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c-rred by Leased Wire of the _ ... ___ ^ __ ;SS0CIATED PRESS TUC UITWC C CENTS Complete Coverage I W~ HI VI EVERYWHERE State and National News * ® ___-____® ^ ■ _L !-■ :rr-- AM® PILBAgftJ-ftElfr __ ..-NOjtf----» WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1944___FINAL EDITION_ESTABLISHED 1567 Big Armament Job May Delaj Reconversion 0,000,000 Worth Of «eW Plants Planned To Boost Shell Output IRUG "GIVES”VIEWS jinnee Against The Japs Causes Revision Of V-L Day Cutback Plans BV STEELING F. GREEN WASHINGTON, Dec. 2— U) - Tne armament task now in sighl , letard reconversion for some “me after Germany collapses, Wai production Board Chairman J. A. %mi said today. He made that observation in dis cing that §500.000,000 worth ol w plant construction is planned " boost production of shells for infantry mortars. The drive meanwhile to get lag »in» production programs of othei war implements up to the pace needed to meet the demands ol all-out war on two major fronts iS jawing ‘-excellent progress.” Knie told a news conference. New Workers Kew Workers, he said, are en terfng war plants in “encourag jjjg" numbers. The unexpectedly rapid advance a:a:::;‘ Japan, piling new Pacific demands atop the heavy require neats of Europe, has caused the Antov to revise its V-E day cut' back plans. Kurg said. Tentatively, the War Departmen has submitted estimates of antici pared contract cancelh ms ap preciably lower than the 46 pet cert estimated last summer, Kru; explained. The estimate is bourn # danse again from time to time uctll the Nazis actually quit, tej said. Bat if the Army’s present esf mate holds good, the WPB chie ctuiiittaed, these modificatidhs wil have to take place iti WPB’? ail Bounced program to give industry virtually a tree hand after victory in-Europe day: !, Instead of entering ur.limitei production, the automobile indus try and some other large lines o civilian production must be plac (Continued on Page Two, Col. 4) -V-1— I UR BOND MOVIE I PLAN ADVANCEI ■ 1 . T ■ High School R.O.T.C. Wil I Give Concert Before '■ Program Tuesday feXew Hanover swelled its Wa ■-an accomplishments yesterday t ■ 600.000, !e»ders announced the ■ P*eParations for the local premie fl ™*n5 of “Frenchman’s Creek' ■ - ct™ec’.ion with the campaign ■ f'-aring completion. 9 “6 motion picture will b 9 !sf,n a* the Bailey theater at 9 J™* Tuesday night to stimulat 9j;tsa‘e °f U. S. Treasury secur; 9 '5j1®' Admission to the pre ■ ;1:i;anci Only showing of the mo\ 9 Js. Maturing Joan Fontaine an ■ “lJro de Cordova, will be by put I j“*se °i a Rond of any denomim ■ .^•Ttigei'C Laycock’s H. O s’., ’ “and from New Hanove 9 JL s“°o1 wi’-f give a concei ■ ’ e tna theater for 15 minute 9 10 ,ne showing of the movi< 9 °n‘p 1 “00 seats are avai ■ tne Bailey, bond leader 9 L-ft “out tiiat the purchase < ■ icl, °ndaj morning will ensur I m;erPportURlty to attend the pr. 9isj?s ma” be bought from an 9 tibitirm ag,ent in the c»ty and e: liCa PolhfiTl at the Baile; M “■ Rc: al or Bijou theater ■ ^tmued P;lse Xwo Co,_ 3) ■ \ . - — ' Jap Stamp Act _--- . .. j The four Philippine stamps shown above, smuggled out of the islands by an exchange prisoner, show how the Japanese appropriated Philippine postage for their own use, obliterating all references to the U. S., and in one instance (top stamp) employing a surcharge reading: “Congratulations—Fall of Bataan and Corregidor—1942.” NINE PERSONS DIE IN AUTO ACCIDENT Five Others Injured When Vehicles Collide West Of Morganton MORGANTON, Dec. 2,— UP) — . Vine persons were killed and five injured, three of them critically, when two automobiles collided | head-on early today eight miles . west of Morganton in one of the , worst highway accidents in North Ca: olina history. Doris Jean Shook. 