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MistrioI In
 Noxon Case
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court cases for precedent.
 Father of eight children, Cullen suffered a relapse yesterday after being stricken with grippe and pleurisy a week ago. His original attack caused a postponement of last Fridays session and his second illness resulted in yesterdays SeS- sion being postponed.
 Late last night it became evident that the socialite attorneys trial would not continue as various expert witnesses called by both the prose- cutiOn and defense departed from the city.
 Despite e conference in which counsel and the judge participated, defense Attorney Joseph B. Ely, for- mer Governor of Massachusetts, re- fused to agree to continuation of the trial with an 11-man jury. There were no alternates.
 Accident Impossible"
 During the trial, the childs phy- Sician, Dr. George P. Hunt of Pitts field, testified that NoXon'S explan- ation of his sons accidental" elec- trocution was impossible. The in- fant "did not have sufficient muscu- lar strength to grasp the wire" the doctor said.
 The prosecution also established that less than a month before the baby'S death. NoXon had discussed with an electrical expert the killing yNOua1. nf O household 1ioht c,,Tra,1t The discussion, according to testi- mony, took place a few weeks after specialists had advised placing baby Lawrence in a mental institution.
 In a surprise move, the prosecutor introduced the re-assembled scraps of torn document in which the defendant purportedly analysed events surrounding the child's elec- trocution.
 During the nine trial days. the prosecution had examined 13 witness ses and introduced some 50 exhibits including life sized doll to dem- onStrate the burns the victim sus- tained.
 The state contended that NoXon wrapped a bare "trouble-light" wire around his baby'S bare arm, seated the child with wet diapers on b metal tray. then plugged the wire into an electrical wall socket.
 NoXon cortended he was repairing a radio in the library of his home. He said he took the baby from a chair and placed it on the tray be- cause 1t was wet, then left the room to get some tools. When he returned the baby had drawn the wire upon himself and bare spot where the insulation was worn off had con. tacted his arm.
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Presidents strength along the At- lantic seaboard, the Pacific seaboard and in the central industrial sec- tions."
 Asserting that he believed Presi- dent Roosevelt again would carry the solid south, Willkie added that the Republicans will win lin the midwestern states without large metropolitan centers."
 He defended his previous stand for high taxes and added: we must have high taxes now so as not to mortgage the future of tie boys now doing the fighting.
 After the war is over," Willkie said taxes will have to be decreased to give the stimulus that reduced taxation always gives to initiative and business and individuals and enterprise, so that jobs can be creat- ed for returning soldiers and dis placed war workers"
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ready are using Momote air1ield, only 610 miles south of Truk, and directly across the Bismarck Sea from New Ireland and New Britain, where approximately 5000 enemy troops are virtually isolated.
 Allied troops on New Guinea also continued their advances, capturing Kumisanger and Mindiri, giving them control of the Raj coast line to a point 35 miles west of Saidor.
 The new conquests, which entailed seizure of large quantities of enemy supplies, placed the Allied forces on Cape Rigny, on the south shore of Astrolabe Bay, and only 20 miles from Madang, on the north of the waterway.
 American airTnen were active again, hitting Kavieng on New Ire. land with 62 tons of bombs, and Rabaul with 55 tons of explosives in the usual daily raid. Two barges were destroyed and eight other sur. face craft damaged at Rabaul.
 Two other enemy coastal vessels were sunk by light naval units in HanSa Bay in New Guinea.
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Additional taxes on still wines will amount to one per cent quart or fifth for wine of IA per cent al- coholic content; five cent3 & quart and four cents a fifth for I4 to 21 per cent; 25 cents a quart or 20 cents fifth for 2l to 24 per cent.
 Champagne, sparkling and car- bonated wines will cost l6 cents more for a 26-ounce bottle and eight cents additional for eight ounce bottles.
 The tax rise on beer, amounting to q 8 berrel, will cause rises of about one and one-half cents a quart and fraction of a cent for the regular small bottle.
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surveyed by the victorious Allies and they can decide which is right and just to be done"
 Apparent DeclslOn
 The apparent decision to postpone indefinitely any transfer of Italian warships was believed to have been due at least in part to the unex- pectedly strong repercti at ons touched oil by President Roosevelt's revelation that Russia might share in the spells.
 A member of the cabinet of Pre- mier Marshal iPetro Badoglio said the entire Italian government would resign in protest of any ships were transferred to the SOvietS.
 In any case, naval observers were somewhat skeptical that Russia could operate the Italian ships un% less they continued to be manned by Italian crews, which appeared poli- tically out of the question. The machinery. gauges and other details would not be familiar to Soviet crews, they pointed out.
 President Roosevelt'S action in disclosing that the discussions were under way came as a considerable surprise to British quarters.
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Nazis Guess At Invasion Dote

