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MYSTERY VEILS
SKELETON CASE
“Nothing new has developed in
the case.” Tom Creekmore, di
rector of the State Bureau of
Identification, reported yesterday
concerning the unidentified skele
ton found near Camp Davis over
a year ago.
The case precipitated much inter
est throughout the state in the
months following as clues to the
skeleton’s possible identity were of.
fered.
‘‘We still have the skeleton here
at the bureau, and we are hoping
tor new developments, but there
have been no additional informa
tion received in several months,”
he declared.
The skeleton in question was
turned over to the SBI by the
New Hanover county sheriff’s de
partment May 6, 1943. It had been
found in a field near Camp Davis,
and the person to whom it be
longed was thought to have been
dead for eight months.
The complete skeleton was
found above the ground. There
were no shoes, clothes, buttons
or other personal effects near.
A small quantity of auburn hair
was discovered nearby, and was
of sufficient length and texture :
to indicate that it belonged to 1
a woman. Examination of the '
bones revealed no signs of foul _
play; however, it was argued that (
_nm Vioira hoon
murdered or died from causes j
that would not be reflected in i
the bones.
Doctors who examined th>e skele
ton stated that it was that of a
woman, between 20 and 30 years
old.
Mrs. G. P. Curry of Boston,
Mass., plastic surgeon, recons
tructed the skull and pictures of
the plastic head were subsequent
ly made and distributed in an
effort to hasten identification.
Attempt was made to associate
the skeleton case with the disap
pearance of a woman from a cabin
in the Maffitt Village area about
November, 1942, the time when
the person to whom the skeleton
belonged was thought to have
died. However clues proved fruit
less, and law enforcement authori
ties apparently abandoned the
idea that the two cases were con
nected.
DRAFT BOARD SENDS
30 TO FORT BRAGG
Thirty white men will leave from
C'ty Draft Board No. 1 at 7:30
a. m. today for Fort Bragg
f r induction into the armed
f ..es.
Trey are: Marion Thomas Ma
s \ George Richard Ayash, Drew
e - Jefferson Bridges, Arthur Bas
c n Ramsey, Joseph Herbert
1 st, Jr.. Martin John Oglesby,
s Frank Gibson, Carl Watson,
Alvin Homer Johnson, William
min Beery, III, Robert Ray
i Jernigan, Alexander Lewis,
William Alexander Morton, Robert
B: nee Herring, Leon Pinkney
Blackmon, Jr., Thomas Edison
West, Fred Millard Dail, Daniel
Sinclair Jones, George Johnson,
Joseph Allen Johnson, James De
Witt Snow, Charles Edward Sasser,
and Willie Blackwell.
Transferred men from other
boards are: Uria James Heath,
Berent Louis Vangsness, Guy
Oliver Peterson, James Millard
Jackson, Enniss Murrell Crockett,
Spurgeon Paul Edwards, Laurie
Frank Smith.
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EMPLOYERS DEMAND
POSTWAR SECURITY
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.— UR —
The CIO United Auto Workers ar
gued today at a War Labor Board
hearing that a postwar security
fund for General Motors employes’
equal to the fund set aside by the
corporation for postwar contingen
cies was necessary for high work
er morale now.
Walter P. Reuther, director of
the union’s General Motors depart
ment, asserted the union proposes
that employes who are on the
seniority list and those returning
from the armed services for
whom the corporation cannot pro
vide at least 40 hours work per
week shall be paid and allowance
from the security fund to supple
ment their unemployment compen
jation. The two items of income
vould equal 40 hours pay.
Reuther contended that the cor
poration was assured of a post
war cushion by rebates from the
federal treasury. He said that if
General Motors broke even on its
operations in the first postwar year
It would get a rebate of $102,000,
000 from the United States treas
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Lieut. Kathleen R. Dial (above)
»f Florence, Ala., recovering at a
lospital at Hamilton Field, Calif.,
from injuries received in a South
Pacific plane crash, has been
iwarded the Distinguished Flying
ffross, highest award ever given a
roman in uniform. She won it for
ler work in caring for 18 patients
rhen a flying ambulance crashed
iff Port Moresby, New Guinea.
1 veteran of 150 air evacuation
nissions, the army nurse spent 17
nonths in the South Pacific.
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Jamaica Banana Crop
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Aug. 22—
—The Banana crop on Jamai
ca has been almost completely de
stroyed and great loss has been
suffered in coconut and other food
crops in the hurricane which dev
asted the island during the
week . end. Communication lines
are still down, but meagre reports
reaching here tell of widespread
destruction.
With The AEF < .