16, daughter ‘ of Mrs. Ada Long of Morganton. [ who made her home in Glen . Alpine with her grandmother, Mrs. ■ Ida Shook. Harold Moran Hull, 25, of Mor garton, and his brother, Richard l Mull, 18, of Glen Alpine, sons of - Mr. and Mrs. Baxter M. Mull of E Glen Alpine. Pfc. John Thomas Shuping, 24, home on furlough after three over seas trips with an army hospital ship, son of Mrs. Alice Shuping of Rt. 1, Morganton. Warren B. Merrill, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Merrill of Rt. 1, j Nebo, who was recently discharged ' from the army after a year over seas. Charles Benefield, Jr., 16, son of [ Mr. and Mrs. Charles Benefield of Glen Alpine. Pvt. Raymond A. Shouppe, 20, home on furlough from Camp Shel (Continued on Page Two, Col. 4) i ELKS WILL HOLD : MEMORIAL RITES 8 Departed Members Of - Lodge Will Be Honored At Program Today i Deceased members of Wilming - ton lodge No. 532, Benevolent and Protective Order oi Elks, will be - honored at Memorial services this r afternoon at 3 o’clock. The princi t pal speaker will be the Rev. J. F. s Herbert, pastor of Grace Methodist • church. I- Exercises, similar to the one to s be held at the local lodge’s temple f on South Front street, will be con e ducted at the more than 1,400 Elk i- lodges throughout the country, ac cording to H. N. Hayden, exalted y ruler. This afternoon’s program calls for prayer by Chaplain E. W. Hal s leek, followed by the singing of the (Continued on Page Two, Col. 3) N* C. Shipyard To Note Launching Anniversary ■ sir.cH‘'a anniversary of the first ■ toiiii‘g,of a 'hip by the North H='obil: ,J!pUll,ding company will 9trWill,- ea :lL~- 6 with Mrs. Rog -r,Ir'3' ’ of the president ■ rap:'ny' christening the U. at *y‘s o'clock in the ’ °^'cialo of the yard an I Cterd£y ■ p'V1" an- attendants will be Hw K\HalSe>‘ and Mrs. L. K. H Ca , „of Wilmington. Hilaban,, ly hor'Or of a county in WMh 3. the vessel will be the ^B'ie igj\;°mhct cargo type and j, down the ways ■hs 1'., '■ Zebulon B. Vance ■!Pan L h«J on the eve °f the ■ Thev.LrUiC!; on Pearl Harbor. J; a. one of North Carolina’s greatest war-born industrial plants has launched and subsequently de livered a vessel on an average of every 5.7 days since the first -slide into the Cape Fear river. During tnese years there have been two change-overs in production, first from the Liberty, of which it built 126, to the C-2 type and later to the present AKA’s. The S. S. Vance, named in honor of the state’s Reconstruction period governor, was sponsored by Mrs. J. Melville Brougnton, North Caro lina's first lady, during a program that formally marked the return ol shipbuilding to Wilmington after an absence dating back to the days (Continued on Pasrc Three; Col. 4) I 74 Mes Of Austrian Line Stage Great Breakthrough On 110-Mile Front In West Hungary SEVER RAILROAD Speed Up Bank Of Danube To Within 47 Miles Of Budapest By RICHARD KASISCHKE LONDON, Sunday, Dc. 3.—(A’)— Russian motorized troops, in a great break-through on a 110-mile front in western Hungary, yester day raced to within 74 miles of the ore - rich Austrian province of Sty ria, and also sped 30 miles up the right bank of the*Danube to within 47 miles south of imperilled Buda pest. Over-running 300 localities south and southwest of Budapest, Mar shal Feodor I. Tolbukhin’s Third Ukraine army also cut the Buda pest - Zagreb - Triests trunk rail way and hurled the enemy back onto the flat plains 28 miles from strategic Lake Balaton guarding the southeastern approaches to Austria. Attack Dunafoldvar Berlin, describing the break through as “tragic,” said Soviet spearheads moving up the Danube’s west bank already were attacking Dunafoldvar, 43 miles from the Hungarian capital. In Czechoslovakia Col. Gen. Ivan Petro’s Fourth Ukraine Army stabbed to within two miles of the big northeastern Hungarian rail city of Satoraljaulhelv, cutting that city’s railway link with Kassa (Kosice) in eastern Slovakia, and also severad the Satoraljaujhely Cemerne highway as it moved (Continued on Page Three; Col. S) -V YULE SEAL SALES AMOUNT TO $1,787 Result Of First Week Of Campaign Is Termed 'Very Gratifying* The New Hanover tuberculosis Christmas seal sale netted $1,787. 