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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-22
JURY
HOLDS ACME MAN

WHITEVILLE, Aug. 81. - Buck
Watson, II year old white youth
of near Acme, was ordered held
by coroner's jury last night for
second degree murder in connec-
ton with the death of Grover
Cleveland Jones, 20, who was shot
at his. home near Acme the night
of August 10. Bond was placed at
$4,000.
The jury also recommended that
Frank Watson and Jonathan Jen-
kins be held as accessories to the
fact under $500 each.
At the inquest, held in the Co.
lumbus county courtroom here be-
fore Coroner Paul Avant, the jury
returned the verdict that Jones
came to his death from a gun
fired by Buck Watson"
Three witness appearing for the
State we're Mrs. Florence Estes,
mother-in-law of Jones; Mrs. Doro-
thy Jones, his widow; and Virgil
Gates, brother-in-law of the deceas-
ed man.
Evidence tended to show that
Buck Watson, Frank Watson a n d
Jenkins were passing in front OF
Jones' house in wagon the night
of August 10 and Jones asked Buck
if he were the one who shot at
him twice that morning. Buck was
quoted as saying that it wasn't any
of Jones' business.
Immediately, jenkins invited
Jones to fight, and in the scuffle
Jones stabbed Jenkins after he had
drawn a knife on Jones, the wit
nesses said. Buck shot Jones in
the back as Jones turned to go
back into his house.
Evidence also according to the
testimony, was offered to show
that Frank Watson gave the shot
gun to Buck and told him to '1et
him meaning jones' have it,
Attorneys for the accused were
L J. Britt of Lumberton and Joe
Brown of Whiteville.
Jones died August 16 in James
Walker Memorial hospital from the
buck shot wounds that paralyzed
the lower part of his body.
Watson. who denied any know
ledge of the shooting, was arrest
ed early Monday, August IA, and
lodged in the Columbus county Jail.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-22

Appointment of J. H. Fergu-
son as deputy judge of record
er's court at salary of $3.50
month was recommended to
the New Hanover county board
of commissioners yesterday al
ternoon by Judge Winfield
Smith of recorders court, but
the board deferred action I'M
til next Monday.
Judge Smith pleaded with
commissioners to raise the sa-
larry of the deputy judge from
$1,14O per year to $1,000, as
sorting that no attorney in Will
mington would take the post at
the present salary.
He told the commissioners
that he had to have deputy
Judge who could take over ms
position on the beach, If ne
found it necessary to be absent
from the city due to illness or
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-22
$1,2142O4 Budget
Adopted By County
New Hanovers county board of commissioners yester-
day adopted 194445 budget of $1214204 submitted
I6v loc+

The motion to accept the budget
as is" made by Harry R. Gard
ner, was unanimously approved.
The budget includes: county
home, $36,471; dependent children.
$5O066; general fund, plus emer-
gency anticipation, 1929, 1853; deficit
salary fund, $22,298; health fund,
$21,161; hospital fund, $21,8O0; old
age assistance, $85, 1859; school sup
plement, $261OOO; school books,
$4,000; school buildings, $73, 555;
school pensions, 81, $3.50; welfare de-
paitment, $32, 100.
Bond funds-county home, $1,219;
court house, 1920; ferry bonds,
$51,315; and schools, $112,899.
Previously Chairman Addison
Hewlett, Sr., had pointed out that
an added 20 per cent for the school,
supplement brought the total tax
rate to so cents per 500. Actually,
the tax rates stands at 40 cents,
except for the school boost.
In the past fiscal year, the tax
rate was As cents, and the school
supplement was Is cents. Hope had
been expressed by Hewlett that the
tax rate could be reduced from
60 cents to S. cents per $500 valua-
ton, but the extra appropriation
for New Hanover's schools prohib-
tied the step.
Total expenditure of 1892, 614 for
schools in the 1944-45 budget takes
in the following: school funds,
$128, 1859; school supplement, $751;
900; school books, $4,000; school
buildings, $73, 555; school pensions,
$4,000; and school bonds, $112,899.
The higher school appropriation
was caused by elimination of fed
eral assistance; an increase in the
salaries of Negro teachers, in ac-
cordance with State legislative
laws; and supplements such as in
creasing teaching stats by opening
of two new schools, Hewlett ex-
planned.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-22
Security Conference
Opens At Washington

