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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-11-02
NELSON GOING
BACK TO CHINA
BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER

WASHINGTON, Nov. IT,
Donald Nelson, President Roose-
velt's production trouble-shooter,
is lated to return to China soon to
help step up munitions production.
The White House evidently believes
the Stilwell affair has not preju.
diced his chances for success.
In fact, it was learned today that
some of the arrangements previous.
ly made for invigorating China S
war effort are believed to have
been upset by the Presidents recall
of General Joseph W. Stilwell at
the request of Generalissimo Chi
ang Kai-shek.
That is the intel probation author.
itatively placed on Mr.. Roosevelt S
emphatic assertion that the trouble
was a clash of personalities on the
part of the general and the gener-
alissimo and that policy and STRAIT
egg issues were not involved.
There are several such issues in
volved in t h Chinese situation,
however, and the progress made in
solving them can be reported on
the highest authority as developing
along these lines:
Before Nelson and Major Pat
rick J. Hurley went to China
two months ago Chang Kai-shek
had fully agreed that his armies
should have an American combat
commander. He had agreed, despite
a long record of past differences,
that that commander should be
General Stilweu.
StilWelIs recall did not change
the principle but merely the man.
Presumably, if the shifting strategy
of the war still CANS for major COM
bat use of Chinese forces at this
stage of fighting Maj. Gen. A. c.
Wedemeyer, or some one agreed
upon by him and Chang, will still
take the command.
The president sent Hurley to Chi
ma as his special representative
with direct access to the White
House. The Chinese wanted it that
way. The situation reflected a
breakdown in the diplomatic func-
tons which should have been exer-
cised by Ambassador Clarence E..
Gauss, whose relations with h e
Chinese We're limited to formal
ties. Now as part of Mr.. Roosevelt S
clean sweep of top American as
signments in Chungking, Gauss is
coming home to stay.
Hurley also hao specific mis-
sion. 1t was and is-since he is
still in China - to bring together
Chang and the Chinese communists
in the north. The two factions have
openly fought or covertly feared
each other for many years-but the
prospect of an agreement between
them today is considered better
than it has been at any time in the
mast
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-11-02
BY HOWARD COWAN

LONDON, Thursday, Nov. 2-tA
Allied shipping already has en-
tered the three-mile-wide Schelde
river estuary. with supplies bound
for the great Belgian port of Ant
wcrp, the Berlin radio said early
today.
This reported movement of ship
ping toward the important port
which is expected to supply future
Allied thrusts into Germany came
as triple assault forces stalked the
last Germans within gunshot of the
vital 50-mile long inland waterway.
German E-boats attacked enc
my shipping in the Schede estu.
ary,'' was the way the Berlin radio
stated the situation, land Destroy
ed one vessel of 1000 tons and
small gunboat.
The enemy broadcast was the
first indication that supplies had
started moving into the estuary to
build up stores for the even ual
great offensive against the Reich
itself.
The front lines facing Germany,
and at many places tapping into
the fatherland, are but rs miles
east of Antwerp. Until now Allied
supplies have come 400 miles by
road and rail from Cherbourg or
a slightly shorter distance f r m
prefabricated beachharbors on the
Normandy channel coast.
It appeared likely today, in view
of the three cross-estuary amphi-
bious operations of 1t. Gen H. D.
Crear's troops, that probably half
of the Schelde, as far west as
Hansweert, already had been
cleared of enemy mines.
Field dispatches last night said
the big guns on Wa1cheren island,
at the western tip of the north
rim of the Schelde, had been silent
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FLIERS
SINK JAP TANKER.
START MANY FIRES

GENERAL MacARTHUR,S
HEADQUARTERS. PHILIR-
PINES, Thursday, Nov. 2.-L@
-Low-flying fighter planes
blew up 10,000-ton Japanese
tanker, heavily damaged two
other tankers and two small
freighters and destroyed IL
grounded planes during raid
earlier this week in the Bor-
neo area, headquarters an
nounced today.
The tanker exploded when
bullets from the strafing fight
ers touched off explosives on
deck.
The IL planes were bounced
on at Sangakan airdrome.
Headquarters, in a commu-
nique supplement to its daily
report on the Philippines inva-
sion, said other fighters caused
a large explosion at Manado on
the north coast of Celebes
and Liberators touched off a
series of blasts with 6 tons Of
bombs dropped at Makassar ON
the southwest shore.
Medium and light b0mberS
attacked enemy airdxomes in
tho HaImaheraS near the Ano~
erican base on M0rotai.
Seven Japanese planes raided
Morotai and anti-aircraft guns
downed four.
Mitchells and fighter-bomb
ers destroyed many buildings
on the island of Ceram west 81
Dutch New Guinea with l.
tons of explosives. ~
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POPULAR ELECTION
IN \, MISSISSIPPI MAY
HAVE TO BE HALTED

