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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-10-25
Life On Leyte For Three Americans
During Jap Occupa tion Narrowing

TACLOBAN,.. LEYTE. ISLAND
PHILIPPINES, Oct. %. * Delay
:edl-tR-It has been. a. miserable
and frightening two and a hall
years for the people Of Leyte since
the Japanese came and particular
ly so for Tacloban's three remain
ing citizens of American. ancestry.
Robert Price, SO, is one Of the
three. His brothSr Joe is another
and Joe Mooney who worked for
the Prices is the third,
The three were Immediately sus-
pected of collision whenever there
was an outbreak Of guerrilla ac-
tivity on Leyte or more recently
whenever there was an American
air attack on the island.
ION every one Of these occas-
IONS" Price said, I'VE would be
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British Pound
Nazis' Holland
Defense Key
TWO COLUMNS MOVING
American First Army
Tries For Attack Position,
Says Commentator.

LONDON, Wednesday, Oct
25.-P)-Lt. Gen. Sir Miles
c. Dempsey's British Second
army fought into the streets
of S Hertogenbosch from
the northeast yesterday and
last night frightened it's iron
grip on the Nazis' defense
key to western Holland as
another spearhead closed in
from the south.
Four columns which originally
advanced on the Dutch cathedral
city and rail center have now form.
ed functions bringing the city OF
$4,000 under seige from the north
east and southeast. Only the South
Willem. canal separates the tw Q
British forces on the east.
In closing On 'S-Hertogenbosch,
the British occupied Hintham, one
mile to the east, st. Micniels Ges-
tel, four miles to the southeast and
several other small Dutch villages
and towns.
A field dispatch declared the
capture of S Hertogenbosch would
imperil the entire German force
estimated at between $4,000 and
70, 900 men in western Holland, and
60 far toward bre aking the
enemy's blockade of the great port
Of Antwerp. The Germans were
reported rushing reserves into. the
area. - z, ss''ss- -
The three-day British offensive
northward from Eindhoven h a d
captured nearly 1900 prisoners and
it appeared tonight that Nazi de-
lenses were crunbling all along
12-mile front. A captured Ger
man colonel admitted the sudden
British offensive h a d taken the
enemy command completely by
surprise.
1.-The Boche has taken a hard
knock" British staff officer told
Associated Press Correspondent
Roger Greene.
The Germans still held the main
business section of S Hertogen-
Bosch, with the South Willems
canal between them and the at
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
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DEWEY UNDERTAKES
VIEW ON CONGRESS

MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. "a In
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey declared
tonight that American participation
in a world peace organization
''must not be subject to reser-
walton that would require our
representative to return to Con-
gress for authority every time he
had to make a decision"
The New York governor, match
ing in general the stand taken by
President Roosevelt in a foreign
policy speech in New York Satur-
day night threw in the following
reservation, with the added decla-
ration that M. Roosevelt has
demonstrated he cannot work
with a Congress of his own party"
obviously Congress, and only
Congress, has the constitutional
power to determine what quota OF
force it will make available and
what discretion it will give our
representative to use that force"
II have not the slightest doubt,
Dewey said in a prepared broad
cast manuscript, that Congress
which is working in partnership
with the President will achieve the
result we all consider essential and
grant adequate power for swift &C.
ton to the American representa-.
tive"
The republican presidential can.
didate accused Mr.. Roosevelt Of
having permitted the shipment to
Japan of cas- much as three mil.
lion barrels a month if oil, the
hearts blood of war, for use again.
st China and for storage against
America" up until four months
before Pearl Harbor.
'Let those who claim to have
exercised great foresight remem-
Der these lessons in history" he
said. "And let us as nation never
forget them
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routed and hauled off to Jail, not
only ourselves, bat our children
and our Filipino wives and
mothers.
II guess we had trials if you
could call them trials. The Japs
would take you upstairs and ask
you a few questions If they
weren't satisfied with the answer
they would beat you and then tie
your hands and feet behind your
back and hang you by the arms
from cross BEAM"
Price showed scars on his wrists.
Once" he continued. Il hung
there for an hour and half All
l would have to do was kick my
feet and would spin around like
a barbecue
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appeared in its 36th issue, pub
lished within the past three days,
republicans here said.
I'VE call upon the chiefs and the
officers of the Spanish Army to
take up arms shoulder by shoulder
with the people against Franco and
falangism, the paper said.
Official German news agencies,
meanwhile. were terming the in.
ternicine clasned along the Pyre-
nees border Franco defense
against "a Red invasion'' + + m
France and reporting that Repub.
lcan thrusts into Spain had been
routed.
Reports from Paris said republi-
can guerrillas, fighting the Franco
forces along the border, were re
cruiting officers Of the regular
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The Prices and Mooney spent
hearty half their time in Jail since
the Japanese. arrived on May 26,
1912 and the rest of the time hid.
ing or working under duress for
the enemy.
The Prices father, Walter Price,
a captain in the American Army
and native of Philadelphia, stayed
in the Philippines after the war in
1893 and in 1911 founded the Leyts
L. Transportation company
which in time became Tacloban's
dominant business and made the
Prices the towns most influential
family.
The elder Price, SO, was taken
to concentration camp in Janu-
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
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Gangsters In France
Loot Supply Truck.

