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fcprved By Leased Wire Of The -■“—“I associated press BEMEMBEB NEWS AND FEATURES DP ART HARRflR With Complete Coverage Of Pfc“L “ABBU,S Slate And National News AND BATAAN __ " ESTABLISHED 1867. AMERICAN BOMBERS LOOSE DESTRUCTION ON WILHELMSHA YEN COPENHAGEN ' first All American Blows At Germany On Heels Of Conference RAF CONTINUES RAIDS Fast Mosquito Bombers Hit At Denmark’s Big Shipyards LONDON, Jan. 27—(£>)— Swarms of Fortresses and Liberator bombers struck the first all - American blows at Germany proper today with heavy raids on the naval base of Wilhelmshaven and the re lated Emden industries, while their Allies of the RAF for the first time in the war bombed Copenhagen, Den mark. The targets of the after noon raid by fleet Mosquito bombers of the RAF were the shipyards in the Danish capi tal which are working for Germany, and this attack fol lowed night raids by the bomber and coastal commands on the submarine pens at Lor ient on the French coast and Bordeaux, farther to the south. Coordinating Air Pounding The coordinated night and day raids, concentrating on U-boat nests and factories, were the tirst lightning blows of the war after the announcements that a 1943 pat tern for world conflict had been fashioned at Casablanca by Presi dent Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. Stockholm dispatches said four persons were killed in the bombing of Copenhagen, which had been a matter of speculation in the House of Commons only yesterday when it was pointed out that U-boat Die sel engines were made in the en virons of the Danish capital. Although Danish targets such as Aarhus and Aalborg had been bombed previously, Copenhagen was spared up to today. The Mosquitos, flying low and Ian. bombed the Copenhagen naval installations and saw many bursts the targets. One Mosquito was lost. The Fortress and Liberator raids op Germany were on the grand scale expected to become routine practice. The heavily armed 4-engine planes went on their missions with out escort and found surprisingly little opposition. Wilhelmshaven was heavily bombed by a large force of Flving Fortresses, U. S. headquarters an nounced, but results were difficult Iuuserve. I ’he Liberators winged over north st Germany to pound Emden in iouble-pointed assalt that fot'ow swiftly on the heels of disclo e of the Roosevelt-Churchill iference in Casablanca to lay r plans for 1943. hree of the unescorted force of nbers were lost, but a number enemy fighters were destroyed, headquarters communique de inti-aireraft fire was light and urning Yankee pilots declared was a picnic. We caught them npletely unawares.” 1 sizeable fleet of German ships rely was missed by the Amer in raiders. The vessels were spot 1 entering Wilhelmshaven just :er the bomber force wheeled «y from unloading their high ex [ sives on the submarine fitting id harbor fixtures, ihe full damage was obscured by heavy cloud formation over the J-get which forced the bombers a unload quickly through a closing ole in the overcast. The obviously heavy aerial wal Continued on Page Three; Col. 8) WEATHER M FORECAST: North Carolina: Rain Thursday. (Eastern Standard Time) *“F ' s- Weather Bureau) data for the 24 hours t, >..10 p, m . yesterday, l.sn „ Temperature », « S3 r:; 7:30 »■ m- «.n i-so p. 7'"° p- m-> 41.2. 54; Minimum 39; Mean 46; l ift « Humidity 88-"t *• tr>:96; 7:30 a. m., 98; 1:30 p, m„ ' 1 -m P. m„ go. Tci ,i { , ‘Teeipitation * ni,,<‘ 24 hours ending 7:90 p. lr mches. ^'’inches10* 4Ile *irst ot 11le In°nth, Tides For Today Sim... . High Low Moonrtsr' 1:12 a- m ’: Sunset 5:38 p. m.; llsc> ; Moonset, 11:22. Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) \ r— Allied Casualties Less Than Half Of Japanese In Recent Papuan Fight Allied Headquarters In Aus tralia, Thursday, Jan. 28—(^»)— Allied casualties in the victori ous Papuan peninsula campaign in New Guinea were less than half of the enemy’s, General Douglas MacArthur’s noon com munique reported “today. (Jap losses in the campaign have never been fully stated but on January 26 an Allied spokesman estimated that 3,000 Japs were killed in the ffinal assaults. Previous estimates have placed the size of the Jap army which waged the Papuan campaign at 15,000 men.) GIRAUD-DEGAULLE MERGER FAVORED Meeting Of French Heads Bright Spot In Afri can Parley ALGIERS, Jan. 27.—The an nouncement that Generals Giraud and deGaulle have decided to estab lish “diplomatic relations” and will hold further negotiations, together with the relaxing of censorship on political discussion, were the most favorable developments in North Africa today in the Wake of the Roosevelt-Churchill conference. A communique from the head quarters of Gen. Giraud North Af rican high commissioner, hailed the conference as having gained “sub stantial results” for France, and said personal contact with Gen. de Gaulle of the Fighting French had “permitted the first examination of the conditions under which the French effort in the war of libera^ tion might be organized.” "Exchanges of-views will be coii tinued on this subject,” the an nouncemnt added. “It has been de cided henceforth to establish perm anent liaison.” (London dispatches said ambassa dors will be exchanged, and that Gen. Georges Catroux will be de Gaulle’s representative in North Africa.) The Allied conference on North African soil caught almost all res idents by surprise and created more interest than a bombshell, literally. When a small force of Axis bom (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) -v FLYNN APPROVED BY SENATE GROUP FDR Appointee As Aus tralian Minister Okeh ed By Solons WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.