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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-11

U. S. PACIFIC FLEET
HEADQUARTERS, Pearl Har-
DOR July 15-Delayed)-lR-
An American navy man who
lodged the japanese conquer
US OF Guam for 81 months and
nVed on the island all that
'ine like hunted animal was
rescued by a U. S. warship
July 10, ten days before the
landings which restored that
possession TO America.
he is George Ray Tweed, AZ,
a radioman from Portland,
ofe., who fled Agana town in
an automobile with a buddy
sller the Japanese came
ashore December 10, 1941.
Alter the rescue he was NOV
90 to Saipan and from there
ny plane to Pearl Harbor,
"here he was interviewed
while awaiting air Transport
'allon to California.
The Japanese detailed q So
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laps Turn, Flee.
Instead OF Dying
For Their Emperor

U. S.. PACIFIC FLEET
HEADQUARTERS, Pearl Har-
Dor Aug. 1o-(R)-The American
reconquest of Guam produced
something new the Japanese
ran for their lives when the end
was near instead of dying for
their emperor in a suicidal
"banzai' charge.
The last. organized resistance
on, Guam was wiped out We'd
nesday, Adm. Chester W. MINI
itz announced today. The final
enemy pocket was overwhelm-
ed near the northeast corner
of the island.
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by the death
children in a /
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raid. $
:. Streaming back oarri-
caded streets are rem hts Of
his motley army = hundreds
If TODT organization workers,
marines, headquarters SOL,
diers, ORKCK drivers. cooks,
parachute troops. sailors and
punishment platoons,'' beat.
en-, sweaty, dirty misfit group
= of soldiers who had lost most
of their Nazi cockiness. Many
are middleaged, many are
wounded, many limp as they
march to the rear.
Their commander just lin
ed up every German in the
port area, gave machine
gun to every fifth man and 4
rifle to the others and threw
them all in to the frontline of
combat said Capt. T. c.
Roberts, West Hartford, Conn.
They are sloppy army"
Many more prisoners have
been taken today. raising the
total for the four-day siege to
at least $500, and another D.
600 wounded are reported in
the large hospital within the
civ.
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Sunday Schools
Will Be Closed
s~ To Youngsters

Effective August 10, Sum-
day school for all children
under. Is years of age will be
discontinued by all churches
in the city until the opening or
city-county schools. the Rev.
Carl H. Fisher, president of
the Wilmington Ministerial as
sociation, announced last night.
Closing Of Sunday schools is
due to the epidemic of polio
myelitis in North Carolina
which total 500 cases to date.
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Aircraft
: Cutba
Ordered
DRASTIC CHANGE MADE
Liberators, Thunderbolts
Commands Affected
By Curtailment

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1U.
-(P)-A sweeping aircraft
cutback, affecting Liberator
bombers, Commando trans
ports and Thunderbolt fight
ers, was ordered by the War
department tonight to clear
the way for the huge new B.
20 and B-32 superbombers
and to release workers for
more critical jobs.
Twenty thousand workers will be
affected Immediately and an esti-
mated 100000 more will be laid
off by the end of this year. said
the announcement released by the
office of war information.
The Andrew Higgins Construc.
ton Co., which lost it's Liberty
ship contract in 1912 before ship
was built, was cut entirely from
production of the CAS- Commando
transport before plane was COM
pleted. Higgins subcontract work
on planes will continue, and about
half the $500 workers may be re-
tanned.
Cutbacks after the first of the
year will take place in Commando
plane production at Buffalo, St..
Louis and Louisville, KY, but until
that time, expanding schedules are
to be met
Inability of the Luftwaffe to in
flict as heavy losses as had been
expected account for the cut in
transport planes, officials said, and
the growing emphasis on the Pa.
cific war. was seen behind the shift
from Liberators to the B-29 SUI
perfortress, and its big running
mate. the B-31, by Consolidated.
Lberator, production by North
Araericsn at Dallas, Texas, viii
be eliminated gradually.
Production of the Liberator will
be reduced at Ford's great Willow
Run plant in Dtroit and the Vultee
Aircraft Corporation plant in San
Diego.
A reduction of presently unknown
depth will be made in the subcon.
tract work for the PAT Thunder
bolt fighters done by Goodyear at
Akron, Ohio, owl said. It will be
sufficient to lease the manpowe1
situation in Akron
These accompanying shifts OF
sub-contract work are planned:
1. Work will be transferred
from southern California plants to
Dallas to relieve the acute labor
shortage in southern California and
to provide jobs for the released
Dallas workers.
2. Parts production from Akron
will be shifted in part to Evans
vile, Ind, where the PAT is being
manufactured by Republic Aviation
corporation.
The latter switch is expected to
release 1,40O skilled makers of
heavy tires who are now working
in Akron aircraft plants. 1t was
expected that their return to tire
companies would ease the critical
shortage of heavy truck and bus
tires.
AS against the 10000 workers to
be released in the next 30 days,
owl said there were $4,000 air.
craft jobs waiting to be filed, by
estimate of the War Manpower
Commission. Jobs are open in San
Diego, Chicago, st. Louis, Tulsa.
Okla, Cleveland, New Orleans and
Renton, Wash, for aircraft work
ers, Owl said.
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FIRE KEEPER DIES

