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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-28
By HOWARD COWAN

| LONDON, Sept. '27.- Up The
British nation, which for 10 tense
days and nights had watched the
battle on the north bank of the
Neder Rhine, tonight received the
sad story of the valient Red Dew
iIs'' of Anthem. =
| Some time Monday night the sur
vivors Of the British First Air
Borne division, known as RED
Devils because of their distinc-
tive red berets, bowed to the SUI
periority Of German tanks and ar
tilery. and fled to the south bank
Of the river
They left their wounded behind
no one knows how many. The
number was not disclosed at SUI
preme headquarters, at any rate.
The Germans said 6, 4O0-including
/ 400 wounded-were captured and
1900 killed. The normal strength
of an air borne division is esti-
mated at 5000.
The ''Red Devils had floated
down on parachutes and in elders
a week ago last Sunday to hold
bridge. It was part of the plan,
a dangerous plan but so daring
that if it succeeded the war could
be shortened by weeks perhaps
by months.
Anthem was so miles behind the
German lines. If the bridge there
could be held along with the one
across the Rhine at Niimegen,.
eight miles to the south, and those
over the Mouse (Maas) at Grave
and over the Wilhelmina canal just
north of Eindhoven, the Germans
could be outflanked by the armor
of 1t. Gen. Sir Miles Dempsey's
Second British army.
The plan went well. even to the
Selling of the Anthem bridge, I'm
til Dempsey's spearheads crossed
the Rhine at Nijmegen, where the
bridge was saved at the last min
ute. American paratroopers yank-
ed the fuses from demolition
charges before the Germans had
chance to blow it up. The Ameri-
cans had swum across and ap-
preached the bridge from the
north.
But it had not taken the enemy
long to guess what was happen
ing. The Germans realized that
the bridge at Mijmegen was no
good without the one at Anthem,
and that was where they decided
to make their stand
Then came the bitterest break
OF an-foggy mists and rain from
low hanging clouds took a decid-
ing hand in the furious battle.
The British and American fight
Ell planes, which had played such
an important role in getting the
air borne troops 10 their dropping
zones safely, we're grounded. So
were the big cargo craft, the para
troopers sole source of u p p y
once they reached the ground.
Spared interference from. the
air, the Germans stole up to the
rim of Anthem with their heavy
guns and tanks A merciless bar
rage was poured into the compact
area and, after three days, the
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-28

mon, $46, fair orange, $45, low or
ange, $44 common orange SAL, all
unchanged; common green (or-
ange side,, $34, down one.
Smoking leaf: Fair orange, $45,
low orange, $45, all unchanged.
Cutters: Low lemon, $46, fair or
ange, s46, low orange, SIS all un.
changed.
Lugs: Good lemon $45, good or.
ange, $45, fair orange, $44, low or.
ange, $40, all unchanged.
Nondescript: Best thin $35, I'M
changed; best heavy, $35, up two
Middle Belt
Leaf: Fair lemon, $45, low lemon
$42, good orange, SIS, fair orange
$44 all unchanged; low orange S42
common orange, 500, common
green (orange side), $40, all down
one.
Smoking leaf: Good orange, $45,
unchanged; fair orange, $44, down
one.
Cutters: Good lemon, $46, uncang.
ed; fair lemon, $45, down one.
Lugs: Fine lemon, $45, good le'
mon, t$45, good orange $44 fair
orange, $43, all unchanged.
Nondescript: Best thin $35, up
one, e.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-28
TOBACCO PRICES
REMAIN STEADY
BY The. Associated Press

Average prices paid for most
grades of tobacco on North Caro-
lina's Eastern and Middle belts
remained steady yesterday, the
War Food Administration and the
State Department of Agriculture
reported. The volume of sales was
heavy on both belts, with eastern
markets reporting extremely
crowded conditions.
On eastern markets the general
quality of offerings was considered
lower due to slight decrease in
the percentage of good quality leaf
and an increase in nondescript Of
ferings. The bulk of sales was made
up Of common to fair leaf, good
Tugs and nondescript grades.
Middle belt markets reported de-
cceases of cent pound in some
leaf, smoking leaf and nondescript
grades. Lugs made up a larger
proportion of the days offerings,
while the percentage Of leaf grades
was smaller, VIA said.
Eastern market SOLO 1,1oS,o oI
pounds Tuesday at an average of
$42.46 per hundred pounds, bring
ing the season total to 1928, 103, 1866
pounds at an average of $41.78.
Tuesdays sales on Middle Belt
markets totaled 3,174,15 pounds at
an average of $41.31, a decline of
.93 hundred from Mondays level.
Season sales through Tuesday to-
tailed 1921, 313 pounds at an aver
age of $42.68.
Average prices per hundred on a
limited number of U. S. grades,
with Tuesdays comparative pric-
es:
Eastern Belt
Good 1@x,oAr CAT eo;x IL
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-28
Durham Man Sentenced
For OPA Violations


