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Carolina Clinches Top Spot In Southern Loop *_ RICHMOND, Va„ Feb. 13—(j)— The University of North Carolina basketball team has clinched the top spot in the Southern Confer ence standings for the 1944 sea son and has earned the first seed ed position in the loop’s annual championship tournament. Whipping Duke’s Blue Devils, the pre-season favorites, two games in three, and blasting aside all other family opposition, North Carolina has wound up its regu lar scheduled with a loop rec ord of nine triumphs against the single loss to Duke. No other conference quint will be able to match the Carolina White Phantoms’ percentage no matter what the outcome of the remaining games. These, however, will play an important part in determining which clubs will be invited to the tournament to be played at Raleigh, next week. Duke, which like North Carolina has concluded its schedule, also has annexed a berth in the tour ney, but the remaining six posi tions appear to be still open. Virginia Tech is the runnerup outfit to North Carolina in the standings with a three-one rec ord. Maryland. South Carolina and William and Mary have broken even in two games each. Others of the twelve schools in the cir cuit playing intercollegiate bas ketball this season are now stand ing below the .500 mark. Clemson plays at Davidson on Wednesday in the first conference game of this week. Richmond will go to William and Mary and North Carolina State to Davidson on Fri day. Saturday’s games are Vir ginia Tech at W. & M., Maryland at V. M. I., Clemson at south Carolina, and N. C. State at Da vidson. THE STANDINGS W L PF PA North Carolina ... 9 1 437 328 Virginia Tech _ 3 1 160 101 Duke . 4 2 263 224 Maryland . 1 1 77 101 South Carolina _ 1 1 106 83 William and Mary .. 11 80 101 Richmond . 1 2 165 141 Davidson . 1 3 157 171 North Carolina State 1 4 161 240 Citadel .. 0 1 43 47 Clemson .. 0 1 37 66 VMI . 0 4 95 178 XT GIL DODDS GIVEN HALLAHAN AWARD By BILL KING BOSTON, Feb. 13—UP)—As a re ward for running the fastest in door mile in Boston’s track his tory—a 4:09.5 performance in the Boston A. A.’s famed Hunter event —divinity student Gil Dodds to day was awarded the John J. Hallahan Memorial Trophy with an almost perfect total of 38 votes. Dodds, recipient of the Sulla van Award as the nation's out standing amateur athlete in 1943, was the first selection of all but one of the eight-man Hallahan board, which annually designates the B.A.A. meet’s outstanding com petitor on the basis of perform ance. competitive spirit and sports manship. Runner-up to Dodds, who totaled 38 out of a possible 40 points in the balloting, was Johnny Fulton, the Stanford junior, with 23, That 4-F athlete won the Lapham “1000” in easy fashion from the power ful Joe Nowicki, the University of Rochester Marine trainee, with a 2:12.8 effort. The others who figured in the Hallahan deliberations were high jumper Bill Vessie of Dartmouth, with 5 votes, Ensign Cllie Hunter of Columbia, the Billings two-mile winner, with 4 and Claude Young of Illinois, and Court Ellis of Bos ton English High with one each. Although Dodds’ latest triumph over his arch-rival. Bill Hulse, holder of the American 4:06 rec ord, appeared easily gained, it probably was the most satisfac tory one of his career. In four previous B.A.A. meets, Dodds disappointed his hometown admir ers with his erratic performances. Until last night he never had won a major race in Boston but once he left the mark with Hulse and two other rivals, Dodds’ home town jinx took flight. Dodds took the lead after the first lap and maintained such a terrific pace that Hulse was unable to make any challenge. When he finished, 20 yards ahead of Hulse, the only other to go the full distance, Dodds had wiped out Walter Mehl’s Bos ton record, set in 1940, by a fifth of a second. He also erased the previous Hunter mile mark of 4:10 set by Glenn Cunningham in 1938. -V Joost And Orengo Won t Play Ball This Season SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 13.