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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-09
Sixth Bond Drive
Tops Goal But Is
Not Yet Success
Senate Receives
Two More Names
For State Posts

WASHINGTON, Dec. g. Up -
The Senate received two new NOM
nations for top aides to Secretary
of State Edward r. Stettinius TO-
day as its Foreign Relations Com.
mittee decided ON a public quiz.
ling of the four already nominal.
ed.
Chairman Connally (Tex) an.
nounced that the committee would
begin public hearings next Tues
day on the qualifications. of the
nominees, and would call Stettini
us as the first witness to tell US
about these gentlemen"
The nominees include Joseph C,
Grew, named as undersecretary Of
State, and w. L. Clayton, Archi
bald Macleish and Nelson Rookie.
feller. nominated to be assistant
secretaries.
10 these four, once approved by
the committee but sent back by
a Senate publicly curious about
their records and opinions, Presi
dent Roosevelt today added two
more. They were James c. Dunn
and Brig Gen. Julius c. Holmes.
named as assistant secretaries I'm.
der a bill passed by Congress this
week creating two new posts OF
this character.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-09
TOKYO ADMITS
QUAKE DAMAGE
Jap Radio Says War Plants
Suffer From
Shocks
BY The Associated Press

Tokyo acknowledged last night
that factories in Osaka and other
war industry sections of the main
Japanese island were damaged by
the Thursday earthquake, so severe
it caused a tidal wave.
A Domei agency dispatch, picked
up by the Federal Communications
Commission, said factories and
homes in Osaka, Hamamatsu and
Shimuzu areas were damaged, but
claimed that son the whole the
destruction was light.
Osaka. $40 miles southwest Of
Tokyo, has population of 8, 252, 600
1t is an important rail and ship.
ping hub and manufactures tex.
tiles, machines, metals and chem
icals.
There was no indication Tokyo
itself had been affected. The Domei
dispatch, together with earlier Jap.
anese reports. listed the damaged
areas as Osaka, Hamatsu, Shizu.
Okla. Shimizu, Nagoya and Nagno.
Ngoya, with population of L.
1928, 900, is 100 miles southwest OF
Toxic. Before the war, at least, il
was the center of Japan's aviation
industry.
The central meteorological oh.
servatory set the time of the earth
quake at 1885 pm, japanese Time
(12:36 am, Eastern War Time).
Domei said the shock was espe-
cially severe in the Tokai district
which embraces Shizuoka, Nagoya
and Miye perfectures.
'The quake was severe, but los
ses were limited to buildings dam
aged in one area Domei said,
land on the whole not much dam
age was done.''
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-09
new ELIAS. FORCE
MOVES ON ATHENS
British Digging Out Snip
ers AS Conflict Is
Renewed

ATHENS, Dec. 8 H. Gunfire
resounded anew in the battle OF
Athens today. British troops and
tanks dug OUT snipers and moved
to intercept a new force of militant
leftists of the Elias group who were
reported advancing on the city:
Clear weather h i S afternoon
brought a renewal of the general
conflict after night of compare
tive quiet in which a drizzling rain
dampened the Elias ardor.
British patrols went outside the
city on the northeast to intercept
the new force of 700 Elias who Were
repored approaching Athens with
an armored car of their own.
British riflemen were busy in the
wooded park east of the Royal Pal
ace, digging out Elias forces that
had infiltrated during the night and
taken up strong positions, notably
around concrete stadium in tie
park.
Parachute troopers gave the Brit
ish partols protective fire with
heavy machine guns mounted on
the roofs of the palace and the
former Communist headqua- ters
building in constitution square. Sni-
per bullets still sung across the
square.
I
the Acropois heights and were ma
king a house-to-house cleanup Of
Elias snipers in residential districts.
British Beaufighter and Spittire
planes, which wounded Elias men
said had caused a number Of cas-
ualties, stood by for further STRAIT
ing use.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-09
VINO URGES SPEED
IN SOLVING LABOR
PROBLEM IN u. S.

