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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-10-16

One girl carried out ready to faint.
2:40 a. M: Police take home a
bobby socker who emerged from
a ''horror picture in Mysteries.
$3.50 a. M: Children erupt from
theaters to find the last street car
gone. They pile up on street cor
ners and surge into all-night cafes.
$50 a. M: Youngsters, many
only 10 years old, are curled up
asleep on curbs. waiting for re-
sumption of morning street car
service.
The Portland Federation of Wo-
mems Clubs chimed in with juve-
nile investigators and the police
chief in asking that after-midnight
horror films" be banned for the
duration.
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OFFICERS Report
QUIET WEEE.EI[

Only four arrests We're nss.,
city police yesterday durin, W.
Chief of Police C. H. Caster w.. .-'
ed "a nice quiet weekend p, ~ 'A
icemen were very well bat. wv
and nothing serious banr.s.'
he added. P'elea'
An unusually small mink.
arrests were made by countv -
GERS and state highway pstr y eN
over the weekend, they said Suaf'
night. No automobile scc H lls
were reported, they added 'SFaa
Two of the arrests made l.,
lice yesterday were for dr' ny 70
ness, one for disorderly con ,a'a'
and one for a parking mete, rl.I
ton, according to police reo ,".''
A wallet was found in fra r''I ,
the Carolina theatre yesterday y
ernoon, containing Identifies IT,
papers of Eugene Duane. Pon.. >
Fayetteville. Officers said hs o'.,,
recover it at the police sta,;or 'r'
--V-
North Carolina S average fso,s
is larger than that of apv ns.!
state in the Union '~0
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LEGION CIRCUS
OPENS TONIGHT
Continued from Page One)

Of the N. C. Shipbuilding company.
This will be held Thursday night
starting at 1870 pm. and con-
tinuing until am. The grand
stand show will be at midnight and
all the midway shows and rides
wilIbe open until 3 am. The mid
night show is for shipyard en-
ployes and members of their faml-
lies. Special priced tickets may
be purchased in advance near the
main entrance gates of the ship
yard.
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itylBrief
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT

Mr.. and Mrs. John r. Still
man, Jr., 81 Lee drive, an
nounce the birth of a son,
John Randolph Stillman, Srd,
at Marion Sprunt annex Sun
day, Oct. Is. Mrs. StilEman is
the former Josephine Burke OF
Durham and Wilmington. MIR.
StlIlman is sports editor OF
the Morning Star.
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WEATHER
Continued from Page One)

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.-(P)-Weath-
er bureau report of temperature and
rainfall for the "a hours ending pm.
in the principal cotton growing areas
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When it fights, the caterpillar
of the puss moth 'spits a stream of
poison liquid.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-01
Ousted BiddIe Aid Cites
War Surplus Conspiracy
WASHINGTON. Dec.

WASHINGTON, Dec. /.
(UP) = Norman M. Littell, ,
ousted assistant attorney
general, charged Friday that
powerful realty interests
with representatives in the
government, were trying to
control disposal of $15,000,-
100000 worth of surplus war
real estate.
Littell was dismissed by President
Roosevelt Thursday for inSubordi-
nation to Aioorney General Francis
Biddle AS he packed up his papers
preparatory to surrendering his Of
flee at the justice department, Lit
tells frien6s in congress were fight
ing for an investigation of the rift
which broke into headlines this
week.
The former head of the justice
departments lands division told an
interviewer that the National ASso-
citation of Real Estate Boards was
making a powerful drive" to Gin
fluence or control policy in dis
posal of surplus realty. He said the
association had sought to get" him
politically.
Littell last August told the senate
War Investigating committee, head
ed by Senator James M. Mead CD
New York, that the association had
secured key appointments in the
army real estate section and surplus
property disposal staff. With an eye
on 1.-The gold in them thar hills"
he said Friday, the association is
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-01

TarnOW-BudapeSt railroad In the
north.
The biggest Soviet gains were
marked up in the south where arm
ored spearheads of Marshal Feodor
I. Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian army
fought westward beyond captured
PEGS toward Lake Balaton and the
Austrian frontier, and north along
the Danube barely rs miles below
Budapest.
Berlin admitted the Germans and
their Hungarian allies were reeling
hack under the pile-c river Russian
blows and asserted that Tolbukhin
ha6 thrown upwards of Quarter
million men into the SWaying battle.
Almost 1000 Axis troops were kill
ed or captured Thursday on the
PEGS front and in the north where
Marshal Ordion Y. Malinovskys Sec
ond Ukrainian army took Eyer and
Szikszo, SO and So miles northeast
of Budapest, and all but encircled
the companion stronghold of Mis-
kolc.
Tolbukhin's troops overran more
tan so towns and villages and ex-
panded their bridgeheao on the west
bank of the Danube to l04 miles
against stubborn resistance. The
main direction of the Russian drive
still was carefully masked, how
ever, and the Germans obviously
we're uncertain whether the Soviet
commander intended to strike out
for Austria or wheel his sforces
northward to join Malinovsky in the
assault on Budapest.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-01
THREE YANk ARMIES STRIKE INSIDE REICH
Senate Approves
Billion for
Flood Controls
Measure Gives $4O0, 900
For Missouri River;
West Projects Listed

