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USO CLUB MAKES HOUSING APPEAL Dreams of returning home to their wives and perhaps to babies they have never seen are being rudely shattered for servicemen now arriving here from overseas battlefields, Miss Elizabeth Ma con, director of the USO Travel ers Aid, which handles housing for newcomers to Wilmington, said yesterday. "Scores of these men, many of them wearers of the Distinguished Flying Cross and other awards,” Miss Mason declared, “will be re turning to Camp Davis on the ro tation plan and are finding that householders here are not opening them homes to them because they have children, or, being service men, they may not be permanent residents.” "The uppermost thought in the minds of men overseas is to get back home again to their families ‘‘but many of them are doomed to disappointment. One soldier just returned from a year over seas, whose wife lives in New Jer sey because he cannot rent an apartment here, has seen his wife only six days in the eighteen months they have been married. Another young serviceman has been hunting fruitlessly for a room or apartment so he can bring his wife and baby son, whom he has never seen, to Wilmington to be near him while he is stationed at ■ Camp Lejeune. "These boys have taken every thing the enemy could throw at them on the battlefield, but per haps it’s a little more than they can take to find that the folks at home discriminate against them because they're soldiers and fa thers,” she said. Persons having vacant apart ments or rooms with kitchen priv ileges are urged by Miss Mason to list these with the USO Travel ers Aid, 402 North Front street, telephone 2-2221. -V RED CROSS AIDS WILMINGTON POW Representative of the great serv ice being rendered servicemen from Wilmington and all over the United States by the American Red Cross is the following letter, receiv ed recently by Mr. and Mrs. W. p. Holmes, 2116 Klein road, from their son, S-Sgt. William P. Holmes Jr., a prisoner of war in Germany since D-Day. Dated December 13, 1944, the let ter. in part, reads: ‘ Dear Mom, Pop and Sis, ‘I pray you are all well and getting aiong fine. I missed being with you all this Christmas but will certainly make up for it next Christmas. I am getting along fine and have just received a Red Cross parcel. Some Christmas par cels came in today so we will have a big Christmas even here in this place. Being I am here in this place, I couldn’t get anything 1 could enjoy more or any better present except being home. ‘The Red Cross has done won ders and kept us alive, so please remember them at home for me. "1 am still looking for some mail from you all and hope it will start coming in soon. How are all my friends? Tell them all hello and to write lots. Send me eats and smokes all you can. 1 am still praying for this to end and hope it won’t be long.” -V From the oldest records sup plied by Egyptian monuments, it is apparent that several distinct varieties of dogs had been de veloped 4,000 to 5,000 years ago. Poor Digestion? □□ Headachy? □□ Sour or Upset? □□ Tired-Listless? □□ Do you feel headachy and upset due to poorly digested food? To feel cheerful and happy again your food must be digested properly. Each day, Nature must produce about two pints of a vital digestive juice to help digest your food. If Nature fails, your food may remain undigested— leaving you headachy and irritable. Therefore, you must increase the flow 'of this digestive juice. Carter’s Little Liver Pills increase this flow quickly— often in as little as 30 minutes. And, you’re on the road to feeling better. Don’t depend on artificial aids to counteract indigestion—when Carter’s Little Liver Pills aid digestion after Na ture’s own order. Take Carter’s Little Liver Pills as directed. Get them at any drugstore. Only 25f. UP FRONT WITH MAULDIN "No parlay Eengleesh.” WASHINGTON CALLING by MARQUIS CHILDS ROME—This war is like a huge tapestry, with so much going on in the foreground and all of it so highly colored and exciting, that extraordinary happenings in the background are overlooked. Dur ing my brief stay in Belgrade, 1 heard the story of one such back ground adventure from one of the participants. Sergeant Carl W. Mitchell, now attached to the American military mission in Yugoslavia, was one of about 300 American enlisted men and officers who, in January, 1944, along with British comman dos, joined a band of Tito’s par tisans on the island of Vis off the Dalmatian coast. Mitchell and the other Americans had been chosen from every branch of the armed services because they spoke one or another of the Slavic tongues. Thanks to his mother and grand parents, Mitchell speaks both Croatian and Serbian. When the group landed on Vis, it was the only lifeline between that part of Italy held by the Al lies and enemy-held Dalmatia. The assignment of the mixed force was to harass enemy communi cations and create the utmost des truction and confusion by repeat ed commando raids on the coast. The first night, the whole camp was at a movie when the Germans, who had been tipped off by an a gent on the island, staged an air raid. Fortunately, there were al most no casualties. From that moment on, there was never a dull moment. The group made a landing on the Dalmatian coast, using com mando infiltration tactics, and stayed for three days near the town of Split. Immediately after ward, Mitchell, an American offi cer and a group of partisans hid for six days in a cave on an island and a patrol would have taken them if it had not been for a warn ing given by a local boy. It was like that time after time, with the peasants never failing in courage and friendship. When Ser geant Mitchell speaks about them, there’s a warm light in his eyes. “Oh, they know how to live, those people do,” he says. “You know, they sing and they dance and they drink and they like to be free. And they couldn’t have been better to us. I mean that. They couldn’t have been better.” Of all the acts of sudden courage and heroism that became common place, during the operations, Mit chell reserves his greatest admir ation for that of Corporal George Kalitsis of New York, a Greek American who was born in Athens. Kalitsis, who wanted to go and fight for the liberation of Greece, never got a chance. “He talked about it a lot,” Mit chell says. “He