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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-19

Triple crises for hard pressed
Nazi forces in Italy, Russia and
the Balkans dominate the war
news. The whole 1000 mile SOUTH
eastern flank of the German de-
tense front from the Sea of Azov
to the central Adriatic is aflame
with attack and appears to be
slowly collapsing.
That Nazi retreat from the
Crimea and the great Dnieper bend
is in progress is admitted from
Berlin. That is what the conceal
ing phrase "detaching move
ments" used in German official
reports from the Russian front re-
ally means. 1t admits failure to
halt Red army incursions across
the river, and below it. South of
recaptured aporozhe, Moscow
says a deadly pincer attack is
closing on all enemy troops in the
eastern end Of the Dnieper loop
and south of the river, including
those in the Crimea.
A reported wide-based Russian
thrust across the upper side Of the
river loop, west of Dnepropetrovsk,
is within 1-edium caliber range of
the main railroad supplying the
bend front. Famed out southwark
or westward, this thrust could cut
at the only transportation routes
available to the foe for the escape,
or supply, of forces holding the
whole lower end of the Dnieper-
Crimean defense line.
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MEETING SLATED
CONSERVATIVES OF Subur.
han Areas To Be Invit-
ed For Talks
limits TO BE NAMED
Committeeman To Be Chos-
on For Various Pro-
iects OF Group

The inclusion of suburban
,ua nls within the city limits
a. of'3 Wilmington will be the
VI Of discussion between
ssoanorrasentative citizens of out
Wing districts and the clt ty
postwar planning board with
n gY thp near future, H. R. En-
M nrr chairman of the board,
indicated Monday night. .
At a meeting of the board
# was decided to draw up a
list of names from which
committees would later be
chosen to join in preliminary
discussions whose findings
viii be open for public hear
70 if such are warranted.
Former Plan Killed
former plan for including SUI
r-ban areas within the city limits
nj Wilmington was killed in the
hwer house of the last session
nj the North Carolina General As
sembly. The subject of much con-
toversy. it was Aot approved in
its final form of presentation by
local officials.
While present plans are only ten
tative and the meeting Monday
was primarily an organizational
one for the adoption of bylaws,
Secretary Fred Rippy mention
ed that this board will study sur
veys made by other local agen-
cies in connection with prelimi-
nary survey that is now being
planned. Cooperation with the
city-County Planning Committee
and the Chamber of Commerce is
also the aim of the group.
Regular meetings will be held
the first Monday before the second
Wednesday in each month at city
hall at 8 p. m, Special meetings
may be called by The chairman on
two-days notice.
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FOE Is REPELLED
Fifth And Eighth Armies
Slowly Pushing Ger
mans Back
PORTS REBUILT
Debarkation Facilities Per.
nit Big Shipping
Program
PORTS REBUILT
ALLIED HEADQUAR-

