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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-30

The motion, made by Commits
sioner Gardner, included the pro-
viso that the representative be
equipped with a brief containing
factual information and details OF
facilities available here.
1t is understood a member Of
the Chamber of commerce also
will go to Washington for the hear
ings and to outline advantages of
the city's tair port
Interstate Airlines has an ap-
plication pending with the C. A. A..
for an east-west line which would
include Wilmington as a stop on
it's proposed route.
WILL SELL LAND
The War Department has in.
formed the county commission
that it will sell a small parcel of
land to the county for the cost of
land acquisition, $127.5O.
Major John D. Barber, for the
division engineer, South Atlantic
division, wrote the commission,
I'VE appreciate your active inter-
est in air transportation and your
plans to prepare for developments
after the present emergency"
The parcel of land consists of
OBS acre and lies in the NNW-
SSE landing strip parallel to and
$50 feet west of the center line at
the airport. Other small tracts not
owned by the county which may
be purchased from the government
at later date will be considered
separately, the war department
wrote the commission.
Want Long Lease
Provisions of the gale of the OBS
acre tract included that reimburse
ments for improvements be made
by the C. A. A. or the county, and
that the county execute a lease to
the government for $1.00 per an
mum for at least the duration and
six months thereafter, preferably
IS years.
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. ~
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Japs Launch Attack
Against Near Mogaung

SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUAR-
lHRS' Randy, Ceylon, May 90
1-FeInforced Japanese units,
'00ilcolng heavy attack against
Nh-nese positions near the enemy's
t,ol I'll burma base of Mogaung,
lave seized a vital air strip and
to'eeo the Allied airborne troops
~ abandon important roadblocks
lucy had held for II days, head
40sr'ers disclosed today.
~ the same time the Allies gain
wi ~ III Ihelr tight into Myitkyina, IS
miles to the east.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-30
Southern Presbyterian church

Southern Presbyterian church
here.
''There are no atheists in
foxholes or anywhere else, but
satan is working with tooth and
claw" the chaplain said Be-
fore the war sailors made no
profession of being born again
except men from the Pentecos-
tai Holiness church and the
Church of God, declared Chap
lain Volbeda who belongs to
the Southern Presbyterian
church.
"a sailor would not be
caught with a Bible in his
hands for fear of being called
Holy joe or Altar Angel !"
he said. "After Pearl Harbor
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-30
FIERCE FIGHT RACES
AS ALLIES HIT DEEP
INTO ROME DEFENSES
|NAzlS BRING UP
REINF0RCEMENTS
Deadly Flame Throwers
Fail To Interrupt
Onward Push

ALLIED HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Naples, May 29-(P
battle for Rome-first
great capital of Nazi-dominat-
ed Europe to fall within range
of Allied guns-raged with
mounting fury tonight after
an Allied wedge had been
driven deeply into the en-
emy's "last ditch defense
line less than 16 miles from
the Eternal City.
In desperate effort to hold
Rome at least until his battered
forces far to the southeast could
disengage and be withdrawn to
the new line, Field Marshal AL
bert Kesselring poured reinforce
ments into a savage series OF
counterattacks along 17-mile
front from the vicinity of VAL
montone on the Via Casi1ina to
Campoleone at the edge OF the
Alban hills.
These heavy counterbloWs slow
ed but did not halt the advance
Of 1t. Gen. Mark w. Clark's
British and American Fifth Ar
my troops, who doggedly pressed
their attack in the face of flame
throwers and whitening artillery
and small arms fire.
Daniel de Luce of the Associate
ed Press reported in front dis
patch filed at $50 pm. that AM
erican tanks were attacking Ger
man strongpoints of armor, artil.
lery and infantry on the slopes
of the Alban hills between Cam
poleone and Lanuvio at a point
less than 16 miles southeast Of
Rome's outskirts.
He said enemy counterattacks
employing as much as a battalion
of infantry and four Cotton Tiger
tanks at crack were beaten back
and that tank-1ed Allied infantry
had made progress all day.
Three Divisions Destroyed
Allied headquarters announced
that three of 10 German divisions
engaged in the battle had been
virtually destroyed since the AL
lied offensive began May II, with
more than $1,000 in prison cages.
Combat strength of enemy divi-
sions now was estimated at 5000
men.
American and British beach
read forces launched a powerful
new drive toward Campoleone-
almost due south of Rome-yes-
terday, and by last night we're
within a mile of the German
stronghold Other Allied troops
smashed through Aprilia, the mo-
del farm community which chang
ed hands four times in the early
phases of the beachhead fighting
several months ago.
Campoleone marked the high
tide of the original Allied advance
after the beachhead was establish
ed over four months ago. A Brit
ish spearhead was trapped there
and fought its way free after suf-
fering heavy losses.
Near ValmOntOne
At their furthest surge to the
north and east, beachhead forces
were fighting tonight within 1000
yards of Valmontone, on the SHE'LL
torn Via Casilina 20 miles east
and slightly south of Rome. Others
were battling in the outskirts OF
Velletri and closing upon Lanuvia,
four miles TO the southwest, where
the Alban hills begin to rise from
the Pontine plain.
To the southeast Of the rising
battle for Rome, Allied beach
head troops drove the enemy out
OF the mountain towns of Ser.
and Bassiano, both well
north of the Appian Way and the
electric rail line. The
two towns are between 8 and 10
miles east and slightly south Of
f'icterna
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-30
Many Offices In City
Will Be Closed TODAY