WASHINGTON, Dec. l..
(UP) - The senate Friday
approved by voice vote and
sent back to the house for
conference a billion dollar
flood control bill authorizing
hundreds of postwar flood
control, power, and irriga-
ton projects.
The bill was passed over the OPP
position of Senator James E. Muir
ray CD Montana, who sponsored
an amendment providing for Mis-
souri, valley authority to supervise
the development of the Missouri
basin. President Roosevelt has an
nounced his support of an MVA.
The proposal will be conSioere fur
ther in the next session.
Only after two weeks of debate
did the floor manager of the bill,
Senator John H. Overton Cd Louis
lana, agree to accept amendments
in the present measure which give
the Bureau of Reclamation author
ity to construct irrigation and re-
clamation works in the upper Mis-
souri, basin. The senate authorized
$500 100000 for the multi-purpose
development of this river basin.
INTEREST TO WEST
The senate adopted two policy
amendments of vital interest to the
west: All future projects planned
by the Department of Interior and
the army engineers must be review
ed by states before submission to
congress; and no waters arising
west of the 98th meridian can be
used for navigation purposes if this
would irnperil the present uses OF
such waters for domestic, municipal
stock water, irrigation, mining and
industrial purposes.
A power amendment was accepted
giving the Department of Interior
authority to construct and acquire
transmission lines from the projects
approved in the bill to facilities
owned by public bodies, cooperatives,
and private concerns. Preference in
the sale of such power is given the
public bodies in cooperatives.
WESTERN AREAS
The bill would authorize the fol-
lowing appropriation for flood con-
troll works:
Clorado river basin. SO, ,562 900: Rio
GRANGE basin, $68,500: San Diego
river basin, s370000; Santa Ana
river basin, S10,O0O,OO0; Los Angeles
San Gabriel basin and Rallona
Creek, $25,0O0,000 Los Angeles river
basin $8,38O,00O; Colorado river
watershed. $2,693,0O0; Pajaro river
basin, $51l,l60; Napa river basin,
$3.50. 900; Santa Ynez river water
shed, $143,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-01
johnson Girds
To Fight New
Foreign Loans

WASHINGTON, Dec. l. up
Administration plans to sponsor a
flow of postwar private loans to
foreign governments which default
ed their World War I debts will
touch off futile discussion of the
billions owing us and arouse at least
one battle-weary Senate veteran to
another headline-making contest.
Seventy eight-year old Senator
Hiram Warren Johnson, (R0, Cali
fornia, will be standing there shout
ing NO even if all of his 95 col
leagues are unanimous for repeal OF
the lean prohibition act which bears
his name. Unanimity is not likely
however, in any action the Congress
takes to clear the way for private
loans to debt defaulting govern
ments.
Assistant Secretary of State Dean
Acheson advised House commit
tee Thursday that several foreign
governments had requested post
war leans and that the adminiStra-
ton desired repeal of the Johnson
act, among other things, to make
such possible.
The johnson act was passed April
13, 1884 1t forbade flotation in the
United States of new loans by for
eign governments in default on OBJ
legations to the United States.
The defaulted World War I debts
are carried on the treasury books
now in excess of $4,000, 100000. The
debtors are: Belgium, Czechoslova-
kia, Estonia, France, Germany
Great Britain, Greece. Hungary
italy, Latvia. Lithuania, Poland
Romania, Yu2Cslavia, Armenia and
Soviet Russia. OF all the borrowers
only Finland, with whom we recent
ly broke diplomatic relations, has
kept up payments.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-01
HoItviI|e Waits
New Curfew Rule