ALLIED HEADQUAR-
TIERS. Algiers, Oct. 18.-{P
Important new Allied
landings of men and material
have been made on the 1tal-
ian mainland in recent days,
it was disclosed tonight as
the forces of 1t. Gen. Mark
w. Clark and Gen. Sir Ber-
nard l.. Montgomery slowly
pushed the Germans back in
heavy fighting.
Reconstruction of port and
other facilities has reached
a point to permit much big
ger debarkations than previ-
ously. Upon arrival at vari-
Gus southern italian ports,
troops, tanks, guns, ammuni-
ton, food and other supplies
are moving swiftly up both
the Mediterranean and Adri-
attic coasts to the fighting
fronts and over tortuous
mountain roads to the CEN
trail sector.
Thanks partly to this i'm
proved supply, it was an
neunced today that Clark's
Fifth Amy veterans OF Sa-
lerno had driven beyond the
Volturno river and firmly
occupied" the towns of Can
cello, Ruviano and Nerrone,
while Monteomery's Eighth
was stabbing westward
through the Apennine noun
tains toward Rome.
Fires Back of Lines
AS the Fifth and Eighth Armies
pushed the Germans back in yes.
terday's fighting, some fires were
observed behind the enemy's lines,
indicating the destruction of sup
ply dumps in anticipation of a
quick move backward.
The Nazis at the front continued
to fight as stubbornly as usual,
however, while these behind-the-
line operations were in progress.
The enemy's next stand on the
west coast is likely to be inland
from Gaeta and along the Garigli-
ano river, which is some 20 miles
north of the Volturnc and about
80 airline miles from Rome.
Gaeta was Mussolini's secret
port for sending Italian troops
to Spain in 1887 in violation of
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Initiation is one of our most
dangerous foes and is now attack
ing our home front. This can be
prevented only if housewives will
keep the Home Front Pledge
which will be given to them when
they register for War Ration Book
No. Four next week. Rationing
and price ceilings are our wea-
pons, and they will be effective
only if each and every citizen
makes an honest effort to abide
by the regulations of the Office
of Price Administration" SAID
Mrs. Julian Morton, who with Mrs.
Ems1ey Laney and Mrs. w. II.
Henderson, Jr., is member OF
the Community Service Panel, now
launching the Home Front Pledge
Campaign in Wilmington.
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towns in definite menace to
German river traffic.
Tito's liberation army, wrecking
rail links and trains in a retreat
from Zenica, in Bosnia, continued
their attacks elsewhere against re-
inforced German garrisons be-
tween SIM and the port of Split
on the Dalmatian coast, and near
Bakar, southeast of the Susack-
Fiume port area, free Yugoslav
radio broadcast said.
The newest drain of Rommel's
already thinly-draWn forces in the
Balkans was in Albania. Some 35,-
900 Nazis were reported in Cairo
dispatches to have been rushed
from Macedonia to Albania to re-
inforce German forces under al
most daily guerrilla attacks.
There was no hint that the fore
es of Tito and Mihailovic, long
al odds, had joined to oppose the
invaders of their homeland, but
it appeared that some of their &C.
tivities might overlap. Bands rep
resenting both forces are fighting
in Bosnia and in Serbia.
Exiled Yugoslav government in
formants said at Cairo that Mi
hailovic's part-time farmer-soldiers
had captured Bra, Palanka and
Zubukovac in southeastern Serbia
and were driving toward Donji Mi
lanovac, on the western end of the
Danube loop above the Iron Gate
rapids.
Fighting back desperately
against these newest threats to his
Balkan forces, Rommel sent his
planes over Serbia and into the
interior in fierce raids on guerilla
held villages.
German raiders struck also at
the area north of the Albanian
border, where Tito's forces were
to have captured the town
Of Andrij only 10 m le
above the frontier.
The Moscow radio said that the
Germans had lost 1000 killed and
wounded in a battle against Par
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The launching of the S. S. Kathay
by Miss Julia May Raney will be
the highlight of the Sudan Temple
Cold Sand Ceremonial to be held
here Tuesday when Masonic mem
bers of the eastern half of North
Carolina meet for their annual
fete under the leadership of their
potentate, L. A. Raney.
Formerly two or three-day cele-
BIZ alton was held each year with
parades, town decorations, and ella
borate ceremonies in the hometown
of the potentate, who is the high
est officer. This position, held this
year by Mr.. Raney, brings the
celebration to Wilmington, but due
to wartime conditions the attrac-
ton is condensed into a one-day
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RI, Eat ADMITTED
Berlin Acknowledges Loss
OF Ground Before
Red Drive
q VILLAGES SEIZED
Nearly 1000 Germans
Killed And Much Ma
terrell Taken

