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Evening star., 1944-05-15
Johnston Leaves Soon
On Soviet Plant Tour

Eric Johnston, president of the
United States Chamber of Com
merce. plans to leave within a few
days for Russia to inspect Soviet
industrial plants.
Mr.. Johnston, who is making the
trip at the invitation of Premier
Stain, has said that be wants to
determine how Russian postwar
trade will affect American business.
w. L. White, editor of the EN-
poria HansD Gazette, and Joyce
O'Hara, Mr.. Johnstons assistant,
will accompany the chamber presi-
dent.
Evening star., 1944-05-15
BY the Associated Press.

The average defense worker has
accumulated enough cash to tide
him over three months of unem-
ployment without having to re-
deem his War Bonds, Representa-
tive Harness, Republican, of In
diana, said today he had found In
poll Of workers in so plants.
Mr.. Harness made the survey for
use during forthcoming House Mill
tary Affairs Committee hearings on
surplus property disposition.
One of the questions was: "Will
you be obliged to sell your War
Bonds, and how soon, If you become
jobless?"
Ninety per cent OF the employees,
he said, replied they would have to
cash their bonds within from one
Evening star., 1944-05-15
Orchestra to Tour u. S.

PHILADELPHIA, May Is (P.-
The Philadelphia Orchestra, under
the direction of Eugene Ormandy,
will make its first extensive tour in
three years during the 1944-5 sea-
son, visiting Is principal cities in
II South, Middle West and New
England States, Harl Mcdonald,
manager Of the orchestra associa-
ton, announced Yesterday.
Evening star., 1944-05-15
Idaho Editor Dies

BOISE, Idaho, May IS P).-Mar-
tin B. Miller. A, managing editor
of the Idaho Evening Statesman,
died here yesterday after a heart
attack. Mr.. Miller. who formerly
worked on Chicago newspapers.
leaves his wife, Helen Markley
Miller, and a son, Markley.
Evening star., 1944-05-15
Hewitt Fovors Beer
For Men on Ships
OF His Command
BY the Associated Press

bs the hSsOClateu PreSs.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Naples, May 15.-United States
naval craft in Northwest Afri-
can, waters would have beer
aboard If he had his way, Vice
Admiral H. K. Hewitt said to-
day in discussing some of the
problems Of his men while here
on an inspection trip.
All alcoholic beverages have
been banned on American naval
vessels since an order issued by
Secretary of War Daniels in
1914. Admiral Hewitt, United
States naval commander for
the Northwest Africa area, said
one of the biggest complaints of
his men was that they could not
get ashore often enough for a
drink of beer.
Evening star., 1944-05-15
Fire Extinguisher Office
No Help in This Blaze
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK.-Firemen and police
sped to five-story loft building
in response to two alarms. Several
employees went to the street because
of the smoke.
Firemen found the blaze had
started in the top-foor Offices of a
fire extinguisher service corporation.
They put it out-with water.
Evening star., 1944-05-15
Heavy Allied Bombing
One Of Six Assaults
To Clear New Guinea
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS. New Guinea, May IS
The heaviest bombing since the
preinvasion softening of Hollandia
was reported today as one of six
separate assaults designed to i'm
mobilize the last remnants of jap
anese air power in New Guinea.
Big Liberators and e-skimming
Mitchells dumped 334 tons Saturday
on Wakde Island and the Maffin
Bay coast line to Sarmi, 20 miles
southwest on the Dutch New Guinea
mainland.
Ethe Airdrome runway at Wakde,
120 miles toward the Philippines
from captured Hollandia, took 200
tons. Strafing Mitchells bagged two
parked bombers. Smoke boiled up
5000 feet from fired installations.
SchOuten Islands Blasted Again.
1t was the heaviest concentration
of bombs delivered by Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's airmen since Hollan-
dia was blasted by 400 tons three
weeks before the invasion April %.
The biggest previous load on the
Wakde- -Sarmi area was 295 tons
May s.
Other Liberators ranged more
than 300 miles farther, pressing the
drive to clear enemy aviation from
Northwestern New Guinea, where
the japanese were reported 10 days
ago bringing in expert naval flyers
to bolster their dwindling strength.
The Schouten Islands in the
mouth Of Geelvink Bay were ham,
mered for the 10th straight day and
nearby Noemfoor Island was hit. 1t
was the second day in a row the
Schoutens had been under double
barreled attack-day and night.
40 Barges Sunk Near Rabaul.
Allied bombs apparently were
having telling effect. No commu-
nique has mentioned any intercept
ton over the Schoutens since May
6 when nine Of II japanese fighters
were shot down.
Dauntless dive-bombers, firing
rocket guns mounted under their
wings, and Airacobra fighters sank
40 barges near Rabaul, New Britain.
This was the first announcement
of rocket gun use by planes of this
type.
Ground trops mopping up the
Hollandia- -Aitape area killed 78
more japanese and captured 33,
boosting the total to 1874 dead and
387 prisoners.
Pacific feet headquarters at
Pearl Harbor announced that Army,
Navy and Marine bombers and
fighters kept up their harassment
Evening star., 1944-05-15
Congress in Brief
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
Senate:
Votes on motion to limit poll tax
debate.
Naval Affairs Committee con-
siders nomination of James V. For
restal for Secretary of the Navy.
House:
Postwar Committee hears naval
officers on proposed Army Navy
merger
Evening star., 1944-05-15
Chino
Continued From First Page J

