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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-12
/. QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS .

Q-How many Allied troops
were landed in France during
the first 10 days Of the invasion?
A-2,50O,O0O.
Q-What is the military de-
vice called "Rhino'?
"A four-pronged ploW at
tached to tanks. "Rhino' en-
abled them to cut through tough
Normandy hedgerows.
Q-Why was the visit of Rep
resentative Edith Nourse Rogers
to Italy an event of sperial in
tereSt to the populace there?
A-Italy has no woman suf-
frage, hence woman member
of Congress was a distinct nov
city TO them.
Q-HoW many soldiers month
~ are allowed to return from
overseas duty on furlough?
100000. The number is
limited 10 save shipping space.
Q-HoW many soldiers month
ly are allowed to return from
overseas duty on furlough?
$4,000. The number is linn
tied to save shipping space.
Q-What is the estimated fly
ing time between Chicago and
London for postwar commercial
airliners?
Ala hours, as minutes, at a
cost of about S270 per passenger.
Q-Is war increasing or de-
creasing the number of lnven-
tons?
Am the first six months Of
1914 only $4,000 patents were is
sued; in the similar 1899 period,
81, 900.
Q-What high personages
we're first to exchange trans-At-
lantic cable greetings?
A-President Buchanan and
Queen Victoria.
(Which is greater, the num-
Der of men or women in the
u. S. population ii n | u d n g
armed serviccS)?
A-Women, by 100000, says
the Census Bureau.
What is one safety factor in
spinal anesthesia?
Ain event of toxic reaction,
some Of the anesthetic can be
withdrawn.
Q-Has Korea, annexed and
called Chosen by the Japs had
much effect on japanese life?
Aground 400 A. D. Korea
was a cultural center, and from
the Koreans the Japs got Budd-
hism, Chinese literature, Chi
nese script, etc.
Q-What is our Kiwi plane?
"A Notifying model Mar
tin Mariner for training. The
kiwi is a Notifying bird.
Q-What is Jersey light
ming?
A-Applejack. The term came
into use in New York in the
middle 10th century.
Q-How heavy a load of ex-
plosives does the Germans new
w carry?
"A ton. II flies more than
700 mph.
Q-Does typhoon move for
ward swiftly or slowly?
A-Slowly, but its circular
movement reaches 100 mph. Ty-
phoons are so to 100 miles in
diameter.
Q-What is noteworthy about
the names U. S. S. Niagara and
II. NJ. S. Agamemnon?
A-They laid the first Allan.
tic cable.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-12

married" For the sake of the
record. and the ladies, Mrs. Ra-
mirez is filing suit for divorce
next month.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-07
CARR ADVOCATES
POLITICAL UNITY
Speaks At Rally OF N. C.
Young Democrats In
Winston-Salem

w1NsTON-sALEM, May 6-A -
Joe c. Carr, young democratic
clubs national president, told young
democrats of North Carolina In
their second wartime rally here
tonight that Americans must put
aside for the duration "all partl.
sanship, all political disunity and
anything that will interrupt the
successful prosecution and term1-
nation'' of the war effort.
1--WE must fight not az young
democrats and republicans, but
as young Americans" he declared.
Carr, secretary Of state for ten
nessee, himself awaiting induc-
ton into the armed service, was
keynote speaker at the state Y. D.
c. Victory Rally Banquet attended
by approximately 500 young demo-
Gratis and North Carolina party
candidates for nomination to vir-
tually all state ard federal offices.
The state YDc was placed on
record as pledging "our fullest
support" to President Roosevelt
for a fourth term and as support
{ Continued on Page Two, Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-07
TO OCCUPY
GERMANY PUSHED
Final Approval May Be
Left To New Meeting OF
The Big Three

LONDON, May 6 -R- Allied
plans for occupation of Germany
and the full liquidation of Nazi
control have nearly been complet-
ed by the European advisory COM
mission, with the possibility that
final approval will be left to a new
meeting of the 'fbig three" it was
disclosed today.
Working slowly and secretly
since its creation in Moscow, the
commission has ignored sharp
criticism from several quarters for
its refusal to take up what it re-
CARDS as side issues and has con-
centrated on the basic problems
which will arise when the German
government topples.
Except in broad general terms
details Of the plans to handle those
problems probably will remain
secret until after the armistice lest
they be twisted and distorted by
enemy propaganda.
Importance of the final agree
ment, perhaps transcending any,
Continue don Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-07
BOMBERS ACTIVE
Enemy Spread Out Along
700 Miles OF North
New Guinea Coast

ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS. New Guinea, Sunday,
May 7-R-Fifth Army Air force
fighters and bonlbers maintained
Furnishing attacks on an estimat-
ed 10000 by passed japanese
troops along 700 miles of the north
ern New Guinea coast, headquar-
ters reported today.
From Hansa Bay to Sa1mi, Gen.
Douglas Macarthur planes press
ed their assaults Thursday and
Friday, continuing the neutrahza-
ton of airdromes, supply areas
and troop concentrations.
Hansa Bay is $50 miles south
east of the new American invasion
holdings at Hollandia and Sarml
is more than 100 miles to the
northwest.
On beyond sarmi in the schou-
ten islands off Geelvink Bay, a
raiding Fifth Air force bomber
doWned an enemy ngnler.
The steadily neutralized enemy
bases of Rabaul, New Britain
Kavieng, New Ireland, and kahln'
Bougainville, also were given air
attention.
Dutch-flown Mitchells which re-
Gently began hitting Koepans'
Dutch Timor, did it again.
At a cost of one fighter, planes
from the Solomons dropped ~ tons
Of bombs on Kavieng and the
nearby Borpop air base.
Rabaul was given 70 tons Thurs
day, making it nearly 500 tons
dropped there during the past five
days. The concrete runway OF
Vunakanau airdrome was crater
ed.
Runway hits also were scored
by Liberators at Kahih, on Bou-
gainville's south coast.
Continued on Page TIVE; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-07
Hospital Issues Urgent Call For Help;
Luxury Nursing To Be Discontinued
WANTS VOLUNTEERS
James Walker Memorial
Now Caring For Record
Number OF Patients

Precipitated by an emergency
shortage of help, unparalleled in
the history Of the institution, the
Board of Managers of James Walk
err Memorial hospital yesterday
issued an urgent appeal for volun-
teer assistance on the part OF
Wilmington citizens, and at the
same time announced that luxury
nursing - or private duty nurs-
ing except for extreme cases OF
illness - will be discontinued in
the hospital, effective tomorrow.
According to J. C. Roe, president
of the board, the greatest number
of patients since the opening OF
James Walker Memorial is now
being cared for in the institution
Their being 282 persons on the list
Friday.
The lack of nursing personnel is
so acute that activities. cannot pro-
coed on a near-normal basis with
out full cooperation of the women
of the city, Roe stressed.
Necessity Explained
The necessity for the new regu-
lations on luxury nursing is ex-
planned in a resolution passed at
an emergency meeting of the
board.
''We are not able to give the
same adequate nursing care ex-
tended under normal conditions at
the hospital" Roe said. There
fore, patients who enter the institu-
ton must do so with full knowledge
Continued on Page Three; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-07
Chicago Police Uncover
Clues In Trunk Shaving

bloodstains on the mattress after
Lopez left and that all the sheets
had been removed.
Breitzke said he had obtained 4
photograph Of the woman who had
lived with Lopez at the hotel and
that Hamdian had given a descrip-
ton OF her that fitted in most par
ticulars with that of the trunk vic
TINS body in Los Angeles.
The officer said Hamdian identi-
fled the woman as Louise Villegas,
"a years old, five feet three inch
es tall and weight about 1855 pounds.
This description difftred from
that Of the trunk victim on,y IN
that body found in California
weighed $50 pounds.
Police intensified their search
late today when a taxicab driver
tCeatinaed On Pags Three, Col j.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-07
Ronnlel Saws
Allied Blow
Is I'm miinent
Commentator Claims Allies
Will Hurl 100000
Men Into Action
SEE MIGHTY ATTACK
Marshal Says Nazis Armed
With New Weapons,
Ready For Utmost

LONDON, Sunday, May 7-R-
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel told
Germans in their bombed home
land yesterday that an Allied in
vasion of Europe "must be reckon
ed as imminent" and one Nazi
commentator said the Americans
and Britons would hurl 100000
men into action this month, using
100000 landing craft.
DR.. Erich Widdecke, a writer
in the Westfaelische Landeszei-
tung, was quoted by the Berlin
radio early today as saying that
the main Allied blow would be
across the English Channel, with
another hitting southern France
and possible diversionary thrusts
at Denmark and Norway.
Predicts Glider Landings
Predicting landings by glider and
parachute troops behind the Ger.
man Atlantic wall, Widdecke con-
ceded that the problem OF Gen
Dwight D. Eisenhower's command
would be mot landing but supply. "
He estimated that so Allied mo.
torized divisions were "ready IN
Britain, Iceland and Ireland" and
said troops for aerial landings "are
in the Faroes (Allied-held Danish
islands 22O miles north of Scotland
and $50 miles west of Norway and
another rs divisions, together with
strong French forces, in North
Africa"
The German commentator de-
clared the main Allied landings
would be made under protection of
an enormous air umbrella" and
sid:
4. eThey@will be so powerful it will
be impossible to prevent establish
ment of bridgeheads-so the fate OF
the invasion will depend on battle
between the invasion forces and
large (German reserves"
Rommel pictured German sol
diery as armed with new
weapons and "ready for the ut
most" and he asserted in a Ger
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-07
u. s. SZMASHES SECTION
OF INVASION BEACHES:
ROlMAMA AGAIN
Allies Press Offensive
On JapS In KOhima Area

