/ *C Served by Leased Wire of the ^ ASSOCIATED PRESS TUET f-- ^BPPr P IIM^S I Ot _^^|3H|p\n WtlfO _ —-— ^TfrOd twianr > —The Allies < have expanded the beachhead c south of Rome in drives which c have placed British troops within ^ 18 miles of the Eternal City and Americans within light artillery range of the vital point of Cis terna, 14 miles northwest of Anzio ( and 33 miles from Rome, Allied ^ headquarters declared in a special ^ announcement this afternoon. It was probable that tonight the 1 din of battle was sounding in the ears of the inhabitants of Nazi held Rome. The British advance went three miles beyond Carroceto where a railway bridge 18 miles south of Rome was captured. “Light ar- • tillery range” in connection with J Cisterna, might mean anything from small mortars with a range of a few hundred yards to a 75 millimeter field gun, so it was not known here just what this position was. But it was considered cer tain the Germans were unable to use either the air field, the Ap pian Way or the railroad in the area. Cisterna is on both the Appian Way and the main rail line to the Cassino front which intersect there. Allied air forces have been bombing German gun positions there, indicating the enemy has made it one of his strong points in the fight to contain Allied am phibious forces. Cisterna also has an important airfield, * with .con crete runways 1,100 yards long, hangars and workshops. The air war over Ttalv reached a new peak of intensity in which Allied planes of all types flew 1.500 sorties and blasted 37 enemy planes out of the skies against a loss of five Allied aircraft. It brought the Allied two-day total to 87 Nazi planes destroyed. The heaviest air fights broke out over the beachhead where Allied fight ers in six hours knocked down 21 out of 100 German planes which attacked invasion fleets landing reinforcements and supplies. The British advance 12 miles within eight miles of Castel Gon north of Anzio placed Allied troops dolfo, summer home of Pope Pius XII and brough up the possibil ity of the fighting damaging papal or church property. Since the invasion of Italy all Allied troops have had standing orders not to use church property as military cover and to avoid damaging religious shrines wher ever possible. However, the Ger mans have used church steeples as boservation towers and forti fied other property. It is impos sible to swing the battle around such places and they must be taken as any other objective unless British and American soldiers are to pay a heavy price in lives. On the main Fifth Army front the French recaptured two hills north of Mount Belvedere against (Continued on Page Two; Coi. 3) SYSTEMCHANGED BY DRAFT BOARDS WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.— ® — Local draft boards grappled today with the doubly-difficult task of overhauling their Selective Service machinery without slowing the flow of about 600,000 men into the armed services in January and February. Major changes effective Tuesday provide that: 1. No registrant shall be induct ed until he has passed a thorough physical examination by Army-Na vy doctors at least 21 days pre viously. Under the old system the examination was given at induc tion. Pre-induction physicals were ordered by Congress. 2. Registrants 18 through 21 years old no longer will be granted occupational deferments unless en gaged in farming, or unless a State Selective Service director certifies that a man is necessary in industry. Deferments in effect before Tuesday will run their course but will not be renewed. College stu dents will find deferment more dif ficult under the new regulations. Biggest headache for draft boards is the vast change-over to pre-induction physical examina tions. Throughout January the boards had to furnish about 300, (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) City Is ‘Definitely Interested’ In Purchase Of Tide Water Power At a special meeting held in hty Hall. Saturday morning, the hty Council went on record, unan mously, as being “definitely in erested in the acquisition of the iroperties of the Tide Water Pow r company lying within New Han ver county, provided such pur hase could be made on the basis f a fair value.” No specific figure was named in he statement issued by the city fficials at the close of the session. “After mature consideration, the ouncil was of the opinion that he plan of purchase, winch has ieen tentatively outlined, would in volve an overall purchase price < greater than the local body would be willing to pay, and would < amount to a price in excess of 1 the real