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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-06
DETROIT BEATS CHICAGO
JOB OF B-29

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5-Rt-The
job of the B-29 Superfortresses is
to smash the sources of Japan's
military power, Brig. Gen. Hay.
wood S. Hansell, Jr., said today.
and the attacks will be launched
more frequently as soon as supply
lines can be opened u2.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-06

only one game in the second half of
the South side series, and up until
today, the Machine Shop had a PEI
feet record.
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Machine Shop $500 100000 o. 2
Steam ENGINEERS O23 $40 XII 8
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-06

TODAY'S GAMES
NEW YORK, Sept. 5.-(P-Prob.
able pitchers for tomorrow's ma.
jor league game.
American League
Detroit at Chicago-Trout (23.
10) VS.. HUMPHREYS (6-8).
Only clubs scheduled.
National League
No games scheduled.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-06
PITCHERS HURL
SHUT0UT GAMES
g. Louis And Cardinals
Divide Double Bill;
40; o.

CINCINNATI, Sept. 5.-(R)-Two
,i1chers threw shutout victories to-
eiaht to become 20-game winners
ln Il. The St. Louis Cardinals and
Cincinnati a. Reds divided a twi-
nigbt doubleheader. Mort Cooper,
a;5ad bv two home runs, took the
s s game, 4 to and Bucky Wal
+ +e Cincinnati's dependable right
Sander hurled the nightcap to
i've the Reds a 4 to shutout.
Hits in both games were almost
oven as both clubs got six each in
tbs opener while Cincinnati got
seven to St. Louis six in the night
cap.
Husky Walker Cooper, the re-
ceiying half of the brother battery,
MT the first game on ice in the
first inning. After Stan Musial dou-
HE'D with two out, Cooper SIAM
med 4O0-foot homer over the CEN
terfield fence.
Tommy De La Cruz then retired
the next IS men to face him, strik-
IMP out the side in the sixth. Mu-
sal opened the ninth with a sin
ole and ambled home ahead of
Rsnny Litwhiler who ait his 18th
6ene run of the year.
Tonights victory in the nightcap
marked the sixth time Walters
has defeated the league cham
MONS this year - four of these
are shutouts. The Reds got two
runs off starting pitcher Max La
ner in the first inning. They add
ed another in the third and the fl
nal one in the eighth off Al Juris-
ich. ~ 81 So So
FIRST GAME
RH E
St Louis $3.50 200 600 OO24 6 l
Cincinnati 49, POI 900 01x-4 7 2
Batteries; M. Cooper and w.
Cooper: De La Cranz and Mueller.
SECOND GAME
ST. Louis go 900 900 000-0 2
Cincinnati --- POI 900 O1x-4 Z 2
Batteries: Lanier, Jurisich CD
and O'Dea: Walters and Mueller.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-06

Do not include last night S
games.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-21
AREA RENT OFFICE
GETS EXTRA HELP

NEW BERN, Sept. 20.-Because
Of the increase in business at the
New Bern Area Rent office, which
has charge of rent control for the
OPA in Craven and Carteret coun
ties, two new assistants have been
assigned to duty here, it has been
learned from w. A. Davis, rent ap-
praiser, who will remain in charge
Of the local office.
R. N. Scott has been added to
the staff as examiner-inspector,
and U. A. Wilson, as inspector.
Mr.. Scott has moved to New Bern
from huntsville where he resided
for some years. He was previously
cashier for the former Citizens
Bank here.
Until July 1913, New Bern had
a separate rent conrol office, but
it was then converted into branch
of the Wilmington office and is
still being operated in that capaci.
ty. Increasing activities through.
out this two-county war boom area
however, made the duties toe
strenuous for one man to handle;
hence, decision of district authori
ties at Raleigh and regional au
thorities at Atlanta to increase the
one-man staff TO three.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-21
FLOOD REACHED
ON JAMES RIVER

