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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-17
R00SeueltBQckers
Add1O4Delegates
In -Four Contests
|Downey' S Name
On Both Tickets
BY PAUL MILLER
Chief of the Associated Press
Washington Bureau

SAN FRANCISCO, May 16. -
Light voting was indicated in ear.
ly reports tonight from a Califor.
MIA statewide primary marked by
Democratic Senator Sheridan Dow.
ney's bid for denomination or
both major party tickets.
Preliminary estimates placed
the total vote at less than so. per
cent of the 3,370,878 registrants.
Downey had been given a good
chance generally to win the Dem
ocratic nomination but little Of
clinching reelection by taking the
Republican also.
Besides the senatorial contest,
with most other candidates like
wise running on both tickets as
California law permits, country
wide interest centered in the Sc
lection of national party conNan-
ton delegates and nomination of
% congressman.
Democrats selected Sc national
convention delegates pledged to
President Roosevelt for a fourth
term. Republicans named so
pledged to Gov. Earl Warren as a
favorite son candidate. There was
no contest on either ticket and no
Write-in voting.
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ARMY, NAVY, VISA
BUDGET REDUCED
Slice Said Due To Fact
Losses Of Equipment
Have Been Low

WASHINGTON, May is Ill.,
President Roosevelt reported today
Navy and War Shipping Admin
stration for the new fiscal year has
been cut So, 400, 900, 900 under Janu-
airy estimates, chiefly because
losses of equipment and weapons
to submarines and in battle have
been less than anticipated.
He told a news conference the
overall war budget for the IL
months beginning next July l now
stands at $85, 700, 100000 compared
with a January preliminary esti-
mate of $9O,5O0, 900, 1000 and this fis-
cal years $92, 100000, 900.
The present figure for the new
year represents a $4,000, 100000 net
reduction from the January esti-
mate with the $8,400, 100000 cut
for the Army, Navy and War Ship
ping Administration offset in part
by addition of $3,500,OO0,OO0 for
lend lease and $500, 100000 for
other war activities.
Roughly, the Army Navy War
Shipping reduction is 10 percent of
the January estimates for them.
Mr.. Roosevelt remarked that they
spend 98.6 percent of the total war
outlay with the remaining IA per-
cent providing for the emergency
war agencies, such as the Wa
production Board and Officer of
Price Administration. and wa de-
Invites of regular government de-
partments.
The revised figures trimmed the
Nays budget $4,400, 100000, the
Army's $3,OO0,000,000, and the war
Shipping Administrators $1,000
0OO,O 900.
Mr.. Roosevelt explained that the
January figures were based on es-
Inmates of what would be required
to carry out the strategic decisions
Continued on Page Two; Col. g.
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Germans Warned

LONDON, Wednesday, May IT,
N-Germans were warned of night
air raiders by the Berlin radio at
midnight after a day in which Bri
t5sh-based Allied squadrons were
idle.
Indicating the Raj was return
ing to the pre-invasion attack, a
Nazi broadcast to the Reich said:
Several nuisance raiders are ap-
preaching northwest Germany and
SchlesWig- Holstein.'
The daylight pause in Allied air
activity came after Hitler's En-
rope had been rocked by a month
long aerial offensive which drew
retaliatory raids on England by the
German air force Sunday and
Monday nights.
A few Raj planes carried out
intruder" operations during the
day, scudding all the way to the
Baltic, and Swedish communique
said one two-man craft had crash
ed into the sea off Skane after
being hit by Swedish anti-aircraft.
The Canadian pilot of a Mosque
to, Charlie Scherf of Edmonton,
Alta, shot down five German
planes in a quick sweep to Stettin.
He also damaged a bomber on the
Continued on Page Eight; Col. b
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FIGHTING IS RAGING
Jap Hold On Key Rail Line
Is Further Loosened By
Chinese Troops
BY RAY CRONIN
Associated Press War Editor

