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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-14
LABOR SHORTAGE
STILL CRITICAL

Wilmington still is in the War
,Manpower Commission Group !
critical labor shortage area on the
basis of the WINGS August classifi.
cation of labor market areas, &C.
cording to word received here yes
terday from DR.. j. S. Dorton, state
VINO director.
DR.. Dorton said that 7,109 work.
ers were needed for essential in
dustry in North Carolina on the
basis of employer orders on hand
July 81.
For the first time, he said, or
ders for essential labor are being
classified according to the man.
power ratings of the firms placing
the orders.
Firms holding IA manpower pri-
critics, rating have placed orders
for 1920 workers, many of them
for saw mills and lumber plants.
include cotton textile plants produc-
ing highly critical items, shipbuild-
ing. munitions, machine and other
plants.
The U. S. Employment Service, a
division of the VINO, handled a
list of 14,949 orders for essential
workers during July. DR.. Dorton
said, adding that approximately
that number would be needed to
A:IJ o,,fh 90.
Meanwhile, q the VINO director
said that the / ugust classification
Of labor market areas on the basis
of available workers leaves all
North Carolina areas in the same
class; they occupied last month.
New. Bern md Wilmington areas
remain5in Group 4, areas with acute
labor shortages. that will endanger
essential, production. Ashevine,
Charlotte, Elizabeth City and Win
ston=SalemsG Greensboro areas are
classified Z as Group 2 areas in
which labor shortages exist that
may 1endanger essential production
Group 8 areas include Burling-
ton and Durham Raleigh in which
the labor supply substantially bal
anc..s the demand for essential pro-
duction or moderate labor sur
plus exists or is expected.
- Only one area is listed in group
44-Rocky Mount Wilson. This clas-
sification lists a substantial sur
plus, or one is expected to develop,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-14

fAASNos
Manufacturers probably will be
required to apply for an Individual
ceiling on each item they are per
mitted to make, price officials said,
with the ceilings to be determined
mainly by the costs of production.
Price Administrator Chester
Bowles is scheduled to disclose
OPA's policy at a news conference
later in the week, probably Thurs
day.
Since only a comparative hand
full of firms is expected to qualify
for civilian goods production in
the next few months because OF
strict .curbs on non-essential use
of manpower, OPA sources said
little attempt will be made to set
industry-wide ceilings or pricing
formulas. 80
In most cases the ceilings will be
set by OPA field offices rather than
by headquarters in Washington.
This will speed the process, OPA
sources said, and give field Off
Gals training for the flood of pric-
ing activity expected when large
scale reconversion begins.
Where a large part of an industry
is recovering simultaneously-as
in the case Of piano manufacturers,
the decision will be made in Wash
ington.
When Rehabilitation of industry
starts in earnest, officials said, an
"automatic'' pricing system is
likely. A formula will be provid-
ed under which firms will compute
their own prices, subject to review
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-14
MAZZS' LAST ROUTE TO PARIS CUT
AS AMERICANS CAPTURE ARGEN7AM:;
ALRlMEN SMASH REIREA7ING ENEMY
DIS0RDERED R0UT
BOMBED FROM AIR
Fortresses and Liberators
Pound Road functions
To Support Armies

LONDON, Monday, Aug.
14.-(P)-In the biggest aer-
ial day since D-Day Allied air
might inflicted terrible pun
ishment yesterday on Field
M ars al Guenther Won
Kluge's retreating Norman
dy army, blasting vehicles
and troops and churning the
crowded roads and bridges all
the way from the battlefront
to Paris and the Seine.
Every type of aircraft, including
more than 1880 American heavy
bombers concentrated on the enc
ray's retreat route between Falaise
ard Argentan in an area bordered
roughly by Liseux and Rouen to
the northeast, Laigle to the south,
and Eastward to Paris.
Flying Fortresses and Liberat-
ors bombed roads and road juno
tons on a large scale for the first
time, as did Raj Lancasters and
Halifaxes. The heavies attacked in
threes and bombardiers picked
their own targets.
Marauders and havocs of the
Ninth Air Force, Mitchells, Bos-
tons and Mosquitoes of the Second
Tactical Air Force, and fighter
bombers of the Eighth Air Force
joined in the mauling assault, at
lacking everything that moved
along the roads.
Returning crews told Of terrific
punishment melted out to German
armor and troops rushing eastward
to escape the Allied trap. Field re-
ports related that the enemy was
jamming the roads with as many
as 30 vehicles to the mile, with ev-
erything headed eastward. These
packed roads were targets for the
Allied airmen, who left behind mas
SEES of wreckage.
From dawn until midnight there
wasn't moment when some for
nation wasn't in the sky.
Marauders and Havoes late in the
day bombed rail bridges at Cerisy,
Peronne and Doul1ens and a fuel
transfer point at Corviel, with a
loss of two Marauders.
After dark Lancasters, keeping
up the incessant campaign against
the enfeebled submarine menace,
blasted oil storage depots at Bor-
deaux after having blasted subma-
rine pens at Brest with 6-ton bombs
in the second attack in two days.
Indicating Allied planes were
over Germany early today the Ber-
lin radio broadcast that nuisance,
raiders" were flying toward the
Brandenburg-Berlin area. r
The Eighth's fighter bombers had
a field day, destroying or damaging
2,1l0 railway cars, 221 locomotives,
217 military trucks and 70 other We
hicles in addition to plastering %
freight yards, IA bridges and three
tunnels. They lost eight planes.
Twelve heavy bombers were lost
during the day.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-14

