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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-01

A field dispatch from Lynn Helm
zerling of the Associated Press
said New Zealand troops late to-
day were fighting their way grim
ly up a 1,000-foot ridge six miles
southwest of Florence anc were
within few hundred yards of get
ting their first sight of the city.
The Germans defending Flor
ence showed a surprising resur-
gence of strength over the week
end, throwing concentrations Of
armor and infantry into fierce
counterattacks against the British,
Indian, New Zealand and South
African forces smuggling forward
within five to seven miles of the
city.
Allied advices officially describ-
ed the fighting as very heavy"
Severe losses were being inflicted
upon the enemy's depleted forces,
particularly by nassed fire of Al
lied artillery. Hundreds of Allied
fighters and fighter-bombers rip
ped almost ceaselessly at enemy
positions.
The situation was almost iden-
teal with that encountered by
the Allies before Rome nearly two
months ago, when the Nazis put
up savage resistance until the
main body of their troops could
be withdrawn beyond the capital.
Florence, like Rome before it. has
been declared an open city by the
Germans and appears likely to es-
cape serious damage.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-01

mate of the peacetime national
income, and an idea of the
amount that would be raised by
present rates.
Doughton said he expects i'm
mediate repeal, or modification
at the end of the war, of the
IS per cent excess profits tax
against corporations and the
SIS use tax on automobiles,
along with summary reduc-
tiOns in the excise taxes. Then
Congress can take a look at
the economic situation and
write a law speedily to adjust
individual and corporation le-
vies to encourage private en-
deavor and expand employ
ment. he said
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-01
Four Hurt In Wreck
Near Bradley Greek

Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Cummings
and Cummings mother. all of Will
mington, were injured yesterday
afternoon when the car in which
they were riding collided with an
army vehicle on the Wrightsville
road near Bradley Creek school.
The older Mrs. Cummings was
the most seriously injured of the
three, suffering from fractured
rib, bad decorations about the face
and head bruises. Mrs. Hugh Cum
mings' ankle probably was frac-
tured, while her husband suffer-
ed minor lacerations
An unidentified soldier also was
slightly hurt.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-01
Georgia Tobacco Prices
So To So Less Than 1913

VALDOSTA, Ca, July 81
RNOpening day prices on
Georgia's tobacco auction
floors today were $500 to $500
per hundred less than 1943
opening prices, the War Food
Administration announced.
The VIA said the decrease
largely was attributable to the
reduction in ceiling prices from
Al cents in 1913 to 80 cents
this year, and that demand for
all grades appeared good.
Although prices were lower,
the VIA reported, there were
few reflections noted, with the
general average Of selected
markets ranging from SO to 40
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-01

cents pound. Bulk of the
offerings brought 81 to AZ
cents a pound, with a few
baskets bringing as high as A
cents a pound.
VIA said most markets re-
ported blocked sales and near
1y all warehouses filled to ca
pacity. Gross sales on open.
ing day in 1913 totalled $780,
COG, at an average Of S42.60
per hundred rounds.
Quality of the. leaf offered
this year, VIA said, was low
err as a whole than that of 1913,
as more fair and low quality
grades were offered, with less
Of the choice and fine quality
Tugs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-01

WASHINGTON, July 31.-(R
- Assurance was voiced by
Chairman Doughton (D-N. c.
Of the House Ways and Means
committee today that congress
sional tax leaders will be rea-
DIV, when the war ends, to slim
,ulate economic expansion by
making broad adjustments In
federal tax burdens.
"When the war ends Dough-
ton said, eve want to curtail
the burdens, on individuals and
corporations. But at the same
time we should pay something
ON the national debt, If it can
be done without Gripping in
dustry."
Returning from his North
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-01
You Takes Seat
On City Council
At Session Toda,

