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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-16
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APRIL Is, 1919

Louis L. Poisson goes ton.,1 !,
Raleigh in the interest of the ~ W. %
tory Loan committee wor'- vie,
which he is local chsirr.n q
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-16
Our Chief Aim
THOUGHT FOR TODAY

To aid in every way the prosecution
the war to complete Victory
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-16

~ HEN ship of war or a
cargo vessel can carry its own tug
with it, hoist it over the side, to help
work the ship into its own docking
position - that's a mule kick that's
all to the good.
Or when a barge loaded with a war
cargo can be smartly Unanswered in
difficult channel, or be pushed up
the streams and rivers of an invaded
shore - that's another mule kick
that firmly writes itself into history.
1o"' in 1oIo' sowss tvery 1hu.ssy. cos. snM.Lw.r
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-05

favorc price control, it is likely
that several of these proposed
Observation-Disclosures which regu-
late OPA procedure without in
reference with the basic law
will be enacted, either in the
price control extension law or as
separate bills. TheJune 30 deadline
for continuing OPA may prevent
some from becoming amendments
to the continuation measure.
The report of the special agri-
culture sub committee appointed
to investigate the farm security
administration, in which Rep. Har-
old D. Cooley of Nashville, chair
man, has proposed that the FSA
community farm" program be
killed and the agency's rural re.
Mobilization loan plan be trane.
ferred to the farmers homa cor
poration, is the order of business
for the full agriculture commit.
tee. The Cooley proposal although
opposed in it's present form by
Edward A. O'Neil, president Of
the American Farm bureau, is
apparently favored by most mem
berg of the agriculture committee,
as we'll as by majority of the
house.
Had it not been for the work Of
the Cooley committee, it is likely
that the bill to continue the FSA
for one year would have passed
the house Thursday under a con.
sent agreement. Frank Hancock
another North Carolinian, is head
of FSA.
In event the cenate completes
the OPA extension legislation, il
is likely that lend-lease continu
alton, tackled by the house last
week, will be called for consid
GRAFTON.
Under a contention that D-day
should find congress on the Job
Republicans opposed to a recee.
from about June 20 to labor day
have aroused some opposition tt
the administration move for thu
summer rest.
One proposal by majority chief
talns advanced as a compromise
would provide for a recees reso
luton that would enable hous
and senate leaders of either par
ty to call congress back at an.
time.
Regardless of whether forma
recess resolution is adopted, how
eve o,rn Wasiotohnng ETAOIfu
ever, no Warrington observe
doubts that there will be an actus
recess, for in event the oppos
ton succeeds in blocking such
resolution, the "three-day" pla
would be the alternative. Unde
this plan, each house may NEE
every three days with an agree
ment prevailing that would provid
Tor an actual recesc on major lei
islation.
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You Can Take 1t, Darling,
General Clark Wrote His
Mother, Tired Of Waiting

WASHINGTON, June f. Up -
Mrs. Charles Clark, "all frazzled
OUT in her own words by the wait
for her son to capture Rome, can
start recovering now.
The mother of Lieut.. Gen. Mark
W. Clark, Fifth Army commander,
recently wrote to Dear Wayne:
please take Rome soon. l can't
stand the wait much longer, I'm
all frazzled out.
The general replied:
you'll stand it all right, dar-
ling. You've been in three wars
. and you can take it,
Mrs. Clark was the bride of a
lieutenant in the Spanish-American
war and both her husband and her
son served in the First World War.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-05
MYITKYINA GAINS
MADE BY ALLIES
SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND
HEADQUARTERS, HANDY, Cey-

