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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-20
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-20
U.S., Britain Continue
Farley With Spain

LONDON, Feb. 10 QNS)-Lon-
~ quarters said today that the
american and British ambassa-
corS were continuing discussions
with Spanish Foreign Minister
Francisco J0rdana az Madrid
concerning outstanding issues be-
tween the Allies and Spain.
one OF the main points OF dis
cuSSion was said 10 be direct
aid by Spain 10 Germany on the
Russian front.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-20
DETROIT SUNDAY TIMES
Ida TarbeII Leaves
Estate 10 Z Sisters

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. Feb. 10
QNS)-Ida A, Tarbell, writer
and Lincoln biographer. left her
estate in trust 20 her sister,
Sarah A. Tarbell, and her sister
in-law, Ella Scott Tarbeu, her
will revealed today.
No estimate Of the size Of the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-20

land; Irving SmariBslty, 1900 Sew
ard, Detroit; Mitchell II. Bogu-
mirski, 11468 Joseph Campau,
Hamtramck.
Aloe Field, Tex.-2d Its. Law
renee T.. Delaney, 9l3O kerchi
John w. eager, Isl Seward; Al
bert l.. Ligen. 9l0 Marlborough;
Richard l.. Place. 1924 Glaston-
bury Detroit; Roy Easterwood
Jr., 2845 Inman. Ferndale.
Foster Field, TeX.-2d Its. Rom
aid O. Babe, Abs John. BirTning-
ham; Alvin X. Test, 1882 KothS,
Dearborn; Edward j. Dzurnak,
1895 Concord; Reginald J. Me
Donald, 2630 Pennsylvania; Har-
old X. Ogger. 1890 Fielding;
David Wakefield, 1921 Tenth, De-
trOit; Herbert J. Sewell, 1887 Van
Dyke, Washington; Flight Officers
Richard o. Reck, 6342 London,
Detroit; Donald X. Merillat, 5l6
w. Third, Royal Oak.
Frederick Field, Okla.-2d Its.
Elmeed- c. Ellison 223S East.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-20
Sacred Heart Alumni
Elect FIR. HuttinQ

New officers have been named
for the Sacred Heart Alumni AS
ISOLATION, it was announced Satur-
day.
They are FIR. Albert VI HuttinC
Of Visitation Parish, president; Fr
Raphael Dunnigan Of st Angus
tine, Kalamazoo, vice president
Pr. Leo Sheltrcau of ST. Vincent.
Secretary-treaSurer, and FIR Harry
Paul, editor of the Michigan
Catholic, historian.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-05
COURT MARTIAL
WITNESS HEARD

CINCINNATI April 4.-RLA
sharply disputed picture of inspec.
ton difficulties which the Army
contends resulted in defective air
plane engines and parts was drawn
by the prosecution today in a gen.
eral court martial of three Air
Force officers accused of neglect
OF duty and conspiracy.
One witness, former inspector
at the Wright Aeronautical Corp.
plant at Locklard, o., testified that
in July 1942. $50 engines, rejected
by civilian inspectors because OF
oil pumping were accepted by the
Army to enable the company to
meet it's quota.
But the witness, William J.
Ratchford, now working in the
Ford Motor Plant in Hamilton, O.,
declared under cross examination
that he knew of no engine from
the Lockland plant that ever failed
in flight.
Willard T. Clark, supervising in
spector for the AAF materiel com.
mand central ps ocurement office
in Detroit, testified that some in
spectors complained the company
dominated and frustrated their
work.
Clark, VIII os e duties included
periodic check-rps on plants in the
district, admitted under cross.
questioning by Maj. Edward F
Cavanagh that there were seriou.
personal differences between him
and Maj. W. A. Ryan, former in
spection officer for the procure
ment district, who is on trial.
The two othel accused men are
1t. Col. Frank c. Greulich of De
troit, former chief of the inspec'
ton section of the AAF materiel
division at Wright Field, and Ma,
jor William Bruckmann of Cincin.
natl, AAF representative in the
Wright plant.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-05
STATE TO APPEAL
RAIL FARE RULE

