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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-15
BUSY WEEK AHEAD
FOR N. {. S0L0NS
Coming Session May Be
Most Important Of
1943 Assembly

RALEIGH, Feb. 14,-tR-This
probably will be the busiest week OF
the legislative session, and may be
the most important.
It will be the time for decisions
on the proposed nine-months school,
increases in pay for teachers ana
other state employees, whether there
will be a prohibition referendum,
and whether to extend war powers
to the governor. Innumerable local
bills also must be acted upon.
The joint spending committees OF
the Assembly, which have complet-
ed their public hearings and are
awaiting a report from their subcom-
mittee, must decide whether to rec
oanmend the expenditure OF ABOUT
s14, 900, 900 for the raises and the ex-
tended, optional school term. The
findings of that joint group will be
placed before the legislature for
floor debate, which some members
have indicated will be extensive.
Already reported out is the tax
bill, estimated to raise at least $104,-
100000 for the next bienniurn. But
passage of the spending measure, in
GLIDING the raise and nine-months
problems, will throw the money bills
out Of line and the state possibly
will have to dip into its surplus,
which authorities say might be as
much as s1S,O00,00O by the end OF
this fiscal year - exclusive Of the
$40 900, 900 set aside for postwar
use.
The Price bill to order a referen-
dunn next November on whether the
state is to return to the bone-dry
laws of a decade ago will be up for
another public hearing on Tuesday
or Wednesday. The drys had their
day last week, when about 200 OF
them appeared before the House
committee on propositions and grie'
vances, presided over by Rep. S. c.
Brawley of Durham. But whether
the vets will present much speech
making is problematical. They have
not in past years.
The war powers bill, asked in Gov
ernor Broughton's biennial message
to the Assembly, is merely request
that he, with approval Of the Coun-
Gil of State, be authorized to con-
troll the various agencies of society
if such acts are dictated by the pub
lie welfare and safety. He would
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-15
BIG AERIAL WAR
ON ENEMY seen
Round The Clock Bombing
OF Nazis BY Allies
Is Forecast

LONDON, Feb. 14.-IR-When
the planes are available and the
time is ripe, the USAAF and the
Raj each intends to throw air
arrnadas of 1000 or even 1000
bombers against Germany in
round d-the-clock raids-the Ameri-
cans by day, Britain by night.
The top men of the American
air operations in Britain have
made this clear in interviews in
which they explained why the pro-
jected grand-scale aerial assaults
would be done by separate forces
night and day rather than by joint
formations.
Generals feel that the idea OF
mammoth dual force raids is tied
in with a widespread misappre.
hension of the nature and func.
tions of the kingpin bombers o1
the two nations-the Boeing For
tress and the Avro Lancaster
each of which is preeminent in its
own field and which, working re-
spectively on day and night raids
form an unbeatable team.
Granting that immense devasta
ton could be achieved by a com
bined force of night raiders, such
policy would enable the enemy
similarly to concentrate its de
fensive strength during the nigh
hours.
For example, if it were requir
ed to work only at night each anti
aircraft gun station could be man
ned by a single crew working
nigrts and resting days and. fur
ther only nightfighters would be
needed for protection in the air.
Something approaching this sit
uation prevailed for Germany be
fore daylight bombing raids were
started by Americans, and the
Nazis were much more comfort
able then than now.
Now the enemy never knows
whether he'll be attacked by day
night or both, and he must have
reserve gunners and firefighters
and maintain compliments O.
both day and night fighter planes,
Also business disruption both
day and night puts an increasing
strain on production and defensive
capacity-far more than could be
done merely by stepping up the
volume of night raids.
Converting the Fortress to night
bombing would destroy the value
of its precision bombsight, which,
incidentally, really is precision
instrument-on one recent mis-
sion, six of SO bombs dropped from
a height of more than four miles
hit the roof of the target building
which measured but 200 by 400
feet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-15
Weekly Allied Ship
Losses Are Reported
Well Below Average
(By The Associated Press)

(By The Associated Press)
Last week, for the second
successive time, the number of
Allied and neutral cargo ships
announced sunk by the Axis in
Western Atlantic waters was
we'll below the weekly average
during the first year Of the
war.
Three Observation-Disclosures
British merchantmen - were
announced during the week
ended Saturday as sunk in the
area, raising to GA the Asso-
ciated Press tabulation of Al
lied and neutral losses in West
ern Atlantic enemy action
since Pearl Harbor.
In the first year of the war,
undersea raiders destroyed 548
ships in the Western Atlantic,
for a weekly average Of about
10 vessels, a review of an
nOuncementS showed.
Since last December Z this
average was dropped to less
than seven ships a week.
A low point for a seven-day
period was reached two weeks
ago when only one vessel was
reported lost.
In the latest announced sink
ings-in the South Atlantic
one man was killed, So were
reported missing, and 1872 were
rescued.
The master of one ship was
taken prisoner aboard a sub
marine, the goth merchant
captain to be seized by Axis
submarine commanders since
last June.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-15