SOUl1EAO1 Ao1h NoN1WfIN
HEADQUARTERS, HANDY, Cey-
lon, June 4-P-American troops
are battering at the northern out
rkirts of the besieged north Bur-
ma Japanese stronghold Of Myit-
kyina, and from the south near the
city's railway station, Chinese and
Americans slugged steadily for
ward, an Allied communiqus an
nounced today.
For the first time it is permissi-
BILE to reveal the presence in this
treater of airborne bazookas,
which are proving effective against
Japanese ground and waterborne
targets along blasted lines Of com.
munication on which the enemy is
trying to effect a rescue of his en-
trapped north Burma units.
Fighters mounted with flying
rocket batteries as well as bomb.
ers are taking over the major role
in stopping the Japanese northern
movement toward Allied Mogaung
valley and Myitkyina forces,
smashing at trains and other sub
stantial targets along the Manda
lay-Myitkyina railway, which has
been blown up by ground forces
southwest of Mogaung.
Large quantities of supplies anc
ammunition were captured in thu
American attack on the northern
rim Of the base, the communique
said.
Hand-to-hand fighting ragged nea,
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RUSSIAN PAPER
FORECASTS UNITY

MOSCOW, June 4.-tP,-Quich
victory over Germany and close
economic contact between the So
Wet Union and other countries
were prescribed by WAR and the
Working Glass;" trade union
journal today as essential to avoid
a postwar crisis.
Declaring that except in the So
Wet Union unemployment was a
serious general problem after the
last war, the journal said that af-
ter this war again "the problem
of work for millions of people
will become very acute
Reviewing economic plans of the
United States and England, in
Guiding the Baruch committee
proposals, the magazine said 1.-The
most vulnerable point of these
projects is that they cannot solve
the most important problem of
conflict between the development
OF productive power and the linn
ltatlon of the market. They at
tempt to delay the moment when
this conflict will bring a crisis"
Another article, reviewing Al.
lied plans for administration of
liberated territories, said the Al
lied military government, which
the magazine previously had criti.
clzed severely, proved of some
value and ''its experience will per-
init use of all that was good and
avoidance of all that was bad in
this SYSTEM
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-05
CATHOLIC SISTERS
ACQUIRE HOSPITAL

NEW BERN, June 4. - st
Iuke's hospital, which has beer
serving this community since 1915
was sold Friday by DR.. R. D. v
Jones and DR.. J. F. Patterson te
the Sisters of the st. Joseph OF
Newark, Catholic order OF
New Jersey, who will take over the
oneration of the institution next
week along with the newly-complet-
ed annex and nurses home built
under a Federal grant OF S2lo,ooo.
The purchase price for the old
hospital was 100000. of which half
was paid by the Catholic Sisters
and the other half by the Duke
Endowment. of which DR.. W. 5.
Rankin is director of the hosltal
section. Signing of the deeds here
FRIDAY eliminated a long perloo
of negotiations and plans.
The original four-story brick hos
initial had IS beds when erected
% wears ago and at that time was
considered one of the most up-to-
date institutions of the kind IN the
South. Later improvements costing
$4,000 increased its capacity to
% beds.
After long serving the CO.
munity as physician and SUR
geon, DR.. Jones retired from &C
five practice several years ago be-
cause of i'll health and during the
past wear Dr.. Patterson has found
it necessary. on account OF MS
health, to limit his practice.
Constructed during the past year
under government grant to
serve more adequately the IN
creasing needs of this war zone.
The new annex contains 81 oeds
and will more than double the pre-
sent capacity of the hospital. The
adjoining nurses home contains ~
beds. They were built by E. F.
Taylor. Goldsboro contractor. with
E. C. Etheridge, now of New Bern,
as foreman for the projects.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-05
KURILESB0MBED
5 DAYS IN ROW

