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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-06-25
WEATHER
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NORTH CAROLINA: Little change
in temperature.
Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. s. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 P. M, yesterday.
Temperature
1880 a. m, II; 7:30 a. M, S6; go
D. M, 85; 7:30 p. m, 81 Maximum rs;
minimum SO mean 81; normal 78
Humidity
80 a. M, 85; 1880 a. m.,, IS; 80
D. M, 64 7:30 p. m, II
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 1880
p. M, 600 inches.
Total since the first of the month,
3.21.
Sunrise, 500 a. M, sunset, :27 p. M;
moonrise, 70 :39 a. M; moonset, 1:05 p.
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Tides For Today

Cape Fear River stage at Fayetteville
on Thursday, at 8 a. m.m 1890 feet.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-18
Salient Bases East Of Dnieper Are Objective
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the double -track east-weSt railroad from Krasni- Altman to Lozovaya, extreme southwestern point of the Soviet advance, to mass troops for a crossing of the Dnieper near Dnepropetrovsk, 70 miles to the southwest. Troops also could be shifted along the railroad southward tO Gorlovka, in the heart of the Ger man defense system above the Sea of Azox.
 The Soviet midnight communique also reported the capture of Slavy- anoserbsk, 17 miles northwest oi voroshilovgrad and the last German stronghold on the south bank oi the Donets, and Rovenki, 35 miles south of Voroshilovgrad.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-18

that she can be quickly transferred to either the Atlantic or the Pa- cific.
 The Iowa reportedly has 8 draft of 36 feet and a rated speed Of more than 30 knots per hour. She is only two hundred feet shorter than any of the biggest commercial passenger liners, such as the Nor- mandie and the Queen Mary. She is reported to have 100000 horse power.
 The general estimate of the over- all cost of the Iowa exceeds ESQ., 900, 900.
 One of the i've surgeons aboard gave the correspondents an Idea ot the immensIty of the ship when he said that medically the Iowa is capable ol dealing with all the problems of e town of 2600O.
 We also have three dentists, one pharmacist, i've male nurses" he said. Every ofllcer aboard is given firSt-aid lessons co that he can help out during battle emergencies and direct sailors to act as efneiens nurses"
 The remaining ships in the lS.- 600 ton class besidea the Iowa, the New Jersey and the Missouri are tho Wisconsin and the Illinois. which arc both being e0nstrueted in tho rilladelphia navy yard, and the Kentucky which is being built at Norfolk. Virginia.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-18
AMERICANS LOSE
 THREE NEW TOWNS
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Continued from Page 1) mined stand on the high ground.
 lighting was on @ reduced scale yesterday" the communicate said. Leading clements of the enemy oc- cuptsd Feriana, Kasserine and Sbei- Ia.
 "Our fighters were active throughout the day over southern Tunisia. Our heavy and medium bofnbers attacked enemy airfields in Sardinia. At one airfield bombs burst close to @ number of grounded aircraft. Four enemy fighters and one Italian seaplane were shot down by our bombers and their fighter es. corts.
 Five of our aircraft are missing from these operations. During last night a few enemy aircraft dropped bombs in the Algiers area. There was a small number of casualties and some damage to buildings"
 It was said that the Americans made little, If any, attempt to de- fend Feriana, Kasserine and Sbeitla. 1tdUAAC1p ~ WhO un SNdCuaUAOA NC~ signed to get the U. s. troops into better defensive position. The three towns lie at the foot of hills which rise to more than 4,000 feet 1 nsome places.
 Tta: American line now runs roughly from Pichon southwest toward Tebessa, inside Algeria.
 It was not believed likely that the Germans would attempt any addi- tional advances immediately. American combat teams now are being concentrated on the eastern and western side of an important pass in the mountains behind Kas- serine. In front of them the Ger mans occupy wide stretch of table land which is arid. treeless and al- most uninhabited. In that position they are in range of American artil- lery.
 The twin thrusts of the Germans against the American lines TOW has gained total of about 50 miles in the southern sector and 30 miles In the northern.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-18
OIL SITUATION
 HERE IMPROVES
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NSOhb444uSN 4ICul GdSG 4) Albany N. r., pool from which the Connecticut supply of range oil tc be drawn has a reserve of 250,00( gallons set aside for this state. The 51 ,600-gallon supply which is stil enroute to Waterbury from Albany N. r., in a truck caravan, came from the pool. said State Fuel Ad- ministrator Wesley A. Sturges.
 Local dealers reported that cus- toners continue to show up at fill- ing station emergency depots te purchase day to day requirements in five-gallon lots.
 From the governors office at Hartford comes the report that de- spite the arrival of 250,000 gallons from Albany, N. r., by trucks, the critical situation continues to dom- mate throughout Connecticut gen. erally. The governor said i've are on a hand-to-mouth basis"
 Under PWA regulations, the state had to buy the oil in order for 1t to be released at Albany. A supply of this has been released for distress cases. It was explained that the state will be reimbursed.
 The governor mentioned he was informed by New York 12,500 barrels of No. 2 fuel oil already had been dispatched to New Haven by barge for distribution in that area.
 Another 5000 barrels was directed for Hartford plus another 10000 barrel shipment expected Friday.
 The governor said that his home was out of oil and had to resort tC the emergency supply, which put: him in the emergency customer cat. egory.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-18
AMERICAN PLANES
 BLAST CACLIARI

