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Mussolini's Feeble Attempt
At Suicide On Sept. II Barred

ROME, July -RIHysterical
and fearful of being handed over
to the Allies, Benito Mussolini
made a feeble attempt at suicide
last Sept. II, a reliable informant
said today, by slashing a wrist
with a razor blade.
The half-hearted attempt was
made a few hours before Mussolini
was freed from the Hotel Campo
Imperatore by German parachut-
lists, said the informant who re-
quested anonymity.
This was the story told by the
informant:
ION Sept. II, about am, Ca.
rabiniere who were at Mussolini'0
disposal hurried to the superior
officer and told him that II Duce
was almost hysterical. The officer
ran to Mussolini's room and found
him standing up. One wrist was
cut and blood had stained a pajama
sleeve. Mussolini held a razor
blade.
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"I am tired of living Mussolini
said. He handed the officer letter
in which he had written that he
wished to end his life. The officer
treated the cut, Gained the Duce
and, without much difficulty, pre-.
suaded him to return to bed"
The fallen fascist also was said
to have feared being given to the
Allies.
Further information on how Mus.
soltni was freed by the Germans
vas given by the informant who
said that carabinieri guarding Il
Duce were informed that govern
ment orders" to hold Mussolini
with their lives had been modified
and that they should be very pru'
dent. Consequently when SIS para.
chute troops dropped on Gran Sas.
so, where the Hotel Campo I'm.
peratore is located, at 2 pm. Sept.
IL, the carabinieri held their fire.
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PRESBYTERIAN

Winter Park, Rev. Alfred K.
Dudley, pastor. Worship II am
Sermon Subject: 1.-THE Sting o.
Death. Sunday school 10 am
Boys and Girls 4 pm. Young
Peoples League 7 pm.
Colonial Village Chapel-No. Jay
For All Denominations. Sunday
school 10 am. under Auspices OF
Wlnster Park Presbyterian church,
Pearsal Memorial. Sunday
school 10 am. Worship II am. .
DR.. Robert S. Boyd of Greenville
Fifth Sunday Young P eople s
Union service at pm. at this
church.
St. Andrews-C ovenant-15th and
Market streets. Church school at
9:45 am. Worship II. Sermon by
John Myskens, DID,, LID, now
chaplain at Carolina Beach. Pho
neers and Senior young people
pm. at Pearsal Memorial church.
Community Chapel Sun d y
school: 1920 am. Worship every
second and fourth Sunday 8 pm.
DELGADO - Sunday school 9:45
Am. Worship 7:30 pm. Pastor,
Rev. C. C. Myers. Subject" The
Holy Spirit"
Mcclure Memorial - Sunday
school 10 am. Worship II am.
Pator Rev. C. c. Myers Subject,
"Why Does God Permit War"
First-Corner Third, Orange SITS.
William Grove, Jr., D. D. Min
lister. Samuel Wander Nicer, as
sistant minister. Church school 10
am. Worship ills am. Sermon
by DR.. B. Frank Hall. Young peo-
pie meet at Peasall Memorial
church 7 pm. Worship 8 pm. DR..
B. Frank Hall, preaching.
Bethany Chapel(of First Pres
byterian church. Castle H y n S
road. Church school 10 am. Wor
ship II am.
Myrtle Grove chapel COT First
Presbyterian hurc y Myrtle
Grove sound. Church school 3 pm.
Worship 3:45 pm.
Smith Creek Church school OF
First Presbyterian church, 2:30
pm.
Oak Grove chapel (of First Pres
byteran church, Carolina Beach
road. Church school pm. Wor-
ship 6 pm.
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Sunday School Lesson
How Gideon's Psychological Warfare Routed
The Next Foe And Delivered Israel
TEXT: JUDGES 7:4-7, 1921

