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•ill 1 Mtlmwtgtmt iKnnttttn Btor WILMINGTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28 1943 __final edition established 1867. $100,000 CAPITAL reserve FUND IS PLANNED FOR CITY plan tobe heard Resolution Will Be Submit ted To City Council At Meeting Today TO COME FROM PROFIT Money Would Be Drawn From Revenue Derived From ABC Stores Designed to provide funds for post-war projects, a res olution empowering the. City of Wilmington to establish a ,<100,000 capital reserve fund will be submitted to the coun cil for consideration Wednes day morning, City Manager A. C. Nichols revealed Tues day. Funds for the reserve will be drawn entirely from the city’s share of profits from Alcoholic Beverage Control stores, over and above the es timated revenues from whis key sales when the city bud get was drafted last fall. For Future Needs "The purpose of the capital re I serve,’’ the city manager said, “is to make a part of the city’s sur plus available for future needs which are now developing, and to supply the money for such needs at a time when construction ma terials may again be available.” He pointed out that there were no restrictions on uses for the re serve. The resolution, drafted by City Attorney W. B. Campbell in ac cordance with the capital reserve act adopted by the 1943 general assembly, provides that the coun cil will select a depository for the 5100,000 reserve which, if invest tContinued on Page Three; Col. 2) pairIrraigned ON DRAFT COUNT White Men Appear Before Commissioner For Vio lating Selectee Act Answering charges of violation of the Selective Service Act, two white youths. Franklin Wicker, 19, and Charles Lancaster, 22, appear ed Monday before United States Commissioner W. A. Wylie. Wicker, an employe of the Coca Cola Bottling company, is charg ed with failure to advise the local draft board of Lillington of his change of address and with fail ure to report for induction. He has been released under $100 bond. Unless his delinquency is cleared up. he must appear at the October 25 term of Federal court. Lancaster, of Wilmington, is charged with failure to report for induction and failure to appear before the New Hanover draft board No. 2. He is being held in the Federal jail, his bond fixed at 5500. Lancaster, said to be “de liberately delinquent” has escaped twice from labor on the county roads. The caijp of John Singletary, Ne gro, of Columbus county, charged with possessing an unregistered still and with carrying on the bus iness of a distiller, heard before Commissioner Wylie on April 24, resulted in the Negro’s being held under S200 bond for appearance in the fall term of court. Singletary was released upon Payment of bond. The defendant allegedly operated a still in Colum bus county, and when appre i bended had fermented mash in ^ possession. | k Milk And Beer Price Violations Prevalent In Shipyard Section Widespread violations of the price ceiling regulations on milk and beer have been found in the shipyard district by OPA investigators, Office of Price Administration officials an nounced here Tuesday. Establishments guilty 0f over-charging on milk and beer have been warned by the in vestigators and promises of future compliance have been exacted. •However,” OPA officials promised, “we will make an other check in the immediate x future, and if additional viola tions are discovered proper steps will be taken to prosecute the violators.” The OPA declared that sur veys on observance of price ceilings for the two beverages will be conducted throughout the city. -V TWP REVENUES SHOW INCREASE Operating Income For 1942 Over Million Dol lars Above 1941 Total Up more than a million dollars over 1941, the Tide Water Power company’s operating revenues for 1942 were $4,237,975, officials of the company announced Tuesday at the annual stockholders meet ing of the utility here. All members of the board of di rectors of the company and all officers were re-elected at the meeting. Despite the increase in income due to war activity in the south eastern North Carolina area, Tide Water’s books showed only a gross j income of $520,188. less than the $555,157 difference between income and expenses, in 1941. Of the $520,188 balance last year, $355,145 was paid or set aside for interest on bonds and debt ser vice while an additional $100,000 was applied on the amortization “of loss resulting from abandon ment of street railways.” A total of $65,043 was added to the com pany’s undistributed surplus. Highlights of the $1,141,079 in crease in operating revenues were; An increase of 31 per cent in electric operating revenue over 1941 for a 1942 total of $3,101,613. Sales of electricity, the annual re port said, increased 15 per cent to residential customers, 16 per cent to commercial customers and 44 per cent to industrial custom ers, with a gain of 2.472 new elec tric customers. During the year, residential rate reductions total ling $54,000 were made. Operating revenues from gas totalled $599,918, an increase of 32 per cent over the preceeding year, with a gain of 1,252 new customers. Revenues from the transporta tion department increased 107 per cent, for a total of $492,638. Water operating revenues amounted to $43,804, an increase of 21 per cent. Ruring the year, the report show ed, a second 110,000 volt intercon nection with the Carolina Power and Light company was completed to supply additional power needed for war projects in the area at a cost of $52,110. The company also spent $75,821 for new motor buses, 22 of which were ordered and 11 de livered during 1942. Expenses incurred during the year included: Operating expenses of $1,428,870. 