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'■ ' " — "■ — Served By Leased Wire Oi The . ^ ~ -— » -fa tlntuutfmt 4Rimrittg §>tar | -™b tVlK :!l-Ml- ">~ - -I£>^ ^ESDAV^APRILSm3 FINAL EDITION-SFISSSiaTiS: . m-'w-r Tr~v a -wr mi . _ I aVK _- ----- _ _ ^ ARMY DAY; Ihey Fly And Fight For Flag And Country Tii honor "(lie men of the United States Army who have carried the flag of the United States and the ideals which it represents to every part of the earth, and who with their brothers-in-arms from the inns united with us are offering their lives for (he future of America and the world” President itiiiscvelt lias proclaimed April 6 Army Day. Here with the flag under which they fight, are a Flying For ums mi a mission in Tunisia and a column of American troops on the march. America Plunged Into First War Of Nations 26 Years Ago Today — Lo:ai Newspaper Of April 6,1917, Devoted Much To War Stories '■ v Nation Called to Arms!' Tl:t WCines were deep across the 11!.: ! :-e of the ‘ Wilmington DfenatcD." Friday afternoon April 6. jpit—H -ears ago, the day that WkiIiw Wilson pledged the na tion i::; ■ tilt' First World War. Wow therefore. I. Woodrow W il son. president of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim, to all whom it may concern, that a state of war exists between the United States and the imperial Ger man government." read the docu ment of the president. "War Act is Signed and Clarion Call Has Been Sounded,” was the captain on the vivid Associated Press story that recounted the Con x visional resolution to which Wil son affixed his presidential signa ture at till ni., April 6. 1917. Only two inches of space on the front pact ,_,l that issue of the Wil iniiigtcui Dispatch was devoted to news f ., non-war flavor—‘‘Ameri-j 'a seize* All German Ships in ■’"ns." "German Subs Now Lurking in Mexican Waters,” "America’s Lai p. He Followed by Other Na-j Lons" ran the black headlines. inside tlie paper was the story of Wilmington's first taste of the war —the seizing in the Cape Fear Riv er of two German vessels, the "Kiel” I mid 1 he "Micaria," by armed blue-) .,ar'i>ts from the Coast Guard eut-j le|t "Seminole.” (Completely calmj "•ere the German captains, Lein he ■mil Holla sell the story ran. They i' lc off to the Marine hospital for internment, in a carriage provided ly Col. Walker Taylor; they were winking fat < igars.) The only hint of the affect of war the state of North Carolina as * '.hole was the article from Golds Wo explaining that orders had received to split up the Second raiment and to send the men from 1 "t guard duty to all parts of the state. buhl on the editorial page was -\v'. !!aption “America is Now at Tile patriotic message end ""hi the assurance: “Today Amer “ ''lands united to beat Germany u,e dust.” ’lifter news tliat Wilmington 's mad over their supper tables Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) weather North car , F0RECAST: .pOlina: Cooler Tuesday. (to ,rs.tern Standard Time) Metenrm ■ s- Weather Bureau) ending 7.°on0glcal data for the 24 hours ,J0 P. m., yesterday. 1 30 Temperature p, rn a- Pi-, 54; 7:30 a. m., ; 1:30 Maxim, ’ 7:30 P* m*» formal 5gm 74; Minimum 49; Mean 62; I 30 Humidity ft. 41. d,' JJ1- 66; 7:30 a. m.. 46; 1:30 p. ' ' :'J° P. m: 51. r at f Precipitation P m nISr. the 24 hours ending 7:30 Total 00 mches 5.33 inches'106 the first of *he monthl Tides For Today Kington High Low ■gton - 11:03a 5:48a ^asonho. „ ll:23p 6:00p “ r° Met- 8:52a 2:40a Moorp'c- , , 9:09p 2:54p fCi Inlet - 8:57a 2:45p V* Tnm , . 9:14p 2:59p 'Eimore’sf11 Inlet- 9:02a 2:50a IAI1 time, - - 9:19p 3:04p Sunrise' -,-astern Standard) Mofft!-kr.’- a- m-> Sunset, 6:36 p. m.; " ' >4 - : Moonset. 8:33p. 'I-onr <n S-a-c Two; Col. 1) FETE PLANNED TODAY Plans were completed here Mon day for the celebrating of Army Day at a joint meeting' of all local service clubs at 1:10 p. m. today (Tuesday) in St. Paul's Lutheran parish house. » The luncheon-meeting will fea ture the presentation of outstand ing military men in the city, in cluding Major General Homer R. Oldfield, commanding general of the Anti-Aircraft artillery training center and Camp Davis: Brigadier General L. L. Stuart, commanding general of the 49th Brigade. Camp Davis; Brigadier General Clare H. Armstrong, commanding the 50th Brigade at Camp Davis: Bri gadier General Edgar H. Under wood, commandant of the Anti Aircraft Artillery School; Colonel A. E. Potts, camp commander at Camp Davis; and Major Rudolph S. Farrar, base commanding offi cer at the Army Air Base located