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AVENGE PEARL HARBOR AND BATAAN VOlT^1-—NQ- 8-___ THE 5lfflHffiS£»R-NEWS FINAL EDITION PR'CE FIVE CENTS LA UNCH THIP/Ii GREAT DRIVE ALf'Vj DON NEAR VORONEZH .. 4 kill 20,000 NAZIS Soviets, Striking From Northwest, Open 60 Mile Breach In Line FORM spearheads New Offensive Threatens German Flank Extend ing From Kursk Area Be liDDT GILMORE MOSCOW. Sunday, Dec. 20.—UP) The tC.C J- .re-at Russian winter of fessive within a month has struck jeep into German defenses along the Don in the Vronezh area, and 20.000 Germans have been plied nd 10.000 captured, the So V;e- i:.; .nation bureau said in a special communique today. Sndkinc from the northwest four jays am Russian forces south yes: of Moscow opened a breach ii. Gerrum lines 60 miles wide, while another army in the Voro nezh region chopped a hole 12 miles vide and advanced to the Capture 200 Places The wo spearheads advanced from 30 to 37 miles after the hard ... capturing more than 2 ited places and a great array i enemy fighting equip me:y. the communique said. The new offensive patently threatened the extended German fiat... which has reached from the reg. :: of Kursk down to Stalin rad. rfhe lower end of the flank al ready r.ad been dented by a series of salients driven across the Don bend and from southwest of Stal ingrad in die offensive launched Nov. 19. Nov. the Russians are striking at the upper flank, while continu ing to bear down still farther north in the Velikie Luki and Rzhev regions northwest of Moscow, where a second offensive was started Nov. 25. 189,DUO Killed I. the three offensives, accord tits to special announcements of the Soviet information bureau, 189, 000 German and satellite soldiers have been killed and 84,500 cap tured-;. total of 273.500, incuding the 30,000 killed and captured in the latest double-barreled thrust. "The offensive is in two direc tions. said the special communi que. "from the northwest in the sector of Novaya Kalitva and Mon astrischina and from the east in the area of Bokovskaya. Having pierced enemy de fenses in the sector of Novaya Kalitva and Monastirschina over a distance of 60 miles and in the area of Bokovskaya over a dis continued on Page 16; Col. 4) EMPTY STOCKING NEEDS DONATIONS Contributions Will Help Make Christmas Day Happy For Poor Santa Claus is Coining to Town” Mr be the happy tune that many Voungstf i s are singing these days, Mi ' hn't the melody that comes the !,. :rts of those who know tbeii 1,will be an empty place tmas and their tables will m fruits, nuts, and other dainties. 'W-1- , :;j(3ren are found in the >n which it is the purpose of | " Stiir-Xi-ws Empty Stocking fund .? he : happiness bv furnishing inletide delights. , Ir >s so easy to bring merry :r,i cries of glee from these - Wren, nd hearty approval from |lr;ir h'wents. that all who are en |co--perity should be happy „. part in providing Christ ' r Wilmington’s needy !am ;, os are still needed so ■u play Santa Claus on Page Two; Col. 3) -iu'ppintj iaus till ©hristmas ---------. THE PRICE OF FAME -- Lt. James Gray, TJSN, was the one who got the Distinguished Fly. lnJt-Cr°SSii * ',"S littl®, da«Kliter “Douggie,” above, is tile one who’s setting all the tail mail. That’s because “Douggie,” during the cere inony at which her dad was honored, broke out of line, ran out on the field and gave him a big hug. Newspapers carried the picture, and h mTngh followed. Here is “Douggie” looking some of them o\ei at her parents home in Pensacola, Fla. ___(Official U. S. Navy Photo from NEA Telephoto) British Push 120 Miles West Of El Agheila Area -* *_ NAZIS LEAVE MINES Abandon Zauta En Nofilia, Natural Defense Position, Without Fight LONDON, Dec. 19.—(1PI—1The Brit ish Eighth army in swift pursuit of Marshal Erwin Rommel’s rem nants pushed its spearhead 120 miles west of El Agheila today, some 35 miles behind the Germans and Italians whose main force reached the Sirte area, 240 miles short of Tripoli, despite intense bombing. In flight across Mussolini’s last African colony the Africa corps abandoned Zauta en Nofilia, a nat ural defense position, without a fight, but leaving thousands of mines and booby traps to slow the pace of Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery. Near Sirte Area The Morocco radio said the most advanced elements, of the Eighth army had reached a point 19 miles from Sirte, which is 155 miles be yond El Agheila, but there was no confirmation from any other source. The British made no mention of the Axis troops, said to num ber 10,000, reported trapped