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Evening star., 1944-10-12

life on desert Island. You did
not either, for that matter, but
that was what we gathered from
your amiable-until- the he-laSt-para-
graph letter. We said it was a
little play about charming
character with a sad tendency to
get lost in the Theater Guilds
awed-sized setting.
But don't stop writing to us,
TWombly II. Letters like that
inspire us to get our coat off and
our sleeves rolled up in 80 seconds
flat. The normal time is five
hours.
Dear Lester Cowan:
Look, sir, will you please stop
darkening our mail slot with those
memos about how impossible it is
to cast the Ernie Pyle role in
Here Is Your War? We have
known for Is years there was only
one Ernie Pyle, and no reason
able facsimiles thereof. What is
more, we told you that when you
purchased the book for screen
adaptation.
If the memos represent subtle
effort to get us to play the role
something that comes to us in our
nightmares centering around your
great problem-the answer is no.
There are any number of reasons
why we cannot take the part, one
of which is we have more hair
than Ernie, and for all our ema-
citation, we outweigh him by
pounds.
Beyond that, we have two
thoughts on the subject which
may be more hopeful to you.
AS you must have read in the
papers. the witch of Scrapfaggot
is at large again after lying for
two centuries with a boulder on
her bosom in Great Leiths, Eng
land. Maybe her autic way of
rolling stones In front of bed
room doors in her old stamping
ground is Illustration based upon
the fact that she has a son she
would like to see in the movies. If
SO, Ernie would be the first to
nominate MIN TO play the Pyle
role in the picture. We would like
to be the second.
Our other notion is that you
might put one of those rubber
sweat shirts on Laird Cregar and
let him run around the track at
Santa Anita until you are ready
to start shooting the picture. BY
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Tarzan Is Movies Iron Man

It's the old familiar setting, the
jungle, as we find the 1914 Tarzan
crew working on location 80 miles
from Los Angeles. The site Is
Baldwin Park, almost within bet
ting distance Of Santa Anita.
In addition to realistic African
forest built on the premises, they
also have filled in q lake larger
than two football f1elds-and have
even stocked the lake with fish.
Weissmuller, assisted by Tantor, a
lazy looking elephant, are together
IN a scene which requires the
launching of gigantic raft which
Tarzan has just built. They do q
couple of takes, but Director Kurt
Neumann is disguised with the re-
suits.
"You don't look like you're strain
Evening star., 1944-10-12
Language Barrier
HOLLYWOOD.

Mexican admirers OF Cantinf1as,
comic from below the border, are
wondering how he's going TO 60 in
American films. Cantiflas Is q ter
rific pantomimist, has had back
ground OF bullf1ghting, prize fight
ing and dancing, but one Of his big
appeals to Mexicans Is Mexican
double talk, which convulses them.
Evening star., 1944-10-12
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. G.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER ", 1914.
Readers Write in Many Moods
And Draw Moody Answers
BY JAY CARMODY.

Some open letters recent correspondents charming
chursh
Dear Twombly II:
the spirit of letter why don't
Evening star., 1944-10-12

HOME AGAIN - Like the
hunter from the hills and the
sailor from the sea is Sheild
Barrett, Washington's gift to
the discusses art. Miss Bar
rett takes up a stay OF a meek
at Locus Capitol, ,Dhere she
will dismantle familiar types,
and people, ,0ith all her best
Sdtirical ferOor.
The Nome nugget., 1944-11-08
SEN. WHALEY AND FAMILY TO STATES

MT and Mrs. Frank H. Whaley and children left for the states on short vacation. They will wis itin Seattle with Mrs. Whaley's parents until Senator Whaley goes to hte legislative session in Juneau.
The Nome nugget., 1944-11-08
REV. PARKER TO CAMPBELL

Rev. and Mrs. Parker arrived in Nome recently from Twin Falls Idaho, enroute to their new sta- tion at Gambell, on St. Lawrence Island.
 They will work on the island in conjunction with Miss Martin who is now stationed there for the Presbyterian Church.
The Nome nugget., 1944-11-08
CRICSBY ON JOB FOR SOMMERS

Melvin Grigsby, son of George Grigsby a former Nomeite, recent ly returned to Nome, in the en- ploy of the Sommers Construction Company.
 Melvin spent his early boyhood in Nome, but has not been here since he was a small child.
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F. Signs
Seity Tax
Freeze Bill
Reluctant Signature Be.
gins Congressional Ex-
odus From Capital
ACTION APPLAUDED
Nominations Only Hurdle
Before Final Adjourn
ment This Week

