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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-31
By J. MELVILLE BROUGHTOH
Governor of North Carolina

RALEIGH, Dec. 3d. up North
Carolina in 1913 experienced one
of the most notable years in its
long history. Alphabetically, indus
trially and in every civilian and
military activity the state lived up
to its highest traditions in one of
the most critical years of our ma
tional life.
The impact of war, with its in
creasing experience of tragedy and
sacrifice, has been felt by the en-
tire citizenship Of the state; and
the course Of virtually every state
agency has been affected by these
circumstances. The outstanding
achievement of North Carolina in
1913 was the notable response
made by the agencies of state and
local government and by the peo-
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-31
Cape Gloucester 'Dronoe
Is Captured By Marines.
Prime Objective Of The Campaign Is Taken
By Yanks After Bloody Battle

miral William F. Halsey's South
Pacific command.
Air action also took place in the
Marshall islands of the Mid-Pa-
cific. The newest raids, reported
by Admiral Chester w. Ninitz,
were on Dec. % and rounded out
three weeks of sustained action
in that area.
One or more Of the Marshall
atools has been attacked daily
during that time by Army or Navy
planes. Two American planes were
lost in the Dec. % raids, directed
at Mill, Maleolap and Kkajalein,
but Japanese losses were reported
as heavier, five destroyed and
probably Is more.
A psychological blow of tremen-
douse force, the full effect Of
which will be felt only when it is
supplemented, was loosed in Wash.
ington against the Japanese by
Admiral Ernest J. King, com.
mander in chief of the fleet.
(rnntiuund m, paoa Trn. CnI e.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-31
DAVIS WILL HOLD
PRAYER SERVICES

CAMP DAVIS, Dec. 30.-Specia]
prayer services, in keeping with
the Presidents pro amation that
the first day of 1914 be a day OF
prayer, will be the only observance
of New Years Day at Camp Da.
Wis, where troops will continue
their training and performance OF
their regular duties.
Camp chaplains will conduct
short prayer services at Camp
Headquarters, the Quartermaster
Office, Post Exchange Office, FL
nance Office, the Post Exchange
Restaurant, Sales Commissary, tn
|Sales Warehouse and other camp
offices. Both Protestant and Cath
Ole prayer services will be held
at camp chapels during the morn
ing hours.
Maj. Frank Anneberg, AAATC
Special Service Officer, and his
Davis Ramblers will stage a COM
edy-variety show at Service Club
No. / on the afternoon of New
Years Day. The variety show will
consist of slzits and musical novel
ties.
For the entertainment of pa
tients at Station Hospital a group
Of Wilmington shipyard employees,
directed by Cecil Lewis end Lar
ry Drinard, will appear in varie-
ty show entitled "Pretty Girl Re-
vue" at the Hospital Red Cross
Recreation hall New Years night.
Numerous batteries are giving
New Years Eve dances Friday
night, but Saturday will be reg
|ular duty day on the post except
for the brief prayer services.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-31
SUSTAINED ASSAULT
e Enemy Fighters De-
stroyed In Sweeps
Over Europe

