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__, Served By Leased Wire 01 The ASSOCIATED PRESS WIDE WORLD With Complete Coverage Of State and National News ^ --- ' ■■ ■ - mt_ 9 ^ —-— -----WILMINGTON, N. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1942_ ESTABLISHED 1867. U. S. Transports Sunk Off North Africa Tin l S. Transport Hugh L. Scott (top), formerly the liner President Pierce, and the Edward Rut ledge (bottom), formerly the liner Exeter, were two of five transports sunk off North Africa during the landings of American and British troops, the Navy has announced. This picture of the Exeter was made before her conversion into a transport. Japanese Troops Now Suffering In Guadalcanal And New Guinea Have Turned To Dropping Aid By Parachute Due To Sea Losses ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Saturday, Dec. 5.—UP) —The Japs have found the cost in ships so heavy in attempts to aid their trapped ground forces on the northeast New Guinea coast that they now have turned to the dropping of supplies by parachute, the high command said today. The noon communique told of mopping up of pockets of oppo sition left behind by the Allied spearhead which fought its way to the coast near Gona and then turned toward Buna. More than 400 enemy dead have been count ed. In addition an estimated 40 Japs drowned when two large barges were sunk from under them by bombers of Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur’s air force. The fighting in sectors other than around Gona was referred to as intermittent. Allied planes bombed airdromes up the New Guinea coast at Lae and Salamaua and also ranged above New Guinea to New Ire land, setting fires last night among aircraft at Kavieng. Proposed Extension Of City Water Line Is Approved By FWA senator Josiah Vf. Bailey ad vised the Star-rsews yesterday afternoon that the Federal "<nks Agency had approved a "ater anti sewer facilities pro ject for Wilmington amounting lo a cost of $86,000. " B. Campbell, city attor *,f; • also reported the receipt 01 a similar notification, and r''rated that the project was '• the extension of city water *l'‘ Uies to the federal war ,.0Usme Projects on the Caro '“■a Beach highway. *iit (' colllstruction of this line ®f'°rd city water supply to ne housing projects. ; -XT WEATHER V0Rq,„ FORECAST: cold CAROLINA — Continued l STANDARD TIME) Met.., ' ' S' Weather Bureau) ei:tling 7.on£lcal for the 24 hour> '•oU p. m„ yesterday. 2 ... 'Temperature: Sf'Vin w* 40; 7:30 a- m. 42; 1:30 p m. “• 47; maximum 54; min v"' 171 ean 46; normal 51. I n Humidity: '0. - ‘ 82: 7:30 a. m. 93: 1:30 p. m. •' P- m. 68. Total fn. Pcecipitation: •21 in,- the. year end'ng 7:30 P. m., month ; total £>nce the first of the c-44 inches. Flr.r, T1D£S TOR TODAY: '■ S r '"? Tide Tables published by "-I and Geodetic Survey) : ^ilmiMni, Hi*h Low ■°n - 7:22a. 1:56a , , 7:36a. 2:28p. 5 ro Inlet - 5:04a. 11:25a Moore’s t„. . 5:15a. ll:34p. s In,<,t - 5:00a. 11:30p. M.V.. , 5:20p. 11:39p. 1 F:i;n '.'f8*11 'niet - 5:14a. 11:35a S.. „•.* .Xr- S:25p. ll-44p 4 i '•0°a- sunset 5:05p; moon rise 1 oonset 3:31p. I( onUmicd on Page Five; Col. 4) RED CROSS AIDS STORM VICTIMS Organization Relieving suf fering Of Columbus County Homeless WHITEVILLE, Dec. 4. — Relief for the storm sufferers in Colum bus county left homeless by the tornado which ripped through three populated areas Tuesday night, was being effectively administered today as Red Cross officials from eastern area headquarters in Al exandria joined the Columbus county Red Cross officials and the OCD motor corps here in allevi anting the suffering. Miss Mary Pegram, general field representative for the Ameri can Red Cross in eastern North Carolina, has been on the scene since Wednesday night, and two Red Cross nurses from Alexan dria arrived yesterday morning. Also, a doctor from area head quarters was expected this after noon to aid in the relief work. I. B. Tucker, Sr., chairman of the disasfer committee of the Co lumbus county Red Cross chapter, said *oday that everything was be ing done that could possibly be done for the storm victims and that there is no actual suffering among the homeless. The three hundred homeless Ne groes in the stricken areas have been provided food and shelter, many of the neighbors opening