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sis tlmtngtnti fUnnrnuj B>tar \^)L. 76 NO. 303______WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1944_ FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867 Rocketrlanes Used, Arnold, RAF Disclose CLOAKED IN SECRECY Craft Capable Of High Speeds Using Pro pellers WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 — (A>) — Cloaked in high secrecy for years, a new ‘rocket" plane has emerg ed from British-American engi neering laboratories, capable of extreme speeds at high altitudes without using standard propellers. The disclosure was made today in a joint statement by the U. S. Army Air Forces ana the RAF. The plane is powered with jet propulsion engines No details were given. Jet propulsion is gen erally considered in aviation cir cles to be a series of short, sharp explosions on the rocket principle, hurtling the plane forward. Avia tion authorities have said that to day's airplanes have just about reached their limits in speed at close to 300 miles an hour by use of propellers and that the jet pro pulsion cr rocket principle is the next logical step to greater achievement. The Luftwaffe, striving desper ately to counter Allied air attacks over Euiope. has been equipping its fighter planes \vifh rockets for some months. Several hundred Rights by the new British-Amertcan planes were made without a single mishap and quantity production is just around the corner, the Allied air chiefs declared. Researci work on the idea started 10 year? ago in Great Britain under group Captain Frank Whittle of the RAF and his preliminary cn.^me ran suc cessfully in 1937. The joint statement issued in Washington oy Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of the Army Air Forces, dis closed that the British Air Minis try placed its first order for a plane using 'et propulsion engines with the Gloucester Aircraft Com pany. Ltd. in 1938, the engines to be built by Power Jets, Ltd., in a special factory in England. Capt. Whittle was loaned to this company. "The first successful flight of this airci aft was in May, 1941," was the late Flight Lieut. P. G. Severs, chief test pilot of Glou cester Aircraft Company, and greatest credi‘ should be given to (Continued on Page Three; Ool. 1) D. S. WILL PROBE HOPKINS LETTER WASHINGTON. Jan. 6.— UP) — The Just'ce Department today an nounced a Grand Jury investiga tion ol a letter which Presidential Adviser Harry b. Hopkins has de nounced as a forgery. The letter, bearing Hopkins’ name, predicts Wendell L. WilJkie wi1! be the Re publican presidential nominee this year. The letter was made public by C. Nelson Sparks, former mayor of Akron. Ohio, and critic of Willkie. Hopkins, in repudiating the letter, called for an investiga tionly the FBI. Assistant Attorney General Tom C. Clark, in announcing that;the Grand Jury investigation will be gin here next week, probably Wed nesday, said Sparks had refused to let G-men have the letter for examination. Sparks wrote the Justice De partment, Clark said, that “he would be glad to bring it before ar>y investigating committee or Man - Wendell Willkie,” which nation campaign ia a book “One critical of Willkie’s 1940 nomi Grand Jury.” He has been sharp quotes the disputed letter. (Continued on Page Five; Col. 6) -v_ WEATHER . FORECAST aiORTh CAROLINA: Increasing cloudi s and continued cool Friday, rain Sat beginning in west portion Friday Somewhat warmer Friday night, ■Moderately cool Saturday. (Eastern Standard Time) v (P,V I'. S. Weather Bureau) | Meteorological data for the 24 hours lng "::*0 p. m., yesterday , Temperature 10 a- m., 43, 7 :30 p. m, 40, 1:30 p. m. ’ ‘ :“0 p. m. 42. viIaximurn 51» Minimum 39, Mean 45, formal 47. 1 Humidity a. m., 92. 7:30 a. m., 93, 1:30 p. m. ' p. m., 62, T . Precipitation °«1 for the 24 hours ending 7:30 °-00 inches. i,not.al Kmce the first of the month, 1*« inches. , tides for today v. «011V tlle Tide Tables published by • Coast and Geodetic Survey) Kington - 7:318 2:01a Masoi,boro Inlet_ 5:3ta 11:47a l!oonSe' 7:19 a- m': Sunset> 5:18 p. m.; rllse» 3^21 P. in.; Moonset, 4 ;41 a. m. viiiePVF jartRiver sta*« at Fayette (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) Gov. Broughton Predicts South To Go Democratic —1 " - Chief Executive Says Democrat^ Win With ‘Other Than Libera*j^ NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—(®—Gov ernor J. Melville Broughton of North Carolina tonight flatly pre dicted the South will go solidly Democratic at the polls this year, but said that the Democratic party cannot win “with other than lib eral leadership.” Speaking on the radio program ‘America’s Town Meeting Of The Air,” Broughton stated that the Democratic party “has lost ground