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JUtlmingtan iHi mttitg Star —■ VOL. 49-NO. 67_ WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1943 ESTABLISHED If WMC Takes Control Of Hiring Of Labor Jn Shortage Sectors MAY FREEZE MANY Newest Step Expected To Hold Millions In War Industries JOB shifting"is out Aim Of Move To Keep Workers From Changing Jobs During War WASHINGTON, Feb. 4— UP)—Chairman Paul V. Mc Xutt announced tonight that the War Manpower Commis sion would take control of the hiring of labor in short age areas, a step expected to freeze millions of persons to war industries or other tasks deemed essential. Will Oc Priority System Under the system, mu'un the Manoower Commission or agencies Reproved by it will fur nish workers to employers on a priority system based on the im portance of the employer in the . effort. New barriers will be raised to prevent workers shifting from vita! occupations to less es sentia! ones, and limits will be placed on the authority of employ ers to fire workers assigned to them through the Manpower Com mission. WMC officials emphasized that no one would be pegged irrevo cably in any par ticular job or even in any iine of work, if he had "good reasons” to leave, but one aim of the controls is to prevent persons from leaving war work for non-essential jobs without rea sons considered sufficient. Nothing in the regulations would prevent a man from getting a promotion or, for example, pro gressing from a low-paying job to a higher-paying one in his factory. Moreover, the officials said, ap peals procedure will function to protect the workers’ rights, and "the programs will be operated in a democratic way with full re gard to ioral conditions and with the advice of local leaders of man agement and labor.” The controls it was announced, will go into effect “as soon as practicable in 131 regions which are scattered throughout the coun try and are Classified as “critical labor shortage areas.” Officials said that many other areas, where shortages threaten, can be brought under similar controls in the dis (Continued on Page Three; Col. 6) -V COUNTY COFFERS HAVE $470,392 January, 1943, Ends With Cash Increase Over Preceeding Month Xew Hanover county had on hand a' the end of January the sum of S470.392.42, J. A. Orrell, county auditor said Thursday. During the first month of 1943, the county’s income was $156.094. “■ and the disbursements amount ed to S144.057.64. At the beginning °f January the total on hand was 5453,355.97. Included in January receipts were 512.207.50 realized on natural bonds sod coupons, owned by the sinning 'Ul|d: notes and interest due the : inking fund by the school tund m the amount of $9,995.00; $25,000 trcm the alcoholic Beverage Con trol board; and property taxes in thc amount of $69,662.16. I ncluded in the disbursements ^Vete bonds and coupons which ■el-due, totalling $72,582.50; school "rd expenditures amounted to $20, g’ ®nd for the building fund $13, J "’as expended. STIMSON SEES MORE RED AID Also Sees Stalingrad Vic tory As Releasing Sev eral Soviet Troops WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—ffl>)— Secretary of War Stimson combin ed a promise of increased delivery of weapons to Russia with ,the ob servation today that destruction of the German 6th army before Stalin grad had freed large numbers of So viet troops for offensive opera tions. The Stalingrad disaster was one of the greatest military defeats ever suffered by German arms, Stimson told a press conference. Yet he said the Nazis fought brave ly, there was no sign of general demoralization in their army and, despite a generally favorable situ ation on all fronts, there is “no ground for excessive optimism con cerning an early end of the strug gle.” In promising stepped-up ship ments of arms to the Soviets, Stim son said losses on convoy routes to Murmansk had been reduced and transportation facilities expanded on the southern route via the Per sian gulf and Iran. “Already the tonnage being mov ed daily through this (southern) coridor has been much increased and further increases will be made within the next few weeks,” he said. The war secretary said tie thought a striking feature of the fighting on the Russian front was the lack of German air activity, and suggested that possibly the Nazis were husbanding their planes for some new offensive. He laid no great stress on this, however, saying “it may be that Germany’s plane production has been less than our estimates and her losses greater than we thought, or it may be a shortage of gaso line is grounding much of the Ger man air fleet.” Stimson said there were some in dications that the Germans might be planning a general withdrawal from the Caucasus, and listed Kursk, Kharkov and Rostov as probable objectives of the Russian offensive. If the Soviets can take these points, he said, it probably will mean the Germans will be pushed