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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-16
REDS MAY ATTEND
SECURITY FARLEY
Understood To Have Ac-
cepted Bid To Meeting
To Set Up Agency

WASHINGTON, July 15.-tRCRus-
STA is understood to have accepted
in principle the American invita-
ton for an exploratory conference
as soon as possible on setting up a
world security agency. Britain and
China previously had indicated
their acceptance.
The time and form of the meet
ing remain undisclosed, and at the
moment, ma" be undecided al
though Secretary of State Hull ex-
meets to make full announcement
Ct conference plans within a few
Gays.
One of the uncertainties, so far
as the public record is concerned.
is whether Russia will meet in a
single conference with China, the
United States and Britain, or whe-
Their because of her neutrality to
ward Japan she will insist on meet
ing separately from the Chinese.
The hope here has been for a
general four-power talk as provided
in the declaration of Moscow joint
" signed last fall by Russia, Chi
ra. Britain and the United States.
Since then, military developments
have made it even less necessary
fer Russia to be careful of Japan
csc sensibilities and it would not
he surprising here if the American
aim for single meeting of repre-
sentatives of all TOUR countries is
realized.
On one point it was evident that
disappointment is in store. The orl'
gJnal hope of officials was that the
explatory talk might be held IN Ju-
ly. Apparently, it was with this as
well as the political convention IN
mind that the White House early
last month issued a statement by
the president setting forth this coun-
try's basic concept of a security
organization based on united ma
tons council, assembly, and court
of international, justice.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-16
Death Of Mrs. Godfrey
c.. -arged To Foul Means

she refused to call a wrecker after
he had tried to get the car in mo-
ton.
He said he later left her, walked
to the nearby New Bern highway
and boarded a bus for furlough.
He admitted he and Mrs. Godfrey
had had a number of drinks.
Miss Smith said she accompanied
Mrs. Godfrey to Morehead City,
and that Mrs. Godfrey disappeared
with Costner and failed to return
to rejoin her. She also said the
three of them had been drinking.
An autopsy performed earlier in
the week revealed deaths was due
to asphyxiation and placed the
time as Friday night and not
Thursday night, as officers at first
supposed.
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.JaDanese Hint Execution
OfMOre American F Tiers

the Singapore radio often releases
propaganda designed to frighten or
discourage American and Austria
liam forces, said monitors OF the
federal communications. COM
mission, who recorded it.
The office of war information
first issued a story based on the
FEC recording quoting the Slnga-
pore radio as saying the captlves
had been executed, then followed
with lead that the broadcast sug-
gested they might have been exc
cuted "or at least were being held
for execution
Brig. Gen. Kenneth B. Wolfe,
commanding officer of the 10th
bomber command, said at h S
home in Santa Barbara, CALI,
Continued on Page Two; Col 81
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Monetary Meet Proposes
World Prosperity Fund

Each of the A nations repre-.
sented here must decide by legis-
lative action whether to partici.
pate in the fund and a compan.
ion project-a $4,000, 000,0 900 world
bank for reconstruction and devel.
opment--to be announced before
the conference adjourns next We'd
nesday.
The conference action came at
a day-long session of it's monetary
fund commission and followed an
eleventh hour reply from Russis
acceding to Anglo-Ameriean de-
termination to oppose concessions
for war-devastated areas.
A day-long session that brought
agreement on all but some Of the
Continued on Page Seven; Col. A.
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Yanks Bring Port OF Liv0rn0
Under Range OF Guns In HILL
OCCUPY HEIGHTS
Battered 18th Nazi Army
In Full Retreat On
Italian Line
By holland NORGAARD

ROME, July 15-tR-Doughboys
brought the great port of Livorno
Geghorn) into artillery range
fl en- the mountain positions three
and one-halt miles away today and
in a sweep along 25-mile front &C.
cupied all important heights nine
miles from the Armo river guard
ing Florence and Pisa.
1t appeared that Livorno, poten-
tial base for a grand assault on
the gothic line above Florence and
Pisa, could not be held much long
er by the battered German four
teenth army, now in full retreat.
Advances General
Advances were geners along the
l60-mile front except in the cen
ter, where British eighth army
artillery was banging away at the
battleneck DINO pass, barring the
way to Arezzo. This highway cen
ter on the road to Florence was in
sight of advance elements.
German positions south OF the
Arno appeared hopeless, and it was
possible the enemy's retreat would
not halt until he had drawn back
as much as Is miles at some points
CONTINUED OH Page Two; Col. 81
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MOREHEAD CITY, July 15.-P)
"A coroner's jury inquiring into
NE death of Mrs. L. C. Fannie)
90ofrey Of Wilmington, found dead
N her car near here of asphyxi-
saon, found today that she came
10 ller death by foul means.
Inc jury recommended that al
witnesses in the case be retained
"l'hln calling distance for furth-
q questioning, but not be required
10 put up bona.
Inc witnesses are Tia Riggs
pmith Of Atlantic, L. C. Godfrey
husband of the dead woman, and
Flchard Matthew Coster, a Marine
OF Toledo. o.
Costner testified that he drove
70 the outskirts of town with Mrs.
Noafrey Thursday night and that
"Aen the car got stuck in the sand
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Continued on Page Seven; Col. 81

