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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-02
WESTERN GERMANY
Is BLASTED ANEW
Flying Forts And Liberia
tors Press Attack On
Nazi Industries

81
% LONDON, Dec. L. B -Ameri-
can Flying Fortresses and Liberia
tors pressed their o. e n sive
through icy. cloud-spattered skies
to attack western Germany for the
third time in three days today and
ran into a vide variety of Ger
man fighter planes which filled the
air with rockets in an unusually
strong but vain attemlp pit to check
the attackers.
The Americans in smashing
once more at targets in the Nazis'
big western industrial basin were
carrying the weight of the Brit
ain-based aerial attack on Ger
many, following up their bombing
of the big port of Bremen Mon
day and the important arms cen
ter of Solingen Tuesday.
The Raj bomber command,
gathering strength for the next
heavy attack On Germany, sent
Mosquitoes over Germany's west
ern reaches, keeping the bombed
Germans alerted another night.
London had an air raid alarm
tonight but no bombs were
dropped in the area OF the British
capital. The roar of planes was
heard over some London districts,
however; flares were dropped and
anti-aircraft guf.fire was heavy.
During the day Raj and Cana
dian fighters destroyed nine enc
my aircraft and lost seven planes.
South of Lands End, four Mos
quitos on offensive patrol shot
down three jurkers-88S. Typhoons
supporting the American heavy
bombers got two German fighters
while other Typhoons, covering
Mosquitoes attacking shipping in
the Brest area, destroyed Junk
ers-88 and a Ju1kers-52.
Canadian Spitfires escorted the
Marauders which had among their
targets the Canbraj airfield in
France. The Canadians got two
FockeWulf-190S
Meanwhile to the south Liberia
tors of the American Northwest
African Air Force contributed fur
Their to the aerial enlightenment of
the European fortress with this
wars first blow Tuesday against
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-02
Confabs Usually Precede
Great World Events
BY HAROLD OLIVER

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1-lP)-Meetings of President
Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill invariably fore
shadow mornentous events.
&c. too, undoubtedly does their conference at Cairo
with Chinas Generassimo Chang Kashek just disclosed
The President and the Prime Minister had met seven
times previously all but of them since the United States
entered the war.
Here is the record of their conferences and what hap
pened after eacha record which mirrors turning points
world history still to be written:
August. just Pearl Harbor was at
tackled they for the first national
the Cruiser Augusta off the Newfoundland
strategy to
on aid to Britain Rus
vigilance and eighpont Atlantic
pledgng sedeernaion all and their right
their lives freedom from and want
The President went the meeting the yacht Potomac
Augusta, Churchill bateshp
Help coming Mighty
your behalf Have hope Deliverance is sure ,.. :.
prime minister this time
p, 1s41 =,
The bateshp Prince Wales had been sunk with the M
Repuse off planes.
Churchh here, Hongkong fell to the japanese
of the empire in the South Pacific. =,
Years DayJan 1942came the announcement mat
tons original Great Britain the United States
S bey ned ged use of all resources defeat
other making 26 Now there are 80 sgnesau
Nations members cine AZ nalom w!cn ieeeiy
10 and the French National Coneee Oh LID
eration) Ill.,. ooxo +l.r +bree weeks in
washington needing that sarms OF Na were
in the Atlantic . h. ,,+or limo 10 1e42-the Prime
demands for second front
e ere loud and Russian troops had been 1amg PACK
under spring offensive py litter me @ Submarines in
& onth Of lime alone 10 Allied ships GA year ana quarter
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British Troops Will End
Stay In Wilmington Soon

toms streets beginning at 4:45 p. m.
The line of march will organize
at Eighth and Market streets, and
will proceed down Market to Third
street, then over Third, where a
review will take place from the
steps of City Hall, thence to Red
Cross street, down to Front to Mar
ket, back up to Third street, COM
pleting the march in front of City
Hall at approximately $50 p. m.
When the march concludes at
City Hall, the troops and equip
1nent will be brought up for in
spection by Lord Halifax, Mayor
Bruce Cameron and ranking mill
tary dignitaries from Camp Davis
and other nearby military install
lations.
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-02
EXCHANGE LINER.
REACHES GOTHAM
Close To 1880 Joyous
Americans Cheer, Sing
In New York Harbor.

