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Served by Leased Wire of the associated press T 1Jt mm m ET Ulf C Complete Coverage I Efli VW Slate and National News ■ ■ ■ BH --- - M * JP, M B ™B » B %P _J-— - -- - ^TTtnltg fP@®Y <gQW ©(P &ME) EULIgAgy&llftfr V0L.15—N°l^:-- WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, APRIL 4, 1943 ' FINAL EDITION-PRICE FIVE CENt4“ Reds Tighten Hold Around Hovorossisk Capture Another Town And Wipe Out 450 Nazis Attacking Donets Line ALS0 TAKE CROSSING Little Change Reported On Front Between Lenin grad, Caucasus .flvpQ\-. Sunday, April 4.—UP)— ‘ refl army captured another n in the Caucasus to tighten its 'eini-circle around the Nazi bridge ; j ... Xovorossisk. wiped out 4o0 i;:,.,nans attacking the Dtonets river \nii also seized a crossing over , 'river. Moscow announced early today. . , T|,e midnight communique record ,|,0 goviet monitor identified locality in the Caucasus prikubansky. presumably in the _ isaevskaya area 33 miles north oroseisk. Two hundred and Germans were killed, and three and six mortars destroyed in the action, it added. essential change, however, ... . reported in tiie long front be , een Leningrad and the Caucasus ■'„y, jug tiie issuance in Moscow xeste'.'dn.v of official maps illustrat ins the huge strides made by the II --kois during the winter to re _ .y, W5.32S sqitare miles of terri tory. Heaviest name The heaviest Donets river battle in the Ukraine occurred south of Izyum. TO miles southeast of Khar kiv.. the communique said. At this point where the Russians hold the western bank of the river the Ger mans threw a motorized infantry regiment supported by 20 tanks asair.st the Soviet positions, only tv lose -ton men. five tanks and I seven mobile guns. In the Belgorod sector, 50 miles I above Kharkov, the Russians unex fl piv-tedly attacked a German con f tingent holding a cr, -sing over the (Continued on Page 15; Col. 3) BRfflSH CONTINUE RAIDS ON FRANCE RAF Scores Daylight Sweeps On Abbeville Field. Brest Docks LONDON, April 3.—(IP)—Heavy | explosions and anti-aircraft fire I heard across the English channel tonight indicated that the RAF was keeping up a 24-hour attack on Germ n-occupied France following daylight sweeps in which bombs were dumped on a Nazi airfield at Abbeville and the docks • at the harbor of Brest. In other daylight flights fighter bombers set an enemy trawler afire off the coast of Holland and swift Mosquito bombers battered rail targets in northern France and Belgium. ... Spitfires escorting the bombers ;w the Abbeville attack shot down f ve German fighters with the loss o' only one of their own; the air wwnistry announced. A communi owe said one of the Mosquitos also ■ "Lssing from the rail line raids, ... The raid on the docks at Brest ''■as carried out by Ventura bomb-. e w ith a fighter escort, but the A Ministry gave no details of the! results, , Today’s activity continued the round-the-clock offensive to which bombing Lorient and St. Nazaire, ■c RAF returned last night by ■to of Germany’s mos.t important w boat bases on the Atlantic coast. Tate tonight explosions again were heard across the channel, -■rst from south of Boulogne and a-terward in the Calais area. • Shortly after dusk, German | ^Continued on Page Five; Col. 1) WEATHER North n FORECAST Georeia- ef.olina» South Carolina and Slightly warmer Sunday. (E/rST?.RN STANDARD TIME) Mpfpnr-w l' s* Weather Bureau) ^dine "°ooglcal data for the 24 hours | 1 -J0 P. m., yesterday. ’ 30 t Temperature t 58: 7:30 a. m., 44; 1:30 • 7:30 p. rn., 48; maximum, 'U1T1> 43: mean, 51; normal, 56. 1 30 Humidity \i ;; la> 52; 7:30 a. m.t 47; 1:30 7 '30 p. ln, 46. lJreeipitatIoii '/• . 24 hours ending 7:30 " 'in-lies. Total since tlie first '"With, o.oo inches. |(, Tides l or Today s f■ " Tide Tables publislied by 1,1 1 and Geodetic Survey.* W tl4/ High Low Mfm - 9:32a 4:09a Ma«r.-h T 9:52p 4:27p ‘bor° Inlet- 7 ;24a 1:09a Sunrisp - 7:42p l:29p 6°nn°a- m>; su>lsei- 6:35 p. m.; * h r,° a- m.; moonset, 6:30 p. m. Continued on Page Three; Col, 3) Two Jap Cruisers Sunk ByPlanj^f Off New IreV/tM __ ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN $JA, Sunday, April 4—(AP)—Two Japan risers have been sunk at Kavieng, New Ireland, .Jy allied planes, the high command announced today. A large destroyer also was sunk and two others were hit and badly damaged. This aerial triumph followed quickly yester day’s announcement that reconnaissance planes had spotted numerous ships in Kavieng sector, 550 miles northeast of the allied base of Port Moresby, New Guinea, after which bombers scored hits on a 10,000 ton and a 6,000 ton enemy ship. The raiders struck before dawn at Japanese shipping which reconnaissance pilots previously had reported totalled approximately 50,000 tons, dispersed off Kavieng