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s.?;Stj Vftlmfngtun iHiu‘uut0 ^ttir —T ~ZZ SIXTEEN PAGES-: WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1942_FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867' IViacon county Wins 1st Place In State Wide Scrap Contest NEW HANOVER THIRD County Also Wins Prize For Highest Collec tion In District shipyard IS WINNER Local Shipbuilding Com pany First In Business Firm Section RALEIGH, Nov. 12—(/P) —Macon county with total collections of 3,3^ 7,697 pounds and per capita collection of 208.9 pounds won first prize in the newspaper-sponsored metal scrap drive held sev eral weeks ago, Chairman Frank Daniels announced to day. Second prize was won by Transylvania county which reported total collection of 2.494.031 pounds, 203.5 pounds per capita. The first prize was a $1,000 wTar bond and second prize was a $500 bond. 52.6 Pounds Per Capita The drive resulted in collection of 177.549.614 pounds, 52.6 pounds for every man, woman and child •forth Carolina. Buncombe coun :v in which 12,042,015 pounds were collected, led in total collections bj counties. Winners of S100 war bonds in district contests were: first, Per quimans: second, Lenoir; third, Wayne: fourth. Chatham; fifth, Forsyth; sixth, Durham; seventh, Xev Hanover eighth. Lee; ninth, Rowan: 10th. Burke; 11th, McDow ell: 12th. Swain. The North Carolina Shipbuilding company of Wilmington, which .r.tributed 4.553.800 pounds, won a S300 bond in the contest among business firms of the state. Junior organizations winners, were: first, Hendersonville High (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) -V CHEST WILL OPEN TUESDAY NIGHT Community Drive ‘Kickoff’ Will Take Place At Big Rally Wilmington’s first United Com "■unity and War Chest campaign be officially launched next Tuesday night, when the “united all out campaign for 13 appeals” be officially launched in what hnest officials predict to be the roost enthusiastic “campaign” send-off in Wilmington’s history.” hue great kickoff rally will be 00 d in Thalian Hall, immediate ly following the War Chest night Parade starting promptly at 7:00 pm. The “kfckoff meeting” is slated to begin at 8:00 p.m. P'ro-osmpaigning activity is a . aidstick of measurement, there 1 no doubt but that the predic , !°n the Chest board comes ue. There has been a tremen r,Us amount of interest in the ,es ■ s‘nce the organization plans sot under way about a month ago. arnss Newman, general chair an of this year’s drive will de “•0’ the “Keynote” address of the a«d his message will spur o workers to action on the fol ding day. Many special features are plan tor the meeting. Officials ,, “ld uot divulge them, but did T o that the Atlantic Coast Line “Oi us would appear in a brief "ustcal program. The balance of , Program is being organized. v .an invitation is issued to all v kers’ hoard members, mem s of agency boards;, in fact, ^ Continue,1 „n Page Three; Col. 2) TIN CAN SALVAGE DRIVE TO BEGIN Campaign To Reclaim Old Containers Set For First Week In December For all of those housewives who are wondering what they can do now to help in the United Nations war effort, the New Hanover coun ty salvage committee has the so lution, salvage heads declared last night. The tin can salvage program is slated to get under way in Wil mington in the near future, with the first tin can collection to take place around the first week in De cember, according to Alexander Sprunt, chairman of the program in New Hanover county. The exacl date of the collection will be announced later, and mean while, the cans may be made ready for the collection in each home. this program will only apply to all homes within the city lim its of Wilmington, as the collec tion will be made by the city street department, and there is as yet no means of collecting cans in the outlying sections of the community. The' shipping as well as the col lection will be conducted by the city, and any proceeds which may accrue will be used to defray the expenses ct the drive. Mr. Sprunt urged all home own ers to join in the effort to furnish the nation with the tin needed to go all out in the war effort. To the person in the home who will assume the duty of prepar ing the cans for collection, below are listed some pertinent