PARIS, Oct. 24.-R)-Unlted
States military pipelines and truck
conveys bound for the front are
being looted of thousands of gal
Ions of gasoline and tons of ra-
lions by black market gangsters,
the Army newspaper Stars and
Stripes reported today, quoting 1t.
Col. Earl R. Chase, chief of the
petrol division of the Normandy
base section at cherbourg.
The racketeers sell the valuable
fuel and food at inflated prices in
Paris and other inland cities, the
paper said.
Chase told the service paper spe-
cial guards have been patroling
and troops stationed along the
lines have been instructed to keep
on the lookout for the gangsters.
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FESTIVAL
ATTENDED BY $500

Approximately $500 persons at
tended the Harvest festival staged
in the Pembroke Jones park by
the City Recreation department. las
night, to see more than $50 chill
dren, representing c m p l tt
cross-section of Wilmington, ir
what is hoped will become an an
nual pageant.
The clear fall night presented a
perfect setting for the scenes which
were staged before background o.
trees and foliage, beneath bright
harvest moon, which added color
to the event.
One of the most attractive scenes
was depicted by the children Of
Hemenway school, who portrayed
harvest time in England with q
horse and cart, loaded with hay
and covered with children who
sang English folk songs.
Jesse A. Reynolds. director of the
Recreation department, said last
night that success of the festival
was due to the cooperation of all
recreational units in the city, and
gave special recognition to Mrs.
Josephine Gallagher, who directed
the pageant, a n q Mrs. Elizabeth
May, general supervisor of the
playground.
Mrs. H. R. Emory, who substi-
tuted at the piano for Mrs. Key
Scales, who was taken i'll, also re-
ceived special commentator from
the recreation director. r-.s
Other music was furnished by the
New Hanover high school band I'm.
der Lieut., Eugene Lacock- and the
glee clubs from the Chestnut street
and HemenWay schools.
Reynolds said no one could as
sumo full credit for the pageant's
success for the city was represent.
ed from Forest Hills to Maffitt Viii
lage, and credit goes to each rec
reational unit, the Girl scouts. Boy
scouts, all public schools, the Hous'
ing authority, Belcher school OF
dancing, and the cooperation Of
parents who made SO many attrac'
tive costumes.
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Wilmingtonians To Get Reconuersion
Preuieu When DR.. R.R.R. Brooks Speaks

Wilmingtonians will be given
their first preview of the recon-
version price-control program to-
day as DR.. Robert R. R. Brooks,
of Washington, chief executive
officer for Price Administrator
Chester Bowles, addresses a luncn-
con gathering of civic club mem
bers this afternoon and speaks
again at a mass meeting in the
New Hanover High school tonight
at s o'clock.
1t will be the first time in the
south that as high an OPA affi-
cial as DR.. Brooks will speak on
this phase of the price program
and he is expected to discuss how
this and all other communities
will benefit from reconversion
price sterilization.
In speaking of DR.. Brooks visit,
state OPA officials yesterday
pointed out that Wilmington is
the first city in the nation to
sponsor a COMMUNICATIVE pro-
gram on price control" They
added that this has been made
possible by the forward spirit and
action of the community's mer-
chants and other business men in
giving the undertaking their
wholehearted support.
Several hundred Wilmingtonians
are expected to attend tonight S
meeting. Officials in charge
stressed the fact that the program
will be of interest to all-busi-
ness men, housewives, employers,
employees and students. So i'm
portant will be DE-. Brooks re-
marks, it was said, that E. H.
Talbert, director of the Column
bia, S. c., district of OPA, will
be present to gather information
to be used in setting up new
policies in, his state. The subject
of DR.. Brooks address will be
Prices For Prosperity
To open the reception this
afternoon, the R. o. T. C. High
school band, under the direction
iof Lieut.. E. J. Laycock, will play
Continued on Page Five; Col. 3,
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Il IN SHIPWRECK
ARE LANDED HERE

