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LXIX No. 218 Associated Press JACKSON, TENNESSEE, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1943 Twelve Pages PRICE FIVE CENTS German rake Troops elj At Yanks Savag "Cheerio And Good Luck" State Supreme Court Declines Rehear Tax Case Salamaua Overrun Without Airdrome By Allies Resistance Very Heavy Fighting In Salerno Area: 8th Army Pushes Ahead BY C. YATES McDANIEL ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sept. 13 (AP) The Japanese garrison at Salamaua today made desperate ttempts to keep open a trail to Lae, its only channel of escape, so tight was the Allied surface and aircraft blockade along Northeastern New Guinea's coastal barge route. BY NOLAND NORGAARD ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Sept.

13 (AP) A bitter and bloody battle raged into its fifth consecutive day around the American Fifth Army's Salerno bridgehead today with growing German forces resisting desperately the determined penetration into their hill positions girding the plain and protecting the broad port of Naples. The British Eight Army, speed ni -1 ing steadily northward from the Italian toe against little or 'no enemy opposition, captured the ports of Crotone, 110 miles from the southern tip of the Peninsula, and found that harbor in good condition for Allied use, a communique from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters announced. The British force landed at Ta-ranto the eastern leg of the Allied invasion which had been thrown across the saddle of the Appenies swiftly extended its hold on the entrance to the Adriatic after the capture of Brindisi.

While reinforcements poured ashore to strengthen this right wing of the Allied assault, small German forces left in the vicinity were being pushed back rapidly. (The British Radio broadcast that British had captured Alta- "Buy To Limit" Appeal In War Bond Campaign Less Than One Fourth Of Quota Has Been Sold Here With half of the month gone and less than a fourth of the quota of $2,572,700 reached, workers in the Third War Loan Campaign Monday sent out an appeal to every person in Madison County to "Buy to the limit" in order that the County maintain its record of going over the top in every war loan campaign to date. Heading the list of features ar-ganged for the week in stimulating sales are the War Bond Premiere at the Paramount Wednesday night and the Auction sale at the Bemis Theatre. Saturday night The War Bond Premiere, which will be highlighted by the per sonal appearance of Milt Slosser, famous organist and his own Ham mond organ, with the movie "Holy starring Monte Wool- ey and Gracie Fields is under the sponsorship of the Lions Club. At tendance will be by purchased of any denomination of the various bonds offered.

J. R. MacEachron, Paramount Theatre manager, an nounced that the regular show Wednesday will close at six P. M. in order to clear the way for the premiere.

M. A. Lightman presi dent of Malco Theatres, is donating the use of the theatre and furnishing the first run picture. and also secured Mr. alosser witn- out charge, all as a part of the motion picture industry's nation wide contribution to the Third War Loan Mr.

Slosser, at present is making four daily appearances af the Malco Treatre in Memphis, and is regarded as one of the outstanding organists or tne ra- ion. Herron Pearson, regional chair man for the campaign, said Monday that all the various committees were functioning well and that the end of this week should indicate whether or not the quota will be reached in this county. The advis orv committee, composed of of icials of the local banks, urged tnai prospective purcnasei a cacvi- inff to make purchases later than this month borrow in order to puy bonds as colatteraL and letting the (Continued on Page Nine) Foundation Of Peace Is Force I American Ranger officer, right, and officer of the British Commandos wish each other luck prior to embarkation for expanded operation' against the Axis in Italy. (Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from NEA.) Reaffirms Previous Decision That Poll Tax Unconstitutional KNOXVILLE, Sept. 13.

(JP) The State Supreme Court today unanimously declined to rehear argument on the constitutionality of poll tax repeal in Tennessee, reaffirming a previous 3-2 decision that legislative action to drop the levy was void. By its action, the court rejected the contention of the state, which had asked the rehearing, that the use of the word "liable" in the State Constitution as it related to the tax created a liability contingent on action by the legislature. The court ruled that such contention had jiot been made in previous argument on the case and had been presented too late. It added that all attorneys on both sides had agreed on the bearing that the provision is mandatory, and that the court had so decided in previous cases. The court's action was announced in a press memorandum prepared by Justice A.

