The Wilmington morning star. [volume], January 10, 1945, FINAL EDITION, Page 5, Image 5

About The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990

Image provided by: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, Chapel Hill, NC

                
RIVER, harbor
WORK LIMITED
BY FR BUDGET
Program Coincides With
plan To Restrict
Non-War Jobs
WASHINGTON. Jan. 9.- (4P1 -
„ ;; der.t Roosevelt's war budget
fV fiscal 19« beginning next July
°nr,- floodcontrol and rivers and
harbors work to maintenance and
-•’ergency construction.
f r-n'.. this he recommends an ap
-ropriation of $90,654,100. The ap
^ [[nation for the current fiscal
[[^totaled S87.945.000.
' The program coincides with the
President’s policy to restrict non
far construction while planning a
w backlog of public works for
[I” etime operations. He signed
recent]v a $1,000,000,000 postwar
flood control authorization.
Tie 1946 estimates are based on
„ .en :al requirements for main
tenance of waterway works already
! j,, yew work can be undertaken
]f it js required for war. NO' proj
ects are listed.
f!< the total for flood control, the
p-esident recommended $14,037,000
.,eneral flood control, $30,000.
n00 for the Mississippi Valley and
irrutaries $2,050,000 for the Sac
ramento river, and $500,000 for any
relief work. .
The estimate for rivers and har
b , = is $54,124,000, compared with
qi 358,000 appropriated this year.
" t:i0od control appropriations for
41,45 Were S7.230.100 for general
f; hd control, $26,000,000 for the
•’ -dssippi and tributaries. $2,800,
(f’;i for the Sacramento river, and
*500,000 for relief work.
_-V
(PENICILLIN USED
TO SAVE GUERNSEY
FROM PNEUMONIA
HARDWICK. Mass., Jan. 9 —
iyp i —A lordly Guernsey bull bat
tled lor his life against pneumonia
tonight while his owners and a
veterinarian watched the effects of
penicillin injections, and prepared
t„ administer what may be the
final giant-sized shot of the miracle
drug tomorrow,’.
The patient, 18-month-old Caum
sc-tt Spitfire, appeared somewhat
improved from the 2,500,000 units
of penicillin he has received under
a special War Production Board
dispensation. However, his “phy
-.c.r.n" describes him as “still a
pretty sick boy.”
"It's still a qestion of how he'll
rake out,’ said Dr. Francis M.
Austin of Belchertown, believed
tie first one ever to try the won
der drug on an animal. “I think
tie penicillin is helping greatly,
but of course its hard to say for
sure. Tomorrow’s dose may be all
we'll need.”
-_V
OPA Increases Ceiling
On Florida Strawberries
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.— UP) —
[ OFA Today increased ceiling price
[ for fresh strawberries produced in
\ Florida.
The increases, effective for the
rest of January, were made under
the 'disaster" clause of the
! Stabilization Act. which provides
for increases w’hen yields are re
duced by adverse growing condi
I tions.
The increases will result in the
| retail consumer paying about a
| half-cent more for a pint of fresh
I strawberries at retail. The new
I prices. F.O.B. shipping points in
ft Florida:
J P'nt, 26 3-4 cents, increase ot
I 3-4 cent; quart, 51 1-2 cents, in
I °f 1 1-2 cents: pound, 34 cents, in
I crease of one cent.
A . . • ~
| EVERY DAY
H Someone Has A
Birthday or
Anniversary
gft SEE ES FOR
gifts
OF ALL KINDS
1 ★ SILVERPLATE
I * CHINAWARE
| * PICTURES
| ★ LUGGAGE
I ★ CRYSTALWARE
And Many Others!
\%el'B,nQlftSLp
K Downstairs at the Jewel Box
109 X FRONT ST.
PRIS°NERS TAKEN ON ROAD TO BASTOGNE
AN AMERICAN LIGHT TANlf /iaw\ —
Army on the way to relieviGerman Prisoners captured by units of Lt. Gen. Patton’s U. S. Third
tinues on its way to battle the h>-C American forces at Bastogne, Belgium, while other Yank armor con
_ 7 10 battIe the Nazis- Th* « an official U. S. Signal Corps photo. (International Soundvhoto)
23 FEARED DEAD
IN PLANE CRASH
MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 9.—(UP) —
Twenty-three persons aboard a
Pan American Airways clipper
which crashed last night off Port
Of-Spain, Trinidad, were consid
ered dead tonight. Only eight
bodies, three of them unidentified,
had been recovered.
