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DEATH sentence upheld by court Alex Harris, Hoke County, Raymond Granger, Ne p0f Will Be Executed bALEIGH, °ec- 15.—W-The , te .upreme court today upheld Lth sentences in two c a p i t a 1 ” eS and ruled in another opinion caS, a county does not have the ,it levy more than five cents T\ for its county poor fund. \'o error was found in convic ' 0f Alex Harris in Hoke county ' t January of first degree mur . fVp death of Mrs. E. A. der m -ac ... and the execution date was -ImaticaUy set for December 31. ‘Harris was charged with the ..ioie claying of Mrs. Bill, her son, Eugene Bill, and her daughter, «r, Estelle Wilson, at a filling ration near Raeford August 27 i«42 He was tried and convicted however only in the case of Mrs. Bill The defense claimed temporary ^Aho no error was found in the conviction and sentencing to death e0iumbus county last February , dayman Grainger, Negro, for the first degree murder of Harry V Phipps Testimony at the superior court trial was to the effect that Phipps had remarked that he would tell Graingers wife about the latter '■walking around with other wom en and that Grainger had later shot and killed Phipps. The execution date also was set cntnmaticallv at December 31. The simrame court upheld the act;0n of" Cumberland county su perior court in ordering R. E. Bimocks county treasurer to re fund $2,487.07 alleged overpayment of poor fund taxes to the Atlantic Coast Line railroad ACL contended that the Cum berland noor tuna tax rate of 17 certs per hundred dollars evalu jtion was 12 cents more than the state law authorized. " The lower court ruled in favor of ACL and the supreme court affirmed the decision. The high court also affirmed the action of the Richmond county su perior crurt in holding that H. B. Brown was not entitled to addi tional payment as judge of mu ricipal court since the court was abolished by legislative act in 1939. Btowr contended that he was due payment for the remainder of the term to which he was elected. Ho error was found in the con riciin in March 1943 in Guilford cou.nyof Tcm Case for manslaugh ters the death of A. C. Swain. Case lias sentenced to five to sev en years. Other opinions: Cannon et al. v. Cannon et als. Cabarrus reversed. Williams admr. v. Rand et als. Wake affirmed. Utilities Commission v. Trucking Co. Mecklenburg affirmed. Nebei v. Nebei Mecklenburg no error. State v. Rising New Hanover no error. Corbett v. Lumber Co. New Hanover affirmed. State v. Clarence Hill et al. Guildford new trial. Slafe v. Epps Robeson no er ror. State v. Numa Hill Guilford no error. State v. Cummings Robeson no error. Baird v. Baird Guilford no er ror. Green v. Chrismon et als. Guil ford affirmed. Chason v. Marley Robeson mod died and affirmed. —-V kail brotherhoods ; CALL 3-DAY STRIKE ! — ■ ] (Continued from Page One) !ieve ^at swollen railroad earn ings larcenous profiteering soar- 1 prices and depressed real: ™ges are necessities of the war effort. inhere in the nature of ngs only when Congress passes j J* , * *nd administrators in gootJ °nes wrongly and ex , -e ;‘n'm badly. All the frantic ‘jheap appeab to patriotism ^sued by the offices of war mobil “7“? 8nd war stabilization can m ooscure this issue. If there is ac : patriotism in this coun v,h public may look for it Sust mon? the war workers in in M'st'J *nd transportation but in ... and in the swivel chair feasts of the government s strike was ordered to start -j. *,m. on Thursday Dec. 30 fmiMv approximately ‘One . . r‘ °f the nation’s railroads,” o-n. t0 sPread to ether selected each #« railroads the same time Suet i 'he three succeeding days, and* Jun* now ar- being printed uniJ , ,be mailed tomorrow to n officials the brotherhoods announced. ■ « —— now To Relieve Bronchitis eafeuWon relieves promptly be SSSu?f^srlght to the seat of the *wm hu,p loosen and expel phl*Km. and aid nature fltoSr* »d heal raw, tender, in brands T^nchlal mucous mem » bott.i»;? i^our druggist to sell you d<Spf Creomulsion wjth the un quieWv you must like the way it whoirn?,1 ftys the cough or you are "Me jour money back. &MOMULSION Chest Colds, Bronchitis Mi eh tv hrnarlcMo <U- S' NavrJ Phot° From NEA> rohirth r,f rdS de from tlle guns of the reconditioned French battleship Richelieu symbolizes the t Xiance as an active fighter against Germany. The big warship is in North Africa after j ’ -^refitting in U. S.