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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-10

The WAR
BY KIRKE L, s1MpSo,,
Associated Prose- W. .oN

SoS war Ah,y~
~. Substantially tan: a third of the ss',.
and an d Loire basins are now w w sslns
the 200 mile double aro within
fluid Allied front across nort 1l Tho
ern France from the Channel invest o
to that of the Bay of Biscav vl coast .
pletely cutting off both th ,, , @
mandy and Brittany peniosus,.N NOR
BY Nazi admission Csna s;
closing in on Falaise to tho 1 nn
and Americans laundering M norm II
Loire valley beyond captur up ne
Mans in the south were witb iu ~; 10
miles or less or Paris. '' 'Oo
1t is not yet certain that Au
strategy does not now aim a.
early and even more DECISIVE az :, an
tory in France, than oustins we w.
man invaders from Paris. W"
A crisis for the Germ,,
'stubbornly resisting on The r nolS
and north center flank in tha
SEINE : Loire theater and weaEls
Keeling backward under Yankes Ay
mored hammer blows in the sou t.'
is fast developing.
The scythe-like American sv.,.
up the Loire valley could be noint
ed at Paris itself, or headed :.
bypass the city and cross IN.
Seine far inland to outflank bv y.
whole course to the sea. It Could
begin curling northeastward ~
get between the main German ~
my and Paris and the Seine and
destroy it in the field between ,
British Canadian anvil and :
many headed American armorss
hammer.
There seems no question nov
that the foe in France has bee,
and is being not only out mum.
bered, out : gunned. out = planned
and out fought; but out guessed
and out generated as well H.
cannot even now know the broad
strategic design governing the ev.
er widening and deepening Allied
attack.
The upshot could be utter wreck.
age Of the whole German armv in
growing peril of being trapped
against t h e Seine or outflanked
east of that stream before it can
reach it for a stand. With both
the strategic and tactical initia.
tive in Allied hands, the POSSIBLE.
ty Of a total German military dis.
aster in the west is too clearly
apparent for seasoned enemy com.
manders and staff specialists not
to realize it.
By every military axiom a gen.
eral German retreat behind the
Seine was called for Immediately
once the Allied break through at
Avranches ended the stalemate
and the enormous weight Of Allied
armored power poured into France
across the Normandy beaches was
revealed.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-10
Daily Prayer
FOR ENTERING BATTLE

AS we face the mighty foe, ana
submit our Cause to the arbltra'
ment of War, we pray ~ Thee
Lord God of Battles, for courage
to fight valias1tly, and, if need De-
for grace to die heroically. In my
name we have set the battle In
array against pagan foe, sure
of the righteousness of our Cause
All of our training has led up 70
this hour. In body and in spirit
we are prepared for the victory
which we expect by Thine ald
We confess our sins, as nation
and as Individual men; and we Sill
cerely seek Thy pardon. Let n0s
our trespasses come between "
and Thy favor. In the fires OF con'
flict may we be purged to ou
nobler selves, filter for the new Ell.
toward which we fight. Accept oH
humble prayer, and grant us lot.
giveness and Thine own AID, "
we go forth to war under the Odn'
ner of the Prince Of Peace. Amen
w. T. E.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-10
Warsaw
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WARSAW-Ancient crossroads of CONQUER
ors-once again is in the path of invading
armies 1t has been vortex of military con-
ilct Tor centuries but always has risen from
the rubble. Now there is but little left of the
city to destroy. The Nazies saw to that. Yet
warsaw is the new focal point of the war in
eastern Europe
The last battle OF Warsaw started with a
27-day siege when the Nazi legions crossed
tne frontier on Sept. l, 1899. One of the first
Things the Luftwaffe did was to bomb the
capital and by Sept. the Polish government
evacuated the city.
The garrison stood. The Warsaw radio ap-
pealed to citizens to dig in. By Sept heavy
artillery was Smelling and German planes con-
tlnued to bomb the city On Sept. 10, it was
virtually encricled. On Sept. 16 the Germans
sent an ultlmatum, but the city refused to sur
render. On Sept. n it finally capitulated.
During the siege the German air force and
heavy artillery killed an estimated 10000 CT
villains and wounded 100000 Of 2O,65O build
ings In Warsaw half we're wholly or partly
destroyed.
The first to invade the city, after it became
the Polish capital in 1850, was King Charles
Gustavus of Sweden who captured it in 1855
and kept it for a year, when the Poles re-
captured it.
The city suffered damage when King Charles
AL OF sweden TOOK 1t IN lIUZ; tne IoIloWlhe
year, peace made it free city again. The
Russians first seized it in 1884; lost it in the
first partition of Poland in 1773; retook it in
1894 after bloody assault In another parti-
ton in 1795 Warsaw was given to Prussia.
Napoleon occupied it in 1906; the following
year it was made an Independent duchy. Then
the Austrians took possession OF Warsaw IN
1909, from April to June, and again it became
independent. The Russians again possessed the
city in 1913 and held it through instructions
and other disturbances until 1915 when the
Germans captured it.
With the breakup of the German army ir
1913 the Poles set up their own government
and for the third time Warsaw became the
capital Of an independent Poland.
Then the destruction of 1899. With the aid OF
large scale maps, on which were marked War
saws fine buildings, its historic monuments
churches, public gardens musuems, castle
rejecting the old Polish nobility-the Nazis
proceeded with their methodical bombardment
Whether the road leads to Moscow or to
Berlin. wars path cuts through the city This
veteran of total war is about to receive an
other shock treatment.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-10
STATE EXPANDS
HOSPITAL AID

