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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-20

doughboys call this 22O-pound, bar
rel-chested, former athlete from
Baylor University who had been
recommended for battlefield pro-
motion.
Cleghorn has a foghorn voice and
during the heat of battle he CLIMBS
on the highest rock, shouting
curses at the enemy, screaming
insults and throwing rocks ana
hand grenades. The first day ne
and his men there beat Oft seven
counterattacks.
The slopes of the mountain were
strewn with German dead, moved
down as they attempted to retake
the heights.
"Those boys used go boxes OF
grenades in about a week." said
Capt. William R. Lynch, Hunts
vile, Tex, who had charge OF see
ing that they received ammunition
and food supplies. That's about
1000 grenades or the number a
division would normally use in the
combat period. Besides the gren-
AIDES, they used three times the
number of mortar shells they
would normally expend.
Yesterday afternoon at exactly
6:53, the Germans below on the
slopes came out of their caves
and dugouts to make a counterat-
tack. The battered, weakened
doughboys, trying to join their
comrades on the peaks, made a
stand and fought off three attempts
to break their lines. Nobody knew
it at the time but that was the
last desperate stab of the enemy.
For his cool, daring leadership
in organizing the defense and en-
couraging the men under intense
enemy fire, 31-year-old 1t. Henry
C. Rragaw, Wilmington, NJ c., like
Cleghorn, is being recommended
for battlefield promotion.
Bragaw is a slended, soft-voiced
Southerner who was a horticul-
turist on North Carolina planta-
ton before the war. He sports a
fierce red handlebar mustache
which is his identification with the
troops.
"Bragaw was a cool one," a
colonel said. HE stayed in there
in the hottest part of the fight to
keep the men organized and their
spirits up
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-20
PRINCESSES IN SHOW

LONDON, Dec. 19-iR-Princes
Elizabeth and her younger sister,
Princess Margaret Rose, are the
stars of the royal household
Christmas pantomime Aladdin. !"
Several hundred soldiers watch.
ed the pantomime Friday at a
place in the English countryside
Village school children comprised
the rest of the cast of 80 in the
three-act production which was
written, produced and stage man.
aged by school master.
The pantom;me is a musical
cramatization of the fairy tale
with modern interpretations. Such
presentations are an English
Chr Stmas institution.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-20
German U-Boat Sunk
In Bay Of Biscay
After Long Battle

LONDON, Dec. 2O.-P-United
States Navy, British and Czech
planes operating with the Raj
coastal command sank a flax
spouting U-boat in the Bay of Bis
cay recently after 9 IL hour
fight, the air ministry disclosed
tonight.
The action began when the
planes encountered the German
raider on the surface in bright
moonlight at a. m. and ended at
1888 p. M, it was announced.
A Czech-manned Liberator drop
ped the depth charges which left
the submarine laundering with a
dead man in the coming tower.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-20
Army Heavy Bomber
Crashes Only Minutes
Away From Destination

HAMILTON FIELD, Calf, Dec.
1e-(P,-An Army heavy bomber en-
route from its Pacific base so its
men could spend Christmas at
home, crashed and burst into
flames today, only minutes from
it's destination.
"Seven bodies have been recov-
cred thus far" Hamilton Field
officials reported, indicating as
many as II may have persisted.
Identities were withheld.
The crew of the four-enginer
craft, still bearing battle scars,
presumably became lost in a
heavy fog bordering the coast
line, and the bomber plowed into
mountainside five miles north
of San Francisco.
A woman's purse, probably a
good luck piece, was among the
parachutes, ration kits and photo
graphs scattered along the 100
yard swath the bomber cut
through the brush before crashing
The body of small dog was
found in the burned wreckage.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-20
Average Burley Price
Drops 66 Cents, VIA Says

LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec. 19.-P)
Sales of hurley in the eight-state
marketing area for the first two
weeks of the 1943 season totaled
116, 1863, 533 pounds fol an average
of $46.76 a hundredweight the War
Food Administrator reported.
Although prices by grades con-
tinued steady at maximum levels
during the second week Of sales,
the VIA said, the general average
dropped 66 cents from the first
weeks level due to an increase in
the proportion of lower quality
grades offered.
Kentucky's sales showed de-
crease of 317,671 pounds from the
first weeks totals and CORE
spending average price drop of sc
cents, the State Department of Ag
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-20
Obituaries
@. F. COkBETT