London, March 9.--tuP)-Jean Paquis, commentator on the Ger. man controlled Paris radio, predict ed last night that the Allies will invade western Europe by March IS, providing Prime Minsitre Win- ston Churchill "has not made o mistake or deceived us."
 This last week of waiting must devoted to some kind of prepara. ton by our side" he said. That Is exactly what the Germans are doing. The reception is ready and the Allies can come"
 After reviewing the general war situation, Paquis said the last week of Frances '1ong and patient wait of three years" was beginning.
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AF
 
 Ortona and Polish artillery shelled enemy units around Ateleta.
 Poor Visibility
 Poor visibility over most of Italy grounded the U. s. 18th Air Forces heavy bolnbers, but hard hitting American Marauders and Mitchells picked up the attack with a series of smashing raiGs on Nazi supply routes from the suburbs of Rome to San Stefano harbor, 90 miles northwest of the Italian capital.
 One Marauder formation struck through e heavyq overcast at the Ti5urtina railway yards In the east ern outskirts of Rome, while a second started fires and explosions in San Stefona port installations.
 The railway junction of Orte, 40 mics north of Rome. also came un- der attack by a force of Mitchell bombers that laid tons of explosives squarely across the tracks and rull- ing stock in the freight yards.
 American Invaders dive-bombed and strafed road and rail targets at Montalto di Castro, on the west coast amove Rome, causing exten- sive fires and damage, while RAT fighters and fighter bombers at- tackled road traffic in the Rome area. The British raiders destroyed 2l enemy vehicles.
 Headquarters spokesmen said poor visibility had prevented full obser- vation of the damage inflicted on the Tiburtina yards yesterday, but they reported that the recent series of raids on the network of railway yards in the Rome area had "se- Verely damaged" those vital clear ing points for German troops and supplies moving southward ot the fighting fronts.
 Marauder Crews
 Marauder crews who participated in Tuesdays raid on the Ostiense yards in the southern outskirts of Rome said the entire target area was filtered with smashed freight cars and twisted rails from previous assaults. Some 250 cars were be- lieved to have been destroyed or damaged heavily last Friday when the MarauderS caught 1000 cars Jammed in the yards.
 German warplanes struck back at the Allied beachhead lines Tues. day night spraying anti-personnel bombs over the American and Brit ish ground troops, but 1t was indi. cated the attack was on a small scale.
 Another small formation of Ger. man planes lashed out across the Mediterranean at dusk yesterday to give Algiers its first air raid since last August 26. The raid lasted only about 10 minutes. however, and there were no major damage or casualties.
 bigeest Effort
 The Luftwaffe's biggest effort WAS hurled against an Allied convoy moving along the North African coast at about the same time as the Algiers attack. Between 60 and GO German planes struck at the con. voy. but they were driven of before causing any damage. EAF and French pilots shot down i've of the raiders at cost of two Allied planes.
 One other German aircraft were downed over the Italian fronts yes. terday. while the Allied forces lost nine planes.
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Raids On Berlin

