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VOLj<^lNQ- 2^?____WILMINGTON, N. C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1943_FINAL EDITION_ESTABLISHED 1867
Post-War Planning
Board Will Confer
On City Expansion
MEETING SLATED
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Representatives Of Subur
ban Areas To Be Invit
ed For Talks
unitsTobenamed
Committeemen To Be Chos
en For Various Pro
jects Of Group
The inclusion of suburban
,reas within the city limits
i Wilmington will be the
bject of discussion between
venresentative citizens of out
jvL districts and the city s
nostwar planning board with
in the near future, H. R. Em
olT chairman of the board,
indicated Monday night
At a meeting of the boai'd
it was decided to draw up a
]jjt of names from which
committees would later be
chosen to join in preliminary
discussions whose findings
till be open for public hear
■, if Such are warranted.
Former Plan Killed
i former plan for including su
;;;ban areas within the city limits
t: Wilmington was killed in the
I lower house of the last session
I of the North Carolina General As
sembly. The subject of much con
troversy. it was not approved in
its final form of presentation by
local officials.
While present plans are only ten
tative and the meeting Monday
was primarily an organizational
one for the adoption of by-laws,
Secretary Fred Rippy mention
ed that this board will study sur
vey's made by other local agen
cies in connection with a prelimi
nary survey that is now being
planned. Cooperation with the
City-County Planning Committee
and the Chamber of Commerce is
also the aim of the group.
Regular meetings will be held:
the first Monday before the second
Wednesday in each month at city
hall at 8 p. m. Special meetings
may be called by the chairman on
two-davs notice.
I0L1CE TOTRAIN
JMMSMANSH1P
Department Members Will
Receive Instruction
With Weapons
A training program in the use
°t pistols, machine guns and riot
Suns for the personnel of the Wil
mington police department got un
derway Monday afternoon when
the first group of ten patrolmen
nractieed target shooting on the
tar?e at Legion field.
F':e Program will continue, with
approximate groups of ten men
engaging in target shooting, until
every member of the force is qua
ked in the use of these arms.
Cruel Casteen said Monday, with
special emphasis being placed on
pistol shooting for both slow and
rtpid types of firing.
Norwood Wolfe, Wilmington pat
rolman, will have charge of in
fraction. He has qualified as an
expert :n the United States Army,
P'd has had varied and consider*
experience in this type of
1-finery, the chief added.
The riot guns to be used are the
‘Jiauge shotgun variety equipped
■ 1 ri air-cooling systems. The prac
•ce rar‘ge is that used by the Wil
TfPgton Pistol and Rifle club.
WEATHER
jlw,, FORECAST:
1- i CAROLINA: Warmer today.
'Haslern Standard Time)
J.*ptporr>i1 '■ Wcat^er Bureaif)
'Mmg 7 an81Cal rlata for the 21 h0UT«
5 ' P- r"-- yesterday.
, temperature
P ri, 5i. 7 30 a. m„ 39; 1:30
rr .1 ■ ,T. nr:.. 53. Maximum 63;
-Ul ■■8’ M'-an 50; Normal 64.
1 30 , humidity
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P 0.00^ inches24 h0urs ending 7:30
•W inches. 6 '*’* <irst of the month,
tides for today
^’■lmington High Low
1 :42a. 8:52a.
'onb°ro Inlet 1T:!!p- 9'34P
.. 11.44a. 5:33a.
•'“ores lmet ,y --P- 6:16p.
11:49a. 5:38p.
Topsail Inlet ,y —P. 6:21p.
move's, le-H:34a. 5:43a.
s llm« Eastern s, ‘ --P- 6:26p.
bunrise, e-oo « hUndam
10:31 p "y Sunset- 5:34 p. m.:
Ubo Fpar B- " -Hoonset. 12-05 n
tP‘ Monday, ji l,'*!!' at Fayetteville
' m-. 913 leet.
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5 Servicemen Take
Oath Of Allegiance
To Their New Land
Five service men, represent
ing five different countries,
were naturalized Monday by
Judge John J. Burney in Su
perior court in the tenth nat
uralization session held here
for service men since Pearl
Harbor, Jennings Otts, natur
alization examiner announced.
