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Served By Leased Wire Of The --- associated press REMEMBER news and features dpari ivAnnnn With Complete Coverage Of rLAXIL fiAlicUft State And National News J^ND BATAAN - WILMINGTON, N. C., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1943 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867. UseOfCannedGoods Cut More Than Half By Point Rationing $ UNITS GIVEN Each Person Receives Al lotment For Coming Month Of March may beTubstituted Values For Foods May Be Changed At Any Time By Officials WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. J/P)—The government an nounced tonight how much processed food the new ra tion books will buy, a drastic scale of point values limiting consumption to less than half of normal. The 48 ration points allot ted to each man, woman and child for March will com mend two cans of sliced pine apple, or three cans of peas, 0r 48 cans of baby food. Variety Of Ways To Spend The 48 points may be spent, of course, on a variety of different foods. Here is what some of them wjjj "cost,” in the most popular can sizes: Peas 16 points, corn 14, toma toes 16, green beans 14, pears 21, peaches 21, grapefruit juice 23, tomato juice 32, soup 6, baby food 1. Prunes and raisins cost 20 points a pound; frozen foods most ly 13 points a pound. The Office of Price Administra tion issued a detailed tabulation of nearly 900 different point values which will determine how much canned and frozen fruits and vege tables, dried fruits, canned soups and baby foods may be bought when the rationing starts March 1. Sale of these items is frozen until then. The point values for dried beans, peas and lentils which were brought under the rationing only last night will be announced later. The values announced today are expected to remain in effect throughout March, although they could be raised or lowered at any time. At the end of the month the OPA will announce the values for April, which may be the same or different. The first 48 points provided by the new ration books to be dis tributed this week are designed to cover purchases for the entire month of March. During the last week of March, however, some of the April ration coupons may be used if necessary. It had been announced previous ly that the individual allotment for March would be 48 points but the value of these points was a close (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) Registration Opens Today For Rationing Book Number 2 Here Today, February 22, marks the first day in a week to be devoted to distribution of War Ration Book - in city and county schools. The order of registration has been planned as follows: Monday-A, B, C, D, E. Tuesday-F, G, H, I, J. Wednesday—K, L, M, N, O. Thursday—P. Q, R, S, T. Friday—U, V, W, X, Y, Z. Consumer registration may be ma(fe at any school. One mem ber of a family may register for the* entire family, provided the in dividual is over 18 yeras of age. School doors will be open to the public at 12:30 p. m. and will cl°se at 6 p. m. Persons who fail to register dur ' the first five days of this week may apply for their books Saturday. February 27. •-V WEATHER FORECAST: Mnnrfo or?h Car°lina: Slightly cooler Can scattered showers, dav it ar River stage at 8 A- M* Sun" Wac feet burnt, GTON’ Feb. 21—(£>)—Weather fall . Records of temperature and rain the S? • 24 hours ending 8 p. m., in elSe\vhere-Pa* cotton £rowing areas and Ashevm„ High Low B’fall At n - 54 34 0.00 Bmtof Cily- 55 42 °-00 Cheat- 39 29 000 Clf.fr ,- 52 26 0.00 Deltof11 - 43 30 °-00 - 75 48 °-°° Mlh „C‘iy- 81 29 0.00 ffiat ‘ 55 42 0.00 Minn * o.- 80 53 Nett vS 1 Paul- 45 20 °-00 fttUh*- 58 47 9" fiiehbUrgl - 52 42 0.00 T ' A"toni°- 76 54 0.00 £2? - 74 52 0.00 a™ington _ 68 41 0.00 Good Bargain Is Had By Housewives When Canned Goods Stored WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—OR —Housewives who stocked up on canned goods before sales were halted got a bargain. For every can on hand in excess of five per person, re gardless of its size or con tents, eight points will be de ducted from the ration book. But most common sizes of canned vegatables under ra tioning beginning March I will cost 10 to 16 points; fruits 15 to 24 points. The differential between the eight-point deduction and the actual values, officials said, may unintentionally benefit hoarders but the aim was to avoid a complicated system of pantry inventories and hard ship on farmers or others who customarily stock up heavily in the fall. STATE LEGION HEAD SUCCUMBS Henry L. Ingram Of Ashe boro, Dies Suddenly At Residence ASHEBORO, Feb. 21—(/P)—Henry L. Ingram, 46, commander of the North Carolina department of the American Legion died suddenly of heart disease today at 6:30 A. M. at his residence here. