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22 Full Associated Press Service ATLANTA, WEDNESDY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1943 Innnl Dally anil Stinilay and mtarad an wwil-elui mattrr at tba peat efflea at Atlanta under Act of March I. ltd PRICE FIVE CENTS I NAZIS REPORT EIGHTH ARMY IS ATTACKING ALL OF FRANCE THREATENED BY GERMANS Mailed Fist to Deal With Any Invasion Revolt, They Warn EPdoq Dud iJaps oi fti Prelude to Spring Drive Seen in Terrific Bombing WASHINGTON, March 17. (INS) In what may be the prelude to Americas spring offensive in the Pacific, the Navy Wednesday reported six smashing dawn-to-dusk air raids on Jap-held Kiska and five aerial assaults and one naval bombardment on enemy bases in the Solomons. The six raids on Jap positions 'TUNIS WILL BE OUR SECOND STALINGRAD NAZI CHIEF SAYS NEW YORK, March Field Marshal Fritz Von Mannstcin, former German commander jn the Crimea, was quoted by the secret radio, Gustave Sigfried Eins, Tuesday night as follows: Tunis will be our second Stalingrad. In spite of the fact that all military experts, who know what they say, agree upon the fact that Tunisia is a lost position, the Strategists of the party (Nazi) send huge quantities of our best troops, tanks and planes to Tunisia.

Gustave Sigfried Eins represents itself as being operated by German military leaders inside Germany who oppose Nazi war strategy and Nazi politicians. The broadcast was recorded by the United Press listening post in New York. Mannstein charged, the station said, that material for an entire panzer division had been sunk in the Mediterranean. This two-front war is a hopeless catastrophe, he said. General Holfman Von Waldau, of the air forces, who inspected the African front, was reported to have returned to Adolf Hitlers headquarters to make reasonable propositions.

He was sent from one office to another and finally to Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the High Command, who frowned and said: Go tell him (Hitler) that You must go(in personally and tell it to him. Ten minutes later Von Waldau returned. i He received the order: Tunisia 'will be held at any cost Rommel will do if the broadcast said. The radio speaker expressed lack of confidence In Marshal Erwin Rommel, a Nazi protege, adding that Rommel would not be another Marshal Friedrich Von Paulus, who was captured at Stalingrad, but would abandon his men and escape when final disaster comes. ATLANTIAN TO REPLACE HEDY? "Lovely Inez Cooper (soys the Hollywood caption on this recent Acme photo) looks enough like Hedy Lamarr to take her place in filmdom if the latter continues her strike for $2,000 per week.

There wouldn't be any salary problem because they are under contract at the same studio, although Inez is now on loon to Monogram pictures." Inez is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Cooper, of Fast Point.

Hollywood Glamorizing Atlanta Girl as Pulsebeat Parents Describe Inez Cooper as Lass Who Loved to Go Fishing With Dad NT Reds Reported Near Petsamo, Finnish Port Stockholm Paper Says Action Indicates Arctic Drive Opened STOCKHOLM, March 17. (UP) The newspaper Afton-tidningen reported Wednesday that Russian forces had reached a point seven and one-half miles from Petsamo, port of northern Finland, indicating the Red Army had opened a drive on the arctic front. at Kiska, in the western Aleu-tions, comprise the heaviest 'concentrated attack in one period of daylight since the enemy seized that American island last June. Although results of the Kiska attack were not reported the Navy described the raids as heavy and snid they were carried out by four-motored and medium Army bombers. In the South Pacific the Navy reported another night naval bombardment of Japan positions in the central Solomons, this time against Vila, on Kolombangara Island.

Good Results; No Casualties Good results 'were reported and no casualties were suffered by our forces," the Navy said, in describing the bombardment. At the same time the Navy said Army Flying Fortresses pounded enemy positions at Kahili and Buka, in the northern Solomons, as well as Munda, on New Georgia Island. Subsequently, American dive bombers and Lightning fighter planes attacked Jap positions at Vila and in the vicinity of Viru Harbor, on New Georgia Island. The raids' on Kiska brought to 14 the total number of aerial assaults on this Jap-held position in the North Pacific so far this month. The Navy did not estimate the number of bombs dropped but their total weight was believed to greater than the 500,000 pounds of missiles dropped during February.