LONDON, Tuesday, Oct.
19.-(P) - Russian troops
smashing four miles deeper
into the Dnieper river loop to
flank hundreds of thousands
of German troops "are throw
ing the enemy back, Destroy
ing his forces, and clearing
him from one populated place
after another" Moscow an
nounced early today.
Berlin acknowledged it's
troops were giving ground
under the impact of 100000
Russians attacking south
ward toward the Dneprope-
trovsk-Kiev railway, main
lifeline of Axis troops de-
ployed along the Dnieper
bend to the east and in the
Crimea to the south.
The Red army overran %
more villages, killed nearly
1000 Germans, destroyed or
captured scores of tanks and
guns, smashed every Axis at.
said a midnight communi-
tempt to stem it yesterday,
que supplement recorded by
the Soviet monitor from a
Moscow broadcast.
16 Guns Captured
In one area the Russians said
their troops had forced the Ger
mans to "beat hasty retreat"
from village, and captured 1e
abandoned guns with their trac-
tors and many other weapons.
This was only a small part of the
booty declared swept up during
the day.
Developing what may be dis
aster for the Germans all along
their crumbling Dnieper line, the
Russians also announced fres
gains below Gomel, north of Kiev,
and at embattled Melitopol, where
bitter street fighting had rolled
into the seventh day.
The Russians surrounded d
smashed blockhouses and strong
points built around one square in
Melitopol, the supplement i d,
cleared several districts Of h e
city, and decisively defeated a
German counterattack southwest
of the city near the railway lead
ing to the Crimea.
A total of nearly 1000 Germans
fell on all fronts during the day,
and 1853 tanks were knocked out
or captured for a two-day bag of
1924, the supplement said. In adj
dition 70 guns, including many
SO mm., were destroyed or seized,
it said.
A Moscow broadcast communi-
(Continued m Pare Thrae. Col ~
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FIRST PRISONERS
TO BE EXCHANGED
War Department Announc-
es That II Ameri-
cans To Return

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18- Up -
The first repatriation of American
prisoners in Germany was under
way tonight, the War Department
disclosed, with four American Of
ficers and 10 enlisted men in a
group returning to the United
States.
Several thousand prisoners hail
ing from various parts of the Brit
ish Empire also are on their way
home from German prison camps.
The War Department announced
that under an agreement between
the United States and Germany
for mutual repatriation of sick and
wounded prisoners the first group
of American personnel already IS
''heing embarked at Goteborg,
Sweden
The group, comprising 6 d e S
from first lieutenant to private,
will return to the United States by
way of England.
1.-THE British and American pris-
oners of war who are being re-
patriated at this time" the de-
partment said, ARE the first to
be repatriated from Germany.
"It is expected that further re-
patriation movements will be
agreed upon from time to time"
The limited number of Ameri-
can personnel exchanged as COM
pared with the British prisoners
of war, is due, the department
said, to the fact that there are
relatively few Americans held by
the Germans.
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Meeting Is Scheduled
For Scrap Drive Heads

A meeting of all scrap commit
teemen has been called by w. A.
Stewart, county chairman of the
salvage drive, for Tuesday, 2:15
p. m. to be held at the Brigade
Boys Club, at which time James
B. Vogler, North Carolina execu-
tive secretary of the War Pro-
duction Board, will speak.
Mr.. Stewart said that Mr.. Vog-
Ter will announce his topics Of dis
cussion, and he urges all mem
bers of the committee to be pres
emit Mr.. Stewart was appointed
to his present position as county
chairman of salvage drive and
county chairman of industrial sal
wage of the Seventh Congression.
al District last week.
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Vessel Launching Will
Feature Shriner'S Fete

affair and the launching was cho-
sen as an appropriate main event.
The 100 candidates for the Sudan
Temple of Mystic Shrine, highest
degree Of the Masonic Order, will
register at IL noon at the Cape
Fear Armory. The initiation cere-
mony and business meeting will
follow at l p. m. At $3.50 p. m. the
Sudan Temple band of Raleigh will
present a Commute concert at the
shipyard followed by the launch
ing at p. m.
Miss Jean Whitley Of Windsor,
Va, and Miss Barbara Uthreu of
Goldsboro will be attendants for
Miss Raney.
Among those on the program will
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ALLIES POURING REINFORCEMENTS
LlZss0 WAR FOR ITALIAN MAINLAND;
RUSSIANS SMASHING NAH ARMIES
Cordell Hull And Anthony Eden
Arrive In Moscow For Parlevs

