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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-06
COMPANY THANKED

The r. j. Reynolds Tobacco
Co. has offered its thanks and
appreciation to the H. Berger
and Son Furniture Co. for their
generous donation of 1000
packs of cigarettes to service
men overseas. The cigarettes
have already left the port OF
embarkati0n. Each pack car
ried best wishes from the COM
pany, and was signed by H.
Berger and Son Furniture Co.
COUNTY COUNCIL TO MEET
The New Hanover County
Council of Home Demonstra-
ton Clubs will hold an import
ant meeting on Friday, Janu-
airy !, at 10000 am. in the
Home Agents Office. All 1943
and 1914 Officers of Horne
Demonstration Clubs are urg-
ed to be present. Mrs. M. S.
Emmart will preside.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-06

Concerning to whom it may con-
cerl:
Bill Werber, who quit major
Evening star., 1944-10-03
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Evening star., 1944-04-25

the cave was the German head
quarters In Sala, Italy,"
Capt. Farwell was one of 48 Rang
ers chosen to go along on the big
Dieppe raid. Later he took part
in the landing at Arzew, North
Africa, and in the Sicily attack.
When we landed at Salerno," he
said, "the Rangers hit an unde-
Tended beach a few miles away and
continued on to Maiori, IS miles in
land, with orders to check any
Germans who might attack the
beachhead. At Chiunzi Pass the
Rangers took over in "a hours and
Evening star., 1944-04-25
Last Of Dieppe Raid
-
Line Officers Receivers
From Wounds in j. ).
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associatec Press.
FORT DEvENS, Mass, April 25.
The last original line officer of
the American Rangers-that battle
hardened group of men who fought
from Dieppe to the Anzio beach,
head-now is recuperating from
wounds at Lowell General Hospital.
He is Capt. Stanley T. Farwell of
Monroe, Mich, who shortly will be
on his way home on a 30-day fur
Tough and first sight of his 2-year-
old daughter Anne.
The Rangers no longer exist as
an organization, but Capt. Farwell
still proudly wears the Rangers
shoulder patch-insignia which vet
eran Rangers may wear no matter
where they are stationed.
In an interview yesterday he told
Of the rigorous training given the
Rangers and of adventures encoun-
Evening star., 1944-04-25
tered during many q hard-fought

tered during many q hard-foush,
raid.
The scene he remembered best OF
all, ne said, was a bit of humor
reminiscent of the old Keystone
comedies.
There were two Rangers chas.
ing three Germans" he explained
THE Germans ran in the front
door of a house and then out the
back, with the Rangers after them
Then the Germans ran into a
cave and the Americans dashed
after them. A few seconds later the
Rangers came running out again
Evening star., 1944-04-25

conclusion ruptured an eardrum
and caused internal injuries.
II know 1t was an 88-mm.," he
said, because they took a piece OF
shrapnel from my kneecap and II
had SO marked on It."
Evening star., 1944-04-25

held the pass for AZ days before re-
lieving troops arrived"
Capt. Farwell received a peculiar
injury at Chiunzi. A big shell
landed feet above his head while
he was standing In a doorway. The
Evening star., 1944-08-24

Army Air Forces newest fighter, the
low-wing P-63 Kingcobra, that will
replace the famed Bell P-3o ARA
c0bra. He said 1t sounded like q
pretty good ship and he might apply
for training In q squadron made up
Of the Peas.
Favers New SeuAdren.
"It's always best to get with a
squadron that's Just being made up,"
he said. ITS never so good to be
sent cut as replacement
1t. Xoung, who gave his Fairfax
netghhor9 demonstration Of the
Flying fortress last March when he
flew over his home en- route to Eng
land and dropped a note to his
mother that landed near his front
gate. said D-day was just like going
to q movie and sitting behind q
woman wearing big hat.
Our squadron had been assigned
q target on the Normandy coast, /"
he said WE went out on sJsne S,
the original date set for tie in
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my slit trench deeper and make a
hoxhole out of it. My equipment
was lying alongside the hole and I
pushed it away so Id have room for
the dirt. Then I heard the primer
snap on a grenade lying there with
my equipment and knew I had only
five seconds to do something.
THE other men of my section
were all around in the area and If I
tossed the grenade away they would
have got it. threw myself on the
ground beside the partly dug foxhole
and brushed the grenade into the
hole with my left hand. Before 1
could withdraw my hand the
grenade went OF. The explosion
knocked me out and I didn't wake
up until they had me at the bat
talon aid station. !,
TT was so quiet and peaceful that
when I opened my eyes and saw a
chaplain bending over me I thought
I was dead" x
Sergt. Schaffer was leader Of q
heavy machine gun section in the
18th Division.
Sergt. Raymond F. Donovan. also
recovering at Walter Reed, is an
other infantryman who got it in a
foxhole. He was holed up with his
outfit, the famed 29th Division, three
Evening star., 1944-08-24