^,—--— WILMINGTON HIT BY 5 INCH SNOW (Continued from Page One) not to venture on the highways. If cause should arise to necessi tate highway travel drivers are warned to proceed slowly. All public schools of Wilmington and New Hanover county will be closed Thursday, but will be open ed Friday unless further notice is given Thursday afternoon, ac cording to announcement by Dr. John Hoggard, chairman of the counuty board of ec.ucation. St. Mary's Catholic school will also be closed Thursday, it was an nounced V/ednesday night. The Atlantic Coastline Railroad company reported that train No. 42. which was due to leave here at 7:15 p. m. Wednesday night was almost two hours late in depart ing. It is expected that the prev alence of influenza wouia handi cap the company's efforts to keep trains on schedule quite as much as the inclement weather. The Atlantic Coastline agents at Rocky Mount and Florence re ported heavy snow, but were wor ried more about the flu than the element. It was stressed that every man absent because of exposure to the storm \tfould be the man liable to become ill and remain off the job. Dr. A. H. Elliot, city-county health officer, declared that the severe weather would promote the spread of influenza here. “I would like to emphasize the importance of trying to avoid ex posure. Avoid wet feet and wet clothes,” Dr. Elliot commented. SNOWFALL GENERAL RALEIGH, Dec. 15—lift—North Carolina shivered today as tem peratures tumbled after snow had blanketed most of the state. It was the first snowfall of the year for most of the state. In Charlotte, tire flakes started short ly before last midnight and con tinued until nearly an inch lightly clothed the area. In the vicinity of Raleigh the depth was two inches. The Durham area was barely covered while Greensboro had none, although the weather there was the coldest of the winter. The snow was continu ing around Kinston at nightfall, and predictions were thata a four inch layer would cover the area. The precipitation was followed by sharp drops in temperature at most places. I Predictions at Greensboro were Twin Bracers Enrolled in the same officer candidate class at the Anti-Air craft Artillery School, Camp Da vis, N. C., twins Mitchell, left, and Lynn Farrar, of Berkeley, Calif., practice the famous OCS “brace” to improve their military bearing. for a minimum of 12 degrees. At Raleigh, where a 6 p. m. reading was 22, the mercury was expect ed to recede to 14 or lower during the night. The lorecast was for fair and continued cold tomorrow, with rising temperature expected Friday and Saturday. , The Asheville weather bureau said no snow was reported in the mountain area but that ice was glazing the peaks where clouds touched the mountains. A 5 p. m. reading showed the temperature was 22 degrees and dropping. The low for this winter was recorded there at 9:30 a. m.; when the ther mometer stood at 20.5. A minimum somewhere between 5 and 12 deg rees wras expected. It was cloudy all day in the Asheville area. Steadily falling temperature was reported at Durham, with the mer cury standing at 22 degrees at 5 p. m. Old-timers at Kinston said the snow there was the -leaviest since 1927. Bus tansportation in the area had been cancelled tonight, and a waste paper drive and Santa Claus parade were called off as the temperature tobogganed to about 20 degrees. A two-hour sleet fall preceded the snow, which be gan during the night, and resid ents predicted that the snow would “stick” for days. * Tne weather bureau at Charlotte predicted that the temperature in that area would drop to 15 degrees or lower. The 6 p. m. reading was 26 degrees, and the weather sta tion said the mercury was falling at the rate of one degree an hour. No deaths or porperty damage had been reported tonight. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Most of the nation felt the im pact of wintry weather yesterday (Wednesday) but relief was on the way. Temperatures dipped under the freezing level in the majority of the states and plunged below the zero notch in 13 of them a week in advance of the official advent of winter. Subzero readings were common in an icy belt extending from Ne braska to western New York. The chilling wave extended into New England and the east, encroached upon the south and southwest but spared the deep south and the Pa cific region. As the mass of Arctic air mov ed south and east, mercury col umns edged upward after three days in the depths in the north west. Bemidji, Minn., had a low of 17 below zero, five degrees higher than the minimum of the previous day. Duluth s -13 repre sented a rise of five points. Rising temperatures were fore cast for Chicago and states to the north and west today and the com parative warmth was expected to extend eastward later freezing in. Des Moines while the entire state of Iowa was envelop ed bv zero weather. Bed Oak had a reading of -15 and Oskaloosa and Perry reported .11. Chicago’s one below was the cold est of the season. Falls City, Neb., recorded -12, and Peoria, 111., -7> while readings in Indiana ranged down to -6. . Philadelphia’s 13 above was the coldest for the fall, but temper atures dropped to four below m parts of Pennsylvania s anthra cite district. . The official minimum m bt. T.nuis was one above. With thermometers down to three above most of the schools in Wi chita, Kans., were closed becaus nf a shortage of heating gas. ine Cesna plane Plant also suspended h^afcTs servicUeeto several New ton,'Kans., industrial plants was CUSnow fell in North Carolina and upper South^CarMtna. GILMORE CITJd’ ^gtou^O-year (;p—Mrs. A!a“a®S?l gave her old high sc io ben she burned to lif yesterd^ - a gchoolhouse be death in a to be certain causl! 