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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29
Four-Legged Chicken
Matched In Southport

SOUTHPORT, May ga four
legged chicken, and it walks on all
four of them, is the latest freak
to be reported. The bird was
Matched out by bantam hen, be-
longing to Josephine Slade, South
port negro woman.
The extra pair of legs grew
out from the tail bone and were
somewhat longer than the regular
pair. The general appearance was
like that of the legs and braces
to a wheelbarrow; the regular legs
straight down and the extra ones
extending forward to permit the
feet to rest directly behind those
of the regular legs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29
laps Launch Drive
On Hankow Rail Line

CHUNGK1NG, May %. - R -
Japanese troops have launched a
drive down the Hankow rail route
in northern Human province. the
Chinese high command announced
today, in a possible attempt to
occupy the entire Canton-H ankow
railway and establish defense
against possible future American
landings on the China coast.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29
Chrysler Strikers
To Return To Work

DETROIT, May -strik-
ing employees of the Chrysler cor
poration's Highland Park plant
voted at a meeting today to re-
turn to work.
William jenkins, suspended pres
ident of local 400, United Automo-
bile Workers (CIO), said the first
shift would return to their jobs
toni chit
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29
AMERICAN BOMBERS
SLASH AT GERMANY
CONTINUED from Page One)

Germans greatest western arsenal
at Bourgleopold, Belgium, and a
half-dozen other important objec-
tives in Germany, France and Bel
GUM.
Hardly had the Raj overnight
crews DOTTED flying clothes than
waves of medium and light day
light raiders started toward the
continent and pounded repeatedly
at scores of supply and transport
targets.
Then the American heavyweights
and their Observation-Disclosures
Gus escort took over the chore,
bringing to a devastating crescen-
do the heaviest 36-hour period In
the aerial prelude to invasion.
Since dawn Saturday, about a.
500 tons of bombs have been hurled
onto countless detectives by some
$4,000 aerial sorties from both
Britain and Italy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29
Presbyterians Hear
Sermon By DR.. King

MONTREAL, May 28-(R-Dr. c.
L. King of Houston, Tex, modera-
tor, told the General Assembly Of
the Southern Presbyterian church
today that if idealism failed in the
peace-making a third world war
would result.
His sermon was on the text, "See
that We build according to the pat
tern shown thee in the mount
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29
Miss Margaret Helms
Named YWCA Officer

LOUIsBURG, May %. - Miss
Margaret Helms, daughter of M.
and Mrs. D. H. Helms of Whining
ton, has recently been elected vice
president of the Y. w. C. A. at
Louisburg college. Miss Helms. a
rising senior at Louisburg, h s
been active in the literary and re-
ligious activities of the college.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29
REFUSE TO WORK

p PORTLAND, Ore, May 28.-(P)
The Columbia river district coun-
Gil of the international Woodwork
ers of America, CLIO, declared to-
day it could not "conscientiouSly"
recommend that its members re-
turn to work as requested by the
National War Labor Board.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29
Obituaries
MISS NELLIE HOWARD

Miss Nellie Howard Of Whining
ton died in Raleigh yesterday at
ter long Illness.
She is survived by her mother,
Mrs. Sarah J. Howard; two sisters,
Mrs. L. O. Russell and Mrs. Lot
tie M. Russell of Wilmington; one
brother, A. L. Howard of Raleigh,
and several nieces and nepheWs.
Funeral services will be an
nounced later.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29
DRAFT IN REVER SE: F En Ke faf1 T S GSss A o.