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. -
P)-A super-gasoline powerful
enough to enable the giant B-29
and B-32 bombers to perform
at their maximum capabilities
in raiding Japan has been dew
eloped by American chemists
and will go into production
when the military gives the
command.
The Petroleum Industry War
Council said today about 80
per cent of the nations high.
octane gasoline capacity is
primed to switch over to the
new fuel with only minor chan
ges in facilities.
Chemical details were with
held, but. the council said the
super-gasoline has a vastly
improved octane rating over
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-14
WlNNABOW MAN
FOUND In RIVER

me body of Richard Ray Kye, %,
VI "lnnaboW, who drowned Fri
udy evening near Rhone's Island
Oe'Ween Cape Fear and Black
.'sefs, was recovered yesterday
al'ernoon at 5 o'clock by Coast
Guard patrol boats 1854 and 1852,
Oinelals of the Wilmington Coast
'qard station reported last night.
Ayes body, for which the patrol
llda been dragging since the ac-
rioeht, was found close to the
brunswick county side of Black
river, the Coast Guard authorities
said.
Witnesses who saw the accident,
s'a'e that Kye, who was employed
" 'he Mcmillan Lumber COM
pany' was approaching lumber
pafge IN small boat when his
craft capsized.
Funeral services will be held to-
udy at p. m. at New Hope ceme-
With the Rev. c.. A. Wilson Of
floating.
;, surviving are his father, Lee
Nye; two brothers. Lee Kye, Jr.,
ana Glenn f. Kye: and one sister,
Ndchel NJ. Kye: all of Winnabow.
active pallbearers will be Fin
ny Mcmillan, Jr., Billy Todd, A.
y henry, Jr., Jack Taylor, Edwin
taylor and John William Savage.
honorary pallbearers will include
r. = M Todd, R. L. RADON, J. M.
oaVage, Bruce Robinson, j. B. Pot
ref' A. P. Henry, Sr., F. Mcmillan,
~ K. johnson, John Sowell, DR..
n noy Daniels. DR.. D. McEachern,
N Reid, J. L. Henry, Lacy
DnsWklns, Robert Sullivan, Herbert
+otter and Gilbert Reid.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-14
DR.. Do,u Declares WPB
Should Remove Controls

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. -(P>)-
In an open letter to Production
Chief Donald M. Nelson, DR.. Will
lard H. Dow, president of the Dow
Chemical Company. asserted to-
night that it was "the plain duty
of the War Production Board to
remove at once all controls" from
the magnesium industry.
Continuance Of present WPB or
ders carries the threat of unem-
ployment and "the possible de-
struction Of vast potential indus
try," DR.. Dow said.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-14
Sanset Park Chicken !.
Produces Giant Egg

= A six and three-quarter ounce
egg,q mea surfing two inches in 81
ameter and three inches in length,
was brought to the Star-News Of
flee yesterday byE. NJ. Lee of Sum
set Park, one Of whose New Han1p-
shire hens produced the egg which
is about; three times the size Of: a
normal one. es 'sss $50
Lee, who has 800 chickens and
raises them d S = hobby, said two
lot his other hens laid eggs with
three yokes seaehssthe same @day.-s
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-14
Soviet Drive
Gains Power
BelowLorlza
FLANK MOVE PUSHED
Germans Hurled Across
B;ebrza River Lines
Close To Border