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 P. M. at the First Methodist church, with the Legion in charge. Department Chaplain L. A. Watts of Raleigh will be as sisted by the church pastor, the Rev. Paul Martin, and past de partment Commander R. L. Mc Millan of Raleigh. Long prominent in business, civic and political affairs of Randolph county, Ingram was completing the eighth month of his one-year term as commander of the American Legion’s North Carolina depart ment. Only last week he was com mended by national headquarters for his part in giving the state de partment the largest enrollment in its history. The department executive com mittee will meet in about two weeks to select a successor as commander. Ingram had served as post com mander at Asheboro, district com mander and department member ship chairman before his unani mous election as department com mander at the Asheville conven tion last June. National Com mander Roane Waring appointed him last November as vice chair man of the World War II liaison Committee, and Commander In gram recently attended the Flori da department convention in this capacity. He was considered an authority on Legion organization and was mentioned as a potential candidate for national command er. Ingram served as an omcer wiui the 81st and seventh divisions dur ing the world war and was wound ed in the Meuse-Argonne offen sive. He wa~ awarded the Purple Heart medal. He was bom in Farmer, Ran dolph county, April 10, 1896, and was educated in the Randolph county public schools and the Uni versity of North Carolina. Ingram was a state senator in 1933 and 1937, and a member of the board of trustees of the Uni versity of North Carolina. He was engaged in the oil and gasoline business. Survivors is his wife and two sons, Henry L. Jr., and John Ran dolph Ingram; his mother, Mrs. J. T. Ingram of Raleigh; and four sisters, Mrs. E. Champion Land and Miss Foy Ingram of Raleigh, Mrs. W. H. Redding of New York City and Mrs. Sherwood B. Smith of Washington, D. C. Commander Ingram apparently (Continued on Page Five Col. 5) W ade Plans T o Introduce TWP Bill In Legislature Senator J. E. L. Wade is expect ing to have introduced Monday night, into House and Senate of the General Assembly simultaneously, a bill which will give the City of Wilmington permission to institute plans for the purchase and opera tion of the Tide Water power com pany here, the senator announced Sunday night. Senator Wade is interested in ob taining a joint hearing on the mea sure. ,. Under the proposed enabling act, the city will be entitled to pur chase and operate Tide Water hold ings in 16 other nearby counties, as well as in New Hanover. Re presentatives of the other com munities served by the utilities firm endorsed the bill, in full, at a meeting with city officials in Wal lace, Friday afternoon. The bill calls for the setting up of a commission of seven members to direct activities of the concern, two of whom must come from out side this county. The act was drawn up to give the city authority to buy the Tide Water Power company in the event that the utility is put up for sale (Continued on Page Two; Col. 8) Military observers are pointing out that the next possible natural line of defense in Soviet Russia for the retreating German armies lies along the Dnieper, shown above, far to the west of the present fight ing line. The increased tempo of Russian attacks and the now evi dent Nazi acceptance of defeat in the winter campaign may bring the fighting to this line within a short time. Kharkov, recently fbllion, lies a little more than 200 miles to the East of Kiev. (International) FDR AND SOLONS HITTING TROUBLE Some Republicans Call For More Caution In Ve toing White House WASHINGTON, Feb. *1.—la?)