BRETON WOODS, N. H., July
15-CR)-The United States none
tary conference laid before the
world tonight plans for the crea-
ton of an $8,80O,000,00O postwar
prosperity" fund.
Treasury Secretary Morgen-
thau, announcing to a thrice-de-
layed press conference that a
monetary fund "has been born"
described the conference action
as can omen of the international
cooperation we may expect when
we sit around the peace table"
The fund, designed to stabilize
world currencies and promote
trade, would call for the United
States to invest $2,750, 1000, 900,
Great Britain $1,000, 100000 and
Russia 81, 200, 900, 900.
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GEN, NEWCARDEN
KILLED IN CRASH
Five Other Army Men Die
When Plane Falls Dur
ing Violent Storm

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, July Is.
-(P)-A two-engined army plane
plunging to earth during violent
storm last night, carried to in
slant death Map. Gen. Paul W..
Newgarden, commander of the
Tenth Armored division, and five
other army men, including two col
onels.
In the plane. which disintegrated
after crashing headlong through
an orchard, were Col. Rem Law
renee, cmmander of a combat unit;
End Lieut.. J. R. Lockett, 81, Gran
ADA, Miss; Flight Officer E. S.
lille. 27, Slater, Ia; and Staff Sgt.
F. J. Albright. 26, Bradford, y.
The army withheld the name OF
the second colonel, pending notlfl-
fation of next of kin.
All were enroute from Fort Knox,
KY, to Augusta, Ca, where Gen.
Confined on Page Fifteen; Col. 81
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(By The Associated Press

A japanese propaganda broad
est from Singapore to American
forces in the Southwest Pacific
said yesterday that an unstated
number of U. S. airmen from su-
perfortresses which raided Japan
had "bailed out to meet with the
same fate which was meted out
to the raiders of Tokyo some two
years ago."
In the 1912 raid, eight fliers were
believed to have been captured, OF
which "some" were executed, ac-
cording TO an announcement by
President Roosevelt year after
the raid.
Today's broadcast W h C h was
not paralleled by any other Japa-
nese radio, came at an hour when
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TOBACCO GROWERS
WANT PRICES SET
Back Up Demand For An
nouncement OF Ceilings
With Holiday Threat

COLUMBIA, S. c., July 15.-(P)
In stormy day-long session, to-
bacco growers and warehouse men
of the Carolinas, Florida, Georgia
and Virginia demanded tonight an
early announcement of "satisfac-
tory 1914 price ceilings for flue-
cured tobacco and placed before
the rank and file of growers a pro-
posal that the demand be backed
by the threat of an indefinite sales
holiday of at least five days.
A suggestion that governors of
the five states be asked immedi-
ately to delay openings of their
markets on a staggered basis par
alleling present openings - July
"a on the Georgia-Florida Belt,
August 1 for S. c., and later dates
for more northerly markets-was
stubbornly opposed by South Caro-
linians who contended border belt
sales where tobacco is tied and
graded had no effect on Georgia
sales where leaf is sold united.
Florida and Georgia representa-
tives compromised on a proposal
to have Carolinias' and Virginia
growers vote on or before next
Wednesday night. July 10, on an
overall delayed market opening,
but Rep. John S. Gibson of the
Eighth Georgia district voted
against it and declared bitterly
that the meeting had resulted in
one of the greatest disasters that
could have. under any circumstan-
ces, befallen tobacco producers.
In a two-hour afternoon debate,
Gibson unsuccessfully sought to
have the convention ask the gov
errors to delay market openings
rather than waste time" with a
growers vote When he failed, he
asserted that "South Carolina ware
housemen have stolen into the
meeting and broken it up, you have
done nothing" he shouted.
Florida and Georgia growers and
warehouseman met after the gen.
eral session and voted to flight on
our own" for a al cents ceiling if
other states decided against the
closed markets.
A 21-man committee appointed
<~t.I n.. c..,.x. I'll Ky
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WIDER ALUMINIUM
USES AUTHORIZED
Order Part OF Program
For Limited Recover
sion OF Industry