— —Eddie Joost, shortstop for the Boston Braves, and Joe Orengo, Detroit Tiger infielder, will not play big league baseball in 1944, the Chronicle said today. Both are working in a defense plant and have been classified 2-A by their draft boards. Both have children. Joost was sold by Cincinnati to Boston last season and Orengo went irom the New York Giants to Detroit in the same year. -V “LEAPING’ TORPEDO During World War I, a torpedo fired at a German U-boat jumped out of the water just as it was about to strike, slid across the deck of the submarine, and drop ped harmlessly on the other side. ] ft-—-— ! SPORTS TRAIL I By WHITNEY MARTIN NEW YORK, Feb. 13. — UP) — Branch Rickey, the city boy who made good on the farms, has a few thousand words to say in de fense of the chain store system of baseball. And those words are just his pair of jacks, or openers. The Brooklyn Dodger president turned on a flow of choice oratory at his press conference the other day, lulling his listeners into a hypnotic state from which they emerged with one vivid impression to wit: Until a better plan is ready to be substituted, Mr. Rickey will fight 'for the farm system until the bitter end. “If 16 major league clubs were doing you’d really see baseball our national game, and there would be 100 leagues operating,” he said. The farm system, he declared, was responsible for building the number of minor leagues from a low of 11 in the 1930’s to their re spectable figure at the time of Pearl Harbor. In the lush '20s the total reached 51, but counter en tertainment and the depression, making it impossible for club own ers to operate successfully, cut the figure,until minor league baseball seemed on its death bed. Mr. Rickey then illustrated, with gestures, how major clubs had come to the rescue. He used an elagorate allegory, comparing the minors to a very sick man who had been given up as lost. A new doctor in the person of major league aid fed the patient pills under the theory that it couldn't! do any harm and might do some good, and the patient not only re covered but begat 43 children. The farm system was originated through necessity and with a self ish motive, he said, but it reach ed a point where the minors were appealing to the majors for help. Tracing the origin of the plan. Mr. Rickey said that when he came to St. Louis Cardinals the club had about 21 men on the -e serve list, was in last place, play ed in a ramshackle old park and had a debt of $175,000. “I can see yet John McGraw sitting in the grandstand with me and making out my batting order, showing me where four players he would give me for one player would fit into the lineup,” he said. Mr. Rickey finally got tired of this door-mat role, and began ask ing his friends in college athletic circles to keep an eye out for promising players. As a result he gradually got so many players he didn’t have a place for them all, so he conceived the idea of ac quiring clubs to take care of the surplus. He is convinced reorganization of minor leagues isn’t possible if the money is to come from lo cal people. Major clubs are will ing to, and can afford to, take their losses in exchange for the chance to develop young players. If somebody comes up with a better plan to help the minors op erate, Mr. Rickey is willing to lis ten. Meanwhile, he thinks it would be silly to kill the goose that is laying the golden minor league eggs.' Iowa Cagers Toppled From Unbeaten Ranks Bv JACK HAND NEW YORK, Feb. 13—I®—Iowa ran up against the No. 13 jinx and was dropped from the ranks of the nation's unbeaten basket ball teams by Ohio State in the main event of a weekend that found Miami (O) bowing for the first time to Canisius and the Army Cadets swinging merrily along to their tenth straight tri umph. Four of the seven major con ferences have crowned their champions but it’s still a wide open battle in the Big 10, with three weeks to go. Idle Purdue grabbed the lea ' while the others wrestled but Northwestern, Ohio, Iowa and Wisconsin all are with in a half game of the top although the Hawkeyes lost two to Ohio. Iowa State remains undefeated in the Big Six and probably will continue that way unless Oklaho ma is able to reverse an earlier score and force a playoff for the crown in their meeting Feb. 28. Rice and Arkansas are tied for the Southwest Conference title with two weeks to go and appear destined to finish that way as they d~ not meet again. North Carolina ended its season well in front in the Southern Con ference, Washington with 10 straight in the league and Cali fornia have clinched the respec tive division crown on the Pacific Coast, and Dartmouth reigns su preme in the,Eastern. Final East ern loop games played yesterday left Penn in second place. Cap tain Aud Brudnely of the Indians unofficially won the scoring champ ionship despite a strong finish by Princeton’s Mike Shinkarik. Among Southeastern Conference teams Kentucky has won 13 and lost one; Georgia Tech 11 and two and Tulane 12 and three. No official standings are being tabu lated. Great Lakes and the Olathe Clippers boast 19-game win streaks and the Norfolk Naval Training Station has added the scalp of North Carolina to its long list. Camp