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0 BERN GIRL ffEDSJNEUROPE ,RIS D^- 3- CP> Eleanot Nunn. Hed Cross worker at cd\o a medical battalion, be <!che the bride of Lt. Col. Storei C,#!C , Humphreys, personal lia ^officer to the Chief Surgeor & European war theater, Maj ? 13 paul R. Hawley, in a double Ce5' ceremony last night in the ■a tan Holy Trinity Cathedral P?^ide the daughter of Judge Romuiu Nunn, 6 New Pd : New Bern, N. C., is a grad f::ee nf the University of North t»!e.“ She has been overseas American Red Cross since C»-' j942. 5£ccrn f'0Tn is the son of Mrs. ^ Humphreys, 155 High Road, *I,;1.,irv Mass. He is a graduate ^ i/a’nd served with the Royal Medical corps before the fena° , the United States into the transferred to the Ameri v?ar. rte " 9 1 Armv in ,7-t-. cajA uawlcv gave the bride Ge”' it Col. E. R. Carter, as chief chaplain in the Euro 88 theater performed the cere ir.oay-_v_-_ CHANGE IN NAZI ATTITUDE IN WAR SHOWN BY PAPER DOME Dec. 3.—UP)—An indica . 1,'soffie Germans are losing L desire to die for the father ,was given today in a "Reich threr bulletin” issued offi f“s oniy of the 16th SS Panzer Grenadier division in taly. -We must not lie to ourselves and sav there are hopeless posi tions which justify our surrender ing " the captured document said. "Tlie German soldier does not sur render. Unfortunately in many iases it has been shown we are not prepared to face this truth. Some 0f ns begin to lie as the Italians did. -Some Germans in the fron line and at home have become soft. Hasn't it actually happened that soldiers have actually thrown stray their weapons? Let’s get the iron broom and clean up the mess behind our lines.” -V Archibald Rutledge, Southern Author, To Serve Hall Of Fame McCLELLANSVILLE, S. C., Dec. [-Ui-A’-chibald Rutledge, South Carolina's poet laureate, said at to Hampton plantation home near tore today he had accepted ap pointment as one of the nation’s 100 electors for the Hall of Fame at Mete York University, New York City. Electors decide eligibility of can didates to the ha>l which was found ed in 1900 to perpetuate the names of 150 Great Americans. Selections Itr the hall, made at intervals, will oe completed about the year 2000. -_V BALL TO SPEAK CHAPEL HILL, Dec. 3.—UP)— Sen. Joseph Ball (R-Minnl, who broke from his party at the 11th boar to vote for President Roose relt in last month's election, will ■‘Peak at the University of North Carolina next Thursday night. **•&}*•<* “—— DEGAULLE SEEKS RED FRIENDSHIP MOSCOW, Dec. 3.—i!PI—Gen. df Gaulle told Moscow’s French colony at an embassy reception today that be came to Moscow “to tighten and clarify French-Soviet friendship not only for a victorious war but also in order to work together for a lasting peace." Frenchmen oi all ages and occu pations gatherer! to meet the head cf the French government, here for discussions with Premier Stalin, a? the embassy. DeGaulle, smiling, bowing and shaking hands, gave each guest an individual greeting. In an impromp tu address, he said he was especial ly happy to know the French citi zens here “when we see the dawn of victory now.” “The majority of Frenchmen here today,” he continued, “have shared in the difficult moments of war in the U. S. S. R.—in Moscow during bnmbardmen+s, in planes flying with the Soviet air forces, as mem bers of patriot forces fighting be hind enemy lines.” When the uniformed leader at tended mass at the candlelit church ot the French this morning, an Am erican priest officiated and deliver ed a special prayer for deGaulle. -V FILM RIf-HTS BOUGHT Warner Brothers Buys Script To ‘Life With Father’ NEW YORK, Dec. 3.— (fP) Jack L. Warner, executive producer of Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc., confirmed today the firm’s pur chase of the film rights to “Life With Father.” the Howard Lind say-Russel Crouse play based on the Clarence Day stories, now in its sixth year on Broadway. He said the arrangements call for an advance of $500,000 against royalties on the picture’s gross take, and that the final price would set an all-time high for the pur chase of a play. The picture, to be made in color, will not be released before 1947, Warner said. v -y Dr. David McKinley, . Illinois University Official Dies At 83 CHAMPAIGN, 111., Dec. 3.—UP)— Ur. David Kinley, president emer tus of the University of Illihois, -ijed here today. He was 83 years ,ld. Kinley served as president of he University of Illinois from ’.920 to 1930. He joined the faculty as assistant professor of econo my and social science, in 1893, and was retired in 1930. As an economist he was credited with being an international author ity on money and banking. CHERRYTO OUTLINE PROGRAM FOR HEALTH IN SCHOOL CHILDREN WILSON. Dec. 3.