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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-13

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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-22
Shirley's Fatal Action
Is Adjudged An Accident

ingly turning the pockets of his
soul inside out.
Mrs. Darnell, the wife of a re-
enlisted Army sergeant stationed
at Fort Dix, N. j., and the mother
of three children, died at 7.25 pm.
Thursday at James Walker Memoir
ial hospital, where she was admit
ted for an emergency operation
during which DR.. H. A. Codington,
officers stated. worked feverishly
for two hours to remove the bull
let that nilnctured the abdomen.
City Patrolmen C. R. Peterson
and w. B. Bradshaw repored that
the small .38 caliber pistol had
been removed from its accustom-
ed place and left on a cabinet in
the Darnell home. The child al
legedly came from play, hurriedly
picked up the weapon and the shot
was fired.
Before death, Mrs. Darnell alb
/ Continued on Page Three; Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-22
HOBBS IS NAMED
T0HEAD MAS0NS

RALEIGH, April 21-, Julius
c. Hobbs of Wilmington was elect
ed Grand Master of the North Car
DINA Grand Lodge of Masons at
the lodges annual meeting here
this week, Grand Secretary John
H. Anderson of Raleigh announced
today.
Hobbs succeeds James w. Payne
of Salisbury. Other officers named
included:
Clyde H. Jarrett of Andrews, De-
putty Grand Master; William j.
Bundy of Greenville, Senior Grand
Warden; L. T. Hartsell, Jr., OF
Concord, Junior Grand Warden;
Herbert C. Alexander of Charlotte,
Grand Treasurer; and J. H. Ander-
son of Raleigh, Grand Secretary.
Reports submitted at the meet
ing show an increase of 1852 in
membership and indicate that the
lodges throughout the state are in
excellent condition, Andrews said
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-22
CONGRESS COLD
TO LABOR DRAFT
House Military Group Con.
tinues To Oppose Mea-
sure After Appeal
WASHINGTON, April 21.- Up -

WASHINGTON, April III R -
The House Military Committee
stuck Is its guns today in opposi-
ton to labor draft legislation in
the face of renewed drive by
the Army, the Navy and the Mari
time Commission for a law to con-
script war plant workers.
If anything, the latest plea of
the armed services as expressed
in a joint statement by Navy Sec
rotary Knox, War Secretary Slim
son and Maritime Chairman Land
solicited the oft-voiced position of
the committee that national serv-
ice legislation is not the answer
to the manpower problem.
I'VE have spoken and we meant
what we said," declared Repre-
sentative May D.-Ky0, chairman
of the committee without whose
sanction service legislation cannot
reach the House floor. National
service legislation has been STALL
ed for months in his committee
and in the Senate's Military Com
mittee.
May referred to committee re-
port, issued yesterday five hours
before the Army-Navy-maritime
statement, asserting there is no
need for legislation and pointing
out that existing law permits Sc
lective service and other war agen-
cies to control the job activities
of draft-age men, especially IFS.
The report mildly criticized the
Army for what the committee said
was a lack of full cooperation in
efficiently using manpower under
present laws.
Even the relatively few commit
tee members who have insisted on
consideration of national service
legislation conceded there is no
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-22
JUDGE RECESSES
SEDlTl0N TRIAL

WASHINGTON, April 81 ORD-
A defense counsers cry that the
court was stopping me at every
stage" and new motions to delay
proceedings climaxed today's de-
velopments in the mass trial of 80
persons accused of conspiring to
incite INSTRUMENTATION within the U.
S. armed forces.
The protestations of James ].
Laughlin, attorney for Edward
James Smythe of New York,
brought District Court Justice Ed
ward c. Eicher's gavel banging to
the bench and admonishing-Mr'
Laughlin!!"
Today's hearing was collateral
to the main trial which is recessed
until Monday. when selection OF a
jury will continue. 1t was, as stated
by the justice, to determine
whether Snythe was a fugitive
from the time he failed to appear
for trial on Monday and his arresl
in Au Sable Forks, N. Y, by fbl
agents on Tuesday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-22
JAYCFES SELECT
STATE OFFERS