Grant tl.umped Northwest ern as Otto Graham bowed out*of collegiate circles and moved on to Colgate for preflight training. Iowa Pre-Flight was upset in the week’s big surprise by Doane, 51 38. St. Mary’s Pre-Flight won an other one. Oklahoma’s Aggies bumped into trouble with the Navy air boys again. Hank Iha’s boys have bow ed three times, twice to the Nor man Zoomers and yesterday to the Hutchinson Naval Air Station, 27-26. Revenge was the theme song for Gonzaga as that -trong West Coast five whose win -treak was snap ped in mid-season by Whitman, turned around and twice beat their tormentors. Among the Eastern leaders, in addition to Army, and Dartmouth are Navy which has lost only one in nine, Muhlenberg with a 16 and 8 mark, St. John’s of Brooklyn with 12 and 2 and Canisius with 13 and 3. It was the Griffins who belted Miami off the top shelf last night, 44-41. In the Rocky Mountain area Colorado College made it four in a row over Denver and Colorado Mines turned the same trick at the expense of Greeley State. Klepper Answers Salary Demands By Ball Player SEATTLE, Feb. 13.—(/V)—Spen cer Harris, outfielder with the Portland Coast League baseball club, wanted a raise in pay. To his unsigned contract, he pin ned a clipping from a Seattle sports editor’s column which read, “This is a ball player’s year and it won’t be easy to sign the 1944 thletes.” Contract and clipping were mail ed back to Portland general man ager Bill Klepper. Klepper returned the contract for Harris’ signature, with the fol lowing paragraph clipped from mi nor league baseball rules: “ . . . Any player not reporting by the first day of the season is subject to suspension and a fine of $100.” -V Marianna High Courteers Win Tilt By 144-16 Count MARIANNA, Ark., Feb. 12.— UP) —Marianna High School’s basket ball team was in a scoring mood last night when it licked its an cient rival, Helena, Ark. The score 144 to 16. Grid star Bill McElduff scored 64 point, George Mahan 51. 1 « Fort Jackson Hoopsters Down Fort Bragg, 45-27 FT. JACKSON, S. C., Feb. 13.— The Fort Jackson Red Raiders captured their 35th basketball vic tory in 39 starts here today by de feating the Fort Bragg, N. C. Re ception Center team 45 to 27, to avenge a decision dropped to the North Carolinians two weeks ago at Raleigh, that cost them a ser vice tournament championship. Horace fBones) McKinney, lan ky Fort Bragg forward who top ped his team’s individual scoring with 10 points, and Hugh Hamp ton, hefty Bragg center, were off form in their shooting as their team scored but three points in the first 10 minutes of play. Cedric Loftis, former Duke star guard, pulled his team together and cooped up the Raiders to only two points for the remainder oi the half while Bragg hit the hoop to trail by a close 20-22 intermis sion score. The Fort Bragg quintet went to pieces as Loftis left the game on fouls midway of the final period, and only poor Raider marksman ship kept the winners’ score down. The North Carolinians garnered but seven points during the second stanza. -V $25,000 WAR BOND GREENSBORO, Feb. 13_0P1— An unidentified corporal in one, of the training'* wings of the AAF training command’s Basic Train ing Center No. 10 bought a $25, 000 War Bond to push his wing well into the lead among units at the post. His wing bought $54, 722.15 in the past week. MAN OF HOUR j That’s what Virgil Green, ot Lansing, Mich., became when he pitched first no-hit, no-run game in Australia. Virgil is a member of ASAAF Headquarters in Far East. BOMBERS HAMMER ■ SMOKING RABAUL (Continued from Page One) tween Buka island and the north top of Bougainville island. Great stores of equipment left by retreating Japs near Borgen Bay, east of invaded Cape Glou cester on the northern coast of New Britain were destroyed by advancing Marines. The bombing of Rabaul, follow ing a 174-ton pasting the day be fore, was carried out by Solomons air force bombers of all categories with a strong fighter escort. Vu-. napore, Tobera and Vunakanau airdromes were punished in a con centrated noontime assault which left numerous fires at the New Britain stronghold. Six barges in the harbor were sunk. We knocked down three enemy planes and probably five others. Two of the raiding aircraft were downed and others were damaged. -V LAWMAKER OFFERS TAX SUGGESTION (Continued from Page One) the system of dual exemptions , under the victory tax “which coupled with certain family, medi cal and insurance exemption, has , created a Pandora’s box of com- ! plications.” , If the proposal is adopted to ■ have the exact amount of an in dividual salaried person’s tax with held each