TRYON, Aug. TO- Up William
Morris, "a, keeper of the famous
15O-year-old fire in a mountain
home near Saluda, died at a hos
pital here today after lengthy ILL.,
ness. The Morris home had been
visited by many tourists wishing to
see the fire which was started by
the mans ancestors.
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MARINE Filler DIES

! DURHAM, Aug. TO- R Major
Robert o. Hawkins, 26 of the United
States Marine Corps, who was in
jured last Sunday when his plane
fell near the Chapel Hill airport,
died this morning in the Chapel
Hill Memorial hospital. The flier's
body will be sent to Bridgeport,
Conn.,, for funeral services and in
terment. -.
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ARM0RED FORCES
STRIKE SWIFTLY
One Spearhead Veers Off
In Thrust At Orleans
To Flank Capital

SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TIERS ALLIED EXPEDI-
T1ONARY FORCE, Friday,
Aug. 11.-(R LIT. Gen.
Omar N. Bradley, whose arm
ored columns were striking
toward Charities and the last
50-mile defense zone west of
Paris, suddenly sent one
force veering off in the d.
|rection of Orleans early to-
day, threatening to flank the
French capital from the
south.
THE battle for Paris ha, be.
gum" German broadcasts declar.
ed as the swift-moving Allied for.
ces rolled toward the historic city's
outer defense lines.
(NBC Reporter David Anderson.
broadcasting from rolling Allied
transmitter in France, said the
drive already had reached within
80 miles of Orleans with the "An.
orleans at this moment attacking
Chateaudun, 70 miles from Paris.)
Yet a third American column was
believed rolling south toward Tors
AZ miles southeast of lie Mans on
the Loire river, possibly in support
OF other forces which have stabbed
through mine-fields and thin resis.
lance to Nantes and Anglers, far.
Their downstream on. the Loire.
The columns pressing due east
toward Paris were deep into the
chaftfes defense zone, which
guards the last so miles to the
capital.
CThe Brazzaville radio, in
broadcast recorded by CHS, said
that according to some reports
"Chartres is in Allied hands" but
added the reports were not con-
firmed at Supreme Allied Head
quarterS.)
There still was no evidence that
1t. Gen Bradley's forces had met
resistance or that the Germans
were intending to put up any sort
of stand on the north bank of the
Loire, barring the way to southern
| France.
In the drive on Orleans, the Am
orleans were heading for the gap
between the Seine and Loire rivers
south of the capital, possibly in an
attempt to head off 10 German divi-
sions reported fleeing northward
from southwest France.
Far behind these operations, the
Americans cut loose new central
front attack on their left flank, pre-
sumably between Mortain and
Wire, and rolled up gains of a
mile and half, first army head
quarters said.
This push seemed aimed at IRON
| ing out the German positions
| above Mortain, which the enemy
still holds, and Strengthening the
Avranches corridor.
(The ABSIE radio, American
broadcasting station in Europe, de.
clared that the Canadians had cap
tured Vimont, the Paris road block
seven miles southwest Of Caen
which has held up the British drive
along the short route to the capi-
tall
(The station said forward ele-
ments of the British army had
reached Thury-Harcourt, the Orne
river bastion IA miles southwest
OF Caen. The broadcast was record.
ed by CBS.)
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Russians
Extending
Frontiers
EAST PRUSSIA NEARED
Red Army Spearheads Hit
Germans Hard Blows
Over Wide Area
LONDON, Friday, Aug. II.

