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In an appeal for increased con-
tributions to the war effort, the
Right Rev. Thomas c. Darst, bish-
op of the East Carolina diocese,
declared last night that 1--WE not
only have to buy bonds but we've
got to keep bonds, and God pity
us if we aren't big enough to do
anything and everything within
our power to keep this War from
going on one minute longer than IS
absolutely necessary"
Bishop Darst, speaking at the
war bond movie premier at the
Bailey theater, assailed the CASH
ing in of bonds soon after their pur-
chase.
(The audience represented over
1856, 381 in bonds, according to an
announcement at the gathering).
Long lines of people cashing
bonds are a disgrace to America,
Bishop Darst continued. saying
that the war had never impressed
him so tremendously until he talk
ed to returning soldiers.
During the first few days Of the
Sixth War Loan Drive. there were
more bonds cashed in than were
bought in the City of Wilmington.
]. C. Thornton, co-chairman of the
New Hanover County War Bond
c. .nmittee, said in a talk to the
Rotary club yesterday
We are now faced with one Of
the most important things that has
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-06
Javcees Announce Plans
For Waste Paper Drive

An about drive to clear Whining
ten homes of all waste paper was
announced last night by the Will
mington Junior Chamber of Com
n1erce.
The Jaycees have secured the
use of 16> large trucks and will be-
e1n a complete coverage of the
city and suburban communities
early Sunday morning. The public
is urged to place all scrap paper
in bundles at the front of their
homes and a crew will arrive some
time during the day to accept it.
Proceeds from the sale OF the
paper will be donated to the New
Hanover county tuberculosis Asso-
citation, the Jaycees said.
A general headquarters will be
organized to expedite the collec-
tons and a dispatcher will route
the trucks through the city and
suburbs. All paper must be placed
within sight of the truck crews as
the size of the area involved will
prohibit a house. toulouse canvass.
Members of the campaign COM
nittee stressed the importance OF
waste paper to the war effort and
urged the cooperation of the pub
lie in this civic project. Late risers
were asked TO place their waste
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Bishop Darst Appeals
For Purchase WBonds

ever faced our civilization, Bishop
Darst declared.
He told of conversation he. had
yesterday with two Marines who
had returned from overseas. When
he asked the boys what he should
say in his speech last night, one OF
them said, tell 'en that our boys
are still fighting and dying over
there and that this isn't going to
be a short war. They've got to keep
on fighting and dying.
Our sons are fighting for the
same ideals that our fathers fought
for, the Bishop continued, saying
"you and I want to keep the Amer
lea they fought for a reality -
want it to stand forever
He related story of wounded
Marine who had returned home
and was unhappy because he did
not find the homefolks behind the
war effort as he had expected.
The Bishop said the disillusioned
Marine said that to him it seemed
that business was going along as
usual and that he had seen people
who seemed glad that the war was
on because they were making
more money than ever before. The
Marine added, Bishop Darst con-
tinued, that he had been told that
churches were filled with people
praying for the fighting men but
Continued on Page Three; Col. g.
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paper on the street Saturday night
as the trucks are expected to be.
gin their rounds at an early hour.
The truck crews will consist Of
Jaycee members with the excep-
ton of few volunteer drivers.
Due to the gas shortage, it will
be impossible to make more than
one trip to specific locality this
weekend but the drive will con-
tinue with another collection day
to be announced later.
Results of the days collection
will be announced in the Whining.
ton Morning Star of Monday.
The campaign was planned to
supplement the sale of H e a h
Bonds for tuberculosis education,
and prevention and to aid in the
Nations war effort.
The suburban areas to be GOV.
cred include the following: Maj.
fit Village, Princess Place, Win
ter Park, Forest Hills. Kenwood,
Chestnut Heights, Greenbrook,
Brookwood Glen Arden, Oleander.
Colonial Village, Sunset Park, Sum-
mer Hill. Piney Woods, Audubon.
Lake Side Park and Highwood
Park.
Continued on Page Ten; Col. u
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81 NAN PLANES
FALL ON BERLIN
Yank Pilots, In Big Raid,
Get 81 Ratio In
Losses

