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Served By Leased Wire Of The! ASSOCIATED PRESS r|1JJ4 | ^ * iHy iflumntgtmt ifummuj "VOL. 49.— NO. 34 /a oP WTT.MTNPTOIV, N. P.T TUESDAY. DECEMBER 29, 1942 ESTABLISHED 1867. - " _ I ' ---- .Y iCk- -■■■ .■ — AmericanWar Output Jumps For November Production Takes Sharp Increase Over Pre vious Month FOUR TIMES GREATER Quadruples That Of Cor responding Period For Last Year WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.— ; (/P) — American munitions production increased sharply i in November over October and was nearly 4 1-3 times as great as in November, 1941, the month before Pearl Har bor. Chairman Donald M. Nelson of the War Produc tion Board announced today. Ends Declining Percentage i Production of planes, tanks, am- ‘ munition, ships and other muni tions was 12 percent greater in November than in October, com pared with an increase of only 4 percent from September to Octo ber This ended a six-month se ries o." declining percentages of gain that began in May. The 12 percent increase was 1 smaller than April’s 119 per cent, , but Nelson called the “absolute ] gain" in November greater be- , cause production now is in much . larger volume than last spring. . WPB's munitions index, using . November. 1941. as 100, advanced | 4ft r>oiins to 4331. Nelson renewed predictions that total war expenditures in 1943 would exceed $90,000,000,000 com pared with more than $52,000.BOO, 000 this year. Nelson had called October muni tions production disappointing but he said that many items most needed in the type of warfare be ing waged in North Africa now are rolling off assembly lines in greatly increased quantities. He also reported improvement ir. plant utilization, “although there is considerable room for greater improvement.” Some fac tories are approaching maximum utilization but most of them have not scheduled their operations to more than half of the theoretical limit of 138 hours a week, Nel son said. In November, 18 per cent more airplanes were accepted by the Army and Navy than in October, but Nelson said some of this in crease was due to a large number of planes actually completed in October but not delivered until No vember. He reported an unusual increase (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 2) M’NUTTCENSURED BY N. C. SENATOR Bailey Criticizes Head Of WMC For View On Un ion Membership Dues WASHINGTON, Dec. 28. — W — Senator Bailey (D.-N.C.) today criticized Chairman Paul V. Mc Nutt of the War Manpower Com mission on the ground that McNutt approves the collection of union dues from war workers as a con dition of employment. Re asked McNutt by letter what explanation the latter could give fathers and mothers whose sons are “in line of battle?” Bailey made public correspond ence in which McNutt asserted he was convinced responsible labor leaders were doing everything in their power to control "the occa sional irresponsible leader who en (Continued on Page Three; Col. 7) -V WEATHER . FORECAST North Carolina: occasional show ers and continued warm today. ^Eastern Standard Time) 'By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours 7:30 p. m., yesterday. Temperature 1:20 a. m., 64; 7:30 a. m., 61; 1:30 p. 72: 7:30 p. m., 67. Maximum 73; minimum, 54; mean, 64; normal, 47. Humidity •'30 a. m... SO; '7:30 a. m., 94; 1:30 p. rr 33; 7:30 p. m., 93. Precipitation f°tal for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. O.oo inches. i otal since the first of the month, * 36 inches. Tides For Today ,/From the Tide Tables published by u S. Coast and Geodetic Survey ) High Low Wilmington 2:13a 9:02a 2 :31p 9 :53p Mason ooro Inlet _ 11:46a 5:50a _p 6:20p ‘Moore’s Inlet _ 11:51a f:55p _p 6 :25p Av. Topsail Inlet_ 10:56a 6 :00a 'Elmore’s) _ P 6:30p 'All times Eastern Standard) Sunrise. 7:17 a. m.; sunset, 5:12 p. m.; 1 'onri.se, 11:43p; moonset, 11:37a. »r<>ntinu#d on Page Seven; Col, 6) \ Flying Commander This picture from News of the Day S'ewsreel shows Lieut. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, commander in chief of he Allied forces in North Africa, raving goodbye before entering his L . S. Army bomber on another mis iion for Uncle Sam somewhere in S'ortli Africa. RATIONING NEWS GETS CRITICISM Wany Sides Heard Deplor ing Action On Giving Public Notice (By The Associated Press) Criticism of the government’s iction in announcing its next ra ioning program so far in advance ;ame from many sides yesterday >ut fears that rush on grocery ;tores would result failed for the nost part to materialize. Plans o put a point rationing system nto effect for more than 200 kinds >f processed foods in February vore disclosed Sunday. In Chicago, the secretary of the Mational Association of Retail Gro wers, Mrs. Rose Marie Keifer, as =e:ted, “we