their homes to those left without shelter. At Honey Hill, where the storm damage was greatest, the North Carolina Lumber company owned most, if. not all, of the de molished homes, and it has al ready provided shelter for the nomeless families in other houses which were vacant at the time of the storm At Bolton where about 15 houses were completely destroyed, the homeless victims have been tak en care of, Mr. Tucker said, by neighbors. Of the 12 victims of the storm who are still in the Columbus coun ty hospital, the condition of 10 of (Continued on Page Five; Col. 8) Latest Attempt To Land Supplies Indicative Of Material Shortage WASHINGTON, Dec. 4— (ffj — Japan’s latest costly and futile at tempt to deliver troops and sup plies to Guadalcanal Island was cited by Secretary of the Navy Knox today as evidence that enemy forces there must be run ning short of material. Knox desci’ibed the attempt, made Monday night, as a com plete failure for the Japs and he called it “round 3” in the battle for control of the southeastern Solomons. An American naval force sank six warships, two transports and a cargo vessel. “They lost a lot of ships,” Knox said, “and they went away. They failed to gain their objective. They did not get ashore.” The secretary told his press con ference, in fact, that he believed the enemy had been unsuccessful in landing any reinforcements or supplies for the past three weeks; that is. since their greatest effort, to retake the island was smashed by a great American naval vic tory November 13-15. They must be expected to try again, however, he said, and the ooly safe theory is that they will return with ships and men as long as they can. On the island. Knox said, Ameri can forces are gradually expand ing and “taking in more territory." One objective of the expansion was brought out by Major Gen eral Ralph J. Mitchell, chief of Marine aviation, who said that construction of another airfield on Guadalcanal was contemplated when suitable territory was won. Mitchell expressed some concern ever the effect the imminent rainy season will have on the vital Gua dalcanal airfield. The rains will be at their worst in late December and January, he explained, “and just what will hap pen to those flight strips at that time we don’t know.” Some of the strips are surfaced with steel mats but others consist only of a;rt rolled hard. Shipyard To Celebrate First Anniversary Here Principal speakers, at the cele bration of the first anniversary and also the launching of the 47th Liberty freighter at the North Carolina Shipbuilding company Sunday morning, will be two men who have seen the horrors of the war on the other side of the globe, j Professor Wendell Brown and Sailor John J. Smith. Too busy building freighters to take time out for lengthy exercises the workers nevertheless will note briefly the birthday of Wilming ton’s first Liberty ship. I The program, details of which were announced today by officials of the yard, will get under way at about 9 o’clock. It will be complet ed at 9:30 o’clock with the chris tening of the Alexander Lillington, named for an outstanding North Carolina general in the Revolu tionary war. Sponsor for the 10,000-ton vessel will be Miss Helen Lovering, a de scendant of Gen. Lillington. Her maid of honor will be Miss Anne Kidder and the matron of honor will be Mrs. William Edgar. All are of Wilmington. World War II has brought danger, (Continued on Page Five; Col, 5) . - - _ A. A & UU1 kJXl XUU l| SITUATION A T TEBOURBA INDOUBT; Z4AE MORE POINTS FROM FOE; . fOSEVELTORDERS WPA ABOLISHMENT _- _ ±-—__,_. NAZIS SURROUNDED 1 Upwards Of 2,500 Of Ene my Killed By Rus sians In Drive GAIN AT STALINGRAD Soviet Communique Re veals Slight Forward Move Inside City MOSCOW, Saturday, Dec. 5._(/P) — The Red Army seized 11 more villages in the Stalingrad area yester day, presumably in the Don River bend west of that city, surrounded a German strong hold nearVelikie Luki on the frozen central front, and kill ed upwards of 2,500 Nazis in twin offensives that still are gaining ground, the Soviets announced early today. The regular midnight com munique said the Russians gained 200 to 300 yards in side Stalingrad itself, occu pied two important points northwest and southwest of the Volga river city, and were beginning “the liquida tion of encircled enemy strong points’' in the area of Velikie Luki, only 90 miles from the Latvian border. Throwing In Reserves Dispatches said the Germans were throwing reserves into the central front in a desperate ef fort to stem the Red army in the Rzhev-Velikie Luki-Vyazma trian gle northwest of Moscow. The communique said that sev eral more populated places had been seized west of Rzhev, and for several days the Russians have reported numerous holes torn in the German lines between that point and Velikie Luki. One German infantry battalion counter attacking west of Rzhev W’as smashed, the Soviets said, and another battalion was routed from a height controlling an im portant road in the Velikie Luki area. “Hundreds of enemy dead re mained on the field of battle” in the latter sector, the bulletin said. In the Stalingrad area, the com munique said, the Russians still were advancing on the eastern Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) Wilmingtonians Observe Proper Conduct In Raid f Through a graphic demonstra tion of bomb-extinguishing, fire fighting, and first aid, given by members of the Civilian Defense Corps, the Army Chemical War fare Service, the city fire depart ment, and the Red Cross motor corps, Wilmington citizens at Le gion stadium last night were shown proper conduct in the face of an air raid. “Action Overhead.” an exhibi tion sponsored by the Chemical Warfare Service cf the Army, which is traveling throughout the country, featured an explanation of devices employed by the enemy in destroying property and people, principally the deadly incendiary bombs. Citizens were shown var ious tyes of incendiary bombs in action—magnesium bombs, phos phorus bombs, and demolition bombs, and were taught how to treat each one of them. Major George W. Wilson, of the Chemical Warfare Service, in ex plaining the course of action to take if home or business estab lishment is penetrated by one of the deadly missies dropped from an enemy plane, recommended that the bomb-fighter first take cover until .the bomb explosion has occurred before seeking to put out the fire; after the immediate dan (Continued on Page Five; Col. 6) 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. He Gave His Life Arthur St. Germain, 27, of Hav erhill, Mass., a long-term convict at the Norfolk state prison colony, gave liis life in a secret Navy test which may lead to saving thou sands of lives. He and 39 other pris oners voluntarily submitted to the test. A posthumous pardon for St. Germain was voted by the Massa chusetts executive council meeting in Boston. NEW WATER UNIT WORK PROGRESSES City Filter Plant Now About 25 Per Cent Com plete, Says Engineer City Engineer J. A. Loughlin an nounced yesterday that work on the new water filter plant is about 25 per cent completed. Located at the end of North Fourth street, just south of the old Hilton pumping station, ad joining the city’s Christmas tree, the plant will have a capacity of seven million gallons of w-ater for 24 hours. The pipeline, leading to it, from King’s Bluff will have a capacity of 15,000,000 gallons per day, ac cording to McKean Maffitt of the city’s sewer department. The new plant is being con structed to replace the plant built in 1910, which the city bought from the Clarendon Water company. The old plant has become anti (Continued on Page Five; Col. 4) ADULT BICYCLE QUOTA IS HIKED ! —--_ Passenger Car Tire And Tubes Allotments Also Expanded Here — New adult bicycle quotas, and expanded passenger car tire and tube quotas for Southeastern North Carolina during the first month of ‘mileage rationing’ in this state were announced yesterday. The quota of passenger car tire ‘recapping services for December, however, has been reduced mod erately, since the large quotas in October and November are believ ed already to have provided re caps for a large portion of the tires in need of them. At the same time, an increase (Continued on Page Five; Col. 3) Nation Facing Military Disaster Warns Jeffers On Rubber Outlook WASHINGTON. Dec. 4— (IP) — William M. Jeffers, rubber direc tor, bluntly warned today that the nation is threatened with military ‘disaster” because materials needed for synthetic rubber fac tories are being devoted to other war uses. Unless vital