35 during the first week of the campaign, Dr. John C. Wessell, chairman of the drive, announced yesterday. “The results of the drive thus far are very gratifying,” Dr. Wes sell said. “The return of 1,&12 ol the 10,00(5 letters dispatched tc New Hanover homes, with almost $2,000 contents, is a good indica tion that the people recognize the seriousness of tuberculosis and in tend to give their money to fight the scourge.” Because of the enthusiastic start of the drive, Dr, Wessell predict ed that citizens of New Hanovei county “will see us through tc complete accomplishment of out $8,000 goal.” In New Hanover white schools last week a total of $203.26 was realized from the sale of double barred tuberculosis Crosses, arc this reports is not complete as two schools have not yet reported Neegro school students are sell ing Christmas seals and the re turns are expected to be good. Under the sponsorship of th< Sorosis, a seal booth will be open ed December 6 in the postofficc and operated daily thereafter until Christmas. As further efforts to inform th( public about tuberculosis, book marks on this subject have distri buted to the City Public library and, to all school libraries. Tuberculosis educational insert! are being distributed by the Bel Telephone and Telegraph com pany and the city’s laundries. -V WEATHER FORECAST North Carolina: Fair and not quit< so cold Sunday and Sunday night. Mon day increasing cloudiness with littli change in temperature except warmei on coast. Occasional rain in west. (Eastern Standard Time) (By TJ. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hour: ending 7:30 p.m., yesterday. Temperature 1:30 am, 32; 7:30 am, 27; 1:30 pm, 41 7:30 pm, 35. Maximum 42; Minimum 26; Mean 34 Normal 51. Humidity 1:30 am, 64; 7:30 am, 78; 1:30 pm, 29 7:30 pm, 34. Precipitation Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 pm 0.00 inches. ' ., Total since the first of the month 0.00 inches. Tides For Today (From the Tide Tables published b; U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey) High Bov Wilmington -12:19p ^ Masonboro Inlet- 10-Ha 3:49: Sunrise, 7:01 a.m.; Sunset, 5:03 p.m. Moonrise, 8:40 p.m.; Moonset, 10:18 am (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2 Patton’s Army Fights Way Into Saarlautern, Saar Basin Fort; Air War Boosted In Philippines - *__________* - RAIN HALTS FIGHT FOR ORMOC ROUTE Bombers Attack Enemy Air Bases In Central Part Of Islands By JAMES HUTCHESON GENERAL M’ARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS, PHILIP PINES, Sunday, Dec, 3.—{JP] — Aircraft traded vicious blows throughout the central Philippines, headquarters re ported today, as blinding rains again halted the biitei ground battle for Leyte is land’s Ormoc corridor. Japanese planes in force attack ed American positions along Cari gara bay, on Leyte’s northwesl coast. Other Nipponese bomber! raided American-held Morotai is land, in the Moluccas, a spring board for the Philippines, American bombers meanwhile heavily attacked imperial air bas es throughout the central Philip pines in new assaults to minimize the Nipponese aerial flank threa to Leyte. Crater Runways The strikes included anothe: blow at Legapsi airdrome on Lu zon island, where 27 tons of ex plosives cratered runways durinj a raid Wednesday. A tanker and a small freighte: were damaged in the other Visay an islands, and airfields at Davao Mindanao, were hit. Torrental rains again stallet ground troops iii the prolonget battle for Leyte’s Orr.'oc corridor The desperation of the Japanesi defense and these uncompromisinj rains have squelched America: hopes for an early en dto th< Leyte campaign. Yank columns to the north anc south of Ormoc inched ahead i: their drive to take that enemy held port, the main door for thi entrance of Japanese reinforce ments. (A Japanese communique re corded by the Federal Communi cations Commission bragged tha their air-borne assault troops ha< landed on the eastern or Ameri can-held side of Leyte a week ag< (Continued on Page Two, Col. 3) -V— FAENZA POSITIONS SEIZED BY ALLIES Nazis Continue Withdraw ' al Through Mountains Toward Po Plain ROME, Dec. 2.