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----\ ijjetsa ' - Vii—i Served by Leased Wire of the * f-—-- -- ASSOCIATED PRESS * fel mAICb YAWS DPH»yENGE With Complete Coverage of frill ^L_ —|H|— miT% PEARL HARBOR State and National Newe —AJj nuailintC m m »m ■ ■ Oi ■■ ■ ™ AND BATAAN - —_atTIHIE.P©^ €»TV ®P g>^@®E)Ega &Mffi IH.EAaMRlgjBo BATAAN VOL. 15- NO. 24._WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 1943 " FINAL EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS Record Bond Campaign To Begin Monday Unde Sam Wants To Bor row 13 Billions From Public To Finance War RUNS THREE WEEKS Designed To Drain Off Current Surplus Income To Avoid Inflation by JAMES D. WHITE WASHINGTON, April 10. — W — The biggest war financing opera tion in history begins Monday. Uncle Sam wants to borrow $13, 000.000.000 from you and me. It's to be used to wage global war and keep this country steady economically. The treasury calls it the Second War Loan drive. It runs for ap proximately three weeks. War costs money. We are tak ing the offensive. The Treasury estimates that current war spend ing approximates $6,000,000,000 per month. Three Months Financing The 13 billion dollars sought in the Second War loan, plus cur rent monthly bond purchases, tax es, and other revenue, will thus fi I nance the war for about three months, it is estimated. But there’s another purpose—to drain off current surplus income into war bond savings to avoid in flation. Remember that inflation—an in nocent sounding worn—got the Ger mans to such a point after the last war that their currency was worth less than the paper it was printed on. (And it wasn’t very good paper). Inflation today has forced prices in Chungking up to 60 or 80 times (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) BOND DRIVEGOAL SET AT 12,594,000 Need Cooperation Of AH In Campaign Opening Here Monday Morning A war bond drive, which will re quire the cooperative efforts of every Wilmingtonian from the standpoini of soliciting and invest ing if New Hanover's goal of $2, 594.000 is to be met, will get under way Monday, E. A. Laney, chair man of the War Finance commit tee, said Saturday. It is the largest quota ever as signed New Hanover county in any kind of financial campaign, Mr. Laney said, but he revealed that the campaign is already off to a good start with subscriptions made slightly in excess of $800,000. All efforts of city and county War Savings Staff committees and Victory Fund committee have been coordinated under the heading of War Finance committee with the aim of helping in the nation-wide campaign to sell thirteen billion dol lars worth of bonds. Acting under the slogan, “They Give Their Lives, We Lend Our Money”, the committee will assist in the sale of bonds from $18.75 up wards. “There is a bond to suit every purse,” Mr. Laney said. Bonds will be on sale April 12-30 a' the city’s banks, building and I loan associations. The Women’s division will sponsor four War (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) . -V WEATHER FORECAST: North Caroina: Colder Sunday, fresh winds. Cape Fear river stage at Fayetteville on April 10, at 8 a. m., 10.95 feet. WASHINGTON, April 10—(IP)—'Weather bureau report of temperature and rain-, fall for the 24 hours ending 8 p. m. j Station High Low R’fall Asheville - 70 55 0.10 Atlanta - 82 55 0.30 Birmingham _:_ 85 56 0.00 Boston - 46 35 0.00 Charlotte - 79 59 0.00 Chicago - 45 35 0.00 Cleveland- 44 3u 0.00 Detroit - 39 33 0.00 fort Worth- 80 66 0.00 Galveston - 70 0.00 Kansas - 74 0.00 Louisville- 64 54 0.00 -VJemphis - 89 62 0.00 - 85 68 0.00 Mobile- 87 61 0.00 iNew Orleans_ 84 67 0.00 New York- 50 50 0.00 Norfolk - 67 58 0.00 Richmond - 50 0.00 ft. Louis- 66 51 0.00: •favannah - 87 0.00 Wilmington_ 59 o.00| Wimington - 59 o.OO An Appeal for “Fighting Dollars” “Attack” is the keynote of the new War Bond drive for $13,000,000. 