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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-13
POLES DRAFTING
REPLY TO REDS

LONDON, Jan. 12.-Rl-The Pc.
lish cabinet. after second all
day discussion of Moscow's offer
of a modified Curzon Line as the
Polish-Russian boundary, was
drafting reply tonight which was
expected to spar for more favor
able terms but leave the way open
for a settlement. .
There was a widespread belief
in London that the Poles eventual
ly could submit to the Russian
declaration under guidance of Brit
ain and America,
The Russians Early yesterday
said they Intend u to keep most
of the Ukrainian and White Rus
sian territories incorporated into
the Soviet Union in 1889 but sug-
gested the slightly less drastic Cur
zon-Line proposal of 1919 as a
working basis and said Poland
could recompense herself by gain
ing an outlet to the Baltic Sea at
Germany's expense in the west.
The initial Polish reply, prom
ised Thursday, may deal at length
with data designed orefute the
Russian assertion that the Polish
government in London does not
control the Polish underground's
resistance to the Germans.
The Poles also may cite popula
ton statistics to support hopes of
regaining much of the eastern ter
ritory which the Russians claim is
not predominantly of Polish race.
The tone of the Polish reply,
however, was expected to be suf-
ficiently restrained to permit the
possibility that Polish represent
alive could shortly seek to restore
diplomatic relations with Russia.
There was possibility that the
entire question might be referred
to the European advisory commit
tee in London. but this committee
would have to submit any recon-
mendations to the Russian, Brit
ish and American governments.
The Poles might object that Rus
STA is represented on the commit
tee while Poland is not, but they
might be willing to rest their case
with the British and Americans
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-13
Company
Files Revised Rate
Schedule With sue

RALEIGH, Jan. IL -(P- The
Southern Bell Telephone and Tele-
graph Company, by agreement
with the State Utilities Commits
sion today filed a schedule OF
intrastate toll rates which will
mean a saving of approximately
$4,000 annually to North Caro-
linians, Commissioner Chairman
Stanley Winborne reported.
Winborne said this is the sec
end reduction in intrastate toll
rates within the last six months.
In June the commission approx
ed reduction that amounted to
savings of approximately $4,000
annually.
The reductions, he said, are a
result of the commissions effort
to have interstate rates-which
are higher-on a parity with intra-
state rates.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-13
PLENTY OF CARS
WHAT ABOUT GAS

OKLAHOMA CITY dRD - If the
Rolls Royce John Utter drives to
work should break down, he can
always wheel out one of eight
additional automobiles accumulat-
ed since he began collecting them
II 1899.
An inspector for the Army at
an aircraft plant, Utter has three
Rolls Royces, vintages of 1917, 1925
and 1881, two Stutz Bearcats, a
Packard, a Lozier, a Studebaker
and Peerless. Their model des-
ignations run from 1907 to 1885,
but they all perform creditably. on
the highway because, says Utter,
half the fun of collecting automo-
biles is keeping them in repair.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-13
white Mans Party
Demanded By Texan
Before Supreme Court

WASHINGTON, Jan. H. Up -
An assertion that Texans have a
Constitutional right to "organize a
white mans Democratic party to
the exclusion of Negroes was made
today before the Supreme Court
by George W. Barcus. assistant
attorney general of the Lone Star
State.
Urging the tribunal to affirm its
1885 decision sustaining the ex-
clusion of negroes from a Texas
democratic primary, Barcus said
the Negroes could organize their
own party and exclude whites.
Thurgood Marshall, New York
attorney, contended that such ex-
clusion is unconstitutional. Mar
shall and William H. HASTE, Wash
ington attorney, asked the court to
set aside the 1885 decision because
it was based on factual mistakes.
They represented Lonnie E. Smith,
Houston Negro, who was barred
from voting in 1910 primary to
nominate candidates for Congress.
eve think" Barcus asserted,
that any group of folks can form
a political organization of their
own and limit the membership.
You say, in effect" Justice
Frankfurter asked, that this
would be a club?'
That's all it is" Barcus re-
piled.
Referring to statement by
HASTE that there are ST., 1000 Ne
groes of voting age in Texas, Bar
Gus said that if they organized
party of their own they could
whip us anytime
We've never had anyone who
received that many votes in
primary" he explained.
Barcus enlivened the hearing by
saying that 1.-THE only reason we
have Republican party in Texas
is so the members can get the
plums when the party is in con-
troll at Washington.
cts just like Democrats in Yer
mont and New Hampshire" he
added.
They don't have many there"
commented Chief Justice Stone, a
native of New Hampshire.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-13
u. S. Agency Says Japs
Haze Refused To Talk
About Third EXCHANGE

