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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-13
Western Reich Is Raided
By Raj MOSQUITO Group
Aerial Offensive Against Axis Carried For
ward-138 Nazi Fighters Downed In us.
Assault On Emden-Radios Shut Down

LONDON, Dec. 12.-OP - Raj
Mosquito bombers raided western
Germany last night without loss,
carrying forward the aerial often
sive against the Reich in which
American heavy bombers on Sat-
urday smashed at Ernden and
downed 1873 Nazi fighters of all de-
scriptions in brilliant sky bat
tie.
continental radio stations shut
down tonight, suggesting new at
tacks. The Federal Communica-
tons Commission in New York
said the Bremen, Friesland, and
Luxembourg stations had gone off
the air. The British radio said the
Dutch station at Hilversum also
shut down abruptly
The specific targets of the Mos
qultos were not named in the Of
fetal announcements, but it was
presumed the. purpose was to give
Adolf Hitler's people no rest from
screaming sirens.
Canadian-manned Mosquitoes on
offensive patrol over France today
destroyed a Heinkel-111, which is
a twin-engined bomber, and Sc
verely damaged another over the
Bourges-Avord airfield, it was an
nounced.
Beaufighters of the coastal COM
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Walter Lippmann Says:
The Far Sighted Unable
To See Farley Results

ma or admit China to full equali-
ty among the great states.
Now that these far-sighted fore
bodings have not come true, they
have forgotten they ever had them.
They have new set of fore
bodings. They find that while
the Cairo conference settled the
boundaries of Japan, it did not
settle the future of Hongkong,
Burma, Indo China and of the
whole colonial and dependent
world. They find that while the
Teheran conference settled the
military issues which threatened
to divide Russia from the western
allies, this is not sufficiently in
teresting achievement. The Tehe-
ran conference, they find, did not
declare on the future of defeated
Germany, the status of the con
tending forces within Greece, 4u-
goslavia and Central Europe, ETC.,
point where being far-sighted can
etc.
They are far sighted to the
easily become a kind OF nervous
disease which paralyzes their WILL
(Continuea an Page Two; Col. ~
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TWO WILMINGTON
WORKERS KILLED
Two Other Men Are Ser
iously Hurt In Accident
Near Castle Hayne

Two shipyard workers were kill
ed and two others seriously injured
carly Sunday when the car In
which they ere riding and an Army
truck collided ten miles north OF
here, near Castle Hayne, the sher-
ifs office reported Sunday night.
The four men ali lived in Autry-
vile small community in Cum
berland county aid were gong
home from work when the acct
dent occurred at 1918 a. m.
The dead were listed as H. L.
Billiard, about "a, a guard at the
North Carolina Shipbuilding COM
pany, and H. H. Hare, about 40,
also shipbuilding company en-
ploye.
Critically Injured was James E.
Faircloth 81, who is being treat
ed at a local hospital
The second man who was injur-
ed, Henry Cashwell, was treated
and dismissed from the hospital.
The sheriff reported that the
men were apparently instantly kill
ed, as they were dead when inves-
tigators arrived shortly after the
accident.
RALEIGH, Dec. 12- R Two
persons were killed and two injur-
ed seriously when the convertible
automobile in which they were rid
(Continued on Pare Three; Col. A
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u. S. WARSHlPS
USED AT NAURU
|Nimitz Discloses That YES
sells Shelled Jap-Held
Pacific Base

PEARL HARBOR. Dec. PIP
American battlesaips joined in
Smelling Nauru, Japan's most
southeasterly outpost, in the at
tack last Wednesday by carrier
borne bcmbers and surface forces.
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz dis
closed today.
The target area was well COW
cred by bomb bursts and she'll
fire. starting many fires. Ten jap
anese planes were destroyed, nine
of them on the ground.
Two United States planes were
lost and one destroyer suffered
minor damage from the only hit
scored by shore batteries.
The fact that nine planes were
destroyed on the ground indicat-
ed the defending forces were taken
by surprise, as they were in the
raid only four days previously by
the same forces on Marshall is
land strongholds, 300 miles to the
north
Another indication of surprise at
Nauru was the fact that our ships
were able to get close enough to
Nauru for a destroyer to be hit
from shore.
Continuing the attack on the
Marshalls, Nimitz reported. Lib
orator bomber on reconnaissance
flight strafed a medium cargo
transport and an escorting patrol
vessel near Jaluit atoll last Thurs
day. He did not disclose how bad
| ly the ships were damaged.
Repeated bombardment OF the
former British owned phosphate
producing island was taken to
mean that the United States is
softening up the little island to
make it useless to Japan.
The position of Nauru near m'
head Of a long corridor between
tho Japanese heldCaroline islands
and Me1anesia, makes it a vaiu y!
,h1e outpost for the japanese IL
the early spotting any possl
lie t INVASION fleet that the Unitee
Nations might send out IL: IRON na;, ~.
Gilbert islands toward the Pn1np
oines This pathway between Jap
an stron gi1olds has been sugges:
al al 81 s.i one Of the most likely route
back tuu to the Philippines
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SOFIA REPORTED
HAMMERED AGAIN
Small Balkan Nations
Threaten To Drop Out
OF Satellite Row

