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Evening star., 1943-03-30
New Allied Shipping
Declared Far Above
Losses in 8 Months
Admiralty Chief Soys
Navy Is BottIing Hard
Against Sub Menace
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 30.-A. v. Alex
ander, first lord of the Admiralty,
said at the Guildhall today that new
shipping tonnage produced by the
Allies in the last eight months ex-
ceeded losses by "a good deal more
than 2,000, 900 TONS"
Calling the U-boat ''the most
deadly menace Of ALL" Mr.. Alexan-
der said the Axis had a very large
number" of submarines at sea de-
spite attacks on the enemy's build
ing yards and operational bases.
''In the last six months there
never has been single day in which
one or more attacks has not been
delivered on U-boats" by the Royal
Navy, he said, adding that very
heavy losses" were being inflicted
on the underseas fleets.
Naxi Claims Inflated"
Although admitting that Allied
losses had been both serious and
heavy" he said "Nazi claims are al
ways inflated" and in the next few
months the Allied fleet of escort
ships built on both sides of the
Atlantic would increase rapidly.
British light naval forces con-
sisting Of motor launches, motor tor
pedo boats and motor gunboats were
now numbered in the hundreds in
each of these sections, Mr.. Alexan-
der said, and British losses Of sub
marines had been more than re-
placed"
So many mines have been de-
stroyed by British mine sweepers, he
added, that If every one of them
had sunk one of our merchant ships
they would have destroyed the whole
of the British merchant marine"
Nazis Increase Sub Output.
Meanwhile, a foreign diplomatic
source In London reported from his
contacts inside Axis lines that Ger
many had decided to increase great
ly her efforts at production of sub
marines as well as guns, tanks and
transport equipment.
This source said Gen. Walther Won
Unruh, directing Germany's man
power pool; Fritz Sauckel, the Ger
man labor dictator; Walther Funk,
Minister of Economics; Robert Ley,
labor leader, and others had decided
at a conference last week to grant
an increase of "a to 28 per cent in
the manpower allotted to submarine
production.
Increases of IS per cent for rail-
way cars and locomotives and Is per
cent for guns and tanks also was
decided ON, this source said.
He reported that airplane produc-
ton goals would remain at around
2,400 planes a month, although the
Reich has been able to produce less
than 1000 a month recently. Sub
marine production had been around
20 a month, this source added.
Evening star., 1943-03-30

North does not have q sound OPEN
ing bid at love score and with his
side on score he certainly should
not open. Doing so runs the two
fold danger of having his partner
keep the bidding afloat with light
hand because 1t takes so little to
get the game and of egging the
opponents into defensive bidding
which will turn out to be not as
defensive as they might think.
West opened the spade three and
dummy's king fell to Easts ace.
East quite correctly returned q low
trump and when South's eight held
he led another spade. West jumped
up with the jack in order to beat
the dummy. East couldn't over
take without setting up South's
nine. If he had done so and re-
turned another trump, South would
win with the jack, cash the spade
nine, ruff spade with dummy's
heart ace and win two more hearts
and the club ace.
Letting Vests jack hold proved
equally fruitless. Dummy's ace won
the diamond shift and South
crossed to his club ace, ruffed a
spade in dummy, ruffed a diamond
to his hand and trumped his last
spade with dummy's ace After
that two heart tricks brought home
the contract and the rubber.
West had every reason to believe
his partner had the spade queen.
If declarer had held it he would
hardly have put dummy's king on
the first trick or later led to the
singleton 10. If West had ducked
and East had won the second spade
another trump lead would leave
declarer unable to win more than
seven tricks.
Yesterday you were Howard
Schenken's partner and, with the
opponents vulnerable, you held:
AK1O94
2J3
HA102
&A943
The bidding:
Lightner Schenken Jacoby You
IA Pass Pass INT
Pass 2NT Pass co
Answer-Three no-trump. Your
partners raise shows a fairly good
hand. Your no-trump bid was not
forcing and with Just a little
strength your partner would have
passed.
Score 100 per cent for three no.
trump, so per cent for pass.
Question No. 1886.
Today you hold the same hand
but the bidding is different:
! Lightner Schenken Jacoby You
a Pass Pass INT
Dbl. Pass Pass CD
What do you bid? Answer to-
morrow
released by the Bell Syndicate, Incl
Evening star., 1943-03-30