— Amid increasing differences between President Roosevelt and Congress, some Republicans called today for more discrimination in the over riding of executive policies lest im portant governmental functions be impaired. Senator Taft (R-Ohio), for one, proposed the creation of a “vigi lance committee’’ among Senate Re publicans to survey the drastic ac tions recently taken by the House and make recommendations to the minority on the course it ought to take in furthering the elimination of some government bureaus with out crippling the war effort. The latest issue to be joined be tween the White House and the Hill is the proposal of Senator Mc Kellar (D-Tenn) to require Senate confirmation of all appointees mak ing $4,500 a year or more. Presi dent Roosevelt’s unusual and strongly-worded expression of op position yesterday sharpened the controversy, which will come to a showdown in the judiciary commit tee this week. The Republicans may be found upholding the Presi dent; Minority Header McNary of Oregon opposed the bill, saying that if the Senate passes upon all the appointees it will assume responsi bility for their conduct of their agencies. Taft and others were principally concerned, however, with the dan ger of eliminating some valuable federal agencies. “We ought to exercise discrimi nation and not be against some thing just because the President is for it,” Taft commented. “Neither should any member be for a pro posal just because the President is for it." Taft classed the controversial question of the size of the Army in the latter category, observing that Congress had the right to make its own decision despite the President’s assertion at a press conference last week that he had settled the matter as commander-in-chief. Senator Aiken (R-Vt.) said that attempts in the House to kill off the Agricultural Adjustment Ad ministration without making some provision for continuing its work illustrated that Congress could go too far. (Continned on Page Five Col.3) GERMANS PIERCE AMERICAN LINES, TAKE KASSERINE PASS HAVE HARD GOING ____ \ Enemy Artillery Pounds Hills And Plains For , [Thirty Hours YANKS STILL FIGHTING Tired And Dirty, Defend ers Come Down From Hills Ready For More By ROSS MUNRO Canadian Press Staff Writer WITH U. S. FORCES IN TUNISIA, Feb. 20. (Delayed) — (/P) — German artillery pounded the Kasserine Pass and the surrounding hills and plains for 30 hours before forcing the stubborn Ameri can defenders to give ground and withdraw to a flat val ley to the west. Nazi Infantry Moves In The prolonged artillery concen tration with tank thrusts against the entrance to the pass enabled German infantry to infiltrate into the American flanks. Early this afternoon American infantry came down from positions in the hills and from the pass and tank-destroyer units which had been operating in front of the pass withdrew through it to the west. I drove in a blitz buggy toward the Kasserine pass this afternoon and saw the Americans .cpming back from their ordeal on {he hills. They were infantry, engineer and armored troops. The German in fantry worked its way into the hills last night and there was consider able close-quarter fighting with au tomatic weapons and rifles ,.s the Americans beat them off. But par ticularly heavy artillery concentra tion in the area of the pass at noon led to the withdrawal and the troops fell back, tired, dirty and unshaven, but still game and keen to fight again. The spirit of these Americans certainly is not flagging, even after this day and a half of fighting in which the tide turned against them. Tank-buster crews with self-pro pelled guns said they were in ac tion against a squadron of Ger man tanks on the plains just east of the pass. They said they de stroyed or damaged about 15 of the enemy vehicles. The withdrawal to the plain seemed orderly enough as we watched from a knoll two miles from the pass. American tanks moved along the road to take up covering positions about a mile from us. For a while it looked as if the German tanks would try to come through the pass and fight it out on our side, but nothing hap pened. The American vehicles kept moving about at the foot of the hills, helping the infantry and en gineers come out. Two German aircraft flew over on reconnais sance and every gun in the val ley let go at them. Then four American - manned Spitfires swooped over us at zero height to strafe the Kasserine pass (Continued on Page Five Col. 7) Walter Lippmann Says: Results Of Casablanca Parley Becoming Clear By WALTER LIPPMANN Bit by bit we begin to see why the men who conferred >t Casablan ca were so much more optimistic about what they had done than was the world which studied anxiously the first official anouncements. The advance notices had promised a more dramatic agreement of the United Nations and at fir^t it look ed as if no agreement had been reached. Yet subsequent events have shown