— (jW—Governor Elect R. Gregg Cherry will out line a program for the health of the State’s school children at the opening session of the Seaboard Medical Society of Virginia and North Carolina here Tuesday night. Approximately 300 representa tives of the socicetv are expected to attend the conference which will end Thursday. Dr. Paul Whitaker of Kinston, Dresident of the State Medical So city, will also address the open ing session of the convention, and Dr. C. W. Goodwin, president of the Wilson County Medical Socie ty, with M. A. Pittman, president of the Seaboard group, will pre side. The scientific program of the convention will began Wednesday morning and election of officers and selection of next year’s meet ing place will take place Thurs day. _v RATION ROUNDUP By The Associated Press Meats, Fats, Etc-—Book Four red stamps A8 through Z8 and A5 through So valid indefinitely. No more will be validated until De cember 31. Processed Foods. — Book Four blue stamps A8 through Z8, A5 through Z5 and A2 and B2 valid indefinitely. No more will be validated until January 1. Sugar.—Book Four stamps 30 through 34 good indefinitely for five pounds each. Samp 40 good for five pounds for home canning through February 28. 1945. Shoes. — Book Three airplane stamps 1, 2 and 3 valid indefinite ly Gasoline.—13A coupons good ev erywhere for four gallons through December 21. B4, C4. B5 and C5 coupons good everywhere for five gallons. Fuel Oil.—Old Period Four and Five coupons good throughout current heating season. New per iod one coupons also valid now and good through heating year. -V Charles C Cargill. 81, Former Print.ers> Grouo President Dies In Fla. ~t HOLLYWOOD Fla.. Dec. 3.—— Charles C. Cargill, 81. past presi dent of the National Printers As sociation, died late yesterday in a local hospital after a long illness. Cargill came to Hollywood seven years ago from Grand Rapids. Mch. where he owned the printing and engraving firm that bore his name, and founded and owned the firm of Eivans Winters Hebb, printers and engravers. The body will be sent to Grand Rapids for burial. VIENNA SECTION BOMBED BY U. S. LONDON, Dec. 3. —LP— Flying Fortresses and Liberators of the U. S. 15th Air Force in Italy ham mered targets in the Vienna area today, continuing a weekend scourg ing of German industries and trans ports. The planes, bombing by instru ment, encountered little flak or fighter opposition in the sweep to Vienna. They sent the weekend sor ties into the Reich from Britain and Italy well above the 2,000 mark despite unfavorable weather. Satur day’s operations cost the Germans at least 42 fightei planes. A gray, wintry overcast kept British-based American and RAF planes under wraps Sunday after they had poured some 6,000 tons of bombs on five German industrial ci ties near the Western front in a 12 hour period. Last night probably 600 British heavyweights spilled about 3.500 tons of explosives on Hagen, an im portant railway center in the Ruhr, and Giessen, another rail hub, 35 miles north of Framhurt. Speedy RAF Mosquitos spotted an ammunition train steaming into the station at Papenburg, southeast of Ernden. last night and destroyed it with gunfire. While more than 250 Liberators and Fortresses of the U. S. Eighth Air Force were hitting jam-packed railyards at the Rhine cities of Co blenz and Bingen yesterday, their escort of 550 fighters tackled for mations of 20 to 50 German planes and shot down 28. Meanwhile, British Lancasters bombed the big Benzol producing plant at Dortmund in the Ruhr and American heavy bombers based in Italy made the aerial offensive a two-ply affair by attacking Nazi fuel and rail targets from the east. -V Synthetic Rubber Plant Strikers To Begin Work LAKE CHARLES, La., Dec. 3.— CP)—Orval Inge, business agent of the Lake Charles Metal Trade Council (AFL) said today that workers of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. synthetic rubber plant here will return to work on the midnight shift tonight. At a meeting this afternoon, at tended by 428 of the approximately 500 workers who left their jobs yes terday, it was decided to acceed to the War Labor Board request that they return to work by Monday morning. Union officials had said the walk-out, which threatened to halt all operations of the $20,000,000 war plant, resulted from a “disagree ment over working conditions.” Regional WLB officials said yes terday a new contract was being negotiated and ordered the men back to work by Monday. Five Held In Lublin Deaths To Be Hanged LONDON, Dec. 3.