a sign furnished by OPA showing the group to which it belongs. These two groups of stores covered by the new order constitute 99 per cent of the total number of food stores in the state. A separate order establishing maximum dollars-and-cents prices for Group 3 and Group 4 stores, which are the larger independent and non-independent stores, will be issued in the near future.

For the present these stores will continue to compute their individual ceiling prices under previously issued regulations. Such stores may not under any circumstances, however, charge prices higher than (Continued on Page Four) Beginning September 6, Mississippi housewives will be able to check the prices charged by their grocers on some 325 important food items against an official list of top legal prices expressed in dollars-and-cents terms, according to a Jackson District OPA office statement released through the local rationing board price panel. Specific maximum prices are established by the order issued August 30 and effective September 6, for all Group 1 and Group 2 stores in Mississippi. Group 1 stores are Independent stores with annual sales volumes of less than $50,000. Group 2 stores are independents with a volume of $50,000 to $250,000.

Each ffDnnnn vn i OPA Will Fight Rent Ruling Bulletins Churchill Neatly Plants A Bee Hot Red Drives Wither The Huns ATLANTA, Aug. 31 (JP) Attor-neys for the Office of Price Administration (OPA) today prepared an appeal from a decision of the Middle Georgia U. S. District Court which invalidated provisions of the emergency price control act. At the same time, regional OPA announced that administration and enforcement of the entire act, including the rent control section, would "continue on the same basis" as before yesterday's ruling by Federal Judge Bascom S.

Deaver at Macon. Regional and district attorneys for the agency declared last night that immediate steps were being taken to appeal to the U. S. Court of Appeals at New Orleans. They said a decision similar to Judge Deaver's had been handed down in another court but an appeal was dismissed by the Supreme tions connected with the future ar- CHILE'S CABINET QUITS SANTIAGO, Chiie.

Aug. 31. The Chilean has resigned in give Ihe president "full liberty or reorganization," It wag announced today. ITALIAN PURGE LONDON, Aug. 31 (D An Ital ian report announced today the dis- missal of Dr.

Filippo IManlio Fresll as Prefect of Rome and reported the arrest of numerous high-ranking! fascist party officials. ine Merani news agenry said that1 Rations, Prices And Wages RAF, AAF In Double-Header QUEBEC, Aug. 31. (JP) Prime Minister Churchill said today that "nothing is nearer to the wishes of President Roosevelt and myself than to have a three-fold meeting with Marshal Stalin," but he declared that an Allied second front would be opened on the continent only when there was every chance of military success unswayed by political considerations. The prime minister said he did not blame Russia for any criticism it had levelled at the Allies for not having launched a new offensive in western Europe.

I He made it clear, however, that i the positive factor of military suc-! cess was paramount. I "The President and I will perse-i vere in our efforts to meet Marshal Slalm." he said. "And in the meantime it seems mast necessary and urgent that a conference of the Brit ish, United States Hnd Russian foreign niln- i isters or their responsible represen- I tat.ives should be hrld at soir con- veniwit piace in order not merely to: explore the various important ques-I (41 The Soviet army captured the towns of Yelnya and Glukhov, in twin drives against the center of the German front. Premier Joseph Stalin announced today in two orders of the day. The Soviet premier first, announced the victory at Yelnya, 45 miles east of Smolensk.

A short time Inter hp fnitnu-eH it. t.n with the riumoh- ant announcement that a second drive in the Sev.sk sector bad netted Glukhov, 42 miles northeast of the important railway junction of Ko-notop. Stalin also disclosed that this push had captured Rvlsk. 44 miles north or Sumv and 67 miles east of Ko-i lot op. The dual announcements hailed the second and third important, victories for the Soviets in two days.

Smolensk, Z0 miles west, of Moscow, is one of the Nazi's keystone centers and served as Adolf Hitler's headquarters in the ill-fated march on Moscow in ID41. The rapture of Yelnya followed swiftly on the heels of the Red army's recapture of Taganrog, the 27 Dead, 150 Injured In Train Crash LONDON, Aug. 31. (fl'i Follow- lug up a heavy AP1 attack on thi niuneland, American Marauders to- day raided a German airfield at! Lille-Vandervllle in France and a power s'ation at Maingurhe, Fiance, Headquarters pf the eighth Ameri- ican air force called the attacks "successful." One of the B2fi-mrdi- um bombers is missing. One fighter from the RAF, Allied and Dominion spitfire escort wluen accompanied the bombers was alsa listed as missing.

