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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-22
WRECK TOLL SET
AT Y PERSONS
Red Cross Completes Last
Identification OF
Civilians

LUMBERTON, Dec. 21.-R,-
The final death toll in the Dec. 16
wreck of two fast Atlantic Coast
Line passenger trains was re-
corded today as Y by the Red
Cross, as that agency identified
the last Of the 81 civilians killed
in the disaster.
A recheck reduced the number
of Army and Navy personnel kill
ed from So to 81, all but two of
whom have been identified and
their next Of kin notified.
One hundred twenty-three per-
sons were injured.
AS the Coast Line went ahead
with plans for an inquiry Dec. 27
at Rocky Mount, Rep. Sauthoff
(Prog-Wis), proposed in Washing
ton congressional investigation Of
the accident.
He said he had talked to two
persons who were on one of the
trains and that they were "em-
phatic" in their criticism of the
railroad.
The Rocky Mount session, which
Z. e: Sibley, general manager of
the ACL said would attempt to
develop the facts and to place
responsibility for the accident"
Will be closed and announcement
OF the findings will be made by the
interstate Commerce Commission
0he railroad announced today.
The Red Cross completed tic
work on the scene today. The last
nody Identified was that of Mrs
irene Berard de Gregory of West
Warwick, R. l., wife of an Army
sergeant injured in the collision +
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APPROACH VITEBSK
German Bridgehead On
Dnieper, Near Kherson
Is Liquidated
TANK BATTLES RAGING
Thousands Of Nazis Re-
ported Killed Along
Eastern Front

LONDON, Wednesday. Dec. %.
-Russi..'s Baltic army, storm
TO down from Newell toward the
v;tebsk.Propoisk rail line, has cap
+,,rpd more than 100 populated
nraces. killed 1000 Germans and
reached to within 20 miles of the
German defense hastion of Vitebsk
NOW menaced from two sides
Moscow announced today.
At the same time the Russians
announced the liquidation of Ger
man bridgehead on the south bank
# the Dnieper across from Kher-
son. near the great rivers mouth.
More than 1000 Germans were
killed in the three-day battle that
wrecked q of their tanks. 70 ar
fiery pieces and cost them in adj
don great stores Of war ma
terial and numerous prisoners.
Front Blazing
Besides these two Russian vic
hr.es, the front was blazing in 9TH
er areas along the 800-mile battle
Inc.
The Moscow midnight commune
uue recorded By the Soviet moni-
Il. from broadcast, said the
Gs.mans had lashed out in an i'm
III cylnler-attack in the Zhlo-
bin area Of White Russia while the
NaZ comprehensive in the area
vest Of Kiev. underway for weeks,
Noa on new momentum.
The more northerly G e m n
Dive was apparently in the area
, an Zholooin and the Berezina
liver, where the Russians h d
been reported 10 a new attack a
ago. Gen. Cons nrlne Rokos-
sovsky was said by We Germans
to be using 100000 troops and two
tank brlgades II this push. The
German counter-attack, the Rus
SINS said today began with large
forces hurled inio narrow Sec
'0f seeking a hreak-through with
cie blow. After days fighting,
u which the Germans were re-
IoIsed' the enemy lost 1000 killed,
&5'0OO wounded and ~ tanks.
800 Germans Killed
The second German counterof-
Z sVe dashed ont with three tank
q three infantry divisions near
Inc German-heli town of Koros-
'SN' % miles west of Kiev. The
4 scSS were successfully counter
e oy concentrated fire from all
les Of Russian arm despite
aIee separate German waves of
f'ack' In the fighting for one
'ontiilued on Page Two; Col. 81
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City sChalnces
For Pipeline
MuchRg ter
- 81 -
WPB Is 8 50 Go
Aloy eming-
E Sect
REV. WANTED
Line Must Be Routed By
Green's Ferry, Federal
Agency Says

