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IFORECAST I REMEMBER I PEARLHARROR | AND BATAAN I - - . jp! VOL 77.—NO; 55_______WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1944_FINAL EDITION_ESTABLISHED 1867 \ First Group Of Air Wacs Arrives In Hawaii For Service "■ - The first contingent of Air-Wacs assigned to the Central Pacific arrive in Hawaii for duty, and leave their debarkation point for their new quarters. They will work with the Air Transport Com mand. relieving men needed further out in the Pac ific. (AP wirephoto from U. S. Signal -Corps) Return To Free-Enterprise After War Is Urged By Noted Southerner - *-* - Way To Speed End Of War Is Suggested By Noted Economist Here A new way to speed the end of the war was proposed by Dr. Gus Dyer in a post-war address before a joint meet ing of the Wilmington civic clubs Thursday. Dr. Dyer suggested that members of the WAC be sent to me various trouts, into line firing line. "Ih? enemy will fall in love with them, and after that, the end will be quick.” DDT ESTABLISHES NEW OFFICE HERE The opening in Wilmington of a traffic registration bureau for heavy duty trucks in over-the-road service, effective Monday morning, March 27. was announced Thurs day by G. T. Musselman, district manager, Office of Defense Trans nnrtatinn The bureau is a part of a new program designed to gain full utili zation of heavy duty over-the-road trucks by requiring empty and partially loaded trucks to register with the Office of Defense Trans portation in order to get a full load before making a trip. Under the new program, regis tration facilities will be establish ed at all ODT district offices, of which there are 24 in the southeast end 142 throughout the nation. Five such offices are located in North Carolina, at Wilmington, Raleigh, Charlotte, Winston - Salem and Asheville. Upon registration by a common carrier of an empty or partially loaded truck, the ODT district manager may direct him to accept and transport freight which has been registered with the district office, or, if the truck is empty, the carrier may be required to lease it to a contract carrier or another common carrier. Partially loaded trucks operated by private and contract carriers will not be registered, bu* empty trucks* of each carriers must be registered and may be leased to other car riers at the direction of the ODT district mana^i. In order to get full loads, trucks may be required to travel a slight ly greater distance than originally contemplated. In the event a carrier’s empty or Partially loaded truck is not neac 3h ODT district office, he is still required to communicate with ship pers nr other carriers in the vicini ty if he is a common carrier and with other carriers if he is a pri (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) 4B’ And ‘B-l’ Gasoline Coupons To Be Invalid For Use After March 31 WASHINGTON, March 23—GP)— The Office of Price Administra t!on announced today that “B” “d “B-l” and old-style “E” and “ ’ gasoline coupons will be in valid for use by the public after March 31. "B” and “B-l” coupons have yyt been issued since Nov. 30, 1943, while the old “E” and “R” “ckets have not been issued since °«. 1. 1943. . A few with expiration dates later than March 31 may be ex tfianged for new coupons at local ration boards, OPA said. DR. DYER HEARD HERE '4 Lauds American Business For Leading Nation Through Its Struggles An appeal for an immediate re turn to a system of free enterprisi following the war was made Thurs day by an outstanding Souther) economic writer, speaker and oni time-Vanderbilt university profes sor. The speaker, Dr. Guss W. Dyer chief of the speakers bureau o the Southern States Industria Council of Nashville, Tenn.,. toll his listeners that “the only wa; we can come back with America) industrial progress is by restor ing constitutional free enterprisi and by putting the responsibilit; of the come-back in 'American busi ness leaders under constitutiona Drotection.” Dr. Dyer, who appeared througl the courtesy of the Associate! General Contractors, Charlotti branch, spoke before a joint meet ing of the Wilmington civic clubs at which various outstanding gov ernmental and civic leaders weri present. The only way America can d< anything in the post-war period i: to go back to the constitution which is the basis of all Liberty in the United States, Dr. Dye said. The attempt of government tc protect and guide business, not en gage in competition with it, hi said adding that under the leader ship of business, free America! enterprise has advanced farthe: than any other nation, and that t< continue this advancement in th< post-war world, business leaders not the government, must bi counted on to continue this grea advancement. “Under constitutional protection business leaders, in cooperatioi with local and state government: may be counted on to plan anc open the road back to America! prosperity. Ui^der this plan, job: will be creat^ff for millions tha will enable them to retain thei; independence and self respect ii taking care of themselves and thu: do their part in building up a! invincible system of American in dustrial progress.” Under the leadership of business the South, following the Civil War went from rock bottom to the top