davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-08
RADIO
81 WMFD Wilmington
400 KCe

WEDNESDAY, MARCH
.:30-Family Altar.
7:45-Musical Clock.
a:OO-Daily War Journal.
3:15-Mus1cal Clock.
8:45-Toby and Suzy.
9:OO-The Breakfast Club.
lO:0O-Sweet River
1O:l5-Singo.
.O:30-U. P. News.
lo:35-Let's Dance.
11:0O-Breakfast at Sardi's.
.1:30-Gil Martyr, News.
Ii :45-Living Should Be Fun.
Capitalization Period.
12:15-Meet Your Neighbor.
12:3O-National Farm and Home Hour
1:0O-Baukhage.
1:15-Musical 1nterlude. 1855
l:25-News Wilmington Star-News.
1:30-Between the Bookends.
145-Piana Playhouse.
2:15-The Mystery Chef.
2:30-Ladies Be Seated.
3:Oo-Songs by Morton Downey.
3:15-My True Story.
a:45-Church Ppm.
4:so-Time, views the News.
4:45-The Sea Hound.
5:O0-Hop Harrisan.
5:15-U. P. News.
5:30-Lone Ranger.
6:00--Terry and the Pirates.
G:15-Sports.
6:25-News - Wilmington StarNews.
6:30-Ten, Two, Four Ranch Party.
6:45-Henry J Taylor and the News.
7:O0-Connee Boswell Presents.
5:30-Confidentially Yours.
7:45-Sundown Serenade.
s:OO-Watch the World Go By.
s:l5-ouarter Masters Quarter Hour
8:30-Maffitt Village Community Sing.
9:00-The Master Mentallst.
9:3O-Spotlight Bands.
9:55-Red Cross Ppm.
1o:OO-Raymond Gram Swing.
1C:15-Kay Armen Sings.
1O:30-Star for a Night.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-08
N. c. EGGS AND POULTRY

RALEIGH, March T. Up -
NCDA-Egg and poultry mar
kets steady.
RALE1GH-U. S. grade A large
&c sclean white) 80; hens, all weights.
20 to Is.
WASHINGTON-U. S. grade A
large 81 to 38; broilers and fry-
ers % 1-2 to 30.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-08

Approximately 142,000,OO0 tons
OF water evaporate from the sur
face of Great Britain annually,
according to scientists.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-08
FOREIGN BONDS
NEW YORK FUTURES

NEW YORK, March 7. - R -
March cotton established a new
IS year high today, selling at 20.94
cents a pound.
Increased evidence of expanding
war demand for cotton textiles
was responsible for the advance
with trade and commission houses
aggressive buyers. The rally gath
cred momentum following reports
that 100000 yards of various
constructions were needed for
quick delivery for lend lease pur-
poses.
Increased hedge selling and pro-
fit taking was easily absorbed
with final prices at the days best
levels
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-08
BUTTER AND EGGS

CHICAGO, March 7.-tRABut-
ter, firm; receipts 1,606; mar
ket unchanged.
Eggs, receipts 1850; steady;
market unchanged.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-08

Pattern 9101 comes in misses
and women's' sizes -, IA, 16, 10,
20; 80, 80, SO, SO and 40. Size Is
takes IA yards 35-inch fabric.
This pattern, together with a
needlework pattern of useful and
decorative motifs for linens and
garments, TWENTY CENTS.
Send TWENTY CENTS in coins
for these patterns to Wilmington
Morning Star, 1865 Pattern Dept. 232
West 18th St., New York II. N. Y.
Write plainly SIZE, NAME. AID.
DRESS. STYLE NUMBER.
TEN CENTS more brings our
1914 Marian Martin Spring Pat.
tern Book. New, easy-to-make
styles. Free Pattern printed in
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-08

Mount Massive, Colorado, is the
second largest mountain in con-
tinental Unite States, Mount
Whitney being largest.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-08
N. C. HOGS

