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HOSPITAL NOTES

Master Peter Tassel, of Douglas, has been discharged form St. Ann's Hospital.
 Jim Nicolo left St. Ann's Hospital following surgical treatment.
 Don Underwood, well known chef at the Baranof Hotel, has been dis charged from St. Ann's Hospital after undergoing surgical care.
 Mrs. Delbert B. Dixon and baby boy have been discharged from St. AnnS.
 Mrs. Olaf Westby and new baby boy left St. Ann's Hospital to return to their home on Behrends Avenue
 Gerald James has been admitted to the Government Hospital
 Majorie Starr entered the Govern ment Hospital for medical care.
 Margaret Perrin entered the Gov ernment Hospital from Tenakee.
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"HITLER's GANG"

The Treasury Department is over looking a swell bet to boost war bonds. all on account of official squeamishness.
 Paramount Pictures recently com pleted a movie entitled "Hitler's Gang" a factual study of the or igin and rise of Nazism. But when
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came to the rescue of Jim Farley recently when New York Demo cratic leaders wanted to oust him as State Chairman.
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Washington AerrY-
 6o-Round

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The first practical diving bell was invented by Dr. Edmund Haley of England in TIT.
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TIDES TOMORROW

High tide 5:12 a. m, 14.8 feet. Low tide-1l.58 a. m., 1.3 feet
 High tide 6:30 p. m, 126 feet.
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LOOK and LEARN 4. c. GORDON

Thomas Jefferson member of any church? department Weather Bureau part? a lance?
 what the the dots above 
 widely worshped divinity of ancient Greece to Zeus?
 ANSWERS:
  Department of Agriculture large venomous serpent of tropical America. Umlaut. Apollo.
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Gerald James has been admitted to the Government Hospital
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Majorie Starr entered the Govern ment Hospital for medical care.
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Margaret Perrin entered the Gov ernment Hospital from Tenakee.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-23
CHINESE ADMIT
JAPANESE GAINS

CHUNGKING, Sept. o. Up "A
Japanese force estimated at 10000
has captured Wuchow, Sikiang port
145 miles southeast of Kweilin, and
pushed on in the direction of Liu-
chow, strategic junction of the HUI.
nan Kwangsi and the Kwangsi.
Kweichow railroads, the Chinese
announced tonight.
A Chinese spokesman admitted
Wuchow had fallen without much
opposition, but declared the Chinese
resistance would stiffen as the enc
my drove deeper into Kwangsi
province.
About 60 miles southwest of WI
chow, other Japanese forces cap.
tured Jungyun. If the japanese
close the gap between Jungyur
and Wuchow, they will have a line
running from Hainan island te
Hongkong for defensive operations
against any American landings.
Japanese troops bearing down or
Kweilin from the northeast Still
were apparently stalled along the
Human KWangsi railroad about
40 miles from the evacuated U. S
airbase, but the Chinese spokesman
said the enemy was bringing ur
achievements. The japanese orig
inally started their push on Kweilir
with five divisions.
Kwanyang, about so miles east
of Kweilin, was reported again en-
dangered tonight. Recently, h
Chinese succeeded in hurting back
more than 40 miles a japanese col
umn which reached the towns out
skirts. Another column, however
was heading toward Kwanyang
from the direction of Chuanhsien
Gen. Chen Mu-Nung, commander
of the Chinese 93rd army, was exc
cuted Sept. 20 for his failure to de-
fend Chuanhsien.
Fighters and medium bombers Of
the u. S. 18th Air Force continued
to support the Chinese by attack
ing Japanese supply lines, storage
depots, troop concentrations
river shipping. The Americans nov
had the added handicap Of having
to operate mostly from western Chi
ma bases.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-23
EISENHOWER RARES
FUTURE POLICIES

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
A L L I E D EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE, Saturday, Sept. 23.-(R-
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower today
barred his policy for dealing with
occupied Germany-a policy of two
listed firmness stamping out the
infamous reign of Hitler and the
Nazis and already in effect in con-
quered German towns.
The Allied supreme commander
minced no words in p:oclaiming
the death penalty for Germans
"who aid the Nazis in any way"
Aiming at swift justice for war
criminals, and threatening the fir
ing squad for those who disobey,
the Allies have ordered Nazi par
ty administrative officers to re.
main at their posts until all funds,
records, equipment and property
are surrendered. -"
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BIG PLANES HIT
GERMAN TARGETS

