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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-08
CUT NAZI
LIFELINE in BELGIUM
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lateral road which joys into Houf-
falize from the northeast.
1t. Gen. George S. Patto.' S
Third Army went back to the at
tack on the south side of the bulge
and advanced one mile on three
mile front west of Bastogne, reach
ing within one-half mile of Elem
ierge, five and one-half miles north
west of Bastogne. The closest pene-
tration toward the First Army re-
manned in the Longchamps area
northeast of Flemierge.
The U. S. Second and Third Arm
ored Division, the Sind Airborne
and the 83rd and 3Oth Infantry
were teaming in the powerhouse
attack on the north side of the
Ardennes. Gap. The offensive ap-
peared to be rolling in high gear
for the first time since Field Mar
shall Sir B. L. Montgomery's arm
les struck last Wednesday, with
average gains of between two and
three miles reported on a 30-mile
front runnine southwest from the
Stavelot flank.
On the western end of the sack,
the German panzers still were at
lacking the British Sixth Airborne
Division, veterans of the D-Day
landings near Caen, either with
out knowledge or regard for the
fact that the Allies to the east
were cutting across their com,
munications.
Light units of the 83rd Infantry
first filtered into BaraQue De Frau
ture, four and one-half miles south
east of Grandmenil, through a
biting snow and sleetstorm and
three hours later it was secured
by tanks of task force ogan''
Third Armored Division outfit un-
der 1t. Col. Samuel Hogan of
Pharr, Tex.
The junction was promptly dub
bed "Hogan's Crossroads" by the
Doughboys in honor of their COM
mander, who had conducted a gal
liant but vain defense of the vital
junction 10 days previously before
the first surge of Field Marshal
Karl Gerd Won Rundstedt's winter
offensive.
Other task forces of the Third
and Second Divisions cut the St.
Vith-La Roche road to either side
of Baraque De Fraiture and late
Sunday United Press Correspond
ent c. R. Cunningham reported that
solid stretch of the road was
firmly in our hands.
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D0MBERS POUND
NAZI RAILROADS

LONDON, Monday, Jan. g.
tUP)-More than 1850 U. S heavy
bombers and fighters blasted Is
rail targets behind the German
lines in 50-belcw-zero weather yes
terday, and lest night the Raj
kept the aerial offensive in high
gear with Two heavy attacks
against Munich in southern Ger
many.
Two powerful Raj fleets smash
ed Munich in great strength, it
was announced, with the first hit
ting at $3.50 pm. and the second
about two hours later. Munich, a
major industrial and rail center,
last was attacked by Raj bonn
bers on the night of Dec. II in an
assault against rail targets.
The German radio, meanwhile,
other forces of swift Raj
Mosquito bonbers over the Han
noverBrunswick section of north
ern Germany in what was appar-
emily a diversionary attack.
The American daylight armada
lost nine bombers and one fighter
in striking major German trans
portation targets along a 20O-mile
stretch from Hamm in the north
to Achern in the south. The bonn
bers struck through thick winter
banks Of clouds and were able to
bomb usually only at Achern, 30
miles southwest of Karlsruhe.
Among the freight yards attack
ed were those at Hamm and Biele-
field on the main rail line between
north-central Germany and the
Ruhr, and at Paderrbon on al al
ternate east-West route.
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State Schools To Get
2.45O OCD Fire Pumps

RALEIGH, Jan. 7.-(P'-W H.
Belts, property officer for the state
Office of Civilian Defense, VIII
place 2,45o OCD pump-tank fire ex-
tinguishers in public school build
ings throughout the state, state
OCD Director R. L. Mcmillan salo
today.
The extinguishers will be dlstrl-
buted by w. F. Creole of the state
department of education, and VIII
be in custody of local school sup
erintendents. They will be subject
to recall by the OCD if a wartime
emergency makes their use ap'
parent. The Federal government
owns the extinguishers.
Belts, who is director OF the
state division of purchase and
contract, has been serving as state
Civilian Defense Property officer
since last July l.
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J. T. BATSON