WINSTON-SALEM. April 2l.-(F'
j. Robert Abernethy of Casio
mia won the presidency OF the
North Carolina Junior Chamber OF
Commerce in balloting in this at.
ternoon's session of the annual
convention. He defeated Fred Dix
on of Raleigh.
Clayton Frost of Winston-Salem
and Vernon Offut of Kinston were
elected national directors. w. A.
Mccall of Charlotte, was named
vice president for the western dis
trict: R. Kenner Amos of High
Point, central district. and Claude
O'Shields of Wilmington, eastern
district.
The new officers will be install
ed at an inaugural banquet at 7:3o
tomorrow night, which will be fol-
lowed by a dance which will close
the convention. Ray Bandy OF
Rocky Mount is retiring president.
Approximately ITS Jaycees at
tended today's session and lun-
cheon meeting addressed by DR..
Ralph W. Mcdonald. candidate for
the Democratic nomination for gov
ernor. Gregg Cherry. also a can
didate for the gubernatorial nomi-
nation on the Democratic ticket,
will address morning session.
Paul Miller. national vice presi-
dent of Jaycees. will speak at a
luncheon meeting at p. m.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-22
By JEAN HARRISON

The fatal shooting of Mrs. w. B.
Darnel1, IS. of 1903 North Fourth
street, by her eight-year-old daugh-
ter, Shirley, Thursday afternoon at
$50 o'clock, was declared purely
an accident" by Coroner Asa w.
Allen, yesterday.
The child, who was extremely
fond of her mother, is in near
hysterical condition as result of
the tragic happening. Late yester-
day as Shirley's young sisters wan
dered aimlessly, with eyes empty
as statues, in a room crowded with
sympathizing friends, relatives and
a grandmother no bigger than a
whisper. while sobbing wales of
II want my mama" were heard
from an ajoining room.
A neighbo7's small boy saunter-
ed into the hushed room from the
back porch where the stunned
father sat and smiled half-know.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-22
new WITHHOLDING
LEVELS REVEALED

WASHINGTON. April 21-A R)-
Details of new withholding levies
against wages and salaries. which
may become effective next Janu-
airy l if Congress approves the tax
simplification bill now being shap-
ed by the House Ways and Means
Comrnitte, were disclosed tonight
bv a dependable tax source.
The new withholding levels,
higher for most taxpayers, are
designed to collect the full tax
liability of persons earning up to
s.. 900 and make it unnecessary for
some 100000 persons to file
formal returns after this year.
However, any Of the 10000, 900
who desired to claim higher dc
auctions. for other taxes, contri-
buttons and interest paid, than the
average allowed for the withhold
ing machinery. could file formal
reurns as usual, and make such
claims.
There would be no change in
amounts held out of pay envelopes
and salary checks this year. The
new withholdings would be design
ed to take the full tax for most
persons. at about the levels of the
new revenue law recently approved
by Congress.
The committee probably will de-
eide tomorrow whether to accept
the withholding tables prepared by
its staff of experts.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-22

in every country without which ex-
panding markets are impossible
and without which world prosperity
is a dream which might easily
turn into a nightmare.
With a meeting of empire pre-
miers approaching, Churchill said:
"At my first meeting with the
President of the United States in
Newfoundland at the time of the
so-called Atlantic Charter, and be-
fore the United States had entered
the war-a meeting on very anx-
ious and critical matters-I asked
for insertion of the following words
in the Atlantic Charter which can
be read in that document:
with due respect for their ex-
listing obligations.
These are the limiting words
and they were inserted for the ex-
press purpose of retaining to this
House and to the Dominions the
fullest possible rights and liberties
over the question of imperial pre-
ference.
(Under imperial preference the
states belonging to the British EN-
Continued on Page Two; Col 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-22

PLAN ANNOUNCED

WASHINGTON, April I'll R -
The Maritime Commission an
nounced today that renegotiation
agreement with the Oregan Ship
building Corporation, sealing S.
322, 954 in excess profits from the
Portland shipyard's first five con-
tracts, has been adopted as ''ba-
sic formula" for renegotiation
with all yards in the original Lib
ertv ship construction program.
The net income of the Henry
J. Kaiser yard for building its first
1871 Liberty ships. was announced
as 81, 537,302, after renegotiation
and deduction Of estimated taxes.
This amounts to about 5000
ship, or a profit of about one
and one half per cent of the cost
of each vessel.
The following shipbuilding com.
panies, which received their first
Liberty ship contracts in 1941, will,
be covered by the renegotiatior
formula set down in the Oregon
agreement:
California Shipbuilding Corp.
Wilmington, Calf; Permanente
Metals Corp, Richmond, Calf.
North Carolina Shipbuilding Co..
Wilmington, N. c.; Bethlehem
Fairfield Shipyard, Inc, Baltimore
Delta Shipbuilding Corp. New Or
leans: Houston Shipbuilding Cor
poration, Houston, and New Eng.
land Shipbuilding Corporation
South Portland, Maine
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-22
NATIONAL MUSIC
|. WEEK IS SLATED

