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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-22
Income Tax Bill
Almost Finished

WASHINGTON, May 2l-RH
School will be out soon for 3d.
100000 of the nations 50,0DO,0OO
income taxpayers, and for good,
Legislation designed to excuse
them from the three RS of Rant
ing, Writing and arithmetic thai
they have been going through ev-
cry March Is is ready for final
congressional sanction, and then
a trip to the White House.
For the 100000 others whose
incomes exceed $4,000 a year or
who are not on wage-sala'y ba-
SIS, the job of 1eturn-makin5 will
be made easier when President
Roosevelt signs the bill.
The legislation makes a read
justed withholding levy against
wages and salaries for the full
tax for persons earning Up to
Sc, 900, while holding actua tax
burdens at substantially their
present levels for most people.
After unanimous House passage,
the Senate approved the lgisla-
ton, in slightly modified ,orm,
by voice vote yesterday. Chair
man Doughton (D-NC) of the ways
and means committee is expected
to ask the House tomorrow to
concur in the technical Snate
changes, and shuttle the bill II Mr..
Roosevelt.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-22
new FARM BILL
NEARS PASSAGE
BY HOWARD SUBTLE
Star Washington Correspondent

WASHINGTON, May 21-The ag-
riculture appropriation bill, carry
ing conference committee recon-
mendations for tobacco tolerance,
continuation of the school lunch
program for two years and ex-
tension of the Farm Security adj
mi7listratioa for one year, head
lines a full congressional slate for
the coming week, survey OF
pending measures revealed to-
night.
Committee hearings will share
top billing with floor action, how
ever, with North Carolinians play
ing prominent roles in such mat
tiers as investigation of the Mont
gomery Ward seizure, flood con-
troll proposals, provision for sur
plus property distribution and In
vestigation of government pur-
chases Of merchant ships.
Thanks to Rep. Harold D. Cool.
ey, of Nashville, the fam secur'
ity extension issue has been NOV
ed from the highly controversial
stage. Cooley's pending bill to kill
the community farm" program
of the FSA and transfer the good
features of the agency to the farm
e1's home corporation apparently
has satisfied those who have bee-
fighting to kill the agency, head
ed by Frank Hancock, also q
North Carolinian. The proposal Z
extend FSA for a year is design
ed merely to afford time for per,
lection of the Cooley measure aae
provide for transfer to FHC of thu
rural rehabilita alton loan program
and other features. to be KEEP
alive.
The agriculture bill has passed
both houses, but conference wa!
necessary 70 iron out difference!
between the house and the senate
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-22
General Clark Has Narrow Escape
As BOBBY Trap Explodes Near Jeep

My first reaction was that
the jeep in front of ours, car
rying the soldiers guiding the
generals trip to the front, as
we'll as Associated Press Pho
tographer Henry Griffin, had
been blown up. However, as
soon as the dust settled l saw
it just beyond the explosion.
The general bent over a sol
der whose face was covered
with blood, badly mashed and
gashed, and asked him how he
felt, but the injured man was
unable to answer. Others were
groaning nearby. Clark called
for battalion first aid men who
came running up.
AS soon as it was apparent
the injured were being treated,
the general turned to the SOL
diers nearby and warned them
aeslnst tampering with any
abandoned enemy equipment.
Then he got back in the jeep
and drove on towards the front.
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Concord, Mass, and both Of
us were pushed backward as
though by giant hand.
Almost in front Of the jeep's
radiator a huge puff of dirt,
dust, debris, metal and men
mushroomed out from where a
small cluster of soldiers had
been standing First the general
enemy artillery. He jumped out
of the jeep and yelled to the
driver to back up sfor prOtec-
thought-as I did-that it was
ton, and started running for
ward on foot to see about the
wounded.
Immediately it became APP
parent it was some kind of 10
Called explosion, although the
area was well within range of
enemy artillery. Soldiers pick
ing themselves up out of the
dust explained hurriedly that
someone had been tinkering
with an abandoned gun and
it blew up.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-22
Lone American LiberatOr
Bombs Isles Near Japan

