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The Nome nugget., 1943-12-03
Down Mexico Way"
 Tonight

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 Fay Mckenzie was not borr with a silver spoon in her mouth but she cut her teeth on a thea tre program!
 Her parents were both actors and Fay spent he childhood barn storming up and down the wes' coast in tent shows, stock, any thing in which they happened te find work. .s
 Fay comes from a long, proud . line of actors. She made her mo. tion picture debut at the age o1 ten weeks, playing Gloria Swan son's infant, and by the time she had attained the maturity of six months, she was playing in Oli. yer Hardy comedies.
 Now at the age of twenty years, she is a Republic starlet and was awarded the leading femme role opposite Gene Autry in that studios lavish-scale west ern, Down Mexico Way" which comes to the Dream Theatre to- night.
 Fay won her first big time rec ognition with her outstanding role in Meet the People, Holly wood Theatre Alliance produc- ton which astonished all old timers by the duration and sue cess of it's run, staged and acted as it was, by a group of young sters who had had little or nc previous stage, experience. Mos of them were given screen tests and few of them, such as Miss Mckenzie, reached the top.
 Fay was born in Hollywood upsetting the usual formula ot pretty girls emigrating from the sticks to find fame and fortune in the film capitol Her school ing was sketchy, being picked LII from a succession of tutors anc brief periods in public schools. ! She appeared periodically ir extra and bit roles throughout her life, but never had a real opportunity until Meet the Peo- ple' zoomed her to widespread popularity. After this she ap- peared in Nav, He's Making Eyes At Me" Its A Date" witt Deanna Durbin, and "Irene", but her current role opposite Autry is her first important lead. She has one overpowering ob- session; that is love of swing People think I'm nuts" she says, "when I hear swing. I start laughing; I think it's funny There's humor in it's rhythm and its meaning. The jitterbugs think I'm insulting them when laugh The classic boys think have perverted sense of humor. But l still love swing, and I think its funny"
 Smiley Brunette has his usual comedy role in Down Mexico Way Other important roles are taken by Rarold Huber, Sid ney Blackmer, Arthur Loft, Jul ian Rivero, Ruth Robinson, Mur- ray Alper, Joe Sawyer, Thorn ton Edwards, Duncan Renaldo and Paul Fix.
 Babes on Broadway
 Saturday
 Mickey Rooney and Judy Gar land team together on the screen at the Dream Theatre Saturday evening when Babes On Broad way" will be flashed on the
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-03
ARMY WATCHDOG GOES AWOL

DENVER -(AP)- The strang- est case of AWOL in Denver Is that of Skipper, red+brown United States Army watchdog.
 Skipper was en route through Denver to a new Army station and he escaped from his cage.
 Although his soldier escort searched for two days he could find no trace of Skipper and fin ally had to leave Denver without him.
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-03
Dream Pre-Vues

screen. This laugh epic is one of the few screen features that this youthful couple have filmed, and is a sure-fire hit for your theatre menu of the week. A Travel talk" is included on the same pro- gram
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-03
Adventure of Martin
 Eden," Sunday

Glenn Ford and Claire Trevor are featured for Sunday evening at the Dream Theatre in "Adyen : ture of Martin Eden, which will be shown twice during the eve hing. ''Red Ridinghood Rides Again" is the comedy scheduled
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-03

Look for 1t in The Nugget you'll find it.
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-03
Babes on Broadway
 Saturday

Mickey Rooney and Judy Gar land team together on the screen at the Dream Theatre Saturday evening when Babes On Broad way" will be flashed on the
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-13
WPB HALTS WAR
PLANT BUILDING
Declares That Nation Now
Has Enough Industries
To Defeat Axis

