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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-08

SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUAR-
TIERS, HANDY, CEYLON, May T.
E-British and Indian troops have
Withdrawn from the western Burma
1ase OF Buthedaung during "a re-
adjustment of our positions, but
have beaten off new Japanese at
tacks on the Indian frontier base
Of Kohima during a flsre-up of bit
ter fighting, headquarters announc-
ed today.
Having established ourselves on
certain features vital to security on
this line, we have carried out a re-
adjustment of our positions which
included withdrawal from Buthe-
daung without enemy interference"
Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten' S
announcement said.
The British captured Buthedaung
last March II.
Headquarters said that Allied
troops had defeated a number of
determined enemy counterrattack s
in the Mayu range just west of the
base. Butheadaung, IS miles west
of the port of Akyab, is the eastern
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CHINESE REPULSE
ENEMY in HONAN
Chennault's 14th. Air
Force Is Thrown
Agsas;a>'s.t-Foe

CHUNGKING, May 7-tR-The
Chinese high command announced
today that its troops defending the
key city of Loyang in northwestern
Honan province had repulsed a re-
inforced Japanese attack nine and
one-half miles south of the city as
Mai. Gen. Claire, Chennault's 18th
air force fighters and bombers' were
thrown against the enemy.
The Chinese situation was term
ed serious here for the fall of Lo-
yang, 500 miles northeast Of Chung
king, would open an historic inva-
sion route to the Chinese interior,
and it was believed the Japanese
might have embarked on an about
attempt to knock China out of the
war.
AS Chinese refugees fled west
ward out of menaced Loyang. Chi
nese American P-40s strafed
Japanese troops columns outside
Loyang, destroying between 90 and
so trucks, armored cars and tanks,
and killing and wounding between
300 and 400 Japanese, Gen Joseph
w. Stilwell's headquarters announc-
ed. Two japanese bombers also
were shot down.
p The Chinese command acknowl-
edged the fall of Yengcheng, SO
miles south of japanese held
Chenghsien, to enemy columns
moving southwark yesterday along
the Peiping-Hankow railway, and
implied that another Japanese
column had entered Yehsien, 35
miles west of Yengcheng.
Chenghsien, the local base of the
radiating japanese drives is IS
miles east of Loyang.
Another enemy column moving
northward along the railway was
said to have been checked in the
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Bombs Fall
In Waves On
TwoCapitals
BERLIN BLASTED AGAIN
Munster Osnabruk Area
And Bucharest Among
Hardest Hit Targets

LONDON, May 7.-(H -
More than 4,500 Allied war
planes, spearheaded by great
Armadas of American heavy
bombers, shook the Axis cap
itals of Berlin and Bucharest
and other European targets
today in perhaps the heavi-
est concentrated two-Way pre-
invasion assault of the war.
While a fleet of 1000 Fort
resses and their escorts were
loosing thousands of bombs
on Berlin and the Munster
Osnabruk area of western
Germany, other formations
of American heavy bombers
streamed out from Italy and
bumbed Bucharest in the
third straight day of nom
stop blows at Romania's rail
centers and oil supplies.
5000 Tons OF Bombs
Other waves of medium bomb
cry. fighter atonbers ss4d fighters
ranged into Germany, France and
Belgium throughout today, the 23rd
consecutive day of the unparalleled
assault on Europe. 1t was estimat-
I'd that in all operations more than
5000 tons of bombs fell on Ger
many and dominated ter
ritory during daylight.
The British-based invasion fleet
of 1000 heavy bombers and an
other 1000 fleet of fighters hit
Berlin and the western Reich tar
gets at the cost of eight bombers
and five fighters. in contrast with
the loss of 10 heavy bombers dur
ing the last American raid on Ber-
Lin eight days ago.
A thick layer Of clouds protect
ed the American craft in the day.
light raid and one division which
ran into opposition said the Ger
man fighters veered off and re-
fused combat. Only two Germans
were doWned
The big bombers. out in really
great force for the first time in
three days after a siege of channel
gales, directed their main blows
against the already-battered Ger
man capital while smaller forces
stopped off to smash the Munster
Osnabruk areas along one OF Ger
many's main rail networks.
In an almost simultaneous at
tack 300 miles away the Mediter.
ranean air force smashed at main
rail wards of the Romanian capi-
tai with possibly 1000 American
heavy bombers and fighters drop
ping an estimated 1900 short tons
of bombs on the target and a
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
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CONGRESS FACES
DIFFICULT WEEK
Time Is Expected To Be
Largely Taken Up
By Controversy KS

