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BATTLE IN STREETS
$4,000 Patriots Break Out
Allied Flags On Copen-
hagen Forts
su ROBERT N. sTURDEvANT

By ROBERT N. STURDEVANT
STOCKHOLM, July ALLIED
flags flew tonight from barbados
in the streets of Copenhagen where
$4,000 Danish patriots, brandishing
machine guns and rifles, were re
ported ready to fight to the finish
against a German garrison of 5000
being bolstered hourly by other
troops rushing in from Zealand.
After night of street fighting,
during which one unconfirmed re
port said German planes machine
eunned the demonstrators, the pa
tziots broke out United States, Brit
ish, Russian, and Danish flags and
hung them defiantly above their
improvised 'Fortresses.
General Strike
The swedish newspaper Alton
bladet quoted a report from the
that the demonstra
tors-who began a general strike
yesterday-now were $4,000 strong.
Observers at Malmo, Sweden,
Just across the Orc sound from
Copenhagen, said smoke could be
seen rising above the city ap-
parently from the bonfires started
by the demonstrators.
The general strike was described
by the free Danes as 100 per cent
effective, and as a result food sup
giles shrank, water and electricity
were cut off. and all transporta
ton was at standstill.
Unconfirmed reports said more
than 700 persons had been killed
or wounded, while the free Danish
press service reported that violent
street fighting had sent 400 persons
TO hospitals.
So heavy was the demand for
ambulances, the service said, that
Communicated milk trucks W e
carrying the wounded away.
Demonstrators ranged through
the streets, smashing more than
100 shops which refused to join the
strike.
The Germans closed the harbor
of Copenhagen today, the press
service said, and the last ferry de
rarted for Sweden at noon.
With Denmark almost completely
cut off, it was difficult to obtain
clear picture, and most OF the
reports came in from the under
ground or from the few refugees
who managed to get to Sweden.
A report circulating in Malmo
said the Germans had threatened
to shoot hostages and bomb the
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from Aigun, the Siberian Dor.
der, to Canton, southernmost
major port in China. The lines
run through Hardin, in the
heart of the great Japanese
developed industrial center of
Manchuria, and Peiping, for
mer Chinese capital, to inte-
rior and coastal strong points.
Operation of the full 1000
mile stretch of railroads would
relieve Japan's hard-pressed
shipping. Nippon's battered
merchant fleet needs help bad
ly. Some 2,476 of her ships
have been sunk, probably sunk
or damaged since Pearl Har-
Dor. Incomplete reports in
June listed al ships sunk and
AZ damaged. Thirteen warships
were in each group.
Japan's air losses for the
month come close to her esti-
mated monthly production.
And the figures did not cover
the full month nor japanese
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NATIONS STRIKES
KEEP 10000 IDLE
Employees OF Anoth e r
Pennsylvania Mine Fail
To Report For Work
(By The Associated Press)

Employees of another coal mine
failed to report for work in Penn
sylvania yesterday and a union Of
fetal said they probably had gone
fishing
The walkout brought to approx
nately 10000 the number of idle
workers throughout the nation.
The new walkout, involving near
" 1,7OO mines at the No. Z colliery
Of the Susquehanna Galleries com
pany, near Wilkes Barre, took place
on the first cay of the miners
regular vacation, cancelled recent
Iy by agreement in response to a
nieS. from Harold L. Ickes, soil 1
fuels administrator. Yesterday al
so was the first day OF the Pennsyl
varia bass season.
A union spokesman said the mo.
II Celliery miners were unanimously
opposed to relinquishing their va
cation, despite such an agreement
made by their representative.
In Pennsylvania alone, $500
workers were on strike, including
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Shipyard Labor Election
Ordered Before July 20
Issue Of Self Rule
In UNIV To Be Raised

