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biilH ffitlmtngtmt Unrtmuj Star [™lr -i -_____ WILMINGTON, N. C.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 1, 1943 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867 Opening Uate tor New Janies Walker Memorial Annex Is Set For Jan. / equipment ream New Wing Will Add 10J Beds To Increase To tal Capacity 30 DAYS ARE NEEDED Manufacturers Say Furni ture For Rooms Will Be Available January 1, 1944, has beer <et as the tentative date for occupancy of the new three story addition at Janies Wal ker'Memorial Hospital, Su perintendent Charles W. Man gum said i uesday. Assurance from the manu facturers that essential fur niture for patient’s rooms is available, and will soon be in shipment, made possible the estimate that within the next 30 jays the building will be ready for use. 1108 Beds The new wing will acid beds to increase the total bed capacity o| fee combined hospital units to 358 out is expected to relieve frequent-i jv overcrowded conditions. Thg formal hosDitar capacity is at prej cnt 216 beds, but many times dur h,« the Iasi few months it has not 0een unusual for the daily census to run as high as 280. In order to take care of the overflow beds have ceen installed in hallways on I occasion. Equipment already installed and ready to function momentarily in cludes the switchboard, plumbing, lighting and heating systems, wa ter fountains electric-timing’ sys tem, X-ray viewing devices, blan k'd [farmers, instrument cabinets. Inkers, and minty and supply room items. Ail fixed, standard equipment with the exception of rume steam sterilizers for the cen tal supply room is installed and ready for use. To Be Renovated Renovation of the middle section oi the main building will begin as sooa as patients are moved into Hojitinued on Page Three; Col. 4) MNESE ENTER RICE BOWL CITY Enemy Forces Smash Way Into Strategic Changteh, Reported Using Gas t CHUNGKING, Nov. 30. -IS) — >- Pported by poison gas, airplanes “no artillery, Japanese 1 o r c e s smashed their way into stra -s c Changteh^ the Chinese high command said tonight, and the en t!!1J s success threatens a pincer h'ovtuient on Changsha, from cnangteh and Yochow. east of ■h'ngting Jake. , Jhe Japanese farced their way ^to the vital 'Vice bowl” city in ! a11 ou'" attack yesterday from t Ln011h and east gates and .dy stl'eet fighting resulted in • cli ooth sides suffered heavy isualties. the high command said, r-te command said other CHi troops operating behind the v“ anese ,at Changteh, however, it « mo'-lng toward the city, and '8s hoped in Chungking that htr ti 00ps might ^‘11 be able p-r-ri °'r Ple situation, which wors tsWilen seeme^ the bat succeede£hfdKrS ->f Chengteh might siege 1 ^reaK,n Sthe Japanese (Continued on Page Three; Col 5) ^t Point Values Will Be Decreased FlESH4TT°N. Nov. 30.— UP — EofL Admmistrator Chester til r !; announced tonight that ra fiow a In meat Wil1 be cut t0 b bccembel361’ CCnt lar8er ration t,( ?U1, n,Gat supplies are in pretty and to that, reason 1 it- be .,bay that we are going lrEa, ,._,.e t0 cut the points on fct monh b^bstantially during said ,‘.of December,” Bowles tsiiie, T?J‘S reduction in point yc> ‘fjj g‘Ve each member oi m0te meft Jt 30 p e r cen| in«fectwh P°int Values wiU be Vou viu fhe? you sh°P next week. Vill be n d that most beef cuts and that™ °r three points lowei cuts wiii *on?e so-called variety ever.” qmre no points whatso has Hof ;StUci tbe butter situatior b-if con‘tor°Ved and indicatec 6 PouncuLnatl°nt c°st—16 point! WlU not be changed. -— ____ Old Cobblestones Will Be Replaced The old cobblestones on Princess and Chestnut between Front and Water streets will be replaced next week by smooth hard surface pave ment, City Manager A. C. Nichols said Tuesday. The time-worn stones, many of which are pink granite, "'ere originally on Front street and were dug up when it was repaved in 1912. They were later used in surfacing side streets. OPA SENTENCES OTHER GROCERS Number Of Cases Are Heard Before Judge Clement Sutton Albert Axler, operates a market and grore* siore at 900 : North Fourth street, appeared be fore Judge Clement E. Sutton of Atlanta, regional hearing commis sioner of the OPA, Tuesday after noon as an habitual violator of the OPA regulations as he has been investigated a number of times