LONDON Dec. 5. -(P)- Amerl-
can fighter pilots, shooting down
Nazi planes at the rate of better
than 81 over Berlin today, sent
81 MAJ aircraft hurting down in
flames on the German capital
along with 1900 tons of bombs
dropped by more than 500 Flying
Fortresses.
Twelve bombers out of some $50
which hit the Berlin area as we'll
as the big rail center of Munster,
so miles north of the Ruhr indus
trial region, are missing. Twenty
two fighters failed to return to
their British bases, but a. least II
of them are believed to have land
ed in France.
Churning through leaden skies,
the escorting fighters in Is min
utes dispersed the waves OF Nazl
planes t t c k n 6 the bomber
spearhead. The sky was cleared of
enemy planes when the second for
nation of heavy bombers appear
ed.
The heavy overcast forced bonn
bardiers to aim by instrument.
Most of the attack was conferred
on the capitals great industrial
suburb of Tegel on the northwest
rerimeter of the city. Tegel has
been transformed into Germany S
most important military depot,
jammed with nunition works and
aircraft engine and tank factories.
Flax was reported heavy but no
as intense as usual over Berlin.
Without encountering fighter op'
position, another force of 400 Lib
orators and escorts attacked the
railroad yards at Munster, 81
niles north of the Ruhr industrial
region. Munster is the hub of five
main lines supplying h battle
front.
Raj Lancasters, guarded by
Mustangs and Spitfires, hammer
ed Germany's largest railway yard
a. Hamm, 80 miles south of Mum
sier with 5000 tons of explosive.
Only one plane was lost with the
supporting fighters claiming at
least three of 10c Nazi intercept
ors. It was the first heavy British
attack ON Hamm.
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STATE DEPARTMENT
CHOICES OPPOSED
BY MANY SENATOR'S

WaSHINGTON. Dec. S. Up =
Prospects of a Senate fight over
President Roosevelt's four appoint
nents to the reorganized State De-
partment developed rapidly to-
I.ht
Earlier. all four were approved
By the Senate Forengn Relations
Cmmittee. two with opposition.
Senator George D-Ga). a COM
nittee member, predicted ulti-
mate confirmation Of the quartet.
Bipartisan objection was voiced
in the Senate to the appointment
d Archibald Macleish, librarian of
Congress. as an assistant secre-
lary Of State. OPPOSITION also was
Hsed to the appointments of Jo-
&n c Grew to be undersecre-
i'E. Nelson Rockefeller and Will
Clayton to be assistants, and the
expected appointment of James c.
Ulnn to a prospective new assis-
ialtS post.
AacleiSh's standing as a poet
vas called into question in Sen
lie discussion of the appointments.
Senator Clark DINO served no.
lice that he would move tomor.
SE TO return Maclelsh's nominal
l@ TO committee for further
hearings on MS qualifications. -
-sl4er, he called the appointment
one Of the worst that could have
ben made" V
Senator Wheeler D-MonD in.
'ated: DO you mea mine poet?"
I'D you ever see any of his
poenS IN any anthology" Clark
@ Ike in reply.
MalFman Connally D-Tex; said
Sl Vandenberg (R-Mich),
Dle lR-Me) and La Toilette
VI. r'oS,Wls) joined Clark in the
ssv ~. n in opposing Macleish
~. ''ndenberg later told report.
w lie was not sure he would vote
ssdl1St confirmation.
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ly buttressing their flanks for con-
tinuing drives either northwest
into Austria or northeast on Buda-
pest.
In addition, they captured the
strategic rail junction of SzigetVar
ir southwest Hungary 80 miles
northeast of Zagreo, in southwest
lunge toward Yugoslavia across
lines of communication needed by
an estimated 100000 Germans try
ing to retreat from western Yugo-
slavia.
A broadcast Moscow commu-
nique said the Russians captured
more than 120 populated places be-
tween Lake Balaton and the Drava
river frontier of Yugaslovia.
A Swiss radio report heard in
London declared Russian tanks
had reached the Austrian frontier
but did not specify at what point.
The information was attributed to
reports from Moscow given by a
British correspondent"
In Yugoslavia a drive by Rus
sian and Yugoslav Partisan for
ces netted them Ilok on the Dan
ube so miles northwest of Bel
grade and ~ miles in the same
direction from captured Mitrovica.
The German agency DNB said
these forces now were attempting
to win the strategic communica-
tons center of Vinkovci, % miles
northwest of Ilok. A Nazi military
commentator added that the Rus
slams won bridgenead near Dali,
across the Danube Il miles above
Vinkovci.
DNB viewed these operations as
''the first attempt to push into
Serbia and Croatia and threaten
the rear communications of Ger
man forces retreatng northWard
in YugoslaVia.
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Churchill Declares
Army Set ToBlock
reekCommunists
,,r AKER INTERRUPTED
,.l,tiions With Russia May
Re- Involved, He
Declares

