The Wilmington morning star. [volume], December 31, 1944, FINAL EDITION, Page 3, Image 3

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CHAPLIN’S LAWYER
TO GIVE HIS S E
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30.—(£>)_
Verbal hostilities in the Charlie
Chaplin paternity suit, recessed
over New Year’s day, will be re
newed Tuesday when the comic’s
lawyer replies to the caustic broad
sides of counsel for Joan Berry.
For more than four hours, Joseph
Scott, his bushy black eyebrows
rising and falling and his arm*
flailing, excoriated the 55-year-old
Chaplin as “a reptile,” “a pestifer
ous. lecherous hound,” “a cheap
cockney cad,” ‘‘a master mechanic
in the art of seduction” and “a
little runt of a svengali.”
Tuesday it will be the turn of
Charles E. Millikan, Chaplin’s at
torney, to tell the jury of seven
women and five men his version of
tiie case of 24-year-old Joan, the
comedian’s former protege who is
demanding that he be adjudged
the father of her 14-months-old
daughter, Carol Ann.
Millikan's argument will be fol
lowed by a rebuttal from Scott, and
then Superior Judge Henry M.
Willis will instruct the jury and
send it out to deliberate.
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SOVIETS ENTER EAST
SUBURB OF BUDAPEST
(Continued from Page One)
• mam defense line of t h e inner
ring within Budapest.”
Capture Houses
Malinovsky’s forces, which two
days ago were one to three miles
northeast, east and southeast of
Pest, broke in the streets of the
larger part of Budapest on the east
bank of the Danube and captured
several blocks of houses.
On the opposite bank of the Dan
ube. the emissary of Marshal Feo
dor I. Tolbukhin’s 3rd Ukrainian
army was killed in the debris
strewn streets of residential Buda
alter he presented his terms and
was returning to the Soviet lines.
There was no immediate indica
tion from Berlin whether the re
newal of fighting in East Prussia
presaged a major Soviet offensive.
The Nazi DNB agency reported
that "strong Soviet reconnoitering
formations” — possibly seeking
weak spots in Nazi lines before
Insterburg — had broken through
German lines on a 10-miles front
between Ebenrode (Stalluponen)
and Schlossberg (Pillkallen). but
had been hurled back into no
man’ s-land by Germany artillery.
In this area, troops of Gen. Ivan
D. Cherniakhovsky’s 3rd White
Russian army last were reported
28 miles east of the great German
rail center of Insterburg and 87
miles from Konigsberg, capital of
Germany’s eastern province.
West of the burning, devastated
and mine-strewn streets of Buda
pest, littered with thousands of en
emy dead, Russian troops also
hammering toward Vienna — 94
miles from advance Red army
spearheads.
The Germans were hurling every
available man into violent tank
batters in an effort to halt Soviet
thrusts south of the Danube to
ward Austria.
The Nazi DNG agency reported
that the Russians had sent forward
two divisions in an effort to out
flank the Bakony mountains be
tween Mor and Felsogalla, 35 and
25 miles west and sothwest of Bu
dapest respectively. Mor is 98
miles southeast of Vienna and 56
miles from Austria, but the ene
my claimed that the Russians had
been repelled in that sector.
Southeast of Felsgalla, German
broadcasts asserted that Nazi paz
zers penetrated deeply into the
flank of Soviet spearheads, annihi
lated a Russian column and in
fighting for one locality destroyed
19 out of 25 attacking Soviet tanks.
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KUOSEVELT DRAFTS
ANNUAL MESSAGES
(Continued from Page One)
tiding officially that Mr. Roose
' elt has been elected for a fourth
term.
The annual message probably
will review military progress; dis
cuss in broad outline only what
can be expected in the future, and
present in some detail Mr. Roose
velt's ideas of what the legislative
and executive branches shod do to
prepare the nation for the impact
of reconversion to a peacetime
economy.
The budget is expected to call
for expenditure of about $88,000,
000 000 (Bl during the fiscal year
1946, which begins next July 1.
That sum would be about $11,000.
000,000 below the record $99,000,
000,000 which is being spent in the
current fiscal year.
The fiscal 1946 expenditures, ac
cording to reliable estimates, will
include about $78,000,000,000 (B) in
the “war” classification—- again,
•bout $11,000,000,000 (B) below what
is spent this year. The remainder
will inclule slightly more than $4,
000,000,000 for servicing the nat
ional debt-which now stands at
more than $231,000,000,000 (B)
»nd about $5,700,000,000 (B) for non
war activities.
\VHpn tVwa npw roncress convenes
*t noon Wednesday, Mr Roosevelt
will find larger democratic maj
orities in both house and senate
than he has enjoyed for some time.
The new Senate will have only one
one more democrat than the pre
sent Senate-57 to 56-but sev
eral ardent isolationists have been
replaced by more internationally
minded legislators who will be
more apt than their predecessors to
lupport the president’s foreign pol
icy. There will be 243 democrats in
the new house, as compared with a
212-212 Democratic-Republican tie
in the chamber’s lineup as today.
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BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
Five-Striper
iu. b. Navy Photo from NEA
Newly - appointed Fleet Adm
William D. Leahy, USN, chief o
staff to the Commander-in-Chief o
the U. S., is shown wearing hii
new five-stripe uniform. Grange
consist of a one-half-inch strip)
added to dress uniform sleeves
with the summer uniform to carri
five-star insignia on the collar in
stead of four.