on domestic grounds,” but that on issues arising out of the conduct of the war and the program for peace the Democrats “have all the advantage.” The North Carolina Governor with Congressman Voorhies of Cal ifornia, spoke on the subject “How Can The Democrats Win In 1944?” following an address by each, a question and answer period was held. As an approach to the answer, Broughton said, “I would observe that the Democratic party cannot win in any other role than that of a liberal party or with other than liberal leadership.” “Virtually every time it has of fered a conservative or reaction ary candidate the party has lost.” The North Carolinian listed what he _p ^mticant reasons 4^ loss of strength iy* *£anes: “1—The. *'!wing appre hension that _ rig ram of the Democratic pari.,. .nvolves the ex tinction of free enterprise. “Any thinking or planning that constitutes a threat to free inter prise should be stripped out ad publicly disavowed. “2—Too much bureaucratic regu lation is irksome to the average American citizen even though de signed for his benefit. ■Elimination and s'mpliccation in this field could greatly enchance the chances of the party in 1944 “3—It is undeniable that the par ty has lost substantially in farm er support. He feels that there are entirely too many different agen cies and that labor and financial groups have been favored to the disadvantage of the farmer. “This situation cannot be over looked if victory is to be won. "4—The people are becoming ap prehensive over what they consid er non-essential public spending. “A nation with an uprecedet ed and growing nublic debt cannot ignore this sentiment. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) DUPONT IS NAMED IN TRUST ACTION Company Is Accused Of Conspiring To Restrain Trade NEW YORK, Jan. 6.— Iff) —1The Justice Department accused E. I. du Pont De Nemours, the Rem ington Arms Company and Brit ain’s Imperial Chemical Industries today of conspiring to restrain trade “in chemical products, arms, including war materials, and am munition.” Du Pont’s president. Walter S. Carpenter, Jr., promptly disputed the charge and said the American public and the war effort had ben efited, rather than suffered, from his company’s activities. The government action, a civil suit filed here, was smumarized by Attorney General Biddle as charging that the big chemical and arms firms “have been and now are parties to contracts and agree ments in violation of the Sherman anti-trust act.” And Assistant Attorney General Wendell Berge, in charge of the anti-trust division, issued a state ment saying that it is “a major blow against the cartel system” of dividing world markets. Carpenter, at Wilmington, Del., offices of du pont, said in his statement: “The du Pont company denies that it is now or ever has been a '.Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) Editor And Merchant Want The Mails Barred To Waste-Basket Mail _ GRIFFIN, Ga., Jan. 6—(#1—A merchant and an editor want U. S. mails closed to “wastepaper basket” material to help solve the pulpwood shortage. In a letter to Rep. Sidney Camp (D-Ga.) Editor Quimby Melton, of the Griffin News joined Fronk Smith, merchant, in urging thet parcel post Melton wrote Camp: “there is %ot a day that passes but I get a stack of ‘waste basket’ mail—sent under other than first class. “It isn’t’ worth a tinker’s dam to the news and it quickly goes into the waste basket. “And if Frank Smith gets a lot of such mail and the hometown newspaper gets it too. you can rest assured every other business man gets pounds of the stuff. “Cut it out and you’ll save paper at the source and thus help solve the waste paper shortage.” Melton said the government was “one of the chief offenders.” TAXI ORDINANCE CITED AS LEGAL City Officials Make No Comment; Attorney Upholds Law Following comments in Record j er’s court Wednesday morning by | Deputy Judge S. E. Loftin, sub stituting for Judge H. Winfield | Smith, in which the legality of the ■ city ordinance placing a ceiling on taxi-cab rates outside the city limits was questioned. City At torney William B, Campbell cited the State law Thursday, that per mitted the City council to pass the rate ordinance. Neither Mayor Bruce B. Cem eron nor City Manager A. C. Nichols had any comment to make on the proper status of the city with regard to itsj jurisdiction in making regulations affecting the five-mile area surrounding Wil mington, although feeling seemed to be general among several per sons interviewed that ordinances as they stand are justified, and that Judge Loftln’s’ remarks in Recorder's’ court Wednesday were to a degree unwarranted. Under the law. according to ! Campbell, the city was entirely within its jurisdiction