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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-04
BY ROBERT C. WILSON

A U. S. INFANTRY COMMAND
POST OUTSIDE MUTZIG, France,
Dec. 3. -(R)-A company of Amer
lean doughboys and some Alsatian
f. F. I. are playing a grim cat-and-
mouse game with several hundred
Germans holed up in an almost
impregnable old fort guarding the
Bruche river valley at the eastern
edge of the Vosges.
The Germans eight days ago
slipped into the fort, now far be-
hind battle lines and although they
are not doing any harm there, the
Army is making the situation a
test tube for the reduction of sim.
ilarly tough obstacles expected tc
be met in the Maginot and Sieg-
fried Lines.
Col. William Thomas Of Platts-
burg, N. Y, who was moving his
Sixth Corps Engineers into action,
said taking such forts is a matter
of practice. What makes this a
beautiful set-up is that there are
two forts, one held by the Germans
and another held by the Americans
close by.
After tour of the fort we hold,
which was built between 1893 and
1894 by the Germans and improv-
ed IS years ago by the French, it
is easy to understand why it is a
waste of time for Thunderbolts to
bomb such citadels.
It has a ten foot reinforced con-
crete roof.
1t. Barney Caugler, San Francis
CO, Calf, moved e tank within rs
yards and said it took seven shots
to put a hole in the wall of three
feet of solid concrete.
"The intriguing part Of this lit
tie exercise in fort capturing is
that there are supposed to be
some important Nazi officials in
side this one and some leading
Alsatian collaborators. The civil
ians told us that" 1t. Hi PerEa-
mont, Brooklyn, N. Y, said.
eyes sir" said 1t. George Peck
of Durand, Wis, disgustedly 1--WE
got the bull by the tail and can't
let go. If there are some fanatical
Nazi officers in there, they never
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-04
ACTRESS MARRIES
R00SEVELT'S SON

GRAND CANYON, Ariz., Dec. 8.
Up Col. Elliott Roosevelt and
Movie Actress Faye Emerson were
married in a glass-enclosed obser-
walton station on the rim of the
Grand Canyon today in what the
bride called probably the most
beautiful wedding there ever was"
The presidents 34-year-old Sec
end son and the 27-year-old coppery
blonde graduate OF Little Theaters
recited their VOWS at 9 am. before
a large window overlooking the
magnificent chasm. Blankets Of
snow and swirlirg mist partly con-
cealed its famed hues. The tenn
perature outside was 20 degrees.
"Our marriage means so much to
US both that We wanted to begin it
as beautifully as possible" the
bride told reporters afterward.
The Rev. Roger Sawyer. pastor
OF a Williams, Ariz., Methodist
Church, performed the eight-minute
ceremony as a few friends stood
by
Miss Emerson was attended by
Mrs. Joseph B. Livengood Of Los
Angeles, granddaughter of the
late opera star, Nine. Ernestine
-Heink.
Maid of honor was 10-year-old
Chandler Roosevelt, daughter OF
Col Roosevelt by the second of his
two previous marriages.
Best man was Jack Frye, presi.
dent of Transcontinental and Wes-
tern Air, Inc. Miss Emerson was
given in marriage by John Meyer,
a mutual friend who introduced the
bridal couple at dinner party in
his Los Angeles home in September,
1913.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-04
CHANGE IN NAN
ITTITUDE IN WAR
SHOWN BY PAPER

nouE Dec. 3,-lP-An indica-
4on that some Germans are losing
u vi. d desire to die for the father
, ll,'l- Was given today in a "Reich-
, .f',sbrer bulletin issued Off
' '.-. onlv Of the 18th SIS Panzer
c Cree division in Italy.
I'VE must not lie to ourselves
md say there are hopeless posi-
inns which justify our surrender
no " the captured document said.
~Tbe German soldier does not sur
render. Unfortunately in many
,ases it has been shown we are not
nrenared to face this truth. Some
n rs begin to lie as the Italians
did.
Some Germans in the from line
and at home have become soft.
Hasn't it actually happened that
soldiers have actually thrown
away their weapons? Let's get the
iron broom and clean up the mess
behind our lines"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-04
VIENNA SECTION
BOMBED BY U.S.,