Third Surface Action The surface action in the South Pacific was the third such attack this year against Jap bases in the central Solomons. In a previous surface action March 5-6 American warships blasted Jap positions in the New Georgia area and sank two enemy destroyers. Navy spokesmen declined to discuss the importance of the concentrated attacks on Kiska, which occurred on March 15, but it was believed to be the forerunner of an American offensive to wipe out or drive the Japs from this American territory. The American raid apparently originated from United States advance bases in the Andreanof Islands, from which American planes have been pounding the Japanese for months. Bombers Escorted The attacks were carried out by heavy and medium Army bombers supported by speedy Lightning and Warhawk fighter planes.

Apparently no enemy opposition was encountered. This news followed closely reports from Washington of new American submarine successes against Japanese shipping in the Pacific. Latest forays ctfught four Jap ships which were sunk and three others which -were listed as damaged. Meanwhile, American, British and Canadian officials moved to carry out plans agreed upon to smash the Nazi U-boat menace in the Atlantic. NEW YORK, March 17.

(INS). Germany will strike all France with a hard hand" in event an Allied invasion is taken by the French people as the signal for mass uprisings, the Nazi-controlled Paris radio warned in a French broadcast reported Wednesday by the Federal Communications Commission. The radio voiced the warning in broadcasting an editorial by Robert De Beauplan, who complained that the good bourgeois" were hoping for an invasion even though it meant a portion of Fiance might be laid waste by the hostilities. I The writer, attempting to cool hopes for an invasion, said the French people should remember Stalingrad and the bombings of Amiens, St. Nazaire, Lorient, Rouen and other towns to get an idea of the results of an Anglo-American landing.

He conceded, however, that an invasion most probably would come, In Normandie, Brittany, on the coast of the Landes, of Provence, or everywhere simultaneously, perhaps." Siege Guns Trained On French in Alps LONDON, March 17, U.R German and Italian troops are hauling big siege guns into the Alps in eastern France preparatory to an attempt to blast thousands of resisting patriots from their mountain hideouts, Swiss reports said Wednesday. Martial law already has been declared throughout the Haute-Savoie border iregian and Axis troops were reported pouring into the area in a steady stream following the failure of French mobile guards to dislodge the patriots. Numerous small-scale between the patriots and the ichy-Italo-German forces were described in Swiss dispatches, but apparently no large-scale battle had developed. In some sectors, patriot bands were said to have attacked Italian sentries and isolated troop detachments by cutting their communications. while in other districts Axis forces surrounded patriot groups.

Many of the encircled patriots were guided safely through the Axis lines by friendly peasants, however, a Madrid dispatch said. There appeared little likelihood that the resistance in Haut-Savoie would flare into an open revolt throughout France and the Morocco radio broadcast an appeal to the Alp patriots to bide their time before attempting any offensive action. We know of your heroic actions, the broadcast said. Its not time yet lor a general revolt. Your lives are too precious to be sacrificed by premature imprudence.

It's enough for you to be ready for the day when we shall be able to give efficient help. Unprecedented Terror Unleashed on Lyons LONDON, March 17. (INS) An unprecedented reign of terror has been launched by Nazi Gestapo agents, aided by Vichy police. in the city of Lyons, France, where German occupation authorities are rounding up thousands of civilians for forced labor service in Germany, Stockholm reports said Wednesday. In Bordeaux, these reports added.

virtually every newspaperman has been taken into custody and deported to Germany. All of the city's newspapers are expected to close down. The thousands of civilians rounded up in Lyons, Bordeaux end other cities were immediately transported to Germany, indicating that the labor shortage in the Reich is becoming acute. Reports of sabotage, rioting and guerrilla activity in Rumania, Greece and Yugoslavia also filtered into London from various sources. Rail Traffic Snarled (The Soviet news agency Tass, Yu an English transmission from Moscow reported by the Office of War Information in New York, Torn to Page Column 1 Has All Earmarks Of Major Assault, Broadcast Says LONDON, March 17.