BURGAW, Jan. u. T. Brown,
"a, died at his home near here at
4:30 pm. today.
He is survived by eight daugh-
tiers, Miss Annie Batson, Mrs.
Maggie Bowden Mrs. Alex Nc
Lendon, Mrs. R. L. Hocutt and
Mrs. w R. Harrell, all of Bur-
gaw, Mrs. J. H. Mcmillan of Wa
tina, Mrs. N. S. Westbrook and
Mrs. A. B Bradshaw of Whining
ton; five sons, E. T. Batson, and
R. E. Batson of Burgaw, R. R.
Batson Of Rocky Mount, V. B. Bat
son of Rocky Point and E. ]. Bat
son of Charleston, S. c., % grand
children and five great-grandchil-
dren.
Funeral services will be held at
8 pm Tuesday at Riverside ap-
fist church.
Honorary pallbearers will be DR..
r. J. Williams, DR.. w. I. Taylor,
DR.. F. P. Ward. T. J. Corbett, j.
r. Casey, ST., J. H. Williams r.
w. Switzerland, J. F. Bradshaw.
] T. Brown, c. F. Mallard, A. H.
Davis, ST., E. McLendon, D. T..
Matthews and R. R. Rich.
Active pallbearers will be Ray
mond Blake, Wiley Batson, Roland
Batson, Neron Blake, Norman
Blake and John Blake.
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CONGRESS PREPARES
FOR ACTION ON JOB
OF MASSING LABOR
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LOntlnuG0 from rage O1lCJ
to enlist warning that there is a
critical shortage.
Chairman Andrew j. May, Demo
crat, KY, of the House Military
Affairs Committee, said he will
call the group together early this
week to determine sentiment on
national service. If there is enough
support, he will get to work on a
bill Immediately.
Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio, a
republican leader, thought At
legislation feasible but doubted
that general manpoWer conscrip-
ton would benefit production. He
said that the president himself
seemed pessimistic that a national
service bill would be passed and
asserted that the strength of his
request for one was removed when
he called for At bill as an alter
native.
Labor leaders bitterly oppose
national service, as they have con-
sistently.
ALL President William Green
said that the nations production
record shows that free labor is
more efficient than slave labor. "
CLIO officials said there is no man.
power shortage that cannot be
cured by higher wages and COM
mon sense" The United mine
workers called the president re-
quest another cog in the regi-
mented economy which he wants. -
A spokesman of the railway labor
executives association said that
compulsory service would destroy
"a production performance which
has been called a miracle from
the president on down.
Rep. James w. WadsWorth, Re
publican, N. Y, co-author of ma.
tional service bill introduced last
year, said he was greatly encour.
aged by the president message
but that he wanted to consult with
House leaders before deciding
whether to offer the measure
again.
His wait-and-see attitude seemed
reflected in general congressional
reaction. Many legislators felt that
it is too late now for national ser.
vice laws and others said a labor
draft should be tried only as a
last resort.
Most members of the House Mill
tary Affairs Committee, which
would have strong voice in a
House bill, said they would have
approved compulsory service two
years ago but feel now that tight
restrictions on 4-F's and occupa-
tionally deferred men is the
| answer.
Selective service, soon after a
bill to that effect was introduced,
ordered induction under sharply
| lowered physical standards of any
occupationally deferred registrant
who changes jobs without consent
of his local draft board.
A selective service spokesman
said tonight that the army and
navy and War Production Board
are in agreement on the provisions
OF a bill by May to induct 4-F's.
They favor giving 4-F's a chance
to take war jobs and then induct-
ing those who refuse for labor bat
tallons, rather than Inducing the
entire 100000 for specific assign
ment.
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MRS. C. G. STEWART

CHADBOURN, Jan. Mrs. c.
C. Stewart, 81, Of Cerro Gordo,
died in the State sanatarium in
Moore county today, after long
illness.
She is survived by her husband,
five sons, Junius, Jimmie, Ronald,
Jerry K. and Jackie Ray and one
daughter, Geneva, all of Cerro
Gordo; her mother, Mrs. Blanche
Fields of Bladenboro; two brothers,
Spencer Fields of Evergreen and
James Fields of the U. S. Navy;
four sisters, Mrs. E. Stewart and
Mrs. Clarence Tedder of Baden
boro; Mrs. Will Nissan of Ever
green and Mrs. Shelton Blackwell
of Chadbourn.
The body will remain at Pea
cock funeral home here until fun
eral arrangements have been COM
pleted.
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Funeral arrangements Will be
announced later by Andrews NOR
tuary.
MRS. LOLA JONES
Mrs. Lola Jones, 81, died at the
residence of her daughter, Mrs.
Annabel Coley, 1913 S. Third St.,
at $40 a. m. yesterday, after a
very short illness.
She is survived by three daugh-
ers, Mrs. Coley, Mrs. Lilly Watson
and Mrs. Dora Pittman, all OF
Wilmington; three sons, c. Med.
Jones of Wilmington, Dawson
Jones of Leland and Ernest P.
Jones, U. S. Navy; % grandchild-
rem, 10 great grandchildren and
one great great-great-grandchild.
Funeral services will be held at
4 p. m. today at the Yopp funeral
home, with the Rev Alfred K.
Dudley officiating. Burial will fol-
low in Oakdale cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be her
grandsons, 1t. Donald Mason, E..
A. Jones, E. C. Flora, M. F. Jones,
J. c. Long and Dan Long
Honorary pallbearers will be j..
W. Vogles, B. F. Britain, DR.. j..
Watts Farthing, DR.. D. R. Murchi-
son, Wits Hufham, Sr, S. D. Bor-
deaux, H. T. Wilson, L.. c. Will
liams, L. M. TODD, G. F. Gafney
and E. A. Gainey.
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MEETING

