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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-01
Axis Begins
Big Hesiro
From Turkey

London, Aug. l-CUP) Hundreds
Of German nationals fled from Tur-
key today and their embassy staff
prepared TO follow them. as Allied
sources predicted that the Turks,
defying Nazi threats Of reprisals,
would break relations with Germany
within the next "a hours.
United Press Staff Correspondent
Leon Kay reported In a dispatch
from Ankara that the Germans were
crowding aboard trains at Istanbul
in an effort to get across the from
tier into Bulgaria before the break.
Kay said the parliamentary group
Of the Republican Peoples party
the sole political party in Turkey
was scheduled TO meet in Ankara
this afternoon, presumably TO dis
cuss Turko-German relations.
Travellers from Sofia, he added
reported Bulgarian political sources
expect the break to come as a result
Of Turkeys reported decision "a
grant military bases 10 the Allies
and to expel German agents and
Fifth columnists from the country
In event the rupture brings Tur-
key into the war, he said, the Bull
garians are expected to remain neu-
trial.
The Turks, meanwhile, appeared
TO be ignoring a Nazi warning that
q diplomatic break would have
very grave consequences" for Tur.
key. and Kay reported the Nazi EN-,
bassy staff was packing for an ap,
parently imminent departure.
A special plane brought the Istan
bul contingent of the embassy &.
Ankara yesterday. Three movinl
vans transferred wine from the for
mer Czechoslovak legation, wlici
German Ambassador Baron Fran
Won Papen. has been using, to tn
old German embassy building as
precaution In the event that TIL
Czechs re-Occupy the legation afte
the expecture rupture.
Burning Documents
The clandestine Radio station At,
lantic said smoke was rising iron
the Garden of the Embassy, wherl
important documents were being
burned.
Radio Berlin reported that Vor
Papen warned Turkish Premiel
6ukru Saracoglu at a conferences
yesterday that Turkeys INTENDED
rupture of relations was a British
maneuyer to force Turkey into TIN
war. (which would have very grayl
consequences for that country.
Allied sources regarded the Ger,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-01
Gen. SfiIweII
Is Promoted

Washington. August !. (UPl =
1t, Gen. Joseph w. Stilwell, COM
mander Of American Forces In the
China Burma-India theater. was
nominated today 10 be a full gen.
erai IN keeping with the increasing
emphasison the war against Japan,
Stilwell win be the u, 3, Army's
sixth full general on active duty,
The others are Gems, George C,
Marshall, chief Of staff, Henry II,
Arnold. commander Of the Army
Air Forces; Dwight C. Eisenhower,
supreme commander OF Allied Eu'
Topean Invasion lohAs, Douglas
Macarthur. supreme commander OF
Allied Forces In the Southwest Pa
eific. and Malin Craig. former chiei
OF staff who was recalled from
retirement TO head the Army Per-
sonnet Board here,
Elevation OF Sillyell widely
known as Vinegar joe because OF
his sharp tongue and his dislike TOR
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-01
.Nozis Lounch
Rocket Plane

London, Aug. j - fUPD - Ger
many recent yreleased another Of
its Wanted secret weapons, a
Messerschmitt 1853 rocket-propelled
fighter plane, in a desperate effort
10 halt American bombers, It was
revealed today.
Preliminary reports indicate the
ME-l63's We're defeated In their
first engagement with American
Lightning Fighters but United
States Air Force headquarters with
held judgement on its potenttalities.
The new plane was secret" only
IN the date when 1t would first APP
pear. Most of its details have been
known by Allied headquarters for
some time and what was not known
could be surmised from Allied ey-
periments with similar craft.
Both American and British heavy
homhers have been attacking rocket
and jet-propulsion engine factories
at Stuttgart and elsewhere in Ger
many on q large scale. The author'
itatiye magazine the Aeroplane
warned that the scale Of attacks IN
dieated that Germany now has JET
propulsion engines in production on
a scale that may threaten Allied
air supremacy over Europe,
First accounts OF the new rocket
planes indicate IL merely Is an adap'
tation OF rockets as booster power
30 augment the gasoline engine,
when the pilot needs q sudden burst
of speed TO elude or catch bis oppo-
nent,
Diiicully with this use Of rockets
IN the past was that the rocket
equipment actually slowed up the
planes except for brief period after
the rockets were FRED,
Easy Prey
IN the past singlerm0loTed hghls
ers carried only two rockets ana
were so slowed they became easy
prey for American fighters.
American flyers sighted fye Of we
rocket planes on one recent nigbt
over Germany but SO far the new
planes have made no real eff0n D
attack American heayles,
Captain Arthur y. Jeiteiy' Llgli'
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-01
New Chaplin
Boby Arrives

