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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28

issue had "organized" measure
of unrest" in Canada, 'the like of
which never before has been
seen,'' and declared that this de-
velopment, erupt n 6 in recent
weeks, was a factor along with
changing conditions abroad which
had led his government in an 18th
hour decision last week to abandon
its historic voluntary policy and
institute partial Consumption for
service overseas.
Drawing boldly the historic diff
ferences which have existed be-
tween French-speaking n d Eng
disappearing Canada since the
country was first settled, the
Prime Minister quoted Sir John A..
Macdonald, the first premier I'M
er confederation, as saying in 1925
that the differences between upper
Canada and lower Canada - the
modern Ontario and Quebec-were
SO great that anarchy impended.
The house was hushed as King
added that the same remarks were
applicable today
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
SOCIAL INSURANCE
PLAN TO BE GIVEN
TO NEW CONGRESS

WASHINGTON, Nov. II. III -
The Administration disclosed to-
day it will present to the new
Congress a proposal for vastly ex-
banded Social Security coverage.
The disclosure was made even
as the Administration encountered
burst of opposition in formally
asking Congress to let the Social
Security tax double on January l,
as provided by law.
A. J. Altmeyer, security board
chairman, took the Administra-
tons views before the House Ways
and Means Committee.
He later gave reporter a brief
outline of his impending recon-
mendations, as follows:
/. Social insurance. compre-
|hensve system of compensation
for part of the involuntary loss OF
earnings suffered by workers due
to sickness and disability.
2 Old age and survivors insur.
ance-coverage to be extended to
agricultural workers, domestic
workers in private homes, employ.
es of nonprofit organizations and
self-employed persons.
3. Administration Of unemploy-
ment insurance, now in state
hands, should be made a federal
responsibility.
4. A federal system of medical
and disqualification benefits.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
ROOSEVELT PLANS
VACATION; HINTS
Of A SURPRISE

WASHINGTON, Nov. d. lR -
President Roosevelt prepared to.
night to take a vacation. It was
eXpec. ed to be entirely off the rec.
ord, as long as it lasts.
The President told reporters he
might 60 to almost any point -
north, east, south or west. He said
usplanS were somewhat in a state
Of lux and added crypticelly that
ne might surprise everybody.
what that surprise might be, he
ao not Indicate. But there was no
animation that the holiday might
pend at the latter end into another
Roosevelt Churchill Stain con.
ference On plans for war and peace.
Inc Chief Executive has said sew.
sa times that the big three hoped
" get together again as soon as
possible.
win fresh haircut and dressed
NJ neat grey suit, MI. Roosevelt
@ohed lit today when he called re.
M.efS IN for an informal news
.ulefehce to tell them he had &C.
.sp.ed the resignation of Secretary
Of State Hull.
n.
LIE President has had no vaca.
VOL since spring.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
Gen. Hurley Is Named
Ambassador To China,
Succeeding {. E. Gauss

WASHINGTON. Nov. d. Up -
Mai. Gen. Patrick j. Hurley was
nominated by President Roosevelt
today for one OF the nations tough.
est diplomatic assignments, am
bassador to China.
Hurley is taking over the post
Clarency Gauss gave UP at the
time Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell was
pulled out of China-Burma com.
naand after a clash with the Chi
nese leader, Chang Kai-shek.
Hurley, a jack of all trades who
has handled many secret assign
nlents for the President since the
war began, already is in Chung.
king with Donald M. Nelson, for.
mer War Production Board chief
irving to speed up China's wal
efforts.
The 61-year-ol6 soldiers CHIEF
task, once the Senate formally ap-
proves his nomination as ambas.
sador, will be to key the dynamic
American strategy with the Grip.
pied Chinese war machne-with.
out ruffling Chinese feelings.
Hurley, whose colorful career
spans services as soldier, states
man and diplomat, has had lot
Of experience with tough and
touchy problems.
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ton of the Liberals of Quebec of
which I am the head"
King, in a vigorous and often
fiery address which lasted nearly
three hours, made it plain that he
intended to hew to his present
course and stake the life of his
nine-year-old regime on the issue.
He moved as a question of conf
dence that the House support his
government Sin it's policy of main
tanning a vigorous war;"
A vote is expected later in the
week.
Throughout the address, deliver
eo before a Parliament gathered
in special session under one of the
most serious crises in Canada
modern history. King stressed his
view that tn CONSUMPTION issue
has 50 divided the country that
Canadian unity and strength have
been, endangered perhaps "for
generations to come"
The Prime Minister charged that
his opponents on the conscription
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
County War Loan Total
Set At $1,381,4O5 As
W Business Day Friday