WASHINGTON, Dec 8 -R-
Speed is essential in. solving the
problem, the War Man.
power Commission said today as if
prepared to steer ''straying@ work
ers back into war production.
Charles M. Hay, deputy man
power chairman, told the Senate
War Investigating Committee that
if Congress acts swiftly to put more
teeth in manpoWer conrols. all
well and good. But if it does not,
he added, VINO will proceed to use
:s.voluntary" methods in tackling
the shortage of 5000 workers.
He opposed labor draft, but
said the VINO would like statutory
authority to enforce employment
ceilings on civilian industry.
But even that legislation, he
said, will not be helpful if it isn't
passed quickly. -
The voluntary methods the
VINO has in mind, it was learned,
include tracking down workers who
leave war plants without a "cer-
tificate of availability and leading
them back. Experience has shown,
VINO sources said, that one or two
such instances will deter other
workers in a plant from leaving.
AS for employment ceilings. the
idea is to enforce a tight limit on
the number of employees night
club or other .non-essential estab-
lishment may have. A ceiling would
be established for each individual
establ; shment with view to
squeezing OUT able-bodled work
ers for employment in war plants.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-09

At the request Of residents at
Harbor Island and Wrightsville
Beach, the Junior Chamber of Com
merce has extended its scrap paper
collection tomorrow to these areas,
campaign officials announced last
night.
With the addition of another
truck, through the courtesy OF the
Housing Authority of the City of
Wilmington, 18 trucks will begin
the rounds of the city and surroun-
ding territory ats am. tomorrow.
If was pointed out tha+ persons
living in sparcely populated local
tiles would most likely have their
collections picked up first, as
trucks have been routed to cover
outlying sections before reaching
the center of the city
Campaign leaders have urged
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-09
ANGLO-AMERICAN
POLICY ACCORD
PARTLY REACHED

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. - R-
The United States and Britain
achieved only partial agreement
TODAY on political policies for lib
Grated Europe.
The long distance dispute. stem
ming from British intervention IN
Italy and Greece, was reported au-
thoritatively to have had these two
results:
/. British Ambassador Halifax
and Secretary of State Stettlnlus,
in a conference at the State De
partment today, agreed on the
need for the closest consultation
between Washington and London
on all future political as well as
military questions involving the
common interest of the two coun-
tries.
2. Both Washington and London
stood on their basic policies with
respect to liberated countries, the
United States insisting on com
plete freedom OF political actlofl
for the people where it does not in
terfere with the progress OF the
war and Britain equally insisting
on the right to help shape the gov
ernments of liberated countries.
How much - if any - the decis
ion to consult will allow this coun,
try to modify Britain's course in
Europe remains to be seen. Prime
Minister Churchill won a vote Of
confidence in Commons today FOL
the British policy.
Prior to Halifax's call at the
State Department, the British EN-
passy had registered strong verbal
objections with stettinius about
the manner in which the American
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-09
SUPERFORTS, UNDER
FULL LOAD, SMASH
JAPS ON TWO UMA

TWENTY-FIRST U. S. BOMB
Err, Saipan, Dec. 8.-R-A size
able force of Superfortresses car
rying capacity bomb loads heavi-
ly pounded Two Jima, midway be-
tween Saipan and Tokyo, today,
third anniversary of the Japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor.
(The attack would be December
7, United States Time.)
Another B29 of the 21st U. S.
Bomber Command, flying alone on
weather reconnaissance mission,
dropped incendiary bombs early
this morning on brightly-lighted
Shizuoka. rail center 100 miles
southwest of Tokyo. starting four
fires.
The Superfortresses flying from
Saipan hit Two Jima for two hours
around noontime. It was part OF
campaign to wipe out the base
for japanese raids against Saipan
and other American-held is-ancs
in the Marianas.
adm. Chester w. Nimitz said
at Pearl Harbor naval surface YES
sells and Liberators of the Seventh
AIRY Air Force and Elect Arriving
One, along with Lightning Fight
ers of the Seventh AAF. also par.
tjcipated in the attack on Two il.
ma. 1t was the first time that
B-29s have joined with warships
and other air units in an assault
on a Japanese islard base.)
The Superforts raided the island
at 10000 to $4,000 feet lower al
titude than was maintained in pre-
vious Saipan-based Bog strikes al
Tokyo. appreciably increasing the
accuracy of their blows.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-09
ETHYL-DOW CITED
FOR SAFETY WORK
M any Employees Receive
Service Awards At
Annual Banquet

