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TOP DIVEBOMBER
DUE TOJIO HOME
By MORRIE LANDSBERG
ABOARD U. S. CARRIER FLAG
SHIP, WESTERN PACIFIC, Nov.
10. — (Delayed)— Of) —When Art
Downing scored a direct hit on
Japan’s biggest battleship, the
Yamato, in the second battle of
the Philippines sea he confirmed
the belief of a lot of Navy men
that he’s the outstanding dive
bomber of the fleet.
Yet, the 29-year-old lieutenant
commander nearly missed getting
his wings back at Pensacola, Fla.
in 1937. He admits he had a “bad
disciplinary record” as a cadet.
Too full of pranks. His final
grade was 2.5—barely passing.
But today, with 70 carrier com
bat missions, perhaps the indi
vidual high for the fleet, Arthur
Latimer Downing can wear two
Navy crosses, the distinguished
flying cross, the air medal, the
Presidential unit citation and 13
campaign stars on his service
ribbon.
I'tn + ovoc-f ->f fho mnmpnt ic
not medals. Bombing Squadron
14, which he skippers, is going
home and Downing has his sights
on Santa Barbara, Calif., where
his wife and their two youngsters,
Arleen Lee, 4, ^nd Anthony Cole,
6, live.
He also hopes to get to South
Haven, Mich., to see his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. George F. Downing.
From the flight decks of the
old Wasp, Lexington and Hornet,
lost carriers of hallowed mem
ory, and the still-fighting Enter
prise, Downing has taken off for
strikes in the Marshalls and Gil
berts, blows along the New Guinea
coast, and the battles of Tulagi,
the Coral sea, Guadalcanal and
Stewrt island.
To these add the thrusts at
Formosa and the Philippines bat
tles for a complete background
of Downing’s achievements—sunk
or damaged, one enemy battle
ship, two carriers, a cruiser and
merchants ships and transports
too numerous to list.
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Record In Michigan
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labor mediation board disclosed
today.
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City Briefs
THANKSGIVING PARTY
The ladies of Southside Bap
tist church will hold their an
nual Thanksgiving party for
the Thomasville orphanage on
Friday evening, at 8 o’clock in
the church annex. All ladies
of the church and friends are
invited. A free wil loffering will
be taken.
DIRECTORS TO MEET
The board of directors of the
Chamber of Commence will
hold its monthly meeting to
day at 4 p.m. at the chamber
office.
DRAFT CALLS
City Draft Board No. 1 an
nounced yesterday that it has
received calls for 20 white men
to be sent to Fort Bragg Dec.
15 for pre-induction, 15 negroes
on Dec. 5 for induction and 15
negroes on Dec. 6 for pre-in
duction.
RADAR RECREITS
The Navy wil laccept 17-year
old boys and men who have
had their pre-induction but not
induction notices, for trainnig
in radar, the local Navy re
cruiting station announced yes
terday. No technical experience
is necessary. Further informa
tion may be secured at the lo
cal station.
ESCAPED PRISONER
Sheriff’s deputies and city
police were notified Tuesday of
the escape of Willie Lee, ne
gro, from the county farm,
where he was serving a sen
tence for assault with a deadly
weapon, resulting in injury. He
was arrested on Nov. 5.
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RUSSIANS EXPAND
DRIVE IN HUNGARY
(Continued from Page One)
garian prisoners were taken dur
ing the day, Moscow reported
The Germans themselves an
nounced .withdrawal from Jaszber
eny before its occupation was list
ed'in the Soviet night communique
broadcast from Moscow and re-j
corded by the Soviet monitor here
The general nature of the Ger
man withdrawal was hinted at in
a Berlin broadcast by the mili
tary commentator Ernst von Saro
mer, who said, “east of Budapest
German troops, behind a curtain
of steel from the fire of hundreds
of our guns, have disengaged them
selves toward prepared positions
to economize their forces.”
The commentator referred to Gy- i
omro, only 10 miles southeast of ■
Budapest on the Szlonok-Budapest i
railway, as “the western pivot of 1
our defense system,” and acknowl
edged that Soviet shock troops al- '
ready were beating against it. i
This was supported by the Soviet
announcement of the capture of ;
Mende, only two miles from Gy- ;
omro.
The German announcer said the
garrison at Jaszbereny had been
surrounded Tuesday and had to
force its w'ay back to a now line
in a series of fierce counterattacks
adding that “this resulted in the
necessity to abandon the blazing
ruins of the town under protection
of a rainy night.”