WASHINGTON, May II. III
Declaring the nation now has
enough industrial plants to pro-
duce the materials needed to whip
the Axis, the War Production
Board today ordered halt to vir-
tually all war plant construction
which cannot be completed by Oc-
tober l.
At the same time, the board
directed a widespread conversion
of machine tool plants and other
existing facilities to production Of
more urgently needed goods. Ma
terials and men released by the ac-
ton, which WPB called a "sig-
nificant milestone in the war pro-
gram" will be- channeled into the
war program.
Construction Of new plants esti-
mated at between $500, 200, 900 and
ST ,O00, ,O00,0 will be halted, even
if it is necessary to dismantle
partly completed ones, a WPB
spokesman said. Many machine
tool orders will be cancelled, and
tool plants will be converted to
production of things that shoot. "
In the several arms categories
where supply now exceeds mill
tary demand, plants will be cur
Continued on Page Six; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-13
Walter Lippmann Says:
Greater Things Coming
After African Triumph

waged in the islands of the Pa
.cific, the defeat Of Japan must be
brought about from the mainland
of Asia and of North America:
from China in the south and from
Alaska in the north. But there is
no way into China except by start
ing from British India, by air
transport at the present time and
then by the reconquest of Burma,
Thailand and Indo China. And
there could be no way to Japan
from the north if it were not that
Russia, while fighting Hitler in Eu-
rope, is strong enough to hold Sc
curely Siberia. For Japan can be
weakened, but Japan cannot be
crushed, from Hawaii, Guadalca.
nal, or Australia.
Therefore, since the Philippines
were lost, the possibility of an
offensive war against Japan has
depended on reinforcing Russia in
Europe, so that she would not
lose Siberia by Withdrawing her
forces, and upon making certain
that the British position in the
Middle-East at the backdoor o1
India was a secure source of mil
itary power. Some have wished
to reduce our lendlease shipments
to Russia and the British Middle
East in order to intensity the war
Continued ON Page Six; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-13
BY WALTER LIPPMANN

Not only in Europe but in Asia,
too, the victory in Africa is the
beginning Of greater things. For
Europe the decisions h ave no
doubt been taken; for Asia they
are still in the making because OF
the necessity of reconciling some
what different but equally respec-
table professional military opia-
ions. The problem is obviously not
one which laymen can decide or
even discuss. But this much is
clear: it is an error to suppose
that war can be conducted by the
agitation of pressure groups, and
it is an even greater error to as
sumo that the decision to begin
the offensive in Africa has meant
that we were concentrating on Hit
ler and ignoring Japan.
That might have been said if in
the last year we had mobilized all
our forces in Britain for an in
yasion of the Continent across the
English Channel. But the African
campaign has been a very diff
fereat business. Africa is DIS III
dispensable to us in mounting an
offensive from China as it is for
an offensive in Europe.
It is now agreed by all who
have studied the problem IN
while a war of attrition can be
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-13
ALLIES DESTROY
SlClLlAN FIELD
|Marsala Virtually Wiped
From Map By Terri
fic Bombardment
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, May 12- R -
Allied bombers have delivered
new fearful drubbings to eastern
and western ports of Sicily, it was
disclosed today, virtually wiping
Marsala off the map and leaving
the whole dock area of Catania
afire.
The assault on Catania, on the
eastern coast of Sicily, was made
by so Liberators that swung out
over the Mediterranean and pick
ed up their fighter escort en- route
from the Spitfire base on the Brit
ish island Of Malta.
The Libera1ors dropped $50,
pounds of bombs, blew up an am
munition ship, left a tanker afire,
and landed bombs on other ship
ping, Middle East air commu.
nique said.
Marsala, on the western Sicilian
coast, was attacked yesterday by
200 heavy and medium bombers
and 100 fighters. The island Pan.
telleria also was raided, and planes
from Malta struck at Porto En-.
pedocle in Sicily and trains in
southern Italy.
Over Tunisia itself the powerful,
Allied air fleet was virtually sus
pending it's offensive for lack o1
suitable targets DIS the Axis de
fenses collapsed.
At Catania, docks and harbors
were pounded. One mole, with
three ships tied up to it, was de.
molished, and 'the whole d
was left in flames," said the com.
munique.
One ship which appeared to be
an ammunition vessel was strug.
Cling to leave the harbor before
it exploded. Another ship appar.
emily was broken into three pieces.
Two enemy planes were report
ed downed. Other shipping was
harassed yesterday in the Aegean
by long-range fighters.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-13
MANY SUBS SUNK
BY ALLIED SHIPS
At Least Four And Posi-
bly, Ten U-Boats De-
stroyed By Escort