At the annual banquet of the
Ethyl-Dow Chemical Co., last
night. the National Security Award
of the Office of Civilian Defense
was presented to the Kure Beach
plant by r. L. Macmillan, State
director of civilian defense. The
award was received by j. E D.
Clark, superintendent of transpor-
tation, on behalf of plant employees.
Also presented last night were 43
service emblems to employees with
more than 10 years service, and
Al emblems to employees with more
than five years service. Awards
were presented by G. F. Dressed,
first manager of the chemical
plant.
Macmillan complemented en-
ployes for their outstanding con-
tribution to the war effort, and
for maintaining high standards of
plant protection. He expressed APP
probation on being asked to make
the award.
The OCD award was authorized
by national headquarters on rec
ommendation of the New Hanover
county defense organization, OF
which Louis Poisson is chairman.
Also invited to attend the ban
quet at St. PauPs Lutheran church
was June Rose, assistant state di-
rector of civilian defense, and Col.
William S. Pritchard, commanding
officer of District two of the Fourth
Service Command.
An entertainment program was
presented by plant employees, and
the glee club sang under the direc-
ton of E. N. G-ubbs.
Those receiving 10-year service
awards were:
l., L. Bartlett, C. L. Blanton, j.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-09
FIGHTER PLANES
BLISTER ENEMY
First Army Takes Height
Near Pier North
OF Duren

SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TIERS ALLIED EXPED1-
TIONARY FORCE, PARIS,
Dec. 8. - (P) - The U. S.
Third and Seventh armies in
a concerted push along a CO.
mile front from shell torn
Saarbrucken t o the Rhine,
hammered today at the Sieg-
fried Line guarding Germa-
ny's Saar Basin and at the
outlying defenses of III e
neighboring Palatinate pro-
vince.
The Third Army's 35th Infantry
Division forced two new crossings
of the Saar river near Sarregue-
mines, at the threshold of the rich
industrial basin eight miles south
east of Saarbrucken, n d estab-
lished bridgeheads d half mile
deep at both points.
1t. Gen. George S. Patton's ar
NOR closed steadily on Saarbruck-
en-, the political and industrial cap
ital of the Saar, whose big fur
naces turning out tenth OF the
steel for the enemy's armies al
ready were considered lost to the
Reich.
The U. S. Seventh Army, on the
thirds right flank to the east,
surged forward as much as three
miles along a 35-mile front and
field dispatches from Associated
Press Correspondent Thoburn Wi
ant said. they entered a town four
and a half miles from the Ger
man frontier
At this point the Seventh turned
its heavy artillery on a mountain
GUS sector of the Siegfried Lines.
Field censorship would not inn
mediately permit disclosure OF the
exact location of this closest adj
vance to Germany yet made by
the SEVENTH
(The doughboy advance, steadi-
ly driving the Germans from both
the Saar Basin and Northern Lor-
raine, was paced by hundreds Of
fighter-bombers blistering enemy
strongpoints in their path.
So close was aerial support that
towns bombed in The forenoon
were entered by American troops
in the afternoon.
Far back of the front at Metz,
the Eleventh Regiment OF the Fifth
Division, which began an attack on
Fort Driant two months ago, finally
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-09
PAPER Drive Extended
To WrightspiNe Beach

