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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-03
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Nam e Delegates

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-(R
Unless some other state par
ty organization decides to meet
sooner, New Mexico Republi-
cans will select the first dele
gates to the 1914 presidential
nominating conventions.
They have called a state con-
vention for Feb. IL to name
eight delegates and as many al
ternates to the COP national
convention. This is several
months before the usual state
convention time and more than
a month before the customary
initial delegate-picking-by pri-
mary in New Hampshire.
The New Hampshire presi-
dental primary is set for
March IA when the Democrats
will elect 10 and the Republic
cans II convention delegates.
Dates and places for the Re-
publican and Democratic ma
tlonal cOnclaves will be Sc
lected at national committee
meetings Jan. 10-1I and Jan.
*, respectively,
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1914 Az OFFENSIVE ON BERLIN OPENED;
PEG<%.A WITHIN ALLIED SMELLING RANGE
Is Sounding
Luasion Alarm

LONDON, Jan. 2-(R-An ever
mounting number of American
troops thronged the streets of this
island capital today as German
analysts. poured e out steady
stream of invasion alarms pre-
dieting that Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-
hover will strike from the west
sooner than had been expected.
The Americans were fighting
men of all arms, some wearing
the ankle boots of parachute
! troops and air-borne divisions;
others the uniforms of airmen,
infantrymen, artillerymen or engi-
neers.
| London's holiday crowds includ-
ed great numbers of these sol
diers from across the Atlantic
some of them obviously new ar
rivals. and some perhaps enjoying
their last pre-invasion leave.
Through press and radio, Nazi
Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels'
henchmen told Germany that Gen.
Eisenhower'S supreme stroke
would come in a matter of weeks
at most, that other Allied blows
could be anticipated elsewhere in
Europe. and sought to solace the
home front by hammering home
the theme that Germany is
ready"
At Algiers, Gen. Eisenhower.
taking leave of his North African
armies before leaving for his post
Continued on Pape 2. Column p
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WEATHER

FORECAST
NORTH CAROLINA: Moderate raina
and warmer Monday. Cloudy and warm.
er Monday night, with light rains ovea
east portion; mostly cloudy with mod
crate Temperatures Tuesday.
(Easern Standard Time)
(By U. 8. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a houfA
ending 1880 p. M, yesterday.
Temperature
1:30 am, 81, 80 am, 38, 80 pm, 49,
80 pm, 46.
Maximum so, Minimum IS, Mean AZ,
Normal At.
Humidity
l 80 am, SO, 80 am, IS, 1:30 pm, 80,
1880 pm, Sc.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 7 80 pm,
oil inches.
Total since the first of the month,
oil inches.
Tides For Today
From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
4:14p II 22p
Masonboro Inlet 1:46a 7:57a
2:13p 8:24p
Sunrise z :18 a., Sunset, lis p, Noon
rise l2:H a., Moonset, 2:40 a.
Cape Fear River stage at Fayette-
vile, 12.48 feet.
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Mystery OF Fast Soviet Advance,
Slow Italian Struggle Explained

few natural defense positions there
are found in rivers or in such
marshes as the Pisk region to
which the Russians have already
penetrated.
Currently, much Of the Russian
front is on ground frozen steel
hard and over which the heavy
machinery of modern war can be
trundled. Rairs-days and weeks
of them-flood Italian rivers and
turn roads and fields into mud.
The Italian front is short, the
Russian long. A short line again
favors the defense end makes the
progress of the attacked slow. The
defender can concentrate his fore
es quickly. In Russia, the front is
1900 miles long. The Russians are
using this to an advantage. They
strike with heavy force, moving
forward and then, If the Nazis
succeed in pulWarkIng that Sec
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ANOTHER PACIFIC
LANDING IS MADE
American Forces Land AT
Saidor, On North Coast
OF New Guinea

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NEW
GUINEA, Monday, Jan. s. Up -
American fol ces have landed al
Saidor, on the north coast of New
Guinea. Gen Douglas Macarthur
announced today.
The invaders quickly took pos
session of the narbor and air field
at Saidor. on the New Guinea
coast around 65-mites south OF
Madang, the big japanese base,
and around lie north of Finschha'
fen, the Allied base on the Huon
peninsula COAST.
The Japanese, trapped between
the Australians who have advanc-
ed north of Butcher Point and the
American Sixth Army forces
which made the landing at Saidor,
face humiliation. The enemy S
sources of supply have been cut
off.
The landing at Saldor, by ele-
ments of the 32nd Division, was
made Sunday without opposition.
Saidor was pounded by 200 tons
of bombs in aerial preparation for
the American landing.
The American troops, mostly
from Wisconsin and Michigan met
slight resistance after making their
landing.
With another force OF Australians
opera ting in the Rama river valley,
about 80 miles west of Saidor, the
Japanese in that area are now SUBJ
ject to a three way squeeze-from
the Americans at Saidor, the Aus
tralians down the coast and the
NJ T1vx
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$50 VILLAGES FREED
Russians Are Expected To
Cross Frontier Some
time Today

