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Served By Leased Wire Of The _ ASSOCIATED PRESS BFMrMBrB NEWS AND FEATURES BAntMLR With Complete Coverage Of PEARL HARBOR _ AND BATAAN -:--- WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1943 FINAL EDITION -- BRITISH 8TH ARMY ROW ROLLING INTO TUNISIAN THEATER drive promised Commander Of Middle East Forces Thinks Ma reth Line Easy aerial activity high U. S. Flying Fortresses Strike Kairouan Air drome Hard (By flie Associated Press) LONDON, Feb. 10.—{£>)— The promise of an imminent attack on Marshal Erwin Rommel was seen in the an nouncement of Gen. Sir Har old Alexander in Cairo today that the British Eighth Army is rolling forward into Tunisia, while American bombers and new fighter plane teams from their North! African bases kept up their heavy assault. “The enemy’s forces have been completely eliminated from Egypt, from Cyrenaica, Libya and Tripo1 bania and the Eighth Army is advanc ing" the British Middle East commander told a press con ference in Cairo. Line Can Be Turned Gen Alexander expressed the opinion that the Mareth line 65 miles inside Tunisia and only 40 miles long', could be easily turned bv motorized forces sweeping around its end. but he did not say the line was ndw under attack. However, he expressed the be lief that Marshal Erwin Rommel would husband his depleted Italian and German forces behind that system of French fortifications as long as he was not threatened with being cut off. The German radio has been her alding an impending attack from the east for several days, and the Italian high command’s communi que today betrayed Axis concern over “massed motorized vehicles and concentrations of troops” of the British which it said were ex tensively bombed by the Axis ail force formations. In Tunisia there was inactivity by the land armies, but American F :ng Fortresses, the spearhead of the Allied air armadas which are out daily to destroy German (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 4) \T_. BRITISH WAITING FOR PARLEY TALK Churchill Appears In Hduse : Without Revealing Ex pected Report LONDON, Feb. 10—(£*)—Prime Minister Churchill appeared in the House of Commons again today and parried questions in the Churchillian manner, but the mcm ters had to sit through another tia'-'s session without hearing his promised war review. The public too waited impatient ly for the speech which many ob servers predicted would be one of tile greatest of Churchill’s career. Besides giving the fulliest review let of his dramatic conferences with President Roosevelt at Casa blanca and with President Ismet Inonu m Turkey, Churchill was ex pected by well placed observers to emphasize the U-boat menace and i'"i further information on Bci* tarn’s food supply. His statement ICoatinued on Page Eight; Col. 3) tr WEATHER N FORECAST: r.,s;,;n Carolina: Scattered showers and nsiderably colder. JE?.stern Standard Time) , U, S. Weather Bureau) enc -’e 7?l’>g*caI data for the 24 hours s 7;,)o p. m., yesterday. Temperature ts a: 32; 7:30 a. m., 54; 1:30 p u,": 7:30 ! m., 60. t’Ohhaf^T11 32; Minimum 52; Mean 62; Humidity * 95; 7:30 a. m„ 90; 1:30 p. 8I- ':3» P. m„ 85. Tn(,, Precipitation 6 £or the 24 hours ending 7-30 p. j “■00 mehes. Ojo0,®1 ,s‘We the first of the month, 0 mehes. Tides For Today V, ;i„ High Low lm>nglon - 2:42a 10:01a 3:07a 10:20p -Chboro Inlet_12:35a 6:48a W, , , 12:59P 7:08P rt s hdet _12:40a 6:53a V, » 1:04p 7:13p I,-:, Topsail Inlet _12:45a 6:58a - l:09p 7:18p Men,,,'w' ,;1* a. m.; Sunset, 5:22 n. m., ;S.T, ll.:24a: Moonset 12:04a. lime Eastern Standard) l(-ontinu«d on Page Eight; Col. 7) New Hunger Strike Staged By Gandhi Against Authority BOMBAY, Feb. 10.—(/P)—With India apprehensively alert, Mo handas K. Gandhi started a 21 day hunger strike today—to subsist on citr,us fruit juices mixed with water but not to “fast unto death” as he threat ened on previous abstentions— in protest against his confine ment behind barbed wire in the palace of the Aga Khan at Poona. The 73-year-old, wispy pa triarch imposed the limited diet upon himself after long cor respondence with Lord Linlith gow in which the viceroy advis ed against it for reasons of health and then added bluntly that it constitutes “political blackmail for which there can be no moral justification.” Gandhi went ahead with the joint objective of compelling the government to alter its pol icy of locking up members of the all-India congress party “for the duration” and in pro test against the “leonine vio lence” which Gandhi acQused the government of using to sup press the civil disobedience campaign. ENGLAND BOMBED BY NAZI RAIDERS Many Towns Struck By Speedy, Hard-Hitting German Bombers LONDON, Feb. 10.