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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-06

AND THE OVERWHELM MING
OFFICIOUSNESS OF THE ADMIN
ISTRATION'S ELITE are character
istics not merely of our oWn bureauc-
racy, but of bureoucracies in general,
particularly in an age dominated by
concepts of ruthle POWER
POLITICS.
And with increased power there
comes inevitably sense of infalli-
-bifity, 50 that when btundeFs are
made they can never be honestly
acknowledged since "infallible"
bureaucrats are INCAPABLE OF
ERROR.
Hence the need and search for
scapegoats when things 90 wrong, as
in the bungling of the railway wage
situation and the smearing Of the
American labor movement.
4 MEXICAN fascisn, nasquerading
n under the guise of anti-fascism
rDas Wel under Day before Pearl
Harbor and had its theological roots
in the social yorker concept that the
INDIVIDUAL SHOULD BE THE
WARD OF. THE GOVERNMENT.
ULTIMATELY, OF COURSE,
AS IN GERMANY AND ITALY,
THIS RESULTS IN THE INDIVID-
UAL BECOMING THE CREA-
TURE OF THE GOVERNMENT ;.
Polls of soldier opinion taken
haphazardly among our fighting men
at the front reveal that there is
growing anti-labor sentiment among
them -. 1t is we'll to remember,
however, that in time Of war, soldiers
are anti-civilian in general =.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-06
FAIR :
ENOUGH
BY Westbrook
Il Pegler

THE National Maritime Union, i.
i a favored child Of the New
Deal and a true sector of the
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-03
LANDLORDS URGED
TO FOLLOW RULES

With large number of dwelling
units being offered for rent for the
first time in New Hanover county,
George W. Jeffrey, OPA area rent
director, said Saturday that new
landlords are violating the price
control act if they do not register
their dwelling units with the area
rent office within 30 days.
Many landlords, especially
those renting rooms, are apparent.
~ unaware of this must in the
rent regulations, he said. Failure
to register in compliance with the
regulations, he pointed out, makes
the landlord liable to severe penal
ty.
There is nothing in the regula.
ton, it was said, preventing tie
landlord of a dwelling unit being
offered for rent for the first time
to place whatever price he wishes
on the unit. However, the rent
director may reduce this rent il
it is higher than the prevailing
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-03
IS RICHARDSON
| TO BE LAUNCHED

BRUNSWICK, Ca, Sept. 2.-The
launching of the S. S. Lunsford
Richardson, scheduled for this COM
ing week at the Brunswick ship
yard of the J. "A. Jones Construc
ton company, will be sponsored
by Mrs. Eugene W. Stetson, Jr., of
New York.
Mrs. Stetson, who was Miss
Grace Stewart Richardson, daugh-
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. H. S. Richard
son, now of Greens Farms, Con-
nectlcut, is the eldest granddaugh-
ter OF the former Lunsford Rich
ardson, for whom the new Liberty
ship is named. She is a native
North Carolinian, having spent her
early childhood in Greensboro, the
family home.
Mrs. Stetson is also we'll remem-
oered by many friends in South
Georgia, having gone to Savannah
as bride in 1884. She and Mr..
Stetson, who was with the Citizens
and Southern National Bank Of
Savannah, resided there until 1886,
when they went to Macon, Ga.
where Mr.. Stetson became assistant
cashier in the Macon branch of the
same banking institution. They left
Macon in 1887 to return to New
York where Mr.. Stetson joined the
firm of Brown Brothers Hartman
and company, private bankers.
Mr.. Stetson, who is Lieutenant
$50 In the U. S. Naval Reserve,
is now on active duty.
Mrs. Stetson's co sponsor at
the launching will be Miss Mollie
Richardson, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Lunsford Richardson, II for.
merly of Greensboro, who now re.
side in Greenwich, Connecticut.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-03

rate for similar property rented on
April 1, 1941. In cases Of late
registration, the reduction is re-
troactive to the date the unit was
first rented but no earlier than
Ocober l, 1913.
ALI residential property rented on
April /, 1941, must be offered for
rent at or below the prevailing
rental figure on that date, and all
such property rented on or after
the rental figure on that date, and
all such property rented on or at.
ter the effective date of the rent
regulations must be registered.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-03
Attendance Drops
At Moores Creek