In preparation for National Mu-
sic Week May lib, a meeting was
held yesterday under the sponsor
ship of the Municipal Recreation
Department to discuss the role
Wilmington will play in this event.
A central committe was organ
lied representing h e various
groups taking part to organize
their musical programs: Cecil
Lewis, shipyard; Mrs. Louis F. Or
mand, Thursday Morning Music
Club; w. G. Kelly, U. S. o. 4th
and Ann: Miss Glen Willard.
USO. End and Orange: Miss Eliza
beth Sengel, U. S. o. Bird and
Grace: Mrs. Helen Jones, Girl
Scouts: Mrs. Ethel Powers. Wood
row Wilson Hut: Mrs. Eloise Sam
derford, Maffitt Village Recreation
Club Ralph Richards, Industrial
U. S. O.. Jesse Reynolds and Mrs
Elizabeth May of the Municipal
Recreation Department are chair
man and secretary respectively.
1t was decided that each group
will present its own program Of
singing, music appreciation lee
Continued on Page Five; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-22

citation, providing for the ade-
quate nursing facilities that will
permit the early opening of the
new wing of the hospital - now
only partially in use for want OF
help.
Mrs. N. G.. Nicely, president of
the association in this district,
assured the board and the medi-
cal staff that the proposal by
which the institution would en-
ploy private duty nurses for gen.
eral work during the current crisis
would be given full consideration.
1T is impossible to open the
south wing of the new building
without complete nursing staff, -
DR.. J. W. Hooper told the nurses
in his report of the conditions that
are precipitating drastic change
in the nursing system.
''The building has got to be
opened" said DR.. Donald Koonce.
DR.. Hooper declared that the
board and the medical staff had
evolved he proposal draft,
with their permission, private
duty nurses for general work only
after much detailed study. He said
the institution had exhausted every
effort to obviate the necessity for
the change.
By virture of the plan, a special
hospital staff would be establish.
ed to determine which cases are
of so critical nature that private
duty care is a requisite. Private
duty nursing would be on the basis
of II hours, under the proposal:
general duty would be on the basis
of eight hours. The scheme is
aimed at the abolition of luxury
nursing" which both doctors and
nurses agreed would have to &C
for the duration of the emergency
1t also provides for a rotation Of
nurses, and impartial selection Of
nurses.
1t is estimated that approx.
Continued on Page Five; Col. 4,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-22
I 500 Nazi Troops Are Killed,
$ :j8 Tanks Destroyed By Soviets;
: 100 Planes Assault Cologne
British Empire Assured
Preference Will Be Kept

LONDON, April 21-(R)-Prime
Minister Churchill assured the
states of the British Empire today
that they would emerge from the
war with their imperial preference
plan of mutually advantag eous tar
iff rates unhampered by the At
lantic Charter or by the 1912 Anglo
American lend-lease agreement.
He told an approving House of
Commons that President Roosevelt
had assured him that I'VE were no
more committed to abolition of inn
perial preference than the Ameri-
can government was committed to
abolition of their protective tariff"
The prime minister said there
need be no clash between the unity
of the Commonwealth and Empire
and their associations with the
United States and Russia, and adj
ded:
There must be wholehearted
endeavor begun in good time to
promote the greatest interchange
of goods and services between var.
ious communities of the world, and
to strive for that process of bet
terment of the standards of living
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-22
NAILS FORECAST
ALLIED INVASION

LONDON. April 21-0RD-The in
vasionj ittery Nazi radio put out a
report today that the Allies were
massing soldiers and ships at chan
mel and southern England ports in
preparation for the invasion of
western Europe.
The German radio said Allied
soldiers were streaming from Lon
don to the ports while the United
States and British navies were
massing the greatest concentration
on ships since dunkerquc.
London, said the Nazi broadcast,
was becoming more and more
deserted by British, United States
and Colonial troops
The Vichy radio predicted that
the western invasion would be
timed with new Allied thrusts in
Italy and the Balkans.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-22
Outlines For
World Mone2I|
Fund Are IT,,
PROMOTE PROS.
=
Russia Gives Her Approval
AT Last Minute To Cur
rency Sterilization