in making the regulations affecting not only Wilmington but also the surround ing five-mile area. The following communication on the subject was sent by Mr. Camp bell to city Manager a. u. men ols: “Answering your inquiry as to the authority of the City of Wil mington to regulate and control the operation of taxicabs and taxi cab operators, I submit to you the following: “For many years, beginning in 1917, and from time to time to date, the Legislature has passed acts granting to cities and towns the right to regulate and control the drivers and operators of taxi cabs. and I refer to Section 2787 of the Consolidated Statutes for the detailed authority so granted by the Legislature. “In addition to the foregoing section, under the provisions of Chapter 639 of the Public Laws of the Legislature of 1943, fur ther and supplemental authority was granted by the Legislature to cities and towns with respect to regulations of taxicabs and drivers, and particularly under the pro visions of Section 2 of such Act the following specific authority is granted to cities to regulate the subject, not only within the city but within a radius of five miles of such city. I quote from this Section as follows: “ 'Provided, however, that cities (Continued on Page Five; Col. 3) A CL President Sees Very Bright Future For The South After War (Editor’s note: The following article, written by C. McD. Davis, {.resident of the Atlan tic Coast Line, is reprinted from the current (January 1944) issue of the Atlantic Coast Line News, ACI/s month ly publication ) By C. McD. DAVIS . President, ACL Larston D. Farrar, an Associate Editor of Nation’s Business, in an article entitled “Dixieland Goes to Town” in the September, 1943, is sue of that important publication, said: “No part of the nation is doing a greater war job than the South, and the men who made this mili tary production possible are al ready laying plans for continued postwar progress.” Mr. Farrar further said, in same article: “Way down South in the land of cotton, Old times there are not forgot ten. .” “So went the marching song that sustained the Confederate armies until a collapsed national economy sent them tramping barefoot home. So has gone a whole catalog of American folk music in which gen erations of nostalgic song-writers have been ‘dreaming tonight of a (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) . 0 RUSSIAN ARMY PLUNGES 10 MILES BEYOND PRE-WAR POLISH BORDER; ALLIES INCHING AHEAD IN ITALY Army Maneuvers At Mackall Begin CAMP MACKALL, Jan. G—Iff) —Parachutists and glider troops “invaded” this sandy, pine-studded area tonight in a mass demonstration of Amer ica’s striking power from the air. The operation was the open ing phase of five-day manuev ers of the combined airborne and troop carrier commands. It was scheduled to have be gun last night, but adverse weather led the outhorities to order a 24-hour postponement. With the maneuver area blacked out to simulate actual battle conditions, approximate ly half the 10,000 airborne troops participating in the man euvers were carried over lines of imaginary red forces and dropped on positions from which to conduct their assault on key airports held by red troops ccommanded by Col. Joseph Hinton. Several high-ranking United Nations observers were on hand to view the exercises, the second large scale maneuv ers of these new types of fight ing units to be conducted in this area within a month. The airborne troops, with full equipment, were ferried to their positions in transport aircraft and gliders by a troop (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) -V WAR PRODUCTION WILL BE SLASHED OWI Discloses Output Of Small Arms, Bullets, Others, To Be Cut WASHINGTON. Jan. 6 — W — Cutbacks in the production of small arms, bullets, non-combat Planes and anti-aircraft equip ment, plus a nearly 40 per cent were predicted by the Office of War Information tonight. The decreases will be more than offset by boosts in warplanes and some other munitions, OWI said, and “no considerable curtail ments'* ior the purpose of resum ing civilian goods manufacture can be scheduled foi 1944 unless the European war ends by June or July. “Until then, whatever resump tion of civilian production the War Production Board permits must be considered purely as tempora ry and subject at all times to a when required," said the OWI re port. The document was the first comprehensive aaccount of pro duction curtailment from official sources. Arms production in 1944 is to be 17 per cent greater than in 1943. Thjs in itself is a cutback, since previous disclosures have estimated a gain of from 20 to 25 per cent. The Navy alone, OWI disclosed, has made cutbacks amounting to $2,856,000,000 in the last six months. Much of this was merely (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) 1~'"' _ *" YANKS GAIN A MILE Troops Smash Into New Siegfield Line—Attack Resisted ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al giers, Jan. 6—UP!