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VOL 49-NO. 58 -- WILMINGTON, N. C.. TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1943 ESTABLISHED 1867. "
ALL GERMANS EXPELLED
FROM VORONEZH AS BlA
RED DRIVE ROLLS A'
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I near tikhoretsk
Newest Area Gained Is
Close To Vital Junction
Below Rostov
PRISONERS ARE TAKEN
Capture Of Railhead Would
Draw Noose Tighter
Around Foe
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, Tuesday, Jan. 26
—The Red army rolling west
ward on a 500-mile front has
expelled all the Germans from
Voronezh, upper Don citadel,
and reached a point 40 miles
from Tikhoretsk, key Cauca
sian rail junction below Ros
tov. Moscow reported today,
and Premier Joseph Stalin
has ordered his troops to hurl
back the invaders “over the
boundaries of our mother
land.
A special communique
heard here last night an
nounced the complete occupa
tion of Voronezh, which the
Germans had seized narthi in
their summer drive. Eleven
thousand more prisoners were
reported taken to make the
total for that front 75,000.
Belaya Glina Falls
The midnight communique told
of ;he capture in the Caucasus of
Belaya Glina, a 12-mile advance
since Sunday. It put the Russians
only 40 miles from Tikhoretsk,
where the Stalingrad-Novorossisk
and Roscov-Baku railways meet.
Tikhoretsk’s capture would draw
a firmer Russian noose around the
big Nazi 'rasa of Rostov toward
which Soviet troops already are
fighting 56 miles east of Rostov
and 70 m'Jes to the north. It also
would cut off the retreat of Nazi
troops based between the Tikhor
etsk line and the Black Sea—ex
cept by evacuation to the Crimea
across the narrow Kerch straits.
Russian troops in the lower Cau
casus already are menacing Kro
potkin 40 miles south of Tikhor
etsk, after seizing Armavir to con
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_V_
'BEN HELD. HERE
ON DRAFT COUNT
FBI Arrests Pair For Fail
ure To Give Change
Of Address
Because they failed to notify
their local draft boards of changes
in address, two white men have
been arrested here by FBI agents
on charges of violating the Na
tional Selective Service act.
Craig Kensenger Baker, 35-year
°bi seaman whose address was iist
e.i as New York city, waived a pre
liminary hearing before U. S. Dep
th Commissioner W. A. Wylie,
.v. end ay morning and was bound
over to Federal court at Philadel
phia. under $2,000 bond.
He was returned to the county
jail here in default of bond to await
transportation to Philadelphia. The
"arrant charges that he violated
'he act, by failing to notify Local
board Number 4 of Philadelphia
his, changes of address.
Baker was arrested in a rooming
noH!® here Friday night.
agents here Monday morn
I'ng said that Grady Kelly Ward,
on Page Six; Col. 3)
New Major Nazi Red its
Predicted By Axis Radio
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Stalin Demands Rout
Of Germans And Full
Expulsion From Land
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, Tuesday, Jan. ZB.
—Premier Joseph Stalin in an
oTder of the day broadcast by
the Moscow radio today said
that the Red army had ad
vanced 245 miles in two
months and captured more
than 200,000 prisoners, and he
demanded: “Forward to the
routing' of the German inva
ders and their expulsion over
the boundaries of our mother
land.”
“The offensive of our troops
continues,” he said in the or
der, reported by the Soviet ra
dio Monitor here.
Stalin’s call for the expul
sion of the Germans from
Russia indicated that the So
viets had no intention of slack
ening their huge winter drive
that already has rolled the
Germans back from the Volga
river and is threatening to
wipe out all the Nazi gains of
last summer and fall.
The Russian leader said 1BZ
Axis divisions had been routed
in the westward sweep, and
13,000 guns and a large quanti
ty of other enemy equipment
had been captured.
PROBE INTO AP
SUIT DEMANDED
Indiana Solon Wants Inves
tigation Of Federal
Action ,
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25—UR—A
new demand' for an investigation
of circustances “surrounding and
leading up to” the Justice De
partment’s suit charging the As
sociated Press with violation of
anti-trust laws was made in the
House today by Representative
Harness 1 E-Ind).
Harness introduced a resolution
to create a special seven-man com
mittee to make the investigation.
A resolution calling on the judi
ciary committee to conduct an in
quiry was introduced last week by
Representative Shafer tR-Mich).
