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WILMINGTON MAN
IS MADE CAPTAIN

WASHINGTON. April &c Up -
The War Department today an
nomced the temporary promo
tons of seven North Carolina Of
ficers.
Promotions:
Harold Lee Pitser, Ed, POPS
Sharon Lane, Charlotte, from cap
tain to major.
Ralph Dean Cavill, NC Whining
ton from 1st lieutenant to captain.
Samuel Boyce WEIGH. AC. 311
Cherokee Place, Charlotte; Jasper
Royce Johnson, INF, 106 3rd.
Ave, Durham; Clarence Wilson
Browning, INF, Rt. 2, Kerners-
vile; Franklin Wills Hancock, Sig.
c., Oxford; and Lafayette Parker,
ONO, Ri. l, Richards, from 2nd
ieutenants to LIST lieutenants.
Ordered to active duty:
Douglas St. Clair Mckay Glas-
gov LIST 1t. NC Charlotte.
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WAR CASUALTIES

WASHINGTON, April 20-RN-
The War Department made pub
lie today the names Of $50 U. S.
soldiers missing in action, includ-
ing these from North Carolina,
missing in the European area:
End 1t. Henry L. Allen, Julian
F. Allen, father, Wadesboro; End
1t. Jacob P. Foster, Mrs. Eta M.
Foster, mother, Hendersonville
LIST. 1t. Lonnie Hammond, Jr..
Mrs. Jean M. Hammond, wife,
Laurinburg; End 1t. Harry L.
HOWE, Jr., Mrs. Alice L. HOWE,
wife, Pinebluff; End 1t. ]. w.
Icard, Mrs. Walter J. Icard. moth
er, Granite Falls: Sgt. Earl c.
Kllian, Henry o. Killian, father,
Maiden; Tech. Sgt. John w.
Owens, Mrs. W. H. Owens, moth
er, Westfield; and Staff Sgt.
Frederick E. Walker, Alfred E.
Walker, father. Concord.
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~. Wv y
Man Wanted To Be Sure
He Would Take Own Life

JESSUP, Pa, April 20 Up -
When Andrew Heldock, Al, decided
to end his life today, Deputy
Coroner w. J. Barrett said, he
tied one end Of rope to a raft
er and the other end around his
neck; climbed upon a box, clasp
ing a dynamite cap to his chest,
and exploded the cap with a bat
terry charge.
The blast Jared his body of the
box and his neck was broken AZ
the rope frightened.
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MAGICIAN TRICKS
LIONS CLUB HERE
Professional Slight Of
Hand Artist Does Sever
al Tricks AT Meeting

PFC Phil Stillman, Camp Davis
soldier, known professionally as
"Alhuda" entertained the Whining
ton Lions Club yesterday at their
weekly luncheon meeting with
tricks of magic which caused gasps
of amazement and looks of Won
derment from the assembled mem
bers.
Alhuda, who offers magic for
all occasions" prior to his entry
into the Army was magician In
New York City and has performed
before many clubs and other or
CARNATIONS in the country. He is a
member of the knights Of Magic, -
society of professional magicians
and slight of hand artists.
Lion Paul T. Marshburn intor.
duced the guest, who opened his
program with a variation of the
Indian rope trick, and followed up
with what were classed as very
good card and handkerchief illu-
sions.
AS a semi-finale, Alhuda did a
card trick, described as one of the
best of it's type ever developed, in
which the cards are distributed to
the guests, with each picking seven
cards, and from this seven, mental
ly choosing one. The cards are then
shuffled in plain sight, at the direc-
ton of those present, and ends
with the magician producing the
card each of the seven persons
had picked from the seven cards
he had chosen.
AS his finale, the soldier-magi.
clan did a Well-known needle trick
in which a number of ordinary
sewing needles are placed in thu
mouth, unthreaded, and then plac
ing a piece of thread in the mouth
After numerous jerks and pulls
the thread and needles come out
with the needles threaded on thu
sewing thread.
M'Kean Maffitt, chairman OF tn
blind aid committee told the grou]
that the collection of old clother
which are to be distributed to tn
blind in New Hanover and sur
rounding counties, is tagging.
Said Lion Maffitt:
"a big pile of them have bee,
turned in at the two collection
points (the Firestone store and A
L. Kings Grocery but we believ'
many more are still needed" H
appealed to the members to clear
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out their closets and turn in all
types of old garments.
Indicted into membership by
Lion Dave Sinclair was D. j. Full
cher, chief Of personnel at the U.
S. Engineer office in the Customs
House.
Lion Luther Rogers reported that
the thumbling sheds" for the use
of servicemen have been erected
and will be painted soon.
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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA:
COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER:
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE

Under and by virtue of the power OF
sale contained in certain Mortgage
executed on the 26th day of August,
1925. by Howard Russell and Harry e.
nings to Oleander Development Company.
said mortgage being duly recorded in
the office of the Register of Deeds, New
Hanover County, in Book 1856, at Page
1877. which power of sale has been
conveyed to the undersigned, Hugh Nc
der Development Company. by convey
ance duly recorded in Book 273. at Page
264, New Hanover County Registry; de-
fault having been made in the payment
OF the note secured by aforesaid mort
gage, the undersigned will expose for
the Court House door, in the City OF
Wilmington. County of New Hanover.
North Carolina, on the list day of May.
1914, at 1900 o'clock, Noon, the follow
ing described real estate. located in
Harnett Township, County of New Han
over and State of North Carolina:
BEGINNING at the intersection Of the
North line of Asheville Street with the
West line of Ocean Avenue, and run
ming thence Northwardly with the West
thence WestWardly and at right angles
with Ocean Avenue One Hundred Q0ol
feet; thence Southwardly and parallel
with Ocean Avenue Fifty (50) feet to a
point in the North line of Asheville ST.,
thence Eastwardly with the North line
of Asheville Street One Hundred u00)
feet to the BEGINNING, being Lot No.
Seventeen Q7), in Block "V", of Addi-
ton No. l, Wrightsville Beach Extern
sion, map of which is recorded in the
Registry of New Hanover County in Map
Book No. 2, Page 81.
Dated and posted this 3oth day of
March, 1914
HUGH MacRAE & CO., INC.
BY J. w. Morton, President.
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In 1880, 10 percent Of the U. S.
population lived on farms and 30
per cent in cities-exactly the re-
verse of 1913.
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EXECUTRIX NOTICE

Having qualified as Executrix of the
Estate of Charles w. Hollowbush, de-
ceased, late of New Hanover County
North Carolina, this is to notify all per-
sons having claims against the estate OF
said deceaed to exhibit them to the I'M
dersigned at 704 Murchison Building
Wilmington, N. c., on or before the 7th
day of April, 1885, or this notice will
be plead in bar of their recovery. AL
persons indebted to said estate will
please make immediate payment.
This the 18th day of April, 1914.
MARY ZIEGLER, Executrix of the
Estate of Charles W. HolloWbush
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Our Chief Aim
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
TO aid In every way the prosecution si
the war to complete Victory.

Il John 2; y Khy do We need and adj
vocate with the Father? 1t is because
We have an accuser. Satan is called the
''accuser of our brethren which accus-
ed them before our God day and night
Of course the devil would not have
the cheek to accuse without reason
But the blessed Lord is there and show
His wounds and says; MY Father,
took even that sin into account when I
died on Calvary's cross!"
Harry A. Ir0nside.
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Black Miracle