This view prevails generally
despite the recent assertion
by Prada, communist party or
gan in Moscow, that the second
front and the complete defeat
of Hitler is the main question
for the meeting.
Edward r. Stettinius, acting
secretary of state, mentioned
both today in declaring that the
conferences should contribute
greatly to achievement for the
goal eve are all striving for,
the complete defeat of the
ruthless Nazis and the estab-
lishment of a just and lastt-
ing peace"
Out of the conference may
come military conversations
for close coordination of the
Red army's efforts with Anglo
American forces when Allied
armies close in on Germany
for the kill.
The prime concern, however, of
Secretary of State Hull, foreign
Secretary Eden and Foreign
Commissar Molotov is believed
to be to lay the groundwork
for an understanding on hand
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Housewives Are Urged
To Help Home Front

This group has talked to civic
o1,1h heads on the subject dur
ing ing the aee past few weeks, but b. the he
Campaign car got underway officially fe:i:l1y
last week when OPA officials
spoke to housewives here
1.-THE purpose of this campalgn
;s n keen down initiation and stop
h III market operations, contin-
, ned Mrs. Morton. Contrary to the
h heI ~ Of f many, oPA does not want
to teA. .sno % there will be no need
for 70 S .snooping' if all of us show
t tbe same s11ue patriotism that our boys y
% Vn ' should Ra'1 obey the regulations
W we o,, yno co,1ntry as they are doing
o. Registration Sus for Ration BOOK
lcont;nued on Page Three; COL o
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ENEMY SPEARHEAD|
BROKEN in BURMA
One OF Three Jap Columns
Forced Into Scatter
ed Retreat

CHUNGKING, Oct. 18.-F-One
of three Japanese columns, driv'
ing north in western Yunnan prov.
ince in an attempt to forestall a
Chinese move south into Burma
to join a possible Allied offensive
from India, has been broken up
and forced into scattered retreat,
the Chinese high command said
today.
The Chinese communicate, which
touched only briefly for the first
time in a number of days on the
operations in western Yunnan,
identified the column as one which
had pushed to the SalWeen river
opposite Luku and said it had suf-
fered severe losses.
ION the west Burma front, a
British communique from N e W
Delhi reported successful land
attack Saturday on the Japanese
held town of Maungdaw on tn e
Burmese coast about l0C m i e S
northwest of the important port
of Akyab. The communicate also
reported a number of diversionary
raids.
"(Both the British and an Amer
lean conmunique told of the usual
softening up, pre-offensive aerial
blows over widespread areas OF
occupied Burma.)
The high command here h d
previously reported the arrival OF
the Japanese column on the west
banks of the Salween behind which
the japanese were apparently try
ing to force the Chinese forces.
This forcing move was regarded
as an attempt tc upset any CHI
nese plan of collaborating with
possible Allied attempts to recap
ture the north Burma stronghold
Of the Japanese at Myitkyina.
Myitkyina is 105 miles west OF
Luku which is SIS miles north OF
Pao Shan on the Burma road and
70 miles north of the principle
japanese base for their dr. i v e
northward in Yunnan at T n 6
Yueh.
The communique gave no de-
tailed information as to the &C.
tivities of the other two columns,
also driving northward, saying only
that ''the fighting in western Yum"
nan is still fierce" 1t added that
fighting continued with no change
in conditions" in the STA chungkow,
Chiehtou and Kutungohieh areas.
The Chinese estimated the total
Japanese forces in the Yunnan
area at approximately $4,000 men.
In western Chekiang province on
China's eastern front, the Chinese
said they were routing a three
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MOSCOW, Oct. Is. up -
U. S. Secretary of State Cor
dell Hull and British Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden have
arrived in Moscow for the long
awaited tri-power conference
with Soviet Foreign Commits
sar Vyacheslav Molotov, it was
announced tonight.
(The conference presumably
will seek an agreement on war
detectives and postwar COLA
boration between the United
States, Britain and the Soviet
Union.)
Hull and Eden were accom-
panied by w. Avereu Harri-
man, newly named U. S. Am
bassador to the Soviet Union;
Green Hackworth, U. S. State
Department counsel; James
Dunn, political adviser; Maj.
Gen. John Dean, U. S. Army;
William Strang, British assis-
tant under-secretary for foreign
affairs; and 1t. Gen. Sir Hast
mss Ismay, chief of staff to
tn British minister of De-
fe3 e.
The meeting of United States
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ROmmel's Forces Battle
Three Guerrilla Armies