Purchases by county residents
in the Sixth War Loan drive have
increased to 81, 1881, 405.25, as of the
business day last Friday, accord.
ing to reports of the Federal Re.
serve bank in Richmond.
Individuals had purchased a to.
tai of $538,505.25 in series E, F,
and G bonds during the first four
days of the drive.
eve want our county to have its
best war bond showing yet" cam
paign officials said. "Now that we
have made a good start, there is
no reason why the goal can't be
reached and over-subscribed by a
large margin.
During every war loan drive
the county has reached its goa
and established an outstanding re.
cord" they said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
County Okays Purchase
Of$5O,O0O In US. Bonds

road section, near the Wrightsville
turnpike west of Winter Park, be
carried gu in order that property
owners in that secion might prop
erly drain fields and other real es-
tate.
The matter was referred to the
chairman, Addison Hewlett, for
consideration.
A request from residents Of Bry-
an avenue, also located west OF
Winter Park on the Wrightsville
turnpike, asked that repairs to the
stree be effeced. Bryan avenue
was said to be filled with holes
and ruts. This was also referred to
the chairman for investigation.
The monthly report of James
Walker Memorial hospital for Oc-
Der showed a total of LOOP ad-
missions accounting for 1897 hos
pital days. 1851 days of maternity
care were reported for white pa
tents, and SO for Negro. Three au-
topsies were performed, the re
port showed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28

The New Hanover County Com
missioners, at their meetings yes
terday. authorized the purchase OF
$4,000 in 2 per cent U. S. Treasury
bonds, due in 1854. The allotment
brings the total county investment
in u. S. securities to 1925, 600.
OF the $4,000 authorized for in
vestment yesterday, $4,000 is the
balance of the capital reserve fund
and $4,000 was taken from the
general fund Of the counyt.
OF the total sum invested, $125,
600 has been invested in one-year
Government bonds at 7-8 per cent,
and $4,000 in Government 2 per
cent bonds. Of the county sinking
fund, $4,000 has been invested in
1 "a per cent bonds.
J. A. Orrell, county auditor and
trea surer, said the TRANSACTION
would take place today.
Appearing before the Board o:
Commissioners, o. o. Whitlock re
ouested that drainage of Meare'
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
CONGRESS LAUDS
FDR APPOINTMENT

WASHINGTON, Nov. 81 R -
Senate and House leaders of both
parties joined today in expressing
regret at the resignation of Secre-
tary of State Hull and in applaud
ing the nomination of undersecre-
tary Stettinius as his successor.
Chairman Connally ID. -Tex.) of
the Senate Foreign Relations COM
mittee predicted speedy confirna-
ton of the appointment. He said
the committee would consider the
nomination Wednesday.
''Undersecretary Stettinius is IA
miliar with the current business of
the State Department and has a
wide acquaintance among foreign
diplomats and knows our interna-
tional relations,'' Connally t o d re
porters. ''He is a man of good
capacity and will prove to be an
industrious and jealous Secretary
of State and active in the promotion
of international peace and securi-
ty."
Chairman Bloom D.-N.Y.) Of the
House Foreign Affairs committee
termed the appointment "won-
derful choice" and aided:
IT have known and worked with
him on important governmental
(Continued nm Page Two. Col. q
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
% More Jap
Ships Liste
As Destroye>