RICHMOND, Va, Sept. 20-IH-
The crest of the James river flood
reached Richmond tonight, ap-
proximately 20 hours after an all
time high of 37.3 feet was reach
ed this morning at Columbia, go
miles up river, but the city was
well prepared for the high waters
after city workment and 300
Negro troops from Camp Lee had
labored for hours reinforcing
dykes.
Col. P. E. Duggins, command
ing officer of McGuire's general
army hospital, said that Fl pa
tients at the naval training school
at south Richmond, had been
transferred to the army hospital,
and personnel of the Nays diesel
school were taken to the army air
base.
The threat from the floods,
born of the torrential rains in
western sections Ct the state early
this week, appeared tonight to
have dwindled elsewhere in Vir-
ginia.
Roads in the vicinity of Clarks-
vile, in the southern part of the
state, were reported damaged,
where high water from the Roa-
noke river threatened route l,
Virginia's main north and south
highway, and routes 5001 and Is.
Danville escaped danger OF
flood from the Dan river, which
receded after reaching a 12-foot
crest, but Scottsville suffered
some damage when water from
the James river poured into the
streets from depth of five to
eight feet Monday night. The
flood took the town by surprise.
State highway officials said it
would require five or six months
to repair fully the damage esti.
mated bewteen $5oo,ooo and $780,
mated between 100000 and $780,
tenn.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-21
Belt Opens
Warehouses TODAY

RALEIGH, Sept. 20 III Nine
markets comprising the Middle
flue. cured tobacco belt will begin
auction sales tomorrow on a limit
ed scale, with full-scale activities
scheduled to begin Monday, the
War Food Administration and the
State Department of Agriculture
said today.
As compromise to settle con-
troversy which arose over tobac-
CO association of the United States
order postponing opening dates one
week, all markets will be limited
to two sets of buyers or less for
Thursday and Friday, and a re-
duced number OF selling hours.
Durham, the largest market in
the belt, will operate on 10 10
hour sales scheduled this week,
with two sets of buyers. Oxford.
Henderson and Fuquay Varina
markets will observe seven-hour
sales schedule with one set of
buyers each. ALI other markets will
operate three and one.half hours,
with one set. Normal sales sched-
ules will begin on all markets Mon
day.
Meanwhile, market experts pre-
dicted the 1914 Middle Belt crop
would exceed all others in money
value. While no figures were avail
able on the expected total produc-
ton in the Middle Belt, a Sept. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-21
Two Oak Leaf Clusters
Go To WhiteuiIe Filler

WHITEVILLE, Sept. 20-Award
OF two Oak Leaf Clusters of the
Air Medal to S. Sgt. Prince E..
Strickland, son of Rev. and Mrs.
r. w. Strickland Of Whiteville,
for "meritorious achievement
while participating in lombard
ment missions over enemy terri.
tory" has been announced by Mai,
Gen. William E. Kepner, com
manding general of Liberator
bomb division of an Eighth Air
Force Liberator Station.
Sergeant Strickland has been
flying as a nose gunner on the
Liberator "Queenie". Prior to
Joining the service he was en-
ployed by his father on the farm.
He has been on 81 combat mis-.
sions. On a recent attack on
Brunswick, the plane was badly
shot up by flax, forcing the pilo,
to crash land.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-21

forecast of the U. S. Crop Reporting
Service indicated 253, 900, 900 pounds
would be harvested in the combin-
ed middle and old belts. Old Belt
markets will open on a similarly
reduced sale next Thursday.
State department of Agriculture
experts said that the near-recrod
production which has been fore
cast, coupled with increased cell
ing prices, should result in a return
of approximately 10 per cent over
the 1943 crop.
The Middle Belt sold 96,581, 700
pounds of leaf last year for an
average Of $40.e7 per hundred
pounds. compared with 99,939210
pounds which averaged 1914 in
1912. Middle Belt markets operated
under a Al cent ceiling last year.
The 1914 ceiling is 43 10 cents.
September l crop forecasts point
ed to a yield of 1000 pounds an
acre, the highest yield on record.
At the same time market experts
said the quality of the weed pro-
duced in the middle belt would be
above that of 1943 and equal to
that sgd thus far in eastern belts.
Middle Belt markets, operating
48 warehouses, are located at Alb
erdeen, Carthage, Durham, Fu-
quay-Varina. Henderson, Louisburg
Oxford, Sanford and Warrenton.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-21
Russian Offensive
Gains Momentum
Continued from Page One)

nique and in subsequent radio
broadcasts, contendsd they were
repulsing the Russians in the Bal
tic states and had made some
gains of their own in the Jelgava
area below Riga, where the Rus.
SLAMS said Nazi4 counterattacks
failed.
The Germans acknowledged that
Russian and Polish troops under
cover Of artificial Jog had crossed
the Vistula river into Warsaw but
radio commentators said these for.
ces had been wiped out. The GeS.
man high command said only that
they were "cut off,"
The Russians were silent con
corning the Polish fronts, both a.
Warsaw and elsewhere, except tt
announce capture of a handful o.
mountain villages In southern Pc
land on the border Of Czechislova
kia.
The Russians likewise kept theil
own counsel on land development
in the Balkans, telling only o
continuing air raids on the Hun
garian capital. Budapest, and tn
Hungarian held Transylvania1
town of Satu-Mare, both describ
ed as highly successful.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-21
PRICES BETTER
ON BRIGHT BELT