equipment for the factories is forthcoming immed iately the armed forces face a ser ioius shortage of rubber’in 1943, he raid in a report which he laid be foi e a joint committee of senators snu House members. He added that he had little hope of solving the priorities problem in time to avoid a crisis. Instruments, forgings, valves, heat exchangers and other equip ment are badly needed, Jeffers said. If they are not provided it will be impossible to get synthetic plants into quantity production soon enough to prevent such a drain on crude rubber stocks that tnere may be none left for heavy duty tires, self-sealing gasoline tanks and other military necessi ties. "The final solution is not yet de veloped,” his report said. “'The rubber program is receiving not able help in obtaining priorities i and materials. But its relatonship to other programs endangers its completion in time to avoid a crisis and I am not hopeful.” Jeffers protested vigorously 1hat this was in direct conflict with what he had been led to expect from President Roosevelt’s execu tive order of September 17 whicn endorsed the report of the Bernard M. Baruch survey committee list ing rubber as the nation’s most critical problem. Ke mentioned the construction (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5; NOW UNNECESSARY President Declares War Time Increase In Em ployment Is Reason PROJECTS WILL CEASE Building Programs Now Underway To Be Absorb ed By Other Groups WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.— (fP)—The Works Projects Ad ministration which provided depression relief for millions and an ever bitter controver sy for Congress, wras ordered out of existence today by President Roosevelt. War-time increase in pri vate employment make the agency unnecessary now, he said in a letter to Major Gen eral Philip B. Fleming, the federal works administrator. Some individuals remain on the rolls, he added, but they can be provided for by the states and localities. Uncom pleted building projects are to be taken over by other federal agencies. Becomes Effective Soon In “many states” the death sen tence is to become effective by February 1; in other “as soon thereafter as feasible.” The whole is to be liquidated by June 30 at the latest, for Mr. Roosevelt ob served these would be no neces sity for WPA appropriations for the next fiscal year, which begins on that date. During its career, WPA spent more than $10,000,000,000, providing relief for some 38,000,000 people. To the end, the president stout ly defended the agency, its re cord, and the policy which guided it. It displayed “courage and de termination in the face of uniform ed criticism,” he said. It had “asked for and earned an honor able discharge.” WPA began its existence seven years ago as the Works Progress Administration. It was a successor to the old Federal Emergency Re Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) TV PETAIN REGIME FALLING APART Aged Chief Of State Kept In Ignorance Of Moves By Laval LONDON. Dec. 4. — UP)— The Vichy regime as it existed under Marshal Petain is rapidly falling apart, with the aged chief-of-state kept in ignorance and deceived concerning much that goes on and with his chief-of-government, Pi erre Laval, conniving at the for mation of an all-out pro-Nazi gov ernment. reliable advices to the Associated Press said today. Both the Rome radio and dis patches from Switzerland said Ed ouard Herriot, 70-year-old former premier of the Republic of France, and Jean Borotra, an old French Davis Cup tennis star, had been arrested. The Rome radio added that Leon Jouhaux, former chief of the French General Federation of Labor, and Francois de Tesson, former undersecretary of foreign affairs, also had been arrested. Informants whose names cannot be divulged, but who recently have had access to authoritive French circles, including one who until re (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) 12 Miles A Minute Officials of the Republic Avia tion Company at Fanningdale, N. Y., have announced that two U. S. Army fliers. Lieutenants Harold Comstock (top) and Roger l)yar (bottom), dived l’-47 Thunderbolt fighter planes at a speed of "35 miles an hour in test flights. That is about 12 miles a minute. Com stock lives in Fresno, Calif., and Dyar’s home is in Lowell, 0. (Asso ciated Press Photos from U. S. Army Air Forces). AXIS ARGENTINE SPY RING FOUND Recent Charges Sumner Welles Substantiated By Federal Judge BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 4.