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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-29
MORE INVASION
HEADS REVEALED
Doolittle Is Named Com
mander OF u. S. Air
Force In Britain

WASHINGTON. Dec. % Up -
Mai. Gen. James H. Doolittle,
whose strategic airforce slammed
a gate across the enemy's supply
routes and smashed his bases be-.
hind him to make Tunisia trap
for Nazi armies, is taking over
direction of American airforces
in Britain as the time for cross
channel invasion approaches.
The assignment was annouced
by Presidet Roosevelt today along
with other major shifts in the
high command, including assign
ment of Lieut. Gen. Jacob L. De-
vers. former American command
er in the European theater, as
commander of American forces in
the Mediterranean area and
deputy to Sir Henry Maitland Will
son. overall commander there.
The precise complexion of the
air command in Britain was lNt
clarified by the President, who an
nounced only that Doolittle had
been shifted to head of the 9th
Air Free there. But with Ameri'
can strategic bombing of Ger
many from Britain or any other
base already assigned to Lieut..
Gen. Carl Spaatz, and overall air
command in the invasion from
Britain in the hands of Air Mar
shall Sir Arthur Tedder, the pros
pect arose that Doolittle's chief as
signlnent might be the tactical
task of hammering out an inva-
sion road barely ahead of the
landing barges and holding an air
umbrella over them.
Speculation on the tactical COM
mand for the cross-channel drive,
however. had centered principal
1y on Mai. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton
recently relieved from command
CT the 9th Air Force in North Afrl-
ca without an announced new as
signment.
The Doolittle appointment still
could leave the tactical post to
Brereton or someone else with
Doolittle handling more gener-
allied duties.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-29
7inv Island In Atlantic Aids Allied
Movement OF Planes To Africa

It was announced last April that
Lockheed Lightning P-38's, single
scatter fighter planes, were going
to the wars under their own pow
er. Ascension island was the key.
Ascension, the War Department
said, was one of the main gate
ways through which the U. S. sent
increasingly heavy air power so
important in driving the Axis out
of North Africa and forcing the
surrender of Italy"
Construction of wideawake field
on Ascension was started March 30,
1943 when detachment of Army
engineers moved in and started
working day and night on the pile
Continued on Page Five; Col. y
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j. s. Is Using
ANewWeapon
In ThePacific
Japs Being Driven Back By
Worlds Greatest
Carrier Fleet
DESTROYER IS SUNK
Navy Has Not Been Idle
In Arms Development,
Knox Says

WASHINGTON, Dec. o. Up -
American secret weapons, plus the
worlds largest fleet Of aircraft car
riers, are driving til e japanese
hack from bases captured in the
eneny's initial lunge out into the
Pacific.
This was disclosed today by Sec
rotary of the Navy Knox who re-
vealed at the same time that an
American destroyer was sunk and
a small coastal transport damaged
bv enemy bombs Sunday in the
INVASION of Cape Gloucester on
New Britain island. That landing
is part of the campaign to knock
out Rapaul japanese key base in
the south Pacific.
Ship Not Named
The destroyer was not identified
nor was Knox able to give the
number of casualties. The sink
inc of the destroyer brought to
134 the number Of American naval
craft lost since the war started.
Knox provided little information
on the sec,et weapon or weapons
which he said the Navy has de-
veloped during the last year and
nut into service against the Nazis
and the japanese.
IN the field of rev weapons,
or eacret weaDons." he said in re-
viewing he year, ''the Navy has
bv no means beer idle The Japa-
nese especially have felt the sting
Of weapons which although greatly
improved never tneless are of con-
ventional types. japanese and Nazi
alike, however, also have felt de-
struction wrought By weapons not
known to them, and will continue
to do sc"
Largest in World
In discussing expansion OF t h e
fieet-to the largest in the world
Knox said that carriers, includ-
ing escorts. now total "six times
as many in commission as there
were when the Japanese attacked
Pearl Harbor.' At that time the
Navy had seven carriers in serv-
ice, making the present total more
than AZ.
Aboard those carriers, Knox said,
Continued on Page Five; Col. b
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WASHINGTON, Dec. % Up -
A pinpoint of land in the South At.
lantic, less than SO square miles
in area, was disclosed by the Ar
my today as one o. the most vi
tai spots in Allied strategy. 1t has
served as funnel for shipping
5000 planes to Africa.
The War Department lifted the
veil of secrecy from the role play
ed by tiny Ascension island, dot
on the place ferry route between
South America and Africa.
Ascension is only one stop on
one route which the Air Transport
Command uses in it's trans-Atlan.
tic operations, but the department
declared that probably no base
has such strategic significance.
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s
w : 1MED
More In, $4,000 Men
Have Gone Back To
Mill Jobs
$4,000 TONS ARE LOST
No Agreement Reached On
Wage Dispute-Murray
Is Silent
$4,000 TONS ARE LOST

