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EXPLOSION OF
SHIPS KILLS $50
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literally filled the sky with flame"
he said. sit was followed by other
flashes of less intensity and then
a dull, very odd, orangeish glow
that seemed to hang on the sky
for as long as 10 or IS minutes
Then it all went black"
George Wildes, policeman from
nearby Pittsburgh, said sit looked
like lot of fireworks-big spark
le7s going up and trickl.ng down
A huge ball Of fire in the middle
going straight up"
Fifty miles away, the seismo-
graph of Santa Clara university
registered the blast for two
minutes.
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Tough Censor

BOISE, Idaho R Gov C. A.
Bottolfsen received letter from
former fellow-t ownsman now
stationed in Iran. 1t began:
Somewhere in Iran, Dear Friend
Bott:" That's where it ended. too.
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Russian railways consume more
than 30 PEI cent of all coal pro-
duced in the country.
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"A Spanish synthetic motor fuel
is a mixture of gasoline and a
vegetable product.
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Grizzly bears can climb trees
only when they are cubs.
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Fireproof, paper-based plastics
are being used to build railroad
baggage cars in Great Britain.
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(By U. S. Weather Bureau)

Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 7:30 pm, yesterday.
Temperature
1870 am, 49, 1880 am, n; 1870 p.m.,
"a; 1880 pm. rs.
Maximum, IS; minimum, "a; mean
80; normal, 10.
Humidity
1870 am, 88; 1880 am, 81; 100 pm,
r.; 1880 p.m., SO.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 7:3O
pm, 0.94 inches.
Total since the first of the month,
800 inches.
Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey)
High Lew
Wilmington -------------- 9:05a 4:00a
9:33p 4:04p
Masonboro Inlet 6:58a 12:57p
7:22p 12:57p
Sunrise, STA am; sunset. 1922 PM;
moonrise 4:56a; moonset, 7:20p.
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No Writer'S Cramp?

SAN DIEGO-(R-Of here
think Kate Marcellus, court re-
porter, has hung up a record. In
81 years of court reporting, she's
taken down 1873, $4,000 words.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-19

Costa Rica mines half a million
dollars worth of gold annually.
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More than 200 languages are
spoken in India.
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Sunrise, STA am; sunset. 1922 PM;
moonrise ASA; moonset, 7:2Op.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-11-23

VANCEBURG, KY, Nov. 22-tR-
School Superintendent Thomas w.
Rowland wrote a letter to Joseph
johnson today. informing the s.
year-old farmer that wildcat or
no Wildcat, mis- three children
must return to school not later
than November 20.
During the additional week OF
grace granted by the superinten-
dent, he said he hoped the natives
of the Queens district, mountain
GUS area 10 miles west Of here,
would cash in OIL a 500 reward Of
fcred for the animal.
Johnson had pleaded that his
children, 10 to Is years old, had
been absent from classes since
nnid-October because of the animal
whose yowls, he said, were so fear
some that they made his hair stand
plumb straight up on his head"
The farmer added that until the
big cat set up Housekeeping in his
district, he had never been
afeared of man ner beast"
Rowland said that he had listen
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wildcat OrNo Wildcat,
Rural Schools Must Run

ed to Johnson's petition, mot oe-
cause doubted the authenticity OF
the story, but because l wanted 10
see the color of the eyes OF Lewis
countian who would hesitate 10
fight a wildcat"
The natives of the district sub
Stimulated Johnson's story OF the
animal, which the farmer said was
big as a policedog.'
Children awoke and cried at night
On hearing it, they added, and II
had every dog in the neighborhood
coWed.
Whether there was more than one
or a pair of the wildcats was a
question for debate in cabins and
at meeting places.
Some asserted there also was a
litter of kittens
The reward was announced yes
terday by county Judge Taft Stone
after meeting with county Of
ficials.
But no word came back from the
hills today that any hunting expedi-
tons had been organized.
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ITALIAN PLAY
WELL RECEIVED

