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Evening star., 1943-09-01

mutilated and lying amidst the
broken glass of whisky bottle.
1t. Jones said the bellboy was
married, but was separated from his
wife who lives at Greencastle, Ind,
with their 1-year-old child. He
added that Wellington had received
a medical discharge from the Navy
last fall.
The bellboy told police, 1t. Jones
said, that when he brought the ice
to Corpl. Ridings' room he didn't see
any one, but that a woman's voice
called to him from the bathroom
that he would find a 25-cent tip on
the dresser.
Disclosure of Wolfington's arrest
followed a day in which authorities
indicated for the first time since the
Staying that they were on the way
to solution.
Samuel Blum, deputy Marion
County prosecutor working with
police in the investigation said the
case will be cracked within the next
two or three days, and you can bet
on that" He would not elaborate.
About the same time a blood
Evening star., 1943-09-01
Gen; vandenberg Named
Depfy Chief Of Air Staff
nm La AaxnniataH prar.

BY the Associated Press.
Brig. Gen. Hoyt 8. Vandenberg
just returned from North Africa
where he was chief of staff for Mai
Gen. James H. Doolittle's Northwest
African Strategic Air Force, has
been appointed a deputy chief OF
the air staff in Washington.
Born at Milwaukee January "a
1899, Gen. Vandenberg was a resi-
dent Of Grand Rapids, Mich, when
he was appointed to West Point
where he was graduated in 1923.
Evening star., 1943-09-01

ton and the Canadian Wartime
Prices and Trade Board.
A joint United States-Canadian
announcement in late July indicated
upward adjustment was to COM
pensate for increased costs to paper
mills of obtaining pulpwood, the
material from which paper is made.
Major Canadian producers had
asked for So more ton, while in
March the plea had been for an in
crease of So a ton.
Aggregate paper costs of American
newspapers, on the basis of latest
Evening star., 1943-09-01
BeIIboy Questioned
In Staying Of WAC
In indianapolis Hotel
BY the Associated Press.


INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. Lit.
Noel Jones, city detective, said today
police were questioning Robert Wolf
ington, 23-year-old Claypool Hotel
bellboy, in connection with the slay-
ing in the hotel last Saturday night
of attractive WAC Corpl. Naoma l..
Ridings, 80, of Columbus, Ga.
wellington, charged with vagrancy
and held under IS 900 bond after his
arrest last night, previously had
been quoted by 1t Jones as saying
that he delivered ice to Corpl Rid
ings' room where about two hours
later her half-nude body was found,
Evening star., 1943-09-01

consumption figures from the News
print Association Of Canada, were
boosted by about SIS ,000,0 900 a year
to approximately $215 900 900 by the
new increase.
The $58-a-ton price is the port
price, for standard newsprint.
"Super-standard" newsprint will rise
to $61 so.
Evening star., 1943-09-01
Price Of Newsprint
Is Raised 81 a Ton
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-The second
increase of the year in the price of
newsprint became effective today,
lifting the basic cost of the paper
on which newspapers are printed
to $50 ton or 16 per cent more
than the prewar price.
The latest increase, 81 a ton, was
on top of a previous 81 rise granted
last March l. Both were granted
by the Office of Price Administra-
Evening star., 1943-09-01

stained coat and a pair Of mems
slacks bearing blood traces, found in
a North Illinois street laundry, were
turned over to police on the chance
they might bear on the crime.
EaIlier a robbery motive also was
brought into the case as 1t. Jones
disclosed only 46 cents was found
in Corpl. Ridings' room.
Evening star., 1943-09-01

Every time you lick War savings
stamp you help lick the Axis.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-06
.MARICNY'S LIFE -.
Barred IN COURT
Defendant Remains Calm
Under Attorneys Cut
ting Queries

