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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-25
Housing Group
Purchases Coal

Contracts for 4,5OO tons of coal
for heating units of the Whining
mington Housing Authority were
awarded at a special meeting Of
the commissioners of the Housing
Authority yesterday.
Three thousand tons of coal, L.
500 tons at $685. and 1,5O0 tons a,
$3.50, will be obtained from the
Springer Coal Co., and 1880 tons
at $685. from the North Smith
Coal Company.
The Housing Authority reported
that it had received an open bid
for the government for the correc
ton and installation Of metal flues
in the demountable housing Sec
ton of Lake Forest and Maffitt
Village. The lowest of eight bids
22,465, was received from A. L.
Henderson of Charlotte. The bid
was referred for further study.
An invitation for bids was is.
sued by the Housing Authority
fol the purchase and installation o.
sc coal stokers at Maffitt Village
Date to receive these bids will be
sci in the near future.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-25
Palmetto Negroes
De mand Delegates
At Party Meetin.

COLUMBIA, S. c., May 24.-(R
"A shouting, stamping and ap-
plauding Progressive (Negro) De-
Eaocratic party convention de-
handed today that its 10 dele
gates to the national Democratic
convention at Chicago be seated
in place of delegates elected by
the white South Carolina Demo
cratic convention last week.
To shouts of You tell EN- BROTH
er and Nov you're talking" j
M. Hinton, secretary of the Negro
Citizens Committee of South Caro-
lima asserted 1.-The Negro wants
peace and happiness if he
can get it, but if it takes she'd
ding of blood like Long Estate Re-
preventative John Long of UnIon)
said it would, he's not the only
red blooded American in South
Carolina"
Long was author of a house re-
solution which told the damned
northern agitators" to leave the
south alone with it's problems.
Long said he was willing to shed
his blood to save white supremacy
in the south.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-25
POST TOSP0NS0R
TRIBUTE TO DEAD

Wilmington Post No. 10 of the
American Legion will sponsor GER
emonies in observance of National
Memorial Day here on Tuesday,
May 30, Edgar L. Bell, chairman
of the Memorial Day committee
announced yesterday.
The exercises are scheduled to
begin promptly at II am. at the
World War Memorial monument,
Thirteenth and Market streets,
where a Legionnaire to be named
later will make the Memorial Day
address. The tribute to the war
dead will Immediately follow.
The nearest of kin and other
relatives of each man Or woman
killed or who has died in World
War II is requested to be present
at the exercises in order to re-
ceive the Gold Star Citation of the
American Legion which will be pre-
sented in a continuation of the SER
vices at the New Hanover High
School auditorium following the ex-
ercises at the monument.
About 40 Gold Star Citations will
be presented, and Mr.. Bell said
that the post will be unable tt
notify the recipients personally
since the addresses of many are
unknown. He therefore urged rela-
tives to attend the exercises and to
notify the Legion of the names Of
those not already known to post
who are entitled to the citations
In order to make the observance
impressive and fitting, Mr.. Bel
added, the Legion post asks the
cooperation and attendance of all
city-county officials, church, pa.
triotic and civic bodies as well as
the entire citizenry of the com
munity,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-25
WAR OF NERVES
MORE INTENSE

LONDON, May 24.-(P)-Broad-
casts limiting at imminent war
developments were transmitted
from both Moscow and Berlin to-
night as Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-
hover sought to mold Europe's
restless millions into a vast espi-
onage force to support the inva-
sion.
German editors were ordered In
a DNB statement recorded by the
Daily Herald to stand by at 1:3C
pm. G:30 am. Eastern War Time)
Sunday for "a possible specia.
announcement"
Red army troops, after five
week rest, were advised by the
Moscow radio that ''soon you will
/ be called on to accomplish the
liberation of Soviet territory ano
also to liberate other European
nations from the German Fascist
oppressor."
From Eisenhower headquarters
concise spy instructions WERE
broadcast to the European under
ground.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-25
Berlin Target
Of Big Planes
In Night Raid
OTHER CAPITALS HIT
Paris, Vienna Blasted
AS Allies Send Out
1000 Flights