CINCINNATI, July 1.-R+
An explosive issue of self-ruIe
within the United Mine Work.
ers will be raised tomorrow at
a meeting called by Ray Ed
mundson, ign d Illinois
lieutenant of President John
l.: Lewis and now a candidate
for his job.
Edmundson, posing a theme
of taxation without represen-
tation," declared today that Fl
out of 81 UNIV districts tdo
not elect their principal Off
GERS and that 16 Of the rs dis
trict members of the unions
international executive board
also are appointed.
In the last major revolt
within the UNIV, the Illinois
district lost its self-government
and 80 persons lost their lives,
according to EdmundsOn's
count. Edmundson was a vet
eran Of that warfare over
five or six-year period, and
was struck twice by bullets.
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WEATHER
FORECAST

FORECAST
NORTH CAROLINA: Partly cloudy
and rather hot Sunday and Monday with
scattered afternoon or evening thunder
showers Monday and in mountains Sun
day.
Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm, yesterday.
Temperature
1870 am, IL; 80 am, II; 1880 pm, IS;
1880 pm, IS.
Maximum SO; Minimum SO; Mean rs;
Normal 10.
| Humidity
80 am, 81; 1880 am, 81; 80 pm, 81;
80 pm, SO.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 1870 pm
0.32 inches.
Total since the first of the month
0.32 inches.
Tides For Today
From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
High Low
Wilmington ------------- 6:30a 1888
7:12p ! :48l
Masonboro Inlet ------ 4:05a 1927.
Asp 11:16l
Sunrise, 5:04 am: Sunset. :27 pm
Moonrise, 1893 pm; Moonset, 2:13 am
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JQcks0nNamed Chairman
of Democratic Meeting

WASHINGTON July 1. - R -
Senator Samuel D. jackson of Ind
lana was picked today to serve
permanent chairman of the De-
naocratic national convention open
ing in Chicago July 10 to select
President Roosevelt for another
nomination if he wants it.
This choice was announced as
Robert E. Hannegan, chairman of
the Democratic National Commit
tee, entrained for Chicago to COM
plete plans for the convention,
which will be held in Chicago sta
dunn, seem this week of the Re-
publican convention which nomin-
ated Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of
New York as it's standard bearer.
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Danes Set For Showdown
FIGHT With Maxi Garrison
Eighteen Men Rescued
From Fire-Swept Mine

HARLAN, KY, July 1-R-
Eighteen men, trapped for
nearly 20 hours in a fire-swept
coal mine pit, returned to the
surface late today with rescue
crews who had battled fumes
and heavy smoke to release
them.
One by one, the men left
the mine, owned by the Ridge
way Darby Coal company is
miles from here, to meet fam
lilies and relatives who eager
ly had awaited their rescue.
Mine officials and state in
spectors began an inquiry into
the cause of the fire.
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Jackson-an appointee to the Sc
nate now running for governor Of
Indiana - was nominated for the
permanent Craftsmanship by the
newly-appointed executive commit
tee of the national committee. The
full committee is expected to ap-
prove the election at meeting in
Chicago July IT,
Attending news conference at
which his selection was announced,
Jackson was pressed as to wheth-
err convention leaders had any word
regarding Mr. Roosevelt's inten-
tons with regard to a fourth term.
II presume President Roosevelt
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English Knock Out Is
Tanks While Repulsing
II Counter-Thrusts
RUSH UP RESERVES
Local Enemy Movement In
Vicinity OF Esquay Is
Noted By Observers
Nv GLADWIN HILL