Cane Fear Council No. "a,
Daughters of America, will
meet tonight at 8 o'clock at the
Junior Order hall. All men,
bers are urged to attend.
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ityBriefs
MINISTER'S TO MEET

The. monthly meeting of the
Wilmington Ministers assocla-
ton will be held this morning
at IL o'clock at the Y. M. C. A.
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RTRIE CLASS

BTBLE CIASS
The regular supper meeting
of the Mcclure Fellowship BIZ
BILE class will be held tonight at
$3.50 O'Clock at the Y. M. C. A.
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Obituaries
ARTHUR R. FARROW

Arthur R. Fagrow, At, died at his
home, Rt. 2, Wilmington, at 1A50
a. m. yesterday.
Funeral arrangements will be
announced later by Andrews NOR
tuary.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-08

BY the middle of l945 the U. S.
will have a merchant fleet of ST.
900, 900 lightweight tons.
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BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
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tee would boost it to 100000, 000,-
900.
With little legislation before it,
the senate met only twice and
mostly heard speeches. One was
by Senator Taft (R.-Ohio) against
the nomination of former Vice
President Henry Wallace as Sec
rotary of commerce. There will be
lot more oratory when that SUBJ
ject actually comes up next Thurs
day.
The Senate Foreign Relations
committee, which expects to pass
on lot of treaties before the
congress ends, cleared one. 1t is
a pact with Mexico on division OF
water of the Rio Grande and Colo.
RADIO rivers, California senators
will fight it on the floor.
The committee also looked over
and indicated it would approve 6
watered-down version of pro
posed Anglo-American oil treaty
It would establish an international
commission which could make
recommendations but would have
no authority to enforce them.
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REVENUE MEASURE
ACTION SCHEDULED
pv ANN DAVEY

ITCH Feb. 24.-(P)-Hedu-
hA NV The home stretch OF
ing so[ oGT wartime Legislature, mem men,
secoIo. we tsa General Assembly have
O ts,e ~ a. 1922. 1893, 1877 for biennial
aIl0cs.5S;t ,1res reached a compro-
ezpsi1 FLOWING increased salaries e
mlSe .9 9c and stand ready to
foI wei weir approval OF Sl29'no'ooo
w avenue measure -,
rs u Io45 budget revenue bill re-
L l,,ad favorable report in the
ceIVe' f;nance committee and IS
lolns I'd 10 be reported in the
expe['t early next week. indications
Hou4' N sneedy passage of the big
mon IloneI controversy is expected. The
h..i e+it,1tion requires that the I'm
colls CON- hin be given its three read
a"SS on separate days
~ Tbe record-smashing approprla-
., il' measure. which passed both
t ,,sos this week, awaits formal
nov uuf;ration. Seven weeks both COM
lS !++oo discussion, public hearings,
niLl,,,-,s. cs and budget balanc-
INV went into preparation of the
siS hin Only two minor amend
i UNITS were offered on the floor Of
.ho House and none in the Senate:
uie Ti,o of II bills rewriting the
c4 -,l entire body of insurance
l I,"'' passed the Senate this week
i@ rd are ready for House action
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NEWSB0Y SMITH
WINS WAR BOND

