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[gH I tlmtmtfint iMnrmng Star -TI^no. no -----—__ -j------ WILMINGTON, N. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1943 _ FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867. fanyuasoune Ducats Stolen from Dealers Coup0 n * About 100,000 Gallons Taken j from Local Stations HUGE loss expected Ration Board Head Says Replacement Of Lost Tickets Possible Negligence of dealers in :u.e]v locking up their sup plies of gasoline ration cou L has resulted in thefts, vei- a period of several 'ths of coupons worth an Sated 100.000 gallons of oS. offals of the New Hanover War Price and Ra £ board announced Friday S'ing station dealers have been the victims of the thefts .n(l as a consequence stand to to the gasoline equivalent Jthe paper units, O. H. Shoemaker, chairman of the hoard, declared. Insecure Receptacles "It is impossible for us to make !Dod tc dealers the loss through L, of gasoline tickets.” he said, "in manv cases, we know that the iiUfeg station operator whose ticke’s are stolen has deposited theffi jn a place as insecure as a'cjSar box. Thieves have been able lo help themselves. We want to urge ell dealers to lock up their coupons as soon as they re ceive them ” just recently. Mr. Shoemaker revealed, one dealer reported the theft of 2.500 gallons in coupons; another lost 1.400 gallons to thieves. On his desk Friday lay petitions from dealers for the re deeming of smaller quantities of stolen gasoline coupons: none of tie requests can be honored. Gasoline thieves loaf around fill ing stations until the opportunity presents itself to seize the cou pons. the ration official explained. They then proceed to some town nearby and dispose of the coupons lo another filling station dealer, who pays a good price for them. Tea! dealer is able to sell gaso- j be, m the amount of the coupons illegally purchased, to motorists tfco are willing to pay excessively high prices for the extra gasoline. (Continued on Page Two: Col. 3) f CONTRACT OKEHEDj A water contract between the North Carolina Shipbuilding company and the Housing au thority of the City of Wilming ton was approved Thursday af ternoon by the commissioners “f thp authority, Henry R. Em ery, the executive director, said Friday, He said the contract was for furnishing water from the ship yard’s deep wells to the authori ty s trailer camp near the ship yard, A similar contract existed between the shipbuilding compa ny and the Farm Security ad ministration, former operators °J the trailer camp. Hie commissioners approved the selection of the name “Vance” ,"r t h e community huild °n the prefabricated section jjf Maffitt village, and the name Hewes" for the community inldinj nf the war worker apartment section of the village. ' aiice js (aken from Zebulon a,1|t Vance, former governor " the state and Hewes from J "seph Hewes, Edenton patriot ^tlie He;otufionary war. Army Chief Presents Old Friend g # On an inspection tour of Fort Henning, Ga„ with British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden (left). General George C. Marshall, U. S. Army chief of staff, introduces the British diplomat to an old friend he spotted, Sgt. Tom Tweed (right). Tweed, game warden at Fort Benning, is a former companion of the Army chief. Eden Pledges British Aid To Crush Japanese Empire ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 26.—(fP)—Britain is out to crush Japan as well as Germany, Foreign Secretary Antho ny Eden assured Americans tonight; there will be no rest until both ends of the Axis have been smashed. “Let there be no mistake," Eden said in an address prepared for the Maryland state assembly and broadcast to the nation over CBS; “we shall not rest upon our arms until every one of our enemies has unconditionally surrend ered. We, no less than you, and our partner China, have a score to settle with the Jap anese; nor shall we cease fighting until that evil growth in the Pacific has been cut back. We shall be with you in this to the end.” Eden had a special word of en couragement for China. “Let China not misdoubt us,” he said. “We shall not forget how for years she resisted aggression single-handed. . . . The day will come when the Burma road will once again be open.” Britain’s foreign secretary men tioned only briefly his fortnight of conferences with President Roose velt, Secretary of State Hull and others. He said he was “well pleased at the result,” but added: “You will not expect, I- trust, sudden and sensational develop ments. For there will be none. But there has been a meeting of minds between us about the pres ent and the future that will, we are sure bear fruit.” Eden emphasized buL did not dwell on the question of