WASHINGTON, July IS Up -
The War Production Board today
authorized wide new uses for alu-
minum and magnesium in the first
of four orders carrying into Ell
feet Chairman Donald M. Nelson S
program for the limited recon
version of industry.
1t approved substitution of alu-
minum, now in surplus supply, for
other metals in any civilian goods
now being manufa ctured, however,
the action does not increase the
output of any consumer item.
Some restrictions on the use of
the light metal, considered neces-
sary to protect arms production,
are continued, but WPB announc-
Continued on Page Two; Col. ~
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Condition Of Gamer
Shows Some Improvement


Mayor Bruce B. Cameron is ap-
rarently "a little improved" &C
cording to word received last night
by DR.. C. B. Davis, Jr.
Although the mayor remains
quite sick", relatives with him in
Philadelphia told DR.. Davis in a
telephone conversation that ~
general condition appears to be
better.
Doctor Davis declared that ply
sicians at Temple University hos
pital where Cameron is a patient,
have not yet reached decision
on the advisability of bringing him
back to Wilmington to recuperate
to an early date.
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DECREASE SHOWN
IN TAX REVENUE
County's IS Cents Cut In
Rate Responsible F or
Drop OF $17,749

New Hanover county's Is cent
reduction per 500 valuation in the
tax rate, made effective in the
past fiscal year, was responsible
tor a $l7,748 decrease in the coun-
TVS tax collections for the year
ending June 30, a report released
Yesterday by County Auditor J. A.
Orrell showed.
The lower tax collection was ir,
The face of the S7,523,975 rise in
county property valuations record
ed FIR the year. Real and personal
property was estimated to be worth
$40 486, 839 in New Hanover county
in 1914, as against $62, 962,864 in
1913.
In addition, according to Mr.. Or
rell's figures. tax collections pro-
ceeded more smoothly in the past
fiscal year than in the previous
y month period, for only 6.88
per cent of the total collections an
ncipated were not received by
June 30, In the previous financial
year, 1913 per cent of the antici'
pated payments were missing
when the county closed its books
ior the year.
Orrell reported collections
through June 80, 1914 to be S415,'
s23; last year the figure stood al
A53,672. Still 10 be collected fol-
We past year is S3O,730.
The levy for property taxes fol
the past year was set at 1922, 1921
Tor poll taxes, S20,306; for dog tax
eS' S2,793; for back taxes, S11.50;
Tor penalty, $622.74.
hNn4T
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July 4, has been directed.
Tokyo radio, in previously
announcing the attacks, speci-
fled that battleships and cruis-
ers were in the attacking
group.
Spruance's Fifth fleet helped
in the invasion Of Saipan,
task accomplished, thus re-
leasing units Of his group to
augment Mitscher's Task
Force So.
Nimitz also announced that
Japan's phosphate producing
base of Nauru, her by-passed
stronghold of Truk and the
eastern CarOlines base of Po-
nape were attacked Thursday.
Army and Navy planes hit
Nauru,, Army bombers the
two Carolines targets.
Tokyo radio, in reporting the
Friday Guam assaults, said,
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U. S. PACIFIC F L E EFT
HEADQUARTERS, ARL
HARBOR, July 15-REAdm.
Raymond A. Spruance's war
ships joined Vice Adm. Marc
A. Mitscher's carrier groups
in Smelling and bombing Guam
Friday-extending assaults on
that former U. S. outpost
through the 18th straight day.
Gun emplacements and the
airfield at Orote, on PENN
sula guarding one of the finest
harbors in the Pacific, were
blasted by shells and carrier
plane bombs, Adm. Chester w.
Nimitz announced tonight in a
press release. Four enemy
planes were destroyed on the
ground.
The Orote peninsula forms
the southern part of Port Apra
on Guam's west coast, an area
where a considerable weight
of the attacks, continuous since
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Storm Expected To Pass
Near NC. Capes Today
Navy Sending Planes
To Inland Airfields