W. Chambliss of Chattanooga, which said the ruling "concludes the controversy and waves open to those who would abolish this tax for educational 1-urposes on male citizens in Tennessee the only method of a constitutional amendment or a constitutional convention. As an example of a previous ruling on the constitutional provision involved, the court cited the case of Vertrees vs. The State Board of Elections, -decided some years -go, in -wmcn an opinion Dy Justice Grafton Green, now chief jus- iice, wrote -mat instrument man datorily declares that all male citi zens shall be liable to a poll (Continued on page two) 32 Italian Ships Are Already In The Allies Hands Other Units Of Sizable Navy Expected To Enter Allied Ports ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA. Sept 13 (JP) With 32 ships of Italy's sizeable war fleet in Allied hands, naval authorities waited here today for word from a score of far-flung Mediterranean bases of the arrival of other units of the Italian navy and merchant service believed to be enroute under the terms of the armistice.

Already at Malta are the 35.000-ton battleships Italia and Vittorio Veneto and the smaller 24.000-ton Andrea Doria and Dulio as well as six cruisers, eight destroyers and 14 submarines, which started to arrive in Valletta's grand harbor Friday. Still unaccounted for are more than half of the Italian submarine fleet which was believed to have numbered between 50 and 60, some of which were understood to have been operating in the Atlantic ocean. Other units of the fleet, including some of the submarines, were believed to be at sea attempting to elude German bombers which sent the giant 35.000-ton battleship Roma to the bottom with one well- placed bomb as it fled Italy Friday. (Malta dispatches said that Admiral Bagliria. commander of the fleet, went down with the Roma and that another officer aboard the cruiser Eugenio di Savoia became flag officer and brought the fleet to Malta.) Allied headquarters had no way of knowing how many more ships they might expect or to what ports they would flee, one officer pointing out that the ships were badly scattered.

(Swiss dispatches said that seven ships had arrived at the Spanish-owned Balearis Islands in the western Mediterranean and that two of the seven had sailed, presumably for Allied ports. (The German radio, in a broadcast recorded by The Associated Press, said that two of three Italian gunboats putting in at Mal-lorca and Pollenso in the Balearics were scuttled by their crews.) The situation concerning the merchant fleet likewise was not clear. Allied officials had little hope that the giant liners Rex and Conte di Savoia as well as other speedy transocean passenger ships would reach safe haven. The ships are regularly berthed at Genoa, Italy's principal seaport in the north of Italy, which fell under German control shortly after the announcement of the armistic. j-y i 11 uards was announced oy Berlin, pporPC rill 1 1 broadcasts recorded by the Associa-MJKslsaM.

ted Press began a full-blast exploi- guards was announced by Berlin, Australian pioneers who swam the flooded Francisco river Satur- day had overrun prized Salamaua airdrome two miles from the city without encountering resistance. Anzac troops who followed the pioneers across the river were last reported pushing Japanese remnants holding a ridge one mile and a half northwest of Airstrip. In a drive around the outskirts of Salamaua, Australians saw no Japanese except the fallen, abandoned and decomposing amid the ruins of a stronghold virtually obliterated by hundreds of tons of bombs since the first Allied air attack on April 1, 1942. Even if the survivors of Salamaua garrison succeeded in reaching Lae, their fate was sealed. For Japanese failure to offer serious resistance to the Australian landing from American naval craft on the Huon Gulf, Sept.

4, and the apparent inability of the enemy to smash an Allied bridgehead on the Lae side of the wide, swift-flowing Busu river seemed a clear demonstration of the decisive success of the Allied command's strategy. That strategy to weaken Lae "Garrison to a point where it could not hope to fight its way free of an Allied trap, set by the Australian-American drive to Salamaua, and sprung by the seaborne landings north and airborne landing west of Lae. After seizing the airfield, the Australians drove north east toward Salamaua, two miles away, and made a fresh contact with the enemy long a jutting ridge a mile and a half north of the airdrome. At the same time seaborne Allied troons from the east and airborne forces from the northwest slowly closed their lines on Lae. 18 miles above Salamaua and, except for that tottering base, the only remaining Japanese position of con sequence anywhere along the lvo mile rim of Huon gulf.

Both fighting units encountered opposition, but neither today's Allied communique nor a spokesman for Gen. Douglas MacArthur gave any suggestion that they were checked seriously in their joint ad vance. The east force, having succeeded In establishing two bridgeheads across the Busu river, four miles west of Lae, repulsed a Japanese counterattack for the second sue cessive day. The force then continued to strengthen its advanced positions with men and supplies brought across the river in the lace of flood and heavy rains. The troops on the northwest were reported last night to have driven 17 miles down the Markham river valley from the inland air strip on which they began to land (Continued on page two 4000 Bales Cotton Ginned So Far In Madison County According to information receiv ed from one of the leading gins in Madison county, cotton' piaking and ginning is moving along nicely.

