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Evening star., 1943-04-23
Model State Prison
Allowed Vice, Liquor,
Georgia Probers Find
Governor Is Told How
Inmates Sold Narcotics,
Ron GombIine TobIes
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, April 23.-Big liq-
uor stills and little stills, vice,
gambling and revolt were COM
mon in Georgia's piney woods
marble model" penitentiary be-
fore Is prisoners took control
one night last week, gorged
themselves with food and "de-
parted hilariously." a legislative
committee reported.
The committee told Gov. Ellis
Arnan yesterday that the new war
den who took over from the previous
administration recently has sup
pressed these conditions, but added:
1.-THE conditions were so fragrant
and far-reaching that he has not
even yet had time to discover and
correct all that has been going on"
Eight Still at Large.
All except eight of the fugitives
have been recaptured. Escape artists
Leland Harvey and Forrest Turner
still elude search.
In a written report, the commit
tee, headed by Senator Claude Pitt
man, said new warden H. r. Duvall
found "that there had been in
Gmacies between men prisoners and
those In the women's section"
when the women wanted COM
pany all they had to do was ask for
an electrician or a plumber and it
seems that most of the prisoners
were either electrians or plumbers.
Prisoners could buy narcotics,
peddle liquor and operate gambling
tables"
In the prison canning plant, Mr..
Duvall found liquor distillery using
6tate-owned supplies, the legislators
said. There was another still on the
sixth floor. And in some cells, the
report said, there we're miniature
stills operated by electric plates.
Posted Own Guards.
Months of careful planning by 10
Isolated bad men" went into the
break April 16, the legislators stated.
The leaders used hacksaws, wire and
valve-g grinding compounds to riddle
bars in preparation. From a spoon
they fashioned a master key to a
switch box controlling a cell blocks
doors.
On the break night the leaders
pulled away previously cut bars,
overpowered guard, went down an
elevator to the first floor, locked up
some other guards. They took
charge of the prison switchboard
and armed sentries were placed
about the prison to prevent inter-
ruption."
Then, the report said, the men
were in complete charge" They
three open cells, invited others to
join them. Fifteen did. They
gorged themselves in the prison mess
hall. They pulled a master switch
that threw the prison into darkness.
"At the entrance to the prison"
the report concluded, "they seized
a prison truck and an automobile be-
longing to one of the officials. They
departed hilariously"
Evening star., 1943-04-23
New Spitfire Models
Fighting in Tunisio

BY the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, April 23.-The
Northwest African Air Forces an
nounced yesterday that the new
Mark 9 Spitfire is being used by
Raj fighter pilots on the Tunisian
front.
The new plane looks like the
famed Spitf1re of the Battle of
Britain, but has "a Rolls Royce
Merlin 81 engine instead of a Merlin
As or 49, it was explained.
The air frame is the same except
for a longer nose. It has four
blade propeller to absorb the in
creased power from the new engine.
The armament consists of two can
mons and four machineguns in the
wings,
Evening star., 1943-04-23
100000 Blaze Kills |,
Sends IS 10 HOSPITAL
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PORT HURON, Mich, April 23.-
One volunteer fire fighter was fatally
trapped and at least 18 other per-
sons were hospitalized when $780,
600 fire swept downton block
early today.
The dead man was David B. Col
gan, II, Port Huron private in the
Michigan State troops who was
trapped in debris after the collapse
of floor. Rescuers used an air
hammer to smash through 36-inch
wall to remove Sergt. Martin Gly-
shaw, %, who also was trapped.
Most of those hospitalized were
smoke victims, carried away by
stretcher bearers to congested City
Hospital.
Evening star., 1943-04-23
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Evening star., 1943-04-23
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SIGHTS IN STRANGE INDIA is the
title of a picture leaflet It contains
10 pictures by Frank c. Pape and
several hundred words of text by Uncle
Ray. To obtain a copy send a SELF
addressed envelope bearing Scent
stamp to uncle Ray in care Of. The
Evening Star.
Read Uncle Ray EDery Sunday In
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PreciDitatien.

