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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-02
MARKET MANAGES
TO FINISH HIGHER
BY BERNARD S. O'HARA

NEW YORK, April 1.-R-After
a generally slow-going and losing
week, the stock market steadied
today and managed to finish ir-
regularly higher behind selected
rails and speclalties.
Customers began to cash prof
it's Monday on the lengthy rise to
the best average level since last
July, the idea being the list was
due for a healthy technical cor.
rection. This came Tuesday when
prices suffered their sharpest re.
lapse since Nov. 8, with selling so
urgent in the final hour that the
high speed ticker tape fell a min
ute or so behind actual transact
tens on the floor of the exchange
for the first time this year.
Earnings ane dividends, on the
whole, were bolstecing factors
and, while second-front apprehen-
sion restrained numerous potential
purchasers throughout the six-day
stretch, selling began to dry up
Wednesday with scattered recov-
cries appearing for rails and as
sorted industrials. Different
groups, aside from the transport
section, were given a play at in
tervals. Among these were oils,
liquors, gold mines and blue chip
chemicals. The Oklahoma election
Tuesday, which ran against Wall
streets political hopes, helped
chill enthusiasm fo- securities to
some degree.
The Associated Press 60-stock
average was up Il of point al
52.2 but on the week suffered a
ret loss of a. Transfers for the
short session totaled 1922, $50 shares
compared with '447, 730 last Satur'
day and were the smallest for g
two-hour proceedings since Feb
At peaks for 1914 today were Elk
Cello Corp, consolidated natura
gas and preferreds of Santa Fe
Southern Railway, St. Louis-Sar
Francisco and Baltimore & Ohio
Ahead were Southern Railway
Great Northern. Du Pont, U. S
Steel, General Motors and East
man Kodak. Kansas City South
ern, a recent climber. dropped
SO and lesser declines were re
corded for Bethlehem, Chrysler
Westinghouse, Texas Co. AM
Montgomery Ward.
Bonds were narrow. At Chica
60 wheat was UNCHANGED to off g.
Of a cent a bushel. Cotton ais
was unchanged to down As cent
a bale.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-02
CHICAGO POTATOES

CHICAGO, April 1.-tRHPotatoes
arrivals So; on track 173; total
US shipments BAL; old stock: sup
plies rather light; for western stock
demand good, market firm to
slightly stronger; for Northern
stock, demand slow, market dull;
Idaho Russet Burbanks U. S. No.
l, 3.65-70; Nebraska Bliss triumphs
U. S. No. l, $685.; Minnesota and
North Dakota Bliss triumphs U, S.
No. l, EOS; Cobhlers U. S. No. 1,
2.10; Michigan Russet rurals 2.10;
Wisconsin Chippewas U. S. No. l.
EOS; Texas so lib. sacks Bliss tri-
umphs U. S. No. /, 3.50-75.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-02

will be open to students and towns.
people.
Rev. Edgar H. Nease, pastor of
West Market street Methodist
church, Greensboro, will lead the
devotional, and Miss Sloan W i
sing a solo, THE Lords Prayer, {"
accompanied by brass quartet.
Other music will be by the col
lege choir. DR.. w. c. Jackson, dean
of administration, will preside
over the service.
The observance, which is being
sponsored by the students in CO.
operation with the Greensboro
Ministerial association, is expect
ed to become a traditional service
at the college.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-02
Dorothy Goulding Wess
Charles F. Dickinson

NEW BERN. April 1. - Miss
Dorothy Dell Goulding and Charles
F. Dickinson, machinist mate third
class, USN, were married last
Saturday night by the Rev. w. A.
Tew, pastor, in a double-ring cere-
mony at the Riverside Methodist
church.
The church was decorated with
Easter lilies, white gladioli and
cathedral candles.
Ushers were Elwood Cation and
Ellsworth Mallard. The best man
was F. Swindeli Dickinson, father
Of the bridegroom.
Mrs. Marvin Lee Weatherly, ma
tron-of-honor, wore aqua gabar-
dine, with luggage accessories. Her
shoulder corsage was of yellow
roses.
The bride wore blue gabardine
suit, with white accessories and a
corsage of pink roses. She was
given in marriage by her grand
father, J. W. Goulding.
Immediately after the ceremony,
the couple left on wedding trip.
The bride is the daughter of Mrs.
J. T. Goulding and the late Mr.
Goulding of this city. She is now
student at Appalachian State
Teachers college at Boone. The
bridegroom is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. F. S. Dickinson of New Bern.
For the past year he has been
in the navy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-02
GRAINS
Open High Low Close
FOREIGN EXCHANGE