The Moores Creek National Mill
tary Park at Currie, which will be-
gin closing at 6 pm. on Sunday,
Sept. 10, is one of the chief sites
that misses the soldiers who nave
been on maneuvers in Fender
County for the past year." as the
total visitor attendance for June,
July and August, 1943 of $3.50
dropped to l,542 in the same period
this year.
Oswald E. Camp, park custodian,
admitting yesterday that their alb
sence makes a big difference in
our visitor attendance figures" +,
pointed out that 1880 persons on
10 parties used the parks picnic
grove in the summer of 1943 as
compared to SO on IS parties this
summer. He explained that "a
part of the answer is that last year
1.-TWO field days for the soldiers, at
the park, crossed nearly 1000 SOL
der visitors"
During the Sundays in Septem-
Der the park will close at 6 pm,
and beginning Sunday, October l.,
and thereafter, the winter closing
hour daily will be $50 pm.
Camp reported that the greatest
damage from the tropical storm on
August l, the removal from i : S
base of the James Moore monu-
ment, had not yet been repaired.
"As h shaft, eight feet high,
weighs an estimated 1900 pounds,
some idea may be obtained of the
force of the wind blowing through
the park" he said. All tree dam.
age has been cleaned up.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-03

points northwest Of Hengyang was
engaged IS miles west and sui
Iered considerable losses, the
Chinese said.
Stiu another japanese force
heading towards Changing, 81
miles southwest of Hengyang. was
nalted SIX miles short of its OBJ.
]ectlve and swung northwestward,
also in heavy fighting, the Chinese
announcement stated,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-03
Fiue Years Of War
Cost Great Britain
l,O9l,62 Casualties

LONDON, Sept. 2. -(P)- Five
years of war have cost the British
empire at least 1,091, 628 casualties
In dead, missing, wounded. pris-
oners Of war and internees, it was
announced today.
The figure includes 925, 1853 cas-
ualties in the armed forces, 49,
573 in the merchant marine and
1872, 092 civilian air raid victims.
The total will. increase when lists
of additional casualties for mer-
chant seamen and civilians up to
July 81 are completed.
The death and injury toll from
August buzz bombings also is not
included.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-03
lApS MAKE GAINS
N HENCYANC AREA

,r,rNcKING, Sept. 2.-REThe
Chu .a nigh command indicated
chlnes' nat the Japanese had
0 oade further progress in con
raot Inc movement intended to get
sf tSp rear of the Chinese forces
VIZ Hengyang from the
suthweSt-
Inc na Southwest from that stra-
usni4 rsiIway city in Human prov
'sl' have veered westward and
l nee n a point % miles south
sat t NJ Hengyang, where fighting
Ves' oroeress. it was announced.
4. III the same time a Japanese
. nr striking westward from
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-03
Fairmont Market Leaf
Sales Average $44.23

FAIRMONT. Sept. 2. - Tobacco
sales here for the week ending to-
day totaled 5,777, $50 pounds, rep
resenting So, 555,4e291 in money
paid out at an average of s44.23
according to c. B. Stafford, super
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-03
AWARDED MEDAL

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. - R) -
S-Sgt. Arthur E. Hendrix, inf, of
10 Maiden Lane, Raleigh, has been
awarded the soldiers medal for
scooping up a life grenade which
fell into a ditch occupied by sever
al soldiers during practice at Camp
Mccain, Miss.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-03
CAPTURE AIR FIELDS

LONDON, Sept. 2@RAThe U. S
Strategic Air Force in England
announced today that more thar
% German air fields in northern
France have been captured, and
about Is others in southern France
either nave been captured or
made untenable because the AL.
lied troops are too near"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-03
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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-03

visor Of t he Fairmont Tobacco
Board of Trade.
Stafford reported the most salts
factory season in the history of the
market.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-03

: Brest has been an important
French port OF war since the days
of Richelieu.
Evening star., 1944-06-03
Architects Advocate
Private and NCHA
Share in Rehousinu
Both Should Take Port
In Slum Clearance,
Senate Group Is Told
BY DON S. WARREN.

