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♦ "* H * svssr THE SUHillfe:,,_-NEWS ISEEEs Jr:, —-■_^LTfidg (^©ffiTT <gQW ©IF £>1S?©@fi{ig§ AMB) E>fUiAgyftgflfr | State and National News | "" ' TWENTY PAGES n w f§ JVILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1942 FINAL EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS AmencansKill 5,188 Japs On Solomon Isles U. S. Losses Are Estimated At One-Fifth Of The Nipponese Total THREE-MONTH PERIOD Army Advances On Guad alcanal; 369 Jap Planes Downed In October Bv JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON. Nov. 7 — (JP) — American soldiers and Marines, and their supporting air and naval forces, have killed at least 5.188 Japanese in the Guadalcanal-Tu lagi area of the Solomon Islands s'ncp the invasion began three months ago today. Comparable American losses can be estimated at about one-fifth of Ihe Japanese total, or 1.000 men, on the basis of a remark by Secre tary Knox yesterday that enemy casualties were more than five times as great as ours. The total of Japanese dead was announced by the navy in a com munique which also reported that 369 enemy planes had been de stroyed in the South Pacific during the single month of October. In cluding these, the total of J a p planes destroyed since the begin ning of the Solomons campaign as reported in Navy communiques stands at 529. Army Advances An earlier communique an nounced that Army troops had made an eastward advance on Gu» ' (Continued on rage Two; Col. 1) MURDER TRIALS SCHEDULED HERE -* » Cases Of Four Alleged Slayers To Be Called In Superior Court Four alleged murders, one white and three negro, are scheduled to he placed on trial here during the two-week criminal term of superi or court which convenes in the courthouse at 10 a.m. Monday with Judge Leo Carr of Burlington, pre siding. District Solicitor David Sinclair said yesterday that three other men charged with capital felonies are also scheduled to be tried at this term of court, two for criminal assault and one for first degree burglary. A total of 77 criminal cases have Been docketed tor the term, 65 of "Inch are new cases and 12 cases "hich have been continued from 'he last term of court. Twenty-four persons are now in Jau awaiting trial and the remaind er are free under bond, the so ucitor said. Otto p. Maxwell, self-confessed slayer of Johnnie A. Moore, Erwin native, is the lone white man charged with murder. The other Jitee. Gerrard Spicer, Archie uarey and Will Strong are negroes. -Maxwell allegedly stabbed Moore n death here on September 25 a ler cornering him in a parked ©mobile with Mrs. Maxwell. Both James M. Johnson and ?r i- Jeffries, charged with —|C"Mimed on Page Two; Col. 2) High-Handed Inspection (AN EDITORIAL) f , lae„ Public health is to be safeguarded as a precious iactor ot victory in this war. It is never to be disregarded, in times like these a healthy people are as indispensible as an invincible army and a sufficient supply of the tools of war. the ^ranS f°r maintfining a high health standard, he Buthonties are required to investigate public eating places and close any that are insanitary. The food must 1 good quality, carefully prepared and properly cooked; utensils must be clean and spotless, and all equipment in tirst class order. This is indispensible, and indifference to it cannot be condoned. Eating places which fail to observe common sense rules hygiene and sanitation deserve to be closed. But there is a difference between common sense rules and arbitrary rulings. Agents conducting investigations must have some sense of proportion, if they are to be con sidered competent. When they assume a high-handed at titude and close restaurants or other public eating places tor minor infractions that cannot adversely affect the pub lie health, by reasons that are wholly technical and never practical, they are imitating Hitler’s gestapo, and nothing else. There has been in progress here for some days an in quiry into conditions existing at restaurants, cafeterias drug stores and lunch counters, and many “closed” signs have appeared in doors and windows, usually at peak hours, while hundreds of Wilmingtonians have stood on the side walk and wondered where they could go for a meal. + Probably there was good reason for closing some. Cer tainly there was no reason for other closings. One restaur ant is reported to have been barred because the table cloths merely covered the tables and did not hang over the edges. In others the hot water was not hot enough to please the inspectors. These are examples of the dictatorial methods employed by inspectors who, having a little authority, use it bullyingly. Proprietors of places thus manhandled, reputable men and responsible citizens, whose word is good, say that they have been given no cooperation, no consideration, however insignificant their offense. They have been closed without warning, not only to themselves but to their customers, the number of whom has increased tremendously in these’ last two years during which available homes have steadily de creased and food supplies at stores have now almost hit bottom. The state health department, at the request of the coun ty health department, moved in because the local health officer believed an investigation advisable. So far so good. But it is to be asked why the county board