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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-23
SOCIAL AND Personal MENTION

Mr.. and Mrs. H. D. Mcclellan and
little son, David, of Pittsburgh, Pa,
were weekend visitors at the Bunga-
low, the home of Mrs. MacLellan's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil E. Ewing.
Mrs. Ewing has been indisposed for
week or more was taken to Union
Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, on
Monaay afternoon for treatment.
Mrs. Edward Crothers, Zion, and
Miss Emma Rutter, Wilmington,
DEL, were weekend guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Harvey w. Ewing. Sunday
afternoon, Mrs. Ewing, son Wilson
and Miss Ruth visited Mrs. Alec Gro
theirs, Camden, N. J.
The April meeting of the Calvert
Homemakers Club was held at the
home of Mrs. r. D. Rockefeller on
Wednesday afternoon of this week.
The programs for March and April
were both given.
John C. Boulder has been elected
superintendent OF Crouch Chapel
sunday School, near Elkton. The
school has been reorganized for the
summer.
Miss Ann Robertson, Washington,
d. c., spent the weekend with the
nome folks.
Mrs. Martha Etter Harris is visit
IL, Or ,.olotivoc in Piahnnnd Va
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-23

John z. Zook, eight year old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Zook of Bare
vile. Pa, lost his life last week in a
sad accident. The lad was operating
a roller on his fathers farm when
the horses became frightened and ran
away. The boy was thrown from the
roller, the heavy machine running
over him, fracturing his skull and
causing his death.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-23
Bay View NJ. Y. F.

The M. Y. F. of Bay View Metho-
dist church has organized by electing
the following officers: President,
Miss Ella Wigton; Vice-Pres., Miss
Leona England; treasurer, Mrs.
David Racine; secretary, Miss Martha
Way; pianist, Miss Leona England;
councillor, Miss Estella Wood.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-23

T. Donald Patterson. aged 81
years, farmer OF HARDWOOD, Lam
caster County, Ia, met instant oaeth
on april yrn. A tractor ne was using
with a disc harrow attached, ran
down an embarrassment and upset, pan
uing him underneath.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-23
Sunday Is Easter

Sunday next, April 25th, is Easter.
This year 1t is the latest date on
which it can possibly fail under the
present arrangement of the calendar.
It came April 10th IN 1856, but Will
not again come SO late curing the
.WenLIeLn century.
Easter Is nxed on the first Sunday
after the first full moon following
the vernal equinox.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-23

Mrs. Roy Schmidt of Elkton, has
accepted position with the Pruden-
tial Life Insurance Company. She is
the first woman ever to take over a
debit with the company in this
county.
The Westminster Guild will meet
Saturday afternoon, April Gath, with
Mrs. William Morrison. Mrs. Paul
Cameron, Devotional Leader; Mission
Study, Miss Frances Taylor.
Joseph T. Tyson, who had been a
patient at the University of Maryland
Hospital, Baltimore, for about two
weeks, was able to return to his
home here ON Monday.
Mrs. William Cameron and daught-
err Jane, are visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Ralph knight, Charleston, VIVA.
Miss Rachel Rittenhouse, Scranton,
Pa, is visiting relatives and friends
in Rising Sun and Zion, Md.
Miss Arlena Brown, Washington,
D. c., was the weekend guest of Mr..
and Mrs. Elwood Brown.
Miss Catherin Etter is visiting
friends and relatives in Harrison
burg, Va.
The schools of the county observe
Friday of this week, Good Friday, as
holiday.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-23
Work Progressing
On Union Hospital

Work on the new Union hospital
at Elkton. is progressing rapidly. The
foundations have been completed and
Drlck-layers are laying the SIDEWALKS.
IN order to properly equip the new
institution when competed, the
board OF directors have decided to
start a drive for funds in the near
future.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-23
Farmers Must Collect
Coupons

The Office of Price Administration
at Washington has instructed farm
ers TO collect ration coupons when
ever they sell butter, lara or any 9TH
er food rationed under the meats and
lats program.
The stamps farmers collect are to
be turned III to local ration BOARDS
along with a report ON a Lorm wnlcn
Will We available after April 20.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-23
Triumph Trial Date Set

U. s. Attorney Bernard J. Flynn
has announced Gustav H. Kann and
Joseph Ben Decker, former president
and vice-president, respectively. of
Triumph Explosives, Inc, of Elkton.
Md, would be brought to trial May 3
on charges OF violating and conspir-
acy to violate the renegotiations aek
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-23
Attended High School
Conference