back to approximately the same line from which they started their offensive last June. Parking Meter Revenue Drops Following Rule On Pleasure Driving An indication that fewer mot orists are parking on the main streets of Wilmington since the pleasure driving ban was in troduced in the city is revealed in the fact that traffic meter collections have dropped ten per cent, J. R. Benson, cily clerk, announced Thursday. According to Mr. Benson, the average meter collections for a month run to $4,000. January collections fell to $3,700 follow ing a busy December, when $4,500 was realized from the meters. Mr. Benson attributes the re duction directly to the fact that new regulaions have curbed the amounts of driving in the city. JOB CHECKUP Although no official count has been made, persons have ap proached the local office of the United States Employment Ser vice to inquire about defense industry jobs since release early this week of the War Manpow er Commission’s directive to the effect that workers in cer tain specified jobs and indus tries must enter vital plants or plan to join the armed forces. Roosevelt Sends Praise To Stalin On Work Of Red J WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 —President Roosevelt ' congratulated Premier ' Russia on the “Brr tory at Stalingrad” ot t ies under his supreme mand. Mr. Roosevelt’s message, ad dressed to his excellency Josef V. Stalin, Supreme Commander of the armed forces of the Un ion of Soviet Socialist Repub lics, at Moscow, read: “As commander in chief of the armed forces of the United States of America, I congratu late you on the brilliant victo ry at Stalingrad of the armies under your supreme command. “The 162 days of epic battle for the city which lias forever honored your name and the de cisive result which all Ameri cans are celebrating today will remain one of the proudest chapters in this war of the peo ples against Naziism and its emulators. ‘The commanders and fighters of your armies at the front and the men and women who have supported them in factory and field have combined not only to cover with glory their country’s arms but to inspire by their example fresh determination among all the United Nations to bend every energy to bring about tlie final defeat and un conditional surrender of the common enemy.” ‘PEACECHARTER’ URGED BY SOLON United Nations’ Declara tion And Atlantic Pact Merger Wanted WASHINGTON, Feb. 4— <.P> — Senator Gillette (D-Towa) proposed today that the United Nations de claration, and the Atlantic Charter on which it is based, be embodied in a formal treaty. He introduced a resolution calling upon President Roosevelt to nego tiate immediately a “post war peace charter” In order to give substance to the Atlantic Charter declarations formulated by Mr. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill and sub scribed to by the other United Na tions. “As it is now',” Gillette explained, "there is no substantial frame to the expression of opinion in the At lantic Charter and there is no guar antee that the declarations arrived at in that agreements will be erystal ized into action after the war.” He said he also believed that a treaty w'ould thwart Japanese pro paganda that the Atlantic Charter declarations applied only to the At lantic and not to the Pacific area. “If a treaty were signed,” he said, "its application would be world wide. The peoples of Asia then would be assured they would have the same measure of security and the same right of self-determination that is promised to the rest of the world.” Some senators have contended that the Atlantic Charter and the United Nations declaration are not uiimuig vu liiw li inicu olcilcs mc* cause they are not formal treaties ratified by the Senate. Gillette introduced his resolution independently of the foreign rela tions committee, of which he is a member. He proposed four points to be included in the treaty. They were, that the signatories: 1. Agree they “neither seek nor desire aggrandizements, territorial or otherwise.” 2. Promise to respect and approve “the right of all people under pro per opportunity to choose the form of government under which they will live” and agree to contenance “the restoration of sovereign rights and self government to those who have been derived of this choice.” 3. “Collaborate in the formulating of a just peace, embodying' a for mulae for post-war collaboration to maintain peace and security through out the world.” 4. Recognize the necessity for col laboration "to secure for all nations as economic advancement, improv ed labor standards, social security, and access on fair and equal terms by all peoples to the raw materials and the international channels of the world.” Ruml Urges Pay-As-You-Go Tax Plan And Assails Treasury’s Alternative Washington, Feb. 4.