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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-24
PEANUT PRICES
BOOSTED BY OPA
Star Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23,-Ceilmg
prices on the 1914 peanut crop,
established yesterday, will reflect
current parity to growers the of'
flee of Price Administration de-
clared today.
But North Carolinians who like
peanuts will be interested to know
that they will not be required to
pay higher retail prices for the
product, the OPA added.
The new ceilings, which take et'
feet next Monday, provide that
peanut growers may receive hlgh-
er prices because of the reduced
margin that the Commodity Great
corporation maintains this year BE-
tween its purchase and resale
prices" according to OPA.
Changes in the peanut price sche'
dule were made by OPA latter
consultation with Representative
members of the industry and rep
resent general compliance with IN
dustry recommendations,
The changes include:
Revision of growers's ceilings
f. O. b. delivery point, based on
.081e cents per pound, as of June
IS, for all types and grades re-
fleeing parity to the farmer WIN
ceilings adjusted to grade.
Use of grades and classificatlons
employed by &C, now sole pur'
chaser of farmers's stock peanuts
Grades set according to percentage
of sound, mature kernel content
Formerly peanuts were prlceo ac'
cording to department of agrlcul'
ture standards.
Examples of the new f. 0. D.
prices: STA per ton for Spanish
type southeastern peanuts; Sloo'o
per ton for runner and other KIN
bred types, and S168.50 per ton for
Virginia and Valencia types IM
ceilings are set according to sheI'
out percentages of sound rnal0i'
kernels.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-24
NURSING CLASS
OPENS SEPT. II

The second class for u. S. Cadet
Nurses opens September II at
James Walker Memorial hospital,
where the campaign to enlist candi-
dates will be continued up to the
last minute, officials said yester.
day.
At entrance examination on
Aug. Is, Is applicants were ex-
amined. Another examination is set
for Sept. l, however, officials point
ed out that between the first and
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-24

WASHINGTON - While Ger
many has been vanquished for the
present, nothing but force is likely
to restrain her from seeking world
domination at the earliest oppor-
tunity'', in the opinoin of the Sen.
ate judiciary subcommittee ap-
pointed to report on the validity of
the proposed treaty by which the
United States would go to the aid
of France in the event of an I'M
provoked attack by Germany.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-24

eleventh of next month candidates
would still be accepted.
I'VE want as many cadets as we
can get" officials said, land we'll
take more than our quota of 40"
The recruiting office is open
daily "a hours. Application should
be made to the, director of nursing.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-24
The Road To Berlin
(By The Associated Press

(By The Associated Press
Russian front: 322 miles measured
from eastern suburbs of Warsaw.
2-No-thern France: SIS miles (meas-
ured from point near Sens.
3-Italian front: COL miles Measured
from northern outskirts of Florence).
4-Southern France: $50 miles (measur-
ed from near st. Julien.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-24

Editors Note.-The Star and the News accept no
responsibility fer the personal views Of PYgler
and often disagree with them much many Of
his readers His articles serve the good purpose Of
making people think
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-24
rs Years Ago
Today
(FROM THE FILES
OF THE STAR-NEWS)
AUGUST "a, 1919

Mrs. Der r m Quelch and
daughters, Misses Lila and Louise,
are spending the remainder of the
summer at Lake Junaluska.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-24
TOP OF THE MORNING

TOP OF THE MORNING.
Swedish literary woman wanted God to
tell her what the next step in her career
was to be; and at length, in surge OF
abandon that broke through all her re-
serves, she seemed to hear God saying,
Glow could you expect me to speak when
Won have gagged me so long?" Don't
Gag God in the continuous and expect
Him to speak in the crisis.
STANLEY JONES.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-24

The geographic center of the
United States is in Smith county,
Kansas.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-24
Our Chief Ain,

To aid In every way the prosecution OF
the war to complete Victory.
Evening star., 1944-08-19
Two District Area Women
In Enq|and for Red Cross