The ITALIAN association got OF
to a good start for the season las
night when VIM. B. Campbell, Jr'
directed a performance OF Phlnf
Bary's Holiday" with a cast O.
twelve new and old Thalians-ole
IN the sense o. having been II
ITALIAN plays before,
Apart from the fact that the var
ious members of the cast occas
eionally would keep their lines q
secret from some of the audience
in the rear of ITALIAN Hall, anc
. few lapses in the lines which
we're heard. the performance was
on a par with the usual high
standard the association has Of
fered through the years.
The program was a little con.
fusing as the cast listed on the
program did not appear in tn e
proper order. 1t may be that the
order of their importance in the
play was what was intended.
There was no doubt but that the
outstanding character in the au-
hor's mind was that of Linda Sc
ton, ably portrayed by Frances
Thompson, while playing opposite
her as her sister Julia, was Shir-
lev Jean Beasley who handled that
difficult and somewhat selfish part
most convincingly.
Sandwiched between them W S
BENJAMIN M. Jones, Jr., as john
~ Case, a role of which he made
The most. Richard J. Cassidy, as
the girls brother, had the burden
of coined, and carry it he did,
and that right nobly. The success
fu1 and wealthy domineering papa
was undertaken by E. E. Erb in
a somewhat restrained manner.
Norma Green and Pvt. Bill Jack
IS chatty married couple light
ened things up a bit with their
b1eeziness, as did Margaret T.
Heilig and Charles R. Keane as
another married couple of slightly
different type.
There we're three characters
who removed coats left on chairs,
brought in liquor, and all that sort
of thing, and they were done
smoothly by Lester Preston, Guer-
srd Simkins, and Sally Herring.
The program listed 80 people
who assisted in some way or other
with the show, but special mention
should be made of the scenery and
the general stage setting under the
Craftsmanship of Lewis Ormond
and Claude Howell, as it was ex-
cellent, particularly the setting of
the second act. when a nursery
was shown to perfection.
Another performance of tn e
show will be given tonight, it was
announced.-W. G. R.
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ADVANCE MENACES
GERMAN POSITION
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and plunged on toward Strasbourg
on the Rhine river 10 miles SOUTH
east. This success eliminated a
seven-mile thrust through Saverne
gap. the first of the Vosges pass
es to be entirely forced since the
akthrough at Belfort gap on
the extreme south.
Gains in the north were less
spectacular, but despite their fierce
resistance the Germans were be-
ing pushed back yard by yard and
mile by mile. The first Army aa'
vanced up to two miles, the Ninth
pressed closer to the approaches
of Julich, eight miles northeast Of
Eschweiler and the British Second
Army in Holland fought two miles
closer the river Mas, reaching
within three miles of Venlo.
Associated Press Correspondent
Yves Gallagher said the Germans
were wildly firing their vi anc
W. bombs into the rear areas Of
the American armies and also
sending out an increased number
of aircraft. This dispatch said the
diversion of Germany vengeance
weanons from firing on England
and Antwerp was Interpreted as
meaning the enemy was using ev'
erv conceivable effort to halt the
assault OF the First and Ninth ar
mics.
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Grandma was great one for
rubbing" the miseries of chest
colds and many other simple pains
and aches Of her family. The rub
she used was medicated in her own
way but she insisted that it contain
mutton suet. She liked the way
mutton suet disappeared as it
helped carry medication to nerve
ends in the skin to relieve pain.
Today science has modernized
Grandma's old-time pain relief
principle to bring you Penetro, the
salve with a base that contains old
fashioned mutton suet plus 5 ac-
tive ingredients. Now mothers ev-
erywhere are praising this newer
relief and thanking Grandma for
her idea that is switching habits of
long Standing. During this sea-
son of colds, Penetro is so helpful
In easing chest muscle tightness,
soothing chest rawness, loosening
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NUMBER OF AIRCRAFT,
DECL AIRED SURPLUS,
ARE PLACED ON SALE

The Surplus War Aircraft Divi.
sion of the Defense Plant Corpora.
ton last night announced invita-
tons for bids for aircraft which
have been used by the Army or
Navy or in the pilot training pro.
gram of the CAA War Training
Service.
They are surplus to needs and
are available for sale "as is" and
where isl, subject to several con.
ditions.
Any of the surplus aircraft may
be purchased at the present loca.
ton, upon presenta ton of a proper.
lily executed and unsealed bid on
form SWPD-DP 1918 accompanied
by certified or chashier's check
made payable to Defense Plant Cor.
roration, in the full amount of the
actual OPA ceiling price applicable
on the date of purchase.
The nearest place where bid
forms may be obtained is the DPC
Sales Center, Cannon Aircraft Sales
and Service in Charlotte.
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Prison terms are longer ip the
United States than for correspond
ing crimes in England.
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The Army's bill Of fare:
Thanksgiving Weather
To Be Fair And Cold
Continued from Page One)

