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Served By Leased Wire Of The _ ASSOCIATED PRESS SPMPMRn news and features ulpilpiblh With Complete Coverage Of PEARL HARBOR Stale And National News AND BATAAN VOL. 49—NO. 63 -— —--- . -rrz ESTABLISHED 1867. FDR RETURNS HUME TO PLACE NEW WAR PLAN INTO EFFECT FACES PROBLEMS Chief Executive Confronted With Several Matters Beside Battle ARRIVES VIA RAILROAD Visits Many Areas During Historic Trip To Casa blanca Meeting Bv The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 President Roosevelt returned to the White House tonight to put into “active and con certed execution” plans for 1943 offensive campaigns which he and Prime Minister Churchill drafted at their his toric unconditional surrender conference at Casablanca. But problems other than active prosecution of the war confronted the chief execu tive on his safe return from some 14,000 danger-fraught miles of travel — much of it by air. Terse Announcement i terse announcement signed by presidential Secretary Stephen Ear ly and read to press associations short!v before 8 p. m., Eastern War Time, said only that the president had returned, adding that the last stage of the trip had been made by special train from Miami, which was waiting there. Mr. Roosevelt during his 23-day trip covered a distance approxi mately equal to some of the highly publicized ’round the world flights of a few years ago. No word of his departure was per i piitted to be made public until 10 ' p. m. last Tuesday night, two days after lie and Mr. Churchill conclud ed their 10-day conference. Mr. Roosevelt was away from the White House on this trip a full weei; longer than last fall, when he made a coast-to-coast tour of the country to see shipyards and oth er war plants in production. After that trip lie addressed the nation by radio, and there was conjecture tonight whether he would again go before the microphones to tell tile people in person about his epochal conference with the British Prime Minister and the things he observed going to Africa and com tag home. The communique the American and British leaders issued at Casablan ca said they had agreed upon a mas ter plan for 1943 aimed at forcing the Axis nations’ unconditional sur render. Wearing a turtle neck sweater and riding a jeep, Mr. Roosevelt al so reviewed American troops in North Africa and visited some of the beachheads where the AEF had landed. Flying homeward, he visited Li beria. the West African republic founded by American Negro freed men, and winged over Dakar har bor, Jong feared as a potential step Ping-cff place for an Axis atfrok upon tlie Americas but now under Allied control. Then the president sped across ibe Atlantic to Natal, at the east trnmost bulge of South America. 'Iherp, aboard a United States de slroyer. he talked with .President (>etulio Vargas of Brazil about Western Hemisphere defenses and ’bo Casablanca conference. Saturday lie arrived at Trinidad, British West indies outpost where ’be United Statese has a base to guard tlie Panama canal’s eastern TProches. Cheered by the populc, 6 rejoined his personal chief of staf? Admiral William D. Leahy, recovered from an attack of infill onza which forced him to stop at -rinidad on the presidential party’s np fr°m Washington to Africa, bast night Mr. IJoosevelt and ^embers of his party arrived at Mi ami by ajr an(j transferred to a pec’al train for the trip to Wash mgton. Pay-As-You-Go Tax Problem Is Facing House Committee WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—UP) —The House Ways and Means committee finally will come to grips this week with the ques tion of putting individual in come taxes on a pay-as-you go basis—an idea apparently predominantly favored in Con gress but with legislators hav ing different opinions as to how it should be done. The threshing of the various proposals will begin Tuesday when Randolph Paul, aide to Secretary Morgenthau, will present the Treasury’s views. Committee experts also have been instructed to prepare possible plans. The Treasury is understood to favor a proposal by Rep. Robertson (D-Va) of the com mittee to forgive the regular six per cent tax and the first bracket surtaxes on 1942 in comes and impose instead a 20 per cent withholding tax on 1043 earnings. The tax questions caps a series of controversial issues coming up before congression al committees this week. Others include