LONDON, Friday, Aug. IL.
-(R)-Russian troops, at
lacking a bitterly resisting
enemy near the Niemen riv-
er in Lithuania, yesterday
drove another spearhead to
within II miles of the Ger
man East Prussian border,
while other Red army units
far to the south crossed the
historic Narew river in a gi-
gantic pincers move on that
imperilled Nazi province.
Berlin said a battle of every
great proportions" was raging or
the East Prussian front, and again
declared that the reinforced Ger
man a m i e were greatly out
numbered by the Russian legions.
OF equal gravity to the Germans
was the Soviet extension of a huge
Red army bridgehead across the
Vistula river south of Warsaw.
Moscows commuique announced
LONDON. Friday, Aug. IL
-P-Shooting broke out in
East Prussia, West Prussia and
the danzig area when Nazi SIS
elite guardsmen attempted to
arrest German army officers,
the Moscow radio said early
today.
MANY SIS men were killed."
the Moscow account recorded
here by Reuters, said.
the cutting of the Sandomierz-Kiel-
ce highway with the capture OF
Lagow, 20 miles east of Kielce,
and 80 miles beyond the Vistula-
last Axis water barrier before Ger
many itself
With the seizure OF 60 more To-
calities In this key area the Rus
SLAMS o w occupy nearly 1,50c
square miles of territory beyond
the Vistula and are within rs miles
Of German Silesia. They are threat.
enlng to collapse the enemy com
munications network between be-
sleged Warsaw and Krakow, Ger
man-held bastion in southern Po-
land, while other Red armies clear
out a big area northeast of War
saw, between the Polish capital and
the southern side of the East Prus-
sian border.
OpatoW, junction town midway
between Kielce n d Sandomierz,
also was threatened by Russian
columns which seized Modliborzyce
i've miles southwest, and Gojcow,
three miles on the south.
Berlin broadcasts again told of
herce fighting against a Red army
Drlogenead across the Vistula only
80 miles southeast of Warsaw in
the Warka sector. Moscow has new.
er confirmed that crossing.
In western Lithuania the Rus
SANS moved relentlessly forward
on broad front on both sides of
me Nlemen river. Raseniai SO
miles northeast Of Tilsit, was cap
tured. Berlin said the town had
been abandoned in flames.
The battleline, moving through
~ localities, extended southwark to
haudone, on the Niemen at point
only 20 miles east of the Prussian
border, crossed to the south bank
d. Blogoslavenstvo, and ran
through Aszmuce and Valyule.
captured Asmuce is three miles
northeast of Sakiai road junction
ana only two miles east of Sakiai,
Is only II miles from east Prussia.
-V
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LULL BROKEN

!. LONDON, Aug. 1o.-R-Day-
lsnt alerts today broke the brief
Jul London enjoyed from the
" Uefmans' flying bombs as the
Ndzls fired robot salvoes from
sV.Oss the channel and provoked
defensive fire,
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Hit
Big japanese Port

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10-QP)-The Superfortresses
of Americas Goth Bomber Command lashng at the vtals
OF Japans machine, struck simultaneously today at
tai gets $500 miles apart enemy homeland port and
industrial center Of Nagask and the great oil refining
of Palembang the island of Sumatra
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Opening OF School
Delayed 7luo Weeks

Definite assurance that the opening of New Hanover
county schools will be postponed at least two weeks until
was given the public yesterday when ctycounty board
OF health recommended the delay to the board of education
Milford chronicle., 1944-12-22
HARRISON

The annual club Christmas party
was held in the Hall, Saturday eve
ming, with a full house. An extra
fine program was put on, with Di-
rector of Music, Chester Stroop
and wife, of the public school in
Georgetown, present and helping
with the music and singing; also
two very good plays, as well as a
monologue reading, etc. Old Kriss
was present handing gifts to each
one present, after which a treat OF
ice cream and cake was served to
everyone.
About forty guests were enter
tanned at the home of Mr.. George
A. Rust on Friday evening, IN
honor of his 10Th birthday ami
versary. The home was beautifully
decorated. Music was furnished by
Mrs. Ward Mills, piano accordian-
list; Mrs. Marshall Wilson played
the guitar, Mr.. Marshall Wilson.
the accordian and harmonica, and
everyone joined in the singing. A
very enjoyable evening was spent.
Old Kriss appeared ON the scene
and opened the many gifts for Mr..
Rust and passed them to him, one
of which included $1,000 in money.
Mr.. Rust had a large birthday
cake. After all the fun ice cream
and cake were bountifully served.
At a late hour the guests departed
Mr.. Rust many returns of
the day.
Mrs. Estelle Short, of Whining
ton. spent the weekend with Mr..
and Mrs. l.. F. Mason.
Milford chronicle., 1944-12-22
SELBYVILLE