CP) DNB, in a Berlin radio broadcast heard, here Wednesday by Reuters, said that the British Eighth Army launched an attack on the Mareth Line Tuesday night The scale of fighting cannot be judged by reports so far available, but Berlin quarters believe this is a major attack," DNB said. The British thrust was made at the coastal end of the line at 10:30 oclock Tuesday night and followed a lively artillery barrage which increased to a verita-, ble cannonade, the report said. In the House of Lords, Lord Beaverbrook declared that I think the conquest of Tunis and Bizerle is not far off. The Algiers rad.o, which is under Allied central but is not official, said preparations for an imminent Allied offensive were being intensified and the hour is approaching when Axis forces will be driven out of North Africa. A Reuters correspondent with the Eighth Army said these desert veterans were getting ready for an offensive." Armor, guns and fighting vehicles of all kinds are rolling up to the front while massed formations of light bombers are raiding targets just behind the Mareth Line," the correspondent added.

Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Wedgewood made new demands in the House of Lords for a second front, calling upon Britons to dedicate themselves to the Invasion of the continent. It is not to help Russia, it Is to beat Germany, Lord Beaverbrook declared. I believe the Government means to launch a second front If we invade in Norway or France at once, we will bring the U-boat bases on those shores under cur authority. Mareth Line Pounded In Continuous Raids ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. NORTH AFRICA.

March 17. (U.R) Allied planes continued to blast away Wednesday at Axis positions along the Mareth Line in an attempt to soften up the enemy for what appears to be an imminent push to drive Marshal Erwin Rommel's Africa Corps into the sea. German artillery, apparently attempting delay General Sir Bernard L. Montgomerys attack, shelled the Eighth Army west of Medenine. Royal Air Force planes replied by continuing their systematic bombing of Mareth Line strong points.

British bombers made a heavy attack on Gabes, Axis reinforcement port. (Radio Algiers said Allied planes had cut the Gabes-Sfax railroad line in several places and had thereby deprived Rommel of his only north-south communication line). North of the Eighth Army positions. Allied patrols penetrated to within three miles of Gafsa, big Axis base in the south-central sector, and were in position to menace the Germans by moving eastward and closing the bottleneck at Gabes. Fortresses Bomb Barges American Flying Fortresses and P-38 Lightnings flew out over the waters between 'Cunisia and Sicily to strike" at Rommels sea communications.

They spotted a half dozen motor barges and the Fortresses went in fast to the attack. Three barges were set afire and flames sprung 300 feet in the air. The patrols threatening Gafsa were made up entirely of Americans. They encountered enemy tanks about three miles north of the town, but the result of whatever action occurred was not known here at headquarters. Churchill Defends Raids on Lorient LONDON, March 17.

(INS) Prime Minister Churchill Wednesday defended Allied bombing raids on the German submarine base at Lorient as an essential part of Anglo-American strategy. In response to a question, Churchill told the House of Commons that we have repeatedly urged the French population to leave the coastal areas." I have no doubt, he declared, they will understand operations such as the bombing of Lorient will bring victory nearer. TIRES WILLED TO HER SON SALEM. March 17. (INS) Leaving the tires of her automobile to her son.

the will of Mrs. Adaline E. Stephenson, of Lynn, was offered for probate here Wednesday. HOUSES OKAY NEW PLEDGE TO FLAG When you want to make a pledge to the Georgia Flag, place your hand on your heart and say this: I pledge allegiance to the Georgia Flag and the principles for which it stands wisdom, justice and moderation. The State Senate Wednesday passed a House resolution setting up the new pledge.

ARNALL ORDERED TO FLORIDA REST Governor Ellis A mail has been ordered by his physicians to go to Florida for a rest after he is able to leave a local hospital in another week or 10 days, it was announced Tuesday. Its, orders, and I suppose I will have to go, the Governor commented reluctantly. He was reported to be improved Wednesday, after a relapse following a sinus operation. It is probable that the Chief Executive and Mrs. Amall will visit the latters home in Orlando.

Atlanta School Employes Face Loss of Bonus By F. PATTERSON Atlanta's 1,900 regular school employes face an automatic salary cut aggregating $30,000 a month when the School Department's fiscal year ends July 1 unless the cpy can revamp its budget to continue a 10 per cent bonus plan inaugurated last year. T. W. Clift, assistant superintendent of schools in charge of business affairs, said all school employes, including teachers, will be affected by the bonus loss, but quoted Mayor Hartsfield as saying the city will do' all in its power to maintain' the.

plan. All other city employes will continue to receive a bonus amounting to 10 per cent of their salaries through 1943, when the citys budget year ends. The School Department operates on a separate budget calling for ex penditures of approximately monthly with employes paid on a year-around basis. Mayor Hartsfield said Wednesday that war demands are costing the city thousands of dollars in revenue annually but promised that nothing short of a major catastrophe will make me run the city into debt. The Mayor asserted that Atlanta now faces some of the same problems it faced when he first took office in 1937 with demands for funds nd services threatening to exceed resources.

