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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-18
BROOKE E. ALLEN
WINS PROMOTION
Wilmington Army Filler
Now Full Colonel on
Cuadalcanal

Lieut-Col. Brooke E. Allen, Of
Wilmington, now stationed or
Guadalcanal Island as operations
officer for the bombing squadron
of the U. S. Army Air Forces, has
been promoted to the rank of full
Colonel in the Air Forces, it was
learned here Wednesday.
Col. Allen, a graduate Of New
Hanover High school, was one o1
the first Wilmingtonians to enter
Kelly Field for training in the Air
Forces, and for several years after
completing his course he was sta
toned on the east coast OF the
United States.
He was at Hickam Field, Hawaii
in command of large bomber on
December 7 when the japanese
struck, and was reported to be the
only bomber commander who was
able to take his plane out against
the Japanese forces. At that time
he had attained the rank OF ma
jor, having been promoted few
weeks before Pearl Harbor.
Shortly after the first Of 1942
Allen was promoted to the rank o1
Lieut.. Col. and was stationed al
Hawaii, and just before Christmas
was transferred to his present
post at Henderson air field, Quad
alcanal.
Col. Allen is the holder OF the
Silver Star for gallantry in actor
and has been frequently mentioned
in dispatches telling Of offensive
action against the enemy in the
Pacific.
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| JAPS Are BOMBED
] Aircraft Steadily Pound
Foes Airbases In
Solomons Sector
NoT MUCH IS REVEALED
Navy Fails To Disclose
Particulars OF Under
sea Boat Activity

WASHINGTON, Feb. II
R)-Raiding Japanese supply
lines in the Pacific, American
submarines have sunk five
more enemy vessels, probably
sunk a Japanese cruiser and
damaged a cargo vessel, the
Navy reported today, while
ID. S. aircraft continued
pounding japanese air bases
lin the Solomons islands area
Most of the craft sent te
the bottom or damaged pre-
sumably were engaged in
! transporting men and equip
Zment to the scattered Japa-
|nese bases throughout the
(south Pacific area.
Little Detail Given
Rut little detail was given. The
|Navv reported only that the SUBJ
marines accounted for the vessels
r the Pacific and Far East"
Ewaters, in pursuance Of a policy to
Econfine reports OF submarine ac-
Etvity wholly to results.
Those results in the latest re-
| mort were big. Topped by the sue
Ecessful torpedo attack on a cruiser
(which the Navy said probably went
| 10 the bottom, the submarines bag
also included an escort vessel, a
medium-sized tanker presumably
carving much-needed oil to Jap
7sDese bases; a transport which
might have been carrying troops,
snd two medium-sized cargo YES
yls-aL sunk. An additional me-
dium-sized cargo vessel was re-
ported damaged.
Meantime, American planes fly
linz out from Guadalcanal are hit
ting at Japanese airports in the
northwestern Solomons and have
made new raids on two bases.
In one aerial attack a Liberator
bomber dropped its load on the
japanese airfield at Kahili, one OF
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-18
FDR TO BE- ASKED
TO AID AIR ROUTE
Presidential Intervention
Will Be Requested on
Airline Here

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17-R-
Presidential Intervention to have
the Civil Aeronautics Administra.
ton grant Canadian-colonial Air
ways permission to extend its serv'
ice from Boston, southwark to Sa'
vannah, Ca, via the carolinas will
be asked by a congressional dele
CATION from seaboard states, Re.
preventative Mcmillan O-SO said
today.
Mcmillan and Representative
Rivers D-SC) have been meeting
with other members of Congress
in an effort to get the service ex'
tended.
Senator Maybank (D-SC) was
asked to head the delegation in
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-18
Plaque Honoring Men
In Seruice Is Asked
For Local Postoffice

The local postoffice is asking
Washington for permission to
erect a plaque in its lobby
showing the names of 20 young
men who have left post office
duty for the armed services,
Postmaster Wilbur Dosher an
nounced Wednesday.
"Our percentage Of employees
who have left for the services
is very high" Mr.. Dosher COM
mented. At the present time,
there are 81 clerks in the office
here and 20 work at the Camp
Davis sub-station.
eve have fifteen women In
our ranks now," the postmaster
revealed. Many Of them re-
placed the men who have gone
to the Army, Navy and Ma
rine Corps.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-18
DISCUSSION SET
ON twp PURCHASE
Special Session OF Rate
Reduction Group To
Talk Plans