The surprise Chinese offensive
from Yunnan province toward
Burma was pictured by official
Chungking advices yesterday as
gaining momentum while far to
the north fierce fightia ragged
around Loyang in the Honan Sec
tor.
In the latter area the Chinese
further loosened the Japanese hold
on the north-south Peiping-Hankow
to press westward toward the gate
way to China's great northwest.
Thrust Repulsed
The Southeast Asia Allied Com
mand announced repulse of new
Japanese thrust close to the bor-
der of India as British forces
pressed their hopping up cam
paig.l in the Kohima frontier re-
gion.
Inside Burma American-trained
Chinese troops maintained steady
progress down the Mogaung valley.
The Chinee continued to pour
across the Salween River in part
OF a coordinated Allied drive to
reopen land supply line between
several strategic points and hit
through Mamien pass, about $50
miles from the Allied forces they
seek to join in Burma.
miserable Failure''
While the japanese radio claim
ed the Salween drive was E
miserable failure" Chungking re
ported further advances Informa
ton from the Chinese high com
mand carried a suggestion tina
the Chinese were developing pin
Ger maneuver against the Japa
nese held section of the Burma
road.
The Chinese drove through diff
ficult mountainous terrain at
time when 100000 Japanese troop.
in Burma were tied down on othel
fronts. They were supported b,
planes and American tactical ad
visers.
In Burma American trained
Chinese forces of 1t Gen. JOSEPH
StllWelPs command drove south.
ward from the Manpin area to
ward the Kamaing Japanese base
Others smashed japanese pockets
OF resistance near Warong, north.
east of Manpin. Airborne Allied
Continued on Page Eight Col. 81
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dispersion OF Rev.
Orlemanski Lifted
By Rev. OLeary

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, May 16:
Pj-Upon receipt of a letter OF
apology, Most Rev. Thomas H. o.
Li.eary, bishop of Springfield, today
lifted the four-day suspension OF
Rev. Stanislaus Orlemanski, Cath
o! priest who gained headlines by
MS visit with Marshal Stain re-
Gently.
FIR. Orlemanski, who was sus-
pended by Bishop O'Leary on his
arrival last Saturday from Moscow
Tor leaving his parish without per-
mission, still was under doctor s
Care when lifting of the suspen-
slon was announced.
He has been ordered to remain
N bed several days by his physl-
cam DR.. William C. Kotarskl, VINO
reported the priest as being on
the verge of complete physical
aid mental breakdown
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Checkup Made On All
American Soldiers
Stationed In Britain

LONDON, Wednesday, May II
-'REA mass checkup on every
man wearing the United States
Army uniform in Britain was COM
pleted at midnight.
All units, except those in transit
were confined to barracks for the
previous "a hours while credentials
were scrutinized.
Military police in London and
elsewhere moved through streets
demanding Identification OF both
officers and enlisted men.
The move was seen both as
security measure and as double
check against absentees and oe-
serters.
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BIZ MEN TO GO
TO BRAGG TODAY

Three hundred and seventeen
men, ages 10 through 26, will re-
port to Fort Bragg today for pre-
induction examinations, officials
of City Draft Board No. 1 an
aounced yesterday.
Seventy-five per cent of this
group will consist of shipyard en-
ployes who have had deferments
in the past, but due to age their
deferments are no longer recogniz-
ed.
The following men will meet at
the county court house this morn
ing at 7:30 o'clock and leave for
their pre-induction examina lion
station:
Clarence Borner Hardee, Edwin
Holt Hughes, Clarence Currie Cal
houn, Alton Collie, Albert Owen
Cliff, Elmer Sutton Whitfield, Earl
Edward Williams, Jay Gilbert
Carter, Jr., Avon Haywood Rowan,
William F. McIlwain, j., Robert
Nixon Taylor Cecil Joyce Brown,
William Curtis Aud, Frank Eugen
Montgomery, Julius Clyde Fair
cloth, William Joseph Mo7atfo-t,
Robert Leonard, Robert Graham
Robinson, William Hyrne Lopez,
Douglas Linwood Pridgen, Jr.,
James Bertrand Chadwick, Hildon
Penn Clark, Henry Ha-rel, Jr.,
John Hamilton Hull, Golden Thorn
ton, Marion Thomas Mason, Coz
don Alfred Boswell, Julious James
Rick, Harry William Stutze7berg,
Marion Franklin Tatum, Clyde
Douglas Rowe, Norman Walte-
Bond, John Lee Ga1bade, Bemja-
min N. Brown, James Braddick
Allen.
Jack Wilder Fredere, John Cliff
ford Williams, Samuel Thomas
Rhodes, Jimmie Driver Williams,
Edward Carwe1l Flora, Plat
Walker Davis, Dennis Lee Ell
more, brewery Jefferson Bridges.
Oliver Ezekiel Brown, Jr., Leon
Somerset, Otto Joseph Harper,
Clyde Norman Newman, Charlie
Mayo Simmons, Cleve Felix But
Ter, John Marshall Taylor, Viii
liam Francis Merck, Charles Dud-
ley Morrill,, Walton Vance Bull
tezegar, Wade Jefferson Ward,
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
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CITY
BOMBED BY REDS

