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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-05-18
I0PA Says Ration
Applications May
Be Made BY M1i1

w. E. Holcomb, OPA district di-
rector, called attention Of house
wives to the advantage of MAX
ing their rationing applications
by mail.
"Just use a penny post card"
he said, land you get quick and
easy service, as well as saving
your time, your patience, your
gasoline and your shoe leather;
all valuable items in these war
time days when we are apt to be
a little short on most any of
them"
Applying by mail makes things
a lot easier for overworked vol
unteers and clerks who are doing
the rationing job, and gives them
more time to do other important
work, he said.
Ban Loose Cigarette Sales
Sales of loose cigarettes of any
brand are now prohibited by a
new OPA ruling, Major Holcomb
announced.
The action also provides that
retailers who formerly were re-
quired to sell two packs of eco
Monty cigarettes per sale may
now make single package sales
for a period of six months, end
ing Nov. IL, he said.
Ration Points Valid
Blue stamps HI through M
are valid and expire June 2; NJ
through So are good through JUNE
30; To and x2 expire July 81 and
w and AL through CT are valio
until August 81.
Red stamps Us, rs and AZ
through DE- are now valid and
expire on June 2; June 30 has
been set as the expiration date
for red stamps E2 through u
K2 through Pr are valid unit
July 81 and OF through w arc
valid and expire August 81.
Sugar stamp No. 35 expires
June Q and stamp No. SO is good
for five pounds of sugar unit
August 81.
Airplane stamps No. |, 2 and 3
are good for use in the purchase
of shoes. Gasoline Ais coupons
are valid through June ri.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-05-18
Dance Is First In
Second Series OF
20-40 Club Purties

Launching their second series
If monthly parties, members of
the 20-40 Club will entertain at a
lance Saturday night at Lincoln
HALL. Music will be provided by
Gail Graham and his orchestra.
Other entertainment is being
planned and refreshments will be
served. The members will vote
during the evening on the selec-
ton of parties for June, July and
August.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-05-18
Cord PurtY To Be
S~ponsored By DIV
Ladies' Auditory

A card party will be given on
June 80 at 8 pm. in the auditori-
UNI of the 18th Street Commu-
nifty Building under the spon-
sorship of the Ladies Auxil-
larry to Our Lady of Victories
Committee of Builders for Youth.
as a means of raising Iunas to-
wards the postwar program OF
erecting a new convent and youth
center.
Elaborate plans are being made
for the party where both bridge
and 500 will be played. A hand
some door prize will be given
as well as high score prizes.
Refreshments will be served.
An admission price of so cents
will be charged. The party viii
be open to the public.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-05-18
Miss MorY Brown
Succumbs AT Age
Of IT In Escotdwpo

Miss Mary Cardelia Brown, n
cars old and a native of Jack
ION county, died at her home in
Gscatawpa after an illness of sew
eral months. She is survived by
| brother and a number of nieces
md nephews.
Funeral services were cond-
ucted at the Mckay Funeral
Home chapel by the Rev. T. Bar
on West, pastor of the Presby-
terrain church of Moss Point, and
interment was in Machpelah
cemetery.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-05-18

Freedoms, that of mass educa-
ton.
A social hour was enjoyed at
the close of the program, when
Mrs. Reinecke was assisted by
Mesdames Arthur Allen and J.
o, Cole in serving ice cream and
cake.
Those present were Mesdames
Gulley, Epting, Cole. Abbey,
Smith, Allen, Dunten, c. A. Car
rier, j. K. Graham, Homer Miller,
and E. W. Timer of the club, and
Mrs. Ida Busson of Marks, Miss.
who was a guest.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-05-18

Before the war, the average
person in the United States ate
IL pounds of butter a year.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-05-18
FumilY Reunion At
II w. Slater Home
On Mothers Day

Mothers Day was made par
ticularly happy for Mrs. H. w.
Slater as her family was gathered
about her for the first time in
many months.
Norbert Slater, who is a cox
swain in the Navy was home
from Chicago where he is having
six months of shore duty follow
ing q months overseas. And H.
w. Slater, Jr., of the U. S. Ma
rine Corps, and Mrs. Slater, came
from Newport, Ark, where the
former is taking a special course
in combat training, were also
present to help celebrate. The
younger Mrs. Slater's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Warren, join
ed the family grohp at dinner al
the Slater home that evening.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-05-18

