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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-11
DESTROYERS ROUTED
Palau Islands, Guarding
Philippines, Bombed By
Land-Based Planes
BY LEONARD MILLIMAN
Associated Press War Editor

Accurate Allied naval gun fire
routed a Japanese destroyer force
in brief night engagement off
northwestern New Guinea, thWart-
ing a second attempt to relieve
belea guered enemy troops on Biak
island, Gen. Douglas Macarthur
announced today.
The Nipponese turned and fled
at high speed without firing a shot.
American and Australian warships
chased them for an hour and a
half and possibly damaged enc by
long range fire. japanese troops
in barges were abandoned by their
escort U. S. ships wiped them out.
Destroyers Sunk
Within the last week Macarthur
has reported the sinking of five
japanese destroyers, damaging OF
two others and a cruiser in sud-
den temperance of enemy war
ships which have avoided naval
engagements for six months.
Four Japanese merchant ships
were sunk Friday, three Of them
off Manokwari, $50 west of Biak
island where sixth army troops
were ferreting Japanese from
caves around recently captured
Mokmer airdrome.
The Paulau islands, guarding the
approaches to the Philippines,
were bombed for the first time by
land-based b o m b e r S Thursday
night, Macarthur reported. Large
fires and explosions were start
ed. The attackers probably came
from the japanese built Wakde
airdrome, 700 miles south of Pa.
lau.
Cover Islands
United States aircraft ranged
the full length Of the Caroline is
lands. Besides Palau, south and
southwest Pacific planes dashed
at Truk, Stawan and Nomoi.
Central Pacific bombers swept
over 1900 miles of Nipponese
islands in the most extensive
aerial sorties reported recently
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-11
GERMANS SAY U. S.
NEAR M0NTEB0URC
Claim Six American Divi-
sions Have Started Big
Scale Attack

LONDON, June 1O-tRE German
news agency broadcasts said to-
night that six American divisions
with "orders to conquer Cherbourg
fortress began a large-scale at
tack yesterday and rolled to a
point near Montebourg, Is miles
southeast of, Cherbourg.
Nazi formations fighting delay
ing actions withdrew northward
and no1thwestward and by short
ening their positions were able to
successfully stem a further ad-
vance of the Americans by Friday
night" the Transocean agency
said.
More U. S. parachutists dropped
behind German lines, Berlin said.
The Americans were using two
airborne and three infantry divl-
sions, one tank division and num-
erous special formations on a a.
mile front between Montebourg
and Carentan, the Germans said.
The Axis high command report
ed without Allied confirmation
that the Allies had made another
attempt to land at Trouville, seven
miles across the Seine estuary
south of LIE Havre.1 The attempt
COLLAPSED in the fire of our coas-
tai batteries, which inflicted
heavy losses on the enemy" the
communicate said. Zone enemv
warship was sunk and the other
forced to Withdraw"
While not admitting American
advances on the Cherbourg PENN
sula, the German high command
did acknowledge that British-Ca-
madam troops fighting in the Caen-
Bayerx sector to the east had "suc-
ceeded in pushing back our rear
guard lines, behind which our re-
serves are being deployed. :"
Heavy tank fighting was continu-
ing in the sector, it said.
"Along the entire front" said
the bulletin, "many German nests
of resistance and fortified points,
encircled by the enemy, are hold
ing their own in stubborn fighting.
Within the first three days more
than 200 enemy tanks were de-
stroyed and several thousand
prisoners taken
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-11
BR0UCHTON SEEKS
VICE PRESIDENCY
North Carolina Governor
Says His Name Will Be
Placed In Nomination

NEW YORK, June 10.-Gov-
ernor J. Melville Broughton Of
North Carolina, announcing his
candidacy for the Democratic vice
nomination, told a
press conference here today that
the American public mind in its
present state will overwhelmingly
reflect President Roosevelt"
Broughton, who said his name
would be placed in nomination for
the second place on the Democrat
ic ticket, declared that "the issue
in the coming national campaign
will resolve itself into the question
of the conduct of the war and ne
gotiations at the peace table. All
other problems will be forgotten. "
He predicted that general plank
in the Democratic National plat
form against Federal encroach-
ment of states rights would ap-
pease southern Democrats now
threatening to bolt the new deal.
The 50 called southern revolt,
Broughton said, was mot SO much
anti-Roosevelt nor anit-fourth term
as it was resentment against Fed
era1 interference with matters OF
sole state concern"
The principal questions at issue
between southern opponents OF
states rights and the administra-
ton, Broughton added, were the
poll tax and the racial problem.
IT can agree with leaders of the
movement that these questions and
many others are exclusively state
perogatives," Broughton said.
He expressed the opinion that
President Roosevelt would be re-
nominated, would accept and would
be elected withthe border states
Oklahoma, Kentucky and West
Virginia-going Democratic.
Broughton said he was strongly
in favor of state management Of
new public works in the postwar
period.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-11
AXIS CLAIMS REDS
HAVE OPENED PUSH
Reports Launching OF
General Offensive On
Karelian Isthmus