The Russian communique, how
ever, said Jaszbereny fell in com
bat rather than by evacuation, and
Moscow dispatcties said the skies
were clear today, permitting the
Red air force to renew its strong
attacks on the receding Hungarian
front.
Negro Placed Under
$5,000 Bond In Theft
City detectives arrested Harry
Lee Wilkerson, 21-year-old negro,
yesterday at Tenth and Hall sts.,
and charged him with highway
robbery in connection with the
robbery and beating of Junius An
derson, 33, last Monday night at
Tenth and Red Cross sts. They
are holding three other negroes,
James Spicer, 24, Roscoe McDuf
fie, 25, and Alfred Neil, 21, on
technical charges of vagrancy ' t
connection with the incident, detec
tives reported.
Bond for Wilkerson was set at
$5,000, police reported.
Anderson was robbed of $25 in
money and personnel papers, ac
cording to detectives.
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Italian Nobility Scion
Sentenced For Espionage
DETROIT, Nov. 15. — (A>) —U. S.
District Judge Edward J. Moinet
sentenced Mrs. Marianna von
Moltke, wife of a former Wayne
University professor who said her
descent from Italian nobility en
titled her to the title of countess,
to four years imprisonment under
the espionage act today.
The indictment charged Mrs. vori
Moltke with furnishing a Nazi spy
ring with foreign and domestic
mailing addresses. She pleaded
guilty to a part in the conspiracy,
which had previously sent seven
other Detroiters to prison. The
court refused to permit her to
change her plea today.
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head is held to be sacred, and It
is an insult to reach above the head
ox another person.
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FORT DRIANT GETS
WAVE IN PASSING
(Continued from Page One)
leading Nazi military commentator,
observed that the famous fortress
city “represents only an outer po
sition, for holding of which one
does not wage decisive battle but
engages only a smaller amount of
forces—just enough to force the en
emy to strong wear and tear of
strength.”)
Bitter weather and thick mine
fields supplied most of the opposi
tion as Field Marshal Sir Bernard L
Montgomery’s British Second army
fought through the first full day
of its new offensive southeast of
Eindhoven in HoHand. A staff offi
cer reported “we are pushing on
fast and fo rthe present, at least,
there is nothing much in sight to
stop us.”
The British quickly merged three
of their four original bridgeheads
■ nto one—approximately three miles
wide—at the junction of the Noord
and Wessen canals 18 miles south
west of Venlo and expanded a
fourth over the Wessen only 8 miles
from the Dutch city of Roermond.
One British column was at t h e
edge of Grathem, five miles due
west of Roermond, and the Bog
land village of Leveroy, seven miles
northwest of Roermond, was seized
after a light skirmish.
The British attack, which open
ed late Tuesday behind a 400 - piece
artillery bartage, continued through
the night, with flame-throwers tak
ing a prominent part. The nature
of the territory made it essentially
an infantry job, with tanks giving
only stationary support. Snow and
sleet virtually precluded air sup
port.
The German city of Duisburg,
toward which the attack appeared
tentatively aimed, is a great center
of Hitler’s war industries. Situated
on the east bank of the Rhine, it
is connected with Berlin by one of
the arrow-straight super-highways
ivith which t h e Nazis interlaced
Germany in the years before the
ivar.
A British officer said it was pos
sible that the Germans had pulled
lack to the Maas (Meuse) river,
.which forms the Dutch - German
oorder, or even had withdrawn
across the stream.
(The Berlin radio speculated that
Montgomery’s attack was a “pre
ude to the expected large-scale st
ack if the whole left wing” of the
Allied armies.1
The enemy's yielding of the pow
erful Metz forts almost without a
light was regarded as strongly sug
gestive of a pull-out that mig.it
veil carry all the way back to the
iihine. To some observers it indi
cted that the German command
ers feared their manpower reserves
night soon be needed more urgent
y elsewhere.
" There still was no definite word,
lowever, of a German withdrawal
rom Metz.
At the right wing of Patton’s of
ensive the 26th division captured
Marsal and Haraoucourt, both five
-liles southwest of Kieuze after
bearing the ridge in the Foret de
3ride ct de Koecking.
Three miles northeast of Diezue
dements of the fourth armored di
vision which alreafy had punched
hrough the forest smashed east
ward another mile and cleared the
ittle town of Guebling. At latest
eports these units were attacking
3ougaltroff, four miles northeast ol
Diezue in the face of heavy artil
ery fire.
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FRENCH FIRST ARMY
TAKES TEN TOWNS
(Continued from Page One)
lu Petit Reclos the Germans were
dug in well and met the American
drive with heavy fire from small
arms.
