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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-26

fected 1888 persons and caused II
deaths since June /.
Former Gov. ]. C. B. Ehring-
haus, chairman of the committee,
said the additional funds would be
needed to carry out the board pro-
gram of care and treatment out
lined for use in the infected areas.
Ehringhaus said that $45, POE. SO
was contributed by SO Counties
during the first drive for funds
last month A $4,000 grant was
made by the National Foundation.
The Governor estimated that the
care and treatment program would
cost approximately $4,000 in the
infected areas alone next month,
even if the epidemic continues on
its present scale. More than $685.
600 will be needed in Catawba
county, where an emergency hos
pital has been set up to care for
more than 100 persons.
c. H. Crabtree, the foundations
state representative said the cur
rent drive for funds had the ap-
proval of Basil O'Connor, head of
the National Foundation. OConnor,
Crabtree said, had assured h e
North Carolina committee h a
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STIMS0N WARNS
AGAINST LET-UP

WASHINGTON, July ,25- Up -
Germany has been shaken and
'shot through with doublts' by the
three-sided Allied attacks in Eu-
rope, Secretary of War Stimson
said tonight, but there is no COL
lapse in sight and no excuse for
relaxing on the home front.
There is only one sure strategy
to finish this wan with finality and
speed" the secretary declared in
a radio report on his recent trip
to Italy and Normandy.
THAT is for us and our Allies
to gear every resource we have in
men and equipment in final, un-
renting assault on land, sea and
in the air. The determination to
do this is Enthusiastically present in
our men in uniform. 1t must also
be the guiding thought of every
one behind the lines
Stimson spoke over the Blue and
Mutual networks.
Stimson said many persons are
talking of quick victory through
collapse of the German army but
"such collapse is not yet appar-
ent to our men who are locked in
combat with a brutal, resourceful
and stubborn enemy
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In submitting her annual report
as hostess of the Woodrow Wilson
Hut, Mrs. Ethel S. Powers said
that it is impossible to give a
complete resume of all activities
because no record can be kept of
the little personal services render
ed such as writing letters to moth
ers, meading, buying gifts for rel
atives and the thousand and one
courtesies to the enlisted men OF
this area.
Otherwise, Mrs. Powers says,
the Hut program has consisted
largely of dances for Service men.
One hundred and one dances were
given from July l, 1913 to the same
Gate this year, at a cost of 3d.
I'll, .35.
Food and table decorations were
prepared by Mrs. Powers aid two
paid assistants. Volunteer assis-
tants serving in the evening were
Mrs. Irene Rich, Mrs. Louis Good
man, Mrs. Lucille Sternberger,
Mrs. Maud Davenport; with Mrs.
Henry Emory and Mrs. Charles
Block on hand when music was
NEEDED.
In addition to the dances there
were many other special events
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CAROLINA BEACH
FIXES TAX RATE

me Carolina Beach Board of al
A. s T,a tentatively agreed upon the
% o;I tax rate for the area at a spe-
s saa- meeting last night. This is the
io ZANE as the rate used for the prev
Llstings of the budget were also
a aa; by the board and under gen.
f fund, s4.Oo5 was set as the
n nSare for the year. The police de-
5Sa ant was granted $14, 1876; fire
apartment, $9,417.6O; sanitation
apartment, 500; streets and
Iva, 0a.,I,d~alks, $12,475; and public
cuttings $1,l1,12G. This makes a
TOTAL of S47e526o.
a. N addition water fund grant
- Sz8975o was agreed upon and
sever grant of 81, 100 which to-
'als S2l .e97. so.
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June Bank Clearings
Totaled $39,461,914;
Half Year Tops 1913

Banks of Wilmington have
cleared $39, 461, 914.65 for the
month of June, announced D.
M. Darden, secretary to the
Wilmington Clearing House AS
s0ciatiOn yesterday.
Clearances for June are less
than for May due to the fact
that there were five reporting
weeks in May and only four in
June, explained Mr.. Darden.
The clearance for May was
S44,O37.21.
eve are holding our own in
Wilmington said Mr.. Darden.
"a shrinkage was expected by
bank officials but we find in
stead that the figure for the
first six months of this year ex-
ceeds the figure for the first
six months of last year by APP
proximately $4,000, 000." The
clearance in 1943 was $3.50, 311,-
811.93 while in 1914 it is $780,
O47, O4O.8O.
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U. S. KEEPS CLEAR
OF POLISH RUKUS