proposals to re strict the size of the armed forces and to repeal President Roosevelt’s limit of S25.000 (af ter taxes) on salaries. FLYNN NOW WANTS NAME WITHDRAWN FDR Appointee To Ask President To Rescind Nomination WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. — m — Edward J. Flynn said tonight that although his friends in the Senate had assured him his confirmation to be minister to Australia was certain he was asking President Roosevelt to withdraw the nomi nation. The former Democratic national chairman, whose nomination had caused a storm of protest in the Senate, issued a statement in which he said: ‘‘I am unwilling to permit my candidacy to be made the excuse for a partisan political debate in the Senate.” Such a debate, Flynn said ‘‘would imply unfortunate disunity. If I were confirmed, it would still leave me unhappy to think that my nomination had caused such de bate in time of war. To me the prosecution of the war is above all other considerations. What hap pens to me is of no importance. In the ranks I shall serve just as wholeheartedly as I would in the post to which the commanding chief named me. “Inasmuch as I was chairman of the Democratic national commit tee, I anticipated that my confir mation would be opposed by all the Republican senators. What I did not anticipate was that they would find it necessary to make personal attacks reflecting on my integrity. When that was done I demanded that the charges be in vestigated. "‘After hearing all the political gossip which the Republicans could gather, and which failed to sub stantiate a single accusation, the committee voted 13-10 to favor ably report my nomination—which to any reasonable person was a complete vindication. “The Republicans voted as a unit against me, though several of them stated that there was no justifica tion for the charges. “Senator La Follette of Wiscon sin, the one Independent on the committee voted to confirm my nomination. I do not question the motives of those who are opposing my confirmation but I am mind ful of grievances, real or fancied, against the President. “Needless to say, my action in (Continued on Page Wive; Col. 1) Another Rationing Book Now In Formative Stage WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. — (API — ■eParations for rationing more c°ounodities after canned goods and rneats have reached the stage , ,, ea. ymg another ration book, (lav °n allve sources disclosed to ft,1'1'1* book will be called “War ).a !fJtl book No. 3’’ and has been seci'et because the No. 2 book .. J 0ne to be used for canned P' l' and rneats—has not been dis puted yet and may not reach . e Public until the end of Febru Official5 of the Office of Price ■ninistration said they did not I know yet what may be rationed on j book No. 3. They know various items are getting scarce, however, and want to be prepared. The new book is designed for adaptability to any of a number of possible pro grams. The best guess that can be made about Book No. 3 is that it will be for other kinds of foods, perhaps butter and canned milk, if these foods are not rationed by the No. 2 book, which is mechanically pos sible. Clothing is a more remote pos sibility for book No. 3 but officials (Continued on Page Three; Col. 6) Escaoes Jan Raid KNOX ESCAPES JAP AIR RAID Nimftz And Halsey With Secretary During At tack In Solomons PEARL HARBOR, Jan. 29—(De layed)—(IP)—Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander-in-chief of the Pacific ocean area, and Admiral William F. Halsey, commander of the South Pacific force, were under Japanese air attack twice within the past two weeks. The first attacK was a short one at Espiritu Santo, in the New He brides, and the second one, much heavier, of seven hours duration, was on Guadalcanal. No casualties were reported in either attack. Secretary Knox described them as like bombing attacks in 1918 and that the Japanese high level bombardment was “very inac curate.” About the attack on Espiritu San to, where Admiral Halsey met him, the secretary said: “It was the first attack there. How the Japs got the information we don’t know, but they didn’t do us any harm, except to keep us awake.” “I think there are darn good prospects of an air attack on Tok yo.” he said in answer to a ques tion.” but when or how it will hit. I will not say, but they better get ready. “I think the Japs will fight a tough, hard and persistent