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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-31
NAILS REPORTED
MOVING UP GAS

NEW YORK, Aug. 80. = R -
Time correspondent John Scott
broadcast over the. Blue Network
from Stockholm today report
that Germans. were sending poison
gas cylinders to the English chan
mel coast g.
The correspondent said ap Allied
plane had strafed a heavily-guard~
ed train, enroute from Germany
through Holland to the coast, and
that poison gas had escaped from
cylinders it was carrying, killing
several of the guards and throw
ing a nearby Dutch town into PAN
ic.
Many trains, heavily guarded
such as this one, have passed
through Belgium and Holland re-
Gently towards the Channel coast "
Scott added.
Meanwhile, a British broadcast
monitored by NBC said Polish pa
triots in Warsaw have reported the
capture of "gas grenades" from
Germans fighting inside the Polish
capital.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-31
MOSCOW RADIO
HITS BULGARIA

LONDON, Thursday, Aug. 81
R-The Mascow radio sharply at
tackled the Bulgarian government S
proclaimed neutrality today and
asserted it was Sin order to enable
the Germans to hide in Bulgaria
from prosecution by the Allies"
The Notwithstanding a Tass
dispatch from the newly captured
Romanian port of Constanta, said
that according to verified reports
the other day % German armed
ships reached Ruse (Rushchuk), >"
Bulgarian port on the Danube and,
Sin violation of the neutrality pro-
claimed by Bulgaria, these ships
were not subject to a regime Of
interment.'
In addition, Moscow said, Ger
man ships including subarines find
Shelter in the Bulgarian Black Sea
ports of Varna and Burgas and,
with. the assistance of Bulgarian
authorities, the Germans already
have sunk several of these ships.
The attack came as Bulgarian
peace delegation reached Cairo to
negotiate an armistice with the
United States and Britain. The
country is not at war with Rus
STA.
According to reports reaching
here" the Tass dispatch said,
Germans turned over part of
their ships to Bulgarian authorities
in payment on German trade obi
cations.
's.All this indicates that the Bull
garian government proclaimed
neutrality is in order to enable
Germans to hide in Bulgaria from
prosecution bv the Allies
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-31
Philippine Gateway
Pounded With Bombs

GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
Southwest Pacific, Thursday, Aug
31-(P)-The fourth heavy raid III
less than two weeks on Halmahera.
gateway to the Philippines. was an
nounced today by headquarters
One hundred and thirteen tons
pounded the islands defenses and
supplies.
It was the sixth 100-plus explo-
sive air attack in that time on the
Moluccas chain of islands south
of Mindanao.
In the latest Halmahera smash,
Liherators and Mitchells caused
heavy and widespread damage
Tuesday at Wasi1e and Kaoe bays.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-31
Police Get Paunbrokers
To File Daily Reports

nesses were examined, result
ing in return of 80 true bills
and one no true bill.
The need Of special policing
of Castle and Dawson streets
from Sixth to Sixteenth
streets, was cited by the jur-
ors, and this recommendation
was made to law enforcement
officers. The phrase used was
bad existing conditions and
1awlessness in this section Of
the city"
1t also was recommended
that law enforcement officers
have taxicab drivers conform
more closely to the law. There
were several reports which
showed that many cabs were
being ''recklessly and careless
ly driven. The grand jury call
ed this a menace to public safe
ty.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-31

AAA~AAJ
Apparently the Krenllin was de-
ternined to reinforce the Red ar
my offensive in Romania with po-
litico-military decisions by Bulga.
ria and Turkey which would COM
pei immediate German evacuation
of the Balkan peninsula and make
central Europe the next battle
field.
Charging that Turkeys dip4o-
matte break with Germany has
been turned into friendly rup-
ture," Pravda declared that .Nazi-
and propaganda against
the Allies - especially against the
Soviet Union - had increased I'M
der Nazi influence: that German
diplomats still held receptions at
tended by Turkish officials and
that an estimated 1900 Germans.
including diplomatic, military, avi-
alton and commercial attaches,
still were in the country.
The article, carrying the dateline
of Batum nearest Russian Black
seaport to Turkey, asserted that
"+he unbecoming picture Of the
servile attitude of Turkish author
tiles to the Hitlerite diplomats can
not help but provoke surprise"
Gin Washington, Pravda's blast
was widely recognized in official
quarters as Russian determine.
ton to gain unlimited access to the
Mediterranean sea through the
Turkish-controlled Bosphorus and
Dardane11es.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-31