RALEIGH, April 4.@R-Gover-
nor Broughton said the State Utl1-
ties Commission, which conferred
with him today, had decided to
appeal in the Federal District
Court from the Interstate Com
merce Commissions recent order
to raise interstate coach fares
from 1855 to the interstate level OF
Filing of the appeal automati.
cally stays enforcement OF the lCC
ruling. The North Carolina utllltles
commissioners said they would
ask commissioners Of three other
states affected by the ruling -
Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky
to support the appeal,
The North Carolina utilities COM
mission last July denied the rail-
roads request for an increase in
fares. At a hearing before the
ICC the commission contended:
That ices assertion Of authority
over purely state matters was I'M
warranted; that the intrastate
quality of railroad service did not
Justify an increase: and that the
railroads failed to prove need Of
an increase in revenue.
Three members of the 11-man In
terstate Commerce Commission
dissented from the decision order
ing the increase in coach fares.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-05
President RooseveH's
Health Is Satisfactory,
His Physician Reports

WASHINGTON, April 4.-R-
Vice Admiral Ross T. McIntire,
who keeps tab on President Roose-
velt's health, said today that 4
comprehensive physical check-up
has shown the Chief Executive tc
be in satisfactory condition.
'T can say to you" he told re-
porters, "that the check-up is sat,
isfactory. The only thing we need
to finish up on is the residual Of
his bronchitis and one Of his 81
muses., and they are clearing very
rapidly. We decided for a man Of
62-plus we had very little to ar
que about"
Mr. Roosevelt has been troubled
for several weeks with a heao
cold and bronchitis.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-05
400 TONS EXPLOSIVES
Greatest Raid OF South
Pacific Rocks New
Guinea 'Drome
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Southwest Pacific, Wednesday,
April 5.-lR-Lt. Gen. George c.
Kenney sent mere than 300 planes
against Hollandia Sunday in the
greatest single raid ever attempt
ed by his Fifth Air Force, and
when the attack ceased after an
hour and half of continuous ac-
ton the big japanese base on the
northwestern coast of New Guinea
was only a useless smoking wreck.
298 planes were destroyed.
The great air fleet cascaded 400
tons of bombs on the target-more
than ever previously expended in
single strike anywhere in the
Southwest Pacific. It's low-flying
aircraft MitcheGs and Bostons by
the scores - riddled three air.
dromes and surrounding areas
with hundreds of thousands of
rounds of machine-gun fire.
The attack began at 10:49 am,
by noon, the participating pilots
reported that all enemy aircraft
sighted were on the ground and
seemed to be burning or under
attack
BY that time the entire Hollandia
area was only a field Of smoke
and flame.
Gen. Douglas Macarthur SAID to-
day that every one of the 288 Jap
anese planes last observed at Hol-
landia had been demolished or
ireparably damaged.
Twentysix in.ercepting Japanese
fighter planes were downed in an
air battle over Hollandia against
the loss of only one American air.
craft.
Hollandia s runways were left
unserviceable. ~~'-~
Occupation of Rambutyo island
lust southeast of Manus island in
the Admiralty group was an
i nounced. After naval Smelling
| troops moved aSnOre ana LOOK Lne
island without opposition on Mon
day.
Allied bombers again hit Truk
iii the Carolines, dropping 46 tons
of bombs on docks and warehouses
of Dublon atoll the largest and
most important in the Truk atoll.
Seven out OF go intercepting Japa-
nese aircraft were shot down and
the attackers lost five planes.
This was the twelfth raid in less
than a week on the once-vaunted
enemy bastion.
Hollandia, near the border OF
northeast New Guinea, has served
Continued on Page Three; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-05
BY LEONARD MILLIMAN
Associated Press War Editor