10 JACKSON, Miss, Nov. L.
,nso; a,!'orneys said today a
s ~ legislative session call
mi, w Gov Thomas L. Bailey
lar nave to call off a popu-
Mss,pr PRESIDENTIAL election In
d ss Is next Tuesday in or
c ea 70 eliminate three Demo
aou "c electors who have an
t a, n they would not vote
'1 IT. President Roosevelt.
,@ .se names of the electors al
baby ts nave been printed on the
dee rV.s and one attorney, who
ths aus use of his name, said
n1 n. only feasible method Of re-
tb e ing, them now would be for
prss legislature to nullify the
nonia n' convention method of
,leot n q, electors and to
's m them itself.
At ,.. legislature will convene
wa. wi tomorrow. The session
thr..' a =, by Bailey after the
Il ,ls,.ele electors announced that,
r.. Sted, thew would .,.4 4L.,-
seu,tosa ! College votes for
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The Christmas Seattle tradi-
tional American Emblem - which
stands for the lives saved by the
prevention and control Of tuberculo-
sis, will 60 on sale in New Hanover
county November 81, according to
an announcement by DR.. John e.
vessel, chairman of the Seal Sale
campaign.
Christmas Seals will be available
to everyone. 10000 letters contain
ing seals will go out by mail on
November q to citizens Of t h e
COUNTY Booths for sale Of the seals
will be set up in the post office
and banks by the Junior Sorosis.
Final Fin plans for the sale of seals
and tuberculosis Health bonds are
being made.
The Junior Chamber of Com
merce is handling the sale OF BONDS
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original proposals after Still
wells departure.
WRITING the inside story of
the Stilwell-C Chang Kai-chek af-
fair, Associated Press Core
spondent Preston Grover cabl-
ed from New Delhi, India,
Tuesday that the American
proposals included a request
that Chang reorganize his cab
met and eliminate reactionary
obstructionists and anti-for-
eign members, and that an
American general be placed in
command of Chinese opera
tiOns not only in Burma but
elsewhere in major operations
against the japanese.
(Also Grover said, Chang
was advised that there was
much disappointment over the
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Sale OF Christmas Seals
VIII Start November ~

and will make personal solicita-
ton. Bonds range from S. upward,
and it is hoped that everyone will
avail himself of the opportunity to
help fight the battle of tuberculosis
by owning a share in this health
program.
The other local organizations aid
ing in the campaign are the COM
mercial students at. the high school,
under the direction of Mrs. Bernice
Bjonerud, Girl Scouts and Boy
Scouts of Wilmington.
The returns from the sale, which
it is hoped will reach at least So, coo
will be used to enlarge the pro-
gram in New Hanover county for
control of tuberculosis. The county
has a real job ahead in the fight
Continued on z ,ge Two; Col. ~
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Girst Cavalry
Battles Japs
ForCariigara
BATTER ROADBLOCKS
Enemy Strives To Check
Peril OF Advancing
24th Division
BY C. YATES M'DANIEL