There have been approximately 4000 bales ginned up to date. The rain and cool weather has slowed down the picking and gin ning but it has been found that the cotton has not been damaged as much as was earlier expected. The price of cotton continues from 19-20 cents per pound under present prices. It is still expected the crop will be finished earlier than in previous years if the weather conditions do not slow things down. Pfc Castleman Is Wounded In South Pacific Pfc.

Albert W. Castleman of the U. S. Army was wounded in action in the Southwest Pacific on Aug. 17, according to a message received by his brother, Robert J.

Castleman. 142 West Park Place, and sister, Mrs. J. A. Coughlin, 1005 North RoyaL He has been overseas for about 11 months.

British Naval Units Dispatched To The Far East To Open Allied Payoff Drive Against Japs This Fall By ERNEST AGNEW LONDON. Sept. 13 (JP) Great Britain was reported today to be transferring many of her heavier naval units to the Far Eastern Fleet under Admiral Sir James Somerville for the opening of an Allied pay-off drive against the Japanese in Southeast Asia thi3 fall. Lord Louis Mountbatten's new Southeast Asia command forces probably will be strengthened, too, with the transfer of some thousands of commandos from Britain perhaps for operations against such outlying points as the Andaman Islands, which the Japanese have been using as a submarine and seaplane base, and against the Nicobar group in the Bay of Bengal. It is anticipated here that the coming offensive will be on a far greater scale than anything attempted thus far in the Southeast Asia and will get under way sometime in October when the monsoon season ends.

In addition to early operations against outlying islands now in Japanese hands it is believed generally in London that the recapture of the Burma Road is one of the immediate goals of the Allies, not only in order to speed supplies to China, but also for political reasons. Both the United States and Britain are expected to increase air power in that theatre. The Arakan Campaign, which the British undertook last December demonstrated that the key to the reconquest of Burma is naval and, air power and that without control of the sea lanes the number of troops which can successfully be maintained in Burma is strictly limited by the extraordinary complexity of land communications. Three reasons are assigned here for the failure of British Empire Forces to exnel heforp now th fivp divisions which it is estimated the Japanese are now employing to hold Burma. First, India has occupied a relatively low place on the quota list for supplies; second, the training of her troops previously was di rected toward the desert warfore of the west rather than the jungle warfare of he east; third, the cam paign season between the monsoons is relatively short Callahan Reports Garbage Business In Jackson Grows New Truck Obtained To Help Take Care Of Expanding City Needs Garbage hauled by city trucks and money collected from customers of this service reached an all-time high during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943.

P. H. Callahan, commissioner of health and education, reported today. This department of the city's bu siness has reached such proportions he added, that it has been necessary to add a new truck to those used for this work to care for the additional garbage customers who are seeking regular collection. With four trucks engaged in the regular collection or garbage, Commissioner Callahan stated that he is still faced with the shortage of labor needed in this department, and finds parts and gasoline diffi cult to obtain In sufficient quanti ties.

In addition to the garbage trucks the city operates a truck for street cleaning, a street lusher on 18-hours a day service, a mosquito (Continued on page two) Bryansk Comes Under Fire Of Russian Guns Big German Base Is Only 12 Miles From Advancing Red Armies LONDON Sept. 13 (JP) Bryansk, big German base and key to the Nazi defense position on the Central front, was menaced by Russian heavy artillery today as Red Army troops drove within 12 miles of the city from the east. A soviet communique, groadcast from Moscow, disclosed that Russian troops were at Belye Berega after a four mile drive that resulted in the capture of 40 villages in bitter fighting. The advance was eround out in a sector notable for stubborn German resistance since the fall of Orel a month" ago gave the Red Army its first major victory of the summer offensive. Elsewhere the Russians were meeting with success in their campaign to push the Nazis to the Dnieper or beyond before winter, gaining up to 18 1-2 miles and wrestling 240 towns from German control in heavy fighting which resulted in the death of 3,700 Ger man troops and the destruction and capture of 67 tanks, 210 trucks and 62 guns of various caliber, the Soviet war bulletin said.

The tab at Bryansk threatened to unsettle the entire northern end of the 600-mile active Russian front. Other Red Army columns cut the Bryansk-Vyasma railroad at Bitosh 40 miles north of Bryansk, leaving only the railroads through Roslavl and Gomel as possible avenues of escape for the Nazis. Roslval. 80 miles northwest, already was menaced by another Russian column. Capture of that city midway between Bryansk and Smolensk, would place heavy pressure on Smolensk, which is the main German base in the central front.

