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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-21
PARTISANS SMASH
into NAN Line
Berlin Communique Ad-
mits Yugoslavs Fight
ing Is Grim

LONDON. Dec. 2O.-Cp-In thu
third week of major fighting alons
Cernany's Balkan flank. the Yu
ooslav partisan army cut heavily
into the German forces tonieht
and a Berlin communique for the
first time frankly characterized
+he action as grim battles ir
which 1903 fresh Yugoslav casual.
ties we're claimed in eastern Bos.
MIA alone.
The German high command
which persistently had sought to
present the weighty resistance Of
Marshal Josip Broz's CTito's) for.
ces as mere rahble-sniping, took a
wholly changed tone of gravity in
asserting that more than 3 O00
partisans had been killed and 2. 66S
taken prisoner in late fighting.
This Nazi official view followed
fine defeat last week of the sixth
and heaviest of series of German
offensives hurled at the well-organ-
lied partisans. Only Saturday
Perrin had reported $3.50 Yugo-
slav losses for the first half of De-
cember 2,198 killed and 3.341
captured.
Tito's columns, carrying forward
one of the most significant actions
in Europe with Allied air and ma
val support still gathering force
over the Adriatic, were slogging
ahead in snow and other bitter
terrain of which the German com
nand itself complained.
The Yugoslav bulletin today was
more general than of late. telling
Of fighting of undiminished feroci-
ty not only in Bosnia but in the
border areas of Montenegro-Serbia
and up into Croatia, and declaring
that the Germans were suffering
heavy losses
In one province alone the parti-
sans killed 1,240 Germans and de-
stroyed so locomotives and 297
trucks in the last six months the
communique said.
Information issued at the same
time by Yugoslav authorities in
Cairo told of the progressive de-
struction of German communica-
tons, the cutting of three more
railroad lines.
Supporting air attacks from Al
lied planes of the Mediterranean
theater were heavy and were be-
coming overlapping assaults init
mately connected with the fight
ing in Italy Itself. Allied airmen
struck at the big Yugoslav harbor
fsolit and the island of Pasman,
which lies in a chain below the
German supply center of Rune.
Slipping in the Adriatic also was
n0;,-7SeI
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Recorded, Musical
Program Is Enjoyed

The record program of Christ
mas music which is being present
ed each evening at 7:30 from the
third floor of the Morris Plan
Bank building by the USO attract
ed considerable attention Sunday
and Monday evenings.
These programs will be contlnu-
ed Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday evenings. On Friday
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COLLISION

A couple driven by w. ii.
Denming and a truck Of the
North Smith Coal company
driven by Henry Hodge, Negro,
collided early Monday after
noon at Church and Seventh
streets damaging both vehicles
and a fence. Both men were
arrested and charged with fast
and reckless operation.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-21
BOOKMOBILE

In view of the fact that the
bookmobile was unable to make
Its rounds the latter part of
last week, the travelling libra
~ will appear at Kure's
Beach at 10 a. m. to 10:45 a.
m. Friday, and at Carolina
Beach at IL a. m. to IL p. m.
on that day.
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w.
HOLLIS ELECTED

At a recent meeting Of the Ex-
ecutive Committee Of the N. c..
Association of superintendent OF
Public Welfare, j. r. Hollis, su-
perintendent of New Hanover
County Welfare department, was
elected Chairman of the Merit
Council and a member of the Leg
islative Committee.
This announcement was receiv-
ed Monday from j. A. Bess, presi-
dent of the state association. who
notified Hollis that he would re-
ceive a list of all committee ap-
pointments as soon as all replies
have been sent in to the state
superintendent office.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-21

evening at 7:30 p. m. the caro,,
ing groups of all USO clubs VIII
gather at the post office and pre-
sent a carol program.
According to Ralph Richards,
IUSO executive in charge OF the
program, the Tuesday evening
program will consist almost en-
tirely of chorus and solo numbers
from Handels messiah.
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when COLDS STRIKE
CUT OUT Waiting

Act promptly, just as Grandma did.
Grandma used mutton suet she medi-
Gated herself orelieve colds tightness
and muscle ache. Today mothers just
rub on Penetro. Modern medication
In a base containing old fashioned NUT
ton suet. Penetro works 2 ways ~ Va
:, soothe colds congestion in nose,
throat (2) Stimulates circulation at
spot where applied. White, stainless.
z9c, double supply 35c. Get Penetro.
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GIFTS WRAPPED

approximately 1900 gifts have
been wrapped for service men
and woman at the Second and
Orange USO as an additional
service to these people at this
time, according to DR.. w. 7.
Osborne, director.
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NEW ANGLE

