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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-10-08
TROOPS ADVANCING.
TOWARD BUDAPEST
Race Through 300 Towns
And Villages In Mighty
28-Mile Push
Bv w. w. HERCHER

LONDON, Sunday, Oct.
8.-(P)-Swift Russian tank
and cavalry forces crushed
the entire Axis defense sys-
TEN east of the Tisza river in
southeastern Hungary yes
terday, racing through 300
more towns and villages in a
|28-mile advance that carried
to within 80 miles of Buda-
pest, imperilled Magyar cap
ital.
With the seizure of Gyoma, rail
town on the Observation-Disclosures
trunk railway, the Russians had ad-
vanced SIS miles northeast of Arad,
western omanian jumping-off base,
in their rapid campaign to knock
out Hungary, last big Axis satel-
lite still in the war.
Take Important Towns
The big rail junction towns Of
Bekescsaba, OroshaZa, Bekes and
other important points fell in the
massive drive, which now has ov-
errun 400 Localities and by-passed
Hungary's second city of Szeged,
at the lower end of a 75-mile inva-
sion arc.
Hungarian troops bolstered by
Nazi reinforcements were battling
fiercely at the lower end of the in
vasion line in the 15-mile sector
between Szeged on the Tisza river
and captured Mako. Is miles to the
east. 49,
relentlessly across the plains the
Russians announced the capture
of Szeghalem, IS miles west of the
by-passed western Romanian rail
junction of Oradea, one Of two ma
jor Nazi escape routes out of Tran
sylvania.
Szeghalom, 81 miles inside pre-
war Hungary, is only 40 miles
southwest of Debrecen, the flight
exit for scores of thousands of Ger
mans and Hungarians fighting far
to the east in TRANSFORMERS rug
ged uplandS.
Near River Crossing
At Nagyszenas, 10 miles south OF
Gyoma, one Russian spearhead was
only 10 miles east of a Tisza river
crossing at Szentos, and only %
miles from Csongrad, a town at the
juncture Of the Tisza and Koros RI
vers.
Once these rivers are bridged
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U.S.. Smashes Nazi Front Above Aachen;
BlBh Overrun Most OF Peloponnesus;
Eds Crush Foe In Southeast Hungary
American Ainnen Hit Jap Bases
From Kuriles To Belou Equator

waters west of Dutch New
Guinea.
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz re-
ported three air raids in the
northern Kuriles, during which
they sank q cargo ship and
fought off Is to 20 interceptors
probably destroying two and
damaging two. Yap island and
the Truk atoll also were hit.
The admiral said 12,211 Jap
anese soldiers have been kill
ed in the Palau islands and
224 captured. The dead on Pc
leliu totaled 1908. This might
indicate that the Japanese
have succeeded in landing re-
Inducements there since the
original Peleliu garrison was
estimated at around 10000.
American tanks and artillery
made some progress against
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the japanese fighting from
caves on Peleliu's bloody nose
ridge. Marine planes hit Ba-
belthuap island, In the Palaus
north of Peleliu.
The japanese air power
boast came from RADIO Tokyo.
It said Nippon aircraft now
ready for action "far exceed
the enemy's first line airforce"
and added Japan now is "pois-
ed for dealing a sledgehammer
blow on the enemy" The
propaganda broadcast was
heard by FEC monitors.
Japanese determination to
seal off the China coast against
American landings In that VI
tai area was heavily under
scored Saturday as the Chinese
high command reported a sec
ond Nippon landing in the Foo
chow sector.
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Condition OF Walkie
Is Reported Serious

NEW YORK, Oct. 7.-lR-The
condition Of Wendell L. Willkie,
who has been in hospital since
September 6, look a turn for the
worse tonight, his physician said,
and the 1910 Republican presiden-
tial candidates condition is Sc
rious.s 'rl
The physician, Dr.. Benjamin
Sa1zer, said streptococcic infec-
ton from which Mr.. Willkie has
been suffering had affected the
heart muscles, resulting in an
acute cardiac condition.
1--WE are continuing to admins
ter pencillin," DR.. Salzer said,
"but I would say that his condition
is serious" r
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TAKES SIX TOWNS
In MIGHTY DRIVE
Americans Meeting Less
Artillery Fire And
Weaker Opposition
BY ROBERT EUNSON

