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Evening star., 1944-10-17
Pacific
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and by night in the October 1915
period.
This constituted one of the
enemy's strongest assaults on feet
units in many months. 1t was ex-.
ceeded recently only by the enemy's
concerted attack on Admiral Ray
mond A. Spruance's 5th Fleet of
Guam in June.
Routed Next Day.
At that time Admiral Mitscher's
carrier pilots DESTROYED 402 jap
naval aircraft and left enemy car
riers so helpless that a ma jor force
of the Imperial Fleet was routed the
next day. Seventeen japanese ships
were sunk or damaged in that ac-
ton.
OF the l9l japanese planes, 95
were shot down by American fight
ers and antiaircraft fire, while we
lost five planes" Admiral Nimitz re-
ported.
Fighters from only two carriers
shot down an additional so Japa-
nese aircraft of approximately 60
which attempted to attack the two
damaged, retiring ships. On the
same day IS more enemy planes
were destroyed by search and patrol
flights from American carriers.
This brought total Japanese planes
destroyed by Halsey- -Mitscher forces
in the Ryukyu Formosa Luzon
strikes to an estimated 1913 to 843.
In addition 81 enemy planes were
estimated probably destroyed.
Gen. Douglas Macarthur an
nounced today that his land-based
planes, joining in the destruction
enciroling the Philippines, .netted
the greatest bag of enemy aircraft
ever brought down in any single
Southwest Pacific raid They bagged
between 40 and ST in the fourth
mass raid in two weeks on Balik-
Ipapan, Borneo, Japan's richest oil
possession.
Japs Continue Claims.
Tokyo radio. today still echoed
claims of great sea-air victory in
the waters east of Formosa, reiterat-
ing 40 or more warships, including
battleship, were sunk or damaged
Enemy broadcasts, recorded by the
Federal Communications Commits
sion, said land-based planes were
aiming at a total annihilation of
the enemy task force"
Admiral Nimitz made it clear
last night that Admiral Halsey's
warships were still riding waters
from which Tokyo said the Ameri-
cans had fed.
Carrier aircraft of the Pacific
Fleet" he said, ARE continuing to
attack targets on Luzon Island In
the Philippines"
The Aparri Field on the northern
coast of Luzon was hit Friiay
Omitted, States time), and airfieids
near Manila were blasted on SUM-
day. In these two raids 100 enemy
aircraft were caught and DESTROYED
on the ground.
The Pacific Fleet commander said
the carrier Formosan raids centered
on Okayama and Heito, also twice
hit by the China biased B-29s. and
Tainan and Takao, two Of the larg-
est cities on the island.
Carrier planes destroyed 80 ware
houses at Takao, IA buildings at
Heito and 7 hangers at Tainan.
Heavy damage was inflicted on the
Evening star., 1944-10-17
8 Servicemen's $ Wives
Become Grey Ladies

Eight wives Of servicemen were
graduated as Gray Ladies in exer-
cises Sunday night at the Boiling
Field Chapel.
Col. Robert w. C. Wimsatt, COM
manding officer Of the base, well
coined the class, the second to COM
plete the 20-hour course at Boiling
Field. Col. Howard A. Rusk deliv-
cred the address. Each graduate will
be assigned to duty at the station
hospital one day a week.
Evening star., 1944-10-17
Truman 10 Deliver
Informal Speech in
San Francisco Today
By the Associated Press.

~ tne AbsOClAbeu fIeAAs
WITH TRUMAN EN- ROUTE TO
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. l7.-Sena-
tor Truman sped toward San Fran
cisco today on the second lap of his
transcontinental campaign tour
after telling a Los Angeles crowd
the Nation should retain President
Roosevelt's experience and leader
ship"
The Democratic vice presidential
candidate planned only a brief in
formal speech at the Common
wealth Club in San Francisco. in
contrast with what he called a
major political address last night.
In this, at the Shrine Auditorium
in Los Angeles. he declared that
under a President like Gov. Thomas
e. Dewey, the Republican standard
bearer. we would have set our
sights to low" and mo one can even
Evening star., 1944-10-17
Mrs. Luce Charges
HiIIman With Using
Workers as zombies
~ the Associated Press.