DISCHARGED soldiers are getting out of the
Army exactly they got into it - only back
wards At the first World War II Separation
Center at Fort Dix, n. j.. soldiers are being
discharged in 48-hour reversal of the induc-
ton procedure, planned to help them find salts
factory inches in civilian life.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29
PETAIN RETURNS

NEW YORK, May % R The
Vichy radio in a broadcast record
ed by U. S. government monitors
said today French chief of state
Marshal Henri Petain had returned
to Vichy from This residence" near
Paris.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29

assas, Va and two grandchildren
Funeral services will be held a,
3 pm. tomorrow at Sandy Grove
Methodist church, with the Rev A
D. Brown of Parkton, officjati7,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29

The U. S. Navy has effected q
conversion from crude to synthetic
and reclaimed rubber to the extent
OF about ~ per cent.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29

In the Mediterranean theater, the
Thunderbolt, supreme as a high
altitude fighter, is now being used
as a precision bomber carrying
two 1000-pound bombs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29

IArmy phOt6 from NEAJ
Only woman to hear, firsthand,
just how successful is every AL
lied bombing mission from Eng
land is WAC Tech. Sgt. Olga M.
Hunchak, above, of Pleasant City,
Ohio. AS secretary to a USAAF
general somewhere in England.
her job is to make stenographic
record Of the round-table discus
sion which follows every attack on
the continent,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29

Although only one high octane
gasoline plant was in operation in
the U. S. in 1941, in early 1914
there were 80 plats, all using a
single process. \
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-09
HITS
WORLD CARTELS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8-(R-Vir

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8-(R-Vir-
tually on the eve of his meeting
with Prime Minister Churchill,
President Roosevelt today sudden
ly called for international agree
ments to curb cartel practices OF
the kind which have been large
factor in Britain's development as
great commercial power.
At the same time the Chief
Executive demanded 1.-The eradica-
ton" of German cartels. such as
the I. G.. Farben trust which the
Nazis have used to penetrate peace
full countries for their political and
military ends.
The President issued his declar.
alton against cartels in a letter
to Secretary of State Hull and i'm.
mediately afterward it was learned
that the United States is prepar-
ing to propose to its Allies, Britain
and Russia, the destruction of Ger.
man cartels and also is making
more long-range plans for a United
Nations conference-probably pre-
coded by smaller meeting along
the lines of the Dumbarotn Oaks
security talks-to work out anti
cartel measures.
The Presidents pronouncement
at this time was studied here by
politicians and diplomats alike who
sought to evaluate % it's impor-
lance in this presidential election
year as statement of international
economic policy and (2) its rela-
ton to the Chief Executives forth
coming conference with Mr..
Churchill.
Authorities here concede that any
major change in the cartel system
will be quite difficult to bring
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-09
BATTLE RAGING
NEAR ADRIATIC

ROME, Sept. g. tR "A deadly
battle of attrition ragged tonight
along II mile sector near the
Adriatic coast, with the Germans
scuandering reserves in final des-
perate effort to hold the Allies out
of the great Pc valley and northern
Italy.
Some British Eighth army units
had bored their way to the banks
of the Maranc river, only four miles
from Rimini, Coastal anchor of the
enemy's rugged Gothic line, u
massing Nazi forces behind h e
stream promised only more hard,
bloody smuggling for the attacking
troops.
German losses were reported to
have been extremely severe in re-
cent days, yet Field Marshal Gen.
Albert Kesselring appeared willing
to pay any price to prevent a
breakthrough. Once the Gothic
line is pierced a vast force of Al
lied armor is ready to deploy swift
" across the plains beyond and
cut the escape routes OF enemy
troops manning the remainder OF
the line all the way westward to
the Tigl1rian sea.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-09
INDUSTRY J PLANS
GIVEN SENATORS

