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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-09

before the city.
At least one of the 1900
pound bombs hurled at the rO-
/ It storage caverns on the Disc
river ripped through the earth
and inside a cave.
"This produced a great SUBJ
sidence of earth. $40 by 300 feet
in area, and masses Of rock
and soil must have collapsed
into the cave below" said the
air ministry, raising possible
lily that hundreds of the death
dealing robots along with Nazi
personnel, were buried under
tons of earth.
Aerial reconnaissance later
in the day showed the earth had
Continued on Page Five; Col. ;
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PARTS OF GERMAN
GARRISON FLEEING
FROM MAJOR PORT
Battle Greatest Since D.
Day; Enemy Expected
To Shorten Front
u. S. MAKES GAINS
Patrols Fight In Streets OF
La Haye, Take Com
handing Heights
U. S. MAKES GAINS
Bv GLADWIN HILL

SUPREME H E A DQUAR
T ERS ALLIED EXPED1-
TIONARY FORCE, Sunday,
J ..ly 1O-(P-A violent bat
tie unequalled since D-Day
ragged for Caen last night
with the British fighting into
the northeast outskirts of the
big river port barring the
road to Paris. Parts of the
enemy garrison were fleeing
the doomed city before an
earth shaking bombardment
of artillery and naval guns.
CThe German Transocean news
agency was heard broadcaSting a
report from headquarters of the
new Normandy commander, Field
Marshal Guenther Won Kluge, say
ing the high command probably
woulu shorten it front" by moving
back it's liens at Caen).
As the British loosed their big
est offensive, aimed at the heart
OF France, before dawn along a
seven-mile front, U. S. troops fought
out of the forests and bogs at the
base of Cherbourg peninsula and
launched three blows southwark
which jeopardized all German posi-
tons on the western end of the
front.
The eneny's central front an
Choir of St. Jean De Daye had been
swept up in the whirlWind of at
tack, and the night supreme head
quarters communique indicated the
same fate was near for the coastal
strongpoint of La Haye Du Puts,
where patrols fought in the streets
and doughboys seized all command
ing heights.
Stunned by the terrific bomb
ardment from thousands of guns
and wave upon wave of bombers,
outgeneraled by an attack from
the northeast when he looked for
a blow from the northwest, Field
Marshal Erwin Rommel seemed
unable to react with his usual vio-
lence at Caen.
After the Britich had swept up
nine towns guarding the northern
to the city, RommeI
began drawing on his stock of 1900
tanks massed in that sector.
Probably 20 of them were
knocked out, from front line dis
patches said, as Rommel hurled
them into the tornado of fire with
which Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont
gomery was ripping a path through
piilboxes and underground fortifi-
cations.
That battle has gone extremely
we'll" said British staff officer.
THE Boche was apparently expec.
ting an attack more to the north.
west instead of straight down the
Caen canal with the result that
our east flank has made very rapid
progress
Imperiled by this pu.h from the
northeast, the Germans began pull
ing their forces back into Caen
from positions guarding the road
TO Bayeaux, and Spitfires dived
and attacked them. Authie, just
a mile north of this road, fell to
the British tightening their arc Of
steel about the city.
Other units of 10 to 20 vehicles
were seen moving out of Caen on
the south and southwest, indicating
that the Germans were beginning
the withdrawal that will push them
Ut into the open country with no
substantial communication center
before Falaise, 20 miles south.
British and Canadian units seized
Hill No. "a, dominating all enemy
positions still above Caen, where
from trenches and pillboxec suicidal
Germans were trying to bar the
way to the British who at no point
Continued on Page Two; Col. A.
-V-
Y" a "ITT n
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Marshal Khukov's Long
Rested Ukraine Army
Goes To Offensive
EXTEND FRONT
Stain Announces Capture
OF Powerfully Fortified
Baranowicze Area
By TOM YARBROUGH

