FLIER ENVISIONS
CHRISTMAS DAI
(Continued from Page One)
because they know their equipmer
but because they take a persom
pride in everything they do to kee
Punchin’ Judy coming out of he
Saipan corner ready for every nei
round.
“Of course. Boss Raynes and hi
ground crew make all this possibl
by their daily sweating over th
Puncher’s engines and other con
plicated equipment. And do no
think they are forgotten—not whei
the cigars are distributed. All thes
men and many others who drov
the Nips from this island and buil
runways are helping to make thi
new year victorious and its nex
Christmas a happier one for al
#f us.
"You can picture us runninj
around out here on Christmas Da;
in the usual khaki shirt and short:
combination, boning turkey foi
Christmas dinner and getting a bif
surprise out of the packages yoi
have filled to the last officia
ounce. Undoubtedly there will be i
version of eggnog in circulation—
for those who bring thei% own. And,
most surely, a spontaneous Christ
mas carol or two. The chapel tents
will be more than filled—the at
tendance increases with each pass
ing Sunday.
• Though l won t De snaring Ju
dy's first Christmas with you, I
will be happy with this and little
thoughts—you swinging mistletoe
over the unsuspecting in the door
way; you reaching high to put the
Star of Peace atop an evergreen
and you digging Judy out from un
der a pile of bright Christmas
wrappings.
“So many a Merry Christmas to
you and Judy, darlings, and the
proud grandmas and grandpas
whom you will be hostessing at
Christmas dinner.
Love,
Don”
Thompson's crew includes: Co
Pilot, Second Lt. Raymond J.
Rood, Mobile, Ala.; Flight Engi
neer, First Lt. Philip N. “Plumb
er” French, Portsmouth, N. H.;
Bombardier. Second Lt. Charles H.
McKinney, Spencer, Tenn.; Navi
gator, Second Lt. Randall C. May
dew, Salinas, Calif.; Radio Opera
tor. Sgt. Robert J. Strong, Harri
son, N. Y.; Gunners, Sgts. Edwin
Burkhart, Washington, Ind.; Mer
rill W. Staller. Twelve Mile, Ind.;
Dan Bartok, Mt. Olive, 111.; Wil
liam Cloud, Galena Park, Tex.;
Corp. Waterman J. Davis, Sumter,
S. C.. and Crew Chief, Tech. Sgt.
Walter Raynes, of Winfield. West
Va.
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BYRNES STOPS
HORSE RACING
I Continued from Page One)
needed 300,000 more workers than
they have.
The “crackdown” on businesses
which disregard manpower regukt
tions was taken in two steps.
First, Byrnes asked the War
Manpower Commission to intensify
its drive to establish employment
ceilings in areas of labor short*
ages. Under such ceilings, the
WMC tells a business—manufactur
ing plant, laundry or tavern, for
instance—the total number of
workers it may employ.
Then, Byrnes asked the War Pro
duction Board to put “teeth” into
the manpower regulations since the
Manpower Commission has no au
thority itself to enforce its ceilings.
The WPB did this by invoking for
the first time in the war its broad
priority powers.
These permit it to withhold from
a business materials, transporta
tion and any other product subject
to priority control.
As invoked, the WPB can use the
power whenever it “makes a find
ing that materials or facilities are
not being used most effectively
for the prosecution of the war as
a result of failure to comply with
an employment ceiling or hiring
regulat'on of the War Manpower
Commission.”
The WPB announced these con
trolling policies:
Before action against an employ
er, the Manpower Commission
must certify that he has refused to
comply with a ceiling or hiring
regulation “within reasonable time
after he has been notified of his
failure to do so.”
After such certification, hearings
will be ordered before a compli
ance commissioner to determine
whether there is proof of failure to
comply.
Only in event the commissioner
found such proof would the WPB’s
priority sanctions be applied.
In creating this machinery,
Byrnes noted in a statement that
the purpose of the ceilings is to as
sure that war plants get sufficient
manpower.
“The vast majority of establish
ments and employes throughout
the nation are cooperating whole
heartedly with the War Manpow
er Commission in accepting em
ployment ceilings as essential to
war production,” he said.
“I am sure that we can con
tinue to establish these ceilings
in most instances through nego
tiations with the establishments
and services concerned and with
their employes on a voluntary
basis.
“However, I am unwilling to ask
for the voluntary acceptance of
ceilings by the many withopj be
ing prepared to take positive
measures to enforce ceiling's on
the very few who are unwilling
to thus contribute to our war gi,
fort. I am sure that our people
want and expect our war plants
to be fully manned.”
' Obituaries
MRS. CAMMIE WELLS
Funeral services for Mrs. Cam
mie Wells. 49. of Rocky Point,
who died at 7:30 p. m. Thursday
in James Walker Memorial hos
pital, will be held today at 3:30
p. m. in the home of her daugh
ter, Mrs. E. M. Westbrook, of
Castle Hayne.
The Rev. C. C. Myers and the
rtev. C. R. Taylor will officiate.
Interment will follow at the Guyton
family cemetery in Rocky Point.
JOSEPH HALL McGOWEN
Joseph Hall McGowen, 78, died
yesterday morning in his home in
Watha after a long illness.
He is survived by two daughters.
Mrs. M. B. Daniels, of Wilson, and
Mrs. H. C. Player, of Fayetteville:
one son, Joseph H. McGowen. of
Watha. one sister. Mrs. J. O. Bryan
of Chattanooga, Tenn.. and one
brother, W. B. McGowen, of Tur
key, as well as by eight grand
children.
Funeral services will be held to
day at 3 p. m. in his home. Inter
ment will be at the Mt. Holly ceme
tery near Watha.