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 17.-Repre-
sentative Glare Boothe Luce, Repub-
lican, Of Connecticut said last night
that Thomas E. Dewey as the next
President would put an end to what
she described as efforts Of the ad-
ministration and Sidney Hillman to
make political zombies" of Ameri-
can labor.
Speaking at a Republican rally
before a capacity crowd Of 1000 at
Syria Mosque, Mrs. Luce declared:
TT Is Mr.. Hillman's idea that the
basic political unit is not an indi-
vidual citizen. 1t Is a collective
group to be voted like heads of cat
tie according to orders from above
without any reference to the indi-
udual preferences of the members" +"
"Hillman's Political Zombies."
"They are no longer Americans"
she asserted. They are simply Sid
ney Hillman's political zombies"
Describing the Political Action
Committee, of which Mr.. Hillman is
head, as "Hitlerian in concept" and
"stemming from the philosophy Of
Karl Marx" she drew thunderous
round of applause with this meta
phor:
1T is Nazi German sauerkraut
with Soviet Russian dressing"
Continuing, Mrs. Luce described
as plot the capture" of the
American labor union movement by
"a small group of Communists"
The issue is clear: Will the
American labor union movement be
captured lock, stock and barrel by
small group of Communists? For
to capture it is the very purpose of
the masterminds in group called
the Political Action Committee,
which has suddenly penetrated the
heart of one of our great labor un-
ions, the CIO. No foreign coup
d'etat was ever so slickly devised as
this political putsch on the Amer
lean working man and woman.
Major Political Accident.
Il call it plot. But it is equally
accurate to describe it an accident,
a major political accident which
has befallen the historic Democratic
party, and with it the whole labor
movement In America 1t befell as
result Of Mr.. Roosevelts vacillating,
unstable. confused labor policies all
during his last term, and bis in
creasing inability to chart any CO.
herent domestic course either for his
own party or for the working peo-
pie of this Nation"
Mrs. Luce said the Communists
were against Mr. Roosevelt in the
1910 election because at that time
only America was in danger from
Hitler"
She continued: To-day they are
for the President for two reasons.
First, because Russia came into
the war, and second, because they
see way of exchanging their sup
port at the polls for the right to take
over the whole CIO union today
and tomorrow, the whole union
movement and the Democratic
party.
The Communist party already
calls itself the American Labor
Party IN New York State. After No
renoe, 1t hopes TO call itself the
Oenocrsac party in every State"
Evening star., 1944-10-17
Tito Forces Capture
Town Near zuoreb
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. 17.-Yugoslav Par
tisans have captured Sveta Klara, 2
miles from the Creation capital of
zagreb, Marshal Tito announced to-
day.
His communique reported that
Yugoslav and Bulgarian troops were
forcing German forces in Macedonia
toward the Vardar Valley and in
creasing the threat to the Nazi es-
cape route from that area of South
ern Yugoslavia.
Evening star., 1944-10-17
London Cabinet Seeks
Biggest Credit Of War
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. 1.-THE British
government will ask Parliament
Friday to sanction the biggest vote
Of credit of this warts 900 900 900,
to cover expenditures for the three
month period ending March 81, 1945.
The amount will increase the total
in credit voted for the financial year
beginning last April / to $1,000
000, 900.
A vote of credit is an authorize
ton by Parliament to the govern
ment to spend specified amount in
certain ways.
Evening star., 1944-10-17
Civic Group Will Elect

The Central Northwest Citizens
Association will elect officers at its
regular monthly meeting In the
Garnet Patterson Junior High
School, Tenth and U streets NV,
at 8 o'clock tonight.
Evening star., 1944-10-17
Takao industrial area, center OF

FOrmOSa S factories.
The second B-2s raid yesterday
was in smaller force than the first
record attack. 1t was intended to
wipe out still usable installations at
the arsenal city Of Okayama, and
destroy the air base and shops at
Heito.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09
VESPE SERVICES

VESPE SERVICES
A series of vesper services,
beginning at $3.50 each Sunday
afternoon, is announced by the
First Presbyterian church,
Third and Orange streets. The
services will be held in the
chapel, according to DIR. Will
liam Grove, Jr., minister, and
will be featured for the next
few Sundays by sermons on
the great convictions Of the
Christian faith.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09
States Oil Jobbers
To Convene Wednesday

RALEIGH, Jan. 8-(R-The North
Carolina oil jobbers association will
hold its annual convention here
Wednesday, T. W. McCracken of
Henderson, president, announced
today.
Theme of the meeting will CEN
ter around problems affecting the
jobbers now and in the postwar
period.
-V-
C,nn,ai4a thu hn rdnr4
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09
SPEED ON SOLDIER
VOTE PLAN NEEDED

