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U. S. TEA QUOTA
H IS TALKED
Head Of Bureau Says In
crease In Allotment Is
Necessary Soon
NEW YORK,, Aug. 18. — UP) —
Benjamin Wood, managing direc
tor of the Tea Bureau, said to
day the government should step
up the United States’ tea allow
ment by 40 per cent or more be
fore December 31 to avert consum
er shortages and to allow retail
ers to build up inventories.
He said a minimum increase of
20,000,000 pounds above the pre
sent 1943 allocation of 50,000,000
was essential, adding reports from
India indicated stockpiles were
sufficient to provide such an im
provement if shipping were made
available.
Wood said a second quarterly
survey of stocks showed an esti
mated five months’ supply of tea
in the country.
Actual trade stocks at mid-year
were about111,019,000 pounds, com
pared with 11,009,000 on March 31,
or sufficient to supply present re
stricted demand for about i i-t
months.
An additional estimated 10,000,
000 to 12,000,000 pounds, however,
already has been allocated to the
trade but not yet received, plac
ing the stocks position equivalent
to about a five months’ supply.
Present quota of 50,000,000 pounds
for civilians is under terms of
the international tea allocation
plan. Normal demand is more than
8,000,000 pounds a month—almost
twice that amount—necessitating
a reduction of almost half to civi
lians.
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Associated Press Chief
Writes Operetta For Air
CHICAGO. Aug. 18.—{IP)— A new
operetta entitled “About the Girl,’’
with music and libretto by Kent
Cooper, executive director of the
Associated Press, will have its
premier Saturday, September 11
in a nationwide broadcast over
the mutual network.
Emanating from station WGN,
(fhicago, on the program, “the
Chicago theater of the Air”, the
operetta will be broadcast from 8
to 9 p. m. (Central War Time)
Marion Claire, soprano, and
Thomas L. Thomas, baritone, will
be co-starred in the leading roles.
The WGN symphony orchestra tin
der the direction of Henry Weber,
and the chorus led by Robert
Trendler will be featured.
“About the Girl” is the story
of a young engineer who works
on the Alaska highway. He falls in
love with the voice of a girl whom
he hears sing on the radio. At his
fj~st opportunity, he returns to
the states to find the girl and
the love story unfolds.
Mr. Cooper, who finds relaxa
tion from his press association
work in composing music, also
has written several popular songs.
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Boiled bamboo shoots, Army
style, taste like asparagus.
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Consistory Room as follows:
THURSDAY, September 2, 7:00 P. M.,
4th through 8th Degrees.
SATURDAY, September 4, 7:00 P. M.,
9th through 13th Degrees.
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14th Degree.
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15th through 18th Degrees.
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19th through 25th Degrees.
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15th through 27th Degrees.
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28th through 32nd Degrees.
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retary. All sojourning Scottish Rite Masons are cor
dially invited to attend.
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Swooner Sinatra’s Sweethearts
Swoon singer Frank Sinatra’s real-life sweethearts are his wife
and daughter, Nancy, left, who are enjoying a brief vacation from
the popularity spotlight at their Hasbrouck Heights, N. J., home
while the crooner makes a movie in Hollywood. Lucky gal who
gets to play Sinatra’s screen sweetheart is Barbara Hale, r.’ght.
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• Moscow Dateline •
CHAPTER 16
The Battle of Moscow was won
by as smart and successful a trick
play as has ever been sprung on
an unsuspecting opponent. It was
won as well by sheer strength,
courage, and sacrifice. Winter, si
lent white ally of the Russian, help
ed. But the most surprising, and
perhaps the most important fac
tor, was contributed by the Red
army’s tactics.
During the battle, even when
Moscow appeared to be shudder
ing on the precipice beneath which
lay the black abyss of German
occupation, I heard that thousands
of horsemen v/ere hiding in for
est camps, still waiting their mo
ment to fall on the enemy. After
the battle a Red army officer told
me: 'We could have stopped them
earlier, but we waited until it would
cost us less—and cost them more.’