and Steffen strait. “Striking just before dawn and taking the en emy largely by surprise, our heavy bombers execut ed a devastating low level attack on a warship con centration in Silver sound,’’ reported the noon com munique from General Douglas MacArthur. “Aided by flares, the attack was pressed home from medium level and masthead height. Four di (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) Press Given Major Role In New War Loan Drive STARTS APRIL 12 Goal Of Biggest Financing Operation In History Set At 13 Billions WASHINGTON, April »—— The nation's newspapers are com ing to you for $13,000,000,900 more —for Uncle Bam. It’s the second war loan drive, due to begin Monday, April 12. Newspapers have been assigned a leading part in conducting it. The government calls it the big gest war financing operation in history. Its initial stages will last about three weeks, and it is designed to sell the Ameripan public f.13, 000.000,000 worth of War bonds. , $100 In Bonds For All Divide that figure by the num ber of peopje in the United States, and you arrive at the conclusion that—on the average—about $100 worth of bonds will have to'be sold for every man, woman and child in the country if the goal is met. Secretary Morgenthau- and Frank E. Tripp, president of the Allied Newspaper council, said in a communication to all newspa pers: “The people of your community look first to the newspapers for (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) -V RED CROSS DRIVE REACHES $58,013 Wilmington Chapter Sur passes War Fund Goal By Over $23,000 A total of $58,013.55 lias been collected for the Red Cross War Fund here, more than $23,000 above the goal set for the Wilmington chapter, Mrs. Ida B. Speiden, ex ecutive director, reported Satur day. , .. The single largest contribution was $20,161.42 by employes of the N. C. Shipbuilding company, W. and J. Sloane, Crotty Bros., and Maritime Commissi011- This^le final report from these sources. Of this amount, $3,000 was donated by Negroes. An additional $5,000 was given by the Shipyard firm. The fund has been created by donations as follows: Special gifts, $13,595; governmental offices, $2, 942.17; industrial, $2,354.66; busi ness, $3,550.29; residential, ?V 252.78; Atlantic Coast Line Rail way company, $2,017.61; Negroes, $1,085.62; and Shipyard, $25,161.42. Norwegians To Hang Traitors After War PHILADELPHIA, April ii— UP)—The Norwegian people will hang their native quislings once the Nazis are driven out, Crown Prince Olav of Norway predicted here today. “Although it is to be hoped that the punishment can be handled in a law-abiding man ner,” Prince Olav said in an’ interview, “I am much inclin ed to think that the people will resort to lynch law.” The subjugated Norwegians would welcome an invasion by the allies, he said, adding that he did not expect a revolt against the Nazis “until the secret word is given that the time is ready.” TWO-HOUR METERS TO BE INSTALLED Will Be Placed On Chest nut Street Between Sec ond And Third Two-hour parking meters will be installed on Chestnut street, be tween Second and Third streets on Monday, replacing the present hour meters, City Manager A. C. Nich ols announced Saturday. He said the location was one, of the best the city could find for the installation of the extended-time meters since it was near enough to the down-town section to serve many persons who needed longer parking hours in that vicinity. The city manager emphasized certain changes in the new meters from the old ones such as coins lie ing deposited upwards instead of downwards, and posts being paint ed green. “We have endeavored to make as much differentiation as possible between the types of meters, so that motorists will not get them confused,” Mr. Nichols declared. The two-hour meters require only a nickel for the allotted time. -V 42 Nations Invited To Food Conference WASHINGTON, April 3.—(/T*)— Four additional countries—Egypt, Iran, Iceland and Liberia—have been invited to send representa tives to the international confer ence on pos.t-war food problems April 27. The United and associated na tions so invited now total 42 in addition to the United States. Axis Asserts EuropeSecure From Invasion Germans Say Balkans Strengthened Against Possible Attack FORTS ESTABLISHED Dutch Coast Termed Par ticularly Propitious For Landing Operations By E. C. DANIEL LONDON, April 3—(A*l—The ajBs took a blustery attitude toward the increased threats of an allied invasion of Nazi-held Europe to day, claiming adequate steps had been taken to protect the conti nent from attack. King Boris III returned to Bul garia after a visit to Hitler’s head quarters and the German radio, commenting on their meeting, de clared that “all elements are be ing eliminated which made the Balkans seem a convenient