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- il-1 tlmmytmt 1th t nutty ^tar 1 yjsT ^OL. 76.—NO. 306 __WILMINGTON, N. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1944 _FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867 WPB Wants Cast-Iron Pipe, Not Concrete, Used For Water Line -w ----- j priority indicated l\[y Has Not Received Any Official Word On Matter Fedc.-.l Works Administrate) Regional Director Kenneth Mark •el! announced in Richmond Mon jy night that the War Productior id has indicated it will gran iority ratings for critical ma rials needed to extend the 20 lie Wilmington water supply le to King's Bluff, with the pro sion that cast iron pipe be sub sided for steel-reinforced con ete on the section of the line om Green's Ferry to King's luff. Markwell said that this provision ould be approved if reinforcing eel can later be obtained without vejudice to another war project. "WPB will give favorable con deration to further modification : preference rating to permit use [ reinforced concrete along the Hire line after the construction caches Green's Ferry,” he said. City Attorney William B. Camp ell stated in Wilmington that the ity Council had not received any fficial statement concerning ma =rial or had they been given any etails as to when the pipe line ould be continued. City Manager A. C. Nicnols and ’ity Councilmen, contacted at a party honoring the N. C. Aeronau tical Commission, said they had not received any official word on the proposal either. Mayor Bruce B. Cameron was out of town and could not be reached for comment. Early in December of last year our city officials, headed byjCity Attorney Campbell, journeyed to Washington and camped on the ioor-step of WPB for two days, :eeking priorities on pipe to ex end the new city water main to •ling's Bluff reservoir. Officials eturned to Wilmington feeling that •our chances for favorable re vonsideration are better” than pre viously. since WPB recommended he line be diverted to Hook’s vreek. The controversy, which has halt ed pipeline construction until a Inal decision is reached on the luestion of priorities for pipe to vxtend the line to King’s Bluff. 20 miles away, instead of to Hood's vreek. 10 miles closer..arose when A E. Gorman, of WPB’s water di version. recommended that to con serve steel, the needed additional (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) -V GROUP TO PROBE NEW SAN1TORIUM A committee was appointed Mon day afternoon by the New Han over C mty Board of Commis sioners. to conduct an investiga tion into matters concerning the constauction of the new Tubercular Sanitarium, to replace the old hospital, the usefulness of which vas made void by the construc tion of the Army Air field here. The committee will make a re port of its findings at the regular meeting next Monday, at which time the board will set a time for a public election. The figure set for construction °f the new hospital is $139,000. However, Addison Hewlett, chair man. stated that this did not in elude maintenance and other facili ties involved in the construction oi the hospital. The total figure is expected to reach $200,000. The committee is expected to re port on the possibilities of obtain Continued on Page Five; Col. 6! December Called Most Hectic Month For The I—City Water Department December was one of the rnost hectic months that Wil niln8tim has experienced in a number of years, McKean -Maffitt, superintendent of the Chy Water and Sewer depart in'. stated in his report for December, submitted to City Manager A. C. Nichols Mom day. The maximum pumpage ree led was reached for all time 1!1 the history of Wilmington on December 18th, the report stat 'd- with 6,350,000 gallons of ''aier reported pumped on that day. *27,369.34 was reported col eeted in December, an in fuse of S6.458.02 over the col welioiis of S21.113.32 made in December, 1942. "hat with the enormously '"ereased load, the transfer r°m nlant to plant and the op ^'utions on the Toomer's creek me we had a blizzard that Continued on Page Two; Col. 3 \Soldier Solons Must Take Choice _ ; WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. — (A>) —President Roosevelt ruled to day that legislators can’t serve both in Congress and in uni j form. Attorney General Biddle ad 1 vised him that the Costitution forbids service in Congress and the armed forces at the same time, so Mr. Roosevelt asked Secretary of War Stim son and Secretary of the Navy Knox to see to it that legisla tors confine themselves to leg islating. ' It seems that only two repres j ertatives were affected by the ruling: Henry M. Japkson (D-Wash), who is a private in a tank destroyer unit at Fort McClellan, Ala., and Albert Gore (D-Tenn), who volunteer ed recently and now is on fur lough under orders to report at Camp Shelby, Miss., Jan. 19. Said Gore, who is 36, mar ried and father of a daughter: “All I can do is what I am ordered.” Mr. Roosevelt’s order appar ently will prevent members of Congress who hold reserve (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) _\T_ ELECTION OF GOP PRESIDENT URGED Halleck Says Republican Victory Would Shorten The War CHICAGO. Jan. 10.