Mrs. Layona Mellin, 1913 Forty
fifth place NE, and Miss Ethel
Snyder, 355 Main street, Laurel, Md,
have arrived safely in England to
begin their duties with the Amer
ican Red Gross. national headquar-
ters announced today.
Mrs. Mellin, wife of Col. Robert
Mellin, now serving with a chemical
warfare unit in Cairo, Egypt, will
serve as hospital staff aide and
assist with secretarial work irf the
overseas hospitals. A graduate of
Southwestern University here, she
worked for the Federal Housing
Administration before joining the
Red Cross.
Miss Snyder, daughter of Mrs.
Dora Snyder. is a graduate of Laurel
High School and Maryland Univer-
sity. She attended Peabody Insti-
tute of Music in Baltimore, taught
at Bladensburg MD High School
and was an assistant in mathematics
at Maryland University before join
ing the Red Cross. She will be a
Red Cross staff assistant and help
plan recreational programs in Red
Cross clubs.
Evening star., 1944-08-19

ers attacking the Ploesti area ir
Romania. The Mediterranean All
Force lost 21 planes.
Medium and fighter bombers
pummeled German communica-
tions, and gunposts in the invasion
zone. while for the first time since
the fall Of Yugoslavia to the Ger
mans in 1941 Yugoslav pilots flew
over their homeland. They were
flying Spitfires In the Raj wing
of the Balkan Air Force.
Vice Admiral H. K. Hewitt report
ed that British and American naval
aircraft based on carriers off the
southern invasion coast effectively
attacked enemy communications on
land, destroying or damaging 81
trucks, two locomotives, IL tank cars.
Is freight cars and cutting tracks
in several places.
Nine aircraft carriers-seven Brit
ish and two American-were off,
cially disclosed today to be operating
off the Riviera beachhead.
(The British radio quoted one
CT its correspondents this morn
ing as saying that Toulon is go
ing to fall soon.
cThe Germans have thrown up
a hastily built screen of mobile
guns and infantry to give pro-
lection to the rest Of their men
rs they pulled out of the CITY,"
said the correspondent, Vaughn
Thomas. They are blowing up
bridges and mining ths-4eads, but
Evening star., 1944-08-19
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. G. .
SATURDAY
Normandy Spa Left Unscothed;
Tired Yunks ReveI in Baths

populace offering an abundance OF
champagne.
About rs per cent of the people
speak English. Before the war most
of the property. including the
gambling casinos, were owned by an
American firm, the Arthur Gould
Corp. OF New York.
They will find their hotels in
need of only minor repairs-it all
makes me a little sick" said a
French of1icer with whom I visited
the town.
Comic Strip Strategy.
Comic strips have their place In
war, as It. Elmer S. Slater of Sioux
City, Iowa, can attest. The other
day a German tank was coming
straight down the road at him.
Slater free at it with a bazooka and
the tank withdrew about &C yards
down the road. Slater had nothing
left to hit 1t with. Then he recalled
comic strip.
Calling together the personnel
from the machine-gun crews he
commanded, he lined them up in a
held to form the figure 400" Then
he stripped of his shirt and waved
1t frantically to attract the atten-
ton of an Allied plane overhead.
The plane nosed down for an in
quisitive look and the pilot got the
idea that there was a target 400
yards ahead. He climbed back for a
running start, dived at the target
and nailed it at the first try.
Among the most poplar Red Cross
men on the American front here is
Charles L. Skarren, jr, 4476 Reser-
voir road, a former Washington law
yer.
Evening star., 1944-08-19