LONDON, Thursday, May
rs. - R - Berlin expert
enced an air raid alert early
today as Raj night bombers
apparently followed up a rec
ord American-led daylight
assault of 1000 sorties
against Fortress Europe.
A target of Flying Fortress
bombs Wednesday, the German
capital was warned by the Nazi
radio Of the appro achin g
raiders shortly after midnight. Il
was the eleven American raid on
Berlin.
From the Atlantic Wall to points
deep in the Balkans, more than
$500 tons of explosives were drop
ped by British-based and ITALY,
based squadrons in the daylight
attacks.
Seventy seven German fighters
were shot down in fierce sky bat
tie. a""" tho rc''i~ Re"lin, which
was attacked by a strong force
of Flying Fortresses from above
cloud, while from all Brit
ish-based operations by Americans
81 bombers and 16 fighters were
missing, the U. S. strategic ali
forces announced tonight.
A Liberator wing pounced On the
Paris area, undefended by the
overmatched Na1 air force, and
hammered enemy airfields al
Melun and Orly to the south and
Creil to the northeast, making its
bomb runs against liglA to mode.
rate flax.
In a giantic co-ordinated assault,
Allied bombers and fighters from
bases in Italy flew 2,7O0 Sorties
striking in the vicinity of Vienna,
at rail links in northern Italy and
at other targets in Austria and
Yugoslavia.
Other fighters and fighter
bombers in this sixth straight day
of aerial invasion RAJ ~oilyards
and airfields behind the Channel
Notifications in occupied France
and Belgium. These, with the big.
ger raids on Berlin and Paris, add
ed up to 1900 Sorties from Britain.
The days kill was the largest
since May Is, when 1875 enemy
aircraft were destroyed in attacks
on Berlin and Brunswi and went
further into the plane reserves the
Germans are boarding for D-Day
Fortress gunners claimed 4e
Nazi planes in combat over Berlin
and fighters bagged - more. The
bomber loss was the heaviest since
May IL when AZ were downed
smashing synthetic oil plants
around Leipzig.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-25
ALLIED PLANES
lombard JAPS

SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Handy, Ceylon, May "a
Detailed fighters and fighter =
bombers have shifted. the weight Of
their attacks to direct support of
ground troops which have bottled
Up the 18th japanese division
around its big bases in north Bur-
ma, it was announced today.
Their blows fell on Myitkyina,
where besieged Japanese still had
foothold, on Katkyo, on the 1r'
rawaddy river bend four miles
southwark, and on the main Jap.
anese base in the Mogaung valley
at Kamain6 to the west.
The trapped Myitkyina garrison
and Japanese forces in the Zigyun-
Katkyo area counter-attac ked but
were repulsed by Brig. Gen. Frank
VerrilPs Chinese combat troops.
This willy jungle fighter was US
ing his usual tactics around Myit-
kyina, cutting interior communica.
tons after throwing road blocks
across the road leading west out Of
Myitkyina to the Mogaung valley
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-25
Brutal Killer Murders
Detroit Church Worker

this morning by the Rev.
Newell C. Liesemer, 3S-year-
old pastor who lives with his
wife next door to the church.
The body, with clothing torn
and disarrayed, lay in the aisle
leading to the altar.
Nearby was found a copy Of
news bulletin Mrs. Long
had been preparing for mailing
to members of the church serv-
ing in the armed forces.
Half a dozen stab wounds
were in Mrs. Longs head and
chest. Two teeth were knock
ed out. There was no apparent
attempt at robbery since her
purse containing several dol
lars and two valuable rings
were found in The basement Of
flee.
An autopsy was to determine
if there had been an attempt
at rape.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-25
Army Orders
Big Increase
In Artillery
PROGRAM STEPPED UP
Largest Weapons Civ e n
Emphasis In Program
Now Under Way
WASHINGTON, Nav a.