during the past few months. The current charges were his above ceiling prices on rationed meats and processed foods. Con sidering that Axler had been in vestigated several times before and last summer was served with an injunction order for failing to file his cost of living statement, Judge Sutton considered the sen tence imposed very light. The sentence consisted of 12 months suspension on both types of food but with only the first 10 days active. During these 10 days which will begin January 1, Axler cannot buy or sell rationed meats or processed foods. Judge Sutton based his lenient sentence on the fact that Axler said he doesn’t speak or understand English very well, but Axler promised to ob tain help to assist him. If he fails to comply with the regulations during his 12-month probation pe piod, he will be closed for that period of time. Judge Sutton con cluded. { C. S. Roberts, grocervman of 4 wrigmsvme xseacn, was round to be the first “intentional” violator ' by Judge Sutton. His over ceil ing meat price charges ranged from 2 to 14 cents per pound for * which he was given a six-month c suspension with only 1ft days ac- c tive. In most of the other cases Judge c Sutton said he found the opera- £ tors to be frank in their admis- s sion of their errors and ready to remedy them. O. J. Jackson, of Carolina Beach, who was arraigned on 12 counts ( of overcharging for meats and | processed foods, was ordered to have his business suspended for six months, with all the period designated as probationary except 10 days, during which time he is to do no trading in meats. His | overcharges on beef and pork ranged from one cent to six cents, and on processed foods from one cent to five cents. J. R. Brewer, of Carolina Beach, will be prevented from meat trad ing for five days of a six months , probationary period because of , overcharges on meats and process- ( ed foods in 12 cases. The active . suspension will start after the j Christmas holidays. A sixty-day business suspension ■ was suspended entirely in the case j of E. L. Rogers of Harbor Island. • He admitted accepting 37 L, four i M, and one N invalid meat cou- 1 pons, and one D and eight E cou- ; pons that had expired when the investigation was made on Nov. , is. ; W. A. Mahler, of 623 South Fifth J avenue, received a suspended 30- ] day suspension. He was arraigned on 10 counts of overcharges for : meats and processed food, and selling rationed food at incorx’ect point values. (Continued on Page Five; Col. 1) County War Chest Drives Is Sue' ^ - / Leaders Report Li! ^ • County Are $34,to. Over The Quota ‘CELEBRATE VICTORY’ Dinner Is Given t By Divi sion Leaders And Team Captains Tuesday • • » In one of the greatest home-stretch drives in Com munity Chest history in Wil mington and New Hanover county volunteer workers in the 1944 United campaign irmy reported a total of !>179,566.87, an over - sub scription of $34,167.75 of the ?oal of $145,399.12. With every^division and seam going over the top and it least one Ia|jge unit unre ‘HERE TO STAY* “I want to make it clear that the North Carolina Ship building company intends to remain here ‘forever’,” S. P. Ware, secretary of the com pany, said Tuesday night in announcing a special gift of $25,000.00 from the company to the Community Chest. The gift, ear-Aa iked for a special reserve post-war con tingency fund”, was present ed with the recommendation that the Community chesi' also put any excess of its |pntas into a fund for “possible'post war lean years which we hope will never come.” A standing tribute and three rousing cheers were given Mr. Ware and the North Carolina Shipbuilding company by cam paign workers attending the fin al dinner meeting Tuesday night. The company had previously announced a gift of $10,000 to the regular Community Chest War Fund Campaign. lorted, officials declared this otal will go on record as the ;reatest community giving Vilmington has ever known. Final reports were given at a victory celebration’’ dinner Tues ay night by team captains and ivision leaders. N. E. Drexler, general chairman f the campaign at the conclu ion of the reports presented two I ymbolic checks to the Rev. Wal Continued on Page Two; Col. X) 50 UT HERNCO A L TO BE LEFT OUT JMW And Other Produc ers Agree To Proceed With Negotiations WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.