Southeast of Lachapelle the Ger
mans made a counterattack which
was repulsew with the aid of artil
ery. There Germann used smoke
liberally east of St. Remy in an at
tempt to screen troop movements
the other side of the Meurthe river.
In the southern sector of the sev
enth army front east of Les Rouges
Eaux the enemy is blocking the
advance from positions on high
ground along the Taintrux river, a
tributary of the Meurthe.
Near captured Vienville, six mile
southeast of Bruyeres. the Germans
attacked with self - propelled guns
and a battle raged all day from
there west to Granges-sur-Vologne.
Farther south however the slug
ging Americans forced an enemy
withdrawal.
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Negro’s Arrest Marks
16th Visit To Prison
Arthur Lee Stevenson, 37-year
ald negro, was arrested by city
letectives yesterday and is held
in New Hanover county jail un
der bond of $11,OH) for housebreak
ng, larceny and receiving, when
de entered the house of Charlie
Hopkins, negro, 819 North Eighth
it., yesterday afternoon.
Mary Madden, negro, 817 North
Eighth st., told Detectives E. B.
Murray and N. J. Wolfe, that she
heard a noise in the house next
door, and when she went over she
saw Stevenson standing in the
house with some clothing over his
arm. When she asked him what
de was doing, she said he dropped
the clothes, drew a knife and fled.
The arrest was made at a beer
parlor at Eighth and Bladen sts.,
50 minutes after the complaint was
made to police headquarters, it
was said.
Stevenson’s record includes 15
arrests in North and South Caro
lina over a period of 11 years, on
which he has served a total of
about five years, according to the
records of the Bureau of Identifi
cation
Pope Denounces Nazis
For Conduct In Warsaw
By The Associated Press
Pope Pius XII denounced the
Nazis for their brutal subjubation
of Warsaw in a statement issued
Wednesday, the British radio re
ported in a broadcast recorded last
night by NBC.
The Pope was quoted as stating
“whoever feels the smallest spark
of humanity and justice cannot
help but be astounded and appall
ed” by the Germans’ conduct in
the Polish capital.
He added that Warsaw’s citizens
had suffered “indescribable physi
cal and moral hardships” and that
women and children in the city
were in need of immediate help.
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Service Wives Supper
At USO Club Tonight
Mrs. J. S. Kirsch, wife of Boat
swain’s Matee Kirsch, U. S. C. G.,
and chairman of the Service Wives
supper club at the USO club at
Fifth and Orange, invites all serv
ice wives to a supper at the club
house tonight at 6:30 p.m.
Reservations may be made up
until 6 p.m. today by calling
2-1269.
Movies in the little clubhouse
will be at 8 p.m. and all service
men and their families are invit
ed.
Special classes in jewelry mak
ing and leathercraft have been
opened this week. Information may
be had by calling the clubhouse.
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Marseille Port Wins
Major Victory Of War
MARSEILLE, Nov. 15. — (JP) —
One of the major victories of the
war has been won at this spraw
ling port where, despite diaboli
cal destruction by the Germans,
thousands of tons of supplies now
are pouring through to the Western
front.
In a little more than 10 weeks
after the capture of this port with
its 22 and one-half miles of quays
huge convoys of ships were mov
ing in and out of the repaired
berths, carrying men and huge
quantities of supplies. As many as
100 ships have been in the harbor
at one time.
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DONNELL LEADS
JEFFERSON CITY, Nov. 15.—
(JP)—Gov. Forrest Donnell today
gained an insurmountable lead ov
er State Attorney General Roy Me
Kittrick for the Senate seat now
held by Bennett Champ Clark.
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SNOW IN BLACK HILLS
RAPID CITY, S. D., Nov. 15.—
<A>)—Snow that ranged up to 50
inches was reported today from
the Black Hills area of South Da
kota after a two-day period of
snowing and blowing.
-V
The loud speaker is a device for
converting electric energy into
sound energy.
TWO UNITS STRIKE
TO CUT OFF ORMOC
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terly, however, and showed no
signs of withdrawing.
The unit of the 24th punching
along the road were reported to
have made slight advances over
great piles of Japanese dead.
The Japanese counterthrust at
Balogo i was on a comparatively
small scale, but the Niponese
losses in the action were estimated
at 50 per cent of the force em
ployed.
Dismounted .cavalrymen, driving
westward from Jaro, overran num
erous scattered Japanese ridge po
sitions to seize Mt. Mamban, a
3,830-foot height, and hills known
as numbers 4 47 and 4018.
The cavalrymen are closing in
on the road some distance below
the trap made by the 24th division.