SUPREME. HEADQUAR-
TIERS ALLIED EXPEDI-
TIONARY FORCE, Oct. u
(P)-Doughboys of the U. S.
First army cracked German
defenses wide open along a
six-mile front north of Aach-
en- today and i swept up six
German towns in a high-pow-
cred three-mile drive that
encountered willing resist
ance.
The Americans over-ran Beggen.
dorf, Basweiler, Herbach, Merk-
stein, Hofstadt and Alsdocf as they
hammered to a point five to six
miles inside Germany in the on
rush that was described by an
American staff officer as a def
mite breakthrough The U. S. Troops
are meeting less artillery fire and
weaker opposition, field dispatches
reported tonight.
Tanks, infantry, artillery and
supplies poured into Germany
through the gap torn by the Amer.
leans. Planes and tanks battered
at the enemy as the U. S. Advance
Units pressed ahead.
Crack Main Line 6
''This is definitely break
through and not a withdrawal" a
First army staff officer declared.
There still are defenses ahead of
us, but weshave driven through the
main line Of resistance in this
sector"
The whole 460-nile front stirred
restlessly. The U. S. Third army
struck in the long-dormant Luxenn.
bourg sector, cleared Germans
from virtually the entire Duchy,
and was nearing the frontier town
of Wormeldange due east Of the
capital on the Moselle river facing
the Reich. .
Thus two great American armies,
the First and Third, were cement
ing their assault lines from Hol-
land to northern France, but for
the moment at least it was the First
army which was driving toward
the industrial heart of Germany
along the Rhine and Ruhr.
Sever Road
| The power drive, rolling over the
bitterly-fought Ubach sector nine
miles north of the historic inva-
sion gateway to Germany at Aach-
en- overran the German town OF
Basweiler, severing one of two
main roads leading 80 miles north
east to Dusseldorf at the doorway
to the rich Ruhr valley.
While this momentous fighting
was raging, other doughboys in all
most division strength were roll.
ing through the forests Is miles
southeast Of Aachen in new punch
that had already carried through
the first mine fields and dragons
teeth of the west wall against neg.
lible resistance.
Between these two sectorst First
army troops fighting within Is
miles Of Cologne in the Hurtgen
forest 10 miles southeast of Aachen
hammered forward three-quarters
of mile, cleared the last Of the
west walls pill boxes and were
tackling the earthworks beyond.
The going was slow and hard.
but they were 10 miles inside Ger.
many and widening the breach in
the Siegfried line.
On the Third army front, the
Americans wrested the northwest
and southwest corners of the great
Fort Driant from the German gar.
rison, fought 100 yards down an
underground passage leading to the
main Notifications, but then found
their way barred by steel and con-
crete bulkheads.
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GERMAN
PRISONER BROWNS
Body OF Corp. Haeberlein,
Who Fled Camp Davis
+ Stockade, Found

WASHINGTON, Oct. T. Up -
The Federal Bureau of 1nvestiga-
ton announced today it has identi-
fled body recovered from the
Hudson river at Jersey City, N. j.,
Oct: 3 as that of a 31-year-old es-
capped German prisoner of war,
Corp. Helmut Haeberlein.
FB1 Chief J. Edgar Hoover said
the. body, discovered by Jersey
City police and identified through
fingerprints, showed no evidence
of foul play.
The announcement said Haeber-
lein escaped from a camp at Will
mington, N. c., leaving a letter
for the commanding officer in
which he apologized for escaping.
According to the great philoso-
pher Spinoza, every man has to
seek happiness Haeber1ein was
quoted as writing. Having not
fN.-Asu,,oI ~. Do~n T~r,o. rnI e.
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BY RAY CRONlN

Associated Press War Editor
As the Japanese boosted
about the air power they now
have 'ready for action" against
the United States, the two Ann
erican commanders in the Pa,
cific Saturday reported wide
spread aerial strikes against
Nipponese island bases ranging
from the Kuriles In the far
north to points south of the
equator.
Gen. Douglas Macarthur said
southwest Pacific bombers
dashed Celebes and the Moluc-
cas- with 152 tons of explosives;
attacked small shipping at
Zamboanga, southwestern Phil
ippines, and bombed air.
drOmes, docks and shipping in
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WEATHER

