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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-10
JAPANESE REFUSE
TO OFFER BATTLE

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS.
Southwest Pacific, Monday, April
1O-R-Japan's hard-hit air force
declined to offer battle through
out the Bismarck Sea area Satur-
day as American bombers drop
ped 1856 tons of explosives on five
key enemy bases, concentrating
152 tons on Hollandia in a raid
that destroyed numerous buildings
and set two small freighters in
the harbor afire.
The absence of air opposition
was noted not only at Hollandla
but also at Wewak and Hansa Bay
to the southwest down the New
Guinea coast and at Rabaul, New
Britain, and Kavieng on New Ire
land.
The far-ranging bombers pour
ed IS tons of bombs on camp and
supply areas at WeWak, oft-hit
Japanese base on New Guinea's
northeast coast, and "a tons on
Hansa Bay to the south, scoring
on fuel dumps.
Rabaul on New Britain took a
75-ton bombing and Kavieng, New
Ireland, was hit by 80 tons.
1t was the third raid in week
on Hollandia, air and supply CEN
ter strategically located on the
sweep from the Solomons to the
Philippines. In the first raid last
Sunday 300 aircraft wiped out 208
planes in a 400-ton bombing as
sault.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-10
BRAZIL MAY GET
EXTRA U. s. SHIPS

WASHINGTON, April 9-R-
Postwar transfer of surplus Unit
ed States fighting ships to South
American republics, particularly
Brazil, will be recommended by
a House Naval Subcommittee re-
Gently returned from 13,000-mile
air tour of United States naval
bases off South America.
The recommendation will be
made, probably this week, to the
full naval committee. Should it
win approval there it undoubtedly
will be one of the first matters
presented to the recently created
special House Committee on Post
War Military Policy.
Whether tn subcommittee,
headed by Rep. Hebert O.-LaD,
will urge that the gift or loan
be limited to Brazil or be spread
among other South American ma
tons has not been determined
definitely. Some members of the
naval committee have expressed
the opinion privately that Argen-
tina, because of her reluctance
to sever relations with the Axis,
should be excluded.
Regardless of the final decision
on that point, committee mem
bers are virtually unanimous in
their insistence that the share-the-
navy plan be predicated upon an
agreement that the ships be op-
Grated as part of combined fleet
for hemisphere protection. Moth
ing bigger than cruisers probably
will be involved.
Hebert said he believed it
would be much wiser" to turn
over surplus vessels to friendly
South American nations than to
scrap them cor let them gather
rust"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-10
K0HIMA ENTERED
BY JAP COLUMNS
Invaders Seek To Estab-
ish Selves Before Mon
soons Next Month

NEW DELHI, April 9. -P)-
japanese forces prodding into the
outskirts of Kohima, 30 miles in
side India and go miles north Of
the big Allied base Of Imphal, have
been repulsed, the Southeast Asia
Command announced today, but
the plain of Imphal is virtually
under sieze as the invaders seek
to establish themselves before next
months monsoon puts a stop te
most military operations.
Reliable sources said that while
fighting is going on steadily, the
Allies were firmly holding the edg.
es of the plain and the roads thai
converge like wheel spokes on the
Imphal hub. There is strong
British garrison at Imphal, sup
piled by Raj transport planes fol
siege which may last severa
weeks.
Stiff fighting is taking place eight
miles from British-held Impha
against japanese forces slowly
Lodging their way into the plain
north of the Indian city, the BIC
said tonight
Kohima also was reported
strongly defended against the Jap.
anese Jungle forces, whose strength
has not yet been accurately estim-
ated.
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MARCH SHIPPING
LOSSES HIGHER

!, WASHINGTON, April e-R-
merchant shipping losses in March
were We; "a little higher" than in
5VoSuary, President Roosevelt
alo Prime Minister Churchill re-
p poIeo Jointly today, but in gen.
S.al the war against the under
'ea raiders continued successful.
r.. Inc rate of sinking of U-boats
G is July maintained" said their
E i3.l-' s.. Statement, issued through
'1T n offlce of War Information.
me German submersibles con-
, ". in vain against north
t An supply lines to Russia, the
a% ,4 and British leaders said,
d.. activities spread from the
M na.ehtS Sea, on the approach to
o~ N to the Indian Ocean
IN the south.
l me text of the statement:
y Narch was an active month in
. ~-s war against the U-boats which
w.. ysl7'ed IN widely dispersed areas
~ ,ro'll me Barents Sea to the In
e.: Inc enemy has persevered
1''liy IN strenuous endeavors to
''Ol'lnued on Page Two; Col. s.
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HOMEFR0NT STORM
IS BREWING NOW
Only FDR's Veto Expect.
ed To Halt Revisions In
Price Control Act