— m — ^irdslpv Ruml pressed his pay u'y°u-go income tax plan on the t uu-'(‘ Ways and Means commit }oda>’ -s a device which would ! *ail' lo rich and poor alike, !'nd !,^;ailed the Treasury’s sub ' l|le Proposal as imposing “an 'i "Arable burden of double tax Jhon.” Gi-stiirint; with his horn-rimmed ■Wctaclcs as he stood before the 'u",n iUecmen’s dais like a lawyer '‘‘Suing a case in court, the chair 1 an of the New York Federal Re ;r;‘t'r bank emphatically explained at his plan would not “forgive" a year’s taxes for anyone by drop ping the year 1942 as a basis for assessment and that the capitalist would benefit no more than his office boy. “For those in the upper brack ets,” he contend'd, “it will make much less practical difference than might appear. First, because like anybody else, as long as they have their income they continue to pay their taxes; and when they die, what otherwise would have been payable as income tax on the tax payer’s previous year’s income is subject to estate taxes in his high est brackets.” Notice,” he said, “that we shall all go along paying our income taxes as we have before, only they will be on a current basis. The Treasury will also go along get ting its revenue. “The only difference is that when a taxpayer dies or ceases to receive income he will not owe income tax as he does under the prsent system. Reduction of tax payment by the taxpayer as a result of setting the tax clock ahead occurs only at some future date, when and as the taxpayer’s (Continued on Page Five; Col. 6) HERMANS IN WEST CAUCASUS CUT OFF mOM ROSTO V BY HUGE SO VIET DRIVE; / AXIS LOSES 14 SHIPS IN MIDDLE SEj LAND WAR SLOWED British In Local Attack Sieze Region In Boil Arada Sector STH ARMY PUSH LAGS Gen. Montgomery Believed Shortening Supply Lines Before Assault (By Tlie Associated Press) LONDON, Feb. 4 — New successes in the Allied cam paign of attrition against Axis sea communications — the destruction of 14 and per haps 16 Axis ships in the Me diterranean by submarine and bomber action over a period of several days — were an nounced today as land action in Tunisia again fell into a lull. British Seize Heigh* In what the Allied headquarters communique described as “a lim ited success,” the British in a lo cal attack seized a height six miles south of Bou Arada, in the cen tral mountainous area of Tunisia, and threw back a German counter attack. A check-over of prisoners taken by the Americans in earlier actions disclosed that an Italian brigadier-general was among them. At the eastern end of the line, the British Eighth Army pursuing Marshal Rommel westward from Libya reported only patrol activi ty against his rearguard. The bulk of General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery’s British forces were at, or very near, the Tunisian frontier, with some advanced ele ments operating well within Tuni sia. The relatively slow progress of Montgomery’s advance since he overran Tripoli suggested to mili tary observers that he was gath ering ample supplies and resting his troops to insure a smash through the Mareth line, behind which some of Rommel’s army is deployed some 60 frniles within Tunisia, in a minimum of time. Allied air action was reported heavy from Tunisia to Sicily and Italy, and the day’s official re ports showed eight Allied planes lost in the Tunisian theater to six for the Axis—a favorable ratio for the enemy not often achieved. Allied objectives at the Tunisian end included enemy troops and the (Continued on Page Five; Col. 1) Five Persons Found Guilty Of Violating OP A Motoring Rules Of the eleven persons ap pearing before the New Han over War Price and Rationing board on Thursday afternoon to answer charges of pleasure driving violations made by OP A investigators, five were de clared guilty, and will be re quired to forfeit a portion of Vheir gasoline ration. One of the individuals term ed guilty was a taxi driver. Three persons heard before the ration court were dismiss ed, and three cases were con tinued. The next session of the board called for the purpose of rul ing on pleasure driving viola iion cases will he held Mon day. Twelve motorists are scheduled to appear before the board. WEATHER FORECAST: North Carolina: Continued warm Fri day. (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., yesterday. Temperature 1:30 a. m., 59; 7:30 a. m., 59; 1:30 p. <n., 66; 7:30 p. m., 64.5. Maximum 69; Minimum 54; Mean 61; Normal 47. Humidity 1:30 a. m., 78; 7*30 a. m., 79; 1.30 p. m., 67; 7:30 p. m., 77. Precipitation Total for the 24 hours ending 7:20 p. in.. 0.00 inches. Total since the first of the month, 4.70 inches. Tides For Today High Low Wilmington - 10:16a 4:47 a 10:32p 5:18p Masonboro Inlet - 8:06a 1:41a 8:22p ?:J8p Moore's Inlet - 8:11a * ;46a 8:27p 2:23p New Topsail Inlet- 8:16a i B Jmore’s) - 8:32p 2 .-8p (All Times Eastern Standard) Sunrise. 7:18 a. m.; Sunset. 