Advancing Steadily In
Drlye Bdowlwunis;
AO-Out Offensive Im
minent
London, Dec. 22.—French forces
bay* 1 Winched an attack toward the
Tunisian emt coast below Tunis and
are advancing steadily after having
armored vehicles and field guns, the
Morocco radio reported tonight;
Other reports said that, despite
more torratia) mine, the Allies
wen mailing in fins' battle array
all along the Tunisian front for a
grand assault to be coordinated with
an accelerated British Eighth Army
smash through western Libya to
envelop Tripoli and the Axis garri
sons in Tunis and Bixerte.
The Allied - controlled Morocco
station said the French had at
tacked southeast of Pont du Fahs, 30
, miles sooth of Tunis, at a point
within 30 miles of the Gulf of Ham
mamet and the coastal lifeline of
Axis troops moving to northern Tu
nisia from Sfax and Gates.
Quoting a French communisue,
the Morocco radio said that other
French forces farther south in the
region west of Kaairouan, 80 miles
below Tunis, captured new positions
yesterday and threw back repeated
Axis conuterattacks with ."serious
louses." - "
Fighter Sweeps.
Allied fighter planes conducted
sweeps over enemy advanced po
sitions in Tunisia yesterday , the
Morocco radio said, and raked
enemy motor vehicles with cannon
fire. Two Axis bombers were shot
down and one Allied plane is miss
ing. r I
A BBC report said it had been
. . "officially announced" that the Brit
ish First Army's concentrations on
the left wing of the Allied Tunisian
line were completed, while Ameri
can armored forces deployed along
the center and French colonials
manned the right.
Axis broadcasts aaid the Allies
already have launched tentative
thrusts, far stronger than the patrol'
excursions which have marked the
recent Tunisian fighting, but claim
ed they were' repulsed.
New torrential rains m the last 24
hours, described as the worst of
# the campaign to date, again have
turned the Tunisian battlefront into
a quagmire, keeping American fliers
aground and delaying the start of the
final push, unofficial reports said.
Since the start of tl^e North African
operation, 12 and one half inches of
rain has fallen, almost six times as
much as normal.
■ Will Take lime.
United States Lieutenant General
Dwight O. Eisenhower and General
Sir B. L. Montgomery oLtie Eighth
Army hare approved joint operations
against the Axis from west and east
even if they have not actually con
ferred personally, advices from North
African headquarters said. The dis
dis patches cautioned, however, that
the motto for the impending Allied
operations will be "take your time
and make sure of auccess.'f
Special Agricultural
War Courses Offered
Three special short courses to
train women and girls, and draft
exempt men and boyB for war-time
agricultural jobs will be offered by
N. C. State College, it is announced
by Dr. L 0.. Schaub, dean of the
School of Agriculture. The courses
will start January 16 «id will last
for time weeks.
Dean Schaub said thwt training
wffl be given in (1) Animal produc
tion, including the feeding and
management of all types at live
stock, including dairy cattle; (2)
meat cwtting and merchandising; and
(3) testing of milk and other dairy
Correcting notice of last week, the
Poat Office will bejipen just one
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nour Saturday morning, December
26th, from eleven *. m. tft twelve
Orthopedic Clinic
Greenville, Ian. 1st
We wish to, remind our readers of
tfce State Orthopedic Clinic to be
held Friday, January 1st, in Green
ville, from 12 to 4 p. m.
This Clinic takes-all types of alp
plea, both white and colored, free of
charge who are unable to afford
private treatments. It is desired,
though not required, that patients be
referred by a physician or the Wel
fare Officer, anS that the patient
bring such note to the Clinic.
The Clinic is set up to serve es
pecialfer the Counties* of Beaufort,
Carteret, Pamlico, Pitt, and Tyrol 1,
though patients from other Counties
who desire to oome may do so.
The Clink is conducted by Dr.
Hugh A. Thompson, orthopaedist, of
Raleigh, North Carolina. This Clinic
has been running for something over
throe years and is now serving a
large number of cripples, adults as
well as childro, in this ana.
The Pitt County Qealth Depart
ment Offices are located at the cor
ner of Third and Greene Streets,
Greenville, N. C., and it has recently
expanded its office facilities.
