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Served By Leased Wire Of The . s#£l | Mmtttgtmt Mttxmm #tar VOL. 49—NO. 45 " ________ TJ 1-«--T-----WILMINGTON, N. C., MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1943 -ESTABLISHED 1867. ricnuvTson successor MayBeNamedByFDR In Nominations Today Former Senator Brown Of Michigan Expected To Receive Post OTHER APPOINTMENTS Federal Court Judge Seen As Superior Court Nominee Now WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.— (/P) _ Congressional leaders have been notified to expect several nominations from the president tomorrow as the new Senate holds its first regular session and the ex pectation was widespread in the capital today that they would include: Former Senator Prentiss Marsh Brown, 53, of Michi gan, to succeed Leon Hender son as aead of the Office of Price Administration. New Associate Justice Justice Wiley Bdount Rutledge. Jr. 48. of the federal circuit court o[ appeals for the District of Co lumbia to be associate justice ot the Supreme Court succeeding James F. Byrnes. Edward Joseph Flynn, 52 of Nsw York, chairman of the Demo cratic National committee, to be minister to Australia. Flynn’s prospective diplomatic appointment, announced by him Friday but unconfirmed so far by the White House, prompted Senator Taft (R-Ohio) to declare tha Republicans are going to see to ;t that executive appointments submitted to the Senate for con firmation are scrutinized more thoroughly than they have been in the past. Republican leader MoNary of Oregon served notice that he would demand a hearing on Flynn and Chairman Connally iD-Tex) of the Foreign Relations committee said one would be held if requested. I Government sources which could not be identified disclosed that President Roosevelt had determin ed upon a nominee for the Su preme Court vacancy created se Iveral months ago when Byrnes resigned to become economic sia (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) WMC OPENS DRIVE ON LABOR PIRATES First Specific Stabilization Program Effective In Gulf Area MOBILE, Ala., Jan. 10.—— The War Manpower Commission’s first specific labor stabilization program aimed against pirating of labor in war industres went in to effect tonight in this Gulf area. Applying largely, but not exclu sively, to the shipbuilding indus try, the plan affects 80,000 work ers in Mobile and nearby centers in Florida and Mississippi, WMC Area Director Burton R. Moreley said the program will be extend ed as soon as possible to all ship yard centers in the Gulf and South Atlantic coasts. The program puts supervision of employment in the area’s war in dustries into hands of the U. S. Employment Service. Moreley said the plan was “not to be regarded in any sense as a freeze” of workers in their present jobs, but represented a concur rence of employers and labor un ions in methods of “stop pirating nf workers and other practices ni terfering with the war effort.” A committee with equal repre sentation from employers and un ions drew up- the system, and the (Continued on Page Three; Col. S) Republican Senator Wants Budget Items Checked Thoroughly WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—OR —Senator Nye (R-ND), rank ing Republican on the senate appropriations committee, de manded a “searching and min ute consideration” of appropri ation requests tonight as the new Congress prepared to start its legislative business to morrow by receiving Presi dent Roosevelt’s budget mes sage. The total of the new budget is expected to tower billions of dollars above any previous an nual expenditure, in peace or war, probably reaching a fig ure of about $100,000,000,000. Following demands from va rious congressmen for paring federal expenditures, the Pres ident said that he would leave it to Congress to decide what items should be trimmed. WAR PLANT LABOR MIGRATION HEAVY Congressional Group Says Small Number Of Towns Are Getting All WASHINGTON, Jan. 10— (IP) — The Tolan committee declared to dav that a small number ol com munities threaten to gather up the great majority of all workers in the country, endangering both war production and the welfare of mil lions when peace comes. Reporting on its two-year in vestigation of defense migration, tne House committee headed by Rep. Tolan (D-Calif) said our Al lies have “suffered severely” for non-delivery of lend-lease supplies while “the equipment of our own forces is very uneven.” It warn ed: “This is not a war we can win with our surplus energies. “We cannot afford the luxury of self-congratulation on the pro duction record of 1942. “We do not yet have a strong manpower agency.” While calling for an office of war mobilization to coordinate the de mands and means of production, the committee opposed any move to put manpower or production in a “straitjacket,” asserting: “Compulsion permits the use of a big stick by those incompe tent to gain voluntary support for a program which commands re spect and confidence. The drift in the direction of compulsion is an accompaniment of the drift