RALEIGH, March T. Up -
NCDA)-Hog markets steady
with tops of 1885 at Rocky Mount
and 1885 at Richmond.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-08
FINANCIAL NEWS
Stock Market Quotations
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NJ A R K E T S
--At-A-Glance--
NEW YORK

NEW YORK
STOCKS-Higher; blue chips
lead recovery.
Bonds-Steady; investment
issues in demand.
COTTON-Firm; March at
new IS year high.
CHICAGO
WHEAT-Closed 3-8 to IL
cent up; sympathy with Sc
curities, cotton.
RYE-Finished Ia to 3-4 up;
sympathy win securities, cot
ton.
HOGS-Active, generality Is
to Is cents up. Top $14.10.
CATTLE-Fed steers barely
steady. Top $3.50.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-08
CHARLOTTE SPOT

CHARLOTTE, March T. Up -
Spot Cotton 2l.00.
Evening star., 1944-12-13
IN THE MODERN MANOR.

It's modern and maple for the home Of todoy Designed
for any manor whether house or apartment, because
it comes to the point in direct and friendly way.
Don't be formal; just enjoy YOURSELF" its rooms soy
Modern for simplicity, maple for wormth-the exoct
ingredients for hopPy atmosphere! And now, The
mopIe-functionoI design for living today!
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-06
PUPILS EXCLUDED
FROM JOB QUOTAS

New Hanover teachers and stu
dents who have worked at summer
jobs during the school vacation
period, to end with the scheduled
opening of schools September 49,.
will not be counted against the
employers hiring quotas, Felix A.
Scroggs, manager Of U. S. Employ
ment service announced yester.
day.
Between $50 and 300 high school
students have been employed this
summer, Scroggs estimated.
Teachers in the state school
system, he explained, are not sub
ject to the Employment Stabiliza-
ton program, and may quit at will
to return to their teaching jobs.
However, their employers are re-
quired to obtain from them a sign
ed statement that they are return
ing to the teaching profession, as a
protection to the employer.
In case teachers decide to con-
tinue in industrial or commercial
jobs, they are subject to the
sterilization program and their
movement from one non-teaching
job to another is controlled BY the
priorities' referral plan, Scroggs
said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-06
EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE
PUT AT 100000
Continued from Page One)

which sounded as though all hell
had opened up and let loose said
Constable Eddie Firm of Cornwall,
where more than 1000 persons in
ran to the streets.
Women were fainting all over
the place." Firm commented.
Some of them were crying nys-
terically. Children were crying
and screaming too. By the time
the people reached the, street most
of the damage was done. There
were no casualties
Two Cornwall schools, the Cole
giate Institute and Vocational
school and the public school, were
so seriously damaged that inspec.
tors ruled the buildings unsafe. A
number of homes in Cornwall were
damaged. Chimneys toppied from
some.
In other localities the damage
consisted chiefly of broken win.
dows and the breaking of objects
that fell from shelves.
Tall buildings such as the Gus.
tom house tower in Boston and
the boardwalk hotels in Atlantic
City, swayed slightly.
Sleepers were awakened in the
heavily-populated Brooklyn anc
Queens sections of New York city,
but the Bronx and Manhattan
were. unaffected.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-06
WPB Will End Production
Controls. Except For War
Continued from Page One)


First to assure full military pro-
duction until Japan is defeated and
second, to free civilian enterprise
to the utmost.
Industry will be allowed, ac-
cording to the availability of mar.
kets, men, materials and plants 'tc
do the swiftest and most effective
job possible of restoring produc'
ton, making whatever people want
and affording maximum employ
nent, just as quickly as possible, y
Krug said.
Under the plan there will be
only one preference rating, in ad.
dit:on to the present emergency
triple-A rating, and this will be
reserved exclusively for military
programs during the war against
Japan.
All other production will be IN.
rated. and manufacturer will be
permitted to accept unrated ar
ticlcs but they will be required to
fill rated military orders ahead Of
other business.
After Ge-many's defeat there
will be no "p-ogramming" of ci'
william production.
Krug said maximum civilian out
put could be achieved without de-
tailed priorities regulation from
Wa shington.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-06
ADVANCE
OVER TWO FRONTS
Continued from Page One)


