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Of foreign ministers
where he obtained g
Britain, Russia ane
principle of postw'
He reported on his


ments there in an address Lon
gress Nov. 10.
Hull's Sunday night speech will
begin at $50 o'clock, EWT., and
probably will last about 40 min
utes. 1t will be broadcast over the
Columbia Broadcasting System.
Behind his decision to make the
address lies the secretary's con-
viction, r y expressed to
friends and callers at his office,
that the country is now entering
one of the most critical periods
in history insofar as its foreign
relations are concerned.
The secretary believes that he
has charted clear course through
this period and that the greatest
danger to following it effectively
into a period OF collective inter-
national action after the war lies
in misundel standing and deliberate
cbscuring OF his work and his prin-
ciples by those who seek for one
reason or another to destroy what
he is trying to build.
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Hull Will Attack Critics.
Of u. S. Foreign P0]g -

WASHINGTON, April 6.-(RA
secretary OF State Hull will make
a full-dress speech on American
foreign policy Sunday night,
coupling new reply to his critics
with a discussion of current inter-
national politica, questions.
Designed to show how U. S. for
elgn policy operates, the speech
Will stand as Hull's answer to
those who say that American dip
lomatlc maneuvers, particularly in
europe, often are governed more
by expediency than principle.
In this respect the secretary is
believed to consider the speech a
logical follow-up to his publication
March 81 CT Il major points of
foreign policy, culled from previ-
ously made speeches. That state
ment was issued in response to
the criticism that he has no for
eign policy.
Hull and his advisers have been
working on the address for a week
or more. 1t will be his first speech
on general nigh policy since last
September w h he discussed
American foreign affairs in rela-
ton to national interest.
Between that time and the pres
ent, he has attended the meeting
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Observation-Disclosures
Possible, Knox Declares

AT U. S. NAVAL BASE, Ber-
muda, April 6.-lR-A large-scale
renewal of the German U-boat at
tacks on Allied shipping is posi-
BILE "soon,' Secretary of the Navy
Knox said today.
Nazi U-boat attacks took hun
dreds of vessels and many lives
early in the war before the under
sea raiders were driven from the
main shipping lanes of the Allan
tic.
Germany is now concentrating
on building submarines to the vir-
tual exclusion of all other kinds
of vessels" Knox declared in an
address on the third anniversary
of the establishment of this naval
base.
eve have been bombing their IN
stallations and factories but their
submarine production has by no
means been stopped and we have
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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, MA
FILES, April 6-lR-Allied bombers
accidentally killed Allied troops
and failed to blast the Nazis out
Of Casino in their great assault
March Is, 1t. Gen. Ira c. Eaker
conceded today but the Texas-born
commander of Allied Mediterrane-
an air forces sharply insisted the
operation accomplished all that
was expected of it by the air force
commanders.
An unstated number of Allied
troops were killed at Venafro, IL
miles east OF Casino, when Allied
bombardiers mistook that town for
the target, Eaker said, and other
bombs fell wide of their mark near
Casino when they accidentally
became dislodged from thir racks.
He did not say whether the latter
caused any deaths among Allied
koons
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SLOW RELEASE OF
SOLDIERS ASKED
Hershey Says U. S. Should
Back Peace-TabIe Voice
With Force

WASHINGTON, April 6.-R-
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Sc
lective service director, said to-
night the Army and Navy should
be demobilized slowly after the
war in order that the United
State voice at the peace table
will be ''b k e d by military
strength"
In speech prepared for delivery
before the national war veterans
E, conference of the United Automo-
bile Workers (CIO) he called for
deliberate rehabilitation not
only to hold down domestic un-
employment but also for interna-
tional reasons. 49,.
Adhearance to this principle, said
Hershey, will mean that I'VE
evolve a permanent system for our
armed forces that will provide at
all ii m es adequate military
maintenance of our national inter-
ests, at the same time that we
are working with other like mind
ed nations toward the creation of
an effective system of general Sc
curity."
Adoption of such policy would
imply not only slower demobili-
cation than after the last war, he
said, but also continuous mobiliza-
ton of requirements to insure men
of proper age in the military
forces.
Thus Hershey urged a national
system of military training, which
he has advocated before.
Our voice in the establishment
Of peace will be heard only as it
is backed by military strength, >
the draft director said.
1.-The extent to which we as a
nation can exercise influence after
victory to maintain the results for
which we have fought depends to
very large degree upon the evil
dences we possess that we are pre-
pared to back with force our rec
concentrations"
Hershey acknowledged that prob
ably most Americans regret that
force is the ultimate court of ap-
peal" but asserted that America
certainly cannot afford to shut
| her eyes to the fact that this world
leaves to nation only those things
for which it is not only willing to
fight, but for which it is constant
| ly prepared to fight"
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NEW GOVERNMENT
SEEN IN ITALY
L e a d ers OF Opposition
Parties Virtually Agree
To Participate