in the direction of control over our war effort by a limited number of large corporations, many of which are reluctant to accept the centralized direction without which the over-all job cannot be done. “They would not themselves ex pect to run their own businesses without such centralized control, but they fail to understand that it is equally important in a mod ern war that it be applied to them by their government.” Calling the mobilization of man power “haphazard,” the commit tee said that “elation” which arose when Paul V. McNutt received control over manpower “has eb bed and there is general concern lest this opportunity be allowed to slip.” “Laziness and bureaucracy rath er than inefficiency” have prevent ed the best use of small manu facturers’ facilities, the committee told Congress, adding: ‘Unless the country enjoys an unusual measure of good sense, good management, and good luck, both the period of war immedia tely ahead and the period of peace to follow will be marked by many difficult and trying days. “If the drift now going on in our (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) (JIuirchillVGuess Again Dudley Field Malone, well known American lawyer, bears a strong resemblance to Winston Churchill, the British Prime Ministeg, and so he was chosen to play the role of Churchill in the Hollywood film version of “Mission to Moscow” by former U. S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies. Here, Malone strikes a typ lcal Churchill pose in Hollywood. N. C. SOLONS OPEN FIRST FULL WEEK Lawmakers Will Head Re quest To Consider Every New Measure RALEIGH, Jan. 10—(#)—A ser ious-minded legislature, heeding a request that it give rapid but thor ough consideration to every bill before it, will begin its first full week of deliberations at 8 p. m., tomorrow. Speaker John Kerr, Jr., is expected to announce his com mittee appointments at that time. Senate committee appointments were made by Lieut. Gov. R. L. Harris last Wednesday, the first day of the 1943 session, and those members designated to study ap propriations already have acted upon one of the major measures recommended b y Governor Broughton. The original bill call ed for the setting up of a post-war ! reserve fund" of $20,660,1500 but the committee boosted the sum of $22, 000,000 and reported favorably on the measure, which automatically went upon the calendar for consid eration tomorrow night. The House, without a commit tee except the one on rules, did not merely kill time last week, however. It adopted rules which kept alive the “gag rules,” adopt ed in the closing days of the 1941 legislature to head off a liquor referendum measure. The rules require a two-thirds vote of the (Continued on Page 5; Column 8) Enemy Appears Moving Forward In Offensive On Four Chinese Areas CHUNGKING, Jan. 10.—(/P)— The Chinese high command re ported fighting in the four cen tral provinces of Hupeh, Anh wei, Honan and Kiangsi today and indicated that the Japa nese were progressing in their U-shaped offensive in the Ta pieh mountains northeast of Hankow in an area that is a potential base for a Chinese counter-offensive. The Chinese communique said the enemy columns con verging from Hupeh on the west and Anhwei on the east entered Hwangchwan in south eastern Honan two days ago and that severe street fighting was in progress. More than 1,000 Japanese were killed and wounded in a battle north of Lotien in east ern Hupeh, the announcement said. In Kiangsi, the Chinese again attacked Japanese out posts near Nanchang, the Jap anese base, and captured two strong points, inflicted more than 200 casualties and set fire to the barracks, the communi que added. Wilmington Airman Directs Air Raids By Flying Fortresses On Japs At Buin Editor’s Note: The following story was written by Richard Tregaskis of the INS and is reprinted here through the per mission of International News Service. WITH THE U. S. ARMY AIR FORCES O N GUADALCANAL, Oec. 21.— (Delayed) — (INS) — “There are some Jap supply ships in Buin harbor- —>d we’re going tc catch ’em, I hope.” said Lt. Col. Brooke E. Allen, of Wilmington, N. C. The handsome, 31-year-old oper ations chief of the Flying Fortress squadrons on Guadalcanal was sit ting in the little, log-roofed dug out whence the long-range slugging expeditions of the air are sent out. A night strike mission was going to Buin harbor at the southern tip of Bouganville, to drop high ex plosive on the Jap surface craft. The ships, said Colonel Allen, had been seen earlier by our recon naissance planes. Evidently they were bringing supplies to be used in construction operations in the vicinity of Kahili airdrome. Kahili, near Buin, is one of the air bases, some brand new, which now are being rapidly expanded. The threat of these bases to our position in the islands is great, and our heavy bombers, under the South Pacific army command of Maj. Gen. Millard F. Harmon, are making an all-out effort to thwart the construction efforts, to keep the airport runways bomb-pitted. Now, under a bright moon, our B-17’s were warming up on the runway at Gauadalcanal, getting ready for the take-off. Their bomb bays were chocked with heavy mis siles; loaded for bear. I was assigned to a plane cap-, (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) I mMORE SOVIET TOWNS LIBERATED ^mOM NAZI INVADER BY RED ARMY; \ u. S. BOMBERS HIT HARD AT TRIPOLI NO PLANES LOST Extending Campaign To Shut Back Door To Rommel’s Retreat PUTTING ON PRESSURE AH Forces Trying To Cut Off Supply Lines To Africa Corps ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 10.