—(#)—The Mos cow radio said tonight that all five defendants in the Masdenek concentration camp atrocity trial at Lublin, Poland, had been sen tenced to hang. Their execution will be public. The radio said a ■sixth defendant had hanged himself in his cell during the trial. In the trial, which began Novem ber 27. representatives of the Soviet-Polish commission which investigated the German camp testified that 1,500.000 bodies had been exhumed from mass graves there. --V Five French Battalions Are (V Off. Nazis Say LONDON. Monday. Dec. 4.—(iP) The German Transocean news p.gencv early today claimed that five French battalions were cut off after a German counterattack had destroyed a bridge over the Hueningen canal, five miles north of Basel. Units of the Fourth Moroccan and Ninth Colonial Divisions had thrust across the canal to the ■ Mulhouse-Nuernburg railway be fore being halted and cut off, the : Nazi agency said. ] -V BUY ANOTHER BOND TODAY ’ GEORGIA OFFICIAL FAVORS DISCOUNT ON FOREIGN DEBT WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—GT*)— The theory that 'we can't afford to allow foreign countries to pay their debts to us” was advanced today by Georgia’s agricultural commis sioner, Tom Linder. ‘‘This is a new concept of econo my, but the reason for it is sim ple,” Linder told a reporter. ‘‘These countries pay off in goods. Thus, every item imported to our country cuts our production just that much, because we limit it in order to forestall surpluses. “Our national income is seven times our farm income. Therefore, it is seven times cheaper to give away our good than to sell them and accept imports in return. “The only things we can trade profitably are those which we do not have in abundance — and they are mighty few because we have a virtually complete economy with in our borders.” Linder offered his views when asked about an international agreement on cotton, which is ex pected to be proposed at the Na tional Cotton Conference opening here tomorrow. -V Army Identifies Fliers Killed In Iowa Accident SIOUX CITY, la., Dec. 3.— UP) — Identity of nine Army airmen, killed when a Sioux City, Iowa, based bomber crashed in the resi dential district here last night were made known today by Col. Wallace S. Dawson, commandant, today. Those killed included Flight Of ficer James M. Bell, Lubec, Maine; Cpl. John W. Lancaster, Jr., Raleigh, N. C.; and Pfc. Rob ert E. Klaasen, Tampa, Fla. The bomber crashed at 9 p. m. last night, landing between two houses in a vacant lot. A wing hit one of the houses, in which were three persons. Flames that fol lowed the crash communicated to that structure. Six persons were in the other house. None of the civilians was injured. PRINCE ANDREW DIES Greek And Dane Nobleman, 83, Was Son Of George I PARIS, Dec. 3.—(iP)—Prince An drew, of Greece and Denmark, died at his home at Monte Carlo at the age of 63, according to word re ceived in Paris today. He was the son of King George I of Greece, and an uncle of the present Greek soverign, George II. whose lineage goes back to CVis tian IX of Denmark. LAUNCHING DELAYED Low Tide Blocks Christening Of S. S. Chapel Hill BALTIMORE, Dec. 3. — CP) — Launching of the Chapel.Hill was postponed one day because of low tide, Beihlehem-Fairfield shipyard officials announced. The victory ship, named for the North Carolina town, will be chris tened tomorrow by Miss Betsy Anne Bowman, daughter of a town aider man and junior at the University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill. -V Pone Urges Rome Radio Groun To Assist Truth In Disseminating News VATICAN CITY, Dec. 3.—GP>— Pope Pius, giving an audience to 800 officials and employes of the Rome radio, today urged them to place themselves at the service of truth to fight the hatred which the radio has been used to dissemi nate. The Pontiff said a well directed radio could offer incomparable aid to the progress of civilization. -V RED RING CHAMPION MOSCOW, Dec. 3.—CP)—Nikolai Corolyov, who had been awarded he Order of the Red Banner as a -uerrilla fighter ir the rear of Ger nan armies, won the U. S. S. R. reavyweight boxing championship oday b" defeating Ivan Ogurenkov, vho had held the title 10 years. St. John’s Tavern 114 Orange St. Dial 2-808a DELICIOUS FOOD Chickpn In The Fough — Fridiy tlWOll jf ; ' Bonds Ri olio us Comedy Ilil! 1m R HEARTS WERE fl 101 x< AND gay” I "Hh Gail Russell S Hiana Eynn fl i 'l,«ws- 11:1 !l— i g_ 3.s-, M Held > Over j Times Today J Dorothy Lamour I Eddie Bracken I Oil Lamb I B*rn. Sullivan ^ in “R AINBOW ISLAND’ Radiant Technicolor' EBEip iv; J?ramatlc Love Storv ADE fOR EACH OTHER with Earolc Lombard ■ James Stewart (harles Coburn UcJLfJLLJv Today f^p, Only f Kiazin5 with Fury j ;l,,d Emotion! I Henry Fonda Maureen O’Hara 'h,nmas Mitchell in ’ --OKTAL SERGEANT’ ■Hi Allyn Joslyn Reds Crashing Through Hungary After smashing across the Danube river near Mohacs (lower ar row) and expanding their new Danube bridgehead, the big Russian ouensive in Hungary virtually encircled the fortress city of Miskolc. rr.j?