war. I 'will not discuss strategy but will sf.y we have just begun to fight and haven’t hit our hardest blows yet. “Every base has an abundance of supplies and men are living well and the spirit of our men every where is magnificent. ‘Our submarines are doing a magnificent job and operations against the Japanese line of com-1 munications are going at a good rate. I think destruction of snip ping is a matter of great concern to the Japanese. Knowing their shipping resources and their ship ping capabilities of building, we can readily understand their con cern. “In the Atlantic the submarine war situation is still a tough prob lem to us and lots of losses are ahead there for us. “In the Pacific I cannot speak too well of the high command. The nearer to the front the less the distinction of the various services. You can’t tell the Army, Navy and Marines apart. All are animated by the same determination to come to grips with the enemy and end the war as soon as possible and have abounding confidence in their ability to do it.” The secretary’s trip was a most complete inspection, involving more than 20,000 miles in air travel from Wash., and return. He said its purpose was t6 get first hand | information on how to spend funds and speed the movement of sup plies. NAZI’S TONE IS GRIM LONDON, Jan. 31.—VP) — The grim tone of the bomb-accompanied pronouncements by Adolf Hitler, Herman Goering and Paul Joseph Goebbels was considered by political quarters here today as the most sig nificant feature of yesterday s drah Nazi party celebration in Berlin. WEATHER FORECAST: North Carolina: Warmer Monday. (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., yesterday. Temperatures 1:30 a. m., 39; 7:30 a. m., 36; 1*30 p. m., 51; 7:30 p. m. 45. Maximum 52; Minimum 35; Mean 43; Normal 47. Humidity 1:30 a. m., 90; 7 :30 a. m., 92; 1-.S0 p. m.. 79; 7:30 p. m., 92. Precipitation Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., 0.00 inches. Total since the first of the month, 4.41 inches. Tides For Today High Low Wilmington _ 6:34 a m 1:11 a m 6:52 pm 1:50 p m Masonboro Inlet - 4:19 am 10:46 am 4:34 p m 10:56 p m Sunrise, 7:18 a. m.: Sunset, 5:14 p. m.; Moonrise, 3:45a; Moonset, 2:23p. (Continued on Page Three; Col.5) REDS CLAIM VIRTUAL DESTRUCTION i OF GERMAN FORCES A T STALINGRAD; ALLIES BATTLE ENEMY IN TUNISIA ~------ ■ NAZIS TANK LED Task Unit Breaks Through French Defense In Faid Pass Area ROMMEL IS PURSUED Montgomery Continues Chase Of Africa Corps From Tripolitania LONDON, Jan. 31.—A tank led German task force seek ing to protect Marshal Rom mel’s escape corridor along the gulf of gables was offi cially reported to be engaged around and under aerial at tack today after breaking through French-held allied defenses in the Faid pas'? area of central Tunisia. This fresh burst of fight ing in the Tunisian front was announced at Allied head quarters in North Africa as dispatches from both British and Axis quarters indicated that Gen. Sir Bernard Mont gomery’s westbound Eighth Army was vigorously pursu ing its object of pushing the African corps from all Tri politania. Drive On Sidi Bouzid A spokesman at Allied headquar ters said the German column drove toward Sidi Bouzid, 69 miles west of the Axis-held port of Sfax on the gulf of Gabes, a strategic cen ter of the road and railway being, held open for Marshal Erwin Ron mel’s retreating forces. British and American fighters and bombers were flung into the breach and apparently bad slowed or stopped the Axis drive short of Sidi Bouzid after day-long strafing and bombing attacks which left at least twelve Axis tanks and a num ber of trucks In flames in the pass, and hit columns moving along the Sfax-Maknassy road farther to the south. “Fighting in the area is still in progress," a communique said. The new hurst of activity follow ed strong w'eek-end blows by British ] and American bombers on Axis has es. The fresh German land thrust appeared designed to blunt the force of a three-pronged Allied drive to block Rommel in his race to join the forces of Col.-Gen. Jurgen von Arnim to the northwest. The Morocco radio reported a col umn of Montgomery’s Eighth Army had crossed into Tunisia from Tri politania in a push up the coastal road along which Rommel is re treating. While Allied sources remained si lent on the operations of a U. S. Army column known to be operating in central Tunisia, Axis reports said it was moving closer to the gulf of Gabes. Meanwhile in a blow at Axis sup ply and reinforcement centers in Si (Contlnued on Page Five; Col. 3) Navy Transport Plane Wreckage Found With 19 Passengers Dead * Dies In Crash m . ADMIRAL ENGLISH SANATAR1UM FIRE KILLS 34 PERSONS Blaze Sweeps Through Building Near Seattle; Mostly Invalids SEATTLE, Jan. 31.