London, Feb. 18 = (U.P)-Radio Rome, quoting the ofhcial Italian communique, said today that Amer ican planes have heavily raided Cagliari, in Sardinia, killing 100 per- sons and injuring 235.
 Two other points in Sardinia were bombed and three American raiders were shot down. the communique said, adding: "Off Catania, Sicily, a Spitflre hit by ont of our bombers crashed into the sea-" | Tn Tunisia, Axis troops occupied more enemy positions! the broad cast said. and repulsed an Allied counter-attack supported by tanks.
 Four Allied planes were shot down over Tlnisia, the communique said including three by fire from ground forces. While north of Anglers. Ger man planes attacked an escorted convoy sinking an 0.OO0-ton steamer and damaging another.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-18
EARBENDERS PLAN
 ANNUAL BANQUET
Committee to Meet Sunday to Discuss Plans; Min-
 strel Show Coming
Washington Hill

The Earbenders are calling A
 meeting of the committee working on their annual banquet, which Is usually held in the early spring. President Tom Conway is asking all the following to be at the Commu- nity House at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon to start the plans for this affair: Roger Connor, H. A. Hayden, Arthur Dulac, Edward Leach, John Cuddy, Edward Goggins, Tom Dris- coll, Tom Reynolds and Frank Joyce.
 The card players for the Ear. benders 45 tournament will play their usual Friday night game to. morrow night at 0:15 at the Com
 nunity House. MT. Conway hopes everyone will be on deck, after the "shellacking" the team took at the St. Thomas party last week, he feels practice is badly needed.
 The first rehearsal to lineup the Hill talent for the St. Patrick's party for Washington Park Com. munity clubs annual celebration Is called by Miss Marguerite ,Tierney and George Casey, who is plan- ming to direct the minstrel, for Fri. day night at 7:30, at the Commit nity House. Here is a chance for everyone who enjoys this form of amusement to come forth and give their time and talent for their own recreation. There Is quite lot of good talent among the high school pupils, but the adults certainly have their share too, if they will but make themselves known. Washing. ton Hill has always given the city plenty of good amateur talent m years gone by-so let's get together folks!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-18

