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Evening star., 1944-04-18
B-25s Outdraw Glamour Gals

cafe singer, will draw couple of
the vehicles originally scheduled for
Miss G..
Closeups: MGM thinks 1t would
be swell If Mickey Rooney could get
an Army deferment just long
enough to make one more In the
Andy Hardy series-this one to be
aptly titled: ANDY Hardy Joins the
Army" However, there isn't much
chance Carole Lands insists
nothing could be further from the
truth than repeated reports of a
break between her and Capt.
Thomas Wallace. You Just can't
keep this town from talking" says
Carole =. Nobody seems afraid of
Boris Karloff in real life. At least
the film horror specialist has no
trouble getting household help. BY
inserting a newspaper ad and ap-
Evening star., 1944-04-18

Warner Bros. She will make
musicals, not merely as vocalist, but
as dancer, a subordinate art in
which she also has been well trained
:. Critics who will not be at their
desks this afternoon will not be
there because they are Sidney
Lusts guests at the opening game
of the baseball season %. :. 1t is Mr.
LIS annual preview affair which
no one misses without a superla-
tive excuse Aside to Kurt Pin
thus, associate fellow in the Thea
ter Arts, Library of Congress: The
book fascinates us, for which, our
thanks.
Evening star., 1944-04-18
Benefit Recital Given

A recital for the benefit OF the
theraphy department of Walter
Reed Hospital was given last night
at 56l2 Connecticut avenue, NV. by
Alice Mullen, pianist, Dorothy Rem
sen, harpist and Frances Mccartney,
soprano. who presented an inter-
esting program of compositions by
Debussy, Dohnanyi. Goossens, Tour
nier, Gretchaninoff, Rachmaninoff
Evening star., 1944-04-18

Arensky and Tschaikowsky. Fanny
Ross Henbest assisted Miss McCart-
ney at the piano in group of songs.
A 15-piece orchestra from 367th
Army Service Forces Band of the
Special Services Branch OF Fort
Belvoir, under the sponsorship of
the branch's chief, Mai. Henry A.
Schauffier, performed under the di-
rection of Warrant Cficer Jack
Harper. The program closed with
a skit, Castles on the Air." directed
by Arnold Colder.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-11
COAL SHORTAGE
= HERE IS ENDED

The coal crisis appeared broken,
at least for the time being Mon
day, as Wilmington retail dealers
reported plentiful supplies of coal,
but the delivery problem seemed
to be more acute than in the past
few weeks and dealers indicated
that purchasers would be respon-
sible for getting fuel to h e r
homes.
Practically all retailers in the
city reported Monday they have
plenty of coal, and will have
all this week.
Because of the extremely cold
weather Sunday, Wilmingtoaians
flocked to the various coal yards,
seeking fuel in small bags. One
dealer reported that at one time
Sunday, 80 automobiles were park
ed in his lot with the owners al
tempting to carry away as large
a supply of fuel as possible. Long
lines of persons W ere reported
there all of Sunday. Before the
establishment opened Monday
morning the dealer said, a great
many persons were seeking coal.
Another dealer reported that 40
tons of coal were carried away
from his coal yard Sunday in ev-
cry type of vehicle, including baby
carriages.
Most dealers report they are a
week to 10 days behind in deliver
Continued on Page Two; Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-11
AIR COMMISSION
WILL MEET TODAY

A meeting of the North Carolina
Aeronautics Commission for the
Wilmington district, embodying
New Hanover, Fender. Brunswick
and Onslow counties, will take
place Tuesday morning at 10 o.
clock in City Council chamber.
The commission. which was set
up by the state legislature, and
appointed by the governor. will
discuss postwar plans in aviation
in North Carolina. with represen-
tatives of both city and county
governments present.
Roy Rowe. chairman of the COM
mission, stated Monday night that
the Aeronautics Commission was
particularly interested in the local
airport. because of it's enlarge
ment and expansion by the Army.
eff it is turned over to us after
the war, the commission wants to
know what plans for using the ex-
cellent facilities are being made -
he said.
1.-The commission is not only in.
terested in the possibility that
Bluethenthal field be designated as
a stop for some national airline,
Continued OIL Page Three; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-11
Soviet Drive To Turn Both Ends
Of Bug Riuer Defenses Is Brewing