RALEIGH, Aug. 9-lRAGovernor
Broughton announced today four
immediate additional provisions for
the North Carolina hospitals for the
insane. designed to bring the state
institutions up to standards con-
tanned in provisions under which
the state hospitals board Of CO.
troll was established.
The provisions are:
/. Provision has been made
for the employment Of full time
recreational directors for the hos
pitfalls at Raleigh and Morganton.
2. Psychiatric social workers
will be employed in the hospitals
at Raleigh, Morganton and Colds
boro.
3. Hydrotherapy equipment will
be installed and utilized at the
state hospital at Raleigh.
4. Provision was made for adj
ditional enclosures in the court
yards in each of the institutions,
in order to give the patients furth-
er benefits of outdoor exercise,
fresh air and sunshine.
Governor Broughton said that the
provisions were made in line with
a program designed ito get away
from custodial care and begin re
medal work with the insane"
Appropriations for the program
will be taken from the contingency
and emergency fund on the recon-
mendation of N. E. Edgerton Of
the state hospitals board OF CO.
troll and Robert G. Dreyton, assis.
tant director of the budget.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-10
Insurance Commission
Will Hold Conference

RALEIGH, Aug. s.-(P)-A 10 :,
member commission appointed "
Governor Broughton to study an ,'.
plan legislation designed 10 Ie s,i.
late the states huge insurance pa.,
ness will hold its first mee!in .
with Governor Broughton 1o'ii0'
row.
The governor appointed the co-.
mittee after a recent U. D wy
RENE court decision held tina. ~ -,
eral control of insurance coulu :.
applied when the insurance 0us.
ness is considered to be CONNIE +,
The committee is eXpecteu ~,
recommend legislation giving t 4
state insurance commlsslonei ~.
power to regulate insurance f'
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-10
Cuban President-Elect
Will Visit Roosevelt

HAVANA, Aug. 9.-(P-Dr. Ra-
mon Grau San Martin, president
elect of Cuba, will leave for visit
with President Roosevelt, in Wash
ington Aug. 20 accompanied by DR..
Raul Menocal, recently elected
mayor of Havana. The presidential
party of eight will reach Miami
late in the afternoon of Wednes-
day, Aug. 20, spending the night
there and reaching Washington
Thursday.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-10
With Ernie Pyle