pay day, it will not be necessary at the end of the year . for the taxpayer to make a re turn, Disney said. , “But that would run into vigor- j ous opposition,” he added -V- , COMPROMISE VOTE BILL UP AGAIN , (Continued from Page One) of the issue to consider—all the : way from Federal ballots to out- : right State absentee ballots.” Senator Connally (D-Tex) one of the Senate conferees and a < “States Rights” supporter, spoke ' of “state and national ballots” in connection with the compromise seeking conference. The Senate conferees will meet : Tuesday to arrange a joiig meet ing with the House committeemen. ■ They will go into the conference ; confronted with: 1 1. The Senate-pr-serf Green-Lu- 1 cas bill under which Federal bal- : lots for president, vice president and members of congress, would ! be used generally among the men ' overseas. They could request state ' absentee ballots but if they fail 1 to receive them would be given : the Federal ballot. ■ 2. The House-passed “States 1 Rights" bill which recommends 1 that the States pass legislation to 1 send their own absentee ballots ' to men and women in uniform. That bill does not include a Fed eral ballot. -V- i' MENU IN SENATE WILL BE VARIED (Continued from Page One) burned. Total bill, $7,674.98, the Wades figured. Another burning issue on the Senate calendar of pending bills is legislation which would author ize the President to proclaim last Oct. 11 as General Pulaski’s me morial day. Still other pending bills would: Authorize each regiment of the U. S. Army to carry Civil War battle streamers — including Con federate ones—with its regimental colors; Establish a sanitary code for District of Columbia restaurants including a requirement that dishl washers be so disposed of as not 1o create a nuisance; and Eliminate pay discrimination against the teacher of music at the United States Military Academy VIEWS OF G. 0. P. CANDIDATES VARY (Continued from Page One) nation’s military high command if they are elected. On the labor front, Bricker has called for enactment of a law pro hibiting wartime strikes with the declaration: “The time has come to support the millions of workers who want to work and quit coddling selfish 1 >,or leaders for the sake of the votes which they said they can deliver in an election.’’ Willkie put his views this way: “There should be no irrepres sible conflict between business and labor. Both are essential parts of American life and economy. No man should be elected president who hates either.” There heems, also, to be Some difference of opinion on the ques tion of government participation in the economic life of the country after the war ends, although the three potential candidates gave expression to their views in dis cussing different subjects. Discussing government financ ing, Bricker said: “If we pursue aeficit financing in the post war period we shall inevitably reach the point where, barring wholesale inflation, pri vate enterprise will be unable to keep labor fully employed, mak ing it necessary for the govern ment to borrow, more and more in the attempt to relieve unem ployment.” Talking of the Republican ad ministration of New York’s gov ernment, • Dewey said: “The spirit of the remedies ap plied by the Republican adminis tration of New York State was to bring the people back to the practice of self government, of relying upon ourselves.” __ STRIKES AND LAXNESS AT HOME ASSAILED (Continued from Page One) are doing. If they don't get a few dollars more per day. then the soldiers do not get the equip ment to end this conflict soon, and save the lives of thousands of American boys. “What would happen if the sol dier adopted the attitude of some civilians—'Hurrah for me, and to hell with the rest!’ If our com mander-in-chief ordered us to make an attack tomorrow, and we refused, that would be classed as a rebellion, and we would be 3qurt-martialled and shot. Yet ;he same command^r-in-chief has ordered no more striking, and he s refused. That should be classed ,he same, and carry the same penalty. “Perhaps you think I am too ’arsh in my opinion, but you must lonsider, this is war, and every irder is given for the betterm.ent >f the military situation, either on ;he home front or the fighting ront. Since both are of the same importance, one should have the :ame priorities as the other. “If it were possible for the sol tiers to strike for more money, vhich I doubt they would do, and ,ve did, when the slackers at home aw the shadow of Nazi Germany •oming over our homes, they vould do as we are doing—Work ng twenty-four hours a day, if .ailed upon, for a bare living. Vnd. if