deplore government ;fficials’ giving the unscrupulous portion of the public a month to 3o their hoarding.” Chairman Fulmer (D-SCf of the louse Agriculture committee told rewsmen in Washington the pro cure was “ridiculous” and “can inly result in a wave of buying rnd hoarding which will aggravate he situation.” Reports from nearly every sec (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) NO RUNOBSERVED ON FOOD STORES Local Merchants Report Usual Business After OPA Announcement Of the local stores contacted for information Monday night, rome-owned and chain stores, the consistent comment was; ‘ local consumers made no run on our grocery stocks following the new OPA announcement that more than 200 kinds of foods would be ra tioned, starting in February.” Only one grocer reported more calls for butter than usual, bu1 'his rush was attributed to the fact that many Wilmington store' are “short” on this commodity. O. H. Shoemaker, chairman ol the local War Price and Ration ing Board, declared that one gro cer had reported to him heavy buying on Monday; however, many homes found their grocery stocks depleted after the holidays and any buying flurry may have been natural, it was pointed out It was learned that many mer chants have been carrying out a rationing program of their own for sometime. One firm declared that “whenever we notice a short age, we start rationing immediate ly.” Among the foods being volun tarily rationed to the consumer by merchants are canned milk, fish, vegetables and jelly. F O Fockler, executive secre tary of the Greater Wilmingtor Chamber of Commerce, revealed that food rationing was hinted by officials when he made a trip tc Washington in November seeking greater allotments of canned good: for the Wilmington area on ac (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) Larger Culvert Wanted On Blue Clay Road Here County commissioners, in session Monday afternoon, voted to request the State High way and Public Works com mission to build a larger cul vert to drain off standing water on the Blue Clay road, at the suggestion of Frank G. Harris. Commissioners also voted to extend greater publicity to properties to be sold for taxes. The commission, following what was termed “a very quiet meeting,” drew names for the next term of grand jury. fr flight Is besperate In Solomons Jap Planes Attempt To Drop Food To Stranded Men On Guadalcanal U. S. BLASTS SUPPLIES American Spotters Find Material; Quickly Smash At Units WASHINGTON, Dec. 28. — (JP)—The desperate plight of Japanese forces stranded in the northern jungles of Guadalcanal island was em phasized anew today when the Navy disclosed that ene my planes had dropped by parachute supplies which our aircraft quickly spotted and shot up. Dumped During Night The supplies were dumped on the Japanese-held beach at Tassa faronga Saturday night or early Sunday morning (Solomon islands time). American aerial observers spotted them there at the dawn, and Army Airacobra fighters, car rying bombs as well as their usual guns, bombed and strafed them were they lay. The Navy communique did not specify the damage inflicted, but since the Airacobra attack appar ently was made without opposition, the assumption in military quar ters here was that the Army fliers had ample opportunity to do a inVi The communique also reported the destruction in the Solomon is lands of another Japanese ship of unidentified type, a new dive-bomb er attack on the battered enemy airfield at Munda, a bombing and strafing assault on a Jap bivouac area on Guadalcanal and a straf ing raid against the enemy base at Kiska in the Aleutian islands. The ship was the second an nounced sunk in an attack by Guad alcanal dive bombers on a small group of Jap vessels last Saturday. Destruction of the first vessel, a 3,000-tonner, was announced yes terday. The attack at Munday by Douglas "Dauntless” dive bombers also was carried out Saturday but results were not reported. Two of the Lockheed “Light nings” which made the strafing raid on Kiska Saturday were lost but one pilot was rescued. A naval spokesman said these planes prob ably had been damaged by enemy anti-aircraft fire, the Japs hav ing long since lost their fighter planes at winter-bound Kiska. The raid on the bivouac area (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 2) WATERCONTRACT REPORT AWAITED City Officials Ready For Confirmation Of FWA Project Award Confirmation of the Federal Works Agency’s award of $1,500, 000 for construction of the King s Bluff salt-free water project, an nounced over the week-end by Kenneth R. Markwell, regional di rector of FWA, is being awaited by city officials, City Manager A. C. Nichols said Monday morn ing According to Regional Director Markwell’s announcement, the manufacture of reinforced