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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-18
CAMP DAVIS HEAD
SPEAKS FOR AER
Col. Potts Tells OF Work
Done By Army Relief
Organization

The Government cannot foresee
all the human contingencies thai
may face the individual in his
transition from civilian to mill.
tary life", declared Col. Adam E
Potts, camp commander at Camn
Davis, who last night besought
the aid of Wilmingtonians for Ar.
my Emergency Relief.
Col. Potts spoke over Radio
Station WMFD in connection with
the forthcoming showing of This
is The Army, at the Bailey thea.
ire beginning next Wednesday.
In the first nine months of this
year, said Col. Potts, the Camp
Davis branch of AER disbursed
nearly s10,250, of which So. $50
was loaned, and $1,716 was in cash
grants.
Just as its name implies" ex-
planned Col. Potts, Army Emer.
gency Relief is designed to relieve
an emergency and not to provide
continuing aid when the emergency
has passed. Common types of such
emergencies are home distress,
maternity cases and emergency
furloughs due to death at home,
urgent business matters and fur
loughs prior to leaving for com
bat zones and the soldier has in.
sufficient funds to meet his needs. -
Col. Potts asserted that patriot.
ism, like charity, begins at home
and that no matter how benevolent
the governments policy, there will
always be individual cases of press.
ing worth which must be handled
by such an quasi-official agency
as Army Emergency Relief.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-18
U. S. TRAINING
CHINESE ARMY
Many Regiments Taught
Modern Warfare By
Yanks In India
BY PRESTON GROVER

NEW DELHI, Sept. 17.-(R-The
disclosure that Chinese troops have
been transported from China to
India to be trained by American
officers has lifted the veil on one
of the most daring enterprises in
this theater of operations.
Regiment after regiment of Gen
eralissimo Chang Kai shek' S
troops were transported from Chi
ma, stripped of every ounce of
equipment ard wearing only thin
dungarees so that a greater num-
Der could be brought over in a
hurry.
Once in India, they joined troops
who were evacuated from Burma
10 months ago, and together they
have been give the most inten-
sive training possible.
visited the training center in
eastern India and saw them be-
ing given the works, from how to
crawl on their stomachs over open
ground TO now 10 operate the most
modern American artillery d
radio apparatus.
Part Of them already have had
their first skirmishes with the enc
my. The latest was reported in
yesterdays communique, disclos-
ing that they had inflicted sub
stantial casualties on a force OF
200 Japanese in northern Burma.
The Americans are training not
only men but officers. 1t was a
ticklish job in the beginning for
the Americans to convince the Chi
nese they still had something to
learn after four years of actual
warfare.
I saw American officers in fresh
Impressed uniforms dive headlong
into the dust and gravel to show
the Chinese how it should be done.
On an earlier trip to China, I
saw the first processes of getting
the Chinese ready for the training.
They were carefully chosen both
Continued on Page Five: Col, ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-18
MUNITIONS BLAST
KILLS24 PERSONS
Explosion OF Depth
Charges At Norfolk
Base Rips Station

NORFOLK, Va, Sept. 17.-R-
A mighty blast attributed to the
explosion of ammunition in transit
killed "a persons and injured some
$50 others today at the Norfolk
Naval air station in Norfolk S
worst disaster since the Italian
dirigible Roma crashed in 1922
with loss of "a lives.
1t was learned unofficially that
a vast majority of the dead and
injured were Navy men. Official
casualty lists were expected soon
after the Nav. had notified the
victims next of kin.
The mighty explosion, felt in
Norfolk points as far as 20 miles
away, badly damaged several han
CARS at the station and hurled
framework and timbers hundreds
of yards. Windows were smashed
and pictures fell from the walls
in a 1O-mile area. Smoke and
flame billowed over the area.
Norfolk police said they were
informed depth charges Of tn c
type carried by the Nays anti
submarine patrol bombers had ex-
ploded. Other reports from civil
ian sources said gasoline truck
became ignited from the explod-
ing ammunition.
oscar Valignette, SO, 81 Schuyler
street, Ticonderoga, N. Y, field
representative of an aircraft COM
pany, who was on the third floor
of the air station administration
building, said he was looking out
of a window when the explosion
occurred.
81 saw a huge sheet of flame
and a column of smoke before
even heard the explosion Vahg-
nette reported. ut seemed tc
come from a hangar about quar-
ter mile from the administration
building. Then l felt an indescrlb'
able conclusion, and the whole
window caved in on me like a
blanket of glass. Several OF those
near me were cut but none serl'
ously." Valignette suffered shock
and scalp decorations.
One civilian reported that the
Continued on Page Five; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-18
MONTGOMERY And Clark Merge Forces;
Egg Army Captures Inland Village;
h-acArthur's Fighters Smash Into Lac
Stain Announces CAPTURE
OfBryansk ByRedF Forces

