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Evening star., 1944-01-30
Jim GIFTS Thar FusteSt With the Mostest Criticism
HOLLYWOOD.

Jim Crow is the only movie ex-
ecutive I ever knew before he was
movie executive.
AS recently as March, 1941, we sat
at adjoining desks at the Hollywood
Citizen-News.
Now Jim has a job at Paramount
Studio. On the door it says James
Francis Crow" in gold letters. He
has secretary, very good looking,
and his salary probably is four or
five times what he ever received
from newspaper.
His job is unique, in the literal
sense. No one else In all Holly
wood, where there are some un-
usual jobs indeed, has such a job.
He says what's wrong with movies
before they are made.
He got it, probably, largely be-
cause of his innate, stubborn Irish
honesty. AS a movie critic he spoke
his mind about the movies, and
when Jim speaks his mind, no one
is left in doubt as to his opinion.
Some one at Paramount decided
that such a man ought to devote
his analytical capabilities to the
movies BEFORE they were made,
instead of telling what was wrong
with them afterward, when it was
too late to do anything about 1t. So
Jim succumbed to the lure of movie
gold.
| Before Hand Right Hand.
Jim doesn't have any special title.
If he had, it would be editorial ad-
wiser or something like that. He is
an aide to B. G. De Sylvia, Para
mounts executive producer, and one
of Jirn's jobs is to look over the
scripts with a movie critics eyes.
Then he sends in a report to Mr..
De sylvia, who either does some
thing about it or not, as he sees At.
81 have learned" Crow said the
other day, that it's much easier to
spot faults in q finished film than
in one which hasn't been made"
Jim, by the way, doesn't know
I'm writing this story. If he did,
he would have refused fatty to be
interviewed, which would have led
to long and bitter quarrel As it
is, the long and bitter quarrel will
be postponed until he sees this in
print.
His job has another angle. It is
the custom of the studios to borrow
players when a producer covets a
rivals actor or actress for q special
role. When studio wants to bor-
row Paramount player, it sends in
a script of the proposed film. Jim
reads it, and If he thinks it's good
part for the Paramount player, he
says so. If he doesn't think It's a
good part, he says so.
Jim knocked around all over the
Evening star., 1944-01-30
The Stars, Financially,
Fifteen Years Ago
BY the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
Film celebrities had become money
and investment conscious. The name
of John Barrymore done in gold
letters was on the door of a Holly
wood boulevard bank as one of the
trustees, a high water mark for
dependability in his private and
financial life in the early years of
his marriage to Dolores Costello.
Rod La ROGUE, with cool million
netted from the booming stock mar
ket, retired from speculations in time
to avoid the fall crash which i'm
poverished Jack Gilbert and many
other celebrities.
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Registration For Nou. 2
Vote Totals Is, III Here

New Hanover county's registra-
ton for the November 7 general
election stands at 1874 voters, H.
G. Carney, chairman of the coun-
tyr board of elections, announced
last night following closing of the
registration books at the IS polling
places.
1. is the greatest registration in
the many years Mr.. Carney has
headed the board.
When the books were opened on
October IA there were 1901 names
listed. Many were removed, how
ever, because Of deaths and re-
moval from the county and the net
gain in registration in $3.50. The
number of voters registering since
October IA ISIS estimated at well
over 1000.
Although local politics have been
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COLOGNE RECEIVES
RECORD BLASTING
New Assault Sends $500
Planes Over Germany
In "a Hours

LONDON, Oct. 28.-tR-Cologne
got its worst blasting of the war
Today during an increasingly fero-
clouS aerial assault OH the Reich
mat began when British Mosquito
o0mbers struck Berlin last night
and has sent $500 planes over
Germany within "a hours.
Inc German radio reported that
Allled bombers were approaching
western Germany again tonight.
during the day $50 American
oomoers lambasted Munster and
namm and about $50 Raj heavies
struck the Dutch islands north of
ue schelde river estuary.
but Cologne caught a blow from
,.lOfe Than $50 Lancasters and Hal
LAKES aas mat dumped an estimated
y, tons of bombs directly into
"e clty's factory district.
=. Airmen returning from this late
s s,'einoon attack said that fires
. we're out of control. It was the
,a ,evelllh time this month that Co.
,;s s"e mad been assaulted from the
Nmaaway yards at Hamm and
NlunSter were. attacked nv the T.ib.
ths asorS and fortresses, which drove
through clouds so thick the crew
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TERMS NOT GIVEN
Earlier Conditions Includ-
ed Evacuation OF Greek,
Yugoslav Areas
BY DANIEL DE LUCE

