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r- --fy 1 Served By Leased Wire Of The * p—-— ■ ASSOCIATED PRESS a a t ^ L T 4 REMEMBER NEWS AND FEATURES 1 ^ 4^ <4* __ tK With Complete Coverage Of II M I I I I I I I I /'l PEARL HARBOR State And National News * ^ ^ ^ ^ AND BATAAN VOL. 49.—NO. 114. , THURSDAY. APRIL 1.1942 “ " ^ZTT __— -_-——- ’---Lirz?___FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867* Ample Meat Supply Forecast For U. S, Within A Few Days -*___ CWI CHIEF TALKS Elmer Davis Says Belts Of Nation Still Not Tight ened Much DUE TO BUYING SPREE Shortages Declared Caused By Last Minute Rush Before Rationing WASHINGTON, March 31. __(/P)_Elmer Davis, declar ing our belts still ai en t "tightened much” by the food situation, said todry that most places should have meat suppphes equal to ration de mands within a few days. “The ration, of course, I represents a diminished sup-| ply of meat for civilians as! compared with 1942, though it is about as big as before the war,” said the director of the Office of War Informa tion. “The trouble we are in now seems relatively minor to me. We can hope that con voy sinkings or crop failures do not force ns to tighten our belts even more. Certainly they haven't tightened much vet.” OWS Head Views Matter Davis gave his views to a press! conference on the eve of the in-. auguration of new price ceilings' for pork, designed to be simpler than the ceilings now in effect and to help curb black market operations. The OWI director said part of this week's shortages are due “to the buying run last week-end when so many of us went out whole hog for the last steak. Shortages are worst along the coasts. Davis asserted, attributing this primarily to "the failure of meat to move out of the Middle West and because of local supplies to black mar kets." Various governmental ac tions. lie contended, will spread supplies more evenly across the country shortly. That Office of Price Administra tion soon will follow up the uni form pork maximums, effective tomorrow, with similar regulations (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) | SEWER WORK STARTS^ ~.;e construction of 6,000 feet of'oatfall sewer line to serve a portion of Maffitt Village, 4, OCO-unit Federal housing area here, was begun Monday by the contractor, A. H. Guion and company of Charlotte, the Federal Works agency reveal ed Wednesday. The project is scheduled to be completed in 90 days. It is financed by a Federal Works agency grant. The PWA also announced that work on a 663,940 water line leading from city mains at Front and Greenfield streets to Maffitt village would be i started next Monday by the contractor, the Elliott Build ing company of Hickory. Plans call for construction of 13,000 feet of 12-inch and 16-inch cast Iron pipe. City Engineer J. O. Loughlin estimated W'ednesdav that "hen Maffitt village is com pletely occupied and the new line to the city mains com pleted, consumption of water from the municipal supply "'onld be increased by approx imately 200,000 gallons a day. WEATHER FORECAST: "Orth Carolina: Warmer Thursday. !® ,'rri Standard Time) Meteorni • Sl Weather Bureau) •Bdin' data for the 24 hours h '“i0 p- nt., yesterday, j lemperature m . 7i-a- .Si" S2: ‘-'30 a. m., 54: 1:30 p. j ’ 1 uU P. NormaMs?1 75 ’ ^inimura 52; Mean 63; Humidity n 49.a7.?n’ 7:30 a* m” *2> 1:39 p **’ 1 -o0 P- m., 86. Precipitation «n..°o.oo inches? 24 h°Urs endine 7:30 P’ s-39°inchesnCe the flrst o£ the month’ j Tides For Today Wilmington -H*f2a ^ Etasonboro Inlet .. U:S ** .. VZ ll:08p Kam 5:15p ll:30p 'Elmore ?'3 "let - 4:57a U:13a Si nr. Jimes Eastern Standard) Eloonise’t • «? a‘ Sunset- 6:32 p' m': Can. ® 4 01a-: Moonset. 3:13p. on wf-m, 1 Rlver staSc at Fayetteville Wednesday, at S a. m.. 10.65 feet. 'Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) I Democrats Unmoved By GOP Suggestion On New Tax Measure WASHINGTON, March 31.— I/P)—Democratic leaders, victo rious in their battle against the RumI skip - a - tax - year plan, showed no enthusiasm today for a Republican sugges tion that the House devote it self immediately to a compro mise pay-as-you-go system that would abate a large por tion, but not all, of one year’s taxes. The indications were that the pay-as-you-go issue might lie dormant in the Ways and Means committee, perhaps for several months. Rep. Knutson (R-Minn), a leader in the unsuccessful fight for the Ruml plan, called up on Chairman Doughton (D-NC) of the committee to make the committee’s “first order of business” a reconsideration of current-payment tax legisla tion. SOCIALSERVICE EXCHANGE SLATED Preliminary Steps Taken To Set Up Register Of Needy Families Preliminary steps have been tak en toward the establishment of a Social Service TJxchange to serve Wilmington and New Hanover county, it was announced Wednes day by the Rev. Walter B. Freed, chairman of the Council of Social Agencies committee of the Com munity Chest, following a meeting of that committee and executives of 11 public and private social case work agencies of the community. The Social Service Exchange, said Mr. Freed, is a clearing house for