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Jap Warship Sunk and
Others Damaged In
Action Off Guadalcanal;
Destroyer Set On
Fire and Others-Forced
To Flee From Attempt
To Reinforce BunaGona
Area
Washington, Dec. 9.—Destruction
of one of one Japanese warship and
severe damaging of three others by
American dive bombers and torpedo
planes operating from Guadalcanal
island in the Solomons was reported
by the Navy today.
One ship was seen sinking and
the other three in flames the morning
after the attack on an enemy
force steaming toward Guadalcanal
on December 3, the navy said.
In addition the communique reported
that ten Japanese float type
planes were shot down during the
engagement which frustrated another
attempt by the Japanese to
reinforce their troops on Guadalcanal.
The action originally had been reported
by the navy department on
December 5, but at that time results
of the attack, in waters be•
tween Santa Isabel and New Georgia
Islands about 160 miles northwest
"of Guadalcanal, were not
known.
The navy announced results of the
action in communique No. 215:
(About 190)
South Pacific (all dates are east
longitude)*.
"11 The following report of action
amplifies the report of the air attack
on enemy surfaee forces which
was announced in Nuvy Department
communique Number 213.
"2. On December 8 an air striking
group of dive bombers, torpedo
planes anil fighters from Guadalcanal
attacked an enemy force of
about ten •cruisers and destroyers
approximately IK) miles northwest
of and headed for Guadalcanal.
"3. The enemy suffered the ^ following
damage during the attack:
"(a) Two 1,000-pound bomb hits
- on one cruiser.
"(b) One 1,000-pound bomb hit on
a second cruiser.
"(c) Two torpedo hits on a destroyer
(or cruiser).
"(d) Two possible torpedo hits on
a second destiuyei (or cruiser).
"(e) Ten float-type planes shot
down by United States fighters.
"4. One of the above vessels was
seen to sink on December 4 and
three other enemy vessels were
sighted in flames in the vicinity of
the previous day's action.
Report
Mi*s Leii» Higgs, General Chairman
of the Pitt County Salvage
Campaign Committee, today released
figure* covering the total collf "*ions
of scrap metal kt the City of Green?fl}»
and Pitt County for the months
MR September and October jnd for
the County Scrap Holiday on Wednesday,
November 4.
Total Collection* to November
1 1,797,1^1
County Holiday, (Nov. 4) 1,118,124
yffliK? ' '
Grand Total 2,815,315
k Vor the Countfupride Scrap Holidajf
jon November 4, aa weU as duri^he
months of September and
October, the Co«nty Schools served
as local points for the delivery of
gives tiie amount of scrap metal colIssted
by each ot those schools, including
the collection on the County
Scrap Holiday on November 4.
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
'
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 10.—You're in
the Army now, Mr. Jones. But . . .
which Mr. Jones? For there wet*
only 28,050 _ Mr. Jones' in the Uwt
war, so who' knows how tpany in this
one? John Jones doesnt help too |
much, tot there were thoussods of
Johns, and hundreds of those Johns
had wives named Mary, which wasnt
much of a help when the War Department
tried tracing down a Jones.
If you think there were a lot of
Jones', consider then the Johnstons,
63,200 strong, 2,000 of whom wen
named William. And the Smiths
with 61,900, among whom were 3,412
Willies; the Browns with 48,000;
the Williams, 47,000; the Andersons,
22,000 the Walkers, 18,500 and the
Millers 2^00.
What's in a name? Not much, according
to the Army records, if it
^sn't accompanied by a serial number.
And the War Department continues
to stress the importance of
remembering those serial numbers.
When you think of that man in the
service, think of his serial number,
too, for without it he might not get
his mail and you might not get your
allotment, according to Colonel John
H. Bush, Army Emergency Relief
Officer, headquarters, Fourth Service
Command.
Colonel Bush pointed out the marty
cases of mix-ups in allotment and
relief checks due to improper statements
of- names, serial numbers, rank
and addresses, and he stated that
much time would be saved the individuals
and the government if more
care were taken in these matters.
Turn Target
Of RAF Bombs
Rome Admits Heavy
Damage In Italian
Arsenal City
London, Dec. 9.—A flight of British
bombers which took an hour to
pass over the English coast made
the 1,200-mile round-trip flight over
the Alps to Tunin again last night
j4ind battered the home of the royal
arsenal city and the Italian Flat
works for the fifth time in a. month
in a mid which the Italians admitted
caused very heavy damage.
Only one plane was lost the
large force of Britain's most powerful
bombers which delivered the
attack. Premier Mussolini has already
ordered Turin cleared of nonessential
civilians. _
By both British accounts and the
admissions of the Italian high command
the bombing was one of the
heaviest yet made in the campaign
to blast Italy out of the war.