— UP) — rhe United Mine Workers and nost of the nation’s soft coal pro lucers decided today tc negotiate l wage contract without the par icipation of Southern nroducers. In the presence of Secretary ekes, who made another appeal or speed, John L. Lewis and the lortherii and Western operators roted to meet tomorrow morning o write a contract based on the ckes-Lewis formula. The Southern Coa1 Producers As :ociation and Alabama Commer ;ial producers were the only ma or groups refusing to negotiate m that basis. It was understood that the rep resentative of the Tennessee Coal ind Iron Company asked for more ime to announce his vote, and hat all other coal associations in Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) Cutbacks In Production Easing Manpower Crisis WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.— (IP) — Shutting down of munitions plants is easing the labor shortage in some cities, the War Manpower (.Commission said today, but the panpower situation is still acute nationally and the demand greatly exceeds the .supply. The Commission reduced the number of. acute labor shortage areas from 77 to 69, reversing a steady trend, and said the action was closely related to "cutbacks'’ —termination of war contracts by (be government. William Haber, WMC assistant executive director, gave the fol lowing manpower estimates at a press conference: 1. The known cutbacks now tak ing place and definitely scheduled lor the next three months will re lease from 120,000 to 150,000 work ers. 2. The armed twees now are discharging into ciwiian life about 70,000 persons a month, half of them directly from hospital beds. These are being taken into indus try in large numbers. 3. But nearly 500,000 ne«work ers will be urgently needed*within (Continued on Page Five; Col. 2) » ' ‘BIG 3’ MEETING IN IRAN REPORTED; Z4SDS ADMIT LOSS OF KOROSTEN; /8TH ARMY SHA TTERS ‘WINTER LINE9 —: High-Grade German Steel-Plating Mill Raided By Americans LONDON, Nov. 30.—Iff)—Am erican Flying Fortresses, winning up me niignth Air Force’s best operational month of the war, bombed the Ruhr city of Solingen east of Dnes seldorf by daylight today in the first Allied attack on that target, site of a high-grade steel plating mill and a plant making metal alloy parts for German fighter planes. The big four-engined Ameri can bombers, accompanied ov er tneir target by Thunder bolts and Lightnings and cov ered in withdrawal by RAF, Dominion and Allied Spitfires and Typhoons, had an unusual ly strong escort for the mis sion which brought the month’s total of American heavy bomber attacks from Britain to a record 11. Two heavy bombers and five fighters were lost, while sev en enemy aircraft were shot down, six by the withdrawal covering fighters and the sev enth by a Fortress. Solingen, three miles square, Lies 14 miles southeast of Duesseldorf. It was well-known for the manufacture of cut lery and weapons, even in peacetime, and was celebrat ed in the middle ages for its sword blades. Although Berliners were left alone amid their destruction since Friday night’s double-header at tack against both the German capital and Stuttgart, this was the fifth time in less than 48 hours that Allied bombs were brought home to German soil. Sunday night and Monday night RAF Mosquito formations invad ed with impunity the land the Na zis boasted would never be bomb ed, and Monday's big American daylight attack on Bremen, the second in four days, found the Germans so jittery that sirens be gan wailing all over the country. _ t r GROUP APPROVES RAIL PAY BOOST Eight Cents Per Hour In crease Wins Committee’s Unanimous Approval WASHINGTON. Nov 30.— UP) — A congressional resolution grant ing an eight c°nts an hour wage increase to 1. lOll.OOC non-operating railroad workers won the unani mous approval of the Senate in terstate commerce committee to day. The committee's action—in the face of protests by Stabilization Director Fred M. Vinson—cleared the way for Senate consideration of the proposal Vinson has countered with an offer of increases ranging from 4 cents for higher paid workers to 10 cents for lower brackets. He has said a Congressional order for the flat eight-ceni boost would crack the “'little steel” wage for mula—a contention denied by the workers. Senator Truman (B.