close col laboration with Russia, mention ing it only in connection with the broader theme of United Nations cooperation in war and peace. Declaring that in the period be tween the two world wars the in tentions of the peace-loving na tions were excellent but their prac tice weak. Eden said: “If tnere is one lesson we should have learnt from the distresses of those years, it is surely this: that we cannot shut our windows and draw our curtains, and be careless of What is happening next door or on the other side of the street. Nc nation can close its frontiers and hope to live secure. We cannot have prosperity in one country and misery in its neigh bor, peace in one hemisphere and war in the other.” Employment Heads Say: High School Pupils To Enter Industries Plans for guiding this year’s op of high school graduates into tarries where they are vitally eded were mapped out in detail ,re Thursday, when an area con ■fence, under the direction of S. arion Justice, director of occu monal .nformation and guidance ' me State Department of Pub , ms'Li'uction, was held at New ,iI!0Ver High school. /^ new plan for the utilization 943 High school graduates here | a *au<ji market that needs all I bolstering possible was worked as a joint proposition of the ited States Emplyment Serv and (he public schools, epresentalives from schools in enri ^:‘nover, Brunswick, and oei bounties were present for meeing, and all indicated their en,i°n of adopting the system siding youths to war jobs by ” 01 ihe Employment Service. Present for the session in addi tion to Mr. Justice, a nationally known authority on occupational guidance, and the school delegates, were H. B. Griffen, representa tive of the planning section of the state centra) office of the War Manpower Commission, New Han over High vocational coordinators, Miss Mabel Bacon, of the Wil mington branch of the United States Employment Service, and Dr. W. J. McKee, University of North Carolina extension division. To assure that all seniors de siring work are directed to it, the graduates will immediately begin holding occupational consultations with appointed counselors in the schools. It will be possible for a senior to fill out his job applica tion card himself, wait for inter view wkh Miss Bacon, who in (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) JOINER COMPANY TO GETM’ FLAG Firm Doing Work On Lib erty Ships Here To Be Honored Today The Maritime commission’s “M” pennant for production excellence will be presented to the W. and J. Sloane Company, manufacturers of joinery work fo rail Liberty ships built here, at a brief ceremony at the yards of the North Carolina Shipbuilding company here at 11:15 a. m. Saturday. The Sloane Company of Master Craftsmen plant, at Oneida, N. Y. received its “M” pennant a few days ago and the blue flag with its white block “M” has also been raised over the executive offices in New York. Program The presentation program, over which W. E. S. Griswold, Jr., of New York, president of the W. & J. Sloane company, will preside as master of ceremonies, will open with the National Anthem. P. F. Halsey, vice president and general manager of the North Car olina Shipbuilding company, will speak and his remarks will be followed by the presentation ad dress by Francis Boyd, principal hull inspector of the U. S. Mari time Commission here. The award ■ will be accepted by John S. Gris wold. manager of the Wilmington division of W. & J. Sloane com- j pany and the "M” pennant and its companion Victory Fleet flag will be raised over the company’s shops. An address by Ralph Keller, vice president and general mana ger of the Company ef Master Craftsmen, Inc., of Oneida, will follow. A Labor Merit badge will be presented to H. J. Sloop, repre senting the employes, by Mr Boyd. The program will close with address by John Sloane, chairman of the board of the company. The Sloane factory at Oneida, (Continued on Page Two; Col. ^) Red Cross Workers Asked To Report To Headquarters Today All solicitors for the Red Cross war fund were urgently requested Friday night by cam paign officials to turn m their collections by noon Satui daj, the last day of the drive, at cam paign headquarters in the Tide Water Power Company show Contributions by Friday night stood at S26.638.50, and the goal of $35,000 was $8,361.50 short. Citizens were asked again to bring their contributions to campaign headquarters if solici tors had overlooked them. Donations received Friday amounted to $1,806.04. with the largest share. $790.63. coming i from residential collections. my Force $ Wiped Out By Red Army German Garrison Annihi lated At Strongpoint Near City Of Smolensk HOLD FIRM IN DONETS New Central Front Gains Said To Be South