LONDON. Monday, Jan. 3-R-.
Gen Nikolai F.. Vatutin's First Uk.
raine army swept to within 10
miles of old Poland yesterday,
killing 1900 Germans and free.
ing $50 villages, Moscow announc.
ed at midnight.
The Russians were expected to
cross the pre-War frontier some.
time today on the basis of the II.
mile gain rolled up yesterday.
Hacking the retreatlng remnants
of % wrecked German divisions
over ground which the enemy had
torn from Russia in the first month
of his 194l invasion, Russian
units swinging southwestward to-
ward Rumania also threatened
Germany's big Dnieper bend army
with equal disaster.
The Russians in 10 days on three
major fronts already have recov-
cred approximately 700 square
mile of territory. In 18 months Of
one of history S most savage con-
flicts, the Red army also has re-
gained 100000 Of the $4,000 square
miles of Russian territory which
the Germans had won at ter
rifle cost in men and equipment.
Striking northwest of Korosten
along the iev-WarsaW railway the
upper wing of Vatutins army Sell
ed Poyaski, IL miles from former
Polish territory, SAID a Moscow
broadcast communique recorded
by the Soviet monitor. One rail
station, Olevsk, few miles be-
You'd, is the last stop before Pa-
land.
To the south the Russians also
took Andreevlchi, IL miles north
east of Novograo-Volynski, rail
junction, while another column was
converging ON that last important
German ror.ghold in the area
from the southeast
Berdichev also was further out
thanked las the Russians seized
areas northwest of that rail juno
ton Is miles below fallen Zhitomir.
Berdichev, headquarters OF Field
Marshal Gen Fritz Won Mannstein
before the Russians broke through
on a front noW about $50 miles
wide, appeared about to fall.
Below Berdlchev other Russian
units were plurging toward Kahn
ovka,, rail post on the Kiev-Zh-
merinka railway only IS miles from
the Rumanian frontier.
On the Baltic front Gen. Ivan
C. Bagramian's troops were de-
clared to have seized 40 more
localities in the frozen lake coun-
try north and northwest of Newell,
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HOLIDAY DEATH
TOLL SET AT l42
BY The Associated Press

BY The Associated Press
The nation counted 142 violent
deaths late yesterday as the New
Year weekend neared its close.
Fatalities reported since 6 p.
m. Friday included 96 motor We
hlcle deaths and 46 from fires,
drownings, gas poisoning and other
causes. The normal traffic toll,
however, for such a three-day holt
day period. WoulC range between
US and 275, the National Safety
council estimated.
California led in toll Of deaths
from all causes, listing 22-16 from
lra1flc. 6 from other causes. New
YORK II deaths from accidents
oSner than traffic led the States
miscellaneous list, and the State
also reported nine fatalities from
automobile accidents.
by state: Alabama, l miscellan-
eouS; California, 16 traffic misc;
Colorado, 2 traffic, / misc; Con,
nectlcut, ] misc; Florida, l traf-
nc; Georgia, traffic, 1 misc;
llllnols, traffic, 5 misc; 1ndi-
ana traffic; Iowa, l traffic;
Kentucky, 2 misc; Louisiana, /
tfa1flc, l misc; Maine, 2 misc.
Maryland, l traffic; Massachu-
sets, 3 traffic. 8 misc; Michi-
gan, traffic, { miss Minnesota,
traffic, l misc; Missouri, 4 traf-
nc, l mise; Montana, 1 traffic;
Nebraska. 2 traffic; New Jersey,
traffic, l mice; New Mexico, 1
traffic; New York. 9 traffic, II
mise: North Dakota, 2 traffic.
Ohio, i traffic; Oklahoma, traf-
nc; Oregon, traffic: Pennsylva-
MA, 5 traffic, misc; Tennessee,
! traffic. / misc; Texas, 2 traf-
Tic; Utah, traffic, l misc; Vir-
glnia, 2 traffic, Washington, traf-
nc, i misc; Wisconsin, l traffic,
misc; Wyoming, 1 traffic.
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ADRIATIC ISLAND
OF MIJET TAKEN
Isle Off Yugoslavia Report
e. Captured By The
Germans

