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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY II
7:3o-Family Altar Rev. J. A. Sui.
Ivan.
1:45-Musical Clock,
800-Daily War journal with Martin
Agronsky.
8:15-Musical Clock.
800 Blue News Correspondents At
Home and Abroad.
8:45-Toby and Suzy.
y:O0-The Breakfast Club with Don
Mcneil.
1L:O0-Sweet River.
l0:15-Singo.
10:30-U. p. News.
10:35-Let's Dance.
1l:O0-Breakfast at Sardi's.
1l:3O-Gil Martyr, News.
l1:45-Living Should Be Fun.
12:O0-Meditation Period - Rev. j. A.
Sullivan.
.2:15-Bible Messages. Z
.2:3O-National Farm and Home Hour.
12:45-Victory Gardens.
1:00-Baukhage.
1:15-Musical Interlude.
l:25-News - Wilmington Star-News.
l:30-Between the Bookends with Ted
1:45-Phil Barton.
2:0O-Rodriguez and Switzerland
2:l5-The Mystery Chef.
2:30-Ladies Be Seated.
3:OO-Songs BY Morton Downey.
3:l5-Mv True Story.
3:45-Pentecostal Revival Hour.
1:00-Blue Frolics.
4:30-Time, Views the News
4:45-The Sea Hound.
5:00-Hop Harrigan.
5:15-U. P. News.
5:30-Lone Ranger.
6:00-Terry and the Pirates.
6:15-Sports.
6:s5-News Wilmington Star-News.
6:30-Ten, Two, Four Ranch Party.
6:45-Henry J. Taylor and the News
7:O0-Nero Wolfe.
0-Confidentially Yours.
7:45-Sundown Serenade.
8:00-Watch the World Go BY.
3:15-The Parker Family.
8:3o-Meet Your Navy.
9:00-Gangbusters.
9:3o-Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands.
e:55-Fourth War Loan Drive.
l0:00-To Be Announced.
10:15-Dixieland House Party.
10:30-Concert Orchestra.
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PROMOTIONS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10-R
The War Department an
nounced today a list of promo
tons of officers, including these
from North Carolina:
Captain to major: Curtis Eu-
gene Furr, DC, Concord.
First lieutenant to captain:
Victor Raymond Cooke, Jr.,
CE, 967 Hendersonville RID,
Asheville; Daniel Houston
Buchanan, NC, Chapel Hill;
Robert Lee Ford, ONO; 214
Park St., Lexington; Marvin
Columbus venable, AC, Mayo
dan; Charles Daniel Eatman,
OC, 212 Peoples Bank Bldg,
Rocky Mount.
Second lieutenant to first
Lieutenant; James Walker
Saunders, Cd, so7 N. Fifth St.,
b Albermarle; Judeon Shiers
Jones, CE, 1248 Westover Ter
race, Greensboro.
Doris d. Connel, of 1894 E.
It'll st., Charlotte, and Eliza
beth G. Dawkins, of Rocking
ham, were appointed second
1ieutenants in the American
Nurses Corps.
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lsmith paused before the singer.
lOnly she did not talk with Sandy.
She simply stepped back and dis
dained the brothers. Yet the ex-
preston on her proud features was
So thoroughly, loft their heads
that she might as well have been
staring directly at them.
Have you forgiven us, MISS
Baker?' Briefly Mallory wandered
about the strangers in the crowd.
Which were the deputadoes guard
ing her? I'm considering it," she
said to John Smith.
I'VE sent you flowers pleading
for forgiveness William informed
her.
Lilies?' The blond girls voice
was honey acid and questioning
But the men took her hooking
query as comment. yes" cried
John.
Amazing, William said I'm
agine her remembering in all this
maze of flowers. We loved the
Wagner he added, and they
moved along.
Beneath ner breath Prism said,
Baboons!' Msnuelita gave her a
conspiratorial smile before STEP
ping up to help Mllory. The sing
err was glad when the procession,
that had seemed endless, began to
dwindle. She was able to see Car
los now, across the stage, standing
with his parents, his eyes fixed on
her. Also fixed upon her were the
eyes of Tod Patrick, who still re-
manned where he had stepped to
be free of the pell-mell rush.
"Who is that attractive MANI"
Manuelita suddenly asked.
Mallory said slt ", "Tod Pat
rick. My manager"
"Your manager? Manuelitas
lovely mouth was slightly open
with surprise. But he seems so
young-and so sweet
The bonds eyes cracked. He
as sweet as cyanide. She crooked
her forefinger at him and, when
he walked over, said, ''Manuelita,
my manager, then to him, Tod
this is the Senorita Manuelita Es-
trada the most gorgeous girl in
Mexico
II see what you mean He gave
the Mexican girl a smile that
made Mallory feel funny. Manuel
tia answered it, but at that mo-
ment Carlos and his parents came
up, met Tod Prick, took posses
sion of Manuelita and left.
II see why you've been liking it
down here. Of course I like it.
too" he said.
Mallory ignored the inference.
Want to come home with us? To
eat she emphasized.
mo thanks, pet. You get a good
sleep so your next concert will be
as successful as this one. I'm turn
ing in with Sandy tonight
Mallory had been in bed almost
a half hour when prodding
thought re-prodded her. Why had
not Richard Blythe. been at her
concert?
Ito Be Continued)
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CHAP Err FORTY-FIVE

