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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-25
Prop Wash
BY MEARES HARRISS

One of the fallacies, partially fos-
tered by the Army and Navy low
age limit for pilots, is that after
the first dash and vigor of youth
has worn off, a man is no longer
capable Of safely plotting an air
plane. The demands of the physi-
cal strength and endurance of
service fliers are much greater
than the mons scheduled private pi-
lot ever meets, necessitating young
men of extremely high physical
and mental calibre.
The fact is that in civilian fly
ing, judgment pays off as much,
or more, than skill. Proof lies in
the figures released by the Civil
Aeronautics Authority on investi-
cation of nearly 5000 n-schedul-
ed civilian aircraft accidents in
1941. This figure does not include
airline accidents.
OF this number, 4,7OO were of
minor nature, involving only
slight damage to the plane and no
injury to pilot or passengers. In
the 280 major accidents, there
were only two fatalities. truly
remarkable tribute to the safety
Of private flying.
The significant note in this in
vestigation was the revelation that
the pilots in the over 40 year age
group had much better safety rec
ords than younger men per thou
sand hours flown, and tn { age
group from so to SIS had the best
record of all.
The Hawthorne Flying service,
which has more than a dozen non
scheduled fixed base locations in
North and South Carolila and Vir-
ginia, reports that the average age
Of plane owners at their airports
is 81 years and in Rocky Mount,
it is over 40.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-25

COMMISSIONERS SALE OF
REAL ESTATE

~ virtue of the r0Her md authority
contained IN decree of sale made in
certain action pending in the Superior
court OF New Hanover County. wherein
the City of Wilmington. ct al. are plain
tlffs' and Hector Green and wife, Annie
Green, ct al. are defendants. the under
signed signed viii on Monday, March 10th.
1915. at u o'clock Noon, at the Court
House door of New Hanover County
sell at public auction, for cash. to the
highest bidder, all that certain lot or
parcel OF land situate, lying and being
IN the City of Wilmington. County of
New Hanover and State of North Caro-
INA. and described as follows. to-wit:-
BEGINNING at the corner where the
eastern line of Twelfth Street intersects
the northern line of Wooster Street
and running thence northwardly along
the said eastern line of Twelfth Street
50 feet: thence eastwardly ard parallel
with Wooster Street 100 feet, thence
southwardly and parallel with Twelfth
Street SO feet to the northern line of
Wooster Street, thence v-s.vyardi 7long
the said northern line of Wooster Street
100 feet to the corner. the point of
beginning, the same being the 9th
west part of Lot in Block 10, accord
ing to the official plan of the City of
Wilmington. n. {
Dated and posted this 23rd day of
February. 1915.
G. C MCINTYRE Cornr,icsiop.r
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-25
WOMEN PRAISED
IN PLANE RESCUE
MARION, Va, Feb. 24-LRATwo

MARION, Va, Feb. 24-LRATwo
women survivors were praised to-
dav as heroines of the American
Airlines plane crash which took
the lives of II of the % persons
aboard when the ship struck in
an isolated mountain area of south
west Virginia.
Mrs. Frances Ulen, Washington,
suffering an ankle injury and wear
ing pair of shoes taken from
one of the men killed in the crash,
hobbled across the mountainside
to summon aid.
Wiley Vaught, a farmer, who
found Mrs. Ulen as she stumbled
down the mountain, revealed a
grim story of the hours following
the crash of the airliner, when,
he said, she was unable to extri-
cate herself from the wreckage
until MORALLY wounded Marine
colonel died. The farmer said Mrs.
Ulen told him that her first ef-
forts to pull herself from the plane
in which she was pinned brought
more suffering to the officer, like
wise caught in the wreckage. Sc
she remained quiet and made nc
further efforts to get out until after
he had died.
Mrs. Ulen, Vaught said, appar.
emily tainted several times after
she left the plane and it took her
more than six hours in her in
]ured condition to travel about two
miles through the mountains.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-25
FIGHTING SPREADS
ON ITALIAN FRONT