WASHINGTON, April 21.- (R -
Treasury technicians of "a nations
announced tonight their agreemen
on broad outlines for a proposed
So, 900, 000,O 1000 gold-based stabilize
ton fund designed to restore order
to international finance and pro.
mote world prosperity.
Soviet Russia dramatically gave
its approval at the last minute.
Word of Russian concurrence with
the money experts of other United
Nations was received only a short
time before the agreement was
made public here and in other Al
lied capitals.
Secretary Morgenthau earlier
had told newsmen that the joint
statement represented the views Of
all the nations except Russia, al
though he added that he was very
hopeful of Russian adherence.
The fund, it was explained,
would use such methods as buy
ing and selling gold and currencies
and. to promote trade. 1t could
provide one country with currency
of another in exchange for it's own
currency or gold. 1t could also Of
fer gold to a member country in
exchange for its currency, if the
country needed gold to maintain
confidence in its money.
During the day Morgenthau out
lined the agreement before Con-
gressional committees, telling
them that President Roosevelt
would name senators and repre-
sentatives on a committee to rep
resent this country at projected
international conference to draft a
formal sterilization program.
The agreement represents q
clear-cut American victory over
British proposals to relegate gold
to a minor role in postwar cur
rency Sterilization. ---
Outgrowth of more than a year
of planning and discussion, the
agreement replaces separate pro.
posals advanced by this country,
Great Britain and Canada.
Despite British capitulation tc
American and Canadian views to-
ward gold as sterilization basis,
both Morgenthau and Harry D.
White, author of the American OF
so-called white PLAN empha-
sized that the present draft pre-.
sents no single nations plan.
"In England" said White, they
will find many resemblances to the
Keynes PLAN Gord Keynes, fl
nancial advisor to the British ex'
chequer is the author of British
proposal which would have Great
ed a clearing union to achieve
Continued on Page Two; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-22
FEARS OF A MEAT
FAMINE ARE GONE

WASHINGTON, April 21.- B -
fears of meat famine have van
lShed, the war food administration
SAID today-but the average fami-
" can't have as much table meat
ue rest Of the year as it did dur
Ing the winter.
VIA said dire predictions of
lew months ago are giving way
IN the face of pork and beef sup
NleS considerably exceeding those
Of year ago.
Al the same time the Office of
rice Administration boosted the
yeIllng prices of poultry at all sales
tsy[lS IN an effort to get more
ly"l on market counters. OPA said
''e increase would mean % cents
pound more to consumers on
'esf'round average.
. Enough meat will be availa BILE
1ioush June TO allow civilians a
re- capita consumptin at the rate
VI l9S pounds a year-13 pounds
u u,u than the 1859 average, the
+"lA announcement said. However
~, a me first quarter of this veal
assumption was at the annua
lale Of 1853 pounds per capita
% ,@isely because Of special pork ra
~, Or the last six months of 1914
ra, capita consumption must bt
"5l1ler. VIA said.
=. however, it found a much bet
W. W. meat situation than existed {
Ieo' ago: Nearly twice as man.
We more cattle and nearly a
'H5 sheep and lambs are bein;
,'i Acled and at least Is per cen
azure mSat is in storage.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-22
PATTON IS READY
FOR ALLIED PUSH
'Blccd And Cuts Arrives
In England TO Aid lnva-
sion Planning

LONDON, April 81 Up 1t.
Gen. George S Patton, Jr., tough
tank specialist whose American
Seventh Army swiftly overran
most of Sicily, has arrived in
Britain to take a place among Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower chief
lieutenants for the invasion of west
ern Europe.
Out of the public eye since the
soldier Shaping incident which al
most wrecked his military career
last year Patton is known to the
Germans as rou2hand-cead foe
and veteran soldier. To his troops
the general is known variously as
"Old Blood and Cuts" The Cen
eral Who Never Lost A Battle, "
and The Man in The Gilded Hell
met"
Patton arrived recently in a nat
ty uniform, including a new battle
jacket, and the censors permitted
disclosures of his presence only to-
night. And the reunion of this salty
old campaigner with his victorious
chief in the North African and ST.
Gillian campaigns, General Eisen-
hover, was taken as recognition
by the astute Eisenhower of Pat
toms proven abilities abilities
which even the sha~pest critics of
his personal conduct seldom have
questioned.
1t. Gen. Omar N. Brady is the
senior commander of American
ground forces marshaled in Britain
for the invasion. During the Sicily
campaign Bradley was one of Pat
toms corps commanders in the
Seventh Army.
The two men are direct opposites
in temperament. Bradley is quiet,
unobtrusive. and delivers his Or
ders in a low voice. Patton on the
other hand goes into battle with
pearl-handled pistols stripped on
each hip, and his high-pitched
voice rises to an angry roar.
1t was disclosed last Novembe
that Patton, in. moment of emo
tional strain had slapped an Amer
lean soldier during field hospital
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PILOTS ARRESTED
ON M0RALSCOUNT

