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. N sBRi ffitlmutgtmt iUnntutg | ■SS ypL. 77.—NO- 22 _WILMINGTON, N. C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1944 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867 Germans Bomb American, Hospital Lt. Sally Hocutt (left), Army nurse of Wendell, N. C., and Pvt- Marshall Floyd of Marshville, N. C., examine holes made by anti-personnel bombs in a large Red Cross flag on the ground beside an evacuation hospital near Nettuno, Italy, where two Germans nlanes dropped bombs killing 30 per sons. _ (AP Wirephoto via Signal Corps Radio) House Comjnittee Acts To Simplify America’s Income Tax Structure LOCAL EDUCATION LEADERS HONORED Roland, Grise And Hamil ton Are Cited By The NCEA At Meet Three New' Hanover county edu cational leaders were honored Monday afternoon by the North Carolina Education Association in conjunction with the National Edu cation Association for their out standing work in the field of edu cation in this area. Those who were honored were: H. N. Roland, New Hanover county superintendent of public in struction; J. W. Grise, district principal and assistant New Han over county superintendent: and T. T. Hamilton, superintendent of sec odary schools in the county and principal of New Hanover High School. Roland, New' Hanover county’s "beloved” superintendent, was made a life member of the De partment of School Administrators of the National Education Associ ation for his untiring efforts to "improve school conditions’’ in this county. Grise was made a life member of the Department of Elementary School Principals of the NEA while Hamilton was made “ luuuuci ui UiC juncut of Secondary School Principals. The presentations, in the form of Valentines, were made by Mrs. (Continued on Page Seven; Col. f) COLDERWEATHER IS KING IN N. C. CHARLOTTE, Feb. 14. — (JP) — An acute soft coal shortage was reported in the Charlotte area to day and supplies throughout the Carolinas described as only fair as the Piedmont shivered under sleet, snow, ice and cold raiii Temperatures generally were in the 20s M. L, Burtless, head of the Solid Puels Administration’s newly-es « Wished distribution agency here said low income families in Char mtte were threatened with a cri 'cal situation and remarked that ■he city was “probably in the Worst situation of any Carolina area.” Burtless added, however, that ' e SFA was taking steps to meet ne emergency, but he advised (Continued on Page Seven; Col.‘ 4) Full Production Seen Today At Army-Seized Fall River Factories /all river, Mass., Feb. —Army officials said °night they expected full pro duction to be resumed tomor >n seven army-seized tex ‘■e mills after today’s shifts ‘elurned to work to end a 02 daV walkout. h> voting to terminate the walkout last night, three inde Pendent craft unions, loom fix ®rs' slasher tenders and knot ,lers- said they were return ms to work without settlement °* their differences with the manufacturers but added they . d(m’t want the army to lose m Fall River any more than "e 'vant to see it lose in Italy or m the Pacific.” 1 Consolidation Of Various Levies Is Attempted By Group WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.— UP! — Proposals to drop from the Fed eral tax rolls appro-imately 9,000, 000 small taxpayers were brushed aside today by the House Ways and Means committee in its quest for ways to simplify income tax returns. The committee, however, took one step in the direction of sim plification, by voting to attempt a consolidation of the victory, nor mal and surtaxes wthout chang ing substantially the existing over all payments. The corwnittee’s staff of experts was given the task of drawing up proposals for the integration. The action lays aside, at least temporarily, a proposal by Rep resentative Carlson (R.-Kas.) that the government drop from the tax rolls those who pay the victory tax but whose income is not large enough to come under the regular income levies. A similar proposal was made by the Treasury last fall. Congressional sources expect the Treasury and probably some la bor groups to oppose the merger of the victory tax into the perma nent tax structure. Some groups contend the victory levy is a tem porary wartime tax only Chairman Doughton (D.