ROME. Feb. 24-(P)-Allled &C
tivity intended to tie down a maxi
mum number of German divisions
spread along the Fifth Army front
in Italv today, accompanied by
continued aerial offensive from
Italian bases against the enemy
southern European communlca-
tons.
u S. infantrymen and Brazilian
troops consolidated their newly
won heights around Monte Belve-
dere. 30 miles southwest of Bolog-
ma. American raiding parties
punched into German fortified
holdings south of Bologna. Farther
to the right, artillery fire blasted
the enemy front some positions.
Kew points in the network OF
railroads in northern Italy essen
tial for an enemy withdrawal be-
hind the Alps were left snolder-
| ing by more than 60 hours of day
and night bombing by American
and British warplanes.
Several sharp German counter
attacks hurled against newly-Won
American positions at Monte Dell;
Torraccia have been beaten off,
Allied headquarters announced.
Field Marshal Albert Kesselring,
in a desperate bid to win back
the former German positions south
Of Bologne, marched some of his
men for six days and then load
ed them into trucks for the final
dash to the front.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-25
COMMISSIONERS SALE or
REAL ESTATE

BY virtue of tn: power and au,hc rity
contained in decree of sale made in
a certain action pending in the Superior
Court of New Hanover County, wherein
the City of Wilmington. ct al. are plain
tiffs. and Priscilla Palmer ct al. are
defendants, the undersigned will, on
Monday, March Goth. 1945, at u O'Clock
Noon. at the Court House door of New
Hanover County, sell at public auction.
for cash, to the highest bidder. all that
certain lot. or parcel of land situate,
lying and being in the City of Whining
ton, County of New Hanover and State
of North Carolina and described as
follows. to-Wit:-
BEGINNING at a point in the eastern
line of Eleventh Street 66 feet from the
northwest corner OF Block No 1873. run
ming thence southwardly with the east
ern line of Eleventh Street IS IL 1897
feet, thence eastwardly parallel VITA
wardly parallel with Eleventh Street
is u (33) feet, thence westwardly
parallel with Chestnut Street 1872 .eet
to the beginning. the same being 2a-t
of Lot No. q in Block 1873. acc 1r ling
to the official plan of the City of Will
mington, N. c.
Dated and posted this 23rd. day of
G. c. MCINTYRE. Commissioner.
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA:
COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER:
LEWANNA LEWIS RANSOM VS..
HUBERT FRANKLIN RANSOM
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
NOTICE
The defendant above named viii take
notice that action entitled as above has
been commenced in the Superior Court
of New Hanover County, State of North
Carolina, to obtain an absolute divorce
against the defendant on the grounds
of two years separation; and that the
sQl sIoJ9q Ieaddg o. p7I!nb9E 81 gu leul
aonou sHel I9ulInJ HIM 4uepu9Jsp PIES
lie is required to appear before the
Clerk of the Superior Court of New
Hanover County North Carolina, at his
office in the City of Wilmington in the
above State on or before twenty days
after the goth day of March, 1945, to
answer or demur to the complaint in
said action of the plaintiff now on file
in the office of the sad Clerk of the
Superior Court of New Hanover County.
North Carolina, or the plaintiff will
apply to the Superior Court of said
County for the relief demanded in said
complaint.
TIL. the 18Th dav Of February 1945.
A. L. MEYLAND.
Clerk OF Superior Court.
BY LOU J. WARD, Asst.
Clerk Superior Court.
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FIRST FLIGHT

Major J. C. Pennington, former
manager of the Pennington Flying
Service, flew in recently in a CAS-
Transport on routine training
flight for an overnight stay. While
here, he took his wife, the former
Anna Feenstra, and their / IL
year old son, Allan, for the young
ster's first flight in the Carolina
Beach airport's Taylorcraft.
By coincidence, Captain George
Carr, of BurgaW, also in the Air
Transport command and former
instructor for the Pennington Fly
ing Service, came in the same day
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-25
KRAUT OFFER

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.-tP,-
The government offered today to
pay packers subsidies up to S23
a ton to divert $4,000 tons of sur
plus soutnern-grown cabbage into
kraut. In announcing the sub
sidy, the war food administration
said the production of winter cab
bage was about Sc per cent above
average and considerably in ex-
cess of civilian requirements.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-25
CONFERENCES

CHARLOTTE, Feb. 24-tR-Six
postwar education conferences are
planned by the State Commission
Tor The Defense OF Democracy
through education, President Mar
gerry Alexander announced today.
meetings are planned for Abe
marie, Shelby, Asheville, Lumber
ION, Lexington and Edenton, all
tentatively set for April.
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Charlotte Plans Move
To Boost Teachers Paw