of health was not given an adequate staff to do its full duty, when it was first found that it could not Keep up with the help it had? Why was the situation allowed to become allegedly acute, when it could have been foreseen that with the influx of new population there would have to be more public eating places needing regular inspection, And why, when conditions had needlessly outstripped the local capacity to deal with them, should the state send inspectors incapable of distinguishing between insanitary eating places and table cloths that don’t hang over the edges ? We hold no briefs for dirt. But we cannot agree that the health department is serving the best purpose when it allows hotheaded and high-handed inspectors to close food dispensaries whose worse sin is that the water in their boilers is under 170 degrees. Amencani roopsMenace Japanese Base At Burma - M OCCUPY ISLAND Army Penetrates Central And Northern Papua In Vicinity Of Goal GEN. MacARTHUR’S HEAD QUARTERS. Australia, Sunday, Nov. 8. —Ufl— American combat troops are in action near Buna, vital Jap base on the north New Guinea coast, Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur disclosed today. Simultaneously, General MacAr (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) Youth Draft Bill Delay May Affect Married Men Washington, nov. 7.—®— °ngressional delay in enacting tj,e :een-age draft bill will cause . c mduction of 200,000 married _ ' uito the armed forces in De . who otherwise might not , \c 136611 called until late next i_,g lf at all, informed legis la,01's said today. This was an over-all figure for v'n country as a whole. The effect „ ,) Vai'y each locality, de ,lng 011 the supply of unmar 111611 still available to each board. Chairman Reynolds tD.-N. C.) * ‘'■Date Military COmmitte. said that even if the measure is finally passed next week and it is signed immediately by President Roosevelt, actual induction of 18 and 19-year-old men probably would not start until about Jan. 1. Confirming this estimate. Sena tor Gurney CR.-S. D.) attributed the result to delay caused by con gressional controversy over a Sen ate amendment requiring a year’s military training after induction befoe 18 and 19-year-old selectees could be sent into combat abroad. The War department has object ed strenuously to this restriction (Continued on P«e Two: Col. al War Chest Drive Opens At Shipyard Tomorrow The War Chest drive at the North Carolina Shipbuilding company will be launched to morrow morning, Storer P. Ware, secretary-treasurer of the shipbuilding company and general chairman of the ship yard division of the chest drive, said yesterday. “Shipbuilders over the coun try have proved to be a very potent factor in local War Chest campaigns,” he stated. “We are confident that our Wilming ton yard will equal, or better, the splendid records set by yards at Newport News, Port land, Seattle, and elsewhere. “We consider the War Chest of vital importance to our war effort, and an economical way to administer local welfare needs.” Quotas for each department at the yard were set at a meet ing Friday of departmental chairman and shipyard officials. PRICE HIKES APPROVED WASHINGTON. Nov. 7 —l^P)— Stores got permission today from Price Administrator Leon Hender son to increase the price of pota toes, onions and turkeys. These and a number of other foods were placed under tempor ary price ■•freezes” October 5. To day’s order is the first of a series designating permanent price con trols. INVADE ATLANTIC, MEDITERRANEAN COASTS IN STEPS TO TAKE CONTINENT, PROVIDE SECOND FRONT AID FOR REDS BRITISH WINNING 100,000 Of Rommel’s Men Reported Captured Or Trapped In Desert SMASH SECOND STAND Allies Tear Into Disorgan ized Flanks Of Enemy West Of Matruh CAIRO. Egypt. Nov. 7—CP)—Ap proximately 100.000 men of Mar shal Rommel’s Axis army of 140, 000 were reported captured or pin ned down in pockets far behind the swiftly moving African front today as the British Eighth Army swept on toward the Libyan bor der after smashing the German ar. mor in its second attempted stand. Disregarding the thousands of foot soldiers left in the dusty back wash of the battlefront, Lieut.-Gen Bernard L. Montgomery’s British and American tanks tore into the disorganized flanks of their main prize—the battered remnants of the German armored divisionswest of Matruh in an effort to eliminate them entirely. They already had caught up with this fleeing force once and sent it into headlong, har assed retreat a second time. Montgomery spurred his men on to swifter pursuit of the enemy with the admonition that the “bat tle just won is only the beginning of our task.” The British object apparently was to harry Rommel’s men constantly so they could not rest or regroup their shattered forces. Montgomery’s observation was (Continued on Page Five; Col. 4) _\T_ MARTIN TO RESIGN AS G. 0. P. LEADER Will Step Down As Com* mittee Head To Give Full Time To Strategy WASHINGTON. Nov. 7 — UP) — Increased representation for his party on congressional committees and sharp reductions in non-mili Lary government expenditu res were listed today by Hep. Martm Massachusetts, the house minority leader, as prime objectives for the greatly - strengthened republican forces in congress. Beaming his glee at his party’s gains throughout the nation in Tues day’s election, he disclosed