LONDON. Jan. 2.-LP'-The Ger
! man high command today claimed
the capture of Mljet, Adriatic is
land off Yugoslavia's Dalmatiar
coast. in renewed furry OF MAJ
amphibious activity rejecting
i Germany anxiety over a posi-
BILE invasion of the western Bal
kans.
On the Yugoslav mainland, how
ever. communique from the
headquarters of partisan leader
Josip Broz (Tito said, guerrilla
armies continued to stand off pow
erful Nazi forces in bitter battles
raging in Herzegovina, Bosnia
and Montenegro. Previous MAJ
victory claims were denied.
The mystery concerning the
whereabouts of King Peter, Yugo
slavia's youthful exiled monarch
was cleared by Cairo dispatch
that said he had spent two days
at an Raj training station ouali
flying as an Raj pilot.
He was reported to have left
Cairo for a ''secret destination,
report which gave rise immedi.
ately to speculation over a posi-
BILE imminent Balkan development
The Cairo dispatch said the
young king wished to wear Raj
wings instead of the Yugoslav in
sigma which might have been re-
garded merely as a courtesy
award. He returned to Cairo or
New Years eve.
MHet lies about ITO miles al
most due east across the Adriatic
from the Italian coast where the
British Eighth Army is pushing
slowly forward against German
mountain positions beyond Ortona.
1t is about Is miles southeast OF
Korcula, another east-central Adri-
attic island which the Germans
claimed to have occupied last
week. Today's Berlin broadcast
said that Mljet capitulated after
communist resistance was brok-
en-" and that other German light
naval forces went on to shell Lo-
costa, former Italian island be-
tween Mljet and Korkula. The
Germans evidently were engaged
in a methodical campaign to cut
off Tito's Balkan front from his
Allied base of supplies in Italy.
Tito's broadcast communicate
fatty denied that Nazi mainland
forces had captured the central
Bosnian towns of Jaje, which has
been identified as Tito's head.
quarters, and Bugojno. A Ger.
man-controlled Balkan radio re.
Gently claimed the capture of the
two towns.
The Yugoslavs said German for.
ces still were from A to g. miles
from their guerrilla leaders, head
quarters.
CONTINUED on Page 3: Column A.
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SAN TOMASSO TAKE.
Hill Is Won After "a Hour
Battle In Snow, Rain
And Sleet

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AL
giers, Jan. 2-(R-Canadian troops
striking up the Adriatic coast are
within artillery range of the stra-
tegic port of Pescara less than
nine miles away after Selling a
long hill in 24-hour battle waged
in snow. wind and sleet, Allied
headquarters announced today.
Canadians also captured San
Tommasso, two miles west of Or
tona, in bitter fighting, widening
their hold on the coastal sector.
One of the worst storms of the
Italian campaign hampered land
and air activity everywhere, but
British troops of the Fifth Army
snaked across the Garigliano riv-
er in new raid six miles inland
from the west coast, penetrating
mile to Castel Forte and then
Withdrawing.
At sea, American motor torpedo
boats slipped into the Gulf of &C.
noa in a daredevil sea raid Wed
nesday night, and damaged Ger
man traWler and torpedoed an
other ship, the communique said.
The following night British de-
stroyers in the Adriatic shelled a
schooner off the east italian coast
and drove the ship ashore.
CA Berlin broadcast declared
Nazi bombers raided the supply
port of Augusta Friday morning
in their first blow at eastern Sic
lily in many weeks, hitting a
freighter, an ammunition dump,
and the mole. and causing ICON
siderable destruction. There was
no Allied confirmation of the at
tack.)
Canadian infantry and armor
knocked the Germans from a long
low hill on the Adriatic coastal
road, and the enemy withdrew
to new positions just south of the
Arielli river for their next major
stand. Big guns of the Eighth
Army now can pump shells into
Pescara.
Artillery action famed along
the entire Eighth Army front, and
a vigorous new battle ragged for
the cross roads leading to Villa
Grande and Tollo. lying west of
the Canadian coastal push. The
Germans still clung tenaciously
to Orsogna, II miles southwest Of
Ortona.
No details were given of the
British raid on Castel Forte. 1t
followed dash beyond the Ga
rigliano in the Minturno area on
Wednesday night.
For the first time in months,
neither the tactical or strategic
air forces made any sorties, and
there were only a few patrols
by the coastal command.
The first disclosure that Italian
bombers were in action with the
Allies came in delayed report
that the Italians had bombed the
landing strip and ~harbor of Va
Iona in southern Albania.
An official review of fighting
during the last few months by the
Allied 18th Army group gave this
estimate of German hopes in It.
ally:
THE Germans are defending
every feature, every position, in
hopes of wearing down the Allied
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BY ELTON G.. FAY
Associated Press War Analyst

