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Served By Leased Wire Of The % * ^ [P *h ASSOCIATED PRESS T 1 WIDE WORLD T I 4 With Complete Coverage Of II State and National News ^yOL^76—NO. 78--- FINAL EDITION N, N. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1942 ESTABLISHED"l8677 Senate Kills poll Tax Bill By 3rr<> 41 Pepper Admits Measure Is Dead For This Ses sion At Least CLOTUREMOVE DENIED [Two-Thirds Vote Lacking for Proposal Jo Limit Debate WASHINGTON, Nov. 22— /m—The Senate buried the poll tax bill today with a vote of 37 to 41 against limiting debate on the measure which had been filibustered since y0v. 13 by southern oppo nents The proposal to limit debate needed a two-thirds vote but failed to win even a dm pie majority. The bill, which would ban the payment of state poll taxes as a requirement _ for voting for Federal offices, technically went back to the Senate calendar but its au thor, Senator Pepper (D Fla), acknowledged that it was dead for this session. Wants Rules Changed Decrying the Senate's action in ejecting a cloture motion, Pepper ,la proposal to change t a rules . a majority of the Senate , , .1 force any bill to a vote. Pep •*-sorted the Senate had estab lari a precedent by which a cuiiuriiy could prevent the consid er: lion of any bill against which it v.a.c prepared to filibuster. Laii; ing out an agreement he made last Friday in order to ob ■ .in ;• vote on cloture, Democratic Leader Barkley of Kentucky asked unanimous consent to lay the bill aside and take up other measures on the calendar. This consent was forthcoming and the southern opponents of the bill triumphed in their efforts to prevent final action at this session. The measure, passed in different form 1 y the House, will die with adjournment of Congress Jan. 2. Its sponsors then will have to start all over to obtain approval by both houses. Tile Cloture vote, the fourteenth die Senate has taken since adop tion of the rule in 1917, was op posed by 3i Democrats and 10 Re (Continued On Page Two; Col. 2) THREEGOODWAYS 10 SPOIL COFFEE FDR, LaGuardia And Poor Oid Uncle Sam Offer Poor Recipes WASHINGTON, Nov. 23— Iff) — Franklin D. Roosevelt, reveal ed today that the President (along 'Vth May0r LaGuardia of N e w “rk and Uncle Sam) “considers lmself something of an expert in 3 *ee-niaking” and she gave his recipe on how to stretch out ra tioned coffee. The Fust Lady laughingly told e' Press conference that she ran t know whether her husband’s !iwas a good one “because I 011 care whether I get coffee, tea or just hot water.” Anyway, here’s the presidential technique on how to make that Pound of coffee yield its utmost: ty used coffee grounds and add teaspoonful of fresh coffee. Boil 11 UP again. The LaGuardia method: Save grounds and get an extra cup ®er in the day by sprinkling in >he fresh grounds and remaking, uncle Sam's recommendation, Wssed along by OP’A on the eve coffee rationing, due to begin aurday; Measure coffee carefully ii tu measlll'ing spoon, eliminat !8 that “one for the pot.” Don’t 'Continued On Page Three; Col. 1) WEATHER NortK FORECAST cold Tnori arolma ~ continued rather i Portion e?ray except cooler extreme east South’ (iccaflonal rain and drizzle, east nor, ro!ina~ Occasional rain in ^esclay tl0n’ cooler in south portion Mew1',' S' "BATHER BUREAU) endue l°ing,cal dala for the 24 hours 6 P. m., yesterday. 1-3(1 „ _ Temperature ei * 7.30* ni< d6; 1-30 a. m. 54; 1:30 p. m. toum'sn. ni- Maximum 62; mini u> mean 53; normal 54. 1-3A , Humidity in. 84- 89 *» 70a. m. 95; 1:30 p. 7-30 p. m. 92; Total u, Frecipitation to. oZ**r*g 24 hours ending 7:30 p. toonth n fn’ since the first of the Cisu fi°-4lnches "'“onrise am*_a’ m— sunset 5:04 P m.; Can. r4,48 p' m-; moonset 8:12 a. m. 8 a. m oo-riv*r staEe at Fayetteville, • y-oo feet. I (Continued On Page Two; Cel. ») GOING UP! United Community War Chest Theromometer $45,000— $35,000— $25,000— $15,000— $5,000— —$50,000 —$40,000 —$30,000 -$20,000 / . —$10,000 LET’S PUT IT OVER THE TOP! CHEST CAMPAIGN ' IS NEARING GOAL Tonight’s Dinner Expected To Carry Drive Safely « Over The Top The second report meeting of the United Community and War Cnest drive gave promise of break ing all previous fund raising ef forts in Wilmington, when the grand total reached $39,014.47 last night. The report made last night was $1,231.25. with $10,000 in subscrip