-Mo.), spon sor of the resolution said he would call it up before the senate “at the earliest opportunity.” It would have the effect of validating an agreement last. August between the workers and the railroads on the eight-cent boost. The 15 unions embracing the non-operating employes, such as machinists, clerks and others who do not run trains, have completed a strike vote but results have not been announced. Operating railroad workers—en ginemen, etc.—also are conducting a strike-vote in protest against a four-cent an hour award. The eight-cen- increase 'for the non-operating worker? originally was recommended by a presiden tial board, but Vinson vetoed it. A second board proposed the four to 10 cents an hour boost which he approved. Majority Leader Barkley of Ken tucky who sough! to compromise differences between Vinson and advocates of congressional action on the increase joined 'in the unan imous vote on the resolution. Tru man said, however, that Barkley would continue his efforts at a compromise Truman said the resolution would not require presidential sig nature, "but simply the approval of both houses." Barkley said, however, the President’s would be necessary. It does not mean an increase in railroad rates ’’ Truman told reporters, "and it will not stand m the way of a reduction in rates. We have testimony to that effect.” r —-- * SECOND RETREAT Other Troops Press For ward In White Russian Battle-Sector FEW DETAILS GIVEN 4,000 Germans Reported To Have Been Killed In Fighting LONDON, Wednesday, Dec. 1.—(7P)—The Russian army has fallen back from the stra tegic rail junction of Kor osten, its second important retreat before the furious German counterattack at the Kiev Midge, but has pressed forwarjdin White Russia and at thefDnieper bend, where almost 4,000 Germans fell in heavy fighting Tuesday, Mos cow announced today. The loss of Korosten, 85 miles northwest of Kiev, came 11 days after the loss of Zhitomir. Both of them were railway junctions won back by the Russians in their westward surge from Kiev. Scant Details Tho Russians gave scant details of the withdrawal, announcing in their daily communique that “by order of the supreme command our troops abandoned the town of Korosten and took up more advantageous positions for de fense.” The midnight supplement, broadcast by Moscow and record ed by the Soviet monitor, made no further mention of the area. However, as early as last Sat urday the Russians hinted at Koro sten’s danger when they reported the Nazis had brought up eight tank divisions — perhaps 120,000 men—to join the already power ful German forces who had been storming Russian lines in the area for two weeks. Some of these'divi sions, Moscow said, came from Italy, Greece and Norway. Meanwhile the Russians forged gains to the north and south, though at a less spectacular pace than on previous days. Advances Made Northwest of Gomel the Rus sians made advances despite stif fened German resistance which included 15 counterattacks in 24 hours. Breaking these, the Rus sians continued their advance, leaving 1,500 German dead on the field. The Russians also captured sev eral populated places in their pur suit of the Germans retreating from Gomel toward Zhlobin, now (Continued on Page Five; Col. 1) -V RAIL CONTRACTS ARE HELD UNFAIR Ten Southern Firms Are Told Present Agreements Must Be Voided WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.— UP) — Ten Southern railroads and the Brotherhood ol Locomotive Fire men and Enginemen today were advised that their operating con tract unfairly discriminates against Negroes and must be void ed. The President's committee on Fair Employment P r a c t i ce (FEPC> handed down its ruling after studying testimony taken at hearings in September. The contract between the rail roads “is designed for no other purpose than to cut down the em ployment of Negroes as firemen and to increase the hiring of white persons in these positions,” the FEPC hfld. MalcolR Ross, FEPC chairman, said the contract limits the hiring of firemen to ‘promctable men,” and specificallv designates Ne groes as non-promotable, which ef fectively debars' them. The FEPC decision raises a le gal point which the railroad coun sel in September saic would put them “in the middle” and force them to violate the edict of the National Mediation Board (Rail way) which approved the contract FEPC ordered voided. The rail ways, under the Congressional act covering railway labor dis putes, are required to conform to rulings of the mediation board. (Continued on Page Five; Col. 4) Cy_ | REDS PUSH PAST GOMEL . Arrows from the Soviet symbols indicate new Russian Army thrusts west of Gomel, with Moscow reporting that Red troops had crossed the Berbina river and outflanked the German base of Zhlo bin, cutting the railroad from Zhlobin to Kalikovichi, while Red spearheads captured Shatsilki. Sangro Ridge Is Taken By Veteran Eighth Army ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Nov. 30.