The Wilmington morning star. [volume], December 06, 1944, FINAL EDITION, Page 5, Image 5

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IlOTARlANS HEAR
talk on papef
.l0k a wartime shortage c
impress the America
f‘per with the importance of thi
riodity in every day living an
"Jig home a realization tha
r S” °s the lifeblood of civiliza
Rotanan Elliott O’Neal
of the junior Chambe
i;eS1“' said in a talk to th
^r'ldub at its weekly meel
nffTtiaper is consumed by th.
"J 0 of the United States thai
c«cnLr commodity except wa
i'i °f„ continued, adding tha
•♦Wit paper in its hundreds o
"»'lth n could not have th,
•;r?a\ve know at all.
*'5r° j. December 10, then
"Sutl “a city-wide collection o
$ „,oer sponsored by the Jun
Camber of Commerce. Th,
»r o( Wilmington are askee
!i:iZen'..1 bundles and place thei:
<° liner on the curb,” he con
,astepaPel
twice as much paper is con
■ °1 annually by the averag.
fl s> „ nounds as is consumed it
m 0.- O'Neal revealed
m ff'o v ornton, co-chairman o.
U ' lr,v war Bond committee
M :-e club on the progress
M !pil sixth War Lean drive.
9 cf; Is of the club were T. L
■ GJe S Clinton; C. Wallace
9 ^ Fayetteviilie; Mr. Thorn
9 c '1..'’ p Wingfield, Richmond
m if'.'.'H H, jVI. McCorkle, Char.
to;Lv seconds meditation was
S' ■ Rntarmn Fred A. Matthes
c died Monday night.
* junior Rotarians lor December,
r v'jn S Bullard end Irvin Bob
higii school students, were in
induced by T. T. Hamilton, prim
c;Pal of the High school.
:...f., T meeting with Taboi
iViutcvillc will be held a'
Foul- country club De
cem'oer IF
Richard Rogers presided in the
Preside: t Gus Grist anc
•he'' speaker was introduced by
j Cartier, p-ogram chair
man,
restricted areas
; STM ENFORCED IN
CAPE FEAR AREA
Operations of the Captain of the
Peri, office, U. 5. Coast Guard.
no: censed and all rules and
regulations in effect prior to the
eniouncement of the closing of the
■':e .-everal weeks ago still hold
C:s=r C-uurd auth -iities announced
yesterday .
y- re,'Fictions have been remov
ed and pleasure craft operating on
fee Cane Fear river, except on
continuous pass- go from Snow’s
Cut to Southp ’-t, violate regula
tions k was announced.
Ro firearms or cameras are al
lowed i'ii the l./er and all com
ir.erci.il vessels must have a per
mit from the Captain of the Port
to operate, officials added.
The announcement was made to
correct the impression that some
people may have that the office is
closed and restrictions have been
led.
JAP PLANE LOSSES
1000 Aircraft Estimated De
stroyed In 3 Months
(By The Associated Press)
Japan has expended nearly 4,
t® warplanes in the last three
Maths in defending the Philip
pas .mi its watei approaches, a
tabulation today of official reports
towed.
0! these, 1,153 were destroyed by
American aircraft ir. November—
51 (n aerial combat and £22 on
mound. In addition, 44 were
prooably destroyed.
The costliest month for the en
was October, when 1,199
planes were lost in the air over
be archipelago and 523 on the
ITOr.d. September losses were 387
“ “e Or and 627 aground.
American losses in this period
'seeded 200. The total is not
•callable as some announcements
I'fre ,:i general terms, such as
W losses.”
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APPOINTMENT
WASHINGTON. Dec. 5. - (TP) -
PPointrrent of Dr. Dewe\' Ander
!™.as rxecu:ive secretary of the
K«;e Small Business Committee
'as announced tonight by Chair
Z^urray (D-,Vlont).