Librarian loses book Is a
new angle. Usually it's the
careless patrons. An assistant
in the public library was given
a lift from Lake Forest into
town Friday morning, by a
kind stranger. When she
alighted from the car, she left
1.-THE Little Locksmith'' by
Hathaway reposing in the back
seat. II the man who finds
the popular little volume will
turn it in at re library desk,
his further kindness will be
appreciated.
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Briefs
MARRIAGE LICENSE

Marriage Licenses were Is
sued Monday by the New Han
over County Registrar OF
Deeds to, Guido ]. Marcel, OF
Fort Fisher, and Anna A.
Tamoshumas, Detroit, Mich;
Staff Sgt. Edwin M. Filing
ton, Fort Fisher, and Marie
Hilton, Maceland, KY; Major
James M. Edmunds, Camp
Davis, and Margaret Rhodes
Duffey, Wilmington.
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MEETING CANCELLED

The Rev. j. F. Herbert,
president Of the Wilmington
Inter-racial Ministerial alliance,
has announced that the meet
ing of the association planned
for Tuesday has been Cancelled.
The Rev. Herbert stated that no
meeting of the alliance will be
held until the regular meeting
which has been planned to con-
vene in January.
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CHRISTMAS DANCE

The 474th A. w. Battalion will
hold their Christmas dance at
Service Club No. 2 at Camp
Davis Wednesday, Dec. ~. All
girls, especially college girls
home for the holidays, are in
vited to meet at the Woodrow
Wilson hut at 1880 p. m. where
buses will take them to the
dance.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-21
CAR STOLEN

A Pontiac coach belonging
to Fire Chief Groom was stOl-
en- from the. back yard OF
Fire Headquarters sometime
Saturday night.
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FIRES EXTINCUISHED

Three automobile fires were ex-
tinguished by City firemen Mon
day, one OF which was a olaze
beneath the hood of a gasollne
truck at the foot of Chestnut
street. Firemen reported little
damage.
Other alarms called the head
quarters company to % Market
street and to the Mauldin Motor
company. Very little damage was
reported.
Slight damage was caused by
blaze at 413 Brunswick street at
1886 pm. which resulted in the
careless use of heater.
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PARTY POSTPONED

The Christmas party of the
Christian Science Church which
was to be held Wednesday
night has been postponed ul-
til further notice.
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DEPOT OPEN

The Bible Book and Tract
depot, 20 North Third street.
will be open from 10 a. m. to
p. m. daily during this week
and until Christmas,
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SERVICE PARTY

The Christmas party for SER
vice mems children will be
held at 3 p. m. Tuesday, Dec.
Fl, at the Woodrow Wilson Hut,
and all children of service men
are invited.
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LITTLE CHAPEL PROGRAM

The Christmas program OF
the Little Chapel on the Board
walk at Wrightsville Beach
will be held Wednesday, Dec.
~, at 1880 p. IN. with a tree
for the children.
The work of the Chapel IS
carried on through the cooper
alton of the First Presbyterian
Church of Wilmington ana
residents of Wrightsvi1le Beacn
and Harbor Island.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-21
JACK SINGER LAUNCHED

WILMINGTON, Calf, Dec. "
Gp-The Liberty ship Jack sing
er, dedicated to the memory OF
newspaper man who died at MS
job OF recording the exploits Oh
war, was launched today at the
California Shipbuilding Corp. yards.
Mark Hellinger, writer and motion
picture producer, christened the
l0,5oo-ton cargo vessel, eulog'zlng
Singers service as exemplary OF
the reporters code: to get the
news accurately and quickly.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-21

Two-t thirds of all that a soldier
eats in a theater of war comes
cut of cans.
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Dogs were used extensively in
World War I by both sides, the
French alone reporting $500
killed and 1,500 missing.
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Wet airmen also knocked out 20
Ma iztanks. '..r
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-07-23

