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0 JOB QUOTA WARNING ISSUED . 4 Reavis, supervising in ■ e-er 'in charge of the local terViei' States Employment Service Ewtefl yesterday warned mer oSiC!s and other employers whose cia red quota of employes is less spP'A persons that before hiring '] holiday help they must a . *o the USES for permission spp:>,.„ed that they submit writ Hc j!gqUests as soon as possible. te”,! recently published regula ,utiu»'izing automatic 20-per ti»n ^.gases in labor ceilings ap te''' n]V to firms whose normal ^number 25 employees or t°sie vas explained. Even for n‘cre' Mr' Reavis pointed out, of P’es,' Afniission is necessary if fic:a „ish to add more workers t:e: 20-percent automatic ceil Sise would allow. ’ I' niustrate this, Mr. Reavis ex •; d tha; a store-owner normal ising 40 persons might add ■' 9rj-percent, without official J fission. To hire a ninth vvork P?r however, lie would have to re t; -t authority to exceed his ap qllfVd ceiiing-. A merchant nor pr°fe pmoloving 16 persons (few ir,a:': „ 9.5' can not even add a seventeenth to his staff without au ^mpiover who has never ap . d ".0 have a labor-ceiling set f hf concern in the first place 10, not have his request for ad help considered until he f' done so. Such employers, if ,,ere urged by Mr. Reavis Intact the Employment Serv ifP at once. T'ne attention of all employers caS again to the War Man * Commission’s employment stabilization provisions, which re uire aji male workers, except bonoraWv discharged veterans of Worjd War II. to be hired through thf‘ united States Employment Service. Female workers who have bee- employed in essential inrius within the last 60 days are jrbject to the same regulations, 3S are workers of all kinds who l,jve migrated into the area from other regions. Part-time workers—those who are employed less than 24 hours a!1y period of seven consecutive days—are not included in the sta bilization provisions and can be jjrpd without referral from the USES. Neither do they count rair.st an employment - ceiling. Consequently, employers should not furnish releases to part-time workers leaving their employ. In order to avert the delay which will follow if requests for new help ?re deferred to the last minute. Mr Reavis extended a reauest to all employers to call the Employ, meet Service office and schedule their holiday needs at once. --V RUSSIANS CLOSE IN ON BUDAPEST {Continued from Page One) did not mention the northern ac tion which Berlin admitted put the Budapest garrison in a critical sit uation. but it did announce a pow erful drive toward Vienna through he Budapest-Lake Balaton de fense line southwest of the capi tal In that area. Tolbukhin’s forces smashed ahead 11 miles and cap tured the rail station of Kiscseri and Csosz village, only nine miles south of Szekesfenervar, fortress city 32 miles southwest of Buda pest and 110 miles southeast of henna, Austrian capital. The fall of Szekesfehervar, a preat 13-way road and rail junc tion controlling all communications southwest of Budapest, would ‘beaten the complete encircle ment of the Hungarian capital. -V Police Seek Negroes After Rural Carrier Is Slashed By Knife WADESBORO, Dec. 8. — OP) — r,n B. Watson, rural mail car lei' "’ho was injured today while r duty, reported he was attacked tlV° Negro men who jumped ° his car at one of the stops ,lf,ng his route3 Batson was slashed across the of the neck and was weak ,om loss of blood when he was ■wed at Anson sanatorium. ■•■'leriff s. M. Gaddy headed a ° ee posse in a search for the as tonigh‘S in l,pper Anson county --V MC Board Increases Ration For Holidays i H?.Ut,r ration coupons No. 3 and 1 he valid for the purchase of j^Ilfth each or two pints each of '’estic 0l. scotch whiskeys, it ^ announced yesterday by W. i, MacMillan, chairman of the oholic Beverage Control board, tin- » act‘on wiU double the quan {j Df hquor that may be purchas v.on coupons No. 3 and 4, over • and 2, it was explained. • acMman also announced that br ”niug. Monday_ Privatt Stock d whiskey will be ration free. T, °AK LEAF CLUSTER ”c War Department last night ■‘Jimeed the award of an Oak }v, cluster to the Distinguished 8]‘jn* Cross to Capt. Samuel B. * **. 