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f Leased Wire Ci The : C1ATED PRESS UE<i AND FEATURES With’ ompleie Coverage Of Slate ^nd National News VOL 49—vi. 48___ ESTABLISHED 18 Subtrban Residents Hem Explanation Of City Limit Extension Council Members Answer Questions Of Dwellers In Affected Area FACILITIES OUTLINED Mayor Declares Sections Incorporated to Get City Advmtages City council members sounded out the opinion of suburban dwell ers on the question of extension of the city limits', as 20 citizens appear 'd in ths January council meeting Wednesday morning to air their views on Wilmington’s current number one project. The council itself was subjected to questionings, as again and again the citizens testifying ask ed the city groCP to explain ex actly what facilities would be available to them once their homes and street are incorporat ed into Wilmington citv limits. Yc R'plies To Queries In amve Mayor Edgar L. Yow, speaking r the cou. cil, declared that all cilities now enjoyed by citizens living within the present limits ""'th the exception of street lights a ’ paving (lighting mate rials aril asphalt are now rated critical materials) would be ex tended to the areas immediately upon coming into the city limits or as soon thereafter as they could be install°d. Elaborating on this statement, lie said: A bill is now Being araneci to be presented at the present ses sion of the legislature which he said will make it possible to bring the personnel of the police and fire departments up to a strength to cover the expanded city. There are no priorities on sewer and water line material and sewer and water lines will be built out to homes in the new areas as fast as they ran be constructed. Although asphalt is unobtainable. the city's repair crews will be sent to the new areas as soon as they are brought within the limits to bring roads and streets there on a par with streets in the present limits. A second oft-reiterated question was that c* taxes and the mayor said that citizens in the affected areas would have to pay the pres ent city tax rate of $1.40 per hun dred dollar valuation in addition to the county tax rate. However, he said, that if the plan goes through this year, citizens coming into the city will not have to list taxes until January, 1944, and the taxes would become j due until October, 1944. By that time, he declared, the city will have had time to extend a ma jority of the facilities into the new areas. In answer to questions from the group, he said that it would be impossible under present laws for sections of the area to be zoned and city taxation instituted only the facilities are installed. C i several occasions, Mayor Yow pointed out that the plan adopted and publicized by the council was only a recommendation and that Senator J. E. L. Wade and Repre sentative R, M. Kermon were free to follow or disregard the council plan. He further pointed out that the bill drafted by Messieurs Wade and Kermon would not become law until adopted by the general assem bly and voted on here by the clti zens affected. A number of citizens present ob jected that the council's plan, both as to area involved and facilities to be extended, was too vague and 'bat it had received insufficient Publicity for the average citizen to Pass upon its merits. "Is there any doubt about the Plan on the part of the people out side the city limits that they are going to get the facilities?” the Mayor asked. He was answered by a chorus of a?es and one citizen declared that (Continued on Page Twelve; Col 2) WEATHER WEATHER ^oi'th Carolina: Slightly warmer Thurs day, (EASTERN STANDARD TIME) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) •Meteorological data for the 24 hours enamg 7:30 p. m., yesterday. Temperature 1:30 a. m., 44; 7:30 a. m.. 40; 1:30 p. JJ” 42» 7:30 p. m., 40. Maximum 50; I Minimum 38; Mean 44; Normal 46 Humidity 1.30 a. m., 70; 7:30 a. m., 47; i -30 p. to- 46; 7:30 p. ir.., 66. Precipitation Total for the 24 hours ending 7-30 p. to'. 0.00 inches. Total since the first of month, 0.98 inches. Tides For Today Hish lj0W Wilmington_ 4:10a n :2oa . 4:34p U.44p ^iasonboro Inlet_ 2:12a 8:26a .. 2:37p 8 ’46p Moore’s Inlet _ 2:17a & 31p v 2:42d 8:51p "?.w Topsail Inlet_ 2:22a <f:36a '‘■'move’s) _ 2:47p 3,56p ““"Vise, 7:18 a. m..; Sunset. o-25 p. ' ■ Moonrise, 12:49p.; Moonset, 1:17p. Continued on Page Twelve; Col. 4) Measures To Regulate Justice Of The Peace Placed Before Solons RALEIGH, Jan. 13|—(d>>—Two measures to regulate Justices of the peace and a pair of bills to put income tax payments on an installment basis were plac ed before the General Assembly today. Senator Price of Rockingham introduced a bill to amend the constitution to place control and supervision of magistrates in the hands of the General As sembly, while Senator Leary of Chowan sponsored a measure to provide a uniform system for the selection and compensation of Jaypees. Under Leary’s bill, each county would be allowed two magistrates and one additional for each 20,000 population above 15,000. The justices would be appointed by a committee com posed of the resident judge, chairman of the board of coun ty commissioners, the mayor or mayors of municipalities in the county, a member of the local bar and the clerk of Superior court. 