Harold c. Engelman, mayor
of New Baltimore and long a
leader in Macomb county Re-
publican affairs, today came to
the defense of Democratic Sher-
if Jacob F. Theut, and indicated
that efforts to besmirch the sher-
ifs character are the result of
a combination of underworld
and political pressure.
Engelman, in letter ad-
dressed to Gov. Harry F. Kelly
and The Monitor Leader, de-
clared gambling and vice-condi-
tons during Theut's admins
tration TO be greatly improved
over those of his predecessors
in office. He urged all persons
sharing his belief to make their
sentiments publicly known.
In Mount Clemens today Sher-.
if Theut himself probed the
confiscation of a slot-machine at
gasoline station in Warren
township last night and promis-
ed prosecution Of the operators.
At the same time Police Chief
Harold Lanstrs, of ST. Clair
Shores, in whose baliwick JET
ferson Beach center of the
gambling controversy - is To-
Gated, said that he hadn't
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-07-23

Juvenile Delinquency Scars 1872 Per Cent 7wo Year Period

adult absorption in "home
front activities, which fail TO
give children an opportunity to
expend patriotic emotions.
10 Over indulgent parents
who have more money to spend
than ever before.
IA general moral n d
spiritual breakdown" indicating
war takes its toll first in the
family.
l2-Wartime h ange S and
regulations which have bred re-
sentiment among children against
society.
CITE LETHARGY
Is - Community slowness in
recognizing that delinquency
problem exists and a lack of
statewide coordination of cor
receive efforts.
In so counties of the state,
See JUvENILES-Page I
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BY DANIEL DE LUCE

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, July 23-lPl
In the hoarse roar of tanks
and the crunching trea d of
A m eri an infantry filing
through Palermo today, the free
world can hear the opening
strains of dirge for Axis. power
over Europe
Palermo was more than the
sixth largest Italian city.
1t was one of the queenly
ports of the Tyrrhenian Sea.
II was the civilized heart of
Sicily.
II was shielded from attack
as heavily as almost any base
on the Italian peninsula itself.
What happened 10 Palermo /
believe can happen TO any other
Italian city in the weeks and
months 10 come.
The Sicilian campaign proved
these things:
The Italian army fights no
more bravely or skilfully at
home than il did abroad
War WEAKNESS and diScour-
agement run through virtually
all classes of the Italian nation.
American and British gener-
ais know as much about light
ming war today as their Ger
man teachers.
Properly mixed in with vet
Grams, American and British di-
visions that never have seen bat
tie before can be hurled into
action on at least a par with ex
perienced enemy arm les -
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Arthur 6. HIM
Su(tumbs al 46
Ex-City Commissioner
and UndersheriH Decd

Arthur c.. HIM, as, a Mount
c lem ems City Commissioner
from 1888 until l941, died early
today at st. Joseph's hospital af-
ter he underwent a major oper-
alton there late Thursday.
In i'll health for a year, Mr..
HIM was admitted to the hos
pital last May 81 after he suffer-
ed a heart attack. Released 10
days later, he again entered the
hospital at 4;20 p. m. Thursday,
this time TO undergo an emer-
gency operation. He failed to re-
gain consciousness and died at
1910 a. m. today.
Known as art" to hundreds
of city residents, Mr.. HIM long
was county representative of a
bakery concern. He often spon-
sored softball teams in the city
recreation league, frequently
playing himself.
The friends he made as a
salesman and team sponsor made
his first campaign for city office
successful in 1893. He later serv-
ed Sheriff Robert Havel as I'M
dersheriff and once was a Re-
publican candidate for sheriff.
SERVED WELL
Mayor Donald r. Westendorf
today hailed Mr.. HIM as "a good
commissioner who served his city
we'll" Westendorf joined other
city officials in regretting his
death. The county building flag
will fly at half staff Monsay, the
day of the funeral.
Mr.. HIM was a member of
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran
church, of Trinity Mems Club,
of the Metropolitan Club, the
See HfNZ-Page I
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IL PRIMARY FACTORS

