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_ — farted by Leased Wire of the — __ _ ‘ associated press TUE C-AD.IJEUUC (- cemts With Complete Coverage of ■ _“|1| L. VW O EVERYWHERE gu„ „d National New. ■ ■ ■ Bi —- - --- '««»«» '"tl**' J " ^ ■■ ■ * ** |___ I---- • ' HjlTCtlll €»lTV®Fg>B©®ISE8a AM® E>IUgA8MBgafr 1 ^.f'V(LS------- WILMINGTON, N. C, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1944 . _ FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1567 City, Nation ReadyToOpen Bond Drive C!v i, Drive’* Goal Set At $4,566,00 0 For New ilanoyer County STORES ORGANIZED Stress Theme That lfar Not Over, Many gl0ody Battles Ahead ri.8j arrangements were com /, Yesterday for the start in M Hanover county Monday of ^ Treasury departments Sixth War Loan campaign. %eiv Hanover's overaU bond as ■omupnt is $4,666,000, a reduction *‘f $1,041,000 from the Fifth drive. Individual citizens will again be asked to buy heavily of Series E ;pe of bonds, as this goal was cut by only $201,000 over the Oc tober campaign. . j q, Thornton, co-chairman of the War Fiance committe, report ed ail leaders have completed naming their helpers in the great tmaenaiuiJs Stores Organized Retail stores have been organiz ed and an objective of a minimum Df'$300 in sales for each clerk has j,een Set. Most merchants have decorated their establishments with patriotic motif to encourage,, tend selling in their particular stores. All merchants have been asked to have packages wrapped for pa trons in war bond leaflets, which are available at the chamber of commerce. No kick-off bond meeting will be kid. as bond leaders believe pub lic interest will be stimulated suf ficiently without it. During this drive, promotion will be effected in other yet unannounced ways. Under the leadership of County Agent R. W. Galphin, and Miss Ann Mason, county home demon* station agent, a county campaign organization for areas outside the city limits has been set up. It is the purpose of both the city and county organizations to see that a thorough canvassing job is done and that every person in Wilmington and New Hanover county is solicited and sold a bond. ; VIGOROUS DRIVE » WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.— UP — : What promises to be the most vig- 1 orous of all the war bond drives "’ill start Monday with the theme 1 that the war’s not over and many ' Woody battles are ahead. i Treasury officials said six mil (Continued on Page Four; Col. 6) i -V HALLSBORO MAN i KILLED IN CRASH! B O. Thompson ,29, Loses * We When Automobile Smashed Into Tree ! . i ®en 0. Thompson, 29, ship- ; ■Jtd employe and native of Halls- . was instantly killed about 4 , oclKk yesterday morning when he i tasted his automobile into a tree highway 74 and 76, seventeen i west of Wilmington, it was , mH by State Highway Patrol- , “me. J. Ferguson. if'!™ evidently fell asleep ; dm’mS’ the officer said, as u.h “Seated that the vehicle highway about 100 feet from ' life crashn!Ch 11 StrUCk With a t6r' Jo»mpson, thrown free of t h e pifV ,ound lying beside it by t Pwley ar,d C- W- Carroll, hlfiimm . reP°rted the accident •htungton officers. uhich traveled tascompietli S1je 0f the hiShway- ■ esrsar*by ,h* on iase Two; Col. 1) -V— WEATHER IjS8,,^0°LINAf Sci°udy and cool ti‘ l!oi% m ?am Sunday night " 1 s«ay e tuning in moun ,P/. anernoon. , (By tesn t‘lnd”'1 ^eteofouJ , father Bureau) fei»S JsK*7 data for th» 24 Hours P.n. yesterday. 9 »* 4|. 7T'mperature '"^Ptr., 4S' ‘ “° am, 41; 1:30 pm, S3; WSf W: Minimum 41; Mean 49; ,2» , Humidity :N, 73' 7:30 am, 87; t jo pm, 54; *'** inches." tb* first ®f Hie month, , V th.Tlr°r Tod»y ' *' r°ast tnd/ Jables published by and Geodetic Survey) '‘‘dtgton High Low k„ , 6:46a ',0aboro lnl,t 12:16p *T:40p k, ri,«, 6-48 . 9:56p 4:19p "d*. 