— (.¥)—Election of a Republican president next November will rhorten the war “by months if not years” because it will guarantee America’s mili tary leaders home front support "they never have had before,” Rep. Charles A. Halleck, of In diana, aid tonight in an address prepared for delivery to more than 200 GOP leaders. Apparently anticipating a dem ocratic argument that now is not the time to “change horses” in the midst of war, Halleck told the Republican National Commit tee members and state chairmen> and vice chairmen: “We must demonstrate to the people of America that the minute to change horses in the middle of the stream is that moment when the new horse can crtss the stream more quickly, more effi ciently, and without spilling its burden. “I believe with all my heart and mind that a Republican suc cess next November will result in such an acceleration of our war effort abroad and at home that victory, the thing for which we all yearn, will be brought nearer to us by months if not by years.” Halleck, new chairman of the House Republican campaign com mittee charged with the job of electing Republicans to Congress, was the principal speaker at a dinner arranged by National Chairman Harrison E. Spangler in advance of tomorrow's national : (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) RECREATION MEET IS OPENED HERE The sixty persons who attended the opening session of the city wide training institute on recrea tion held Monday morning in the Sorosis clubhouse, were compli mented on their receptiveness and cooperation by Miss Helen M. Dauncey, staff member of the National Recreation Association, in an interview Monday afternoon. “Those who were present proved to be an excellent working group, and very representative of the various agencies doing recreation al work, as well as some groups which have not previously done such work,” said Miss Dauncey. “All participated in the pro gram, and were most responsive,” she added. At the meeting Monday, Miss Dauncey, who is conducting the institute, emphasized to the rep resentative leaders in attendance that the program is being given not only for the municipal depart ment, but for all organizations and agencies concerned with teen-age recreational activities. City Manager A. C. Nichols opened the meeting, and the mes sage of welcome was given by W Ronald Lane, mayor pro-tem. The meetings will convene from 10 to 12 Tuesday and Wednesday at the Woodrow Wilswr hut; on remaining days of the week they will be held at the Sorosis club. Negro recreation meetings are scheduled for 5-7 p.m. at Taylor )' Homes. New Congress Now Awaiting FR s Message CIVILIAN DRAFT SEEN ‘State Of Union’ Speech Will Be Read By Clerks WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—®— Congress went through the motions of reconvening today and then sat back to wait for a Presidential message that at noon tomorrow will set the session really on its way through a maze of issues complicated by election-year con siderations. President Roosevelt has not re covered sufficiently from the grippe, his physician ruled, to de liver his annual “state of the un-. ion” speech in person and it will be read by clerks. But the President added a note of significance to the arrange ments by deciding to broadcast a boiled-down version to the nation at 9 p.m. Eastern War Time. What the message will cover is a matter of specultion, some of it apparently wishful thinking. Pos sibilities that have been advanced include a home front review that will hit at war production handi rans throueh strikes, at efforts to amend the renegotiation law to ease profits restrictions and at pressure groups seeking special treatment under wartime regula tions. The Army and Navy Journal has said it expects Mr. Roosevelt to call for a civilian draft to put workers where they are needed and keep them there. Presidential Secretary Stephen Early was asked about this today and re plied : "That has been commented on very generally, and I do not like to say with the message coming so soon." While a goodly part of the mem bers of Senate and House stayed in Wa/nington for the three-week vacation ended today, others went home to see how their constituents are thinking this election year. Speaker Rayburn said "I didn’t hear a lot of politics" down in Texas and that the people "are for going on and getting this war over wit h, without too much grumbling and complaining.” He added, with respect to the new session of congress: "There’s going to be a lot of talking, and I hope it’s good.” Senator O’Daniel ID. - Texas), (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) -V AIR COMMISSION WILL MEET TODAY A meeting of the North Carolina Aeronautics Commission for the Wilmington district. embodying New Hanover, Pender. Brunswick