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Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-09
Two T. T.. Homes
Change Hands

Negotiations involving the sale OF
the Martin c. Wahl home at 688
Sane atwood Drive to DR.. and Mrs,
Phillip Hodgkin, 644 Sandalwood
drive. and in turn that of the Hodg-
kin home to Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Costa have been completed, it was
announced Thursday.
Neither sale price was disclosed
All three families anticipate NOV
ing November Is. Mr.. and Mrs.
Wahl have taken a suite of rooms
at the Barbara Worth hotel as
temporary Accommodations.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-09
Forts Hit Line
@ Aid Patton

path of advancing United states
ground forces.
Unfavorable weather hampered
the American planes, but breaks In
the clouds enabled some OF the
bombardiers to pin-pcint their tar
gets by sight.
The Eighth air force bombers
and fighters were In action after
Royal air force heavy bombers. ac-
companied by Spitfire and Mustang
fighters hft targets In the Ruhr
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-09
Nv MARGUERITE BROOKS

Making Something From Moth
ing" or Creating Something Valu-
able Where Not Much Existed Be
fore" would be good names for two
projects being carried on in the
shops at Central Union High school
in Ell Centro these days.
The two projects were influenced
by the sortage of materials and
by the idea that boys get a great
deal of enjoyment and satisfaction
out of repairing and improving
articles.
In the furniture department r.
A. Chestnut, the instructor, bought
load of Old delapidated furnl-
ture and the students in the class
have transformed the old wrecks
into pieces of beautiful, colorful
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-09
ARLINGTON CEMETERY TOMBS
BRITISH FIELD MARSHAL

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. (UP)-
The body of Field Marshal Sir John
Dill head of the British joint staff
mission in the United States, was
at rest Thursday in Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery following services
Wednesday in the National Cathed-
raj. Sir John dice Saturday in
Walter Reed hospital.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-09

LONDON, Nov. 9. CUP - The
Nazi party postponed its sacred OBJ
servation of the Munich beer hall
putsch 81 years ago Thursday, par
TALLY substantiating recent reports
that Adolf Hitler had gone into
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-09
Two Officers Die
In Plane Crash

ONTARIO, Cal, Nov. 8. (UP) -
First Lieutenant Aubrey d. York,
26, Wick, Arkansas and Second
Lieutenant Kent A. Soper, 81, Ell
mira, New York, were killed late
Wednesday when their basic trainer
crashed in short power dive into
a vineyard south of Cucamonga.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-09

Wednesc ay night, the police chief
said he received telephone call
from Los Angeles, from man who
described himself as famous west
coast attorney, who inquired about
the possibility of getting Orbe freed
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-09
HOLLYWOOD ri umes Linked
With Dope-Smu9aIe Ring

A few hours later a Mexican attor-
ney was denied a writ of habeas
corpus in Nogales. Sonora.
Aguilar reported IAN unusually
large staff" of u. S. narcotics men
were working on the case.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-09
Pincers Drive PeriIs
Powerful Nazi Line
1900 Fortress
Planes Hit
Vital Targets

PARIS, Nov. 9. (UP)-The
American third army, direct
ly supported by more than
1900 warplanes, stormed the
outer defenses of M e t
Thursday in a pincers drive
on the most powerful fort
ress in northeastern France
and broad'ened it's new often
sive on an 87-mile front.
Lieutenant General George
S. Patton's troops attacked
on a 50-mile sector on both
sides of Metz and upward of
1900 fighter-escorted heavy
bombers smashed at the
sprawling Metz Notifications
on which the infantry was
closing from north, south and
west.
Front dispatches and su-
preme headquarters sources
said virtually the entire bat
tlefront angling across north
eastern France was blazing
up as Patton threw new divisions
into the expanding offensive aimed
squarely at Germany's rich Saar
basin.
AIR FORCE HITS
| Lieutenant General James H. Doo-
| little threw one of the biggest forc-
es of Flying Fortresses, Liberators.
and Mustangs ever used in tactical
operation into the siege of Metz by
| land and air.
| Unfavorable weather impeded the
forts and LiberatorS dumping thouS-
ancs of tons of bombs into the an
cient maze of Metz Notifications.
but breaks in the clouds enabled
some of the bombardiers to pin
point the barricades in the path
of the third army.
At least three American divisions
we're in action in the immediate
area of Metz. At the same time Wig
orous fighting flared up along a
50-mile stretch of the front north
ward from the 37-mile line between
Pont Mousson and the Rhine
Marine canal, where Pattons troops
attacked Wednesday.
CROSS MOSELLE
Battering across the rain-swollen
MoSelle river below Metz at dawn,
one division seized Cheminot, 10
miles from the fortified stronghold.
in the first few hours of the attack.
First dispatches did not report
the success of the drive north of
Metz, but all indications we're thai
the development maneuver was oe
veloping. The French press publish
ed reports from Metz was being
outflanked on both the north and
south in squeeze play that might
force the Nazis to pull out of their
strongest anchor position short of
Germany.
At the southeastern end of Pat
tons new offensive front, another
thanking drive against Chateau
Salins, big transport center II miles
east-northeast of Nancy, already
had put its German garrison in a
precarious position.
A delayed front dispatch revealed
that the Americans already had by
passed Chateau Salins on both sides,
making it more or less untenable
if the initial gains are capitalized.
Supreme headquarters sources re-
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. y
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WEATHER