NASSAU, Bahamas, Nov. 5-R-
The cutting questions OF Attorney
General Eric Hallinan laid bare
Alfred de Marigny's private life
today before the Bahamas Su-
preme Court jury which is trying
him for the murder of Sir Harry
Cakes, his rich father-in-laW.
In a voice seemingly soft, but
razor-sharp with sarcasm, the
white-wigged Crowns attorney sub
jected the poker-faced defendant
to a, merciless, hours-long cross
examination directed at breaking
down his testimony that he was
asleep at home the night the ell
derby Sir Harry was struck on
the head and set afire.
Even as he told intimate de-
tails of his part under Mailman 5
goading, de Marigny remained
calm and sure of himself. his
temper under control.
The handsome husband OF Oakc~
eldest daughter Nancy managed
to parry with some thrusts of his
own while every spectator who
could squeeze into the tiny court
room listened in tense silence TO
the heated exchanges.
Only the insistence of stern Chle1
Justice Sir Oscar Bedford DAILY
and police that traditional British
court decorum be observed kept
the session from being turned into
a circus-like field day. Outside the
courthouse police halted the sale
of soap boxes offered at two shlll-
ings go cents) apiece for use as
seats inside. and officers held back
a crowd.
Sir Oscar barred camp chairs
from the chamber, and permitted
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-06
More Bureaucratic Abuse
IAN Editorial)

The main question has not been whether there is
enough water at Hoods Creek to meet Wilmngton's
quremens but whether it is satfree the year around
When the War Production Board refuses to release
enough material to extend the pipeline to Kings Bluff
on the ground that the Hoods Creek supply is suffci
ent 1t sldesteps the main issue and does Wilmington
disservice.
Apparently it is content to know that water may
flow through the ctys mains at all times and doesr'
give hang if it is nauseating when the rainfall
small and autumna tides are high
Repeated surveys have shown that the only source
OF flowing water adequate for this growing city and
tree from salt is behind the dam at Kings Bluff The
dam offers barrier to SALT however high the tide may
rise or lar up the Cape Fear it may infitrate.
lhere IS no assurance that the water from Hoods
creek Will not become bracksh again it has in the
past. olgns OF salt are plain to see there.
Yet the WPB refuses to attach anv weoht In tho
ctys claim to sat-free water and seems tn think con-
sumers ought to be grateful for any water at all he
Their drinkable or not
Wilmington has been persistently mistreated bv
bureaucrats snce they came into power. It's people
nave been subjected to unjust discrimination in food
and the necessities of life in general They ought to
be used to bureaucratic persecution by now and exner
ence no particular disappointment at this new evidence
OF Washngton's antagonistc attitude, and it NAV be
tnat they so hardened by adversely that the ruling
o water does not shock them Abuses like abscess
sets up It's own immunity, for time
Even So there is good excuse for them to take
it lying down and metaphorically grove under Wash
lngton's lash. When Washington turned thumbs
down on Henry Kaiser he went ahead anyway Will
mngton needs no better example than is offered by
him. Let it go it alone he did and take it's chances
with the bureaucrats They could not defeat him. as
his fleet of ships proves. With equal determination
they cannot beat Wilmington
It would cost less to fight them through the
courts than it does to replace plumbing and boilers
ruined by the salt water the WPB says is good enough
for this benighted community ~.-~aez-s=ar-
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-06

There was bad news for Japan
last night Friday) from Washing
ton as well from the South Pacific,
while Germany reeled under null
tiple blows by land, sea and air.
On top of the Moscow conference
from which was born the vitality
significant Observation-Disclosures
war and peace pact, an Anglo
American = Chinese operatlonal
agreement has been worked out
at Chungking weeks or months
er than had been hoped for in
Washington and London. 1t is de-
sooner than had been hoped for in
definition, to unity United Nations
operations against Japan through
out the whole continent of Asia
from Burma to the Russian bor-
der.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-06
City Council
Planning New
Wttser Battle
5 On OF Fight For
) - Bluff Line
Is Slated
SORTS CONSIDERED
Delegates To Washington
Hearing Return With
New Data

The city council elected to
continue its fight for exten-
sion of the water pipeline to
Kings Bluff Friday at a spe-
cial session when members
voted to appeal the decision
of the War Production Board
which denied Wilmington's
latest plea for materials for
construction of the project.
Appeal To Be Prepared
After considering the reports of
w. B. Campbell, city attorney, CITY
Engineer ]. A. Loughlin and Con-
sulting Engineer W. c. Ilsen, who
returned Friday from a trip to
Washington where they presented
the city's project to the War Pro
duction Board for hearing, the
council instructed Mr.. Campbell to
prepare the appeal to be forwarded
to the Appeals and Review Board
Of WPB.
Mr.. Campbell said Friday the
data would be arranged and the
appeal prepared without delay and
sent to Washington. There is nc
fixed time for action by the board
on the appeal, but Mr.. Campbell
estimated it might take two weeks
for reply to this latest move by
the city.
Meanwhile, city officials an.
rounced plans to compile com
prehensive report on tn entire
pipeline project problem for sub
Continued on Page Five; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-06
FDR ANNOUNCES
CHINESE TALKS
N o m e ntous Conference
May Herald New Drive
On Japanese