LANSING. July % - Up -
The State Corrections Commits
sion, reporting a two-year 1872
per cent increase in juvenile de-
linquency in Michigan. has out
lined l3 causes. most of them
war-born. for Governor Kelly
and local agencies to eradicate.
The Governor Thursday made
public the commissions compi-
lation of statistics and sugges-
tions submitted by 33 public and
private agencies dealing with
child welfare.
The commission said the de-
linquency increase of 1872 per
cent in Michigan from 1910 to
1912. compared with a national
increase of 1873 per cent.
Weak points in the state child
welfare program center around
the much criticized county well
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critics TO grant working permits
to problem pupils, passing on
disciplinary problems 10 en-
ployers.
S. The "illogical" economic
situation which permits 16-year-
old youngsters TO leave school
and earn as much or more in
industry as the teachers under
whom they studied.
g. The breaking of family
ties as a result of Army recruit
ing.
u Immature emotional re-
sponses by teen-age girls who
feel they must make any sacri-
flee asked Of them by soldiers
and sailors.
g. Shorter hool terms,
smaller recreational budgets and
the fact that day-care programs
mostly are limited TO children
OF pre-school age,
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BefuddIed
CUKE CHAMPS CAUSE
NEWSBOY TO RUN
FOR COVER

William Thomas, of 90 Gibbs,
today led Mount Clemens Vic
tory Gardeners in the race to
establish cucumber raising
champion.
Before Thomas proudly ex-
hibited a l0-inch long cucumber,
the Monitor Leader received so
many telephone calls from gar
deners that the harassed editor
deputized an assistant as Long
est Cucumber editor.
Having previously served as
Tallest Sunflower Editor, Slow
est Snail Editor and Biggest Fish
Editor, the Longest Cucumber
editor brings a wealth of ex-
perience TO his new job:
1t all started when r. f. (Doc)
See CUCUMBERS-Page !
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Fight Sugar
Crop Quota CUT
40 Per Cent Slosh
Hit by Curl

The NJ c h igan sugar beet
growing associations o n e d
hands today with western beet
operators in an effort to con-
vince the government that 40
per cent cut of crop quotas
would be disastrous, Chase Curl,
manager of the Franklin Coun-
ty sugar company. said today.
Curl echoed the statement
made yesterday by Erie w. Ry-
berg, ce-president of a Utah
Idaho sugar company, who pre-
dicted complete stoppage of SUI
gar beet operations in the west
if quotas are cut 40 per cent.
Although Curl agreed that it
would be economically unsound
for factories to remain in bust
ness. if such conditions prevail.
he was unable to predict what
the local producers would do.
He said that il would be a
severe blow to Michigan for a
substantial m unit of sugar
beets are produced in the state.
Michigan is the third largest
producer in the country.
At a meeting held in Detroit
yesterday by representatives of
beet growing associations COM
mittee was named to cooperate
with a western committee which
was set up in Denver few
days earlier.
These committees will try TO
prevail upon the federal gov
eminent TO maintain the sugar
beet supply on the present basis.
The normal and present acre
age in the United States is l.
O50. 900 acres. The proposed 1914
planting is for only 100000
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Hates Cops
FIGHTS WARREN TWP.
PATROlMAN FOR
FOURTH TIME

Louie Pavlock, who doesn't
like cops, was free on SIS bond
today following his latest fist
fight with a Warren township
police officer.
Pavlock, who live at 1928
Paige in Warren township
pleaded innocent TO charges
of assault and battery pre-
ferred by Sergt. Alfred Ma
letta, who said he wrestled and
fought the accused man at catch
weights in the township police
booth early today. Trial was set
by Justice Donald j. Parent for
August % at 10 am.
Warren township policemen
just can't understand why Paw
lock doesn't like them. They re-
call the time three years ago
when Pavlock, said TO be a for
mer pugilist, won decision over
Hermon Won Egmond. then a
township patrolman. Won Egg
mond, il is said, found his badge
of authority no defense against
Pavlock's left hook and wound
up with broken nose.
Pavlock latter tussled infor-
mally with former Police Chief
William Romano, according to
Maletta. His bout with Romano
was ruled a draw.
On Sept. IL, 1912. Paylock ex-
tended his dislike for coppers to
include Warren Patrolman Al
Gaskill. According to Gaskill,
Pavlock became involved in a
traffic accident that day and be-
came nasty when Gaskill came
TO police the accident. The re-
sulting fight was ruled a draw
by witnesses and no warrant was
issued for Pavlock's arrest al
though Gaskill sought one.
Maletta's blow by blow and
word by word description of his
fight today with Pavlock fol-
lows:
"Pavlock walked into the sta
See COPS-Page I
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j. !. FIotiIIa
HurIs Shells
Into kiska
Worships Fire
SoIvo otter SoIvo
into Enemy Comp
Nv Tn. Associated Pre-.