The investigation proposed by
Harness would be for the purpose
of determining “the truth or falsi
ty of assertions that the bringing
of such action is a part of a plan
to restrict or destroy the freedom
of the press in the United States.”
In a statement prepared tor tne
Congressional record, Harness said
he believed a special committee
should be named because“this
action directly and vitally touches
basic private rights specifically
guaranteed in the bill of rights in
a way which should make it of
paramount interest to the whole
house.”
The burden of the government’s
complaint against the Associated
Press, Harness said, is that it
“illegally restricts the use of its
news-gathering and news dispatch
ing facilities.” that it has no right
to restrict its membership, and
that it illegally requires partici
pation members to furnish locally
gathered, news to the association’s
membership. *
Asserting that publishers ’ with
out regard to their immediate re
lation to the case” have denounced
the suit as an attack on freedom
of the press or a move to benefit
“publishers who are administra
tion supporters,” Harness said:
“The unadorned facts in the case
convince me that either or both
counter-charges may be justified.”
The Indianan said the character
(Continued on Page Six; Col. 6)
Hansen Girl Expressed
Desire To Meet Actor
LOS ANGEllES, Jan. 25.-W—A
ht. . e te soda fountain girl, Mona
/S,day told the iUfy try
fJL rro1 Flynn on statutory rape
in §es tilat one of the complain
fnL^tn,esses> Betty Hansen, in
pi ed her she hoped to meet
m, ,antl get into the movies
"hh his help.
AIiss tVlervyn said she worked
a drug store where Miss Han
a H'dcoln, Neb., girl, was
B '."y^ :or two wekes. She said
, 1p told her she considered
‘y™ good looking.
defense switched to testi
Ul|j about Miss Hansen after
(•.mooing as its first witness
rp- Hubert L. Oliver, of Glen
I
dale, Calif, now stationed at a
Texas Annoy camp. Oliver said
he was employed by Flynn as a
seaman on his yacht, the Sirocco,
that he was aooard the vessel the
night 17-year-ola Peggy la Rue Sat
terlee, the othei complaining wit
ness, contends she was seduced by
the screen stai.
Oliver 'testified he heard no dis
turbance or outcry and that Flynn,
to his knowledge, was not below
deck at the time of the alleged
attack.
Flynn, Oliver said, was at the
wheel all the way home. Asked if
he watched Flynn all the while,
(Continued on Page Six; Col. 4)
SAY VORONEZH LOSS
Berlin Claims Intention To
Shorten Whole Of
Red Front
BY THE ASOCIATED PRESS
More major German retreats to
“a new main defense line” were
predicted yesterday by the official
Nazi news agency DNB after the
high command announced the
evacuation of “the bridgehead of
Voronezh” and again pointed up
the plight of their Sixth Army
trapped west of Stalingrad.
“The German high command
plans to shorten the whole of the
Russian front and to build up a
new main defense line,” a DNB
broadcast, recorded in London by
Reuters, said.
Undersecretary oi war Robert
P. Patterson said Sunday in Bal
timore that it appeared that the
Russians might force the Germans
back to the Dnieper river.
The latest in a series of official
pronouncements about the Stalin
grad force, as recorded in New
York by the Associated Press,
said:
“In heroic and self - sacrificial
fighting against overwhelming su
periority, the Sixth Army at Stal
ingrad attached immortal glory to
its colors.” The communique said
fragments of the Rumanian 20th
infantry and first cavalry were
fighting beside the Germans, esti
mated by the Russians to have
shrunk from 220,000 to less than
40,000 starved and chilled men.
Lord Haw Haw, the Nazi broad
caster, went further in a broad
cast beamed toward England and
the United States, saying there was
nothing left for the Germans at
Stalingrad but death.
“There is such a thing as giv
ing life to create life,” Beflin’s
English - speaking propagandist
said, “in this moment of history
it may be that death is the surest
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OPA WARNS FUEL
COUPON HOLDERS
Dealers Must Turn In Cer
tificates Or Stand To
Lose Permits
Dealers who hold IOA certifi
cates for oil, given them by con
sumers, have not turned the cer
tificates in and therefore stand to
lose their permit to receive addi
tional supplies of fuel oil, it was
announced here Monday night by
officials of the New Hanover War
Price and Rationing board.
Last Saturday was supposed to
be the final day for submission
of certificates by fuel oil dealers
to the ration board, yet the cer
tificates were not forthcoming,
board members declared.