facts which will make the preparation of the cans simple and the collec tion easy for the city officials. First: Wash all cans thoroughly after emptying the contents; re move paper labels. Second: Open the cans top and oottom, and tuck in tops and bot toms. Third: Flatten the cans by step ping on them; leave enough space aetween the flattened sides to se hrough them, and do not hammer hem down. Fourth: Keep your prepared cans in a suitable container, en ;irely separate from the trash, un ;il the day for collection is an nounced. A basket, box or barrel will serve the purpose for this. Fifth: Do not save the following :ans: paint, oil, varnish, floor pol sh cans, evaporated or condensed milk cans. These cans contain in gredients which make them worth (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) VETERAN DOCTOR SUCCUMBS HERE Dr. Walter E. Storm, 87, Passes At Home; Over 60 Years Practice Dr. Walter Elting Storm, 87 died yesterday afternoon at his dome at 316 Ann street. Dr. Storm, one of Wilmington’s oldest doctors, had been in prac tice here for over sixty years. A prominent Mason, he has held the highest office in the Masonic order in the state and was one of the oldest Past Grand Com manders in the entire United States. He was a graduate of the Flow sr hospital in New York. Dr. Storm came to Wilmington in 1879 to engage in the practice of medi cine. Funeral services for Dr. Storm will be held from his home this afternoon at 4 o’clock. He is survived by his only son, Walter W. Storm, his daughter-in law, Sarah Jackson and his (Continued on Page Three; Coi. 4 huge Housing Project Scheduled For County r ry H. Emory, executive di the ch°£ ttle_Housing Authority in ty of Wilmington, announced reiefday morning that the tv h H ^ubbc Housing Authori tyas, scheduied plans for a 2,350 “ ' uPWorker housing project. l;t. e estimated cost of the unit is k; eeV‘ve and six million dol bce’mt 'S £o be constructed ad tow i • duration dorm.lories kl bein& built for ship yard Mr 'rnear the sbip yard, ply,.' Emory said yesterday that bv eie already being drafted 'Viim;Chltects Lyllch and Foard of “gton and Dietrich and Olssn of Raleight: Bids for the project would be asked and opened within the next three weeks, Mr. Emory stated. Because of the present i noer shortage, the units will be built of masonry. It will include 300 dormi tory rooms for single workers, 140 war apartments and 1,614 family dwelling units. Both white and ne gro workers will be sheltered at rhe project. The units on the new project, Mr. Emory said, will be similar to the masonry homes of which (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) Slight Gains Made By Axis At Stalingrad Fighting In Sub-Zero Cold, Armies Trade Narrow Strips Of Land HOLDING AT TUAPSE Successful Counter-Attack By Reds Made Near Nal chik In Caucasus MOSCOW, Friday, Nov. 13. —(A3)—Fighting in sub-zero cold, the Germans and Rus sians traded narrow strips of Stalingrad’s battle - ripped earth yesterday while the Reds in the Caucasus suc cessfully counter - attacked near Nalchik and held firm at Tuapse, the Soviet mid night communique reported. The Russians said the Germans brought up re serves and attacked at sev eral places in the Stalingrad area, at one point penetrat ing defense lines in a wedge 100 to 200 yards deep but at enormous cost. In a northern sector of the city, the communique de clared, Soviet counterattacks shoved the invaders back 400 vards and cost the Germans 200 dead ■while northwest of the city Germans were driv en from several houses. No Heavy Troops Seen Despite the reference to re serves. there was no indication that the Germans were braving the deep winter cold with any thing like the masses they were using a few weeks ago at Stalin grad. (The Berlin radio said that a cold spell which had driven tem peratures to 29 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit, had forced abatement of fighting in the Stal ingrad area.) (Continued on Page Three: Col. 5) -v HITLER’S PEACE TERMS REPORTED Would Restore Nearly All 1939 Continental Terri tory To French Empire LONDON, Nov. 12— OP) —Adolf Hitler’s terms for immediate peace with Vichy, restoring to France all her 1939 continental ter ritory except Alsace and Lorraine, were carried to Vichy by arch-col laborationist Pierre Laval from his Munich meeting with the Fuehrer, it was reported tonight in reliable continental circles with close Vichy connections. The report was not confirmed. The reported provisions, espec ially that involving the loss to the French of the two provinces, would prove decidedly distasteful and unacceptable to the whole French nation. The cardinal terms of the pro posed peace as reported by these informed sources, which, of course, could riot be further identified, were: : 1. France would regain all her continental area except the pro vinces of Alsace and Lorraine. 