LONDON Oct. 18.-QP)-Three guerrilla armes-Yu-
goslav reguars under Gen. Draa Hihailovc Gen. Josp
(Tto) Broz red-starred bands and resrgent Aoanlan
guerrilla army reported locked in bitter battles
with Marshal Erwin Rommels forces wide western
Balkan front tonight.
Mihaovics forces launching their first big Offer
sive since the German occupation of garsons formerly
held by Italians said by government leaders at Cairo
to be smashing toward the Danube river loop northeast
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WEATHER
No,- FORECAST:
''0NIH CAROLINA: Warmer today.

II Eastern Standard Time)
Metony I; 5. Weather Burear1
ending ';7o IN data for the "a hour.
''0V P: NJ, Yesterday.
ian TEMPERATURE
N o. m, sc; 7:3o a. m, 80; 1880
Mjnira,,,Y,9 81 30 p. M, So. Maximum So:
'li' 50; Mean 50; Normal Ga.
an HUMIDITY
Is, "a q H. a. 1870 a. M, 10; 1870 p. M,
ro,,, PRECIPITATION
m n 1 NJ the "a hours ending 7:sc
ooo in inc, zlAee the first of the month
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TIDES FOR TODAY

Slnriee G s'eFh Standard) 0P'
5c3 s1s ss5 = Ne s1a:sf ls 2S. p p
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The meeting Of United States
British and Russian secretaries
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Evening star., 1943-06-24

National motion picture company has
opening IN local branch for typist. also
capable Of clerical work. Apply United
Artists Corp 924 New Jersey ave. NV,
Evening star., 1943-06-24
HELP WoMEN.
GENERAL OFFICE
WNPKEp

Must be able to type and take
shorthand, experience not
necessary; salary, $50 week.
ly. H. Abramson Co., 7th and
L sts. NV. Apply Mr.. Megby.
Evening star., 1943-06-24
HELP WoMEN.
SHOPPERS.
TYPIST-CLERICAI,.

Interesting work for women 20-3b, no
ment. travelling expenses paid. Apply SEA
Evening star., 1943-06-24
HELP WokAEN.

EXTRA COUNTER GIRL. coiored. for sun
day. an. to pm. Apply SOL Market
space NV.
YOUNG WOMAN With knowledge Of Ven-
phone. Opportunity to learn BOOKKEEPING
machlne operation: permanent position
with old-established arm. State age, ref
e-enees ana ouallncations Box 49O-k. Star.
COLORED GIRL TO MAKE
HERSELF HANDY IN A FUR
SHOP, MUST HAVE REFER
ENCES; GOOD STEADY
JOB, GOOD PAY FOR THE
GIRL. SCHWARTZ'S
FUR SHOP, 7O4 18th ST. NV.
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HELP WOMEN,
81 q I Iln 81. INV
STENOGRAPHER

Opening July 9 Cor sooner If available),
established private business. interesting
convenient, desirable bi"SSs location. sii 4o.ho1r
week; good opportunity, permanent POSI-
ton. Also have opening for stenoRrapher
1or summer vacation period For personal
interview. phone Ma R7a2
Evening star., 1943-06-24
HELP MEN & WOMEN.