creating industries and wealth, ii only two short generations, am if the government had interferred and attempted to give the orders ssyin^ how ^he South could ad vance again*‘we would probabl; still be at W bottom where wi were after taB war,” he declared The attem* to government t( run business was compared by Dr (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1 Population Of 150,000 j, Seen For Wilmington In Post-War Period * Wilmington’s post-war planning committee should plan now for a city of 150,000 after the war, Dr.. Gus Dyer, noted Southern econo • mist said Thursday at a joint > meeting of Wilmington civic clubs. “North Carolina has always tak i en the lead among the Southern : States, and if it continues as it • has, many new industries will be concentrated here after the war. , Many of them will come to Wil E mington, and this city should see l to it now that it is prepared when I the industrial revolution comes,” ’ he said. i The entire industrial structure of • America must be rebuilt after the ; war, because it is too centralized now, he said, adding that imme ' diately before the war, the trend ^ was toward decentralization, and after the war it will be even more 1 so. The man who looks to the fu • ture now, and makes plans for this expansion will be the one to succeed, he predicted. \7 _ BERRY IS HEARD INC \PLIN CASE • LOS ANGELES, March 23.—(A**— Auburn - haired Joan Berry told a Federal jury today she had been ■ sexually intimate with Film Actor : Producer Charlie Chaplin on num • erous occasions both in Beverly i Hills and New York City. The silvery thatched comedian, i on trial on two charges of Mann i Act violation by allegedly trans porting her to New York City for ! immoral purposes, slouched in a : swivel chair at counsel table with hand to face and stared stonily at her with never a flicker of emo 1 lion. 1 Joan never glanced his way. The attractive, Detroit-born film 1 aspirant told a jury of seven wom 1 en and five men her alleged in - timacies with Chaplin were con tinued in a New York hotel after 1 he had arranged for her to meet 1 him there in October, 1942. 1 Serious - faced, she told of her hopes of film fame, of being placed under contract to the producer’s 1 studio, and of a night when she 1 broke into his Beverly Hills home 1 through a window carrying a gun, [ the subsequent meeting with Chap lin ending, she said, in another in ♦ n OT7 A crowd of 250 hushed specta ’ tors listened intently. Miss Berry was clad in a light blue wool coat : with narrow black collar, a brown dress, a string of pearls, black ’ high-heeled pumps and carried a large black bag. Her slender hands the nails lacquered red, often flut ■ tered to her face in a gesture of confusion when she tried to re member some questioned matter. As the prosecution’s star witness the 24-year-old unwed mother was cross - examined rigorously by Chaplin’s lawyer, Jerry Giesler, -V President’s Head Cold Is ‘Decidedly Better’ WASHINGTON, March 23—UP)— Ihe head cold which has kept President Roosevelt within the residential quarters of the White House for four successive days was described as “decidedly bet ter” today'by Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, presidential physi cian. Again today the chief executive worked in his study but had no formal engagements. Russians Penetrate 37 Miles In Big Push Toward Tarnopol; e 1,500 Planes Assault Germany : 27 U. S. BOMBERS LOST' Nazi Air Force Comes Up In Strength To Give Battle To Raiders LONDON, March 23—W)—Strong forces of American bombers, fol lowing up a record 3,360-ton bombardment of Frankfurt by the RAF last night, carried out a sweeping series of daylight at tacks against five other German targets today, shooting down at least 20 enemy planes as the Nazi air force came up in strength in Vta+flo Twenty-seven American bomb ers and six fighters were tost as the U. S. Eighth Air Force used probably more than 1,500 planes in bombing rail yards, war factories and air bases in northwest Ger many. It was the 13th attack against German targets in March and the sixth strong blow in nine days. It was the 18th operation for the month for the heavies and equal led the record set in February— indicating that the record number of daylight attacks made in one would be easily exceeded by the end of March. The Germans had no tiime to recover from the daylight opera tions before air raid warning were sounded in the Reich against RAF night attackers. At 9 p. m. the Berlin radio warning system broadcast: “A number of nuisance raiders are over northwestern Germany.” U. S. Strategic Air Force head quarters announced strong forma tions of Liberators and Fortresses hit: The railway yards at Hamm; an air station at Achmer; a bomber base at Handorf: a war factory at Muenster and the Messerschmitt production center at Bruns'' ..ck. This was the first time the Ger I (Continued on Page Two; Col. Z) -v_ HULL TO EXPLAIN FOREIGN POLICY WASHINGTON, March 23.—UPi Snowy-haried 72-year-old Cordell Hull has picked up a challenge flung by critics of administration foreign policy and begun a cam paign in support of his work as Secretary of State which, may prove to be one of the dramatic personal undertakings of this poli tical war year. 