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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-30
SHORTAGE OF FOOD
EXPECTED TO GROW
WORSE DURING rs

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29-UP)--
In a forecast emphasizing the Or
flee of Price Administrations draS'
tic ration action, the Department
of Agriculture said tonight thai
there will be shorter supplies Of
nearly all major foods in the first
three months of 1915.
A survey showed that civilians
must expect reduced supplies Of
meat, poultry, butter, potatoes
canned and fresh vegetables. and
probably lard. There will be in
creases in fruit, milk, cheese, eggs,
fish and special cereal products
but not enough to compensate for
the prospective shortages.
There will be nc overall food
shortage and supplies availat lie
will keep consumption lat least as
high as the pre-war level, although
different in composition" the de-
partment said. However, return
to pre-war consumption levels
means 7 per cent drop from the
record high reached this year IN
der an eased rationing program.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-30
By EDWARD ID. BALL

BASTOGNE, Dec. 90 R line
commander of Bastogne's valor-
Gus 10000 who made history with
a single word-"Nuts, was a.
year-old Brig. Gen. Anthony Z.
McAuliffe, one of Americas young
est generals.
He was acting commander OF the
1O1st Airborne Division a n d odds
and ends of the U. S. Third Army S
Ninth and Tenth Armored Divi-
sions, which had been thrown In
hurriedly to stem the German rush
toward Sedan.
This soldier from Washington, D.
c., and his troops had been in
tough spots before, for they were
in the Normandy landings and the
airborne penetration of Holland.
And SO when the commander OF
the German forces drawn up in a
siege ring around Bastogne sent in
an ultimatum to surrender, McAu'
life sent back this noW-famour re-
ply which deserves to rank with
John Paul Jones' 1--WE have just
begun to fight" -..
It was simply this one word:
''Nuts!"
Then the young general told his
tough fighters what he had done,
and this typical bit Of American
repartee became a rallying call for
the garrison of 10000.
Besides the 101st Screaming
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-30
Na1 Army Punched Back 2 Miles By Yanks
Patton Roars To. Reich Border In Luxembourg
|Camp Davis Wise ReactivatedFo For New York
Churchill Confers
With Grecian King
On Regency Plans

LONDON, Saturday. Dec. 30. -
UP)-King George II Of Greece
conferred at some length with
Prime Minister Churchill last nigh,
at 10 Downing street, and presum-
ably learned directly of the desire
of Greek political quarters for a
regency in his country.
Churchill talked with the king
after attending Commute cabinet
meeting which was summoned
within an hour after the Prime
Minister, Foreign Secretary All
thony Eden and Churchill's staff
returned from Greece in an RAJ
transport plane. Eden also attend
ed the cabinet meeting.
Churchill was believed to have
urged him to accept formation OF
a regency speedily as the first, but
not the only step toward solution
of the civil strife in Greece, and
responsible quarters here believed
the king would accept, although he
may make reservations safegual
ing his right to see the future 4
his monarchy decided by a free
vote in Greece.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-30
REDS SLAUGHTER
FOE in BUDAPEST
Berlin A dmits Russians
Already In Heart
OF City

LONDON, Saturday, Dec. 3d.
up - Russian shock battalions
smashed into new sections of en-
circled Budapest from the west
yesterday and began slaughtering
a trapped Axis garrison in hand.
to-hand fighting raging through
streets clogged with enemy dead
and wrecked guns and tanks, the
Soviet high command announced
at midnight.
Berlin said the Russians already
were in the heart of the burn
ing Hungarian capital, locked in a
struggle unrivalled in ferocity
since Stalingrad where another
German army met disaster in the
snow.
AS the great churning struggle
ragged on the western side of the
Danube, in the Buda section of the
tottering capital, other Soviet units
frightened their death trap on Ger
man-Hungarian units caught in the
Pills hills north of the city, kill
ing $500 of them during the day
and capturing 1900 the previous
day.
Still other Russian units forced
the Hron river, one of the last big
water barriers to the Bratislavs
plain leading to Vienna, Austrian
capital, and sped two miles be-
You'd, capturing Mana and Parkany
near the Hron's confluence with
the Danube.
This last stroke put the Rus
slams within rs miles southeast Of
Bradshaw and 105 miles from vi
emma. Other sections of the same
army arrayed on a 35-mile from
along the east bank of the Hror
to the north were only 81 miles
from Bradshaw, and they killec
or captured 1000 Germans in two
days, the bulletin said.
South of the Danube, meanwhile
other mobile Russian units were
attacking on the approaches tt
Komarom, only S, miles southeas
of Bradshaw and 81 miles from
Vienna. The phalanx of the two
armies moving westward, ever
without awaiting the fall Of Buda
pest, was 100 miles wide.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-30
BY ANN HICKS