social agencies, public and pri vate, and as such maintains a card index of the names, addresses, and other identifying information of in dividuals or families receiving re lief or oUier service from the so cial agencies in the community. The cards contain no data as to Ihe detailed needs or history of the families, merely listing the i ames of the families together with the names of the agencies knowing the families and their first date of contact. According to Mr. Freed, as fam ilies come to the attention of the various agencies, the agencies will <-ommunicate with the exchange giving the names, ages of all members of the family and the address. The exchange will search its files and report whether or not ihe family has been registered pre viously by another agency- The agencies wil] then consult one an cther to learn the nature of the problems presented and the serv ices rendered. It is anticipated that a Social Service Exchange would eliminate duplication, prevent waste of time, ?neigy and money, and strengthen the efforts of social agencies. It will offer the machinery for secur ing information that will be helpful in making constructive plans for clients and that will avoid the con fusion of conflicting advice. Exchange files, the Rev. Freed ended, aie not open to credit de partments. attorneys, collectors or the genera! public. The informa uon is considered confidential and is given only to an agency that (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) City’s New Fire Station Opened By Mayor Yow Mayor Edgar L. Yow officially opened the city’s $35,000 Fire Sta tion Number six Wednesday night at a declinatory dinner in the new station, at Third and Willard streets, attended by some 35 city officials prominent citizens and members of the Fire Department. “The City of Wilmington is proud of its fire department, and I think justly so, because of its record,” Mayor Yow declared. “That is why the council, with a great deal of pleasure, thanks you all for your part in providing this new station.” The dinner was served in the main section of the new station, built and equipped with federal funds. The station’s $10,000 fire truck, described by Fire Chief J. L. Croom as “the most completely equipped truck in the city” was parked outside for the inspection of the guests. “I am well satisfied with the completeness of this plant.” City Attorney W. B. Campbell com mented in an after-dinner speech. “The adequacy of it is highly beneficial to the city, but. in frank ness, it is more beneficial to the millions of dollars the federal gov ernment has invested in this area.” The city attorney termed the station a monument to the motto of “never taking no for an an swer”, in revealing that the War Production Board officially killed the fire station project last July 16. By the time the order reached Wilmington, he said, the station had been practically completed. “One feature of it deserves ‘. our attention,” he said. “Its present state of completeness is due to members of the Fire Department who painted the interior, plastered the walls and otherwise finished the station.” “It is needed here, it is here, and it r~*resents a great deal of work on the part of the officials you put in office who have han dled with efficiency a multiplicity of problems involved in securing this station.” A number of the speakers paid tribute to Fire Chief Croom, in cluding Bruce B. Cameron, who declared: "I don't think there is a better (Continued on Page Two; Col. lj Iii central Tunisia, Private Pat Bellii'.liam (top), Duluth, Minn., told a war correspondent "now I’m really mad” at the Nazis because one stole his jeep—containing a pic ture of his best girl. Miss Phyllis Rubertueci (below) of Philadelphia, Pa. RED CROSS FUND REACHES $55,000 Quota Of $35,000 For City Is Surpassed By More Than $20,000 By Wednesday night, the Red Cross war fund had passed the $55,000 mark, and Was more than $20,000 beyond the $35,000 quota for the City of Wilmington, Mrs. Ida B. Speiden, executive secre tary, announced. The amount accrued during the day Wednesday was $700.38, and the total contributions stood at $55,488.03 at the final count. “We need every penny that the campaign brought in for the quota set for this community was fig ured before our population was drastically increased, and before the entire need of the city was known to national headquarters,’’ Mrs. Speiden commented. “It is also true,” she said, “that the national goal has not yet been met. The expense of maintaining Red Cross centers near all the allied fighting fronts is tremen dous, as can easily be imagined. This encouraging supplement to our goal of $35,000 in the city will go to help meet the national need and to extend our services here.” The $55,483.03 in the war fund, the drive for which Walker Taylor, local insurance man, was director, was made up of the following con tributions: Special gifts. $13,585.50; government agencies, $2,932.17; in dustry, $2,256.36; business, $3, (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY FANS OUT ABOVE GABES IN HOT PURSUIT OF ROMMEL’S BOMB RIDDEN TROOPS -* GOPMS HIT ENEMY Pigtaiied Moroccan Fight ers Strike Terror Into Italian Hearts TAKE MANY PRISONERS Native Allies Of French Hit From Dark Spots At Axis Positions WITH THE BRITISH FIRST ARMY IN THE SED JENANE SECTOR, March 31.