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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-12
Visit New York

THE MISSES MARGARET
AND GRACE STURGIS are
spending a few days at the Bar
bizon-Plaza Hotel in New York
City.
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Wolfes at Golf Club

MIR. AND MRS. r. BLISS
WOLFE have closed their home
on the Canadian shore and are
now living at the Detroit Golf
Cub for the winter. They re-
turned last week from a visit
with relatives in Topeka and.
Kansas CITY. Mo
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-12

= Buy An EXTRA 500 War BOND =
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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-10
Reds Threaten
Key Ore Center

LONDON, Feb. 9.-RHThe Red
Army, forcing battered German
forces from at least 81 more COM
munities along the Nazis' crum-
bling front in the southern Ukraine,
closed in hard upon the important
iron ore center of Krivoi Rog to-
day with a swift 14-mile stab from
the southeast which carried it to
within eight miles of the city.
Other Russian forces drew closer
their ring around ten German di-
visions encircled in the Lower
Dnieper area near Shpola and pur-
sued beaten Nazi forces through
eight populated places in the mud
flats and swamps near Nikopol.
Far to the north the railroad cen
tee Of Luga, on the Leningrad-
Pskov-WarsaW line, was under, at
tack as The Russians swept up 80
more towns and hamlets and reach.
ed Bolshoye-Zamochye, 10 miles
northeast Of Luga.
In the Ukraine Russian forces
were moving up from Apostolovo.
captured Monday, toward Krivoi
Rog. taking the town of Radush.
noye, IA miles to the northwest,
in drive that took 40 populated
places.
IN the Nikopol area eight more
towns were captured and in the
Zvenigorodka-Shpola area where
the Germans were surrounded nine
more Gorodische, 10 miles north
OF Shpola:
The Germans for several months
have been able to keep the Rus.
SLAMS at least five miles from their
last railway supplying Krivoi Rog,
line running to the northwest
through the junction of Dolinovka
but with the new breakthroughs Of
the past week in the Nikopol area
and with the ganeral deterioration
Of the German southern position,
that thin thread of supply seemed
doomed.
The Russians also were sweep
ing westward south of Krivoi Rog,
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Ghost Carrier
Very Much Alive

WASHINGTON, Eel b. 9.-R-
She's a ghost ship on Nazi rec
ords, but the aircraft carrier
Ranger is very much alive and a
continual threat to German ship
ping.
Ten months ago Hitler boastfully
reported the Range: sunk by tor
pedoes and announced decoration
of Lieutenant Otto Won Bulow for
the exploit.
Today the Navy made the dec
Grafton look little ridiculous by
releasing an account of the Rang
er's war exploits SINCE then
Six months after she was sunk
the Ranger daringly struck into
enemy waters off Norway, the
Navy reported
When the planes returned, more
than 100000 tons of Nazi shipping
including four merchantmen and
tanker lay on the bottom, blast
ed by better than 10000 pounds
Of bombs Two enemy planes had
been shot down.. The Ranger hao
not been damaged; only three o:
her planes had been lost
'It was very fine attack, and
many German troops were
(COntinued on Page Five; Col. q
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| in bonds, when individual purchas-
es of $50 are demanded, the Treas
ury department revealed that two
citizens, one of whom is sol
der fighting overseas, are making
tremendous investments in bonds
every month.
Can you match the patriotism OF
Corporal Max I. Baker, of Can
Melton, Indiana, present address
unknown, who returns all of his
pay to the United States Treas
ury?
How does your record in the
1 bond drive compare WITH that OF
Richard B. Dudley Of Palo Alto,
California, who has notified Gee.
rotary Morgenthau that he wishes
to relinquish all claim to $1,000
worth of War Bonds already pur.
chased?
Treasury Department officials
have also revealed that every cent
Of the personal savings Of Manuel
L. Queen, President of the Phil.
ippine Commonwealth, and Nine.
Quezon, has been invested in war
bonds. In commenting on this re.
lease, Made. Quezon stated,
I'VE mus put everything
eve1ything-in bonds. For the time
being, this is the most effective
way of avenging those who died
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. ~
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6-Year Old Youth
Arrested For KILLING
Young School Girl