LONDON, July s. (P) -
The Red army today captured
Baranowicze, important fort
ress on the invasion route tc
Warsaw, fought into the
streets of Wilno, and cut the
Wilno Daugavpils railway,
one of the German supply
backbones for defense of East
Prussia and the Baltic states.
Moscow announced tonight.
Russian infantry, tanks
and artillery broke into Whine
and in bitter fighting were in
flicting tremendous losses"
on the Keeling Nazis, the Sow
let midnight communique sup
plement said. In early stages
of the battle for the city Red
army troops destroyed five
Nazi tanks, eight gun batter
les and 40 machine guns.
IN another sector as German de-
tense lines before the historic key
city cracked, the supplement said
Nazi infantry regiment was
routed as it was being hurled
into battle.
The slaughter of $4,000 Germans
trapped east of Minsk and the cap.
ture of Is, 1O2 in four days also
was announced in the daily com.
munique. The Russians since June
% have killed or captured ap-
proximately 275,OO0 Germans on
the basis Of Moscow announce
ments.
Berlin said that Marshal Greg
Dry K. Zhukov's long-rested First
Ukraine army had gone over to
the offensive in the southern part
of old Poland between Kowel and
Lwow, thus extending the fast.
moving Russian front to a dis.
lance of 500 miles between the
Daugavpils Dvinsk) area of Lat.
via to the Carpathian mountain
approaches east of Lwow.
Not Confirmed
While Moscow had not confirmed
this new offensive, Berlin usually
announces the unfolding of Rus
sian drives ahead of Moscow.
Zhukov's troops are On the south
ern flank of Marshal K. K. Rokos-
sovsky's First White Russian ar.
mics which have taken Kowel
only ITO miles southeast of War
saw land which also are only As
miles southeast of Brest Litovsk,
Bug river stronghold captured by
the Germans in the first few
hours of their 1941 war against
Russia.
Rokossovsky's troops and those
of Gen. Ivan D. Cherniakhovsky' S
Third White Russian front swept
through approximately 74O towns
and villages during the day, said
the communique broadcast by
Moscow and recorded by the Sow
let monitor.
The progress of Marshal Ivar
Bagramian's First Baltic army
hammering only a few miles from
! Continued on Page Two; Col. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-09
POLIO CONFERENCE
SLATED TOMORROW
Health Officers Will Con-
slider Methods OF Com
batting The Disease

RALEIGH, July 8 -R-Health
officers from nine southern states
have been scheduled to meet here
Monday at the state department OF
health to consider methods of COM
batting poliomyelitis, now more
than normally prevalent in many
OF the states, and to study methods
in use at the emergency centers
OF Hickory, Charlotte, and Gas
tonia.
Expected for the meeting are
health officers from the Carolinas
Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee,
Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, ano
Alabama.
North Cardinals health officer,
DR.. Carl V. Reynolds, returned last
night from a survey of the Pied
riont and upper Piedmont sec.
lions, where the states polio cases
are mainly concentrated. He said
20 additional nurses recruited from
over the nation were scheduled fol-
arrival there today.
Since June l the state board Of
Health has received reports of 24s
cases of infantile paralysis, II Of
these today, and an unofficial count
places the number of deaths from
the disease at IL.
The board listed the cases by
counties: Alamance 2, Alexander
10, Allegheny l, Ashe II, Bun
combe l, Burke "a, Cabarruc 3
Caldwell %, Catawba SO, Cleve
land 3, Columbus l, Cumberland l.
Davidson 1, Forsyth 2, Castor 49,
Guilford l, Iredell l, Lee 2, Lincoln
7 Mecklenburg 8, New Hanover /
Person 2, Robson l, Richmond
Rockingham l, Rowan II, Ruther.
ford 3, Stanly 1, Surry 5,Union l
Watauga 7, Wayne l, Wilkes %
and Wilson l.
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ALLIES WITHIN 10
MILES OF LIV0RN0
Two Mountain Towns
Guarding Port Fall To
Advancing Troops