2. Alsace and Lorraine would be come autonomous. (They have been incorporated into the Reich). 3. France would keep her em pire (virtually all of which now is (Continued on Paj?e Three; Col. 1) WEATHER irnRET A CT NORTH CAROLINA — Slightly warmer today. (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. 40; 7:30 a. m. 37; 1:30 p. m. 57. 7:30 p. m. 51; maximum 60; minimum 35; mean 48; normal 57. Humidity: 1:30 a. m. 88; 7:30 a. m. 85; 1:30 p. m. 26; 7:30 p. m. 47. Precipitation: Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p m., 0.00 inches; total since the first of the month. 0.10 inches. TIDES FOR TODAY: (From the Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey: High Low Wilmington 1:?^a ? 'in9 l:46p 9-OOp Masonboro Inlet 11:34a 5:01a 11:57p 5 -53p Moore's Inlet k:2oP 12:02p 5:58p New Topsail Inlet 11:44a 5:11a (Elmore’s) 12:07p C 03p Sunrise 6:43a; sunset 5:10p; moonrise 11:40a; moonset 10:26p. Cape Fear river stage at Fayette ville on Thursday, at 8 a. m., 9.95 feet. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) AMERICANS AND BRITISH STRIKING BMAND, SEA AND AIR A T TUNISIA; rAZI FORCES CLEARED FROM EGYPT 1 Indications Are That Rom mel’s Force By-Passing Tobruk In Flight GAP IS NARROWING Eighth Army Is Rapidly Shortening Distance From Allies In North Africa CAIRO, Nov. 12 (IP)— The British Eighth Army cleared the Axis from Egypt and plunged on through Li bya today toward Tunisia, where planes from Malta struck the first sharp blow in support of United States and British forces closing in from Algeria. Indications tonight were that the remnants of Mar shal Erwin Rommel’s army were by-passing Tobruk in a headlong flight from Egypt and racing toward Bengasi, Tripoli or Tunisia just be yond. Concentrations of their vehicles were found and bombed by RAF and U. S. planes between Bardia and Gambut and farther west on the desert road by-passing Tobruk to the south. umiing- liown instance . The gap between the British Eighth Army driving Rommel’s remnants from the east and the Americans and British pressing in from the west still was upwards c-E 1,000 miles wide, but was nar rowing swiftly. At Tunis yesterday, the long range British fighters destroyed 11 > Junkers-88’s, five Junkers-52’s ((transport planes), two Focke Wulf 201’s, a small Fiesler Storch and a glider. The only enemy troops remain ing in Egypt were prisoners, in cluding nine Italian generals. A tenth Italian general was killed. On land and in the air, the main British problem was keeping pace with the fleeing enemy and his planes. Axis air forces finally brought to battle yesterday in the Tobruk area and 23 of them—in cluding six large transport car riers—were shot down. The main blows at the Axis sur vivors of the Egyptian debacle, however, were being struck from the skies some 150 miles west of the Libyan frontier. Buqbuq, just inside Egypt, and Sidi Barrani both were cracked. Only a suicide rear guard was found at Buqbuq, 205 miles west of Ala mein where the offensive started. Some 1,100 Germans and Ital ians were captured Wednesday at (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) - V - New Hanover County Reaches New Record In Number Of Births At a meeting of the county Board of Health yesterday aft ernoon it was disclosed that the number of births in the county for the month of Octo ber had reached an all-time high. The total number of babies born was 236, and Dr. A. H. Elliot stated that, this was the highest number for any month in the history of the Board. The meeting was concerned with routine matters of busi ness and the reading of a general report on the number of diseases in the county dur ing the past