and Onslow counties, will take place Tuesday morning at 10 o' clock in City Council chamber. The commission, which was set up by the state legislature, and appointed by the governor, will discuss post-war plans in aviation in North Carolina, with represen tatives of both city and county governments present. Roy Rowe, chairman of the com mission, stated Monday night that the Aeronautics Commission was particularly interested in the local airport • because of its enlarge ment and expansion by the Army. “If it is turned over to us after the war, the commission wants to know what plans for using the ex cellent facilities are being made,’’ he said. “The commission is not only in terested in the possibility thal Bluethenthal field be designated as a stop for some national airline, (Continued on Page Three; Col. 6) WEATHER FORECASTS NORTH CAROLINA: Slightly cloudy and warmer Tuesday and Tuesday night. Wednesday partly cloudy and slightly cooler. (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., yesterday. Temperature 1:30 am, 23, 7:30 am, 21, 1:30 pm, 41, 7:30 pm, 37. Maximum 47, Min. um 20, Mean 34, Normal 46. Humidity 1:30 am. 93, 7:30 am, 93, 1:30 pm, 46, 7:30 pm, 74. Precipitation Total iqr the 24 hours ending 7:30 pm, 0.00 inches. Total since the first of the month, 2.17 inches. Tides For Today (From the Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.) High Low Wilmington - 10:33a 5:11s 10:50p 5:48p Masonboro Inlet - 8:19a 1:59s 8:35p 2:35p Sunrise, 7:18 am. Sunset, 5:22 pm Moonrise, 6:40 pm. Moonset, 8:05 am. Cape Fear River stage at Fayette ville, 13.40 feet. (Continued On Page Five; Col. 5) IMPORTANT RAIL JUNCTION OF SARNY REPORTED EVACUATED BY THE NAZIS; pA IS HAMMERED FOR FIFTH TIME JraiHK. . .. - TANKS AID 5TH ARMY Planes Have Been Operat ing From Fields For Weeks ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al eiers. Jan. 10.—(/P)—Amprinan flv RAIL LINE IS NEARED More Than 12,000 German Troops Slain During The Day LONDON, Tuesday, Jan. 11.—(A —The Red army smashed to with in 21 miles of the Warsaw-Odessa railway yesterday slashed two lines feeding into that main Ger man escape channel, and killed 12,000 more enemy troops, Mos* cow announced early today. Berlin reports via neutral Stock holm said the Germans had evac uated Sarny, rail junction 35 miles inside old Poland, in the path of the Soviet steamroller. Rovno, an other junction almost 50 miles to the southwest, was endangered by rapid Russ'an strides, said the Berlin correspondent of the Swed ish newspaper Dagens Nvheter. Other dispatches said the Rus sians had reached the Bug River, last natural German defense line in the Ukraine. Only a few miles beyond the Bug lies the Warsaw Odessa railway, which the Rus sians hope to seize in an effo/t to doom upwards of 500,000 Ger mans in southern Russia. Guerrilla “ghost armies” spring ing out of the snowy forests of old Polan joined G.en. Nikolai F. Vatutin’s Fifst Ukraine Army reg ulars attacking westward on a 40 mile front in old Poland. Im perilled Sarny appeared about to fall as the Russians captured two more localities below it. The guerrillas, presumably all Russian-organized, also were de clared by Moscow to be wrecking German rail facilities near Odes sa on the Black Sea and along the nre-war Rumanian frontier to es In 1943 1942 Figure Warfare Cost Allies Only 40 Percent Of The 1942 Total WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.— <£t - U-boat warfare cost the United Na tions only 40 per cent as much cargo tonnage in 1943 as in 1942, a joint Anglo-American statement reported tonight, while the tonnage of new merchant vessels construct ed was more than twice as great. The tonnage of cargo ship losses to submarines in the Atlantic ir December “was again low, despite an extension of (U-boat) operating areas,” said the monthly communi que issued by the Office of Wai Information under authority ol President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. “Fewer U-boats were destroyed during the month by our air anc sea forces owing to several factors including increased caution by the enemy,” the report stated. “Oui supply routes were, however, well secured against U-boat attack.” The communique did not total the number of U-boat kills chalkec up by Allied forces during 1943. nor ,the cargo tonnage lost. It die reveal marked improvebent in the. last half of the year. Nearly half the merchant ship tonnage sunk was lost in the firsl three months of 1943 27 per cenl WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.