— m — The Senate Foreign Relations com mittee put a 13 to 10 stamp of approval today on President Roos evelt’s nomination of Edward J. Flynn to be minister to Australia, and sent it along to a doubtful fate in the Senate. Three Democrats —Senators George of Georgia, Van Nuys of Indiana and Gillette of low a— broke across party lines to oppose the 23 member committee’s en dorsement of the former Demo cratic national chairman. The test found 12 Democrats and Senator LaFollette (Prog. Wis.) voting for Flynn, seven Republi cans and three Democrats against him. Senators Glass (D. - Va.), who supported the nomination, and Johnson (.R.-Calif.) who opposed it, were absent and voted by proxy. Chairman Connally (D. - Tex.) told reporters he assumed the ac tion of the committee would be approved by the Senate next week, but opponents were claiming pri vately that the nomination might (Continued on Page Three; Col. 7) NewJapanes1 Airfield ByU__ Foe Sets Up Base Within Raiding Distance Of Guadalcanal ON BAILLALE ISLAND Big Bombs Start Many Fires; All Planes Return Safely WASHINGTON, Jan. 27— (A*)—A new Japanese airfield, established within easy raid ing distance of Guadalcanal in the Solomons, has been hit hard by American bombers, the Navy disclosed today. Flying Fortresses roared Tuesday over the field on Bal lale island, three miles off the northeast coast of Short land island. Weak Anti-Aircraft Fire They encountered only weak an ti-aircraft fire, dumped their loads of bombs and returned safely to their base. The big bombs blew holes in the terrain and started many fires in revetments, or arti ficial embankments, constructed to afford shelter from strafing at tacks and shrapnel. Ballale Island has been bombed several times before, but always the Navy had referred only to at tacks on enemy installations with no mention that an airfield was under construction. The island is about 300 miles northwest of our Henderson airfield on Guadalca nal, the Navy said. No indication of the size of the new enemy airfield was given. However, it was presumed that it was one of many smaller fields the Japanese have been establish ing in an effort to scatter air pow er at separated several bases in the area. The Navy has turned .attention also Wake Island, unmentioned in reports of Pacific battling since last December 23 when American planes unloaded thousands of pounds of bombs, starting huge fires. Only reconnaissance planes par ticipated in the latest action over Wake. They were attacked by eight Japanese Zero fighters. In the ensuing dogfight two of the Zeroes were believed shot down. All United States planes returned safely. Where the reconnaissance planes were based was not disclosed. Wake Island, taken by the Japa nese after a long defense by a little garrison of Marines, is 1,994 miles west of Pearl Harbor and 1,028 miles southwest of Midway Island. _v_ LOCAL RED CROSS COAL IS $35,000 Citizens Of Wilmington To Be Asked To Aid In Campaign Citizens of Wilmington will be asked to contribute to the Ked Cross 1943 campaign fund the sum' of $35,000, it was announced by J. Henry Gerdes, chairman of the Wilmington Red Cross chapter/ at the annual chapter meeting held, Wednesday afternoon in the Tide. Water assembly room. The 1943 roll call opens on March 1, with Walker Taylor, local insurance man heading the year’s war fund drive. At the same time he divulged the local goal, Mr. Gerdes declared that the national Red Cross finan cial goal had been set at $125,000, CC0. The story of how Red Cross handled the funds handed to its (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) Girls’ Charges Denied As Ei rol Takes Stand LOS ANGELES, Jan. 27.—<#)— Actor Errol Flynn, unsmiling and serious, entered a firm, blanket denial in superior court today that he was guilty of any misconduct with showgirl Peggy LaRue Sat terlee, who accuses him of twice raping her. Answering various points in Miss Satterlee’s testimony, Flynn as serted that he did not enter her stateroom while his luxurious 73 foot yacht Sirocco was anchored in a placid bay off Catalina island last August; that he did not seduce her on the return trip the follow ing day, and that he made no overtures tO'her at any time. He further denied that he had told anyone that “this girl attack ed me last night,” or that “she bit or kicked me.” His time at Catalina was spent largely, he tes tified, in posing for fishing pic tures for a magazine, and during the return trip he was almost con stantly at the wheel of his vessel, which encountered rough weather. On the Saturday night when Miss Satterlee charges him with entering her room and making love to her, Flynn went almost immediately to his own quarters on returning to the boat, he said, (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) I ___ w - ■ -- —■ —■ ■ ---.