The men, the country in
which they were born, pres
ent station and branch of ser
vice are: Vito Frank DiPinto,
Italy, Fort Fisher, army; Hu
go Munoz Amato, Mexico, Fort
Fisher, Army; Harry Phillip
Sassen, Germany, Fort Fish
er, Army; Alexander Paxton
Ferguson, Scotland, Fort Ma
con, army; Jose Pascual, Phil
ippine Islands, Morehead City,
Navy.
Eleven more service men
who had applied for naturali
zation but were unable to be
present Monday will be natur
alized at the next court ses
sion.
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ASKS FOR CLERK
Commissioners Agree To
Furnish Girl Helper
For Office
O. H. Shoemaker, chairman of
the county War Price and Ration
ing Board, at a meeting of the
New Hanover Board of County
Commissioners Monday, request
ed that the rationing board be
allowed to retain the services of
two office girls supplied by the
county some time ago for the pur
pose of assisting with the ration
ing of fuel oil. Mr. Shoemaker
also asked the commissioners to
supply one additional girl to help
with gasoline rationing and reg
istration for War Ration Book
Four which begins soon at the
public schools.
Mr. Shoemaker declared, "we
are drastically understaffed and
the building in which we are hous
ed is in a deplorable condition.”
The board agreed to furnish the
help asked and also to have the
building cleaned but took no ac
tion on the proposal to have the
building painted and repaired.
O. W. Durrant requested abate
ment of taxes accrued on 2 lots
in Government Heights for a
biulding which was burned some
time ago but was not reported.
The commissioners granted abate
ment.
No action was taken on a re
quest by W. H. Blake, who pro
posed to purchase from the coun
ty approximately 170 feet of front
age on the Castle Hayne road
near the state highway shops, at
a proposed cost of $1,800. The
original motion was to grant the
request if a guarantee would be
supplied by Blake to the effect
that he would construct a build
ing of certain specifications that
would be a credit to the county;
how'ever, this motion failed to re
ceive a secunu.
After a considerable amount of
discussion, the second motion, to
sell Blake the land outright, failed
as a result of a tie vote which
Chairman Addison Hewlett voted
in the negative.
W. W. Sullivan asked the board
to take action on having an aban
doned road leading to the public
landing on Myrtle Grove sound
; re-opened. The board discussed and
approved the resolution but ac
lion of the matter was referred
| to the State Highway Commission
i under whose jurisdiction this t> pe
of work comes.
J. A. Stevens, attorney for
George Hunter, requested abate
ment on a taxation penalty for
not listing in 1939-40-41-42. The
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Mountbatten Aide
American war plans expert Ma
jor Albert Coady Wedemeyer, has
been named as U. S. Army Depu
ty Chief of Staff to Lord Louis
Mountbatten, head of the south
east Asia command. U. S. Army
Air Force photo. (International
Soundphoto)
FOUR NEW PUMPS
ARE TO BE USED
City Expects To Receive
Electric Units This
Morning
Four additional electric pumps
have been ordered by the city and
are expected to arrive Monday
night or Tuesday morning, Super
intendent of Water and Sewage
McKean Maffitt said Monday af
ternoon.
A special priority, necessary to
obtain the pumps, was secured
last week from the War Produc
tion Board in Washington by City
Engineer J. A. Loughlin.
Mr. Maffitt also announced a
revised schedule for the water
tank truck operated by the city
which will be in effect beginning
Tuesday morning:
Sixth and Nixon streets, 8-9 a.
m.; Front and Castle streets, 9-19
a. m.; Lee and Lake Forest
drives. 10-11 a. m.; Greenfield and
Twelfth streets, 11-12 a. m.; Sixth
and Nixon, 1-2 p. m.; Front and
Castle, 2-3 p. m.; Lee and Lake
Forest, 3-4 p. m.; Greenfield and
Twelfth, 4-5 p. m.;
At the present rate of consump
tion the truck is refilling about
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AIR FORCE CHIEF
HAILS HIS CREW
Arnold Says Cost In Men
And Planes Justified
By Work
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. — (A>1
General H. H. Arnold today hailed
the achievements of American air
men as overwhelmingly Justifying
the cost in men and money.
The chief of the Army Air For
ces. commenting crisply on discus
sion of the 60-bomber, 593-man
crew loss in the October 14 raid
over Schweinfurt, Germany, term
ed the loss incidental.