WASHINGTON, Aug. 81. -(P)-
American. British and Russian
delegates sat down today to build
the international machinery for a
peaceful world after victory one
said was mot far off. -
Secretary of State Hull opened
the first meeting of the confer
ence at Luxurious Dumbarton
Oaks in Georgetown, and both Sir
Alexander Cadogan, head OF the
British group, and Ambassador
Andrei Gromyko, leading the Rus
sian delegation, joined in his op-
timistic prediction of agreement
on the outline of world security
organization.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-22

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21-IR
The National Labor Relations
Board said today that its post
ponement of an election at the
North Carolina Shipbullding
company, Wilmington, was bas-
ed on an incomplete invest1ga-
ton of unfair labor practice
charges which the CLIO Marine
and Shipbuilding Workers union
had filed in late March or
April.
1t is the boards policy not to
hold an election to select bar
gaining representatives while
unfair labor practice charges
are pending.
The boards press represen-
tatives had no explanation for
its action in setting date on
June % for an election to be
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-22
Reds Gain
In Warsaw
" ar Zone
NAILS HURLED BACK
Other Soviet Units Have
Reyerses In North
Near Riga Gulf

LONDON, Tuesday, Aug
22.-(P) - Russian troops
yesterday hurled the Germans
oack onto the Bug river
northeast of Warsaw in a
n;ne-mile advance through
strong Axis defenses guard
inc the Polish capital, but in
the north other Soviet forces
suffered a setback near the
Gulf of Riga and the Ger
mans regained contact with
their two stranded Baltic
armies.
The Germans hurled more than
ANN tanks into the struggle in west
orn Latvia. and the Russians
abandoned positions which an AS
ISOLATED Press Moscow dispatch
carly today said enabled the Nazis
10 link up with Col. Gen. Georg
Iindemann's forces to the east.
Simultaneously, Berlin said that
tbe long-uuiet Romanian front
soain was in action with the Rus
cans hurting 10000 men against
the;r lines near Iasi and Tighina.
T rrl russians gained one-mile in
these attacks aimed at brushing
tbe whole of our Dnestr river po-
sjtions." Berlin said.
Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossov-
skv's First White Russian army,
the Moscow bulletin said, shatter-
ed 30-mile Axis defense line bas-
ed on the Bialystok-Warsaw rail-
way and plunged on to within two
miles of the Bug river, capturing
50 localities.
The Russian break-through was
between Tluszcz, 16 miles north
east of Warsaw, and Prostyn, 46
miles northeast of the capital and
at a point where the Bug turns
westward to flow into the Vlstu.l
north of Warsaw. Sweeping past
these two captured rail stations the
Red army also seized Trojany and
Zazdrosc. IS and % mil IS, respec-
t:velv. northeast of Warsaw and
only two and three miles from the
Bug.
Filling out this Bug river bend,
the Russians will have secured a
natural flank protection for their
wheeling movement westward
along its banks toward the Vistula.
A midnight communique said the
Germans fought furiously as they
were pressed steadily back toward
the Bug, 1000 of them being killed
in one area.
In Latvia the Russians admitted
a reverse with the abandonment
of Tukums, 80 miles east of Riga,
after heavy German counterat-
tacks. This S IN the corridor which
Cen. Ivan Bagramian's First Bal
tic army had esta blished from Llth-
uania north to the Gulf of Riga,
hemming in possibly 100000 Ger
mans.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-22
HOUSE STRIVING
T0CUT CONTROLS

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21-lRHAp-
parently intent upon Kidding bust
ness and industry of government
controls as quickly as possible
when peace comes, the House
Ways and Means committee today
decided tentatively to limit to one
year the life of reconversion ma
chinery now being set up by Con-
g-ess.
The committee revised sec
ton of Senate-approved industry
rehabilitation legislation which
provides two years of government
supervision for reconversion from
war to a peacetime economy.
Moreover the amendment, offer
ed by Rep. Carlson R-Kas), stipu-
la.es that existence of the 'toffice
of War Mobilization and Recon-
version shall cease earlier than
one year after the end of nostili-
ties if Congress by resolution de-
clares no emergency exists that
requires the functions of such an
office
The ways and means action
taken in executive session, is SUBJ
iect to formal committee vote
later prior to action hy the House.
While declining to discuss what
took place behind the closed COM
mittee doors, Carlson said "tae
people want to get rid of wartime
controls. We must give business
and industry all encouragement
possible to attain maximum peace
time production and thus to pro-
vide jobs"
Rep. Disney D-Okla) said 1.-The
idea behind the ways and means)
committee action is to get the
government out of business just as
quickly as possible"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-22
Ferguson Boosted As Deputy Judge
OfRecorder's Court At Higher Pay