NEW YORK, April 1-tR-
Closing foreign exchange rates
follow Great Britain In dollars,
others in cents): .
Canadian dollar in New York
open market 10 9-16 per cent dis
count or 89.43 ga U. S. cents, down
.06 IA of a cent.
Europe: Great Britain official
buying S4.02, selling $404.
Latin America: Argentina free
24.85 up .03 of cent; Brazil fres
5.2On; Mexico 2065n.
n-nominal.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-02
CASH GRAIN

CHICAGO, April l. -(H9- No
wheat; no corn; no oats.
Barley mailing 1.25-l.45 IL no.
minal; feed 1.15-1.25 IL nominal.
Field seed per hundredWeight
nominal.
Timothy 5.75-600; red top 400
$500; red clover 31.50; sweet
clover 1850.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-02
NEW YORK COTTON

NEW YORK, April /. -(P)-Cot-
ton futures prices eased today I'M
der light commission house liqui-
dalton and hedge selling, closing
unchanged to As cents a bale lower.
May and July contracts found
support from trade buying while
new contract deliveries lack de-
mand. Selling appeared based
chiefly on possibilities of further
war developments over the week.
end. although new textile wage de-
mands were considered factor.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-02
NEW ORLEANS COTTON

NEW ORLEANS, April /. -(P)--
Spot cotton closed steady unchang-
ed. Sales 3,483. Low middling IT,.
80; middling 2095. Good middling
21.35. Receipts 1928. Stocks 49,.
662.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-02

RALEIGH, April IL tR -
<NCDA)-Raleigh egg and poul-
try market steady, with liberal
receipts. U. S. Grade A large
(clean white) 81: hens, all weights,
20 to Is.
Washington market report una
valuable.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-02
Woman's College Plans
Special Easter Service

GREENSBORO, April 1. - East
err worship at the Woman's col
lege will be a sunrise meditation
in the amphitheater by the lake
next Sunday morning at 6 o'clock.
Miss Dorothy Sloan, of Franklin,
is in charge of the program, which
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-02
SPOT COTTON

NEW ORLEANS, April 1-R-
Spot cotton closed steady I'm.
changed. Sales 3,483. Low middling
1880; middling 20.95. Good mid
ding 21.35. Receipts 1928. Stocks
219, 662.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-02
NEW ORLEANS COTTON

NEW ORLEANS, April 1.-P)-
Cotton futures steady As cents \
bale lower to Is cents higher.
Opon HIGH .ou Close
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-02
CHICAGO BUTTER

CHICAGO, April 1.-(PA- But
ter receipts 427. 587; eggs q 612.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-02
N. c. EGGS

M1uulIHg Spot IT. iii, OH T.
n-Nominal.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-02

THREE SERVICE MEN DESIRE RIDE
to Lexington, N. c., Saturday pm,
Will share expenses. Sgt. A. o Davis,
care of Star-NeWS
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-02

ONE SET OR PART OF A SET OF
watch makers tools. Price must be
reasonable Dial 2-1762 or write w. H.
Gray. SOB North 4th ST., Wilmington,
North Carolina.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-02

WILL SOMEONE PLEASE DONATE A
used piano or a radio-victrola for the
use of some lonely service men. Please
call 2-2579.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-02

T-SGT AND WIFE DESIRE FURNISH
ed apartment. No kitchen privileges
considered. Call 1865 after $50 p. m.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-02

MIDDLE AGED COUPLE WANT LIGHT
housekeeping rooms. Dixie Barber
Barber Shop. 1928. Canady.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-02

ARMY OFFICER AND WIFE WISH
furnished apartment Permanent. Dial
2-1772.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-02

WANTED - SMALL FURNISH APART
ment for couple. Permanent residents
Write "CVR" care Star-NeWs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-01
Much of Nation Hit
Bv Severe Cold Wave

Pennsylvania through the Ohio
Valley and southern Nebraska to
the Rocky Mountains.
A 14.2-inch snowfall b o C k d
roads near Gaylord, Mich, in the
northern part OF the lower PENN
sula, and temperatures of $40 de-
grees above zero were forecast for
Friday.
The Chicago Weather Bureau al
SO forecast below zero mercuries
for western Iowa, T.. and 1918 de-
grees above for most Of the re-
manning Midwestern states.
The lowest temperature reported
to the Chicago Bureau was 10 be-
low at Williston. N. D. Freezing
weather extended down to Biz
mingham, Ala, which reported 81.
Vlcksburg, Miss, had Is, Kansas
City 10, Chicago 10.
The west coast had what h e
weather bureau termed normal
weather. Screen9ed by the Rock
les from the cold air mass, rain
was reported from most Stations
in Washington, Oregon, and north
ern California
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-01

