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_ _WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, MARCH 7, 1943 FINAL EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS
CITYREGIME
BILL REVIVED
BYN. C. HOUSE
»UT ON CALENDAR
^tion Taken Upon Motion
Of Kermon; Readings
Scheduled Monday
depends ON WADE
[onsiderations Will Be
Based On His Action On
City Extension Plan
Acting on the motion of Repre
ntative R. M. Kermon, the House
Saturday recalled the bill calling
L a vote on the form of city gov
jjuncnt here from the calendar
wmmittee, where it had been given
unfavorable report, and placed
‘ np0n the house calendar for ac
tion.
lT1 an interview here Saturday
. ... Kermon said the house
action te4 the effect of a first
“ Ite bill, he said, will come
tip for't5 second and third read
I lugs Monday,
I Depends on wane
••Actual consideration of the bill,”
tlje yen Hanover representative
declared, "will be predicated on
action taken by the senator (Sen
ator j. E L. Wade) to remove the
eitv extension bill from the unfav
orable calendar and place it upon
the senate calendar, if he so de
sires."
In reviving the bill, which sub
mits the issue of city manager
council versus commissioner form
of government to an election here
April 15, Rep. Kermon reversed his
stand of Friday when, after the hill
had been given a second unfavor
able report, he declared that he
would offer a motion to postpone
any further discussion of the bill
indefinitely.
"My whole proposition all along
las been if they’re going to have
an election, let them settle one
time and for all whether they want
this government or not.” he said
Saturday night, thus implying that
if Senator Wade recalled the ex
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 4)
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COTTON PLANTING
INCREASE GRANTED
Wickard Says Farmers
May Boost 1943 Allot
ments Bv Ten Per Cent
WASHINGTON. March 6.— (tf> —
Secretary of Agriculture Wickard
announced today farmers will be
permitted to increase their 1943
cotton planting allotments by 10
Per cent.
This action was taken, the sec
retary said, in an effort to in
crease *he production of vegetable
oils for food and protein* feed for
livestock. These products are
made from cotton seed.
'T think we should recognize.”
Wickard said, “that there are some
areas in the cotton belt that are
better adapted to the production
of cotton than to other crops. The
'8 Per cent increase should enable
some of these areas to make a
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 3)
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Mall Craft Warnings
Ordered Along Coast
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., March
. 4’'—The Weaher bureau today
‘SSL’ei1 lollowing marble fore
cast,
Hatteras to Apalachicola—small
./J "'aniings are displayed south
“atteras to Apalachicola.
weather
lORECAST
CAROLINA and South Caro
da-. '*uc 1 colder with cold wave Sun.
Eastern Standard Time)
Met,.™;, '■■■ s- Weather Bureau)
•UineXgIcai data for the 24 h°urs
<■30 p „ yesterday.
I'3fl a Temperature
** t in 53; 7:30 ana., 61; 1.30 p.m.,
•tan v?'n— 56' Maximum. 65; mini
‘near.. 55.5; normal, 51.
1;U . Humidity
I; ■ 99; 7:30 a.m., 82; 1:30 p.m.,
9- m„ 94.
Total Precipitation
.r he 24 hours ending 7:30
Total5 «<*<*.
1.12 inches00 the first of the month*
'From a. Tides For Today
t. S r Tide Tables published by
0ast and Geodetic Survey.)
High Low
“"ngton -10:43a. 5:19a.
tesonh ll:01p. 5:42p.
"Wo Inlet _ 8:35a. 2:15a.
Can. 8:50p. 2:40p.
>illJPe 1 ear r>ver stage at Fayette
W,;n *'Tarch «» at 8 a.m., 1*2.5 feet.
tooonrie6, ?:33 ®-w.; sunset, 6:13 p.m.;
aC’ ^;29a; moonset, 7:45p.
lontlaued on Page Three; Col. 1)
*
Vitamin A
With point rationing on canned
goods, there’s no point in not eat
ing lots of fresh vegetables like
these carrots arriving at a San
Francisco porduce district.
PUMPS RECEIVED
FOR OCD UNITS
First Distribution Slated
To Be Made To City
Air Raid Wardens
An allotment of stirrup pumps
has been received by the New
Hanover Defense Council Citizens
Protection Corps for distribution to
certain units of the OCD, it was
announced yesterday.