for Kohima, 60 miles north Of
Imphal, said it might be the
biggest thus far on the Burma
India front and might decide
the success or failure of the
Japanese offensive in Assam.
Allied forces on the often
sive north of the Imphal plain
killed a number Of Japanese
east of Kanglatongbi while
south Of the plain and in the
-Bishenpur area the pursuit OF
enemy infiltrators went on.
The Chinese troops under 1t.
Gen. Joseph w. Stlwell kept
up their advance down the Mo-
gazing valley south of captur-
ed Inkangahtawng and Overran
Japanese defenses near the
Lahkraw river.
On the Arakan front Allied
troops, attacking after strong
bombardment, captured new
hill positions and inflicted
"serious losses" on the enc
my, the communique said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-07
F.D.R. ASKS new
LEND-LEASE FUND
Would Make Total OF
$7,188,S93,000 Avail
able For Fiscal Year

So, $50, $4,000 new appropriation Tor
lend-lease was asked by President
Roosevelt today together with re-
Appropriation of unspent funds to
make 81, 188, 1893, 900 available in the
fiscal year beginning next July l..
The amount would raise to about
$4,000, 900 the total for lend-lease
since the program was started.
The new fund was asked for
industrial products required for
the production of planes. tanks,
guns and other war supplies in Al
lied countries, food and other Agri-
cultural products required to main
tain the. rations of their soldiers
and war workers, and related Sc
vices"
Militay and naval supplies snet
directly to americas Allies are
drawn from the accounts Of the
war and Navy Departments.
The request arrived at a time
when new demands were being
voiced at the capitol for more in
formation on lend-lease operations.
Senator Ellender D.-LA.) said
Congress and the people are en-
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-07
SHIPYARD DISPUTE
GROWING SERIOUS
Row Involving AFL And
Clio May Require Inter-
vention By F. D. r.

WASHINGTON, May 6. - R -
A San Francisco shipyard wage
dispute involving AFL machinists
and Go steel workers today ap-
preached the stage where white
house intervention might be re-
quested by the War Labor Board.
Representatives Of the local I'M
ions failed to appear at a meet
ing with the WLB to which they
were summoned today, and the
board decided unanimously to dis
cuss the disputed rates for repair
and new ship work with AFL Pres
dent William Green and CIO Pres
ident Philip Murray in a last-min-
ute effort settle the controversy.
Failing in that, the board said,
it will carry the case to the pres
ident, who could order the yards
seized as he did the Chicago pro-
perties of Montgomery Ward and
Company.
In kilograms to Green and Muir
ray the board asked each to "ex-
ercise all Of your authority to OBJ.
tain action by the officials and
members of the local union involv-
ed in conformity with the board
orders in this case,'' an dto keep
the board advised.
The board disclosed also that the
War Production Boards ship stab
ilization committee, meeting in
Portland, Ore, had agreed to re-
frain from discussing rates for
drydock adjustments on new YES
sells for the time being, SO as not
to prejudice the WLB hearing.
The case, involving members Of
Lodge 60, International Association
of Machinists (AFL) and Local
1904, United Steel Workers OF Am
erica tCIO), concerns rates 1o1
work on ships built in other yards.
taken on shake-down cruises, ano
then brought to the San Francisco
wards for adjustments. Members Of
the San Francisco locals, demand
ing they be paid the $1.34 an hour
repair rate for such work instead
Of the $1.2o an hour new-ship rate.
have refused to work on the
shake-down ships except at the re-
x.o;u rate
Meanwhile Representative And
erson R-Calif) wired WLB Chair
man william H. Davis that 1T Is
my opinion that these mdlvlooals
tlocal union leaders, are gulty
Of reasonable activities and nope
that your board will use every
means at your disposal to remove
them from positions Of influence
in the San Francisco area.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-07
BY JACK BELL