Maximum Wednesday 80, minimum
Thurs. "A; 5 am. Thurs. 40, humid
ity 80: noon Thurs. IS, humidity 81;
b pm. wednesday 72, humidity 43.
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Battle Crisis Nears

Fighting in the Rome bridgehead area is
rapidly nearing crisis, the outcome OF whlcn
will largely depend upon which side gets
the strongest force there first
In this race, the Germans have some ad-
vantage. They can rush reinforcements and
equipment by land, whereas the Allies must
bring up men, war tools and supplies by
ship. Furthermore here as elsewhere in the
Italian battle, the Germans occupy the
heights, always a coveted position.
It is obvious the Germans are as deter
mined to hold Rome and north Italy as the
Allies are to take it. Thus far the fighting
has been scarcely more a feeling out opera
ton, with both forces seeking weak spots,
preparatory to launching the major attack
When this drumfire is finished the combat
will become test of strength such as the
war outside of Russia has not yet involved
Because the test will have definite effect
upon the war, either to prolong or shorten it,
according to the outcome, it is apparent that
much heavier Allied forces must be brought
into the action than was contemplated before
the Germans began to pour in reserve divi-
sions and bring up armored equipment from
other fronts, if victory is to be ours, as it
must be.
There may have been no intention to use
the American 7th. Army in the Battle of
Italy when the master plan Of the Allies
was drafted at Teheran and points south. But
the emergency is becoming so pressing and
the crisis so grave, it is not impossible that
this force which did valiant service in Africa
and Sicily under the temperson1e Patten will
still be sent into Italy. There would be adj
vantage in this, not only because the 9TH.
Army would raise the number of Allied forces
to an approximation of those being rushed in
to the fight by the enemy, but also because
Patten IS, perhaps, the best tank fighter in
the war, and the Germans are putting huge
tank force into action.
1t would seem that Patterns services are
grealy needed now ir Italy. Whatever his
previous accomplishments, and they have been
fine, it is reasonable to think that he would
Guido them to purge his record of the blot
he put upon it when he struck enlisted men
in anger.
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Come Across, Buddies

Wilmington's American LEGION Post No. 10
has launched one of the greatest humanitarian
projects undertaken not in this community
alone, but, we must believe, in the country
at large
It's plan to purchase the Bridger home at
Third and Dock streets as a haven for
returning veterans, where they may rest while
readjusting themselves to civilian life after
the soul-stirring experiences of war; is a type
of Samartanism that cannot be adequately
appraised. That it will be the means Of help
ing many man of arms through his re-
Mobilization period cannot be questioned.
There is reason, then, to think that not
only members of the post but all veterans Of
former wars will seize the opportunity to help
finance the project. The post is unable to
complete the purchase with its current re.
sources. Additional money will be needed. In
starting the project, the posts officers felt
certain their buddies would come up with
contributions, not individually large, but in
the aggregate sufficient to meet the need.
Now it is time for these buddies to prove
that the posts confidence in them was not
misplaced. They can't afford to let the post
down in such splendid undertaking.
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Daily Prayer
FOR THE WORLD THAT LOVES

