The Sports Trail
By
Whitney Martin
NEW YORK, Jan. 29—(/P)—We’re going to have to
keep our eyes on the Cincinnati Reds this year, which
won’t be unusual. We’ve been keeping our eyes on the
Reds for four or five years now. For a while it was easy,
but the last couple of years we couldn’t follow them very
well. Just point to which way they went, which wasn’t up.
Anyway, you can expect better things from the Reds
this year. They have hired our little friend, Bill Miller, the
voice of Tulsa, to synchronize the minds an muscles of
the athletes and make them
the picture of grace, and don’t
ask us Grace who?
Little Bill is the fellow who sold
us on the Tulsa football team.
He did it by mail, and there is
no telling how far we would 'lave
gone out on the limb if he had
talked to us. He is very convinc
ing, and undoubtedly would have
had us writing poison letters to the
Tennessee Vols before the Sugar
Bowl Game.
Ue was guilty of just one over
sight. He forgot to tell us that all
bets were off if Tulsa had to run
with the ball, as the Hurricane
was strictly 4-F on the ground and
had to get up in the air where the
traffic was lighter to do much
good.
However," thafs water over the
Tennessee Dam. The point is that
Tulsa had---a-'-pretty fair football
machine, and after hearing about
Glenn Dobbs throwing strikes with
his passes, the Reds probably fig
ured that if Little Bill could teach
football players to throw like that
he should be able to teach athlettes
to throw a baseball, which isn’t
stuffed with air and consequently
has a better sense of direction.
His theory is one of body balance
and his aim is the development of
the relaxation of the muscles. It
E.nie Lombardi still was with the
Reds he would be giving Little Bill
lersons in relaxation, as Ernie al
ways is as relaxed as a pound of
liver, and can remain motionless
for hours, even when running re
bases.
Like any pioneer, Little Bill has
had his troubles in convincing
skeptics that his ideas had merit,
as when a man builds a better
mousetrap the mice don’t like it
However, his history is a history
of successes, and he’ll practically
guarantee results, so you can’t
laugh off his theories.
He’s coached championship bas
ketball teams dating back to the
o:tl Schnectady Eagles and run
rung up through the National A.A.
U. Champion Tulsa Oilers in 1933
34. Lately he has been experiment
ing with his theories in other sports
inrluding football, handball, ‘cn
tus and bowling.
Ke isn’t one of these gents who
stands around telling you how to
change a tire. He gets out and de
rinmstrates. He’s not a kid any
more, and he’s not much bigger
than a jigger, but he is as fast as
light and he’s constructed of steel
v,aes.
Two or three years ago he gave
us a hotel-room demonstration of
hi s muscle-control-and-relaxat' on
ideas, and we were duly impress
ed. A chief factor seems to be the
art of putting forth effort at the
exrct moment it is needed, ss a
fellow picking an apple off a tree
doesn’t need to be picking it all
the time he is reaching up for it,
bul only when he gets his claws
on it.
We have an idea that if the Reds I
l;s'en carefully and are conscienti-i
ous in following Little Bill’s exam j
pie. they will benefit greatly.
And you've got to give him cre
dti, too. He's taken on a big job.
H- s subbing for Florida sunshine.
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PILOTS AWARDED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—C^P)—
p-ilots of six planes from which pa
rachute troops dropped into enemy
held territory in North Africa, have
been awarded the Air Medal for
‘•excellent piloting, timing and
handling of - aircraft,” the War De
partment announced today. They in
cluded First Lt. William M. Tharpe,
Moultrie, Ga.
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medium bombers, B-25 Mitchells and
B-26 Marauders and escorted by P
38 Lightning fighters. Six Axis
planes rising to the defense were
shot from the sky.
"The Fortresses,” said the air
force spokesman, "scored direct hits
on the docks, starting large fires,
while B-25’s dropped bombs at 50
foot intervale and all over the
freight yards.”
The B-26's concentrated on har
bor works and warehouses, setting
off big fires.
