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THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER The Foremost Newspaper of The Two Carolinas- SATURDAY OCTOBER 9 1943 SECTION ONE PAGE TWO Tells Striking Delivery Union To Get On Job NEWS BULLETINS Because of the curtailment in newsprint The Observer will publish each day two columns of short items in order that readers of The Observer may yet a fist of all the news not published elsewhere in the paper This la a war measure and we are flad to help in any Way toward the war effort BO GOAL POSSIBLE Patterson Tells Senate Committee 7700000 Figure May Have to Be Increased Reports Indicate They Will Oust Laval and Take Over All Of France Nazis to Destroy Rome SAN JUAN Puerto Rico Oct (ZP) Navy Secretary Frank Knox predicted today that the Germans would make a of Rome just as they did In Naples when forced to retreat Returning from a tour of England the western Mediterranean and Brazil the Navy Secretary said German U-boats were back In with their raiders refitted with new devices STARTS ON PAGE ONE as the joint committee on reduction of nonessential Federal expend! tures long has sought at least a 10 per cent cut in the total government civilian pay roll of more than 3 000000 persons Patterson testified that of the $118909000000 total unexpended balance standing to the department' credit on August 1 slightly more than $64000000000 had not been obligated by contracts More Tubes For Radios WASHINGTON Oct Radio owners with dead sets because of tube shortages got a 576613-tube windfall today when the War Production board diverted tubes held for export to domestic channels WASHINGTON Oct The War Labor board today ordered striking newspaper and mail delivery workers in New York to return to work immediately and asked the union leaders to confer with the regional office in New York Monday morning In a message to Joseph Simon president of the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers union independent and Edwin Korkux attorney for the 13 distributing companies involved WLB said: "The present strike of the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers union at the 13 newspaper distributing companies comprising the evening newspaper group is the third strike in which the union has been involved during the past year "The obligation of labor not to strike during the war extends no less to this labor organization than it does to other unions throughout the nation If Your Child Is Coughing Creomulsion relieves promptly because it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm and aid nature to soothe and heal raw tender inflamed bronchial mucous membranes Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the understanding that your child is to be benefited and you are to like Its quick action in allaying the harassing cough without upsetting the stomach or you are to have your money back No narcotics CREOMULSION for Coughs Chest Colds Bronchitis Reject Marriage Change CLEVELAND Oct 8 (AP) By a narrow margin the clerical order of the Protestant Episcopal House of Deputies today rejected a second proposal for permitting divorced persons to marry upon approval of a diocesan bishop A majority vote was required to change the marriage canons Asks Prayers For Pope LONDON Oct 8 (fl) Arch bishop Richard Downey of Liverpool in a statement today on behalf of the English and Welsh Roman Catholic hierarchy asked his countrymen to join in prayers for Pope Pius XII declaring the Pontiff was a prisoner in the hands of the Germans without freedom of access to his spiritual children throughout the Terror Reigns In Paris MADIRD Oct The Paris press has united in -a concerted cry of against the Vichy government and the Paris administration which teemed today to be a precursor of some action by the Germans All newspapers concentrated on reporting graft and hunger in Paris and proclaiming an increase of "terrorism and political assassinations" throughout France Citation Praises Ford CHICAGO Oct A citation from the Executives Club of Chicago praising Henry Ford i a disciple of the American system of free enter-prise under whose nurturing spirit his genius today was presented to his grandson Henry Ford II at a luncheon honoring the Detroit industrialist Nazi Battleship Damaged LONDON Oct The German pocket battleship Luet-xow formerly the Deutschland was so badly damaged by sabotage that it had to crawl from port to port down the Norwegian coast when it returned to Danzig for repairs late last month underground repons from Inside Germany said to- LONDON Oct The Germans are preparing to take over the whole government of France wiping out any-pretense