“You can’t run a war on a dol
lar basis,” he asserted, “but if
you want to put it on that basis
consider the dollars in what we
have destroyed.”
General Arnold had invited to
Air Force headquarters in the
Pentagon building over two-score
reporters, news executives, radio
commentators and columnists. In
each chair was found a schodl
days-style tablet and sharp pencil.
The general, flanked by aides with
charts and pictures, sat near the
head of a long table. As many
guests as could sat around the
table. Others occupied chairs that
lined the walls.
“I just want to talk,” the gener
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Housewives Are urged
To Help ‘Home Front’
"Inflation is one of our most
dangerous foes and is now attack
ing our home front. This can be
prevented only if housewives will
keep the Home Front Pledge,
which will be given to them when
they register for War Ration Book
No. Four next week. Rationing
and price ceilings are our wea
pons, and they will be effective
only if each and every citizen
makes an honest effort to abide
by the regulations of the Office
of Price Administration,” said
Mrs. Julian Morton, who with Mrs.
Emsley Laoey and Mrs. W. H.
Henderson, Jr., is a member of
the Community Service Panel, now
launching the Home Front Pledge
Campaign in Wilmington.
This group has talKea to civic,
club heads on the subject ^ dur
ing the past few weeks, but the
campaign got underway officially
las? week when OPA officials
spoke to housewives here.
“The purpose of this campaign
is to keep down inflation and stop
black market operations, contin
ued Mrs. Morton. ‘ Contrary to toe
belief of many, OPA does not wato
to ■snoop'; tho'. WJU
for ‘snooping if au b
toe same patriotism that our boys
011 th,! ^att!fbev the rejSK
We should obey tne 1
of our country as they a e ok
Registration for kaiion
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 5)
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ALLIES POURING REINFORCEMENTS
im0 WAR FOR ITALIAN MAINLAND;
RUSSIANS SMASHING NAZI ARMIES
k fAT ADMITTED
Berlin Acknowledges Loss
Of Ground Before
Red Drive
23 VILLAGES~SEIZED
Nearly 4,000 Germans
Killed And Much Ma
teriel Taken
LONDON, Tuesday, Oct.
19.—,(/p) — Russian troops
smashing four miles deeper
into tlie Dnieper river loop to
flank hundreds of thousands
of German troops “are throw
ing the enemy back, destroy
ing his forces, and clearing
him from one populated place
after another,” Moscow an
nounced early today.
Berlin acknowledged its
troops were giving ground
under the impact of 300,000
Russians attacking south
ward toward the Dneprope
trovsk-Kiev railway, main
lifeline of Axis troops de
ployed along the Dnieper
bend to the east and in the
Gvimen tn the smith
The Red army overran 23
more villages, killed nearly
4,000 Germans, destroyed or
captured scores of tanks and
guns, smashed every Axis at*
said a midnight communi
tempt to stem it yesterday,
que supplement recorded by
the Soviet monitor from a
Moscow broadcast.
16 Guns Captured
In one area the Russians said
their troops had forced the Ger
mans to “beat a hasty retreat”
from a village, and captured 16
abandoned gun's with their trac
tors and many other weapons.
This was only a small part of the
booty declared swept up during
the day.
Developing what may be a dis
aster for the Germans all along
their crumbling Dnieper line, the
Russians also announced fresh
gains below Gomel, north of Kiev,
and at embattled Melitopol, where
bitter street fighting had rolled
into the seventh day.
The Russians surrounded and
smashed blockhouses and strong
points built around one square in
Melitopol, the supplement said,
cleared several districts of the
city, and decisively defeated a
German counterattack southwest
of the city near the railway lead
ing to the Crimea.
A total of nearly 7,000 Germans
fell on all fronts during the day,
and 153 tanks were knocked out
or captured for a two-day bag of
324, the supplement said. In ad
dition 79 guns, including many
88 mm., were destroyed or seized,
it said.
A Moscow broadcast communi
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Cordell Hull And Anthony Eden
Arrive In Moscow For Parleys
MOSCOW, Oct. 18. — (/P) —
U. S. Secretary of State Cor
dell Hull and British Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden have
arrived in Moscow for the long
awaited tri-power conference
with Soviet Foreign Commis
sar Vyacheslav Molotov, it was
announced tonight.
