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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-04
-O1TUGv TIC
ACCUSING NEGLECTED

Lehr in offering the license fee
which he described As adequate to
cover police and fire protection
services. Satd-t70 tax would force
the track out Of business
"The statute permitting rae
ing in Michigan specifically re-
quires that the association sub
nit complete audit Of itS
finances within 80 days Of the
completion Of u racing meet
OakWan SAID
we have been unable Ia
learn Of any such audit ever
being made. The only thing an
record ~ statement listing
rev enueS and expenditures under
fairly cloudy titles
There are - corporations 10
which the racing association
lists expenditures. one of these
l. a corporation which owns the
starting gate and which re-
ceiyes $1,000 rental year from
the association.
Another mysterious corpora
ton owns the electric totaling
machine and received $40. 900
rental and Sl0,O0O for repairs
from the association last wear.
There Il even corporation OPP
Grating NJ the track which has
~ its sole asset lawn mower,
with which the grass In the in
field - eat
1T NAV be all very proper.
but ~e wetfiti ittr m tJU0W who
owns these corporations They
are Just things which proper
audit would reveal The auditor
general. under the prov isions of
The act may examine their
books AZ anN time "
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-04
CONTINUE RESEARCH

The research program wr.Cn Re
instituted here TWO years go VII
be continued Under direction Of
Or r 7 Porter and VIII SER 2
as a feeder 10 tio new center.
Citing tho terrific toll from
malaria among fighting mon IN
the South Seas. particularly
among the n-ar.nr--- nr. Gag
Eeshall said tho primary task
would be one Of treatment and
attempted rehabilitation Of the
veterans
while there Is M known
definite cure for malaria" he
said there are effective trent
mentS, and il will he our job
10 seek new methods Of treat
ment by Iarge-Scale research
and laboratory work"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-04
Effective DRUGS

Already, there are thousands Of
drugs known which are effective
IN reducing the symptoms Of ma
lsr.a DR. CoCCcshall said, but
while the disease is seldom fatal
il is one Of the worlds ma or
medical problems.
The appointment another
sep IA Distinguished career
which has taken DR.. CogEeshall
to New York as director Of ma
laria research for the Rockefeller
Foundation, professor OF cpl
technology at the University Of
Michigan and director of medical
affairs for Pan American Air
ways, establishing sanitary and
disease prevention facilities along
ferry routes from South Amer
lea 10 Africa and from the Middle
East 10 China and India.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-04

Tore worked Tor the COMPANY
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-15
ALLIED BOMBERS
STRIKE BUDAPEST

LONDON, Saturday, July Is
heavy bombers from
Italy attacked four oil refineries
and railyards in and near the Hun
garan capitl of Budpest yester-
dy as the worst weather since
D-Day held operations from the
west to no more than 1000 sorties.
The German radio reported at
/ am, however: that raiders were
over the Nannover-Brunswick re-
glon of the Reich in a night contin-
uation of the daylight attacks on
Europe.
Raj Lancasters with fighter es.
corts attacked the flying bomb in.
stallations in northern France yes
terday afternoon without loss and
a small force of Liberator heavy
bombers followed Pathfinder planes
to Amiens and bombed that
strument.
Approximately so fighterbomb'
ers harassed rail lines back of the
Normandy front, engaged about so
German fighters, and shot down
six for loss of four. They damag
ed so freight cars and three To-
ccmotives.
Filters from fields in Normandy
struck targets of opportunity des-
pite low-hanging clouds, but be-
cause Of the weather the brunt of
the assault was. borne by the air.
men from Italy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-15
WILLKIE SILENT
ON PARTY STAND
BY The Associated Press

Wendell Willkie kept the Repub-
licans guessing yesterday about his
possible role in the national cam
paign, while Democrats still watch
ed for sign from President Roose-
welt as to his preference for a
vice presidential running mate.
Rep. Charles FIalleck of Indiana
who put Wilkes name before the
Republican convention four years
ago, made an apparent bid for a
public statement from the 1910
nominee in support of Gov. Thorn
IS E. Dewey and Gov. John w.
Rricker.
Emerging from a two-hour con-
ference with Dewey at Albany
Halleck said he had not seen or
talked with Willkie but my view
is he will support the ticket"
It failed, if that was the inten-
ton, to Smoke OUT Wilk1e who
was not pleased with the hepubli-
can foreign policy planA but who
did congratulate Dewey on his
nomination.
Laughing, Willkie commented in
New York, Il don't believe I have
had a talk with Charlie in two
years."
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-15
Allied Inuasiion Results
Insure Defeat OF Japan
SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TIERS ALLIED EXPEDITION