The whole world is enwrapped
in a new mantle of love, despite
wars hurts and disasters. We be-
hold the carloads and shiploads Of
letters and gifts that are ever NOV
to ca his remostest s. regions
we see daily before our eyes the
deathless affection of loved ones.
A surge of tnankfulness fills our
hearts as we realize how Thy love,
o eternal Father, is spread
abroad. Born of Thy Spirit, new
loyalty, new affection, new appre-
citation of dear ones fills the hearts
of our fighters and of the home
fold. Thou art Strengthening the
bonds that bind us together for a
new day. Above all the fires OF
strife and evil emerges new hui
man love to mirror the Divine love
that is mankind's only hope. We
praise Thee, Whom we would love
ever moer and more. Amen -
W. T. E.
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A ChivalrOus Bombing

The Germans have again demonstrated their
chivalrous conduct of war by bombing Unit
ed States hospital and killing in all twenty
six patients and attendants on the Anzio
bridgehead in Italy.
The hospital was a full mile from the near
est military target and plainly marked, but
neither it's isolation nor its designation could
save it from attack. Either the German bonn
badiers are rotten shots or deliberately loosed
their bombs upon it.
These are the men whom the German SUI
preme command declares the soul of chivalry.
After all, the attack is not surprising, how
ever dastardly. The Germans machine gunned
tens Of thousands Of refugees in Belgium
Holland and France when the war emerged
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Mis-step Wrecks Life

Can one mis-step wreck a life? 1t would
seem so, if Grover Cleveland Bergdon is a
fair example. Called in the draft of the first
World war and finally jailed after lodging
pursuers for months, he was given his liberty
ostensibly to recover buried gold, then fled
to Canada and subsequently escaped to Ger
many, the land at the end of the rainbow for
Germans of his stripe.
But life in Germany was not all he thought
it would be, and he spent years begging to
be allowed to return to this country, which
he had refused to serve when he was needed
Consent to his return was forthcoming only
upon the understanding that he would serve
out the term in prison imposed upon him
when he evaded the draft quarter century
before. Because Of his experiences abroad he
considered Imprisonment in the United States
preferable to freedom in Germany, and back
he came to be confined in Leavenworth peni-
Tertiary.
Now he is free again at the age OF fifty.
He was twenty-three when he was summoned
for military service. Almost half his life has
been spend in torment. The years that remain
to him will be overcast. He cannot hope to
enjoy the respect or confidence Of any man.
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The Literary Guidepost

books of architectural plans. The
columns and porticos and square,
practical living spaces met the
American mind and were at once
adapted to American life. They ran
through the country, and their vari-
atoms were incredibly numerous,
and sometimes incredible as well.
Monumental banks and public
buildings were only one phase of
the movement. Down south, the
general idea was varied by eli
mate and the presence of slave
help. In the north, weather and
the more normal family-servant re-
lationship had an influence. PEG.
pie did paste false porticos on 9TH
erwise undistinguished houses, and
occasional cobblers' shops and
even outhouses would have seem.
ed vaguely familiar to Pericles.
But these were not the. rule.
The movement has often been
considered an initiative effort by
culturally immature minds. It
seems to me that a great many
people will come out of Mr.. Ham
Inns huge book with more respect
for the nations past, and whether
or not this is SO, there can be no
doubt but that a reference work
of enormous value has annsarsd
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Interpreting The War
By KIRKE l.. SIMPSON

in the south, that doubt waned only
to be revived now that the thrust
fell short even Of the Appian Way,
first enemy communications OBJ
jective.
If that road and its paralleling
r a way through the Pontine
Marshes between Rome and Ma.
Piles are to be cut by the Allies,
to say nothing of the far more
important Via Casilina beyond, it
will now have to be done the hard
way. The ''blitz'' nature of the Net
tuna operations died out quickly,
too quickly, nthe flat lands of the
beachhead. 1t is now swept by Ma.
ri heavy gun fire from the Alban
hills, which at one time virtually
were within grasp of British and
American advance patrols.
London press critism, admitted
ly based on no positive informa.
ton as to the real Allied situa.
ton, hints at staff confusion, fail.
ure to seize opportunities for tell.
ing strokes, and lack of daring and
ina ginative Allied leadership ir
the field. The courage and fighting
ardor of the troops, American OF
British, is not open to question.
There is no way to get at the
realities or to assess the blame
If any-until some appropriate high
authority speaks out.
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BY JOHN SELBY