that in addition to the mili tary decisions there was very sub stantial progress toward political agreement. It seemed as if Russia had stood aloof or had been left out. Yet immediately afterward Mr. Churchill went to Turkey and soon it was evident that Russo-Tur kish relations are improved to a point where an understanding about the war and the post-war settle ment has been reached or is in sight. Turkey is on the vital south ern end of Russia’s European fron tier and is therefore an acid test of what can be done to reach a con structive understanding between Russia and the western nations. This was followed shortly by a speech of the Polish Prime Minis ter, General Sikorski, which point ed to Poland’s need of East Prus sia in order to give Poland firmer access to the sea than was ever possible through the old corridor. General Sikorski is in London, has been in Washington and will, it is hoped, be going to Moscow. A Po land with assured access to the Bal tic would be strong and no longer inclosed in eastern Europe. It could, therefore, satisfy the Rus sians that its policy would not be anti-Russian. Assured on that cru cial point, the Russians would have no interest in dealing harshly with the Polish frontier, and a very strong interest in dealing with it so as to win the confidence of Po land and of Poland’s friends. It seemed that China had been forgotten at Casablanca. Now we know that Field Marshal Sir John Dill and General Arnold went from Casablanca to Chungking and to India, and obviously they did not go as sightseeing tourists. Upon his return the President told us that “we do not expect to spend the time it would take to bring Japan to final defeat merely by inching our way forward from island to island across the Pacific.” The President would not have said this while high British and American staff officers were conferring with General Chi ang Kai-shek if China were not to Continued on Page Three Col. 5) m Red Army Hammering At German Defenses 34 Miles From Dnieper LONDON, Feb. 31—(/P)—The Red army hammered at Nazi defenses 34 miles from the Dnieper river tonight and ac cording to the regular midnight Moscow communique gained 45 miles in the drive south of Voroshilovgrad, fallen Donets basin capital. No new progress was report ed in the drive toward Dnie peropetrovsk and Poltava south west of Kharkov after last night’s special bulletin told of the capture of Krasnograd and Pavlograd. But the communique, record ed by the Soviet monitor here, said the Russian army operat ing south of Voroshilovgrad in the Donets basin had taken three more localities, including Dyakova, which is 45 miles below Voroshilovgrad and only 25 miles northeast of Kuibish evo, taken by another Red army column driving up from conquered Rostov. The union of these two col umns would seal off .a huge area through which German troops have been retreating. The communique said one Nazi infantry battalion was wiped out, and three tanks, eight guns, 22 machineguns, and other materials captured in the fight below Voroshilov grad. Dyakova is approximately 60 miles east of Stalino, a rail junction through which Nazi troops have been withdrawing. Red army units have been try ing to break through to Stalino from Krasnoarmeisk and Kra matorsk, 25 miles to the north west, and 45 miles to the north. The heaviest fighting, de scribed as “extremely vio lent,” occurred in the Krama torsk sector today, the com munique said. German tanks and infantrymen counter-at tacked repeatedly in an effort “to recover lost ground at any price,” but the Russians said they were repulsed with heavy losses in men and equipment. Altogether the Russians said the Germans had lost more than 3,000 in killed and cap tured since late yesterday in fighting extending from Orel, 200 miles above Kharkov, to the Taman peninsula in the Caucasus. While no further progress of the Soviet armies was reported in the drive on Orel, the com munique said Soviet guerrillas had blown up a train in the city (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) CHINESE REPEL JAPANESE PUSH Enemy Attempt To Cross Salween River For 3rd [Time Is Broken CHUNGKING, Feb. 21—(^—Jap anese forces trying to extend their grip along the Burma road in West ern Yunnan province attempted to cross the Salween river yesterday for the third straight day and again were driven back, the Chinese high command reported today. A Japanese attempt to smash the Chinese in northern Kiangsu pro vince also was foiled, the