SUPR E M E HEADQUAR-
TIERS ALLIED EXPEDITION
AIRY FORCE, July 14.-P-A
special Allied mission studying
the results of the Normandy in
vasion with a view to applying
its lessons to the Pacific has
agreed in general that the Sue
cessful landing against the
most strongly-defended coast
line in the world has insured
the defeat of Japan.
cit has proved that by proper
application of sea, land and air
power the Allies can success
fully land any place they
choose-including Japan itself
under the proper conditions -
and carry on a large-scale mill
tary campaign" is the way one
high officer summed it up to-
night.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-15
Joan BlondelL Gets
Divorce From PoweIl

LOS ANGELES, July 14-R-Ac-
treSs Joan Blondell got a four
minute divorce today from singer
DICK Powell on her testimony that
he had been guilty of numerous
acts OF cruelty, including demand
mat she "get the hell out of the
h]uSe"
Powell, whom she married eight
years ago aboard a liner enroute
10 New York, told her he didn't
care whether she got a divorce OF
not, Miss Blondell testified. She
SAID he insisted on using their
home for his office, that two tele.
phones were ringing almost con.
stantly, and that she was unable tc
get any rest or privacy.
Powell did not appear to oppose
the divorce.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-15

The mission is especially
charged with studying the mis-
takes made in the organization
of the unloading on the beaches.
One of the chief lessons learn
ed has exploded the old theory
that a warship cannot engage
and knock out shore batteries.
Even old battleships sailed in
close and knocked out batter
les while suffering only super
ficial damage themselves.
The other bOgies exploded
were that troops could not land
in mined areas or over beach
es covered by underwater OBJ
stacles. The n>ined beaches
were hurdled " the use of rock
et-firing craft and bombing
which exploded the mines. The
underwater obstacles were 0v-
ercOme by sheer courage of
skilled men.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-15
AIR BASE EXTENDS
BOMBING RANGES

AeroplaneS from Bluethenthal
Army Air Base have extended
their practice ranges, it was am
nounced yesterday. In addition to
the ground gunnery range on Rich
island, a new bombing practice
range has been established along
the coast.
Shell island, from the northern
end to a distance along a line
enc mile to the south, is the site
of the new range. This land and
Mason's inlet, between the inland
waterway and line parallel to
the coast line, extending one mile
to sea, are designated danger
areas.
Fisherme E, swimmers, hunters,
ard all other persons are warned
to keep away from this area.
2, mbing practice will be conduct
ec here daily, for an indefinite
periOd.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-15
Nazi Reign OF Terror Increases

and which becomes more saw
age as they become more des-
perate," Hull said.
Of the massacre Of Jews In
Hungary "by the Nazis and
their Hungarian Quislings,"
Hull declared that the number
Of victims Is already great and
'the entire Jewish community
in Hungary which numbered
nearly 100000 souls is threat
ened with determination"
He said the United States
twill not slacken" its efforts
to rescue as many of the peo-
pie as possible and he declared
that "the puppet Hungarian
government by its violation Of
the most elementary human
rights and by its servile adop-
ton of the worst features Of
the Nazi racial policy, stands
condemned before history"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-15
MCNAIR ORDERED
TO FOREIGN DUTY

WASHINGTON July IA. -(P)-
The first shift in the top level
command of the army in more
than two years was disclosed TO-
day with the announcement that
1t. Gen. Lesley J. McNair, ground
forces commander who has been
called "the brains of the army"
has been ordered overseas on an
important assignment.
1t. Gen. Ben Lear, former Sc
cond army chief still remembered
for his disciplinary orders to a
group Of soldiers in the "yoo hoo"
incidents at Memphis in the sum-
mer of 1941, already has succeed
ed McNair as commanding gen
eral of the ground forces.
No hint of the nature of McNa:r' S
new job was given but the War
Department stressed that it was
important.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-15
PAPER SAYS F.D.R.
ENDORSED WALLACE