Moscow communique announced,
among them the important centers
of Draganesti, Pitesti and Rosio-
irii-De-Vede.
The days fighting in Poland put
the Soviet troops in possession of
the important railway town Of Wy
skow, 26 miles northeast of War
saw between the capital and Lom-
"a, and the town of Rzhekun, two
miles below the big communica-
tons center of Ostroleka, % miles
south of the East Prussian border.
It also placed them on the Narew
river at many points. Warsaw thus
was being steadily outflanked and
Lomza virtually encircled.
The Germans had admitted the
day previously that the. Russians
made breaches in Nazi defense
lines in the Wyszkow area, and to-
day the Berlin radio admitted the
Narew had been crossed at one
point and said, this sector has
become the sustaining storm CEN
ter of the Eastern front.
1.-THE Russians have put three
armies into the field here in order
to achieve decisive breakthrough.
although our reserves stopped
the enemy from achieving his aim,
fighting continues in full fury"
The Russians said their drive
there had mopped up more than
100 towns and was continuing.
While the guns were stilled by
an armistice on the Finnish front,
the Russians announced the Ger
mas still had the power to coun-
ter attack strongly in Estonia
around Tartu but were beaten off
with heavy losses.
Retirement of Finland from the
war releases two Soviet armies
which will be available for the
Baltic and Polish campaigns or for
use farther south against the new
enemy, Bulgaria.
In declaring war on Bulgaria,
foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Mo-
lotov said that country, although
technically not at war with Russia,
had aided the Germans against the
Soviet Union for more than three
years and now had not taken adj
vantage of a chance to get out OF
the German partnership.
1t was estimated in London that
Bulgaria had about 20 good divi-
sions to face the Russian invasion,
plus the help of small German
garrison. However, Moscow &C.
counts said many Bulgarian forces
were expected to welcome the Rus
slams. In any event, Bulgarian de-
Tense will be weakened by the pres
ence of Bulgarian police troops in
Greece and YugoSlavia.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-06
Baker Named Acting
President Of use.

COLUMBIA, S. c., Sept. 5-R-
Dr. Leonard T. Baker, dean of the
iscultv and former president Of
+se University of South Carolina,
vas appointed acting president of
he college today, succeeding DR..
! Rion McKissick who died Sun
day and was buried on the cam
pus tonight. j,
Gov. DIN D. Johnson, president
Of the university board of trus-
tees. said Baker mad been asked to
serve until McKissick's successor
vas named. Baker was named
acting president in 1925, president
in 1881, serving until he resigned
in 1886. He was succeeded by Nc
NsSick
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-06
NAVAL, AIR FORCES
BLAST PACIFIC FOE
CONTINUED from Page One)

Virtually all the plane and ship
ping losses inflicted on the Jap
anese were in that area. There
was not a sign of the japanese
1leet, although Chichi is only 615
miles south of Tokyo and Haha
and Two little farther.
Extensive damage was wreaked
on enemy installations on the three
islands, where 1876 tons of bombs
were dropped and 400 rockets fired.
There was no estimate of the
weight of shells fired by cruisers
and destroyers.
Wake, at the northeast corner Of
the rectangle, was shelled and
bombed last Sunday. Enemy
ground fire was ineffective. Again
there was extensive damage to
defenses.
Pagan, Rota and Maug islands,
in the Marianas south of the Vol
canos, were bombed several times
between Aug. 81 and Sept. 2.
Lighter raids fell on Nauru, in
the southeast corner of the action
theater; in the Marshalls, between
Wake and Nauru, on Ponape and
Truk in the Carolines, west of the
Marshalls, and on Paramushiro, in
the Kuriles, 1880 miles north Of
Tokyo.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-06
Surplus Army Trucks
Are Sold To Farmers

