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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-17
BAD RAIL BLAMED
Sibley Says Dead Include
81 Servicemen And
20 Civilians
TOLL MAY INCREASE
Injured Are Taken To Fay.
etteville, and Lumber
ton Hospitals

LUMBERTON, Dec. 49, IN
Two crowded Atlantic Coast Line
passenger strealnliners piled up in
an early morning wreck near here
today, killing at least So persons
and inju1ing upwards of so.
c. G. Sibley, vice president Of
the railroad, said al the company's
Wilmington headquarters tonight
the known dead included 48 mem
bers Of the armed services and
81 civilians.
He added that Is injured were
taken to a Fayetteville hospital,
80 to Lumberton hospitals and 9TH
ers to the Laurinburg Maxton
Army air base hospital. A report
from the air base hospital said
more than 20 had been brought
there for treatment. one of whom
had died
reporters Barred
More than II hours after h e
wreck in this rolling sandhills re-
gion of NORTH Carolina, there had
been no announcement of the list
of dead. Military police barred
reporters from a mortuary in Red
Springs, near here, where the bod.
les were taken after being removed
from the Wreckage.
Sibley said in his Wilmington
statement he hoped to have a list
of the victims early tonight.
In addition to those hospitalized,
an undetermined number of 9th
ers were given emergency treat
ment for minor decorations, shock
and exposure.
1t was the coolest night Of the
winter. Rescuers struggled in a TO-
degree temperature to release in
jured men and women who had
been caught in the wreckage Some
lay exposed to the weather sew
eraI hours before they could be
freed.
The possibility remained that the
fatality toll would be swelled by
deaths among the more seriously
injured.
A broken rail Was blamed by
Atlantic Coast Line officials for
derailment of three coaches of the
Florida-bound Tamia)nl West Coast
Champion near the little town Of
Buies. At least ore person was
killed in this wreck.
Some 10 minutes later, Maya.
zine Publisher William Wood, a
passenger on the first train and
eyewitness of the second wreck,
said the northbound Tamiami East
Coast Champion rushed past hasti-
ly lighted newspaper bonfire sig
nails and ploughed into the deralled
coaches of the first train which
Law spraWled across a o u b ! Q
track.
Cars Leap Track
Five cars of the second train,
Wood said. 'leaped the track and
folded together like an accordion"
Its wreckage was so twisted that
workers with acetylene C h e
still were trying to cut into three
coaches late In the day.
Bodies OF so dead, nonss identi-
fled, were taken to one mortuary
at Red Springs, N. c.. and injured
were crowded into hospitals at
Fayetteville and Lrrnberton.
Wood said some Of the victims
were torn apart by the impact so
it was impossible to reconstruct
the bodies.
"A Bad Dream"
TT was like bad dream, filled
with screams, and in the dark we
Continued ON Page Four; Col. u
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Witness Tells OF First
Flight By The Wrights

them with their first flights. !
often saw them, because some
times we would take the mail over
to them on a pony and sometimes
they'd come over to the station
to get it.
They didn't have much to say.
and when thehy did talk, it was
mostly about flying. Folks got &c
like them after they knew them
thew were fine young men. They
lived in a shack near the hill.
Thev,d mock anything they saw
flvine I'VE seen one OF them watch
inc garment (gulD and run along
tcort;nued on Page Five; Col. 81
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and east of Radomysl, where the
Russians are holding the Tetehev
river line.
Eight hundred Germans were
killed in this area, the commune
que said.
To the south, in the twin Rus.
sian drives on the rail towns OF
Smela and Kirovograd, Soviet
forces killed 900 Germans, batter.
ed back German counter-attacks
and captured several hamlets and
some military booty.
Soviet amen raided the railway
station of Smela and blew up an
enemy train. the communique said.
The Germans, who already had
Confined ON Page Three; Col. u
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WEATHER

FORECAST:
North Carolina: Continued fair and
cold Friday.
Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending Z 80 pm, yesterday.
Temperature
l 80 am, 10. 1880 am. IA, 1880 pm, Is.
7:30 pm, "a.
Maximum "a, Minimum II, Mean %.
Normal 40.
Humidity
1870 am, "a, 1880 am, IA, 1880 pm, 81
1880 pm, go.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending z 80 pm
006 inches.
Total since the first of the month,
1.49 inches.
Tides for Today
From the Tide Tables published bv
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
High Low
Wilmington -------------- l :26a 8:36a
1:47p s:1Sp
Masonboro Inlet ---------- 1l:14a sofa
IL: 48p 5:42p
Sunrise, 7:12 am, Sunset, 5:o5 pm,
Moonrise, 10:37 pm, Moonset, IL :23 am,
Cape Fear River stage at Fayette-
Vile, 1918 feet.
Continued on Page Five; Col. a.
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Rv LEONARD MILL1MAN
,ssoc;ates Press War Editor