10:18 im': ?,Unset' 5:05 P-m-! Litton . ‘ Moon5«t. 8:23 p.m. * *»«e Seven; Col. 1) RESIGNS ~i -- BISHOP THOMAS C. DARST Bishop Darst Resigns Because O f Health EFFECTIVE MAY 1 Head Of East Carolina Dio cese Tenders Resignation To Bishop Tucker i ____ The Right Rev. Thomas Camp sell Darst, D. D., bishop of the Ea$t Carolina diocese of the Epis soi^l church for almost 30 years, t a if submitted his resignation to the Right Rev. H. St. George Tucker, D. D., of New York, presiding bish )p, on account of his health, it vas announced yesterday. In tendering his resignation, 3ishop Darst asked that it become rffective May 1, 1945, and request id that it be presented at the meet ng of the House of Bishops to be \eld in Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 31. His decision to terminate his ac ivities as head of the Diocese :ame “after careful and serious :onsideration”, the bishop said. 69 Years Old He pointed out to the presiding >ishop that “I am 69 years old oday (Nov. 10) and will have erved 30 years as bishop on Jan. ;, 1945. While my health has im roved following my long illness of ast year, I do not feel that I can ■ive my beloved diocese the strong tnd vigorous leadership that it ihould have during the trying years hat lie ahead." Bishop Tucker answered that ‘there is no one who has won, lot only the regard and affection if his own Diocese, but also that of he church as a whole, more than i-ou have. I am sure that every ;ishop will feel as I do the very ieepest regret that the time has :ome when you feel the necessity o resign.” Bishop Darst pledged to continue o serve the church “to the limit >f my strength and ability during he years that are left to me.” He was born in Pulaski, Va lov. 10, 1875, and lived in that (Continued on Page Four; Col. 5) Cherry Stays Neutral In Speakership Race GASTONIA, Nov. 18.— </P> — Governor-Elect R. Gregg Cherry declared today that he would express no preference between the two candidates for the speakership of the 1945 ses sion of the state legislature. Cherry, returned to his office in Gastonia today and issued a statement saying that he had decided to maintain his pre election policy of neutrality to wards the rival candidacies of Oscar Richardson of Monroe and George TJzzell of Salisbury. Both candidates are friends of long-standing, Cherry said, and both have pledged their support of the legislation of the new administration. “Each is personally satisfactory to me,’’ he declared. BANKERSTOTALK POST-WAR PLANS Organizational Meet Will Be Held At Country Club Tuesday Night Approximately 100 officers and directors of banks in seven south eastern North Carolina counties are expected to gather at the Cape Fear country club Tuesday night for an organizational meeting aimed to se cure their cooperation with the Post * War Small Business Credit commission of the American Bank ers association, J. G. Thornton, president of Wilmington Savings and Trust company, said yester day. C. L. Tate, vice president of the (Continued on Page Four; Col. 1) 18 Hurt In Coast Line Derailment In Georgia WAYCROSS, Ga., Nov. 18.—— Fifteen cars of the Atlantic Coast Line’s fast New York-to-Tampa West Coast Champion left the •ails in swamp country near Hor ;ense, Ga., today, injuring at least L8 persons, none seriously. Only the three - unit diesel en gine and three rear cars of the 18 coach train remained on the tracks. Some of the coaches overturned, sprawling to the water - bound edge cf the desolate right-of-way. Difficulty in reaching the scene oecause of the terrain hampered removal of the injured but physi cians who furnished first aid at "earby Jesup reported none was seriously hurt. Most of the vic tims, a doctor said, sustained min or cuts and bruises when they were tossed about in the all * steel coaches. A few who required hospitaliza tion were brought to the ACL hos pital here. _ „ The wreck, which J. P. Walker, general superintendent, said ap parently was caused by a bloken rail, occurred about 8:30 a. m., eastern war time, at a spot known as O'Neal siding. Within an hour, the uninjured (Continued on Page Two; Col. #1 - 1 SHOWS IMPROVEMENT NEW YORK, Nov. 18. — (IP) — Ethel Barrymore, 65-year old ac tress who has been in a hospital suffering from a lung congestion since last Monday, “shows marked improvement and has passed the crisis,’ her doctors announced to night. Allies Smash Into Rhineland’s P- Heart As Metz Fight Continues; U. S. Infantry Closes On Limon ENEMY CUT OFF FROM SUPPLIES Yanks Shoot Down 500th Japanese Plane Of The Leyte Campaign By C. YATES McDANIEL GENERAL