LONDON, Sept. II. -B- Pre-
mjer Marshal Joseph Stain today
announced the capture of Bryansk,
Junction for six major Russian
railways, and the town of Bezhitsa,
five miles to the northwest, in a
major break-through on the Ger
man Desna river defense line 70
miles from White Russia.
The Moscow communicate also
announced the capture of Ossi-
penko Berdyansk), Sea of Azov
port midway between Mariupol and
Melitopol-or about go miles from
the German Crimean escape rail-
way.
Moscow batteries were ordered
to thunder 20 salvoes from 124 guns
to mark the capture of Bryansk,
once key bastion of German lines
in mid-Russia, and its sister city.
Coming little more than two
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-18
CHARLOTTE FIRM
TO DO BEACH JOB
A. H. Guion Company Sub
mits Low Bid For Con-
structJon AT Resort

c. F. Churchill, engineer of the
Federal Works Agency, announced
Friday night that A. H. Guion and
company of Charlotte, had SUBJ
mitted the low bid or construction
work on the Carolina Beach sewer
system.
The Charlotte firms bid, which
is subject to the approval of FWA
regional authorities, amounted to
$40,385.
Other competing concerns were
the M. B. Kahn construction COM
pany of Columbia, S. c., with an
offer of $50, $780, and Norfolk Con-
struction company, with bid of
$780, 800.
Mr.. Churchill was of the opinion
Continued on Page Five; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-18
TRAP IS WAITING
Few Enemy Troops Escape
But Are Heading Into
Ambush In Hills
FOE SUFFERS HEAVILY
Loss Of Vital New Guinea
Base Represents Serious
Blow To Japs

A L L l E D HEADQUAR-
TIERS IN THE SOUTHWEST
PACIFIC, Saturday, Sept. 18.
= P - Japan's main New
Guinea coastal base of Lac
has been captured by Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's forces
Just II days after they I'M
leashed a powerhouse drive
on it and the few enemy SOL
diers who escaped death are
heading straight into a trap
laid for them in high noun
tains to the north.
Climaxing victory over a
northeastern New Guinea
army of the enemy, once esti-
mated to total 10000, veter-
an Australian jungle troops
swept into the air base at II
a. m. Thursday after the last
defenses in the bomb-wrecked
town were levelled by four
and two engined bombers.
we Are On Way Back
'The Lac victory, accomplished
in the face of superior forces avail.
able to the enemy, represents
serious blow to him. General
Macarthur said in special field
headquarters statement after the
capture was first announced in to-
days communiaue.
with Gods help, we are max
ing our way back
The way back" leads toward
the Philippines, where the heroic
general of Bataan and Core gidor
has vowed he shall. return.
The Japanese, who had relied
on pillbox and trench defenses on
outskirt plantations defenses
which were left in ruins by a Sc
ries of powerful air attacks-of-
fered only slight resistance at the
end, the survivors hurrying to
brush and hills under pursuit of
the attacks.
The capture of Lac, constituting
one of the biggest victories to be
scored against the Japanese who
had held it since January Is, 1912,
was achieved by a pincers move
ment sprung September 4 by Aus
tralians landing above it from the
sea, and American and Australian
paratroopers landing behind it Sep
TENDER 5.
Remnants of the Japanese gar
rison which mana ged to escape
humiliation in the final stage of
the bitter struggle are being push
ed into nearby jungles where their
destruction is certain, headquar-
tiers said.
Lae's garrison, trapped not only
by the pincers forces east and
west, but also by forces which
moved up from The south after
CONTINUED on Page Five; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-18

months after the Red army I'M
leashed its first summer offensive
in three years of war, the cap.
ture ranked with the taking oil
Kharkov, Stalino and Taganrog in
the relentless Ukraine push to the
south.
Gen. MARKHAM M. Popov's army
groups, which had been named
the Bryansk groups many weeks
ago in acknowledging their objec-
tive, won the city by simultaneous
blows from the north and east,
Stain said in an order of the day
addressed to Popov. The order
was broadcast by the Moscow ra-
dio and recorded by the Soviet
monitor.
The capture Of Bryansk and
Bezhitsa gave Soviet arms an 'im-
portant strongpoint of German de-
Continued on Page Five; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-18

