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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-13
KOHIMA SAVED
BY RAY CRONIN
Associated Press War Editor

A brighter picture of the Asiatic
war situation, from the Allied
viewpoint, developed Wednesday.
Observers at New Delhi felt that
the japanese invaders of India
might be running into a trap while
far to the northeast and east in
the Pacific area American airmen
again blasted Japan's Kurile is,
lands within about 1000 miles Of
Tokyo, and continued their hits
against the Carolines and the Mar
shalls.
There was mounting belief in
New Delhi that the Nippon in
vaders, their invasion bases en-
dangered from the rear by hard
fighting air-borne American, Brit
ish and Indian troops, might be
entrapped and face eventual ex.
termination.
Japanese pressure in the Kohl
ma sector was eased as British
and Indian forces officially were
announced Wednesday to be coun
terattacking. Apparently there was
little change around the Allied I'm
phal base, 60 miles southwark. A
communique said the japanese &C.
cupied hill overlooking 1mphal
plain from the northeast. Later
the invaders suffered heavy casu'
allies, presumably as the Allies
countered.
The air-borne forces were strik.
ing Nippon bases near the Indian
border, the only supply centers fol
the Japanese driving against Kohl
ma and Imphal. Great secrecy
surrounds the operations of the
American, British and Indian
troops who were hitting from the
rear in central Burma along the
Chindwin River.
The Tokyo radio claimed terrific
fighting was going on 10 miles
north of 1mphal and said gen
eral attack on the city was immi-
nent.
Allied airforces bombed widely
on Burma and Indian fronts with
out loss.
A U. S. Pacific fleet headquar-
tiers announcement said American
Liberators swept in from the north
east and plastered Marsuwa and
Onnekotan, in the Kuriles, Mon
day. These islands are located just
south of much-bombed Paramu-
shire. The last previously announc.
ed Kurile raid was on Onnekotan
IL days ago.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-13
us. Medal OF Honor
Is Awarded Boyington,
Top Marine Air Ace

WASHINGTON, April H. Up -
The nations highest decoration for
heroism-the Congressional Medal
of Honor-has been awarded to Ma
ior Gregory Boyington, Marine
flying ace. who shot down 26 jap
anese fighter planes before his
plane crashed into jungles near RAJ
baul.
He now is listed as missing in
action.
It was Boyington's first and only
decoration.
Boyington, of Okanogan, Wash,
was the second Marine flyer in
this war to tie the World War one
record of Capt. Eddie Rickenback-
er. First to tie the record was
Major Joe Foss, Sioux Falls, a
Marine flyer also assigned to the
South Pacific.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-13
CASES OF RABIES
IN COUNTY DOWN

Cases of rabies in Wilmington
and environs have been compa--
atively few in spite of marked
increase of the disease in most
section of the country DR.. A. H.
Elliott, city County Health Officer
said Wednesday afternoon.
However, he stated, in the last
few months veterinarians in this
locality have observed number
of cases of rabies in foxes. Most Of
these rabid foxes have been found
in Brunswick county it was learn
ed.
DR.. Elliot urged all dog owners
to comply with the law and have
their pets inoculated. Bill Lassiter,
rabies inspector, will begin inocu-
lating animals on the following
schedule, Saturday April Is.
8:3O-10:O0 - Washington Catlett
school; 10:30-12: 30-William Hoop
e. school; 2:30-5:3O - Cornelius
Harnett School.
Vaccinations will continue for a
number of Saturdays and the
schedule will be announced week
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-13

WASHINGTON, April H. R -
Congress ended it's Easter recess
today by setting to work on a rec
ord $32, SAT, 1874, 1886 Navy appropria.
ton bill intended to give the
worlds largest Navy the, punch for
final defeat of Japan and Ger
many.
Warned by the men who oper-
ate the fleet that the end Of the
war is not in sight, the House
Appropriations Committee acced-
ed to virtually every request fo-
funds and sent to the floor for
expected unanimous approval the
bill boosting tan estimated $780,
100000 the natian's war outlay
since July 1, 1910.
Only a relatively small amount,
5000, 685, 1854, was trimmed by the
committee from budget estimates,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-13
SCR0CCS ELECTED
TO HEAD ALUMNI