Other Russia troops were advanc ing along the Kiev-Konotop rail way toward Kiev, capital of tne rich Ukraine, and were closing in on Nezhin, large railroad junction town only 72 miles northeast ot Kiev. Some of the most bitter fight- ib yesterday tne Kussians saia, took place in the region between the Psel and Vorskla Rivers as the Red Army, edged forward two miles to gain a foothold in Poltava Province. Immediate goal of the drive was the town of Zenkov, 40 miles north of Poltava and about 75 miles west of Kharkov. The Russians said that the Germans hal thrown great masses of tanks and heavy artillery into the battle in an attempt to halt the advance. TRAIN DERAILED IN WASHINGTON SEATTLE, Sept.

13. IP) The. locomotive and four cars of the Milwaukee railroad's crack train, the Olympian, were derailed and overturned a mile south of Seattle last night. Five men, cooks and waiters on the dining car, suffered injuries, none serious. Sheriff Harlan S.

Callahan said the wreck was caused by a buckled rail on a viaduct. It had been thrown out of place earlier, he said when an army truck going through an underpass beneath it failed to clear the underpass top. N. A. Meyer, superintendent of transportation for the Milwaukee, said it would take at least eight hours to clear the rails.

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2 Red Stamps and expire. Oct 21 Shoe ration stamp 18 expires! Oct. 31 Sugar ration stamp 14 expires. mura, 22 miles west of Bari. Bari is approximately 50 miles onorth of Taranto and an important port on the Adratic.

It is 65. miles up the coast from Brindisi. The broadcast was heard by NBC). Previously elements of the first German parachute division had been encountered in the push up the Adriatic shore, but whether there were the forces remaining to oppose the advance was not stated. The main bodies of enemy troops in southern Italy were still converging toward the big Naples-Salerno battle, however, and it was there that the crucial action was being fought.

"Very heavy fighting continues in the area of the Fifth Army at Salerno." said the communique. "The Germans are resisting desperately our determined thrusts to break through their positions." Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's chief of staff in this critical battle.

Allied headquarters disclosed, is 44-year-old Maj. Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther of Platte. rated among the United Spates army's smartest tacticians and organizers.

(Also indicating fierce fighting in the Salerno area, the German communique said Nazi troops were throwing hard punches of their own in the northern part of the battle area and threw back Allied forces "to the town and costal strip" presumably Salerno. (It was conceded, however, that the Allied forces southeast of Salerno were making strong thrusts to break through mountain positions east of the costal Enemy troop movements on the highways toward Salerno were heavily attacked all day yesterday by Allied dive-bombers i and straf-ers which raked convoys ranging up to 200 vehicles streaming northward toward the fight. The importance the Nazi command attached to preventing a further enlargement of Gen. Clark's foothold immediately south of Naples also was shown by the continued presence over the battle area of large numbers of enemy bombers and fighters, both day and night. Enemy broadcasts, too, said the defending forces were well entrenched on higher ground and conceded that the fighting was grim.

While the fighting raged unabated, the day brought no further information of the situation inside the areas, of Italy held by (Continued on page two) 20-Year Club Of Bemis Adds 17 To Its Long Roster -The 20-Year-Club of Bemis, composed of men and women who have been employed at the cotton mill for two decades, added 17 to its roster Sunday when the 155 held their annual meeting in the new gymnasium building where dinner was served. Entertainment was by Miss Billie Walker and her hillbilly band of Radio Station WTJS. This entertainment proved very enjoyable. Fred J. Young, general manager of the 'plant, presided and distributed the 20-year gold pins to the 17 new members among whom were father and son, W.

R. Weaver and Mack Weaver. The pin is a replica of the trade mark witlf cap and bag and the figure 20 upon it Germans Report Rescue Of Duce As Master Stroke tt. iti i at Mllg And ISadogllO hale WjiK Allies lYnrie TTniH North Italy LONDON. Sept.

13. The German radio chortled today over the Nazi-reported rescue of former Premier Benito Mussolini and some of his henchmen. Twelve hours after his release by German parachute troops and elite tation of the incident. Hailing it as a master stroke and "an audacious The German broadcasts attempt ed to spread intriguing mystery over the incident, however, by declaring official quarters were tight-lipped over the whole occurrence. A DNB broadcast said compe tent circles in Berlin state that other Fascist leaders were freed with Mussolini." (The Office of War Information noted that while the Nazis were boasting about Mussolini's "cap ture, they hadn seen fit to have him broadcast, and weren't even today.) The Netherlands radio said that Vittorio Mussolini, eldest son of the deposed Duce, had arrived in Germany, but it did not indicate whether he was one of those whom the Germans claim to have freed.