—VP)—1Two pos tions north and south of Faenz have fallen to Allied armies, heac quarters announced today, as th German withdrawal through th mountains toward the Po plain cor tinued in the face of threat against the enemy’s eastern flanl Indian troops of the Britis Eighth army seized strongly-d( fended Albereto, a village fiv miles northeast of Faenza, captui : ing 100 prisoners. The U. S. Fifth army, swingin across the Lamone river whic blocks the approaches to Faenz. occupied Monte Giornetto, 11 mile west, southwest of the city. This appeared to be a dividen of the German withdrawal fror the Apennines’ bulge betwee Faenza and Bologna to prevent er trapment should the British brea across the Lamone river on th east. 78th Congress Pointing To Final Bout With F. R. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.— UPI —A divided House Ways and Means committee report laid the ground work today for what probably will be the 78th congress’ final fight with the White House. It pointed up the disagreement in the committee itself over the administration-opposed proposal to block a scheduled doubling of so cial security taxes. The levy will rise automatically to two percent January 1 unless congress, as it has done thrice before, freezes | them. i The committee split 17 to 7 in reporting the bill favorably. The issue will be fought out on the ' house floor starting Monday. Unless there is a sharp‘tumov er in sentiment, the house and the senate will send to the White House a “freeze” order expected to draw a veto to enliven the wan ing hours of the expiring congress. Committee action on the social security tax was the house high light of a week that saw the leg islative program stumble forward through a hedge of controversies that seriously threatened the plan to adjourn by Dec. 16. Some members expected ses sions up to Dec. 23 and a few said it might be necessary to come back after Christmas. The senate spent most of the week passing the billion-dollai (Continued on Page Nine; Col. i. Finish Of A Jap Destroyer-Escort Off The Philippines | This dramatic photograph shows the terrific effect of a modern aerial bomb dropped at mast-head level by a B-25 bomber on a Japanese destroyer-esc ort near Ormoc Bay, Leyte. A second bomb (circle, left) is about to land on the after deck. Body of a J ap seaman (circle, right), blown from forward deck, hurtles hrough space. Gen. DeGaulle Confers With Stalin At K ?mlin - ---: IS FIRST VISIT ~ French Foreign Minister Talks With Molotov Prior To The Call MOSCOW, Dec. 2.—(iP)—Gen. De t Gaulle, who arrived in Moscow by L train today, was received by Pre ' mier Stalin tonight in his quarters ’ at the Kremlin. The French leader was accom panied on his first visit to Stalin by Roger Garreau, chief of the French diplomatic mission to Mos cow. 1 It was reported that De Gaulle, | after a visit of about four days here, may visit a volunteer French flying squadron on the east Prus . sian front. His aides said such a trip had been discussed but that arrangements were incomplete. Confer French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault conferred today for 50 minutes with Foreign Commissar * Molotov before De Gaulle’s visit to the Kremlin. B e French sources here said that De . Gaulle’s exchange of letters with s President Benes, restoring pre Munich relations between France ^ and Czechoslovakia, was evidence I. of his determination to build e French foreign policy toward Rus .. sia on lines which likewise would wipe out memories of the Munich agreements = The presence of Gen. Alphonse 1 Juin, chief of the French general ’ staff, they said, was not an indica s tion that the French