FORECAST
North Caro1ina-Sunday partly cloudy
and not quite SO warm.
eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm, yesterday.
Temperature
1880 am, 71.2; 1880 am, $50; 1880 pm,
1913; 1880 pm, ESQ.
Maximum $50; Minimum $50; Mean
74.5; Normal So.
Humidity
1870 am, 90; 1880 am, 90; 1880 pm, 50;
1880 pm, "a.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 1880 pm,
GOO inches.
Total since the first Of the month,
600 inches.
Tides For Today
(From the, Tide Tables published by
u. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
|; High Low
Wilmington -------------- 2:22a S:s1a
2:54p 10:15p
Masonboro Inlet -------- 12:24a 6:25a
12:55p 7:14p
Sunrise, 6:12 am; Sunset. SAT PM:
Moonrise. 11:o4 Pm; Moonset. 1856 pm
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Bradley beam., 1944-05-20
CONTROL BOARD
By SGT. FRED COUNSEL

Busy little beavers have been turning the craft room into yer itable blacksmith shop for the past week. The endless work involved for the Squadron Picnic: brought out myriads of colorful bits of de- coration and a bedlam reigned as the zero hour neared. All this in addition to the regular routine work, gave every one nervous twitch.
 Sgt. Reid has returned to the fold and remains in a constant state of ecstacy. We think his main reason for being married in Wash ington, D. C., was to keep a we'll known wolf-pack away from the bridal suite. The bride and groom surely are resplendent in that wedding photo. Congratulations, Reid!
 The recluse and scholar; the boy with the latest dirt from that hole; the Rochester Kid and Leone's adored one, spends all his spare time being true and thoughtful. A situation of pre-arrangement keeps S/Sgt. Wendell Nickerson's thoughts a-bubble. He wants that little cottage to have jovial purple morning glories clambering all over it like little gremlins so that even nature can reflect his mood and instability for work.
 S/Sgt. H. Harmoning came in for a three-point landing the other morning about 04O0. He now ex- presses his Windsor Locks senti ments with a wave of the left hand. A golden band of hand wrought Forget-Me-Nots glitters on that fourth digit. What will that Pittsburgh gal say? He who wears a wedding ring is not totally lost?
 Reaction is setting in on Pvt. Harvey Scribner. For weeks his wife has smoothed his blond curls, now he has to comb his own hair. Don't worry Harvey, Louisville isn't so far away; besides there are many diversionary arts to follow at the craft room, such as cutting paper dolls and doodling.
 The softball team recently or ganized is going all out for victory this season. Ordnance fell last week. Who will be vanguished next? S/Sgt. Kowalski is the heavy hitter-forty feet and across the orderly room, wow! S/Sgt. Henry, Sgt. Sharples and Cpl. LoCicero, among others, keep the ball rolling. Did any one see S/Sgt. Okun? Just about every cute litle clerk in a Hartford department store did! A personal shopper of the most delicious young blond type gave coke" run for his money this week and he loved it-strictly business, of course. The picnic priz- es speak for her salesladyship abil- ity. Don't you think so?
 Philosophy runs molten where Cpl. Mack Iworsley moves. Last week in New York he stood in line for two hours to see certain pie ture only to find someone else had taken his seat. Thinks Mack-it is wiser to stay within the charmed circle and philosophize than to break through and find yourself mute with disgust on the outside. TiSgt. Richardson was surprised on his furlough. His wife and new addition to the family, danc-
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Course

Continued from page one)
throughout the slate, he said. are
conducting similar classes.
Farmers will be charged only
the cost of needed material. The
government through the Smith.
Hughes departments pays for the
services of the instructing me-
chanic and provides the necessary
tools.
Wartime demands. which have
81 ted in farmers having diff
Guilty in keeping their machinery
j, operating condition. has oc.
C: stoned the program. Mr..
S.hroer said.
He urges every farm er to take
advantage of this opportunity. If
they cannot attend classes they
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Happenings Of Local Interest

