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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-02-17
POINTS-FOR-FAT PLAN
is A BIG SUCCESS

Washington - Hard cash does
not mean as much to the average
housewife as extra meat ration
points, the War Production Board
concluded after totaling Deem
Der waste fat collections.
Ever since the fat collection
drive started, butchers have been
paying for fats turned in by
housewives, but the response
was lethargic. On December Is,
the Government began giving two
meat ration points for each pound
of waste fats and discovered that
collections oomed 80 per cent in
the month in comparison with
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-02-17
MILL CREEK CLUB
HAD FINE MEETING

The Mill Creek All club held
a meeting last month when a
number of the parents and other
men and women of the commun-
ity were present. Mr.. R. H.
Grouse discussed ways of using
time and crops to the best adj
vantage.
Mrs. Boney talked on ways of
cooperation in the home. How
to improve home furniture and
other home work.
Mr.. Payne made a talk on All
club work. How it benefits the
public.
The All club members read a
paper on teamwork. Then with
the president leading, all stood
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-02-17
Public To Get Less Canned
Goods; More For Armies

Chicago - Civilians are in for
a 43 per cent cut in canned
fruits and a 10 per cent cut in
canned vegetables this year, a
War Food Administration official
told the Food Professors Conven-
ton this week.
c. w. Kitchen, deputy director
of the office of distribution of the
VIA, said that a new order sign
ed last Friday allots civilians II
million cases of IL canned fruit
items for the 1944-45 season as
against 80 million last year, and
grants them 104 million cases of
IA vegetable items this year as
compared with 1913 million cases
last season.
Kitchen said these figures COM
pared with a civilian use of 81
million cases of fruits and 143
million cases of vegetables in the
1941-42 peak season.
''The projected vegetable sup
ply for civilian distribution in the
coming season." he said, twill be
nearly 40 million cases less than
the quantity consumed in 1941-
AZ, and nearly Is million cases
less than the supply available
during the current season.
can increase in the 1914 pack
above the average of the past
two seasons would mean a larger
quantity for civilian use. Like
wise, if the pack falls below av-
erage, civilian supplies would be
further reduced"
Kitchen said the food distribu-
ton order signed Friday requires
Gamers to set aside for military
and lend-lease uses from their
1914 production about 70 per cent
of their 1942-43 average annual
production of fruits and about sc
per cent of their vegetables.
Gamers will be told to sci
aside a quota of IS per cent of the
base pack of canned apples, 7C
per cent of peaches, 70 per cent
of fruit cocktail, 70 per cent Of
pears, 56 per cent of lima beans
81 per cent of corn, Al per cent
of peas, 81 per cent Of tomatoes
and "a per cent of tomato juice
the VIA official said, with sim
liar reservations for other com.
modities.
'These are high figures" Kitch-
en- declared, higher than some
of us expected, and they indicate
the seriousness of the production
problems before us"
Kitchen said the Office of Dis.
tribution now is working on cell.
ing prices for major fresh fruits
and vegetables. Ceiling prices
are already in effect covering II
vegetables" he added, land it is
expected other fresh commoditie!
will be brought under price cell
ings as rapidly as possible.
price ceilings may have to be
supplemented with restrictions
on shipments of certain fresh
fruits so that minimum require
ments of professors can be met.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-02-17
Brief Review State And World News During The Past Week
TOlive' News

Pvt. Dempsy Jones and MIS-
Pauline Gentry, both of Toliver..
were the guests of Miss Chelcia
Miller, Tuesday night.
Miss Pauline Gentry left Sum
day for Baltimore, Md, where
she is working.
Miss Pauline Gentry spent last.
week with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. M. Gentry, of Toliver-.
Miss Gentry has been working
in Baltimore. Md, for the pasE
eight months as a cashier I'm n
Acme Mkt, and is liking it fine
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-02-17
Mrs. Ennice Brooks
Buried On Sunday

Funeral service was conducted
at the Whitetop Baptist church,
on Sunday, for Mrs. Ennice
Brooks, 81, who died at the home
of a son, at Fayetteville, on Tues
day, February 8. Burial was held
at Whitetop, also. Rev. Mr.. Mil
Ter was in charge of the service.
The deceased, who is native
of this county, is survived by sew
eral children.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-02-17
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank our many
friends for their kindness and
sympathy shown during the ill
ness and death of our uncle
James Crawford Mullis.
Mrs. r. D. Mullis and
children.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-02-17
WAR BONDS will preserve
and protect the American Way.