At the Battle of Bunker Hill.
the British fired from the hip.
The Americans sighted their
muskets - and won.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-21

$50; State aids and obligations,
$40, 998,7l7; pensions, $500, 400: con-
tingency and emergency, $780,
900; public schools $88, 1867 1924; and
debt service, $751; A further
breakdown shows SO, 100000 for a
four and one-half per cent increase
in salaries Of teachers and State
employees; $685. 900 for an extra
months pay for principals; $780,
900 for eighth grade textbooks;
100000 for the increased cost of
fuel and lights at the States edu-
cational institutions and public
schools; and $6,800,O00 as emer-
gency war salary for teachers;
and 81, 100000 for low-bracket State
employees. The salary increases go
into effect at the start of the next
fiscal year, July l. s.:'..'
The House made only two
changes in the bill, which in reality
was substitute measure for the
one suggested by the Advisory Bud
get Commission. Deliberation con-
sumed less than a half hour. The
overall consideration of the bill
was four days shorter than that
given any previous spending bill,
veteran legislators said.
The administration change, a
compromise effected by Governor
Cherry and education leaders only
Continued on Page Three; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-21
House Passes Money Bill;
Increases Teacher Salary

RALEIGH, Feb. 20 -(P)- The
house, with minimum of debate,
quickly passed the 1922. 799, 787 Gen
eral Appropriations bill today after
incorporating into it an administra-
ton amendment providing for the
payment monthly of emergency
salary increases to teachers and
State employees making $500 or
less.
Actual and estimated expendi-
lures for 1943-45 were $178.505, 1923.
This Assembly already has set
aside $51, 585,079 for retirement of
the States General Fund indebted
ness.
The appropriations bill carried
$131, O86, 26l for General Fund ex-
penditures; $100,211, 257 for high
way spending; and $502, 1863 for the
Agriculture department. A surplus
of about $40, 100000 is expected in
the General Fund at the close of
this fiscal year,. while the Agricul-
ture department expects a sur
plus of $775,000, and the High
way Department surplus of $43,-
314,O
The General Fund breakdown by
functions would make the follow
ing appropriations: legislative, jul
dicial, executive and administra-
tive, 1925, lO8; educational insti-
buttons, 1881, 1879; charitable and
correctional institutions, $40, 1o7,-
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-21
Marines Capture lwo's Greatest Airdrome
Patton Hurls New Drive Against West Wall
Reds Storm AZfoss Bober On 17-Mile Front
Tanks Compress lqps
Into Manila Pocket
Enemy Casualties for Week Listed AS "a. 900
AS Against 1926 for Americans; Foe
Loots Property of Orient Pearl

GEN. MacARTHUR'S H E A D.
QUARTERS, Wednesday, Feb. 81.
.-UP)-American troops, in fierce
hand to hand fighting, have ham,
mered the last Japanese in south
ern Manila into a pocket of less
than one-third of square mile and
the defeat-maddened enemy forces
are displaying the greatest saw
agery" toward civilians and prop
erty still under their control, Gen.
Douglas Macarthur announced to-
day.
The Manila fighting, now in its
18th day. is of ''the bitterest," Mac
Arthur said as he revealed that
japanese casualties for the past
week of the Luzon campaign were
"a, 900 against American losses of
3,246-a ratio Of almost eight to
one. Total Japanese casualties for
the Luzon fighting are more than
$4,000 and American 1929.
The daily American war bulletin
disclosed for the first time that
the japanese had thoroughly loot.
ed all private property of valuables
during their more than three-years
OF occupation and apparently Ship
ped the booty off to Japan.
Dispatches said that Japanese
resistance in Manila was growing
fiercer by the hour as the Yanks
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-21