Continued from Page One)
ed at by-passed Marshall islands
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Naaru, phosphate island southeast
of the Carolines was raided Fri
day.
In all attacks, Ninitz said, jap
anese anti-aircraft fire ranged
from moderate to none at all.
The text of the Navy release:
"Shimushi and paramushiru Is
lands in the Kuriles were bombed
by Ventura search planes of fleet
air wing four before dawn on 2
June (west longitude - U. S. -
date). Two large fires were started
on Shimushu. Anti-aircra1t fire
was moderate. Matsuwa island was
bombed by Liberators OF the 18th
AAF before dawn on June. No
opposition was encountered. All of
our planes returned.
''Truk atoll was bombed by sew
enth AAF Liberators before dawn
on June. Forty-one tons of bombs
were dropped on storage areas
and on runWays. Several fires and
explosions were observed. Anti
aircraft fire was meagre. Two en-
envy fighters attempted to attack
our force but did no damage.
"Nauru island was bombed by
seventh AAF Mitchell bombers and
search Ventures Of fleet air wing
two on 2 June. Anti-aircraft bat
teries were hit and fires started.
Anti-aircraft fire was moderate.
"Ponape island was bombed by
seventh AAF Mitchels on l June.
An airfield, hangers, and adjacent
buildings were hit. No anti-aircraft
fire was encountered.
Remaining detectives in the
Marshalls were attacked by Ven
tura search planes of fleet air
wing two, Dauntless dive bombers
and corsair fighters of the fourth
Marine aircraft wing, and navy
Hellcat fighters on 81 May and on
l and 2 June. In these raids anti
aircraft batteries, coastal defense
guns, runWays, and barracks were
strafed and bombed. Anti-aircraft
fire was generally meagre."
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Ward Case In Spotlight
To Speed Adjournment
CONTINUED from Page One)

for the two. Rep. Dewey Short.
Republican, Missouri, is author OF
a resolution to be debated Mon
Gay that would make mandatory
ouch trials within II months.
Republican Clark plans to take
the floor to point out that Army
and Navy chieftains are opposed
to such action during the war and
10 charge the move is "Repub-
lican attemp to discredit the ad-
ministrations by discrediting the
conduct of the war"
With the present price control
law expiring June 30, both the SEN
ate and the house have slated
for consideration during the week
measures to continue price con-
troll. Banking and currency COM
mittees of both houses have been
flooded with proposed amendments
designed for more rigid regula-
ton of the acts of the office OF
price administration.
While a majority of Congress
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u. S. BOMBERS BLAST
z FOE AREAS IN DAY
Continued from Page One)

and said it was opposed "furiously"
by ti-aircraft.
Indicating another attack by AL
lied Mediterranean air forces in
the Balkans, the Budapest radio
began transmitting air raid warn
ings.
(The United Nations radio at AL
giers also said Allied planes had
raided Nazi airfield at lara, on
Yugoslavia' S Adriatic coast. and
had pounded German communica
ton lines between SIM and Knin,
as well as targets on the Mostar-
Saraievo railway line.)
1t was the third day in a row
that the four engined bombers had
aimed two blows within a single
day at the belt of Notifications
which Hitler has thrown up against
the coming assault from the west
The targets of the Fortresses and
Liberators-Which with their escort
flew out perhaps 1000 strong-lay
only 26 miles from the English
coast.
Skies over the strait were over.
cast as the daylight formations
Numbered out to follow up RoyaI
Air Force bombers who by night
attacked the big chemical center
Of LudWigshafen in Germany. OBJ
jectives along the French coast
and scattered mines in enemy wa
tiers without the loss of an aircraft.
Military detectives along the
coast of France also were bombed
by Ninth Air Force Marauders and
Havocs under a screen of Mus
tangs and Thunderbolts, one group
hitting a highway bridge al Cour.
celles-Suruein, 40 miles northwest
of Paris.
Squadrons of Thunderbolt fighter.
bombers kept the attack rolling
with sortes against bridges, rail-
road tracks and military rolling
stock in the Disc river valley run.
| nlng lIolH LecaIeau SOuthWeStWarC
to Montmorency, northwest of Pa.
ris.
The first attack on the Boulogne
area by American heavies-a type
of operation in which the bomb
bays open almost before the Brit
ish coast is left behind-was ex-
exuted in the morning under the
protection of Eighth Air Force
Thunderbolts and Mustangs.
A similar force under Minis.
tang escort paid a return visit
later in the day.
Both forces, bombing through the
clouds, met no interference from
enemy fighters and were undis.
turbed by the small amount Of
flax thrown up.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-05
EfthArn1yFights Way
Against Block By Block
Resistance To Take Rome