concentration of tanks southwest
of Loyang, and vehicles on the
southeast side, Gen. Stilwells head
quarters announced.
Chinese-American P-40 Warhawks
doWped. four out of seven japanese
fighters in air combat. and other
P-40s strafed infantry concentra-
tions. causing 300 to 500 casualties,
a communique said. Targets in
Burma, Indo- China and Southwest
China were attacked Naf9usG3 -
Evening star., 1944-05-15
Plane Designer Killed

LONDON, May Is R.-A. l.
Wykes, British designer, was killed
yesterday in the fiery crash of q
small observation plane he was
sending through acrobatic stunts be-
fore a crowd at Leicester.
Evening star., 1944-05-15

Americas best product Is not
ratiOned War Bonds!
Evening star., 1944-05-15

Pacific feet headquarters at
Pearl Harbor announced that Army,
Navy and Marine bombers and
fighters kept up their harassment
Of isolated Japanese troops in the
Eastern Marshalls and at Nauru Is
land southwest of the Gilberts on
Thursday and Friday.
Evening star., 1944-05-15
Foremen

Continued From First Page.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-18
D. CASRUNS
OUT, CARSST0P

WASHINGTON, Dec. IT, Up -
Cars ran dry of fuel by the hun
bred on Washington streets TO-
day and the District Health Serv-
ice planned to ask help of police
and fire departments in maintain
ing medical services.
Gasoline service st att n
throughout the city closed as their
monthly allotments of motor fuel
ran out, with three days to 80 be-
fore new allotments are due. Ar
AAA official said it had answered
200 calls of motorists stranded or
the street by lack Of gas and tina
between 5000 and 5000 persons
had inquired where they could fine
motor fuel.
Unless doctors are assured O.
sufficient gas, We may have Il
call on the police and fire depart
ments for help, said DR.. Georg'
c. Rutland, District health OF
ficer.
A Capital Transit Co. spokesman
said a supply for the District bu
service was being obtained from
out Of town. Taxi companies ex
pected TO continue operations be
cause of special arrangement
with wholesalers.
The District area ALLEGATION thi
month has been about 1850, 00
gallons below its average durini
rationing.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-18
BONOMI GLOOMY
OVER ITALIAN
ECONOMIC VIEW

ROME. Dec. IT, Up Premier
Ivanoe Bonomi in a broadcast to
the nation tonight held out little
hope of improved economic condi'
tons while the year lasts and ap-
pealed to Italians t. flight to win
the war without party distinc'
tons"
The aged premier said a newly
activated Italian division soop
would enter the line against the
Germans and that others would be
in action before spring. About 200,-
Don Italian workers are engaged in
essential activities behind the lines
he added, asserting that Italy is
fighting for her liberation and for
nothing else
He concluded that this liberia
ton means-if words have pre-
else meaning-that italy must not
stop at reoccupation of her regions
contaminated by the German in
vader. but must preserve these
same regions from the danger of
falling anew under foreign DONNA
ton
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-18
Foe In Maginot Line
.. Blocks Yank Advance

WITH AMERICAN T R o o P S
OUTSIDE BITCHE, Dec. 16.-Oe-
layed)- Up Several thousand
Germans are holed up in the vast
Maginot Line fortresses OF the
Vosges peaks in this part OF north
ern Alsace blocking the entry OF
the U. S. Seventh Army left flank
into Germany.
'It looks like we will be the
last ones over the border" said
Maj. John Nickels, Philadelphia,
Pa, "but then maybe we'll be the
first ones out"
The Germans are making big
use of the Maginot Line in this
sector. They well know the
strength Of the Notifications here,
having tried unnecessarily to take
them themselves in 1910. The
French still were firing from the
pillboxes when the armistice was
signed.
The Maginot Line here consists
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-18
State Ranks 18th
In Vet Employment