SANTA ANA, Calf, April 81
GP)-Two Army Air Force pilots
with combat records in the Pacific
we're placed under arrest today at
the Santa Ana Army Air Base on
what the public relations office said
we're charges of rape preferred
by civilian girl"
The Army authorities said the
arrests were made at the request
Of the provost marshal of the south.
ern security district after Mrs. c.
Capron complained to Hollywood
police that her daughter, Caprice,
IS, a dancer at the Earl Carroll
Restaurant, had been raped in the
Hollywood hills.
Taken into custody were Capt.
Morrison wilkinson, %, of Wash
ngton. D. c., stationed at Luke
Field, Phoenix, Ariz. and 1t. Dean
G. Hall %, of Tremonton, Utah
stationed at the Santa Ana Army
Air Base. Capt. Wilkinson formerly
vas with the 18th Pursuit group il
China and was an AVG. fighter
pilot, 1t. Hall served a Year in
New Guinea as a B-25 bomber pi.
lot and is credited with Jap Zero
plane.
Military authorities said a board
OF inquiry would determine
Whether a court martial was to be
oFoered. The extreme penalty fol
criminal assault under court mar.
uaI proceedings is death.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-22
|JAPS ENCIRCLINC
KEY CHINA TOWN
Junction City OF Chengh.
sien Placed In Danger
By Nip Troops
BY LEONARD MILLIMAN
Associated Press War Editor

More than $4,000 of Japan's fin
est soldiers were rapidly encircling
the North China railway junction
city of Chenghsien in their newest
and most threatening push in Chi
ma but the Nipponese invasion of
India was running into so much
trouble that even Tokyo radio ad-
mitted yesterday the advance was
slowing down..
simultaneously a dispatch from
Associated Press War Correspon.
dent Eugene Burns aboard an AL.
lied aircraft carrier off Sumatra
indicated that United States sea
and air craft participated in Wed
nesday's powerful Allied carrier
strike at Sab,ng.
Almost 80 per cent of the planes
were American made" Burns
wrote. He listed Eellcats. Daunt-
less Avengers and Corsairs. all
flown from United States aircraft
carriers, to which Burns had been
assigned in the Pacific. Barracu-
das were the 0,ly other planes
mentioned.
The carrier borne planes. he
reported. pinned down the Japa.
nese airforce and destroyed mill
tary installations at Sabang to
their hearts content in a furious
Is minute attack"
Three eastern Carolines islands
and Wake, about 1000 miles to
the northeast, were hit by Central
Pacific bombers. Daily raided Pc
nape, eastern bulwark of Truk,
threw up only weak antiaircraft
fire as Army Mitchell bombers
attacked. Navy planes hit the near
by Ant and Pakin islands. Ujelang
atoll and four Marshall island tar
gets also were raided.
The Chinese reported both they
and the japanese had heavy casu.
alties as Nippon's armies drove on
Chenghsien from three directions.
One force from the crack Man.
churian army was only few
miles northwest of the city. Two
columns advanced from the east
Another column 20 miles south Of
Continued on Page Five: Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-22
NEAR STANISLAWOW
Germans Believed Trying
To Open New Drive
In Old Poland

LONDON. Saturday, April o.
R-The Soviet high command an
nounced early today that Marshal
Gregory K Zhukov's First Ukraine
Army killed 1900 enemy troops
and destroyed 8 tanks yesterday
in violent battle spreading
through the Carpathian foothills
land, wherethe Germans apparent
ly sought to disrupt a fresh Rus
sian offensive timetable.
Moscow's midnight bulletin,
which again did not mention be-
sieged Sevastopol where the enc
my has been squeezed into a so
square-mile tip of the Crimea, said
the fighting near StanislawoW was
precipitated by renewed German
attacksk. One Soviet unit alone re-
pulsed seven consecutive Nazi as
saults in fighting that often was
hand-to-hand, the bulletin said.
A Berlin broadcast, giving per-
haps the clue to the current Ger
man counterattacks, reported that
huge Red army reserves were
flowing through the Ukraine into
250-mile sector of the Polish
and the Pripyat marshes as pre-
Jude to fresh Russian assaults
along the most direct invasion
route to Berlin.
1t was possible that these Rus
sian reserves had been shifted
from the Crimea where Sevastopol
is the only foothold left to the
enemy Two Russian armies I'M
der Generals Feodor l. Tolbukhin
and Andrei l. Yeremenko had all
but finished the conquest of Gri-
mea 10,000-squaremile peninsula
in lightning two-Week campaign
Dispatches from the Soviet cap
ital, however, said that the battle
of Sevastopol was in its final
phase. Russian troops captured
key positions in the Mt. Sapoun
valley four miles southeast of the
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