Edgar L. Vow, past mayor
and prominent local attorney,
will be sworn in as city coun-
Gilman at a special meeting
Of the council this morning.
Vow was selected to fill the
vacancy left by the death of
Mayor Bruce B. Cameron. He
was one of the original council
men elected to serve 81 the
first term under the new city
manager form Of government
in 1941. In 1912, he was appoint
ed mayor to succeed Hargrove
Bellamy, but did not seek
reelection to the council.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-01
Lejeune Cancels Plans
For Grid Team In Fall

CAMP LEJEUNE. July 31-R-
Camp Lejeune, the Marine base,
won't have a football team this
year and its schedule has been
cancelled.
An announcement from the pub
lie relations office said the press
of military training and transient
personnel precluded the posts
putting team in the field.
A program of intramural foot
ball is planned. Hbwever.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-01
AMERICANS SWEEP BEYOND AKRANC7ES
l2ggylNASHlNG DRIVE AGAINST NAZIS;
ID ARMY BEGINS SELGE OF WARSAW
WINS REPORTED
ON ALL FRONTS
East Prussia Campaign.
Northern Offensive
Show Gains

LONDON, Tuesday, Aug.
1.-P)-Red armies in ano-
ther series of sensational vic
tories yesterday began the
battle of Warsaw in Poland
from a broad siege arc eight
to 13 miles east of the city,
swept to within Is miles of
German East Prussia proper,
and probably trapped scores
of thousands of Axis troops
in the north by Selling the
key rail junction Of Jelgava
in Latvia.
Berlin said Praga, east bank
suburb of Warsaw was under So
Wet attack, and the Nazi high COM
mand also announced the loss OF
Kaunas. prewar Lithuanian capital
to the storming Russians whose
tank-tipped spearheads were near
ing the border of East Prussia,
cradle of German militarism, af-
ter smashing into its annexed SUI
walk triangle area Sunday.
Warsaw, halfway house on the
road to Berlin, is the first United
Nations capital to hear the sound
Of liberating Allied army, and a
late dispatch from Eddy Gilmore,
Associated Press Moscow cores
pendent, said thousands of beaten
Germans were choking the Vistula
river bridges in their flight into
Warsaw.
Moscow announced the capture
Of more than 500 cities. towns and
villages east Of Warsaw, including
WoYonlin eight miles northeast OF
the Warsaw suburb of Praga. Of
wock, 10 miles southeast of War.
saws outskirts, also was captured,
as well as Radzymin, II miles north
east of Praga.
The powerful First White Rus
sian army was directed by Mar
shall Konstantin K. Rokossovsky,
son of a Warsaw cobbler and a
Stalingrad hero. Participating I'M
der him were Is generals, cited
yesterday by Premier-Marshal Jo-
seph Stain for the seizure of three
Axis Nstrongholds: Minsk-Mazowi-
ecki, 81 miles east of>Warsaw, Sled
Ice. 20 miles farther east, and Lu-
kow, 20 miles south of Siedlce.
Stain issued three orders of the
day. One of these disclosed that the
Third White Russian army under
Ben. Ivan Cherniakhovsky, the
young Jewish tank expert assigned
the historic role of smashing into
German East Prussia, now was
rolling forward on a 143-mile front.
1t has penetrated 81 miles through
shattered German lines in two
days, sweeping up 1,500 towns and
villa ges, and might cross into Ger
man East Prussia by today or to-
morrow.
Moscow did not confirm the Ger
ma announcement of Kaunas' fall,
but said Russian troops had brok-
en- into the city and were enga ged
=. e+,onf fiohtipO AYic c9ntiVeS
were quoted in Moscow dispatches
as saying the broken German Me
men river defense was called Ger
many's catastrophe Line
Cherniakhovsky's men were
storming westward on a front ex-
banded to more than double its
size compared to the 6S-mile line
which opened the offensive Sunday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-01
BAN ON SMOKING

PHILADELPHIA, July 31.-(P)
Federal Attorney Gerald A. Glee-
son announced in court today he
would ask the War Shipping Ad-
ministration to ban smoking on am
munition ships by Navy gun crew
members and merchant creWmen.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-01
LIGHTNING WAR
| R0UTS GERMANS
Enemy's Lines Outflanked
By Great Offensive
Down Coast rt