.
Along with the evaporation Nal
lory felt over Tod Patrick's debo
naiz and rested appearance wa!
an added one, because she did no
know how or when he had got int
the theater. During intermisslor
there had been no one excep'
Prism and Armando and the Mex
lean stagehands. Sandy, naturally
but no outsiders had been allowed
backstage. And afterward, when
she was giving encores and taking
bows, she had not noticed ner
manager.
But she was noticing him now.
she was glazing at him. putting
her curiosity into speech. "Wnere
did YOU come from? How did you
ge, in here? How long have you
been here?"
lie answered the last questloh
casually. ages"
81 didn't see you when l was
taking calls, she said in the same
sibilant whisper she had used IN
her first remarks.
TOD Patrick moved nearer
when you are taking curtain
calls. Mallory, you don't see any,
one. not even your audience, ex-
cept as stacks of clamoring hands
land stop kissing at me-.
I'm not kissing L just don't
want anyone to hear our CONVEX
sa1ion
II don't blame you. It'd not
n fidtc rio sun be atenehgl olae
sound a bit nice for the angelic
prima donna to bawl out her man.
ager."
Prism had been waiting in the
wings when Mallory Baker made
her last bow. with glass OF va
ter and an aspirin for the girl.
also her mink coat, which she had
placed over her shoulders. Mallory
now drew it closer about her over
heated body. guarding against
stray draugflts.
I've been so furious with
you'll"
."surely you're not going to call
nae Legree? I haven't deviled you
at all
@'That's Just it. WHAT do you
mean by leaving me stranded here
without any help from you? You
at least usually telephone me be-
fore a big and important concert.
But not a word"
Tod Patrick smiled Apparently
he had been leading such re-
Taxed and lazy life that nothing
angered him. You didn't need
me, my dear. You've never sung
better. especially o Patria Mia
You actually were Aida. filled with
tender despair. The song was love-
ly. Mallory, and so were you. That
pale pink spot was especially good
on the blue gown and it made
you seem about 10 years old"
The singer felt as if she were
having a warm bubble bath. Her
features took on the dreaminess
that compliments Away put
there. She was happy as kitten
having its ears scratched.
Thank you. Tod" she said gent
". Tho look q har face brought
Prism from where she had been
standing en- the curtained stage
beside the piano talking with
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Over The Networks
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY IL
Eastern War Time p. M.