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Service on 134 miles of rail lines
in the Dominican Republic was sus
pended in 1941 and the roadbeds
were converted into highways.
RUSSIANS GAIN
IN WEST DRIVE
(Continued from Page One)
tacks of large formations of ene
my tanks and inflicted heavy
losses in manpower and equip
ment.”
Among the Hungarian towns
which the Russians listed as cap
tured along the Ipoly river was
Tolges, 100 miles southeast of
Vienna and but 72 from Bratislava,
capital of the German puppet state
of Slovakia.
Southwest of Budapest, on the
front between the Danube and
Lake Balaton, the Russians an
nounced they again had gone on
the offensive in the area of the
city of Szekesfehervar and now
were engaged in heavy fighting
with large enemy tank and in
fantry formations.
The Germans acknowledged Fri
day that the Russians were only
two miles from Szekesfehervar.
Saturday night they said these at
tacks had "'increased to unparal
leled strength.” and estimated
that on that front and in the Ipoly
Sag sector the Red Army was
using 18 infantry divisions and
three mechanized corps.
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BLY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
CITY PUBLISHES s
YEARLY REVIEW i
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(Continued from Page One)
ditures, presented in percentages, *
the booklet contains a brief but '
definitive account of the city fi- '
nance department’s accomplish
ments during the fiscal year. Wil
mington is shown to be safely in '
the black, with an operating sur- *
plus of $96,198 and a cash balance,
including special funds, of $312,
396. 1
The city’s sinking fund, building j
toward the retirement of $1,000,000 *
in bonds due to mature in 1948 and i
1955, has grown fourfold in three
years and stands now at $613,509.
The bonded debt has been raised
$600,000 by the issuance of low in
terest waterworks bonds and low
ered by the calling in of old bonds.
The civic minded resident will
swell with pride to read (on page
11) that his city’s real and per
sonal property, in toto, is valued at
$41,943,724. The tax-rate on this,
incidentally has been lowered from
$1.40 to $1.35 per hundred dollars,
despite increased operating costs.
Partially responsible for this was
the collection of $144,151 in back
taxes this year.
Handling the swollen war-time
population of the city has brought
in its train new municipal moves
varying from the employment of a
full time juvenile court case-work
er to the letting of the largest sin
gle engineering contract in Wil
mington’s history, the order to lay
the King’s Bluff pipeline over 15
miles of troublesome terrain in
search of a new supply of salt-free
water. The estimate on this was
$1,325,000.
Rivalling this was another water
and sewerage project, the construc
tion, completed recently, of the
John H. Sweeney filtration plant
and pumping station, for which he
Federal government put up half
the $640,000 cost and which met
and mastered its first emergency
in a matter of days thereafter—a
December fresnet whose 6,200,000
gallons of water in a single day
would have swamped the old 5,
OOO.OOO-gallon plant.
In the report, described by au
thor Rippy as an attempt to give
Wilmington citizens a fair, accu
rate and comprehensible account
of city department functions and
the disposition of taxpayers’ mon
ey, provocative details of the
workings of the engineering, re
creation, protective inspection and
city-planning departments, as
well as those mentioned.
There is also a complete roster
of boards and administrative
workers and more than a hint of
what the municipality intends to
do in the postwar era.
The booklet was produced by
Jackson and Bell, Wilmington
printers.
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Michael Arlen the English nove
list, was born Dikran Kuyumjian,
at Rustchuk, Bulguria, Of Armen
ian parents.
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‘Too Bloody Obstinate’
To Give An Inch, Yank
Jroup Defies Nazi Push
WITH AMERICAN ARMIES ON
THE WESTERN FRONT. Dec. 23.
—(A3)—“Too olocdy obstinate’’ to
give an inch, embattled American
Doughboys held a solid line on the
northern flank of the German
penetration inio Belgium this morn
ing despite powerful and repeat
ed attacks.
On the southern falnk, the situa
tion was more fluid, witfi another
town reported in enemy hands and
Field Marshal von Rundstedt in
creasing his tank pressure at this
point of the slowing drive.
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I Medal Is Given To Hero’s Widow |
The posthumous award of a Distinguished Servi ce Cross, second highest Army honor, to Capt. John
R. Garrabrant, of Wilmington, is pictured here in the recent presentation of the medal to his widow,
Mrs. Emily Reckling Garrabrant, by Brig. Gen. J ohn T. Kennedy, Fort Bragg commander. Present at
the ceremony in the First Presbyterian church were (left to right, background) Norwood Westbrook,
the Rev. Dr. William Crowe, Jr., Robert Strange, M r. and Mrs. E. C. Garrabrant. the captain’s parents,
and his younger brother Billy, and Mrs. R. C. Cantwell, his sister. (Army Signal Corps photo)
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HOLIDAY STORE HOURS:
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9 A. M. to 1 P. M.
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Monday, December 25th
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Tuesday, Dec. 26th
Open 8 A. M. — Usual Hours
108 N. FRONT ST.
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I if we could turn old Santa loose, 'with in*
structions to be particularly good to each
of those who have been so thoughtful of
us, we believe the jolly old gentleman
would have a difficult time in getting
around this year.
That's why we are so anxious to extend
our sincere good wishes to all, and to
wish for you and yours all the joys and
happiness that you so richly deserve.
16 S. Front St.
Deep in our hearts, each of us has a secret Christmas
hope. What more can we wish you, than that your
hope come true? And for the coming year we’d like
to see the fulfillment of every desire you hold dear.
THE SEASON’S GREETINGS TO ALL!
108 North Front
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