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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-07-05

CALEN STARR ROSS,
REPUBLICAN, CAN
DIDATE, July 18th Pri-
mary for Congress;
Michigan End District.
] will hire three quail
fled persons who need
the work. Two women
for office and man for
service in the field.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-08
ARGENTINA CALLED
HOTBED OF FASCISTS

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.--(P -
Secretary of State Hull today
branded Argentina as headquarters
for Fascist movement In this
hemisphere and potential source
of infection for the rest of the
Americas.
His assertions, made at a news
conference, in response to CUES
tons, apparently form part of the
groundwork for a postwar policy
of non-recognition of the present
Argentine government. Thus far
non-recognition has been based prl-
marily on the wartime attitude TO-
ward Argentina as "deserter
from the Allied cause.
The secreta-y's evident intention
to project the policy into the pc
Rod after Germany's defeat raised
the possibility that the Argentine
case may be one Of the first to
claim the attention Of the propos-
ed new world security organlza-
ton. This possibility has been Sc
riously considered by American
officials who are by no means con-
fident Of the Argentine problem.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-08
Police Rockies Get Booze

ment, Chief Casteen took adj
vantage of the opportunity at
hand and had his men check
taxi cabs at different locations
in the city, resulting in several
arrests for over charging,
improper registration, and
speeding.
According to the results OF
the police departments check
up of the zone in which the city
is located, many citizens have
unnecessarily been paying IS
cents for cab fares in So
cent zone. Chief Casteen said
the whole of Wilmington was
in a so cent zone with, the
exception of parts of Lake For
est.
During the campaign against
over charging cabs police
found it necessary to detain
drivers at headquarters after
they were brought in, and cabs
were stored in the yard OF City
Hall. This w a to keep them
from tipping f.other drivers
to be on the look out Tor
the police department check
erS
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-08
Robot Bombing Termed Over

don June II. Sandys directed a
desperate campaign to spare
the civilian populace from the
death and devastation the gov
eminent feared.
In an hour and half press
conference, he. revealed. the
means Of combating the
bombs, necessarily secret until
the Germans were chased from
their robot roosts across the
channel.
When asked if the Allied drive
along the French coast also
had knocked out the w o.
pick-a-back launching sites,
: Sandys replied: t
Il am a little chary about talk
ing about w. We do, know
quite lot about it. In very
few days 1 feel that the press
Will be walking all over these
places in France and will know
a great deal more than we
know now. This form of attack
can of course be carried on
from airfields in the heart OF
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-08

Germany. We cannot therefore
as yet assure the public that
flying bomb attacks will cease
altogether. We can, however;
be reasonably confident that
the scale Of attack will be very
SMALL
Sandys said American-built
Mustangs along with late mod
ell British Spitfires and Tenn
pest fighter planes shot down
1900 robots. An antiaircraft
belt which included 800 heavy
guns and 1900 light pieces
claimed 800 robots. An inter
arc Of 1000 balloons which was
the last line of defense in Sam
dyS' scheme Intercepted Is per
cent of the bombs which escap-
ed fighters and ground gun.
ners.
In the closing days Of the
battle only nine per cent of the
projectiles which the Germans
were able to launch were
'eaching the capital
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-08
Road Bill Comes To Fore
STIMS0N SEES
WAR END SOON