U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS. Pearl Harbor, Nov.
27.-R-An upward revision Of
destruction inflicted on Japanese
shipping in the Manila area Fri
day showed today that U. S. Third
Fleet carrier planes sank a heavy
cruiser, three destroyers, a de-
stroyer escort, 10 other ships and
two luggers.
At least 81 aircraft were Rocked
down in air combat and by anti
aircraft fire.
A communique by Adm. Chester
w. Nimitz added two old destroy
ers to the list of enemy ships sunk
and identified one ship previously
reported wiped out as a destroyer
escort.
The score of ships damaged was
raised to ga sharp increase of
% over the original count. These
included 1.-TWO destroyers or small
Transports bombed, and nine lug
gers.
This made a grand total Of 48
ships sunk or damaged in the de-
vastating attack.
The total number of japanese
ships sunk or damaged during No.
vember in steady pounding OF the
eneny's supply center for the Phil
ippines thus is increased to ISL.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
MUSTANGS DOWN
90 NAzI PLANES

LONDON, Nov. 27.-lRA1n til e
greatest all fighter aerial battle
in history, 500 Mustangs doWned at
least SO German interceptors today
boosting American fighter kills in
the past "A hours to record-smash.
ing 212.
This raised the total U. S. Eighth
Air Force core for the same
period to 239 German fighters down
ed.
The unofficial number Of enemy
planes destroyed today was lifted
to 102 with the announcement that
at least four more German planes
were riddled by concentrated Mus
tang machinegun fire as they at
tempted to leave the ground
The American fighter pilots en-.
gagged more than 400 Focke Wulfs
and Messerschmitts while strafing
airports and military transport
centers in northwest Germany. II
was the greatest test of fighter
against pilot of the war. The Ger
man area was filled with planes
darling at each other in running
dogfights which covered several
hundred miles.
Switching from oil targets for a
concentrated blow against supply
lines feeding Germany's west front
armies, upwards of 1000 Allied war
planes roamed over the entire West.
ern Front and nearly to Berlin,
rlastering packed railway centers
and other targets.
Assaults on Nazi supplies have
mounted steadily in the last "a
hours with an estimated $500
planes pounding targets in direct
support of the six Allied armies
grinding toward the Rhine.
An Eighth Air Force spokesman
said that the furious air battles
which involved the 500 Mustangs
developed in the Magdeburg. Nuns.
ter and Brunswick areas and mark.
ed the first time the LuftWaffe had
attempted to interfere with ground
strafing on such an ambitious
scale. One Mustang group shot
down 30 Focke Wulfs and Mes
serschmitts out of a formation OF
200 engaged over Magdeburg, 70
miles east of Berlin.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
HOUSE COMMITTEE
APPROVES RENEWAL
OF WAR POWER ACT

WASHINGTON, Nov. 81 R -
The House Judiciary Committee ap'
proved a one year extension of the
Administration sweeping wa
powers act today but pinned to il
provision for court review Of
war agency rulings.
The War Powers Act is the Con.
gressiona1 basis for the War Pro
duction Board, War Foods Admins
tration, Office of Defense Transpor.
tation, parts of the Office of Price
Administration and many other
emergency agencies set up to gear
the Nations industry to wartime
production.
Today's bill, which will be report
ed to the House probably to1nor'
row, extends for one year the life
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
MODERN WEAPONS =
FAIL TO REDUCE
ANCIENT CASTLE