Obed Franklin oorbett, SO year.
old resident of Middle Sound, died
following long illness.
Funeral services will be conduct
ed at the graveslde, in the Burnett
Cemetery on Middle Sound, Mon
day, December 20 at $3.50 by the
Rev. George Shepard. The funeral
cortege will leave Yopp Funeral
Home at 200 pm. Monday and
60 to the cemetery. The pallbear-
ers will pc: W. A. Waters, H. E.
Canaday, M. c. Pierce, C. H. Rog-
ers, D. G. Register. and L. A. Pad
rick.
Mr.. Corhett is survived by a
daughter, Mrs. Edell Larry, two
sons, w. F. Corbett, and ]. W. Cor
bett and a sister, Mrs. Mary Har-
riss.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-20
OPA Approves Higher
Prices For Christmas,
New Years Day Meals

CHARLOTTE, Dec. 19.--P)-The
Office of Price Administration has
decided to permit restaurant op-
orators to charge highe: prices on
Christmas and New Years Days
for meals, drinks and other food
items. under certain rigid imita-
tons.
George F. Thacker, district price
executive for the Charlotte OPA
district, told the operators today
that "if you customarily, in the
regular course of your business,
charged higher prices for meals
or food items, including beverages,
on Christmas Day, you may con-
tinue to charge such higher prices
for Christmas Day for the year
1943,. not, however, to exceed an
increase of Is per cent above your
regular Sunday dinner prices es-
tablished under the base period,
April 40, 1913"
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neutrality-suspicious.
Observation-Disclosures

a 54-year-old West Pointer born at
Kearnesyville, w. Va, is veteran
artillery specialist. He saw service
in the Philippines and the World
War, was wounded at Amens in
1918, taught military science in
several colleges and was COM
manding the third army corps in
the United States at the outbreak
of the present war.
1t also was disclosed that the
British Inniskilling Fusiliers had
been in action on the Eighth Army
front up to the time of the cap
ture of San Vito, which now lies a
few miles to the rear of British
positions.
The congratulations of 1t. Gen.
Mark W. Clark of the Fifth Army
were sent to Italian soldiers for
their success Thursday in an at
tack on the Fifth Army front.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-20
WHITEHEAD CITES
WILMINGTON MAN
Continued from Page One)

Troina, Salerno and Naples. The
name of this little village will
never be forgotten by the Ameri-
can soldiers who took part in the
battle for it.
We picked our way with patrol
and first aid men through fields
ripped by mortars and shells and
the still bodies of doughboys who
fell in the bloody, savage fighting.
The fierceness of the fighting was
written in those fields and in jag
ged piles of masonry in the town.
Neither Tobruk nor Bizerte nor
Battipaglia nor Troina were as
ripped and torn and pulverized by
explosives as this gray, little town
overlooking the valley approaches
to Casino.
The Americans call it death
valley" because death was on the
rampage for 48 hours as they
stormed this enemy fortress ringed
by Notifications, dug into the ter
raced slopes commanding the Liri
valley. Before the U. S. Fifth
Army could advance along the
road to Rome, this fortress had to
be reduced.
The battle began three days ago
when the Americans attacked at
midday behind heavy artillery
barrage. Casualties were heavy
and some companies lost all their
officers, either killed or wounded.
While one group worked its way
slowly along the slopes of the
mountain from the east in the face
of heavy fire, another attacked
from the south out of the valley.
Both ran into murderous fire
from enemy machine-guns and
mortars hidden in the caves.
One company, led by Capt.
Charles Beacham, San Antonio,
Tex, reached the edge of the town
in the first drive but had to with
draw in the face of direct fire.
After two company commanders
were either killed or wounded, End
1t. Eben C. Bergman of Clifton,
Tex, took over their commands,
reorganized the troops and led
them back into the fight. He took
his men deep into the German
lines but had to draw back again
when he had only seven riflenen
left.
Held off in the first assault, the
troops prepared for another at
tack.
''We ran into a veritab1e nest of
machinegun POSITIONS said
colonel from Texas. "They had
built emplacements into the hills
with interlocking bands of fire and
the positions were protected by
barbed wire and fields of anti
personnel mines"
This colonel added, eve could
have penetrated the Germans out
side line of defense in the first
assault if we had wanted to pile
up bodies until the troops would
have to walk over them. But we
try to save as many men as pos
sible."
When the attack began, the col
onel happened to have a telephone
to his ear and he could hear the
men in the line calling for artil-
lery fire, yelling, my God, when
are we going to get artillery sup
port?"
Within five minutes the artillery
as laying down a barrage and
mortars were firing into registered
targets to help beat off the enemy.
Three times the Germans at
tackled on the lower slopes of Sa-
mucro and three times they were
beaten back.
While the fight was raging on
the lower slopes. an equally fierce
engagement was taking place on
the peaks hundreds of feet above
where unit, led by 1t. Rufus
Cleghorn, Waco, Tex, had &C.
cupied positions week ago.
"Rufus the Loudmouth" the
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-20