WASHINGTON, Sept. T. Up -
Secretary of War Stimson believes
that Germany has insufficient
strength for the task of prolonged
Defense of the Reich. -
He expressed this somewhat eau.
tons prediction of early victory al
news conference today in which
he said that:
THE great bulk of toe German
army in western Europe has been
destroyed or crippled"
A great part of the German
forces in France are ''bewildered
and without much hope"
More than 100000 German pris.
oners have been taken in France,
Stimson said, adding:
German army discipline is hold
ing up and we must still test out
the product of the last desperate
mobilization efforts of the Nazi gov
eminent"
Concerning American army cas-
ualties, Stimson said the total for
the first three weeks Of the fighting
in France was $4,000, about hall
as many as had been expected.
Without giving figures, Stimson
said that during July and August
when the American forces moved
out from the peninsula beachheads
into the mainland, casualties were
slightly less than the estimates. y
His latest overall casualty report
showed that army casualties from
Pearl Harbor through August 81,
based on reports up to that date,
totaled 3O5, 795, of whom 57,67, were
killed. Navy casualties reported SO
far amount to 59,964, with 23,926
killed.
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partner in the business with
Ruby Bennett, according to the
officers. He was paid with
marked currency, the officers
said.
Early last Sunday morning
arresting officers, headed by
Chief Casteen, went to the adj
dress and recalled the marked
money, charging the couple
with illegal selling of wine and
whiskey.
At about 2 am. the same
morning the two under cover
men returned and made anoth-
err purchase on the second
floor of the same address from
Rosa Knight and w. H. Bar
Der, the Chief said.
Following their departure,
Chief Casteen and his men en-
tered and preferred charges
for illegal sale of wine, re-
claiming their marked money
as evidence. Officers also selz-
ed 10 quarts of wine when
the couple admitted were Tor
sale, according to the police
men.
Due to numerous complaints
received by the police depart
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-08

LONDON, Sept. 7.-P)-War
worn Britain after 80 days of
punishment from Hitler's blind
ly destructive robot bombs, was
told officially today that the
ordeal was ended and that the
oft-threatened w reprisal as
sault was not likely to be Sc
rious.
Except possibly for the last
few shots, the battle of Lon
don is over" declared 1t. Col.
Edwin Duncan Sandys who WIS
in charge of the defense against
the flying bombs.
With the formally-declared
end of the assault. censorship
regulations were lif. to dis
close that { total of 5000 robot
bombs were launched against
London and southern England
since June II. but that only D.
300 got through. More than s.
900 persons were killed by the
bombs which did land.
Since IA months before the
fist buzz-bombs startled Lon
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-08
BALKAN OFFENSIVE
TAKES NEW SHAPE

ROME, Sept. 7-B- Allied land
troops beg an an invasion of Yugo-
slavia week ago, penetrating
that country from the Adriatic sea
on the west in cooperation with
Marshal Tito's partisans and strik-
ing toward a junction with the Red
army thrusting from the east along
the Romanian frontire, it was Of
ficialy disclosed tonight
The goal of the '1and forces of
the Adriatic,'' official designation
of these fresh units hurled against
Germany's collapsing Balkan for
tress, is to seal off all Nazi troops
in the lower Balkan peninsula.
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Taking advantage of an op-
piNoftunlty to put the clamps on
negal liquor and wine sales
Al Wilmington, Police Chief c.
H. CaSteen assigned two police
:ookles to the under cover
!o0' and the chief made the
al arrests s.. himself, along with 9TH
u olncers assigned to the task.
nose assigned to put t h e
Squeeze' on the law break
e'S We're Officers H. A. Avant,
south Adams street, Sunset
p 5ol and Lewis E. Culbreth,
o o Harnett street, who were
canned n. and certified by the
Ivy Civil Service board and
It5ah work on September l.
n ,;o"%eVer, their names we're
, .i'lAeld for security" rea-
'OmS' said the chief.
=. 1 ne first expose took place
:, loo Dock Street on the third
e nooI' where they made pur-
aa 1oses Of wine and whiskey,
t' '|iilg Tor the spirits to the
vb ue OF SO quart for h e
~.; l,sNey and So a quart for
tr ,"e Inc purchase was made
p9 '' II year old Earl
9i' who stated that he was
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-08
DEWEY BLASTS
AT ROOSEVELT

E '-z-
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. tn
Gev. Thomas E. Dewey plunged
into the active phase of his battle
for the presidency tonight with a
declaration that the New Deal ad-
ministration is "afraid of peace"
because they are afraid of con-
tinuance of their own failures to
get this country going again."
1.-THE administration knows that
the war, with all it's tragic toll OF
death, debt and destruction is the
only thing that saved it," he said
in a prepared address. 'They are
deadly afraid that they will go
back to the resumption of their own
failures. That is why they are
afraid to let men out of the army.
That is why they say it is cheaper
to keep men in the army than to
let them come home"
The Republican presidential NOM
inee opened his speaking campaign
in historic Philadelphia amid all
the political fanfare that ordinarily
characterizes a peacetime election
year.
Beginning with a tickertape pa
rade through downtown streets,
Dewey and his retinue set out on
fast-paced round of conferences,
meetings and receptions that
wound up in convention hall for
the first of a series of major
speeches to be delivered from both
ends of the continent.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-08
TANK UNITS HEAD
FOR BELFORT GAP