Changes in programs as listed due to
corrections by networks made too
late to incorporated
5:1@Portia Faces Life. Drama nbc
Dick Tracy, a Detective Serial - blu
To Be Announced Us minutesl chs
Archie Andrews, Riddles Serial - mbs
5:30-Just Plain Bill. Dramatic - nbc
The Landt Trio, Singing Along - chs
The Jack Armstrong Serial - blu-east
The Sea Hound in repeat - blu-west
Chick Carter, Detective Serial = mbs
5:45-Front Page Farrell Serial - nbc
Captain Midnight Serial =. blu-east
American Women, Drama Series - chs
Serial Series for Riddles - mbs-basic
6:00-News Period for Is minis. - nbc
Children's Dramatic Skit, Daily blu
Quincy Howe and News Time chs
Prayer; Comment on the War mbs
6:15-Serenade to America; Talk - nbc
Captain Tim Healy, Spy Story - blu
Dancing Music for IS Minutes - mbs
6:30-Jeri Sullavan's Song Show chs
Jack Armstrong; repaet - blu-west
News Time and Volney Hurd mbs
6:45-LoweH Thomas &. Newscast - nbo
Henry J. Taylor Comment - blu-basie
World News and Commentary chs
Repeat of Riddles Serial - other mbs
7:00-Fred Warnings Time nbc-basic
Nero Wolfe's Detective Drama - blu
II Love a Mystery" Dramatic chs
Fulton Lewis, Jr., Comments mbs
7:15-World War via Broadcast nbc
Dateline, War Correspondents chs
The johnson Family, Serial mbs
-1.ropicana Out of Chicago - nbc
Lone Ranger Drama of the West - blu
It's Friday on Broadway cbs-basic
Dancing Music Orchestra cbs-Dixie
To Be Announced go minsl mbs
7:45-Kaltenborn and Comment nbc
8:00-Lucille Manners, DR.. Black - nbc
The Kate Smith Variety Show chs
To Be Announced Us minutes) - blu
Sam Batter Comments on War mis-
8:15-The Parker Family, Drama - blu
S:30-All Time Hit Parade Tunes - nbc
Meet Your Navy, Great Lakes - blu
Freedom of Opportunity, Drama - mbs
s:55-Five Minutes News Period - chs
9:00-Abe Lyman's Waltz Time - nbc
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Auto License Tag
Sales Increasing

RALEIGH, Feb. 1O.-(R)- Joe
M. Garrett, head of the registration
division Of the Department of Mo-
tor Vehicles, said today that 1914
automobile license plate sales
through February totaled $40, 421,
gain of 26, 943 over the same per-
Tod last year.
Garrett said the increase was
probably due to the lifting of the
pleasure driving ban, during which
many automobile owners failed to
register their vehicles.
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HUFFMAN APPOINTED

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10-lREThe
Office of Price Administration to-
day appointed Robert o. Huffman,
Morganton, N. c., head of its knit
ware and hosiery section. He has
been chief consultant to OPA on
hosiery for the past four and half
months. He succeeds Norman
Becker, who resigned to return to
private industry.
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Canada has approximately 3d..
$50 women employed in mining,
logging, transportation, commune
cations and building trades.
Evening star., 1944-10-08
BY the Associated Press.

By the Aasociated Press.
| LONDON, Oct. 1.-TWO Of the first
American airmen to be released
from interment in Sweden returned
to England today, and declared I'VE
had such : terrific time we hated
to leave"
"By far the best vacation I ever
lhad-seven months Of It," said 1t
Barry Lustig, II, bombardier. Of
New York. There we're good food
comfortable beds, movies, dances
fishing, skiing and beautiful girls,
lots Of 'em."
1t. Merle Brown, n, pilot, Akron
Ohio, said he found "the one and
Ionly girl" for him In Sweden, de-
spite the original handicap of the
girls not speaking q word of Eng
lish, and his inability to speak
Swedish.
The two ieutenants said they
were under an agreement that two
Nazi airmen would be returned to
the German air force. Other air
men are being exchanged under the
same plan, they added.
Its. Brown and Lustig were forced
Evening star., 1944-10-08
Aerial
Continued From First Page