Allied fighter planes were thrown
against enemy troops in the Ous
seltia valley and against Axis ar
mored forces to the north of that
sector.
All these widespread operations in
Allied planes, An overnight enemy
the Tunisia theater cost only two
bombing attack in the Algiers area
cost him three bombers.
The Axis radios, nervously anti
cipated the major Allied blows w'hich
were believed in preparations, con
tinued to broadcast reports of this
or that Allied offensive action, all
of which were invalidated by the,
announcement of the Allied com
mand:
“There is no change in the ground
There was no further word during
situation.”
the day of the activities of the Am
erican ground forces which earlier
had been reported pointed toward]
the rear of the Mareth line in
southeastern Tunisia, behind which
considerable of Rommel’s forces
have been deployed.
JAPS LOSE VITAL
! AREA TO YANKEES
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ers, attacked an enemy destroyer
and a cargo ship in Vella gulf,
13-mile-wide body of water between
Kolombangara and Vella Lavella
islands. Two direct hits were scor
ed on the cargo vessel which was
! “left sinking," the communique
| said, and several near hits dam
i aged the destroyer which was left
smoking.
The other destroyer and cargo
ship and the tanker were discov
ered next day about 14 miles north
west of Kolombangara where they
were attacked by dive bombers
and torpedo planes with Lightning
fighter escort The destroyer was
hit by a torpedo and suffered a
"large explosion." the Navy said.
'The cargo shin took a direct hit
and the tanker suffered several
near hits; both these vessels were
left dead in the water.
Four enemy 2eros attempted to
intercept the assault on the ships
and one was shot down.
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Fishing Club Slates
Annual Meet Monday
The annual meeting of the New
Hanover Fishing club, largest fish
ing club in the nation, will be held
in the recorder’s courtroom of the
county courthouse at 7:45 p.m.
next Monday, George B. Canady,
secretary-treasurer of the club said
Friday.
The meeting will lpe featured by
leports on the club’s activities tor
the past year and plans for the
new year. Fishing restrictions,
brought about by the war, will
also be discussed.
The members will elect new offi
cers.
Present officers of the club are
President E. A. Jones, Vice-Presi
dent K. E. Johnson and Secre
tary-Treasurer Canady.
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For Entire Cage Battle
Locals Now Count Their
Second Conference
Victory
Wilmington Wildcats trounced
the Rocky Mount Blackbirds in
Rocky Mount Friday night to the
tune of 42-32 in a rough and tum
ble fight which resulted in a total
of 22 personal fouls.
The Cats led the Blackbirds
from the opening gun and the
score at the end of the first quar
ter was 10-9. The half found the
local lads ahead by 20-16, and by
the end of the third quarter, Han
over had piled up a ten point lead
with the score 33-23. The ’Cats
still held that lead when the final
gun sounded, winning 42-32.
This is the Wildcats second con
ference win in as many starts,
while the Blackbirds count their
fourth conference loss.
The game was featured by the
defense work of Auld, Kelly, and
Watts and by brilliant offensive
work of McKoy, who was high
point man for the evening, tally
ing 23 marks. The Rocky Mount
attack was led by Joe Allsbrook
who tallied 13 points.
On hand were twenty boys from
Wilmington who formed a cheer
ing section to see the locals on to
victory.
The score:
Wildcats
Pts.
Pridgen, f . 4
Watts, f . 5
Collie, f . 5
McKoy, c . 23
Auld, g .. 2
Kelly, g . 3
Total .42
Blackbirds
Lambis, f . 9
Joe Allsbrook. f . 13
Johnson, c . .... 4
Felton, g . 0
McDuffie, g . 4.
Jack Allsbrook, g . 2
I Total .. 32
SALAMAUAGOAL
OF ALLIED PUSH
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the Australians and Americans to
the Salamaua area said the Jap
anese patrols attacked the Allied
positions west of Mubo, 12 miles
south of Salamaua, but were re
pulsed.
The outpost was the scene of a
surprise raid by Allied forces in
wh!ch more than 100 Japanese were
killed and an enemy headquarters
and a radio station destroyed dur
ing a recent three-day action.