LONDON, Wednesday, May II
-R Soviet .Airmen heavily
bombed the Nazi-held city of Po-
lotsk near the atvian-Polish Dor
der Monday night, Moscow an
nounced last night, continuing an
aerial campaign against German
communications in the east similar
to the Allied pre-invasion assaults
from the west.
There were mo essential
changes" on the land front, said
the broadcast Russian war bulletin
In the attack on Polotsk, which
is on the Riga Rail line, military
stores and enemy trains On the
Ilnes at the junction were
bombed" the communicate said
Many fires were started. AS 3
result of the bombing seven ex
ploslons, one of great force, occur
red among the fires. All our planes
returned to the base"
During the recent lull in land
hghtlng, the Red Army airforce
has been hammering German sea
and land transportation in what
both sides have said is a prelude
to a large-scale Red army often
sive.
A DNB military correspondent
reported the Russians massing in
the LWoW-Kowel and northern Ro-
Continued on Page Two; Col. g.
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NATION NOW HAS
BIGGEST FLEET
Navy Has More Than L.
200 Ships In Service,
Admiral Says

LOS ANGELES, May 16-lF-
Tn Navy now has more than 1,2OO
fighting ships in the worlds big
gest fleet.
This was disclosed tonight in an
address by Rear Admiral E. L.
Coehrane, chief of the bureau OF
ships, prepared for meeting OF
the National Association of Manu-
facturers, here. ssssss ~, IL y
-Four years ago, Cochraffe' said,
our fighting fleet consisted approx
imately $50 units.
up to the first of this year"
he reported, we had added to the
fleet more than 760 fighting ships.
In the first four months OF
this year alone, we delivered no
less than 1875 combatant ships"
Taking Cochrane's approximate
figures, the total number of ships
in the fleet during the four year
period would be 1925, from which
81 combatant ships sunk, overdue
or destroyed to prevent capture
would be substracted to give a net
total of 1,243.)
Turning to the postwar prospects
for the Navy, Cochrane said the
international commitments of the
United States would decide the
number of ships to be retained in
active service and the extent to
which continuing program of ship
construction would be carried on,
and influence the disposition of the
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. 81
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CHANGES WANTED .
in 0PA MEASURE

WASHINGTON, May 16 - Up -
Four national farm organizations
called tonight for changes in the
price control law which would au-
thorize organizations as well as
Individual sellers to challenge price
ceilings in the courts.
In joint statement, the farm
groups sharply criticized admins
tration of the law, asserting that
the Office of Price Admin
stration often was arbitrary and
dictatorial," and acted contrary to
the intent of Congress.
Asking that organizations be al
lowed to contest ceiling prices, the
statement said:
Few farmers, for example,
have the means or the time to op-
pose OPA actions in the courts
and at the present time their
organizations, formed for purposes
of protection, cannot come to their
defense.
The statement was signed by the
American Farm Bureau Fedora
ton, of the National Grande, the
National Council of Farmer Coope-
ratives and the National Coopera-
tive Milk Producers Federation.
The group endorsed series OF
amendments offered by Senator
Wherry (R.-NEB). Legislation to
extend the price control law be-
vond June 80 is pending in COM
mites of the Senate and the
House.
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INDUCTEE TAKES
BABY WITH HIM

FORT SHERIDAN, ILL.,, May 16
-tR-Albert Caponnetto, 20, report
ed for induction into the army to-
day with an 11-month- baby boy
in his arms.
'It's all I can do" he calmly
told army officers, my wife has
had a spinal ailment since the
baby was born last June and isn't
able to care for him.
Caponetto, a Chicago auto me-
chanc, said he did not ask for an
extension Of his six-month defer
ment May 5 because he was in an
essential industry and thought the
new regulations would postpone his
induction.
Prior to reporting to Fort Sheri-
dan he made two trips to his draft
board, he said, but the board re-
fused to delay his induction.
This morning Caponetto and the
baby, Albert Victor, reported for
induction.
Reluctantly handing the crying
baby to two nurses, the father was
sworn into the Army, while the
child was placed temporarily in
the station hospital
Following his induction Caponet
to told 1t. Col. Eldon M. Senjem,
commanding officer of the camp:
Cali 1 want is for the army to
give me time to take care of my
battle at hone.'
The officer Immediately granted
Caponetto a 24-hour pass to return
the baby to Chicago, but warned
the mechanic he must report back
to Fort Sheridan tomorrow-rninus
the baby.
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GIT VOTES COUNTED
Presidents Total Pushed
Far Above Required
Majority Of 5S9
Nv n HAROLD OLIVER
.esocjated Press Staff Writer