The pumps will be given to mem
bers of units whose record in the
volunteer office of the OCD shows
that they have completed the pre
scribed courses of training as re
quired.
The first distribution will be
made to the City Air Raid War
dens under the leadership of F.
P. O’Crowley, chief air warden,
aided by Assistant Chief H. S.
King.
The distribution of the pumps
will be made as follows:
Zone No. 2, March 8, 7:30 p.m.,
Church of the Covenant, 15th and
Market.
Zone No. 4, Monday, March 8,
7:30 p.m.. U. S. O., 9th and Nixon.
Zone No. 10, Monday March 8
8 p. m. Annex Southside Baptist
church, 5th and Wooster.
Zone No. 6, Tuesday, March 9,
7-45 p.m. Church of God, 4th and
Marsteller.
Zone No. 7 Tuesday. March 9.
8 p.m,. Community building, Nes
bit Court.
Zone No. 9, Wednesday, March
10. 8 p.m. U. S. O., 5th and Orange.
Zone No. 8, Thursday, March 11
8 p.m.. Calvary Baptist church,
4th and Brunswick.
Zone No. 5, Monday, March 15,
7:30 p.m.. St. Paul Parish House,
6th and Princess.
Announcement of distribution in
Zones 1 and 3 will be made later.
As the pumps are not assembled,
each warden is asued to b’’iOg
with him or her plyers and screw
driver to the meeting. Instructions
will be issued by the Zone Warden
on how to assemble them. All w^Ji,
dens must be properly identified
an arm Dand. „ in the ba
A limited numb? foothold in Afr
have been receivfhe allied attacl
ment for each.ent just that muc
(Continued on P. Vcs pich(m
Senators W iJJ
Ask Sweeiw
OPAaflf
Proposals Wh. idude
Abandonment Oi Efforts
[To Regulate Profits
TO MEET TUESDAY
Brown Presses Struggle
For Greater Public Sup
port Of Measures
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, March 6.— VH—
Sweeping changes in policies and
practices of the OPA will be urg
ed upon Administrator Prentiss
Brown Tuesday by 10 members of
the Senate Finance and Banking
committees, it was learned tonight.
The proposals will include:
1. Reduce personnel.
2. Limit the scope of price con
trol to basic commodities only.
3. Abandon attempts to regulate
profits.
4. Raise ceilings on farm prod
ucts.
The meeting for a general dis
cussion of OPA was arranged at
the suggestion of Brown, himself
a former senator, as criticism con
tinued from many quarters, and
as Brown pressed his struggle for
greater public support through
substitution of voluntary for po
liced controls so far as practica
ble.
Names Committee
In this connection Clyde L. Her
ring, newly appointed administra
tive assistant to Brown and former
democratic senator from Iowa, ap
pointed a committee for the pur
pose of "simplifying procedure and
regulations, reducing personnel,
and taking back to the people more
authority for price and rationing.”
He plans to give local boards
greater authority to make deci
sions independently of Washington.
"My idea is that this organiza
tion should take the people into
its confidence and when the people
understand what we are doing,
they will organize themselves and
they will enforce our prices and
rations,” Herring explained.
The committee will be made up
of OPA and Budget bureau offi
cials. Herring indicated that it
would look into such complaints as
those voiced by the senators.
Receive Complaints
All of the senators who are to
participate reported receiving nu
merous complaints. Senator Ma
loney (D.-Conn.) declared:
"Mine is an omnibus complaint
—send home half of those guys
who are working in OPA.”
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 2)
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VINSON FORECASTS
ABSENTEEISM CURB
Says He Will Fight Any
Move To Tack ‘Dry’
Rider On The Bill
WASHINGTON, March 6.— W —
Chairman Vinson (D.-Ga.) predict
ed tonight that the House Naval
committee would approve a meas
ure to curb absenteeism among
wal workers next week “beyond
a shadow of a doubt” and said
he would fight any move to tack
a “dry” rider to the bill.