ROME, Sept. D tR Powerful
American armored forces f r m
southern France swept up t h e
Doubs valley east of Chalon-sur-
Saone today in a smash that car
ried within 70 miles of Belfort gap
the lone area along the entire
lower German frontier where there
are no mountains to protect Hit
ler's Reich.
1t is through that passageway in
the lowlands between the Vosges
range and the Swiss border, that
the German 10th army is trying to
escape after it's crushing defeat in
the south. And it is there, too,
that the weary enemy must at
tempt some sort of defensive stand.
GA border dispatch to the Lau.
same, Switzerland. Gazette on
Thursdays declared American
tanks had entered Montbellard, 10
miles southwest of the fortress city
of Belfort an approximately 40
miles from the Nazi frontier. There
was no Allied confirmationD.
An air forces announcement said
American thunderbolt fighters op-
Grating from new bases in southern
France had smashed a Nazi motor
convoy within 20 miles of the Ger
man frontier, destroying at least 80
vehicles. The attack apparently oc-
CURED between Belfort and h e
Rhine.
CA German DNB news broadcast
said that IAN American force
which is trying to push forward
along the Swiss border in an eff
fort to gain access to the Burgundy
gate (Belfort Cap was again re-
pulsed in the Besancon and Baume-
Les-Dames areas" Besancon is 48
miles and Baume-Les-Dames is 30
miles from Belfort, on the main
Highway from Chalon-Sur-Saone.
The presence of an American force
in that area has not been acknow-
ledged by Allied headquarters.
While U. S. troops cleaned out
the southern edge of the Doubs
valley, Selling the important cen
ter of Polignay and Arbois, 26 air
line miles southwest of Besancon,
French forces farther west poured
along the upper side of the valley,
apparently to prevent any Germans
reaching the flatlands escape route.
After rolling rs miles in 70 hours
through the onetime submarine
building base of Chalon-Sur-Saone
without getting shot at the re-
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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-08
North Carolina Highway
Measure May Be Acted
Upon By Senate
BY HOWARD SUBTLE
Star Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, Sept. IAN at
tempt will be made in the Senate
tomorrow to bring to the floor the
So, 375,25O,o00 Hayden postwar
highway bill, carrying 500, $50, 900
for road construction in North Car
DINA during the first three years
following the war, administration
leaders declared here tonight.
Senator Carl Hayden, democrat,
Arizona, author of the measure,
said he would move to have the
bill called up if quorum of SEN
ators is present when the upper
body convenes. He was backed by
senator's Kenneth Mcclellan, Dem
ocrat, Tennessee, and Wallace H.
White, Jr., republican, Maine. Hay
den and Mcclellan agreed that,
since it is imperative that the mea-
sure be enacted before January,
Senate action may be obtained be-
fore the pre- election recess ex-
pected to be adopted probably to
begin next week end. They point
ed out that the Senate might be in
position to send the measure on the
way to the house while waiting for
the conferees to agree on provi-
sionS for post war reconverslon,
unemployment compensation n d
surplus war property disposition.
House action on the bill is not
exnected now until after the an
ticipated recess, probably Novem-
Der Is. Necessity for its enactment
this year is assertedly caused by
the fact that state legislatures
must pass enabling acts in order
that their respective states may
qualify and most legislatures con-
vepe in January.
The Hayden bill would provide
$13, 250,OO0 annually for North
Carolina road improvement during
the first three years following the
war. Of this amount $6,027, 900 per
year would go to the primary sys-
tenn, 1892, 900 annually for farm
to-market roads and $2,401, 900 per
year to urban thoroughfares con-
Meeting. the highways.
The Legislation would provide
that these funds may be matched
by the states on a 6O-40 basis,
with the government assuming the
go per cent.
The bill, in its present form, is
headed for some rough shedding,
however, secretary of commerce
Jesse Jones and the Civil Aero
nautics administration are opposed
to provisions, in the. measure for
construction of flight strips for
emergency plane landings along
the highways.
In a letter to house speaker Sam
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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-08
FREEDOM OF PRESS
WINNING SUPPORT

