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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-28
NAZI BUDAPEST
DEFENSE IS SPLIT
BY RUSSIAN DRIVE
CONTINUED from Page One)

There still was no indication f
the size of the German-Hungar. n
group trapped in two pockets -
one comprising the city area and
the other northwest in the great
Danube bend-put thousands of en-
envy troops were being killed or
captured.
Moscow's midnight communicate
early today said the German High
Command had ordered the enemy
garrison. led by Nazi elite guard
units, to resist to the last man.
More than 5000 were killed yes
terday and 1900 captured for a
weeklong total of more than 26,co8
killed or taken prisoner.
-V-
pTYV vxTAD nNNyD~
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-28
LLOYD GEORGE, 81,
PLANS TO RETIRE
Continued from Page One)

1CUHtnIueu ITOUI L age O1107
olrs and other writings and by &C.
casionally popping up to criticize
the government. He has attended
lew sessions of the House in re-
cent years.
Last year IL. g." as he is
known to his intimates, married
his secretary, Frances Louise Stew
enson. His first wife died in 1941.
His home is at Bron Y-De, Churt'
Franham, where he still takes the
long walks which, with his golf,
maintained his health during h S
long public career.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-28
City Briefs
OYSTER ROAST

Members of the Wilmington
Lions club will hold their
weekly meeting in the form of
an oyster roast at 1870 o'clock
tonight at the Harbor Island
USO club, insteal of their
luncheon scheduled at l p. m.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-28
VISITING HOME

Miss Christine Hines of Wash
ington, D. c., is spending the
Christmas holidays with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. C. C.
Hines of Holly Ridge.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-28
SIX JAP WARSHIPS
SUNK BY YANKEES
CONTINUED from Page One)

tCOnt1nutd 1rGm rage OHeJ
destroyers burning from direct
hits.
Pilots took up the chase yester-
day morning, delivering final as
saults. No details of the followup
attacks were available.
The remaining japanese ships
were racing at Is knots westward
into the China Sea.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-28
in FURLOUGH

Pvt. L. F. Hagain who re-
ceived his basic training at
Fort Knox, is spending a short
furl0ugh here with his wife and
two children. He will leave for
the West Coast shortly.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-28

BUY WAR R0NDs AND STAMPS
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-28

Drug Store and drug stores everyw
Evening star., 1944-04-05
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.
HOLLYWOOD.

Most closely watched actor in
town today is Vincent Price, and he
is enjoying his plight thoroughly
Mr.. Price is the angular gentleman
who made hit as the melancholy
prosecutor in THE Song of Berna-
dette" AS a result, he was cast at
once in important roles of two big
pictures at 20th Century-Fox.
This would have been quite all
right under ordinary circumstances
but Mr.. Price suddenly got his call
to serve under Uncle Sam. He's
now on a sort of day-to-day lease
to the studio, and the directors OF
the two films, Wilson" and "The
Keys Of the Kingdom" must re-
arrange schedules so all of Mr.
Prices situations may be shot
There are retakes to be considered
too.
This is simply wonderful
beamed Mr.. Price, strutting up and
down the stage. II never felt SC
important in my ife. Here is John
Stahl shooting just my scenes, ano
Gregory Peck and Rose Stradner
the stars. are waiting around SC
they can be handy. And over there
in the projection room right now
zanuck is running Wilson just tc
see if they've got all Of Price that
they need In it,"
He lifts the long, black shirt of his
cassock, which Is his costume in the
role of Father Angus Mealy, ex-
Evening star., 1944-04-05
Price Enjoys His Moment