-N. C.) said the Ways and Means group decided “to get as far as prac ticable as near the same amount as by the present law from each taxpayer.” Significantly, he emphasized that this did not mean Congress would consider this year no new propos als tor larger wartime revenue, but that so far as simplification is concerned the individual bur dens will remain the same, if this can be done. Meanwhile Congressional Demo cratic leaders were reported to have counseled President Roose (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 2) HOUSE LEADERS TALK VOTE BILL WASHINGTON. Feb. 14, — VP)— A leader^in each major party of fered today to meet the challenge •cheerfully” if the other side makes the row over the service ballot a campaign issue. Rep. McCormick (D-Mass), ma jority House leader, and the min ority chief, Rep. Martin (R-Mass) indulged in the exchanges over the relative merits of the Federal ballot versus the State ballot. Con ferees of the disagreeing House and Senate will meet Wednesday to seek a compromise. Martin told reporters that House •Republicans were prepared to meet the test if the Democrats should make a national campaign issue of the Federal ballot for sol diers, and he expressed confidence the public would support the Re publican stand for State ballots. ‘‘We would ' cheerfully accept that challenge,” said McCormick in an interview. “There is no rea son to disfranchise those soldiers who might not get a State ballot ‘n time.” Rep. Rankin (D-Miss), a foe of the Federal ballot proposal said: “Mr. Martin is certainly a brave man to come out and dare^ the De mocrats to put this bob-tailed, un constitutional Federal ballot pro posal in our platform. Mr. Mar (Continued on Page Two; Col, 2) CONFERENCE WORK ON SUBSIDY B1H FDR Expected To Vetc Any Measure Banning Price Roll-Back WASHINGTON. Feb. 14.— UPI - With the possibility of a presiden tial veto in the offing, the Housi turned over to conferees today thi job of polishing up legislation out lawing the administration’s pro gram of subsidy payments to holi down food prices for consumers Senate conferees have not as ye been named, but little delay is an ticipated once the conference goe to work. Both Senate and Housi have voted to halt the subsidies differing only on when it shouli be done. The House has voted fo a ban effective Thursday while thi Senate Bankhead bill outlaw them after june 30. The real showdown will come 01 overriding an expected presiden tial veto. President Roosevelt las year vetoed a measure killing sub sidies and most Congressmen lool for a repeat performance. Pre sumably the subject was discussei today at a White House confer ence of Congressional leaders. At stake in the controversy i the life of the Commodity Credi Corporation, which has made thi (Continued on Page Two; Col. X ■XT BOARD STUDYING HOME CONDITIONS In one of their longest sessions members of the New Hanove: county Board of Commissioner; Monday adopted a resolution ac knowledging various organization 01 the city who have offered as sistance in rectifying reported con ditions at the county home. At the regular weekly meetini the board held a lengthy discus sion on the institution. Bids wil be received for renovation of gut ters and pipes at the home. The board urged all responsible citizens to visit the county home and juvenile detention home, stat ing that it should be their interes to make such recommendations a they see fit for the betterment o conditions to the board. A letter was received from th Parish council of St. Jame Church, which stated that th (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 5 Eisenhower’s Helmet Other Articles To Be Auctioned At Rally NEW YORK, Feb. 14. — (IP) —Items ranging from a helmet worn by Gen. Eisenhower to a pink silk nightie donated by Stage Star Gertrude Lawrence, with her name embroidered on it, will be auctioned at a Kew Gardens War Bond rally Wed nesday, the U. S. Treasury announced tonight. Other articles to be bid upon include: An original music score donated by Conductor Arturo Toscanini. A hockey stick autographed by the New York Rangers. Tickets to sell-out Broad way shows. I British Bombers Join American Planes In Blows Against Nazis Threatening Italian Beachhead; Reds Capture Town Of Korsun; Rooke Invaded ON THE ROSS RIVER Core Of Resistance For 100,000 Nazis Re ported Taken LONDON, Feb. 14.—UP)—1The Red army today captured the Ukraine railway village of Korsun, the core of resistance for the remnants of ten trapped German divisions of perhaps 100,000 men who have fought with the ferocity of wounded beasts for 11 days. In announcing the fall of Korsun —on the Ross river 25 miles south of the Middle Dnieper—Moscow’s bulletin said, however, that large German relief forces attacking out side the annihilation ring west of Korsun had succeeded in driving ‘‘a small wedge” into Soviet lines at the cost o:' heavy manpower and material losses. On the northern front Russian troops captured several more lncal ites on a 70-mile front between Lu ga and Lake Peipus in their drive southward toward Pskov, less than 40 miles beyond Soviet spearheads. Pskov is the communications key to the Baltic territories of southern .Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and also is the feeder point for an ex posed Axis salient jutting 110 miles eastward from Pskov to Staraya Russa, on the south side of Lake Ilmen. In the vicious Ukraine fighting the Russians gave no indication that German tank and infantry forces outside the Korsun annihila tion ring would succeed in reaching their trapped companions. Moscow dispatches said instead that the capital expected to hear shortly another series of salvos from Mos cow’s victory guns signalling the final liquidation of the exhausted survivors of ten crack Axis divi sions in the biggest single German disaster of its kind since Stalin grad. The Germans trapped in the .Kor sun sector, 80 miles southeast of Kiev, apparently now hold a strip of territory only four miles deep on either side of the Ross River (Continued on Page’ Seven; Col. 7) -V CITIES FEELING ; FUEL SHORTAGE 5 - COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 14—(^P)— * The Ohio Feul Gas Co., pleaded [ tonight that all its consumers turn c off hot water heaters and cook " only one hot dish a day to help ‘ relieve a gas shortage that al ' ready has closed scores of indus 1 trial plants and thrown thousands of workers into idleness. E. M. Tharp, vice president and * general manager of Ohio Fuel Gas, said he could not estimate ! when the situation would improve. It came to a head as a wave of zero weather swept across the midwest Sunday and the demand for gas to heat homes became greater than could be supplied tvithout curtailing commercial us i ers. “Health reasons’ made it impos sible to cut off homes, rather than , industries, Tharp declared. The * fyrm serves virtually all of Ohio i except the northeastern section. . Tharp said pressure in some . areas was “low” and urged that (Continued on Page Two; Col. 8) Southwest Pacific Isle Occupied By Americans ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Tuesday, Feb. 15—(A>)—Rooke is land, which sits squarely in the center of Vitiaz Strait betweer New Guinea and New Britain, was occupied Saturday by American forces which met no opposition, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announc ed today. On the same day, American Marines pushed along New Bri# ain’s north coast to occupy Gorissi village, east of Cape Mensing. This extended the territory cov ered by the Marines since their landing at Cape Gloucester Dec. 26, which was followed four days later by the capture of the air drome. The Leathernecks are now 21 miles east of the airfield. The Japanese apparently had abandoned Rooke island, since the American force has reported no contact with the enemy. The Jap anese evidently considered their position on the island untenable after the Marines occupied the entire western end of New Britain. Long island, northwest of Rooke, also was occupied by the Amer icans the day the Marines invad ed Cape Gloucester, further en dangering the enemy’s position on Rooke. A headquarters spokesman said the position of Rooke island made it a valuable possession for the Allies, providing in conjunction with Long island control of both Vitiaz and Dampier Straits. JAPS BOMB KOI WASHINGTON, Feb. 14— <A>> — Japanese bombers have hit Roi island in the Kwajalein atoll of (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) REUNION IS HELD BY ‘OLD BRIGADE’ Annual Get-To-Gether And Banquet Of Company ‘A’ Is Lively Event Some were bald. Some were gray. Some couldn’t hear very well. Nobody ran upstairs. Time had had its way with them. But when the Old Brigade gathered Monday night for the 48th annual reunion and banquet not a member but thought it was yesterday that he was romping in knickerbockers in the cellar of the old Immanual church, where they formed the in itial membership of Wilmington’s Boy Brigade under the inspiring leadership of Col. Walker Taylor. Of course there were some younger men present, too. The Senior Fraternity had a table. And there were some who came along in time for Company B and Com pany C, when the Brigade Armory was built in 1906. And a smatter ing of invited guests. But the reunion was spiritually that of the veterans of Company A, the first group to come under the be nign influence of the organizer who, in a very personal way was with them through the gift of an oil portrait, the gift of Mayor (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) Lyon Goes To London To Help War Writers Plan For Invasion WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—(A5) —To assist American war correspondents in working out coverage of the European in vasion with Army and Navy officials, George H. Lyon, de puty director of the Office of War Information, has gone to London, OWI reported to day. Lyon, former chief of the OWI domestic news bureau, is acting as a personal repre sentative of OWI Director El mer Davis, it was stated. WAR BOND DRIVE iY REACH GOAL Officials Confident Han over County Campaign Will Be Success Expectations for New Hanover county reaching its war bond quota, $4,859,000 by tonight were expressed by officials Monday night. They announced earlier in the day that the sale of Series E bonds and rpme others will be in cluded in the Fourth War Loan campaign until February 29. Wilmingtonians have bought $4, 257,465.75 in~War Bonds, of which $1,196793.75 were of Series E. Fif ty-three per cent of the Series E goal of $2,234,200 has been achiev ed here and officials have predict ed the quota will be reached within the