WASHINGTON, April s-lR-
The Capitol waathervane indicat
ed another brewing homefront
storm today involving Congress
and the White House, in which
only President noosevelt's veto
power may be able to forestall
broad revisions of the wartime
price control program.
Topping the calendar of major
issues awaiting Congress upon its
return Wednesday from the Eas
ter recess is a bill to extend OPA
controls for one year beyond the
June 80 expiration date.
The administration let it be
known it will battle for continual
ton of the price and sterilization
laws as now written on the stat
ute books, without change-with
administrative adjustments in
tended to care for any needed re-
visions in procedure.
But lawmakers expect efforts
to rewrite large portion of these
laws, probably including amend
ments to ban the use of subsidies
to hold down food prices, to pro-
vide direct court appeal from
sterilization agency rulings, and
to write specific language into the
acts to forestall interpretations by
administrators.
Moreover, there were indica-
tons the special House Commit
tee investigating executive agen-
cies, headed by Rep. Smith d.
VaD, will propose other broad
changes, especially in OPA rent
controls.
Some members of Congress be-
lieve the certainty that Mr.. Roose-
welt would veto such far-reaching
revisions may head off the drive
to enact them. This reasoning is
based on a belief that the public
will insist upon price controls, and
that Congress would continue the
statutes in their present form
rather than let OPA die because
revamped OPA is not accept
able to the administration.
Chairman Spence O.-Ky0 Of
the House Banking Committee sci
hearings on the price control con
tinuation to begin Wednesday, the
day Congress returns. The Senate
Banking Committee was in the
midst of similar hearings wher
time out was taken for Easter.
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Yorkshire Strike
Is Almost Ended

LONDON, April 9. - LR-The
Yorkshire coal strike, which at its
height found more than 10000 min.
ers idle, appeared all but over to
night as Doncaster and Hemsworth
district miners voted to return to
the pits.
The great return to work to.
morrow is scheduled to be led by
$4,000 miners at Doncaster, where
the men voted to reverse their de-
clslon of three days ago to main
tam the walkout. The Hemsworth
miners, in addition to agreeing to
end their strike, passed a vote of
confidence in ]. A. Hall, presi-
dent OF the Yorkshire MineWork-
ers Association.
This vote was regarded as sig
nlflcant since one of the post
strike issues is expected to be the
DID OF union leaders to regain lost
control, During the strikes they
constantly asked the men to re-
turn to their jobs pending settle
ment.
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KING IS PLEASED
WITH OPERATIONS

NEW ORLEANS, April 9-R-
Admiral Ernest J. King, COM
mander in chief of the United
States fleet and chief of naval
operations, INDUCED in one of his
rare grins today when naval
officer asked him if he was sat
isfied with the way things are 60
ing in the Pacific"
''Most satisfa ctorily!" answered
the admiral with vigorous empha-
sis.
King arrived here today by
plane for an inspection of the
United States Naval Air Station
on the lake front, leaving this
afternoon by plane for Washing
ton
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-10
GERMANS USING
SECRET WEAPON
Goliath Tanks, Remote
Controlled, Make APP,
pearance In Italy
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. Ma

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Ma
pies, April 9-lR-The Germans
have flung their vaunted new
secret weapon''-lumbering, re-
mote-controlled "Goliath'' tanks
against the Allied Anzio beach
head but achieved no success as
action flared up again along the
line, Allied headquarters an
nounced today.
The beachhead reverberated to
a laundering artillery duel, the
Nazis inflicting some damage on
vital Anzio harbor and Allied gun
ners setting an ammunition dump
afire two and half miles west
of Cisterna.
1t was not announced how much
damage was done to Anzio har-
Dor. Handicapped by bad weather,
the Allied air force nevertheless
continued to rake German COM
munication lines.
Light naval forces shelled the
enemy-held town of Bar on the
Dalmatian coast Friday night and
captured another enemy schooner
further north along the coast, the
Navy announced.
Up and down the stalemated
Italian front numerous patrol
clashes occurred and headquar.
tiers announced that casualties
were inflicted on the enemy in
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Draft Boards
Rush To Get
Men ForArnny
MORE YOUTHS NEEDED
Those Under rs Wanted
For Replacement OF
Battle Casualties