—(-T)—Speedy,, hard-hitting German raiders slash ed at English towns today, hitting a school, churches, stores and a restaurant and causing numer ous civilian casualties, while the RAF pounded railroad yards at Caen, France. The raiders—believed to include a new type of hit-and-run fighter bomber—swooped down from low hanging clouds and some ap proached London to give the cap ital a bombless alert during the midday rush hour. A girls’ school in one of the home counties was destroyed, and several girls injured along with the caretaker and a visiting school officer. The school session was over for the day. In a south England town, one bomber scored a direct hit on a furniture store next to a large department store, cau%ng casual ties of undisclosed number. Win dows in a nearby postoffice were splintered, and an old church stripped of its stained glass win dows and roof. Two enemy planes were destroy ed and another was shot down into the channel, an Air and Home Security communique said, ac knowledging that the raiders caus ed a “number of casualties, some of which were fatal.” Another old church was dam aged in one of the home counties and large stores were smashed; a government - operated “British restaurant” suffered a direct hit, with a number of persons reported killed. Rescue parties searched several hours for victims in the wreckage of the restaurant, struck during a rush hour. Many of those buried in the wreckage were believed dead. , , A third church was almost de molished in yet another town, and two persons were killed. Other south coast towns were reported bombed and machine gunned during the afternoon and early evening. A passenger train was machine gunned along the coast, but no one was hit. The raiders then hopped along to bomb a town, and (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) _ U. S. Slashes r ■ Widespread American Foe In The Pacific GUADALCANAL [TAKEN Commander Of Forces Says Yanks Are Now In Full Control WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. — (A5) —Widespread attacks by American airmen on Jap anese bases in the South Pa cific, possibly presaging a campaign to carry quickly to adjoining islands the victory for United States forces on Guadalcanal, were reported by the Navy today. Flying out to the north west, bombers and fighter planes hit hard at three bases of the unsuccessful attempt by the Japanese to gain con trol of the Solomon islands. Simultaneous Activity Those raids, the Navy’s com munique indicated, came almost simultaneously with the announce ment by Maj. Gen. Alexander M. Patch that his troops on Guadal canal had gained complete control' of the island. One force of bombers attacked the Japanese positions at Kolom bangara island, 190 miles northwest of Guadalcanal. There Marauder medium bombers dropped ‘heir loads while Airacobra and Light ning fighters flew alongside. No opposition was reported in the Navy comunique which added that results of the raid were not ob served. In the same general area on the mght of February 9 (Guadalcanal time) Dauntless dive bombers swept down on Munda in another of the many raids on that Japanese airfield 180 miles northwest of Guadalcanal. Large fires were started but no additional damage details were reported. Lightning (Continued on Page Eight; Col. Z) Advertising Initiative Important In War Time, Says Banking Executive N®W YORK, Feb. 10.—W)— Declaring that advertising initia tive is vitally important to trust institutions in wartime, William H. Neal, vice presi dent of the Wachovia Bank and Trust company of Winston-Sal em, N. C., told the mid-winter j trust conference of the Ameri can Bankers Association today that banks “can never afford to allow sales efforts to lag.” “Advertising, merchandising and selling must always be an important part of our public relations program,” Neal said. “Tf we allow our sales efforts to lag for any considerable per iod now there will come a cor responding time in the years ahead when the volume to be handled will likewise decline de spite all our efforts at that time to correct the mistake.” "The era when it was pop ular to discredit anything con nected with business, capital or finance fortunately has passed,” Neal said. "The critics them selves. were discredited when, in the emergency of war, the ation found in its business and financial leaders such an out pouring of patriotic service, productive capacity, and finan cial skill that these critics were effectively silenced.” Walter Lippmann Says: Nazis Apparently Set For One Final Stand By WALTER LIPPMANN William L. Shirer, who is our most experienced and discerning student of German propaganda, is convinced that "the Nazi regime is telling the worst,” playing fu neral marches and ordering days of mourning, “not to lull us into