MOSCOW, Oct. 28.-LR,- Bulgaria
signed an armistice today with Rus
STA, the United States and Great
Britain, ten days after conclusion
of talks between Prime Minister
Churchill and Premier Stain at
which an agreement on main
points of the arnistice was reach
ed. 49,
Terms of the armistice agree
ment were not disclosed immedi-
ately. Preliminary conditions ac-
copied by Bulgaria from the Allies
Oct. II included evacuation of
Greek and Yugoslav territories
seized by the Bulgarians.
Carries Out Conditions
Bulgarian Foreign Minister Petko
Stainov declared that the armistice
delegation from his country ire
CARDS it as it's duty to inform rep
resentatives of the Allied govern
ments that the new Bulgarian gov
eminent of the 'patrioic front has
been able to carry out consider
able part of the conditions provid-
ed for in the draft terms of the
Allied governments T.
He asserted that the Bulgarian
government considers it its funda-
mental duty to implement the ar
terms in a most conscien-
tious manner.
'sThis. armistice will assist the
Bulgarian government to establish
relations between Bulgaria and the
peoples of the United Nations, and
will inaugurate a policy of cooper
alton with these nations"
The whole people" of his coun-
try backed the government in the
realization of this policy, he added.
Negotiations for the armistice
agreement opened Thursday and
ended with the formal signing to-
day.
It was signed on behalf of the
three Allies by Marshal Feodor l..
Tolbukhin, as Representative of
the Allied command" and by 1t.
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AIR MAIL TALKED
BY P0STMASTERS
Pledge To Push Sale Of
Postage When Service
Provided In Area

Approximately 140 postmasters
Of the Third and Seventh districts
of the North Carolina chapter OF
the National Association of Post
masters who gathered here yes
terday pledged to push the sale
of air mail postage, if and when
commercial air service is provided
for the Wilmington area.
r. E. Page, publisher OF tn e
Star-News and chairman of the
Aviation committee of the cham
Der of commerce, spoke on the
probabilities and benefits of air
mail facilities for the Third and
Seventh c gres on a dis
tricts, when commercial route
is opened through Wilmington.
Air mail service, he said, would
result in greater business activi-
ties for the entire area represented
by the postal officials.
Rep. ]. Bayard Clark, of tn e
Seventh district, likewise speaking
on the future possibilities for COM
mercial and mail service, compli-
mented the postmasters on the
work their stats have done during
the emergency. Most of the times
the personnel have been greatly
handicapped by the loss of many
employees to military service and
war jobs, he said.
Postwar planning for postal en-
ployes was discussed by Rep. Ora
ham A. Barden, Of the Third dis
trict, who asked that postoffice
workers, despite the intense times,
show as much courtesy as possible
to patrons.
Addison, Hewlett, chairman of
the board of county commission
ers, welcomed the district postmas-
tiers to the meeting at the Blue
Top lodge, and later spoke on the
Progress of Transportation
Wilbur R. Dosher, postmaster of
the Wilmington postoffice. presid-
ed. Miss Edelweis Meshew, Castle
Hayne postmistress and chairman
of the Seventh district postmasters
group, acted as honorary hostess.
The meeting was opened with in
vocation by James M. Hall, Rose
boro postmaster and chairman of
the Third district.
The group assembled at the
lodge at 10:45 a. m. A seafood
luncheon was served at 1870 pm.
and the program continued until
about 4:30 pm.
Postmasters were present from
the Third district, which includes
Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Jones,
Onslow, Pamlico, Fender, Samson
and Wayne counties; Seventh dis
trict, Bladen, Brunswick, Column
bus, Cumberland, Harnett, New
Hanover, and Robson counties.
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s,ys 6O,OOo,0OO-Job Plan
Gives G. 0. P. Chance
To Say ME Too
SPEAKS IN CHICAGO
vo;ces Faith In Americas
Ability To Meet Peace.
time Problems
~ nouGLAs B. CORNELL