DR.. T. B. Moore, president of Cecil
County School Board, and William G.
Graham, principal of Rising Sun High
school, attended the conference at
state Teachers College, Towson, Md,
Ihursday-Saturday. Among the topics
discussed was that of adaptation of
high school curricula to wartime con-
ditions and possible future changes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-23

In order to aid water conservation
Quarryville, Pa, Borough Council has
had 1000 red and white pine trans
plants, received from the Mount Alto
State Nursery, planted at Reed and
Herr Springs, the source Of the bor-
ough water supply.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-23

Mrs. Martha Etter Harris is visit
ing relatives in Richmond, Va.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-23

The schools of the county observe
Friday of this week, Good Friday, as
a holiday.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-23

Miss Catherin Etter is visiting
friends and relatives in Harrison
burg, Va.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-23

Miss Ann Robertson, Washington
d. c., spent the weekend with tn
nome folks.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-23

Miss Arlena Brown, Washington
D. c., was the weekend guest of Mr.
and Mrs. Elwood Brown.
Evening star., 1943-12-12

armed forces need all the food that
can be produced. The cannery needs
men and women and older girls and
boys. Even if you arc employed,
help out whenever you can. Tho
need is desperate"
Did Lake Mills respond? Gray
boards, housewives. grocery clerks,
policemen. bankers, teachers - the
whole town moved out to the fields
and to the cannery.
Evening star., 1943-12-12

When | went out to see this can
merry, l found NJ. c. Fuszard, superin-
tendent of schools, supervising the
cooking room. William Korth, bank
er, stacked canned beans. Earl Kas-
torff left his wife in charge of his fill
ing stations. and was putting in full
time at the cannery. Eby Heinz
street, druggist, left a sign on his
door:"Closed. Working at Cannery."
But what stopped me was
Evening star., 1943-12-12
These towns put their
community spirit to
work. Look here ..

p IS a big country We live in. and
13O, ,OOO. 900 people are a lot Of
Ipeople. But when we say We live
in America, what most Of US think
about is a community. neighbor-
hood. a part of the whole America
where the houses, the streets and the
people are = familiar as your own
home.
That is where you can really see
the spirit of America in action Look
around in your own community. You
are having neighhorhood Bond
drives, community chests. You see
neighbors at work. together. on jobs
that will help bring the boys back to
the kind of place and the kind of life
that are worth fighting for.
Here THIS WEEK Magazine rounds
up few of the outstanding wartime
community success stories. Can your
community match them?
LAKE MILLS, WIS. - The i'm
portant foods that grow around this
town are peas and beans. These are
war foods now. But when the crops
were ready last summer. there was
nobody to harvest them or to work
in the towns canning factory. Most
of the towns young men were in
uniform. Many other workers had
moved to war-plant areas.
In a proclamation, Mayor S. B.
Anderson called for action: Our
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-02
NAZl WOLF PACKS
RENEW SEA FIGHT
Continued From Page One)

Canadian Air Force were reported
to have engaged six submarines
over a recent two-day period.
More than 100 survivors of sunk
en- Allied merchant vessels. who
were landed here earlier this week.
said the new German torpedoes
were deadly and efficient. The at
tack on tn convoy started Sun
day. September 10 and continued
through Wednesday, they said. The
number of merchant vessels sunk
during the attack was not disclosed
officially but survivors said they
knew four ships of their convoy
and at least one of a slow convoy
preceding theirs had been sunk.
London said the weight of losses
and the ferocity of the attack were
in no way exceptional and that
countermeasures against u boats
were highly successful.
The battle apparently was the
same one in which the Germans
claimed seven or eight Allied de-
stroyers we're sunk.
DNB, the German news agency,
claimed the Nazi navy sank 18 Al
lied merchant ships totalling 49,
200 tons during September, adding
that U-boats accounted for 88, 700
tons of the total. During the same
period, DNB claimed, II Allied
destroyers were sunk and three
destroyers and one cruiser dam
aged.
The shipping tonnage claimed by
DNB to have been sunk last month
by U-boats was the lowest of any
month this year-the previous low
being claim of 142,500 tons last
August.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-02
JAP SHIPPERS BAD
ON CUADALCANAL
Continued From Page One)