It was only a year later, on the
first anniversary of the victory,
that exhibitions and articles on
the battle told the full story, or,
at least, as full a story as was
possible of a war still in progress.
It was an astounding tale of the
Germans, counting each Red army
division as it fell, smashing wdiat
seemed to be the last Russian re
serves which immolated themselve
in battle, and marching blind with
confidence to the very gates of
Moscow, only to find themselves
outmanned, outmaneuvered, and
defeated.
Before the battle the front ran
straight from north to south,
through the Yartsevo sector, rough
ly 350 miles west of Moscow. It
was stabilized there during the
summer battle of Simolensk. The
rains came in September, soaking
the dense pine and birch forests,
spreading bogs in the turgid
earth, washing out the dirt roads,
and making mass movements im
possible. Then came the autumn,
freezing a firm, fast track again
for Blitzkrieg. That was the situ
ation when the Germans started
their first general offensive against
Moscow October 2, 1941.
A powerful force of German arm
ies had been aimed at Moscow
from the very start of the war.
This ‘central group of armies,’
commanded by Field Marshal von
Bock, included the fourth a nd
ninth regular armies of Generals
Kluge and Strauss, and the sec
ond and third tank armies of Gen
eral Guderian and Goot, later to
be joined by the fourth tank army
of General Hepner from the Len
ingrad front.
The striking force, 17 infantry
divisions, two motorized infantry
divisions, about a thousand tanks
and 900 aircraft, was concentrated
against Viazma, in the center of
| the front. The general plan was
| to drive northeast from Smolensk
' toward Kalinin, outflanking Mos
cow from the north; southeast to
' ward Orel and Tula, outflanking
I Moscow from the south; and east
through Viazma, taking Moscow by
| frontal assault. The date fixed for
I the fall of the capital was Octo
;ber 16.
The plan provided for swift over
; helming of the Russian front-line
! forces, encirclement of the prin
[ cipal group of Red armies of the
! western front, and a sharp break
| through to Moscow. Only the first
part of this plan was executed.
The German armies, by weight
of numbers and machines, smash
ed the Russian first line, broke
into the open and raced more than
200 miles northeast to Kalinin, east
through Viazma and southeast to
ward Tula. The sharpest advance
was made in the center, where
they reached the Viazma sector
within a week and occupied the
city in 10 days. They reached the
Kalinin region October 14, the Tula
region, October 29. They were roll
ing fast, recklessly, sending out in
dividual tanks with small groups of
motorcyclists or cavalrymen to
scout, then flinging columns of
tanks, with companies or battaliqns
of motorized infantry, into spurt
ing advances.
Suddenly the Red army’s resist
ance stiffened on the flanks. Kali
nin fell, but in the forests behind
the upper Volga fresh Russian ar
mies converged on the German
spearhead, stopped it in the su
burbs of Kalinin. Tula refused to
fall. The German center, receiv
ing no support from the flanks,
dared not advance alone on Mos
cow. Thus, in mid-October, ended
♦he first general offensive.
The Germans now held a great
bulge around Kalinin, northwest of
Moscow and a lesser salient to
♦he southwest, below Mojhaisk.
They spent the last days of Octo
ber and the first of November
stiaightening their lines. They fill
ed in their upper fold north of
Rzhev and their lower bend from
Volokolamsk west of Narofominsk.
They drove twice at Tula, starting
November 6 from the northwest
a"d November 11 from the south.
There they were repulsed. Their
hue fo.med an arc roughly 100
miles north, west, and south of
Moscow That was the setting for
their second general offensive.
They drew up, this time, imr
teen tank, 33 infantry, and five
motorized infantry divisions. Their
plan was to take Moscow by en
circlement, rither than by frontal
assault. Snow was falling, the ther
mometer was dropping, the winter
campaign, on which the Germans
had not counted, was starting.
There was need to hurry, for the
Germans, but this time, there must
be no mistake, for a mistake would
mean T'sastei
The third and fourth tank armies
were assigned to the Russian right
flank. They were ordered to march
through Klin, Solnechnogorsk, Ro
gachev Yaknroma, and Dimitrov
r.n Moscow.