'The secretary served notice at a press conference today that in a forthcoming speech, the time of which is to be announced later, he will give the country specific in stances in which the 17 basic points of his foreign policy apply to cur rent world problems as well as set up ideals for future interna tional security. Tomorrow the secretary will meet with 24 Republican represen tatives who are regarded as sup porters of a polic; of international cooperation but want to know what the Roosevelt administration has done to implement such statements of principle and ideals as the At lantic Charter and the Moscow Declaration. Yesterday Hull talked with mem bers of the Senate Foreign Rela tions Committee. That was less than 24 hours after he had met critics who claim that the govern ment lacks a foreign policy with (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) Local Shipyard Has Lowest Cost Per Ship Of Any Firm In U. S. WASHINGTON, March 23— (/P) — Commander Arthur D. Rydstrom, head of the Mari time Commission’s price rene gotiation board, told a House merchant marine subcommit tee today that since the board’s establishment $184,840,000 had been returned to the govern ment under commission con tracts. Testifying at an investigation of reports of excessive profits by operators of wholly govern ment owned yards Rydstrom said 1,556 Liberty ships were delivered up to last November 30 at a total estimated cost of ?>»,3Si,iSi5i»,uiw. rne average profit to the contractor, he added was 5.5 per cent after renegotiating and after taxes. The North Carolina Ship building Company, at Wilming ton, N. C., which he said had the lowest average cost per vessel, earned an estimated profit of 1.4 per cent after re negotiation and taxes. CASSINO BATTLE IS STILL RAGING New Zealand Troops Are Fighting At Edge Of Italian Town ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Na ples, Mlarch 23.—UP)—The latest phase ol the bitter struggle foi Cassino, Nazi stronghold defending the Roman valleys, raged through its eighth day today with battle weary New Zealand troops still fighting at the town’s southern edge and other Allied forces cling ing stubbornly to several hard-won heights west of the town. No important change of position had been reported since Tuesday when German parachute troops were disclosed to have recaptured the wreckage of the Continental Hotel. Some of the most desper ate fighting swirled about the rums of the hotel and several nsaiby buildings, five Nazi tanks having been destroyed in that locality. The enemy threw two strong counter-attacks against Castle Hili. an intermediate peak only a few hundred yards from Cassino’s western edge, yesterday, but each t'me was thrown back with heavy losses. French artillery repulsed two other Nazi stabs near Monte Castellone, three miles northwest of Cassino. German artillery and mortars emplaced in the hills maintained a heavy fire on Allied positions and tried hard to destroy bridges that Fifth Army engineers had thrown across the Rapido River east of town. Despite all Allied efforts of the past two months to break through into the Liri Valley — and these have included five fierce attacks on the ground and the greatest tactical air assault in history— the Germans still hold the Cassinc gateway firmly. The town’s natural defenses per mit the Nazis to hold it with a comparatively small but determin ed force. While they have been bringing up fresh soldiers—some could be seen moving up a road in the distance today—there is no information here to support rear area reports of great German re inforcements in Cassino. .-:___—----*--i Jap Column Drives 60 Miles Inside India In Surprise 24-Hour Action By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Press War Editor A new Japanese column drove 60 miles inside India In a surpris ing 24-hour invasion, Allied com muniques reported today, even a: American planes ranged widelj against enemy fortificafions anc transportation from the Central Pacific to Indo-China. _ Nine small Japanese ships anc 23 self-propelled barges were de stroyed in an air smash at We wak. where for weeks Allied bomb ers have been clipping the wing: of Nipponese air power on New Guinea. Two hundred tons oi bombs wrecked parked planes buildings and heavy guns along the New Guinea coast from Wewal to Aitape. The newest expeditionary force Tokyo has sent into India, formec the lower arm of a pincers move ment directed against Imphal oi the main road from India to Bur ma. Each column is 30 miles away from the town, one on the south and the other on the east. British army officers regarded the sudden Japanese thrust light ly. Enemy forces facing the town would have to be considerably en larged, they said,to break through onto the Imphal plains. The purpose of the Japanese thrust was obscure. They cut across the border almost midway between the main Burmese thea ters. Their objective, Imphal, is 175 milep by road from the supply line feeding Lt. Gen. Jpseph Stil well’s Chinese—American—Indian forces in North Burma. The Chinese were reported driv ing *down the Mogaung Valley, : against bitterly resisting enemy . forces, toward the Myitkyina-Man ■ dalayjrailway. i Berlin radio quoted a Tokyo dis patch as saying Japanese in north Burma had “quickly taken all measures to wipe out” small American airborne units that land ed back of the Nipponese lines east of the railway. The broadcast said the landings had been under way “since the beginning of March,” China-based Mitchell bombers raised havoc with Indo - China’s narrow gauge railway, including destruction of three locomotives. Liberators in the Central Pacifip set fires in warehouse and dock areas of Ponape and Kusaie, out posts of the Truk fortress in the eastern Carolines. Other bombers and fighters made the customarv daily attacks on four Japanese held atolls in the eastern Marshall islands. Fires were left blazing by South Pacific raiders at Vunakanau, one of Rabaul’s five airdromes. V Nazi‘Bullying’ Campaign Is Launched In Balkans LONDON, March 23.