Ochakov, 40 miles southwest OF
Nikolaev at the mouth of the lake
like Dnieper-Bug estuary.
Moscow had nothing to say about
this. An attempted Russian land
ing at the point to take Nikolaev
in the rear would be logical
companion piece for surge at
the same objective across the fro
zen Lower Dnieper, however, The
Nazis have been expecting that
ever since they abandoned their
bridgehead opposite Kherson on
the lower Dnieper.
Ochakov to the southwest and
Kerson to the southeast line about
the same distance from Nikolaev.
Lower Bug metropolis. 1t is about
40 miles to the indicated Russian
objective il each case.
Nikolaev itself lies on the east
bank of the Lower Bug. 1t is the
southern transportation hub of the
whole Dnieper bend. Lost to the
Germans, it would leave their
southern flank in the bend as much
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-11
PRIORITY INDICATED
Civ Has Not Received Any
Official Word On
Matter

Federal Works Administrator
Regional Director Kenneth Mark
well announced in Richmond Mon
Gay night that the War Production
Board has indicated it will grant
priority ratings for critical ma
terials needed to extend the 20
mile Wilmington water supply
line to Kings Bluff, with the pro-
vision that cast iron pipe be sub
stituted for steel-reinforced con-
crete on the section of the line
from Green's Ferry to King
Bluff.
Maxwell said that this provision
would be approved if reinforcing
steel can later be obtained without
prejudice to another war project.
"WPB will give favorable con-
sideration to further modification
of preference rating to permit use
of reinforced concrete along the
entire line after the construction
reaches Green's Ferry" he said.
CITY Attorney William B.. Camp
bell stated in Wilmington that the
CITY Council had not received any
official statement concerning ma
terial or had they been given any
details as to when the pipe line
could be continued.
Citv Manager A. c. Nichols and
CITY Councilmen, contacted at
party honoring the N. C. Aeronau-
tical Commission, said they had
not received any official word on
the proposal either.
Mayor Bruce B. Cameron was
out of town and could not be
reached for comment.
Early in December of last year
four city officials, headed by City
Attorney Campbell, journeyed to
Washington and camped on the
doorstep of WPB for two days,
seeking priorities on pipe to ex-
tend the new city water main to
Kings Bluff reservoir. Officials
returned to wilmington 1eellnS Inat
Our chances for favorable re-
consideration are better than pre-
viously, since WPB recommended
the line be diverted to Hooks
creek.
The controversy, which has halt
ed pipeline construction until a
final decision is reached on the
question of priorities for pipe to
extend the line to Kings Bluff, 20
miles away, instead of to Hoods
creek, 10 miles closer, arose when
A. E. German, of WPB's water di-
version, recommended that to con-
serve steel, the needed additional
Continued on Page Three; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-11
COUNT CIAN0 MUST
DIE FOR TREASON
Berlin Radio Says Musso's
Son In Law Is A
Traitor

LONDON, Jan. TO- Up, Count
Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's play
boy son-in-law and former Italian
foreign minister, has been sentenc-
ed to death for treason" to Italy
and its deposed dictator, the Berlin
radio announced tonight.
Ciano and II other members OF
the grand fascist council were con-
dcmned In a two-day trial by an
extraordinary tribunal of Musso.
lini's revamped Republican fascist
government for voting to GUST Mus
solini, the broadcast said, quoting
DB dispatch from northern TIA
| ly.
Only five of those sentenced te
death are in Fascist hands, among
them 76-year-old Marshal Emilio
De Bono, who commanded the ex
petition to Ethiopia. The other:
are Ciano, Carlo Pareschi, former
minister of agriculture; Giovanni
Marinelli, former head of the Fas
cist militia, and man named Got
thardi.
Tullio Cianetti, former minister
of corporations, was a 18th defend
ant, and was sentenced to 80 year!
at forced labor, DNB added.
There was no indication eithel
that Mussolini's daughter, Edda
tried to save her husband, or tina
against Ciano.
The Is grand council members
sentenced in absentia included
Count Dino Grandi, former ambas
sador to Lodon and president O
the chamber of Fasces and Guilds
who led the battle in the council
was ousted July Is and placed I'm
der guard, but later was rescued
by Nazi troops.
The German dispatch said The
trial was held at Verona.
Ciano, whose last job in his ia
ther-in-law's government was al
ambassador to the Vatican, wa:
placed under arrest by Marsha
Badoglio's government but late.
escaped. The Germans said the,
then captured him at the Swis!
border.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-11
Group TO PROBE
new SANIT0RIUM