HOLTVILLE, Dec. IA 8 O'Clock
curfeW law will go into effect in
Holtville Saturday night.
The old city fire bell will cound
at 9 p. m. in compliance with a new
city ordnance making it unlawful
for any minor to be on the streets
late at night unless accompanied by
parents or guardian. A minor means
any person less than l8 years of age.
City councilmen passed the new
ordinance after hearing complaints
that minors were lettering on the
streets late at night. 1t empowers
city police officers to arrest youths
under the age limit if found within
the city limits between 9 p. m. and
a. m. unless in company with their
parents or guardian.
Conviction of violation of the
ordinance will mean fine of 81 to
500, 80 days in Jail or both. The
minor and his parents or guardian
are subject to the penalties.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-01
Albert B. Fall
Dies in Sleep

Ell PASO, Tex, Dec. |. 'Of' -
Albert B. Fall, former secretary OF
the interior, died Thursday, old and
almost penniless, but confident to
the end that history would some day
clear his name of the part he play
ed in the Teapot Dome and Elk
Hills oil scandal that rocked Presl-
dent Hardings administration.
His body was found by sisters
st the Catholic hospital where he
had spent the last two years. Fall,
who was 83 years old last Sunday
had been under treatment for arth-
ritis which had crippled him until
he could no longer walk.
Fall virtually disappeared from
the public eye in 1929 when he was
convicted of bribery in connection
with the leasing of the Elks Hills
oil reserve to Edward L. Doheny'
wealthy California oil man and
Cne-time prospector friend.
The conviction followed a long
court battle which had started five
years previously with the investlga-
ton into the Teapot Dome and Elk
Hills oil reserves.
He served one year in the New
Mexico state prison at Santa Fe,
spending the entire period in the
prison hospital under constant care.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-01
County Hurdles
.Ealf-wayMa
In Bonds Drive

Imperial county's war bond sales
in the Sixth War Loan drive reached
a total of $1,360,374 Thursday, the
days sale amounting to $178,003, it
was announced at the Ell Centre
chamber of commerce Friday.
The TideWater Associated Oil
company announced an allocaticn of
$4,000 in les &c" bonds to Ell Gen.
tro, the information reaching Ell
Centro from the company's Los
Angeles office.
The Pioneer Title company pur-
chased $4,000 in Treasury Loan 2 per
cent bends, announced the alloca-
ton of $1,000 to FL Centre, and $1,000
each to Brawley, Holtville and
CaleXico
Ell Centro labor unions purchased
S43[D worth of bonds as follows: ::
Carpenters union, $1,000: Bartend-
ers' anicn, $500; Theater employees,
union, $1,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-01
p AMsl!Ne
NEp,oRTER
This Is Strategy

This Is Strategy
An Imperial Valley r9ncher was
thoroughly angry when he saw a
group of hunters walk off his place
carrying armloads of grapefruit,
especially since the grove was plas-
tered with mo Trespassing' signs.
He saw them dump the fruit in the
trunk of the car they were using.
They denied they had taken the
grapefruit but refused to open the
trunk to let him look inside.
The rancher took the number
of the car and called officers. One
of the hunters hotly denied that
any fruit had been taken. The
others, however admitted it,, saying
they had thrown the fruit away on
the way to town.
We'll gladly pay you for the
grapefruit" the hunters finally S3id.
The rancher hated to spend a
lot of time in court but thought the
hunters should be punished.
1t was decided that the hunters
should give 500 to the War Chest
in Ell Centre and "go and sin no
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-01
County Airports
Listed Among
u. S. Aid Project

WASHINGTON, Dec. l. (UPo-A
proposed national airport construc-
ton and improvement program
costing $1,250,00O000 was being
studied in Congress following its
introduction by the Civil Aeronau-
tics Administration.
Under the program California
would receive l74 new airports and
improvements to 1877 existing fields
at an estimated cost of $56,9l2,900,
to be financed by the state and the
federal government. Construction
would be completed ever five to
l0-year period.
The cost of building 174 fields
would be approximately $37, 1893 $50
while an estimated $l9,0l8,52t' would
be spent on improvements.
The largest airport construction
project in the state would be at
Berkeley where an expenditure of
S11,514,43O was estimated.
Proposed expenditures for i'm
provements for other cities in
cluded:
Brawley, $l91 500; Calexico. s2O,-
000; Calipa tria, $243,000, and Impe-
rial, $145,500.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-01
Green Retains
AFL Office