November totals.
Such fats are needed for pro-
duction of explosives, synthetic
rubber, plastics, pharmaceuticals
and other war products.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-02-17
IdleWild Club
Held Meeting

The Idlewild All club held
their regular meeting on Friday
afternoon, Feb. 4. An interest
ing program was presented on
All Victory Gardens. Speakers
included Harvey Payne, leader;
Merle Owens, Billy Hartzog, Bet
ty ]. Williams, Carol Hare,
June Hartzog, Frankly Faw, Ru-
by Johnston, and Virginia Phil
lips.
The program ended with the
following thought in mind: eve
must not fail our brothers and
sisters in the armed service, nei-
Their must we fail suffering hu-
mainly throughout the world"
The motto for the club is Don't
Buy It, Grow It." 4
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-10-12
ELEVENTH PALAU
ISLAND INVADED

U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor Oct.
n.-LR-Troops of the 81st infan-
try landed unopposed Tuesday on
Bairakaseru islet, seven miles
northwest of recently-occupied Ga
rakayo, strengthening the Ameri-
can grip on the southern Palaus,
the Navy announced in commu-
nique tonight.
This was the eleventh island in
vaded by American forces during
the Palau campaign.
Meanwhile Marines, fighting on
Peleliu island, exploded sizeable
Japanese ammunition dump in one
of the cave positions still held by
enemy remnants. Peleliu is large
~ in American hands.
Marine Corsairs also bombed
Babelthuap, largest island in the
chain. to the north, and strafed
small shipping nearby.
Other planes raided Two Jina in
the Volcano group, shooting down
two enemy interceptors and prob
ably downing third. A fourth
Japanese plane was damaged.
In the other naturalization raids,
an American plane was shot down
by antiaircraft fire over Pagan is
land, in the Marianas, but the pi-
lot was rescued. Wake island also
was bombed.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-10-12
3-DAY WEEK SET
UP FOR TOBACCO

RALEIGH, Oct. II -tR- Flue-
cured tobacco markets still operat-
ing will be limited to three days of
sales next week instead of the nor
NAL five in an effort to clear ware
houses and factories of a conges-
ton of leaf caused by extremely
heavy sales and an acute labor
shortage.
This decision was announced to-
day by Gov. J. M. Broughton after
conferences with Gov. Colgate w.
Darden of Virginia, Lee L. Gravely
Of Rocky Mount, president of the
Tobacco Association of the United
States, and presidents and officials
of the various tobacco belts.
Broughton said the three day
sales week would be effective for
next week only, after which all
markets will return to the four day
sales week previously prescribed
by Taus in an effort to slow down
sales. Monday and Tuesday sales
will be eliminated next week and
the Monday sale only thereafter.
Gravely told the governor the
four-day sales week would remain
IT,. effect until it had been deter
mined the ordinary flow of tobacco
for five sales a week could be adj
equately handled by present ware
house and factory personnel.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-10-12
FLEEING
GREECE, ALBANIA

ROME. Oct. II. - Up - British
units in Greece and southern AL
bania and Russians and Yugoslav
partisans in the north drew tight
er today the moose around German
forces remaining in southeastern
Europe.
Allied advances on these fronts
have been so rapid the Germans
already may have abandoned
hopes of stand anywhere in the
Balkans.
The British in southern Albania,
after hard battle, captured Sa-
rande porto Edda), supply port
for the German garrison on Corfu
island. Five hundred prisoners
were taken in the action, and the
Germans on Corfu, last reported to
total a regiment, were isolated
with little possibility of escaping
to the mainland.
The Nazis retreating before light
British forces in Greece and Alba
MIA are fighting only when trapped.
In Yugoslavia they have concen-
trated on attempting to keep open
their communications in the face
of swift gains westward by the
Red army both north and south Of
Belgrade.
There was no fresh news of the
British column which surged
through Corinth Monday without
firing shot. This secured an op-
irrational springboard only 40
miles from Athens.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-10-12
Rules For Registration
OF Voters, Nou. z, Giuen

