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Served By Leased Wire Of The ' ' + 4 -— associated press ▲! . . . . A 4 Ql 4 REMEMBER sasr umuupmt \ truing i^tar \°Lj.i:l"N0- - - , ---WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1942 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867.' Oregon State Onsets Duke In Rose Bowl Beavers Throw Lightning Through Mud And Murk To Triumph, 20-16 56,000 ATTEND TILT Push Devil Powerhouse All Over Gridiron From Kickoff To Close Bv SID FEDER i duke STADIUM. Durham, Jan. 1 __(#)—Oregon State’s “orphans of hP tall timber”—the bunch of kids Ich didn't have a chance-threw lishtninr through the mud and murk today to win the orphaned p0?e bowl game. ^ 70-yard aerial bolt in the third quarter put the crusher on Duke’s high-and-mighty Blue Devils for a 20° to 16 triumph for the 3 to 1 underdogs, after 56.000 gridiron bu°s, sardined in this big sunken concrete coffee cup, watched the Dukes come from behind twice to tie the score. Only Fayott men But that was only the payoff pitch Before that, during it an afterward, the busy Beavers from the northwest pushed Duke’s hith erto unbeaten powerhouse all over the lot. except for a comparatively few minutes when the Blue Dev ils’ reverses were reversing and their p«sses weren't sliding off re ceivers’ fingertips. The Oregons were never behind at any point. From the opening kickoff, which Tom Davis fumbled for Duke and George Peters picked up for the Beavers on the Blue Devil 29. to the final gun, which sounded just after Bob Dethman went into the air for the fourth interception of a Duke pass, the Southern conference champions had to fight up-hill all the way. And this Oregon hill was just too steep for the Dixie machine. Twice the Dukes drove down on long marches to tie the score— once going 71 yards on nine plays, with tossing Tom Davis as the spearhead, and again parading 64 yards on four plays, with the help of a critical roughing penalty that put the ball on Oregon’s one-yard line. But except for those two tours, and a bad pass from Oregon's it (Continued on Pape Seven; Col. 2) _\T_ I GUARDS ARE SLAIN BY FARM INMATES 3 Brutally Beaten When Two Men Run Amuck At Bridgeport, Mass. BRIDGEWATER, Mass.. Jan. 1 —W—Three guards were brutally beaten and hacked to death today when two young inmates ran amuck at the vast Bridgewater state farm, set fire to a building and fought off a charging riot squad for an hour and a half. The dead guards were: Franklin L Weston, 63, of Bridgewater: George Landry. 64, of Whitman; Howard V. Murphy, 48, of Taun ton. Under heavy guard in the farm hospital tonight were Donald Mil lard, 19. of Nashua, N. H„ and Joseph Sheppard, 25. of Worces Both were classed as defective he* nquents They were badly beat f’1, but doctors said they probably Would recover. The two inmates finally were rapped on the burning fourth oor of a section devoted to de ective delinquents by a four-man quad of Massachusetts state po 'ce' headed by Sergeant Joseph Fratus. After they had been s ssed and clubbed into uncon O'ousness, police found they had een armed with four hammers, o chisels, a blackjack, an iron f.Pf a hose spanner. Fratus t0” this story: °ur first call from the state —R‘ontinu,.q on Page Three; Col. 1) BRITISH WAR CHIEFS IN WASHINGTON Three war leaders from London study military maps on front steps of British embassy in Washington. Mem bers of the group accompanying Prime Minister Churchill to the U. S., they are, left to right: British Field Marshal Sir John Dill, Fleet Admiral Sir Dudley Pound and Chief Air Marshal Sir Charles Portal. Poisson Named Chairman Of County Defense Unit -—- ★ ,_, PROMINENT ATTORNEY Succeeds R. B. Page, Who Accepts Place On State Council Committee Louis J. Poisson was named Thursday by Governor J. Melville Broughton to the chairmanship of the New Hanover defense council. Mr. Poisson, a prominent Wil mington attorney, succeeds R. B. Page, who tendered his resignation . s chairman of the county defense council to State Director Theodore S. Johnson of the state defense council, after he had been asked by the governor to accept appointment to the executive committee of the state council. Mr. Poisson wired Governor Broughton that he would accept the appointment. As chairman of the county coun cil, he will be in charge* of the mani fold civilian defense activities here, including the task of enrolling more civilians in various capacities in the civilian defense program. Already, approximately 2,000 per sons have volunteered for service by registering with the defense council which at present maintains offices with the Greater Wilming ton Chamber of Commerce. Announcement of a permanent lo cation for t$ie offices of the council is expected this week. All defense activities in the county, not directly under the Army, are under the supervision of the (Continued on Page Three; Col. 6) -V BRITISH HIT AXIS IN EASTERN LIBYA Strike Forces Isolated In Bardia-Halfaya Sec tion Of Country BY ERIC BIGIO CAIRO, Jan. 1.