WASHINGTON. Jan. 12.-lR-
The State Department revealed to-
day that Japan has so far refused
to discuss a third exchange of
nationals until it received re-
port on treatment of interned JAP
anese in this country.
Spanish representatives in
charge of Japanese interests here
have been requested to supply the
information to Japan, the Depart
ment said.
The announcement emphatically
denied reports that American
passengers from the Philippine is
lands who returned on the Grips
holm in the recent exchange of
nationals with Japan were select
ed for repatriation by the Depart
ment of State
The japanese put many diff
culties in the way Of Swiss diplo-
mats representing American inter-
ests in the Far East who were
charged with selecting repatriates
from the Philippines, the state
ment Indicated.
The Swiss were given broad hui
manitarian directives, it said, in
choosing repatriates since not all
Americans in the Orient could be
brought home on the Gripsholm's
second trip.
The neutral representatives were
instructed to pick as passengers:
ID those under close arrest; (2)
informed women and children; 90
the seriously ill; "a informed men
with preference given to married
men long separated from their
families in the United States.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-13
GOVERNOR HEARD
BY OIL JOBBERS
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for War (PAW), said that the gas
oline situation will get tighter"
in the future.
''Mr. (GeneraD Eisenhower will
be wanting gasoline" he said,
and we intend to see that he
gets all he wants and needs"
w. H. Hotter of Raleigh, district
rationing executive of the Office
Of Price Administration (OPA),
said that banks are being notified
to return to distributors any I'M
endorsed, mutilated, counterfeit or
other invalid gasoline coupons,
and that either they or the retail
dealers from whom they received
them would have to suffer the
loss ?
About $50 persons attended the
convention, which ended today.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-13
GERMANS ADMIT
CERVAR0 LOSS
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vious day at Sofia, capital Of Bull
gari.
Though handicapped by Door
weather, the gr eat American
bombers went in unerringly with
their Lightning fighter escort and
rained tons of bombs on moles,
jetties, warehouses and railway IA
cilities of the port which serves
Athens and through which supplies
pass to German forces in the
Aegen.
Fortress crewmen said many
fires were started in the harbor
and that one warehouse blew up.
Thirty-eight Nazi fighters chal'
lenged the mission over southern
Greece, and in the swirling fight
that ensued Fortress gunners shot
down five enemy planes and their
escorts destroyed another three.
Seven American planes were lost
AS in the raid on Sofia, the two
engined British Wellingtons then
swept in after dark and, guided by
fires set by the Americans.
dumped another huge load of ex.
plosives and incendiaries. The
Wellingtons, capable of carrying
bomb loads almost equal to those
Of the Fortresses, were reported
to have started at least nine more
blazes in Piraeus and to have
touched off one mammoth explo-
sion.
A broadcast by the Cairo radio
today reported that Bulgarian gov
eminent ministries were hastily
evacuating Sofia and that the ci-
villain population also was taking
to the country on a large scale
since Mondays one-two smash at
the Bulgarian capital. The city's
industrial districts were said to
have been heavily damaged.
Front dispatches told how Amer
lean troops cleaned out a Nazi
pocket of resistance about 300
yards north of Mount Di Piperia,
which is north of Cervaro, while
farther west other Yank forces en-
gagged in a bitter struggle for pos
session of Mount Capraro, 1000
foot elevation about a mile north
east Of Cervaro. Another Fifth
Army unit occupied Mount Cicer-
ELI, ridge parallel to the Via
Casilina south of Cervaro.
The Eighth Army front near the
Adriatic remained quiet except for
patrol skirmishes, with 1t. Gen.
Sir Oliver Leese's forces awaiting
the right moment to resume their
drive on the port of Pescara.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-13
CLAIM
ARAWE AIRSTRIP
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Immediately went to work repair
ing it's airdrome after the attack
ing forces took it on Dec. 30.
An attempted japanese landing
at Cape Gloucester, New Britain,
has been halted Ly American Ma
rine artillery, the Allied high COM
mand said today.
The enemy dead in the fighting
at Cape Gloucester has amounted
to more than 2,400, against about
400 American casualties. a head
quarters spokesman said.
The Leathernecks have been
fighting for possession of Hill 60,
strategic height south of Bergen
Bay and near where the Marines
landed in the invasion Dec. 26.
The Japanese attempt to land
apparently was move to relieve
the pressure put on their troops
by the Marines, who have scored
advances recently with the aid of
planes and artillery.
Possession of the vital airdrome
at Cape Gloucester was achieved
by the Marines Dec. 80 after bit
ter fighting.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-13
ACL MIXED TRAIN
SERVICE UPHELD
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rell originally was found guiltv
but appealed and the Suprem.
Court ordered new trial. Hs
again was convicted and appealed
Farrell had pleaded not guilty. bv
reason of insanity.
The court ordered a new tr.,
for William Ellerbe, alias Jamo,
Ingram, who was convicted :,
April 1943 in Richmond county =,
manslaughter in the death of OF,
Leak and sentenced to seven IA
Is years.
In an opinion by Associate IN,
tice E. B. Denny. :he new tris,
was ordered because of an "erro.
in the charge of the jury in defin
ing what must be proven as sar
defense" The justices wrote tba.
it was not necessary to prove tb".
a man faced possible harm ~.
death at the hands of another ~
establish self-defense motivo
but only that the man beljeraS,
that he faced possible harm
death.
In dissenting opinion BY h.,
tice M. V. Barnhill, the ivsti c.
said that the charge when cos
sidered contextually is not hsr Y
full" adding that the case was nm.
of too many men trying ia visit
the same woman at the sama
time"
1t also upheld the decision q,
the lower court in non.suitinp =
civil action brought against tbs
city Of Durham by Rosa Leo
Hedgepeth, Administrative NJ
Charles Lee, 10. by drowning Nav
%, 1912, in pool of water col.
lected at "a culvert. In affirming
the decision, the court held that
the city had not been notified oi
the condition of the drain and thus
could not be held responsible for
the child's death.
Other opinions:
State of N. c., ex rel. N C.
utilities Commission VS. ACL. rail.
way company, Lee, appeal dis.
missed.
Warren VS. ACL., Sampson, at.
fir1ned.
Thompson VS. Davis, New Han.
over, no error.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-13
GOODS TACKLE
TECHNICAL STUDIES