Spokesman for the Washington
Chapter of the American Insti-
tute of Architects today declared
both private builders and the
National Capital Housing Au-
thority should participate in the
Districts future slum clearance
and rehousing programs.
Testifying before the Burton sub
committee of the Senate, which is
nearing the end of it's long investi-
cation of Washington's rehousing
problems, Thomas H. Locraft, presi-
dent of the ALA Chapter, declared
some skepticism" of the proposals
of private builders was justified, and
added:
Instead of abolishing the NCHA
and leaving the field clear to the
private builders, or vice versa, might
it not be in the public interest to
try both methods of production si-
multaneously?
Both Sides Might Learn.
I'm fairness to both, however, the
rules of the game should be made
to apply equally to the two methods.
If this were done, the results would
by no means be a foregone conclu-
sion. Both sides might have much
to learn"
Discussing the contention of Home
Builders Association that construc-
ton costs of the NCHA are "exces-
slve," the architects spokesman de-
clared a prime reason for the differ
ence is to be found in the act of
(See HOUSING PAGE Al
Evening star., 1944-06-03
Roosevelt and Churchill
Urged 10 Meet Again
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
LONDON, June 3.-The British
Press, criticizing what it terms the
apparent failure of the United
States to adopt joint policy toward
France and Spain, is urging an early
meeting between President Roose-
Velt and Prime Minister Churchill
An Evening News editorial said
Mr.. Churchill's praise of Spains
Generalissimo Franco last week was
riddle whose answer "at present
is elusive 1t added that Just as
puzzling and more urgent is the
matter of Gen. de Gaulle, and on
that Americas policy is even more
obscure than ours
A new meeting between Mr..
Churchill and Mr.. Roosevelt would
be welcomed, declared the London
Star, and indeed the sooner it
comes the better
A dispatch from Algiers said the
French Committee of National Lib
Grafton had formally assumed the
name the Provisional Government
of the French Republic, in accord
ance with recent resolution of the
consultative assembly.
Evening star., 1944-06-03
Five Americans Keep 43 Nozis
In Tow After Ducking Borroge
Prisoners Make No Effort to Get Away
During Confusion Amid Falling Shells

firing at them from a clump of
bushes about 200 yards away.
The rest of their company was
churning by and disappearing over
the hilltop Suddenly one of the
tanks stopped beside them and the
company commander, Capt. Carl E.
Key of Toledo, Ohio, poked his
head out of the turret. He pointed
to a farmhouse which had been
partially knocked down by shells
from the tanks.
There are some Germans over
there who seem to be trying to sur
render" he said. They were wav-
ing white rag a minute ago. A
couple of you go and take them to
the rear"
Decide to Stick Together.
Capt. Keys tank moved off in
pursuit of the others and the boys
were left alone on the hill. They
decided that under the circum-
stances it would be best for them
to stick together so all five of them
went over to pick up the prisoners.
1t was just as well. When they
got to the farmhouse no less than
At Germans came out to meet them
There was long trench in front
OF the place and the Germans just
seemed to rise up out of the ground
For minute" said Pfc. Hawkins
Il thought it was the whole damned
German Army. They had their
hands up but it didn't look any toe
reassuring. We told them to hano
over their guns and those of them
who hadn't already thrown theirs
away came across. We were so load
ed down with guns we could hardly
walk and then the captain who
seemed to be in charge of this bunch
came up and started jabbering."
Exactly what the captain was jab-
bering about was not very clear tc
the boys, but they caught on fast
enough when one of the Germans
Evening star., 1944-06-03
U. 5. Flyers Begin Use
OF Bases in Russia
For Shuttle Bombino
Strong Formations
Aided by Red Pilots
Better Romoniu
BY EDDY GILMORE,

EASTERN COMMAND. UNITED
STATES STRATEGIC AIR
FORCE, SOMEWHERE IN RUS
STA, June 3.-Strong formations
OF American Flying Fortresses
and Mustang fighters escorts
have landed at secretly prepared
American bases in Russia after
bombing Romaniau targets, ac-
complishing West-eaSt bombing
on Hitler's fortress for the first
time and establishing joint Of
fensive operations with the Red
Air Force.
The historic operation, completed
yesterday, was disclosed to be the
fruition of long-range American
Russian-British air plan through
which the three powers, in init
mate collaboration, brought the most
far flung portions of the Nazi do
main under precision bombing.
The dramatic arrival of American
bombers and fighters on Russian
soil, presumably from Italy, evoked
this first communique from
ECUSSAF eastern Command
United States Strategic Air Force ::
"A large force of strategic bomb
Crs and fighters today attacked Ro-
manian targets selected by our Rus
sian ally and then continued to
Russian bases.
Axis Opposition Slight.
Enemy opposition was slight.
One bomber was lost and one fight
er is still outstanding.
The Red Air Force co-operated
by attacking enemy airdromes on
the route of the Allied strategic
force and providing area fighter
support"
(All indications were that the
shuttle bombing was launched
from bases in Italy. The Medi-
terranean Air Command an
nounced without details that it's
planes had participated, but a
detailed story Of the attack,
written by Associated Press
Correspondent Joseph Morton at
(See SHUTTLE BOMBING, A-4)
Evening star., 1944-06-03
Making Of Goodyear Parts
At Brewster Studied

