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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-08
DEFENSE OF OPA
HEARD BY COURT
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Rottenberg and Albert Yakus-
convicted of selling wholesale cuts
of beef at prices in excess of the
OPA maximum.
The lawyers said that the meat
dealers had been prevented from
making any profit by the price
ceilings and that this had put many
of them out of business.
Freund challenged a decision by
the Middle Georgia federal district
court holding the rent control pro-
gram unconstitutional in proceed
ings involving Mrs. Kate c. Will
ingham, of Macon.
THE rent control provisions Of
the act" Freund said, 'tdo not
unlawfully delegate legislative pow,
er to the administrator.
cit would manifestly have been
impractical for Congress to have
undertaken the specific control OF
maximum rents for housing ac'
comodations throughout the coun-
try. The policies and standards
laid down bring the act we'll with
in the limits of permissible dele
CATION"
Charles ]. Bloch, Macon attor'
ney, will argue Monday for Mrs
Willingham.
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APPROVAL GIVEN
SIX HOSPITALS
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the ratings, DR.. Irwin Abel OF
Louisville, Ky, chairman of the
Board of Regents of the ACS, dis
closed thai the past two war
years have seen hospitals and doc
tors score major triumph over
diseases and death under circum-
stances that in previous wars
would have meant epidemics and
a rising mortality rate. Instead,
the death rate in 1912 reached an
all-time low of 1914 per thousand
in the United States death regis
tration area, and 81 in Canada );
indications are that the 1943 rate
was even lower.
"The reasons for the improved
results, despite the wartime handi-
caps, are plain to those members
Of the profession and the public
who know how hard hospitals have
struggled to give patients high
quality care Notwithstanding short
ages of personnel, scarcities OF
supplies, and increased demands
for service" said DR.. Abel.
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BODY OF NECRESS
FOUND IN WOODS

