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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-10-15

Hollywood for $S5o,00o. "Hayride"
will cost $l65, 900; Mae Vests piece,
100000.
Todd Is now his own sole financial
hacker.
"If it's good enough to put my
name over, it's good enough to put
my dough on. Besides, 1t makes me
CAREFUL"
There is private wire and an
extension line between his home, a
Park Avenue penthouse, and his
third-floor office In the theater
housing Something" Around him
are a theatrical brain trust drawn
from practically every important
outfit past and present-from zieg-
field to Billy Rose, from the Theater
Guild to Gilbert Miller. Todd him
self picks his talent, however.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-24
BROWNS DIVIDE
TWO With SENS
Second Consecutive Split
Doubleheader By
Two Teams

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 23-R-The low
ly Browns split their second con-
secutive doubleheader with the
uppity Washington Senators today,
losing the first game in 10 innings,
10 to 5, but coming back to win
the nightcap, 2 to l.
Johnny .Niggeling, traded by the
Browns, made his first start for
the Senators in the second game
and had his usual hard luck IN
getting no batting support. How
ever, he beat himself by walking
his opposing pitcher, Nelson Pot
ter, with the bases loaded in the
second inning and setting up the
Browns other run with a Wild
pitch in the sixth.
Stan Spence hit two home runs
for Washington in the first game
and injected a double in the Sena--
tors five-run spree against Re
lief Pitcher George Caster in the
tenth inning.
First Game
r HI
Washington 100 DOL o3o SO 13 l
St. Louis :. 900 OBI OO1 o. 5 IA 0
Second Game
Washington =. 900 900 o1o-1 7 0
St. Louis ... O10 DOL 00x-2 6 0
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-24
Many Auto Accidents
Reported In Columbus

WH1TEVILLE, Aug. %. - Be-
sides three fatalities in as many
automobile accidents in Columbus
county during the weekend, a
series of other mishaps took a
toll of injured in the county dur
ing the past three-day period.
Mrs. Nellie Bloomfield, 68, Mrs.
H. W. Scruggs, and Marvin Dean
Scruggs, are all in Wilmington
hospital suffering from injuries
received Sunday afternoon when
the machine in which they were
riding, driven by H. w. Scruggs,
was struck by a car said to be
driven by Elco Newman Of Will
mington.
Sgt. J. R. Pridgen of Whiteville
said that the accident happened
when Newman probably fell
asleep and his machine crashed
into the other vehicle at Lake
Waccamaw.
On Friday night, Vernon Soles
of near Whiteville was seriously
injured when he was hit by a hit
and-run driver.
The same accident which killed
Mrs. Emma Watkins caused in
juries to Mrs. Virginia Carter of
Chadbourn, and her young son and
daughter.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-24
AU-Stars Are Fuu0red
Ouer Washington Reds:

EVANSTON, ILL.,, Aug. 23-R-
One Of the reasons the College ALL
Stars are favored over the Wash.
ington Redskins in Wednesday
nights opener of the 1943 foot
ball season is a big, tough line that
extends to knock the professionals
right back on their heels from the
initial scrimmage.
With sellout of Dyche stadium's S
$4,000 seats a sure thing, the ALL
Stars went through a brisk two
hour workout today and the Red
Skins had a temporary lease on
the floodlight field tonight for their
final drill on the site Of the big
sports spectacle.
Head Coach Stuhldreher, of Wis:
consin, has been sparing in his
estimates of the All-Stars, and even
went SO far as to give them dress
ing down when he detected little
signs of over confidence yesterday.
But it's obvious he's pleaded, and
his assistant coaches have gone so
far as to comment publicly that
this years All-Star team is the best
ever sent against the National
Football League champions in the
10-year history of the event.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-24
CHADB0URN LADY
KILLED IN CRASH
Mrs. Emma Watkins Dies
Instantly In Accident
On Highway