ROME, July 8-R-Two noun
tain towns guarding Livorno Geg-
norm have fallen to viciously-
charging U. S. Troops who pressed
today to within ten miles of that
great port on which the Allies hope
to base a massive assault against
the enemy's formidable Gothic line
above Florence and Elsa.
After a tnree-day battle in which
they fired q AT artillery shells in
"a hours and beat off at least
three stout counte: attacks, the
Doughboys seized .Rosignano, 13
miles below Livorno deghorn) ,
Continued on Page Two; Col. p
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LOSE
$500 SOLDIERS
IN FRESH DRIVE
Push American Lines Back
1000 Yards Before As
sault Broken Up
PUSH NEAR TANAPAG
Small Groups OF Enemy
Planes Attack u. S. Po-
sitions And Shipping

U. S. PACIFIC FLEET
HEADQUARTERS, ear,
Harbor, July 8-(P)-An at
tack by thousands of desper-
ate Japanese, supported by
planes and artillery, pushed
American lines on Saipar
back as much as 1000 yards
before it was broken up, Ad-
miral Chester w. Nimitz re-
ported today.
The enemy left an estimat-
ed 1900 dead on the battle
field.
1t was the fiercest counter at
tack of the central and western
Pacific war.
Several thousand Japanese be-
gan the assault before dawn
Thursday on the western flank.
They drove to the outskirts OF
Tanapag down before they were
halted, shortly before noon, and
the Americans forced them into
slow retreat.
Heavy Casualties
1.-THE fighting was very severe
and numerous casualties were in
Cured" Ninitz said, but he
made no estimate of American
dead and wounded.
simultaneously, small groups of
Japanese planes attacked U. S.
positions and shipping, while en-
Continued on Page Two; Col. 4,
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NURSES LEAVE

WASHINGTON, July 8ttRLSix
Red Cross nurses left here today
for Charlotte, where the Ameri-
can Red Cross said infantile pa
ralysis had spread to disaster
proportions. :" They will arrive
Sunday.
The organization reported 206
cases of disease had developed in
North Carolina in the last 81 days.
Recruitment of nurses to help
in the Charlotte area was re-
quested by Red Cross eastern area
headquarters at Alexandria, Va.
The Red Cross said that an ad
ditional group of 10 nurses was
due to go from Richmond, Va, tt
the affected area, with others also
to be sent from Norfolk, Va.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-09

FORECAST
NORTH CAROLINA: Sunday partly
cloudy and slightly warmer with scat
tered afternoon and evening thunder
showers.
Continued on Page Six; Col. A.
Evening star., 1944-05-27
| Two-Yeor Trip
lOf Uniforms Ends
| Just in Time

The suit case OF naval uniforms
and shoes which 1t. Floyd Green,
son OF Mrs. Louise Green. 1900
Brandywine street NV, sent from
Australia two years ago, arrived this
week-just in time.
1t. Green's younger brother, Rob-
ert Gordon Green, graduates this
summer in the Navy Viz program
at Howard College, Birmingham
Ala. When the long DELAYED BAG
arrived IN Birmingham, the 19-year-
old air cadet found his brother 8
uniforms, even the shoes, fitted him
perfectly.
1t. Green, who. as communica
tions officer on the cruiser Houston
at Manila, gave the Pearl Harbo,
attack news TO Admiral Thomas c.
Hart, then commanding the Pacific
Fleet, Mrs. Green said, later was
sent to Australia for hospital treat
ment. When he caught plane
back to this country he could not
take all his luggage with him, 40
he shipped the suit case.
Mrs. Green's youngest son, Ed
ward, ID. Joined the Navy on
Wednesday--the NTH of her sons
to enter the service.
Evening star., 1944-05-27
Howard Graduate Named
As Compensation Referee
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 27.-State m
dustrial Commissioner Edward Corsi
today appointed Richard L. Balti-
more, ST., colored attorney, . work.
mems compensation referee, the
first Of his race to be named to
that ofice.
Mr.. Baltimore, q resident Of New
York City, viii be sworn In today by
Secretary Of State Thomas J. Cur.
ran. He win begin his duties June 1.
Born in Washington, he was
awarded his law degree from How.
ard University In 1904 and has prac.
ticed In Harlem and downtown New
York.
He served as an assistant United
States attorney for years, specialize
ing In investigation of Federal pure
food act violations. He Is credited
with breaking up q number Of fake
medicine rackets.
The 64-year-old attorney has been
q delegats to five Republican State
conventions and represented his
assembly district in an equal mum.
Der OF judicial conventions.
A controversy over his member.
ship in the Federal Bar Association
resulted In the withdrawal Of the
New York chapter from the parent
organization In Washington and the
formation Of the present Federal
Bar Association Of New York and
New Jersey.
Evening star., 1944-05-27
Silver Spring Plans
Memorial Services