JERSEY CITY, N. j., Dec. /.
-lR-Nearly 1.500 iovcl's .A'-,er:
can repatrates from the Far East
reached American soil again to-
day and pleaded that other Amer
leans in the japanese occupied
Orient be brought home before
in the words of one of them-they
become a lost tribe"
They cheered and sang God
Bless America as the exchange
liner Gripsholm sailed o W | y
through the heavy mist of the har-
Der past the Statue of Liberty to
her dock, completing the repatri-
ates' 16,00o-mile journey.
Her bow rust-stained from tropic
salt after three months voyage
to Portuguese India where the ex-
change for Japanese nationals took
place. the Gripsholm brought in
.,223 United States nationals, 217
Canadians and some Latin Amer
leans: A.
The Canadians were taken i'm
mediately to Canada on special
trains, but the first passengers to
leave the ship were State Depart
1nent personnel who had b e n
caught in Manila at the outbreak
Of the war.
Mrs. Jessie Mann, consular serv-
ice employee who was trapped there
en- route to Shanghai, made the
plea to ''get the Americans and
other internees in Manila home
or they will be lost tribe"
She explained that there still
were $500 American and other in
ternees at Sansc Tomas, intern
ment camp in Manila, and that
they were finding such essentials
as food and clothing their major
problems.
The disembarkment of non-offi-
cial repatriates proceeded slowly
through 'the mill" as the first
of them described the interroga-
ton by government agencies CO.
operating in a closely organized
panel of questioners.
Naval officers who boarded the
Gripsholm earlier stated that the
repatriates l o k surprisingly
well and adequately clothed. Many
who had lost weight during nearly
two years of internraent had gain
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-02

Three hundred and fifty British
anti-aircraft troops will end their
five months American tour where
they began fright here in Will
mington. On Friday afternoon the
Tommies will make their farewell
public appearance with a parade
through the streets of, Wilmington
In honor of Lord Halifax, British
ambassador to the United States.
Plans completed on Wednesday
between representatives of Lord
Halifax and 1t. Col. Tom c. Met
calf, commanding the British
troops, and 1t. Col. Howard w.
Hunter, representing the American
escort detachment, called for the
British troops, allied with Ameri-
can soldiers and modern, mobile
antl-aircraft equipment from Camp
Davis, to march through Whining.
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later the Allies announced IieS
were sinking more subs than oei
many could build). IT,.
While the White House at 1he
time agreed that speculation Oh
a second front was perfectly Jus,
4ified,'' the President later toio
reporters how this June meetihs
decided final arrangements Tor tiie
largest water-borne invasion NJ
history, the -Anglo-American tnf ote
into North Africa Nov. ., 1871
which prefaced a six-rnonth cas-
west pincer movement that chas
ed the Axis out of that continent
Still further aid to Russia was
decided upon and a general dlVi.
sion of strategy determined az y
this mid-1942 meeting. By the emu
of the year, Churchill announced
the Allies had reached tine eiio
of the beginning" e..
The stage then was set lol
Casablanca. Breaking another
precedent, Mr.. Rooseven i,e"
across the Atlantic for a ten-oay
meeting, beginning Jan. IA, ls4o,
with the Prime Minister in that
picturesque French Moroccan port
They reached complete agree,
ment" on 1943 war plans deslgneu
to bring about the unconditional
surrender Of Germany, Italy anu
Japan. The President returned 10
Washington Jan. 81 having trav-
eled nearly $4,000 miles on a Is
day trip.
The President told the press al
Casablanca that the conference
was unprecedented. Churchill SAID
the Allied landings in North Afr1-
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-02
Fate OF Japan Believed
Sealed At Cairo Parley

pan to worse fate than the Rus
sian-Allied pact of Moscow has de-
creed for Germany
1t verifies the ling known fact
that in the eyes OF President Roos-
evelt and Prime Minister Church
ill as well as President Chang,
Japan is a more criminal nation
than Nazi Germany and to be
treated as such. With defeat, she
faces international exile, ostraciz-
ed from the world family of ma
tons until her people have proven
their moral fitness for readmis-
sion.
That stern decree by the big
three of the Pacific-Asiatic war
theater is given added significance
by the circumstances and tn e
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-02
.S0VlETS REPORT
LITTLE ACTIVITY
Fighting In Three Areas Is
Only Briefly Mention
ed In Russian Report