In observance of Memorial Day,
the banks, city hall, county court
house, chamber of commerce,
postoffice and rationing board will
be closed today. Retail stores will
remain open. The general delivery
COD and registry windows of the
postoffice will be open from 10
am. to noon. No mail will be del
ivered.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-30
Plane Plants,
Big Oil Works
Battered Hard
100 NAILS SHOT DOWN
Allies Fly $500 Sorties
Over Poland, Germany;
s. Bombers Lost

AO4NOO4N, uOoooJ, NA0J
80 -(P)- American heavy
bombers and fighters, posi-
bly, 1900 strong, shot 100 en-
envy aircraft from the sky
and hammered seven aircraft
factories in Poland and Ger
many and a syn t h e tic oil
works near Stettin today.
The blow was the heaviest dealt
in a day of perfect weather which
saw approximately $500 sorties
flown from Allied pre- invasion
bases in Britain and Italy.
1t cost the U. S. strategic air
force IS bombers and II fighters,
the same losses as reported after
yesterdays operations in similar
strength when SO Nazi planes were
knocked down.
One Marauder was lost as the
Ninth air force kept pace with the
heavies by sending record num-
Der of 400 twin-engined Marauders
and Havocs against French and
Belgian bridges and a French air
field.
The German air force network
warned that bomber formations
were approaching Osnabruck-
Muenster, air raid alarms sound
ed in Berlin, the Cologne radio re-
ported nuisance raiders were head
ed for west and northwest Ger
many, the Budapest radio issued a
raid warning and the Vichy radio
left the air, indicating widespread
follow-up night attacks.
Austria Hit
While British based Liberators
and Fortresses were winging
across northern Europe between
500 and 700 heavies from Italy,
with matching escort headed into
old Austria and bombed German
aircraft factory at Atzgersdorf, a
few miles southwest of Vienna, the
Wollersdorf ferrJ plane base and
the Nord airfield, both near VIE
nerneustadt.
All these targets were visited
five days ago when the last big
strike over the Alps was made,
simultaneously with British init
ated raids on Berlin and Paris.
Once again the big bombers ran
into intense flax and determined
enemy fighter opposition. The loss
es of the Mediterranean raiders
were not Immediately announced.
At about 10 pm. tonight the Bu-
dapest radio broadcast an air raid
warning, indicating the offensive
was swinging uninterrupted into
the night cycle from Mediterrane-
an bases.
The Berlin radio, meanwhile.
eaid a British and American bomb
er squadron carried out another
raid against Rome today, causing
heavy destruction and at least 100
deaths in the Sac Paolo quarter.
Climax of Day
The climax of day. in which
Allied raiders scourged the face of
Europe from Polish factories to
possible battlefields in western
Europe and present front lines in
Italy, was struck by the 1000
American heavy bombers which.
for the second day in a row had
an escort of more than 1900 Thun-
derbolts, Lightnings and Mustangs
furnished by the Eighth and Ninth
air forces.
They swept about $50 miles
across Germany, bombing aircraft
plants at Poznan, Poland; Kreis-
ing, five miles to the southeast,
the eastern and southern German
cities of Leipzig, Tutow, Sorau and
Cottbus, and the Politz synthetic
oil plant, IS miles northeast of Ber-
lin.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-30
County Board
Asks Meeting
On Hospital.
CITY, STAFF INVITED
Conference On Problems
Vote d Unanimously
By Commission