Moving to halt thieves from
eo'dlhlng money through loans
AoM paWnbrokers on stolen
SFHcles, the city police depart
nent now requires a daily re-
solt rom paWnbrokers on all
a1ucIes on which loans are
made,
IN, me new procedure was re-
c ceeleo yesterday when Police
S Satsl I. H. Casteen appeared
u pelofe the Grand Jury to show
MEMBERS the form used in
Implying with a recommends
w. lon On the daily reports made
~ me Jurors at the July term
VI criminal court.
~. a report of grand jury activi-
u.s. U.s. ouflhg the August criminal
,1Fm Of superior court to Judge
yS ullF L. Stevens yesterday
'''"ed that a total of 81 wit
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-31
SlQYqk Partisans
Fighting Germans
In Puppet State

LONDON, Aug. 30. -(R)- A
new menace to the whole rear
of the German defense struc-
ture in southeastern Europe
flared up in Slovakia today as
Czecho-Slovak armed forces Of
the interior joined Slovak par
tisans in fighting the Germans
) that puppet state next dool
to hapless Hungary.
The Czecho-Slovak govern
ment in exile in London re-
quested quick Allied aid for
the resistance forces as the
underground in the partitioned
homeland issued its first COM
munique announcing capture of
one town and fierce fighting in
four areas.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-31

A seventh case of infantile
paralysis was reported for New
Hanover county yesterday by
DR.. A. H. Elliot, city-county
health officer.
The officer said the victim,
Richard Briggs Register, a z
month-old baby had been kept
under observation for the past
several days at James Walker
Memorial hospital by the at
tending physician, DR.. J. B. Sid
bury, and that the disease was
only defined as polio yesterday.
In the meantime, Paul Doug
las Sharpe, small son of Mr..
and Mrs. P. L. Sharpe of War
saw, was carried to the infantile
hospital at Hickory yesterday.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-31
Seventh Paralysis Case
Reported In Wilmington

His condition was dignosed az
polio at James Walker Me-
mortal hospital, where he had
been brought earlier in the
week. 1t is reported to be only
a slight case.
Opening date of Edwards
Military Institute, Pineland coll
lege and associated schools at
Salemburg has been postponed
from September 5 until Mon
day, September 10, on account
of the Polio epidemic. according
to an announcement received
here yesterday.
Public schools in New Han
over and over the state will not
open until September 18, at
least,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-31
SOVIET ARMIES
I NEAR BUCHAREST
Capture OF Fuel Sources
From Germany Hailed
As Great Victory =.

LONDON, InurSQay, Aug.
81. - (P) - The Russians
cleared the Germans out of
all the rich Ploesti oil fields
and penetrated the Bucha-
rest metropolitan area yester-
day while linking up their
two armies in the Romanian
theater for a concentrated
blow in the direction of the
Hungarian plains.
Fall of Ploesti, long the greatest
single source of oil for the Ger
man armies, was hailed as the
most significant days victory OF
the 12-day campaign, which fore
ed Ronania a week ago to jump
from the Axis to the Allied camp.
In capturing more than 200 towns
in day around Ploesti and north
east of Bucharest, the nearest an
nounced Soviet approach to the
Romanian capital was II miles
at the village of Meriuta.
Speedy patrols, however, were
believed to be much nearer to the
capital, which the Romanians
have announced they themselves
already have retrieved from the
Germans. r., =. ~.
The lightning advance southwest
ward by Gen. Rodion Y. Malinov-
sky's Second ~. Ukrainian army
caught another. $1,000 Germans
Tuesday, Moscow announced, the
prisoners including a corps com
mander, Gen. He'll. divisional
commander, Lieut.. Gen. Weitzner,
and two colonies commanding divi-
sions. This brought the total OF
captured German generals to 81
since the general summer often
sive began June %.
The bag in Wednesdays race OF
more than As miles from Buzau
had not yet been counted, but the
German losses in the unsuccess-
full defense of Ploesti were declar-
ed by the Moscow conmunique to
be tremendous"
East of Malinovsky' newly-won
positions, the Third Ukrainian ar
my of Gen. Feodor I. Tolbukhin
captured 100 towns in the big poe
ket between, the Danube river
bends and the Black Sea and
shouldered up to the river next to
their comrades of the Second ar
my.
: The Russians claimed no towns
in the vicinity of the present Bull
garian border on their left flank,
but Moscow dispatches said it was
considered a certainty that they
had thrown out thanking guards and
established some sort Of frontier
contact with the southern Dobruja
territory that Bulgaria took from
Romania in 1910. Moscow will have
an important voice in deciding the
ultimate disposition. of that terri
tory.
Whether the next main Russian
thrust will be westward up the
Danube to Hungary or through the
Carpathians into Pennsylvania re-
manned Soviet secret.
Hungarian-held Pennsylvania ter
r;'arw ALREADY has been penetrat-
ed in two places by elements of
E-a1novsky's army. The Russians
remained silent about that front,
but German accounts indicated a
major push might be shaping up
there.
A drive up the Danube, however,
would present the possibility Of
forming a solid front with Marshal
Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-31
Allies Speed Toward Belgium;
Reds Get Ploesti Oil Fields;
Nazis Hacked In Rhone VALLEY
FLEEING ENEMY
ABAND0NS ARMS
Germans Attempt To Use
Bridges In Flight
To Fatherland