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-UP)-
When Maj. Gen. Maxwell D. Tay.
lor left Washington Christmas Eve
to join his 101st Airborne Division
trapped at bloody Bastogne, he
was more worried about tn e
'Kraut" supply than the safety of
his boys, a future General Taylor
reported today.
"Pappy had no doubts about
their winning the future General
Taylor, named Jack and aged IA,
explained. But he wanted to be
there.
Gust before he left said: Pap
py, are you worried about the
1O1st?' and he said, I am not. /
just hope there'n be some Krauts
left when I get over
"Pappy is always saying his
boys are the best outfit in the
Army. When they jumped into Nor
mandy on D-Day they'd never been
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-30

powers When ana Wnere ne Leased.
Federal Judge Philip Sullivan set
January for hearing on the
Governments petition for an in
junction restraining the company
from interfering with the Army S
operation of the plant. Government
and company attorneys apparently
had agreed to make the suit test
case to determine the validity of
the Smith-Connally Act and to de-
eide if the Executive Department
of the Government has any juris-
diction in labor disputes
Company attorneys said that the
firm would not comply with any
mandatory orders for turning over
the books to the Army but added
that they we're accessible if Gov
eminent representatives wanted to
look at them.
"If the President, can, as he
please, choose among those who
reject the mere advice of the Gov
eminent and seize the property of
some but not others, the Nation no
longer has government of law
Avery said in a statement handed
out by an assistant.
He referred specifically to the
Presidents failure to act against
the American Federation OF Musi-
clans. which defied the War Labor
Board, and against the unions
which recently called strike
against two Chicago suburban rail
road
Placards proclaiming that the
Chicago plant and those in six
other cities were under U. S. oper-
alton were posted yesterday morn
ing as the Army followed out the
orders of the President. The White
House action was taken after
Wards refused to comply with
WLB directives
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-30
Weather In Wilmington
More Mean Than Normal
Despite The Forecaster

Wilmington mean a normal
temperature conceded yesterday
for the first time in more than a
month, but the weather in general
was conceded to be much more
mean than normal. Paul Hess, me-
teorologist in charge of the u. S.
Weather Bureau, stated that tn e
precipitation of the last days,
scheduled to continue through to-
morrow, did not amount to much
statistically. However, he admitted
that it was dispersed as hastily as
possible.
Today may be warmer, following
likely low temperature last night
of 40 degrees, which may spare
Wilmingtonians the snow which has
been falling as near as Raleigh
and the freezing which has COM
plicated the drizzle in the northern
and western parts of the State.
Caustic m m n was vide
spread yesterday on recent New
York Times feature article which
described Wilmington as the only
year-around sunshine spot" north
of Florida
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-30
Auction Sale
Of Equipment
eStopped
Air Force Expected To Use
Facilities For
Center

Camp Davis, giant anti-air-
craft artillery training center
near here, has been ordered re-
activated and instructions to
pvacuate AMI abandon the
camp have been rescinded. it
was learned from authorita-
tive sources here last night.
Sale of salvaged equipment at
auction was ordered stopped and
,silroad cars, loaded with supplies
to be shipped from the camp wer"
ordered unloaded and the material
restored to the camps warehouses.
ii was learned.
An advertisement which appear
ed in the Star-News Thursday an
nouncing an auction sale of equip
ment was superseded by another
in this mornings edition cancelling
the plan.
Plans for the firing of a final
sunset gun Sunday afternoon and
the closing of the camp as former
" ordered by the Army have been
Abandoned
1t also was learned that laundry.
baking and refrigerating facilities
at the camp would be repaired
and put into use. All public utili-
ties will be renovated and civilian
employees already granted releases
for other jobs are expected to re-
turn to their original posts.
While no definite announcement
has been made as to a future use
for the camp. it was learned that
the Army Air Forces probably will
utilize its facilities as rehablll-
ation center. These centers are
designed to re-equip the airmen
with the proper mental attitude to-
ward future combat or to render
them fit to enter civilian life upon
discharge from the service.
An influx of many thousand
troops is expected soon, it was re-
NeaIed.
Since casualties have been high
following the invasion of Europe
and the Philippines, it was rumor-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-30
WARPLANES
RAKE NAM RAILS
Germans Are Lashed With
l4.75O Tons OF Bombs
In Week