tions from the shipyard, topping the list. Adding this to the total for the first night, brought the figure wihin close range of the $50,000 goal originally set for the drive. Clean-up in Sight Determined workers left the meeting last night and will attempt to reach the entire quota through collections today. Harriss New man, chairman of the campaign, stated “we should forget our ob jective of $50,000.00 and make a determined effort to oversubscribe this quota as much as possible.” Tabulated results of last night’s report gave the Women Sales Army $1188.75: Men's Sales Army, $1089.00; Wrightsville Beach, $55.50: initial gifts, $2185.00: pub lic employes, $1,1450.00 national firms, $169.00; chain stores $530.00: industrial wholesalers, $791.00; commercial, $738.00; finance divi sion, $874.00: utilities division, $356.00; Atlantic Coast Line, $2, 110.00; and the North Carolina Shipbuilding company, $10,000.00. Tonight’s report meeting will in clude a dinner in honor of the Russians and Greeks, and the menu will be smoked fish, potato chips, and coffee. All campaign workers are urged to attend and see if the meeting will take the drive past the quota originally set by the leaders. -V Union Thanksgiving Plans Are Completed The Union Thanksgiving service will be held Thursday morning at 11 o’clock in the Fifth Avenue Me thodist church. The Rev. James Lawson of the First Christian church, will speak on “A great year for Thanksgiv ing.” The Rev. C. D. Carclift, of the Fifth Avenue Methodist phurch, and Rabbi Mordecai M. Therman, of the Temple of Israel, will also participate in the service. The chairs of the three churches will render a musical program and the public is invited to attend. Japs DrivC. Farther Back In Solomons Marines And Army Forces Pressing Westward On Guadalcanal OPPOSITION STUBBORN t Enemy Air Attack Weak ens As U' S. Fighters, Bombers Strike WASHINGTON, Nov. 22— (JP)—Pushing steadily west ward despite heavy enemy opposition, American Marines are slowly driving the Japa nese back toward the north ern tip of Guadalcanal Island in the Solomons, the Navy reported today. Fighting and bombing planes also are joining in the attack intended to sweep the enemy back to the Japanese beach-head, and ultimately to force them from the is land which can control ship ping lanes to Australia and New Guinea. Air Force Hard Hit Lack of mention of either enemy planes or surface ’ craft in the Navy’s short communique today was regarded as an indication that the available Japanese air force may have been damaged so severe ly that only ground action is prac ticable pending repairs or replace ments. The last aerial attack by the enemy was 11 days ago when 31 bombers and Zero fighters roared down on . surface craft off Guadal canal. Navy fighting planes sped to meet the assault, aided by deadly fire of anti-aircraft guns. On^y one enemy plane escaped. That attack was part of the slug ging battle which smashed an in vasion fleet headed for Guadal canal, sending 28 enemy ships to the bottom and damaging 10 others. In the fighting on land the Ma rines and Army troops have moved forward steadily for several days. But they have met stubborn opposition. The Navy, telling to day of the ground battle yester day, gave no indication of how far to the west the fighting has prog ressed. However, it said the drive westward was “continuing slowly.” The fighting apparently is some where west of the Matanikau river, appro vimately five miles from Henderson air field, prize of the battle. Two days ago the Navy said Army and Marine corps troops had fought their way west of Point Cruz, on the sorthwestern coast just beyond the river. ■-V British Vessel Sunk By Sub In Caribbean AN EAST COAST PORT, Nov. 23—(A)—An enemy submarine, at tacking at night with torpedo and shellfire, sank a medium-sized British merchant ship in the Car ibbean “early this year,” the Navy announced today, following the ar rival of the vessel’s first survivors on United States soil. Nine Chinese crewmen landed at this port told naval officers that the ship’s captain > and one man were killed in the attack. Wong Kwai, a fireman, said there were 36 Chinese in the crew but he did not know the total number of officers and men aboard. Four lifeboats were launched and after se/eral days afloat the sur vivors were picked up and landed at a Caribbean port. Bellamy’s