LONDON, FRIDAY, Dec. 81. -
(H-A record force Of approximate
ly 1900 American planes blasted
targets in southwest Germany
yesterday as its part in possibly
the most sustained air assaults OF
the war which saw at least 5000
British and American war planes
over Germany and occupied ter
ritory in the past "a hours.
i The American daylight attack
yesterday, which also set re-
cord for the deepest penetration
BY escorting fighter planes, some
Of which flew the entire HOO mile
Tpund-trip, came few hours after
RAF night raiders dealt Berlin a
SCATTERING new 2,240-ton blow.
\ 20 Nazi Planes Destroyed q.
A joint U. S. Eighth Air Force
Air Ministry communicate issued
early today said that % &c man
fighters were destroyed while the
American force lost % bombers
and IL fighters for a total of "a
planes, in fights raging across
France into Germany.
s Raj, Dominion and Allied fight
ers flew supporting sweeps for the
giant American operation and ac-
counted for four of the Nazi fight
srs shot out of the sky. The Amer
lean fighter planes got eight while
n were felled by the gunners of
tie U. S. heavy bombers. The OBJ
Wctive OF the American bombing
mission was not announced.
a. New instruments Used
Blasting their targets through
clouds the American Fortress and
sIherator airmen employed once
more a remarkable new naviga-
nal instrument which permits
HI bombaFdiers to hit targets they
tssee. Tie losses while com,
pa9Rtfveiy small for the, forces in,
VOWED, nevertheless accentuated
the reports of returning crewmen
of numerous fighter attacks and
air engagement.
A dispatch from it's Stockholm
correspondent to the London Daily
Express said that Wednesday
nights blow through the clouds at
Berlin was a triumph for the
RATS ''television" bombsight
mailing Allied air forces to do ac-
curate bombing through clouds
and in darkness.
Rockets Used -.
The American operation came
only a few days after the an.
nouncement of the establishment
of the high command for the Al
lied assault on Europe from the
west. 1t was estimated that during
the day yesterday 500 American
and British medium and fighter
bombers slashed at nor h I'm
France time after time.
The German fighters used rock.
cts in attacking at least one U. S.
heavy bomber formation, Sgt.
Frank J. Hazard of 2541 West
Belden Avenue, Chicago, a gunner,
said. He added: 'They missed our
tail and knocked down the ship
behind us. I saw another ship
split in tWo."
Ia the official Army announce.
ment the armada of Fortresses
and Liberators with their hundreds
of supporting fighters was de
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the Atlantic, the Admiralty said
tonight in review of 1943 oper-
atoms.
The review reiterated that Grit
aims worldwide commitments ex-
tend to the Pacific" and said that
1.-THE strength of the Royal Navy
is being brought increasingly to
bear on this theater as a result
Of the improving situation in
European waters"
Despite the widening scvope of
its tasks, including participation
in the record 3.266-ship armada
which carried the invasion hrces
to Sicily, the Royal Navy com
pleted its fourth year of war with
out the loss of single capital ship
or aircraft carrier.
The Admiralty said its losses
consisted of one cruiser and an
unspecified number of destroy
ers. corvettes, submarines, mine
sweepers and traWlers.
Among significant 1943 develop
ment the review listed:
Unchallenged domination OF the
Mediterranean was regained with
surrender of the italian battle
fleet.
The Mid-Atlantic air-cover gap
in the convoy routes was bridged
by the use of small aircraft-car-
ried escorts and the acquisition OF
bases in the Azores.
New methods were devised for
escort ships, making U-boat packs
''the attacked rather than the at
tackers."
Penetration of Alien Fjord in
Norway by British midget subma-
rines which severly damaged the
German battleship Tirpitz.
More than 100 enemy ships, ex-
elusive of the Scharnhorst and
three destroyers sunk this week,
were sunk or damaged during the
year. the review stated.
Nazi cargoes sunk probably
included no less than 10000 tons
of rubber, 5000 tons Of tin, and
%, 1000 tons of edible OIL" the Ad-
miralty estimated.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-31
SOVLE2Z<ERA OK NAZI LINE ON 1856 MILE
Fl II IN DRIVE ON POLAND RU1NANZA;
1850 u S. PLANES HIT GERMAN TARGETS
REDS SURGE TO WEST
Called Greatest Breach
Ever Made. IN Enemy
Defense Line