of Vichy home rule both Axis and Allied reports indicated tonight as the Nazis strove to meet mounting resistance with wholesale arrests throughout the country Robert de Beauplan Nazi mouthpiece on the Paris radio admitted a wave of sabotage in France and asserted the Germans would take over if French authorities are unable to cope with "terrorism" A few hours later radio France the Free French station at Algiers said the Nazis already had laid plans to seize the government and that they would be put into effect day DISSATISFIED For weeks it has been reported in neutral capitals that the Nazis were far from satisfied with Pierre Laval and there have even been reports that Laval himself was trying to drop his role of quisling yhe French station in Algiers quoting a foreign diplomat who had just arrived in North Africa from Vichy said a of De Gaul-list officials have been discovered in the ministry of interior the foreign ministry and in the French ministry of information in France" wave of arrests is sweeping through the whole this announcer said "The movement of resistance among the French people is gaining in dimensions every day" The Zurich correspondent of the Swedish newspaper Dagens Ny-heter quoting a foreign diplomat who had arrived in Switzerland from France said Tuesday the Germans were making "mass arrests" in the Vichy government preparatory to taking over the administration He said the diplomat told him the arrests were being made mainly in the ministries of information foreign affairs and interior and that the Nazis were exercising the sharp est control over communications with Vichy TRIED TO SCARE Nazi spokesman De Beauplan tried to frighten the French into letting up in their sabotage of German machinery with threats that severe German measures would be taken "What goes beyond the imagina De Beauplan said "is that peaceful and decent Frenchmen should be filled with glee at every report of a new act of In an almost pleading tone he added: "If only all Frenchmen who are intoxicated by the De Gaullist radio would at last understand the facts" SCHOOL BOARD HOLDS MEETING Miss Eloise Rankin Supervisor Is Made Acting Superintendent Of System IN SPITE of stiffening Nazi resistance along the whole Italian front Allied armies are making slow but steady progress toward Rome On the Dodecanese island of Cos in the eastern Mediterranean British troops are still battling strong German forces Nazi air bases on the islands of Rhodes and Crete are also under bombardment by Allied planes and German naval and shipping power has suffered heavy blows off the coasts of Norway and northwest France MORE ABOUT NAVAL ACTION STARTS ON PAGE ONE barges for evacuation of the troops The last two groups fled as sheets of flame from the American warships ripped into the calm night General MacArthur'g spokesman offered no comment on the size of Admiral William force The communique did not specify the battle scene but MacArthur's spokesman said it was northwest of Vella Lavella That is in an area bounded to the northwest by Bougainville last big holding in the Solomons and to the northeast by Choiseul Japanese evacuation of Kolom-bangara necessitated by the presence of American forces on Vella Lavella to the north and New Geor gia to the south at first was attempted by barges Allied planes sank many of these Some managed to reach Choiseful island At South Pacific headquar ters of Admiral William Halsey a spokesman pointed out this week that the Japanese would be forced to risk some warships in getting their men off Choiseful on the retreat to Bougainville and off north shore or else abandon them to their doom "The enemy was frustrated in an apparent 'attempt to evacuate remnants of his defeated ground forces" the communique said naval nnits at night intercepted and engaged an enemy force consisting of one light cruiser and four destroyers cruiser and one destroyer exploded and sank as a result of our gunfire one destroyer was sunk by torpedo action and the remaining two destroyers were damaged and fled Two other groups of ships to the rear reversed their course and retired at high speed Our losses were On New Guinea advance patrols of Australians moving along the Ramu valley have reached a point within 25 air miles of Bogadjim the defense outpost for the Japanese coastal base of Madang That would place the patrols 45 miles south of their objective Madang the next enemy base up the New Guinea coast from recently-captured Finschhafen IS YOUR DOG UUcJuf ABOUT WHAT HE EATS? Authorize Freight Cars WASHINGTON Oct 8-WV-Production of 15983 new freight cars to relieve critical shortages of carriers has been authorized the Office