WASHINGTON. Jan. 8.-R-
Election authorities are agreed
that congress and the state legis-
latures had better 60 into high
speed if they want to assure bal
lots for about one-fifth of the ma
tons 50,0O0,000 voters in the ma
tional and state elections Just ten
months away.
It's a stupendous job - getting
ballots to and from service men
and women abroad, and away
from their homes in continental
United States.
. And congress and the states.
the authorities say, have only be-
gun to tackle it, that is, with anv
degree of certainty that solution
may be reached in time.
Sixteen state legislatures. in
GLIDING one which has already met
and adjourned since the New
Year began - Georgia - are now
meeting or are about to meet In
regular Or special session with
opportunity to act on iberahzed
election laws.
Others are waiting Oil congress
10 see whether their final draft OF
a vote facilitation measure re-
auires any supplemental action on
their part. Still others, like Penn
sylvania, may be able to solve the
puzzle through application OF state
war emergency powers.
1t has been estimated that up-
wards of 1,0O0,0 900 men and wona-
en- will be in the armed services
by election day Nov. Z, that be-
tween 100000 and 100000 will
be of voting age, and that about
$4,000 will be outside this coun-
try by that time.
Advocates of a federal ballot
bill will press new measure
when congress reconveneS MOD
day. 1t provides for four-man
ballot commission to serve only
as mailman for getting federal
ballots to and from service peo'
pie to enable them to vote for
President, vice president, senator
and representative. Rep. Worley
D-Tex has introduced the bill
in the house and Senator Lucas
(D-IlD has it ready to offer in
the senate. n:
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09
ADVANCE
INTO CASINO PLAIN
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was completely taken Thursday.
From the captured $500 foot Mt.
Maio in the northern sector of the
Fifth Army's 10-mile-wide often
sive, Allied forces advanced 500
feet higher through deep snow and
took 4,000-foot height just south
CT Viticuso, thus starting the nor
them arm Of pincers aimed at
Casino.
Little Bearing
Although the Germans recaptur-
ed Mt. Raimo, north of VitiucSo,
this setback had little bearing on
the Casino offensive proper.
Casino, 10 miles airline from
Rome, now has been brought well
within range of Allied big guns,
but ahead OF the ground forces
there stretches a great system of
defenses which the Germans have
built in thorough fashion, fortify-
ing every house in every village
and farm community along the
way.
Ahead of the ground offensive
ranged American planes, Invaders
and Warhawks, pounding German
defense areas to smooth the way
for advancing troops. American
heavy bombers slashed at the art
cries feeding German armies on
both sides Of the Adriatic.
The Allied headquarters COM
munique said brisk patrol action
occurred yesterday on the Eighth
Army's end of the front where
deep snow prevented any large
scale action.
Fortresses of the 18th Air Force
with Lightning escort took ad-
vantage of clear, cold weather to
bomb freight yards at F'iume, i'm
portant italian port near the Yugo-
slav border; whence main lines
run into areas to the south and
east where the Germans are batt-
ing Yugoslav partisans. These forts
shot down one German plane.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr.. and Mrs. L. w. Stanley
of Lumberton, announce the
birth of a son, Leland Whaley,
Jr., on Thursday, December
30. Mrs. Stanley was the form
er Miss Mary Frances Red
mOnd.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09
LEGION PREPARES
VETERANS BILL
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Bureau as "vital war agency
with priorities for materials ana
equipment second only to the War
and Navy departments for a hos
pital construction.
3. Unemployment compensation
credit double the amount veterans
would have received in civilian
work through the period OF mill
tary service.
q. Payment Of federal aid to
states planning to lend veterans
home building funds at low inter-
est rates.
S. Education allowances OF $50
monthly to single veterans and
SIS to married service men plus
all educational expenses in estab-
lished colleges and universities I'D
to four years.
6. adequate provision" by the
Veterans Bureau for the physical
welfare and financial aid OF all
wounded, diseased or otherwise
handicapped veterans before dis
charge from service.
These points, said Rankin,
present the minimum of the just
dues owed to the men and women
of the armed forces for their
services in the preservation of
the nation in World War II.
"Our men and women in the
armed services are fighting for
the four freedoms, but if they
come back to the chaotic and dis
organized condition that has con-
fronted the 100000 veterans of
World War II who already have
been discharged, they may feel
that the victory has been hollow
III
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09
Motorists Needed To Make
Unique Gas Saving Test

