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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-25
Youth, Is, CHARGED
In MOTHERS DEATH

NE NEW YORK, July 24.-(R,- John
Wiz, tteF safranek, 10, was charged
n ~iui homicide today after he ad-
,, -''eo Strangling his mother be-
~'aSe ne didn't like her."
PoAce said the youth told them
committed the crime Sunday
e 45i' When his mother, Mrs. Dora
,'1fdnek aWoke to find him TAX
. " from her pause for movie
money"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-25
FORECAST

VII MINGTON AND VICINITY: Fair
10 partly cloudy today, becoming rather
hot this afternoon.
Temperatures yesterday: High 86; Low
CT.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-12
Your Big Chance To Help

Wilmington's big hearted people have ran
sacked their homes time and again for furnl-
ture to make camp day rooms and hospital
recreation rooms habtable.
Thus far the call has been for service to
troops in this vicinity. Now an opportunity is
offered to make life more comfortable for a
military unit in foreign service.
Maybe some of our own boys are in this
particular group Isn't the chance to do this
sufficient to spur everybody to renew the
hunt or go to the store and buy the articles
solicited for them?
These men are on fighting front They
are in contact with the enemy They know
what this war is, what it costs in blood and
anguish Surely the little We can do to make
their few hours of rest more comfortable can
involve no actual sacrifice for US.
Here is the list: Three radios preferably
with short wave band; three victrolas and
500 records; so units Of fishing tackle; two
pianos; 25 bridge tables; plenty Of song
books, with or without music and II, 900 trink-
ets-beads, bracelets, costume jewelry, stuff
like that for trading.
These articles are needed within week.
They are to be in charge Of the Camp and
Hospital Council of the Red Cross, OF which
Mrs. R. B. Page is chairman. telephone
message to her, -23284-will bring a vehicle
to your door to collect any item in the list.
Or call Red Cross headquarters, $685. Better
still, take your gift direct to the Red Cross
office in the Custom House, with entrance on
the Market street side.
Shipping arrangements have been complet-
ed, even for the pianos.
The time is short Act today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-12
Waste Paper Still Needed

Lest anyone forget the waste paper drive
since the intensive campaign ended be it
known that every bit, whether from the waste
basket or the library table in the form Of
newspapers or magazines, is needed for the
all too small stockpile. Only by keeping Up
steady flow Of waste paper into the mills for
reprocessing will we be able to maintain the
necessary flow of war materials to the fight
ing fronts
The Junior Red Cross is still collecting
waste paper. They will take care of your
contributions if you make your delivery at
any public school. Or if you can't deliver it,
the Juniors will find way to get it.
Furthermore, the Brigade Boys Club is also
still collecting paper at the house. With but
one truck the Brigade is taking addresses of
homes where paper is awaiting delivery and
as often as fair sized truckload is in sight
goes after it. This may involve a short wait
but everybody who phones the Brigade may
be sure their paper will be gathered up.
1t is planned to set up number of ad-
ditional repositories throughout the city for
the convenience of householders. AS soon as
the locations are selected they will be pub
lished. The main idea is to get in all the
paper there is and make its gathering AS
easy on contributors possible
Keep boarding your waste paper If posi-
BILE take it to the nearest school or to the
Brigade. If you can't do this, get in touch
with the Brigade or Red Cross Junior. and
it will be collected.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-12
Get On With The Job

The proposal to carry the city's water sup
ply pipeline to Kings Bluff appears to have
the governments blessing, at last, with the
provision that it be constructed from Green S
Ferry to the upriver destination Of cast iron
instead of lock-joint reinforced concrete mas
much as the original plan was to use cast
iron throughout there can be no reasonable
objection to the substitution.
Although the Council had received no Of
ficial notification Of the WPB decision up to
the time this was written, the message to this
newspaper from the Richmond office is &C.
cepted as indicating the boards position, and
that the work may now proceed. In this case,
it is advisable to note that some six miles
Of piping remains to be laid between the
present northerly end Of the project and
Green's Ferry and the material to be used
would be the lock-joint type of pipe already
laid southwark from the turnout at Hood S
Creek to that point. It is understood that
some two miles Of this pipe is on the ground
ready for laying.
The distance from Green's Ferry to King S
Bluff is another six miles This means that
approximately twelve miles of pipe remain to
be laid. How quickly the six miles Of iron
pipe could be delivered is still to be deter.
mined There is one plant in southern Vir.
ginia which might be prepared to rush the
order through. The bulk Of iron pipe manu-.
featured in the South comes from the Biz.
mingham district. 1t might prove advanta.
geous to draw upon this source despite the
greater distance. But it is rumored that one
southern plant has enough iron pipe on HAND
to complete the job. If this were bought there
would be no production delay.
These are matters for the city and the
contractors to settle They are competent t.
make the decision. The one thing the public
is interested in, above all others, is thai
no unnecessary delay be permitted longer tt
interfere with completion of the project
If the way is actually cleared to get or
with the job, let's be at it. The people hav.
put, up with salty and upsidedown water al
together too long
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-12
Daily Prayer
FOR RESTRAINT OF EVIL