Seven of the 12 crew members
and 18 passengers aboard the
giant flying boat were listed as
having survived the plunge into
the sea, apparently while landing.
Reports from Trinidad said that
Navy divers began efforts this
morning to remove the bodies of
those trapped in the wreckage.
The plane, originally built as
the China Clipper in 1935 and re
cently re-built for service on the
Miami-Leopoldville, Africa, route,
blazed the trail of trans-Pacific
operations for Pan American. A
company statement issued here
said it was in use because more
modern equipment was not Avail
able due to military demands.
The list of dead and missing
included the entire family of a
missionary bound for Liberia for
the African inland mission of
Brooklyn, N. Y. Paul John Whit
lock, 36, his wife and their three
children were among the missing.
Only two members of another
family, residents of Rio de Janeiro,
survived. Charles Donald Wil
liams, 29, and his seven-year-old
daughter, Nancy Lou, were saved.
The bodies of two other children
were recovered and the search
continued for that of Mrs. Wil
liams.
-V
JUDY GARLAND TO WED
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 9.—(UP) —
Songstress Judy Garland today an
nounced she would marry Director
Ben Vincent Minnelli, with whom
she worked on her latest picture.
She said the wedding will be next
fall.
Just Like G1 Dad
»<•» • V.I.. . —I ■MV.'.VA'JW/MWHUt •
THIS PROUD youngster, Frank John
Ahrendt, Jr., 13 months old, of De
troit, Mich., wears the uniform that
his dad, Cpi. Frank J. Ahrendt, had
made to his measurements. The
“Junior GI” lives with his mother,
Mrs. Lucille Ahrendt, while dad
serves in Panama. (International)
Yanks Undaunted By Hail
OfSnowAndNazi Bullets
By C. R. CUNNINGHAM
OUTSIDE PROVEDROU
WITH THE U. S. 83RD INFAN
TRY, Jan. 8.—(Correct)— (UP) —
This town is the closest point in
the American First Army’s drive
to meet the Third Army coming
up from the south in an effort
to pinch off several thousand Na
zis and tonight, amid the whine
and bark of shells, it seemed al
most too close for comfort.
A high wind is whipping the
snow in the faces of the frozen
infantrymen of the 83rd division
as they struggle through the snow
drifts south of the St. Vith-La
Roche road in the direction of Bas
togne.
From where I am writing this
dispatch to the Third Army’s 101st
Airborne Division just north of
Bastogne, it is just a little under
12 miles. The 83rd and its accom
panying Third Armored Division
are fighting to close that gap soon.
A task force under Capt. John
W. Gordan, Pittsburgh, Pa., has
swept through Hebronval and Ot
tre and joined a force under Lt.
Col. Walter Richardson, Beau
mont, tex., which took the village
of Joubievalet and pressed out to
within coughing distance of Pro
vedrou.
A cough, however, could hard
ly be heard on this front where the
roar of the wind mingles with the
chatter of German rifle and ma
chinegun fire and a rain of ar
tillery shells.
Although the First Army n o w
holds a good-size piece of the lat
eral road and the Germans are
not yet making much in the way
of a counter-attack, a drive along
the highway from Sart to ‘'Hogan's
Crossroads” isn’t the healthiest
thing in the world.
It is only about a five-mile
stretch of road but tonight it was
the hottest thing on the front. This
correspondent, having been assur
ed that ‘‘sure, the road is open”,
undertook to take a drive along
it. To cover the five miles took
four and a half hours. Three times
in my “leisurely” drive I was
pinned down by enemy fire.
The situation of our troops can
be imagined — hugging the snow
and crouching in water-filled fox
holes.
The only thing tliis drive proved
was that our offensive is rolling
ahead —slowly because of the
snow, fog, mines and demolitions
—but still rolling.