Associates iS'o W."
American amphibious for C e S
.4orrad ashore on New Britain is
i s,r crumbling keystone of ia
[ - South Pacific defenses, and
pT, their beachhead in a fe W
torrs with only light losses, Gen.
p ely Douglas Macarthur announced
today.
\ srtb Army began pouring ashore
# Arawe, near the western end
# The island. at 7:24 am. Wednes-
i.y and was still landing in waves
,ro hours later in tropical rain
Storm.
Shore Guns
Virtually the only resistance en-
tnlntered was BY shore guns which
f,ed on advance landing parties.
Thew were promptly silenced by
syoes from American destroyers.
Tie American Warships stood off
ane and bonbarded the little port
trN minutes before the landing
without receiving an answering
shot.
Twenty minutes after the main
%dr Of destroy ers started t o r
4 hane a dozen japanese planes be-
g5n divebombng the destroyer
aboard which Rear Admiral Dan
iel Barley was directing the land
ing Of the seventh arnphibious
force. The destroyer was not dam
aged.
The landing was the opening
move in an attempt to. secure at
least the western tip of New Brit
an, which the japanese have held
since January 1912, and open the
way for an invasion of the Philip
pines or an assault on Truk.
2 Transports Fired
Macarthur, who directed the op-
eratlons from an island base north
OF New Guinea, also announced
That Allied airmen had set fire to
two transports and damaged a Jap
aneSe destroyer off Timor, far to
the west in the Dutch East Indies.
In announcing the invasion, pre-.
vlously reported by Tokyo radio,
Macarthur said:
The enemy's surprise was COM
Plele and his resistance was quid;-
y overcome We lost no SKIP
Ping or airplanes and our ground
r W were extremely light.
), me operation gives US a base in
view Britain which insures surface
command Of Vitiaz strait and its
contiguous waters.
Tokyo Quoted
Tokyo radio was quoted as tell
Llg OF desperate resistance bv the
japanese. L. D. Brewer, adi
S!ldVeuT OF Phoenix, Ariz., who re-
bg S the Tokyo broadcast, said it
S9ueo that Japanese forces on
tew Britain island continue to bat
ae desperately OF the b ch e S
t SanS! the American invasion
t.n IN systematic preinvasion sof-
o ,s,-Hs up of New Britain. Ameri-
n om 1pofnoers in the last two
I Ion have made a circuit Of
a aian installations spotted
NV, wing NJ me coast of the mountain
trs S, Su-n1ile long island. Concen-
a ps, aerial bonbardments began
and Taodul' on the northeastern tip.
,Jgu. Knocked out the power of that
r,. p%leSe naval and air base Gil
! Aran The nnethodical bombing,
j Ia, 'F nn planes plastered Gasma-
,,o, VII me southern bulge Of the
|,ba s Of explosives a n d followed
|bnn,,up tuesday with a 356ton
h. tlhoaroment of Arawe, 90 miles
|be 3nt blasting Of Arawe was the
|poirs+- eS9 air attack made at any
4' OF the island. It is one OF
{'N"nllEued ~, -, -
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New Britain
isle Invaded
'ByU.S.Troops
American Amphibious
Forces Storm Ashore
On Pacific Island
| xREUCER'S 9TH ARMY
yanks Begin Invasion In
Tropic al Hailstorm,
M'Arthur Reports

PEARL HARBOR, Dec. Ii
Ip- A new Acton lombard
ment of the Japanese mid-Paci-
Go Marshalls was announced
iodav and. for the first time tn
five weeks of almost daily at
tacks, the loss Of one Of the
raiding Liberators was report
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-17

(Today-Friday-is the 10th anniver-
sary OF the Wright Rrothers' historic
first airplane flight. Here is the story
of that flight on Kill Devil Hill near
Kitty Hawk, N. c., written by Captain
John Daniels, II, retired Coast Guards
man, and one of the two known sur
viving eye-witnesses),
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-17
BY CAPT. JOHN DANIELS

