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Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-01
Jack Sharkey Entertains Troops in Algiers

Big Jack
Sharkey,
second from
left. former
world
heavyweight
boxing
champion,
treats
friends to
some oranges
In Algiers.
North Africa.
Big fellow
is helping to
entertain
American
troops
stationed
there. WAC
is Vera
Myers Of
Brooklyn,
N. Y.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-03
CHURCHILL.
WILL VISIT PARIS

LONDON, Nov. q ZAP Prime
Minister Churchill and Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden will visit
Paris soon at the invitation of Gen.
Charles de Gaulle, the British for
eign office announced tonight. The
date will be arranged later. =
Except for ChurchilPs inspection
trips in ormandy, this will be the
first time that he has gone to
France since the tragic days of
1910, when he flew to the headquar-
tiers of the French government and
sought to persuade the French to
remain in the fight.
The foreign office announced:
1.-THE French ambassador has
transmitted to the prime minister
on behalf of General de Gaulle and
Of the French minister Of foreign
affairs an invitation to visit Paris
in the near future; with the secre-
tary Of state for foreign affairs; as
the guest of the provisional gov
ernment Of the republic. The prime
minister has accepted this invita-
ton with great pleasure in his own
name and in that of Mr.. Eden.
''The date Of thesvisit will be ar
ranged later.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-03
Strike OF 10000 MESA
Men In Detroit Area Il
Set For 10 A. N. Todn,

DETROIT. Nov. z.-(R -
Matthew Smith, secretary Of
the Mechanics Educa tional So
ciety of America (independent)
said tonight that. 20, 900 De-
troit production employees who
are members of the MESA
would strike beginning ut 10
a. m. tomorrow.
Smith said that 10 represent
tatives Of the Detroit MESA
voted at a meeting to walkout
In sympathy with a MESA jul
risd1ctfonal dispute at Toledo,
Ohio.
Among the plants which
would be affected, if the strike
is held, are the Nash-Kelvina-
tor Corp, the Detroit Tap and
Tool Co., the Michigan Tool
Go. and the Parker Wolverine
Go. Smith said the 1000 work.
ers In the Eureka Vacuum
Cleaner Co. plant would not be
included in the walkout be-
cause Of a no-strike clause in
the unions contract with the
company.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-03
U.S.. FLIERS DOWN
208 NAN PLANES

LONDON, Friday, Nov. S.-(F5-
American filters destroyed 209
German planes yesterday when
the Luftwaffe made it's long-pro.
missed temperance and was whip.
ped in one of the great all-tine
aerial battles-a savage, whirling
dogfight of 2,400 U. S. and Nazi
planes over Merseburg in central
Germany.
Following quickly on this deci-
sive Allied triumph, more than
], 900 Raj bombers roared out
over western Germany after night
fall and delivered one OF their
heaviest blows at Dusseldorf,
Rhineland industrial city behind
the western front.
In the huge daylight raid, 1,100
American heavy bombers blasted
the Leuna syntheticsoil plant at
Merseburg and rail yards at Belle
field and Rheine. Yank hiers in
900 escorting Mustangs aud Thun.
derbolts set a new fighter record
of 1876 shot down and a new com.
bination bomber-fighter rrecod-
2O8-in planes destroyed this wear
during one day were compiled.
Officials reported that, of the
2, 900 American planes, Al bonbers
and % fighters failed to return
Continued on Page Two; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-03
Legion Receives $4,2O3
As Thrill Circus Share

,t Sefgeant Thomas B. Hughes,
s saalfhlan of the committee on ar
easements for the American Lee
S Svn thrill Circus at Legion sta
w. i announced last night that
m nv luhos of Wilmington Post No.
msefe increased by $3,2O3 through
c,' accruing to it from the
A rmS money, with more obtained
W;, Iugh gifts of liberal citizens of
r %;,.matlngton, will be used in fur
T b;l5 the posts new home at
hm,. ~ and Dock (the Bridgers
b srs Where present post mem
wa and returning soldiers of this
M. may be cared for.
,jr mr, Hughes highly praised the
tbs ' us company and particularly
BIZ et pa which made it posi-
tab,, .0f the home fund to be SO no.
post ' advanced, and added that the
s sos;. hopes to present the eli circus
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-03


storage warehouses to provide 1o1
commerce after the war, Thurs-
day entered it's bid to serve SIX
postwar steamship routes, IN a let
ter forwarded to Adm. Emory ).
Land, chairman of the y. 5. MAIL
time commission, by J. i. HERS
executive general agent OF the port.
In the plea for establishment OF
regular steamship services VIA the
numerous world trade routes, Hlers
declared that 1.-The State OF NORTH
Carolina should no longer be re-
CURED to handle its waterborne
Commerce through the ports OF
other states at a great transporta'
ton disadvantage. j,
ssThe Port OF Wilmington has not
in the past had adequate steam
shin service. Most Of the import
and export products OF this STATE
have been funneled through Hamp-
ton Roads on the north or the Port
If Charleston on the south at a
much greater transportation cost
than if the Port of Wilmington
had been used.
The steamship services descrlD-
ed ~ HERS as being desirable
fcolAnued ON Page IL; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-03
MACARTHUR HAS
NARROW ESCAPE