ccn cret sections for the 22-mile 30 inch pipeline connecting the in take at King’s Bluff with the city s new filter plant at Hilton is expect ed to begin in mid-January ar a plant to be established by the Lock Joint Pipe company of Ampere, N. J., near Acme. Markwell said that contracts fot (Continued on Page Three; Col. 6) Darlan Successor Gen. Henri H. Giraud, command er of French forces fighting beside the Allies, is now in control in French Africa in succession to Admiral Jean Darlan, killed by the bullets of a twenty-year-old as sassin. The early coordination or unification of Gen. de Gaulle’s Fighting Franch forces with those of Gen. Giraud in French North and West Africa is widely pre ted in London. BUNA BOMBARDED BY JAP WARSHIPS 1st Naval Shelling By Foe In New Guinea; Ene my Cruiser Bombed ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALI, Tuesday, Dec. 29.— (31—Japanese warships shelled Bu na village for five hours before daylight yesterday as Allied troops drove deeper into enemy holdings there. It was the first naval shelling resorted to by the Japanese in the war in New Guinea. The enemy craft probabiy were submarines, an official communique said. They began firing upon the Allied en campment in the village about mid night and continued the attack in termittently until dawn. The com munique said there was no dam age inflicted. In the Buna airstrip sector the Japanese tried to break from the stranglehold thrown about them by troops but the Allied fighters (Continued on Page Three; Col. 8) -V LOCAL WAR HERO’S BOOK NOW IN CITY ‘The Flying Guns/ Written By Clarence Dickinson, Is At Library “The Flying Guns,” a book of war experiences written by one of Wlimington’s first naval heros of the current war—Lieut. G. E. Dickenson, U. S. N., is now obtain able from the City Library, Miss Emma Woodard, librarian an nounced Monday. There are two volumes of the book for local readers. Described as a “cockpit record of a naval pilot from Pearl Harbor through Midway,” the book, writ ten in collaboration with Boyden Sparks, was presented in condensed version in the Saturday Evening Post. Lieutenant Dickinson recounts in “The Flying Guns” factual ex periences as a naval aviator. Shot down near Pearl Harbor, he para chuted to safety, and after many difficulties reached Pearl Harbor while the fighting was still go ing on. After Pearl Harbor, the young man did his share of fight ing in the Marshall Islands, Wake Island, Marcus Island, and'Mid way. Writing modestly, he has dedicated the story to “the men of Squadron 6— those who live and those who died.” Dickinson, born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1912, spent his boyhood ir. Wilmington, where he went to school. He attended Guilford Col lege and for six months afterward (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) Rommel Near Misurata In Desert Chase Last Stronghold For Foe Short Of Tripoli Is Now In Sight ALLIES MEET GERMANS Units Skirmish In Yellow Mud Of Tunisia As Weather Clears LONDON, Dec. 28_(/P)— The Allied right wing in North Africa pursued Mar shal Rommel’s Libyan forces westward today on the ap proaches to Misurata, the last strong defensive position for the enemy short of Tripoli, while advanced Allied units skirmished with the Ger mans in the mud of Tunisia. Break In Rains In Tunisia, there was a break at last in the heavy rains of many days and an Allied communique announced that in vigorous patroll ing in the forward areas enemy motor vehicles had been shelled and forced to retire. In another ac tion in the same general section —this on tire Medjez-Bab-Tebourba road along the Allied line before Tunis and Bizerte—an enemy de tachment suffered casualties and lost several men in prisoners. In still another patrol engage ment the enemy was driven off without Allied loss. Allied headquarters also announ ced new and strong attacks by the American air force on enemy ship nine and transport. French general headquarters an nounced that its troops south of Pont du Fahs, inland in central Tunisia, had made “effective prog ress,” taking more than 100 Axis prisoners and large quanities of materials, and that to the south, between Kairouan and Pichon, French positions had been im proved. Here it was said that the Axis suffered considerable losses, including a number of troops cap tured by the French. The fighting French radio at Brazzaville reported that forces of Gen. Charles de Gaulle driving up from Lake Chad” continued to ad vance south of Fezzan,” 550 miles south of Tripoli in the extreme southwest corner of Libya. Fight ing was reported continuing. All this was accompanied by clear signs that a quick clarifica tion of the political status of all the French African territories was in prospect. There were reports (Continued on Page