His statement came amid efforts
by prohibition advocates to restrict
or eliminate altogether the sale
of liquor in industrial areas for
the duration of the war in connec
tion with the drive against absen
teeism.
Although there has been no ef
fort yet to organize the anti-liquor
advocates, some of them are con
sidering offering the “dry’ rider
s ttfe&.bsenteeism bill to “cure
t -vrn'na hangovers,” as
ROMMEL’S TA NKS STRIKE A T BRITISH
>8TH ARMY IN FRONT OF MARETH LINE;
I RUSSIA’S FORCES CAPTURE GZHA TSK
THIRD BIG WIN
City Has Been Nazi Spear
head Pointed At Mos
cow For 18 Months
MORE TOWNS TAKEN
Russians Gaining In Ef
forts To Sever Main Kiev
Bryansk Railway
LONDON, March 6.—(JP)—
The Red army scored its third
major victory in a week today
by capturing Gzhatsk, 100
miles west of Moscow and the
nearest point to the Soviet
capital in the Germans’ crum
bling hedgehog defense sys
tem on the central front.
“After storming the town
twice,” said a special Moscow
communique recorded by the
Soviet Radio monitor, “our
troops captured the town of
Gzhatsk. The captured war
material is being counted.”
Gzhatsk, 60 miles southeast
of recaptured Rzhev, had been
a Nazi spearhead pointed at
Moscow for a year and a hab
its capture released a three-di
rectional Russian drive on Vyaz
ma. 35 miles away on the road
to Smolensk, n)a>n German base
to the west.
Capture 30 Towns
Russian shock troops fighting
south and southwest of Rzhev had
captured 30 more towns during the
night and morning. Including the
railway station of Osuga, 53 miles
north of Vyazma.
German reports also have tola
of Russian troops battling toward
Vyazma from the Kaluga sector
in the southeast.
Later a midnight Soviet com
munique reported that the Red
army had killed 1,000 more Ger
mans and captured several dozen
populated places in the continuing
sweep southwest of Rzhev toward
a point on the road between Vyaz
ma and Smolensk.
Gzhatsk was by-passed by Rus
sian units on the north and south
before it was stormed, this bulletin
said and a German infantry regi
ment was wiped out after fierce
fighting. .
In the south the Russians report
ed further gains west of Sevsk in
an effort to cut the main Bryyansk
Kiev railway which links the cen
tral and southern fronts. One unit
was credited with capturing five
localities and killing 400 Germans
in an offensive carried out “de
spite deep snow and a storm. ’
In the Donets basin the midnight
bulletin said a battalion of enemy
infantry was wiped out and 32
German tanks destroyed or dam
aged southwweet of Voroshilov
grad, and west of Rostov red army
units “consolidated themselves in
newly occupied positions” after
destroying one enemy garrison in
an unidentified German strong
point.
Above the central front, field dis
patches said Marshal Timoshen
ko’s troops were fighting toward
Staraya Russa below Lake Ilmen
r.fter the smashing break-through
at Demyansk.
Gzhatsk had withstood a ter
rific Russian pounding since the
German failure to take Moscow
in the winter of 1941. When So
viet troops threw back the Ger
mans from the Soviet capital,
Rzhev, Gzhatsk, and Vyazma held
firm. Now only Vyazma remains
to be cracked by the Russians
ttore they can strike on toward
PLUS «ed on Page Two; Col. 2)
WMC Kstru^r
To Keep Farmer
B, * . “
Dr foe-'
Ulass
WASHINGTON, March 6— <JP) —
The War Manpower commission
told local draft boards tonight to
keep farm workers in deferred
classifications—even if the quotas
for the armed forces cannot then
be met.
The commission also issued
three other new instructions design
ed to help meet the farm labor
shortage:
1. Any man with farming exper
ience who is now in other work
should be classified as farm-de
ferred (class 2-C or 3-C) if he goes
back to agriculture as a regular
job before notified to appear for
induction.
2. State and county war boards
of the agriculture department may
, , , i prooiem wnetnc
request the defermes^,,,.- .is yearly,
sary farm worker even tnoL^u mU!
worker himself or his employer *uri
not seek the deferment. The boards
also may appeal from decisions
of local draft boards
3. If a draft board finds that a
farm worker is not producing
enough to justify his deferment it
must refer his case to a county
war board and allow 30 days for
him to be placed in another job
before it can draft him.