(The conference presumably
will seek an agreement on war
objectives and post-war colla
boration between the United
States, Britain and the Soviet
Union.)
Hull and Eden were accom
panied by W. Averell Harri
man, newly named U. S. Am
bassador to the Soviet Union;
Green Hackworth, U. S. State
Department counsel; James
Dunn, political adviser; Maj.
Gcu. John Dean, U. S. Army;
William Strang, British assis
tant under-secretary for foreign
affairs; and Lt. Gen. Sir Hast
in':* Ismay, chief of staff to
tii, British minister of De
fta> e.
The meeting of United States
British and Russian secretaries
CORDELL HULL
is expected to deal largely
with the post-war political mat
ters—specifically what sort of
Europe is to be shaped once
victory is won. and what should
be done to preserve the peace.
This view prevails generally
despite the recent assertion
by Prada, communist party or
gan in Moscow, that the second
front and the complete defeat
of Hitler is the main question
for the meeting.
Edward R. Stettinius, acting
secretary of state, mentioned
both today in declaring that the
oonferencr should contribute
greatly to achievement for the
goal “we are all striving for,
the compVete defeat of the
ruthless Nazis and the estab
lishment of a just and last
ing peace.”
Out of the conference may
come military conversations
for close coordination of the
Red army’s efforts with Anglo
American forces when Allied
armies close in on Germany
for the kill.
The prime concern, however, of
Secretary of State Hull, foreign
Secretary Eden and Foreign
Commissar Molotov is believed
to be to lay the groundwork
for an understanding on hand
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FIRST PRISONERS !
TO BE EXCHANGED
War Department Announc
es That 17 Ameri
cans To Return
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18— iJfl —
'The first repatriation of American
['prisoners in Germany was under
way tonight, the War Department
disclosed, with four American of
ficers and 13 enlisted men in a
group returning to the United
States.
Several thousand prisoners hail
ing from various parts of the Brit
ish Empire also are on their way
home from German prison camps.
The War Department announced
that under an agreement between
the United States and Germany
for mutual repatriation of sick and
wounded prisoners the first group
of American personnel already is
“being embarked at Goteborg,
Sweden.”
The group, comprising grades
from first lieutenant to private,
will return to the United States by
way of England.
“The British and American pris
oners of war who are being re
patriated at this time.” the de
partment said, “are the first to
be repatriated from Germany.
“It is expected that further re
patriation movements will be
agreed upon from time to time.”
The limited number of Ameri
can personnel exchanged as com
pared with the British prisoners
of war, is due, the department
said, to the fact that there are
relatively few Americans held by
the Germans.
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Rommel’s Forces Battle
Three Guerrilla Armies
LONDON, Oct. 18.—(tP)—Three guerrilla armies—Yu
goslav “regulars” under Gen. Draja Hihailovic, Gen. Josip
(Tito) Broz’ red-starred bands, and a resurgent Albanian
guerrilla army — were reported locked in bitter battles
with Marshal Erwin Rommel's forces over a wide western
Balkan front tonight.
Mihailovic’s forces, launching their first big offen
sive since the German occupation of garrisons formerly
held by Italians, was said by government leaders at Cairc
to be smashing toward the Danube river loop in northeast
» dll Uti UiQ Oil/ti V
towns in a definite menace to
German river traffic.
Tito’s liberation army, wrecking
rail links and trains in a retreat
from Zenica, in Bosnia, continued
their attacks elsewhere against re
inforced German garrisons be
tween Sinj and the port of Split
on the Dalmatian coast, and near
Bakar, southeast of the Susack
Fiume port area, a free Yugoslav
radio broadcast said.
The newest drain of Rommel’s
already thinly-drawn forces in the
Balkans was in Albania. Some 35,
000 Nazis were reported in Cairo
dispatches to have been rushed
from Macedonia to Albania to re
inforce German forces under al
most daily guerrilla attacks.
There was no hint mat the forc
es of Tito and Mihailovic, long i
at odds, had joined to oppose the j
invaders of their homeland, but;
it appeared that some of their ac-!
tivities might overlap. Bands rep
resenting both forces are fighting ]
in Bosnia and in Serbia.
Exiled Yugoslav government in
formants said at Cairo that Mi
hailovic’s part-time farmer-soldiers
had captured Bra’, Palanka and
Zubukovac in southeastern Serbia
and were driving toward Donji Mi
lanovac, on the western end of the
Danube loop above the Iron Gate
rapids.