gate way to Europe.” Boast Berlin broadcasts continued to boast of invincibility of Germany's anti-invasion fortress, following up last night’s announcement that for tifications 125 miles longer than the great wall of China had been established along the channel and Atlantic coasts. “Half a million men were need ed to build thin great rampart,” said one broadcast heard by Reu ters. The fortress was described as being 1,625 miles long, deeply stag i gered, and with its own airports, roads and transport routes. Each soldier in it is protected by 50 to 200 cubic yards of steel and con crete, the broadcasts said. (The British radio, in a broad cast to the continent recorded by the Federal Communications com mission in New York, described Nazi stories of the coastal deitlise installations as “the greatest monu ment to the art of publicity ever erected.” Main Implication (The Office of War Information, announcing the BBC broadcast, pointed out that the general im plication of Nazi propagandists has been that any allied attempt at (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) -v SEVERAL INJURED IN DURHAM RIOT Tear Gas Used To Control General Fight In City’s Negro Section DURHAM, April 3.—t®—Two Durham policemen, a bus driver and an undetermined number of Negroes were wounded early tonight in an hour-long general fight in a Negro section which was finally controlled after tear gas was used and a heav ily armed detachment of military police arrived from neai’by Camp Butfler. Police said the trouble began 1 when a disorderly Negro soldier in I an Alcoholic Beverage Control store on Fayetteville street drew a, knife; I upon ABC Officer T. D. Bailey, Jr. j The offictu-. police said, blackjacked! Ithe Negro and drew his pistol when; other negroes closed in upon him., Bailey had earlier questioned the Negro about the number of whiskey ration books he carried. Meanwhile, a crowd of negroes outside attacked a police squad car, cut the tires and tore away the radio aerial. Other vehicles were damaged and several persons injured by rocks and other thrown missiles. Patrolmen H. R. Wilson and D. A. Branton were treated for head injuries and Patrolman W. L. Jones suffered leg; injuries when he went to Bailey’s aid. The Durham unit of the stats guard, which was mobilized shortly after the outbreak, was held intact tonight upon order of Lieut. Col. Frank Barbour, division command er. N. C. Shipyard Delivers Ten Liberty Vessels To Set New Record In March The North Carolina Shipbuilding company established a new yard production record in March as it delivered ten Liberty ships to the United SLates Maritime commis sion, one more than its previous high number marked up last De cember. In sending the 10,500-ton freight ers into the world's sea lanes, it reduced the average time of con st nut ion of each ship from "S.j days in February to 37.4 days. Reports on construction in March are not available from the na tion's other principal Liberty ship yards at this time but this rec-j ord is expected to keep the North Carolina yard among the leaders. In February, it tied two others — Oregon and California — for first place in ships per way. Officials pointed out that the fine record being made here is due in large part, to excellent morale among the company’s 20,000 em ployes, plus a fine degree of co operation between the workers and management. This spirit lias prevailed since work on the yard, now North Car olina’s largest single industry, was begun early in 1941. It sent its first vessel — the Zebulon B. Vance — down the ways the day before the attack on Pearl Har bor. During 3942, production stead ily increased from one lo two and three and progressively up to nine ships monthly and in January and February nine vessels 'were deliv ered. During the past month, the yard not only "swept” its ways but added the 10th ship for the new record. The company was notified a few days ago that it had been awarded its 5th and 6tli gold stars for its Maritime commission “M” penant. (Continued on Page Five; Col. 4) AMERICAN INFANTRY DRIVES A GAINST ROMMEL’S INLAND FLANK EAST OF EL GUETAR DOWN WARPLANES Americans Get Eight More Nazi Craft To Boost Their Total To 63 TRY NIGHT BOMBING Rommel Believed Putting Out Hopeless Damaged Tanks As Decoys AN ADVANCED U. S. AIR BASE IN SOUTHERN TUN ISIA. April 2.— (Delayed) — (/F)—American - piloted Spit fires, in their most recent en gagements with the axis, have brought down eight en emy aircraft—six were shot down in one flaming action— thus bringing to 63 the num ber of Nazi planes destroyed since March 21 by United States fighter pilots at ad vanced bases in southern Tun isia. Five Junkers 88 bombers and one Messerschmitt 109 were blasted in blistering battle when two Spitfire squadrons sailed into a German bomber and escort formation trying to attack Ameri can grounds positions. One bunch of Spits engaged the escorting Messersehmitts at the upper level while the others dived for brief, hap py hunting among- the Junkers. Score Victories Units headed by Lieut. Col. Gra ham W. West. 26, of Portland, Ore., bagged five bombers. Victories were scored by Lieut. Donald Markley, 22, of Inglewood, Calif., Sylven Field. 