To g>ain draft deferment a farm
worker is required to produce a
minimum output fixed by formulas
prepared by the Agriculture de
partment. Cases of workers failing
to meet these requirements here
tofore have been referred to the
r These tyrioyment service. The
t designed to give local
l .T*- . Hoards greater influence.
Meanwhile a house appropria
tions subcommittee slashed by
more than 50 per cent the funds
sought by the Agriculture depart
ment to recruit farm labor. The
action was aimed not at the re
cruiting program itself but was de
signed to bring the administration’s
program more in line with con
gressional views.
The Manpower commission is
sued this memorandum to draft
boards:
“Having made its decision that
an individual registrant is neces
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 4)
U. S. Warships Shell Vila And Munda;
Sink Two Large Japanese Destroyers
WASHINGTON, March 6 —
(m—a Navy task force stab
bing into the outer limits of
the Japanegp defense zone in
the South Pacific bombarded
shore installations at Vila and
Munda in the Solomon islands
Friday night, the Navy report
ed today, and sank two large
enemy destroyers which tried
to interfere.
The destroyers were units of
a squadron of light Japanese
surface forces which a Navy
communique said "attempted to
drive off our bombardment
group.” A battle resulted. No
United States ships were lost.
The encounter was the first
surface action to develop so far
north in the Solomons archipel
ago. Munda and Vila, which
are close together are about
180 nautical miles northwest of
Guadalcanal. There are several
flying fields in the Munda area
but darkness saved the Ameri
can ships, officially described
as "light surface units,” from
air attack.
The communique also report
ed the successful accomplish
ment of a "convoy mission” in
the south Pacific despite the
fact that the escorting task
force was attacked by seven
Japanese torpedo planes. Five
of the Jap planes were shot
down and not a ship was dam
aged. The action occurred Feb.
17. Tokyo had claimed that it
resulted In the sinking of two
American destroyers and one
large transport.
Meanwhile evidence accumu
lated that Naval air forces in
the South Pacific and else
where will be strengthened this
spring and summer. Secretary
Knox, who announced yester
day that new records in ship
construction were set during
February, said in his annual re
port to President Roosevelt,
released tonight, that the en
tire projected five-ocean fleet
would be completed by the end
of 1945.
“The over-all production pro
gram w:as scheduled for com
pletion in 1947,” the Secretary
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 1)
German Warship Concentration Near
Trondheim Indicates New Sea Drive
KAISER ACQUIRES '
AIRPLANE PLANT
Buys All Stock Of Fleet
wings, Inc., And Plans
Greater Production
! NEW YORK. March 6—(IP)—Hen
ry J. Kaiser, West coast shipbuild
er company, as such, has acquired
er, announced today that the Kais
its first aircraft plant, and that
his goal will be “more and more
production.”
His statement disclosed that ar
rangements have been made for
the Kaiser company to purchase
all stock of Fleetwings, Inc., now
manufacturing aircraft for the
United States Army air corps.
The aircraft company, which has
two plants at Bristol, Pa., and an
other plant approaching comple
tion near that city, has been en
gaged in development and manu
facture of original aircraft for the
past 15 years.
Asked if he intended to expand
in the aircraft industry, and if
the speed would duplicate his rec
ords in shipbuilding, Kaiser re
plied:
“My aim always has been and
always will be more and more and
more production.”
He said “on my own,” the Fleet
wings company was his first air
craft slant, but that it would in
no way interfere with his non
profit contract in the Kaiser
Hughes company for the produc
tion of three giant cargo transport
planes, now being manufactured
on the West coast with Howard
Hughes.
Chad L. Calhoun, Kaisers as
sistant, who released the statement
commenced of his chief:
“I can say that he will never
be satisfied until he has reached
similar goals.” He referred to the
shipbuilding records.
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SAILOR KILLED
IN AUTO WRECK
Another Injured When
Car Crashes Into Rear Of
Bus In Brunswick
One sailor was killed and a
second injured when the automo
bile in which they were riding
crashed into the rear of a U. S.