M’ARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS, PHILIP PINES, Nov. 19. — (IP) — American infantrymen clos ed tighter today on the shell battered fortress town of Li mon, at the northern end of Leyte island’s Ormoc corri dor, against stubbornly re sisting Japanese who were cut off from fresh supplies. Yank fighters and antiaircraft guns, meanwhile, shot down their 500th Japanese plane of the Leyte campaign, bagging seven of 15 at tackers on the east coast. (A total of 777 Japanese planes have been destroyed by army and carrier - based planes and ack-ack in the Philippines thus far in No vember. an unofficial count shows.) “Compress” Japanese Elements of the 24th and 32nd divisions “further compressed” the Japanese forces at Limon, four miles by road from Carigara Bay, today’s communique said. A road block, established south of the town Byunits of the 24th, was tightened, and “all enemy attempts to run supply trucks through the trapped first division troops has failed.” Remnants of at least a Japanese regiment, It was estimated, are within the squeeze being contract ed by American forces probing the town from the north and the road block. Some Japanese tanks reach ed the trapped forces before the block was tightened. Several hundred Japanese forces were found entrenched in Limon by advance American units who first believed it had been abandoned. The enemy held strong positions in the mountain community, which they had transferred into a fortress aided by defensible terrain, despite persistent American artillery bom bardment. Apparently, the Nippo nese intended to hold out as long (Continued on Page Four; Col. 4) -v JAYCEES AID WAR ON TUBERCULOSIS Eight Committees Appoint-1 ed To Sell Tuberculosis Christmas Bonds The Junior Chamber of Com merce for the first time here will start Monday the sale to tubercu losis Christmas bonds to supple ment funds gathered in the sale of seals, Claud O’Shields, general chairman of the sale, announced yesterday. Members of eight committees, serving under O’Shields, will call upon individuals and business con cerns during the week-long cam paign. The bonds. In denominations from $5 to $1,000, may be framed and kept by the owners as an in dication of their willingness to contribute to fight tuberculosis in New Hanover county. Any persons not contacted by the Jaycees who want to buy bonds will have the entirep rogram explained to them by a personal representative of they write Post Office Box 1523, Wilmington. With the moneys derived from the sale of bonds and stamps, which go on sale Nov. 27, the New frrnntinned on Paere Two: Col. 6) RiversAndHarborsMeasure, With$l,571,000 InLocalProjects, To Be Taken Up Wednesday By ALLEN J. GREEN Star-News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. — The $498,000,000 Rivers and Harbors bill, with $1,571,000 in projects for Wilmington and southeastern North Carolina, is scheduled to be taken up by the Senate Wednesday in a final effort at passage before the omnibus measure expires with the end of the 78th Con gress Jan. 3. Before the hill comes to the floor, however, the Senate must dispose of the $993,966,000 Flood Control bill which contains $46,980,000 in flood control and power projects for the Roanoke river and Yadkin-Pee Dee river basins. A third factor affecting the bill is the controversial St. Lawrence Seaway project, long urged by President Roosevelt. Gen. George D. Aiken (S-Vt.) has threatened to attach the St. Lawrence project to the rivers and harbors measure as » rider, when it reaches the floor. If Sen. Aiken is success ful, proponents #f the rivers and harbors legislation feel that the measure may be de feated. On its own merits, the rivers and harbors bill must pass the Semite, pass a joint conference committee o! both the Senate and the House, and receive final approval from both houses — all before Congress leaves for the Christmas re cess. If the bill fails to com plete passage, it must start up the long and Involved trail of re-introduction in the House, committee hearings, and final passage all over ag^in in Jan uary. Sen. Josiah W. Bailey, chair man of the Senate Commerce committee, said yesterday that there was no