Preliminary reports showed three enemy fighters were destroyed. Mighty fleets of heavy and medium bombers roared across over the conjinent to bring tiie fourth year of the war to a thunderous clo.e; The war-busy Industrial cities of Muenchen-GladbHch and Rheydt were hammered by the RAF bombers last night a communique announced, while Mosquito bombers raided Duisburg at the same time, ending a two-day lull in the aerial offensive. Twenty-eight bombers were lost. Disarmed Danes Fight By Striking E. T.

Batten, local OPA chief, today reminded gasoline consumers that or bulk ration coupons, of the old type, would not be accepted by dealers after midnight August 31. The dealer, he said, has until midnight, September 6, to transfer the same coupons. He called the dealer's attention 'to the fact; that a copy of summary form "OPA R-541" must be mailed or carried to the local board ft'ter than -Septenfc ber 2. This is in addition to the summary form that must be properly signed and transferred with the coupons. Distributors of gasoline have until midnight.

September 11, to transfer or deposit the old type coupons. CHALLENGE CEILINGS BALTIMORE. Aug. 31. (P) The Mutual Retail Package Liquor association, is prepared to challenge in the federal courts the constitutionality of office of price administration ceilings on wines and liquors.

President Benjamin Niport announced today thati application would be made immediately for an injunction to prevent the OPA from enforcing the ceiling prices which became effective yesterday. Niport and Harry G. Seiden. asso- Civilian Reduced (From Public Relations Office) A concrete form of aid for the manpower shorts ge came recently fro mthe Civilian Personnel Branch at Camp Shelby in the form of a 15 per cent reduction in civilian workers on the post. The civilian workers themselves, sincere in doing their part to win the war quickly, made the reduction amounting to hundreds of jobs-possible by increased experience and Individual experience.

The economy in manpower is threefold, in savings, in payrolls, and in releasing competent personnel to other war agen cies where there is urgent need for them. "No special training courses were given for employes." James G. Daly, chief of Civilian Personnel Branch, said, "but the cut was able to be Court without ruling on the merits of the case. In Washington, Henry M. Hart, acting OPA chief counsel, said it is probable the Supreme court eventually must make a ruling to bring lower court decisions into conformity and declared rent control regulations would be enforced pending final adjudication.

The United States Emergency I Court of Appeals at Washington and Federal District courts in Kansas, eastern Michigan, Minnesota and Nebraska have upheld the rent control section which Judge Deaver declared unconstitutional. His opinion was sharply critical of "control by regulation" and of some agencies which he said apparently regard the constitution as an "outmoded instrument" His decision did not apply to commodity price regulations but he asserted "fixing fair and equitable prices in i a legislative function." ciation counsel, said that the new price ceilings would bring bankruptcy and ruin to most of the members. C.AS PAINS EASED WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (VP) The fear of being stopped and asked "Where yuh going and why?" no longer will "haunt motorists in the 1 Northeastern shortage area after to-1 night. The pleasure driving ban, enforced I last uy by ditesmig guuiy drivers oi gasoline ration coupons, is being lifted at midnight.

From then on It's up to the individual motorist and his own conscience, In announcing that drivers no longer will be stopped for questioning, the Office of Price Administration (OPA) and the Petroleum administrator for war (PAW) emphasized that the action should not be interpreted as meaning there is more gasoline available for civilians. PROHIBITION VALDOSTA, Aug. 31. (Pi Valdosta liquor dealers instituted their own form of prohibition in this city today. Package store shelves were bare of whisky.

One of the liquor dealers informed the Valdosta Times that (Continued on Page Four) Employes at Shelby made largely through the workers' figuring out more efficient ways of doing things and assisting in simplifying office procedure." The reduction was made uniformly throughout all units of the Army Service Forces employing civilians here by the simple expedient of slashing the personnel of each by 15 per cent. Similarly, posts, camps, and stations throughout the seven southern states covered by the Fourth Service Command will effect reductions or have done so in personnel that will number several thousand workers by the end of this month. The objective is to bring the military employment of personnel to the absolute minimum consistent with efficient functioning of all necessary offices and plants. Lumpkin Results In other races: Superintendent of education: Incumbent J. Vandiver 145.636: Martin L.

Riley 117.478. Second; district public service commissioner: Incumbent C. M. Morgan J. F.

Stuart 38.159. i District attorneys: 1st district Jes M. 10.2(52; Raymond T. Jarvis 20.162. 8th Thomas J.

Barnett, A. B. McCraw 10 660. 12th L. B.

Melvin Homer: W. Pittman 7,199. 13th Hugh Mcintosh, 6 638 O. Weathersbv 8.069. 15th Kellv Hammond 6.122; E.

