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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-11
SCOUTS ASSISTING
in CHEST DRIVE

The Boy Scouts Of Cape Fear
Council are doing q good job in
helping at the annual Community
Chest and War Fund drive, it was
disclosed yesterday by the Scout
executive, CORTLAND W. Baker.
During the past week, the execu-
tive said, Scouts under supervi-
sion of the Chest directorate have
been placing placards in store
windows and serving as messen-
gers delivering supplies to solicit
tors and other fund workers.
Among Wilmington Scouts par
ticipating in the civil project, for
which they receive Scout credits,
are:
Ellis Ehle. Jessie Hardwick,
Martin Millar, Bobby Kennedy,
Berry Lewis, Bobby Rhodes, Atlas
Whitley, Donald Lee, John Weeks,
Billy Lyerly, Frank Boyette' Jim
my Singleton, Sammy Jolly, Ray
mond Core, Donald Thornton,
Charles farrell, Frank Snow, Tom.
my Tucker Ward, Stacy Rhodes,
George Patterson, Tommy Lewis,
Bobby Taylor, Billy Begor, Wayne
Holder, George Zibblen, Wiley
Brown, Bert Todd, Otis Edwards
Ronald Ely, Gene Butler, Frank
Hammond, Caleb Maddox, frankie
Garner, Kenneth Worthington, Ray
Spencer, Hugh Sarvis, Gene Butler,
Buddy Dickens, Harris Canady,
Ludwig Liener, Bobby Hughes,
Kenneth Bordeaux, Jerry Hard
wick, Norwood Skipper Jean
Crawford, Jimmy High, Billy
Griffin, Walter Farrow, James
Gore. and others.
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SYNOD APPROVES
AID FOR COLLEGE

DAVIDSON, N. c.. Oct. 1o.-tR
The Presbyterian Synod of
North Carolina today sanctioned a
campaign to raise 500, 900 for i'm
proving the standing Of Presby.
terrain Junior College at Maxton.
1t also approved an evangelistic
goal Of 5000 new members for
the coming year and indorsed the
denominations southwide program
of raising 1886, 900 as an emerg.
ency fund for evangelization.
In discussing the evangelstic
program at the second day OF the
annual meeting the Synod re civ.
ed a report that 1855 Presbyterian
churches in the state had no ad.
ditions during the past year.
The proposal to raise 500, 00c
for P. J. College was offered by
W. M. Curry Of Belmont after
the meeting had heard strong
pleas from DR.. j. A. Jones, pas,
tor Of the Myers Park Church al
Charlotte, and DR.. Price H
Gwynn, Synod director of Chris.
tan education, for greater support
for the churches schools and col.
leges.
DR.. Jones listed eight institu
tons for the Synods attention
Queens, Peace, Flora Macdonald
Davidson, P. ]. at Maxton, Glade
Valley High School, Mitchell, ane
Union Seminary at Richmond.
Declaring that such institution.
produced 'the morale and religi
Gus forces of the state, D.
Gwynn urged increased financia
support. Only two of the Nortl
Carolina institutions, he said, ar,
on the approved list of the Ameri
can Association of S con'd ar,
Schools and Colleges, Davidson
and Queens.
! Two new trustees were electes
fo- Queens College, James J
Harris and DR.. O. L. Miller. boil
of Charlotte.
| Besides approving the member
ship goal of 5000 new members
the Synod authorized erection o
IS chapels during the coming year
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CHERRY LAUNCHES
WAR FUND ATTACK