5:17 p. m.; Moonrise, 7:35a; Moonset, 6:48p, (ontinued on Page Three; Col. 8) Japs Launch New Offensive In Pacific : Australia! A great JJ. S. Naval force, possibly the largest yet thrown Into any battle of the Pacific war, was be lieved to have engaged a Japanese fleet that launch ed a major new offensive against the Southeast Solo mon Islands last week. While details are lacking, the Navy has said both sides have suffered losses, and expressed belief the enemy was maneuvering the defenders of Guadalcanal into such positions that heavy Jap reinforcements can be delivered. Arrow (1) indi cates possible route of Jap fleet, Tokyo having report ed a fight near Rennell Island. U. S. bombers hit a t Rabaul (2) and attacked a Jap ship near Tarawa (3). AGE OF PEGGY IS QUESTIONED Defense Switches Tactics In Morals Case Against Errol Flynn LOS ANGELES. Feb. 4—(JP)—The defense, switching tactics in its closing argument against the con viction of Errol Flynn on morals charges, suggested today that Peg gy la Rue Satterlee, who accuses the actor of seduction, may in tact be older than the 16 years she claims. Her birth certificate says she is 16 years of age,” said Defense At torney Jerry Giesler in concluding bis summation, “but this may be outweighed by other evidence.” The defense also suggested to the jury trying the actor for al leged statutory rape that Peggy was trying to prevent prosecution of a friend for an abortion which she assertedly underwent. “She knew she had committed a criminal act in which she and a friend could be involved,” Giesler said, “having once told a lie, Peg gy Satterlee had to go through with it.” Deputy District Attorney John Hopkins, in his final rebuttal summation. said he did not know what steps would be taken against Peggy or her friend, who has not been identified in court. me abortion matter is pend ing,” said Hopkins. “Whether any thing will be done about it I can’t say. No immunity has been given to anyone by reason of Miss Sat terlee’s testimony. But I don’t be lieve she gives it a second thought. I don’t think she knows where the man is at this time.” Hopkins classified as “rubbish' the defense contention that both Miss Satterlee and the other pom plaining witness, Betty Hansen, testified in a hope of avoiding pro secution. Miss Hansen, 17, form er Lincoln, Neb., schoolgirl, accus es Flynn of violating her at a din ner party in Bel-Air. In her rase the defense lawyer maintained, she hoped to escape prosecution for acts of sex perversion. “Betty Hansen will be released from Juvenile hall, where she has been held for running away,” Hop kins continued, “but not because she testified in this case. She’ll get out because the juvenile court wi'l (Continued on Page Five; Col. 3) 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. Americans Advancing In Guadalcanal Area WASHINGTON, Feb. 4—(/P)—American troops made further advances against the Japs on Guadalcanal Tues day despite aerial bombardment from the enemy, the Navy announced today, while warships of the rival fleets ap parently still skirmished throughout the Solomon islands area. The American ground forces continued their advance to the west, driving the Japs toward the end of the island. mey occupied eievaieu pusmuns, west of the Bonegi river, killed 39 Japs and captured considerable equipment. The fjpa fighting, the Navy said, consists of “recurrent engagements” in which air forces of both sides have taken part since the sparring for position began several days ago. Tokyo radio reports that the fleets have started the imminent big bat tle were described at the Navy de partment as false. The communique said only: “Details concerning recurrent en gagements between U. S. Air and surface forces and those of the ene my will not be anounced as long as such information might jeopar dize the safety of our forces in the area of operations.” Japanese planes bombed American positions Monday and Tuesday nights (Guadalcanal time). The strength of the attackers and the results they obtained were not re ported. American airmen meanwniie nil twice at the Japanese. A fighter plane strafed enemy barges in Guad alcanal waters Tuesday and that same night dauntless dive bombers and Avenger torpedo planes which also can carry bombs, struck the Japanese airfield at Munda. The enemy barges strafed near Aruligo point, about four miles southeast of Cape Esperance on Guadalcanal, might have been seek ing to land reinforcements for hard pressed Japanese ground troops. However, one Navy man expressed the opinion that they were just as likely to have been removing men as bringing in new troops. Fires and heavy explosions were seen at Munda after the dive bomb ers and torpedo planes dropped their loads on the Japanese airfield there. No details were given of the ex tent of the damage. BUIN POUNDED BY U. S. BOMBS MacArthur’s Big Bombers Stage Three Hour Raid Over Jap Base ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, FRIDAY Feb. 5—(£>) —A three hour air raid was made on Buin, on Bougainville island, in the Solomons, the