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.-(R-1n
momentous conference at Chung
king, American, British and Chi
rese military men have reached
complete agreement on the conduct
and supply of continental oper-
atoms against the Japanese, Pres
ident Roosevelt announced today.
Mr.. Roosevelt told his press-ra-
dio conference that the conference
was extremely successful but he
could not go into details.
He did say that among those at
tending was Admiral Lord Louis
Mountbatten, the Allied supreme
commander in Southeast Asia. This
suggested that the conference was
primarily concerned with coordina-
ton of all forces for the reconquest
of Burma which, it has been made
clear, is the primary task assigned
to Mountbatten who has establish
ed headquarters in India. There
was nothing to indicate, however
whether a move against Burma is
now imminent.
In other discussions of the war,
the president:
1. Indicated that the island-hop'
ping stage of American operations
in the Southwest Pacific is in its
last phases. He said that in at
t. cking Bougainville island n e
American forces are getting set
to knock out Rabaul, the key JAP
anese base in that whole area. Ra-
baul is on New Britain island to
Continued on Page Five; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-06
Gelsenkirchen Rocks
Under errific u. S.
Aerial Bombing Raid

LONDON, Saturday, Nov. 6.
-(R-A great force of Amer
lean heavy bombers-as large
as the record fleet of 700 which
hit Wilhelmshaven Wednesday
bombed Gelsenkirchen, site
of three of the greatest syn
thetic Gil works in Europe,
yesterday, and attacked the
vital railway yards at Muen-
Ster. ~
With a bountiful escort of
Thunderbolts and Lightnings
swelling the American fOrma-
tions to upwards of 1000 planes
the Fortresses and LiberatOrs
pounded the two important
western German cities during
what was apparently one Of
the heaviest attacks ever made
on Germany.
Possible 1000 tons Of bombs
were Ioosed OH the two cities,
to equal the amount dropped
during the raid on Wilhelm
shaven.
Ten heavy bombers, two
medium ones, and five fight
ers were missing from the
days operations, which includ-
ed attacks OIL military targets
in northern France and Bel
GUM.
The attack on Wilhelmshaven
had cost five heavy U. 5.
bOmbers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-06

IVleng, New ireland, and Rabaul,
New Britain.
The largest convoy spotted by
Allied reconnaissance planes in
cluded five heavy cruisers, three
light cruisers, five destroyers, two
corvettes, whaling ship and three
freighters of which one probably
is transport.
General Macarthur said the JAP
anese are trying to retrieve the
situation at Rabaul' where Amer
lean planes in eight raids since
October IL have sunk six destroy
ers. damaged two heavy cruisers,
a destroyer tender, a submarine,
a submarine tender, as wei as
sunk considerable tonnage OF
large merchant vessels. In those
raids, more h n ZOO japanese
planes have been destroyed or
damaged.
These heavy blows have k p
Rabaul largely neutraiized and I'M
able to effectively cope with the
invasion of Bougainville, 26O miles
to the southeast at Empress Au-
gusta bay.
Continued on Page Five; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-06

fend and most effectively develop
the actual institutions which were
founded at this conference.
From now on the choice is TINS
establishment for the peace OF the
world-improved and perfected as
time and circumstances permit
and demand-or chaos, anarchy
and another series of wars. Here
in being as working agreements is
the essential substance OF the
Connally resolution, the Fulbrlght
resolution, the Republican party S
declaration at Mackinac, OF what
Mr. Willkie Governor Dewey. MIR
Hoover have asked for. Those who
would dwell on the differences are
more interested in their own ad'
jctives and punctuation marks
than in realities.
The inner principle of the Mos
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-06
walter Lppman Says:
achievements OF Moscow Conference
Are Beyond Expectations OF W0rld