ducing so much of every essential,
of war that 1--WE have definite SUI
periority over Germany and ia
pan which is growing with every
succeeding minutes"
But we have no minutes to
lose." he warned. He called for
greater plane output, saying it is
still not up to schedule.
1.-The best way to avoid heavy
casualty lists" he declared, sis
to provide our troops with the best
equipment possihle-and plenty Of
it."
The production rate of increase
dropped in June and July and
caused some worry, he said. but
picked up in August and t h S
month "it is even better"
He said approximately $4,000
planes, with an important increase
in production of heavy bonnbers
in August. and 281 merchant ships
aggregating $4,000 tons, W e = @
produced during the two months
Congress was in recess
The PRESIDENT original goal for
plane output this year was 125, 1000.
This was pared down twice until
the figure dropped below 100, 900.
so the present rate of $500 a
CONTINUED on Page Five; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-18
America Is Approaching
Capacity War Production

WASHINGTON, Sept 17--(P-The United States is
approaching full capacity production and
ing out planes at the rate of $500 month"; 10000
and merchant ships at the rate of almost five day.
These figures disclosed by President Roosevelt to-
day his special message to Congress which he asserted
the British empire and the United States are now pro-
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-18
WEATHER

I'm, FORECAST:
eooI 01 9 NORTH CAROLINA: Continued
FGdfap'e. ear River stage at Fayetteville
'S al a. M, 925 feet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-18

ruch that unle-s airplane factory
labor forces can be increased on
the West Coast, 1--WE will f l
Short at a time when the need
for military aircraft is greatest.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-18

t, Congress telling of Specific and
precise" plans for h eavy new
blows against Germany and ia
pan, included:
Publication of warning by Ba-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-28
BIDDING for Book

IN FEB. l6. this office re-
~ ceiyed the FIRST OF "A series
Of unsigned dispatches from
Monogram Pictures. The mes
sage announced Six publishers
are bidding for Revealing
Lines. humorous tome Of poetry
Scrip'ed by Ann Corio, the strip
tcuSe. now IN Hollywood for
NonoErams movie. 'Sarong Girl
Annie is sand 10 be holding out
for the highest royalty for
book of poetry since Sandburg.
ON Feb. &c this arrived
straight from the front: Ann
Corio has suggested to govern
mcnt authorities that the Derby
be run this year in North Africa
nicer for the boys. Strip Queen
Ann, now in Hollywood for 0et
the readers guess devoted some
time during her illness from ar
yenic poisoning 10 working on a
story of post war romance 10 be
called The Future Love, claim
ing this is one field government
experts are negleCting.
ON Feb. Is We were advised:
Ann Corio. in Hollywood for a
movie stint for you know,
which has been delayed because
of her illness. spent her time
while convalcScing 10 good adj
vantage. working on her auto
biography, Men, Gentlemen
and Others"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-28
Heather DAYS

HEATHER DAYS'-H. L.
IL Mencken continues the saga
of his own happy life with
"HEATHEN DAYS" (KnopD.
which tells us more about his
antics between 1890 and 1886.
While MenCken is always
Joy 10 read because of his per-
Snickcty, CantankerouS, whimSy-
whamSy style, the truth must
be told by a former associate
and always ardent admirer OF
his style and his courage chat
Is, myselD that "HEATTIEN
DAYS" Niled TO move me. IL
is warmed-over stuff. There are
stories about the everlasting
and nauseating William Jen-
nings Bryan, about a trip 70
Africa, adventures in a stable
(Sheer juvenile baloney by a
man OF g. years of age) and
lot Of other inconsequential
things.
"HEATHEN DAYS" like
Mcnckens other confessions.
reveals a man who is hollow so
far as any interior drama IS
perceptible. He simply has
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-28
gnl.

\ This is piece about an
ecdy ,iasuc honey named Ann
Corio. In other day, l should
never have thought of referring
10 the curPacccls Venus as any
thing hut n strIV-tcaSc DOH but
along comes a fellow like II l..
Mcnckcn who tugs. the word
ccdysiaSt right ont of The s. bag
and some of ms dumb ClUcks are
very grateful 10 have another
word to play around with IN
print
Up until Year acV. Ann
COTIo was some one vague but
gorgeous and uudrapcd but of
variety and. billboard ads and
some OF the more lurid picture
magazines which ShoWcd-hcr in
charming dlsarray lowering
over a StcauIng teakcttlc or
pushing a floor mop or the like.
Then there came hints, sue
Cecdcd by octinitc information.
the highest-salarcd star OF
hurleyCue was 10 embark upon
a serious thesplc career essay
Ing the arduouS role Of The Sc
ductive Toudclayo in White
Cargo
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-28
Why Trainers?