RALEIGH, Dec. n. P -
North Carolina ranked 18th in the
Nation in the number Of returned
war veterans placed in jobs dur
ing October. State Manpower Di-
rector DR.. J. S. Dorton said TO-
day.
The State ranked even higher In
the placement of disabled veter-
ans, he said, taking 18th place in
the Nation. A total Of 238 disabled
veterans were placed in jobs in
this State out OF Nationwide
total of 12,122.
Out Of total Of 83,027 veteran
placements in the United States
in October, Dorton said, North
Carolina placed 1,720.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-18

BERLIN. N. Y, Dec. T.-R-
A bit of Christmas was enroute to-
night to the White. House from
Berlin
A 25.foot balsam tree, weighing
close to 200 pounds and too large
for an express car, left here last
night on railroad coal car as a
gift from New York State Conser-
walton Commissioner John A.
White to President Roosevelt.
Mr.. Roosevelt has received a
Christmas tree from the Conser-
walton Department each year since
1880, when he was New York's
Governor.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-18
Wallace Says Agitation
Is u. S. Responsibility

WASHINGTON, Dec. IT, Up =
Vice President Wallace said today
this nation has responsibility to
make the airplane as powerful a
force in peace as it has been in
war"
Wallace described the airplane
as having. great potential in in
ternational goodwill during talk
in which he presented the Robert
J. Collier Trophy for 1943 to Cap
tain Luis de Florez Of Pomfret,
Conn, director of special devices
IN the Navy's Aeronautics Bureau.
The award is for greatest
achievement in aviation in Amer
lea, the value of which has been
demonstrated by actual use during
the preceding year"
Capt. de Florez has charge of the
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-18
GRAHAM CENSURES
WARD ON POLICY

WASHINGTON, Dec. II. - P -
Frank P. Graham, War Labor
Board member, said today TIA
Montgomery Ward, big mail order
house. lis blasting at the founda
tions of maximum production"
Tn q formal statement on Mont
gomery Ward strikes in the Detroit
area and a WLB ultimatum fol
compliance with its directiVes
there and at other Ward establish
ments by tomorrow night, Ora
ham said:
montgomery Ward in this most
crucial hour IS defying the Govern
ment of the United States. While
General Eisenhower is calling for
more production, Montgomery
Ward is blasting at the foundations
OF maximum production. The main
tenance of (union) membership
provision, in addition to the SUBJ
standard wages, in issue in these
cases, is vital to the production
front and the battle front.
Montgomery. Ward would have
us return to a policy which would
make paramount descriptive con-
flict between capital and labor
above the global conflict between
the United Nations and the Axis
powers.
The mail order house has taken
the position that WLB orders are
not enforceable and sought set
Element in court.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-18

of four main fortresses-Slmser-
hof. Schiesseck, Otterbiel and
Grand Hohekirkel-each surround
ed by six to II subsidiary forts. a
single main fortress can hold S0o
men. 1t consists of three or 1ouf
underground levels with impene-
trable roofs.
"You hear a lot Of stories that
the Maginot Line was flimsy be-
cause dishonest French contrac-
tors built much Of it OF Inferior
materials but that is not true
here" said MAJ. Thomas Sheehan,
Montc1air, N. J. "Our biggest
shells are bouncing off the forts
like pebbles"
A prisoner from one of the forts
said the only result of the heavy
Smelling was that it gave the Ger
man occupants earacheS and caus-
ed them mental anguish.
However, Yank craftsmanship
has accounted for the fortress
Freunenburg - whose steel door
was smashed in by a shell, scar
ing the Germans and causing some
surrender.
1t. William Kennedy, of ITALIA
see, Ala, pulled off the neatest
trick of all.
While spotting for artillery he
timed the rise and fall of the tur-
refs and sent back his calculations.
Later, an American shell arrived
just as a turret rose out of the
fort. Two were smashed in this
manner in shooting from a range
Of seven to 10 miles.
The Maginot Line here has a
fire coveraRe over an area three
miles deep and more than 10 miles
wide.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-18
Chinese Troops Drive
Near City Of Hochih
(By The Associated Press)

