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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-29
Two Pilots Die In Crash
Planes Meet In Mid-Air
At Carolina Beach;
Both Explode

Crashing in mid-air while on
maneuvers one mile north Of
Carolina Beach shortly before
noon yesterday, two PAT Thun.
derbolt planes from Bluethenthal
Air Base plunged to the ground
and exploded several hundred
yards apart, killing both pilots
instantly.
Identification of the dead fliers
was withheld by the Air Base un-
til today, pending notification OF
next of kin.
Tae explosion Of one plane on
the east side of the Carolina
Beach highway to Wilmington re-
suited in a hole in the ground as
large as a small house. On the
other side Of the highway, a few
hundred feet south of the inland
waterway bridge, the explosion OF
the second plane left hole in
the ground the size Of the aver
age garage. e. b.
The terrific explosions caused
when the planes hit the earth blew
both planes to bits. Small frag.
ments of the planes were scat
tered ever the countryside.
Cause of the accident was not
Immediately determined. 1t took
place just as sudden rain squau
swept the beach.
III Wilmington, an Air Base fire
engine, racing to the scene of the
crash, was in collision with Tide
Water Power Co. bus at Fourth
and Nun Sts., sending six Negro
bus passengers to Community hos
pital. The bus driver, S. H. john
son of 122 South Ninth ST., and
the. truck driver, Joe Carrouth,
were not injured.
A Community hospital ambu-
lance, sent to the scene of the
bus-fire engine crash, was in col
lision with a passenger car at
Fourth and Orange Sts., but
neither the ambulance driver, Jo-
seph E. Daniel, %, nor the driver
of the passenger car, who was not
identified at the time, were injur-
ed. The ambulance proceeded to
the scene Of the first wreck, de-
spite some damage caused by the
crash. s.. --.--.g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-29
Philippines
Again Scene
OF Big Blow
Sc PLANES DESTROYED
MacArthur's Fliers Add
To Toll In Pacific
With Transports
BY The Associated Press

By The Associated Press
Adm. William F. Halsey's
Third fleet planes sank or
damaged at least IS Japanese
vessels, ranging from war
ships to small craft, in anoth-
er tremendous American blow
in the Philippines, Adm.
Chester w. Nimitz announced
last night.
The attack, directed against is
lands and nearby shipping in the
Visayan sea, central Philippines,
Sept. % (U. S. time) followed Hal
sey's strikes Sept. 20-21 in the Ma
Mia area, in which 40 enemy ships
and six small craft were sunk and
46 damaged.
Further destruction Of enemy
shipping was reported by Gen.
Douglas Macarthur, whose fliers
Tuesday sank a 10,000-ton trans
port and damage a 5000 : ton
freighter-transport in the. Sulu Ar
chipelago, west OF Mindanao in
the Philippines.
Japanese aircraft destroyed by
Halsey's fliers in the Visayan at
tack totaled SO, including sNen
shot out of the air. Twenty-Five
planes were smashed on the
ground in the attacks on Cebu,
Leyte, Negros, Mactan and south
ern LuZon.
The enemy's weak aerial resist
ance emphasized Nimitz' state
ment last week that the Third
fleets activities have broken the
Japanese airforce in the Philip
pines.
Twenty-Five enemy ships def
nitely sunk Sept. % included a de-
stroyer and three destroyer-escort
type ships, while two more de-
stroyer-escorts were reported sunk
or damaged. A troop transport, oil
tankers and large and medium
cargo ships were among 43 yes
sells destroyed or damaged. Be-
tween 20 and 80 small craft also
were hit, some of them sunk.
An admiralty announcement in
London said British submarines
have sunk 80 more Japanese YES
sells in penetrations as far as Sun
da Strait, between Java and SUI
matra. The Nippon victims includ-
ec gumboats, supply ships and
small craft.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-29
Savage Sky Battles Rage
Over NaZiS' Homeland

LONDON, Sept. o. Up -
Savage sky battles were fought
over Germany again today as
the Luftwaffe sought to stem
the mass Allied aerial assault
which carried through its
fourth consecutive day and cost
the U. S. Eighth Air force 40
heavy bombers and IL fight
erS.
Allied planes of every sort
swept across the continent IN
widespread attacks against
Nazi industrial, supply targets,
but the days principal blows
were struck by more than 1000
Fortresses and Liberators and
700 escorting fighters OF the
Eighth Air Force against Mag
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-29
ENGLISH FLEET
NOW in PACIFIC