—IJP>—Rear-guard units of the British eighth army, concerned lest a second Tobruk— this time of Axis origin—develop on the flank of the desert .advance, hit hard tonight at the well-forti fied Italian-Nazi forces isolated in the Bardia-Halfaya region of east ern Libya. South African troops, supported by tanks and mobile artillery, bat tered their way into the southern sector of the Bardia perimeter, taking several fortified positions and seizing 600 prisoners. The attack, hundreds of miles behind the front lines, foreshad owed a determined effort to keep the Axis Bardia garrison from holding out and possibly being sup (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) Wide Decisions Expected Soon From War Parleys Washington, Jan. 1.— or — ar-reaching decisions were believed eminent tonight as Prime Minister inston Churchill and President ni',0.Se'eit lesumed their war plan ns after a conference with , at-f-gists which, it was announced fl’ : "ith all tlieaters of the con rliet. Churchill himself had told news fm'* ~ho accompanied him back of m Cacada by train that the job i coordinating British and Amer 'var efforts was making such Process that he thought * 1 decisions would lie reached •won. The result* of the conferences I here, he had said earlier, would be made known in good time by deeds not words. In addition to American and Brit ish naval, military and air chiefs, Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill called in for their strategy confer ence Secretary of State Hull, Un dersecretary Sumner Wellis, Lord Halifax, the British ambassador, and Harry Hopkins, lend-lease ad ministrator. Mr. Churchill, arriving here at 9 a. m., brought a mass of data pre pared by his staff and dealing, (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) Ingersoll Assumes Command Of Fleet WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.—'(/Pi Vice Admiral Royal Eason In gersoll assumed today his duties as commander-in-chief of the Atlantic fleet, at an undisclosed location. The admiral received his orders as commander-in chief Dec. 20. The ceremony, a Navy an nouncement said, was marked by utmost simplicity and required but a few minutes to hoist the admiral’s personal flag on the mainmast of the L\ S. S. Au gusta. GERMANY’S BASES IN GREECE BOMBED Raids Made Amid Evidence Of Preparations For Assault On Fleet LONDON, Jan. 1.—(A’)—Britain’s powerful bombing forces in the Middle East were carrying the war back to the Axis tonight with sus tained assaults on the Nazi bases in Greece where there is increasing evidence of preparations for an air and sea assault on Britain’s eastern Mediterranean fleet. For the second time in thr ’. days the RAF reported striking hard at important bases the German and Italians have developed on conquer ed Greece and Crete. A Middle East communique said that in the latest attacks, Tuesday night, British planes bombed muni tions factories and a submarine base at the Greek port of Sdlamis, chemical works and oil installations at the port of Piraeus, six miles from Athens, and an airdrome at Candia, capital of Crete. German lanes based at the Can dia field would be virtually astride Britain’s vital lane of sea com munications and supply from Egypt to the Libyan battlefield. Alex andria is little more than 400 miles southeast of Candia by air the hump of eastern Libya is les: than 250 miles southwest of the air drome. The RAF operations were inter preted in London as substantiating recent reports from Turkey of new concentrations of the German air force in Greece an8 on island bases (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) vr WEATHER FORECAST: NORTH CAROLINA—Cold wave in west portion Friday and Friday night, clearing and much colder Friday preceded by rain in extreme cast portion. SOUTH CAROLINA — Clearing and much colder Friday, cold wave northwest portion Friday and Fri day night. (Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday): (By TT. S. Weather Bureau) Temperature: 1:30 a. m. 45; 7:30 a. m. 47; 1:30 p. m. 57; 7:30 p. m. 60; maximum 60; minimum 44; mean 52; normal 47. Humidity: 1:30 a. m. 92; 7:30 a. m. 92; 1:30 p. m. 92; 7:30 p. m. 90. Precipitation: Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. 