120 prisoners, four guns and seven trench mortars.
 In another sector arc nd Kran1a- torskaya, 200 Germans were willed and two tanks set afire in futile Axis counter-attack.
 A whole "series" of inhabited lo- calities fell to the Russians south and southwest of Voroshilovgrad during tr.e past 12 hours, the nid- day communiqe said. Twenty Ger man tanks and two armed cars were destroyed and 600 officers and men killed.
 Drives Developing
 The Russian drives from recap tured Kharkov were developing rap- idly. A special communique ycs- terday disclosed that Soviet forces making better than a mile an hour, had seized Graivoron, 42 miles to the northwest and Bogodukhov, 31 miles to the west northwest, and 22 miles south of Graivoron.
 The Soviet drive to the north- west obviously was aimed at slic- ing throug hthe flat Russian plains to Konotop, whose capture would cut the main supply railroad from Kiev to Orel, 165 miles to the north- northeast.
 In his last public address only two weeks before the start of the winter offensive, PUremier Joseph Stalin said the main Axis forces then were concentrated in the Bry. ansk-O -Orel area and the Stalingrad salient.
 Besides imperiling the Axis garri- sons at Orel and Bryansk, the cap- ture of Konotop would bring the Russians to within 125 miles north east of Kiev on the Dnieper, the main Axis base for all south Rus sia.
 The plight of the Orel garrison also was further endangered by the Soviet drive to the west above Kuresk. The mid-day communique reported that Russian troops broke into an inhabited place in this sec- tor today and routed the German Garrison, killing 100 of the enemy and destroying i've guns and 1S trucks.
 The Russians advancing due west from Kharkov were headed toward Poltava, 85 miles away and 17C miles southeast of Kiev. In their advance, the mid-day communique said, Russian tanks captured rail road station, 150 locomotives, 14 military trains and 75 freight cars loaded with shells, bombs and fou, heavy tanks.
 Some g miles south of Kharkov Soviet forces routed an infantry bat talion - normally 1000 men - ir fighting near zmiyev, whose capture was announced yesterday. An arm ored car. two self-propelled guns seven anti-tank rifles, IS machine guns and other booty were cap- tured.
 The Russian advance toward the Dnieper was given a big boost yes- terday by the capture of Slavynsk 10 miles north of Kramatorskaya and 80 mi'eSNwest of Voroshilovgrad
 The Soviets now were free to use
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-18
ARMY MAY RETURN SKILLED WORKMEN
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crop.
 The Army vigorously opposes the proposal and told both the Bank head group and the Senate Military Affairs Committee, also investigat. ing the manpower situation, thai 1t will disrupt all plans laid foI procurement Of enough fighting men to insure national safety.
 Meanwhile, 1t was learned that War Production Board Chairman Donald M. Nelson recently told ths Military Affairs Committte that 48-hour week-ordered recently bJ the offlce of Economic Stabilizatior in 32 critical areas--will add only 5O0.00O men to the pool of labor ex. pected to supply the armed forces of the United aNtions and then civilian populations.
 Senator Sheridan Downey, D. Calf, who estimates that only maximum of 50,000 additional work CTS can be shifted from their pres ent occupations to the farms of thiE state even if human ingenuity t strained to the breaking point, esti' mated that the expanded war plans by all government agencies. includ' ing the Army and Navy, will re- uuire the addition of 100000 Der. sons to the federal payroll. Downey said his estimate was absed on fig ures available to him as chair man of hte Senate Civil Service Committee.
 Bankhead and other senators whC will bt joint sponsors of the forced release" bill-Gerald P. Nye, R., N D., Edwin c. Johnson, D.. Colo, anc Elmer Thomas, D., Okla. among others-insist that their bill woulC not imperil the drive toward victory for these reasons:
 1. There is no method in sight to feed the 5000. 900 men who would be training at one time. the Allie! and the civilian populations of oc. cupied countries.
 2. The draft and lure of higher pay in war industries has created an acute farm labor shortage.
 3. There is not sufficient shipping to carry out the existing program and millions of men more thar needed would be detained in camT while production cracked on the home front.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-18
WARRANT OUT
 FOR ASSAILANT'
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 in the shoulder but apparently was deilected in such Q manner that 1t cut Cote's left hand. Mrs. Petrillo ran into the street and was taken to St. Maryis hospital by Traf1c Oflcer Richard Baldwin who stops ped Q passing car.
 A short time later Cote was found in Exchange place with a badly bleeding hand by Harold Blaise, laundry truck driver. who persuaded the youth to go to Waterbury hos pital after he had refused to go to st. Mary's. Detective Lieuts. Wii- liam Foley and Henry Johnson were assigned to investigate by Chief In. spector Joseph Stevens and ques- tioned both Mrs. Petrillo and Cote at the hospitals. The charge against Cote. if probable cause is found. means that he will be bound over for trial In superior court.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-18
TANKS DESTROYED BY NAzIS IN AFRICA
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(Continued from Page D back 35 miles from their foremost positions. Three forward flying fields were evacuated.
 "The fight began last Sunday when two German tank columns moved westward from Faid and Sened. Advanced, lightly -held Amer ican positions were overrun and some advance elements were cut oil.
 "An American counter attack de- layed the German advanced while we evacuated Falsa.
 "On February IS we counter-at- tackled and drove the Germans back six miles. However, Axis reinforce ments again forced the American forces to withdraw.
 Fighting is continuing. The Ger mans apparently have been slowed down."
 He said the apparent purpose of the Axis was to expand their cor ridor bewteen northern Tunisia and the Mareth line in the south.
 "It doesn't appear that this is a general Axis offensive in North Africa" he said.
 He said the British Eighth Army moving against the Mareth line might tend to relieve the Ameri- cans position in central Tunisia.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-18
|ANN SHERIDAN
 OFFERS ADVICE
Sweater Girl Claims Air. plane Plant Should Con.
 suit Her
BY FREDERICK oTHMAN