LONDON, Sept. 22.-lRETwelve
hundred American heavy bombers
blasted deep into central Germany
today from bases in both Britain
and Italy, hitting t h industrial
city of Kassel, the Munich area
and other targets, VIII i e Allied
fighters continued h Ell assault
along the flaming battlefront de.
spite thick cloud conditions.
The German air force made nc
challenge to- the $50 Fortresses and
Liberators which sped from Brit.
ain straight across Germany and
showered explosives on Kassel, but
flax over the target was relatively
heavy and nine bombers as well
as one escorting fighter were miss
ing.
During the night Italian-based
Liberators also flew perilous l,
750-m i | e roundtrip to Warsaw
where tons of food, medicine ano
war equipment were parachuted te
Polish patriots holding out in the
capital. Tt was at least the third
such mission made by Allied heavy
bombers in as many weeks.
The glow of fires raging in War
saw could be seen 60 miles away,
the pilots said. so they had nc
difficulty in picking out the as.
signed spots for parachuting sup.
plies. d..
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UNRRA ADOPTS
RELIEF FORMULA

MONTREAL, Sept. %. - up -
me impoverished people of the
Axls-lnvaded nations of Europe will
receive, depending on supplies and
resources, daily diet of a maxi
mum mum 1850 calories a day and one
"earable pair of shoes or boots
under relief formula adopted to-
Jay by the policy committee of the
United Nations Relief and Reha-
Dlltatlon administration.
Inc formula was worked out in
london by the European commit
zee of UNRRA.
II was explained at a press con-
ference by Director General Her
vert Lehman that these were the
maximum goals of UNRRA. UNR-
IA cannot bind itself, Lehman
.alo to promising everyone shoes
ma that much food because. OF
limitations of supplies and money.
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SHIPYARD UNIONS
IMPLY STRIKES

WASHINGTON, Sept. %. -P)-
Shipyard unions today added theil
weight to The labor pressure upor
wage ceilings with an AF'L union
implyingthere may be strikes un.
less wages are raised.
John P. Frey, president of the
ALL metal trades department, in
a shouting, table-thumping demand
upon the War Labor Board, insist
ed that the government honor a
1912 wage contract ''or we will take
matters into our own hands and
use our own judgment.
An industry spokesman said that
shipyards "are paying the highest
industrial wages in the country.
John Green, president of the CLIO
Marine and Shipbuilding Workers
union, presented his unions de-
mand for an increase of II IL
cents an hour, contending that the
government wage policy ''has been
unfortunately allied with an arti-
ficially construed index which is no
longer indicative of present war
time conditions"
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+ The cannonading OF Second army
tanks and artillery blasting away
at the Germans, entrenched across
their path and armed with anti
tank guns, rumbled up from the
southern horizon to the encircled
British division.
AS the Anthem warriors held of
waves OF charging German tanks
and infantry with the light weapons
with which they plummeted into
Holland six days ago, Supreme
Headquarters described their plight
as "criticaI'.
The British Second was Joined
by the bulk of the Allied First Air
borne army, which launched the
battle for Holland last Sunday, but
their combined weight had pushed
them only two miles north of Nil
megen and six miles from Anthem.
Some field dispatches placed for.
ward elements a little nearer the
beleaguered '1ost" division, but no
one was able to report that it had
been relieved.
Late advices said there still was
heavy fighting in Nijmegen, where
the Allies won their all important
crossing of the formidable WAL
Rhine barrier, despite previous re-
ports that the last German had
been routed from the city.
This bold attempt to wheel
around the northern end of t h
Siegfried line and strike for the
heart of Germany was hamstrung
by bad weather, which grounded
Allied air strength, but there was
a possibility skies would clear to-
morrow.
There was violent fighting inside
Germany itself, where the U. S.
First army has cut through the
Siegfried line east of the German
frontier bastion of Aachen.
A late front dispatch said the
Germans were driven from t h e
southern half of Stolberg, miles
east of Aachen, but house-to-house
fighting still ragged for the remain
der.
Canadian First Army forces won
the days most resounding Allied
victory by crumbling the last re.
sistance north and south of the
French coastal city Of Boulogne
and freeing that important port for
Allied supply ships.
The Canadians seized 1900 pris-
oners, including 1t. Gen. Helm,
in hopping up LIE Portel, overlook
ing the port on the south, and VIM
ereux, just to the north.
But even this victory, vital for
the continued even flow of supplies
and reinforcements, was dWarfed
by the desperate struggle on Hol-
lands western fields.
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U.S.. Filters
Hit Manila
Second
HARBOR AREA HIT
Japanese Radio Reports
Airfields Smashed
y In New Strike
BY The Associated Press