By C. YATES M'DANIEL
GENERAL M'ARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, PHILIP
PINES, Thursday, Nov. q
(P)-Dismounted First Cav
airy troops were locked today
in a seasaw battle with a
large Japanese force at Carl
CARA for control of that town
seven miles east of the only
escape highway left open to
t h e retreating enemy on
Leyte.
Maj. Gen. Verne Mudge's men,
moving west along the Carigara
bay coast from Barugo, opened the
vital engagement yesterday just
east of Carigara town.
Moving ahead after the sHr-
mish, the troops encountered a
larger enemy force and engaged
it in the town itself whose fall
would pave the way for drive
on Pinamopan, north terminus OF
the escape roiad to Ormoc.
While this fight continued, 9TH
er Japanese strove with counter
attacks, concentrated artillery and
bridge demolitions to check an
other peril to Carigara town pos
ed from the south by Oath Divi-
sion troops of Maj. Gen, Fred
Irving.
Loss of Carigara probably would
mean the collapse of Japanese re-
sistance in northern Leyte as it
is the last strategic base in en-
envy hands east of the mountain
Gus backbone running the length
OF the island.
Today's communicate placed the
oath within six miles of Carl
CARA but field dispatches. put them
much closer, one saying they were
only two miles from joining up
with the First Cavalry in the
showdown fight.
Clarifying the military inten-
tons of the enemy. today's COM
munique said fatty the fighting
around Carigara was intended by
the Nipponese to hold open an es-
cape route south toward Ormoc.
This would indicate the japanese
already have written off Leyte
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U. S. FLEET KNOCKS
OUT 2,846 PLANES

U S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Nov. /.
-P)-Japan lost 2,846 planes de-
stroyed or damaged by American
naval fliers in September and Oc-
tober, a blow to the enemy's air
arm perhaps matching the stun
ming defeat of Nippon's naval might
in Philippine waters.
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz said
the 2,846 aircraft inc1uded 1852
bagged in the air, 1882 destroyed
on the ground and 252 damaged or
probably destroyed. The figures
are conservative, he said.
American naval plane losses dur
ing the same period were placed
at approximately 300, a ratio OF
about one to nine Japanese.
This destruction of enemy air
craft gave added weight to the op-
inion Of American naval officers
that Japanese ship losses in Phi
lippine battles last week made a
naval runt'' of Nippon. Sixty en-
envy war craft were sunk or dam
aged in the. sea engagements =
including four carriers and two
battleships sunk and seven bat
tleships damaged.
Japanese plane production has
been estimated at 1000 to 1900 per
month, about equal to the losses
tabulated by Nimitz for Septem-
Der and October.
Nimitz's figures do not include
The enemy planes destroyed or
put out of action by U. S. Army
Air forces operating in Pacific.
These figures are not now avail
able but probably will total many
hundreds, thus keeping japanese
plane production far behind battle
losses alone, not counting replace
ment for training and general wear
and tear.
Ninitz' figures covered the pre-
Philippine invasion period. The
toll of planes was taken by filters
of Adm. William F. Halsey's Third
Fleet, which includes Vice Adm.
Marc A. Mitscher's carrier task
force So, and Vice Adm. Thomas
C. Kinkaid's Seventh fleet.
Most of the Japanese were vic
TINS of Halsey's blows in the b.
min islands, only $50 miles from
Tokyo; the Palaus, Ryukyus, For
mosa and the Philippines, in pre-
paration for Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur's invasion, and in the naval
battle off Luzon, Philippines.
Kinkaid's fliers got their portion
in covering MacArthur's landings
at Leyte and in the naval engage
ments off Sannar and Leyte.
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Quadruplets Born Within 2 Minutes
In Caesarian Operation; Doing Well

years ago with the Securities and
Exchange commission.
''She thought they would be
twins,'' said her husband, Joseph
Cirminello, 30, an SEC financial
analyst.
A doctor blurted out the news
to her during the 20-minute op-
Grafton but, blindfolded and I'M
der spinal anesthesia, she did not
hear. The chief obstetrician, DR..
John C. Ullery, 81, told her two
hours later and said she seemed
elated.
The babies, weighing three to
three and quarter pounds, were
born between 11:12 and 11:14 a.
m. (EWT, the boy last, in a
Pennsylvania hospital surgery
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-11-02
POLICE SCHOOL
PLANNED HERE