The body of a Negress, identl-
fled as that of Annie Belle Evans
about 49, was found in the woods
on the Parmele Tract near Cas-
tie Hayne, IA miles north OF mere
at 11:l5 a. m. Friday by James
The dead woman had been shot
in the shoulder, asa Allen, coro'
ner said, adding that further oe'
tails would be available after an
autopsy. ..:..
Officials in the sheriffs o11lce
stated that the woman had appar'
emily been shot some time Thurs
day. It is not as yet determined
whether the murder occurred a
the place where the body had beer
found, or whether she had beer
killed before being taken to the
lonely spot where her body was
discovered by Grady.
An inquest is scheduled. to b'
held on Monday.
Harry Fales, director OF tn
county bureau of Identification
stated. that suspect, whom thu
department identified as John Da
yis, Negro, 700 Howard street, wa!
being held for questioning.
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CAPTURE OF SAN
WHORE REPORTED
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ricaded themselves. It was mat
ter of killing the last German in
each wine cellar and pillbox, for
the Nazis refused to surrender and
fought savagely to the last. Mel
Their side could use artillery for
fear of hitting it's own men.
American forces attacking on
the right flank of the Fifth Army
offensive endured heavy artillery
and mortar fire as they scaled
Mt. Maio in rain and sleet
storm. This is the highest peak
yet captured by the Allies in Italy.
1t rears about a mile southwest
OF Viticuso and five miles north
west of Venafro.
British troops at the southern
end of the active front pushed
steadily northward from Rocca
|D'Evandro and captured 70 more
prisoners for a two-day bag of
1876.
The full striking power of the
Allies had not yet been brought
into play as the tactical air
forces had been hampered by
bad weather since ABS Invader
dive-bombers supported the first
days advance Ground progress
likely will speed up when the skies
clear.
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wood, commander submarines, Pa
cific.
Vice Admiral William L. Cal
houn, commander service force,
Pacific fleet.
Vice Admiral John w. Green
slade, commander Western Sea
Frontier.
Vice Admiral Robert L. Ghorm-
ley, commander Hawaiian Sea
frontier.
Admiral Royal E. Ingersoll, COM
mander in chief, Atlantic Fleet.
Admiral Harold R. Stark, COM
mander U. S. Naval Forces in
! Europe.
Vice Admiral Jonas H. Ingram,
commander South Atlantic force.
| Vice Admiral Patrick N. L. Bel.
linger, commander air force, At.
lantic Fleet.
Rear Admiral Freeland A. Dau.
bin, commander submarines, At.
lantic.
Vice Admiral Alexander Sharp
commander service force, Atlantic
Fleet.
Vice Admiral Herbert F. Leary
commander Eastern Sea frontier
Vice Admiral Arthur B. Cook
commander Caribbean Sea frontier
Vice Admiral Henry, K. Hewitt
| commander U. S. Naval forces
Northwest African Area.
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JAP STRONCHOLDS
HAMMERED AGAIN
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Allied bombers are battering
with increasing frequency at en-
envy strongholds in New Ireland
and northeast New Guinea, on
either side of the wedge hammer
ed into Japan's southern defenses.
Another japanese destroyer was
bombed at Kavieng, the eighth
warship to be attacked in that
New Ireland harbor in the first
week of the new year, Gen Douglas
Macarthur reported today At least
five of these ships were listed as
probably sunk. A cargo vessel al
SO was bombed in the latest air
attack.
Since the first of the year Am
erican bombers daily have attack
ed airdromes at other key install
lations at Kavieng on the tip of
New Ireland which juts over New
Britain like a protecting roof.
American planes from the South
Pacific continued their unrelent-
ing pressure on Rabaul, key fort
ress of New Britain, strafing two
fully-loaded barges. An estimated
100 japanese were killed or wound
ed.
Fighting lulled in the wedge the
Allies have driven into Japanese
defenses on New Britain and New
Guinea. A week of attacks and
counterattacks at Cape Gloucester,
or the opposite end of New Bri-
tain from Rabaul, lef. the Marine S
flank on Bergen Bay unchanged.
Macarthur reported airmen had
strafed 80 barges, about the only
means of communication the jap
anese have left. Eight of these
were laden with troops in Sarang
harbor, just above Madang.
The Madang-A1exishafen area,
objective of American troops at
Saidor and Australian troops in
the Ramu valley, has been attack
ed at an increasing pace. Since
the first of the year Macarthur
has announced the dropping of 600
tons of explosives on airdromes,
supply depots, munition dumps,
gun requirements and bridges.
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NAZI DEFENSES
CRACKED BY REDS
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our troops completely encircled
the town of Kirovograd and Ger
man units defending it. The enc
my is sustaining heavy losses. :"
In one day alone % German
tanks were destroyed and the Ger
mans lost 10 armored troop-car-
riers and more than 40 big guns.
The Russians also captured Kan
atovo, six miles northeast of Kiro-
vograd, Adzhamka, 10 miles east,
and and N0vg05odka' 10 miles south
The first Ukrainian Army in the
north continued it's successful adj
vance routing German units de-
Tending Yanushpol, 16 miles west
of Berdichev. Twety-six German
tanks were destroyed in this area
alone. In other areas 200 German
big guns and more than 300 trucks
were wrecked while 90 guns and
"a stores of military supplies cap
tured, the communique said.
Vatutia's forces, the upper arm
of which was pressing into Poland
were only Is miles east of the rail
hub of Sarny in a virtually un-
checked advance that captured
more than 70 towns and hamlets
from old Poland to the Dnieper.
Sarny is a key junction on the
Vilna-Rowne railway.
The fighting in old Poland was
pressing through difficult country
with few roads. many forests and
"a multitude of lakes" Moscow
dispatch to the. Russian army
newspaper Red Star said. Typical
Of the fighting was the capture of
Rakitno On Thursday when the
Russians left the railroad and
cut behind the town, a German
strongpoint, to sweep away Nazi
defenses.
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CHINESE LAUNCH
FRESH OFFENSIVE
u. Strained Troops Cross
To East Bank OF
Chindwin