ny F@EDkHtGA =, Obbppaww 4,
HJnIteA Press RtagS Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. l-(upl-cneFllf
Ghaniin's fourth wife presented nlnl
Win hls fourth child late last nlgnt.
physielans az ~ Johns h0spltal
In santa Monica said tlle nelss..,'
lie le-yeaFsold former oena onsin
ard The child, . SIX pound, u|
ounce girl, were doing Wen ana ae'
uvery vas normal. Everything VA
normal, IN fact, except the way tpf
news was announced,
chanlln's haTBied butler, VINO Naa
ria troubles when his master was w.
VOWED IN the Joan Barry patefnlts
eaGewwhieh still y 70 eome 70 ulhl
reported early ln the evening tlal
tie newest Mrs, Chaplin WQnlap'l
be going 70 the hospital nnti' nss'
week, ....,A..
About that tins d. hhel0oll
Payne said he was getillg Teaay a
drive her 70 D. johns Tne lnsahl
was born ~ 1873 ,, No. ana W.
butter was called 70 the phone aealll
Ia afln0InNe; were al asleep beri
and we've got nothing 70 say"
Ths slsysaF-old comic sloped wa
the elOeseyed daughter o. pleSs
wright eugene 0'Nelll q yeeE agf
iast June, while ne was tgylng a
dodgs Miss Barry who accused hlil
Of being the father Of her Veto
come child,
MIS- Barry threatened eAleidl
when sire learned that the white,
tllaielled chaplin had married
somebody else, but she changed PEI
mind and threw the book at him
shaTging him vaTl0usly with violei,
Ing the Mann act, interfering vita
her elvil liberties, and trying z
sl1in ials responsibilities as Q father
Acquitted
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-01

New York. Ang. I-(UPl-Leo
Me0uiness, 20, RoxbnFy, Mass
clerk, was arrested today In Q barn
~ the request OF Boston police f0F
questioning IN connection with the
gang murder In Boston, july -, OF
KapleD LatlaD, alias Pepper Martin,
Boston detectives who assisted w
the arrest said Me6ulness had .
record OF 81 arrests IN Massaehus
setts foT eonnteTfeiting. robbery and
assault,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-01
RAFCounters
Flying Bombs

London, Aug, l.-tUP)-The RAP
bomber command, striving 10 reduce
the effectiveness OF the German
flying bomb attacks on southern
England, sent Lancaster and Halifax
bombers over France last night to
strike at a supply depot few miles
southwest OF Rheims, and another
depot ard launching platforms in
| the Pas DE Calais area.
Allied heavy boDlbers last night
attacked enemy naval vessels AT lie
IiaYre. France, base for the Ger
man motor torpedo boats which were
reported Officially TO have increased
their activity Sunday and Monday
nights. but without damage 70 Al,
lied shipping
Others continued the attack
against enemy supplies and COM
munications by smashing the raj
center OF La Roche and railway
bridges crossing the Loire river AZ
Nantes, Tours and Les Popt DE ce,
Fuel dumps In Fopet DE Ia Guerehe
and NJ Tours, and ammunition stores
southeast OF caen we're bombed Ell
AEttlNfAs'
Fighter bOIDbers on armed TeeeAT
naissance attacked railways. Ne9s
ing stock, airfiflds and motor trans
port over o vide area,
Mines we're laid IN enemy waters
during the nights operailons, and
four of the attacking aircraft were
reported missing, the air ministry
announced today, Mosquitoes 0f the
Raj coastal command, without Loss,
attacked and destroyed enemy elrr
craft of the Bfest peninsula last
night, the ministry announced,
Bad weather grounded major
portion OF the tactical air force 10
italy yesterday, Rome dispatches
said, although Q squadron Of Thur.
deFbOlts hit three locomotives and
100 railway ears and destroyed -
enemy aircraft In northern Italy
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-01
Macarthur Secures
Sansapor Beachhead