closed in on the enemy trapped
behind the thick walls of Intra-
muros and in few strongholds
outside that ancient section of
Manila.
American artillery was blasting
the city's walls night and day. and
infantry crept forward yard by
yard under hail of enemy fire
to tighten the ring of enlightenment
to an area of 1900 by 300 yards
along the south bank of the Pasig
river.
Using flame-throwers to knock
out Japanese machine-gun posi-
tons, the Americans captured the
medical building and two other
buildings on the grounds of the
University of the Philippines just
south OF Intramuros.
The Americans then began driv-
ing across Wallace Park and the
Manila golf course separating the
University grounds from Intra-
muros.
On their left flank along Dewey
boulevard which runs along Manila
Bay, the Americans seized the
Army and Navy Club and the High
Commissioners house. Those
forces were advancing against
whitening fire from pillboxes and
bunkers and mortars and small
arms firing from the Manila Hotel,
a few hundred yards to the north.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-21
HOUSE ACCLAlMS
CHURCHILL, EDEN
Prime Minister Conferred
With Near East
Notables

LONDON, Feb. 20.-(UP)-Prine
Minister Churchill and Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden made
their first appearance in Parlia-
ment today since their return from
the Crimean conference, and were
greeted with loud and prolonged
cheers.
Eden announced that Tuesday
and Wednesday of next week would
be. devoted to ful-dress debate
and discussion of the Big Three
conference and related subjects by
the House of Commons. The
Prime Minister is expected to open
the debate with long statement
and Eden is expected to close Tor
the government on Wednesday.
affairs abroad are rather
smoother Churchill told the
House, without celebrating.
An official announcement dis
closed the Prime Minister'S actlV-
ties en- route home from Yalta,
which included several conferences
in the Middle East.
Conferences in A h n S by
Churchill and Eden had been an
nounced previously. Today's an
nouncement added:
THE Prime Minister, after his
visit to Athens, went to Alexandria
to take leave of the President be-
fore his departure for the United
States. Churchill then proceeded
to Cairo where on February 16 he
conferred with his Imperial Maj
esty, the Emperor of Ethiopia. On
the morning of February II the
Prime Minister had a discussion
with His Majesty King Ibn Saud of
Saudi Arabia and afterwards en-
tertained His Majesty to luncheon.
The same afternoon His Majesty
the King of Egypt and Churchill
met for more than an hour. The
Prime Minister subsequently saw
CONTINUED on Page Six: Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-21
Churchill Promises Roosevelt To Hurl
Everything At laps After Mazis Quit
FDR Meets Kings OF
Egypt, Ethiopia And
Saudi Arabia

WASHINGTON, Feb. co. (R' -
President Roosevelt, during a dra-
matte Near-East odyssey, has OBJ
tanned m Prime Minister
Churchill a new promise to throw
everything at the japanese after
Germany's defeat. He also got
snub from General Charles de
Gaulle.
The story of the President S
meetings with premiers, kings and
princes after the Crimea confer
ence came out in part today.
The White House made public
some details of his trips through
Egypt and Algeria, and how Mr..
Roosevelt is adding, by plane, mo-
tor and ship some $4,000 miles to
his stupendous travel.
The fresh British pledge for full
est participation against Japan
was given to the President by the
Prime Minister at Alexandria.
The White House narration said
that new and important" discus
sions of the Pacific situation were
conducted there, topics that had
to be passed over at the Big Three
meeting because of Russia's non
aggression pact with Japan.
The account told of an invita-
ton to General de Gaulle to meet
with the President at Algiers. Mr..
Roosevelt wanted to discuss ques-
tons of mutual interest and i'm
portance" to France and the Unit
ed States. The French leader, sup
posedly miffed at being barred
from the Big Three conferences,
declined and the President said he
was most Disappointed
One of those who did accept a
Roosevelt invitation, however, was
King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia,
leaving his country for the first
time in his life, the King went
sailing to the conference in the
Suez Canal aboard an American
destroyer luxuriously bedecked
with oriental carpets and gilded
chairs. The King slept in a tent
on deck and his party brought its
own food, including live sheep.
Mr.. Roosevelt did not go to
Rome and Paris, as had been in
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-21
CAMPBELL BACKED
FOR U. S. BENCH
Local Bar Association Pro-
poses City Attorney
For Post

