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Evening star., 1944-01-27
FARMS WANTED

WANTED INDUSTRIAL GROUND, District
Or nearby Maryland or virginia. 5000 to
lU,u00 So. It., SOC per So. It. or less.
sewage, water. electricity and road mecca.
sary: Box 301-X, Star
Evening star., 1944-01-27
GEORGETOWN

x23,bOO.
This very unusual brick house Is In
hlgh ceilings, oil heat. several freplaces
and an ELECTRIC refrigerator. The first
and Rschen s1:ry Gb1ns batb.
Immediate possession. TO inspect cali
Grant Boss, Ma. $500. After pm. cali
.NI RoSS = pryrrpe ,.,, Nu,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-29
SERYICEMEN WILL
RECEIVE BALLOTS

The mailing Of state, federal and
constitutional amendment absentee
ballots to New Hanover service
men and women will start Au-
gust 10, H. G. Carney, chairman
of county board Of elections, said
yesterday.
The names of 1872 members Of
the armed forces, who applied for
ballots in the May primary, will
be used as a starting point. Car
ney said about 40 others had ap-
piled since May for the ballots.
New Hanover voters will act on
five amendments to the constitu-
ton in the election November Z.
They are ID to abolish the con-
stitutional requirements Of private
examination of the wife in deeds
of homestead; (2) to authorize the
general assembly to fix the COM
pensation of the lieutenant COVER
nor; 60 to exempt notaries public
from prohibition of double office
holding; "a to make the commits
sioners of agriculture, labor and
insurance constitutional officers
and members of the council of
state; and 90 to provide for the
organization OF the state board of
education.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-29
VETS PAYMENTS
TO BEGIN SEPT. 3
Continued from Page one)

two years after his return to civil
IAN life. However, as the state law
is written, it stipulates that if vet
Grams are receiving payments for
unemployment from the United
States government, then state bene-
tits are not to become payable
until after all rights to the federal
payments are exhausted.
The G. I. weekly unemployment
allowance is $40, to run for a peri
90 determined by each veteran 8
length Of service, up to total Of
So weeks in two years. State bene-
fits vary in accordance with pre-
vious earnings, with maximum
payment Of SIS a week, and a
maximum duration of Is weeks in
a year.
From September on, the UCC
will be handling veterans claims
according to the G. I. payment
plan. Officials said it would be
sometime before the freezing pro-
vision in the North Carolina law
would again enter the picture, and
unemployment benefits from the
state trust fund would become pay
able to veterans.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-29
Obituaries
ROBERT LEE SKIPPER

Robert Lee Skipper, 81, of Bic
Bronx, died yesterday morning al
James Walker Memorial hospital
of a heart attack.
He was a Tide Water Power
company mechanic.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs,
Addie E. Skipper of Wilmington; a
daughter, Edith Marie Skipper;
two sons Robert l.. Skipper ano
Charlie E. Skipper; his mother,
Mrs. c. L. Skipper of Roanoke Ra.
pids; three sisters, Mrs. Eleanor
Anderson, of Wilmington; Mrs.
Isabel Day, Of Miami; Mrs. Doro-
thy Boone of Roanoke Rapids, and
a brother, Kenneth F. Skipper OF
Roanoke Rapids.
The funeral will be held at Del.
gado Presbyterian church with
Rev. c. C. Myers and Mrs. W. T.
DeVaun officiating. Burial will fol-
low in Bellevue cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be c. B.
Brock, M. C. Skipper. L. T. Nc
Cormick, o. B. Hinnant, L. w.
Rawls, and A. w. Ellison. Honor
airy pallbearers will include L. w.
Edens, ]. T. Stanci1, V. E. Bur-
-is, w. c. Carter, H. J. Tomp-
kins, H. F. Newkirk and R. w.
Owens.
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JAPAN DENIES u. S.
AIRMEN EXECUTED
Continued from Page One,