, Mini A.o Minister Churchill as
E llad today TO-DAY; that the British
s '.s,T stood ready to crush
a 'ar ,revolt aimed at setting un
%" communist dictatorship"
in Greece .,o ,u;,, b ,vs ,
Ins Inc. u 10 choose the form OF gov
chalVs W. tbev want-Whether mon
s'nn ns renublic, right-wing or left
T,n wing: said ~, : ,oo.a
n,me Minister'S declaration
the .. ttn it as a possible keystone
Ns 3sri+sin's policy towards liber-
u D-- Countries in its military
isa .re~even as some British left
1 '?ns-f factions accused the govern
m Ttp Of siding with rightlst 1orces'
bloc Of Laborite members
a for an immediate + u | l.
p p.ass debate after the Prime Min
u :u.or cat down. The House speaker
l -st',,sd TO accept their motion,
s sol saying, Il will be quite
t tsok. regard this matter as com
II ing s'' very close to an operation OF
war.
i times and even while he was
soe,kns. Fenner Brockway, politi-
ri secretary of the radical indie
nprdent Labor party, accused the
british government of siding with
The right against the left in
Greece,
The consequences may be seri-
nus he warned. Relations with
Russia may be involved
The Communist London D a ] y
Continued or Page Ten; Col. s.
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Is U. S. CONVICTS
IN ATLANTA REBEL
AND SEIZE GUARDS

ATLANTA, Dec. 5.-(R-Approz-
imately Is long term prisoners
were barricaded tonight in the At
lanta Federal prisons segregation
building, holding four officers as
hostages and keeping large num-
Der of other prisoners under their
control.
Director of Prisons James V.
Bennett of Washington, who was
or the scene, said the rebelling
convicts were net armed and that
none of the hostages had been in
Tured. He declined to name either
the hostages or any of the ring
leaders in the uprising.
Bennett said the men seized the
building, a large structure,
night. He declined. for the present,
to give any details.
Earlier, Warden Joseph w. San
ford issued a formal statement say
ing ut has been impossible so far,
10 learn exactly the cause. Of the
difficulty, except that some objec-
tion has been made to the quarter
ing of German saboteurs and spies
in the same building. Naturally,
they are also protesting their Gown
segregation"
"All of the men who apparently
are involved are long term prison
ers who have been difficult cases
over considerable period OF
time" the statement continued"
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BRITAIN WARNED
ON INTERFERENCE
u. S. Says European Peo-
pie Should Choose Own
Government

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.-LR-The
United States today pointedly told
Britain and indirectly Russia
that European peoples should be
allowed to work out their own gov
ernments without interference.
The notice, given in statement
issued by the State Department,
was interpreted to mean that this
Government is sticking one foot
tentatively in the door of Euro
pean politics.
The declaration applied specifi-
cally to Italy. 1t was given the
widest possible application. how
ever, by the concluding sentence
which said that while we oppose
"outside'' interference in Italy
this policy would apply to an ev-
en- more pronounced degree with
regard to governments of the Unit
ed Nations in their liberated te--
ritories''
1t was the first declaration OF
foreign policy issued since Secre-
tary Stettinius took charge. Stet-
tinius told a news conference that
he had worked hard on the state.
ment.
Diplomats studied it with a view
to its possible application to
Greece, Belgium, Poland and 9th.
er countries whose governments
recently have been involved in pc.
itical upheavals. There is an in.
creasing tendency here to interpret
these conflicts as kind of con-
test for power between Britain and
Russia, with these big nations
seeking to promote developments
in the smaller countries which
would favor their own interests.
In the case of Italy the situa-
ton is complicated by h fact
that the country is still subject
to the controls imposed on a de-
feated foe though it has attained
full diplomatic recognition and the
technical status of .'ce-belliger-
ency.'.
One reason behind today's blunt
statement by the State Depart
ment is dissatisfa ction here over
tactics used by the British in
making an issue OF an individual
and also in acting independently
of the United States in an area
of joint control. American officials
consider that this was not only a
violation of Allied procedures, but
also that it retarded the very
thing which the United States
wants in Italy. which is to develop
political independence Of choice on
the part of the Italians themselves.
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U.S.. MUNITIONS
SHIP EXPL0DES
Mount Hood Lost In Acct
dental Blast AT Pacific