• Strong hostile patrols attacked
our positions west of Mubo and
were engaged by our outposts,”
General Douglas MacArthur’s noon
communique said.
• Considerable casualties were
inflicted on enemy detachments
between Kaisinek and Wandumi.
The enemy now is withdrawing
with our forces in pursuit.”
This marked the first ground ac
tivity of note in New Guinea since
the Allies wound up their trium
phant conquest of the Papuan pen
insula with the capture of San
c.-.anda.
EXTENSIONPLANS
ARE NOW CHANGED
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increased by 32,000 by the proposed
plan. The real estate valuation
would be increased by $12,000,000.
The council has estimated that
the limits extension, which would
place Wilmington in a class with |
Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Greens
boro and other metropolitan areas
of the state, could be accomplish
ed at a cost of $624,000. The an
nual expense of maintaining the
enlarged city would necessitate an
increase of $203,700. »
Police and fire protection would
immediately be extended to citi
zens in the areas involved, city of
ficials say. . x . ...
Water, sewer, street and side
walk and street lighting facilities
would be extended as quickly as
possible and, the officials declared
all facilities can he extended with
in a reasonable time except street
lighting, which is now on the criti
cal list- ___v_
WEATHER
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 29— (/P)—'Weather
bureau report of temperature and rain
rail for the 24 hours ending 8 p. m., in
Ihe principal cotton growing areas and
cTsewher>:
'Station High Low it’fall
Asheville — -»— 37 33 u.00
Atlantic City- — 36 30 0.00
Fostoh —-- 26 20 0.00
Burlington —- 21 07 u.00
Chicago -—— 32 28 0.28
Cleveland-:- 40 24 0.00
Detroit ——-— 32 16 0.00
FI Paso___ 60 35 O.O0
Galveston (ft 46 0.00
Kansas City_ 44 30 0.00
Little flock _ 44 31 0.00
Memphis - 44 32 0.00
Miami _ 82 62 0.52
Mobile_ 61 42 0.00
New Orleans _- 54 40 o.oo
Richmond 32 29 0.00
I San Antonio___— 72 32 0.00
| Tampa_ — 75 « o.oo
Washington_ 33 27 0.00
I ALLIES NOW ABLE
TO DO WHAT LIKED
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how much time is needed for prep
aration between the decision to at
tack and the launching of the at
tack. They need, then, have no
doubt whatever that much more
is meant than the bare words
seem to say when the two leaders
announce that they have ‘‘com
pleted their plans for the offen
sive campaigns of 1943.”
The world, including our ene
mies, will not fail to note how
much water has flowed over the
dam since the days when Hitler
and Mussolini used to meet in
their armored trains at the Bren
ner Pass, and as ETurope trem
bled, would decide which was the
next innocent country that was to
be ravished. Here are the Pres
ident of the United States and the
Prime Minister of Great Britain
meeting upon territory of the
French Empire and with all their
staffs and with the most eminent
of the French generals, deciding
where, when and how they will
take the offensive. 1
If the meeting itself was dra
matic, the situation itself is far
more dramatic. The initiative,
which is the key to victory, has
been wrested from the Axis. And
no matter how we choose to inter
pret the gloom which the Axis
radio and press have suddenly
emitted, it is indisputable that
they were not gloomy, or did not
choose to be gloomy, or were not
ordered by Goebbels to pretend to
be gloomy, until the Axis military
position had in fact deteriorated.
If in addition we could know how
much the German Army actually
thinks its position has deteriorated,
whether temporarily or irretive
ably, we should know with reason
able certainty whether Germany
can last through another winter
after this one.
In any event, the United Nations I
now have taken the measure of
the Germans sufficiently to be able
to announce that their war aims
is the unconditional surrender of
all their enemies. They are able
I to include Japan in this commit
jment because, having fought Ja
; pan to a standstill with meager
forces, there is no doubt that once
the combined forces of the Allies
can be concentrated against her,
Japan will be crushed.