—(/P)—United States medium bombers from Tunis ia struck their first blow to day at the Libyan base of Tripoli in an extension of their campaign to slam shut the back door of retreat in the face of Marshal Erwin Rommel, believed on the wea ry move again toward that port and Tunisia. The American attacked an outlying airdrome, scoring di rect hits, and returned with out loss. Fighters from Tunisia have attacked Tripoli before, and nearly all categories of planes have raided the port from Li bya and Egypt but tc day’s at tack was the first >f 1*'?. bombers from Tunisia. y Emphasize Squeeze -j The meeting of Allied bomfcfers from the east and west emphs^z (Continued on Page 5; Column ?) --V- .,•* AMERICAN FLIERS STRIKE AT BHAMO Chennault’s Airmen Raid Warehouses Of Japa nese In Burma WITH THE AMERICAN .AIR FORCE IN CHINA, Jan. 9—De layed)— m—Brig. Gen. Claire L. Chennault’s bombers and fighters raided Japanese warehouses and river transports at Bhamo in Bur ma today for the second day in a row, starting fires in the town and sinking at least one barge. Fighters also shot up the air drome at Loiwing, once an AVG maintenance base, ano machine gunned enemy trucks on the Bur ma highway. Capt. Everett Holstrom of Ta coma, Wash., again led the bomb ers. “We saw several buildings wrecked by Friday’s bombs, and la;d a few others in the ruins,” le said. Several fires were blazing in the storage area as the second flight headed by Capt. Allen For syth of Houston, Miss., unloaded its bombs. Fighters led by Capt. Joseph Hinton of San Antonio, Tex., mean while strafed five barges in the frrawwaddy river, and reported they left one sinking and others cadly damaged. Two enemy trucks were destroy ed on the Burma road, and three probably damaged in an attack by i flight commanded by Lieut. Howard Krippner of Seattle, Wash. Anti-aircraft guns opened fire pn the bombers 30 miles north east of Bhamo, but all planes re turned safely. -V WEATHER FORECAST NORTH CAROLINA: Slightly higher temperature Monday. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10— (JP)—'Weathei bureau report of temperature and rain fall for the 24 hours ending 8 p m., in the principal cotton growing areas and elsewhere: I Station High Low R’fall Asheville _ 38 38 0.00 Atlantic City_ 38 25 0.00 Boston_ 32 15 0.00 Burlington _ 26 10 0.00 Cincinnati____ 38 32 0.00 Denver_ 61 30 0.00 Duluth _ 25 19 0.00 Fort Worth_ 62 40 0.00 Jacksonville_ 58 30 0.00 Key West_ 69 69 0.00 Louisville _ 37 32 0.00 Meridan _ 56 30 0.00 Minn.-St. Paul_ 28 20 0.00 New Orleans —’-* 60 39 0.00 Norfolk _•_ 36 31 0.00 Pcrtland. Me._ 29 01 0.00 St. Louis _ 36 32 0.00 Savannah_v_ 56 32 0.00 Washington _ — 34 28 0.00 138 Jap Planes Put Out Of Action In 3 Days By Americans Over Lae Used To Action Active air fighting when he wins his wings will be nothing new to aviation cadet Frederic I. Mayer, of Young America, Minn., a student at the Preflight Training School at San Antonio, Texas. As a member of the U. S. Air Force he took part in 28 raids on Jap positions in the Aleutians. He was a radio operator. SIX ALLIED SHIPS LOST IN ATLANTIC Figure Lowest Reported In More Than A Month By U. S. Navy By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Submarine destruction of six Al lied and neutral merchantmen — the lowest figure reported in more than a month — in the western At lantic was disclosed last week by Navy announcements and other re ports but public officials continued to warn of the gravity of U-boat warfare. Director of War Information El mer Davis stressed the “continuing serious submarine menace” and said that to tlie best of his knowledge the Germans were still building more submarines than the United Nations were sinking. He said the toll that the German subs were taking of Allied shipping was cre ating “heavy losses in ships and in the cargoes that go with them.” Davis added that the United Na tions for “some months” have been building ships faster than Axis subs were sinking them. To keep ahead of American merchantmen produc tion alone, the raiders will have to sink four ships a day now and five in May, according to a report made by President Roosevelt and Rear Admiral Emory S. Land. Admiral Land, in charge of the Shipbuilding program, said that United States shipbuilders con structed 8,009,000 deadweight tons of merchant ships in 1942, well above the 8,000,000 goal set for the year-, and the president said Ameri can yards ^vili exceed their 1943 IPota of 16.000,000 tons. Five of the ships anounced as lost during the seven-day period ended Saturday were sunk of South America and in tire south Atlantic. The other was sunk in-anid-Atlantic and • marine underwriters followed the trend by cutting war risk in surance rates for shipping north of South America. Three American, one British, one Swedish, and one vessel of uniden tified nationality were lost. The sinkings raised to 587 the Associat ed Press count of announced sink ings of allied and neutral merchant men in the western Atlantic since Pearl Harbor. The tally of sinkings by areas off .the United States 198; off Can ada 50; in the Caribbean 176; in the Gulf of Mexico 46; off South Amer ica and in the south Atlantic 117. 