LONDON, Dec. 12-tR-Germany
was reported 10 be pouring rein
forcements into Bulgaria today,
seeking with bayonet and propa-
ganda to prop the wobbling pro-
Nazi government Of that Balkan
satellite.
AS continental reports to Stock
holm TOLD of the hasty dispatch of
more troops to preve1.t repetition
of World War when Bulgaria
was the first Of the Kaiser's al
lies to desert the doomed second
reich-unnistakable signs seeped
through the tight censorship that
Allied bo;nbings and counterpropa-
ganda were bearing fruit.
The Cairo radio said the tension
was spreading TO Hungary where
the country was said to be flooded
bv pamphlets of the Hungarian
peace party urging resistance to
the war effort.
Unconflrmed reports from the
Paris radio that Sofia, the Bulgar-
ian capit1, had been bombed again
last night punctuate d the state
ment Of Gen. Henry Fl. Arnold, u.
S. Army Airforces commander,
that the Americans were about
ready to strike at every point in
Germany, Hungary Bulgaria and
Rumania
Fearful and terrible air at
tacks are in prospect for Hitler
dominated Germany this winter
and spring" Gen Arnold said as
he departed from thu Mediterran-
can theate1 after surveying the
Italian front.
Another solemn warning was
made al Washington last night by
Secretary Of State Cordell Hull that
the governments Of Bulgaria, Hun
gary and Rumania must share
Continued on Page Two; Col. y
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Rv WALTER LIPPMAN

In travelling about a bit lately
have been struck by meeting,
in almost every gathering where
men and women were talking
about affairs, at least one or two
who were SO weighed down by
the unsolved problems of the ~
ture that they could find little
satisfaction in the results achiev-
ed at Moscow, Cairo and Teher-
an. They are too far-sighted. Ana
though they mean very well, per-
haps even too well, they have such
long view of the distant future
that they have little attention lett
for the nearest future and the I'M
mediate present.
A few months ago these lar
sighted people were able to take
no satisfaction in Stalingrad and
the great Russian counter-offen-
sive; they were brooding on the
chances of a separate peace be-
tween Russian and Germany. They
were brooding also on their ap-
prehension that Great Britain
would default on the Pacific war
and that Britain and Russia would
never restore the integrity of Chi
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mand shot down three Nazi air.
craft over the Bay of Biscay. Two
of the Beaufighters failed to re-
turn.
There was no other announced
air activity today, but the Vichy
radio said Allied planes had scat
tered leaflets over Paris urging
workers to revolt.
The Emden battle was taken as
striking proof that the Americans
are forcing the Nazis to engage in
aerial combat although the Ger
mans obviously would prefer to
conserve their dwindling defenses
for the Herculean task of protect
ing Berlin.
Although limited by poor wea-
Their to only three major operations
in II days in December, the U. S.
Eighth Air Force has downed 172
NaZi planes this month almost
IS per cent of the total American
bag of 266 in November.
The great score over Enden was
apparently due to the fact that
the Nazis rose to fight in consid-
cradle numbers for the first time
in several weeks. The high num-
Der of German casualties appear
ed attributable also to the in
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TWO ARE KILLED
NEAR WHITEVILLE
Edward Lee, Vernon Sell
lers Are Victims OF
Wreck Saturday