and engine sheds at Tours,
France.
Mustangs of the army coopera-
ton command likewise attacked
railway targets, damaging several
locomotives in northern France and
Holland. Fighter planes struck
locomotives in Brittany, and two OF
the fighters were lost.
In the blows at Lorient, the first
attack was made in bright moon
light shortly after p. M, the Air
Ministry said, and "when the sec
ond wave of bombers set out they
clicked up the glow Of fires from
100 miles away.
When they arrived over the tar
get they reported finding the dock
area a mass of flame, with smoke
from one particular fire reaching
a height of $4,000 feet.
"Even the flank, which had been
fairly intense at the beginning, had
fallen off and the pilot of Stirling
found only six heavy guns. Some
light ones ard five searchlights car
rying on" the ministry said.
When the last bombs were drop
ped shortly before 10 P. M, dock
buildings and installations "were
being eaten up by flames, with red
smoke billowing across the target. .
returning pilots reported.
Squadron Leader John D. Nettle-
ton, who won the Victoria Cross,
Britain's highest award, in a day
light raid on Augsburg last April,
said one group of fires in the mid
die of the Lorient dock area "merg-
ed to make one huge carpet OF
flame"
The Air Ministry described Lori
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ALLIED AIRMEN BLAST
6 GERMAN 7RAMSPCsT.
PLANES NEAR ~ ZSLA
Burma Blazes
As. ed Bombers Hit
Kalachaung, Toungoo

NEW DELHI, Feb. 14.-RA
The air was afire over Bur-
ma yesterday as ground fight
ing slackened.
Allied bombers and fighters
struck at the Japanese-held
village of Kalachaung on the
Mayu peninsula, pounded the
railroad in the Toungoo area
and shot down two Japanese
planes while ground fire bag
ged a third, a British commu-
nique said today.
brig. Gen. Clayton l.. Bis
sell, commanding the Tenth
U. S. Air Force in China, Bur-
ma and India, reported in a
delayed dispatch from Bonn
bay that his flyers In Jan
uary destroyed 13 enemy
planes with the loss of a single
fighter, and promised "great
results in his theater of op-
erations from the recent visit
of Lieut.. Gen. Henry HI. Ar
mold, chief of the U. S. Air
Forces.)
Kalachaung was struck by
explosive and incendiary
bombs from a mixed fighter
and bomber squadron, while
a locomotive and three cars
were damaged in the Toungoo
attack, the British report said.
A fighter patrol over the
Donbaik battle area and across
the mouth of the Mayu river
brought down two Japanese
fighters, and damaged several
others.
One Allied plane was miss
fnp
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-15
DemOcratSShOWInt Interest
Over Control OF Power

together with the absence of many
others, which brought the adop-
ton by the House of an amendment
to the sessions first appropriation
bill to eliminize the free mailing
privileges Of executive departments
"Perhaps the demonstration was
Just what we needed said the De-
mocratic leader, whose name can
not be used. ''It proved to our
side that you cannot vote votes that
are not presen: when the roll is
called"
Similarly five Democrats voting
with the 10 Republicans of tie
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-15
WELD VITAL LINK
Recapture OF Center Adds
To Strength OF De-
tenders Push
IS REcAPTURED TWICE
Second Time In Is Months
That Important Area
Retaken
Is RECAP'TURED TWICE
BY The Associated Press

For the second time in less
than Is months the once-pow-
erful invasion forces of Adolf
Hitler have been driven out
of Rostov - Russia's gate
way to the Caucasus.
When the Russians wrest-
ed control of the strategic
Don delta city from the weak
ening remnants of Nazi le-
gions which had occupied it
twice in this war, Hltler,s
Caucasian venture finally col
lapsed.
The recapture creates an
other important link in the
strengthening chain being
forged by the Red army in
answer to Premier Joseph
Stains rallying cry that ev,
cry German be thrown OUT Oh
Russia.
Was Major Victory
II was on November 21, 194l,
that the city Of 100000 first fell
to the invaders and the German
high command hailed it as 4 maj
or victory. -.-.....-------s x z
Only a week later, however. a
citizen army of men, women and
children helped the Russian forces
to drive the Nazis out. That was
Hitler's first major reversal OF the
Russian campaign.
But when summer came the Ger
mans struck back with more than
million troops and captured the
city again on July "a, 1912. This
time they rolled on into the Cau-
casus, driving 400 miles to Ordz-
honikidze and to Mozdok, on the
edge of the Grozny oil fields.
Then winter approached once
more and the Russians again start
ed beating back. Their drive gam
ed momentum and recently netted
&c to Is miles day.
Now the southern anchor OF Hit
ler's Russian defense line has been
broken. The Russians have open
ed the way for a thrust to the
Crimea along the Sea of Azov.
Rostov, located on the north
bank of the picturesque Don about
25 miles inland from the point
where the river empties into the
Sea of Azov, is an important rail-
way junction and in normal times
busy river port.
It is the economic outlet of the
long untamed country of the Don
and Kuban Cossacks, whose Life
and character have been fav-
orite theme in Russian literature.
South and southeast Of Rostov
lie the rich oil wells Of the trans
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-15
ROS1OV TORN FROM NAz GRIP
BY TRIUMPHANT RED ARMIES
Americans Kill 6,O66 Japanese
In Last GuadalcanQ al Ofensiue