G E N ERAL MacARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, Philippines,
Friday, Nov. 3.-lRHGen. Douglas
Macarthur had one of his closest
escape from death today when a
japanese strafing attack put so
calibre bullet into a wall lust a
foot from his head.
Hearing the bullet hit, Col. Lloyd
Lehrbas, the generals aide, rush
ed into the room to find the Am
erican commander examining the
hole.
fundamentally nodding to the
hole just above his head, Gen. Mac
Arthur said: well, not yeti"
The general has had many close
brushes with death. The closest also
was in the Philippines, from a
bombing attack shortly after the
war began.
He was in the open when some
japanese planes appeared. One
bomb exploded only a few feet
away. and wounded one of his Fill
pino orderlies standing by his side.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-03
STATES WAR LOAN
QUOTA III MILLION

WINSTON-SALEM, NC, Nov. 2.
I-tH-North Carolina overall quo.
ia in the sixth war loan drive Is
$121 100000, C. T. Leinbach, state
war finance chairman, announced
tonight.
The national quota is $4,000. OO0,.
900.
''Our state, quota for the sale Of
series E bonds alone is $4,000, 900,
Leinbach stated; THE E bonds are
the securities usually purchased by
individuals, but in addition to this
E quota we have a quota for 9th.
err securities to he sold to indivi.
dua1s which is $27 1000, 000."
The $61, 100000 total of these two
quotas of individual purchases,
Leinbach pointed out, is $1,000 600
more than the $50. 900, 900 quota for
sales of securities to corporations.
insurance companies, building and
| n associations and all other
types Of investors.
While the .sixtn war loan drive
Leinbach said sales of all series
E, F.. and G. bonds and series C
treasury savings notes made from
November i to December 81 will
be counted in the drive quotas and
included in the final tabulations.
Leinbach, who has just returned
from conducting series of region
al conferences over the state. re-
marked that organization plans in
the various counties are going for
ward rapidly in order that people
may be given an early opportunity
to participate. in the sixth war loan.
II am sure" he added, chat North
Carolina again will meet its full
quotas, which, as every American
citizen realizes by now, represents
both a privilege ane responsible
IT,"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-03
Tide Water Offer To Cut
PlantAccounts Approved

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-Appro
val of the proposals of the Tide
Water Power Co. of Wilmington tt
eliminate $1,792,185 from it's cleo
trio plant accounts was announced
today by the Federal Power com
mission.
The FPC order by itself provides
only for. a. change in accounting
procedures by the company. A
spokesman for the commissioner.
however, pointed out that the state
utility regulatory body might de-
eide, on the basis of a commission
finding Of write-ups and excess
charges in the plant accounts. tc
reduce the rates charged.
The FPC pointed out in its or.
der that it had made no field ex.
animation of Tide Waters books
but was accepting company figures
on the write ups with reservation
of the right to order any further
accounting adjustments later found
necessary.
The elimination from the electric
plants accounts is to be effected
chiefly by charges to reserve for
depreciation and earned surplus
according to the FPC. The com.
pany previously had eliminated
$135. 595 from it's plant accounts,
making the total adjustments to
date $1,928, 781.
Original cost of Tide Waters
Electric Plant as of January l.
1887, when the FPC uniform sys.
tenn Of accounts became effective.
was $4,497, O79. The elininations So
far represent about 43 per cent in
excess Of the original cost of the
Company's electric plant, the FPC
said.
Today's order states that Tide
Water has classified $1,8o3, 1856 Of
it's overall Examinations in the cleo.
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-03
$1,000 Club
New Target
Dewey
PRIVILEGE SCORED
Republican Presidential
Candidate Makes Sew.
eral Addresses

