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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-25
CONCERT TONIGHT
 TO FEATURE BOTH
 TENOR AND PLANO

Sponsored by St. Margaret's Guild of the Church of Holy Trinity, MT Ernest Ehler, tenor, and Mrs Ruth iPopejoy, pianist, will give cohtert , tonight starting at 8:30 o'clock in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel. A paper offering may be made at the time of the concert. The Following is the program: Comfort Ye, Recit., Every Valley, Air. .,-" "The Messiah @ Handel sd Ernest Ehler Fh Forget Me-Not .i...:.-..-.........--..G Gaines This Day Is Mine ,....s.,.~...........W Ware Love Went a-Riding @.... Bridge saltm Ernest Ehler IVrus Romance in D Flat .Sibelius Liebestraum No. ............-..Li Liszt l,if f.n5 sx Ruth Popejoy ia Dreams ......!......................i Wagner Ave Maria ..................-.......-.S Schubert In Summer Fields ......4.., Brahms
 & Ernest Ehler Sisto Marche Militaire Schubert -Taussig
 Ruth Popejoy
 Three Musketeers' ....... Friml The Desert Song
 'The Desert Song .,........ Romberg An, Sweet Mystery of Life Naughty Marietta" -..........Herbert
 Ernest Ehler
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-25
ELIAsON VISITS,

Osten A. Eliason, Nordby Supply Company representative from Ket- chikan, is staying at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-25
(0A5T AUXILIARY
 CLASS I5 TONIGHT

The Coast Guard Auxiliary is to hold it's regular weekly instruction class tonight at 8 o'clock in the City Council Chambers. Navigation and signalling are being taught.
 Members are requested to bring the 25-cent fee to each class ses- sion to aid in covering incidental expenses.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-25

DONALDSON IN HOSPITAL William Donaldson has been ad. mitted to St. Ann's Hospital,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-25

The White House building and grounds in Washington occupy about 16 acre:.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-25
CARROLL IN TOWN

c. A. Carroll of Skagway is a guest at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-25
Senators, Come Up inc Hard Way; Fifteen New
 Members Well SthocIed

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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-15
LUMBERTON TAXICAB
DRIVER MURDERED:
POLICE START PROBE

LUMBERTON, Nov. "A. - Up -
The stab-riddled body of Albert
Elmore, Lumberton taxicab driv-
er, was found early today in 4
sandpit of the Back Swamp town.
ship near here, Coroner D. W.
Biggs reported.
The discovery ended wide
spread search for Elmore, who had
been missing since Monday night.
Biggs said his pocketbook was
empty and pockets of his clothing
were turned inside out.
The dead man had been stabbed
repeatedly about the head, neck,
chest and arms, Biggs said, and
there was evidence that his body
had been dragged some distance.
A search for Elmore was begun
when his abandoned taxicab was
found yesterday morning on
street in St. Pauls, about IS miles
from Lumberton. State highway
employees, working at the sandpit,
discovered the mutilated body.
A resident of West Lurberton,
Elmore was about 80 years of age.
Since June, he had been employ
ed by Paul Britt as taxi driver.
A coroner's jury viewed the body
today, but set no date for an in
quest.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-15
mmunistS
Hurll0,000
Men At Foe
PAOTOW ENDANGERED
Reds Force Western Gate
OF Terminal OF Impor-
tant Railway Line
.By SPENCER MOOSA
APP Staff Correspondent