court would be held today. City
and county offices will be closed.
The Rev. ]. F Herbert, pastor of
Grace Methodist church. will
preach on the topic Thanks Be to
Cod at the church's services at
II am.
The service at Southside Baptist
church will be held at am. with
the Rev. ]. o Walton, pastor. in
charge
Services at Trinity Methodist
church will be held at 1890 a. m.
Two services will be conducted
at st. Johns Episcopal church,
Third and Red Cross streets, with
Holy communion at 8 am. and
morning prayer and sermon at 10
a. m. An offering will be taken for
the Thompson orphanage
The Myrtle Grove Presbyterian
church announced services for 1880
am.
Temple Baptist church will hold
its annual service at Z am
Rendezvous with America is
the subject of the sermon to be
delivered by the Rev c. D. Bar
cliff Of the Fifth Avenue Methodist
church during the Fifth Annual
Union Thanksgiving Day Service in
the Temple of Israel, Fourth and
Market streets, at II am. The
Temple congregation will be host
to the First Christian church and
the Fifth Avenue church. The Rev.
James Lawson. the Rev. Mr. Bar
cliff and Rabbi Mordecai M. Thur
man will read the ritual and the
combined choirs will chant the nu-
sic.
The First Presbyterian church
will hold its annual service at 10
am, with the Reverend William
Grove, Jr., pastor, in charge
Services will be held at st Paul
Lutheran church at II a. m. The
choir will sing the THANKSGIVING an.
them, praise Ye jerusalem by
Maunder. The Rev. Walter B. Freed
pastor, will speak on This is the
Time to Believe in the Benevolenc
of God''
The Rev. I. D. Dickens. pastor
Of the First Pentecostal Holiness
church. N Fourth and Campbell
streets, will deliver THANKSGIVING
message at 10 a. m. The offering
will go to the Falcon orphanage.
An "open house, is being held at
the parsonage at pm. Everyone
is invited.
A Thanksgiving Day dinner will
be given at $50 pm. today at the
Salvation Army Citadel. 215 S.
Front street, for all members Of
the organization. Appropriate
Thanksgiving slide pictures will be
shown. All ladies who wish to con-
tribute food are asked to telephone
1888 for instructions.
Louis Davis, II, of the Sunset
Park school, has written what he
has to be thankful for:
when I think of boys and girls
over in many places in the world
are starving to death, eating clay
and dying. They would give any.
thing in the world for a slice Of
bread. They live under a dictator.
If they speak what they think are
taken out and shot, some are torch.
ed. Then I think what I. have to be
thankful for. I am thankful because
live in a free country and can
speak what I think. I am glad I'm
an American. Help them. Buy a
! bond today
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Southern Senators
Back Port Measure
Continued from Page One)

ment through the Southeastern
ports.
This is the first time that q
comprehensive, organized pro-
gram has been offered to increase
Southern shipping Mr.. HERS
said. "Our Southern ports never
have been organized and, at times,
we have worked against each 9TH
er. We feel confident that our con.
ferences here will yield results. -
lone of the suggestions made at
today's meeting, he said, was that
the senators investigate the feast
bility of a Congressional investiga-
ton to determine exact conditions
in Wilmington and other ports OF
the area. The senators agreed to
consider the suggestions as a last
resort should other methods fail
1t was indicated that one Of the
tangible results of today's confer
ence will be concerted, long
range detailed program of devel-
oping postwar shipping by the port
officials working in cooperation
with the four senators.
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RECRUITERS PLAN
CT FEAST TODAY
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fresh killed turkey is must, pro-
claimed the War Department. May.
be they will eat it tomorrow; if not,
they will get it when rest comes.
Eve are carrying cooked dinners
very close to the fighting line," the
Army assured.
The turkey supply for all troops
is ample and nobody gets canned
turkey" the Army added.
The navy's model menu, subject
to local variations:
Chilled tomato juice, sweet mix
ed pickles, stuffed celery, ripe
olives, roast young tom turkey
giblet gravy, cranberry sauce,
sage dressing, mashed potatoes,
asparagus with hollandaise sauce
fruit salad, Parker House rolls
butter, hot mince pie, ice cream,
assorted candy and nuts and cot.
fee.
The Army's bill Of fare:
Grapefruit juice, roast turkey
with giblet sauce, dressing, mashed
potatoes, string beans, corn, Gran
berry sauce, celery, olives, pickles,
hot rolls, butter, pumpkin pie, ap
pies, tangerines, candy, nuts and
coffee.
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Shipyard To Be Giuen
Award For Security
CONTINUED from Page One)