]. NJ. Cross, who has been in
Los Angeles for several weeks.
arrived h o m e Tuesday. Mrs.
Cross, W no accompanied h i m
there. arrived home few days
earlier. Mr.. Cross was there as
a health measure, his condition
being much improved by the trip.
The Yegen Hotel Barber Shop
will b e open Friday F e b. %:
Tuesday. Feb. 20. and Thursday
March 2.
Spun rayon dresses, all sizes.
Economy Shop.
Lost-Brown billfold with init.
ials A. A. G. and containing U.
S. Army discharge papers. Prop.
erty of Albert Gray. Finder
leave at Chief office.
All wool sweaters, slip over and
button. Economy Shop.
Chief Petty Officer Leroy Des
Roster arried home on a Today
leave last Friday. For months
in the north Pacific war zone, he
is glad to be back. even though
it is for a few days On his return
he plans to stop at San Diego to
visit with his son. Freddie. who
is in training at the marine base
there.
Ice wool fascinators. $1.95.
Economy Shop.
Will pay cash for used furni-
ture at Gamble Store every Fri
day. 29-1tf
For saIe-BroWning residence,
fully modern, fine location. lawn
and shrubbery. Inquire at Chief
DR.. Bethel, the dentist, is still
at the Yegen Hotel. Arrange at
once for your dentsl needs.
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C0nn0isseurs Praise
Buffalo Meat

A total of 100 buffalo carcasses
that dressed from 200 to 600
pounds served to give people of
the Blackfeet Reservation a taste
of the meat that was the staff of
life of the early Plains Indian,
and from opinions of connoisseurs
who are of the old family tree,
its goodness was such that if it
were apples and that if the sett
ing was transferred to the Land
of Adam and Eve in the long
ago. with these 1914 connoisseurs
in the apple party, there'd be
some Unanimous apple aches.'
For buffalo meat. even from
the testimony of others of the
Reservation who recently tasted
it for the first time, those who
haven't a taste for flesh food of
wild life, it is most delicious. To
them it has all the toothsome
qualities of the most seasoned
beef.
Two shipments of the buffalo
carcasses were made to Browning
GO being in the first and So in the
second, with Philip Arrowtop in
charge of parcellipg out the meat
Buffalo hides of the carcasses
accompanied shipments and were
carefully sailed as a preservative
for further treatment.
Some of the hides were given
to Blackfeet, with II being re-
tanned by the Blackfeet Tribal
Council, which had them shipped
to Great Falls for tanning. Tam
ing chages. according to Arrow
top. who was in Great Falls with
the shipment to arrange for the
process, will range up to a maxi
mum of Sill hide, depending
upon its size.
Tanning. he said. would be
completed in about three weeks.
Blackfeet will be provided the
tanned hides on the condition of
paying the tanning charge.
With but few Blackfeet pos
sessed with the buffalo tanning
gift alive today, or else with the
facilities necessary to their fore
bears who used the hides as
clothing and weather-break for
their tepees. the art has gone
with the wind"
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New Token Plan To Be
In Effect March Fl

During the three-week period,
February q through March 20,
in changing from the old ration
ing program to the simpli6ed to-
ken plan. two sets of stamps.
green and blue. will be used for
processed foods, and two, brown
and red, for meats and fats. The
old stamps. brown and green,
will be used exactly as in the past
I, at their regular value through
March 20.
The token plan will be fully in
effect M arc h 81. Beginning
then. processed fouds can be pur.
chased only with blue stamps and
blue tokens, and meats, fats and
oils only with red stamps and red
tokens. T h b lue and reds
stamps. effective February q are
valued at 10 points each.
Ali tokens are valued at one
point each and will be given for
change only when a purchase is
made. No more than nine tokens
need be given as change" in
one transaction.
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Australian Farm Workers

Weekend working bees have
proved boon to Queensland. Aus.
tralia, agriculturists. During the
harvesting season upwards of 5000
volunteers have been migrating to
rural areas each weekend. One in.
stance is reported Of group of 500
men bringing in 5000 bags OF pota-
toes, 300 bags of onions. and 40 bags
of turnips over the holiday.
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Card of Thanks

We take this means of express.
ing our gratitude to our many
friends for their kindness and
sympathy rendered US in the last
illness and death and at the fun
eral of our beloved mother, the
late Mrs. Rushes Alone Running
Fisher.
John Running Fisher
Irene Little Dog
Dolores Calf Tail
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OBITUARY