—American and British infantry, plunging forward in a new offensive on a 10-mile front in the mountain maze before Cassino, advanced an average of a mile with the first momentum of their assault and are smashing into concrete pillbox defenses guarding the Germans’ new Italian “Siegfired line,” headquarters an nounced today. All along the rugged rront from Venafro to Rocca d’Evandro and astraddle the Via Casilina to Rome the Nazis fiercely resisted the at tack which was launched in a cold, driving rain before yesterday’s daybreak. American doughboys or Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark’s Fifth Army bore the brunt of the assault north of the Via Casilina, while British in fantry struck south of that main traffic artery to Cassino and the Eternal City, 70 miles beyond. “The Germans are fighting bit terly for every inch of ground in their customary style, but have been driven back at least a mile in most places.” an Allied spokes man said. The Nazis poured thou sands of rounds of artillery and mortar shells into the advancing Allies, and fire blazed from hun dreds of enemy machine-gun nests. An Allied officer said the only way to reduce the Germans’ con crete pillboxes—the first encounter tered by Allied forces in Italy— was to charge into them frontally and peg hand grenades into the gun holes, killing the crew. In some cases a single crew was found operating two or three mar chine-guns covering approaches to the heights. . v From noon yesterday, when the clouds lifted, waves of American A-36 Invader dive-bombers roared low over the front at 300 miles an hour, strafing and bombing the enemy’s emplacements and in some instances causing the Ger mans to scatter wildly. Violent hand - to - hand fighting (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) I IT SETZER’S TRIAL TO BEGIN MONDAY The trial of Richard Setzer, 20 i year-old Willard youth, on a charge of first degree murder in ' connection with the slaying of Stedman Hall Carr, prominent Wallace merchant who died here Saturday from a buckshot wound received Friday afternoon, is ex pected to begin Monday, January 10 in superior court at Burgaw, Sheriff J. T. Brown, of Pender county, said Thursday.' A Pender county coroner’s jury, headed by Acting Coroner A. C. Blane, ordered Setzer held, with out bond, for Grand jury action, following a hearing Tuesday night at Burgaw. Clifton Piner, 19, and Carl Pin er, 43, father-in-law of Setzer and father of the 19-year-old youth, (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) I Ioday and Tomorrow '- Bv WALTER LIPPMANN - d.v vi »1, ir.it 1,1 ITMANX The year which lies behind us will in the perspective of time be remembered proudly and grate fully. The calendar year is a little short: in fact the historic year be gan in the autumi of 1942 with the defense of Stalingrad, the land ings at Guadalcanal and in North Africa, the victory at El Alamein. These were the turning points of the world-wide war. They were turned cy the constancy and the valor of the peoples; by the wis dom and practical intelligence of their leaders and commanders. * * * The nations have been put to the test anc they have met the test. Facing defeat, they have not despaired. Confronted with impos sible tasks, they have- accomplish ed them. In the judgment of his tory there will stand forth the grand result and not the trouble and confusion by which we have reached it. The little excitements and wor ries of the hour, which have seem ed so important when three or four tired men have come together to shake their heads, sink into sig nificance before the grand result. The armies are mobilized, are trained, are equipped, are deploy ed and are in action. The alliance which wage^ war and must in augurate and institute the peace is more solid today than any one dared to hope it could become. ♦ * * We may sav with sober confi dence that we shall have the vic tory and that we shall come through the ordeal into one of the great epochs of human history. We have faced fearful danger and a monstrous evil: lei us not be too timid to believe that in the cer tain triumph of this righteous cause our children will find peace and the good life again. * # * Our assurance that this is so rests upon the proven fact that for the greatest tilings in this enor mous conflict — fu. resistance to evil, for the courage to fight, the patience to wait, the resolution to work, the readiness tc endure— our people have not been wanting. It is in