The most encouraging news that
the city has had so far regarding
the proposed extension of the pipe
line to Kings Bluff was received
Tuesday by City Manager A. C.
Nichols in a long distance CONVEX
sation with Steve Burns of the
Priorities Division of Federal
Works Administration.
While formal approval of the
extension was neither given nor
promised, Mr.. Burns indicated
that if the city will now file form
al application with certain minor
revisions and bill listing mater
ials required, with full informa-
ton, the WPB will go along"
with the amendment to the pres
ent pipeline.
New Route Asked
Chief among the revisions APP
peared to be the routing Of the
pipeline via Green's Ferry rath-
er than the original route Of ex-
tension planned via Acme which
follows the highway. Although no
detailed survey of the revised
route has been made, City Engi-
neer Loughlin said Tuesday night
that the route via Green's
Ferry follows the river more
closely and is slightly shorter in
distance. The information re-
quired by EVA can be compiled
and filed within q short time, it
was learned.
Meanwhile pipline construction
has been halted awaiting def
mite decision. Hating point was
the turning off angle5 to Hoods
creek where the WPB previously
indicated that the pumping sta
ton be located. 1t is generally
conceded that the Kings Bluff
location will provide an unfail
ing source of fresh water supply
at all seasons while experts have
testified that the Hoods creek
supply cannot be depended on
indefinitely at all seasons.
Help Appreciated
Mayor Bruce Cameron, in COM
menting on the information from
Washington Tuesday expressed
the opinion that efforts must be
continued to work out a prema-
nent solution to the city's water
problem and expressed apprecia
ton of Mr.. Burns help in clear
ing the way toward formal APP
prevail of extension.
The text of Mr.. Nichols state
ment in reference to his CONVEX
sation with Mr.. Burns follows:
''We have been advised by Mr.
Burns of the Priorities Division
of the FWA in Washington that he
has today been advised by Mr..
Williams of the Water Division
of War Production Board that
they will go along with the formal
request for an amendment to the
present pipline project, which
goes only to Hoods creek, for an
extension of this line to Kings
Bluff by way Of Green's Ferry"
This will require a formal ap-
plicatlon including bill of ma
terials and full information to be
supplied the WPB, but it should
be possible to provide this in a
short time.''
while of course this is not
formal approval of the extension,
MIR. Burns was of the opinion that
the way was now cleared for such
approval and that it would be
given"
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FORECAST
NORTH CAROLINA: Party cloudy
and colder Wednesday afternoon. Tenn
perature 1928 degrees in west portion,
and 1892 degrees in east portion
Wednesday night. Fair and colder Thurs
day.
eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm, yesterday.
Temperature
1880 am, 43; 1880 am, 80; 80 pm,
IS; 1870 pm, So.
Maximum, IS; minimum, 80; mean,
40; normal, 48.
Humidity
80 am, AZ; 80 am, 81; 30 pm,
49,; 1880 pm, rs.
Precipitation
+ Total for the "a hours ending 1880
pm, 600 inches.
Total since the first of the month.
1874 inches.
Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington ------------ 5 .42a IL .31a
5:57p LOOP
Masonboro Inlet ----- 3:29a 9:50a
3:34p 10 :03p
| Sunrise, 7:14a; sunset, sop; moon
| rise, 2:19a; moonset 2:03p.
Cape Fear River stage at Fayette-
| vile, 9.10 feet.
! Continued on Page Six; Col. g.
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chief OF STAFF,
M'ARTHUR CONFER
Marshall Holds Meet AT
Time 9Th Army Is In
vading Isle

ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA,
Wednesday Dec. % tB - Gen.
George C. Marshall, U. S. Army
Chief of Staff. has held confer
ence with Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur. commander of Allied oper-
atoms in the South and Southwest
Pacific, it was disclosed today.
The conference was held at the
very moment when the U. S. Sixth
Army was carrying Macarthur S
offensive campaign to the shores
of New Britain by landing at
AraWe Dec. Is.
General Marshall, making his
first appearance of the war in the
Macarthur sector, observed AL
lied operations on New Guinea,
where Australians have pushed
part of the war up Huon peninsula,
and in the Solomons, where Amer
leans have invaded the last big
enemy base of Bougainville in
that group.
He paid the visit on his way
home from the Roosevelt-Ch
chill-Chiang conference at Cairo
and the Roosevelt Churchill Sta
lin conference at Teheran.
VISITS HONOLULU
ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Cen
trail Pacific, Dec. 21-lR-General
George C. Marshall, Army chef
of staff, spent two days inlHono-
lulu, enroute to Washington from
Continued on Page Five; Col. y
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WEATHER
SMALL CRAFT WARNINGS

SMALL CRAFT WARNINGS
NEW YORK, Dec. 21-(P)-The Weather
Bureau today issued small craft
warning that increasing winds would
become strong tonight and wednesday
from south of Shark River, N. J..
to Cape Hatteras including Chesapeake
and Delaware bays.
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''on"llued on Page Two; Col. s.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1943-10-01
ROSH HASHONAH IN A
TURBULENT WORLD
Continued from Preceding Page)