WHITEVILLE, Aug. 23.-Colum
bus county counted three casualties
in as many highway accidents
Sunday with the death of Mrs. En-
ma B. Watkins, 81, of Chadbourn
who was instantly killed about
o'clock while walking on the ole
Whiteville Chadbourn highway
about a mile from the latter town
1t was the third highway fatal
ity in Columbus county within a
few hours. On Sunday morning,
Herman J. Barfield, 35, of Cerro
Gordo, was fatally hurt when the
car he was driving overturned
several miles from his home.
Late Sunday afternoon a Negro,
1siah McRae, 80, was fatally in
jured near Old Dock when he al
leged1y jumped off the back of a
moving truck.
Sgt. J. R. Pridgen of the High
way Patrol said his investigation
of the Watkins accident indicated
that the woman was walking along
the highway in the direction of
Chadbourn when a car driven by
Emerson Barnes, white man, of
Chadbourn, going in the same di-
rection, struck her, killing her al
most instantly. The officer said
that Barnes was being held in Jail
here in connection with the wo-
mans death. Coroner H. Hugh
Nance has impaneled jury to
hold an inquest into the death.
Sgt. Pridgen said that three
more persons were also hurt in
the accident. Mrs. Virginia Car
ter and her two children, Murial,
II and Shelton, IA, all of Chad
bourn, were walking approximate
ly go feet ahead of Mrs. Watkins.
and were said to have been knock
ed down by the car driven by
Barnes and rendered in a semi
conscious condition. They were
treated at the hospital and were
released.
Mrs. Watkins is survived by her
husband, Sam Watkins; two sons,
S. J. and Harold Watkins; three
daughters, Jeanette, Phyllis and
Carolyn Watkins; her father, For.
ney Blackman; and one brother,
Bill Blackman, all of Chadbourn.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-24
RUSSIANS DRIVE
INTO VITAL CITY
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ties of war material were cap.
tured."
Tonight, Moscow celebrated the
new victory with a brilliant dis.
play Of fireworks amid . clatte1
of machineguns and other light
arms, and as heavy cannon boom
ed out a victory salute ordered
personally by Premier Marshal 10.
seph Stain.
Soviet forces throwing h avy
blows at German defenses along
all active sectors Of the long front
yesterday disabled IS G m a r
tanks and shot down 1874 enemy
planes, the Russian announcemet
said.
Dispatches from Moscow tonight
said the Russians confidently ex
pected this second restoration o1
Kharkov to the Soviet union tc
be conclusive.
Early evening throngs in the So.
Wet capital who only little more
than a year ago scurried under.
ground while the guns OF Moscow
raised an anti aircraft defense,
cheered Stalin's announcement o1
the city's capture with a passion
unusual for the calm Slavs.
They swarmed out from their
homes to see the fireworks display
and hear the booming salute.
The German high command an.
nouncement admitted that h d.
pressed German troops had re.
treated from the virtually encir.
cled city, but painted it as an or.
derly withdrawal leaving the Rus.
slams surrounding an empty shell,
the city itself declared to be "only
heap of ruins
The capture of Kharkov, II days
after the attack on Russia's third
largest city began, was the fourth
major victory in the triumphant
Russian summer offensive - the
first warm weather drive by the
Red army in more than two years
of war.
It has already rolled through
Orel, Belgorod and Karachev and
now has given the Russians the
former capital of the Ukraine. II
also established control of one of
the main railroads to Moscow and
opened trap-door to the coal and
iron-rich Donets basin to the south.
: Kharkov, once the Pittsburgh oil
Russia, was a blackened ruin as
it changed hands for the fourth
time in the war, but Stain pruud
ly hailed it as 'the second cap.
ltal-our native Kharkov."
In his order addressed to Gen.
Ivan Konev, commander of the
central front, Gen. Nikilai F. Va.
tutin and Gen. Malinovsky, Stain
said "our troops of the s epp e
'front.' freed the city from the
tion from the flank of troops o1
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-24
Whiteville Gets Crack At Legion Title
Cards Wallop Boston For 18th Straight
F1rebaU Frank Sinkuich
Observation-Disclosures