WASHINGTON, May a.
up 49, A tremendous increase
in the heavy artillery pro-
gram has been ordered by the
army on the eve of the inva-
sion of Europe, officials dis
closed tonight.
For weapons Of 155 millimete-
size and greater, ammunition re-
uuirements have been stepped up
an average of 400 to 500 per cent,
with the increase for some sizes
running as high as 1000 per cent
above current schedules.
The production schedules for
the weapons themselves have been
advanced correspondingly, with
emphasis On the 1855, Howitzer, the
1855 gun or Long Tom," the g.
inch gun and the 240 millimeter
weapon.
Instituted within the past few
weeks, the ammunition program
alone represents dolla--volume
increase of approximately $780,.
OOO,O for the balance of 1914 and
1915.
Some phases of the program al
ready are underway, and by mid
summer it will require the re-
opening of some Of the TINT pro-
duction lines, the powder plants
and the bagloading plants pre-
viously closed by the army or
placed on standby basis.
The program will place a new
strain on the nylon industry to
provide the bags for powder
charges for the big guns, and the
alcohol required for the stepped
up powder demands pressages a
continuance of the W h S k y
drought.
Already the revised program has
sent army production officialD
securing the country for additiona.
forging, machine and heat-treat-
ing capacity in industry to make
the shells and the various com
ponent parts, such as fuses.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-25
step FORESEEN
AS PEACE NEED

LONDON, May "a. -(P)-Prime
Minister Churchill declared today
t.at Germany might have her
hcre frontiers reduced after NE
var # that should seem necessary
fl future peace, and he advocated
postwar world organization"
armed with overwhelming mill
t2ly power to keep this peace.
In an exhaustive review of the
world at war before the House OF
Commons, Churchill specifically
tacugh automatically advised
San and Turkey that an Allied
Victory was coming with or with
cut the support of new recruits.
and. declaring that the war has
keen growing less theological in
CHARACTER he said there seems
t. be a great desire among the
people Of Britain and Russia TO be
friends"
Opening foreign policy debare
in the House Of Commons, Chur-
chill spoke for an hour and 70
minutes, running the gamut OF
Britain foreign relations. He said
aravely and simply that the Bril-
t4sh commonwealth end empire
lad COW discussed and solved all
their major immediate problems
and were ranged in complete unity
with the Allies TO beat the enemy
as soon as possible"
He mentioned only once the
western 'front.' as is is commonly
defined, and then to observe jocu-
larly that all this talk of inya-
sion across the Channel was keep
ing Hitler frantic. He gave no him
as to when or where the assault
would be.
Instead the prime minister de-
voted much of his speech to dis
cussing his suggested world or
ganlzation, which he said Woulc
embody much of the structure o.
the League Of Nations. He spoke
with the weight of the entire Brl'
fish commonwealth behind him,
a conference of dominion prime
ministers having only few days
ago agreed on such an organiza'
ton Japan as we'll as Germany
were placed by Churchill beyond al
hope of negotiation short OF utte1
capitulation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-25

terry, with mortars embedded
in graves, machine-pistol nests
behind mausoleums and even
a fully equipped signal sta
ton in the cemetery chapel
gave evidence Of the desperate
effort of the Germans to hold
this town at the edge Of the
Pontine marshes.
Just within the front gate,
which bore Latin inscription
meaning "Peace in this place."
the Germans had set up three
field guns commanding the
beaches at the bottom of the
hill.
The entire town was mined
and strung with barbed wire.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-25