The young veteran has already
been overseas for one year dur
ing which time he has been in the
Fiji islands, Samoa, New Gale
donia, New Hebrides, New Zea-
land, Australia, Page Page, Tonga
Tabu and Hawaii
Practice landings were made at
Samoa and the Fiji islands before
the landing on Guadalcanal, he
revealed.
In addition to the wounds re-
ceived from Jap shrapnel, Ser
geant Harper suffered seven at
tacks Of malaria, two of which oc-
Cured at Guadalcanal and were
contracted when the Marine slept
in a captured Jap machine gun
dug out infested with mosquitoes.
The native men on Guadalcanal
were friendly, the Marine report
ed, adding that they were used
as scouts and guides through the
jungles, and that they would climb
trees to gather tropical fruits for
the Marines. The women stayed
in the hills until the fighting was
over, he said.
American cigarettes were at a
premium on the islands, and the
natives would perform various
services for the Marines in order
to get the cigarettes in return,
Sergeant Harper related, adding
that the Marines smoked Japa-
nese cigarettes for awhile.
Smoking a japanese cigarette
is like smoking a weed. The Gig
arettes were very thin and came
10 in a box.
"Cocoanuts and all tropic
fruits were plentiful on the islands,
and in New Zealand we had all
the milk products we could eat
and all the milk we could drink. :"
The Marine returned with some
small Japanese souvenirs, includ-
ing several coins, a small Japa-
nese flag and a small tin medicine
box, all of which had been re-
moved from the bodies of dead
japanese soldiers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-02
BLUE BRIGADE
INJURY LINKED
Squad Leaves For Charles
ton Today To Play
Coast Guards

CAMP DAVIS, Oct. with in
juries having forced at least one
regular out of action for a while,
Camp Davis Blue Brigade went
through final PAGES today in pre-
paration for Sundays game with
the clark horse" Coast Guard ell
even at Charleston, S. c.
Major Henry A. Johnson, coach
of the AA team, announced that
Bob West, a powerhouse tackle
who stood out as main bulWark
in the Wake Forest game, would
not play the Coast Guard, leg
injury rendering him hors doom
bat. Pounding Jerry Biscaglia, AA
fullback who suffered a Wrenched
ankle in the Wake Forest contest,
also probably will not see action.
Other players who may be kept
from the game because of slight
injuries are Halfback Ed Stocked;
Right tackle Robbie and Right
guard Cover.
Major Johnson centered most of
today's practice around the teams
defensive, particularly against
overhead attack. Thursday he sent
the squad through gruelllng
scrimmage.
The Davis gridders will leave
Charleston in the afternoon. A
short limbering up workout will
be held in Johnson Hagood Sta
dunn, the Citadel athletic arena
where the game will be played.
Game time is 3 p. m. Sunday.
The Coast Guarders overwhelm-
ed Fort jackson SO to 0 last Sat
urday so they are being viewed
with suspicion. A number of for
mer college stars are in their
lineup.
Next Saturday the Davisers en-
counter the North Carolina State
team here.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-02
Coach Rupert Bryan's
Charges Take Second
Straight Win

Roaring back IN the fourth quar-
ter to score two touchdoWns and
overcome an earlier deficit, New
Hanover high schools Wildcats
defeated the Bantams of Charles
ton High, 14-2, on Legion field
here Friday afternoon.
1t was the second straight vic
tory for the team.
After a listless first half, the
Bantarns scored safety midway
of the third quarter when several
Bantams broke through the Wild
cat line to trap Halfback Hack
LoWrimore behind his own goal
following a bad pass from center.
Starting the fourth quarter with
the ball on their own 25-yard line,
the Cats broke loose a triple re-
verse from Symmes to Watts to
Dyches that took the big fullback
to the Charleston As before he was
brought down.
A series Of reverses and line
bucks carried the ball to the half
yard line and Dyches crashed over
for the touchdown. Bill McIlwain
kicked the extra point.
A last minute Charleston drive
carried to the Wildcat 80 yard
line before it was halted by an
Intercepted pass by McIlwain.
Two plays later, Dyches drove
through center and loped for 40
yards and the second touchdown.
McIlwain again converted.
Both teams used wide-open
game with plenty of passes and
interruptions were frequent. Az
though the Bantams were deep in
Wilmington territory on several oc-
casions, they failed to supply the
punch to carry over into paydirt.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-02
LINE UPS
Charleston
Wilmington
TRIPARTITE PARLEYS
MAY HIGHLIGHT WAR
Continued From Page One)

