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RESTS
L0NERCAN CASE

NEW YORK, March 29.-RA
Wayne Lonergan's counsel abrupt
1y rested his first degree murder
case today after calling only three
witnesses, one whose testimony
was thrown ou- by the court as
dangerous to the defendant.
Lonergan was not called to the
stand as the defense attempted to
disprove the states assertion that
the 26-year-old playboy battered
and choked to death his heiress
wife, Patricia, IN her bedroom last
Oct. "a.
The lanky RCAF cadet showed
no immediate reaction to the sud-
Gen termination of the defense
case but late~ engaged Defense
Counsel Edward v. Broderick in
a spirited conversation during
which tn attorney vigorously
shook his head as if to say no."
Final arguments by Broderick
and Assistant District Attorney ia.
cob Grumet were scheduled for to-
morrow with general sessions
Judge James Garrett Wallace ex.
pected to charge the jury later in
the day or on Friday.
Testimony stricken from the rec-
ord by Wallace was that Of DR..
Isidor Michel, who said Lonergan
Continued on Page Eight; Col. 81
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RED CROSS FUND
REACHES $6l,673

Red Cross divisional chairmen
and co-chairmen reported a total
of $61, 673.28 at the meetings of
Red Cross workers at campaign
headquarters in the Tide Water
building Wednesday afternoon at
Is o'clock.
Officials expressed the opinion
that the drive, which has been ex-
tended until IL o'clock Saturday
morning., will over-subscribe Will
mington's quota of $4,000.
The last report, which was made
Tuesday, showed total Of 1884,
676.93, collected by campaign
workers.
The first division to reach I'll
per cent Of it's quota is the schools.
Chairman H. M. Roland reports
this division, with a goal of $4,000,
has donated 1920. School execu-
tives, teachers and pupils are re-
Continued on Page Eight; Col. 81
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German Carpetbaggers
Flee Before Red Army

MADRID, March 29.-R-Tens
of thousands OF German carpet
baggers," civilians and officials
who went east for easy plumber
of occupied territories, are swarm.
ing back across the Carpathian
mountains into Hungary to escape
the Red army.
Hungarian and Rumanian
sources in Madrid told of this exc
dus today and of the problems it
is creating for the German defense
of the northeast Balkans.
The German Army has taken
command of the Carpathians, but
German military transport is be-
ing delayed on highways and rail
roads by the panicky flight OF
Nazis who once reveled in soft gov
ernmental jobs or did a roaringly-
profitable business as civilians
requisitioning the wealth of tn e
Ukraine and Poland.
In Hungary itself, dissolution Of
all opposition parties by the new
puppet government gave the Ger.
mans an unexpected problem:
Where to get the manpower to
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REDS PLUNGE ACROSS PRUT
AT 2 POINTS; u. S. BOMBERS
BLAST NAH BASES IN ITALY
BUCOVlNA TAKEN
Russians ia Ike Notable
Gains In Bessarabia
And The Ukraine

LONDON, Thursday, March 80
Up Russian troops st M
ed across the Prut river yesterday
at two points one Of them a
bridge the Germans neglected to
destroy-and ought into the north.
ern and western outskirts Of Ger.
nowitz (CernautD, capital of Puco-
vina, while upstream other units
captured Kolomea, Prut river rail.
way town in the Carpathian foot
hills only 80 miles from Czecho.
Slovakia, Moscow announced.
Other Soviet gains were ANNOUNCE
ed in Bessarabia and the southern
Ukraine, notably the capture Of
Balta.
The Prut crossing, reported by
tonight's Soviet communique, is a
significant victory but does not,
in the Russian view. place the Red
army inside Rumania as yet, since
it is in the portion of Bucovina
coded to Russia by the Rumanians
in 1910.
Kolomea, A. miles up the river
from Czernowitz and on the left
bank, was described by Marshal
Stain, who announced it's fall, as
IAN important stronghold in the
German defenses at the foothills
of the Carpathians. 1t once was
Polish territory.
Both at Kolomea and Czernowitz,
the Russians cut the -Buch-
Arrest railway Capture of Kolomea
represented an 11-rnile gain.
For the third day since reach
ing Rumania's vulnerable borders,
the Red army apparently refrained
deliberately from crossing, and in
stead concentrated much strength
on the task of dismantling the big
German-held area north of Odessa.
The Russians steadily continued
to clear the Germans away from
the railway running southwest
f, ON Pervomisk to the Rumanian
border town of Iasi, evidently seek
ing to prepare the line for their
own use.
The German positions in the
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STILWELL TRAPS
1000 JAPANESE
Caught In Jungle Foot
Hills bringing Mog-
aung Valley