ACTOR POINTS OUT FRACAS SCENE
THE STATE'S STAR WITNESS in the Tommy Dorsey assault trial, actor Jon
Hall, points to a diagr im of the bandleader’s apartment as he testifies in
Los Angeles court. Hall’s nose, covered with a translucent material,
shows signs of the fight that occurred in the apartment. (International)
Yank Prisoners In Reich
Ready For Germany's Fall
Mrs. Philip B. Fleming, of Wash
ington, D. C., wife of Major Gen
eral Fleming, spoke on relief to
prisoners of war Monday night in
the hall of St. Paul’s Lutheran
church.
Chief of Red Cross speakers on
this subject, Mrs Fleming was in
ti oduced by J. Henry Gerdes,
chairman of the Wilmington chap
ter of the American Red Cross.
In her talk, the speaker present
ed an over-all picture of the ma
chinery of the Red Cross and re
lief furnished to American prison
ers of war and spoke of possible
changes.
Persons with relatives in prison
camps were reassured when the
sneaker told them that American
prisoners of war have been ad
TOBACCO PRICE
CHANGES NOTED
By The Associated Press
Slight price fluctuations were
noted on North Carolina and Vir
ginia flue-cured tobacco markets
yesterday, holding general averag
es at levels established Monday,
the War Food Administraion and
the Departments of Agriculture in
the two states reported.
Prices for most lug and wrapper
grades were up on Old Belt m*
kets, WA said, but leaf and non
descript grades showed similar de
clines. The increases and decreas
es amounted to approximately $2
per hundred. Old Belt markets
rang up an average of $43.53 on
Monday, an increase of $1.12 per
hundred over last Friday.
Middle Belt markets reported
low and common leaf grades up
more than $3 over Monday’s lev
els. However, most qualities of
smoking leaf were down $1 to $3
per hundred. The volume was light
and consisted chiefly of low to good
leaf, low and fair cutters and fair
to fine lugs. Monday’s sales aver
aged $43.89, a gain of 20 cents per
hundred over Friday.
The price irregularities extended
into the Eastern Belt, also. Mar
kets in that beh reported increases
and decreases of $1 for about the
same number of grades. Only sev
er' of 14 marked remain open, the
Tarboro market ceasing operations
with the md of yesterday’s sale.
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YoiA» louncA Names
Officers For New Year
The Youh Advisory council of
the Woodrow Wilson hut met Mon
day at the city hall and elected
officers.
Elected were: president, Harry
Wellott, Jr.; vice president. Cal
vin Builard; and secretary-treasur
er. Katharine Harries.
Other members of the council
ar.e Mavis Sykes, Eloise Jacobi
and Jean Pope.
It was recommended that two
additional members be added to
the council, the purpose of which
is to advise recreation leaders as
to the needs and activities of the
young people who use the hut each
school-day afternoon from 3:30 to
6 p. m._
vised on a course of action when
the enemy surrenders. Mrs. Flem
ing said that the Germans are sin
cere in keeping tc the terms of the
Geneva Convention of 1929, but
tnat they are trying to influence
American prisoners to accept
phases of the Nazis viewpoint.
She said that “nothing is so good
an antidote to this tactic as let
ters, cigarettes, snapshots and oth
er personal effects.” She pointed
cut that if a man does not smoke,
cigarettes are a high medium of
exchange.
During her talk, Mrs. Fleming
said that certain improvements in
relief to prisoners of war and in
ternees in the Far East were be
ing made. She told her audience
what to expect when men were
reported missing in action.
According to Mrs. Fleming, 60
to 75 per cent of the total number
of men reported missing in action
have been reported in hospitals,
or in war prison camps. The U.
S. Navy is constantly searching
the waters and islands of war
theaters for personnel reported
missing, she said.
The speaker pointed out that
many groups of Army men are
known *o be living in caves and
out-of-the-way places in Italy.
Friendly natives and “the under
ground,” have been of great as
s:tanc° to American Army and
Navy men in dangerous territory,
Mrs. Fleming disclosed.
Above all, the Red Cross speak
er asserted that a report of “Miss
ing in action,” did not necessarily
mean that a soldier or sailor
should be considered killed.