SORRENTO. Italy, April g. Up
Leaders of the six opposition par
ties virtually agreed today to par
ticipate in coalition war gov
eminent" of liberated Italy if and
when King Vittorio Emanuele re-
tires by designating Grown Prince
Umberto as his lieutenant.
After Benedetto Croce. liberal
leader, informed it of negotiations
to bring about this step. the exc
cutive junta of the parties issued
a statement reaffirming 1.-THE ne
cessity and urgency of forming a
war cabinet"
The junta expressed confidence
that the initiation of negotiations
would bring a complete and quick
solution to the present Italian cris-
is without waiting for the liberation
of Rome
Members said this meant the
junta hoped the king would trans
fer his powers to his son without
delay instead of waiting until AL
lied armies reach Rome, as he had
intended doing.
The prospect of the kings re-
tirement was presented by Croce
to Count Carlo Sforza. anti-Fascist
leader who said it removes an
obstacle in our path" The ques-
ton of collaborating with Marshal
Pietro Badoglio as premier was
described even by those hostile
to him as of secondary impor-
tance."
The Junta's Lewiston was taken
in answer to a communist proposal
for the formation of a coalition war
cabinet even if the king remained.
The negotiations which resulted in
the kings proposal to retire had
been disclosed. Croce said, only
because of the communist initia-
tive. Thus the six parties appar-
emily have found a formula under
which they could collaborate in the
reorganization of the government
without seeming to be in the tow
of the communists.
Continued ON Page Eight; Col. s.
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YORKSHIRE MINE
STRIKE CRACKING

LONDON, April g. tR The
Yorkshire mine strike of $4,000
workers appeared to be cracking
tonight under intense pressure OF
public opinion, determined govern
ment warnings and union appeals.
Fuel Minister Gwilym Lloyd
George said the situation was inn
proved with go per cent Of the
Yorkshire pits working through
out the day. A slow but steady
return of workers renewed the
hope showdown might be avert
ed.
The executive committee Of the
Yorkshire mine workers associ-
alton felt the strikers all would
be back at work by the Easter
holidays end next Tuesday.
Lloyd George informed Com
mons the latest of the coal field
walkouts cut war production and
cost the country an average OF
1886, 1000 tons of fuel the past four
weeks. He declared emphatical-
ly "strike action in time of war
cannot be justified" and said
work stoppage made heavy in
roads in dwindling reserves and
has stopped coal export to neutral
countries.
The British cabinet had assigned
Labor Minister Ernest Bevin to
deal with outlaw strike meters
under the wartime defense Of the
realm act before he and Lloyd
George entered into conferences
with the national executive COM
mittee Of the mineworkers fedora
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0DT IS PLANNING
CRACK DOWN HERE

Immediate action to end all
wasteful ard unnecessary use of
gasoline by all operators of COM
mercial motor vehicles is being
taken by the Wilmington district
Office of Defense Transportation,
it was announced here yesterday
by George T. Musselman, district
manager.
Many commercial vehicles,
which includes trucks, buses, taxi
cabs, hearses and ambulances, are
being used for pleasure driving in
the Wilmington area, he said,
pointing out that quite a large
number of these vehicles have
been noticed while in use for pleas
ure driving both on weekdays and
holidays.
1.-THE gasoline allotted these We
hicles is to be used for the specific
purpose as specified on the certifi-
cate of war necessity" the ODT
district manager at Wilmington de.
clared.
The use OF the gasoline for any
other purpose. particularly for
pleasure driving. is in defiance OF
The conditions of the certificate OF
war necessity under which all COM
mercial vehicles are permitted to
operate"
Because of the many abuses, -
Musselman announced, "ODT will
inaugurate regular road checks OF
all operators to determine compli-
(Cnnfinued on Page Three: Col 81
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THREE HOSPITALS
WILL GET FUNDS
Money Will Be Used To
Finance Expansion OF
Nurse Training
(Star-News Washington Bureau,