LONDON, Monday, Aug.
4,-(P)-Russian troops at
lacking with increased power r
Yesterday drove to within 16
miles of the Nazi stronghold
If Lon1za in their broad
flanking movement northeast
Of embattled Warsaw, and
hurled the Germans across
the Biebrza river, last big
water obstacle before the
German East Prussian border
Is miles beyond.
A special Moscow announcement
also disclosed that Gen. Andrea l.
veremenko's Second Baltic army
had killed or captured nearly TO-
NM Germans in a month, boosting
IN more than 609,5 the number
of enemy casualties suffered
since the big summer offensive be-
gan June %.
Yeremenko's troops, now. almost
halfway across Latvia in drive
toward the Baltic sea, yesterday
captured the rail and highway CEN
fer of Madona rs miles east of Ri
ga, Latvian capital. Other units are
within SIS miles of Riga on the
southeast in the concerted Russian
drive aimed at smashing Is weak
ened Nazi divisions of possibly 200,-
300 men trapped in Estonia and
Latvia.
North of Yeremenko's sector an
other powerful Soviet army, the
Third Baltic, captured the rail and
highway town of Voru. nearly SO
miles inside Estonia and IS miles
from the Gulf of Riga. Gen. Ivan
Maslennikov's men apparently in
tend to seal off Estonia as part of
the methodical chopping up of the
trapped enemy divisions.
The rail city OF Rouge, eight
miles southwest Of Voru, also was
captured. Its fall put the Russians
only 81 miles from Valga, junction
of the Tallinn-Riga and Pskov-Riga
railways. The lie running through
Valga is the backbone of Axis de-
lenses in the two Baltic states.
Driving northward along the
western shore of Lake Pskov the
Russians also seized Sakhodi, 10
miles northwest of Petseri.
On the front near the southeastern
corner of East Prussia Cen. G. F.
Zakharov's Second White Russian
army virtually had cleared the en-
envy from Is mile-section of the
east bank of the Bierbza river in a
drive toward East Prussia along
both sides of the Bialystok-Lyck
railway.
BY capturing Dowary and Conf
aoz, the Russians were only three
miles from the point where the
railway crosses the Biebrza. The
1all OF Glelczyn. farther south, put
one Soviet column II miles east of
Lonza, one of the main communica-
Ilon centers linking enemy defense
INES between Warsaw and East
Prussia. The seizure of Menzhenin
louno other Red army units only 16
miles southeast of Lomza.
A midnight Soviet bulletin said
sne Germans still were hurting in
large forces of counterattacking
reserves, and in one area the Of
'eil-"fecked Hermann Goering di-
VlSlo Most 500 killed
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-14
Two Navy Planes Crash
8 Miles From New Bern

NEW BERN, Aug. 10. - R -
Two Navy planes collided today
eight miles east of New Bern,
causing the death of the aviators
aboard and setting fires to the
woods where they crashed.
Details of the accident or the
number and names Of the victims
were not released by the authori-
ties pending notification of the
next of kin.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-14
ALLIED ARMIES
| MENACE FALASE
Every Type Vehicle Used
By Fleeing Germans;
Corridor Narrowed

SUPREME HEADNaO AN
TIERS ALLIED EXPEDI-
TIONARY FORCE, Aug. 49,.
R)-U.S. armored columns
in a scythe-like sweep north
ward behind the enemy line,
have stormed into Argentan,
cutting the last direct escape
highway towards Paris for
the bulk of the German Sew
enth army retreating in bomb
rent columns through an es-
cape hatch now narrowed to
Is miles. 81
One good road, leading northeast
from Falaise to Lisieux and in
directly to Paris, remained in Nazi
control, but was made hazardous
by Canadian artillery fire. (The
Brazzaville radio, heard by CHS,
said the Allies were only one and
one-quarter miles from Falaise.)
Lifting five days of secrecy, l.
preme Allied Headquarters dis
closed that the u. S. drive in
France beyond LIE Mans had
pounded SIS miles north to Argen-
tan, within some 10 miles of the
British and Canadians pinching in
from the north OF the Germans /
the 30-mile-deep "coffin corner"
of Normandy.
Frontlipe dispatches said the
German Seventh army was in full
retreat all the way to Paris through
the narrowing corridor. Thou
sands of Allied bombers and fight
ers ripped, with frightful toll, at
the congested columns of tanks,
trucks and troops falling back all
along the road to Paris.
There was no indication of how
many Of up to 20O,O0O Germans en-
gagged in that sector were getting
out.
The whole escape corridor was
within artillery range of the AM
orleans on the south and the Cam
adams and British to the north.
The Allied northern flank was clos
ing in on Falaise, key road hub
only Is miles above Argentan.
Coupled with these blows from
north and south to spring the Nor
mandy trap shut, the U. S. First
army at the western end of the
bulge opened a general offensive
at dawn Sunday, advancing some
miles on a front between Wire and
Mortain. The Germans fled before
them in every conceivable type OF
vehicle, a front dispatch said, and
these enemy columns too were be.
ing cut to pieces from the air.
The American armor forming the
southern jaw of the trap-carrying
a threat of Stalingrad proportions
to the Germans-had plunged more
than 100 miles through Nazi lines
since it slashed eastward from the
Breton peninsula. Then one col
umn hammered northward, from
LIE Mans, seized Alencon 80 miles
away, and punched another Is miles
to Argentan, Argentain perhaps al.
ready had been passed.
For five days, while this lie
Mans-to- Argentan drive covered SIS
miles, supreme headquarters had
.cloaked the operation in strictest
secrecy. There still was no ans
nouncement on whether other coll
umns had famed out east closer
toward Paris or in other directions
from LIE Mans. LIE Mans is ITO
miles southwest of Paris.
Even as the U. S. push was
smashing up from the south, Cam
adam and British troops pressed
deeper into the German corridor
from the North.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-14
ALLIED LEADERS MEET