COW agreement is exceedingly sim
ME It is that Britain, Russia.
China and the United States can
maintain the peace because they
will be, when our enemies are de-
flated and disarmed, the only
powers capable OF waglng great
wars. AS long, then, as they re-
main united to prevent war, mere
can be no great war. Therefore,
M all questions W h i c h concern
them and could divide them, 1ney
have have agreed that they w Il not
cease to seek agreement.
ea ora asks whether they
IL anS aore there is conclusive
were sni1 They did not have to make
answer l,o lL if they did not mean
to live up to them n'
,cont;nued on Page Two; Col. a
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-06

w. " can be said with confidence
o ~la' the achievements of the Mos.
5s @ conference are constructive
WIZ T5sOno the fairest hopes of any
N.Y. NV are are qualified to judge them.
M. Eden, Mr. Molotov and Mr.
r.a ~ nave IN fact done everything
!, "Y Is now possible and all that
h.n ~" necessary. They could not
"" I'VE done more.
h.+ e measure OF their success is
a. mere now exists. not on paper
po,s blueprint but in reality as a
v vns concern, tn e organization
orJ isil VIII end the war, will restore
1--we" LIVER and can maintain the peace
,,l sHce1orth we do not have to spec
sb to.e about plans and to debate
tal '|racl proposals; the fundamen-
viii, question before all men of good
no" IS how they can best de-
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-06
HOSPITAL unit
GETS new BEDS
Impossible To Determine
Exact Date OF Ex-
tension Opening

Beds for equipping the new
three-story addition to James Walk
err Memorial hospital arrived Fri
day and are being unpacked. it
was learned from superintendent
Charles W. Mangum. The beds are
Of the Catch type, complete with
raising and lowering devices.
Although other equipment such
as wheel chairs and dressing car
riages has also arrived within the
last few days, it is still impossible
to determine the definite date of
occupation of the addition since
many items of essential equip
ment are still lacking. Articles
such as sterilizers which require
the use of much critical material
will probably account for delay as
the local institution must await its
turn in delivery of these items.
The switchboard for the annex
lis being installed this week so
that when the building is finally
ready for occupancy it may be
connected with the communication
system of the main building with
out delay. AS materials and equip
nent arrive they will be put into
nlace insofar as possible SO that
occupation of the building will not
be unnecessarily delayed.
The Board of Managers OF the
bosnital met Thursday with re-
nresentatives of the County Com
mission and the City Council for
preliminary discussions of opening
1cor4inued m Page Two; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-06

sign for the final devastating
aerial blasting of Germany.
The big fellows, year and more
under development, may see ac-
ton for special long-range missions
in Europe as the war there comes
to its final crisis. But it seems
unquestionable that they were de-
signed and will be used primarily
to carry the fight to Japan.
This writer more than year
ago was allowed to see one of the
B-29s in hush-hush restricted area
of a major airplane plant. He with
others witnessed tests for WING
elements Of the ship and its land.
ing gear that gave astounding evil
dent of the stauncilness of con-
Continued on Page Five; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-06
Kirke Simpson Says:
News From Washington Bodies Trouble
For Japs While Germany Is Keeling

Bracketed with a Washington dis
signed, by President Roosevelt
American super-bombers - BIG -
is ready for battle action test. The
Chungking agreement takes on
special significance. The undis-
closed but substantially increased
radius of action and 'stepped-up
gun power of the mcnster-hombers
ear-mark them for the Pacific
Asiatic theater, where distances
are the greatest.
Nazi held regions of Europe, in
GLIDING all Germany itself, are
already under Allied fire, from
west and south, that overlaps, the
present Fortress and Liberators,
hereafter to be styled Eight
heavyweights" of the Allied air
armadaS, are adequate by every
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-06
HALFWAY TO ROME
Americans Stream Through
Shattered German
Defenses
BRITISH SLASH AHEAD
M o mt go m ery's Forces
Plunging Toward Main
Supply Area