WASHINGTON, May 6.-R-Se-
lection Of democratic convention
Aeyhoter probably will be made as
sooh as President Roosevelt re-
'u'hS to Washington and party lead
sts were reported today to be con-
aa,ueflng Gov. Robert S. Kerr OF
oAlanona, among others, for the
post.
n 47-year-old Oklahoma gov
s.lof conferred with national chair
a' Robert E. Hannegan here this
W. week and told reporters that while
~ was not an applicant for rec
5 5snIoion' he would be glad to I'M
w. 1et'ake any campaign task the par
leadership assigns to him.
NelI was one of several under
consideration, including Senate
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-07
i. S. Places
Irish Firms
Blacklist
Concerns And Business.
men Are Accused Of
Aiding The Enemy
FIRST ACTION
Threatens Competitive Dis.
advantage For Compa-
MES Following War

ut,su1NGTON, May g. Up -
NV ITnited States tonight black
I ins % irish firms and business
n non accused of aiding the enc
my.
Tho action was the first taken
~ This government to express
. -, economic measures its
disapproval Of Fires decision IN
Tebrrarv not to eject Axis Off
Idle accused of espionage by the
Allies.
Never before has any Irish firm
hepn blacklisted, although concerns
N MANY other neutral countries
N both this hemisphere and the
European area had been put on
The record which now totals ap-
rroximately $1,000 names.
Cooperating WIZ Enemy
Listing means that government
officials consider they have ade-
uate evidence that the concerns
are cooperating with the enemy
In such manner as to contri-
butte to the support of his war
machine.
The sanctions applied range
from denial of all facilities to
such firms in this country to the
threat Of postwar penalties which
will place those firms at a COM
petitive disadvantage in the early
months of economic reconstruc-
ton
The State department declined
to say why any individual firm
was blacklisted or to describe the
activities of any firm. Some of
the 80 have Irish names while
others were German language
names, apparently branches of
German firms.
The disclosure th1i Ireland was
being listed apparently was the
first step to implement the new
policy announced Thursday by
Francis Russell, chief of the divi-
Continued on Page Two; Col. II
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-07

CHICAGO, May H. A
question Of the validity Of nation
al labor relations board election
conducted in a plant being operat-
ed by the government, as are
Montgomery Ward and Company's
Chicago properties, was raised to-
day by the firms attorneys at a
conference before Federal Judge
William H. Holly.
George B. Christensen of Wards
counsel said he had informed the
court that there is question
whether the election would be
valid while the enploues are en-
plyes of the U. S. government, as
they are under the sweeping terms
of President Roosevelt's order for
seizure of the properties, because
the national labor relations act
specifically excludes U. S. EN-
ployes from its operations.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-07
WEATHER

NORTH CAROLINA: Sunday partly
cloudy and cooler in east portion, con-
tinued cool in west.
eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 7:30 PM, yesterday.
Temperature
1870 am, 70, 7:3O am, II, 1870 pm, g.
1880 pm 81.
Maximum 70 Minimum So; Mean 60:
Normal 60.
Humidity
1880 am, "a, 1880 am, rs, 1880 pm, 80
1880 pm 30.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 1880 pm
0.53 inches.
Total since the first of the month
3.46 inches.
Tides For Today
Nrom the Tide Tables published bs
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Wilmington ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS o:11a 4:12a
s:41p 4:23r
Masonboro Inlet ----- 6:58a loss
7:27p 1:10r
Sunrise, SIT am: Sunset, 700 pm.
Moonrise, 6:31 pm: Moonset. SOY am
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-07
II. S. Maintains Attacks
On By-P assed Jap Force
NOTICE

Due to a mechanical
breakdown in the press
room early this morn
ing, today's edition of
the Star News was
printed by The Raleigh
Times and the time in
volved in transportation
of the papers from Ra-
leigh resulted in a few
hours delay.
Every effort Is be-
made to make the
necessary repairs an d
the newspaper is ex-
pected to resume it's
regular schedule by
Monday afternoon.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-07
.METHODlSTS MAKE
PROHIBITION CALL
Refuse To Act On Proposal
To Disapprove Con-
scription OF Labor

KANSAS CITY, May 6.-lRENe
fastest working general conference
in modern Methodist history swept
through its final business today and
adjourned, finishing in ten days a
job that normally takes at least
twenty-one.
In their closing session the Meth
odists unanimously demanded war
time prohibition, asked that con-
scientious DIRECTORS be given work
of greater social significance"
and refused to act on a proposal
to disapprove CONSUMPTION of civil
ian labor.
The CONSUMPTION memorial was
Continued on Page Three; Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-07