—(7P>—Coffee-colored Gou miers from the Moroccan hills, fighting on the seaward and right flanks of the Brit ish in this sector, advanced through bushy undergrowth today and took up positions six miles east and southeast of Sedjenane. A large number of prison ers was seized by the Allies in a three-day battle which resulted in the capture of this little railway station and set tlement at 2 P. M. yesterday, and one Italian Bersaglieri regiment no longer exists as a fighting unit. Reach New Kastward Point Goums (units of Goumiers), on the seaward flank today readied a point six miles to the east, while another detachment occupied Djebel Tab lun'a on the right flank. It was not clear, however, wheth er the enemy would try to set up a defense in the Immediate area or would fall back 10 miles to Green hill and Bald hill, the spots he used as a springboard for the offensive this month which carried him for ward i4 mileB, almost to Djebel Abold. No small part of the success of the British First Army in this ex treme left flank of the northern Tunisian front has been due to the aggressive patrols of the Moroccan Goums. These stalwart pig-tailed warriors, wearing turbans and burnooses and fighting under volunteer French of ficers, specialize in ghostly patrols. They moved out in the thickets before? the batjWe began and were on the Italian positions before the enemy knew an offensive had been launched. They struck cold terror into the hearts of many Italians who had been assigned a large part of the defense area, and some Italian units made a special point of sur rendei-ing to the British rather than risk battle with the natives roam ing their flanks. Artillery, in which the Allies greatly outclass the Axis in this sector, also played an important (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) Walter Lippmann Says: America Now Reaching Another Turning Point By WALTER LIPPMANN We are passing through another of those turning points in our his tory where much depends upon how rapidly and how accurately public and official opinion takes account of what is really happen ing in the rest of the world. We were at such a turning point nearly three years ago in the early sum mer of 1940, and it took us over a year of fierce debate to under stand even partially the actual sit uation. As a result, we were un prepared for the war when it came: in the October before the Japanese struck at Pearl Harbor, Congress was still arguing on the assumption that the issue of war or peace was a question of wheth er we “intervened” in the Atlantic against Germany. Now, again, the coprse of events has run- ahead of the prevailing ideas about them. There are still some in Congress, though a di minishing number, who think of lend - lease as philanthropy in which we give up our treasure in order that others may fight their battles, not ours. There are many more in Congress, as the discussion of the Ball resolution discloses, who imagine that we can freely and at our leisure de cide whether to accept or reject a continuing working arrange ment with other nations. And at the other end of Penn sylvania Avenue, there are signs of illusion'; arising from the same mistaken assumption. The other day .-.n eminent newspaper and several well-known commentators, who try faithfully to reflect official opinion, announced that if our al Important German D efense Point In West Caucasus Falls To Reds -* - * Reappointed Here i __ THE REV. WALTER FREED FREEDRE-NAMED HACOW OFFICIAL Prominent Local Minister To Serve New Five Year Term In Group The Rev. Walter B. Freed, pas tor of St. Paul’s Lutheran church, war. reappointed a commissioner of the Housing Authority of the City" of Wilmington for a five year term Wednesday by Mayor Edgar L. Yow. The mayor said that the Rev. Freed, whose term of office as a member of the authority expired Wednesday, would be sworn into office for the new term at 11 a.m. Thursday. Mr. Freed is the only commis sioner of the authority whose term of office expires this year. He was appointed to the authority in July. 1938, to replace Henry R. Emory, the present executive di rector of the authority. The housing authority, first to be established in the state, is re sponsible for the administration and maintenance of all Federal housing here. Completion of Maf fitt village, huge shipyard worker housing project, will place a total of approximately 6,000 Federal housing units under the authority’s control. In addition, the authority oper ates two low-cost housing projects here, the Charles T. Nesbitt courts (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) ■-. lies did not accept the American interpretation of the Atlantic Char ter as interpreted by these jour nalists. the United States would re vert to “isolation.” The assumption, unconscious for many, a: thp root of these opinions is that we are the invulnerable bestowers of benefits on others. The