Resignation As Mayor Is Accepted The city council unanimously accepted the resignation of Har giove Bellamy as mayor, at a meeting held yesterday morning Mayor Bellamy’s resignation be came effective at midnight last night. The council’s resolution accept ing Bellamy’s resignation express ed regret at the loss of the mayor to the armed forces. The meeting recessed after the resolution’s adoption, to meet this morning at 11 o’clock to consider the selection of a successor. Mr. Bellamy, who last thursday announced his resignation after serving as Wilmington’s first mayor under the council-city man ager form of government since May, 1941, plans to leave the city this week-end for New Jersey where he will be stationed for the present in the capacity of a major in the Adjuutant General’s depart ment. Prior to the special session at which his resignation was acceptec this morning, Mayor Bellamy pre sided over a Joint meeting of the council and the county board of commissioners in the council cham (Continued on Pate Three; Col. 8) JVICHY’S WEST AFRICA, WITH DAKAR, TAKEN UNDER CONTROL BY DARLAN AS RUSSIANS SMASH NAZIS ON DON i ENEMY LOSS 50,000 Two- Pronged Offensive Drives Germans Back In South Sectors BERLIN ADMITS GAP Stalingrad Pressure Eased As Hitler Sends Rein forcements To Tunis MOSCOW, Tuesday, Nov. 24—(£•)—Russian troops in their great new -winter of fensive have smashed across the Don river to a point ap proximately 100 miles north west of Stalingrad in a great double - flanking movement that now has cost the Ger mans 50,000 casualties and threatens t o exterminate thousands of other Nazi sol diers stalled near the Volga river to the east, it was an nounced officially today. A special communique— the second in two days — said that the town of* Cherny shevskaya, well inside the Don river loop, had been taken in a 12-mile continu ing advance. This Red army column apparently was the same that had occupied Sera fimovich on the north side of the Don river loop, and was striking southward to link up with other Red army units now penetrating on the lower side of the Don river. 12-Mile Advance This southern Red army in its effort to close a great pincers on the Nazi besiegers of Stalingrad also made a 12-mile advance dur ing yesterday. Having occupied Ab ganerova, 40 miles southwest of Stalingrad, to cut a Nazi railroad supply line, they also took Aksai, a point 10 miles farther south, and other villages, To date the Russians said their four or five day offensive had cost the Germans tnis ton: 26.000 dead, including 12,000 in Monday’s operations alone. 24.000 prisoners, including 11,000 taken on Monday. Thus a grand total of 50,000 Nazi casualties in a vast winter counter offensive still in its early stages. In addition the special commu nique listed this booty taken: 556 German guns, ,826 trucks, 1,200 railway cars, 2,625 machine guns, 3 planes in working order, 35 tanks ir full working order. “A large quantity of other weap ons and military supplies has not yet been counted,” the special an nouncement said. ‘‘We destroyed 70 planes, 157 tanks, and 186 guns.” (This huge Russian drive, ap parently timed to coincide with German difficulties caused by the dispatch of reinforcements to Tu nisia and southern Europe after the Allied invasion of north Africa, had Berlin worried, a study of German radio outpourings dis closed. (The German high command ac knowledged heavy Nazi defensive fighting, but late Monday night the Berlin radio admitted that “a gap” had been torn in Axis lines on the north side of the Don river bend in the Serafimovich sector. The gap later was closed, how ever, the Germans insisted.) The regular midnight Soviet communique indicated the Ger mans already were in difficulties at Stalingrad itself because of the punishing Soviet flanking blows, above and below the city. Both in the northern factory dis trict of the Volga river city which (Continued On Page Two: Col. 4) -—- i Rickenbacker’s Smile Just Won’t Come Off Here it is, still going strong after three harrowing weeks afloat on a rubber raft, as he rides away in a jeep, only a few lioiurs after his rescue, for soup and ice cream with Col. Robert L. Griffin, Jr., at the wheel. Below, lie's being helped ashore. That’s him in the center. RICKENBACKER NEVER LOST HOPE American Ace Pilot Be lieved His Party Would Be Rescued PEARL