The RaVon board, as a favor
to dealers, and to avoid hold-ups
in oil distribution, is willing to
accept IOU certificates from deal
ers. Thoughtful action on the part
of dealers and primary distributors
will result in immediate surrender
of the certificates, the board em
phasized. Bottled-up oil supply will
bring addpd hardship to consumers
should a cold wave strike the area.
Meanwhile, until the IOU cer
tificates are handed in, wholesale
distributors are unable to predict
their needs or to release oil sup
plies to negligent dealers.
WEATHER
Forecast: For North Carolina Continued
Mild Tuesday.
Tides For Today
High Low
Wilmington -12:51a 1 55a
1:10p 8:33p
Masonboro Inlet-10:34a 4-39a
Moore’s Inlet-10:39a 4.44p
New Topsail Inlet-10:44a 4:49a
(Elmore’s) ---;,U'i2p, s -13p
(All times Eastern Standard)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25—(ff)—Weather
bureau report of temperature and rain,
fall for the 24 hours ending 8 p. m. in
the principal cotton growing areas and
Station , High Low E’fall
Atlantic City-« J6 0.00
Boston- « 38 0.00
Burlington- 42 14 0.00
Cincinnati_——-3° u,uu
Denver -_ 30 17 0.00
Duluth _ 1 20 °'00
Fcrthworth- 24 21 0.00
Jacksonville - 8° 62 JJjJJ
ifpV West _ 80 68 0.00
Louisville_ 63 46 0.60
Aieridian - 88 66 0.00
Minn.-St. Paul- 4 16 0.00
New York-52 33 0.00
Pittsburgh- 62 43 0.00
Richmond— - 77 48 0.00
Savannah_ 79 58 0.00
V.'Cksburgh - 70 60 0.00
Washington-.1- 70 40 0.00
{Supreme War
“ uncil For
V
lies Seen
United Nations Reported
To Have Reached
Big Agreement
OFFICIALS ARE SILENT
Momentous Announcement
Of Plans Believed
Coming Shortly
LONDON, Jan. 25—(JP)—
The United Nations were re
ported tonight in diplomatic
circles to have agreed on a
formula for some kind of a
supreme council to direct and
unify efforts to win the war
in 1943. s
British, United States, Rus
sian and Chinese officials re
mained silent on the grand
strategy talks known to have
been under way, but it is no
secret that some extremely
important announcement af
fecting the Allied conduct of
the war is imminent.
Unification No Secret
It is no secret either that a
unification of strategy has been
high on 1he Allied agenda f o r
months, nor that as part of this
unity, great attention is being giv
en to the problem of coordinating
Allied armies in North Africa un
der a single command.
The British Eighth Army com
manded by Gen. Sir Bernard L.
Montgomeiy under supervision of
Gen. Sir Harold Alexander, the
Middle East commanrer, is near
ing a junction with the British
First Army, the U. S. Fifth Army
and the French all under the di
rection of Lieut. Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower, the American.
Recent speculation has centered
on Gen. George C. Marshall, U. S.
Army chiei of staff, as command
er-in-chief of Allied forces in the
European theater. Walter Farr
cabled to the Daily Mail that
“keen observers” in Washington
predicted the Marshall appoint
ment. He also said that Vice Ad
miral Sir Percy Noble, head of
the British Admiralty delegation
in Washington might be placed in
charge of a united campaign
against submarines.
Noting the great volume of public
discussion, some observers viewed
many rumors as having been
planted de’iberately to obtain pub
lic reaction.
If so, the renewed public, of
ficial and press attention to the
submarine menace must have
placed the U-boat problem high
on the Allied agenda, along with
the resolution of French political
differences and wide scale offen
sive for 1943.
The cry for offensives to crush
Germany, Italy and Japan has
come increasingly from critics
who expect an intensification of
the German submarine campaign
with 500 to 700 undersea craft.
These critics assert that the an
swer is harder bombing attacks
like the week-end assault on such
submarine lairs as Lorient and
Brest, moie patrol craft and more
escorting craft, particularly the
small, speedy boats and destroy
ers, for convoys.