'coA'iluco from rage One)
lish broadcast given by the Sho-
nan (Singapore) Radio in connec-
ton with the Kyushu raid. The
spokesman quoted the broadcast,
which said that the raiding B-29
bombers, by being shot down out
OF the skies of Japan, had thus
come with one way ticket to
hell "
In addition to stating that the
B-29 filters had met 1.-THE same
fate" as the Tokyo raiders, t h e
Singapore broadcast of July Is had
asserted:
ANY Allied airman who falls or
balls out over Japan will be exc
cuted. This is the order of the
day"
As recently as Wednesday Brit
ish foreign secretary Anthony
Eden told the House of Commons
that the U. S. Government n d
the American people could rely on
the full support of the British gov.
eminent in bringing to justice all
Japanese who had taken part in
any executions.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-29
LEHMAN H0NORED
BY VT. W. POST

A resolution expressing ''pro-
found sorrow over the death OF
Otto Lehman, charter member,
who died June 20, has been drawn
up and adopted by the James A..
Manley Post. No. 2573, Veterans
of Foreign Wars of the United
States.
The resolution said in part: Sin
recognition of the long and faith
full service OF our late charter
member comrade, Otto Lehman,
of James A. Manley Post No. 2573,
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the
United States, the members OF the
post at its meeting July II wish
to express thei- profound sorrow
at the death of Comrade Lehman.
His pleasing personality and
knowledge of his organizations
work made him an ideal officer in
the post, having served as color
bearer and trustee for a number
Of years."
The resolution was signed by
H. w. Sass, Norwood S. Westbrook
and X. X. Kinmell, members OF
the resolution committee.
Lehman, who conducted the
business Of a master rigger, was
born in Dresden, Germany in De-
cember, 1875. He enlisted in the
United States Navy in December,
1896. during the Spanish-American
war and saw service on the bat
tleship Indiana as a yeoman. He
was discharged in December, 1899.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Theresa Lehman.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-29
HlNCKLEY ASSUMES
CONTRACT OFFICE

WASHINGTON, July % Up "A
man with as varied background
as the demands his new job will
make on him took ove- one of the
biggest, and perhaps the most vex-
ing jobs, of the war-to-peace con-
version era today-that of director
of the office of contract settlement.
Quiet, smiling Robert H. Hinck-
ley, 50 year old Ogden, Utah,
corporation executive, took the
oath at a White House ceremony,
new milestone for the onetime
instructor in languages, automo-
bile. dealer, anyways organizer,
state legislator, regional and fed
eral relief official, chairman of the
civil aeronautics authority, and as
sistant secretary of commerce.
It's anybody's guess how many
billions of dollars will be involved
in war contracts which Hinckley
will be responsible for terminal
ing.
John M. Hancock, former chair
man of the joint contract te-mi-
nation board, says tat if the war
should end now, the value of ma
terials acquired and work done
on pending and unfinished con-
tracts would be somewhere
around $25 1000 1000, 900 or $50, 0oo,-
600, 900. Others think that is too
high and the minimum should be
$40 600, 000,0 900 or SIS, 100000, 900.
I'm here to get a job done"
was Hinckley's approach to the
task after he was sworn in by
Associate Justice H arold M.
Stephens of the U. S. court of ap-
peals in the White House offices
Of James F. By-nes war mobili-
cation director.
Hinckley's newly created office
is independent of other agencies.
but he said he will cooperate and
work with" Byrnes as matter Of
practical administration.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-29
YANKS REGISTER
GAINS ON GUAM
Continued from Pare One)

The occupied territory on the for.
mer U. S. outpost of Guam now
extends from point along the west
coast 800 yards from Agana south
for 300 yards. then southwestward
following line approximately
two miles inland from the coast
to point opposite Amaze island.
On Orote peninsula, the Yanks
fought forward another 500 yards
against an estimated 1000 Japs
trapped there while defending an
airfield and naval base. These Nip.
ponese now are penned in on less
than half the peninsula and may be
expected to try another desperate
counterattack such as cost then
400 dead and IL tanks Tuesday.
The Tinian advance was the big.
gest single days gain. Marines
pivoting from their southernmost
point a third of the way down the
east coast swept across 5000 yards
in tanning movement through
the center of the island.
The Tinian front now extends
from beach 1000 yards north of
Masalog point on the east coast to
beach 1000 yards southeast of
the hump OF Gurguan point on the
west coast.
That gives the Americans con.
troll Of As per cent of the island.
the Marines captured the nearly :
completed airfield less than a mile
inland from Gurguan point.
A war correspondent on a war
ship at Tinian said the onrushin 2
Marines had even lost contact in
some sectors so fast were the Japs
fleeing toward eventual death at
the rocky south tip.
Richard w. Johnston, represent.
ing the combined Allied press. said
in dispatch from Tinian Gin some
areas today the Jap flight became
so rapid the forces actually were
disengaged and the Marines were
entirely unopposed even by snip
ers."
He reported the Marines rolling
down on the town OF Tinian which
already is under terrific bonn
bardment.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-29
BY HOWARD SUBTLE
Star-News Washington
CORRESPONDENT