Associated Press War Correspon
dent Fred Hampson, with the 24th,
reported many more Japanese
dead were found, in addition to
great masses of bodies littering
ridges and valleys after fierce bat
tling early this week.
American fighter planes again
blasted Japanese barges and shore
targets at Ormoc. Single enemy
planes staged “several ineffective
raids’’ on American ground instal
lations, the communique reported,
and five were shot down.
The liberation front was moving
forward in all sectors, Gen. Doug
las MacArthur’s Wednesday com
munique disclosed. From the
north, east and south the Yanks
converged on Ormoc. Where the
enemy probably will make his final
stand, with the sea at his back.
A double flanking operation to
the north menaced the Japanese
Millions Switch To
Mutton Suet Idea
For Chest Cold Aid
Helps Break Up Colds’ Local Conges
tion—Checks Coughing
Many mothers all over America
are switching to this idea of get
ting fast relief for these chest cold
miseries. They are simply follow
ing Grandma. For years she count
ed on mutton suet to help carry her
home medication to do its pain-eas
ing work on nerve ends in the skin.
No wonder so many more now wel
come Grandma’s idea as improved
by science—Penetro, with its multi
medicated formula in a base con
taining mutton suet—that acts both
as counter-irritant and pain-reliev
er when you spread it on, and as
a soothing aromatic when breathed
in. And so today Penetro hurries
along newer help in the old reliable
way—help that eases painful mis
ery, lessens coughing, loosens
phlegm, soothes chest rawness—so
that you can rest more comfortably
and give nature a chance to restore
vitality. That’s why millions are
switching to Penetro today—why
druggists are recommending it. 25c,
double supply 35c. For all your fam
ily’s chest cold miseries, be sure
you get white, easy-to-use Penetro.
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hold on bloody ridges dominating,
the retreat road to Ormoc. Units]
of the 24th infantry division stole;
southwestward through the moun
tains in a wheeling move that
threatened the western flank of the
enemy’s positions along the Ormoc
road south of Limon, scene of bit
ter fighting.
Meanwhile dismounted troopers
of the first cavalry division press
ed in from mountain positions on
the Japanese eastern flank. They
posed a threat to the vital com
munications line about three air
line miles south of Limon.
in the central sector, doughboys
of the 96th division probed forest
fastnesses 14 miles eastward of Or
moc. They were in the vicinity of
Alto peak, a 1,333-foot height of
Leyte’s rugged backbone. From Al
to peak the terrain slopes west
ward toward the coast.
Developing the southern arm of
the triple threat to Ormoc, 7th in
fantry division units advanced to
Damulaan, on the coast 14 miles
below Ormoc. They broke up a
Nipponese attempt to land rein
forcements at Damulaan from a
handful of barges.
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BUY MORE BONDS
LARGE AVERAGE
NEW YORK. Nov. 15. — (if) —
New York.s 1944 racing season,
which ended today with the con
clusion of an, extra nine-day vic
tory meeting for war relief, saw a
total of $410,230,402 pass through
the Pari Mutuel machines over
a span of 189 racing
an average of fiffilW,
day Attendance andV'*2 Per
both subject to an of?;^'8’1'''*.
EXPERT SPECIAL I
Thursday and Frida.
(Only) 1
Men's or Women’*
leather
half soles
si.on
WHILE-U-WAIT
TAKEN CARE OF IMMEDIATELY
H. L. GREEN'S SHOE REPAIR DEPT.
(In Rear of Store)
258 N. FRONT ST.
Registrations Are Still Slow
The Last Minute Rush Will Not Be Pleasant
GET YOUR BOOK NOW
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Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
f
Second and Grace St.
NO REGISTRATION IN DECEMBER
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HIS LAYOFF?
I'M IN FAVOR OF SIGNS
Announcing election*, donee*, baroors, bead
rallies and all kinds of "get-togethe'*' that we,
here in America, can still enjoy.
BUT
Posting the** signs on electric po'** ** *
dangerous practice.
| THE NAILS CAUSE TROUBLE
As they can cause r. lineman who is rlimbiej
that pole to foil ond seriously inju * himself.
HERE'S HOW IT HAPPENS
Linemen wear sharp pointed spurs that dij
? into the pole so that they can climb quickly ond
safely. If this spur strikes a noil used ts P0'1 0
sign, the spur slips causing a serious, or vr
fatal accident.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Please don't nail posters and sig- *
electric poles. The linemen who mus dim
these poles are doing it so that you ear
tinue getting the best electric service ,l'*
world.
Thanks o lo*.
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