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5-tR-
Through the cooperation of the War
Food Administration and the Treas
ury departments office of surplus
property, 1000 surplus army trucks
have been sold to farmers and
truckers for emergency movement
Of farm products, the treasury an
nounced today.
A group of surplus" trucks were
routed to Tennessee farmers to
transport limestone for soil con-
seWation purposes, and a group Of
go vehicles helped move a large
North Carolina Tobacco crop which
otherwise might have persisted.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-06
SPOT CHECK

A spot check of retailers
selling fruit cakes to learn If
the manufacturer had stamped
each cake with the ceiling re-
tail price was started yester-
day by the New Hanover War
Price and Rationing board un-
der orders from the Raleigh
District OPA. The retail ceiling
price on boxed and wrapped
fruit cakes is required to be
marked by the manufacturer.
On other kinds of cakes, the
retailer establishes his ceiling
price for unlocked and unwrap-
ped items by adding rs per
cent over the net cost.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-06
HUNGARY TO STAY
ON GERMAN SIDE
Continued from Page One)

accepted the resignation of the
Tuka cabinet and, according to the
German radio, handed the premier
ship to a relative, Stephan Tisn.
who also became minister of for
eign affairs and justice.
The Slovak radio at Bradshaw
meanwhile confirmed that it was
officers in the Slovak army who
started the revolt and "proclaim-
ed restoration of the Czechp-Slovak
republic
A Czech communique distributed
in London said the Germans had
thrown two fresh tank-supported
divisions into Sloyakia to try to put
down the patriots, thus making four
German divisions in action ia that
mountainous little territory.
Patriot forces announced they
had established temporary capt.
tai at Banska-Bystrica which was
captured from the nazis in the pre-.
liminary stages of the rebellion.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-06

from Metz, also was battling in
the outskirts of Strasbourg, French
border city on the Rhine, 70 miles
east of Nancy.
The American broadcasting sta
ton in Europe said in French
language broadcast that 1t. Gen.
George S. Patton's forces have
entered Nancy"
None of these reports drew any
comment from the supreme COM
mand, and so complete. was tn e
radio silence from the front that
when the news finally is given out,
there may well be sensational dis
closures.
Headquarters announced only
that there had been a general east
ward advance from the Verdun re-
gion. Carried far enough this ad-
vance inevitably would reach Saar-
brucken and Germany. In the case
of Hodges first army troops, the
blackcut was lifted trifle to per-
NIT a report that in one pocket
around Mons in Belgium they had
taken 5000 prisoners and destroy.
ed or captured 1900 vehicles and
40 tanks.
While there was no confirmation
OF reports that Aachen and Saar
brucken had been taken, the q
hour silence would have given Pat
toms advance columns ample time
to slash rs miles ahead. He has ad
vanced as much in a three day
period in the past.
While the drive against the Sieg.
fried line in the north was threat
ened by the third army, another
assault against this last ditch
Nazi defense before the Fatherland
impended in the South. A press dis.
patch from the third army said
only 80 miles now separates them
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-06
CANADIANS DRIVE
FOE BACK IN ITALY
Continued from Page One)

mini, terminus of a vital highway
through the Pc valley.
Between Florence and the Medi-
terranean the American fifth army,
after securing dominating ridges
and high hill country east of Pisa,
moved forward along broad front.
One column reached the south
banks Of the Serchio river and ap-
preached the outskirts Of Lucca. 10
miles northeast of Pisa.
Six important roads funnel
through Lucca and the presence of
doughboys at its gates represented
gain of more than five miles in
that sector. An allied communique
announced that all high ground
south of the Lucca-Pistoia-F Florence
road had been occupied by fifth
army troops.
Allied forces both east and west
OF Florence were forced to endure
heavy artillery fire, but in the
main picture was one of steady al
lied progress, with the Germans
yielding quantities of men and
equipment in a hopeless effort to
arrest the advance.
leaning up with ground forces,
some 1900 allied heavy, medium
and fighter-bombers made a whole.
sale onslaught against communica.
tons in northern Italy When they
completed their mass destruction
few useable highways or railways
remained as supply or retire a!
routes for the nazis defending the
Gothic line.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-06
BIC 3 TO CONSULT
FRANCE ON PLANS
Continued from Page One)