35; $777,853.68 for electricity purchas ed for resale; $237,849.32 for main tenance; $34,924.02 for provision for retirement, renewals and re placement of fixed capital and $4, 37S.07 for amortization of fixed cap ital; and a total provisions of $929, 922 for taxes. The amount set aside for taxes by (Continued on Page Ten? Col. 5) The Producer Watches His Show Wearing his famous hraee of pearl-handled revolvers, Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., sits on a hillside getting a panoramic view of American tanks advancing through El Gfuettar valley toward enemy held lulls during the battle for Bir Marbott Pass. Axis shel is seen exploding near l . S. forces. After El Guettar battle. Second V. S. Corps troops were secretly rushed north to the Mateur sector for the general all-out Allied advance against Axis forces in Tunis-Bizerte area. Full-Scale Mine Strike Threatened By Lewis By The Associated Press John L. Lewis raised the threat of a full scale soft coal strike last night after the United Mine Workers’ policy committee, attributing ‘malignant prejudice” to the War Labor Board, demanded withdrawal of their wage dispute from the board. ‘As matters stand,” the mine workers chieftain told reporters at New York, ‘ there will be no contract April 30. ihe mine workers will not tres-' pass on mine property in the ab sence of a contract.” Sporadic, unauthorized work stoppages, meantime, continued to spread. By the day’s end, over 50 mines were closed and more than 28,000 miners had put down their tools. The UMW committee virtually closed the door against considera tion of its wage dispute by the .JOIN WITH UMW SPRINGFIELD, 111., April 27. —(/P)—Illinois' 15,000 Progress Mine Workers joined tonight with the United Mine Workers of America in a threat to stop work at midnight Friday unless a new working contract is sign ed by that time. WLB—the agency set up by the government to handle wartime la bor issues—by the vigor of its lan guage in a request that the gov ernment direct continued “collec tive bargaining without political limitation.” The committee made its request (Continued on Page Ten; Col. 6) GROUP APMO ES SOCIAL AG m Committee Favors Plan But Postpones Structure For Time Following the reading of a re port, compiled by a committee headed by the Rev. Walter B. Freed, Community Chest directors Tuesday afternoon, approved the establishment here of a council of social agencies, but postponed rev elation of its structure and man ner of operating until additional committee reports are made avail able. Proposed amendments to the recommendations for setting up the new organization were intro duced, and must be examined be fore the final form of the social agency emerges, it was pointed out. Chest board members declared (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) New Water Filtration System May Be Operated By June 15 The city’s new $600,000 water filtration plant at Hilton park should be in operation by the mid dle of June, although the new structure will not be completely finished by that time, City En gineer J, A. Loughlin, said Tues day. The city engineer said that the contractor, A. H. Guion and com pany. was on schedule in the con struction of the new plant, which "'ill have a capacity of seven mil “on gallons of purified water a day as compared to the four and one-half million gallon a day ca pacity of the present Hilton plant, I ^ "ill also have a potential op-| erating capacity of up to 15 mil lion gallons of water a day, Mr. Loughlin said, since space has been provided for the installation of the necessary extra pumps and the construction of an additional basin. Guion, he said, has now com pleted the framework for the three story, modernistic plant. The new settling basin in the rear of the plant has also been completed. Work on the plant, part of the city’s Federal Works agency-fi nanced waterworks expansion pro gram, was begun last fall. By the time tile plant is put into operation in June, only minor structural details will be left un completed, the city engineer esti mated. He said that the entire job should be completed by August. The contract figure also includes installation of the latest filtration equipment. Although the new plant is near ing comlpetion, the title to the land on which the plant is being constructed at Hilton is still in litigation. Both the city and