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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-10-04
BY ANN DAyEY

RALEIGH, Oct. - Up - The
States Democratic women, w n o
may cast 60 per cent of the votes
m the November elections, claimed
their place in North Carolina poll
tics today and heard from l
sides suggestions from party Lead
ers that women be encouraged by
giving them responsible represen"
tation in the party.
Both William B. Umstead, chair
man of the state Democratic execu'
tive committee, and Mrs. B. 8.
Everett of Palymra,> vice chalf-
man, said that. woman's place IN
the party has become one OF vital
importance. Mrs, Everett pleged
effort on the part Of the women
now that we are working with
the men and not for them"
Approximately $50 democratic
leaders met there today in an eff
fort to assure the election of DEM
ocratic nominees from township
constable to president and to guar
antee North Carolina its Democrat
ic majority at the polls in Novem-
Der. - ~
Governor Broughton told the con-
ference that the state lis not run
by a machine but by the people, .
and declared the democratic party
could furnish the three essentials
for this nation: victory, peace and
general employment.
DR.. Ralph Mcdonald, twice : de-
feated candidate for the guberna-
torial nomination, praised the two
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CRETE IS UNDER
SIEGE BY ALLIES

-
ROME, Oct. 3-RECrete was
under Allied siege today and the
Morocco radio said, without con-
firmation, that strong forces had
landed in the northwestern Sec
ton to wrest away the island
which Hitler won with much Ger
man blood in the spring of 1941.
Naval headquarters announced
that the British cruiser Black
Prince shelled the Maine air.
drome Saturday, apparently to
knock out the field from which big
Junkers transports have been
evacuating key personnel Of the
Crete garrison.
The danger of the German posi-
ton on Crete. was heightened by
Allied seizure of Kythera, an is
land between Crete and the Greek
mainland, from which the enemy
garrison of $50 men fled after
destroying its radio station.
Germans were reported with
drawing from a number of small
islands along the southern fringes
of Greece.
The Allied command said
troops, gun positions and shipping
were bombed at Port lara, on the
Dalmatian coast. Other aircraft
struck at small shipping in the
northern Adriatic and the Gulf of
Genoa. One enemy plane was de-
stroyed.
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AMERICANS FIND
|WESTWALL' WEAK

WITH AMERICAN TROOPS
PREACHING .THE SIEGIRIED
LINE, Oct. 3.-R-Doughboys who
cracked new hole in the Siegfried
line today reported Hitler's once
feared "Westwall'' as militalily an
tiquated as the Kaiser's Zeppelins
of World War I.
The average infantryinan lad
more than an uneasy feeling as he
jumped off against this widely-ad-
vertised battlement. He had ample
recollection of 1910 propaganda,
when the Siegfried Line was pic
tured as an impregnable barrier of
stone and steel many miles in depth
studded with great bunkers brist-
ling with powerful guns.
Many doughboys also recalled
those widely circulated pictures
of this same "Westwall' fortifica-
'tions being manned by hordes of
strong, blonde young Nazis.
But when they smashed through
i: today they found the famous for
titled line less of a problem than
the impromptu wilderness line"
in farm and woodland, which the
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BILL RISING GETS
$40 YEAR TERM

Bill Rising, accused of breaking
into and entering Kingoff's jewelry
store last July Is, and taking Sc, 500
In jewelry, pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to serve from eight to
10 years in States penitentiary
yesterday by Judge w. H. S. Burg
wyn in the special October crimi-
nal term of Superior court.
Also accused of the robbery was
Francis Elva Smith, alias Charles
Lester Bair, who was found not
guilty, but is still held in New Han
over county jail on fugitive from
Justice warrant for authorities at
Huntsville, Tex. He was serving Is
years in the Texas penitentiary for
bank robbery when he escaped IN
1941.
On a motion by Aaron Goldberg
and David Sinclair, attorneys for
the defendants, permission was
granted by Judge Burgwyn allow
ing them to withdraw from the
case.
Virginia Hall, Negress, OF 1872
Brooklyn alley, accused OF the
murder of her husband was dis
charged yesterday morning from
Superior criminal court, as the mo-
ton for non-suit, entered by her
counsel, was allowed.
The woman, for whom Solicitor
Clifton L. Moore asked a verdict
OF guilty of first degree murder
pleaded rot guilty to the charge
Coldberg's motion was entered
at the close of the defense's evl
oence.
Inc alleged murder occurred Au
gust l6. Police quoted the Hal
-
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of an SBI agent to each solicitor
would be Of material help.
AS hearings began, it appeared
that state departments and lnstltu-
tons would in sum total ask for
appropriations greatly exceeding
those amounting to $172,834, 891 for
the current biennium. Many indl-
Gated they believed the war would
end during 1851 and thus cast
additional burdens upon them.
Governor Broughton, appearing
as ex officio chairman OF the
commission, urged that in consid-
ering salary increases special at
tention to given those employees be-
ing paid less than 40 cents an hour.
The latter include prison camp
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|RAF'S B0MBERS
BREACH SEAWALL
American Planes Attack
Nazis Plants, Airports;
Patton Marches On

SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TIERS ALLIED EXPEDI-
T1ONARY FORCE, Oct. g.
(P) - Powerful elements Of
the U. S. First army have
smashed a four-mile gap
through the Siegfried line
north of Aachen, IL miles
north of the first Allied
wedge driven into the mass
i've German Notifications,
and tonight more men and
armor were driving to out
flank the ruined stronghold
of Aachen.
1.-THE attack continues and adj
vances are being made against
varying resistance, supreme
headquarters said late tonight.
The twin generations of The
Siegfried line were 80 miles from
Cologne at one point and 80 miles
from Dusseldorf at the other.
1--WE are definitely through the
old Siegfried line declared an
American officer. 1--WE have our
second major breach. There still
are fortific ations and anti-tank de-
lenses ahead of US which the Ger
mans built recently" he added.
In a spectacular 36-hour drive
the doughboys-virtually without
air support-captured Ubach, nine
miles north of Aacnen and three
below Geilenkirchen, and drove
the Germans from the moated
18th century castle Of Rimberg on
the German-Dutch border. Thrift
nine enemy pillboxes were knock
ed out and between 400 and 500
prisoners captured in furious fight
ing.
The first gap in the Siegfried de-
lenses was driven just below
i Aachen at the outset of the 1nva-
sion of Germany. Today;s break
through placed 1t. Gen Courtney
H. Hodges troops almost astride
main highway running north
from Aachen to Geilenkircnen.
All along the Aachen front the
battle famed bitterly, with the
Nazis trying desperately to close
the breaches in the defenses of
the Rnineland. For the past two
days the enemy was purely on the
defensive, despite the fact that
Allied air support was being hanap-
cred by the weather.
Ubach, captured after furious
house-to-nouse fighting, is but 10
miles from the important German
communications center Of Julien,
whence hard surfaced highways
lead 20 miles to the industril.
cities of Cologne and Dusseldorf
on the Rhine.
Siegfried line defenses in the
sector now under attack include
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RALEIGH, Oct. 3.-REDirector
Tom Creekrnore Of the State Blu
reau of Investigation told the ad-
visory budget commission today
that he expected a substantial in
crease in crime after the war and
asked that his department be allo-
Gated funds with which to hire IA
additional agents.
The seven men now assigned to
the bureau, Creekmore said, are
hard pressed for time to answer
the multiplicity of calls that come
to the bureau from solicitors, sher-
ifs. police officers and others.
Creekmore, who represented one
Of the several departments heard
today, asked for 1920, 900 for the
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Gerald Smith On 7apis
For Campaign Expenses

AS a prelude chairman Anderson
tD-NM) touched off the hearing
with statement that 10 Republi-
cans in congress had franked g.
$4,000 copies of a single speech
at government expense-a speech
by Rep. Busbey R-Ill), attacking
the CLIO Political Action commit
tee. Anderson said it probably was
not illegal but anybody who did
it will have a hard time defending
their action"
Then Anderson turned to the Am
erica First candidate asking Smith
about man named Mario Buzzi.
Smith said that he had met BuZzi
through letter of introduction
from Senator Nye (D-ND). F as
serted he had found BuzZi was an
"agent of Italian fascists' and
turned him in to the FBI.
Anderson also produced letters
from Rep. Hoffman (R-MichO in
Producing Buzzi to Harrison Spang-
Ter, former chairman of the Re-
publican national committee, and
from Spangler presenting Buzzi to
Thomas J. Curran, New York Re-
publican leader.
Smith observed that Spangler
was naive" in writing the Letter.
Then Anderson jumped on Smith
for failing to file with the house a
statement of his presidential cam
paign expenses, and said his publ
cations were seeking to under
mine the war effort Anderson
said they hit at various rationing
programs and were outspoken
against U. S.-British and U. S.
Russian relations.
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F.D.R. Thinks
Postwar
Need Tinker
ACCEPTS WITH REGRET
Reconversion Not So Bad
But Surplus Property
Bobbled, He Says
Rv WILLIAM T. PEACOCK