WITH AMERICAN AND CHI
NESE TROOPS IN THE MOG-
AUNG VALLEY, BURMA,
March 28-Delayed) -tR)- About
1000 japanese troops were trapp-
ed today by compact unit Of 1t.
Gen. Joseph W. StilwelPs Chinese
forces which swung through the
jungly foothills fringing the north
eastern part of the Mogaung valley
and cut the Mogaung Road four
miles south of Shaduzup.
The Japanese forces had been
strongly resisting frontal assaults
by the Chinese.
Tie strategy was similar to that
which netted Brig. Gen. Frank D.
MerrilPs American Marauders and
Chinese more than 1000 dead JAP
anese in the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
area during the week ending
March 10.
The Japanese now are caught
in a goose-egg shaped sector north
Continued on Page Twelve; Col. s.
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maintain the Hungarian civil gov
eminent.
Five concentration camps estab-
lished by the gestapo and operated
under the name of the Hungarian
police already are filled with some
10000 Hungarians of almost all
parties, reports here said.
Moreover, the police work has
only begun, for the chaos in the
Hungarian railway system caused
by sabotage has showed the Ger
mans they stepped into wasp's
nest of Hungarian national resent
ment.
Diplomatic eports reaching
Madrid also said desertions from
Hungarian southern army garri-
sons to Tito's Yugoslav partisan
forces were increasing daily.
Notable among deserters from
key posts in the army and civil
government were said to be thou
sands of Hungarians who had been
handpicked in advance by the Ger
mans to run the country but who
"changed their minds when the
Germans actually took charge.
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0KLAHOMA'S VOTE
CHEERS new DEAL
Democrat Wins Election
In Second District
For Congress
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Democrats took t h I'll t u n
yesterday wednesday, at inter-
preting the returns from a special
congressional election as a victory
on nationwide issues while republi-
cans countered with a cry of
national and state machine pres
sure and said the results would be
different in November.
These were the meanings party
leaders in Washington read into
the election of w. C. Stigler in
the second Oklahoma district,
which held the republican net gain
al two seats in II such house con-
tests since the 1912 elections. With
only one of 800 precincts unreport-
ed, the count was 22,017 for Stigler
and 18,440 for his republican OPP
ponent. e. o. Clark.
Both sides had agreed in adj
vance that the election would be
test of new deal strength.
Meanwhile the movement to
nominate President Roosevelt for
fourth term gained the avowed
support of Daniel j. Tobin, presi-
dent of the AFL Brotherhood of
Teamsters, VINO a year ago was
criticizing certain elements of the
democratic party and saying their
attacks on organized labor
jeopardized political control.
Tobin's endorsement of Roose-
welt for another nomination ap-
peared in the April issue Of his
unions publication 1.-THE Inter
national Teamster." A full-page
picture of the President was pub
lished in the journal over the
words: "Our Candidate"
In the same publication year
ago, Tobin, who was labor adviser
to Mr.. Roosevelt in his three cam
paigns, wrote an article entitled,
1.-The Democratic Party Forgets
How Hungry 1t Used To Be-" In
it he said many southern demo.
Gratis were crucifying labor"
Continued on Page Eight; Col. 81
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CHAPLIN CASE
GOES ON AND ON
Court Refuses To Throw
1t Out And Joan Berry
Friendships Exposed