OT VISITED the Junkers fac
Il tory where 20,000\ men,
they told me, were working
night and day buiIdNg airplanes.
Udet showed me the new RIGHT
hofen squadron, which we
thought we had driven out Of
the air. Its headquarters were
carefully hidden in the pine
woods 20 miles or so from Ber-
lin. I saw with amaZement
hangers made of concrete and
repair shops that were bomb
proof. There were Is planes I'm
the squadron, and II puzzled me
that six were merely trainers.
But why traInersP' I asked.
Zone of the fiierS told me
boastfully, we use them Co
make our clerks, our mechanics
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-28
BEGAN to Show SIGNS Of Jealousy

CISUDDENLY TO show signs OF
- jealousy much little questions here and
the customers In the store
the questions And finally he asked
o
told I quit. idea silly Frank
said quit. a fight, then he asked
IN about boss, a fellow named Roger.
didn't a thing in young life, and
telling the absolute truth"
Mrs FordSon looked the cracked ceiling though the
drama being unfolded for her there
didn't satisfy Frank" she
he checked the clock night
"ind night, when home hour late admitted
worked overtime with Roger Frank marched right and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-28
Night Club Row

4 LONG the night club route:
"A Robert Benchloy and his
son, 1t. Nathaniel Benchley.
exchange their latest stories
with Benchley letting loose the
famous roar that shakes build
ings like a four-ton blOCkbuStcr.
The bearded Whit Burnett, dis
tinEuiShed editor Of Story Maya
zine and credited with the
discovery Of many Of our present
day literary stars. in a huddle
with the beardleSs John Gunther
who now Is about TO embark
upon a new venture - an his
torical novel.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-28
Confident Air

THOSE who saw the perform
i ancc declared it was simply
out OF the world and shortly
thcrcaftcp I met Miss Corio, for
the first time. in the flesh. but
modcStly and quite adequately
attircd. She was the dinner
guest of the imprcSSionable
George JesScl.
Months passed as they say in
our set and then there driftcd
eaStwards precious fragments
concerning Miss Corio's cine
matte achievements, When again
/ encountered the alluring dark
eyed lIouri. | detected an aura
Of SClf-aSSurance. an oxidation
of supreme confidence. Also she
wore a stunning mink coat.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-28
Billions Spent

4 IL during this time what
"A were we doing? This:
billions of dollars were spent
on useless projects that might
well have been used to make the
nation strong in the air and on
the seas. i am convinced that
Hitler would never have struck
had we possessed even a small
part of the military power that
we are mobilizing now"
What we need in this country
after the war are two or three
thousand RickenbackerS an d
Billy Mitchells-cold blooded
American realiSts.
SEVEN CAME THROUGH
is a great book. Don't miss it
for thrill and sturdy, heartening
Amerlcanism of the old school.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-28
Shook Her Head Sadly

HARRIET shook her head sadly.
IL That's n tough story, Mrs. Fordson," she said
guess little better than did before
Frank certainly wanted chained But didn't he
give YOU a chance TO eXplain?"
"Sure" the landlady nodded slowly .N.
she worked
the that anything than good friends
meanwhile the had taken Franks fngerprnts-and
later headed back TO prison in Illinois,"
Harriet gasped.
Back prison." she echoed
you who regarded the marriage the
he did had something before he met you?"
Exactly" the landady murnured
married Frank had married three
other bothered TO get divorces from
them!r
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-28
How Did Yours Happen?'