'ir.. Seventh Air Force, -_National avenue. New Bern. fNEURALGIA-i relieve* Neuralgia and because it’* liquid. Also oat, ,res'Jitlng nerve tension. Use ^^*djrected. 10c. 30cand60csize*. *— ■■ —" — ' - wo a uiiini lu get all the stuff I want quicker if I just used a STAR-NEWS Want Ad.” SUNDAY SCHOOL AT LAKE FOREST At a recent meeting of the plan ning committee of the Lake Forest Sunday School, plans were propos ed for the re-opening of the school in the project community build ing the first Sunday in January, and an effort is being made to secure sufficient teachers, it was disclosed yesterday. . At the rrjeeting of the committee, M. D. Clme was elected superin tendent and Mrs. Cline was named secretary-treasury. C. C. Phillips was elected chairman of the Sun day School board. A survey of records of the past Sunday School classes at the hous ing project, which were closed in the spring of 1944, indicated that an average of more than 100 chil dren attended each Sunday The school was closed because of the difficulty in obtaining teachers. Mrs. C. C. Phillips has been appointed to teach one of the classes, and several additional teachers are needed ,it was ex plained. Considerable discussion was heard at the meeting concerning the interest of tenants of Lake Forest in the proposed school. It was decided that personal solici tation of families, previously parti cipating in the classes, would be made in an effort to determine the number of children who may attend the Sunday school. Posters containing information about the school will be posted at prominent locations throughout the project in an effort to increase the interest of tenants. --V FIGHTER PLANES BUSTER ENEMY fi ___ (Continued from Page One) seized that redoubtable fortification and took 670 prisoners. In the battle for the richest in dustiral region of all—the Ruhr and Rhineland—the ease with which the U. S. First Army captured two heights near the Roer river indi cated the Germans may realize their days on the west bank are over and are withdrawing. Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’ for ces took a height near Pier, less than a mile from the river north of Duren, and other forces advanceu onto a ridge commanding Schlich. three miles west of Duren. The U. S. Ninth Army of Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson, already on the Roer around Julich, nine miles northwest of Duren, came under the heaviest fire from “screaming meemies”—multiple-barreled mor tars — since the Normandy cam paign. Nervously awaiting a Ninth Army drive to cross the Roer, the Ger mans were sending over reconnais sance planes. Considerable enemy movements were spotted across the river. Two enemy pockets still held out in the Julich area on the west bank of the stream. _\T_ Lumberman, 29, Dies On Way To Hospital After Yard Accident BURGAW, Dec. 8.—Joseph C. Broadnax, 29-year-old lumberman of Currie, died enroute to the hos pital here this afternoon after he was struck by a log at the Oats Wells Lumber Co., it was reported today. It was not learned if there would be a coroner’s inquest concern ing the death, which was believ ed to have been an accident. Surviving are his widow, the former Mary V. Daniels, his moth er, Mrs. E. D. Carroll, both of Currie; three sisters, Mrs. Fai son Edge of Currie, Mrs. Clyde Mallison and Miss Lula Bordeau, both of Edenton. Funeral services will be con ducted from the home at 3 p. m. Sunday. -V USES Staff Members Attend Annual Meet Five staff members of the Wil mington United States Employ ment Service offices left yesterday to attend the annual meeting of the Eastern division. North Carolina chapter, International Association of Public Employment Services in Rocky Mount today. Wilmington delegates, led by Peter A.