IN NORMANDY-By Wireless)
1t is possible to become so en-
thralled by some of the spectacles
of war that you are momeatarily
captivated away from your own
danger.
That's what happened to our lit
tie group of soldiers as we stood
in a French farmyard, watching
the mighty bombing of the Ger
man lines just before our break
through.
But that benign state didn't last
long. AS we watched, there crept
into our consciousness a realiza-
ton that windows of exploding
bombs were easing back toward us
flight by flight, instead Of gradual
ly forward, as the plan called for.
Then we were Mortified by the
suspicion that those machines, high
in the sky and completely detach-
ed from us, were aiming their
bombs at the smokeline on e
ground-and a gentle breeze was
drifting the smokeline back over
us!
An indescribable kind of panic
comes over you at such times. We
stood tensed in muscle and frozen
in intellect, watching each flight ap-
proach and pass over US, feeling
trapped and completely helpless.
And then all of an instant the
universe became filled with a gi-
gaatic rafting as Of huge, dry
seeds in a mammoth dry gourd.
I doubt that any of us had ever
heard that sound before, but in
stinct told us what it was. It was
bombs by the hundred, hurting
down through the air above us.
Many times I've heard bombs
whistle or swish or rustic, b u t
never before had I heard bombs
rattle. I still don't know the expla-
nation of it. But it is an awful
sound.
We dived. Some got in a dugout.
Others made foxholes and bitches
and some got behind garden
wall - although which side would
be behind" was anybody's guess.
I was too late for the dugout.
The nearest place was wagon
shed which formed one end Of the
stone house. The rattle was right
down upon us. I remember hitting
the ground flat, all spread out like
the cartoons of people flattened by
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-10
THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1914
Our Chief Ain,
To aid in every way the prosecution Of
the war to complete Victory.
TOP O. THE MORNING

One of the greatest hymns ever written,
ssLead Kindly Light was prayer for
guidance. There is a guide for all seek
ing souls. We cannot see the end OF the
journey but we may know the great COM
panion of the highway.
DIR. ARCHIE WALLACE.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-10

Toto and others like him who step aside
before the final debacle cannot by so doing
escape the consequences of their own acts.
It is time the American government mace
th;. clear to the people of Japan and those
who lead thern.-Honolulu Advertiser Editorl-
al
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-10
Is Years Ago 4,
Today
(FROM THE FILES
OF THE STAR-NEWS)
AUGUST 10, 1919

Plans have been completed for
Thursdays celebration of the l42nd
anniversary celebration Of tho
Moores Creek battle, George J.
Moore, president Of the Battle.
ground association, said yesterday
Lieut.. Governor o. Max Gardner,
our next governor in Moore's opin.
ion, will deliver the speech.
WEST DURHAM,-Dr. Peacock
Of High Point, a trustee OF Trinity
Duke college, has notified Presl.
dent Few that Mr.. and Mrs. R. B.
Terry of High Point, have made
it possible for Trinity college to
come into possession of the valu'
able library of the late Prof. A. Il,
Hoffman.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-10

steam rollers, and then Of squirm-
ing like an eel to get under one
of the heavy wagons in the shed.
An officer whom I didn't know
was wriggling beside me. We stop
ped at the same time, simultane-
ously feeling it W a hopeless to
move farther. The bombs were al
ready crashing around us.
We lay with our heads slightly up
like two understanding at each
other. I know it was in both o u r
minds and in our eyes, asking
each other what to do. Neither Of
us knew. We said nothing. We just
lay sprawled, gaping at each other
in futile appeal, our faces about
a foot apart, until it was over.
There is no description of the
sound and fury Of those bombs ex-
cept to say it was chaos, and a
waiting for darkness. The feeling OF
the blast was sensational. The air
struck you in hundreds Of continu-
ing flutters. Your ears drummed
and rang. You could feel quick
little waves of conclusions on your
chest and in your eyes.
At last the sound died down and
we looked at each other in disbe-
lief. Gradually we left the foxholes
and sprawling places, and came
out to see what the sky had in
~'--'- '"' 'ls. AS far as we could
see other waves were approach
- LON behind.
When a wave would pass little
to the side Of us we were gar
ru1ously grateful, for most of them
flew directly overhead. Time and
again the rattle came down over
us. Bombs struck in the orchard
to our left. They struck in Or
chards ahead of us. They struck
as far as half a mile behind us.
Everything about us was shaken,
but our group came through un-
hurt.
I can't record what any of us
actually felt or thought during
those horrible climaxes. I believe
a persons feelings at such times
e kaleidoscope and uncatalog-
able. You just wait, that's all. You
do remember an iahuman tense
ness of muscle and nerves.
An hour or so later I began to
get sore all over, and by mid
afternoon my back and shoulders
ached as though I'd been beaten
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-10

