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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-29

had to be sent from this theater Tor the abortive landing at Anzio.
 RECONQUER BURMA
 During this time the Japs more than doubled their strength in Burma, so Mountbatten and his chief deputy, Lieutenant General Raymond A. Wheeler, of the United States Army, had to do it the hard way - backward.
 Burma had to be reconquered from the north. an undertaking which many experts insisted could not be carried through successfully because of insuperable climatic, geo. graphical and supply difficulties. The obvious method was to invade from the south, seize the great port of Rangoon as bridgehead and supply base. But the Allies could not spare the ships and landing craft required to take Burma from the south. For this, Mountbatten had to wait until Germany was dealt with.
 When Mountbatten did get the required equipment for an am- phibious undertaking, much of which was used on the Normandy beaches, the Japs in Burma had ben cut to ribbons by Allied troops who covered more than 1000 miles in 10 months.
 There are still Japs 35 miles from Rangoon. About 3O000 of them were left to stew in their own juice when split in thre pockets. They are knocked off nightly as they attempt to neak eastward on one of the three roads leading to Thialand
 GOOD JUNGLE FIGHTERS
 The British are leaving this chief ly to the Ghurkas the Japs fear most, the Ppunjabis and the fierce looking Sikhs with their flowing boards and turbans.
 The tough little Ghurka is train ed with his kukri knife, the equiva- lent of the Filipino's bolo, since boy hood in his native Nepal He decapi- tates an OK with one stroke, delights in cutting Japs smack dab down the middle. The Junjabis are typical Indian troops, the Sikhs good tank men. You see them driving taxi cabs in the streets of sultry Cal cutta, cowboys all.
 Ghurkas, Punjabis and Sikhs, who thrive in the heat, quickly convinced the Jap that they, too, knew few things about the jun gle.
 The Japs withdrew from Burma, all right, but not until they left more than 100000 killed behind them. Uncle Joe Stilwell and his revitalized Chinese, did the Nips no good at Myitkyina and they were throw ncompletely off stride by AL lied soldiers of all descriptions who for the first time in history flew and fought through monsoons.
 The Allies were entitled to their Rangoon Victory Parade. It was about time. They waited long enough.
 But Admiral Lord Louis Mount batten, young man of action, now has the stuff to throw at the Japs, and it won't be long before he touches of more and louder fire works in Southeast Asia.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-29
WORLD WAR II A YEAR AGO
BY UNITED PRESS


 British troops in the Caen area of Normandy check a series of strong NaI thrusts and widen their bridgehead across the River OdOn.
 More than 1000 U. s. planes from Britain strike at strategic targets at Leipzig, Oschersleben and Magdeburg.
 Russian troops capture encircled city of Bobruisk, 40 miles behind the rapidly closing front and push to within 43 miles of Minsk; other Soviet units drive Films from PetrozavOdst.
 American troops wipe out . stubborn garrison of Japanese de- lenders at Nafutan Point on the southeastern tip of Saipan.
 In China, Japanese abandon Hengyang.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-29
Lamb Supply
 Jeopordized
By RUTH GMEINER.

Washington, June 29-(UP)-The government is considering new subsidy to lamb producers, not to bring lambs to market but to keep them off, it was learned today.
 Producers say they can't meet costs at present ceiling prices. As result trey are selling off flocks at record rates and jeoparoizing the future lamb supply.
 Consumers might suffer a tenn porary new cut in their meat sup ply if the subsidy were approved. But officials said they would profit in the lo14g run. With flocks built up again, more lambs would be pro- duced for market next year and the year after.
 The subsidy would De paid to pro- duCers for all lambs marketed. Of- ficials have not yet agreed on the amount bur $1 per 100 pounds was one figure suggested.
 Backers of the plan argue that if producers are assured higher prices they can afford to hold back breeding s:ock to rebuild f!ocks.
 Opponents contend that the high- CT prices would encourage even greater sales. Producers probably would rather take present market prices than gamble on the future when oemsn6s for meat may drop, they say. They also maintain that lack of experienced sheep herders is the real cause of flock liquidation. not low prices.
 The matter is now before Ec O. homie Stabilization Director William H. Davis. The plan was developed by the Office of Price Administra- ton and the War Food Administra- ton.
 It also was learned that food of- ficials may revise many of the sub- sidy programs now in effect. Serious consideration is being given to elim- ination of packer subsidies on meat and giving the payments directly to livestock producers.
 Clinton P. Anderson, who becomes Agriculture Secretary Monday, is expected to give the problem his earl attention.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-29
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Good Evening.
THE OLD FRONT MIRANDA
BY THE MAN IN THE TOWER