that residents of Harbor Island and
Wrightsville Beach place scrap pa
per on hard-surfaced roads, where
it will be picked up with greater
speed, as trucks only will cover
paved roads. 1t was explained that
the limited personnel and trucks
make it impossible to cover unpav-
ed roads at the two resorts.
Junior chamber members will be
aided in the drive tomorrow by
four junior associate Jaycees OF
New Hanover High school, six
members Of the high school junior
basket ball team, as well as six
Boy Scouts, who have volunteered
their services.
All trucks will be operated by
volunteer drivers of the city and
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-09
MANY JAPANESE
CAUGHT IN TRAP
Americans Surprise Foe On
Third Anniversary
OF Attack

MacARTHUR'S HE A D.
QUARTERS, PHILIPPINES,
Dec. 9.-(P-fhr ee years
from the day the Japanese
first struck at the Philip
pines, U. S. 77th Division
troops slashed through the
Nipponese defenders of Or
moe to reach the outskirts OF
that enemy stronghold, Gen.
Douglas Macarthur announc-
ed today.
The advance by the veterans OF
Guam in the first "a hours after
their surprise landing in the rear
of the Yamashita Line exceeded
two miles.
At the same time the Seventh
Division to the south pushed up
the coast to narrow the gap be-
tween it and the TIN to five miles,
and Macarthur reported Sub
oIoAAeAol SAAC1lty AoISOa Soo6Ai1 d&i
the squeeze play were facing ami
hiliation.
All along the wide front, over
the mountains, in the valleys and
along the coast the Americans OBJ
served the third anniversary of
the war in the Philippines-it was
December 8 when the japanese
struck-by moving forward. Most
eyes, however, were on the 77th
Division.
Reports from this force were
fragmentary because while it cut
off the japanese to the south it
was at the same time faced on the
north and south by strong Japan
csc forces. There was no report
on the. intensity of its opposition,
but it had pushed to the former
U. S. Army of Camp Downs on
Ormoc's outskirts.
The ground situation substantial.
ly was this:
From the north, where the fight
Continued on Pare Three. Col q
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-09
France And Russia
To Sign Alliance;
Military Aid Seen

PARIS, Dec. 8.-P)-France and
Soviet Russia will sign an alliance
before Gen. deGaul!e returns from
Moscow, well-informed officials at
the Quai d'Orsay predicted today.
The proposed pact now under
discussion would be along lines
of the British-Soviet 20-year mill
tary assistance agreement but
would provide for closer relations,
these sources said.
Foreign military quarters heard
he pact would perhaps provide
for establishing Soviet military
delegation in Paris to Coordinate
the two armies and for re-equip-
ping some French units with Rus
sian material.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-09
Auiators Destroy
Jap Ship In Philippines

A LEYTE AIRBASE, Dec. T.
Delayed)-R-T h United States
Marine ar force marked its debut
in Philippine air war today with
what even Army filters admitted
was one of the finest low level
bombing missions ever flown in
the Southwest Pacific.
In coordinated attack, Marine
Corsairs polished off five Japanese
transports hiding in San Isidro bay
on the West coast of Leyte island.
Take this single attack on T.
0o0-ton enemy freighter transport,
for instance.
-Four Corsairs carrying thou
sand-pound bombs zoomed over a
ridge just off the beach, flattened
out. and tore into the transport,
which was dead in the water.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-09
STETTINIUS GETS
DULLES IDEA ON
WORLD SECURITY