HIGH POINT. N. c.. Oct. 10-lP,-
Appealing for contributions to the
United War Fund drive, Governor
Cherry said here tonight that 3'the
next IL months are as crucial to
victory as the last IL months
''Starvation, idleness and cold are
poor leaders but great powers in
the postwar world" Cherry said in
a speech delivered at a kick off
banquet opening the annual United
Community and War Chest drive
here. He spoke at the Sheraton Ho-
tel.
'"These three inevitable results Of
war are greater powers than the
late-lamented Axis and if they are
left to make policies and rule peo-
pies the result is forgone con-
clusion.
''Neither sympathy nor concern
are sufficient to meet the situation.
Concrete relief in the form of sup
plies and services is the thing need
ed at this time
In outlining the uses of funds con-
tributed to local war fund drives,
Cherry said:
'There is a job to be done here
at home-in High Point, in North
Carolina. We need, morale as we
have never needed it before. We
need character as never before. We
need to make the acute adjustment
here at home from a frenzied pro-
gram of war to an even and in
telligent program Of peace time liv-
ing and working.
''Your local agencies can do the
job that must be done at home.
We must all pledge our best efforts
to the business of looking after our
own while we aid our world neigh
bors. This is no time for shrinking
support or Sinking duty. We must
dig down and get our job done.
We must be generous in victory as
we were brave in war"
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-11
STUDENT CONGRESS
TO OPEN SESSIONS
AT MINIS AT 2 P. N.

Delegates to the North Carolina
State Student Council Congress
which will convene at New Han
over High school this afternoon 1t
2 o'clock for a two-day session,
began arriving in the city yester-
day and by noon today, all of the
$50 representatives and SO faculty
advisers are expected to be on
hand.
At the first general session Of the
congress, scheduled in the nigh
school auditorium, some $50 stud
ents and so faculty advisers, rep
resenting 81 schools in North Caro-
lima. will be welcomed by Mayor
Ronald Lane and T. T. Hamilton,
principal of the High school. Bill
Peters of Wilmington, treasurer Of
the student congress, will on be-
half of the high school, welcome
delegates.
Following official welcomes. ana
the recognition of this years OIL
GERS and sponsors, Buck Pruden OF
Raleigh, president Of the council.
Will announce the appointment OF
standing committees of this year.
The meeting will then be thrown
open to panel discussion of plans
for the coming year. and the cleo
ton of officers for the 1946-47 terms.
For the entertainment OF the
visiting students, a weiner roast
has been planned for this AFT
ernoon, from to z o'clock, ana
later IN the evening they are to be
honored at a dance at the Cape
Fear Country club.
Local student council members
extended their appreciation to the
people of Wilmington for their CO.
operation in providing houses Tor
me visiting students, and their Oh
lers more than met the demand.
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MINERS FIGHTING
GILS0NlTE BLAZE

VERNAL, Utah, Oct. 10.-PH
Molten Gilsonite flowed lava-lilGe
toward the isolated mining COM
munity Of Bonanza today and
great spu-ts of flame shot sky
ward intermittently from the Is
shafts of mine wracked last
night night by two tremendous ex-
plosions.
Miners who returned with res
cue parties after evacuating their
families were building dams to
stem the flow from the eruption
mine shafts.
Greatest danger was that the
tar-like Gilsonite would ignite
homes Of the $50 residents which
were miraculously spared, along
with Their occupants, when the
two blasts hurled mine shaft tim
bers into the sky. Only two homes
were damaged and these were all
but demolished when several OF
the 16-foot timbers came crashing
through the roofs.
The highly inflamable asphaltic
mineral burns like tar. It is used
in the manufacture of paints, am
munition and nodded electrical &C.
cessories.
The resultant blaze from the ex-
plosions, cause Of which is still
undetermined, 1eveled the mine
buildings but the fire was held to
the mine property. It was still
burning tonight.
There were no men in the mine
at the time of the explosion.
During the night, miners who
were not fighting the fires in the
mine proper, poured tons of water
on their homes to prevent their
igniting from the intense heat.
and hair OF many resi-
dents were singed and some SUI
fered painful but not serious
burns.
Operators of the Gilsonite mine,
one of several peculiar to Western
Colorado and Eastern Utah, is the
Barber Asphalt Company, which
recently converted Bonanza into
one of the vests most modern
mining communities.
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Attlee Says United
Nations System Will
Be Britain's Policy