NEW YORK, July 13-lREThe
New York Herald Tribune says
in a Washington dispatch that
Pesident Roosevelt, according to
reports, has drafted a letter in
dorsing Vice President Henry A..
Wallace for denomination.
The newspaper says wallace
saw the president and the letter
this morning, and that Wallace
was satisfied with the letters
contents.
Pro-Wallace sources in the CAPT
tai were said by the Herald Trlb.
une to expect that the letter would
be made public in Washington
in a day or two. However these
sources also as quested as saying
there was possi b lity the
letter might not be released un-
til the Democratic convention
opens next Wednesday in Chicago.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-15
HOEY TO NOMINATE
GOV. BROUGHTON

ASHEVILLE, July IA. - R -
Clyde R. Hoey, of Shelby, former
governor and Democratic nominee
for the U. S. Senate, will place the
name of Governor Broughton be-
fore the Democratic National con-
vention at Chicago as a candidate
for the vice-presidency, it was an
nounced here today by E. C. Oea-
COM Greene of Asheville. 18th
Congressional district delegate to
the convention.
Greene said he would represent
Hoey by proxy at e meeting of the
Democratic National committee
scheduled in Chicago Monday at
ternoon. The former governor will
not leave for the convention city
until Monday night.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-15
GAUM BOMBARDED
10TH DAY in ROW

U. S, PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
quarters, Pearl Harbor, July
l4.-R-For the tenth straight day
Guam was ripped by bombs and
rockets of Vice Adm. Marc A.
M'tScher's task force Thursday in
continuing action which suggest
e. impending developments
against that Former U. S. Outpost.
Adm. Chester w. Nirntz an
nooced tonight in a press release
me firing of ammunition dumps,
gun positions and other instal1a-
u rs on Guam in the July Is at
'0ek by carrier planes.
Yesterday Tokyo radio told Of
.He assault but added that a battle
SSr'p also had twice bombarded
Guam Thursday.
= thursdays raiding force also hit
4,oVd' an enemy held island be-
wen Guam and newly conquered
u"lpaA All planes returned from
tie Guam and Rota attacks.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-15

WASHINGTON, July 14.-R
"A Nazi "reign of terror"
throughout. occupied Europe
was reported. officially today
to be increasing in savagery-
as the enemy's desperation
grows with the relentless APP
proach Of his day of defeat.
Some. authorities suggested
that Hitler and his GestapO
leaders in a final mad frenzy
of failure. are now moving into
a period of blood lust and ruin
that will make the hour Of Eu-
ropes liberation its darkest
hour.
From Secretary Of State Hull
came the statement that
reign of terror has begun. In
London, another state depart
ment official, Herbert Clair
borne Pell, said he believed
the Germans would attempt to
wreck occupied Europe as pre-
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-15

1t won't be wallace" SAID
Representative Thomas D'Alesan-
dro, Jr., of Maryland, but other
delegates in hotel lobby interviews
declared Wallace still is very
much i nthe picture.
The 29th party conclave will
convene Wednesday to give Presi-
dent Roosevelt a fourth nomina-
ton. Most of the platform build
ers came on the scene during the
day and, at an organization meet
ing, decided to start public hear
ings Monday. The platform SUBJ
committee is headed by Represen-
tatives John Mccormack, Massa-
chusetts, and Mary T. Norton,
New jersey.
Word filtered through hotel lob
bies that National Committee
Chairman Robert E. Hannegan
will arrive tomorrow, possibly
with tentative platform and the
latest '1owdown" on presidential
wishes for a running mate.
Failure of a pro-Wallace state
ment to materialize at the White
House puzzled party members
here.
The vice-president's associates
in Washington had been predicting
President Roosevelt would voice
a preference for the former agri-
culture secretary.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-15
Wc~, Navy Boards
Will Study Attack

WASHINGTON, July IA. - R -
Heads of the War and Navy de-
partments today created special
boards to inquire into the Japan
csc attack on Pearl Harbor.
The Navy court will convene
Monday to begin its study. A SINH
lar board of officers appointed by
War Secretary Stimson will hold
itself ready for separate inquiry.
The action complied with terms
Of congressional resolution which
directed an investigation forthwith
into the facts surrounding the
catastronhe.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-15
AMERICANS GAIN IN ITALY
AS NAZI TROOPS RETREAT:
PUSH TO SOUTH IN FRANCE
STRIKE CLOSER
TO GREAT PORT
Stiff German Resistance
Abruptly Terminated
On 5th Army Front