NEW ORLEANS, La. Dec. 1. CUP
William Green began his 2lSt year
as president of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor Friday, pledging
himself to meet the problems OF
labor, including modification Of the
Little Steel formula.
The convention which ended
Thursday following unanimous reel
ection of Green and all other Of
ficers, named Green to a committee
to take the war labor boards dec
ision to uphold the Little Steel
formula directly to President Roose-
welt.
Before disbanding, the member
ship voted to call world trade
union conference of the free trade
unions at the earlies possible time.
This followed a flat refusal of the
AFL to attend the forthcoming
British trade union congress in Lon
don
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-01

llC
John v. Frankenthal, Chicago.
Billie Jack Howard, ScammOn.
Missouri.
Conrad Lee Brinkman, yelling
ton, Missouri.
Walter w. Cooper, city manager,
San Diego, California.
Howard Muller, indianapolis.
InGiana.
Captain John Pollard SnOwden,
North Hollywood, California, pilot.
First Officer Thomas Bamberg-
er, jackson Heights, New York.
cO-pilOt.
The injured:
Mrs. r.. E. Kibler, Boston.
Earl L. Beaver, Boulder City,
Nevada.
Harry Gay. merchant seaman.
Long Beach, California.
Arthur Carroll, merchant sea-
man, Seattle.
Ruth Kahn, San Francisco.
Antonio Sccchi, sailor, Oakland.
California.
John II. Raggi, 23, quartermas-
ter, Hc, USN.
Mrs. ID. ID. HcilbrOn, Berkeley,
California.
Mayor Hartley Knox of San Diego
least seriously hurt of the passen-
gers, said the ship appeared to bt
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-01

LONDON, Dec. |. CUP) - RAF
heavy bombers poured hundreds of
tens of explosives and fire bombs
into the Rhine-Ruhr transportation
center of Duisburg Thursday night,
rounding out week of furnishing,
nonstop bombardment against the
German army's forward lines of
supply.
A similar, diversionary force
stabbed at Hamburg. while Raj
night fighters and intruder forma-
tions supported the big bombers and
carried out number of harassing
attacks on Nazi fighter stations in
Western Germany. At least two
German planes were shot down. -Four
British plafies were lost.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-01
Farmers Of State
Seek Exemptions
On Job Insurance

SACRAMENTO, Dec. /. CUP) -
The employment stabilization COM
mission said it was taking under
sdvisement request filed by repre-
sentatives of California farmer or
ganizations to change the present
definition OF agricultural lsbor"
under California unemployment laws
to match federal laws.
Michael B. Kunz, "a member of
the commission, said approximately
100000 workers in sugar refineries
and other farmer operated estab-
lishments now covered by unem-
ployment insurance would be ex-
empted under the proposed change.
Ralph H. Taylor, executive secre-
tary of the agricultural council of
California, told the commission Csli-
fornia agriculture is at a competi-
tive disadvantage with other states
which operte under the so-called
federal definition of agricultural
labor.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-01
WARREN DECLINES BID
TO GOVERNORS MEET

PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. l. (UP)-
Seven of the western state governors
today hsd made definite arrange
ments to attend a conference here
December ITO.
In addition to Arizona's Gov. Sid
ney P. Osborn, these state chief
executives are slated to attend
the parley:
Cows. John c. Vivian, of Colo
RADIO; Sam c. Ford Montana; Her.
bert Nav, Utah; Lester c. Hunt,
Wyoming; John j. Dempsey, New
Mexico, and E. P. Carville, Nevada.
Governors Smell, of oregon; C. A.
Bottolfsen, Idaho; Earl Warren,
California, and Arthur B. Langlie,
of Washington have declined the
invitations. but it was considered
likely those states would be rep
resented by other officials
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-01

lnduStflal VltaS IN Lne Runr ana
the deep Saar.
German broadcasts admitted Lieu
tenant General George S. Patton's
Third army was closing in irresist-
ably upon Saarlautern, key Saar
bastion six miles inside the Reich,
from three sioes and Patton's forces
now held nearly one-half the Saar
area.
Three of Patton's crack divisions.
the 10th armored, the Goth and 95th
infantry shouldered forward mile
to mile and a half to form a solid
front on the river Saar from just
north of Merzig which is south
west of the corner where the Saar
joins Luxembourg to a point south
west of Saarlautern.
The 95th infantry was only Two
miles west of Saarlautern's coal and
coke industries within easy artillery
range which already was believed
to be robbing many of the Saar
industrial towns of their war-mak-
ing capacity.
The Third army overran a series
Of small Saar towns, includinf,
Fremesborf and Buren,, midway be-
tween Merzig and Saarlautern, Hill
bringen, Fitten and Ballern, all just
west OF Merzig and fighting was
going forward inside battered Itz-
bach, four miles northwest of Saar-
lautern.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-01
North End County
Groups to Fight
Return Of laps
Meeting To BE Called at
Brawley as Reports Tell
OF $500 To Be Released

