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GERMANS Keeling
UNDER AIR RAIDS
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ed on Swiss territory and their
crews had been informed. One Fly
ing Fortress crashed into a lake
but nine members Of the crew
were saved, the broadcast said.
The Swiss report did not name
the raid in which the planes par
ticipated and they were possibly
stragglers from the daylight at
tack on southwestern Germany
but there have been increasing
rumors lately of possible Ameri-
can night operations.
AS far back as March, Maj
Gen. Ira C.. Eaker, commander OF
American air forces in Britain,
said that Flying Fortresses might
make night raids when unfavorable
weather hampered day attacks.
The remark Saturday of Gen.
Henry H. Arnold, chief OF the US.
Army Air Forces, now in Britain,
that Americans had been night
flying for % years ard all bomber
crews are now trained for night
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RED CROSS WORK
DIPLOMAS READY
Many Certificates Awaiting
Claimants At Local
Headquarters

Red Cross headquarters announc-
ed Monday that certificates sig
nifying satisfa Glory completion OF
various Red Cross courses were
awaiting the students in room 125.
customhouse.
The following individuals who
studied First Aid under Peafl Till
man, Negro instructor, are ask
ed to apply for their certificates:
Robert Canty, Roy Canty, Verta
Mae Canty, frankie Dannelly, Au-
dray Harris. Willie Harris, Essie
Mae Sampson, Irvy Sampson, Eva
Howard, Jane Harmon, Mark
Pierson, and Hampton Wilson.
Those entitled to Junior Red
Cross certificates for work under
Mrs. Bishop Willis: Mary Benson,
Betsy Benson, Mrs. W. M, Dillon,
w. M. Dillon. E. H. Kendrick,
Martha Ann McAdams, Sara Nc
Adams, Jayne McAdams, and Bet
sy Jean Marshburn.
Persons who have completed the
standard course in nutrition under
Miss Virginia Ward: Mrs. N. W.
Carriker, Mrs. Edward W. Dula,
Mrs. E. H. Mourning, March Mic
hols. Mrs. G. A. Pritchard, Mrs.
F. E. Bruce, Mrs. M. L. Schutt,
Mrs. George w. Smith.
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they were removed by stretcher-
bearing civilian defense volunteers.
At the hospitals, this scene was
typical:
At frankfort hospital, a small
truck pulled up to the entrance.
A woman, clad in what had been
a skirt and sweater, stumbled out,
holding her clothes together as
best she could with one hand, while
with the other she helped the driv-
er lift the body of her husband.
They carried the body into the
hospital. An inferno took one look,
waved the husband to the morgue
in the basement.
The woman was led to room
upstairs.
There were 10 bodies laid Out
in the basement, including four
children's.
Priests of St. Joachim's church
administered last rites in the base
ment, then went upstairs to the
injured. many of whom were il
critical condition.
The whole neighborhood respond
ed. Men and women rushed II
with bedding. sheets, gauze-ever
pots and pans for heating water
The dead and injured were be
ing brought into the hospital 81
fast that no attempt was made
to keep track of them.
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LABOR PLAN AIDS
JOB PLACEMENTS
Operation OF Sterilization
Program Said To Be
Progressing Well

Operation of the Labor Stabilize
ton Plan here was directly res
ponsible for the record number of
placements handled last month by
the local office of the United States
Employment Service, Felix A.
Scroggs, manager, said Monday.
Scroggs also attributed the
record number of job placements
to the scarcity of labor" explain
ing that persons who ordinarily
have "shopped around for jobs
are now going to the Employment
office for statements of availability
and consequently being hired by
employers who 'realize they have
a better opportunity of securing
the workers they desire by con-
tacting the Employment office"
Of the total work placements,
2,408 persons were furnished en-
ployment in essential activities,
and of this number 791 were wo,
men. scroggs declared the num-
Der Of working men last month
was decided increase over pre-
vious months this year, because
'they are responding to appeals
from Washington to enter war work
or to replace men in less essential
occupations who have been called
to war work.
Twelve hundred and seventy
Negroes went to work last month,
of which 709 were placed in tobac
&C markets of adjoining counties
THE Sterilization program, -
Scroggs said, has had very
favorable effect on the labor mar
ket in the Wilmington area. Both
employers and employees realize
more and more each day the
necessity for workers remaining
on their jobs.
This realization. he declared,
has resulted in the labor turn
over being reduced between Is and
IS per cent in the past go days.
This is a very healthy sitla-
tion,' he added.
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100 Are Thought Killed
In Pennsylvania Wreck