PITTSBURGH, Dec. %. --(P)-
Most of the more than 10000 steel
workers idle since midnight Dec.
"a returned to their jobs today,
with some of their leaders claim
ing victor in the first round in the
battle of the CLIO united steel
workers union for a wage boost OF
II cents an hour above the ceiling
fixed y the Little Steel'' formu-
la.
Reports from the nine states
where scores of mills were closed
showed more than 1885, 900 had re-
turned by nightfall with others ex'
pected back when operating condi
tions permitted.
The American Iron and Stee]
Institute in a tentative estimate
said about 125, 900 tons of steel was
lost by the work stoppages.
Murray Silent
Philip Murray, president of the
Union, maintained silence about
the controversy and during the day
joined his committee which is ne
gotiating with subsidiaries of the
U. S. Steel Corporation here fol
a new contract.
The big Steel' contract is ex.
Ipected to be the master Ilan fol
others to be made with 500 con.
Germs. Neither side would give an
estimate of just when this agree.
ment would be ready for the War
Labor Boards approval-or if a
stalemate developed as in the re.
cent coal controversy, when il
would go before the board for a
directive.
Although a War Labor Board
spokesman emphasized again today
that wage agreements will be re.
troactive only so long as the in
creases conform with the admin
istration's sterilization program,
the feeling was growing in the in.
dustry that some way will be found
to give steel workers a boost.
And l don't think it will be by
giving up our lunches" chuckleo
one union leader, referring to the
agreement between secretary Ickes
and John L. Lewis which cut Il
minutes off the miners lunch per.
iod.
He also said he considered the
WLB directive of last night grant
ing the retroactive pay agree
ment a victory because it gave
tn. union a chance to prove its
Continued on Page Five; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-29
NC. GAS SHORTAGE
UNKNOWN TO PAW
Officials Say Buying Spree
Has Caused Stocks
To Drop

WASHINGTON, Dec. % up -
A petroleum Administration for
War PAW spokesman today at
tributed reported gasoline short
age in North Carolina to rush OF
holiday buying and the recent
scare brought on by rumors that
a sales freeze was planned.
The PAW representative said Of
ficials here were not aware of a
North Carolina gasoline shortage,
but if one exists it should only be
temporary matter since we are
meeting ALLEGATIONS to all east
coast areas"
He explained that PAW was not
denying a drought existed, but that
spot shortages like this appears
to be develop frequently and are
often cleared up before we are adj
vised."
The spokeman added that with
the small margin under which
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-29
Euents On Soviet Front Do Much
To Support Generals Prediction

AS the general spoke his mind,
powerful Russian forces in h e
Kiev bulge again were driving for
ward, battering their way toward
severance of the only two rail
lines still connecting German ar
mics in southwestern Russia with
Germany. Undeterred by the pro-
ionged and bloody Nazi counter
offensive that had held open that
vital communications gateway for
weeks, the Russians were on the
move toward the Rumanian bor-
der.
Berlin estimated the R u SIS i n
forces into this resumed Red army
offensive at 100000 men. which
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-29
.B0WLES ATTACKS
PRESSURE GROUPS
Says Their Voices Have
Been Too Loud For
Good OF Nation