WILSON, Sept. 90 Up Prices
by grades strengthened on eastern
North Carolina tobacco markets to.
day, but extremely heavy l e s
continued on all markets and many
warehouses were filled to capacity.
The War F d Administration
and the State Department of Ag-
riculture said increases from one
to two cents pound were regained
In some lower quality leaf grades,
Jugs ar1d nondescript, while losses
reported yesterday were regained
in number of instances.
The general quality of tobacco
was lower as the percentage OF
common to fair leaf and monde
script increased, VIA said. These
grades made up the bulk of sales.
There alto was an increase in the
amount of damaged tobacco and
offerings in an unsound condition.
Gross sales on Tuesday amount
ed to 100000 pounds, averaging
Abs CENTS pound, bringing the
season total to date to 1886, SOC
pounds at an average of 41.59.
Border belt sales yesterday to-
tailed 7,035, 446 pounds at an aver
age of 1882, bringing the season
total in North and South Carolina
to 1879, 942,061 pounds at an average
of 43.3l cents a pound. VIA said
the border crop was now about
88 per cent marketed.
Average prices per pound on a
limited number of representative
U. S. grades on the eastern belt
markets, with comparative prices
yesterday:
Leaf: Good lemon, AT, unchang-
ed; fair lemon, AS, unchanged;
fair orange, AS, unchanged; low
orange, "A, unchanged; common
orange, .43, up one; low red, 40,
up one; common green (orange
side), .38, up two.
Cutters: Fair lemon, As, low
lemon, AS, low orange, AS, all un-
changed.
Lugs: Good lemon, As, unchang.
ed; good orange, AS, unchanged;
fair orange, IA, up one; low
orange, Al. up two.
Nondescript: Best thin, .33, up
two; best crude, .28, up one.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-21
1000 Trusses To
Be Given Away
This NJ onth

Kansas City, Mo.-A Doctor
Invention for reducible rupture is
proving so successful, an offer is
now being made to give everyone
who tries it a $3.50 Truss Free.
This invention has no leg straps,
no elastic belts, or leather bands.
It holds rupture up and in. Is COM
Portable and easy to wear. After
using it many report entire salts
ia action. Any reader of this paper
may try the Doctors Invention for
80 days and receive the separate
$3.50 Truss Free. If you are not
entirely satisfied with the inven-
tion-return it, but be sure to
keep the $3.50 Truss for your
trouble. If you are ruptured just
write the Physicians Appliance
Co., 1885 Koch Bldg, 2906 Main
ST., Kansas City, Mo-, for their
trial offer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-21
SCOUT LEADERS
PLAN ACTIVITY

Reorganization Of troop commit
tees and the revival OF scouting in
all areas affected by the polio ban
were the main topics Of discus
sion at the semi-monthly staff
meeting of scout officials OF the
Cape Fear area, held Monday and
Tuesday at Scout headquarters.
Attending were CORTLAND w.
Baker, Carroll Tinsley, and Dou-
glas King Of Wilmington, c. M.
Gaskins of Fayetteville, and ]. O..
Lee of Lumberton.
District committees will start
the meetings this month and an
executive board session has been
scheduled for next month
The next gathering OF the staff
has been set for Wilmington, Octo-
Der 20, when the discussions will
feature commissioners" it was
announced.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-21
Army Air Experiment
Almost Proves Fatal

NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Sept. 20
-R-Two Army airmen. ditching
a B-A Liberator bomber in the
James river as an experiment de.
signed to provide improved safe
ty for filters in emergency water
landings by land-based aircraft,
had close brush with death today
when their plane broke almos. in
two as it struck the water.
The fliers, who escaped with a
severe shaking up, are Major Ju
liam A. Harvey, of the proving
ground command, the pilot, and
Col. Carl F. Greene, liaison officer
at Langley Field between the
army air forces and the national
advisory committee for aeronau.
tics, co-pilot.
More than 100 observers, includ-
ing representatives of the Army,
Navy, Coast Guard and British
Royal Air Force, watched from
the decks of half dozen surface
craft lined up parallel to the James
river bridge as the big bomber,
carrying several structural modi.
fications, came in sight and began
to lose altitude.
The Liberator SKINNED lower
and touched the water at speed
OF approximately 100 miles per
hour, porpoised Cbounced) once,
and struck again tail first. The
front of the plane came down
hard and sent big spray Of whit:
water into the air, obscuring the
entire plane for a moment. As
the foam subsidized the bomber s
nose plunged beneath the surface
Seconds later the nose reappeared
and observers saw that the fuse
lage was broken almost in two al
the leading edge of the wing.
Three crash boats, bearing doc
tors and nurses and fire-fighting
equipment, sped toward the plane
as Major Harvey climbed out O
the escape hatch, to be followed
a moment later by Col. Greene
Trained rescue men leaped from
the crash boats to the bomber!
wing, assisted the two filters t.
safety, and placed pontoons unde,
the wings to prevent the plan,
from sinking.
The Navy salvaged from tn,
bomber large number of water
PROCEED instruments which will b,
studied to obtain precise informa
ton concerning acceleration an,
water pressures imposed by tn
landing.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-21
ROANOKE RIVER
R0ARS EASTWARD

RALEIGH, Sept. 2o-lR-Resi-
dents along the Roanoke river in
northeastern North Carolina were
warned today of impending rise
of the river above normal flood
stage.
The Roanoke is expected to
reach 46 feet at Weldon by Thurs
day night, several feet above the
flood stage. A warning was sent to
Williamson residents by the U.
S. weather bureau here saying
that the Roanoke would be "sev-
eral'' feet above flood stage there
later in the week, because of
heavy rains further up the river
in Virginia. ..-
Residents along the lower
reaches of the river were told to
take every precaution and to be
prepared to evacuate to higher
land if necessary. The Halifax
county Red Cross said it was pre-
pared to begin refugee work i'm.
mediately if the river at Weldon
and Roanoke Rapids showed
signs of threaening the two
towns.
In 1910 the river reached So
feet, nearly 20 feet above normal,
at Roanoke Rapids and Weldon
flooding large areas, causing ex,
tensive damage to property anc
drowning several persons. How
ever, the weather bureau here sale
the river at these two places
would no treach anything like
the 1910 flood stage"
Meanwhile, the state highway
division here said it had bee.,
notified by the Virginia highway
commission that floodwaters in
the Dan and Roanoke rivers had
receded, and the U. S. highway
20, which had been closed during
tie flood emergency, had been re.
opened to traffic.
Highway No. IA, over the Roa.
noke river at Clarksville, Va,
still was open, chairman Charles
Ross of the North Carolina com
mission, said. He said advices
from Virginia indicated the river
would not rise sufficiently to block
traffic over this route.
U. S. highway lover the Roa.
noke river between South Hill
Va, and North Carolina Points
lacked IL inches Of being inundat-
ed at a late hour today. The riv.
err was rising at the rate of an
inch an hour and the road prob.
ably will be closed to traffic
early tomorrow, the state officials
said.
The state division said that U.
S. highway 301 at Weldon prob
ably would not be closed because
of high water. A flood crest OF
so feet would be necessary to
inundate the highway, and the
current flood stage is not expect.
ed to reach more than 46 feet.
Meanwhile, officials of the south.
ern railway here said their trains
were still out between Green's
boro and Charlottesville, and that
they were operating on detour
routes. Southbound trains from
New York and Washington, now
being routed through~~Richmond,
were arriving at Greensboro and
other points IL and is hours late,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-21
SUPREME COURT
REVERSES RULE