Police officers of Wilmington will
be required to attend police school
10 be set up in the near future,
it was announced yesterday by
Chief Charles H. Casteen, as he
pointed out the advantages of well
trained men in the department.
Following the pistol training and
shooting which all patrolmen and
officers are required to take, class
es are to be held weekly in the
chamber of the city council, Chief
Casteen said. Day men will attend
the night classes, and men on night
duty will participate in afternoon
classes.
Although definite program for
the instruction of police personnel
has not been announced, City Man
ager A. C. Nichols said yesterday
that courses are under considera-
ton and will be announced later.
Chief Casteen disclosed that po-
licemen will receive training in
general law enforcement, involving
court testimony, preservation of
evidence and keeping records.
1t is the opinion of Chief Casteen
that courtesy plays a major part in
the successful operation of a police
man and his job, and said that the
topic would be taken up during
the weekly sessions of the police
school.
Instructors have not been named,
however, it was pointed out by
CAef Casteen that men who attend
ed the recent courses at Chapel
Ill., gwen by the Institute of Gov
eminent would most probably as
M with general police instruction
mere Other instructors have not
been selected.
oNeefnen attending the training
pOgfam at Chapel Hill were detec-
wv 1--WE SCI. H. Hayes, who attended a
week week OF detective instruction; E. A.
. sanoefS studied police records
tae1. and Lieut.. Coy Etheridge
SvA a course in traffic law en-
.~tement N. ]. Wolfe is now at
v v,dins class on general police
,++ III ADDITION, Chief Casteen will,
. .ssa n me police executive confer
So .e NOV 3-4 at the University of
In,t;tl,,C carolina, sponsored by the
institute Of Government
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PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 1.-lRE
A slight, 3O-year-old former gov
eminent girl gave birth to quad
ruplets-three girls and boy
within a space of two minutes
here today, in the first Caesarean
operation quadruple delivery in
medical history.
Tonight the. Pennsylvania hos
pita1 said the tiny babies and
their five-foot-two, 49, p o u d
mother, Mrs. Kathleen Hatcher
Cirminello, were doing well and
that the babies would live.
The quads, their expected birth
well publicized in advance, were
news to no one-except Mrs. Cir
minello, a pretty, dark-haired, Ok
lahoma-born stenographer who
came here from Washington two
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Dewey LaSheS Out At Roosevelt
While FDR Prepares Radio Talk
Associated Press Staff Writer

Gov. Thomas E. Dewey said last
night wednesday, that President
Roosevelt put the democratic par
ty ION the auction block n d
made a cynical alliance with Earl
providers communists"
The republican presidential can
didate, in a speech prepared for
delivery in Boston garden said that
Sin an overwhelming desire to per-
petuate himself in office for 16
years." Mr.. Roosevelt offered his
party for sale to the highest bid
der. That bidder, he added, was
not the notorious One Thousand
club" but Sidney Hillman's Politi-
cal Action Committee and the
BroWder communists.
President Roosevelt, meantime,
worked on a radio speech to be
delivered tonight from the White
House. He is to talk for IS minutes
on a program beginning at 9 pm.
(EWT) over MEG.
Senator Harry S. Truman, the
President running mate, lashed
at Dewey as political faker"
in an address prepared for dem
ocratic rally at Parkersburg, w.
Va.
Truman said Dewey scoffed at
the Presidents proposal to build
so, 900 planes a year, and declared:
''To win this war and bring our
fighting men back home we must
have a leader who can act and
not political faker who first
SCOTS at the program as fantastic
and impossible and then, when the
impossible has been accomplished,
tries to make you believe that it
was a failure"
Gov. John w. Bricker, the re-
publican vice-presidential nominee,
spoke at Toledo. His address was
primarily an appeal for contin-
ued republican state administra-
ton in Ohio.
Sen. Joseph A. Guffey D-Pa)
commented yesterday that he was
amused" to hear the republicans
complaining about our $1,000
club" He told reporters in Wash
ington that he understood contri-
buttons to the club aggregated
$3.50, 600 and that reported contri-
buttons to tn e republican cause
from Pittsburgh alone exceeded
1926, 900.
In Pittsburgh, E., T. Weir, chair
man of the National Steel corp:
said in a statement that for al
most three years before Pearl Har-
Dor he sought to persuade the
administration to ban shipment Of
scrap iron to Japan. His company,
he added, never shipped any.
Weir said he made the state
ment because Secretary Of Interior
Ickes made remarks on the radio
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crowded with obstetricians, pedla-
tricians and nurses.
The father paced the corridor
outside, alone.
1--WE lost u pounds worrying"
he said. He now weights only
14A stands five feet seven.
Naturally I was nervous be-
fore, but I managed to force down
a quarter of a portion of cereal
this morning he added.
II thank God and the doctors
in the hospital for their help"
he added. without them every
ting would have been impossible,
and I say that with all my heart. :"
While the babies lay in sepa-
rate incubators under doctors
Continued on Page Two; Col. u
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SOUTHERN DRIVE
MAKES PROGRESS
Moscow Also Announces
Enemy Cleared Out OF
Petsa'no Region