LONDON, Oct. 10.-WH-Prime
Minister Attlee said tonight that
success of the United Nations
system would be the main objec-
tive Of Great Britain's foreign
policy.
Attlee said developments in the
field Of atomic energy had made
ut certain that any future war
would see the suicide of man.
kind.
He spoke briefly at a meeting
lof the British United Nations as
ISOLATION. Edward R. Stettinius,
U. S. delegate to the United Ma
tons organization, also made a
short address.
Il wish to say quite simply that
ut is the firm intention Of his
lmajesty's government to make
the success Of the United Nations
the primary object Of its foreign
policy" Attlee said.
The reason is obvious. We have
come to period in history when
mankind must either set up an
institution Of this kind-and not
only set it up but make it work
or face consequences so appalling
that the mind shrjnks even from
contemplating them.
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MAFFITT VILLAGE
WILL BE BUSTED

Next area in the Wilmington
vicinity to be busted by state
county DOT crews will be Maffitt
Village who completed the anti.
typhus busting work OF the ship
yard area yesterday.
Maffitt Village today or tonor-
row, at the latest, the Consoidat-
ded Health board announced yes
terday, adding that all residents OF
busting crews will start through
Maffitt Village tomorrow. or Fri
day at the latest, the Consolidat-
ed Health board announced to-
day, adding that all residents OF
the area should make a point to
have someone at home to permit
crews access to homes and build
ings scheduled for busting. Work
in the shipyard has been in prog
ress for two weeks. and results
while still too early to be finally
judged, are believed to have been
excellent.
Homes and buildings where
crews find no one present at the
tie of their visit will be notified
b. card that busters will return
at stipulated time and date.
The DOT busting program, aim
e at controlling the spread Of
typhus through eradication of ty-
phus-carrying heas infesting rats,
is being sponsored by the Con.
solidated health board with CO.
operation of the state health SER
vice.
Eventually, every building and
home in Wilmington and New
Hanover county will be visited.
Health officials report excellent
cooperation from homes and bust
nesses already visited by the
crews.
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THREE NEW UNITS
GIVEN FEATHERS

Ten Red Feather Awards for
ooaIs attained in this years Com.
no,,oity War Chest campaign were
made yesterday as the Fender
furniture company, Thrift Stores
.nd the office of the New Han.
o I'VE county clerk of court, joined
tbe growing lists, H. A. Marks,
General chairma nfor the cam.
naign announced.
The Fender Furniture comnany.
IN the Commercial division 8
group C, headed by Harry M. Solo
non achieved ITO per cent Of its
nuota. with 100 per cent partici.
nation by employees.
The Clerk Of Courts office, in the
Government division'S group B.
headed by c. David Jones, with
100 PEE cent participation, reach
ed lis per cent of its goal.
The Thrift store, which went
over the top with a 100 per cent
employe participation, is in the
commercial divisions group A,
headed by Sam Berger.
So far in the campaign, the larg.
est Red Feather awards have been
made in the Commercial division;
where seven firms have gone over
tbe top, one Red Feather each
has gone to firms in the Industrial
public Service and Government
divisions.
Kickoff meetings for the Gen.
oral division, headed by e. A.
Ianey were announced this morn
ing, and lead off with the meet
ing next Thursday night at the
shaw Boys club of the Negro
division, headed by D. L. w. Up
perman. II
The county division, of which
John Nuckton is chairman, kicks
off next Friday night at 8 o'clock
when the group meets at the Tide
Water Assembly Hall.
The Mems division, whose men,
bership is made up Of the men,
be-s Of the Junior Chamber of
Commerce, will get under way next
Monday night at $3.50 at meet
ing at the Friendly Restaurant.
Edward L. Ward is chairman of
the mems group.
The Women's division, led by
Mrs. Lester w. Preston and Ms.
P. K. Smith, will hold its kick
off meeting Tuesday morning at
10 o'clock in the parishhouse of
ST. PauIs Lutheran church.
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BOTTLE COLLECTOR