CHARLOTTE, Feb. 24.-4R-
Mayor Herbert H. Baxter said
today that a movement to -
crease further the salaries of
Charlotte school teachers through
the voting of an additional five
cent tax levy would be initiated
at Wednesdays city council meet
ing. The present school levy is
Is cents on $500.
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viewed women as to age, educa-
ton, medical training and volun-
teer experience. The poll was con-
Quoted to coordinate the efforts to
recruit registered nurses for Army
hospital, WAC-Medics for Army
HOSPITAL duty, and volunteer nurs-
ing on a part-time basis in civilian
hospitals. Shown, left to right, are
Girl Scout Doris Gray, WAC Lieut..
Helen Madden, a former Girl Scout
who supervised the poll, an uniden,
titled woman, and Girl Scout Elaine
Warren.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-25
TO FORM AOPA UNIT

Plans are being made at Peiffer
field for the organization of local
unit of the Aircraft Owners and
Pilots association. The national
society, open only to pilots who
have soloed aircraft, has head
quarters in Washington, D. C.
where it works for the advance
ment of civil aviation. Any mem
bers, either in the Service, or CT
villains who are interested, are
urged to call the Carolina Skyways
office. at Seagate, and leave their
names.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
NO EZRA VOTES,
 WORLD ASSEMBLY,
 BE ASKED BY U. ,,
Secretary of State Steffin. jus Makes Important
 Announcement

WASHINGTON, April 3-Presi- dent Roosevelt has decided that the United States will not request any additional votes in the World Assembly to be proposed at the San Francisco Conference. This is announced by Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, who said it did not in any way alter the Presi- dents promise during the Big Three Yalta meeting, to support the Rus sian request for two additional votes through seating the Ukrainian and White Russian Soviets. Dramatic Reversal
 The announcement by Stettinius 1, is a dramatic reversal of the Am erican position as disclosed by the White House only last week, when it said the United States had the agreement of Britain and Russia to support two additional votes for this government.
 At his news conference on the world organization, StettiniuS said he presumed President Roosevelt, Premier Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill were working directly to iron out some of the difficulties which recently threatened the unity of the United Nations.
 The Secretary of State also said the speedy pace of the war makes it increasingly necessary" that plans for the San Francisco Con- ference be carried out promptly.
 That Secret Decision
 A third high spot of the news conference was that Stettinius said when the secret United States Russian decision to ask for three votes each in the proposed Assem- ply was made at Yalta, he and some other members of the Ameri- can delegation were fully informed at all times.
 When told by newsmen that the government-sponsored movie deal ing with the Dumbarton Oaks plan is giving the public the idea each nation in the Assembly would have one vote, Stettinius said the film would be reviewed and modified if found to be misleading.
 No Big Meeting
 Other highspots in the conference were that he said no suggestion had been made and no consideration given to any idea of a Big Five meeting, preliminary to the San Francisco Conference, and also that diplomatic negotiations over Polish representation at San Francisco were evidently still going on, add ing that this government still hopes the new Polish Administration can be set up in time to represent that nation at the conference.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
HARB0R AT LEGASpI IS
 TAKEN OVER
Sixth Army Veterans Make Invasion on Tail"
 of Luzon Sunday
By JAMES HUTCHINSON ZAP War CorrcS2ondentJ

MANILA, April 3.-Sixth Army veterans, spearheaded by Brigadier General Hanford MacNi4er's 158th Regimental Combat. team, invaded important Legaspi Harbor on the southeastern tail" of Luzon Sunday Here they quickly secured Lesaspi, a city of 75,O00 inhabitants, and near by airfields.
 The landing, which was the first on LuZon's east coast, was preceded by effective naval and air lombard ments General MacArthur's com munique reported American losses were light, as the enemy's extensive defense system was all but wiped out in ten days of concentrated aerial bombing, capped by warship bom- bardment.
 The landing came as the Tanks advanced on a dozen ground fronts in the Philippines, while American bombers sank or damaged twenty three freighters in the China Sea The new move enveloped enemy forces on southern Luzon, as Mac Arthur reported the Fourteenth Corps as already driving east ano southeast, and to complete the en- circlement are not attacking north west along Bicol Peninsula with 6 new column.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
LIGHT VOTE
 BEINGCAST
 ELECTION
BaIIofing for City Jobs Run hing Behind f944
 Mark