halfback might resume civil
ian status within a short time.
Sinkwich, himself, was I'M
available for comment.
Before reporting for active
service with the Marines last
month Sinkwich said he hop
ed to help get the war over Gas
soon as possible" and return
to engage in professional foot
ball. The Detroit Lions, hap
less tailenders of the National
Football league in 1912, draft
ed him last autumn and have
first call on his services.
At Detroit, Owner Fred L.
Wandel, Jr., Of the Lions said
Sinkwich's impending discharge
was news to him:
eff it's true," he said, "We'H
make every effort to sign him
to play pro football"
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-24
BRIGHT LEAF WEED
MARTS ARE READY
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pounds on floors, nd farmers
"still coming in" Top grades pre-
dominate. AS a whole, tobacco o1
good quality and light weight.
Rocky Mount-Close to 100000
pounds on floors. Lugs predomi-
nate, some primings and scat
tering of tips. Quality ''fair to
good" Fair prices anticipated.
Kinston - Estimated 1,75O, ,OOC
pounds fair quality leaf on floor.
Recrd prices for quality leaf ex-
pected.
Wilson - About 1,wo, 900 pounds
on floors, quality fair to com
mon" Sprinkling of top grades
but preponderance common lugs
offered for opening.
Williamson - Estimated 500,.
900 pounds on floor. No fancy to-
baccos but quality smoking types
best in several years. Leaf still
moving to market.
Goldsboro-Around 1851 lbs.
on floors, with leaf coming in
slower than last year when 268, ,89C
pounds sold on opening day at
$37.83 average. Wide variance in
weight and quality of tobacco.
Tarboro-Between 100000 an d
10000 pounds on floors. All good
quality and very little low grades
being offered. Buyers believe the
prices will be good.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-24
RED S0X TRIM
CLEVELAND, 81

CLEVELAND, Aug. 23.1P-
The Boston Red Sox caught Lefty
AL Smith on one of his rare bad
days and whammed him for three
doubles and ten singles in seven
innings today to trim the Cleveland
Indians, 9 to 7, before weather
prevented starting the afterpiece
of a scheduled bargain bill.
Pitcher George Woods and Out
fielder Leon Culberson batted in
two runs each to help the Sox to
9-3 lead. Roy Cullenbine's cir
cult drive started the Indians to
a four-run rally in the eighth.
Score by innings: r. H. E.
Boston ----- 1O2 12O 300-9 13 G
Cleveland 80 900 Ill 040-9 8 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-24

AUGUSTA, Ca, Aug. 2S.-
R-Frankie Sinkwich may not
he what the Marines are look
ing for-but six cents'n get
YOU sixty dollars the Detroit
Lions of the National Football
league will grab him without
a second look.
Sinkwich repeatedly has been
rumored due for discharge
from the Marines for physical
disability-flat feet, a heart
murmer, and high blood-pres-
sure. And just as repeatedly,
Paris Island Marine spOkes-
men have retorted: Nothing
to it,"
But today the Augusta Her.
aid announced it had learned
authoritatively that frankie
would be discharged, and indi-
Gated the former AIl-America
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-24
ANOTHER CRISIS
NEARING ON COAL
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consideration, grants the miners
wage increases of about So a day
including $1:25 daily for under
ground travel pay, crux of the
soft coal wage dispute. Originally
Lewis had demanded So day
wage boost for the bituminous
workers.
And since then, Lewis has re-
cognized the authority of the WLB.
He attended it's hearings today or
the anthracite wage dispute. While
the anthracite miners originally
asked So a day additional wages,
Thomas Kennedy, UNIV secre-
tary-treasurer, told the WLB they
would be satisfied with $1.3O.
He declared the raise fully
justified under sterilization poll.
cies and necessary to keep a sup
ply of manpower in the hard coal
fields, centered in eastern Penn
sylvania.
The operators, in a statement
to the board, challenged Kenne-
dy's contention and asserted that
the miners demands, coupled
with longer work week already
in effect at overtime rates, would
mean an increase of more than
$5.25 a day in wages. This, they
declared, would add $2.20 a ton to
production costs.
Today's return of the mines tc
private ownership has carried out
under the Connally-Smith act pro.
visions that property seized by
the government must be returned
within so days after operations
are restored to pre-strike produc.
ton efficiency.
Ickes, who has been surveying
production in the pits with the
idea of relinquishing operation,
has said the government had no
desire to retain control and hoped
to restore all the mines to their
owners as quickly as possible.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-24
JUNIORS MUST Be
IN MONTANA CITY
FRIDAY MORNING
Decision Is Reached After
Telephone Conferen-
ces Yesterday