controversy over sections ' the omnibus mea sure which provide for im provements for North Carolina waterways and harbors. Al though he may be called back to Chicago, where he is a Sen ate delegate to the International Air conference, before the bill (Continued on Page Two: Col. 2) Nazis Decide On Fight To Death In Streets And Houses Of Metz By KENNETH D. DIXON ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF BETZ, Nov. 18. — m — The fortress City of Metz became a battlefield today. As American infantry pushed into the city with the support of tanks this morning it was clear that the German de fenders had decided on a bat tle to the death in the streets and houses of Metz. I saw streams of American foot soldiers flowing around the fortresses which guard the city and which are still man ned by a motley group of Ger man draftees and SS guard fanatics who spur them on. I saw the doughboys fighting their way under a terrific artil lery crossfire from those forts and advance beyond the Fresc aty airport and up Nascaty streets. Causalties are heavy because the Germans are do ing more than simply holding out in their forts. They are fighting well and shooting with deadly accuracy. But the Ver dun group of forts and Fort St. Privat southwest of the city are surrounded by the 11th regiment of the Fifth division. Even after they passed the crossfire from the fortresses the foot soldiers were taking casualties. Along Nanziger street, which parallels Frescaty street stretching toward the heart of Metz, their inching progress finally was halted by _ machinegun and mortar fire from houses. “That's why we sent tanks in,” said Lt. Col. Homer C. (Doc) Ledbetter, regimental ex ecutive officer and a former football coach at Hobbs, N. M. “The only way we can get them out of the houses is to blow them out, so we’re doing that,” Lt. Col. Phillip Merrill of Greenbay, Wis., said. I watched them blowing out the Nazis along Nanziger street near the railroad Marshalling yards. The tanRs rumbled by us, some of them falling by the roadside as artillery shells from the fortresses scored. But (Continued oil Page Four; Col. 7) Reds ’ Encircling Movement Near Budapest Threatens ViennaRoad - i SHIPYARD AWARD TO BE PRESENTED N. C. Company To Receive OCD Security Honor At Launching Thursday The North Carolina Shipbuilding company will be presented the Na tional ’'Security Award, given for excellent safeguards against air at tack, sabotage, fire and accidents, at the launching of the U. S. S. Un ion Thursday afternoon with Gov ernor J. Melville Broughton sche duled to make the principal address during the ceremonies. Announcement of the award was made several weeks ago by state Office of Civilian Defense officials but formal presentation was delay ed until Governor Broughton could be present. Hie U. O. O. tJlllUii, uauicu aai honor of the progressive North Car olina county, will be christened by Mrs. W. 0. Burgin, of Lexington, wife of the representative of the Eighth North Carolina district in congress. The craft will be the 26th AKA type combat cargo ship to near completion here and the 188th vessel to go down the yard’s ways. Mrs. Burgin’s attendants will be Mrs. Floyd Goodson, Jr., of Lex ington; Mrs. J. Ray Shute, of Mon roe, wife of the chairman of the board of Union county commission ers, and Miss Bess Reid Houston, of Monroe. The presentation program will be opened at 5:13 o’clock by introduc tion of Sheriff C. David Jones, of Wilmington, assistant chairman of the Office of Civilian Defense in New Hanover county, by an official of the shipyard. Sheriff Jones will present Roy MacMillan, of Raleigh, state OCD chairman. Mr. MacMillan will present the National Security award and flag with Captain Roger Williams, pres ident, accepting in behalf of the shipbuilding company. Captain Wil liams will introduce Governor Broughton, who is expected to re view the yard’s accomplishments in the war effort since it launched its first Liberty ship on Dec. 6, 1941. His address will be followed by the christening of the ship by Mrs. Burgin at 5:45 o’clock. Among prominent Army and Navy officers and citizens expected to attend will be Col. W. S. Pritch ard, of Fort Bragg, commanding second district, Fourth Service command, Captain F. D. Pryor, USN (Ret.), Sixth Naval district, (Continued on Page Seve*; Col. 3) GAIN FOUR MILES Hatvan, Key To Axis De fenses East Of Capital, Under Heavy Fire By RICHARD KASISCHKE LONDON, Sunday, Nov. 19.