assumption is an absolute fal lacy. We are in fact fighting pow erful enemies as one among sev eral great states. In this struggle we take as well as give. We ask as weil as receive. Our opinions, though important, are not the law. And our success in safeguarding and promoting our own interests depends upon our seeing ourselves, and our position, add our power, and our needs and our hopes, with clear eyes and a level head in relation to the actual scheme of things. It is quite as true of us as Mr. Churchill said it was of Britain that we “have to reach agreements with great and friendly equals and also to have a care to the rights of weaker and smaller states, and that it will not be given :o any one nation to achieve the full sat isfaction of its individual wishes.” To know this is to have come of age. It is to know one’s strength by recognizing one’s limitations. To know this is to have put away childish things and to be mature in the world as it is, and to have subjected, as a great people must, their wishes to the stern discipline of reality. It is to know the dif ference between patriotism and jingoism, fceween national pride | (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) NAZI TROOPS MENACED Drive Intended To Eject Foe From Last Foothold At Novorossisk LONDON, Thursday, April 1.—(iP) —Russian troops captured the “Im portant German defense point’’ of Anastasevskaya in the western Caucasus yesterday in a renewed drive to eject the enemy from his last major foothold at Novorossisk, 33 miles to the south, Moscow an nounced early today. Anastasevskaya is on the road running 55 miles westward to the Kerch strait opposite the Crimea, and is only 10 miles from a high ways junction leading south to No vorossisk. Another ten-mile ad vance by the Russians would cut off sizeable German troops anchor ed in Novorossisk, former Soviet port for the Russian Black Sea fleet. A tank-supported German infan try battalion also was hurled back in trying to break the Red army’s defensive line along the northern Donets in the Ukraine, said the midnight communique recorded hy the Soviet monitor. The enemy left 150 dead and two burning tanks on the battlefield in this sally it said. On the Smolensk front in Cen tral Russia there was little change In an area where flooding rivers and clinging mud has hampered military operations, but the com (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) Enemy Inaugurates 'Softer9 Policy In Chinese Treatment _ WASHINGTON, March 31.— (IP)—Japan has inaugurated a “softer policy’’ toward occu pied China, Chinese Foreign Minister T. V. Soong said to day, in an apparent effort to keep the Chinese quiet while new Japanese thrusts are pre pared against British and American forces. The Chinese statesman told reporters of this development atfer attending earlier in • the day a meeting of the Pacific War Council with President Boosevelt at the White House. Members of the council said nothing new along strategic or military lines developed at this gathering. Soong said the Japanese are resorting to various methods of mollifying the previously ruthlessly handled inhabitants of Japanese-occupied areas. For one thing, the word ap parently has gone out to the commanders of Japanese gar risons to treat the conquered Chinese more gently. Another recent move was to restore to the Chinese various conces sions long held by Japan. Still another was Prime Minister Hideki Tojo’s recent visit to Nanking, as a gesture of en couragement toward the pup pet Chinese government and to create the impression that the Chinese, after all. are going to be allowed to have a voice in their own affairs. United Nations Hammer At Morale Of Italians WASHINGTON, March 31.—<#)— Hope appears to be rising in Unit ed Nations circles that Axis re verses in Tunisia will fray Italian nerves, perhaps to the breaking point, as the hour for invasion of the continent from Africa draws nearer. Both here and in London offi cials emphasize that Italian troops in Tunisia are again being sacri ficed to save German hides, as they were in Egypt. The officials obviously hope that their words will percolate through to the Ital ian public. Prime Minister Churchill gave such a twist to his announcement to Parliament of the occupation of Gabes by British Eighth Army troops following collapse of the Ma reth line defenses. He said it was too early to say how many Ital ians had been left to hold the bag in Tunisia as at el Alamein while their Nazi masters escaped. In Washington, Director Elmer Davis of the Office of War Infor mation capped that today. Speak ing of Rommel’s retreat out of the Mareth trap, leaving sacrifieal Italian rear guards to help his get away, Davis said: “He (Rommel) again has thrown the baby out of the sleigh so that the rest can escape — the baby in all cases being the Italians.” The reference is to the once widely copied picture of a winter scene in Siberia where a child in arms was being thrown to a follow ing wolf pack to permit escape of the adult passengers in the sleigh. It is a caustic comment on -what happened after the British broke through the el