PARIS ISLAND, S. c. Feb. 9.
-tR-Special Agent John R. Rug
giles in in charge of the FBI office
in Savannah, Ca, announced today
Paris Island high school boy
had been arrested and charged
with the Staying of an eight-yea1
old school girl on the Marine reser'
walton here last Dec. 8.
Ruggles identified the suspect as
Ernest Edward Bobby FeltweI
Jr., 16, son of a Marine warrant
officer stationed here.
He was given hearing before
u S. Commissioner William w
Elliott in Beaufort and bound over
to the next meeting of the Federal
Grand Jury.
The girl, daughter OF a Marine
lieutenant, left home to attend q
movie on the afternoon of Dec. 8.
Her body was found by a searching
party the next day in creek In
a marshy area of the island.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-10
Drive To Simplify u. S.
TaxStructureUn
Both Sides OF Capitol Work On Plan In Eff.
fort To Help Nations Taxpayers.ao9s

WASHINGTON, Feb. o. Up "A
drive toward simplification of the
Federal income tax structure got
under way on both sides of the
Capitol today, but there appeared
little likelihood of action in time
to help 100000 taxpayers with
the 1943 final returns they must
file by March IS.
The fast-moving developments
included:
l. Chairman George D.-GaO oil
the Senate Finance Committee pro.
posed that Senate and House com.
mittees work together to hasten the
processes of simplification.
2. Republican members of the
tax-framing House Ways IN
Means Committee aligned them.
selves behind a streamline meas
ure by Representative Carlson Or.
Kas.).
3. Representative Knutson (R.-
MIMI, Ways and Means Republi-
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-10
Marshall Isles
Being Pounded

u S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Feb.
9. Up New and secret blows
against Japan's remaining holds in
the Marshall islands are being
struck by the United States air
and naval forces which hit the de-
lenses of Kwajalein atoll so hard
that if virtually fell Of its own
weight into the lap of ground
troops.
Because Japan's communica-
tons with it's isolated garrisons in
the Marshalls probably have been
disrupted, the Navy adopted poll
cy of not identifying the targets OF
bombs and shells.
In the newest air and ship at.
lacks, announced last night, only
one atoll was named, Jaluit, at
the southern end Of the Archipela-
go. Several enemy boats were sunk
in the raid there last Sunday. Jaluit
already had been attacked 16 times
this year.
Other atolls under attack may
have included those that have been
bombed most frequently - Wolfe,
Mill and Maloelap.
One of the detectives of the Sew
enth Army Air Force bombers in
the latest raids was the pet fight
err field of the japanese, reported
Paul Beam, Associated Press War
correspondent. He was aboard a
dive bomber that blasted the run
way. Not single burst OF heavy
antiaircraft fire was encountered
(Beam may have referred to the
enemy airfield on Taroa islet OF
the Maloelap atoll. In the pre-ln-
vasion raids on the Marshalls, that
atoll was the center OF greatest
enemy air resistance. Virtually
every raid there brought up a
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Search For Amelia
Earhart In Pacific
Proposed By Scion

WASHINGTON, Feb. g. ZAP =
Rep. Heffernan D-NY) proposed
TO-DAY the Army and Navy search
for possible evidence that Amelia
Earhart landed in the Marshall is
lands on her round-the-world fligh,
in 1887 and that her fate had been
concealed by the Japanese.
The famed American avlatrlS
was lost on flight from Lac, New lew
Guinea, to Rowland island, 2,5ot
miles distant and on an airline
route south of the Marshals.
Heffernan wrote Secretary Stlm
son and Navy Secretary Knox thai
Miss Earhart may have flown
over the Marshalls, have seen the
Japanese illegal operations ano
then have been forced or sho'
down.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-10
U.S.. To Broaden
Its French Ties