meager antiaircraft fire oppos-
ed the Ventures, making the
35th strike of the war against
the Kuriles.
Nauru, phosphate island in
the south Pacific; Ponape,
eastern guardian of TrIlk, and
the Marshalls in the central
Pacific were other lombard
ment targets Friday.
Nimitz said Seventh Army
Air force Mitchells set off ex-
plosions and started fires in
the Nauru phosphate workings
and defense installations de-
spite intense antiaircraft fire.
1t was the fourth attack Of the
month on Nauru.
The deepest previous pene-
tration of the Kuriles was IN
attacks against Matsuwa, W
miles north of Simushirl. Ne
tot, a circular island about i've
miles in diameter, lies between
the two.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-22
Yank Patrols Kill
III More Japanese

ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Mon
day, May %. -(P)- Yankee infan.
try patrols have killed III more
Japanese in turning back three
counter-attacks on the Dutch New
Guinea mainland across from the
conquered Wakde Island, Gen,
Douglas Macarthur announced to-
day.
The American beachhead near
the mouth of the Tor river, about
10 miles northwest of the Allied
base at Hollandia, was brought I'M
der enemy machine gun, mortar
and rifle fire, headquarters
spokesman said. T.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-22

IHe small contingent OF OII11cer
and non-commissioned officers ar
rived virtually unnoticed at the
idle plants at pm. today, mott
fled company representatives OF
their presence, and posted notices
of the seizure order.
Less than two hours after the
seizure, Joseph Winoski, shop
committee chairman and spokes-
man for the $50 ALL machinists,
announced the men would ''be on
the job" tomorrow morning, end
ing a 17-day strike at the Ward
subsidiary which the government
says is engaged principally in wal
production.
The army seized the Monsgom.
cry Ward Chicago properties las
April rs but returned them TO the
owners May 9 after a Nationa
Labor Relations board election.
1t. Col. Nelson Talbot, war de
partment representative at the
Hummer plant, said operations
would resume with the first shift
Monday morning and that all en-
ployes were expected to repor
for duty at their regular time"
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Americans Capture Fondi
In Smash On West Lines;
Within 80 Miles OF Anzi.
PRAVDA REPO7 = Z !!
INVASION H. ;
Paper Declares Success
In Italy Shows Nazis
Allies Prepared

LONDON, May 21.-R -
Terming invasion from the
west Imminent" the Mos
COW communist newspaper
Pravda declared today that
the breakthrough of the Hit
Ter Line in Italy has taught
the Germans "the Allies are
capable of breaking any de-
Tense, and possess sufficient
forces to do So"
The Pravda article, broadcast
by Moscow radio, asserted the
present hostilities in Italy are
regarded not as an isolated opera
ton, but as the beginning Of a
general offensive in this theater, f."
and that is what ALARMS the Ger
mans so much.'
Berlin meanwhile declared the
decisive battle will have to be
fought on the west WALL" and
the real attack must come from
the supply base and aircraft car
rier, England"
"The nervousness and obvious
confusion of the Germans in con-
nection with the situation in It.
aly," Pravda said, "show how ripe
and how favorable the situation is
for striking blow from the west.
"The Germans cannot fail to re-
alize that the Italian front is in
separately bound with the immi-
nent invasion. Meanwhile the ten
sion which the Germans expert
ence in the east does not lessen.
1t increases
Another Moscow broadcast said
1--WE stand on the threshold of the
decisive ST. ge of the struggle
against German fascism."
In London it was another day of
tension but most Londoners seemed
in agreement with the words of
John J. McCloy, U. S. assistant
secretary of war, that 81 would
rather be going ashore with the
invaders than waiting to repel
them"
Here on this fateful military
springboard, people are speaking
less and less about forthcoming
military affairs, and editorials and
dinner gatherings are notable for
the things they leave unsaid.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower S
weekend radio orders to the Eu-
ropean underground armies telling
those shadowy patriots how they
best can help their iberators serv-
ed to lend a certain air of immedi-
acy to coming events.
At Warwick today, Foreign Sec
rotary Anthony Eden told a youth
meeting 1--WE pray the year 1914
will prove the year OF decision
against Germany. We are all con-
scious of the supreme effort that
will be called for. We are all con-
fident of the final outcome i we
unite to make that effort. y
The British empire is more United
in purpose than at any time in its
history
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-22
New Bern Filler
Still Missing