SOUTHEAST ASIA HEAD
QUARTERS, Randy. Ceylon,
May 6-(R-Pressing q general
offensive In the Kohima area,
British and Indian troops have
knocked the Japanese invad-
ers of northeast India out Of
a number of important posi-
tions and are continuing their
advance, Allied headquarters
announced today.
The japanese suffering heavy
casualties, the Allied communi-
que stated.
1t was apparent that Allied
forces were going all-out in the
Kohima area in attempt to Sc
cure that important bulwark
guarding the Bengal-Assam
railway, IS miles away. before
the Monsoon rains, due in 10
days, crimp military opera
tions.
One front dispatch placing
great importance on the battle
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-07

CHICAGO, May 6. -(P)- Police
disclosed tonight they had obtain
ed a picture of a woman who had
been living with a man in a hotel
here as Mrs. John Lopez and said
they would use it in an attempt to
identify the woman whose nearly
nude, salt-packed body was ship
ped from Chicago to Los Angeles in
a trunk.
The trunk was brought into a
railway express agency office here
for shipment last Sunday by 4
man who identified himself as John
Lopez.
Police 1t. Philip Breitzke OF the
homicide division said a check OF
a Chicago hotel revealed that a
'sMr. and Mrs. John Lopez check
ed out Sunday. Sam Hamdian, a
handy man there, related he found
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-07
CANDHl'S RELEASE
| DRAWS APPROVAL
Intimates Fear Move
Marks A Crisis In His
Illness, However

NEW DELHI India, May 6.-eP'
Widespread satisfaction greeted
the release oday of Mohandas. K.
Gandhi, Indian nationalist leader
detained flor 81 months as po-
liticl prisoner in thu Aga Khan's
summer palace in Poona, but in
Inmates feared it marked new
crisis in the illness of the frail dis
ciple of midas masses.
The press of all shades Of opin-
ion, nationalist as well as English
owned, welcomed the freeing o.
Gandhi. The government released
the 74-year-old leader uncondition-
ally, citing failing health, after
having confined him in August,
1912 for political activity wrich
it regarded as hampering India S
resistance to Japan.
His intimates here said that
Gandhi is suffering from both high
blood pressure and kidney all
ment and will depend for recovery
on spiritual source of strength
"beyond the conception of the
western world" His son Devadas
Gandhi, expressing the opinion
that his father was seriously i'll
and possibly near death, would
scorn most medical ministrations.
Released with Gandhi were DR..
M. D. D. Glider who attended the
leader in detention; Miss Made
line Slade, daughter of an Eng
lish admiral and supporter of the
Indian national congress for ma
ny years, DR.. Sushil Nayad, and
Pyre Lal Magyar, a privte secre-
tary.
Gandhi's release came without
untoward demonstration by his
followers, but crowds of them act
ing on an earlier announcement
that their leaders would be freed,
gathered at the gates of the pal
ace to greet him. He looked cheer
full but tired and was taken imme-
diately to "Parnakuti, palatial
residence of Lady Vital Das
Thackersey. She is the widow of
a Bombay merchant and an old
friend of Gandhi. 1t was under
stood Gandhi would be taken to
Bombay Monday.
Gandhi and those released with
him were enjoined against making
'any public statements Or giving
any interviews.
Gandhi's son said he was not
disposed to adopt an attitude Of
complete optimism owing to the
lack of definite information about
his fathers condition, but ex-
pressed the belief that he would
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-07
ANNUAL MEMORIAL
DAY TO Be NOTED
i. D. {. VIII Present Pro.
gram At Oakdale We'd
nesday Afternoon

The United Daughters of the
Confederacy ard Sons OF the Con-
federacy will observe annual Con-
lederate Memorial day Wednes-
Dag, May 10, at o'clock in the
afternoon in Oakdale cemetery.
Inc speaker will be the Rev.
Samuel Wander Nicer of the First
presbyterian church, and he will
De introduced by the Rev. Andrew
j. Howell. Prayers will be offered
oy the Rev. Carl Fisher, pastor oil
81 Matthew's Lutheran church.
LOUIS I. Moore will have charge
VI the program and will read the
confederate Roll of Honor and the
Roll OF Honor of Veterans of 9th.
e. wars who hape died during the
past year.
Inc Confederate battle flag will
De flown for that hour and the
mound surrounding the monument
Will be decorated with laurel
~feaths and moss. The speaker
STAND will be decorated with flags,
bunting. and moss. Attributing this
observance as one era in our ma
aohal history, the national color'
Will be flown.
With marshalls and guard d
Hohor, the procession of those TAX
Ag part in the program, member:
Continued nm Paoa Three. Col. 3