The Soviet armies hasten toward
the Polish border drive across
White Russia and surge westward
in southern sectors--but Ameri-
can and British forces in Italy
must fight a nouse-to-house and
hill-to-hill war. 90 :,
Why?
Milita1ists have several explana-
tons. The terrain, the weather,
battle conditions all are different
and there may be other obscure
but highly significant strategic
reasons.
Mountain country favors the de-
tense. In Italy at least II Ger
man divisions man the enemy
front which, except in compare
lively few places runs across and
through mountain ranges, natural
strong points for resistance. The
eastern front stretches across vast
flatlands, the Russian steppes. The
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-03
IS
BOTHERINC JONES
Commerce Secretary Says
Business Should Pre-
pare Now

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. - P -
Expressing concern over what he
termed the danger of postwar
concentration of wealth and power,
Commerce Secretary Jones declar.
ed today the need daily grows
more imperative" for all seq
rnents of American business tc
prepare for reconversion.
Jones observed that victory might
come suddenly, leaving mo time to
plan calmly and intelligently for a
smooth transition to peacetime
economy"
Writing on the subject 'private
initiative needs revitalizing" in the
January issue of Domestic Com
merce, the secretary said there
are many wholesome signs of post.
war plans in progress among
''top-flight members of the free
enterprise system and civic and
business organizations"
ooe Wllol, llC vi
the thousands of smaller business
firms without any affiliation with
groups and lacking adequate man
agerial skill to plan for their flu
ture? What is happening to that
basically American characteristic
private initiative, the quality
that impels men to broaden their
vision, take risks?"
Pointing to the country's war
created abnormal economy, Jones
said it was perfectly natural
that major production and con-
sequently the larger share of pro-
fits now should be in the hands of
big business.
However," he wrote, sit now
behooves us to give careful thought
to all businesses outside the inner
circle of our highly profitable pre-
sent economy.
To-day, this (Commerce) depart
ment sees the danger of a con-
centration of wealth and power
in the hands of a relatively few
private enterprises in the postwar
period if less powerful businesses
are allowed to become impotent
and enervated, if private initiative
is not encouraged.
While declaring that small bu-
sinesses generally have Jared con-
sideratly better than expected,
Jones said ''the fact remains that
they have been harassed by man
power shortages, material, scar
cities, transportation difficulties.
They have been restricted by the
many necessary government reg
ulations. They have been burden
ed by excessive taxes.
Gas long as the war lasts these
problems will remain. For this
reason the outlook for smaller
business establishments is serious
Declaring it automatic that large
and small business are dependent
on each other, Jones wrote that
IN looking to the future 1--WE see
smaller enterprises standing side
by side with the larger. All need
to prepare now for the postwar
period
1--WE in government and business
leaders and private organizations
can formulate the plans. But to
make them work there must be
virile, courageous and revitaliz-
ed upsurge of private initiative. :"
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HAMBURG ALSO HIT
More Than 1000 Long
Tons OF Bombs Dropped
On German Capital