LONDON, Dec. 1.-R-A strong
ly reinforced German army fought
back on ever sector of the Rus
sian front win new found vigor
today as some of the heaviest
fighting of the war brought the
great Russian sulnmer-s autumn Of
fensive almost to a halt.
The swirling conflict at three
keypoints-the White Russian road
to Poland, the klev bulge and the
Dnieper bend was rapidly becom-
ing a test Of reserve strength OF
both sides and of the ability to
get steady flow Of reinforce
ments and materials first to the
hottest sectors over roundabout
rail-lines and solder roads.
The Russians, having CURLY re-
vealed retreat from the railway
junction of Korosten Oh the Kiev
bulge yesterday, today briefly
mentioned fighting in only three
areas, with meager advances cap
turing less than dozen populated
places in the entire 600-mile &C
tive front.
The Moscow communicate, re-
corded by the Sovle monitor, said
the offensive northwest Of Gomel
had advanced slightly, overrunning
the town of Narovl, Ii miles east
of Yelsk on the Fripe+ river, while
in the Dnieper bend TIE Red army
apparently scored its greatest adj
vance of the day Si1 towns were
taken south est of Kremenchug,
where the Russians were last re-
ported less than 10 miles from the
rail junction of Znarlenka.
But in the bend area, where the
Germans have been fighting grim
ly for many weeks they were
counter-a attacking again, this time
in the new Cherkasy bridgehead
across the Dnieoer where the Rus
SLAMS were pushing for the town
of Smela.. The Russians said the
attacks we're repulsed.
The communicate made no men
ton of the vital Aiev salient where
the Germans have scored their
greatest successes in counter-at-
tack. With the raj centers of Ko-
roster and hito:ni'' recaptured by
the Germans, the Russians were
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-02
Dedication Of Ne,u
Water Plant Is Set
For December 9th

o., Dedication s!ijt services for sween-
sfat duration Plant and. Pumping
tb a'- .! have been scheduled for
ae e lght of December 9. at $3.50
N s,Jek' at Blue Top Lodge on
N 1Ael street road, according to
ma mean Maffitt, chairman of the
ssm committee for the event.
es approximately ITO invitations
sen ns issued Wednesday to repre-
curative onta citizens, officials. and
ci, tractors to attend the exer.
lo Svs and the oyster roast to fol-
sn a"e program itself will be brief.
Jo5,, VIII feature short talks by
tbe in H. Sweeney, Jr., engineer Of
WIZ e neW ,, plant, and Mr., Maffitt
eit' o viii trace the history of the
Of o'y q. water system, and services
IN me employees.
, cos. Sweeney plant was built at
cost Of approximately ss4o. 600
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-02
l,O26 MEN KILLED
ON TARAWA AT0LL
Navy Issues Report On
Casualties In New Pa
cific Offensive

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-tF-Ta.
rawa, the bloodiest fight in all the
Marine corps proud history, cost
the American victors 1,026 dead
and 1857 wounded.
Reporting the heavy toll suffered
in taking the two-mile long atoll
and cracking Japan's central Pa
cific defenses. the Navy said to-
night that casualties totaled 3,772
in the three Gilbert island opera
tons. Sixty-five were killed and 121
wounded at Maxim and one killed
and two wounded at Abema.
The Navy made public the total
without comment in terse COM
muniqde.
Secretary of the Navy Knox had
warned before hand, however,
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-02
FIVE DAY MEET
Nations Bound To Strip
Nips OF Her lmpe-
rialistic Gains
WAR HEADS PRESENT.
'Unrelenting Pressure Will
Be Brought Against
Pacific Enemy

CAIRO, Dec. l. (P) -
President Roosevelt, Prime
Minister Churchill and Presi-
dent Chang Kai-shek have
held an historic five-day con-
ference, have bound their ma
lions in an agreement to beat
Japan into unconditional sur
render and to strip her of all
her imperialistic gains of the
last half century, and have
left for unannounced desti-
nations.
Qn Washington it was as
sumed that an even more i'm
portant meeting, particular.
ly on the European phases of
the war, would be held with
Premier Joseph Stain of Rus
STA. Reuters dispatches from
Lisbon, Portugal, said the
three had left for Teheran,
capital of Iran, there to mnnt
Stain in the biggest United
Nations conference of the
war. ..
Confab Said Underway
Berlin broadcasts said the con-
ference already was underway in
Teheran--on the Russian supply
corridor where British-American-
Russian wartime cooperation has
had its most conspicuous success.D
In an extraordinary atmosphere
of secrecy and precaution, t h e
three leaders OF the United States,
Britain and China, representing
more than LOCO, 100000 people,
counting all those of the British
Empire, met for five days-from
Nov. % through Nov. 26 while
surrounded by the highest galaxy
of military supply and political
advisers, and departed at least
three days before the news was
given to the public
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-02
PAPER CAMPAIGN
OPENS DECEMBER 6
County Salvage Committee
Announces Dates For
Second Drive