The Portuguese brought the
orange from China into Europe in
1547.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-03-29
KILLER ADMITS SHOOTING : SMOKING
MARIJUANA = DRINKING WINE = RUM
AND PLAYING CHINAMAN

to do the stick-up job as he was
known and would be recognized.
They went to the Alki Hotel
and planned some way to get
the money. They walked to
Maynard and Dearborn Street and
up to the grocery store. They
entered the store and asked for
cigarettes. He saw q man in the
rear of the store.
During the testimony of Will
liams, Mrs. Romagnoli left the
courtroom.
The witness testified that after
pointing the gun at a man in
the rear of the store another man
entered; they scuffled and he
fell on the floor and the gun
discharged. During the scuffle
he started for the door and he
tripped up and some one hit him
over the head with milk bottle.
He finally freed himself and got
to the door. He did not know
that he had killed a man.
The jury began its delibera-
ton Saturday afternoon and they
returned verdict of guilty for
all three of the defendants Death
was recommended fol Persia Will
liams, and life Imprisonment for
his two companions.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-03-29

Persia Williams. on trial be-
fore Judge Chester A. Bachelor
for the murder of Romagnoli,
Dearborn Street grocer, confessed
firing the shot which killed the
elderly man.
II was drunk; l didn't intend
to kill anybody" Williams told
the jury. Witness testified that
he had been a marijuana smoker
since last June. He stated that
in the afternoon before the
shooting he and a friend con-
sumed six or seven dollars worth
of drinks, smoked marijuana
cigarettes and went upstairs to
a club. Asked what kind of a
club he visited, he said 1t was
a Chinaman's club, a lottery. He
gambled a bit and lost SO.
Early in the evening he met
Wilson and Keener. Their con-
.versation developed their inten-
ton to stick up a restaurant at
9Th and Jackson. He stated that
Wilson and his wife was a for
mer employe of that restaurant
and the proprietor usually kept
about eight or nine thousand
dollars in the place. Wilson tes-
titled that williams wanted him
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-03-29

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Be
fore 1000 Negroes, assembled in
the Ebeneezer Methodist Church
here March IA, A. Philip Ran
dolph, international president of
the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters and national director Of
the March on Washington Move
ment in a stirring address, de-
nouhced police brutality in jack
sonville with special reference to
the recent beating of John Brod-
max, a we'll known and prominent
Negro businessman who owns and
operates an auto oil station at
State and Davis Sts., by two
white policemen.
Negroes are greatly aroused and
alarmed over this incident and a
general condition of police ter
rorism against Negro citizens,
educated and uneducated, big and
little, rich and poor. A con-
slant shadow of fear hangs over
the Negro community. Negro
men and women are afraid to
go out of their homes at night
because of the probability of be-
ing interfered with. beaten up,
and taken down to the police
station and beaten up by the po-
lice, states Randolph, who to-
gether with M. P. Webster, first
International vice-president, Wis
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-03-29
Six Washington Boys
In Naval Training

GREAT LAKES. Ill. - A Wig
orous period of eerui t train
ing has begun for six Washing
ton Negro Bluejaekets with their
recent arrival at the U. S. Naval
Training Station here.
The recruit training period in
cludes fundamentals OF naval pro
cedure, military drill, seamanship
AMI the physical hardening pro-
gram. The final phase of their
''boot' training includes series
of aptitude tests which determine
whether they will be retained for
advanced training in one Of the
Navy service schools or will be
assigned to immediate active duty
at sea or at a shore station.
Some men, having past expert
ence in any of the trades used
by the Navy, will be given petty
officer ratings upon completion
of this recruit training period.
The new recruits are: Robert
Leon Castle, 10, 215h 21st Ave.
NJ, Seattle; James Alexander
Love, 81, $40 jackson Street,
Seattle; Grovel Cleveland Nash,
1S, COG 18th Ave. S., Seattle; Cur
tbs Smith, 1S, ia 9th Ave. S.,
Seattle; Henry Ernest Burnette,
10, N. 1923 Standard ST., Spo-
kane; Robert Leroy Black, 18,
2516 S. "E" ST., Tacoma.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-03-29
WOMAN CUTS MAN
in TROLLEY BRAWL

During an alteration on a bus
about 6:35 a. m. last Thursday,
colored woman was attacked by
a man when the crowd damned
her against him.
The woman. Mrs. Julia Hayes,
S051a Dakota Street, stated she
boarded the bus about $50 en-
route to Todds shipyards, where
she is employed. She stated the
crowding passengers caused her
to be showed against the man.
He grew angry. called her names
and threatened to strike her. She
told him if he did hit her he
wouldn't look the same.
The man was urged to beat her
up by two friends sitting in the
seats close by. offering to help
him. He finally braeed himself
against the seats and kicked at
her, barely missing her face.
All left the car at Todds ship
yards. The man picked up a
board and again started to at
tack her. AS he did so she
opened her purse and got pen
knife to defend herself. When
he attempted to strike her she
cut him on the arm.
The woman was arrested and
released on bail.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-03-29
Roy Sheffield Case
IS Reinstated by the
State Supreme Court