LONDON, June 10 III The
Germans and the Films said to-
nighethat the Russians had launch
ed a general offensive" on the
Karelian isthmus of the Finish
front above Leningrad, and one
Berlin commentator suggested that
it might be the opening blow OF a
Soviet onslaught across the entire
eastern front.
Moscow itself said ''there were
no important changes at the 'front.'
during the day. The broadcast Rus
Esian communique said IA enemy
planes were shot down Friday, but
made no mention of any other ac-
ton.
Berlin said there was accelerated
action on five eectors of the eastern
front in addition to the new action
in Karelia.
From the bloody 1asi front in
Romania to the long dormant
northern theater suspense was
heightened as the thir anniversary
of Hitler's June % invasion of Rus
STA approached, and in high places
everywhere it appeared that Mas
ter Soviet strokes could not be
deferred much longer if they were
not already under way.
The Finnish army communi.
que broke the first word of the re.
ported new offensive, declar.
ing that the Russians early yester.
day morning started a general Of
fensive on the .Karelian isthmus
supported by particularly heavy
artillery fire and strong air forces'
Attacks made at various places
were repulsed except for a few
small and limited penetrations,"
the bulletin said. 1.-THE enemy sus-
stained considerable losses in kill
ed and more than 10 tanks were
destroyed. Our fighters and anti
aircraft defense shot down a total
of "a enemy planes.
The. German transocean COM
mentator Won Olberg said over the
Berlin radio that it was "too early
to judge what tactical and strategic
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-11
French Showing Greater
Resistance Against Nazis

reported in the German Reich it.
self.
While some observers were in
clined to be conservative in their
estimates of these reports which
seeped out of the Netherlands and
northern Italy as well as France
and Germany it was conceded
that the invasion of Normandy had
inspired increasing sabotage behind
the French lines.
The most sanguine reports came
to the French press service in Lon
don. These said French patriots
were. engaged not only in wide
spread sabotage but were fighting
pitched battles with occupation
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-11
FIRE ON ALLIES
ABOUT 40 MILES
NORTH OF ROME
Run Into Maze OF Enemy
88-Millimeter, Anti I ank
Guns At Village
'SIZABLE ACTION
Withdrawal Before British
Eighth Army On Adri-
attic Coast Continues

ALLIED HEADQUAR-
TIERS IN ITALY, June TO-
up - Nazi forces in Italy,
fleeing northward in a rout
that the Allied command de-
clared had become a "catas-
trophe," turned to make a
stand of stubborn but not full
ly-disclosed proportions late
today around a village some
miles northeast of Viterbo,
is 40 miles above Rome.
George Tucker, Associated
Press correspondent with the
Fifth Army in the field, wrote
in a dispatch timed $3.50 pm.
tonight that the previously
almost-unopposed race of the
Allies to overtake the retreat
ing Germans had slowed per-
ceptibly when they ran into
a maze of German 88-milli-
and anti-tank guns in
and around the village.
The Allies brought up tanks. In
fantry and artillery, and the fight
ing quickly assumed the character
of a stable action" Tucker said.
Engage Big Units
Indications were that the Fifth
Army, which has advanced at a
speed of about Is miles day since
the fall of Rome last Sunday, had
succeeded in its racing efforts to
overtake and engage some impor-
tant units of Col. Gen. Eberhard
Won Mackensen's 18th Army.
Capturing the ancient town OF
Tuscania, 10 miles northeast of
Tarquinia, which fell Friday, the
Fifth Army had famed out with
just such an overtaking battle in
tended.
Earlier Saturday a headquarters
spokesman had described the Ger
man army as tretreating in a
completely disorganized fashion, "
with the Fifth Army unable to
catch up with any important ele-
Continued on Page Two; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-11
Price Ceilings On Used Automobiles
Effective July 10 At january Levels

