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Walter Lippmann Says:
Cairo Meet Agreement
To Crush The Japanese

Cairo conference to sign the dec
laration. But he had already
agreed at Moscow to recognize
China, which is the great gamer of
territory in the Cairo agreement,
as one of the four principal guardi-
ans of the coming peace. 1t is
self-evident that Messrs. Churchill
ard Roosevelt could not and would
rot have announced the terms OF
settlement in the Far East if they
cid not know that when they went
on from their meeting with Chang
Kai-shek to their meeting W h
Stain, the decision would already
have been regarded as fully in
Russia's interest. We could not
have more conclusive evidence at
this time that on the greater is
sues which most vitality affect the
four great powers there is a solid
understanding. This provides the
solid foundation of concerted
giobal strategy in the prosecution
CT the war and it's settlement.
Without this solid foundation OF
agreement among the great pow
ers, nothing substantial in the
way of a larger organization OF
peace would be possible. In fact.
without this core of agreement
among the great powers, a larger
organization would easily and al
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BIG THREE MEETING
REPORTED UNDERWAY
ED.R., Churchill, Stain
Said Confering In Iran
Greatest Such Meeting In History Has Been
Held, Russian Radio Says u Plans Report
ed Agreed Upon-Decisions Adopted

LONDON. Saturday. Dec. A.
R President Roosevelt, Prime
Minister Churchill and Premier
Stain in tie greatesl such meet
ing in history nave conferred at
Teheran, the capital ct Iran per
sia), and agreed upon both mill
tary and political plans for the
war against Germany, Moscow
radio announced today in the first
official disclosure of the parley.
Cutting through numerous Axis
and neutral reports of the big
three" meeting Moscow in a
broadcast recorded here by the So
Wet monitor stated officially that
the talks were held "a few days
ago." and that ''dipioma and
military representatives took
part. "
cat the conference. said the
official Moscow broadcast. "ques-
tons on the conduct of the war
against Germany We're discussed
as well as a number of political
questions.
corresponding decisions were
adopted which will be made pub
lie later
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By WALTER LIPPMANN

The declaration Of Cairo is a
weighty confirmation of the view
that the Moscow agreements in
augurated a genuine understand
ing.
The declaration is commit
rnent to destroy the modern Japa-
rese empire and to confine the
Japanese to the island territory
which they possessed before they
began their campaigns Of conquest
a half century ago. When the
terms announced at Cairo have
teen put into effect, Japan will
cease to be great power capable
Of waging aggressive war. She will
have been ousted from the main
land of Asia-from China, Man.
churia and Korea-and she will
have lost the material resources
and the strategic positions for con-
quoting a continental war against
Russia and China. She will have
been ousted from Formosa, which
she conquered in 1885,. from all
the islands of the Pacific which
she used to envelop the Philippines
and, OF course, from all her recent
conquests. She will then have lost
the means to wage an oceanic war
against any one.
For the most obvious reason
stain could not be present at the
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Continued on Page Five Col Continued
New York Mayor Fights
To Save Subsidy Bill

producer and professor to make
q legitimate profit. The ban was
approved by the House and there
were free predictions that the Sen
ate would take the same action.
President Roosevelt vetoed a sim
liar prohibition last summer. There
was some question whether tn e
anti-subsidy block, however strong,
could get enough votes to over
ride another anticipated veto.
The Senate banking committee
also heard support for subsidies
from Mayors Cornelius D. Scully
Of Pittsburgh Maurice ]. Tobin
of Boston; George Welsh of Grand
Rapids, Mich. and Cooper Green
OF Birmingham. Ala.
The administrators case W S
presented further to the commit
tee by Clarence w. Slocum, di-
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WASHINGTON, Dec. s. tH -
Mayor LaGuardia of New Y o r k
fought to save the government
lettering food subsidy program to-
day, declaring that without it the
urban areas are threatened with
initiation and financial collapse.
The peppery little executive of
the nations largest city told the
Senate banking committee f o o d
costs have shot up 80 per cent in
New York since I941 and the house.
wife cant eat Statistics" Any
further increase might bring on
initiation, he said. and "every city
in this country would 60 broke,
including mine.
LaGuardia testified as chairman
Of the United States conference of
mayors, opposing legislation to out
law food subsidies - government
payments designed to hold down
retail prices and yet permit the
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Senate Junks
Seryiicenen's
Vote Measure
Jf Federal Supervi-
Of 1914 Balloting
i Is Killed By Solons
IS UP TO STATES
Called Hardest Blow AT
Army's Political Rights
Since 1864