At a special session of the Coasta
Plains Rate Reduction committed
to be held in Wallace Friday after
noon, the proposed legislative en-
abling act under which the City
hopes to purchase the Tide Water
Power company here, will be dis
cussed. Mayor Edgar L. Vow and
other city officials will be present
The meeting is scheduled for
p. m.
The rate reduction committee,
composed of towns and counties
in the Tide Water Power company
area, was organized last year for
the purpose of seeking lower com
mercial and residential power rates
for southeastern North Carolina
It is headed by Mayor Aubrey j.
Harren of Wallace.
Under the proposed act, which
has been submitted to New Han
over Representative R. M. Ker
mon for introduction in the lower
house of the general assembly, the
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house COMMITTEE
|10VOTE ON DRAFT
|klday Bill To Set Up De-
ferment For Fathers
Under Ballot

| WASHINGTON, Feb. IT, Up -
fhe House Military Affairs COM
hittee votes tomorrow on the Kill
Pay bill to set up draft deferment
Prlorities for men with families.
rhe committee is expected to rec
Pmmend passage of the bill in the
ace Of Army protests that it would
put "undesirables" into uniform.
This objection was registered to-
Fay by Brig. Gen. Miller G.. White,
assistant chief of staff in charge
personnel. Telling the commit
ee that the legislation "gives us
little concern" General White
aid it might force the Army to
amt am many illiterates and mer
IN venereal diseases.
Aep. Kilday D.-Tex.) disputed
IS contentious.
Inc bill would create four groups
VI priority deferment and require
aat all men in one group be in
uc'ed before those in another
ere Called. Under these provis
plls' General White contended, the
l.lly a1I might be compelled to &C
wv men now taken in limited
uliloefs only. The alternative, he
aplsined, would be to ''raise ou1
4aallements so as to reject al
nem and get them out of the
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-18
OPA Suspends All Sales
OF Canned Fish And Meat
WASHINGTON, Feb. IT, Up =

WASHINGTON, Feb. IT, Up -
The Office Of Price Administra-
ton tonight suspended the sale of
canned fish and canned meat.
The ban on public sale of these
products-canned salmon, shrimp,
meat spreads and many others
is indefinite. OPA said, however,
that sales probably will be per-
mitted again when meat rationing
begins. Meat rationing is expected
March %.
The action was taken at the re-
quest of Secretary of Agriculture
Wickard, the food administrator.
He said large purchases by con-
sumers in recent weeks h a v e
threatened to leave little or no
cans of fish and meat for con-
sumption later this year.
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ALLIES WILL GET
FRENCH WARSHIPS
AZ More Fighting Vessels
To Soon Join United
Nations Fleet
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. H.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. H.
Forty-two French warships in ad.
dition to the four that steamed
across the Atlantic last week soor
will be fighting on the side of the
United Nations, Vice-Admiral Ray.
mond Fenard, chief of the French
naval mission to the United States,
said today.
The cruisers Gloire and Georges
Leygues already are in ct r
against the Axis, Fenard said in
an interview aboard the cruiser
Montcalm, which is at the Phila
delphia Navy Yard for refitting
after its trip from Dakar as ar
escort of the battleship Richelieu
Fenard, who greeted Admira
Royal v. Ingersoll, commander-in
chief of the U. S. Atlantic fleet, or
the Montcalm today, said two more
battleships, six cruisers, an air
craft carrier, seven destroyers, L
submarines and 10 auxiliary Graf
would join the United Nations ar
mada "soon but I don't k ov
When."
Three of the submarines, he add
ed, escaped the scuttling at Tou
lon, and they and the other ship!
at Dakar, Alexandria and Casa
blanca are Gin good condition"
The heavy destroyers Fantasqu'
and Terrible, part of the Richie
lieu's escort, are at Boston for re
fitting, he said.
The stocky, bronzed admira
skirted questions on ''politics," as
serting that "all the men and of
ficers of the French fleet want t.
do is fight the Germans alongside
the United States and her allies.
'For more than two years." HI
said, mild blue eyes hardening
I'VE have been out of the figh
against Germany. This is the op
portunity we have been longins
for. We want to be friends will
the Americans and British foreve,
Ito fight beside you and WIN"
A detail of blue-jacketed Frencl
marines, red stripes on t h e i
sleeves and red powder puffs
in the center of their caps, stooe
stiff at attention when the admiral
smiling broadly, came aboard tn,
Montcalm. A drum and buglt
corps greeted him with ruffles ane
flourishes, repeating the ceremony
when Admiral Ingerson boarded
the cruiser.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-18