The Rev. Charles S. Jarvis will
preach Christmas sermon next
Sunday morning at eleven o'clock,
with special music by the senior
choir. In the evening a pageant
entitled "The First Christmas" will
be presented by the Youth Fellow
ship and other youngsters of the
church. Last Sunday night the
Mems Chorus rendered some very
fine music which was thoroughly
enjoyed by all. Preparations for
the great event were in progress
for several weeks past.
Christmas carols will be sung on
Christmas morning with the car
oilers leaving the church at 800
a. M. and after singing for the
shut-ins will return to the church
for services at 700.
Last Sunday morning Rev. Jarvis
read the 53rd Chapter of Isaiah
preceding the sermon and then a
part of the first chapter of Luke
called the Magnificent" The text
was the 46th verse. my soul doth
the Lord" The subject
was, Say II With Music"
Cpl. Ralph l.. Holloway is home
with his family. Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
l.. Holloway. Ann. Donald and Ray.
Jr., on a furlough lasting until
day. Cpl. Holloway was
a graduate recently from the Army
Air Forces Flexible Gunnery
Laredo. Texas. a member
of the A. A. F. Training Command. |
He is now qualified to take his |
place as a member of a bomber /
combat crew.
Mrs. Madeleine Tunnel and sis
ter. Mrs. Essie T. Murray. attended .
he Presbyterian Church services in /
Ocean View on Sunday afternoon. |
Mrs. Mary c. Law wishes TO say
4 very pleasant holiday season TO (
Ill her friends and relatives who
read of her recent illness in the
Chronicle and so kindly remem-
lered her with cards. letters. flow
ars and other gifts.
Mrs. Milton +. Murray and little
son, Ward d., and her foster par
Milford chronicle., 1944-12-22

ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ward Daisey, OF
Williamsville and Stockley, were
dinenr guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Rus
sell Daisey in Roxana on Sunday
Mr.. Harry Gray, who underwent
surgical operation at Milford
hospital just recently, is now i'm
proving and expects to come to his
home here probably this week.
Roland F. Scott, who has been
i'll in bed, is now much better and
out again.
Dale Mumford, who has been ov-
erseas for some time past, is home
with his wife, Mrs. Helen Num-
ford, at the home of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Hall.
Mrs. William B. Derricks0n has
been i'll and under the care of a
physician during the past week.
Mrs. Roxie Wilbus Dukes has
been spending a few days at the
home of Mrs. Nora Townsend at
"Riverview Farm" Dagsboro, the
past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Long, of
Reading. Pa, called to see his aunt
and half-sister. Miss Electa Long
and Mrs. Hazel Rayne. on Sun
day.
Mrs. Edith Daisey Warrington
and Mr.. Eldred Ennis were quietly
married at Bishopville one day
last week. They will reside at the
home of the bride on Main Street.
Louis Simpler. of the U. S. Navy,
has returned to his duties after a
furlough spent with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Simpler. and
other relatives here.
Milford chronicle., 1944-12-22

Mr.. Walter Smith has moved into
Virgie Veasey's property from the
Eliza McIlvaine home, this passed
week.
Mr.. Harvey Penuel took trip
to Baltimore on Friday.
We are glad to state that Mrs.
Albert Davidson. who was operated
upon in the Kent General Hospital
in Dover. few weeks ago, is able
to be out.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer McColley
spent Thursday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Veasey.
Our Sunday School is rehearsing
for their Christmas entertainment,
which will be held Wednesday eve
ming, December 27. in the church.
Miss Rita Warrington has ac-
cepted a position as assistant post
mistress in our post office, of which
Juanita Joseph is postmistress.
Services Sunday as usual. Sun
Milford chronicle., 1944-12-22
FELTON,