SALT LAKE CITY (lR(-Univer.
sity of Utah girl students are
showing stronger liking for tech.
nical subjects.
Dean of Women Myrtle Austin
reported that 3 goods expressed
a preference for medical techno.
logical studies, compared with q
two years ago. Other increases are
engineering. none two years ago
to seven this year; medicine, IL
to %; social work, As to 81, and
business, SO to 101.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-13
BURGAW MURDER
CASE CONTINUED
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of Raleigh is expected to be the
presiding judge for the May term
of superior court.
Sheriff J. T. Brown of Fender
county said that many of those
who were summoned had ex-
pressed disbelief in capital punish
ment and others admitted they
had formed opinions regarding the
case.
Setter has been quoted by
Brown as admitting he shot the
merchant on New Years Eve, at
the old Piner home, north of here.
Carr, repeatedly, had been sum-
moned to the old house to buy
some furs.
He died New Years day in a
Wilmington hospital from buckshot
wounds.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-13
SEQUEL

SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. IL
-tR-Remember the prospec-
tive Salt Lake City mother who
threatened to ''have my baby
right here" unless the ration
board gave her extra gas ra-
ton coupons? She got the
coupons, but here's a sequel:
When it came time to go to
the hospital "the car wouldn't
start"
So neighbor took Mrs. Jesse
M. Vail to the hospital in
time for the arrival of a 10
pound son.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-13
Georgia Solons Probe
Milk Shortage, Rap
OPA For The Crisis

MACON, Ca. Jan. IL |lR- A
suggestion that the OPA, under
pressure from ''the Western farm
bloc has deliberately raised
price barriers to the development
of the Southern dairy industry
was advanced today at a legisla-
tive investigation into so-called
milk crises" in Georgia.
Leroy Hendricks, State milk
control board supervisor at Savan-
nah, accusing OPA Of drying up
the dairies,' asserted that although
the war has afforded the south
its greatest opportunity to develop
its dairy industry. ''the Federal
government has been laying down
barriers impossible to pass
Later, in the midst of an ex-
change with State Senator Walter
Harrison over the milk situation
in Savannah. Hendricks said. cts
politics; it's rotten politics.
THE Western farm bloc has
blocked the Secretary of Agricul-
ture from granting the OPA per-
mission to protect dairyment in
the price of feed"
Hendricks declared that in every
instance in which the price of
milk has been allowed to increase,
the price of feed has gone up
within 48 hours. Continuation of
this, he said, would prevent dairy.
men from receiving any benefit
from higher milk prices.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-13
Letter WRITING DUTY
AND PLEASURE

