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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-03

WASHINGTON, F eb. 2.-R-
Army doctors who live by per-
centages and statistics were puz-
lied by the number of draft Sc.
lectees who showed up at Fort
Myer, Va, with high blood pres
sure. They asked the FB1 for an
answer.
Director J. Edgar Hoover an:
nounced today the arrest OF II
men on charges of using drugs to
induce the blood pressure and OBJ
tain draft deferment. A Washing.
ton mail carrier, Samuel A. Stew
art, SO, also was charged with
selling the drug to a registran1
for sioo.
Among the 10 was Everett M.
(Washie) Bratcher, 49,. orchestra
leader in Washington hotel.
Hoover said he admitt7a> taking
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Air Base In Marshal]s Falls To u. S.;
Yanks And French Crack Gustav Line;
Dying Soviet Troops Enter Estonia
MORE ISLES INVADED
Roi On Kwajalein Aton Is
Captured By Ameri-
can Troops

PEARL HARBOR. Feb. 2.-th-
Marines have captured
strategic Roi island and its impor.
tant airfield in the Kwajalein ato1l
of the western Marshall islands in
the new and fast breaking Central
Pacific offensive launched Mon.
day, and have invaded two ad.
ditional islands in the same atoll.
Capture of Rio, first piece of
the pre-war Japanese empire to
fall, and the new landings were
announced today by Adm. Chester
W. Nimitz, supreme commander
of the mid-Pacific area. These sue
cesses were attended by modest
casualties" he said, and without
loss of any ships.
The new landings were made
Tuesday on Kwajalein islet, at the
southern end of the atoll Of the
same name, and on Namur isle,
at the northern tip. Manure is
adjacent to Roi. The initial land
ings Monday were on tiny spots
of land near Roi, Namur and Kwa-
jalein islands.
Action was progressing favor
ably at all points, the commune
que said. Both Marines and in
fantry participated in the new i'm
vasions, supported by American
warships and planes and by ar
tillery quickly set up at the orig.
inal invasion spots.
Some prisoners have been tax.
en-, spokesman for Admiral Nj
mitz said. Oddly, the most impor-
tant immediate opposition was
that from huge fires started by
rhe pre-invasion bombardment and
aerial pounding There had been
considerable rifle, machine gun
and mortar fire, however, when
Kwajalein island was invaded.
Naturalization of other enemy
strongpolnts in the inundated is
lands was being carried out sys-
tematically, the spokesman said.
Land-based bomber and fighter
planes of the American Seventh
Air Force and of Fleet Air Wing
Two were conducting this phase
of the invasion.
Carrier-based planes, coordinat-
ing their bombing with artillery
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TROOPS
ARE IN EST0NIA
Over 40 Towns On APP
breaches To Narva Cap
tured By Reds

LONDON, Thursday, Feb. 3.-(P)
The Russians have smashed
across the old Estonian border near
the mouth of the Narva River,
capturing more than 40 towns on
the approaches to Narva, Moscow
announced today.
Berlin reports, meanwhile, told
Of new Soviet breakthrough in
the Dnieper Bend and a new Red
army drive upon Rovno, 80 miles
inside Old Poland.
One Soviet spearhead yesterday
reached to the town of Venkule,
FIVE miles across the pre-War from
ter north of Narva and about a
mile from the Narva river mouth.
With the capture of the railway
town of Dubrovka, the Russians
were within eight miles of Narva
on the mainline to Estonia. 1t was
six-mile advance from King
isepp captured yesterday.
Just short of the old frontier the
Russians took the towns of Volk
nova and Fedorovka north of Mar
va. Eighteen miles south of Narva
they took the village of Kryvaya
!Luka in a push that was outflank
ing the Estonian rail center JUS
cast of the border in that area.
Several populated places were
taken by other Soviet troops driv-
ing down the Leningrad PskoN
railway toward Luga, by troops
cleaning up between the Lenin-
,rad- Moscow and Leningrad Nov.
gorod railroads and by others
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PLANS APPROVED
BY UNC TRUSTEES