at Bluethenthal Field. The chief speaker for the occas ion will be Colonel Potts, whose topis is “Origin and History of Army Day.” The invocation will be presented by the Rev. Morti mer Glover. According to the arrangements committee for the program, this is the first time that so large an (Continued on Page Two; Col. 8) _v SLAUGHTERHOUSE URGED FOR CITY Local Butcher Asks Coun ty Heads To Provide For Packing Unit Here “We need a small packing house for Wilmington. We want a good slaughtering pen where we can catch even the squeal of the pigs, ’ Bill Holland, local butcher, told the county commissioners Monday in requesting the board to consider establishment of such a market in the county. Explaining that new restrictions on the slaughtering of cattle have “confused”' slaughterers in the sec tion, and that new government health rules, which must be met before farmers are issued permits to kill their cattle for sale have not been clarified, Holland pro posed that a central packing house would be the simplest answer to all problems. Mr. Holland declared that he was representing interested native meat dealers in the county who had offered to help make up the funds for the establishment of the abattoir; he sought county and city aid. . . Upon the motion of Commission er Harry Gardner, a committee will be appointed by Chairman Addison Hewlett to study health requirements for slaughtering by individual farmers, and to investi gate the need of a packing house. “Farmers and slaughterers here have got to do something to protect themselves,” Holland declared. He revealed that the majority of the hogs raised'in this section are now being sent to Richmond for nan (Continued on Page Tf^o; Col. 5) i President Wilson Called For Fight To End All Aggression WASHINGTON, April 5.— W - Twenty-six years ago tomorrow, at 1:11 p.m., April 6. 1917, President Woodrow Wilson wrote his name on the resolution declaring a state of war with Germany—and the first American march to the Rhine began. Today none can doubt that a second march into Germany is in the making by the United Nations fellowship, to smash Hitlerism and all the evils it has spawned, al though the how, when and where of it remain for events to disclose. Less than two years after that American war declaration in 1917 imperial Germany collapsed in de feat. The lesser world war ended. Hope surged high In many lands, not excepting Germany, that the war to end wars had been won; that the blood of millions had not been shed in vain; that reason and justice, not fear and armed force, would govern the intercourse of nations and that permanent peace might come at last td bless mankind. “The hope of the world is that when the war is over arrangements will have been made composing many of the questions which have hitherto seemed to require the arming of nations.” Mr. Wilson said, in approving the companion piece to the 1917 war declaration designed to call 10,000,000 Amer icans to the colors for the struggle. Events of the decades that fol lowed blasted that hope utterly. They made a mockery of peace dreams and produced a greater, more terrible war to mark this American war anniversary. Millions more in many lands have died and will die to stem the Axis juggernaut of conquest and revive shattered dreams of world peace. Against Hitlerized Germany and her Italian and Jap anese and lesser Axis mates, the sons and the sons’ sons of Per shing’s AEF crusaders of 1917-18 are fighting on battle fronts that girdle the globe, shoulder to shoul der with United Nations comrades, to vindicate anew the faith for which their fathers took up arms. The distant thunder of their guns and bombs more fittingly salutes (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) W/t,FLYING FORTRESSES PULVERIZE f/PLES WITH TONS OF DESTRUCTION; BIG BELGIAN PLANE PLANT SMASHED KEEPING PROMISES Americans Living Up To Eaker’s Prediction To Match RAF Attacks ANTWERP IS OBJECTIVE Erla Repair Works Target Of Large Scale Raid By Big Bombers LONDON, April 5.