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-(RE
The United States is expected soon
to broaden its relations with the
French National Committee in AL.
giers so that the committee may
serve in effect as the temporary
government of those areas of
France to be liberated when AL
lied forces invade Europe.
A statement revising the Amer
lean policy probably will be issued
by President Roosevelt.
Whatever ct n Washington
takes undoubtedly will be paral-
leled in London. Ever since Prime
Minister Churchill visited General
Charles De Gaulle, the French
committee leader, in Algiers sew
eral weeks ago, reports from Lon
don have pointed in that direction.
American policy toward the De
Gaulle administration has been a
source of one Of the iveliest con-
troversies aroused by this govern
ment's conduct of war time foreign
affairs. Powerful elements have
commended, that the committee
should be fully recognized as the
government of France, but the
White House and State Department
have stood firm on limited recog.
milton.
The governments position has
been based expressly on the prin'
ciple that no action should be TAX
en- by the United States which
might deny the people Of France
full expression of their right to
create their own government, once
the Germans have been driven out.
Now it is understood that a for
mula is being worked out in &C
cord with both that principle and
the realities of the military situa'
ton.
1t is expected that when the
committee actually takes over au-
thority in metropolitan France it
will be prepared, once order is
restored, to hold elections and give
the people a voice in the govern
ment as rapidly as they come I'M
der civilian rule.
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Inferior France
Battered By U.S.,

NDON, Feb. 9.-REThe
steady bomb barrage along the
French invasion coast" lifted sud-
denly today and arched 100 miles
inland with more than 200 U. S.
Medium Marauders striking heavi-
ly at railroad yards and repair
shops at Tergnier.
All the bombers returned safely.
The daring attack was the Ma
RAIDERS deepest penetration of the
European war, and apparently a
great surprise to the Germans who
had been allowing Allied planes
to pound the coastal area with
virtually no opposition in the last
few weeks.
/ 1t was executed simultaneously
with blows by other Marauders
against the Pas-de-Calais area,
and by British M'tchels, Bostons,
Mosquitoes, Hurricanes and Ty-
phoons which carried out missions
against other targets in northern
France without loss.
The Marauders now have made
more than $50 sorties over enemy
territory without loss since dawn
yesterday So.
The operations against the At
lantic wall con"-ued throughout
the day until weather forced sus-
pension, but not until the Raj
had made $50 sorties across the
channel using six types Of aircraft.
One British plane was reported
missing against two enemy planes
destroyed.
The Germans surprise was evil
denced by the fact that the hun
dreds of planes returned without
single encounter with enemy
fighters.
"Au our bombs dropped into the
yards Cat Tergnier) which looked
like a pin-cushion spiked with
bright pins" said 1t. Theodore ].
Ziemba, bombardier of Crawford.
N. J.
1.-The bombs crashed in the cen
ter of the freight yards, ripped up
large section, and blew num-
Der of freight cars sky high add
ed 1t. Joseph c., Dick, Akron,
Ohio, a bomba1dier.
The new daylight raids followed
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Soldier S Body
Found In Hotel

CHARLOTTE, Feb. 9. -R- A
soldier tentatively identified as Pvt.
Lee M. Riley Of BIuethenthal
Field, near Wilmington, was found
slTangled to death in a hotel room
here today.
Twisted tightly around the neck
was the sleeve of sweatshirt.
Inc body, sprawled on a bed.
was nude.
Police Chief Walter F. Anderson.
SAD the tentative Identification was
0olalned from the hotel register
winch indicated the soldier check
eu IN about midnight Monday.
anderson said strangulation was
Vie cause of death. He said there
were indications of a struggling
In the room.
Inc body was observed yester
way morning by a maid as she
Nsnleieo the room to clean it up.
.amklng the man was asleep, she
Withdrew
"heh, on her rounds this morn
,s' Sne saw the nan in the same
pO'llion, she notified the hote
..asoliasement, and police were call
tin H. Anderson said. City detec
NV. .eS were assisted in their investi
s saaoi by Capt. John E. Abel, com
' M.l military police here.
=, uil1ary authorities took charge
VI the bodv
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-10
Belts Is Named
Gas Coordinator