21, of Lynn. Mass., and John D. Harvey, 21, of Modesto, 111. The other two JU-88’s were shared. Capt. George V. Williams, 23, of Chicago and Capt. Norman L. Mc Donald, Jr., of Framingham. Mass., got one, and Lieut. Burt S. Sanborn. 21, of Uxbridge, Mass., and Staff Sergt. Jimmy Butler, 21, of Grass Valley, Calif., the other. Pressing home the attack with McDonald, Williams got so close he collided with the Nazi ship, cut ting off its tail. His own ship was badly damaged, but made a good crash landing, and he was unhurt. NIGHT AIR ATTACKS WITH THE UNITED STATES FORCES EAST OF ED GUETAR, Tunisia, April 2.— (Delayed)—<JP>— With his best armor blunted and broken against unyielding American lines, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (Continued on Page Five; Col. 2) _v_ FOUR WILL FACE LOTTERY CHARGES Arrested During Raids On Sunset Park Apartment By Sheriff, Deputies The cases of Abe Fine. Merry Bryant Fine. George Smith and Florence Smith, charged with vio lation of the lottery laws and con spiracy to violate the statute, were continued at the request of the defendants’ attorney until Friday, April 9, in Recorder’s court yes terday. The four were arrested by Sher iff C. David Jones and his depu ties Friday in raids on a garage apartment in Sunset Park. The officers acted Upon information supplied their department, and entered the apartment with a rearch Warrant. The sheriff’s men found $5,882.63 in cash, made up of practically all denominations into bundles, and lottery tickets cached in a trap door over the ceiling of the bedroom, Sheriff Jones said. In the apartment and on the premises of the apartment Sheriff Jones said they found numbers, tickets, memorandums, account books, account sales, adding ma (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) NOTICE Tlie Star-News Circula tion Department is open Sundays from 7 to 10 a. m. If you fail to receive your paper, phone 2-3311 before 10 and one will be sent to you by special messenger. After 10 o’clock, the de partment is closed.® Grim Variation On An Annual Theme Symbolized by a member of the Capitol guard, war obtrudes Its grim reality on an annual Scene of beajuty—the Capitol framed by Spring's first cherry blossoms. Drafting Of Older Men In Non - Vital Jobs Seen DEADLINE IS SEJ Must Leave List Of “Non Deferrable” Jobs Or Face Army By May 1 WASHINGTON April 3.—(/P)— Major General Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Service director, announc ed tonight that beginning May 1 men in the 38-45 year old group must leave the list of "non-defer rable” occupations or face the pos sibility of induction. Since April 1 the same rule has applied to younger men of draft age who were advised that if they had such "nondeferrable jobs" as waiters bootblacks, elevator opera tors and messengers, they could not be deferred regardless of fami ly or other dependency status. Deferred at Pivsent At present men over 38 are not being drafted regardless of reasons for deferment. Hershey announced the new poli cy in a letter to local selective ser vice boards in which he said "be cause of a rapid depletion of avail able manpower the national inter est at this time demands that men within the. ages liable for military service. (18-45) who have qualifica tions that are not now being used in furtherance of the war effort, and who ai the same time are not acceptable for service in the armed forces simply by reason of age or physical disability, be required to employ their efforts in those es sential activities in which short ages or necessary manpower threa ten the successful prosecution of the war effort.” Reviews Steps Hershey summarized various steps which have been taken re (Continued on Page Five; Col. 2) ' Veterans' Hospital Will Be Renovated ASHEVILLE, April 3.—(/P)— Work on a renovation program to modernize the plant anti en large its capacity by 200 beds, will begin Monday at the Unit ed States Veteran’s hospital at Oteen, Thomas G. Dodd, con struction engineer in charge of the work announced tonight. The improvements will cost approximately $100,000. Some 200 men will be employed. MARTIN DEMANDS TAX PLAN ACTION G.O.P. Leader Says Re sponsibility Rests With Democratic Majority WASHINGTON, April 3.