LOS ANGELES, March 29.-(P)
Unsuccessful in an effort to have
Charlie Chaplin's Mann act case
thrown out of court. the comedian
attorney responded today with tes-
tmony about the past of the gov
ernment's principal witness, a
year-old Joan Berry.
From J. Paul Getty, Tulsa, Okla.
o.. financier, defense attorney Jer-
~ Giesler elected statements that
he knew Miss Berry, that he had
seen her frequently in 1941 and
saw her in Tulsa in November,
1912.
This is the month after she made
trip to New York City upon
which the government bases it
charge of violating the Mann act
GieSler was blocked, however, in
further efforts to introduce testi-
mony about meeting in Browns
vile, Tex, in 1941, and he called
Hans Ruesch, New York writer.
EARLY in 1871 did you see her
frequently?" Jerry Giesler, Chap
Inns attorney, asked after Getty
said he was acquainted with the
M-year-old former protege of the
actor.
Yes" Getty replied after an OBJ
lection by U. S. Attorney Charles
II. Carr had been overruled.
Did you see her in Mexico City
In March, 1912" Giesler asked and
a government objection was sus-
tanned.
Did you see her in Tulsa in
November, 1922"
YES.
Did you see her in Brownsville,
Tex" Giesler began, precipita.
ting another objection by Carr.
Cars objection was sustained,
and after a brief huddle of at.
torneys at the judges bench, Gle.
sler said: '"Take the witness, Mr..
Carr
Reusch had lived in New York.
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Two Important Decisions Reached
In Washington Affecting Manpower
Farm Deferments To Be In
dividual; 4-F Labor
Groups Sought
BY WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST

WASHINGTON, March 29.-tR-
In two major manpower moves,
selective service today scrapped
its measuring rod for deferment
of farm workers, deciding to leave
individual cases to the judgment
Of local draft boards, and House
military subcommittee agreed to
draft legislation authorizing Army
labor battalions of 4-F's.
The Army and Navy joined in
asking legislation under which
4-F's between the ages of 10 and
81 could be directed to go to work
in essential industry at civilian pay
or be indicted into labor battalions
al Army pay but without veterans
benefits.
The request was presented by
Undersecretary of War Robert P.
Patterson and Assistant Navy Sec
rotary Ralph A Bard who asked
prompt action to cope with crit
icaI'' manpower problem. Chair
man Costello O.-Calif.) of the
House group promised that legis-
lation in line with their views
would be drafted during the forth
coming Easter recess.
A plan also was being discussed
to require that a farm worker
classified as 4-F, physically unfit
for military service, continue in
farm work unless given permits
Continued on Page Seven; Col. 81
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North Cardinals War Supply And Facility
Contracts Since June, 1910, Top 81 124, 254, 900

Employment and wage earnings
reached their peak in 1912 when
Army and Navy construction
spread over the state. Beginning
in September, 1910, the staggering
of completion dates on some of
the projects or on phases of con-
st1uction, with the beginning dates
Of new projects, the succeeding
two years saw a peak average en-
pioyment on construction projects
alone of more than $4,000 workers.
In summary report of employ
ment and wages in the construc-
ton field since 1886 "the last de-
preston year" to 1943, the UCC
report S h w e d employment in
creased more than three times,
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bankruptcies, 3 Girls
And Boy, Prematurely
Born In New York Cit,

NEW YORK, March 29.-(R
-Quadruplets, three girls and
boy, were born today at
Sloane hospital for women to
Mrs. Harry Zarief, the hos
pltal announced.
The announcement said the
mother and the babies were
doing Exceptionally WE'LL"
Two of the girls weighed five
pounds each, the third girl four
pounds, IL ounces, and the boy
weighed four pounds, IL oun-
ces, the hospital superintend-
ent's office said.
The physician, DIR. Benjamin
p. Watson, said the babies
were born prematurely, in the
eighth month. and are being
placed in an incubator.
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, Hit Again In
Slew Guinea
~
,BOMED AGAIN
Half Dozen Enemy Bases
Also Bombed In South
west Pacific

LIED HEADQUARTERS,
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Thursday,
March 30 -R- Big Liberators of
the Fifth Army airforce flew hun
dred of miles through squally skies
to attack the seldom-troubled jap
anese base of Hollandia on Dutch
New Guinea early Tuesday morn
ing, bombing through holes in the
clouds. =.
Other units hit half dozen other
Japanese bases, once strongly de-
Tended, and were greeted only by
weak anti-aircraft fire.
Results of the Hollandia raid
were undesirable, as in almost
every recent attack against that
northwestern New Guinea strong
hold. Bad weather hampered all
operations.
Storms, however, failed to keep
the Solomons airforce from its
regular daily visit to the Rabaul
area of New Britain on Monday
or iberators from hitting Timor,
where Penfoei airdrome installat-
ions were set afire in several
places. No aerial interrogation was
encountered anywhere. Lack of air
opposition has become increasing
" common.
The bombing of Rabaul, carried
out by medium and light bombers,
scored on supply dumps at YUMA
pope, Tawui point and Talili pay,
and the communique said Large
explosions and extensive fires were
observed" At least 80 buildings
were destroyed.
In addition to harassing raids
against Hollandia, liberators and
patrol bombers hit Karkar island
off the northeast New Guinea
coast above Madang and also
coastal targets along the mainland.
Destroyers and gunboats shelled
shore installations east of Empress
Aus lis bay. on Bougainvil-e
while light bombers caused heavy
damage in a series of raids there.
Five enemy barges ere sunk or
damaged.
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CHRISTIAN TELLS
ABOUT TAX HIKES
In One Case Increase Will
Amount To 600 Pc. Cent
When April Arrives