The Sarah Rebekah Lodge held
a Christmas party in the Odd Fell
lows Hall on Thursday evening
with Mrs. Harold Palmer presid-
ing.
The Trophy Grange held its an
nual Christmas party. Monday
night in the Grange Hall. The
program was given by members of
the FELTON, High School. conducted
by Miss Annie f. Cow.
Several of the town employees
attended the get-together party at
the international LateX Corpora
tion at Dover on Saturday night.
Mr.. Edgar Harrington has re-
turned to his home in Detroit.
Mich. from visit with friends and
relatives. He is guest of Mr.. Will
liam Bradley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arch Drake and
family, of Wilmington, were guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Julius Carson.
The late residence of Robert VO-
gel has been sold to Mr. Amos Mos
mann, of Wyoming.
Mrs. Dave Coverdale returned to
her home in Newark on Wednes-
day, after selling her property in
town.
Mr.. Harold Palmer and Mr.. Will
liam ElliasOn are recuperating in
the Dover hospital from an auto
mobile accident last Wednesday
night.
Mrs. Edward Sharp accompanied
her mother, Mrs. George Collins. of
Dover, to Wilmington last Satur-
day.
Mrs. Wilbur Kelly has been
spending a few days with Mrs. Ida
Cooper, of Greensboro, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. Granville Gosley
and family, of Georgetown, and
Mrs. George Toppin and daughter,
of Harrington, were Sunday guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Cain.
Mrs. Cora Bunting and Mrs. Ry-
an, of Selbyville, were weekend
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. James Ca
hall.
Mrs. Roy Lynch, of Milton. has
been visiting her sister, Miss Elma
Eaton.
Mrs. Ruth Brubeck. of Clear
water, Fla, is spending the holi-
udJ6 Win hCA PaA seAAN
Mrs. William Goodwin.
Mrs. Barton Wilson and family /
were Sunday guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Outten.
Miss Caroline Simpler. Sgt.
Wallace Longacre, of Wilmington,
and Miss Agnes Salmons, of Mil
ford, were Sunday guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Clifford Simpler.
Rev. and Mrs. Diehl, Mr.. and Mrs.
d. A. Petry, Mrs. Evelyn Killen,
Mrs. Elizabeth Bringhurst. Mrs.
Cora Hughes, Mrs. ]. E. Melvin,
and Mrs. A. C. Dill were at Har-
rington on Friday evening at the
Asbury Methodist Church to hear
the guest speaker, Mrs. Godfrey,
national field secretary of the Wo- /
mans Society of Christian Ser
vice.
Church services at the usual
hour on Sunday. Y
Milford chronicle., 1944-12-22
MAGNOLIA

A Christmas pageant entitled
Finding Christmas, will be given
on Sunday evening, Christmas eve
under the direction of Mrs. Edna
Roe. Characters are as follows
Mrs. Maxwell, Edna Davis; her
children: Sally, Roberta Brown
jimmy, Marie Brown; Billy, Jay
Brown; Elizabeth, Rose Ann Reed +;
Nancy, Ann McIlvaine; Mary, mo-
ther of Jesus, Isabel Smith; JOS
eph, ]. r. McIlvaine; shepherds,
Marshall Hart and Roy Gourley;
Wise Men, George Red. C. w.
Johnson and Taylor Case; angels.
Eleanor Davis and Doris Nell
vaine. Music by a group of chill
dren directed by Mrs. Myra Nc
Ilvaine and by the senior choir un-
der the direction of Mrs. Mabel
White.
Sunday morning at 1880 the
Church School will have their an
nual Christmas program under the
direction of the superintendents
Mrs. Sara Case and Mrs. Lula An
derson.
On Christmas morning at GOO
a. M. the usual Christmas service
will be held at the church.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. r.. McIlvaine
with a family reunion
on Sunday. The guests were: Mr..
and Mrs. Lewes Reiff and daugh-
ter. Pebby, of Primus. Pa; Mr..
and Mrs. Lloyd Stout. of High
land Park, Pa; Mr. and Mrs. c. c.
and daughter. Ann.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Thompson
on Sunday in honor of
their son. Arlie, S. 2/c. who is
home on a seven day leave. Those
present were: Mr.. and Mrs. Rob
ert Knight and J"re and Shirley
knight. of Wyoming; Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Hall and daughter, Mary.
md Mrs. Lucy Faulkner. of Dover;
Mr.. George Thompson and Mrs.
Anna Rsh. of FELTON,; Mrs. Edgar
Thompson and daughter and Tom
my Stanley. of Little Creek; Will
lard Hall. Micky Mead and Nancy
Carroll, of Dover.
Milford chronicle., 1944-12-22

Burton on Thursday afternoon.
MIR. and Mrs. Wilbert j Mitchell
and family were Sunday guests Of
Mr., and Mrs Charles Donovan and
family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin Joseph were
Sunday guests of MIR. and Mrs.
Norman Rust and son, Leroy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Mcgee and
Mrs. Handy Mcgee, of near Frank
ford, called on Mr.. and Mrs. How
ard Burton and family on Friday.
Jimmy Mitchell spent part OF
the past week with his grandpar-
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Dono-
van.
Milford chronicle., 1944-12-22
REDEEM

There will be Sunday School
services at McCollies Church next
Sunday morning at 10 a. m. Pres
ton Donovan is superintendent.
The Xmas entertainment will
be held on Saturday evening, De-
cember 20, at 1880 p. m.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Lofland
called on Mr.. and Mrs. Robert ].