WASHINGTON, Dec. 49, LH -
President Roosevelt's 'reluctant"
signature on legislation freezing So
cial security taxes started gen
eral congressional exodus from
Washington today.
Except for some state depart
ment and surplus property board
nominations under fire in the Sem
ate, the social security legislation
blocking scheduled increase
from one TO two per cent in payroll
and paycheck taxes on January l
was the last major hurdle be-
tween the 18th congress and its
final adjournment.
Announcement of the President S
action drew burst of applause
when Speaker Rayburn made it in
the house, where members general
ly had expected a veto.
There were less than 100 repre-
sentatives on the floor at the time
and many of them scooted away
promptly to take up train and
plane reservations home.
Final Adjournment Near
With only few non controver-
sial odds and ends in addition to
this Senate nominations to be acted
on, leaders set Their sight for final
adjournment not later than We'd
nesday.
Rayburn's announcement of the
president action was followed by
White House release of formal
statement declaring it would be in
cumbent upon the next Congress to
review thoroughly the methods Of
financing social security benefits.
The President said he still felt that
the tax Ashon1d have been allowed
to rise on account of long run
requirements of the social security
system" He asserted the measure
merely defers until next year" the
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
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SANFORD RANDELL
KILLED IN CRASH
Car Leaves Highway And
Overturns On Third
Street Curve

Sanford RanIeH, "a, of 112-A Dare
street, Maffitt Village, was killed
this morning at 1890 O. clock when
his northbound automobile left
Third street, just south of the
Greenfield Lake spillway, anc
crashed. He was alone in the car
The car rolled over and bounced
among the trees, some of which
were gouged nearly ten feet above
the ground. Probably thrown from
the automobile, he was pinned be-
meath it.
When the car was raised suffi-
GENTLY to remove his body, he was
found to be dead.
Randell was employed in the fin
gerprint section Of the North
Carolina Shipbu;lding company S
Identification office.
According to shipyard employees
among the bystanders, he had left
the yard 80 minutes previously in
his car, a 1910 LaSalle sedan.
Details of the accident were in
process of being investigated fur
ther this morning by members of
the state highway patrol, who ar
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Rv JOHN A. PARIS, JR.

LONDON, Dec. 16.- R Prime
Minister Churchill had "a lapse OF
memory when he enormously
told the House of Commons that
an insertion in the Atlantic Char
ter permitted mutually agreed"
territorial changes prior to n e
peace, it was acknowledged today.
It was announced incidentally
that he might "quite possibly"
broadcast to the world Sunday
night a review of the war and the
political situation. He was believ-
ed working on this tentative adj
dress at his official residence. No.
Ito Downing. street, when there
icane from those hushed and acru-
puloaly correct precincts the frank
admission that Churchill had lust
made a Slip in his speech yes
terday.
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MIND0R0 ISLAND
FIGHTING LIGHT
Yank And Australian En-.
gineers Are Rushing
Work On Airfield

GENERAL MacARTHUR'S
H E A D QUARTERS, Philip
pines, Sunday, Dec. 17-(P)- =
U. S. forces on Mindoro is
land have taken the town of
San Jose five miles inland
from their newly established
beachhead, Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur announced today.
The operation was covered in a
broad advance of seven to nine
miles and resistance was negligi-
BILE.
Yank and Australian engineers
were rushing work on an airfield.
Planes based there will be with
in easy flying range of Manila and
it's network of sairfields 1855 miles
to the north.
The San Jose airfield is five
miles inland and along the Busun-
ga river.
...s New Crisis
The U. S. 9th army invasion of
Mindoro island in the Philippines
plus new American fleet tactics and
Filipino guerrilla successes today
put a new and mighty crisis be-
fore Japanese war leaders.
Sailing 900 miles between islands
which the Nipponese in nearly three
years in the Philippines have fail
ed to conquer wholly, the Yanks
made their beachheads Friday
morning on sout's',,rn Mindoro with
little loss. Gen. Douglas MacAr-
thur said.
(Tokyo radio said a Japanese
communique reported heavy fight
ing in Mindoro and that Nipponese
"a,licide' planes which attacked
the convoy enroute to that island
sank four transports. The enemy
broadcast also said 81 other YES
sles in the convoy, including eight
transports, two battleships n
three cruisers, were damaged and
set ablaze by the japanese pilots.
None of these claims have been
confirmed by American official
sources)
With American troops firmly es-
tablished on Samar and Leyte is
lands east of Mindoro, Macarthur
said the latest landing not only cut
the Philippine archipelago in two
but will enable the allies to "doni-
Continued on Page Eight; Col. y
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MAI. T0WLE WILL
SPONSOR AKA HERE
U. S. S. Washburn Will Be
Launched At N. {. Yard
Monday Afternoon