LONDON, Nov. 2.-(P)-
The Red army thrust within
33 miles of Budapest -yester-
day in a great drive rolling
rapidly northwestward across
the Hungarian plane between
the Danube and Tisza rivers.
Armored spearheads undoubted-
ly already were even nearer to the
imperilled Hungarian capital as
the midnight Moscow commune
que announced definite. capture of
the railway town of Lajosmizse,
only 80 miles southeast, along with
more than 100 other communities
in the marsh-dotted flatlands be-
tween the rivers.
Among these was Kecskemet,
great railway junction point and
last major defense bastion "A miles
southeast of Budapest.
Kecskemet fell after "a hours
of heavy street fighting during
which the Russians also pushed
past the city on both sides.
The Germans commended this by
passing was what finally forced
them to abandon Kecskemet, but
the Russians also thrust straight
through the city of 10000 and
northwestWard another II miles
up the railway toward Budapest.
They also announced capture of
Kerekegyhaza, 10 miles. west of
Kecskemet on a spur railway, and
Ujkecske, II miles northeast of
the Kecskemet-Szolnck line. l..
Thus they had a firm grip on
the rail and highway network for
the continuing drive to Budapest.
The Soviet secondary drive in
northeast Hungary more than 100
miles from Budapest also made
progress during the day. 1t swept
up more than 40 communities, in
Guiding the towns Of Zsurk and
Zahony at the Czechoslovak bor-
der opposite Cop, indicating a
probable juncture with the other
Russian armies that have moved
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. 81
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Pan-American Union
Gets Argentine Case

WASHINGTON, Nov. /. - up -
Argentina's bid for an inter-Am-
erican conference to consider her
enforced diplomatic isolation was
referred to the American republics
today by the governing board Of
the Pan-American Union.
The Farrell regime in Argen-
tina, which has won recognition
from only four nations in the Wes-
tern Hemisphere, proposed that
foreign ministers of the 20 Amef-
can republics convene to consider
its case. 1t asked that this re-
quest be transmitted to the other
republics
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SINISTER IMPORT
TO BLAST IN PARIS

PARIS, Nov. 1.-tB-A trainload
of explosives blew up at noon to-
day on a suburban Paris siding
not far from cemetery where
Gen. Charles De Gaulle had made
speech a few minutes earlier,
but it was not ascertained wheth-
er the blast was an attempt on
his life, an accidnet or sabotage.
Several sections Of Paris were
showered with objects officially de-
scribed only as 'projectiles.''
Censorship prevented disclosure
of details, but successive official
announcements finally identified
the source of the explosion as a
train and said ''the number of VIC
tins and damage were small" Air
raid sirens had sounded.
The principal explosion occurred
at noon. Fifteen minutes earlier
General De Gaulle had made one
of series of All Saints day speech
es nearby.
French officials initially express
ed the opinion it was sabotage
which had no relation to De Gaulle's
appearance.
In connection with the sabotage
theory, there have been reports that
as many as 10000 Germans still
are in Paris, hiding or disguised.
The communist newspaper HIT
mantle said only this morning that
fifth columnists attacked fac
tory in the Paris area last night
and were driven off by members Of
the Leftist Patriotic militia. No 9TH
er paper carried this report, how
ever.
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OVERTIME TO VOTE

. WASHINGTON, Nov. l. ~
Celebrating prior ruling, the
War Labor Board says now an
employer may include time Civ
en- off to vote on election day in
computing workers overtime
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BRITISH CAPTURE
PORT OF SALONlCA

NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-tR-T h e
British radio reported tonight tnat
the Greek port Of Salonika is "in
British hands, The broadcast was
recorded by the Office of War in
formation.
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HERE'S YOUR CHANCE g
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-LP)-1f
YOU can use an assault boat the
Maritime Commission has 2,214 OF
them for sale.
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FORECAST

wilmington and Vicinity: Partly clou-
dv with moderate temperatures.
Temperatures yesterday:
High "A; Low 49,
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