DURHAM, Sep. 27.-CR-A fine
Of $500 and six months imprison-
ment was the penalty imposed yes
tercay in federal court on Harry
II. Bergman, Durham merchant,
convicted of violating OPA ration
regulations.
bergman was charged with
making false statements on sugar
fsuonlng banking d eposit en-
elopes, with possession, use and
Fansfer of large amounts of coun-
'eflelt sugar rationing coupons and
with forging names of sugar re-
.alers with intent to conceal the
True source of the sugar coupons.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-28
British Nation Gets
Sad Story OF Battle

/ British were forced to give up.
They abandoned the bridge an d
retreated into the woods west Of
town.
That was on Friday. and things
looked dark enough then. Still no
help had come from across the
river. although they could h e
Dempsey's artillery. desperately
blazing away, trying to find the
Germans and steadily closing in.
The supply line behind Demp-
sey's forces snapped under terrific
pressure from the Germans on its
east and west TANKS, nd the
drive from Nijmegen to Anthem
was slowed while this threat was
dealt with.
At supreme headquarters it was
admitted that the British wer e
fighting against tremendous odds,
and suffering heavy casualties. The
situation was said to be critical
but not hopeless-yet.
Then into the sixth and seventh
days. Exhausted, weary from lack
of sleep, wet from incessant rain,
the plucky Tommies fought on with
whatever they could lay their
hands on. Many used weapons
captured from the Germans. 9th
ers we're reduced to bayonets, and
hand grenades.
They cooked their ears toward
the skies, hoping for the thrum Of
plane engines, but they heard only
| the tantalizing chant from German
loudspeakers entreating them in
poor English to surrender.
Then, in spite of the weather,
Zig twin-engined CATS were load
ed with Polish paratroops and dis
patched to the rescue. The wealth
er was abominable for such an
operation with a misty rain and
low ceiling of clouds. The Poles
jumped and the wind carried them
to the wrong side of the Rhine.
German fighter planes lurking
in the clouds sneaked out and shot
down 30 of the defenseless cargo
planes.
But, in spite of this crushing
blow, the British refused to give
up and kept tending their ever-ir-
creasing lines of wounded with an
ever-decreasing supply of morphia
and sulfanilimide.
Troops from the British Second
army crossed the Rhine in RATS
and boats at night, but it devel-
oped that they were sealed off and
able to offer little assistance. The
Germans continually were re-
inforced by picked SIS. troops and
tenaciously held to the A n h e m
bridge. The precariously slender
supply line had been broken a Sec
ond time and even a third time
at Veghe-far below Nijmegen.
So the fight was given up. One
last blistering barrage was turned
loose on the Germans Monday
night and those with the energy
to swim or crawl On o assault
boats or RATS trailed across to the
southern bank of the river.
Correspondents at upr m e
headquarters were suspicious
when strict ban on any specula-
ton of events in the Anthem area
was imposed Monday. They were
informed of the withdrawal Tues
day midnight, but for security rea-
sons, perhaps to give the last few
survivors of the Red Devils
chance to get back to the British
lines south of the Rhine, the news
was withheld until Wednesday
midnight. ....-
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-28
DIVINITY SCHOOL OPENS

DURHAM, Sept. 27.-R-Open-
ing it's nineteenth year, the Duke
University Divinity School tomor-
row morning will hear DR.. G. Ray
Jordan, pastor of First Methodist
church, Charlotte, speak on the
topic 1.-The Task of the Ministry"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-28
Fremen Extingaish
Two Small BIazes

The fire department answered
two calls to fires that resulted in
little damage. e:-.
A motorcycle was demolished be-
fore a store at 20 Spofford. The
firemen answered the call at 11:04
am.
At 1920 am, firemen extin-
guished blaze caused by an oil
stove at the residence of E. L.
Avery, 500 South Fifth street.
w..
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-28
ND John L. Sullivan Fight
With Stomach Ulcer Pains?