Maritime commission shipyard bus
on U. S. 17, six miles west of
Wilmington in Brunswick county,
at 12:30 o’clock Saturday morning.
State highway patrolmen, who
investigated the accident, said the
shipyard bus, bound for Southport,
was unloading passengers on the
highway at the time of the acci
dent.
They identified the dead sailor
as F. M. Waters, machinist mate
second class, of the Southport Nav
al Section base. His companion,
Arthur Jenkins, the driver of the
car, was admitted to Bullock’s hos
pital here with cuts and lacera
tions.
The car in which the two sailors
were riding, presumably returning
to the section base at Fort Caswell
from Wilmington, was demolished.
Little damage was done to the
rear of the huge tractor-trailer
bus, patrolmen said.
Brunswick Coroner W. E. Bell
of Southport, said an inquest into
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 1)
Nazis May Be Planning
Surface Campaign
Against Allies
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON,, March 6.— Iff) —
London reports of a powerful Ger
man warship concentration in the
vicinity of Trondheim, Norway,
were given considerable credence
in American Naval quarters today.
Speculation centered on the possi
bility that the Nazi high command
plans a surface campaign as well
as an undersea offensive against
supply lines to Britain and Russia
this spring.
Allied sea power might have to
be realigned, should the Germans
succeed in making even the pre
liminary moves for such a cam
paign Dy getting their battleships
and other surface units out of the
Norwegian fjords and into the fog
shrouded waters of the Greenland
and Barents seas.
Would Tie Up Ships
Even if they do not move out,
but merely remain as a direct
threat to convoys to Russia by
holding their stations in Norwe
gian waters, the German heavy
units will tie up a substantial num
ber of Allied warships by com
pelling them always to stand in
readiness to counter any move.
Naval men traditionally o'
this as "fleet in being” strategy.
The basic theory of the “fleet in
being” operation is that a small
number of warships can ‘‘contain’
or tie up a larger number of enemy
ships merely by a threat to strike
which may never actually be car
ried out.
The counter-stroke against the
fleet pursuing such a strategy is
to strike at its bases, and it would
not be surprising if the British,
in order to free their home fleet
for other duties, should attack the
German ships heavily by air.
London reports of the latest Nazi
naval activities stem from ac
counts in the Evening Standard
and Daily Telegraph, which did
not give the source of their infor
mation. Even without official con
firmation, however, authorities
here said the time was ripe for
the German admiralty to attempt
to make some use of its big war
ships.
Large Concentration
The concentration, according to
the British papers, included the
35.000- ton battleship Tirpitz, the
26.000- ton battleship Scharnhorst,
the aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin,
at least two 10,000-ton Hipper class
cruisers and a number of last de
stroyers
As a counter force the British
home fleet should be adeoi-te to
stand guard over the northern seas
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 4)
HOUSE APPROVES
BUREAU OF MINES
74 Measures Are Passed
By Lower Body During
Six-Hour Session
RALEIGH, March 6. — UP- Bills
authorizing creation of a bureau
of mines to be located in western
North Carolina and a unified board
of directors for the state’s correc
tional institutions were among the
74 measures passed by the House
in a six-hour session today.
It was the first “short” week
end of the 1943 legisature. Prod
ded by Speaker John Kerr, Jr.,
the members stayed in Raleigh to
day so that they might adjourn
Wednesday. The house will meet
at 3 p.m. Monday and will hold
its “love feast” Monday night.
A bilL introduced by Senator
Cherry Si Gaston gives the gov
ernor and council of state author
ity to create the bureau of mines
"at such time as mining develop
ments justify such action.”
The measure provides that the
bureau shall be within the depart
ment of conservation and develop
ment.
The unification bill, introduced
by Senator Johnson of Duplin, pro
vides for appointment of a unified
board of trustees for Stonewall
Jackson Training school, Eastern
Carolina Industrial School for
Boys, Industrial Farm Colony for
Women, the State Home and In
dustrial School for Girls and the
Morrison Training school. It fur
ther provides for appointment of
a general superintendent and a
general business manager.
Also passed by the house was
a resolution, introduced by Rep.