000. for it costs a lot more money to attack than to defend. This Treasury Depart mnt poster typifies the aggressive, determined spirit of the armed forces to go forward against all our enemies this year. Registration For City Election Totals 8,952 BOOKS ARE CLOSED i — Voters Scheduled To De cide On Field Of 14 On April 19 And May 4 Registration for the forthcoming municipal primary and election totals 8,952 votes, H. G. Carney, chairman of the city board of elec tions, announced Saturday ngiht shortly after the registration books closed at the ten voting places. This number represents an in crease of 312 over the registration for the first council election two years ago. It is however, a net loss of 31 on the books used in the last gen eral election. Although there were many new registrations for the city voting, a greater number of persons had moved out of the city or died within the past four months and their names were “purged” from the election books. Registration for the city pri mary on April 19 and the election on May 4 at the ten precincts fol lows: First ward, 652; Second ward, First precinct, 787; Second ward, Second precinct, 719; Third ward, First precinct, 978; Third ward, Second precinct, 1,043; Fourth ward, 1,066; Fifth ward, First precinct, 901; Fifth ward, Second precinct, 797; Sixth ward, First precinct, 736, and Sixth ward, Sec ond precinct, 1,273. The books for the primary and election, which will decide five counc'ilmen from a field of 14, were opened on March 27. Satur day, April 17, will be challenge day and the registrars will be at their respective polling places from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m. -V Jury Fails To Agree In Kinston Murder Case KINSTON, April 10—(£“)—A Su perior court jury that deliberated from 5:43 P. M. yesterday until 1:30 A. M. today failed to agree in the case of Christine David, on trial on a charge of second degree murder, ana Judge W. C. Harris ordered a mistrial. The Negro woman was charged with slaying her employer, Mrs. Lila S. Lawson last May 31 by gas. At her first trial, the David woman was convicted and sentenced to 25 to 30 years :n the state prison. She appealed and obtained a new trial. Judge Harris set bond for the de fendant at $5,000.* Allied Planes Stage Major Raid On Wewak ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Sunday, April 11. — (fl>) — A Japanese transport ship was fired and a merchantman destroyed by allied planes which dropped 30 tons of bombs on Wewak, New Guinea, the high command announced today. Wewak is a key enemy base on the coast of New Guinea some 450 miles northwest of the allied base of Port Mores by. Shore installations at Wewak were wrecked. j i SAUSAGE RATION VALUES REDUCED New Reduction In Points By OPA Ranges From 14 To 50 Per Cent WASHINGTON, April 10—UPh The Office of Price Administration! today slashed the point values of sausage products and certain pork cuts by 14 to 50 per cent. In cluded in the slash are wieners, bologna and pork sausage, scrap ple, chitterings and pork neck and backbones. The action, OPA said, resulted from the slow rate at which these perishable meat products havp been moving through retail out lets. The lower point values become effective at midnight Sunday. Dry and semi-dry sausages such as hard salami, hard cervelat, pepperoni, soft salami, thuringer, and mortadella are not affected by the action. One group—pork sausages, wien ers, bologna, baked loaves and liver sausage—was reduced from seven points a pound to six a pound when no non-meat filler is added to the products. When the products contain non-meat fill er, such as cereals, the reduction is from seven to five points. The products may be fresh, smoked or cured. Neck and back bones were cut from 2 to 1 point a pound and ’ chitterlings from 4 to 2. I The slow rate at which these products have moved under food rationing created danger of spoil age and resultant waste of food, OPA said. Broad Probe *// Newsprint J4iit Ordered > House Out To Learn If Ef fort Underway To Alter Domestic Economy’ MEASURE APPROVED Bulwinkle Declares It Will Not Be A ‘Political In vestigation WASHINGTON, April 10—IflV-A sweeping inquiry into government curtailment of newsprint was or dered by the house today as part of an even broader investigation to determine whether there is an attempt underway “to change our domestic economy along lines not authorized by congress.” The assignment for the investi gation was given to the house In terstate Commerce committee. The measure swept through with out a record vote after an hour’s discussion, during which: Rep. Halleck (R-Ind) asserted: “If anyone is trying to slip some thing over, the curtain will be pulled back.”’ Rep. Shafer (R-Mich), in a speech inserted in the record, de clared: “It will enable the con gress to determine the extent to which a conspiracy exists to de stroy the freedom of the press in America,” and No Sniping Rep. Bulwinkle (D-NC) said: “This is not going to be a politi cal investigation. There is not go ing to be any sniping.” The committee specifically was directed to investigate whether the War Production board, the Of fice of Price Administration “or any other agency or officer in the executive branch of the gov ernment, has formulated or is formulating plans with a view to putting into effect: “1. Requirements with respect to federal grade labeling of ar ticles or commodities, and the discarding of private names of articles or commodities. “2. Requirements which would have the effect of curtailing the production or consumption of newsprint or book papers used in the printing of newspapers, mag azines, or such other publications (Continued on Page 7; Column 3) PRESBYTERIANS MEET APRIL 13 147th Session Of Wilming ton Presbytery Will Be Held At Winter Park The 147th session of the Wilming ton Presbytery will open Tuesday, April 13, and continue through' Wednesday at the Winter Park Presbyterian church with the open ing sermon being delivered by the Rev. G. A. Wilson, D. D., retiring moderator, it was announced Sat urday by the Rev. Andrew J. Howell, secretary. Sixty-eight churches, represented by 38 min isters, comprise the Presbytery. A special memorial service will be held Tuesday morning for the Rev. William Monroe Wicker, of Kenansville, young chaplain who was killed in action in North Afri ca last November. The following is the program schedule for the two-day session: Tuesday, April 13 11 a. m.—Opening sermon by Rev. G. A. Wilson, D. D., retiring ' Moderator; Communion service; | (Continued on Page 7; Column 2) I Captain Williamson Shot Down And Taken Prisoner By Nazis In Tunisia Captain Hugh L. Williamson, A AF, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Williamson of 224 Williams street, is being held a prisoner of war in Tunisia by the Germans. He para chuted to safety in enemy terri tory after his plane was shot down. His parents learned he was a prisoner of war Saturday through a communication from his friend, Capt. William J. Payne, of Char lotte. The letter was dated March 24. - It was the second time Captain Williamson’s plane had been shot down. Two months previously he was wounded when his plane was downed and he bailed out to fall in French territory—but not before he had shot down three German Foulke-Wulfes. He was picked up by Frenchmen and carried to the base hospital in Algeria, where he recovered to enter the fight again. Captain Williamson entered the Army in September, 1940, as an aviation cadet. He trained at Hicks field, and Randolph field, Texas, and received his commis sion as second lieutenant at Brooks field, Texas. He was stationed at Hamilton field, Calif., and the Wil mington Army Air Base before be ing sent to England. He accom panied the Allied forces during the invasion of North Africa. The story of his being taken pri soner is vividly told by Captain Payne in the following letter to Williamson’s parents: (Continued on Page Two; Col. *?) CAPTAIN HITCH L. WILLIAMSON BRITISH AD VANCING TO WARD TUNIS AFTER SEIZING SFAX; ITALIAN CRUISERS SMASHED DOWN 27 PLANES Damage To Two Warships Dims Enemy’s Hopes Of Escape By The Sea RAIDED IN HIDEAWAY Allied Airmen Continue To Batter Fiercely At Axis Troops On Ground ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS IN NORTH AFRICA April 10.—(/P)—American air men smashed two 10,000-ton Italian cruisers, the Trieste and Gorizia, and shot down 27 axis planes out of a fuel-bear ing sky convoy today to crip ple the enemy’s supply lines to Tunisia and dim axis hopes of escape by sea from tha1 battleground. Both attacks were carried out without the loss of a single United States plane, even though perhaps 100 Fly ing Fortresses flew unescort ed to the attack on the twc cruisers in their Sardinian hideaway. Meanwhile, allied airmen battered fiercely at enemy troops on the ground, and axis attempts to establish a new line of defense in northern Tunisia were reported largely disrupted by terrific assaults upon enemy trans ports. First Army Protected The British First Army was ad vancing swiftly under a protective canopy of allied planes. The measure of the fierce allied sky pounding w-as disclosed in an announcement that the northwest African air forces alone (exclusive ly of the Western desert units) had dropped over 4,000,000 pounds of bombs since the March offensive began. Flying Fortresses, assembled in a strength described as “one of the largest formations ever used any vhere,” scored direct bomb hits on the Trieste and Gorizia hiding in the La Maddelena harbor of Sar dinia, apparently knocking them out for use in any evacuation of the axis armies in Tunisia. Attack Convoy