WASHINGTON, Dec. s.
B - A coalition of Repub-
leans and southern Demo-
Gratis, overriding the Senate
leadership, today junked the
idea of federal supervision of
servicemen's voting by alb
sentee ballot and passed a
bill calling for state control.
The new bill, substituted
for the pending measure on
a AZ to 81 roll call and final
ly approved by a voice vote,
calls on the states to make
ballots available to members
of the armed forces at home
and abroad.
Bill Condemned
Democratic Leader Barley Ky
Immediately condemned it as "a
pious ladies aid society resolution
under which few il any votes
would be cast
Senators Mcclellan ID. Ark. }
and Eastland R.-Miss.). sponsors
of the measure Wit; Senator Nc
Kellar D.-Tenn.), asserted III a t
the substitute which now goes to
the House would retain state con-
troll over elections.
The legislation now IS in form
repeatedly acceptable to a major
ity of the members OF the House
elections committee, where w r
ballot legislation had been held up
awaiting Senate action.
Amendments Made
The original bill would h av e
waived all state voting require
ments except age anG residence.
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Cooperative Concert
Association Opens
Its '43-'44 Season

'ne Cooperative Concert Associ-
s al0a presented the Barry Ensem-
We III the first concert of its 1943-
~ season at the High school audi
soiluln last night. The house was
pavAeo the audience attentive and
appfeclative and the Ensemble,
w NJ may well believe, at it's best.
-He program was diverse, and
a .dsSi Of the type of music best
tinS Sp'eo to chamber" presenta-
s sD1' term employed first when
hwy .y composers assembled a few
n ,,uSlclans in the salons of the
tb rsA'y hoping for what we in
r,n degenerate days ordinarily
'a III a nand-out.
p, nneTe was the ever popular
r1se een Suite, performed by the
F4S Sl1 Beethoven's Sonata in
n. lat, Opus 27, No. l, which
in b a little behind the No. 2
ans 4htau'y and constructive musici.
tw SAlp, played by Gertrude Barv:
Clvoi- iu'e solos, one a bit from
Ions A orphesus which has SC
land . o ce a favorite of Barrere
GodsnG.h opln Waltz Substituted fol-
last n, Valse in B minor at thu
Wren T n1) and played by Lorna
AZ Mendelssohn's Trio in D mi
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The Soviet monitor stated that
full details ot the conference might
be announced between noon and
q pm, Eastern Wa Time today,
basing this prediction on the usu-
al routine of The Moscow radio
when announcing future broad
casts.
1t has BEEN widely reported that
the three Allied leaders, in addi-
ton to mapping tie strategy of
the land, sea and ali war against
Germany, would agree upon a po-
litical program for the treatment
of defeated Nazldom and also per.
haps formulate p1 ganda war
to be aimed at the German people
Immediately
Mr.. Roosevelt AMI MI. Churchill
went to the Iran conference from
their historic five-day meeting in
North Africa with Generalissimo
Chang Kai-shek. which was con-
cerned primarily with the wal
against Japan. THAI meeting, held
from Nov % through Nov. rs, was
attended bv galaxy of military
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MORE OLD PAPER
URGENTLY NEEDED
Pulpwood Production In
u. S. And Canada
Off Is Per Cent