WASHINGTON, Sept. g. Up =
Two top flight federal administra-
tors today outlined an integrated
plan to convert a thick segment CT
American industry to civilian pro
duction rs soon as Germany IS de-
feated-and complete the CONVEX
sion upon the fan OF Japan.
Only by producing more civilian
goods of. every kind. acting War
Production Board Chairman ]. A.
Krug told the Senate War Investi-
eating committee, can the nation
bridge the gap to be caused by
the cessation of government war
purchases, now running about 500,
600. 900, 900 year.
Paul v. McNutt, War Manpower
Commissioner, shortly before h d
informed the Senators that virtual
ly all manpower controls except
the 48 hour work week in war
plants would be discontinued with
the ending of the war in Europe
At the same time, McNutt said
there is "a desperate need for in
creased production of some mill
tary items.
Other developments on the re-
conversion front were:
l. President Roosevelt disclosed
that War Mobilization Director
James F. Byrnes had prepared a
report on industrial rehabilitation
which is to be made public Sun
day.
2. Rep. Knutson (R-Minn.), a
member of the joint conference
committee attempting to reach
agreement on a general demobili-
zation and reconversion bill, fore
cast that final enactment of the
legislation will be postponed until
after election day.
Krug foresaw government pur-
chases shrinking to SOS, 900, 900, 600
a year after Germany's fall and
when Japan says into defeat, it
will be necessary to employ from
20 to Is per cent more persons
than were on the payrolls in 1910,
if this nations prosperity is to be
maintained, he said.
He described in 80 m detail
WPB's plan for lifting materials
limitation orders after the Nazi col
lapse while retaining full priorities
for necessary military production.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-09
Flying Fortresses
Fight Storm, Cold
To Blast Rhineland

LONDON, Sept. 8. - P) -
Fighting their way through
storm and temperatures as low
as SO below zero. almost 15eo
Flying Fortresses and Liberia
tors blasted four top priority
German targets in the Rhine
land directly behind the Sieg-
fried line today.
The targets for the big for
nations Of U. S. bomber IN
cluded the Synthetic Oil and
Chemical plants at Ludwigsha-
fen, pounded for the fourth
time in two weeks. the vital
railway freight yards at Karl
sruhe just behind the Siegfried
line, equipment at storage de-
pots at Kastel and a tank fac
tory at Gus.avsburg, both on
the outskirts of Mainz
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-09
DEATH CLOSES
REEDS CAREER

ALPENA, Mich, Sept. g. (R -
Death following an attack of bron-
chitis stilled today the barbed sar-
casm which former Senator James
A. Reed of Missouri had used in
court and political battles for more
than 40 years.
Mrs. Reed, the former Nell DON
nelly Of Kansas City, was at his
bedside and left tonight to follow
his body to Kansas City where
funeral services will be held.
Reed became i'll with a severe
cold two weeks ago and was treat
ed in an Alpena hospital until last
Sunday when he returned to his
ranch where he suffered relapse.
Oxygen was administered to him
this morning.
A white haired, stately figure,
Reed had been an outspoken critic
of several presidents whose q. opo-
sails he opposed during more than
80 years of nationally prominent
activity, IS of them in the Senate.
For his part in defeating h e
League of Nations President Wood
row Wilson attempted to read him
out OF the Democratic party b u t
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-09
CHINESE DELEGATION
TO JOIN PEACE TALKS

WASHINGTON, Sept. with
the Russian phase of the world
security talks at Dumbarton Oaks
due to wind up in few days. it
was learned today that the Chinese
delegation has proposed plank on
racial equality for inclusion in the
had violated any law.
President Roosevelt told his
news conference that the discus
sions among Russia, the United
States and Britain were about over.
The Chinese will join the Anglo
American delegates as soon as
the Russians finish.
The racial equality proposal, if
the Chinese press it, may arouse
far reaching discussion because it
could directly affect the status OF
colonial areas in Asia and Africa.
1t also might affect such things as
immigration barriers against vari-
Gus races.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-09
Roosevelt Fires Shots
In Reply To Dewey Talk

to make his first reply to Dew
ey's initial campaign speech
last night in Philadelphia. He
usually reserves his oral shots
at the opposition for a formal
address.
To a request for comment on
Dewey's accusation that the
Roosevelt administration is
afraid to demobilize the army
Mr.. Roosevelt grinned and told
the reporters they could say
that the President smiled
broadly and said nothing.
Asked about the New York
governors description OF the
administration as tire d,
quarrelsome and defeatlst. ne
said he would reply only in this
way: That he had said before
that he would like to 60 back
to Hyde Park, but not because
he was tired or defeated.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-09
SELECTIVE SERVICE
WILL EASE DEMANDS