CHUNGK1NG, Nov. IA Up -
Crack Communist troops were
thrown back in savage fighting as
they hurled heavy attacks at two
major nationalist strongholds In
Inner Mongolia, an official dispatch
said today.
The battles still swirled about
the railway terminal of Paotow
and long-besieged Kweisui, capt.
tai of Suiyuan province 80 miles to
the east, where the Communists
threw in 10000 reinforcements, the
dispatch added.
The attack on Paotow, western
terminal of the now-severed Pelp-
ng-Suiyuan railroad, opened at 3
am. yesterday and 5000 Commu-
mist troops forced the western gate,
this account claimed. Eleven hours
later they were expelled.
Gen. Ho Lung, famed Commu-
mist commander, meanwhile was
reported to have attacked Kwel-
sui with five columns 10000 strong.
The dispatch said the attackers
inflicted considerable casualties
on civilians in the southwestern
section of the city before most OF
them were wiped out.
The situation remained obscure
on the southern border of Manchur-
ia, southeast of this battle zone,
where neutral advices had reported
Nationalist troops had captured the
Communist fortress city of Shan
haikwan
A communist spokesman was un-
able to confirm Shanhaikwan's fall
but said at last reports government
troops were but two-thlrds OF a
mile from the city.
He declared the government had
landed four armies at the U. S.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-15
OIL COMP LETS
$35,ooo JOB HERE

Letting of a contract for the con-
struction of two ship buffers,
known as ''breasting dolphins, at
the wharves of the Standard On
company terminal, at the approx,
mate cost of $35, 900 was revealed
yesterday.
Authorization of the Wilmington
office of the U. S. Army Engineers
has been granted for the work.
R. G.. White, manager OF tne
Terminal, said that the work would
be done by Dallas OrreD.
Orren estimated last night that
the construction would require APP
proximately 60 days. He said the
contract had been let at the CHAR
lotte office of the oil company by
T. R. Jones, superintendent OF
construction for the Charlotte DIS
trict, who was longtime resident
of Wilmington and former man
ager of the terminal here.
The circular dolphins are to be
of sheet steel construction with a
22-foot diameter. After complexion
of the outer structure, which Will
stand vertically in the water be-
tween wharves and vessels. they
will be filled with sand and capped
with concrete.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-15
U. S. WILL DREDGE
100000 CUBIC
YARDS FOR BASIN

Dredging of 100000 cubic yards
of material for establishment OF
Wilmington's ship lay-up basin in
the Brunswick river will be neces-
sary the Wilmington office of the
U. S. Army Engineers revealed
yesterday.
The lay-up basin, in which an
estimated 500 surplus ships of the
U. S. Maritime commission will
be anchored under a repalr-and-
maintenance contract with the
North Carolina Shipbuilding COM
pany, will be 1900 feet wide, three
and three-fourths miles in length
and varying between 10 and 10 feet
in depth A channel 300 feet wide,
10 feet deep and 1850 feet long
also will be dredged connecting the
Brunswick river and the shipping
channel of the Cape Fear river.
All material to be dredged from
the basin and connecting channel
is to be deposited on Eagle island,
according to the Engineers notice
published today.
The Engineers notice, asking
that objections be filed with the
office of the district engineer in
the customshouse before S p. m.
Nov. %, said application for the
dredging project had been filed by
the Maritime commission.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-15
ADMIRAL, COLONEL
FIRST WITNESSES
Joint Congressional Com
mittee Opens "Harbor"
Hearing Today