—UP)—'Thirty four persons, mostly aged invalids, were burned to death today in a fire which destroyed the Lake For rest Park sanitarium just north of Seattle. Fifteen of the 49 patients in the building were rescued. The victims, among whom were a few mental cases, were trapped in their beds. Leo McCombs, district fire commissioner, said they never had a chance to be rescued from the i blazing wood structure whose only exits were two small doors. Capt. Victor Jones of the state patrol said that of the 15 persons rescued at least two were burned critically. Three hours after the blaze had started, the building was but a shell of walls with roof collapsed and bodies and beds strewn through the debris. In one small room — not more than 15 by 25 feet — report ers counted eight beds from which none had been rescued. The fire started from an oil bur ner on which a repairman was work ing, Captain Jones reported. He and J. C. Bookey, another district fire commissioner, said the flames mounted so fast that any attempt' at rescue was impossible. Bookey said he was called at his home a mile and a half from the blaze and that by the time he ar rived the entire building was in flames. Jack Mullen and Lou Monroe, who live across the street from the sanitarium, raced from their homes I when the first smoke was seen and pulled a. few' of the bedridden pa tients from the first floor windows. (Continued on Page Wive; Col. 1) Intensified German Sub Drive In Atlantic Seen BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS With their highly vaunted Luft waffe and panzer units operaUng in reverse on both Russian and African fronts, there are indica tions that the Germans mean to reiy still more heavily on subma rine warfare. A notable indication was the pro motion of Admiral Karl Doenitz from commander of the U-boat fleet to commander-in-chief of the entire German navy. Doenitz is credited with originating the wolf pack method of attack on Allied convoys. Announcement of the appoint ment might have been Germany’s answer to the disclosure that the United Nations planned an all-out drive to rid the seas of the Nazi submarine menace — particularly the South Atlantic. As both sides girded for control of shipping lanes, the sinkings of nine more Allied merchantmen in the South Atlantic were announced last week. This brought to 610 the Associated Press tally of announc ed Allied and neutral cargo ship I losses in Western Atlantic attacks I since Pearl Harbor. Five of the vessels sunk were British, four American. Four were \ announced Thursday as sunk in one convoy by a wolf-pack in the South Atlantic. This was the first sign that wolf-packs had moved into those waters. Recent German announcements support the contention that the Nazis plan to stress their undersea. weapon. In one of these the Ger mans claimed (without allied or neutral confirmation) to have an invention that would enable sub marines to operate without having to surface and charge electric bat teries. The Nazis asserted they had be gun construction of a fleet of un dersea cargo ships to permit them to trade with other Axis nations, particularly Japan. Brig. Gen. Westside T. Larson, commander of American air forces combatting the U-boats, has said that his branch of the service hoped to establish a chain of patrol arcs to protect Allied shipping the whole way across the Atlantic. United States and Brazalian nav al, air and military chiefs met Saturday at Rio de Janeiro to dis cuss means to wipe out the U boats in the South Atlantic. An ex pressed and determined Brazilian United States naval and air offen sive against the submarines was predicted as a result of the con ference. ADMIRAL IS KILLED Many High Ranking Naval Officers Aboard Burn ed Aircraft TJKIAH, Calif., Jan. 31—<£">—The sheriff’s office here informed the Navy today that a Navy transport plane, mising for 10 days , on a flight from Pearl Harbor to San Francisco had been found wrecked | and burned in the mountains 10 miles southwest of here. All aboard the plane were dead. The big flying transport