Memorial exercises honoring the
war dead will be held at 2 pm. to-
morrow on the grounds in front Of
the Silver Spring armory under the
auspices of Cissell-Saxon Post No.
Al, American Legion, of Silver Spring
and the Cissel-Saxon auxiliary.
The program will take place at
the tablet erected last summer in
memory OF men who have died In
this war. The tablet now bears IA
names.
At the conclusion of the formal
Legion memorial exercises American
Legion silver medals for outstanding
community service will be presented
to the three members Of Selective
Service Board No. 2 OF Silver Spring.
They are Stephen James, chairman,
Linden; William H. REYNOLDS, Sill
ver Spring, and Henry z. Allison,
Takoma Park. ~
The medals will be presented by
John F. Collier, commander Of Cis-
sel-Saxon Post. Trial Magistrate
Einar B. Christensen will make the
presentation address.
Comdr. Collier will give a short
talk and the invocation will be de-
livered by the post chapel chaplain,
Charles j. Clifford.
Comdr. Collier said that because
,ot gas rationing and inability to
obtain laurel wreaths. the post, will
not go to Arlington National Gene
terry this year to decorate the graves
OF deceased members. Instead 26
small white crosses, each one rep
resenting member who has died,
Will be erected on the plot in front
OF the tablet with a cluster of pop-
pies placed at the foot of each cross.
Evening star., 1944-05-27
Maryland tobacco Prices
Show Increase, VIA Saws

After sharp price drop at the
opening sales this week, fair and
low qualities of dark and green
tobacco reached last weeks peak on
the Southern Maryland market yes
terday as warehouses ended the
weeks sales, the War Food Admins
tration reported today.
Describing the upward trend as
gradual throughout the week. the
VIA reported that both grades had
showed losses of 81 to SO per 100
pounds In most cases at the be-
ginning of the week.
While crude nondescript varieties
declined around So, better quality
grades advanced 81 to 81 per 100
pounds, with the majority selling
at $e2, the ceiling.
The general quality of this weeks
offering was improved by farmers
bringing some of their better grade
tobacco to the markets, the WA
report continued.
Gross sales on the Southern Mary.
land markets this week were es-
timated at 2,875,0O0 pounds at an
average of s48 per 100 pounds
bringing the seasons total and
average to approximately 3,7OO 900
pounds at $48.50 per 100.
Evening star., 1944-05-27
Senators Seek Role
For Legislators al
Monetary Conference
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Bids for congressional representa-
|tion on the American delegation to-
the United Nations monetary con-
ference called by President Roose-
welt were made today in the Senate.
Chairman Wagner of the Banking
Committee said he thought 1t would
be "a good thing" for legislators to
sit In on the deliberations, since Mr..
Roosevelt has asserted any agree
|ments will be submitted to the re-
|spective governments for ratifica-
ton.
Senator Ferguson, Republican, Of
Michigan, advocated that members
of the Senate and House Banking
Committees attend the conference.
He said the Senate viii have to act
N treaties evolve from the delibera-
tions and both Senate and House
will have to approve any legislation
needed to implement decisions of
the conference.
Mr.. Roosevelt invited ii govern
ments and the French National
Committee to send delegations to
the parley, starting July / at Bret
ton Woods, NH. Secretary Morgen-
thau will head the United States
delegation.
Up for consideration will be pro-
posals for:
A $4,000, 900, 900 international
bank to finance reconstruction and
development.
An 5000. .000, 900 sterilization fund
to provide gold base for the cur
rency Of each participating nation
and reduce fluctuations In inter-
national currency transactions.
The President told his news con-
ference yesterday that 1t had not
been decided If Congress would be
represented In the American delega-
ton.
Discussing the terms of the invi-
tation sent out. the President said
he had made it clear that the de-
cisions reached would be subject to
ratification by the governments con-
cerned. so critics could not say that
he was attempting to bypass Con-
gress.
In response to a question, the
President said the meetings would
be open to the press.
Evening star., 1944-05-27
Mrs. Heinz Offers Photos
In Denying Beating Baby
By the Associated Press.