"Operation of the city under these conditions the Mayor said, are becoming more difficult every day. We have been forced to raise wages of employes in the lower brackets In order to keep an efficient organization and we are being faced with new demands constantly. We can't lower wages In the face of a rising cost of living, he continued, adding that the -problem of maintaining school salaries at their present level will have to be faced at an early date. PINEY WOODS PETE Says: DEAR MISTER EDITOR: The other day I read that the state OPA attorney estimated that car owners was put on their honor not to drive moren they needed to, 60 per cent of Atlanta car owners had gone back to pleasure driving. Folks has been writing me I'm too pessimistic about peoples honesty; but I had been thinking that a big majority of folks could be trusted to do right without having to be made to do it.

Now I wonder. And then I read your editorial, Here Today, Gone Tomorrow," about folks cashing in their War Bonds by the wholesale to pay income taxes with. Them's A. W. O.

L. dollars theyre paying taxes with maybe they ought to be called deserter dollars. Nearly everybody could of bought just as many bonds as they did and still saved enough money besides to pay taxes with, if they had tried. If lots of folks dont know we're fighting a hard and terrible war that aint near over yet and that we need to do everything we can win it, they're mighty dumb; if they do know this but just dont give a durn, theyre mighty sorry folks. Yours truly, FINEX PETE.

everywhere are carrying her glamorous photos. Mrs. Cooper said her daughter is under contract to Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer, where the execs are calling her the successor to Hedy Lamarr. Recently when she disembarked from a plane In New Orleans, she was almost mobbed lo fans who mistook her for exotic Hedy. She went to Hollywood two years ago after a producer who saw her in Miami suggested shed do well In the movies.

Since that time shes spent most of her days studying dramatics and trying to catch up on the education she missed. Wins Beauty Prizes The dark-eyed girl came to Atlanta with her parents in 1935, after Mr. Cooper lost the farm in which had invested most of his lifes savings. Inez never got to finish high schooL though rhe did attend Central Night for awhile, but she did win second and third prizes in two Miss Atlanta contests. She wasnt satisfied though, Mrs.

Cooper said. She was always ambitious and we thought she would get ahead. She gets along fine with people, and if I do say so myself, she has the best disposition in the world. Inez took her first step toward Hollywood in a slightly opposite direction. She went to Miami, where she sold cosmetics in a department store and modeled clothes on the side.

She also modeled hats and jewelry in New York and before long was acclaimed by three artists as the girl with the most beautiful hands in the world. Another title she has accrued is that of world's fairest, conferred on her by the N. T. G.s Sunworshipers Colony, whate er that is. Anyway, it got her picture on the cover of Pic Magazine.

Looks From Mother Mr. Cooper thinks Inez got her looks from her mother, whos plump and comfortable-looking Turn to Page 7, Column 3 THE WAR IN BRIEF By the Associated Press ALEUTIANS American planes in heaviest single day attack raid Japanese-held Kiska Island six times between dawn and dusk Monday, Navy announces. FAR PACIFIC New battle of Burma flames with great intensity with British reporting 30 hours of fighting along Mayu River. American fliers range wide over Japanese conquered territory to bomb railway bridges, highways and truck convoys. RUSSIA Red Army smashes toward Smolensk, capturing important railroad station and numerous villages.

Gigantic tank battle raging in Donets Basin, southeast of Kharkov. AUSTRALIA Allied planes strike widely at Japanese sea transports and bases in developing battle of island fringes around Australia. Trace of convoy headed for Do bo lost, with search continuing. TUNISIA DNB broadcast from Berlin, heard in- London, says British Eighth Army launched attack on Mareth Line Tuesday night. Allied planes give Marshal Rommels dug-in positions on Mareth Line violent pounding while Allied patrols continue activity along whole southern front.