The Chinese counteroffensive in
KWangsi province has driven to
within about mile Of the city Of
Hochich following the recapture OF
Wuyu, a village some 10 miles to
the southeast, the Chungking radio
said today in broadcast recorded
by the FEC.
Hochih is 95 miles from Liuchow
an abandoned U. S. air base in
KWangsi.
On the Yunnan front, Chinese
forces were said to have reached
Shuangto. Luling and Hungche, in
the area east of Wanting.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-18
War Prisoners Slated
To Work After Strike

FORT SHERIDAN HI, Dec. n.
-(P-Cerman prisoners Of war
here. who have been on a bread
and water diet since their refusal
to work last Tuesday, will resume
their duties tomorrow morning,
Col. George H. Cushman, post
commander, reported.
Col. Cushman said the prisoners
were restored to full rations today.
He added that ringleaders in the
strike have been transferred tc
another post where they will serve
out the full 14-day bread and water
sentence.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-18

special training equipment through
which Navy fliers have been de-
veloped rapidly and safely.
Speaking on the 4lst anniversary
of the first flight of the Wrighr
Brothers at Kittyhawk, N. c., te
an audience which included Orville
Wright, Wallace said that the air
plane was not a lanacea for the
worlds ills, but that lit has oos-
sibilities far beyond the usual i'm.
agination.
"These possibilities, on fact, are
so vast that we can only generalize
on and not explain them,' he said
adding that the airplane, through
a reduction of travel time "offers
almost a guarantee of greater in
termingling Of nationalities.'
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-18

WASHINGTON, Dec. II. -P)-
An agreement to outlaw cartels
among the United Nations would
clear the way for constructive steps
to rebuild the Worlds economy,
Assistant Attorney General Wen
dell Berge asserted today.
Continuing his battle against pri-
vate interna tional agreements be-
tween competing companies, Berge
in a statement issued through the
American Council on Public AZ
fairs, said:
II venture to predict that the
American public will never accept
the cartel system. It is impossible
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-18
Thomas Mann's Kin
Dies In California

LOS ANGELES. Dec. II. --R-
Mrs. Nellie Kroeger Mann, 46, SIS
ter-in-law of Nobel prize winning
Author Thomas Mann, died in gen
eral hospital today from what Po-
lice 1t. c. A. johnson reported
was self-administered overdose
OF sleeping tablets.
johnson said Mrs. Mann, who
escaped with her husband, Helm.
rich Mann, German writer, from
Nazi Germany in 1910, was found
unconscious in her home yester.
day. Mann told investigators he
knew of no motive.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-18
British Landings Seen
On West Burma Coast

NEW DELHI, Dec. II. - -
The possibility Of major seaborne
British landings on the West Bur
ma coast was indicated today by
an India Command aff1ounc ernent
that a series OF raids had been
made along the 300-mi1e coastline
during the past few weeks.
The raids, by Southeast Asia
Command troops put ashore by
Royal Indian Navy ships, were
described officially as having Civ
en- the jitters to Japanese who now
are forced to watch their rear
while withdrawing from North
Burma.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-18
End OfCartels Termed
WAY To Rebuild World

to have a cartel system for domes.
tic or foreign trade so far as this
country lis concerned as long as
the Sherman and Clayton (anti.
trusD Acts are enforced"
The argument that cartel
agreement "helps foreign trade is
like the argument that railroad
wreck promotes transportation, -
he added
"It is true that cartel agree
ments may produce kind of eco.
nomic stability for a short period
of time but this is very danger
Gus kind of stability, exceedingly
harmful, both to the economic and
political structure of our society,""
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-18
Actor And Actress
Plan Early Wedd;n2

HOLLYWOOD. Dec. IT, B -
Blond Actress Gloria de Haven
and leading man John Payne an.
nounced today they will be mar.
rled as soon as their movie work
permits.
The disclosure followed a court.
ship OF four months. Payne, 81,
was discharged from the Ali
Transport Command in September
and has resumed his acting career
1t will be the first marriage for
MISS de Haven, 19.year-old daugh.
Ter OF the veteran actor, Carter de
Haven. Payne was divorced from
hetress Anne Shirley in February,
lS4S. They have a daughter, Judy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-18
Veteran Newsn,an
Killed In Blaze

HARRISBURG, Pa, Dec. H.
R)-A 7e-year-old newspaperman
who covered the Spanish American
war for the Harrisburg Telegraph
died today in fire that swept the
Harrisburg Elks Home. :.
Wellington Jones, widely known
throughout Pennsylvania for his
sports column THE Old Timer
was associated with the Telegraph
for Al years, and although he re-
tired as sports editor in 1896, he
continued writing his column up
until yesterdays edition.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-18
RIOT SURVIVOR DIES