CHICAGO, Oct. %. -(P)- Presl'
don't Roosevelt outlined for Ameri'
=. tonight a $4,000, OO0-job postwar
rrooram and said he was giving
renllblican campaign orators more
onnortunities to say me too.
America" he said "must remain
the land Of high wages and eff
Gent production. Every fulltime
iob in America must provide
enough for a decent living. Roar
inc midwesterners crammed into
soldier field beside Lake Michigan
capacity 11O,OOo-hailed his words
with laundering applause. 1t was
his fifth major campaign speech
and he gave it over to an explana-
,ion of his economic views and to
labs at his fourth-term opposition.
Voicing faith in Americas abili-
ty to meet the challenge of stupen-
dous peacetime problems, Mr..
Roosevelt pledged that wage, price
and production controls would be
lifted and this time, he said, vet
Grams "can grow apples on their
own farms instead of having to
sell apples on street corners.
Drives To Stadium
From nearby railroad siding
Mr.. Roosevelt drove to the ire
mendols Lake-Front Stadium and
waited outside until few moments
before he was to speak-directly to
vast audience and by radio to
the nation. .s, 49,,
Andy Frain, chief of ushers at
The stadium, estimated 100 per-
sons were in the big enclosure and
10000 others were outside.
Hatless and coatless, despite 4
frosty fall night, Mr.. Roosevelt
battled a stiff northeast wind for
possession Of his manuscript -
and won.
Applause and lusty boos greeted
his me too" crack, but they
sWelled into heavier volume when
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"purposely" and ''systematical-
ly'' in 80 to 40 feet of water off
the beachhead, were sailed and in
some cases, towed across the chan
mel from England.
Manning the ships were volun-
teer crews of more than 1000
American seamen.
Many of the above-water deck
houses served as temporary bar
racks in early phases of the inva-
sion, while Navy anti-aircraft gun
crews, shifted to the highest part
of the superstructures, helped ward
off enemy air attacks.
Two concrete ships, the David
O. Savior and the Vitruvius, built
in 1s43 at Tampa, Fla, were
found ideal for the assignment. )"
CONTINUED ON Page Five; Col. u
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Japs Report u. S. Fleet On Move
AS Their Losses Reach 40 Ships;
Nazis Seek To Cross Mas. Waal
NIPP0NESE FLEET
CONTINUES FLIGHT
Will Be Months Regainins
Enough Strength To
Offer Challenge
U. S. NAVY HEADQUAR-

U. S. NAVY HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Pearl Harbor, Oct. %
Tokyo radio re-
ported tonight a whirlwind Of
American naval wrath de-
scending on Nippon in five
task forces operating in the
Philippine area.
The broadcast, heard in
London, said that probably
the whole Pacific fleet" is on
the move.
There was no American
confirmation of the report,
but if it was true it was bad
news for the japanese, whose fleets
are fleeing from disastrous blows
suffered earlier this week in
Philippine battles.
A revised total Of Japanese
losses in the Philippines fighting
lists 40 Nipponese warships sunk
or damaged, loss which Amer.
lean naval officials said has dras-
tically cut the enemy's capital
striking force. The new figure.
raised from q, still was incom-
plete.
Great Blow
Surface and air units Of the Adm.
William F. Halsey and Vice. Adm.
Thomas c. Kinkaid fleet COM
mands destroyed so much of Nip
pon's sea power that it will be
months regaining enough strength
to again seriously challenge Al
lied sea power. American naval
officials said.
Forces of the victorious U. S.
Navy in the Pacific now are sup.
plemented by Army air units U.s.
ing the recently-captured Tacloban
air field on Leyte island.
While final figures were not yet
available for Japanese losses suf-
fered in the three separate actions
| which doomed the enemy's at.
tempts to halt Gen. Douglas Mac.
Arthur's invasion of the Philip
pines, Rear Adm. Forrest P. Sher.
man, chief of staff of the Pacific
fleet, said:
ut appears that 40 Japanese
ships were sunk or crippled
New Figures
Japanese losses based on Amer.
lean communique information re-
leased so far totaled at least 80
warships sunk or damaged. The
figures, increased from former
computation of q by MacArthur's
revised tabulation of enemy ships
sunk by Kinkaid's fleet in Surigao
Strait, are as follows:
Sunk-Two carriers, two battle.
ships, eight cruisers and II de.
stroyers; probably sunk-one car.
rier and two battleships; damaged
six battleships. five cruisers and
two, perhaps more, destroyers.
Sherman in his estimate of 40
enemy vessels sunk or crippled
gave no details.
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in this central sector without op-
position.
In some forward areas fifth
army units, cut off by flooded
streams, were being supplied by
rope and ferries.
Patrols performed most of t h e
work on the eighth army front.
The British positions on the east
bank of the Ronca river, two miles
east of Forli on the Bologna-Rimin
highway, were unchanged. The Ma
zis increased their shellfire against
the British, who have bumped up
against the main Nazi defenses
Def Foreirli, 81 miles southeast of
Bologna.
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RESISTANCE DROPS
ON LEYTE ISLAND
Tenth Corps Elements
Sweep Forward From
Barugo To Carigara