 4e talking the other day of lawn and pique flow on evenings after typical scorch, h evening family gathered on the front porch. Those the days the veranda so called, 8 o pillows hauled. teveral rockers stood in a row, And folks rocked and watched the sunset glow bh. old verandas bygone day With palm jardnere have passed into decay The taboret with the dolly has place for us bur porches wider, and the family who's the best chair has part A sit around grandly, porches have art. Ghe porch today has that thing called decor, stiff veranda they rocked on of yore chromium chair into the willows
 EM EN-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-29
By HARRY CRIMSON NEA Staff Correspondent

RANGooN June 2A robust edition of the swept in from Mountbaten address conngent of Allied standing attention the 
 platform than could rained
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-29

came in under his own power; he'd forgotten to brush his hair. Sen. John L. Mcclellan of Arkansas walked in rubbing his eyes. Came finally Sen. Joseph c. OMahoney of wyoming without any cops in tow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-29
Rangoon Victory Parade Is Prelude
 To New Triumphs In Southeast Asia

special assignment NEA Service China BumaInd theaer operations another his timely dispachesfrom Rangoon. Burma
Evening star., 1945-02-11

appearance before some 500 men "a
uniform In the National Press Club
Auditorium. The club entertaina
for servicen1en every Saturday, with
sandwiches and beer and politicians
and show people.
Miss Bacall was hustled out on
the stage by her Warner Bros. es-
corts. Then the Vice President,
standing In the wing, was asked II
he would return to the stage and
play the piano for the photog-
raphers. Miss Bacall WAS boosted
on the piano and the photographers
went to work while servicemen
shouted Down In 'front.'
How did the soldiers and sailors
react to The Look?" They clapped
and they stamped. cheered and
whistled. all evidences that they
liked 1t pretty well.
Earlier. at little reception in her
hotel suite, Washington's women
reporters, who have been known
to bristle at female politician who
put = ribbon in her hair, seemed
to accept the attractive young
blond. They were taken with no
jealous urge to protect the men
In the room, and everything went
nicely.
Miss Bacall declared she was not
going to talk about her leading
man. Bosart, who violated current
Hollywood ethics by saying he was
engaged to her while he was still
married. This was followed by =
confusing sequence Of statements
In the press.
One Of the women reporters asked
Evening star., 1945-02-11

Lauren Bacall, the young movie
star whose success in being just As
tough as Humphrey Bogart has
raised feminine hopes in the war
between men and women, visited
Washington yesterday.
She was here once before-sev-
eral years ago-an obscure actress
in an obscure play, a trifle that
during its brief life was known rs
Franklin Street" Yesterday was
different. Now Miss Bacall, on the
basis of one motion picture, has
come to be known nationally as
THE Look, "The Stink" or, as The
Stars drama critic expresses 1t, "the
streamlined piece of smoldering
fire with a voice to match"
Object Of Miss Bacall's visit yes
terday was to appear at the Ma
tional Press Club Canteen, and there
she shared the honors with the
Vice President of the United States,
Harry S. Truman, who seemed to
enjoy having his picture taken while
playing an old upright piano. Miss
Bacall was sitting on top Of it, how
ever.
Miss Bacall did not sing, because
Evening star., 1945-02-11