LONDON, Dec. 29.- Up More
than $500 U. S. bombers and fight
ers from Britain raked the German
Transportation web from the Vest
ern Front back to the Rhine today
with thousands of tons of explo-
sives for the seventh straight day.
A great fleet of Raj heavy
bombers and a limited number OF
continent based dive-bombers also
participated in attacks which in a
week have dashed the Germans
with 14,750 tons of explosive.
Despite poor flying weather
heavy bombers If the U. S. 18th Air
Force in Italy hit rail targets al
Innsbruck and Salzburg in old Aus
tria and unannounced detectives
in Germany. The Bremen Pass
into northern Italy also was at
tackled for the. fourth day.
Eight hundred U. S. Fighter Air
Force Fortresses and Liberators
from Britain, escorted by 700
Mustangs and Lightnings, blasted
five rail and road functions in 9
15-mile arc behind the German Of
fensive bulge in Belgium. The
main weight of the attack struck
glutted freight yards at Bingen
Aschaffenburg and Frankfurt
which are On the southern raj
route, now over-burdened since the
northern lines have been all bu
immobilized by previous bomb
ings. The Trier-Euskirchen area
also was hit.
Solid cloud layers obscured the
results near the battle area, bu
the main loads were spread visual
ly over the three main rail centers
and returning creWmen were elat
ed with the effectiveness. One
pilot said a 10-square-mile ares
was set afire with incendiaries a
Bingen.
The German air force again was
grounded and anti-aircraft fire wa!
reported intense only over Frank
furt, which was hit by the Aueri
cans for the Avn time. Escortin&
Mustangs and Thunderbolts strafec
targets.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-30
SEVERAL GENERALS
ARE RECALLED FROM
FRONT AND DENOTED

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-RE
The War Department mas recall
ed several general officers from
overseas commands within recent
months, demoting some of them,
| it was learned tonight.
The recalls have been individual
cases, not involving any single
situation, but are manifestation
OF firm policy adopted by the
Department.
The most recent case is that Of
a major general ordered back
from France and reduced to the
rank of colonel. This case pre-
dates the present German often
sive.
Explaining that it prefers to
avoid publ" discussion out of re-
gard for the individual officers
and because of possible morale
effect, the Army declined COM
ment No names were given.
Those familier with the situa-
ton say the departments policy
~ ~ >S*ASoSSo dPcii lto 1IlSlSL6nCG
that there be efficiency in COM
mand and that recall of comman-
ders is not necessarily a punt
tive measure.
1t is pointed out that frequently
a general officer is given an as
signment for which he proves
unsuited, but later gives an ex-
cellent account of himself in an
other battle command.
In recalling earlier instances,
the case of Major General Terry
Allen was cicted. Allen went ov-
erseas in 1912 for the North Afri-
can campaign, commanding the
First Division there and in Sicily.
He was returned to the United
States in the midst of the Sicilian
campaign, but retained his rank
and recently reappeared as COM
mander of the 1O4th infantry
division in France.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-30
Foe MayPlan
|DefenseStand
Inside Bulge
Withdrawal In Ardennes
Salient Reported To
Be In Rout

PARIS, Saturday, Dec. 80.
-P)-Powerful blows by the
U. S. First and Third armies
have knocked back the Ger
mans IL miles at the western
end of their thrust into Bel
GUM and compressed the enc
my's corridor from the Reich
to 13 miles.
There were indications that the
Germans, their initiative lost,
were preparing for a defensive
stand as long as possible on the
lines of their bulge. Observers re-
ported intensive movements in
side the enemy salient and at ma
ny places along the perimeter
|Nazi soldiers were feverishly
throwing up Notifications and
planting mines.
The First Army, punching for
ward a mile and half, reached
the edge of Rochefort-12 miles
from the point where the German
advance once was within three
miles of the Meuse river.
At the same time 1t. Gen. George
is. Patton's Third Army pounded
to the Reich border at three points
in northeast Luxembourg, broke
the enemy's Sure river line and
cemented positions four miles
north of Bastogpe-only 10 miles
from the point where the first is
fighting down from the north.
In a disptaca covering develop
ments up to yesterday morning,
Associated Press Correspondent
Lewis Hawkins said the corridor
into Bastogne was strengthened
against stout resistance from the
west, but lesser opposition from
the east.
In this period, at least Is more
towns had been overrun by the
two American armies and Field
Marshal Won Rundstedts steel
spearheads had been shattered
with fearful slaughter.
Some of the best news was that
clear weather returned today to
the Third Army front. The sky
was laced with condensation trails
as everything from heavy bonn
bers to figh.erbombers blasted the
Germans who for two days had
moved under the cover of fog
Reuters Correspondent William
Steen with j. S. forces in Belgium
said the German withdrawal from
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-30
:Pappy' Really Moried--
About The Xruut' Supply