Raymond D. Christman, chief
Wilmington zone deputy of the
Internal Revenue department, said
yesterday that tax increases Office
tive April l will, in almost every
case, be doubled and in one case
will be increased 600 per cent
from present rates. This latter
case applies to cabarets, roof gar
dens, and night clubs.
Admission taxes charged at mo-
ton picture shows, dances, ball
games and entertainments of all
kinds, will be increased from the
old rate of one cent on each dime
or fraction thereof, to one cent on
each nickel or major fraction
thereof.
Places charging admission are
required by law to display IN a
conspicuous place a printed or
plainly written sign showing the
admission charge and federal tax.
Mr.. Christman stated that this tax
will be checked carefully by Depu-
ty Collectors Campbell and Wright
Of his office, to ascertain whether
proper records and displays are
maintained.
Initiation and membership fees
will be increased from IL per cent
to 20 per cent. Additional increases
apply to pool tables and bowling
alleys where the tax will go from
$40 to $40 per annum, effective
July l, 1914.
Telegraph, telephone, transporta-
ton, liquor, wine, beer and electrlc
light bulb taxes will also be IN
creased, and he concluded that lew
items heretofore taxable Will es-
cape the new regulations.
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Facility contracts, 1881, 651, 900,
including $44, 1867, 900 foz. industrial
construction and $S36, $4,000 for
non-industrial construction such as
Army, Navy and Marine corps
camps and installations.
Other contracts and ALLEGATIONS
amounted to $e2,939,00O This sum
includes $50, 78e. 900 spent by the
National Housing Agency, $18, 487,-
600 by the Federal Works Agency,
$4,012, 900 by the Civil Aeronautics
authority Of the Department of
Commerce, $S,729,0oo by the Ma
tional Youth Administration and
the U. S. Office of Education, and
S915, 600 by the Reconstruction FL
nance corporation of the Depart
ment of Commerce.
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RALEIGH, March 29-lR-Ma-
jor war supply and facility con-
tracts and ALLEGATIONS to North Car
DINA since June 1910, under the
defense and war construction pro-
grams have totaled more than ST.
124, 1884, 1000, according to figures
compiled by the State Unemploy-
ment Compensation commission.
The UCC report, published in its
quarterly bulletin released today,
gave this compilation of the allo-
cations Though July, 1913:
Army, Navy and Maritime COM
mission supply contracts, $679, 674,-
900. This includes $40, 043, 900 for
aircraft manual ture, 1924, 536, 900
for ships and $25, O95, 900 for mis-
cellaneous contracts.
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NAZI SUPPLY LINE CUT

