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NAZI LINES
IN HOLLAND
COLLAPSING
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forM»» Admittedly Get
ting Out 0f Trap ln
Dordrecht Retreat
LONDON, Oct. 30.—(/P)—
rpeman positions m south
tern Holland were break
tmiiuht under tremendous
from two Allied ar‘
£ which in gains of up to
S miles squeezed an esti
Sed 40,000 of the enemy
Sa 40-mile strip along the
£s ranging from 1 1-2 to
nine miles deep.
At the same time the enemy
.trangiehold on the great harbor
Antwerp was slipping fast, and
bold German attempt to weaken
be Allied offensive here by an at
Jack ln east Holland collapsed.
Gentian troops were pounded
mercilessly from the sky as they
streamed north to escape over the
“i-as river by boat and ferry at
Willemstad, by the long road and
rail br'dges at Moerdijk, eight
miles east, and by a third bridge
liarth of Geert: uidenberg, a dozen
m;!es farther east.
BUt as night and the weather
closed in, more and more Ger
mans were getting across and re
treating beyond to Dordrecht. 10
miles southeast of Rotterdam. A
Ertish spoilsman admitted the
ba'k probably would escape.
The British, bursting through
Kilting rearguards on the west
flank, were only seven miles from
Willemstad ferry, Americans to the
e~st were but six miles from the
vital Moerdijk bridges, and British
tanks on the east flank were four
miles from the Geertruidenberg
crossing.
In clear skies which once more
loosed Allied air might, bombers
dumped explosives on the Moer
dijk bridges and stalked the air
lanes over the highways, bombing
and strafing.
In the rush, the British captured
Koosendaal, last major enemy
stronghold south ct the Maas. There
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COUNTY BOARD
ADJUSTS TAXES
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Several tax adjustments were
made by the Board of County Com
missioners in its weekly meeting
yesterday and other tax complaints
were referred to committees with
power to act.
The board voted to send repre
sentatives to the meeting of the
North Carolina Association of Tax
Sraervisors in Chapel Hill on Nov.
13-16.
The meeting will be held in con
junction with the school for tax
supervisors which is being arrang
ed by the Institute of Government.
A complete and thorough study
i" all phases of listing and assess
ing will be given and open discus
sions of tax problems will be held
*1 the meeting.
Commissioner Louis Coleman
“oved that the county take steps
to bring T. P. Southerland, local
“an who was let off in court last
Soar on the condition that he pay
is wife $10 weekly for the support
« their two children, and who has
a‘led to fulfill his obligation, back
0 ne county from the Navy yard
" °.rtsmouth, Va. where he is now
Working.
Commissioner Geo. W. Trask
“°'’ed that the board look into the
of having the bad places
“ streets in Sunset Park repaired,
rw.-report of the Associated
*or September was sub
mitted to the board.
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Respondent Foresees
pWS!a As The Dominant
°Wer ‘fi Postwar Europe
GREENSBORO, Oct. 30—
~ ‘ussia emerge as the
01«mant power in Europe aft
he war, because the Rus
"s are determined direct
! or indircetly to control the
ciat”!en'' Larry Allen, Asso
, P|'ess war correspon
chartidcc ared here toniffht in
Eurnn"^ ftbe "ext 25 years in
le„t Pe ,or a Woman’s college
l“ e course audience.
“t'n.r • quarter century
after Vs hound to be trouble
tesnoJrOUble’” said the cor"
ceiled "h° in 1942 re
his onvthe Pul,‘zer Prize for
l,eet in e^age of the British
until i,- tl0 Mediterranean and
had J! rei,atriation las! June
and Prn 20 months in Italian
camps.'erman war prisoner
zith an tCes torita!tt emerging
probaK *r emPire intact, and
Il£„ l With 1 the
Africa PasseTssi°«s in North
wanting ”e Pnited States, not
'eases'on anyth’nK> may get
keen it eilough bases to help
ep ‘he peace, he believes.
CLARK ANNOl ES
COAST GUARD STAY
The proposal to discontinue Coast
Guard activities in Wilmington, re
vealed at a meeting of the City
council last Wednesday, has been
ordered held in abeyance until
Coast Guard officers can make an
investigation, it was learned Mon
day from Representative J. Bay
ard Clark, of Fayetteville.
Original plans, he said, were for
closing of the activites tomorrow.