NEW DELHI, Jan. 7-R-Amer.
ican-trained Chinese troops have
crossed to the east bank OF the
Upper Chindwin river in fresh
offensive to clear the way for the
steady advancement of the new
Burma Road, it was disclosed to-
day.
The operation was supported by
four-day attack Of fighters and
fighter-bombers Of the U. S. Army
Air Force starting Jan. l, COM
muniuue from Admiral Lord Louis
Mountbatten' headquarters stat
ed.
Exact location Of the drive was
not given, but it was announced
that the Chinese had thrown the
japanese from the west bank OF
the river in the Yupbang area and
occupied some positions on the
east bank. The scene is in rugged
northern Burma in the Hukawng
valley area, roughly 100 miles
northwest of the Japanese base
at Myitkyina, terminus OF the
Mandalay railroad.
A continuing drive eastward
could unite the Chinese in Burma
and in Yunnan province in south
west China.
Myitkyina itself was a target
for American bombers which
scored many hits on the airfield,
the communique said.
Meanwhile it announced that U.
S. heavy bombers raided the Jap
anese-held port of Kkyab Jan 2 fol-
lowed by an Raj night plastering
of the Hello airfield and Prone
railway yards, and that Allied
planes carried out both strategic
and tactical attacks on rail, road
and river communications in much
of Burma.
; Northwest Of Akyab, in the
,Mayu mountains, Allied ground
forces made further unspecified
progress after beating off japanese
counterattack.
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COP WARMING Up
FOR CONVENTION
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dental choice at Philadelphia
made his no-objections- Oh ca1o
statement in an interview todov
at New York. Heretofore his SIM
porters have opposed Chicago q,
the ground that it was a pre-war
isolationist center; Willkie and tba
Chicago Tribune share mutual
dislike, largely because of foreign
policy differences.
Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin =,
Connecticut, Willkie supporter
raised the question about Mall
mac agreements. In an interview
in New York he said he was less
concerned about who his party's
standard bearer would be than in
knowing what it says on the stand.
ard he is carrying" and then add.
ed: T.
Il thought that we drafted At
Mackinac some resolutions on na
tional and international p olicv
that made comman sense NotinY
has been done about them sinca
l regret that because l thought tbe
Republicans took a fortbrigbt
stand. I wonder if they have been
pigeon-holed by the high command
of the Republican party. | hone
not"
Asked about this, Va1denbere ra
called that it was announced At
Mackinac that his committee and
others would meet in advance Of
the convention to consider anv
plant revisions deemed warranted
He said his group certainly
would meet and that Gov. Baldwin
and others would be asked to sub.
NIT their views.
LAS for the governor failing 10
find anything happening since the
Mackinac gathering" the senator
added he might take a look at
the final Senate resolution on for.
eign policy and see how closely
it parallels Mackinac."
The resolution adopted by the
Senate IS to 5 on Nov. with the
support of 81 Democrats and 81
Republicans calls for the United
States to work through Coasttu.
tional processes and with other
free and sovereign nations for es,
tablishment of international author.
ity with power to prevent aggres.
sion and to preserve the peace Of
the world.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-08
Czech Pianist Well Received Here
In Second Coop Group Concert