With sorrow, and yet with reso-
luton, we envisage, o King Eter-
nal the forces of evil that en-.
compass our service men and our
Country. We behold the tempta-
tons that assail them, in camp
and in field. We SILVER at the
power and persistence of these
evil forces that are attacking the
citadel of Mansoul. For what Will
it profit us if we win the war but
lose the moral integrity of our
young men and young women,
upon whom Thou hast placed the
task of creating a new world?
Make bare Thy mighty arm, @
God, and save our sons and daugh.
tiers. Arouse Thy Church to holy
passion for militant effort in be.
half of our imperiled dear ones.
Help us to help them remain loyal
to Thee. Endow us with a new
zeal for righteousness, well know.
ing that the real outcome of this
war is to be decided in the hearts
of men. Arouse us from our sornno-
lence and Indifference, in a fresh
consciousness that the Son of God
has gone forth to war, Grant us
wisdom and perseverance in every
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-12
BY JOHN sELBY
1.-THE Navy Hunts the CGR 3070,''
by 1t. Lawrance Thompson, U.

Lie NAVY nuutS Tie NU6 SVJV,
by 1t. Lawrance Thompson U.
S. N. r. Doubleday; $1.75.
Still another brightly colored lit.
tie piece has been set into the
gigantic literary war mosaic, this
time by 1t. Lawrance Thompson,
U.S.NR. Lieutenant Thompson is
telling the story Of the ''Hooligan
Navy" and particularly of mi
nor epic out of the wars early
days-the remarkable hunt for the
lost yawl ''Zaida."
Long Island Sound yachtsmen
nearly all know the "Zaida," which
is the little ship built by the great
sailmaker George Ratsey to com
bine cruising ability. speed, beau
ty and comfort each in as great
a degree as possible.
After Pearl Harbor the subma.
rine trouble off our Atlantic coast
suddenly flared, and with it came
the knowledge that we had not
the needed patrol vessels, n
could not have for some time.
Then Alfred Stanford commodore
OF the Cruising Club Of America,
suggested that at least temporarily
it would be practical to use cruis.
ing craft of any seaworthy size on
patrol and as rescue ships. His
project was not too popular with
the Navy, but eventually. it was
tried. That was where the "Zaida''
entered the picture.
Her skipper was 4 C.P.O. who
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-12
SCHOOL CHILDREN
TO AID 9TH LOAN

Bond leaders here disclosed
Tuesday that $4,000 New Hanover
school children will take part in
the Fourth War Loan campaign
by conducting a treasure hunt, :"
the aim of which will be to OBJ
tain pledges from Wilmingtonians
that they will convert war stamp
albums into war bonds.
The pledge coupons Will be dis
tributed among the county school
children at an early date, and
their part of the drive will be
conducted Immediately under the
supervision of school teachers, &C.
cording to a plan worked out Mon.
day afternoon by bond officials,
Superintendent of Schools H. M
Roland, and principals of all coun
ty schools.
AS a reward for their efforts
school pupils in each grade who
accomplish the greatest results
will be entitled to attend a free
cartoon and comedy to be shown
at the Bailey theater at $50 a. m
Saturday, February II.
Signed pledges to the effect thai
stamp albums will be converted
into bonds must be submitted by
pupils to their teachers on or be-
fore February 9. The teachers will
award movie tickets on February
II.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-12