WASHINGTON, July Is. - ~
The United States intends to pur-
sue strictly non-partisan course
in the Russo-Polish dispute over
the administration of liberated
areas of Poland, it was reported on
high authority tonight.
Officials here are hopeful that
a way will be found to avoid any
direct clash of interests between
Britain and the United States, on
one hand, and Russia on the other
over the Polish question, despite
the outburst of denunciationS which
has marked the organization of an
administrative authority for Po-
land under Russian sponsorship.
The latest shot in this verbal ex-
change was fired today at the State
by Ambassador Jan
Ciechanowski of the Polish govern
ment in exile at London. AS he
called in Secretary of State Hull,
Ciechanowski denounced the Soviet
approved Polish Committee of Ma
tional Liberation as typical pup
pet government imposed by Mos
cow"
The committee already has blast
ed CiechanoWski' government as
having no legal authority to ad-
minister Poland and then declar-
ed its intention to rule until such
time as the Polish people have
to express themselves
on a government.
Russia, which for months has
withheld any official statement on
relations with Poland. announced
that it would conclude an agree
ment with the committee covering
relations between the Red army
and civilian administrations OF Po-
lish territories from which Ger
man forces are driven.
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1st. Army-Nauy 'E'
Award In Area Goes
To Ethyl-Dow Plant

The first Army Navy "E''
rroduction Award in the Whining
49, area will be presented to en-
sJn Of the Kure Beach plant of
tbo Ethyl Dow Chemical COM
sn at 4 o'clock this afternoon.
The ceremony, which will be
anon to employees, their families
opd friends, and list of invited
anosts will be held at the plant
sndpr the direction of the Army
Air. Forces Material Command.
Major John W. ThurloW Raleigh
arpa representative of the AAF
Trs+eriel Command will make the
,nresentation address, and 1t. John
M wilson, USNR, first lieutenant
NJ +he naval transport now being
Commissioned will bring the Navy
citation and present token pins to
pmploye representatives.
The program will open with
MUSICAL selections by the 142nd
AATC Band from Camp Davis. un-
der the direction of Warrant OFF,
eel Ger 10y A. Ebersole. This will be
allowed BY the singing Of "Ameri-
ca, led by Emory N. Grubbs, Of
ETHYL Dow, with the band ac-
companying.
The invocation will be pronounc-
cd by Rev. Herman Duke, and
Robert Strange, master of cere-
monies, will introduce speakers
and guests. Mr.. Strange is a past
commander of Wilmington Post
No 1O5 American Legion.
G. E. Cantwell, manager of the
Kllre Beach plant, will accept the
award on behalf of the company,
and color guard from the Tenn
norars Harbor Defense of Will
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ALLIED ARMIES
NEAR FLORENCE

ROME, July 25-tR-B-itish in
fantry, gaining in smallbut bloody
battles through mountainous coun-
try, advanced to within less than
10 miles of the historic city of
Florence from the south, while
American troops fighting inland
along the Arno river were report
ed tonight only 10 miles west Of
the great are center and transpor-
tation hup.
The enveloping Allied drives on
the Metropolis. l40 miles north
west of Rome, were being press
ed in the face of bitter enemy re-
sistance. Nazi troops yielded each
successive position only after be-
ing blasted out, and there always
was a new stronghold into which
they could retire.
AS the Fifth and Eighth Armies
converged for final assault on
the city there was no indication
that Field Marshal Albert Kessel-
ring had any plan other than to
defend it desperately, rather than
to withdraw his forces into the
Gothic lne' on the northern side
of the Arno. which flows through
Florence.
On the American front, extend
ing from the Tyrrhenian sea
through the city of Pisa and on
inland along the twisting Arno
river to a point 10 miles from
Florence, the last German soldier
either had crossed the wide stream
and entered the Gothic" defenses
or had died in a futile attempt to
stem the advance.
Heavy fighing occurred east of
San Miniato and about 20 miles
from Florence, where the Nazis
yesterday twice counterattacked
against vanc e d American
groups. Both counterattacks were
repulsed with losses.
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err German reich and the occupied
countries the last ounce of strength
for the German army and the arms
industry and ne empowered them
to tissue instructions" to even the
highest Reich authorities, whoever
they may be.
Having apparently insured Nazi
control of the army by last weeks
ruthless Himmler-directed purge OF
rebellious Junkers, tonight's move
was directed at clinching control
Of the home front
Goering was appointed chairman
of the ministerial council for de-
Tense of the Reich and Goebbels
was named his executor as Reichs
commisar for total mobilization for
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-26
Smith, Caraway
Trailing In Vote
For IT, S. Senate
By The Associated Press