Hollywood, Feb. 18.-(UP)-- Ann Sheridan indicated today that If the Chance Vought Division of United Aircraft Corp. had come to an ex- pert for advice in the first place 1t never would have wriggled into its sweater girl controversy.
 The red haired Miss Sheridan, long known as one of the saviotrs of the sweater knitting industry, is the expert. She knows as much about sweaters as anybody. A sweat CT properly filled, she insists, never slowed down war production yet.
 She said she understood 53 sweat CT girls at the Stratford, Conn.,, plant of the airplane company had been sent home because they re- fused to wear blue denim jackets. She read further that the Connecti. cut sweater girls had complained to the War Labor Board and had threatened to wear their sweaters to the United States Cancellation Service for an inspection and a showdown.
 "Tch," said Miss Sheridan. T have known girls who do war work who have worn sweaters because they found them warm, practical and safe"
 There are sweaters, Miss Sheridan continued, and then there are sweaters. A little lady in g big sweater is likely to become tangled in the gears. A big lady in a little sweater will cause consternation. Or as ChanceAVought General Man- ager c. B. Anderson put 1t: "The girls come in here to work and not to be attractive to men,"
 Miss Sheridan knows all about sweaters and who is attractive to men and who isn't.
 And think" she continued "that sweaters which are in good taste can be worn at war work as well as on the street or in the home. If sweaters worn by women are not in good taste, they don't belong in the factory anymore than they be- long elsewhere"
 There you have 1t Chance. .Vought Line up those 53 sweater girls and give 'em 8 look. If the sweater is too big for the lady cross her off as menace to the babblting ma chimes. If the lady is too big for the sweater, eliminate her as dis- traction to the men on the other end of the production line.
 If the sweater fits the lady but not too tight, then let her wear 1t while making airplanes. That's Miss Sheridan's advice to you, Chance Vought.
 As for those blue jackets with the yellow trimmings, Chance -Vought you'd better discard 'em. Miss Sher. idan says she knows girls oppose wearing uniforms for war work be- cause they think they lose their in- dividuality.
 And a girl deserves to be individ- ual, even when she's pounding rivetS.
 Miss Sheridan, herself, seldom wears a sweater anymore. She tips the beam at trim 120 pounds, dis- tributed thus: waist 24 inches; hips 34, bust 36. That's par and a girl who measures up to these standards doesn't need @ sweater. Or at least so Miss Sheridan has discovered.
 No matter what she wears the boys crane thelr necks. If there were 53 Ann Sheridans in the Chance" Vought works, nobody'd get any air- planes built.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-18
BRITISH BOMBERS
 ATTACK GERMANY

London, Feb. t0s-(Up)-British long range bombers attacked targets in western Germany last night for the third time ln four nights and returned without the loss of c plane. the air ministry announced today.
 The raid followed . daylight as. sautl yesterday on northwest Ger many.
 Naval planes operating under the RAP fighter command joined the night offensive with attncks on c number Of enemy vessels off the French coast, one of which was sunk,
 British night raiders also attacked western Germany gunady and Mon- day nights. Cologne, ste of the Krupp Arms Wogks, was bombed Sunday night,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-18
Japs As Dangerous
 AS Nazis Kai Shek
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Mrs. Chiang and the President posed for pictures and with Fala the Roosevelt scottie, up front witt chauffeur drove directly to the White House.
 She has been in the United StateI since Nov. 27, most of the time ir a New York hospital where physi. clans have been treating her for ar injury suffered in an automobile accident during a Japanese attack five years ago.
 Meets F. D. R.
 Mrs. Roosevelt, who had met her In Hyde Park, chatted arniably ai she walked through the crowded station with Mrs. Chiang and Chin ese Ambassador Wei Tao-Ming. Mrs Chiang met MT. Roosevelt for the first time when she stepped into the | official White House car.
 Her visit to Washington coincides with growing demands to step up aid to China. Chairman Tom Con- nally, D., Tex, of the Senate For eign Relations Committee, and Sen- ators Hattie Caraway, D., Ark, Ar thur Capper. R., Kan; Styles Bridges, R., N. H.; Lister Hill, D., Ala; and Gerald P. Nye, R., N. D.. agreed today that China should re- ceive more aid. Connally said he favored giving China all possible aid to support the gallant armies of China whe have resisted Japanese aggression SC bravely in the past five years"
 T think we should help them all we can," he added.
 The Pacific war council, meeting at the White House yesterday, dis cussed with the chief executive the when and where" of the forthcom- ing offensives in the Far East. New Zealand Minister Walter Nash cryp. tically commented that the Jap anese might be hit in way they had never dreamed of"
 The House Foriegn Affairs Com. n1ittee, considering legislation tc extend the lend-lease program two more years beyond its present June 30 expiration date, in the last two days has heard Representatives Glare Boothe Luce, R., Conn, ant Walter Judd, R., Minn. - former medcial missionary who spent sev. eral years in China - plead fol greater aid to China.
 Glare Issues Warning
 Mrs. Luce, who spent severa months in China as a special cor. respondent, warned that China must be given substantial quantities oi war materials, both to boost tho morale of the Chinese and to en. able their army to continue theil staunch defense. Judd demanded for the same reasons, that at least 10 per cent of American produced planes and that five per cent of oul lend-lease shipments be sent tc China.
 Last Friday, MT. Roosevelt in his Lincoln's birthday speech promised great and decisive action against the Japanese to drive the in- vaders from the soil of China important actions will be taken in the skies over China and over Jap- an itself"
 British Prime Minister winston Churchill has voiced equally-sole assurances that Japan, as well as Germany, would be brought to "un- conditional surrender"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-18
POLICEMEN MAY
 no EXTRA WORK
Permission From Superin. tendent Only Require
 rient Stipulated