Unanimous approval was voted
the recommendations concerning
the expansion of the engineering
program at the State College OF
Agriculture and Engineering at
Raleigh, and also concerning a
program of medical and hospital
service at Chapel Hill and through
out the state, which were sub
mitted by Governor J. Melville
Broughton to the Board Of Trus-
tees of the University of North
Carolina, which met in Chapel Hill
on Monday, January 81.
Governor Broughton urged that
the present engineering program
at State College undergo wide ex
pansion, and that an adequate en-
cheering building be erected at
the College in Raleigh.
The main points of his recon-
mendations made in behalf OF the
medical program at Chapel Hill
were that the present two-year
course at the University be ex-
banded to four years; that hos
pital equipped with from 900 to
1000 beds be erected at Chapel
Hill. primarily by state funds that
it be operated In conjunction with
the medical school; and that it be
open to patients from all parts
of North Carolina; and that SINH
lar smaller hospitals be estab-
ished at strategic points through
out the state.
In discussing the function of the
engineering department in the ex-
banding life of State College, Gov
ernor Broughton said: ALREADY
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lat CASINO OUTSKIRTS
City Still Filled With Snip
ers, Buildings Are
Mined

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
ITALY, F e b. 2.-R-American
troops after smashing with French
forces through the entire width of
the bitterly-defended Gustav Line
battled their way through German
"sacrifical squads today into the
outskirts of Casino, gateway key
to a broad highway to Rome.
The Americans progress on this
front 30 miles below the capital
was slow but steady in the face
of a heavy tank, artillery, mortar
and small arms fire put up by the
German defenders in a bloody
last-ditch stand, it was disclosed
by Associated Press Correspond
ent Hal Boyle in dispatch dated
cat The Edge of Casino"
Casino, which has been under
Allied siege for three weeks, still
was filled with snipers, and it's
streets and buildings were heavily
mined, Boyle related.
American patrols had battled to
within 300 yards of Casino last
night, but were thrown back by
the Nazi "sacrifical squads" which
gave no quarter in their death
defying tactics to delay the Allied
advance every moment possible.
They resumed the push today,
some infantrymen fighting for as
much as 20 hours without rest,
encountering still more of these
determined German rear guard
units.
Some German prisoners were
taken in the advance.
In a thanking movement othef
Allied forces were reported to
have swept to within a mile OF
Terelle, village seven miles by
winding road north of Cairo,
which is itself three miles north
of Casino. .sssg..,-sss,.s..ss.e-z -
| The action app 'ared to throw
the Germans into confusion in the
Cairo-Terelle area.
Despite the imminent loss Of
Cossino, principal bastion OF thel1
southern defenses, the Germans
continued to draw crack troops
both from that front and from
northern Italy as they assembled
powerful force around the Alice
bea chhead on the west coast, one
of whose tentacles was within 1t
miles of the Eternal City.
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. A.
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Is Arrested In Alleged Plot
To Defeat Draft By Drug Use

the drug before his Army physical
examination. Twelve of the de-
PENDANTS are Negroes.
Hoover said the men took the
drug shortly before reporting to
the induction center. It produced
abnormally high blood pressure
for several hours, long enough to
cause rejection for military serv-
ice.
Some of the men had the drug
in their possession at the Undue
ton station, Hoover said, and lab
oratories found a drug in the sys-
TENS of IS of them.
Complaints charging evasion of
the draft were filed against II of
the men in Richmond, Va. The
ccharge of aiding evasion of mill
tary service was filed against the
mail carrier In Washington.
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DANCE WILL AID
WAR LOAN DRIVE

prominent dance orchestra
and floor show from Camp Dav-
u.s. to be staged in night club style
ana patterned on the Stage Door
oanteen, will be the featured at
traction in the newest local con-
uloutlon to the Fourth War Loan
qflVe, to be staged at the Cape
1 rear Artillery Armory, 814 Mar
net Street, on Wednesday, Febru-
0iy y, from 9 pm. to l am.
ffominent civic leaders and Of
.ielalS will participate in the af-
a .ai5' serving as walters, doormen,
anu ushers. The dance is being
lery.
admission may be had for the
purchase of one or more war
uonds by all male guests who at
seno the dance. No admission will
We charged for the ladies who
accompany them.
seating and table space will be
available for about 500 people, plus
seatlng space for an additional loo
guests Soft drinks, ices, and fruit
Juices will be available for re-
1reshments.
tickets may be purchased from
any member of the Cape Fear
artillery, and at one or two loca.
sources, the location of which viii
w announced as soon as fina
pans have been made.
very few tickets remain to be
sold for the performance of 'Thi.
amt the Army" musical show
which the ITALIAN association i:
steaglng February for the benefi
VI the Fourth War Loan Drive
wilmington citizens have been en-
'huslastic about buying tickets fol
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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-03
BY KIRK l.. SIMPSON
Associated Press War Analyst