the incidental and second ary things that we have been least successful. The nagging contentions which disgust us and disgrace us have not been about the central and mighty issues of this momentous struggle. The contentions have been about 17 cents an hour and 2 cents a quart for milk, an a few dollars of taxes, and a little more or a little less profit on a war contract; the contentions have been about who should stay in a public office or who should replace (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) Axis Stronghold Totters OH*—HIGHWAYS « P-A-l-amveilS ■*.ANtROBOCO , FARINDOIAP '**'•««»„ \ ASSEROI STATUTE AQUIIA*'»V J>OGGIO MIRTCT0\ l aNtaly x / N V V. AVINDOll\ POPOl FIANO 'ROMANO \VCARSOl^x • ) -.*Vl***»A K YcouarmeiY GUaOONIA^^U^TEnol -^CANALS > T*ASACCO\ X ' i /•ROME ^ I N^^ROCCARASO^ \riAM*oSr» (l ‘GUARCINO’ CAST® a This close-up of the terrain in which advanced Canadian units oi the Eighth Army have been battling one of Italy’s worst wintei storms, as well as the stubborn enemy, gives some idea of the physi cal handicaps that have been faced in the slow drive to Pescara . The story of Ortona’s “last stand” battle already has joined the war’s classics and the fight against Pescara, Axis Adriatic stronghold,.has been waged midst a furious off-sea storm. Pescara stands on the road to Rome. (International). 600'Japanese Are Slain In New Britain Jungles - DAVIS REEASES ADDITIONAL COAL The critical coal shortage here was somewhat further relieved Thursday by the release of an additional 150 tons by Camp Davis, and one coal dealer predicted there will be “plenty of” coal in the city early next week. The coal dealer, who did not care to be identified, said “ap proximately 2,500 tons of coal will be available through all dealers here early next week.” Approxi mately 50 to 60 railroad cars, each of which will contain about 50 tons, are expected to be on hand, prob ably on Monday. All ot this fuel will be splint coal. The coal dealer reiterated that the delivery of coal will continue to be “bad.” He said there “is no chance of dealers catching up on delivery service.” While splint coal may not be the type generally used by Wil mingtonians, the dealer said “it is no longer a question of what persons are accustomed to burn ing, but what is available.” The additional release of coal by Camp Davis, boosted to 250 tons the amount which has been made available to Wilmington yards during the current emergen cy. The entire amount is sche duled to be refunded to the Army when the shortage is no longer so acute. In addition to making available three carloads of coal to this city, the public relations office said that Camp Davis is making avail able to persons residing in hous ing projects at Holly Ridge a (Continued on Page Two; Col. 21 ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD QUARTRS, New Guinea, Friday Jan. 7. -(.?!—Six hundred Japanes have been slain during h e a v ; fighting row in progress in dens; jungle country at *nvadeci Capi Gloucescr, New Britain, as botl sides brought up artillery and straf itag America* planes supported thi attacking Marines Bringing total enemy losses ti more than 2,000 since the Marine; landed Dec. 26, the latest casual ties were infl'cted during a slow arduous push against tierce resist ance in the eastward direction o Borgen Bay. A spokesman for General Mac Arthur, in announcing today th< preliminary results cf the battle said the bitterest type of fighting has been going on since the Ma (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5; New Hanover War Bond Quota Set $4,831,000 For 4th Loan Campaign New Hanover county was assign ed a quota of $4,831,000 during the Fourth War Bond campaign January 18 to February 15, a a meeting of representatives o: Region Six Wednesday night ir Whitevill*, bond leaders here dis closed Thursday. Of this amount, $2,206,000 is ex pected to be invested in Series E bonds by individual citizens officials said. Immediately upont the assign ment of New Hanover’s quota, ma chinery was set in motion for con ducting this Fourth War Loan drive here. As the burden of reaching this bond assignment must be heavily borne by individuals, officials de (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) Berlin s (bloomy Admission May Be Prelude To Full Retreat In Russia By KIRKE L. SIMPSON Associated Press War Analyst The gloomy admission ;n BeVlin that the Nazi front in Russia has been hopelessly split apart by the Red army’s victories in the .Kiev bulge may be a prelude to a new general German retreat in the east. But it does not tell all the story. The split is not an actual gap carved in German lines to divide the front into two almost equal sectors one north of the Pinsk Marshes