WASHINGTON, May. 7. - Up -
Fights and filibuster face Con-
gress this week as 1t tackles a
group of controversial proposals
awaiting settlement before the po-
litical convention recess late next
month.
Legislative action will be center
ed in the house. where at least
two major measures are slated
for disposition during the week.
Topping the house program is
the &c. I. bill of rights" passed
by the Senate before the Easter
recess and rewritten by the house
veterans committee. Debate start
ing Thursday is expected to CEN
ter on proposals for unemployment
compensation and educational ben
efits for discharged men and wo-
men.
The Senate voted for So weeks OF
unemployment pay at rates vary
ing with family status from SIS
to $25: the house committee cut
this to 26 weeks and set a flat
compensation of $40. The commit
tee also rewrote the education
provision and in doing so drew
the fire of educational leaders who
assailed the action as a menace
to educational freedom.
Before taking up the veterans
bill, the house will consider leg
islation to boost the national debt
limit from $210,0 1000, 900, 900 to $780,
900, 0O0,O 900 and will seek to dispose
Of an omnibus flood control bill.
The senate may tie itself up in
a filibuster planned by southern
Democrats if anti-poll tax legisla-
ton passed by the house is called
up Tuesday. Only resort to the
cloture rule can block the filibus-
ter, and hackers of the legislation
doubt that they have the "a votes
needed to invoke this rarely used
rule to limit debate.
Should the filibuster develop It
may delay consideration of the
house approved tax simplification
bill.
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CHURCHES MERGE
Covenant And St. Andrews
Take Identical Action
AT Separate Service

The proposed merger Of st. An
drew's Presbyterian church and
the Church of the Covenant was
officially approved at separate
meetings of the two congregations
following their services yesterday
morning, officials of the churches
announced.
The next step, 1t was said, will
be presentation of the question to
the Wilmington Presbytery and
this is expected to be done by
June 1.
A spokesman for the two church
es said the decision regarding a
new name will be left up to the
merged church.
The merger proposal was made
public several weeks ago and a
committee of three members from
each church was appointed by the
joint sessions to further develop
the possibilities of the union. On
April 30, the committees recon-
mendations were considered and
discussed by the congregations.
Under the terms of the recon-
mendations, the assets of both
churches, real and personal, will
be combined to form the assets of
the merged church and liabilities
of both churches would be assun-
ed by the merged church. It is
understood that the new church
will use the physical properties of
the Church of the Covenant at
Fifteenth and Market streets. st.
Andrews church is at 514 N.
Fourth street, and this property
is expected &c be sold.
Other rec lamentations approx
ed are: That the official bodies of
both churches, the sessions, the
deaconates and the trustees, be
combined to- form the official
bodies of the merged church.
"Since the committee is inform
ed both the present pastors have
indicated their willingness and in
tention of resigning, in order that
they may facilitate the merger, it
is suggested that the designations
now be rendered and become eff
fective May 81, 1914" the recon-
mendations said.
The Rev. John Knox Bowling is
pastor of St. Andrews church and
the Rev. J. Harry Whitmore is
pastor of the Church of the Cove
nant.
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can labor. Their work has been of
vital importance in agriculture"
as well as in numbering, the depart
ment reported.
This deploying of the prisoners
throughout the country is an i'm
portant instrument in political re-
education, the statement said.
1T is believed by prisoner-of-war
camp authorities, the Army said,
that the best indoctrination for
democracy will be in the observa-
tons made by the enemy prisoners
of war as they work in American
communities, and as they absorb
material from newspapers, books,
motion pictures, radio and cor
respondence courses which they
acquire in the camps"
Prisoners are segregated by ma
tionality, the department said, then
added:
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|CESTAP0 STARTS
WAR OF TR1CKERY