EN- ROUTE WITH DEW
Ely, Nov. 2.-P)-In a hotly
worded reply to President
Roosevelt's self-acknowledgec
81, 1000 club, Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey declared tonight he
had learned the society offers
something more than "specia
privileges Something, hi
said, that it doesn't dare put
in writing"
The republican presidential nom
lnee' IN prepared excerpts for {
speech in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. de
nounced what he called the "ve~,
Rrazenness" Of the "most corrup1
o11er ever made by any politica
party and said:
Mr.. Roosevelt admitted last
Tuesday 9that it was he himself
who thought up the idea of the no.
torious One Thousand club. Thi.
Is the organization which offers ir
writing special privilege and a
voice in the formulation of admin.
lstration policies together with a
chance to visit with the President
on Thursday afternoons-al for
one thousand dollars.
II now have another letter, sent
out by Mr.. Roosevelt's special
privilege in government society.
1t was written on the stationery OF
the Democratic National commit
tee to select list in Kansas and
tells US a little more about this
1000 club. 1t ends up by saying,
Membership in this group will be
a badge of distinction forever.
There are other advantages which
I can explain to you when we
meet. Instant action is necessary.
Without identifying the author Of
the letter, he went on to say:
''Mr. Roosevelt's club offers in
writing to give special privilege
to a select group Of men who can
afford a thousand dollars for a
campaign contribution. Then 1t Of
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-03

the four opinion SampungS gave
the President a slight lead. The
fourth, the latest Gallup poll, indi-
Gated that his Republican opponent
had the edge. All four were care
full to point out that the margins
were not conclusive.
Final results of the Crossley poll
give Roosevelt So per cent Of the
major party vote on the basis OF
late October polling in % pivotal
states, adjusted by estimates OF
the armed services vote. actual
samp1ing Of the service vote is
prohibited by law - factor, all
four polls noted, adding to the diff
ficulty of trying to estimate which
way the total vote would goo
An analysis accompanying the
Crossley poll adds that the Presi-
dents plurality 'in several impor-
tant states is so narrow that it is
quite possible for Dewey to cap
ture a majority of the electoral
votes merely by minor changes, or
increased Republican voting In
these states".
A semi-final poll conducted for
Continued on Page Eleven; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-03

WASHINGTON, Nov 2 Up 1t
now appears likely that American
foreign ministers will hold a con-
ference before the United Nations
get together to discuss the Dunn
barton Oaks world security prof.
ect.
It is the United States hope to
make it a peace agency meeting
and soft pedal the issue OF Ar
gentina's virtual exclusion fro m
American councils.
The main question is whether Ar
gentina will attend as a full :
fledged member Of the conference,
appear as a special pleader, or be
excluded altogether.
Some Latin American diplomats
have come up unoffcially with the
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-03
AIRPORT
BUILT NEAR CITY

Wilmington's first private airport
developed by Carolina Skyways and
located on the new Wrightsville
Beach highway mile west of Sea-
gate, will be formally opened on
November 10, J.. P. Wilson, presi.
dent Of the Skyways, announced
yesterday afternoon.
Work on the project was started
a few weeks ago with z. A. Snee-
den of Wilmington in charge of the
extensive grading. The airport will
have two grass covered runways,
one 1900 feet and the other 1000
feet in length. Both will be $50 feet
wide.
The 40 acre tract on which the
airport is located was purchased
recently from G. H. Rogers, of
Seagate.
In discussing their immediate
Of Carolina Skyways pointed out
that they include extensive devel-
opments as soon as a letup in
wartime conditions permit.
and future plans representatives
Services to be offered by Carolina
Skyways will include airplane rent
al and instruction in flight training.
Planes will also be available for
charter and one of the first craft
to be stationed at the field will
be three passenger Stinson, own
ed and operated by Carolina Sky
ways. Also to be located at the
new airport will be two Aeronca
Chiefs, which will be available for
rental and instruction. All rentals
and instruction periods will be on
an appointment basis.
The partnership of the Carolina
Skyways was established several
months ago with the principal pur-
pose of providing a private airfield
for flying enthusiasts in the south
eastern section of the state. In ad-
dition to Mr.. Wilson, other men,
bers are John Colucci, Jr., and
William DeCover.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-03
BUDAPEST HEARS
ROAR OF BATTLE