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14-R -
Congress tonight summoned al.
Admiral and Colonel as 1lrs'
witnesses in the Pearl Harbor IN
quiry.
The Joint Congressional commit
tee will start public hearings 70
morrow with Rear Admiral T. B.
Inglis and Col. Bernard Thielen
on the stand.
1nglis is chief of naval intelll'
eence, Thielen is on the Army
General staff. Neither was at Pear
Harbor Dec. Z. 1941.
Chairman Barley D-KyJ didn'1
explain why the committee Sc
lecfed these two. The inference
was that their testimony will SCI
the stage for developing what was
happening in higher circles during
those tense days preceding the OUT
break of the Pacific war.
A new pledge of far, I'M
partial inquiry was made on inc
eve of the hearings. 1t came IRON
Rep. Murphy 3D. Pao, member
of the committee, during an angry
exchange in the House.
Murphy took special time to de-
nounce Republican members VINO
have insisted on conducting Wha'
he called their own investigation
He was aiming at Reps. Keefe ~
Wis., and Gearhart (R-Callf.) Wne
have interviewed a naval intelll'
ence officer, Capt. Alvin D.
kramer. and only yesterday called
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-15
Is, 900 Watch Miracle
In Empty Brooklyn Lot
By MARY HARRINGTON
United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Nov. IA. - Little,
nine-year-old Joseph D. Vitolo with
an escort of burly policemen push
ed his way through a surging crowd
of Is, 900 persons tonight to vacant
lot in the Bronx for his 18th night
of prayer with the Virgin Mary.
But whether the boy saw the
Blessed Virgin as he claimed to
have done on other nights was his
own secret. Members of his fam.
lily sternly told him to be quiet.
It was shortly after 7 p. m. when
Joseph, accompanied by his par.
ents and six of his brothers and
sisters, left their tiny home on mar
row Villa street, half a block from
the vacant lot.
This, the 18th night, was to have
been something unusual, the boy
had claimed. He said the Virgin
Mary had promised him that
something wonderful will hap
pen
Thousands of men and women -
some coming from as far away as
Pittsburgh-ignored a heavy drizzle
of rain and lowering temperature
to see the mira le." Police esti-
mated that no less than $4,000 were
on the lot when Joseph arrived.
Appearing somewhat frightened,
the boy followed his police escort
through the crowd and walked
alone to crudely-made shrine
upon which stool a statue of the
Virgin Mary. The flames of Sc
candles fickered in the murky
night.
Joseph knelt before the statue.
He prayed.
Hail, Mary" the crowd chanted.
Many of them said the Rosary
Others, the Lords prayer. Still 9TH
ers sang hymns. Several clergymen
and some nuns were in the crowd,
but they did not participate in the
unusual ceremony.
Many persons had brought flow.
ers and placed them on the impro.
vised shrine.
Joseph got up from in front of the
shrine and walked back toward his
home. The escort Of nearly 100
policemen kept the crowd back.
Hundreds, however, followed the
thov to the residence where other
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-15
PROPOSES
BARTER SYSTEM
Would Exchange Precious
Metals, Silks For Ameri-
can Food, Cotton

TOKYO, Nov. 14.-tR-Beaten
japan, facing a cold and hungry
winter and war PREPARATIONS DILL
today proposed a system OF barter
with the United States and other
countries.
Primary purpose of the plan, re-
quested by Minister of Agriculture
Sanukro Ogasawara, would be TO
obtain staple foods Immediately
and set up a long range program
for reviving the nations Wopply
economy.
Allied headquarters, to which
Ogasawara made his application,
said it was not yet prepared to IN
dictate its policy in the matter. 1t
is known, however, that the eco.
nomic and scientific section OF
headquarters is working on what
japan considers its foremost prob
lem.
Japanese trade is in state OF
suspension but we want to start
trade as soon as possible" Ogasa-
wara said. He voiced the hope that
the United States again would
become Nippon's best customer.
Specifically, Ogasawara asked
permission for Japan to import
). 900 900 tons of foodstuffs, l,O0O.-
600 tons of salt and sizeable ton
mage of cotton, copra, coal, iron
ore and non-ferrous metals.
Barter payments would be made
in gold and other precious meals;
diamonds, silk, cotton goods, chem
lcal products, medical supplies,
machinery, hardware, tin and 9TH
er Japanese products.
While the Allied Preparations
Commission conferred on the
amount of the bill to be presented
to Japan, the KWodo news agency
said it had learned that the govern
ment would set up its own repara-
lions commission. It would be COM
posed of experts from the various
ministries, such as Finance and
Agriculture. =
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-15
HONOLULU POLICE
DOUBLE PATROLS