0.36 inches; total since the first of the month. 0.36 inches. Tides For Today: (From Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and C.eodetic Survey): High Low Wilmington _ 9:42a. 4:18a. 9:5Sp. 4:.>ip. Masonboro Inlet - 7:21a.. 1:07a. 7:39p. 1:43p. Sunrise 7:18a; sunset 5:15p; moonrise 5:37p; moonset 6:58a. Cape Fear river stage at Fayette, ville on Jail. 1, at 8 a. m., 10.33 feet. (Continued on Fage Three; Col. 9) .4 U. S. Prohibits Sale Of New xlars, Trucks Action Is Taken Pending Establishment Of Auto Rationing System TO HALT PRODUCTION Order, Issued By Donald M. Nelson, Is Effec tive Immediately WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.—UPl—The government today prohibited pur chase, sale or delivery of new passenger cars and trucks pend ing establishment of an automo bile rationing system and disclosed simultaneously that production of new automobiles and light trucks would be stopped entirely “within a few weeks ” The order, issued by Donald M. Nelson, OPM priorities director, is effective immediately. Stoppage of production, in line with a policy adopted today by the Supply Priorities and Alloca tions board, will compel the es tablishment of a rationing, sys tem, OPM said, and it is expected that, purchases of new cars and trucks will be limited under the plan to government, iend-lease, and the most “essential” civilian users. Henderson in Charge Price Administrator Leon Hen derson, who is administering the entire ration program effective Jan. 5, also will supervise the au tomobile rationing which is expect ed to become operative about Jan. 15. OPM estimated that at the pres ent time more than 450,000 pas senger cars are in stock with deal ers. No figures were available as to the stocks of light or heavy trucks. Nelson said action would be taken to permit completion of con ditional .sales, chattel mortgage and similar automobile purchase contracts if delivery was made prior to today. The orders also will be amended to permit re possession of cars under such con tracts in accordance with laws governing such repossessions. Officials said, further, that it was possible that additional modi fications might be permitted to cover particular hardship situ ations. Meeting Monday The program, contemplating ces sation of production, was submit ted to SPAB by the OPM civilian supply division, and will be dis cussed with representatives of the (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) HOLIDAY VIOLENCE TAKES 150 LIVES Nearly Two-Thirds Of Deaths Are Results Of Automobile Accidents (By The Associated Press) It was a New Year, but with the same old carnage from accidents. Violent death ended more than 150 lives in another heavy toll of acci dents marring another holiday. Nearly two-tliirds of the fatalities were due to mishaps suffered by motorists and pedestrians. An Associated Press tabulation yesterday (Thursday) showed that 152 had been killed during the New Year’s celebration. Of that number 93 were from traffic accidents and the rest from miscellaneous causes. Five men died when an Army bomber crashed on Long Island. Three laborers were killed at a Vir ginia airfield when a bomber lost a wheel and swerved from a concrete runway into a group of laborers. Two delinauent inmates killed three guards in a (Massachusetts prison farm. A New Yorker died in a night club bar at 5 a- m. A West Virginia workman, from whom Jan. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) U. S. STILL HOLDING MANILA; FORCES IN JUNGLES MERGED INTO SINGLE, MIGHTY ARMY BATTLE IN MALAYA British Imperial Line En gages Japs 190 Miles Above Singapore FIGHT AT KUANTAN Singapore’s People Cele brate New Year In Black ed Out Homes, Hotels By C. YATES McDANIEL SINGAPORE, Jan. 1.