be tween Marble Arch and the Wadi (gulch) Matratin, indicating the Germans might have broken the clock and enabled, at least some, to continue their flight west with the main body of Rommel’s force. Reuters, quoting a radio observ er in Cairo, said some of Rom mel’s rearguard broke out of the net by means of superior weight of armor. The observer said the Germans already were ploughing up their airfields far to the west of the advancing British. (Continued on Page Six; Col. 4) Appeal For Christmas Tree Lights Renewed A second appeal for 27 small strings of Christmas tree lights was made Saturday by the Wilmington chapter of American Red Cross. The strings of lights are urg ently needed and must be in the Red Cross office at the customhouse before December 22. Citizens with lights to do nate nay contact the Red Cross at phone 5366. The Christmas lights are needed to decorate wards at the Camp Davis station hospi tal. WILSON IS GIVEN PRODUCTION POST Will Control Scheduling Of Production Programs Of Armed Services WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.— </P) — Charles E. Wilson of the War Pro duction Board, has been given su preme control over scheduling the production programs of the armed services, it was learned today, by craers more sweeping than an earlier announcement had indi cated. One order provides that Wilson, former president of General Elec tric company and now vice chair man of WPB in charge of pro duction, “shall be responsible for and shall direct the scheduling of the various production programs of the Army and Navy and Mari time Commission and other agen (Continued on Page 16; Col. 5) Rickenbacker Says Objections To Gas And Tire Rationing ‘Seem Ridiculous’ By HAMILTON W- FARON WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.— <£>> — Back from the south Pacific where a young soldier died in his arms, where he saw American soldiers' in “hell noles of mud”, where he had floated for 21 days in an open boat, Lieut. Col. Edward V. Rick enbacker declared today “objec tions to rubber and gasoline ra tioning sem ridiculous.” “Captain Eddy”, as he prefers to be called, bronzed, slightly ner vous and thin, talked swiftly and serii-usly at a press conference, - • calling for greater production of war supplies. “I hope our hardships will be a stimulus to the people back home to drive on to greater ef fort because without the materials they are producing those boys out there can’t do their job,” he said. Given the seat of honor in War Secretary Stimson’s conference room—the Secretary moved back to a cornel chair—“Rick” told for the first time of the harrowing 21 days he and seven companions spent in rubber life boats after their plane was forced down, out of gas, in the Pacific. He told also of an inspection trip through the south Pacific as representative of Stimson and of his personal conviction that the quality and experience of the Jap anese pilots is “going down hill” while that of American flyers is increasing swiftly. “It is quite evident,” he de clared,- ‘ that the great majority of Japanese pilots are inexperi enced and green.” Telling of Guadalcanal in the Solomons, where soldiers and ma (Continued on Page Six; Col. 6) British Army Advances Into West Burma Makes 40-Mile Drive In Of fensive To Re-Open Fa mous Highway NO OPPOSITION Other Parts Of W a veil’s Army May Be Ready To Strike Elsewhere NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19.—UP) A part of the million-man army of Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell has passed to the attack, after months of preparation, and has advanced about 40 miles into Bur ma in the first phase of an of fensive to re-open the Burma road to China. A cautiously - worded communi que telling of this latest addition to the list of world-wide United Nations offensives said: “During the past few days some of our troops have advanced south ward from the Arakan border into western Burma, and occupied the Maungdaw - Buthidaung area about 60 miles northwest of Akyab. Enemy Withdraws “The enemy, who had been in occupation of this area since our withdrawal from Burma and had prepared defenses, withdrew with out offering opposition.” Maungdaw and Buthidaung are about 40 miles south of the Indian border. Akyab, a small seaport and air base on the eastern side of the Bay of Bengal, is to the south down the Mayu river. While the restraint of the an nouncement gave no hint as to the scope of the offensive, observ ers noted the reference to “some of our troops” and wondered if other parts of the huge army which General Wavell has drilled and equipped in India might not be ready to strike elsewhere. Ever since U. S. Lleut.