m the via Casilina, other dough-
bovs seized caves on a road paral-
Icing that highway. This closed
'sback door" for the Germans, ana
won a hillside reported as site
Of great ammunition and gasoline
dumps.
The Germans still were suffer-
ing huge losses of men and equip
ment. and for the second day L.
00g prisoners were taken. Both
armies together have taken more
than 10000.
Front dispatches described a
trail of German dead, wrecked
tanks, guns. trucks, along the Via
Casilina, billowing clouds OF dust,
and thorough Nazi pillage by seiz-
ing or destroying foodstuffs, live
stock, and small personal posses
sions of the populace, apparently
with intent of giving the Allies the
severest possible relief problem.
The swift punches on the last
lap to Rome left behind some en-
envy pockets that had to be mop
ped up.
The Allied message to Romans,
besides enlisting citizens help in
speeding pursuit of Germans be-
yond Rome, told them to do call in
your power to prevent the destruc-
ton of your city" 1t asked them
to precent the Germans from blow
ing up important buildings and
bridges, to guard all utilities, to
hide foodstuffs, to note locations
of BOBBY traps an dmines, and to
remove all barbados and obstruc-
lions from the streets.
Southeast of the Rome front,
lTrenchmen captured Colleferro
three miles east of Valmontone,
and the Fifth and Eighth armies
formed a junction along the Via
Casilina southeast of Valmontone
French troops also sWarmed
through Sgurgola, on a road lead
ing north to the Via Casllina, push
ed through Segniz and took Cole
PiSo.
New Zealanders advancing north
and west of Frossinone seized Ala
tri on the Via Macerosa, and Ca
nadians made contact with the
right wing of British forces.
Pummeling enemy withdrawals
bomber creWmen today reported
large fires near Lido Di Roma.
Behind doubled swiss guard
sealing off Vatican City, Pope Pi-
us II held urgent consultations
Sunday with the papal secretary
of state, Luigi Cardinal Maglione,
and prayed in his private chapel,
the London Daily Mails Madrid
correspondent reported.
(T'he Holy Father received fire.
quent reports on the situation in
Rome, it was stated. No one was
allowed to leave or enter the Vat
lean without a special pass. The
pope has been a virtual prisoner
in the Vatican since the Germans
seized control of Rome last July.
He declared in speech last Fri
day that whoever would dare lift
a hand against Rome would be
guilty Of matricide.'
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CONTINUED from Page One)