By The Associated Press
Daring American naval air:
men, flying from Pacific
fleet carriers, were reported
by the Japanese radio yester-
day to have smashed the Ma
Mia area of the Philippines
for the second consecutive
day.
News of the second Yank sky
visitation to the Philippines CAPT
tai district was not confirmed by
American sources. Domei, Jaja'
nese news agency, and the Japa-
nese-controled Manila radio said
200 carrier planes, in four waves,
blasted harbor facilities and the
airfield Thursday morning.
American night air patrols were
reported in today's southwest Pa
cific command to have hit Japa-
nese shipping in southern Philip
pines waters. They sank or dam
aged four vessels, including a
transport.
Carrier and landbased planes
struck against japanese airfields
on Halmahera island, 800 miles
south of the Philippines, destroy
ing or damaging many planes.
Yank filters unloaded So ons of
bombs on Celebes airdromes and
destroyed seven small surface
craft at Ceram.
The U. S. Navy reported the
initial Manila sector raids Wed
nesday has these results:
The definite sinking Of II ships,
including a big destroyer and four
large tankers, and the probable
sinking of another destroyer. two
major tankers, a large transport,
a floating drydock and "a other
craft.
The destruction of 205 japanese
planes-110 shot down and IS on
the ground.
Heavy damage to military OBJ
jectives at and near the Cavite
navy yard, Nichols and Clark air
fields and Manila and Subic bays.
The japanese claimed flax &C
counted for Is American raiders,
including four probables, in the
Thursday strike, and that two
were shot down by interceptors.
They also said Nippon naval
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
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SURVIVOR
BADLY INJURED

George Marks of Carolina Beach,
survivor of Thursdays automobile
wreck on the Castle Haynes road
eight miles north Of Wilmington, in
which three persons died, was re-
ported last night by attaches at
James Walker Memorial hospital
to be in a critical condition, sui
fering from serious back injuries.
The bodies Of the. three persons
killed have been shipped from Will
mington to their homes, where the
funeral services will be held.
The body of Rupert J. Perry,
Queen City Coach company bus
driver, was shipped to Robertson.
vile, where funeral services will
be held sometime today.
The body Of Mrs. Allene Sides,
%, of 7-A-12 Hooper, Drive, Maffitt
Village, who was killed instantly,
was SEM. to Albemarle, and the
body of Mary Newland, Tall Hoo
per drive, Maffitt Village, was ship
ned to Manassas, Va. .,,....
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NaZiS Retreat In italy
Greek, Canadian Troop
Shatter Gothic Line
To Drive Up Pc