AT least II Japanese ShipS-and
probably many more-were sunk
by a powerful American carrier
force making a three-way strike
close to the Philippines and by
submarines patrolling even deeper
in enemy waters, the Navy an
nounced yesterday (Tuesday).
Secretary of the Navy Knox dis
closed that the naval task force
which began raiding the Palau is
lands, only $50 miles from the
Philippines, last week, also hit
zap and Woleai harbors was sunk
or damaged, Knox said. First re-
ports coming through the five-day
radio silence gave no count on
their number.
Three Japanese warships were
caught and sunk outside the atolls
Fourteen merchantmen-two tank
ers and IL cargo ships-were sunk
by submarines in separate actions
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-05
BUCHAREST HIT
BY U. S. B0MBERS
American Fiers Raid Ru-
manian Capital For
The First Time

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Ma
PIES, April 4EtR-American Fly
ing Fortresses and Liberators for
the first time bombed the Ruman-
ian capital of Bucharest today, fly
ing to within 200 miles of the
Russo-German front to strike the
third Allied blow in "a hours al
Hitler's Balkan communications.
The American airmen flew soc
miles from bases in southern Italy
to carry out this attack supporting
the Red army troops invading Ru
mania from the northeast.
Like Budapest, capital of another
Nazi satellite, Hungary, which was
pounded twice yesterday, Bucha
rest is an important rail center Of
the Balkans, AID its yards have
been reported choked with supplies
and troops moving to oppose the
Russian invaion of Rumania. To
days smash probably equalleo
yesterdays 1000 ton assault or
Budapest.
This was the first American blow
Of the war at Bucharest, though q
strong force of Liberators flew
near it last summer when they
made costly but highly effective
attack on the Ploesti oil refineries
about Is miles north of the capital
Sometimes called the most bizar'
re and corrupt of all capitals,
Bucharest has been bombed three
or four times by the Russians
possibly more-and a year ago this
month the government made a
half hearted attempt to remove
the civilian population. But the
Soviet raids probably were in
nothing like the strength of to-
days attack.
The first Russian raids were ir
June, 1941: and in July of that
year they were reported to have
blown up an arsenal in the capital
Moscow reported that the Ruman
ians had constructed a dummy
Bucharest near the real city ir
an effort to fool the bombers. Las
August it was reported Bucharest
might be declared an "open city
but nothing more was heard Of
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-05
BIS INDEX SAID
|SAWDUST CHART

WASHINGTON. April 4.-R-
The American Federation of Labor
numbered it's best statistics and
arguments before a War Labor
Board panel today to support It's
contention that both the little steel
wage formula and the cost OF Hv-
ing index are out of line with the
government promises and the
facts.
Secretary Treasurer George
Meany. who conducted the ALL
case, said he could not accept the
statement ct any government Of
fetal that prices have not risen
If, the last yeaJ and added that
after the failure of the rollback
and holdback campaign" the gov
eminent decided sit could at least
sit on the figures.
He pointed out the formula had
failed to maintain parity with
even the government living cost
figures and described the Bureau
of Labor Statistics index as a
.'sawdust chart.
The little steel formula is a cost
ol-living pay adjustment schedule
for groups of workers. Its celllng
is IS per cent above the average
hourly rates of JanuarJ, 1941. The
BIS index shows a rise OF 25.4
per cent in thai period, ana an
AFL-CIO study claims the increase
is at least 43 per cent.
Let me remind you," said
Meany, chat the whole stabiliza-
ton program and the little steel
formula itself were based on max
ing wage rates stay even with llv-
ing costs. The little steel formula
was concocted to prevent initiation.
II has had actly the opposite
effect. It has submerged wages
furthe. and further below the con-
stantly mounting rise in prices. "
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-05