Nv WILLIAM Il. PEACOCK
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3. =
R)-President Roosevelt &C.
cepted today the COMPRESSION
ally-designed machinery for
getting the nation back from
a wartime to a peacetime ba-
sis but declared it would not
run satisfactorily without
further tinkering.
He announced at news confer
ence that he had signed with re-
luctance the surplus war property
disposal bill and had also signed
the bill to establish an office of
war mobilization and reconversion
Both measures, sharply varying
from administration recommends
tons, were enacted by Congress
lust before it took a recess until
after the national elections.
That creating the office of war
mobilization and reconversion was
.oute satisfactory so far as it
went. Mr.. Roosevelt said in state
ment, but it did not adequately
deal with the human side Of recon-
version"
He observed that the bill as final
" enacted failed to provide for
transpo. tation of migratory W a r
workers back home or to places
of new employment, failed to pro-
vide unemployment compensation
for federal employees, and failed to
establish nation wide minimum
standards for unemployment bene-
fits.
The measure leaves unemploy-
ment compensation to the states.
Mr.. Roosevelt said he was glad
to know that the House Ways and
Means committe planned further
study Of these matters. Il hope
that the deficiencies which I have
pointed out in the bill before me
will be promptly rectified," he said.
As for the surplus war property
disposal bill, the President said,
Il have considerable doubt whether
many provisions of the bill will
not make extremely difficult the
accomplishment of its detectives.
There is danger that the con-
fused methods of disposition and
the elaborate restrictions imposed
by the bill will in many instances
delay rather than expedite recon-
version and unemployment" he
said.
But it seemed best to get some
organization set up, the President
added, and therefore he was sign
ing the bill with the hope that
Congress will consider any changes
the surplus property disposal board
may recommend after it has had
some experience in operating I'M
der the act.
The measure creates three .
member board TO direct disposal
Of surplus property. Mr.. Roosevelt
was not ready to say who would
be appointed to the board. The ad-
mlnistration had favored one man
Continued on Page Three; Col. s.
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S.B.I. Chief Foresees Postwar
Crime Wave; Asks Bigger Force

guards, domestics in state institu-
tons, elevator operators and 9TH
ers.
Asserting that the War Labor
Board had given its approval to in
crease wages up to 40 cents, the
Governor said:
II hope this commission will
make a recommendation that no
ablebodied worker on the state pay
roll receives less than 40 cents an
hour. There are a considerable
number of these and I know that
most of them are in great economic
distress because of their situation -
The Attorney Generals o f fic e,
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biennium, com, AIRED with $685.
granted it in 1943-45.
He suggested that the additional
agents, if funds are granted for
their employment, be stationed at
strategic places throughout h e
state.
Several hours earlier, Solicitor
William Y. Beckett, requesting a
Is per cent increase over the 49,
900 now paid in. salary and ex-
penses to soldiers, had in the
cuorse of questioning by the COM
mission admitted that the SBI was
badly in need of funds if it is to
perform adequately after the war.
He indicated that the assignment
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-10-04
Waste Paper Salvage
Drive To End Sunday;
Have Yours Out Front

Acting. on the fact that pa
per is still the nations No. l
critical war material, the Sc
nior Fraternity of the Brigade
Boys club will close its waste
paper salvage campaign with
a city-wide paper collection on
Sunday morning.
Thurston Davis, president Of
the fraternity, asks that all
Wilmingtonians have their
bundles of paper tied and
ready on their porches or in
front of the house by 9 o'clock
Sunday morning.
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Strong Appeal
For War Chest
Made ByRadio