LONDON, Dec. 3. In Flying
Fcrtresses and Liberators of the
U. S. 18th Air Force in Italy ham
mered targets in the Vienna area
today, continuing weekend scourg-
ing of German industries and trans
ports.
The planes, bombing by instru-
ment, encountered little flax or
fighter opposition in the sweep to
Vienna. They sent the weekend sor-
ties into the Reich from Britain
and Italy we'll above the 1000 mark
despite unfavore ble weather. Satur-
days operations cost the Germans
at least AZ fighter planes.
A gray, wintry overcast kept
British-based American and Raj
planes under wraps Sunday after
they had poured some 5000 tons of
bombs on five German industrial CT
ties near the Western front in a 12-
hour period.
Last night probably 600 British
heavyweights spilled about $500
tons Of explosives on Hagen, an i'm
rortant railway center in the Ruhr.
and Giessen, another rail hub,
35 miles north of Franl-4urt.
Speedy RAF Mosquitoes spotted an
ammunition train steaming into the
station at Papenburg, southeast of
Emden, last night and destroyed it
with gunfire.
While more than $50 Liberators
and Fortresses Of the U. S. Eighth
Air Force were hitting jam-packed
railyards at the Rhine cities of Co.
blenz and Binger yesterday, their
escort Of $50 fighters tackled for
n ations of 20 to so German planes
and shot down %.
Meanwhile, British Lancasters
bombed the big Benzol producing
plant at DortmunG in the Ruhr and
American heavy bombers based in
Italy made the aerial offensive
two-ply affair by attacking Nazi
fuel and rail targets from the east.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-04
BY WILLIAM SMITH WHITE

A U. S. INFANTRY COMMAND
POST IN GERMANY. Dec. 3.-(R-
ln1antrymen commanded by 29-year
old Lt.-Col. Edmund F. paddy
Driscoll of Lynbrook, N. Y, took
the town of Luchem by storm to-
Cay in an assault that went through
the pitch darkness at am.
DriscolPs men-his junior COM
manders were Captains Frank Kolb
1t Paducah, KY, and John Winter
of Topeka, Kans Jumped off from
near Langerwehe and their capture
OF Luchem represented an advance
of half a mile.
1t was not the dreary little Jer-
ry town that was important in this
operation, however. 1t was the fact
that the men of one of our oldest
and finest infantry outfits were on
tire march again-and this warm
ing fact went all up and down the
line.
For the outfit Driscoll's group
represents is legendary all through
the First Army, and when it is
stalled or suffers some reverses-l
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-04
Synthetic Rubber Plant
Strikers To Begin Work

LAKE CHARLES, La, Dec. g.
GP)-Orval Inge. business agent of
the Lake Charles Metal Trade
Council (AFL) said today that
workers of the Firestone Tire and
Rubber CO. synthetic rubber plant
here will return to work on the
midnight shift tonight.
At a meeting this afternoon, at
tended by 428 of the approximately
500 workers who left their jobs yes
terday, it was decided to acceed to
the War Labor Board request that
they return to work by Monday
morning.
Union officials had said the
Walk-out, which threatened to halt
all operations of the $40, 100000 war
plant, resulted from a "disagree-
ment over working conditions. )"
Regional WLB officials said yes
terday a new contract was being
negotiated and ordered the men
back to work by Monday.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-04
WV BERN GIRL
v VEDS IN EUROPE

,ARls, Dec. g. Up Eleanor
F,'. Num-. Red Cross worker at
Ss, nd to medical battalion be-
t''nsD a,o bride of 1t. Col. Sto-er
CIV .r Humphreys, personal liza
PUTT .Hicer to the Chief Surgeon
''7 ~ european war theater, Maj.
. Y'' Paul R. Hawley' in a double
Vs1' ceremony last night in the
s 's!.riesn Holy Trinity Cathedral at 9'lsa
me ,t w.. Romulu Num-, 6 New
I'D NJ New Sf Bern, N. c., is a grad
;rse' - the University of North
pts RIM; NJ She has been overseas
sa a. 4se American Red Cross since
151. ,: MI 1912. 4so son Of Mrs
inc Humphreys, 155 High Road,
Nal ,s,,rv Mass. He is a graduate
N .yo1p and served with the Royal
d ia 1'on Medical corps before the
C'nau If the United States into the
htS W. transferred to the Ameri-
Va Va Army in 1942.
an M. NH Hawley gave the bride
Os'' #, Col. E. R. Garter. as
sSs5' 4 chief chaplain in the Euro
si'ai-+ heater performed the cere-
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-04
Army Identities Fliers
Killed In Iowa Accident