WASHINGTON, May 7.-tR)-
The gestapo has loosed a war of
trickery on the Allied underground
movement in Europe trying to
lure Allied sympathizers into ex-
posing themselves - and being
Inundated - before the invasion
troops roll in.
The Office of War Information
reported today that the Nazis and
their satellites have issued false
"orders'' in the name of the Al
lies, dropped bogus leaflets from
planes with Raj markings, and
had Nazi agents masquerade as
"Allied fliers'' trying to escape
from Germany.
owns report, carrying $500
words of detail on the campaign
of confusion, described it as "a
desperate attempt to weaken the
resistance movement as much as
possible before the landings"
The effort to bring patriots out
into the open prematurely has
been marked, Owl said, by the
issuance of resistance directives'
telling them what to do when the
invasion comes the circulation of
fake underground newspapers and
the launching of spurious "resist-
anna r,ovar, aptc''
In some cases gestapo agents
have been sent out to pose as anti
Nazis to collect funds for the I'M
derground and to arrest those who
made contributions.
"Sabotage of installations with
out strategic importance - as
well as attacks on persons with
out Nazi affiliation - have been
carried out and then attributed to
the underground, thus laying the
basis for popular wrath and Gre
ating an opportunity for 'repris-
ais" owl reported.
The dropping OF forged leaflets
to tempt the underground to dis
close itself apparently has be-
come a favorite trick in both
France and Denmark. Similar in
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WASHINGTON, May 7-REThe
limited States now holds 1858
prisoners of war, the Army report
Cd today in a statement which
also discussed the problem of de-
Nazifying captured soldiers of the
Axis.
of the total, by far the largest
number are from Hitler's legions-
133135 Germans, 50,136 Italians and
347 japanese. an,
Thew are housed in 203 camps,
located in all but seven state.
The War Department emphasized
the value Of the prisoners in ale
WAITING the labor shortage in this
country, saying that their utilza-
ton, under the terms OF the Geneva
convention, resulted in a total Of
10 400 321 nan-days Of employment
between June 1943, and the end of
last March, this without putting
them into eouoneti*iep. With. Amsrjr
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Thief Knocks Woman
Down, Flees With $500
And Checks In Purse

The robbery of $500 in cur
rency and checks from Mrs.
Tillie Davis, 314 South Fifth
St., by an unidentified purse
snatcher Saturday night while
she was walking home from
her store was investigated by
police yesterday.
Mrs. Davis reported that the
man knocked her down at
Sixth and Nun streets, snatch
ed her purse containing the
money and ran. She described
him as short, wearing brown
clothes resembling an Army
uniform and with a rag tied
over his face.
The greater part of the mon
ey, taken in during Saturdays
operation of her store at Sew
enth and Castle streets, was in
81 bills. The pocketbook also
contained ration books and
other papers.
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WALLACE HOLDS
PLEDGES OF 200

WASHINGTON, May 7.-R-Sup-
porters of Henry A. Wallace expect
to enter the democratic national
convention with more than 200
pledged and claimed votes toward
a vice presidential nomination they
concede will go to the man Presl-
dent Roosevelt picks if he seeks a
fourth term and wants to name his
running mate.
In contrast to the 1910 convention
where Wallace was without vote
before he became the Presidents
surprise choice, the vice presidents
hackers are counting on almost
solid support from six states which
will cast 232 votes.
They are California, where lead
ers have said the delegation will
back Roosevelt and Wallace; Penn
svlvania, where Senator Guffey Cd
PAD is active for Wallace; Wiscon-
sin. where delegates are pledged
to vote for the denomination of
the President and vice PRESIDENT;
Minnesota and Iowa, where the
state conventions endorsed Wallace
along with Roosevelt, and Michi-
gan, where organized labor Is
. 49, ,rv.. ro1 a,
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Nazis Grow
.HysteriicalAI
|. D. Day NeyI
WANT SEC0N
Hitlerized Germany Be,.-.
Worked Over Behind
Invaders Backs
By WADE WERNER