WASHINGTON. Dec. 20 R -
The voices of profiteers, chisel-
ers, lobbyists ano pressure groups
have been altogether too loud and
too insistent'' foc the good of ma
tin at war, Price Administrator
Chester Bowles said tonight.
Expressing hope that in 1914
1--WE here at home can learn to
work together in a greater spirit
Of cooperation and understanding
than we nave in the last few
months" the OPA chief said in a
radio address over the Blue net
work:
''Often I have been shocked, as
I know you have been, by the self
ish clamor of those who seek high
er and still higher prices and prof
its while the country as WEGE
is fighting for it's existence and
it's future.;'
Bowles' appeal for cooperation
on the nome front followed a re-
view of the supply situation for
January on each rationed product.
He warned that meat points. to
be held generally at current lev
els during January, may have to
be raised in February for some
items, adding that ut seems most
likely there will be- further in
creases in subsequent months.
BoWles said there would be
some changes in canned and
frozen food values for January, to
be announced Thursday, but did
not Indicate whether they would
be lowered Or raised.
The Administrator asserted that
in many respects the truck tire
situation constituted the most Sc
rious shortage in the country to-
CONTINUED on Page Five; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-29
PARTISANS PUSH
THE NAILS BACK
Germans Forced To Re-
treat In One Section
OF Croatia

LONDON, Dec. 28.--GerInan
forces have been thrown back in
one section of Croatia bv the Yugo-
slav partisan army, and in Bosnia
fighting has turned especially vio-
lent as German reserves stream
up to the front. Marshal Josip
Broz' headquarters announced to-
day
German propaganda, now &C.
knowledging the major nature Of
this action on the Balkan front,
claimed through the Nazi-cotroll-
ed Hungarian news agency that
four full Yugoslav briagades num-
bering in all about 4,500 men, had
been wiped OUT in a single battle
about Samantha in Croatia.
Broz' communique said several
hundred Germans were killed in
the Livno-Duvno area of western
Bosnia where the partisans repuls-
ed and threw back in disorder a
column of Germans which sought
to take Glamoc, IS miles north
of Livno.
In all parts of eastern Bosnia
the partisans were on the offen-
sive, battling Germans and Chef
niks especially around the towns
If Klad"nz and Zivir'zar.
The Yugoslavs said they attack
ed a arfie1d nea~ 7n"r~ capi-
tai of Croatia, capturing 225 pris-
oners an TAXING ,~,''oi, ~'a- .o+v
They asserted large enemy camp
at Turopolje in the same area was
blown up as well as a bridge near
by.
Broz' partisans clashed with
Chetnik troops of Gen. Draja Mi
hailovic near Novo Selo and routed
them with heavy losses, the COM
munique said.
The German news agency DNR
asserted that in a large-scale Oh.
Grafton which lasted IL days Ger
man troops near Bahia killed 670
partisans and took 1876 prisoners.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-29
.SALERN0 LANDING
ON A SH0ESTRINC
Army Discloses Fifth Had
Only Three Divisions
At Beginning
A1r1En HEADQUARTERS, Al

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
eiers, Dec. % I'D -TN" 'ta''an
campaign, now engaging hundreds
of thousands of men, began with
the Fifth Army strength amount
ing to only three infantry divisions
and the Eighth Army to little more
than a corps it was revealed to-
day in an official review OF the
Italian campaign.
The original landings at Salerno
were made by one American and
two British divisions in '"'rH - f."
military gamble because there was
insufficient time after the end OF
the struggle in Sicily to prepare
other forces for an amphibious op-
Grafton.
The seriousness of the Allied po-
sition in the early stages OF this
battle and the developments in
Continued on Page Five; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-29
FDR IS HOPEFUL
Says U. S. Will Surrender
Control At End OF
The Emergency
UNDER STRIKE ACT .
Plans To Name Group To
Get Together On His
FEPC Committee
UNDER STRIKE ACT