WASHINGTON, Sept. g. R -
Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey
told local boards today that est
mated 1914 needs of the armed
forces probably can be filled with
out bringing any one else into class
IA expect new 10 year olds
He did not order an end to classi
fications into la. His message
however, could hardly fail te
strengthen the position of men nov
holding occupational deferments
since he did not mention them as
a. needed source of supply.
Selective Service officers were
quick to explain that such m
will loose their deferments if they
forsake the war effort, and that
deferments will continue to expire
whenever the reason for them cea'
ses to exist.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-09
Governor De1uey FaUors
6O-Nah0n World Court

LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept. 8.
- Up Declaring that creation
of a permanent world peace
security organization empower
ed to use force if necessary,
must be the united, non-pa-ti-
san work "of many minds, q"
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey said
tonight:
mo one man or three or
four men can shape it. Some
so nations, great and small,
must help shape it, believe in
it, join it, make it work"
This oblique allusion to the
Teheran and Cairo conferences
among President Roosevelt,
Prime Minister Chue chill, Pre-
mier Stain and Generalissimo
Chang Kai Shek was set forth
in a speech prepared by the
COP presidential nominee for
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-09

Mindinao was pounded with 113
tons of bombs that wrecked the
Santa Anna seaplane base and
smeared the Buayan airdrome.
Both raids. staged Wednesday,
were free of Japanese air oppo-
sition, indicating the enemy, who
pulled back his dWindling air force
to Luzon, was not even coming out
to fight. 1t was the second largest
American air raid on the island.
Rowing at will over the area, a
Catalina flying boat sank or badly
damaged four small freighters off
Sarangani island at the southern
end of Mindnao. Mitchells, con-
stantly hammering at the Spice
islands, pounded invasion-threaten-
ed Halmshera and Morotai island
without opposition. Starfish shaped
Halmaherat. has three good air
fields-Galela, Lolobata and Miti,
which would be invaluable to Gen
eral Macarthur when he invades
the Philippines.
Japan's industrial empire around
Anshan, Manchuria, was badly
crippled by the largest force Of
Superfortresses to hit it. The enc
my's second largest steel mill,
chemical and explosive factories
were the targets.
Flocks of Navy planes from a
roaming carrier task force smash
ed again and again at weakening
zap and Ulithi islands in the west
ern Pacific. The groggy defenders
of these two islands did not even
send up single interceptor plane
Continued on Page Three; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-09

the National Federation Of
Women's Republican clubs.
Following up la st nights
Philadelphia promise to discuss
foreign policy, Dewey devoted
virtually all of this, his second
major campaign address on a
$500 mile cross country tour,
to that theme.
Dewey made it clear at the
outset that he favors continued
close cooperation among the
big four powers, the United
States, Britain, Russia and
China, to disarm Germany and
Japan in the immediate post
war period. But he insisted
that such war victims as Po-
land, France, the Low Coun.
tries and Norway must have
full partnership" in maintain
ing permanent peace
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-09

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.--RE
a smile was President Roose-
sel' reply today to Gov.
l'oihas E. DeWey's assertion
ulat the administration is
0lFald to let men out of the
army at the wars end because
~ ~ doubts its ability to provide
Aem with jobs.
NJ; Mr. Roosevelt also toog cog
nance of the Republican presi-
eenual nominees characteri-
.a'ioh OF the New Deal as tired.
s s and defeatist by
.epeating that he would have
ep.el l to retire to his Hyde
ak nome rather than run for
iouf(h term, but not because
Nc ~ is tired or defeated.
me President utilized his
Jews conference-a rare occa-
f'ch under the circumstances
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-09
Help From UNRRA
May Be Extended
To Italian People