The Italians said the total of dead
was not yet known. They reported
that the single British raider shot
down plunged into the center of the
city, killing all seven members of
its crew.
This morning after the Turin
raiders returned other RAF planes
were heard over the southeast coast,
headed for new daylight offensive
patrols to keep up the day and night
pace of attack.
Reuters quoted a
to Moscow as saying Premier
solini had ordered "urgent
tion" of the entire civilian poolar
tin from southern Italy, west coast
regions and Sardinia, and had dedefense
zones,
for a force
the bomber
the authoritative
feyll 11.111
Russians Report
Gum Despite
| German'Attacks
pMi':.. 1; i -)
Nazis Making: Desperate
Effort To Reinforce
Threatened
Forces On Stalingrad
and Central Fronts
Moscow, Dec. 9.—Germany's armies,
trying' desperately to hold the
siege of Stalingrad they , laid down
106 days ago, are pressing mail
planes and training ships into service
in an attempt to holster their
threatened forces with reinforcements,
the Soviet army newspaper,
Red Star assarted today.
The Red Air force has downed as
many as 60 Junkers 62s in three
days, Red Star said. These are the
regular German troop and supply
carrying ships which the invaders
have been using to bring reserves
from as far as Germany itself, Red
Star claimed.
Even the Hamburg 142, mail
plane, has appeared on the front
for the first time, the Russians asserted.
including the enemy's shortage
of transport aircraft.
Trains and trucks were also being
used in an effort to pour help
through the narrow nutcracker oorridor
left to the Nazis at Stalingrad.
Southwest of Stalingrad, the Germans
hit Red Army flanks with
tanks and motorized infantry, and
at some points, Red Star conceded,
penetrated to the rear of Russian
units.
Russian tanks and motorized infantry,
aided by light armor-piercing
guns mounted on tanks, "generally
succeeded in restoring positions,"
Red Star said.
Within Stalingrad itself, Red Star
reported, Russians artillery shelled
the Germans with long range guns. !
Fighting in the narrow, wreckagestrewn
streets of the city continued
to''be confined to small groups, it
was said.
' The mounting activity of German
armor and planes was noted by Red
Star on the central front, too. In
the Velikie Luki sector, despite recent
snowstorms, Russian fliers shot
down seven Nazi bombers in one
day, dispatches said.
Newly spneentiKtod German reserves
were reported in violent
counter-attacks west of Rzhev.
But the Russians claimed that
they set hack three Nazi attempts to
take an important highway on the
central front, occupied four more
populated points in a still-developing
offensive and routed a battalion
in a prolonged struggle for one village.
While the Red Army's advance
generally had slowed on individual
sectors, particularly southwest of
Stalingrad, Soviet authorities asserted
their gains continued.
Bed Star, thft army's newspaper,
said that shock troops stormed German
front line trenches in one sactor
southwest of Stalb^jrad, killing
several hundred of the enemy kit
their advance. .
Engineers cut barbed wire barriers
and made a path in the mine
fields during-the night; artillery
blasted enemy pillboxes; <uid the
infantry then rushed the tranches
with a grenade assault, giving the
signal tor the general attack, it reported.
The Germans rolled big guns toward
the Russian. flank and fired
guns in a tank buried in the earth,
Red Star said, but the German resistance
was overcome.
The afternoon communique which
listed more thmr 1,300 of the enemy
killed in the night's fighting, i»ld
how Russians artillery pounded back
an attemf* by German i
infantry to flank some of
-in the lector southwest of
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Washington, Dee. 5.—The OWI announced
that the U. S. in the year
of 1942 will hare produced approximately
49,000 planes, 32,000 tanks
and self-propelled artillery, 17,000
anti-aircraft guns larger than 20MM.,
8,200,000 tons of merchant
•hipping, thousands of anti-aircraft
machine guns, and thousands of scout
cam and half-and full-track carriers.
Munitions and wa* construction were
"above the most optimistic estimate
of oar production possibilities a year
ago," and food production—a large
proportion of which was meat, milk,
eggs, and soy beans—was 12 percent
above the previous year.
Expenditures for the year for
munitions and war construction will
total $47,000,000,000. In the first
10 months at 1942, more than $13,000^0,000
were collected in taxes
and more than $33,000,000,000
through the sale of bonds and other
government obligations. Approximately
17,600,000 people are now
employed in war work—compared to
7,000,000 a year ago—but in 1943 an
additional 5,000,000 will be needed for
war work and for the armed forces,
by March 15, 1942, the cost of living
had risen 15 percent over the end of
J939, but price regulation, instituted
in April, held down the increases in
those prices subject to control -to
6/10 of one percent as of October 15.
Report On Pearl Harbor.