unless registered prior to Deem
Der l, 1908, in accordance with the
permanent registration law. Appli.
cant must be citizen, either natu-
raj or naturaized.
Applicant must be 81 years old,
or will become 81 by the date OF
the general election on Nov. 7, not
an idiotsor lunatic, or convicted Of
crime punishable by Imprisonment
in the state prison unless citizen
ship has been restored.
Applicant must have been resi-.
dent of the state OF North Carolina
for one year, and in the precinct
ward Or other election district in
which he offers to vote four months
preceding the general election on
Nov. 7.
Continued on Page Ten; Col. u
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-10-12
BRYAN ELECTED
KIWANIS CHIEF

William B. Bryan, local manager
Of the Southern Bell Telephone and
Telegraph company, was elected
president of the Wilmington XII
wants club yesterday. Mr.. Bryan
was the only nominee n d the
election was unanimous. He will
be indicted at the clubs first
meeting in January, succeeding
Donald King.
E. H. Switzerland, manager of
the Wilmington store of the ]. c.
Penney company was elected vice
president. The only other nominee,
E. B. Livingston, withdrew prior
to the voting.
The Rev. Walter B. Freed was
reelected treasurer. Also a noni-
nee for this office was George
Gooch.
E. S. Caps, DR.. j. 7. Hoggard,
E. A. Laney, and B. D. Schwartz
were elected directors for a term
of two years
William Page Bugg of the Will
1nington hotel was indicted as a
new member of the club.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-10-12
TWIN VICTORIES
SCORED IN SOUTH
German Reports Declare
Sway Attack Started
On Northern Border.

LONDON, Thursday, Oct.
IL. - up - The Red army
roared up to the East Prus-
sian border west of Kaunas
yesterday, isolated the great
Baltic port of Memel, and on
the southern front with the
aid of Romanian troops cap
tured Szeged, second-largest
city in Hungary, and Cluj,
capital Of Pennsylvania.
The German radio acknowledged
that Gen. Ivan c. Bagramian's
first Baltic army had entirely en-
circled Memel, port and chief city
Of Memelland. The Russians, a.
ready within nine miles of the city
and cutting a steel arc around it,,
did not confirm that they actually
had reached the sea on both sides,
but said they edged closer on the
southeast and extended northward
towards Liepaja, the corridor to
the sea they had hammered home
on Tuesday, isolating 100000 to
100000 Germans remaining in
northwest Lithuania and south
west Latvia. If not completely cut
off as the Germans said, Mcneil
was isolated and lettering.
The Russians were silent con-
corning Riga, where their siege
has reached to the outskirts OF
that Latvian capital and seaport,
except to say that again their
bombers had caused havoc among
German transports in the harbor
The westward drive across Ii.
thuania to the East Prussian Dor.
der swept up more than so popu-
lated places, the Soviet communi.
que said, including Priorisi, less
than a mile from the border, and
Ponorni, on the Lithuanian side Of
the frontier stream, the Ost Fluss.
The Germans, going even far
Continued on Page Three; Col. j.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-10-12
Ex-Nazi Claims Hitler
Said He Could Create
Revolution In America

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.-R
DIR. Herman Rauschning. au-
thor and one-time Nazi official
testified today that Adolf Hit
Ter told him In 1888 that he
would be able to ''paralyze the
unity Of the United States" and
cause revolution if America
ever threatened to join Eng
land in war against Germany.
DIR. Rauschning, former pres
ident of the Free City of DAN
zig under Hitler, was govern
ment witness at the trial of "a
defendants charged with con-
spring to undermine the mo-
rale and loyalty of the armed
forces. Chief Prosecutor o.
John Rogge brought in Rausch-
ning's testimony as the first
direct attempt to prove the In
dictmen charge that Hitler was
the arch conspirator In the
case.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-10-12
Merchants To Discuss
Parking Problems With
Council At City Hall