—(IP)—In a desperate demonstra tion of Nazi power, Adolf Hitler, holding Hungary under his thumb, today launched a campaign of bullying the oth er southeastern European nations into a stand-or-perish po sition with Germany against the onrushing Red Army. -•'A A st.rnncflv snnnnrt.pH Ankara rp RED CROSS DRIVE PROGRESSES HERE One-Third Of Quota Be lieved Subscribed Here; Speed-Up Asked ■ While unofficial reports are lacking, it was believed Thurs day night that the local Red Cross War Fund campaign was progress ing nicely, and possibly a thrid of the quota had been subscribed. The first audit of the 1944 Red Cross War Fund drive reports on( Wednesday showed that Wilming tonians have set a stout heart to a steep climb, having contributed nearly one - fourth of the $75,000 quota. Divisional chairman meeting in Red Cross campaign headquarters to submit figures- of the first of ficial financial response express ed confidence tlfat their groups will reach assigned quotas before the scheduled end of the drive on March 29. J. Q. LeGrand, campaign chair man, issued at the same time an urgent appeal to heads of business firms to speed up -solicitations among employes so that substan tial reports can be made by the end of the week. LeGrand request that all workers submit reports to their captains and that captains turn in reports before 4:30 p. m. Friday. Something to remember: Don’t put things off today, put them over! -V AP PHOTOGRAPHERS WIN NEW YORK, March 23—(^—As sociated Press staff photograph ers won three of eight first prizes in* the ninth annual competition of the Press Photographers As sociation of New York, Inc., the organization announced tonight. port said that German troops be gan the formal occupation of Ru mania early today. Telephone communications between the Ru manian capital of Bucharest and Sofia in Bulgaria were interrupted. (A London broadcast said a dis patch from Switzerland declared that Prince Cyril of Bulgaria and Regent Bogdan Philov “have been ordered to the headquarters of Hitler next Monday.” This broad cast was reported by CBS.) Germany’s present moves ap parently were designed to stem the rising tide of peace sentiment in that section of war - weary Europe and prevent—temporarily at least—a repetition of the disin tegration which led to Germany’s downfall in 1918. Even as Hitler rode herd over Hungary through a new Quisling premier, there were indications •that all Nazi satellites were be ing given the choice of providing complete military cooperation un der Nazi direction, or of being oc cupied by Nazi troops. Some London quarters main tained the Hitler pressure could only delay and would not prevent the ultimate collapse in the Bal kans. It was elsewhere indicated that Hitler was preparing to “kidnap” Rumania to shore up his tottering edifice. There were widespread rumors that Premier Ion Antones cu had been summoned to Hitler’s presence as Admiral Nicholas Horthy, regent of Hungary, had gone before him. solonITtowai h LEND-LEASE POW R WASHINGTON, March 23.—(.¥1— Backed by the Foreign Affairs Committee, a move started in the House today to give Congress watchdog power over the Presi dent in final settlement of Lend Lease contracts. This authority was written into the bill extending President Roose velt’s lend-lease program for an other year beyond June 30. The revised bill was ordered reported for action by the entire House. The committee conceded that it may be the fuse for a pointed argument and so a vote probably will not be sought until after the Easter vaca tion. The amendment is phrased this way: That extension of lend-lease is not to be construed to give the President any authority to “as sume” obligations on the part of the United States without establish ed constitutional procedure, in oth er words Congiessional review. Rep. Wadsworth (R.-N.Y.), who sponsored the change, explained in a statement that it assures “a proper and workable relationship” between the Congress and the White House in any final settle ment of a lend-lease contract. -V DUTCH VESSELS WASHINGTON March 23—f/P)— Henry J. Kaiser announced to day he would construct some time this year 30 coastwise cargo ves sels for the Netherlands Indies government at Kaiser’s Yard No. 4 at Richmond, Calif \ SMASH INTO KOVEL' _ I 43 Mile Advance By Soviet Forces Is Reported III , Old Poland i - ! LONDON, Friday, March SI.