DETROIT, May "a R =
Detectives searched the cloist-
cred Twelfth Street Evangelical
church tonight for clues to the
brutal killer of attractive Mrs.
Jean Long, slain as she work
ed last night at her duties as
pastors secretary.
Experts of the detective
force were assigned to the
case as the shocked middle
class residential community
also was cOmbed for evidence
in the mystery. Neighbors
could offer little help, how
ever.
Presumably the slayer
carried the death weapon
away, for none was found aft
er hours of search among the
neat pews and rooms Of the
church building.
The stabbed and beaten body
of Mrs. Long, 40, was found
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-25

The Canadians, thrown into the
Italian fighting as separate
Army corps for the first time.
smashed through the Hitler line
at its strongest point and raced on
five miles beyond Ponteco-vo.
threatening 10 trap German gar:i-
sons there and at Aquino, two of
the most powerful fortress-towns
IN the enemy defense belt.
Supported by tanks American
troops fought thei- way back into
iesraclna after az hour and a
nalf battle early today, in which
they crashed German defenses in
hillside cemetery before the
coastal town. American patrols
fist entered Terracina last Sun.
day. only to retire when Nazi re.
serves were rushed against them.
Reoccupation of the tow,
brought the Americans in the
coastal sector to the south.
e e. tip of the Pontine plain. less
than 80 miles down the Appain
way from where bitter fighting
-aged for Clsteraa, enemy bastion
at the north of the Anzio beach
head.
Tonight doughboys swarmed in
upon Cisterna after having cut a
mile stretch of the Appain life.
line southeast of the town and
severed its railway connection
with Rome to the northwest. The
Yanks literally We're blasting their
way through the Nazis' intricate
defe7ses within a half.mile Of Cis-
terna's town square.
In a late dispatch from the
beachhead Daniel de Luce of the
Associated Press said the armor-
ed charge still was going forward
unchecked at 8 pm. and that hun.
dseds of German prisoners still
were streaming to the rear at
sunset.
Late today flights Of American
invader dive bombers caught
many Nazis conveys racing along
the escape road from Te1racina
and destroyed nearly 100 vehicles.
Scores of others were damaged
and road block was created at
one point.
In the 18th day of their great of.
1enslve to destroy The enemy in
Italy the Allied armies had shat
tered both the iron ring the Ger
mans forged around the beach,
head and the line of ste/ and con-
crete they installed across the I,iri
valley.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-25
High School Finals
Will Begin Sunday

Commencement exercises for 277
Seniors of New Hanover High
School will begin Sunday afternoon
with the Baccalaureate Vesper Ser
vice at the First Baptist Church
at 4:45 o'clock.
As the audience assemblies, an
organ prelude, the Coronation
March from THE Prophet by
Mayeber, will be played by
Organist Henri Enmurian, who
also will play the professional,
For All Thy Saints" by Barnaby.
The Reverand Sankey Lee Blan-
ton, pastor OF the church, will
sound the call to worship, which
will be followed by the singing Of
America by the congregation.
After an interlude during which
prayer and choral response will be
heard, the New Hanover High
School Glee Club will sing Arceldt's
Give Ear Unto My Prayer"
The Reverend William Grove,
Jr., pastor of the First Prasby-
terrain Church, will read the scrip
ture prior to the second number
scheduled for the Glee Cub, Mo-
zart's "Emitte Spirituum Tuum. -
Rev. Mr.. Grove will then deliver
the baccalaureate sermon, after
which the congregation will join in
singing 1.-The Son of God Goes
Forth to War;
The Benediction and choral re-
Spouse will precede the concluding
organ selections, the National an
them and the class recassional,
Wagner's pilgrim Chorus" play.
ed by Mr.. Emmurian.
Class night has been schedul-
ed for Thursday evening, June 1
to begin at $3.50. Principal feature
of the evening will be play. "Oul
Capstone Song We Sing" which
will include 10 seniors in its cast
of characters. The high school or.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-25
War Plant Seizure
Defended By Biddle