SIOUX CITY, Ia, Dec. s. Up -
Identity of nine Army airmen,
killed when a Sioux City, Iowa,
based bomber crashed in the resi-
dental district here last night
we're made known today by Col.
Wallace S. Dawson, commandment,
today.
Those killed included Flight Of
ficer James M. Bell, Lubec,
Maine; Cpl. John W. Lancaster,
Jr., Raleigh, N. c.; and Pfc. Rob-
eTt E. Klaasen, Tampa, Fla.
The bomber crashed at p. m.
last night, landing between two
houses in a vacant lot. A wing hit
one of the houses, in which were
three persons. Flames that fol-
lowed the crash communicated to
that structure. Six persons were
in the other house. None of the
civilians was injured.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-04
Yanks And Germans PlQv
Grim Game For Old Fort

will give up. Well have to kill
them"
A Nazi plane swept low over the
fort the last two nights. Capt. Hugh
Wardlaw of McComb, Miss, said
it might have been trying to drop
supplies to the beseiged Germans,
out ne didn't think it had any
luck.
THE only attacking we are do
ing now is dropping mortar in
every few minutes to keep their
heads down." Wardlaw said. eve
have had three casualties from
snlplng. They sneak up on top the
fort and fire bazookas at us and
occasionally they fire 1O5-mil-
imeter gun, but they are wild
shots.''
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-04
Charles C. Corgiu. 81,
Former Printers GrouD
President Dies In Fla.

HOLLYWOOD. Fla. Dec. 3.-(R-
Charles C. Cargi11, 81. past presi-
dent of the National Printers As
ISOLATION, died late yesterday in
a local hospital after long illness.
Cargill came t. Hollywood seven
years ago from Grand Rapids. Mich.
where he owned the printing and
engraving firm that bore his name
snd founded and owned the firm of
Evans Winters Hebb, printers and
engravers.
The body will be sent to Grand
Rapids for burial.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-04
FRENCH SEEK GOODS
Relief Head To Ask For g.
100000 Vital Tons

PARIS. Dec. 3.-LR)-Jean Mon
net. French commissioner for re-
lief and rehabilitation. said today
he would leave soon for London
and Washington, seeking shipping
space for 100000 tons of goods
which he termed vital to Frances
economy through the winter and
spring.
This tonnage would be compris-
ed mostly of food. wool. cotton.
fertilizer, raw materials for indus
try, and materials for putting bat
tered ports, railways and facta-
ries back into full operation. he
said.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-04
FILM RIGHTS BOUGHT
Warner Brothers Buys Script
To Life With Father

NEW YORK, Dec. s. P) Jack
l.. Warner, executive producer OF
Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc
confirmed today the firms pur-
chase of the film rights to Life
With Father" the Howard Lind
say-Russel Grouse play based on
the Clarence Day stories, now IN
it's sixth year on Broadway.
He said the arrangements call
for an advance of 100000 against
royalties on the pictures gross
take. and that the final price would
set an all-time high for the pu--
chase of a play.
The picture, to be made in color,
will not be released before 1947,
Warner said.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-04
Archibald Rutledge,
Southern Author, To
Serve Hall Of Fame

McCLELLANsVILLE, S. c., Dec.
l-8-Archibald Rutledge, South
Cardinals poet laureate, said at
BIS Hampton planta ion home near
here today ne had accepted ap-
ointment as one of the nations 100
electors for the Hall of Fame at
New York University, New York
City.
Electors decide eligibility of can
licateS to the hall which was found
Cd in 1900 to perpetuate the names
n 30 Great Americans. Selections
5T the nall, mace at intervals, will
be completed about the year 1000.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-04
Fiue Held In Lublin
Deaths To Be Hanged

LONDON, Dec. 3.-tRHThe Mos
COW radio said tonight that all
five defendants in the Masdenek
concentration camp atrocity trial
at Lublin, Poland, had been SEN
fenced to hang. Their execution
will be public.
The radio said sixth defendant
had hanged himself in his cell
during the trial.
In the trial, which began Novem-
Der q, representatives of the
Soviet-Polish commission which
investigated the German camp
testified that 100000 bodies had
been exhumed from mass graves
there.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-04
Five French Rottnlions
Are Crit 0ff. Nazis Saw

LONDON. Monday. Dec. 4.-P)
The German Transocean news
agency early today claimed that
five French battalions were cut
off after a German counterattack
had destroyed a bridge over the
Hueningen canal, five miles north
of Basel.
Units of the Fourth Moroccan
and Ninth Colonial Divisions had
thrust across the canal to the
Mulhouse-N uernburg railway be-
fore being halted and cut off, the
Nazi agency said.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-04
DR.. David Mckinley,
Illinois University
Official Dies At 50