— M — j Navy and Army planes are con-i tinuing a virtually unbroken series ; of raids on Japanese positions in the Marshall group, the Navy dis-1 closed today, reporting new bomb er visits to three islands of the group over the week-end. Bulwinkle Fires First Gun In Coming Fight For Air Law Revision WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—(/P) —Representative Bulwinkle (D NC) fired the opening gun to day in an approaching fight over revision of the Civil Ae ronautics Law by charging the opposition with attempting to “spread misinformation.” Bulwinkle was chairman of a House interstate sub-commit tee that wrote the new legisla tion last year. It is scheduled for early House consideration. The Carolinian specifically denied contentions of opponents that the legislation would fos ter monopoly in commercial aviation, would lead to govern ment ownership of airlines, would exclude states from any control over aviation, would affect the regulation of sur face carriers or other utilities and would retard the develop ment of an aviation training program of local air transpor tation, v U-Boat Loss Far Below ALLIES DESTROY ' 11 JAP BARGES ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS, New Guinea, Tues day Jan. 11.—Iff!—Allied aircraft have heavily bombed JCendari, Japanese plane supply and repair base on Celebes island, northwest of Australia, headquarters an nounced today. Liberator heavy bombers dropped 25 tons of explo sives there. Other Allied planes continued to make sweeps over the enemy bases and barge routes along the coast of New Britain. Japnese shore installations at Gali, 11 miles south of the Ameri can invasion beachhead at Salidor on the north coast of New Guinea, were bombed b. /’lied naval units. In another Navy stroke near Sai dor, 11 enemy barges loaded with men and supplies were destroyed. American Marines at Cape Gloucester. New Britain, continued to press the Japanese forces in the Borgen Bay sector east of the Cape. Headquarters announced that Marine losses there have been less than 15 per cent of the Japanese total of more than 2,000 dead. i the “built-up” section of Berlin ; reckoned by the Air Minister}' I t aboat 8.000 acres. At least 17 per cent of the actual uildijjg area in the “built-up” sec ion—an acreage more than hall overed with buildings—was de troyea in the first six raids, the iir Ministry said. That 17 per cent—which doesn’t nclude a square foot of open space -is the rock bottom minimum iased on small scale photographs aken from around 30,000 feet. More detailed pictures when the veather is clearer are is expected o show much more damage. In addition to th blows struck it. official quarters, the Kroll Op ira Hous, meeting place of the leichstaf since 1933, has been iamaged by fire. Berlin’s main hortwave studios were hit and 36 military huts were destroyed. Four gasworks, including the :ity’s largest, were hit. Seven wa er works, five trolley depots and he main postal depots were dam iged. The Lehrer and Potsdamer ailroad stations were gutted. Ninety-eight identified industrial ilants were bombed including the ;reat Rhein-Metall Borsig arma nent factory which makes every hing from tanks to torpedoes. One bird of the Alkett Car Assembly Dlant was gutted and the Siemens Electrical Plant, blasted last stun ner, was further destroyed. LONDON, Jan. 10.— Iff)—So many ii German government buildings — i Erom Hitler’s private chancellery a an down—were destroyed or dam aged in the first six raids of the t battle of Berlin it is doubtful that t the Nazi war administration could c have been continuing from the s capital even a month ago. i A list of destroyed or damaged places issued by the Air Ministry i today on the basis of reconnais- - sance photographs up to Dec. 21 i includes, besides the fuehrer’s of- t fices: The home of Propaganda Minis- ' ter Paul Joseph Goebbels. Offices of Reichsmarshal Her mann Goefing. ; Headquarters of the gestapo. j < Official residences of Gestapo 1 Chief Heinrich Himmler and For- ( eign Minister Joachim Von Rib- s bentrop. E The foreign office: the treasury; the ministries of justice: transport, < food and agriculture, armaments; 1 and munitions, education; the 1 home office and the army records : office. i In the central Tiergarten dis trict, packed with government of- ; fices. more than 60 per cent of ; the buildings were destroyed. In : the midst of the government center district there were 628 acres of damag—an area nearly as large as the whole of central LondoiT. The total building-covered area Berlin’s Heart Believed I Destroyed By Bombings 1 It Is Doubtful If The War Is Still Being Con ducted From German Capital COURT FIGHT LOST BY NEGRO PORTERS I WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.