through the plate glass W1noo".
He said one woman's heao Was
cut off by the glass.
The coffee and hot water holo-
ers split open, Beard ADDED scalo-
ing the men in the galley.
Beard was badly battered about
the hea and body, but managed
to extricate himself from under
three tables and escaped through
a TANNED door.
The car that hit the signal tow
err was sheared in two just above
the seat level-lile the frostlng
might be cut from a cake.
The persons still trapped were
in a coach that was buried under
two other cars that jack-knlteo
over it.
There was no estimate of how
bodies were freed by means OF
many remained in the car. -Four
bodies were freed by means OF
the torches and three others were
visible. There was not a SOUND
from inside the car.
Hoselines played water on the
coach to prevent its bursting into
flames from the heat OF the tor
ches.
Steel rails, bent like horseshoe
by the rending force of the crack
up. gave touch of grotesqueness
to the scene.
The railroad said the train rea'
ches q speed of 80 miles an hour
between Washington and Philadel'
nhia and rs between Philadelphia
and New York, but there was a
speed limit of As at the point where
the wreck occurred, which is a
switch point.
In response to calls for blood
donors. several hundred members
of the Army specialized training
corps at the University of Penn
sylvania reported at a downtown
hospital.
All units of the city electrical
bureau also sped to the scene. The
wreck knocked down poles car
rying high tension wires, which
sampered the rescue work. The
Pennsylvania is electrified along
the section where the wreck oc-
Cured, but the Congressional
Limited was hauled by a steam
locomotive.
At the scene of the crash, the
dead were removed one by one
and placed beside the tracks until
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BOND DRIVE Unit
TO MEET ON PLAN
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League with other recruits ar e
expected to be in attendance to
secure the data with which they
are to approach Wilmington house
wives in their homes from Sep
TENDER 9 through September 30.
Mrs. Stellings revealed that the
door-knocker campaign will get I'M
der way on September 10.
Third War Loan drive headquar-
tiers, for all divisions, have been
located in the Tide Water Power
company lobby, where officials will
be available to campaign workers
from $50 am. through 4::30 pm,
Monday through Friday during the
month. Saturday hours will be
$50 through IL noon.
During the first week of the
campaign the special booth at
the Tide Water will be manned
by committee members. F m
September 10 through 10, the Min
istering Circle will be in charge;
September 20-25, the Colonial
Danes; September 2730, Ameri-
can Legion Auxiliary. Mrs. David
Murchison has been appointed by
Mrs. Stellings to supervise tn e
booth activity.
Bonds will be on sale at cam
paign headquarters throughout the
period. Supplies will also be pro,
vided there for volunteers who TALL
to receive them at the meetings
scheduled this week.
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"We heard the crash and rushed
I'M with our first aid equipment.
There were at least so people
strewn all over the tracks, many
of them with their arms and legs
broken.
1.-The panic was terrible. The
screams of the injured and dying
cut right through me-"
Five of the wrecked cars were
day coaches, crowded with per-
sons returning from Labor Day
holidays.
Two of the coaches, in which
most of the deaths occurred, roll
ed to the edge of an embank-
ment. One was cut in two as 1t
crashed against a signal tower.
The second coach, crumpled like
an accordian, trapped nearly all
its occupants. Acetylene torches
were used to cut a path to them.
Survivors described the horror
of the few minutes when their fate
was in the balance.
Lieutenant Leonard Pitman, OF
Newark. N. j., said: "The women
started screaming and not I'LL
what seemed hours later did we
hear the snarling of the axle and
the sound of the cars overturnlng.
I Jumped up and ran out OF the
back of the train. Then I ran back.
The ground was covered with
dead"
Robert Calvert, Navy seaman re-
turning from North Africa to his
home in Birmingham, Ala, said.
II was on the third car. I was
walking down the aisle after get