CHAMPAIGN, ILL.,, Dec. 3.-(R-
Dr. David Kinley, president emer-
;tus of the University of Illinois,
1ied here today. He was 83 years
I'D. Kinley served as president OF
he University of Illinois from
.92o to 1880. He joined the faculty
as assistant professor of econo-
NV and social science, in 1893, and
was retired in 1880.
AS an economist he was credited
with being an international author
itv IN money and banking.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-04
Pone Urges Rome Radio
Group To Assist Truth
In Disseminating News

VATICAN CITY, Dec. 3.-LR-
Pope Plus, giving an audience to
300 officials and employees of the
Rome radio, today urged them to
place themselves at the service of
truth to fight the hatred which the
radio has been used to dissent
nate.
The Pontiff said well directed
radio could offer incompatible
aid to the progress of civilizat ton.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-04
PRINCE ANDREW DIES
Greek And Dane Nobleman,
SO, Was Son Of George l

PARIS, Dec. 3.-GP-Prince An
drew, of Greece and Denmark,
died at his home at Monte Carlo at
the age of 50, according to word re-
ceived in Paris today.
He was the son of King George I
of Greece, and an uncle of the
present Greek sovereign, George II.
whose lineage goes back to C'A'is-
tan TX of Denmark.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-04
LAUNCHING DELAYED
Low Tide Blocks Christening
Of S. S. Chapel Hill

BALTIMORE, Dec. 3. - Up -
Launching of the Chapel Hill was
postponed one day because of low
tide, Bethlehem airfield shipyard
officials announced.
The victory ship, named for the
North Carolina town, will be chris
tened tomorrow by Miss Betsy Anne
Bowman, daughter of a town alder
man and junior at the University
Of North Carolina. Chapel Hill.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-04
MONTGOMERY VISITS KING

LONDON, Dec. s. Up Field
Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgom-
cry recently left his Western front
headquarters to come to London
and receive his field marshals
baton from King George vi in
private ceremony of presentation at
Buckingham Palace, it was an
rounced tonight. Montgomery was
promoted to field marshal August
81
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-04
RED RING CHAMPION

MOSCOW, Dec. 3.-tR-Nikolai
Korolyov, who had been awarded
The Order of the Red Banner as a
guerrilla fighter ir the rear of Ger
nan armies, won the U. S. S. R.
heavyweight boxing championship
today b. defea ting Ivan Ogurenkov,
who had held the title 10 years.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-04
BALL TO SPEAK

CHAPEL HILL, Dec. 3.-lR-
SPn Joseph Ball (R-Minn), who
broke from his party at the 18th
hour TO vote for President Roose-
Vft in last months election. will
speak at the University of North
carolina next Thursday night.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-04
NORTH CAROL1NIAN HONoREp

WASHINGTON. Dec. 3. -tR-
Pvt. Frank D. Atkins Of Draper,
N. c., was decorated with the Pur-
pie Heart and Combat Infantry
man Badge in a recent ceremony
at the Army War College here.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-04

BUY ANOTHER BOND TODAY
Evening star., 1944-02-14
BY ALICE EvERSMAN.

In a program that stood stead
tasty by familiar numbers, Robert
Casadesus, the eminent French
pianist, managed to create the Inn
pression that they had never been
heard before. From a fresh analyti-
cal viewpoint, and vivid imagina-
ton, he gave a new investiture to
works in every pianist's repertoire.
Mr.. Casadesus has not played here
in some time, his last appearance
being on Mrs. Lawrence Townsend's S
morning musicales. His Washington
debut was made at one Of these
musicales and for several years he
was included in her list Of artists.
Appearing yesterday under Mrs.
Dorsey's management at Constitu-
ton Hall, he was welcomed by an
audience which voiced its approval
of all that he played unreservedly
Mr.. Casadesus' presentations bear
an original stamp that is thoroughly
his and the outcome of his special
technical development and of his
studious and poetic insight. In the
larger confines of Constitution Hall
his art revealed its strength and its
weakness.
Based on mechanical command
extraordinarily dextrous and pill
able, his power of description and
of emotional expression within the
small boundaries of single phrase
are prodigious. His range of dy-
namics progresses with wel-timed
values from the finest pianissimo
to thunderous fortes, all artisti-
cally calculated and directed by a
responsive temperament. While
these were the ingratiating char
acteristics of his playing, his ten
dency to extract a hard, unmusical
tone in fortissimo passages, to blur
the fine flowing of phrase and
to approach different styles in
much the same spirit were apparent
as the program progressed.
His reading of the last of the
Beethoven sonatas, that in c minor
Opus III, was a revelation in its
finesse and breadth. The great first
movement held virility and ex-
pansion that exceeded in outline
the ordinary concept, while the
lovely Arietta grew in poetic mean
ing through his fine delivery. After
this opening number was a group
of Chopin Etudes chosen from
Opuses 10 and Is for their con-
trasting variety. From Opus 10 he
! played No. in F. major, No. 9 y,
Evening star., 1944-02-14
|Casadesus Gives Impression
Of NewnesS to Old Works