BEAUT1CIANS, expert operators, men and
women; excellent salary. Henri & Robert
Inc, 1927 K st. NV. and 2645 Conn. ave
COUPLE for g.hw.. no cooking man must
exempt good salary; pleasant living quar-
Evening star., 1943-06-24

FOUNTAIN WORK,
nights each week, !
good pay, uniforms
store. ideal working
Pharmacy. 18th and
GIRLS AND BOYS,
to learn developing
paid while learning.
ers. 1920 Wis. ave,
Evening star., 1943-06-24
TYPIST-

TYPIST,
General Office worker, $3.50
per wk., 40 hrs; excellent op-
portunity for conscientious
worker to grow with estab-
lished concern.
KAUFMAN PRESS, INC,
514 10th st. NV. MA. 3O58.
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HELP DOMESTIC.

CHAMBERMAID. white: wages. S75 month.
3II7 woodland DR.. Phone EN-. 1900.
CLEANER, Monday. wednesday and Sat-
uroay; ~ week and carfare. Arlington
district Phone EX. 5515.
CLEANING and laundry work, days a
we week n Bethesda: So day and carfare.
Evening star., 1943-06-24

MATTRESSES (WHITE),
Good salary and commission,
vacation with pay after estab-
lished period. Call DI. 8118
between 10 am. and 3 pm.
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part time, Q or 3
day Sunday. Very
rec. Air-conditioned
conditions. Service
Eye sts. NV.
With working permits,
and printing trade;
Hicks Photo Finish
Evening star., 1943-12-08
Here's an inexpensive Arroy Of Sturdy
F1LL-IN CHAIRS
1895

lake your choice Here's an excellent collection Of
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able! You know yourself no room is complete with
out an ample number Of easy chair,-and here is
the sensible. economic way to give your home a
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THE PALA1S RoYA cxl,Rs 1or.-v y,oo,
Evening star., 1943-10-24

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. 23.-David Lloyd
George, 80, Prime Minister of Britain
In the First World War, today mar
ried Miss Frances Stevenson, his
secretary for 80 years and the
glamour girl' of the Versailles
Peace Conference.
The quiet ceremony took place al
the Guildford registry Office near
the Lloyd George farm at Churt
Surrey, where the elder statesman
lives in semiretirement.
Miss Stevenson. 55, has shared
more Of his life and his full career
than any other woman except his
first wife, with whom Mr.. Lloyd
George said he lived in perfect
harmony for SO years.
His first wife, Dame Margaret
Lloyd George, whom he married in
1888 when he was an unknown
lawyer Of 25, died in 1941.
The bride first met Mr.. Llovd
George in 1911 when she was a
schoolmistress and one of her
pupils, Megan Lloyd George. now a
member Of Parliament, brought her
home for a visit.
Miss Stevenson was the first
woman secretary appointed by a
minister" Mr.. Lloyd George wrote
in his war memoirs" A graduate
of London University, she was first
employed in 1913 when Mr.. Lloyd
George was chancellor of the ex-
chequer, and for 80 years she con-
trolled his affairs. Scarcely any one
ever spoke to him without first sat
isfying her that his business was
important.
At the peace conference. Miss
Evening star., 1943-10-24

day to take over his duties as head
Of the New Zealand Joint Staff Mis-
sion and as New Zealand Air Force
spokesman to the Combined ChiefS
of Staff Committee.
Commodore Findlay's appoint
ment marks the first time an air.
man has held the point Of joint staff
mission chief. He succeeds Brig. A.
B. Williams, who returned to New
Zealand in July. Commodore Find
lay, 48, fought in the World War as
a ground officer and later in the
RFC.