WH1TEvILLE. Aug. 23.-White-
yille's Junior American Legion
baseball team-state champions
and fiualists in the regional tour
nament at Florence, S. c., last
week-still has a crack at the
national Legion baseball title, OF
ficials of Columbus County Post
1877 revealed tonight.
The only obstacle, aside from
thrashing five of the finest Le-
gion teams in the nation, is that
the Whiteville team must be in
Miles City, Montana, where the
Little World Series will be held
by Friday morning.
H. M. Leaman, athletic director
for the post here, said tonight
that he talked today to national
Legion officials in Denver, COL,
by long distance telephone, and
protested the fact that Birming-
ham, Ala, which eliminated White
had now been withdrawn because
of an ineligible player.
He said the Whiteville team was
granted the right to meet Spring
field, Ohio, at Miles City for the
right to represent Section c.
After losing to Birmingham in
Charlotte last week, Springfield
was declared Section c champion
when the Birmingham team was
withdrawn.
Leaman said that officials were
making every effort to provide
transportation to the Montana
city but indicated that they were
not yet complete.
The athletic officer also reveal
ed that he was told that Legion
officials had "slipped up" in al
lowing Springfield to leave Char
lotte before clearing up the Sec
ton c title.
alabama kind of gave us a
raw DEAL" he commented also.
The Whiteville team lost the
opening game Of the regional tour
nament at Florence to the Ala
bamians. They then proceeded to
retire Augusta, Ca, and Florence,
from the tournament only to be
defeated again by Alabama in the
finals of the tournament.
The Birmingham team, repre-
senting the General Gorgas post,
was withdrawn Sunday at the re-
quest of Birmingham legion Of
ficials who telephoned Robin S.
Kirby OF Charlotte, state commits
sioner of Legion baseball, to say
that they had learned that a
player, known as ''McTaggart"
was found to be ineligible.
Kirby issued statement term
ing the action ga very honor
able thing" but asserted that
officials of the Birmingham post
were "guilty of gross negligence
and carelessness in permitting a
team to enter state and national
competition so sloppily supervis-
ed"
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-24
Tourist Meets Massey
In Supporting Match

Abe Tourist and AL Massey
perennial referee and one-time
boxer, will clash in the support
ing bout at Thalian hall Friday
night in match designed to give
the New York wrestler a chance
to settle any grudges he may
have accumulated against Al as
a referee. The match is scheduled
for three falls with a so minute
time limit.
The main event matches Jimmy
Coffield and the Masked Marvel
Tickets are now on a sale at the
Orton desk.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-24
Plans To Defeat Japan
Laid At Quebec Farley

initial blows in this completed
strategy, in fact, may begin to
fall soon, outlining in steel and
flame the pattern of Japan's ulti-
mate destruction.
There was every reason to be-
lieve that Soong got a full projec-
ton of these plans in Mr.. Roose-
velt's own words. And the pub
licity attendant on his arrival and
his visit to the Citadel made it
clear the war conferees desired to
let the world know that the STRAIT
egy of winning first in Europe has
not obscured opportunities for
stepping up the tempo of offensive
actions against Japan.
The missing piece in the Quebec
puzzle continued to be Russia's
position. The President has en-
phasized that a Russian partici-
pant or a Russian observer would
have been most welcome here.
A Soviet representative might
have functioned in a role similar
to that taken by Soong, but the
impression here is that such an
on-the-record position for Russia
was not necessary in order for
her to be informed.
The best information, without Of
ficial confirmation, is that Russia
has been kept advised of the de-
cisions regarding the prosecution
OF the war in Europe, particularly
operations around Germany's
northern, western a n d southern
TANKS which are designed to min
lmlze German resistance to the
Russian offensive In the east.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-24
BRAVES GIVE Up
10 HITS LOSING
BY AS SC0R|
Game Is l4th Victory Fn
World Champs In Six.
teen Starts