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.-(P) -
Congress was asked today to de-
clare itself in favor Of internation-
al agreements guaranteeing world
vide freedom of news exchange,
and enthusiastic support came
quickly from both Democrats and
Republicans.
Rep. Fulbright (DArk) proposed
, resolution which would put the
legislators on record as ''believlng
mat the unhindered interchange OF
independent news would promote a
ueVlef understanding among ma
uOAS and thus help prevent future
Wars"
Applauding, Rep. Martin Of Mas
sacnusetts, House Republican lead
e. SAID Il am for free press
snd a free radio at all times. And l
@dnt 10 do everything l can to
make sure that the United States
selS good example"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-08
Germany Conscripting
Children For Defense

LONDON, Sept. 7.-(P)-Dr Paul
Joseph Goebbels, Reich plenipoten-
tia-y for total war, conscripted be-
leaguered Germany's school chill
dren and Red Cross workers for
war service in the flight for our
very lives today as Nazi propa-
gandists pleaded with soldiers to
fight a desperate delaying action
to thwart an Allied victory before
winter.
1.-THE Allies are striving to win
by autumn and they are trying to
make the German people believe
they already have won the war.
Goebbels said as he ordered a ma
tionwide mobilization OF children
and s1ashed more services and
non-essentials in a barrel-sc--aping
hanover drive.
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REP, CLARK HEARD
At WRICHTSB0R0

Asserting that there is no better
way to Judge the future than by
t5e past, Congressman J. Bayard
Clark of Fayetteville, in an ad-
dress last night at Wrightsboro. de-
clared that we will not have the
SPECULATION element after this war
that we had in 1918.
The Congressman was address
ing a combination meeting of the
Farm Bureau, Farmers Club and
Kiwanis Club.
He said that the United States
has greatly profited in this war
BY the experience of and following
World War l,
He stressed the fact that we have
TO have price control, and that. in
his Judgment. the OPA is abso-
lutely essential to American econo-
my. Without cotrol, speculation
the same as in 1920 would follow.
he said.
Congressman Clark said that
with the demand for employment,
plenty Of capital for reconversiop
Of industry, the government on a
nomination basis, and the war
getting over in piece-meal, we
should be able to get through q
much better job this time than was
done before.
He reminded the farmers that
the peace had to be won with
food that ravaged countries were
depending on America.
Mr. Clark discussed recent farm
laws and problems, with particular
emphasis OH the situation OF the
truck farmers. In reference to tho
latter group, he discussed the pos
sibilities of canning as a help to
their problems.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-08
WARSAW LISTED
AS 0UTFLANKED
Soviet Forces Reported
As Crossing River
Below Capital