BRAWLEY, Dec. 1.-Plans
for a mass protest meeting
were gaining momentum here
Friday to forestall return of
Japanese-Americans fr o m
Poston and other war relOca-
tion centers.
A temporary committee
headed by Elmer Sears will
meet with all north-end organiza-
tons representatives In the Elks
hall Friday night to formulate plans
for the mass meeting to be held in
the Brawley high school field next
Thursc ay night, December 7, Pearl
Harbor day.
REPORTS HEARD
The plans for the protest meet
ing were by north-end growers who
said they had reliable information
that $500 Japanese-Americans will
be released from the WRA center
at Poston December Is. Many OF
those released will be returning to
Imperial Valley, their homes before
internment, growers believed. AL
though it is believed that there were
only seven or eight that actually
now own farms in this section, 9TH
ers were workers or owned various
businesses.
The return of two men here earlier
~; Acfny,ctn1u fnr nnnnkit1 q
upon preparations to return the
japanese to Brawley, precipitated
the action by the growers, it was
pointed out at four meetings held
Wednesday and Thursday.
GROWERS START MOVE = :
The decision to hold the meet
ing was reached at growers parley
Wednesday night. Events then fol-
lowed in rapid succession toward
setting up a protest meeting that
may become countrywide, according
to the committees plans.
Thursday morning the members
of merchants committee of the
BraWley Chamber of Commerce ap-
preached and they supported the
plan but referred the request to the
board of directors. The board of
directors named Sears as temporary
chairman of the committee. In a
hurriedly called meeting Thursday
night it was decided to can all rep
resentatives of north-eno and valley
wide organizations to the general
meeting in the Elks hall here Fri
day night.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-01
Heavy Bombers
Rake Reich

Returning fliers reported that
their bombs started huge fires In
Duisburg, major inland harbor
and communications hub at the
western end CT Germany's indus
trial Ruhr valley.
The night assault followed Sc
ries of widespread daylight blows
by upwards OF 5000 American and
British warplanes against Ger
many's dWindling oil reserves and
the Nazi rail system In the west
More than 1850 u. s. Eighth Air
Force bombers, covered by over 1000
fighters, hit four oil plants In the
Leipzig area and railway yards
around Saarbrucken. while about $50
British raiders attacked three benz
zol plants In the Ruhr
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-01
COLORFUL CAREER ENDS

NEW YORK, Dec. /. CUPl--The
death last Tuesday of Charles v.
Bob, colorful Wall Street promoter
who ran up fortune of more than
S10,0OC,000. backed a Byrd expedi-
ticn to the South Pole and lavishly
entertained New York celebrities be-
fore he was sent to prison for mail
fraud in 1899, was revealed. Bob,
who in recent years had been living
quietly here with his wife, died of a
heart ailment after an illness of
several weeks. He was ST.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-01

SACRAMENTO, Dec. l. tUP) =
Officials of the California League of
Cities said Friday the organization
would ask the state legislature to
appropriate $l00,OOO,0OO of state sur
plus funds for flood control sewers
and other public works in cities and
counties in the state.
The local governments would
match state contributions under
the plan recommended by the board
of directors of the league, it was
said. At recent special session
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-01
TO EVICT NAVAL FAMILIES

ALBANY, CAL. Dec. /. (UP)-
Four hundred and fifty navy fami-
lies will be evicted from their homes
in the federal housing project at
Codornices Village to make room for
Mare leland navy yard civilian
workers, it was disclosed. The evic-
tions were ordered by Rear Adm.
M. S. Tisdale, commandant of Mare
Island. The majority of the naval
personnel living at the village now
are attached to the nearby naval
and force equipment depot at the
site of the cid Albany race track.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-01
Atlantic Seobodrd Feels
Grip Of Wintry Blast

is moving rapidly eastward, the
weatherman said. Cooling effects
were felt as far south at Atlanta,
Georgia, and Vicksburg. Mississippi,
which reported freezing tempera-
lures of 30 degrees.
The coolest temperatures last
night were registered at Atlantic,
Iowa, where the mercury dropped
to five below zero and Fargo, North
Dakota which recorded three below.
Snowfall ranging from one to
eight inches of snow snarled traffic
and communications systems.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-01
Synthetic Tires
Make Meals
For Porcupines

ALBANY, N. p, Dec. /. (UP) =
State Conservation Commissioner
John A. White Friday warned
motorists with synthetic tires to
beware of porcupines since the
animals are definitely finding
such tires a delicacy.
Investigation of a number of re-
ports that the animals were en-
joying the "synthetics" as food
stuff proved to the conservation
department that the reports were
not exaggerations, White said.