ROME, Aug. 3o.-P -
American forces hacked re-
lentlessly at fleeing surviv-
ors of the German 10Th army
along a 20-mile stretch of
the Rhone valley today, while
80 miles to the east a strong
Nazi armored force struck
into France from the italian
frontier in an effort to re-
lieve the pressure on Gen. Jo-
names Blaskowitz's shredded
army.
Yank motorized infantry attack
ed the Germans retreating from
southern France with particular
ferocity at Loriol, 10 miles north
of Montelimar, where the Nazis
were attempting to get across the
Drome river on hastily thrown
pontoon bridges and resume their
flight toward the fatherland.
One three-mile German column
estimated to have contained near
ly 300 vehicles, including numer-
Gus pieces of horsedrawn artillery,
virtually was wiped out. by Amer
lean artillery and planes in the
Nazi "graveyard'' between Mon
telimar and Valence, headquar-
tiers announced.
Advance American elements,
skirting the maelstrom of battle
at this point and driving to head
off another segment of the enc
ny's disorganized forces, had
reached the town of Chabeauil, 81
miles up the valley from Monteli-
mar and only six miles east and
slightly south of Valence.
The Sc miles from Valence on
to the city of Lyon promised only
more unremitting punishment for
the Nazis.- and even the vanguard
of the fleeing enemy appeared I'M
likely to escape the closing Allied
net except in very small, disor-
ganized groups.
The Germans were in such DIES.
perate straits that in the past two
days they had abandoned 800 load.
ed trucks and two batteries of
their famed dual-purpose 88-milli-
meter guns. For scores of miles
the Rhone valley was Uttered with
German equipment, tossed aside in
the mad rush to get away.
Presumably hoping to compel
1t. Gen. Alexander M. Patch to
divert part of his forces from the
slaughter along the
Rhone, the Nazis sent a striking
column across the Alps from
northwestern Italy to attack the
garrison at Briancon,
eight miles inside France and
about so miles southeast of Gren-
oble.
Although the Yanks were driv-
en- out of the medieval fortress
town, suffering some casualties
and loss of equipment, the setback
was considered of minor import
ance. Edward Kennedy, Assocaat-
ed Press field correspondent, re-
ported from the vicinity:
THE German attack was of To-
cal character and Briancon is Of
little value in itself. Americans
still hold all of the route Napoleon
followed up to the outskirts of Bri-
ancon and the Germans are far
from achieving an escape route
through France Xxx X"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-31
Romaniian Delegation
Arrives At Moscow

LONDON, Thursday. Aug. al
R-A Romanian government ar
mistice delegation has arrived in
Moscow to discuss peace terms
with Russia, the Moscow radio an
nounced today.
The broadcast, recorded by the
Soviet monitor. said the purpose
of the delegation was 1.-The car
rying on of conversations and tho
conclusion of an armlstice.'
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-31
iREIMS CAPTURED !
WITHOUT BATTLE
Armored Columns Within
36 Miles OF Belgium;
No Let-Up In Sight