y ROME, Sept. o. B German
hopes of holding northern I | y
through the coming winter were
blasted today as decimated rem
nants OF IL Nazi divisions fell back
into the Pc valley before the VIC
torious onslaught of Greek n d
Canadian troops who forced a
crossing of the Marecchia river
west Of the captured Adriatic
stronghold of Rimini.
Rupture of the enemy's Gothic
line defenses at Rimini and to the
west of the shattered resort city
gave Gen. Sir Harold Alexander,
Allied commander-in-chi in Italy,
the opportunity he had long sought
to throw his great armored SUI
periority against the Germans
where there was room for maneu-
yer.
''The battle of Italy is not yet
over" wrote Associated Press War
Correspondent L YIN n Heinzerling
from Rimini, but it appeared to
be entering its final phase today"
Eighth army tanks from their
foothold across the Marecchia
were ready for quick smashes in
two observation-disclosures n g
the ancient Via Emilia toward the
big industrial city of Bologne and
north-northwest toward Ravenna,
Ferrara and the Pc estuary The
Nazis, with much of their trans
port lying in rusting heaps beside
Italian roads, appeared literally to
face fight for their lives.
AS the four-week assault on the
Gothic line Numbered toward a
climox American troops Of the 5th
army stormed into Firenzuo1a, ar
important road junction 26 miles
south of Bologna, and seized the
southern slopes of Monte Coloreta,
mile and half northeast of
Firenzuola.
AS they moved up, the dough-
boys found large numbers of
enemy dead littering the slopes on
which whitening artillery and ma
chinegun fire had been laid pre-
ceding the advance.
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affairs.
He looked for a lot more such
things before election day, t h e
President said w h m a reporter
mentioned the story told in Con-
gress, and denied by Australian Of
ficials, that Australia warned this
country 70 hours before the Pearl
Harbor attack tat japanese task
force was headed for Hawaii. Mr..
Roosevelt commented that anybody
who had undisclosed information
about the attack ought to give it to
the army and navy boards now in
vestigating the circumstances.
Dewey's contention that the ad-
ministration is saturated with de
teatism was brought up by Blair
Moody of the Detroit News who
asked if the President would COM
ment.
Mr.. Roosevelt replied by asking
Moody whether he thought so.
mo, that's why 1 asked the
question" the reporter replied.
He didn't think so either, the
continued on Page Three; Col. y
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old age and survivors insur-
ance," the Republican presid-
entail nominee said, 'for those
who most desperately need
protection and are not now COW
cred by Social Security or some
other pension or retirement
ment system"
The New York governor, in
prepared speech broadcast
from the Los Angeles coliseum
said 100000 900 Americans -
farmers and farm workers,
domestic workers. employees of
non-profit enterprises, many
government employees, and
those who work for themselves"
are left without this protec-
ton as the law now stands.
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reprisal for the bombing OF
German SIS column. These were
shot in the back. ~. .~-t
The Fascist radio station
'"Te We're, in announcing that
40 persons had been arrested
and marked for death, said that
one of them was a brother OF
.Pa1miro Togliatti, Italian com
munist who. returned to Italy
from Moscow in March to be
come a minister without port
folio in the Boromi govern
ment. ,aNt
The Fascist threat to execute
40 hostages for Caruso was
first made last week, at which
time the Italian government
turned down a suggestion that
80 F'ascists be put to death IN
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Rome's Ex-Police Chief Killed

turn if the threatened rep-isal
should be carried out.
Wearing a light blue suit,
and haggard but unflinching,
Caruso was tied by guards in
a white, implanted chair as a
blackrobed priest laid a hand
on his shoulder and admins
tered the last sacrament. Ca
russo stared at the priest and
listened intently.
'Viva L'Italia| Caruso
shouted as the priest moved
away and the firing squad took
aim. The words echoed back
from the thick walls of the
century old fort and the shots
followed.
No coup de grace was nee
essary
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He described difficulties Of
administration as mot a good
enough answer" for failures to
include people not now protec-
ted, and said the proposed
changes would involve many
problems. .
1--WE will have to adopt dit.
ferent methods Of collecting
the Social Security tax in or.
der to avoid a bookkeeping bur.
den upon small employers, ia.
mily-type farmers or others we
seek to protect" he continued.
IF we make up our minds that
protection against old age is
something to which every Am
e-ican is entitled, we shall find
a way to reach that objective"
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FORT BRAVETTA, Rome,
sept. 22.-(P- Pietro Caruso,
Aome's police chief during the
Nazl occupation, was put to
ueath with shots in the back by
!o-man firing squad today and
d fasclst radio in German-oc-
sepled northern Italy shortly
sterward announced that 40
hostages had been arrested
9iefe for execution in reprisal.
Caruso was the fist Fas-
slst eollaborationist sentenced
70 death by the Italian high
court. He was convicted yes
.efoay of charges that he turn
ca 81 hostages over to the Ger
mans for execution in the drea-
~ Ardeatin caves last March in
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Dewey Urges More Security

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 22.-(R
Outlining a program to .''pick
up and carry forward an Am
erican system of social pro-
gress," Gov. Thomas E. Dew
ey tonight. proposed broaden
ing and Strengthening the So
cial Security act, unemploy-
ment insurance and other
means to this end.
He also called for develop
ment of a program to- assure
medical service to those who
cannot otherwise obtain it, de-
scribing this as "a task that
must be carried out in coopera-
ton with our medical men,
1.-THE Social Security act
should be amended to provide
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RUSSIANS SEIZE
BIG NAVAL BASE