,o @HlTEVILLE, Dec. 70 - Two
s son; were killed and two others
~ a'0uSly injured in an accident
n; Wa tnlleS southeast of here last
| sb. Te dead were Edward Lee, 10,
w b;4 and Vernon Sellers, q,
"rr,leVille, route three.
emn aOner Hugh Nance, who has
tbn ,'aaelled a jury to investigate
t t1s accident, said this afternoon
res d' IN me wreck apparently occur
"s al Snen the two cars collided,
re ar.ioSt head-on." He said he be-
5r; 'N mat the two victims were
0l,Vlng the cars.
ro ~ girl, Magazine Leary, was
s, rpo q,t riding with Lee and Dew
inu Iuge of Whiteville was rid
ms. with Sellers. Both are in SER
co',nt eonoltlon at the Columbus
Ma 'y hospital, Coroner Nance
vo HT!Oner Nance said An inquest
,,oa ia be held when the witnesses
soH enough to testify.
Mrs sAe aG Is survived by his wife,
Bo6h,.M Marvel Sellers, three sons,
noth' Bike and Marvin, his
brothef' Mrs. Minnie Sellers, three
fa ''lefs, John Kelly Sellers, OF.
If ua ana Jessie Paul Sellers, all
Iul "lnnIeVlle, and one sister, Mrs.
ID Benton of Shallotte.
h. Iilefal rites for sellers viii
tbo l ne at 2 pm. on Monday a
~ w nome, and burial will be mad.
uie Lebanon church cemetery
Mr. ee was the son of Mr.. ane
MAJOR Lee, of Shallotte ant
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GERMANS REC0lL
Enemy Drives Are Smash
ed At Both Ends Of
Long Battlefront
MANY FIGHTER PLANES
Allied Fighters And Bomb
ers Active Despite
Bad Weather
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
giers, Dec. IL. - IN - Savage
German counter-attacks were
smashed back yesterday at both
ends of the Allied line in Italy,
Alice headquarters announced to-
day with British artillery taking
heavy toll especially of tank-led
Nazi assault troops along the Ad-
Ratio
lhe fierce German recoil brought
the Eighth Army advance toward
Pescara and Chieti to virtual
standstill, but Gen. Sir Bernard
l.. Mcntgomery's troops managed
TO exteno their Moro river bridge
head in the San Leonardo area,
battlefront advices said.
IN one area, an Eighth Army
battalion buried 200 enemy dead
stl ewn over ground from which
the Germans had been dislodged.
Infantry Charges
The enemy lunged out also on
.he Fifth Army front to the west,
attempting especially to recover a
Height a mile west of Filignano.
German infantry charged after a
heavy artillery and mortar bar
rage, but American troops threw
them back.
Farther south in the Mt. Sam
ucro sector, northeast of Mignano,
another German counterattack
early in the morning was broken
up by Allied artillery
Still farther south, Fifth Army
guns heavily shelled the area east
of San Pietro, village strongly
fortified by the Germans with pill
boxes and barbed wire to protect
the approaches to Casino.
The German command threw in
its heaviest fighter support in
weeks in efforts to stem the AL
lied advance, sending out about
13C sorties during the day. But the
Nazi pilots generally avoided COM
bat, hiding in the clouds for op-
portunities for strafing attacks,
and only one enemy plane was
doWned. One Allied pilot was miss
ing.
Allied fighters and fighter-bon-
bers were active despite bad Wea-
Their. U. S. Warhawks attacked
targets at San Vittore, Casino
and Cervaro on the Via Casilina to
Rome, and the seaports Of Anzio
and Nettuno southwest Of Rome.
Raj Spitfires hoped on trans
ports in the C2ieti area, destroy
ing nine vehicles and damaging
20.
American invaders hammered
rail targets at Alec on the road to
Rome, and Acquafondala and Vi
ticuso just behind the German
lines. They also swept over the
Rome area, hitting Nettuno and
Anzio again, Di Roma on the coast
road, rail functions near Ostia and
at Fonte Galera, and an airfield
near Rome.
An air force report said recent
raids on airfields near Athens by
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LIMITS
MAY Be LOWERED
Plan To Release Some OF
Younger Deferred Men
Also Considered

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12- R -
Whether the father draft slows
UP appreciably as Congress wants,
apparently hinged tonight on pros.
pective moves to lower physical
standards and tap the At pool,
plus tentative plan to release
some of the younger men now
deferred for. occupational rea-
sons.
These two devices emerged from
a conference of the House military
committee with Selective Service
officials yesterday which brought
from Chairman May O-Ky) the
assertion that there is going to
be a big Improvement"
May said Draft Director Lew
is B. Hershey indicated that ne
knows what Congress wants :.
what he is going to do and no"
to do it."
A new law places Hershey IN
full charge of Selective Service,
removing the agency from PAU
Y. McNutt's ManpoWer Comm1s-
sion.
(Continued IN Page Two; Col. 81
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KIEv Tptt
1900 c sAlted
kille .Nre
Des..
UNDATED VIOLENCE
Town AT Northern End Of
Kremenchug Bridge
head Is Taken