Continued from Preceding Page)
moreover, we must again exam
Inc for ourselves the ends and
purposes of life. It is these ends.
for which we are fighting and
shedding our blood, that we must
enshrine within our hearts as
eternal beacon lights guiding our
way through the tortuous cor
ridors of the future.
1t is this faith in Gods purpose
and this hope in mans ultimate
destiny that Rosh Hashonah holds
aloft to us.
This faith and this hope in the
future, however, we must start to
implement today. Let us remem-
Der that we are preparing to win
not only the war but the peace.
And that victory-the realization
iof all our dreams and hopes
shall not be won with ease. Bitter
shall be the struggle against our
own selfishness and our own
smugness. Agonizing shall be the
war waged against our philosophy
of the supremacy of the dollar
mark and the isolationist security
of our blessed shores. The festi-
val of Rosh Hashonah bids each
of us to look in penitent retro
spect upon the costliness of these
false attitudes and idolatries. And
then it bids us direct our eyes
forward and heavenward in the
supreme belief that man, created
in the image of God, shall with
divine help yet make of this earth
the paradise it was planned to be.
With the advent of Rosh Hash
onah, when we approach the mile
stone which shows us the border
line between one year and another
and we survey our conditions, our
gains or losses, our fulfilled or
disappointed hopes, our achieve
ments of the past year and expec-
tations of the new year, we must
place ourselves in line with the
general community, and sum up
the figures in the terms Of the
whole of society in which we live.
Rosh Hashonah bids the Jew turn
to reflection and analysis touch
ing both himself and the world in
which he lives. The Jewish people
envisages it's own present afflic-
ton in the light of the worlds
tragedy and links it's hope for its
own natural redemption through
that of all mankind.
And so, because of all this
when we celebrate Rosh Hash
onah, and we pray with earnest
humility for year of health and
prosperity for ourselves, we like
wise pray for these blessings to
be bestowed upon all Israel, as
well as upon all nations now in
the struggle for human rights
and freedom of all mankind.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-16
Dewitt U Psets
Relocation Plan

today to work on the Maryland
farms of Secretary of Interior Har-
old L. IckeS and Sam Rice, former
Washington baseball player.
HAD AGREED
Responsible sources said that the
war department had agreed to the
plan to return them to the Pacliic
coast and that the war relocation
authority was about to put 1t III
operation when Dewitt, commander
of the western defense command,
publicly declared that "A Jap's a
Jap. Dewitt was quoted earlier
this week as saying that lit makes
no difference whether he is an
American citizen or not the
west coast is too vital and too vul-
nerable to take any chances
1t was understood that a high
war department official is trying
to get Dewitt to change his mind
The evacuation was carried OUT
shortly after Pearl Harbor, partly
in response to a clamor b. west
coast citizens. But by last summer
the trend of thought was changing
due to the rising labor shortage,
especially on large California farms
Officials said that the attitude
of Dewitt was expressed at a time
when it appeared that the program
was ready to be put into operation
His attitude, they said, will not
affect the placement of japanese
elsewhere in the country where they
can be used.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-16
$4,000 in Bonds
Sold in County

War bonds and stamps totalline
$470,032 in value have been sold In
Imperial County SO far during
April, Ben Herring, secretary of the
county war bond committee, re-
ported Friday.
Brawley has placed $2ll, ,25C
worth of all types of bonds this
month and Ell Centro $135,66 worth
while Calexico has sold certificates
valued at $58,901. In Holtville Sl4.-
212 worth of the documents have
been disposed Of
While total sales are considerably
below the county's April quota OF
81 ,297 400 leaders of the movement
expressed hope salesman who have
not already contacted prospects
would do so Immediately. They
were of the opinion that COM
mitteemen would have to extend
themselves in order to reach the
county goal
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-16