The New Hanover board Of
county commissioners voted
unanimously yesterday on mo-
ton by Commissioner Harry
Gardner to request a joint
meeting of the city council
and the board of managers
of the James Walker Memoir
ial hospital with the commits
sion to discuss problems re-
Iating to operation of the
institution.
Many persons are of the opinion
that the hospital is a city-county
institution, but this is true only
insofar as the city and county con-
tribute funds fo~ the care of in
djgent patients. Gardner stated.
There appears to be some con-
fusion in the public mind as to the
county commissions responsibility
in this matter; 1 feel that this
board should request meeting
and familiarize itself with condi-
tiona existing in the hospital due to
crjtism we are receiving" he
added.
The commission should do what
ever it can to clarity the aspects
Of the problem with which it is
concerned, Mr. Gardner said.
Records of the clerk of the COM
mission show that no report has
been submitted to the commission
by the hospital since July. 1943.
Appropriations from the city and
county for that fiscal year which
ends June 30, 1914 totaled $4,000.
Both governments appropriated
$4,000 each to the general hospi-
tai fund and $4,000 each to the So
called building fund for equipment
and improvements.
Want Report
Commissioner Gardner also
made motion that officials of
James Walker Hospital be request
ed to submit report to the COM
mission.
DR.. James M. Hall seconded
Gardner's motion. Voting in agree
ment we're Commissioners Addison
Hewlett, Sir, George w. Traks and
Lewis j. Coleman.
The monthly report of the Com
munity hospital for April was re-
ceived by the commission for con-
sideration and filing. The -epo-l re-
veals the negro institution had ZIG
pay-patients, II part-pay and l
free cases. A total of 12,949 meals
were served and 1913 operations
performed. Laboratory examina-
lions numbered 813. and 81 X-rays
were made. Seventeen deaths and
autopsies were reported. Three
hundred and sixty five out patients
visited the clinics.
Receipts Listed
Receipts and disbursements at
Community hospital for April
were: Income from patients, &c.
80; appropriations Getty and
county,, $3,659.33; Duke epdow-
ment, $3,8O7O0; motor service,
S7450; other sources, $143.63 total
s14,048.79. Operating expenses, 3d.
$40 08. Excess in income over op-
Grating expenses, $5.9S5.71.
Details of costs of departments
we're: administrative, $469. 10: die
tary, $1.83013: laundry, 1888. IA;
housekeeping, S667 IL; plant opera
ton, $l,211.7l; motor service, $685.
81; medical and surgical, $1,231.-
As; drugs, $7l3.44; nursing service,
Sl,2994l; X-ray. $1,000 labora-
tory 1920; and miscellaneous,
S.5.79
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-30
CHINESE THREATENED

CHNGKING, May 29.-LR-A new
Japanese drive southwark from
Yoyang in the widespread Human
province offensive is threatening
Siangyin, 30 miles north of the Can.
ton-Hankow railway city of Chang
sha, Chinese field dispatches said.
today.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-30
Ice Cream Supply
Will Be Increased
WASHINGTON. Nav % Up II

WASHINGTON, May 2s- Up -
People who scream for ice cream
are going to get lots of it.
The War Food Administrative
announced today that the milk
supply is so good it is going to
permit the manufacture of about
30, 000,0 more gallons of the froz-
en- delicacy than were available
last summer.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-30
STATE RIGHTS FAVORED

HERSHEY, Pa, May 29.-tR-
Governor Thomas E. Dewey of
New York said tonight that pre-
servation of Americas wartime
unity in the postwar period sis the
vital problem of our time' and de-
clared he favors a revival of power
and responsibility by the states. =
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-30
43 Divorces Granted
At Opening OF Court

A record number of divorces
were granted here yesterday when
Judge w. c. Harris Of Superior
Court granted 43 of the 46 petit
tons heard on the opening day of
the two-week term of civil court.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-30
Restaurant OUners
Await OPA Action

A number of Wilmington and New Hanover county
restaurant owners before the panel of the New
Hanover War Price and Ration board for alleged violation
of OPA price control regulations still awaiting judg
men N L. Foy, price panel chairman announced yesterday
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-30
County Board Pushes
CITY AS Air Line Stop

member of the New Hanover board of county COM
mlssoners will to Washington appear June before
the hearing by the Civil Aeronautic Authority regarding
the designation of Wilmington as stop on an east-west
air line under consideration the board decided at meeting
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-30