a false sense of security but to steed the German people for a su preme last stand against the Rus sian British - American coali tion.” The evidence supp -ing Mr. Shirer comes from so 1 any quarters that it would be a dan gerous kind of wishful thinking in reverse to ignore it. Thus it is so highly probable as to be virtually certain that at some point within the past few weeks—perhaps when the drive to relieve their Stalingrad army had failed—the German governing class made up their minds that the war could not be won. A con viction of that sort cannot be kept the secret of a few men: it must soon be known, not necessarily at first to the general public, but to the military and political agents of countries which cannot afford to be wrong about who is going to win the war. Finland, Spain, Italy and Turkey are all vitally interested. Finland has in effect publicly thrown herself upon the mercy of the Allies. The tension in Spain has been relaxed. Italy has had a change of government. And Turkey has dramatically re (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 6) yiEW OF ROSTOV—GATEWAY TO THE CAUCASUS This is a view of the main street of Rostov, the great port city on the Sea of Azov, key to the Caucasus. Russians are besieging the city from the south, and another column is driving down from the north. Long German columns were retreating from Rostov toward Taganrog, under cover of rear guards. The loss of this city would be a worse blow to the Nazis than the great defeat at Stalingrad. (International) NEW RESORT LAW IS NOW PLANNED Would Put Carolina Beach Under General Elec tion Rulings A proposed bill for introduction into the General Assembly to bring the town of Carolina Beach under the genral election laws of the state of North Carolina has been drawn up by Emmett Bellamy, local at torney, at the request of Carolina Beach residents. “The system of government now in effect at Carolina Beach is uni que,” said Mr. Bellamy, “in that the present set-up vests in the gover nor the right to name the officers of the community government, af ter recommendation from the free holders of the resort. "It is my understanding that there are only three such commu nities in North Carolina that oper ate under this law: Carolina Beach, Wrightsville Beach, and Pembroke, an Indian reservation near Lum berton. Under this plan, citizens of the community do not have the right of suffrage. “I have been instructed to pro vide the newspapers and the may or of Carolina Beach -with a copy of the proposed bill,” said Mr. Bel lamy. Replying to the receipt of a copy of the bill, Mayor R. C. Fergus of Carolina Beach commented: "Passage of this bill will not be fair to land-owners of Carolina Beach who are not residents of the community the year around. “The total tax evaluation of prop erty at Carolina Beach in January 1942, was $1,524,275,” Mr. Fergus pointed out. “Of this amount, ap proximately $400,000 in property is owned by 113 permanent residents of the beach, and about $1,100,000 is owned by 613 residents of other sec tions of the state. There are 125 towns in North Carolina which have representative free-holders wtih property investments in the town of Carolina Beach. “As can be seen from these fig ures, approximately three-fourths of the property at Carolina Beach is owned by residents who live else where, w jo would "not be permitted to have a voice in the government of the res' and whose number represents erwhelming major ity as compa vith the 113 per manent resident ” Mayor Fergus declared. The mayor explained that "the town has largely been able to de velop as a result o me type of government now observed. Residents and property-holders of the town congregate every two years to name their individual choices for mayor and aldermen. It is from the (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) " -. 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. 48-HourW ork W eekPlan May Be Extended Shortly CHICAGO, Feb. 10.—(ff)—Chairman Paul V. McNutt of the War Manpower Commission indicated tonight that the order for a 48 hour minimum work week in 32 “critical labor shortage areas” soon may be extended to many other regions. “Acute labor shortages have already occurred in 32 im portant labor market areas,” he stated. “Similar shortages are anticipated in many other areas in the near future.” His statement, read at a press conference, evoked quer ies about when and where the shortages would occur and wnen tne additional regions mayi be placed on a longer work week, but he declined to make any pre dictions. He asserted expansion of the war production program and the armed forces would require the services of an additional 6,400,000 persons this year, and added that every measure