value of the utility,” said City Manager A. C. Nichols. ] The positive decision' reached 1 Saturday was the result of several conferences in which there had , been discussed the possibility that the Federal Government’s Rural , Electrification A d m i nistration would finance the electrical facilities of the firm lying out side New Hanover county; other parties would finance operation of the gas facilities Outside the boun laries; and the city would acquire ill Tide Water facilities within the :ounty, together with control of he 110 KV lines that tie the sys ;em into the supply of the Carolina Jght and Power company at Ab lotsburg and Lagrange. It is understood to be the belief if the local officials that acquisi ;ion of the utility woull prove a lecided asset to the community :t has been the experience of other nunicipalities, it was pointed out jy Mr. Nichols, that city owner ship of utilities has generally re (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) m BOND SALES ARE ENCOURAGING ^orth Carolinians Have Purchased Over $18, 000,000 Thus Far WINSTON-SALEM, Jan. 29.—Re ports of sales to individuals in the Fourth War Loan drive were de scribed as "very encouraging” by C. T. Leinbach, North Carolina War Finance chairman, in a state ment today. According to informa tion received by Leinbach, sales to individuals through January 28 totaled $13,900,000, including Series E bond purchases of $13,000,000. “North Carolina’s overall quota is $126,000,000,” Leinbach said. “This includes all types of bonds. The larger type bonds, however, are dated February 1, and for that reason reports of these orders have not yet been received.” Included in this overall goal, he said, North Carolina has a quota for individuals of $70,000,000. As a part of the seventy million quota for individuals, this state has a series E quota of $44,000,000. "We have a job before us in which complacency and overcon fidence havn no part,” Leinbach asserted. “It is not unwise to say, however, that these reports are en couraging. The drive is getting added momentum every day, and our campaign organizations are getting into the swing. All workers have the same goal—every indivi dual a purchaser to the best of his ability.” Campaign workers are anticipat ing a week of intensive work ahead. _v__ PEOPLE ‘UNITED’ IN 4TH WAR LOAN WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.— UP) — President Roosevelt said tonight that the outpouring of American dollars in the Fourth War Bond Campaign Will serve notice that “we Americans are irrevocably united in determination to end this war as quickly as possible in the unconditional surrender of our ene mies.” In a midnight broadcast, the chief executive coupled his War Loan appeal with an expression of gratitude to the thousands of citi zens who are contributing their dimes and dollars in the fight against infantile paralysis. As a participant in an hour’s radio program. “America Salutes the President’s Birthday,” the President contrasted the care of children in this country with that of the handicapped in enemy coun tries. “In Germany and Japan,” he said, “those who are handicapped in body and soul or mind are re garded as unnecessary burdens to the state. An individual’s useful ness is measured solely by the direct contribution he can make to the war machine—not by his serv ice to a society at peace.” WEATHER FORECAST NORTH CAROLINA: Partly cloudy east, mostly cloudy west portions, with occasional light rains in mountains Sun day. Mild temperature. Cloudy, not quite so cool Sunday night. Partly cloudy to cloudy and slightly warmer Monday. (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., yesterday. TEMPERATURE 1:30 am, 64, 7:30 am, 57, 1:30 pm, 69, 7:30 pm, 64. Maximum 72, Minimum 56, Mean 54, Normal 47. HUMIDITY 1:30 am, 79, 7:30 am, 93, 1:30 pm, 28, 7:30 pm, 26. PDFriPITATTOV Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 pm, 0.00 inches. Total since the first of the month, 3.13 inches. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) Red Armies StrikeTo ward Estonia In Surprise Move LONDON, Jan. 29—(/P)— ?he Red army’s mammoth offensives today thrust west ward from Leningrad to the own of Zagoritsi, 22 miles rom the old Estonian border, cap ured the important rail hub of Jovosokolniki 230 miles south of jeningrad in a surprise attack, ,nd struck the last Nazi shackles rom the Moscow-Leningrad trunk >y seizing Chudovo, junction 73 niles southeast of Leningrad While these great northern bat les for communications raced ihead, with more than 80 towns iberated during the day, the Ger mans pressed bitter counter-at :acks in the Ukraine. For the firsl :ime in many weeks the Russian communique acknowledged with Irawals from some populated pla ces east of Vinnitsa and north oi tChristinovka. Berlin admitted that Nazi forces aad pulled out of Smela, advance rail point in the invaders’ narrow ing corridor to the middle Dniepei River, and told of a vigorous new Russian onset driving a wedge in German lines In lower White Rus sia between the Berezina Rivei and the Pripet Marshes. On the Leningrad front, the So viet communique, broadcast from Moscow and recorded by the So viet monitor in London, said a column driving southward along rhe railway towards Luga and Pskov, captured 60 big guns ir routing a German artillery force and freed more than 30 towns. Another Red army columr thrusting westward towards Narva ivas within 22 miles of old Estonia that group seized 40 towns. Premier Marshal Stalin announc ’d the capture of Novosokolniki ir an order of the day to the Red ar my commander of the Second Bal tic front, Gen. M. M. Popov. The city is the junction of the Lenin jrad-Vitebsk and Moscow - Riga •nilwavs and was a German strons joint. The Rusians now are withir 70. miles of the old Latvian border A previous Soviet feint in thai sector early this month threw the Germans off balance and preparec the way for the great Leningrac offensive. Novosokolniki is just lc miles west of Velikie Lukie, whict the Russians captured Jan. 1, 1943 md where they then were stymiec of the German defenses more thar a year. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) GOVERNORSSEEK SEATS IN SENATE WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. — (TP) - A half dozen or more governors ir widely scattered sections may stei out as candidates for the Unitec States Senate this year, a survey o: the 33 Senatorial contests indicatec today. Twenty-two Democrats and 1: Republican seats will be at stak< in the November voting, with 2! incumbents — including 18 Demo crats and all 11 Republicans—like iy to stand for reelection. Thre< Democrats, Senators Gillette o Iowa, Reynolds of North Carolin: and Walsh of New Jersey have sai< they would not be candidates ant a vacancy exists in the seat of thi late Senator Van Nuys, Indian! Democrat, which Samuel D. Jack son of Fort Wayne is to fill unti November. Jackson was appointed Frida; by Gov. Henry F. Schricker, thi only major state officer elected b; the Democrats there in 1942, am the governor himself may ente the race for the Democratic nomi nation. Out in Missouri, where Senato (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5 TOKYO CONCEDES RABAUL ‘DOOMED’; - f More Than 400 Enemy I Planes Shot Down There ! So Far This Year ! i By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Press War Editor Rabaul is doomed, Tokyo radio conceded today as General Douglas MacArthur reported more than 400 enemy planes have been destroyed at that New Britain fortress this month. “We cannot hold even the slight est optimism” for Rabaul, Tokyo admitted in a broadcast for home consumption. Between 23 and 29 out of 40 de fending fightt i < were shot down by American bo.. vers and fighters raiding Lakunai airdrome Friday. This brought the month’s total to approximately 420 knocked out. Six American planes were lost in that attack but heavy bombers making a later sweep on a nearby supply dump encountered no inter ception. Two direct hits sank an enemy cargo vessel at nearby Ka vieng, New Ireland. Tokyo radio brushed aside the in creasing American bombardments of the mid-Pacific Marshall is lands, on the eastern wing of Ra baul, as a diversionary action. Whatever encouragement Tok yo’s broadcast may have had for Americans was offset by a sober ing House Military subcommittee report declaring “long and even longer casualty lists will be a rude awakening to the realization that victory is yet to be bought and at a heavy price.” The Japanese “are tough, their defenses are deep and strong,” added Lieut. Gen. Alexander A. Vandegrift, commandant of the Marine Corps. ! Chinese troops were pushing back Japanese patrols in nothern Burma and spreading out into jun gles. Allied planes raided Burmese targets from Rangoon in the south to the Hukwang valley in the north where the Chinese were opening a pathway for a new road to China. In nearby Thailand Japanese were reported forcing prisoners of war to build a military railroad to southern Burma. Maltreated prisoners — whites and orientals alike — a Chungking report saM, died by the hundreds and were “buried where they fell like dogs.” Tokyo radio dismissed disclos ures of Japanese brutality toward war prisoners as “a mere recur rence of the enemy’s vicious propa ganda.” WHITE/ftTNOTED EDITOR, SUCCUMBS EMPORIA, Kas., Jan. 29.