R. A. Parsley, owner of the tract, are awaiting a ruling by a spe cial master on the city’s condem nation proceedings suit filed un der special eminent domain au (Continued on Page Three; Col. i) POLISH-RUSSIAN PARLEY PLANNED Britain Opens Negotiations Toward Patching Up Diplomatic Break • LONDON, April 27—(£)—Britain opened negotiations toward patch ing up the differences between So viet Russia and the Polish govern ment-in-exile today and there were strong indications that the United State was participating in the in tensive effort to restore diplomatic relations between the two Allies, severed last Sunday by Russia. U. S. Ambassador John G. Win- j ant was called unexpectedly this afternoon to No. 10 Downing street, official residence of Prime Minis ter Churchill. His visit was follow ed immediately by a conference at tended by Churchill, Foreign Secre tary Anthony Eden and Wladyslaw Sikorski the Polish premier. Official statements which were expected to be issued by both the British and Polish governments were not immediately forthcom ing. A press conference in which Premier Sikorski had been schedul ed to explain the positions of the Polish government in the dispute was cancelled after newspaper men had assembled. It was indicated on good authori ty that there would be no official pronouncements until some pro gress is made toward a solution. The initial task confronting the representatives of the British and American governments will be to find some formula whereby the breach can be mended. Diplomatic quarters said no plan was avail able immediately and they admit ted they anticipated considerable difficulty in finding one. Neither the British nor the American officials are attempting (Continued on Page. Three; Col. 4) -V WEATHER FORECAST North CarolinaLittle change in temperature. (EASTEERN STANDARD TIME) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., yesterday. Temperature 1:30 a. m., 62; 7:30 a. m., 65; 1:30 p. m., 75; 7:30 p. m., 69; maximum, 79; minimum, 60 mean;, 67 normal, 66. Humidity 1:30 a. m., 98; 7:30 a. m., 84; 1:30 p. m., 77; 7:30 p. m., 84. Precipitation Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p m., 0.00 inches. Total since the first of the month, 2.11 inches. Tides For Today (From the Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and G eodetic Survey). High Low Wilmington -- 4:29a 11:47a 4:58p p Masonboro Inlet- 2:21a 8:44a 2:50p 9:07p Moore’s Inlet - 2:26a 8:49p 2:25p 9:12p New Topsail Inlet-2:31a 8:54a (Elmore’s)-* 3:0?p 9:17p Sunrise. 5:26a.; sunset, 6:o3p.; moon, rise, 2:00a.; moonset. 1:05p. Cape Fear river stage at Fayette ville on Tuesday, at 8 a. m., 10/J5 feet. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) \ FRENCH FORCES SMASH WAY TO PONT-DU-FAHS PORTALS; LENINGRAD SECTOR BLAZES ACTIVITY SIGHTED German Radio Report Sug gests Soviet Capture Of Novogorod EQUIPMENT IS TAKEN Russians Repel Nazi At tacks And Destroy Or Capture Machinery LONDON, Wednesday, April 28. — (TP) — A new spurt of fighting on the long-idle front south of Leningrad was re ported by Moscow today soon after German radio accounts suggested Soviet capture of the important pivotal base of Novorogod. The Russian midnight com munique, recorded here by the Soviet monitor, said Russian gunners destroyed six Ger man guns, silenced two mor tar batteries and demolished ten blockhouses and dugouts yesterday on the Volkhov front. Volkhov is midway be tween Leningrad and Novoro god. Germans Thrown Back In the same general aiea Monday, numerically superior Ger man forces broke through and captured a Russian town, but were thrown back by a Russian counterattack before they could consolidate their new position. The German indication of Rus sian capture of Novogorod, 100 miles southeast of Leningrad, came in a Berlin broadcast de scription of an eastern front war map. which also showed the Rus sians had driven to the very out skirts of Taganrog, 42 miles west of Rostov on the Sea of Azov. The midnight war bulletin re ported a company of German in fantry was wiped out on the cen tral front west of Moscow in a Rus sian attack that also destroyed a mortar and three field batteries and left several enemy firing points in flames. In this action, Russian artillery set fire to several enemy dugouts. forcing out a group of Germans who were cut down by mortar fue Scouting parties south of Balak leya killed about 100 enemy troops, and on the same front Russian airmen bombed railway centers be hind the lines, registering direct hits on several trains and knock ing down an enemy bomber. Activity in the Kuban area of the north Caucasus presumably was limited to air sorties, the bul letin said, with Russian fliers de stroying five German aircraft in air combats and 12 grounded planes in a bomber raid on an enemy airport. A Russian warship sank ' a 2,000-ton troop transport off the Crimean coast. In the air action elsewhere, at least 20 German troop and supply trucks were reported destroyed or damaged, two munition dunrps blown up and several trains wrecked. Hitler’s own newspaper, -ne (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) Allied Bomber Drops Explosives On Enemy Ships In Arafura Sea ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN' AUSTRALIA, Wednesday, April 28.