WEST ORANGE, N. ]. 0N-
Letter-writing used to be a mo-
aotonous subject for students in
West Orange high school, but Eng
lish Teacher John H. Fuller has
discovered how to make it popu-
lar.
The formula, he says. is to en-
courage students to write to their
friends in the armed forces.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-13
SOLDIER KILLED

DURHAM, jan. IL m Pub
lie Relations officials at Camp
Butner tonight disclosed the &C.
cidental death of PFC Joseph H.
Wafgala, 81, of Depew, N. Y.
this afternoon.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-13
SENATE APPROVES
MOST OF TAX BILL
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barrer' unless new sources of rev.
enue acceptable to the treasury
are found. The Treasury demand
ed $40, 500, 100000 in new taxes.
The Senate adopted amendments
wiping out house plan for inte-
grating the Victory Tax with the
income tax, and adopted its own
scheme which establishes the Vic
tory Tax as a straight per cent
levy on income above 1924 a year.
There was no disagreement be-
tween the House and the Senate
Finance Committee on the repeal
of the earned income credit and
disallowance of deductions for fed
eral excise taxes paid. AS a result,
George said the entire matter of
individual income taxes could be
considered settled, as far as the
Senate is concerned. However, a
joint conference committee even
tually must pass on items in disa-
greement between the two houses.
TWo-thirds of the livestock OF
tho IT,oi+oJ
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-13
DUKE GRADUATION

DURHAM, Jan. 12-tRHSome 30
Duke University students, most of
them students of the Woman's
College, will be graduated at a
commencement on
Jan. 1890.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-13

Glenn Curtiss won a prize in
l9Oo in the first endurance
flight" by staying aloft in his
June Bug" for one minute and
43 seconds.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-13

In ancient days North Africa
was called the granary of Rome.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-13

Two-thirds of the livestock Of
the United States is raised west
of the Mississippi river.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-13
How Long Till Spring?

other place
Evening star., 1944-01-31

and the seventh in a row. In Just
one week l49 enemy planes were
destroyed for certain in the stepped
up campaign to eliminate that New
Britain base as an impediment to
Allied drives into Japan's inner de-
tense perimeter.
Also in todays communique from
Gen. Douglas Macarthur were re-
ports Of naval bombardment Of Jap
anese targets on Bougainville Island
in the Solomons and dive-bombing
attacks on enemy positions holding
up the Allied drive on Madang, New
Guinea.
Oh the northwest tip Of New
Ireland a reconnaissance plane spot
ted a fair-sized enemy convoy and
left two ships, one destroyer,
burning.
The picture at the western end
of New Britain, invaded December
Is, clarified with reports that the
Japanese were pinned against the
mountainous interior by low-fying
attack planes and American ma
rines moving in from Cape
Gloucester.
Aerial Pincer Assault.
More than 40 tons of demolition
bombs and $4,000 rounds Of heavy
caliber ammunition were poured on
the slowly retreating Japanese Sat-
urday in an aerial pincer assault.
A review of January communiques
showed a massive weight of bombs
had been dropped on the Japanese,
2,400 tons on New Guinea alone,
Evening star., 1944-01-31
u. ). Pacific Airmen
Down al Least 546
japanese in Month
BY the Associated. Press.

By the Associated Press.
F ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Jan. 81
The Japanese in their frantic de-
tense of Rabaul and other South
west Pacific holdings have lost at
least 546-and probably 717-planes
during January, their blackest
month of aerial warfare.
Allied losses for this same period
were 97-an Allied advantage of
about 6 to /.
| BY far the greatest damage to
Japan's air strength was accom-
plished at Rabaul, the ce-formida-
BILE New Britain sea base which
rapidly is becoming a junkyard of
wrecked aircraft, as we'll as ships.
Here the enemy lost 1886 planes for
certain and probably II others,
against our loss of 60.
] Fifth and 18th Army Air Force
and Navy flyers netted this record
bag, which surpassed by 218 planes
the December total.
The January toll was increased
by at least 80, and more likely g.,
Evening star., 1944-01-31

