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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-26
Mine EXPLOSION
TAKES IS LIVES

SH1NNSTON, W, Va, March Is.
Up An underground fire gener-
ating clouds of poisonous and ex-
plosive gases barred the way to-
night to the bodies of 16 men who
died in a shattering early morning
mine blast while they were vainly
trying to stop the blaze.
Fighting the flames which broke
out in the No. mine of the Kath-
crime Coal company, the 16 were
caught by a terrific explosion that
tore up a surface area Of half an
acre.
All hope was abandoned for the
men and tonight crews began seal.
ing the mine to extinguish the
underground blaze. Jesse Redyard
state mine chief, said that it would
be five or six weeks before the
crows could be sent into the mine
to recover the bodies.
The death toll had been placed
at Is, but John Hogue, mine sup
erintendent, said a recheck had es
tablished that 16 had persisted ir
the explosion.
Work crews were equipped tt
combat the deadly carbon monox
ide generated by the fire, but
highly explosive methane gas also
filled the entryways. Watchers also
were fearful of another explosion
The fire broke out late last nigh
$500 feet underground in the MAR
entryway of the newly-opened mine
near this central West Virgins
town. Seventy-five miners on duty
came out safely before the sal
wage crew went in.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE

NEW YORK, March 25,- R-
Closing foreign exchange rates
follow Great ritain in dollars,
others in cents):
Canadian dollar in New York
open market 10 11-16 per cent dis
count or 1881 IA U. S. cents,
unchanged.
Europe: Great Britain official
buying $4.O2, selling $4.04.
Latin America: Argentina free,
24.95 unchanged; Brazil free
5.2On; Mexico 2065n.
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CHICAGO POTATOES

CHICAGO, March 25.-RHPota-
toes: arrivals 80; on track 200;
total U. S. shipments 1907; old
stock: supplies moderate; for
western stock market steady; tor
northern stock market unsettled;
Idaho russell Burbanks U. S. No.
1, $3.50; Nebraska bliss triumphs
U. S. No. l, 3.59; Minnesota and
North Dakota Bliss Triumphs
commercials 1.85 to 200: U. S.
No. /, 2.1O; cobblers commercials
1885 to 200; Florida SO Id. sacks
Bliss Triumphs U. S. Mol, 3.75.
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REDS EIGHT MILES
FROM RUMANIAN LINE
Continued from Page One)

O44A L @6S O@~S{
er. They also were only 60 miles
east of Czernowitz with the announ-
ced capture of Korystovtsy.
Wheeling southwark toward the
Danube, Masharl S. Konev's sec
ond Ukraine army also outflanked
the besieged railway junction of
Byeltsi (BaltD with the capture of
Reutsel, eight miles to the south
west, putting the Red army only
8 miles north of Iasi (Jassy), big
Rumanian rail hub just beyond
the Prut.
To the east Russian forces attack
ing southwark along the Lwow-
Odessa railway cut the Pervo-
maisk-Byeltsi escape railway with
the capture Of Slobodzeya and
Ksendzovka and began fighting
their way into the outskirts of the
big city of Balta, few miles east
of the railway, 10 miles northwest
of Odessa, and rs miles from the
main German escape route, the
Odessa-Tiraspol line which extends
into Rumainia to imperilled 1asi.
Seek To Trap Nazis
Fighting their way into the out
skirts of Kamenets Podolsk, in the
southwestern corner of the Ukraine,
the Russians moved quickly to try
to trap thousands of beaten Ger
man troops retreating down the
railway and highway from fallen
Proskurov, IS miles to the north
east.
The Germans above the Dniester
were squeezed into a fast-narroW-
ing 2,000-squsre miles area just
above the river, and Russian
/ troops which took Mogilev Podol-
ski week ago were moving west
ward on both banks Of the Dniester
to complete the intended trap.
The two Russian forces advan'
cling to meet each other on the
north bank of the Dniester and thus
close the trap were reported only
40 miles apart.
The fall of Proskurov to Marsha.
Gregory K. Zhukov's first Uuraine
army caved in the top Of the Ger
man salient above the Dniester.
Premier Marshal Stain announ.
cling the victory in an order of the
day, ordered IL salvoes from 124
guns. Then the regular communi
Due told of the capture of Deraz
hnya, % miles southeast of Pros
kurov, another station on the Odes.
sa-Lwow railway, as the Russians
swept on southwark toward the
Dniester.
Far to the southeast Gen. Rodior
Y. Malinovsky's Third Ukraine
army captured three heavily forti
fled strongpoints just outside Mix
olaev, at the mouth of the Bug
river, and also seized Kulbakhine
and Vodopoi rail stations, the lat
ter just three kilometers Q.8 miles,
outside the major German strong
hold. a,. :
Nikolaev, on the vulnerable cas-
bank of the Bug, is the last Ger
man position on that side of thu
long river in southern Russia. IT.:
fall appeared to be imminent nov
that it is surrounded on three lane
sides. The Germans also face thu
danger Of being trapped by Rus
sian troops crossing the river allow
Nikolaev in a drive toward Odes
sa, main Black Sea port rs miles
southwest of Nikolaev.
The German high command re
ported that Soviet troops alread.
had established small bridgehead
on the west bank of the Bug allow
Nikolaev, and were clinging tt
them despite German attempts II
wipe them out.
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NEW ORLEANS COTTON