United Press War Correspondent
Allied Headquarters, Southeast
Pacific, Aug. - (U.P) - Allied
forces under General Douglas Mac
Arthur, uletly rounding the northern
most tin OF Dutch New Guinea TO
land on Sansapor. 600 miles from the
Philippines. secured their beachhead
today, advanced inland 10 cross .
strateglcally important river. and
started construction Of an airport.
Allied land, sea and air forces
hit Sansapor Sunday In q brilliant"
ly-executed amphibious blow that
neutralized 5000 japanese at Soc
'rong. 90 miles to the west. by-passed
q similar number Of enemy troops
I40 miles to the east at Manokwagl,
and brought Macarthur 200 miles
fartlser on his promised yeturn ~
the Philippines. !.
The movement was undetected
by the enemy and little opposition
has yet developed" Macarthur said
in his daily communique.
GTeen-clad soldiers splashed
ashore at daybreak and by noon
patrols already had crossed the
We've River and were driving west
toward Cape Sansapor. II miles
from the original beachhead.
While opposition was light, front
line dispatches said aerial reaction
was expected momentarily from the
powerful japanese airdromes on
HalmaheTa Island. $50 miles away.
Other American forces meanwhile
seized the nearby islands OF Mid.
dleburg and Amsterdam In the same
operation, which came after weeks
OF constant bombing had neutral.
lied the enemy air base at Sorong.
and after the week-end's large scole
aerial attack against HalmaheTa.
The latter action-a typical bit OF
Macarthur shrewdness-was design.
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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-27
Final Test In Chest Drive

Ranald Stewart, chairman of the Comn1u-
nifty Chest and War Fund campaign, gives
high praise to the American City Bureau which
is doing the organizational work and directing
the actual solicitation in the present drive.
It is well to have this experienced assist
ence through which the campaign should, and
undoubtedly will, move more smoothly toward
success. But the final test the surest proof.
of attaining the goal rests, not with the Amer
lean City Bureau, nor with the Jealous corps
of Wilmington solicitors. It rests with the
people of the city of Wilmington and the
county of New Hanover.
The most perfect organization, the smoothest
moving machinery, could not do the job with
the campaign area.
Remember this, when a subscription blank
is laid before you. Stretch point, give more
freely than in the past, when knock comes
home. The total needed to support home in
stitutons, charities and war relief funds is
greater than ever since the Community Chest
was created to replace separate drives. It can
be raised only if the people loosen their purse
strings.
AS the community has established an en-
viable record in all financial solicitations, in
GLIDING war bond campaigns, it is fair to
surplus. This would be no time to fall short.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-27
JUVENILE JUDGE
MAY Be CHOSEN

There is strong possibility thai
the City Council will name a luVe'
nile judge today at its session.
and that the appointee will De d;
H. Ferguson, local attorney anu
deputy judge Of Recorders cOu''
authorities intimated YESTERDAY
Mrs. J. C. Layton, former pfoO ID,
ton officer in charge OF glIi
work, is currently serving as aet
| ing Judge of the court. The posi-
was made vacant when Edgar l.
Vow gave up the judgeshlp 70 ia ~
sumo a seat on the City coullr.A
Should Ferguson accept ,D ~
Juvenile court position, he VIII y.
forced to give up his deputy S pua
on the Recorders bench a pos
ton to which he was recenliy az
pointed by the Board OIL O0'''
Commissioners. >.
F. C. Paschall, another locai .,
torney, is also being conSloei''
for the juvenile post. mi,
City Attorney W. B. CampOen =, 4
expected to present the coai ~,
with it's requested re-draf' VI .;r W.
anti-noise law at today'S mee'lAs
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-27
With The AEF
Army Chow Stories A La Carte

nearest telephone-although a
French farmhouse is not a reg
ulation booth-called the FIJI
in the next town and told them
in perfect French what had
happened. A half hour later an
armed FIJI outfit came up on
the other side of the road
block and handed a big slab Of
fresh meat over the top.
Pvt. Carol Little, Wewoka,
Okla. artillery man, had a
fresh fish breakfast one morn
ing after the conclusion from
his outfits gun battery had
stunned the fish in a nearby
stream during the night.
One French village seemed
to have plenty of bread when
the doughboys arrived. Upon
investigating they found the
FIJI had fouled up a German
railroad signal system and
wrecked two trains by routing
them into the same tunnel ST.
simultaneously. There was more
destruction on the Frenchmen's
minds. One train was pulling
IL carloads of flour.
S-Sgt. Roy Hughes of Mimic,
Okla, an artillery man, stop
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-27
BY JOHN SELBY