Of Bely Vicinity LONDON, Saturday, March 27. — (/P) — Russian .troops beating against Smolensk’s distant defenses wiped out a German garrison at one strongpoint and captured an other, while holding firm against Nazi counter-assaults on the Donets river front near Kharkov in the south, Moscow announced today. The new central front gains announced in the midnight communique recorded by the Soviet monitor were said to be south of Bely, presumably near Dukhovschina, 32 miles ! from Smolensk. Reds Break Into Dorogobuzh A Stockholm dispatch said Rus sian tanks already had broken into Dorogobuzh, 50 pailes east of Smol ensk. in a frontal assault support ing the northeastern wedge in Smolensk’s outlying defense belt. The communique said 500 Ger mans were killed in the capture of the two enemy points, 300 of them in the garrison which was outflanked ana then attacked from the rear after a group of Red army men stole across a river. Four enemy guns, 20 machine guns, five anti-tank rifles and other war materiel was captured in one of these actions. Several populated places were taken in this continuing d r,i v e over difficult terrain, but the com munique suggested part of the Russian—troops were consolidating their hard won gains in the great salient which so long had threat ened Moscow. Approximately 1,100 Germans; were reported slain in futile ef- [ forts to breach Russian positions between Belgorod and Chuguev in the Kharkov sector of the Ukraine during yesterday’s fighting which found the Germans still using a considerable number of tanks. Near Chuguev, 22 miles south east of Kharkov, the communique said numerous tank and infantry attacks were repulsed, one Soviet unit alone destroying 42 Nazi tanks and wiping out a battalion of in fantry. Near Belgorod, 50 miles above Kharkov, 100 Germans fell and two tanks went up in flames in an unsuccessful attack, and near an unidentified height the Rus sias said a company of Germans was wiped out and two big guns destroyed in another repulse of the enemy. Moscow announcements yester day suggested the same course of the struggle, a continuing push by the Red army toward Smolensk and a firm stand in the Ukraine. The noon communique said sev eral settlements were captured in the Kuban below Rostov where the Russians are advancing within 20 miles of Novorossisk, Black Sea naval base. Greatly increased air fighting in | the bright, cloudless skies above \ the Leningrad front suggested a battle below, as well. The Rus-1 sians said they destroyed 13 more j planes, fur a three-day total of 58. j (The German communique said i that all fighting on the Russian 1 front was minor and that the power of Russian attacks south of Lae Ladoga had decreased consider ably.) German resistance increased on the approaches to Smolensk, where toe nearest Russians are reported but 32 miles away. WEATHER FORECAST: North Carolina: Showers Saturday. (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., 53; 7:30 a. m., 55; 1:30 p. m., 68; 7:30 p. m., 63. Maximum 68; Minimum 51; Mean 58; Normal 56. Humidity 1:30 a. m., W; 7:30 a. m., 78; 1:30 p. m., 58; 7:30 p. m., 83 Precipitation Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m.. 0.00 inches. Total since the first of the month, 4.62 inches. Tides For Today High Low Wimington _ 1 -41a 9:09a 2:00p 9:20p Masonboro Inlet -11:37a 5:50a _p 5:56p Moore’s Inlet -11 ‘42a 5:55p _p 6:01p New Topsail Inlet -11:47a 6:00a (Elmore's i -P t5:05P (All Times Eastern Standard) Sunrise, 6:06 a. m.; Sunset. 7:15 p. m.; Moonrise. 00. :00; Moonset, 10:10 a. m. Cape Fear River stage at Fayetteville on Friday, at 8 a. m., 18.65 feet. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) BRITISH 8TH ARMY INFANTRY INCHING SLOWLY AHEAD INTO MARETH LINE FORTIFICA TIONS Rommel Counter-Attacks — American Gain In North ■ - " ———^ British forces were reported to be warding off fierce Axis counter-attacks at the coastal end of the Maretli line in Tunisia, while to the north, Anieriean units made local gains in the Maknassy area and were shelling the Mezzouna airfield. Arrows indicate Allied drives, designed to close a trap on Axis forces. with Americans pushing eastward toward the sea, while the British thrust generally northward. Flying Fortresses Blast Jap Unitsi At Wewak ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Sat urday, March 27.