RALEIGH, Sept. 20 R The
Supreme Court today reversed a
superior court ruling in Chero-
kee county in which Judge Felix
Alley ordered the state to pay the
expense of returning a fugitive
to the state for trial.
In a session which saw 10 cases
handled, the court ruled that in
the case of felony expenses to
return a fugitive to the state must
be born by the state treasury, and
that in all other cases county
treasury funds must be used.
Associate Justice Michael
Schenck, in writing the opinion,
said that the order directing the
state to pay expenses was "un-
authorized in this case and there
fore is in error. 1t appears in the
record that no requisition was ap-
piled for and none issued by the
governors, and that the defend
ant, James Patterson, waived
extradition and voluntarily re-
turned with the sheriff to North
Carolina"
In other action, the court upheld
the Surry County Superior court
in denial in case in which Mrs.
Helen H. Eldridge sought $780,
600 in damages from the Church
Oil corporation, the Gulf Oil cor
poration and T. P. Mayberry for
the death of her husband, A.
Daniel Eldridge, at filling sta
ton on June q, 1941.
Mrs. Eldridge lad sought dam
age on the ground that Gulf
Oil truck overran and killed ner
husband while the truck was be-
ing operated in the business of
the oil company and j. P. May
berry, owner of the filling station.
Evidence set forth in the plain
tiff's appeal said that Eldridge
and Mayberry became involved in
an affray at Mayberry''s filling
station, located near Elkin, at the
same time a Gulf Oil truck operat-
ed by Cortez Lowery, was parked
at the filling station. A short time
later, the evidence said, Mayberry
ran out Of the filling station and
appealed to Lowery to take him
away. Lowery allowed Mayberry
to enter his truck, at the same
time pursued by Eldridge.
The complaint charged that
Eldridge was knocked off the
running board of the truck and
run over by the wheels of the
truck. Eldridge died two days
later.
Associate Justice w. A. Devine.
writing the opinion, ruled that the
truck was not then in performance
of official duties of the owner.
company.
1--WE must look to the essential
facts set out rather than to quail
flying phrases" Devine said.
Viewed in this light, we reach
the conclusion that the facts al
legged fail to show that the tortio1s
conduct of Lowery in the opera
ton Of the truck was within the
scope of course of his employ
ment or in the furtherance of the
business of either defendant oil
companies"
In the only capital case review
ed thus far, the court dismissed
the appeal of Sam Jones. convict
ed in Halifax county of murder in
connection with the Staying Dec.
%, 1s4s, of Lindsey Price: The
openion automatically sets Jones
death date for Oct. 6.
Jones did not perfect his appeal
to the court, which as it always
does in capital cases, reviewed
the record and found no error.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-21
DIES OF WOUNDS

DURHAM, Sept. 20. >-R)-Pvt.
Matthew B. Smithwick, son of MIR.
and Mrs. Frank D. Smithwick OF
Durham, died Aug. 20 from wounds
received in France. Cpl. Robert L.
Cooper, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. q.
C. Cooper of Bynurn, was killed IN
an ai-plane crash at Copeland
Kan, according to message re-
ceived today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-21
GETS MAJORS RANK

CAMP LEJEUNE, Sept. 90
Capt. Dorothy Mott, MCWR, who
is commanding officer of the wo-
mems reserve schools here, has
been promoted to major. Before
joining the Marines, she was a
teacher at Goucher and other wo.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-21
ANOTHER POLIO CASE

DURHAM. Sept. 20.--(R)- Jackie
Edgar Tysinge1, six year old son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E. Tysinger
became Dusham's 18th victim of
lnfantile paralysis. The child was
admitted to Watts hospital at II O..
clock this morning
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-21
Did Stomach Ulcer Pains
Make Jack Spratt Eat M Fat !?

Modsrn day Jack spratts" who cat no
iat because Of distress Of stomach or
u.ceI pains, indigestion, gas pains.
n nt. burning sensation, blost and
other conditions caused by excess acid
should try Udga Get q 25c boy a, tiSg.
Iaolets from your druggist. First dose
must convinos-. or return box to II, and
get DOUBLE YOUR MONEY BACK.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-21
EsTONIAN COMMIssAR1ATEs

MOSCOW, Sept. 2O-lREThe Su-
preme Soviet of Estonia, meeting
somewhere in territory reoccupied
by Russian troops, has voted to
establish its own commissariats
Of foreign affairs and defense, it
was announced today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-21
VISIT SHELTER

OSWEGO, N. Y, Sept. 2o-R-
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and
Mrs. Henry Morgentnau, Jr., paid
an inspection trip today to the
Fort Ontario emergency refugee
shelter, home Of 982 Europeans
for the remainder of the war.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-21
Mrs. Mark W. Clark
S peaks At Ro1.;,l

,o RALEIGH f; Sept. 2o.-,p-n..
Mark W. Clark, wife NJ ts ~.
mander of the Fifth army ~ CON-
;l,pt here briefly toda VI IN nay y
interest of North CarolioS, III n.
wake county's forthcomins ~ ana
War Fund campaign. United
Also appearing at a public ..r
was Jay Allen, returned WIZ rally
spondent, vino substitutes a! core,
Carlos Romulo, resident c sor ~9l'
sloner OF the Philippines WIN ,''m M
business. eause o.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-21

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