com munique said. It added that the Chinese withdrew before converg ing columns, carried out a “count er encircling movement and at pre sent are sandwiching the enemy with considerable success.” In that area, north of Shanghai, fee Japanese are trying to com press a 45-mile semi-circular line through the lake country from Paoying to Fowning, near the sea. The communique reported no change in fee situation on the Hu nan front. Describing fee fighting in Yun nan, the communique said “the Japanese on the west bank of the Salween in areas southward from Mamienkwan advanced to Mong yungkai February 2, but further progress was halted by the Chin ese, who inflicted many casual ties.” “The Chinese also suffered loss es," it said. “Meanwhile the Jap anese, after receiving reinforce ments, pounced on Lichaipah and made an unsuccessful attempt to cross the river the same evening “The invaders renewed thrusts in the direction of Mamienkwan and registered gains, although they lost more than 300 men. Heavy fighting is progressing in the areas eastward from Mamienkwan. “On the Mingkwang front the (Continued on Page Five Col.3) American ‘Liberators’ Blast Naples, Crotone By The Associated Press CAIRO, Feb. 21. — American Liberators blasted the Italian ports of Naples and Crotone in daylight yesterday, Allied communiques disclosed today, while other bombers of the Ninth U. S. Air Force attacked Axis airdromes in Crete last night for the second time in 24 hours. U. S. Middle East headquarters announced that “all our aircraft returned safely’’ * from both the day and night operations. Hits were scored on one targe ship and two medium-sized ves sels at Naples, a favorite target of U. S. bombers, the communi ques said. The important supply port on the Tyrrhenian sea coast in south ern Italy was raided last on Feb ruary 16. At the Ionian sea port of Cro tone, 200 miles to the southeast on the,“sole of the Italian boot,” the U. S. bombers scored hits on a chemical factory as well as on targets in the harbor area, it was announced. Many fires were re ported seen in the chemical works. For the second successive night, Liberator bombers raided air dromes at astelli Pediada and Ke rakleion (Canada) in Crete and large fires were observed. Meanwhile, Malta-based fighter planes shot up a factory in south ern Sicily, a communique from British Middle East headquarters announced. It added that an ene my raider attempting to attack Alexandria Friday night was shot down into the sea. (An Italian high command com munique, broadcast from Rome and recorded by the Associated Press, said Allied bombers raided Naples ana a half dozen other communities in Italy and Sicily yesterday and that Axis anti-air craft guns brought down six planes. (The broadcast admitted dam age to “civilian buildings” in Na ples and said 119 persons were killed and 332 injured there. (“Our planes raided Tripoli, in Syria, and Beirut, dropping bombs on oil refineries and dumps,” the communique said.) The British communique said poor visibility prevented air oper ations over the battle area in Tu nisia. -V TO TAKE DELIVERY NEW YORK, Feb. 21—(A>)— French troops in Morocco will “take delivery on the first install ment of war materials furnished by the Americans” tomorrow at Casablanca, General Giraud’s sta tion in Algiers, Radio France, an nounced tonight in a broadcast re corded by the FCC. _ BRITISH AND REDS AGREE ON POLICY Eden Says Countries In Accord On Principles For Peace LONDON, Feb. 21.—W>—Britain and Russia are agreed on the broad principles of collaboration for peace as well as on the utter destruction of the Axis, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden said to day in a speech commemorating the 25th anniversary of the found ing of the Red army. Eden spoke at one of a series of meetings throughout England manifesting solidarity of the two nations. Prime Minister Churchill and other high government officials were 'in his packed audience at Albert Hall. A letter from Pre mier Stalin expressing confidence that “joint offensive operations” to smash the Axis would soon be possible between the armed forces of the two countries was read. Before a similar meeting at Newcastle, Production Minister Capt. Oliver Lyttleton said that Britain and the United States had already sent Russia enough tanks to equip 32 armored divisions and planes for 400 squadrons. Eden declared that "where Hit ler’s generalship has failed, the wiles of Goebbels (Nazi Propa ganda Minister