month. There were five members of the Board present. Accused Murderer Freed By Superior Court Jury The Superior Court jury return ed a verdict of not guilty yester day morning for Otto Platt Max well, on trial for second degree murder, in the slaying of Johnnie A. Moore of Erwin. The murder allegedly occurred after Maxwell had discovered Moore seated in a parked car with his wife on the night of Sep tember 15. Judge Leo Carr immediately set Maxwell free, who lias been held, in jail here since he was arrested in Wadesboro four days after the murder. The jury, which began deliber ation on the case late Tuesday afternoon, failed to reach a ver dict before court was adjourned Tuesday. Court reconvened yes terday morning at 9:30 o’clock, and returned a verdict of not guil ty at noon yesterday. In the afternoon session of Su perior Court, Judge Leo Carr sen tenced Sam Briggs, negro, to from three to five years in the state prison. The jury found Briggs guil ty as charged in the indictment, of house breaking and larceny. Briggs was indicted on a charge of breaking into and entering a (Continued on ^agc Ten; Col. 7) J American Submarines Destroy 7 More Jap Ships In Pacific WASHINGTON, Nov. 12—(/?) —American submarines have sunk seven more Japanese ships in the Western Pacific, the Navy announced today, and damaged and probably sunk a Japanese destroyer. These latest blows at the enemy’s extended supply lines included the destruction of three large ships, a transport, tanker and cargo vessel; two medium sized ships, one a cargo carrier and the other an auxiliary; and one small cargo ship and a patrol vessel. All the communique said of the destroyer was that it was “damaged and believed sunk.” Announcement of these lat est successes by the United States fleet of undersea raid ers raised to 141 the number of Jap ships sunk or damaged by submarines since Pearl Harbor. Of this total 93 ves sels have been sunk, 21 prob ably sunk and 27 damaged. PJarlier the Mavy had an nounced'that aerial defenders of the American base on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomons shot down 17 Japa nese dive bombers and fighter planes yesterday and probably destroyed five others while losing seven of' their own planes. A brief communique, which made no reference to the progress of ground operations on the island, said that the Japanese attacked the Ameri can-held section of the island twice Nov. 11 (Guadalcanal time). (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) SENATE APPROVES YOUTH DRAFT BILL Measure Is Sent To White House For FR Approval For Law Enactment WASHINGTOON, Nov. 12.— UP)— The Senate approved the ’teen age draft bill late today and sent it to the White House. Signature of the measure by President Roos evelt will maKe an estimated 1, 500,000 youths of 18 and 19 im mediately liable for service in the armed forces. The bill lowers the minimum in duction age from 20 to 18 in re sponse to Gen. George C. Mar shall’s plea for “combat units of vigorous, aggressive soldiers.’ Senators reluctantly receded from their demand that the ’teen-agers be trained at least a year in his country before being sent into r-7fr.bat overseas. There were nearly five hours of debate, however, before the Sen ate approved the bill on a voice vote. It had previously*been re vised by a joint Senate-House con ference committee and accepted by the House. Much of the argument center ed on a provision directing local draft boards to defer necessary farm workers as long as they re main on the farm and until satis factory replacements can be train ed. senator repper tu.-ria.; cun tended the provision would mul tiply manpower problems by “freezing’ farm workers on their jobs without determination by a national agency that particular workers were best serving the war effort in their existing occupations. Senator Gurney (R.-S. D.) Senate manager of the bill, denied Pep per’s contention. “The manpower program has been muddied administratively and now Congress is about to mud dle it legislatively,’ Pepper as serted. Senator after senator took the floor to advocate a mandatory one year training clause and to ex plain he was agreeing to its elimi nation only because of the strong ly expressed will of the House and because the general staff had ask ed for a free hand in training and using the young fighting men. Senator Brooks (.R. -111.) said no senator wanted to “tie the hands of our military leaders.’ “When we vote,” he said, “we will say to the Army ‘it’s your responsibility.’ I shall vote for it, but I register here the expression that it is the will of the people of America that theese young men be trained before they are dis patched to the far corners of the world.” Senator Taft (R.-Ohio) s a i d he thought the Senate conferees should have insisted upon 12 months training at least for boys of 18. He also expressed the be lief that the ’teen-agers would find it very difficult to win ap (Continued on Page Three; Col. 7) British Paratrooper This determined looking man, ( holding a Sten gun, is a British paratrooper, the first to land of a squad that droppeil from a big air transport at the school, somewhere in England, where they are training. This para trooper’s job is to hold a beach head until his colleagues arrive and collect the arms and equip ment dropped by ’chute in other containers. (Central Press). HACOW TO HANDLE HOMES USE PLAN Agreement Is Reached Be On Administration tween Housing Officials Administration of the National Housing Agency’s Home Use Serv ice in Wilmington will be under the supervision of the Housing Au thority of the City of Wilmington under an agreement reached be tween the housing authority and Robert K. Creighton, "NHA region al director of’Atlanta Ga., at a meeting late yesterday. Creighton -explained the purpose of the Homes Use Service to the authority through which the gov ernment will lease dwellings and other structures suitable for con version into residential use, and remodel them into apartments for war workers. He arrived from Atlanta yesterday accompanied by M. R. Brewster, Regional Direc tor of the Homes Use Program, and H. A. McNeely, Regional Di rector of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation which- will assist in carrying out the1 program. Meetings today are. scheduled with the local War Housing Com mittee and the Wilmington Real Estate Board at which Creighton will further explain the Homes Use Service program. Under the program the govern ment will lease dwellings, combi nation commercial and residential structures, or other buildings suit able for residential purposes, re model them into family units which will be rented to war work ers. Adequate, rentals will be paid the owners of the buildings and the government will convert them, into apartments and operate them for the period of the lease—usu (Cintinued *on. Page Two; Col. 4) ‘ %» I, . -- NOTICE! If your carrier fails to leave your copy of the Wil mington Morning Star, i Phone 3311 before 9:00 a. m. and one will be sent to you by special messenger. FRENCH FLEET STILL WAITING Guns Uncovered, Steam Up, Orphaned Navy Lays Off Toulon LONDON, Nov. 1—(/P!—The curi ously orphaned French fleet lay with guns uncovered and steam up tonight off Toulon, the last re maining bit of unoccupied France, as the United Nations and the Axis d feverishly behind the scenes and openly on the air waves for its control. Naval authorities were convinced t’ ' the French warships still Were in Toulon, ready for any eventu ality but, but sources on the con tinent with close connections in France persisted in the belief that some vessels had detached them selves from the fleet in the last sveral days to join the Allies. Tonight the Vichy radio broad cast that the French fleet had suf fered “severe losses,” apparently referring to the action in the At lantic off Casablanca, French Mo rocco. It said the new 35,000-ton battleship Jean Bart, engaged around Casablanca, was out of ac tion. Against a background of threats, promises and intrigue in overrun France, three German armored di visions slashed though the hith erto unoccupied zone to the Medi terranean coast. But Hitler, trading lightly lest he frighten the French ships into flight, pulled up his forces at Marseille, 30 miles short of Tou lon, and the German-controlled Vichy radio said this concession was ordered because the French navy chiefs had pledged them selves to resist “any aggression.” British naval authorities shrug ged off as worthless Hitler’s prom ise to “safeguard” the fleet. At the