Fighting back desperately
against these newest threats to his
Balkan forces, Rommel sent his
planes over Serbia and into the
interior in fierce raids on guerilla
held villages.
German raiders struck also at
the area north of the Albanian
border, where Tito’s forces were
reported to have captured the town
of Andrijevica, only 10 miles
above the frontier.
The Moscow radio said that the
Germans had lost 1.200 killed and
wounded in a battle against Par
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ENEMY SPEARHEAD
BROKEN IN BURMA
One Of Three Jap Columns
Forced Into Scatter
ed Retreat
CHUNGKING, Oct. 18.— W—One
ol three Japanese columns, driv
ing north in western Yunnan prov
ince in an attempt to forestall a
Chinese move south into Burma
to join a possible Allied offensive
(from India, has been broken up
and forced into scattered retreat,
the Chinese high command said
today.
The Chinese communique, which
touched only briefly for the first
time in a number of days on the
operations in western Yunnan,
identified the column as one which
had pushed to the Salween river
opposite Luku and said it had suf
fered severe losses.
(On the west Burma front, a
British communique from New
Delhi reported a successful land
attack Saturday on the Japanese
held town of Maungdaw on t h e
Burmese coast about IOC miles
northwest of the important port
of Akyab. The communique also
reported a number of diversionary
raids.
“(Both the British and an Amer
ican communique told of the usual
softening up, pre-offensive aerial
blows over widespread areas of
Rnvwia ^
The high command here had
previously reported the arrival of
the Japanese column on the west
banks of the Salween behind which
the Japanese were apparently try
ing to force the Chinese forces.
This forcing move was regarded
as an attempt tc upset any Chi
nese plan of collaborating with
possible Allied attempts to recap
ture the north Burma stronghold
of the Japanese at Myitkyina.
Myitkyina is 105 miles west of
Luku which is 55 miles north of
Pao Shan on the Burma road and
70 miles north of the principle
Japanese base for their drive
northward in Yunnan at T e n g
Yueh.
The communique gave no de
tailed information as to the ac
tivities of the other two columns,
also driving northward, saying only
that “the fighting in western Yun
nan is still fierce” It added that
fighting continued with “no change
in conditions” in the Siachungkow,
Chiehtou and Kutungohieh areas.
The Chinese estimated the total
Japanese forces in the Yunnan
area at approximately 12,000 men.
In western Chekiang province on
China’s eastern front, the Chinese
said they were routing a three
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FOE IS REPELLED
Fifth And Eighth Armies
Slowly Pushing Ger
mans Back
PORTS REBUILT
Debarkation Facilities Per
mit Big Shipping
Program
ALLIED HEADQUAR
TERS. Algiers, Oct. 18.—I/P)
—Important new Allied
landings of men and material
have been made on the Ital
ian mainland in recent days,
it was disclosed tonight as
the forces of Lt. Gen. Mark
W. Clark and Gen. Sir Ber
nard L. Montgomery slowly
pushed the Germans back in
heavy fighting.
Reconstruction of port and
other facilities has reached
a point to permit much big
ger debarkations than previ
ously. Upon arrival at vari
ous southern Italian ports,
troops, tanks, guns, ammuni
tion, food and other supplies
are moving swiftly up both
the Mediterranean and Adri
atic coasts to the fighting
fronts and over tortuous
mountain roads to the cen
tral sector.
Thanks partly to this im
proved supply, it was an
nounced today that Clark’s
Fifth Ai-my veterans of Sa
lerno had driven beyond the
Volturno river and “firmly
, occupied” the towns of Can
cello, Ruviano and Nerrone,
while Montgomery’s Eiorhth
was stabbing westward
through the Apennine moun
tains toward Rome.
Fires Back of Lines
As the Fifth and Eighth Armies
pushed the Germans back in yes
terday’s fighting, some fires were
observed behind the enemy’s lines,
indicating the destruction of sup
ply dumps in anticipation of a
quick move backward.
The Nazis at the front continued
to fight as stubbornly as usual,
however, while these behind-the
i line operations were in progress.
The enemy’s next stand on the
west coast is likely to be inland
from Gaeta and along the Garigli
ano river, which is some 20 miles
i north of the Volturno and about
j 30 airline miles from Rome.