Major Katherine A. Tow e
USMCR, of Washington, Assistan
Director of the Marine Corps Won
ems Reserve, will christen the U
S. S. Washburn at the yard of th'
North Carolina Shipbuilding com
pany Monday afternoon at 1:3'
o'clock, officials of the yard an
nounced yesterday.
Before her transfer to Washing
ton, Major Towle was senior of
ficer of the Women's Reserve a
Camp Lejeune.
Her attendants will be Major
Jeanette Gill, USMCR, a mem
Der of the Commanding General
staff at Lejeune; Major Dorothy
Mott, USMCR, Commanding OF
ficer of the Women Reserve schoo
at Lejeune; Captain Mary l.
Parks, USMCR, Commanding Of
ficer of the Women Reserve battal
ion at Lejeune, and Lieut.. Heller
P. Weigle, secretary to the Com
manding General at Lejeune.
Among those expected to attend
the ceremony are Col. F. M. Wul-
burn, Lieut., COL. and Mrs. Robert
A. McGill, Mrs. John Marston
Mrs. Alfred H. Noble and Mrs
Robert H. Pepper, all of Lejeune.
The U. S. S. Washburn, Both
combat cargo ship to near compile
ton here and 192nd to go down the
ways of the yard, is named in honor
of a county in Wisconsin.
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ChurchiH's Atlantic Charter Remark
In Commons Blamed On Men1oryLapse

t'Mr. Churchill was speaking
from memory and just made a
slip. What he attributed to the At
lantic Charter was actually in the
British governments statement of
foreign policy laid down in 1910.
Later during yesterdays debate,
Mr.. Eden Foreign Secretary An
thony Eden pointed out that Mr..
Churchill had erred"
He added that the prime min
lister had no prepared text for yes
terday's speech. "He spoke from
notes and memory and the. prime
minister made slip"
If Churchill was disturbed over
his lapse of memory" there was
no evidence of it tonight. Diplo-
matte quarters were of the opinion
that the prime minister consider
Continued on Page Eight; Col. p
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BOLTON STATION
AGENT is KILLED
T.E. Hufham Found Dead
On Shoulder OF High
way Near Depot

BOLTON, Dec. 16.-T. E. HUI
ham, about 40, agent at the At
lantic Coast Line railroad depot
here, was found dead on a Shout
der Of the highway near the sta
ton at S:45 O'Clock this morning,
apparently the victim of hit-and-
run driver, according to Sheriff
Herman D. Stanley.
No details of the accident were
immediately available but sheriff S
officers, railroad detectives and
state highway patrolmen were
making widespread investigation.
Hufham, son of the late Porter
Hufham who had served as clerk
Of U. S. District court in Whining
ton, went to work as the Bolton
A. c. L. agent last Monday. he
la' been employed by the railroad
or about Is years, and recently
Vas an operator at Warsaw.
survivors include his widow
Mrs. Irene Hufham of Warsaw
one daughter, Betty Ann. of the
nome; two brothers, M. L., anc
D.. D. HUMAN, Doth Of U. S. Navy;
ana two sisters, Mrs. A. B. Reeves
u Burgaw. and Mrs. J. A. ROD
ohs Of Wilmington.
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PROPERTY BOARD
MEMBERS 0KEHED
Senate Clears Way For De.
bate On State Depart
ment Nominations

WASHINGTON, Dec. 49, Up
The Senate confirmed two mem
bers of the Surplus Property Dis
posal Board late today and by do
ing so cleared the way for debate
next week on six disputed state
department nominations.
Former Governor Robert A. Hur-
ley of Connecticut and 1t. Col. Ed
ward H. Heller, an army finance
officer from San Francisco, were
approved as members of the SUI
plus property board which will
handle the sale of an estimated
$1OO, 1000, 100000 worth of govern
ment held commodities, machines,
factories and land. The President
h designated Hurley as chair
man.
The votes of approval-41 to %
for Hurley, 43 to 26 for Heller
adhered very closely to party lines.
Both men are Democrats.
Immediately after the confirma-
ton of Heller, Senator Conna]ly
ID. Tex made certain that the pen
ing business before the Senate has
the nomination Of Joseph C. Grew,
former ambassador to Japan, as
undersecretary of state. Five other
men, designated by the president
as assistant secretaries of state,
follow Grew on the confirmation
calendar.
The long awaited debate will
begin when the Senate meets at
noon Monday.
There were some indications.
meanwhile, that concerted opposi-
ton to the nominations was begin
ming to crumple. Senator Clark Cd
Mo-. who had been sharply criti-
cal of the nomination of poet-libra-
rian Archibald MacLeish as one of
the assistant secretaries, surprised
his colleagues by announcing that
he thought he would vote for all
six.
The Missouri Senator explained
that there was an apparent effort
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Russians Widen Salient
Northeast Of BUDAPEST