carried Rear Admiral H. English, Com mander of the Pacific fleet sub marine force, and several other high naval officers. In all, 19 per sons were aboard. (Navy headquarters in San Fran cisco confirmed that the plane had been found shortly after the she riff’s office made its report. Navy authorities said the 'wreckage was hardly recognizable as that of the transport, which was a commer cial plane taken over by the Navy.) The transport was lost on the morning of January 21 when it ap proached San Francisco during a storm and was unable to get be low the clouds to land. It then head ed northward, evidently with the ideo of landing on Clear Lake, 30 miles east of here. The site of the craph is about 100 miles north- of San Francisco. The seriff’s report said the plane, flying through one of the heaviest rainstorms in years in this area, hit a vertical cliff about ’50 feet below the ridge of a 2,0$0foot moun tain. The wreckage-was found ^n a timber-covered area which had been covered by Army and Navy planes in their search along the coast, at sea and inland to the foothills of the Sierra. Long before the wreckage was definitely indentified, soldiers mov ed into the district and guarded the roads which taper off into the rugged country. No one was allow ed to pass the guards. Mrs. Charles Wallack, wife of a rancher, told of seeing a huge plane she thought was in distress on the stormy morning of January 2’. She was on duty as an air plane spotter for the aircraft warn ing service. CASUALTY LIST UKIAH, Calif., Jan. 31—CPI—The list of personal aboard the wrecked and burned Navy air transport found near here today: Admiral Robert H. English, War renton, Ga.; wife, Mrs. Eloise Wal ker English, now living at Wash ington, D. C. Captain Robert Holmes Smith, commanding officer of a Naval vessel, Rocky Mount, N. C.; wife, Mrs. Francis B. Smith, Cambridge, Mass. » Captain Robert E. Thomas, Navy Civil Engineering Corps, director of the Pacific division of the Bur eau of Yards and Docks, Rockford, 111.; wife, Mrs Helen L. Thomas, Seattle. Captain Donald C. Godwin at tached to Tweltli Naval District San Francisco, Williamstown, N. C.; wife, Mrs. Hazel M. Godwin, Lo.s Angeles. Commander John J. Crane, Tole do, O.; Wife, Mrs. Imogene St. Clair Crane, Vallejo, Calif. Commander Francis L. Black, at tached to staff of commander in chief. Pacific fleet, San Diego, Calif.; wife, Mrs. Anna B. Black, Cambridge, Mass. Commander William G. Myersf commanding officer of a Naval ves sel, Washington, D. C.; wife, Mrs. Susan Myers, Washington. L.<eut. Commander John O. R. Coll, gunnery officer of submarine force, Pacific fleet, Jeffersonville, Ind.; wife, Mrs. Margaret Coll, San Diego. Lieut, Commander George R. Stone, attached to 14th Naval Dis trict, Pearl Harbor Big Rapids, Mich wife Mrs. Jean Richards Stone, River Forest, 111. Lieutenant (J. G.) Edna Owella Morrow, Navy Nurse, Pasadena, Calif. ( Crew members: Robert McNair Elzey, Captain, (Continued on Page Three; Col. 8) NOTICE! If your carrier fails to leave your copy of the Wil mington Morning Star, Phone 3311 before 9:00 a. m. and one will be sent to you by special messenger. Carries Provisions This Marine doesn’t part with his rifle for a second, even while carry ing a heavy can of provisions to the front on Guadalcanal. The hard fighting Leathernecks who took and held Guadalcanal have since been relieved by the Army. jRAF POURS BOMBS DOWNONHAMBURG Roaring Fires Reported Blazing In Big Nazi Port City LONDON, Jan. 31—(£>)—In the wake of yesterday’s two dramatic daylight raids on Berlin that dis rupted the Nazis’ annual birthday celebration, Britain’s heaviest bombers poured a cargo of explo sives on the battered port of Ham burg last night and on other targets in Western Germany. Roaring fires spread through Hamburg, the Air Ministry said, in the RAF’s 94th assault on the city’s sprawling shipyards, sub marine sheds and aircraft factor ies. Five bombers failed to return, indicating a force of possibly 100 croft had participated in the night’s operations. The impudent daylight stabs at Berlin by fast Mosquito bombers, the first of which delayed the de livery of a speech by Reichmarshal Hermann Goering for over an hour ana last night’s more destructive attacks on Germany's wartime in dustries climaxed a history-making month during which the Nazis shuddered under the impact' of the Allies’ broadening aerial offensive. Thirty-eight times during the month, despite January’s notori ously bad flying weather, Allied bombers roared across the channel to spread fire and death in the Reich or in German-occupied ter ritory. There were 21 day raids and "17 by night. Undoubtedly bringing the most satisfaction to the British airforce was yesterday’s unceremonious disruption of the Nazi celebration in Berlin, even though Adolf Hitler (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) GENERALS TAKEN Russians Wipe Out One Of Last Two Pockets Near Steel City OTHER NAZIS MENACED 200,000 Enemy Troopa Fighting Desperately Around Krasnodar LONDON, Jan. 31.