«^tds are rtri'mg^directly for the Autrian border and, weather per cxP_ect s00n to be marching on Vienna. Efforts to encircle Bu dapest continue meanwhile from both northeast and the south. (Int.) Paddy9 Driscoll's Boys Swing Into Action Again By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE A U. S. INFANTRY COMMAND POST IN GERMANY. Dec. 3.— W— Infantrymen commanded by 29-year old Lt.-Col. Edmund F. (Paddy) Driscoll of Lynbrook, N. Y., took the town of Luchem by storm to day in an assauP that went through the pitch darkness at 6 a.m. Driscoll’s men—his junior oom manders were Captains Frank Kolb of Paducah. Ky., and John Winter of Topeka, Kan? —jumped off from near Langerwehe and their capture of Luchem represented an advance of half a mile. It was not the dreary little Jer ry town that was important in this operation, however. It was the fact that the men of one of our oldest and finest infantry outfits were on the march again—and this warm ing fact went all up and down the line. For the outfit Driscoll’s group represents is legendary all through the First Army, and when it is stalled or suffers some reverses—1 as it has in the immediate past— tnere is sometimes a dispropor tionate amount of gloom among other divisions. And Luchem was defended hotly with everything the Germans had— earthworks, antitank guns, mortars and all the rest—plus extraordinary enemy air power. On this bleak and sunless day, German planes were up in heavy numbers. Before noon, 84 had beer counted over one sector, while gui planes were held on the ground by bad weather. This command post, in fact, twice has been strafed this afternoon by Jfesserschmitt 109’s — five each time. But for all that, it is a cheerful command post, the most cheerful I have seen in seme time. For in this action, small in itself, it has been demonstrated again that while the German is good, and every body knows that he is very good, ovr infantry is still able to throw him back, given equal luck. ' --—v --- ^ «****«, 11 Yank Adds DSC To List Of High Army Awards WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.— iff) — Captain Maurice L. (“Footsie”) Britt now has the Distinguished Service Cross to go with the Con gressional Medal of Honor and the Silver Star. The War Department, announc ing the largest award today, said Britt is believed to be the first soldier in this war to win all three awards. Britt, who made football fame at the University of Arkan sas and later as a pro with the Detroit Lions, is a resident of Lo noke, Ark. The infantry officer is on ter minal leave, preparing to retire from the Army. He lost his right arm and suffered other wounds in the Italian campaign. The DSC was awarded him for extraordinary heroism in action on January 24 of this year near Campo Morto, Italy. His company of the 30th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, was pinned down by fire from ail sides. Britt moved into an exposed position only 75 yards from the enemy line and from there directed mor tar and artillery fire. An enemy tank crew opened fire on him, but he directed an American tank de stroyer's gunfire at the tank, which withdrew. He then raced across to a house and set up ma chine gun fire from a window, helping fire the gun until all visi ble enemy soldiers had been kill ed or driven to cover. Britt took over direction of mortar and tank destroyer fire which knocked out three enemy machine guns, two personnel carriers and several mortars. Finally, he led his men in an attack. The Silver Star, Britt’s first dec oration, was won at Acerna, Italy, in September, 1943. The Nation’s highest award, the Medal of Honor, went to him for stopping, virtually single-handed, a German counterattack near Mount Rotun d.o, in Italy, which threatened to isolate an entire infantry batta lion. To the combat awards, Britt has added a number of other decorations, including the Purple Heart with three oak leaf clusters for four battle wounds; the Mili tary Cross of the British Empire; Combat Infantry Badge and a Dis tinguished Unit Badge. . V. Tokyo Raid Chief Tells The Story X XXXV JUS4 ACTRESS MARRIES ROOSEVELT’S SON GRAND CANYON, Ariz., Dec. S. _UP)— Col. Elliott Roosevelt and Movie Actress Faye Emerson were married in a glass-enclosed obser vation station on the rim of the Crand Canyon today in what the bride called “probably the most beautiful wedding there ever was.” The president’s 34-year-old sec ond son and the 27-year-old coppery blonde graduate of Little Theaters recited their vows at 9 a m. before a large window overlooking the magnificent chasm. Blankets of snow and