—(A1) The British Imperial line strongly engaged the Japa nese invader today about Kuantan on the Eastern Ma layan peninsula 190 miles above this base, but action on the Western front about Perak was confined princi pally to skirmishes and artil lery fire. Nowhere was there evi dence of material enemy progress. (The Japanese had claimed the capture of Kuantan.) The Situation In its New Year’s day com munique the British com mand thus summed up: “On the Perak front (290 miles above Singapore' there is contact with small parties of the enemy. There has been some enemy shel ling. “On of our companies, support ed by artillery, inflicted about 100 casualties on the enemy and de stroyed a small enemy ammuni tion dump. “At Kuantan fighting^continued.” Military quarters declined com ment on Tokyo claims that Kuan tan was captured Wednesday, but said the British still controlled the airdrome there. It is the chief strategic objective in that area, as no road extends southward through the coastal country. A good road connects Kuantan with the central Malayan railway, 80 miles to the west, however. Advance By Trails These quarters also said the Jap anese had not landed from the China sea, as previously reported, but had made their way down trails 200 miles from KotaiBharu. Singapore’s people, many of them removed by half a world from home, had their New Year’s celebrations in blacked out homes and hotels, exhibiting calm and cheerful determination despite two early morning air-raids and a third tonight by several formations of bombers. Preliminary reports said the damage from the morning (Continued on Pagre Two; Col. S> MRS. A. C. JAMES FATALLY INJURED Husband And Two Other Persons Injured In Crash Near Red Springs LUMBERTON, Jan. 1.—Mrs. Al fred C. James, of Wilmington, was fatally injured and three other per sons hurt in an automobile-truck collision on the highway near Red Springs early this afternoon. Mrs. James, wife of the Superin tendent of Insurance of the Atlan tic Coast Line railroad company, died in Baker sanatorium shortly ■after being admitted at 4:45 o’clock. She had previously received first aid treatment at Red Springs. The injured are Mr. James, said to be driving their car at the time (Continued - on Pajre Three; Col. 4) Roosevelt And Churchill Fray For God’s Guidance By RUTH COWAN WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.— UP) — President Roosevelt and Prime Min ister Churchill, beginning the New Year with prayers for divine guid ance, bowed their heads today in a church pew where America’s first commander-in-chief besought vic tory for thirteen colonies then fighting against mother England. United now in the common cause of democracy, this country’s Presi dent and Britain’s premier sat in George Washington's old-fashioned square pew in pre-revolutionary Christ church in Alexandria, Va., across the Potomac river from Washington. They attended services in obser vance of the national day of prayer proclaimed on Dec. 22, by President Roosevelt, and they heard in a southern church a young northern Episcopal rector call upon America to throw off its “sin of international irresponsibility.” For the parishioners of Christ church it was a day of high drama. Just at daybreak eight trusted members of the church gathered in the rectory of Dr. Edward Ran dolph Welles. There they were (Continued on face Three; Col. 11 b Japanese Claim They Are Threatening Cavite Base TOKYO, Friday, Jan 2—(Of ficial Broadcast Recorded by UP —The Japanese claimed today that they had gained complete control of the railway from Batawgas northward to Manila and were threatening the big U. S. Naval base at Cavite, on Manila Bay. This report, carried by the newspaper Yomuiri and broad cast by the Domei agency, fol lowed assertions that Japanese forces were so close to Manila that artillery fire from the front could be heard in the Philippine capital and that in the Mala yan campaign the invasion had carried half the length of the peninsula towards Singapore. Imperial headquarters report ed further victories at sea where it said army bombers sank a submarine and 2 steam ers of 3,000 tons each and dam aged a destroyer—all in the Strait of Malacca off the west coast of Malaya Bee 28. Although he had predicted that the war as a whole would be long and hard, Premier General Hideki Tojo told his people in a New Year broadcast that “it is only a question of time until Manilan and Singa pore meet a fate similar to that of Hong Kong.'’ Taping the Japanese claims of land gains, an official an nouncement asserted that “Japanese forces advanced (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) Hitler Flies To Front To Direct Beaten Force -+ REDS CONTINUE GAINS Russians Announce Long Advance About 125 Miles Northwest Of Moscow LONDON, Jan. 1. — Uf) — Adolf Hitler was reported tonight to have flown to the Moscow front to take personal command of German armies broken and beaten at Ka luga by Russia’s great counter offensive, which was continuing with unstemmed force on all fronts. Hitler, who 11 days ago fired his commander - in - chief, Field Marshal von Brauchitsch, and per sonally took over control of the army, presumably will attempt to direct a successful digging in of the Nazi armies—something they have failed to do in more than a month of retreat before the big Red onslaught. Long Russian Advance As this report from well-inform ed circles in Stockholm reached London, the Russian command an nounced a long advance 125 miles northwest of Moscow and the re capture of several towns, including the important Volga river town of Staritsa, a full 45 miles southwest of Kalinin, and only 30 miles short of Rzhev, strategic Volga com munications center. Dispatches from Russia also said advance Red army units were within a few miles of Mozhaisk, key town 57 miles west of Moscow on the broad Moscow - Smolensk highway and next major objective of the Russian push. Hitler, according to the Stock holm report, rushed to the Mos cow front following the big Rus sian victory at Kaluga over the tank army of Nazi Col. Gen. Heinz Guderian and the rout of six army corps of perhaps 250,000 men. Serious Defeat The Nazi fuehrer was at his headquarters in the Kiev area, it was said, when he heard of the defeat, which was regarded by the German general staff as very seri ous. Hitler was pictured as hoping that his personal appearance be fore his troops would stiffen their morale and resistance. His new (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) tr MARYE APPOINTED A. C. L. ENGINEER Succeeds J. E. Willoughby As Chief Engineer Of The Railroad The appointment of R. W. Marye. of Wilmington, as chief engineer of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad company was announced Thursday night by officials. Mr. Marye has for the past few months, been assistant chief en gineer. Previous to that time he was principal assistant engineer of the railroad. He succeeds J. F. Willoughby, who has been appointed consulting engineer. The change became ef ffective Thursday. Mr. Marye will maintain his headquarters in Wilmington while Mr. Willoughby will reside at Blount Springs, Ala., his former home. * •MV. Willoughby has been chief engineed since 1915, coming from the Louisville and Nashville rail road. Mr. Marye started his rail road career with the Atlantic Coast Line in 1912. Dutch General Sees Surprise For Japan BATAVIA, Netherlands East Indies, Friday, Jan. 2.—WP>—The United States and Britain are preparing something “very un pleasant for the Japanese,” Lieut. Gen. Hein Ter Poorten, commander of the Netherlands Indies army, told his troops in a New Year’s day broadcast yester day. While warning his men to be on guard against a Japanese in vasion at any moment, he said: “I am sorry I cannot tell you about the plans which are being7 worked out and about the con versations which regularly take place, but we and our Allies are working hard—very hard. “The British and Americans are preparing something which will be very unpleasant for the Japanese.” NEW BRUNSWICK BRIDGE PLANNED Application For Permit For Span Filed With U. S. Engineers Here A modern, wider highway bridge to replace the present narrow structure over the Brunswick river on U. S. Highway 17 three miles west of Wilmington has been pro posed by the state highway depart ment, it was revealed Thursday. Building of the new bridge is a part of the state highway de partment’s present program of highway widening and moderniza tion over the state. When com pleted, the new bridge will ma terially facilitate the flow of traf fic on U. S. 17, one of the chief transportation links between Wil mington and the south and west. Since the beginning of the de fense program here, the highway has been under constant use by a heavy flow of traffic, day and night. Application for a permit to re place the present river bridge and to build a temporary bridge, 35 feet up stream from the present bridge, has been filed with the U. S. District Engineer office here. According to the plans submit ted by the state highway depart ment, the new bridge will have a fixed span with a horizontal clear ance of 44 feet and a vertical clearance of 8.3 feet above men low water in the river. The temporary bridge will be a fixed span structure -with a hori (Continued on Pajje Two; Col. 2) LINES SHORTENED -- Defenders Hold Strong Po« sitions And Are Inflict ing Heavy Losses FIGHT OFF WEDGE MacArthur’s Force Defend* ing Main Highways Around Capital WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.