Rudolf Firkusny, the Czech pi-
anist, played to large and ap-
preciative audience at the high
school auditorium Friday night in
the second of the Cooperative Con-
cert Association winter course.
1t is regretable that Wilmington
lacks hall with at least twice
the seating capacity at the high
school so that another eight hun
dred or more auditors might have
heard him. The city's growing
musical community deserves more
adequate accommodations as rap
idly as they can be provided.
Mr.. Firkusny possesses rare tai
ent developed to a high technical
pitch, with, we think, tonal hon
esty as its greatest attribute. It
was particularly notable, and
equally impressive, throughout his
performance, that whether the
notes were pouring forth at the
tempo and with the power of a
cataract rushing over it's rocks or
as gently as mother grooming
at her offspring's cradle, each had
its full value. His talent is the
kind that cannot shirk.
His program offered Beethov-
ems Waldstein Sonata as the piece
de resistance but the Chopin
Scherzo in B flat minor stole the
show. The F sethoven offering was
thoroughly intellectual thing, re-
tlectlng orthodox and obviously
long-sustained training, but with
al cold and perfect as a geometric
theorem, whereas in the Chopin
piece the artist struck fire with
every note. It must be a frozen
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back indeed that did not prickle
and sluggish the heart that failed
to quicken its beat, under the wiz.
ardry of its. performance.
This scherzo was a favorite of
Paderewski and ranked among
his finest contributions to the en-
joyment of the millions who heard
him, and still mourn his passing.
1t detracts nothing from the Pa
derewski tradition to think that
only some strange kind of mi
crometer could measure the diff
ference between his and the Fir
kusny performance Friday night
In addition to the scherzo, the
artist played other Chopin compo-
sitions, the Opus 60 Barcaerolle,
a couple of Etudes and the most
popular and best beloved waltz.
The program opened with Bu-
soni's adaptation for the piano of
two of Bach's organ choral prel-
udes, and closed with three com
positions of Smerana, of which the
last, the Etude de Concert, which
the Czech composer wrote for his
own performance, was as beauti-
1ul as old lace, as haunting as
lavender.
Completing the, evenings enter
talnment were two Debussy pieces
and Stravinsky's dance from the
Petrouschka ballet.
So fine was Firkusny's perform
ance it could be wished that the
Concert Association might estab-
Ish another precedent, as it did
when it added a fourth concert
to its course, and arrange a return
engagement for him after the reg
ular season has ended.-J,E.H.
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SELECTIVE SERVICE
SYSTEM REVISED
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istrant's home community to
screen out those obviously physl-
cally unfit for the armed services.
Although it is officially abolished,
any registrant who believes he has
an obvious defect may request
and be given an examination by
a local board physician.
Also any man who wishes no
delay will, on request, be indicted
Immediately after passing his
physical examination rather than
being returned home as civil
ian.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-08
COMMISSIONED

CHARLESTON, S. C., Jan. T.
David Stone Hunt, Jr., 1907 Car
Gina avenue, Wilmington, N. c.,
was recently commissioned ensign
in the U. S. Naval Reserve it
has been announced by the Raleigh
Office of Naval Officer Procure.
ment.
A graduate of Concord State
Teachers College, class of 1885,
Ensign Hunt is former employee
OF the North Carolina Shipbuilding
Co., Wilmington.
His wife is the former Dorothy
Foard, of Beckley, w. Va.
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Obituaries
MRS. EMMA M. BELLAMY