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.-lRHThe
3, 1888 ton naval ammunition h i p
Mount Hood was lost when it &C
cidentally blew up at an advanced
base in the Central Pacific, the
Navy reported today.
A communique also disclosed the
sinking of three small naval YES
sells and a motor torpedo boat as
result of enemy action in the
Pacific. -
Commander Harold Agnew Tur-
manding officer of the Mount Hood,
ner, Sc, of Palm City, Calf, COM
was reported missing.
No other details of loss of life on
the Mount Hood were given, and
no estimate of the ships compile
ment was available.
The vessels lost to enemy action
were the motor mine sweepers
YMS 10 and YMS 1856, with a nor
NAL complement of about 20 men
each, the Landing Craft Infantry
(gunboaD 459, with a normal COM
plement of about 30, and the motor
torpedo boat PIT 1863. with nor
NAL complement of about r..
There was no loss of life on the
Lei 459, the Navy saiG.
Commanding officers Of all the
vessels except the Mount Hood sur
vived.
The Navy made public an inter-
view with 1t. John Keys Mahaffey
of Pittsburgh, commander of the
YMS 10, who said three men Were
killed outright and five others and
an officer were lost in the sinking
of his vessel. The craft struck a
submerged japanese mine Septem-
Der "a while engaged in sweeping
operations off Angaur islands.
'It looked like an explosion in a
lumber yard,'' Mahaffey said.
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. ' w tdewater Construction Co.,
f.; 'V,tolh, yes erday was award
49, lazy certificate of common
CF Cl y Captain Kirby Smith,
I'm n oSNR, Bureau OF Yards
rs,,;p DOCKS, Navy Department,
d t .I al the commissioning
b. + Any, eighth and last drydock to
4pn lctilple ed by Tidewater, h e
,-a Nuas for Vice Admiral Ben
upsbl bureau chief, who was
Cant : 10 attend the ceremonies,
cs rp'' :. smith presented the certifi
Den.,.rm recognition by the Navy
neat u'iehr OF this company S
fort > 'oh'flbutlon to the war ef-
ia s@ up officials last night said
within VIC yafd viii be discontinued
hsr va month or six weeks and
will bsIIoIolns to present plans, it
tl disnoolis to the Navy and will
T5 rpoSed Of by them.
b. j. evidence Of an outstanding
trcEs mere l IN these excellent dry.
a %nlch you have completed
Goveroe'ly reasonable cost, to the
he s.n. neh( and in approximately
tesoro n llme as originally set
lug ov, me handicap caused by tax.
''ef the work when it was
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laps Repulsed
OnOrmocRoad:
Destroyer Sunk

GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS. Philippines, Wednes-
day, Dec. g. R Using powerful
bazookas, American ground forces
turned back tank supported jap
anese attack Sunday night on the
roadblock established on the Or
moe highway a mile and a half
south of the Leyte river bridge be-
low Limon.
This futile attempt of the enemy
to break out northward from the
restricted Ormoc area was an
nounced today by Gen. Douglas
Macarthur along with the destruc-
ton of a japanese destroyer and
five small freighters by Leyte bas-
ed warplanes.
The Nipponese destroyer was
sunk off Bataan, the communique
said. In other thrusts, Yank planes
harassed a cluster of enemy air
dromes at Manila.
Adverse weather continued to re-
tard the American advance in the
Ormoc valley, but local gains on
ridges south of Limon were noted.
In stabs at Borneo, American air
units sank 3,000-ton tanker and a
small freighter. Three of 16 Japa-
nese intereceptors were shot down.
The japanese are being slowly
pushed into the Ornoc area. on
the western side of the island. The
headquarters reported Nov. q that
enemy resistance in the corridor
was steadily decreasing.
American ground forces cleared
the Japanese from by-passed
mountain positions and strong
points on Leyte island today await
ing the lifting of tropical rains
wnen they can unleash the final
phase of their offensive to drive
the enemy from the island.
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First Yank Aircraft
Lands On Newly-Won
Air Strip At Bhamo

NEW DELHI, Dec. 5.-'R-The
first plane of the Tenth U. S. Army
Air Force landed today on the new
lyyWon Bhamo air strip in Burma
only 500 yards behind the Chinese
38th Division troops who are spear
heading the drive southwark.
A Southeast Asia command COM
nunique said that British E t
African troops had crossed the
Chindw;n river from Kalewa and
advanced about mile against jap
anese opposition, while British 36th
Division patrols thrust southwark
more than two miles along h e
railway sou-h of Pinwe without en-
ccuntering the enemy.
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HillmQn Hints PAC
May Become World
Labor Unit Pattern