LONDON, May H. Up Allied
escort ships and planes fighting
2 fierce, eight-day running battle
against pack of as many as Is
Axis submarines attacking an At
lantic convoy recently sank four
and perhaps 10 of the U-boats,
the Admiralty announced today.
It was the greatest SUE e s S
against submarines thus far re-
ported by the Admiralty.
The battle against the savage
thrusts of the subs took place in
termittently for eight days and
nights late in April and early in
May.
The convoy suffered some dam
age but the majority Of the mer-
chantmen reached port in safety, "
the communique declared.
First reports state that in the
course of these actions four U.
boats are known to have been de-
stroyed, four very probably were
destroyed, and two others were
probably destroyed"
One of the British cutters in the
battle was the Seanen, the former
U. S. S. Champlain, completed in
1929 and one OF the ships trans.
ferred to the Royal Navy in Sep.
tember, 1910.
On April 30, the Admiralty said,
eight U-boats were concentrated
against the convoy, but a series
of attacks was repulsed success
fully. A gale blew up May l, last
ing three days. But when tn e
weather improved, more U-boats
joined the hunt and during the
fourth, fifth and sixth Of May it
Is estimated that our escorts were
in action with a pack of some Is
U-boats."
They pressed home some 80 at
tacks, with the escorts fighting
back valiantly in weather 1T o o
heavy for complete air cover"
The destroyer Oribi and the cor
vette Sunflower each rammed a
submarine. The corvette Snowflake
sank a third sub with d e p h
charges. The destroyer Vidette
depth-charged the fourth into OBJ
ivion.
Royal Canadian Air Force planes
joined the hunt, very probably
destroying one (submarine) d
possibly destroying another
The corvette Loosestrife forced
Continued on Page Six; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-13
Nazi A1nor Rolled
Back By Russians In
L0wer Donets Sector
Soviet Guns Wreck Some OF Last German
Defense Lines Northeast Of Novoros-
sisk; Big Drive May Be Ready

LONDON, Thursday, May 49,
REA new Red army thrust roll
ed back German armor Wednes-
day on he lower Donets front mid
way between Kharkov and Rostov,
Moscow announced early today
Heavy Russian guns thundered
in the Caucasus m e a n w h i l to
wreck some Of the last German
defense lines northeast Of Novoros-
sisk, said the midnight commune
que as recorded by the Soviet mon
itor. The big barrage was per-
haps intended to pave the way for
a Soviet Grive to clean up the
Kuban delta.
A special broadcast also told of
continued Russian aerial b low s
heavily damag gi"g II more COM
munications cen, RS behind t h e
German lines, bringing total rail
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-13
Compensation For OCD
Workers Made Possible

Civilian Defense volunteers who
give time and effort toward pro-
tecting the home-front against pos
sible enemy invasion are to receive
compensation if they are injured in
line Of duty, according to information
revealed at a meeting Of representa-
tive OCD leaders and welfare work
ers from eight counties, held in the
Cape Fear hotel ballroom Wednes-
day morning.
The plan by means of which ci-
william defense workers will be COM
pensated for injury on the job was
presented by George K. Snow, as
sistant state director of OCD N. A.
Avera, Social Security board field
office director, and Mr.. Grier of
the state welfare office. Presiding
over the session was June H. Rose
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-13
Middle East Assumes
Aspect Of Likely War
Theater Against Axis

CAIRO, May 12.-R- The
Middle East took on the as
poets of q theater Of likely war
action today with arrival Of the
veteran Sixth South African
armored division and announce
ment that British military and
government leaders Of the area
are comforting here.
The tough Sixth armored d.
vision played a part in the con-
quest of Ethiopia and Italian
East Africa; went into Egypt
and helped start the chase Of
Rommel across the desert,
then returned home, but is back
now somewhere in the Middle
East.
Military observers declined to
discuss the total Allied strength
in the Middle East, but indi-
Gated it was coincidental that
the presence of the South Afri-
can division was disclosed
while war strategy yleaders
are comforting in Cairo.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-13
POST WAR GROUP
MEMBERS NAMED
Seven Persons Nominated
For Long-D Deferred Plan
ming Committee