vasion. and then We had to hit our
same target again the next day.
IT the show had started on
schedule we would have had a
grandstand seat, but as it was the
clouds were SO thick when our troops
landed that we couldn't zee . thing.
The only thing We were sure Of was
that there were y lot Of planes In
the SKY. They were just Ike snats. :"
1t. Young said 1t is hard I'd get
over In this country the impression
you get when you see 5000 planes
IN the air at the same time.
In England, he said, all forlna-
tions go out over two or three points
and the air looks so thick with
planes that you feel you could get
up there and walk around.
I guess was Just lucky" he
said. "An Of my crew came through
without scratch. The Nazi fight-
Evening star., 1944-08-24

for the Government, but coming out
again you are working 100 per cent
for yourself"
Join the attack make your
dollars fight buy extra War
Bonds.
Evening star., 1944-08-24
Art and Hollywood
AS Combination
Hy the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
The movies pay Phillip Smithson
big dough to paint garters Oh
of pretty actresses.
As an artist, It's Smithsons Job
to paint out garters on still photo
graphs Of actresses shown wearing
EN- with their abbreviated dance
costumes. Movie censors permit
garters to be shown on the screen,
but they can't appear in still photo
graphs -.
Similarly, the famous painting.
Afternoon of a Faun,' showing
satyr and four nude nymphs ca
vorting In a woodland recently
was permitted, after a little touch
up to be shown in q barroom scene
that was art! :. but the studio
had to delete a scene where q
teen-age girl wandered into the
saloon and stopped to gawk at the
painting.
Evening star., 1944-08-24

miles from st.
Lo when struck
in the left arm
by frag ments
from a German
SO barrage.
There wAs no
pain, and the aid
men hurried me
to the beach," he
recalled. Next
thing I knew I
was in England
and they were
putting me on a
plane for home.
I feel as though
I took a short
Evening star., 1944-08-24

I" iAtt1C oA IAC
dull side. Bach
home after COM
pleting IS mis-
Sions over Eu-
rope in about %
days, 1t. Young
plans to liven up
his part with the
Army Air Forces
by applying for
duty with a pur-
suit squadron.
ANY way you
take it," he ex-
planned, - Fly
ing Fortress, al
Evening star., 1944-08-24
AnrV 4Sth & Mass. Ave. NV
Az La Wo0dley 1900.
Take the Crosstown or N-2 Bus
Direct to Door
uaalfhfullx Air Cnndifi0nAd

SYDNEY GREENsTREET, PETER
LOIRE in THE MASK OF D1MI-
TROIS' Also this is America series,
THEY FIGHT AGAIN" and musical.
Doors open at 6:15. Feature at 20
9:45.
Evening star., 1944-08-24

and easy cut to be wounded vet
eran. These Army doctors are ma
gicians."
Sergt. Donovan observed that the
Germans don't go for the Yankees
in-flghting tactics, adding that the
Nazis would leave snipers behind
and haul out as fast as they could. "
Evening star., 1944-08-24

ers just didn't happen to be out the
days We went over. The worst time
we had was on 4 raid on schwein-
furt, Germany. last May, and then
We managed to get back with
nothing more than few fax holes
In our plane. 1t takes 4 lot and
then some. to knock Fortress out
Of the air."
1t. Young said II Is pretty hard
sometimes to go through the heavy
1ak around target area without
Evening star., 1944-08-24
Twister Kills One, Hurts IS