'The Missouri Waltz" Is not one Of
her numbers. And while 1t Is not
the only tune Mr.. Truman can play,
1t Is the one he always does play
Nor did Miss Bacall get OF any
Of the lines from her first picture,
in which, teamed with Humphrey
Bogart. she is becoming . national
sensation-lines such as you can
whistle, can't you, Harry?"
In fact they did not have much
conversation. That's the way those
things happen. There's more picture
than story.
Mr.. Truman had Just made an
Evening star., 1945-02-11

Miss BAcall. who three years ago
WAS . student IN = Manhattan high
school, how It felt to b skyrocketed
into the public's gaze.
Miss Bacall, who Is 20, answered,
1T feels as though your slip was
showing and you had SCOT on your
face"
Evening star., 1945-02-11

dear Bill:
When was hit on Tinian (in the Mari
anas) Nips had us pinned down in sugar
cane field. They were in caves in some cliffs
and really were giving us the business. A
machine gun slug went through my hip
early and had visions Of being in the field
until dark when one Of those Chrysler jobs
rolled up.
The driver told me what he was going to
do and those treads looked plenty big as they
sraddled ne. He pulled me through the
Evening star., 1945-02-11
Moy to Speak

Chairman May OF the House Mill
tAry Affairs Committee win speak
at the monthly dinner-meeting Of
the West Virginia Servicemen's As
sociation OF the District at 7 pm.
Tuesday at the Hotel Washington.
Evening star., 1945-02-11

escape hatch which IS IN the floor Of the
tank. # you should 60 to the Chrysler Tank
Arsenal, find the head man and kiss him
on the forehead for me- love tanks and
everyone connected with them"
Evening star., 1945-02-11

Lauren Bacall and the Vice
President. -AP Photo.
Evening star., 1945-02-11
CHRYsIER CORPORATION

PLYMOUTH !. DODGE DE- SOTO CHRYsIER
ksIp O. BUrins uAa so.Ds
Evening star., 1945-02-11
RESCUE !. he
SUGAR CANE

sActAGl letter
ts0n. marine 70 ST Sgt. VIM. Hendricka, u.
2. 8. 1ssi0s Corps Aecstittae, Ds1soia
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-23
CAPTAIN J. B. HELMS,
WILMINGTON OFFICER
KILLED IN BELGIUM

Mrs. j. B. Helms, JE., the former
Miss Rena Davis, 215 South Fifth
avenue, has been notified that her
husband, Captain James Bell
Helms, Jr., was killed in action in
BelsA n January 4.
He was the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
J. B. Helms, Sr., of Blythewood,
S. c.
Captain Helms was graduated
from Wofford college in 1888 as .
member of the Officers Reserve
Corps He was called into active
service from his business connec
tons in Charlotte in December
1941.
Trained at Fort Knox and For
Benning, he went overseas in o.
tober, 1912, and served with the
Ninth Army in Africa, England
France, Belgium, Holland and Ger,
many. He had been recipient oil
the Silver Star and the Oak Leaf
cluster for gallantry in action.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-23
TWO SISTERS JOIN
WAC; FIVE STARS
IN SERVICE FLAG

The service flag of Rocking
ham family will have two new
stars added to it, according to the
local Army Recruiting station,
with the acceptance of two sisters
in the Women's Army Corps
The sisters, Miss Mable G. Lee
and Mrs. Bessie B. Lawson, are
graduates of Dagger High School
in HohaWk, w. V. Prior to their
enlistment, Mrs. Lawson was en-
ployed at Fort Lauderdale, Fla,
and Miss Lee in Wilmington. They
are the daughters of Mr.. and Mrs.
James H. Lee.
The new recruits will report to
Fort Oglethorpe, Ca, January Is
for basic training, after which
they will attend one of the Army S
medical department technician
schools, graduating as surgical
technicians.
A third sister, Pvt. Virginia
Ward, of Wilmington, who enlist
ed in October, 1914, and a brother,
Cpl. James H. Lee, stationed in
Oklahoma City, Okla, also are
serving with the Army, along with
Mrs. LaWson's husband.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-23
STATE WELFARE
! HEAD TO SPEAK