The announcement that our war
aim is the unconditional surrender
of our enemies is a political de
cision of the most far-reaching
kind. All the profoundly disturb
ing issues which have arisen since
our landing in North Africa are
affected by it. The two old mas
ters at Casablanca have now set in
a new perspective the Darlan
affair, the Peyrouton affair, the
problem of General Giraud and
General De Gaulle, and the inti
mations which have recently come
undenied out of certain official
quarters in Washington — namely,
that we were so pleased with the
Darlan affair that we might make
it the model for all our dealings
in Europe.
A gale of fresh air has been
blown into this miasma of double
talk and super-duper realism. For
if our war aim were something
less than unconditional surrender,
then at the end of hostilities we:
should find ouselves dealing in
Germany with some kind of im
provised quasi-Nazi regime. Our
support of that kind of regime in
Germany would inevitably carry
with it our support of Quisling re
gimes, Vichy regimes, quasi-Fas
cist regimes in all the occupied
countries. But by fixing the un
conditional surrender of Germany
and Italy as our war aim, the
Nazi and Fascist satellite regimes
will have lost their support and
they are unconditionally doomed.
The effect of the decision will be
felt quickly. For when the cap
tive peoples of Europe understand
that Germany must surrender un
conditionally, then they will un
derstand that the future in each
country lies not with those among
them who have collaborated with
Germany, but with those among
them who have resisted. i
The decision is of the first mag
nitude, differing radically from
President Wilson’s decision to
negotiate an armistice on the basis
of the 14 points. This time the
enemy, who has shown no mercy
and no capacity for honor, must
depend upon our mercy and upon
our honor. The innocent among
them, and even those who merely
obeyed their masters when they
committed their crimes, -will, when
they have pondered the matter,
realize that they have more to
hope for from an unconditional sur
render than from ambiguity and
equivocation.
For in the world which is not
corrupted by Nazism they will find
that there is still that ancient
pride which makes men chivalrous !
to the fallen and magnanimous to 1
the vanquished. But if the con
clusion of the struggle were so
doubtful that the moral victory
was not clear, then the poison of
the Nazi scourge will infect all
men with suspicion and vengeance.
In the rest of occupied Europe
the unconditional liquidation of the
Nazi and quasi-Nazi regimes is
the absolutely indispensable con
dition for the restoration of law
and order; For if they are not i
liquidated in the armistice, because
the super-duper realists are allow
led t° mrs ead us, then the pop
iuIb struggle against the tyranni
HUTSON DECLARES
RETIREMENT SOON
Injuries Named As Cause
Of Star Packer’s
Plans
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CHICAGO, -Tan. 29— (M —Don
Huston, the artful end whose name
is etched 17 time in the National
Football League's record book,
hopes the fans will understand
why he plans to retire from pro
football despite the fact that fami
ly men are needed by the Green
Bay Packers and the rest of the
league more than ever before.
Severe chest injuries, suffered
two seasons ago and aggravated
further last fall, inspired Huston’s
retirement announcement yester
day, even though he knows the
Packers already have lost 26 play
ers to the armed forces since 1940.
The National League as a whole
has sent 317 players direct from
clubs into the services and faces
a serious shortage of material
for 1943.
Thirty years old, Huston has been
playing football for 14 years, the
last eight with the Packers. He’s
already lasted beyond the nomal
span of effective competition in the
pro league and yet shows no signs
of slowing up. He has just been
named the circuit’s most valuable
player for the second straight year.
“Some fellows make a ceremony
of announcing their retirement
every year,'* Huston said. ' I meant
it last year but then decided to
try one more season. This time I
intend to make it stick.”
LEND-LEASE- ID
URGES MORE WORK
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Stettlnius reported that lend-lease
aid had made the British isles “an
impregnable base for offensive op
erations” and reviewed the ship
ments of war material and equip
ment to Britain, Russia, Africa,
Egypt and China. He told also how
lend-lease operates in reverse, bring
ing supplies to American troops in
the field and in billets abroad.