LONDON, Sept. %. -P)-Prime
Minister Churchill told the House
Of Commons in his war report to-
day that much of the British battle
fleet already was gathered in the
Indian ocean for the war against
Japan, guaranteeing the Allies ma
val superiority in the Pacific OF
''the most complete and decisive
character.
Il can assure the house." he
said, that the war against the
japanese and other diseases of the
Jungle will be pressed forward with
the utmost urgency"
In order to clear up what he
termed widespread misconcep-
tons among the American public
as to the skill and efforts of BIZ
fish forces in Burma and India,
Churchill declared that between So
900 and $4,000 Japanese had been
killed during the frustrated attempt
by 10 japanese divisions to invade
India and sever the American air
supply line to China.
This was, he said, the largest
and most important ground fight
ing that has yet taken place against
the armies of Japan, and he de-
clared that the "bloody and costly
campaign to drive the Japanese
from Burma was being pushed de-
spite the monsoon rains.
The cost to the 18th British I'm
perial army of driving the Japanese
out Of India was 10000 battle cas-
ualties in the first six months of
the year, Churchill said, in addi-
ton to $4,000 cases of sickness
Which had to be evacuated long
distances to hospitals.
Nearly two years ago, Churchill
told Commons, he offered to put
In writing Britain's pledge to fight
against Japan to the end, but re-
ported that President Roosevelt
said Britain's word was enough.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-29

tried line at klleVe.
Powerful elements Of 1t. Gen.
Miles C. Dempsey's army - at the
apex of a 460-nile front where
Prime Minister Churchill said o.
900, 900 to 100000 Allied fighting
men were massing-moved up
along the Mas Meuse) river.
They were distributed over q
meandering front Of Is miles from
Ouyk, II miles southwest Of Kleve.
southwark to Vierlingsbeek, on the
west bank of the Mas where it
winds from three to five miles
from the German frontier, Asso->
ciated Press Correspondent Roger
Greene reported.
They had smashed back enemy
forces which had been trying to
cut the Dutch corridor-now firm
ly cemented and widened - and
the only Germans still west of the
Mas to bother them were in
small pocket near Overflow, three
miles southwest OF Vierlingsbeek.
Westward from the Dutch corri-
cor the Tonmies fought forward
another five miles to within five
miles of the highway center Of
Hertogenbosch, which is Is miles
southwest of the main Allied cross
ing of the WAL Rhine at Nijmegen
and IS miles northwest Of the Brit
ish base at Eindhoven.
On the north they widened to
five miles their hold on the north
branch of the Rhine south and
west of their Inflated Anthem
foothold, narrowing to about Is
miles the dry land route of escape
for the big German force walled,
off south Of Ijssel Nicer (formerly
the Zuider Zee).
Churchill estimated this force Of
Germans at 100000 and declared
their destruction or capture may
now be deemed highly probable.
(Failure of the British to hold the
small bridgehead across the Ne.
der Rhine at Anthem, however.
frightened German prospects Of
pulling out of this sector)
These Germans showed no in.
clination to pull cut Immediately.
They wrested Reusel, IS miles
southwest of Eindhoven, from the
British, and were beaten back only
after sharp fighting in an attack on
the corridor five miles west of
Veghel, midway between Lin
hoven and Nijmegen.
Halfway between Nijmegen and
Anthem, the British cleared the
last Germans from Elst and sent
S t r o n g patrols probing enemy
positions five miles west.
Heavy fighting ragged at Bim-
mel, three miles north east Of
Continued on Page Five; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-29
Eisenhower Says Allies
Will Not Be Oppressors

found guilty, the proclamation
said.
The supreme commander
has suspended in German ter
ritory already occupied all
German courts and education
al institutions until conditions
permit their reopening. Mill
tary governments have been
established to punish offenders
against his, edicts.
The proclamation, ordering
all German officials and pub
lie utility employees and es.
sential workers to stay at
their posts and obey all in
structions, maae it plain that
supreme legislative, judicial
and executive authority with
in the occupied territory has
been invested in Eisenhower.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-29

deburg, Kassel and Merseburg
in central Germany.
The German Air Force resist
ed viciously and flax was heavy
at many points.
A communique said some of
the missing American fighters
may have landed in friendly
territory, but the figures an
nounced brought the two day
losses Of the Eighth Air Force
to 81 heavy bombers and 10
fighters.
Thirty-six German fighters
were shot down today, rs by
American escorts and 10 by
bomber gunners, bringing the
two-day score of the air battles
to n Nazi planes lost.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-29
BOARD REGULATES
F is H HANDLING