United States warships shelled
the Japanese base at Kiska Is
land in the Aleutisns yesterday
for the seventh time this month,
the Navy announced today, and
spokesman indicated that the
attacking force may have in
cluded modern 16-inch-gun bat
tleships.
A communique said heavy
and light surface units" bomb
arded the enemy's last foothold
in the far north Archipelago and
withdrew undlmaged despite
fire from japanese shore bat
teries.
The frequency of recent naval
attacks on the island led TO spec
ulation that the hour might be
near for a borne invasion of
Kiska.
BROADEN SCOPE
In the south. central Pacific,
the Navy said, japanese bomb
ers raided the American base on
Funafuti Island in the Ellice
group and caused some casual
tiles. Two emmy bo-i5ers were
shot down.
American airmen sprang a
surprise on the japanese yester-
day with a destructive raid on
the enemy's main Netherlands
East Indies base at Soerabaja.
1t was the first raid on the
once great Dutch Naval base on
Java since the japanese cap
tured it in March, 1912, and the
longest mission ever flown in the
southwest Pacific.
PERFECT TARGET
Lights were burning brightly
in the city and the dock area was
a scene of busting activity as
the first Liberator bombers
raced in and began planting 500
pound bombs and incendiaries
in the target area. Japanese
ground batteries quickly came
10 life, however. and raised a
heavy but ineffective barrage
All our bombers returned.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
communique today said the in
cendiaries and high explosives
hit an oil refinery, warehouses,
railway installations and a dock.
Towering fires, some of them
visible lao miles away, were
started.
Hits probably were made also
on anti-aircraft batteries be-
cause the defensive fire had
fallen off noticeably by the
time the bombers had completed
their work.
The four-engined warplanes
flew nearly 2,400 miles in the
See PACIFIC-Page
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fare agent system. IL was indi-
Gated by the report.
The commission listed these
13 causes of present day delin-
uuency:
THE WEAK POINTS
Latch key children" left
10 shift for themselves while
their parents worked in indus
try.
q Broken homes, indicated
by a Michigan divorce rate of
one divorce TO every 3.5 mar
riages during five-year Pc
riod.
3 - Conges { on, insanitary
conditions, crowded schools and
inadequate recreational facilities
in areas where families have
crowded together for defense
work.
4-Tendency by school auth
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Youth Sentenced

GRAND RAPIDS. Mich. July
% - Up - Federal Judge Fred
NJ. Raymond yesterday sentenc-
ed Fred Lamprecht. Jr., l7year-
old Carney youth accused OF at
tempting 10 wreck a Chicago e.
Northwestern streamliner- near
Carney July 4, to serve in
Federal institution until his 2lst
birthday.
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Reds Tighten
pincers About
Key Nazi Base
] TO 9 Million
Troops Engaged.
Berlin Reveals

MOSCOW. July % - (P) -
Russian forces crashed through
the last strongly fortified link in
Orel's northern defenses yester-
day on the 10th day of an often
Sive that has cost the Germans
$4,000 killed and 5000 captured,
and closed their pincers tighter
about that city despite desperate
Nazi counterattacks- a Soviet
announcement said today.
Bolkhov. 35 miles above the
city, which Red Army column
racing down from the north had
by passed while driving TO with
in nine miles northeast of Orel,
crumbled before the attackers
and its fall completed the liqui-
dation of strongly fortified dis
tricts" in that direction, the Rus
slams said.
Another Russian column
pounding 10 within IL miles of
the key German defense city
from the east. and a southern
column moving up TO complete
the three headed drive. best back
Nszi tanks and infantry. " con-
tinue steady advance, accord
ing TO the Soviet announcement
Altogether, the Russians said
gains of four TO five miles were
registered in the Orel sector yes
terday while the Germans lost
$500 killed and 80 tanks de-
stroyed or captured. Prisoners
and supplies also were taken, the
Russians declared.
The Russian midnight com
munique which disclosed the
losses in manpower to Hitler's
army during the Today Soviet
offensive. placed German losses
in material destroyed or captur-
ed during the same period at
these figures:
Nine hundred planes, 1,l48
tanks, 1902 guns Of various
calibre, 300 mortsrs, and 400
machineguns.
(The German radio countered
See RUSSIA-Page
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DefenSeS Ready

STOCKHOLM, July % - (P)
- German press reports receiv-
ed here today said that fortified
ton work on Norway's middle
coast. begun three years ago in
anticipation of a possible allied
invasion. was completed recently
when the last large battery of
guns was put into place.