g. HONOLULU, Nov. 14-P-Po-
lice patrols were doubled tonight
in the Damon housing district and
detectives swarmed through the
dim-lit area looking for hoodlums
suspected of provoking Monday
nights riot between 1,500 Navy
men and civilians.
Police Chief w. A. Gabrlelson
announced that the redoubled po-
lice force would track down re-
ports of troub1e-making by civilian
hoodlums.
Navy participants in the fight
ing had said they charged into the
district looking for '1ocal tough
les" who had made repeated at
tacks on sailors. They claimed the
police had done nothing to check
the wave of unprovoked assaults
and robbery.
The Naval Air Station near the
Damon district announced that its
male personnel would remain con-
fined to the station until an inquiry
was completed and steps taken TO
prevent a recurrence Of disorders.
All was calm last night after the
Shore Patrol called in police to
help them break up crowds OF
sailors congregating at the gates
o. the station. The Shore Patrol
said it had asked for police help
in case the sailors tried to leave
the station.
Meanwhile Navy officers met
with Honolulu police officials at
the Pearl Harbor Naval Yard to
discuss a plan for joint law en-
forcement in order to prevent fur
Their outbreaks.
Earlier, Naval Air Station
spokesman had blamed city police
and Gabrielson had blamed the
Navy for allowing the situation to
get out of hand.
1t R. M. Singer, Air Station
public information officer, charged
that more than 30 of the Station S
personnel had been beaten by
Damon civilian in the last two
months without the police making
an arrest.
Gabrielson insisted that his de-
|partment had co-operated with the
Navy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-15
CHURCH TO SPEND
BIG sum FOR ADS

LONDON, Nov. IA - Up - A
four million dollar advertising pro-
gram was adopted unanimously by
an Assembly of the Church OF Eng
land today, after a warning from
the Bishop of Rochester, England,
that the clergy's spiritual ane-
mia" had left half of Britain
s'worse than heathens.
Calling for a revival OF religious
life. a 172-page report submitted
to the Assembly recommended a
missionary invasion OF the MOD
ern agencies of propaganda" In a
five-year publicity program.
Money to meet the advertising
costs. the report said, would be
a matter for prayer and careful
consideration from all points Of
view"
The campaign contemplates an
eight-point program utilizing mo-
ton pictures, theater, radio, tele'
vision, press, literature, lntorma;
ton centers and paid advertising
"Our task today is far more
formidable than that which con.
fronted the early church, or that
which confronts the church in mis-
sionary lands" said DR.. c. NJ
Chavasse, the Bishop Of Rochester
who was head of the investigating
commission. He declared 1t was I'M
possible to exaggerate the gull
existing between the church ano
the ordinary life and thinking Of
+he English people.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-15
SEAL SALE OPENS
lNC0UNTY MONDAY
Annual TB Fund Drive Will
Be Handled By Mail;
.Jaycees Have Bonds

New Hanover County residents
will be given the opportunity TO
aid in the battle against tubercu-
1osis by their purchases OF tuber-
culosis Christmas Seals which 60
IN sale throughout the county next
Monday morning. Mailing OF the
seals will get underway early Sat
urdav morning and thousands Will
be in the hands of prospective buy
ers within a few hours afterwards,
according to Mrs. Mary Buzhard,
executive secretary Of the New
Hanover County tuberculosis ana
Health Association.
Sale of the Christmas seals Will
be conducted by mail during the
first phase of the annual CAM
naign Mrs. Buzhard pointed out
Yesterday, with bangles being SOLD
through students of the public
schools. The Junior Chamber OF
Commerce OF Wilmington will
again handle the sale of TB bonds
and the members hope to exceed
their efforts Of last year when they
raised over $4,000 for this worthy
cause
Junior Sorosis Club members
will take over the TB Christmas
Sale booths on December II and
will push the sale of these little
life savers" right up until the
close of the campaign.
In calling attention to the need
for funds with which to carry on
a relentless fight against tubercu-
losis, Mrs. Buzhard pointed out
that as the nation observes its
first peace time Armistice Day in
four years, another battle con-
tinues to kill at the rate of one
person every nine minutes COM
pared with the death of one Amerl-
can every seven and half MIMI
ties during the past war.
Enemy guns cost the lives OF
$4,000 Americans in World War
II, while during the same period
nearly 206,000 Americans died as
the result of this age old enemy
tuberculosis. The guns are silent
now but tuberculosis is still kill
ing.
As yet it is 100 early to predict
what effect World War II will have
upon the incidence of this disease,
although past wars have brought
increases in tuberculosis; and
even now Europe and Asia report
sharp upward trend OF the
malady.
At the present the death rate in
this country has declined as a
Whole, but tuberculosis is long
Term disease, and is seldom sus-
pected in its early stages.
Proper medical care has forced
me tuberculosis death rate from
nfst to seventh place as a cause
OF death for the population as a
whole, yet during last year tuber'
eulosls alone killed approximately
IVooo more Americans than were
Killed IN action or died of wounds
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-15
Penicillin Treatments
Ne1u Scarlet Fever Cure