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Wilmington Man
Wins Sergeant’s
Rating In Italy
Special to The Star
FIFTEENTH AAF IN ITALY.—
Rufus L. Church. Jr., 19, tail gun
ner on a B-17 Flying Fortress oper
ating from a base in Ital7 has
been promoted to the grade of ser
geant. Sgt. Church is the son of
Mr. and Mrs R. L. Church 1207
Chestnut street, Wilmington. N. C.
Sgt. Chdrch, who entered the
armed forces August 3, 1943, At
tended gunnery school at Kingman
Army Air Base. Kingman, Ariz.,
winning his gunner’s wings May
27, 1944. He was then assigned to
overseas combat duty with the 15th
AAF where he has flown two com
bat missions over enemy territory.
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Salvation Army League
Makes 100 Ditty Bags
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Women of the Home League of
the Salvation Army are making 100
ditty bags to be filled by the local
corps and sent to the Charlotte Di
visional headquartur-s, from where
they will be distributed, along with
contributions from other centers,
to the war wounded in hospitals in
the Carolinas’ division, Capt. Dan
iel B. Cartin, commanding officer
of the local corps, said yesterday.
It is expected that around 3,500
bags will be distributed by the 35
posts in the Carolinas’ division, he
added.
The post recently sent 500 fruit
cakes to men overseas, in addition
to the regular Christmas work for
local families. Capt. Cartin said
that all this work is supported by
volunteer contributions from
friends and from the income of the
Christmas kettle.
Leland Soldier Wins
Good Conduct Medal
Special to the Star
FORT SILL, Okla., Dec. 6—Pfc.
Rallie L. Sullivan, Leland, N. C.,
a member of the 166th Inf -ntry,
Fort Sill, has been awarded the
Army Good Conduct medal
To receive the Good Conduct
award an enlisted man must have
been in the Army at ledst a year
and have demonstrated ‘ fidelity
through faithful and exact per
formance of duty,” efficiency >n bis
duties and exemplary behavi-r.*. He
is the son of A. O. Sullivan
RT1V m>XJT> ThPAT
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POLICE AND FIREMAN
PROTEST CHANGES IN
CIVIL SERVICE BILL
A committee of four represen
tatives from the city police and
fire departments yesterday sub
mitted to Representative J. Q
LeGrand, a petition, signed by a
number o^members of both de
partments, stating that they are
satisfied with the present type
City Civil Service commission and
opposing the city’s bill for the es
..— i ■
tablishment of a new type commis
sion,
Any decision with reference to
the bill will be delayed, pending
a conference between members of
the Civil Service commission and
members of the city government,
Representative LeGrand said, add
ing that he has requested Mayor
W Ronald Lane to make arrange
ments for the conference to be held
next week.
A survey yesterday indicated
that police and firemen were sat
isfied under their present set-up
and that they generally believed
they would receive “no protection’’
from the new bill.
It was revealed that 52 out of
55 members of the police depart
ment had signed the petition, de
claring they were satisfied with
the operation of the present com
mission and did not want the new
bill.
Sixty-two out of G7 firemen were
understood to have protested the
proposed legislation.
There are about 19,000 deaths in
the United States each year from
suicides.
Georgia Governor's
Wife Will Christen
Ship At Charleston
Special to The Star
CHARLESTON, S. C., Dec 6.—
Mrs. Ellis Arnall, wife of the gov
ernor of Georgia, and Mrs. James
T. Duke, wife of Brigadier General
James T. Duke, commanding gen
eral Port of Embarkation, North
Charleston, S. C., will sponsor
LSMs 389 and 390 at dual launch
ing ceremonies, December 12 at
riva
7:20 p. m., the first chip* to fee
launched at night at the Charleston
Navy Yard.
Flower girls for the occasion
will be Miss Polly Mathis of 41C
Mixson avenue, N. Charleston, for
merly of 412 Oak street. Gai iea
ville, Ga., an employe in the Ma
terial Section, Planning Division,
Navy Yard, for Mrs. Arnall, and
Miss Mary G. Gelzer of Summer
ville, S. C., an employe of the
Yard’s Production Division for
Mrs. Duke.
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I
Thompson
J. BRAND
Blended Whiskey 86.8 Proof
65% Grain Neutral Spirits
glenmore
distilleries company
Incorporated
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY
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