inged walnut paneled courtroom
Chaplin who has betrayed almost
no emotion during the trial sat
with his head in his hands both
before the Jury came in and during
the prelimiraries to the verdict.
AS the verdict was announced
the stocky silve. haired producer
comedian rose from his chair and
seized his Attorney Jerry Giesler
by the hand, a smile broke over
the actors face and Giesler clapp-
ed him on the shoulder.
1t was a crowded courtroom
when the verdict was returned and
the bys tande Immediately
swarmed around Chaplin pumping
lis hand and putting their arms
about his shoulders. He was over
heard to say to one friend Il had
faith in the American people"
By its verdict the jury of seven
women and five men decided that
Chaplin was telling the truth when
he asserted from the witness stand
that he paid for attra ctive redhair-
ed Joan Berrys transportation to
New York with no immoral intent.
That charge was the basis of the
first count of the governments in
dictment.
CONTINUED OH Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-05
NEAR ESCAPE ROUTE
Russians Overrun 50 Lo-
calities In Their Drive
On Odessa

LONDON, Wednesday, April S.
P)-Red army announced today
that it had captured the greater
part of surrounded Tarnopol in
former Poland and smashed to
within two miles of the last rail
escape route for perhaps 100000
Germans and Rumanians now vir-
tually pinned against the lack Sea
near Odessa.
Bearing down on the big Black
Sea port of Odessa from the north
west, the Russians overran so To-
calities, including Bakalovo, two
miles east of Razdelnaya, control
junction for Germans fleeing into
Rumania via Tiraspol and Kishin-
ev, said broadcts bulletin record
ed by the Soviet Monitor.
The capture of Bakalovo, near
by Ponyatovka, and the rail sta
ton of Veselyi Kut, 10 miles north
Of Razdelnaya, practically des-
troyed the usefulness of the Odes-
sa Razdelnaya Kishinev trunk
route, forcing the Germans to rely
solely on a small line running
from Odessa to the ferry terminus
of Ovidiopol. From there fleeing
Germans would have to cross the
x-mile-wide Dniester estuary by
ferry to Alderman in lower Bess'
arabia.
Stormovik fighter planes were
strafing German columns retreat
ing toward the Black Sea, front re-
ports said, and the inadequate Cd
essa-Akkerman route also was vul-
nerable to bombardment by the big
guns of the Soviet Black Set fleet
The Russians also slashed deeper
into the remnants of Is German
divisions sealed off just above the
middle Dniester river in the Skala
pocket $50 miles northwest of Cd
essa, the communique said. Mos
COW dispatches said these trapped
Germans were growing weaker
and weaker DIS the ring closes"
Killing 3,4OO Germans and cap
turing 300 in three days at Tarno-
pol, the bulletin said the Russians
now had won most of that torn
Continued on Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-05
PLANTED
HERELAST MONTH

The Park Department during the
month of March planted 1926
bulbs and perrenials and trans
planted 359 shrubs, A. C. Nichols,
City Manager, announced yester-
day. A detailed report of the Park
department. work for March sub
mitted by R. W. Smell, superinten-
dent of Parks follows:
The park crew has averaged 7.6
men per day, the tree crew men
per day, while parts of several
days have been lost due to rain.
Glover beds have been prepar-
ed at the following locations; along
Bird Street at Greenfield Park. Bird
Street plaza at Greenfield Street,
Bird Street plaza between Church
at Harnett Street, 3rd Street plaza
at Dock Street, plazas at 9Th and
Market Street, Market street plaza
at 18th Street, and the Willard
Street fire station.
practically all flower seeds
have been sown in flat in the
greenhouse and in cold frames. APP
proximately $50 narcissus bulbs
were lifted and ''heeled in" 35
shade trees were dug and planted
at various places throughout the
city and 5 large crepe myrtles
dug in front of the City Hall and
transplanted on S. 9Th Street.
1.-The grass at the filter plant has
been fortified, practically all roses
in the plazas have been tied up and
all winter grass has been moved
over one time.
approximately rs crepe myrtles
and small trees were pruned on
Dawson Street from 18th to the
CITY limits and at the Katherine
ennedy Home. Considerable
wedding was done in shrub beds
in Greenfield park, and one man
has been on duty patroling the
park on Saturday evenings and
Continued on Page Two; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-05
HIGHER PRICES
FOR FRUIT SEEN
Tar Heel Producers Confer
In Washington With
OPA Official