AMERICANS SLASH A T NAZIS
WITHIN STRIKING DISTANCE
OFROMMEL’S RETREA T LINE
General Montgomery’s Mesage To His Men
This is the message that General Montgomery, c ommander in chief of the British Eighth Army, dis
tributed to liis men on the evening of the attach on T ripoii, Mussolini’s one-time colonial citadel. British
troops raced on west toward Tunisia where Allied forces were mopping up Nazi chutists. Montgomery’s
inspiring message said in part: “Nothing has stopped ,u s since the battle of Egypt began on October 23, 1942.
Nothing will stop ns now. On to Tripoli.” This is a r adiophoto.
United States War
Production Figure
Outstrips Allies
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25—UP)
The United States has now out
stripped the war production
rate of every other Allied na
tion and has supplied $8,253,
000 worth of lend-lease goods
and services to other countries
from March 11, 1941, to De
cember 31, 1942, Lend-Lease
Administrator Edward R. Stet
tinus, Jr., reported to Con
gress today.
The furnishing of lend-lease
aid declined from a peak of
$915,000,000 in October to $810,
000,000 in November and $757,
000,000 in December, the re
port disclosed.
Walter Lippmann Says:
Lend-Lease Opposition
Most Unsensible Thing
By WALTER LIPPMANN
The Associated Press reports
that the Republican leaders in Con
gress have decided not to support
an attack on lend-lease. No other
decision was possible. To oppose
lend-lease today, to suggest that
the United States should not do
all in its power to help our Allies
fight our enemies, would be just
about as sensible as to suggest
that we economize by closing down
the Panama Canal and dismant
ling Hawaii. The British Isles,
Russia and China are so obviously
vital to us that Senator Wheeler,
for example, who was no enthusi
ast for lend-lease two years ago,
is now proposing to defeat the
Germans by relying almost en
tirely upon lend-lease shipments to
our allies
That is going further than a pru
dent estimate of the facts can jus
tify. But it shows what a political
howler the Republicans would
have made if they had taken the
position that only Americans must
use American weapons, and that
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hopkins must
not be allowed to deprive Amer
icans of the privilege of fighting
a good Dig bloody single-handed
war against the Germans and the
Japanese.
• Lend-lease will be continued for
the same reason that it was adopt
ed two years ago, once the com
pelling logic of supporting our Al
lies has been laid before the peo
ple. What is more, the underlying
principle ot lend-lease will for the
same compelling reasons be ex
tended into the period which fol
lows immediately upon the armi
stice and lasts until order has
been restored.
This will be done, not because
we are Lady Bountiful or Santa
Claus to the human race, but be
cause at bottom our vital interests
demand it. Once the realities are
examined, the case will be so ob
viously compelling that public men
who are now committing them
selves to oppose it will wish they
had not been in such a hurry.
The testimony which was brought
forward two years ago against the
adoption of lend-lease will show,
if we read it now, that the op
position thought we had a free
choice between “intervention”
against Hitler and “staying out of
the war.” They would not and
gpuld not believe, though the mat
ter was explained to them, that
Japan and Germany were allies
in aggression and that, if Britain
fell, Germany would attack us in
South America while Japan ran
wild in the Pacific. A month be
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French At Marseille
Revolt Against Nazis
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, Jan. 25—Revolting Frenchmen barricaded
themselves inside their homes in the old port district of
Marseille tonight and began fighting German troops who
called up tanks and artillery, reports from Switzerland
said.
The revolt in restless France broke out after German
occupation authorities and their puppet Vichy regime
headed by Pierre Laval ordered the'
evacuation and razing of the en
tire area of 40,000 persons.
DNB dispatches to Madrid and
Lisbon said that 40,000 persons al
ready had been arrested, but a few
hours before the Vichy radio said
only 0,000 had been rounded up.
A Reuters dispatch from Zurich
said that an undetermined number
of Frencliment dug up their guns,
fortified their home as best they
could, and began firing on every
German soldier approaching.
The German troops then summon
ed artillery and tanks and began
besieging the French in a house-to
house fight in the labyrinthian sec
tor of narrow dark streets.
The Marseille fighting highlighted
the increasing trouble encountered
by the Germans and their Vichy
regime throughout the country.
The Berlin radio broadcast a
Vichy dispatch late tonight admit
ting that the Marseille drive was
“not only against ordinary crimi
nals, but also against various secret
political organizations which have
settled in the city.”
(Laval’s regime was saia xo nave
carried out 10,000 “investigations"
of Gen. Charles de Gaulle’s fighting
French adherents and Communists,
and the Nazis themselves have ar
rested ”500 persons every month”
since the occupation.