Stanley Davis, Connecticut fur
niture maker, has collection Of
5000 bottles, none Of them over
four ounces in size and no two
alike.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-11

BUY U. S. VICTORY BONDS
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-11
Kiwanians Elect Laney
President For 1945-46

Emsley A. Laney, was elected
president of the Kiwanis club yes
terday with Rex Willis, elected as
vice-president and Rev. Walter b.
Freed, treasurer.
The three board members elected
are Fred E. Little, George Conant
and John E. Hope.
Inauguration of the new admin
istration will take place on the
clubs first regular meeting day in
January.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-11
Russians Go For u. S.
Style OF Wrestling

MOSCOW, Oct. 10 R The
Soviet Union is going in for Ameri-
can style wrestling.
The Russians up to the present
g-appled under French regulations
but the competitors complained
that gallo rules contained too
many restrictions.
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STRANGE JOB

One of the strangest jobs in the
world is 1.-THE keeper Of the look
out of the Cirque ports" in Eng
land. This parsonage scans the
horizon daily for hostile ships and
is paid $3.50 annually.
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leans, the historic road center sc
miles below the capital. From
there Patton's rough riders
smashed on to Troyes on the
upper Seine and beyond to
Reims. ripping through the
Marine and Aisne river barriers
and across the famous battle
fields of 1918 in a whirlwind
drive for Belgium and the Ger
man Siegfried line.
North OF Paris, the Germans
were abandoning their line east
of the Seine, from the capital
to the sea and their robot bomb
bases along the channel coast.
BY the end of August, the Ger
man armies in all of northern
France were in headlong flight
for the Rhineland.
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Houeh LONE Expected, Exceeded Nazis' Worst Fears

them, they faced only annihila-
ton or capture.
PARISIANS REVOLTED
Meantime the main 3rd Army
advance was speeding eastward
racing past Lemans, Chartres
st. Arnoult and into sight of the
Eiffel Tower. AS it approached
the capital, the citizens them
selves rose in force against the
Nazi garrison and after four
days bitter street fighting
flashed the word the Germans
had surrendered. 1t turned out
to be only a Nazi ruse, but "a
hours later, American and
French tanks rumbled into the
city to complete the Liberation
of the first enemy-held Allied
capital.
The battle of France now
drew rapidly to'a close.
Other doughboy columns had
branched southwark to take Or.
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80 from City Wounded
in Defense of Nation

MENTER, BERNARD
STRONG, ROBERT
MILLER, RAYMOND
YAEK, ARNOLD
WARREN, PAUL
CHRISTIAN, ALBERT
BECHTEL, PAUL
SIMMS, FRED j.
SUMMERS, BRYAN
BROWN, GUY L., JR.
SMITH, JACK
BAUMGARTEN, DONALD
SHOVAN, LOUIS w.
STRAGIER, HENRY ].
BURGESS, WILFRED ].
KOZLOSKI, WILLIAM j.
FURTON, GEORGE, JR.
PRINCE, RAYMOND F.
GORZELANY, PETER H.
CAMPBELL, JACK
MELDRUM, WILMER J..
KLEMME, ROBERT f.
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lnuasiion,
BY MALCOLM MUIR, Jr.
unitsA Prssa staff Corresponde