KITTY HAWK, Dec. 16. -P)-
I never saw the Wright Brothers
until 1902 when I went into the
Coast Guard service at Kill Devil.
I'd heard about them gliding in
1900 and 1901, but it was a long way
from the island up to Kill Devil
in those days.
The Wright Brothers asked the
men at Kill Devil Station to help
Evening star., 1943-09-07

finesse." He had figured out that
II West held the heart king and
covered he could then discard a
heart on diamond and ruff a
heart, trying to drop a doubleton
jack in one opponents hand.
So South did have a reason but
it was not a good one. The grand
slam could have been made by
trying for a squeeze-the type, best
known as the Vienna coup, with
which too few players are familiar.
All South had to do was to lead
his heart four to dummy's ace, dis
card two clubs on the king and
queen of diamonds and then run
all six trumps, saving three clubs
IN dummy. At the end East would
have had either to throw the king
OF hearts away or reduce his hand
to only two clubs. elm the former
case South's queen of hearts would
win the vital trick; in the latter
case all three of dummys clubs
would have been good.
Yesterday you were Oswald ia
coby's partner. You were vulnera-
BILE. Your opponents had 80 on
score. You held:
A874
010S653
1895
@Q6
The bidding:
Jacoby Lightner You Schenken
~ 20 Pass Pass
Dbl. Pass (?D
Answer-Bid two hearts. Nor
mally. having passed at your first
opportunity to show general weak
ness, you might now jump to three
hearts to show exceptional trump
support. But in this case remem-
Der that your partner may have
Evening star., 1943-09-07
Bedtime Stories
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS

Now, up to the time that Johnny
Chuck had informed Peter Rabbit
that Sooty the Swift was not a Swal-
low at all. Peter had not been the
least curious about Sooty. But the
minute he found that he didn't
know as much as he supposed he
did about one of his neighbors
whom he saw every day in his life
in summer, he just bubbled over
with curiosity. He asked questions
so fast that Johnny Chuck suddenly
decided that it was time to 90 to
bed He dived down his long hall
leaving Peter sitting alone on his
doorstep, and the last thing he
heard as he curled up in his snug
bedroom, way down in the ground
was Peters voice, asking wistfully
please, Johnny Chuck, where does
Sooty live?"
But that was question that
Johnny left unanswered, and after
a little Peter made up his mind that
there was no use in staying there
So he left Johnny Chuck's house
and went on across the Old Orchard
until he had reached place where
by sitting up he could peep over the
old stone wall on the edge of the
Old orchard and see Farmer
Browns house and a little of the
dooryard. That great house and
the things that went on in and
around it always fascinated Peter.
He often went to that particular
place in the Old Orchard at that
hour, just to stare at Farmer
Browns house and Farmer Browns S
boy doing his evening duties, and
Black Pussy sitting on the doorstep,
waiting for her supper, and Bowser
the Hound humping the ground
with his tail every time his master
spoke to him or passed close by him.
1t was all very interesting to Peter
and he never grew tired of it. Es-
pecially was he interested in that
tail of Bowser's. He studied a great
deal over that tail, or rather over
the use Bowser made of it. II
Bowser happened to be sitting or
lying down when Farmer Browns
boy passed he thumped the ground
with it. If he happened to be stand
ing he wagged it from side to side.
Peter never could make out what
1t meant. The first time he had
heard Bowser's tail humping the
ground he had thought that it was
some kind of signal. You know,
Peter himself signals Mrs. Peter by
humping the ground with his feet.
But there never was any answering
signal. and, though he watched and
watched, nothing ever happened.
Finally Peter gave up trying to guess
what 1t meant. You see, having no
master himself, he couldn't know
that IL meant love.
But hs never lost interest In
watching, and 70 this evening, "a
Evening star., 1943-09-07

soon as he peeped over the old wall,
he quite forgot Sooty the Swift in
watching Bowser and Black Pussy
and Farmer Browns boy. The black
Shadows were creeping everywhere
very fast now. A soft dusk, which,
you know, is the beginning of
darkness, covered all things Chit
r-chitter-chit chit chit!" The
voice of Sooty the Swift shouted
joyously from right above Peter and
made him look up. He was just in
time to see swiftly moving little
black form race over straight toward
Farmer Browns house. 1t brought
back to Peter all the curiosity which
Johnny Chuck had awakened, and
for the moment he forgot every
thing else as he watched Sooty race
through the air. Against the sky
Peter could see Sooty very clearly.
Peter watched until Sooty was
right over Farmer Browns house.
Then an astonishing thing happened.
1t seemed to Peter as If something
happened to Sooty right. in midair.
One instant he was racing through
the air as only Sooty can, and the
next instant he seemed to be drop
ping straight down, futtering queer
ly as if something had happened to
his wings and he could no longer fly.
Down, down, down, he dropped and
disappeared He had fallen into
the great chimney on the top of
Farmer Browns house! There WASH t
any doubt about it. Peter had seen
it happen with his own eyes. 1t gave
Peter a queer feeling. For long
time he waited to see if Sooty would
come out again, but he didn't, and
at last Peter was forced to believe
that something had happened, and
that never again would he see Sooty
the Swift or hear Sootys joyous
voice. The thought made Peter feel
bad.
tReleased by the Associated Newspapers)
Evening star., 1943-09-07