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. -R)
Italy has been so devastated
by the war that she will have to
have help 10 get back on her
feet, President Roosevelt said
today, but it is still undecided
whether the United Nations Re-
Lief and Rehabilitation Admins
tration will lend a hand.
UNRRA's present policy,
adopted at it's Atlantic City
conference last year, is against
extending its relief activities to
conquered enemy territory.
However, the question is ex-
pected to come up for recon
sideration at a meeting of tn
JNRRA council in Montreal Sept
Is,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-09
Dr.. Frederick Lewis
Will Preach Sunday

DR.. Frederick Lewis, of Greens
boro, will hold services at St. An
drew's Covenant - Presbyterian
church beginning tomorrow NOR,
ming, and will remain pastor OF the
church for the coming four months,
it was announced last night. In the
meantime a committee is seeking
to fill the vacancy.
DR.. Lewis conducted services at
St. Andrews church before it was
merged with the Church of h
Covenant at 18th and Market
streets.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-09
Sales Of Mixed Feeds
Being Checked By OPA

RALEIGH. Sept. 8. :-P-T. S
Johnson, Raleigh district OPA dt
rector, said today that investiga-
lions into the sales of mixed feeds
in eastern North Carolina is run
ming fuil-blast and local War Price
and Rationing Board price panels
are making local checks on feed
sales at the same time"
Already, he said, more than 50.
500 in payments to the u S. .reas,
NY have been made and announr
ed by OPA in connection with re.
tail and wholesale overcharges in
the Raleigh district.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-09
American First Army SEXES Liege;
NoYWithin Is Miles Of Rhineland;
R@ttle For Belfort Gap Beginning
AMERICAN UNITS
COME UP VALLEY
TO MEET NAILS
Stiffening Resistance
Encountered After
Besancon's Fall

ROME, Sept. 8.-tR-Am-
erican forces stormed up the
Doubs valley "road to the
Reich today after capturing
the city of Besancon and met
bristling German opposition
in what appeared to be the
Opening round of the battle
for Belfort Gap, 20 miles
from the Rhine.
Besancon, an important COM
munications center so miles south.
west of Belfort's frowning fortifi-
cations, was the scene of stiff
street fighting for hours after
units of 1t. Gen. Alexander M.
Patch's Seventh army encircled the
city then swept on after the main
body of retreating Nazis.
The last yards into Besancon
were fiercely defended by weary
enemy rearguards, who laid down
curtain of mortar and machine
gun fire and even brought tanks
into the fight. 1t is along the
Doubs valley and in Belfort gap
that the battered German 18th
army must fight to try to prevent
General Patch's Americans and
French from pouring across the
border of Germany itself.
Kenneth Dixon, Associated Press
war correspondent with the
Seventh army, said the battle of
Belfort gap might begin within
the next few hours. 1t was not i'm
mediately known, he said, whether
any American troops had man
aged to beat the Nazis to the vital
pass and plug it against the re-
treating enemy.
eff they have not ne continued,
sit will be up to the Allied air
force to powerhouse the Belfort
gap with bombs and bullets until
all movement ceases.
Between Besan. On and Bel
fort there are signs that Hitler's
scorched earth policy is being put
into effect as the Nazis put the
torch to French farm houses.
Many Germans when they realize
they are surrounded switch quick
ly to civilian clothes and depend
upon the mixed tongues of the
Swiss border region to protect them
from discovery"
In some instances, disguised as
French Maquis, these Germans
have led doughboys into ambusnes,
and several soldiers have been
killed, Dixon said.
He disclosed that General Patch
for the second time since the land
ings in southern France received
a wrenched back yesterday as ne
tore along a slippery road in his
jeep-trying to keep pace with his
fast-moving soldiers. He kept 60
ing despite the pain and insisted
he would be all right in day or
two.
French forces kept pace on both
sides of tae American advance.
East and south of tn Yank spear
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