- Reavis, supervising inter viewer in charge, are Preston W. Moseley, employer relations in terviewer, Edgar L. Bell, special assignments interviewer, Otis R. Lee. manpower recruiting officer, and Elvis H. Kendrick, field repre sentative of the North Carolina Unemployment Compensation Com mission. POSTWAR LOANS MAY BE OFFERED Federal loans aggregating ap proximately $1,700,000, to finance the preparation of plans for-post war construction, will be made available to post-war planners in North Carolina if the President’s request for an appropriation of $75,900,000 is approved by Con gress. R. I. Poole, local Federal Works agency construction engineer, yes terday figured that on the basis of 100,000 population Wilmington and New Hanover county would be en titled to about 2.8 per cent of the state appropriation, amounting to approximately $50,000, which would finance the blueprinting and plans for a $1,000,000 construction pro gram here. In addition, Poole said Wilming ton probably would share in the 10 per cent to be allocated at the discretion of the Federal Works administrator, due to the shifts in population to the Wilmington area since the 1940 federal census. It is expected that the proposed appropriation w'ill be included in the deficiency bill on which Con gress probably will act before ad journing late this month. Authori zation for the appropriation was contained in the War Mobilization and Reconversion act which Con gress approved in October, stipu lating that FWA should disburse funds for post-war planning. The loans will be repaid to the fed eral government, without interest, when projects are constructed. Under provisions of the act, 90 per cent of the appropriation w'ill be divided among the states in proportion to population, as shown by the latest official census, while 10 per cent will be allocated at the discretion of the Federal Works administrator, Maj'. Gen. Philip B. Fleming. This will en able the FWA to compensate for shifts in population since the 1940 federal census. On the basis of population. North Carolina will be entitled to approximately 2.4 per cent of the appropriation, it was said. Esti mating the cost of preliminary plans at five per cent of the total cost of a project, this would fi nance the blueprinting of plans for a $34,000,000 construction pro gram in this state. -V CHURCHILL WINS ON POLICY VOTE (Continued from Page One) thought those orders were wise and sensible.” Of the whole European problem he said, “if there is a democracy and its various defenders believe they express the wishes of the majority, why can’t they wait until the general election—a free vote of the people, which is our sole policy in every country into which British and American armies are marching.” This was Churchill's position:: Italy—it is “quite untrue to say that we had vetoed Sforza’s ap pointment. That right belonged alone to the Italians. All we have to say is that we do not trust the man nor would we put the slightest confidence in any government of which he is a dominant member.” Greece—there wras evidence that left-wing Elas group was trying to spring a two-year-old plot to seize the government and ‘1 do not feel it compatible with our honor or with the obligations into which we have entered with many people of Greece in the course of our pre sence there to wash our hands of the whole business, make our way to the sea, as we easily could, and leave Athens to anarchy, misery and tyranny.” Belgium—“after all, we British —who are now said to be poor friends of democracy—lost 35,000 to 40,000 men in opening up the great port of Antwerp. The sacri fice of these men has also to be considered as well as the ‘friends of democracy’ advancing in lorries from Mons to start up - a bloody revolution.” --V Paper Drive Extended To Wrightsville Area (Continued from Page One) other establishments who have loaned trucks for the drive. A record collection is anticipated in the one-day drive. Jaycee offi cers said yesterday that according to previous communications and telephone calls a large supply of scrap paper is being held by New Hanover citizens, and would be turned over to collectors tomorrow. Scrap paper will be sold to the Wilmington Paper stock Co., which in turn will ship it to mills for pro cessing. Proceeds will be turned over to the New Hanover Tuber culosis Association to help build a county tuberculosis hospital after the war, it was said. WEATHER FORECAST (Eastern Standard Time) (By V. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p.fn.. yesterday. Temperature 1:30 am, 38.0; 7:30 am, 42.1; 1:30 pm, 35.1; 7:30 pm, 57.5. Maximum 62.0; Minimum 35.7; Mean 47.8; Normal 50. Precipitation Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 pm, 0.24 inches. Total since the first of the month, 0.24 inches. Tides For Today (From the Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey) High Low Wilmington -w- 4:52a 5:10p 12:01p Masonboro Inlet _ 2:56a 9:01a 3:03p 9:26p Sunrise, 7:6 a.m.;‘ Sunset. 5:03 p.m.; Moonrise, 1:20 a.m.; Moonset, 1:48 p.m. Obituaries MRS. E. H. SOUTHERLAND Funeral services for Mrs. Eli za Horne Southerland, 83, who died Thursday night, were held FridaY afternoon at the home' in Duplip county. Burial followed in th* family cemetery. Mrs. Southerland was the widow of James Alexander Southerland. She is survived by seven sons. James R., W. T., Lloyd, Parham. Leslie, Wayne, all of Duplin coun ty, and John E„ of Wilmington; one daughter, Mrs. F. N. Brinson, of Beaulaville. . „ . Grandsons of the deceased serv ed as pallbearers. , ,... VALr O. EDMUND CHADBOURN, Dec. 8.—Funeral services for Val O. Edmund, 79, who died at 9 p. m. yesterday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Sam C. Carter, will be held at 3 p. m. Saturday at the Peacock Funer al home by the Rev. A. T. Peacock, Baptist minister. Burial will be in the Chadboum cemetery. Surviving are his wid w, one brother, B. W. Edmund of Jack sonville, Fla.; two daughters, Mrs. Dave Nobles and Mrs. Sam C. Car ter of Chadboum. CIVILIANS'URGED TO AID WAR WORK Lieutenant Bunn Frink, USGG, told the Exchange club yesterday afternoon at its regular meeting, that it was as important for the home front to comply with the re quiremens of total war as it was for the men on the battle,fronts. . In a review of three years of war, in a special Pearl Harbor day address, Lt. Frink told .how far America has traveled on the pro duction and battle fronts. He im plored citizens to arouse to a new consciousness of the hard battle? ahead. fi Dr. Edwin F. Keever, sharing the program with Lt. Frink,' dis cussed the origin of the calendar, and told of changes which had taken place during its history. He pointed out that the calendar was originated in 46 B.C. by Julius Caesar, and the first calendar re mained jn-force until the' time of Pope Gregory, who designed the calendar as we know it today. Dr. Keever said that because of actions of the sun and njoon, it is impossible'to make the calendar conform with the .actual planetary orbit. He' explained that a new calendar has been proposed known, as the world calendar, which di vides the .year into quarters in such a manner that "each date ap pears, on the same day every year. Although the new calendar has not been universally adopted, Dr. Keever pointed out that 15 nations have approved the world, calendar. -_y ANGLO-AMERICAN POUCY ACCORD PARTLY REACHED (Continued from P»l« #*«) position was publicly stated last Tuesday. It was learned that a British spokesman, who called on Stet tinius ahead of the ambassador, admitted that the United States should have been consulted before the British spoke up against inclu sion ot Count Carlo Sforza in any Italian government. But-he said it was even more true that the Brit1 ish government should have been consulted before the State Depart ment issued its declaration for a hands-off policy. ■ He was told that the United States probably would not have made any public declaration at all except-, for the fact that--Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden’s initial statement of Sforza in Commons had been widely published and had brought heavy demans for a decla ration of Washington’s position. -—V