United Press staff Correspondent
All Europe was tense and ex-
pectant in the spring OF 1914.
One Word-"invasion' - was
on everybody's lips. The great
Allied counter blow launched at
Ell Alamein had reached its eli
matte moment. The time was
now.
On one side of the channel
moat lay Britain, transformed
into a vast invasion base. Her
green fields crawled with huge
armies summoned from all the
Allied world. Miles OF big guns,
tanks and armored vehicles
TANNED her country lanes. From
her myriad airstrips, swarms of
Allied bombers were raining an
average of 10000 tons of bombs
q week on Fortress Europe.
Across the water, from Nor
way down to Spain, stretched
the Nazi Atlantic wall, bristlng
with forts, tank traps, mine
fields and, repeatedly, rocket
guns. The Germans boosted this
barrier was deepening and stiff
fleming daily, and Joseph Goeb-
bells limited darkly about the UNI
pleasant surprises in store for
the Allied troops.
AS the H-hour OF D-day drew
near, the war of nerves reached
new peaks. The Allied COM
mander Gen. Dwight d. Eisen-
hover broadcast last-minute in
structions to Europe's under
ground; diplomats were forbid
den to send uncensored dis
patches from Britain; travel to
Fire was stopped. In response,
the Berlin and satellite radios
stepped up their warnings of
fierce reprisals to the captive
peoples.
BLOW FELL JUNE 6
The blow was struck on the
morning of June 6. Its punch
and scope surpassed the worst
Nazi fears. In the greatest am
phibious operation the world
had ever seen, an armada of
1000 ships, covered by an air
fleet of 1900 planes, landed
armies of the United States, Bril-
tain and Canada on the coast of
France.
The target was a 40-mile
stretch OF the rugged Normandy
peninsula which has Cherbourg
at its tip. The Allied assault
forces stormed ashore at 6 a. m.
while rows of United Nations
warships stood off the beaches
and poured 1000 tons of explo-
sives into the German defenses.
Minesweepers had cleared the
sea lanes and underwater obsta-
cles proved less formidable than
expected. In most areas the in
vaders secured beachheads after
sharp but brief fighting. But in
some, entrenched enemy mortar
and machine gun crews put up a
y i
these the Allies, particularly the
Canadians and the Americans,
suffered severe losses.
The enemy finally was flat
tened in all sectors and by night
fall the invasion forces were
fighting their way inland, the
British and Canadians under 1t.
Gen. Miles c. Dempsey on the
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le1t 1ldnk ana the americans
under 1t. Gen. Omar N. Brad
ley on the right. AS darkness set
tied down, a sky train 80 miles
long started TO arrive from Eng
land with additional men and
weapons.
TIE POINTS IMPORTANT
In the days that followed a
succession of struggles began
for the little country towns
which were the tie points in the
all-important network of roads
across Normandy.
Losing no time, the British
struck out TO capture the an
cient town of BayeuX and cut
off the highway between Bay
eux and Caen, a five-way road
hub at the Atlantic end Of the
peninsula's base. The Americans
took Ste. Mere Eglise, 10 miles
from Cherbourg, and then Va
lognes, only IL miles from that
first major objective of the cam
paign.
The Germans continued 10
hold out stoutly at Caen so now
the American end of the line
began TO expand more rapidly
than the British. Hard-driving
Yank columns occupied Monte
bourg, nine miles from Cher
bourg, after a bitter house-to-
house struggle and then pushed
on westward along the roads
converging on the port itself
Then, on June %, an event
occurred which almost collapsed
the invasion strategy. A great
channel gale, the first in 80
years, smashed the Allied life
line Of supply ships with winds
reaching 20 miles an hours and
waves II feet high Hundreds of
the smaller ships were swamp
ed and miles of the Normandy
shoreline was piled up with the
wreckage. Meanwhile the Allied
beachhead force was rapidly U.S.
ing up its stores of food and am
munition. Because of censor
ship. few back in America knew
how near the campaign was to
disaster. Just in time, the storm
abated and the work of supply
resumed.
Cherbourg was taken June q
by American tanks and infan-
try, smashing into the city on
top Of terrific aerial, naval
and artillery bombardment. En-
gineers fastened to clear the