A list of regulations. concerning
the dressing for sale of poultry
and fish at commercial establish.
ments in New Hanover county, was
passed yesterday by the CONSOLE
dated Board of Health. The regu.
lations, which were drawn up by
members of the board last week,
were referred to and passed by q
committe made up of the doctors
on this board.
The regulations, DR.. A. H. Elliot,
chairman of the board, explained
seek to improve the physical con.
dition of buildings and equipment,
general operations and handling,
and refrigeration of places which
dress poultry and fish.
The rules state that no person
shall operate a poultry or fish es.
Enlistment within the county who
does not possess an unrevoked per.
NIT from the health department
the establishment to be submitted
to sanitary inspection by a re.
preventative of the board of health.
Among the regulations are claus.
es saying that water from an ap.
proved source must be provided,
health certificates must be secured
for all employees, and the wearing
of caps and ap,o by the EN-.
ployes is strongly recommended.
The entire premises must be
kept in neat and orderly manner
at all times. No fly, mosquito, or
rodent breeding or harboring
places shall be permitted at any
time.
All screen doors shall open out
ward and close automatically and
shall be kept in good repair.
The display of dressed poultry
in open cans, pans, windows OF
show cases shall be prohibited.
All fish for display and sales
purposes shall be stored in metal
lined cases or boxes of sufficient
size and depth to permit thorough
icing at all times.
Any failure to comply with these
regulations shall be "a m 5.
demeanor, and upon conviction,
shall call for a fine of not more
than $50 or Imprisonment of MOI
more than 80 days, at the discre.
ton of the court.
All of the regulations have moi
been published ard those persons
and firms concerned should con.
suit the board of health as to the
complete list
DR.. Elliot explained that the re.
gulations should have common
sense, practical and businesslike
application and are not meant tc
hinder the individual or family try.
ing to sell few surplus chickens
or unscaled fish.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-29

LONDON, Sept. d. R-
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
told the people of Germany
today that his Allied armies
are coming "as conquero1s
but not as oppressors, with
the purpose of eradicating the
Nazi party and German mill
tarism.
Eisenhower's first procla-
nation to the Germans said
Inc Allies intended to abolish
cruel, oppressive and dis
erlninatory laws" and to try
all military and party leaders,
SeSt2po men and others sus-
pected of war crimes and
atrocities. They will be pun
'sned as they deserve it
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-29
Governor Johnston Sees
Big Democratic Majority

WASHINGTON, Sept. %. -R)-
Gov. DIN D. Johnston of South
Carolina, who beat Sen. Ellison D.
("Cotton Ed'') Smith for the De-
mocratic senatorial nomination
this year, predicted today that the
regular Democratic ticket will get
80 per cent of South Cardinals vote
in November.
Johnston called at the White
House to discuss veterans hospi-
tails with President Roosevelt and
said they did not talk about poll
tics. He told reporters the regular
democratic electors are on the
ticket and there won't be any trou-
BILE in my state in November.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-29
Hull Renews Warning
Against War Criminals

WASHINGTON, Sept. %. -R)A
Secretary Hull renewed and en-
phasized today this nations warn
ing against any neutral granting
asylum to Axis war criminals, but
there is little disposition here to
believe any country will actually
Try it.
The indicated penalties. are too
tough.
The secretary pointed that up IN
tcday's statement with the asser-
uon that relations between this ma
hon and any such country would
'e adversely affected for years to
Gomez
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-29
VETERANS PROBLEMS

RALEIGH, Sept. 28.-R-State
and federal agencies charged with
assisting discharged war veterans
with obtaining job decided at a
conference with Governor Brough-
ton today to issue a booklet con-
tanning chart showing each agen-
cy's relationship in dealing with
the veterans problems.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-29
James Pou, Jr., Dies
In Raleigh Hospital