WASHINGTON, May 24-LRNAt.
torney General Biddle declared to.
day that President Roosevelt wou-
Id have ''risked disaster" if he had
not ordered the Montgomery
Ward plant in Chicago seized, and
added that the use of troops to do
it probably avoided violence.
Unless the action wae taken to
end a labor dispute, Biddle told
a House committee, the govern
ment might as well have told all
labor and industry that it did not
intend to back up it's own War
Labor Board. This might have led
to widespread strikes which would
have menaced the war effort, he
commended
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-25

hopping up the last few
snipers in this town, some 20
miles from the Anzio beach
head, was completed with only
half dozen shots.
There was practically no
fight at all for the town itself
after the vicious struggle
which shattered tombstones
and opened old graves within
the walled cemetery.
Pvt. Stansel Durant, of Con.
way, S. c., fired two bullets at
house in which Germans
were supposed to be hiding and
out popped seven of the enemy
with their hands in the air.
The appearance of the ceme-
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-25
Waterway Bill Passed
By Senate Committee

WASHINGTON, May "a R -
Legislation authorizing postwar
waterway and flood control work
to cost 81, 100000, 900 will be ready
for consideration on the Senate
floor within few days.
The Senate commerce COM
mittee approved a $500, 900, 900 riv-
ers and ha-bors authorization to-
day and Chairman Bailey (D-NC)
ordered further hearings today on
an $500, 900, 900 flood control bill.
Both measures have passed the
House.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-25
Lengthy Legal Debate
Slows Sedition Trial

WASHINGTON, May "a. -R-
A maze of legal debate today bog
ged down the mass sedition con-
spiracy trial in U. S. District
court.
Peter Gissibl, 80, German-born
former leader of the Chicago unit
OF the German-American bund,
through whom the prosecution
hopes to link pro-Nazi activities in
this country to officials in Germany
spent considerable time on the wit
ness stand, but answered only q
few questions.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-25
Yanks Take Terracina Cemetery

WITH FIT H ARMY
RCES IN TERRACINA,
May 24-lR-U. S. Infantrymen
smashed through deep-dug
German defenses in the tombs
and Crypts of Cemetery Hill
before Terrancina d e spite
heavy mortar and machine
gun fire and captured this
large coastal highway town
today.
The victory climaxed a three
day battle.
''They had to dig into each
hole and bayonet each Jerry
out 70 get the cemetery and
that's what they did," was the
way Capt. Jim Miller of Colo
NAL Beach, Fla, described the
bloody combat.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-25
TRIAL POSTPONED

GREENSBORO, May 24.-R-
Trial of William ]. Dunheen, 20,
charged with the shotgun Staying
of his sweetheart, 17-year-old
Laura Kelley, near her home at
Gibsonville the morning of May
9, was continued to the June 10
term in Guilford superior court
today on motion of defense coun-
sci, which told Judge Hubert E.
Olive, Lexington, presiding, that
it had not had sufficient time to
prepare its case.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-25
Harold Bell Wright
Dies In California

SAN DIEGO, Calf, May "a
P-Harold Bell Wright, who left
the pulpit to become one of Amer
'cas famed fiction writer's, died
'9day in Lajolla, Calf, hosp1-
'al He was 70 years old.
Wright became ill about two
weeks ago and entered the hospl-
TAI last week. Death was attributed
10 bronchial pneumonia. His wife
was at the bedside when he died.
Only last month he sold his S7t
COO ranch home, known as "Qulet
Hills Farm" near Escondidio. 81
miles northeast of here, and NOV
ed to San Diego.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-25
atoms Promotion
Blocked In Senate

WASHINGTON, May "a. - up -
In an echo of the soldier-slapping
incident which stirred a sharp con-
troversy six months ago, the Sc
nate military affairs committee t.
day blocked indefinitely the pro-
motion of 1t. Gen. George S. Pat
ton, Jr., to the permanent rank Of
major general.
The committee recommended Sc
nate confirmation of promotions
for 10 other high-ranking officers,
but pigeon-holed Patton's advance.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-25
$500 Japs Killed
In Honan Fighting