WASHINGTON, Dec. s. tR -
In a renewal of bipartisan effort
for world security, John Foster
Dulles today presented to Secre-
tary Stettinius his ideas on settle
ment Of the one organizational dis
agreement among the big powers.
Russia on one hand and Great
Britain and the United States on
the other have failed thus far to
4gree on whether a large nation
should have veto power if it is
accused of aggression.
Dulles refused to say what sug-
seStOnS he made but told report
,erS after seeing the Secretary OF
Mate that he had ''plenty OF
Ideas on the subject.
4 deplore the tendency of the
american people to judge the pro-
posed organization n r ely in
Terms of the force which will be
available TO it, he said.
he asserted that such features
as the International court, the as
semoly Of all nations and the eco
AOMlc and social Council will
prove far more irooncrt.ant.
AS foreign affairs adviser to
view York Governor Thomas Dew.
y Dulles held three meetings on
Ie Dumbarton Oaks peace organ.
Aalon plan with Secretary Hull
osut ng the presidential campaign.
culleS said today that Secretary
se''llllus was equally as deter
.ilned as Huh to prevent politica
YuaooleS over American partici
thinery
ne said he had no information
wi ". Then a full-dress United Ma
,ViiS conference would be held. L
va, ssS learned elsewhere that at
y, ss.np's We're being made to settle
wy wy one m p or tant question
s saOugh diplomatic channels rath
man await a meeting o:
n, s5nacnlll, Stain and Roosevelt, sc
o rlal plans for the conference car
proceed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-09
Two Heavy Ammunition
Plants Will Be Built
In State, WPB Reveals

RALEIGH, Dec. g. Up Two
large plants for the manufacture
of heavy ammunition will be To-
Gated in North Carolina as t h. e
States part of the Governments
recently increased war production
program, G. Leonard Allen Of At
lanta, deputy regional director for
the War Production Board, said
here tonight.
The plants will cost approx
imately $4,000, 900 each, Allen
said, but he refused to give other
details. Proposed locations of the
plants can not be revealed for Sc
curity reasons, he said.
Allen spoke at a meeting OF the
manpower priorities committee, of
the State War Manpower Commits
sion and the production urgency
committee of the WPB
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-09

1t. w. B. Maya, Greenwich,
Conn, hit the vessel directly amid
ships. A split second later 1t. E..
G.. Gerety, Fairfield, Conn.,, pound
ed another nail into the coffin with
direct hit on the stern.
Then Capt. O. Bates, Essex
Falls, N. j., and 1t. W. c. Grad
dock, Vicksburg, Miss, finished
off with hits between the wheel
house and stern.
Maya said he whistled over the
transport at 20 feet, and when he
looked back saw it break in two
amidships.
THE after section turned on end
and went down immediately" he
said. 1.-THE forward section burned
briefly, and then went UNDER
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-09
RUSSIANS CLOSE
IN ON BUDAPEST
Berlin Admits Hungarian
Capital Unit Half
-, Encircled

LONDON, Saturday, Dec. 9.-tR
Berlin said last night that Pus-
sian tank forces had crashed
through to the Danube river north
of Budapest, half-encircling the
Hungarian capital garrison al
ready ,inperiled by other Soviet
units which crossed the river 13
miles southwest of the city.
A German broadcast intimated
that the important railroad juno
ton Of Aszod, Is miles northeast
of Budapest's outskirts, had fallen,
saying that superior" Red army
forces attacked the village
that "most of the German garri-
son fought its way out while the
rest resisted to the last round CT
ammunition.
Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's
Second Ukraine Army units broke
through to the Danube in a three.
day 27-mile drive from Hatvan, 10
miles east of Aszod. Berlin said.
and were threatening the east
bank commune ations center OF
Vac, on the Danube bend 10 miles
nor of Budapest.
Berlin also declared that other
Second Ukraine Army units had
linked up with Marshal Feodor I.
Tolbukhin's Third Ukraine Army
at Eecsi, on the west bank of the
Danube 10 miles southwe the
capital, after crossing from the
Danube island of Csepel.
Moscow's regular communicate
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INDIVIDUAL SALES
FAR FROM QUOTA
u,, Picture Has Changed
Since Mark Was Set,
Official Says