Funeral services for Mrs. Emma
M. Bellamy, IS, widow OF John u.
Bellamy, who died at her nome
6O2 Market street, at . O'CLOCK
Thursday morning after an Illness
of two months, were conducted
from the residence at 4 p. m.
Friday by the Rev. Mortimer Glov-
er.
Pallbearers included Albert r.
Perry. Walker Taylor, W. N. Har-
riss. R. D. Taylor, Lindsay Rus
sell, Frank G. Harriss, Burke Il:
Bridgers, ]. Douglas Taylor, and
Bradford B. Reynolds.
Mrs. Bellamy was the daughter
CT ca. John and Mary Grist Hae'
grove, and was born May 2, 1851
Ia1 "Hibernia," Granville county
now Vance county, the family
home of the Hargroves. Since hel
marriage in 1879 to John D. Bel
|lamy, who died September rs, 194z
she has resided in Wilmington.
She was prominent in the socla
| life of Wilmington, being a mem
Der of the North Carolina Society
Ct the Colonial Danes and pat
roness of L'Ariosa German CLUB
She was member OF st. james
Episcopal church.
Surviving are three daughters
Mrs. J. Walter Williamson an<
Mrs. Nelson MaeRae of Whining
ton, and Mrs. J. Leeds Barroll
Jr., of Philadelphia, Pa; two sons
William M. Bellamy and Enmet
Hargrove Bellamy, of Wilmington
and 10 grandchildren, Emma Bel
lamy Williamson, Mary Bellam.
IBarroI, Maria Lewis Barrol, Hugf
MacRae II, Lillian Maxwell Bel
lamy Marguerite Bellamy Barroll
Mary Hargrove Bellamy, Marquer
tie Bellamy MacRae, ]. Leeds Bar
roll III, and Lawrence Lewis Bar
roll,
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VOTE LAW ASKED
BY ARMY PAPER
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months, and we have little time
to spare"
The editorial continues, 1.-THE
writer's, members Of a single bat
talon representing every section
of the nation, said soldiers on the
front want to fight and they want
to vote. We on the front are de-
termined to use bullets and bal
lots.
1.-THE theme of other letters has
been that men and women in uni
form are under the same obliga-
ton to exercise the franchise as
civilians"
The editorial quotes the majority
of soldiers as feeling that Con-
gressman's remark that they were
more concerned with the fate of
the Varga girl than with voting
was Sin bad taste' and that the
vote issue was ''too fundamental
to be made the subject of a wise
crack"
Referring again to its poll, the
paper says soldier letters and
statements indicate that they are
primarily concerned with the right
to vote for its own sake and re-
fleet the belief that members of
the American citizen army, even
if outside the continental limits of
the United States, retain the basic
rights and privileges of citizenship.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, Jan. 7.
-lR-West Virginia became today
the second state to pass specific
soldier voting legislation by ap-
proving a bill which from now
until June 80, 1947, would allow
those in the armed services to cast
ballots, wherever they may be.
The final vote on the measure,
which now goes to Governor M. M.
Nicely for signature, came a few
hours after the Georgia legislature
approved similar legislation.
The bill would allow all men
and women in the armed services
to vote in the May primary and
the November election.
1t would not permit men in the
maritime service to vote.
ATLANTA, Jan. 7-tR-Copies
OF Georgia's new soldier vote law
signed today by Governor Ellis Ar
nall, have been requested by about
% other states, Secretary of State
John B. Wilson says.
In an NBC broadcast tonight,
Governor Ellis Arnall S aid the
Georgia law may well serve as
model in this emergency"
Several other state legislatures
are in session now working on SOL
dier vote legislation.
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ALGIERS DENIES
BALKAN LANDING
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ton. Swiss accounts attributed
them to invasion nerves. in
Zagreb, capital of the puppet
state Germany established il
Croatia.
The, headquarters of the parti-
san leader, Marshall Josip Broz
(Tito) meanwhile announced its
bands had pulled out of BAN a
Luka after killing $50 Termans,
wounding 700 and capturing 720.
A communique said that 20
miles to the north partisans sue
cessfully attacked the towns OF
Bosanska Gradiska, Stara Grad
iska and Nova Gradiska, but gave
no details.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-08
THOMAS ROGERS. JR.

ROWLAND, Jan. g. Funeral
services for Thomas Rogers. Jr.,
only son of Mr.. and Mrs. T. C.
Rogers, who died Thursday morn.
ing enroute to a hospital, were
held from the home Friday at 3
p. m. 1nterment followed in Row.
land cemetery.
Inc boy, who was born May 4,
1886, and was in the second grade,
had been sick for only a few hours
with acute laryngitis. His mother
Is the former Miss Lucille Lundy
OF Sumter, S. c.
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fishing company, died today lO d
lowing a heart attack. he nay
been associated with the Joofla
and the Journal-Tribune m0-'
than 81 years. IL.
In 1914, Sammons, one OF III.
last remaining charter menlpei'
of the Associated Press, becdll''
president of the Perkins Bros w,
publishers of the journal. anu
when the Journal and TIlol"'
joined interests in 1941 he becahl'
president of the resulting JouIha.
Tribune Publishing company NJ
also remained as head of Perkins
Bros. Co., which operates rad4.
station KSCJ, stationery S}Io
and printing manufacture de
partment.
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SHOOTING KIT ,sTOLEN