NEW ORLEANS, July 28> -
Speedy enactment by the United
States Congress of pending flood
control and rivers and harbors
legislation, embracing a $1O5,84o,-
600 Yadkin-Pee Dee flood control,
navigation and hydro-electric de-
4, lopment. and $1,970,0O0 for
forth Carolina waterways i'm
movement, was urged by the Ma
tional Rivers and Harbors Con-
gress at its final session here to-
day.
flood control and navigation as OF
primary Importance and referred
to proposed generation of hydro
electric power as incidental"
Such power" the group declar-
ed in resolutions adopted by voice
vote, should be sold Eat the point
of production, without special
privilege or discrimination"
Rep. Frank W. Boykin, Demo-
crat, Alabama, member OF the
resolutions committee, explained
that the action was designed to
give "an even break to both prl-
vate and public power interests.
The resolution set forth that the
recommended policy would "pro-
vide for the complete coordination
of such power and energy with
other power developments both
public and private in the areas
contiguous with such projects"
Boykin also authored a resolu
ton. adopted unanimously dis
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REDS TAKE LITOVSK
NEARING WARSAW
Continued from Page One)

t0ntlnued from Page One)
effectively sealed off the majority
of Col. Gen. George Lindemanr,
German Baltic forces in Estoni,
and Latvia.
The fall of Joniskis also put the
Russians within sc 0mOiOles Of the
rail junction Of Jelgava, where
single track railway runs westward
to the Baltic coast and thence
south to Memei in east Prussia
This single rail route is the oply
erman excape route except BY
sea-, and Moscow dispatches said
the Red Baltic fleet was ready for
any German attempt in that d.
rection.
Resigns
(The Turkish home radio said
that Lindemann had "sent his res.
Jgnation to Adolf Hitler" The
broadcast was recorded by the fed.
eral communications commission,
Conservative military men in
London said the Germans were re.
treating in the east, but they were
not convinced that the Germans
we're yet in disordered flight des.
rite the brilliarce Of the Red
army's mass blows.
The Moscow bulletin recorded by
the Soviet monitor said that three
Eazi divisions mad been encricled
west of Brest Litovsk, have been
pressed against the bug river and
ere being annihilated by Russian
troops.
Soviet bombers on THURSDAY
night attacked rail functions at
Warsaw and Insterburg in German
East Prussia, blowing up military
dumps, smashing trains and setting
n. any fires.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-29
FILIPIN0S PLAN
RETURN TO ISLES
BY THOMAS A. REEDY

WASHINGTON, July 28- lR =
There's a sprightly air in the Fill
Pine colony on embassy row as II
the days of japanese control over
the Philippine islands are num-
bered. 1t has spread all around
town.
Evidences of belief that some
thing is due to happen soon in the
land made historic by Bataan and
Corregidor piled up like this to-
day:
Manuel L. Quezon, president of
the Philippines when they fell, dis
closed from his Saranac Lake, N.
Y. retreat the organization of a
staff to take over and rebuild
the islands as soon as they are
cleared of japanese.
The interior department. which
has been acting unofficially TO-
Philippine affairs since the high
commissioner, Francis B. Sayre,
fled by submarine in the dark
days. is making some special
studies of what will have to be
done economically for the area.
A special rehabilitation commits
sion of nine American leaders and
as many Fi1ipinos has organized
and decided to meet sometime
next month to survey the situa-
ton and make specific recommen-
dations.
Headquarters for the common
wealth of the Philippines says
there are several important"
proposals in the making, neces-
sarily secret until the governments
concerned are in agreement.
President Quezon revealed ap-
pointment of Col. Alexandra Mel
Choir as under-secretary of ma
tiona1 defense: and recalled to ac-
tive duty Sebastian Ugarte, legal
advisor to resident commissioner
Elizalde, Ugarte is given rank of
major in the Philippine army, and
is to be executive officer of ma
tional defense.
Melchor's appointment typifies
the belief that the major reha bill
tation job in the islands will be
an engineering task. He headed
the engineering department at the
Philippine military academy. took
graduate work at the Massachu.
sets institute of technology and
has had some training at the army
engineer base at Fort Belvoi-, Va.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-29
PAC SAID POLITICAL
ARM OF NEW DEAL
CONTINUED from Page One)