+, F minor, No. 10 In A nat major
No. In E fiat minor, No. 2 in A
minor and the Revolutionary" No
IL. The "A" fiat major Etude," from
Moscheles methode, separated Nos
| !, 5, 6, and II from No. IL Of Opus Is
It. was the play of iridescent
color and the thorough comprehen-
sion Of moods in these works that
charmed the listeners more than In
any portion Of the program. Mr.
Casadesus' superb huency in deli
cate effects, his structural exactness
and his complete kinship with the
Chopin style exemplified, for ex-
ample, in the brilliant, sweeping F
major, the lovely A fiat and the
chromatic A minor, was an unend-
ing delight. So much beauty OF
every description portrayed with
sensitive understanding and dra-
matte 'evaluation has rarely been
heard.
The second portion of the pro-
gram hardly equaled the first either
in interest or in the profundity OF
the artists ideas. Faure's Theme
ct Variations" Op. 73, was treated
in scholarly fashion without any
other ingredient injected into its
rather dull content than a mu-
sicianly approach. The three AL
benE numbers, "El Puerto" "El
Albaicin" and "Triana," also were
played with intellectual insight, but
without pronounced feeling for their
Spanish variability. The only one
Of the three that received some
thing new in Mr.. Casadesus' presen-
tation was "El Albaicin," where the
clarity Of the form was unusually
emphasized.
Encores followed for an audience
that seemed loath to leave.
Evening star., 1944-02-14
Archbishop Calls Pope's
Position Most Difficult

LONDON, Feb. 1.-THE Arch
bishop OF Westminster asked a
Catholic audience yesterday to pray
for Pope Plus XII, saying his pres
ent position lis the most difficult Of
any living man."
The Pope tried hard to prevent
the war and denounced Nazi aggres-
sions, the archbishop said, but II
the Pope speaks his words are often
misconstrued II he is silent, his
| silence is taken as completely"
Evening star., 1944-02-14

would report on progress made TO-
ward reunion at the 04th session
Of the assembly In Montreal. N. c.,
in May.
The plan provides for regional
synods With wide power in local SELF
government. Southern Committee
members said this had been ap-
proved by the committee which
drafted the plan as a safeguard
against the possible swallowing
up" of the Southern Church. The
Southern group represents about
one-fifth of the combined men,
bership.
Doctrinal questions would be left
with the proposed new General AS
sembly, but each presbytery would
be given authority to examine q
Evening star., 1944-02-14
Kusf Relief To
Sufferers From
Rheumatism Pain

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ind get NORITO on this guarantee
Evening star., 1944-02-14
Southern Presbyterian uniI
10 Study Reunion Plan
Nv tn. A.so.,.t.a o-...

By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA. Feb. 14.-A Southern
Committee appointed to consider
the proposed reunion Of Northern
and Southern Presbyterian churches
has accepted a plan as a basis OF
study.
The plan, drafted by committees
from both church bodies, already
had been accepted for study by the
Northern Council.
The Rev. Dunbar H. Ogden Of
New Orleans, chairman Of the
Southern Committee, said the group
Evening star., 1944-02-14
Brindisi Newspaper
Suspended by Allies
BY the Associated Press.

bS 01fc zAsSOCIHteu FT6Ss.
NAPLES. Feb. 14.-Suspension for
a month Of the Italian royal po-
litical weekly L'Unione, published in
Brindisi, by order of the Allied mill
tary authority was announced yes
terday by the psychological warfare
br"nch of the Army.
"The penalty was imposed on the
paper because 1t printed hatterine
remarks about the former Duce
Benito Mussolini, and printed am.
biguously insulting remarks abou
the Allies" the announcement said
Evening star., 1944-02-14
Militur Troinina Ordered

MEXICO CITY, Feb. IA @.-A
Government order issued yesterday
requires all federal employees be-
tween 10 and 40 to take military
training at least four hours a month.
Evening star., 1944-02-14
Moraenthou Off to Florido

Secretary Of the Treasury Nor
genthau left for Florida last night
for two-week vacation. He was
accompanied by his wife and
daughter.
Evening star., 1944-02-14

minister coming to one Of it,.
churches.