really felt it, too. But on our very first mission, wc ; ran into a German ambush. They 1 had us bad, and then Kalitsis stepped up to see a German mor tar position. Well, he saw it, all right. They got him right in the head. But what it did was to give the Germans away and, if that hadn’t happened, we would all have been killed, and that’s true.” They took the body of Corporal Kalitsis back to the island of Vis. He was the first American to fail on Yugoslav soil. Sergeant Mit chell says the whole island gave him a funeral—the biggest funeral Mitchell ever saw. Mitchell tells how the Americans learned to sing partisan songs around the campfire. And then one night, the partisans surprised them. Without any help, they had learned “Stars and Stripes For ever” and “Tipperary.” They had spent months learning those two songs. “They’re wonderful fighters,” Sergeant Mitchell says. “You never saw any fighters like them. They’d do everything they could to protect us. They’d give a hundred lives, for one American life.” Finally, the job on the Dalma tian coast was completed and it was time to leave the base of Vis. The entire population came to see the group off. “We all bawled like a bunch of babies,” says Sergeant Mitchell. “They bawled and we bawled and —well, you never saw any people like that.”” Most of the group went off to fight in Greece with the Greek guerrilla bands in the mountains. That was something, too, but you can tell from the way Mitchell talks that, for him, nothing will ever equal that period of wild life on the Dalmatian coast. This is the story of a boy who comes from South Honope street in Chicago. He tells it without any trimmings at all, but you know he understood the full meaning of what he saw. He and those who came out of the assignment with him will never forget the quality of life among the peasants of Dal matia. I would guess that the Dalmatians also learned a lot about America and Americans. Louis Adamic once wrote a book urging that Americans of foreign descent be sent back to their res pective homelands as a way to bring about real understanding maybe he was right. Maybe the response of young Americans like Sergeant Mitchell proves some thing. I have a feeling that it will last longer than anything politi cians may do. -V Balinese are considered among the most expert rice growers in i the Pacific. • | PROPOSALS INVITED FOB ALUM Sealed proposals will be received by the City of Wilmington, North Carolina until 10:00 o’clock A. M. Wednesday, March 28, 1945, and then publicly opened and read at a meeting of the City Council at the City Hall for furnishing 200 tons more or less, of Sulphate of Alumina to be delivered FOB siding, Pumping Sta tion, Wilmington- N. C-, in carload lots as ordered during the period of one year. Proposals should be submitted to J. R. Benson, City Clerk and marked on the outside of the envelope, “Proposals for furnishing Alum’’. Dated this 15th day of March, 1945. CITY OF WILMINGTON by: J. R- BENSON, City Clerk BRITISH SECRET AGENT HELD DEAD CHUNGKING, March 14.—(£>)— Unconfirmed reports received here from Hongkong say that Maj. Charles Boxer, chief of British Ar my Intelligence at Hongkong at the time of its capture by the Jap anese, recently was executed by the Japanese, who charged him with operating a secret radio sta tion in a prisoner of war camp. In a current book, “China To Me,” the author, Emily Hahn, iden tified' Major Boxer as the father of her daughter, Carola, 3. Miss Hahn, who has been living in New York since she was re patriated a year ago from the Orient on the exchange ship Grips lolm, said, “unless there is more evidence, I do not intend to believe the rumor.’’ She explained that she had heard such a report through the British War Office several months ago but thought it might have arisen through the reported imprisonment of Hongkong civilians for operating a secret radio and the simultane p us imprisonment of a civilian named Eoxer. She said such a report reached Chungking last June. Chungking, she said, was full of rumors. Miss Hahn, a freqent contribu tor to the New Yorker magazine and other periodicals, was a free lance writer in China. In her book she told of meeting Major Boxer after his wife had instituted di vorce proceedings. She said she would return to China after the war to marry him. 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Walsh, president of the rival and power ful International Alliance of Thea trical State Employes, President Herbert Sorrell of the Conference of Studio Unions, declared: “In the first place, Walsh could not do it, and in the second, it would wreck his union if he tried. This is a typical Willie Bioff-George Brown tactic.” Crippled by the absence of more than 17,000 employes, major stu dios nonetheless managed to keep operating in varying degrees to day. But the situation admittedly was growing more serious. In newspaper advertisements to day, major film producers declar ed that when the National Labor Relations Board, to whom they have appealed for a decision in the jurisdictional issue, decides the case, they will abide by the ruling ‘and bargain with the unit desig nated” by the board. A crucial stage in the three-day old strike, insofar as determining ability of the studios to keep go ing, will come Friday night, wher the Screen Actors Guild meets tof take a strike vote. Representatives of the rival stu-l dio conference and the IATSE, whose fight with the conference’s painters local for control of set decorators precipitated the strike were invited to plead their claims! Walsh’s threat to close theaters was “because of coercive methods of the painters locals and tolerant submission to such methods by va rious government agencies.” His wire, sent to a New York local and presumably to hundreds of others, asked projectionists to stand bv for an order to stop ha-dr toes made by any h5& p:=‘ dio. ■ nuu.v\\ooti s;.. The island of jav., i, canic mountain bar'-r laS 3 Vcl, | feel like 'lw‘,t ***•**■* i For cough end Ihroa. Irritation, I I «ng from cold, or ,mok,ng, minion, | : COUGH LOZENGES ; Really soothing because they're ! ; really medicated. Each Fir 1 ; Cough Lozenge gives your J. : ; a lo minute soothing trcatm™ ' ; that reaches a II the way down.. U : ; low the gargle line. 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