By REBECCA FRANKLIN Out in tinselled Hollywood, 21-year-old Inez Cooper is being colossal-ized as moviedoms newest threat to the masculine pulse-beat, but back home in Atlanta where her folks live shes still the dark-haired little girl who likdd to go fishing with Dad when they lived on a farm down in Greene County. The parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Cooper, talked of those days Wednesday morning as they sat before a small grate fire in the front room of their modest duplex apartment at 514 Maple Street in East Point a far cry indeed from Hollywood's swim-mining-pooled mansions.

She always liked to go fishing with me," Mr. Cooper recalled. And she'd always tag along when went hunting." Smiling a bit over the recollection, Mrs. Cooper put in And do you remember how shed usually take a dog' or cat along? She was crazy about animals. Even now she has a dog and cat, she wrote us the other day." Father Is Carpenter Cinematic press agents will need no inegnious imaging if they chose to publicize Inez as a poor girl who made good in big, hardhearted Hollywood, her parents revealed.

Mr. Cooper, a slight, blue-eyed man of 64 with hands like hammers, is now a carpenter, though hes had better jobs. Im just an everyday man," he said. Were poor but we dont depend on anybody for anything, and weve tried to make the best out of life. Inez has had a pretty tough job getting ahead, they both admitted, but now she seems headed for stardom.

After bit parts in Du Barry Was a Lady and Whistling in the Dark, the Red Skelton epic, she now has the leading-ldy role in Wings Over the Pacific." Columnists are writing about her, too, and magazines Two Georgians On Missing List The names of two Georgians appeared on a casualty list of the Merchant Marine Wednesday as missing. They are: DANIEL HOWARD DODSON, second assistant engineer. Sister, Mrs. Cleora Nunn, Crawfordville. CHARLES EDWIN LEWIS, able seaman.

Father, S. J. Lewis, 1009 Amsterdam Avenue, N. Atlanta. ing because of the war, Mr.

Campbell observed. In years past the societys St. Patrick Day banquets have been an event noted for their good humor and festive air. While the war put a damper on Atlantas observance, it takes more than that to halt the venerable Mable. Wednesdays parade was his forty-ninth.

He was ably assisted by a police escort, the Decatur High School Band, the R. O. T. C. and his huge stovepipe hat.

Judge Jesse Wood, of Fulton Criminal Court, and Deputy Sheriff O. C. Puckett planned to hold their annual St. Patricks day dinner Wednesday. Both have birthdays on March 17.

Attorney J. A. Miller, whose birth anniversary is also on the- 17th, was invited to attend. Russian artillery is shelling Petsamo, the newspaper report, credited to reliable said. The military positions on the far northern front west of Murmansk long have been obscure.

The Russians have been reported in control of the Rybachi peninsula northeast of Petsamo, from which they were able to command the entrance to the harbor, with their artillery. Reds Drive Nazis From Kharkov-Donets Sector MOSCOW, March 17. (U.R) The Red Army of the Ukraine seized the initiative in several sectors of the Kharkov-Donets front Wednesday and in heavy attacks drove the Germans from a range of hills in the region of Izyum, 75 miles southeast of Kharkov. Front dispatches indicated the German armored forces had failed to reach the south bank of the Donets, along which the Russians had taken up powerful positions after the reverses which cost them Kharkov and eight other major bases. Far to the north, Soviet columns pressing converging drives toward Smolensk scored new triumphs, cutting the Nikitina Spur railroad at a point 65 miles northeast of the big central front base, Russians Plan New Wedge Toward Smolensk By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, March 17.

P) The Russian Army has smashed another wedge westward toward the German key base at Smolensk, it was announced in the Soviet noon communique Wednesday, with the capture of the railroad station of Igorievskaya snd the district center of Vskhody. To the south, however, the Germans massed a great number of tanks and motorized infantry, supported by a strong force of dive bombers, in a major effort to cross the northern Donets south of fallen Kharkov. Furious fighting was reported through the small elbow of the concentrations' in northern Norway. 3. The Germans probably withdrew from 11 to 12 divisions from western Europe to launch their counteroffensive in Russia.