Rutland, Magdenburg, Bohlen
Merseburg and Litzkendorf. The
latter three are in the Leipzig area
and Ruthland is northeast OF Dres-
den.
Tiger and Panther tank factories
were hit at Magdeburg and Kassel.
Other targets included chemical and
explosives plants, an aircraft repair
depot, airdromes and a truck fac
tory in the area of Clausthal- Eel
lerteld, south of Brunswick and at
swickau, south OF Leipzig.
Railways Blasted.
Squeezing the southern prong OF
the scissors, more than 800 Flying
Fortresses and Liberators from Italy
hammered a string of NaI oil re-
fineries few miles southeast of
Vienna, Austria and also ranged
into Hungary, where a number OF
railways were blasted.
Another blow was struck by nearly
TOO Lapcasters and Halifaxes, which
blasted with heavy concentrations of
bombs two advance German Army
bases at Emmerich and Kleve, near
the Dutch border.
As these attacks proceeded, 200
other Raj heavyweights staged a
second spectacular attack on the
Dutch island of Walcheren, south
west Of Rotterdam, this time breach
ing the sea dikes at Vlissingen on
the south side of the island.
One-third Of the island already
had been flooded as q result Of q
big hole blown in the sea wall on
the west side few days ago. The
Evening star., 1944-10-08

cans fighting inside the fortifica-
tiOns.
One long-range gun was spotted
In q position 20 miles from Metz
and divebombers sealed 1t in its
tunnel,
Enemy Counterattacks.
The Germans counterattacked
furiously along many sectors of the
front, losing 13 tanks to Gen. Pat
tons forces north Of Nancy, and
SO planes to Allied air and ground
gunners. One counterattack gained
some ground 10 miles north OF
Nancy.
The 7th Army on the south, In
addition to closing in on the Vosges
Mountain Pass, also scored advances
through the Vannes Forest north.
west Of Belfort, broadening theil
assault arc on Belfort, no more thar
10 miles away.
The British, while scoring no ad.
vances in Holland, sent TOO of theil
heavy bombers hammering at tn,
Kleve flank Of the Siegfried Lin,
some 10, miles north of Aachen, ans
the Emherich Gap to the north,
east.
To the west more than 200 othel
Royal Air Force heavies bombet
the flooded Walcheren Island, one
Evening star., 1944-10-08
-Four SPARS Painting Huge Map
OF Coast Guards War Role

an engineering craftsman until Sep
tember, was q commercial artist in
Piqua, Ohio. before joining the
SPARS In February, 1943. Her last
civilian job was designing milk
bottle tops for company In Dayton
Verna Palmer, rs, seaman tsecond
class, from Flushing, N. Y, was a
free-lance water color painter In her
spare time and worked as a drafts
man in an engineering firm before
she became a SPAR last June. Map
painting Is her first Job as a SPAR
as she left her training station only
last month.
Studied Art at College.
Marjorie Hammond, 20, coxswair
striker. from Baton Rouge, was q
data clerk in bank. before joining
the Coast Guard in June, but she
had taken commercial art classes
in college. As striker for coxswair
rating, she worked at the desk ir
SPAR barracks.
The girls paint small ships and
planes to indicate convoy routes
barges at invasion points, and seals
at the now almost nonexistent seal
patrol stations in Alaska. Place
names. which they are lettering
point out the invasion points and
beachheads which Coast Guard
men and craft helped to establish
Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Tarawa
Saipan, Guam, Casablanca, Naples
Marseilles.
BY the end of next week they will
be ready to put back on their navy
blues, wipe the smudges of, and
write their names under that Of
Specialist Gray's.
Until then, they aren't complain
ing about their jobs. We're just
crazy about it, and we're having q
wonderful time" they say.
Evening star., 1944-10-08
Security
CONTINUED From First page.)