HARBOR, Nov. 23 — W— Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, sur vivor of many close brushes with death, never doubted for a mo ment during his three weeks on a tiny rubber raft in the South Pa cific that he and his companions would be rescued. The American Flying' Ace of the first World War cited his own re ligion as the buoying hope during the days of ordeal after the big army plane in which he was flying on an inspection trip for the secre (Continued On Page Three; Col. 4) Anzacs Enter Gona; U. S. Troops Drive Near Buna Certificates Given Civilian Defense Corps Graduates More than 1,000 people were present last night for the Civilian Defense meeting held in New Han over High school, at which time cer tificates were given to those who have finished the prescribed course and are entitled to membership* in the Civilian Defnse Corps of Wil mington . T. T. Hamilton, principal of New Hanover High school, presided at the meeting .and W. B. Campbell, city attorney, made the principal address. Mr. Campbell gave a brief talk on the several divisions of civilian de fense, and the work of each divis ion. Municipal Ownership Plan For Tide Water Proposed Mayor Hargrove Bellamy rec ommended the purchase and op eration of the Tide Water Power company by either the city of Wil nrngton or an association com Oil Industry Said To Desire Increase In Crude Prices; Given Consideration WASHINGTON. Nov. 23.— (# — Congress, already involved in a controversy over nationwide gaso line rationing, heard today that the petroleum industry wants a gen eral increase in crude prices— which determine the cost of gaso line for the consumer. Ralph K Davies, deputy oil co ordinator, told a House Interstate Commerce subcommittee that the plea by the industry for an in crease wrfs under consideration, but that nc recommendations yet had been made to price officials. He testified in an open afternoon l session, after the group had met three hours behind closed doors to hear Price Administrator Leon Henderson defend the nation-wide gasoline rationing proposal and re iterate that it must go into effect on December 1 as scheduled. At the other end of the capitol, Chairman Truman (D.-Mo.) of the Senate Defense Investigating com mittee asked that the country “go along’’ with the rationing program and that in the meantime his com mittee would prepare and lay the facts before the country. He asserted, in an interview that nation-wide rationing was nec essary not to save gaoline but to save rubbe>. He said rubber Ad ministrator William M. Jeffers, price Administrator Henderson and petroleum Coordinator Ickes would be among those asked to appear before his committee. Jeffers’ office made public dur ing the da^ a statement by leaders of railway labor organizations en dorsing nation - wide gasoline ra tioning, and calling upon all mem bers of their organizations to ob serve the program. The statement, signed by six union leaders, said rationing was opposed “by those who regard the waging of the war {Continued On Page Two; Col. 3f. posed of New Hanover and the 13 ether southeastern counties in fide Water territory, in a special joint meeting yesterday of the city council and the count board of commissioners. Mayor Bellamy urged the con tinuation of the year long fight to secure rate reductions in present Tide Water gas and electric rates Ho also recommended that anoth er hearing before the stSte utilities commission be requested in his fi nal report on the campaign. Will Name Successor County Commissioner Harry Gardner will continue to repre sent the county in the rate fight while the council will name a suc cessor to Mayor Bellamy in that capacity within the next few days. “I am sincere in" feeling that when it comes to the ownership of the Tide Water Power company, it should be municipally owned,” the mayor declared. He estimated that public ownership of the util ity would result in an annual sav (Coutinued On Page Two; Col. 2) ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Tuesday, Nov. 24.— (iP)..