915 pupils had escaped all of the two-story build from the burning ing. i f® Obituaries MISS MARI' WILLIAMSON TABOR CITY, Dec. 15—Mrs. Emma Williamson, 62, died Tues day afternoon at 3 o'clock after an illness of four days in Rogers hos pital in Loris, S. C. She was a resi dent of the Oakdale community of Horry county. Funeral arrange ments are not complete, pending arrival of a son from California. Surviving are two- daughters, Mrs. Eva Mae Sarvis and Mrs. Maggie Williamson, Route 1, Ta bor City; five sons. W. K. William son and J. C. Williamson, Hope well, Va.; J. H. Williamson of Tabor City. D. II. Williamson, Nor folk, Va., and Thomas H. William son, U. S. Army, stationed in California; three sisters, Mrs. Maggie Nobles, Hopewell, Va., Mrs. Annie Bozeman, Mrs. Narcye Soles, Tabor City; and one brother, Willie Cartrette of Tabor City. -V U. S. FLIERS BOMB BASES IN GREECE (Continued from Page One) islands by sea. The several hun dred islands in the Aegean, with innumerable bays and landing fields, constitute the Germans’ principal barrier to any offensive the Allies might open from the Middle East into the Balkans. Clouds prevented full observa tion of the attack on Piraeus, but an official release said “many amall vessels were believed to have been hit.” One hangar at Tatoi airdrome was left in a cloud of smoke and fire and two oth ers were covered by a sheet of flame. Bursts also were observed on Tatoi railroad station and rail way tracks bordering the air drome. The co-ordinated attacks by waves of bombers constituted the same type of knockout tactics used by the German air force during the invasion of Greece in 1941, when British planes stationed at the same airdromes around Ath ens virtually were wiped out. Until yesterday, the largest blow struck by the Allies at the Balkans was that of las! Aug. 1, when 177 Liberators flew at tree-top level to blast and burn the Ploesti oil fields. Tin’s was the first time four targets in Greece had been hit p'multaneously. Piraeus harbor virtually was de stroyed on the first day of the German invasion of Greece, when a Nazi bomber hit a British ship loaded with TNT in the harbor ard the explosion sank 22 ships and completely w-recked the har bor installations. Yesterday’s at tack indicated that the Nazis af ter two and a half years finally had been able to repair the port. Pilots President As a flyer, Major Otis Bryan, above, just has to be good—for the big Douglas CN 54" transport he pilots often carries a precious cargo. He's President Roosevelt’s personal pilot, and flew the Com mander-in-Chief 0n his recent] Africa-Near East trips. City Briefs hold razor, book An electric razor and book were taken from the automo bile towed in, and later releas ed, by -police from Second and Dock streets, December 10. The owner of the vehicle may claim the articles by calling at police headquarters and identifying them. THALIAN PLAY The Thalian play, “Accent on Youth,” which was cancelled Wednesday night due to pre vailing weather conditions, will play its last performance Thursday night at 8:30 o’clock in Thalian hall. CONTEST POSTPONED Due to the weather, the Re citation - Declamation contest scheduled for Wednesday eve ning has been postponed until after the Christmas holidays, according to Mrs. Ruth War ren, chairman of the project. SUPPER PLANNED The Men’s Club of St. John’s Parish will have their annual Christmas supper meeting, as planned tonight (Thursday) at 6:15 p. m. in the Parish House. PAGEANT POSTPONED The Forest Hills School page ant planned fc*- Thursday eve ning has been postponed until Friday at 10 a. m. if school opens then. Marriage Licenses Marriage Licenses were is sued in New Hanover county Wednesday by Adrain B. Rhodes, registrar of deeds, to Hermon Bollenzer. Acme, and Bess L. Mallard, Wilmington; John L. Berg, Hoimen, Wis., and Bernie Alberta Boutch, In dependence, Wis.; Myron D. Yantis, Camp Davis, and Nor ma Hott, Champaign, 111. _A7 NAZIS ANNOUNCE 2 NEW RED DRIVES (Continued from Page One) sians attacked with perhaps 60,000 men and three tank brigades in the area south of Nevel where the Red army was but 70 miles from the Latvan border, a Nazi broad cast said. The Germans admitted 16 waves of attack in one sector and conceded some breaches made in their lines. These, they said, were “sealed off.” The