The Selma Times-Journal from Selma, Alabama • 1

XMtfr THE WEATHER Little temperature change Sunday. Boy AN tXTRA SIOO (Established 1899) Full NEA Service (Established 1827) SELMA, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 3, 1943 16 PAGES TODAY Associated Press Leased Wireg VOL. 21, NO. 185 CONVENTION TO USE DELEGATE BONUS SYSTEM States That Voted For Ticket In 1940 To Get Two Extra NAZIS MAINTAIN ORDERLY RETREAT BEFORE ALLIED FORCES IN ITALY; AUSSIES CAPTURE BIG JAP HUGE GOALS SET BY GOVERNMENT FOR FOOD DRIVE Production Aims For 1944 Call For Use Of Every Farming Facility In Country And Involve Changes In Pattern BY OVID A. MARTIN WASHINGTON, Oct.

2 (A) ih military and foreign relief demands for food steadily increasing, the War Food Administration has set 1944 farm production goals which call for use of every crop acre and every farming facility in the country. Given average growing condi 1,176 TOTAL PLAN FINSCHHAFEN WON Provision Also Mae To Hold Vote Fractions To One Half Nip Troops Scattered By Final Drive Of Australians ARMY DAY SET TO HELP BOOM BENEFIT SHOW BY HAROLD D. OLIVER WASHINGTON. Oct. 2 (IP) The 1944 Democratic National Convention will have a tofnl of 1,176 delegates with one vote each, or 76 more than the one which gave President Roosevelt his third nom inatlon at Chicago in 1940.

Chairman Frank C. Walker of the partys national committee made this announcement today nearly three months in advance of the committee meeting In December to select a convention city, which is also the customary time for officially announcing the new convention voting strength. Anti-Friction Move The early announcement was Interpreted by some party officials as a move to head off possible friction at the December meeting over allotments of delegates. The allowance of 76 more delegates next year Is In accordance with the decision of the 1940 convention authorizing a bonus of two additional delegates at large from each state casting Its electoral vote for the partys presidential ticket that year. Thirty-eight states an electoral vote of 449 went for the Roosevelt-Wallace ticket.

The ten states giving a majority for the Willkie-McNary Republican slate were Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Nebraska North and South Dakota and Vermont with an aggregate electoral vote of 82. The two-delegate arrangement voted by the 1940 convention was regarded at the time as compensation to the Democratic-voting southern states which Jost what they regarded as a balance of power in choosing presidential nominees when the 1936 convention discarded the rule requiring a two-thirds vote to select a candidate. Some southern governors have said recently that a move would be made at the next convention Jo ditch the majority rule for the old two-thirds system. Veteran party leaders believe if this at tempt ts made it will fall. (See Convention, Page -2) Mayor Bums Calls Upon Se'mians To Support Film Premiere As the swirling, dusty tide of battle around Naples and the slosh--ing grinding type of warfare In Pacific Island jungles were brought closer to Selma Saturday by a series of window displays of machine guns, gas masks and cpm-bat materials in down-town store windows.

Mayor L. P. Burns Issued a proclamation officially designat-at 8:30 p. m. at the Wilby Thea-to prepare citizens still more fully for the presentation of This Is The Army, which will have a premier showing on that evening.

Merchants donated window space for elaborate displays, placed by a committee. Every penny spent for tickets for the big show which will begin at 8:30 p. m. at hte Wilby Theater, will go to Army Emergency Relief to provide money or other emergency assistance to soldiers. The ticket sale opened Friday with the Charity League and the Craig Field Womens Club handling the sale in Selma and at Craig Field.

First Ticket Purchases The first official purchase by a local ticket buyer was by Irving Hohenberg, and. at Craig Field Col. Charles H. Anderson purchased first in the military personnel. Tickets are set at a minimum price of 32.20 for white patrons and $1.10 for colored persons, but many persons are paying much more than this knowing that the (See Army, Page 2) REDS PUSH AHEAD Yugoslavs And Greeks Wage Stiff Fights Against Axis BY GAYLE TALBOT Vj (Associated Press War Editor).

With Naples behind them and an all-weather supply line firmly secured. Allied invasion forced fought their way northward ward Rome today, against stiff German renrgnard resistance thst promised to yield few prisoners. There was no indication from Allied headquarters how far Gen-Mark W. Clark's troops had pr gressed in the mobile fighting, they probably had not yet reach ed the wide Volturno river, wh could form a temporary deL line for the Nazis some 20 mil north and northwest of. Naples.