Paul Joseph Goeb bels) are now in play; every ef fort has been made and will be made to foster suspicion and en courage dissension between the Allies.” “All the old paraphernalia is out agaifj” Eden said. “A part in this puppet show is played by the bogey of bolshev ism.” But, he added, “we do not find it hard to recognize this highly colored figure. He is an old friend—a survival from the earl iest days of the Nazi regime.” Stalin’s message expressed thanks to every man and woman (Continued on Page Five Col. 6) Huge U. S. Submarine Is Presumed To Be Lost WASHINGTON, Feb. 21— UP) — The submarine Argonaut, largest in the American Navy and possi bly the largest in the world, is presumed to be lost on patrol op erations, the Navy announced to day. A Navy communique also iden tified an American destroyer sunk in the January 29-February 4 bat tle in the Solomon islands as the 2,100 ton Dehaven, one of Ameri ca’s newest and greatest destroyer types. The ship was sunk by Jap dive bombers. The Navy did not give the loca tion oj. the mine-laying Argonaut, a 2,170-ton vessal, at the time it was last heard from. Presumably it was lost in the Pacific. Navy communique No. 228: “1. The United States subma rine Argonaut has failed to return from patrol operations and must be presumed to be lost. The next of kin of personnel in the Argo naut have been so informed. “North Pacific: “2. On February 20 a United States naval unit operating in the western Aleutians engaged and sank a Japanese supply ship. (Continued on Page Five Col. 8) PLUNGING AHEAD New Setback For U. & Comes After Rommel Puts Infantry In Fight BRITISH HITTING FO! Eighth Army Occupies Me denine And Drives To* ward Mareth Line ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Feb. 21. — (/P) — German armored columns have captur ed Kasserine pass in central Tunisia, smashing through green American troops, and have plunged through that key gateway into the batter ed Allied front along the Al gerian border, it was an nounced today. This new setback came swiftly after Field Marshal Rommel had flung his veter an Nazi infantry up the mountains early yesterday to clear the route for his arm ired forces. Turn Back Aromored Thrust The Americans haa turned DacK an armored thrust there Thursday, leading military authorities to be lieve that the “tide has turned,*’ but it now is clear that Thurs day’s action was only an explora tion of American strength on th* heights. By striking simultaneously at both Kasserine gap, 35 miles from the Allied base at Tebessa, and at Sbiba gap to the northeast with strong armored forces both on Thursday and again yesterday, Rommel was able to conceal which of the two was his main objective. British armored units, rushed southward to this grave sector, were thrown into action support ing the hard-hit American armor ed division. American gunners had only a few hours to select mountain sites for their artillery and to camou flage their weapons before the ini tial Nazi assaults began. Their lack of experience may have been a crucial factor in determining th« effectiveness of these preparations. The French high command latt today said Rommel’s thrusts against the French yesterday near Sbiba had been “completely checked” after several hours fight (Continued on Page Three; Col. 6J japaFebomb ALLIES AT BUNA Enemy Town Of Ambon Hit By Our Planes In Re prisal Raid ALLIED HEADQUARTERS TH AUSTRALIA, Monday, Feb. 22.-— (,T?)—Japanese warplanes yesterday bombed Buna, Allied-occupied town on the northeastern coast of New Guinea, the high command reported today. The former Japanese base, whion was captured by the Allies last D» cember 14, lies about 175 mil s be* low the strong Japanese strong* hold of Lae. It was the first time the enemy had bombed It since It was wrested from their grasp. Allied heavy boml)ers, meantime, struck strongly at the tov/n of Am* bon and attacked shipping in the harbor. Clouds prevented observae tion of results but two of six inter* cepting fighters were shot down, while all our planes returned. Another night attack scored hea* vily against the enemy airdrome* at Kahili and Ballale in the Buin Falsi area. Large fires, visible from a distance of 60 miles, were started in the dispersal areas and at least two enemy aircraft, caught on th* ground, were destroyed. "The hangar was demolished and (Continned on Page Three; Col. 1) 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.
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