But this point he stressed in par
ticular: —“There has not been and
there never will be developed a
standard of values by which we
can measure lives lost against the
cost of airplanes or guns.’’
“It is difficult," he* said, “to es
timate how much the peoples of
Russia have helped us by holding
back the Nazi forces and taking the
offensive away from them, or to
estimate the value to our national
Interests of the superb fight of the
Chinese against the Japanese.
“By the lives lost, the cities and
homes destroyed and in the other
losses of war, Russia and China
and Great Britain have made lim
itless contributions to their cause,
as well as to ours.”
There were some questions which
Stettinius left to be answered lat
er in executive session for reasons
of military secrecy, chief among
them inquiries into how much aid
is being sent China, why the Chi
nese mission left this country, and
how much of the lend-lease aid is
reaching its destination.
FRENCirPOUTICS
STILL IN MUDDLE
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ary custodian of French sovereign
ty until the forty millions of French
men at home can freely express
their opinions,” the statement con
tinued.
During the conference, the gen
eral asserted lie was willing to
give the Jews in North Africa back
their property and allow' ■ Jewish
children in the schools. He added,
however, that “these moves must
be made gradually.”
He said that so far as he was
concerned Jews, Communists and all
creed were entitled to be treated
exactly alike in North Africa as
long as they worked for the good
of France,
“The policy of the Germans is
completely against the policy of the
French in regard to Jews,” he said,
adding that the time he spent in
Nazi prisons in Germany made him
hate Hitler’s measures.
V— —
Worrfen usually need about 10 to
12 per cent less food than men
if the same weight.
cal regimes will plunge EJurope in
to a civil war. That civil war will
be waged by the common people
who have seen that the western
democracies are unwilling or un
able, or too confused and too
weak-minded, to insist upon the
elementary principles of the de
mocracy they profess to be fight
i ing for. Inevitably they will turn
to Soviet Russia as the strong
champion, if not of freedom as they
have known it, then at least of
what they will believe are the basic
interests of the common man.
Thus our amateur Machiavellis
in their sheltered bureaus, who
fondly imagine they are both mil
itary strategists and our guardi
ans against Communism, have had
their little fling at statesmanship,
and in the decision to proceed to
unconditional surrender, and not
through a series of tricky deals,
they have had their answer. A
cleansing and invigorating Wind
blows out of Casablanca.
Baltimore’s Lads Arrive
Today For Slated Scraps
Joe Poodles, manager of the Bal-j
tlmore boxers who are fighting In
Wilmington, said that the boys left
Baltimore late Friday night and
will arrive in Wilmington ahortly
after noon Saturday.
Johnny Finazzo, top ranking mid
dleweight of Baltimore, is the out
standing attraction on the card
meeting George Eschman, rifle In
structor from New River.
Featured with Finazzo, L,ee Ro
sen, who rates as the outstanding
Jewish middlweight of the Balti
more-area, takes on Jackie Beau
hold, another Marine from New Riv-J
er.
‘Mus’ Lockatny, Wilmingtonian
lightweight, runs into his first pro
card when he meets Frankie Mar
tini. For the opening bout, Bill
Johnson, Negro shipyard boxer, will
square off with Lambertine Wil
liams.
D'oors to Thalian Hall will open
at 7:30 and the first bout is sche
duled to begin at 8:15 p.m. Prices
are $1.00 for general admission and
$1.50 for ringside seats. A special
price of $.55 is offered to service
men. All tax is extra.
Russian Troops Slash
Gaps In Enemy Lines
City Briefs
COURT OF HONOR
The Boy court of honor will
be held at 8 p. m. Monday, in
the superior court room of the
county courthouse.
COURT RECEIPTS
January receipts for Record
er’s court, as reported Friday
by Harry L. Dosher, clerk,
amounted to $5,798.20. The total
represents an increase of ap
proximately $1,000 over Decem
ber figures, when receipts
reached $4,687.78.