'dJ JllC#a Hhlo- odi
render"
Spanish Foreign Minister Fran
cisco Jordana proffered Spain's good
offices in any peace negotiations
when he spoke at Barcelona on the
450th anniversary of Columbus re-
turn from the new world.
NO POSSIBILITY
Rumors of some Axis-inspired
peace move had circulated recently.
British sources were ready to take
the Spanish offer at face valueA
but said there was not the slightest
possibility of any negotiated peace.
In the Mediterranean theater an
other blow was struck at dWindling
Axis sea power when Allied destroy
ers sank two Italian destroyers off
the Sicily coast last night.
Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cum
ninghan, who announced the sink
ings, also disclosed that Allied ship.
ping totalling 1O,500,000 tons had
reached the North African zone
since the start of the campaign with
loss of less than two and one-half
per cent.
PLANES ACTIVE
Allied planes were engaged in
large scale operations from Britain.
A force of heavy bombers swept
over the southwest coast of Eng
land and was gone more than two
hours, indicating an attack on the
French Atlantic coast.
London had brief air alert when
a German plane flew over the
Thames estuary. Allied planes
Swarmed over the channel in large
numbers, and there were signs of
a major engagement over the
French coast.
In Tunisia, the British First army
recaptured the strategic height
known. as Djebel Ang and pushed
on beyond to within less than 80
miles of Tunis after losing the peak
temporarily to communicating
German forces
MANY COUNTERATTACK
Allied reports told of frequent
counterattacks on the Tunisian
front, but said all were beaten off.
Spokesman at Allied headquarters
cautioned against expectations of
quick or easy victory in Tunisia.
Comparing the campaign to a foot
ball game, they said the Axis was
making desperate stand on its 10
yard line, and the last few yards
would be the hardest.
The British First army held fast
against brisk counterattacks III the
Medjez- El-Bab sector, about 80
miles from Tunis, Allied headquar-
ters reported, while on the opposite
wing the Eighth army was massing
for new test of strength in the
Continued on Page 8, Col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-16
Food Supply Cut
Down 3 Per Cent

WASHINGTON, April 16 CUP)-
The government told civilians to-
Gay that their food supplies this
year probably will be three per cent
greater than the l935-39 average
but six per cent under 1912, when
farm production reached a record
high.
There will be adequate food to
maintain health, civilians were as
Sured, but shortages from time to
time here and there will cause
inconvenience" and "eXaspera-
tionS."
bnor JUDGMENT
In a long-delayed and contro-
versial study of the nations larder,
the Office of War Information said
that the best Judgment as of
April l was that it would be diff
ficult to meet the original 1943 food
goals-eight per cent above 1912
roduction-unleSS weather is bet
tel than average
Even if favorable weather and
adequate supplies of machinery and
labor should combine to bring about
sharply increased production, mill
tary demands will operate to make
less food available to civilians this
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-16

year than last, the Owl said, add
ing that like other wartime prob
lens, the food situation is serious" "
Nevertheless, it stated, food sup
plies will be sufficient to provide
civilians with an adequate diet for
health and vigor."
ALTERED VERSION
The report as finally released,
with agricultural department ap-
proval. is a considerably altered
version of a document prepared
sometime ago. The original draft
painted a much more gloomy pic
ture, challenged production eSti-
mates made by Secretary of Agri-
culture Claude r. Wickard, and
cautioned against stripping the
American larder through lend-lease
shipments.
The revised report was criticized
as 'Sugar-coated" b. some of IA
Owl writing division employees who
resigned.
Owl Director Elmer Davis de-
scribed the report as the best which
could be presented at this time and
on the basis of statistics available
Continued on Page 8, Col. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-16
FBI Arrests ! on
SABOTAGE CHARGE

WASHINGTON, April 16.-(UP)
The Department of Justice an
nounced today that agents of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
have arrested seven workers at the
Bethlehem Fairfield shipyards, Bal
timore, for committing sabotage
upon Liberty ships under construc-
ton.
The yard involved is the same one
at which George A. Steele, 81
year-old welder convicted on a
similar charge, was employed.
Steele, father of an 11-months-old
child, faces a maximum penalty OF
30 years Imprisonment and $4,000
fine. He did faulty welding on two
occasions to speed his work and
boost his paycheck."
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-16
Scientists Told
OF Proposed Way
To Reduce Malaria
Simple Extraction of
Egg Substance Would
Save Lives of Soldiers

DETROIT, April 16. (UP)
Discovery of a S m p ! e
method to extract avidin
from raw egg white might
provide a revolutionary an
swer to the scourge of malaria af-
fecting a high PROPORTION of United
Nations jungle fighters, the Amer
ican Chemical Society was told to-
day.
This challenge to the laboratory
skill of the $500 chemists and scien-
lists attending the l05th meeting
of the society was made by William
l.. Laurence, New York science re-
porter, as the delegates completed
their discussions III the final tech
nical sessions of the five-day con-
Continued on Page 8, Col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-16
American Planes
Bomb Burma Japs

NEW DEHLI, April 16. - CUP)-
American planes heavily bombed
the large japanese bases at Manda-
lay and Prone and attacked one
area of Northwestern Burma during
the last "a hours, An Allied COM
munique reported today.
Mitchell neclum 5on2hers raided
the rail yards at Mandalay and at
Ywataung, a few miles to the
southwest. Rolling stock, supply
dumps and trackage were destroy
ed at Ywataung and, at Mandalay,
fires were started that sent up
heavy smoke visible for so miles.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-16
Pilots 0utsmart
Nazi PIouqh Try