HARRIET sat back in her chair
IL did happen ." she asked.
said Mrs. Fordon, after slight II work
Herald department store. Mems shirts
bought three The next day he to buy
another.
W days And then he told
a him, he'd keep buying
shir h broke"
togeher-and II wasn't long before
whether shirts socks but knew that
love"
Her closed.
Lord dearie. loved that man!
ne didn't have much ",
bu-weI married. We little fat West 49th
Broadway
"And happy any two people you met or
read
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-28
NEW YORK CAVALCADE
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Girl has a wired offer 10 do the
Miriam Hopkins role in Lyman
Browns New York stage revival
OF Gilbert SeldeS' version Of
LySistrata. scheduled for March
production
BreathleSSly ] await further
word concerning the amazing
and diverse talents Of the trim
little lady who only the other
year. il seems, Contcntcd herself
with responding dcmurely 10 the
ferycnt appeals of her public TO
take il off.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-28
4 Corporal at Is

A T DURANTE'S opening night.
n we met Sgt'John Treacy Of
the marines, his chest illumi-
mated with three rows of
campaign and honor ribbons,
craftsmanship medals dripping
below, in tribute 10 his skill.
Treacy, who at ID was a cor
poral in the last war, was a
member of the famous Canadian
Black Watch in the current
brawl, and was among those
rescued at Dunkirk. His service
record reveals that he partici-
pated in the bloody campaigns
at Tobruk and at Crete. When
America entered the war. he
drew his discharge and enlisted
in his old regiment.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-28
Paid Up Trust

THE other day this breath
Il taking announcement ar
rived: Not striptiStically
speaking. Monographs Ann Corio
has a 100000 paid up trust
fund. just in case movies like
Sarong Girl suddenly stop max
ing fortunes. Not much danger
lat least in the immediate
future. a"
Finally, yesterday. a messen-
ger boy who looked something
like Mickey Rooney'S Homer out
Of w. Saroyan's The Human
Comedy" deposited this at our
farm shack in the foothills Of
Sheridan Square: "CurvaciouS
Ann Corio. in Hollywood for
another movie, this time for
Monogram, entitled 'Sarong
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-28
IN THE REALM OF BOOKS
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UCEvEN CAME THROUGH"

"SEVEN CAME THROUGH
~ Capt. Eddie" Ricken-
hacker is physically, mentally
and, because of his daredevil
heroic adventures by sea, land
and air, the very stuff out of
which great folk-heroes are
made. To me he is the Amer
lean in action. He more nearly
typifies America today, both in
his life and his political and eco
nomic opinions, than any other
man.
His Seven Came Through
(Doubleday-Doran) is the story
told simply and tersely, of the
most heroic sea-tale of modern
times. Incredible fortltude of
u days on rubber RATS and the
commanding, dominating, steel
jawed personality of Ricken-
hacker are the dominant notes.
Included in his book Of only
116 pages is a MESSAGE TO
AMERICA In this chapter
you'll find out why Germany IS
so strong. The pre-war "glo-
balonistS' of England and
America allowed Hitler TO vio-
late every clause of the YER
sailles Treaty. They even aided
Hitler commercially and Senti-
mentally in building his global
murder-machine. In 1885 Rick
enoacker visited Germany. This
is what he saw being done:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-28
Aware of Chance

IT IS only recently that I have
Il been made aware Of the
changes wrought in this simple
maid Of burleSque who, in for
mer days, was content 10 earn
her grand or grand-and-a-half
n week and thumb her nose po-
lltely at the more aSScrtive
Gypsy Rose Lee. The changes
have been brought TO my attcn-
ton by a firm known as Mono
gram pictures for which firm. IL
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-28

nothing TO tell. And Of coursa
that is because he has, accord-
ing TO his own words, led a per-
fectly happy life. He's always
been economically provided for.
he's always written just what he
wanted 10 write and always got
1t published. If he lives again
he'd want the same parents, the
same house, the same aunts and
the same uncles. so he says. This
argues for either arrested de-
velopment spiritually and NOR
ally or else for a transcendentaI
smugneSS from which no lasting
creative art can eNer flow.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-28

and our kitchen police into
fiiers. Every squadron in Ger
many is doing the same thing
THAT opened my eyes. The
derelicts of 1922 were assem-
bling striking force that
would shake Europe TO its foIn-
datiOnS."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-28

TOWNS latest inseparables
Il (and prettiest)-Mrs. Ben
nett Cert and Ann Shirley &.
Russell Grouse, the playwright
producer who talks like a poker
player Family twosomc
walking leiSurcly along Broad
way and Attn. neither speaking
a word Alfred Lunt and Lynn
Fontanne Snapshots
Copyright, 1913. by King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-28
By Louis SoboI
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appears Miss Corio is now
lahoring out IN the Hollywood
vineyards. Coyly, it is limited
that she is starring in a pic
tgrc. tentatively and undoubt-
odly forever after, entitled:
"SarOng Girl"