57THlREIGHtER LAUNCHED HERE S. S. Robert Howe Christ end By Miss Dorothy Elizabeth Matteson The North Carolina Shipbuild ing company launched its 57th Liberty freighter, the “Robert Howe” here at 5:15 p. m. Wednes day. Named for General Robert Howe of Brunswick county, a Revolu tionary soldier, the ship was sponsored by Miss Dorothy Eliza beth Matteson of Wilmington. Her maids of honor were Miss Betty Lee Williams of Hampton, Va., and Miss Peggy Greene, of Florence, S. C. Howe was bom in Brunswick county in 1732. After spending his youth in this country and in Eng land, he was appointed captain of Fort Johnson, N. C., by the Eng lish governor, Tryon, and a baron of the exchequer. However, he sided with the American cause and on August 21, 1775. was appointed colonel of the Second North Carolina regiment by the colonial congress, which met at Hillsboro. Ordered to Virginia in Decem ber, 1775, he was successful in driving the British governor, Lord Dunmore. out of the eastern sec tion of the state, and was pro moted to brigadier general. In that capacity, he commanded the North Carolina troops at the defense of Charleston, and a short time later succeeded General James Moore as chief in command of the southern department. He was promoted to major gen (Continued on Page Twelve; Col. 3) Senator Wants Hull Queried On Feeling On Flynn Nomination WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—<**> —Senator Bridges (R-NH) said ■ today lie hoped the Senate For eign Relations committee would ask Secretary of State Hull whether he approved of the nomination of Democratic na tional chairman ■ Edward J. Flynn to be minister to Austra lia. Talking to reporters, Bridges expressed hope also that the committee would hear testimony by members of the grand jury which heard charges against Flynn in the New Tork City paving block case and exoner ated him. This jury investigat ed charges that a courtyard on Flynn’s estate was paved with city materials and labor. Great Series Of Daylight Sweeps By Americans And British FACTORIES HARD HIT Many Direct Hits Register ed On Industrial * Area At Lille LONDON, Jan. 13—(JP) — Large bomber forces and American and Allied fighters —nearly 400 in all—made one of the greatest series of day light raids of the war today on occupied France and Hol land. * The heaviest attack was de livered by Flying Fortresses which bored through swarms of German fighters to regis ter many direct hits on indus trial plants at Lille. Three Fortresses were missing from the Lille attack and two RAF fighters failed to return from Holland. Three enemy planes were shot down. Shuttle Across Channel The Flying Fortresses and the RAF’s newest and fastest light bombers shuttled across the chan nel from noon until late afternoon ,to paste these targets: Lille—High altitude attacks by the Fortresses on Nazi-controlled industrial plants and railways were successful. It was the third heavy raid on Lille and the 17th bombing attack there since it was captured by the Nazis in 1940. St. Omer—RAF Boston bombers scored many hits on the German occupied airfield. Abbeville—Vega Ventura bomb ers with an escort bombed the airfield from a low level. Northern France — Mosquitoes bombed railway centers from low level and engine sheds and repair shops were hit. Holland — Transportation and gun positions were blasted. Fighter pilots who were out dur ing the day included American, British, Canadian, New Zealand, Australian, Belgian, Norwegian, Polish ana Fighting French. The raids were carried out in (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) localWgro gets 80-100 YEAR TERM Sentenced On Four Counts Of Burglary; 20-25 Years In Each Stanish Polite, Wilmington Ne gro, drew a term of from 80 to 100 years imprisonment, When he was sentenced in superior court Wednesday afternoon by Judge Q. K. Nimocks, of Fayetteville. The judgment represented the longest term sentence for burglary record ed here in many years. Polite, charged with entering the' home of J. A. Owens, 410 North Third street, on the morning of November 21 for the purpose of burglarizing the residence, was convicted on four counts; each count carried with it a sentence of 20 to 25 years. The total sentence, penalty for burglary in the second degnee, may result in a prison stretch of from 80 to 100 years. The defendant was assigned to such hard labor as may be meted out by the State Highway and Pub lic Works commission. Two true bills were returned by the jury against Polite on Tues day afternoon and two others were returned on Wednesday morning. Pleading guilty to sec ond degree burglary, the state ac (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) Slight Hope Given East For Gas Ban Relaxation WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.