Senator Ellison D. Cotton Ed
Smith, 79-year-old dean of the
Senate, and Senator Hattie d. Ca
raway, the Senate's only woman
member, trailed opponents last
night (Tuesday) in their bid for
denomination in South Carolina
and Arkansas Democratic pri-
maries.
In South Carolina, Gov. Olin D..
Johnston set the pace, building
up majority over Smith, long a
bitter administration critic, and
three other candidates.
Reports from 932 of 1,540 pre-
cincts gave Johnston, an admins
tration supporter, 1882 votes
against 1882 for Smith, who is
seeking his seventh term. Far in
the rear were Attorney General
John M. Daniel with 5,549, DR..
Carl B. Epps, strong new deal a1-
Continued on Page Three; Col. s.
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EISENHOWER, IN NORMANDY, SPURS
s. 5 REA TEST THRUST SINCE D-DAY:
s. REDS ONLY z MILES FROM VISTA
RUSSIANS CATCH
NAZI OFF GUARD
typical Muscovite Tactics
Open Way To Warsaw;
Foe Encircled

LONDON, Wednesday, Ju-
ly 26.-(P)-The conquering
Red armies thrust within
seven miles of the Wisla
(Vistula) river yesterday,
Immediately threatening to
outflank Warsaw on the
south and confront the har-
ried Nazi command with a
smash due west across that
last big waterway guarding
the German fatherland $50
miles distant.
This sudden maneuver, catch
ing the enemy off balance and pos
ing the most terrifying prospect
for him, was but one of a series
Of victorious advances announced
by the Soviet midnight communi-
que for the seven great armies
now on the offensive.
On other sectors of the 80-mile-
long front the Russians reported
they had furthered their frontal
drive now between 40 and so miles
east of Warsaw, surrounded and
broke into the city of Lwow, Po-
lands third largest, fought into the
outskirs of virtually enci-cled
Bialystok, cut the last NaZi escape
railway between Riga and Daugav-
pills in Latvia, and threw deadly
nooses around Brest Litovsk and
Stanislawow.
Russian tanks and hard-riding
Cossack cavelrymen were trout
ing the Germans piecemeal," Mos
COW announced, with the enemy fail
ing in every attempt to dig in and
reform his shattered lines against
quick charging Red infantry.
The rumble Of big guns already
was audible to the enslaved resi-
dents Of Warsaw and to the Ger
man masters who, air reconnais-
sance indicated, were preparing
to flee.
But the great threat to Warsaw,
and to the original German Reich
beyond; was the drive to the brink
Of the Vista 66 miles southeast OF
the old Polish capital which sits
on the west bank.
The Russians were approaching
the big stream on a 50-mile front,
with the closest announced posi-
ton just past the village Of Ku-
row, seven miles east of the hfNl-
way bridge at Pulawy, which Mar
shall Konstantin K. Rokossovsky's
cavalry already could spy on the
horizon.
The staggering Germans. who
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1000 Workers
On Labor Front
Idle In Strikes
BY the Associated Press

AT least 1,OOO workers were idle
yesterday (Tuesday) in work stop
pages on the nations labor front,
and the War Labor Board called
upon two of the strikng groups to
resume work. Undersecretary of
War Patterson, IN a telegram, also
pleaded for termination of a walk
out in Michigan.
In a telegram to Oakley Mills,
local union president OF the CLIO
United Steel Workers at Chicago,
the WLB directed 400 striking en-
plJyes at the Western Foundry
company to resume production I'M
mediately. The Walkout, result OF
& dispute over change in wage
rates, is seriously interfering with
the production of critical mater
ais" the WLB said.
The WLB also directed an esti
mated 1000 to 5000 workers IL
The foundries Of the Wright Aero.
nautical plant at Ockland, Ohio
to resume work. Both union anc
company officials of the United
Automobile Workers said they hae
been locked out of the plant"
In Detroit, aircraft engine pro-
duction was cultailed by a walk.
out of 300 metal polishers in
wage dispute at the Packard Mo
TOR Car plant Officials of the
United Automobile Workers said q
meeting was being arranged with
company representatives, who said
the aircraft assembly line had been
SMUT down because of a shortage
of stock.
Seven hundred striking hotel en-
ployes of Detroit's hotel Statler.
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IyAPS IN U.s. JOBS
HAVE RADIO FILES