NEW ORLEANS, March PIP
The average price of mid ing
1915 inch cotton today at ten desig-
mated southern spot markets was
20 cents a bale lower at 21.17
cents a pound; average for the
past 80 market days 21.00; mid
ding 7-8 inch average 20.03.
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N. G.. POULTRY. EGGS


RALEIGH, March Is - up -
(NCDA)-Poultry and egg markets
steady.
Raleigh - U. S. grade A large
(clean white) 80; hens. all weights.
20 to Is.
Washington - Unavailable.
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CHARLOTTE COTTON
CHARLOTTE, March 25-(R-
Spot cotton 21.50.
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N. G.. HOGS
RALEIGH, March Is - P) -
(NCDA)-Hog market steady witt
top of 1885 at Rocky Mount. Rich
mond unquoted.
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CHICAGO. March 25-P)-But
ter receipts 785,863; eggs 29,O74.
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CHICAGO BUTTER, EGGS
CHICAGO, March 26-lR-(WFA)
and eggs were nominally
today.
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NEW YORK COTTON

NEW YORK, March Is. -R)-
Cotton futures closed to Is cents
a bale lower today after earlier
gains as high as 80 cents.
The market was quiet with the
trade reporting slight improve
ment in inquiry for spot cotton
and larger sales in the primary
M a rlets
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WANTED: ELECTRIC REFRIGERATOR
in good condition. For small kltchen.
Phone Wrightsville 1902
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FURNISHED HOUSE OR APARTMENT
for Army officer and wife. GAG"
care of Star-NeWS.
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180.-Legal
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA:
COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER:
NnTTCE

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA:
COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER:
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the under
signed trading as Sneeden's Cycle Com
pany, and formerly trading as Whining
ton Cycle Company, has sold the busl-
ness so operated at ia Market Street,
Wilmington, North Carolina, to George
B. Canady and W. B. Boles, and that
Georg, B. Canady and w. B. Boles will
continue to operate the said business at
the same location and the entire in
terest of the undersigned herein has
been sold as above stated.
that his friends and former customers
will continue to trade with the pur-
chasers of said business.
This 4th day of March, 1914.
]. R. Sneeden,
Trading as Sneeden's Cycle
Company, formerly trading as
Wilmington Cycle Company.
CLASSIFIED DISPLAY
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TYPEWRITER DESK, MUST BE IN
good condition. Reasonably priced. Ad-
dress "Desk', care of Star-News.
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WANTED; SMALL OIL COOK STOVE.
Breakfast room suite. SOS So. 4th. Z
2d23
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NEW ORLEANS COTTON