SOUTHPORT, Oct. "a Up The
navy department announced to-
Jay that IL survivors from the
mexican freighter Juan Casiano
were bought ashore here Sunday
sl'efnoon after having been res
.uea at sea by d Coast Guard cut
'er Thursday night.
while reports from Mexico City
wiz OF the loss of the ship and
.epofted it had collided with an
Snloenlfied vessel which also may
lave a:t sunk, the Navy department
r Eau 1t had heard nothing of a col
h.s 1t said the ship apparently
Ia. ia. broken in two in the heavy
seaS as hurricane winds swept that
area. ~ ~
Inc cutter sighted flares at 8:1O
y, rIh, and located lifeboat within
~ minutes. Because of the rough
ena, 1t was after 9 pm. before the
t oslef Unanswered beside the life.
sSal n d brought the sailors
'p %d across lines.
Wilmington: anu drought 'e
ch; a4Feuo Santana Teriquez, seconc
vss gunner; Jose Mariscal Rel
49, gunner; Manuel Sanchez An
ca rte1' chief gunner; Juventione
Dor 'elahos Regaldo, first cook
.r. r E r. Estrada, third engine
~, Lrhesto Iniquez, fourth engine
re.s Juan Palma Jimenez, secon,
oilan s' SALVADOR Flores Almado
w., and saloman Perez steward
boy s'S snd Antonio Parrailia, m e S
coo NJ anu Antonio Rosales Marines
were were were slightly injured an,
aosri+1 'aken to Dosher Memoria
9''al herr
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LONDON, Wednesday,, Oct.
25.-R-The German radio
reported early today that Jap
anese planes had launched
large-scale attacks Tuesday
against the American invasion
fleet in Leyte gulf off the Phil
ippines and against a second
battle fleet Gin waters not fur.
Their specified"
"the battle is still going on"
the Nazi broadcast said, quot
ing a Tokyo dispatch, and add
ed, "but no details have yet
been released"
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Soyiiets Make
New Gains In
East Prussia
AnvANCE SLOWS DOWN
Germans Throw Home
Cuard Into Action But
With Little Success

LONDON, Wednesday, Oct
q, P)-The Red Army, bat
tpring ahead against a des'
nerate defense bolstered by
four fresh Nazi tank divi'
sions, dug deeper through the
East Prussian forests yester.
dav, conquering at least Ia
heavily fortified s tr 0 n g
noints on an expanding front
more than IS miles wide and
pressing within six miles OF
the big rail and road hub OF
Gumbinnen.
The Soviet communique, in an
ro1ncing these hard-won gains OF
as much as 10 miles by Gen. Ivan
d CherniakhovsAy's Third White
Russian army, disclosed that a new
thrust threatening East Prussia
from farther southeast had captur-
ed the Polish-border bastion OF
Augstow and so other population
centers on a 20-mile front from
Augustow to SuWalki.
The Russian announcement indi-
Gated that the first great rush OF
Che-niakbovsky's men, which car
RED them more than 20 miles into
the German junkers' homeland,
had slowed down, but that the fren-
y Of fighting had increased.
In single day, it said, 1875 Ger
man tanks and self-propelled. can
non We're. knocked out and more
than 5000 Germans were slain as
the enemy launched counterattacks
repeatedly with armor ard infan-
try.
All were repealed by t h Rus
slams, Moscow said, despite the
swift bolstering of the Nazi line
by the SIS. great Germany" and
Hermann Goering" divisions and
two other armored divisions follow
ing the first Soviet breakthrough.
Captured Germans said they had
orders to throw the Russians out
Of East Prussia at all costs, and
the Soviet communique dwelt on
the stubbornness of t h e defense,
both in East Prussia and around
Augustow in the bloody Suwalki tri-
angle. Augustow fell after the Rus
sans broke through great obstac-
les OF heWn timbers and mines in
the dense forests between Lakes
Necko and Sajno and built RATS
On which they crossed the Bistre
canal into the town.
There and in east Prussia the
russian advances of the day were
OF the slow-grinding powerhouse
variety.
NOW the powerful Soviet mech.
aAlzed army group was moving in.
u position for d new series OF
,afusts against stubbornly-fighting
herman defenders. These included
NOhtlnued on Page Two; Col. l,
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HONORARY DEGREE
FOR ERNIE PYLE