WASHINGTON, July 25.- R -
A house committee today seized
foreign broadcast files found in the
rooms of two Japanese employed
by the government.
The group, headed by Chairman
Lea ID. -Calif), and investigating
the Federal Communications Com
mission called an emergency hear
ing to question Fred Nitti, ma
live of Japan, and John Kitasaka,
american born Japanese.
Nitti is employed by the office
of strategc services in highly
canfidentiar' work, he testified.
Kitasaka edits scripts of radio
Tokyo broadcasts in the foreign
broadcast intelligence division Of
the FEC. Both were il a reloca-
ton camp after Pearl Harbor.
Committee Counsel J. J. Sirica
brought out that Ktasaka took to
h's rooms four copies Of foreign
boadcasts which were listed as
restricted and that Nitti had &C.
cess to them.
Kitasaka said he had the copies
ealy to study fhem," to help him
in his work. Nltti said they aided
lin also, in what he was doing
1or the highly secret OSS. Both
asserted they were loyal to t h e
limited States.
Counsel Charles R. Denny of the
TCC explained to Chairman Lea
that the term restricted" did not
mean confidential Denny said
that Kitasaka did nothing wrong
IN taking the flies home but he
Shouldn't have made them avail
able to anyone else.
Sirica questioned Kitasaka
Sharply about articles he has writ
ten for newspaper circulated
among japanese Americans, re-
1errlng to the Negro problem"
aid charged that he was "inciting
racial prejudice Kitasaka argued
that he was showing the Japanese
Americans that their lot is far
Ass (worse) than that of the Ne
gro as far as prejudice is con-
cerned"
Denny testified that the articles
we're censored by the War Reloca-
Ion Authority and "they must
rave thought they were all right. :"
Dome other papers, unidentified,
we're seized by committee investi-
saVors n the rooms occupied by
pe Two men and Lea said eve
rave to examine them and de-
lending on what we find, We'll
CF'ermlne the nature of future &C
ton"
Denny said he could vouch for
ihlaSaka's loyalty, that he h a d
zen thoroughly investigated be-
. .e being hired; and as to Nitti,
ne oSS 'is extremely careful
!" personnel matters.
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mington will raise the pennant.
1t. John Marshall Wilson will
represent the Navy at the Army
sponsored presentation of the Ar
my-Navy "E''. He is first heuten-
ant aboard a naval transport at
present and has been engaged in
convoy escort work aboard both
destroyers and destroyer escorts.
Major John w. Thurlow, of the
Air Corps, who will present the
Army-Navy Production Award, is
from New York City. He served in
World War I as first lieutenant
and upon entering the present con-
flict was commissioned a captain.
Max Register will make the &C.
ceptance address on behalf of the
employees, and token pins will be
presented to him, E. N. Grubbs,
J. D. Loughlin, H. w. Duke and
c. W. Lewis, representatives of
the employees.
The program will close with the
playing of the Star Spangled Ban
ner by the band.
Out of town guest expected to at
tend include Colonies Probst and
Dexter of the Southeastern Pro.
curement District, AAF Materiel
Command, Atlanta; 1t. Don c.
Borgelt, public relations officer of
the Atlanta office, and It. Naaman
D. Anderson public relations Off
Ger of the Raleigh area office.
I. F. Harlow of Midland, Mich.
general manager of the Ethyl :
Dow Chemical company, will be
present, as will ]. A. Hyland, as
sistant treasurer of the company,
and j. P. Dooher of the New York
office.
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and in effect placed Germany and
the occupied territories under an
arch-Nazi quadrumvirate.
In a move apparently extermin-
ating any conservative influence
which had remained in authority,
Hitler produced a blueprint for
crumbling Germany's death battle,
last fanatical struggle to be di-
rected by the "big FOUR of Nazi-
ism-Hitler, Goering, Goebbels and
Heinrich Himmler, the gestapo
chief appointed last week to be an
all-powerful communicating chief Of
the army at home.
Hitler issued a decree naming
Goering and Goebbels to extract
fro mthe peoples of 1.-The great
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-26
Body Of Drowned
Officer Recovered