new ship, 26th AKA to near COM
pletion here and 18Th vessel to
slide down the yards ways since
Dec. 6, 1941.
Among prominent Army and Ma
w officers and citizens expected
to attend will be Col. w. S. Pritch-
ard, of Fort Bragg, commanding
Second district, Fourth Service
command; Captain F. D. Pryor,
USN Ret.;, Sixth Naval district
Security Officer; Junius H. Rose,
Of Greenville, assistant state OCD
chairman; Representative J. Bay
ard Clark, of Fayetteville, and l..
j. Poisson, New Hanover county
OCD chairman.
The United States Office of CT
villain Defense established the Ma
tional Security Award to recognize
industrial plants which have devel-
oped outstanding protective meas
sures for life and property during
the war. The Award is made upon
the nomination of the local Civil
ian Defense organization, inves-
tigation by the State Defense coun-
Gil and final approval by the Re-
gional Civilian Defense office.
It is considered the symbol of
complete cooperation between in
custrial management, plant protec-
ton and local defense organiza-
tons. According to the Office of
Civilian Defense, the goal of in
dustry is the maintenance of per-
feet protection throughout the war
period, while at the same time
preserving its manufacturing facil-
tiles for the future - to provide
jobs, security and prosperity in a
peaceful postwar world. tt e
Award recognizes exceptional
progress toward this goal.
The award is the third major
national one received by the yard.
Early in it's life. it was awarded
the Maritime commission IN"
pennant and to which more than
dozen gold stars have been add
ed for outstanding ship production.
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Grandma Switches Millions of Mothers To
Her Idea of Mutton Suet and Medication
od Reliable For Relieving Chest Colds Muscle 1shne
Neuralgia and Rheumatic Pn Chapped Lips and NoFis Sim
pie Bruises and sprains and Many Other Home

StuSs sbVsuS SSCss
Iphlegm and relieving coughs.
Rubbed on chest, throat, back it
melts instantly, quickly vanishes
to act 3 ways-(D To relieve pain
at nerve ends in skin. (2) To ease
chest muscle tightness by counter
irritation. (3) To soothe irritated
breath passages through inhaled
aromatic vapors.
Many households call Penetro a
real friend in so many other ways,
too-as it eases neuralgia and rheu-
matte pain, takes sting from
ichapped lips and nostrils, acts as
soothing dressing for bruises, mi
nor cuts. No wonder mothers today
are praising Penetro and druggists
everywhere are recommending it.
So clean, so white, so easy-to-use
and such a comfort-bringer for so
many simple every DAY home needs.
Do as millions are doing-today
lget your jar of economical Penetro.
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WEATHER
eastern Standard Time)
(By U. s. Keather RureauA

eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm, yesterday.
Temperature
1870 am, 80; 1880 am, "a; 1880 pm, 81;
1880 pm, n.
Maximum 50; Minimum 80; Mean 4s:
Normal 81.
Precipitation
Iotal Tor the "a hours ending 1880 pm,
600 inches.
Total since the first of the month
0.60 inches.
Tides For Today
From the Tide Tables published bv
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
High Low
wilmington ------------ SOFA 1O:29a
3:46p 1ll:o5p
Masonboro Inlet ---------- 1:04a 7:18a
l:4lp 8:o7p
Sunrise, 6:53 am; Sunset, sos pm:
Moonrise, 1:17 Pm; Moonset,
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Beau Jack Expects
Release From Arm,

FORT BENN1NG, Ca, Nov. %.
Sidney Walker of Au-
gusta, Ga, known in professional
boxing as Beau Jack, is expected
to be discharged from the Army
in the near future for physical dis
qualifications, Col. John P. Edger-
ly,' commanding officer Of the re.
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B1Jy WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
Did Stomach Ulcer Pains
Mske lack Spratt Eat No Fat!