in that time you mentioned strike’ to them, they would tar md feather you. “But we won’t do that, for we ee what has to be done. We are lot in the Pacific for our health. (Ve have a job to do, and get the lell back home. If people like rohn L. Lewis keep on holding us lere, it’s going to be hell to pay vhen those of us who do come >ack get home. we un me uaiue-juuiu are not ,oing to fail the home front, and or God’s sake, why is the home ront failing us now, This is no :icnic over here, and there are housands in the service who would 'ladly trade places with the strik ?rs for the same pay we are get ing now. "In peace time it is part oi our Democracy to be able to have the ■ight to strike for a fair wage. 3ut in time of war that right .hould be forfeited by the civilian is well as the soldier. Now, if a nan won’t work, put him in the irmy. That may sound like Hit er, but it is necessary now.1 If .-ou put him ovfer here, and a few ombs and bullets come his way, ie’11 work to dig a hole, and he von’t strike because he is getting mly $1.66 2-3 a day. He won’t :trike, because be knows if he :tops, he will soon be pushing up daisies. Plenty of times fellows sver here work twenty hours per lay. Why? To be able to go >ack.’’ -V AIR ALERT IN LONDON LONDON, Feb. 13—W—London ixperienced its third successive air alert tonight and British anti-air craft guns about the capital fired heavily as German planes dropped incendiaries. The all clear sound ;d about 10 p.m. Today and Tomorrow —-By WALTER LIPPMANN In his speech at iwm rans on Tuesday evening Mr. Willkie made a beginning at showing how the national elections could evoke the better rather than the worse as pects of our public life. Mr. Willkie did this by remembering that the Republicans, who are asking the people to place them in power, must persuade millions of voters that the Republican party is fit to govern. Very many of the profes sional politicians seem not to real ize this—that with their men at the front and with their jobs and their livelihood enmeshed with the war, there are now countless American families who will take a very sober and a very searching interest in how this war is con ducted and is concluded. In the coming months the fury of the battles will mount, and the immensity of the issues involved will become increasingly evident. These people will them have less and less appetite for harum-scar um party politics, and for the silly assumption that because a man says he is against the New Deal, and is down on Roosevelt, and is for free enterrise, he is therefore and for that reason alone entitled and qualified to govern the coun try. Too many American citizens have now seen how difficult, how complicated and how momentous a thing this whole war is. They will have to be persuaded that the risks of changing horses are less than the advantages. And one of the first ways of persuading them is to do what Mr. Willkie did at Twin Falls—to treat them as ra tional men who have to be per suaded by a frank discussion of the very serious problems of changing the administration in the midst~of war, and not as a rabble tu mauijjaiai-cu uy iiiciva swept along by rabble-rousing. Mr. Willkie’s speech is a power ful answer given in measured words and in fine temper to the question of whether the country can afford a change of adminis tration. But the answer could not be conclusive for the simple rea son that Mr. Willkie is unable to say whether the control of his par ty will be in the hands of the post-New Deal Republicans, who mean to shape the future, or of the pre-New Deal old guard Re publicans who are out front in this Congress. Yet this is the crucial question as to whether the Republican par ty can be trusted with power. Mr. Willkie cannot answer the ques tion today because the answer de pends upon the outcome of the campaign which he is now making among the rank and file of his party Mr. Willkie’s campaign cannot be fully successful, it seems, ta me, if it becomes a personal con test between himself and the rest of the field. He might win. hut his victory, as in 1940. would leave the independent voters uncon vinced if they saw that he had beaten but had not won over the main Republican organization. The next President needs a disciplined majority in Congress behind him, especally if he is a new Presi dent. For he will have to learn all sorts of things quickly and close rapidly the inevitable hiatus of ad ministration. and if he also has to have a running fight with Con gress, his personal position ■will bp painfully difficult. One of the strongest reasons for not re-electing President Roosevelt is