Seven members of the long-de'
ferred postwar planning commit
tee, set up by Senator J. E. L.
Wade during the last general as
sernbly, were appointed at joint
meeting of the city council anc
the county board of commission
ers Wednesday morning.
The seven, nominated Tuesday
by a joint committee from each
group, were unanimously elected
to the five-to-12 man board by the
joint session Wednesday.
The men selected to plan five
point program designed to elimln
ate postwar depression in thi.
section are: Walter Curtis, C. D
Hogue, Hargrove Bellamy, Ed
Jones, c. B. Parmele, H. A. Marks
and j. G. Thornton. ~.
Members of the nominating com.
mittee who selected the planning
group were Ronald Lane and Bruce
B. Cameron from the city council
and Harry R. Gardner and Joseph
M. Hall of the couny board Of com.
missioners.
In addition to the seven active
members, the Mayors of Whining
ton, Wrightsville Beach and Cago-
lima Beach, as well as the City
manager and the chairman Of the
county commissioners, were elect
ed to serve as ex-officio members
of the postwar committee.
The act, introduced in the last
meeting of the state legislature by
Senator J. E. L. Wade, and rati'
fled March 6 by the general assem-
bly, embodies five points for the
committee to study and recon-
mend methods of action, chief Of
which is to provide economic ano
stability for Wilmington by sub
sidizing or purchasing war indus
tries and utilizing them in differ
ent ways.
The text of the resolution follows:
"The General Assembly of NORTH
Carolina do enact:
.'Section l. That there is hereby
established for the County OF New
Hanover and the City of Whining
ton a special committee to Of
known as the Committee on Post
War Planning TOR Economic Sta
bility.
"Section 2. That the special com
mittee shall be composed OF no
less than five nor more thar
eleven members who shall serve
without compensation. Within SIX
ty days after the ratification O
this Act, the Board of Commission
ers of the County of New Hanover
and of the Board Of Commissioner
of the City of Wilmington, meeting
in joint session, shall appoint tne
members of the special commit
tee who shall be residents and clt
liens of said city or county. Ih'
members of the special committee
at their first meeting, shall elec
one of their members to act a.
chairman. Any vacancies occur
ring on said committee shall o'
(Continued on PAGE Six; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-13
GaSOline Needs In East
WinGOvern OPA Policy

|tttiea, tstisaoAal, regional, and state OPA
|ovas -d,S' Is, conferring with New Han
bos,a m war Price and Rationing
|pls;nu lu . members Wednesday made
|torT II I.la, .lle fact that pressing needs
|sas+ united gasoline supplies in the
/ ~ ,Fh,la must dictate, in the future,
|ipg 4aio "a boiled policy on the grant
hi sns W applications for supplement
Aoa a,la special gasoline rations. "
|dstrtio tofolng to E. H. Schellenberg,
|he oal mileage rationing officer,
beer s"sollne quota in this area has
Bearino oVefdrawn ;. by IL per cent.
isbinn the burden of the dinin-
and S supply of oil are the Army
.n N0Vy, he emphasized.
soutossplt utssplte all contention to t h e
~ the Eastern Seaboard
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-13

junction attacks to more than SC
in four consecutive days.
The Russians identified the sec.
tor of their new lower Donets front
advance as near Lisichansk.
This is the same sector as Slav.
yansk, where the German radio
admitted that concentrated Rus.
sian drive Wednesday had scored
some initial gains.
There was no immediate indi
cation whether this was the full.
scale drive for which the Germans
have said the Russians have been
massing gwstrong reserves. !
More than 600 Germans W er {
killed in the Lisichansk area fight.
ing, said the Russian communique,
as the Red army drove against
Continued on Page Six; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-13