Now Jersey and California Dem
ars+s nut Sc more delegates in
prseident Roosevels's column in
mary voting yesterday and
prsbed his total far above the re-
pa',;rpd majority for another NOM
;n.+ion two months in advance OF
.ho nartv's natl onal convention.
Inst for good measure, party
1oocers counted eight more for the
p+psident from Delaware AMI ten
fron Montana and Delaware par
icons heard Senator Tunnel 3D.
7sn call for the forced induc-
+jon.' Of the Chief Executive to
stand for a fourth term.
The four states, including New
1orsev's "a and CALIFORNIA; So,
added 1O4 to the Roosevelt Pied ~
and claimed delegate strength aid
brought his total to SIT, with only
589 needed. Four years ago at this
Time he lacked 81 for third nom
nation, but fewer delegates had
been chosen then.
Gov Thomas E. Dewey, of New
York. appeared assured of New
Jersevs IS COP delegates elected
in another primary yesterday,
while California Republicans put
their favorite son into the presi-
dental picture by choosing so del
egates nominally pledged to Gov.
Earl Warren, COP convention key
noter
Dewey's total pledged and claim
ed delegates for the Republican
presidential nomination thus climb
ed to 81, including eight picked
in Montana. The Republican
nominating majority is $50.
While it is unlikely the New
Yorker will have enough pledges
and delegates otherwise support
ing him, before the national con-
vention opens June 26, mathe-
NAUTICAL possibility exists. Penn
sylvania's uninstructed delegation
of 70 holds caucus Saturday
with strong Dewey leanings re-
ported by state leaders and 173
COP delegates remain to be Sc
lected in conventions.
Californias delegate elections
were without contest in either par
Continued on Page Two; Col. g.
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F0REMEN WARNED
BYLAB0R BOARD

WASHINGTON, May 1e.-R-
The War Labor Board called to-
day for showdown on the fore
mems strike at war plants in the
Detroit area, which Undersecre-
tary of War Patterson described
as potentially the most serious
walkout of the war in its effect on
combat aircraft production.
Shortly after the undersecretary
had expressed his fears at news
conference, the WLB summoned
the president and the 10-man exec
utive board of the Foreman's AS
sociation of America to a public
hearing at 10 am. tomorrow to
show cause why the board should
not Immediately take all steps
necessary to invoke the sanctions
and penalties provided by the WAR
Labor Disputes Act and the exc
cutive orders of the President. !"
Civil suits for damages constitute
the only penalty of the act so long
as the struck plants remain in
private hands. If the government
seized them, criminal action might
be taken against any person en-
couraging strike.
Patterson told reporters that
parts and sub-assemblies for al
most all army planes are manu-
featured in the 10 plants affected,
and the Packard Motor Car Com
pany plant which closed Friday is
the only source of engines for the
Psi Mustang long-range fighters.
The strike began three weeks
ago as the foremen sought recogni-
ton of their independent union. 1t
has continued despite WLB di-
receive calling on them to return
to their Jobs yesterday.
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Rickenbacker Claims
EAL To Give Hourly
Service To Charlotte

CHARLOTTE, May 16-R-Capt.
Eddie Rickenbacker, president of
Eastern Air Lines, said here today
his company planned to provide
Charlotte with hourly transport
plane service as soon as war con-
ditions permit the acquisition OF
necessary equipment and the max
ing of other arrangements.
Rickenbacker made his an
nouncement in an interview with
the Charlotte News shortly before
he addressed a luncheon meeting
of business men.
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TIDEWATER NAMED
IN $4,000 SUIT