LONDON, Sunday, Dec. 17.-(P
The Red army salient 100 miles
northeast of Budapest was extend
ed virtually to the Slovak border
at new point yesterday while
other Russian tanks and infantry
smashed westward towards Wen.
ma from the newly-won bridge.
heads at Ipolysag in western
Slovakia northwest OF the Hungar-
ian capital.
Moscow's broadcast communi-
que last night restricted itself to
reporting gains some 81 to 80 miles
north and northeast of Miskolc,
which is IS miles north and north
east OF Miskolc, which is IS miles
northeast of Budapest, but the Ger
mans announced withdrawals to
new positions north and west OF
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In a voice charged with all the
solemn augustness of his position,
one of the prime ministers prl-
vate secretaries explained to the
Associated Press that Churchill,
while dealing with Polish territori-
al changes in his address to the
House of Commons, had confused
the wording of the Atlantic Char
ter with the British government S
statement of foreign policy draft
ed in September, 1910.
While both sides of the Atlantic
were considering th e portent OF
Churchill's statement that an in
sertion had been made in the At
lantic Charter, and mutually
agreed ON by the three great Al
lied powe rs, that territorial
changes could be settled before the
peace conferences, t h secretary
explained;
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$4,979,437 TOTAL
Sale OF E Bonds In Cam.
paign Will Continue
Through December

AS the Sixth War Loan drive
came to close yesterday, except
for the purchase of Series E bonds,
War Finance committee leaders
announced that corporations d
individuals h a d invested $4,979,-
437.25 in U. S. securities through
out New Hanover county and OF
this total the series E bond sales
amounted to 81 ,431. 637.25.
The overall bond sales, as OF
Yesterday, represented 107 pei
cent of the goal of $4,666.ooo, and
individual buying was Y per cent
of the Series E quota of $685.
900.
Subscription books were closed
Yesterday on corporation pond
buying, but credit for the purchase
of Series E bonds will still be
made to New Hanover county
throughout December.
Up To People
AS New Hanover remains % per
cent in the arrears on its indivi'
dual bond purchases. bond officials
said their only plea now was that
cts the responsibility of the peo-
pie to see that New Hanover
doesn't fall behind in making a
quota this time. During every
Campaign the citizens of this coun'
ty have made the goals. and Of
tentimes oversubscribec them. We
don't believe they will fail this
time"
Total sales of bonds in the
amount of $549. 1920 in all New
Hanover schools was reported by
p. R. Blakeslee. principal Of Wash
ineton-Catlett school and in charge
of the school war bond drive.
Stark reminder of how many Of
d. ~o Txun. FOL Sl
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SENATORS DEBATE
POLISH QUESTION
Reynolds very Unhappy
To Learn Allies Have
Deserted Poland

WASHINGTON. Dec. 16.- tY -
British Russian plans for pushing
Poland farther westward set off a
string of verbal firecrackers on
capitol hill today but the rest of
official Washington remained silent.
Centering his fire on Premier
Stain of Russia, retiring Senator
Reynolds D.-N. c. declared that
when the war ends the question
will not be whether there is to be
power politics. in Europe but
whether Mr.. Stain is going to
extend his rule to all of it,
Senate debate was touched off
when Senator Danaher (R.-Conn.-
offered a text of Prime Minister
Churchills House of Commons
speech of yesterday for the Off
cial record.
Reynolds. chairman of the mill
tary affairs committee who did not
seek reelection this year, declared
he was very unhappy to learn
from Churchills speech that "our
Allies have deserted Poland"
And Senator Vandenberg R.-
Mich.), who earlier had called for
''plain speaking" in our relations
with Russia and Britain, said:
II should greatly appreciate the
inclusion also of speech from the
president should one become avail
able for insertion in the congress-
ional record"
A suggestion that the administna-
ton should make its position
clear was voiced by Senator Da-
Wis (R.-Pa.) as he inserted an ed
itorial from the Philadelphia In
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v.uld Incorporate Princi-
nal Suburbs East Ard
South OF Limits
IECRAND APPROVES
RlI Provides For Special
Election Upon Request
From Council
rr,l text of the bill to extend
10 city limits Is on page eleven.