—WP)—An Allied Lib erator bomber attacked two Jap anese merchantmen in the Aeg fura sea yesterday, the high command announced. A direct hit was scored on a 4,000 ton ship and near misses, which often are dangerous, fell near the other. In other raids, a Flying For tress destroyed the wireless sta tion at Gasmata. on the south shore of New Britain, and a Ca talina exploded supply dumps at Finschhafen, on the Huon peninsiula of New’ Guinea. The Arafura sea action occur red 50 miles northwest of Do bo, in the Aroa group, the di rect hit fell on the bow of the 4,000 tonncr. NOTICE! If your carrier fails to leave your copy of the Wil mington Morning Star, Phone 2-3311 before 9:00 a. m. and one will be sent to you by special messenger. ■ ■' ■ III.—J Allies Strain Axis Lines In Tunisia * TUNISIA I — The arrows indicated the direction of Allied advances in Tunisia where American, British and French troops are beating against the JNazi hne (broken line) and according to latest dispatches have driven to the gates of Pont-du-Fahs. creating a heavy dent in the cordon. The capture of Pont-du-Falis would imperil the extreme southern Axis posi tions. r DUISBURG RAZED BY RAF BOMBERS Over 1,350 Tons Of High Explosive Dumped On Big Nazi City LONDON. April 27.— UP)—1The RAF blasted Duisburg with ap proximately 1,350 tons of bombs in one of the heaviest raids of the war last night, the British an nounced tonight, leaving that great industrial and transport center of the German Ruhr a vast carpet of seething flames. For 45 minutes, the Air Min istry news service disclosed, Brit ain’s biggest bombers dumped an average of 30 tons of explosives and incendiaries every minute. When the 600 or more black winged British bombers turned home, smoke was spiralling two miles high from the mass of ruins which one pilot said looked like a great "Christmas tree.” The Germans put up one of their stiffest defenses of the city 12 miles west of pummeled Essen, and they claimed 17 of the raid ers. It was the first large-scale raid in a week during which poor weather interrupted the nocturnal blows at Hitler’s war potential. The last big raid was on Stettin and Rostock April 20. But even allowing for the in terruptions, the RAF has been de livering an unprecedented weight of bombs to chew up Hitler’s ar senals, cities and communication lines. The Air Ministry called the raid one of the “heaviest,” putting it in a class with the 1,000-plane raid on Cologne a year ago when 1,500 tons of explosives were loos ed. Improved bombers now pack a vastly larger load of destruction than those of last year. The com munique said the raid was highly concentrated. It was the 59th at tack on the city that lies at the confluence of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers. Four - engined Lancasters, Stir lings and Halifaxes and two-en gined Wellingtons flew through a storm of steel thrown up by hun dreds of heavy antiaircraft guns, guided by numerous light cones formed by from ten to 50 bunched searchlights. The British mentioned only Duis burg, but the Berlin radio broad (Continued on Page Ten; Col. 1) ! RAIDS ON COAST ARE POSSIBILITY Knox Says Bombing At tacks On Areas May Come But Unlikely WASHINGTON, April 27.— Of) — “Nuisance” air raids on the Amer ican coastal areas are a possi bility, although a remote one, Sec retary Knox said today, while the Navy reported 13 new American aerial attacks on a potential base for such raids, Kiska island in the Aleutians. After being balked four days by bad weather, American Liberator ' and Mitchell bombers, accompa jnied by Warhawk and Lightning fighters, blasted at Kiska again and again Sunday, but poor visi bility prevented an exact check on results. The same day a flight of Liber ators attacked Attu island, about 200 miles west of Kiska, scoring hits on the runway and other in stallations Naval Secretary Knox was asked at a press conference prior to is suance of today’s communique whether the Japs might employ their bases in the western Aleu-1 tians for air raids on the American West Coast. The secretary, w’hose extensive flights over the Pacific and the Western Hemisphere have given him a clear idea of the reach of planes, replied that there is “always a chance of nuisance raids anywhere at any time.” He minimized the danger of such raids but said that the Germans, for instance, might try a raid on the Kast Coast, which would be a nuisance action for us and a suicide operation for their fliers. He gave no details about what the Japanese might be able to accomplish by air operations from Kiska or Attu. If they operated directly from Kiska they would have about a 2,500-mile trip one way to reach the Pacific North west. Objectives in Alaska, on the other hand, would be within practical operating range of their big planes. The Japanese had been expect ed by American Army men in the Aleutians, according to dis patches from there, to try for completion of their air base on Kiska about this time of year. (’(Continued on Page Ten: Col. 5) GERMANS YIELDING Critical Stage Of Great Battle For Africa Near At Hand 23 MILES FROM TUNIS Allied Forces Reported Even Nearer To Axis Held Bizerte ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS IN NORTH AFRICA, April 27.