wscH1NGTON, April 9.-tR)-
,,.;., most of the older men tenn
"-s sidetracked, the nations
! nm draft boards will hustle this
O,s .i, 10 Get men under rs years
| W info combat training to replace
s sr in. battle casualties.
The War Department, in announ-
.a No, that the army has reached
y: .,@' nIanned strength of 100000
y! ~id last week this peak will be
s ssnseded in April in order to be-
e al once the training of young
men so they will be ready when
rssded TO replace men falling in
bsttIe Basic training takes three
months.
Then came Saturdays order
+rom Lewis B Hershey to post
nonp all draft procedure for men
q and older who are in jobs max
mo contribution to the war.
Hershey said the Army and Navy
MD him they need young men
row even if it means failure to
meet quotas of older registrants.
With this new and urgent en-
nhasis on haste in April, it was
obv1ous that if any substantial
lumber of key men under 26 in
vital industries were going to be
deferred. selective service must
pei advice from other government
hanover agencies and get it
quickly.
Manpower Chairman Paul v.
McNutt. who also heads the COM
mittee of ManpoWer Claimants,
an inter-agency group, was report
ed today to be ready to hand Gen
eral Hershey a list of 10 activities
in which some deferments are rec
commended for younger men.
McNutt's list was understood to
include coal mining and pre-medi-
cal and prudential students, activi-
ties which the claimant commit
tee had refused to support. But
this does not mean a large num-
Der Of coal miners will be kept
out Of the draft. McNutt was re-
ported insisting only on few
miners in certain highly-productive
mines.
Transportation was on the list
but the Office of Defense Trans
pNtation acknowledged that only
small number of transporta-
ton men under 26, such as train
diSpatchers, will be recommended
for deferment.
The Hershey order concerning
men 26 and older has confused
many men scheduled to report for
induction or physical examinations,
and some boards themselves were
mclear on their exact procedure.
These general rules were laid
Gown by draft headquarters Of
ticer today:
l. If an individual is in doubt
ABOUT what to do, he should con-
tact his local board for instruc-
tons.
I. II a local board is in doubt,
II should contact the state direc-
tor.
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PIQUA WANTS NEW
AIR ACE AT HOME

P1QUA, O., April 9.-R-Pi-
qua's City Commissioners today
telegraphed a request to President
Roosevelt that Capt. Don S. Cen
tile Of Piqua, Americas leading
ace in the European war theater,
be allowed to return home for
much deserved rest"
Gentle is officially credited
with having destroyed 81 German
planes and confirmation still Is
pending for three others.
The telegram, sent to the Pres
ident and Gen. H. H. Arnold OF the
War Department, said:
"Piqua is justly proud Of all its
men and women in the armed SER
vices, including the men of the
37th Division (Ohio) who are doing
magnificent job in the Pacific
theater and Capt. Don Gentle OF
the 9th Army Air Force whose
outstanding record is the subject
of much note at this time.
"It has been suggested from
many quarters both in and out OF
Piqua that the city Of Piqua use
it's influence to- bring about the
return of Capt. Gentle to this
country for a much deserved rest.
1--WE, the official representatives
of the city of Piqua, do not know
if this is in accord with the War
Department regulations or orders
but sincerely hope and concur in
the wish that he can be returned
home in the very near future as a
deserving tribute to an outstanding
flier.''
The telegram was signed by
Mayor Joseph A. Thoma, City Man.
ager w. J. Baldwin and four city
commissioners
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APPEALS FOR UNITY
Allies Must Cooperate II
New War Is To Be Pre-
vented, He States
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER

WASHINGTON, April 9. - (P) -
Secretary of State Hull, fighting
for a postwar policy of interna-
tional collaboration in "organized
peace" appealed to the American
people tonight not to let the con-
troversies of an election year
create disunity and destroy their
effectiveness in world affairs.
"Once before in our lifetime"
Hull said in a broadcast discussion
of foreign policy, 1--WE fell into
disunity and became ineffective in
world affairs by reason of it.
Should this happen again, it will be
tragedy to you and to your chill
dren and to the world for gener-
atoms"
His foreign policy summation, the
most detailed made by an Amer
lean official since the war started,
was built on the assumption that
the United States, Britain, Russia
and China will cooperate for peace
as well as for war and if they
do not, Hull said, there is mo
hope" of avoiding another great
conflict in the next 20 to Is years.
Hulps address, delivered over
CHS, assured the nation that neith-
err he nor President Roosevelt
''have made or will make any
secret agreement, or commitment,
ro1itino1 ar financial -
In a specific discussion Of pend
ing problems, evidently prompted
by criticism that the nation lacks
a detailed policy, the secretary
made these main points:
l. France-The United States ex-
poets the French Committee OF
National Liberation Ode Gaulle) to
be given every opportunity to or
ganize" the civil government OF
France under General Dwight D.
Eisenhower's supervision but the
committee is, of course, not the
government Of France and we can
not recognize it as SUCH" This was
the first formal announcement by
an American official of this coun-
try's French policy since President
Roosevelt finally decided it and
notified the British three weeks
ago.
2. Italy-This government sees a
''promise of success in current
political activities seeking to broad
en- the base of the Italian govern
ment of Premier Badoglio. HUI
said frankly that 1--WE had hoped
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
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u. S. Foreign Policy Outlined By Hull;
Russian Armies Open Seige Of Odessa;
1850 u. S. Planes Hit Nazi Factorie
Craft Fly Deep into En-
rope, Beyond Range OF
Their Fighter Escort

LONDON, Monday, April 10.-(P
Five giant American aerial task
forces spanned the Reich yester-
day to blast key Nazi aircraft
factories in Poland, East Prussia
and northeast Germany and last
night British bombers roared to-
ward the continent, perhaps to con.
duct their first sizeable operation
since March 30.
The American operations, car
ried out by between 1,500 and 1,750
warplanes, cost 81 heavy bombers
and eight fighters. The bombers,
some of which flew beyond the
range of their fighter screen to
hammer their targets, smashed at
five inter-related plane factories
bombing the source of the Nazi
air forces power.
The Frankfurt radio gave a warn
ing last night that planes were
approaching northeast Germany,
while from Stockholm came reports
tA1oG l1Cll01 Gus VI EIAo1lOo al WdVS
after wave" skirted southern Swed-
en-, sending anti-aircraft batter
les into action.
In their last sizeable operation,
an attack on Nurnberg March 80,
the Raj lost 81 planes. British
Lancasters, out only once this
month, On April 5, hit aircraft re-
pair plants in Toulouse, France,
but not in great strength.
During the daylight operations
American fighter planes alone de-
stroyed 20 German interceptors in
air combat and destroyed many
others squatting aground at Ger
man airdromes, an Raj common
tator said.
The great yesterday assault
fleet was made UP of between l,500
and 1,750 American warplanes-500
to $50 heavy bombers and approx
imately 1000 fighters.
1t was broken up into four pow
erful task forces, and while one
Of the units was flying approx
mately 1000 miles roundtrip from
British bases to smash at plants
at Marienburg in East Prussia, the
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D'CAULLE GUSTS
GENERAL CIRAUD
Post AS Commander In
Chief Is Abolished By
French Commander

ALGIERs, April 9.-LP'-Gen.
Charles De Gaulle discharged Gen.
Henri Honore Giraud today by
abolishing his post of commander
in-chief and appointing him inspec-
tor-general of the French armed
forces - post which Giraud bit
terly rejected.
In sharp formal letter, Giraud
who escaped from France in 1941
to take over leadership of French
forces on the Allied side in North
Africa, refused to recognize aboll-
ton of his position and charged
De Gaulle with violating French
Republican law as we'll as French
National Committee ordinances.
81 am not resigning," Giraud
said. 81 accept neither the prin-
ciple of suppression of the post of
commander -chief of the French
armed forces in the. middle OF
war, nor the honorary post which
you have designed for me-"
Giraud added that De Gaulle's
step was contrary to French law
and committee ordinances deter
mining a separation of civil and
military powers and organization
of high command. De Gaulle had
said the post of commander-in-
chief was superfluous since a
Frenchman would not get a large
Allied command. Giraud took is.
sue with this also.
He said ''there is no proof that
another theater of operations won't
Continued on Page Two; Col. p
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Australia Planning To Cut Army;
Official Washington Is Shocked

making to send our army all over
the world to save Australia and
the other countries from the COM
mon enemy"
Senator Bridges GRIND remark
ed that latter all, all the United
Nations are in this war together
and We are going up or down to-
gether." He added:
cts pretty surprising and shock
ing, at time America is strain
ing every resource as the result
of the armed services demands.
to have one Of the other United
Nations announce openly that ii
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(Bv, The Associated Press