,o me famous heavyweight champion was
s .uteo as voracious eater. Could he have
sf a,en and fought as he did if he suffered
nv eating pains? Don't neglect stomach
boo. Mcef pains, Indigestion, gas pains,
otsa ar burning sensation. bloat and
cat conditions caused by excess acid.
49, zoe box of Udga Tablets from your
ttrugglst. First dose must convince or re-
M Mon box to us and get DOUBLE. YOUR
MoNEY BACK.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-28

Good lemon, $47. fair le BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-09-30
Illness Fatal
70 H. Bacorn

BUTTE-Harry c. Bacorn, prom
inent mining engineer and mining
operator, died here last week at his
home, following an extended illness.
He was born in Chicago, ILL.,, and
received his education In that city,
after which he came to Montana.
After putting in an apprenticeship
in the assay office at the Drumlurn-
mon mine in Marysville, he became
head asSayer at the Granite mine
in Philipsburg.
In the early part of this century,
he became assistant to G. H. Robin
son, noted mining engineer, in the
management of the Robinson inter
ests in the Tintic mining district of
Utah. While in that district he also
was made consultant for mill OBJ
orators at Ophir. Before returning
to Montana he was mine manager
for the Allis- Chalmers mining prop
critics at Sonora, Mexico.
With his brother, the late r. w.
Bacorn, prominent Butte attorney.
he operated the Gibbonsville mine.
at GibbOnsville, Idaho; the Golden
Sunlight mine near Whitehall.
Mont; various properties in the
fAAAAAANf Va |u%A(s cf110 L1tG AdUlE
mine, near Anaconda. The Cable
was operated many years by the
Savery family and purchased by
Bacorn few years ago. From 1916
to 1888 he was vice president and
general manager of the Jardine Min
ing company, at Jardine, Mont.
In 1912 he accepted a position as
one of the senior mining engineers
with the Metals Reserve company
in Washington, d. C. Due to falling
health he was forced to give up his
Washington position, afterwards
spending his summers in Butte and
Jardine and his winters at Las
Vegas, New.
He was charter member and
for many years vice president of
the Mining Association of Montana.
and was also member of the A. /.
M. E., American Mining congress
and the Montana Society of Engi-
neerS.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-09-30

He said these four basic requisites
are survival of the system of free
enterprise, labor as skilled and eff
ficient as it was before the war,
government stockpiling of metals
vital to the nations future security
and for protection of the mining
industry against accumulated and
scrap-pile stock, and revision of
the tax program. He would en-
courage expansion of corporate &C
tiYities and adjustment of the ex-
cess profits tax even if it proves
advisable or necessary to increase
taxes on dividends after they are
paid
He said that SEC regulations gov
erning the financing of prospect
mine development must be modified
or done away with in order to give
the prOSpector and small develop
ment companies more opportunity
to obtain the assistance of capital
in mineral development enterprises,
and referred to resolution recently
adopted by the Northwest Mining
association in which it was stated
that the family tree of any great
mining enterprise goes back to a
number of wildcats" and employ
ment of risk capital in locating and
developing new mineral discoveries
and new mining districts.
He disagreed with a recent state
ment of the research department
of the committee of economic de
velopment which stated that stock
piling of metals should be viewed
with skepticism and which, he said,
apparently represented a majority
school of thought among the gen
eral public outside of the mining
industry.
The general land office policy
which discourages prospecting for
minerals on public lands should be
changed, he said, to perpetuate and
increase the output of American
mined minerals and free the United
States from any dependence on for
eign mined ores.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-09-30
WILL BUILD
COAST LINE
AFTER WAR

The North Pacific Pipeline COM
tentative plans for a line from Wv
oming through southern Montana
10 the Pacific coast, does not plan
such construction until after the
war.
This was the declaration of c. o.
Rison, vice president in charge of
operations, Great Falls visitor this
week.
He said the line, if built at that
time. would provide Montana and
Wyoming operators with an outlet
for their crude which otherwise
might be denied them, with lessen
ing Of war demand for oil.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-09-30
Wyoming u VIII Get
Oil Shdle Laboratory

The Bureau of Mines will estab-
lish an oil shale research and de
velopment laboratory at the Uni
versity of Wyoming at Laramie.
AS part of the synthetic fuels pro-
gram recently authorized by con-
gress to determine the best methods
Of converting the large deposits of
oil shale in the United States into
lasting supply of oil and gasoline
for the postwar years, the labor
atory viii conduct research on the
composition of oil shale, shale oil
and their products, and study i'm
proved methods of processing and
using these materials.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-09-30
Plenty of Crude Still
Untupped. Prott View