Modero day Jack Spratts" who eat no
fat because of distress of tonlach or
ulcer pains, indigestion, gas pains, heart
burn, buring sensation, bloat and other
conditions caused by excess acid should
TRIP Udga. Get Csc box of Udga Tablets
from your. druggist. First dose must
convince or return box to us and get
DOUBLE YOUR MONEY BACK. Saun-
ders Drug store and drug stores every
where
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-Four Jap Troopships
Sunk By Yank Fliers
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drawn heavily ON his immedi-
ate reserves to bolster this
line" at LimOn.
Signs of small shipping moving
in and out of Ormoc bay may in
dictate the japanese are attempt
ing to snluggle in reinforcements
by small units under cover of dark
ness, instead of the costly method
of risking large conveys.
In addition to the new toll of
craft in the bay, American fighters
strafed and destroyed more than
40 empty barges beached south of
Ormoc.
Light naval craft, joining the
pa-rol, struck against shipping
along the coast south of Ormoc
and near Pacijan island, which is
midway between Cebu and Ormoc
and within easy barge distance
from both points.
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day. ''e1e' announced :,
who G'1 RS, Ed 5ge2l said that WALL.
p mt}h fame, has been en- 10 5,S cham.
the army. entrance into
line. Inc Gibson, one of San r..
e CT most popular co Sa4 Fran.
the old days, contained 'I AN lis Of
among other ingredients g L onion,
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-12-22
Henry Wiley
Pays Death
Penalty Here
Negro Dies In State
Electric Choir For
Killing White Girl.

The end was written to one of
the most brutal murders in the
crime annals of Pascagoula in the
early morning hours Friday when
Henry Lee Wiley, 22-year-old ne
gro,a went to his death in the
states portable electric chair for
the Staying Of Opal Kicks. Junior
high school girl.
The chair, which was brought
from jackson Thursday was set
up at die Jackson County jail
with the official state execution
er throwing the switch which
sent the deadly charge of electric
ity into the negro's body. He was
declared dead a few minutes lat
er.
This is the first time, the death
penalty has been exacted in the
portable chair in Jackson County.
Calm and hopeful of some stay
of the death sentence up until the
very last, the young negro en-
joyed the chicken and bottle of
beer which he had specified for
his last dinner. During the day
he showed no nervousness, spend
ing his time lying on his bunk in
the Jail and talking to members
of his family who came for final
visits.
Wiley, who had been held in
the mob-proof. escape-proof Jail
in Jackson since his conviction
on the charges of having raped
and murdered the little Kicks
girl in a vacant lot on South Pas
cagoula street, was brought back
TO the Jackson County Jail We'd
nesday by County Highway Pa
trolman Fenifnofe Hudson, Dep
utv Sheriff John r. McNeal and
State Highway Patrolinan Bud
Gray.
confesses Again
Since his original confession
given shortly after his arrest last
February on other charges, Wi
ley has steadfastly claimed in
nocence in connection with the
death of the child and pleaded
not guilty in court but Wednes-
day he broke down and again
outlined details of the crime for
the three officers returning him
for his execution.
Il only got one more day to
live" he told them, land I want
to leave here with a clean slate
His story told on the ride from
Jackson was substantially the
same as that revealed in his con-
fession when he told of waiting
for Opal Kicks to come out of
the picture show on a Friday
night in October. He said he hid
behind a telephone post until
she passed on her way back TO
her home in the government
trailer court and as she drew
abreast of him he jumped out,
grabbed the girl, dragged her
into the underbrush where he
struck her across the head with
a pipe, attacked her and then
strangled her with her own
underwear.
Present for the execution were
witnesses required by the law,
including two practicing physi-
clans; three ministers, one white
and two negroes; Coroner H. A.
Fails; M. D. johnson, iailor;
County Attorney L. X. McIh-
tosh and Officer McNeal, who in
the absence of Sheriff D.. o.
Newman was officer in charge.
Wiley was attended BY the
Catholic priest from Biloxi
Thursday who was sent for at
the condemned mans request.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-12-22

Thomas Jefferson founded the
first state university in the United
States-the University of vir-
ginia.