ting a drink of water. I felt the
train lurch. Then something hit
me in the stomach.
1.-The next thing I knew - I
don't know how long afterwards -
I was lying on the floor. 1t seemed
a million people were on top OF
me. I couldn't get my breath. l
thought, this is it. I will die
now.
Bailey Beard, 81, headwaiter on
the limited, said there were so
persons in the diner, about half
of them women, when the crash
came.
About 200 service men who were
riding in the cars that remained
on the tracks joined in the policing
and rescue work.
He said the diner whipped side
ways across the track and threw
at least a dozen people right
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ating Immediately un d e the
President and myself as represen-
tative of the British war cabinet, -
Churchill declared that it was un-
equalled in the history of h e
world.
In my opinion" he said, lit
would be a most foolish and i'm
provident act on the part of our
two governments, or either of
them, to break up this smooth
running and immensely powerful
machinery the moment the war
is over.
For our own safety as well as
for the security of the rest of the
world we are bound to keep 1t
working and in running order after
the war, probably for a good many
years-not only until we have set
up some world arrangement To
keep the peace, but until we know
that it is an arrangement which
will really give us that protection
we must have from danger ana
aggression, which we have already
to seek across two vast world
wars"
81 am not qualified, of course,
to Judge whether or not this would
become a party question in the
United States. and 1 would not
presume to discuss that point.
II am sure, however. that it
would not be a party question in
Great Britain" he said.
Churchill said that this was the
second time in his lifetime that
he had seen the long arm OF
destiny" reach across the ocean
to involve the United States in a
deadly struggle.
There was no use saying, We
don't want it. we won't have it.
Our forbears left Europe to avoie
these quarrels. We've founded a
new world which has no contact
with the old There was no use
in that. The long arm reaches
out remorselessly and everyone
sees the distant environment and
outlook undergo a swift and ir-
resistible change"
Turning to the end of the war
Churchill said that various
schemes for insuring worl d
peace while preserving the rights
and traditions of all were being
studied in the Allied nations.
1T is said that the League of
Nations failed" he said. IF so,
that is largely because it was
a handnned or hetraVed
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ALLIED TROOPS TOLD
TO SEE MILAN OPERA
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been ordered there for duty or
have obtained specific permission
Respect Italian cathedrals
churches, wayside shrines as you
would respect any place of wor-
ship or symbol of religion within
your own country"
The final admonition in the guide
on invasion etiquette was particu-
larly firm: "Avoid on every &C.
count discussion with Italians on
the merits of your nation and that
of other Allies. This is always a
loophole for Axis propaganda. 1t
is inexcusable to be disparaging
about your allies"
"The golden rule" it said, ''is
to show Italians that the German
way is not the only way of &C.
cupying a country"
The Introduction said it was ode
signed equally for American and
British soldiers"
IT described the italian as a
moderate drinker, despite the plen-
titude of wine, and warned that
drunkenness is a subject of scorn.
Asserting that family life means
everything to the ordinary Italian,
the booklet warned that the men
are by nature jealous and partic-
ularly in the south keep a close
check on their women. The main
thing to remember is that re-
spectable unmarried girl does not
walk out with a man unless they
have gone through all the formal
ties of getting engaged. If the
GIRL breaks this rule this natur-
ally is resented by members of
her family. Don't, therefore, think
YOU are going to find it easy to
nick up respectable girl in Italy
without running the risk of first
rate row, and remember, num-
her of Germans came to an I'm.
timely end through trying
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Churchill Says America
To Share Peace Liability