must be taken to insure a full and efficient use of the labor force. Later, in an address before the American Management Associ ation, McNutt announced that the WMC would establish a new agen cy to aid in the task of making the most efficient use of the na tion’s workers. lie reported n would oe Known as the Bureau of Manpower Utili zation and that it' would “assist management and labor • in a mu tual search to increase the ef fectiveness of human effort.” McNutt disclosed the latest step in the manpower field 24 hours after President Hoosevelt had or dered a 48 hour minimum work week wherever the WMC deemed it necessary. He told reporters approximately 20 per cent of all non-agricultural workers were now employed on a work week schedule of at least 54 hours and approximately 50 per cent on a work week of 48 hours or more. Extension of the work week to 48 hours for the remain ing workers, he added, would be equivalent to adding “tens of thou sands” to the labor force. McNutt stated he wanted to put the 48 hour week program into effect without compulsion, but that (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 3) PAY-AS-YOU-GO TAX PLAN URGED National Grange Official Recommends Quick Passage Of Bill WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.— W — Fred Brenckman, representing the National Grange, today urged quick adoption of a pay-as-you-go income tax system, but emphat ically opposed “paying more than one year's income taxes at a time.” “I shall not speak specifically for the Ruml plan,” he told the House Ways and Means commit tee. “Any sound and workable plan which permits the taxpayer to pay his tax in the year his in come is earned will be satisfactory to us. “We oppose paying more than one year’s income taxes at a time.” Beardsley Ruml, chairman of the Federal Reserve bank of New York, has proposed that the 1942 tax year be by-passed in attain ing a current tax collection sys tem. Several of the 25 committee members, including Chairman Doughton (D.-N. C.), renewed their opposition to wiping,out all of last year’s tax obligations. When Kenneth C Richmond, (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 2) OUSTING OF VICHY MEN PROGRESSING General Giraud’s Cleanup In North Africa Mov ing Forward ALGIERS, Algeria, Feb. 10.—UP Gen. Henri Giraud’s cleanup of Vichy underlings in North Africa was reported to be moving stead ily ahead today, regardless of Gen. Charles de Gaulle’s latest expres sion of dissatisfaction with prog ress to date. Informed French sources said Alfred Pose, secretary of econom ics in Giraud’s high commissariat and director of a bank which the Pierre Laval regime had favored repeatedly, was scheduled to be replaced by an ardent pro - Ally businessman. The ouster of the prefect of Oran was also understood to be arrang ed by Marcel Peyrouton, governor general of Algeria,' on Giraud’s instructions. French quarters closely connect ed with Giraud sharply disputed de Gaulle’s assertion in London yesterday that 15,000 political pris oners are still held in North Afri ca. They pointed out that an Al lied commission is now investigat ing the cases of persons hetld on political charges and that the num ber of these prisoners, mostly Spanish republican refugees, bare ly exceeded 5,000. I Giraud s recent liberation or it French Communist deputies also was cited by these sources as evi dence of Giraud’s liberal trend. The visit of Gen. Georges Ca troux, Fighting French delegate in Syria, was reported to have been marked by a harmony of views between him and Giraud which contrasted with the critical atti tude still being expressed by de Gaulle. Giraud’s supporters said his main concern is to equip his troops with American arms and get them ready to fight for the freedom of France, but that he is alert to the need for civil reforms mean ing the cases of persons held on while. City Council Passes Resolution Urging Extension Of City Limits Pledging itself unanimously to i furnish City of Wilmington munici pal facilites to areas within the pro posed city limits extension plan, the city council went on record Wednesday morning as approving the extension plan. , In a formal resolution, the coun cil inserted a proviso for the bene fit of residents in the now out lying districts that no ad valorem taxes would be levied against them until January. 