Alamein line in Egypt and started the 1,500 mile pursuit of Rommel. Two divisions or more of Italian troops, aban doned by their German 'comrades” fell Into British hands then, there is every evidence in reports from Tunisia, as Rommel again seeks es cape northward, the the bulk of 8,000 or more Axis troops captured by the British and Americans are Italians. Director Davis had other re marks to make about the Tunisian battle scene to point up his jibe. He told a press conference, under (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) Sergeant York On a tour of duty In Washing ton, D. C., Sgt. Caroline E. York, a fifth cousin of Alvin C. York, fam ous hero of World War I, is deter mined to live up to the glorious tra dition of the name. PIPE LINE ROUTE PARLEY STARTED Negotiations Proceeding With Property Owners For Right Of Way Negotiations between the City of Wilmington and four owners for title to the right-of-way for the pipeline for the Hood’s creek sec tion of the city’s projected King’s Bluff water supply are now under way, City Attorney W. B. Camp bell said Wednesday. The city attorney said that the Seaboard Airline railway and three private owners were involved. If the city is successful in ob taining the tracts, Mr. Campbell said, it will.have enough right-of way to construct the water pipe line eight miles from the present Toomer’s creek pumping station to the new station on Hood’s creek, plus three additional miles along the proposed pin- route to King’s Bluff. Work on a plant to be operated by the Lock-Joint Pipe company of Ampere, N. J., in producing 16 foot sections of 30-inch reinforced concrete pipe for the line, is ex pected to begin in the near future. The contract f the construction of the entire project was awarded to Price Brothers of Dayton. Ohio, last fall but the War Production board recently decided to limit (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) j SEDJENANE TAKEN - i First Army In North Drives On To Point Near Bizerte PATTON BORING AHEAD! American Tank Forces Now About 45 Miles From Montgomery allied headquar ters IN NORTH AFRICA, March 31.—(fP)—The British Eighth Army fanned out over the coastal plains more than 12 miles above Gabes today in a steady pursuit of Mar shal Rommel’s bomb-ridden troops, while the British First Army in the north recaptur ed Sedjenane and pressed on to a point only 35 miles southwest of the big Axis held naval base of Bizerte. An Allied communique also said that the American army of the center had bored far ther into the flank of Rom mel's coastal belt. The southern wing of the troops under Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton, .Jr., was believed to be only 4,5 miles from a coast al junction with the British Eighth Army. Axis Runs Toward Sfax Rommel s main forces appeared to be making a hurried flight in open country northward toward Sfax, 70 miles above the onrushing Biihsh vanguards, and the coastal roao was reported strewn with many enemy bodies and wrecked machines—victims of a ceaseless soiUle-bombing by American and British airmen. The Eighth Army captured Me touja and Oudref, the latter 12 miles north of Gabes, early yes terday morning and advanced units swept on to contact "hastily prepared enemy defenses,” the communique said. Oudref is a Junction of the road leading northwest about 45 miles to connect with General Pat ton's southern American wing moving down from el Guetar. Ital ian rear guards left by Rommel in between these two Allied armies appear to be cut off unless they make a precipitate withdrawal through mountain trails leading northeastward out of the pocket. The progress of the U. S. troops was hampered by extensive mine fields laid in the mountain passes. The Americans were reported to have bagged another 200 pris oners in their sector, however. Lieut-Gen. K. A. N. Anderson’s British First Army on the offen sive in north Tunisia captured Sei jenane, 40 miles southwest of Bi zerte, and a dispatch from As sociated Press Correspondent Wil liam B. King at the front said Moroccan Goumiers, (their units are called Goums), had penetrated farther six miles to the east. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) Big Water Main Break Deprives Many Of Use Of Liquid For 2 Hoars A large portion of Wilmington was without water for about two hours Wednesday night after a 34 inch main blew out near the wa ter plant at Hilton. According to the plant’* engi neers, the break took place about 9:15 P. M., and service was re stored about 11:15 P. M. by utiliz ing another main to carry the supply to the affected part of the city. No estimate was made of the time necessary to replace the broken section of pipe but an ade quate supply of water was as sured. Within a few minutes after the break occured, Police Headquar ters reported telephone calls com ing in at the rate of two or three a minute from irate householders who were without w'ater. The Star News came in for its share of calls, with three telephones work ing at once. 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. |L- _ -
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