LONDON, Dec 30.-R-The Red
army pursued the scattered rem.
nants of % Nazi divisions-per.
haps 100000 nlen-through a 185.
mile breach in the heart Of the
German eastwall today, capturing
300 more comm unities for seven.
day total Of 300 and sending col.
umns to within "A miles of the
pre-war Polish border and 80 miles
Of the Dniester river, the frontier
Of Runanias
Marshal Premier Joseph Stain
in special order of the day sum-
marizing the first six days Of the
campaign said tonight that tn e
Russians mad advanced from 80 to
go miles to capture more than
1000. towns and hamiets through
Wednesday.
. Greatest Breach
The Moscow daily communicate,
recorded by the Soviet monitor,
followed with d new announcement
that in the past@24 hours 300 more
towns had been captured-making
$50 in the last two days-as the
first Ukrainian army surged west
ward through the greatest breach
ever smashed in a German de-
tense line.
Official Russian announc ements
and press dispatches from Moscow
indicated that the German com.
mand had fallen victim to a greas
strategic blunder = its recent I'm.
successful counter offensive toward
Kiev--and now was paying with
a defeat rivaiIulg that at Stain
grad and stsH growing by t h .
zh Capsured
a Fsge1s shs capture Of
i tiii; u III u besoW Berdichev,
| which lett the Germans only one
trunk railway from Poland to sup
ply their entire southern Ukraine
force. lie called it a 'most i'm
portant railway junction. for it
''most important railway juno
tom for it cancelled the com.
munications value of Berdichev for
the Germans and effectively plug
ged the Observation-Disclosures
east-west railway.
! The communicate later reported
the capture of Samgorod, 10 miles
below Kazatin and 90 miles from
the Runanian frontier.
In addition to the smashing vic.
tory west Of Kiev, the commune
que said the Russians captured
80 more populated places in their
two-day-old offensive west Of apo
rozhe in the Dnieper bend. One OF
them was Tolnokovka, 20 miles
west of aporozhe. Far to the
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-31
NO ANTHRACITE
FOR MIDWEST.
ICKES DEGREES
Shipments OF Hard Coal
Halted By Car OF
Solid Fuels In U. S.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3d. -
Secretary 1ckes decreed today that
.be Midwest shall get no more
anthracite for the next three
months because Eastern consum-
arc will need all available along
with lot of bituminous coal, to
keen from freezing.
The fuel administrator S a d
sonoe Eastern distributors think
Santa will bring them anthracite
and ale refusing to handle btu.
n,inols coal. He warned these dis.
+ributers that Eve will ship it in
.nvhow and make it. available to
+he consumers ourselves. We
aren't going to let the people
freeze"
Bellicose Mood
IN pallicose moou at a press
conference, IcEes also took the
war rlanpower commission to
task saying he was more positive
Than ever that the ccal shortage
is related to a manpoWer short
age in the mines.
lawrence A. Appjey, executive
director of the manpoWer COM
..;csion had iold reporters the
coal shortage is due chiefly to
strikes and not to {. manpower
shortage. He conceded, however,
that there is a shortage of miners
I'D said the commission is trying
to relieve it.
Line Is Drawn
Ickes. n demanding more &C
acceptance of bituminous coal IN
New England and Middle Atlantic
states. acknowledged that some
furnaces are capable of burning
anthracite only. He said that in
New York City 5000 tons OF an
thracite are being set aside for
consumers with such furnaces.
Ickes drew a line at the Ohio
Pennsylvania boundary and said
no more anthracite will be shipped
west that line until April l. He
said this would provide about 30O,-
OOo more tons for the eastern an
thracite-using region Anthracite is
,,roduced in eastern Pennsylvania
only.
Order Not Completed
The solid fuels administration
later said the order establishing
the embargo has rot been COM
pleted. The effective date was not
announced. Regarding anthracite
shipments to Carada, it was said
the fuel will be permitted to move
to eastern Canada only.
Ickes reported that coal produc-
ton this year lelt far short OF
actual consumption, thus reducing
stock piles.
L am not Cod" the secretary
exclaimed. Il can't make anthra-
cite that's not there, and l can't
produce miners.
Distributors who are reluctant to
handle citumInus, he asserted,
are willing to co anything to win
the war except the one thing they
are capable of doing" and he add
ed there is too damned much
of this sort of thing in the United
States.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-31
Governor Broughton Calls Year
tOne OF Most Notable For N. C..

pie generally to the challenge of
flict.
At the present time the total
number of North Carolinians in
the armed services of the nation,
not including the considerabl num-
er in various branches during the
year, is approximately 100000.
Thousands of these North Caro-
linians are in the zone of combat
and are represented in every
branch of the armed services.
From private on up, these sons
of Carolina are acquitting them
selves in a manner that will add
new luster to the history of our
state.
For three years North Carolina
has been one of the chief training
areas in the nation for various
branches of the service. An aver
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-31
BY The Associated Press