Marshall Purchases
Home At Pinehursi
PINEHURST, Dec. 30. — (UP)—
General George C. Marshall, chiel
of staff of the United States Army,
and Mrs. Marshall have purchased
a home here which they intend tc
make their winter residence at
the end of the war, it w’as an
nounced here today.
The announcement said that
General and Mrs. Marshall have
purchased Liscomb lodge and that
Mrs. Marshall is expected to make
her home in this golfing center
and winter resort this spring.
General Marshall, who-will be
64 years old on the 31st of Decem
ber, would have been retired un
der Army regulations but congress
has enacted legislation prolonging
the service of the chief of staff for
an indefinite period.
SHIPYARD AWARDED
15-SHIP CONTRACT
(Continued from Page One)
with the job, so that in the New
Year our men, suported by the
ships we build, shall have the full
est opportunity to achieve complete
victory and prepare the way to a
lasting peace.”
The latest contract brings the
total number of ships awarded the
yard to 243. Of this number it still
has 53, including the 15 in the lat
est assignment, to deliver.
First ships built here wer the
Liberty type and after completing
126 of these, the yard switched pro
duction to the C-2, with contracts
for 87. Later an additional contract
raised this number to 102. Howev
er, more than a score of these
were converted to AKA naval com
bat cargo ships.
During the past year, the yard
delivered 60 ships, 38 of which were
for the Navy and the remainder
for the Merchant fleet.
The C-2 type ship, designed pri
marily for caro but it whpaesn-s
ger accommodations, has a length
of 460 feet, beam of 63 feet and
deadweight tonnage of 8,500 tons.
Its cruising range is 16,200 miles.
The yard’s 194th ship, the U. S.
S. Siminole, was launched last
Thursday morning under the spon
sorship of Miss Pomela Cole, of
Newport News, Va. This was also
the 32nd combat cargo type to be
built here.
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CHURCHILL VOICES
’45 VICTORY HOPE
j (Continued from Page One)
[ Athens had been freed from their
' oppressor.
I The year had brolght a night
mare of bombardments, devasta
' tion, sudden death and eternal
. fear to Berlin and a dozen other
German cities.
It was the year in which Church
ill, President Roosevelt and Pre
mier Stalin set the stage for final
victory.
It was the year in which the
battered German army, hurled
back to its own frontier, rose like
a prize fighter at the count of nine
to lash out with frenzied strength
in an effort to prolong the war or
win a lenient peace.
It was another year of what
Churchill has called “blood, sweat
and tears.”
The Germans were driven from
France, Romania and Greece,
from most of Italy and Belgium
and from parts of Holland, Poland,
Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yu
goslavia and Norway.
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Dashiell Hammett, American
founder of the “hardboiled school”
of detective fiction, was a Pinker
ton detective for eight years, and
worked on the Nivky Arnstein and
“Fatty” Arbuckle cases. 1
KILLED IN ACTION
Pfc Norwood O. Brooks, (shown
above) of Wilmington and Seaside,
was killed in action in France on
Nov. 5, according to notification
received from the War department
by his mother, Mrs. George E.
Brooks, of Seaside.
Member of a well-known Bruns
wick county family, Pfc. Brooks
was graduated from Shallotte High
school in 1935 and completed his
education at Louisburg college and
the University of North Carolina.
Before entering the service on
Sept. 3, 1943, he was employed by
the North Carolina Shipbuilding
company. He went overseas in
February, 1944, and was a mem
ber of an outstanding Infantry unit
cited several times for gallantry
in action.
In addition to his mother, he is
survived by four sisters, Misses
Zelda, Lulu and Mary Brooks, and
Mrs. John Furlong, and four
brothers, Joe, John, George and
James Brooks.
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VOTE TO RETURN
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 30. — (£>)—
Members of the United Retail,
Wholesale and Department Stores
Union, (CIO) who have been on
a strike at the Montgomery Ward
mail order plant and retail store
voted tonight to return to work.
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STEEL WORKERS WIN
APPROVAL OF RAISE
(Continued from Page One)
would cost between $75,000,000 and
$80,000,000 a year. Steel company
figures ranged up to 150,000,000.
A difficulty in figuring the cost
is the fact that the increases ap
proved are not in the basic wage.
The steel workers asked 17 cents
an hour increase in basic wage but
the WLB turned this down on the
grounds it would violate the gov
srnment’s wage stabilization pol-l
cy.
The main increase approved was
i premium of 4 cents an hour for
die second or early night shift and
5 cents for the third, or late night
shift. This will affect the majority
if workers since in most steel
plants it is a practice for workers
to rotate through the shifts at in
;ervals.
These increases are retroactive
to the expiration of old contracts,
rhe expiration date varies from I
plant to plant but most contracts i
expired around December 26, 1942*
In addition, the WLB directed ad- i
justments to correct “inequities’'
within plants, but ordered that in
creases under this directive should
not average more than 5 cents an
hour for all of a plant’s employes.
Also approved were vacations with
pay.
The WLB directed, too, that the
companies and the union negotiate
on a plan for severance pay. If
they could not agree, the board
said, it would undertake to settle
the issues.
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Some insects, such as the aphids,
have the ability to complete e j
generation in a week or less.
REDUCED
i
Just 10
FUR TRIMMED
KENMOOR
COATS
In blue, beige and black
Formerly sold for $98.00.
[ *5950
CHESTERFIELD COATS
In green, fuchsia, tarra
cotta and tweed.
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