leader’s Mos cow conferences would dwell pri ■* marily on military affairs. Poli 1 tical objectives were declared to 1 be uppermost in his mind. De Gaulle arrived in the middle ^ of a snowstorm. But his reception e (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) ACL Given Permission To Intervene In East Coast Reorganization WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—(£>) —The Atlantic Coast Line rail road was permitted to inter vene in the Florida East Coast reorganization case today in support of a petition to reopen proceedings for consideration of a new reorganization plan. Atlantic Coast Line told the Interstate Commerce Commis sion it favored a proposed plan by S. A. Lynch and Joseph van B. Wittmann, minority bond holder of the Florida East Coast Railroad, by which At lantic Coast Line would be permitted to purchase 60 per cent of the reorganized Florida East Coast’s stock. The St. Joe Paper company of Florida, owner of approxi 55 per cent of the Florida East Coast’s first and refunding bonds, opposes the Lynch-Witt mann plan. SWPB APPOINTEES’ APPROVAL IS SEEN Hill Forecasts Confirma tion Despite Republicans’ Objections WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.— UR —1 flat assertion that the Senate wil confirm President Roosevelt’s Sui plus War Property Board appoin tees came today from acting ma jerity leader Hill (Ala.) as Repub licans raised new objectons. Hill told a reporter there is ni doubt the militafy committee, o which he is a member, will approv next Week the nominations of for mer Gov. Robert A. Hurley of Con recticut and Lt. Col. Edward H Heller, former San Francisco busi ness man. He added that Senat confirmation is “assured.” But Senator Var.denberg of Mich igan, chairman of the Republicai conference, said the minority i prepared to fight on the ground that neither Hurley, wfio was de 1 feated in the Connecticut governor ship race Nov. 7, nor Heller, i qualified. Previously the Republi can steering committee headed b: . Senator Taft or Ohio had agrees ■ to oppose the appointments. “We are dealing with surplu property and not surplus politi , cians,” Vendenberg told a report ■ cr. "Congress doesn’t know any thing about these gentlemen—that’ • the tronhlf AMERICANS DOWN 28 NAZI PLANES Force Of 500 RAF Heavy Bombers Hit Benzol Plant At Dortmund LONDON, Dec. 2.—(#)—American fighter pilots escorting bombers raiding Coblenz shot down 28 Nazi planes today while a force of more tnan 500 RAF Lancaster heavy bombers hit a Benzol plant at Dort mund. The German planes were knock ed from the air by a force of almost 550 Thunderbolts and Mustangs oi the U. S. Eighth Air Force which encountered several formations oi enemy aircraft over the Bingen area, 25 miles southeast of Coblenz. Eight American fighters and 11 bombers were reported missing, bu1 six of the fighters were believed io have landed in friendly territory. The destruction of 28 German planes in a single operation main tained the pace of aerial warfare which cost the Nazis 636 aircraft in November. Target for the 250 American bombers was equipment massed ir the Coblenz railroad yards read} for shipment to German forces or the western front. One thousand tons of bombs were aimed by in strument through heavy clouds. An ti - Aircraft fire was meager. The Dortmund Benzol plant or which the British dropped a tre mendous 3,000 ton bomb load, had been producing fuel for Nazi ar mor opposing the British Second army in the Venlo sector. British Spitfires raked a V-2 stor L age site in Holland with cannor ^ and machinegun fire today anc ' destroyed a large motor truck and - trailer in the rocket - launching . area, the RAF reported. One plane v/as missing from this attack. POWERFUL FORCES ADVANCE^IN ROER Basin Gourged Deeply By Advances But River Is Still Great Barrier By EDWARD KENNEDY PARIS, Dec. 2.