1944 and these taxes would not fall due until October of the same year—and even though they would, of course, enjoy muni cipal benefits long before that time. “It is the desire and purpose of! the council to diligently undertake to provide municipal facilities to the extended areas if the extension is approved by a vote of the peo pie,” the resolution declared, ini part. "The council of the City of Wil mington is of the opinion that the limits should be extended. “Tht council has given careful thought and consideration to the subject of extension, including sur veys and studies as to appropriate lines and boundaries for the city extension as well as to the facilities which would be reasonably required for the new areas, if the lines are extended, and the costs thereof.” The resolution was adopted on the motion of Councilman J. N. Brand, Jr., seconded by Council man Ronald Lane. It estimated that an initial out lay of $618,000 would be required and that the annual expenses of maintaining city facilities in the new areas would be $200,000. A copy of the proposed legislation including the boundaries of the new areas, published in Tuesday's Star and News, has been submitted to State Senator J. E. L. Wade and Representative R. M. Keimon for consideration and for possible in troduction at this term of the gen eral assembly. Discussing the extension this morning, Councilman Brand, the city treasurer, said he could find no evidence of the city’s credit rat in,'; having been affected by the proposed enlargement of the boun daries. On the contrary, he cited the ex ample of another North Carolina municipality which enjoys the same rating as Wilmington despite the fact that it once defaulted on its municipal bond issues. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) \ CHUCUYEV TAKEN Newest Conquest Places Reds Only 22 Miles From Objective VOLCHANSK OCCUPIED Important Rail Town 36 Miles From Goal Is Also Captured (By The Associated Press) MOSCOW, Feb. 10.—<£>)— The Red army’s arc of assault on Kharkov, most important Nazi communications hub in the entire region east of the Dnieper, closed in today with the capture of Chuguyev, only 22 miles southeast of the threatened city, and the oc cupation of Volchansk, only 36 miles to the nprtheast. The fall of these two rail road towns was announced in a special communique as the Russian forces bounded to ward the great prize with the same apparent momentum that had toppled two other huge German winter defense centers in the last 72 hours. Last Blockade Taken Fall of Chuguyev on the direct Kharkov railway to Kupyansk, which the Russains already had captured, put into Russian hands the last city which had blocked the southeastern approaches to Kharkov on the western bank of the northern Donets and provided the Red army with an excellent base for a final drive on Kharkov itself. The steel city of the Ukraine was now within reach of deadly long-range Russian cannon which everywhere was accompanying the fast-moving Soviet infantry, tanks and ski troops. (The possibility that the Rus sians had moved even closer to Kharkov directly to the east was indicated in the regular Red army communique recorded in London by the Soviet Monitor. This com munique announced also the cap ture of the district center of “Pecheregi.” This may be the town of Peschenaya which is only 18 miles east of Kharkov. (The occupation of Byeli-Kolo dez, 10 miles south of Volchansk on the Kursk-Kupyansk railway, also was reported. (South of Rostov, the communi que announced the capture of Akh tari, Sea of Azov terminal of the railroad from Krasnodar. (This closed one of the two coastal railway terminals avail able for evacuation of German (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) M’ARTHURCALLS JAP STORY A LIE Says General Horii And Army Did Not Leave Buna But Perished ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Thursday, Feb. 11.— ($>)—General Douglas MacArthur’a communique today virutally called JaDans Mikado a liar, saying Gen eral Tomatari Horrii and hts army did not evacuate the Buna area of New Guinea at the end of Janu ary as the Japanese claimed but "perished.’' This pointed commentary was In cluded along with the announce* ment of a fresh Allied ground vic tory on the approaches to Salama* ua and Lae, the next Jap base of importance since the victory at Bu na sealed triumph for the Allies in the Papuan peninsula. The commu nique announced that the mam Jap force has been encountered in the Wau area, some 35 miles southwest of Salamaua, and forced back for six miles, after which our artillery continued to pour It on the retreat ing enemy. The communique’s blunt giving of i the lie referred to yesterday’s state iment in a Japanese imperial head quarters communique that its troops pulled out of Buna. "It is a complete fabrication and must be regarded as propaganda rather than as a military report,’’ snapped MacArthura version of the battle. It marked the first time General MacArthur had given the lie di« rect to the Japanese and his lan* (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 7)
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