--_ _ REDS NEAR ROSTOV Big Russian Drive Now Re ported 60 Miles From Vital Base FOE LAYS DOWN ARMS 2,000 Axis Troops Report ed Surrendered Be fore Stalingrad (By The Associated Press) LONDON, Jan. 27 —Rus sian troops have captured 3,350 more German survivors of the 220,000-man Nazi army trapped at Stalingrad, leav ing more than 8,650 doomed troops on the Volga, while in the continuing offensive to the west another Red army salient has driven to a point 60 miles from Rostov, and. 80 miles from Kursk, two big Nazi bases, Moscow said to night in a regular communi que recorded here by the Soviet radio monitor. _ Many Quit Fighting Two thousand Nazi troops 'laid down their arms, including one whole regiment,” at Stalingrad, and another 1,350 also surrender ed, the midnight bulletin said. This was near the central part of Stal ingraa. The other remaining enemy pocket north of Stalingrad was be ing annihilated, it added. The Russians had announced yes terday that only 12,000 trapped Germans remained to be Exter minated after a general Red army attack began January 10 when the remnants of the 22 Nazi divisions refused, to surrender. Since then more than 40,000 have been killed and 31,350 captured. Sweeping westward from recap tured Voronezh on the upper Don river the communique said the Russians hadoccupied Gop-sheeh oye, 80 miles east and slightly south of Kursk, big German base on the Moscow-Kharkov railway. This town is about 50 miles south west of Voronezh. As evidence of the continuing rout on the Voronezh front the | communique said that 5,000 Axis j troops, including a colonel, two majors and a captain, surrendered “after a short battle” in the Var vorovka-Shelyakino sector, which is 45 miles east of Soviet van guards who already have taken Volokonovka on the Moscow Yelets-Kupyansk railway. The Russians already had re ported the capture of more than 64,000 Axis troops on this front, most of them Hungarians, Italians, and Rumanians, who were show ing less disposition to continue the struggle against the crushing So iet steamroller than the Germans. Where Historic Conference Occurred_ i Dotted lines from Washington and London indicate distances President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill traveled to confer at a hotel in Casablanca (circled) North Africa, with heads of the French government. Shaded areas are Axis-dominated. _ Axis Peace Offensive Blocked By Conference LONDON, Jan. 27—(IP)—The 1943 world strategy conference of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill at Casablanca has forestalled a new German peace offensive, observers said today, and informed quarters said the immediate result is likely to be the announcement of an over-all command for the impending battles of Tunisia. An unofficial American source reported that full agree ment was reached at Casablanca on a commander to take charge of British forces driving from' the east and British, American and French armies In Tunisia. An RAF commentator added that early announcement also was ex pected on plans to coordinate the efforts of Allied air forces in Li bya, Malta and Tunisia, all of which are hammering at the same targets. While parts of the British press obviously had expected disclosure of more concrete results toward es tablishment of a United Nations war council for all theaters and a French unity, bouyant members of Parlia ment expressed confidence that de velopments of the utmost import ance soon would become evident. Political observers said indications that Adolf Hitler would offer a compromise peace as part of his 1943 plans had been multiplying for a month. Unconfirmed but persis tent reports said his proposals were to be made through non-belligerent Spain and would contain an offer to withdraw from western Europe while retaining territories oAupied in Poland, Russia and the Balkans. Thus the Casablanca declaration that the United Nations would be satisfied with nothing short of un conditional surrender of Germany, Italy and Japan was viewed as hav ing smashed this peace offensive be fore it could even get started. It was expected also that the conference’s clear statement that (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) Walter Lippmann Says: Woollcott Appeared. Well Prepared For His Death By WALTER LIPPMANN Alexander Woollcott, who was stricken during a radio broadcast on Saturday evening and died a few hours later, was quite well prepared for death. The last time I saw him, which was a few weeks ago, he talked about the corre spondence which he carried on with his great friend, Alice Duer Miller, during her long illness, and of how much it had meant to her that, with him at least, she did not have to pretend that she was going to recover. It was evident that