swirling mist partly con cealed its famed hues. The tem perature outside was 29 degrees. “Our marriage means so much to us both that we wanted to begin it as beautifully as possible.” the bride told reporters afterward. The Rev. Roger Sawyer, pastor ot a Williams. Ariz., Methodist Cnurch. performed the eight-minute ceremony as a few friends stood by. Miss Emerson was attended by Mrs. Joseph B. Livengood of Los Angeles, a granddaughter of the late opera star, Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink. Maid of honor was 10-year-old Chandler Roosevelt, daughter of Col. Roosevelt by the second of his two previous marriages. Best man was Jack Frye, presi dent of Transcontinental and Wes (ern Air, Inc. Miss Emerson was given in marriage by John Meyer, a mutual friend who introduced the bridal couple at a dinner party in his Los Angeles home in September, 1943. -V NORTH CAROLINIAN HONORED WASHINGTON. Dec. 3. —UP)— Pvt. Frank D. Atkins of Draper, N. 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A first hand account of the Nov. 23 raid on Tokyo is given to corrc- ! spondents on Saipan by the leader of the mission, Brig. Gen. Emmett O’Donnel, Jr. (center). Maj. Robert Morgan (left) pilot of Gen. O’Don nell’s superfortress “Dauntless Dotty” and Capt. Vincent Evans, bom bardier, stand by as their chief tells about the raid. Morgan gained fame as a pilot of the flying fortress “Memphis Belle.” (International) r— ---- I Yanks And Germans Play Grim Game For Old Fort By ROBERT C. WILSON A U. S. INFANTRY COMMAND POST OUTSIDE MUTZIG, France, Dec. 3. -CP)—A company of Amer ican doughboys and some Alsatian F. F. I. are playing a grim cat-and mouse game with several hundred Germans holed up in an almost impregnable old fort guarding the Bruche river valley at the eastern edge of the Vosges. The Germans eight days ago slipped into the fort, now far be hind battle lines and although they are not doing any harm there, the Army is making the situation a test tube for the reduction of sim ilarly tough obstacles expected to be met in the Maginot and Sieg fried Lines. Col. William Thomas of Platts burg, N. Y., who was moving his Sixth Corps Engineers into action, said taking such forts is a matter of practice. What makes this a beautiful set-up is that there are two forts, one held by the Germans and another held by the Americans close by. After a tour of the fort we hold, which was built between 1893 and 1894 by the Germans and improv ed 15 years ago by the French, it is easy to understand why it is a waste of time for Thunderbolts to bomb such citadels. It has a ten foot reinforced con crete roof. Lt. Barney Caugler, San Francis co, Calif., moved r. tank within 75 yards and said it took seven shots to put a hole in the wall of three feet of solid concrete. “The intriguing part of this lit tle exercise in fort capturing is that there are supposed to be some important Nazi officials in- • side this one and some leading ' Alsatian collaborators; The civil- ] ians told us that,” Lt. Hi Perga- ; mont, Brooklyn, N. Y., said. “Yes sir,” said Lt. George Peck ] of Durand, Wis., disgustedly “we ; got the bull by the tail and can’t i let go. If there are some fanatical ] Nazi officers in there, they never; will give up. We'll have to kill them.” A Nazi plane swept low over the fort the last two nights. C-apt. Hugh Wardlaw of McComb, Hiss., said it might have been trying to drop supplies to the beseiged Germans, but he didn’t think it had any luck. “The only attacking we are do ing now is dropping a mortar in every few minutes to keep their heads down,” Wardlaw said. “We have had three casualties from sniping. They sneak up on top the fort and fire bazookas at us and occassionally they fire a 105-mil limeter gun, but they are wild shots.” FRENCH SEEK GOODS Relief Head To Ask For 3, 500,000 Vital Tons PARIS, Dec.- 3.—GB—Jean Mon net, French commissioner for re lief and rehabilitation, said today ne would leave soon for London md Washington, seeking shipping space for 3,500,000 tons of goods which he termed vital to France’s iconomy through the winter and spring. This tonnage would be comprls ;d mostly of food, wool, cotton, fertilizer, raw materials for indus ;ry, and materials for putting bat tered ports, railways and facto ries back into full operation, he said. -V MONTGOMERY VISITS KING LONDON, Dec 3.— Wl —Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Mon gom ry recently left his Western front leadquarters to come to London md receive nis field marshal’s >aton from King George VI in a irivate ceremony of presentation at Buckingham Palace, it was an 'ounced tonight. Montgomery was romoted to field marshal August i.
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