uAsHlNGTON, Dec: g.
p - America passed 1t Its
~ u, 100000 quota in the
S si4'S'Wyg War Loan today and
s }, a+ right on going because
ssp'd drive could not yet be con-
s,ii,dsrsd a success.
". ;rdividuals, Americans h a d
AZ s,od only so per cent of the
Tss an for Individual sales, and on
qo' 40 ner cent of their series E
bond goal
wv rrsssury Undersecretary Daniel
is announced the quota-bust-
w.! ", fisure Of sl4o52, 600, 900.
j" u. said the war picture h a s
.. IN since the goal was set.
T Tt@'a armed forces need more sup
a ,'ie and ammunition than was ex-
plr he said. and more money
n,t he borrowed from the peo-
therefore. Bell said in a state
mont, We should not be satisfied
with, with anything less than a substan-
ti,l over-subscription."
The bulk Of Sixth War Loan
money has come from corpora
inns. sll, OBI, 900, 900.
Individual sales were announced
az s3.O2l, OOO 900, compared with
,rp individual quota of five billion
5ONars. The drive runs another
yeek to December Is. Bond sales
vir continue to count through De-
cember. with final Sixth War Loan
totals to be announced January 2.
Series E. bond sales were ST.
l6NOOOO, about as per cent OF
the E bond quota OF $500, 900, 600.
Ted R. Gamble, national war fl
nance director, said every state
now is feverishly working to meet
lis Z bond and individual quotas.
II the drive continues at the same
accelerated pace of h e last 48
hours we can make not only the
individual but the E bond quota -
He said Harry Brandt, Sixth
War Loan chairman for the mo-
ton picture industry. reported that
1920 .s.eatreS took part in a spe-
tal bond-selling program Pearl
Hsrbor Day, and sold approx
maely one million E bonds.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-09
Policy lS
|CiiveSio
To C,lurchill
House OF Commons Sup
ports Leader By Vote
OF 1880

LONDON, Dec. 8.-R -
Prime Minister Churchill won
an overwhelming vote of con-
fidence in the House of Com
mons today for a foreign poll
cy of intervention against
mob rule by murder gangs"
n liberated Europe after a
-igorous defense in which he
;learly suggested that the
United States could not wash
it's hands of the problem.
A tense, often turbulent. House
supported him 279 to 30 when the
Premier, in a back-me-or-sac k-me
stand. forced the issue to meet a
clanor of criticism at home and
abroad.
The crisis was provoked by the
use of British troops to combat
fraternal strife in Greece, by Bril-
Carlo Sforza as Italian foreign
minister, by violent demonstrations
in Belgium, and by runblings of
unrest in Holland.
Refusing to retreat an inch from
his position, which he epitomized
in the sentence, democracy is
not a harlot to be picked up in
the street by a man with TOM
my gum Churchill made it evil
dent that he regarded the respon-
sibilty as Americas as well as
Britain's. ..
The United States State Depart
ment has publicly avowed hands
off policy regarding the internal
affairs of other countries with Italy
and Greece specifically mentioned,
but Churchill made repeated ref
erences to Americans sharing OF
the authority for what has happen
ed.
The operation in Greece and the
methods Of handling it, were
agreed upon at the last Quebec
conference with President Roose-
welt, he noted.
Use OF British troops Il main
tain order IN Belgium was directed
by q British general who was op-
Grating under command of the AM
erican General Eisenhower, Chur-
chill noted, pausing to praise Ell
senhower and to remark that I'VE
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NORTHEAST STORM
WARNINGS ISSUED
FOR EAST COAST

WASHINGTON, Dec. g. up -
The weather bureau issued n e
following storm warning tonight.
Northeast storm w r n n g S,
Block Island to Delaware break
water. changed to northwest warn
ing at 8 pm. eastern War Tlme)
for shifting gales becoming north
west tonight and small craft warn
ings remain displayed from south
Of Delaware breakwater to Cape
Hatteras. including inland waters
for strong northwest winds to-
nj oht''
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FORECAST

North Carolina; Cloudy with rain
md rather cool Friday