LONDON, Friday, Nov. 3-tRN-
Russian troops fought their way
to within % miles south of the
Hungarian capital of Budapest
yesterday, swiftly rolling back a
shattered foe on a 60-mile front
in their big drive aimed at knock
ing out the last big Axis satellite,
Moscow announced last night.
Northeast of Budapest other
Soviet forces cleared the enemy
from 65-mile section of the east
bank of the middle Tisza- river
on front between Sap On the
CzechosIovakian border down to
Polgar, SO miles from the i'm
perilled capital, the Moscow bull
letin said.
The flash of the battle on the
plains outside Hungary's first city
and major Nazi arsenal was visi-
BILE by night in Budapest, and the
roar of approaching guns also
could be heard, dispatches said.
German and other European
broadcasts last night and early
today strengthened a belief that
Russian troops might smash into
Budapest or invest the city over
the weekend. DNB. German news
agency, said four strong Soviet
armored columns were converg-
ing on the capital and that it had
been impossible for Axis troops
to halt them.
the Soviet communique an
nounced seizure of 60 more towns
and villages and the capture on
Wednesday alone of 1000 prison.
ers, including Col. Gen. Janus
Voeroes, former Hungarian chief
of staff. Tho made total of
7518 German and Hungarian pris-
oners in the first three days of the
offensive which began last Mon
day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-03
|DIS0RCANlZED FOE
FLEEING TO 0RMAC
Enemy Casualties Mount
To $4,000 With $4,000
Dead On Leyte

GENERAL MacARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, PHILIP
PINES, Friday, Nov. 3.-(P)
The lend Of the Leyte-Sa-
mar campaign is in sight"
Gen. Douglas Macarthur an
nounced today.
American forces completed
a juncture at Carigara, key
town on the northwest coast
Of Leyte, and another column
thrust across this central
Philippines island in the south
to tighten a gigantic clamp on
Ormoc - last Japanese es-
cape port.
The japanese appeared to be at
tempting hasty and bomb-blasted
withdrawal from Ormoc.
Estimated Nipponese battle casu-
alties exceeded 10000, including
10000 counted dead on Leyte.
Disorganized japanese remnants
were being driven toward Ormoc
from the north, where American
control of Carigara Bay was. as
sured, and from the east, where
Yank infantrymen pursued enemy
groups through the mountains.
Elements of n e oath division,
34th regiment, marched unopposed
into Carigara yesterday from the
interior, joining forces with t h e
first dismounted cavalry division.
probing westward along the coast.
The Japanese had made sur
prise withdrawal from Carigara,
last maneuverable area of stra-
tegic Leyte valley, giving one OF
several indications they were aban.
doning the defense Of Leyte.
Powerful American forces imrne-
diately struck out in pursuit OF
the retreating Japanese who evil
IDENTIFY were attempting to reach
an escape highway to Ormoc.
On the South. elements of the
18th division broke through to the
west coast, capturing Baybay, 26
miles south of Ornoc.
Ormoc was surrounded on all
three land sides by determined
American forces and shipping in
the bay was hammered ceaseless-
ly by fighters and bombers.
Returning pilots reported that
Continued on Page Three; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-03
FDR Claims
COP Perils
U.S.. Peace
HINTS AT SPITE TENSE
President Broadcasts From
White House; Dis
cusses War
WASHINGTON, Nov. e.

WASHINGTON, Nov. p
op President Roosevelt
@ eecc,,sed the opposition camp
%onH of threatening ito
b build a party spite fence :. be-
tween us and the peace and
s sI struck out at what he
termed s,rr wicked whisperings.
In a campaign speech prepared
.or radio delivery from the White
House. the President said the
tbreat consisted OF statements that
unless the republican presidential
eandidate is elected Congress will
not cooperate in the peace.
50 do not know who empowers
.beee men to speak for the Con-
sress in uttering such a threat"
he said.
Certainly the United States
Senate and the House of Represen-
4stives showed no reluctance to
agree with the foreign policy OF
t6.,, administration when, almost
UNANIMOUSLY last year, they pass
ID the Connally and Fulbright re-
solutions which pledged this ma
tion to cooperate in a world Or
ganization for peace
In speaking Of whispering and
u,morings," the President did not
% into details. Asserting that he
did not propose to answer in
kind" he declared the American
neopIe pay little attention to whis-
pering campaigns.
Nor are they panicked, he said,
by "hysterical last minute accusa-
tons or sensational revelations"
any more than they were panick-
ed by Pearl Harbor.
The president devoted much OF
his speech to a discussion of mill
tary successes abroad, the tire
mendous productive achievements"
on the home front, and of postwar
affairs.
He declared that BY carrying out
plans already made, the nation
can:
Provide employment for our
veterans and our war workers
Continued on Page Three Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-03
Another Tropical Storm
Conferred In Caribbean