MacARTHUR'S HEAD
@ U A R T E R S, Philippines,
Sunday, Oct. 29-P)-Amer-
lean invasion forces famed
out so fast today in all direc-
lions on Leyte that the
japanese could do no more
than offer delaying actions
and Filipino children trooped
safely to reopened schools in areas
behind the liberating armies.
On Leyte's north coast, 10th
corps elements sweep westward
from Barugo to Carigara. Those
two towns terminate the roads
from which Japanese fortunate
enough to escape entrapment to
the south in the Leyte valley might
flee to Carigara bay. They are flee
ing before Oath division units
which are less than Is air line
miles from the bay at the Leyte
valley town of Alangalang.
Repulse Counter Attack
. In the central Leyte valley,
Yanks pressing down the north
arm of a squeeze on bottled up
Nipponese repulsed an enemy
counter attack at Santa Fe. Other
Yanks previously have been re-
ported still further south at Pas
trana.
Moving from the south to a
juncttlre with the Pastrana spear
heads, seventh division elements
have fought up from Burauen to
within. one mile of Dagami, the
main supply depot and concentra-
ton base for survivors of the Jap
anese 18th division, the. torturers
of Bataan. The north and south
forces are less than 10 miles apart.
Southeast of Burauen, three more
towns have been added to the ap-
proximately 60 liberated on Leyte.
Fifth air force fighter planes,
newly arrived at captured air
bases, lost no time in getting into
action. Gen. Douglas Macarthur s
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Army Says He Will Be
Given New And Impor-
tant' Assignment
SPECULATION BEGUN
Some Believe Move May
Be Severe Reprimand
For Chang Kai-Shek
BY ELTON C. FAY

WASHINGTON. Oct. %. LIP -
General Joseph W. Stilwell W
jerked out of the key China-Burma.
India command today to take what
the War department said will be g
new and Important assignment.
The unexpected shakeup in the
Far East top command, made from
the White House. Immediately
stirred speculation along two lines:
l. Is the move a definite and
severe reprimand for Generalissi-
mo Chang Kai-shek, stemming
from dissension within Chinese
forces and the Japanes~ threat to
overrun Chinese barriers and en-
gulf American air bases?
2. Is Vinegar Joe" being pulled
out to head up forces for an in
vasion of China?
Relieved of All Posts
The order relieved Stilwell from
his assignments as Chief of Staff
to Chang, as deputy to Lord Louis
Mountbatten, the supreme COM
of the Southeast Asia thea
ter, and of command of American
forces in the theater.
1t split the Obi theater into two
smaller commands, China IN d
Burma > India. The China COM
mand was assigned to Maj. Gen.
Albert C. Wedemeyer, who had
been deputy chief of staff in south
east Asia. The India Burma thea
ter was assigned to 1t. Gen. Daniel
I. Sultan, now deputy commander
Of the Obi theater.
The War dea-ment said StilWen
twill be given a new and impor-
tant, but at present, undisclosed
assignment
It was this statement which pro-
duced unofficial discussion of Still
wells new job. In his forty years
of military career, Vinegar Joe"
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RUSSIAN TROOPS
INVADE SL0VAKIA
Berlin Announces Another
Big Rec Offensive
Opened In Latyia

LONDON, Sunday, Oct. 29-tR-,
Sovient mountain troops invaded
Slovakia on broad front west OF
conquered Ruthenia yesterday as
Berlin announced that four other
Russian armies had begun big
new offensive in. Latvia aimed
at wiping out scores of thousands
OF Germans pinned against the
Baltic sea. .-,.,-..-.'. .<,.,... -.
Moscow's >co1nmunipue, as is
usual at the start of Russian Of
fensives, did not mention the Lat
Wan operation, but Berlin said
the Russians had ripped through
Nazi lines southeast Of the west
Latvian port of Liepaja on / the
Baltic, and also in the Auce area,
70 miles to the east. .es' : RI =
For the first time since the be-
ginning of the invasion Of German
east Prussia, Moscow was silent
about that sector where the Ger
mans said a titanic battle Of en-
durance still ragged. Berlin acknow-
lodged small soviet penetrations
west Of Ebenrode on the Kaunas-
Konigsberg highway, and !, told of
heavy fighting on a broad front
south of Gunbinnen, Is miles west
of Ebenrode. :
The Russian bulletin announced
the capture of nearly 200 towns
and villages on front extending
from northern Norway down to
Yugoslavia, and Marshal Tito's
headquarters said that the Ad-
riatic port of Split had fallen to
the Yugoslav eighth corps after a
fierce three-day battle.
Warsaw, shattered Polish capital,
was further outflanked by Rus
sian and Polish troops who cap
tured six localities northwest Of
there between the Vistula and Ma
rev rivers, reaching the big bend
of the Vistula nine miles east Of
Nowy Dwor, a town at the con-
fluence Of the two streams.
In these battles OF local i'm
portance" the Russians seized
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Line IS SMASHED
In WEST HOLLAND
Enemy Abandons Bergen
OPP Zoom, Mainland
Coastal Key To Front
BY HOWARD COWAN