WITH BRITISH TROOPS IN
GEISTERN, Holland, Nov. 27.-LP,
Remote from the tremendous
battle being waged along the Ger
man-Dutch frontier to the south, a
minor but savage scrap pitting me-
dieval masonry and moats against
modern machinery of war is being
fought around an old fortress cas-
tie here.
Thus far, medieval masonry Is
holding it's own.
There are an estimated 40 fanat-
ical paratroops and officer cadets
in this castle all sworn to die
for Hitler. The British deployed
around the ancient moated place,
are prepared fully to help them
carry out their oath.
The enemy troops - pushed and
badgered across the flooded Dutch
wastelands in this salient west OF
the Mas river sloshed into the
castle last Friday. They prepared
to make a do-or-die stand there.
With the rear of the castle al
most on the bank of the twisting
Mas, this suicidal band Of Ger
man soldiers was receiving artil-
lery support from across the river
but they have had to take plenty.
The. British have hurled mortar
and artillery fire on the castle.
Sharpshooters and machinegun-
ners have sprayed the place con-
tinually and, to top this holocaust
of flying dynamite, Typhoons have
rocket-bombed the place. Yet the
Germans and the solid walls Of
the castle still hold.
The fortress is owned by Baron
WEIGH de Wenne.
When the Germans fled to the
castle, they gave the baron the
choice of going to Germany or 60
ing through to Allied lines, saying
eve are standing here and are not
coming out alive"
The baron, his wife and their
four pretty daughters went back
to the Allied lines.
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Thirty Japanese planes rose te
intercept the American flight ano
eight were shot down.
Terrific rains brought ground
fighting to a standstill in the Or.
moe corridor. No American advan
ces were reported.
B-24 Liberators, escorted by
Lightning fighters, pounded the
japanese airdromes on Cebu, Ne
gros and Mindano. Aircraft facili
ties, bivouacs and supply areas
were hit.
Six enemy barges were destroy
ed in other strikes at PalaWan
Celebes and Halmahera island.
Japanese planes again raidec
American-held Morotai island al
night. Night fighters and anti-air
craft guns shot down four attack
ers.
American successes in the air
at sea and on the ground today EN-,
phasized the desperate but losing
fight Japan is putting up on Leyte
island to retain her hold on the
Philippines.
The steady attrition suffered by
all branches of Nippon's forces
was becoming noticeable. Japan
csc continued to fight doggedly fol
the Ornoc corridor on northwest
ern Leyte but their resistance was
decreasing steadily Mondays com
munique said.
For three consecutive days Jap
anese efforts to reinforce and sup
ply the Leyte garrison have beer
thwarted by American warplanes
based on the island. Inbound con
voys were spotted and smashed. II
was estimated that at least 1900
troops have been lost in the rein
forcement attempts since Leyte
was invaded. Nineteen convoy yes,
sells and IA escorting warships
have been sunk,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
King, Pleading For Accord On Draft,
Warns Against Anarchy In Canada

OTTAWA, Nov. o. up Prime
Minister w. l.. Mackenzie King
told a grave House of Commons
today that if it did not unite in
a reasonable measure on the ma
tion-shaking CONSUMPTION is IS u e,
Canada would face the possibility
of "anarchy.''
Faced with a possibly sweeping
detection from his Liberal party
by French-speaking members from
Quebec who normally provide a
substantial part of his support, the
Prime Minister called for a vote
of confidence and declared that TN
less he received a good majority
he would resign.
The possibility of such a course
was heightened during the day
when the Liberal party leader in
Quebec, former provincial Pre-
mier Adelard Godbout, declared
that if the government persisted
in it's new policy of partial con-
scription for overseas service, sit
will have to count on the opposi-
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
RUSSIANS CROSS
CARPATHIANS AT
POLISH FRONTIER