NEW ORLEANS, March 25--N
Cotton futures closed steady 20
to As cents a bale lower.
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WANTED: LAWN MOWER, ONE QUAR-
ter H. P Electric motor, also electric
drink mixer. Phone Harold 6764 or
1885,
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u, Help Wanted-Fema;e

--rV0GRAPHER, SOME KNOWLEDCE
a. bookkeeping preferred. Write ''SK"
oare of Star-NeWs.
Evening star., 1944-05-23
Jury Expected 10 Probe
Junqhans Case Next Week

The case of Mrs. Phyllis Green
Junghans, 18, held by a coroner's S
jury yesterday in the Staying of
Lewis r. Hindle, 81, probably will
be presented to grand jury about
the middle of next week, Sylvan
Schwartz, assistant United States
district attorney, said today.
Meanwhile the young woman, wife
Of sailor now overseas, is being
confined in the woman's section of
the District Jail pending the pres
entation of her case to the grand
jury.
Young Hindle, formerly gas sta
ton operator at T. B., Md, was
shot in Mrs. Junghans' apartment
Saturday night. according to her
statement to police, and died at
Casualty Hospital early Sunday
morning. Police testified at the
coroners hearing that Mrs. Jung
hans admitted firing the shot that
killed Hindle, but unintentionally,
as she did not know there was a
bullet in the gun.
Mrs. Junghans told them that as
she was not able to obtain COM
plete divorce from her sailor hus-
band, she and Hindle had planned
to leave Washington this week and
be married under assumed names.
Evening star., 1944-05-23

to Offset any evidences of . soft
policy which might have been
cleaned from announcement earlier
yesterday Of a list Of II Swedish
companies, with their afiliates In
this country, which were specifically
described as not under consideration
for blacklisting.
The 80 raised to 426 the total
number of Swedish firms on the
blacklist.
ski Not Listed.
The name of the SKF Co.,
Sweden's leading ball bearing manu-
facturer. does not appear on the list
reported yesterday and this was In
terpreted to mean that ofIicials here
are still optimistic regarding the
outcome of negotiations with the
Stockholm government, SKF and
other companies directly concerned
in the shipments to Germany which
the United States, Britain and
Russia are trying to have stopped.
A Swedish official said most of the
names on the list were German OF
Evening star., 1944-05-23
300 Girl Cadets Compete
In Drills Tomorrow

More than 300 girl cadets from
Anacostia, Central, Coolidge, Nc
kinley and Roosevelt High Schools
will compete at l pm. tomorrow in
their first big drill at Central High
School stadium.
Judges are expected to be United
States Marine officers. The girls
will march, but will not carry guns
or attempt extended order drill.
They will wear blue uniforms with
the insignia of their schools.
Evening star., 1944-05-23
Did this ad leave you
discOntented?

WE HOPE so. Because that is what TIME
w is trying to do -. make you and other
thinkingcitizens discontented with the amount
of thought that we, the people of the United
States, have so far brought to bear on this
war plants problem.
If you're as lively-minded as the people
who've already written to us about this mes
sage, you're going to want the same thing they
do-a reading list of what's already been
thought and said on war plant conversion.
No time to read up on it? Well, Boards
ley Ruml takes time. He's Treasurer of R. H.
Macy & Co., Chairman of the Federal Re-
serve Bank of New York, and the author of
Evening star., 1944-05-23
81
Letters Warn Drivers
Ito Fill Rider Quota

Letters advising Car owners who
do not have the required number of
riders in their car clubs that their
supplemental rations will not be re-
newed after 80 days if they have
not completed their clubs or shown
sufficient justification for not doing
so were sent out today for the first
time by District OPA.
The letters, mailed with the 30
day short ration allotments, followed
the official closing of the car-shar-
ing registration campaign yester-
day when, according to Andy S.
Hynes, local mileage rationing off,
Ger, a flood Of last-lninute applica-
tions was received and volunteers
had to be recruited to help with the
filing.
No figures were available on yes
terday's registration but Mr.. Hynes
said it was the biggest day" so far,
Registration through Saturday to-
tailed 1000, far below the original
goal of 10000. Registration centers
have agreed to remain open, how
ever. 1t was pointed out, until the
required 35 passengers per car is
reached.
Evening star., 1944-05-23
Senate Inquiry Opens
Into Expectation Of
III. ). Farm Machinery
Py the Associated Press.