Chief opponent to the raised
salary was Commissioner Har-
ry R. Gardner, who expressed
violent disagreement over the
proposed plan. He said the sa-
larry at first had been $500
year, and that a deputy judge
would get 81. 40 at the present
time. He said he was not COM
pletely in accord with the pre-
sent salary and that he certain
ly would not sanction the pro-
posed addition to it.
A motion was made by Louis
J. Coleman that authorization
be made to pay the deputy $50
a month for the remaining III
months of the fiscal year.
After much consideration,
the proposal was continued I'm
til next Monday when the mat
ter could be discussed more
thoroughly.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-22
Republicans Claim
New England Sweep

ALBANY, N. Y, Aug. 81. -P)-
The prediction that the Republ-
cans would carry most, if not all.
of New England was made to Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey today as the
COP presidential nominee awaited
the outcome of his foreign affairs
talks by proxy with Wendell L..
Willkie.
The Governor spent nearly three
hours with Horace A. Hildreth, re-
publican candidate for governor of
Maine, who later told reporters
that either Dewey or his running
mate, Gov. John w. Bricker f
Ohio, would visit the state on 2
campaign trip.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-22
AIR BLOWS
GAIN in INTENSITY

GENERAL HEADQUARTERS,
Southwest Pacific, Tuesday, Aug.
22-(P)-Pitching, aerial assault up
on the Moluccas and nearby is
lands to a new intensity, Allied
planes delivered the heaviest bonn
bling attacks yet made upon Hal
mahera and Boeroe island, head
quarters announced today.
Eight Japanese planes caught on
the ground at Boeroe were de-
stroyed or damaged.
In other attacks upon the en-
emy's dwindling shipping lines,
nine small Japanese freighters,
transports and coastal vessels were
sunk or badly damaged, and III
barges probably destroyed.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-22
Hershey Forecasts
Release Of Soldiers

DENVER, Aug. 21-tR-Maj.
Gen. Lewis B.. Hershey, national
director of Selective Service, today
forecast release of between 1,000,.
900 and 100000 men from the
armed services after Germany
falls.
He Endorsed the idea of gradual
rehabilitation" when all hostilities
cease with Japan's defeat, but ad.
mitted that it is ''unpopular-be-
cause when the war is over, peo-
pie want their boys to come home"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-22
USE NEW BASES

ROME, Aug. 21-tR-Allied fight
err planes now are operating from
landing strips in southern France,
it was announced tonight. An Of
fetal statement said that Raj
Spitfires commanded by Group
Capt. w. G. Duncan-Smith were
flying from southern France.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-22
Overcast Skies Hold
All Planes In Britain

LONDON. Aug. 21.-LP-ltalian-
based air forces took up the day
and night offensive against Ger
many's tottering European fort
ress with round-the-clock blows at
the Balkans today as heavy Wea-
Their grounded Allied air power on
the western front.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-22

Germans Fleeing
French Capital
u. S. Soldiers Go Across Historic River Near
Scenes Of World War Battles

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDI-
TIONARY FORCE, Aug. 81. - lP - American troops
sormed toward the rocket coast of France tonight after
planting brdgeheads the Seine both northwest of
revotorn Paris southeast of the city the Marine
battlefields of the first world war.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-22
Advance F orces
Near Marseille
American Armored, Infantry Columns Head
Inland In Drive For RhOne Valley

ROME Aug. 21.-QP)-French troops have fought in
to Toulon, Frances No. Mediterranean naval base and
other Allied forces sweeping down broad highway
within mine miles of Marseile Frances second city, AL
lied headquarters announced tonight.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-22
LANA. GETS DIVORCE

= LANA UEIS D'VUhCE
LOS ANGELES, Aug. I'll R -
Movies No. l sweater girl, Lana
Turner, obtained a divorce in five
minutes today from br o k r
Stephen Crane.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-22

VIII MINGTON AND VICINITY: Fair
IN partly cloudy today, with moderate
temperatures.
Temperatures yesterday:
High 86-Low 66.
Evening star., 1944-06-25

These men are doing outdoor
cl1SS1Uork ON the laaOnS at
PaaOling. list Air Fore. Photo
None has elected this choice as yet. In
fact, one CT Joe had to be loaded on
bus almost forcibly when he regained
his health.
Evening star., 1944-06-25
BY Rennie Taylor,