DAYTON, o., July 15-R-
An undisclOsed number of NAVY
planes were expected to take
refuge at Wright field tonight
from a tropical storm in the
Atlantic, the fields public re-
lations officer announced.
The planes, including four
engine bombers and amphibi-
Gus flying boats, are based at
Norfolk, Va, he said.
The Navy is sending them in
land as a precautionary meas
ure under an elaborate system
completed only this week in
anticipation of S p e m b e r
storms, it was announced.
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OPEN new DRIVE
IN SOUTH POLAND
Communique Reveals Sue
cesses On Baltic-White
Russian Line
TAKE RAIL TOWNS
Soviet Troops Cross His
toric Nieman River At
Several Points
Bv TOM YARBROUGH

LONDON, July 15-(P)-
The Russians tonight an
nounced sweeping gains on
the north central Niemen
river front, outflanking the
German fortress of Grodno
and reaching within eight
miles of the Sunalki border
of East Prussia, and the Ger
man command announced
that a tremendous new Soviet
offensive had begun in the
south of old Poland.
The Russian midnight commune
que announced successes all down
the Baltic-White Russian front, be-
ginning with the capture of Opoch-
ka, "a miles east of the Latvian
border. The Russians announced
Friday night they had taken the
railway station and were fighting
ir the streets.
Moscow Silent
Moscow was silent on the south
ern Polish front.
Westward in the big bulge that
reached along the lower Latvian
border and deep into eastern Lthu-
aria, the Russians announced ex-
tension of their outflanking maneu-
yer agaist Daugavpils with capture
of Oniqshty and Pichany, railway
towns go miles west of Daugavpils.
West and southwest of Wilno the
Red army moved less than 10 miles
f. ON Kaunas, reporting the seizure
CT the railway junction town Of
Kaisiadorys and Alytus, 80 miles
south of Kaunas. The Germans said
three days previously that the Rus
SLAMS had taken Alytus, but the So
vlets remained silent until their
broadcast communique tonight.
In possibly the most significant
development of the day announced
by Moscow, the communique said
Soviet troops had reached the Me
men river line on 75-mile front
north and south of Alytus and had
crossed that historic water barrier
at many points.
Near Triangle
This put them less than eight
miles from the Suwalki triangle
that was annexed to East Prussia
in September, 1899, and placed
Russian soldiers well northwest of
Of Grodno, which already was in
the process of being outflanked
from the southwest.
In their drive to the Niemen riv-
er north and northwest of Grodno,
the Russians listed capture of the
RIVER towns of Druskieniki, Shon-
oubra, Privalka and Coma, the lat
ter only eight miles from the Su-
" alki border and nine miles above
Grodno. Crossing the river at that
point would put them even near
or to German soil.
Some 30 miles south, in their
drive towards Bialstok, the Rus
slams reported they Crossed the
Rosa river and seized numerous
t WINS north of Wolkowqsk and west
and southwest OF Slonin.
The process of clearing the Pri-
pyat marshes around Pinsk con-
with capture of several
towns and railway stations. the
Russians said, but there they halt
ed their announcements, saying
that ION other sectors of the front
there we're no essential changes
Continued on Page Seven; Col. ~
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W E A 7 H E R

FORECAST
NORTH CAROLINA: Partly cloudy
and continued warm tonight and Sun
day with scattered showers and thun-
dershowers east and central portion, be-
coming windy over east portion Sunday.
eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm, yesterday.
Temperature
1880 am, rs; 1880 am, 80; 1870 pm, 81;
1880 pm, 81.
Maximum SO; Minimum rs; Mean 80;
Normal 70.
Humidity
1870 am 80; 1880 am -; 1870 pm. 81;
1880 pm, IA.
Precipitation
900 inches.
Total since the first of the month,
1.06 inches.
Tides for Today
From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington ------------- 6:3Oa 1:24a
Top 1852
Masonboro Inlet --------- ABBA 1O:33a
5:03p 11:21p
Sunrise, SIP am. Sunset. 7:24 p.m.;
Moonrise, PIP am; Moonset. 4:23 pm
Continued on Page Five; Col. s.
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'tThe war situation does not al
low a moment of optimism"
JAP ARMY TRAPPED
ADV Need ALLIED
HEADQUARTERS, New Gui-
nea, Sunday, July 16-R,-
Fighting continues in the Dri-
niumor river valley, Fl miles
east Of Aitape in British New
Guinea, but the trapped 18th
japanese Imperial army has
not renewed its attempt to
break through Allied encircle-
ment, headquarters announced
today.
Badly mauled in heavy fight
ing which followed the initial
attack on strong Allied posi-
tons, the Japanese apparently
are reforming their m a i n
forces for another effort to es-
cape starvation.
Continued on Page Seven; Col.
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CONTRACTS PLACED
FOR 262 VESSELS.
North Carolina Shipyard
On Commissions List OF
New Assignments