Allied high com mand announced today. Buin is roughly 300 miles noith west of American-held Guadalcanal which the Japs are reported mak ing a new attempt to capture. The new raid length indicated it was one of the most devastating of its kind unleashed by General Dou glas MacArthur’s deadly-accurate bombers followed another announ ced in yesterday’s communique. But the previous one was conduct ed by one Catalina medium bomb er which started towerir.g fires. “Our medium bombers execut ed a three hour night harassing raid on the airdrome,” the com munique said of the new raid. “Three fires were started in fuel ammunition dumps. Four other fires, believed to be burning air craft, were observed near the cen ter of the airdrome.” Allied heavy bombers again went after Rabaul, New Britain, one of the vital Jap bases for any enemy ‘hrusts southeastward into the Solo mens. “Our heavy bombers for the sixth successive night raided the area,” Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) BREAK NAZI UN! ________ I # i Big Russian Offensive Vital City Cracks Th< Enemy Defenses KURSK IS ENCIRCL Reds Emulate Axis Tac In Flanders During Early Phases (By The Associated Pres LONDON, Friday, Fel —The Red army has cut German troops in the wes Caucasus from Rostov by swift smashes toward the of Azov, and have brc through the first line of j erful new Nazi fortificat rimming Rostov, Moscow nounced today in a midn communique recorded by Soviet radio monitor. A special communiqu few hours earlier had nounced that the Red a had killed or captured 44 encircled Axis troops i week-old continuing battl annihilation west of Voroi and had swept on to r< positions on three sides Kursk, big Nazi 1941-42 fensive base above Ukraine in southern Ru Using Same Tactics Using the same encirclement break-through tactics employe the Nazis to slash the French Allied armies In Flanders in the Russians sent two speai columns overrunning Starmonis and Kanevskaya in the we Caucasus. These towns, S2 apart, are both only 38 miles the Sea o£ Azov. Their seizure effectively spli Germans based in the Novoroi Krasnador areas of the Caucaf perhaps 200,000 men — from Nazi pivot base of Rostov to North. All main escape roads railways leading to Rostov the south now are in Ru; hands. These huge new Axis revt coming only two days after tl nal slaughter or capture of 33 German, Rumanian and < troops at Stalingrad, were nounced about the same time Berlin radio was acknowlei that Soviet Commandos also landed along the Black Sea to attack their Caucasian fore the rear and to forestall a “Dunkerque” escape on the Ti peninsula opposite the Crimea The break-through of Ros own perimeter of fortifications (Continued on Page Three; C ODD NOTE HEARD IN NAZI SPEE Propaganda Now Be] To Tell Germans The Are Too Soft j (By The Associated Presi Nazis who have boasted foi past decade of their toughnesf capacity for total war hit an note Thursday as they drummi propaganda apparently though to prepare the German publi the midst of official mourninf the death of the sixth army at lingrad, for fresh shocks from sia. In effect, Germans were told were too soft. I "Only the Russians are con ing real total war,’’ said thi (elite guard) organ, Das Schi (Continued on Page Three; C Flying Fortresses Team Up With RA1 Bombers To Blast Northwest Germanl LONDON, Feb. 4.—<-« — Large formations of American Flying For tresses and their four-motored mates of the RAF dropped hundreds of tons of high explosives on north western Germany in an around-the clock offensive last night and to day which was aimed at the area where Adolf Hitler's most essential submarine works are concentrated. Preliminary indications were that the powerful night attack by the British on Hamburg, followed to day by large formations of Flying Fortresses, was meant to be one of the biggest Allied aerial offensives of the war but icy cuolds and dead ly opposition were encountered and 21 bombers were lost in all—five of them American. The American raid was the sec ond United States daylight air at tack on Germany proper — the sec ond blow in what RAF Air Mar shal Sir Arthur Harris, command er-in-chief of the bomber force, has called ‘the campaign the Germans have long dreaded.1’ In their first attack on Germany on January 27, unescorted Fortress es made a large scale raid on IVil helmshaven and Emden and shot down 22 of 24 attacking German fighters. Only three bombers were then. But today, the commur said, “cloud conditions were tremely bad” and “strong fo tions of enemy fighters were countered from the time the bers sighted Germany until were far at sea on the retun Although a number of the my fighters were shot down, of the fortresses failed to get l A broadcast by DXB, official man news agency, said a “st formation” of the bombers wa« gaged immediately after croi (Continued on Page Five; Co
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