constant communication existing
between the PAc and certain gov
eminent officials, l am of the opin-
ion that the CLIO political action
committee is in reality, not so
much a labor political committe,
as it is the political arm of the
New Deal administration Strip
ling said in the report.
Attached to the document was a
record of telephone calls, most of
them from the PAC's New York Of
fices, to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
and high government officials, in
Guiding Biddle, owl Chief Elmer
Davis, Price Administrator Chest
CIR Bowles and Labor Secretary
F RANGES Perkins. Most of the calls
were made between last Deem
Ter and May Of this year, all at
The expense of the political action
committee, Stripling said.
The nature of the calls was not
revealed, if it was known by Strip
JA1S. OA1C (ou W u1I .. lOCSSyE1L,
on February 2, lasted eight. min
u'es. It was made by C. B. Bald
win, former director of the Farm
Security Administration and now a
FAC official.
Telephone and telegraph records
on which the report was based
were subpoeaaed from the New
York telephone company and the
Western Union Telegraph Com
peay.
Some of the calls and kilograms.
the report said, were made during
periods OF intense pre- election
activity in Alabama, where the
committee vice chairman. Rep.
ICE Starnes, Democrat, was de-
teated; in Idaho, where Senator
Worth Clark, Democrat, was de-
feated, and in Texas, where Dies
himself decided not to run after
labor groups came out against
HIM.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-29
Enactment OF River And
HarbOr Measures Urged

approving "any move to transfer
from our army engineers any OF
the functions of administering our
great waterways"
The action was aimed at report
ed attempts, in pending legisla-
ton. to give to the Interior depart
ment, headed by Secretary Harot
L. Ickes, control over administra-
ton of certain multiple purpose
(flood control, navigation and ny
dro-electric) projects in the south
east.
Cyrus D. Hogue, chairman OF the
Wilmington Port commission Is ex-
pected to be renamed by Presl-
dent Mcclellan as North Carolina
state vice president. 1t was ex-
planned by Vice President Webb
that state and regional officers are
to be appointed by Mcclellan and
announced from Washington With
in few weeks.
Hogue and two other members
of the North Carolina delegation,
Stanley Woodland of Morehead City
and VI. T. Culpepper Of Elizabeth
CITY. were obviously satisfied with
the success of the meeting. They
came here to join other delegates
in supporting a move as expressed
by retiring President Short, to "un-
tangle the legislative snarl that
threatens Senate defeat OF the
House-passed flood conrol and RI
yer -harbor authorization bills"
Since Congress seldom fails to
accept the recommendations OF the
Rivers and Harbors congress, the
support means probably early ap-
proval of legislation affecting North
Carolina.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-29
NEGRO IS KILLED.
POLICE SEEK MAN