Thirteen-year-old L. D o n a l d
Smith. of 813 South Front street,
has another War Bond for his
collection as the result of winning
the Star-News street sales con-
test sponsored by Fred D. Fisher,
street sales manager
The newsboy averaged seHlng
1865 copies of the News daily Tor
the length of the contest to edge
out Is other boys. Edward Miles,
Is, of Winter Park, was runner
up with an average OF l4o per
day.
Young Donnie has an ambition
to be newspaper man wnen ne
grows up. Before he enters the
Newspaper field, however, he sale
he would like to serve a hitch
in the Navy.
He is one of a group of SOM
twenty-five street sales boys Wit
sell the Wilmington News ever.
afternoon and ne averages abou
$21 per week from his sales. Mos
of his money is used for nj
clothes, and he regularly invest
some of his profits in the pun
chase of bonds and stamps.
At William Hopper school, Dor
ME is a student in the sevent
grade, and his favorite sport i
baseball.
Fisher announced that the Wa
Bond prize would be given t
newsboys who are winners of fl
ture contests.
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FOUND

NEW YORK, Feb. 24.-(P)-
When Corp. Joseph P. Keys
comes home from a Japanese
prison camp he can spare him.
self that Observation-Disclosures
search for Anna Marie Con-
nelley, the girl he left in Brook
iyn.
Anna Marie Is married to
sailor.
More than that, the sailor is
home on a 30-day leave, she
said today, and is not pleased
to read in the papers that e guy
from Pittsburg wants to see his
wife.
Keys guest was made known
yesterday by his parents, who
said he had lost Anna Marie's
address when he was captured
on Luzon but that he wanted
them to task her to wait"
Liberated by A m er C a n
troops, he planned to start
combing Brooklyn's IS square
miles in the hope of finding her
"a project that surprised Anna
Marie, who said:
Gle was nice boy. We went
out q few times. That was all"
--V-
Buy WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
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Manpower Control Plans
Hold Capital Spotlight

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24-lR-
What kind of manpower control leg
islation congress will enact, if any,
still is anybody's guess.
The No. job President Roose-
welt gave the legislators in his
annual message is long way
from completed although it again
got most of the attention at the
capitol this week.
The measure finally hammered
together by the Senate Military
committee faces a gantlet of pro.
posed amendments when it reach
es the senate floor. And it differs
so radically from the house-ap-
proved bill that, if it passes the
senate, the house undoubtedly will
demand considerable revision be-
fore accepting it.
Whereas the house bill would APP
ply only to civilian men aged 18
to As, the senate measure would
affect all persons regardless OF
age or sex. The house bill directs
penalties at workers who leave es-
sential Jobs without draft board
permission or refuse to take es'
sential work on draft board or
ders. The senate committees re,
draft would aim the penalties pri-
marty at employers who disre'
garded employment ceilings set by
the War Manpower commission.
While this wartime measure con-
tinued begged down. congress
shuttled over to the White House
another postwar bill. This is a
$500 900 900 authorization for i'm
provemeilts to rivers and harbors
With war expenditures requiring
heavy borrowing, the House Ways
and Means committee began con-
sideration of raising the lid on the
amount the treasury may borrow
The ceiling now is $3.50, 900, OeO,'
600 and a bill before the commit
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Purim Festival Will
Start Here Tomorrow

Purim, the festival commemorate
ing the deliverance of the Jewish
people from Hannah in the land of
Persia in the remote past, will be
ushered in with a religious service
in the Temple of Israel, tomorrow
at $50 p. m.
Rabbi Mordecai Thurman will
conduct the service. and will also
read from the Scroll of Esther
which relates the story of the de
iverance. Special selections viii
be sung by the choir.
A Purim supper will be served
the children of the religious schoo
at $50 p. M, after which movie
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The remaining two are on the Sen
ate calendar for Monday night.
Governor Gregg Cherry made
Legislative news this week by an
nouncing the final results of the
teacherysalary controversy. The
teacher compromise specified that
the emergency salary schedule for
teachers be paid monthly during
the next fiscal year if the unap-
propriated surplus in the general
fund on June 80 is sufficient to
pay the full amount or any amount
in multiples of $3.50. Any part of
the emergency salary unpaid on
June 30, 1916, will then be paid if
the unappropriated surplus is suf-
ficient. Governor Cherry said the
teachers have been given by this
legislature what amounts to three
raises.
Another bitter fight was settled
this week when special commit
tee appointed to investigate the
ACCESSIBILITY of separating the divis-
ion of game and inland fisheries of
separating the division of game
and inland fisheries from the de-
partment of conservation and de-
velopment turned thumbs down on
the separation. The committee re-
port. which calls for, strong de-
partment organization, was placed
m the House and Senate records.
Two bills increasing license rates
for hunters and fishermen and
providing for tn e additional
moneys to be used in propagation
of game and fish were introduced
4 in the Senate today by Sen. Smith
of Stanly, chairman OF the COM
mittee on conservation ana deVel'
opment. The increases would range
from so cents to 81, raising some OF
the fees from two to three dollars
and those in the higher brackets
from 1925 to S1575. A Is cent tai
would be levied on each deer killed
by North Carolina hunters.
Bills creating a state cancer conS
mission, providing for the regula
ton of oil and satural gas IN the
state and calling for a constitution
al amendment to lower the votln&
age from 81 to 18 years mt INT
] crowded hoppers this week. Com
mittees, tackling steadily lncreas
ing stacks of bills, held public
hearings on measures to prever
the taking of fingerprints OF per
sons charged with misdemeanors
and to regulate the new and uset
car business.
A public hearing for prepayment
4 of bill calling for hquo
referendum six months after tn
war was held Thursday; opponent
of the bone dry measure, intro
duced by Sen. Rose of Cumberland
will be heard Tuesday.
A statewide medical care an
Decentralization bill, expected
] most daily since the beginning c
the session, is expected to b
! ready for introduction Monda
night
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Police Investigate
Burney Home Break-in