Greek Revival Architecture in
America" by Talbot Hamlin OK
ford; $3.50.
This is a plea that readers who
have the slighte stserious interest
in the American past at least take
look at book by Talbot Hamlin
with the forbidding title: Greek
Revival Architecture in America"
The title makes it seem that the
book must be another work with
a very limited field, to wit, a spe.
cial phase of architecture in Amer
lea. It is not that at all.
Mr.. Hamlin has written a study
Of the American mind and habit
of life in the first two-thirds of the
last century, actually its limits
are wider even than that, although
the crux of the matte rfalls within
those 70 years. 1t happens that
America, churning around for
something ordered with which to
replace those romantic cabins n
which the early presidents loved to
be born, hit upon the purity of an
Gent Greek architecture.
1t answered the need. But the
Greek Revival was not, Mr.. Ham.
lin shows, merely matter of copy.
ing certain forms out Of certain
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-09

Whatever the cause OF the Al
lied failure to exploit the surprise
landing below Rome, the criticism
on both sides of the Atlantic is
reaching a pitch that calls for an
authoritative answer.
1t could come convincingly only
from Prime Minister Churchill r
President Roosevelt. The chances
favor Churchill statement to
parliament soon on that seemingly
abortive effort to unhinge the Ma
ri front in Italy at single stroke.
A variety of explanations for
what seems to be a Nazi-Allied
stalemate around the Nettuna
beachhead are offered anonymous
ly. Bad weather limiting air &C.
tivity and hampering the move
ment of reinforcements and sup
plies is one such.
Amphibious operations always in
volve a weather gamble. A shift
in the Mediterranean currents off
Sicily temporarily gummed up
American landing operations there.
A shift in the winds at Tarawa in
the Gilberts, changing the expect
ed water level over outlying reefs,
stranded landing craft and result
ed in heavy Marine casualties.
The weather certainly will be a
prime consideration indicating the
hour of Allied invasion of the con-
tinent.
Yet adverse weather alone can
not explain fully what happened at
Nettuna. That most priceless OF
military assets rarely - complete
tactical surprise-was achieved at
the outset. Weather conditions were
favorable during the initial landing
operations. The supreme Allied
commander in the Mediterranean
theater, General Sir Henry Matt
land Wilson, announced from Al
giers within hours after the first
wave of troops reached the beach
that all of the limited forces
assigned to operation had beer
landed.
His use of ''limited' raised
some doubt at the time as to the
real scope and objective of the
maneuver. AS the troops famed
out quickly inshore to threaten raj
and highway connections between
Rome and the Nazi Gustav Line
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CONTRACTS AWARDED

The Wilmington District Eng,
neer office announced Tuesday wv
award OF four contracts for wa,
time construction in North Cato'
ma.
Contracts have been let TO:
R. F. Kirkpatrick and Sons, bui
lington, to construct buildings S ,o
utilities at Fort Bragg, $50, 100 70,
James I. Earnest Construc'lt W.
company, Logansport, Ind ~
construct buildings and utilities d
Greensboro-High Point, -1,647.
R. K. Stewart and Son, his'
Point. to erect buildings and u'D
tiles at Greensboro, $4,000.
]. o. Bayliff, general contrac,g5l
OF Burlington, to construct Dullu
ings and utilities at Fort Bragg
SAG.
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Our Chief Aim
TOP OF THE MORNING
Blessed is that man that feareth the Lord,
that delighteth greatly in His command
ments Psalm: 1921.
A Nuisance, But Necessary

CT course it is nuisance to black out
the Wor. But rehearsals are worth while, de-
spite any inconvenience they cause. For the
war is far from won. The Germans are still
capable of striking many a heavy blow and
may find good target. nuisance raid at
some vulnerable point on the Atlantic seaboard
may not be probable but certainly is not i'm
possible.
How much better, then, to be prepared to
meet it and deal with it in an orderly, well
disciplined and well organized manner than
to be caught in its fury without preparation
or training and so suffer greater damage
and undergo greater suffering.
Probably the Germans would have struck
at our coastal area long ago, if only for the
effect on German morale announcement Of a
raid on the United States would have, if they
had had long-range bombers. When they
planned this war they contemplated using the
Luftwaffe for short flights, to soften up areas
for the infantry. They proposed to send planes
ahead to knoll out defenses and make the
infantrys advance easier-a hopfrog arrange
ment in which long flights would not be nee
essary. Consequently their warplane program
did not include long range bombers. But when
Britain defeated the Luftwaffe because they
had planes that could stay aloft and fly farther
than Goering's the Germans began building
bombers to match Britain's, and while their
present effort is centered principally upon
fighter production, to combat INVASION they
are also building bombers of great flight
range.
It void be unsafe to assume that merely
because the war is going against them gen.
orally they will not consider sending these
wide-ranging bombers against us. The fact
that the war is no longer walk-away for
them is all the more reason to think that
they will attempt an air blow on this side
of the Atlantic.
This is why air raid rehearsals are neces-
sar.. They are nuisance, to be sure, but
failure to be eternally prepared for attack
would be tragic.
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LABOR PROBLEMS
WILL BE TALKED