SUPREME HEAD<aOA
ALLIE D EXPEDl-
TIONARY FORCE, Sunday
July 2-F- Britain's Sec
ond Army knocked out 70
German tanks and hurled
back a dozen enemy counter
attacks southwest of Caen
Yesterday, while American
troops cleaned up in the north
western tip of the Cherbourg
peninsula captured 1000 Ger
mans - boosting Axis dead
and prisoners on the Amer
lean front alone to nearly 3d.
900 men.
Both the Allies and the Germans
were rushing men and material
into the line arching on three sides
of Caen for impending critical
tank battles on the 120-mile in
vasion route to Paris, and Mar.
shall Erwin Rommel himself was
reported to have arrived at the
Caen front.
Headquarters conmunique No.
So, issued at 1880 pm, said:
'sNo further gains have been made
in the strong Allied bridgehead
across the Odon river" southwest
Of Caen.
Movement Noted
A local enemy movement in the
vicinity of Esquay, two miles
across the Odon and six miles
southwest of Caen, was noted by
headquarters which also said that
enemy infiltration attempts from
the east were unsuccessful"
Front dispatches said the Ger
mans also hit the west flank Of
the Allied bridgehead a dozen
times during the day with no
success at ALL These jabs were
beaten off in the Grainville-Sur-
Odon and Cheux areas, which
are from three to four miles
northwest of Esquay and on the
north side of the Odon.
The destruction of Is more Nazi
tanks made a total of 1877 de-
molished by the British since D.
day and a total of 347 destroyed
or disabled.
Resistance Collapses
All organized German resistance
on Cap de la Hague, northwest
of Cherbourg, collapsed yesterday.
said a late dispatch from Asso-
ciated Press Correspondent Hal
Boyle, who reported American
troops in the area had captured
5000 Germans in 48 hours-in-
Guiding their commanders, It.
Col. Mueller and 1t. Col. Kiehl.
A dispatch from American head
quarters on the peninsula said the
Americans had buried 4,212 Ger
mans and captured more than A.
900 for a total of at least 46,212
in the overall Cherbourg PENN
sular operation.
U. S. troops, backed by artillery
and using bayonets, grenades and
flame-throWers, were swiftly mop
ping up the last bit of resistance
on the peninsula. DISPATCHES from
Cherbourg said they wrecked Ger
man railway artillery which had
been hurting occasional shells into
Cherbourg in an effort to slow
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The Wilmington War Housing
Center, located in the Southern
building, was converted yesterday
to locally sponsored housing in
formation office.
The new office is located in the
same quarters as heretofore, and
mas the same management and di
rectlon, but no onger receives the
financial support of the Nationa
Housing Agency, which established
the office in November, 1912, and
has operated it through al agency
contract with the Housing Authori
~ of the City of Wilmington.
The local Housing Authority is
sponsor of the new office and Will
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U.s., Raj Planes Blast
NQzis Robot Bomb Coast

down eight Nazi fighters, sprayed
20 barges, three locomotives, nine
railway cars, three anti aircraft
cars and five trucks with ma
chine gun bullets.
Allied losses were one bomber
from each force and two American
fighters.
The bombing of h e concrete
chutes from which the Germans are
hurting their rocket bombs at Brit
ain was done by instrument be
cause of heavy cloud cover. Bad
weather earlier in the day had cut
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BritisN z<epulse Attacks Near Caen;
So, 4ts Advance On Minsk's Flanks;
Germans Fall Back On Italian Front
laps Launch Drive From Canton
To Complete Rail Line Conquest
BY LEONARD MILLIMAN

BY LEONARD MILLIMAN
Associated Press War Editor
Beaten on all fronts outside
of China throughout the costly
month of June, Japan has
launched a new drive from
Canton designed to complete
the conquest of 1000 miles of
railway linking her East Asia
garrisons.
The campaign started near
the close Of the most disas-
trOus month of the war for
Japan's air force-at least
1,036 planes destroyed and so
probably lost against $50 Unit
ed States planes lost.
NippOnese columns pushed
up from Canton along the
winding mountain railway to
join other forces $50 miles
away, pressing toward the
coast from flaming Hengyang.
Junction of these two ar
mics would give Nippon con-
troll of rail lines stretching
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BY HENRY b. JAMESON

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE, Sunday, July 2-lR-Two
separate forces of Allied heavy
bombers, one British and one
American, attacked German robot
bomb installations across the chan
mel in northern France shortly be-
fore dusk yesterday, beginning a
new month of operations after they
and other planes had flown more
than 100000 sorties in June.
The American formation was
composed of less than $50 Liberia
tors, and escorting fighters S h o t
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DEWEY WELCOMED
BACK TO ALBANY
Candidate els Crowd
Coming Election Means
We Are Free Men,