Py the Associated Press.
A start was called today for a
Senate investigation of the farm
machinery situation, with Senator
Bushfield, Republican, of South
Dakota asking an official explana-
tion of a report that equipment
sorely needed here has been gather
ing dust in North African ware
houses for a year.
Senator Bushfield said civilian
Government official, stationed in
North Africa, had told him of seeing
two big warehouses filled with new
American-made combines and other
farm machinery which had been in
storage for at least year."
This was at a time when farmers
in this country were crying for
combines to harvest their crops,
Senator Bushfleld said. Farmers
haven't got third of the machinery
they need"
The extent to which farm ma
chinery has been shipped to other
nations through lease-lend and the
United Nations Relief and Rehabil-
itation Administration is one of the
chief points to be covered in the
inquiry, to be conducted by an agri-
culture. subcommittee under the
Craftsmanship of Senator Gillette
Democrat, of Iowa; Senator Bush
fed is a member.
Senator Gillette said the investi-
CATION would look especially into the
possibility of increased allotments OF
materials for making machinery.
Evening star., 1944-05-23
Italy
Continued From First Page J

on three sides of this strong natu.
raj position. Street fighting was rag
ing In some parts of the town.
Last night the Morocco radio
said 9Th Army forces had cap
tured PiedimonteD
While American patrols which en-.
tered Terracina yesterday later
withdrew, other American units ad-
Vanced on Monte Croce, an impor-
tant hill overlooking the town.
Americans also have occupied OF
are in the process of occupying vari-
Gus other high points in the noun
tain mass running inland from Ter
racina. These include Monte Capic-
clio, Monte Autone, None Calvo and
Monte Marino.
Drive Up Mountain.
Other units were ascending the
southern slopes of Monte Dellafate,
3,000-foot high feature towering
above the other hills, and had taken
Cole Gina Delmonte, $500 feet
high, which commands the Fondi-
VallecorSa road
The town of Monsicardi, 2 miles
north of Fondi, also was occupied
One hundred Germans were cap
tured in the smile long Monte Orso
railroad tunnel, which runs under
the mountains north of Terracina
on which fighting is taking place.
Farther inland, in the vicinity of
Lenola, American infantry advanced
over difficult country, despite stiff
German resistance.
An Allied headquarters commen-
tator said the evidence of German
relnforcements had grown. The
enemy has been rushing additional
troops to the various points as they
are threatened by Allied thrusts.
"a German DNB news agency
broadcast today said the battles
on the Italian front are compa-
rable to "the great battles on the
Somme, at Verdun and in Flan-
ders during the last war.'D
1t was disclosed that the Allies at
Piumarola had knocked out and
captured the first example in South
ern Europe of hornet self-propelled
-millimeter gun on a Mark ~
tank chassis.
Evening star., 1944-05-23
8 Swedish Firms
And individuals
Added 10 Blacklist
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Governments Blacklist Con-
troll Committee studied the records
of dozens of Swedish firms and
businessmen today with a prospect
of adding new names to the list, as
American negotiations in the Scan
dinavian country pressed for a halt
on all ball-bearing shipments from
Sweden to Germany.
The State Department announced
last night the addition Of 38 Swedish
firms or individuals to the pro-
claimed list to be issued on June 2
The announcement added signif1-
cantly, "The names of other firms
are currently under consideration
for inclusion"
The 38 listed in the latest addi-
ton were for the most part shipping
firms, jewelers. and a variety oi
other businesses.
Advance Publication Rare.
The most extraordinary thing
about publication of the names al
this time is the fact that usually
they are given out only at the time
the blacklist supplement is formal,
issued.
The cause of advance issuance was
described by officials of the commit.
tee as being the great public interes,
which has been aroused in the ne.
gotiations with Sweden over bal
bearings.
Apparently there was some desire
Evening star., 1944-05-23
u. ). Convicts Nine
In Plural Marriages
By the Associated press