tracts a handkerchief and mops his
brow.
I'm also flattered," he adds, "by
the solicitous attention my friends
are giving me. so you're going into
the Navy?' says one. BY the way,
what are you doing about your
carp Another wants to know If I've
disposed of those Eddie Schmidt
suits I had made up month ago.
Still another wants to know If my
house will be up for rent.
II feel like saying, Bud, don't get
me wrong, but might even survive
the war;"
They were doing a retake for "In-
cendiary Blonde" at Paramount,
and with Betty Hutton as the CEN
trail figure in the role Of Texas
Guinan there was good reason for
our curiosity at the hushed silence
enveloping the set. Miss Hutton,
believe it or not, was in the midst
Of tense, dramatic scene, her first
for any medium.
This sequence has Bill Goodwin
as Betty's husband, walking into
her plush dressing room to tell her
that she has become too big a name,
that he is developing an inferiority
complex and that he wants a
divorce.
The blond blitz, who never stands
still a moment on a set, goes all
out here for restraint. She Is giving
1t the real Spencer Tracy underplay.
Betty quietly agrees to the request,
asks only that they always remain
friends. The scene Is finished. Di.
rector George Marshall opens his
mouth to say "Cut," but before the
word is out Hutton has literally
vaulted from her chair.
pistol packin' mama, play that
scene way down. George -Porgie, !"
she rushes over to Marshall, did ]
do 1t for you, did I sell it, am I the
new Garbo?" Marshall laughs with
her, turns to the script girl, tells
her to print the take, turns to Betty
and says, Now in this next scene
want you to play 1t all out. The
show is about to 60 on and I want
you to be loud. Do you think you
can do it?"
Can I do it? Now, the man Is
screaming" Betty is back in her
groove.
lie Roy Prinz, staging the musical
numbers for jamie" at Warner
Bros, looked intently at the Is uni
formed men lined up before him.
The players had been assigned to
parts as soldiers for a party sequence
in the film.
"Hey, pint-size," Prinz called to
a short fellow in the group, come
over here a minute"
The little fellow stepped out of
line.
YOU" said Prinz, "are almost all
right. The uniform fits you. Your
age is okay. You stand erect. You
look like fighter. But we can't
use you. You're too short for SOL
dier."
The candidate looked puzzled. He
pulled himself up to his full five-
feet-four and yanked billfold from
his hip pocket.
"Yeah?" he growled. Uncle Sam
didn't think so. Take a look at my
discharge papers!"
my mistake" apologized Prinz.
you'll do fine"
Evening star., 1944-04-05
Cooper Is Offered
Job by Neishbor
HOLLYWOOD.

| I1o1J1 foND.
Gary Cooper almost lost his gar
dener. At least he would have done
so If the well-to-do woman who re-
Gently bought place near his
Brentwood home had had her way.
The gardener was working around
the place one day recently in bat
tered hat, old sweater, worn dunga-
rees and scuffed shoes when this
woman drove up and fired at him all
in breath:
Il say, maybe T shouldn't do this,
but gardeners are hard to get and
If you aren't satisfied with these peo-
lple I'll pay you more than they pay
| II you'll come and"
At that moment the gardener
Strengthened up, grinned and the
woman looked, gasped in dismay and
fled.
That was the day Gary Cooper
Evening star., 1944-04-05
PALETTE Concludes
312 Pounds Too Much
HOLLYWOOD.

x1o4jL "ON(O,
There seems to BE little doubt
around here as to whether Eugene
Palette will lose or gain weight
when he retires to his Oregon ranch
shortly tor q season Of wood chop
ping.
There was even q little doubt in
his own mind when he told Fibber
MCGEE and Molly Of his plan while
working with them In Heavenly
Days."
I'm going up there after finishing
this picture" he said, "and try to
get my weight down chopping wood.
I'm up to 312 and It's 4 little too
much.
But" he added, "what worries me
Is that wood chopping sharpens a
fellows appetite. And we raise our
own steaks on the ranch"
Evening star., 1944-04-05
Would Repay Loan
HOLLYWOOD.

Blood plasma both cools q fever
and heats a wounded man whose
vitality is low, according to Chris
Drake, ex-marine, now an actor,
This odd fact he established for
himself when receiving transfusions
on two different occasions, when
near deaths door in the Solomons
Wearer of two presidential citations
and the Purple Heart, the medically
Evening star., 1944-04-05
He's a Model Maker
HOLLYWOOD

Like the traditional loafer at the
crossroads store, Gary Cooper spends
his spare time whiting these days.
But there is design to his whiting
in leisure moments on the set Of
Casanova Brown" in which he
stars with Teresa Wright. He's
fashioning PIT" boat, IS inches
over all, from studies Of the fleet
combat craft made during his tour
of South Pacific bases. It'll be a
present to his 6-year-old daughter,
Maria.
Want to send q note to Hitler?
Save waste kitchen fats to make
explosives,
Evening star., 1944-04-05

discharged Drake, while In Pat
OBrien's Marine Raiders" tried to
give blood to the Red Cross blood
bank but was told to wait until in
better condition.
Evening star., 1944-04-05

had q little time on from his starring
stint before the cameras. He was his |,
Iown gardener,
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-11-16
jill. ID. Club Achievement Day
Is Well Attended By Women