SUPREME .HEADQUAR-
TIERS ALLIED EXPEDI-
TIONARY FORCE, Tuesday.
Aug. l. - up - U. S. tank
and infantry burst out OF
Normandy yesterday with a
mighty drive that swept oy-
err the prize city of Avran-
ches and beyond, engulfing
remnants of a battered Ger
man army still unable to raj
ly for a stand against the
American tide rolling down
the coast of France.
Gaining well over 10 miles in
one day, with a speed that gave
the Germans sample of the Am
erican brand of lightning war,
the doughboys stormed across the
formidable See river at Avran-
ches and turned the western flank
of the enemy's line.
The Americans now were free to
strike across Brittany's Brest Pc
ninsula or east toward Paris, 160
miles away. en-
Paced by swarms Of fighters
and dive bombers which turned
the highways into death-traps for
the disorganized enemy, the Am
erican columns roared on today
with no sign of slowing, although
the Germans to the northeast
fought back fiercely below st. Lo
and Caumont.
The armored squirt Of Is to 10
miles merely to Avranches, car
ried the Americans more than 40
miles souti, Of their jurnp-off point
of Lessay and by-passed unknown
numbers of enemy troops, some
of whom were overhauled at Av-
ranches.
The Allied midnight commune.
que said islands of resistance
were being mopped up in ? III.
angle formed by the newly~p.
tured Atlantic port Of Granville.
Breha1, six miles to the northeast,
and Avranches, 16 miles SOUTH
east of Granville.
One large pocket Of the enemy
was cleaned out in the area of st.
Denis-Le Cast, nine miles SOUTH
east of Coutances, and the Ameri-
can bag of prisoners since the Of
fensive began Tuesday was well
beyond 10000.
With Supreme Headquarters con-
firming that Avranches was firm.
ly in American hands, it was dis
closed that neither Percy nor Tes-
sy-Sur-Vire were now held by the
Americans but heavy fighting was
raging near both towns in that
sector.
The Americans previously had
driven through both towns.
South of Gavray, another point
where the Germans have dug in
and are making their first deter
mined stand since the invasion
broke, the war bulletin said the
enemy had been driven from their
positions.
The synchronized British drive
farther east, around Caumont.
made steady progress, overrun-
ming a number of places including
St. Germain-D' Ectot, 10 miles
northeast of Cuamont, Cahagnes,
2 miles southeast, and st. Martin.
des- Besages, IL miles SOUTH
west.
The Germans attempted coun-
ter-attack to retake dominant Hin
300 east Of St. Martin Sunday
night, but We're driven back, the
communique said.
1t. Gen. Omar N. Bradley was
exploiting the breakthrough down
the coast to the hilt, and sending
his infantry forward at top speed.
w.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-01
wET PROGRAM INCREASED

A htraaoHlNGTON, July 81. -(P)-
w. eiiiehdous expansion Ii the Ma
ind; locket projectile program was
tba a.'aVed today in announcement
Won, ammunition procurement
nsr au De doubled with rockets ap-
en,, ''ly accounting for almost the
'"te increase.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-01
Nauy Orders Submarine
Production Decreased

WASHINGTON, July 31-tR-The
good fortune and fighting qualities
of American submarines in the
Pacific. coupled with the urgent
need for other weapons, resulted
today in a Navy decision to trim
its undersea production program.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-01
Absent Solons
Urged To Get
Back On Jobs
SENATOR'S ARE WIRED
Peace Time Legislation
For Reconversion
Demands Action