Moseley of Guilford and others,
providing for appointment of a
commission to study law enforce
ment and prevention of crime in
the state. The commission is to
report to the 1945 general assem
bly.
A senate bill to abolish the state
school commission, the state text
book commission, the state board
of vocational education and the
state board of commercial educa
tion was passed by the represen
tatives. The bill, introduced by
Senator Horton of Martin, tranfers
the powers, functions and duties
of these boards to the state board
of education, as provided in the
constitutional amendment adopted
in 1942.
The senate passed 35 bills, then
adjourned, waiting for house action
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 3)
Three Cruisers Counted
In Japs’ Recent Losses
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, Sunday, March 7.—
Three Japanese light cruisers were
among the 22 ships lost by the en
emy in the sinking of the Bis
marck sea convoy by Allied planes,
the high command announced to
day.
Previous communiques -on the
aerial annihilation of the new
Guinea-bound, convoy March 2-3-4
had listed the ships sunk as 10
warships and 12 transports, loaded
with 15,000 troops, but had de
scribed the warships only as
“cruisers or destroyers.”
“The composition of the enemy’s
10 warships which guarded his 12
transports is now reported as three
light cruisers and seven destroy
ers,” said the noon communique
from General Douglas MacAr
thur’s headquarters.
‘In the battle of the Bismarck
sea, which terminated yesterday
(when planes blasted to the bot
tom barges with troops adrift from
the sunken ships), approximately
136 of our aircraft participated, the
communique related.
“The enemy’s air force employ
ed approximately 150 planes of
which 102 were definitely observed
as put out of action. Our planes
dropped 226 tons of bombs. Eighty
direct-hits were observed and 63
near misses or hits.
“Our losses were one heavy bom
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 2)
HIT AT DAWN
Twenty-One Tanks Knock
ed Out During Early Part
01 New Engagement ,
__________ l
FIGHTING CONTINUES
Gambling On Blow Similar
Jo One He Handed Al
lies Jwo Weeks Ago
ALLIED HEADQUAR
TERS IN NORTH AFRICA,
March 6.—(/P)—Marshal Er
win Rommel’s axis forces
lashed out savagely at the
British Eighth Army at dawn
today in an offensive against
Gen. Sir Bernard Montgom
ery for the first time since
the battle of El Alamein in
Egypt.
After the loss of 21 tanks
in the early stages of the
fighting the axis army which
Rommel had brought 2,000
miles across Libya, in retreat,
struck back and pressed its
attack.
The 21 German tanks were
knocked out without loss to
the British.
Rommel’s tanks and infantry at
tack was described as “in con
siderable strength” and early re
ports indicated that fierce fighting
was continuing.
Gambling
Apparently gambling with the
idea that he could deal Montgom
ery a blow similar to tire one he
handed the Anglo-American first
army two weeks ago, the Nazi
Field Marshal set his forces in
action across the waste lands in
front of the Mareth line.
He was aided by the fact that
the old French-built line was de
signed not so much as a holding
position but one from which coun
ter-attacks could be launched.
It is apparent that Rommel was
slowly being caged up into the
Tunisian bridgehead between the
French and the British Eighth
armies and decided his best chance
to forestall defeat and gain time
was to strike first.
His first blow in the north had
pushed American troops out of
most of southern Tunisia, protect
ing his flank until the Americans
rallied at Kasserine pass and in
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 2)
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CHARLOTTE POLICE
SHAKEUP EFFECTED
Nine Officers Are Demot
ed And T?n Advanced
By Chief Anderson
CHARLOTTE, March 6—fjR)—
Police Chief Walter Anderson an
nounced tonight a reorganization
of the police department which
included demotion of nine offi
cers, some of them veterans of
years of service, and promotion
of 10.
Several other changes described
as neither demotions nor promo
tions also were made.
In a note explaining the
changes, Anderson said, “these
orders are being made in pur
suance of the responsibility plac
ed upon me by the city charter
for the discipline and efficiency
of the department.”
He also said that progress of
all the police, including the de
moted officers would “receive ap
propriate recognition, with the
object in view that the higher
ranking positions in the police
department at all times shall be
leld by the best qualified men,
with ability and merit being the
means of obtaining promotion.”
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After 10 o’clock, the de
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