~lImington's second wartime
s scrap paper collection campaign
WIN open Monday. Dec. 6, w. A.
stewart, chairman of county salv-
age committee, said Wednesday.
Every effort will be made to
s ~ all the city's waste paper
A.; ylfee weeks, he said, but the
1--WE 1--WE Will be carried on over a
"n NJ period if necessary.
n me campaign will be channeled
n ~.oogh Wilrnington's schools,
~,~I Students expected to be re-
NJ opV ~ for the principal part
bo ule collection. Waste paper will
VIZ. VdEfled to the school buildings
osoL .e Army trucks will collect it
saturday morning. The use
'"'inued on Page Six; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-02
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Press War Analyst

Under terms Of: the American,
British, Chinese pact reached at
Cairo the fate of japan as world
power is sealed. she is to be cut
down. ruthIessly; stripped Of all
her mainland and island loot; to
be quarantined within the Japa-
nese islands themselves as an in
ternational leper.~ ..- ...
That is the plain meaning of the
Cairo declaration issued by Messrs.
Churchill, Roosevelt n d Chang
Kai-shek. The fact OF their meet
ings in Egypt we perhaps the
worst kept secret Of this war; but
what they did there, disclosed less
than week ahead of the second
anniversary of Japan's day of in
fanny at Pearl Harbor, dooms ia
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-02

ca had altered the whole strategy
of the war and given the Allies
an initiative which they would
never lose. CThe President later
disclosed at Quebec that the Tuni-
sian and Sicihan campaigns were
planned at Casablancao
Before another six months was
up, the British leader was back
in Washington, arriving May IL,
1913. against a background OF an
Allied victory in Tunisia and Ger
man filters over invasion.
He concluded these talks. May
q. when President Roosevelt in
a one-sentence statement said only
that complete agreement mad been
reached ION future operations in
all theaters of the war" 1t is be-
lieved continental invasion plans
were gone over then.
The Prime Minister made a So
minute extemporaneous speech to
Congress- on this occasion. In that
address and at a press conference
in the White House he indicated
stepped-up attack on. the Japa-
nese, as well as on Italy and Ger
many bulked large in the military
staff talks which always have sup
plemented Roosevelt Churchill
poW-WoWs.
The battle of Sicily was near
ing completion and Mussollni had
been ousted when the two Allied
leaders met again-this time with
Prime Minister Mackenzie King
of Canada. at Quebec. Churchill
.continned IN Page Two; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-02
WEATHER

FORECAST
NORTH CAROLINA: Partly cloudy and
mild Thursday. Not quite so cool Thurs
day night Partly cloudy to cloudy and
mild Friday with light rain west por-
ton Friday forenoon.
Eastern Standard Time)
By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 p. m, yesterday.
Temperature
30 am, 80, 80 am, 81 80 pm, Sc,
1880 pm, 40.
Maximum SO, Minimum 36, Mean 40,
Normal SO
Humidity
LEO am. So, 7 80 am, ii, 1 80 pm, 81,
1880 pm, r..
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 7:30 D. M.
600 inches.
Total since the first Of the month.
IA inches.
Tides For Today
p (Froa the Tide Tables published BY
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington ---------- l GOA 8:17a
l :40p 9:0lp
Masonboro Inlet ---- 11:27a s .OOa
550p
Sunrise 7 :00a, Sunset, o3p, Moonrise.
Il :33a, Moonset PIP.
Cape Fear River stage At Fayette-
Vile. II feet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-02
!. S. Troops,
British 9th
Press Ahead
+ ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL, CHANG CONFER
!: PLANS Z>SMASH JAP EMPIRE ARE MAD
Montgomery's Forces Beat
Through Tough German
Defenses In Italy
THREE MILE GAIN
Hundreds OF Allied Bonn
bers, Fighters Help
Clear War For Push