ROME, July Ia - (P -
German resistance to the adj
vancing Americans on the
Fifth Army front has sud-
denly withdrawn, front-line
dispatches reported tonight,
with the doughboys making
gains up to five miles along
most of the line in a bid to
enter the big port of Livorno
Oeghorn), possibly this
weekend.
While hard fighting French
troops celebrated Bastille day by
capturing the important commune
cations center of Poggibonsi, q
miles southwest of Florence. after
two days of combat in the out
skirts, the Americans were NOV
ing up against enemy artillery fire
described as merely harassing, and
against small rear-guard groups
of eight to 10 German riflemen.
An, unsuccessful counterattack by
80 Germans north of Castellina
was described as a comparatively
big action, in sharp contrast with
the yard-by-yard fighting advanc-
eS of the paSt FORTNIGHT
In their thrust toward the Arno
river the Americans still were run
ming into minefields and demoli-
tons, but the character of Ger
man opposition had weakened no.
ticeably during the day after some
hard close combat yesterday.
GA German broadcast said Pgogi-
bonsi had been recaptured by Ger
man parachute troops in a surprise
counterthrust today. There was no
confirmation from Allied sources)
Possession of Poggibonsi, situat-
ed on the main highway between
Siena and Florence, gives the AL
lies a major base from which to
drive directly on Florence as well
as down the Elsa river valley to-
ward Empoli on the Arno river.
1t was fitting victory for
Frances national holiday, for
among Gen. Alphonse Juin's troops
were officers and men who could
recall wildly the despair that grip
ped their homeland four years ago.
Spearheading the thrust into San
Luce late yesterday was hard
fighting regimental combat team
composed of American soldiers of
Japanese origin which has distin-
guished itself in the Fifth army's
push up the Italian west coast.
In a bloody, close-quarter bay
onet and hand grenade engagement
the Americans first cleaned out the
village of Pastina, two miles south
of San Luce, and then repealed a
furious Nazi counterattack as they
pressed on through the latter VIII
lage and dug in on nearby high
ground.
This Yank column is smashing
its way along a secondary road
about 10 miles inland from the
coast while much stronger force
battles down the Era river valley
north of captured Lajactico, some
q miles inland.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-15
paration for. another war.
Pell said that hY such vic.

paration for. another war.
Pell said that by such vio-
Ience - "beyond anything the
world has seen"-the Germans
would seek to weaken their
neighbors permanently while
t HI e y remained relatively
strong. 7
1t was the reported wiping out
of the Grecian village of Dis
tomo and mass killings of Jews
in Hungary which prompted
Secretary Hull today to de-
nounce atrocities anew and to
promise that punishment will
be dealt out to the Nazi perpe-
traitors. More than 1000 persons
were reported killed at Distomo
in dispatches from Ankara.
"The cold blooded murder Of
the population of Distomo is
another shocking example of
the reign of terror which the
Nazis have instituted in Europe
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-15
Soviet Army
Gets Pinsk,
Other Towns
NAZI LINES STIFFEN
Russian Drive Carries
To Within 20 Miles
Of East Prussia

LONDON,N July 14-(P)-
The Red army, pushing west
ward along a line less than
% miles from east Prussia,
reported advances against
slowly stiffening German op-
position today all along the
line from the Latvian bor-
Ter region on the north to
the heart of old Poland on
the south, with the German
.edoubt of Pinsk, 100 miles
EAST OF Brest Litvosk, among
more than 315 towns listed
captured.
Other outstanding captures of
HE day as announced in the regu-
lar midnight conmunique and two
orders of the day from Marshal
Stain included Wolkoysk and Ski
del. on the approaches to Bialy-
stok and Grodno in old Poland,
and the railway station of Opoch-
la. "a miles east of the Latvian
border.
A German broadcast tonight
quoted German high command
statement as saying Opochka was
a key point in one of the barrier
systems" holding back the Rus
SIAN advance.
Closest announced approach to
east Prussia was the capture of
Druskeniki, railway town slight
ly less than 20 miles southeast of
the SuWalki district that the Ger
mans annexed 10 east Prussia in
1899, and Is miles northeast of
Grodno.
Still nearer to Grodno was the
captured town of Ozery, IA miles
east of that German fortress.
Pjnsk, metropolis of the Pripyat
marshes, fell to troops of Marshal
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky's First
White Russian front, who forced
tie Yaselda and Pripyat rivers
and Stormed the city with the aid
Of river gunboats, Marshal Stain
announced.
The Germans a few hours ear
Ier said they had Withdrawn from
Inc deeply outflanked city.
In second order of the day,
Stain announced the capture OF
Eolkoysk, so miles east of Btaly-
sfok and 80 miles northeast of
Brest Litovsk, as the Russians
Grew steadily nearer to the Bug
river line on which Hitler and Sta
I'm partitioned Poland in 1899 and
rom which the Germans attacked
ire Russians June %, 1871.
Al the present rate of Russian
l~ogress, observers here predicted
taey might be in Brest Litovsk in
12ur or five days.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-15