RALEIGH, Feb. 9.-R-Gover
nor Broughton today appointed W.
z. Belts, director of the division
of purchase and contract, as State
Petroleum Coordinator.
Bets will deal only with the
matter of availability and distribu.
ton of gasoline in those sections
of the state which from time tc
time experience shortages, the
governor said. He will not deal
with individual cases, the COVER.
nor added, but only with situations
which affect the various areas ir
the state. The work will be in ad.
dition to the regular duties of the
department of which he is direc.
tor, the governor said, and Belts
will receive no additional compen'
sation.
Belts already has been handling
many phases of the gasoline prob
lem, as affecting availability Of
gasoline for school BUSES and 9th,
er state equipment ana iaclllIleS'
He will confer within the next
few days with federal authorities
in the state representing the OF
flee of Defense Transportation and
the Petroleum Administration fo1
War. the governor said, and Will
keep in close touch with these
agencies throughout the period Of
emergency.
Earlier today Governor, Brough
ton asked PAW to make available
an additional allotment OF gasoline
for the Vance, Warren and Frank
lin areas to relieve an acute short
age.
Mining, numbering, pulpwooe
and farming work in the three
county area has caused a seriou:
drain on available gasoline sup
plies. the governor said.
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Firms Disclaim
Surrender 7 ak

STOCKHOLM, Feb. g. Up The
Finnish foreign c'fice today denied
that the Finnish legation in Wash
lngton had issued statement that
Finland would not surrender even
if Helsinki were RACED by bombs.
The foreign office said its Wash
ington legation had advised that
no such comment was made on
the warning of Secretary of State
Hull that Finland must drop out
of the war, or take the conse-
quences.
(The Finnish legation official in
Washington who on Tuesday had
said that Finland would not sur
render even if F"lsinki were RACED
by bombs, declared today when
informed of the Helsinki disclai1n-
err that he had mo comment" to
make.)
The Finnish radio said the evacu-
alton of Helsinki was continuing,
with mainly old persons and chill
dren being removed to safer areas,
Moscow warned that the Sun
day night air attacks on the Fin
nish capital were only a forerun-
ner of what is to come. The Soviet
newspaper Pravoa said 1.-The Films
declare with insolence that they in
tend to protect Finland east Of
Petrozavodsk. The Films will soon
realize that the Red army will pro-
tect the borders O. the Soviet Union
in the district q Helsinki. The
Red army will give the Firms what
is due them"
CA Swiss newspaper, quoting
German diplomats, said the Fin
nish government had held secret
session last night to discuss Hull's
warning, and that Moscow had in
Continued on Page Three; Col. u.
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Child Recovered
Following Cavein