RADIO MEETING
The radio camp meeting of
the air, the ninth of a series,
may be heard Sunday evening
from 10:30 to 11 p. m. over sta- |
tion WMFD. Taylor Frazier,
radio evangelist will be the |
speaker, and the Pentecostal I
quartette will render special !
music.
FRATERNITY MEETING
The senior fraternity of the
Boys Brigade will hold its regu
lar meeting in the clubroom
of the Brigade Monday, Feb
ruary 1 at 6:30 p. m. This is
a regular supper meeting and
all members are urged to 'ot
present or to notify the secre
tary if they cannot attend.
LOCKFEATURED
IN FLYNN CASE
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or your sister to come to Balboa
for a visit.” This was some time
before the yacht excursion to Ca
talina on which, Peggy charges,
Flynn had intimate relations with
her twice.
Flynn’s own testimony that Police
Lt. Robert W. Bowling had told
him, “if it was up to me I wouldn't
prosecute you,” was disputed by
Bowling himself.
What he actually said in sub
stance, Bowling testified, was: “X
think you are guilty as hell, but I
don’t blame you for denying it.” I
The trial adjourned until Monday t
when, Deputy District Attorney
Thomas W. Cochran said, he will ■
call two more rebuttal witnesses.
HITLER ENTERS
NEW NAZI YEARj
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tion at 4 p. m. tomorrow (11 a. m.
Eastern \t'ar time.)
The usual decks of flags in the
streets and other Nazi theatrics
will be absent this year. Berlin an
nounced. The lavish display of flags
would be out of keeping with the
melancholy news from Russia and
North Africa, London observers
said.
Reichsmarslial Goering will make
an anniversary speech to the army
at 11 a. m., (6 a. m., EWT) and
Arthur Axmann, youth leader, will
speak to the German youth two
hours earlier.
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Navy Needs Experienced
Men For War Production
RALEIGH, Jan. 29, — M — The
Navy hag an urgent need for men
experienced in expediting produc
tion in large manufacturing plants,
with the view of breaking “bottle
necks,” Lieut. Lodwick C. Hart
ley, head of the Naval Office of
Offcier Procurement at N. C. State
College, reported today.
He said mechanical and electri
cal engineers who have specialized
in industrial engineering, marine
engineering, ordnance or steam
power, with a minimum of eight
years' practical experience in any
of those fields, are desired as can
didates for commissions in the
naval reserve.
Officers also are needed to ana-'
lyze production methods and to1
check the progress of products
manufactured under Navy con
tracts, Lieut. Hartley said.
Racraatlona) Gifts
Sporting Goods
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In the same three-day period,
“according to incomplete data,”
the Russians said they captured
107 tanks. 40 guns, 254 machine
guns, 8,000 rifles 40 radio trans
mitters, 1,217 trucks, 307 motor
cycles, 24 trains with military
loads, and 36 ammunition, arms
and food depots.
The Russian break - through in
this area where the Axis has been
building its famed hedgehog de
fenses ever since last fall was ac
complished by Soviet troops that
struck from the north, east, and
south.
Among the towns now in Kus
sian hands in this area are: Lachi
novo, 10 miles west of Kastornoye,
which is the junction of the Voro
railways; Naberezhnoye, 10 miles
north of Kastornoye; Gorshech
noye, 22 miles south of Kastor
noye; Zemlyansk, 25 miles north
west of Voronezh; and innumer
able other places within this rough
ly triangular area.
The location of the newly-won
towns above Kastornoye and Voro-!
nezh bears out a German radio
commentator’s announcement last
night that the Russian Voronezh
front now nad overlapped with the
lower central front which extends
northwestward to the Orel area.
The same German radio com
mentator, Capt. Ludwig Sertorius,
acknowledged tonight that the Red
army had “made some progress”
in this drive above and below Vo
ronezh. but sought to ease this
bad news with a statement that
they were not to an extent “to jus
tify the enormous (Russian) sac
rifices.”
The German high command ear
lier had announced hat “north
west of Voronezh there was heavy
fighting full of vicissitude,” and
otherwise indicated that the Ger
mans wer-’ retreating in "planned
movements.”