SHOUTING KIT ,STOLEN
Edmund McLaurin, of ia
North Sixth street, reported to
police that a shooting kit, con-
tanning rifle sights and Access
series. was stolen from him
while he waited for bus at
Fifth and Princess streets
Thursday night. McLaurin is
offering a reward for recovery
of the kit, which he said is
of no value to anyone except
himself.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-08
MRS. w. F. BRADY

Funeral services Tor MIS- Willie
F. Brady, widow # Robert Hen
derson Brady, ST., who died at
James Walker Memorial hospital
Wednesday morning. were con
Quoted from the First Baptist
church Friday afternoon at ;
q clock with the Rev. Sankey l.
Blanton, pastor, officiating.
Active pallbearers were ).
T. Barker Horace T. King, T. W.
Burriss, H. R. Davis, j. L. Sutton,
and c. T. Jewell. Honorary pail
bearers were j. H. Neggel, L..
F. Gore, Walter H. Blair. c. M.
Powell, w. L. McClain, ]. B. Hin
nant, W. A. Walker, Jr., A. L.
Jewell, F. L. Meir, and W. H.
Brown.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-08
CORNET STOLEN

OOAeANA1A oAOLAI&N
John JOslyn of Lake Forest
Parkway reported to the police
Friday that a cornet was stol-
en- from him while he was in
the Bailey theatre Wednesday
night. The instrument, stamped
"Pan American 56A2, serial
No. 1878" is valued at S10O.
1t is silver-plated, and the in
terror of the bell or flange is
gold-plated. Major Joslyn, IA
Their of the complainant, offers
a reward to anyone who can
assist in the recovery of the
cOrnet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-08
BLOOD NEEDED

An urgent appeal has been
made for donors of blood
transfusions to George III. How
ell, prominent local attorney
who is critically ill at James
Walker Memorial hospital. The
transfusions are needed I'M
mediateIy, and it is asked that
all persons who are willing to
give their blood make contact
with the James Walker Me-
mortal hospital at once.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-08
TO SEEK REELECTION

DURHAM, Jan. T. -(P1- Carl T..
Durham. Congressman from the
Sixth North Carolina district since
1898, is expected to announce his
candidacy for reelection within the
next few days. Durham, who has
been visiting in this section, has
announced that he definitely Will
seek reelection and he plans to
issue a formal statement upon his
return to Washington Sunday night.
No opposition to the Congressman
IS expected to develop.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-08
MEETING

All white school principals of
New Hanover county will meet
at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon
in Isaac Bear school, H. M.
Roland, superintendent, an
nounced Friday. Negro princi-
pals will meet at 4 o'clock
Tuesday afternoon at WilIiston
Industrial school,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-08
CITY LICENSE TAGS

Approximately IS 1914 IL
cense plates have been receiv-
ed by the city for use on city
owned automotive equipment
in the near future, City Clerk
Benson reported Friday. These
license plates will be used on
city trucks, police cars, ana
other city vehicles.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-08
DISCUSS AIRLINE

Walter S. Mckee, of State
Airlines, Inc, Charlotte, has
contacted City Manager A. C.
Nichols and Secretary F. o.
Fockler, of the chamber Of
commerce, with respect to his
company's application for sche.
duled air service for Whining
ton, on the proposed route from
Louisville, Detroit and Pitts
burgh, via connecting points.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-08
MEETING

There will be a joint supper
meeting of all the Episcopalian
laymen on the evening Of We'd
nesday, January IL at 6:15
o'clock in the parish house of
St. James church. The Rev.
Wilburn C. Campbell, executive
director of the Presiding
Bishops Committee on Lay
mems Work will be the prin-
cipal speaker. Bishop Darst
will be present.