Miss Daisy Young, of Raleigh
supervisor of children's institution!
for the North Carolina State Boare
Of Charities and Public Welfare
will make the main address at the
annual meeting of the Wilmington
Community Chest and Council al
1 o'clock this afternoon in the
Tide Water assembly hall.
4 Annual reports of the board oil
directors and standing committees
of the Chest and Council will be
given and officers for the coming
year elected.
The nominating committee for
the officers and executive commit
tee of the Council will present
slate of II officers. w. A. Raney
is chairman of the committe.
= Under the leadership of Alex
Sprunt, the nominating committee
If the Chest will submit names
Of IS nominees for directors at
large.
Miss Young is a graduate of the
Woman's College OF the University
of North Carolina and did extern
sive graduate work at the New
York School of Social Work. A for
mer assistant superintendent OF
Samarcand Manor, state training
school for girls, she was District
Child Welfare. worker in the Vir-
ginia State Department of PUBLIC
Welfare before coming to her pres
ent post, which she has held for
two years.
She will speak on Child Guidance
at tomorrow's meeting
Miss Young visits all orphanages
In the State and day care centers
under the supervision of the State
Board, and issues licenses for the
boarding home program for chill
dren.
The following institutional direc-
tSrs have been selected as repre-
sentatives of the II participating
agencies of the Chest:
Associated Charities, L. c. Rob-
ertson; Brigade Boys club. Luther
4. Raney; Catherine Kennedy
Home, Mrs. Albert F. Perry; Girl
Scouts, Mrs. James S. Webb; John
H. Shaw Boys club, DR.. L. w.
Upperman; Public Health Nursing
Association, Linwood D. Latta;
Salvation Army, T h m S H.
Wright; Travellers Aid Society,
James E. L. Wade; Young Mems
Christian Association, W. D. Nc
Caig; Young Women's Christian
Association, Mrs. Edwin B. Josey.
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Cauley Death Inquest
Scheduled For Today

A coroner's jury was i.npaneled
by Coroner Asa w. Allen at An
dreW's rnortuary yesterday to
conduct an inquest into the death
of Sam Lewis Cauley at 2:30 p. m.
Tuesday. The 45-year-old Whining
ton rural resident was killed in
stantly Saturday night when he
was struck by a truck operated
by Otto Leeuwenburg, "A, RID.
l. Wilmington.
Hearing the evidence 0 d a y
will be the following jurors: E. E.
Dye, John H. Davis, Joe H. Cook,
w. G. Evans, B. T. Hopkins, and
A. F. Walton. Leeuwenburg, ar
rested on charges of reckless op-
Grafton, resulting in death, is free
under $1,000 bond, pending results
of the inquest.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-23
CANTERBURY DEAN
CONFIRMS LEADER

CANTERBURY, England, Jan.
22.-WP)-In a solemn ritual in
the dimly-lit Norman crypt of Can
terbury Cathedral, DR.. Godfrey
Francis Fisher was confirmed an
Archbishop of Canterbury today.
Members of the Greater Chap
ter of the See of Canterbury watch
ed as DR.. Hewlett Johnson, dean
of Canterbury, signed the certifi-
cate. of election confirming the
nomination by King George VI,
head of the Church of England.
The Chapel of Our Lady of the
Undercroft was scene of the in
vestiture. The squat Norman pill
lars wi h their semi-circular
arches cast long shadows. The cold
was little relieved by two small
coal stoves.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-23
GRADING STARTED
TO PAVE SECTION
NEAR INCENERATOR