Trouble has flared up previously
in Marseille, where the Germans
are busy fortifying the coast against
(Continued on Page Six; Col. 5)
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mington Morning Star,
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m. and one will be sent to
you by special messenger.
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AMERICANS GAIN
IN PACIFIC WAR
Important Territorial Ad
• vances On Guadalca
nal Reported
WASHINGTON. Jan. 25.—(#1—By
air, by sea and by land, American
fighting men going into action in
the Solomons over the week-end
made important territorial gains
against beleaguered Japs on Guad
alcanal island and inflicted heavy
damage on the enemy over a
widely scattered area.
The operations, a Navy commu
nique disclosed today, resulted in
capture of the village of Kokum
bona, seven miles west of Guad
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FRENCH MARCHING
Le Clerc’s Forces Now West
Of Tripoli Near The
Mediterranean
NAZIS STILL RUNNING
Part Of Desert Corps Now
Behind Mareth Line
In Tunisia
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, Jan. 25—A raid
by American troops to within
striking distance of Marshal
Rommel’s line of retreat along
the Gulf of Gabes in Tunisia
and sharp progress of the
Fighting French columns
seeking to hit his flank, were
disclosed today as the bulk of
his army poured into Tunisia
for a possible rendezvous with
the forces of General von Ar
nim.
Allied headquarters in
North Africa announced that
American troops had thrust
into the town of Maknassy,
capturing 80 Axis prisoners
in an area only 33 miles short
of the Gulf of Gabes, and Bri
gadier General Jacques le
Clerc’s headquarters reported
that the Fighting French
were now operating west of
Tripoli and had only 50 miles
more to go to reach the Medi
terranean.
Critical Phase Near
Rommel’s retreat from Libya,
meanwhile, had taken most of his
forces some 60 miles within Tu
nisia. Field dispatches reported
that all his Italians and the great
er part of his German corps were
behind the Mareth line in south
ern Tunisia, and a critical phase
was approaching in the Allied ef
fort to cut him down or seriously
weaken him short of any juncture
that the American action at Mak
with von Arnim.
There was nothing to indicate
that the American action at Mak
nassy ■ was more than a raid in
force, and U. S. military sources
here warned against expecting an
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ALLIED BOMBERS
POUND JAP SHIPS
Flying Fortresses Stage
Another Raid On
Rabaut Area
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA—(Tuesday) Jan. 26—
(.T1)—A strong force of Flying For
tresses spent more than two hours
over the big Japanese base (lC Ra
baul on New Britain island around
midnight Sunday and went as low
as 200 feet to plant hits on one ship
probably laoded with munitions and
blast a large hole in the side of
another.
The first vet ’^''exploded.
Anti-aircraft and search
lights were intense as the big
bombers came, in low to assualt
1 the oft-bombed base where 20.000
1 tons of shipping was reporfQu des
troyed last week-end.
Other Allied bombers made
smaller raids on FinscMiafen and
the New Guinea ports of Lae and
iEaiamat^i. The Japanesef for their
part,- confined their raid schedule
to light night attacks on Port
Moresby and Milne Bay, New
Guinea. &.
Negro Cook Questioned
In Pullman Berth Dearth
LOS ANGLES, Jan. 25—W)—Po
lice today questioned a Negro cook
about the slaying in lower berth 13,
and took statements from two
women who said they were on
the same train.
Robert Folkes, 21, was second
cook on the train on which Mrs.
Martha Virginia James, 21-year
old bride of a Naval ensign, was
fatally slashed in the throat. The
slaying occurred as the California
bound train was nearing Klamath
Falls, Ore.. Saturday.
Folkes told detectives R. B. Mc
Creadie and Vernon Rasmussen
that he had had several drinks be
fore getting on the train and then
had had a few more at a pri"*te
I*
p.J '•: f . dinning car. He told
went through ?drs.
J&. < \ Might Ct the mdr
dfcy, fi's \ne was-on his way
to the sdSkfng car where he stay* '
ed. -5 minutes. He insisted’he wai
not the slayer, police said. ^ ?.
Meanwhile -wo girls, who»e
iaentity was not disclosed, told
detectives N. S. Meza and Harijr
Rowe they were on tl)e death train.
They had berth 16, near Mr».
James’ fatal Vi.
Shortly before Mrs. James fell
dying into the corridor, the girls
were given two free sandwiches
by a waiter.
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