EDINBURG, Tex, Aug. "a R,.-
One person was killed and Is in
jured yesterday when a twister swept
through the farming community of
McCook, IA miles north of here.
Falling timbers killed Mrs. Nasario
SOliz. 67.
Evening star., 1944-08-24

accidentally set
off hand gren-
ade which might
h a We m an t
d e a tn to his
comrades h e
held onto It.
The young in
fantryman, now
recuperating at
Walter r e e d
Hospital. t o / d
this story OF q
cold Normandy
dawn in June:
1T was too
cold to sleep, SO
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though one Of u. Xsuns.
the best ships for its particular job,
is slow and cumbersome. II you
really want q thrill out Of flying,
then pursuit plane is the thing"
1t. Young said he has been looking
over pictures just released Of the
Evening star., 1944-08-24
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, DC Ali
"a.

trying to dodge. You Just SIT and
get scared and pray little" he
said, "and when the bombs fall you
get q wonderful sense Of elation.
"One fellow put II right when he
said that going In you are working
Evening star., 1944-08-24
Bock From the Wars
Bock From the Wors ...
Plotting Fortress Rather Dull,
Says Veteran OF IS Missions

1t Frank Young. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. N. Peyton Young of Fairfax;
found copiloting Flying Fortress
during the invasion OF Europe 1alst
Evening star., 1944-08-24
Sergeant Loses Hand, ,
But Saves Comrades
By Holding Grenade

Staff Sergt. John Schaffer of
Camp Hill, Pa, of the 10th Infantry
Division is minus his left hand be-
cause rather than get rid Of an
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S,I,>S Of autumn girls ac breaking tall hats
} mostly black and very sharp
Lon. of football talk And Yau>> and tho Red son
Iud home team presses 20 WIND UP
no second place the prnnant race
rim tree, dusty tired staggering out Of
n0IfI heal wave >holt trimming When MON
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III the is IerShe Thompson home after %
find the family door barred
nv scarlet fever His young
ne+leu il cupr
the family outside the house
his old talking with
his family onI, through pane He's sergeant who
Ca>abanca to Italy. He the
hole.
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tni,rnrn Georg Mc\ic0ll: only fools and
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between Detroit
,.rtinin, Nrui York ant the eastern >ealIoard.
Evening star., 1944-05-29
First Divisions of Drafted Men
Get 7 7oste of Chasing Germans

holdover from the World War when
it was known as the Custer Division
after activation at Camp Custer,
Mich.
Associated Press Correspondent
George Tucker, who has been with
the 88th since 1t arrived, reported
that in the two months preceding
the opening of the current offensive,
every unit had been fed into the line
for patrol skirmishes.
"It's the only way to let the men
get the feel of battle before being
showed into q hot fight" Gen. Sloan
told Mr.. Tucker; they 60 up for a
while, kill a few Germans and then
come back feeling like veterans"
One battalion Of the 88th, Mr..
Tucker said, entered the line in the
Cervaro sector near Casino, at
tached to a French corps, to plug
a gap between the French and New
zealanders until reinforcements
came. They lost IA killed, "A
wounded and / missing in this
engagement.
The honor of firing the divisions
first shell fell to 1t. Col. Franklin
p. Miller Of Carmel, Calf, who sent
the missile into Monte Casino
Abbey.
Gen. Sloan. born January 81, 1887,
was graduated from the United
States Naval Academy in 1910. On
February 3, 1911, he was appointed
a second lieutenant of coast artillery
in the Regular Army. During the
World War he served as a colonel
He was promoted to the rank of
major general temporary May 20,
1912.
His various military assignments
have included military science pro-
fessorshipS at the Agricultural and
Mechanical College of Texas and
at the Oregon State Agricultural
College.
Gen. Coulter, whom the War De-
partment listed as coming from San
Antonio. Tex, was graduated from
West Texas Military Academy in
1911 and was commissioned q Sec
ond lieutenant in the Regular Army
cavalry November 80. 1912. His pro-
motion temporary to major. gem
eral came on March IL, 1943. In
the World War he served for time
as National Guard instructor for
the District of Columbia and Vir-
ginia, with headquarters in Wash.
ington. later going overseas as an
aide to Gen. w. A. Mann.
A graduate of both the command
and general staff and the cavalry
schools, he was made chief of cav
airy in Washington in 1922. Several
years later he enrolled In the Army
War College, was graduated in 1888
and afterward was graduated from
the Naval War College. Chief OF
the Latin American section, military
intelligence division of the War De-
partment, in 1884, he had several
other assignments before becoming
commanding general Of the 85th
Division at Camp Shelby.
He holds the Order of Military
Merit, awarded by. Mexico, and the
Decoration Commanderie de lOrdre
de Leopold.
He was born April %, 1891.
Evening star., 1944-05-29