The merchants division OF
the Chamber of Commerce and
Walter j.. Cartier, chamber
secretary, have arranged to
meet with city authorities to
discuss parking problems in the
city.
They hope to be able to
make plans by which Whining.
ton will be move attractive
place in which to shop, and ar
range for greater conveniences
for visitors from surrounding
counties who come In to trade
In Wilmington.
In the News Letter put out by
the chamber, the merchants
committee asks that the cele-
bration of V-Day take the
form of thanksgiving, rather
than q rowdy outburst of noise
and carousing. All stores are
asked to cooperate with the
New Hanover Ministerial asso-
citation and urge their stats to
attend church services on that
day.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-10-12
Campaign May Become
Foreign Policy Debate

Both President Roosevelt and his
republican opponent wi l observe
Columbus day today. The chief ex-
scutive will speak for about 10
minutes at 4 pm, eastern war
time, before n.American gov
eminent representatives at the
White House. Gov. Dewey will re-
view the annual parade in New
York City in honor of Columbus
and will register for the coming
election.
Republican sources confirmed
yesterday that Dewey not only now
has eight speaking engagements,
but one Of these is in Madison
Square garden on the last Satur-
day night before the voting. This
is the prize spot on the pre-elec-
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. u
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Confined on Page y Col. y

.ly river BY removing snags, logs
and trees from the channel to per
NIT unrestricted navigation. It
it expected that the work will
be completed in ten days.
Maintenance dredging in tae
Cape Fear river at and below
Wilmington has just been COM
pleted, Major Werner said, by
the government-owned dredge'
Henry Bacon. The work has re-
suited in restoring project widths
and debths-3o0 feet to so feet
respectively-in the river from
Wilmington to the mouth: IL Is
proposed to restore project Oh
mansions On the Ocean Bar caaf-
nell later in the year when sea
going dredge becomes available
Continued ON Page y; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-10-12
SCHELDE ESTUARY
BATTLE TICHTENS

LONDON, Oct. H. Up -Enor-
NOUS fires ragged uncontrolled in
the heart of Aachen early today as
the doomed German city died the
flaming death decreed by the
American First Army, whose sur
render ultinatum was spurned.
To the west, Canadian forces
slowly but steadily closed a stran-
glehold on Nazis who from two
sides of the Schelde estuary have
prevented Allied exploitation of
the great Belgian port of Antwerp,
through which stream of men,
guns and supplies could be poured
for the assault on Germany.
Other Canadians clearing the
south bank of the priced waterway
widened their beachhead near
Hoofdplaat and Breskens to more
than four miles and forged inland
nearly three miles. These troops
working their way along bikes in
flat and partly flooded country
were under fire from German guns
across the four mile-wide estuary
near Flushing on Walchereen
island.
! A dispatch from the front said
the Germans were evacuating this
section and concentrating their
forces on Walcheren island.
Day and night ferr, service run
ming along the coast carried ever
more Canadian troops and supplies
into the ''backdoor" beachheac
despite the enemy long-range fire
and the position of Nazi troops tc
the south and west became hourly
more precarious.
The Allies captured Antwerp it
self almost intact, with its miles
of docks apparently in working
order. Thus only the clearing OF
the long, winding so mile estuary
which connects it with the sea was
necessary to open Europe's sec
ond largest port to a flood of AL
lied shipping.
1t. Gen. George S. Patton
Third Army troops continued their
week-long effort to root fanatic
Nazi defenders out of the bowels
of Fort Driant across the Moselle
river from the French city of
Metz. The opposing forces were
close together in the winding I'M
derground passages they could
plainly hear each others orders.
Farther south Americans cap
tured Parroy, 20 miles east of
Nancy, cleared the enemy from
Parroy forest and scored gains
east of Jhneville and Epinal.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-10-12
EASTERN AIRLINES
REVIEWS PETITION