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. * - i 85 KNOWN DESTROYED Remainder Are Believed ;To Have Crashed Or Definitely Damaged ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Aus tralia, Jan. 10 —(A1)— A record breaking flow of official reports disclosed today the magniture of the most destructive purely aerial drubbing given the Japanese in tne southwest Pacific and possibly the most extensive administeied in any area. It was in the con voy-air battle of Lae, New Gui nea. Americans in the Coral Sea, at Midway and at various engage ments in the Solomo-s have taken a heavy toll of Jap fighters and bombers but in most instances warships and anti-aircraft have played a part. In the three-day battle of the Lae convoy ending yesterday Aus tralian and American planes pro bably put out of action 133 planes, all Zero fighters except one bomb er. Of these 85 were definitely de stroyed, 29 probably destroyed and 19 damaged. But the very ferocity and vir tual continuity of the pounding ad ministered by all types of Allied planes attacking day and night from different altitudes renders it difficult to assess the degree of success or failure of the Japanese mission—to get them and material ashore at their key base in the mandated territory of New Gui nea. One 14,000 » transport defini tely was sunk before reaching Lae. Another transport was sunk while unloading at a pier and a third was sent to the bottom of the har bor, whether before or after un loading the reports do not Lndi cate. Japanese personnel and supplies which managed to land under this assault must have taken a heavy beating, for throughout Friday night and Saturday morning Al lied aircraft rained tons of bombs and fired tens of thousands of rounds of cannon and machine gun missiles on the wharfs and ware houses along the northern and noitheastern coast of New Guinea. Allied air losses were not re vealed, but a spokesman describ (Continued on Page 5; Column 8) -_V NEW RAIDS ON JAPS WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. — (A1) — The Navy announced today that air forces in the Solomon Islands had carried out two new raids on the Japanese air base at Munda on New Georgia Island and that a probable hit was scored on one anti-aircraft battery. RAF Attacks Japanese Targets At Rathedaung NEW DELHI, Jan. 10.—(If)— RAF bombers escorted by fighters attacked Japanese tar gets in and near Rathedaung, about 25 miles north of Akyab, in Burma yesterday and other fighter planes strafed a line of enemy forces near Ingvi, northwest of Shwebo, a Brit ish communique said today. Railway installations at Ky aupadaung, west of Meiktlla, were attacked and two oil trucks were set afire and oth ers damaged, it was reported. At other points in western and central Burma, buildings and gun positions of the Jap anese were targets for British planes. Derides Luftwaffe A veterans of fi8 flights over Ger man-occupied territory, Capt. Sain A. Maurielio. U. S. Army Air Force, says the Nazi Luftwaffe is no longer the striking force if used |o be. After two years of combat duty with British and U. S. flying for ces in England, he said upon his return to America that Nazi fliers now “want odds in their favor bc fore they’ll give a real fight.” BRITISH BOMBARD BIG KRUPP WORKS Sprawling Armament Fac tory In Essen Hit By RAF Raiders LONDON, Jan. 10.—UP)— Essen, site of the sprawling Krupp Works which is Europe’s largest arsenal, was raided last nigh'c by perhaps 150 big British bombers, seven of which were lost. Returning pilots reported they left fires raging all over the great industrial area, some of them visi ble for 100 miles, with the bom bardment that included a shower of two-ton block busters. They said they were subjected to in tense swarms of German night fighters. It was the fifth raid in seven nights on the heavy German in dustrial area of the Ruin-. Tlje German communique broad cast from Berlin, without announc ing the target, said the population suffered casualties. <jooa resuits were seen, the Air Ministry said. The raid was one of the few re cently in which the weather was clear. Extensive mine-laying op erations were carried out in Ger man-controlled waters. Essen is a city of 500,000 which lies in the heart of the great Ger man coal mining district. Even in peacetime, the Krupp Works employed 35,000 workmen produc ing