Threats of disaster are stalking
Germany in Italy and her Japa-
nese partner in the central Pacif-
ic. But it is in Russia that Nazi
peril at the moment is greatest.
A year ago, on February 4, Ber-
lin admitted a crushing defeat in
Russia and ordered four-day
period of mourning throughout the
Reich for the army Of the dead"
lost at Stalingrad. Twelve months
later Nazi forces have been driv-
en- off Russian soil at the extreme
north end of the Baltic flank. They
even seem to be preparing to sur
render Estonia, leaving behind
them in northern Russia another
trapped army perhaps larger than
the one destroyed at Stalingrad.
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War Bonds And Money
Is Taken By Thieves
From Leland Postoffice

Thieves entered the postot-
flee at Leland, broke open the
safe and carried away Sl,S75
in War Savings bonds and
1921. so in cash, a large quaint
tv Of stamps and some CLOTH
ing. it was disclosed Wednes-
day by Harry Fales, superin-
tendent of the New Hanover
County Bureau Of Identlflca'
ton.
Fales stated that the robbery
took place last Thursday night
and the safe-crockers made
away with nine SIS bonds.
eleven $50 bonds and eight
$1OO bonds. Included in the
loot were 120 3-oent stamD-
books, quantities of other
stamps and the title to a
Chevrolet automobile made
out in the name Of N. L.
Rourk.
Investigation of the robbery
Is still under way, according
to Superintendent Fales.
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Omaha Legion To Aid
Vets OF World War
To Find Employment

Omaha, Feb. 2-(R)-Omaha
Post No. 1 of the American
Legion, announced today that
the post, aided by the Omaha
World-Herald, will establish
an employment office to assist
returning veterans of the pres
ent war.
The posts executive COM
mittee has voted to establish
and finance the employment
office and the WOrld-Herald
has agreed to provide free
advertising space in the "sit-
uations wanted" section of the
classified page and by giving
aid in other ways.
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Another Vote
BILLS Offered
In The Senate
sOLONS BACK PLAN
Would Give Ballot To
Those Whose States Do
Not Offer Vote