amazing weapons - lamps, pitch.
crs and trumpets. With lamps hid
den in the pitchers orders were
for the 300 at the given signal to
blow on the trumpets, smash the
pitchers, and let the lamps shine.
Tnenoise and lights gave the effect
of a great army approaching for
battle. Fear did the work that
Gideon expected. The great hosts
in the valley were thrown into
CONSIDERATION, stampeded with the
Sudden discovery of a great army
coming upon them and finding
them unprepared. They broke and
ran in complete rout.
The test of commander is not
III the hour of advantage or victory
out in the follow-up. Many a vic
tory has been lost because the VIC
tor; thought it was all over and let
his enemy escape. Not so, Gideon.
AS the host fled Gideon's men
really got into action. They turned
the rout into a complete dastruc-
ton.
The times were rough and cruel,
and the whole story of Gideon is
not so noble. He took for reward
for himself and his men the golden
earrings and chains of his we'll
equipped, defeated enemy.
Judges 1927 would seem to sug-
gest that from the gold he made
an idol, or that Israel made an
idol of the ephod into which he
melted the gold. The record OF
the later years is not clear. But
the story Of GiGeon's boldness and
courage, his determined faith and
stragegy, stands in full grandeur.
Would tactics like Gideon's sue
ced today? Could 300 men, even
complete in their fearlessaess and
1irmness, accomplish anything
against modern armies of tanks,
great guns and the whole array
of divisions in full equipment? APP
parently not. Brave men have bee
wiped out by superior force. But
it is the spirit of Gidean and his
men that still wins battles.
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COUTANCIES HILLS
TAKEN BY TANKS
Ry HAL BOYLE

WITH AN AMERICAN COLUMN
OUTSIDE COUTANCES, July %.
-tRETwo massive tank columns
driving from the North and east
captured heights overlooking Cou
tances today ana are fighting with
in sight of the sea.
This great German road d
supply hub is under fire of Ameri-
can guns but reports by observers
and French civilians indicate that
the beaten enemy has been able
to pull back the major remnants
of his mauled and wounded divi-
sions.
BY night, and under cover of
rain clouds by day, he has with
drawn them farther south to escape
entrapment, but in flight he lost
hundreds of vehicles and thousands
of men.
Isolated pockets Of men and ar
NOR have been left behind with the
sole mission to try to slow the
American first army avalanche at
the sacrifice of their lives d
equipment.
Such groups early tonight were
delaying capture of the city by
the twin armored spearheads
which have made it untenable and
useless to the Germans. The &C.
cupation awaits only the reduction
of these doomed but stubborn ele-
ments, who are fighting with the
ferocity of cornered and wounded
animals.
A few minutes ago Mark Wat
son of the Baltimore Sunpapers
and I were driven from the road
by the zing of snipers bullets and
the crash of German tank fire and
mortars in flaming hamlet some
distance beyond the village Of La
Chapelle.
Nearby were the bodies of two
soldiers and several horses torn
by shellbursts.
'They concentrated number of
tanks in wooded areas along a
line south of the Marigny Cou-
tances road" said 1t. Arthur Al
len, 1877 Edgerton ST., St. Paul,
MINI, as he stood in the shelter
of a sunken road.
'They are also, using some mo-
bile guns" added 1t. Earl Len
inton, Wichita, Kas. 'They are sur
rounded now on three sides by our
arrnor but keep on throwing shells
and mortars to keep US back as
long as possible.
In a small French farmhouse a
few hundred yards behind hi
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GERMAN
BELIEVED SIGHTED

Aman answering to the descrip-
ton of Helmut Haeberlein, Ger
man prisoner VINO escaped from
Camp Davis July 3, was reported
tn have been seen in the. Lum-
berton vicinity this week, accord
ing to word received here yester.
day from Edward Scheidt, special
agent in charge of the FBI office
in Charlotte.
scheidt revealed that the indi-
vidual, description of whom is
identical with that of Haeberlein,
was reported to have been seen
Monday by several citizens OF the
Lumberton- Fayetteville area.
The man was also seen talking
to filling station attendants at a
gasoline service station near Fay
etteville about 1920 p. M, Wed.
nesday. At this time, the man was
wearing tan shirt with blue dun
garees and was carrying a tan
coat on his arm. Prior to this
occasion, he was reported to have
been wearing a blue shirt and blue
dungarees, and carrying small
travelling bag, scheidt declared.
Haeberlein speaks English with
no German accent, and is describ-
ed as follows: age, 81 Cooks
vounger): born: Leipzig. Germany:
height, five feet. six inches;
weight, 142 pounds: gray-brown
eyes; brown hair: fair skin; for
mer occupation, hosiery machine
operator: high school education.
scheidt has requested that any
one receiving information concern
ing Haeberlein's whereabouts to
communicate. by telephone, inn
mediate1y with the FBI office IN
Charlotte.
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BY WILLIAM E. GlLRoY, D. D.