eo; said A total of 4l,ss,
osl pounds were auctioned to b rso'
the seasons total 10 II ,ss ' ~
pounds. The second week 5 sr .''
age was listed at S45.78 and W.
seasons average at S46.I4. "''
. tennessee zen oas hurley sales totals
10, 64o,s65 pounds for an averags y,
S47.62 the second week, the WV ', y
said. Total sales for the se,,,'
were listed at 23,515, 1882 pOr,3,
for an average of $47.69.
The VIA reported sales a.
1877, 24o pounds for an average d
$4S.o9 in other states the n,r
week and season sales of 13,37g?T
pounds for an average of S4Sa ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-20
ALLIED PLANES ROAR
OVER RABAUL BASE
Continued from Page One)

Aground at the AraWe beach
head, today's communicate con-
firmed a spokesman announce
ment of the capture OF Umtingalu
settlement on Cape Merkus. The
spokesman disclosed that medium
artillery had been brought into
play and levelled the positions be-
fore the capture.
Meanwhile, two of the enemy's
airfields posing a possible menace
to Arawe took heavy poundings.
Nearly 100 bo1nbers flew north
west of Arawe to Cape Glouces-
ter Saturday morning, pounded
the airfield with 100 tons of ex-
plosives, destroyed grounded
bomber and spread smoke and
dust over the scene.
The bombers also went after the
Cape Hoskins airdrome, a refuel-
ling base about midway between
Rabaul and Cape Gloucester,
There a parked plane was set
afire and the entire airbase area
given good coverage."
Since Dec. l, Cape Gloucester
and Bergen Bay alone have been
blasted with more than 1900 tons
of explosives.
After the Cape Gloucester bonn
parchment, a formation of P-38s
ran into 40 Zeros in that vicinity
ana, although outnumbered two to
one, gave battle. Three Zeros were
oowned against two Lightnings.
one OF whose pilots was saved.
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Continued from Page One)

ing under cloudy skies fought
against German troops strongly de-
tending concrete pillboxes and for
titled houses with interlaclng
zine of fire. Despite artillery bonn
bardment that reduced the town to
shambles, the Germans still held
on and fought back desperately.
The Americans who took San
Pietro now have penetrated into a
small plain toward Casino, but
they still face strong defenses.
French Moroccan troops, fight
ing against the German line, have
made new gains, the military COM
said, but their location
was not given.
1t was announced that American
Maj. Gen. John P. Lucas is in COM
mand of a formation in action
along the Fifth Army front. Lucas,
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-20
DON'T LET Up
When Colds Cause
Sore Throat, Cough,

Take just one swallow Of Tho,,
me. See how quickly even one DIS.
brings palliative relief. Doubls
acting, it soothes as you swallow
then works internally. Eases raw
throat, loosens phlegm, ston
coughs almost at once. pleassTp,
taste for adults and children
II not 100 per cent satisfied pei
FOUR money back. 35c, Goo and md
Sl.O0. Get Thoxine now and stay
IN the job.
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w, nj. FLETCHER

RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 19-RE
William Meade Fletcher, 70, a
member of the state corporation
commission since 1923, died sud-
denly at his home here today. He
had been i'll of influenza since
last week.
A native of Sperryville and an
attorney by profession, Judge
Fletcher was appointed to the
three-man commission in 1928 by
Harry F. BYRD. then governor.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-20
sYNDICATEs ABOLISHED