Tho text of bill providing for
,necial election on an extension
., the city limits of Wilmington
~.s announced yesterday by the
ci.y Council and the City Planning
p pnard, with the concurrence and
,nnroval of Representative-elect
Tobn O. LeGrand.
# passed by the General Assem-
bly, and ratified by the voters, the
Nil will incorporate into the city
two areas lying eastward and
snthward Of the present limits
and comprising the principal devel-
orpd suburbs. The two areas con-
rsn an estimated 1000 popula-
finn and he annexation would
give Wilmington a population ex-
Feeding $4,000, it was estimated
by the Planning Board. The 1910
population was SO, 407.
Present Council Cannot Act
The bill has been discussed with
Mr. LeGrand by the Council and
Planning Board at a series OF con-
terences, and has now been for
nsLy presented to him for in
reduction in the 1915 session of
the Assembly. which convenes in
January.
The bill provides that the New
Hanover County Board of Elec-
tons, upon request from the City
Council, shall call a special cleo
ton on extension. The request for
the election cannot be issued by
the present Council, but only by
the Council to be elected next May
Or by some succeeding Council
and can be issued only after the
Council formally finds by resolu-
ton that it can provide services
Continued on Page 20; Col. D.
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TONE HOPEFUL
Offer Refused Because 1t
Fails To Provide For
Halt In Fighting
By STEPHEN BARBER

ATHENS, Dec. 16.-(P)-Lt. Gen
Ronald M. Scobie rejected peace
proposals of the. EAM left-wine
National Liberation Front party
today because the Leftists' Offer
failed to provide immediate cessa
ton of resistance and fighting con
tinued in the capital.
A British headquarters state
ment said, General Scobie mus
continue to insist upon satisfactory
fulfillment of this condition"
Scobie, the British commander
in Greece, has demanded that al
ELIAS fighting branch of the
EAM supporters in Athens ano
it's port, Piraeus, stop fighting
against British and Greek govern
ment troops and surrender their
arms.
Tone Hopeful
The tone of his reply to the
Fam peace offer today, however
was regarded as hopeful.
The headquarters statement sale
Scobie "does not believe there will
be any difficulty in Field Marsha
Sir Harold Alexander's being able
to initiate necessary steps to bring
the turmoil to an end and restore
to all Greeks, whatever their opin
ions, the enjoyment of their demo
cratic liberties. %
Scobie earlier had pledged thai
Alexander, supreme Allied com
mander in the Mediterranean
would take over the task OF end
ing the conflict within Greece wher
the armed civil strife is ended.
The Fam peace offer included
these conditions:
That new government be form.
Continued on Page Two; Col. g.
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REPUBLICANS MAP
VOTE CAMPAIGNS
Will Seek To Elect Mayors:
Governors, Members
OF Congress

NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-iR-Arm-
ed with the first cash surplus the
party ever brought out of presl-
Dental contest, Herbert Brownell,
Jr., started the ball rolling today
en- four-year republican cam
paign aimed at electing mayors,
governors, members of congress
and finally, a president.
The COP national chairman,
back from a months vacation in
the west, said he hadn't decided
yet whether he wants to keep the
non-paying job he took over last
summer when his longtime friend,
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, became
the party's presidential nominee
But Brownell gave every ap-
pearance, as he arranged series
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. u
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Ipolysag in the face of continual
Russian assaults.
Unofficial Moscow dispatches
also said the Russians were
Strengthening h ell bridgehead
over the Ipoly river at Ipolysag
and thrusting toward the Slovak
capital of Bradshaw, 81 miles to
the west, and towards Vienna, lis
miles in the same direction.
The communique listed the can.
ture OF 80 towns, including Bara-
kony, directly north of Miskolc and
less than four and a half miles
from the Slovak frontier and with
in 244 miles southwest of the al.
ready outflanked Nazi eastern
Slovakian stronghold of Kassa
(Kosice)
The Germans were Keeling back.
Continued on Page Two; Col a
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Ne1u Hanover S11rpasses
Goal In War Bond Drive
Carriers To Deliver
Yule Parcels Today

Postmaster Wilbur r. Dosher
yesterday called for the COOP
Grafton of WilmingtOnians in
utilizing a special holiday serv-
ice devised for their benefit.
Mail carriers will carry on a
parcel devilery service all day
today, he explained, to expedite
the arrival of Christmas pre-
sents He asked city residents
still expecting packages not to
leave their houses unattended
until evening, so that overload
ed postmen need not back-track
with unaccepted parcels.