The Seventh district representa
tive added that ranking Coast
Guard officers will be sent here
from Washington to conduct the in
vestigation relative to further need
of the service in Wilmington. He
is expected to be advised of the
outcome of the study shortly after
it is completed.
Meantime, it is understood that
all activities will continue on the
same basis maintained since short
ly after the war began. These will
include the identification service
and maintenance of watch and pro
tection of various port facilities.
Informed by City Manager A. C.
Nichols in a statement to the coun
cil that Coast Guard activities
would be discontinued, Wilmington
port interests immediately turned
their attention to the matter and
contacted Representative Clark.
The services of the Coast Guard
here have brought numerous com
pliments and the council has voted
to draft a formal resolution com
mending it for iti work on the
waterfront.
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INVASION JITTERS
FOR NORWAY NAZIS
LONDON, Oct. 30—(iP)—The Ger
mans in Norway are experiencing
invasion jitters, according to neu
tral reports reaching London.
Nazi forces manning the long
west coast, Stockholm reports,
have been alerted in fear of an
Allied blow to merge with the
Russians driving into the country
from the northeast.
While the Soviet communique
made no ment’on tonight of op
erations along this Arctic front,
Britain’s “flying navy”—carrier
borne planes operating from ships
of the home fleet—struck a smash
ing blow at the German escape
route and sunk six enemy ships
and damaged 22 others south of
Narvik.
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Harlan’s Marriage
Is Finally Annulled
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 30. — (JP)—
Film Director Richard Harlan’s
13-year-old marriage to Rosita Har
lan, Cuban dancer, was annulled
today.
Judge Carl A. Stutsman held
there was “definite evidence of
collusion” between the Harlans
at the time she obtained a 1931
Mexican divorce from Karl Hugo
Karlsson, Swedish match trust re
presentative.
Harlan, in his suit for annul
ment, charged that neither the
dancer nor Karlsson had gone to
Sinaloa, Mexico, for their divorce.
Mrs. Harlan, in a counter suit for
separate maintenance, contended
that Harlan induced her to obtain
the decree.
SURPLUS PLANE SALE
BRINGS IN $30,000
DAYTON, O., Oct. 30. — (ff) —
First public auction of surplus air
planes at Patterson Field today
brought approximately $30,000,
with prices ranging from $10 to
$7,500 each, officials of the defense
plant corporation conducting the
sale reported.
Half of a group of 160 aircraft
was sold today with nearly 1,100
buyers bidding. The remainder
will be sold tomorrow.__
Reds Lai
Great 1
On Bud
ATTACK ACROSS TISZA
Russian Offensive Is Head
ed With Tanks, Massed
For Weeks
LONDON, Tuesday, Oct. 31
(/P)—The Red army, in a new
major offensive aimed at Bud
apest, attacked across the
Tisza river at dawn yester
day with masses of tanks,
planes and artillery on a wide
front 50 miles from the im
perilled Hungarian capital,
Berlin announced last night.
Moscow was silent on the un
folding operation, but German
broadcasts said the roar of big
Russian and German guns could
be heard for 50 miles north and
s outh of the threatened west bank
Tisza stronghold of Szolnok, on the
west bank of the Tisza at the
center of the flaming front.
For some time the Russfhns
have been astride several all
weather roads leading across the
flat, sodden farmlands into Buda
pest.
j-iie i\usaians nave ueen mass
ing men and material for weeks
for the big push, Berlin said, and
thousands of Hungarian civilians
were reported throwing up breast
works outside Budapest, a vul
nerable city whose most important
sections lie on the eastern side of
the Danube.
The Russian communique also
did not mention the big Red army
offensive in Western Latvia, where
Berlin reported fresh Soviet gains,
and for the third straight day
Moscow was silent about gruelling
operations in East Prussia.
A Soviet military commentator,
Colonel Voronin, said in a Mos
cow broadcast last night that the
Germans were fighting fanatical
ly in East Prussia, and that the
Russians had collided .with the
strongest fortifications yet en
countered in the east.
Fourteen minor localities in
Czechoslovakia and northeastern
Hungary were taken during the
day, Moscow said.
In storming one Hungarian vil
lage, Vasarosnameny, on the up
per Tisza near the Czechoslovak
border, the Russians pinned the
enemy against the river, where
many were drowned and 500 cap
tured, Moscow said.