| in combat beforehand they won q
Presidential Unit citation
Overseas dispatches told today
how the boys of the 101st already
had knocked out $50 German tanks
and were holding off as many as
four Nazi divisions when their gen
eral arrived to take over.
The generals family knew he
would be leaving soon but they had
hoped he would be at their nearby
Arlington, Va. home for Christmas
Only two weeks before he hao
come home, for the first time in
q year and half, for special bust.
ness at the War Department.
The day before Christmas, Jack,
his brother, Tom, and Mrs. Taylor
came to Washington, where the
general had his picture taken. In
the afternoon Jack trimmed t h e
tree while "Pappy just sat in an
armchair and watched
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-30
BRITAIN MAY ASK
HELP ON CONTROL
Big Three Policy For Rul-
ing Free Lands Is
Sighted

LONDON, Dec. % LP Allied
diplomatic difficulties stemmine
from Europe's theological strug-
giles raised the likelihood today
that Britain soon would attempt to
establish a united big Three
policy for preventing violence in
liberated lands.
Amid sharp criticism of Britain S
intervention in Greece, the report
circulated in London's diplomatic
colony that the joint policy effort
would be based on proposal to
establish temporary inter-Allied
control over newly-freed govern
ments if trouble threatened.
There were reliable reports that
this suggestion had been cir
culated among some Of the exlled
governments in London.
The possible attempt to extend
the Allied control commission plan
originally intended only for enc
nv territory was limited at in
Churchill's declaration that some
kind of international trust may
have to be set up in Greece if a
compromise among fighting fac
tions cannot be reached.
Significantly, in mentioning this
possibility at an Athens press con-
ference, the Prime Minister did not
confine it to Greece. He said that
he, Premier Stain and President
Roosevelt would review the situa-
ton ''in not a very long time,
and added that 1--WE cannot afford
to see whole peoples drifting into
anarchy.'
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-30
Two lima Pounded
By Liberators For
21st Straight Day

PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUAR.
TIERS, Pearl Harbor,- Dec. %. -
UP) - Liberators Of the Pacific
Strategic Air Force have bombed
Two Jima for the 21st consecutive
day of a sustained campaign to
knock out Japan's sole airblock on
the route from Saipan to Tokyo, a
Pacific Fleet Headquarters an.
nouncement reported today.
The B-24s under 1t. Gen. Willard
F. Harmon dashed out at Two
Jima's airstrip December q, en-
countering int n anti-aircraft
fire over the bleak, rocky island
$50 miles southeast of Tokyo.
Today's brief communique re-
ported further Marine fighter at
tacks on Babelthuap in the Palaus
and the bombing and strafing of
long-isolated Marshal Islands enc
my bases.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-30
LINCAYEN GULF
HIT BY PLANES
1000 Ton Jap Freighter
Damaged By Yank
Bombers
GEN. MACARTHUR's HEAD.

GEN. MACARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS, PHILIPPINES, Sat.
urday, Dec. 3d. IR Mitchell
bombers nit japanese shipping in
Lingayen gulf, off the western
coast of Luzon Island in the Phil
ippines and heavily damaged 9
7,000-ton freignter, Ger. Douglas
Macarthur today. =.
Nipponese planes again attack
ed American positions on Mindore
the night of December 81. Eight
of the % attacking aircraft were
brought down.
Another 268 dead Japanese were
couted December q in the mop
ping up of isolated enemy units
on Leyte island.
American heavy bombers drop,
ped Y tons of explosives on Sar
Jose airdrome on Panay Island,
between Leyte and Mindoro, and
knocked out six grounded planes
They also cratered an enemy run
way.
General Macarthur acknowled.
ed that the December q raid or
the Yank airfields and shipping
at Mindoro caused some dam.
age" Ack-Ack got some Of the
alta cking aircraft and night fight
ers brought down the remainder
This raid came about "a hours
after a japanese naval force hao
shelled the area and fled after los.
ing three destroyers.
Navy Liberators helped in the
Lingayen area raid, shooting down
two Japaese planes and damaging
a small surface craft.
An enemy airfieId at Davao,
en- Mindanao, major island Of the
southern Philippines, also was hit
by heavy U. S. bombers. Fires
and explosions were observed
there afterward.
Six small enemy freighters were
bombed, strafed and left sinking
by U. S. patrol planes off Borneo.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-30
Kank History Was Made
With One Word-- Nuts