PITTSTON, Pa, Feb. 9.-RH
The body of two-year old julie Anr
Fulmer, who was swallowed up by
the earth in a mine subsistence
yesterday afternoon, was recov'
cred at 7:25 tonight.
The spot where the body was
found had been by-passed by a
huge gasoline shovel which replac'
ed miners who had removed tons
of dirt, bucket by bucket.
AS the arm of the shovel swung
down for another load, it struck
the side of the excavation. Loose
earth trickled down and the child
arm and leg became visible.
Men reentered the pit and care
fully freed the body, which was
borne to the surface by Mine In
spector Andrew Wilson of Halle
ton, Pa.
Doctors at the scene said the
child apparently had died OF SUI
location,
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PHILADELPHIA Feb. 9.-H-
Warren W. Bell, former vice presl-
dent of Northeastern Water Com
pany, Jersey City, N. j., and pros
pective owner of the common
stock of Tide Water Power Com
pany, Wilmington, N c., told the
Securities and Exchange Commits
sion today that he has no definite
plans for the latter company at
present.
Since taking over an office IN
the Tide Water Building two weeks
ago, Bell said, he has been study
ing the affairs of Tide Water" and
that he hasn't planned on any
associates.
Bell Ias contracted with General
Gas and Electric Corporation to
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buy the Tide Water common stock
for SIS, 1000 subject to the commits
sions approval.
Questioned by Sec Counsel Dav.
i'd I. Bursten, Bell outlined the
Capitalization of the Tide Water
preferred stock, acquired from
Northeastern.
All the 5000 prior preferred
shares and 1866 of the $3.50 class
B preferred u. Tide Water are
owned by Northeastern, he said.
His wife, Pearl S. Bell, owns the
900 shares of class A preferred
stock, 985 shares Of the class B,
and one common share; F. L.
Fuller, Jr., a Durham MO- law
yer, owns one common share to
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Americans Open Full Strength
Drive On Casino Bottleneck;
Reds 8 Miles From Krivoi Rog
VIOLENT FIGHTING
Nazis Claim u. S. USING
10000 Men And
400 Tanks
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AL.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
giers, Feb. 9.-R-Ferocious crag-
to-crag fighting ragged on heights
overlooking Casino on the main
Italian front today as American
TROOPS opened a full-strength as
sault to destroy that Nazi hornets
nest which was holding up their
push to relieve beleaguered Allied
forces in the Anzio bridgehead so
miles away.
cit. Gen. Mark w. C1ark's main
Fifth Army is slugging violently
at the Casino defenses, declared
the German-contrclled Vichy radio,
with 10000 men, 400 tanks and
powerful artillery"
American riflel..en, charging up
the steep cliffs of Monte Casino
west of the town through a hell Of
machine gun fire, at one time
reached a point only rs yards from
the ancient Benedictine Monastery
which crowns the crest of that key
height, dispatches from the front
disclosed.
Inside Casino itself the sweat
stained doughboys fought into sew
eral more fortified buildings, but
after week of fierce house-to-
house combat the Nazis still held
about three-fourths of the strong
| hold and their line of supply was
unbroken.
The long-delayed breakthrough
at Casino can come none too soon
to serve Allied strategy. From
the shell-pocked beachhead below
Rome, Daniel De Luce of the As
ISOLATED Press wrote that mo one
in the beachhead iseunder~ illusions
as to the grimness of the struggle
now unfolding. Anywhere in the
area you are liable to be shelled,
bombed or strafed.
ut is a very small beachhead.
German power still seems to be
mounting"
A broadcast by the Nazi high
command claimed gains of "sev-
eral kilometers' through a Brit
ish-defended sector of the beach
head and claimed that 700 Allied
prisoners were taken.
Seeking to relieve some enemy
pressure against tn e landing
forces, American planes heavily
bombed and strafed German posi-
lions around the Appian Way town
of Cisterna, IA miles northeast of
Anzio, which the Nazis are said to
have converted into powerful
fortress. Not a German plane ap-
peared over the beachhead yes
terday, the enemy apparently not
having relished the loss of 10 fight
er-bombers over the area the pre-
vious day.
The renewed Allied assault on
Casinos defenses began before
dawn yesterday, following a day
of comparative inactivity during
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Prospective Owner OF Tide Water
Stock Has No Plans Now, He Says

qualify him as a director and he
himself owns SO of the 100 COM
mon stock shares, Bell added.
Earlier H. K. Halligan, vice
president of the Wilmington invest
ment firm of Allen G. Ewing and
Co., who bid against Bell for the
Tide Water common stock, had
told him that ''some people in Will
mington we're annoyed" concern.
ing treatment of the Ewing bid
Cross examined by Ruddic!s.
Halligan said he considered as
fairly evident" an implication
that unless their proposals were
acted on they Wilmington group)
were going to start some rate pro-
ceedings against the com
pany."
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The Little Steel'' formula, So
named from its first application
in steel wage case, limits gen.
eral wage increases to Is percent
above the level of January, 1871.
The WLB adopted it originally IN
the summer, 1941, on its own in
itiative and on the grounds that
the rise in living costs between
January 1871 nd May lS4z
amounted to Is per cent.
Since then, however, the formula
has been Incorporated in wage STA.
Utilization orders from President
Roosevelt.
The craft union members
George Meany, Matthew VOL
| Robert Watt and James Brownie"
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Allied Ship Losses
AT The Lowest Ebb
OF The Entire War
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9-@-

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9-R-
The Allies destroyed more
German submarines in Janu-
ary than in December, a joint
Anglo-Americar statement saEa
tonight, while merchant ship
tonnage sunk by enemy U-boats
was "among the lowest month.
ly figures for the whole war"
The statement, issued under
the authority Of President
Roosevelt and Prime Minister
Churchill, said the higher toll
of Nazi undersea craft was ex-
pected despite diminishing OPP
portunities to attack them.
1t advised that German
claims of sinking Allied ships
should be ignored "they are
grossly exaggerated" and is
sued for propaganda purposes