Last-nitnute changes IN radio nro-
grams sometimes reach The Star
too late for correction that dan
Evening star., 1943-09-07
War Shifts Children

Britain believes many Of the $780,
900 children evacuated from cities
at the start Of the war will never
go back to metropolitan areas, but
will become farmers.
Evening star., 1943-09-07

Enforcement Now and in the Postwar Period =
Justice Thurman W. Arnold Of the United States
Circuit Court Of Appeals for The District Of Co.
umbia; Tom {. Clark, Assistant Attorney Gen.
eIal; Judge Robert V. Fletcher. yies president
o. the Association Of American Railways, and
Gilbert H. Montague, attorney.
WkAl, 9:00-Famous Jury Trials: Murder
In circus tent
Evening star., 1943-09-07

stretched" his double In view of
the opponents 80 on score.
Score 100 per cent for two hearts,
40 per cent for three hearts.
Question No. 1888.
Today you hold the same hand
and the bidding continues:
Jacoby Lightner You Schenken
~ 20 Pass Pass
Dbl. Pass 20 Pass
2NT Pass CD
What do you bid? (Answer to-
morrow
(Released by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Evening star., 1943-09-07
BY THE FOUR ACES,

1t is better not to discuss the
bidding, especially North's six-no-
trump bid. Some players are sim
ply incapable of trusting their part
ners and North would not believe
that South had an absolutely solid
spade suit.
West opened the jack of diamonds
and South won. South's surprising
next play was the queen of hearts.
West played the three and, after
some thought, South played low
from dummy, East taking the king
and setting the contract.
South was not trying a Sucker
Evening star., 1943-09-07
Points for Parents
BY EDYTH THOMAS WALLACE
constant torbiddings
fodder dislike the the attractive nntouchabes.

Mother-Janie will realize you
like to have her come to your home,
because you always bring out some
Of your pans or old magazines or
something for her to play with.
Evening star., 1943-09-07

on THE AIR TODAY.
Star Flashes: Latest news, WMAL at $50
am. daily.
WRc, 7:30-Salufe 10 Youth: And 10 the
Army Chaplain Corps, with talk by Brig. Gen.
William R. Arnold, chaplain general Of the
Army.
VOL, 8:00-Ameriean Forum: "Anf-Trusf
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-23
War Problem Clinic
Worried Wife Advised
In Difficult Situation

lem. 1t has been going on for
Is years, and is the same old
story of my husband drinking
and gambling while my three
chi ldre n-and / don't have
enough money TO live on.
l have been in Friend of the
Court, but after after a while
my husband was just as before,
but decided TO wait until l got
my citizenship papers. Then, too,
I'm afraid of what my husband
viii do If l really start d.
voree. as he has a terrible
temper.
/ have been to see the priest
of his parish, but so far this
hasn't done much good. What
else can l do?
MRS. L. o.
Dear Mrs. l.. o.:
beiieVe most OF yotr trou-
bles will disappear II you keep
calling on the priest of the
church Of which your husband
Is a member. These men of the
church are sincere and Jealous
In the preservation of the home
and the welfare Of little chill
dren. He will find a way In
talk to your husband about his
weakness for liquor and other
misdeeds.
Don't overlook the oppor-
tunity of your husbands church
taking an active part i'm his
reformation.
EDWARD POKORNY, Wayne
County Friend of the Court.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-23

The British have a passion
for pies. They make pies out
of everything. They even eat
something called a bacon and
egg pie.
Wallace Bccry is play z
heroes during this war. At the
time of World War l he was
playing villains. In fact, in a
film titled Behind the Door"
Berry played a German SUBJ
marine captain whose conduct
was so despicable that an Amer
lean ship captain was inspired
10 skin him alive behind a door.
Hobart BoSWorth played the
ship captain. Remember? If
not. ask your dad That GER
tainly was a powerful picture.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-23
Curran May Not
BE Indicted