Despite the gloomy view that the
worlds petroleum reserves will be
exhausted in Is years, there is
strong reason to believe the ulti-
mate resources are many times
larger than now known, Wallace E.
Pratt, geologist and vice president
of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jer-
sey, writes in the current issue of
the Journal of Business of the Uni
versity of Chicago school of bust
ness.
cit is hardly conceivable (unleSs
wars are to continue INCREASINGLY
that the United States will suffer
a critical shortage of liquid fuels
within the foreseeable future" he
declares.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-09-30
Stockpiles of Crude
Show Steudy Decline

oil in storage tanks has been de-
pleted at the average rate of 2,000,-
900 barrels a month this year, and
now is only slightly above the mini
mum required to keep refineries in
uninterrupted operation, the Petro-
leum Administration for war re-
ports. Although gasoline stocks are
at pre-war levels, only about half is
for civilian use, compared to 90 per
cent available for civilian use in
1871.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-09-30
Crude inventories
Show Some Increase

Stocks of domestic and foreign
crude petroleum at the close of the
week ended Sept IS totaled %, $780,
600 barrels, according to data re
ported to the Bureau of Mines,
United States department of the in
terror. Compared with the total of
220, 623, 900 barrels for the preceding
week. this represents an increase
of 1,366,000 barrels comprising an
increase of I,442,000 barrels in
stocks of domestic crude and de-
crease of 10000 barrels in stocks
of foreign crude.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-09-30
Cdrter Posses Mile
In South Stote Test

The Carter Oil company has
passed the mile mark in its No.
Bowlen, wildcat on the Fox-Lu-
Their structure in the extreme south
ern part of the state just east of the
Rocky mountains, with hole made
to 5583. Location is G SW NE IL
6S-19E, few miles northwest of
Ohio Oil company's Dry Creek field.
Ounces of production today win
mean tons of celebration soon.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-09-30
Bunker Hill Z Sullivan President
Outlines Needs of Mining Industry

WALLACE daho-Speang before regional conference of the
committee for economic development of the northwest and
the war Stany A. president the Bunker Hill
Sullivan Mining Concentrating Co Kellogg outlined four
REQUISITES for a prosperous mining industry.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-09-30
MEETING SET

Quarterly meeting of the inter
state oil compact commission will
be held in the Biltmore hotel, Okla
homa City, Oklahoma, Oct. 5, 6 and
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-09-30
SoconY-Vucuusn Picks
Jennings ds President

NEW YORK-B. Brewster Jen-
nings has been elected president
and chairman of the executive COM
mittee of Socony-Vacuum Oil Co.,
Inc, to succeed the late John A.
Brown
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-09-30

In the primary election the girl
from the mountains asked for
ballot.
What party do you affiliate
WITH"
do / have to answer that?"
you do if you want a ballot"
Then / don't want no ballot be-
cause the party | affiliates with
amt divorced yet"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-23
Local 400 Board
Reiinstated
Officers Suspended
After Soda Pop Strike

The entire executive board Of
Local 400. UAW-CIO, suspended
for so days by the international
union as a result Of the so-called
soda pop" strike at the Chrysler
Corp. Highland Park plant, has
been reinstated by vote of the
union. it was announced Saturday.
Officers of the local said the
entire slate of candidates won by
a two to one vote. Since the sus-
pension order the local has been
in the hands OF an international
administrator.
The reported reelected consists
of William Jenkins, president;
Alex Mcintyre, vice president;
George Southart, recording Secre-
tary; f. r. Mccormick. financial
secretary; Robert Mcmahon, SER
geant at arms; Robert Speedie,
guide, and Betty Jaskierny
trustee
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-23