guns, tanks and other war ma teriel, locomotives, freight cars, trucks, farm machinery and the whole gamut of heavy industry. It was the 50th attack on Essen, one of the previous being a 1,000 plane raid soon after Cologne was laid waste. With the 1943 bombing campaign less than three weeks old, the ris ing crescendo of blasting on Axis arsenals indicates that the British and United States have produced -hough planes and trained enough mews to blast the enemy on a steadily rising scale. Only 17 silanes have been lost, including seven U. S. bombers over St. Na [Continued on Page 5; Column 6) PUSH ON ROSTOV Offensives Less [Than 60 Miles From City Roll ing Ahead RAIL JUNCTION TAKEN Germans Reported Hurling Attacks At Velikie Luki Sector By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON, Monday, Jan. 11. —The Russians early today announced the capture of 12 towns and localities by Red army soldiers flanking the important railway junction city of Georgievsk in the Caucasus and declared their offensives less than 60 miles from Rostov were rolling steadily ahead. Russian troops ffcught their way into Georgievskaya, on ly four miles north of the im portant railway junction of Georgiesvsk, said the Soviet bureau of information com munique broadcast by the Moscow radio and heard by the Soviet monitor here. In the continued sweep in the Caucasus, the communi que said, the Russians also captured the town of Voront sovo - Alexandrovskaya, 50 miles northeast of Georgi evsk, Petrovskoe, 80 miles north of Georgievsk, and these places in the general lo cality of the junction city; the district center of Kamen nomostskoye, Sarmakpva, Ma ika, Otkaznoye, Abilnoye, Ge orgievskaya, Nezlobnaya, Ly sogorskaya and the railway station of Kuma. Much Materiel Taken The Russians declared they had catoured large quantities of \.ar materiel in the north Caucasus and in one place had wiped out more than 200 “Hitlerites” and captured “many prisoners.” Fighting In the lower Don basin was intense, the communique indi cated. and in one area a Russian unit was said to have beaten off sir enemy counterattacks. “The Hitlerites suffered heavy losses,” the communique added, and were unable to stop the advancing Russians. By the end of the day’s fighting, the Russians declared, 600 Germans had been killed, eight tanks destroy ed and some prisoners taken. Reports from Moscow said tho Red army had broken through to Ust-Kagalnitsky, on the north bank of the Don, a bare five miles east of the point where the Donets Joins the Don above Rostov. This indi cated that the Russians had by passed the large town of Konstan tlnovsk, on the Don east of Ust-Ka galnitsky. In the area of Zimovniki, below the Don on the Stalingrad-Krasno dar railroad, the Russians said they "liberated several more populated places from the German Fascist in vaders and inflicted heavy losses in manpower and materiels on the enemy.” On the central front the Germans were reported hurling ceaseless counterattacks against the Russians southwest of Velikie-Luki. "Our detachments by rifle and mortar fire cut off German infan try from their tanks and armored cars and are now continuing the en gagement for their annihilation,” the communique said of the fight ing in this area. (A British radio broadcast heard (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) Most East Coast Automobile Owners Keep Cars Off Streets Under OPA Ban (By The Associated Press) Automobile owners, from Maine to Florida, for the most part kept their cars in the garage yesterday (Sunday) in observance of the or der of the OPA that pleasure driv ing is out, at least until the fuel oil situation is improved along the eastern seaboard. All kinds of reports trickled in from the 17 states affected. Some said the traffic in the larger cities was the lightest since the advent of the automobile. Others told of overcrowded trolleys and buses and of stranded dance and ice skating parties. In some places, taxicab drivers refused to accept calls on the out skirts of towns where other means of transportation were available. New York’s Fifth avenue, often called the busiest thoroughfare in the world, was free of pleasure cars or blocks at a time, during hours when automobiles would seem an endless chain in normal times. Meanwhile, authorities took steps to improve the heating sit uation, or at least ease it wherever possible. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey ordered a state-wide investigation of the fuel oil crisis in New York, di recting state police to search out particularly illness or deaths from lack of heat, and complaints of inequalities of distribution. Mayor F. H. LaGuardia of New York city also announced that he had devised a plan whereby 100, 000 additional barrels of fuel oil may be moved into the East Coast area daily. He said he would go to Washington tomorrow, (Tues day) to present the plan to the Senate committee investigating fuel oil. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7)
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