WASHINGTON, July 81
R - Members of the Sen.
ate military committee were
ordered today to return te
Washington "at once" to work
out without delay legislation
bracinS the h o m front
against any economic i'm.
pacts of sudden German col
lapse.
Senate Majority Leader Barley
D-Ky) interviewed in an effort to
get reconversion bills into shape
for Congress, which convenes to-
morrow with little else of major
Importance to do.
He Joined with Chairman Rey-
nolds, ON. c. in telegraphing
the absent military committee
members:
1T is imperative that members
of the Senate military affairs COM
mittee return to Washington at once
in order that proper consideration
may be given to vital and indis-
pensable legislation dealing with
reconversion, rehabilitation and
surplus property disposal, bills
concerning which are now pend
ing in the military affairs commit
tee"
They set committee meeting for
Thursday morning and asserted the
postwar legislation, ''the most i'm
portant problem now facing Con-
gress," must be dealt with with
out delay"
Barley told a news conference
he hoped the military committee
will not take long" since the Sc
nate might have to take three-day
recesses until it completes its
work.
He said that he thought postwar
tax bills were something that Con-
gress cant very well tackle now,
although it is primarily problem
for the House, where tax measures
originate.''
Personally, I think We'll have to
wait until the war is over before
we can have a complete picture"
he said
Earlier, Senator Vandenberg R-
Mich) speaking for Senate Republi-
cans, TOLD a news conference it is
absolutely vitaF' that the COM
mittee convene at once to set up
machinery for surplus property dis
pcsal as well as an unemployment
compensation program covering
displaced war workers.
Vandenberg, chairman of the Re-
publican Senate conference, spoke
after a meeting with Senator Taft
R-Ohio) and Acting Minority
Leader White (R-Maine).
He predicted their view that ac-
ton should be taken at once would
be concurred in at a meeting of
the party's steering committee to-
morrow.
The battle news is at least suf-
ficlently encouraging to require
that the home front should be rea-
dy for the impact Of German
defeat Candenberg declared.
The military committee has in its
possession various bills dealing
with surplus property disposition
and an overall reconversion pro-
posal sponsored by Senators
George D-Ga) and Murray ID
Mont.), and another by Senator
Kllgore DIV. Va
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-01
Nazis Fight Hard
To Hold Florence

ROME, July 31.-(P)-Desperately resisting German
troops have held tired Eighth army veterans to small but
important gains outside Florence the past "a hours
Allied communque reported today amid growing indication
that the Naz commanders making lastditch stand
before the great art center in hopes convincing Hitler
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-01
FORECAST

WILMINGTON AND VICINITY: Most
ly cloudy today with scattered thunder
showers and showers. occurring mainly
during afternoon and evening Not much
change in temperature.
Temperatures yesterday.
High 80-Low 10.
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Evening star., 1944-04-27
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Evening star., 1944-04-27
ChurchiII's S Rejection
OF Naval Base Plan
Stirs House Members
Is the Associated Press.

ES bne ASSOClAleu ficSs
Members of a House Naval At
fairs subcommittee that recon-
mended outright acquisition of
western Hemisphere bases leased
from the British served notice today
that Prime Minister Churchill's re-
lection of the idea was little more
than disappointing.
ut wouldn't be fair to have them
eventually gain possession of strong
bases that were made strong by
American money" said Representa-
tive Hess, Republican, of Ohio. a
member of the group.
Chairman Hebert expressed a
whats the matter with the idea?"
attitude, asserting:
Real estate transactions between
countries are nothing new. We only
have to look back to the Louisiana
purchase. I don't expect us to out
trade the British like Jefferson out
traded Napoleon.
IF it was all right for Great
Britain to come to us when they
needed the SO destroyers-and
needed them bad--what's wrong
with our sitting down and talking
with them right now about perpet-
ual possession of these bases?"
Mr.. Hess and MIR. Hebert-the
third member, Representative Cole,
Republican, of New York, was un-
available-joined In saying that
"AlI we are asking is that we sit
down and discuss this. We certain
ly sat down and talked with them
about the destroyers."
Evening star., 1944-04-27
Kelly Hopes Welcome
Has Spent lis Force
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, April 27.-Tech.
Sergt. Charles E. (Commando)
Kelly today f1dgeted at his home
and wondered with his Nom" If
the unfettered enthusiasm of his
neighbors and other Pittsburgh ad-
mirers has been at least partially
satiated.
Last night a crowd estimated by
police at more than 10000 surged
through police lines in West Park
just a few blocks from his home to
end abruptly a feverish day-long
celebration.
"We want Kelly" the unmanage-
able crowd shouted, as the reception
committee intreated the crowd for
quiet and order.
Five women tainted and 20 chill
dren were lost and had to be re-
covered at police station before
the Congressional Medal of Honor
winner spoke in desperation.
Il don't have much to say" he
said, "but I appreciate what you
are trying to do and 1 thank you
from the bottom OF my heart"
Hushed momentarily. the crowd
again pressed toward the bandstand
where the "one-man army" ac-
knowledged the cheers, together
with his family and city dignitaries.
Police then forced through the
milling throng in an automobile di-
rectly to the bandstand to pick up
Sergt. Kelly as the committee can
celed the remainder of the program.
Evening star., 1944-04-27
Mrs. Armstrong Heads
Women's S Salvage Unit