WASHINGTON, Dec. 49, Up -
Fascist labor sTndicates in liberat-
ed Italy have been abolished, Cen
eral Dwight d. Eisenhower re-
ported to the War Department to-
day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-20

BUT NOT PRIMARILY for the free red points will you save
used cooking fats It's because fats make gycerne ana
glycerine is needed to make gunpowder medicines and
other battlefield essentials. And they needed 50
urgently that your government is giving free red pons
to further encourage to fats No amount
fat too SMALL None too black burned yield crystal
clear gycerne So every precious dropin any no
OF tin can, not glass; Start today!
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-20

The hams, bacons, and picnics
Of the typical market hog weigh,
altogether, about 80 pounds.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-20

TWO RED POINTS and 40 will be given free to you for
every pound of used cooking fat you turn in to your meat
dealer These points, which the OPA has authorized your
butcher to give for used fats be used any time any
where for the purchase of meat butter any foods re-
quring red ration stamps.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-20

From 1914 to 1889, the non,,,a.
Ion ion OF the country increased one.
ho1rd or hv 80 million narson.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-20

PARTY POSTPONED
The Christmas party -,
Christian Science Church uh; ne
was to be held Wednesdaa'
night has been postponed sway Nd
til further notice. u''
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-20
City Brief,
VISITING PARENTS

VISITING PARENTS
Miss Emily Setter has =.
rived from Washington, D a.
to spend the Christma - !,
days with her parents. Mr. 4 1'.
Mrs. c. F. Setter, Jr. aug
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
Junior Tennis

NEXT: Herb PennOck.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
This, Thot And The Other


 champ he In the pro- BIRDIE on a Naken
 
 pitching beating Bnghamon with he go m the Youngstown?
 
 The weeks 64 question that has to Baltimore to boxer
  Phillips third Talk the national will be the books night will report Derwn back the summer in Ohio city Let's hope the league will be public THIS sented the national anwluse his of Mddlebuy club who outstepped Hank for against Buddy has surprised softball opponents with his especially beating out bunt snail the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05

Marquard also might have been thrown off stride as the result of Manager McGraW and his coach, Wilbert Robinson, working on his pitching faults in the spring of '09.
 Anyway. 1t wasn't until II, when he was P, stood six feet three and weighed 180 pounds, that the Rube made his critics change their tune
 Marquard helped the Polo Grounders to pennants in Il, 'l2 and 'l3, with "A victories against 2 defeats 26 and l and 23 and 10. and earned-run marks of 2.25, 2.57 and 2.50
 Starting on opening day. 12, he established the modern major league record for consecutive victories at 19. He wasn't beaten until July 2. The record would have been 20 un- der the present method of deter mining credit.
 Marquard was an iron man in the American Association. An A. A. rec ord which still stands was his pitch ing in six straight games. During that stretch he turned in four shut outs Three Of the games were tWo- hitters, two three-hitters and the other a four-hitter.
 He hung up the league mark for loW-hit games with Is contest under five hits, one being a no-hitter.
 Of in 1914, Marquard turned in q no-hit game against Brooklyn on opening day of 1915.
 HELPS BOBBY TO TWO FLAGS
 Waived to the Dodgers, he helped Uncle Wilbert Robinson, his old mentor bag the flag in 'l6. He won 19 games for the Dodgers in IT. He broke his leg sliding into second in June, 'l9, but came back to help Uncle Bobby with 10 victories and to another gOnfalon in 20. He had enough left to win IT for the Reds in '2l.
 Marquard was in five World Series and the best he did was win two ot the three victories scored by the Giants in the hard-found eight game set with the Red Sox in 'l2.
 MarQuard obtained tremendous speed with three-quarter motion and easy pitching grace and had a very good curve. He was q smart, keen and dead game pitcher with out a squaWk or alibi
 His most pronounced physlcal characteristic was a Wry neck. HIS head inclined toward his right shoulder.
 Rube Marquard was still pitching for Atlanta in '32 at the age oi 43, but he will always be remembered ad the $ll,000 Beauty of John Mc- GraW's favorite team of Giants.
 NEXT. Hcrh PcnnOCk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
Fiue 2O- Game Winners Probable This Season
BOTH SCOVI[[
 CLUBS BEATEN;
 TOOL MOVES UP