Anzio Was Never Like This
By KENNETH L. DIXON
WITH THE AEF IN SOUTH
ERN FRANCE, Aug. 17—De
layed)—VP1—Even at the' risk of
being called a debunker, comes
now the time to tell the public
that this is no beachhead. It’s
a full-fledged front— and then
some.
Comparing this with Anzio,
for instance, is like comparing
the Podunk Center gymnasium
with Madison Square Garden.
The first big difference is
seen from the sea, where the
whole coastline is dotted with
shipping. There are more than
800 big naval vessels, to say
nothing of countless small
landing craft, ducks, PT boats,
tugs and so on.
From this invasion armada
supplies and troops are being
landed all along a 50-mile
stretch of the Riviera. At Anzio
you could stand at one spot
and meet every soul who came
ashore.
Riding a PT boat it took us
nearly an hour to find the par
ticular beach where we were
supposed to land, and we put
in at the wrong place several
times. At Anzio there was no
such trouble; everbody ran
the same gauntlet through
“Bomb Bay" in order to reach
the tiny Nettuno docks.
Once ashore the difference
becomes far more marked.
Here you can ride half the day
along the coast without get
ting shot at, even by enemy
artillery.
By way of contrast it will be
recalled by the citizens who
were there, that at Anzio you
got blasted by German big
guns before you ever got off
the boat. And until the day the
Anzio beachhead burst it*
bonds to overflow on to Rome,
there never was a time when
you were out of range of those
guns. And there never was a
time when you could drive
more than 30 minutes in any
direction without running into
rifle fire.
What’s more, an:/ time you
looked up from that open
road you realized the Germans
were looking down on you
from the Alban hills. Here
we already control the heignts
many miles inland—only toe
doughtboys look down on the
Riviera drive. It’s a wonderful
feeling.
There are a hundred such
little differences between this
and any other beachhead the
soldiers have known in North
Africa, Sicily and Italy; air
superiority such that when ack
ack guns begin banging you
look only for protection against
falling flak—with few excep
tions. At Anzio you always
looked for protection from
bombs.
The first week at Anzio you
ate whatever you could get
and you were doggone glad to
get it. This is D-Day plus 2
here and hot meals are being
served three times daily but
already everybody’s gripping
about the “lousy chow.’’
Countless rear echelon out
fits that never did get to Anzio
already are buzzing up and
down the roads along the
Riviera.
The final proof comes from
the correspondents who, in any
invasion, draw lots to see who
gets to go in first, because
the Army is too busy in the
early stages to be bothered
with food and quarters for
too many newsmen.
During the rough days at
Anzio the atmosphere was so
tense that, regardless of his
official status, any incoming
reporter was greeted with
shouts and a general gladhand
from even his most cutthroat
competitor.
But here on the Riviera front
things are going so well that
any reporter arriving before
he is expected gets glowering
looks from his contemporaries
and he’d better be sure he’s
properly assigned to some
particular ou’fit or back he
goes to Italy in nothing flat. _
Nope, boys and girls, thi*
ain’t no beachhead.
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A trainman’s lantern from the
1860’s was equipped with a strap
which fastened about the chest,
leaving the conductor’s hands free
in inspect tickets or signal the
engineer.
ARMY SERGEANT
SLAIN IN ERROR
WHITEVILLE, Aug. 22 — Sgt.
Charles K. Baldwin, son of C. W.
Baldwin of Clarkton and brother
of Leslie Baldwin, Whiteville
photographer, was accidentally
shot and killed by an American
paratrooper, who mistook him for
a German in the pre-dawn dark
ness of June 14 near the French
town of Bauptu, according to in
formation contained a letter to his
brother here from Edward Bul
lard of Chadbourn, who along with
Baldwin, jumped onto France D
Day.
The letter revealed that at the
time of his death Sergeant Baldwin
was trying to locate members of
his squad who had been scattered
when they had been attacked by
“about forty Germans” approach
ing a road block which Baldwin
and his men had set up guarding
one of the approaches to Bauptu.
Twenty-four hours before, they
had taken Bauptu after driving out
“about 400 Germans” and Bald
win’s squad, according to Bullard,
was one of several sent out by
the battalion to set up road blocks.
“Baldwin kept a boy with him”,
Builard wrote, “and after the
Germans turned around he tried
to locate his boy. He was walk
ing down the road and a boy from
--
another company took him to
German and shot him. i3 was ! '
not day good and all was excite!?
It was an accident that occurs l
combat which is hard to thin!
about. . . We lost several boy, t
hated to see anyone ge‘ killed but
worse than anyone I hated u .
Baldwin”. a to se*
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