BOSTON, Aug. 23. -P- T.,
St. Louis Cardinals pounded .,.
Boston pitchers for 10 hits ,,,,
totaled 81 bases today while vi,
ming their 18th straight =. ~,
and their 14th in 16 starts ' 4
season, from the Braves br :
l4-5 margin.
The Cards clinched the cav,
by betting starter Nanny Salr' '
for seven hits an6 six runs dr,
ing the first three innings. RooEi,
Armand Cardoni then took or,,
the Boston mound and was trps,
ed harshly in all but two of hi,
six frames. '
Debs CAIRNS led the st. Toni,
attack by collecting four snoIo,
out of five tries, and Martin Ma.
ion drove in four of the vor3
champions runs while being limit
ed to two hits, single and
double. Stan Musial's trjple ~
counted for the first ST. 1om,
tally in the first inning and 1o5r
ny Hopp homered against saIv,
with one on and two out in tbo
third.
Max Lanier took q l4.ht As
lacking from the Braves but ksn
most of them well scattered Do.
spite the efforts of Butch Niensp
who connected for three hits IN.
cluding pair of two-baggers
The Cardinals had 60 lead
before Charley Workman brough'
in the first two Boston runs witt
his third inning single.
r H
st. Louis ---- 222 O1O 3O4-14 ls
Boston --- 002 020 0O1-5 Il
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-24

the Voronezh n d southwestern
from" freed the city from t h e
yoke of German Fascist black.
guards.
He praised the troops for 'high
military skill, courage and ability
to maneuver" and authorized ten
divisions, about 10000 men, which
took part in the operation to use
the name "Kharkov" in their IT,
ties.
At 9 p.m., Moscow time, on
Stalin's order, 80 artillery volleys
from 234 guns were to b 90 m
through the capital in salvo of
victory. For the capture of Orel
and Belgorod Stain ordered a sim
lilar volley August 5, but by 100
guns firing IL salvos.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-24
CONTINUED From Page One)

main concern is the Pacific, and
Sir William Glasgow, Australian
high commissioner in Canada. Mr..
Knox arranged to call at the Cita-
del tonight.
Secrecy over the conclusions OF
the war conference talks contin.
ued unbroken and almost certain.
ly will until tomorrow closins
session, when it is expected that
the President and Prime Minister
Churchill will either have a press
conference, issue a statement or
do both.
In the meantime, the course OF
events and the expansion of op.
portunities in the Pacific and Asia
indicated that Soong was advised
that sufficient air transport was
now available to undertake the
maintenance by air alone of linn
tied strategic air force in SOUTH
eastern China.
1t would be the function of this
force to carry the air war to Ia.
pans industrial centers and Chin,
sea supply lines with such dew
astating force as the enemy has
not yet felt in those vulnerable
spots. With adequate transnort
planes the force can be set in m.
GRAFTON long before the recono,,es+
of Burma, scheduled for this fan
is completed and the Burnos 20 a :,
reopened. "N'
Consequently, it is expected that
partly assa result of plans nar.
fected here Japan will be foroaa pe,,
on the defensive around her a ent;sa tso
oceanic, sometime this fail III The
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-24
YANKEES DEFEAT
DETROIT TIGERS
Rudy York Keeps Ahead OF
Nick Etten In Bat
ting Race