b WILLIAM r. UxANOx, d. IL
For faith in God and in a cause,
for cool courage, and for ingenious
strategy the story of Gideon is uni
que in the annals of warfare.
The story Of Gideon's call to
lead and deliver Isreal is very
much like that of Moses. He fel:
his own unworthiness. He shrank
from undertaking the task. He
had personal endorsements, for
his father was a participant in the
idolatry that had brought Israel
again into bondage and deep ad-
versity. His first duty was to over
throw the altar Of Baal which his
father had set up, and to set up an
altar to God in its place.
The hosts of indian and their
allies, when Gideon went to spy
them out, LAY along the valley
like grasshoppers for multitude. "
The sight might have made a
brave man give up in despair. But
fortified by a dream and it's inter-
probation, Gideon determined h S
course and planned his strategy.
He knew that to oppose these
hosts in open combat with his few
nlen was hopeless. But he knew
that great armies can be stamped
ed with fear. He was a keen
psychologist ages before the days
of psychology. With his small army
he took the amazing course of
making it even smaller. He want
ed only men of speed, dependable
ity, and resourcefuluness. The me-
thod he took of selection in reduc
ing his army was as remarkable
as his strategy. When the men
went down to drink he discarded
the leisurely drinkers who stopped
down and took their time, choos-
ing only the quick men of action
who Tapped up hasty drink with
their hands and returned to duty.
But 300 courageous men were
Little against that multitude in the
valley. Gideon armed his men with
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E. W. Downum, pastor. Worship
10 am. Subject: Sacred Cows"
Sunday school II a. m. Fifth Sum
day Union service at the Presby-
terial church 8 p. m.
Church of the Good Shepherd
Sixth and Queen streets. The Rev.
Harvey w. Glazier, rector. Holy
communion 8 am. Church school
GAS am. Morning prayer and ser
mon II am. YPSL $3.50 pm.
St. James-Thlrd and Market
streets. Rev. Mortimer Glover,
rector. Holy communion 8 am.
Morning prayer and sermon II
am.
St. John s-Third and Red Cross
streets. Rev. E. w. Halleck, rec
tor. Holy communion 7:30 a. m.
Morning prayer II am.
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which the Germans were she'll
ing with concentrated fury, 1t.
Col. Charles Horner, Doyleston,
Pu., directed the doughboy ad.
vance while in another room Capt.
John Clark, 1853 Smith ST., Provi-
dence, R. l., and several aid men
treated casualties.
1--WE took 20 prisoners a little
while ago." Horner said, "a n d
they complained that we had more
tanks than they had infantry"
That seemed no exaggeration to
anyone who saw the great mass
of men and vehicles moving in to-
day to attack along the W h e
American sector.
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CHRISTIAN

First Christian, South Third and
Ann Streets, James Lawson, 3D.,
minister. Sunday school 9:45 am.
Worship II am. Sermon by Rev.
T. J. jenkins. Worship 8 pm. Ser
mon by DR.. ]. Harry Whitmore.
The Wilmington Gospel Taber.
streets. Rev. w. G. Hurni, pastor.
nacle.-Corner of Sixth and Orange
Bible school: 10 am. Worship: II
A. M Topic: Rejoicing In The
Lord. Young Peoples Fellowship:
3 pm. Evangelistic Service: 8 p.
m. Topic: Divine Retribution."
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METHODIST

Grace Corner of Grace anc
Fourth streets. Sunday school 9:4s
am. Worship II am. Message by
the Rev. A. S.Parker. Youth Eel.
lowship. $50 pm. Supper meeting
followed by a devotional. Worship
8 o'clock. Message by the Rev. A..
S. Parker.
Epworth - Fifth and Bladen
streets, c. N. Phillips pastor. Sun.
day school 1920 am. Church SER
vices 11:15 am. Trying to Hide
from Cod" Service 8:15 pm. 1.-The
Sinner and the Unrighteous."
Trinity Market at 18th Street.
Fred W. Pashan,. pastor. Sunday
school 9 AS am. Worship II am.
"Forgive u.s." Youth Fellowship
7:15 pm. Worship 8 pm. 1.-The
Good Shepherd.
Sunset Park - Shipyard boule-
ward, Maffitt Village. Paul c. Nix,
pastor. Sunday school, 10 am.
Worship, II. "a Lad Is Here.
Baptist Training Union, Z am.
Worship, 8 pm. why Do We
Neglect Our Salvation.
Sunset Park-Jefferso Street. G.
Carl Lewis, pastor. Sunday school,
9:45 am. Worship, II am. Ser
non Topic: Gods All inclusive
Love-. Baptist Training Union 6:45
pm. Worship 8 pm. Sermon
topic: Why Do We Baptize?".
Fifth Avenue - Fifth between
Nun and Church streets. c. D.
Barclift, pastor. Church school,
9:45 am. Service, II am. Youth
Fellowship, 7 pm. Worship. BIS
p m.
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Stars And Stripes
FLY Ouer Guam Again