In bitter and bloody assault in
which hundreds of Japanese were
killed, American Marines captur-
ed the strategic Cape Gloucester
airdrome, prime objective of the
New Britain offensive, four days
after their invasion of the north
western sector of the island, Gen.
eral Douglas Macarthur announc.
ed today.
Our losses were reported as light
in this operation which brought
the main positions on the Glouces.
ter peninsula into American hands.
The two airstrips Of the Glouces-
ter airdrome were overrun Thurs.
day after desperate resistance had
been overcome by the combined
use of tanks, flame throwers and
air power.
Eighteen more Nipponese planes
were reported shot out of the skies
over Rabaul, principal enemy base
at the northeast end of New Brit
ain, in a sweep by planes of Ad
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-31
By KIRKE L, SIMPSON
Associated Press War Analyst

A Nazi military collapse of still
incalculable proportions is devel-
oping in the critical central sec
tor of the Russian front west of
Kiev.
Almost overnight, German
counter offensive too long sustain
ed has been turned into virtual
Nazi rout. Breaking through on a
front now nearly 200 miles wide.
Russian forces are stor1ning to-
ward the Rurnania1l and Polish
frontiers at a pace that hints at
disintegration Of German armies.
Morale OF the beaten Nazi troops
seems cracking. A stupendous mil
itar disaster for Hitler is possible
within days or even hours, and
could utterly change the face of
the war in Europe. incite revolt
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-31
Royal Navy Being Used
In Pacific Theatre Now

LONDON, Dec. 80. x P - The Royal Navy, which.
brought its most successful year to climax with the
Naz destreyers, being employed in increasing force in
the Pacific because of the heartenng turn in the battle of
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-31
NAVAL UNITS SOUGHT

LONDON, Dec. 30-lRAThe vic
tory-spurred Royal Navy sought
more units of Eitler's thinning SUI
face fleet tonight after the Bay
off Biscay battle in which the
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Evening star., 1943-12-10
u. ). Seizes 134 Stills
In Washington Area
Within Single Month

Announcement by the Treasury
that alcohol tax unit investigators
had launched Nation wide inves-
tigation of the liquor black market,
invoking internal revenue regula-
tions to insure fair trade practices
and protect tax revenue, was hailed
today by enforcement officials here.
Both United States Attorney Ed
ward M. Curran and John L. Laskey,
District OPA enforcement attorney,
said they would welcome the CO.
operation of the Treasury investi-
gators.
Treasury officials reevaled the in
vestigation already has turned up
cases in the 5th district, which
includes the District, Maryland. Vir-
glnia, West Virginia and North
Carolina. Action on these now is
pending.
Liquor law violations in this area
have increased tremendously in re-
cent months, they said. In October.
the last month for which statistics
are completed, 1877 stills, with a daily
capacity of 4,o65 proof gallons, have
been seized and 267 persons have
been arrested. In the same month
year ago "A stills were seized and
l73 persons arrested in this district.
Property seized at illegal stills in
October was valued at $2O.125 COM
pared with 1926 a year ago. The
seizures included 1882 gallons of
Illicit liquor, 5,795 gallons of mash.
80 automobiles and trucks.
According to the Treasury the in
vestlgation already has revealed sew
eral isolated cutting and false
labelling conspiracies and has acted
to halt importation of synthetic and
substandard spirits where mislabel-
ing is involved.
Failure of wholesalers to keep re-
qulred records of sales and falsifica-
ton OF these records have been
among the most numerous viola
tlons, 1t was said. The agents have
been interested particularly in trac-
ing large unit sales which might in
dicate a diversion into black market
channels.
Evening star., 1943-12-10
Lewis, AFL Group
To Confer on Charter
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A committee of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor planned a meeting
today with John l.. Lewis to discuss
his application for an AFL charter
for the United Mine Workers, but
there were no prospects of any i'm
mediate action.
Mr.. Lewis recently has shown more
inclination to discuss terms with the
Federation than he did when he first
applied last May. But he has not
committed himself to dropping the
UMW'S District so in advance of re-
afhliation. District so, a catchall,
crosses the jurisdictional lines of a
number of AFL unions.
The AFL Executive Councils
next meeting will take place at
Miami January II, but few persons
expected that negotiations will have
reached the point of permitting ap-
proval of the Lewis application by
that time.
The AFL committee designated to
negotiate with Mr.. Lewis is COM
posed Of Daniel j. Tobin of the
teamsters, George M. Harrison of
the railway clerks, Matthew Woll of
the photographers, Secretary
Treasurer George Meany and Har-
Vey Brown of the machinistS,
Evening star., 1943-12-10