Pulpwood production in both
Canada and the United States for
1913 is off at least % per cent, re-
ports Edwin S. Friendly, chair
man of the U. S. Victory Waste
Paper Campaign, in letter to
W. A. Stewart, local salvage direc-
tor.
THE situation is CRITICAL said
MIR. Friendly. There are about Is
plants that use waste paper shut
down at the present time and over
one hundred others are operating
CT part-time schedules. Therefore,
no matter what collection pro-
grams are used, more waste paper
is urgently needed right now!"
Wilmington scrap paper cal
lection campaign will open Mon
day, December 6. and continue
about three weeks. During this
time salvage officials expect to
completely clear this area of all
waste paper and urgently caal
upon every resident to assist in
this about necessary campaign.
The campaign will be carried
out primarily through the Will
mington schools: but people hav-
ing paper which they desire to
have collected may call Mr.. Stew
art at the Brigade Club, 6367, and
it will be picked up Immediately.
Army trucks will collect the paper
from the schools each Saturday
morning, and five military trucks
will be used in this work.
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Expected Allied Drive
On Rome Under-W ay

It begins to look, however, as
though there had developed rea'
sons for wasting nc time IN get
ting the Allied nne fol ward in lta-
". and seeing the air bases IN
the vicinity of Rome. They WOULD
not greatly increase the effective
ness of the Allied ali attack from
Foegia on south and southeastern
Germany. They would decldeoiy
shorten the bombing route to
France. and to the rear perlme'
ters of the Nazi defenses along
the channel coast.
From Rome 10 the French sloe
If the straits Of Dover, for ex'
annie, it is nearly zoe miles short
ar bv air line than from Foggla'
vet # is still an 800 mile lau m.
! ~ The value Of the Rome site 1o OF
bombing bases, as compared 10
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U. S. 5TH ADVANCES
Great Clouds OF Dust And
Smoke Hang Over q
The Battlefield
VERY BITTER FIGHTING
Y'anks Push Ahead From
Calabritto, Against
Nazi Right Flank

A L L IE q HEADQUAR.
TIERS, Algiers, Dec. 3.-(P,
Paced for the second day
by aerial assaults on elab-
crate, well-prepared German
Notifications, 1t. Gen. Mark
w. Clark's. Fifth Army. stab
bed forward from Calabrittc
against the right flank OF
massed German troops guard
ing the main road to Rome
in the fourth day of the big
gest Italian offensive since
Salerno.
Great clouds of smoke anc
dust hung over the battle
field. Air force pilots partici-
pating in the methodical de-
struction of enemy gun posi-
lions and entertainments
ahead of American and Brit
ish forces saw signs of a
fierce combat raging below
Official accounts gave no in
dication whether Clark
troops yet had reached the
hard core Of the Nazi line.
Bitter Fighting
Equally bitter fighting ragged or
the Eighth Army front. where the
right wing of Gen. Sir Bernard
L. Montgomery's British, Indian,
and New Zealand forces slugged
six more miles up the Adriatic
coast, and approached the impor'
tant highway and railroad center
of San Vito Chiet,no, only 16 miles
from the big port Of Pescara.
The Germans had reorganized
their defenses farther inland and
were resisting desperately around
the ancient Roman city of Lam
ciano, where they held a 90O-foot
ridge dominating TIE surrounding
country. Montgomery's men cap
tured Castel Frentano, two and
one-half miles southwest of Lam
ciano.
City Evacuated
A DNB news agency broadcast
from Berlin reported &c m n
troops had evacuated Lanciano in
the face of the Eighth Army's adj
vance,
Official reports from Eighth
Army headquarters disclosed that
elements of the veteran German
goth light infantry division h d
been rushed from northern Italy
and thrown into thu fighting near
the Adriatic This unit, the 18th
German division known to be fight
ing on the italian front. was with
Marshal Erwin Roa,,mels Africa
corps and bore the brunt OF the
long rearguard fighs from Ell Ala
mein back to Tunisla. Part OF the
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SECRET SERVICE
UNCOVERS PLOT
Says Deranged Man Had
Planned To Assassi-
nate Roosevelt