The Navy Department announced
that al lof the eight battleships in
Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941,
were hit, seven of them temporarily
disabled and one, the Arizona, permanently.
and totally lost Those reported
damaged had returned jto the
fleet, while others critically damaged
are being repaired and will soon
be ready for battle action. Of the
202 U. S. naval aircraft based at
Pearl Harbor, 150 were permanently
or temporarily disabled. Army
planes destroyed totaled 97. As a
result of the Japanese attack, 2,343
officers and enlisted men of the U.
S. services were lolled, 1,272 wounded,
and 960 are still reported as
missing.
The Navy estimates that 105 enemy
planes took part in the attack,
and that the enemy lopt 28 aircraft
and 3 submarines of 45 tons each.
The War Front.
Navy, Secretary Knox told a press
conference that Japanese troops on
Guadalcanal may -be running short
of supplies. The enemy's attempt
to land supplies and reinforcements
on the night of November 30 was a
complete failure, he said. At that
time a U. S. naval task force inter-!
cepted and engaged Japanese troop
transports and vessels and sank nine
ships—two large destroyers or cruisers,
four destroyers, two troop transports
and one cargo ship—at a loBsj
of only one U. S. cruiser.. The enemy (
will try again Mr. Knox said, but the {
November 30 attempt indicate* ceiwly
that the condition of the Japanese
on the island is becoming acute.
Navy communique throughout the
week reported 170 Japanese killed on
the Island, three planes downed and
one cargo ship hits The .Navy estimates
that 106 efwny planes took
part in the attack, and that the enemy
lost 28 aircraft and 8 submarines
of 45 tons each. '
The Navy reported live U. s. naval
transports were gunk by Axis
submarines during tin occupation of
North Africa in the etaiy part of
November, and during the operation
three other U. S. transports fine destroyer,
and <me tanker were damaged.
Reports showed that 216 Axis
planes and 10 tanks were destroyed
and a number of prisoners were captared,
with the Allies reporting 14
planes missing and five lost.
In a daylight raid on Naples .on
December 4 Allied heavy bombers
targets, scoring hits on one Italian
War services of North Carolina's
31 REA-financed rural electric system®
were described by E. D. Bishop,
Chairman of the North Carolina
REA Superintendent's Association in
a report to 6. T. Scott, chairman of
the State USDA War Board. The
Pitt k Greene Electric Membership
Corporation, Farmville, N. C., serving
Pitt A*Greene counties joined in
the report according- to D. T. Harris,
superintendent.
REA systems in North Caroina
now furnish electricity to 35,526
farms and other rural consumers in
66 counties, seconding to the report,
making it possible for farmers to
increase their food production with
leas farm labor. The report urged
that the state and county USDA
War Boards and similar groups sponsoring
programs devoted to the war
effort make use of units in performing
services vital to winning the
war, especially in support of various
campaigns such as the scrap drive,
in increasing food production for the
Food-for-Freedom program, and in
relieving labor shortages. The 860
REA borrowers in the country have
been designated by the War Production
Board to cooperate in the scrap
collection drive with USDA war
Boards and other groups.
The North Carolina cooperatives
are helping to alleviate the farm labor
shortage by encouraging their
members to make the fullest use of
electricity, the report said. Electric
pumping systems, feed grinders, and
other equipment save many hours of
back-breaking toil. Milking machines
and other elffctrical equipment
are proving great labor savers. on
dairy farms. Electrictric fuel stokers
are eliminating much hand labor
from heatfcig tobacco barns. Electrically
cured sweet potatoes top the
markets.
The report quoted C. E. Viverette,
superintendent of the Randolph Electric
Membership Corporation as saying
that more than one million chickens
are being raised on the farms
served by that cooperative, and that
most of them.are started under electric
brooders G. B. Morriss, member
of the Wake Electric Membership
Corporation has just installed
four electric brooders. Many of the
poultry raisers have equipped their
hen houses with lights to incresvs
winter egg production. ' : . - ;
North Carolina REA-fkrahced systems
are furnishing .power to important
war establishments in their rural
areas, among them air patrol star
tions, several army and sparine training
camps, cotton mills, war worker*'
housing and farm labor camps, besides
food processing plans filling
government contracts.
First Year of War
Hie Expense of World
War No. X, Cost The
United States A Total
of Only $40,583,062,000
Washington, Dec. 9.—One year of
war has coat the United States over
$46,000,000,000—more than the entire
cost of participation in the last
world conflict 28 yean agoStaggering
as, this sum appears,
it is dwarfed by latest budget estimates
of war expenditures for the
1943 fiscal year. Budget officials expect
these expenditures to amount
to *78,000,<X»,000.
gress declared a state of wat with
Japan, the treasury has Reported
Planes And Artillery
Blasting Enemy as Allies
Prepare For Renewed
Drive On Tunis
And Bizerte; Allies
Continue To Take
Heavy Toll of Axis
Supply Convoys
London, Dec. 9.—Heavy artillery
and steadily growing fleets
plane* were reportoa
Axis in the Tebourba area today aa
the Allies, secured by the repulse of
the enemy's efforts to recapture
heights dominating the battlefield,
apparently prepared for a biff new
drive on Bizerte and Tunis.