dollar the students earn by collect
ing paper, collected 1896 pounds
thereby putting it up to the PTA to
donate $84.44 to match what was
earned by the students.
November collections earned SUBJ
stantial amounts for schools in the
third district of The Evening Star
PTA program. The list is as fol-
lows: Barnard, $1468; Whittier
$24.64; H. D. Cooke, $29.S9; Adams
$41.48; Powell, $5.77; Gage, $23.78;
Mott, $45.77; Bruce, 30.36; Shep-
herd, $40.41; Bancroft, s74.9s; H.
Wilson, $7.12; Sumner -Magruder
s107.75; Banneker, $77.72; Petworth
sl24.86; Raymond, s295O; Macfar-
land, $143.89; Park View, $28.27;
BrlghtWood, $638O; West, $31.42;
Truesdell $685. Morgan, $49.24
and Monroe, $25.78.
School to Get Banner.
Sherwood High School at Sandy
Spring and Alta Vista Elementary
School will be presented banners at
ceremonies at 9 o'clock tonight at
the Silver Theater in Silver Spring
for gathering the greatest amount
of waste paper of any schools in the
State.
The Alta Vista banner will be ac-
cepted for the school by Principal
Louise S. Walker and the Sandy
Spring School banner by Mrs. Mar
garet Lansdale Pugh. the teacher In
charge of the newspaper collection
Judge Albert E. Brault, county
Evening star., 1943-12-10
Star-PTA Paper
Salvage Drive Totals
1,274,342 Pounds

Turning in $4,000 pounds more
paper yesterday than last week,
schools in the fourth district of The
Evening Star-P. T. A. Salvage for
Victory program collected 42,41O
pounds to bring the grand total of
the campaign to date to 1,274,342
pounds.
The collection was the largest
Thursday collection of the current
campaign. Pupils in the fourth dis
trict have been at a disadvantage SO
far because they have lost three
weeks of collection due to the fact
that Armistice Day, Thanksgiving
and ration day in October all fell
on Thursday eliminating those three
days from the schedules.
Four large collections contributed
heavily to the total. These included
Montgomery with 7,418 pounds;
Francis Junior with $4,000 pounds
and Sumner-Magruder with 1892
pounds.
Added Inducement.
Leland Junior High School, where
the Parent-Teacher Association has
offered to give a dollar for every
Evening star., 1943-12-10
Draft Deferment Asked
For Chicago Treasurer
3y the Associated press

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Dec. 10.-City officials
yesterday requested draft deferment
for City Treasurer Raymond Dry
malski.
Mr.. Drymalski, IS, la, and the
father of three children, is serving
the first year of a four-year term,
and is custodian of $500 900 900
worth of funds, securities and other
property.
Corporation Counsel Barnet Hodes
sent a letter in behalf of Mayor
Edward j. Kelly to Illinois Selective
Service Director Paul Armstrong re-
questing deferment "in view of the
legal difficulties one of which
would be special election If Mr..
Drymalski was inducted.
Evening star., 1943-12-10
Nuuru
Continued Prom First Page :

muniQue. Strong forces of the
Pacific Fleet" delivered it.
1,1O0 Miles From Truk.
The fact that the warships could
move within shelling range of Nauru,
which has been bombed in the past
from the air, was considered signifl-
cant. Nauru, 1,1OO miles southeast
OF Japan's big naval base of Truk, is
TOO miles away from bases of Ad-
mlral William F. Halsey's fleet in
the lower Solomons, but is more
than 1000 miles southwest of Pearl
Harbor.
In all these operations, the Navy
has reported the loss of one escort
carrier, the Liscome Bay, in the Gil
berts. Now it has been disclosed
that the cost of the recent Marshalls
attack was superficial torpedo dam
age to one carrier and the loss of
less than 10 planes.
Admiral Nimitz last night also an
nounced small-scale air attacks
Wednesday on Mill and Jaluit. en-
emy air bases in the Southern
Marshalls. At Jaluit, a single Lib
orator sank patrol boat and prob
ably sank a medium freighter and
two small vessels.