In the center were placed the
9th, 7th, 10th, 12th, 13th, and 43d
army corps, the 19th and 20th tank
divisions. This force, mainly in
fantry, was to make holding at
tacks, tying up the western Red
armies to prevent their lashing out
against the salients on their flanks,
and then, as the tank encircle
ment of Moscow progressed, push
through Fvenigorod and Narofo
minsk -a Moscow
On paper, it was a superlative
plan, perfectly plotted and amply
powered. But Stalin, in his Krem
lin had another plan
The Red aimy command, either
from direct information or from
deduction, seemed to nave known
or to have figured out the Second
German offensive in advance.
Stalin’s plan to meet it provided’
ioi concentration in depth of re
serves both before Moscow and
outside the ring of encirclement.
strong defense along fortified lines
to drain enemy strength, and fi
nally a powerful, perfectly timed
counter-offensive to defeat the ene
my.
Moscow, meanwhile, had been
declared in a state of siege Octo
ber 19, the capital had been emp
tied of industries, commissariats,
ar.d civilians not essential for its
defense, and General Zhukov was
announced to be in command of
the western front—a post he had
already been holding through
out the battle—while Marshal Tim
oshenko wet* to bolster the sag
ging so ithwestern front.
The people of Moscow were call
ed upon to play a major part in
the drama of life or death of their
city. The Moscow district commit
tee of the C-ommunist Tarty met
October 13, v/ith party leaders of
all Moscow organizations, and de
cided to organize special Commu
n.st forces. Each district was as
signed a quota. Enlistment began
thp next day. The men appeared,
carrying their own food and warm
clothes, having already taken fare
well of their families, and went
immediately to their barracks.
Most of them were members of
the Communist Party or of the
Communist Youth Movement. They
formed the 1st, 2d. 3d and 4th
Moscow’ Communist divisions.
Thousands of women, mobilized
by their house committees and still
wearing their city clothes, went by
train, bus. and truck into the mud,
slush, and cold west of Moscow’,
taere to dig tremendous trenches
and anvi-tank ditches, running like
scars across the countryside. The
fortifications extended back into the
city itself, v.'here steel, sandbag,
and earthwork barricades were
raised. The Palace of Soviets, a
naked skeleton of steel girders,
which was to have risen as the
world’s righest building, started to
come down as raw material for
defense. The Moscow Metro, most
modern rubway system in the tmrld
was given over to movements of
troops and "iipplies.
Copyright 1943 by Henry C.
Cassidy; Houghton. Mifflin Co.,
distributed bv AP Features
END CHAPTER 16
Merchant Marine Officer
Addresses Kiwanis Club
Lieut. Henry B. Rehder of the
United States Merchant Marine ad
dressed the Khvanis club on Wed
nesday, telling some of his experi
ences in the service. He had
checked with Navy intelligence in
advance, he explained, and matters
he dealt with had been sanctioned,
but it was felt that no general ac
count of his remarks should be re
peated in the press.
However, one item, which can
not fail bring a thrill to Wilming
tonians and the shipyard, both
workers and management, was ex
empted from this ruling. He re
cently completed, a 40,000-mile voy
age on a Liberty ship built by the
North Carolina Shipbuilding com
pany, which was in port for a to
tal of only three and one-half
hours for repairs.
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Wartime restrictions on gasoline
have rolled back the death toll of
motor vehicle accidents back to
what it was two decades ago.
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A. T. JACKSON
A 1 m a n T.
Jackson, baker
second class,
son of Mr. and
Mrs. I. G. Jack
son of 710 North
Fifth street, has
been on foreign
duty with the
Navy and seen
active service,
for which he
wears a star.
He entered the
Navy May 5,
1941.
Jackson received his basic train
ing at Norfolk, Va., after which he
was assigned to a ship on which
he served in the Pacific. Just re
cently he was transferred to an
other vessel.