of Defense Transportation (ODT) reported today Two-thirds of the cars will be produced during the first quarter of 1944 Nazis Escape Italians AJACCIO Corsica Oct (ZD 85000 Italian troops fully equipped with tanks and guns failed to hold vital bridges against a handful of German patrols 20000 Nazi troops escaped to safety virtually unscathed This is the conclusion one must come to today after reviewing the recent Corsican campaign with American and French officers who participated in the fight and even after talking with the Italians themselves Grange Opposes Subsidy WASHINGTON Oct 8-(ZP)-The National Grange today flatly rejected what it described as an Administration request that the farm organization withdraw its opposition and join in support of the food subsidy program That program has encountered sharp opposition from state lawmakers Japs Have Jitters CHUNGKING Oct 8-ZP)-A Chinese army spokesman said today Japanese people are jittery and there are signs of political instability in Japan" The spokesman attributed a recent three-pronged drive in east China to a desire by the Japanese army to give "a reassuring display of strength" to the people at home Boost In Insurance WASHINGTON Oct 8-(ZD-Legislation increasing the authority of the Federal Housing Administration to insure mortgages on defense housing from $1200000000 to $1600000000 was approved by the Senate today and sent to the White House Fifth Army Smashes To Volturno Line STARTS ON PAGE ONE the Herman Goering 26th and 29th armored divisions the 15th armored grenadiers and a parachute division In throwing the cream of their armored divisions against forces the Nazis were making a desperate effort to stem this threat to Rome The British Eighth army aided by seaborne land- Then Tune in BOB er last night Four Allied craft lost American long-range Lightning fighters made their first raids into Greece October 5 destroying a number of parked places at Araxos on the Peloponnesus peninsula an official report disclosed A check-up showed that American Flying Fortresses which battered the rail junction of Mestre near Venice Wednesday shot down 13 German fighters approximately half the enemy force that tried to beat off the raid vde 10:45 AM Every Saturday wsoc Brought to you by tho malcsri ot 3-FLAVOR DOG FOOD Amtriie's Molt Popular Dog too WASHINGTON Oct 8- (ZD -Weather bureau report of tempera ture for the 24 hours ending 8 in the principal cotton growing areas and elsewhere: Station High Low ings and supported by the fire of destroyers has reached a point approximately 130 mile east and slightly north of the capital The battle line now runs from the mouth of the Volturno to Capua southeast to Maddaloni northeast to Benevento where it crosses the Calore river to Montecaivo and from there northeastward to the Adriatic just north of Termoli (A Canadian Press dispatch reported that Canadian troops with the Eighth army under Gen Montgomery had mounted positions dominating a strategic valley In the Termoli area on the Adriatic coast It described the fire from German artillery and mortar batteries as the heaviest the -anadiana had encountered since they began their northward push a week ago) In the mountainous central area of the front Allied forces were reported pushing the Germans steadily back An Allied communique said the Fifth army had made steady progress in repairing communications destroyed by the withdrawing Nazis and by Allied air attack Bad weather curtailed the American and British bomber offensive against German-held positions yesterday but fighter-bombers managed to fly through the clouds to strafe roads behind the enemy lines destroying 11 vehicles and damaging others Among their targets was a big Tiger tank RAF Spitfires patrolling the Ter-mnli area where the enemy appeared to have concentrated his meager air strength to support counterattacks against the British and Canadians shot down four Messerschmitt-lOOs during the day and destroyed a Junkers-88 bomb DELOACH VISITS AT HOME BETWEEN OVERSEAS TOURS CAMDEN Oct 8-Ben DcLoache Camden singer is visiting his parents Mr and Mrs Ben DcLoache Sr this week after an extended entertainment tour of Alaska during which he made 103 performances before units of the armed service He will leave Monday for New York from where he will go overseas to resume his sing ing before American servicemen His sister Miss Margie DeLoache of the WAC returned Tuesday Miss DeLoache has been at Fort Des Moines and also at Camp Grant and has just been released from a hos pital at Battle Creek where she was confined for some time as the result of illness incurred in her service work Bomb Load Dropped LLIED HEADQUARTERS