Plans for the future as well as
a summary of the work accom-
plished were brought out at the
Achievement Day meeting of the
home demonstration clubs of the
county last Friday at the. COM
munity building.
. In addition to the unusual dis
plays of the clubs showing much
Of their work, reports were CIV
en- by the secretaries revealing
the progress made during the
past year.
Following this, Miss Anna
Rowe, district home agent, dis
cussed plans for the future and
some Of the goals for 1915. Miss
Willie Hunter, clothing specialist,
gave aninteresting talk and show
ed number of pieces of work.
Roy III. Grouse, county agent,
gave a farm progress report show
ing what can be accomplished
with the men and women working
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-11-16
68 Ashe County
Men Go To Camp
Croft For Exams
Most OF Them Return Here
After Successfully Passing
Physical Examinations

Most of the group of 68 Ashe
county young men. who left here
Monday morning for Camp Croft,
S. c., for preinduction examina-
ton, prior to entering military
service have returned with large
percentage of them passing.
Those given examination in
clude the following:
Charles Vernon Arnold, Eugene
Snyder, Robert Cicero Phipps,
Thurman G. Price, Elihu B. Pat
rick, Earl William Greene, Jack
w. Pennington, Vaughn Clark,
Worth Eldreth, Ambrose Jerry o.
borne, Bryan Trivett Greer, Ar
thur Fred Paisley, Jr., Emmett
Franklin Jones, Eddie Mack Davis,
Fred Ham, James Horton Absher,
Gwyn Edward Bowers, Hillman
L. Roark, Mark Stephens Wilson,
Give w. Parker, Dewey Squire
Phillips, Robert Glenn McNeill,
Walter Ford Barker, Glen Ray
Owen. Thomas Odell Wyatt.
Hugh Turner Miller, Eldon Ash
ley, Fred Hart, Jr., James Glen
Norris, Steward James Wilcox,
James Franklin Barr, Joseph Rob-
Continued On Page Four)
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-11-16
Stamps Stolen
In Bold Robbery
Here On Sunday
Coward Oil Company Is En-
tered; OPA Officials Are
Making Check

Early Sunday evening, gasoline
rationing stamps worth around
So, 900 gallons as well as fuel oil
stamps for around $4,000 gallons,
were taken from the Coward Oil
Company by robbers who boldly
smashed in a window.
It was estimated by officials of
the company that the robbery
was committed sometime be-
tween 1880 and HOO p. m. Some
of the officials were in the office
until 1880 and at HOO o'clock,
upon investigating a light, it was
found that a window had been
totally smashed by those enter
ing and that a light had been left
burning.
OPA officials have been check
ing on the case as have local au-
thorities, but it is believed that
those entering wore gloves as no
fingerprints have been discover
ed.
It was pointed out that around
half of the stamps taken were
obsolete and were so stamped by
the Coward Oil company that
they could not be used.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-11-16
Ashe County Farmers Will
Vote On AAA Committeeman

Ashe county AAA election
meetings will be held throughout
Ashe county on Friday, Novem-
Der "a, for the purpose of elect
ing community committeeman to
serve for the next year; according
to T. J. GRAPHICAL, chairman Of the
county AAA committee.
The county convention will be
held on Saturday, November rs,
at which time delegates elected
at the Community meetings will
assemble to name the county
committee for the coming year.
Any farmer who is participating
In the 1914 Agricultural Conser-
walton Program as owner, opera
tor, share tenant, or sharecropper
may vote in the community in
which the farm is located. This
means obtaining materials, or be-
ing eligible for payments for car
rying out soil-building practices
under the Agricultural Conserva-
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ton Program. Receiving a dairy
production payment, or partici-
pating in the hurley tobacco con-
troll program does not qualify a
farmer to, vote in a community
AAA' election, Mr.. GRAPHICAL said.
All community election, meet
ings will be held at $3.50 o'clock
p. m, on Friday, November "A,
Mr.. GRAPHICAL stated. Below is a
list of communities and the meet
ing place selected in each COM
munity:
Ashland, Ashland school house;
Baldwin, Bethany church; Buffa-
10, Buffalo school; Chestnut Hill
Chestnut Hill voting place; Cliff
ton, Clifton voting place; Creston
Creston church; Crumpler, Heal
ing Springs high school; Elk, Elk
land high school; Fleetwood
Fleetwood school; Glendale
Springs, Glendale Springs school
IContinued on Page ~
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-11-16
West Jefferson
Planning To Buy
Fire Truck Soon
Meeting Of Citizens Al d
Board OF Aldermen Held
Last Friday