committee was appointed Mon
day afternoon by the New Han
over c -nty Board of Commits
sloners, to conduct an investiga-
ton into matters concerning the
construction of the new Tubercular
Sanitorium, to replace the old
hospital. the usefulness of which
was made void by the construc-
ton Of the Army Air field here.
The committee will make a re-
port of its findings at the regular
meeting next Monday, at which
time the board will set a time
1or public election.
The figure set for construction
Of the new hospital is $139, 900.
However, Addison Hewlett, chair
man, stated that this did not in
Guide maintenance and other facili-
ueS involved in the construction Of
me hospital. The total figure is
expected to reach 100000.
Inc committee is expected to re-
port on the possibilities of obtain.
continued on Page Five; Col. 6,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-11
COURT FIGHT LOST
BY NEGRO PORTERS

WASHINGTON, Jan. TO- lR -
The Supreme Court today stood
pat on a decision which was de-
nounced as denying a group of
Negroes the right to choose their
own collective bargaining repre-
sentatives and as leaving them in
state of involuntary economic
servitude.'
The Tribunals action. applied
specifically to As Negro station
porters in St. Paul who, because
of their race, were barred from
membership in a railway brother
hood which at the same time
claimed the right to represent
them in labor negotiations.
The court refused to reconsider
it's decision of December 6 sus-
tanning a national mediation board
ruling that the porters do not
form a separate craft or class OF
employees and, under the railway
labor act, do not have the right
to select another union to speak
for them. The United Transport
Service Employees Union, contend
ing it had been chosen by the
porters as their bargaining agent,
sought reconsideration of the opin-
ion. asserting that it left Negroes
in hopeless plight in the in
terstate railway labor field.
United transport contended that
the porters had been shunted aside
as "voiceless minority" il a
craft in which they were not recoa-
nized and had been forced to &C
cept the brotherhood of railway
and steamship clerks as their rep
resentative although they could not
belong to the union or have any
say in its conduct.
Furthermore, the union argued,
the mediation board had in other
cases recognized United as craft
Continued on Page Five; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-11
ELECTION OF COP
PRESIDENT URGED
Halleck Says Republican
Victory Would Shorten
The War

CHICAGO. Jan. 10.-tR-Election
of a Republican president next
November will shorten the wal
''by months if not years. because
it will guarantee Americas mill.
tary leaders home front support
they never have had before =
Rep. Charles A. Halleck, of In.
diana. aid tonight in an address
prepared for delivery to more than
200 COP leaders.
Apparently anticipating dem
ocratic argument that now is MOI
the time to "change horses If
the midst of war, Halleck told the
Republican N a ional Commit
tee members and state chairmer
and vice chairmen:
I'VE must demonstrate to the
people of America that the minute
to change horses in the middle
of the stream is that moment
when the new horse can crtss the
stream more quickly, more eff
GENTLY, and without spllllng lts
burden.
81 believe with all my hear
and mind that Republican sue
cess next November will result il
such an acceleration of our wal
effort abroad and at home tina
victory, the thing for which We
all yearn, will be brought nearer
to us by months if not by years.
Halleck, new chairman OF thu
House Republican campaign com
mittee charged with the job o
electing Republicans to Congress
was the principal speaker at
dinner arrang ed by Nationa
Chairman Harrison E. Spangler II
advance of tomorrow nationa
Continued on Page Two; Col. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-11