mission for the time being that if
it is revised along multi-national
lines into an Allied high commits
sion for Europe, France as well as
some of the smaller European
powers will be assigned member
ship. Nor is it expected immedi-
ately, at least, that France will be
included in the top control COM
mission for Germany but French
representatives will be asked, to
take important places in the Allied
control machinery. The topmost
body will be a tripartite commits
sions of American, British and
Russian military men.
The subject Of the future of
France is becoming one of the
critical questions In Allied diploma
cy. It has been roundly discus
sed in the three-powe- world Sc
curity talks at Dumbarton Oaks
where the opinion apparently is
that sooner or later France will
have one Of the important seats in
the council of the proposed peace
organization.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-06
COOLER WEATHER
EXPECTED TODAY
,e Associated Press

By The Associa'eo hioss'
, m southerners looked
~ ~ronised relief today from
Sf sr.tures that rose above the
fe''p ,, mark in several cities yes
t'l l,sttsst reported spot in the
h '.seast yesterday was the
Satn 's+s Ca, airport where a
Apgas ,,,,n Of 1O2 degrees was
'' eso1ing winds from the north
C " will keep temperatures out
Fes ,.o 90 degree range today, the
o. liner n" bureau said.
Te aaa1umbus, Ga, and Columbia,
sweltered under tempera-
5. w. # 100 degrees. It was the
ales sa " consecutive day of 1OO-de-
'ss sa weather for Columbia.
Fet Jacksonville, Fla, Charles
IN ~ $, C., and Savannah Ca, the
' 'a,. " hit SO. Tallahassee, Fla,
pe l brunswick, Ca, had high
.se.m a Of 81.
''a . higb Of 96 was recorded at
a.. &c Ca, and Florence, S. c.,
s .norted a maximum of s5.
's ppJ;r-m mi, high reading was
A D the same as Atlanta. At Valdos-
y ~ e. "a. and Fort Bragg, N. c.,
sIaa,sneratures of SO degrees were
reported r. .,d % daor.o
rsstber and Charlotte, N. c., and
e. s' petersburg, Fla, registered a
D' New Orleans, Chattanooga, and
,.,s,sh-had maximum readings
# 90 degrees. Afternoon thunder
:. .howers held the New Orleans
temperature four dear, degrees under
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-06

from forward elements Of the
Seventh army in tn e southern
France invasion, and o t h e r re-.
ports from the south said the sew
enth army had occupied Pontar-
lier and was driving hard for the
Belfort gap and the German bor-
der.
Significantly, heavy Allied bomb
ers plastered the Karlsruhe rail-
yards through which the Ger
mans must funnel reinforcements
to Strasbourg and the Saarbrucken
area.
Other reports said American
forces had crossed the German
frontier on 100 mile line. These
reports located the operations at
Aachen, 10 miles east of Brussels;
at Perl, near the juncture Of the
French Luxembourg frontier, and
at point somewhere on the north
east frontier of Luxembourg.
Associated Press Correspondent
Yves Gallagher reported from the
Third army that American patrols
were pushing along The west bank
of the Moselle river. This could
place them anywhere along the
Moselle up to the German Lux
embourg frontier.
Some idea of the force OF t h
third army drive was given in 4
front report which said thus far
1t. Gen. George S. Patton's men
had inflicted 10000 casualties on
the enemy in the race from Brit
tany to the Reich frontier-76,000
prisoners, 1880 dead and $4,000
wounded.
Apparently baffled by the =
lence surrounding movements q
men under Patton and Hodges, tho
Germans admitted deep breaches
in their lines in Northern France.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-06
Police Arrest Negro
On Lottery Charges