pastirne with the light-fingered gentry 1t is
vocation of many.
And those engaged in it are not all in
the hardened criminal class Not by any
means. Women, heads of families and ado
lescent boys and girls are in it. Recently
twenty-six men and women were convicted
in Detroit on charges of stealing government
checks. The tip-off came when woman tried
to cash a check at department store and
was arrested by store detective as she tried
to get away. In Boston a seventeen-year old
boy also nabbed in a department store, con-
fessed he had stolen the check from an apart
ment house mail box.
Two girls thirteen and fifteen years old,
were caught stealing government checks from
hallway mail boxes in st. Louis They were
in the habit of turning the checks over to
their mother, who found ways of turning them
into cash. Two children were taken into GUS
tody in Texas with three adults who had
trained them to fitch government checks from
the mails, following. postmen as they made
their rounds.
With the Treasury distributing Armv and
Navy allotments, social security benefits, bond
redemptons, farm subsidies and salary checks
in unprecedented numbers, thieves are find
ing the plckings very much to their liking
1t is incumbent upon stores, banks and in
dividuals to be on the alert at all times against
these new sWlndlers A good rule is to cash
checks only for persons well known to them
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-12
Case For The FBI

We are still wondering what happened in
the New York OPA office after the telephone
was hung up.
AN anxious woman called to inquire the
ceiling price on gasoline coupons She had
received one offer at cents and another al
III cents, she said, and she didn't want to
violate regulations by paying more than the
ceiling
The story as reported by the newsoapers
stopped after an OPAer told the woman that
the government did not fix black market
prices There must have been sequel. What
was it? We'd like to know.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-12
The Literary Guidepost

had been playing Buck Rogers on
the radio, and her executive officer
was an employee of New York
bank. The crew ranged from col
lege boys to a longshoreman-
boilermaker, all with some expe-
rience in sail and all different
enough to cause a certain amount
of strain when cooped up together
for days on end in the cabin of a
57-foot yawl. But the work got
done, until the third of December,
1912. Then the yawl was warned of
an approaching gale - after the
gale had struck.
The events that followed have
the strange inevitability that seems
always to be the case in such
stories. Time and again rescue was
IN sight, and the yawl was not
sighted. She was actually in tow
once by British destroyer head
ed Tor Halifax, but the line parted
III the storm and contact was new
er reestablished. Planes flew over.
head: the Navy organized a drag
net that could not have been more
elaborate if battleship had been
az stake, three of the crew were
injured, the food ran low. pack
ages OF food and drugs were drop
pea Tor the yawl and lost - it
sounds like fate trying to crush a
tough little craft. and so it was
1t lasted three weeks, and came
to an end in a big juicy climax.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-12
Raymond Clapper Says:
War Has Been Pushed
Away From Australia

adjustments when American SOL
diers return to the States. Army
and Navy people are agreed on
the importance of prompt action.
This is something they feel Con-
gress could do as a real help to
many servicemen's families.
AS one officer said, when an
American man comes out here SO
far from home to fight for his
country, and while here marries
an Australian girl, the least our
country can do for him is to per-
NIT him to bring his wife back
as an American citizen without 60.
ing through the tedious process
of naturalization.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-12
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA,
(By wireless)-Once Australia was
our last toehold in the western
Pacific, and there was real ques-
ton whether the Japs might not
get in. The streets here are still
covered with wood and wire pro-
tectors.
But the war has been pushed
far away from Australia. This is
now rear area, and not very
exciting to the men out here. They
want to get up close to the front.
It's like Algiers with relation to
the war in Italy.
Here as in the United States,
where 1 was only few days ago,
it's a home-front war. Australia
is just coming around to meat
rationing. Starting Jan. II each
person is to be allowed only 2 IL
pounds of meat a week, and chill
dren half of that. This may seem
high in those parts of America
where we seldom see steaks any
more, but Australians have always
been heavy meat eaters, averaging
five pounds week.
Australia is experiencing severe
inflationary pressure, and there is
much discussion of the strain on
price control. There is some agita-
ton for compulsory savings to ease
the inflationary pressure. Unspent
purchasing power is large. Con-
sumption of meat is up one-third,
and sales of ice cream have dou-
bled, so both must be rationed.
Housewives already find almost
everything else rationed, including
clothing-even the cheapest house
slippers. You can walk through a
big red-front Woolworth store and
find ration coupons demanded for
many articles.
The servant problem is severe.
For instilce, an American consul
had some friends in the night I
arrived. His wife and daughter
worked all day preparing the food
themselves.
Australia is not ordinarily con-
sidered a crossroads, but rather
the end of the line, as General
MacArthur's friends complain, yet
have already seen many old
friends here.
One of the first l saw was Phil
LaFollette, former Governor of
Wisconsin and now a lieutenant
colonel on General Macarthur
staff, working on press relations.
Also Col. Robert Ginsburgh, who
for years wrote speeches for high
officials in the War Department.
And many others who can't be
mentioned. Also here I have met
some famous people I should have
known in the States long before
this, such as DR.. Karl Compton,
Nobel Prize winner and head OF
the Massachusetts, Institute OF
Technology
One of the best-known figures in
Australia is Miss Mary Browne,
the former tennis star, who is here
with the Red Cross field service
and will soon return to the States
/ for the War Bond drive. She has
been at the front much of the
time. and she is going home with
a feeling that the war in the South.
west Pacific has been much ne.
elected.
Miss Browne is especially inter-
ested in obtaining legislation which
would permit American soldiers to
bring Australian wives back home
without encountering citizenship
difficulties. This would involve
amendment of the Cable Act.
There is a strong feeling among
the military here that this should
be done. Otherwise there will be a
large number Of difficult family
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-12
Draft Delinquents .
Are Listed By Board