Eagle') Airborne and h e Ninth
and Tenth A m d Divisions,
these other Third Army divisions
took relief roles in the Bastogne
drama: the Fourth Armored, the
8Oth C'Blue Ridge') Infantry and
the 18th c'Yankee'') Infantry.
Two other units, the Fourth
cIvy'') and Fifth Cred Dia'
mond'') Infantry divisions, were
named today as having aided in
the Third Armys great offensive
against the south of the German
bulge, operating in northeast Lux
embourg.
The answer of nuts went back
to the German lines on December
%.
Four days later, when the 8Oth
Infantry and Fourth Armored Dl.
visions broke through to their re.
lief, the fields before the American
lines around Bastogne were litter
ed with the debris of 200 German
tanks which had butted in vain
against the Doughboy positions.
They had been attacked by five
German divisions.
Units of the 18th Infantry Divi-
sion also had helpted to smash the
encirclement of Bastogne.
Next day the 101st's regular COM
mander, Major Gen. Maxwell D.
TAYLOR, arrived after a trip by
plane and jeep from Washington.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-30
CHAPLIN TERMED
A SVENGALI WITH
BULBS INSTINCT

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 29-(UP)-
Describing Joan Barry as IAN at
hactive girl of limited intelli-
gence' and Charlie Chaplin as "a
runt OF Svengali with the in
sincts of a young BULL Attorney
Joseph Scott today wound up his
p'temity suit against the movie S
richest comedian.
The T-year-old, white-haired,
Scott reminding the jury that he
had ID children himself, waved his
arms eloquently and, in ringing
tones. summed up his case against
Chaplin. nameu by Miss Barry as
he father of Ter baby daughter,
Carol Ann.
We have before you the man
Who is responsible for this baby S
AStence," he said, and l don't
Want to let hin .et away"
Joan Barry" he said, is All
s'lractivc girl, but she is a girl OF
limited Intelligence, and could not
nave invented her story.
On The other hand, he shouted,
VnapGn - the great genius -
mas mas lousy memory for his own
sonyenience."
Neither Chaplin, Miss Barry nor
ne curly-haired baby, now Il
months old, were in the dlngy
sourtroom as Scott went through
us most impassioned oratory Of
he trial.
With wave of the hand, he dis
4lSSed the testimony of three doc,
~'S who ruled that a blood test
proved Chaplins innocence.
80 lar as they were concerned,
saaplin could not lose, and the
'aoy could not win.
Let US consider he demanded,
NE physical facts of the case.
ocott referred to Chaplln's testl'
Alony that he put Miss Barry to
seQ the night of December %, 1912,
'Ao did not see her again until he
"eAl with his butler to get her gun
ae next morning.
10 hear him talk, you woulo
~illE that this stole Chaplin IS an
Vc'e of man, had never hao
rraiylhlng to do with girls in nj:
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-30
u s. Protests Mazi
Murder Of Soldiers
Strongest Possible Complaint On Malmedy
Massacre Is Filed Through Swiss Author
tiles By State Department

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. -UP)
The United States, in its strong
est protest OF the war to Ger
many, tonight called the Reich
to book for the mass murder by
Nazi forces in Belgium "of all
but Is of a group of about 100
A. ,erican soldiers and officers
captured in the recent enemy
er-offenslve.
The action was announced by
the State Department which said
"the strongest possible protest"
was being dispatched through neu-
trail Swiss authorities.
It said:
"The Department of State is
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forwarding the strongest possible
protest to the German government
through the Swiss authorities with
regard to the killing by German
forces near Malmedy, Belgium, II
all but Is of a group of about 100
American >oldiers and officers
who have been taken prisoners
by German tank corps and strip
ped Of their equipment"
AS reported in press dispatch IS
by American war correspondents
who interviewed the handful Of
survivors, the Americans were lin
Continued on Page Three; Col. 3
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Wards Head AssaiLs
Roosevelt On Seizure

CHICAGO, Dec 49, - (UP) - Montgomery Ward &
Co.'S, dispute with the Army Government seizure Of
it's facilities in Cities headed for the today
Sewe Avery militant chairman of the board of directors
charged that President Roosevelt invoking seizure
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-30
FORECAST

Cloudy with little change in tenn
perature today. Rain north and east
portion during forenoon,
Yesterdays temperature:
High, Allow, 81.
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