—(A1)— William Allen White, who grew in to a journalistic giant in his home town, died today. He would have been 76 years old February 10. The world-famous editor of the Emporia Gazette had been in de clining health for more than a year. He underwent an operation at Rochester, Minn., last October, but failed to imnrove. At his bedside were his almost equally famous wife, Sally Lind say White, and his son William L. White, himself a writer of note. White died on the 83rd birthday of his native State while Republi can notables were gathering at To peka, the capital, for the annual (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) OVER 800 FORTRESSES Greatest Armada Of Amer ican Bombers Ever Sent Into Action LONDON, Sunday, Jan. 30. —(£>) — More than 1,800 tins of bombs were hurled on Frankfurt, Ger many, in daylight yesterday by more than 800 U. S. Flying Fort resses and Liberators—the greatest armada of heavy American bom bers ever sent into action. They and their fighter escort, totalling more than 1,500 planes, shot down 102 German fighters, it was announced in a joint commu nique early today from U. S. head quarters and the British Air Min istry. Thirty-one U. S. bombers and 13 fighters failed to return. The bombers airmen themselves shot down 60 enemy planes and the escort pilots 42. The big German manufacturing ana transport center, was ueiugeu with high-explosives, incendiaries and propaganda leaflets. The bomb tonnage was the great est ever reported for an American raid. The Americans flew an 800-mile round-trip by daylight to deliver their blows less than 12 hours af ter the RAF’s night fleet, attack ing in unusually great strength, handed Berlin its thirteenth hea vy bombing, the second in two nights and according to Swedish reports one of the most damaging of the war. The leaflets the Americans drop ped on Frankfurt were copies of 1he Atlantic Charter printed in the German language. The attack re verberated through Frankfurt for hours afterward because the bomb loads included delayed-action high explosives. With the two attacks on Berlin and the one on Frankfurt, the Al lies in a little more than 38 hours staggered the German homeland with three crippling main blows and in addition engaged in a num ber of secondary mine-laying and oombing operations whih were ex ceptionally widespread, the entire effort involving probably well over 2,000 planes. The RAF, flying “in very great strength,” probably 800 planes— kept their bombing “well concen trated and large areas of fire were observed,” the Air Ministry an nounced. Forty-seven of the big bombers v/ere lost. Swedish dispatches reported great fires raging in the Ger man capital after the two nights of assault, and one report said the great Templehof airport ap parently was knocked out. The authoritative British Press Association speculated, however, (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) *7 CARRIER FORCES BLAST MARSHALLS PEARL HARBOR, Jan. 29— W —Admiral Chester W. Nimitz an nounced that Pacific fleet carrier forces made attacks today on the Marshall island bases including Maloelap, Watje and Kwajein atolls. No further details were an nounced in a brief communique concerning those invasion - men aced bases in the mid-Pacific. It is presumed United States forces have launched a major heavy attack against these air and shipping atolls. The Marshalls have been hit for more than 20 consecutive days by Seventh AAF and Navy planes but this believed the heaviest and most concentrated assault yet de livered. The Marshalls have been pound ed almost daily since shortly be fore the invasion of the Gilberts Nov. 20 when regular raids were i begun in order to neutralize the Marshalls. These islands were hit twice be fore by carrier forces, which in , eluded a heavy concentration of torpedo planes, divebombers and ; fighters. ! The first was Jan. 30, 1942 from | Adm. William Halsey’s task forc es in a daring raid. It was the 1 first United States offensive in the " Pacific since Pearl Harbor. * The Marshalls were hit heavily last Dec. 4 by task forces. ' Admiral Nimitz communique was ■ incomplete. A full report from at ' tacking ships and details probably 1 will be forthcoing tomorrow. : The text of the communique: “Pacific fleet carrier task forc es have made attacks on Marshall r island atolls today, including Taroa, (Maloelap), Wotje, and 1 Kwajalein.” • v,