"a u't hors Chioce" by Nc
Kinlay Kantorl (Coward-McCann
$3.50.
For many writer, book like
MacKinlay Kantor's Author
Choice" would be impossible. and
not only because many a writer
would be unable to muster 40 pub.
lished o TT stories. Authors
Choice" is book possible only to
an extreme extrovert, a fellow who
would feel compiimented if some.
enc called him the life of the party
Mr.. Kantor has assembled "a
stories, beginning with his firs
successful piece, which won a
newspaper contest in Des Moines
and sampling the output of the %
years since the day Purple" ap-
peared. These pieces range from
short shorts to long short sto.
ries, although none of the Kantor
NOVELTIES is included. Some of the
stories are reprinted just because
Kanton wanted to see them in
print again, and some because of
curious happenings connected with
them, and some because the author
thinks they represent him at his
best.
In addition, he has written q
commentary Nor each story. twice
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-27
World Police Force

In the opinion of DR.. HUI Shin, former Chi.
nese ambassador to the United States, peace
may be maintained only by world organiza.
ton made potent by the use of force against
outbreak OF another world war; Without this
the whole peace structure will fall to pieces, -
said the doctor during a discussion of Build
ing Better World'' in New York.
DR.. HUI Shih's view is shared by a wide
section OF public opinion. Only a competent
police force forever alert against warlike
moves in all sections of the world may be
relied on to keep other Hitlers or Mussolinis
from laying the foundation for future world
shattering conflicts
The soundness of this position is established
by the fact that had there been such force
when Hitler began his climb to power he
would not have dared to reoccupy the Rhine.
land, to rape Czechoslovakia, to move into
the Sudatenland or drive against Poland
There would have been no Second World
war; millions of lives would have been saved;
billions OF dollars worth of property would not
have been destroyed; the United States alone
would not now face a national debt liable to
reach $500, 100000 before peace is restored.
1t was well said in the early days of our
national life that eternal vigilance is the
price OF peace. Eternal preparation for war
also, may be the price of peace. Because the
present United Nations made no preparation
fol war during the years that Hitler was
building his armies and air force he was able
to overrun most OF Europe at will. In much
the same way Japan was enabled to overrun
the western Pacific
Because there was no adequate preparation
anywhere in the world to deal with the ag.
gressors Germany and Japan are still to be
defeated at tremendous sacrifices, made and
to come.
fhe record of the last quarter century is
clear enough, in all reason, to convince any
person or nation that only disaster can follow
any failure to safeguard peace with WORLD
y police force
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-27
The Literary Guidepost

this commentary includes a com
plete new ending for a story. Usu-
ally less drastic material is it's ba.
sis-where the piece was written
Rantor has a funny complex; he
is always dragging his secretary
over railroad trestles, setting up
shop on sandpiles and such); why
it was written; what he was paid
for it; the reason the slick maya
zines would, or would not, buy it.
But this is It'll not all. These
tain pieces 60 farther than their
author expected, I think. They form
a vast and hearty, yet oblique,
apology for his commercial sue
cess. I do not see why he should
have apologized, and I am per-
fectly sure he would insist he had
not. But the text is full of lines
about including something to show
what editors buy,' or to show what
not to write if one wants an editor
to buy. Mr.. Kantor appears to be
hangover from the ivory tower
days who feels himself cheated a
trif1e.
His self revelations are incom-
plete. too. The last few years he
has dictated his pieces, and l don't
think he mentions the fact that
the only stories that sound syn
thetic are few Of these.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-27
With The AEF
BY KENNETH L. DIXON

WITH THE AEF IN
FRANCE, Sept. 20-Delayed)
-LR-Whether he's in Africa,
Sicily, Italy or France, food re-
mains one of life's most i'm
portant subjects to the average
soldier and the current cam
paign already has come up with
the usual quota of chow line
stories.
Here in France all such story
telling sessions invariably be-
gin and end with yarns about
this or that French family that
trotted out ham and eggs, milk,
butter, cognac, champagne and
wine, roast chicken, pork, bef-
steak and so forth. But now
and then come a few tales like
those of other campaigns.
T-Sgt. Charles Perry of In
dianapolis and his platoon were
leading an infantry advance the
other day when he spotted i
German jeep approaching. 1t
seemed to be loaded with
something so Perry ordered
his men to hold their fire until
the vehicle was too close to
get away, then ne had the
whole platoon cut loose at it.
Most of the Germans aboard
managed to escape to a near
by wood but had tc abandon the
jeep. Sgt. Perry and his hungry
pals promptly sat down to a
nice breakfast of hot German
coffee, bread & cheese. More
over, the entire company now
is being fed more promptly be-
cause Supply Sgt. Thomas
Earnest, Calera, Okla, is using
the German jeep to haul ra-
tons.
A little town down the road
looked good 10 Sgts. Rene
Yank) Levy of Brooklyn and
Lake Mundy, Ardmore, Okla.
But on the way they were stop
ped by a roadblock.
They figured there ought to
be some fresh meat in the
town-and they hadn't tasted
fresh meat for some time. But
they couldn't get beyond the
roadblock the Germans had
thrown up.
Yank hadn't lived in Brook
Ign for nothing. He hunted the
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-27
Beauty On The Hill