B. Williams 9.194. The executive committee barely dodged the issue on an anti-new. deal resolution submitted by a subcommittee, voting 12 to 11 to submit it "without recommendation" to the next Kate party convention. The rios vote followed heated Continued on Page Four) WAYLAND.

Aug. 31. OP) Twenty-seven persons were dead today many of them from inhaling live steam after the crack Lackawanna Limited passenger train and a switch engine crashed head-on npar this southwestern New York community late yesterday afternoon. Approximately 150 others of the 500 passengers on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western's New York-to-Buffalo Express were injured, several of them seriously in New York's worst train disaster in more than three years. Live steam, loosened from the switch engine, swirled through a wrecked coach, trapping many of the victims.

Twenty-three persons died instantly and four succumbed to injuries today. Of the dead, 14 were identified. At three undertaking establishments were the bodies of 18 women, three men and two small girls. Some of them were scalded and several Fascist leaders In Milan, including former Vice-Secretary Dr. Carlos Ravasio, had been taken Into custody.

I)K MAKIGNY HELD NASSAl', Bahnmas, Aug. 31. -Magistrate E. Field today ordered Alfred De Marlgny held for jury trial on a charge of murdering hi, multi-millionaire father-in-law, Sir Harry Oakes. He ordered the tall, bearded De Marlgny, husband of Sir Harry's (Continued on PaRe Four! A virtual unbroken procession of raiders began drumming across lie const at daybreak close on the heels of the mn.ssive HAP sweep ngmiist the sprawling Rhincland Industrial area.

G( rnian "reports said 25 rtiideis were shot down and said Mueiichen-Glndbarh and Rlieydt hnd been especially hard hit. "The population suffered losses and considerable damage was raus- ed to churches, schools, hospitals, residences and public buildings," the Germans asserted. Munrlirn-Glaclbiu'h and Rheydt are situted about 18 miles west of Duesseklorf proper In an area which has been raided some 50 times In all. Both places have great war factories and acres upon acres of warehouses. The raid up as tiie third major assault upon Germany ai eight days.

Paving the way for the night raiders, American and British medium bombers heavily escorted by Allied fighters made a scorching attack (Continued on Page Four) fighting at Salamaua have been concerned mainly with action below the airdrome where American and Australian jungle forces have edged to the southwestern end of the air strip. But today's communique toid of Allied forces repulsing Japanese counterattacks Saturday night and early Sunday on Kila Ridge. Kila' is a small town above the airdrome and slightly west of Salamaua. Along a nearby ridge, which runs southward, Allied troops threw back the Japanese and killed at least 40 of the enemy, a spokesman said. The Wewak raiders, in addition to destroying enemy planes, started explosions and fires among ammuni lion and fuel dumps.

Not a Lightning fighter was lost in the series of brlliant dogfights with the Liberators, The first battles were fought at altitudes ranging from 13.000 to 20 000 feet, during which time seven Japanese planes crashed. A short time later, another large force of Japanese fighters appeared for combat with the same group of Light- Continued on Page Four) Briefs istrant has been re-rlassified. In some instances, Fleming said, such requests have been rerelved after induction notices were mailed. "FINGER OF COO-NEW ORLEANS Edmund Johnston of Bay St. Louis, first board the a.rcraft carrier Enter- prise, said here yesterday that "the Continued on Page Four) WEATHER Mississippi: Little temperature change this afternoon, tonight and rt a a mornina: scattered! i Japs Lose Fierce Fight In Air By JOHN II.

OI.Bt KN STOCKHOLM, Aug. 31. already received here from Denmark indicated today at least 2,000 persons were killed or wounded in fighting which began before dawn Sunday between Danish soldiers, sailors and civilians and the German of occupation army. Having crushed the last vestiges of the two-day old military revolt, the harassed German occupation authorities were nevertheless faced with a new threat in a series of general strikes in several Danish cities against their dictatorship. Despite conflicting reports, it was not believed here that King Christian had abdicated.

With King Christian a prisoner in Sorgenfrl, castle, most of the govern ment members jailed or under house arrest and scores of other prominent Danes in prison, Gen. Hermann von Hannecken moved to tighten the German military over the rangements for World security, but to carry their discussions to a point where the heads of states and governments may be able to intervene." Second Front The prime minister, refreshed from his labors at the Quebec war council by a week of fishing in the Laurentian mountains, turned again to the question of a second front in Europe, declaring: "We once had a fine front, in France, but it was torn to pieces by the concentrated might of Hitler, and it is easier to have a front pulled down than it is to build it up again." However, he went on "I look forward to the dav when British and American liberating armies will cross the channel in full force and come to close quarters with the German invaders of France. "You would certainly not wish me to tell you when that Is likely to happen or whether it be near or far, but whenever the. crest LMw struck you may be eure that It will (Continued on Page Four) burned so severely that identification may be delayed for many hours. Superficial Injuries About 100 suffered superficial injuries and were given first-aid treatment at American Legion headquarters and the Masonic hall in this western New York village, about 50 miles south of Rochester.