(Star-News Washington Bureau)
WASHINGTON, April 6.-Alloca-
ton of Federal funds totalling
$131, $50 to finance expansion of ia
cilities for student war nurses at
New Bern, High Point, and Win
ston-Salem, was announced here
tonight by Senator Josiah W. Bal
ley.
An outright grant of $40,30 went
to Good Shepherd hospital at New
Bern to finance a new home for
II nurses assigned to duty there,
but who are not now provided with
living quarters near the hospital.
Largest single ALLEGATION went to
the Baptist hospital at Winston-Sa-
lem, which will receive $63, 1000 to
be matched dollar-for- dollar by the
hospital in construction of a $780,
900 facility designed to house 72
student nurses.
With plans under way for in
creasing the enrolment at High
Point memorial hospital nurses
school from its enrolment last
year of 27 to so by September l,
the FWA released an outright
grant of $1O,450 for expansion of
training facilities. Housing accom-
modations were deemed adequate.
The Shelby hospital project, to-
falling $4,000, provides for remod-
cling and equipping an existing
building to accommodate II STU
dents. The federal grant of SIT, 300
was supplemented by $4,000 in hos
! pial funds.
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ArmyReaches
Full Strength
Of 100000
DRAFT TO CONTINUE
Navy Expected To Reach
It's Peak About Septem-
Der /, Owl Says

WASHINGTON, April 6-R-The
.,,,,, has reached its full strength
- : 100000 but that fact will moi
change the present rapid tempo
=. +be draft, tn eOffic eof War
I,formation announced tonight.
Draft calls must continue at
io,.aIs sufficient to expand the
1.vy which viii reach its peak
s+rp1gth OF $500. 600 including Ma.
rne Corps anc Coast Guard, by
Sept !
Men are also needed to provide
reoacenlents for both Army and
Navy,
the War Department, in a state.
me0t ISSUED through owl, an
nomced that its planned strength
has peen reached but mat 1T Will
,fou,re 5000 10 100000 men a
month Throughout the remainder OF
lg-7 10 mauuan That strength.
lie Navy department tola owl
t9a5 py july l its forces should
u.al o,5UU, Uuu.
ABOUT 5UU, wv men will be needed
10 reacn mat net strength by July
and at lie same tune provlde
Tile Aecessai y naval requirements.
OetWeen july / and Sept. l an
sQQiuunaI 1000 men Will pe add
IT, ~ the ne. 81, ength OF the naval
forces.
oe4ective Service headquarters
Sad uaucuon OBVIOUSLY cannot
be !AaielaIIy reduced D'=lore July
Iae War department statement
follows;
The Amy vi the United States
has leacheu its planned strength
Of 100000 officers and enlisted
personnel. Tie War Department an
LJanced toaay.
InducnoIs through Selective
Service mist continue, however,
with the emphasis on young men
who are needec to replace losses
due to combat and to normal at
triton resulting from accidents,
disease and disabilities. 1t is essen
tai that from Is, 900 to 10000 men
be inductea into the Army each
month to maintain the strength of
100000, This means that the
Amy will need from 100000 to
l-VOO,OOO men during the rem ainder
ol 1914.
As future calls on Selective
Service will he for requirements,
II is imperative that new men in
quoted into the Army be young
and physically qualified for the
Ngou@s Of combat duty.
During April the Army will
signify exceed It's planned strength
III order to start now the training
Oh men who VIII be required to
meet antlc pated losses. Men in
continued on Page Three; Col. 81
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ANzI0 FIGHTING
ONLY GUN DUELS
Both Sides Barricaded Be-
hind Barbed Wire And
Buried Explosives
By KENNETH L. DIXON