There's always a first time" for everything, including defeat for a previously unbeaten baseball team which was the lot of the Scovill- Waterville combination in the Dusty Twilight Baseball league; defeated by Bashful Bill Mccormick and Wa terbury Tool last night. Final score was 3 to at the end of seven inn ings; and though the S-W outfit continues to lead the league having lost but one game in four starts, Tool slid into second place of the standing with two wins in three starts, including last evenings 24 karat surprise.
 First round winners, the Scovill E. R. A. club got an old-fashioned going-over from Ingersoll- Clock combine, 8 to winners of a six inning game; while Chase and Brass teams put on the best of three games; Chase winning to de- cision as Roy Johnson allowed but four hits.
 Tool Was Tops
 Mccormick from the Washington Hill entry of the City Amateur league and Larry Mullen's 1000 bat ting plus two hits by Tommy Meyers, one of them triple, combined to stop the Scovill-Waterville march toward second round honors. Null len got 8 for r.. Meyers '2 for 4" while Mccormick allowed the Scovill heavy-hitters but six hits, two of them by Kozen, one double. Tool came through despite ten runners legt on base. Summary:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05

Kalamazoo, Mich, Aug D - 'u. p - Bob Falkenburg of Hollywood Calf. ranking junior star, plays Morton Stern of Philadelphia while Herbert Flam top-seeded boys en- try from Beverly Hills, Calf, meets Buddy Bchrens of Fort Lauderdale, Fla, in today's top matches In the junior and boys nationa' tennE championships.
 Falkenburg downcd Le Wood oi Washington, 6-2, G3 in singles yes terday and then teamed with JlIn Brink of Seattle to reach the dou- bles third round with GA, 7-5 tri- umph over Bill Smith, Orlando. Fla, and Tom Mulloy, Memphis, Tenn.
 Flam busted Charlie Schaaf. Highland Park. H.. GO. 6-l in the boys singles and teamed with Gill; bert Shea. Los Angeles. to sweep a second round doubles match, 60, 6-3 from Harry Helft, Indianapolis, and Jack Collins. Middleton, O.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
YoIe-Penn. Oct. 2 On 1O-Gome List

New Haven. Conn, Aug. 5--(UP) The last gap in the Yale Univer- sity football schedule was filled to- day with announcement by Director of Athletics Ogden D. Miller that the Eli gridders will meet their old rival, the University of Pennsyl- vania, in Philadelphia Oct 2.
 Thus Yale will play 10 games this fall, eight of them nYale Bowl.
 The Yale Pennsylvania grid ser- les dates back to 1879. This years contest will be the 23rd between the two rivals, l6 having been won by the Eli and six by the Quakers.
 It will be brather against broth CT again. Last year Yale's head coach, Howie Odell, saw his brother Bob Spark the Pennsylvania to a 35 to win. And this season 1t ap- pears that Bob will be even harder to stop because he has taken on a few added duties.
 The veteran halfback, a fine pass CT, punter and ball carrier. also will be blocking 'ack and signal caller when the season opens.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
THEY PLAYED THE GAME - Marquard, The $11, ,OOO Lemon, Became a Million-Dollar Peach
By HARRY CRIMSON NEA Sports Editor

As a gangling kid hanging around Engine House 20 on Cleveland's west side and pitching for sandlot teams, Richard w. Marquard was called Richie. This nickname fitted Marquard much better than Rube. There was nothing of the plowboy in Marquard. but the tag, Rube, was fastened on him because he was big and left-handed and coming in as the immortal Waddell was pass ing out.
 Tall, slender. dark compleXioned handsome Rube Marquard was one of the 10 best dressed men. He was a young man of the world and Broadway, wooed and won Blossom Seeley of musical comedy fame.
 Marquard was sonly l9 in the fall of 1908, when the Giants gave the Indianapolis club the then record price of $ll ,000 for the winner of g games.
 Against the advice of John Mo Graw, Owner John T. Brush ordered that Marquard pitch late that sea- son, the one in which the Cubs. Giants and Pirates had their mem- orable three-cornered fight for the pennant. McGraW claimed that start set Marquard back two years. Any way, the $l1,000 Beauty became the $l1 900 Lemon as the Rube dubbed through the following two cam paigns.