LONDON, Dec. s. tR Sidney
Hillman. CLIO labor leader, took
his organization Political Action
Committee into the field of inter
national affairs today. He limited
that it might become the pattern
and part of az similar, world
wide labor group to guard the fu-
ture peace.
1--WE must have an organization
to express ourselves on world af-
fairs, ne told press conference.
Here for a preliminary meeting
with British trade union officials
to arrange the agenda for an in
ternational labor conference in
February, Hillman declared that
American labor was solidly behind
the idea of postwar international
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BROUGHTON URGES
MUTUAL AID PLAN
IN TWO CAROLINAS

COLUMBIA, S. c., Dec. 5.-RE
Governor ]. M. Broughton of North
Carolina told the Columbia Cham
Der of Commerce tonight that if
the two Carolinas are to preserve
their positions of dominance in
certain economic fields after the
war "a program of closer coopera-
ton and mutual assistance must
be inaugurated and maintained
The two states, he said, 'togeth-
er occupy a dominant position in
the textile fields; they share mu-
tually in the advantage of hydro
electric resources, water transpor-
tation and many other trade and
commercial advantages of recipro-
cal character.
But he added that in the cotton
and textile fields 'our problems
are almost identical AS two great
cotton-growing states we are con-
(Continued on Page Three; Col. ~
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British Tanks
Dispense Elias
In Hard Fight
Greek Liberal Head SAYS
England Vetos Change
In Regime
ATHENS. Dec. s.

ATHENS, Dec. 5. =
Fierce fighting continue in
Athens today as the Elias,
fighting force of the left
wing Fam, national LIBERIA
ton Front Party, laid siege to
various police barracks and
were dispersed by British
tanks and Greek mountain
brigade troops.
Meanwhile, Themistokles Sophou-
lis, 85-year-old dean of the Greek
Liberal party, charged that Prime
Minister Churchill, through instruc-
tons to British diplomats h r e,
had vetoed replacing Premier
George Papandreou in a change of
government which might have solv-
ed the nations crisis.
He said Churchill had sent word
that replacing Papandreou was
impossible
Among ELIAS prisoners taken in
today's fighting were some Ger
mans, but it was not proved wheth-
er they were political agents or
merely deserters from the Nazis.
ELIAS units repeatedly are as
sembling in various outlying parts
os the country and preparing to
march on the capital.
1t still seems touch and 90 wheth.
err an attempted ELIAS coup d'etat
will succeed. The British may en-.
force the napandreou government S
control of Athens. but the provinces
present formidable problem
Rlght-wing groups. including Mon
archists, which had been lying low
Until the present crisis, have come
out in the open, embarrassingly
supporting the government and the
British.
A communique issued by Maj
Gen. p. M. Scobie, commander Of
British forces in Greece, today re-
vealed that British tanks had fired
Continued on Page Three; Col. s.
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recapture of the city of Saar-
lantern. The broadcast was
heard by the Blue Network.
SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TIERS ALLIED EXPEDl-
TIONARY FORCE, PARIS,
Dec. 5.-(P)-The American
Third Army forced a new
crossing of the Saar south OF
Saarlautern today and other
Yanks pressed eastward be-
yond that arsenal city as the
Allies wound up their first
six months of the Western in
vasion with five armies fight
ing on German soil. Two 9TH
ers are hammering at the
Recih's Rhine river boundary.
Battlefront dispatches said tn
95th Division of 1t. Gen. George
IS. Patton's Third Army sent troops
across the Saar south of Saarlaut-
ern and into the outposts of the
Siegfried Line. Other units Of the
same division s a b b beyond
Saarlautern and expanded their or
iginal bridgehead, which now is at
least IL miles wide at its base.
Special details continued mopping
up operations in Saarlautern itself.
The wheeling operation all along
the Third Army front south of
lSaarlautern continued Associated
Press Correspondent Lewis Haw-
lins said the doughboys advanced
up to three miles, pressing with
in six miles Of the great industrial
Continued on Page Ten; Col. y
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Russians Are so Miles
From Border OfAustriQ

LONDON, Dec. 5-lP)-The Red army drove within
so miles Austria today with the capture of Marca eight
miles below the southwest of Lake Baaon in Hun
gary.
Against sagging German opposition the Russians es-
tabshed themselves on front least 80 miles long the
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Force
New Crossing Of
Saar River Line
PATTON HOLDING Y
4O-MILE FRONT
Five Yank Armies On Nazi,
Soil Six Months After
D-Day

NEW YORK, Dec. 5.-The
German radio tonight claimed
recapture of the city of Saar-
lantern. The broadcast was
heard by the Blue Network.
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FORECAST

>,.,tb Cardinal Mostly cloudy today
OCCASIONAL light rain In west
portion.