The body of First 1t. Hugo Will
liam Spitzmuller who drowned
Yesterday at Carolina Beach was
found early this afternoon when it
washed ashore near the intake at
the Ethyl Dow Chemical Plant
at Kure Beach.
1t. Spitzmuller was bathing with
two other army officers when he
went down about $50 yards north
of the north boundry of Fort Fish
or
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-26
4 Horsemen, Hitler Goering Goebbels, Himmer
Ride Roughshod In Germany And Occupied Lands

war. The decree made Goering a
dictator over all private and pub
lie life in Germany and occupied
Europe, with Goebbels his execu-
tor to scrape the bottom of the
barrel for manpower and mate
rails for fiery armagedon.
Goering was charged with total
overhaul of state administration
and public services with the pur-
pose of freeing the maximum man
power for the German army and
the arms industry and of adapting
the entire public life in every pos
sible respect to the demands of to-
tai war"
Continued on Pare Three: Col. g.
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GREAT OFFENSIVE

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
LIED EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE, Wednesday, July 26.-1R
The Allied armies in Normandy
opened the greatest coordinated of
fensive of the western invasion
Tuesday as the Americans smash
cd west of St. Lo in their heaviest
assault since Caerbourg and Brit
isl Canadian forces on the east
d. owe south of Caen against some
of the strongest German resistance
of the entire campaign.
With their supreme commander,
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, on
the beachhead to confer with fled
commanders for seven hours as
the Zig push got under way, the
Allied armies struck to end rel
alive stalemate of several days
1t. Gen. Omar NJ Bradley's
American First Army launched its
drive at noon after very large
forces" of heavy, medium light
and fighter bombers had joined
in a concentrated aerial assault,
Headquarters announced in it's mid
night communicating. 100. Dis
patches from tae front said the
aerial assault was borne by more
tan 5000 American planes COM
pr'sing the mightiest aerial fleet
ever hurled at German battle
line
British and Canadian infantry
men and armor hit below Caen on
a four mile front before dawn,
Selling at least two towns in a
che mile advance through ter
1itic opposition employing nks
and 88 MN. guns.
Headquarters said that the ad-
vance was maintained during the
day despite the enemy resistance,
which produced heavy fighting"
By early evening, dispatches
from the Orne front reported, the
Germans were hurting tanks and
Continued OH Page Three; Col. 81
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Polio Committee Asks
$4,000 Fund Increase

RALEIGH. July 25- fR The I
North Carolina committee of the
National 1nfantile Paralysis Foun-
dation today called for an addi-
tional $4,000 for use in combat
ting the states current infantile /
paralysis epidemic which has in
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Woodrow Wilson Hut
Exceptionally Busy

at the Hut, which Mrs. Powers
lists thus:
Below are other special events
reld at the Hut during the year.
Two dances given by the staff
Continued on Page Two; Col. ~
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DOUBLE PR0NCED
DRIVE UNDERWAY
Montgomery And Bradley
Strike Under Biggest
Aerial Cover

AN ADVANCED CON-
MAND POST, SUPREME
HEADQUARTERS, ALLIED
EXPEDITIONARY FORCE,
July 25.-(P)-Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower made his
sixth trip to the Allied beach
head III Normandy today for
an eleventh-hour conference
with Gen. Sir Bernard L.
Montgomery and Gen. Omar
N. Bradley before the Brit
ish and American ground
forces merged in an all-out
attack-the sequel to anoth-
er terrific blasting of Ger
man positions from the air.
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STOCKHOLM, July 25.-P)-
Ten days before the attempt
was made to kill Adolf Hitler
Berlin was flooded with small
leaflets bearing the single line,
Lets make peace now. Smash
Hitler and his gang" source
with close connections inside
Germany told the Associated
Press today.
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LONDON, July IS. Up Adolf
Hitler tonight invested Marshal
Hermann Wilhelm Goering and
propaganda chief Paul Joseph
Goebbels with sweeping powers ov-
er German public and private life
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Continued on Page Three; Col. ~
Evening star., 1944-03-12
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