81 special meeting of the city
'4'i Wednesday afternoon, City
/ aasef A. C. Nichols was instruct
l.. " communicate with Representa-
|. e. NJ. Kermon in regards to
H. I.Iy W limits extension bill which
\ Aefhlon was to have introduc-
h, 4 'he state Legislature Thurs
l.. az council expressed the feeling
fns tne bill, as drawn by Mr.. Ker.
|nbo. .of Presentation, did not fully
|,on 'uS all details of the original
h. pVSal and that further considera.
h. VI the bill was necessary. It
- pointed out that certain assets
\ e city, such as water and sew.
\, facilities, were overlooked in
Aefmon's draft of the measure
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-18

ships Of the Nazf conception Of
total war, the impact of heavy
casualties, the drastic stripping
Of thes war-weary Germans of
everything but the barest ne
cessitfes on one hand and the
merciless spur to new effort
on the other hand, and shaken
confidence in Hitler as q soldier
genius, especially among the SOL
diers, as a result of military de-
feats.
All this is against backdrop
suggestive of 1918. The Deut-
sche Allgemeine Zeitung recent
ly carried the slogan, "do the
opposite from 1913"
Although morale is bad, no
crackup should be expected be.
fore a decisive military defeat be-
comes plain to every German. In
this connection it must be remem-
bered always that the Nazis
disarmed the Germans and wip-
ed out the oppositiona1 political
fTnn%inuoN an Do~~ T- ~ !
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Sale is prohibited on such COM
mon canned items as salmon, tuna
fish, shrimp, lobster, m t
spreads, tongue and potted meats.
The order does not apply to
products sold in frozen form, such
as quick-freeze lobster, nor to cam
ned products that are not sealed
or sterilized by the use of heat.
Picked pigs feet and dried beef
are examples of the latter.
This prohibition on sales, going
into effect at midnight tonight,
precedes by three days the start
of an eight-day general ban on
the sale of articles which are to
be rationed beginning March l.
This freeze" previously announ-
ced, affects canned and frozen
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the bombers were doing their
work swarms of fighters made
daring attacks on Axis COM
munications. They blaste
canals, railways and other
transport facilities.
Two bombers failed to re-
turn from the raid on Lorient
and one intercepting fighter
was shot down. They were met
by a mass of German fight
ers Of all types, one returning
pilot said.
The jubilant fliers declared
that Photographic evidence
proved their persistent pound
ing Of this favorite base of the
German submarines was Sue
cessful. They said a fiery pat
tern Of explosives was laid
over the entire port which has
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-18
BATTLES RAGING
American And German
Tanks Locked in Strug-
gle In Tunisia
MONTGOMERY MOVING
British Eighth Army Re-
ported Nearing Mar
eth Line Sector

ALLIED HEADQUAR-
TIERS IN NORTH AFRICA,
Feb. 17-R-Marshal Rom
mel, using two divisions of his
veteran African tank fighters
and his heaviest armor, has
smashed an American coun-
terattack, at least for the
time being, and with a fresh
18-mile thrust in central Tuni-
sia yesterday has scored a net
advance of some 35 miles in
the last three days.
This check to Allied plans
and disarrangement of their
positions was announced to-
day in an Allied headquarters
communique which said ar
mored battles ragged all day
yesterday in the area west of
Faid pass and were still con-
tinuing at nightfall con the
outskirts of Sbeitla," 100
miles inland and about 125
miles southwest of Tunis.
Gain About 1S Miles
The Germans thus had marked
up a gain of about 18 miles yes
terday after check from Amer
lean counterattack near Sidi Bou
lid, southeast of Sbeitla.
In the southern Tunisian sector,
ITO miles distant, however, tn
British Eighth Army of Gen. Sir
Bernard Montgomery was report
ed nearing the Mareth line for an
assault, which might retrieve the
situation by forcing Rommel to re-
group his forces.
American casualties were heavy
it was reported at headquarters,
and several units Of American
troops were cut off In the rush of
RommePs two armored divisions,
which included some huge new
Mark vi tanks. These U. S. units
had not been heard from, but t
headquarters hoped that they
would yet make their way back
| to the main forces.
(The German communique said
enemy groups which had been
cut off on the Tunisian front in
the course of our attack there
were annihilated yesterday n d
numerous enemy war material was
destroyed or captured" German
communicates habitually use n e
term annihilated in loose sense,
and there was no confirmation of
the claim from Allied sources0
With the American hold on Sbeit-
la uncertain, the Allies were now
fighting with their backs almost
against the Algerian border in the
central sector, as the result of
the powerful German smash which
had now cleaned out the southern
anchorages of the Allied line, and
laid open the flank of the British
so miles to the north in the Gus
seltia sector.
From Sbeitla, however, Rommel
apparently was attempting to push
to the southwest toward Feriana,
81 miles distant and only IL miles
from the Algerian border.
To the southeast another Ger
man column under Col. Ulm was
advancing from Gafsa toward Fo-
riana, apparently against little op-
position except severe blasting by
flights of Boston bombers, Spit
fires and Airacobras.
(The two columns possibly we're
aiming at junction at Feriana
where they could strike heavily to
the northwest across Allied COM
munications connecting tn for
HNI
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-18
WEATHER