WASHINGTON, July Is. -(P-
Contracts for 262 additional cargo
ships and tankers were placed by
the Maritime commission today at
1.-The urgent request" of the joint
army and navy chiefs of staff.
All the ships are "vitally need.
ed for the prosecution of the war, ="
the commission announcement
said and must be completed be-
fore July /, 1945. The contracts
call for 174 victory ships, seven
large tankers, So cargo ships, 80
vessels of the fast. standard CT
<C4:a p,oe Two. Col. ~
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Reds Outflank Grodno, Advance
We <in Eight Miles OF Prussia;
><3. Strikes Lessay's Suburbs
WarShips. Planes Extend Attack
On Guam Through 18th Day

'fThe war situation does not al
low a moment of optimism"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
Lu+herans Open
Church for
Servicemen

Beginning this Saturday, Grace
Lutheran church will be open Sat-
urday and Sunday afternoons and
evenings for the benefit of the men
and women in the armed forces.
Here they will have an oppor-
tunity to use the church library, to
read, to write letters, to visit and
to have a bite to eat.
This opening of the church is
a project of the local Walther lea
que in connection with the Inter-
national Walther league wartime
service.
The project of the Walther Lea
que is to hand out devotional book
lets. Walther League Messengers
Cresset and Bible Students, to men
in the service of the nation by
the more than $50 chaplains and
800 key pastors of the Synodical
Conference of the Lutheran church
Servicemen are welcomed at
Grace Lutheran church said the
pastor, the Rev. Mr. A. r. Nicko-
demus, and it is hoped that many
will take advantage of the open
church.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
Georgia Mum Married to
Harold T. Dowd Thursday

Thursday morning in st. Mary's
Catholic church, beautiful service
united in marriage Georgia Num-,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth
L. Num-, and Warrant Officer Har-
old T. Dowd of the Marine air
station, Camp Ell Centre, formerly
of Utica, New York.
+ Chaplain Lynch of the air sta
ton performed the ceremony in
the presence of members of the
brides family and friends of the
couple, including officers and en-
listed men from the bridegroom
department at the station.
Gowned in a smart grey suit
with which she wore a green hat
and an orchid corsage, the bride
never looked prettier than at her
wedding.
Her only attendant was Mrs.
Tom Coughlin, jr. DaVerne AbeD
who wore suit in brown with
matching accessories and a corsage
of roses.
Capt. M. S. Miletich, station
quartermaSter, acted as best man.
After the ceremony a wedding
breakfast was served at the Cali
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
Chapman College
President at
City Church

George N. Reeves, president OF
Chapman college, Whittier, will
speak at the IL o'clock service Sun
day in the State Street Christian
church.
The Rev. Mr.. Reeves is one of
the youngest college presidents in
the United States and is popular
speaker. He is known to many in
the valley as he was a member of
the Christian Mission team that
conducted the preaching mission
in Imperial Valley last year under
the auspices of the county minis
terial association.
Chapman colleges campus has
been rented to the United States
Navy during the war and the COL
lege joined forces with Whittier
college for the duration, Chapman
taking over the entire Bible de-
partment and several professor
ships in the Whittier institution.
Under the leadership of the Rev.
Mr.. Reeves, Chapman college is
well on the way to becoming a
university. 1t is the Christian
church college for Southern Cali
fornia.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28

was leading his squadron in a dive
to attack a heavily defended airdrome
on New Guinea. Intercepting Jap
fighters concentrated their fire on the
majors plane, setting it ahre while
still two miles from the target. His
speed would have enabled him to
climb rapidly and parachute to safety
but this action would have resulted
in his formation becoming disorgan-
lied and exposed to enemy fire.
s Although he knew crash was in
cvitable, Major Cheli elected to con-
tinue leading the attack in his blaz-
ing plane. From minimum altitude,
the squadron made a devastating
bombing and strahng attack on the
target. The mission completed, Major
Cheli instructed his wing man to lead
the formation and crashed into the
sea. The Congressional Medal Of
Honor has been awarded the major
posthumously and will be presented
to his widow.
Keep backing the attack with Ex-
ira War Bonds. You can't afford to
do less in the face of such sacrifice as
that displayed by Major Cheli and
men from our community.
TYLER INSURANCE
AGENCY