City Draft Board No. release
Tuesday the names of five "il' ~
men and Is Negroes who taileo "
report for physical examlnarlo,d5
and induction when ordered 'l u;
who are notified now to lm1le0'
ately contact the draft Office
The white men are Ralph GU
dens, Robert McRae IaEI,',
Claude Howard farrell, Jr., JOIN
O'Day. and Joseph Foster oA4P
per, Jr. u
The Negroes are Norwood itaai
Willie Augusta Hansley, Mai-ns,
Canty, Nathaniel Davis, cav"
Holmes, Jr., Harvey James h,ns'
Walter Pete, John Kennedy, Fou'
ert Coley, John Wesley RAMA.
Vince Wilder, Jr., Robert Dousl@'
Graham, Samuel Edward Co5'o.,
Pearley Andrew Powers, a"'
Mace Walters.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-12
Our Chief Aim
To aid in every way the prosecution Of
the war to complete Victory.
THOUGHTS FOR TODAY

A welI-beloved minister died some years
ago in a midwest town, shortly after MS
retirement, and the local paper said tnat
the town might well have paid him salary
just to walk up and down the street. What
a tribute to a l0ve-lit face!
Quoted by Joseph Fort Newton.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-12
Check Stealing Increases

With the government approaching a dis
bursement rate of one million checks day
new racket has made its appearance in
this troubled land which bids fair to cost in
nocent persons an astronomical sum of money
if stop is not put to it in a hurry. Govern
ment check stealing has become more than
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-12
Area Camp And Hospital
Council To Meet Soon

NEW BERN, Jan. 1.-THE camp
and hospital council of the Ameri
can Red Cross in the Camp Davis
New River, Cherry Point area
will meet Thursday at Camp Davis.
it has been announced by Mrs
John D. Robinson, of Wallace.
new chairman Ct the council.
Members will attend from mA,y
parts of eastern North Carolina
and will be guests of the Camp
Davis authorities.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-12
SPIES EXECUTED

GIBRALTAR, Jan. 11-3R-Illie'
Spaniards convicted as spies "7i'
executed here TODAY
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-12

effort to restrain and defeat the
Evil One. Thine will be the glory
and ours the reward. Amen. -
w. T. F.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-12

WASHINGTON-When the shooting is over
it is not unlikely that a big share of the vic.
tory credit will go to something about which
so little is known that it's almost "secret
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-15

my brother telephoned me and per
suaded me TO bring the parchment to
his apartment. But after / got there
we had quarrel. He tried to grab
it. Blanca had bought the pistol for
my protection. l pulled it from my
pocket and shot him. 1t was the
codeX curse"
Jose was held for trial on a murder
charge. Blanca, pretty brunette, was
detained as a material witness.
The Guatemalan ambassador asked
the Mexican government to impound
the parchment because it had been
Struggled into Mexico in violation of
a treaty barring the importation of
valuable historical objects.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-15