—(J)— Russian tanks and infantry smash ed four miles through German lines 15 miles northeast of Budapest yes terday in a powerful encircling movement which swept to with in 19 miles of the Vienna high road running along the Danube riv er north of the besieged Hungarian capital, Moscow announced last night. Hatvan, German key to all Axis defenses east of Budapest, and the intermediate junctions of Aszod and Godollo on a 26-mile front between Hatvan and Budapest, were under Soviet artillery fire and threatened with imminent capture by Red army tank and infantry teams, the bulletin disclosed. Column Strikes One Soviet column struck to with in three miles northeast of Hatvan with the seizure of Hort as other Soviet groups attacked from the east and south. Five miles southwest of Hatvan another column rolled through Tura in a by-passing blow at Aszod, six miles beyond, and a third mecha nized group overran the village of Valko, Only 15 miles northeast of the capital and within seven miles of Godollo junction. The third column threatened to break through to the Danube’s banks just above the capital, a ma neuver which would surround the eastern half of Budapest on t h e left bank of the Danube and at the same time put the Russians astride roads leading to Austria and Czechoslovakia. Hatvan, one of the main junctions through which the Germans have been rushing reinforcements into Budapest, already was largely neu (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 7) TELEPHONE STRIKE SPREADS IN OHIO Cleveland Operators Will Walk On* As Soon As Picket Lines Set Up COLUMBUS, 0., Nov. 18 —«* The strike of Ohio telephone opera tors spread to the populous north ern industrial belt tonight wher Mrs. Lena Eiser.hart, president oj the Northeastern Ohio Traffic coun cil of the Telephone Workers union announced that 1,300 Cleveland op erators would walk out as soon as picket lines could be established. Mrs. Eisenhart said that a mem bership meeting of the Akron coun cil, representing some 300 opera tors, was in progress, and thal she expected to receive word “very shortly’’ from union local meetings at Canton and Youngstown. Union operators in 20 cities al ready were out, 19 of them in sup port of a strike called by the Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers at Dayton early yesterday in opposi tion to use of out-of-town personnel there by the Ohio Bell Telephone Co. R. G. Pollock, president of the federation, told a regional WLB board at Cleveland that he was powerless to order the operators back to their boards and added he believed the only solution was for the Ohio Bell to remove its transferees out o¥ Dayton. Then, he said, the independent union woulu negotiate. Pollock was called before the board to show why a back-to-work order issued yesterday ,-,was not complied with. Long distance ser vice has been hampered severely in all cities, and local service crippled in those communities where there is no automatic dial system. F. R. Group Finds Living Costs Climb 30 Per Cent — -T FRENCH IN PACIFIC PARIS, Nov. 18. —(/P)— French naval units already are participat ing in the Pacific war against Ja pan, the navy ministry announced, tonight, naming the 1,969-ton sloops Savorgnan de Brazza and La Gran diere as among French vessels in the far east. WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.