A suit for $4,000 damages and
$500 expenses was filed against the
Tidewater Power Company here
Tuesday by L. R. Blake, father
of Leroy Hill Blake, who died last
February q of asphyxiation.
The cmoplaint state that on
Feb. 26, 1914 Leroy Blake, six
teen-year-old high school student,
accompanied Louis Freshwater to
movie in Wilmington. After the
movie they returned to the Fresh
water home in 1853 Colonial Village,
east of the city limits, to spend
the night. They occupied a room
with Henry Switzerland and re-
tired about II pm.
The three boys and Mr.. and
Mrs. John Freshwater we're found
about noon the following day in
an unconscious condition by a
friend Of the family, George T..
Gray, who reported that the house
was filled with gas. All were rush
ed to James Walker Hospi-
tai and treated for asphyxiation
but Leroy died early in the after
noon.
According to the complaint, at
about a. m. Billy Venters, Star
News delivery boy, noticed the
smell Of gas at the residence and
someone called Tidewater COM
pany' An agent Of the company
is reported to have visited the
nome to turn off the gas but failed
70 enter the home and arouse the
occupants. 1t is also alleged the
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French Threaten To Outflank
Germans Entire Gustav Line;
chinese Drive Gains Momentum
.$31nenReadY
D-Day Show

s U p r E M E HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Allied Expeditionary
Forces, England, May 16.-R
They're putting up the big
scale battlemaps on the newly
painted walls of the long con-
ference room of invasion press
headquarters-and if the Ger
man command could look them
over, they'd be just as worried
as they are now and not one
bit better informed.
They show all Of Europe in
equal scale-from the North
Cape to the Peloponnesus.
That was the scope Of the
concentric attack which the in
vasion will round out in pat
tern with the Italian drive and
the great Russian front. The
maps show every German po-
tential target, every mile Of
Nazi-held territory and poten-
tial objective.
But wherever the Allied
press officers pointer touches
In the first announcement Of
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landing craft flying the Stars and
Stripes were shown, cautioned
Ready for invasion CALI
Morning newspapers CARED
picture of the cleared main tracks
of one of the United Kingdoms
chief railways showing its sidings
damned with more than 100 loco
motives marked Transportation
Corps United States Army" The
caption said" They are invasion
engines, ready to be moved onto
the main lines for the first stage
of their journey to the continent"
Also pictured was a great Ameri.
can tank convoy crossing an Eng
fish country lane and the caption
described it as lone of the many
laundering day and night from a
base unnamed 70 destination un-
known"
Continued on Page Two; Col. VI
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RESULTS
National League

NaCIOnaI League
Boston 1; Cincinnati 0.
Chicago 7; Brooklyn 6.
New York at Pittsburgh (ppd.)
American League
Chicago 10; New York 4.
Philadelphia 4; Detroit 8.
St. Louis 7; Boston 3.
Washington 8; Cleveland 2.
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English Town.
Hit In Force
By The Naziis
GERMANS ARE WARNED
British Based Allied
Squadrons Repor'
Quiet During Day
BY The Associated Press

A heavy force of German planes
attacked Portsmouth, English south
coast port, early today, the Ber-
liz radio announced in broadcast
recorded by NBC.
The Nazi raiders were reported
over the city nearly half hour.
No announcement of the attack
has come from England, which
had undergone German raids on
the two preceding nights.
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Agreements WithEXiled
Nations Made By Allies
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER

WASHINGTON, May 16-NF9-In prenvason announcements
possibly limiting the direction of Allied Europe
don and Washington today disclosed with gov
of the Netherlands Belgium
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FORECAST

NORTH CAROLINA: PARTLY cloudy and
continued rather warm Wednesday with
widely scattered showers in the after
noon.
Temperatures yesterday;
High 85:-Low: SO
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Continued on Page Two; Col. 6
Evening star., 1944-08-12
Draft Aid Center 10 Send
Circular 10 SeIectees

Every man accepted for induction
hereafter will receive a circular at
his home telling him the location of
the Draft Aid Center and what 1t
can do to help him with his pre-
induction problems.
The proposed direct contact with
prospective servicemen, it was ex-
planned, was arranged with the CO.
operation of District Selective Serv-
ice, which is co-sponsor Of the Draft
Aid Center with the Districts Civil
ian War Services Division.
An official of the center, located
in the United States Information
Building. reported that approx
mately 5000 selectees and their fam
lilies have visited the center since il
started in February. The most fire.
quent questions concern allowances
for dependents and documentary
proof necessary to obtain them.
In the circular, the selectees are
advised the center will give them
and their families information abou,
allowances, allotments, medical and
maternity care, insurance, employ
ment, child care. legal aid, housing
taxes and similar problems.
The center also reported change
Of hours. In the future it will be
open Monday through Friday from
10 am. to 6 pm, and Saturday from
10 am to 2 pm.