next two months. Tlie extension of the sales to Feb ruary 29, includes the Series E bonds, U. S. Treasury Savings Notes Series C, and Savings Bonds Series F. and G. It was disclosed from Washing ton Monday night that the $14,000, 000,000 Fourth War Loan goes into its final day still four per cent short of overall success and 34 per cent shy of the $5,500,000,000 quota set for individual participation. Treasury reports placed total sales at $13,450,000,000, of which in dividuals accounted for $3,611,000, 000. Corporation and other “big money” buyers bought $9,839,000, 000 worth of securities, or 116 per cent of theii quota. Although the drive ends official ly at midnight, war bond sales for the remainder of the month will be credited to the campaign, and continue^ emphasis will be placed upon efforts to reach the quota for individuals. C. T. Linebach, state War Fi nance chairman, announces North Carolinians have invested $130,300 100 in bonds to slide over the top in the Fourth War Loan drive. The state’s quota was $126,000,000. The total represents sales through Feb ruary 11. Frederick Willetts, chairman of (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 4) WAR BOND SALESPOINT The following, written by H. I. Phillips for his column in the New York Sun, is reprinted here in the interests of the Fourth War Loan campaign. The drive ends ; officially today. i I’m buying a bond for a freckled kid s Who lived down the street a way— f A boy with a dog just a while ago— s A name on a list today- ... ; I’m buying a bond for a barefoot lad 3 Who only a short time back , Was roniping the fields of the old home town., But died in a far attack! I’m coming across in the memory Of youngsters who left the town With laughter and jokes and their heads high To take on the scrappers’ frown; The kids who were down in the swimmin’ hole Or played in the high school snow— The boys who’d be out on the sandlots now . . . Except that it can’t be so! I’m signing for all I can take aboard; I though I had done my share Until in the home town sheet today I saw “Johnny Adams” there; He’d brought me my papers every night, A child on a bike bright red; He’s riding the path to the house right now, I thought. •, the lad is dead! I’ve read all the ads in tne war rsona anve, The work of the writers slick; But, God, when I think that it takes that stuff It leaves me a little sick; The picture of boys on a village green Or trooping across the mead Who now lie under a cross-filled field Is all that we ought to need. I listen to speeches o’er mikes galore That tell of the War Bond drive, But all t hear is the cannon’s roar— The whine of a power-dive; The speeches, the music, the ballyhoo— All leave me a little cold . . • For I know a boy who just died for me— And couldn’t be quite that old! A duty? A noble and handsome act, This taking of War Bonds? Bunk! Since when was investment on sure things A sacrifice? Scrap such junk! . . • I’m doing a painless and little thing; One sales point alone rings true! My debt to those lads from the old home town— Who, asked for their lives, came through! , H. I. Phillips* - Finns On Spot | With Finnish officials suggesting a peace term conference, Russia hammering at Helsinki and threat ening harsher blows and the U. S. State Department sending stern notes—many observers expect Fin land to be out of the war early in March. Numerals in black areas indicate territory which Reds in tend to claim at the end of the war. (International) _IT_ FINNISH LEADERS HOLD LONG MEETS Conferences Of Govern Ment Heads Are Re ported In Stockholm STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Feb. 14. —[S)—Finnish government leaders held long conferences throughout yesterday on the question, of peace with Russia amid plair indications that the government might fall on the issue, delayed dispatches from Helsinki said today. The dispatches, passed through Finnish censorship, said there was no official indication the govern ment had asked for Russia’s terms, or even was ready to ask iur terms. But Finland’s majority party, the social democratic party, was putting strong pressure on the gov ernment to act. “The situation as seen in social democratic circles was that for the present the only threat to the government rested with the deci sion whether to ask Moscow for peace conditions,the Helsinki dispatch said. “If no action is taken in this directon, it was said in responsible party circles, then the position of the social demo cratic party would become unten able and the government would be forced to resign.” Earlier, the Finnish capital was reported expecting concrete devel opments—perhaps an open bid by the government for Moscow’s pro posals—in the next day or two. (A Reuters dispatch from Stock holm, said it was believed Fin land’s aging negotiator, Juhu Pa asikivi, already had sent a Fin (Continued. on Page Two; Col. 3) dutchTirdrome POUNDED BY U. S. LONDON, Feb. 14—Ameri can Thunderbolt fighter-'Vimbers