A supplementary communique
issued early today made a brief
reference to the East Prussian
front, saying that hundreds of
Germans were killed in beating
down two Nazi counterai cks.
The Soviet bulletin said Gen.
Ivan Petrov’s fourth Ukraine ar
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BRAZILIANS SEE
U.S. TRADE AHEAD
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Oct. 30.
Cf>)—American aid in the indus
trial development of Brazil would
pay dividends through vastly in
creased trade between Brazil and
the United States, five represent
atives of the South American gov
ernment agreed tonight* in an in
terview with The Times.
The Brazilians are here on an
inspection tour of the Tennessee
Valley Authority installations, un
der sponsorship of the co-ordinator
of inter-American affairs. They
were entertained tonight by the
chamber of commerce at an in
formal dinner.
The visitors are Dr. Hildebran
do de Goes, director of the depart
ment of sanitation, fninistry of
transportation and public works;
Dr. Jaoa Maria Brochado, direc
tor of the materials division, min
istry of transportation and public
works; Dr. Oswaldo Bittencourt
Sampaio, chief of the American
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WANKEE TROOPS DRIVE SPEARHEAD
f ON LEYTE IN TEETH OF TYPHOON;
FIVE MORE JAP SHIPS KNOCKED OUT
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90 ENEMY PLANES
ALSO DESTROYED
Navy Air Arm Attacks
With Good Results In
Manila Bay
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET
HEADQUARTERS, PEARL
HARBOR, Oct. 30.— (/P) —
American naval airmen heap
ed new damage on the batter
ed Japanese navy in weekend
raids $>n Luzon island, in
creasing to 60 the toll of ene
my warships sunk or damag
ed within a week in Philip
pine waters.
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an
nounced the new strikes today with
the following results:
One heavy cruiser probably
sunk.
Two cruisers damaged.
One oil tanker damaged.
Three coastal cargo vessels sunk.
Ninety enemy planes destroyed.
The three cruisers may have
been fleeing to home waters from
last week’s engagement off Samar
island and in the Sibuyan sea, al
though today’s communique did
not say so.
The Sibuyan engagement, part
of which was fought in the dan
gerous San Bernardina strait sep
arating Samar and Luzon, was one
of the three naval-air clashes last
week in which the Japanese Navy
lost 58 vessels. Twenty-four of
these were sunk, 13 probably sunk
and 21 damaged. These results
were announced Sunday by Nim
itz, who listed six American ships
and a few lighter craft lost.
The cruiser probably sunk and
one of those damaged were caught
in Manila bay. The third was se
verely damaged by two 1,000-pound
bombs at Cavite, the former Amer
ican naval base across the bay
from Manila.
One heavy cruiser, previously
damaged, was probably sunk and
another damaged in Manila Bay.
The third was severely damaged
by two 1,000-pound bombs at Ca
vite, the former American naval
base across the bay from Manila.
The three coastal vessels were
sunk in a sweep over Cebu island,
immediately west of Leyte, where
American liberation forces hold
two-thirds of the island. Nineteen
enemy fighter planes which at
tempted to interfere were shot
down.
The enemy airforce tried hard
to get at Mitscher’s carriers, a
part of Adm. William F. Halsey’s
mighty Third fleet. Twelve Japa
nese fighters and divebombers
were shot down near the carriers
Saturday and two more on Sunday.
Airborne interception met the
carrier planes when they appeared
over Luzon and the Manila area
Saturday. Forty-five enemy fight
ers were shot from the skies and
12 destroyed on the ground of Ma
nila airfields. The airfields were
badly hit and fires raged.
Nimitz also reported harassing
and neutralizing raids from Oct.
24-28 against the Carolines, Mari
anas, Bonins, Marshalls, Wake and
Nauru.
The Tokyo radio reported the?
Luzon raids earlier today, assert
ing 200 carrier-based planes took
part. FCC recorded the broadcast.
Tokyo also reported, without con
firmation from any other quarter,
that Japanese airmen were attack
ing an American task force, in
cluding four carriers, in Lamon
bay, on the east coast of Luzon
.about 100 miles from Manila.
It was immediately north of La
mon bay, just off the Polilio is
lands, .that the powerful U. S.