Felix A. Scroggs, manager of the
U. S. Employment Service office
of Wilmington, was unanimously
elected president of the New Han
over county chapter of North Caro-
lima State college alumni associa-
ton, at the reorganization banquet
meeting held in the Friendly
restaurant banquet hall last night
at p. m.
J. B. Edwards, of the local
health board, was elected vice
president; R. A. Ashworth, Of the
Wilmington U. S. District Engineer
division, secretary and treasurer;
and John E. Mcintyre, of the N. c.
shipbuilding company, reporter.
4. D. Stewart, associate profess
sor of agromony at N. c. State col
lege, played Charlie Mccarthy
for H. W. Pop" Taylor, N. C.
State college national alumni secre-
tary, who was unable to address
the club due to a newly developed
case of laryngitis. Stewart gave
the present status of the college IN
a speech entitled your State Col
lege Has Gone To War"
State college, with a modern
physical plant and equipment
valued at approximately 81, 400, OOO
is regarded as one of the leading
land-grant schools in America. The
college is now training men ano
women in textiles, agriculture, en-
cheering, education and 20 ode
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-13
Byrnes Urges
Employment
Aid From U.S..
PROGRAM IS OUTLINED
savs Government Must
Close Plants When No
Longer Needed

NEW YORK, April 12-REWa1
,robiIization Director James F.
pvrnes proposed tonight sys-
4 -, of Federal unemployment
bsnefit, supplementary to state
Benefits for workers who lose
%pir Jobs when war-boomed in
5nstrial activities slacken.
Yvrnes advanced this idea in an
address to the Academy of Poll
Scal Science in which he re-
viewed preparations already made
for the switch to a peacetime
economy. His speech was broad
cast by NBC.
Among his major points were
these: y
l. The government must close
nlsnts whenever they are no long
Or needed in the war effort. ut
will be far better for communi-
lies" he said, ito have plants
closed now when the employees
ran find other jobs than to con-
anue operating and later close
The plants when employees may
moi be able to find jobs"
q The recent report by Bernard
NJ Baruch and John M. Hancock
recommending machinery for
speedy termination of contracts
and disposal of SURPRISES has
gone far to dispel the fog of con-
traversy" over these subjects. He
said legislation is needed to carry
OUT the recommendations but,
meantime. the executive depart
ment should proceed as far as it
can under existing law.
8. Steps have been taken ito
protect the farmers from a re-
patition'' of the widespread bank
rptcies and foreclosures which
followed World War l. The stabili-
cation act, Byrnes noted, authoriz-
Is the Commodity Credit Corpora
ton 10 make loans on basic crops
at 80 per cent of parity for two
full crop years after the formal
termination of hostilities.
4. Congress already has provid-
ed mastering out pay for men and
women in the armed services and
Continued on Page Six; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-13

deferment of fathers over 80 but
1T was rejected because of COM
pletely illogical letter" from Cen
eral George C. Marshall. chief Of
staff.
Nov the administration has
come long way Xxx with a dis
tinction at age 26. But how long
will they stay there?" he asked,
adding
1.-The time has come to quit
playing loose and fast with the ex-
istence of American men and their
families.
1T is utterly ridiculous at this
stage of the war to have married
men telling their families goodbye,
giving up their jobs and selling
their businesses, only to be told
the next day it was all a mistake
ard they will not be needed; that
they can go back home and pick
up the scattered threads of their
lives. But not securely, for they
might be called again on mo-
ment's notice."
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-13
WIENER NEUSTADT
PLANTS HAMMERED
u. S. 18TH Air Fore e
Heavyweights Fly From
Italy To Attack

LONDON, April 12-(P)-Ameri'
can 18th Air Force heavyweight
from Italy dealt a laundering blow
today at Messerschmitt factories ir
Wiener Neustadt, Austria, as bac
weather forced Liberators anc
Fortresses from Britain to turr
back after 72-hour succession o:
big-bonber attacks against Ger
man Europe from the west.
American Ninth Air Force Mar.
auders and British Mosquitoes from
Britain assaulted airfields, rail
yards and other targets in France
and Belgium during the day, how
ever, and hundreds of American
Lightnings, Thunderbolts and Mus
tangs made offensive sweeps
against western Germany ano
Holland.
The Berlin radio broadcast a
warning tonight that enemy
planes are over northwest, cen
trail and southwest Germany"
German planes caused a one
hour alarm in London and anti
aircraft batteries and search
lights were in action. 1t was the
first alert in the capital since
March 81.
1t was officially announced that
some Liberator and Flying Fort
ress formations penetrated over
the continent from Britain but had
to return to their bases as the
weather closed in. The Germans
named Wiesbaden and Frankfurt
as among the localities the big
bombers approached, and said
nuisance raiders were over many
parts of Europe.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-13
Clio HEAD DOUBTS
OFFICIAL REPORTS
SAYS Facts Prove Cost OF
Living Is Not Being
Stabilized