1887 through 1912. Ceiling for 1912
models are the same as maximum
prices for new passenger cars as
of February 20, 1914, while prices
for 1874 models are fixed at
January, 1914, levels.
For older cars. the price is held
to that established for the nearest
comparable 1887 model.
Prices will vary, as they nave
done in normal times, in three
geographical o. &c zcres establish
ed. They will be lowest in region
a which includ IS al states east OF
the Mississippi river, highest IN re-
gion C comprising Washington, ore
gon, California, Nevada and Art
IONA, and ab3u. halfway between
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-11

WASHINGTON, June 10 III
Price ceilings for all used passen-
ger automobiles, under considera-
ton by the Office of Price Adj
ministration for over a year, 60
into effect July 10 at levels general
w of January. 1914.
Price Administrator Chester
Bowles, announcing the new regu-
lation at a news conference today
said the ceailings would roll-back
previaling prices an average of IL
per cent. The measure covers sales
by privNe owners as well as deal
ers.
The regulation fixes maximum
nrices for q makes and about
5000 models manufactured from
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-11
9Th WarLoan|
Drive Opens
Here Monday
coal Set At $5,7O7,ooo,
Including $2,190,000
In Series E. Type
PROGRAMS ARRANGED
RaIlv For Retail Store En-
Moves Will Be Held At
Bailey Theatre

rbe Fifth War Loan campaign
s, rim which Wilrningtonians are
u anecfed to pay $5,7O7,O00 fol
s snp including 50, 10000 for the
p uO type CO. bonds. will
p pop here Monday with the big
o opst days program ever to be
sscbeduled in connection with
Treasury department drive.
The schedule is of such large pro.
,,ortions that it extends from 8
pp,c1ock in the morning until the
c1ose at night of the showing Of
Camp Davis war bond variety
show.
At9 am. retail store employees
will gather at the Bailey theater
for a bond selling rally, where
Zach will be assigned a $500 bond
Gales quota. They will be address,
ed by three Bluethenthal fighter pi-
lots, Capt. Robert J. Weaver, First
Lieut.. Macarthur Powers, and
Lieut. Col. Andrew J. Reynolds,
deputy base commander.
At $50 am, retail stores will
be opened and sales-persons will
start their sales of bonds a n d
stamps. (War bond folders and 9TH
er advertising material are avail
able to merchants at the Chamber
Of Commerce.)
Shipyard Program
At 1870 am, a Apiece Wom-
ans Marine band from Camp Lee
ieune will play at the shipyard.
Major ]. C. Bell, Marine public
relations officer, will address the
shpbuilders.
At pm, Police Chief. Charles
H. Casteen has ordered the traffic
clearance of both sides of Market
street, Thirteenth to Fourth streets,
east side of Third street from Mar
ket to Grace; and north side of
Princess street, between Third and
Fourth streets. Cars left in these
sections after 4 pm. will be re-
moved by a wrecker, as t h e e
areas are designated for the Camp
Davis parade.
At 6:45 p. m. an impressive War
bond parade will proceed west on
Market from Fourth to front; north
on Front to Red Cross street; east
on Red Cross to Third street; south
on Third street from City Hall to
Market and east on Market to
Continued on Page Two; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-11

the two levels in RECON B, covering
the rest of The country.
, Typical prices are 5000 for a 1912
Ford va deluxe four door sedan
sid "as Isl in region A, $1,025 in
region B, an1 $1r65 in region c.
For warranted cars, the ceilings IN
respective areas are $1,238, $1,281
and $1,331.
The ceiling on a 1887 Chevrolet
master deluxe four dor sedan will
be $40 "as Isl in region A. !*fd
in region B and $470 in RECON C..
Warranted prices are $40, $500
and 1888.
The regulation permits additions
to ceiling prices for extra equip
ment, such as $40 for any heater
and $40 for any radio.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-11
BY NED NORDNEss

LONDON, June TO- R French
resistance to the Germans is rising,
with sabotage and instruction all
over France, it was learned at Al
lied headquarters tonight.
Every French village, it was de-
clared. offers information, medical
assistance and any other possible
help to the Allied forces.
Although the Allied high COM
mand was Withholding for the stra-
tegic moment its instruction to the
underground to strike all out for
the liberation of the country, front
line dispatches and continental re.
ports told Of multiplying blows
against the Nazis. Unrest also was
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-11
Japs' Second Try To Aid
Biak Garrison Thwarted
Poles In Nazi Army
Asked To Surrender