—</F)—Lt. Gen. Geqrge S. Patton’s Third* army troops fought their way deeply into burning Saarlau tern, Saar basin fortress and industrial city, today and to the north the U. S. first and ninth armies pressed ahead to the Roer river against the heaviest opposition of the winter offensive. U. S. Seventh Army troops wip ed out the last remnants ol the • German bridgehead at the ap proaches to the now demolished Rhine bridges in Strasbourg. Following attacks by nearly SO medium and light U. S. Ninth Air Force bombers which left Saar lautern in flames and tore open nearby Siegfried Line defenses, Third Army doughboys entered the Saar city at two points. The Am ericans then fanned out over most of that part‘of the city which lies nf fhp Saar river. Hold 14-Mile Front The 90th and 95th divisions, with elements of the tenth, armored division screening them to the north, now hold a 14-mile stretch along the Saar between Merzig and Saarlautern. The vital Saar basin has been gouged deeply by Third Army advances, but the river still is a barrier to the great er part of this heavily industrial region. The Germans apparently hope to make a strong stand along this natural line. The penetration into Saarlautern was made by the Ninth division in a three-mile drive which put advance units deeply into the city. Other divisional elements pushed beyond Alterweiller, three miles to the southwest, and entered the town of Bisten in the same area. Troops of the 26th infantry divi sion teamed up with Fourth arm ored division tanks and were fight ing inside of Saare Union, 12 miles south of the Saar border, where the Yanks are moving up the east bank of the Saar river in a poten tial outflanking threat to Saar brucken. In this area the Germans launched two of the fiercest coun- f terattacks yet made in the cur rent offensive, using 40 to 50 tanks. Fighter bombers came to the aid of the doughboys, knocking out e tleast six tanks and the attacks were repulsed. These attacks, however, did per mit the Germans to reenter Mack* wilier, according to field dispatch GS. To the north, at the edge of the Cologne plain, gains of yards were bought at a high cost of American blood ni the giant battle of attri tion that was entering its 16th day. (The U. S. Ninth Army occupied Linnich up to the river Roer to night and has captured Liefarth 1 between Beeck and Lindern, a late field dispatch said tonight.) Thus, virtually the entire Ninth Army stood on the west bank of the Roer after recapturing two towns lost yesterday. Fighting con tinued in Beeck, to the west, and before Lindern, now in American hands. The U. S. First Army tried to break across the Inde river after subjecting all but one pocket in that part of Inden lying on tht (Continued on Page Nine; Col. 2) , Crisis In Greek Cabinet ; Headed By Resignations ; ATHENS, Dec. 2.—CP)—A Greek > crisis over a British army procla mation disbanding guerrillas came - to a head today with the resigna 1 tion of all six ministers bel<»'.gmg 3 to the left wing EAM party. 3 Premier George Papandreou, ex - pressing regret at the resignations, ■ reiterated his determination to 3 stick to his task and called the cabinet into another session to* \ night. . . John Savgos, Communist minis ter of agriculture, stepped down, protesting what he styled “unlater al decisions” of Major Gen. Ron ald Mackenzie Scobie, British com mander of Allied troops in Greece. A spokesman for Scobie’s head quarters said British troops would take no action in the Greek politi cal situation “other than to main tain order and assist in the distri bution of relief.” He added that it was impossible to tell how the situation would de velop, but the country was gener ally quiet except for a few small incidents and armored cars had been removed from the Athens’ squares. (The Athens radio quoted Scobie as saying he would “stand by the side” of the present government until it had a national army and was able to hold free elections. (Continued on Page Three; Col. *> fie i
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