Every patriotic North Carolina
citizen interested in conserving
our resources and saving gasoline
for Victory will welcome the
achievement of an American in
ventor. Already thousands of car
owners are using his invention
and they report gas savings up to
5000 as well as more power,
smoother pickup and quicker start
ing. The device. called the Vacu-
matte Gas Saver, operates on the
super-charge principle and fits all
makes of cars and trucks. It is
entirely automatic and allows the
motor to breathe. The manufac-
turers, the Vacu-matic Carburetor
Co., 7617-776-B State St., Wauwato-
sa, Wisconsin, are offering Vacu-
matte free to those who will test
it on their own cars or trucks and
help introduce it to others. Write
them today!
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09
RUSSIAN FORCES
TAKE KIROVOGRAD
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man centers of resistance and
completely captured the :.
town" the bulletin said. I'm fight
ing at the approaches Of the town
and in it's streets the enemy sus-
tanned huge losses. Many German
units ceased their resistance, put
down their arms and surrender
ed"
Huge quantities of war mate
rails, still uncounted, were reap
ed by the operation. In them were
tanks, big guns, infantry equip
ment, locomotives, trucks, food
and ammunition dumps, Moscow
said.
It's fall was announced by Pre-
mier Marshal Joseph Stain in a
special order of the day which
said that eight German divisions
were routed in the four-day bat
tie. Stain ordered a victory salute
of 20 volleys from 224 Moscow
guns.
Great Effort
Jean Paquis, Paris radio COM
mentator, declared that 1.-The Sow
let offensive is the most forni-
dable military effort of the whole
war" and he added: German
experts say that if the human and
material extent of the Soviet. as
sault were known the world would
be staggered and perhaps terri
fled"
Capt. Ludwig Sertorious, Berlin
radio commentator, said the Ger
mans still were fighting in Kiro-
Nograd but that the Russians were
employing immense forces"
Gen. Nikolai Vatutin's push in
to pre-war Poland reached south
from Klesow, its highwater mark
% miles inside the old frontier.
Among the towns captured were
Viry, five miles south of Klesow
and Rudnya Bobrovskaya, 20 miles
southeast of Klesow and an equal
distance northwest of Gorodnitsa.
This drive was heading for
Sarny, IL miles west of Klesow,
whose capture would end for the
Germans the use of an important
north-south railroad in the area.
oertorlous said that in this area
the pressure of the opponent has
again increased considerably.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09
IF YOU SUFFER FROM
AR TIL R it's

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erd's of Raleigh. N c., Inc. Eckerd's OF
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Store, Scotland Neck, Almand's Drug
Store, Rocky Mount, Bender's Drug Store,
Fayetteville, Runners Drug Store, San
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druggists If your druggist cannot supply
you, send $500 for two weeks treat
naent of D. M. c.. No. ~ to
DIXIE MEDICINE CORP.
Charlotte, N. G.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09
City Briefs
MEETING

The Wilmington Light In
fantry will meet at 8 p. m.
Monday in the w. L. l. arm
Dry.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09
MAILS TAX BLANKS

GREENSBORO, January 8-lRE
Charles H. Robertson, collector o.
Internal Revenue, announced t.
day that he has begun to mail COP
les of the 1913 individual incon e
and victory tax return to the essi-
mated $4,000 Federal incorae
taxpayers in the district of Moth
Carolina.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09