w. B. Campbell, City attorney,
last night was endorsed by the
New Hanover Bar Association for
appointment to the Eastern North
Carolina United States District
judgeship, soon to be vacated by
Judge I. M. Meekins, of Elizabeth
City.
The endorsement was made at
the quarterly meeting Of the BAR
group at the BlAe Top Lodge where
members and guests participated
in a Southern style barbecue and
Brunswick stew dinner.
A record of distinction covering
Campbelrs more than 80 years as
a member Of the New Hanover
County Bar was pointed out. 1t was
further recalled that the City At
torney has served his County and
State in the sessions of the Legis-
lature, having served in the House
from 1926 to 1928 and in the Senate
from 1890 to 1882.
While mentioning Campbelrs 10
wears of service as City Attorney,
it was said that his wisdom, gui-
dance and advice had brought to
the City. a project exceeding two
and one-half million dollars, 60 per
cent of which was paid by federal
appropriations.
It al-o was brought to the at
tention of the Bar members that
Campbell served as attorney for
North Carolina in the development
of the intra-coastal waterway, from
1927 to 1881 and that he also serv-
ed as chairman of the Democratic
Executive committee. ->
Contained in the resolution was
the statement that the City OF Will
mingon and its immediate environs
has not had an appointment to the
office of United States District
iudqe for the Eastern District since
the Civil War.
Rising to express his gratitude,
Campbell said that whether he was
appointed or not, he sincerely APP
preciated his endorsement by his
fellow members, and could not ade'
ouately express his thanks.
The members of the Bar Assocla'
ton also approved a bill to be
introduced to the State Legislature
| Continued on Page Three, Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-21
III. s. DISCLAIMS
SECRET POLICIES
France Assured On Point {;
Relations Held On
Down Grade

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 Up
France has sought and received
assurances from the United States
that no secret agreements were
made by Rooevelt, Churchill and
Stain at Yalta for the government
of liberated countries of Europe.
This was learned tonight as Of
ficials here studied the effects of
General Charles de Gaulle's re-
lection of President Roosevelt'S in
vitation to meeting in Algiers.
The general conclusion was that
French-American relations are on
the down-grade and may continue
that way for some time.
A principal contributing cause is
the suffering of the French people,
due to hunger and cold. Officials
here say that although the United
States is getting the blame for
lack of GOOD and clothing in France,
the shortages are the inevitable re-
suit of tight shipping and other war
conditions.
AS for the Crimean communi-
que, the State Department said the
French had asked for Qualification
and the information requested had
been furnished. The French request
was received here Saturday and a
reply Went out yesterday.
The French wanted to know what
the Big Three had concluded about
how liberated territories should be
ruled, whether trusteeships were
contemplated, whether special ar
rangements had been made for
solving the known or expected
problems of those territories. In
effect, they wanted to know wneth-
er the Big Three had made some
decisions about liberated Europe
which they had decided to keep
secret.
The American reply stressed
that no secret agreements had
been made and that in fact the
fCOnfinued m Page Three. Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-21
Berlin Claims
SuccessAlong
Vienna Road
80 Towns And Villages
Occupied By Konev's
Forces