The demand and supply oil ld.u,
will be the subject OF a tWo, Ts.
meeting of managers OF u ,, E.t
ployment offices in the oouIlie4 4ss
ern North Carolina area al Wv
Wilmington Employment OILY
starting at 2:30 p. m. WeoheS0a. ,
Manager Felix A. Scroggs oil
nounced Tuesday.
Principal speakers at the en a,,
ployment conference WedneSua'
and Thursday will be H. |. o9ep
ard, area director of War MAJ
power Commission, and MISS va ,
dys Fielding, reports an dahaIyotf'
specialist of the Raleigh VIM u
flee.
Besides Scroggs, the managers
to attend will be Arnold BaT"Iy"
Of Fayetteville, Lynn 10y OF ho'"
ingham, John Pelly Of GoldsOoIv,
Carl Brothers of Lumberton, di0
Henry w. Davis of Albemarle'
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Happy Returns, Babe

It seems but yesterday to the old-timers
with shouting when the ininitable Babe Ruth
was lifting another one over the left field
fence and bis spindle shanks were trotting
around the bases behind another player--or
maybe two-he had batted home.
And here he is fifty years old, FESTIVE as
a fire horse in pasture, unable to get a job
at his vocation, playing golf and bowling to
keep his turnrny within bounds, and hoarse
himself from selling war bonds.
Dear old Bambino-how we love him for
his humanness, for his follies for the fine
fight he won against himself For Babe
was not always. to be depended on when the
world was at his feet He lost his head, as
many another man reared in better environ
ment has done, and defied the law and his
manager and the stern rules Of decorun and
health; and at his peak was near to losing
the confidence Of his fans and Of himself,
That was bitter fight he put UP against
his worst enemy-himsef But he won it
bless his old and tricky heart that is having
its day now and keeping him at home instead
of with the forces in foreign service where
he longs to be, in an entertainment group.
He won that fight, as many another man
has done, because his intestinal fortitude was
stronger than the little devils that sought to
possess him body and soul, and was soon
driving them over the fence again, to the
greater tumult of the multitude and the great
., glory Of the game.
And now he's on the shelf, but not wholly
because when birthdays recur friends pour
ii, on him and Mrs. Babe must order more
cheese for the party, but chiefly because
he went to the mat with himself and came
up victor.
Many happy returns, Babe
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MILBURN TO TALK
AT SUNDAY RITES

Brig. Gen. Bryan L. Milburn,
commandant of the Antiaircraft
Artillery school at Camp Davis,
will deliver the memorial address
at the service to be conducted in
memory of deceased veterans OF
World Wars I and II at $3.50 p. m.
Sunday at the First Baptist church
by Voiture No. 245, Forty and
Eight Legion society of Whining
ton.
j. Carl Seymour, chef de care,
said a special musical program
for the occasion has been arrang.
ed by Henri Emurian, organist for
the First Baptist church, begin
ming at 3:15 p. m.
There will be roll call Of de-
ceased veterans from New Han.
over county. The public is invited
to join for an hour in tribute te
the memory of departed COM
rades.
General Milburn will be intro
duced to the assemblage by En-.
NETT Bellamy.
General Milburn has been com.
mandant of the Antiaircraft Artil.
lery school since June, 1943. Born
in Fayetteville, Arkansas in 1893
his Army career started in 1911
when he became a second lieu
tenant in the Coast Artillery Corps
His stations, besides in the United
States, have included the Philip
pines, and Panama. General Mil
burn was in command of a bri
gade at Fort Fisher when ap
pointed commandment of the AAA
school,