showdown, they believe the feelings of the French officers and sailors—now men with power but without a chosen ally—will de termine on which side they will fir' ’ The big prize at stake, with the Axis standing on the near side of (Continued on Page Ten; Col. 4) -V Bennettsville Man To SeYve Oh Board Of Wilmington Bank J. G. Thornton, president of the Wilmington Savings and Trust company, yesterday an ounced that B. K. McColl of Bennettsville, S. C., has been | elected a member of the board of directors of that company, ] to fill a vacancy on the board. Mr. McColl has long been in the cotton business in Ben nettsville, is a director of the Marlboro Trust company of Bennettsville and hs other ex tensive business and agricul- | tural interests in South Caro lina. i GATHERING SPEED Combined Assault Armies Capture Bone, 60 Miles From Frontier HEADED BY VETERAN British General Anderson Saw Service In Dunker que And Flanders LONDON, Nov. 12.—(yP)— A combined amphibious'force of superbly equipped Ameri cans and battle veterans of the British First Army struck f tonight by land and sea at the immediate approaches to Tunisia, paced by a destruc tive RAF assault from the east on the air forces with which the Germans have in filtrated that projecting key to North Africa. Continuously fed from the sea and gathering momen tum by land, the combined British-American assault ar mies had reached and occu pied Bone, eastern Algeria, 60 miles from the Tunisian fron tier, this morning, according to Vichy reports. Troops were landed from British ships at Bone, this ac count said. Met Enemy Before The force is commanded by a veteran of Flanders and Dunker que, British Lieut.-Gen. K. A. N. Anderson. Many of the hardened Tommies in his first army have met the German enemy before. Under General Anderson, in com mand of the Americans, part of the major force which the United States landed at Algiers, is Maj. Gen. Charles Ryder U. S. A. (Some entirely unofficial esti mates placed the combined force at nearly 150,000 men.) The first direct blow at the air vanguard which Hitler is trying to build up in Tunisia was struck (Continued on Page Two; Col. fi) -V HENRY J. KAISER DOES IT AGAIN Liberty Freighter Built In Record Time Of Four Days, 15 1-2 Hours RICHMOND Calif., Nov. 12.—UP. The 10,500-ton freighter Robert E Peary, which grew from kejel to completion in 4 days, 15 1-2 hours, slipped from the Henry J. Kaiser ways today to break all records for speed in merchant ship build ing. It is expected to be delivered, fully outfitted, to the Maritime Commission “before next Mon day”—still another and even more significant mark. Here is its schedule: keel-laying —12:01 a.m. last Sunday; launch ing—3:30 p.m. today; anticipated time from keel-laying to delivery —8 days or less. The previous record for a sim ilar ship was 10 days 11 hodrs and 55 minutes from keel-laying to launching, and an additional 3 days, 12 1-2 hours for outfitting —both set by a Kaiser yard in Portland, Ore. * Today’s ship was sponsored by Mrs. James F. Byrnes, wife “of the national economic director and (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) African Stage Prepared By U. S. Army Group WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. —ATI—A daring under-sea journey to North Africa by submarine, during which a Commando-escorted party of Am erican officers prepared the way for the occupation of that strategic area, won Major General Thomas W. Clark a promotion to Lieuten ant General today and a place in history alongside the bearer of the “Message to Garcia.” Three weeks before the current North African campaign opened, Gen. Clark and his party landed there from a submarine. He open ed negotiations with representa tives of the French general, Henri Giraud, which led to his rallying French forces to the United Na tions cause. He obtained invaluable military information. He appraised the sentiment of Frenchmen in the area and found it favorable to the Americans. All this was disclosed today, with a War Department announcement that the tall, lanky, resourceful Clark-, who later returned to Africa as second in command of the ex peditionary foree, had been ■promot ed. Meanwhile, dispatches from Al lied headquarters in North Africa (Continued on Pa*e Three; Col. 2)