by some, charity has been
looked upon as having the ma
ture of sred-headed step child
rather than as q responsibility
Of good citizenship" said S. D..
Hurst. substituting for C. Med.
Davis, president Of the Atlantic
Coast Line railroad, in an ap-
peal for the Community War
Chest over WMFD last night.
MIR. Davis, who was planning to
make the speech, was out Of
town.
The Community War Chest
by Monday night contained 21.4
per cent of its total goal Of
$164, 1888, Chest officials an
nounced yesterday afternoon.
The money received has come
largely from the unit organiza-
lions, which began their solicit
tation over a week ago.
Women's, mems, county. ant
Negro divisions started their can
1assing program Monday, follow
ing appropriate kickoff meetings
Here is the distribution of col
Lections: women's division, $4,085
mems, So, los; Negro. $75; county
$685.; educational, $554;-governmen
al, $1,215 public service, Sc, 7al
commercial 5,342; industrial, $l3,
'e5.
Mr.. Hurst added that some othe1
people think that charity shoule
oe left to take care of itself al
pest it can, and that responsibility
or charity should have no organic
ID guidance. This view has beer
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 8. = B =
Gerald L. K. Smith was called be-
fore the house campaign expenses
committee today and made series
of remarks about Republicans, De-
mocrats, new dealers, President
Roosevelt, Governor Dewey and
Wendell Willkie.
Smiths appearance attracted the
biggest house the committee has
drawn in it's investigations. Extra
chairs and police guard were
brought in.
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BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3. - R -
President Roosevelt, stressing by
implication the explosiveness of the
present Russo-Polish situation,
fatty declined today to talk about
the end of Polish resistance to
the Germans inside the battered
city of Warsaw.
Asked for comment, the Pres;-
dent told his press conference that
he supposed he knew as much
about the Warsaw affair as any
American but he did not know
enough to talk about it.
Other officials, including some
who have been well-informed on
previous developments in Poland S
tangled affairs, described the end
of resistance as the last act of a
tragedy which included: ID Appar-
ent Russian refusal to supply the
Polish patriots for several weeks
and CD two Red Army military
setbacks before the gates of the
Polish capital.
The political importance of the
Warsaw incident is considered GER
tain to raise fresh problems of
merican-Russian solidarity.
In a strictly military sense the
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Yankee Army In Italy
Take Nazi Supply Base

ROME, Oct. 8. -(P)- American
doughboys, slogging along in deep
mud in their main drive through
the northern Apennines, have cap
tured Monghidor, an important
road junction 10 miles south of Boil
ona, German supply and communi
cation center in northern Italy, Al
lied headquarters announced today.
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Carolina Democratic
Women Hear Appeals

men who defeated him-Clyde R.
Hoey and R. Gregg Cherry, and
urged that unity of the party be
uppermost in the minds of all it's
leaders.
Cherry, who lauded the governors
of North Carolina as being among
the finest in the history of the
nation, said that it is his intention,
if elected, mot to tear down, but
Continued on Page Three; Col. 3
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Poland's Underground
Quits WARSAW Struggle

LONDON, Oct. s.-tP)- A terse
communique from 1t. Gen. Tade-
usz Komorowski Gen. Bor) today
announced that his underground
army's resistance in Warsaw had
ended after a 63-day struggle dur
ing which thousands of patriots
were killed and the city was re-
duced to a shambles.
Moscow newspapers said Po-
lish officer who escaped reported
that thousands of insurgents had
crossed the Vistula river to Rus
sian lines. ''There is no longer any
resistance in any part of Warsaw"
the officer was quoted.
WARSAW is as greatly destroyed
as Stalingrad."
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STATE REVENUES

RALEIGH, Oct. 3. = up : The
state of North Carolina collected
$6, 425, 1851 in revenue in Septem-
Der, raising the total from all sour
ces since the beginning of the fis-
cal year July to $21, 1882, 591.71, the
Department of Revenue announced.
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Wilmington and Vicinity: Partly cloudy
with moderate temperatures; light rains
in northeast.
Temperatures yesterday:
High 82-Low 81.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-01-06