Davis said Nazi submarines are inflicting considerable damage. However, the agreement between the United States, Great Britain and Canada for a concerted war against the submarines, he said, 'gives us reason to look for increased efficiency in this sphere, although the U-boats still are ai considerable problem. Davis said although March sinkings so far have been serious it still is too early to tell what the months total may be. January also started out badly, 'he said, but sinkings fell off so sharply at the end of the month that it eventually proved one of the best so- far," IN TODAY'S JOURNAL Believe-It-or-Not 18 Blake 13 Books 16 Clapper 12 Comics 18 Consumers Forum 9 Court Decisions 22 Crossword Puzzle 19 Danforth 20 Deaths 23 Editorial 12 Kieran 13 Markets 22 Merry-Go-Round 13 Picture Page 8 Radio 23 Society ........16, 17, 19 Sports 20, 21 Theaters 10. 11 Want Ads .23, 24 Winchell 13 TOMORROWS SUN AND MOON Central War Tima Bun riMC, 6:44 a.

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m. river near Izyum, 70 miles southeast of Kharkov. It was stated here that there was reason to assume that the Ger- man tank force battering at the northern Donets line was as strong as, if not stronger than, the units which figured prominently in the Kharkov region. The weather and land conditions were reported good for mechanized warfare and it was indicated that the current struggle was as fierce as anything wliich has taken place in months. Claim Trapped (The German High Command, In a communique broadcast by the Berlin radid and recorded by the Associated Press, said that the enemy forces encircled southeast of Kharkov' were compressed in the narrowest area and are approaching their annihilation.

(The Germans also claimed advances the Belgorbd area and reported fighting in the Lake Ilmen aiea wnere, the war bulletin said, The Soviets vainly surged against the German front for entire days.) By taking igorievskaya, 25 miles north of Durovo on a spur railway branching off from the main Smolensk-Vyazma line, the Russians added another town to their triumphant march west of the Dnieper River. Durovo is midway between Vyazma and Smolensk on the main rail line. The Soviet Army apparently has a 'considerable force west of the Dnieper. The advances were contested bitterly by the Germans, the communique said. Other Places Taken A.

number of other settlements were captured as German resistance was overcome, and two heavy counterattacks in one sector were crushed with the killing of about 300 Germans, the Russians -said. Dispatches from the front said the Germans had increased considerably their rapid-fire rifle action in the area, and frequently struck out from forest positions at the advancing Soviet troops. The enemy infantry was flanked by tanks operating in groups of from four to 12, it was said. Along the line of retreat west of Vyazma they were reported to have set up powerful machine-gun nests Torn to Page 6, Column 3 They Live Together So They Can Argue LOS ANGELES. March 17- (JP).

Screen Actress Rosalind Keith testified Tuesday she was living in the same house with her husband although she had sued him for divorce, and that she finally moved into the same bedroom so they could argue more freely. She explained at the alimony hearing that she got tired of walking from one bedroom to another when she thought of answers to the arguments of her husband, Leo Jacobson, 41, financier. The court suggested that they patch up their differences, but Jacobson filed -a cross-complaint for divorce. Only 5 of 15,000 Japs Survive Bismarck Sea ST. PATRICK'S DAY HERE SOBERED BY THE WAR WASHINGTON, March 17 CU.R) War Information Director Elmer Davis said Wednesday five Japanese soldiers were the only survivors out of 15,000 aboard the 22 ships destroyed by General Douglas MacArthurs bortibers in the Bismarck Sea recently.

Davis told a press conference that latest reports indicated about 100 Japanese soldiers got ashore in landing barges and small boats but that all but five subsequently were rounded up and disposed of. He summarized other highlights of the military situation as follows: 1. March loks like a bad month for Allied shipping losses by submarine attacks. 2. A possible serious menace to Allied northern convoys is created by.

reported. (German battle fleet Loyal sons and daughters of Erin their hearts heavy in a world Wednesday paid solemn tribute to St. Patrick the patron saint of the Emerald Isle. Highlighting Atlanta's observance of St. Patricks birthday was a program of the Hibernian Benevolent Society at St.

Anthony's Church, while in Decatur, Maury H. Mable, ardent admirer of the Irish snake-charmer, staged another of his one-man parades. The Hibernian Society's celebration. according to City Detective Pat Campbell, a venerable Irishman, was confined to the observance of High Mass and a brief leception. 21m carnival spirit was miss i I I.