ALLIED HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Algiers, Nov. 5.-(F
Halfway to Rome from its
bloody Salerno beachhead,
the American Fifth Army
streamed through shattered
German defenses to the flood
ed mouth of the Garigliano
river on the Mediterranean
today, while the Handwriting
British Eighth Army slash
ed on toward the enemy's
main supply lifeline to the
Trigno river sector on the
Adriatic.
The two armies together
overran more than a score of
towns and villages in their
advances yesterday, it was
disclosed at headquarters to-
day.
FIGHTING NEAR VENAFRO
American troops were fighting
on the heights overlooking Venafro,
a central anchor of the NaZis'
collapsed Massico ridge line, and
the city's fall was believed i'm
minent. All along the Fifth Army
front German troops were falling
back under continuous, heavy
pressure toward their next stand
along the Aurunci n1euntain range.
ID. N. B., German news agency,
announced that Nazi troops had
evacuated Venafro)
Hope was revived that Allied
forces would fight their way into
Rome, now only rs miles away, by
Christmas or New Years.
After days of savage fighting,
in which numerous Nazi tank-led
Continued on Page Five; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-06

Between 100000 and 7'ooo'-
900 Chinese are facing starva-
ton. For 6 years China has suf-
fered the devastation Of total
war. Through these 6 years
Chinese undaunted courage has
withstood every onslaught and
has taken a toll Of those VINO
are our enemies. China is an
indispensable ally.
The United China Relief IS
just one of the ~ agencies IN
the Community War Chest of
Wilmington and New Hanover
county.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-06
CITY SURROUNDED
Russians Suddenly Pouncs
Down On Ancient Ca
thedral Town
MANY VILLAGES TAKEN
Priorka Is Captured And
Svyatoshin Also Seiz-
ed In Drive

LONDON, Saturday, Nov.
6. - up - Soviet forces
swarmed down from the
north into the northern and
western suburbs of Kiev to
outflank that historic cathe-
dral city and surround it on
three sides in a major new
Russian drive that broke
through two German defense
lines, Moscow announced to-
day.
Entrenched for more than
a month on a Dnieper river
island a few hundred yards
from the eastern cliffs Of
Kiev, the Russians suddenly
bounced down on the city
from their bridgehead in the
north and in a 16-mile adj
vance in "a hours broke the
German defense lines one af-
ter the other.
A number of strongly for
tiled settlements fell to the
victorious Russians as large
German forces fled, a mid
night bulletin said.
Railway Is Severed
The Russians captured Priorka,
three miles north of Kiev, and then
smashed into Svyatoshin, four
miles to the west, cutting first the
railway to Korosten, 81 miles to
the northwest, then the road to
Zhitomir, 80 miles to the west.
Large enemy forces were rout-
ed,'' said the Moscow midnight
communique supplement recorded
by the Soviet monitor.
'"The enemy is desperately try.
ing to halt the advance Of the So.
Wet troops. He is hastily bringing
up reserves of infantry and tanks
and throwing them into the battle
from the march.
eleven Hitherto counter-atta cks
were repulsed with heavy losses
to them. About 5000 German of.
ficers and men were wiped out"
The Russians said their troops
wrecked % German tanks n d
many guns and trucks in their adj
vance, and in one sector captured
As field guns, 70 mortars, 140 ma
chineguns, nine large supply dumps
and other war material.
The Germans now could escape
, only to the southwest and the city
: appeared doomed as the Russian
: drive gained momentum.
, The Germans were expected to
, begin evacuating the centuries-o
: mother of Russian cities" shortly,
if they have not already begun
their retreat.
, 1.-THE battle for the possession Of
Kiev is now in progress" Berlin
) broadcast had said earlier.
Cleaning up in the south between
the Dnieper river and the Black
Sea. The Russians completely
, cleared the German Fascist invad.
f ers from the territory OF the penin-
) sula south of the Dnieper delta"
, the conmunique said.
Thirty towns and hamlets were
taken back by the Soviet troops
t who now were opposite the mouth
of the Bug river 30 miles due south
, of Nikolaev and so miles across
the Black Sea from Odessa. East
of this position, where the Dnieper
comes down from its wide bend,
Continued on Page Five; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-06
PUBLIC IS URGED
T0FOLLOW LANES
Chief OF Police Calls On
Drivers To Obey Traf:-
fic Rules

Police Chief c. H. Casteen Fri
day afternoon called on citizens
of Wilmington to cooperate in re-
ducing traffic hazards by prop
erly using the traffic lanes on
city streets.
The lanes, the chief pointed out.
are plainly marked off by white
lines painted onto the surface OF
the pavement. The purpose of the
lanes is to eliminate traffic haz-
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