—«P)— Republican Header Martin tonight demanded immedate action by the House Ways and Means committee on a pav-as-you-earn tax plan, asserting that “pride of authorship, political expediency, social experi mentation and economic theory must give way to realism, necessi ty and speed.” “It will be a grave disservice to the nation if the committee should leave the formulation of g tax bill to such a late date that' it would have to he presented to congress on a 'take this or nothing’ basis,” Martin said in a sattement. The Massachusetts Republican, one of the leaders in the unsuccessful drive to push through - the - Rural (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) Switch T o 48-Hour W eek Here Is Not Automatic RALEIGH, April 5—4PI—Al though Wilmington and Burling ton have been designated as labor shortage areas, they do not auto matically become areas for the immediate and involuntary adop tion of the 48-hour work week. Mrs. Gertrude K. Clinton, acting Manpower director for North Car olina, said today. Before Wilmington and Burling ton become areas for the com munity-wide mandatory adoption of the 48-hour week, they must oe so designated in advance and iefinite date or dates set by the Regional Manpower director in Washington, Mrs. Clinton said. The two North Carolina towns were on a new list of labor short age areas recently issued, which included several cities in addition to the original 32 labor shortage j areas, Mrs. Clinton added. The effective date of the adop tion of the longer work week, she said, will be announced far enough in advance for industries and businesses in the area to make whatever changes are nec essary in order to conform to the (Continued on Page Five; Col. 1) BLOCK JUNCTION U. S. Forces Seeking To Join British Eighth Army On Gabes Gulf TANKS MAKE DASH Nazis Convert Mines Into One Of Their Best De fense Weapons ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS IN NORTH AFRICA. April 3.—(/P)—Grim waves of American infantry beat today against the rugged and heav ily-mined axis defenses pro tecting Marshal Rommel’s in land flank which lay wedged between the United States Army corps to the west and the British Eight army on the Gulf of Gabes. On the steep slopes of the barren brown hills east of El Guetar, Lieut -Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., renewed his at tacks to clean the enemy out of positions now blocking the expected junction of the Americans with the British. The Americans, who learned the art of war the hard way against the most skilled opposition, made a sudden bid for a break-through early yesterday when a tank col umn traversed a narrow track across an enemy mine field along a road leading toward the coast. Many German tanks immedi ately counter-attacked, however, and the American armor pulled back to let the infantry resume operations toward widening a gap in the enemy defenses. Germans Knocked Out Front dispatches reported some German panzers were knocked out and several others were damaged before the tank battle was broken off. Mines by the thousands, in a variety of sizes and deadly trick ery, have become one of Rom mel’s most potent defense wea pons. The Americans strove to develop techniques for rapidly clearing the cleverly concealed infernal ma chines and some experts in the task of cleaning up behind Rom (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) -V BANKHEAD BILL DRIVE STARTED Farm Bloc Leaders Re double Efforts To Over ride F.D.R.’s Veto WASHINGTON. April 3— Congressional farm bloc leaders redoubled efforts tonight to line up the two-third vote neceessary to override President Roosevelt s veto of the Bankhead benefit pay ments bill, expressing fear that If the measure died the controver sial Paco labor-cost legislation will be buried with it. Chairman Smith (D-SCi of the Senate Agriculture committee said he had no doubt the fate of the Pace bill, passed by the house and now before his committee for hear ings, depends on senate and house action on the Bankhead veto. Agreeing, Senator Aiken (R-Vt) told reporters: “There would be no use bring ing the Pace bill out of committee if the Bankhead veto is sustained.” Any such result would be regar4» ed in congress as a major admin istration victory, since Price Ad ministrator Prentiss Brown has vigorously opposed both bills. The Pace measure would require reassessment of parity standards upward to include the cost of all labor on farms, an alteration Brown asserts would boost the cost of living 10 1-2 per cent. Pari ty is a price standard calculated to equalize the exchange between farm and nonagricultural products. Price ceilings are anchored to this standard. The F.ankhead measure would prohibit deducting government benefits paid to farmers i rom parity in fixing agricultural price ceilings, a move the President said in his veto message would raise living costs 5 per cent or a total ?l,000,000,000 yearly.
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