A lump of coal is not dramatic compared
to battleships and tanks plunging through en-
envy defenses with guns blazing. But before
there could be today's battleships and tanks
there had to be COAL Moreover, it had to
be available in a quantity and form which
required years of effort and scientific re-
search on the part of the coal industry. Thanks
to such research, coal is one of the most i'm
portant and widely used materials in the war
effort
A large steel company recently devoted a
page advertisement to the part coal plays in
making steel This single company consumes
1900 tons of coal every day of the year
enough to heat $500 family dwellings during
long, cold winter. Modern steel is the result
of blending Goals of various types, grades and
ages to obtain stronger, cleaner burning fuel
for the blast furnaces. Sampling, testing and
blending is done at the mines A ton and
seven-tenths of coal is required to make one
ton of steel.
After the war, research now being conduct
ed in coal will bring undreamed of benefits
to everyone. For example, experiments are
being made on pipeless heating units. Homes
and apartments eventually will be heated by
stoves no larger than small radios.
The coal being consumed in this country
has lain dormant in the ground for three hum
dred million years. Modern industry has at
last brought it to light-a black miracle.
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the problems there are as different from the
problems of the Russian campaign as Stain
grad was different from Truk. Difficult ter
rain and narrow front doubtless entrusted an
unusually important role to air support.
Casino has been disappointing but there is
no point in the public being discouraged. It
was a new attack and it met new defense.
The lessons learned there may prevent SINH
lar situation in the future
Nor should the apparent failure of Allied
bombings to crush Germans be signal to
give up on aviation. After all, the German
raids are horrible and necessary thing, new
in the history of warfare. There is no prece-
dent by which to predict outcome The. only
failure so far is that the raids have not come
up to predictions and wishful thinking.
Sheer weight of our superior air production
is surely making itself felt and will continue
to do so. One failure or dozen will not lose
the war.
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Time To Clean House

Labor leaders who by strikes and strike
threats in time of war have aroused the bitter
resentment of millions of people, should heed
the warning recently uttered in the editorial
columns of Life: american labor, like every
group in the country, has right to govern
ment by law rather than government by ex-
temporization. But it is not getting that It
is getting supposedly special favors which
turn out to be gold bricks
The Administration. in refusing to put legal
restraint on labor excuses, has certainly been
guilty of granting special favors. Labor racke-
teers have exploited those favors to the full,
with the result that they are a thoroughly
hated group of individuals That the rank and
file of American workmen are becoming skep-
teal of such vicious leadership is evident
from late Fortune poll. 1t indicated that only
IS per cent of factory workers believed labor
unions have done an excellent job and should
be given more power; % per cent thought that
labor unions have gone too far, Less than a
majority were willing to say that labor lead
ers have been fair with management. Only
about one-third believed that most labor lead
ers were honest with money.
1t is still not too late for labor to clean
house.
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Stark Tragedy

We granted the enemy quick anu ll'i
ough1v complete victory of major importance
in February when a two-and-a-half -mlllon- dol
lar concern engaged in building engines Tor
Liberty ships was demolished by fire on the
West Coast Twentyfou engines In various
stages of completion were also destroyed. All
Of this did not cost the Axis single bomb or
nlane. While the cause of this particular dis
aster is not known definitely, an overheateo
steam pipe was suggested. 1t is known, now
ever. that the majority of such fires are pre-
ventable. A moment of carelessness IN vital
war plant today can do the work OF countless
bombers. Day after day we read OF the MIS-
toric FLIGHTS of American planes that fly hum
dreds of miles in broad daylight over enemy
territory, through hour after hour OF relent-
less attack from above and below. Their OBJ
iectives are often war plants If they car
destroy an important plant and get home
again with loss of a few hundred men anc
twenty to forty planes, their mission is con-
sidered justified After few flights like this
men are retired to easier jobs-if they live
that long.
How must they feel, these fighters, wher
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Interpreting
The War
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War Analyst