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.-- Up -
Hope that the railroads can be
turned back to private operation
soon was expressed by President
Roosevelt today as the Army, on
his orders, extended it's control to
all major carriers and prepared
to use troops to I'm tains if nee
essary.
Mr.. Roosevelt was not specific
at his press-radio conference, how
ever, as to the conditions under
which government operation would
be surrendered.
Question Too Much
He was asked if the carriers
would be restored to private man.
agement if the three operating
brotherhoods which had not done
so agreed to arbitration of their
wage dispute. The question was
too iffy, he replied.
will the government keep the
railroads for the duration of the
emergency" another reporter ask
ed.
Mr.. Roosevelt said yes, but when
meant the duration Of the war or
the strike threat, he replied that
he wanted to turn the carriers
back o private operation as soon
as he could.
Under Strike Act
In response to another question,
he said a rail strike would come
under the ConnaIly-Slnith Act. This
law makes it a criminal offense
to conspire to strike, or encour-
age strike, in government
operated war facility.
| Mr.. Roosevelt also told the con-
ference he hoped to appoint COM
mittee to get labor and railroad
management together on the ques-
ton of an order from his Fair
Employment Practices Committee.
sonnet be without discrimination as
to race.
Seventeen Southern railroads and
terminals replied that they were
prevented by union contracts from
complying with the order, and also
challenged the authority of t III
FEPC.
Question Brought Up
A reporter brought up the case
of the Is incorporating railroad
unions which agreed yesterday to
accept government award Of 4
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-29
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War Analyst

Events in Russia 60 far to sup
port General Dwight D. EisenhoW-
er's sober confidence that 1914 can
be made the victory year in Eu-
rope under the Allied-Russian three
way attack program mapped at
Teheran.
Eisenhower made his declaration
in his farewell to his western Med
iterranean command to take over
the job of Anglo American su-
preme commander in the west. Ii
will now be his duty to- set in mo-
ton at the appointed time the west
ern Jaw of the vast pincer attack
agreed upon at Teheran.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-29
Fresh Ham Raised
One Ration Point

WASHINGTON, Zee. 2s. -(B
- Fresh ham was boosted one
point per pound in ration value
today and other meat items in
general were left unchanged
for January in the face of q
congressional move to take
pork off the ration list entirely
for a time to clear a market
glut.
The Office of Price Admin
istration, in announcing next
months few changes in meat
and fat values, reported that
movement of fresh hams has
increased considerably since
valuation of spare stamp No.
1 in ration book for five
points on pork. For that rea-
son the current difference be-
tween ration point value of
fresh and smoked hams was
eliminated.
Because of overcrowded cold
storage facilities, another gen.
eral reduction of meat point
values had been considered a
possibility. Such a slash recent
ly was applied to pork items to
move a record production into
consumption.
Movement of some processed
foods out of storage, however,
is expected to provide addi-
tional space for meat. That
movement at the same time in
creases the likelihood Of a re-
duction in processed food va
Continued nm Page Two. Col !
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-29
Marines Advancing

ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
| QUARTERS, New Guinea, Wednes'
day, Dec. 20. -P)- The United
States Marines invading Cape
Gloucester, New Britain, are with
in mile and a half of the enemy
airdrome, Gen. Douglas MacArth'
ur's communique said today.
Thirty-seven japanese planes
were downed in heavy enemy raids
on the Sixth Army's positions al
Arawe, 60 miles southeast OF Cape
Gloucester. The enemy again at.
tackled outposts there, but were
repulsed as they were in previous
attacks Sunday morning.
The enemy showed fighting en-
ergy in opposition to the Marine
landing forces at Cape Gloucester,
setting off four stiff counterattack s
against the Leathernecks east OF
the cape. All were beaten back
the communicate said.
The airdrome at Cape Gloucester
is the prime objective of the Lea
thernecks who established beach
heads there in Sundays landings.
Target Hill, 45O-foot elevation, fell
to the Marines shortly after the
landing, and this position is being
used by Marine artillery to pound
the enemy positions on and neal
| the airdrome.
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Throw Extra Men
Into Bloody Italian Fight

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Agiers, Dec 28.-QF9-
The Germans threw another fresh division into the mud
and blood of the Italian front today in desperate effort
to halt relentless Allied attacks which pryng the Nazs
loose from their grips the road Rome and on the
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-29
TWELVE JAPANESE
SHIPS ARE SUNK
One Destroyer And Other
Vessels Destroyed By
u. S. Subs