RALEIGH, Sept. 28.-F)-James
H. Pou, j., widely known Raleigh
attorney and brother-in-law of Sen.
Josiah w. Bailey, died in a hospi-
tai here tonight after an extended
illness. He was 81.
At one time he was associated
with Bailey in the practice of law.
Funeral arrangements were not
complete.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-29
8 Killed, 100 Injured
In Iowa Train Wreck

MISSOURI VALLEY, Ia, Sept.
28.-(R)-Eight persons are known
to be dead, four more are not ex-
pected to live and up to 100 are
believed to have been injured in
a collision tonight between Chi
cago and Northwestern passenger
and freight train on the outskirts
of Missouri Valley.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-29
European War Flashback
BY The Associated Press

Sept 49, 198-Doughboys York. Tennessee, North
Carolina attacked the Hndenburg line front
nearly three miles capturing Becourt and Nuroy British forces
Schede
main Hndenburg Belengse Count George Won
Hertln chancellor of Germany.
49, vchy government announced that
had calling to the Free French
forces London 267 planes pilots gun
downed Brtans defense
and =
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-29
Seuen More Tolvns
Occupied In Italy

ROME, Sept. 28.-(F9-Seven strategic Italian towns
have been occupied by Allied troops advancing both
coasts of the peninsula and the rugged central sector
where Americans only IL miles from an important
Nazi escape route Allied headquarters reported today
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-29
British End Army Seeks To Trap
no, 900 Nazis In West Holland;
Fleet Gets IS More Jap Vessels
Three-ProngPu Push
MenacesGern1any
1900, 900 To 100000 Allied Fighting Men
Massing On Western Front For Offensive

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPED1-
TIoNARY FORCE, Sept. -QP-The British Second
army dashed out east west and north tonight in drives to
pin perhaps 100000 Germans against the in western
Holland and German soil along 15nile front lit
tie than 10 miles from the northern end of the Seg
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-29
FORECAST

WILMINGTON AND VICINITY: Increas-
ing cloudiness today, with moderate tenn
peratures.
Temperatures yesterday:
High 83-Low IS.
Evening star., 1944-04-16

bulldozer as a shield, charged on the
piIlbox and buried it neatly under
several feet of dirt.
Seabees can shoot, too, but they
like to keep their weapons as last
resort. Firing a rife takes time from
work. When they have to shoot,
their craftsmanship shows the result
of their Marine training.
Ingenuity is prime resource OF
these construction Warriors When
the Seabees ran across an old Nip
ponese tank, they reconditioned it,
used it as bulldozer AS they noted
with glee, it didn't cost the taxpay-
ers a cent.
Remalxing an Island
IHE Seabee outfits attached to the
First Marine Amphibious Corps for
the daring Bougainville assault made
Seabee history. They lost no time
getting started on roads leading
from the landing place into the
jungles. They showed out those
highways as fast as the Marines
could push back the Japs- In fact,
the Marines had to keep moving
forward to stay out of the way of
the Seabees' road-building machin-
cry. In two days the Construction
Battalions did more to remake the
face of that island than the Japs had
done in two years.
The same battalion quit work on
an airstrip one day long enough to
let a disabled plane make an emer-
gency landing. A Seabee lieutenant
Evening star., 1944-04-16
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Evening star., 1944-04-16
The Seabees live up
to their slogan, too.
Just ask the Marines!

TVHEY tell a tale, out on the South
Sea isles, of two Marines and
two Seabees who were idling along
Jungle trail, back of the front.
Look" one Marine exclaimed,
there's Jap sniper in that tree"
Quick" the other Marine said,
Tets get our rifles"
Rifles, nutsr' one of the Sea-
bees retorted. Let's get an axe and
cut the damned tree down."
And there you have the technique
of the Nays Construction Battal-
ions - Chs whose amphibious
duties and bee-hke industry give
them the nickname of Seabees. They
are masters of the machines
with which we fight this mech
anized jungle war.
Some Seabees are in fact Marines.
officially. Several battalions have
been assigned to the First Marine
Amphibious Corps, the outfit that
marched up the Solomons in the face
of the bewildered japanese. These
Seabees are entitled to wear the
Marines forest-green uniforms and
Marine insignia; first thing they do,
on transfer to Marine status, is send
their Navy blues home.
Diggi.g Tejo's Crave
The average Seabee is old enough
to be the average Marines father.
He is likely to be skilled craftsman
tractor operator. plumber. car
penter or draughtsman. The Sea-
bees motto Is Can Do" They will
repair your watch. cut your hair.
mend your shoes, build hospital or
a bridge, or carve road out of the
jungle. They have moved so much
dirt in the South Pacific that they
like to say they are digging the
worlds biggest grave - for TOTO.
Once. during the Solomons cam
paign, a Seabee pushing bulldozer
on an airport job was irked by Japa-
nese machine gun fire somewhere to
starboard. The Marines couldn't
knock out the Jap pillbox, and the
Seabee naturally couldn't stop work
Just because the enemy was firing at
him. So he raised the scoop of his
Evening star., 1944-04-16