LISBON, May 7.-tR)-One OF
the most extraordinary develop
ments in the European war zone
in recent months is the fact it no
longer is the Russians who are
clamoring for a second front -
it's the Nazis.
The new Russian attitude is
best illustrated by Stalin's recent
reference to the Allies consider
able contribution toward a So
Wet victory.
Sharply contrasting is an article
by Nazi Propaganda Minister Jo-
seph Goebbels today in Das Reich,
sarcastically belabouring the Al
lies for failure to invade western
Europe and hurting out that
among the German people there
is greater anxiety that the inva-
sion might not come than that it
will come"
Goebbels doesn't explain why
the Nazis are afraid the invasion
won't come except to refer vague
ly to the tremendous defensive
preparations completed around
the periphery of Europe, to high
morale of the defenders of the Aa-
lantic wall and to mysterious
array of secret weapons ready to
go into action the moment the AL
lies start an invasion. He suggests
they merely are eager to demon
strate how well they have pre-
pared.
What he fails to mention is that
while the ramparts are solidly
built and the defensive machinery
of the Atlantic wall ready and the
defenders alert, Nazi Europe grad.
ually and remorselessly is being
plowed up and under behind the
backs of the Nazi soldiers guard
ing the periphery.
The Germans are like the in
habitants of a heavily besaeged
walled city whose defenders are
well equipped with boiling oil and
hot lead to dump on the heads of
scaling parties but whose homes,
arsenals and warehouses are
crumbling in ruins or disappear
ing in flames.
The urgent need in their situa-
ton is quick opportunity to re-
pei an enemy attack and inflict
disastrous casualties in the hope
the Allies will call off the siege
and go home. But if the enemy
stubbornly stays out of range I'M
til there is complete chaos and
disorganization inside, even the
bravest defenders have no choice
except surrender or the extreme
and probably suicidal gamble of
a sortie beyond the walls.
Editorial utterances of some of
Goebbels' subordinates - not
nearly so clever as their chief Il
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TRUNK MURDERER
IS STILL SOUGHT

CHICAGO, May 7-(P)-Finger-
prints of woman whose nearly
nude body, packed in salt. was
shipped in a trunk from Chicago
10 Los Angeles last week were
studied by Chicago police and FBI
agents in Washington today in an
attempt to establish her identity.
Police 1t. Philip Breitzke of the
homicide division said the prints
were expected to reveal whether
me victim was woman register
"a With a man in small Chicago
nolel until week ago as mir.
ana Mrs. John Lopez"
A man who identified himself as
'ohn Lopez brought the trunk into
d railway express agency office
mere last Sunday for shipment to
Les Angeles.
Sreltzke said a handyman en-
ployed at the hotel reported find
l.g what appeared to be blood
s'alhs On q mattress in the room
me Lopezes had occupied. He
,,ooed hat a cab driver reported
oelng hired by a man to help move
uie trIak from an alley behind
ne hotel to the express office.
me woman who had been reg
sVefed as Mrs. Lopez in the hotel
@ofked for one day in a Chicago
war war plant, Breitzke said, and her
t.lngerprints and photograph were
'dKen in conformity with a routine
Iequlrement at the plant. He add
ca mat the woman was employed
0aoer different name.
LOS Angeles police reported.
nfeltzke said, that the condition Of
u-e trunk victims body prevented
an accurate comparison with that
monograph. He said the finger
plnts received here, would De
ma'ched against those found IN the
1oom occupied by Mr.. and Mrs.
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Roosevelt Back
At White House
Rested And Fit
IN SOUTH CAROLINA
President Spent Vacation
On Baruch's Plantation
Near Georgetown
By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL

President Roosevelt came back tC
Washington today from month S
vacation on the langurous plan.
tation coast of South Carolina, tan
ned. rested. and described by his
physician as in excellent shape u
He himself told reporters, just
before he left Hobcaw Barony, Ber-
rard M. Baruch's plantation al
GEORGETOWN, S. c., that he was
feeling great deal better.
And whatever rigors the even
hual months ahead may hold for
the chief executive as president
politician, Or commander-in chief,
his vacation companions said they
were convinced he once more was
in fine physical trim.
Mr.. Roosevelt's doctor, Vice Ad-
rniral Ross T. McIntire, declared:
my own feeling is that we gain.
ed everything we expected from a
four weeks rest and I am perfect.
" satisfied with his physical con-
dition."
Secretary Of State Hull met the
chief executive when his special
train rolled in from the south this
morning and rode with him to the
White House. White House officials
said the president will confer to-
morrow with congressional lead
ers.
During the months rest the presi-
dent eased up more than at any
time since the entered the White
House. He slept II hours night.
He worked at times, but only when
he felt like it. And he had chance
to enjoy shirt-sleeved type OF
relaxation-sopping up sunshine,
fishing and not caring too much II
the biting was good, cruising wa
terways and highways and looking
in on scenic and historic spots.
He returned to the capital with
a vastly improved color and with
some of the tired seams smoothed
from his face. He said he couldn' t
think of any major issues or prob
confronting him here, since
he. had been able to dispose OF
nearly all current official BUSH
ness as it dribbled into HobcaW
Barony by courier.
The president had no comment
on such matters as the controver-
sy surrounding governmental selz-
ure of the Chicago facilities OF
Montgomery Ward and company.
Nor had he been able, he said,
10 give any attention yet to the
aonontment of a successor to the
late Frank Knox, secretary OF the
49,
ing back in an easy chair
III the living room at HobcaW, Mr..
Roosevelt told how he had picked
it as vacation hideaway because
Of climate and seclusion.
Baruch, New York financier and
elder statesman of the administra-
ton, bought the plantation in 1905.
It's $4,000 acres stretch across
peninsula from the Atlantic to
Wlnyar bay, and the Baruch man
sion is located on the bay, four and
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
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MICA MINES NEEDED

RALEIGH, May 7.-tRePaul v.
McNutt, chairman Of the War
Manpower Commission told state
manpower director J. D. Dorton
today North Carolina needed 40
per cent Of the additional mica
miners wanted this year in the
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Continued on Page Two; Col.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-30
Commencement
Calendar
Sunday, June 4

sunday Suho
Baccalaureate services 4 .. m,
Michigan state Normal College
Rev Frank McPhIllIps. Ann Arbor.
So. Roosevelt High School
Rev. Hugo Fenker. Baptist
Church.
So. m.-Llncoln High School
Rev. Clifford Doty, OF owosso NJ.
e Church, gymnasium
Tuesday. June s
Class. Night, 8 o'clock, Lincoln
School, gymnasium.
Wednesday. June
Parents NightInyitational. ..
m. Roosevelt High School.
Thursday, June 9
Commencement. 8 p. m.-Lincoln
High School-Dr, r. Clyde Ford.
gymnasium.
Friday, Juns
Commencement. 8 p. m.--Roose-
welt High School-Dean J. d. Ed
monson. Ann Arbor. auditorium.
Michigan State Normal College
closes.
Saturday, June 10
Commencement. p. m.-Michi.
gan State Normal College. Prest
dent John Munson, speaker.
Alumni Program. 8 p. m.-Michi'
gan State Normal College. Charles
McKenny Hall.
Sunday, June II
Baccalaureate. 1880 D. m.--Ypsi.
lantl High School. Methodist
Church.
Wednesday, Juns II
Sixth Grade Commencement, 10
a. m.-Woodruft School. Ernest
Chapelle.
Class Day. 8 p. m.-Ypsilsnti
High School. High School auditor.
ium.
St Johns School closes for the
summer.
Friday, Juns 10
All Ypsilanti Schools Close.
Commencement. 3 D. m.-Ypsi.
lanti High School. auditorium.
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Automotive
House TraIIers tor sale

RIVER BRINK TRAILER PARK
1920 f.eForge Rd. Phone 645.
All size trailerH for rent or sale.
$40 SCHULTZ House Trailer. 10 II
insulated. sleeps four. oil burner
Coleman cook stove. 1895. VIII &c
cept small amount OF furniture or
cheap car IN trade. Can he seen nj
Lewis Nelson's gas station, Whit
moro Lake. Mich. or phone l9li
Ann Arbor after D m. Ask for
Mr. Lawrence