To Stop Issuing
B and C Cards
Washington, Dec. 22.—Issuance of
B and C gasoline nation books is be
ing halted for the next few days in
the 17 east cosst states while the
Office of Price Administration re
adjusts mileage tables to conform
with the new tmit values of the
coupons. The unit values in the east
were cut from four to three gallons
each over the week end.
Validity of the B and C books al
ready issued was not affected by
the onier temporarily halting the
issuance of new ones.
The Whiner creates 4teCOI%l in
life's chorus.
Allies Pushing
Japanese hto
2 Coastal Areas
— v :
Americans and Aussies
Consolidate Bona Posi
tions; Jap Targets
Bombed
With United, States Troops Some
where in New Guinea, Dec. 22.—
More than 100 pillboxes with many
Japanese dead in each one were left
behind today on Cape Indaidere as
American and Australian troops
pushed' the enemy into two narrow
ing coastal sectors with • combined
length of approximately five miles.
Sweeping inland from Cape In
daidere, which was captured Sat
urday in a fierce asaaalt, the Aus
tralians had advanced one mile to
Semini Clreek. Simultaneously, the
American* completed captors of the
new airstip at Bun» and its de
fending pillboxes.
The Japanese caught inside this
pressure apparently had withdrawn
to a point on the coast, where the
next big battle probably will be
fought.
The otter end longer Japanese
strip stretches from a point west of
Bona village, held by the Ameri
cana, te Cape Killerton beyond
Sananada to the northwest.
<£ OHorrte £Iet Jfe (Ahore JHi
Declares Henderson
Was Cruei&ed
By Politicians
Washington, Dec. 22. — Asserting
that administration leaders "cruci
fied Leon Henderson to appease con
gressional critics, 'Senator Brewster
(R-Maine) predicted today they soon
would be "praying for his return" as
price administrator.
Henderson has submitted his resig
nation to President' Roosevelt and
is expected to be replaced by Sena
tor Brown (D-Mich.) early *in the
tew year.
As Brewster spoke. Rep. Andre
sen (R-Mirm.) issued a statement
assailing what he called "discrimi
nation and bungling in government;
handing of gasoline and oil."
"One set of unfair and stringent
rules m the rationing of gasoline,"
Andreses said, "is causing a com
plete breakdown in es&ntial trans
portation."
"Another set of rules permits un
limited use of gasoline for the bu
reaucratic rule-makers, and for
thousands of government-owned
cars, engaged in non-essential
wo A," ->%- - ««
Andresen declared he had receiv
ed no reply to a letter which he
wrote Henderson on November 22
inquiring about the source of gaso
line which he said was used to fly
Mr. and Mrs. Henderson to their
New Jersey home in a private air
plane on election day.
While Henderson attributed his
resignation to poor health, Sena
tor Brewster laid it to "administrsr
tion inemtude in hisrh dIicm "
xie Diarnea frag irasp*a«u - oppoai
tion to Hendersagi on the latters'
failure to consult with senators on
appointment of local administrating
official* their homo states and on
dissatisfaction with price-fixing
"I know that in Maine he ap
pointed the moat eomp«**nt adminis
trator that^could be found in^Uio
SSe at his own health. *"*
At the same time Brewster said
most of his colleagues in the sem
THE HOME
FRONT
(Office of War Information)
(For Release Dec. 17)
Our economic strategy on the
Home Front is designed to advance
the war at the least possible cost to
civilians in discomforts arid disloca
tions of their normal ways of living,
but primarily K is designed to win
the war—at whatever cost In tte
process of adjustment to a strict
wartime economy certain items of
news which seem of minor import
ance become extremely significant
when examined in the light of our
largest strategy.
For example, between October 13
and November 17 the average fam
ily food bill rose by 1.2 percent. That
may appear to be a small rise in
retail food cost, but on November 17
every American family was paying
$1.31 for every dollar of average
food expenditure for the period
1935-39. During this Bame month,
prices, of foods directly under price
control rose but one-half of one per
cent, chiefly owing to reasonable
price adjustments made on the basis
of increased costs. But the prices
of the uncontrolled foods — mostly
fresh fruits, fresh vegetables ,and
fresh fish^-rose by an average of
6.6 percent, and'these foods were 21
percent higher than in May of this
year.