ALBUQUERQUE, NJ. NJ,
Oct. 24.[R-Ernie Pyle, col
umnist and war correspondent,
will receive an honorary de-,
gree Of Doctor Of Letters at
special commencement exer-
cises tomorrow at New Mex
( leo university. =. ~ 7.
Pyle came to his home here
recently to-, rest after serving
!. as a correspondent with the
AEF in Europe. ..,3,.,,
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us. PLANES
ENGAGE FOE
AT 2 POINTS

u. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL
HARBOR, Oct. A-(P-Japanese forces including battle
ships and cruisers sighted moving eastward in the
Sbuyan and Suu in the central Philippines and
attacked by carrier planes of the Third fleet
Adm. Chester w. Nimitz thus tersely announced In
40 word communque the first potential meeting of strong
American and Japanese naval forces since the Npponese
soundly defeated June 10 in the Philippines Sea-
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DEAD IN CRASH

!, SHREVEPORT, La, Oct. "a
R-A four engine army bomber
from the Harvard, Neb., Army Air
Base crashed. two miles south OF
Barksdale Field early today, kill
ing II men, the entire crew.
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Nimitz said further details are
not available. Strictest radio sill.
ence always is necessary for fleet
security when the armadas are
in striking distance.
The working of the communi.
Enemy forces moving east
ward through the Sibuyan and
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FORECAST

Wilmington and vicinity: Partly CLOUDY
and mild.
Temperatures yesterday:
High 70; low Al.
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The Nome nugget., 1944-01-07
PIONEERS INSTALL OFFICERS

At a regular meeting of the Pioneers of Alaska, Igloo No. 1, the Pioneer men and women held joint installation. The installing officers were Past President Jes- sic Lehman and Grand Worthy Vice President A. Polet.
 The new officers installed were president, Tolbert Scott; vice president Albin Poison; secre- tary, A. Rydeen, and for the Pio- neer women, president, Mrs. V. c. Seiffert; vice president, Mrs. Ole Hay, and secretary, Mrs. C. A. H. Hagen.
 Past President Emma Lyle then presented jewels to outgoing President Mrs Pete Olson and Mrs. C. A. H.. Hagen.
 Refreshments and cards fol- lowed. The winners of the Whist prizes were Alice Rydeen, Carrie McLain, and Lyda Rohn, and for the men, w. R. Anderson, A. Po- let and Robert Ledgerwood.
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JUST A SONG
 BY THE FIRE

When friends have gathered before a fireplace and the logs have burned from crackle to em- bers, there comes time in the evening when some one starts a song. It may be a recent hit fresh from the ether or a school song they all know. If they are old friends the chances are more in favor of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" or "Tve Been Working on the Railroad" If they are very old friends then each knows the others favorites and their al- lotted place in the informal se- quence. When the singing ends and the guests have gone, host and hostess sit before the last of the fire and reflect that the world is worth saving after all.
 Quite unconsciously it has ta- ken years of song to make one of those evenings possible. A haunt ing melody heard at a college in- augural may have been stored away in grateful recollection. A familiar hymn may have been thundered forth at the Sunday evening service of an old New England school. A blue-robed fe- male choir may have sung at a memorial service in a New York auditorium. Wherever the sing ing occurred it lifted the spirit and built into the memory tune to be shared with friends some future evening before fire. With thermostats low this com ing winter there should be many such evenings, if wood is avail able.-(New York Herald -Trib- une.)
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But somehow, enough paper was found, and by good luck it is not such thin paper that the print ing on the other side is visible in reverse. It does show through bit, but l did not find reading difficult, and the type is large enough for the average eye to follow it comfortably.
 The division is most logical. In one volume the l4 comedies are segregated; in another the l3 tragedies, and in the third are the seven histories and the delicious oddments. Each vol tune is annotated and furnished with.a a glossary-it seems little strange to me that there is no indication in the books of the source of the notes, but they are scholarly enough for average use and not so copious as to be distraction.
 Minor details are happily worked out. The margins are wide enough so that the pages look comfortable, for one thing. The scenes are not damned too closely together, although to be truthful, there is no great amount of white space wasted. And the books themselves are chunky, but surprisingly light. The three volumes might make a considerable weight in a sol dier's pack, but one volume could be managed without too much trouble.
 I suspect this is the book bar gain of the year
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LITERARY CUIDEPOST
By JOHN SELBY "The Complete Works of Shake speare," in three volumes tMod- ern Library; each S.95).
By JOHN SELBY