The Commissioners yesterday ap-
proved of the appointment of Mrs
Albert M. Armstrong as chairman
of the Women's Division of the
District Salvage Committee to sue
ceed Mrs. Charles Goldsmith who
has resigned. Mrs. Joseph A. Egan
was named co-chairman.
The names of Mrs. Armstrong and
Mrs. Egan were submitted by the
Salvage Committee. Mrs. Armstrong
is president of the Board of Lady
Managers of Episcopal Eye, Ear and
Throat Hospital, past departmental
president OF the Veterans of Foreign
Wars Auxiliary and national legisla-
tive officer of the VFW.
Mrs. Egan is president of the
Catholic Sodality Union, past pres
tdent Of the Womens Retreat, mem
Der of the Women's Division of the
War Finance Committee and men,
Der of the board of the local United
Service Organizations.
Both women have served on the
board of directors of the Salvage
Committee since 1912.
Evening star., 1944-04-27
FTC Cites Pittsburgh Firm
Selling 'Armored Bibles
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
A Pittsburgh firm selling religious
books was cited by the Federal trade
Commission yesterday on the ground
that it falsely represented that it's
"armored Bibles" and Heart shield
Bibles" can defect bullets, shrapnel
or bayonets.
The complaint against the firm,
the Arthur Won Sender Co., Inc,
asserted that in making such state
ments it abuses and betrays" the
concern of families and friends for
loved ones in combat.
The books neither protect nor fit
over the heart of the wearer as ad-
vertised, the complaint asserted. 1t
added that while there may have
been an isolated instance in which
the wearing of a steel covered copy
Of testament or prayer book was
instrumental in preventing wound
or even saving the life of soldier,
the respondents steel-covered books
will not physically protect the per-
son and are not capable of defect
ing bullets, shrapnel or bayonets." p"
Evening star., 1944-04-27
Dry Era May Return,
Murdoch Declares
ne She y

BY the Associated Press.
Prohibition is the ultimate rem
edy of the people" says Senator
Murdock, Democrat, of Utah, "if the
liquor industry doesn't conduct its
business on a reputable basis"
Senator Murdock is a member of
the Senate's Liquor Investigating
Committee. AS a closed session for
the group was called today to hear
the results of a private investiga-
ton by Committee Counsel j. G.
Sourwine, Senator Murdock said he
would seek to bring to light:
Il. The extent of present whisky
reserves,
%. The reason for exorbitant
prices and
"3. The occasion for deterioration
in quality of blends inow reaching
the market"
Senator Ferguson, Republican, of
Michigan suggested the committee
reopen the question of the advisa-
bility of an alcohol holiday" to
permit distilleries to manufacture
some whisky and direct a new
scrutiny of "the monopolistic con-
trol" of available supplies.