Interest in Juneau's 1945 munl- cipal election appeared to be lag ging at 3 o'clock this afternoon, compared to voting figures for last years election. A check showed that 200 less votes were cast this year at the same time.
 Precinct One in the City Hall, the largest, had a total of only 234 up to o'clock. Last year the number was 336.
 Precinct Two in the Pan Ameri- can Airways office showed 90 bal lots cast this year at 3 o'clock, compared to 137 at the same time last year, and Precinct Three in the Juneau Diaries building showed e8 votes cast up to o'clock com pared with 148 at the same time last year
 Last years election also showed two candidates for mayor, but only one complete ticket in the field, the same as this year.
 Many voters appeared to be puzzled when handed two ballots, the extra one listing a number of propositions for getting the voters reaction to the question of public ownership of utilities.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
U. S. Bombers Making Raids
 Nazi (enfers
Four Important Railroad Yards in Southern
 Austria Hit

ROME, April 3.-Strong forces oi the U. s. Fifteenth Airforce heavy bombers scrambled German com munications at four important rail- road yards in southern Austria yes terday, and sealed off two bridges south of Graz, in their third conse- cutive day of raids in support of the attacking Russians.
 The tactical airforce threw 130C planes into the assaults against the Germans, and downed thirteen en- emy planes near Verona.
 Mustangs and Lightnings strafed targets in Yugoslavia and Austria as far north as Munich, destroying thirty-five locomotives, six oil cars and miscellaneous German vehicles
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
FORMER ALASKA
 DEFENSE COMMAND
 INVADED 0kINAWA
Brigadier Generals Post, SehCk Are with If.
 Gen. Buekner

GUAM, April 3-Two officers who served with It. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., in the Alaska De- fense Command now hold key staff positions in Buckner's new Tenth Army invading Okinawa. Gen. Buckner's Chief of Staff is Brig. Gen. Elwyn Post, 46, who was awarded the Legion of Merit for his work as Service Operations Officer with the Alaska Defense Command
 Brig. Gen. wrence Schick, Deputy Chief of Staff, served at the same post in the Alaska Defense Command. from 1941 to June, 1944, for which he was also awarded the Legion Medal
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
kNTI-JAp NEE TING
 IS HELD
Several Hundred People Gather Near Seattle
 toAsk Exclusion

SEATTLE, April 3-Organlzers Of the Japanese Exclusion League at Bellevue, near here, last night told opponents among the 800 attending the meeting to hire hall" to voice their convictions. The heck lers were threatened with eviction.
 Speeches were made by Attorney George Crandall and A. E. McCros- key, the leagues executive director, also of Seattle.
 All but about 100 raised their hands in answer to McCroskey's invitation to express favor of ex- icluding from the United States all Americana born Japanese. Ushers passed through the audience invit- ing Sl0 contributions.
 A bust of Gen. MacArthur was awarded as a door prize to those who gave their names and ad- dresses for follow-up visits by or ganiZerS.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
EIGHTH ARMY
 FORCES MAKE
 MOVE, ITALY
Land Behind German Lines on Strip-1ake 200
 Prisoners

ROME, April 3 Eighth Army forces have landed behind German lines on a narrow strip of land be- tween Valli iD Comacchio and the Adriatic, and have captured more than 200 of the enemy, Allied Head quarters said
 The action was officially de- scribed as a successful local opera tion' It comprised a three pronged thrust up spit of land separating Comacchio Lagoon from the sea as landings were made between the sea and Poi Primaro River on the eastern shore of the lagoon itself
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
PETIT JURY PANEL NOW
 SWORN IN

The Petit Jury panel for the 1945 term of the First District Court was sworn in at ? o'clock this afternoon. The panel now consists of AT members, two being excused upon making representations to Judge George F. Alexander.
 After the jury was sworn in and qualified Judge Alexander gave them instructions as to their duties and the proper methods to be used in reaching a verdict.
 The panel was excused at 2:45 o'clock and ordered to report back at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
|(e in Tanana River af Nenana Al Inches Thick;
 May Stay for Long Time

NENANA, Alaska, April 3-The ice in the Panama River here is fl inches which is the maximum for the season.
 Snow had settled slightly but is not thawing.
 The temperature was three de- grees below zero Monday morning.
 The wire is stretched from the tripod on the ice to the tower on the shore ready to register the break tT
 The ice might stay for long time.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
PAN AMERICAN IN
 WITH FARES TODAY