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-tR
American troops killed 6,O66
japanese and captured 127 In
their final smashing campaign
for complete domination Of
Guadalcanal, the Navy report
ed today in a communique
which also indicated the en-
emy was bulwarking his posi-
tions to the northwest Of that
strategic island.
American casualties were
not stated.
The communique disclosed
that in an attack on the strong
ly held enemy area around
Shorthand island in the north
west Solomons on Saturday,
American planes had shot down
eight ZerOs and bombed an
enemy cargo ship.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-15

WASHINGTON, Feb. IA -H-
Significant demonstrations that the
reduced Democratic ranks in Con-
gress provide less working control
for the administration than form
erly brought private expressions
of concern today from some party
lieutenants.
In the House, where the past
week saw action in committee and
on the floor highly pleasing to
Republicans, a Democratic chief
disclosed the possibility that a
party caucus may be called soon to
seek unity.
It was the action of six Demo-
Gratis voting with the Republicans
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-15

The Americans, however, lost
four of their own planes to en-
emy fighters and two others to
anti-aircraft fire.
The japanese sent up q force
of 45 Zero fighters to inter-
cept the American assault
which was aimed at both shore
positions and shipping. The
number of intercepting craft,
coupled with the Navy's state
ment that antl-a1rcraft fire
was ''heavy,' indicated that
considerable Notifications have
been installed in the Shorthand
area which lies 295 nautical
miles northwest of GuadaI-
canal airfield.
This is one of the two main
fortified sections in the Solo
mons archipelago, the other
being in the Munda area only
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-15

(The regular midnight Russian
bulletin recorded by the Soviet mon'
itor in London said the Red army
had made new gains in the Chugu.
yev area 22 miles southeast Of Khar.
kov. One Soviet unit was credited
with wiping out more than coms
pany of Nazi infantry and Destroy
ing seven enemy tanks. Three hun.
dred more Germans were killed in
smashing a Nazi counterattack in
the Kharkov area, the communicate
said.
Qn the Krasnoarmeisk sector rs
miles northwest Of Stalino the Rus
slams said their troops wiped out
1000 Germans during the day and
captured large quantities Of equip
ment, including 20 guns, a train.
load of 20 tanks, ten trainloads OF
other material, and 600 trucks.
ut is in this area that the Rus.
slams stand only about 70 miles
above the Sea of Azov, and are try
ing to push southwark to trap the
Germans fleeing westward from Ros-
tov and the Donets basin. Stalino
apparently is the immediate object
of this drive, and that city also is
threatened by another Soviet column
pushing southwestward from recap.
tured Voroshilovgrad.
(In the Fatezh area 80 miles
northwest of recaptured Kursk the
midnight communique said two
Nazi companies We're wiped out, 100
prisoners taken, and several more
localities seiZed)
Russian troops poured into Ros.
tov after "breaking stubborn re-
sistance of the enemy" and the ca
pitu1ation was aided by a. western
T4v
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-15

$50 miles northwest Of Quad
alcanal. Munda has been
heavily ra''ed on 63 occasions
since late November and there
is some belief In Washington
that concentrated aerial bonn
bardment may render it rela-
lively useless if not completely
untenable for the enemy. In
such event, the Japs could
place their main reliance on the
Shorthand section as buffer
for the growing American
strength in Guadalcanal.
The communique said that
the 6,066 Japanese were killed
In the offensive beginning
January Is. The figure, a
Navy spokesman said, was
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-RE
Declaring that Congress has the
final responsibility for postwar
policies whatever plans may be
made in other quarters, Senator
George O-Ga) drafted a resolu-
ton today calling for the creation
of Senate investigating commit
tee te study future economic poll
cies. The resolution is to be in
troduced tomorrow.
The committee, which would
have subpoena power, would be
charged with investigating "all
matters relating to postwar econ
ornic policy and problems with
the view of advising Congress how
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-15
NAPLES IS BOMBED
Crotone, In Southern Italy,
Also Smashed By
u S. Raiders
MINOR GROUND ACTION
Montgomerys Forces Con-
tact Rommel's Corps
Inside Tunisia