— W— An Office of Price Administration officia ltold a special Senate ecom mittee today that OPA was try ing to simplify gasoline rationing, but he offered eastern states only slight hope of a return to pleas ure driving. Meanwhile, Petroleum Adminis trator Harold L. Ickes limited the inventories of al 1 gasoline and fuel oil resellers, as well as in dustrial and commercial consum ers, in the eastern shortage area, to a 10 days' supply. The purpose, it was explained, was to assure more equitable distribution of the products. Charles S. Phillips, chief of the automotive supplies division, said it might be possible to relax the ban on pleasure driving after the winter heating crisis which strains transportation for the shipment of fuel oil, and estimated the re mainder of this emergency period at 65 to 70 days. But when Senator Burton (R-Ohio) said, “you don’t want to give the impression that after 70 days the ban on pleasure driving (Continued on Page Three; Col 6) RED JUGGERNAUT CRASHES THROUGH SAGGING NAZI FORCE IN CAUCASUS; ALLIES RIP ROMMEL’S AIR COVEk __ . S' AIRFIELD RAIDED 34 Axis Planes Destroyed By Big U. S. Flying Fortresses NOT A PLANE IS LOST Heaviest Assault Yet De livered From West On Nazi Forces ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 13—(IP)—American Fly ing Fortresses, destroying 34 Axis planes aground and aloft in a brilliant raid on Castel Benito airfield, 10 miles south of Tripoli, have torn a con siderable hole in the already thin air cover on which Mar shal Rommel is depending for an effective retreat from Libya into Tunisia. In this, the heaviest as sault yet delivered from the west on the Axis in Tripoli tania, not an American plane was lost, Allied headquarters announced today. Tops All Action The Fortresses’ attack, deliver ed yesterday, topped all other ac tion in the North African theater, where land operations were mark ed only by patrol encounters in the area between Bou Arada and Goubellat in Tunisia and along Rommel’s route of retreat in east ern Tripolitania. While the Allied communique stated only that 14 planes were shot down sharp running combat; during the Castel Benito raid, an air force spokesman added that at least 20 German planes were smashed on the ground. He esti mated that at least 10 more Nazi craft were damaged in the air— thus bringing the enemy’s possible losses to as high as 44 planes. The Axis pilots, flying Messer schmitt 109’s, apparently were un der instructions to get the For tresses at all costs. Avoiding the American fighter escort, they swooped upon the big bombers and were met by terrific blasts from the cannon of the raiders. Enemy plane after plane plum meted out of action but every For tress, despite the German’s con centrated effort, reached home safely, although one limped in two hours late on two motors. (At the eastern end of the Allied line—in Libya—the British com mand announced complementary air blows in which five enemy fighters were destrdyed in com (Continued on Page Twelve; Col. 5) r Allied Airmen Blast Jap Planes and Ships In the great air battle, which developed during an Allied air attack (arrows at left) on a Jap convoy bound from Rabaul to Lae. 138 Jap planes have been destroyed, probably destroyed or damaged, and at least three Japanese transports have been sunk. Two more hits on Jap shins were reported. Navy air men in the Solomons (arrow at right) continued th e raid on the Japanese air base at Munda. -* - WORK PROGRESSES ON HOSPITAL HERE Excavation Work Nearly Finished; Forms For Concrete Laid With the excavation work for the new addition to the James Walker Memorial hospital nearly complet ed the forms for the foundation are now being laid, it was learned Wed nesday eveningg. The Bear Memorial building, for merly uged as an isolation ward, is now being torn down to make room for the new annex to the nurses’ quarters. The three story brick addition, which will provide tor much need ed ward space and a new power plant, is expected to be completed in six or eight months. This an nex will ease crowded hospital con ditions now existing due to the in creased population in Wilmington. Financed for the most part by the Federal Works Agency, the con struction is being done by the Fowl er-Jones company, general contrac tors of Winston-Salem, while the plumbing and heating contract has been granted to the J. R. Bagwell company of Durham. Walter Lippmann Says: Synthetic Rubber Talk Seems Headed For FDR The controversy over priorities; for the synthetic rubber plants; seems headed for the White House.; Unless the answer is more self evident that it now seems likely to be, would it not be desirable to reconvene the Baruch commit tee