to the Baltic and the oth er southward of the great swamp lands to the Black Sea. It is a matter of battle logistics. The Nazis have lost the close-up lat eral communication lines which tied the two segments into one. Three remain in German control now only two such laterals—the direct Riga - Wilno - Sarney - She' petokva route through the greal swamps already virtually lost; and the round-about route through Brest-Litovsk that runs west of the marshes. There is no such logistical splii involved for the Russians. A prime first tactical objective of the Kiet bulge offensive was to gain contro and use of the long central stretch of'-'the Leningrad - Odessa mair truck line west of the Dnieper Supplementing the parallel line! east of the river it provides th< holder with quick inter-communi (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2] ENDANGER RAIL LINE 3.000 More Retreating Germans Killed In Day’s Fighting LONDON, Friday, Jan. 7 The Red army swept 10 miles into old Poland yesterday with the cap ture of Rakitno, killed 3,000 more of the enemy's retreating troops, and also plunged southward to within 39 miles of the Warsaw Odessa rail lifeline to the German Dnieper bend army. Berlin intimated early today that part of Germany’s huge Dnieper bend army, estimated at between 500.000 and 750,000, already was fighting for its life against a Soviet pincers movement by the Red ar mies of Generals Nikolai F. Va tutin and Ivan S. Konev. A Moscow communique last night announced the capture of Rakitno in a fan-wise sweep by General Vatutin’s army, which Berlin said numbered 750,000 men besides "the reserves that still are moving up.” But Berlin broadcasts said the | Soviet army pushing toward cen trai Poland mostly was "marking time.” Axis commentators were far more concerned, it appeared, with the massive swing southward toward Rumania and southeast ward into the Dnieper bend. German broadcasts recorded by' the Associated Press frankly said that General Vatutin's forces plunging beyond Belaya Tserkov toward the Cherkasy sector now were being aided by "a new ma jor offensive” begun by General Konev’s Second Ukraine Army in side the Dnieper bend. A 65-mile gap separates the two Russian armies, and Berlin said the Germans in the upper part oi the Dnieper bend now were being hit from both the east and west. Axis broadcasts also reflected alarm over the rapid Soviet pro gress toward the Warsaw-Odessa railway in the sector above Zh o rinka. Seizure of that rear supply artery might bring disaster to all the German forces in southern ' Russia. ’ A midnight Moscow bulletin re ! corded by the Soviet monitor from a broadcast said “advancing So ! viet units are inflicting heavy loss es on the enemy” in de~ev 1 accelerated drives into old Poland ■ and toward Rumania, and the : wheeling movement back into the Dnieper bend. i Eighty-three German tanks, 81 ; guns. 200 mortars, 175 trucks and ■ 180 carts were declared destroyed (Continued on rage Five; Col. 4) , -V KEY NAZI SUPPLY PORT IS BOMBED LONDON. Jan. (/PI—'The RAF feinted the Germans out of posi tion last night by sending a light force of Mosquito bombers to jab I at ruined Berlin 15 minutes be | fore the main force of giant Lan I casters and Haiifaxes arrived over | the Baltic port of Stettin, 75 miles to the northeast, and slammed it with more than 1,000 tons of bombs. The Air Ministry disclosed that the Germans fell for the scheme, rushing their fighter packs to pro tect what is left of Berlin and leaving the route wide open for the heavy bombers to get through to Stettin. The city is one of the chief supply centers for German armies on the Leningrad and Fin nish fronts. The bombs, falling through a clear, moor.lit sky. left broad areas of Stettin aflame. Tail gun ners reported that en route home they could see the fires merging in a red glow visible a half-hour’# flight away. (Continued on Page Five; Col. 5) Blackouts Scheduled For Central Carolina RALEIGH, Jan. 6.— IJfl —The State Office of Civilian Defense today called an air raid drill and practice blackout for 10 inland warning districts to take place ea the night of Jan. 13. R. Walker Martin, state direc tor of civilian protection for OCK, said the drill and blackout would be held in the Tarboro, Ahoskie, Weldon, Henderson, Goldsboro, Raleigh. Greensboro, Shelby, Statesville and Gastonia districts. The Charlotte, Lumberton and Asheville districts will not be af fected, Martin said. In addition to the North Caro jlina districts affected. The drill j and blackout will be held also in points in adjoining states which ; usually are notified by the North j Carolina districts involved, Mar* ■tin said- 4 %
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