the n mes of Gen. John Z. Sloan.
their commanding officers - Maj.
Gems. John E. Sloan of Greenville,
S. c., commander of the 88th, and
John B. Coulter of Ell Paso, Tex, a
pair of military men who believe in
having their men trained and
primed to razor sharpness before
battle.
Every State in the Union is rep
resented in both divisions, but about
half the personnel of the 88th is
from New York, New Jersey and
Connecticut.
Both are reactivated World War
divisions. The 88th preceded the
85th into the line by q few weeks
and it is mighty proud Of being the
first into the line, but in the current
campaign they have driven side by
side over the toughest kind of ter
rain to overcome the Nazis.
The 85th cleaned out the enemy
along the Tyrrhenian coast from
Garigliano to the Pontine Marshes,
capturing Scouri, Formia. Gaeta and
Evening star., 1944-05-29
tor transports, trains and an air.
drome in Northwest Yugoslavia.

tor transports, trains and an air.
drome in Northwest Yugoslavia.
One Liberatcr formation attacking
Wiener Neustadt was assigned the
task of destroying anything still in
tact in the main Messerschmitt fac
tory, which has been damaged in six
previous assaults.
The daylight assaults capped q
night in which the RAF kept the
air offensive rolling unchecked by
assaults on the Northwestern French
railroad center of Anglers, the Ger
man chemical city of Ludwigshafen
and other targets on the French
coast
The largest American aerial ar
mada yet dispatched delivered fiery
and explosive blows to a dozen
German targets yesterday, including
five urgently needed synthetic oil
plants around Leipzig, Dresden and
Magdeburg in the very heart of the
Central Reich, United States COM
munique said.
Extensive Fires Reported.
Extensive fires and explosions
were recorded in fuel factories at
Rutland, Lutszendorf, Merseburg,
Madgeburg and Zeitz. The Ger
man Army tank and armored We
hicle plants at Konigsborn suffered
heavy and extensive damage" with
all principal buildings hit, the COM
munique said.
Other damage was done by the
1000 bombers and 1900 conveying
fighters at a Junkers aircraft en-
gine factory at Leipzig -Taucha at
Zwickau, where rail yards and the
airdrome were bombed at the
Brandish-Polenz airdrome near
Leipzig, and at the railroad yards
east of Berlin at Frankfurt and at
Cologne.
Since dawn Saturday, exclusive of
last nights and today's attacks,
about 14,500 tons of bombs have
been loosed by Allied planes on
countless continental objectives by
some $4,000 aerial sorties (individ-
ual plane fights flown from both
Britain and Italy.
In yesterdays great attack the
American pombers based in Britain
attacked synthetic oil plants and
other installations in Central and
Western Germany.
Other Blows Delivered.
The American raiders delivered
the major but not the only blows of
the heaviest single day in the West
ern European air war. About 1900
bombers and fighters comprised the
American force. In all, the more
than 5000 planes from British bases
dropped more than $500 tons of
bombs on targets ranging all the
way from the Channel coast to
Leipzig.
Evening star., 1944-05-29
Italy
Continued From First Page. }