An Allied spokesman was quo-" ed as saying that the Benevento, miles northeast of Naples, was rectly threatened by Gen. Clark's? forces and that the road to Roma. Is now open. It was admitted, however, that the Germans werev making their usual calculated with drawal under the direction of Marshall Erwin Rommel and that the were likely to reach their next das fense line more or less intact. An Allied officer cone grudgingly that Rommel probat would make a masterly retreat, cause hes done a damn more of it than anyone else.

3 Where Will Nazis Stand? Speculation centered largely where the Nazis would stand an fight. One report emanating fron Switzerland said they were ging in only a dozen miles sho of Rome in the historic Cas Romani region, but perlln patches to Stockholm said Hit had ordered a blood wall built across Italy against wh the Allies could but their he until they became dlscouragedip There was no wall Hitler coul build to keep out the bomb though, and one after another his cities continued to go up smoke and rubble. Flying Fo resses, escorted by Thunderb fighters, struck at the North port of Emden again by dayli) yesterday, the second time within week. They bombed it last day and the RAF poured In a la pf explosives the same night. On Friday night the RAF bon barded the Ruhr Industrial city Hagen, 10 miles south of mund.

It Is the junction of sever Important railways, with Imp tant steel and iron foundries I engineering and armament wor (See Reds, Page 2) tions, the proposed plantings would provide the nation with a harvest considerably greater than the rec ord output of food expected this year. The goals will be laid before Congress on Wednesday, and be fore State Agricultural War Boards at meetings to be held this month. Pattern Changes Plan Jp addition to increased over-all volume, the- program proposes significant changes in the nation; agricultural pattern. Some of the direct feed consumption crops suih as dry beans and peas, soy peanuts, wheat, vegetables and potatoes would get first claim on the use of crop land. Feed crops, particularly lower-yielding types, would give way food crops and higher yielding feed crops, Because feed supplies are expected to be 18 per cent smaller per animal unit, the goals call for a reduction in some types of live stock production, particularly hogs, chickens, and turkeys.

The goals suggest the following percentage increases over thi years expected production or acre age: milk 3, eggs one, beef cattle and calves marketed for slaughter 19, hay 3, com 3, wheat 26, soybeans 22, peanuts 31, sugar beets 42, potatoes 2, sweet potatoes 8. fresh vegetables 10, vegetables for processing 6. dry beans and peas 18, Decreases Suggested Per centage decreases suggested were: Farm chickens 3, commercial broilers 20, turkeys 4, hogs 17, sheep and lambs on farms 4, barley 2, sorghums oats 9, rye 3, and flax seed 1. No change was suggested for cotton and rice. A 10 per cent increase was recommended for to bacco to meet a sharp increase hi domestic and foreign demand.

The proposed reduction in some feed crops and livestock types would not show up in civilian meat supplies until late 1944. The goals would utilize acres of cropland, by far the largest ever used. Considerable land now idle, fallow or used for pasture would have to be cultivated. Likewise, record amounts of fertilizer would be needed. Only in case of specified types of tobacco will marketing quotas and penal ties be invoked The WFA will announce later price supports that is, minimum prices upon which fanners count for the various commodities.

Somewhat higher prices are expected for some crops, particularly soybeans, peanuts, sugar beets, some vegetables, corn, and wheat (NEA Telephoto) SOLDIER STARES AT BURNING SHIP A soldier turns to stare at a burning ship on the horizon during landing operations of the American forces at Salerno where they encountered heavy opposition from Nazi land batteries and planes overhead. (Newsreel pool photo.) NINETEEN NAZI SHIPS TOLL OF RAID BY FORTS BY OLEN CLEMENTS ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sunday, Oct. 3 (IP) The bitterly defended air and sea base at Finschhafen in Northeast New Guinea was captured at 11 oclock Saturday morning by Australias famed ninth division in a final charge that drove the Japanese defenders before them. Supported by a damaging aerial assault by American attack and dive bombers, the Australian attacked the village from two directions and overcame opposition from the enemys pillbox defenses. Japanese marines who defended the base held on as long as possible and then scattered before the Australians rifle and machine gun fire.

Some Japanese took to the hills and jungle and others fell on th field. No Mention of Prisoners There was no mention of the Australian Diggers taking any prisoners in their final assault. No official estimate had been given of the size of the garrison defending Finschhafen. Elements of the Australian division whicK took Finschhafen originally landed 12 miles east of Lae on Sept. 4.

While another force which landed only lftdays ago six miles north of Finschhafen was held on the northern outskirts of the village by fixed defenses, the Lae force fought through 48 miles of the worst jungle country In New Guinea to make the capture. Finschhafen Is the third major Japanese position to fall since Sept. 12 when Salamaua fell to the Allies. Lae was captured Sept. 16.