Grading and clearing has been
started at the corner of Dickinson
and Moore streets where the City S
$1O4,o0O modern twin-furnace re-
fuse incinerator will be construct
ed, City Manager A. c. Nichols
said yesterday.
The three-story building will
measure So by 70 feet, so feet high,
and have a 100-foot chimney. The
first story will comprise the ash
floor; the second the stocking
floor; and the third, a charging
floor. through which trucks will
drive in order to dump trash for
burning.
The City will construct the foun-
cations, drive the piling, build the
structure, including ramps and ap-
proaches, and employ the required
labor at an expense of Sal, 900.
The Nye Odorless Incinerator Co.,
Macon, Ca. under a $62,500 con-
tract, will furnish all materials
ard supervise labor.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-23
Local Soldier Missing
In West F ront Action

Pfc. Carl Alton Hewlett, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. Hewlett OF
asonboro sound, has been report
ed missing in action in Luxe:n.
bourg since December 20.
He has been awarded the Purple
Heart for wounds received in &C.
zion in Germany November 3.
His wife, Mrs. Lille Pepper
Hewlett, resides at Masonborc
sound.
He was indicted into the armed
forces December 81, 1943, al
Fort Bragg and completed his
basic training at Camp Croft, S. C.
He was stationed at Camp Shelby,
Miss, until August and was trans.
ferred to Fort Meade, Md.
Pfc. Hewlett has been overseas
since September of last year.
Before entering the service, he
was employed in the Welding de.
partment of the North Carolina
Shipbuilding Co.
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Seven White Men Listed
For Call By City Board

City Draft Board No. l yester-
day announced that it had receiv-
ed regular pre-induction call for
seven white men to leave Whining
ton for Fort Bragg February 10
for their first physical examina-
tons.
Orders will be dispatched within
the next few days to Edward Rob-
inson Carter, Jr., James B. Lilies,
Jr., Stephen Pickett Pearsall, John
Edward hawthorne, Marvin John
son Turner, Harvie K. Carter and
Howard Alexander McDougal.
The group of registrants is made
up of farmers and men who have
left essential employment. officials
revealed,
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ACCUSED R0BBER
CAPTURED HERE

A a2-year-old Negro fugitive
from a Georgia chain gang was
booked today by City policemen
on two charges of highway rob
berv in connection with Market
Street purse snatchings in the past
50 DAYS in which police estimate
the robber secured between $1,000
and 500 in money, checks ana
War Bonds in nine seizures.
Positive Identification OF Emory
Brewer. alias Samson RockefelloW
Pinknev. was made from group
of % white men and Negroes in
the Bureau of Identific cation office
bv two of the nine women who
have been victims of purse snatch
ings on Market street, between
Fifth and Ninth streets, since De-
cember /, City detectives report
City policemen, confident they
had "the purse snatcher,' had ar
rested Brewer about 8 o'clock Sat
urday night at Fifth and Market
streets "becauSe OF Suspicious d.
ton and he fitted descriptions by
various women" The arrest ap.
parently concluded a months in
vestigation, and six consecutive
nights of "picketing" the area.
Brewer, who made his escape
from chain gang in Brunswick,
Ga, for the eighth time on Octo-
Der 30, 1914, was arrested by Pa
trolman w. J. Mills, City Detec-
tives N. j. Wolfe and E. B. Muir
ray, and Sgt. j. T. Rich. The Ne
gro admitted to officers that he
was sentenced to 10 to "a years
for highway robbery in Atlanta,
Ca, in July, 1882, but denied COM
hitting the local crime.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-23
SUDAN VANGUARD
TO ARRIVE SOON