Sgt. Rodger Russell, Wilmington Soldier, r Killed At War Front Sergeant Rodger P. Russell, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Rodger P. Russell, 1404 Grace street, was killed in action in Germany No vember 24, according to word re ceived by his family here from the War Department. Sgt. Russell is survived Jpy his parents, and two sisters, Mrs. N. Wessley Blake and Mrs. Marsden W. Gore, Jr., bf Wilmington. Also surviving are two grandfathers, Darson Conekin, of Philadelphia, Pa„ and C. H. Russell of Jones boro. Sgt. Russell was engaged to marry Miss Barbara Allen, of 1813 Princess street. Philip Vhitc| invtitcd tk ' 1 P«l »0»*nt«d th* H*IUw tJfl Srownd Blade for c*»l|r, J * gukkf>‘T—rt»r Touch* digging | i: - i lO^H*_ :• ~ " • ■ ‘ ■ ! ■ . ■—i ■■■ 1 7 . - --.r , <.■ . i. Best War Bond Slogans Winners of the War bond slogan cp^test held at, the yard of the North Carolina Shipbuilding com pany Thursday to stimulate the sate of bonds were announced yes terday. They were not selected on a one twd-three * basis but rather the three best of the scores of slogans iri the parade. They were as fallows: .Safety department, represented by . Hiss Hazel Murray, with the slogan “Home front fighters . . .! Don’t delay. Buy an extra bond today!” ; Anglesmiths department, repre sented by Miss Doris * Brittain, slogan, “Our Flag’s flying. Our boys are dying. We should be buy ing extra bonds,” Scrap and Salvage department, represented by Mrs. Gertrude Pound, slogan, “Buy more bonds —salvage,.scrap. It takes both.to beat the Japs.” , Music for the parade, led by Captain R&ger Williams, president of the company, a part of the way around the yard, was furnished by the New ‘Hanover High school band. Tbe slogans, with -every depart ment represented, were judged by a committee composed of J. G. Thornton, dE. A. Laney and Wilbur R Dosher, who commented that all entries were extraordinarily good and commended each depart ment for the interest and origi nality of thought. Woman Steals $40,000 To Raise Friends * Pay NEW YORK, Dec. S.—Ufl—A pretty blond bookkeeper for a Fifth Avenue luggage shop was charged today with s’tealing ap proximately $40,000 from her em ployer during the past'yean and distributing most of it in “pay increases” and gifts to'’friends. Assistant District Attorney Fran cis X. Clark said the bookkeeper, Mrs. Madeline Dunnigan, 22, had admitted “increasing” the salary of one fellow employe from $3 to $15 a day and another's from $30 to $55 a week—Without the pro prietor’s. knowledge. In. addition, Clark said, Mrs. D.unnigan made gifts ranging up to $600 to servicemen and other friends, spent several thousand dollars for her parents’ medical care and bought clothes for her self. . •. - - She will be arraigned tomorrow on a grand larceny charge. GEOLOGIST SAYS : B-29, COULD BE CAUSE Of 'QUAKE (Continued from Page One) opinion the earth structure around Tokyo was so badly fractured that almost any bombing might cause dislocations leading tb ’quakes. “In my opinion,” Whitnall said, “the Japanese are fully aware of the possibilities gnd live in constant dread of air attacks, not so much for the direct dgmagf they would do as for the possibility they might cause cataclysmic earthquakes and eruptions among hundreds of slumbering volcanoes in the em pire; ' J “Twenty years ago when our fleijt entered the bay between To kyo and Yokohama, also a great ’quake area, Japanese officials ra dioed a request that no big guns be used in exchanging - salutes. This caution may have indicated that, evdn then, -they c werV;-a.wai?q'?fdil changes from untoward jars.” In New York, the Rev. Joseph J Lynch, S. J., -Fordham University seismologist, said- it was. imposjsi We that bombs could have caused yesterday’&■. earthquake.” “The effect of a bomb compared with the effect of- earthquake is ,a .flea i^tb.gn elephant,” he '-said,; addidg^that hpmbing would. pot-lp-L create the chemical activity’whieihi causes- volcanic disturbances-.’