FORECAST:
North Carolina: Slightly warmer
Thursday.
Eastern Standard Time)
By U. S. Weather Bureau)
METEOROLOGICAL data for the "a hours
ending 80 p. m.,, yesterday.
Temperature
80 a. M, "a; 7:30 a. M, 26; 1870 p.
M, At; 1880 p. m, A.
Maximum so; Minimum %; Mean 36.5;
Normal 48.
Humidity
1870 a. M, 72; 1880 a. M, 70; 1880 p.
M, 20; 1880 p. M, 67.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 7:30 p
M, 600 inches.
Total since the first of the month
0.47 inches.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-18
Japs Force
= Is p As
! jig Seen
- .. 17-(P-The
lded considerable
schowwan, French

- ssefasytSly O11 N1x11Ad , 4dx
st, the Chinese high
COZ announced tonight, indi-
eating at the invaders are pre-
pairing for extensive operations in
China's southern province Of
Kwangtung.
Heavy fighting was reported at
several points in the interior OF
that province, where the japanese
already hold Canton and adjacent
sections, and also in the Yangtze
valley and eastern China, where
the enemy has large forces in mo.
ton.
The landing at Kwangchowwan,
the Chinese communique said, fol
lowed attempts Monday to put
troops ashore from five gunboats
at two points on the Liuchow Pc.
ninsula, just south of Kwangchow.
wan. Chinese troops repelled these
attempts but early this morning
the enemy's main force landed on
Tunghai island in Kwangchowwan
harbor, French territory.
West and north Of Canton, the
communique said, heavy fighting
was in progress in the areas OF
Samshui and Shaping. The Chin
ese recaptured the latter town two
days ago and drove the enemy to
the west but the Japanese brought
up reinfor cements and struck
back.
Japanese forces were credited
with gains against stiff Chinese re.
sistance in northern Human and
central Hupeh, two central China
districts where the invaders ap-
parently are trying to extend their
conquests along the Yangtze river.
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notice.!

If your carrier fails to
leave your copy Of the Will
mington Morning Star,
Phone 1911 before 900 a.
m. and one will be sent to
you by special messenger.
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Evening star., 1943-11-19
.0PA Denies Ration Loan
To Stables Restaurant

Robert K. Thompson, District OPA
director, yesterday denied. without
prejudice to further application
supported by the information we
have requested" ration point loan
application by The Stables" restau-
rant, 1922 E street NV.
Mrs. Lillian Jean Richards, pro-
prietor of The Stables recently
was found guilty of overdrawing her
ration banking account.
According to the District OPA,
Mrs. Richards has failed to supply
information from her books and
records and to submit a plan for
future operation which would per-
nit repayment of the loan AS the
situation now stands, it was ex-
planned. the regular bimonthly allot-
ment of THE Stables" must be ap-
piled to the 68,261-point overdraft
Iand no points will be available for
use by the restaurant until the
entire amount is discharged
Hammels Restaurant, 4l6 Tenth
street NV, also was found guilty
recently of overdrawing its ration
banking account. but later was
granted point loan to cover the
overdraft, which is to be repaid over
a period of several months.
Evening star., 1943-11-19
WPB Aide Analyses
Plan
For Newsprint Cuts
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Harry M. Bitner, director of the
War Production Boards Printing
and Publishing Division, yesterday
analyzed the sliding scale formula
recommended by the Newspaper Ad-
visory Committee to achieve a %
per cent total reduction in news
print use during the first quarter of
1914.
Mr.. Bitner said conservation or
ders now in effect had forced a S
per cent reduction in newsprint
usage lin comparison with the 1941
base period during the first 10
months of 1912. This leaves a fur
ther 18 per cent reduction in the
first quarter Of 1914 to attain the %
per cent reduction, if and when the
forthcoming WPB order follows the
industry committee recommends
tions.
To effect the 18 per cent cut, Mr..
Bitner said, percentage cuts would
be imposed on publishers according
to total newsprint used in the base
period, smaller publishers taking
smaller cuts.
No reduction would be imposed on
the first Is tons used by any pub
Usher in the quarter. Other per-
centage reductions required would
be: Next 100 tons, 4 per cent; next
125 tons, per cent; next $50 tons,
II per cent, next 500 tons, 20 per
cent; all over 1000 tons, "a per cent.
The analytical figures by Mr.. Bit
ner show some divergence from the
figures released Wednesday by the
Advisory Committee However, it
wss explained that the reductions
already in effect were not included
IN Wednesdays calculations.
Evening star., 1943-11-19
Russia
Continued From First Page J