LONDON, Feb. 20.-W.D-- Rus
sian troops have crossed the Nazis'
Bober river defense line southeast
OF Berlin on a 17-mile front and
captured more than 30 towns and
villages on the approaches to Gu.
ben, key citadel 81 miles from the
German capital, Moscow revealed
tonight.
Marshal Konev's First Ukrainian
Army captured the Bober river
fortress towns of Crossen, Bobers-
berg and Christianstadt, 81 to IS
miles southeast of Berlin in savage
fighting.
Smashing five miles beyond the
Bober west of its confluence with
the Oder, Konev's troops drove to
within 81 miles southeast of Berlin
by capturing Neundorf. They also
hammered to within eight miles
of Guben, city of $4,000 persons,
by winning Schegeln in battles in
which 1000 prisoners were seized
today.
Konev's troops made these gains
while Germany's counter-offensive
on the Vienna road drove back the
Red Army rs miles, according to
German reports.
BY capturing Neundorf, on the
west bank Of the Oder, Konev' S
troops advanced to within Is miles
Of junction with a bridgehead re-
ported by Berlin to have been es-
tablished by Marshal Zhukov' S
First White Russian Army on the
west bank Of the Oder south of
Fuerstenberg.
Other Russian troops hammered
up the Polish corridor" west of
the Vistula on 40-mile front, cap
turing Szlachta, 43 miles southwest
of the Baltic port.
Along much of the 600-mile front.
hug tank battles were raging.
The Nazi High Command appeared
to be hurting every available Pan
ger force and thousands of reserves
into a desperate gamble to re-
duce the Russian threat to Berlin.
Moscow said 206 enemy tanks
had been knocked out Monday. Six
ty were destroyed in the German
counter-o offensive east of Vienna.
The Germans also hurled large
Luftpaffe reserves into the fight
and 109 German planes were shot
down along the front in battles
which were extended with re-
newal .of Soviet attacks in Czecho-
slovakia northwest of Losonc Gu-
cenc).
The encircled defenders of the
Lopez Silesian capital of Breslau
rejected a Russian ultimatum to
surrender today. Berlin announced
tonight. This was another action
designed to tie down large seq
ments of the Red Army.
Large German tank and infan-
(Confinund m Do ra Two. CoJ 9N
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-21

W dn Inspection To-Day ny tne DOdTQ
which may determine if Whining
ton will receive State aid in build
ing its projected port terminals.
J. T. HERS and Cyrus Hogue, OF
the Wilmington Port Commission,
accompanied the Raleigh experts
on their inspection of dockside "a
cilities from the Alexander Sprunt
and Sons terminal, at the foot of
Walnut street, to the Northeast
Cape Fear River bridge.
For their survey of the northern
portion of the shipyard. which has
been suggested as possible alter
nate terminal site, they were join
ed by officials of the shipbuilding
company.
DR.. Landon, recommended as
economic consultant by the FEEDER
al Government, left the City late
in the afternoon, after preparing
an on-site report for the Board
members headed by Felix Grissette
who are scheduled to reach Will
mington at l pm. today and to
hold a decisive meeting before
their return to Raleigh.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-21

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 U.D =
He is a Kentuckian, sub, and be-
fore the Japs got his left leg, he
was 1876 pounds of fightin' fury
and five feet eight and one-half
inches of CUTS.
His name, sub, is Pfc. Luther
Skaggs, Jr., of the United States
Marines. One of t h Henderson
county Skaggs, he is, and credit
to his name, his state and his
country.
He's got nice brown hair. Yes
and soft blue eyes, a mite paler
than the grass of his native state.
A mighty nice, quiet kid when ne
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-21
Planning Board Officials
Begin Harbor Inspection

James L. Hales, assistant director of the
Board and Dr. c.
ed by
portion OF the North Carolina Shipbudng
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-21
FORECAST

Continued cool today with light rain.
Yesterdays temperatures:
High. Allow. 80.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-21
Meet Private Skqggs, A Kentuckian, sub,
And 1856 Pounds OfFighting Marine Fury

the folks down in Henderson coun-
ty aren't going to have any trouble
understanding it. So here it is sub:
ION the morning Of July 81,
shortly after H-Hour on Beach
Red One, the go nm. mortar Sec
ton of Co. K was subjected to a
heavy mortar barrage, causing
severe casualties in the section.
Immediately, on his own initia-
tive, Pfc. Skaggs reorganized and
led the section distance of 200
yards under heavy mortar and
siper fire to a position from which
he supported the successful attack
Continued on Page Three; Col. -
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was home, but-and this is his
Marine buddy talking = "a tough
little guy when there's fightin'
to be done.
Luther lost his leg on Guam.
Now he is going to wear medal.
Just what kind, the Navy isn't
saying, but it is going to be the
kind they give to the bravest of
the brave. They've even got the
citation written and Secretary of
the Navy James Forrestal is so
pround of Luther he included it
in his annual report to the Presi-
dent.
The language is kind of official
like, sub, but the President and
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-21

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