Monthly pfecipisation In inches IN the
Capital tcurrent month to data):
Evening star., 1943-04-23
Weather Report

CFurnihe by the wean sureau)
District CounbiaRain beginning midnight
afternoon tonight and morning. gentle winds
Vfgnia-Rain tonight morning
treme southwest portion
morning beginning midnight
fnnioht
Evening star., 1943-04-23

Record for Last "A Hours.
tFrom noon yesterday to noon today)
Hishest, 81. at 1901 pm; year ago. 76.
Lowest 3S. at 6.16 a.m.:sye ago. 46.
Tide Tables.
Evening star., 1943-04-23
Winning Contract
By THE FOUR ACES.
Bridge Swindles-No. I43

~ An6 EOOn ANGSs
Bridge Swindles-No. I43
Bridge players. even the best of
them, are to large degree creatures
Of habit. That being so. q psyche
logical coup-in palmer terms, a
swindle an excellent chance
for success II it falls right in line
with an opponents habits.
West dealer.
Neither side vulnerable.
a Q7
K754
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: sess s = !. AKJ1o7 Ak
AAKJ 1os432
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The bidding:
West North East South
~ Pass % "A
Pass Pass Pass
West was tempted to save" at five
clubs, but his opening bid itself
had been light, and besides he
hoped that South might not be able
to make four spades. South couldn't,
but he did!
West opened the diamond king.
Declarer won and studied the com
bined hands. It was tempting to
return the singleton heart in the
hope OF establishing the king for a
discard. But South knew that if
he made that play West would rush
IN with the heart ace and shift to
clubs, and after East collected the
maximum two club tricks he would
naturally return a diamond, thereby
setting the contract.
Declarer determined to throw a
smoke screen around his operations.
He deliberately took out dummy's
only entry, the trump queen, by
drawing trumps. Then he led a
heart-and who can blame West
for putting in the nine spot? He
didn't know how many clubs and
diamonds South had; for all he
could tell, declarer might have led
the heart from queen-x-x, actually
hoping West would dash up with
the ace.
One thing is certain: There aren't
many players who, in Vests posi-
ton, would have fathomed declarer's
nefarious intentions.
X X + X
Yesterday you were Oswald Ja-
coby's partner and, with your side
vulnerable, you held:
KJ1O63
AQ104
H54
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The bidding:
schenken You Lightner Jacoby
Pass IA Dbl. Redbl.
"a "a Pass 40
Pass 40 Pass 50
Pass G?
Answer-Six hearts. The player
who feels he should not rebid four
card suit and goes back to five
spades is making a serious blunder.
Your partner must now suspect your
four-heart bid as cue bid. He must
have four hearts to the king and
probably fears two club losers which
your own singleton negates.
Score 100 per cent for six hearts,
10 per cent for pass, 30 per cent for
five spades.
Question No. 1856.
Today you hold the same hand,
but the bidding is different:
Schenken You Lightner Jacoby
Pass IA Pass "a
Pass co
What do you bid? / tAnswer to-
morrow A!
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the British empire and our other
Allies in making it victory worth.
while"
The Presidents unprecedented
visit here fulfilled what ne describ-
ed as a wish of many months as
he presented a scroll on behalf Of
tire American people saluting the
defenders of Malta for ''valorous
service far above and beyond the
call of duty during the months
OF almost continual Axis lombard
rlent.
t.. The scroll will be cast in bronze
On Valletta's main square.
The President was accompanied
by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Harry Hopkins. Admiral William
D. Leahy, the Presidents chief Of
staff 1t. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz,
commander of the Northwest Afri-
can Airforces; Rear Admiral Ross
7. McIntire, the Presidents per-
sonal physician Maj. Gen. Walter
B. Smith Eisesaower's chief Of
staff: Maj. Gen. Edwin M. Wat
son, the Presidents secretary and
military aide and Maj. John Boet-
tiger, the Presidents son-in-law.
Their plane. handled by Major
Otis Bryan, the President s per-
sonal pilot, was escorted by a
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-11
Roosevelt Pays Surprise
Visit To Island OfMalta
Heroic Defenders of Isla Are Presented with
Scroll By President, Behalf Of The Ameri-
can People Says May Go To Spain