-* j UP)—The Russians today announced 1 a 37-mile-deep breakthrough in thg stubbornly - defended TarnopoJ hinge area of the eastern front, and Berlin reported that other Red army forces to the northwest in a 43-mile advance deep inside old Poland had broken into the towa of Kovel on the main road to Wa*» saw. The smash into Kovel, on which * the Russians were silent, carried the swift-rolling Russians to a point only 33 miles from the Gerw I man-Russian partition boundary established in 1939—the line front which the Germans invaded Rus» sia June 22, 1941. The Russian announcement of the big Tarnopol breakthrough came 24 hours after Berlin had reported the offensive, describing ! it as a powerful flanking maneu- ! ver to the south to meet Russian forces on the Dniester. Such a thrust could trap large German forces pocketed to the northeast up as far as the Vinnitsa area. The Russian daily communique broadcast from Moscow disclosed that the First Ukraine Army had driven directly between the hard : German cores of defense at Tar nopol and Proskurov and sw*:led right and left in maneuvers de signed to encircle those cities and thus smash the pivot pins on which the Nazis’ Ukraine forces depend. With Tarnopol already cut off on the north, east and south, the Russians said they had taken 32 miles of the railway running south, from a point three miles south of the city to the junction of Kop chintse, 35 miles south of Tarno pol. Besides Kopchintse, captured railway stations included Trem bovlya, Nikoltsy and Grzhimalov, plus 200 towns and villages taken in the past three days, the Soviet Communique stated. The Russians made their great est effort in the area south of Tarnopol without withdrawing any strength from other sectors of tho flaming southern front, where1 their offensive rolled forward again today through another 115 settlements. Apart from the Tarnopol break through, the most striking an nouncement was the Soviet ad (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5)] TEXASGOVERNOR RAPS ROOSEVELT MUSKOGEE, Okla., March 23. —(#)—Senator W. Lee O’Daniel of Texas, in a speech attacking new dealers “from the President on down,” declared tonight the tax payers were being smothered un der a public debt that would reach $10,000 a family before the war«, ends. He attributed this “staggering burden” to asserted mismanage ment of domestic and foreign af fairs by “the dynasty in Wash ington” and appealed for a return to “sane constitutional government through election of men of abili ty—not political parasites.” The Texas Democrat spoke at a rally of Republicans and anti new deal Democrats backing Re publican E. O. Clark against Dem ocrat William G. Stigler in next Tuesday’s second district Congres sional election. The campaign, watched nation ally as a barometer of 1944 polit ical sentiment, will be climaxed Monday with the appearance of Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, the Senate majority leader, who will talk here for Stigler. “What America needs most to day,” O’Daniel asserted, “is a thorough housecleaning in Wash ington—a housecleaning from cel lar to attic.” NOTICE Your Star-News Carrier is striving to give you better service. If you should miss your Star please call Star News office before 9 a. m. and one will be sent you by. special messenger. Your carrier cays his papers at a wholesale rate and sells them retail to his subscribers. He will naturally be better sab isfied if he makes the maxi mum amount from his route Please have his money read] when he calls to collect on Sat urday. t ‘Tough’ Policy For Draft Deferments Agreed U pon WASHINGTON, March 23.—(A»)— The Army, Navy and WPB have agreed on a “tough” policy under which occupational draft defer ments for men under 26 will be approved only for skilled person nel in a highly select group of industries, it was reported today. While the list is subject to change, the industries now on it are landing craft, synthetic rub ber and 100-octane gasoline plants, tires and tubes together with plants making tire cord, fabric and molds, hign tenacity rayon, certain airplanes, certain types of radar, certain submarine plants, and plants making a secret weap on. The plan may mean continued deferment for about 40,000 of the 250,000 men under 26 now deferred because of their occupations. A letter informing manufactur ers of this decision and advising those in the select industries how to go about seeking deferment for employes has been drafted by C. E. Wilson, chairman of the pro duction executive committee, a group made up of representatives of the War Production Board, the Army, and Navy It has been held up, however, pending a final re view by all patties concerned. The industries chosen for WPB Army-Navy support of deferment for key workers do not include some juch as certain steel plants which " have protested vigorously that their war production will be seriously injured if they must give up men under 26 to the armed servces. Two branches of the aviation in dustry, transport and engine man ufacture, also have protested that more than a fourth of their tech nical workers are under 27 years of age. In a report to Wilson and Army and Navy air chiefs, James P. Murray, president of the Aeronau tical Chamber of Commerce, said 27.4 percent of the engineers in (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) i
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