AZtecS, was one of the few relics TO
escape when the emissaries Of CorteZ
burned the sacred Aztec archives in
the market place at T1atelolco.
II never could have gotten this old
copy so cheaply," Leyva said, except
that it's supposed TO bring misfortune
to anyone who has it. The Aztec
priests. you know. invoked a curse
when their books were burned.
The man l got it from said his
grandfather had taken il in payment
from man who had gone bankrupt.
The man who had it before that had
been murdered in his sleep. After the
grandfather acquired it, his wife died
and his business failed"
Lcyva thought he could get a good
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-15

them. AS he entered the room he
saw Blanca hurriedly hide the docu-
ment in her handbag. From the mo
ment he learned what il was he was
determined TO get possession of ii.
A few days later Roberto returned.
1--WE been talking 10 some friends"
he said, land one of them has offered
me $4,000 for that Aztec manuscript
IL it is authentic. Let me have it TO
show TO him"
Jose demurred, The parchment
didn't belong to him, he pointed out,
and he had no right to be considering
offers for its purchase. Roberto de
parted angrily.
Last night" Jose told the police,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-15

brary at Dresden, Germany, found
the original codex in the 18th century
in the possession of a Vienna house
holder, who had no idea of its worth
and gladly gave it to him. Cote gave
it to the library. Its current value has
been estimated at a million dollars.
How much of the curse of the Aztec
priests the codex has retained is any
body'S guess, since ii has remained
inviolate in the librarys showcases.
However, Lord Kingsborough, first
to copy it after the unnamed Jesuit
scriveners, was jailed for non-pay-
ment of his paper bill and died there
Comparatively few copies of it have
been made, even in modern times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-15

NduOT. III GduIe-
mala they had met
r. Pinot Leyva, a
young student who
also was bound for
the United States.
He had showed Jose
an ancient d ocu.
ment he had just
b GU g ut from a
friend for $50 quet-
Zals, about $3.50.
A &c darkened.
frayed and faded
but still legible, it
consisted of two
\ strips of parchment
b b out "a inches
Tong and five inches
wide. on which Jes.
uit artists of the
10th century, so
Leyva said, had cop
led tn e principal
portion Of the Ores
den Codex, oldest
and most mysteri-
Gus remnant of the
AIayan culture.
This codex, or
book, which h a q
found its way into
the hands of the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-15
MEXICO CITY

A strangely as IL had begun,
the course of an ancient
Y curse-ridden parchment end
ed the other day in the center of this
former Aztec citadel-not far from
where 1t started 400 years ago.
A policeman knocked at the door
of the hotel room occupied by Jose
Uiioa, son OF the former mayor OF
Santa Ana, San Salvador.
"Your brother has killed himself"
he said. "Please come with me. DR..
Jose Galan, of the Bureau of Criminal
Investigation, wishes to see you"
Jose accompanied the policeman to
the quarters of his brother, Roberto,
a dentist who had been exiled from
San Salvador for political reasons.
.Roberto's body lay on the floor With
a bullet hole through the head. DR..
Galan was lingering the pistol that
had been found nearby.
This looks like a suicide but
there's something strange about Ii"
he said. 1--WE have traced this pistol
TO a pawnshop. The proprietor says
he sold Ii yesterday 10 a woman who
answers the description of your
shall we say inamorata? She was &C
companied by man who resembles
you"
Jose stared sullenly for a moment.
Then he replied bitterly:
VERY well, / shot him. II was the
codex curse. / might have
known something like this
would happen"
Little by little, the story
came out. Jose and his
sweetheart, Blanca Silva,
were on their way to San
Francisco from San Sal
VadOr In GautP-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-15

price for IL in Mex.
leo or the United
States and asked his
friend Jose TO carry
il across the border
for him.
THAT curse bust
ness is all non
s @ n s e." h @ s said.
Even If the origi-
nal manuscript was
cursed, a copy made
by Jesuit priests
certainly wouldn't
be. "
Jose agreed TO do
ii, a n d they ar
ranged TO meet i'm
Mexico City. Soon
a fter J o sc an q
Blanca arrived
r o b er to, til e
brother, called on
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-15

Peering Around the
Draperies, Roberto Saw
Blanca Hurriedly Hid
ing the Priceless Relic
and Right Away Be
gan Plotting to Get
Possession of 1t.
Experts will examine the
relic TO determine its value.
Johann Christian Cote.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-15

October Is, 1914
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-15

A s strangely as 1t had begun,
the course of an ancient
curse-ridden parchment end.