DETROIT, Aug. 23.-tP-Rudy
York kept ahead of Nick Etten in
their battle for the American
Leagues runs-batted-in title today
but the New York Yankees whip
ped the Detroit Tigers 4 to l in
morning game. The second
game of the swing sllift double
header, scheduled as twilight af-
fair, was postponed.
Etten drove in two runs with
an eighth inning single and York
answered the challenge by doubling
home Joe Hoover in the Tigers
half of the same frame. AS the
result they ended the day with
York leading 88 to 86.
Before the rival first basemen
put on their act, Joe Gordon sew.
ed up the game for Bill Zuber,
who hurled a six-hitter for his
sixth victory OF the yesr. The
Yankees second sacker lifted his
18th homer of the year into the
upper left field stands in the
sixth with Charlie Keller aboard
to break the scoreless deadlock.
The homer was the Yankees list
of the season.
Hal Newhouser, pitching the
first seven innings, was charged
with his 18th setback as against
seven triumphs.
Score by innings: R. H. e
New York --- 900 002 02OA 8 /
Detroit --- 900 600 O10-1 6 ]
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-24
TODAY'S GAMES
National League

st. Louis at Boston-Cooper G7-
y VS.. Javery G1-1D
Pittsburgh at Brooklyn( twilight)
-Sewell d8-5) VS.. Davis (7-8)
Chicago at New York (2)-Bit-
horn Q5-10) and Hanyewski (5-3)
VS.. Melton CD and Chase (3-8)
Cincinnati at Philadelphia night)
Walters (10-12) VS.. Barrett G-8)
American League
New York at Detroit (2)-Chand-
ler (l5-3) and Donald (4-3) VS..
White (5-8) and Trucks t11-O
Washington at st. Louis (night)
-Haefner (6-4) VS.. Sundra (11-8)
Boston at Cleveland q, twilight
and night)-Newson (4-10) and
Judd (11-6) VS.. Harder (5-3 and
Reynolds (6-8
Philadelphia at Chicago (2,twi-
light and night)-Walff (8-12) and
Harris Glib VS.. Ross (8-6) and
Dietrich (7-9) -.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-24
City Briefs
ONION PRICES

Retail grocers were advised
Monday by rationing officials
that the maximum ceiling
price for onions at wholesale
is not to exceed $3.50 per So
pound bag, and the retail price
is seven cents per pound dur
ing the month of August. Con-
sumers purchasing onions were
advised to pay no more, and
If overcharged to call the price
ceiling office of the New Han
over War Price and Rationing
board,
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-24
PAGER DROPS DEAD

DEBORAH, Ia, Aug. 23.-R-
Bob Dodge, PAGER owned anc
driven by Paul Mattson of Roches
ter, Mimi, fell dead at the finish
of a race at the county fair yes
terday. Twelve years ago his sire
Joe Dodge, fell dead at the e1
trance Of the track. Bob DGs
will be buried beside his sul ,
the track infield.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-24
OFT ILL

NEW YORK, Aug. %. -- Up =
Mel OFT, manager of the New York
Giants, is confined to his bed, SUI
fering from what is believed 70
be intestinal influenza. OFT PLAYED
Saturday but was not presen.
yesterday when his team dropped
two games to the Chicago Cubs
During his absence the Giants are
in charge of Coaches Clarence
Jonnard and Adolfo Luque.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-24
NAVY BEGINS PRACTICE

ANNAPOLIS, Aug. %. - up -
Navy opened its 1943 football
practice this afternoon, a month
before its first schedule game
with North Carolina Pre- Flight
at Annapolis on September Is.
More than rs Middies turned
out for the first actual practice OF
the season, But Capt. John E.
Whelchel, Nays director Of ath-
letics and head football coach,
said that the services Of only IA
of last years q lettermen were
available.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-24
MEETING

The Membership committee
OF the chamber of commerce
will meet at 2:30 o'clock We'd
nesday afternoon in the cham
ber office. The committee.
headed by r. Dannenbaum and
w. A. Fonvielle, co-chairn1en,
is comprised of r. S. Rogers,
G. L. Stearns, John Ward, S.
Baxley, w. E.. Edwards, C.
M. Harrington and Miss Mary
p. Bell.