At a meeting of the town Off
Gals and a-large group Of repre-
sentative citizens last Friday
night, definite plans were made
to purchase a fire truck and 9th
er badly needed fire-fighting
equipment in the near future.
After an open discussion of the
matter the group voted unani-
mously to empower the board OF
aldermen to secure the needed
equipment.
The need was cited by everyone
as well as the Importance of the
town securing the equipment
now.
It is understood that while the
equipment will be owned and
operated by the town of West
jefferson, that it will be used to
help nearby sections, when posi-
bic.
Mayor c. o. Parsons expressed
his appreciation for the fine CO.
operation shown in fighting the
fire.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-11-16
Election
Returns Given

The. official returns Il the re-
tent election are published by
precincts elsewhere in this pa
per. These returns were certi-
fled by the board of elections,
which met last Thursday.
H. H. Lemly is chairman of the
board and serving with him were
Fred Cook and Emmett Stanley.
The official counts as certified by
this board are slightly different
from initial returns published
last week. Other than that of
the U. S. Senate and congress, the
Republicans carried other offices.
The county's vote on the state Of
fees was close, however, with as
little a margin as only three votes
in some cases.
Chairman Lemly said counts
(Continued On Page Four
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-11-16
Merchants Must
File Prices Now
Forbidden To Sell Outwear
Garments For Women,
Children Without Filing

A number of sellers of woman's
girls, children's and toddlers'
outwear garments have not yet
filed adequate pricing charts with
the Charlotte District Office Of
Price Administration, it was sta
ted this week by members of the
apparel price panel of Ashe coun-
ty War, Price and Rationing
Board.
Even though a pricing chart
has been filed by the merchant
and returned for correction by
the District OPA," an official
pointed out, lit is not considered
that filing requirements of the
regulation have been met until
acknowledgement is given by the
district office that the pricing
chart is correct"
Attention was called to the rul-
ing which forbids selling of such
commodities on and after No.
vember IS, unless correct pric-
ing chart acknowledgement has
been received.
It was pointed out that the To-
cal price clerk and members OF
the price panel would be glad to
assist the merchants with any
question or problem in connection
with the pricing charts.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-11-16
Rotary To Hold
Inter.City Meet

Most Of the members Of the
members Of the Jeffersons Rotary
Club will attend an inter city
meeting at North Wilkesboro next
Tuesday night when the Rotary
clubs of Taylorsville, Statesvi1le,
MooreSville and West Jefferson
will hold a joint meeting. Guests
will also be invited from Elkin,
Wilkesboro and Boone.
The meeting for the local club
next week has been abandoned
because of Thanksgiving. :
Last Thursday night Rev. B. A.
Meeks gave very interesting talk
on 'Dignifying Ones Own Voca-
ton" He was introduced by the
program chairman, A. B. Hurt.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-11-16
II Jap Ships Sunk;
Both Americans And
Russians MakeCains
u. IS. Airmen Shoot Down %
japanese Planes In The
Pacific Area

American Third Fleet carrier
planes sank or damaged IA Jap
anese ships and one floating dock,
shot down % planes and strafed
100 more in renewed raids on the
Manila area Sunday.
The enemy counterattacked
the carrier task group but no
American ships were damaged,
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz an
nounced in a communique yester-
day.
The powerful Fortress ring
around Metz, impregnable to
frontal assault of any war since
the fifth century, was preached
Tuesday by U. S. Third Army
doughboys who swept within two
miles of the city and stormed
last-ditch German defenses after
capturing six fortified towns and
the huge but dismantled bastion
of L'Yser.
On the Allied north flank, the
British Second Army opened a
tremendous, twilight drive in
Eastern Holland toward the Ruhr
Valley behind an earth-quaking
barrage from 400 guns and smash
ed almost seven miles of the
Continued on Page Four)
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-11-16

together for the Improvement of
the farm and home.
Mrs. Ward Ray, president, was
in charge of the meeting and
prizes contributed by business
firms were awarded by Miss Dor
is Whitesides. Prizes went to the
following: Clothing, first place,
Glendale Springs; second, Idle
wild; honorable mention, Grassy
Creek and Brandon. First prize
in foods went to Silas Creek, Sec
ond to Peak Valley; general, first
prize to Baldwin second to Heal
ing Springs.
In the dress review in which
there were ID women taking part,
Mrs. Worth Gentry, of Baldwin
and Miss Margaret Howell, of
Warrensville, tied. The attend
ance prize of $500 went to Glen
dale Springs, with fifteen men,
bers present.
TContinued on Page Four)
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-11-16
THANKSGIVING DINNER
AT JEFFERSON CHURCH