Stubborn American resistance
blunted othe initial assault launch
ed Wednesday by vanguards of 49,
coo Nipponese east of Aitape IN
British New Guinea. In a blazing
jungle battlefield, the japanese
crossed the Driniumor rive-, q
miles east of the important Tadji
airdrome, after one allied outpost
withdrew.
The assault was smashed, and
the attackers were recognizing
for another attempt.
Approximately 300 miles\ west
ward, in Dutch New Guinea,
American forces have captured the
Saware airfield in the Sarmi-
Maffin bay area. japanese resist
ance virtually had collapsed, and
the survivors were moving west
ward inland from the coast in what
headquarters described as "a haz-
ardous movement of doubtful sue
cess
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-15
lST ARMY GETS
u new TOWNS
Soldiers S m ash Forward
On Widespread Front
To Repel Germans

SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TIERS A LIED EXPEDI-
TIONARY FORCE, Saturday,
July 15-P-The American
First Army pushed south to-
day with gains up to three
miles, took 13 French towns,
pinned down the coastal
stronghold of Lessay with ar
tillery fire and hurled back
the stubborn enemy in the
center with a blow that men
aced the big lateral road link
ing up the German front.
"The whole U. S. Army front
from st. 10 to the sea is on the
move" said Supreme Headquar-
tiers, and the night conmunique
declared salients had been driven
into enemy defenses before the
Lessay-St. Lo road. Some of these
positions were less than two miles
from the highway.
The communique located the
gains on both sides OF the Taute
river, below Auxals from 2 IA tc
3 miles from the highway, ano
front dispatches presumably based
on later information placed van
guards within two miles in fight
ing farther east.
Stalled before St. Lo, the Am
orleans began sweeping around tc
the north, and supreme headquar'
tiers said one thrust carried to the
outskfTtEo fsLe Mesnil Durand,
three and a half miles northwest
The biggest gains came north
west Of Lessay, where doughboys
sped three miles south and cap
tured st. Germain-sur-Ay, Lessay's
harbor. Germans on a spit Of land
jutting out two and half miles
west had escaped the trap and fled
across the Ay river.
Closing in from the north, where
Americans in Beauvais, less than
two miles away, were firing into
Lessay, other troops seized Laulne;
three miles northeast Of the coas-
tai anchor.
GA German transocean news
agency dispatch from enemy head.
quarters said the Germans had
Withdrawn a few thousand yards
between the gorges marshes AND
the coast, a distance of about II
miles according to plan.o
On some parts of the Lessay sec.
tor, the Americans advanced
against waning resistance, partl'
cularly on the east where they
drove to Pissot, less than two miles
due east of the anchor town. Sup
RENE Headquarters announced al
midnight.
But the Germans were known to
have from IL to II divisions on the
American front, apparently mass
ed for a desperate defense.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-15
Jap Troops Again
Encircle Hengyang

CHUNGKING, July IA - ~
Japanese troops have again en-.
circled Hengyang and enemy fore.
es are advancing from the south
toward junction at the pivotal
Human province city which would
cut China in half, the Chinese
command declared tonight.
The japanese were said to have
resorted to poison gas in thei1
intensified attacks on Ha1gyang,
but the Chinese said they were
repulsed with more than 1000 cas-
Lualties.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-15
ROBOT BOMBS CAUSE
REFUGEE PROBLEMS

LONDON, Saturday, July 15.-
Up With evacuation of London
greater than even during the 1870
ii blitz, a serious situation devel-
oped today in finding refuge from
robot bombs for women and chill
dren and scores have returned to
the capital after being turned
AWAY in safe areas.