groups of nine patients each who
were admitted to the south depart
ment of the Boston City Hospital
between January and May, 1945.
The authors emphasized that their
conclusions were "only tentative"
because they were based on a
every small number Of cases"
Each of the groups of scarlet few
er patients was treated differently.
Group A was given no sulfonamides
or antibiotics; group B with muscu-
lar injections of penicillin; group
C with sulfadiazine taken by mouth
and group D with nose and throat
sprayings with a penicillin solu-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-15
59 = Jevs Burn Offices, Stone Police AT Tel Aviv;
49, British x}Scant Gains Against lndonesians;
2Y3 Savage F%%<ating Continues In Inner Mongolia
WEATHERMANl,. ANS
HOLIDAY VISITING
WEATHER BUREAUS

WINSTON-SALEM, N. c.,
Nov. 14-(R)-Where does the
Weatherman go on his vaca-
ton? Wiley Sims, weather OBJ
server at Smith Reynolds Air
port, answered that question
today with a proposed timer
airy of his first vacation since
Feb. l943.
Informing his assistants that
he was leaving on two-week
trip with the view of getting
away from the weather busi-
ness,' Sims promptly made
plans to: Drop in on the Ra-
leigh Weather Bureau, and
maybe the Greensboro Bureau,
possibly the Charlotte Bureau,
and, if time permits, the At
lanta Weather Bureau.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-15
City Police Investigate
Alleged Negro Murder

City police last night were in
vestigating the alleged murder OF
Joseph Alexander Clay Negro,
Route /, Wilmington, after he re-
ceived fatal wounds from a pistol
repeatedly in the hands of Harold
Goodman, Negro, 707 Meares
street at 9 o'clock in CoWan'
beer parlor, 815 Castle street last
night.
Goodman was first arrested for
carrying a concealed weapon and
assault with a deadly weapon with
intent to kill and rearrested on a
charge of murder after Clay died
at II p. NJ, in the Community
hospital. Privilege of bond has
been Withdrawn.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-15
BRITISH TO BUILD
CHAPEL IN MEMORY
OF AMERICAN DEAD

LONDON, Nov. 14.-(F- A
chapel in memory of U. S. SOL
diers buried in Britain or kill
ed In war operations while bas-
ed In the United Kingdom will
be erected near the High Altar
in St. Paul's Cathedral.
Approved by the King and
Queen, the project is sponsored
by the American and British
Commonwealth A S citation,
and will be financed by sub
scription.
Intended as a place of pill
grimage for American visitors,
the chapel will contain roll
of honor which Gen. Eisenhow-
er will help prepare.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-15
Troops Fire
On Rioters
In Streets
STRIKE IS GENERAL
Many Persons Are Report-
ed Injured In Clashes
At Jerusalem
BY GEORGE PALMER
APP Staff Writer