II s. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor. July
o. lRLThe Stars and Stripes fly
again over Guam, first bit of Amer
lean territory lost to japan.
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an.
nmmced today that the flag had
been formally raised over the head
quarters of Maj. Gen. Roy S. Gel
GER commanding the third am
nhibious corps on invaded Guam
The island, once an American
Naval station, was overrun by the
Japanese Dec. 10, 1941.
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BAPTIST

First. Fifth and Market streets.
Sankey Lee Blanton, minister. Sun
day school: 9:45 am. Worship:
II am. Sermon: "What Think Ye
Climbing
Southside-720 South Fifth St.
]. O. Walton, pastor. Sunday school
Gas a. M. Worship II a. m. and
= pm. Training union 6:45 pm.
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LIQUOR Withdrawals
Show Large Decline

WASHINGTON, July %. -(P-
The alcohol tax units June re-
port today showed Withdrawals Of
1882, 796 gallons Of whiskey from
warehouses, a decline of 43O,ool
from May.
This left warehouse stocks at 348,'
SAB, 1853 gallons. compared to 4S7.
$1,000 at the end of October, 1942
the last month of whiskey produc
ton.
Total tax-paid Withdrawals 0:
domestic liquor last month, includ
ing rum, gin, brandy and othel
spirits, totaled 6,901, 400 gallons.
Russia,s nav about one-fifth Of
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ADVENT CHRISTIAN

Fourth Street. Fourth and
Church streets. Rev. H. J. Wilson.
pastor. 10 am. Sunday school. II
am. Worship. Victory Over Five
Kings" 7 pm. Loyal Workers. 8
pm. "Christ's Man Chen in China"
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EPISCOPAL

Wrlghtsvin, St. Andrew's-9: As
am. Church school. Morning Pray.
er and sermon Rev. Thomas P.
Noe II am.
Jacksonville, st. Anne's-lo a.
m. Church school. Morning Prayer
and address F. N. Cox II am.
Tar Landing, st. Philips 4 o.
m. Church school. Evening pray.
er and sermon. Rev. Walter R.
Noe 1880 pm.
st. Luke's Mission. 1925 Spoffords
Ashley T. St. Armand, Layman ir
charge. Church school pm. Holy
Communion and address S pm.
Wesley Memorial Winter Park
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LUTHERN

st. Matthew s-17th and Ann SITS.
The Rev. Carl H. Fisher, pastor.
Sunday school 9:45 am. Worship,
II am. Every Good Tree Bring
eth Forth Good Fruit"
st. Paul Sixth and Market
streets. The Rev. Walter B. Freed,
pastor. Sunday school 9:45 am.
Service II am; sermon: auth
entic leadership"
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CATHOLIC

st. Mary's - Corner Fifth and
Ann streets, Monisignor C. E. Muir:
Ply, pastor. Rev. E. "A. Rigney
and Rev. J. H. Tevlin, assistants.
Confessions Saturday to 6; z to
y pm. Masses On Sunday at 7,
., 10, II am. end 1915 pm.
Wrightsville Beach - st. The
rese's-209 Lumina. Rev. Thomas
+. Curran, pastor. Masses on Sum
DAY at and II am. Confessions
before mass.
Carolina Beach - Immaculate
Conception - St. Jnseph's streets
Kew. Thomas e. Curran, pastor.
Mass on Sunday at 9 am. Con-
LESSONS before mass.
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INSTRUMENTATION

Castle Heights-15th and Castle
streets. Mrs. W. T. DeVane, Jr.,
leader. Sunday school 2 pm. Wor-
ship 8 pm.
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

First Church of Christ Scientist
18th and Chestnut streets. Sum-
cay service II am. Subject:
Love- Sunday school 10 am.
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COMMUNITY CHURCH

Carolina Beach-James B. Nc
Guere, pastor. Sunday school 10
am. Worship II am. "A Weeping
Penitent' followed by the Lords
supper. Worship 8 pm. Special I'M
,on service of all the churches of
Iarollna Beach. Speaker, Chap
LAIN Julian King.
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CHURCH OF CHRIT