Arriving in Juneau yesterday aboard a Pan American Airways plane from Seattle were Antonio Polet, Mrs. Mary Polet and Robert zimmers. 5
 Leaving today on Pan American Airways plane for Seattle were the following passengers: Herbert L. Faulkner, Arthur Kunz, Mrs. Carol Davis, Dwight L. Spracher, Charles Bailey, Harold c. Nelson.
 Juneau to Fairbanks--Mr. Lubbe.
 Fairbanks to Juneau-Leslie Ner- land
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
THOUSANDS
 OF MINERS
 QUIT WORK

WASHINGTON, April 3. More than 80,000 of the nations soft coal miners are reported absent today from pits despite the union manage ment agreement to temporarily ex- tend the now expired contract until May l.
 Estimates of the mines closed by workers absences ranged as high as 95 per cent in the Alabama area. More than 30,000 miners were re- ported idle in Pennsylvania fields.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
Nazi Stooge
 Assassirlafed
 Near Berlin
Austrian Gau|efier Dies Gestapo Aide Wound
 ed in Attack

LONDON, April 3.-The Luxem- bourg Radio reported today, without stating it's source of information, that Baldur Von Schirfach, Gaule- tier of Austria, had been assassin ated.
 It was also reported that Ernest Kaltenbrunner, Himmlers chief Gestapo aide, had been severely wounded.
 The suggestion was made the two men were victims of a March 31 shooting on the highway just out of Berlin.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
D-Day Cigarettes
 Are on House

A COAST GUARD MANNED SHIP IN THE PACIFIC-Free cig- arets aren't important on D-Day, says Chaplain James J. Carberry, who provides them for the personnel of this ship just before a landing
 In landings in Normany, in Southern France, and again in this theatre, the chaplain set out cases of smokes on the mess deck where they were easily available and in- vited everyone to come and get them.
 Few men took more than one pack he reported, although there were no restrictions and no supervision.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
LAST PURGE OF
 HITLER SPRUNG

STOCKHOLM, April 3-The Free German Press Agency said, without confirmation from any source, and without giving authority for its statement, that Hitler plans mass murder of Allied Prisoners of War, hostages in occupied lands. and all remaining Jews if his last propo- sals for a humane peace" are re- jected.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
FOUR IN RACE FOR
 MAYOR AT ANCHORAGE

At the close of candidates filings for city offices in Anchorage there were four names entered for the race for mayor, Moritz Andresen, Ed ward Coffey, John E. Manders and Ray Wolfe, incumbent.
 Competition also exists for the other city offices, with three filing for the Utilities Board, of which one will be elected two for the one place to be filled on the school board and eleven on the list foI councilmen of which three will be chosen.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
ANCHORAGE COUPLE
 MARRIED IN JUNEAU

Wm E. Hunt and MISS L. Beryl Schluter, both of Anchorage, were married at the home of U. s. Com missioner Felix Gray last evening in a simple ceremony. Attendants were Mrs. Felix Gray and MT. Jack O'Connor of Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
EMBLEM CLUB

Business meeting, Tuesday April 3 at 8 P. M. in the Elks Hall.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
BLACKS HERE

MT and Mrs. D. E. Black, of Seattle, are staying at the Baranof.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
CAA MAN HERE

J. c. Hooper, of the Anchorage CAA office. is a guest at the Cas- tineau Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
HUNT HERE

Bernard F. Hunt, of San Fran cisco, is staying at the Paranof Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
LIVE OUT

Capt. Robert Livie, U. s. Army Medical Corps, left on the North Sea for Seattle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
ROBERTS HERE

MT and Mrs. Keith Roberts, of Ketchikan, are registered at the GaStineau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
NOONAN HERE

Dan A. Noonan, veteran Alaska salesman, is staying at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
WEATHER REPORT

~. s. Weather B1TeQu) , Temperatures for 24-HOur , Period Ending at 7:30 O'Clock } This Morning: } , In Juneau--Maximum, 39; , minimum, 31. Precipitation, } .06 of an inch. At Airport-Maximum, 40; } minimum, 3l. Precipitation, .05 of an inch. , . , TOMORROW'S FORECAST Rain or snow, with wind } 20 to 25 miles per hour to- night; intermittent rain or } snow Wednesday and We'd nesday night. Temperatures Lowest tonight, 35'; highest Wednesday, 42'.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03

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