visit MIR. and Mrs. Jesse Lande.
Donald left Sunday for San Fran
cisco where he will be assigned
to a ship. Mr.. and Mrs. Sherry
returned home Tuesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Country
man of Pasco and MIR. and Mrs.
Delmar Hockersmith and daughter
of Kennewick were dinner guests
of MIR. and Mrs. Lester LaRue
Sunday. ..... ~
Mrs. Bill Swanson who was
visiting Mrs. Swanson's parents,
MIR. and Mrs. J. H. Bennett last
week left Wednesday for San
Francisco. Her small daughter
Dixie is staying with her grand
parents during her mothers alb
Sence.
Mrs. Frank Brodbeck was host
ess to an all day meeting of the
Finley grange Ladies Auxiliary
Wednesday with twelve members
and four visitors present. Mrs.
Bolon, the county extension lead
er was present and gave talk.
A pot luck dinner was held at
noon.
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The Kill Care club met New
Years eve with a pot-luck din
ner at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Floyd Higley. High score for the
evening was held by Mr.. and Mrs.
Alfred Anon and low score by Mr..
and Mrs. Bob Simmelink.
The Parent-Teacher executive
board will meet Tuesday, Jan. IL,
at pm. in the high school.
Miss Aniat Fisher returned to
Grandview last Sunday after
spending the holidays with rela-
tives and friends. She stayed with
her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs
A. E. Halliday while visiting here
Mr.. and Mrs. II. F. Crockford
of Nebraska arrived Monday fol
a months visit with their son, J.
O. Crockford and family. They
also visited other relatives at Van.
couver, Wash. 81
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Twin Sons Born to
Valley Couple

Finley Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
Livingston are the parents of twin
boys born Monday, January Bird
at the Pasco hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Fredricks
and daughter Lenna Lee enter
tanned New Years day with a
DINNER. Those present were Mr..
and Mrs. Bernard Slocumb and
sons Byard and Lynn; Mr.. and
Mrs. Burt Fredricks and daughter
Joan, and Mrs. Lenna Fredricks
and George Fredricks.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Taylor
were dinner guests New Years
day of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Schultz
in Prosser.
Mrs. Albert Piert entertained
Monday with a dinner and a
taffy pull in honor of the 7th
birthday of her son Rodney. Those
present were Joan Fredricks,
Lynn Slocumb and Peggy and
Rodney Piert.
Miss Edna Whitney left today
for a short visit in Yakima.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Shamberg
of Henry, Nebr., visited Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Brodbeck Monday eve
ming.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Walk and S.
Sgt. Claude Walk were dinner
visitors Saturday evening of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Schneider.
S. Sgt. Claude Walk, who has
spent the past two weeks visiting
his parents Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
Walk, and his sister in Yakima,
left Tuesday evening to enter the
hospital at Denver for further
treatment.
Mrs. Fred Masters of Buena who
visited last week with her son
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. Virgil
Masters, left last week for her
home.
Donald Sherry, Sic of the navy
who has been on Pacific waters,
Miss Virginia Dye of Vancouver,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Sherry
left Friday night for Portland to
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Grange Puts on
Interesting Program

Finley grange met Friday night.
A potluck dinner was held at
$50 with business meeting follow
ing. Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Camp
bell and Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace
Preston of Kennewick Valley
grange visitors. j. H. Bennett re-
ceived the third and four degrees.
One new application for member
ship was received. Mr.. and Mrs.
J. Andrews and Mr.. and Mrs.
Batty took the first and second
degrees and installation of officers
was held. The men furnished the
program which consisted of duet
with Clint Glassner with guitar
and Donald Sherry mouth harp;
talk by Chris Puderbaugh; Dan
Gerber, mouth harp; a skit ga
ladies auxiliary" put on by J. r.
Ayers, George Taylor, r. Lanning,
Virgil Masters, w. Num- and Err
nest Sherry.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Sherry
were hosts at "A dinner Wednesday
evening for their son Donald, Sic
of the navy and their daughter
Mrs. Harvey Paulson of Seattle.
Others present were Miss Virginia
Dye of Vancouver, Miss Lowanna
Gerber, Miss Loretta Mills, Cur
tbs O'Hair and Francis Bennett.
The Finley Ladies Aid will meet
with Mrs. John Fredricks Wednes-
day, January IL a t2:00 o'clock.
Mrs. Burt Fredricks and Mrs.
George Taylor will be assistant
hostesses.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ward Thompson
and son Darrell of Wenatchee,
came Thursday for weeks visit
with Mrs. Thompson's parents Mr..
and Mrs. j. r. Gowing and sister
and family Mr.. and Mrs. Virgil
| Masters.
Master Billy Bowker of Seattle
came Sunday for an indefinite
visit with his aunt and uncle, Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Brodbeck.