City police were continuing an
investigation yesterday into the
break-in of the home of Judge
John J. Burney. of 1704 Orange
street between the hours of 7 and
10 p. m. Friday.
The superior court jurist told Of
ficers that every room IN his house
had been ransacked, after the Win
dow shades were lowered to pre-
vent detection from the outside,
Approximately 81 in cash was re-
moved from chest of drawers.
Police reported that entrance te
the nome apparently was made
through a rear window while the
Burney family was away.
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R1Iy WAR BONDS AND sTAMPG
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The +: 9 ssa; :: n: #; +; ?s ): $s;
get into such ssstsr ssss'E IN it. i is
alton where where m ~i9h t fhsir families and
friends. .,.o+;on and d.
versifsd agriculture s1,st tas ps These in,
ere 4ss s. %5 SranS in which
they are located
1.-THE farmer, the business ne se %s1 ~ s%i
the 5;th BANKER sny ons sr who has the vis''" an
WIN aa ~ns to work"
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Two Southeastern Men
Are Wounded In Action

The War Department made pub
lie today the names OF two south
eastern North Carolina soldiers
wounded in action in the European
theater. In all cases, the next of
kin have been notified.
They were: Pfc. Washington O..
Russ, son of Mrs. Annie G.. Russ,
of Burgaw.
Pvt. Louis T. Vaught, husband
of Mrs. Regina G. Vaught, of Eliz-
abethtoWn.
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Some 100000 miles of blood yes
sells distribute the blood that
takes food and oxygen to all parts
of the human body and carries off
it's waste.
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Through the efforst of Neal Dow
the first prohibition bill ever pass
ed in the United States was put
through the Maine legislature IN
1216
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will be shown by Robert T. Ber'
man. The Ladies Concordia society
of the Temple will present all tho
children present with Purim gifts.
The sub., 1945-01-20
No Indian Guide, Painters Lose Way !.

The painters Local E. B. Meet ing which was scheduled for Janu- ary 6, turned out to be boomerang and delayed the setting up of the Local Charter by the popular Busi- ness Agent, Mike White, until Sat- urday,. January 20, at p. m.
 The January meeting which was scheduled to be held at the Redmen's Hall, New London, was poorly attended because the Paint CTS couldn't find the hall. They burned up the wires asking direc- tions and multiple questions as to the whereabouts of the Redman's hideaway but no spka de anglesi, heep big Injun silent.
 Many painters remembering their younger days and their par ents' admoniShment to ask the po- liceman on duty to put them on the right path, approached the police man in the traffic tower, corner of State and Main Street. This up- standing officer of the law assured them that he had been On duty there for eleven years and was yet to hear of the Redman's Hall. (No doubt suSpecting Communistic ten dencies in our midstO
 The January 20 meeting will still be held at guess where-THE RED- MANS HALL, 13O STATE STREET, NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT! This Indian in order to be a good guide will further instruct all paint ers-The Redman's hall is located on the third floor, right over Sav- ard the Clothiers on State Street!
 Remember the time Painters, ' p. m. This meeting is purposely held early in order that many of the painters who are planning to go to the BOILERMAKERS BALL, will be able to attend. Mike White will be chairman of the day and further good news, Al Buttery, Main Yard Steward, back from the hospital will take leading part in the meeting when painters who are not already signed up will be able to join and take part in the meeting
 Afterwards REMEMBER! COME ONE, COME ALL, TO THE BOIL ERMAKERS BALL!