Continued from Page l incendiary bombs over large areas and the flames of the burning Ber- lin were seen as far away as 260 miles from the Nazi capital.
 The possible effort to bring about an evacuation of Berlin is not the sole reason for the new series Of daylight raids, however. Another one is believed to be the desire of the Allied command to destroy as much as the Luftwaffe as possible over Germany proper. thereby reducing the number of planes that the Ger mans can send up to oppose a vest ern European invasion.
 The long series O. Berlin night raids by the Royal air force suc- ceeded in bringing up some defend- ing German night fighters but did not represent real challenge from the Luftwaffe. It is, however, almost impossible for the vaunted Luft- waffle to remain on the ground when 1000 or more daylight raiders sweep ONcE LIlG tO AAls NAthA gets.
 Germans Guess
 The German people can only guess the number of their own fighters who roar up at night to meet Allied attackers; in daylight however, the case is somewhat different and mor- ale probably would suffer if the butchers of Berlin fail to See Ger man fighters in the sky when they themselves are being plastered mer- cilessly.
 Losses admittedly have been heavy in the resultant battles over Berlin but nearly always 1t is the Germans who have taken the great CT loss. And they can least afford the loss because their aircraft pro- duction has suffered heavily under previous Allied bombings.
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tContinued from Page Il said. we always will have to call on the citizen army, but we must be better prepared in the future and have a definite policy established.
 "Si1e of the force 7ill not be known until the war ends and we know what commitments have been made, but there are things we must study now such as methods of pro- curement and training and unity of command.
 Most of these matters will have to be legislated on eventually and we had better prepare for it now
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Hopes To Be Yale Grad At IA

If all the scholastic credits he accumulated ct Western Rec serve university prove accept. able, Merrill Kenneth Wolf. above. Yale sophomore at 12, will be graduated from Yale in 1928, at the age of "A. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Wolf of Cleveland, O., the young prodigy is studying government with "a liberal sprinkling of
 culture"
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retreated in disorder after losing 900 men and three tanks in a futile counter attack near Narva. Soviet planes added to the toll of men and machines with series of heavy raids. Eleven German planes were shot down and g destroyed o'' tA" ground.
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Brita!ns new National MIR Cocoa for war workers under Is Is proving very popular.
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which the present administration apparently belongs" would give the federal government even greater control and use American power in the muddy game of international politics" he said.
 There are some of us, however" Willkie said, who believe that neither of these attitudes represents a solution. For we know that in a complex modern industrial life the federal government. operating by law and not by caprice, must exer- else regulatory authority to insure the freedom of our citizens.
 By the same token we know that governmental probleE.s which in their nature are not national in scope are best administered when admir-, ..1tered locally.
 we know that the real hope of social advance lies not in deficit spending or in an nnofny of scar city but in an ever expanding econ. omy: that the route to such an economy lies not with government but with the initiative and the self. reliance of our individual citizens. We also know that even these QuAl. ities, can find a fruitful field for operation only in the unlocking of Americas economic doors, only in the abandonment of narrow nation alistic policies. only in 6 world of peace secured by real and tangible cooperation among the nationa"
 Summary
 Summarizing his political views at a press conference, Wtllkie said the election will depend on the ability
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The British battleship Britannia was torpedoed by a U-boat the day before the 1918 armistice.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-09
PERCY ATHERTON DIES

Atlantic City, N. J., March g. (UP)-Percy Lee Atherton. 72, Bos- ton, a cousin of Ray Atherton, U. s. minister to Canada, died unex- pectedly last night from heart dis sease at his winter home In the Oxford apartments here.
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Bod ToxN News For Drinkers