RAJ Lancasters battled high
winds through cloudy moonless
skies early Sunday to hurl more
than 1000 long tons of bombs on
Berlin in their ninth major as
sault on the doomed German cap
ital and at the same time carried
out diversionary attack on the
wrecked port city of Hamburg.
A Stockholm dispatch said Ber-
In still was burning early today,
a thick pail of smoke choking
German army pioneer troops who
struggled to dig out the dead and
injured.
With the 1914 aerial onslaught
thus well launched, the Raj ap-
parently was keeping the offensive
rolling against the French coast
all day yesterday and far into the
night. Anti-aircraft fire over Bou-
logne could be seen through the
darkness from the English coast.
The Berlin attack was timed late
to prevent moonlight from helping
Nazi night fighters, and one pilot
said he did not see single enemy
fighter. Some, however, reported
few night fighters used rocket
shells.
: The new attack raised to nearly
$4,000 long tons the crushing
bomb weight heaped on Berlin
since the obliteration campaign
opened Nov. 10 - roughly seven
pounds of bombs for each of the
city's 100000 inhabitants.
This hundredth Berlin raid Of the
war set roaring new fires in the
city still burning from the last as
sault Dec. 20, and sent columns
Of smoke $4,000 feet high, crew.
men said.
Twenty-eight bombers were lost
in the raids on both cities and
Mosquito forays into western Ger
many.
The new year offensive contin-
ued by daylight early today with
forays by fighters over the Chan
mel and into northern France.
Raj Mosquitoes and Typhoon
fighter-bombers made the a t.
tacks, covered by Raj, Dominion
and Allied fighters. Other Raj
fighters destroyed four enemy air.
craft during offensive patrols over
France and Belgium, losing one
of them.
Radio stations in France went
off the air late last night indicat-
ing that Allied airmen may be at
lacking again.
London had its first alert since
Thursday night and considerable
anti aircraft funfire was heard
along the Thames before the all
clear sounded.
Hamburg was last hit Aug. 2 at
the end of a concentrated cam
paign which knocked it out as a
war center. Berlin in 1913 took
nearly double - $4,000 tons - the
DoAiiO 1oeo CllOl VIII against Ham,
burg.
Swedish correspondents in Ber-
lin said outlying districts were the
targets early today, limiting that
the Raj drive against the city was
already reaching the mopping-up
stage.
All reports indicate the capital
has been virtually finished as an
administrative center, with only
remnants of its great indusk ial
areas still to be wrecked. That
might be precision job for Am
erlcan heavy bomber daylight at
tacks, but the Flying Fortresses
and Liberators presumably would
need fighter escorts. Berlin is al
l,2OO-mile roundtrip, at least 4OOI
miles farther than U. S. fighters
have yet gone into Germany.
The plunge over Hamburg y
Where shipping has been reported
resuning on small scale-and
Continued on Page 2; Column y
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Negro Church
lsDestroyed
By Fire Here
A COMPLETE LOSS
St. Lukes Zion AME Col
ored Church Ruined
By Sunday Blaze

Fire of undetermined origin ear
ly Sunday morning swept through
the St. Luke's Zion AME Coloret
church at Seventh and Church
streets, leaving the building to
tai loss.
The first alarm was turned in a
1882 a. M, and was phone cal
from a passer-by. When the fire
department arrived at the scene
orange flames were 1eaping from
the windows and the building wa:
a mass of fire.
Many servicemen, both white
and Negro, were pressed into ser
vice. as were many civilians, who
cot up from their beds to help
combat the blaze, which firemer
feared would spread to surround
ing wood structures.
While firemen played streams OF
water from stationary equipment
onto the church building itself,
portable equipment, manned by
volunteers and regular firemen,
was used to direct lighter streams
of water onto the roofs of dwell
ings around the church.
Flying sparks floated through
the air and landed on houses in the
vicinity of Fifth and Queen streets,
five blocks away.
From a distance, the sky was
lighted with orange flames and
residents thought the entire dis.
trict of town was ablaze.
The second alarm was sounded
from Box 425 at As a. M, and
other companies responded. At
one time. there were three COM
panleS at the scene of the blaze,
which destroyed one of the largest
if not the largest colored churches
in the city.
Six poorly constructed frame
houses around the church were
damaged slightly by sparks and
flying embers, firemen reported.
Fire Chief j. Ludd-e Groom re-
ported that tie fire had gained
such Roadway by the time he and
his men arrived, a few minutes
after the first alarm, that it was
feared the blaze would turn into a
contlagration, and destroy numer-
GUS houses near tn church.
Chief Groom sair. that so per
cent OF the otf-shift crew reported.
and aided in fighting the worst
blaze which Wilmington has had in
several years.
F1remen had the blaze under con-
troll within As minutes after arriv-
Ing at the church, bit men remain
ed there until noon Sunday, to
prevent the water soaked embers
from coming TO life again.
No one was injured in the blaze
Which comp .stely destroyed the
brick and stucco church building.
In a statement Sunday night,
Chief Groom thanked all the serv-
lcemen and civilians who volun-
teered their aid, ana said that he
felt they had rendered valuable
service to the city q, d the depart
ment.
Fire department personnel was
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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-14
Bus.Car Crash
Injuries Two
Eight Mile Road
Collision Reported

VAN DYKE - Two people
were seriously injured Tuesday
afternoon in an automobile and
bus accident at 8 Mile road and
Conner road.
Ned Glonchak, IS. of 2238
Wyandotte road, Hamtramck,
driver of the car, received in
juries to the right knee, nose and
chest, and Hattie Edward, 40,
of 20820 Westview avenue, Fern
dale, passenger in the rear of
the bus, suffered injuries to the
left knee and hand. Both were
taken to Saratoga hospital in
Detroit. Edward Strosick, 80, of
20736 Ehlert avenue, East De-
troit, driver of the bus, escaped
injury.
Glonchak, according to War
rem township police, said that
the bus stopped suddenly, and
he struck the back end. Strosick
told township police that he
stopped for passengers he saw
trying to catch the bus.