CHICAGO. Dec. 17.-(P)-George
W. Roycraft, 81, one Of two survi-
vors OF the Haymarket Riot in
1886 in which eight policemen were
killed and IA wounded in an anar-
ehist uprising, died today. He was
Chicago's oldest policeman.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-18
CASH DIyIDENns

n. WASHINGTON, Dec. II. ~,
Publicly-reported cash ~
were 1922, 900, 900 in Novou. ,''ueAd'
per per cent less than in No S'e'pfs, ~
last year, the Commero,oe 'n0eg o.
first II months of the ras. '0r n.
ever, were 2.5 above co saI' now
ing ls43 payments. Thu ts0ilF'esp0Nd'
total this year was 81. 9Oo qo ln1'n1n MOI
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-18

fleet of 10 ships, lifeboats and tugs
but an Allied Civil Affairs colonel
said today there was no intention
Of abandoning the island.
The residents are being removed
to nearby islands.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-18

me supply Of fats and oils for
industrial purposes will be consid.
eraoly shorter during 1945 and
housewives are asked to save all
the salvage fats possible.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-18
500 Persons Evacuated
Daily From Walcheren

LONDON, Dec. IT, Up Some
500 persons daily are being evacu-
ated from flooded Wa1cheren is.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-18
TOKYO CLAIMS sINKNcs

SAN FRANCISCO, Doc -
The I Tokyo radio clained4 "a
that japanese surface vass.,! Today
81 SUNK TX Tour American submsri ~
IN the C Central Pacific in the s' me,
week. we. 1.-The The report which was as 1 sa'
out Allied confirmation, Va, S' "a
tercepted by the Blue net way IL
Inc average American ,vo,,.
spends s2.37 month on cosm no,''a
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-18

TT 1ooK guts 10 discover this country n the
i first place. Cuts to settle it. Cuts to push
hack the wilderness, weather The icy winters,
stand up to savage hate.
Il took guts TO talk back to king, 10 fight his
asHies, to set up nation and 60 It On our own.
ktook sutsto carry On despite panics floods,
fass, evil VA. But We did it.
And W huk the richest, healthiest, freest,
bet led, best-s3aeated nation ir Al history
Then came the Big Depression. And We forgot
ell about CUTS. We became tinad ana afraid. We
thought we might better entrust orr destiny to
government government that couldn't give
~ dime n,ere than we gave 4.
Then We got into war And back came cur
gatk At Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Tarawa
Sa2erno. On the beaches Of Normandy.
Back they came IN shipyards all along the
coast and thousand mikes inside our borders
At plane plants, tank plants, factories, machine
shops, hastily constructed workshops everywhere
We proved once again that we can outdream,
outthink, outwork, outproduce, Outright, out
invent, ostprosper any country in the world.
And with the return Of our CUTS we began to
notice lot Of other things. We found that
government and business could actually work
together. That labor and management had more
in common than they had at variance. That all
the various groups in our country could and
would pull together in common cause.
a Is ,cor the only common cause Mot can nnsts .ss
Not unless we think that poverty and back
wardness and lack Of full opportunity for all
aren't every bit as worthy of our blood and our
These messages are published to make cls
soor ,oorld. They are sponsored By Tie Ma
isAeA represents thousands Of Different b
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-18
CUTS


steel as the Japs and Nazis. The rebirth Of our
creative spirit, of invention, Of discovery, Of
incredibly increased productivity, can give us
q life of abundance such as no people on earth
including ourselves ever seen.
Right now we have the greatest productive
capacity in all history. Much of it was built for
war-and will have to be rebuilt for peace.
In rebuilding it, however, we must take steps
to make sure we will be able to buy all the many
things that our factories and farms will produce
And Mat can be done. Not through government
handouts which result only in more and more
debt But by using our productive capacity to
provide us with more for our money in the
things we buy, so that we can buy more and
thus create more jobs and more earnings for ALL
In short, by making full use Of this country's
limitless energy and ambition, we can help lead
the world into an era of peace and plenty greater
than any yet seen:
Two things are necessary to realize this
opportunity. One is liberal, orward-thinking
policy on the part Of business. The other is
public cooperation.
Business is pledged to dc its part - first, by
increasing the opportunities for all to earn and,
second, by increasing the opportunities for all
to buy
To increase the opportunities for all to earn,
business pledges just and enlightened wage
policy, and the opening Of every possible avenue
of advancement for the worker.
1t proposes to proceed at the earliest possible
moment with the starting Of new ventures and
the expansion Of old in order to provide more
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-18
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