LOS ANGELES, May 27-Mrs
Elizabeth Bald Heinz, former Balti-
more socislite, has submitted Is
pictures of her 4-year-old son as
evidence to show that he is healthy
and that she has been a good
mother, in opposition to charges bv
her husband, Clifford S. Heinz. II
heir of the food canning family, that
she beat and kicked the child. inn
pairing its health.
Mrs. Heinz and her husband are
engaged in a court fight for the
custody of Clifford, III.
The session in Superior Court
yesterday also included testimony
by Mr.. Heinz that his wife signed
an agreement to give him full Gus
tody of the child If he would buy
her certain antique furniture worth
$1,000.
When asked If he physically as
saulted his wife In January, 194i, al
their Forest Hills (N.Y.) home. Mr.
Heinz replied: "If you call turning
my wife over my knee and spanking
her physical assault, yes, did"
Asked what induced the spanking
Mr.. Heinz testified:
Il saw her beating Cliff about the
face and legs. She was hysterical
She tried to stuff food into his
mouth. AS Cliff ran up the stairs
she kicked him over the left eye"
Evening star., 1944-05-27
Inseporoble Twins
Fail to Return From
Bombing Mission
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BLOOMSBURY, Pa, May n.
STAR Sergt. Carl E. Horne
and his 22-year-old twin, Sergt.
Charles w., who never were
separated and went to the
same Army training camp
when their mother made . spe-
cial appeal to the War De-
partment, were aboard q
bomber which failed to return
from q mission over Austria
April IL.
However, their parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Edward S. Horne,
learned from the Red Cross
that Carl is q prisoner in Ger
many, and observers in an
other plane reported all the
bomber's crew parachuted to
safety.
The parents said Carl re-
fused a promotion several
months ago because 1t would
have meant separation from
Charles.
Evening star., 1944-05-27
Bolivian Report Opens Way
For Possible RECOGNITION
BY the Associated Press,

by the Associated Press.
Secretary of State Hull reported
yesterday that his special investi-
gator to Bolivia, Avra Warren, had
now turned In report which would
serve as basis for consultation
among the American nations which
presently do not recognize the DO.
livian government.
This means that the whole ques.
ton OF reconsidering the policy Of
nonrecognition Is now open and II
the American nations find that con-
ditions in Bolivia have changed
sufficiently to justify such action
they may decide to recognize the
La Paz administration.
Mr.. Warren, who is Ambassador
to Panama, returned to Washington
this week from his investigation In
Bolivia.
Evening star., 1944-05-27
Invasion 10 Test Strength
OF Oil Industry, Davies Says
By the Associated Press.