LONDON, Oct. 28-P)-
Forty thousand Germans
reeled northward today in a
scramble to get across the
Mas (Meuse) and WAL
Rhine and escape destruction
at the hands of advancing
Canadian and British forces
who smashed the enemy de-
Tense lines in western Hol-
land.
Field dispatches from the
muddy Dutch front said that
the 50-mile-long German line
from the sea to IS Hertogen-
bosch had fallen to pieces and
that it was evident a full-scale
German withdrawal was in pro.
gress after some of the most stub
born fighting of the western front
campaign.
Significance of the retreat was
pointed up by enemy abandonment
OF Bergen OPP Zoom, mainland
coastal key to his line.
Batteries Doomed
Allied headquarters announced
that, as result. free use of the
great Belgian port of Antwerp was
now blocked only by the isolated
German batteries at Vlissingen
(Flushing) on Walcheren island,
and these were doomed.
Even when the Germans there
and in the contracting pocket south
Of the Sehelde are iquidated, how
ever, gigantic minesweeping and
dredging job must be done on the
1O0-mile Schelde estuary before
deep-draft ships can use the port
readily, it was disclosed.
On the American and French
sectors of the western front in
France and Germany, the situa-
ton was generally unchanged. The
U. S. First army in Germany made
exploratory patrol thrusts while
American fighterbombers struck
German communications around
Cologne, Dusseldorf and Duren.
These blows were thrown against
a heavy German daylight move
ment by rail, a movement which
was not explained or amplified in
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F. R. WAR CLAIMS
RAPED BY DEWEY
Nominee Says He Would
Not Use Office To Claim
Personal Credit

ALBANY, N. Y, Oct. 28.-tR-
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey struck to-
night at President Roosevelt's re-
cita1 of the Democratic administra-
tion's war accomplishments.
The Republican presidential nom
inee asserted at Utica that if he
were elected he would never use
the office of president to claim per
sonal or political credit for the
magnificent achievements of tn e
American people or for the sacri-
fees of their sons.''
Stopping at Utica on his return
to Albany after delivering a noon
farm address at Syracuse, Dewey
told placard bearing station
crowd of several hundred persons
that he had mot yet found one
single, constructive suggestion for
the future of our country in any
of his Democratic opponents adj
dresses.
The crowd received with ap-
plause his indirect reference to the
presidents Friday night talk at
Philadelphia in declaring:
IT want to give ysu one assur-
ance, your next president will new
err use his office to claim personal
or political credit for the magnifi-
cent achievements of the American
people or for the sacrifices of their
sons.''
eve will bring government by
quarreling, by epithet and by abuse
Continued on Page Five; Col. u
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Fifth Army Strengthens
Front South OF Bologna

ROME, Oct. %. Up American
Fifth Army troops, working in cold
rain, improved their positions to-
day along the line Of hills eight
miles south of Bologna overlooking
Italy's eastern Pc valley.
Floods and gales the past 48
hours, however, brought most op-
erations along the entire Italian
front to a standstill, and gave the
Germans more time to improve
their defenses south and southeast
of Bologna.
British troops of the fifth army
were able to move up highway 81
and enter Roeca San Casciano,
about Is miles southwest of Forli.
Indian troops took a hill or tow
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Vessels Built Here Used
In hUQsion Bredkwaters

ANEW NEW YORK, Oct. 2e.-tD-rbe
tl,ta l ~! Merchant Marine Inst.
Of tba '0oay characterized as lone
Of WEI VIC most unique" in the history
It s "ttlare the operation in which
U, sS''l nat, 100000 gross tons of
Nor y. shipping were sunk off the
bresE~aaDoay beachhead to form
Tb h%aters for two new ports.
cesral ly-two American-controlled
laid sel$ ;. We're used, the institute
,ion ' h m construction of the inva-
900 a nsIoor through which $780,
plies N, nle soldiers and their sup
Tbe " ere, channeled into France.
the elI M. institute told this story Of
Euro merchant Marines Dart in the
TT ba invasion: -' - 'l''
Sand nd ~, vessels, loaded with tons of
explos sna concrete, and wired with
'''Ve Charges to sink them