Seven; Co. 1) ACL INCOMEMARK HIGH IN NOVEMBER Local Railroad Shows Op erating Revenues At $11, 810,931 For The Month Operating revenues received by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad company during the month of No vember amounted to $11,810,931, in contrast to the $5,488,183 received in the same month of 1941, firm officials announced yesterday. Coast Line expenses for November were listed at $5,419,091. According to a report of activi ties for the first 11 months of 1642, the ACL received $102,378, 688; in 1941 the figure for the same period stood at $60,951,878. Other January through November totals include operating expenses, $56,973,579; net operating revenues, $45,405,109; amount required for taxes, $23,555,000; operating in come, $21,850,109; net amount paid for rent of equipment and joint facilities, $2,808,946; and net rail way operating income, $19,141,163. Vice-President Wallace Proposes Uorld I Council To Preserve Peace After Fight ! WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.— UR — J Vice President Wallace proposed tonight a world council to preserve peace and promote the general welfare after the war, while leav ing purely regional problems in regional hands. In a broadcast commemorating the birthday of Woodrow Wilson, he made what was regarded in the capital as a major adminis tration pronouncement of post-war plans and policies. He suggested as the guiding principle for in ternational organization after the war “the maximum of home rule that can be maintained along with -s>.v the minimum of centralized author ity that must come into existence ”to preserve the liberty, equality, security and unity of the Unitec Nations — liberty in the politics, sense; equality of opportunity ir international trade; securitj against war and business depres sion due to international causes; and unity of purpose in promoting the general welfare of the world.’ Discussing what to do with th« defeated nations, he advocated no only military but •‘psychologica disarmament.” This would includf ‘ supervision, or at least inspec tion, of the school systems of Ger many and Japan to undo so fai as possible the diabolical work ol Hitler and the Japanese war lords in poisoning the minds of th« young.” Wallace’s address was sponsorec by the Woodrow Wilson Founda tion, American Political Science as sociation, American Society f o i Public Administration, and Ameri can Historical association. Presi dent Roosevelt was consulted ii advance of its delivery and th< Office of War Information gavi : notice 10 days ago that it woulc ■ be presented, callng it ‘‘an im ■ portant address on questions o the peace and post-war problems.” The new freedom for which Wil son fought, Wallace said, “was the forerunner of the Roosevelt New Deal of 1933 and of the world wide new democracy which is the goal of the United Nations in this pres ent struggle.” Wallace took occasion to answer critics who said he favored “hav ing Ammerican farmers give away 1 a quart of milk a day to every ! inhabitant of the world” and who 1 referred to his suggestions as “uto 5 pian,” “soggy sentimentality” and : (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) RED ARMY THREA TENS KO TELNIKO VSKI WITH 3 PRONGED OFFENSIVE Rommel’s Equipment Parked at Bengasi Parked along the main street of Bengasi in Libya, Axis trucks tanks, combat cars, and a motorcycle felt the fury of British bombs am had to stay put when the rest of the Africa Corps fled on Xovembei SALARY CONTROL CHANCE IS MADE Government Relinquishes Charge Of Municipal Employes’ Wages WASHINGTON, Dec. 28. — GP> — The federal government today re linquished all mandatory controls over the wages and salaries of the 3,000,000 employees of state, county and municipal governments. The ' War Labor Board and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, in a joint statement, placed upon the heads of state, county and mu nicipal governments final responsi bility for conforming to the na tional stabilization policy in adjust ing the cmpensation of their em ployes. The statement declared, however, that the duty of public employers to conform to the stabilization policy was clear and they were invited to ask advice. — The announcement was a sequence to the WLB decision recently that it had no right to rule in labor dis putes involving state and munici pal agencies and their employes. One member said that if the board had no right to interfere in a dispute, it had no right to approve or disap prove a pay raise or pay cut, even if there was no dispute. Since November 32, the WLB and the Internal Revenue commissioner had required that adjustment of salaries or wages for state, county or municipal employes be submit ted for approval. The rules provid ed that each such adjustment woul?