Third fleet and its air arm tangled
with <^ie of the three Japanese
fleet divisions moving toward Ley
te isla^i where Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur’s liberation army had land
I ed. • ____
Yanks Pour Ashore In Philippines
American troops, from LSTs and LCMs, run through the surf toward Leyte Island as the invasion
of the Philippines gets underway. This is one of the first original photos of the invasion received in
this country. (AP Wirephoto.)
3,000 U.S., British War Planes
Bomb Nazi Key-City Targets
AT LAST, PATROL
DRIVES JAPS OUT
fey MERLIN SPENCER
LEYTE, Philippines, Oct. 29.—
(Delayed)—{/P)—For the first time
in 27 months of covering the
Southwest Pacific war, I watched
American troops force the Japa
nese into the open today and send
them fleeing across a rice field,
with shells and bullets spurring
them on.
As far as battles are concerned,
this wasn’t much. But it was the
answer to the general fighting
prayer. Ever since the Ameri
cans went into action at Buna,
New Guinea, back in 1942, they
have asked only one thing:
“Just let. us get the Jap into
the open.”
And mat’s what happened today
along the road to Jaro, in the
broad fertile Leyte valley. The
Japanese were flushed from their
preferred underbrush habitat.
The swiftly advancing 34th In
fantry of the 4th Division caught
the Nipponese, about a score of
them, by surprise, and they hid
in a native house 300 yards from
the road.
Infantrymen opened up with the
light crack of their Carbines and
the heavier crack of garands. But
the Japanese refused to come out.
Then a jeep came speeding down
the MacAdam road, its horn blar
ing demands for Clearance. Be
hind it bounced a little 37mm an
titank gun.
In it were Privates John D.
Rourke of Los Angeles, (Morning
side Court). Joe Rizzo of Bayonne,
N. J., (37 West 48th St.), Fred G.
Nashawaty of West Roxbury, Mass,
and Sgt. Peter Slavinsky ef Pasa
dena. They jumped out and swung
their gun into position.
Within one minute they opened
fire. The first shot was close, but
the Japanese refused to come out.
The second shot hit the house
squarely, and it erupted Nippon
ese.
They almost leaped into the air
as they tried to escape. One Jap
anese had green leaves in his hel
met, clearly visible through glass
es.
When the Japanese finally were
in the open, riflemen closer to
them, then the antitank gun open
ed' up. The gun also fired.
It was a strange sight to see
the Japanese running, with both
rifle and antitank fire blazing at
them. Three fell, and the remain
der gained cover in a coconut
grove.
'"That’s what we’ve been waiting
for,”' smiled Corp. Maynard Hed
quist of Deer River, Minn., as he
picked up his pack and strolled
down the road
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HARRIMAN TO SPEAK
NEW YORK, Oct. 30. — (IP) —
Business Men for Roosevelt, Inc.,
announced tonight that W. Averell
Harriman, ambassador to the So
viet Union, would make his only
political speech of the campaign
under its auspices Friday night
over the NBC network from 10:45
to 11 p.m. (EWT).
LONDON, Tuesday, Oct. 31.—(#>—
More than 1,000 RAF heavy bomb
ers plastered Cologne again last
night alter 2,000 American planes
had attacked Hamm, Munster,
Harbsburg and Hamburg during
the day.
Berlin also was bombed lor the
second consecutive night, an an
nouncement by the air ministry
said.
The great industrial city ol Co
logne now has been assaulted six
times in 48 hours and last night’s
raid brought the total'bomb load
dropped on it during October to
nearly 20,000 tons. v
While Allied planes continued
their methodical destruction ol Ger
many’s industrial centers today,
carrier - based aircralt ol t h e
British home fleet attacked enemy
shipping oil the Norwegian coast,
sinking six enemy vessels.
An Admiralty communique re
ported that its planes also had dam
aged and driven ashore a large U
boat and had damaged 19 other
enemy vessels.
The naval planes, in addition,
made successful attacks on land
targets in the vicinity of Bodo, Nor
way, including a U-boat depot,
wireless stations, oil tanks, shore
batteries and othei enemy instal
lations. Five planes were missing
from these operations.
American airmen said they
"sweat it out” most of the way
over Europe because of thick
clouds that made it difficult to keep
formation. Flak wag intense in
spots.
Hamburg and Harburg are fat
targets, having a combined oil pro
duction of 80,000 tons monthly. One
plant at Harburg is known to pro
duce 33,000 tons and another 46,000.