SALT LAKE CITY, May 23.-The
"Fundamentalist" cult, which be-
lieVes in plural marriage, received a
setback in the courts yesterday when
eight men and a woman were con-
Vlcted of Federal charges.
Defense attorneys said they
planned to file a motion for a new
trial and, in the event it fails, to
appeal to higher courts.
The nine, all cult members. were
among 46 persons arrested in March
by Federal and State officers.
Last Saturday, Is Salt Lake CITY
men, including John Yates Barlow
70-year-old cult leader, were con-
victed of State charges of unlawful
cohabltatlon with SIS women not
legally their wives.
Sentencing was set for Thursday
Six defendants were convicted on
Mann Act charges and three were
held guilty on kidnapping charges
Those convicted of Mann Act
violation
Heber Kimball Cleveland and
David Brigham Darger, both of Salt
Lake City; Vergel Y Jessop, Theral
Ray Dockstader and l.. r. Stubbs,
all of Short Creek, AriZ., and Follis
Gardner Petty. Pocatello, Idaho.
Convicted of kidnapping:
William ChatWin, Provo: Charles
r. Zitting, Salt Lake City, and Edna
Christensen, described in the indict-
ment as Fittings wife. They were
charged with transporting a IA
year-old girl from Utah to Mexico
to become the polygamous wife of
the 72-year- Chatwin.
Buy bonds -. Buy more -. Buy
NOW!
Evening star., 1944-05-23
Freed Prisoners Of Nazis
Arrive al Waller Reed

A Washington private and IA other
American soldiers, recently released
as prisoners of war in Germany
arrived last night at National Air
port. They will be hospitalized at
Walter Reed
David r. Batson, %, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Royal A. Batson, 4445 P
street NV, private in the armored
force, was captured in Italy and was
a prisoner for Is months. He lost
a leg during the fighting in Tunisia
Mr. and Mrs. Batson visited Walter
Reed today and saw their son for
the first time in two years. Pvt.
Batson was student at the Uni
versity of Maryland when he entered
the service in February, 1912. Mr..
Batson works with the Veterans
Administration.
The Is soldiers, who arrived by
Army plane, were met by Maj. Gen.
Norman T. Kirk, Army Surgeon
General and Maj. Gen. John T.
Lewis, commander of the Military
District of Washington.
Evening star., 1944-05-23
Hummer Plant Back
To Normal Operations

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, May % (P).-
Normal operations were attained
almost 100 per cent" today at Mont
gomery Wards Springfield affiliate
the Hummer Manufacturing Co
plant, the Army said as it entered its
second full day of control.
1t. Col. Nelson S. Talbot, War
Department representative in charge
OF operations Under a presidential
order issued Sunday, said 438 of 47e
war production workers who had
been idle II days in a contract dis
pute were on the job for two shifts
yesterday. More were expected to-
day, and the first shift force was %
larger than on Monday.
j. T. Farr, Springfield business
representative of the AF'L Machin-
lists, said he expected to resume con-
tract negotiations late this week
with the company.
Evening star., 1944-05-23