LONDON, Jan. 10.-lRHSo many
German government buildings -
from Hitler's private chancellery
on doWn-were destroyed or dam
aged in the first six raids of the
battle Of Berlin it is doubtful that
the Nazi war administration could
have been continuing from the
capital even a month ago.
A list of destroyed or damaged
places issued by the Air Ministry
today on the basis of reconnais,
sance photographs up to Dec. q
includes, besides the fuehrer's OF
fees:
The home of Propaganda Minis
ter Paul Joseph Goebbels.
Offices of Reichsmarshal Her
mann Goering.
Headquarters of the gestapo.
Official residences of Gestapt
Chief Heinrich Himmler and For
eign Minister Joachim Won Rib
bentrop.
The foreign office; the treasury
the ministries of justice; transport
food and agriculture, armament
and munitions, education; tn
home office and the army record
office.
In the central Tiergarten dis
trict, packed with government Of
fees. more than 60 per cent o
the buildings we're destroyed. Il
the midst of the government cente
district there were 628 acres o
Flanagan area nearly as larg
as the whole of central London
The total building-covered are
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-11
IMPORTANT RAIL JUNCTION OF SARNY
REPORTED EVACUATED BY THE MAZZS;
Slls1 is HAMMERED FOR FIFTH TIME
TANKS AID 5TH ARMY
Planes Have Been Operat-
ing From Fields For
Weeks q.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. Al.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
giers, Jan. 0.-R-American fly
Ing Fortresses, operating from
great new bases in southern Italy,
struck paralyzing blow at Nazi
communications in the Bulgarian
capital of Sofia today while the
Allied Fifth Army, its offensive
supplemented by tanks, pushed to-
ward the outskirts of Casino, 70
miles from Rome, threatening that
key German defense bastion.
{. A one-seatence communique an
nounced the Sofia raid saying
only: "A heavy force of Flying
Fortresses Of the Fifteenth Air
Force bombed Sofia, capital of
Bulgaria, about noon today" But
headquarters also announced, for
the first time, that the big Ameri-
can bombers have moved up to
Italy, to positions vastly more fav-
orable for attacking the Balkans
and central and southern Europe
than the fuemer bases in Africa,
500 or more miles farther from
German targets.
Dispatches from Lynn Heinzerl-
ing, Associated Press correspond
ent with the Fifteenth Air Force,
then were released, disclosing that
the Fortresses and Liberators have
been operating from Italy for
weeks and that on Sunday Fort
resses, with lightning cover, sci
off huge fires and explosions If
Pola, Italian port at the tip o.
the Istrian peninsula.
location of the new bases If
Italy was not disclosed, but aftel
Ecapture of the Foggia airfield are;
in southern Italy last Sept. Q
1 President Roosevelt described it a
one of the most important Alice
d successes. bringing the air force
anearer Germany and permitting
! air cover for operations in northern
Italy and the Adriatic.)
No further details were avail
able on the air attacks but on tn
ground the Fifth Army, whic
burst through the German defense
to a depth of two more miles
threw tanks into action on tn
plain before Casino as freezin
weather hardened the ground.
The extent to which British an
American ar1nor could participat
in the final assault on Casino de
pended on how strongly Germa
artillery was emplaced on height
on both sides of the Rome roac
which runs along the Cassin
= plain.
The 10Th Panzer division, which
with units of the Herman Goerin
division, was entrusted with tn
task of defending Casino agains
the grinding Fifth Army offensive
:, was taking heavy martins
Clark's advance units were neal
ly halfway through the six-mil
. zone of Notifications between tn
village of San Vittore and Cas-
sino.
Freezing weather caused grea
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-11
WPBWants Cast.Iron
Pipe, Not Concrete,
Used For WaterLine
Soldier Solons
Must Take Choice

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. Up
President Roosevelt ruled to-
day that legislators can't serve
both in Congress and in uni
form.
Attorney General Biddle ad-
vised him that the COstitutiOn-
forbids service in Congress
and the armed forces at the
same time, so Mr.. Roosevelt
asked Secretary Of War Slim
son and Secretary of the Navy
Knox to see to it that legisla-
tors confine themselves to leg
islating.
1t seems that only two repres-
ertatives were affected by the
ruling: Henry M. Jackson
(D-Wash), who is a private in
a tank destroyer unit at Fort
Mcclellan, Ala, and Albert
Gore (D-Tenn), who volunteer
ed recently and now is OIL fur
Tough under orders to report at
Camp Shelby, Miss, Jan. 10.
Said Gore, who is SO, mar
ried and father of a daughter:
"An I can do is what 1 am
ordered"
Mr.. RoOsevelt's order appar-
emily will prevent members of
Congress who hold reserve
Continued on Page Two; Col. 8
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-11
RECREATION MEET
IS OPENED HERE

The sixty persons who attended
the opening session OF the city
wide training institute on recrea-
ton. held Monday morning IN the
Sorosis clubhouse, were compll-
mented on their receptiveness and
cooperation by Miss Helen M.
Dauncey, staff member OF the
National Recreation Association, IN
an interview Monday afternoon.
Those who were present proved
to be an excellent working group,
and very representative OF the
various agencies doing recreation
al work, as we'll as some groups
which have not previously done
such work." said Miss Dauncey.
'Al participated in the pro-
gram. and were most responsive,
she added.
At the meeting Monday, Miss
Dauncey. who is conducting the
institute, emphasized to the rep
resentative leaders in attendance
that the program is being given
not only for the municipal depart
ment, but for all organizations and
agencies concerned with teen-age
recreational activities.
City Manager A. c. Nichols
opened the meeting, and the mes
sage of welcome was given by
w Ronald Lane, mayor protein.
The meetings will convene from
10 to IL Tuesday and Wednesday
at the Woodrow Wilson hut; on
remaining days of the week they
will be held at the Sorosis club.
Negro recreation meetings are
scheduled for ST pm. at Taylor
Homes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-11
Bulwinkle Fires First
Gun In Coming Fight
For Air Law Revision