LONDON, Tuesday, Nov. 28.-tR,
Russian troops in n e w six
mile penetration of northern Slo-
vakia yesterday crossed the 2,700-
IT. Carpathian mountains along the
Polish frontier as other units in
the south struck to within IL miles
Of the big north Hungarian rail
center of Satoraljaujhely, a Mos
COW communique announced last
night.
Sweeping through 81 more ham,
lets in the Axis puppet state, Col.
G n. Ivan Petrov's Fourt h
Ukraine army widened its front to
rs miles from a point west of the
Dukla pass in the north down to
the Hungarian frontier.
The fresh strike from the north
further imperilied the enemy
strongholds of Presov and Kassa
(Kosice), already threatened by
central columns only Is miles to
the east.
Moscow did not announce any
gains on the Hungarian front, and
Berlin said fighting had slackened
around Budapest, where the Paris
radio reported grave disorders had
broken out, with workers fighting
the Germans inside a capital de-
prived of gas, electricity and wa
ter.
The Berlin radio said that Rus
sian troops, who had crossed to
the west bank of the Danube at
Batina and Apatin, 107 and 100
miles south of Budapest in north
ern Yugoslavia, h d forced the
Germans back mile or more. The
Germans see this Russian opera
ton, not yet confirmed by Moscow,
as part of Soviet plan to in
wade western Hungary and take
Budapest from the rear.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
JAP GAINS FORCE
ALLIED NATIONALS
TO FLEE KWEICHOW

CHUNGKING, Tuesday, Nov %.
-LR-All American and British ma
tionals in Kweichow province and
the unoccupied portions Of Human
province we're ordered to leave as
two Japanese forces surged today
toward .Kweiyang, capital of Kwei-
chow.
A Chinese communique said the
japanese westward drive from Liu-
chow had toppled Hochih and that
the invaders were less than 14O
miles southeast Of Kweiyang. An
other enemy column was headed
toward Kweichow from Paoching
in Human province.
Most Americans were reported to
have succeeded in escaping from
eastern China, now cut off by the
linking of japanese forces which
invaded Kwangsi province from HUI
nan and Kwangtung.
Generally it was felt in Chung
king that the next few months
would be the most critical for China
since the war began in 1887.
Fall of Kweiyang would place the
invaders in position to strike to-
ward Chungking, 200 miles to the
northwest.
Another japanese force moving
through South China toward French
Indo China forced the abandon
r1ent and destruction of the last
forward American air base in South
China at Nanning-the seventh to
fall before the current Japanese Of
fensive designed, apparently, to
knock out U. S. air strength in the
Chinese hinterland.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
StettiniuS Named
State Secretary:
|ApprovalSighted
gpR PRAISES HULL
NV Foreign Policy Chief
''s snparently Following
Mentors Ideas

WASHINGTON, Nov. Fl.
"p,MWith indispensable
h I;,gap5poiintment' that he can
r st'f finish his task Of organ !,
!a;nr world peace, weary and
n nllrS Cordell Hull today
Teii the position of secre-
+s so.r' Of State to his dynamic
. .sl, lieutenant, Edward R.
| stettinius, Jr.
n.s,ident Roosevelt submitted the
5l' Of the A year old
lp'. sGa,s, ct the Senate about
. usrs- hours after announcing the
t three atior' Of Hull, whom he prais;
II % the "Father Of the United
NJ NJ a-i Ta Senate leaders predicted
prompt confirmation OF the appoint
ment.
In his letter of resignation, ten
,ored last Tuesday, Hull told the
p pr "it is a supreme tragedy
- me- personally" TO be unable to
Continue the work of postwar world
.Daoniza ion. But his health, he
ssid, forces him to step aside.
He was 10 years old October 2
and that day was his last at the
State Department. He has been ill
n throat ailnent, followed by
sybaustion ever since, and for the
last five weeks has been under
+rpatmen. at Bethesda, Md, Ma
val hospital.
The keynote Of Hulps whole let
Ter was the disappointment he feels
at having to leave his great task
Of world peace unfinished. And he
concluded by offering his services
10 the President when I recover
my strength"
At his news conference Mr..
Roosevelt said that as soon as he
was able, the Ternessean would be-
come his adviser on foreign policy
- sort of elder statesman in
world affairs.
Selection of Stettinius, former
chairman Of U. S. Steel Corpora
tion, placed a relative newcomer
to diplomacy in control of this
Governments foreign affairs ma
chinery on the eve Of one of his
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B0MBERS RETURN
Industrial Waterfront OF
Nipponese Capital Is
Latest Target
THAILAND HIT HARD
Apposition Over Mainland
Reported Comparative
ly Nil By Fliers