There are stirring and signifi-
cant happenings in the Pacific and
Burma theaters, but it still is on
Europe that world attention is con-
centrated. Expectation of impend-
ing war developments of major i'm
port heighten every hour as Rus
sian and allied forces set them
selves for the final two-way victory
drive against Germany mapped
at Teheran..
The plight of the Nazis' only
willing war partner, Japan, as
powerful American naval forces
drove deep through her puntured
south Pacific atoll defense ring is
obvious. It forced Tokyo into an
adject diplomatic surrender to
Russia, yielding oil and other
mineral concessions on Sakhalin
island rather than risk friction
with Moscow.
But it is on the other side of the
world that April weather seems
destined to see the attack on the
Axis rage to new high. Nowhere
from the French Mediterranean
coast to the Balkan peninsula in
the south, from the Black sea to
the Baltic in the east and from
Norway to the Franco Spanish
border in the west can Nazi de-
tenders of the European continent
rest easy.
Mean New Attacks
Brighter April skies mean new
clustering air attacks for Germany
and already shaken Balkan satel-
lites. There are limitations from
high Allied sources that Anglo
American air power from Italian
bases is linked definitely now with
the Russian thrust toward the Bal
kans. The vital Budapest communi-
cations hub in Hungary, key to the
whole Nazi defense front in south
eastern Europe. is in easy reach
for Foggia-based American and
British air heavies. That fact lends
grim significance to Moscow's
warnings to Hungary as well as
Bulgaria and Rumania to get out
of the war while yet there is time.
The Nazi retreat under sustained
and relentless Red Army pressure
i'll the south syn1bolizes desperate
German need Of outstanding man.
power and shortening the eastern
defense front in expectation of AL
Ued invasion from the west. While
the Allied attack in Italy aimed at
Rome, is presently begged down
through disappointing failure to
clear the Casino road block, it is
definitely pinnirg 40 to so German
divisions in Italy and the Balkans.
They are unavailable to help halt
the Russian steam-roller attack or
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Sidelight On Taxes

Increase OF al per cent in total tax COL
1ections-federal, state and local - between
1889 and 1943 represents rise of only per
cent in proportion to the rising national in.
come during these years. the Federation of
Tax Administrators announce after analysis
Of pre-war and wartime tax collections
The three levels OF government collected
Excluding social security taxes, considered
insurance payments) $12,6O2 ZOO, 900 during the
1889 fiscal year, which represented 1875 per
cent of national income for that year; total
collections for fiscal 1913 - $50, 1898, 600, 900 -
were 23.5 per cent of total fiscal 1943 income.
National income Excluding undistributed
corporate earnings), however, rose 80 per
cen during the fve-year PERIOD from $68, OIL.
100000 for the 1889 fiscal year to SIPS, $780, 000
600 for the 1943 fiscal year.
Relatively moderate increase of total tax COL
1ections in proportion to national income is
explained the federation said, by the fact
that local taxes decreased, not only in pro-
portion to the growing national income but
in absolute amount, while state collections
during the same period did not qeep pace with
the swift rise in national income.
State tax collections rose from So 000,-
900 in 1899 to 3d. $685. OOO 600 in 1943 an increase
of 278 per cent, though they were only per
cent of national income in 1943 compared with
As per cent in fiscal 1899. And significance of
local tax collections in proportion to national
income was cut almost in half during the five
year period, dropping from to 36 per cent.
Federal collections however, increased $50
per cent, from ST. $780, 900, 900 for fiscal 1899 to
$21, $780, ooo, 900 for the 1913 fiscal year. On the
basis of per cent of national income the in.
crease was from per cent-equalled by local
collections in 1939-to 1853 per cent for the
1943 fiscal year.
Preliminary estimates for federal, state and
local tax collections for the 1914 fiscal year
indicate that present trends are being accen-
tuated still further, according to the fedora
tons study based on compilations from va
rious sources, including the treasury depart
ment and the bureau of the census.
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Air Commerce