— Uti — The Supreme Court today stood pat on a decision which was de nounced as denying a group of Negroes the right to choose their own. collective bargaining repre sentatives and as leaving them in a state of “involuntary economic servitude.” The Tribunal’s action applied specifically to 45 Negro station porters in St. Paul who, because of their race, were barred from membership in a railway brother hood which at the same time claimed the right to represent them in labor negotiations. The court refused to reconsider its decision of December 6 sus taining a national mediation board ruling that the porters do not form a separate craft or class of employes and, under the railway labor act, do not have the right to select another union to speak for them. The United Transport Service Employes Union, contend ing it had been chosen by the porters as their bargaining agent, sought reconsideration of the opin ion, asserting that it left Negrojs in a “hopeless plight” in the in terstate railway labor field. United transport contended that the porters had been shunted aside as a “voiceless minoriy” in a craft in which they were not recog nized and had been forced to ac cept the brotherhood of railway and steamship clerks as their rep resentative although they could not belong to the union or have any say in its conduct. Furthermore, the union argued, the mediation board had in other eases recognized United as a craft (Continued on Page Five; Col. 7) lii suuuiern iiaiy last oepi. President Roosevelt described it as one of the most important Allied successes, bringing the air forces nearer Germany and* permitting air cover for operations in northern Italy and the Adriatic.! No further details were avail able on the air attacks but on the ground the Fifth Army, which burst through the German defenses to a depth of two more miles, threw tanks into action on the plain before Cassino as freezing weather hardened the ground. The extent to which British and American armor could participate in the final assault on Cassino de pended on how strongly German artillery was emplaced on heights on both sides of the Rome road, which runs along the Cassino plain. The 29th Panzer division, which, with units of the Herman Goering division, was entrusted with the task of defending Cassino against the grinding Fifth Army offensive, was taking a hprvy msHinw Clark’s advance units were near ly halfway through the six-mile zone of fortifications between the village of San Vittore and Cas I sino. Freezing weather caused great (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) _ mg Fortresses, operating from great new bases in southern Italy, struck a paralyzing blow at Nazi communications in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia today while the Allied Fifth Army, its offensive supplemented by tanks, pushed to ward the outskirts of Cassino, 70 miles from Rome, threatening that key German defense bastion. . A one-sentence communique an nounced the Sofia raid ,say.ng only: “A heavy force of Flying Fortresses of the Fifteenth Air Force bombed Sofia, capital of Bulgaria, about noon today.” But headquarters also announced, for the first time, that the big Ameri can bombers have moved up to Italy, to positions vastly,more fav orable for attacking the Balkans and central and southern Europe than the former bases in Africa, 500 or more miles farther from German targets. Dispatches from Lynn Heinzerl ing, Associated Press correspond ent with the Fifteenth Air Force, then were released, disclosing that the Fortresses and Liberators have been operating from Italy for weeks and that on Sunday Fort resses, with lightning cover, set off huge fires and explosions in Pola, tali an port at the tip of the Istrian peninsula. (Location of the new bases in Italy was not disclosed, but after capture of the Foggia airfield area COUNT Cl AN O COUNT CIANO MUST DIE FOR TREASON Berlin Radio Says Musso’s S o n In Law Is A Traitor LONDON. Jan. 10.— I.fl —Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini’s play boy son-in-law and former Italian foreign minister, has been sentenc ed to death for “treason” to Italy and its deposed dictator, the Berlin radio announced tonight. Ciano and 17 other members of the gTand fascist council were con demned In a two-day trial by at^ extraordinary tribune.] of Musso lini’s revamped Republican fascist government for voting to oust Mus solini, the broadcast said, quoting a DB dispatch from northern Ita ly Only five of those sentenced to death are in Fascist hands, among them 76-year-old Marshal Emilio De Bono, who commanded the ex pedition to Ethiopia. The others are Ciano, Carlo Pareschi, former minister of agriculture; Giovanni Marinelli. former head of the Fas cist militia, and a man named Got thardi. Tullio Cianetti, former minister of corporations, was a 19th defend ward which part of General Vatu tin’s forces were plunging. Berlin also reported that Russian amphibious forces had tried to land on the Black Sea coast at Ochakov. General Vatutin’s men killed more than 4.000 Germans during the day, Moscow announced. But the biggest day’s slaughter of German troops occurred when Gen. Ivan S. Konev’s troops caught the remnants of an original enemy force of 50.000 or more men in a trap west and northwest of Kirovograd in the Dnieper Bend, said the broadcast-communique re corded by the Soviet monitor. Upon refusing to surrender the enemy troops were wiped out al most to a man—8,000 of them, the bulletin said. Captured enemy booty listed by Moscow was tremendous. Scores of tanks and big guns, hundreds of rifles and food