boy Hannibal was told to swear
that he would treat Rome as an
enemy all through his life. The
order, twas said, came from his
father.
Whether or not the legend is
true, it is certain that Hannibal
was told many things against Rome
during his boyhood. Much of his
time in that period was spent with
soldiers, learning the ways of war.
When he reached young manhood.
he felt himself a soldier with the
duty of making war on Rome.
The Romans, on their side, were
bitter enemies of Carthage. They
wanted to spread their power over
Spain and over the part of Africa
now called Tunisia. Carthage, which
had been a center of sea power,
stood in their way.
The Romans had shown less skill
in sea fighting than on land. In
battles on land, the Romans usu-
ally came out victors. There was a
question whether the soldiers of
Carthage would dare to challenge
Rome on the continent of Europe.
Would they fearfully stay in Car
thage lin the midst of what we now
call Tunisia) or would they strike
across the sea? Would they wait.
perhaps, until Rome built up COM
plete control of the sea-?
Hannibal was the man who was
to answer those questions. At the
age of Is he became the chief gen.
eral of Carthage, following the death
of his father. Hardly had he taken
over power before he ordered the
first steps of drive on Rome. He
struck through Spain, and marched
with his soldiers in the direction
of Northern Italy.
Evening star., 1943-03-30
Uncle Roy's Corner

In history we read about "the
Punic wars" The name "Punic"
came from the Latin language. and
its meaning Is "Carthaginian."
The Carthaginian, or Pune, wars
were fought between Carthage and
Rome. They lasted for 118 years.
There were periods Of peace between
the three main wars, but there
were 43 years of actual fighting.
Dropping into. the midst of the
Punic wars, we find Hannibal, one
Of the most skillful generals Of his
tory. He it was who led the armies
of Carthage in the second Punic war.
The father of Hannibal also was
a general and an enemy of Rome
Legend says that as an 8-year -old
Evening star., 1943-03-30
Lodging Conference Called

The War Hospitality Committee
for the District announces "lodg-
ing conference" to be held at the
Federation of Churches Offices at 8
pm. tomorrow. Methods for a bet
ter handling of the servicemen's
sleeping problems will be discussed.
Evening star., 1943-03-30
Winning Contract
BY THE FOUR ACES. i

Beat the Dummy
The defender who beat the dummy
in this deal also beat himself.
North dealer.
Both sides vulnerable
North-South 40 on score.
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AJ853 ~ AAQ6
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+ Q10S3 Axe
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The bidding:
North East South West
10 Pass ~ Pass
l Mt Pass - Pass
20 Pass Pass Pass
Evening star., 1943-03-30
1~eA< oa4

II you want free copy Of the illus
trated leafet. Your Body at Work"
send self addressed envelope bearing
5-cent stamp to Uncle Ray in care
of The Evening Star - :
Read Uncle Ray in The Junior Star
EDery Sunday.
Don't fire till you see the whites
of their eyes. But you may buy War
bonds now. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-19
OFFICERS ARREST
SAILOR and WIFE
Negroes Face Charges As
Result OF Disturbance
On Tide Water Bus