For a long time this country has needed another complete Shakespeare" There are a good many of these III existence, but they mostly have one or another of two bad faults-they are either too expensive, or they are too cheap in all senses of the term.
 This year the eager gentelmen who run the Modern Library on Fifty Second street, far from Publishers Row in New York, have outdone themselves. It seems to me that the publication of their three-volume Shake speare is a publishing event of importance, and pretty compe- tent service to the general pub lie. It comes, too, al good time because the woods are full of great many useless books these days in spite of the paper shortage and the seriousness of the world situation.
 In order to present the vast sweep of Shakespeare's genius they have eliminated number of possible publications - only so much paper was available.
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LAYINIA WALLACE YOUNG

Minister and Director-C. W. Erickson
 Friday, 7;3O p. m.-Prayer Week services. Rev. Booker of the Federated church will bring the message.
 Sunday, 11:00 a. m.-Children's service. Anthem by junior choir. 2:30 p. m.Memorial service for Billiken Konianisiak. 7:30 p. m Closing service of Prayer Week Special youth night. Invitation extended to all youths in the community.
 Tuesday, 7:30 p. m.-Northern- CTS at native school.
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JOHN N0RD FACES GAME LAW CHARGE

John H. Nord, Ladd Fiel em- ployee was to be returned to Nome this week by Wild Life Agent Ray Woolford of the Alas ka Game Commission, for trial on a charge of Justification of a resident hunting and fishing li- cense.
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Thursday, 7:15 p. m.-Prayer meeting.
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Subscrie for The Nugget.
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TRADE WITH RUSSIA

The Moscow agreements, the Connally Resolution and Premier Stalin's speech on the October Revolution anniversary have helped diminish the fear of What Russia is going to do" that has perturbed a good many Americans. And a further cause to breathe easy is found in speech made on the occasion of the anniversary by Ernest C.. Roper, Russian specialist in the Department of Commerce.
 MT. Roper made plausible and encouraging prediction of in creased trade between the United States and the Soviet Union aft CT hostilities ceaSe-or perha"- even before. The prospects of such trade augur good nations. For it should be borne in mind that, while RuSsia's military suc- ceSses will command respect and deference at the peace table, Rus sia will also need our help in the early days of peace, and will doubtless try to avoid any diff ference serious enough to imperil that help.
 Much of Russia's best land much of her industry and many of her important cities have been devastated. Property in uncount- ed millions of dollars has been destroyed. Much must be replac- cd as quickly as possible before normal and ordinary life can re sume.
 Mir. Roper mentions such items as machine tools, equipment for oil wells and refineries, electri- cal installations, and manufac- turing plants of all kinds. He also puts forth the possibility that Russia might modify long standing policy and begin inn porting consumers as we'll as producers goods-such things as American automobiles, refriger- ators and vacuum cleaners.
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Russia will naturally trade with other countries, too, and that trade will be welcomed and cultivated. But it is known fact that the United States stands in highest favor with the Soviets among the nations that have helped them toward industrial modernization Russian industry Is modelled on American lines. American engineers, chemists and other experts have made friends with the Russians and have won their respect.
 All this is important in a na- ton where the government runs
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The Nugget, $500 per year.
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1914

business as well as foreign af- fairs. It tends to clear the at mosphere of fear of the Red menace. - Anchorage Times).