—(A*)—French troops have smashed to the out skirts of Pont du Fahs, their high command announced to night as the German defenses on the Tunisian brideghead gave way slowly both at that key Axis supply base and in the Medjez-el-Bab, and front dispatches indicated that the critical stage of the great bat tle was near at hand. Advancing in numerous sectors in the face of fierce opposition, Allied forces push ed the Axis line back to with in 23 miles of Tunis and pre sumably were even closer to Bizerte. Americans Fall Back Ten miles west of Mateur, how ever, American infantry which at tacked the Djebel el Azzog were forced back under heavy counter attacks. But even these troops were able to occupy the Djebel el Ajred in the area south of Jefna, itself due west of Mateur. French Goumiers, driving into Pont du Falls from the southwest, were reported continuing their pres sure on the retreating enemy in mountain terrain strewn with land mines. Other French forces along the Mediterranean in the north, who had been reported within six miles of Lake Achkel and about 23 miles from Bizerte, advanced another three miles toward the great naval base and captured prisoners and con siderable material, the French com mand announced. American forces In this area were advancing in the region west of Lake Achkel, which at its western shore is only 17 miles from Bizerte. In the sector between Medjez-el Bab and the Mediterranean, the Axis rear guard was reported fall ing back so rapidly before thrust of the American corps of Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., that the ene my liad no time to bury bis dead. There, Patton’s men were storm ing the strongest Axis elevated po sitions in the northern Tunisian sec tor — Green Hill and Bald Hill. Along the center of the Tunis front, British First Army infantry had advanced 11 miles along the road from Medjez-el-Bab to Tebour ba, reaching the Toutn railroad sta tion 23 miles west of Tunis itself. Since Sunday, Nazi forces have lost 80 tanks and the outcome of the battle for Africa appeared to night to depend on how long the Germans can withstand the contin uous pounding without cracking. Hitler still is trying to supply his African army, but T.igbtning pilots cut a hole in his efforts by hitting five ships in one convoy with bombs. While the French were reported at the outskirts of Pont du Fahs, British armored forces were threat ening to cut off that important Axis base in a drive southeast of Coubel lat. Tn fighting in this area the Ger mans had lost 20 tanks in a 24-hour period. Two British First Army armored colums had thrust to within four and six miles of the Pont du Fahs supply road. In the southern sector of the (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) Health Authority Urges Change Of Diet To Meet Food Shortage Referring to the food shortage in Wilmington, which specialists admit cannot be curbed until na tional producers and distributors see fit to adjust their allocations on the basis of an enlarged popu lation, Dr. A. H. Elliot, city-county health officer predicted Tuesday that Wilmingtonians w o u Id be forced to “change their patterns of choosing foods if they are to receive an adequate diet.” “A lot of the scarcity ab o u t food,” Dr. Elliot contends, “stems from the fact that people have followed certain food selection pat terns over a long period of time.” He believes that a study of sub vn stitutes will be more and more a necessity for housewives in the community and patrons of eating establishments. “We have many available facil ities operating in our midst to educate retail food purchasers into the new methods of buying they must follow; we likewise ha v e started concerted programs to teach Wilmingtonians how to con serve the foodstuffs they buy and raise. At the present time, the majority of our population is not taking advantage of the oppor tunity to learn,’’ Dr. Elliot dis closed. The matter of building up the supply of food can be handled only through conservation prac tices and nutrition education, the health authority said. Dr. Elliot warns that the entire contents of victory gardens must not be consumed this summer, but that some part of the garden yields should be preserved—even if it is no more than a few quarts of vegetables. “The prospect is for increased food shortages next fall and winter,” he admitted. “Wilmingtonians should study the papers to learn when crops will be on the market and gauge their buying accordingly. They will (Continued on Page Ten; Col. 3) j,: 1
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