Fifty-six persons required hospitalization. They were taken to hospitals in Wayland, Bath, Dansville and Corning. Civilian medical service emergency units responded from Springwater, Dansville, Mt. Morris, Bath, Cohocton, Groveland and Ge-neseo. Blood plasma was flown from Rochester, Buffalo and Oswego to Dansville and then taken by car to Wayland.

The accident occurred about 5:45 p. m. (EWT), James E. Leroy of Buffalo, engineer of the limited, said the train was speeding through Wayland when he, saw a switch en- (Continued on Page Four) was taxed to capacity by relatives and friends of several small girls, victims of the recent attacks. Before the shooting started the room was brightly lighted and the suspect was placed on the stage among a group consisting of Knecnt, two detectives and several civilians picked at random by the police.

Other officers were seated on benches five feet in front of the I stage as is usually the case at the morning inspections. At the hour of inspection the room lighting was doused and the stage remained flood-lighted. Lieutenant Commander Vogt was seated beside a child on a bench in the front row. Chief Grosch s'arfpd the quf s-j tinning from his desk at one end of the stage and just as he started to question the suspect a little girl began crying. "That's the man, that's him," she screamed.

Vogt then calmly drew his piste's and fired. The roast guard officer advanced toward stage as the firing con-! tinned, throwing the room into an uproar. I)Ka. mrd Detectives from the audience dis-: armed him and reported 'hat all but one chamber of one of the pistols had been discharged. Durinff the firm thme on i be I i 1 German southern anchor, and lats dispatches said the Russians then were exterminating the trapped remnants of the Nazi garrison after frustrating an attempt at a "Dun-kerque" evacuation of the city.

Onrushing Soviet columns were only 2(5 miles from Stalino. German army headquarters for the entire southern front, according to a Brit- i report, anci were sweeping far beyond Taganrog along the sea cf in a race to cut off German forces on the Crimea peninsula and collapse the long and bitterly defended Nazi bridgehead in the Caucasus, Dispatches said Red army cavalry and tanks were advancing steadily and imperilling the. seaport of Mariupol, 75 miles west of Taganror, and the inland indirtnal ritv Sialino, 70 nilltis to the northwest. Sonrt nneunrrir, onvin unchecked through Nazi defences, wera rrpnr'ed alieady more than halfway to Mariupol. Russia celebrated the tall oi Taganrog the sixth major German seized by (he Red anti.ei i (Continued on Page Four) country by rounding up all Danis'i army and navy oCicers.

Von Hannccken rushed troops areas where strikes were reported paralyzing every type of business. The cities affected were Skagen, Jhoerning, Viborg, Aarhus, Grenai, Freclerieia and Svenborg. Extraordinary efforts were taken to prevent spread of the strikes to other industrial centers. The strikes indicated the Danes were uncowed by threats of drasMj penalties, including death, urvdr? Von Hannecken's martial law decree Instituted before dawn Sunday, when he stripped the government of Premier Eric Scavenius of all powct and sent a Nazi captain to tell Kinj Christian, "you are my prisoner." With the sovereign and the government, which resigned within a few hours, apparently powerless, Danish citizens living in Stockholm expressed belief that political leaders outside Denmark would form a Free Danish government in Londo'i (Continued on Puce Four) jy tura I 'i sharp attacks, dumping two-tun blockbusters. An entire train north of the tow; htniit itn tt A n- ira 1 irnrl-a qt linctons and Mitchells returr.eJ safely, REPORT LANDING LONDON, Aug.

31. t. The Germans declared today that Brit is -i troops attempted a minor landing i Italy southeast of Rfggio CalabrS.i (Continued cn Pass Four) HOKE and Film. EDiTiOii Shoots Rape Suspect At Police Lineup Bombers Chew Up Italian Railways By DEAN SCHLDI.ER ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC. Aug 31.

(fl') Liberators and Lightning, in a 114-ton bombing attack on We-wak, New Guinea, have added at least 37 Japanese planes, and possibly 49, to the more than 300 destroyed there since mid-August. This new air victory, scored Sunday, was reported today, by Gen. Douglas MaeArthur's headquarters in a communique which also disclosed that Allied troops hold strong ridge positions above as well as below the airdrome at Salamaua, 350 miles below Wewak. At Wewak. where the enemy has sent in reinforcements to replace losses which have been mounting since Aug.