Twin-engined Lightnings scored a smashing victory in their assault on the convoy of 30 to 50 enemy planes rushing fuel to axis tanks and transports in Tunisia, downing 27 (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) SURPRISE RAID DRILLS PLANNED To Be Ordered By Army And May Use More Than One Series Of Signals Next will come total surprise air raid drills or blackouts to be order ’d by the Army, at any time either day or night, the New Han aver Citizens Defense Corps was advised Saturday in a bulletin from McMillan, state director of OCD The surprise tests, it was said, may utilize more than one series of Blue and Red signals before the Ml Clear. It was also explained that prac tice drills for Control Room staffs and Emergency Services, not in volving sounding public audible alarm or blackout, may be held at any time within the discretion of .ocal commanders and do not re quire special authorization trom the State OCD office or the Fourth Service Command. “These exercises are essential to thorough defense preparation,” it was pointed out. “They should not be limited to practice within the walls of the Control Room, but should include actual dispatch of emergency services and use of tele phone, emergency radio and mes' senger communications systems. It is suggested that these drills be conducted weekly. “It must be borne in mind that fnese drills are for the Defense Corps only. The public does not participate. Therefore, public au-; dible alarm must not be sounded, I and there must not be any black-j lout." I k - Eisenhower, De Gaulle Erase Misunderstanding LONDON, April 10—(A5)—The . misunderstanding between Gen. | Charles De Gaulle and Gen. D. Eisenhower over the delay of the Fighting French leader’s trip to North Africa ended in an exchange of friendly mes sages between them as De Gaulle’s liaison officer, Gen. Georges Catroux, arrived here today from Algiers to report on his discussions with Gen. Henri Giraud. In a message to the Allied supreme commander in North Africa, De Gaulle' sent the “heartfelt wishes of the French people” and added that French men urgently desire unity to “allow them to put an ever greater effort into our common battle.” General Eisenhower, who had requested a delay in De Gaulle’s projected visit to Gi raud, French high commission er of North and west Africa, until after the Tunisian mili tary crisis had passed, thank ed De Gaulle and declared “we welcome the assistance of all whose single ambition is the destruction of the enemy.” Immediately after his arrival from North Africa, Catroux presented to De Gaulle the re ports of his conferences with Giraud concerning plans for unifying all anti-axis French forces. De Gaulle and Catroux also were reported to have discuss ed various problems relating (Continued on Paec Two: Cnl. 41 [Soviets Kill 1,500 More Germans Near Balakleya - ★_ NAZIS ARE REPULSEE Reds Also Destroy 14 Tanks As Battle Rages On Donets River LONDON, Sunday, April 11.—W —Russian troops mowed down 30C Germans attacking their Donets river line yesterday near Balak leya, 35 miles southeast of Khar kov, boosting their two-day toll oi the enemy to 1,500, Moscow an nounced early today. The midnight Communique re corded by the Soviet monitor said successive German efforts to crack the Red army portions were repulsed. These attempts were weaker than those on Fri day when the Germans were said to have lost 1,200 men—approxi mately half the three battalions hurled into action. In this single sector the Rus sians said their troops also de stroyed 14 tanks, and a number of mobile enemy artillery pieces and mortars in the last two days. The communique said 100 Ger mans were killed in a local action in the western Caucasus, and on the western front the Red army was reported to have captured one populated place and a strate gically important hill. One Soviet detachment raiding behind the German lines on the central front killed 40 Germans found working on fortifications, it added. Four blockhouses and sev en artillery batteries were de stroyed, and a German detach ment was wiped out on this same front, the noon bulletin yesterday said. Both Russian and German broadcasts recorded by the Asso ciated Press, however, described the long front as temporarily stab ilized. Both armies apparently were hard at work on defensive and offensive plans to be carried out at the end of the spring thaw. -V PRESS MEETING GREENSBORO, April 10,—W— The spring meeting of the North Carolina Press Women’s associa tion will be held at Woman’s col lege here May 2. The speakers will be Miss Lou ise Alexander, associate profes sor of political science at the col lege. Miss Elizabeth Spelts, an instructor in voice and a soprano, will sing. Balanced Feed-Stock Program Is Prepared WASHINGTON, April 10.