NEW YORK. June 10-R)-
A spokesman for Gen. Eisen-
hover broadcast today a mes
sage to Poles who have been
forced to fight in German
armies, directing them not to
shoot Allied soldiers and to
come over to the Allied side.
"Do not shoot at the soldiers
of the Allied armies" said
the message beamed to Europe
by the British broadcasting
company and recorded by the
Blue Network. eff you are
forced to shoot, take care to
miss. At first opportunity come
over to the Allied armies, o.
hide and await their arrival"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-11
1000 WARPLANES
SENT into ACTION
AGAINST GERMANS
Clearing Weather Enables
Bombers To Roar Across
Channel Again
BLAST GUN POSTS
Troop Carriers First To
Take Advantage OF Air.
fields In France

SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TIERS ALLIED EXPEDl-
TIONARY FORCE, Sunday
June II -(R)- Allie d air
power swept back into action
in support of the invasion
yesterday, establishing bases
on the beachheads in France,
and, it was announced today,
u. S. fighter commands alone
sent nearly 1000 planes into
the sky.
Clearing weather enabled
heavy bombers to roar across
the channel again after a 10
hour lull and Allied planes OF
all types b a S t ed German
troop concentrations and
tanks, big gun positions and
airdromes as well as rail and
highway transport. ~
Liberators dumped heavy loads
Of explosives behind the battle
zone in both Normandy and Brit
tany and the tireless Maraudsr
medium bombers made three at
tacks during the day.
Paris Radio Silent
An indication that the assault
was being continued through the
night came as the Paris radio
suspended at midnight and Ber'
lin broadcast warnings of NUS
ance raiders penetrating into
western Germany.
(The Hungarian radio also lef'
the air early in the night, the
federal communications commits
sion reported.
The German air force still
avoided a showdown, but severa
aerial battles developed.
The Eighth Air force listed ter
German planes shot down and 2
American craft missing while tn
Ninth Air Force announced a
least ten of the enemy shot dow
and five IT,. S. planes missing.
Fly Wounded Back
The first planes to take advan
tage of the newly constructs
landing strips = whose existence
placed Allied aircraft in actiol
from French soil for the frs
time since 1910 - were Ameri
can CAT troop carriers which wer'
used to fly wounded back to Brit
ain.
They landed on one of the
three strips built since last Wed
nesday by newly formed Ninth
Air Force engineering unit in the
heart of territory held by tht
Allies, picked up wounded ane
returned to Britain within l.:
hours of their original takeoff.
British fighters also were ove1
Normandy in strength and some
of them used for the first time {
landing strip just completed by
Raj Servicing Commands. They
refueled and returned to battle
without having to return to home
baces.
Bombs, rockets and a hail O.
bullets were poured down upor
the Germans as the Allied a1rmer
put a protective roof over tn,
embattled infantrymen agroune
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-11
BURNS ARE FATAL
TO BUS MECHANIC
William T. Shore, 10, Dies
AS Result OF Fire At
Garage Here

William Thomas Shore, 19-year-
old mechanic at the Queen City
bus line garage, died in N S
Walker Memorial hospital yester-
day morning at II O'Clock as the
result of burns suffered in fire
at the garage TUESDAY afternoon.
He was burned when his clothes
caught fire after he tailed in an
attempt to throw pan OF gasoline
from a burning bus. The engine
of the vehicle had become igniled
while Shore was working on the
distributor and the gasoline hal
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-11
(Easern Standard Time)

Easern Standard Time)
4, By q. S. Weather Bureau
chronological data for the "a hours
eNuihg 7:3O pm, yesterday.
Temperature
1880 pm, 70 ~ ' 80
MA! Maximum 80; Minimum 10; Mean 7s;
Humidity
1870 pm, =.
Precipitation
dIolal for the "a hours ending 7:30 pm,
700 inches.
Total since the first of the month.
900 inches.
Tides for Today
NV High Low
Wilmington ---------.----------1:12a s:s5a
=. 1872 8:49p
Masonboro Inlet --- 11:27a 5:Na
sunrise, 500 am; sunset, 1928 p.m.'
'-0onfise, :48 pm; Moonset 1854 am.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-11
WEATHER