took over the offensive to whittle down German air strength today with a smash at the Gilze-Rijen airdrome, one of the Nazis’ main fighter bases in Holland, executing the swift attack without loss. The almost daily bombardment of Nazi installations in northern France continued meanwhile with out let-up, with RAF and Allied Bostons, Mitchells, and Mosquito bombers under Spitfire escort trixrintr pmnlflppmpnts there the 42nd daylight pounding in 56 days. RAF Typhoons joined the cross channel offensive, striking an enemy airfield and other military targets in northern France. All bombers returned from the attacks on northern France, but the RAF lost four fighters in the day’s operations. Vidhy radio said 25,000 persons had been evacuated from this Pas de Calais area to another depart ment of France. . The Thunderbolt fighters escort ed the B-47’s carrying bombs in stead of reserve fuel tanks to the usually heavily defended Gilze Rijen field 65 miles inland from the Dutch coast,^ but the assault was carried out' so rapidly that not a single German plane took to the sky in challenge. This base is used by the Ger (Continued on Page Seven; Col 6) I » i'r FIGHTING DIES DOWN Weather Clears And Allied Bombers Make Over 800 Sorties In Area ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AV giers, Feb. 14— UfI —British Well* ngton night bombers capable ol packing huge “block-buster” mis siles have joined American wa> planes in a devastating 'round-the clock assault against German forces threatening the Allied beachhead near Rome, it was dis closed today as ground fighting slackened in that rea. With the return of fair flying weather after 36 hours of stosm, the Allied air force smashed at the enemy in more than 800 sorties yesterday and last night, the two engined Wellingtons concentrating on Nazi reinforcemet columns and supply lies around Campoleone and Cecchina. near where the fight ing of the past week was hottest. The Allied line defending the beachhead was firmly held and re mained substantially unchanged over the weekend, a headquarters spokesman said. The ground was spongy from many inches of rain, impeding the use of armor by both sides. Such ground fighting as was re ported yesterday raged around the battered villages of Carroceto (Aprilia), 10 miles north of the Al lied supply port of Anxio. British troops, aided by tanks, recaptured an important, railway Driage wesi of the town, but the Nazis again fought their way into the buildings of a factory a half-mile east of Carroceto. These buildings now have changed hands four times in fierce fighting. An official announcement said American and British troops had captured well over 2,000 German prisoners in the beachhead fight ing since the landings on Jan. 22. The crack 715th German Infantry Division, which was rushed from France to join the attack, was re ported to have suffered such heavy casualties that its thrusts had greatly diminished in power. (Swedish press dispatches from Berlin said Allies forces on the beachhead possessed a big advan tage in armor and artillery and predicted they would open a heavy offensive to relieve their position shortly. The British were admitted (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 6) MONKSARETOLD TO LEAVE ABBEY By LYNN HEINZERLING WITH THE FIFTH ARMY AT CASSINO, Feb. 14—(A>>—Monks of the Abbey Monte Cassino and any ther Italians in refuge there were advised by the Fifth Army at 1 p.m. today to leave the premis es to avoid Allied shelling. “The time has come when we must train our guns on the mon astery,” said leaflets fired on Ab bey Hill by American artillery. Twenty-five 105 mm shells, each stuffed with 550 of the leaflets, burst in the air'over the monas tery, carrying the message to the inhabitants of the Benedictine Shrine which has been used by the Germans to hpld up the Al lied advance on Rome. For nearly two weeks the Fifth Army has attempted to seize the town of Cassino below and the rocky peaks around the abbey without' harming the monastery where the Benedictine order waf founded in the year 529. The rocky slopes of the Mon astery hill have been honey-comb ed with German machine-gun nests and sniper positions. The Monastery itself, one high officer explained, has been used for ma chine-gun nests and observation (Continued on Page Seven; Col 6) r No Sentiment In Mail To Servicemen Wanted By Gen. George Lull CHICAGO, Feb. 14— Iff) — iviaj. uen. ueorge *. tiun, deputy surgeon general of the United States Army, said to day “A soldier’s mail should not contain sentiment such as “I ean”t get along with out you’ or ‘When can you get home?’ and so forth, but shopld rather encourage him to get out and get the Job done.” The statement was made in an address prepared for the annual congress on meaicai education and licensure in which Lull declared causes of psychiatric casualties among fighting men “start right back here in the home territory,*
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