—(^Pi Living up to Major Gen. Ira C. Eaker’s recent promise to match the RAF blow-for-blow in a withering aerial attack on Hitler’s industrial Europe, a huge force of American Fly ing Fortresses and Liberators pounded the Erla airplane re pair works near Antwerp in Belgium today to follow up a heavy British assault on Kiel, Germany, last night. Today’s attack by the high flying, precious-bombing Am erican ships was declared to have been carried out with “good results.” A DNB dis patch broadcast by the Ber lin radio said the raiders scor ed direct hits “on blocks of houses, which caused fires and destruction and severe losses among the civil population” of Antwerp. Radio Stations Silent Radio stations in Munich. Stutt gart, Koenigsburg, Luxembourg. Lausanne and Burgomunster, Switz erland, went off the air late tonight, indicating Allied bombers were over the continent again. The Air Ministry announced to night that during the afternoon British Venturas of the bomber com mand, escorted by fighters, attack ed docks and shipping at Brest. One enemy fighter was knocked (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) COUNTY APPROVES CAA RESOLUTION Commissioners Pass Meas ure To Guarantee Use Of Airport After War A resolution presented to the board by the Civil Aeronautics As sociation, acceptance of which guarantees county sanction of the development of Bluethenthal air port for civilian use after the war, was approved by the New Han over County Commission at its meeting Monday afternoon. The agreement with CAA does not bind the county to any finan cial outlay or responsibility but will simply indicate county spon sorship of the project. Under the terms, citizens of New Hanover county will have equal rights, with the Army, for usage of the field when the war is over. The former county airport was taken over by the United States Army for the duration, and has been considerably enlarged and improved for Army operation. The huge, modern runways and buildings on the field were con structed under supervision of the Wilmington U. S. Engineers’ dis trict. CAA funds are allotted through the War Department for develop ment of airports for civilian use, it was revealed at the county meeting. Tunisian Stick-Up * i Two Italian soldiers, hands up-raised and one with a white flag, surrender to an officer of a High land regiment. The photo was made when the British Eighth Army captured Gabes, Axis supply port in Tunisia after chasing Marshal Rommel’s troops out of the Mareth Line. (NEA Radiophoto) TEN JAP BASES HIT BY ALLIES M’Arthur’s Warplanes Hit Many Enemy Strong holds In Pacific ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA. Tuesday, April 6.— 0?'—Allied warplanes bombed ten Japanese strongholds Monday, in cluding a three hour harrassing raid on Buka, General MacArthur reported today. The far-flung attacks followed a three-dav assault on enemy ships concentrations at Kavieng, New Ireland, during which 12 Japanese vessels, including seven warships of the cruiser or destroyer type, were sunk or damaged. “Our medium bombers executed an extended night harrassing raid on the airdrome and adjacent town areas,” the communique said in (Continued on Page Two; Col. 8) Draft Head Declares Many Factors Affect Induction Of Fathers WASHINGTON, April 5—UP) —Major General Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Service di rector, expressed doubt today that the Army will soon call for the general drafting of men 38 or over and asserted he was unable to say precisely when it might become necessary to induct fathers. So many factors are involved he told a press conference, that it is impossible to say definite ly that drafting of fathers will begin July 1 or any other date. He previously had told a Con gressional committee that in duction of fathers might start about July 1. Factors contributing to the uncertainty, he said, include the extent of calls for men by the armed service, the percent age of physical, rejections and the number of men deferred as essential individauls in es sential work. Russians Smashing Ahead In Drive On Novorossisk LONDON, Tuesday, April 6.—(/P)—Russian forces driv ing against the Nazi base at Novorossisk have captured several populated places in two days of hand-to-hand fight ing in the Caucasus, and in the Izyum area of the Donets valley have turned back new enemy attempts to cross the river, Moscow announced today. The midnight communique, recorded here by the Soviet monitor, said also that the Russians consolidated their posi tions in the ring around Smolensk, and one unit broke through the enemy lines south of Bely and wiped out the occupants of several blockhouses with gre nades. The Germans over the week; end made what apparently was a ma jor attempt to raid Russia’s second city of Leningrad, but, the com munique said, only isolated planes managed to penetrate the city and drop bombs after air battles in which 42 German bombers were destroyed. The Russians acknowl edged loss of seven of their planes. The bulletin said that during the morning