that he would resign as chairman of the republican national committee, December 7 to give his full time and attention to guiding republican strategy in the house. While Martin made it clear that the republicans would fight for a greater voice in running the af fairs of congress, he pledged that they would co-operate in the war effort “regardless of how the demo crats treat us.” His declaration that the republi cans would attack non * military (Continued on Page Two; Col. <») GENERAL EISENHOWER GEN. EISENHOWER LEADING INVASION Is Baptism Of Fire For Gen. MacArthur’s Former Right Hand Man WASHINGTON, Nov. 7—(A>)—'The North African invasion served as a baptism of fire for 52-year-old Lieutenant General Dwight David Eisenhower, commander-in-chief of the Allied force. Eisenhower’s military career of more than a quarter century in cluded service in the first World War. but his duty kept him in this country as a trainer of tank and other troops while the actual fight ing took place largely in France. In recent years, the American commander in Europe saw serv ice in the Philippines as the right hand man of General Douglas Mac Arthur, but returned to this coun try before the Japanese invasion of the islands. Deemed among the most brilli ant of army strategists, he was designated commanding general of the European theatre on June 25, with headquarters at London, after four months as chief of the army general staff’s war plans division, subsequently changed to the op erations division. A native of Tyler, Texas, Eisen hower was graduated from the military academy and commission ed a second lieutenant of infantry in 1915. In the first World war his serv ice included instructing reserve of ficers at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., other officers at Fort Leaven worth, Kas., and organizing and training engineer and tank corps troops. His star rose when he became an aide to MacArthur, then chief of staff, in 1935. Roosevelt, Many Others Pay Tribute To Soviets By HENRY C. CASSIDY MOSCOW, Nov. 7. — ®— Presi dent Roosevelt and a long list of other Allied notables paid tribute today to the grimly fighting Rus sians on their 25th anniversary of the Communist revolution. Mr. Roosevelts greetings were displayed prominently in the So viet press along with those from Wendell Willkie, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Harry Hopkins, Epis copal Bishop James E. Freeman of Washington. Theodore Dreiser, Upton Sinclair and President James Conant of Harvard. Premier Joseph Stalin had set the theme of the celebration with his stirring order of the day say ing that 8,000.000 Germans and mercenaries already had been con verted into casualties and that: “We can and must clear the Hitlerite filth from our Soviet soil. Mr. Roosevelt lauded the “in comparable heroism of the Rus sian army and said: “The steadily growing power of the United States has been, and will continue to be, dedicated to complete victory.’ Queen Wilhelmina of The Neth (Continued on Pare-Five; Col. X) Leads Invasion GREAT ARMADA Undertakes Invasion Of French North Africa In First Big U. S. Move FOUR CARRIERS Nazis Claim That Mighty Fleet Out To Establish Second Front LONDON, Sunday, Nov. 8. —(A*)-—Possibly the greatest invasion armada assembled in Europe since the start of the war undertook the inva sion of French North Africa today in the first large scale action in the European thea ter in which the United States has participated. A force of 24 warships, transports and freighters, followed by the great battle ship Rodney and a heavy air escort were reported by the German news agency DNB to have left Gibraltar Thurs day night. A possibility that as many as four aircraft carriers accompanied the attack fleet was seen in Axis reports. German broadcasts said the Furious, the Argus and anoth er unidentified “flattop” had been observed in the harbor at Gibral tar and a later Vichy report said four carriers were seen there. 100 Ships at Gibraltar. Tn addition to the vessels which set out eastward into the Mediter ranean. DNB said, at least 100 other ships waited at Gibraltar, j Among the 125 originally there, the German reports said, were six cruisers, one auxiliary cruiser. 26 to 28 destroyers, four submarines and one monitor. To transport men, equipment and supplies there wo."“' two transports, one of them large, and possibly 40 merchant men and 12 tankers. The remaind er of the vessels were not iden tified. AXIS AIRS REPORTS NEW YORK, Nov. 7.—(#)—1The Berlin radio network persistently broadcast assertions today that a great Allied armada with “second front” intentions had set out os tentatiously from . Gibraltar in plain sight of many observers across the bay in Spain and was now somehwere in the Mediter ranean. “There is no doubt in Berlin that the British aim is to capture North African ports in order to set up a second front from there,” said one of these German broadcasts. The Berlin reports were without confirmation from any American or British source, but independent dispatches from La Linea. Spain, where there are many observers who never have been interested in suppressing Allied military se (Continued on Page Five; Coi. 3) -V WEATHER FORECAST: NORTH CAROLINA — Scattered light showers or drizzle with some what lower temperature Sunday. (EASTERN STANDARD TIME) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., yesterday: Temperature: 1:30 a. m. 60: 7:30 a. m. 57: 1:30 p. m. 75; 7:30 p. m. 65; maximum 75; minimum 56; mean 66; normal 58. Humidity: 1:30 a. m. 92; 7:30 a. m. 87; 1:30 p. m. 53; 7:30 p. m. 80. Precipitation: Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. 