tween the sea and the Seine.
If the Allies destroy the German
7th Army and the 18th Army ele-
meAts which Won Kluge rushed
south, 1t is obvious that Paris will
fall of its own weight.
Foreign reports from neutrals said
German uniforms had almost dis
appeared in Paris and the roads
leading east and north toward Ger
many from the capital were packed
with collaborators who were fleeing
for fear of reprisals. The Nazi-con-
trolled radio was off the air and all
public buildings were closed.
In Brittany American troops ov-
ercame the last enemy resistance on
the north coast with the elimina-
ton of German pockets in the area
of Lannion and Paimpol. Lannion
Is So miles northeast of Brest and
Paimpol is 18 miles northeast of
Lannion.
Supreme headquarters announced
that Allied troops had reached Do
zule. which is IA miles east and
slightly north OF Caen and 81 miles
west and slightly south of Rouen.
(The German Transocean
Agency, broadcasting from Ber-
lin, quoted German War Min
istry official statement as saying.
I'VE must be prepared for a Ger
man withdrawal from France"
'The same agency quoted a
military spokesman in Berlin as
saying that mo fresh German
divisions can be sent to France.
The troops in battle have beef.
warned of this and have been or
dered to fight to the last man,
Won Kluege committed the now
hammered groupings of the 18th
Army, the last source of enemy
strength In France. to his lost cause
in Normandy after withdrawing
them from their positions guarding
the Nazis' robot bomb lairs along
the Northern French Coast.
The British staff officer said he
employed these reinforcements "in
pieces and too late"
Evening star., 1944-08-19

not on . scale big enough to
check our advance.")
The advance to Brignoles followed
a trunk highway leading to the
Rhone Valley above Marseille. Such
an advance, ii projected beyond the
latter city. would hem in German
forces in both Mafseille and Toulon.
Toward the eastern end of the
beachhead, forward elements of the
7th Army made slight advances in
the vicinity Of Draguignan, cap
tured inland road junction point
But a late dispatch said German
forces still occupied lie Muy, mid
way between Draguignan and ST.
Raphael on the coast. American
artillery units were reported she'll
ing LIE Muy.
Headquarters announced capture
OF the second German general in
48 hours. He was taken yesterday
by troops Of the American seth
Division.
Evening star., 1944-08-19

Col. Howard F. Nichols, Grand
Rapids, Mich, leading the mission.
put a bomb near one of the en-
frances to the fort.
The airmen are making no claims
OF forcing the surrender of the cita-
del. All they knew was that soon
after Col. Nichols bomb landed, the
planes were called back and the
pilots were told to cease bombing.
They may have been getting
ready to surrender, but We sure hur-
RED them along" said 1t. Robert
w. Hoyle, Bremerton, Wash.
When the Americans were con-
vinced the surrender was real Col.
Nichols said, the planes were ordered
to attack small fortified island lust
on st. Malo. The pilots reported the
island was dotted with gun en-
placements and strong points and
that they left it in flames.
There were big explosions from
an ammunition dump and l saw one
OF the bombs land right among a
bunch Of soldiers who were trying
to get into boat, said 1t. Col. Seth
j. Mckee of Orlando. Fla.
Evening star., 1944-08-19
White Flags Hoisted Quickly
When Americans Bomb St. Mo|o
BY the Associated Prexs

6S lhe ASSOCIATED Press.
A 9th AIR FORCE HEADQUAR-
TERs IN FRANCE, Aug. II de-
layed. - American fighter bomber
pilots reported that the st. Malo
citadel which has been holding out
for days surrendered today during a
bombing attack.
The planes were called of by radio
when white flags were run up.
Several hundreds Germans under
command of Col Andreas Won Au-
lock, who scoffed at radio requests
to surrender, had been holding out
for days in the concrete fortress at
the tip OF peninsula. Ordinary
bombs and artillery had failed to
dislodge them and after the final
warning was ignored the air force
was called upon to use its strength.
During the break in ground she'll
ing several Lightning fighter bomb
ers were to carry out the attack, but
only one had to unload. 1t might
have been coincidence. but every
sort Of white flag and signal started
going up less than a minute after
Evening star., 1944-08-19
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,
Star Staff Correspondent.