INSTRUCTOR
Mrs. Edna Haskett Weaver,
niece of M. B. Haskett and the
late Jesse H. Haskett, of Wilming
ton, is the only North Carolina
woman Instructor of radio operat
ing in the Army Air Force Techn
ical Training school at Soiux Falls,
S. D. In a recent civil service
year’s rating out of 2,000 or more
instructors, Mrs. Weaver was one
of the few who received a rating
of excellent.
A graduate of East Carolina
Teachers college, Mrs. Weaver
taught school in Sampson and Dup
lin counties before becoming an
instructor in radio for the Army
Air Forces.
TRAINING
John A. Ingram, of Folkstone,
has begun training at the Osh
kosh State Teachers college, Osh
kosh, Wisconsin, before becoming
an aviation cadet. Upon comple
tion of the course he will be classi
fied as navigator, pilot, or bomb
irdier and gojto school at Army '
lir fields for further instruction.
G1$DUATES
PFC. Clyde Edwards Corbett,
20, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Cor
jett, was recently graduated from
the armament department of the
Army Air Force Technical Train
ing Command, Low y Field, Colo.
He was graduated in 1941 from
Burgaw High school, where he was
active in football.
Private Corbett entersd th» Army
April 6, 1943 at Fort Bragg, re
ceiving training at Keesler Field,
Miss., BUckley Field, Colo., and
Lowry Field. As a civilian, he was I
employed as a clerk for the Atlan
tic Coast Line Railroad here.
VISITING MOTHER
Staff Sgt. Richard Dixon is on
a ten-day furlough visiting his
mother at her home at 302 Castle
street. He is attached to the 236
Engineers Com. Battalion now sta
tioned in Tennessee. He entered
the service last December 20.
RETURNS TO POST
STANLEY
bgt. Wilson
Stanley has re
turned to his
post at Camp
Hale, Colorado,
after spending a
fifteen-day fur
lough with his
parents, Mr.
and Mrs. B. R.
Stanley of 57
Spofford.
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AT KANSAS STATE
Cadet F. L. Meier, Jr., of Wil
mington, is a member of the en
gineer corps stationed at Kansas
State college in Manhattan, Kan
sas, as part of the Army Special
ized Training program unit. He is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. F. L.
Meier, of 412 Church street. He
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PROMOTED
Fred E. Little, Jr., 1619 Chest
lut street, has been promoted
from second lieutenant to the
rank of first lieutenant. He is as
signed to a heavy bombardment
squadron as an intelligence offi
cer with the Ninth Bomber Com
mand, Ninth U. S. Air Force in
the Middle East.
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’GATOR KILLED
A six-foot three-inrh allicatnf
was killed at Sneads Ferrv •
Onslow county, by two wjj
mington men, V. L. Smith and
Thomas Brin; Wednesd,,
morning.
The 83-pound saurian „
sighted by the two floating "
the water just off the lainii,,.
at the ferry and dispatrhj
with three shots from a
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That A Coast Guardsman Might Live
-That A Jap Might Die!
That’s the story of Mary Jones ... the Spar
who is making that blood count. Mary was
a laboratory technician before she enlisted
in the Spars. Worked for a big city hospital
... then Pearl Harbor and as each day pass
ed Mary became more restless. She wanted
to do something ... She was mad enough
to fight. But women don’t fight in wars
not with guns, anyway. So Mary did the next
best thing. Instead of going into the Paci
fic herself, she sent Pharmacist Mate Bill
Thompson. Now, how did she send Bill
Thompson? Well, it was like this . . . Mary
joined the Coast Guard Spars, and when
she completed her training she was sent
to relieve Bill ... so that Bill could go to
sea. While Mary is helping to save the lives
of Coast Guardsmen everyday in the hospi
tal, she is helping to kill Japs at the same
time. For it was through Mary’s desire to
serve that Bill Thompson was able to go to
sea and join his shipmates in the fight!
P. S. More Mary Smiths are needed, you
know, because more Bill Thompsons want
a crack at the Japs. If you're between the
ages of 20 and 36 (your name doesn’t really
have to be Mary Smith, either) join the
SPARS . . . see that some other Bill or Tom
or Joe, gets his chance at the Japs . . .
his victory will be your victory, too!
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