LAKE CHARLES, La, May 27.-
When the invasion of Europe comes,
1t will test "the last ounce OF
strength" Of the petroleum indus-
try, and Americans at home must
turn their backs" on the peddler of
black market gas as we would shun
"a traitor" Deputy Petroleum Ad-
ministrator Ralph K. Davies says.
Speaking at dedication Of syn.
thetic rubber, butadiene and 100
octane gasoline plants here yester-
day, Mr.. Davies said:
Even when Germany goes down,
there is sttll Japan, and because We
must haul supplies half q world
away the strain upon our oil re-
sources and tanker fleets may be
greater than ever"
He predicted that by July ! the
United States would be producing .
half million barrels Of 10O-octane
gasoline daily. Recently Secretary
Ickes said current production was
400. 900 barrels daily, or enough to
send 10000 planes over Berlin every
"a hours.
Harvey s. Firestone, jr., president
of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.,
which is operating the Government
financed plant here, said that syn
thetic rubber Is here TO stay" and
predicted "the world would need
|every pound Of rubber, both natural
and Synthetic, that can be produced
after the war"
w. Alton Jones, president Of Cities
Service Refining Corp, operators Of
the huge butadiene and gasoline
Iplants, said that the refinery could
turn out 10000 barrels Of high
loctane gasoline daily.
Evening star., 1944-05-27
Dr.. ". A. Harris, Former
Virginia Legislator, Dies
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FREDERICKSBURG, Va, May a.
DIR. w. A. Harris, 66, who served
three terms in the General Assembly
as delegate from Fredericksburg and
Spotsylvania County, died at his
home at Spotsylvania Court House
Thursday night.
The physician was prominent for
many years in the civic and political
life of this section. He had served
as county coroner, as secretary of
the now defunct Board of Public
Roads and as county health officer.
He was formerly a member of the
Board OF Visitors OF Virginia Poly
technic Institute.
Rites will be conducted at the
grave in Confederate Cemetery,
Spotsylvania Court House, at 2:3C
pm. tomorrow.
Evening star., 1944-05-27
Public and Free Press
Is ANPA Essay Topic
Dy the Associated Press,

6y the AssoeiAteo Press.
NEW YORK, May T.-The Amer
lean Newspaper Publishers Associa-
ton has announced that the subject
OF Journalism essays for the 1945
annual $500 ANPA journalism award
win be "the public's responsibility
in maintaining freedom of the
press"
Essays, limited to 1850 words, may
be submitted by graduate and under
graduate students enrolled in a regu-
larly organized college, school or de-
partment Of journalism by January
Is. 1945. Gold, silver and bronze
medals will be awarded.
Evening star., 1944-05-27
DeviIed Eggs in Demand
By Conodion Soldiers
the Associated Press,

TROY, N. Y.-Deviled eggs are
strictly an American delicacy, ac-
cording to workers at the USO
lounge.
Preparation Of picnic-style dev-
lled eggs to go with sandwiches this
spring proved such a hit with visit
ing Canadian soldiers that a notice
has been posted on the bulletin
board to have plenty of them on
hand for Americas nearest allies
Evening star., 1944-05-27
lnterrociuI Services
Planned in ARLINGTON

Arlington County churchmen will
conduct an interracial service at the
Lomax A. M. E. Zion Church, 244C
South Glebe road, at $3.50 pm. to-
morrow, with the pastor, the Rev
II. j. Calls, speaking on The De-
scent of the Holy Spirit" Music
will be furnished by the. Wesley
Negro Gospel Choir and the Ar
lngton Presbyterian Church Choir
The meeting is sponsored by the
Arlington County Interracial Com
mission. The Rev. Walter M
Lockett, jr., chairman OF the COM
mission and pastor of the Commu-
nifty Methodist Church, will have
charge Of the program.
Evening star., 1944-05-27
Peuk-Hour Streetcur Traffic
Reported Triple That of Noon

that face the traction company, Mr..
Goad said although it had trained
2,132 new operators during the last
two years, it ended the period with
a net decrease of 40 operators.
Part-time employees and women are
being counted on to keep the COM
pany's vehicles moving, he added,
saying the company was now short
400 full-time operators and might
lose another 100 under 26 years of
age to the military services in the
near future.
He cited figures to show that pub
lie transportation vehicles make q
more economical use of the streets
than private cars and asked that
more recognition be given to "the
place of public transportation in
city planning"