— W)—Moving to assure high production of meat, dairy and poultry products and carry out the administration’s anti-infla tion program, Food Adminis trator Chester C. Davis an nounced today a program de signed to balance prices and supplies of feed on the one | hand with prices and supplies of livestock on the other. The program provides for importation of feed grains from Canada and Australia to supplement dwindling domes tic reserve's, and- an increase in corn prices in the midwest to start “frozen” stocks of that grain moving to market again. Davis said the program will cause no increase in the cost of living. LEAVITT SPEAKS HERE WEDNESDAY Will Take Part In Launch ing Of Jose Bonifacion j On Pan-American Day i Dr. Sturgis E. Leavitt, founder of the Inter-American institute at the University of North Carolina, will be the principal speaker at the launching of the S. S. Jose Bonifacio in observance of Pan American Day here Wednesday, officials of the North Carolina Shipbuilding company announced Saturday. The Jose Bonifacio, named for the patriarch of Brazilian indepen dence, will be' christened by Mrs A. C. Alencastro-Guimaraes, v of the First secretary of the ilian embassy at War' Scheduled to slide dow at 7 o'clock in the f 10.500-ton Liberty 85th to near co yard. Plans for 1 are now b New Har (Conti Allied Food P May 18 At WASHINGTON, .April 10.—W-— The first United Nations confer ence on post war planning, to dea with food and agriculture, was o ficially set today for May 18 Hot Springs, Va., and Judge M, vin Jones, who as a member congress helped push throu much of the New Deal’s farm 1 islation, was named chairman the five-man American delegate Jones, now a judge of the U. * court of claims, is also assistf on agricultural problems to Jarr1 F. Byrnes, economic stabilizati director. A democratic represt tative from Amarillo, Tex., fro 1917 to 1940, he was for nine yea chairman of the House Agil culture committee and helpeh WANT ‘DUNKERQUE* Rommel’s Stricken Troops Are At Mercy Of Ameri can Flank Attacks AIR FORCES BUSY Montgomery Orders Army To Race F.or Slaugh ter On Beaches ALLIED HEADQUAR. TERS IN NORTH AFRICA* April 10.—(fP)—Sweeping on toward Tunis to make the Axis “endure a first class Dunkerque,” the British Eighth Army today captured Sfax, Tunisia’s second largest city, and plunged on north ward in pursuit of Marshal Rommel’s stricken troops which were at the mercy of relentless American flank at tacks and an unceasing down pour of explosives from allied sky fighters. General Montgomery order ed his troops to race on for a final slaughter on the beaches of Tunis, and the chances of the axis to escape by sea as the British did at Dunkerque were lessened by approximate ly 100 Flying Fortresses and huge numbers of American fighters operating out over the Mediterranean. Culsers Hit During the day the Fortresses pounced on two 10,000 ton Italian cruiser*, the Trieste and Goriza, which were ferreted, out In tlieil* hideaway at the upper Sardinian haror of La Maddelena. Direct hits scored on the two vessels were be lieved to have knocked them out for some time — at least for the duration of the Tunisian campaign which swiftly was reaching a cli max. Rommel s oomn-ntiaen troops ap peared to be running at full speed for a new defense line on a ride in the Enfidaville area, some 100 miles north of Sfax, and only 50 miles below the capital, Tunis. But front dispatches said allied air power was so terrific that the enemy’s northern defenses were largely disrupted. Germany’s air force practically had ceased to exist. Dispatches p' Nazi pilots now were parachuting • from their n! . • ■> without firing =>h i vhen sc, pen by nunc tally ! 'ior allied airmen. Germans Gloom c ,mar, broadcast ■ <ie gloomy. Capt i.nrtn. ; 3ert.or*us’ Pe!din radio commentator, 4,. * broadcast re corded by the f,lated Pre™ said the allies . / "ell-nigh inex baustibc. s i reserves’ on land and t r !oned alr suPe>i orlty. (Sertorin » \ ,lid General Pat ton’s Am. ’ °°P» now "eio tc-king ; Kairouan in an Igh to Sousse on •I' “*'1.1 IUU.CI5 t from Sfax. dio said planes ft carriers had allied Desert ■ 'ault on Rom broadcast ' French t\ad ad '• north nous , 'ch \ "* Second War Loan April 12-30—New Hanover County Qt /