ALLIED HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Algiers, Dec. 1-(R
lind Ter the heaviest tacti-
c,1 air support of the entire
ia italian campaign, the Brit
isb Eighth Army smashed
through German defenses be-
vond fallen Sangro ridge to-
dsv while American troops
Of the Fifth Army fought
forward three miles in the
central sector, possibly her
aIding the start of an "all
ont" Allied drive on Rome.
At every point the Ger
mans fought with desperation
10 stem the attack. Despite
the demoralizing onslaught
BY hundreds of Allied fight
as fighter bombers and
bonbers, the enemy troops
chung to their positions until
they we're killed or captured
in bloody hand-to-hand fight
Ing. An Allied communique
described Nazi losses as Every
! heavy"
Fierce Resistance
The Germans are offering very
fierce assistance for every inch of
gro1M" military commentator
said He predicted they would
rake violent efforts to retake San
gro ridge, the powerful eastern
anchor Of their winter line from
which Gen. Sir Bernard l.. Mont
g9mery's British, Indian and New
Zealand infantry drove them yes
terday after IS hours of heavy,
continuous fighting.
Already the Eighth Army had
beaten off several determined Nazi
counter-attacks as it fought up the
Adriatic coastal plain toward the
important seaport of Pescara, only
about 20 miles away. One enemy
counter thrust cut off a portion of
Montgomery's spearhead that cap
'ured the town of Mozzagrogna,
cut fresh British units sprang for
ward 10 effect a rescue.
Enemy casualties ounte ed
swiftly as lowflying Allied fighter
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-01-22
FOR
w ON N
Q
Keeping
Ahead of
the Times
By Mary Moore

up stays on longer without re-touch-
ing; apply lipstick and rouge care
fully and your appearance will be
that of the well-groomed girl.
Brush your hair ten minutes daily.
Take ten to twenty minutes exer-
cises to keep fit, or to reduce those
bulges. If you are bulged badly
enough, it will take more time to
work them off
Use a good deodorant every day and
protect your clothes from perspira-
tion stains and odors by wearing
shields.
Always spray on a fresh cologne to
insure freshness and daintiness.
Massage your hands and cuticle
with a good hand lotion each night
and give yourself thorough mani
cure weekly. If your polish wears off
in spots, remove it entirely rather
than try to patch it up.
Once a week massage your feet and
ankles with a good cream. Your left
over dabs of facial creams are good
for this purpose besides being eco
nomical Pedicure your toe nails with
the same care as your fingernails and
if you like to feel glamorous use your
nail polish on your toes.
Follow this routine religiously-
paste it on your mirror where you
can see it every day-and we'll guar
antee you'll be as attractive and
fresh-looking as a gardenial
The designers are trying to figure
out new ways of keeping your clothes
fastened since all metal fasteners are
out for the duration, SO look for styles
using tricky tie fastenings and pearl
buttons, and surplus cuts.
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Tips
Hints
Helps
Do YOU KNOW

DO YOU KNOW :. s?
Katherine Lenroot, chief Of the
Chiidren's Bureau, Department of
Labor, predicts million, hundred
thousand women will be working in
war industries by the end of this
month, and if the draft calls married
men with children before the war has
ended, demands for women war work
ers will reach many millions more.
Officers salute women civilians in
acknowledgment of a greeting, but
the officers are not considered impo-
late when they keep their caps on in
an elevator or bus, because the cap is
part of the uniform and must be worn.
Short skirts on dinner dresses will
undoubtedly become the fashion, and
evening dresses will be "de trop" if
the present ban on pleasure driving
continues. Long skirts certainly were
not intended to travel by bus and
street car. Those glamorous evening
sweaters and skirts will now come
into their own.
The howls you heard when nylon
stockings disappeared from the mar
ket are nothing compared to the howls
from the masculine contingent over
the types of razor blades that are no
longer to be found due to production
stoppage And we'll howl too, if those
males can't shave!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-01-22
GLAMOR

When you made your New Year
resolutions did you resolve to go on a
beauty schedule and then follow it
carefully? Forming beauty habits and
sticking to them will pay dividends
the rest of your life.
Getting enough sleep each night is
one of the best Of all beauty treat
ments.
Organize your time so that you
may have a beauty minute for every
beautifying practice that the face
figure and hair fitness demands.
Spend ten minutes each morning
on needed skin care and careful make
up. Cream cleanse the skin thorough
ly; pat skin lotion on briskly to
bring glow to the cheeks; apply a
foundation cream so that your make
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HERMAN w. GECKELER
Especial to the Butler County Press)

Especial to the Butler County Press)
MEDICAL REPLAC CEMEN T
CENTER, Camp Barkeley, Texas
Herman w. Geckeler, 80, son of Mrs.
Anna NJ Geckeler, 603 South 18th St.,
Hamilton, Ohio, today m p e e d
training here in the seventh class of
the Medical Replacement Training
Center Officer Candidate school and
received his commission as a second
lieutenant in the Medical Administra-
tive Corps.
1t. Geckeler, an elementary teacher
principal in civilian life, was a corp
oral in the army. He attended Hamil-
ton high school and Miami Univer-
sity, Oxford, Ohio.