VALLETA, Malta, Dec. 10.-tR
President Roosevelt made a dra-
matte three-nour appearance on
this bomb-scarred little British is
land in the Mediterranean Wednes-
day and paid tribute to it's heroic
defenders with presentation of an
Illuminated scroll.
Travelling from the series of his
tclic conferences in t h Middle
East, the President dropped down
from the clouds in a four-engined
Douglas C54-transport plane at $50
ID the morning. passed rapidly
through succession of ceremo-
mes, and then, say ing he h a d
many things to do" flew away
again to an unannounced destina-
tic
cThe Berlin radio said President
Roosevelt might be headed for
Spain to meet Generalissimo Fran.
co, or to London. The President S
movements, as usual. were secret
In the ceremonies the President
referred to Prime Minister Church
Ill, who had stopped at. Malta ear
l.er, and said, Il feel we have
struck strong blows for the future
Oh the human race"
He declared that, The United
States will proceed until the war
Will stand shoulder to shoulder with
is won, but more than that. we
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-11
Aeu Hanover County
Fails To Make Bond
| Quota For November

FOR the first time during the
va, war New Hanover county, along
t the State of North Carolina,
;aleo 10 make it's War bond quota
~. Ill november, E. A. Laney, chair
Anon OF county War Savings Staff,
0ls ~ Friday.
v inns county was short of its
$780, 9- u 0'A''1' ~
~ me first failure ~ this county
o w reach its monthly war bond
s t1osa was attributed to Christmas
sno- Officials said "ou1
in pr'iolns for pleasure is interior.
inaa WIN our support of our fight.
no Uiglng better report this
ev ra.a' officials said 'rlet's make
na ery effort during the month o:
n eohDer to exceed in sales oul
,roer quota in sufficien
j ntna.n to keep our fine recort
New Hanover citizens invested
se tsl 81 s7s4, sso.25 in government
ye rari'les last month, as follows
series ~ bonds. $500, 922. Is
series ~, ~ bonds, $2,867 so; an,
y bonds. $70.6OO.
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GOV. BROUCHTON
INSPECTS DAVIS
Group OF State And Local
Officials See Inner
Workings OF Camp +

CAMP DAVIS, Dec. 1O.-Gover-
nor Broughton and a group of
state and Wilmington officials paid
visit today to Camp Davis, anti
aircraft artillery training center,
and saw an exhibition of precision
firing.
The heavy long-range 80 nm.
guns, mobile 10 nm. automatic
guns and so caliber machine guns
destroyed aerial and horizontal
targets as the Governor and his
party applauded the accurcy of
the enlisted men
A formal review in the Cover
mol S honor was held late in the
afternoon. AAATC troops march
ed past a reviewing stand and
during the ceremony warrant
officer was presented the Legion
Of Merit, fourth highest award
av ailable to service men.
Chief Warrant Officer Frank
Sperl of the AAA board was called
before Brig. Gen Cortland Van R.
Schuyler. commanding general of
the training center, and received
the award for exceptionally meri-
torious conduct in performance of
outstanding services.
Sperl, a veteran Of IA years in
the Army, has conducted many
arti-aircraft experiments, some OF
which have been adopted for ap-
rl1cation in all theaters of war.
In the morning the Governor s
Iarty was taken on tour OF the
gun parks and the horizontal fir
ing range. The visitors had lunch
at the officers club and the Gov
error spoke briefly.
The Governor and t party
made the trip from Raleigh and
return by bus.
In the official party was Allstor
Siubbs, the Governors former sec
>retary Adjutant General j. Var
B. Nets, Secretary of State Thao
Rue, State Treasurer Charles
Johnson, Parole: Commissioner
Hathaway Cross. Revenue Com
missioner Edwin Gill, A.A.F. Sea
well, Associate Justice of the SUI
pYeme Court Motor Vehicles Com
missioner T. Boddie Ward, and
R. B. Etheridge, director of the
department of conservation n
development; George Ross P u
state auditor r. G. Deyton, as
/ slstant director CT the budget; c
C. Abernethy. director of the state
turial association Nathan Yelton
comptroller of the state board O
education: R. c. Maxwell, secre
taIy of the state board of cleo
tons, Thomas Creekmore, direc
tt1 of the state bureau OF lnves
tieation; Max d Abernethy, as
s,stant secretary of state; Clifton
; Beckwith and Fl j. Rhodes, as
: fCortinued IN Page Two; Col. /
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American planes apparently
made the shattering attack on the
repeatedly Wavering Axis satellite
nation, and it was indicated that
the target again was the railroad
district which was hit SO hard last
Nov "a by U. S. L:berators Of the
Northwest African command.
The rail yards are a mile from
parliament. scene of fervid Bull
garian deliberations of political
and military import following the
tri-poWer announcement at Teher-
an and tie subsequent closest
unity council among President
Roosevelt, Prime Minister Chur-
chill and the leaders of Turkey,
neighbor OF Bulgaria.
The heavy raid. the third in a
month, began at 11:40 am. and
the capital was under an alert for
two hours OF more, { Budapest. ra-
dio announcement said.
Premier Dobri Rojiiov interrupt
ed a later address to parliament
at 5 pm. asking his legislators
to rise in silent tribute to those
who had died, the Sofia radio said.
The premier was quoted as say
ing there we're material losses"
plus numerous dead. as before. y
Besides The Lloeratol attack late
last month, Mitcnella had attacked
the capital on Nov II These ear
lier bombings had been on more
or less experimental basis. but to-
nights reports indicated that the
war had come il. flili strength tc
Bulgaria POSSIBLY as a result OF
the recent Teheral. t1l-poWer con-
ference which foresha6owed three
way blows on Germany and &C
lions to force Germary's satellites
out of the war
The raiders Wer5 said to have
encountered heavy antl-alrcra1t
fire.
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Maxi Hold On Kriuoi Rog
Escape Route Is Slipping