^.;,' j VI hope np ope will get theJJP presfion that this belief is shared by . seismologists,” he said- . laps would seize, upon it for prop aganda purposes!” " -4-—v The Rev. S. L. Blanton To Return To Pulpit The . Rev.' Sandy L?.e- Blazon will return ;to ; tfye puhjftt of the First Baptist ' church tomorrow^ morning a the?-11 p’clpek , sfr^ee-. after ah absence of several weeks. He will preach on ”THe-Feaci of Christ.” * •' ’ 4;. r>-:' The choif pf, 40 voices will sing the “Inflamihatus” chorus from Rossini’s oratpria, “Stabat M^tgr.” with Mrs. $ R- Moore siVig'ing ! ■thd;$Opr«hp;.>rpip.,:Wa?.ter ir'Apple, white, • dramatic’' tenor, will * slhg Frances Allitjen’s stirring setting of the 27.th Psalm, ‘‘The Lord is My Light.’’ ;. . ■ ;f~ City Briefs CHRISTMAS OFFERING A special Christmas offering will be taken at the Sunset Baptist church December 17, for the church building fund. The Sunday school ha^aceepi e«t a goal of $2,200 an*iic pas tor, the Rev. G. Carl Lewis has asked all members of the church to participate in the special service. BIBLE EXHIBIT There will be an exhibit of historical THhle and Hymnals at the First Presbyterian Church Sunday, 10:45 to 11:00 a.m. and 6:45 to 7:45 p.m. and Monday 3 to 4 p.m., in obser vance of Bible week. ETHYL-DOW CITED FOR SAFETY WORK (Continued from Page One) • P. Brittain, J. A. Brown. J. E. D. Clark! C. J. Craig, Jr.. W. J. Da vidson, J- A. Croom, F. W. Davis, J.. O. Davis, Roda Farrow. T. T. Farrow, H. C. Fields, Paul Galog. and George Henniker. H. C. Hewett, Rob Hewett, Sted man Hewett, F. is. Hewett. E. C. Huband, H. • A. Humble, E. E. Jor don, C. W. Lewis, J. E. Lewis, J. D Loughlin, L. C. Marshall, W. H! Moore, J. J. Parker, H. T. Pat ersbn, and J. J. Peterson. Ray Peterson, Gibson Register, Mac B. Register, C. F. Smith, J. P. Sullivan, J. M. Thomas, J. L. Walters, C. D. Wells, A. H. White bead and Ralph Winchell. Employes receiving five-year SerVjde. emblems were: ,V)J. .S. JBenson, Albert Bogie, J. D. (Heurijd*,' G. E. Burnett, W. E. Bur nett,' G. E. Cantwell, J. W. Cooper, 4r;^qfe.: I.- Gore, L. E. Creech. L. O. ■pifvis, Rc.C- Devane, P. A. Elkins, jyityv'Exedare, L. L. George, E. G. Grubbs, J. A. Hall. C. "Hewett, W. B. High, R. T. Hor 4pn, Mills Hunter, R. A. Jarrell, W. R. Jackson. R. C. Kelly, S. D. Kelly and W. H. Lane. ■ , W D. Lewis. A. B. Love, Jr., E. .W. Manning. C. L. Merritt, C. H. Moore, N. H. Musselwhite, J. P. Radgett. A. B. Rivenbark, R. E. SindhisfC. S. Sidbury. F. O. Sim ■ W. G. Southerland, W. J. W?vd, W. B. Wilson and W. H. Worrell. -... ■—v— ELECTED PRESIDENT !.y NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 8-W— ^Joseph T. Ferguson, state auditor of Ohio, was elected president of the National Association of State Auditors,' Comptrollers and Treas urers, which concluded its annual eonventtbff ‘here yesterday. Rapid Citjr, South Dakota, was selected for next year’s meeting. Vice presidents elected included Jeff B. Bates, treasurer of South Carolina, —-p”age 0»c> (Continued lr0,n e {or vancing s ortnoc- 0c °th' ** rte southeo^ ^ over *• To the re pushing anese « .-"'i** r,ea=«4 * s“'d “ ivom *»• stronghold ■ miles p\ll these Ar‘, ,he TU» V!Le to ward Orrnoc Japanese arrtval * n °srihes vivitV cpV^^ _ c+ ot were sunk 3,1DccemMJ ^'d with the night otey were ^ head p'e"s°{or Or^oc ^.^ofce^he' des S ntte^^Vl^^ \ So \ „*sag: \ Vicks Cough urop o{ {4. \ bec»use V'bing in8teu n\us other \ *I0it'vicks Vat>°^’ ^hen-yoh. \ nous ,nemedicatl0 \tissoVvelft \ c0USvtks Cough DtoP *» lt bathe \ let»Vlc\ ouactuallVl®^ toie Ug«* CREPES i* . j* -r -, . WOOLS SATINS VELVETS SIZES 10 TO 20' ; SOME LARGE SIZES.TOO ■ V, - -k '• . J‘ ••• - - ' v * 9 :• ;• • A repeat sale that brings you sev eral hundred more dresses that • will- amaae you With their values, Dresses that formerly sold for as high as $24.89 end that are all this season's* styles and colors*; The se lection in any one style or color is limited so for-the best choice, be here '*»yly. Sorry, no layaways ,on ■ these dresses. ■ s< t ■ ; ;•; -■ . ; ' - " *' ' .. • > fl ' » • • . \ V IjV • ■' ' ■ --V . * ■ , ’ . . 214 >T. FRONT ST.