NEW YORK, April 9-Flowe-s
and umbrellas blossomed on Fifth
Avenue today, as an intermittent
drizzle failed to dampen the en-
thusiasm of hundreds of thousands
who paraded this third wartime
Easter.
At church services the throngs
prayed for an Allied victory and
peace for all the world. Then they
Joined the informal line of march
led by that beguiling marshaA'
Dame Fashion.
Stars of the traditional prone
made were the military-men anu
women. Several of the latter SIDE
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Thousands Of Easter
Pmaders Watch As
Navy Fighter Crashes

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., April 9
-tR-One of navy fighter plane
formation crashed into the ocean.
exploded and sank today in full
view of tens of thousands OF
boardwalk Easter paraders.
Spectators said the planes had
been stunting and that the one
which crashed failed to come out
of a long power dive.
Crash boats sped to the scene,
the Fourth Naval District Head
Quarters at Philadelphia report
ed, but found no trace of the pilot,
whose name was not Immediately
disclosed.
The planes were from the At
lantic City Naval Air Station. .
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cry berets tilted at saucy angles.
Milady's be lowered Easter
bonnet, as usual, defied descrip-
ton.
At noon police estimated there
were 650,O00 strollers on Fifth
Avenue between 57th and And
Streets.
Because of threatening weather,
holiday finery ranged in color
tones from gay pastels to the
somber. Standing out in the crowd
were the white-crowned hats OF
the Spars and Waves. Most popu-
lar shade with the civilian ladies
was pink, ranging from delicate
shell through hot-pink and fuschia.
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IASI HALF ENCIRCLED
Reds Burst Into Port City
Freight Yards; Units En-
ter Czechoslovakia

LONDON, Monday, April 10-lR
Russian troops haf-encirclsd
the Rumanian rail center of Iasi
yesterday in an avalanche of pow
err which swept over 200 more
villages, and began the siege of
Odessa by bursting into the freight
yards three miles on the north
and racing around the Black Sea
port on the southwest to within
five miles of the last German
escape railway, Moscow announc-
ed last night.
Front dispatches and official
Czech statements also indicated
that the Russians had fought their
way over the Czecho-Slovakian
border in the direction of the Ia
tar Pass leading to the Hungarian
plain, but the Soviet bulletin was
silent on that snow-covered sec
tor in the Carpathian Mountains
Berlin also told of heavy Rus
sian attacks on the land bridge;
to the Crimean peninsula.
Cucuteni, a rail station three
miles west of Iasi, fell to MAJ
shall Ivan S. Konsv's Second Uk
raine Army attacking on an 80
mile front between Iasi and Siret
and the Russians also captured
Podu Iloaei, IA miles west of 1asi
thus twice slashing LASTS link witt
Pascani, junction on the Ger
Inauti-Bucharest trunk line Is
miles northeast of the rich Ploes
ii oil wells, it was announced.
Pascani. 43 miles west of i'm
perilled Iasi, likewise was threat
ened by one mobile Red arm.
column which seized Cotnari, L
miles to the northeast, said tn
Moscow bulletin.
In the nearly complete enci-
clement of Odessa and its Ger
man-Rumanian garrison, estimat
ed at between 100000 and 10000
men, Gen. Rodion Y. Malinov
sky's Third Ukraine Army cap
tured the rail station of Sortirovo
chnaya in the city's northern SUI
burban freight yards, and Marien
tai, II miles southwest of Odessa
Mariental's seizure put the Rus
SLAMS within five miles of tht
Odessa Ovidiopol railway n
only eight miles from Ovidiopo
itself, ferry terminus on the Ger
man escape route across the four
mile-wide Dneister estuary tt
lower Bessarabia.
The capture of Sortirovochnay;
put the Russians inside the mile
wide gateway into Odessa betWee1
the Black Sea and the Kuyalnitsk
1agoon-a natural bottleneck which
the Axis had hoped to hold.
Dispatches from Russian wa
correspondents told of Russian
cavalrymen struggling in t h :
SHOWS of Ruthenia along the Hun
garian-held Czech border, and Il
vestia editorially declared eth
Czechoslovak people enslaved b.
the Hitherto invaders now hea
the tread of the Red army"
Breakfasts from London ant
Moscow were urging the Czech
to aid the advancing Russians o
Marshal Gregory K. Zhutov's FRS
Army by increased sabotage ane
active resistance.