AT THE FIFTH ARMY ANZIO
BEACHHEAD, April 6.-(RHWith
both S d e barricaded behind
barbed wire entanalements and
buried explosives the battle on this
beachhead south of Rome had set
tied down today into a steady ar
tillery duel and sporadic patrol &C
tivity.
The big gun duel definitely has
developed these opposing assets:
The G e m n s. artillery out
ranges the Allied guns at least four
or five miles-and sometimes more
than 10 miles. The Fifth Army S
forces, however, outnumber the en-
envy both in artillery available and
in ammunition.
Thus, German front line forces
are facing much heavier fire than
Allied troops, but Allied rear units
at the same time are suffering
more Smelling than the enemy rear.
Officers said both sides are so
deeply dug in holes, trenches, tun-
nels and sand-bagged dugouts that
casualties are comparatively low,
considering the intensity of the
duel
The extent of the wire entange-
ments and the mines in no-mans-
land has discouraged skirmishing.
Recent German raids on the north
ern flank of the beachhead front
were repulsed as soon as they
reached the barbed wire area. En-
forced delays due to slipping
through the entanglements threw
them open to intense artillery,
mortar and small-arms fire caus-
ing heavy casualties, even before
they could withdraw, Fifth Army
Spokesman said.
Continued on Page Six; Col. g.
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2oviets Tighten Nooses Around
Germans Encircled At Tarnopol;
Pas-De-Calais Area Is Blasted
600 TONS OF BOMBS
American Formation Re-
ported Over Yugoslavia
By The Germans

LONDON. April 6.-(R-Ameri.
can Liberator bombers, heavily
packed with high-explosives for the
short haul across the Strait OF
Dover, hurled 600 tons of bombs
on the Pas-de-Calais area OF
France today while the Germans
broadcast reports that another
American J. m a i o n was over
northern YugosAavia.
1t was the second successive day
that Eighth Air Force heavy bomb
ers have smashed at the German
Notifications around the Pas-de-
Calais, running the bomb total up
to 1000 tons. and was the third
big operation in April for Britain
based American heavies.
Just as Yesterday, it was car
ried out without loss of single
bomber or escorting fighter. Crews
reported they saw no German
planes and were hardly ruffled by
the meager amount of anti-aircraft
fire. T h e Yugoslav operation,
which the Germans reported took
the bonbers over the Marburg-Za-
greb area almost to the Austrian
border, probably originated from
Italian bases of the 18th Air force.
The Berlin radio declared Ger.
man fighters closed an aerial pin.
Ger on the "strong U. S. Army
air formations over the Marburg-
Zagreb area. forcing the raiders
to turn back in disorder. The
broadcast described the action as
one of the greatest strategical de-
feats suffered so far by the 18th
air force. There has been no Al
lied confirmat of such an a.
Grafton.
The Germans also broadcast that
single Allied planes were over
north Germany
The Raj last night executed an
other of its moonlight onslaughts
against three German aircraft re-
pair shops tucked away in the out
Continued on Page Six; Col. ~
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Wanderlust Got One
Out OF 8 Americans
During 5 Year Period

WASHINGTON, April 6. - up -
Greener pastures lured one out
of every eight Americans between
1885 and 1910, the Census Bureau
reported tonight with the observa-
ton that even in peacetime this
is highly mobile nation.
Of the 15,734,798 persons who
"migrated' in the period covered
by the survey, more than 100000
moved only within one state while
the remainder made longer moves.
Statistics are unavailable on the
vastly increased migrations since
the war.
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Great Aerial Assault On Casino
Achieved Aim Of U.S. Air Forces

Indicating his belief that the out
come at Casino should not be
construed as black eye for
aerial Commandment, Eaker said
il was not to be expected that
such an attack could wipe out all
resistance.
cover a long and more sustained
period greater degree Of devasta-
ton could have been caused in
Cassino," ne said, 'but it probably
would have had little bearing on
the final result. The enemy forces
in their cellars, deep dugouts and
underground passages would not
have been affected
The Casino result, he asserted,
only confirmed earlier lessons that
heavy four engined bombers would
be better employed in attacking
long-range strategic targets, such
as the present camnaian AGAINST
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they are launching their U-boats.
(He gave no indication of the pro.
duction rate)
"They will undoubtedly come out
in mass soon"
The Nazi U-boats have not op-
Grated in western Atlantic waters
to any extent for months.
A large share in the credit for
driving the raiders back to their
lairs was given by Knox to the
officers and men assigned to Ber-
muda which he described as "the
Pearl Harbor of the Atlantic" an
important stop on one Of our con-
voy routes and an ideal spot for
scouting and attacking enemy sub
marines.
The naval secretary also dis
closed that the United States naval
base built on this British island
Continued on PAGE Three; Col. A.
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the Balkans, than in close tactical
support of ground forces, except in
certain emergencies "such as at
Salerno."
The air force commander, who
discussed various aspects Of the
Casino operation freely at a press
conference, emphasized that his re-
mark should not be construed as
criticism OF the ground forces or
their commanders.
He pointed out, however, that
there are sumo types of operations
for which the air forces are not
designed and to which they cannot
be adapted
Under those conditions I want
them to do whatever they can in
support of the general battle, or
to save the situation even though
they may not be highly efficient
in carrying out the task" Eaker
raid -
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ODESSA'S FALL NEAR
Reds Close In On Black Sea
Base From Three Sides;
Karpovo Falls