—(/P)—Flying Fortresses in one of their greatest attacks in the Southwest Pacific blasted Wewak, Japanese New Guinea base, and also hit a 4,000-ton mer chant ship, the Allied command announced today. The attack on Wewak lasted three hours, and the four motored bombers going in low loosed 19 tons of explosives on the airdrome, docks, town’ and shipping in the harbor. Two direct hits with 500-pound bombs were scored on the 4,000 ton merchantman “which was badly damaged," the bulletin said, and 1,000-pound bombs were re ported to have “caused especially serious damage among shore in stallations.” Wewak is approximately 360 miles above Port Moresby, main Allied base in New Guinea. Intense anti-aircraft fire was en countered in the night attack, but all Allied planes returned to their bases, it was said. Japanese positions at Lae, Sala maua, Finschhafen, and Mubo farther south also were bombed and strafed. In the Lae sector numerous fires which were started “gradu ally merged into one large blaze visible 20 miles away,” the bulle tin said. Allied airmen made 14 passes over the Mubo positions where fires were started and machingun posts silenced. “No enemy planes were in the vicinity,” the communique reported. Latter information on the re sults of a raid announced yester-j day on Amboina, 500 miles north- J west of Darwin, Australia, said that two enemy cargo vessels were set afire by direct hits with 500-pound bombs. \7 t TAXI ORDINANCE IS NOW STUDIED Model Law, Based On Ker mon Bill, Before City Attorney Here A model taxicab ordinance, based on New Hanover Rep. R. M. Kermon’s taxi regulatory act which was adopted by the general assembly, has been referred to City Attorney W. B. Campbell for study and will be considered at the next council meeting, City Manager A. C. Nichols said Fri day. The model ordinance was draft ed by the North Carolina League of Municipalities after passage of the Kermon bill, Mr. Nichols said. The taxicab act gives the city control over all taxi companies operating here by requiring a mu nicipal license for every driver and every cab company operator. It empowers the city to refuse licenses ' to operators or drivers who have been convicted of felon ies, liquor law violations, or to habitual drunkards and violators of traffic laws. The bill also allows the city to revoke taxi operating permits for the above reasons and permits a city tax on each vehicle. NEW U. S. CARRIERS NOW IN OPERATION Navy Discloses Fleet Of Auxiliary Units In Combat Areas WASHINGTON, March 26.— MU— The Navy disclosed today that the first of a fleet of auxiliary air craft carriers are in combat areas and scores of others are building in shipyards on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The primary function of the aux iliary carriers at this time is to help smash the German U-boat offensive in the Atlantic, but they are oy no means limited to fur nishing convoy protection, having uses also as ferrying craft and in fleet operations. The greatest need for them now, however, is in the North Atlantic and indications were that that was where the bulk of Tie force would be disposed. The report on the new program was made public at a press con ference of Secretary of the Navy Knox. Converted from merchant - type vessels or built keel-up as auxil iaries, these carriers have a force of aircraft adequate to patrol vast reaches of the ocean in convoy duty. and. the Navy secretary said, provide a “triple menace”, to the enemy’s undersea, surface and air raiders. Vice Admiral Frederick J. Home, vice chief of naval operations, join ed Knox at a press conference to tell of the auxiliary aircraft pro gram as “coming along very rap idly.” Horne reported that the auxil iary earners have “been very suc cessful, but the nature of a car rier of this type without high speed” has limitations due to weather. Some have already been in com bat, ne said, and have been in “all of the seven seas.” NOTICE The Star-News Circula tion Department is open Sundays from 7 to 10 a. m. If you fail to receive your paper, phone 3311 before 10 and one will be sent to you by special messenger. After 10 o’clock, the de partment is closed, i RAF WINGS OVER ITALIAN CAPITAL Fast Bombers Raid Rail ways On Outskirts Of Rome Proper LONDON, March 26—(IP)—RAF Intruder planes, taking off from battered Malta where for months the words “Bomb Rome” have been chalked on the walls of ruin ed' buildings; sallied boldly over the Italian capital and environs last night, and one o fthe pliots on his return expressed regret at not having been able to single out the “big bullfrog”—Mussolini. First reports from Malta quot ed only the pilot who wanted to find Mussolini, but later it was learned a number of attacking craft had flown over the capital area for the first time. Early editions of the London morning papers gave the story top display and the Daily Mail headline said: “RAF Over Rome Suburbs.” Only one pilot told of what the Italian capital looks like at night from the air. After seeing the blinking night sights of Rome, the flier concen trated a strafing attack on trains