Disorderly conduct on the part
Of Negro sailor home on leave
resulted in the arrest of the man
and his wife on three charges
disorderly conduct, resisting ar
rest and the knitting Of a city po-
lice officer-and the embarrass
ment of a loaded bus of Whining
tonians Saturday afternoon.
The Negro. Ships Cook James
Williams, native of Wilmington, is
said to have engaged in an argu-
ment with woman bus driver.
and was ordered off at the corner
of Second and Princess street,
whereupon the sailors wife. Laura
Williams, took a hand in the pro-
ceedings.
Officers W. ]. Mullis and w. R.
Bradshaw. called to the scene,
placed the couple under arrest.
Both resisted. and the Negro wo-
man flashed a large knife and
gashed Officer Mullis' right hand.
The sailor, according to officers,
is stationed at the Great Lakes
Naval Training Station, and is
home on regulation leave. OBJ
scene language on his part is said
to have started the disturbance on
the bus.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-19
BY RICHARD G. MASSOCK
Former Chief of the Rome Bureau
of The Associated Press

OF Inc Associated FreSS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18-R-
The purported speech of Musso-
lini that came over the radio this
afternoon sounded like Mussolini
and yet it didn't-much.
The voice had the same raucouS
tonal qualities of that which l last
heard announce Italy's declaration
of war against the United States
on the afternoon of December II,
1941.
Then I was standing at short
distance from Mussolini's balcony
in Rome's Piazza Venezia and the
voice came roaring out of loud
speaker horns directly over him.
Today l listened at radio loud
speaker and headphones, alter
nately, more than 5000 miles away
from the broadcaster.
Monitors of the Federal Com
munications Commission who have
listened to Mussolini's speeches at
the same radio post for several
years said categorically that the
voice today was his, that it sound
cd as it had before.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-19
AMERICANS MAKE
VISIT TO ROME
CONTINUED From Page One)

course of events since the Italian
armistice announcement.
The officers, who voluntarily car
ried out their dangerous assign
ment in the full knowledge that dis
Govern would have meant certain
execution by the Germans were
Brig. Gen. Maxwell Taylor, a
handsome. 42-year-old West Point
graduate. formerly of Kansas City,
Mo-, and Col. William Tudor Gard
iner. SO, a former governor of
Maine.
They left Palermo, Sicily, in a
British PIT boat and made rendez-
vcrs at sea with an Italianl cor
vette, on which they were greeted
by an Italian admiral who landed
them one evening last week south
o. ~o'oe.
1t was agreed that. to divert
suspicion from onlookers, they
would be treated as if they were
American airmen picked up from
a wrecked plane in the Mediter-
ranean. And on their arrival at
Gaeta they hurried down the gang
blank into a waiting Navy limous-
inc, while groups of Italian sailors
stood at the docks and watched in
terestedly.
Driving a few miles into the
country, the car turned into a tree
lined lane and stopped sharply. A
few feet ahead was another car
with frosted glass windows.
Taylor, Gardiner and the escort
ing officer quickly climbed into
the second car.
During the two hour drive to
Rome Taylor spotted only four
German soldiers but noted many
signs pointing off the main roads
to German Establishments.
Just before nj -ltfall, they reach
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-19
u. S. DEVELOPS NEW
SHORT-TRIP BOMBERS
Continued From Page One)

have to travel will be far less and
the risks proportionately reduced. "
The distance to many critical
targets both in Germany and
France will be cut as much as
half, increasing the potential bomb
load proportionately.
On Sept. 6 British-based Fortres-
ses had to fly some 500 miles to
bomb Stuttgart. From northern It.
ally Stuttgart is only $50 miles. Mu-
Mich, which the RAR hit the same
night, is even a shorter haul.
Other industrial centers such as
Strasbourg and Lyon will be
brought equally closer. From north
ern Italy the former Austrian cap
ital of Vienna is only 400 miles.
Shorter trips also will permit
better fighter escort, which in turn
means that speed, now resorted to
for protection, may be sacrificed
in favor of bigger bomb loads.
For Victory, for our bows. for
big returns on your investment
!. buy more War Bonds nowI
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-19
Obituaries
D. H. MALPASS