on Berlin as the Quebec victory
pattern unfolds. The word of
Roosevelt and Churchill has been
given for that publicly many times.
Yet, however vast and compre-
hensive are the Anglo-American
attack plans, they always must
lack a vitality important element
if Moscow's strategic conceptions
and preparations remain unknown
to Allied stats.
It is no secret that Roosevelt
Churchill-S Stain meeting was hoped
for and sought by Washington and
London before the Quebec confer
ence. There was no information
available, SO far as is known. to
that meeting as to where or when
Russia could or would strike.
Stain himself was too busy at
the. front even to keep in close
touch with Moscow.
The Russian grand a S u t
which has reached and now threat
ems to overrun the Dnieper opened
in July. 1t had not even been
hoped FOR by Allied staff captains
before late September. Its roaring
progress westward h utterly
changed the whole war picture in
Europe from what it was even
when the Quebec conferees sat
down to map in broad outline the
final phases of the struggle cal
culated not only to end the war in
victory, but to do it in the quickest
possible time.
There is no intimation from any
quarter that the Quebec strategic
directives require revision as yet,
although it was officially minated
there that another Roosevelt
Chur chill military discussion
might come within three months
or so. 1t is obvious, however, that
if fuller information from Russia
is now TO become available, the
weaving of the Quebec and Mos
COW war patterns into single
fabric must be attempted without
delay.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-02
STAN MUSIAL
SPRAlNS ANKLE
DURING GAME
Southworth Says Star Hit
ter Taken Out
For Rest

ST. LOUIS, Oct. l. -(F)- Harry
Gumbert reported ready for World
Series pitching work today by serv-
ing up a six-hitter to give the
Cardinals a 7 to l win over the
New York Giants, but more i'm
portant to the Cards was Sprain-
ed ankle Stan Musial suffered dur
ing the game.
The National League batting king
and leader of the Cards hit parade
for next week S world series suf-
fered the injury while running out
grounder in the fourth inning.
Debs CAIRNS replaced him in the
next frame, but Manager Billy
ISouthWorth said the injury to his
right ankle was not serious and
that he was taken out 'for rest"
Gumbert, tagged for the Giants
| lone run in the fourth no walk,
an infield out and single, was
rarely in trouble as he turned in
his 10th victory Of the year.
For four frames he was hooked
up in a tight duel with Rube
Fischer, but the Cards clouted the
Giants Highlander for pair
of tallies n the fifth and went on
five-run spree in the sixth, and
before the shooting was over they
had collected a total of II hits.
The two fifth inning runs came
on Marty Marion's single, a sac
rifice, Klein's hit to left, Harry
Walkers infield safety and a dou-
BILE steal.
r n E
New York - 900 100 0OO-1 6 0
st. Louis --- 900 OBS 00x-7 II 0
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-02
SPILL
COAST GUARD, FL
H anover Championship
Series Carried Over
By Upset Win

The fighting Fireman softball
club made a successful last-ditch
fight for the softball crown by
handling the Coast Guard ten a
81 beating at Robert Strange Fri
day evening.
The Guards needed only one win
to take the championship with four
out of five games, while the Fire
men need two straight. The Fire
man win forces the series over
into next week.
All of the scoring occurred in
the first two innings. From that
time on both teams threatened,
but Clyde Jordan and Tex Lam
caster hurled shutout ball and the
defensive play was superb to back
them up. With one out in the first,
Johnny Mobiles dropped looping
single into short left and made
second by stretching it. Lancaster
singled and an error on the relay
allowed Mobiles to score from
third.
The Firemen came right back
in their half of the inning to tie
it up, IL. Manager E. Casteen
walked, the only pass issued by
Lancaster. Casteen made it to
third on an infield out and an err
ror and scored on beautiful
squeeze-play bunt by Bill Beasley.
While Jordan was holding the
Guard hitters quiet the rest of the
way, the Red Sox scored single
run in the second for what later
proved to be the winning margin.
Dave Sandlin opened the frame
with a single to left, and Wolff
and Sandlin both were safe on a
fielder's choice. Carter Casteen
hunted safely to fill the bases. Jor-
dan forced Sandlin at home, but
with the bases still loaded the
Guards relay went wild and Wolff
scored the winning marker.
The Guards kept pecking away at
Jordan to mass six hits, but their
biggest threat in the fifth, bases
loaded and two outs, was cut short
as knight flied out to end the in
ming.
Johnny Mobiles added two more
hits to his series totals to make
II for a SAT average. Check fol-
lows him with 1923, while Lancas-
ter with 400 and Knight with .375
lead the GuarG hitters. Harold
Sandlin, who has been the series
mast spectacular fielder, leads
the Firemen at bat with .375 and
teammate Carter Casteen also has
.375 though at bat fewer times.
The series will be continued Mon
day afternoon at $50 at Robert
Strange.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-02
CHICAGO BEATS
BOSTON BRAVES
Rookie S,gner Keeps 10
His Scattered For
81 Win