For centuries, commerce has followed the
seaways and the waterways of the world. Hit
ler's grandiose scheme for world conquest
had, as one OF its detectives, the capture of
Suez, water gateway to the fabulous ports of
the East The banks of the Don and the Dniep-
err have been bloody battlefields because these
rivers carry supplies to the army that con-
trolls them, even as they once brought food
and ores and manufactured articles to peo-
pie at peace. Stalingrad and Kiev are inn
portant Russian cities because they are ports
for river traffic, as st. Louis and New Orleans
are important cities in this country. Boston
and New York, and Seattle and San Francisco
also became important because of their fine
harbors. But now the picture is changing as
a new means of transportation surges boldly
to the fore. In the dawning Age of Flight
business centers will bloom about airports
just as surely as they once sprang up around
the quay sides.
Nature provided harbors for ships, but in
land "harbors for airplanes can be built by
that the airports of this nation will have to
handle three of four times the present
amount of air traffic Immediately after the
war.
Not only will airports become essential to
a community's business life but they will help
provide jobs for many men now in the Air
Forces who will return after the war with a
desire to continue in the calling they know
best.
Airport planning is not something that can
be done overnight 1t requires months, some
times years of study, not only in determining
the best possible location for flying field
but in acquiring the land, arranging financ-
ing, improving roads, expanding public util-
ity services, and myriad other details. Pro-
gressive communities preparing now to
receive the miracle of air commerce which
will begin to spread over the world when
the war ends. 1t will keep them humping to
be ready for that day.
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Casino

It doesn't take much of fireside general
to prove that the protracted battle of Casino
has taught an important lesson in use Of air
power On March Is the Allies gave Casino
what was perhaps the most concentrated
bombing ever dealt to comparative area.
Heavy and medium bonbers almost blew the
little town off the map. Yet when the infantry
moved in after further heavy artillery bar
rage the Germans were there.
: This battle together with the failure of
German civilian morale to crack under ter
rifle pounding, has put crimp in the bomb
ingswill- win-the-war school, Casino proved to
those who wanted proof that bombings are
not enough.
Casino also proved that dug-outs and re-
cessed shelters can protect men from muir
derous torrent of steel. 1t showed that an
enemy can even turn such devastating at
tack to his own advantage, as happened when
the New Zealand troops and tanks found thai
the rubble piled streets of Casino afforded
ideal protection for the Germans still remain
ing there
It is conceivable that Casino may have
nroduced some I-told-you-sos among military
men still skeptical of aviation possibilities
But it is doubtful that many Army officer:
are discouraged by the failure of the March
Is attack.
Aviation after ALL is new and constantly
changing branch Of warfare. General Arnold
has probably less to learn from the air com
manders of World War I than General Eisen
hover has to learn from Hannibal. The air
nlanes capabilities are constantly developing
And tactics, unlike love, must alter wher
they alteration find.
Accounts of the Casino battle indicate tina
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to meet Allied incursions from the
west when the hour for that strikes.
Clear skies - and April is the
balmiest month of the year in
Italv- should give Allied air
power new values in the Italian
campaign. It h u ! d prove a
scourge to Naz1 communications.
It is in southern Poland, how
ever. that strongest intimations Of
new German crack-up have de-
yeloped. There were unconfirmed
rumors this weekend that Nazi
evacuation of the Lwow fortress
that guards the way into the cen
trail Polish plains west of the Big
river was in progress. Its sur
render under converging Russian
attacks from the northeast, east,
southeast and south would invali
date for NaZi use the powerful
defensive line set up across Poland
after the NaZi-RuSSlan partition OF
that country Even the Warsaw
communications hub for the whole
Nazi line north Of the Pripet
marshes would be exposed to Rus
sian thanking attack.
If Lwow is being evacuated, it
must foreshadow a Nazi retreat
in the north at least to the San
River, and German REIMBURSEMENT
rot only of the last Nazi Dnieper
lootholds in north western Russia,
but of the Baltic states as well.
West Prussia would be exposed by
such a German withdrawal. Only
dire necessity of conserving man.
power for a two-front defense of
the inner walls of the Reich itself
rould explain such a Berlin move.
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rs Years Ago
Today
(From the files
of the Star-News)

(From Files Of The Star-News)
Carl w. Fulford, first man from
Wilmington to be indicted into the
army, has arrived in the United
States from France.
The 10th Infantry commanded
by Col. Van B. Nets, arrived to.
day aboard the army transport,
MadaWaske in Charleston, S. C.
Mrs. F. A. Bissinger and Mrs.
G. W. McCanahan are in Greens
boro attending the sixth biennial
conference of the Women'S Mis-
sionary conference as delegates
from Wilmington.
Spring gardens of Wilmington
suffered a death blow last nigh
when a killing frost was reported.