—(£>)—« Virtually complete destruc tion of Hitler’s proud Stalin grad-siege forces of 330,000 men, with smashing of two crack . .azi armies, killink of 100,000 troops in the last 20 days alone, and capture of a field marshal and 16 generals was announced by the Sovi ets late tonight in a trium phant special communique. Russian troops, who first turned Stalingrad into a val iant fortress and then made it a death trap for the Nazi invaders and scene of the worst German defeat of the war, have wiped out one of the last two remaining Ger man suicide garrisons at the Volga city, crushing the ene my pocket west of the central part of Stalingrad, it was stated in the communique, broadcast by Moscow and re corded here by the Soviet ra dio monitor. Field Marshal Captured Taken prisoner was Field Mar shal Gen. Friedrich Paulus, com mander of the crushed German sixth army and fourth tank army, and IB of his generals. Paulus, whose promotion from Colonel General was announced only to day by the Germans, is the first Nazi field marshal to be taken prisoner in this war. Meanwhile the peril of 200,000 Nazi troops fighting around Kras nodar in the Caucasus with their backs to the Kerch strait increas ed ominously, with the Soviet mid night communique reporting cap ture of Ryazanskaya, only 30 miles east of that German pivot base. The midnight communique also announced the fall of Belorechen railroad 17 miles northwest of Mai railroad 17 miles nohtwest of Mai kop, as the Russian columns drove on Krasnodar. Ryazan skaya is another 18 miles north west of Maikop. Thus this Soviet column smashing at Krasnodar apparently advanced 35 miles be yond Maikop in one day. The Russians already stood within 40 miles of Krasnodar at Ladojskaya, and were reported ad vancing beyond that point. The offensive continued on the Voronezh front, where 25.000 Ger mans are trapped, and the Rus sians captured 20 populated places, the midnight communique added. Advanced Russian units in that area are within 45 miles of the great trunk railway joining Kursk and Kharkov, backbone of the Nazi line last winter. fn the debacle at Stalingrad, the Russians said, 5.000 German of ficers and men were taken pris oner on Sunday alone. All that remained of the huge armies that Hitler sacrified at Stalingrad was a pocket in the northern factory area of the city, and this too was being hemmed in ever closer by the Soviet vise. Thus was the fate of the Ger man forces which rejected a Sov iet ultimatum earlier this month to surrender or die. The Russians declared that in (Continued on Page Five; Col !) Strife Weary Leningrad Returning To Normalcy MOSCOW, Jan. 30.—Wi—The war-torn, people of Leningrad, cheer by the lighting of a 17 month siege, are reported throw ing themselves eagerly into the task of restoring to normal life the city which bears the name of a beloved Russian leader. Eyewitnesses of events before and since the Soviet information Bureau announced January 18 that the German grip on the city had been broken, told the details: Specialists are studying factor ies which had been occupied by the invaders, seeing what is need ed to get them going again. Pro duction has spurted ahead. Trains already move over the heavy ice of the Neva river which flows east of Leningrad between Lakes Ilmen and Ladoga. In the distance is the roar of guns. The battle rages in thick, snow laden forests, in little ravines and in the vast plains across the Neva. All the people of Leningrad are not in the city. Many rushed in to the Red army ranks when the city was first attacked, but many stiil remain. Here is a girl with an axe. Here is a commander, who was a poet. Here is a girl typing under the (Continued on Page Two; Col. i|
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