Funeral services for D. H. NAL
pass, 55-year-old city street en-
ploye who was killed at no n
Thursday when he fell from a
tree, were conducted at o'clock
Saturday afternoon at the late res
idence, 1910 South Sixth street.
Burial was in Oakdale cemetery.
Active pallbearers were Harlee
Smith, Ounce Russell, Clarence
Wilson, D. c. Howard, J. L. Jack
son and Henry Davis. Honorary
pallbearers were j; C. Long, ST.,
J. R. Benson, J. A. Loughlin, Joe
Crimson, L. L. Wood, George Nc
Hayden Joe Curtis, c. Y. Milton
and A. r. AppleWhite.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-19
ADMIRAL STANDBY
RETURNING TON {
CONTINUED From Page ou.,

cided to hold a conference NJ t..
eign ministers at Moscow, "a 'Vi'
Meanwhile, the possibility =,
Secretary of State Cordell Hin VI
tending such a conference with a. at
eign ministers Vyacheslav M nj W.T.,
and Anthony Eden remained '; !.
doubt. III
Standby, who went to Mo,,,..
as ambassador in March, 1912, crs
ated something of a furore I Iss,
winter when he declared that ss
Russian people were not being ir'
formed of the amount Of lend ,L
lease help America was serdin,
their government.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-19
Pictorial Display Or
Work OF Churches !
Wartime Planned I

A pictorial display of the
Christian churches in wart;,
ain will be on exhibit Sur, d.
ming in the Ladies par -.
First Presbyterian CHI p, o..
Mary Elizabeth Past, ire,
Religious Education, I'D
day. An informal soci ss ~.
with refreshments wi
lowing the evening c -.,..
in connection with tn xi
The display is en- ,rs
large book with a ac5r s
which propels the pages Al
ally. 1t was received by the CO..
as a loan for exhibition ~ "a, v
mlngton from the British Intorn W
ton Services, in New Yor 1,''0in
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-19
CHRISTIAN AND MISSIONARY
ALLIANCE

Evangelistic Service will be
held each Sunday evening in
the Andrews Mortuary chapel
Third and Red Cross streets,
at p. M, the pastor, the
Rev. w. G. Hurni, will bring
the message and his topic will
be, "Absolute Freedom. The
public is invited.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-19
MRS. Myrtle w. GEORGE

Funeral services for Mrs. Myrtle
Winifred George, IS, who died at
$50 am. Friday at her home.
1919 South Fourth street, after a
short illness, will be held at pm.
Sunday afternoon at Harrell's flu
neral home. The Rev. P. L. Clark
of Burgaw, will officiate.
Interment will follow in III e
George family cemetery near
Rocky oint.
Survivors are three daughters,
Mrs. A. ]. HARRISON, Mrs. R. P.
Pridgen and Mrs. j. j. Abbott;
and three sons, w. E. George, c..
G. George and L. F. George.
Active pallbearers will be: Ray
mond Best, C. c. Wilson, D. w.
Holly, Jesse Mitchell, Boney Will
son and Leslie Scott. Honorary
pallbearers will be: DR.. Murchi-
son, ]. F. Peay, DR.. Taylor, Dana
Bowen, Lucius George and Mar
shall Peterson.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-19
FOOD STOLEN

Addie Barnes, Negro, report
ed to police late Friday night
that while she was away from
home, GIG North Seventh St.,
someone entered her residence
by breaking the glass in a rear
window and had tried to pry
open a trunk in the upstairs.
The attempt to break in the
trunk had failed, the officers
said, and only articles missing
were some cans of food from
the kitchen.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-19
BOOSTERS STOLEN

Andrew McLamb, 1919 Grace
street, reported Saturday morn
ing to police that someone had
entered his yard during the
night and had stolen IL full
grown ROSTERS, one full grown
hen and eight eight-week-old
chickens.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-19
OPTICS OF STYLE