INGMENDORF, Germany, Nov. 80
-tRASS troops and big 40 man
pillboxes were in the way but
young 1t. Col. Robert E. Wallace
of Huntington, w. ", sWore he
would have breakfast in Lindern.
At $50 am, jump off time
yesterday, he told his commanding
general he was going to arrive in
Lindern, just a mile and half
away, in time for breakfast.
One hour and IS minutes later
he was in the town with one com
parly of men. Breakfast was not
comfortable, however, as the Ger
mans held large part Of the town
which overlooks the Roer city of
Linnich. They were loath to give
it UP. In addition they threw coun-
terattacks behind him and other
companies could not break through
Until late afternoon and last night.
But the result is that Lindern
now isehe1d firmly by American
troops. The former SIS occupants
are on the way to prisoner cages.
The SIS troops in Lindern were
more lucky than those in Beck,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-01
RED CROSS ASKS
FOR YULE BOXES
TO I'LL SOLDIERS

Last Christmas time, the
Red Cross here sponsored the
filling of some thousand stock
ings for soldiers in hospitals.
It can't be stockings this
year because of material
shortages, but if the churches
of Wilmington will lend a
hand, as of course they will,
boxes filled with the things ill
and convalescent soldiers will
appreciate most will be substi-
tuted.
What to put in them? BY
way of suggestion, pocket die
tionaries, nuts, chewing gum,
candy, cigarets., cookies and
pocket comics. This needn't be
the limit, of course. Go as far
as you like.
The total boxes needed is not
as great as the stocking total
last year. At most, 700 will
meet the need.
Will Wilmington churches,
through their auxiliaries, I'M
dertake this splendid work Of
mercy and kindness?
Just call Red Cross head
quarters in the custom house,
2-2683 and let it be known how
many boxes your group will
fill.
And, especially, don't be
backward,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-01
ARMY CASUALTIES
SET AT 437,356
THROUGH OCTOBER

WASHINGTON, Nov 3d. VI -
The War Department today reveal
ed that the total number Of Army
casualties from the start of the war
through the end of October is 49,
1856. Of this number. 84,811 were
killed, 55,011 are missing, 243, 054
have been wounded and 81, 480 are
prisoners.
In the Asiatic theatre 1872 have
been killed, 921 are missing, LOB
have been wounded and 159 are
prisoners, making total of 3,SO5
casualties.
In the Central Pacific, 2,344 kill
ed, 622 missing. 5,273 wounded. and
ten prisoners, making total Of
8,249 casualties.
The largest number of casualties
for any one theater, 235.735, have
been in the European area with
45,316 killed, 28.500 missing, 1852
wounded. and 25,277 prisoners.
The next highest number, 124, 032,
was in North Africa, with 25,676
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-01
CANADIAN CRISIS
APPARENTLY OVER:
DISORDERS WANING

OTTAWA, Nov. 3d. Up Cana
da grew calmer in her conscrip-
ton crisis today as Prime Minis
ter w. L. Mckenzie King rode out
the parliamentary storm and re-
ports of disorders in Pacific coast
draftee soldier camps tapered off.
With the administration now al
most definitely assured by victory
in a vote of confidence to be taken
tomorrow or early next week, Par
Lament resumption of debate on
the governments confidence mo-
ton was relatively perfunctiory.
The first French Canadian men,
Der of Kings Liberal party to
speak on the issue declared he
would vote against tn e govern
ment. From one-third to one-half
of Kings 60-odd anti-conscription-
list French-speaking supporters are
expected to do this without endan-
gering comfortable government
majority. .
The speaker, Philippe Picard of
Bellechasse, Quebec, declared
there was complete harmony in
Canada on the general purpose Of
doing all necessary to win the war.
Glory pressure" lad created. a
crisis over CONSUMPTION, he declar-
ed
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-01
5000 B0MBERS
POUND GERMAN
OIL REFINERlES
U. 5. Loses Sc Heavy
Planes And 30 Fighters
In Huge Raid