NEW BERN, Jan. 22.-The van
guard of Sudan Shriners will be
here Wednesday night for meet
ing of the directors of the widow S
fund of Sudan Temple, followed by
a patrol drill. band concert and
and pre- ceremonial ball. The an
nual business meeting and winter
ceremonial Thursday will bring
more than 100 candidates and a
large number of Mobiles from var
ious parts of the State.
Ben F. Gillikin is general chair
man; John H. Parker, publicity
chairman; Mrs, J. F. Rhem. reg.
istration chairman; R. E. Smith,
hotel and housing; C. D. Lancast
er, parade; A. A. Kafer, Jr.
luncheon; L. F. Wetherington, po
lice; George W. Alice, dance; o.
A. Kafer. glad hand; and J. M
West, o. C. Crump and Harry Lip
man, ladies' entertainment.
Sitter a short business session
Thursday morning, the first cere.
n1inial session will be held, follow.
ed by a parade and barbecue.
oyster lunch. While the Shriners
are holding their second ceremoni.
al session during the afternoon, Wis.
iting women will be entertained al
a theatre party and bridge party.
A tea dance and open house will
be featured during the late after
noon at the Shrine home, with the
Ipotentate's ball that night as the
concluding feature.
If annual custom of rotation in
,ffice is followed, J. Edward Allen
i Warrenton, chief rabban of the
Temple during the past year, will
be elected potentate, to succeed
George W. Waters, Jr., of Colds.
boro. Inasmuch as Mr. Allen re.
sides near Henderson, the Hender.
son Shrine club has voted to invite
the Temple to hold its spring cere.
monial next May 1924 in Hender.
son. Should this invitation be &C.
cepted, as is expected, it would
be the first time that a Temple
ceremonial has ever been beld at
Henderson.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-23
Crowd Demands Death
For. Xa11k And Dancer

LONDON, Jan. 22.-UP)-T h e
crowd demanded death today for
a strip tease dancer and an
American paratrooper charged
with numbering ''the man with the
cleft chin"
Summing up against 22-year-old
Pvt. Karl Gustav Hutton OF Boston
and Elizabeth Marina Jones, ID,
Crown Counsel L. A, Byrne told
an Old Bailey jury that she was
guilty even though the soldier fired
the shot
Her story that she accompanied
Hutton on the taxi ride which end
ed in the Staying of the driver,
only because she was afraid he
would kill her did not ring true, he
said, describing a woman young
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in years, but you may think her
old in the experience of life"
Mrs. Jones attorney, in his final
plea for her life, introduced a letter
which she had written Hutton from
Holloway prison. 1t read:
"You promised me that in court
you will tell the whole truth. DOM
60 back on your word What police
have against me is going through
the mans pockets. Had you not
ordered me to do it, 1 would MOI
have done it. You know the condi
ton l was in for hours afterwards
/ was dazed and still you threaten
ed me even when you knew 1 was
still too scared to tell the truth
For Gods sake, tell the truth. ;.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-23
MARRIAGE CUSTOM

The evening before a marriage
in Bohemia finds the young girl
friends of the bride making the
bridal wreath, each adding a t"lg
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-23
First Officer Of SPAR
To Serve Here Arrives

The first SPAR officer to report
for duty in Wilmington, Ensign
Rachel Jamison, of Greensburg,
Pa, has arrived here for duty
with the Captain of the Port, U. S.
Coast Guard. ....
Ensign Jamison came from the
SPAR training station at Palm
Beach, Fla.
In service for two years, she
received her commission on De-
cember 5, 1914
Her husband, Lieutenant Ralph
E. Jamison, was wounded in the
Normandy invasion and now is
stationed at Fort Knox, KY.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-23
Associated Charities
Plans 5Otk Conclaue

The fiftieth annual meeting of
the Associated Charities of Will
mington and New Hanover county
will be conducted. at the Temple
of Israel lounge Tuesday Janu-
airy 80 at pm. Rabbi Mordecai
M. Thurman, chairman of n e
board, will preside.
A social tea in honor of the Jubi-
lee year will follow Immediately
after the meeting. All interested in
the work of the Associated Chart
ties are invited to attend.