NORTH CAROLINA: Partly cloudy and
continued warm today, with scattered
thundershowers this afternoon in west
portion.
Temperatures yesterday:
High: 8t1sow: ss.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-06

wards figured wasn't on the level. So
he stopped payment on several checks
and had one of the other players
hailed into court But the judge de-
cided against him.
1t isn't clear just what business
Jack meant 10 engage in when he sub
let Mrs Days apartment, with its
many mirrors, white and gold decora-
tons, fragile vases, Chinese jade, fine
old rugs and antique furniture.
The first thing he did, however,
was to buy a 24.volume set on how
10 be a business success. Then he
got three telephones installed on
Lele's Sheraton desk-having the re-
ceivers and cords nailed, she claims.
TO that precious antique.
She says also that he had an intri-
cate system of bells and BUYERS in
stalled i'm such a busineSSlike manner
that her carpets had 10 be pierced to
get them rugged up.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-06

Bob. was formerly married TO CLAM
our girl Mimi Baker. half-SiSter of
Alfred GWYnne Vanderbilt and now
the wife of Brig. Gen. Edward II.
Alexander and another brother. Dan,
is married TO Sonia Henie)
However. it may be that Jack just
got fed up with being called a play
boy - role he'd been practicing
persistently.
Or it may be that his desire to get
acquainted with business routine re-
suited from a recent somewhat dis
treSsing transaction that start d
around a gaming table in a hotel
room and wound up in court.
on that lamentable occasion, Jack
lost $4,000 in a card game he after
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-06

At one time he was quite certain
the right girl was going to be II
year-old Cuban night club singer.
known in cafe society only as Estelita.
She spoke only Spanish, which Jack
didn't understand. So ii looked like
perfect match.
But her mother firmly insisted she
wait-preSumably until she learned
English or Jack learned Spanish.
That, apparently, never happened.
And there was Miss Ruth Waldo
who was with him at the card game
mentioned before. During the game,
while he was winning, Miss Waldo
got tired. He took her home. promiS
ing her a mink coat which she got a
few days later
When he returned to the game, his
luck changed and he lost heavily.
Mutual friends of Lele and Jack.
however, believe the lawyers will
reach a settlement almost any day.
THE AMERICAN WEEKLY
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-06

than could normally be expected
and countenanCed.
A reasonable amount of wear and
tear from a tenant is customary, of
course, but Mrs. DAILY claims that
Playboy Jack went far beyond the
usual limits when he began playing
) at being a business man land other
less conventional roles) in her daintily
furnished apartment.
Whatever made Jack imagine him
self 10 be a business man is some
thing Of a mystery. He certainly
didn't need 10 be one.
Youngest of the heirs of the Daniel
+. Reid tinplate fortune-he's now %
Jack already has $i,000.000. He's
still a bachelor, too. UIis brother,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-06

tWhOSe name she
still prefers 10 uSeD,
she's had four sub.
sequent husbands
a marital career
that has invoked
her in considerable
litigation.
Jack knows n
judges gaVcl from
a CrOquct mlliet,
too.
so its not SUI.
priSing they both
seem hcSitant about
airing their differ.
enceS in court.
The basis of those
q iffere nceS is
W h q h er or not
Tenant Topping did
more d a m a G @ TO
Landla dy DAILY s
apartment during a
y u b-let interval
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-06

Since it's highly vital for bust
ness man TO relax, Jack seems to
have done SO by flinging number OF
highly diverting parties IN Mrs. Days
apartment.
These parties were apparently dis.
tinguished by a variety OF parlor
games-such games as Post Office,
Chaplin and Clap-Out, Musical Chairs.
and one said TO have been invented
by Jack himself called Jonah and
the Whale"
The most reliable reports have II
that in this game. Jack played the
part Of the whale-a good bit of cast
ing, if true, since he tips the scales
at about 300 pounds.
The rules were that the whale sat
blindfolded in one Of Lele's fine old
French armchairS, while pretty
feminine guests romped around him
until he succeeded in catching one
As in Post Office. the reward was
some innocent little token of affection
but il the captured Jonah
dcmurrcd she seems ID have
been playfully tripped upon a
white bearSkin rug. At any
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-06
By LAURENCE SANTREY

nome of our most beguiling legal
imbroglios simmer down into
~ settlements without ever boiling
over into court-and IL now looks as
il that's going 10 happen in a lively
controversy between Playboy Jack
Topping and Landlady Lele DAILY.
Court procedure is no novelty TO
Austrian born Lnle - whose maiden
name vas Nnn -IIarrenreiCh. Widow
of Copper King Marcus DAILY, Jr.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-06

Idlc, Lee SulllllNt7
that was the way Of
it, judging by the
lipstick stains found
afterwards on her
rug.
How such an eligi-
BILE young man as
J ack rem a n $ a
bachelor has puzzled
some observers. One
reason, however,
seems TO be that he
has had trouble find
ing the right girl.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-11-09
H6R xlws o. QUE
S57 ~ "t Sx;tos.