LONDON, Nov. 30.-R. -Ameri-
can Fortresses and Liberators,
spear-heading an attack by nearly
1000 Allied warplanes on oil re-
flneries and rail yards in Germany,
drove into tremendous concentra-
tons of antiaircraft fire today and
suffered their heaviest loss Of any
recent operation.
Fifty six U. S. heavy bonabers
and 80 fighters failed to return
to their British bases from the raid,
an Eighth Air Force communique
announced, but the majority of the
fighters were believed to have land
ed in friendly territory.
The German air force refused to
come up in strength and only four
e1emy interceptors were shot down.
The round-the-clock offensive ap.
parently was continuing tonight,
with the German radio reporting
that the Raj had raided the Duis-
burg area.
The American phase of the days
big aerial assault was divided into
two parts, with Fortresses striking
four synthetic Oil plants in til c
Leipzig area and Liberators hitting
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-01
Churchill Says US.
Will Assist Britain
In Regaining Trade
lend LEASE TO DROP
c.,,,an Fall Will Reduce
Requirements Half,
He Declares

LONDON, Nov. 30.-P?-
american n aid for Britains bid
~ a'', recover her farflung, war
s"scrificed export trade was
5 disclosed by Prime Minister
G G1hurcbill today together with
t In'l announcement that Lend
1lts aid to this island-em-
n r;rs will be cut in half when
Germany falls.
1ubilantly announcing an Anglo
American economic arrangement
~ The future Of lend-lease appar-
.rt1r designed to help Britain pull
o,,t Of its financial slump, the
prine Minister made these points:
IA new program will be inau-
,,ro,ed next year to permit Brit
ain to export articles made from
American-imported raw materials.
britain will pay cash for that
material
s.-Defeat of Germany would
nsrmit Britain-along with the
Invited States - to release some of
is manpower for production of CT.
william goods.
4-Britain anticipates American
aid on its rehousing program, not
mlv in raw material but in finish
ed houses.
Winning the plaudits of the
hrye with his detailed statement
on this joint Anglo American
agreement, just two days after
Britain issued white paper to
tell the world of it's vast, War-nec-
esstated financial sacrifices, the
premier said:
"The end of the war with Ger
mary will make possible large re-
auctions in some of our require
ments. We expect our needs will
bemet by a program at a rate not
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-01
Yank S1uore He'd Eat
In Lindern----He Did

which had been nest Of dug-in
Tiger tanks. American troops en-
tering that town found more dead
en- the streets than any town thus
far encountered on the front.
Most German soldiers were out
OF their dug in tanks and cellars
and on the streets when a sudden
serenade of American shells f e !
before dawn, with deadly effect.
Then W hi t e phosphorus shells
rained down on the houses. The
few Germans left in the town after
that tried to get out on the road
to Wurm, only to be caught by an
other artillery barrage. Then they
were bombed and strafed by Thun-
derbolts all the way to Wurm.
Last night and this morning the
Germans made repeated attempts
to regain high ground dominating
the Roer river III the Linnich area,
but most of the attacks were brok-
en- up by artillery fire, particular
1y from eight-inch guns which
smashed Tiger tanks.
The Germans retaliated heavily
with artillery. The shells, however,
did not halt the doughboy attack.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-01
NAILS RECAPTURE
ITALIAN SECTORS
Yanks Lose Monte Castel-
laro But Hold Monte
Grande Nearby

ROME, Nov. 3d. R German
troops. lashing out in vicious
counterattacks against Amer
leans pressing on Bologna, have
recapturcd two important heights
overlooking Nazi defense positions.
the Allied command disclosed to-
day. r..
One blow behind strong artillery
and mortar fire drove doughboys
of the Fifth army from Monte Cas-
tellaro. 9 IL miles southeast Of
Bologna, but the Americans held
at nearby Monte Grande, a high
er peak.
The strongest German blow was
driven in farther west, % miles
southwest Of Bologna, and forced
the Americans from recently-won
Monte Belvedere and the village
of Corona.
An initial Nazi surge there with
about one infantry battalion was
smashed, but h e enemy struck
again with two battalions support
ed by tanks, self-propelled guns,
mortars, and rocket launchers.
The U. S. troops fell back to other
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-01
1,4OO Men Rescued
From Carriers Lost
To Japanese Fleet

WASHINGTON, Nov 3d. Up -
Fourteen hundred men were res
cued from two escort carriers
sunk in the Battle Of the Philip
pines, the Navy reported tonight.
The carriers sunk were the st.
10 and the Gambler Bay.
1.-THE losses on the st. Lo were
low-we picked up 300 men," Rear
Admiral C. A. F. Sprague said in
a first person report on the en-
gagement. Losses on the Gambler
Bay were low, too, considering
that she dropped back into the
middle Of the Jap fleet. Approx
mately 900 of her crew were saw
ed" The complement of such ships
has never been disclosed.
Sprague's report identified for
the first time the other four car
riers in his force. They were the
Kalinin Bay, the Fanshaw Bay, the
White Plains and the Kitkun Bay.
All were damaged.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-01
BY the Associated Press