17, the Liberators wipi'd out at least 12 planes on the ground while the Lightnings, in furious battles with 60 Zeros, downed 25 for certain. 12 probably, and damaged at least 17 others, "Our losses were light," the coin- munlque said Previous communiques on the land 1 War SILVLK STAR ALLIF. HEADQUARTERS IN 'THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC tPr First. Lt. John L.

Glbbs of Ovett. was one of the rrewmpn of a Flying Fortress who received Silver Stars yesterday for action during a jdaylignt raid on Rabaul, New Bri- tain, last April, The raid was rnaiie with only three engines working and no other American planes in sight, liRAFT ST ATI'S NEW ORLEANS Brigadier Gen- eral Raymond If', Fleming said yen- terday that all registrants for the; draft 'Including pre-Pearl Harbor; fathers who are engaged in essen- i i BtNOI.ANONORC.AARI) strategic Viterho airdrome 4) ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN miles above Rome, leavir.g hancars NQRTH AFRICA, Aug. 31. i.Fl and other buildings in flames. The Newly-massed concentrations of en-! shot clown two enemy ptones.

emy fighters battled U. S. Marauder I At Civita Vecchia, a rail Junction bombers and escorting Lightnlngi for the Rome-Leghorn route anl yesterday in the bitterest combat Industrial town of Terni, the M.t-the air war over Italy. Ichells knocked out tracks in th The medium bombers blasted rail-! northwest section and scored direct road yards at Aversa north of on tne railroad station, ware-pjps houses, and locomot ive sheds. Night-flving Wellingtons guided Seventy to 75 Germans and Hal- Bailey's Official Majority 17,271 lans jumped the Allied fleet near the roast and over the target, and f.

great running battle continued aft-1 erward more than 100 out to' NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 31. iJV-Police reported today that a coast guard officer drew two pistols in the crowded showup room at police headquarters during the questioning of a suspect in several rape cases involving small girls and shot and wounded the suspect and an officer. The coast guard officer, Identified by the police as Lieutenant Commander John P. Vogt, went after the shooting to the office of Chief of Detectives John J.

Grosch to make a statement. A number of women and children were tlftown into confusion in the showup room by the shooting. Several policemen wrested the pistols from the eoa.st guard officer, The wounded policeman was Doorman Jesse Knecht. He was shot in the right arm. The suspect, listed by police Willie Stevens, 36, was shot in the left shoulder.

Neither was seriously wounded. Crowded Room The small showup room, located in the basement at BOND SALES Bond sales for Monday were $21-406 25 a sum $3,559.65 more than the day's requirement. Total sales for the first, 25 business days of August amount to $162.61.105. Balance of 1176 .100 quota to he raised t'wlay, the last business drf' In August, is 1 I i I I sea with the Ax losing 17 transformer station suffered ti Tiwt hits. The plow from the fire smacked the Vlterbo a.rftrld north brlcnt cnoh t0 be Ut iJttTi TVy T' Mh'r- Wellingtons in the Sardinu Allied headquarters announced JACKSON.

Aug. 31. HP) Gubernatorial nominee Tom Bailey's majority over former governor Milke Conner in the August 23 run-off primary was 17.271 votes of a total 269.035. a subcommittee reported today to the state Democratic Executive committee in session here. The official results: Bailey Conner 125.882.

Lt. Governor: Fielding Wright 153.265; John HALF-HOLIDAY WEDNESDAY Hattiesbure retail establishments will observe the customary half-holiday Wednesday when stores will close at 1 p. m. The half -holidays on Wednesday will continue through October. Next week, however, an all-day holiday will be taken on Monday Labor Dav and stores will remain open next Wednesday day.

formations of Mitclvils with Ughtning escort and RAF filing tons staged a dav and assault on freight yards at Civila Vecchii northwest of Rome. Other medium, light and fighter bombers raided railway objectives in southern Italy during the nay, 1 and fighter-bombers struck at com- munications in bardtnia. In all. 21 enemv planes were stage dropped to their kners "and wartime work should so Inform thundersliowm near the coast this downed, with 15 Allied aircraft re-crawled beyond range of th bullet. their local draft boards.

afternoon. ported missuw. Knecht and the worried nuspert He also urged that employers" re-j Hatliesourg: Little temperature: The Fortresses, meeting rompara-a ere taken to charity hospital for quest fr occupational deferment of i change thii afternoon, tonight and 'lively light orpoMtmn. strewed (Continued on Tage Four) employes be submitted before a reg- Wednesday morning. bomb throughout dispersal areas at.