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North
Africa, April Is. CUP)-Spitfire pi-
lots outSmarted the Germans and
frustrated their plans to ploW up
the Castel Benito airport at Tripoli
before abandoning it, Air Vice Mar
shall Sir Arthur Cunningham, COM
mander of the northwest African
tactical air force, disclosed today
The Germans brought out plows
and tractors. Two Spitfires were
detailed to patrol in a circle just
outside the antiaircraft defenses
and they kept up the patrol in re-
lays for 36 hours.
Whenever a plow started, the
fighters dashed through the flax
and shot at it.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-16
Retailers Threaten
To File 0PA Suit

NEW YORK, April 16,-(UP)-
The National Retail Dry Goods as
sociation was on record today with
a threat of court action against the
Office of Price Administration un-
less the agency withdraws thor
oughly un-American principles
which the retailers contended are
embodied in recently issued rayon-
hosiery regulations.
':Unless there is some change in
the attitude of the OPA toward in
dustry," irwin Fox, counsel for the
association, said, "it will resort to
the courts and if it does it will be
the end of the OPA as it was the
NRA."
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-16
FIovd Hamilton CrQwIs
Into AIcotruz After Escdpe
SAN FRANCISCO, April 16 CUP)

SAN FRANCISCO, April 16 CUP)
After hiding in an Alcatraz Is
land cave for three days, Floyd G..
Hamilton, 36-year-old Texas bad
man, surrendered to sickness and
hunger today and climbed back
into the Federal prison from which
he tried to escape with three other
desperadoes last Tuesday.
Once given up for dead, Hamil
ton today used his last remaining
strength to crawl up the steep,
rocky slope of the island base and
through the very window of the
model shop building through which
he made his abortive escape three
days ago.
HIDING IN CAVE
He revealed to Warden James A.
Johnston that he had been hiding
in the same cave and within a few
feet of Fred Hunter, 43. a fellow
escapee, who was found under a
pile of debris by guards several
hours after the escape.
Hamilton, one-time member of
the notorious Bonnie Parker gang
of Texas, told a story of humiliating
defeat of his carefully planned at
tempt to win freedom from
escape proof" Alcatraz. He was
emaciated i'll, half-starved, cover
ed with debris and suffering from
innumerable cuts and bruises.
The tide of San Francisco Bay
had sent chill salt water around
him as he lay covered by old rub
bef mats, blocks of cement, and
refuse from the prison piled in the
cave.
Hamilton made his break with
Harold M. Brest. a Pennsylvania
kidnaper and bank robber, who was
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-16
Fathers Organize
Five Forts in Nv.

IA charter members. j. G.. Wirtis,
president; d. D. Brownell is vice
president, and Charles Huey is sec
retary-treasurer.
Fort No. 7 is at Westmorland,
which was organized with IA char
ter members. They elected tempo
rary officers and will elect perma-
nent officers during the next three
months.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-16
Jap Airield on Kiska Now Ready for
Use, Returning American Airmen Report

American planes, observers said
the Japs doggedly continue con-
Struction operations.
Our air-tight blockade forced the
enemy to build it almost entirely
with picks, shovels and pushcarts
Air officials said several float
type Zeros were observed on the
beach of Kiska island during the
10 heavy bombing and strafing at
tacks, but none tried to take off
to give resistance.
The waves of American planes
flashing out of the North Pacific
nave probably destroyed three ene-
my planes, the pilots said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-16

Five Forts of the Fathers of
Fighters already are going concerns
in Imperial county and prepara-
tionS are being made for the for
nation of seven more in the same
area within the next few weeks, it
was revealed Friday by Deputy Dis
trict Attorney Charles G.. Halliday
secretary of the national organiza-
ton.
Fort No. at FL Centre was or
ganized with 60 charter members
It's officers we're announced early
this week.
10 MEMBERS
Fort No. 2 at Brawley was or
ganized with 10 charter members
and they employed a secretary
part time to get their organization
started. Charles Wigg is presi-
dent; j. c. Archias is vice-presi-
dent, and James Butler is secre-
tary-treasurer.
Fort No. 6 at Imperial, was form
ed with &c charter members. j. D
Huston is president; Jack Murphy
is president, and Clyde Ha-
vens is secretary-treaSurer
Calipatria has Fort No. 4, with