Another three or four days
should prove whether the Germans
will be able to pull their forces
safely back from the bulge.
Sad Sartorial Situation
Seen In London Circles
By EDWARD V. ROBERTS
LONDON, Jan. 9.—(UP)—A seri
ous sartorial situation has arisen
in London, serious enough to cause
the reliable correspondent of the
staid Manchester Guardian tc
make a note of the affair.
Ankle muffs are back.
The Guardian correspondent re
ported to his paper, bluntly, abso
lutely without equivocation, that
“an increasing number of elderly
gentlemen are to be seen around
St. James and the Mall wearing
spats.”
A source close to the Ministry ot
Information (he runs a barber
shop in the next block) expressed
personal doubt that the situation
was terribly serious. He pointed
out, as most sources close to of
ficial quarters have a habit of do
|ing, that the Guardian correspond
ent carefully made clear that the
trend toward cloth uppers and
pearl buttons was limited to el
derly gentlemen, and this source
added that it probably was * result
of war neurosis. “Frobably the
i same sort which forced the women
of Paris to wear those “ ' orrible
‘igh ‘ats” during the Nazi occupa
tion.
He added, however, that the situ
ation was “very comple” and that
its manifestations — ‘orrible ‘igh
‘ats and spats—still were a puzzle
to the scientific mind.
The Guardian correspondent who
apparently devoted considerable
time and much study to the prob
lem before rushing into print, said
that London has been spatless for
nearly 15 years. It was made clear,
however, that traditional British
tolerance has permitted the exis
tence of a small nucleus of spats
advocates, the possibility was seen
that this group has taken advant
age of the turmoil of war to
launch a spats putsch. There was
a time, just a few years ago, when
certain commerccial interests, less
interested in sartorial elegance
than in the coin or the realm, tried
to encourage the manufacture of
ankle muffs for export. Nothing
much came of it.
In all quarters, official and other
wise, it is stoutly denied that while
British dandies may have originat
ed the wearing of spats, they ha,
nothing whatever to do with those
purple ones once commonly seen
in certain American literary cir
cles.
_rr
MP Wounded In Fight
With Black Marketeers
LONDON, Jan. 9.—(UP)—Pvt.
Frank J. Woods, New York City,
a military policeman, was wound
ed in a gun fight with black mar
ket gangsters in northern France,
a dispatch from Paris reported
today.
Woods received his wound when
he and other military policemen,
raiding a black market headquar
ters in a hotel, replied to the
fire of a truck driver who drove
into the courtyard. The driver was
killed.
A United Press dispatch, garbled
in transmission between Paris and
London, reported erroneously Sun
day that Woods was killed and the
driver wounded.
Paris reported today that Woods
and other men wounded were ex
pected to recover.
-V
Camp Butner Soldier
Held In Assault Case
DURHAM, Jan. 9.— UP) —The
Camp Butner Public Relations Of
fice said tonight Pvt. Floyd M.
Abbet of Keystone, Okla., has
been charged with criminal as
sault of a Durham white woman
last November 18
The soldier, now held in the post
stockade, the PRO said, will be
tri£d at a general court martial.
Penalty on conviction calls for
death before a firing squad or life
imprisonment, the PRO said.
Four Divorce Cases
Involving Nobility
Set In London Dock
LONDON, .Jan. 9.—(fP)—Four un
contested divorce suits involving
four lords and as many ladies will
be heard in London’s bomb-bat
tered law courts during the term
beginning January 11.
The undefended list includes a
netition by Countess Beatty, the
former Mrs. Dorothy Power Sands
of Virginia, against Lord Beatty.
son of the World War 1 admiral
and himself a Navy commander
and holder of the Distinguished
Service Cross for gallantry and
, skill in the 1942 Dieppe raid.
SLJCK CHICK
^P«-Co!a Company, Long I eland CUy,
""’Bottler: pprsj Coia Bottling Co. -t Wilmington
Commander Of Third Army Unit
Relieved And Given Lower Rank
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—(UP) —
Maj. Gen. Lindsay McDonald Sil
vester was disclosed today to have
been relieved of his command of
the Third Army’s Seventh Armor
ed Division in France and revert
ed to his permanent rank of col
onel after he returned to his home
here on sick leave.