OOI hENE IIGAbQ OAh~
TIERS ALLIED EXPEDI-
TIONARY FORCE, Thurs
lay, Aug. 31.-(P)-Ameri-
:an armored columns rolled
through the cathedral city Of
Reims and streaked on with
in Sc miles of the Belgian
border yesterday in an UNI
checked pursuit of Germans
falling back upon their home
land, while British forces, in
a 23-mile breakthrough, made
their first deep thrust toward
the Nazis' rocket bomb coast.
Both the American First and
Third armies were disclosed to be
taking part in the great drive
northeast of Paris across first
world war battlefields and through
the Germans old Hindenburg line.
The First army. under 1t. Gen.
Courtney H. Hodges, gained 20
miles in drive from captured
scissors northward to Laon, and
early today was believed to have
run through this town just SO miles
from Belgium. 1t also struck nine
miles to the east and reached
Montaigu.
The Third army under 1t. Gen.
George S. Patton, Jr., captured
Reims, great Nege city Of the first
world war, without firing a shot
and rolled on beyond. The city fell
after the Americans had outflank-
ed it and forced German with.
drawal during the night.
British armored columns after
moving relatively slowly for days
struck north from the Seine and
drove beyond the town of Beauvais
in a smash of % miles from Etre-
pagny, which carried to a point on
ly Is miles south of the big COM
munic atoms center of Amiens on
the Somme river. Beauvais is 40
miles north and slightly east OF
Paris.
The British also reached the
town of Gournay, 16 miles west OF
Beauvais, driving in strength di-
rectly for the heart OF the robot
bomb coast from which the Ger
mans have been attacking London
and southern England in "reprisaP'
warfare.
At the same time Canadian for
ces outflanked the important Seine
port of Rouen, a city of $4,000
which the Germans announced dur
ing the day they had evacuated.
The Canadians advanced five miles
northeast of the city, which lies
near the mouth of the Seine.
1t was disclosed today that it
was General Hodges First army
which had captured Chateau-Thier-
ry and scissors yesterday, driving
on today to Laon. These First army
troops took 1,466 prisoners in the
smash to raise their total since D.
day to 1851 it was announced.
The Third army as of Aug. % re-
ported 81, 900 Germans killed or
C captured since the start of the Brit
tany campaign.
The Third army, in addition to
taking Reims, drove on northWard
10 miles and established a new
bridgehead across the Aisne in the
vicinity of Neufchatel, where these
men, like those of the First army
were only SO miles from Belgium.
Here Patton's men were just 4S
miles southwest Of Sedan, historic
city through which the Nazis in-
vaded France in 1910. Hodges men
stood so miles from this invasion
gateway to the Reich.
Supreme headquarters early this
was without late news Of
he American forces east of Cha
ons, southeast of the Reims, area.
but the German radio put the
on approaches to Sgt.
Dizier, which is only SO miles from
he German border.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-31
DRIVE ON sOMME

LONDON, Aug. 30.-(P)-A field
dispatch from the headquarters of
Sir Miles C. Dempsey said tonight
that British forces driving forward
from the Seine were only eight
miles from the Somme river, and
going fast against slight enemy
resistance.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-31
NELSON IN MOSCOW

MOSCOW, Aug. 30.-LR,-Donald
M. Nelson and Maj. Gen. Patrick
J. Hurry arrived in Moscow today
enroute to Chungking for 4 brief
visit at the Chinese capital.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-31
Reds Accuse Turks
OF Aiding Germans

MOSCOW, Aug. 80 - P) = Soviet Russia having
crushed German power in the Black Sea- today called
Bulgaria and Turkey to assist in the Allied liberation of
southeastern Europe Pravda the semofficia newspa
per- accused Turkey of playing double game with Ger
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-31

WILMINGTON AND VICINITY: In
creasing cloudiness and continued mod
erately warm today
Temperatures yesterday:
High 85-Low II.
The sub., 1944-05-25

We are not sure as yet, but conversations indicate the possibil- ity of the lucky winner to enter an outside contest, which means, of course, more competition. Hoping
The sub., 1944-05-25
Patsy SantacrOce
 Weeds Irida Busca