CHICAGO, Oct l. Up The
Boston Braves made 10 hits off
Rookie Walter Signer, fresh from
Nashville, but the youngster kept
them we'll enough scattered to give
the Chicago Cubs a to l victory
today for their sixth success in a
row.
Red Barrett held the Cubs to
seven hits in quest of his thirteenth
victory of the season, but the Chi
cago team used all its hits for scor-
ing purposes and took advantage,
too, of a Boston error in the sew
enth by Eddie Joost.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-02
ROME AND VATICAN
WILL BE LIBERATED
Continued From Page One)

President Roosevelt told the con-
ference that it is difficult to say
where the Germans will m e
their next stand in Italy. He said
he thought that General EisenhoW-
er does not know.
The chief executive had seen
news stories saying that Germans
probably would make their next
major effort to check the Allies
on the line of Rome, because of
the defensive advantages of hills.
But he was somewhat doubtful
about that, remarking that it is not
substantially true that the next
hills providing good defensive po-
siions are in the vicinity of Rome,
since hills exist all the way from
Naples up to the capital.
The Allies, Mr.. Roosevelt said,
are doing everything possible to
prevent active fighting leading to
destruction in Rome, but he grant
ed that it is perfectly possible that
the enemy may attempt to induce
the Allies to damage the city with
the idea of casting blame.
In the last analysis, he said, it
will be the Germans, not ourselves,
who decide the extent Rome will
suffer.
Clearly the Germans &C cupy
Rome, the president declared, and
the Vatican is essentially SurrNInd-
ed with German troops around st.
Peters square. He does not want
to say the Pope is in a state of
siege, Mr.. Roosevelt asserted, but
there can not be complete free
dom with troops in the front yard
inspecting everyone who enters or
leaves
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-02
THREE JAP SHIPS
sunk BY B0MBERS
Continued From Page One)


was still afloat when the planes
left.
While the destination of the con-
WOW was not known definitely, it
was heading in the general direc-
ton of Villa where reports from
the South Pacific said the Japa-
nese have been evacuating troops
by barge under cover of darkness.
The Japanese had an estimated
10000 troops there at one time.
The bombers, on reconnaissance,
caught the convoy in Bougainville
strait in the Northern Solomons
the night of September % and
morning of September 20.
1t was assumed in the absence
of complete reports that the bal
ance of the convoy scattered and
failed to reach its destination.
Macarthur morning communl-
que also announced that 80 Japa-
nese were killed in an attempt to
escape from Vella Lavella which
American troops occupied shortly
after the capture of Munda air
field on New Georgia.
The desperate japanese, IN an
attempt to supply their forces at
Vella Lavella, have turned to air
planes which are dropping sup
plies there.
Vella Lavella lies between Ko-
lombangara and Bougainville.
Meanwhile, Australian fighting
men frightened their moose of men
and guns around the village OF
Fischhafen on the northeast coast
of New Guinea.
The communique said the Aus
tralians are pressing in from three
points which would place their
nearest forces less than half a mile
from the town site.
Sharp fighting broke out between
Australians and Japanese In n
Markham valley approximately 6o
miles from Madang. another Jap
anese strong point on the north
east New Guinea coast.
The communique reported 40
japanese we're killed in fighting
accompanying the advance of our
forces in the direction of Madang.
The clash occurred when our
advance patrols ambushed a force
of 100 japanese an action typical
Of jungle fighting. The Australlans
not only killed As japanese but
wounded more.
In an attempt to tighten t h
pressure of the Australians around
Finschhafen, the japanese e n t
their planes over in raiding sorties
aimed at personnel around Satel-
berg, but the communicate said the
raids were ineffective.
South of Finschhafen o r C
which were driving northWard
from Lac were near Cape Cretin,
lust south of their objective at
Finschaffen.
Bombers from the Army's 18th
Air force found an 11-ship convoy
attempting to run our blockade
in the Solomons and Immediately
attacked.
Several direct hits were scor-
ed on each of four different YES
sels,' the communique said.
Zone ship was destroyed by
large explosion followed by fires
visible 20 miles. Another vessel,
when hit, capsized and sank. A
exploded after four di-
rect hits and a fourth large YES