Fort Lewis General Hospital. Fort
Lewis, Wash, for basic training, il
was announced today at the head
quarters of Major General William
Shedd, Commanding General'of the
Ninth Service Command at Fort
Douglas, Utah.
Following six weeks of basic
training, 1t. Beccari will be assigned
to Fort Ord, ASF Regional Hospital
at Fort Ord, Calf.
In recent letter to this office
from VIM. ]. Darlington, Conrad, he
says, Bill Darlington Jr., writes
that he is now VI the land of Magic,
Filth and Poverty Every other ma
tive he meets is al beggdf. He says
One guess --India Jock Darlington
writes that he now is in France and
much prefers France to North hfri-
ca. Each writes somewhere III In
dia' and somewhere in France,
and each is anxious to get back to
Montana and wishes all a Merry
Christmas"
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-11-09

T/Sgt Robert Hampton arrived in
England the middle of October, ac-
cording to word received by his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lamp
ton. He is with the Field Artillery.
Fort Benning, Ga.-Pvt Donald
Moore, son of Mrs. Lewis Richmond,
Salem, Ore, has won the RICH. to
wear Wings and Boots of the U. S.
Army Paratroopers, having complet-
ed four weeks of jump training dur
ing which time he made five jumps,
the last tactical jump at night in
volving combat problem in land
ing.
Another paratrooper to have won
the right to wear Wings and Boots
is Pvt John Cohenour, husband of
Mrs. Cohenour of Troy, and son of
Mr. and Mrs. James Cohenour, also
of Troy.
Virginia Beccari, Libby, recent
ly commissioned a second lieuten-
ant in the United States Army
Nurse Corps, has been ordered to
active duty and will report to the
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-11-09
GOVERNOR SPEAKS BEFORE
STUDENTS
BY Jimmy Roberts

BY Jimmy Roberts
Sam c. Ford, governor of the
state of Montana spoke before a
joint assembly of the senior and
junior high students last Friday
morning in the junior high audi
torium
Governor Ford stressed the fact
that the young people Of today
should know more about the t,'nc-
tons Of the government. He also
stated that every person has an
equal chance to become governor
Of his state or president Of the
United States.
AT the conclusion of his speech,
Governor Ford extended an invita-
ton to all the students to come tt,
Helena and visit the capital.
William Ray, close friend of
Governor Ford's, also was inlro-
duced.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-11-09
JUNIORS MAKE PLANS
Ry Rjll Rrpmin ptpn

~ IIII JI SWIIIbt UIT
The junior class of Libby high
school met November /, and de-
cided to make fudge and popcorn
to sell at the Homecoming game.
The class also decided that the
junior play this year would be
mystery.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-11-09
ENTERTAINS SENIORS

BY Jdnlth HaTBTeaVeS
Margaret Noel, senior of Libby
high school, entertained the senior
class at Halloween party held at
her home last week with nearly ali
members of the class present. The
evening was spent playing bingo
and Chinese checkers.
Refreshments were served at the
close Of the evening.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-11-09
STORES CLOSE ARMISTICE
nav

Notice is hereby given that Libby
stores will be closed all day ARMS
tice Day. Saturday, Nov. H.
MERCHANTS COMMITTEE.
LIBBY CHAMBER OF COM
MERGE.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-11-09
ENJOY HOMECOMING DANCE
Hv Gpnn RnlIfnl

by GeTIE bUuIUH
The annual Homecoming ds.nce
for the football boys was held Sat-
urday night in the Libby high school
gym. The gym was decorated by the
Peptomists and carried out the foot.
ball theme. Mr.. and Mrs. B J..
Skakoon were chaperons.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-11-09
School News
HOLD FIRE DRILL

The firemen of Libby high school
held their weekly fire drill last
Thursday morning and report that
there are Still some students who
disobey the rules concerning drills.
Their rules state there shall be no
pushing, running or talking, while
leaving and entering the building.
The firemen desire the full coopera-
ton of the students during these
drills.