-Gen. Jo seph Stilwell came out of Burma at the head of a few score men, (Continued on Page Six; Col. 5) CHICAGOHOTEL SWEPT BY FIRE Three Persons Killed And Nine Burned Or Injured During Blaze CHICAGO. Dec. 19. —(54— Three persons died today and nine were burned or injured in an extra alarm fire that raged for two and a half hours and sent occupants of a 50-cent-a-night hotel jumping from windows and scrambling down fire escapes. Firemen poked through the smouldering embers in search for possible additional victims of the noonday blaze that Fire Commis sioner Michael J. Corrigan de scribed as the worst in Chicago in 1942. Corrigan estimated damage at $125,000. The structure involved, was the five-story West hotel at 802 Wes+ Madison street, a 78 room brick establishment built as a luxury hotel some 85 years ago. The fire started and spread so rapidly that many of its residents were forced to flee in light cloth ing into liecember weather. Many reached safety via two fire es capes and other exists. Several jumped from windows into fire men’s life-nets. Several hours afterward the dead remained unidentified. A man and woman leaped to their deaths from the fourth floor before firemen ar rived. After the fire had been ex tinguished, firemen found the body of another man in the third floor ruins. In her panic, firemen said, the woman dived from a window only four feet from a fire escape by which others had reached saety. GAS SALES TO BE RESUMED MONDA Y WITH A, B AND C COUPONS WORTH 3 GALLONS - 4 ORDER ISSUED HERE Shipyard Men May Use One Coupon Today To Get To And From Work MUST SHOW BADGES Ruling Also Announced For Civilian Airplane Spotters In This Area A special temporary ruling Saturday easing the string ent gasoline freeze for em ployes of the North Carolina Shipbuilding company in need of gas for transportation ap peared to have relieved the major handicap caused by the freeze order here as Wilming tonians in general awaited with relief the lifting of the ban on gasoline sales at 12:01 a. m. Monday. The special ruling, ob tained by the New Hanover rationing board from W. K. Bernard of Raleigh, state mileage rationing officer, al lows filling stations to honor one coupon a day for ship workers who need their auto mobiles to go to and from their work provided the automobile tank then contains less than three gallons. Must show Badges ■Workers are required to exhibit their Ijgfdges to the filling station operating and no worker who can t ■ .iv T iaPiween the yards here and his hoiffl? by bus is eligible for the special ration. A second development Saturday was the halting of sales on 13, E, and R gasoline ration books for the period of the emergency freeze by the New Hanover rationing board. D books are issued to motorcycle owners while the E and R books are used to purchase gaso line for tractors, station engines, heating and other non-highway use. The special shipyard worker rul ing, made by the board late Satur day afternoon, superseded an earlier announcement by the board, on in (Continued on Page Nine; Col. 3) JAPAlSERlTED IN HOSUEH AREA Reported Facing 'Imminent Annihilation’ With New Chinese Ring CHUNGKING, Dec. 19.— (B—1The Japanese in the area of Hosueh, on the middle Yangtze, have been routed ana are “facing imminent annihilation” within a Chinest ring, an Army communique an nounced tonight. The Japanese, who had held the river port for two days, were reported yesterday to have been driven out with loss of 400 to 500 men. The Chinese recapture of Hosueh again endangerde the in vaders’ communications between their big Hankow base and most westerly outpost at Ichang. The Japanese were reported also to have been repulsed twice in at tacks at Changtung, in Honan province; and in eastern Kwang tung, the communique said, the Chinese inflicted heavy casualties in a series of raids on Dec. 9. WEATHER FORECAST North Carolina: Continued cold Sun day, probable light rain in mountains. (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., 39; 1:30 p. m., 59; 7:30 p. m., 50; maximum, 65; minimum, 38: mean, 52; normal 48. Humidity 1:30 a. m., 7:30 a. m., 1:30 p. m.,_; 7:30 p. m., Precipitation Total for, the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., 0.00 inches. Total since the first of the month. 1.91 inches. Tides *"or Today (From the Tide Tables published by XT. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey). High Low Wilmington ___ 8:14a 2:39a 8:31p 3:15p Masonboro Inlet_ 6:04a 11:42a 6:22p 12 ;20p Sunrise, 7:13a; sunset, 5:06p; moon rise, 4:02p; moonset, 5:15a. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) | L -- « OP A Relaxes Important Part Of Fuel Oil Rules WASHINGTON, Dec. 19—UP)— The Office of Price Adminis stration today relaxed its fuel oil rationing rules to permit home owners, who have ex hausted current heating ra tions, to buy oil with coupons valid for later periods. The procedure is open only to householders who have asked their local boards to review their rations and who have ex hausted their currently valid coupons. In such cases, the household er may apply at his local board and there exchange coupons for the next heatings period—those numbered “3”—for coupons which | can be redeemed at once. The exchange is permit ted only up to one half the total gallonage allotted to the homeowner for the next heat ing period. In other words, the house holder who has used up his period one and period two cou pons will get currently valid coupons up to one half of his ration for period three. The “3” coupons will be exchanged at the present value of the “1” and “2” coupons—that is, ten gallons for a residential cou pon and 100 gallons for a com mercial or apartment house coupon. The coupons to be received by the householders in the ex change will have a definite gallonage value stated on their face. These are the coupons normally used to issue rations for cooking, lighting, industrial (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) Miss Herlihy Acquitted Of Slaying Army Officer GASPS AT VERDICT Arizona Jury Of Miners And Ranchers Reaches Decision In 27 Minutes BISBEE, Ariz., Dec. 19.—W— Margaret Herlihy was acquitted tonight of the murder of Capt. David D. Carr, 27-year-old Fort Huachuca anti-tank officer, who was fatally shot in the girl’s home last August 14. The jury of miners and ranch ers was out only 37 minutes. The 21-year-old defendant, daughter of Lt. Col. Edward G. Herlihy of Fort Benning, Ga., and a former commander of infantry at Fort Huachuca, where he was Carr’s superior officer, waited in the courtroom, surrounded by members of her family and Army officers. Gasps At Verdict Miss Herlihy, an expectant mother, gasped as the verdict was read, but otherwise remained calm. As the jurors were dismissed, they filed bv the counsel table and shook hands with the red haired giri and wished her happi ness. ”1 don’t know how to thank you,” Miss Herlihy told the jurors. She was smiling through tears. John F. Ross, county attorney, who prosecuted the girl, also con gratulated her (Continued on Page Five; Col. 1) ALLIESPOUNDING AXIS IN TUNISIA ^oth Sides Continue To Move Up Materials For Renewal Of Battle ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Dec. 19. —UP)— Allied and Axis armies alike con tinued to move up materials through sporadic rains for a renew al of the battle of Tunisia, while the United States Army 12th Air Force and the RAF rounded out a week of heavy pounding of Ger man communications. A spokesman said that only pa trol activity was reported aground and no contacts were made with the enemy. Heavy bombers hit an enemy warship, scored many bursts on (Continued on Page Four; Co. 1) Moore Quits Chamber Of Commerce Position Officials of the Greater Wil mington Chamber of Com merce announced Saturday that Louis T. Moore, assistant to the executive secretary, has resigned, effective January 1. It was explained that the Tourist and Convention phase of chamber of commerce ac tivity, which Mr. Moore had headed since reorganization of the chamber sometime ago, has been suspended ?or the dura tion. CHICAGO RAILROAD STRIKE DEFERRED WLB Asks Workers To Stay On Jobs During Fur ther Negotiations CHICAGO, Dec. 19.—(JB—William F. Levander announced tonight that his union of elevated work ers had called off a strike that would have crippled Chicago’s transportation system at one min ute after midnight. Levander, president of the AFL Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Mo tor Coach Employes of America, telephoned Bernard J. Fallon, co trustee of the Rapid Transit com pany (elevated) to tell him: “The executive board of the un ion will exercise its power to de fer taking strike action until a special meeting of the member ship can be held Dec. 29.” Levander’s announcement fol lowed receipt of a telegram from the War Labor Board asking the workers to stay on the job during further negotiations. He said the members would would decide “what to do about it,” at the Dec. 29 meeting. About 4,500 union members had been instructed to walk out at 12:01 a.m. Sunday to enforce de mands for wage increases. The Rapid Transit company car ries almost 600,000 passengers a day. At the height of the Christ mas shopping season, it has been operating 5,383 trains daily over 286 miles of track. Leavander, earlier announced that the union had boosted its demands for wage increases by three cents an hour. Originally the union asked a blanket increase of 12 cents an hour, with a 17-cent increase for (Continued on Page Four; Co. 1) Construction Of Barges To Transport Oil Okehed NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 19.