Location in IOOF hall, Third and
Princess streets. Bible study 10
am. Lords supper II am. Wor-
ship 8 pm.
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(COIOrCuJ
CONGREGATIONAL

Gregory-Seventh and Nun SITS.
Rev. M. Williams, pastor. Sunday
school 10 am. Worship 11:15. Sub
ject "Out of the Furnace"
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CHURCH OF GOD

Located Fourth and Marsteller
streets. Rev. v. D. Combs, pastor.
Sunday school 10 am. Preaching
II am. and 7:45 pm. Radio serv-
ice $3.50 pm.
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Some mud at the bottom Of the
ocean is transparent.
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Russians pay about one-fifth O
their wages for armament.
Evening star., 1944-05-03
Prof. Leonard Dies;
Neurosis Kept Poet
In Area Near Home
Ey the Associated Press.

LS tIiS hoSOCldleO PTeSS.
MADISON, Wis, May 3-Death
came to William Ellery Leonard
yesterday, releasing the 68-year -old
University of Wisconsin English
professor, poet. scholar and author
from a 33-year spell of neurosis
that confined him within a radius
Of few blocks of his home.
The white haired poet and de-
fender of causes in which he be-
lived injustices had been done, died
of heart attack after an illness of
five days
Five years after he came to the
University of Wisconsin, Prof. Leon
ard confined himself to "phobic
prison." limiting his range of move
ment to small area. He attributed
his reluctance to venture beyond
the confines of his prison" to re-
currence of fear he suffered when
he was frightened at the age of by
a railroad locomotive.
Won Name as Poet.
Despite the mental terrors that
beSet him, Prof. Leonard won wide
repute through his many volumes of
poetry, recondite excursions into
philology, translations from Latin,
Greek, Anglo-Saxon, German and
old Morse and dramas and criticism.
Prof. Leonard opposed American
participation in the World War.
He worked for the release of labor
leader Tom Mooney from San Quen-
tin Prison in California and Joined
the campaign to save Nicola Sacco
and Martolomeo Vanzetti from elec-
trocution in Massachusetts,. One of
his earlier books, THE Lynching
Bee and Other Poems," was an angry
indictment of racial oppression.
Prof. Leonard's attack of neurosis
came shortly after the death of his
first wife, the former Charlotte
Freeman. Later he told the story
OF his terrors in book, THE Loco
motive God" which has become a
text in many psychiatric classes.
~AS oASS WAN OWL vi lllS
ship and married life with his first
wife in sonnet, 1.-TWO Lives" one
OF his best known works.
Native of New Jersey.
His second wife was Charlotte
Charlton, whom he married in 1914
and with whom he lived until she
obtained divorce in 1884. His third
wife was Grace Golden of Green
Bay, Wis, student in one of his
classes. Two years later she OBJ
tanned divorce. In 1941, Prof.
Leonard and his second wife, Char
lotte Charlton, were remarked. She
was with him when he died.
Among Prof. Leonard's other well
known works were "The Vaunt of
Man and Other Poems" Q912) and
"A Son of Earth" his collected
poems, published in 1928.
He was born in Plainfeld, N. j..
January Is, 1876.
Evening star., 1944-05-03
miss Laura Walker,
Retired Patent Office
Worker, Dies al 79

Miss Laura v. Walker, 70, native
| of Washington and retired Patent
Office employe, died yesterday at the
Home for Incurables, 3720 Uptor
street NV. after long illness.
Miss Walker was the daughter OF
the late Capt. William Henry Walker
and Mrs. Mary Virginia Wheeler
Walker. Her father was a member
of the Goth Massachusetts, Volun-
teers during the Civil War and al
one time was commissioner of pat
ents
Miss Walker lived with her sister
Mrs. May Walker Britton, 122 East
Thornapple street, Chevy Chase
Md, until a year and a half ago
She retired from the Federal service
in 1882
Miss Walker was a member of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton and former regent of Columbia
Chapter here. She also was a men,
ber of the Daughters of 1912. She
attended All Saints EpiscopaI
Church in Chevy Chase and former
ly, for many years, sang in it's choir
Besides Mrs. Britton she is sur
vived by another sister, Mrs. Grace
Walker Nettleton of Hartford, Conn
Funeral services will be held at
7:30 pm. tomorrow at the Reuben
Pumphrey funeral home, 1857 Wis
consin avenue, Bethesda, Md, with
the Rev. Charles w. Lowry, rector
of All Saints, officiating. Burial will
be private in Arlington Cemetery.