Associated Press Science Writer.
SAN FRANCISCO. Pavement sur
faces smooth enough to give motorists
something approaching a gliding ride is
the goal of California highway engi-
neerS.
Admittedly they have a long way to
go, but their hopes have been given
boost by a 16-wheel machine which
looks like an overgroWn de luxe scooter
1t measures and records highway rough
ness by making graphs of the inequali-
ties which interfere with the smooth
rolling of automobiles.
1t takes little note of small irregu-
larities over which wheels pass without
sway or jolt. Ridges of the nature of
corrugated paper, transposed to pave
ment surfaces, would not necessarily
produce rough riding, nor would they
register appreciably on this machine
The machine, designed by F. N.
Hveem, senior physical testing engineer
Of the California division of highways,
is called PHOTOGRAPH.
Thus far it has demonstrated:
l. That highway surfaces may be
rougher at certain times of day than
at others
Evening star., 1944-06-25
Smoothing the Highway
ges may affect

q That seasonal changes may affect
surface smoothness.
g. That temperature and moisture
variations are important factors in these
changes.
A PHOTOGRAPH of a stretch of new
highway, made early on a summer
morning when the paved mass was con-
siderably cooler than the ground under
lying it, discloses relatively rough
surface.
A graph of the same stretch made in
midafternoon of the same day, when the
pavement was warmer than the ground
beneath, was considerably smoother.
A third graph, made on a winter
morning, when temperature and mois-
ture conditions were nearly uniform,
was the smoothest of the three, despite
the fact that the highway then had
been in use nearly nine months. In
general highway surfaces begin losing
smoothness as soon as they are opened
to traffic
With this and other instruments,
highway engineers are beginning to
learn why paved surfaces become rough
When they have all the answers to that
question, says Mr.. Hveem, they may be
able to redesign highways which not
only are smooth at the outset but which
will stay that way
Evening star., 1944-06-25
COP Party
Continued From Page ca

undersigned, chairmen of the State Re-
publican Committees of Maine. Ver-
mont, Massachusetts, New York, Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and
Wisconsin, hereby invite the Republi-
cans of the Union to meet in informal
convention in Pittsburgh on the 22d
February, 1885, for the purpose of per-
fectlng the National Organization and
providing for National Delegate Con-
vention of the Republican Party, at
some subsequent day, to nominate can
didates for the presidency and vice
presidency, to be supported at the elec-
ton in November, 1856,
"A. P. Stone of Ohio.
y. z Goodrich of Massachusetts.
David Wilmot of Pennsylvania.
Lawrence Brainerd of Vermont.
William A. White of Wisconsin.
The meeting will be one for consul
tatlon and preparation. 1t will recog-
nize the fact that the Republicans con-
Stltute nationnal party; it will make
known, authoritatively, that they intend
to appear as such, under their own BAN
ner, in the presidential contest; and it
will provide. directly or through a ma
tional committee, for National Repub-
lican Convention, to nominate Repub-
lican presidential and vice presidential
candidates. Such is the purport Of the
call.
win the Republican press please
copy"
Evening star., 1944-06-25
The Man Behind American
Guns in Fortress Europe
BY Walter McCallum,
Star STAFF CorreSpondent.

LONDON Ma)Enough of
Quietly
once American headquarters
behind
o
operations
The amount of stuff staggering No
published tell
like
helmets
Evening star., 1944-06-25

Gen. Sayler's home in Washington is
at 1909 Cathedral avenue NV where
his wife, Jessie D., and son, John M
Sayler, ls years old, and a daughter,
Dale, now live. Another son, Henry B.
Sayler, jr is captain in the 9th Air
Force here in Britain, plotting a P-3s
Lightning. He has been on many mis-
sions over Germany.
His Task Is Prodieious
No one who walked into Gen. Sayler's
well-ordered office here would suspect
that here is the man whose responsible
ity as chief ordnance officer of the
United States forces in the European
theater makes him literally the man
behind the guns, whose duty it is to get
the right thing (be it weapon or a
watch) at the right place at the right
time.
1--WE must and will not only supply
everything the fighting man needs to
win the fight wherever we have landed"
Evening star., 1944-06-25