| because the United States, the
originating impulse, fell out of the
line; because while France had
been bled white and England was
supine and bewildered, a mon
strous growth of aggression sprang
up in Germany, italy and Japan.
I'VE have learned from hard
experience that stronger, more eff
ficient, more rigorous world in
stitutions must be created to pre-
serve peace, and to forestall the
causes of future wars.
The strongest, victorious nations.
and those which have borne the
burdens and heat of the day" must
be combined in this task, Chur-
chill said.
But" he added, nothing would
work soundly for long, without the
united effort of the British and
American peoples.
eff we are together" he con-
Guided, nothing is impossible. If
we are divided, all will fail"
Churchill said that the United
States global responsibility had
increased in direct relation to the
increase in our powers of loco
notion which, figuratively, had
shrunken the world.
Here in the United States" he
said, with a respectable ocean
on either side of us, we can now
look out upon the world in all its
wonder and in all its woe.
eff the people of the United
States had remained in mediocre
station, struggling with the wilder
ness, absorbed in their own at
fairs. and a factor of no conse-
ouence in the movements of the
world, they might have remained
forgotten and undisturbed, beyond
their protecting ocean.
But, one cannot rise to be, in
many ways, the leading communi-
ty in a civilized world without
being involved in its problems,
without being convulsed by it's
agonies and inspired by its causes.
IF this has been proved in the
past, as it has been, it will be-
come indisputable in the future.
The people of the United States
cannot escape world responsible
ity.'
The prime minister was accom-
panied by his wife and daughter.
Mary, a subaltern in the British
Auxiliary Territorial Services,
Brendan Bracken, British minis
ter of information, and several
aides.
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HIGH SCHOOL WORK
RECEIVES PRAISE.
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teachers, the restlessness and I'M
:etainty appearing in some of the
students, and finally the difficulty
in securing needed materials"
Described as opportunities by
Mr.. Hamilton were the gre a t
strides made in personal pupil
guidance, growth of interest in vo-
cational education, the modifica-
ton of the school curriculum to
contribute to the war effort, the
new emphasis on nutrition and
first aid in the home economics
department and school cafeteria,
developments in the Language and
ROTC departments, the venture Of
the nursery school, blishment
of the Victory Corps, introduction
of the course in aeronautics, in
auguration of the two minutes
prayer period each day at noon,
and the other innovations that lent
color, life, and meaning to the
rich experience of high school ed
ucation.
This unique statement of &C
complishment includes, in addition
to Mr.. Hamilton's words, descrip-
tons of service activities for the
school, the work of the academic
departments, the work of the vo-
cational and semi-vocational fields.
the extra-curricula services of the
students, and look into the future
Not a phase of school life is
omitted in the analysis. And IN
DERIVING all the discussions which
ha-- been submitted by S taft
members is the unmistakable
wholesome educational philosophy
of the institutions leaders. The
practical applications of that phil
osophy reveal that activity at New
Hanover High school is as coor-
dinated as it is broad; it is as
sound as it is progressive.
A healthy note is sounded in the
closing paragraphs depicting flu
ture prospects: "a modern school
must be dynamic It cannot be
satisfied with its past achieve
ments or its present standing.
There must be forward look and
definite plans and activities to as
sure further progress. Moreover,
L:
the outcome of the thinking of the
few but rather the stimulating and
pooling of the ideas and organized
suggestions of the whole staff. In
other words, the combined think
ing and efforts of all should result,
not only in better plan and pro-
gram, but in the real professional
growth Of each person who con-
tributes to the procedure. "-E.C.B.
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QUIET WEEKEND
OBSERVED HERE
No Deaths, Few Accidents
Are Reported In Will
mington Area