LONDON, Aug. 13.-(P- Prime
Minister Churchill, Marshal Tito
and other Allied and Yugoslav per.
sonalities have met in Rome, the
United Nations radio at Algiers
said tonight.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-14
QUARANTINE LIFTED.

WHITEVILLE, Aug. 49,. Only
one case of polio under quarantine
now exists in Columbus county,
according to DR.. Floyd Johnson,
county health officer. Quarantine
on three previous cases has been
lifted, he said.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-14
Hatch Says COP
Controls Senate

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.-QF9-Substtution of a
Estates rights bill for legislation to set federal STAN
dards of postwar unemployment compensation attrb
uted by Senator Hatch D-NM) today Republican
trol' of the Senate.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-14
Civilian Goods Order
Awaited By Industry

WASHINGTON Aug. 31-(F-The War Production
Boards long awaited order permitting limited civilian
goods manufacture due to be issued tomorrow and effective
Tuesday, will be followed shortly by OPA ceiling
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-14
AWARDS PRESENTED

ROME, Aug. 13.-R)-Adm. H.
K. Hewitt today awarded the Lee
gion of Merit to two members OF
his staff and Bronze Stars to sew
en- others aboard his flagship in
a Mediterranean port.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-14

FORECAST
WILMINGTON AND VICINITY: Parity
cloudy and rather hot today, with pos
sble scattered afternoon thundershowers.
Temperatures yesterday:
High 87-LoW "a.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1944-12-21
Some Consumer Notes

Full employment of civilians in
the first quarter of 1914, according
to WPB's Office of Civilian Re-
quirements, result in 1881, 100000
being spent in that three months
period by women for street dresses,
$167, 100000 paid out by men for
suits, and $l0s,50O,0OO for men 5
shirts. Women bought 2s, 100000
house dresses while men invested
in a,5OO,0O0 suits, 24,500,O0O busi-
ness shirts, 20,50O,O0O work shirts
and 100000 flannel shirts. Those
house dresses averaged $1O.OS
each in price while the mems
suits cost an average of $37.57 a
piece. .Self-rationing of fly
screen has been requested of all
dealers by WPB. Razor blade
production in the current quarter
is estimated as adequate to meet
requirements in the opinion of the
Safety Razor and Razor Blade In
dustry Advisory Committee Of
WPB.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1944-12-21
Domestic Coal
Situation Not
To Improve
State COOrdinat0r OF Solid
Fuels Warns OF Relaxed
Efforts To Conserve

Consumers of domestic coal for
household heating were cautioned
this week by State Coordinator of
Solid Fuels w. Frank Roberts
against relaxing efforts to conserve
their winters quotas of solid fuels,
since the outlook of increased mine
production during the remainder
of the heating season is unim-
proved.
"Householders must continue
throughout the winter to take
every precaution to prevent waste
of fuel because of shortages due to
shrinking mine manpower," Co
ordinator Roberts said. Temper
atures should be kept down to a
safe minimum as a means of saw
ing coal. Moreover, every ton
saved will reduce the burden of
railroad transportation, labor, and
retail dealers delivery facilities.
When it can be done without en-
dangering the family's health, we
can well afford to put up with
some slight discomfort. There can
be no complaint about it, when it
is realized that the fighting men
overseas are spending their winter
in huts, bonbed-out dwellings and
foxholes, all of them colder than
the most poorly heating building
here at home."
The Coordinator said that, in
the normal range of domestic heat
ing, every additional degree of
heat requires three percent more
fuel. Thus, the difference in an
Montgomery County sentinel., 1944-12-21
About Men In Prison
THE RECENT REVOLT of pris