Women have learned the optics
of style. Vertical lines and pat
terms tend to slenderize; horizon
tai lines tend to flatten out the
human figure. Thin women gen.
orally know that they should not
wear vertically striped patterns.
Plump girls know that bow ties,
now so popular, are not as suit
able to rotundity as are narrow
four-in-hand ties.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-19
TROPICAL STORM
MENACES TEXAS
COASTAL SECTION
Continued From Page 0ne)

"Precauions against dangerous.
ly high tides should be continued
along the middle and upper Texas
coasts and in southern Louisiana.
Hurricane warnings are display
ed from Port O'Connor, Texas, It
Lake Charles, La, and storm
warnings east OF Lake Charles
New Orleans, and south Of POI
O'Connor to Arkansas Pass, Tex
as"
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-19
Wells AVAILABLE

Mrs. Vernon Avery, chairman
of the Red Cross Grey Lady
service, announces the arrival
of the material for the wells.
The women are asked to call
at Red Cross headquarters in
the customhOuse to obtain
their wells.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-19
ALLIES TAKE THREE
ISLANDS OFF NAPLES
Continued From Page One)

possible. Air power, which pulveriz
ed Nazi communi ations and from
line positions and sea power, which
poured a tide of re orves on the
beaches, won it.
Because of this combination,
General Eisenhower has two great
armies surging through the breach
in Hitler's European fortress, with
third in reserve.
Fruits of Victory
These are some of the fruits Of
the weeks savage fighting:
1t. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz's north.
west African air forces have fight
er fields within 10 minutes flight
of Naples.
At least five German divisions
have been badly mauled, sapping
strength which the German army
can i'll afford to lose.
Hundreds of square miles OF
southern Italy now are in Allied
hands and will serve as the base
for the drive north.
The next big German stand GER
tainiy will be before Naples. The
capture of Naples would give the
Allies one of the best and larg-
est seaport: in Italy, through
which thousands of tons of sup
plies could ue funnelled.
Every indication that the Ger
mans mean to defend each foot
of ground in Italy could be seen
in the tactics of Field Marshal
Erwin Rommel and Field Marshal
Gen. Albert Kess lring, but their
tremendous weakness in the air
makes their defeat inevitable.
Hit Nazi Air Power
Four engined Flying Fortresses
and medium Mitchells and Maraud-
ers struck aga n at German air
power yesterday, destroying scores
of enemy fighters and bombers
on the ground in surprise attacks
on air fields near Rome, but en-
countered no opposition in the air.
1t was disclosed officially that
American P-40 Warhawks and RAF'
Spitfires now are operating from
mainland bases esta olished after
the lan1ing of the Fifth Army at
Salerno.
Flying Fortresses hit two air.
dromes at Ciampino and dumped
hundreds of bombs on a group of
Focke-Wulf long-range bombers,
twin-engined Mitchells and Maraud-
ers, alta cking the 2ractica di N"are
field. caused heavy destruction
among more than 10C grounded
planes, including more than 20
Dornier bombers.
American Liberators from the
Middle East again joined in the
aerial offensive with a daylight
attack u the rail junction and
freight yards at Pescara, on the
east coast across from Rome.
Night-flying Wellingtons of the
Raj nd RCAF continued the as
sault after dark, bombing air fields
at Cerveteri and Furbara north
of Rome.
British troops which landed at
laramie remained comparatively
inactive, meanwhile, except for
the strengthening of contact with
other British forces just north of
the instep of the Italian boot.
There were exports from that sec
tor that the retreating Germans
were tain Italian hostages to
ensure good conduct on the part of
civilians in villages held by the
Nazis.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-19
TICKETS

Negro citizens desiring to at
tend the premier showing of
"This Is The Army" may pur-
chase tickets at the office of
the North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance company, 504 Red
Cross St., and the Ritz thea
tire, it was announced yester-
day. The special showing will
be at the Bailey theatre on
Sent. u.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-19
DISCUSSION GROUP