The Australian 9th division won fame for Its action In El Alameln. Later lt was brought from the desert In Egypt and given extensive training In jungle warfare. Their capture ot'Finschhgfen by breaking through fixed Japanese defenses gave the Allies complete control of H.uon gulf which overlooks Japanese-held New Britain only 70 miles away. MacArthurs spokesman said 100 bodies of Japanese marines, generally considered the enemys best troops, were found at Finschhafen when the Australians broke through. Shortest Drive To Date The capture of Finschhafen In 10 days was MacArthurs shortest operation yet against a major Japanese position.

Lae, 60 miles to the west, fell In 12 days. In other campaigns, at Buna, Gona and Munda, weeks were required to rout the Japanese from their coconut, palm machine gun emplacements such as were encountered at Finschhafen, a onetime German missionary village. The final assault on Finschhafen was a typical jungle one. The Aussles graved heavy Japanese fire and silenced the Nipponese machine guns with hand grenades. The Japanese pulled back, taking advantage of each height and stubbornly contesting every yard.

At times the Australian desert veterans were forced virtually to scale perpendicular heights to get at the foe. Throughout the campaign. Macv Arthurs spokesmaHsald, Allied losses have been lighter than the enemy's. (See Finschhafen, Page 2) NAZIS TELL OF RED DRIVE TO CLEAR CRIMEA Sciviets Battle Mounting Enemy Resistance On Northern Front Germans Lose Heavily In Air As U. S.

Planes Hit At Emden RUBBER CRISIS FACING NATION Executives Of Five Firms Warn Of Need For Conservation Purge Of Jews In Denmark Launched By Nazi Oppressors STCKHOLM, Oct. 2 (A) The Germans have launched a purge of Denmark's 6,000 Jews, they announced officially in Berlin and Copenhagen today, opened a Ges-tapo-Storm troop reign of terror which prompted Sweden to Intercede quickly tonight with an offer of Haven for the victims and a warning for the Nazi oppressors. The- Swedish government announced formally that lt had asked Germany to permit Danish Jews to come to Sweden, but a Swedish spokesman said there were strong rumors that the Germans already had begun to deport the Jews to Germany and Poland. German officials announced that the Jews were being removed from pub'le life In Denmark. Widespread arrests, made only after storm troop and Gestapo reinforcements had been sent in to Denmark, were begun on the night of Sept.

30 and early yesterday morning, coinciding with the Jewish holidays. The raids were reported to have continued through yesterday. LIQUOR BUYERS TO GET BONUS Gin, Rum, or Brandy Added To Usual Allowance For Week By JAMES M. LONG LONDON, Sunday, Oct. 3 (JP) Battling mounting German resistance in which Russia, Soviet divisions smashed through roadless forests and swamps toward the upper Dnieper and Vitebsk yesterday, while 700 miles to the south the Red Army was slowly squeezing the Nazis from their last footheld in the Caucasus, Moscow said today.

German reports, meanwhile, told of a mighty Russian thrust in the south Ukraine aimed at clear-, ing the Crimea. The Russian midnight communique supplement, recorded by the Soviet monitor said the Germans launched six counter-attacks in their frantic efforts to protect the approaches to Mogilev, Dnieper River town in eastern white Russia. But Soviets gains up to eleven miles were reported as the Germans fell back from position after position. Moscow dispatches called resistance in this sector exceptional and reported ten German counterattacks in one area alone. The Russians were last reported some (See Nazis Tell, Page 2) By HAROLD C.

McKINLEY AKRON, Oct. 2 Ml A possible breakdown in rubbfer-bome transportation unless immediate and drastic tire conservation measures are taken was seen today by executives of five major Akron rubber companies. A survey of the industrys leaders brought into sharp focus steps taken by the government to prevent exhaustion of the present small stock of new truck and passenger car tires before the industry can get into volume production of synthetic tires. Rubber executives viewed the new reduction in value of and gasoline rations coupons from three to two gallons as a major help in tire conservation. Other steps in this direction were the 20 per cent cut in the October quotas of passenger car tires and the boosting to 601 miles the essential monthly driving a car owner must do before be is eligible for a new passenger car tire ration certificate.