hind the Bug or Dniester river
lines.
The possibilities for a German
disaster in the Russian break
through from Kremenchug to and
bevond Znamenka are staggering.
They are heightened by Moscow
reports of winter conditions al
readv prevailing over the snow
c1ogged and inadequate highways
Of the southern Ukraine, of all
,,,,+ ono utterly inadequate
ro,,te for retreat already Russian
severed The one remaining es'
osne inc is menaced by Red ar
mics massed near N1erson at tn az
/ CONTINUED on Page l"o' oo'' o.
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WEATHER

FORECASTS
NORTH CAROLINA--Mostly cloudy
and colder Saturday, rain over north
and west portion in forenoon and over
southeast portion in afternoon fair to
partly cloudy and colder Saturday night,
much colder in North portion; Sunday
fair to partly cloudy and continued
cold.
(By Z. S. Weather Bureau
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1870 p. M, yesterday:
TMPERATURE
] 30 am, 60; 1880 am 81; 1880 pm II;
7:30 pm IS.
Maximum IS; Minimum 81; Mean "a:
Norma so.
HUMIDITY
80 am 80; 1880 am 80; /: 80 pm 81;
30 pm IS.
PRECIPITATION
Total for the "a hours ending 7:3e pm,
0.oC inches.
Total since the first of the month, l.26
inches
TIDES FOR TODAY
IRON the Tide Tables published by
L. 6. Coast Guard and Geodetic Sur
vey).
High Low
9:48p 4 lisp
1852 l :34p
Sunrise, 1908 am; Sunset. 5:o3pm;
Moonrise, Pap; Moonset, 6:59a
Cape Fear River stage at Fayetts.
villa. $50 SsAA.
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J bend
Stain noes Fall OF
Important City In
Special Order
VITAL RAIL JUNCTION
$500 Nazis Reported Kill
ed, And q Tanks
Are Destroyed
VITAL RAIL JUNCTION

LONDON, Saturday, Dec. Ii
lY- Russi's second Ukrainian
army has captured namenka in
the Dnieper bend, knocking an i'm
rortant prop from the Germans
easternmost salient to speed west
and south toward other keypoints,
out Moscow admitted today a deep
Nazl penetration in the K l e v
bulge, rolling The Russians back
to point 80 miles east of Koros-
ten.
Znamenka, central rail juno
ton for German reinforcement and
supply for the area, was torn from
.he Germans only after three days
Of man-killing struggle in which
the Nazis dug their tanks into the
ground and defended every street
to the death.
Order of the Day.
Its capture was hailed by spe-
cial order Of the day from Pre-
mier Marshal Joseph Stain, Stress
ing its Importance.
The Moscow midnight communi-
que, recorded by the Soviet mont
ter, gave additional details of the
fighting and told of advances be-
yond the city shat swept up the
rail junction of Khirovka where
the Kirovograd railway joins the
Snela-namenka line a few miles
northwest Of namenka. Another
column took Che banovka. 50 miles
north of Krivoi Rog.
About 1.500 Germans were kill
ed, % tanks destroyed and many
prisoners. artillery weapons and
stores captured in this fighting in
the last "a hours the communique
said.
Final Campaign
The final campaign for Znamen-
ka began when Russian tanks
penetrated German lines and cut
communicat tons. simultaneously
infantry assaulted the enemy
frontally. The Germans fir e d
from their dug-'n tanks and sent
out waves of counter-attacks.
'Silencing enemy fire and re-
pulsing his coun!er-attacks Soviet
troops broke into the town and re-
gained street after street from the
enemy. Last night dec. 9-10) our
troops completely liberated tn e
town and railway junction of Ina
rnenka from the German fascist
invaders.
Raising their sights, the Rus
SLAMS pushed on toward Kirovograd
dislodging the Germans from II
populated places and sending them
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
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PLANNING BOARD
HOLDS MEETING
Surburbanites Say They
Are Ready To Accept
Reasonable Plan