Lonzo Mesres, 55-year.o,a y.
gro, of 1l16 McRae's A]ler :. "s'
IN James Walker Memorial bo s,''
tai last night as the result W
shotgun wound received when
interrupted an argument bet,r. a'
two other Negroes at the NV, ssa
of McRae alley and Nixon s sts
according to investigating uo,j..
men. pO'lce'
A warrent, charging mud.
was issued against Pender n, s''
ham, Negro, ia Nixon street u A'
had not been apprehenoed :. WI, ~
pm, by police. Durham wac !, l.
scrlbed as five feet seven ,,.s
tall, weighing 40 pounds H b,a e
mustache' wearing grav T n1s;s
trousers, white sweat shirt p pad
straw hat, and Carving white
gun. Snot'
Investigating officers T. ,
Eou 1nS,, M. M. Jeffords and y =
). Wolfe said Mears was "s,. ~
dentally'' shot through the sbo ovS,'
er as he came on the scs s,,.'lo, :,
an argument lover monev, VI
tween Durham and Marv ~. We
at whom the shot was .ia pe y
The Bell woman, officers N', s.;s
later was shot in the back ''''
Coroner Asa W. Allen said
inquest into the death of Mea, al
would be held at 3 pm, Mo va;ss
in the grand jury room NJ -.
courthouse. " Vie
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SUPPLIES POUR
INTO NORMANDY
Continued from Page One)

batteries. Now, on my eighth cross
ing, 1 find it calm except for dis
tant flashes of gunfire over France.
Our convoy IS closely guarded
bv destroyers, corvettes and other
craft. Minesweepers continue their
painstaking work. Scores upon
scores of ships are flowing, so
many that we need a traffic cop
to keep them from tangling in col
i;sions, as few have done.
The life line Of Allied troops
their toe-hold in France is secured.
The British and American Navies
have done that.
One of the principal accomplish
ments is that many green Ameri-
cans have mastered navigation OF
the treacherous waters.
As the ships ply back and forth,
shippers study the currents which
might carry them from the swept
channels into m,nefields. They now
hllOW 4llO1 oOOAl IllC oAlAlOot (Olto-
tant winds which push vessels off
their course. They have studied
the rise of full tides which are
very important in Bleaching LISTS
and Lies.
"a Navy captain tells the story
Of LIST skipper who damaged his
ship due to lack of knowledge Of
the rapid rise ard fall of the water.
The skipper took his bawling out
end then said:
1.-TWO years age I was damned
good bond salesman. I asked for
a commission End got it. I never
asked for command of this ship,
but was trying my hardest to do a
good job"
The commandment of an Allied
pert says the army has so many
supplies in France it must ad-
vance to make room for more.
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HITLER is FACING
POSSIBILITY OF
FALL OF FRONT
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bassador to Turkey, took plane
fro mIstanbul to Ankara, the Turk.
ish capital, today in the midst of
seething rumors that Turkey was
plunging swiftly toward a break
with the axis and perhaps into war
There was the likelihood that
many of the reports were exag-
gerated, but nevertheless diplomat.
ic circls buzzed with the import
of things to come.
German ENJOYS were said to be
admitting that a break in econono;c
relations with Turkey was imnoi-
nent and that might be followed
by a diplomatic break.
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An enmey fighter plane, COM
iag in laterally at 800 miles an
hour on bomber travelling the
same direction, must be trailed Nv
the bomber's gunner if it is to
pc shot down at 400 yards, since
me outlets would have the same
Toward speed as the bomber.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-29
CAFE DESTROYED
BY FLYING BOMB
BY JUDsON O'QUINN

LONDON, July 28-(H-A robot
bomb blew up crowded restau-
rant at the busy noon hour today,
killing and trapping a number Oh
persons and causing widespread
damage in the surrounding area.
The flying bomb was one OF a
series which came over southern
England, including the London
area, during the day as the Ger
mans resorted to an artillery salvo
technique, and while rescuers
worked in the streets a second
robot appeared overhead but did
not interrupt their work as it flew
past.
The bomb which hit the restau-
rant landed in front of apartment
buildings and stores, a number of
shoppers were cut by flying glass.
Al witness said that the robot
could not have cropped in worse
place at a worse time, and that the
casualties must have been heavy.
"A hairdresser's and a piano shop
were among the stores damaged,
and civilian workers dug through
pieces of broken ba1jos and bot
ties of hair tonic.
A church spir>e on one side was
split by the blast and roads in
the vicinity were closed to traffic
because it was feared that it might
topple.
The clothes of women walking in
the street were set afire. Passers-
by tore material from shop win
COWS to smother the flames before
the victims were bundled off to the
hospital. Two BUSES were blasted
and the clothes OF these passengers
also were set afire. The top of one
Eus was wrenched off and the
engine blown from the vehicle.