port and restore it for use by
Allied shipping.
Then the Allied time table
went haywire among the apple
trees and barnyards of Norman
dy. The Nazis found the crazy
patchwork of earthern hedge
rows which criss- crossed the
whole countryside ideal terrain
for defensive battle. They yield
ed nothing without exacting a
price in lives or prolonged ar
tillery bombardment.
During the next four weeks,
the Allies were able only to
straighten their peninsula line
so that it ran from the British
anchor before Caen through ST.
Lo in the center of the PENN
sula to a point just above Les
say, 20 miles below Cherbourg
on the west coast.
1t was not until July 20 that
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In addition to those from
Mount Clemens who have lost
their lives in defense of the
United States since Dec. Z, 1941,
the following are among those
listed as wounded in action.
Others, no doubt, should be list
ed here and-before the final
reports of the European battles
roll mothers most certainly
must be included.
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, they could launch q determined
offensive 10 burst out of the Pc
ninsula. Then the British punch
ed forward in drive which, al
though 1t took Caen, was princi-
pally effective in drawing to
their front the major share of
the German forces.
BRADLEY STRUCK HARD
Five days later, after thun-
derous aerial bombardment in
which a stray bomb cost the life
Of 1t. Gen. Leslie McNair, Brad
iey's doughboys struck in the
western sector. They struck with
force that was not TO be resist
ed by the remaining Nazis.
Shredding the German line,
the u. S. 3rd Army took Lessay,
Perier, and the road center of
Coutances, reached out Is miles
to blast a corridor out of the
peninsula at Avranches, and
drove arm NOR d spearheads
through onto the rolling hills of
Brittany.
The war suddenly had chang
ed from a battle of position to
battle of lightning maneuver.
No one was surprised when it
was revealed that the 3rds COM
mander was fire-eating, pistol
packing IL. Gen. George S. Pat
ton, Jr, who emerged from the
shadow of a soldiers Shaping in
cident of the previous August.
Fast-rolling American col
umns thrust westward onto Brit
tany in multiple drives for the
ports Of Brest, Lorient and St.
Nazaire, vitality needed to meet
the increasing supply needs Of
the Allied armies. With the fate
of these sealed, the Yanks struck
eastward. Doubling the German
lines back at right angles, swift
columns cut straight along the
main roads without waiting to
widen heir communications
corridor.
TRAP LESSON
Then it became apparent that
this drive, apparently aimed at
Paris, actually was a well-diS-
guised lesson in entrapment. For
branching off from the main
American force was series OF
developing sweeps aimed at I'M
dercutting the German 7th
Army facing the British and Ca
nadians.
The first of these was aimed
at cutting the German retreat
route eastward from Caen be-
tween the towns of Falaise and
Argentan, thus closing the neck
Of big pocket whose other sides
were the British and Canadian
sectors of the front. When shat
tered remnants Of the German
7th managed TO escape from this
bag, they only fell into a larger
one formed by other u. S. spear
heads stabbing north to the
Seine river 80 miles northwest
of Paris.
Within this second trap thrash
ed an estimated $4,000 to 100,-
600 beaten Germans-not only
the 7th but part of the 18th
army fleeing southwark from lie
Havre and the Calais coast.
Hopelessly disorganized, their
armor and vehicles left behind
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The German character did not
change fundamentally between
the time of Napoleon and World
War I. Why should we suppose
it has changed since? I believe
we shall witness the same drama
all over again. - Emil Ludwig,
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Eight Listed
AS Coptives
of the Axis

Mount Clemens fighting men
listed Vas prisoners OF war in
clude:
DAY, JACK
WHITEHEAD, RAYMOND
McNICKEL, MELVIN
HICKS, ROBERT q.
BROWN, GUY L., yR.
ROBERTS, CHARLES l..
CODDINOTON, JOHN
MARTELL, LORNE
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LEMASNEY, JERRY
CROOKS, JACK
SLATER, ROY f.
FOWLER, ROBERT b.
MEAD, NELSON A.
ZENO, PAUL
PIDGEON, LARRY V.
BAETENS, CARL
MORGAN, GORDON
GREENFIELD, ALEX
ULLRICH, PAUL w.