ALBANY, July l -tR- Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey. standing hands
in pockets on the steps of New
York's nineteenth century state
capitol, told a cheering crowd to-
day that america risks a wartime
election because that to us means
we are free men and are going to
keep the things we fight for
Home from his triumphant nom :
nation in Chicago as the republican
presidential candidate, Dewey was
greeted by crowds that packed the
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REGISTER 2O-MILE
GAINS AND SEIZE
500 COMMUNITIES
Fighting Prepares Way For
Final Assault On White
Russian Capital
TAKE BORISOV
Three OF Four Red Armies
Fighting In S ection
Unite Their Forces
By TOM YARBROUGH

LONDON, Sunday, July 2
- (P) Driving irresistably
westward, Red troops made
advances of as much as 20
miles on the flanks of the
White Russia n capital of
Minsk yesterday and captur-
ed more than 500 places in
1ding the large railway cen
ter of Borisov, Moscow an
nounced.
The days fighting, adding
thousands more killed and
captured G erma S to the
losses already inflicted on the
shattered Nazi forces, pre-
pared the way for a final as
sault on Minsk itself.
Associated Press CORRESPONDENT
EDDY Gilmore in dispatch from
Moscow said three of the four Rus
sim armies fighting in White Rus
STA already had united their forces
and begun their attack on the great
city which guards the historic route
10 Warsaw and Berlin.
Fight In Streets
Borisov, 46 miles from Minsk on
the direct railway, was complete
ly occupied early Saturday morn
ING after night of violent street
fighting in which more than 5000
Nazi officers and men were killed,
Moscow's supplementary communi-
que early today said.
Many prisoners were taken and
81 tanks and more than 200 guns
were destroyed as the Germans
were pounded back in utter rout,
the supplement stated.
Even before Borisov fell Red
troops had driven far beyond and
Moscow announced that two district
centers north of Minsk, Begoml and
Flechcenitsy, had been captured.
In the south the first White Rus
sian army of Marshal Konstanin
K. Rokossovsky, advanced 20
miles northwest of Slutsk and cap
tured the town of Kopyl. In the
same area Krasnaya Sloboda and
Gresk also were taken.
Point At BaranOwicze
Besides menacing Minsk from the
south, this drive also was pointed
directly at Baranowicze, big rail
way junction in old Poland.
Rokossovsky troops continued
TO mop up large pockets of Ger
mans left behind by the advance
of the forward units and the supple
rent announced that in one area
alone near Bobruisk LOO of the
enemy were killed and 5000 can
t,lred.
Among the prisoners taken at
Bubruisk, it was disclosed, wac
Maj. Gen. Canaan, at one time the
military commander of Orel and
called by the Russians 'Hangman
Canaan for his mass murder OF
innocent civilians"
In the northern area of the White
Russian front Gen. Ivan Bagra-
mian's first Baltic army, apparent
" driving toward Latvia, smashed
closer to Polotsk across the numer-
Gus streams in the area and cap.
tured Trosnitsa, two miles north.
east of that German stronghold.
One thousand Germans were kill.
ed and 1,120 captured in one sec
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Housing Center Becomes
Locally Sponsored Office

continue as heretofore to handle
it's war housing tenant selection a
the downtown office.
In statement issued through the
local Authority, Robert <. Creigh
ton, of Atlanta, regional represen-
tative of the MIA, pointed out that
the Center was established as a
purely temporary emergency war
time agency. 'It now appears" he
said. 'that the employment of civ
ilian workers in the Wilmington To-
cality has reached such levels as
to insure that housing accommoda'
tons are adequate to meet the
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SALE OF E. TYPE
BONDS LACS HERE
City And County Reach
80 Per Cent Of $780,
600 Overall Quota

Business interests and investors
nave exceeded expectations in pur-
c"aSlng of War bonds during the
nth War loan drive, J. G. Thorn
.on' city chairman, said yesterday,
Out series ''E'' bond sales are lag
slhg and showing disappointing
Latest tabulations released from
War bond headquarters revealed
mat ~ per cent of the S5,7O7, 1000
overall quota has been reached,
out little more than so per cent of
CONTINUED on Paxre Seven: Col. A.
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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-05-05
Postal Station
Reopened For
Easilawn Area