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3-tP- A
strange story came to light today
Of how a man with a wild plan to
assassinate. President Roosevelt
shulked about the White House
vicinity for 10 days last month
and finally. was arrested for walk
ing against a traffic light.
The arrest by city police came
at a time when the Secret Service
was searching Washington for the
man after receiving word from his
wife of his intention which, Sc
cret Service official said, he at
tributed to Electrodes running
through my BRAIN
Secret Service agents, who told
the story. said the man is Walter
Rest, 38, former worker in Pom
tiac and Detroit, Mich, factories.
They said he is now in st. Eliza
beth's hospital for the insane pend
ing action by the United States
Attorney.
William A. Carlson, supervisor
Of Secret Service agents in the
Michigan-Ohio district. first re-
vealed the Incident in an interview
with the Detroit News. Secret
Service agents here then confirmed
the story and added some details.
AS the officers told it, Best left
Pontiac, Mich. Nov. 2 and arrived
here Nov. and registered at a
hotel. Carlson said he wrote to
his wife telling her he intended to
get rid of Roosevelt" but had
found President was out of town
and was awaiting his return.
Carlson said Best also "describ-
ed how he got inside the military
guard at the White House while
soldiers were busy unloading a
truck and that he was celebrating
whether to steal a soldiers gun
nearby when he was discovered. "
The Secret Service here said
that was pure fantasy. AS a mat
ter of fact, thev said, Best never
got inside the White House grounds
which are surrounded by high,
iron fence and patrolled by uni
formed guards as well as by sol
diers. They said he did spend
much Of the 10 days between his
arrival and his arrest hanging
around in Lafayette Park which
lies across Pennsylvania Avenue
from the White House, and appar-
emily was hoping for an opportunl-
ty to modest the President when he
left the grounds to go to church
III for some other reason.
Alarmed and disturbed by the
letter, Mrs. Best told Michigan
authorities of it. Word was re-
layed to the Secret Service here,
arriving on Nov 10. Best had adj
vised his wife OF the hotel where
he was staying and agents went
there while others began search
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WEATHER
FORECASTS:

FORECASTS:
NORTH CAROLINA: Cloudy and cool
er with light rain in north and ives
portions. Partly cloudy and continued
mid southeast portion Saturday. Sunda.
partly cloudy and warmer
eastern Standard Time1
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hour
ending 1880 p. m, yesterday.
Temperature
1. 80 am, 50, 1870 am, 40, 1870 pm, II
TAO pm, go.
Maximum u, Minimum 40, Mean 60
Normal 81.
Humidity
80 am, 70, 1880 am, 80, 1880 pm, n
sc pm, So.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 1880 p. N
0.0C inches.
Total since the first of the month
1.24 inches.
Tides for Today
From the Tide Tables published b.
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey,
High Low
Wilmington -------------- 3 00a 10:20s
:36p :53r
Masonboro Inlet ---------- 1Z:53a 1903.
:32p 1921
Sunrise 7:02 a. m, Sunset, SOB p. m.
Moonrise. 1851 p, Moonset,
Cape Fear River stage at Fayette-
vile, 9.15 feet.
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NOPE S0LIDA /
Envoy Says Air
Post War -
Be Only r,
LUNCHEON IS HELD.
Briton Takes Much Interest
In Operations AT Ship
building Firm

The imperative need for
greater Allied solidarity in
the final push toward victory
and in the postwar world was
the consistent theme in the
formal and informal mes
sages of Viscount Halifax,
British ambassador to the
United States, who conduct
ed his first official visit to
North Carolina and Whining
ton late Friday afternoon.
The word from the Cairo
conference to the workers
and soldiers of the Allied
countries is a "plea for unity
of the Allied nations, and a
request for concentration of
the war to as expedient an
end as possible, Lord Hall
our united efforts to bring
fax declared in an interview
here.
Aim Is Peace
Asked for the aim which cities
and nations should harbor in their
plans for postwar world, the
ambassador volunteered one
word answer: Peace"
1--WE want to keep peace after
we get it," he emphasized.
At the informal luncheon given
in his honor at the Cape Fear
club Friday afternoon, Halifax
stressed again the need for a per-
manent spirit of cooperation be-
tween this country and his own.
He asked for a knitting-together
of the nations that will render
them effective in helping to po-
lice for peace when peace is
achieved.
Many Contributions
1.-THE United States has made
SO many contributions to the sue
cess of our cause Lord Halifax
observed in the interview, it is
difficult to say where she has made
the greatest contribution.
Certainly this country has done
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DAVIS TO HONOR
CITY RESIDENTS
Mrs. Wagner, J. A. West
brook Will Be Granted
Awards Wednesday