hours German tanks and infantry operated in two directions in attempts to outflank Russian units south of Izyum. where the Germans have been trying for sev eral days to push across the Don ets, apparently in a drive aimed at tlie important center of Voroshil ovgrad. The Soviet forces, however, were reported to have repulsed both at tacks, disabled four tanks and anni hilating about a company of in fantry. In once sector of the narrowing German bridgehead in the north Caucasus, a Russian unit broke into a fortified Nazi zone in a swampy district and captured two lines of trenches. A German infantry regiment counterattacked, but was repulsed with heavy losses, Moscow said, including hundreds of dead and wounded lell on the battlefield and four guns, 3 machineguns and other war material captured. On the western front Soviet fliers were reported to have raided a rail way station in the enemy rear, putting the station out of commis sion and demolishing the tracks. ■'The raid proved so unexpected that German anti-aircraft gunners opened haphazard fire after the (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) OP A Control Over Meat Sales Is Tightened j By Setting Ceiling Prices For All Grades WASHINGTON, April 5. — UP) - OPA tightened its controls over meat today by setting retail ?ents per-pound ceiling prices, effective April 15, for beef, veal, l^mb and mutton, and forbidding stores to reduce point values of any rationed meafs and fats without also cut ting prices. The two actions are designed, of ficials said, to eliminate confusion arising from store-by-store vari ations in ceilings, help stamp out black markets in meat, and guard against abuse of the privilege stores have of reducing point val ues in order to sell perishable ra tioned items. They predicted the new ceilings. will mean “in most cases less than the prices which consumers have been paying recently.” Heretofore, ceilings on beef, veal, lamb and mutton for each store have been the highest prices it charged in March, 1942. Today’s order divides the country into 12 regions and fixes uniform ceilings in each except that small inde pendent stores are allowed to charge one to three cents a pound more for various cuts than are the bigger outlets. The higher prices may be charged only by stores which did no more than $250,000 worth of business last year. This price differential is intended to preserve the historical price re lationship between smaller stores and the larger ones able to hold down unit costs by volume sales. Similar, dollar-and-cents prices for pork were established April 1, and the regional zones outlined in today’s order are the same as for pork except that the Mid-western 4 and 4-A zones are combined. The order on “point sales” di rects that any retailer reducing point values must reduce the price at least 25 percent under the es tablished ceiling. If point values are cut more than 25 percent, a corresponding percentage reduc tion must be m;J*e in the price but it need not. in any case, be reduced more than 50 percent. Since it is the usual practice to reduce pricey when items must be sold quickly to avoid spoilage, OPA said, the regulation should work no hardship on retailers who. in good faith, avail themselves of the point-lowering privilege. Altogether. 102 different cuts of beef, veal, lamb and mutton are covered by the price ceiling order. Price variations are set forth, too, for five grades of beef, four of lamb and three of mutton. These grades are the standard ones adopted by the Agriculture De partment, and in common use in the packing industry. Retailers were directed not to remove grade markings froqj any meat, and must post in a prominent position , a list of ceiling prices. - GIRAUD-DE GAULLE PARLEY POSTPONED — Gen. Eisenhower Requests Delay Of Projected North African Meet • LONDON. April 5. — UP) — The1 I long-awaited North African meet-' j ing of Gen. Charles de Gaulle and Gen. Henri Giraud for the fusion! of all French into fighting unity was postponed indefinitely today at the request of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in what some diplo matic observers interpreted as a master plan for an agreement closely timed to come between the Tunisian cleanup and the Allied invasion of Europe. The American commander's rea son for asking General de Gaulle to delay his proposed imminent trip to North Africa were regard ed here as presumably military. Foreign diplomatic sources said the cautious course apparently stemmed from fears that talks be tween de Gaulle and Giraud. which j undoubtedly would end in a work able agreement, still might tem porarily upset present North Afri can arrangements. They pointed out that Pierre Boisson, Gen. Auguste Nogues and others whose dismissal might be de Gaulle's price of agreement. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) Work On Revised City Ordinances Progresses Work on the reeodification of the city ordinances, a project in progress for the past year, is advancing at a satisfactory rate, City Manager A. C. Nic hols said Monday night. The goal of the project is a printed and bound copy of all city ordinances as a reference for the police department, re corder’s court, lawyers and citizens here. The city manager, however, did not estimate when the laws would be ready for the printer. Completion of the project has been delayed by the fact that the text of each separate or dinance is being reviewed by City Attorney W. B. Campbell, the city manager and other city officials prior to being passed for the new book. It is also being delayed so that new ordinances, brought about by legislation adopted in the last general assembly, may 1 be included. LARGE FIRES SEEN Heavy Smoke From Raid Blacks Out Combustion Of Mt. Vesuvius 24 VESSELS CRIPPLED Main Airport Of Vital Ital ian Port Left In Rubble Of Wrecked Craft ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS IN NORTH AFRICA, April 5.—(/P)—Nearly 100 American Flying Fortresses loosed 200 tons of bombs on the southern Italian port of Naples Sunday setting fires whose billowing smoke black ed out the combustion of near by Vesuvius and leaving the harbor littered with 24 crip pled vessels and the main air port in a rubble of wrecked planes. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhow er’s communique today told of this greatest destruction yet heaped on Naples, the Tunis ian supply key. The assault overshadowed all the land fighting in Tunisia where the second American Army corps of Lieut.-Gen. George S. Pat ton, Jr., won a number of commanding hills near the Gabes-Gafsa road and press ed on to the east for an even tual junction with the strengthening British Eighth Army. Americans High! On Tiie Americans 12 miles or more southeast of el Guetar, fought on against strong German opposition and turned back a counterattack in which elite German troops tried to recapture the lost hills. Pat ton's command still was about 40 miles from the British Eighth Army, which was deployed against Axis positions along the Wadi el Akarit 20 m'les north ot Gabes. The British First Army in the north shelled German infantry and motor transport columns sharply in the Medjez-el-Bab sector, 45 miles southwest of Tunis. Patrols of Moroccan Guomiers and Britons were active farther north in the sector between Sedjepane and Ma teur. the key to Bizerte 18 miles farther on to the northeast. The Naples raid was four times as heavy as any of the five pre vious attacks by Liberator bomb ers and for the first time the Am ericans used French African bases instead of the western desert. Of the 24 ships hit In the har bor, three were liners and three were submarines. Numerous small er craft were hit as well a» a floating dry dock. The Oapoodichino airdrome at Naples was pockmarked with a sa turated bomb pattern, and return ing pilots reported at least 21 of the 97 grounded aircraft were struck. The whole raid lasted but. 15 minutes and all the Fortresses returned to their bases. Typical of comment of the pilots were these remarks: “After we had taken a inn across the Capodichino airfield, we saw that big fires had started. Italian fighters were scared and wouldn't attack even when we hit their city, i saw large blasts of fire and smoke. We must have Lit a fuel dump. Bombs scattered on blocks of docks. 1 saw a direct hit on a large liner and smoke up to 500 feet.” Allied headquarters described the raiders of Major Gen. .tames H. Doolittle’s northwest African stra tegic air force as a "strong force” and participants likened it to the devasting assault last Wednesday on the Sardinian port of Cagliari which virtually knocked it out of the war. The Forts performed with out fighter escort in good weather. (The Italian communique said Naples, Syracuse, Salerno, and the island of Carloforte just southwest of Sardinia were raided Sunday. (“Great damage was caused to public and private buildings” In Naples an i Syracuse, the Italians (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) ■-— i NOTICE! 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