he wanted me to know that he would prefer to be treated that way himself, with no moaning of the bar when he put out to sea. Some months ago, when he was discharged from the hospital after a critical illness, he wrote me that “my recent operation has already been voted a spectacular success. It is predicted that by fall at the latest I shall be entirely well, a somewhat disconcerting outcome, as all my planning had envisaged a different contingency.” Yet I know that he would like his friends to say what they felt about him. That will be easy. For Woollcott’s talent, and his pleas ure, and his ambition, and indeed his vanity, was in his friendships, which were exceptional and var ied, among the great and the sim i e, the eminent and the humble. He spent more time, and cer tainly more of his best energy, on conversation and on letter-writing than he did on his published works. And thus his fame will grow and his legend flourish, as in the course of time his letters are published and his table-talk finds its way into the memoirs of our age. He liked applause and he liked being a public character, and he liked a good audience. Yet, among men of letters, he was singularly with out the careerist’s vices, the proof being his pleasure in the successes of others and his indefatigable passion for making his friends ad mire his friends. This private virtue was also, I think, the source of his distinc tion as a critic. In the writing of criticism it is much harder to ex press apprecation than it is to find fault, it is much easier to be interesting and witty in the as sault than it is in putting into words why the author’s work is good, enjoyable, and worthy of praise. Only the best critics are able to write convincingly and persuasively when they praise. Woollcott had a sharp taste. He had a piercing eye for sham. He had an acid tongue. But he had gusto, he really liked what he praised, and he cared much' more for the men and women he liked than he worried about those he (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) STORY INCOMPLETE ON AFRICAN MEET Momentous Events In Mak ing May Give Full Picture Soon WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.— W—A broad hint came from the White House today that the story of the Roosevelt - Churchill meeting at Casablanca is yet incomplete; that momentous events in the making will give the full picture. Presidential Secretary Stephen Early said the account is com plete “so far as it can be told at the present time.” But, he advised “subsequent chapters undoubtedly will be written as events unfold.” An indication that some of these might be forthcoming quickly was seen in a statement by Secretary of State Hull that he expected to comment soon on some of the "more vital phases” of the de cisions reached there. The State Department head also made the disclosure of the con ferences an occasion for reproving those who have been critical of the State Department in regard to the North African situation. In response to a request for comment, he told a press confer ence that critics should wait until they had all the facts before speak ing. Criticism that political diffi culties in North Africa' were not being resolved was particularly heavy, he observed, while the heads of the British and American governments were there laboring on the problems. In the absence of any hint as to what events might be expected, speculation was rife. In the- first place, there was a widespread be lief that‘far more than has been announced must have been invol ed or the President and Prime Minister would not have risked the hazards of their meeting. The fact that they spoke of de (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) STAUN RECEIVES ROOSEVELT NOTE Russian Premier Also Gets Letter From Winston Churchill MOSCOW, Jan. 27.—(IP)—Admiral William H. Standley, U. S. ambas sador, and W. Lacy Baggallay, Brit ish charge d’affaires, called at the Kremlin today and handed premier Stalin a joint note from President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Chur chill. At the same time the Soviet radio was informing the people of the details of the Casablanca confer ence. Previously only the official communique from Casablanca had been read over the radio. Admiral Standley refused to dis cuss what was in the note or even say if he knew what it contained, but it was learned it related to military plans. Their conference with Stalin last ed half an hour. Questioned after ward as to whether the Soviet lead er seemed pleased with the note, the ambassador said: “He’s a placid man. He doesn’t get excited easily.” But he said Stalin seemed over joyed at the news from Stalingrad and about the success of the Red army over the encircled Germans. AsHed if Stalin seemed more pleased over this news than over the note, the ambassador laughed guardedly and replied, “well, it is hard to say about him. He doesn’t get very excited, you know.” Se described the premier as “very serious” and showing “he’s had a busy month.” By this, he added, he did not mean to imply that Stalin looked in bad health