Gaeta was Mussolini’s “secret
port” for sending Italian troops
, to Spain in 1937 in violation of
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Meeting Is Scheduled
For Scrap Drive Heads
A meeting of all scrap commit
teemen has been called by W. A.
Stewart, county chairman of the
salvage drive, for Tuesday, 2:15
p. m. to be held at the Brigade
Boys’ Club, at which time James
B. Vogler, North Carolina execu
tive secretary of the War Pro
duction Board, will speak.
Mr. Stewart said that Mz\ Vog
ler will announce his topics of dis
cussion, and he urges all mem
bers of the committee to be pres
ent. Mz\ Stewart was appointed
to his present position as county
chairman of salvage drive and
county chairman of industrial sal
vage of the Seventh Congression
al District last week.
Kirke Simpson Says:
Triple Crises For Foe
Dominate The War News
Triple crises for hard - pressed
Nazi forces in Italy, Russia and
the Balkans dominate the war
news. The whole 2,000 mile south
eastern flank of the German de
fense front from the Sea of Azov
to the central Adriatic is aflame
with attack and appears to be
slowly collapsing.
That a Nazi retreat from the
Crimea and the great Dnieper bend
is in progress is admitted from
Berlin. That is what the conceal
ing phrase “detaching move
ments” used in German official
reports from the Russian front re
ally means. It admits failure to
halt Red army incursions across
the river, and below it. South of
recaptured aporozhe, Moscow
says a deadly pincer attack is
closing on all enemy troops in the
eastern end of the Dnieper loop
and south of the river, including
those in the Crimea.
A reported wide-based Russian
thrust across the upper side of the
river loop, west of Dnepropetrovsk,
4s within r-edium caliber range of
the main railroad supplying the
bend front. Fanned out southward
or westward, this thrust could cut
at the only transportation routes
available to the foe for the escape,
or supply, of forces holding the
whole lower end of the Dnieper
Crimean defense line.
Russian observers report the sit
uation potentially even more criti
cal for the Germans than was the
Stalingrad trap which cost the
Nazis more than 300.000 men in
prisoners alone. Berlin advices
stress the size of Red armies being
thrown into the action both in the
upper trans - Dnieper bridgehead
positions and to the south in the
Melitopol battle. That both oper
ations have become desperate
rearguard stands to permit escape
of the Dnieper loop defenders and
the Crimea garrison is virtually
admitted by Berlin in using the
“detaching movement” phrase.
In Italy, Anglo-American forces
appear to have made good their
footing in the Volturno plains north
of the river,' and to be driving up
the left bank of the stream farther
east toward a junction with the
columns in the center, already
north of Vinchiaturo. The objec
tive appears to be to turn the
flank of the Nazi defense line north
of the lower Volturno, strongly es
tablished in the hills that rim the
Volturno plain.
The stubbornness of the Nazi
stand above the punctured Voltur
no line is itself significant. It in
dicates that fight-to-the-last orders
for each successive defense posi
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Vessel Launching Will
Feature Shriner’s Fete
! The launching of the S. S. Kathay
by Miss Julia May Raney will be
the highlight of the Sudan Temple
Cold Sand Ceremonial to be held
here Tuesday when Masonic mem
bers of the eastern half of North
Carolina meet for their annual
fete under the leadership of their
potentate, L. A. Raney.
Formerly a two or three-day cele
bration was held each year with
parades, town decorations, and ela
borate ceremonies in the hometown
of the potentate, who is the high
est officer. This position, held this
year by Mr. Raney, brings the
celebration to Wilmington, but due
to wartime conditions the attrac
tion is condensed into a one-day
V
affair and the launching was cho
sen as an appropriate main event.
The 100 candidates for the Sudan
Temple of Mystic Shrine, highest
degree of the Masonic Order, will
register at 12 noon at the Cape
Fear Armory. The initiation cere
mony and business meeting will
follow at 1 p. m. At 3:30 p. m. the
Sudan Temple band of Raleigh will
present a 30-minute concert at the
shipyard followed by the launch
ing at 4 p. m.
Miss Jean Whitley of Windsor,
Va., and Miss Barbara Uthrell of
Goldsboro will be attendants for
Miss Raney.
Among those on the program will
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A