—(JP) —General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery’s Eighth Army shattered the eastern anchor of the Germans’ “winter line” across Italy today, capturing the whole of Sangro ridge and driving the. enemy out of a huge bridgehead _ Ki'irnv. BONGA CAPTURED BY AUSTRALIANS Seaward Anchor Of Jap Supply Line On New Guinea Is Taken SOUTHWEST PACIFIC HEAD QUARTERS. Wednesday, Dec. 1. —(#1—Australian jungle - fighters pushing north from Finschhafen, have captured Bonga, the seaward srichor of the Japanese principal supply line on the northeastern New Guinea coast, and its fall without a struggle has deprived the enemy of another hold on the Koun peninsula. The Australians occupied Bonga the morning' of Nov. 29, General Douglas MacArthur’s communique said, and also took Gusika in their general sweep which canied them to the south bank of Kalueng river. A headquarters spokesman said that before the final success achieved at Bonga, Allied forces were obliged to overcome enemy resistance a thousand yards south of the river. The Allied advance along the coast was paralleled by the inland push northward from Sattelberg, which w’as taker/ from the Japa nese Nov. 26, toward Wareo which is the western hub of the trail lrom Bonga. This interior force was reported to have reached the suspension bridge over the Song river and to have crossed against enemy resist ance. With Bonga in their uossession. the coastal troops turned westward along the south bank of the Ka lueng river, drivmg toward a junc ture with the force advancing on Wareo. The Huon peninsula ground units received distant support from Al lied light warships—probably de stroyers—which for the first time ventured north of Vitiaz strait to bombard -Sio harbor and environs the night of Nov. 29-30 Sio is on the north coast of New Huon pen insula. .that extends at least 15 miles in land from the sea. Climaxing 48 hours of continu ous, bitter fighting, the veteran Eighth drove forward in a smash ing advance which threatened to turn the flank of the enemy’s en tire defense svstem before Rome. ‘In Our Hands” “The whole of the high ridge which overlooks and dominates the Sangro valley is now in our hands,” the Ailied command an nounced tonight in a special com munique. 'The tvto bridgeheads on the Adriatic side of the coast have now been joined up to form one large penetration in the ene my’s defensive positions. “Our troops have broken deep into the main enemy winter line and enemy -ounter-attacks during the afternoon have all been beaten off.” In today’s advance Montgomery’s warriors swept through four more towns — Fossaoessia Villa Santa Maria, Mozzagrogna and Romagno li—bringing t 12 the number of towns and villages taken since they opened their attack before day light Sunday after ? heavy artil lery bombardment. Defenses Penetrated Earlier today an Allied commu nique reported thai the enemy’s defenses on Sangro ridge had been penetraied and the bridgehead across th Sangio river enlarged to a depth of four miles and a width of 12 miles in the face of desperate German resistance. Swept up in the Eighth Army’s churning advance through the mud were seven villages and the town of Mozzagrogna, the latter four miles northwest of the Sangro and some seven mhos inland from the sea. Montgomery's spearheads at last reports were only about 22 miles from the important Adriatic seaport of Pescara whence a ma jor highway cut? directly across the Italian oeninsula to Rome. A deadly artillery and aerial bombardment rolled ahead of Montgomery’s inlantry—a barrage so incessant and earth shaking that many troops of the crack 65th Nazi division were rendered “bomb hap py” and fell easy prisoners. Fighting at the Eighth army’s (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) Nazi Army In Russia Still Considered Strong Foe By KIRKE L. SIMPSON Associated Press War Analyst Another December of dread opens for Nazi invaders of Russia with Red army spearheads aimed at every crucial German commu nications junction except those on the still-dormant Baltic flank of the vast battle line. From Polotsk, close to the far northeastern corner of the Russian border with old Poland, to Kher son at the Dnieper mouth, 800 miles to the south, there is no rail or road intersection point of critical consequence to German communi cations free of jeopardy. And with the full onset ot winter at hand in the north, even the Pskov and Narva transportation keys to all northwesten: Russia must soon come undei Russian menace to spread the vast battle of the junc tions all the way from the Baltic to the Black Sea, giving the enemy no rest anywhere from disastrous entrapment perils. As nearly as the ever-changing front north of the Pripet marshes to the Neve! sector above the Dnie per could be traced from latest Russian advices, something more (Continued on Page Five i Col. 4) i NO CONFIRMATION Berlin And Lisbon Reports Say Ancient Persia Is Parley Point PEACE TALK QUIETED Senator Truman Expects War To Last At Least Two More Years WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. —(/P)—Speculation that the United Nations leadership is preparing to tell Axis mem bers just what each may ex pect from unconditional sur render received a new fillip today from reports that President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, Premier Stalin and Generalissimo Chi ang Kai-shek are to meet in Iran. Reports came from both Berlin and Lisbon that an cient Persia, or Iran, has been selected as the scene of the long-expected conference of the Anglo-American-Rus sian leaders, and both agreed that Chiang also will partici pate. The Lisbon report, car ried by Reuters, British news agency, added to the Berlin radio version by saying a Roosevelt-Churchill - Chiang conference already has been held in Cairo. No Confirmation The reports naturally found no confirmation here or in London, although ooth cap.'tals long have been rife w;th rumors of an immi nent meeting of the “big three,” or “big four.” They set swirling afx-esh, however, reports that Ma jor psychological as well as mili | tary blows at the Axis are in the (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) O’NEALATTACKS FOOD SUBSIDIES Farm Bureau Head And Grange Chief Testify At Committee Meet WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.— (/PI — Farm organization sponesmen de nounced food price subsidies today as a disguised, inflationary and injustified wage increase for labor, and as a brake on the farm pro duction they are designed to en courage. The farm leaders, EJdward A. O’Neal, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, and Al bert S. Goss, master of the Na tional Grange, piesented their de mands for an end tc the price cut ting payments before the Senate banking committee. Almost coincidental with their testimony, the oroadest consumer price program yet adopted was implemented with tire announce ment that the Defense Supplies Corporation will begin tomorrow payment of miller subsidies on wheat to hold down the price of bread. The cost is estimated at “no more thar, $9,000,000 a month.” Goss, appearing before the com (Continued on Page Five; Col. 2) _ WEATHER FORECAST NORTH CAROLINA—Fair and slightly warmer Wednesday and Thursday. Freez ing temperatures in mountains Wednes day night. (Eastern Standard Time) By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 houra ending 7:30 p.m., yesterday. Temperature 1:30 am, 40; 7 ;30 am, 33: 1:30 pm, 47; 7:30 pm, 45. Maximum, 50; minimum, 32; mean, 41; normal, 52. Humidity 1:30 am, 76; 7:30 am, 87; 1:30 pm, 45; 7:30 pm, 57. Precipitation Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m., 0.03 inches. Total since the first of the month, 1.24 inches. Tides For Today (From the Tide Tables published by U. S, Coast and Geodetic Survey). High Low Wilmington ---11:45a 7:08# 12 :37p 7 :58p Masonboro Inlet-10:29a 4:03a 10:50p 4:53p Sunrise. 7:00a; sunset, 5:03p; moon rise, 10:43a; moonset, 9:21p. Cape Tear River stage at Fayette ville, 9:21 feet. r
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