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-REA
compromise armed forces voting
rlan' making a Federal ballo
aTailable only to soldier-citizens o:
ststes which do not provide 70,
oseentee balloting was introduced
IN the Senate today by a group
Of Republicans and Southern Dem
ccrats.
THE substitute plan was put for.
ward under the leadership of Sen
s+or Taft (R.-Ohio) after hackers
of federal ballot had beaten of
series of opposition efforts te
liter the administration bill.
The Taft proposal would allow
,he States until June 1, 1914, tc
arrange absentee voting under
these terms:
Absentee ballots may be used
without registration in person
The ballots shall be ready fol
r,a;lino IS days ahead of the cleo
~ State ballots shall not weigh
more than IL ounces.
The proposed Federal ballot
could be used only by military
roters whose States failed to pro-
vide State ballots under the above
terms.
The measure provides that quail.
ifications of military voters shall
be determined by State lava
concession to Estates Rights adj
vocates among the Southern Dem
ocrats-but establishes specifically
that the States must waive local
registration as a prerequisite to
voting by the armed forces. Those
requiring payment of poll taxes
could continue to do so.
Joining with Taft in sponsoring
this plan were Senators Reynolds
D.-N.C.). O'Daniel D.-Texo, Nc
Kellar Tenn, Bailey Cd.
N. c., Bankhead DALAI, Bal
(R-Minn.>, Brewster R.-Meo,
Eastland (D.-Miss.). Mcclellan
DARK. overton D-La.>. Rev.
c.. Buck fR-De1), and Robert
son (R-Wyo).
A vote on this measure is ex-
pected to furnish the major test
for the administration Federal bal
lot bill and may come late tomor-
row or Friday. By agreement, the
Senate will limit debate beginning
at 2 pm. EWT) tomorrow. After
that hour, no Senator may. speak
for more than 20 minutes on
bill Or 20 minutes on an amend
ment.
In the house. meantime, advo.
Gates of Estates Rights" bill ap.
parently continued to hold the up.
per hand and there was every in.
d'cation they would put through a
measure leaving the whole cues.
ton of service voting to the States
The administration b a k &
Green-Lucas bill hurdled its first
test in the Senate when a roll cal
vote Of 60 to % defeated ar
amendment by Senator Overtor
(D.-La,) to require that State laws
be applied in testing the validity
OF each individual serviceman':
ballot. The effect would have beer
to apply pei tax and registration
requirements in those States which
nave not waived them.
In order, then, the Senate:
Rejected on a voice vote anoth
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northwestward toward American
troops in the Saidor area, found
dead Japanese who apparently
were the victims of starvation.
Flight of the enemy, and dis
covery of the starved dead, elo-
quently bespoke the effectiveness
of efforts of Allied light naval I'M
its and aerial forces which have
been harassing the New Guinea
coast in recent weeks, cutting off
the enemy's barge supply.
The enemy, short of food and
adequate supplies, thus was left to
1eel the pinch of the movement
OF the Aussies toward the Amer
leans about 40 miles to the north.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's com.
munique also reported that 80 Jap
aese had been killed and 20 pill.
boxes destroyed by American
troops with tank support in an
enlargement of the Allied perine.
Ter at Empress Augusta Bay, Bou
granville island, in the Solomons
The army has been making gooc
p1 ogress here, considering the den
sity Of the jungle, and already the
area cleared by the troops and the
Marines who preceded them is
large enough to accommodate two
Allied air strips with necessary
installations.
Planes from these airfields con-
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Mystery Develops
During Liquor Trial
In Charlotte Court

CHARLOTTE, Feb. 2. -P)-
A mystery developed out of a
liquor case in superior court
here today.
Several bottles of liquor
were brought in as evidence
-ainst the. defendant, who
was convicted of violating the
LIQUOR laws and fined.
At the end of the trial, court
attaches gathered up the liq-
uor to return it to vault in
the courthouse basement.
A pint was missing
IT hasn't been found yet.
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Japanese Fleeing Before
Yanks On New Guinea

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST
PACIFIC, Thursday, Feb 3.--Japanese troops in the
vicinity of Reiss point the northeast New Guinea COAST
are fleeing into the mountains in effort to escape
vancng Allied troops the high command announced today
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-09
Nelson And McSpaden Tied
AT 1873 In $500 Open
Tournament
By RUSS NEWLAND

OAKLAND, Calf, Dec. 8.-(P)-
There was an old familiar ring to
open tournament golf today as
bulky field completed the second
round of the $500 Oakland event
out in front, tied at 1873 were the
Gold Dust Twins" Byron Mel
son and Harold McSpaden.
These are the two who have
cleaned up on most of the major
tournaments Of 1914. They're the
leading money winners of the year.
Nelson of Toledo, first, and his
running mate, McSpaden of Phila-
delphia, in the second spot.
The golfing duo was split and
sidetracked temporarily by the
comeback flash of Slammin' Sam
Snead, who celebrated recent dis
charge from the Navy by grab
bing the Portland open two weeks
ago Nelson bounced back to snatch
the ensuing San Francisco open,
where McSpaden Topped for his
second week in row.
As they reached the halfway
mark of the 72-hole Oakland open,
McSpaden apparently had snapped
out of his slump to draw up on
even terms with the favored Mel
son, first round leader with a Sc.
Nelson fell upon sour times on the
back nine today, faulty putting
costing him strokes on four holes.
He missed a two-footer on the
18th for what would have been
an eagle 3. and undisputed leader
ship for two rounds. AS it was, his
34-38-72 just kept him apace with
McSpaden, who had checked in
earlier with a par 70 to add to
his previous 6S.
Starting favorites, aside from
the prime choice, Nelson, included
Sgt. Jim Terrier, Camp Roberts,
Calf, and Snead, the longest ball
better of the crowd.
Sgt. Terrier, who finished Sc
cond to Nelson in San Francisco
last week, grabbed the spotlight
again today when he racked. up a
second nine of 81, after an toutgo-
ing 81. Par for the Sequoyah
course is $3.50. Terrier made
four brides on the. back nine from
puts ranging from two to ten
feet. His finish gave him a five
way tie at al.
Snead's game was poor from tee
to green. He three putted four
greens to end up with 73 and two
day total of IA, tied with five
others.
Among the big guns farther back
were former national open champ,
Ralph Gudahl, and veteran Willie
Goggin, White Plains, N. Y, among
a seven way deadlock at l45. The
field was cut to 50 low scoring pros
and 20 low amateurs for the next
SO holes
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-09
SPORTS TRAIL