LONDON, Friday, April 7-R-
The First Ukrainian Red Army
frightened strangling nooses around
two large German forces encircled
at Tarnopol and near Skala yester-
day and closed in for the kill while
Russians of the Third Ukrainain
Army splashed 10 to IS miles
through the mud toward Odessa in
anoperation designed to spring still
another trap around that Black Sea
Port.
The Russians announced they
were closing on Odessa from the
Northeast, North and Northwest,
with the most notable gain the
capture of Karpovo, railway sta
ton % miles northwest of the port.
The victory was credited to
shrewd thanking blow at Nazis,
who were counter-attacking in
vain effort to retake Razdelnaya,
vital rail junction 80 miles north
west of Odessa.
Razdelnaya fell on Wednesday.
The Russians advanced IS miles
in yesterdays combat along the
line that once was the Germans
main hope of escape but now is
a Soviet pathway towards Odessa.
On the north the Russians
thrust 10 miles down the rain-swol-
len Kuyalnik river to the head of
the salty Kuyalnik lagoon that was
peacetime center for health-bath-
ers. Captured towns among more
than 100 that fell on the Odessa
front included Maryanovka, 81
miles north of Odessa, and Sverd-
lovo, IA miles northeast.
In the twin cauldrons of Tarno-
pol and Skala on the northwest
Ukraine front, the Russians told of
events reminiscent of Korsun and
Stalingrad: Germans madly dying
in vain attempts to break out, and
relief forces struggling to break
in while senior Nazi officers fled
by air from the constantly-con-
stricting areas.
The Soviet midnight communique
Continued on Page Eight; Col. 81
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REPORT IS GIVEN
ON WEBB'S DEATH

A coroners jury decided yester-
oay that l. c. Webb came to his
oealA from injuries received when
struck BY an Atlantic Coast Line
sence.
II, "eoo was instantly killed
. %eanesday at 4:52 pm, when the
sU'k belonging to w. H. Alexan-
W. winch he was driving, stalled
vi Inc railroad track at the Alex
On. saaer farm eight and one hall
n ,,llFS from Wilmington on the
N94p Davis highway, No. II.
uAeral services will be conduct
t - from the residence by the Rev.
- -riNest Richardson today at 3 p.
= ~ ihterment will follow in the
prospect cemetery.
= surviving are his widow, Mrs.
y. Mcclellan Webb; one daugh.
: r. MRS L, M. Covil; two sons,
~ L. Webb and Archie c. Webb
s NJ q Wilmington; two sister,
. u.s. D. Mcneil, of Red Springs
|r rl9 MRS Ethel Smith, of Jackson.
WIZ 1s F!a.' three brothers, J. B.
If W. OF Wilmington, W. B. Webb
hi : aatyefteville, C. C. Webb of Will
,na isVon; and ten grandchildren
AS several nieces and nephews
1--WE pallbearers will be Otie
| ins l Robert Murray, Ed Thomp
ENT ns' hl"ood Rivenbark, LIE o +
rs San and Clinton Arnau, Sr.
sIa+ neral services for Eugene Sin
Apra '0ly VIII be held from Delgade
ID 'SHoyterian church by the Rev
|1ntar myers today at $3.50 pm
e. ,s!lAent will follow in Bellevue
! |, ssiI1agletary is survived by hi.
|sst aief' Mrs. Carrie Dixon; two
d.. MIS-, Bernie Covington ane
|sninn. Iedsrick Parnell all of Will
Esin4 G.oil and grandfather j. D
4 as-e'dfy of Lumberton.
AstVe pallbearers will be FREQ
aarns' Earl Marshburn, Clarence
d. pei, H. M. Bridgers, Oliver Al
Rearean u Bill Ray. Honorary pail
iS viii include V. A. Hick
q ''ued on Page Eight; Col. 4,