The Germans, in their broadcast, said that the news of the "liberation" was "sensationally featured in the Swedish press and quoted Dagens Nyheter as saying that "the prestige of the national Fascist government would be greatly stre ngthened by Mussolini's libertion." The German paper. Zwoelfuhr the radio said, declared the actlon deprived the Allies of a pawn. What use the Germans intended to make of Mussolini after his 49 ays of confinement away from his 5 if VT I ed to be seen but it was likely that la je T. ritory in northern Italy. A Details of the reported rescue (Continued on page two) w- IntprtlQ I KpVAIIIIA AlllClllal AICVC11UC Offices Remain Open At Nights The Internal Revenue offices at the Federal Building in Jackson will remain open until 8 o'clock to- night and tomorrow night and until midnight Wednesday for the bene- fit of those who are not able to is the deadline for filing returns under the pay-as-you-go plan.

Congress Goes Back To Work After Vacation Many International And Domestic Problems Confront Lawmakers By ALEX H. SIXGLETOX WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 JP) Congress returns from a summer recess tomorrow to work for the war and prepare for the peace. International and domestic problems of historic import confront the refreshed lawmakers as they resume their legislative chores in an atmosphere brightened by the surrender of Italy. Immediate Congressional attention wasfocused upon the direct problems of war and their impact on the domestic economy problems of raising revenue, of rationing, of mustering manpower for production and for the military forces.

Ahead are questions of long- range legislation issues and controversies which may shape American foreign policy in the postwar world and blueprint the pattern for economic life at home for years to come. And from the decisions and the controversies of Congress in coming months may come the issues of the 1944 presidential campaign. Men and money appear likely to nreciDitate the first two debates. but perhaps before either issue the father draft and taxes is settled, Congress will turn its at tention to international policy. Pending before the house is a simply worded resolution, sponsor ed by Rep.

Fulbright which would put the House 'and Senate on record in favor of world cooperation to preserve peace. Leaders are reported to have agreed (Continued on page two) Colored Rail Shop Worker Buys Bond With $750 Saved Candes Tate (colored hostler's helper of the G. M. O. R.

R. shops here, walked into the office of C. H. Little with $750 in small bills in a fruit jar which was carried in a sack and negotiated purchase of $1,000 war bonds which matures in ten years and will be worth exactly that amount. He stated that he had been saving something out of his semimonthly pay check every time he got it and with this fund he has bought bonds.

He had previously purchased a $300 bond. He receives from $135 to $140 per month for his services to the railroad. -He provides well for his family of three, he said, and always manages to lay aside some part of that semi-monthly pay check. Iron-Clad Peace Is The Aim Of The U. S.

Says Secretary WASHINGTON, Sept. 13. Secretary of State 'Hull believes that readiness to use force is the foundation of peace. Expounding the basic principles of American foreign policy in a broadcast last night, he asserted that one of the war aims of the clad peace for the postwar world backed by nations ready to use force to maintain it. "Readiness to use force, if neces sary, for the maintenance of peace is indispensable, he said, if ef fective substitutes for 'war are to be found." Apparently referring to the flood of discussion on postwar problems likely to follow the reconvening of Congres tomorrow, Hull appealed tr.

nnn.n,r4ican vital questions of postwar organi zation. Beyond suggesting that a court part of the postwar system to ban- ish the "monstrous spectre" of an other world war, however, he did not disclose the details of the peace time organization toward which the United States is aiming. i AUG 111111 miU 1U11VUU11J MIC All ternational agencies of the future, ne said, are among tne prooiems VT 111VI1 QIC M. GVGA 111K kCIl blVSlA dim I whirh win ni to Ht.rm,nH by agreement among governments subject, of course, to approval by their respective peoples. as 11.

in iui uiei uciiiai ui aiiega- i tions that there is an "anti-Soviet" trend in the State Denartment. Hull paid tribute to Russia's con tribution toward victory, and. speaking slowly and giving weight to each word, added: "It is our desire and our settled policy that collaboration and co operation between our two coun tries shall steadily increase during and following the war. He also reiterated the assurance he has given on previous occasions: That the United States will not let little nations down, and that the iiDerty enjoyed by all western hemisphere nations under the good I file their income tax returns dur-neighbor policy is the same liberty I ing the daylight hours. Sent.

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