— (A1) — Manila apparently still stood tonight — and in the outlying jungle battlefields all defending forces had been consolidated by a bold mili tary maneuver, into a single, united death-dealing army. What had been two Ameri* can-Filipino forces, one bat tling the invader to the north, the other resisting a second Japanese thrust in the south east, were merged into one fighting force with the re sulting advantages of short ened lines and coordinated command. Hold Strong Positions The defenders held strong positions, too, the War de partment said, and were in flicting heavy losses upon the enemy invaders. In addition, the Manila harbor defenses were described as “strongly, held by our troops.” But while these tidings, briefly summarized in an Army communi que, cheered the capital they did nothing to diminish the general expectation that Manila probably must soon be surrendered to the Japanese. The Army announcement left much ’•oom, too, for speculation as to the actual military situation following the junction of the north ern and southeastern forces. Fight off Wedge Military observers were inclined to believe the defenders may have been forced to give ground in the north, but in the meantime had fought off Japanese attempts by bombers, and possibly tanks, cal vary and infantry patrols, to drive a wedge between the formerly sep arated northern and southern fight ing fronts. Earlier communiques made M clear the Japanese bombers dom inated the highways by daylight, making it necessary for troops and munitions to be moved at night. General MacArthur’s newly uni fied force was believed to be fight ing along an irregular, broken lina extending in an arc 200 or mor* miles long, from somewhere im mediately south of Manila north ward 50 to 75 miles through Bula can province and thence westward to the South China sea. This would include the principal rear lines and highways around Manila. Attempt lniinrauon Japanese mass attacks hav# come from the north and south* east, but it is assumed that in the meantime continual attempt# at infiltration have been mad# from the rugged, roadless country of eastern Luzon, with the objec* tive of preventing a juncture of the two defense forces as the line# contracted. General Douglas MacArthur, re* porting to the War department here, expressed the hope that Americans and Filipinos in Japa* nese occupied territory would b# treated with scrupulous regard to international law. A total of 175 Japs are under guard and about 3,000 under sur veillance, he said, and they have been shown every reasonable con sideration and provided with ev ery reasonable comfort. Japanese and their property have been (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) Only 44 New Tires Can Be Sold Here In January *— Only 44 new tires and 37 new tubes for passenger cars, motor cycles and light trucks can be sold in New Hanover county in January under the county’s tire quota announced Thursday by the Office of Price Administration. The county’s truck and bus quota was 108 tires and 90 tubes. Certificates for the purchase of tires and tubes will be issued by a tire rationing board, appointed by Governor Broughton, under the strict regulations laid down by the OPA. Named to the board were C. Van Leuven, O. H. Shoemaker, and Fred Matthes. The drastic curtailment on the sale of tires and tubes, made in anticipation of the loss of a sizable portion of America’s foreign sup ply of rubber through Japanese action, is the first rationing meas ure to be put in force since the country entered the war. Returning from a conference Thursday with Director Theodore S. Johnson of the state defense council in Raleigh, George W. Jef frey, assistant director of the state (Continued on Face Two: coL >41
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