Individual percentages, however,
do not begin to tell the whole story
in the absence of price control oyer
rents, a great number of services,
and a very large number of items
of every description, the entire cost
of living would spiral rapidly up
ward, carrying with it wages, raw
materials, and the coot of all war
weapons and "war equipment.
Washington, Dec. 28.'— John L.
Lewis, chief of the . United . Mine
Workers, today blamed mine open
ton for the dispute which solid-fuels
Administrator Icfces said was delay
ing extension of the six-day week in
the eastern soft cool fields.
I ekes, asserting the nation needed
"an unprecedented amount of coal
to speed the winning of this war,"
called upon Lewis and Ezidk Yw
Horn of Cleveland, chairman of the
operators' Appalachian jeint confer
ence, to "settle their controversy
and to act at the earliest possible
moment" to modify the /artilfrg
contractual provision for the flve
day, 86-hour week in the industry.
I ekes, in identical letters to each
noted yesterday that he first made
the request for extension of the
work week September 29 'and de
clared that unless there is unprece
dented production of coal "the war
will be prolonged at the unnecessary
cost at- human lives md suffering."
Replying "by letter, Lewis charged
the operators of commercial mines
in the Appalachian field had
"banded together to resist the fur
ther acceptance" of the six-day
week which he said had been adopt
ed by .operators of steel company
owned captive mines and by com
mercial operators in six western
and northwestern states.
Commercial mines sell their out
put on the open market while the
production of captive mines goes to
the steel companies.
Ickes called tee fiaiiure of the op
erators and the union to agree on
the six-day week a distinct disap
pointment and reminded Lewis and
n iL.t- iv. l,nJ I
1,000,000
Hh Russian offensive across the
Don wm besting weetward toward
the Ukraine, and also spreading
southwestmsid toward Rostov,
where seizure at that otjr would
cut off the retreat, except by aea,
of ail the German troupe stalled
in the Caucasus and hi the Dun
Volga river pocket before 8t*li*
grad far to the east
A total at UJ090 Germans have
been killed or captured in this single
offensive spurt since December IK,
massing force* for liUqxt effort to
hurl Axis from Afiiea. British
Army lyntftnuta rhuitiig Rom*
Tfl Air Jporce'» .ptmtmtjnmb-1
era blast Munich,
party, with tadof exptaive.1
and incendiaries. w,rTF >
British fighter planes attack
aneee base of Akyab as ground for-j
ces continue progress toward that]
goal in Burma.
Rumanians, losing heavily in
aian front fighting, express belief I
that Axis is doomed and fern for]
.future of own eoanby.f.;
Nasi propagandists strive to
plain war stebacks to people.
Americana and Australians oon-|
tinue heavy pressure
entrenched in Buna area of New!
Guinea.
Be Santa Claus To
UndeSam In 1942|
Greenville, Dec. 22. —"While
are manifesting the Christmas spirit
toward each other it will be a fine
tiling for all of us to include hi oar
Christmas generosity Uncle Sam and
ids boys who are fighting to win this
war as well as Santa Clans," said
Mrs. James S. Field en, chairman of
the Woman's Committee for the sale
of War Bonds and Stamps in Pitt
"Every time yon bay a War St"\mp
or War Bond you are helping the
soldiers, sailors, marines, the air
corpa and the coast guard to do a
good job .of finishing up Hitler and
Hirohito for keeps and making
America and the other Allied nations
safer," Mm Ficklen stated. "Let's
be patriotically Santa Claus to Un
cle gun buy War Bonds and
Stomps," ate added. * J
Hoarding rationed oommoditiee in j
these war time is neither clever nor j
shrewed. Oh, well, you know
it is.
Munich Blasted
London, Doc. 22.—A mighty Brit
ish aerial armada, composed almost
entirely at four^ngined bombers, set
huge fires last nightie Munich, birth
place of Nazidom and Germany's
"second capital," the Air Ministry
aimonnced tombht.
Thrusting 500 miles across Axis
Ecrope, the gfont planes dumped a
"great weight" of bombs, presum
ably including fiur-ton super block
b«Wte», on the Bavarian city, the
m^iry said. rS;.;. '%
German bombers retaliated today
by bombing eastern and southeast