Army troops forced the Uzh River
to blast the Germans from that i'm
portant rail junction on the Lenin-
grad-Odessa and Kiev-WarsaW rail-
roads, a Russian communique said
Whole tralnloads of German wal
stores were captured inside the city
which lies on the southern edge of
the Prlpet marshes. An entire Ger
man regiment was reported an
initiated in the battle.
In addition to cutting the last
German north-south railway short
at the Polish border by the capture
OF korosten, Gen. Vatutin appeared
to have anchored his right flank
securely against the Pripet Marshes
He was thus able to concentrate
strong forces on his left flank to
meet the vicious German counterat-
tacks in the area between Zhitomlr
and FaStov to the south.
Here, where Soviet forces were
forced into slight retreat Wednes-
day, German drives yesterday were
nurled back with heavy losses in
men and tanks. the Soviet com
munlque said Inside the Dniepey
bend, still farther to the south, the
Russians said their troops killed
l 200 Germans in vicious seesaW
fighting. Red Army units were saio
to be within % miles of Nikopol in
this sector.
Gen. Rokossovsky, in topping
Rechltsa after bitter three-day
battle, sent his forces in for the Kill
from the northwest and southwest
Evening star., 1943-11-19
Mrs. Florence {. Barger
Dies After Iona Illness

Mrs Florence Cullum Barger, II,
widow of Dr. Alexander F. S. Barger,
former medical official of the Vet
erans' Administration, died yester-
day at her home, 424 Seventh street
NE, after long illness.
Funeral services will be held at 2
pm. tomorrow at the Deal funeral
hcme, 1912 Georgia avenue NV
Burial in Cedar Hill Cemetery will
be private.
Mrs. Barger, native of Lusk, Ill
had been a resident of the District
for 43 years. She was a member CT
the Bethlehem Chapter No. of the
Eastern Star and the Wesley Meth
odist Church.
She is survived by a daughter
Mrs. Eulalia B. Steagall; two grand
sons, Edward F. and Roy E. Steagall
all of Washington; a brother, Harry
Cullum of Villa Grove, ILL.,, and two
sisters, Mrs. D. A. Parker of Card
well. Mo, and Mrs. w. A. Poole of
St. Francis, Ark.
Evening star., 1943-11-19
Confession Ruled OUT
In Trial Of NeeIy
As Policeman S Slayer

The f1rst-degree murder trial of
Monroe D. Nicely, IS, colored,
charged with Staying policeman
last May when the officer came to
arrest him, was scheduled to go to
the jury today after an alleged
confession at coroner's inquest
was ruled out as evidence under
the Supreme Courts decision in the
McNabb case.
Admissibility of the alleged con-
fession in the Nicely case was chal-
lenged by defending Attorneys Will
liam j. Kelly and J. Carroll Hayes,
who said that Nicely had not been
taken before a magistrate or a
United States commissioner until
1880 am. on the Monday after his
arrest on Saturday. Defense counsel
were upheld by Justice David A.
Pine in their contention that this
delay constituted a violation of the
Supreme Court ruling that accused
persons be arraigned before judi
cial representative with reasonable
promptness."
Enough Evidence Offered.
Justice Pine indicated, however,
that Assistant United States Attor-
ney John L. Ingoldsby, jr., had pre-
sented enough evidence aside from
the statement Nicely is alleged to
have made to warrant the case being
turned over to the jury.
Nicely took the stand yesterday
and described events on the day he
is charged with shooting Police
man Charles R. johnson, Is, after
wounding his wife. He said he
returned to his room in the 600 block
of TWenty-first street NE, and
found a rookie colored policeman,
who also lived in the house, with his
wife. The officers gun was lying on
a dresser, he said, and both men
lunged for it.
Nicely said he reached the gun
first and the other man fed from
the room. When he tried to follow
him, he said, his wife restrained him
and in the scuff1e she was shot at
least twice. He told the jury he did
not know other officers had entered
the house, and that he fired down
the stairs once without looking
Shots were fired back at him, he
said, and he thought it was the
rookie officer. He fired again down |
the staircase.
The colored officer since has been
discharged from the force on
charge of failure to help arrest .
Nicely.
After Neely's appearance on the
stand, the defense rested its case. .
Mr. Ingoldsby said he would present
several rebuttal witnesses before
final arguments are held TODAY.