and ammunition stores fell to the advancing Rus sians. Scores of tanks also were destroyed in vicious fighting, but Moscow's announcements indicat ed German counterattacks were only spasmodic and on a diminish ing scale along most of the active front. The Germans clearly faced their worst disaster of the war. perhaps one surpassing the Stalingrad de bacle. The army under Konev was driving west and northwest to ef fect a junction with the southern arm of Vatutin's forces in an ef fort to trap a greater segment of Germany’s Dnieper bend troops in the Smela-Kanev sectors. The two armies were reported less than 70 miles apart. am, ana was semencea iu ou years at forced labor, DNB added. There was no indication either that Mussolini’s daughter, Edda, tried to save her husband, or that against Ciano. The 13 grand council members sentenced in absentia included Count Dino Grandi, former ambas sador to Lodon and president of the chamber of Fasces and Guilds, who led 1he battle in the council was ousted July 25 and placed un der guard, but later was "rescued” by Nazi troops. The German dispatch said the trial was held at Verona. Ciano, whose last job in his fa ther-in-law’s government was as ambassador to the Vatican, was placed under arrest by Marshal Badoglio’s government but later escaped. The Germans said they then captured him at the Swiss border. COAL SHORTAGE HERE IS ENDED The coal crisis appeared broken, at least for the time being Mon day, as Wilmington retail dealers reported plentiful supplies of coal, but the delivery problem seemed to be more acute than in the past few weeks and dealers indicated that purchasers would be respon sible for getting fuel to their homes. Practically all retailers in the city reported Monday they have “plenty” of coal, and will have all this week. Because of the extremely cold weather Sunday, Wilmingtonians flocked to the various coal yards, seeking fuel in small bags. One dealer reported that at one time Sunday, 80 automobiles were park ed in his lot with the owners at tempting to carry away as large ~ _T /-Ml ri uji cc muiiLuo ui join “ ■ ^li LLiii in the second quarter, and only 26 per cent in the third and fourth quarters combined. Previously it had been announc ed that 150 U-boats were destroyed in the second and third quarters of 1943, a total greater tjjan the number of Allied ships lost by sub marine action. The troops under Vatutin cut the Smela-Khristinovka railway at Yarovatk. 80 miles southwest of Smela, the bulletin said. Another railway between Khristinovka and Vinnitsa was severed with the cap ture of Voronovitsa, 13 miles south east of Vinnitsa. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) Soviet Drive To Turn Both Ends Of Bug River Defenses Is Brewing By KIRKE L. SIMPSON Associated Press War Analyst A climatic Russian effort to turn both ends of the Bug River de fense line before German forces all but isolated in the Dnieper Bend seems to be brewing. Success would mean entrapment in Russia of anywhere up to a million Nazi troops. It would ex pose Rumania and the southeast ern flank of the Nazi defense front covering the Balkans to swift Kus sian penertation, and would go far to confirm the conclusions of gloomy German broadcasters that the decisive battle of the war in Europe is being fought now be tween the Pripet Marshes and the Black Sea. From Berlin comes the first word of an indicated Russian move to couple a two-way drive from the south at the Nikolaev anchor of the Lower Bug line with the many pronged Red attacks to the North. Nazi bulletins told of a Russian amphibious assault beaten off at is Ochakov, 40 miles southwest m Nikolaev at the mouth of the lake, like Dnieper-Bug estuary. Moscow had nothing to say about this. An attempted Russian land ing at the point to take Nikolaev in the rear would be a logical companion piece for a surge at the same objective across the fro zen Lower Dnieper, however, The Nazis have been expecting that ever since they abandoned their bridgehead opposite Kherson on the lower Dnieper. Ochakov to the southwest and Kerson to the southeast line about the same distance from Nikolaev, Lower Bug metropolis. It is about 40 miles to the indicated Russian objective in each case. Nikolaev itself lies on the east bank of the Lower Bug. It is the southern transportation hub of the whole Dnieper bend. Lost to the Germans, it would leave their southern flank in the bend much (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) “ *v*v* r--a lines of persons were reported there all of Sunday. Before the establishment opened Monday morning the dealer said, a great many persons were seeking coal. Another dealer reported that 40 tons of coal were carried away from his coal yard Sunday in ev ery type of vehicle, including baby carriages. Most dealers report they are a week to 10 days behind in deliver (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1)
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