WASHINGTON, April 10 Up -
Asserting that their report stood
in conflict with their own acts
and words, CLIO President Philip
Murray sharply questioned today
four sterilization officials who ad-
vised President Roosevelt a week
ago that the cost of living line
is being held.
Writing to William H. Davis, War
Labor Board chairman, Marvin
Jones, war food administrator,
Chester Bowles, price administra-
tor, and Fred M. Vinson, stabili-
cation director, Murray said:
''To every family in the nation
which is confronted daily with the
stubborn fact of rising living costs.
your last report will, of course,
come as complete shock. Ex-
pressions from public officials
which fly in the face of the living
experience of the people do not
inspire confidence or improve ma
tional morale.
eve take this opportunity to
bring to your ate ton your pre-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-13
South Is Called
Land For Future

ATLANTA, April r. R iva
Director David Lilienthal says "one
tnlng I, a damn Yankee am try
ing to do is shatter the impression
that other sections of the country
nave about the South being back
ward and generally a Tobacco
Road sort of place"
Attending meeting ADDRESSED
by War Production Board Chair
man Donald Nelson, Lilienhal call
ed the South the "1and of appor-
tunlty' in natural resources and
In the decade during which I
nave struggled along with the for
tunes of the IVA, I've seen the
wonder of what actually is here
both in the people and in resources
OF good soil, minerals, water DOW
er, lumber and many other things"
he added.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-13

Tennessee Valley Authority to come
to Congress for it's appropriations
instead of utilizing revolving fund
revenues. Mcclellan won the fight
in the Senate after a bitter ex-
change of words through the press
between him and IVA Chairman
David E. Lilenthal. The Senate no.
titled the House that it would not
recede from the amendment.
Another amendment sure to
&c Sc controversy in the House in
vo4ves Senate provision whereby
emergency war agencies, now sup
ported by funds appropriated to
President Roosevelt for war pur-
poses, would be required to come
to Congress for direct appropria-
tons after having been in exist
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-13
TRIBUNAL RULES
ON BICAMY CASE

RALEIGH, April L. R The
North Carolina Supreme Court up
held today a Caldwell County SUI
perior courts conviction Of O. B.
Williams and Mrs. Lilly Shaver
CHendriXI Williams on charges OF
gibamouS cohabitation following a
divorce decree obtained in Nevada
in l94O
The court thus gave it's second
affirming verdict in the case.
which went to the United States SUI
preme Court and was ordered back
for retrial when the U. S. Supreme
Court reversed a previous decision
Of the state court.
Williams and Mrs. Hendrix were
married in Las Vegas, Nevada, on
October 4, 1910, the day Mrs. Hen
dirk was granted a divorce from
TOm Hendrix, whom she married
IN 1920. Williams was granted a
Nevada divorce on Aug. rs, 1910,
rom Mrs. Ora Wyke Williams,
whom he married % years before
On returning to North Carolina
70 live. the two were arrested and
charged with bigamy, the state
contending that the couples resi-.
oence In Nevada was for the pur'
pose OF obtaining a divorce and not
aS a permanent home.
The case was first tried in Cald.
wen county in March, 1941, and
uoh detendents were found guilty.
1Aey appealed to the State SUI
pfeme Court and the conviction
was affirmed. An appeal from the
Ha'e court S decision was carried
~ Inc U. S. Supreme Court ano
~e state Courts verdict was re
YeISeo and remanded "for pro-
Veeolngs not consistent with the
UplAlon filed therein" A new trial
Was ordered.
convicted at the second Caldwell
county trial, Williams received a
0eH'ence Of from one to three years
anu Mrs. Hendrix from eight to %
months in prison.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-13
CAMERON ASSAILS
DOUBLE TAXATION
Mayor Makes Appeal For
Payment By County For
County Functions