Continued from Page iD brandy. rum, cordials, liquers and otl.er distilled spirits specialities will be based on proof. as follows:
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The Dead Sea, l2o0 feet below sea level. is the lowest spot In the world.
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She's c well known movie actress. Hes e well known married director. It's been @ romance for many years, but he can't get 6 divorce. His daily telegrams and her nightly letters keep them alive . She signs her "Swank" (meaning: Sealed with nice kiss) and he signs his wires Blake" (for: Best love and kisses ever. Those are not really the signatures, but you get the idea Betty Smiths best. seller has been re-christened in Eng. land: 'The Tree in the Yard. Don't they like Brooklyn ever there? . The soldiers favorite feature, Ar. thur Greengroin" Ca comic strip) has been yanked from Tank. No ex- planation yet Elinor Schramm, weary of being called Scram, has charged 1t to Niles A certain dowager in Washington Is so bitterly anti-Administration she berates per- former-friendS for appearing at bond shows . Who got you to do it?" she asked Sheila Barrett. "Was 1t Morgenthau?" Aside to c. V. R. Thompson of The London Daily Express: Of course, 1t is okay to reprint the Canadian colin, you dope.
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EFrOl Flynn, in a mag piece sev. eral years ago, tipped off the cur. rent trouble in Argentina Of. ficers with campaign ribbons say they are not always called fruit salad, but costume jewelry .. Doris Fleeson, the scribe, is ell route back to Britain for Woman's Home Con- panion Kay Halle, a Cleveland socialite, may resume with OWI in London. She was once engaged to Randy Churchill Overseas lads are getting 90 prints of Cover Girl" They'll witness the premiere before the home folks do The reason Drew Pearson stumbled Sunday was this rival, who went to watch him get nervous.
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Washington win order all high ranking offlcers here to serve at least six months overseas before the year ends Robert Sherwood prob- ably will continue serving FDR as an assistant when he quits his owl chores Wini shaw's son and her second groom may be ind lcted at the same time A bandleader who recently broke up his combine cost an heiress (backer) $75,o00 . Russia has selected IS American films for showing there Back stage troubles at '"The Merry Widow" have reached the uniunny stage Jim Marshall Gone of the first correspondents to be wounded-he was aboard the Panay in l93D will switch to the coast of. flee of Golfers Overheard in Miami: Northern papers criticize Miami when tn populations been douoled because of Northern tour. istSl"
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Summary

Summarizing his political views at a press conference, Wtllkie said the election will depend on the ability of the Republican party to cut the
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surveyed by the victorious Allies and they can decide which is right and just to bA done"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-06
'ANCLO-U. S. PACT
ON TRADE URGED

LONDON, Dec -5.-lP-A British
American pact to prevent "unre-
stricted competition in the world S
export markets was urged in the
House of Lords today while Prime
Minister Churchill was disclosing
in Commons that Britain hoped to
pay cash for United States goods
and raw materials imported out
side the scope of LendLease.
Mounting British concern ov e r
the problems surrounding the res
toration of theil overseas markets
historically the financial base OF
Ibis island-empire was reflected
Il in botl houses. with Commons
scheduled for q full dress debate
en- the subject tomorrow.
Opening a similar discussion in
the House of Lords, Lord Winborne
bluntly declared that Britain has
got to make some arrangement
with the u. S. A. in the export
trade"
He asserted that, if the war end
ed tomorrow, I'VE should find our
selves with only one quarter of our
rrewar export trade and with our
merchant fleet reduced by nearly
a third
Jointly" he said, 1--WE and the
United States could dominate the
trade of the world. but if we in.
dulged in unrestricted competition
it would be disastrous to both"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-06
WARNING ISSUED
ON COTTON PLAN

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. - up =
Administration officials declared
today that continuance of the new
cotton export program authorized
| by Congress might precipitate
board scale economic warfare be-
tween Allied nations.
Testifying before a special
House Agriculture Postwar Plan
ming Committee, Assistant Secre-
tary of State Dean Acheson declar-
ed objections already have arisen
from friendly foreign cotton-pro-
ducing countries 10 the world sale
Of the American staple on sub
sidized basis. The committee is
headed by Rep. Pace D-Ga.).
Similar criticism was voiced by
L. A. Wheeler, foreign relations
director for the Agriculture De-
partment. He declared that the
only practicable solution to this
country's cotton export problem
lay in the working out of interna-
tional trade agreements.
Referring to provisions of the
recently-passed Surplus Properties
disposal act which authorizes the
Commodity Credit Corporation to
sell at a loss in the export trade
American cotton it has acquired
as security on loans, Acheson said
This situation IS serious in it.
self, because it is source of irri-
tation in our relations with other
friendly countries.
1T is even more serious, howev-
er, because it is likely to affect
the confidence of other countries
In our sincerity of purpose and in
our general program of seeking, in
collaboration with other nations,
a general reduction of trade bar
riers and the elimination of dis
examinations and otner unfair meth.
DDS of trade!'
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-06
COAL SHORTAGE E....
CALLED SERIOUS