WASHINGTON, April 4(special)
Optimism concerning the request
of North Carolina producers for
increased ceiling prices on fresh
fruits and vegetables was express
ed here tonight by ]. V. Whitfield,
president of the Fender County
Farm Bureau.
Whitfield was one of delegation
of Tar Heel producers who con
ferred here, beginning Monday,
with Franklin Gindicks, of the Of.
flee OF Price Administrations divi-
sion of fresh fruits and vegetables,
to whom facts concerning asserted
ly Excessively low" prices was
submitted. The delegation W a S
headed by R. Flake Shaw, OF
Greensboro, president of the North
arolina Farm Bureau. New
Hanover county was represented
by R. W. Galphin, of Wilmington.
eve pointed out that some Of
the current vegetable ceilings are
hardly above cost of production"
declared Whitfield, Mr.. Gindicks
agreed to study the cost of pro-
duction data and decide whether
our request for increased ceilings
should be recommended
Shaw suggested to Gindicks thai
1914 ceiling on fruits and vege
tables should be at least so pei
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-05
SERVICEMEN TOLD
ABOUT VOTE LAW

WASHINGTON, April 4-tREThe
army and Navy and the War
S-lpplng Administration announc-
Gu Today they are sending full in
.0'lAatlon on the service voting
law to personnel in the armed
services.
Inc War Department said it
y: expedited" distribution
+,, circular explaining all fea-
, ,a Of the law and the ere
'pooonSlollities of commanders"
r,b commanders must give full
H"@ ~ the department said,
NV w general voting information
syoy-oed IN the circular, bring
ssA;preSSly to the attention of SOL
si is-S other circulars giving spe-
WIG WIG information as to 1914 pri-
, r.ss and elections, make post
. r.oS implications for BALLOT
"a l'aIlaole to all soldiers desiring
t rlsa' assist in certifying sigma
,tr .eS ana in attesting oaths and in
r nro the men how clearly and
cssper.y to execute ballot appli-
rs Saon The circular to COM
" c.Hl the department added,
strio. S attention in detail to re-
ool t;t~ons on dissemination of
tx II argument or propaganda
and MEMBERS rd! of the armed forces
vot s points out that polls or straw
~. are prohibited"
ss 1apt Edward A. Hayes of
DoII,e1afy Knox office, said the
''f$ 5ss Of the Navy Department
enca S been and is to assist and
eyso oaFage naval personnel in the
WIS: w.. of the voting privilege"
ory 81 Z Shipping Administrator EN-
v9plS J. Land, said polling places
and = be provided on all ships
Cd ue Seamen would be furnish
geron sppAcations for ballots. en-
ora..s and instruction on voting
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-05
(COnt1nued OH Page Two; Col. y
BRITISH FORCED
BACK IN INDIA

NEW DELHI. April 4tRtFires
set in the tinder-dry jungle by
Japanese invaders east of tn c
threatened Allied base of Imphal
in eastern India have forced
desperately resisting British and
Indian troops to withdraw onto the
Mainpu- plain after having killed
at least 900 japanese in a week OF
hard fighting it was reported to-
day.
For days the defenders threw
back attack after attack on the
shell-swept Sangshak plateau 30
miles east of Imphal receiving
food and munitions by plane, be-
fore the Japanese resorted to care
fully laid fires to rout them from
their positions. Some Allied troops
persisted as they attempted to dash
through the flames and others were
machine-gunned.
In the month since the Japanese
began their invasion of India they
have lost $500 men killed ano
another 6.400 wounded and captur'
ed as they infiltrated in numerous
small columns over 200 miles o.
foot rails along the India-Burma
border, a front dispatch declared
Although the japanese had sue
ceeded in cutting the main supply
roads into Imphal, today's com
munique from Admiral Lord Louis
Mountbatten's headquarters d &
Continued on Page Two; Col. =
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-05
YOUTHS UNDER 26
TO BE EXAMINED