How many army officers oil
lesser rank were shot in that
purge is a secret TO this day. Hit.
Ter created a special pension fund
for the widows and children OF
the slain.
Gen. Werner Won Fritsch. COM
mander in chief OF the German
army. who built up the German
war machine, resisted all efforts
of Hitler and Himmler to inject
Nazi politics and influence into
the army and get control of 1t.
He refused to take storm
troops and Waffen SIS officers
into the army with the rank they
held in those organizations. When
the Nazi chiefs and their follow
eYs withdrew from the Protestant
or Catholic church, the COM
mander in chief issued an order
that all officers and privates in
garrisons not on duty Sunday
morning must attend divine serv-
ices.
When President Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg, at Won Papen's
urging, accepted Hitler as chan
cellor and turned over Germany
to him, he exacted a solemn
pledge from Hitler that he would
retain Won Fritsch as commander
in chief of the army.
In February. 1888, an affidavit
sworn TO by an unknown man
cQnfessing that he had immoral
relations with Gen. Won Fritsch
was laid before Hitler. The com
mander in chief was a bachelor
and his engagement TO a well
known woman was TO be an
neunced that week.
The commander in chief gave
TO Hitler his personal word o
honor as a soldier that the charge
was a fabrication. Hitler refused
to accept it. That forced Vol
Fritsch to resign. Gen. Walthe
Won Brautchisch succeeded him.
Won Fritsch demanded a trial
The srecial military court wa
composed of Reichmarshal Goer
ing. Grand Adm. Raeder. Gen. Vol
Brautchisch and two professional
judges from the supreme court il
Leipzig
Goering presided. The MAJ
who had sworn to the AFFIDAVIT
could not identify Won Fritsch
Under Goering's sharp question
ing tas Won Fritsch afterward
related TO mel. the accuser brok
down and confessed the charg
was false. He was uncovered a
an ex-convict who had served sen
fences for blackmail and extor
ton.
The special court unanimousl
found Won Fritsch mot guilty
and added that there was no
even suspicion on his honor. oil
his character or reputation.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-23
Ydnks RepeF
JapsonGuann
Tank-Led Troops Gain
Control Of Highway

PACIFIC FLEET HQ., PEARL
HARBOR, July p (UP)-Ameri-
can marine and army forces on
Guam island repulsed two Japa-
nese counterattacks Friday and
expanded their two beachheads on
the islands western coast by cap
turing strategic heights and roads
from Agana to Pitt Town, Adm.
Nimitz announced today.
Tank-led u. S. assault troops
now control the main road north
and west across the island, con-
Meeting the vital Oroto peninsula
and its 4,700-foot airstrip with
other Japanese centers on the
eastern coast.
JAPS MASS FORCES
Nimitz's communique disclosed
that fighting increased as the
japanese massed their strength
for attacks against both the
northern and southern U. S.
beachheads. seven miles apart.
Both attacks were repulsed
with approximately go japanese
and minimum of five tanks de-
stroyed in the furious action.
The comunique revealed that
the Third Marine Division under
Maj. Gen. Turnage of Whitewater.
Va.-the troops who invaded
Bougainville in the Solomons-
landed on the northern beach
above Orote peninsula.
FAMED RAIDERS LAND
The First Provisional Marine
Brigade, which includes the famed
Raider" battalions of the South
Pacific, landed on the southern
beach al Agata and Bangi Point
just below the peninsula.
The first brigade is commanded
by Brig. Gen. Shepherd Jr. Of
La Jolla. Cal.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-23

communications, American under
sea Enthusiastically credited with
more than 20 per cent of enemy
merchant ship losses-will be able
TO strike with eVer-increaSlnG
deadliness al Japan's vital ship
ping. destruction OF which consti-
tutes a major, if not decisive
factor in guaranteeing our ulti-
mate victory.
SMASH AT BONINS
Present operations of Adm
Spruance's feet indicate that the
recapture of Guam and perhaps
several other key isles in the Mari
ana's may be followed with a
smashing drive on the Bonins.
u. S. bombers based on Saipan
presumably already have begun to
soften up" the Bonins.
With the runways of Saipan's
airfieldS heightened sufficiently TO
handle the mighty new American
super Fortresses. il will be pos
sible TO harass the japanese with
great effect and wage a sustained
aerial offensive against both the
Japanese home Gland and the
Philippines.
The loss of Saipan is as serious
to Japan as would have been the
loss of Pearl Harbor TO the United
States.
Copyright. 1914. international News Service
MOTE: The opinions expressed and
the assertions made herein are my own
and are not TO be construed as official
or rejecting IN any way the views Of
the navy department or the naval serv-
ice at large
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-23
WLB Names Panel

WASHINGTON, July y tINS)
The War Labor Board today APP
pointed a three-man panel and
scheduled hearings on the wage
demand of 21,000 employees of the
General Electric Co. and the West
inghouse Electric and Manufactur-
ing Co.