NEW YORK, June 8 (P.-Oficials
of Goodyear Aircraft Corp. of Akron
and a War Production Board repre-
sentative yesterday surveyed the
Long Island City plant of Brewster
Aeronautical Corp to see If some
of Brewster's facilities could be used
to make Goodyear parts.
Goodyear, subsidiary of Good
year Tire & Rubber Co., makes
Corsairs, Navy fighter planes, which
was what Brewster made before the
Navy abruptly terminated its con-
tract on May % because of a cut
back in the production of Navy
fighter planes.
A Brewster spokesman said it was
too early to tell whether the plant
could be used to make parts for
Goodyear or even to predict" He
said Ted Wright represented Charles
E. Wilson, executive vice chairman
of the WPB, on the tour.
Only skeleton force is now work.
ing at Long Island City to balance
out production" and send some parts
to townsville, Pa, where Brewster
has its assembly line, the company
official said.
Evening star., 1944-06-03
Wallace Speaks Russian
In Urging Collaboration
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
LONDON, June 3.-Speaking in
Russian in the Siberian town of
Irkutsk, Vice President Wallace said
that "it is becoming quite clear that
only the full collaboration between
our two countries and their allies
can insure to the world a stable
peace and true development"
The Moscow radio, reporting the
speech last night, said Mr.. Wallace,
en- route to China, was greeted
warmly.
Mr. Wallace told his audience that
development of the American
Northwest, Canada. Alaska and So
Wet Siberia must play an important
part in postwar construction, and
that United States and Canada
must make "a decisive effort in the
task Of developing their northern
regions" as has been done by Rus
Sia.
Evening star., 1944-06-03
Amazed Porotrooper
Goes Up, Not Down,
When He Jumps
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The young paratrooper leaped
from his plane, yelling Ger
onimo" like all good paratroop-
ers, but he didn't 60 down. He
went up.
He watched his buddies
swing in diminishing pendulums
toward the ground, gazed anx-
iously as his airplane faded into
the distance as he personally
floated higher and higher.
With no more control over
his movements than a wisp of
thistledown, the paratrooper
was tossed about on the point
of thermal wave" the official
service magazine Air Force
related.
He spent half an hour
watching his outfit fighting a
fierce mock battle on the
ground. In time. the thermal
wave released the young man
and he came down to join his
battalion as a fresh reservist."
The magazine said the
peculiar voyage took place at
Fort Benning, Ga.
Evening star., 1944-06-03
Draft Dodger School
In Baltimore CHARGED
As FbI Seizes IS
Three Servicemen at
Induction Stution and
II Others Arrested q
By the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE, June s. The
Federal Bureau of Investigation
arrested IA men and / woman
today, accusing them of evading
the draft or assisting inductees
to feign mental ailments in order
to obtain deferments.
John w. Vincent, special agent in
charge of the Baltimore FBI office,
said those arrested included Navy
petty officer and two Army nom
commissioned officers assigned to the
5th Regiment Armory induction
station.
Mr.. Vincent said that amounts
ranging from $3.50 to $500 had been
paid for help in obtaining psyche
neurotic reflections. emitting in
ductees to 4-F classifications.
Eight of those arrested were
charged with evading induction, and
seven were accused of assisting and
counseling draft evasion.
Four Civilians Involved.
Induction station employees under
arrest are Chester T. Ruby, Navy
chief petty officer; Sergt. Leon D.
Shapiro, Is, former civilian psychol-
ogist, and Corpl. Morris Molofsky,
a Russian-born alien.
Four civilians were accused of
counseling inductees to evade the
draft, or with acting as interme-
diaries between inductees and the
three military representatives at the
5th Regiment Armory. The other
eight defendants, all former in
ductees, were charged with draft
evasion.
All were ordered held by United
States Commissioner James X. Cul-
len in total of $29 500 bail for
hearing June 13. Rubys bail, $4,000,
was highest.
Probe May Be Extended.
The FBI chief said inductees were
instructed not only in feigning
mental illness, but also poor hear
ing, heart conditions and other all
ments. Mr.. Vincent indicated the
investigation might extend further,
since one of the Intermediates was
accused of acting as contact for
seven inductees alone.
Under the Selective Service Act,
those held, if convicted, are liable
to q maximum penalty of five years
in prison or $4,000 fine, or both.
Mr.. Vincent said agents had taken
secret motion pictures of many of
the meetings and contacts. He said
instructions to the inductees were
so detailed that they even included
how to dress and to answer queS-
tions. The men were told, he said,
to refrain from wearing any sort of
jeWelry, and to dress plainly and
conservatively" to impress induction
station pSychiatriStS.
Evening star., 1944-06-03
By NEWBOLD MOVES, Jr,
Star War Correspondept