Mayor Bruce B. Cameron mad,
a strong appeal before the Kiwan
is Club yesterday for payment b.
the county government of thu
operation of institutions which r,
countrywide in their scope and sale
that a representative should bt
elected to the legislature who will
see that this is done.
In an impromptu address the
Mayor called attention to the fac
that next Saturday is the last date
for filing by candidates for the
legislature. He asserted that the
community suffers from many Sin
equities" including particularly the
fact that taxpayers within the city
limits of Wilmington contribute 81
per cent of the operating costs o.
institutions supported jointly by
the city and the county.
He urged the public to give care
full thought to the selection of q
representative in the Legislature
who will strive to eliminate What
he described as ''dor BILE taxation
It is nobody's fault that double
taxation exists, Mr.. Cameron said
but sit is thing that should be
Strengthened OUT. He declared the
city should pay for city functions
only.
The Mayor made a vigorous ap'
peal for united front on public
matters which may come before
the legislature at its next session
and declared that on many pre-.
vious occasions the community hac
come in for much criticism in leg
islative hearings because it has no.
been able to get together on Wha'
it wants. He assailed what he de
scribed as ''complacency' on the
part of the people who want a bet
ter community and are anxious tt
have more equitable tax rates bu
'are not willing to fight for i"
Illustrating his double tax theme
the Mayor pointed out that the city
contributes two thirds and the
county one-third of the budget o.
the Board of Health but pointed
out that taxpayers in the city &C
tually pay most of the county:
portion. Substantially the same
thing holds true as to the Jane:
Walker Memorial Hospital, he
said. People in the city pay 81
per cent of these joint COSTS he
declared.
Mr.. Cameron also strongly urg
ed a united determination to ex
pand the city limits in the mex
session of the legislature and sale
that concrete plans for such ar
extension would shortly be forth
coming. He pointed out that many
of the most prominent citizens O.
the community live outside the linn
its but use city streets and facili
ties and carry on their bushes:
activities within the limits and urg
ed that these should he willing tc
come into the city as matter o,
civic pride.
He indicated preference fol
taking in Immediately only those
areas for which facilities can be
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-13
F0RTY-F0UR LOST
IN SHIP SINKING

SAN FRANCISCO, April 12-4R)
-Forty-four officers and men
were reported missing and rs res
cued when the Standard Oil tank
er H. D. Collier was torpedoed
and sunk by an enemy submarine
in the Arabian Sea in mid-March,
the 18th Naval District announc-
ed today.
The missing included 80 men Of
the tanker's personnel and II men,
bers of the Nays armed guard.
Ten officers and men of the
tanker and 16 of the armed guard
were known to have been rescued.
Among the officers missing was
Capt. Joseph Fox, Oakland, Calf.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-13
Conference OF Axis
Heads Is Denied By
Nazi Foreign Office

II, LYNDON, April 12.-iR-A Ber-
-. broadcast said tonight the Ger
do aii foreign office "categorically
H pg.iieS a Swiss report that Adolf
Tf had summoned Mussolini,
p'ileSe Ambassador Hiroshi o.
cbt +-0 and various Quislings to Bec-
myeSgaden for a conference.
Nil e Bern newspaper Der Bund
ers ~ III an article reported to Reut-
b.a yesterday that such a meeting
w. 'een called and that Japan
etteot " De asked what immediate
otto s've assistance she is able to
'Ner Germany"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-13
KERCH AREA CLEARED
Speed OF Drive Indicates
Axis Forces Withdraw
Ing AT A Swift Rate

LONDON, thursday, April lo-Hp
. Shattering the second deep zone
of German defenses in the Crimea,
the Red army has reached 46
miles in a single day down the GEN.
trail Crimean railway from the
vicinity of Dzankoi to point only
II miles north of Simferopol and
IS miles above Sevastopol, the
sacred goaP' of the three-way Of
fensive to liberate the peninsula,
Moscow announced last night.
A simultaneous thrust from the
east has cleared the enemy from
all the Kerch peninsula, COM
munique said, and the speed of the
Soviet advance indicated that the
German and Romanian forces in
the Crimea failing in repeated at
tempts to stand, were withdrawing
swiftly towards Sevastopol, perhaps
to attempt to duplicate the historic
defense which the Russians made
under siege in 1912.
On the mainland, the Red army,
demonstrating its ability to main
tain multiple offensives, stormed
the Ukraine city of Tiraspol, SO
miles northwest of Odessa, and
Immediately hurdled to the west
bank of the Dnestr River; pushed
deeper towards the North Roman
ian oil fields by capturing Falti-
ceni, hastened the enlightenment
maneuver against Chisinau in Bes-
sarabia; and squeezed the Skala
pocket on the first Ukraine front
around a ragged remnant of 10000
Germans.
From April / to 10 the Germans
west of Skala lost $4,000 dead and
1888 captured, while Russian booty
included 1877 tanks and self-propell-
ed guns, declared the Soviet night
communicate, recorded by the So
Wet monitor.
The whirlwind campaign to free
the Crimea which the Germans and
Romanians have held since the end
of 194l, consisted of a thrust from
the east after an amphibious land
ing at Kerch, and the two drives
from the north.
Gen. Feodor I. Tolbukhin, in
charge of both north orn drives,
freed more than $50 towns today
in his rapid strides toward the big
central Crimean city of Simferopol,
including the large railway towns
of thurman Memelchi,, Biyuk OMAR
and Karacha Kandil. The last is
less than 10 miles north of Simfer-
opol and 46 airline miles northeast
of Sevastopol, the greatest of
Crimean prizes.
simultaneously, Gen. Andrei I.
Yeremenko's amphibious army
announced freeing of the entire
peninsula, the eastern neck of the
Crimea, liberating more than 140
towns, killing 5000 of the enemy,
capturing more than 1000, and
thrusting to within 10 miles Of
Feodosiya, biggest east Crimean
port.
The German and Romanian gar.
risons of the Crimea had been vir-
tua1ly isolated in that large pen
insular expanse since last October,
whenthe Russians cut off the Per-
ekop neck, but sought to hold it
as sort of gigantic 'Tobruk"
menacing all the Russian Black
Sea coast. Russian dispatches said
as recently as this week they had
flown in two more divisions for
the defense.
The Russian offensive, begun five
days ago, scarcely could have
caught the Axis by surprise, yet
the Red armies quickly cut through
the long-prepared defensive system
and raced toward a first-class
triumph to be climaxed by the ex-
pected capture of Sevastopol.
-V-
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-13
Congress Back From 10 Day Easter Recess