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11-Renew
ing efforts to extend service to the
North Carolina coast, Eastern Air
lines has filed a new application
here for a permit to include Will
mington and New Bern on the line S
Raleigh Charleston link, the Civil
Aeronautics Board revealed today.
Coincidental with the revelation,
CAB Examiner Ross I. Newman,
who presided over June hearings
in. which nine airlines presented
testimony in competition for GER
tificate to provide service that
would connect the Great Lakes and
Florida, with routes through the
Carolinas, said his report is now
in the process of preparation. How
ever, he would not give newspa-
perman any idea when they might
expect its release.
Eastern application for service
to Wilmington and New Bern fur
Their complexities a situation in
which. CAB has already issued a
certificate to National Airlines to
render a New Orleans Florida-N New
York coatal service. through Sa-
vannah, Charleston Wilmington
Norfolk and Philadelphia. National
inaugurated the service on October
l but because the Army and Navy
have restricted landing facilities in
the five latter cities to military use
and to lines already operating the
National service between Jackson
vile and New York is nonstop.
National has also applied for a
permit to stop at New Bern, when
the restriction Of that city's airport
facilities to military use has been
Withdrawn.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-10-12
WEATHER SLOWS
ALLIED BOMBERS

LONDON, Oct. -tR-While the
great bulk of Allied Bomber
strength waited today for better
weather that would permit an all
out assault on the German holdout
garrison in Aachen, dive bombers
Of the U. S. Ninth airforce based
in France began the preliminary
softening up and small forces of
heavies undertook less spectacular
assignments.
A small force of fortresses ex-
corted by fighters flew through
heavy clouds in an attack on rail
way yards at Coblenz and cologne
and Raj Lancasters smashed gun
positions in Holland and bombed
the dixie near We're.
One bomber was lost by the
Raj in its operations over the
Dutch coast.
We're is on Walcheren island,
most Of which was inundated re-
Gently by Raj bombing that open
ed great holes in the bikes holding
the North Sea. The new attack was
designed to let the sea in from the
east also.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-10-12
PRESBYTERIANS
ELECT FARRIOR

The Rev. N. P. Farrior, Of Pink
Hill, was elected moderator Of the
Presbytery at its opening session
at the Presbyterian church in Lake
WaccamaW, DR.. William Grove,
Jr., pastor of the First Presbyter-
ian church OF Wilmington, announc-
ed last night.
The Rev. j. A. Boyd of Atkinson,
who was retiring moderator,
preached the opening sermon Of the
annual fall meeting of the Presby-
terry. The communion service was
conducted by DR.. Grove and the
Rev. M. J. Murray of Wallace.
The Presbytery issued a call to
the Rev. w. c. MCLAUGHLIN, recent
ly returned missionary from China
and resident in this country be-
cause of the war. to serve as pas
tor-at-large of projects in New Han
over county, under direction of the
Wilmington Presbyterian planning
committee, of which w. M. Dick
son, layman from the First Pres
byterian church of Wilmington, is
chairman. There are a number OF
new mission churches and chapels
in this area that are in need OF
ministers.
Among the outstanding features
of the Presbytery was the report
Of the Home Missions committee
regarding the. progress OF the
work and the plans that are de-
veloping for. the immediate future.
Tuesday afternoon. the Rev
Stacy c.. Farrior, brother Of the
newly-elected moderator and mis-
sionary to China who came back
to the States on the second voyage
Of the Swedish exchange ship
Gripsholrn, made a thrilling ad
dress on advances Of the Christian
movement in China and prospects
for the future. Il,
A layman S conference on evan
gelism was conducted Tuesday eve
ming by J.. d. Huntington, genera
secretary Of the Wilmington Y. M
C.. A. Layleaders- attended from al
Of the district, which covers
the eastern section Of North: Caro-
lima. ss'% = .s.. "a. .ffs
The Presbytery regretted to &C
eept the resignation: Of Dr.. 6. a
Wilson, Jrsl who has served as
superintendent Of Home Missions
for. seven years and as state al
rector for the Presbyterian WORK
among the. armed forces for three
years. "[ -. fYesS.jjs, 49,. II
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Registration books for the No
vember general election will open
Saturday morning, October IA. at
9 o. clock. and will be open from
9 am. until 6:24 pm. every Satur-
day through October %, H. C.
Carney, chairman of the New Han
over County Board Of Elections,
announced yesterday. Registrars
will be at their respective polling
places at the above times, he add
ed.
For the general election on No
vember Z, polls will open at $50
am. and close at $50 pm.
Qualifications for primary regis
tration and voting are:
An applicant for registration shall
be able to read and write any sec
ton Of the Constitution of North
Carolina in the English language,