but merely had the appearance of a very busy man with much responsibility*. In reply to questions Standley said he could not say whether the Soviet premier knew in advance about the Roosevelt-Churchill meet ing. Reminded that foreign broadcasts had given the impression that Stal in had been kept up to the minute on details of the Casablanca con ference, he referred reporters to the communique issued in North Af rica which said merely that Stalin j had been “fully informed of the military proposals.” Standley said Stalin was smoking a pipe when he received the en voys. “A peace pipe?” one reporter ask ed flippantly. “No, by thunder,” said the am bassador. “He was smoking a war pipe.” Asked if he could discuss wheth (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) Negro Cook Arrested In Pullman Car Death ALBANY, Ore., Jan. 27.— W— The second cook ol the Southern Pacific’s West Coast limited was charged today with the slaying of an attractive young Navy bride in lower berth 13. The break in the fiction - like “murder on the mainline” mystery came with the unexpected filing by Linn county District Attorney Harlow L. Weinrick of a first-de gree murder charge against Rob ert L. Folkes, 20-year-old Negro, arrested in Los .Angeles as the train ended its 1800 - mile run through Oregon and California. Police Capt. Verne Rasmussen said in Los Angles that Folkes confessed slashing the throat of blonde Mrs. Martha Virginia Brin son James as she lay in her berth while the train rolled through Linn county in the early-morning dark ness Saturday. Rasmussen said, however, that Folkes retracted his admission of killing the 21-year-old daughter of a prominent Norfolk (Va.) family. Weinrick said Folkes would be denied bail. Mrs. James, married only four months to Ensign Richard E. James, also a member of a prom inent Virginia family, was slain, (Continued on Page Three; Col. 7) ( M L ROMMEL RUNNING Africa Corps Commanded Seeking To Join With Von Arnim HOLD KAIROUAN PASS Vital Passageway Now III Hands Of Allies On Foe’s Route (By The Associated Press) LONDON, Jan. 27—Amid gathering signs that a final offensive to drive the Axis out of North Africa may be near, the Allied North Afri can command disclosed today the recapture of several cen tral Tunisian positions with which the enemy had sought to form a line to protect the flank of Marshal Rommel’s retreat into Tunisia from Li bya. Rommel, whose forces were strung out widely with some behind the Mareth line about 60 miles into Tunisia, was backtracking fast in the ef fort to join with General von Amim’s Axis army in Tuni sia, but an assertion of Axis radios that his advanced ele ments already had made the rendezvous were not confirm ed in any Allied quarters. contact is inaae The British command in Cairo announced that contact had been made with Rommel’s rearguards as early as yesterday somewhere west of Zavia, which itself is 30 miles beyond fallen Tripoli — the first contact reported in three days. In Tunisia, the Allied communi que announced that a number of positions in the Ousseltia valley and in the mountains to the east had been regained—by the attacks of American troops who went to the support of the French, it was disclosed authoritatively. An Allied spokesman said in supplement “Now we hold the Kairouan Ousseltia pass.” This was in the sector of what had been the most menacing Ger man advance, and one unofficial report from the front said Amer ican mechanized units, infantry and artillery had advanced five miles to occupy the pass. A French headquarters commu nique tonight disclosed two of the specific areas in which the Amer icans were successful. North of Ousseltia, where it was said action had become localized, American units cleared the ground to a depth of from six to nine miles, while in the mountainous region east of Ousseltia the Yanks aided French troops in making “definite advances” and in taking about 50 Axis prisoners. U. S. and British forces were in contact with two German out posts, obviously fighting a delay ing action, in the high mountain range of the Grande Dorsale, run ning southwest from Pont du Fahs. American and British infantry met just north of the Ousseltia valley as they moved through the scrub covered mountains to mop up the last elements remaining from the German thrust into Al lied positions. Reports of small arms, ammu nition and food abandoned at sev eral points indicated the German departure was hurried and un planned. The French alone destroyed an Italian advanced post to the north* east of Pichon, the French com munique said. Allied warplanes were handicap ped by bad weath r but successful attacks on German railway com munications were reported from Allied headquarters in North Afri ca, while from Cairo it was an nounced that Liberator heavy bombers of the Ninth U. S. Air Force had attacked Messina in Sicily, and that fighter aircraft had held Rommel’s retreating col umns under attack. The Italian radio reported that (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) NOTICE! 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