Donna Marie, six m 0 n t h 8,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. James
Rides At The Door, died Feb
ruary 8. Funeral services were
conducted at the Little Flower
Church February II at 2 o. m ,
with the Rev. FIR. M. J. Halligan
officiating. Interment was in the
Browning Catholic cemetery.
Clarence. six months. son of
Mr.. and Charles Cree Medicine.
died February 9 at Old Agency,
interment being in the family
cemetery.
Irene, one y ear and III months,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Sam
Young Running Crane, died Feb.
/ ruary IL. Funeral services we're
conducted at the Little Flower
Church February ID at 2 .. M,
with the Rev. FIR. NJ. j. RalIigan
officiating. Interment was in
the Browning Catholic cemetery.
Rushes Alone Running Fisher,
"a, died February 16. Funeral
services were conducted in the
Little Flower Church February
10 at 2 p. m, with the Rev. FIR.
M. j. Halligan officiating. Inter-
ment was in the Browning Cath
Ollie cemetery.
Pvt. Noble Bennett, Jr., Is,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Noble Ben
nett. Sr., died at Camp Roberts,
California, February 16. Mass
was celebrated February "a at 10
a. m. and funeral services were
conducted In the afternoon at q
.. m. in the Little Flower Church
with the Rev. FIR. NJ. J. Halligan
officiating. Burial was in tn e
Browning Catholic cemetery.
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Nelly BY a PENNSYLVANIA

Nellie Bly,, the newspaper woman
who gained fame in 1890 by circling
the globe in 70 days, was a native
of Apollo, Pa, a few miles north
east of Pittsburgh. Her real name
was Elizabeth Cochrane.
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may still bril- & their machinery
to the shop and others will do the
work.
Morning or afte noon classes
or both are open to them.
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Assembly Of God Church

Sunday School at 10a. m. Come
to Sunday School and bring your
children.
Morning devotion at II.
Evening revival hour at 7:45.
Mid week services Wednesday
evening at 7:45.
Come and enjoy the old fash
Toned gospel with US.
Everyone we come to all of the
services.
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Advertise In Tns Cnie6
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-11
TRIBUNAL VOIDS
HOMEWORK LAW

WASHINGTON, April 1o-lRl-
The Supreme Court today ruled
unconstitutional Florida law
making it criminal for person to
obtain money by fraudulent pro-
mise to perform labor.
In 70 opinion delivered by
Justice Jackson, the court declar-
&c the law violates the 18th
amendmnt (prohibiting involun-
tary servitude) and the Federal
anti-peonage statute.
The case involved Emanuel Pol
lock, of Brecard county, Fla,
whom the court described as an
illiterate Negro. Pollock pleaded
guilty to charge of obtaining
S. from J. V. D'Albora with a
promise to work which he failed
to carry out.
He was fined $40 for each dol
lar of the five, and in default of
payment was sentenced to serve
in jail at the rate of less than nine
cents day until the debt was
discharged.
The courts opinion said the I'M
questionable aim of the 18th
amendment and the anti-peonage
act twas not merely to end slav-
cry but to maintain system Of
completely free and voluntary
labor"
The court said it had several
times overruled laws similar to
the Florida statute but had always
established the states right to
punish fraud. Then the opinion
added:
Deceit is not put beyond the
power of the state because the
cheat is a laborer nor because
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-11
ALLIES BATTLING
TO HOLD K0HIMA
Nipponese Troops Drive
Two Spearheads To-
Ward Key Base
BY RAY CRONIN
Associated Press War Editor

Fighting hard to retain their hold
on strategic Kohima, British and
Indian forces Monday were bat
ting the japanese invaders of In
dia on the outer fringes of the
Maya hills town while othe.: Nip
pom troops pressed two spearheads
toward the important Imphal Al
lied air and supply base.
The news from India continued
to hold the spotlight of interest in
the Pacific-Asiatic war theater.
Reports from the Central Pacific
told of A m IL n All. strikes
against Japanese islands in the
Carolines and the Marshalls.
A New Delhi communique re-
ported hard fighting in the Kohima
sector, IS miles from the Bengal
Assam rail lifeline, after the Brit
ism and Indian defenders beat back
a strong Japanese attack and
eliminated Nippon penetration
of the towns outez: Notifications.
The Japanese claimed occupa-
ton of Kohima April 6.
The Berlin radio quoted a Jap
anese spokesman as saying the
capture of Inphal is a matter only
of days.
Kohima, so miles north of I'm
phal, has been under siege since
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