study than we have been able k
give here"
He declared, however. "a great
deal has been accomplished, and
can say frankly that when the sug-
gestion was first made that these
conversations should take place,
had no expectation that we should
have been able to 60 so far at this
stage"
New Conference Expected Soon.
Mr. Stetttnius said he was sure the
big four" governments will take
early steps to complete the task we
have begun at Dumbarton Oaks and
thereby make possible in the not
distant future the calling Of q gen.
eral conference for the establish
ment Of the organization which We
have projected here"
DR.. Koo said the Chinese hoped
this conference OF all interested ma
tions "can be held in the near fu-
ture."
The proposals to be put forward
by the Dumharton Oaks conferees
are understood to provide for an
organization somewhat similar to
the League OF Nations in broad out
line, but with teeth" in 1t. There
would be an assembly Of AN nations
and q council of q few, including
permanent membership for the
great powers, and provision for
speedy use of international force tc
restrain aggression on = decision by
the council.
Outstanding among the issues still
to be decided. 1t is reported, is the
question of whether one Of the
major powers should have the right
to veto decision by other counct
members affecting that country's In.
terests.
It was understood the Chimes.
delegates accepted the PROPOSAL
which were agreed on earlier by tn,
American, British and Russian rep.
Iresentatives when they found tina
| they reflected the general principle!
Of their own ideas, leaving minol
differences or additional points tt
be considered at the projected gen.
eral conference.
Text Of Joint Statement.
The text of the joint statemen
by the American, British and Chi
nese representatives follows:
Conversations between tn,
United States, the United Kingdom
and the Chinese delegations il
Washington regarding the estab
Evening star., 1944-10-08
Cigarette Shortage Likely
To Continue All Winter
BY the Associated Press.

BY the AsSociat<d Press.
The shortage of cigarettes for
civilians In the United States prob
ably will continue through the fall
and winter, the Agriculture De-
partment said yesterday. 1t Is not
expected to grow any worse than 1t
Is now, however.
The Bureau of Agricultural Eco
nomics expressed the belief that the
labor and container problems In
the industry should become less
acute in the near future"
Cigarette consumption In this
country In July was about II per
cent below the same month last
year. This was due largely, the
bureau said to the sortage oi
leading brands in retail stores be-
cause Of huge requirements of the
armed forces abroad and to short
ages Of containers and factory
labor.
In addition, the Government has
bought large quantities of tobacco
for lease-lend accounts and for ex-
port. Some ofiicials said they be-
lieved there was "a certain amount
of boarding of cigarettes.
Evening star., 1944-10-08

of two in the Schelde where Ger
man gunners are perched COM
mahding that waterway entry to
Antwerp.
Canadian forces west Of Antwerp
were within q few thousands yards
Of the Dutch city of Tilburg, but
making little progress against the
stubbornness of German rear.
guards. They were close enough
however, to render this communica.
tions center useless to the enemy.
However it was believed the Ger
mans were planning to pull bach
north 10 miles or so to line alone
the Mas River to the sea.
Canadians on the Leopold Cana
west Of Antwerp were engaged IL
series of bloody engagements
slugging 1t out with crack German
infantry along the perimeter O
their narrow canal bridgehead.
Evening star., 1944-10-08
Western Front
Continued From First Page }