Army authorities declined to
say why he was relieved by Lt.
Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., com
mander of the Third Army, or
discuss his physical condition, but
it is known that he goes to Wal
ter Reed General hospital for
treatment from time to time.
It was not disclosed when Sil- :
vester was relieved, but it was
revealed on November 25 that Maj
Gen. Robert Hashbrouck was the
new commander of the Seventh
Division.
Silverster, a member of the
Army for 32 years, took command
of the division in March, 1942,
trained it in the California desert
and led it in battle in France.
PETER MAY AGREE
ON REGENCY PLAN
LONDON, Jan. 9.—(UP)—King
Peter may notify Prime Minister
Churchill tomorrow of his accept
ance of a regency council for
Yugoslavia, which the British
Government and Peter’s own min-,
isters have been urging him to
accept immediately, it was report
ed tonight.
Peter was said to be concluding
tonight a series of conferences
with old-line Yugoslav politicians
and completing formalities for ac
ceptance of the regency before
meeting with Churchill tomorrow.
This would clear the way for im
plementing the agreement be
tween Marshal Tito and Premier
Ivan Subasic, fusing the Yugo
slav National Liberation Commit
tee and the Royal Yugoslav gov
ernment under Tito’s premiership.
Under this set-up Subasic is slated
to be foreign minister.
Peter has been reported for
some days as agreeing with reluc
tance to the regency council plan
ned under the Tito-Subasic agree
ment. Several Royalist politicians
were reported using their influ
ence to delay or prevent the young
king from taking a step which
might cost him the throne per
manently.
-v
THOMAS SUCCEEDS
REYNOLDS AS HEAD
OF MILITARY UNIT
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. —UP)—
Senator Elbert Thomas (D-Utah)
was chosen today as chairman oi
the Senate Military Affairs Com
mittee. He succeeds former Sena
tor Reynolds (D-NC), who did not
seek re-election.
To take over the important mili
tary chairmanship, Thomas resign
ed as chairman of the Committee
on Education and Labor and was
succeeded by Senator Murray (D
Mont).
The Democratic Steering Com
mittee. which made the selections,
also announced the following new
assignments to other committees:
Agriculture— Senators Connall>
(Texas), Downey (Calif), Mose:
(ND) and Hoey (NC).
Banking and Currency—McFar
land (Ariz); Taylor (Idaho) anc
Fulbright (Ark).
Commerce—Chandler (Ky); Mag
nuson (Wash) and McClellar
(Ark).
Military Affairs, Wagner (NY;
and Stewart (Tenn).
_V__
Morrison Plans Race
In Conservative Area
LONDON, Jan. 9.—(IP)—Herbert
Morrison. Laborite minister o
Home Security, announced toda!
he would run for the House o
Commons from the traditionalh
conservative East Lewisham dis
trict in the next general election.
“While East Lewisham never ha:
returned a Labor member o:
Parliment, I share the confidenct
of the local Labor party that th«
seat is one I can win and retain,’
Morrison said.
The East Lewisham district nov
is represented by Sir Asshetoi
Pownall, a Conservative who ha:
served the district for 26 years.
Col. Rector, Famed Ace
Reported Missing, Safe
ASHEVILLE Jan. 9.—(TP)—Lt
Col. Edward F. Rector, famec
Madison county flier who a week
ago was reported missing in ac
tion over China since December
19. is safe.
A telegram from the War De
partment, received by his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Rector ol
Marshall, R.F.D. No. 2, late Mon
day night, announced that he "is
alive and well and no longer miss
ing” No details were available to
night.
This is the second time the 27
vear old pilot, who became nation
ally known for his exploits with the
Flying Tigers has been reported
missing, and later turned up safe
--V
Norway declared its independ
ence from Denmark ar.d Sweden
in 1814 but the union was not rds
solved for 9q years.
How Sluggish Folks
Get Happy Relief
WHEN CONSTIPATION makes you feel
punk as the dickens, brings on stomach
upset, sour taste, gassy discomfort, take
Dr. Caldwell’s famous medicine to quickly
pull the trigger on lazy “innards”, and
help you feel bright and chipper again.