. Granite is the hardest, most
durable stone. |
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09
FIVE ARRESTED AS
THEFT RING SMASHED
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machine and part of the narcotics
have been found.
The men repeatedly used the
narcotics obtained by giving each
other vigorous shots of the drug
by means of hypodermic needle.
When police recovered part OF
the morphine from a hedge at
615 Orange street, it had been
transferred to small tin box
tabled "cold tablets"
Cited as one of the chief OBJ
jects of evidence was the piece OF
glass from the drug store show
case which bore the mmistak-
able footprint of Roy Hendricks.
When Hendricks was confronted
by police with the print, which
corresponded to that on the shoe
he wore, his alibi was broken.
3-Break in at Batson Motor
company, 18th and Market street.
where $50 in cash was taken, with
gasoline rationing stamps, Sill
vertone radio 1ater recovered
from the Cape Fear river at the
foot of Church street.
HBreak-in at Saunders Service
station, at the intersection of
Wrightsville and Perry avenues,
where approximately $1,000 in
cash had been lifted from the safe.
Other loot included gasoline
stamps, a quart of whiskey, a %
revolver pistol and leather ciga-
rette case. The leather case, bear
ing marks that made positive iden-
tification possible, was found in
the possession of one of the men
arrested. No money has yet been
recovered.
5-Break-in at Long Motor COM
pany, where gasoline ration
stamps. $40 in cash, cigarettes,
eight crates of Coca-Cola, and a
Philco radio were stolen.
When police found the cache of
narcotics, they also recovered a
billfold which figured in the vio-
lent poker game over Dock street
establishment; December %,
brought to a hasty end when Ed
ward A. Hamilton and his wife,
of Baltimore, Md, were said to
have been victims of assault and
robbery at the hands of the Ris-
ing brothers and Emory Sloan.
The defendants had contended that
they did not snatch the pocketbook
from Mrs. Hamilton (reported to
contain over 5000. Probable cause
was found by Recorder H. Win
field Smith, December 30, and the
case referred to Superior court;
each of the accused parties was re-
quired to post $3.50 bond.
The alleged criminals have rec
ords against them already. Robert
Rising, who lost his appeal to the
supreme court after he was found
guilty of perpetrating the $4,000
Coca-Cola plant robbery here, is
expected to begin serving five
to seven year penitentiary SEN
tence for the offense shortly. His
bond in the new series of robberies
has been set of $4,000, and he is
under the additional $3.50 bond for
the assault-robbery' charged Ris-
ing had been given 30-days' stay
on his penitentiary sentence on &C.
count of the death of his baby.
New bonds for the others include
81, 500 for Bill Rising (making his
bond-total come to $3.50 for all
charges); $1,000 for Croker; and
$500 each for Hendricks and
Sloan. Only Bill Rising was re-
leased on bond.
All members Of the group were
originally held on vagrancy counts,
pending summation Of the evidence
pointing to their involvement in the
series of thefts.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-09
CONGRESS RETURNS
MONDAY WITH EYES
ON ELECTION, WAR
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one of its iveliest sessions IN MS
tory. Among them:
/. Soldiers discharge pay - the
senate has passed a bill provlo-
ing mastering pay ranging
from 5000 to $500, dependent upon
length of service. The House Mill
tarv committee is expected to act
UPON the bill next week, with
lower scale generally anticipated
2 Soldiers vote-a compromise
may settle the Estates rights
fights over the question Of giving
soldiers a vote in the fall cleo
ton. Under a pending proposal,
the federal government would dis
tribute and collect the ballots, but
each state would decide for itself
whether they could be counted.
3. Subsidies-the up-again-down-
down-aga gain issue of consumer
subsidies will return to plague the
lawmakers in February. A COM
promise, limiting their use, is
possible.
4. Taxes-Early in the session,
the senate will act upon the third
wartime revenue bill, raising an
estimated $2,275, 100000 in taxes
or about one-fifth the amount the
administration sought.
S. Labor-Strike threats have
produced a demand of uncertain
strength in congress for legisla-
ton to tighten the Smith-Connally
war disputes measure to prevent
interruption of war production.
It may bring renewed considera-
ton Of national service legisla-
ton.
6. Food-The republican congress
sional food study committee and
a majority of the House Agricul-
ture committee are plugging bill
to give single administrator con-
troll over prices, production and
distribution of food.
7. Foreign relief - The House
Foreign Affairs committee plans
to send to the floor within ten
days a measure to provide for fl
nancial participation by this coun-
try in the work of the United
Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
administration.
8. Business and war-A bitter
battle over the renegotiation law.
part of the tax statutes permitting
the government to recover war
profits it deems Excessive" will
grip the senate soon after IT re-
turns. The controversy centers
around an attempt to exempt
standard commercial articles from
its provisions.
9. Business in peace-A detail
ed study will be undertaken by
congressional committees during
the year in preparation for the
return of industry to civilian pro-
duction.
10. Spending-The flow of ap-
preparation measures will start
late this month. Spending bills last
year amounted to approximately
$114, 900, 900, 900; probably will
amount to less this year as re-
suit of a belt-tightening economy
program and a lessening of capt.
tai outlaws for war production.
II. Price control-Long the tar
get of congressional criticism the
Office of Price Administration
will expire June 30 unless the act
under which it was created is ex-
tended. The issue is expected to
produce one of the hottest battles
of the year.
IL. Army-A plan to create a
reservoir Of military strength as
safeguard against future wars
will be placed before congress
later in the year. Rep. Wadsworth
(R-NY) has a bill calling for COM
pulsory one years military train
ing for all able-bodied males be-
tween the ages of 10 and 81.