started early this morning with
several Fifth Army spearheads
pushing westward from the neigh
borhood of fallen Valmontone, 2(
miles from the capital. Then the
Allies ran into bitter opposition
fighting it out inch by inch at frs
through the suburbs. But the pres
sure apparently began to tell or
the Germans.
Headquarters earlier, before the
Rome announcement, had reported
the Germans resisting between the
Alban hills, where new heights were
seized, and the Tiber flowing into
the sea 16 miles from Rome.
Battlefront dispatches from AS
sociated Press Correspondents Ed
ward Kennedy and Daniel De Luce
both with American units, salo
fighting ranged throughout the
morning in Romes suburbs.
While the Fifth fought the enc
my at Rome, the British Eighth
Army to the southeast continued
its advance after its junction with
other American and French troops
below Valmontone.
With Rome's capture so imnl
nent. the Allied command called
on Romans to save the historic
metropolis from destruction and te
keep highways open so the Allies
could push on through without de-
lay in order to continue the de-
struction of the German armies
farther north
This followed headquarters S
pledge to take every precaution tt
spare the city, coupled with the
warning that the enemy would be
thrown out by force if he made {
stand in the city.
Besides Selling new strongholds
in the Alban hills the Fifth Army
also advanced north of Via Casili-
ma toward highway 5, strategic lat,
eral road running eastward from
Rome to the Adriatic coast.
On their way to the capital
gates, Allied troops in the Albar
hills swept through the town Of
Nemi near Lake Nemi. swarmed
over the high peaks of Mt. Cerasc
and Mt. Colletano, and pushed or
toward the town Of Rocca Di Pa
pa. IL miles southeast of Rome.
Allied planes continued the hail
of bombs and cannon and machine
gun fire in support, and in an at
tempt to trap the fleeing Germans,
Wellingtons and Liberators bomb
ed bridge over the Tiber at a key
spot on one of the few good roads
for enemy retreat northwestward.
The bridge connects the main road
running parallel with the Tiber
from Rome to the sea- Hits were
scored at or near road functions
at both ends of the Span.
Headquarters said there still was
bristling German resistance in the
Alban hills. One German battalion
lost 100 men killed and 10 captur-
ed in one fierce engagement.
Pounding north of Valmontone
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-05
Social Science Course
At State University

CHAPEL HILL, June d (A -
North Carolina social science teach
ers will hold a three-week insti-
tute here June 1890 in connection
with the University of North Caro-
lima summer session.
The program will consist of study
of recent trends in the social
sciences and their effect upon these
studies in the schools
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-05
ALLIES CONFRONT
2 BIG PROBLEMS
Continued from Page One)

(OOHCIHucu lIOHu L age OuC)
of Rome would mark new period
in Italian political affairs, the
southern section of the country
being additionally apathetic to-
ward politics, whereas the area
from Rome north has always been
politically active.
The Germans were reported sew
eral days ago to have stripped the
city of most of its food and medi
cal supplies. The Allies are es.
pecially sensitive about the supply
Job in Rome because the eyes O
all occupied Europe will be watch
ing what happens there as an in
dication of what may hatpsp else
where on the continent as the lib
Grating Allied armies drive for
ward.
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KISSES, TEARS AND
FLOWERS MARK u.
S. MARCH ON ROME
Continued from Page One)

Tanks led by 1t Col. Bogar-
dus Cairns of Decatur, Ca, and
infantry units including those
commanded by II. Col. Frank
Izenhour of Los Angeles and 1t.
Col. Joseph Crawford of Hum
boldt, Kan.., were in the fore
front of the spectacular drive from
the area of fallen Valmontone.
Straight up the Via Casilina they
came, bowling over opposition put
up by Mobile 88-millimeter arm
ored self-propelled guns. 1 found
that keeping up with the scout
cars Of Capt. Roy Manley of In
ternational Falls, Mimi, was a
fantastic job. Half of Saturday af-
ternoon 1 spent jumping into var
ious bitches while snipers' bull
lets and mortar shells came far
too close.
1t has been an armored war all
the way. with some of our tanks
left behind as burning, tragic
milestones on the victory road.
Maj. Harold Blodgett of Den
ton, Tex, sitting in the tank
"Tactlecs Texan below the
smoking hilltop town of Colonna,
apologized yesterday because,
we've only made 5000 yards in
five hours; we keep humping in
to those damned self-propelled
guns
slept last night at Borgata
Finocchio near a smashed Ger
man horce-draWn baggage train.
Two bombings and one strafing by
German planes tumbled me off the
wooden bench that was my bed.
The bodies of three Germans lay
beside the road outside my win
dow.
Il hope I can visit st. Peter s
Sunday" remarked infantry
Chaplain 1t. John T. Beyenka of
3248 Warner Ave, Chicago.
With the first light today a col
umn of Sherman tanks command
ed by Capt. John Beagle of Rock
ford, H., and 1t. William E. Ken
mel Of KirkWood, Mo-, started on
the last lap into Rome Perched
on the tanks were infantry led by
Captains Gus Heilman of Char
lottesville, Va, and Jack Jennings
Of Toronto, Ont
Mine and two other press jeeps
inadvertently got ahead Of the
procession and at lonely high
way intersection we suddenly saw
German armored car approach
ing. 1t stopped within a hundred
yards of us before we could turn
to flee. Four Germans Jumped
from the car and took cover in
field, leaving their machine gun
behind.
Coming back up the road again
teh1nd two American tanks l saw
German Volkswagen swing into
the highway. Its two startled &C.
cupants surrendered. They we're
followed by a three-ton German
truck from which eight German
riflemen dismountad.
yelled, ''Haende Hoch!"
Glands up), and they obeyed,
staring at our tanks as if stupe.
fled.
Then we ran into the German
roadblock, and the advance stop.
ped as quickly as it had began
The first German shell killed the
driver and assistant driver of the
lead tank. Corp. Roe Rapp of Re
nick, w. Va, infantryman who wa!
riding on the exposed after deck
OF the tank, was not touched.
Our artillery came up and ha.
been punching back at the enemy
but the persistent German snip
ers still make it necessary that
sit behind a roadside embank
ment to type this dispatch. 1 an
about block from blue ant
white city limits sign that read
| Roma"
V-
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-05
Catawba Filler Wins
Oak Leaf Clusters

SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUI-
NEA -Delayed) Up 1t. Gen
George C. Kenney, commander
of Allied air forces in the South
west Pacific, has awarded bronze
oak leaf clusters to the air me-
dial to Pfc. Frank R. Bolton, Rt. 1,
CataWba, N. C.
He and others received the de-
coration for participation in bonn
bling missions against enemy air
dromes and shipping.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-05
As GET CERTIFICATES

c CHAPEL HILL, June A. ~
Certificates i were awarded a. N 49,
e: officers of North ~ =. law
INA aI and South Carolina todav v' 5t,
e ere. completion of two-wee 5' n att
gram of instruction in fingernsp;FI'0''
IN ing conducted by the FBI ~ n mt,
the cooperation of the Univer ~i,a
OF North Cardinals Institnto Sl'y
Government. '''0'e Of
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-05
FUNERAL FOR ATTORNEY

BROWNSVILLE, June A. R -
The funeral for Howell r. Kyser,
prominent Thomasville attorney
who died yesterday at his home
here, will be held tomorrow at 4
pm, at his home. Burial will be
in the city cemetery.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-05
MONDAY, JUNE 5. 1914

the Myitkyina railway s,atio.
a press dispatch from ,"1 y SAID
Joseph Sossph stilwelrs hesdou ON, sr Gsn'
, Yesterday Communicate f rar'es rs
lied headquarters reported ION 4 Al.
umn l1. driving on Myitkyin ma fr ,ns col %
north a and had gained l.5oo ('I nun m.
despite stiff resistance '4 wv yards
the japanese many ca zIsa' cost
while the southern column I1 sa;I
an additional 400 yards 5sl''n gained
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-05
MRS. SARAH McCUMBER

Mrs. Sarah McCumber, 98, 3o2
Harnett street, died at her home
at 8 am. Sunday.
Mrs. McCumber is survived by
two daughters, Mrs. j. L. White
and Mrs. w. M. Goodwin of Will
mington; five grand children and
two great grand children.
Funeral services will be held
at St. Johns church at pm,
Monday with the Rev. E. W. Hal
leck in charge. Internsent will
follow in Oakdale cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be: J. L.
White, Jr., Charles D. White,
James C. White, James r. White,
Nick Patelos and Woodrow G.
Pridgen. Honorary pallbearers
will be H. F. Wilder, Willie James
Ronald Lane, ]. E. Shannon, F. j.
Becker and Glasgow Hicks.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-05
LETTER CARRIER MEETING

RALEIGH, June A. R - The
North Carolina rural letter car
riers association will hold its con-
vention here July "a.