Novy-Oskol, where the Russians
said they killed or captured an
entire Italian Alpine corps, is
about 75 miles south of Kastor
noye. The Russians hold many
points on this line, including the
Va’uiki junction 35 miles below
Novy-Oskol.
Possession of this north - south
railway will give the Russians a
springboard for their next lunge
toward the main Kurks-Kharkov
railway which was the starting
point for Germany’s back-firing
1942 offensive that reached east
to the upper Don, Stalingrad on
the Volga and the Caucasian
mountains far to the southeast.
At Stalingrad, 350 miles south
east of Kastornoye, the Russians
said they were putting to death
the last- few ragged thousands of
an Axis assault army that once
had numbered 220,000 men. Mos- j
cow dispatches said 5 000 or 7,000
were ail that remained in the Rus
sian noose.
lhe advance on Rostov, gateway
city to the Caucasus, was accel
erated with the Red army’s an
nounced capture of Kropotkin. The
town is the junction of a railway
running west from the Kalmyck
steppes to Novorossisk on the
Black/ Sea, and the one running
north to Rostov
Its seizure threatens further to
trap German forces in the oil city
of Maikop. 60 miles to the south
west. Other Russian units coming
Mp from the south are within 20
miles of Maikop.
—-V
Australia is the greatest wool pro
ducing country in the world.
DAKAR MUST NOT
BE THREAT ANEW
(Continued from Paj?e 0„()
Ingraham, commander-in Pv.
,orc" ”>« imlt
West Africa. A passM?*'*"
tion, however, was that the'^
ter _ of assuring the w!"9''
against aggression from the ?’
can coast would be one for ^
ever international instrument81
to maintain peace mav be
after the war. it couM tak ,?
form of a pledge from FranJh!
iSvHK. -
to three p1'rK.0“Thet'f'mV* j
joint statement by the two
dents. It related that theyPLl;'
had lunch, inspected and review!
army, navy and air forces ofT
two nations, then passed the '6
States'^efforh °im
President Roosevelt jnform„.
Vargas of ‘'the very signZ
results” of the Casablanca con!
ence. uer>
Summing up. the two preside*
were quoted: ‘
This meeting has given us 0D.
portumty to survey the future ,af,
ty of all the Americas. in Z
opinion each of the republics
interested and affected to an eaw
degree. In unity there is strength
It is the aim of Brazil and of
the United States to make the At.
lantic ocean safe for all. We are
deeply grateful for the almos
unanimous help that our neighbors
are giving to the great cause o!
democracy throughout the world"
Since all the American republics
except Argentina are at war with
the Axis or have broken diplo.
matic relations, the references to
equal interests and strength in
unity possibly were addressed par
iticularly to that country.
Following the joint statement,
was a “memorandum for the
press” from Mr. Roosevelt. This
explained that he believed his Ai
rman conferences with Prime Min
ister Churchill were “so vital to
the war effort” that he should de
lay his return to the United States
to talk informally with Vargas.
He had also had opportunity, he
noted, to inspect vital operating
points of the ferry command which
speeds supplies by air to all war
fronts.
Finally, the White House added:
“The presidents of the two nations
—United States and Brazil - a.?
old friends and their talks in
timely and profitable in e veij
way.”
Revelation of the scope o( the
conversations stirred speculation
as to whether Brazil might send
an expeditionary force to aid in
the final crushing of the German
armies. Vargas hinted at such ac
tion less than a month ago. At
that time he said, in an address,
that Brazilian participation in the
war would “not be limited to a
simple expedition of symbolic
units.”
Lieut. Gen. S. D. Embick, chair
man of the inter-American Defense
Board, commented, “We can be
confident that Brazil as an ally
will be even more important
months to come, as she takes her
place in the new grand strategy li
the democratic nations’’
-V
NO TIME ZONE CHANGE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-®-An
official of the Interstate Commeicc
Commission said today that agenc
will refrain from considering ch-a
ges in time zones in the absence
of an expression from Congress
that status of states which change
their clocks. .
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