— UP> — President Roosevelt’s special com mittee to investigate the wartime rise in living costs reported today that for the hulk of wage earners it amounts to 29 to 30 per cent. Rejecting union labor claims that the rise is about 44 per cent, Chairman William H. Davis, with two industry members concurring “in the main,” concluded that 3 1-2 to 4 1-2 percentage points should be added to the 25.5 per cent increase shown by the bureau of labor statistics index as of last Sept. 15. The two labor members, though not agreeing with Davis’ conclu sions, pointed to them, neverthe less, as support for AFL and CIO arguments that wage controls should be eased. In a letter to the President George Meany of the AFL propos ed specifically that the “Little Steel” formula be relaxed to per mit wage increases of 30 per cent about the January, 1941, level. The formula limits general wage in creases to 15 per cent above that base date. Davis’ report emphasized that the Bureau of Labor Statistics (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) CUT DEEP SALIENT TOWARD' ROER Three-Army Attack On 30 Mile Front One Of War'* Greatest Drives BY EDWARD KENNEDY SUPREME HEADQUAR TERS ALLIED EXPEDI TIONARY FORCE, Sunday, Nov. 19.—(IF)—One British and two American armies were smashing their way to ward the heart of the Rhine land today in one of the greatest battles of the war against German resistance stiffened by desperation. The American Ninth and British Second armies, in a collaboration so close thatjt was described here a» “a blended operation,” had driv en a deep salient toward the river Roer between Geilen kirchen and Aachen. On their right flank, southeast of Aachen, the American first Ar my was making slow but steady progress against the grimmest sort of enemy opposition. This three-army attack on a front some 30 miles wide develop ed into one of the war’s biggett Olives. Fight Into Metz Farther south the American third army also had invaded the Retch and had fought into the French fortress city of Metz. The Ameri can Seventh ane French First Ar mies recorded good gains in the Vosges and Belfort regions. It was the great Rhineland drive, however, that held the spotlight. The best weather since the sart of the western front offensive en abled both strategic and tactical air forces to give their strongest support yet to the ground forces. Ninth air force Lightnings and Thunderbolts attacked as close as 200 yards ahead of the trops in bitter fighting east of Aachen. Fighter bombers intervened in at least one tank battle in that area, striking German armor at such close range that the pilot* reported seeing the grass wilt be fore the muzzle-fire of the tank guns. Cut Main Road The Allied troops, wheeling inta Germany after their descent from the north, spread over the Geil enkirchen area, cut the main road to the north, captured Niederheide, reached the outskirts of Prum mern, two miles east of Geilen* kirchen, and captured Puffendorf, 4 1-2 smiles southeast of Geilen* kirchen in what was described as “blended operations” by British and Americans. To the southeast of Aachen American First army forces made new gains up to a kilometer against heavy artillery and mor tar fire in the Wurselen area and up to two kilometers around Stol berg, while in the Hurtgen forest other-First army troops adyanced rrV> i rtf I B barbed wire. To the south, Lt. Gen. Georg# S. Patton’s U. S. Third army swept into the Reich in force and began house-to-house warfare inside the fortress city of Metz in France. The break across the border wa« made near Perl, near where the territories of France, Luxembourg and Germany meet and it carried Third army units a mile inside Germany. They are pointed toward the Saar basin. Still farther south the French First army smashed deep into the Belfort gap after taking the strong point of Montbeliard, where 7,000 Germans were captured, and en emy dispositions were up set along a 25-mile sector. French Reach Delle The French tonight were report ed to have reached Delle, 10 miles southeast of Belfort on the Swiss frontier. They are less than five miles from Belfort southwest of that city. The American Seventh army in gains up to two miles captured the Muerthe river town of Raon 1# Tape, continued pressure at St. Die, and saw nine villages—Moy enmoutier, La Hollande, Etival, Marzelay, Tetedesan-Roche, Grat in, Rabache, Remenix, and La Planchette — go up in flames as the Germans applied the scorched earth policy before retiring. While the drive through the Aachen gateway obviously was the biggest of the Allied pushes, the potential manace of the others is a problem to the hard-pressed Ger» (Continued on Page Four) Col. 8)
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