WASHINGTON, Dec. %. --(P)-
Raiding Japanese supply lines ov'
er which the enemy is trying te
supply bases in the South Pacific,
American submarines have blasted
a destroyer and II other vessels
to bring to 536 the number Of en-.
envy craft sunk, probably sunk
or damaged by the undersea arm
of the Navy.
This largest sinking report in
recent months gave emphasis te
"a recent statement by Secretary
Knox that the submarines on theil
lonely patrols through the far Pa
cific are doing "an excellent job"
No details were disclosed on the
sinking Of the destroyer. two large
tankers, one large freighter, two
medium transports and six medium
freighters, which went down
somewhere in the Pacific
All of the ships sunk were ir
the category Of vessels used tt
carry men and materials to the far
flung Japanese bases. Presumably
the destroyer was on convoy duty
The submarine damage, which
with aerial bombing has forced the
Japanese in some parts of the
South Pacific to resort to use Of
barges for moving supplies
brought to 1856 the number of en-
envy ships definitely sunk. In ad
dition the Navy has announced
probable sinking of So Japanese
ships and dana ging Of ia others
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They Call 1t Pacific
by CLARK LEE

our trucks. If they had been expe-
rienced soldiers we wouldn' t be here"
Ganahl told me that story many
weeks later in Bataan. That eve
ming he was too exhausted to talk
much.
That night I asked him only one
question: What happened to the
rest of our northern forces?"
He said, Hell! WE are the north
ern forces, what's left of U.S."
Col. Collyer, who was one of
the officers talking to Ganahl and
who had just driven up from look
out post overlooking Lingayen, told
us that few minutes before he had
counted 56 Japanese ships of the
coast. He said the main japanese
landings had been made at Bauang
and at Da Mortis. We wanted to 20
to the lookout but had to make plans
for the night.
We drove on into Baguio and 1t
was already so dark that all we
could see were wide streets and big
homes surrounded by bougainvillaea
and other flowers and a huge ca
thedral outlined against the overcast
sky. I was cool for the first time in
month
We found our way to the home
OF Maj. Joaquin Garcia of the
Philippine Army, who was in COM
mand at Baguio, and told him what
| we had seen on the way up. I asked
the Japs.
I'VE have lost touch with Manila"
he said, 'and I have no recent Or
Gers. My last orders were to send
400 recruits down to Manila to be
enrolled and I am trying to get
buses for them now. When they get
past we will blow the bridges on both
roads leading up here"
That lower road, at least, looks
like an ideal place to Defend" said.
I'VE should be able to hold it forever
with a few machine guns. The Japs
can't climb over those hills"
I'VE should, my friend" the major
answered, 'if we had anything to
hold it with. There were only a
handful OF troops under Maj. Horan
at Camp John Hay. 1 have nothing
but recruits And don't overlook the
Jap dive-bombers. They've been
sWooping up and down that road all
day, picking off our trucks and
troops. Their dive bombers CO.
operate very efficiently with their
infantry"
We drove on over to the big,
blacked-out Pines Hotel and as we
walked into the bar I Immediately
thought of the play idiots De-
light" The bar and lobby were ex-
pensively and tastefully furnished
and decorated and the people slipping
their cocktails in front of the fire.
places were very composed and very
sure OF themselves. There were about
dozen; handsome English woman
and her daughter and son-in-laW;
some suave, elderly people of the
world traveller type, and a doctor
with q Teutonic accent and a face
which made 1t Immediately appar-
ent why he had to leave Vienna.
They were listening disinterestedly
to the Manila radio broadcast. They
said, Most Of the Baguio people
have gone on down to Manila. We
are staying here, as we believe the
Japanese will not bother to come.
After all, there is nothing here for
them" We didn't tell them that the
Japs were only about 18 miles away.
The manager apologized because
a buffet supper was being served in
place of the regular dinner. The
supper was excellent, with cold tur-
key and goose liver and several kinds
OF salad and wine, and we realized
we hadn't eaten since morning.
| Copyright 1943 by Clark Lee, the Viking
Press
Continued tomorrow.
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