FORECAST
NoRTH CAROLINA: Partly cloudy and
ddo Anu warm Sunday. Scattered thun-
uefshoWers in afternoon.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-28

TlNTA0el, KING MARKS SOMBeR CASTLE, TOPS A
WIND SWEPT CRA0 ON THE WILD CORNISH COAST;
A SETTING NOT FOB GAY ROMANCE, BUT DARK
TRAGEDY AND TROUBLE SEEMS TO BE AFOOL
FOR GUARDS HAD BEEN placed TO DISCOURAGE
VISITORS.
ner1 msk-At Gnsflr 1infnnrl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-05

It is rumored that the Germans are
about to spring a miraculous secret
weapon upon the world capable Of obliter-
ating cities at single blow. Far fetched
as the idea may sound, Allied leaders long
ago ceased Understanding German
resourcefulness. They are driving to
knock out the Nazis before they can come
forth with any more death-dealing sur
prises Our bombers are reaching with
growing force into the industrial vltals
of Europe They are carrying loads OF
explosives that dwarf previous efforts OF
the Luftwaffe.
The average layman has little concep-
ton of the miracles taking place right
here in our own country which make
possible two-thousand-ton air raids on
Berlin. One of those miracles is 100
octane gasoline. Two years ago daily
capacity for the manufacture OF 1OO
octane was only about 10000 barrels -
enough to fuel a single five-hour raid
engaging 1000 Anchored bomberS, SIM
liar to recent Berlin attacks. Now it is
approximately 100000 barrels daily, more
than five times as much, and before many
months it will double again. Without lOO
octane gasoline, our bon1bers would be
unable to carry out their missions.
A significant fact about the 100 octane
miracle is that it has been financed prln-
cipally by the Oil industry. The oil COM
panies have spent hundreds of millions
of dollars perfecting this high test tue!
and building production facilities. All OF
which means the oil industry has faith
in the future of private enterprise. 1t is
endeavoring to demonstrate in action
rather than words that industry operated
bv private citizens, if given fair chance,
has the resourcefulness and flexibility to
lick any problem confronting it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-05
Ink or Iodine for Doctors?

Most doctors are heartily opposed to
Federal compulsory health insurance.
They are opposed to it because experience
in other nations has shown that it under
mines medical progress and the quality
of medical care, both of which have
advanced rapidly in this country. For
reasons they are against the Wagner
Murray Bill now before Congress.
AS Representative Miller of Nebraska
points out, under this bill, "the resulting
RECOMMENDATION would first hamper the
physician and then break down his
s:4Uteie his initiative, and his effective
ness. The Director of the Public Health
Service would be car over physicians.
In him would be the power to direct
where and when, and finally how to prac-
tice his art. Rules and directiveS would
be promulgated in the central office that
would progressively put the practice OF
medicine in a straitjacket. The patient
could be told to what physician he must
report. If you do not believe this, just
pay visit to any social security board
ard see how those who are compelled to
come to it for help are herded around and
made to fill out endless forms. The ply
sicians' fingers would be stained with ink
instead of iodine"
Doctors are often called reactionary for
condemning Socialistic medical schemes.
The record of medical progress during
the last $50 years certainly does not JUS
tify that charge. The medical profession
is working constantly to broaden and
improve medical care. Plans are il the
making even now to reach the avowed
objective of the Wagner Bill without de-
stroying the independence of American
medicine.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-05

extensive new industries will develop
from accumulated savings. Neither the
money nor the incentive is left for such
purposes after the tax bills are paid.
The gravity of the tax situation brings
the American people face to face with a
serious choice. AS Harley L. Lutz, emf
nent authority on tax matters, observes:
"Concretely and in terms of an hiStori-
cal parallel, it is the choice between the
Ford fortune and the Ford automobile.
If they (the people) should decide that
there shall be no more fortunes, they will
also thereby decide that there shall be
no commodities of mass comfort and en-
joyment other than those now known. A
few large fortunes would appear to be a
small price to pay to gain the full bene-
fit for all of the creative and productive
capacity which can be stimulated most
effectively and most certainly by allow
ing those who succeed to keep the fruits
of their success"
Fifteen state legislatures have resolved
for a constitutional amendment limiting
Federal income taxes in peacetime to Is
per cent. The instinct of self preserva-
ton should stimulate other states to SINH
lar action. Unrestricted Federal taxing
power in the hands of a strong central
government has become menace to the
sovereignty of the states, as well as to
the freedom of the individual.