Mo. He passed between rows Of beds
in the long barracks and was appalled,
by the hstless expressions on the faces
Of the patients.
Birth of An Idea es
While they waited for nature to heal
them, they had nothing to do but study
the patterns in the ceiling overhead.
These apathetic, dull-eyed men, row on
row. gave Col. Rusk the idea they wound.
get we'll quicker If their attention could
be focused on problems to stimulate
their minds
He started by prescribing simple exer-
cises Bed-ridden men who could only
wiggle fingers and toes at first were soon
outdoors in the sunshine building up
their muscular activity. Col. Rusk
learned that the men liked it.
Exercise and thinking"
The patients next were given various
gadgets whose operation commanded
mental attention. The combination of
exercise and constructive thinking sped
their recovery. The program was en-
larged at jefferson Barracks.
Maj. Gen. David N. w. Grant. the air
surgeon, called Col. Rusk to Washington
and an overall plan was prepared for
Gen. H. H. Arnold, who ordered the svs-
tenn installed in all Army Air Forces
hospitals. The commanding general had
emphasized at the beginning OF the war
that "our interest and responsibilities
do not stop at the moment our men drop
their bombs over the target"
Awakening Dead Nerves"
Medical, physical and mental treat
ments include method for teaching
Evening star., 1944-06-25

ever needed to check the wear on gun
barrels, and furnish new firing data to
the gun crews as the barrel wears. A
gun which will pinpoint a target 8
miles away when new might fire its
projectile many yards of the target
when the rifling is worn. New firing
data will be furnished to compensate
for this difference.
Ready to Garry On
The task is tremendous. am sure
the public is not aware OF the amount
of stuff with fighting punch, of the
supporting stuff necessary to keep up
the fight to Germany. But it is here
ready to carry on.
What of the man who has organized
this ordnance job? Gen. Sayler is
West Pointer, of the class of 1915. He
went through World War I, serving
with railway artillery, and was major
Evening star., 1944-06-25

said an officer on Gen. Saylor's staff,
"but we must keep him supplied and
resupplied to the end with every item
necessary to win this fight"
The officer pointed out that Gen. Say
Ter had often paid tribute to the com
bat team" of American industry and
ordnance, which has been working
hand-in-glove to assure steady flow
of the finest and hardest-hitting wea-
pons available for the invasion's prog
ress. Backing up the combination of
industry and ordnance is the United
States Army chief of ordnance, Maj.
Gen. Levin H. Campbell, jr.
A Fine-Geared Team.
Gen, Campbell is expertly aided by
Mai. Gen. Gladeon NJ Barnes, chief of
the technical division. ONCE of the
Chief of Ordnance; Mai. Gen. Tom
Hayes, chief of the industrial service,
and Brig. Gen. Julian S. Hatcher, chief
of field service of the Ordnance De-
partment
All these men are strictly on the ball,
States, working around the clock to keep
Gen. Sayler's schedule of ordnance sup
plies moving on time, and enough.
Somewhere, sometime, in the tremen-
dous din of battle, the firing pin on a
Garand rifle will break. The soldier
behind the gun will be out of action as
a fighting man. But it won't be long
v.iA tn III.
the old one goes back for repair That
is part of Gen. Saylers job, to see that
there is enough and on time. Some
where a watch will break down or the
commander of a l05-mm. battery will
pick up phone and ask for more shells.
A tank will break a track, or a combat
vehicle will blow a tire, or an am
phibian duck" Will go haywire due TO
carburetor trouble. All these things,
and many more, come under Gen. Say
lers command It is the job of his out
fit to keep EN- rolling right up to the
smoking guns of the Nazis.
Supply List Is Huge.
Ordnance lists (almost unbelevablv)
more than 350,000 separate items in It's
category. Fifteen hundred of these are
listed as combat items. They range from
watch spring or rife firing pin up to
hand grenades, shells for all types of
guns, vehicles and everything else 1t
takes in the way of weapons to fight
war
Perhaps Jerry is going to be smacked
with some secret weapons not yet re-
vealed. 1t might be assumed that the
Allies have some tricks they haven't
yet shown, some counterstuff which
Jerry has not yet felt.
The Flow Is Unceasina
There had been some indication in
the United States of the mounting piles
Of ordnance supplies at depots here in
Britain, in preparation for D-day
Photographs of miles of tanks, of tre-
mendous piles of invasion craft, of guns
OF all types have been published, but
the pictures tell only part of the story
The flow is unceasing. 1t is all east
bound. to England, and it is destined to
60 further east.
So detailed is the job that experts
are in constant demand. A colonel who
has been in charge of United States
ballistic laboratory is here now, organiz-
Ing crews OF experts who will 60 wher-
Evening star., 1944-06-25

men with dead nerves how to regain the
use OF their limbs by employing muscles
and combination OF muscles still active.
While the soldier Is under treatment,
he is informed he can learn anything
he chooses in the form of education or
vocation. He can finish high school
course, for example, or work at any one
OF innumerable trades and professions.
Open Air Glasses
To name few, there are courses
in radio theory, economic geography.
physics, photography, journalism, navi.
cation, mathematics. investments, mill