that he has lost so much of his leadership of Congress. That vea son would be more than canceled out if the Republican candidate had no leadership of Congress even before he was inaugurated. Now there is a reason why the post-New Deal Republicans, the governors and some of the newer members of Congress, are not cer tain of establishing their control of the party and of imposing a discipline which is indspensable if they are to take power. That r.'ea son is thp rnnflirt hpfurppn Mr Willkie and Governor Dewey. ’This conflict divides the post-New Deal Republicans into rather evenly matched factions, and gives to the old guard Republicans the balancp of power The old guard are trad ing upon this situation. In so far as they can keep Willkie and Dew ey in conflict, they can still hope either to make the nominee of the convention beholden to them, be he Dewey, MacArthur, Bricker, a dark horse, or if Willkie over whelms them, they can still hold cn as in 1940, to ihe party ma chinery. The resolution of the Willkie Dewey conflict is, therefore, cen tral to the whole problem of how the Republican party is to make itself fit to govern. Both Mr. Willkie and Governor Dewey will be severely tested by their behavior toward one another during the next four months. They can be bitter and irreconsilable rivals; if they are, the winner of the nomination will find it hard to be elected, and dangerously diffi cult to be a good President if he is elected. Or they can be friendly rivals, each taking the position that if he cannot be the first, then he will be the second and the : supporter oi tne inner, mis woum unite all the elements of the party which, if combined, make it capa ble of government—which if divid ed, means that the pre-New Deal old guard Republicans will remain dominant. To treat the problem this way calls for more than ordinary dis interestedness and magnanimity of mind. But the next President will need those qualities, and the first candidate who displays them will at once rise high in public esteem. Nor would it be bad politics for a candidate to display in the Re publican convention the same at tributes of greatness which Hamil ton displayed in the disputed elec tion of 1800 For he would put himself on a level where his rival must either ascend to it also, or sink way below it. All this rests on the assumption, which is, I believe, sound, that there would be plenty of room in a new administration for both Will kie and Dgwey, and that it must seem more important to them personally than in reality it mat ters to the nation which is the first man and which the second. If Willkie were the President, he would need more than anything else the thing which Dewey is in high degree, a systematic, thor ough, cool, and young administra tor who by his orderly grasp of concrete matters, and his excel lent judgment of men, is on top of his specific job. and not all hot and bothered under it. The im mense problems of the demobiliza tion, in the fullest sense of the word, will call for these qualities. If Dewey .were President, he would need to be more than an ad rmnistratnr TTp wnnlri nppH what Willkie has so abundantly and so bravely—the capacity to * touch men’s hearts and share their hopes. Perhaps he hus this capac ity. For he is a young man who has ceratinly grown and is surely growing, not only in mind but in character, and so one will hold it against him that it took him a long time to understand the war. —--V Obituaries ! LORD ORMATHWAITE LONDON. Feb. lb—(J’l—Captain Reginald Walsh, Lord Oi'math waite, 75, died today. He became a baron four months ago upon the death of his brother George. He was British consul in New York from 1908 to 1911. MRS. J. P. WELLS Mrs. J. P. Wells of Watha, 65, died Friday at 11:45 a. m. in her home after a short illness. She is survived by her husband; five sons, C. W., A. G., W. W,. G, G. of Watha, and Willie of the U. S. Army in Texas; six daugh ters, Mrs. Mary Rivenbark and Miss Lucy Wells, Watha; Mrs. L. T. Lanier, Burgaw, Mrs. Ruby Fu quay, Wilmington. Mrs. W. G Ludwig. Carolina Beach, Miss Es telle Wells. Portsmouth, Va.; one brother, G. T. Wells, Hopewell, Va.: three sisters, Mrs. A. P. Blanton, Castle Hayne, Mrs. C. M. Wilson, Rocky Point, and Miss Dosha Wells, Watha. A. B. BROWN Avery Burr Brown died Satur day at 11:10 p. m. in the Veterans’ Hospital at Fayetteville. Funeral services will be held at the Baptist Church at 4 p. m. today, and the burial will follow in the Burgaw cemetery. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Janie Scott Br^/n, two daughters. Jean and Sue Brown, two broth ers. H_ F. of Burgaw and Elmer N. of Reading, Pa., and one sis ter, Mrs. Roy C. Dixon of Laurin burg. EUGENE HALL Eugene Whitfield Hall, three and one half years, died in the James Walker Memorial Hospital Sunday at 12:3(7 p. m. as a result of burns. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hall, two sisters, Mary Slocum and ’ Sara Elizabeth and a brother, Homer all of Watha. Funeral services will be con ducted by the Rev. T. L. Clark on Monday at 3 p. m. in the Hope well Presbyterian Church. Inter ment will follow in the church oemetery. WILLIAM H. ARMSTRONG William Howard Armstrong, six months, died at James Walker Vlernorial Hospital at 2:30 p. m. Sunday following a short illness. IT.e child is survived by his pa ints, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Arm trong and a sister, Carolyn Eliza oeth. Funeral services will be held at -i a. m. Tuesday at the grave, Richards Family cemetery, with he Rev. Earnest Richards officiat ng. Burial will follow in the :emetefy which is in Pender coun y Active pallbearers will be Leri vood Richards, Lee Tatum, Ray non Justice and S. D. Justice Nazis Are Using ' Famed Monastery As A Fortress (Continued from Page One) that the monastery be SDa and up to now the Allie Jed' complied with that reanest the Germans are usin° ' but fortress. as a Its buildings are bir and an important part in derm P‘ay fense of the hill, which : a de‘ mating feature in the a,U d°m" When the Allies capture * will dominate Highway >j0 , c-v ing from Cassino. And who” time comes they may have'" hat ploy means other than those i!”1' have been using to knock th! ~ ■ mans out of it, he continwd The officer added that *„■ forces are not intentionally S mg the abbey now, but the r ' mans on their part have mT served the Vatican reo.”°; ob' avoid damage to it. H cs fo The monastery is ((,„ ,, the world, established hy c.lsf in \ diet in 529 A. D. in thY ^ fl the Homan temple 0f Anollr! M 1 retreat for men fo4k“°g\a 1 world for a communal life J ™ er. meditation, and work ’ Before that time. many su„, men drew away from the WOrd to become hermits. The Bennie -• idea was that such life on a cow muna] basis was better and this colony of religious men became the first order of Benedictines LAKF PEiPUS COAST CLFAPEQ by REDS (Continued from Page Onr) artery for hundreds of thousands of Germans fighting in the Dnieuc Bend. Among the 800 localities seized in the northern offensive were Gdov. Yushinskaya, Zamogilvc and Yazby, all rail stations on the Narva-Pskov line paralleling the i eastern shore of Lake Peipus, and Ostrovtsy, the southernmost point named on the lake and about 50 miles northwest of Pskov. The Germans also reported "vie. I lent fighting” near Narva, inside Estonia on the north side of Late Peipus. V WEATHER (Continued from Page One) (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hour! ending 7:30 p. m., yesterday: TEMPERATURE 1:30 a. m.. 30; 7:30 a. m.. 23: 1:30 p. m.. 38; 7:30 p. m., 35. Maximum 42; ! minimum 22; mean 32: normal 42 HUMIDTY 1:30 a. m.. 66: 7:30 a. m.t 43; 1:30 p. m.. 28; 7:30 p. m.. 77. PRECIPITATON Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 o 0.00 inches. Total since the first of the month. 2.23 inches * TIDES FOR TODAY (From the Tide Tables published bv u. S. Coast and Geodetic Su vey) High Low Wilmington _1:07a 8:19a l:22p. R:42m Masonbore nlet. _10:45a. 4:53a 11:12p. 5:08p. Sunrise. 6:58 a. m.: sunset, 5:55 p. m.: •noonrise, 10:54 p. m.: moonset, 10:01 a. m. WASHINGTON. Feb. 13—(/P)-Weather M Bureau report of temperature anti rain- IF fall for the 24 hours ending 8 p. in. R? in the principal cotton growing area* It and elsewhere: I High Low f'rrr | Asheville _ 37 8 Mi I Atlantic City _ 32 18 M *. Birmingham _ 42 IB .89* 1 Boston _ 30 10 Ml 1 Buffalo _ 22 8 ' I Burlington i :_ 21 8 MU J ' iiicago _ 2? 8 0.W t Cincinnati _ 29 2 0.00 (1 Cleveland _ 23 1 5/« ue+roit _ 20 8 11 Tuluth _ 27 t »» T. 1 Pa=o . 52 37 « Bert Worth _ 33 35 «.«• lah’eston _ 59 43 0. ‘ facksonville _ 52 32 J* ■Cansas City _ 32 6 MJ Cey W°st _ 76 62 f.™ Little Rock _ 33 20 * .os Angeles___ 63 44 0.0' Louisville _ 34 9 Memphis _ 37 20 0.00 Meridian .. 40 23 0.00 . Miami _ 69 53 Winn.-St. Paul _ 3!) 2 0™ Wobile _ 44 27 " ; ■lew Orleans _ 48 36 ' Pittsburgh - 23 6 JJ Portland. Me. _ 31 1 I’chmond _ 35 1* . it. Louis __ 31 10 »• ian Antonio _ 54 40 - j iavannah_ 44 30 0,00 lamps _ 71 39 • £ Vashington _ 32 18 | WANTED TO BUY: Second-Hand Bicycles PHKARIIS 209 Market St Pia) Film Developing j Printing — Enlargements 48-Hour Service A Complete Photo Finishing Service i THE JEWEL BOX 109 N. 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