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
NAPLES, March 29- Up u. S.
bombers, campaigning to smash
German supply lines in northern
Italy, rained explosives on rail
lines in Bolzano, Milan, Turin and
Ancona and also hammered at
port facilities feeding the fighting
fronts, it was announced today.
Liberators and fortresses of the
18th Air Force ranged 300 miles
north of Rome to hit Bolzano, Ma
lin, and Turin, while small for
nation of Liberators hit railroad
yards at Ancona, on the Adriatic,
and medium and fighter bombers
hammered at west coast ports.
It was the 18th consecutive day
that Allied planes had struck at
the German supply lines.
Liberators b m b ed railroad
yards in Milan, through which
passes traffic from Nazi-occupied
Europe to the Fifth Army fronts,
and left rolling stock, nearby in
dustrial buildings and warehouses
in flames. The heaviest concentra-
ton of bombs hit a bottleneck
point in the yards.
The American fliers encounted
neither anti-aircraft fire nor enemy
fighter opposition over Milan,
which had been bombed bare
II hours before by Raj bombers
in their first attack in coordination
with the American bomber fleets.
Photographic interpreters had re-
ported all rail lines from northern
Italy to Rome and to the frontline
areas had been temporarily block
ed by attacks by Allied medium
bombers.
Bolzano, key point on the rail
line from Bremen pass, was bomb
ed by other Liberators. Crews
of a strong formation of Lightnings
that escorted the bonbers said
n1ts blanketed the rail with smoke
and fire.
Enemy fighters attacked in force
there. Liberator gunner staff Sgt.
Frank Wyda, Broad street, St.
Claire. Pa, shot down a Messerch-
mitt-1O9.
Flying Fortress crews reported
heavy damage to the Turin rail-
road yards, where fires were start
ed in warehouses and factories.
Escorted by thunderbolts, they en-
countered intense flax but only a
few enemy aircraft. Turin was last
bombed January 8, when fortresses
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while the yearly payroll jumped
more than 100 per cent.
In 1886, the report said, the aver
age employment in construction
totaled 1880, including all govern
ment projects. and the wages paid
out totaled $9,736,6 75. By 1910 the
average employment had reached
"a, 1853 and the payroll $21, 1854, 561.
However, employment and wages
more than doubled the next year,
with 47,241 employed and wages
totaling $51, 104, 622.
In the peak year Of 1912, the
average employment in construc-
ton was Sc, 400 and the payroll
totaled $92, 1877, $40. From January
Continued on Page Seven; Col. s.
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CONVERSATIONAL Wants
Europe Attack Put Oft

WASHINGTON, March %. Up
Declaring the invasion OF Eu'
rope may cost a million lives,
Rep. Summer GRID demanded to-
day that Congress act to postpone
the attack.
"Who cares whether Europe is
ruled by Hitler or Stalin?' she
asked in a house speech. '"The diff
ferences between these two ambi-
tious tyrants is not worth the life
of a single American boy"
Miss Sumner said congress must
act because "the American PEG,
pie have not been told the facts
about blunders in foreign policy
and war strategy"
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RAIL CENTERS HIT
Enemy Supply Lines North
OF Rome Are Hit
Hard

LONDON, March 90 UP -
The Paris radio said tonight
that the Allies had landed
CONSIDERABLE reinfOrcements
at the Anzio beachhead in
Italy, including heavy artillery
and armor, for a new offen-
i've. Commentator Jean Paquis
added that the offensive els
expected to be preceded by a
powerful air assault"
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Income Tax Collections
For State $3l,854,724

RALEIGH, March 20. - R -
The Department of Revenue, $
Commissioner Advisor Gill said
TODAY state income taxes collect
ed for the fiscal year amounted to
$31, 1854, 724 through March u.
This was an increase of So, $40, :
323 over the same period last year.
North Cardinals fiscal year be-
Gins July 1.
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PONAPE ISLES BOMBED

U S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
March % -tR- A second group
of islands around Ponape, eastern
guardian of Truk in the Caroline
Islands, has been attacked by a
naval bomber, Admiral Chester w.
Nimitz announced today.
The attack, on Pakin island, 10
miles northwest of Ponape, was
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FORECAST

NORTH CAROLINA: Thursday clear
ing and rather cold preceded by show
ers in extreme east portion.
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-08-25
News Exchange Column For
Coolidge Men In The Armed Forces

Tough. The Mccullough boys are
the sons of Mrs. Belle Mccullough.
PVT. ALBERT SOWELL has re-
turned to Sacramento, California,
at the conclusion of a 15-day fur
Tough spent visiting his wife and
family and his parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Sowell. Sowell is in the
Signal Corps.
PVT. BERVIN ROMlNES writes
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. NJ.
Romines, he will soon complete his
basic training at Camp Roberts,
California. and hopes to get fur
Tough home at that time He writes
that he enjoys the Coolidge Exam
iner, which is almost like a letter
from home. Romines has gained
Is pounds since joining the army
and says the "chow at Camp Rob-
erts is swell" He asks to be re-
membered to his Coolidge friends.
ALFRED RAMIREZ, U. S. Navy,
is here on leave from San Diego
to visit his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
F. F. Ramirez. He is a CUHS stu
dent and worked at Geo. Y. Wah
and d & A Market before entering
the service.
PAUL HANNAH, RIM sc, has
recently received a letter from Cpl
Earl Newcomb in which the latter
tells him that he and "Sliver"
John Roche) see each other every
day and have a bet about which
one will get home first, according
to word received by Hannah's par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Hannah,
Sr. All three of the boys are Cool
idge High School students and all