Waterbury policemen will be per- lnitted to take extra work outside the department as the result of acc ton by the board of police commis- sioners at the meeting yesterday afternoon. The board, however, specified that those desiring to take advantage of the ruling must first see Superintendent of Police Daniel J. Carson and inform him of their prospective employment, and that employers be informed that the men are subject to 24-hour call by the police department. The depart ment also disclaims responsibility for men injured during part-time employment. It is believed a mum. Der of department members may take employment in the 'short-hour shifts now offered in many Water- bury factories.
 The board received and placed on file an acknowledgement from the family of the late city controller, Thomas Conlon, for the expression of sympathy sent at the time of GNAAs NOAAAOAA Q dCaVkAs
 A letter from MT. and Mrs. Ray. rnond Moreira of 42 Wyman street, expressed warm gratitude for the action of police in sending the am- bulance at 3 o'clock last Friday morning to take their l1-year-old daughter to the hospital. MT. and Mrs. Moreira wrote that the girl was seriously i'll and they couldn't get a doctor, and concluded: Tt is good to know that you can depend upon the police department for help of any kind"
 Also received and placed on file was a note of appreciation from Atty. Harry Spellman for the work of the police during the recent fire at his home at S7 Willow street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-18
HEARING SLATED
 ON NURSES BILL

The bill presented by Sen. John ?. Tobln, to give nurses Of health and welfare departments in Water. bury lie jobs will Do heard in the General Assembly on March 2. The blll provides the nurses may be re' moved only for cause showu.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-18
WAACS WILL OPEN
 CENTER AT DEVENS

Washington, February ie. - (UPl
 ~ Secretary Of War Henry L. stim- eon announce utoday that the Fourth Womens Army Auxiliary Corps Training Center will be opened in q few weeks at Fort Devens. Mass.
 At the same time, 6tlmoon made public a statement by General George c. Marshall, ehief of staff that the WAhc8 "have eontinclngly dsmongiFated their ability to render Q vital military service.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-18
R0Y. a nRnWNRn

Hartford. Conn, Feb. ios-CUp)-- Edward Leiourneau, c, was drowned late yesterday ln the Park river when the fec gave way and he was plunged into the water. Marion Ford, a, playing with him on the Ice, vas rescued.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-18
1f you need to BullD up RED BLOOD!

Try this grand blood-iro tonic-Lydia Q. Pinkham's Compound TABLETS Qwith added iron) )--one of the best and
 Blood. Pinkham's Tablets are also fa- mous to relieve distress of functional monthly disturbances because of their soothing effect on one ot tDoT1G7l's tTI- poTt0Ht oTO0nS. Follow label directions
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-18
ROoRR oAY PROMOTED

Bristol, Conn.,, Feb. io.-(UP)-- Roger Y. Gay. Earlaington, today bee came president of the Bristol, Brass Corp, succeeding Albert D. Wilson. Bristol. who becomes chairman Of the board.