Exactly at noon. RAF Lancasters
hit the union Rheinische synthetic
oil plant at Wesseling, nine miles
south of Cologne. Because of the
lack of Luftwaffe opposition, the
bombardiers were able to take
their time in drooping their hou
sands of explosives through the
clouds.
Two forces of Spitfires and Mus
tangs escorting the bombers were
spoiling for a fight and took It out
on gun emplacements and defend
ed positions on Walcheren island in
the Schelde estuary.
HALSEY DECLARES
JAP FLEET ‘RUNT’
ABOARD FLAGSHIP, AMERI
CAN THIRD FLEET, Oct. 26.—
(Delayed)—(0)—(Via Navy radio)
—The Japanese fleet has become
a naval runt and will remain a
runt in spite of everything the
Japanese can do to recover from
its newest defeats, Adm. William
F. Halsey, Jr., said today.
“The best information we
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have,” the admiral told a press
conference, “is that their ship
repair facilities were taxed to
the utmost before this catastro
phic beating they took.
“How or when they can repair
the damaged ships of their Navy
that may eventually reach port
will be a very serious problem
to solve. There’s many a head
ache in Japan today. I am ex
tremely glad I am not a senior
officer in the Japanese navy. And
I don’t mean this merely because
I don’t like Japs.”
Halsey's staff estimated that out
of 55 ships that attempted a
pincers movement against the
Third and Seventh American
fleets in the Philippines at least
30 were sunk and most of the
remainder severely damaged.
(In a communique Oct. 29, issued
at Pearl Harbor, Adm. Chester
W. Nimitz listed 58 enemy war
ships sunk or damaged, with 24
definitely sunk.)
All the Japanese naval forces
involved were severely crippled,
Halsey said, and in consequence
will be incapable of anything ex
cept suicidal action for months
to come.
That was all the navy Japan
had, Halsey added, except “two
or three more units we can take
in our stride.
The admiral expressed doubt
that the enemy ever would admit
the losses.
“All Japanese are congenial
liars from top to bottom,” Halsey
said.
“They will suppress all this they
„„„ it
can.
24,000 JAPANESE 1
DOWN IN 10 DAYS
Enemy Lands Reinforce
ments To The South;
Jaro Captured
General MacArthur’s Head
quarters, Philippines, Tues
day, Oct. 31—(IP)—American
troops drove an iron-tipped
spearhead across the north
ern end of Leyte island today
after capturing Jaro, a final
mid-island Japanese strong
hold, and a final showdown
battle appeared 4 imminent
along Carigara bay.
While a 70-mile-an-hour typhoon
roared across the Island, Maj. Gen
Fred Irving’s 24th division pushed
onward from Jaro in northwestern
Leyta valley, seeking to close the
20-mile gap separating it f?om the
1st cavalry division on the bay.
Sizable Japanese forces evident
ly have reached the bay, cornered
for a final battle.
Japanese reinforcements have
been landed farther south on the
west coast, at Ormoc, the com
munique reported today.
Estimated Japanese casualties
on Leyte and Samar totaled 24,000
for the first 10 days of the cam
paign, against 706 Americans kill
ed, 270 missing and 2,245 wound
ed, the communique reported.
The 24th division drove Japanese
rear guards out of Jaro, after a
14-mile forced march, through
wind and rain, from Pastrana, in
central Leyte valley. The Nippon
ese fought bitterly for Jaro, their
last key strongpoint on the road
toward the northwest coast. It is
12 miles by highway from Cari
gara bay.
The enemy brought up reinforce
ments in the battle for Jaro, a
mountain village. After bitter fight
ing, the town was captured at 4
p.m. Sunday, by the armor-led 24th
division.
One Japanese escape route, to
the hills, was blocked by numer
ous Filipino guerrillas, who held
high points above Jaro.
First cavalry forces maintained
tight pressure on the Japanese left
flank by holding the only other
road through the valley’s north
western sweep—from Cavite to Ba
rugo, on Carigara bay.
Cavalrymen dug a strong per
imeter at Barugo, within easy ac
cess of heavy reinformements, af
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EXTRA SESSION
IN MISSISSIPPI
JACKSON Miss., Oct. 30.—«P)—
Gov. Thomas L. Bailey said to
night an extraordinary session of
the state legislature would be call
ed this week to “amend the state
election laws to force presidential
electors to vote for the presiden
tial nominee selected by their par.
ty or face automatic disqualifica
tion.”