—(fP)— Washington, authorities have ap proved construction of a fleet of mere than a thousand craft to transport petroleum through in land and intra-coastal waterways to reliev the oil shortage on the eastern seaboard, it was announc ed here today at the Missssippi Valley Flood Control association’s annual meeting. Chester C. Thompson, president of the Inland Waterways corpora tion, said the fleet would consist of 120 new tugs and towboats and 900 wooden barges for transport-, ing of oil from producing areas to the east. He said the inland waterway routes already were moving val uable commodities "up a protect ed route which is free of subma rines” and that the new fleet con struction was approved “qnly this week.” “ The association adopted recom mendations by Sen. , Overton fD La), Brigadier General Max C. Tyler of Vicksburg, Miss., chair man of the Mississippi river oom (Continued on Page Four; Co. 1) --- 1 BEGIN AT 12:01 A. M« Henderson Reports Ne\« Bootlegging And Black Market Problem | DEALERS SUSPENDED Byrnes Calls For Reports And Recommendations For Remedial Action By RICHARD L. TURNER WASHINGTON, Dec. 19. —(/P)—Price Administrator Leon Henderson announced today that gasoline sales would be resumed in the east at 12:01 a. m., Monday, with the coupons of all A, B and C ration books good for three gallons. In the case of the B and C books this is a re duction of one gallon. At the same time, he re ported a bootlegging and black market problem had arisen and promised to deal with it vigorously. A total of 190 dealers have been sus pended, ten of them today, he said and future deliberate violators will ‘get the limit”—a suspension for the duration “which means they will be out of business.” Calls For Reports Earlier, James F. Byrnes, the director of economic stabilization, stepped abruptly into the gasoline and fuel oil situation. He asked Henderson, Petroleum Administra tor Ickes and Transportation Di rector Eastman to submit reports showing in what way present poli cies and machinery had proved in adequate, together with recom mendations for remedial action. Byrnes sadi he would confer with the three Monday morning. Chairman Maloney (D-Conn) of the special senate committee nam ed to investigate the gasoline and fuel oil situation also an nouncement that its inquiry will be resumed. Recent develop ments, he said, had shown ‘the necessity for a complete study . . . with the purpose of keeping the nation informed of just what it must expect in the future.” Plan Tight Supervision Henderson’s announcement was made in a statement which also disclosed plans for tighter super vision and stricter enforcement of the gasoline regulations, including, for the first time, a- request that the petroleum industry be alert for suspicious transactions at every stage. Of 975 OPA inspectors in the eastern shortage area, he said, more than 800 are to be assigned (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 4) ALLIES CAPTURE CAFE ENDAIDERE American Flying'Fortress es Destroy Japanese Cruiser Near Madang ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Sunday, Dec. 20— Oft. —The Av‘r's’ ground troops in New Guinea have captured Cape Endai dere to the east of Buna village and Flying Fortresses have sunk a Jap cruiser near Madang, Gen eral Douglas MacArthur’s com munique reported today. A third triumph announced was the mopping up of enemy remnants in the Amboga and Kumufi river sector some 40 miles above Buna where the Japs last Sunday achiev ed landings despite bloody losses. Since the Allies recently captur ed Buna, Jap resistance in that sec tor has been split between a group to the northwest at Cape Sanaman (Continucd on I’age Five; Col. 1)' NOTICE The Star-News Circula tion Department is open Sundays from 7 to 10 a. m. If you fail to receive your paper, phone 3311 before 10 and one will be sent to you by special messanger. After 10 o’clock, the de partment is closed.
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