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-(R
Representative Bulwinkle Cd
NO fired the opening gun to-
day in an approaching fight
over revision of the Civil Ae-
ronautics Law by charging the
opposition with attempting to
"spread misinformation."
Bulwinkle was chairman Of a
House interstate sub-commit-
tee that wrote the new legisla-
ton last year. 1t is scheduled
for early House consideration.
The Carolinian specifically
denied contentious Of opponents
that the legislation would fos-
ter monopoly in commercial
aviation, would lead to govern
ment ownership of airlines,
would exclude states from any
control over aviation, would
affect the regulation Of sur
face carriers or other utilities
and would retard the develop
ment of an aviation training
program of local air transpOr-
tati0n.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-11
By KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Press War Analyst

A climatic Russian effort to turn
both ends of the Bug River de-
tense line before German forces
all but isolated in the Dnieper
Bend seems to be brewing.
Success would mean entrapment
in Russia of anywhere up to a
million Nazi troops. 1t would ex-
pose Rumania and the southeast
ern flank of the Nazi defense front
covering the Balkans to swift Rus
sian penetration, and would go far
to confirm the conclusions OF
gloomy German broadcasters that
the decisive battle of the war in
Europe is being fought now be-
tween the Pripet Marshes and the
Black Sea.
From Berlin comes the first
word of an indicated Russian move
to couple two-way drive from the
south at the Nikolaev anchor OF
the Lower Bug line with the many
pronged Red attacks to the North.
NaZi bulletins told of a Russian
amphibious assault beaten off at
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-11
December Called Most
Hectic Month For The
City Water Department

December was one Of the
most hectic months that Will
mlhgton has experienced in a
lumber of years, Mexican
Maffitt, superintendent of the
oity Water ard Sewer depart
menf, stated in his report for
december, submitted to City
manager A. G. Nichols Nom
day.
Inc maximum pumpage rec
ord was reached for all time
N The history of Wilmington on
december 18th, the report stat
Gu with 6,350,00O gallons of
wafer reported pumped on
mat day.
vi ,569.34 was reported col
'ec'ed in December, an in
,fease of SASS. 02 over the col
ecuons Of S21,113.32 made in
december, 1912.
What with the enormously
increased load, the transfer
from plant to plant and the op-
:. on the TONERS creek
'''e-We had a blizzard that
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-11
NewCongress
Now Awaiting
FRS Message
CIVILIAN DRAFT SEEN
State OF Union Speech
Will Be Read By
Clerks

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-lR-
Congress went through the motions
Of reconvening today and then sat
back to wait for a Presidential
message that at noon tomorrow
will set the session really on its
way through maze Of issues
complicated by election-year con-
siderations.
President Roosevelt has not re-
covered sufficiently fr m the
grippe, his physician ruled, to de-
liver his annual estate of the I'M
ion'' speech in person and it will
be read by clerks.
But the President added a note
of significance to the arrange
ments by deciding to broadcast a
sboiled-down version to the nation
at 9 pm. Eastern War Time.
What the message will cover is
a matter of specultion, some of
it apparently wishful thinking. Pos
sibilities that have been advanced
include a home front review that
will hit at war production handi-
caps through strikes, at efforts to
amend the renegotiation law to
ease profits restrictions and at
pressure groups seeking special
treatment under wartime regula-
tons.
The Army and Navy Journal has
said it expects Mr.. Roosevelt to
call for civilian draft to put
workers where they are needed
and keep them there. Presidential
Secretary Stephen E arly was
asked about this today and re-
piled:
That has been commented on
very generally, and 1 do not like
to say with the message coming
so soon.''
While goodly part of the mem
bers of Senate and House stayed
in Washington for the three-week
vacation ended today, others went
home to see how their constituents
are thinking this election year.
Speaker Rayburn said Il didn't
hear lot of politics. down in
Texas and that the people "are
for going on and getting this wal
over with, without too much
grumbling and complaining"
He added, with respect to the
new session of congress:
There's going to be lot o.
talking, and l hope it's good
Senator O'Daniel ID. Texas)
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