WITH UNITED STATES FORCES
IN FRANCE, Aug. Is Delayed
Bagnoles is a thing Of beauty with
exclusive hotels, thermal baths,
lovely blue lakes and hundreds of
acres Of well-tended pine forest
with footpaths and bride paths.
All around Is the horror OF war.
Neighboring villages have been
pulverized with bombs and shells,
but Normandy's swankiest resort
town is without a broken window.
Before the war it was chiefly a
spa for wealthy women. It's ther-
NAL springs are reputed to have
special therapeutic value against
phlebitis.
(The town lies about Is air
miles south by southwest of
Falaise)
First the Germans used it for a
Luftwaffe rest camp. Then they
turned It's hotels into a big general
hospital. Last week they got out
with all their patients.
Yanks Get De Luxe Baths.
Tonight American soldiers, grimy
with two weeks of constant battle
are sleeping in hotel beds between
spotlessly white sheets and they are
taking full advantage of its thermal
baths and swimming pools.
Maj. Leonard Peters of Boston
was the first American to enter this
lovely town in a deep rocky gorge
on the Wee River, tributary of the
Orne. He found a wildly welcoming
Evening star., 1944-08-19
lie Mans Monument
To Wilbur Wright
Undamaged by War
BY the Associated Press,

Sy the Associated Press.
LIE MANS, France, Aug. II (De.
layeO There is a striking stone
statue near the cathedral in this
town which arOuses the curiosity o1
many American troops as their con-
voys wheel north to battle.
But they speed by so fast they are
unable to read the inscription on
the monument, which was erected in
honor of one of the men responsible
for development of the planes cir
cling protectively over their heads
Wilbur Wright.
Early in the century, Mr. Wright
and the distinguished French scien-
tist, Leon Bollee, collaborated in q
series of airplane experiments in q
field near LIE Mans.
The monument is white marble
shaft topped with the statue of a
kneeling man with uplifted hands
symbolizing the human yearning to
fly. On the base in bas-relief are
likeness of Mr.. Wright, his brother
Orville and Mr.. Bollee.
The memorial has been kept neat
through four years of German oc-
cupation. The townspeople have
planted border of red geraniums
about the base and the monument
Is surrounded by padlocked iron
gate.
This monument shows no signs of
DETACHMENT, but several miles out
side the town stands another tn
Wilbur Wright which has been
struck, but not badly damaged, by
machine-gun bullets and small
shells. The latter stands near the
site Of early flying tests, and was
erected by the Aero Club de France.
1t is a large boX-shaped chunk of
dark granite bearing on one side the
inscription: Wilbur and Orville
Wright, Kittyhawk, December, 19O3.'
Evening star., 1944-08-19
Riviera
Continued From First Page J

tered IN many weeks, scored several
hits on the Strasbourg, which the
Germans were using for a coastaI
battery.
They also sank a destroyer and
submarine and left a cruiser partly
submerged. A big gun position at
the entrance to the harbor was
silenced.
Allied headquarters disclosed that
the islands of Port-Cros and Levant
were captured by the 1st Special
Service Force, a mixed United States
and Canadian Commando type unit
which saw service in Italy. This
force attacked the islands on in
vasion eve.
Germans still on the islands of
st. Marguerite and st. Honorat
south Of Cannes have been firing
on Allied troops on the mainland
from heavy calibre guns installed
there.
Elements of another German d.
vision-the 338th Infantry-have
been identified in the northwest Sec
tor.
OF 10 enemy aircraft shot down
yesterday the majority fell to night
ers escorttng American hsavy bomb
Evening star., 1944-08-19
Patriots Extend Rule
In France and |taIv
By the Associated Press.