Senator Andrews of Florida contesses him.
self depressed by the ''morguelike'' appear
ance of the House and Senate chambers. His
esthetic sense is likewise outraged by the
tobacco barn. steel rafters, installed four
years ago to hold the glass roofs up. The
senator would like to have both chambers
tastefully redone-after the war, OF course
at cost of only 5000, 1000.
We think the legislators should give this
matter their immediate and serious atten.
ton. It should perk up their spirits to know
that the future holds promise OF surroundings
less likely to bruise their sensbilities. And
with this out of the way, they might feel
more like tackling ouch tricial as reconver-
sion legislation, postwar taxes, and other odds
and ends.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-27
Newest AKA Vessel
Slides Down Ways

The U. S. S. Tate, 10th vessel
to near completion at the yard oil
the North Carolina Shipbuilding
company, was launched yesterday
afternoon at $50 o'clock un.
der the sponsorship of Mrs. C. E.
Fox, of Wilmington, wife of the
Leading assistant foreman in the
yards Erectors department.
Her attendants were Mrs. W.
+: White, OF Hampton, Va, and
Mrs. Otto Scholz, of Hilton Village,
Va.
The U. S. S. Tate, 18th AKA
type combat cargo ship to be built
mere, is named in honor of a coun.
ty in Mississippi.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-27
MANY HOURS GIVEN
BY NURSES AIDES

The Volunteer Red Cross Nuls ~,
Aides, since the start Of the s eirs,
here in June, 1912, nave s lime
1865 IL hours of volunteer ' so,
to James Walker Memorial ~,
pital, Mrs. D. r. McLG ;S w
chairman of the corps, Sd"
terday. 49,, finish
Because a large number fl ta,n
ing past courses have move" r WI,
the city, the corps neeo oj,. WONT WI
members today, particularly , Wv,
en- who will enroll in day e. i'm,
and who later can give 1heA "
to day care of patients ,,..a
The tenth and eleventh S Gl~s
of Red Cross volunteer W. N
Aides will be started MONDAY .s Md
tober 2, at the hospital, WIN Il
Augusta Futchs as instrucj in lib
women who are interested H. n 4
ing the day class are asaV an
report to Miss Futchs a' M
and for the night class a' =
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-27
Patti, Is Years After

twenty-five years ago today, as you may
discover in the popular feature elsewhere on
this page citing events of a quarter-century
ago, Adelina PATHS sweet voice was stlled
forever.
Perhaps no singer, with the possible excep-
tion of Jennie Lind, held American audiences
in thral for so long time. It might be
fairer to add Tetrazzini among PATHS run
ners-up, but whereas Tatrazzini devoted her
talent almost exclusively to operate appear
ances, Patti made many concert tours and
SO reached much wider audience.
We remember hearing her, as child, in
the old Academy of Music in Washington
where Bertha Lincoln, whose beauty rivaled
her voice, made her debut. We were crowded
between garlic-scented Italian of ample girth
and little fidgeting fellow whose face could
barely support his heavy .mustache, in the
third gallery, and were too young to appre-
eiate the significance of her performance, but
the recollection Of the emotional appeal of
her singing Home, Sweet Home, has never
faded.
The episode is mentioned only to note that
h Patti could create an impression on child
which has survived at least sixty years un-
dimmed her hold on adult auditors must have
been great indeed.
Patti made her first American appearance
Is Lucia in New York. By strange coin.
cidence, Tetrazzini also made her initial an.
pearance in this country in the same role, in
the Tivoli theater OF San Francisco, long be.
fore the earthquake and fire Of 1905 destroyed
this old, unconventional play house where the
backs of all seats had little shelves where the
audience could place beer glasses between sips
and the large Italian and French segments Of
the citys population were wont to gather tc
hear great artists and give way to volatile
applause. At Tetrazinni's debut, particularly
after the Mad Scene, they just about tore
down the house.
Herein we find difference between Tet
razzini and Patti, for as the former appealed
irresistibly to the effervescent emotions, ever
through her years at the Metropolitan, tht