ANzIO, Italy Delayed The
boys looked over their new tank
this afternoon and told about
the one they had lost in yester-
days fighting and of what hap
pened to them after that. Their
story is not really unusual in the
first confused battle that is being
fought by the 5th Army spear
head up here where the beach
head used to be. This sort of
thing could happen frequently
and nobody would give it a sec
ond thought.
Pfc. Thomas r. Hawkins of
Quanah, Tex, stubbled and dirty,
applied a wrench to the bolts on the
Evening star., 1944-06-03
u. 5. Troops Ferret
Shippers From Caves,
Renew Biak Drive
Clearing Of Main Island
In Schoutens Resumed
After StuIemute
BY the Associated Press.
ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD


ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, June
s. Mop-up squads of cliff
scaling Americans ferreted Jap
anese snipers from limestone
caves and hunted down ma
chine-gun nests on wooded
ridgetops as the week-old in
vaSion of Biak Island, stale
mated since Monday. moved
back into high gear today.
A big push by reinforced 9Th Army
units toward three airfields-poten-
ltial bases for bombing the Philip
pines-was pointed along a coastal
road, hitherto a death trap because
of murderous fire poured down from
the ridges.
U. S. Bombers Busy.
Biak, main island in the Schou-
tens, $50 miles southeast of the
Philippines, was invaded in Dutch
New Guinea's Geelvink Bay last Sat-
urday. The Japanese pulled out of
Bosnek village on the southeast
coast, allowed the Yanks to move
west along a shore road to within
half a mile of Mokmer, then cut
loose with withering blasts which
forced the invaders back a mile and
half.
While reinforcements were landed,
American units fought their way to
iridgetops and a spokesman said to-
day I'VE now are mopping up" In
co-ordination, Liberators and Mitch
/ ellis skinned the ridges to drop 30
! tons of explosives on japanese there
and at Mokmer.
Headquarters reported that small
groups of japanese planes were at
| tacking the Bosnek beachhead at
night losing one in the latest effort
to antiaircraft gunners, but the
enemy air force refrained from
showing up in daylight.
u S. Warships Near Biak.
American Warships remained in
| the Biak area, 200 miles northwest
of the nearest Dutch New Guinea
invasion point at Maffiin Bay. A
destroyer wiped out three enemy
barges and 25 japanese 10 miles
east of Bosnek.
This might indicate an at
tempt Of the Japanese to get in
behind the invaders as previous
communique said all enemy re-
sistance in that area had COL
lapsedJ
At another invasion beachhead
more than 450 miles southeast, near
Aitape, British New Guinea, head
quarters reported today that Japa-
nese had ambushed a patrol, killing
nine Americans and six natives with
rifles, grenades and light machine
guns while losing only one of their
force
'At the other end of the Pacific
war theater, American bombers
rounded out their biggest months
activity against Japan's Kurile
Islands in the North Pacific.
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz an
nounced yesterday at Pearl
Harbor that Navy planes hit
Shumushu Island Wednesday for
the third successive day. It was
the 25th Kurile strike by Army
and Navy bombers In May1