Reopening of a postal station in
the Virgins Drug store at the
corner of Market street and East
Lincoln avenue is announced by
Postmaster Arthur v. Smith, who
explained that the additional fa-
cility is for the convenience OF
the rapidly increasing population
in that part of the city.
The station was opened Thurs
day with Mrs. NJ. b. Cotton as
clerk in charge. Mrs. Cotton has
been employed in the main of
flee for the past year and a half
in the general delivery section,
and is well known to thousands
of people who received their mail
through the general delivery
when they first came to Pasca-
goula and before they moved in
to homes of their own.
The station will perform most
postal services, including issuing
money orders, selling stamps,
registering and insuring mail
and accepting parcels for delivery
in the United States and overseas,
There will be no delivery of mail
from the station, which will be
known as Station No. l..
Mr.. Smith said the new facility
is to reduce congestion at the
stamp and money order windows
at the main office, and the public
Is invited to patronize the new
office If il is more convenient
for them.
This is the second addition to
the Pascagoufa office, the East
lawn Classiissd Branch with a
superintendent and a full clerical
and carrier complement having
been established last year in the
Facilities Section of Eastlawn
Homes.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-05-05
Picks Pocket OF
sleeping Man. Is
Nubbed By Police

Earl c. James, 81, De Soto
Miss, was arrested Monday night
by Officer Morgan d. johnson
and charged with picking the
pocket of a man in a downtown
theatre.
According to Officer Johnson,
he was in the theatre when he
saw a mans hand working at the
pocket Of another man who was
asleep in a seat in the row ahead.
He waited, he said, until James
withdrew his hand from the
pocket, then grabbed him and
forced his hand open. James hand
contained money taken from the
pocket of the sleeping mall, Off
Ger Johnson said.
James had been discharged on
ly five hours before after being
fined on a drunkenness charge,
the officer said.
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BIood-D Donor Bank
Units Last Day For
Present All USO Club

Today FRIDAY, May 50 marks
the last day for the present that
the travelling unit of the Blood
Donors Bank will be in Pasca-
goula. 1t is being held at the
USO and citizens are being urged
to help pass the 1000th pint for
Pascagoula.
Volunteers should phone Mrs.
j. o. Cole who will be at the USO
all day, and who will arrange
appointments for those desiring
to donate blood. The hours are
from 10 to 3 o'clock.
According to Mrs. Cole the Sc
curing of the 1000th pint Will
be made something of an event
with a special pin to be awarded
the one filling this quota.
Yesterday was ingalls, Day
when donations of blood were
given by employees of the Ship
building Corporation.
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PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS, the United Nations are poised for an offensive
operation excelling in magnitude of manpower and ornaments
any force similarly gathered to wage wal. in the history of man;
and,
WHEREAS, many young men from this community are q
part of this vast force; and,
WHEREAS, when this giant military machine swings into ac-
ton to deal the final crushing blow to miltarism and the enemies
OF freedom, news viii be broadcast throughout the world, and;
WHEREAS, when this announcement reaches this COM
munity thousands of our boys and their brothers in arms will
have already laid down their lives for the sake of liberty for
our nation and all peoples forever.
THEREFORE,, we as Mayors of the cities of Pascagoula and
Moss Point, hereby proclaim that the following Invasion Day
observance will be made in our two cities: AS soon as the news
reaches our cities. all sirens, whistles, and bells shall proclaim the
tidings to our citizens.
AT the cessation of this sound, all citizens and visitors within
our city limits. shall pause in the occupations, whatever they may
be, for one minute of silent prayer for the safety of our loved
ones and the success of their arms. ALI traffic will stop. All
business will close Silence will be maintained
FURTHERMORE, BE IT PROCLAIMED, that at 800 pm.
following the announcement of the invasion, that 80 minute
services shall be conducted in all houses of worship. Let every
citizen proceed to the church of his choice. and participate Ia
our Communitys appealto Almighty God for victory, which will
bring peace.
WALTER G. GULLEY, Mayor of PascaeouI
E GREGORY WOOD, Mayor of Moss Point.