FORECAST
North Carolina: Slightly cooler today.
Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 80 p. m, yesterday.
Temperature
1880 a. M, 74.6; 7:30 a. M, 66.7; 80
p. m.,. 72.1; 1880 p. m. 1913.
Maximum 1855; Minimum 66; Mean 70.S
Normal 70.
Humidity
/ 80 a. M, .83; 1880 a. M, so; 1880
p. M, n; 1880 p. M, 80
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 7:30 p.
M, 2.02 inches.
Total since the first Of the month,
600 inches.
r;S., Unr Tndox,
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-13

of Grenville, assistant state direc-
tor of OCD in charge of eastern
counties. Mr.. Grier presented the
civilian war assistance angle; Mr..
Avera, the Social Security boards
interest in the program; and Mr..
Snow outlined medical benefits OBJ
tainable under the act.
1t was pointed out that only those
volunteer workers who are regis.
tered with the volunteer office or
with the OCD personnel officer are,
eligible for the benefits.
While emphasis was placed on
the Civilian Defense compensation
plan, it was 'divulged by the de-
fense authorities that a measure
whereby all civilians injured or
Continued on Page Six; Col. A.
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states are being drained OF gaso-
line to supply the convoy fleets
that are bound for our fighting
fronts. There are facts about the
movement of gasoline tanks and
trucks that for military reasons
cannot be divulged. But citizens
may gain some idea of what our
gasoline shipments are by learn
ing that we are furnishing gaso-
line to four complete armies
our own, the First and Eighth
British armies, and the French, "
he said.
Mr.. Schellenberg defended OPA
methods of handling gasoline dis
tributicn, and asserted that the
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-13

CluulIlS guns dIIu oil VI dlt III d
serviceable condition"
Thus six months and four days
after the Allied landing in North
Africa, the Battle of Tunisia had
ended in a complete triumph -
clearing the way for an Allied in-
vasion of Europe.
A nine-mile-wide circle Of Axis
resistance was reported holding
out in the Zaghouan mountains
southwest of Cap Bon peninsula,
but the enemy was in a hopeless
spot there and was expected to
surrender or be wiped out quick
! ly.
Won Arnim and most of his staff
were taken by British armored
columns sweeping through Cap Bon
peninsula.
The capture of $50, prisoners
in the final eight days Of the cam
paign brought to 100000 the num-
Der of Axis soldiers taken since
the fighting began in Africa near
ly three years ago.
This Represents II German and
26 Italian divisions, and does not
include dead and wounded.
| Ir addition to Won Arnim, Won
Sponeck and Roich, the French re-
ported the capture today of two
other German generals, one NAM
| o1 Vn1inh yIyhn hod fnGnn
command of the Italian Superba
Pfeiffer, commanding group
bearing his own name.
The French captured $4,000 men
in exacting an unconditional SUR
-render Of all German and Italian
forces fighting between Zaghouan'
and Saouaf.
This was particularly sweet re-
venge to the French who remem.
bered Hitler's little dance of joy
in the Compeigne forest nearly
three years ago when Marshal Pc
tains' regime signed an armistice.
Major-General Won Sponeck, the
commander of the goth Light di.
vision, surrendered to Lieut.. Gen.
Bernard Freyberg, New Zealand,
commander, on the British Eighth
Army front north of Enfidaville to-
day.
| General Ereyberg during the
morning demanded the surrender
of the Goth division, but Won Spo.
neck refused and said his troops
would follow his orders to fight
until the last cartridge.
Later in the day however he
preferred his unconditional surren-
der and his former elite troops
were put behind barbed wire
cages, where thousands of their
hcomrades- had preceded them.
| (The Italian First Army lead.
er, Gen Giovanni Messe, appar.
emily also is due for capture on
this front. A Rome communicate
said earlier today that he had re.
fused Freyberg's surrender de-
mand, and chose to fight on.)
United States troops already had
captured 1898 prisoners, mostly
Germans, in the Bizerte area
which they and their supporting
French elements conquered last
week.
| The British First Army took 25,-
| 900 or more in the break-through
| Continued on Page Six; Col. Al
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-13
Dutch Are Told To Defy
Axis And Defend Selves

LONDON, May 12-(P-Hollands 100000 ex-service-
instructed unprecedented action by the Dutch
government in London tonight to defy new German reg
straon order and to defend themselves against any re-
sulting Nazi attempts to arrest them
The order marking the exed Dutch governments first
counsel Of outright violence in resistance to the Germans
issued at hour when Adolf Hters fortress Europe
already ridden with disorder, shaking under the i'm