Wilmingtonians celebrated LABOR
day weekend in safe and sane
fashion with no reported deaths,
less than a dozen minor automo-
bile accidents and fewer than nor
NAL weekend arrests.
The blotter at police headouar-
tiers showed 122 arrests from FIJI
day noon through late Monday
night, below the average number
for a Friday-Sunday period. All
arrests were of minor nature.
Two automobiles were slightly
damaged Monday afternoon when
taxi, operated by David Autry,
crashed into the rear of an auto
mobile driven by Grant Gregg, Ne
gro, as Gregg attempted to make
left turn from Third to Bladen
streets.
Willie j. Bellamy, Negro, es-
capped relatively uninjured when
he was struck by an automobile
driven by Laurence CASTOR of 815
Mills alley, at the intersection OF
the Alley with Wooster street.
Bill Bishop, 23-year-old w n e
man, was arrested by state high
way patrolnen Monday on charges
of reckless operation, transporting
non-tax paid whiskey and driving
without an operators license.
U. S. Buffkin of SCOTS Hill,
reported to police that pick
pocket lifted his wallet, containing
$500 in cash and 5000 in endorsed
checks, from his pocket as he
stood in line for a bus at the union
terminal here Monday.
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Wilmington Physician
Heads Orthopedic Group

CHARLOTTE, Sept. 6-lR-Dr.
R. T. Ronner Of Wilmington was
elected president of the North
Carolina Orthopedic Association to-
day at its annua. convention here.
He succeeds DR.. ]. l.. Abernethy
Of Charlotte.
Greensboro was selected for the
1914 convention.
Other officers are DR.. L. R.
Shelton Of WinstonSalem, reflect
ed vice president; and DR.. W. B.
Dowell Of Raleigh, reelected secre-
tary-treasurer. DR.. o. B. McRae
of Greensboro was reelected a
member Of the state board of chiro-
pody examiners. His was the only
term expiring this spring.
Discussion OF technical subjects
pounded out the program.
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bombing, also lent weight :,
possibility. 70 u
II was learned further tb..
previously unidentified An,a y
air force officer who went -. 10; !;
Raj raid on June q va, " \. j
Jerald Prices of Estes Park ny W
a leader of a veteran For w.
squadron. Nsa
Since the Raj communion. .
not mention American planes ss y, y
had no comment on the N ca, ~
report, it was consideraS IL ny
that if American planes NJ. usA
pated in last nights raid G i L
experimental and likely wouls W 7
be confirmed officially. '0'' d
The Raj night attack was y.
at a loss of "a of the bis ~ VI, ,a'4'
ii was announced. Eleven e en.1
planes were shot down, 'psH'
Photographs revealed that
bombers had the targets das, y
'helr sights in the Mannheim y
wigshafen attack, sending H.
cloud of smoke at times ~ ~
1our miles high, the Air Nin t'.
feWs service t eos said. Huge fires W.,
visible for 100 miles on the rs s;1
journey. '''4''
| The bombers dropped | 5oO !.
approximately 80 tons a nin ry q
a little slower than the M0.
minute rate in the recent Pa W.
and Hamburg attacks. N'
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CEILING PRICE SET

Retail stores in the community
may pay $40 per hundred pounds
as maximum price for cabbage
throughout the month of Septem-
Der, the price division of the War
Price and Rationing board an
nounced Monday.
Likewise, retailers may sell
cabbage to consumers at no high
err price than two pounds for ten
cents.
This is a reduction on wholesale
cost to the retailer as the maxi
mum price he could legally pay
during August was $500.
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ARRESTED

After his automobile had al
legedly struck and injured Peg
gy Perry, !, in front of her
home in Maffitt Village Sum
day afternoon, ]. H. Tart of
Maffitt Village was arrested on
charges of reckless operation
with injuries. driving under the
influence of intoxicants and
driving during a period of rev.
OcatiOn. The child was treated
for minor injuries at a local
hospital and released.
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City Briefs
REGULAR MEETING

The Girl Scout Leaders club
will hold its regular monthly
meeting Wednesday afternoon
at o'clock at the home of
Mrs. G. D. Greer, 208 Country
Club boulevard. All leaders
and their assistants are invit-
ed to attend.
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RECREATION HEAD
TO SPEAK TONIGHT
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At one time, he served as as
sistant to the national director in
charge of leadership training Of
the Works Progress administra-
ton in the Southern states.
Arrangements for the meeting
are in charge Of large committee
representatives of h e
city, county and of numerous agen-
cies here.
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BILLFOLD LOST

w. B. Johnson of the i45th
IA battery at Fort Fisher lost
a billfoId containing S225 in
cash along with personal pa
pers and other items, he adj
vised police Sunday night. The
loss was sustained somewhere
in Wilmington.
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CONTINUANCE

Willie Troy, Negro, was
granted continuance until
Thursday by Recorder H. Win
field Smith Monday when the
Negro appeared before him on
charges of highway robbery.
Bond was set at $500.
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HURT IN FIGHT

Richard King. Negro, of 422
South Seventh street, reported
to police Sunday that he had
been in a fight with an unknown
adversary at his home. He was
treated at a local hospital for
decorations of the upper lip.
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MRS. AMELIA s. SWAIN

SOUTHPORT, Sept. 6-Mrs.
Amelia S Swain, IS, died in Dosh-
err Memorial hospital here at $50
p. m. Sunday, after long illness.
Mrs. Swain is survived by one
daughter, Mrs. Raymond Jacobs,
Natchez, Miss: four sons, S. H.
and Charlie Swain of Southport,
J. C. Swain of Merchantsville, N.
j., and Leon Swain of Beaufort;
one sister, Mrs. Rebeccs S. Autry,
Southport; five brothers, Alfred,
Lawrence, J. O., Melvin, and Per-
cy Smith, and seven grandchil-
dren.