> be deemed approved upon certifi cation by the state or local agency involved that the change was neces sary “to correct a maladjustm fit, ^Continued on Page Seven; Col. 8) MILK DELIVERIES DELAYED IN AREA Lack Of Bottles Stops Calls For Time; Public’s Help Wanted A severe shortage in milk bottles caused several dairies in this area to cease deliveries for a time last week, J. B. Edwards, of the county health department announced Mon day. “There is a definite shortage in transportation,” Mr. Edwards said, “and the shortage of bottles has greatly decreased the amount of milk delivered. In order that more milk can be delivered, the public is urged to return all bottles as promptly as possible.” At the present there are only a few concerns still making deliveries and they are hampered by the lack of cooperation from the people in asmuch as they let large numbers of bottles accumulate before putting them out for the dealer, Mr. Edw'ards pointed out. “So if you really want to help the present situation and the war effort,” Mr. Edwards added, “you may do so by cooperating in every way with your milk dealer, and by returning all bottles promptly and in good condition. Canadian Railroad Death Toll Reaches 35 In Two Crashes ALMONTE, Ont., Dec. 28.— (/P)—Five men were killed to day in a Canadian National Railways head-on freight train collision near North Bay, Ont., as the death toll of Sunday’s passenger train wrecck here rose to 35, The freight trains crashed on a curve 1 1-4 miles east of Ni pissing, which is about midway between North Bay and Callen der, home of the Dionne quin tuplets. At least four of the dead were crew members. Less than 48 hours earlier, a troop-laden Canadian Pacific passenger train splintered three wooden roaches of an other passenger train at the station here. Besides the 35 dead, at least 117 were injured Rairoad officials investigated in an effort to learn the cause of the wreck. A gay Christmas homing crowd occupied the wooden coaches. TAKE MANY AREAS Soviet Forces Nearing Un ion With Middle Don Units At Stalingrad 300.000 NAZIS TRAPPED Steel Ring Is Tightening Around Enemy Pocket* ed Before Big City MOSCOW, Tuesday, Dec. 29. — (/P) — The Red Army was reported threatening Kotelnikovski 80 miles south west of Stalingrad, from three sides today, and was only 45 miles short of a un ion with its middle Don for ces to throw a second steel ring around 300,000 Nazis pocketed before Stalingrad. A special Soviet communi que — latest of a series on the new offensive — said the Red army was only 12 miles short of Kotelnikovski in a frontal assault, and had seized points on both sides of that north Caucasian rail way center, in an onslaught that has cost the Germans 17.000 dead since December 12. 100 Miles From Rostov Verkhne-Kurmoyarskaya, on the TDon river loop about 18 miles above Kotelnikovski, was seized, as were Krilov and Nikolski, 28 and 38 miles to the southeast in ■( flanking movement. J ces operating down the Moscow ! Rostov railway were reported less than 100 miles north of Rostov, where the Germans were declared to be increasinginly jittery, since seizure of that point would trap even larger Nazi forces inside the Caucasus. “Our troops in the area of the middle Don continued to develop their offensive and occupied a num ber of inhabited localities includ ing the town and railway station of Chertkov,” the regular midnight This latter point is 80 miles to communique said of that second offensive. Chertkov is about 30 miles above Milleroo on the Moscow-Rostov railway. Millero itself has been surrounded for some days. The Russians said that among many villages seized in the Kotel nikovski sector were Gremyacha ya, railway point 12 miles short of Kotelnikovski, and Kiseleva. Ths latter point is 80 miles to the southeast, deep inside the Cau casus. Other points were seized along the Don river loop above Kotelnik (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) ALLIESREPORTED IN SOMALILAND Vichy Radio Says British And French Enter African Territory LONDON, Dec. 28 — (JP) — Th® Vichy radio said tonight that Fight ing French and British troops had entered French Somaliland in east ern Africa. On December 26 an Anglo-de Guallist plane flew over the town of Jibuti and scattered leaflets announcing dissident troops had entered the colony,” the Vichy ra dio said. ‘‘In the course of the morning, aerial reconnaissance continual. In the evening at six o’clock, Angle-de Gaullis forces reached points three kilometres (1.8 miles) west of the main de fense line.” The British long have had effec tive control of French Somaliland except for the port of Jibuti, which although besieged, remained the (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) NOTICE! 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