The president of one rubber (See Rubber, Page 2) BRITAIN BARES LINER TRAGEDY Loss Of Big Ship With 500 Aboard Revealed After Year FATHER DRAFT OUTllNE ASKED War Department Asked By Senate For Guidance On Policy WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 Senator Barkley of Kentucky, the Democratic leader, said today that "an official communication from the War Department may be forthcoming soon on pending proposals to ease the effect of the fathers draft on family life. A request for a written statement of the departments position is under consideration, Barkley said, to afford the Senate guidance on a series of bills designed to limit the draft to as few fathers as possible by first scrapping all other sources such as groups kept out of service by present standards of literacy, physical fitness or by occupational deferments. Barkley, one of eight senators conferring In an hours-long private session with Lt. Col.

Francis W. Keesling of Selective service, said the situation is still fluid" except that the Wheeler bill to defer fathers generally to Jan. 1 can not pass everyone knows that. He did say he got the Impression that the Armys expansion plans might be seriously up set" adop tion of a Wheeler substitute offered by Senator Taft (R Ohio) designed to call" fathers under 30 ahead of those over that age. A House Military subcommittee heard testimony, meanwhile, from draft Director Lewis B.

Hershey that while he sympathizes with draft-called fathers of large the number of chil dren a man has should not be the principal factor In decisions on deferment. Other factors, he explained. Include the kind of work a man Is doing and his financial obligations and position. For example, he told the committee, frequently a man with three children Is better able to provide for them than a man with only one can care for his. Otherwise, major Washington developments of the day Included: The War and Navy departments announced both Rear Admiral Husband E.

Kimmel and Major General Walter C. Short, Navy and Army Commanders In Hawaii when the Japanese struck, have waived the Statue of Limitations as to court martial proceedings against them. The tqial. it was announced, has been postponed until an ap-nroprlate" time presumably -fter the war. The War Food (See Father.

Page S) By GLADWIN HILL LONDON, Sunday, Oct. 3 W) American flying fortresses, again escorted by long-range thunderbolts, blasted- port installations at Emden, Germany, yesterday and with their hard-hitting fighter escorts shot down 19 German fighters, a communique said early today. Two fortresses were lost. The fortresses bagged 14 enemy planes and the fighters five, the bulletin said. Marauders, escorted and covered by RAF, Dominion and Allied spitfires, attacked the airfield at St.

Omer-Longuenesse in northern France. These latest blows came a scant 12 hours after the Germans reported that the U. S. Eighth Air Force fortresses had joined the RAF in a night raid on the Ruhr Friday night. The German claim was not confirmed by eighth air force officers.

Signs of New Attacks There were indications of continuing widespread attacks early Sunday against Hitlers so-called European fortress which now is being subjected to two-way aerial hammering frorrj both British and Mediterranean bases. An air alert sounded it, Bern Switzerland, the usual sign of allied aerial activity, against axis targets. Radio sta-. tions In Berlin, Munich, and other German-occupied cities also went off the air late last night. Allied attackers streamed across the channel yesterday to keep up the crescendo of the assault.

The Emden raid was the third big blow on Axis targets in two days. Emden, the Nazis prime North Sea merchant shipping port since Hamburg was wrecked, was an allied target two days during the past week. Fortresses hit the city during the daylight hours Monday and the RAF continued the hammering that night. In yesterdays attack, as in the Monday daylight raid, single-engined thunderbolt fighters went all the way to cover the fortresses that blasted the port a round trip of approximately 800 miles. Opposition Moderate Returning pilots described the Emden attack as successful and reported' it was completed against moderately stiff air and ground opposition.

U. S. Eighth Air Force officers maintained silence on the German1 radio report that American bombers had joined the RAF in the as sault last night on the Ruhr industrial city of Hagen, which is both a rail center and an important Industrial target. (See Nineteen, Rage 2) Masterly Retreat By Rommel Expected By NOLAND NORGAARD ALIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Oct. 2 Brisk fighting raged north Naples and north of AvelBno Italy today as American and I tish troops pursued the fiercely resisting rearguard of that mai of retreat, Marshal Erwin mel.

Enemy troops and armor battling vigorously and gi ground only foot by foot in the face of the allies dogged pursa north of Naples. The German 6b viously were determined to back the hard-hitting, high-s columns of Lt. Gen. Mark Clark until a new defense could be prepared somewhere the north. The same brand of resi was being encountered by I can troops advancing through mountains north and northeast.

Avellino. An allied miii spokesman said there was chance that many prisoners be taken as the Nazis backed the Italian peninsula. Plenty of Experience "It should be a masterly-treat. he conceded. They got Rommel in Italy, and he is master at rearguard fighting ought to be.