WASHINGTON, Nov. 81
first coordinated
Superfortress attack fir o m
East and West today clamped
down a giant aerial pincers on
the Japanese.
A "sizeable force" from the new
21st Bomber Commands base on
Saipan island in the Marianas beat
at Tokyo for an hour and a halt
in the second such thrust in four
days.
A flight of substantial force
from India bases of the Goth Bonn
Der Command, was hurled across
the Bay of Bengal and blasted with
results called "good" at the vital
Japanese-dominated rail center o.
Bangkok in Thailand.
Not one of the great B-29s was
lost to enemy action in either
strike, a communique from the
Goth Air Force reported severa,
hours afterWard.
Opposition by either fighters Of
anti-aircraft over Tokyo was re
ported Virtually nil" Fire from
the ground at the Thailand capita
was called "meager" and the hugs
bombers downed six, probably de
stroyed three more and damaged
two of the opposing fighters.
The cornmunique described tar
gets in both strikes as strategic
industrial detectives. In the case
of the Bangkok thrust by Maj. Gen
Curtis E. LIE Mays bombers from
India, it was specified that these
targets were railroad marshalins
yards and repair facilities.
The industrial waterfront wa:
Continued on Page Two; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
'I l Millions Pledged
BY Individuals In The
Slxth War Loan Drive


M ssass ti Nov. 27. -(P-
is T uflFe to borrow five billion
ss re's from individuals in the
s1a ll Wa" ar Loan had reached the
N r,y ZOO mark tonight.
fs s.DS = was close to the schedule
Md M treasury officials have map
csn,t WI lor the November 2O-De-
NIUE, M Is national effort.
NV. treasury calls the Sixth War
In , me greatest challenge OF
,so,, IeI 50 far to the American
iisn IT, The total quota is IA bill.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
FOE MEETS PERIL
Nazis Hurting Fresh Troops
In Battle For Indus
trial Area
AIR SUPPORT ACTIVE
Hodges Doughboys Ham,
mer Into Center OF Lam
gerwehe In South

SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TIERS ALLIED EXPEDI-
TIONARY FORCE, PARIS,
Nov. 27.-(P)-Gerran de-
tenders of the Cologne plain
were driven back south of Jul
Itch tonight to the west bank
of the Roer river - best nat
ural barrier short of the
Rhine - as the u. S. Ninth
dealt hammer blows alongside
the U. S. First in the Hateful
battle of the Reich.
The u S. First Army, pressing
the enemy back a mile and half
with heavy losses, was deep in
side two strongholds to the south
within two and a half and four
miles of the Roer. A staff officer
declared that given a break from
the weather, the river soon would
be reached.
As the German high command
threw in fresh troops to meet this
mounting peril to It's industrial
Ruhr and Rhineland, the Saar ba-
sin-second only to the Ruhr as a
source of the eneny's war might
was invaded anew by the resurgent
u. S. Third Army which nowhere
along its 60-nile front was now
more than Is miles from the Reich
after gains up to six miles.
For the first time, the u. 5.
Seventh Army received close sup
port from American heavy bonn
bers which hit railyards at Of
fenburg, 10 miles southeast OF
Strasbourg.
First Tactical Air Force fighter
bombers knocked down a Rhine
rail bridge at Breisach, southeast
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. ),
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
House Approves
Plan To Retain
General Marshall

WASHINGTON, Nov. q. -(PA
Legislation permitting General
George c. Marshall to remain on
the active officer list after he
becomes "a years old next month
was passed today by the House
and sent to the Senate,