with the explanation that the purse
strings would be kept open to meet
any future requirements. That such
needs are by no means unlikely
was indicated in testimony by
James V. Forrestal, undersecre-
rotary of the navy, who told the
committee that the appropriations
were preliminary to major opera
lions in both Atlantic and Pacific.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-13
BY HOWARD SUBTLE
Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, April u. - With
an eye focused upon the political
situation back hoce." Congress
reconvened to d ay following a
twelve-day Easter recess, its men,
bers planning to dispose of half
a-dozen or more major legislative
measures and adjourn for the ma
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-13
|KURILE ISLES RAlDED
American Planes Continue
Attacks On Marshans
And Carolines

U. S. PACIFIC FLEET
HEADQUARTERS, Pearl, Har-
Dor, April 12-(R-Paramush-
iro and Shimushu, Japanese
bases in the north Pacific Ku-
rifle islands, were bombed on
Tuesday by Ventura search
planes of Fleet Arriving 4, Adm.
Chester w. Nimitz announced
today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-13
FORECAST

NORTH CAROLINA: Fair and rodsr
ately cooler Thursday.
Temperatures yesterday:
High: 82-Low: So.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-13

CONTINUED on Page Six; Co
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-24
Negro Insurance
Group ToExceed
WarBondQuota

WASHINGTON -- The National
Negro Insurance Association l. out
t. improve on all records for War
Bond purchases by It's member COM
panics. c /. Tow mes, OF Richmond.
Va, chairman Of the MIA War
Finance committee, Informed Treas
airy Department this week The as
ISOLATION goal for the Fifth War
Loan is $4,000, 900. The quota ex-
ceedS by 81 600. 600 the amount that
was pledged and raised bv i5 mem
Der companies during the Fourth
War Loan campaign.
The NNlA's annual War Bond
rally will be held June 20 in Louis
vile. KY. as feature of their an
nual convention
said. wiz be carried out strictly
on "A cash basis We are asking mem
Der companies to step up on the
stage and make their bond pur-
chases on the spot cash in hand"
Writing 10 member companies.
Mr. TONNES reminded them that the
invasion OF France has been car
ried out with weapons that were
partially paid for with the proceeds
of previous War Bond drives. He
warned that:
Our men still face many diff
cult days and We must therefore
continue To- send them the tanks.
planes, < ms and food that they need
IN order that they might keep up
the march to Berlin and end this
war as quickly as possible.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-24
jim, CroW Plan
Has Attention
OfNAACPG Group

NEW YORK After a months
tour Of the Pacific Northwest, with
intensive work in Washington and
Oregon. Edward Dudley. member Of
the legal staff OF the NAACP said
last week plans were under way
in Seattle. Portland. Tacoma. and
Spokane TO combat the wave OF jim
crowism which is sweeping the
once-liberal section on the heels OF
the great migration of southern
Negroes and whites.
Dudley conferred with Governor
Langlie OF. Washington. with Attor-
ney General Neuner OF Oregon.
Mayor Riley OF Portland. Mayor
Johnson and City Prosecutor Grimm
of Pasco, Wash, also with State
Senator Henehan of Washington In
PortlanG Mr. Dudley met with
Edgar j. Kaiser at his huge ship
yards and reports that although
there Is no Jim crow in the Kaiser
works. or cafeterias for workers, or
housing projects. the boilermakers
union is forcing Negroes into a
jim crow auxiliary as a price for
working. Those who refuse to join
the auxiliary are fired under the
closed shop contract.