The governor said he would con
vene the special session “probably
Wednesday night” because of the
■“political uproar” resulting from
the announcement of three demo
cratic electors that, if elected, they
would cast their electoral college
votes for Sen. Harry F. Byrd of
Virginia,
Bailey said he had received tele
grams and “numerous telephone
calls from legislators” urging him
to take “any steps nelessary t®
get the state in line for Roose
velt.”
The governor said that a pro
posed amendment to state election
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Roosevelt, Dewey Leaders Plan
Candidates* Closing Campaign’
By The Associated Press
Gov. Dewey slated a fifth speech
for the final campaign week yes
terday (Monday) as sighs increas
ed that President Roosevelt will fin
ish his fourth term bid with only
one more major address.
The latest addition to Dewey’s
heavy schedule is an appearance
in Baltimore on Thursday. He
speaks tonight at 9 p.m., in Buf
falo, on Wednesday in Boston and
Saturday in New York. A final ap
peal for votes will be broadcast
from a radio studio on election
eve.
As the White House worked out
the final week’s schedule for Presi
dent Roosevelt, it appeared that
he will confine his stretch drive
oratory to a Boston speech, prob-!
ably next Saturday. And a talk to
Duchess county, N. Y„ neighbors
Monday.
Such a schedule rules out a pre
dicted pre - election appearance in
Cleveland. Presidential Secretary
Stephen Early said democratic •
leaders wanted the President to
speak in Ohio as well as in Boston.,
but had been told that the chief ;
executive’s duties probably will not
permit two appearances.
Dewey spent yesterday in Albany
where, at his request, a special:
session of the New York legislature
extended the closing hour for New
York polls on Nov. 7 from 7 to
9 p.m.
JDewey’s runni.ig mate, Gov. |
'John W. Bricker, of Ohio, kept up
his attack on the administration ia
j Detroit last night, charging that
I the ‘facts conclusively prove that
j Franklin Roosevelt and the New
Deal are in the hands of the radl*
j cals and communists.” Bricker
i named seven federal employe* ha
|said had ‘‘subversive records,” in
j eluding a secretary to the Presi
dent.
Senator Harry S. Truman, demo
, cratic vice presidential candidate
;War Mobilization Director James
F Byrnes, and Sidney Hillman,
chairman of the Political Action
Committee, all assailed Dewey as
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Informal City Extension Discussion
Held At City Hall With J. Q. LeGrand
City officials and representatives
of a committee of citizens in the
outlying areas of Wilmington, met
with J. Q. LeGrand, democratic
nominee to the state legislature at
a meeting in the City Council
chamber Iasi night to discuss plans
for city extensi&i. No definite con
clusions were readied, and anoth
er conference to work out details
of the proposed extension will be
held in the near future, it was
announced.
Representing the outlying com
munities involved in the plans
were Alton Lennon, Fred Mathis
and Hamilton Hicks. Representing
the city during the informal dis
cussion was the planning board,
City Manager Nichols, Mayor W.
Ronald Lane, and City Attorney
W. B. Campbell.
Although no detailed discussion
of the plans took place, the ad
vantages and disadvantages were
considered, and a general discus
sion was held to acquaint those
present with the purpose and pro
cedure of the project.
A date for continution of discus
sion of the extension plan has not
been set, it is understood.
The extended area, as proposed
by the Planning board, encompass
es 5,500 persons; 3.8 square miles;
1,028 buildings, total valuation of
real and personal property $5,498,
245; and includes Love Grove, For
est Hills, Mercer Place, Princess
V
Place, Colonial Village, Glen Ar
den, Oleander, Country Club Pines.
Highwocd Park, Longwood, Ken
wood, Chestnut Heights. Brookwood
and Greenbrook.
The new extension plan, a modi
fication of former proposals, is de
scribed as a “pay-as-you-go plan,”
by virtue of which the city will not
annex those districts unless the
project becomes financially self
sustaining.
It was explained that if the ex
tension plan is decided upon, a bll
will be presented to the 1945 Gen
eral Assembly, asking for the right
of municipal vote on extension.
Then, if the vote is favorable, it
will be 1945 before the new terri
tory is entered on the city’s tax
,books.