LONDON MONDAY, Dec. 13-
RHRussian defense forces, rally
ing in one of the mightiest, con-
tinuing tank battles of the war,
have lashed out against attack
ing Germans forces pounding for
Kiev, have retaKen several ham,
lets, killing 1000 Germans and
wrecking 35 tanks. Moscow an
nounced tooay.
The fighting south and south
west Of the town of Malin, about
SIS miles west of Kiev, continued
early this morning with undated
violence, Tass reported in Mos
cow broadcast.
Two hundred miles to the south,
the Russians announced they had
captured the town CT Chigrin at
the northern end of their Kremen-
chug brldgehead and captured
eight more populated places in
their drive for the industrial town
of Kirovograd, IS miles west of
Russian advance guards. They
were also reported fighting in the
streets of Cherkasy. IS miles fur
ther north.
New Details Given
The Moscow midnight communi-
que, recorded by the Soviet moni-
tor from a broadcast, gave new
details OF the battle for the Kiev
bulge as German Field Marshal
Gen Fritz Won Mannstein tried
vain1y for a peterborough with al
most 1000 tanks and many divi-
sions of infantry.
SIN one sector the Germans at
tempted several times to break
through Soviet units defense lines
but were thrown back" the COM
munique said. cover 900 enemy
dead We're left on the approaches
to our positions as well as seven
burning German tanks
In another sector the Russians,
apparently on the coanteroffen-
sive, dislodged the Germans from
several populated places, killed
1000 more Germans. destroyed %
tanks. four self-propelled guns and
40 trucks.
Self-Propelled Artillery
The Red army was using self
propelled 152 nillimeter artillery
with great success against fresh
German tanks reaching the battle
lines, lass said.
German broadcast located the
fighting ner the Teterev river,
which joins the Dnseper north OF
Kiev and reaches to Zhitomir. 1t
is about As miles west of Kiev in
the Malin area and 10 miles east
of Malin itself. The German radio
said strong Soviet counterthrusts
supported by tanks continued de-
spite losses of Is tanks, but that
Soviet bridgehead on the west
ern bank of the Teterev had been
wiped out.
The weather was unfavorable in
the Dnieper bend. The Russians
announced. however. they had won
the town of Chigrir, wiped out its
German garrison and captured prl-
soners and stores OF material. 10
the south, in the Kirovograd direc-
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Price, Wage
Fight Looms
In Congress
Three Way Assault On
Sterilization Program
Shapes-Up Swiftly
RECESS IS WANTED
Ellender Says Senate In No
Condition To Decide
Subsidy Question

wAsHTNGTON, Dec. II. - Up
, +rinle legislative assault on the
Asdninistration price and wage
Civilization program shaped up
smiftIv today in the face of an
.+ton'pt to hurry the Senate into
holiday recess.
The battle over subsidies and
u.oes and move to erase au-
+ srS of the Office of Price Adj
niristration over coal and oil
nrice,. shared Congressional at
tpr+On with a legislative drive
IN nrovide a financial cushion
cam for the return of war veter-
ans to civil life.
Senator Ellender D-La) staunch
hacker Of food subsidies, sought
IN hurry the Senate into a holiday
rpoocs and thus stave off a vote
the may kill the Administrations
NV for holding down the cost of
livi~a.
TO Introduce Resolution
The Louisianan said he would
n-oduce resolutions tomorrow
ss-'ng the Senate to recess as
IS possible until January 10"
70 postpone its subsidy de-
e. until early February. keep
hr the Commodity Credit Cor
p alton alive meanwhile with
ts~0orary financing.
ne Senate is in no condition to
DE this subsidy question now,"
Fer said. We are tired and
! r. aolidays are coming on
Szator Danaher (R-Conn) in
saA the Senate dispose of the
question as soon as possible to
1sT9ve uncertainty from the fu-
Me plans Of government agencies
which have been handling subsi-
dies and food production pro-
gins. The subsidy outlaw clause
is tied to bill extending the life
Of the CCC which expires Dec. 81.
The CCC is the financial agent
for several subsidies.
Confident of Votes
Subsidy opponents, confident
thew have the votes to smash the
system by which the government
pays growers and professors in
cash so 1t can keep down retail
p ces, also opposed BLENDERS
attempt to delay the vote.
house interest was focused on
ehor'S OF a powerful bloc to
SUED me Office Of Price Admins
HaIon Of control over oil and
Goa prices and turn them over
~ INFERIOR Secretary Ickes. Sue
cess cess IN the program would mark
0TAS flrSt loss of commodity.
The House will vote tomorrow
on a discharge petition to force
!iLneulate action on the bill shift
ing oPA's oil price authority. If
wiz move TO bypass House com
'N'''eeS proves successful, the
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WEATHER