A cold mass Of air pushed south
from Canada to cover most OF the
United States as far south as Ar
Kansas and Tennessee last night
end looped over the Appalachlans
to make the East Coast miserable
with a gale.
The Chicago Weather Bureau
snotted warmer air from the
west. and said it should reach the
Midwest by tonight and start a
slow rise that would continue into
Sunday.
New Englanders were harassed
by a .force eight" wind-gale pro-
pcrtions. Heavy rains turned to
snow as the cold air moved in.
Gale-driven waves practically sub
merged Boston's Atlantic avenue
~, wharf, and at Biddeford Pool.
Me-, surged over eight-foot con-
crete bulkheads.
traffic in upstate New York was
snarled by snow and sleet, nine
riches falling at Syracuse. Snow
Of varying depth fell in states
porth Of a line extending from
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-01
RUSSIANS SWEEP
UP 50 VILLAGES
Axis Strongholds Of Eyer
and Szikszo Captured
In Drive

LONDON, Friday, Dec. 1.-R-
Russian troops, expanding t h e i r
new trans Danube front to more
than 100 miles, yesterday swept
nine miles northward along the
west bank of the great river to
within 8 miles of outfanked Buda.
pest and captured so more locali-
ties, Moscow announced last night.
In the mountains northeast of the
besieged Hungarian capital, other
Soviet forces blasted open two in
vasion routes leading into southern
Slovakia by capturing the Axis
strongholds of Eyer and Szikszo,
Premier Marshal Stain announc-
ed in special order of the day.
These troops also cut the Mis-
kolc Kass Kosice) trunk high
way and railway connecting the
crumbling Axis fronts in northeast
ern Hungary and Slovakia and fur
Their outflanked Miskolc by captur-
ing krnot, less than three miles
northeast of Hungary's besieged
fifth city.
In Czechoslovakia, a third Soviet
army attacking on a 30 mile front
captured 30 villages in four mile
gains, including Domasa, 20 mile
east of Presov; Moraviany, %
miles east of Kassa, and Zemplin,
onlv seven miles northeast of NE
big north Hungarian rail center OF
Satoraljaujhely.
The German high command was
reported to have drawn reinforce
ments from as far away as Italy
in desperate effort to half Mar
shall F.odor I. Tolbukhin's Third
Ukraine Army. Tolbukhin's spear
heads in southwestern Hungary
have pushed through PEGS, Is miles
west of the Danube and 100 miles
southwest of Budapest, to reach a
point only about 100 miles from
the Austrian frontier.
One Berlin commentator, Col.
Ernst Won Hammer, said the Rus
sian forces which had poured across
the Danube numbered 20 infantry
divisions, two mechanical corps an
between five and six tank brigades.
The triple Russian aim was to
force a decision in Hungary, NJ
wade Austria, and cut off the re-
treat of more than 100000 Ger
man troops in Yugoslavia.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-01
Roosevelt Fires LitteL;
Congress Seeking Probe
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3O.-(F9-President Roosevelt
fired Assistant Attorney General Norman Ltte today for
INSTRUMENTATION but that didn't the Justice

poA IAiISiit ASoo ~ OlIAy 41lONGN OFC4
into Congress.
Rep. Voorhis O-CaD introduced
a resolution for an investigation of
the whole matter by the House
Judiciary Committee, taking issue
with the grounds on which the
President dismissed LitteI.
''The reason given is 'insubor-
dination' which is based upon the
issuance of Littell's statement Civ.
ing his reasons for refusal to fe-
sign" Voorhis said in a tatement.
However, Litteu issu d no
statement himself but on the con-
trary the statement was requested
of him by the Senate War Inves-
tigating Committee n d released
by the committee"
The public row started when At
torney General Biddle demanded
resignation after a series
of differences. Littell, refusing to
resign, accused Biddle of conduct
contrary to basic principles of
good government
Littell asserted that Biddle in
tervened in a Justice Department
case in behalf of Thomas G.. Cor
coran, one time presidential init
mate now in private law practice.
Senator Ferguson (R-Mich to-
day called this "a very serious
charge" which should be "aired.''
Litten left office claiming he had
won "a complete victory for good
Mr.. Roosevelt minced no Ian
guage in firing the 45-year-old Sc
attic, WASH. attorney who has
been in charge of the Justice De-
partment's lands division since APP
ril, 1889.
"When statements made by Nor.
man Littell first appeared in the
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