City police arrested James
Davis, 29-year-old Negro, at 7:30
o'clock last night on two charges in
connection with the operation of
a lottery and numbers racket, it
was reported by police last night.
Davis<is charged with dealing
in lotteries on exchange quotations.
A second warrant charges posses
sion of tickets, tokens, certificate
and order blanks used in operating
a lottery on the butter and egg
stock exchanges" said police.
Davis operates fish stand at
SIG Campbell street. FIe posted a
$500 bond on each charge and will
appear before Judge H. Winfield
Smith this morning in Recorder S
court.
Last nights raid was conducted
by Detective Sgt. L. B. Rourk. Ar
resting officers seized between
$3.50 and 5000 in money.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-06
Fairmont Leaf Sales
Amount To $6,437,646

Sales on the Fairmont tobacco
market so far this season total A.,
582, 944 pounds with the farmers re-
ceiving $6,437, 64611 at an average
of $44.14 per 100 pounds, c. B.
Stafford, supervisor OF the Fair
mont Tobacco Board of Trade,
Inc, said today.
For the period from August %
to September /, 5,777,530 pounds
were sold for $2,555, 1921 at an
average of $44.23..
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-06
FIRST ARMY FORTY
MILES OVER BORDER
Continued from Page One)

\0VAtAAAON lIVuA 0AC OAOJ
fortified because the Nazis had ex-
pected an invasion there.
The garrison at Boulogne, al
though hopelessly cut off, is believ-
ed to have set up anti tank gun
screens and artillery and mortar
batteries for defense of the port.
Polish forces operating under r
Canadian command moved up to
St. Omer, 20 miles southeast of
Calais and % miles south of Dun
kerque. On this flank it is con-
sidered probable the Germans will
be able to swing some of their anti
invasion defense guns into position
against allied columns advancing
from the south and east.
In the long narrow coastal pocket
from which ne robot bombs were
hurled against England Tuesday
elements of three German divisions
h ave been identified and others
may be in the trap. The encircle'
ment of these Germans was com.
pleted when the British took Ant
werp, virtually intact.
The Germans displayed u h
haste in leaving Antwerp that they
apparently did not have t m tt
complete demolitions. But t h {
great port cannot be used until the
Germans are driven from other for
tress points commanding the
Scheldt river estuary. This British
second army advance had repre-
scented a six day gain from thu
Seine of more than 210 miles.
AS the British and American!
registered these gains,44 Luxem
bourg's prime minister broadcas
triumphant welcome to the AL
lies and said the Germans were
fleeing across the little Duchy to
ward the Reich.
The Swiss French frontier dis
patches said American armor
which stormed into German soil
from Belgium to Aachen, 70 mile:
east of Brussels, and into Saar
brucken, five miles across the
Reich frontier and about 80 mile'
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-06
RECRUITING STATION
MOVES TO POSTOFFICE

The U. S. Army Recruiting sta
ton, with an increased staff, has
moved from the Southern building
to new offices on the second floor
of the postoffice. The new tele-
phone number is 2-1126.
The territory covered by the sta
ton has been greatly enlarged.
Under command of 1t. Helen L.
Madden, it will handle all recruit
ing in New Hanover, Bladen,
Brunswick, Columbus, Pender and
Robson counties for the Air
Corps Enlisted Reserve and the
Women's Army Corps.
Enlistment of men over SO
years of age as ambulance drivers
has been temporarily closed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-06
PIN FOUND

A Red Cross nurses pin, be-
longing to Miss Ruth Evelyn
B'escancon, has been found at
James Walker Memorial hospi-
tai. Anyone knowing the pres
ent address of Miss Bescancon
is asked to call the Red Cross
office, phone 2-2683, or Miss
Wright, at the hospital, phone
9611.