FORECAST
NORTH CAROLINA: Fair to partly
cloudy and colder. Tuesday fair to part
ly cloudy and continued cold.
Eastern Standard Time)
by U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hourS
ending 7:3C pm, yesterday.
Temperature
1:?) am, IS, 7 80 am, "a, l 30 pm' OIL
30 pm. 81. =,
Maximum 81, Minimum 80, Mean A.
Normal 40.
Humidity
1880 I'm, S6, 1880 am, 80, 30 pm, a.
1:30 pm, 40.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 1880 pm.
600 inches.
Total since the first of the month,
1875 inches.
Tides for Today
(From the Tide Tables published by
U S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
High Low
Wilmington DEMONSTRATIONS 1o:5sa :33a
II LAP 6:12r
Masonboro Inlet ------- 8:37a 2:19s
8:57p 2:56l
Sunrise, 1903 am, Sunset, 504 pm
Moonrise 1902 pm, Moonset, :33 am.
| Cspe Fear River stage ut Fayettc-
Vile, $50 feet.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-01

AA0AtA ~ braltar and the Allied Air Forces in North Africa now are stronger than ever before.
 Reports from Rome said Premier Eenlto MusSolini first resisted, but then accepted, the German demand that the Italian fleet-still a power- full force-be placed at the disposal of the German high command for the evacuation.
 Preliminary details of the opera ton were believed to have been dis cussed by Grand Admiral Karl Doneitz, commander in chief of the German Navy, and Admiral Arturo Riccardi, chief of staff of the Ital. ian navy, at a recent conference in Italy.
 It was indicated that German naval officers will be on the bridges of the Italian naval units when they move out to cover the evacuation.
 (The official German News Agen. cy DNB, in a Berlin broadcast, de- nied yesterday that Doenitz has as. sumed command of the Italian
 
 fleet.)
 From France came report that German naval authorities have de. manded that all French merchant ships now idle in mediterranean ports be sent to Italy to augment the Italian merchant fleet, badly mauled by British submarines and Allied planes, in the evacuation.
 The German demand was said to specify that the ships be re-fitted for immediate use and sailed by eTl. ergency crews to ports in Sicily and Sardinia. where full crews would be provided.
 (A daily Mail dispatch from Ma drid said the tonnage of the French ships, immobili0ed since the Ger. man occupation of the former un. occupied zone, was estimated at O,OOO. Some of the ships, the dis. patch said, were ordered to 90 to Genoa and Spezia, naval bases In northern Italy.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-01

Continued from Page D Paul v. McNutt and War Food Ad- ministrator Chester c. Davis were moving to implement the new "work or fight" policies enunciated Tuesday by President Roosevelt in the cases of men over 38 conscien- tious ogjectors and the physicalIy disqualified, or 4.F's. Through the cooperative effort of the War Man. power Commission, County Farm Bureaus and Selective Service, an attempt will be made to meet the manpower shortage In dairy farm. ing, estimated as 50,000, from these groups. Next, they will tackle other phases of agriculture and simul. taneoulsly will move to fill the needs of essential industries from the res ervoir of men over the draft age and the physically disqualified who are now in unessential jobs.
 Another phase of the program is the new policy on releasing men aged 38 or over from the Army to take agricultural or essential in- duStrial jobs. Beginning today, these men will be transferred to the in- active reserve instead of given an outright discharge from the Army when they ask for release from active duty in order to take such jobs. A man placed on inactive status who fails to keep his job or fails to meet what is considered a fair productive capacity would be recalled to active Army duty.
 Many Changes
 Other programs which took effect today are:
 1. The 4s-hour week order in g specific areas and in the numbering and non-ferrous metals mining tn- dustries on a nationwide basis.
 3. Reclassification of all men aged 38 through 45 who now are in All. the average class, and are en- titled to the agricultural classified tions, 20 and 3-C, the latter group being subject to further classified tion when the new plan goes into effect.
 3. Draft age men in certain oc- equations and activities which were designated by McNutt February 3 as "non-C ferrable" are being re- classified IA, unless they have reg istered with the U. s. Employment Service for war jobs. If they have not shifted by May or 30 days from the date of furnishing evidence of registration for a war job to their draft board, they will be replaced in IA and subject to imminent inc duction.