protection in culverts and buildings.
Further Nazi reinforcements ap-
peared, in addition to elements of
the Hermann Goering 92d Division,
which until recently had been in a
rest area north of Rome.
Divisions Identified.
1t was officially reported that the
German list, Gath and 715th Divi-
sions already had been virtually de-
stroyed out of the Is divisions which
the Germans had committed to the
battle south of Rome.
1t. Col ziegler, commander of the
361st Grenadiers opposing the 9Th
Army, wrote in his regiments story
which fell into the hands of the
British:
Our heavy losses are the token
OF the hardness of the battle. More
than half the men of the Sd Bat
talon have paid the price for their
bravery with their life's blood. In the
I'd Battalion losses also have been
heavy. The majority are missing,
either dead or fallen into. English
hands, gravely wounded"
Allied fighter -bombers maintained
their incessant attacks behind enemy
lines, detroying nearly 200 vehicles
and three tanks, and exploding an
ammunition dump north of Rome.
Mediterranean Air Force Liberia
tors concentrated their bombs on
Genoa harbor and rail yards at
Vercelli, on the Turin- Milan line.
At Genoa direct hits were scored on
two large merchant ships. The An
saldo shipyards and number OF
other ships were hit.
OF Is eney'v aircraft active over
battle areas, four were destroyed.
The Mediterranean Air Force flew
more than 1000 sorties and lost
three. planes.
For the second straight day the
French Navy supported the land
offensive, one of its cruisers bonn
harding enemy artillery successfully
north of Anzio, the Allied COM
munique said. An Allied destroyer
also shelled targets in the same area.
These bombardments brought the
total of naval supporting shellfire
in the current offensive to more
than 1000 rounds.
Evening star., 1944-05-29
Nazis Declare Allies
Have Passed Up Best
Invasion Opportunity
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 29.-Inyasion days
If summery weather and smooth
seas are any criterion-appeared
favorable today as Allied eagerness
and Nazi apprehension read into
nearly every fact or rllmor some
bearing on the long-awaited and
most widely heralded military oper-
alton of all time.
Nazi propaganda broadcasts as
serted the Allied high command
already had passed up its most
favorable Invasion opportunity be-
cause it had found out its legions
of men and. stupendous array Of
equipment were not as ready for
the great event as 1t had thought.
Berlin made wild guess, also,
that Gen. Eisenhower is waiting
for fresh troops from America be-
fore giving the go-ahead for the
western assault.
THE Allied high command has
allowed the past week-most favor
able both from the point of view
Of tides and weather-to 60 by be-
cause it has discovered flaws in
armament and preparations of the
invasion forces proclaimed the
German-cont Brussels radio.
Amid much speculation here, AL
lied authorities said they failed to
see how a erlin-announced meet
ing between Hitler and the Japa-
nese Ambassador to Berlin, 1t. Gen.
Hiroshi Oshima, fitted into the pic
ture
The meeting at Hitler's headquar-
ters, with Foreign Minister Joachim
Won Ribbentrop present, was for
consideration of "acute questions of
German Japanese collaboration"
the German radio said.
1t was hard to. see how Japan,
currently taking military beating
in the Pacific, could do much "col-
laborating."
Yesterday passed without any
special announcement from Berlin
except that on the Hitler-O -Oshima
meeting. The Daily Herale said
last Wednesday that German edi-
tors had been instructed to stand
by at 1:30 pm. Sunday for a pos
sible special announcement. Later
1t appeared this may have been a
garbled version of a DNB announce
ment that its Whitsunday service
would open at 1:30 pm.
The Swiss newspaper, Gazette de
Lausanne, said the Nazis were in
creasingly fearful of general
D-day strike of French railroad
workers and were sending in more
key transportation officials and
workers for key posts.
Evening star., 1944-05-29
Charles H. Summers Dies;
Retired Transit EmpIoye

Charles Henry Summers, 50, Of
N28 Chain Bridge road NV. en-
ploye of the Capital Transit for
nearly half a century, died suddenly
yesterday at his home.
A native OF Washington, Mr..
Summers worked In the shop of the
transit company for ~ years before
retiring about five years ago. He
was Mason and q member Of the
Junior Order Of American Me-
chanics and Of Dumbarton Avenue
Methodist Church.
He is survived by q son, Henry z.
Summers, and two grandchildren,
Edwin Byrd and John Earle Sum.
mers, all of Washington.
Funeral arrangements have not
lyet been completed.