BY lne Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 19-Patriot group.
rising against the NaZis have estab.
lished control over vast French anc
Italian areas. reports from Berr
said today. while Paris, its liberia.
ton approaching. was represented
as having the largest resistanc.
force in all of France.
(All French forces of the in
terror in the departments of
Southeastern France were urged
to begin immediate and total
action" in instructions broad
cast by Gen. Crochet, delegate
of the French Council of Ma
tional Liberation in Southern
France, this morning. CHS
recorded the broadcast
Bern dispatches said some 10000
well-equipped men were fighting ir
single battle in one section of Italy
In French districts near the Swiss
frontier, there were probably three
times that many.
Italian PartlSans were said to have
won almost full control of Liguria
and Piedmont, provinces in North.
west Italy. Genoa is in Liguria.
French patriots were said to hold
the upper hand in about half Of the
Houte Savoie region of Eastern
France.
Col. Jean Drumont. 33-year-old
French underground leader, told a
press conference in London that the
Paris patriots comprised the largest
group of total force stronger than
the prewar French standing Army OF
500 900 men.
For security reasons he did not say
what Paris shadow army was going
to do when the Americans reach the
city.
Evening star., 1944-08-19
Paris and Vichy Radio
Fail to Broadcast
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, Aug. 19.-The Nazi-
controlled Paris radio remained
blacked out today and the Vichy
transmitter also disappeared from
the air.
The Lyon station, the only one
in the Vichy network to appear on
the air, confined itself to a rehash
of yesterdays German telegraph
reports on the war fronts, played
one record and then left the air,
Evening star., 1944-08-19
Light Cruiser Topeka
Launched at Quincy

QUINCY, Mass, Aug. 19-The
light cruiser U. S. S. Topeka, named
in honor of the capital city of
Kansas, was launched today at the
Bethlehem Steel Co. shipyard with
Mrs. Frank J. Warren, wife of To-
peka's Mayor, serving as sponsor.
The new cruisers sisterships now
either completed or being outfit
ted at the Bethlehem yard are the
new Vincennes, the Pasadena, and
the Springfield. They are included
among large group of ships known
as the Cleveland class, and follow
closely the pattern of earlier cruisers
such as the Brooklyn, Boise and st.
Louis.
Evening star., 1944-08-19
Senate Bills Propose
Bituminous Coal Board

Senators Stewart, Democrat, OF
Tennessee and Davis, Republican
of Pennsylvania yesterday intro
duced bills to establish a nationa,
-bltuminous coal commission.
Similar measures were introduced
In the House last April by Repre-
sentatives Flanagan, Democrat, OF
Virginia and Robson, Republican
of Kentucky.
The measures call for establish
ment Of commission of five men,
bers, one representing producers
one the employees and three the
public. 1t provides for the setting
up of coal mining code and the
setting of minimum prices by the
commission.
Evening star., 1944-08-19
Nozis Claim AuIock
Escaped From St. MuIo
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 19.-Col. An
dreas won Aulock. commander Of
German forces resisting the siege
OF st. Malo, has withdrawn to
Cezembre Island off that North
Brittany port with the remnants of
his forces, the German news agency
DNB declared today.
The fall of st. Malo was an.
nounced Yesterday. The broadcast
from Berlin said the citadel was
abandoned after its main defense
works were wrecked and arnmuni-
ton exhausted.
Evening star., 1944-08-19
LOST RATION coIIp0hs

GAS KATION BOOK AND - Both
1ss-399r o,1n Samuel Carter, 1o15 4sth st.
LOST RATION BOOK NO. 3. Finder
please return TO owner, Mrs. Anne M.
Corea. 4SoO Dalton rd., Chevy Chase, Md,
RATION BOOKS 90 in names of Mar
garette v. and Henry S. Brummitt OK.
RATION BOOKS ?, 4, issued J. Johnston
Muir, Grace Harris Muir, Grace Mary Muir.
Wilson lane, Bethesda, Md. WI. 939g. 3Is
RATION BOOK NO. 3, issued to HERNIA n
?. Sacks: LINCOLN park: Lanham. Md. 10.
WAR RATION BOOK No. 3. issued to
CONSTANCE A. Rounds, 63l0 Beechwood dr.,
Chevy Chase. Md 81 ~
Evening star., 1944-08-19
CONGRESS in Brief

By the Associated Press.
Senate:
In recess until Tuesday.
Military Affairs Committee meets
to consider surplus property disposal
bill.
House:
In recess until Monday.
Evening star., 1944-08-19

Extravagant spending of money at
home results in an extravagant
spending Of blood in battle. Buy
extra War Bonds today to keep our
casualties to = minimum. Let's all
back the attack,
Evening star., 1944-08-19
FOUND.