"American pilots an taking a
very active part in ground
tions," said a Morocco radio
cast quoting: what it called a
Allied headquarters communique.
The announcer added that
day fresh formations of
put into action," suggesting that
the Allied commissi badr-made
strides toward solving the shortage
of air baaea close to the hub of the
Tunisian fighting.
lie broadcast attributed to the
communique its report that "in t&e
Tebourba sector at the Tunisian
front Axis foveas' were aheUai by
heavy artillery after the saceasafal
Allied counterattacks."
In indicated alao that the Allies
were concfntating heavy land and
air forces, presumably to exploit
the advantage won when the
was forced to withdraw from
es he had sliced into the BritishAmerican
lines.
A communique direct from Allied
headquarters, however, reported a
.lull, with "activity in the forward
area yesterday . . . limited to patrolling"
after the battle for the
heights Sunday and Monday which
ended with the Allies still folding
their original positions.
The communique said the count
of- enemy tanks destroyed Sunday
had risen to 20- It alao said three
more enemy aircraft were destroyed
in recent operations, one of them at
night, and that "two mors of our
pines were lost but one fighter pilot
is safe."
The Italian communique
only the cursory report from Tunisia
that "bad weather
tivity on the ground and in the air.'
A Reuters dispatch from Rabat,
French Morocco, quoted Pierre Boisson,
governor general of Fnuch
West Africa aa saying that "Dakar
and the rest at French Africa intend^
to intervene against Germany with
their full strength as soon as we
have received materials and equipment
from America."
Boiaaon denied emphatically that
Dakar has bean u*d by the Germans
as a submarine base or tor any
purpose.
PROCLAMATION
Raleigh, Dee. 8.—A proclamation
calling upon youths of 18 to ragiater
for selective service waa issued yesterday
by Governor Broughton.
The Governor aaid "it ia contemplated
that this will be the teat official
registration."
Those born on or after July 1,
1924, but not after August 31, 1924,
an to register during the weak of
December 11-17; those bom on or
after September 1, 1924, but not
after October 31, 1924, during the
week of -December 18-24; and those
bore on or after November 1, 1924,
but not after December 81,1924, during
the period of December 26-31.
"During the continuance of the
w, thoae who wore born on or after
January 1, 1925," shall register on
the day they become 18, or the day
following if the birthday falls on
Sunday or a legal holiday, the proclamation
said.
Good Prices On
Burley Markets
Aahaville, Dec. 9.—The Asheville
burley otbacco market opened with
gopd prices today and growers expressed
pleasure with the way buyers
were digging into the crop.
The first 92 baskets totaling 12,539
pounds brought a total of $4,906J21
for sn average of 835.40 per
100 pounds.
■ The top price paid waa |65 par
100 pounds. Many badcMs sold over
(40 and few dropped below $20 during
the first half hour.
Turnafe Leaves
For New Duties
Tar Heel Marine General"
Praises State For
Role In War Activities
New River, Dee. 8. — Brig. Gen.
Ha) Tuxnage of Farmville," North
Carolina's only native general to
command a military poet within the
State, has left New River foe another
assignment elsewhere, after having
been here for the paat six months.
Before beginning his new duties, he
visited his wife for some time at
Wide Water, Vjl
"My tour of duty at New River,
with as fine a body of Marines .as 1
have ever known, and my rantowted
association with the homefolki of
the Old North State have served as
an inspiration to me to live up to the
highest traditions of both," the general
remarked this week. "I pray
that, in my humble capacity, -Kind
lYovidence will give me the strength
and fortitude to live op to the ideals
and traditions of our forebears. •
"In the Marine Corps we say,
'Owe a Marine always a Marine.'
In North Carolina we' say, 'I'm a
Tar Heel born and a Tar Keel bred,
and when I die m be a Tar Heel
dead.'; To me both am equally important"
h Because of his admiration for
"both the Marine Go/ps and his native
State, General Turnage says he
v«8 particularly proud to be on duty
with the Marines here, and he is
pleased that North Carolina is booomiqg
the greatest training cenUr
of the Marine Corps anywhere ia
the world, with a ground base at
New River, air station at Cherry
Point, and glider base at Edenton.
A graduate of the Uaive.-aity of
Announce
Tuberculosis
Pitt
Seal
Sal t
local
Dr. N. |
losis S«U Sato
County, .today
of the following
Chairman: . ™
Mrs. A. F. Rowe and Mr*. J. C.
Andrews, Ayd«w Mra. Mack G. Smith,
Bell Arthur; Mfs. Cormell G. ~ '
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