RALEIGH, April 4.-(R-General
]. Van B. Nets, state director of
selective service, said today all
men under 26 years of age who
had not been examined within the
past 80 days would be ordered to
report for pre-induction physical
examination.
Nets said directives from ma
tional selective service headquar-
tiers at present indicated occupa-
tiona1 deferments would be re-
stricted to vital war activities con-
nected with the following:
Landing craft, tires and tubes,
high tenacity rayon for war prod
ucts, aircraft, i r b Urn radar,
rockets, submarines, transporta-
ton, and possibly few others.
The general said he believed that
''few young men would be grant
ed agricultural deferments, in view
of the need for young men in the
armed forces,' and that a reg
istrant could hardly be found es-
sential unless his overall produc-
ton contributed more to the war
effort than his service in the
armed forces"
A registrant may be granted &C.
cIIna tiono doforr,oopt Matte cold
if form 42-A special is approved
by the state director having juris-
diction over the place of employ
ment and received by the local
board before the registrant's actu-
al induction.
Nets said North Carolina would
be required to furnish it's proper
Continued on Page Three: Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-05
Near Panic Conditions
In Rumania Reported;
Speedy Collapse Seen

INSTANBUL, April 4.-P)-Near
panic conditions in Rumania,
where the Russians are rolling
across the frontier and Allied all
power is newly evident, were in
Dictated in reports today from
Bucharest.
Repeated calls to the people tc
cease boarding and to merchants
to halt speculation are construed
as signs that the population fore
sees a speedy collapse.
The designations of Finance
Minister Alexander Neagu and
Governor Obnescu of the National
Bank of Rumania were interpreted
here signs of a crack in Ruman
las currency and economic struc.
ture.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-05

person. The Smelling, over a period
of half hour, was one of more than
20 bombings and shellings suffered
by the hospitals since the invasion
and these do not include random
incidents.
Only last night five shells land
ed in the area of a hospital kitch'
en-, killing a cook.
Total casualties due to bombing
and Smelling of the beachhead hos
pitfalls are 43 killed and 145 wound.
ed.
In this afternoons blistering bar.
rage hospital personnel and pa.
tients huddled behind sand bags
below the earth's surface or sought
haven under flax roofs of wood
and sand bags erected over cots.
''They threw more than 20 SHELLS
in around the tents, but nobody
was hurt" said Pfc. Samuel Ute.
sey, Edna, Tex, hospital worker.
"We just sweat it out"
Last nights lone casualty was
caused by lucky hit" on a pa
tents mess tent, said Pvt. Nellie
]. Halgruks, Comanco, Tex. kitch'
en- worker, who had close cal.
but was not injured. He said that
if the first shell hadn't been q
'lucky HIT the cook would have
had time to take cover.
Generally speaking, personnel Of
Continued on Page Two; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-05
II Jap Ships Were Sunk
By Daring Carrier Force

TWenty-seven American planes
were lost in the attacks. Tokyo
radio said the japanese airforce
intercepted the great task force
last Wednesday night, before the
dawn strike at Palau. and contin-
ued attacks until Saturday. 1t
Gained two American cruisers
were sunk, two battleships and an
aircraft carrier damaged and 80
planes shot down.
1.-The naval war progresses with
greater speed than we had expect
ed" Tokyo admitted.
Manila was BACKED out and I'M
derwent an air raid alarm. Knox
suggested it was a sidelight Of the
Palau attack, and perhaps some
American planes approached the
Philippines.
Japanese warships sailed south
from Foochow harbor on the Cen
trail China coast, Chungking radio
iContiuued on Page Two; Col. 81