ers Oct 8 -VP)- Bombs ling 1284 tons or almost 2-pounds a minute were diop-on Nazi positions at Sa- 0 beach during the 24 hours ieptember 14 the most crlti-day of the Allied landing ed headquarters said today the total 1065 tons were iped by American bombers 219 tons were dropped by RAF ling Makes Coal AKIUNGTON Oct 8-WV-miing was added to the states Ining their third war loan as tonight ns reports of an tional $171000000 in sales the national total to $18209-100 Sales to individuals now at $4709000000 or 94 per of the $5000000000 goal Is For Jews Ignored Oct ZP)- 1 appeals from King Chris-of Denmark asking the Ger-to spare Danish Jews have ignored flatly the Danish service said today The appealed first to Werner German minister to Den-k but the Nazi representa-refused to receive the mon-'s messenger Then the sent a telegram to Berlin it also was unanswered RADIO PROGRAMS Saturday Oct 9 1240 NBO 5:00 Early Riser Club Yuletide Preview There is a Christmas atmosphere in the home of Mr and Mrs Aaron Danielson A Christmas tree decorated and lighted was set up in the Danielson home after their son Lieut Alfred arrived home on furlough from Alaska Reason? He be home at Christmas 8:00 6:15 6:25 6:30 6:45 Too- 7:05 7:10 7:15 7:30 7:40 7:45 7:55 Too" 8:15 8:30 8:45 The Mecklenburg county school board last night elected Miss Eloise Rankin county school supervisor to the post of acting superintendent of county schools pending final selection of a successor to John Lockhart who resigned to become controller of the college of the University of North Carolina in Greensboro The board members signed the necessary forms to be sent to the State school officials by which Miss Rankin will become the actual head of the county schools for such time as the board may need to get a permanent superintendent The board members after the meeting explained that they have considered a number of applicants and that a superintendent probably will be named within a short time INFANT SON OF MR AND MRS STERLING PASSES Sterling Long Jr three-and-a-half month old infant of Mr and Mrs Sterling Long Sr died at 8 o'clock last night In a local hospital One sister Tatricia Ray Long survives with the parents and three grandparents Mr and Mrs Ray Long and Mrs Emma Poole all of Charlotte Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 2:30 at the Hovis Funeral chapel the Rev Frank Yandell pastor of North Charlotte Presbyterian church officiating Burial will be In Elmwood AP New Early Risers Club Time Marches Back- RECORD Data Furnished by the Weather Bureau Airport Station for the 24 Hours Ending at 8:30 Highest temperature 80 Lowest temperature 45 Mean temperature 62 Precipitation World News Roundup Richard Lelbert New mew Koran Everything Go 8:00 8:30 DRK Oct 8 (ZP) i stage and screen was reported today to at his apartment erry-Nctherlnnd hotel from pneumonia His lannger said the come-becn ill for three or 10:00 10:15 10:30 10:45 Hasten the Day Pet Parade Date for City Office for 24 Hours Ending at 5 Yr Ago Highest 79 80 Lowest 49 53 Average 64 66 Normal 65 11:00 11:05 11:30 Saturday Showdown Mld-Momlng Recess Our Nation's Shrines AP Nsws Swiss Nat'l Musi Precipitation 0 Deficiency for month 61 Excess for year 54 Normal for month 295 Sun rises today 7:24 sunset to day 6:56 moonrise today 4:47 moonset today 2:48 a Church of God "Blue Ribbon Town" Funniest Friendliest Show MOVES TO 8:00 Rfl EWT EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT TONIGHT ORSON WELLES GUEST STAR OF GROUCHOMARX if Station WBT Dance Hour Japs Say Yanks Repelled NEW YORK Oct NBC quoted a Tokyo broadcast tonight as saying that Allied planes had attacked Wake Island afternoon" and were repelled by Japanese army and navy units There was no American confirmation of this report Less Rice For Brewers WASHINGTON Oct (ZD-To conserve supplies for food purposes the War Food administration today prohibited brewers from using table quality rice to produce beer and ale Brewers normally use classes of rice that are not of table quality but because of market shortages of corn they have been using more rice De Gaulle Sees Free France AJACCIO Corsica Oct (ZP Standing in the shadow of the Napoleon Bonaparte memorial Gen Charles De Gaulle today told 3000 cheering Corsicans that France would be freed as was Corsica and that "all must give way to the Cross of Lorraine" Brings War Invention LONDON Oct 8 Dr Niels Bohr refugee Danish scientist and Nobel prize winner for atomic research reached London from Sweden today bearing what a Dane in Stockholm said were plans for a new invention involving atomic explosions The plans were described as of the greatest importance to the