on lie Thillot, Is miles north of
Belfort, from three sides, and were
only 9 miles west OF the 1893 foot
Bussang Pass which leads through
the heart Of the Vosges to the
lRhineland.
Rugged resistance slowed down
the advances of the British I'd
Army in Holland and the Canadian
1st Army to the west, but the
Canadians made one vital gain-a
drive Of nearly miles into Holland
which captured the village of Ossen-
drecht, IL miles north Of Antwerp
and only miles from the only road
LOT escape for Germans in the
Schelde Islands.
The rumble Of artillery echoing
across the. English Channel told
South Britons that Canadians had
begun the assault to recapture the
Channel port Of Dunkerque, where
the British made their escape from
Hitler's legions in 1910.
Timed With Big Air Blow.
The ground attack Of the LIST Army
was timed with record aerial blow
at the Reich by more than 5000
Allied warplanes striking at targets
from Vienna to the front lines
west Of the Rhine.
| In this surge eastward, 1t. Gen.
Courtney H. Hodges troops captured
Mrkstein, two miles south of Ubach,
tie enemy supply center of Alsdorf
nearby, and Hofstadt along the
southern line of the breakthrough.
Enemy defenses collapsed abrupt
" 1or only yesterday he was throw
Ing in counterattacks that drove the
Americans back around uhach.
But the Germans may have spent
their strength here, front dispatch
said, because they were unable to
stand up under the terrihAe weight
lof the drive that rumbled out of
the west this morning. More than
800 prisoners were taken in the first
two hours.
| The drive carried on east of Beg.
gendorf, which was the tip of tn.
salient yesterday, and had spread
northward to the outskirts of Cell.
enkirchen, IL miles north OF Aachen
and Immendorf, 2 miles to the east
Nazis Caught Unprepared.
Five miles northwest OF Geilen.
kirchen other American forces bat.
tered the Germans back near Schier.
waldenrath.
In the new operations IS mile.
southeast of Aachen, the German.
appeared to have been caught un.
prepared, for their Siegfried Lin,
outposts were manned by prisoner,
who never had seen action before
The Americans were advancin,
slowly through the mine fields in tn,
soggy ground Of the dense forest
aware that behind the raw recruit
were battle-tested veterans waitini
for them to come up.
Divebombers were summoned Ii
the battle for Fort Driant, on 1t
Gen. George S. Patton's front, tx
tackle the flanking guns which hat
been blazing away at the Ameri.
Evening star., 1944-10-08

lishment of q World Security Or
.ganization have now reached q
satisfactory conclusion. sr4p -
Rapid progress has been made
possible because of the work ac-
complished at the first phase of the
Dumbarton Oaks discussions and
because the three delegations had
earlier exchanged written memo
randa on the subject.
these conversations have af-
forded the delegations the oppor-
tunity for q full and frank ex-
change Of views and have resulted
in an agreed set Of proposals for
the general framework Of an inter-
national organization and the ma
chinery required to maintain peace
and security which the three dele
cations are now reporting to theil
respective governments.
'The three governments will issue
a statement on the subject in the
near future"
Evening star., 1944-10-08

objective Is to drown or force Ger
man troops out OF the island which
flanks sea passage into Antwerp.
Waters Gush Inland.
The dixie was attacked on both
sides Of Flushing and the North
Sea waters began gushing inland
to join the flood waters coming from
the other direction. The attack
lasted 40 minutes and though 5000
Germans are repeatedly trapped
there the Nazis put up stin opposi-
ton with still usable ground guns.
The United States 9th Air Force
and the Raj Second Tactical Air
Force, meanwhile, few thousands
Of sorties in support Of the Amer
lean 1st and sd Armies attacking
inside and near the Germans op-
posite Belgium and inside France.
Evening star., 1944-10-08
Mari Plan to Hold
Prominent Allies as
Hostages Reported
~ the Associated Prsss.

~ the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. i0.-Absie
tAmerican Broadcasting sta.
tion In Europe today quoted
ReichsmarshAl Hermann 0oer-
ing's Essener National zeitung
as declaring editorially that the
Naxs were preparing to use the
most outstanding" Allied pris-
oners in Germany as hostaees
for the safety Of Naxis slated to
be tried q war criminals after
Germany's defeat.
Among the most outstand-
ing" Allied personalities now
being held In Germany are King
Leopold Of Belgium and Ed
GUARD Herriot, the French
statesman.
ABSIE's English-language
broadcast was recorded by owl.