Members of the Jefferson Pres
byterian and Methodist churches,
as well as other denomination,
will hold a joint meeting at the
Methodist Church, on Thanksgiv-
ing day, at HOO o'clock, a. m,
with Rev. B. A. Meeks delivering
the sermon, it has been announced
by Rev. R. G. Wagonr, pastor of
the Jefferson Methodist church.
After the service a covered dish
dinner will be served. Everyone
is urged to be present.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-11-16
War Fund Drive
Remarks Needed
ByIai1.1nan Nov
All Schools, Churches And In.
dividuals Urged To Turn
In Reports

A. B. Hurt, chairman of the
United War Fund Drive, said yes
terday that a number of reports
had not yet been turned in on the
United War Fund Drive and that
these were needed at once in Or
der to determine the amount still
lacking on the quota.
All schools are particularly urg-
ed to send in their quotas. "These
quotas assigned the schools must
be raised and turned in before
we reach the overall quota" Mr..
Hurt declared.
It is believed that when reports
are all in from the various work
ers and organizations, that the
county will be near the quota of
100000.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-11-16
More Ashe County
Men Are Reported
Casualties OF War
One Killed, Several Missing
In Action And Others Are
Wounded

War continues to come nearer
to more and more Ashe county
people as the casualty lists for
the county mounts.
Sgt. Ellis H. Kemp, son of Mr..
and Mrs. J. A. Kemp, of Smeth-
port, was reported killed in &C
ton in France on September IA,
according to a message received
by his wife, the former Miss Nora
of Oregon. He had serv-
ed with the Army Air Corps over
seas for the past eight months
and had been in service for fiji
teen months.
A memorial service was held
on Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o.
clock at the Mt. Paddy Church of
Christ in Christian Union for him.
George Horace Reeves, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Reeves, of Alb
erdeen, Md, formerly Of this
county, has been reported missing
in action somewhere in France,
since October 20, according to in
formation received here by rela-
tives. He has been in service for
eleven months and overseas since
September /.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. r. Lewis have
been notified by the War Depart
ment that their son, Pvt. William
w. Lewis was slightly wounded in
Continued on Page Four)
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-11-16
Former Ashe Man
Killed In Wash.

Charles Speaks, Sc, who was
accident1y killed on October 80,
by a cable while at work in the
lumber business, at his home in
Moclips, Wash, was brought here
for burial last Thursday, Novem-
Der 9. Services were conducted
by Elder Ed Davis and Elder G.
D. Hall at the Burkett cemetery.
Mr.. Speaks, who was a native
of this county, was preceded in
death by his wife several years
ago. He is survived by his mo-
Their, Mrs. Sarah Jane Speaks and
the following brothers: Freil
Speaks and Robert Speaks, of
West Jefferson and John Speaks,
of New London, Conn.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-11-16
Mrs. Mary Wyatt
Buried Sunday

Funeral service was conducted
at the home on Sunday afternoon,
at 2:30 o'clock, for Mrs. Mary
Wyatt, "a, of Wagner, who died
on Friday, November 10, after
being ill for some time. Rev. John
Luke conducted the service and
burial was held at the Miller
cemetery.
Mrs. Wyatt, who was preceded
in death by her husband, Joseph
R. Wyatt, is a native of this coun-
ty, the daughter Of Joseph Bare
and Margaret Woodie Bare. She
is survived by one daughter, Zet-
ia Wyatt.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-11-16
SPECIAL CHILDREN'S
: WAR BOND FEATURE

I'm connection with the Sixth
Var Loan Drive, which opens
Monday, this paper win sponsor
D special feature for children,
in cooperation with the nation
wide plan, stressing ''Baby
Bonds"
The Post will issue Walt Dis
ney certificates to all children
under five years old, for whom
bonds Of any size are purchased
here. The applications must
be written through this paper,
however, it was explained.
Bonds of $4,000 or more
bought for any child under ten
years of age will entitle them
to have their picture published
i'm this paper under the heading
of the "children's honor roll. "
Applications for these must al
so be taken through this paper.