A discussion group will meet
at the USO club at Third and
Grace streets Wednesday night
at 8 o'clock with the session
scheduled to be devoted to the
topic of Culture Effects of Cur
rent Events" The meeting,
which will be presided over by
Arthur McGill, is open to any
servicemen and civilians who
care to attend.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-19
II You
GET Up Nights
You Can't Feel Rluhi

night your rest is broken and it's no wonder
If you feel old and run down before your
time. Functional rather than organic or sys-
may be the cause Of many pains and symp-
toms simply because the kidenys may Sc
tired and not working fast enough in hitter
ing and removing irritating excess acids,
you get up nights or suffer from burning,
scanty or frequent passages, leg pains, back
ache, or swollen ankles, due to non-organio
or non-systemic Kidney and Bladder trou-
prescription called Cystex. Because It has
given such joyous, happy relief in so high
percentage Of such cases, Oyster is sold un-
der guarantee of money back on return Of
tory. Cystex costs only 3se ct druggists. =
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-19
IL DUCE CALLS ON
ITALIANS TO JOIN
NAILS, JAPS AGAIN

eminent radio monitors was to 2
that it was Mussolini's voice,
though somewhat subdued from
his old balcony days in Rome,
and some thought it was from
recording)
Though the speech was general
ly regarded in London as one of
"a man whose prestige is gone
for good" listeners agreed that
the speaker sounded most like the
clustering Duce of old when he
enunciated his four-point program.
This program was offered to re-
store an Italy which the speaker
said had yielded to the hardest
armistice terms known in history"
and now was thrown into a state
of chaos and despair, all its pos
sessions thrown away with the
stroke of a hand"
For yielding to these terms, the
broadcast said, King Vittorio
Emmanuel should be Immediately
'called to account
II am convinced" the speaker
said, that the house of Savoy
prepared and carried out the coup
'etat together with Badoglio as
an accomplish, and all of the cow
ardly generals and some treacher-
GUS members of the Fascist par
ty."
The broadcast thus described
Mussolini's fall on July Is:
1T had happened before in war
and peace that a minister had to
resign, that a general was killed.
1t had, however, never been learn
ed that man who had served
his king absolutely Loyalty for
more than 20 years was arrested
on the steps of the kings private
house, was forced to enter a Red
Cross car. under the pretext OF
wanting to rescue him from con-
spiracy, and was taken from one
barracks to another at great speed
and dinally) to Gran Sasso, &C
cording to plan which provided
for my being handed over to the
enemy"
But in these days of darkest
adversely, in the hands of monarch
and compatriot turned traitor"
the speaker who represented him
self as the former Italian premier
never lost faith in one person,
Adolf Hitler, who would look after
my person as a brother, more
than as comrade."
Then the broadcasters who, lis
teners here noted, had much of
the old staggering, balcony style
OF MusSolini in Fascism's halcyon
day, told of his liberation by the
parachute minions of Hitler.
Revealing the scene of the i'm
prisonment and liberation as the
Gran SasSo, a mountainous region
about rs miles northeast of Rome
which is dotted with luxurious re-
sort hotels, he went on:
Knowing the armistice terms,
l had not the least doubt as to
article II of these terms. l was
hostage. In the night preceding
Sept. II, l said the enemy would
not get hold of me alive. The
clear mountain air held a mood
of expectation. 1t was about 2
p. m. when l saw the first (NazD
parachutist coming down, who
was followed by others resolved
to break any resistance. My
guards realized that and did not
fire.
Everything happened within
five minutes. The iberation-the
enterprise was an example OF the
organization and resolution of the
Germans which will live in his
tory-will in the future become
legendary"
That, he said, ended the chap
ter which might be called my per-
sOnal drama"
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-19
BIRTH ANNOUNCED

Mr.. and Mrs. E. B. LASH
ter, Jr., announce the birth Of
a daughter, Alice Marie, at
Marion Sprunt annex. Mrs.
Lassiter is the former Martha
Copeland of Fremont.