second attack was in south ern White Russia, where the Red Army forces which captured Go mel were reported to have begun a thrust with 100,000 infantrymen and two tank brigades toward the rail junction of Zhlobin, ten miles west of advanced Russian positions. The Germans claimed a “fall de fense success” on the first day of this drive. On these German reports the Russians maintained silence — their customary procedure at the beginning of any drive. But Mos cow radio, in a broadcast to the Red Army, made an ominous prom ise. This winter will see a Soviet offensive on a larger scale than ever before,” it said. “Winter is a most convenient time for Red Army operation as the past two war winters have shown. It is the best time for outflanking move ment, surprise raids, encirclement and annihilation of the enemy.” Berlin radio and Stofckholm dis patches said the Germans viewed the Russian offensive south of Ne vel as a preliminary to a trem endous winter offensive on the nor thern front below Leningrad in an effort to drive a wedge through to the Baltic. “Activity is increasing hourly” in this area, Berlin said, and it quoted some military circles as seeing an effort to lay the ground work for other offensive thrusts by American and British troops into northern Europe. The Germans were said to be mobilizing in Estonia and Latvia to meet the expected drive and it was admitted that a successful Soviet push would influence their posi tion in Finland, for it would give the Soviets a stronger position on the Baltic sea. Even supply lines to Norway might be endangered. In fact, there were indications that the Germans, preparing to meet Allied pushes from the west and south, hoped for nothing more than holding actions in Russia dur ing the next few months. Stockholm reports said the Ger mans hope to hold the Dnieper river line and prevent a Soviet breakthrough into Rumania, keep ing forces in the Crimea as long as possible to flank any Russian am phibious attack through the Black Sea against Rumania and Bul garia. Moscow radio noted an increase in Soviet aerial activity at Lenin grad, where Red bombers soared out to wreck German ammunition dumps, artillery batteries and for tifications. The renewed Soviet push toward Zhlobin, on the railroad from Go mel to Minsk, came from the south west. Berlin said 40 Russian tanks were destroyed but admitted “tem porary Russian penetrations” which it declared were beaten back in a counter-attack._ DISCOVERY COLDS’ RELIEF (home medicated mutton auet)— which grandma used for coughing—nasal con gestion, muscle aches of colds teaches modern mothers to follow her example. So their families get relief fro® these colds’ miseries with Penetro, the salve with modern medication in a base con taining old fashioned mutton suet. Joe, double supply 35c. Demand Penetro* TAFT ATTEMPTS SUBSIDY PEACE (Continued from Page One) plan are those to curtail pork prices, at an estimated cost *bf $200,000,000 yearly the $100,000,000 wheat flour payments to control bread prices; and those on soy beans, prunes and raisins, canned fruits and vegetables, cheese, dried beans, potatoes, peanuts, su gar beets, truck crops, shortening and feed wheat. » The Taft bill provides that max imum prices established for farm products shall not be below the government support price. If the market price fell below the sup port price, the government, through the Commodity Credit Corporation, would be authorized to buy for resale to processors. In its executive session toda> the banking committee considered the Taft amendment but took nc vote on it. It is to be considered ir the reconvened session tomorrow along with a bill by Senator Bank head (D-Ala) to eliminate subsi dies and require upward price ad justments. The Bankhead measure is simi 8TH. ARMY SECURES NEW BRIDGEHEAD (Continued from Page One) Army sector still was confined to patrol clashes. It was a Nazi prisoner seized in one of these •'feeler" stabs -by Lt. Gen. Mark V/. Clark’s troops who winced at the mention of Texas. During questioning, he declared that Germans fighting in the St. lar to the House subsidy repealer except that it would permit liqui dation of existing subsidies up to June 30, 1944, whereas the bill would cut off the payments Janu ary 1. {■■HisniBiini Maggiore sector near Mignano were faced by ’tough wild men from Texas wi’h a knowlede of field craft, ’ and said his feelings were shared by his comrades. Among Clark’s divisions is the 36th, composed largely of Texans, which was the first American di visions to hit the beaches at sa lerno. _ Kill the Itch (Scabies) With Siticide This liquid preparation kills to »> minutes those Itch mites with wh^h It comes In contact. Buy SITIClus from your druggist, or send «>c to Siticide Co.. Commerce. 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