CHUNGKING, Thursday, May
25-tRAThe Japanese forces be-
sieging Loyang in northwestern
Honan province attacked the an
Gent city fiercely form all sides
Tuesday, but were repulsed with
more than 1000 of their troops
killed, the Chinese command an
nounced today.
Another 500 Japanese were kill,
ed in fighting near Sunghcien, &c
miles south of Loyang, field dis
patches said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-25
Churchill Declares Germany
Nav Haze Frontiers Reduced
Moscow Radio Hints
Russian Offensive

LONDON, Thursday, May
25.-P)- Possibly signaling a
big new offensive on the east
ern front, the Moscow radio
said in a broadcast to the army
today: "Soon you will be call
ed on to accomplish the liber-
alton of Soviet territory and
also to iberate other Euro
pean nations from the German
Fascist oppressOr.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-25
Will Rogers Resigns
To Enter Army Again

WASHINGTON, May "a up -
Eep' VIII Rogers, Jr., O.-Califo,
eldest son of the late humorist,
resigned from Congress today and
Ie1t to resume active duty with
the army.
He told a reporter he would
presumably be sent to a station
overseas"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-25
HEART OF HITLER LINE CRACKED;
RECAPTURE TERRA GINA;
- ANZlO TROOPS SLASH APPlAN WAY
Tanks, PlanesAiding
Big Allied Offensive
German GarrisOns Threatened With Entrap-
ment AS Italian Push Gains In Momentum

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, May 24-(R-
Canadian tanks broke through the heart of the Hitler line
today and swept up the L valley to the Mefa river ID
miles from Vassno American troops recaptured Terracna
the coast, and Yank armored avalanche burst from
the Anzo beachhead and cut the Appian Way barely rs
miles from Rome.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-25
FORECAST

NORTH CAROLINA: Mostly cloudy
4odav becoming partly cloudy with
",idelv scattered thundershowe2s in the
ate afternoon and evening. Continued
yarn. Temperatures yesterday:
High 88-Low: II.
Nogales international., 1944-10-27
JUNIORS TO THROW HALLOWEEN
DANCE AND FLOOR SHOW AT GYM
FOLLOWING GAME WITH COUGARS

appear six chorus girls who are
Elsa Rivas, 10 Dunn, Evelyn
Chernin, Renee Marcus, Lydia
Karam, and Josephine Castro.
Next, a girl trio composed of Hell
en- and Frances Peterson and
Sarah Spohn will perform. Then
will appear a boys duet by Nick
Versus and Robert 'Fleischer. A
solo by Richard Saldamando will
conclude the program.
Tickets are already on sale at zoe
stag and 35c a couple. There is a
limited amount of reserved tables
which can be obtained at 1Oc per
table from Martha Anne Frazier
The Casa Grande football players
have been invited to attend the
dance as guests of the Junior class.
The sole purpose of this dance is to
promote funds for the Junior Prom.
IN. H. S. Apache Warcry)
Nogales international., 1944-10-27
Manuel Morales
Gets Wings And
Boots As Paratroope,

FORT BENNING, Ca, Oct. 26-
Pvt. Manuel M. Morales, son OF
Hortencio and Lola Morales of No
gales, Arizona, has won the right to
wear Wings and Boots of the United
States Army Paratroops. He has
completed four weeks of jump train
ing during which time he made five
Jumps, the last a tactical Jump at
night involving a combat problem
on landing.
Jumping at The Parachute School
has been steadily developed to a
recognized war science. American
Paratroopers have been recognized
throughout the world for their meri-
torious actions against the enemy.
In addition to producing jumpers,
Parachute Specialist Training is
given to qualified men in Communi-
cations, Demolition, Riggers and
Parachute Maintenance, vital skills
for Airborne troops.