Allied war effort Yom Kippur On NEW YORK Oct Yom Kippur the Jewish day of atonement began at sundown tonight and will continue until sundown tomorrow The day holiest on the Hebrew calendar culminates 10 days of penance which began with Rosh Hashonah the Jewish new year Exiles to Attend LONDON Oct 8 The exiled governments in London are sending ranking cabinet men to represent them at the rehabilitation nnd relief administration meeting to be held in Washington Nov Fire Hits New York NEW YORK Oct 8-ZD-A spectacular fire swept through an east river waterfront warehouse of the International Diesel Electric company tonight in Long Island City causing damage estimated by the company president at $500000 to machinery which was to have gone to the army and navy Rounding Up Idle RAEFORD Oct 8 Hoke county' work-or-fight committee ii reported busy rounding up loafer and vagrants with Vigilance Officer James Warner actively In charge Notre Dame-Mlchlgan 12:00 12:15 12:20 12:30 12:35 12:45 1:05 1:25 1:30 1:45 2:15 2:30 3:15 3:30 3:45 3:35 "Too 4:15 4:30 4:35 5:15 4:30 5:35 5:45 6:15 6:20 6-25 6:30 6:35 6:44 6:65 7:30 7:45 8:55 Piedmont Chemists Elect Charles Stone Members Of American Society From Surrounding Towns Attend Organizational Next Session Will Be Held In Charlotte In November The Carolina Piedmont section of the American Chemical society was organized by representatives of chemical manufacturing and consuming industries and heads of the chemistry department of colleges in the Piedmont territory at a meeting last night at Hotel Charlotte Officer elected for the cnsulnggection by the local society tar are Charles Stone of Cnar- next meeting of the Section 1 1 -i i PtLnttljta IT TT I mi iii yCfir Charles Hlg Joy Co Program Part In Raid YORK Oct 8 (ZP) I Commander Guy Gib-recognized as Great Britain's experienced bomber pilot the organizer and director tie Ruhr Valley dam raids ired today I hat it was "the of the (British) Bomber nand to bo the first in the i raids over Tokyo" I Lose Destroyer )NDON Oct 8 ZT) The government announced jht the loss of the Royal nlc destroyer Queen Olga details Were given Rate Hearing Set SIIINGTON Oct (ZD-Interstate Commerce com-Ion directed the nation's oads and shippers today to cause by October 30 why ICC should not extend until 1 1944 Us suspension of ht rate Increases allowed In Government agencies such is OfTlce of Price Admlnis in which has been active In Ing continued suspension of rates also were asked to ess their views Stripping Rome THE SWISS-ITALIAN NTIER Oct Ger-i occupying Rome appeared to be preparing the Italian al for the romlng battle as whisked off all males from 5 33 year old and moved 1 puppet Dalian government to Bolzano In the Alps Ro-i reaching here mid the iger male population of the ul had disappeared and it not known whether they i still held In Italy or si-y transported to forced lain Germany Kora KohbJer right Orch le As 8:00 8:30 8:45 8:55 BIBLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH BROADCASTS OVER wsoc Sunday Morning 11 to 12 REV A DILLARD PASTOR Subject 11 A 1 Servlre: The Eleventh Commandment Bible School 9:45 A Subject Evening Service at 8 Mi The Spirit Filled Life Tou Are Cordially Invited to Attend All These Service BIBLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev Edgr Archer Dillard Minister 1800 East Fourth St Charlotte lotto chairman gins of Salem college Winston-Salem chairman elect Ivey of Charlotte secretary -treasurer and Dr Gerke of Charlotte councillor Members of the American Chemical society from Kannapolis Winston-Salem Lenoir Mount Holly Salisbury Shelby and Charlotte were present at the meeting ENROLLMENT TO INCREASE The position of Charlotte in the chemical Industry of the nation 1 emphasized by the organization of the Piedmont society here President Stone reported In this territory are 62 members of the society snd the roster is expected to increase since regular meetings will be held In Charlotte and other cities In the will be held in Charlotte in No vember at which plans for the further development of the Section will be planned The American Chemical society was organized In 1878 and now has a membership of about 35000 or more than one-tnlrd of all the chemists in the country Another Carolina branch has headquarter in Raleigh The Carolina-Piedmont section embraces the counties of Alexander Anson Avery Burke Cabarrus Caldwell Catawba Cleveland Davidson Davie Forsyth Gaston Iredell Lincoln McDowell Mecklenburg Montgomery Richmond Rowan Rutherford Stanly Stokea Surry Union Watauga Wilkes and Yadkin 10:00 10:15 10:45 11:05 11:10 11:15 11:30 AP New Roundup Sign Off 100 12:05 12:50 1:00 1:05 l00- A 1.