LONDON, Saturday, Sept.
23.-(P)-The Red army
captured the Estonian capt.
tai and naval base of Tallinn
yesterday, opening up the
Gulf of Finland to the Soviet
Baltic fleet whose airmen
sank three transports choked
with Nazi troops attempting
to escape from the port.
simultaneously, another power
full Red army was on the verge
of crossing into prewar Hungary
from western Romania after
sweeping up so towns and villages
near the frontier, and Polish
communicate from Warsaw S d
the Polish patriots had contacted
Red army troops in the northern
and southern districts Of Warsaw
after the Russians crossed the Wis
lula river.
A few hours before Moscow an
nounced the fall of Tallinn to Rus
sian troops which had reached it
after a lightning advance of nearly
so miles in "a hours, Berlin re-
ported that German troops were
giving up northern Estonia now
that Finland had quit the war.
There was no longer any need
to prote Finland's southern
flank" Berlin said in explanation
of the fresh Baltic disaster heaped
upon the Germans.
Marshal Leonid A. Govorov's
Leningrad army. aided by an Es,
tonian corps, overran 300 m e
towns yesterday, making total
of nearly 5000 seized on the sixth
day of the big offensive.
The Russians in their advance
on Tallinn seized Tapa, strategic
road junction 43 miles southeast
of the capital, and also Paide, u
miles southwest of Tapa.
The Russians now have recover
ed approximately half of the 49,
1853 square miles comprising Es-
tonia-an area about equal to New
Hampshire and New Jersey COM
bined.
The Germans were fleeing to-
ward the west coast and south
west toward the Gulf of Riga, hot
ly pursued by the mobile Russians
who apparently killed or captured
thousands of them during the day.
Naval airmen attacked German
evacuation ships in Tallinn harbor
Thursday night, the Soviet COM
munique said, sinking three large
German troop ships and patrol
vessel and damaging many other
vessels, including III r ee troop
ships.
Along the southern Estonian-Lat-
Wan frontier area northwest and
west Of Valga Gen. Evan Maslen-
nikov's Third Baltic army captured
$50 localities yesterday, and 81
miles southwest of Valga the Lat
Wan capital and port of Riga was
under Soviet shellfire n d Red
army infantrymen were reported
ir Moscow dispatches to be fight
ing its outskirts.
Seizure of Riga would cut off
the land escape routes for all the
Germans caught between there
and fallen Tallinn.
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Policemen Capture
Captured Machinegun

MAIDEN, Mass, Sept. %. -(P)
japanese machine gun
was captured by an American ma
rine sergeant and today it was cap
tured by the Maiden police.
Apparently forgetting that he no
longer was at Saipan, the sergeant
home on furlough-took his faith
err to the rear of a cemetery to
show how the weapon worked,
The roar brought swarm OF po-
lice, ..
Afte-- explanations the sergeant
lost his souvenir.
mo charges" said the cops.
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Allied Night Bombers
Cripple Nazi Effort
To Euacuate Aegeans

ROME, Sept. q. -(P- AL
lied night bombers rained
concentration of explosives on
the Greek port of Salonika last
night, attempting to cripple
German efforts to evacuate the
Aegean area, and reliable re-
ports from Cairo said the Ma
zis already had pulled out OF a
greater part of the Peloponne-
sus.
Previous unconfirmed reports
said the Germans were at
tempting to abandon several OF
their Aegean island holdings.
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Belgium Will Be First
To Get Its Government

LONDON, Sept. %. -(P)- Bel
GUM probably will become the
first liberated country in Europe to
reestablish constitutional govern
ment, in view of a Brussels radio
report today that the government
of Premier Hubert Pierlot had re-
signed.
Prince Regent Charles is expect
ed in Belgium quarters here to
form new government this week
end
Pierlot's action came as no sur
prise. because he said before leav.
ing for his homeland that he PLAN
ned to retire in favor of someone
who had lived in Belgium during
the German occupation.
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Armed Holdup Men Stage
Three Robberies In N. Y.

NEW YORK, Sept. 22-lR-Arm-
ed holdup men staged three rob
berries in Manhattan and Brook
Ign in less than two hours today
and escaped with approximately
$4,000 in cash. !:
Police were investigating to de-
terrnine if the no1d-ups were the
work of the same men.
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European War Flashback
(BY. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

captured strong German post
session west threeme
49, and Free French naval squadron lombard
refused
Gaule to permit landing