munist demonstration at the
World-Telegram to demand sup
preston of information concern
ing this Communist infiltration
of the American Merchant Ma
rine have just come to hand.
They disclose that Brother
Parkins got up and said that be-
cause they had refused to join
the demonstration under orders
from the union office, he and
several other sailors had been
set on the beach and not allowed
TO sail, although the merchant
marine is desperately short of
sailors and. as ParkinS said in
the meeting:
1--WE want to keep 'em sail
ing"
Brother Parkins said he knew
nothing of the demonstration,
but that even if he had known
he would have refused to join
the parade.
BROTHER JOSE2H SACK,
II the port agent, replied that
when Brother Parkins admitted
he had failed to turn out and
record his presence in his union
book, he, Brother Stack, told
Parkins he would have to go to
the bottom of the shipping list.
Brother Parkins then said:
II wouldn't picket even for
my mother"
Brother Jeffries then de-
nounced Brother Parkins for
insulting you and me and our
dead in refusing to march;
another said the union had no
room for him, and still another
moved that Brother Parkins be
expelled from the union and
then ruled off the sea for max
ing an anti-union declaration
before this meeting.
The end of it was that
Brother Parkins was set on the
beach along with three or
four other fellows in the same
position" and his closing re-
marks TO the comrades were:
why can't we ship out? We
promised to keep 'em sailing.
We didn't promise to go picket
ing"
Copyright, 1919. by United Features synd
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-23

CTOKOWSKTS intimates sus-
pect that his next bride will
be Ila Mann q. Veronica Lake
and groom Mai. j. Detlie have
(hed That Verdict The
Russ Morgans have a new Bib.
doll It's a himage over at
the NBCorrespondent W. w.
Chaplins darkness Pavilionl
Maj. Horace Dodge ire
Gently on the front pages via
frautrouble) is at General Hos
pital, Indianapolis, where a
medical discharge is expected
any edition Sumner Welles
has accepted new and impor-
tant offer overseas, according
TO his chums Metopera's
Helen Jepson and her groom are
Parenticipating at Fitch SAM
tarium The makers of
famous war weapon are being
probed and their navy IF" may
be taken away Peggy Sykes,
ultra social (she's the eX-Mrs.
w. Chrysler JrD has renowned
us all to give the-next- seven
years to the study of medicine
at Columbia The American
Federation of Labor has made "A
formal protest TO MIC regard
ing Kaltenborns broadcast OF
the ninth, in which he said IN
effect:
"NOnuniOn plants show a bet
ter production record than
union plants.
a retractlon is sought on the
basis OF WPB records for NHl-
tee and Boeing. the two leaders
In aircraft efficiency. Both are
closed shops The Go has
joined the AtL in demanding a
full FetraetieH, claiming la
statement is not even debatable,
with the Go planning a picket
line around NBC.
beginning of the End Dept.
~ Actor FREQ MacMurray mas
invested a tidy bundle in
music publishing firm The
Jan Barts have 7-lb. girl
rano Colette D'Arville is
.Nbusly i'll after several opera
tons Ben Hecht-s excellent
short in Golfers 1.-The Pink
HuSsar") may become play
and film Stephens College
says the Maude Adams rum1rs
started when she resigned as
head Of the drama dept. She
continues as special adviser
The disappearance OF $4,000
in cash is said TO be an item IN
the Tresca murder mystery -.
Madeleine Carroll is waiting for
her passport TO 90 abroad for
the L. s. Seamen'S Service -.
Naked Genius, " starring Joan
Blondell. closes its Boston run
on the 25th for rewrltc
The Moss Hart Air Force show
may be deferred Gen. Arnold,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-23

Many letters that come TO the
WAR PROBLEM CLINIC are
extremely Serious-so serious
that the experts on the panel
feel incapable of Offering ade-
quate advice on the amount of
information given.
In cases like these they can
only make suggestions in hopes
that they will be used TO the
best advantage by the people
who have asked for help.
An example of this is given in
the WAR PROBLEM CLINIC
today, and Alfred McClung Lee,
renowned sociologist, and head
Of the department of sociology
at Wayne University, explains
what can be done in such a stu
alton.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-23
Connolly Answers

la Christopher Columbus;
Cb) Queen Christina; tc)
Maria Louise of Austria.
pa pictures painted on
freshly laid plaster; CD
temple tower with many
roofs: Co a baby, usually re-
ferring TO the Infant Christ.
3-(a) John Browns cabin;
(bl capital of the state;
(c) scene Of the first battle
Of the American Revolution.
IA Shakespeare. Hamlet:
(b) Kipling, "Recessional';
tc) Tennyson, Lady Clara
We're dc We're
5-(a) La Sonnambula": Cb)
La Traviata'; (c) "Pagl-
iacchi "
6-ta) Africa: (b) Martinique;
tC) Niagara.
la Edward VIII; George V;
Edward VII.
Copyright. 1888. by King Features