—UP> The Sumner Welles charges of Axis espionage in Argentina were sub stantiated today by an Argentine federal judge, who declared in the midst of an inquiry that spying here was direction from the Ger— man embassy and who made an initial move to punish the offend-j ing diplomats or expel them. Judge Miguel Jantus made the startling disclosure in ordering the testimony of six accused spies sent j to the supreme court, to deter-! mine whether the Re ch's diplo mats may be brought to trial. The supreme court is the only | tribunal authorized to try diplo mats but in order to . do it must obtain permission from the Ger man government to have the rep resentatives waive their diplomatic immunity from prosecution. A court source said that if Ber-i lin refused, as expected, to permit the diplomats to stand trial as common spies, then Argentina would be forced to declare them persona non grata. However, if the supreme court decided to press for the trial, it' appeared likely that Germany: would withdraw the accused rep- [ resentatives or possibly oust them! from the German foreign service j (Continued on Page Five; Col. 3) j AXISJ1TS HARD Series Of Terrific Counter attacks Leaves Much Wreckage In View STRIKE STONE WALL Forces Of General Ander son In Tunisia Getting Ready For Next Move | LONDON. Dec. 4.—(/P)—& series of terrific Axis coun terattacks through the mountains between Djedei da and Mateur which caught the British First Army with its American armored forces on the flank at Tebourba were reported tonight to have left the plains and hills of Tuni sia strewn with the wreck age of tanks and the situa tion at Tebourba in doubt. “It is now clear that Axi3 troops have recaptured Te bourba,” 20 miles west of Tunis and about 35 miles south of Bizerte said the mil itary correspondent of Reu ters, British news agency. The Germans also were re ported holding to Mateur, 25 miles south of Bizerte. Consolidating’ Positions An Allied headquarters commu nique. however, said “our troops in the neighborhood of Tebourba are consolidating their positions’* without giving the situation at Te bourba itself and without mention ing the situation at the previous advanced' positions of the Allies at Djedeida. 12 miles west of Tu jnis. or at Mateur, 25 miles south The implication was plain, how ever. that the Allies had come up against a stone wall of resistance in the admission that the forces [ of Lieut. Gen. K. A. N. Anderson were consolidating at the rearward position. The same implication was evi | dent in the earlier statement of an Allied headquarters spokesman that the advantage in the forth coming test would be the “one who regains his strength more quickly” following the hard battles in the Tebourba area. The Morocco radio said the Ger mans had thrown a fleet of about 50 tanks into their counterattack and that the “larger part’’ were destroyed or damaged. The enemy also was reported by the same, source to have sent par achutists into the attack, but these were said to have been rounded up and made powerless in short . order. Berlin claimed that the ruins of 40 Allied tanks dotted the battle ■ (Continued on Page Five; Col. 6). MANY FAMILIES NEED HELP HERE Salvation Army Reveals Case Of Injured Father And Five Children Injured and forced to lie in bed a year and a hall, able to work only in the last three months, there • Is a Wilmington man with five small children and a wife who needs financial help, Captain .Tames Neighbours of the Salvation Army, said yesterday. According to Captain Neighours this is only one of many cases that some to the Salvation Army daily. With the population of the city swelled considerably in the past months, by all rights the Empty Stocking fund should reach a high* er figure than ever. Captain Neigh* ours, believes. Yesterday’s contributions brought the fund over the hundred dollar mark, but the need is so great that the fund will be inade* quate to purchase food, clothing. Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) popping Says till Christmas
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