He's done a sight more of it than anyone At the same time, there every indication that the could continue to hammer hard the foe, and the belief here that there would be no lull int fighting soon. Hitting furiously to block Germans retreat from the Na area, allied bombers last nigkt1 tacked pontoon bridges at zanise, 20 miles north of where there is a crossing erf Volturno River. Formia, a city along the ancient Appiuk to Rome, also was heavily 8 ed On the Adriatic coast Gen. Bernard L. Montgomery eighth artny still was only light opposition and had (See Masterly, Page 2) MONTGOMERY, Oct.

2 UFi Effective Monday, a bonus in distilled spirits will be available to Alabama Liquor Ration card holders. Dr. E. C. Ray, chairntan of the Alcoholic beverage control board, announced today.

The bonus, effective until further notice will be in either gin, rum brandy or liquers. Since a pint of whisky and a bottle of wine are already available upon surrender of a ration number for a week, the bonus declaration will allow purchase of three packages a week per customer at state stores. Dr. Ray, asked about the adequacy of whisky stocks in state stores, said he believed There is enough to carry us through. Slaughter Of 40,000 Russians Charged In Article By Tolstoi LONDON, Oct 2 (P) The bodies of more than 40,000 Russians slain by the Germans have been found crammed the shaft of a mine near Stallno.Alexei Tolstoi charged in an article entitled 1 demand vengeance.

which the Moscow radio broad cast In English tonight. The broadcast, recorded by the Soviet Monitor in London, quoted Tolstoi as saying tersely that special State commission to in vestlgate German crimes is now investigating whether the Germans threw thelt; victims down the shafi alive or whether they shot them first. Tolstoi also charged that the Germans inaugurated their rule of Kharkov in December. 1941, by Jewish population of the city, some 21.900 tor 24,000 persons Including even bables. The bodies were piled Into two big pita.

Two -Million Total Exceeded By County In Bond Campaign Dallas Far Over Quota With Total Of $2,025,622 In Sales Reported; Figure Largest Ever Reached In Any Financial Appeal Dallas County has exceeded the two-milllon-dollar mark in the Third War Loan drive, with a total of $2,025,622.76 reported sold In War bonds In the period which ended Oct. 2, a final tabulation by the War Finance Committee, disclosed Saturday. The overaubytriptlon represents Hog Price Ceiling May Cause Problem Of Apportionment CHICAGO, Oct. 2 A price ceiling goes into effect on live hogs in all major markets Monday and the meat producing industry was wondering today what will happen if packers are willing to pay maximum prices and there are not enough hogs to satisfy the demand at that level If such a situation develops, and on the basis of present higher-than-ceiling prices it appears that it will, the question livestock commission men, who sell hogs, and meat packers, who buy them, want answered is: Who will get the hogs? There were predictions in the livestock industry that it might be necessary, at least until hog runs expand later in the year, to allocate supplies among the various packers. But no allocation plan has been set up, and evolving such a program would be a stupendous job.

The livestock industry, which generally has opposed ceilings, thought also that illegal markets might receive a sharp boost when the maximum! go into operation. Ceilings to be established Monday generally will be below prices rilling in recent weeks CAPETOWN, Oct. 2 Gft-News of one of the worst ocean tragedies of the war the sinking without a trace of the British liner Ceramic with more than 500 passengers aboard last November was officially released today by naval authorities. The Ceramic was sunk, presumably by an enemy submarine, somewhere in the Atlantic while en route to Capetown from England. The official announcement was withheld almost a year because of uncertainly over the fate of passengers and crew.

The exact number of casualties was not known but it was reported the ship carried more than 500 persons and authorities are still without official news of any survivors. The Germans announced last December they had sunk the Ceramic with a submarine torpedo in heavy seas and claimed to have picked up one survivor at the time. A person representing himself as the survivor later broadcast over the German radio a version of his fescue by a Nazi U-boat According to the German version the Ceramic sank quickly during a gale and lifeboats could not be launched. The passenger list included many South African and Australian families which wore completely wiped out. thle heavy buying of Class Bonds by numbers of citizens.

Fur-niss said that Dallas County can look forward to healthier conditions in the post-war period. The greater the spread ot these bonds, the better the future condition of and section, he Small bond buyers not only Help. the largest amount ever raised by this county in any financial effort, overtopping all World War I Liberty Bond results. Credit for the showing goes to huyera of Serlea Bonda In denominations of $18.75. $37.60 and $75.00, it was stated by John P.

Furnlss, War Finance Chairman, who made the surprising disclose to put the Third War Loan over in this county, but they are responsible for maintaining the regular bond quota, the statement was made. These regular bond buy-era are to prove the (See Two Million. Page 2) ure that many persona who have bought bonds regularly, bought added bonds during the month in quantities large enough to send the county Into the winning class. Pointing to future effects from.