serving the capital and" an outlying railway station. “The moon was quite bright,” the pilot said, “and although it was very hazy we could see flashes of electric trams or trains in Rome itself and the buildings of the city.” Enemy planes, apparently at tempting a reprisal for the closest known hostile approach to Rome, caused an alert today on Malta for the first time in 22 days. RAF planes rose to meet them, and one enemy raider was reported down ed on two approaches to Malta. UNDER MUCH FIRE Hail Of Bullets Surrounds Montgomery’s Forces In Bloody Advance AMERICANS HOLD FAST Patton’s Troops Fight Grimly To Keep Axis Pinned Near Coast ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS IN NORTH AFRICA. March 26. — (IP) — Infantry of the British Eighth Army inched slowly forward into fortifications of the Mareth line under a hail of gunfire today while American forces 70 miles away fought grimly to keep Marshal Erwin Rom mel’s flank pinned to the Tu nisian coast. The seventh night of Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery’s attack on the deep Mareth belt of minefields and pillbox es backed up by concentra tions of armor and artillery found the British and the en emy still locked in a struggle reminiscent of the first World War’s many “battles of posi tion and attrition.” Absence of Information There was complete absence of information on the situation in the el Hamma area, where daring units of the Eighth Army had struck far around and into the rear of the Mareth line. But con tinued heavy attacks by the Allies’ western desert air force on enemy armor in the vicinity of el Hamma indicated that the flanking British force was holding its initial gains there despite its long supply line. (The Algiers radio said the Brit ish before el Hamma, which is 20 miles from the Axis supply port of Gabes, were meeting an "ex tremely dense anti-tank defense system,” but that they had cap tured the height of Djebel Tobaga, dominating Gabes. There was no Allied confirmation of this report.) (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) SHAKEUP IN VICHY By The Associated Press The Berlin radio anounced last Friday night a shakeup In Pierre Laval’s Vichy cabinet in which five ministers were dismissed, and this development came amid continued desertions from the Vichy government by foreign diplomats who were switching their allegiance to Gen. Henri Honore Giraud, French high commissioner in Allied North west Africa. The ministers “taking leave of Chief of State Petain,’’ said the broadcast recorded by the Asso ciated Press, were: Joseph Barthelmy, justice; Admiral Jean Marie Abrial, na vy; Gen. Jean Francois Janne kyn, aviation: Jules Brevle, col onies; and Bear Admiral Rene Platon, secretary of state in the foreign ministry held by Laval himself. The Berlin radio stressed that the shakeup was “harmonious, insuring unconditional support of the Laval government," and said some of the posts were be ing telescoped to give a greater concentration of potfer. ——— 1 ■ Walter Lippmann Says: John Lewis *Actions Belie His A rgum en ts By WALTER LIPPMANN The discrepancy between Mr. John L. Lewis's arguments and his actions is so glaring that he ought to be asked to explain it. For his case, as set forth in his address to the Appalachian joint conference, cannot be reconciled with his threat of a coal miners’ strike and his contemptuous de fiance of the War Labor Board and of the Office of Price Admin istration. Mr. Lewis’s case is that the miners are entitled to an increase in their wage rates because "in mining communities retail food prices have advanced 124.6 per -ent from August, 1939. to Febru ary, 1943. ... It is notorious pub lic knowledge that O. P. A. has no control whatsoever over the aver age retail establishment in Amer ica’s industrial regions, and least of all in the remote mining com munities. The only merchants of consequence who pay attention to 0. P. A. fixed prices are the na. tional chain stores. . . . Company stores owned by coal companies have never paid attention to or dinary restraints of that charac ter. Least of all do they now'. . . . I challenge any attempt to discredit the figures in this report because it is backed by unassail able logic, computation and data.” At the moment there is no need to challenge Mr. Lewis’s figures, though, in fact, as published in “The United Mine Workers’ Jour nal,” they are unintelligible. For, with the exception of fresh fruits and vegetables, they compare August. 1939. prices with Febru ary, 1943 prices, and there is no way of telling, therefore, how much of the rise has occurred (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4)
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