0.00 inches; total since the first of the month. 0.00 inches. TIDES FOR TODAY: (From the Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey*: High Low Wilmington_9:27a. 4 00a. 9:40p. 4,33p. Mason boro Inlet_ 7:05a. 12:50a. 7:19p. 1:26p. Sunrise 6:38a; sunset 5:14p; moonrise 6:25a; moonset 5 flip. Cape Fear river stage at Fayette ville on Nov. 7, at 8 a. m., 10.55 feet. (Continued on Page Five; Col. 4) ' ACTION ANNOUNCED BY ROOSEVELT Nation’s Chief Says Made To Forestall Axis Invasion That Would Threaten America Across Narrow Sea From Africa TROOPS HAVE BEEN IN BRITAIN President Calls On French To Oust Their Enemies; Forces Will Be Reinforced By British Troops In The Near Future wAomxMtriuw, wov. 7— (7P) —Powerful American expeditionary forces are landing on the Atlantic and Medi terranean coasts of the French colonies in Africa in the first big-scale offensive of the war under the Star Spangled banner. An electrifying announcement of the action, obviously aimed at winning complete domination of the dark con tinent and reopening the Mediterranean sea for the United Nations in conjunction with the victorious British drive westward from Egypt, was made in a simultaneous an nouncement tonight by President Roosevelt and communi que from the War department. Double Purpose The White House statement said the purpose of the move was two-fold: 1. To forestall an Axis invasion there which “would constitute a direct threat to America across the compara tively narrow sea from western Africa.” 2. To provide “an effective second front assistance to our heroic allies in Russia.” Thus the Axis had an emphatic answer to its attempts to “fish for information” by broadcasting accounts of -— --4 London Electrified By {]. S. Landings LONDON, Sunday, Nov. 8.— (/P)—The United States landings on the French North African coasts electrified the city of London, which iiad been filled with rumors that something “awfully big” was brewing for this week-end. A military source hailed the American operation as "magni ficent news.” 275 RESTAURANTS INSPECTED HERE Food Establishments Grad ed By Inspectors From State Health Board Approximately 275 food handling places in Wilmington and New Hanover county have been inspect ed and graded in the past two weeks by inspectors from the state board of health in co-operation with the city-county health office, Dr. A. H. Elliot, city-county health officer, announced yesterday. “The results of fhis survey show that a majority of the cafe opera tors are co-operating in making any necessary improvements in or der to safeguard the heath of their patrons,” declared Dr. Elliot. “Not only are these operators making every possible effort to (Continued on Page Two; Col. ?,) neavy Allied troop convoys escorted by warships muster ing at the rock of Gibraltar in recent days. The troops apparently were some of those which have been concentrated in the British Isles for some time, itching for action as they went through the final stages of their battle training, for they were commanded by Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander in-chief in the European theater whose headquarters had been in Britain. Eisenhower broadcast a message to the people of French North Africa on be half of the President assur ing them that “we came among you soley to destroy your enemies and not to harm you” and issued a pro clamation instructing them how to cooperate. To signify cooperation, the general directed that they fly the French Tri-Color and the American flag, one above the other, or two Tri-Colors by day and shine a searchlight vertically into the sky by night. He also di rected French naval and aviation units to remain idle. Eisenhower’s message indicated that the troops were pouring ashore in Morocco, which has both Atlantic and Mediterranean shores, and the remainder of French North (Continued on Page live: Col. i) Soviet Soldiers Holding Ground Along All Fronts By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, Sunday. Nov. 8.—Ifft— The Red army held its ground on all fronts Saturday, the 25th an niversary of the Russian revolu tion, and killed more than 1.800 Germans in Stalingrad, the Central Caucasus and the Western front, the Soviet midnight communique indicated today. The Germans continued to at tack fiercely on the Nalchik plains at the foot of the 18.000 foot Cau casus mountains, where the Rus sians threw two armored trains into the battle yesterday, but fail ed to gain, the communique said. In Stalingrad they also threw their tanks and infantry against a Russian stronghold in several attacks, but the Red army re pulsed all the attacks and killed about 700 Germans. The Russians also were able to consolidate their positions in other parts of the city. Four German blockhouses were destroyed in one factory area and j another three were blown up nortn i west of Stalingrad. The main battleground, however, continued to be in the Central Cau casus where the Germans were (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4)
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