looked up from his blueprints to see
the plane sit down - at least three
weeks before the field was due to be
opened.
Hes little ahead of schedule"
the lieutenant observed. Good
thing we had the strip that far along.
Let's get that plane out of the way.
and go back to work"
1t was no accident that the field
was that far along" They had
started unloading men and gear
on BougainviIle with the first
wave of Marines. While the Ma
rines fought it out with the Japs.
the Seabee surveyors plodded along
with them, laying out the airsh1p.
Behind the surveyors came light
gear - bulldozers. axes, dynamite
for blowing out stumps- While
shells and machine guns whizzed
lead, the Seabees carved out the new
strip from the reluctant jungle.
Beth m de Navy
HERE is more to the kinship be-
tween Marine and Seabee than the
mere fact that they have fought side
by side In every island campaign to
date. For one thing. Seabees are in
the Navy but they are not sailors,
and that goes for the Marines, too.
For another, they have found that
they can turn to each other for aid
whenever they need it.
When a battalion of Marine
Raiders was about to set out
from Guadalcanal to sneak in
on the Japs ut New Georgia, a
battalion of Seabees, in bivouac
near by, voluntarily collected
their hunting knives as gifts for
the departing outfit. 1t was a
tOucnln& gesture
And when Seabees get one of
those tropic thirsts for bit OF
American beer. they drop by at the
nearest Marine camp. If there's beer
ON hand, welcome to it, mate!
The first wounded Leathernecks
evacuated to the great hospital for
Marines south of Bougainville found
an informal reception committee OF
Seabees on hand to greet them. And
from then on the hospital wards
were filed with Seabees - bearing
gifts of candy, cigarettes, stray cans
of fruit Juices, even their own cloth
ing. Most of all. they brought willing
ears to hear the stories of the wound
ed - and it does a man good, when
he is healing from shrapnel or bullet
wounds, to have an audience for his
yarns. The Seabees listened, eyes
popping and ears wide. to the tales
of boys half their age.
They're terrific, those Marines"
one of the Seabees said. To which
wounded Marine replied:
Say, Pop! You shoulda seen
them Seabees up on Bougainviller'
Evening star., 1944-04-16
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Evening star., 1944-04-16

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Evening star., 1944-04-30
How our airlnen relax
between bombing trips

TNRsE pictures show some OF
the home life Of the men of the
Fourteenth US. Army Air Force.
Near the remote mountain bases
in China where they are stationed,
the Red Cross has established
'tOn-the-post" clubs
Service crews, bombardiers
and gunners drift into these
clubs, and pilots too. Near one
of these posts, which is surrounded
by jungle, is a small Chinese town.
Red Cross girls take airmen and,
convalescents from the nearby
hospital on tours through the
town, visiting ancient temples and
lowered gateways, stopping at
bazaars to buy souvenirs.
Many of the boys, tanners at
home, 60 on Red Cross trips to
nearby Chinese farms.
They're IzSsaious
You've got to hand it to the
Chinese, remarked one ex-farmer.
Even without machinery, they
manage to farm right over these
hills. Back home we Just farm
around themr'
Madame Chow. wife of Colonel
L. H. Chow. a fiaison officer be-
tween the US. Army and the
Republic of China, let the boys
help her feed the chickens on her
farm and choose the ones they'd
like for supper.
Visiting a Chinese farm, gather
ing at the Red Cross Club for a
sing" having a girl from home
sew on buttons - this is home life
to the men at these isolated bases.
Ad-daleel., 1944-11-08


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