The consensus Of opinion among
a group of 90 representative cltl-
zens from suburban areas invited
to discuss extension of city linn
it's with the City Planning Board
Friday was that suburban resi-
dents would be willing to accept
reasonable plan in which the
people themselves had participant
ed.
The City Planning Board re
quested that the existing commit
tee representing suburbanltes,
which was elected last year and
of which Richard Rogers is chair
man. appoint a committee OF five
to meet with the city board for
discussions of various aspects OF
extension.
H. r. Emory, chairman of the
planning board, in opening the
meeting explained that the board
will undertake to formulate a
master plan for improving the
City of Wilmington and that the
basic factor in formulating such
a plan will be a thorough under
standing of suburbanites' attitude
toward the inclusion IN the city
limits. AS the first step IN form
ulsting the plan, he SAID. repre-
sentative citizens were asked te
consult with the board 50 thai
communities may voice their opln
ions.
Mayor Bruce Cameron recon-
mended to the group that eacf
suburb draw up resume Of
what it might need in the way Of
paving, lights, parkways, sewers
and other facilities and present
this to the planning board for con
sideration. The greatest need Of
Wilmington, the Mayor said, is
for citizens of the suburbs to AID
in city government. Population
statistics do not reflect the true
status of the town, he added, but
the combined efforts of all will be
reflected in many advantages such
as parks, streets, recreation ia.
cilities and port development
which is intimately tied up with
city expansion. Any possible plan
that may be evolved, Mr.. Gamer
on said, should be on progress.
i've basis taking in only developed
property and not undevelopeo
Continued on Page Five; Col. s
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LIQUOR SHORTAGE
IS BEING PROBED
Testimony That ll7,OO0,-
900 Gallons In Stor-
age Is Presented

WASHINGTON, Dec. TO- Up -
Quick tax action to force millions
Of gallons of whisky out of ware
houses, and relaxation of WPB
rules to permit distillers to manu-
facture liquor five days each
month were urged tonight by the
chairman OF Senate committee
investigating current liquor short
ages.
Senator Van Mugs %. Ind.)
made these personal recommended
lions after hearing testimony that
bonded warehouses re bullying
with 117,OOO,O0O gallons of whisky
and that there is widespread
boarding. all down the line from
distillery to consumer. The hear
Ing also produced charges that
black market operations are rife
and that state-owned liquor stores
are getting less than others.
Asserting that Canadian brewer
les are being permitted to oper-
ate on a rotating schedule which
permits them to manufacture whis-
Ky for three weeks and then re-
turn to war alcohol production.
Van Mugs said he thought Amer
lean firms should be allowed five
days each month to turn out pc.
| tables. (They now are devoted
wholly to war production).
He told reporters he was con-
vinced that if this measure were
linked with an immediate tax on
distilled spirits which have been
in warehouses four years or more,
whisky would come back into the
market in quantity. At present
the tax applies after eight years
in storage.
Van Mugs voiced these observa
tons:
l. That distillers are "arbitrar
ily setting aside 100. 000,0G0 gallon.
of bonded whisky for postwar pur
poses.
2-Liquor 'hoarding' by distil
lers. wholesalers retailers and in
dividuals-' many of them person:
who never drink DROPS con
tributing to a ''black market"
Van Mugs registered his com
rent tax controls
plants during a recital by Stew
art Berkshire. deputy commission
err of internal revenue. Of govern
men tax controls.
Berkshire furnished the figure
showing that there is $4,000. OO'
gallons OF whisky from four tt
eight years old in bonded ware
houses.
Because the government doe
net compel distillers to pay tn
S. a gallon tax on 1O0-proof whisk.
until the liquor is Withdrawn o
mas been in storage eight years
Senator Ferguson (R.-Mich.) con
Continued on Page Five; Col. 3