-Australian jungle fighters have entered Gona, the Japanese base 12 miles above Buna on the New Guinea coast, the Allied high com mand announced today. The Australians’ entry into the Japanese base, one of several on the northeast coast of the big is land, was gained after several days of heavy ana continuous at tacks. With Americans moving in upon Buna from the south and Austra lians and Americans pressing in ft cm the west, the enemy’s dwin dling position appeared to be ex tremely difficult. The sea offered the only hope of escape from the Allied pincers and Gen. Douglas Mae Arthur’s air force was keeping close guard over the water ap proaches. The air fighters also were ac tive from New Guinea to Timor. Attack planes and medium bomb ers raided Japanese-occupied Beco and Raimean on Timor and an Allied reconnaissance unit downed an enemy fighter which attempted an interception over Vitiaz strait, New Guinea. Ground forces are meeting heavy resistance around Buna it self, the communique said, but Cape Endaiadere. to the right of Sanananda, has been captured. T7 Anti-Hoarding Order Limit* Food Deliveries - * WASHINGTON, Nov. 23—W—Tn an order designed to minimize consumer hoarding, the War Pro duction board limited today deliv eries by wholesalers to their cus tomers of canned fruits, vegeta bles and fruit and vegetable juices. A previous order placed quotas on the amount of canned goods wholesalers could accept from can ners in specified periods. The amendment today extends the quo tas to cover sales by wholesalers, without changing the amount of canned goods available to civilian consumers. i BLOODSHED SPARED Hull Announces Martinique Settlement, Leaving Occupation Out LAVAL FORMS CORPS Large French Naval Force In Harhor; Status Still To Be Determined LONDON. Nov. 23—(fl5)— All French West Africa,, in cluding the strategic naval base of Dakar, has come un der the orders of Admiral Jean Darlan, the admiral de clared tonight, indicating that Dakar, for two years a potential dagger pointed at the Western Hemisphere, had fallen to the Allies with out bloodshed. Admiral Darlan, the for mer Vichy defense chief who led all North Africa into the Allied camp three days after the British-American expedi tion of Lieut. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower had set foot in Vichy territory,, made the announcement from the Al giers radio and it was re broadcast from Marshal Pe tain’s capital. v Petain tonight countered Darlan’s move with a special radio broadcast beamed at French West Africa in which the aged marshal called upon French soldiers, sailors and aviators to resist “if you are attacked,” adding: “Whatever happens you must faithfully carry out my orders.” .Not Free to Speak Petain, who, according to Dar lan, is not free to speak his mind, thus reiterated his broadcast of four days ago when he denounced Darlan and Gen. Henri Giraud for aiding the Allies and directed French troops not to obey Giraud but to resist the Anglo-Saxon ag gression.” The German radio, meanwhile, announced that Fernand de Brinon, Vichy ambassador to Paris, said WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—(A1) —The Army announced today that the concentration of Brit ish and United States troops in the Tunisian area was contin uing with minor contacts with enemy forces, while ' allied fighters carrying out offensive sweeps over the area destroy ed nine additional enemy planes. Pierre Laval, Vichy chief of gov ernment, was forming a "volun teer corps” to be known as “The African Falange,” to fight against the Allies in North Africa. "Applications may be made throughout France and members of the French armistice army will be almitted,” de Brinon was quoted as saying. A French volunteer group is ready to leave for Africa” in de fense of the Frenih empire,” de Brinon added. The announcement was made as the Allies rapidly forced the issue in Tunisia and Libya, the only re maining territory in the continent of Africa which is not under the United Nations colors or neutral. The British Frist Army, with its American components, and the pro-Allied French, were reported to have launched a heavy and per haps general attack on the peri meter of Axis defenses outside Tu nis and Bizerte in the northern tip of Tunisia, while fighting off German apd Italian attempts to infiltrate through the Allied lines from both north and south in an apparent effort to establish a con nection with the hard-driven Afri (Continued on Page Two^_CoL_3j^ NOTICE! If your carrier fails to leave your copy of the Wil mington Morning Star, Phone 3311 before 9:00 a. m, and one will be sent to you by special messenger.
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