Senator Barkley, Democrat, Of
Kentucky asserted that unless we
teach the German people themselves
to discard the horrible caricature OF
Jewish Frankenstein, preying on
the so-called Aryan race and foster
ing a spurious superiority on their
own part, we shall not succeed in
freeing Europe and the world Of
the poisonous nostrums Of Naziisrn. u
Rabbi James G. Heller Of Cincin-
natl was elected national chairman
Of the appeal for funds for immigra-
ton, colonization, land acquisition
and economic development in Pales-
tine
Evening star., 1944-01-31
Van Paassen AssaiIs
British on Palestine
BY the Associated press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 31.-Pierre Van
Paassen, author, said yesterday the
British white paper prohibiting jew
ish immigration into Palestine after
March 81 was "but a phase" Of the
whole scandalous policy Of Great
Britain in Palestine"
Urging Jews to stop whining
about the white paper, Mr.. Van
Paassen, author of THE Forgotten
Ally" and other books on current
problems, said the United States
recognized Palestine as a co-bellig-
erent.
you have the means to supersede
the whole scandalous policy of Great
Britain in Palestine" he told 5000
delegates to a conference Of the
National Council for Palestine.
And the first step on the road
to statehood for these forgotten
Allies should be the recognition Of
the go Jewish Palestine units fight
ing today on the Italian front as
the Palestine Army Corps" he
added.
Evening star., 1944-01-31
~ THE EVENING STAR Washington D. c.
MONDAY JANUkRY g. 1914

Japanese planes in a double sweep
of the Rabaul area Friday morning
and evening in which 80 out of 10
japanese interceptors were shot
down for certain, IL more probably,
and more than 20 parked aircraft
were bombed and strafed and listed
as probableS.
Allied losses were only five fighters
and one Mitchell medium bomber
Two pilots were rescued by search
planes.
(Tokio radio, boasting of the
''invincibility of Japanese de-
fense" at Rabaul, said yesterday
that IS Allied planes were shot
down Friday over that harbor.
The Toxic radio, as quoted by the
Berlin radio, gave Japanese losses
as six. The japanese said the.
95 Allied planes shot down were
half of the attacking force.
Saturday the Toxic radio had
admitted that Rabaul was
doomed
Another Tokio-Berlin relay said
American bombers had attacked
the japanese hospital ship Kosh-
ino Maru Wednesday in the
Southwestern Pacific, but that
the ship escaped damage. The
Japanese repeatedly have alleged
attacks on hospital vessels.)
26 Raids in Month,
The Friday assault against Ra-
baul was the Goth during January
Evening star., 1944-01-31
Business Executives
Head z OPA Sections
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Two business executives were ap-
pointed to head the Livestock Feed
Section and the Beverage Section
of the Office of Price Administra-
tion's Food Price Division today.
Harold E. Sanford, Pacific man.
ager of the Continental Grain Co.
was named to head the Feed Section
and Wilson D. Sanderson, formerly
vice president of the William Ham
ilton g. Sons Mill of Caledonia, N
Y, and vice president of the Victor
Flour Mills, Pittsford, N. Y, was
named to head the Beverage Price
Section, with which he has been
connected for the past 18 months.
Evening star., 1944-01-31

land heavy strikes against enemy
shipping.
-Four auxiliary warships were de-
stroyed, as well as "a merchant
men, 157 barges and Is small craft
and 9 other cargo ships and eight
barges were listed as probably de-
molished. Damaged were 4 cruisers
10 destroyers, 4 auxiliary warships
80 merchantmen, 70 barges and II
small craft.
Evening star., 1944-01-31
Mines Block Fishermen

Sardine fishing is curtailed In
French Morocco because the chief
fishing ports Of Casablanca, Safi
and Fedala are blocked by mine
fields and the commercial fishing
vessels are unable to carry on their
customary nighttime operations.
Evening star., 1944-01-31
Fascinating Photographic Exhibit
-. Know Our United Nations"

Woodward Lotrop and Life Magazine present
whose desnes linked with Chino Britain
Russia In oddion Of the world showing all the United No
tons In our Street Windows through February 5th.
Evening star., 1944-01-31

Buy a War Bond and get Your Copy
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Booth entities beautiful print 2l8
Roces famous pointing Benodete enduring symbol courage
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