CAMP DAVIS. Dec. g. Two Will
iningtonians will be presented a.
wards appreciative of their serv-
ice in the Army's policy Of re-
warding civilians and soldiers who
serve their country well.
The Wilmington residents to be
honored are Mrs. Margaret D. Wag-
ne1 of 106 Kenwood Avenue, Will
.nington and John A. Westbrook,
IA Jackson Drive, who will be a.
warded emblems in token of their
having longer satisfactory records
Of service among civilian employ
eos to be held at Theater No. 1
here by Coloney Adam E. Potts,
Camp Commander, on Wednesday
December 8, at 11:15 a. m.
The Emblem for Civilian Service,
which will be conferred on the two
Wilmingtonians, has been created
(COntinund m Pare Two. Col ~
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BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War Analyst

The expected Allied one-tWo-
knockout punch the Nazi Win
ter defense line south OF Rome has
been struck. Reports f r o m the
front are still too meager for ac-
curate appraisal of its results, but
there is no doubt that the Fifth
and Eighth armies are aiming at
larger detectives than m e r y
throwing the foe back another step
in his stubborn retreat up the Ital-
ian peninsula.
One obvious reason for pressing
the Allied attack in Italy just now
is to increase its dlversionary eff
feet so far as the Russian front
is concerned Every new German
division thrown into the line in
Italy is one division less to back
Up the wavering Nazi front in Rus
| STA.
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river pTlQSGIlGdU Ue1OW hIGlllS-
chug Is miles to the west through
powerfully defended territory,
Moscow announced early today.
German hoops recoiling before
the Soviet attack northwest of Co.
mel sustained heavy losses, the
Soviet midnight bulletin said, as
the Russians swept up more than
100 villages and hamlets. K y
points taken in this carried
out through Billiards of bowling
winds, wet snow anc rain-were
Sverjen and Hovsk, Only II miles
and Is miles northeast of Roga-
chew, respectively and Soltanovka,
II miles southeast OF hlobin on
the Gomel railroad.
Dovsk is the junction of the Co
mel-Mogilev and Rcgachev Ros-
lavl RAILWAYS. All three of III e
towns taken screen the approaches
10 the nubs of the German rail
network in that region - Zllob;n
and Rogachev. Seven hundred
Germans were killed alone in one
sector of the fighting in Thatarea.
Deterrninen Sovie; troops, blast
ing their va forward through
complex German trench systems
and dugouts protected by m n e
fields and BARRED wire entangle-
ments took Novo-Gecrgiev, a dis
trict center of the Krovograd, and
carpeted the approaches to h e
town with hundreds of German
dead. the ,ommunique said.
With this westward thrust of Is
miles into inc Dnieper sack below
Kremenchup. the Russians moved
to relieve rhe pressure on their
comrades holding on in the up
river brldgehead near Cherkasy.
This Cherkasy oridgehead, a rela-
lively small one, has been the
scene of hard fighting for days
and the coromuniqut- said that in
one sector alone the Russians
threw back seven German coun-
ter-attacxs and nilled approximate
ly 300 Germans
Soviet forces also hit southwest
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9Th Army Commander
Congratulates Troops
For Crushing Germans
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,

ALLIED HEADQ UARIERS,
Algiers, Dec. 5.-tR-General
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
sent message through the
commanders to Eighth Army
troops today expressing graft
tude for the splendid way
everyone has fought" in smash
ing the enemy's SangrO river
line in Italy.
81 would like to congratulate
YOU and the whole force on the
great success of the Sangro
battle" the text of his mes
sage to his commanders said.
GIN two days you wrested from
the enemy the whole ridge
which dominates the Sangro
valley, which ridge was the
whole framework of the enemy
winter line on the Adriatic
axis.
'It was a very fine perform
ance and your infantry divis-
ions, your armor and your
troops have all done splendid
Iy. Please tell them how de-
lighted 1 am with the whole
business.