aware that a few dozen large and
violent and roughshod young mer
aren't going to do baseball f.ele
much good.
The whole question SINNERS
down to the willingness Of the base
ball club owners to pass up the rem
tai they receive from the football!
men for use of the parks for early
season games. and to bemoan the
fact that poor football is poacning
on the baseball season and wreck
ing the playing fields, is to spank
the baby for papa's mistake.
Aside from possible damage tc
the playing field we don't see how
football can harm baseball in any
way by stading few September
games while the baseball season is
in its death throes, unless you con-
slider the jimmying of little free
space out of the sports pages which,
otherwise might 60 to baseball is
harmful to baseball.
The attitude baseball is taking In
dictates it might be little afraid
of the growing popularity Of the
pro grid game, a fear which we
think is unwarranted right now as
pro football despite its planned ex-
pansion to a nation wide network OF
leagues, still is in the poor relation
class.
That is, it must rely on baseball
for setting for the games as we
don't know of any pro club that
owns a home of its own. The Pre-
football clubs are renters, subject
to the whim of the landlord and if
baseball really wanted to be mean
about it all it would have to do
would be to say to get the heck out
of there and build playground of
your own.
Playing once or twice week,
and over a comparatively short Pc
Rod, the football clubs naturally
couldn't afford to build their own
stadiums. Colleges aren't going to
rent out their fields for pro games.
so unless a city has a municipal
layout it is willing to rent out or the
baseball clubs turn over their pas
lures for a fee, the footballe-s are
out of luck.
AS far as chlseling in on the
baseball season is concerned, foot
ball is no more guilty than base
ball, which stages its World Series
in October, football month, and
then allows its players to barnstorm
for week or so after that. e.
The whole thing probably is max
ing shout out of whisper, as
there aren't enough pro football
games before the end of the base
ball season to make much differ
ence one way or another. The Der
tinent point is that baseball is
blaming football for condition
baseball itself permits to exist.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-09
LITTLE HOPE HELD
FOR POST SEASON
GRID COMPETITION

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. - (P) -
Little hope was held by Texans
here today that the War Depart
ment would reverse decision
against Randolph Fields partici-
patton in an Oil Bowl football
game in Houston, January l.
Secretary of Commerce Jesse H.
Jones who halls from Houston, said
it was "entirely a War Depart
ment matter" He is not expect
ed to intercede in the discussions
now under way at the War De-
partment.
Senator Connally (D-Tex), who
had urged sanction of the post
season game by the Randolph
Field service team, said he did
not think there was any chance
now that it would be approved
The senator first had sought a
game between Randolph and the
Nays powerful cambridge, Md,
team, but after the Navy Depart
ment turned down the idea he tried
to get approval of an Oil Bowl
game between Randolph and some
other Army service team.
Reps Thomas and Thomason,
Texas Democrats, also had sought
approval of such a game, but the
Army yesterday ruled against it
after having earlier decided to per-
nit five post-season service team
games.
A War Department source said
that an announcement probably
will be made after the conference
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-09
Western Conference
Appoints Directors
Succeeding Griffith

CHICAGO, Dec. 8. -(P)- The
Western Conference today named
three-member committee, COM
posed of Athletic Directors L. w.
St John of Ohio State, Kenneth L.
Wilson of Northwestern and H. O.
Fritz) Crisler of Michigan, to
guide Big Ten athletics until sue
cessor to Commissioner John L.
Griffith is appointed.
The action was taken at the final
session of the annual Big Ten
winter meeting which was plunged
into gloom last night by the sudden
death of Griffith, aged 81, who
ha deserved % years as the first and
only conference commissioner.