'dE KECENI REVOLT OF prlS-
oners in the Atlanta Federal
Prison, with publicity given to the
complaints of the men,, should
caubelpenal officials to- check their
treatment of, prisoners.
No one cam cohdone prison re-
volts but, just the same, individ-
uals do not lose all their rights
simply because of mistakes that
put them in prison. IS
One of the complaints of the
Atlanta prisoners was that they
could not get a hearing about
grievances. Considering the fact
that individuals imprisoned are in
an isolated world, it seems to be
only just that they have some way
Of registering complaints about the
treatment they receive.
While most prison officials dis
play commendable concern for the
welfare of their charges, there are
enough incidents to justify the
idea that the statement does not
apply to every penal institution.
Every once in a while, the lid
blows off and the public is aroused
by abuses within prison walls. 1t
would be much better to provide
a method by which prisoners can
be assured of a review of their
complaints.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1944-12-21
Japan To Execute
Airmen?

JAPANESE Government
IS formally notified the United
3 and Great Britain that it
|'shold responsible captured
.n who are CLEARLY found to
deliberately broken estab-
practices Of warfare
Il is diplomatic language to
|hte that Japan does not APP
the bombing Of Japanese
and that American airmen,
bed after such raids, will
.bly be executed because Of
'eath Of civilians.
Nill be remembered that some
n fliers were executed after
rst aerial attack on Tokyo in
l942. With Tokyo and in
Japan suffering more Sc
Manage than ever, under the
natie bombing Of Superfort-
it seems probable that the
ese win carry out their
and execute American avia-
Fhen captured.
IDS proves to be the policy
Montgomery County sentinel., 1944-12-21

Of the Japanese Government, it
will not be adequately met by
warning the Japanese leaders that
this country will hold them re-
sponsible for such executions. Once
it is definitely determined that our
fiiers are being executed in Japan,
it will be proper for this country
to consider reprisals, but, in doing
SO, we must bear in mind the thou
sands Of Americans now held cap
tive by Japan.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1944-12-21

Confidence in yourself is a ne
eessary step on the road to sue
cess. ,---- ~~~~
Montgomery County sentinel., 1944-12-21
WASHINGTON
FARM REPORTER

Delegates to the 26th annual
convention of the American Farm
Bureau Federation were greeted
here last week by the worst bliz-
zard that mas hit in Chicago in
five years. While lost souls search
ed miserably for taxi cabs and
clung to the sides of buildings ir
the gnashing gale that swept in
from Lake Michigan, the interior
of the Sherman Hotel babled with
convention activity.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
SPEAK
One of the "speakingest' men at
the convention was popular Roger
Corbett, AFBF Secretary Treas
urer, formerly of College Park,
now living in Chicago. He address
ed boards of directors, the general
Montgomery County sentinel., 1944-12-21
Christmas In Holland

FOR THE FIRST time in four
years, the children of The
Netherlands celebrated the arrival
of st. Nicholas in mass gatherings
on December 5th, the day that the
saint Of childhood regularly ar
rives in Holland.
During German occupation, chill
dren were compelled to celebrate
their festive day in their homes but
this year, teachers led their
charges to parties where British
soldiers delivered army rations,
toys and everything else they could
scrape up to assist the saint in the
performance Of his traditional
function.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1944-12-21

Mobilization Director Byrnes
stated in a recent report on
government plans for reconversion
that, although administration of
ficials propose to relax economic
controls when the European war
ends, they do not expect to relin-
quish the basic authority under
which the controls have been ex-
ercised.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1944-12-21

delegates, the women's meeting
and tossed in his annual report to
boot. High point of this was an
nouncement that the Bureau now
had 828,486 members in its drive
towards one million
MONTGOMERY DELEGATES
Attending from this county were
Mr.. and Mrs. James D. King, w.
w. Hodges and Allie Messer. They
report the convention as showing a
very optimistic trend for agricul-
ture.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1944-12-21

What would you like for Christ
mas? Could anything be better than
to find for your heart and mind that
spiritual safety, certainty, and joy
which transforms life? Well, that is
exactly what Jesus came to bring
mankind. 1t was the first Christmas
gift, and it is the best gift this year
fo0