MIAMI, Fla, Nov. 2.-(P)-A
small hurricane was conferred in
the. Caribbean sea off the coast Of
Nicarauga today but the weather
bureau. here was unable to get its
location definitely.
Advising caution on the Nicarau.
guam coast and in the western Ca.
ribbean sea, the bureau said in a
4:30 p. m. advisory that the storm
apparently was in the vicinity Of
latitude IL degrees north and Ion
gitude 81 degrees west.
This position is about 100 miles
east of Bluefields, Nicauraugua.
The advisory said there was q
small area OF dangerous winds iE
the storm.
The direction of movement was
uncertain,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-03
LEY7EkxAlMAR CAMPAIGN NEAR END
AS U.5. UNITS JOIN AT CARIGARA;
IST. ARMY ATTACKS BEYOND AACHEN
HODGES ADVANCES
NEARER COLOGNE
Thrust Carries Yankees To-
ward Duran With Rhine
20 Miles Ahead

SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TIERS ALLIED EXPEDI-
TIONARY FORCE, PARIS,
Nov. 2.-P)-The U. S. First
army shattered the Siegfried
line lull today with a new
drive on a front of 1900
yards southeast of Aachen
that swept nearly two miles
to within eight miles of the
big German road center of
Duren - 20 miles beyond
which lies Cologne and the
Rhine.
The drive rolled through the
German villages of Vessenack and
Gerneter, 10 miles southeast of
Aachen, and up to the fortified
village of Hurtgen, often attacked
but not yet conquered by 1t. Gen.
Courtney H. Hodges doughboys.
The attack, whose scope and OBJ
jectives have not yet been dis
closed, exploded in the face of
hastily strengthened German de-
lenses in the morning after a
heavy artillery barrage that re-
sounded through Hurtgen forest.
BY evening American infantry
men still were slogging forward
against stifened resistance, it
was announced at supreme head
quarters.
Three hundred prisoners were
rooted from pillboxes and foxholes
as the Americans broke clear out
of the eastern fringes of the battle
chewed forest, across the road
leading south from Duren to Lam
mersdorf, and on into smaller
woodland beyond.
The battle was bullying into coun-
try behind the old prepared posi-
lions Of the main Siegfried belt,
but it was by no means in the
open.
Germeter and Vossenach, ada
cent villages, both had been reach
ed before by patrols of the First
army, but the new thrust had car
ried beyond this area.
The country is rough and wood
ed, and mile by mile it has been
turned into strong defense
hastily improvised-
Continued on Pare Two; Col. y
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suggestion that conference be
called without inviting Argentina,
but that Gen Edelniro Farrell S
government be asked to present its
case before the court of the other
20 republics. Sponsors of that plan
propose the following agenda in this
orders.
/. World security plans and how
Pan Arnericanism shall be mesh.
ed into an international organiza-
ton.
2. Hemisphere development and
defense, including economic plans,
postwar defense measures and re-
tura, to peace.
T, 8. Continental unity, including
Argentina's failure to participats
in the anti Axis effort and the
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-03
Mrs. R. {. Fargus Dead
In AntomobiIe Wreck

Mrs. R. C. Fergus, 4O4 South
Fifth st., wife of the former mayor
of Carolina Beach, was killed in
stantly in an automobile wreck a
Ocean Drive, S. c., late YESTERDAY
and Mr. Fergus is in a serious con
dition at the Army Air base hos
pital' at Myrtle Beach, S. c., il
was learned here last night.
Details of the accident were un
available at a late hour, but il
is understood that Mr.. Fergus wa:
driving, and the couple were the
only passengers in the car.
1t was reported that Mr.. Fer
gus is suffering from a fractured
skull and internal injuries, the ma
tu-e of which had not been deter
mined last night. e-I
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-03
COOLEY URGES
WORLD MARKET

RALEIGH, Nov. q tR Rep.
Harold D. Cooley said here tonight
in an address before the annual
meeting of the State Grange that
America is no more prepared for
the impact Of peace than it was
for war;
Calling for stable farm prices,
Cooley said that a world market
must be established for all types
Of American farm produce in the
years following the war.
Cooley, second ranking member
Of the House Committee on Agri-
culture, said that $4,000 had been
appropriated for his committee for
the study of the spread" in the
price of farm commodities be-
tween the producer and the con-
sumer. He added, "our committee
mas been told that we may spend
as much as we deem necessary
IN our study of the mark-up sys-
tenn. -
If farm prices are to hold up
and If we are to offer any induce
ment to our farm boys to return
70 agriculture he said, I'VE must
nave a world market backed by
me American Navy and the Mer-
enaht Marine. With our mechan-
Hed methods of farming, we should
We aole to complete in world trade
with any other country"
Cooleys address closed the sec
vnd Gay of the convention. DR.. I.
w. Duggan, governor of the Farm
sleolt Administration, spoke at the
morning session.
Inc Grange passed resolutions
"ohllnued on Page Two; Gel. "