For everybody wants 70 ksep NJ
national income soms~hefs nsaf
the plsassht level whers \ % now--
70 keep all the psopss st work vho
~snt 10 work.
Bss sAis is ses aei.e = = sses.:
,,i,6sl 3 wiskiag. There b IN awful
fot 81 hssd sdseTaschins 70 b dons.
The wong wsy ost. says Amos
everyons, would b for The Cosssn-
msnt 70 ssks ossf and ron thess
plants.
Nobody wasss q sxpseas -
soyerunsat to % into - asee-
nobiIs bssinsss, q ~ vashine
uaehias bssissss, q ~ thsns
ssck s.d pspss clip bssiasss.
No eas desbss 1T nsst q ~
plasas shssla - sEnsd hsek 70
sAs psspis (naaaosos2 -
wetsssrs)- )-ssek - Dsivsss =.
1uD45y.
That isn't soins 70 b quiss . sssy
a. Il sounds.
For example, ifthe Government
decides 70 sell ths plants. whs'
would fair pries b!
Many d ~ pissas were ssii :
iaaaSsd wsrtins eesis. Seos ~
10 - bsilt vith ssestiesss -
fsfial.
Othsrs were planssd sllleiend'
ios naikiss Military psedsets "
tas,ss nd snmsaitios, and n
isslBeiestfy plsaasd iss maxim
Evening star., 1944-05-23
Beardsley Rum1 has read these.

Give Plants to Warriors. Time, April "A, 1914 page
Il.
War Plant Reconversion Starts Now K. Keyerlebef.
Current History, January, 1914, page 13.
Plain Talk. Time, November IS. ls43, page 70.
Practical Postwar Program. A. w. Hawkes. Nations
Business. August, ls43. page A.
Demobilization Disaster. Time, February Il, 1914.
page 81.
Greasing Reconversion Wheels. Business Week, jan
uaryS, 1944 page l3.
We Must Convert Without Scramble. Saturday
Evening Post, November s, 1913.
Fear Of the Future. Time March 13, 1914, page 90.
Ready Map for Reconversion. Lawrence Sullivan.
Nations Business, April, 1914, page IS.
Industry After the War. U.s. News, November Is,
l943, page II.
Indushys Transition from War to Peace. Theodore
O. Yntema. Academy Political Science Proceedings.
January, 1914, pages 81 to SO 395-4o0.
Over the Hurdles to Reconversion. Mill & Factory.
April 1914, page73
Baruch Program. Time, February 2s, 1914, page 81.
Reconversion Days. A. E. Taylor. Domestic Com
merce January. 1914, page4.
Reconversion Time Table. Modern Industry, Decea-
Der, le43, page 81.
Industrial Adjustment at the End Of the War. Aneri-
can Economic Review, Supplement March, 1914.
pages 10S to 137
War Plants Future US News, April9 l943, page42.
Five Major Plans for Disposal of Surplus War Goods.
Printers Ink, March 3, 1914, page %.
Evening star., 1944-05-23

yAese u t,iiisa dsilsss' worth
offsetoriss you now own can MAKE
Or break your plans for tomorrow
rhoss factories Of fycufs are nov
turning out ships, planes, tanks
;seps. and bullets At . furious rate.
They wsss bsilt WITH your money;
thsy represent . quarter Of me
vhols present. DAY industrial plant
ofths Us.
III xAss L. var q cysE - -
ssleaese 80 s.si.s. q ss.s..cts..
.,-vket ass 70 eeias 2 e xisa ~
yess VI planes tAss?
Win they b put D.omHik -
psscstims ussf
win they % on providing ioes
IA, millions Of workers snd help
ave America from anothW tragedy
ef unsnpioyment7
win they pour out . hood d
Ssetss homes, better cars, esssel
trains, better sadsets, better 1909
be,ter clothing, better tools, bette
naehines that will, give , brai,s
psw, worldwide meaning 70 IN
American standard cfivinsv
Or viii tAey stand sileat -
sn,ty for noaths ssd Year,
vhils ~ eosst5y sSdss seAi
no deprsssies - snsasO,
nest, asd nayss yos yosfss
ssart rssdias - ~sat sds!
~of eourse," you say. the thing :
Do 10 70 keep these pisnss going.