NAVY IDENTIFICATION PASS, found Fri.
belonging to MARY E. NEAL. Please cali
NE 5000
P0CKETBOOK. containing money, on Mt,
Pleasant car going north about noon Fri
Aug. 18th. Call Wardman Park. 512-A
END identify.
RESIDENTS OF Congress Hts. and viclnIty; ;
Bring abandoned animals to the Aban-
doned Animal Relief Headquarters, 5000
Wheeler rd; Sc, or INQUIRE for lost pets
Atlantic 7142.
Evening star., 1944-08-19

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A P. Whephot
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1944-04-15
]. Milton ArbuCkIe

Funeral services for j Milton
Arbuckle were held Monday af-
ternoon, April 3 at the Fourth
Methodist church, ShaWmut
ave, Boston.
The officiating clergymen
were Reys Charles Gopher, E E
Thompson and A L Lowry. Mu-
sic was rendered by the church
choir.
The previous Sunday after
noon Pythian rites were con-
Quoted at the Modern Funeral
Home, 81 Dartmouth st by
Pythian officials, Geo w Will
liamS, DR. w o Taylor and
others.
Mr. Arbuckle died Thursday
March 80 at Cambridge City
HoSital after several weeks
illness. Born in st Louis, Mo,
he came to Boston in early
manhood and was employed
for many years at Young's Ho-
tel and the Parker House. In
association with the late ]
Thomas Harrison he published
the Cambridge Advocate. He
gained prominence as a bass
singer, was a member of the
Boston Choral Union and fire.
quently appeared in local con-
certs. He was to sing in the
recent performance of the
Messiah" at Col AME Z:on
church.
The funeral was largely at
tended. Mrs Smith, the former
Mrs Richard White of CAM
bridge, sister of Mrs Arbuckle,
came from New York to the
SericeS. Other survivors are a
wife, Mrs Minnie Arbuckle,
sister-law, Mrs Lucy Williams.
Interment was in Cambridge
Cemetery. The funeral arrange
mentS we're in charge of Cora
Reid MacKerrow of Modern
Funeral Home, Boston.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1944-04-15
Stars and
Stripes

At Camp Lejeune, N. c., Geo.
C. wellington, Is Blackwood ST.,
Boston, has been promoted to
private first class. He is a mem
Der of the Montford Point
Marines.
Pvt. James E. Guilford, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. J. E. Guilford, lis
Harrishof St., Roxbury has been
awarded the Purple Heart. He
is well remembered in Boston
as proprietor of. the Dunbar
BARRIERS" shop on fremont st.
Pvt. Guilford has been overseas
since December and is now sta
toned in New Guinea.
Sgt. The ans Fra akfort, son o.
Mrs. Covingtoh of Windsor ST.
is stationed in India.
Cpl. Howard McIlvaine, son OF
John H. McIvlaine is on duty
somewhere in England.
Sgt. Philip Oliver was in Bos-
ton last week on a furlough to
visit his mother, Mrs. Lottie
Oliver and auntS Misses Mary F
and Elizabeth Brown OF Ham
mond st. Sgt. Oliver is stationed
at ogden, Utah.
Staff Sgt Domingo A Mon
teiro of OSterville recently COM
pleted a course in postwar
planning and reconstruction at
Cambridge University, Eng
land. Sgt Monteiro is the son