ALLIED HEADQUAR-
TERS IN NORTH AFRICA,
Feb. 14.-{P)-Allied airmen
blasted six Geran transport
planes from a north-bound
formation of so over the ST.
cilian strait yesterday and
bomber Naples and Crotone,
Tunis and Bizerte in opera
tions on both shores of the
Mediterranean, communicates
disclosed today.
u. S. Liberator bombers OF
The Ninth Air Force struck
across the sea by daylight to
sttsck airdrome facilities of
Crotone, on the ''sole" of the
italian boot, and the oft-raid-
ed port of Naples, 200 miles
10 the northwest, it was an
nounced at Cairo.
Every Plane Returns
Every plane returned from
these forays.
"Results of the bombing of Ma
rles could not be observed due to
complete cloud coverage over the
city," said a communique from
American headquarters in Cairo.
al Crotone bombs were seen to
hurst on barracks and warehouses
and large fires were left burn
ing"
While ground action was limited,
dozen Axis aircraft in all were
reported destroyed against loss
Of three .ai1it:ad planes, two in op-
erations from French North Afri-
can bases and one in Cairo's war
theater.
The British Eighth Army under
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
made contact with the Axis for
ces of Marshal Erwin Romnel
Withdrawing toward Ben Gardane,
25 miles inside the Tunisian bor-
der but IS miles in advance OF the
fortified Axis positions in the Ma
reth line area.
Northward, a British patrol en-
gaged the Germans in a small
clash five miles from MedJez-el-
Bab
Four American BIS Mitchell
bombers and three P38 Lightning
fighters knocked the six German
transport planes into the sea when
they encountered so of them head
ed north between Tunisia and ST.
cily, headquarters spokesman
said Then the outnumbered raid
ers were forced to break off their
attack.
Low flying American fighter
planes in the Tunisian battle area
shot up seven German tanks west
Of Sened and raked two long AXIS
transport columns southeast OF
Faid, while another American
force reported the destruction OF
fifteen 2 l-2-ton trucks in the same
area.
Allied planes also struck at rail
communications in Sicily in a RAID
Friday night, a British announce
ment said. causing considerable
damage"
Bombers attacking the big el
Aouina airfield at Tunis brought
down four Axis fighters who rose
to oppose them and two enemy
bombers we're destroyed elsewhere
during night operation.
The docks of Bizerte were bomp-
ed again by night by Raj wei
lingtons.
The Italian Sunday communl,,
que reported two local Alleo
ground attacks in Tunisia were re-
pulsed, 1t said two Allied planes
had been shot down and "three OF
aur planes are missing from op-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-15
SDecial Senate Group
OnPostWarP PolicyUrged

to go about achieving stable
economy along with just peace.
1t would be composed of five
Democrats and four Republicans.
George, who is chairman of the
Senate Finance committee, told
reporters his chief objective is to
see that Congress assumes its full
responsibility for shaping the econ
omic policies of the country after
the war.
''The resolution recognizes the
responsibility of the Congress to
the people of the United States for
our postwar economic policy" ne
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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-02-15
WEATHER

FORECAST:
North Carolina: Continued very colu
ttoday with maximum temperatures wen
0eiow freezing.
Eastern Standard Time)
=, by U. S. Weather Bureau)
srs! chronological data for the "a hours
-''N4ilg 1870 p. M, yesterday.
,.oo Temperature
m 4'SU D, a. NJ, 41.0; 7:30 a. M, "a; 1 80 p.
a. S4, 730 p. M, 25.
Nomu nIaHlmun At; Minimum Is; M0n 80;
on Humidity
\, ~ ~ a NJ, So; 7:30 a. M, 81; 1:30 p.
"' 5S' 80 p. M, 81.
Precipitation
y, loIal for the "a hours ending 80 p.
a., 600 inches.
& ~ lo!al since the first of the month,
Tides For Today
High Low
cn.. High Low
igton -------- 6 LEA m. IL :55a m.
M. 6:38p.m. 1:32p m.
'-'S0hooro Inlet ----- 4:17a.m. 1o:3sa.m.
o. 4:42p.m. 10 :56p m.
sfouliIlse, 6:57 a. M; Sunset 5 Sc p. m.;
''0hFlse, 2:11p.; Moonset, 3:51a.
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NAZIS ADMIT LOSS

(By Inc Associated freSS)
The Germans acknowledged
last night that ROstov and
Voroshilovgrad have b e en-
evacuated, but they declared
the retreat was methodical
and orderly and said that all
important military installa-
tions in both cities were de-
StrOyed.
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Major Henry HoH
Guest Speaker At
PTA Meeting

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