n the coal shortage in
Al tnos'ts has not reached the
Tilnlln9sa,0oe dealers cautioned yes
acute S' tba+ the situation in Will
r tsfas5 is serious. learned that
Meal'" Bayard Clark has taken
the n !'a;stration. and with M. l.:
Adn aoes Of Charlotte, area district
Burtlesso. ,,osentative. 1t was dis
STA rep thaf Rep. Clark had re-
clo ?s.ed a 2etition from City Mana
ger r. a. Washington, STA officials
N Lined mat each community
explain aIlocated 80 per cent of
is Oe ans reccived last year. It
the nnirted out that already 2e6
was t pI above this years allot-
csfloS " ESQ carloads has already
.111e e,f into Wilmington,
nlo'' ngs disclosed yesterday that
IT w." of coal in Wilmington we're
sl s., b,,t that shipments arriving
NIL l.;,v w. have been sufficient to avoid
aa n;sl suffering on the part OF
ne o ps retailers explained that
demands for coal are $50
va a,+ that it is necessary for d
ssle r'ber of mines to crush domes-
n NJ ives down to steam sizes, re-
~ ,.,ino the supply for household
nee"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-06
Airport To Be Named
For Local Many Hero

The private airfield of the Caro-
lima Skyways, locs ted on the
Wrightsville Beach highway, ona
mile west of Seagate, has been
named the Carl David Peiffer air.
port in honor of the first local
Naval aviator to lGse his life in
the present war, according to an
announcement by officials of the
compay yesterday.
The 40-acre tract on which the
airport is located was purchased
by G. H. Rogers, of Seagate. The
field was opened Nov. 10 and it is
expected that the landing field will
be completed soon. 1t contains two
grass runways, one 1900 feet long,
and the cher 1000 feet long. Each
runway will be $50 feet wide.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-06
Wave Head Says Civilian
Girls Shun Seruicewomen

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. - (P -
Civilian girls, willing hostesses at
community parties for service men,
seldom extend their social patriot
ism to service women, Capt. Mil
dred H. McAfee asserted today.
The director of tine WAVES, on
leave as president of Wellesley
College for women, told a White
House conference cn war recrea-
ton that civilian girls even refused
to admit Wave officers to parties
for which a blanket invitation had
been extended to officers.
Capt McAfee suggested encour-
aging civilian men 70 arrange par
ties for service women only.
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Ninety per cent of BraziPs soil
could be productive farmland.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-06

Ensign Peiffer, son of Mrs. AIDE
laide J. Peiffer and the late Frank
W. Peiffer, of Wilmington, w "a s
killed in the battle of Midway on
June S, 1912. He was awarded post
humously the Navy Cross, Purple
Heart and a Presidential citation
for extraordinary heroism and
courage during the battle.
He was born here on Septem-
her Is, 1915, and was educated
ct New Hanover High School and
the University Of North Carolina,
from which he was graduated in
1910. While at the university, he
was a member of the varsity foot.
ball team.
Entering the Naval Air Corps in
December of 1910, he was gradu-
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ated and commissioned an ensign
from the Naval Air Station at Mi
ami, Fla, in the fall of 1871. Dur
ing the next few months he was
sta toned in Norfolk and then as
signed to duty as pilot of a plane
serving aboard the aircraft carrier
U S. S. Enterprise.
Before entering the service, he
was employed Ky the Ficklen To-
bacco company, i'll Greenville, for
several years.
A destroyer escort, the U. S. S.
Peiffer, was named in his honor
when she was launched at Bos.
ton last January 26.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-06
Local Man Retired
From Naval Seruics

Chief Boatswain' s Mate James,H.
Melton. Route 2, Carolina Beach
one-time chief of company police
at the Ethyl-Dow Chemical Co.,
at Kure's Beach, received notice
from the Navy Department yester-
day of his retirement to inactive
duty after a service record Of 80
years.
Chief Melton has nearly. tive
years OF active sea and foreign
duty during the present war, end
ing with a recent Navy order aut
thorizing the release Of officers
and petty officers called from re-
tirement to offset the personnel
shortage in the wars carly months.
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