JERUSALEM, Nov. a. R -
Jewish crowds set fire to govern
ment buildings and stoned police
at Tel Aviv, and advices tonight
declared British troops had fired
on the rioters.
The reports Of shootings could
not be confirmed Immediately.
(Reuters said eight persons were
wounded when tn troops opened
fire.
The street fighting at Tel Aviv
broke out during a 12-hour general
strike called in protest against new
British proposals to settle the
Palestineproblem, and more than
81 persons were reported injured.
Twelve persons were hurt when
youths stoned buses and taxes in
Jerusalem.
A complete curfew for all civil
lans was imposed in Tel Aviv at
II o'clock tonight. It will continue
until further notice.
(Reuters quoted police bulletin
as saying an American Army SER
geant and one other person were
injured in Tel Aviv by glass
splinters when Arabs fired on a
truck operated by an armed Brit
ish crew.
(The bulletin added, Reuters said.
that one Arab and a Palestinian
constable were injured in a clash
between Jewish youths and Arab
shepherds near Haifa.
Reuters also said that the Pales.
tine Arab party's executive com.
mittee today in an official state
ment called on all Arab nations to
support resistance of further Jewish
immigration.)
Reports from Tel Aviv said troops
OF the Sixth Airborne Division fired
at the legs of demonstrators after
giving orders to 'disperse immed-
lately or we open fire.
A surging crowd of youths set fire
to the British district office, break.
ing windows to hurl torches inside.
the advices said, and also attacked
the income tax office. Two Jewish
police officers we're reported hurt
by flying stones.
The troops were said to have
erected huge posters, in the Eng.
fish, Arabic and Hebrew Lam
guages, ordering demonstrators to
go home or be shot. Searchligbts
were directed on the posters, and
the crowds dispersed by 10 p. m.
No official statement was ex-
pected before tomorrow.
CA Reuters dispatch said one Of
the crowds attacked four buildings.
income tax and light industries Of
flee. Explosions occurred inside, it
added.)
First reports from Tel Aviv said
the crowds attac ked four building.
setting three afire. The youths
hurled burning torches inside and
then stoned police who rushed to
the scene. One building still was
reported burning tonight. Tel Aviv
police fought the crowds with sticks.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-15
Extremists
Clingiing To
P 0 sitions
ALONG RAIL LINE
Determined Nationalist
Counter-Attack Near
Soerabaja Base

BATAVIA, Java, Nov. 14-(P-
Determined lnd0nesian troops,
using artillery and frequently
counter-attac king, chung firmly to
fortified positions along the East
West railway in Soerabaja today
aid limited British Indian forces
to scant gains in the fifth day Of
bloody fighting.
The British continued bombing
some key Indonesian positions, but
declared they were using only
minimum force" against the In
donesians, entrenched in concrete
pillboxes and air raid shelters
built before the war.
An official statement said the
British command was giving every
opportunity to the Extremists to
stop the useless bloodshed OF their
own people" and added that the
British "still hoped" to occupy
the big Java naval base without
repeating last Saturdays heavy sea
and air bombardment.
Meanwhile, in Batavia the new
36-year-old premier of the unrec-
ognized Indonesian Republic, SUI
tan Sjahrir, was assembling his
cabinet to try to stop the fighting
in Soerabaja and restore order
through Java.
Action was delayed pendiHg the
arrival of two cabinet members
from troubled East Java. Sjahrir
already has indicated he would
fly to Soerabaja to seek peace.
Minister of Information Amir
Sjarifuddin said he was confident
the Indonesian government could
restore order if it receives coop
erative support from the British.
British Maj. Gen. D. c. Aaw-
thorn, at his headquarters in Ba-
tavia, bluntly accused the COM
mander of the Japanese 18th Army
and his chief of staff of having
deliberately handed over arms to
"unruly elements" in Java.
Hawthorn administered a. verbal
lashing to the two Japanese Off
GERS, 1t. Gen. Yiuchiro Nagano
and Maj. Gen. Moichiro Yamamo-
to, at a formal surrender ceremony
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