At the Italian Dramatic club house on the afternoon of May IA, Miss Irida BuSca, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Joseph BuSca of 116 Howard Street, was married to Patsy Santacroce, son of Mrs. Frances Santacroce of 83 Wood bridge Street. Justice of Peace Thomas F. Dorsey, Jr., performed the ceremony.
 Miss Ella Busca, cousin of the bride, and Domenic DiAngelo, nephew of the bridegroom were the attendants. The bride, given in marriage by her father, wore a white satin princess style gown made with sweetheart neckline. Her fingertip veil was caught to a bow-knot crown. She carried a shower bouquet of white roses and baby breath.
 The maid of honor'S dress was aquamarine mouSselline de soie and she wore tiara to match. Her bouquet was of talisman roses. Immediately following the cere- mony a wedding dinner for 100 was served at the hall and at 4 o'clock there was reception for 300 guests.
 After a wedding trip to Boston, the couple will reside at 40 Cut Ter Street.
 Mrs. Santacroce is a graduate of the class of 1922 of Chapman Tech and is employed at the Bab- cock Printing Press Corporation. MT. Santacroce is employed as a Burner in the Main Yard.
The sub., 1944-05-25
Oscar Sahanen
 Weds N. l.. Girl

Miss Dorothy Ann Smith, daugh- ter of MT. and Mrs. William P. Smith of 376 Broad Street, was married to Oscar Edward Sahan- en, son of MT. and Mrs. Adolph Sa- hanen of Groton, Monday, May 8, at o'clock, In St. Mary's Star of the Sea Church. The Rev. William F. Odell, pastor, performed the double ring ceremony. The bride was given in marriage by her father and had Miss Catherine Chalifoux for her maid of honor. Robert Smith, brother of the bride, was best man.
 The bride wore a pink silk jer- sey afternoon dress and small hat of white tulle. Her corsage was of lavender orchids. Miss Chali- foux wore a powder blue after noon dress with white lace hat and a corsage of yellow roses and delphinium.
 A wedding breakfast was served at the Norwich Inn after which 8 reception was held at the home of the brides parents.
 Mrs.. Sahanen was graduated from Williams Memorial Institute and attended the New London Business College. MT. Sahanen is graduate of Robert E. Fitch High School in the class of 1o40 and is employed as a Shipfitter in the Main Yard.
The sub., 1944-05-25
Miss McDermOtt Becomes Bride of
 Frank Dembek

Miss Eleanor M. McDermott, daughter of MT. and Mrs. John J. McDermott of 368 Broad Street, was married May II at St. Mary's Star of the Sea Church, to Frank D. Dembek, son of Thomas Dem- bek of Crystal Avenue. The Rev. William F. Odell performed the single ring ceremony.
 The bride, who was given in marriage by her father, was at tended by her sister, Mrs. Andrew T. Mcclure, as matron of honor. Stephen Dembek was best man for his brother.
 Mrs. Dembek wore white silk jersey dress, and a shoulder length veil held by halo of flowers. She carried white roses with shower of lilies of the valley.
 Her matron of honor wore a blue silk jersey dress with a matching halo of flowers and a veil. She carried a bouquet of deep pink roses and blue delphiniuns.
 The wedding breakfast for the immediate family and friends was held at Howard Johnson's and g reception followed at the brides home. The bride was graduated from Williams Memorial Institute and New London Business College and has been employed in the Progress Department in the Mair Yard. MT. Dembek was graduated from Chapman Tech and is em- ployed as welder at the Wet Dock in the Main Yard.
 Following their wedding trip the couple will reside at Crescent Beach, Mantle.
The sub., 1944-05-25

to see many a new photo during the next few weeks!
The sub., 1944-05-25
Sub Staff Again Stick Out Weeks To Choose I944 Queen

The staff of the Sub again stick out their necks, when, with the next issue, June 8, our Queen of the month" contest for 1944 will start, in which will eventually be chosen the Electric Boat Queen for 1g44, or If readers prefer, Electric Boats Pin-up Girl"
 It has not as yet been definitely decided how the final queen will be selectKl, but, If at all possible, some arrangements will be made so that all employees will have a chance to decide on the winner.
 A "queen of the month" (possi- bly, two or three) will be chosen each month, with the contest clos ing in September.
 The staff asks the cooperation ot you, the reader, in this contest; it is your contest as well as ours, and we want as many girls as possible to be represented. So if your department has a girl or several girls who are eligible please contact any member of the staff.
The sub., 1944-05-25
Elizabeth Paradise Engaged to Wed

MT. and Mrs. E. J. Paradise an- nounce the engagement of their daughter Elizabeth, to Stephen Bielot, son of MT. and Mrs. J. Bic lot of Deep River.
 Miss Paradise is a graduate of WMI and has been employed in the tool crib in the Main Yard Machine shop for the past two years. MT. Bielot, Deep River High graduate, is employed as a machinist in the Main Machine Shop also. No date has been set for the wedding.