DR. CALDWELL’S is the wonderful senna
laxative contained in good old Syrup Pep
sin to make it so easy to take.
MANY DOCTORS use pepsin preparations
in prescriptions to make the medicine more
palatable and agreeable to take. So be sure
your laxative is contained in Syrup Pepsin.
INSIST ON DR. CALDWELL’S—the favorite
of millions for 50 years, and feel that whole
some relief from constipation. Even finicky
children love it.
CAUTION: Use only as directed.
DR. CALDWELL'S
SENNA LAXATIVE
CONTAINID IN syrup pepshti
Page Boys Skip School
For State Legislatorsl
By LARRY DALE
RALEIGH, N. C., Jan. 10.—(UP)
—The Page boys were conspicuous
ly absent before the chambers con
vened this morning.
When the bell rang for the first
session of Thad Eure’s school for
members of the General Assem
bly of 1945 those kids beat it. Don't
blame ’em. What’s the use of be
ing a page boy if you still got to
go to school?
But the legislators stuck to their
seats. And it wasn’t only the 35
freshmen who were paying atten
tion to teacher, there were plenty
a little balder or a little grayer.
Some must have been post gradu
ates.
Anybody that wants to know
something about legislative pro
cedure goes to Thad’s school to
find out.
Teacher, Mr. Eure, gets up there
and starts it off strictly on the
elementary level.
He tells them where to get their
~
bills prepared, what color covers
to use on them so the House and
Senate bills can be told apart as
far as you can see ’em, where their
post office box at the capitol is,
and when they can get their pay
check.
The State will pay them their
$10 each day if they want it that
way—or any other way they figure
out. providing it's not hour-by-hour.
They used to ask him “now that
I’ve introduced a bill what do I
do next—just sit back and wait for
something to happen?”
Now, he anticipates the question
and traces the course of a bill
from the time it’s presented on
the floor till it’s passed—his imagi
nary bill always gets passed no
matter what the pittfalls along the
way.
It’s more encouraging that way.
—-V-—
Try sprinkling chopped pickles
into soup just befoi^ serving. It
will enhance the flavor.
Truck Plunges Into River,
Driver Is Believed Killed
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Jsn. *.
—3—A heavily loaded truck and
trailer unexplainedlv plunged Ints
the Tennessee river here some
time afte rlast midnight, possibly
carrying its driver to his death.
R. H. Forester, local agent for
the Smith Transfer Corp., said
the driver, Elmer Massey of
Waynesville, N. C., left the firm’*
depot last midnight with the load
and had not been heard from
since. The big vehicle, its cab
completely submerged and hall
the trailer under water, was dis
covered this morning.
Piles! Ow!!
—But He SMILES, Now
Be wise as hr was. Use same formula used
by doctors adjunctively at noted Thorn
ton 4 Minor Clinic. Surprising QUICK
palliative relief of pain, itch soreness.
Helps soften and tends to shrink swell
ine Get tube Thornton 4 Minor s Rectal
Ointment—or Thornton 4 Minor Rectal
Suppositories. If not delighted with thi*
DOCTORS' way, low cost is refunded.
At all good drug stores everywhere.
(In did to (Better (Booking
GLASSWARE
for the
3 Pc. PYREX FLAME WARE SET
$2.45
1—1 qt. open sauce pan. 1—V2 qt. open sauce pan. 1—6 qt. frying pan
PYREX LOAF PANS
45c and 65c
Just the dish for loaf bread or cake, also meat loaf
GLASS DOUBLE BOILERS
$2.50
11/2 qt. triple X double boilers, for rice and custards. Or use separately
for any type cooking.
6 CUP PERCOLATORS
$2.50
Enjoy clear coffee, made in glass and served piping hot
GLASS ROASTERS
Bake hams, turkeys, chickens, etc., in glass, to make them tender and
brown. Four sizes:
Round .$1.98
Small Oval. 1.98
Wed. Oval. 3.95
* * I
Large Oval. 6.95
(J5dk-(MlUamh &