P)-The German radio said
last night that Russian
troops tanning out across
Bulgaria in a drive toward
the Aegean Sea had reached
the area of Demotika, which
is inside Greece on the Tur-
kish frontier, while other So
Wet forces had outflanked
Warsaw on the north by hop
ping the Narew river at a
point only Is miles below
East Prussia.
Moscow's communique did not
even mention Bulgaria, which al
ready has asked for an armistice
after Russia declared war on her
Tuesday, nor did it mention the Yu-
goslav front where a Rome dispatch
said the Russians were flooding
into that country after capturing
Turnu-Severin at the foot of the
iron gate rapids on the Danube.
But the Germans in the Balkans,
estimated at 100000 men, were
clearly in a dangerous and almost
hopeless position.
The Yugoslav radio already had
announced a junction with Marshal
Tito's partisans and the Russians
east of Belgrade, Yugoslav capital
and Allied headquarters in Rome
said Allied land troops now were
penetrating the country from the
Adriatic sea in drive to link up
with the Red army. ..~...-
The radio flash by DNB, Ger
man official news agency, quoted
news from a reliable source" that
Soviet motorized forces had crossed
into Bulgaria Tuesday at Ruse, op-
posite the Romanian Danube port
of Giurgiu.
One column, DNB said struck to-
ward Sofia, 1856 miles to the south
west, and another headed for the
Greek Mediterranean coast line,
reaching the Demotika sector which
is IT'S miles south of the Danube
and only AZ miles from the Aegean
sea.
Demotika, in Grecian Thrace, is
100 miles northwest of the Turkish
port of Istanbul on the Bosporus
Start, and a dispatch from Istan-
bull said that SO German officers
and 300 men at Python, only eight
miles northwest of Demotika, had
fled into Turkey and surrendered
to the Turks for internment.
DNB said mo resistance worth
mentioning seems to have been put
up in Bulgaria." and that the new
government there sis said to have
reached an agreement for leaving
Bulgarian ground to the Soviets
without fighting.
Bulgaria is reported to have de
clared war on Germany.
1t is estimated here that field
Marshal Gen. Baron Maximiliar
Won WEIGHS, nazi commander ir
the Balkans, has 20 divisions at his
disposal in Yugosalvia and six d.
visions in Greece and the islands
in the Aegean.
Moscow dispatches suggested the
Russians were dropping strong par
achute units ahead of their columns
racing through western Romanis
toward Yugoslavia for junction
with the Allies.
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1st Army 80 Miles From Reich;
Russian Forces Inside Greece;
Americans Close On Gothic Line
NAzLRESISTANCE
BECOMES STIFFER
3rd Army BMtlos Into
Metz, Throws Bridges
Across Moselle

SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TIERS ALLIED EXPEDI-
TIONARY FORCE, Friday,
Sept. 8-(P)-The U. S. First
Army struck down the high
road to Berlin today, fighting
to within 80 miles of the
German gateway city of
Aachen and blowing half
way through the Ardennes
forest against fierce resist
ance.
Third army comrades on the
south battled into Metz the last
French fortress standing between
them and the Saar border 20 miles
away - threw two bridgeheads
across the Moselle river but lost a
third, their first setback since the
Normandy breakthrough.
But the pressure was on all along
the 130-mile front of these two
American armies bearing down on
the Siegfried line. The First army
crushed the last enemy resistance
in Sesan where the Germans
split French forces in half in 1870
AMI won the battle of France.
One column of the First army
planted its standard across the
Mouse river just 16 miles short Of
the Belgian fortress of Liege, and
81 miles southwest of the German
frontier, two miles beyond which
les the Siegfried line city of Aach.
en-.
There was no rest for the harried
enemy on the first army front and
no chance to dig in along the route
over which he rolled confidently
four years ago bent on subjugating
all Europe.
The Americans, lashing out with
tanks and infantry pressed through
the dense western half of the Ar
dennes forest considered an inn
penetrable military barrier until
the Germans forced it--eaching a
plateau in the center.
The bridgehead on the Mouse
menacing Liege was established at
the town of Huy, midway between
the city and Namur, 80 miles south
west Of Liege, Associated Press.
Correspondent Don Whitehead re-
ported from the front.
More than 100 miles to the SOUTH
east, the Third army plunged into
the great Lorraine province CITY Of
Metz despite heavy artillery fire,
and threw two firm bridgeheads
across the Moselle river to the
south. One was in the Toul area
west Of Nancy; the other was not
specifically located in front dis
patches.
But near Pont-a -Mousson, about
midway between Metz and Nancy.
American forces who crossed the
Moselle under the muzzles of Ger
man artillery in the hills were for
ced back to the west bank in san.
culinary fighting, and the Germ ans
inflicted considerable losses as The
battle rose in fury
Assault forces, however, were
brought up to the river north OK
Metz, some 20 miles from the Saar
border, to face enemy troops bent
on defending to the last the thin
buffer zone before Germany.
While the Third was earning
slight advantage in the opening
round of the battle for Germany,
the U. S. first army to the north
west swept across the Meuse river
at three points along Europe's his.
toric invasion routes in a storm
of enemy small arms and mortar
fire.
The British also ran into rough
going in northern Belgium, and
their push into the Netherlands
was cloaked IN secrecy.
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