and ask it for an advisory opinion? There are, it seems to me, good! reasons for doing this. The con-1 troversy has arisen because much the same kind of mechanical equipment, of which there is a short supply, is needed for the rubber plants, for the high-octane gas plants needed for combat avia tion, and for the escort vessels whiqh the Navy uses to fight sub marines. No one will deny that the Navy escort program is of absolutely first importance in the year 1943. No one who knows a little of the history of that program will have any doubt that come what may, the construction of these indispen sable ships must not be interfer ed with again as it has been in the past. Nor will any one deny that hign octane gas, which #is now used solely for aircraft in battle and no longer for training, is of equal importance. Our military prospects for 1943 in all theaters of war are based first of all upon the con quest of the air. But when we come to rubber, though no one will underestimate its vital importance, the position is not so absolutely clear as it is in regard to the escort vessels and the high-octane gas. It is not jo clear because it is by no means, certain that we have reached the j limit of our power to conserve the i existing supply of rubber. It may be that Mr. Jeffers has | done all that can safely be done to make the existing supply last a few months longer — the few months of the danger period which would come if he doesn’t get the absolutely highest priori ties for his whole synthetic pro gram. All that the ordinary lay observer can say is that the ap pearances are against him, and that the civilians do not seem to be conserving rubber as strictly as they could. A matter of this sort should not, however, be judg ed by mere impressions, and a judgment by the Baruch commit tee would, therefore, be very use ful. It would be useful to know from them whether existing tires could not be conserved still more if throughout the country pleasure driving were prohibited for a few months — say all Sunday driving and all driving after 8 o’clock in the evening except, of course, for war workers, doctors, and those specially designated as doing in dispensable services. It would be useful to know whether further savings could not be had by strict rationing of tires for commercial vehicles, and by expedients which I compelled them to get along with poorer quality tires. Certainly it is not on its face convincing for Mr. Jeffers to assume that escort (Continue on Fftlf Twelve; Cel. 4) Allies Increase Attacks By Air On Japanese Bases ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Thurs day, Jan. 14—(TP)—Slowed down on the ground by pouring rain that turned the whole Sanananda sector of New Gui nea into a swampy bog, Allied commanders broadened their air attack against the Japanese with raids on four bases. A single Liberator raided Madang and Finschhaf en on the northern New Guinea coast northwest of Lae. Flying Fortresses, supported by mer1 dium bombers and fighters, struck at Lae and Salamaua. Over Gas mata, New Britain, a Liberator shot down two and probably got a third out of six Zeros which tried to in terrupt its reconnaissance. In the area of Lae—where the Japs succeeded in landing remnants of reinforcements from a convoy last week but paid for the attempt with 138 planes destroyed or dam aged and at least three transports and a warship sunk—large fires were started among barges, stores and harbor installations. A Japa nese fighter was destroyed on the ground at the Malabang inland air strip adjacent to Lae, Nine Japanese heavy bombers raided Merauke, on the south coast of Dutch New Guinea for the sec ond day in succession, slightly damaging a jetty. Petroleum Products To Be Sent Here By Waterway From South WASHINGTON, Jan. 13— UP) — Senator Maybank (D-SC) said to night the Petroleum Administration had advised him the capacity of Plantation pipeline between Baton Rouge, I .a., and Greensboro, N. C., would b.e stepped up an additional 30,000 barrels a day by February 1. , Major J. R. Parten, director of the transportation of the Petroleum office, also said in a letter, the senator reported that the trans Florida pipeline from Carrabelle to Jacksonvilfe would be In operation by February with a daily capacity of 35,000 barrels. Maybank said he was informed the petroleum products brought in to Jacksonville by the pipeline would be distributed northward through the intercoastal waterway as far as Wilmington, N. C., using various types of barges. CHADBOURN MAN SLAIN BY NEGRO Harry Phipps, White, Fat ally Shot While Walk ing On Street WHITEVILTJE, Jan. 13 — Harry Phipps, young white man of Chad bourn was shot and killed on the streets of Chadbourn about 7:30 Wednesday night, and Wayman Grainger, Negro, has been charged with the slaying. No motive was ascribed for the crime. Phipps, accompanied by his broth er-in-law Graham Walker and his nephew, J. C. Phipps, was walk ing in front of the Waccamaw Bank and Trust company building when the Negro is said to have passed the trio and suddenly whipped out his pistol to fire the death-dealing shot. There had been no previous trouble between the victim and the Negro man, it was said. Grainger was arrested by Colum bus county officers and jailed. Coro nor H. Hugh Nance of Cerro Gor do was called to the scene. Surviving young Phipps is his wife, and two small children, a son and daughter; the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Phipps, Chadbourn; two sisters, Mrs. Graham Walker and Mrs. Winslow Hinson, Chad bourn; and two brothers, Emory of Chadbourn, and Frank, of Claren don. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made. 7 FRENCHMEN EXECUTED L'ONDON, Jan. 13. — (g> — The Fighting French reported today that seven Frenchmen accused of an attempt on the life of Marcel Deat, Fascist editor and collabora tionist party leader, had been exe cuted at Tours by the Germans. Driving To President’s Birthday Party Banned WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Iff)— The office of Price Odministra tion today specifically banned driving to the President’s birth day ball celebration this month in an interpretation of the ban on pleasure driving in the eastern gasoline shortage area. OPA said that driving to any place of amusement, even though the affair was for charity, was pleasure driving, and gave the President’s balls as examples of the forbidden type of gasoline con sumption. Driving to a nearby restaurant to eat, however, was listed as one of the permissible types of trips. OPA also made It plain that an eastern driver can make a non essential stop of any kind if it is on the route of an essential trip. For instance, a person driving home from work could stop for a drink or a social visit, so long as the stop takes no extra gaso line. OPA issued a two paragraph statement on driving to restau rants and places of entertainment, and also issued a series of ques tions and answers explaining, the (Continued mi Page Three; Col. 3), ADVANCE RAPID Offensive Continues Roll Forward Near Mineralnye Vody MANY GERMANS SLi Soviet Army Smashes l Counterattacks In Roi tov Sector MOSCOW, Thursday, 14 _ (/p) — The Red a pushed rapidly north thr< sagging German forces hi Caucasus yesterday, adv ing 50 miles from the C gievsk-Mineralnye Vody to Zhuravsokye, it was nounced officially early day. The offensive also coni ed to roll forward at a sl< pace northwest of Minera Vody, where sharp ' counterattacks were be off. Altogether the Russ said they seized 12 towns railway points, killed dreds of Germans and ca\ ed 100. To the north, along lower Don river where Russians are threateninj Nazis on the approach* Rostov, the midnight munique said the Rusi had smashed a series of h Nazi counterattacks. No cific Russian gains (claimed in this area. Berlin Admits Drive (The Berlin radio said the S had opened another offensi the fifth for the winter — i Voronezh sector on the uppei 300 miles northwest of Stall! but said the Germans were caught by surprise and re; the Russians. The Germans » times have announced Russia) jor drives ahead of Moscow muniques.) Zhuravskoye in the Caucasu the farthest point reached b: Russians in their drive due from the Mineralnye Vody-f railway. Other towns seized Sabienskoye, Novoselks-Koye, Kitaevskoye. Zhuravskoye is 45 miles wi Budennovsk and less than 20 south of Blagodarnoye, the head of a line running nort to the Krapotkin-Divnoye line. The communique indicate! Germans were now stiffening ! Caucasus after being route more than 100 miles from * EVACUATING OFFICER LONDON, Thursday, Jan. _tJPi—Reuters’ Moscow cor pondent reported today that Germans were evacuating tl high officers from Staling by air. Mozdok-Nalchik areaB. The R< my’s advance now is along roads and across fields, but they have reached Blagodarno] Russians will have cleared a west across the Caucasus and toward the great lake region The latter area already has reached by a Red army ci that pushed south from Stall through Elista, provincial cap the Kalmyck republic. Fanning out along the Caui railway the Russians pushed miles northwest of Mineralnye yesterday to seize the railway tion of Kumaorsky, and also the settlements of Kangly ant cheskoye in this sector. One soviet unit was said to wiped out more than 500 Gei during the day, and seized German guns, four automatic 28 machine guns, 67 trucks, cartridges, four ammunition ( and a herd of cattle. In another sector the Gei tried a counterattack, the co nique said, but Red tank me der Senior Lieut. Dorozhki stroyed all 14 Nazi tankp t! into the battle. Soviet troops (Continued on Page Three; C NOTICE! q If your carrier falls leave your copy of the I mington Morning S t Phone 3311 before 9:0< m. and one will be sent you by special messenger
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