Roy Sheffield who was con-
Yicted on the testimony or two
prostitutes for having accepted
their earnings received word to-
day from the Supreme Court of
the State of Washington that his
case had been reinstated and tnat
his appeal would be heard by
that body.
The order of the court reads
as follows: 1T is ordered, that
the order dismissing the appeal
on the clerks record be and the
same is hereby set aside and the
appeal reinstated.
This means that the entire
matter will be heard by the sn-
preme Court.
The case is one of extreme
significance in that 1t is the ffrst
case in the state of Washington
where the witnesses against tile
defendant were not In court and
that their testimony had been
taken before the trial in the form
of interrogatories. Sheffield's at
torneys have contended that this
is a violation of both the State
and Federal statutes which gives
to the defendant the right to be
confronted with the witnesses
against him at the time of the
trial.
At the hearing of the Supreme
Court. which will probably be
some time in May, the constitu-
tionality and the suffieiency of
the evidence will be argued. Shelf
fields further defense is at the
time the interrogatories were
taken from the two women, he
was not represented by an at
torney, which the State law re-
quires.
Ralph Horr is attorney for Roy
Sheffield.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-03-29
SPECIAL BY G. MILTON
EDWARDS

Civic circles of Seattle during
the past week have been jolted
with the news of the brutal ar
rest of Mrs. Hannah B. Harris,
Sunday, March 10, about 10
o'clock D. m. in front of Bishops
Drug Store on Jackson Street.
Except for an eye witness ac-
count of the affair, doubtless it
would never have come to light
that the strong arm OF the
Seattle law reached beyond the
bounds of respect for woman
hood.
Mr.. Claiborne, an eyewitness,
divulged the story to this cor
respondent last Monday and an
immediate search for the victim,
then unknown was begun and
finally through the aid of SOL
der who also saw the affair, Mrs.
Hannah B. Harris, Ala u 18th
Avenue South was located.
Mrs. Harris told of an argu-
ment which she Mad with the
W m n motormah of an east
bound bus concerning an elderly
Negro. who apparently had few
drinks too many. Because of his
condition and after the bus had
started to move with its usual
lurching movement the elderly
man in question fell. The bus
driver stopped the bus to tell tins
man he could not ride. Mrs.
Harris offered him her seat and
told him he had as much right
to ride as any other person WHO
paid their fare. Therefore an
argument ensued between the
two women. This argument ter
minated according to Mrs. Har-
ris, when the woman motorman
got off the bus to call the dis
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-03-29
FLASH - Look for full
information on EIks' An
nual OratOrical next week
in The Enterprise.
The Debute Of a
Scroll ScribbIer

Mr.. and Mrs. Yep, Junior.
too pleased to 'meetcha'."
l greet you sincerely and earnest
ly. Neither, for conventional for
mality nor for, now whitening os-
tentations show, but for the sake
of an interest in you and yours.
For the sake of a kindly under
standing, which feel we have
in common.
Moreover, for the sake of APP
probation for your eye presently
focused upon these initial lines;
hoping to literally dine you "as
time goes by" with feasting
wholesome things from 'soup to
nuts"
Believe me, not being able to
force pretense well makes being
down to earth imperative.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-03-29
Mayors Committee
Christian Friends
Promise Action

The Mayors Committee for
Civic Unity, has been informed
by Rev. Davis, Race member of
the committee, of the re n
police brutality in regard to Mrs.
Hannah B. Harris. Also Mrs.
Steinmetz of the hristia n
Friends For Racial Equality or
ganization has also heard the
story and promises the citizens
of Seattle to do all in her power
to aid in the adjustment of it.
Mr.. George H. Greenwood,
President of the Pacific Bank
and chairman of the Mayors
Committee has also been inform
ed of the beating of Mrs. Harris,
and he gave assurance to a small
group of interested citizens, in
Guiding the militant Mr.. Clai-
burne, (whose unselfish gesture
of standing up for justice is rare)
that this case would be brought
to the attention of the Mayor
and his Committee.