NORFOLK, Va, May 21.-(R)-
The Fifth Naval District public
relations office today identified the
pilot killed in a plane crash late
Thursday four miles from Kins-
ton, N. c., as End 1t. Willard Obrit
Hale, USMCR, son of James Mel
son Hale, of Ozark, Ark.
The pilot of the lead plane,
which is still listed as missing,
was identified by PRO officials as
1t. Robert W. Van Horn, USMCR,
whose nearest of kin is listed as
his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Van
Horn of New Bern, N. c.
The planes were on cross coun-
try flight when the plane piloted
by Lieutenant Hale crashed during
a severe thunderstorm. The plane
caught fire and was destroyed, the
public relations office said.
Search is continuing for the
plane piloted by Lieutenant Van
Horn,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-22
BY KENNETH L. DIXON

BY KENNETH L. DIXON
ON THE FIFTH ARMY
FRONT IN ITALY, May 21.-
P)-A well disguised BOBBY
trap on an abandoned German
artillery piece narrowly miss
ed killing 1t. Gen. Mark w.
Clark, Fifth army commander,
this morning during a Sunday
survey drive around the front.
The heavy explosive charge.
placed in a German anti-tank
gun, blew up almost in the
generals face while his jeep
was dashing along the road.
The explosion, which criti-
cally wounded one soldier and
injured several others, was less
than rs feet from Clark's jeep.
Several soldiers consider
ably farther away from the
explosion than General Clark
were knocked down by the
force of the conclusion. I was
riding on the back seat of his
jeep with Capt. Winthroy Lee,
30-year-old liaison officer from
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-22
Russian Front
Remains Quiet

LONDON, May 21.-tR - Inc
comparative lu1l on the Russian
front continued today, the Soviet
communique announcing t n a I
again there were mo material
changes
The Germans reported that SAT
urday they drew a tighter rlng
around Russian forces they claim
ed to have partly encircled west OF
9flgorlopol on the Dnester river
and captured 5000 prisoners.
A German communique also re-
ported heavy bombing raid on
we Soviet base at Shepetovka IN
'he Ukraine Saturday night, ana
sad German artillery shelled So
wet positions on Narva bay in the
baltic.
The Soviet communicate said 81
herman planes were shot down
Saturday.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-22
POLICE PROBING
DEATH AT LAKE

Sheriff's officers early today
were investigating the death
last night of man identified
as Sam Whaley, who died at
8.3OGp. m. at Silver Lake, off the
Carolina Beach highway, five
miles from the city.
Only meagre details Of the
death were availa BILE at a late
hour, but sheriff's deputies said
that foul play was suspected
after it was discovered that the
mans body was in a bloody
condition when it was removed
from the water.
Officers worked for long
time in an effort to revive the
man with artificial respiration,
but their efforts along this line
failed.
All available deputies, Harry
Fales, superintendent of the
city-county Bureau of Investi-
cation, and Coroner Asa w. Al
len we're reported at the lake
at an early hour today.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-22

II. S. PACIFIC FLEET
HEADQUARTERS, Pearl Har-
Dor, May 21-R-A lone Amer
lean Liberator flew within 400
miles of Japan proper and
bombed Shimushiri and Ketol
islands in the Kuriles Thurs
day night, Adm. Chester w.
Nimitz announced today.
This minor attack was the
deepest penetration ever made
in air strikes along the north
ern road to Tokyo. The sur
urised japanese made no at
tempt to shoot down the raid
er. which was from the 18th
ARMY air force. Other details
of the sortie were not disclos-
ed.
Ventura search planes Of
Fleet Arriving two bombed
Shumushu az the northern tip
Of the Kuriles before dawn Fri
day, starting large fires. Only
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-22
Fleeing Japs.
Attack
!; = i11yitkyiina
aFLlERS SINK BOATS
.Srth Burma Stronghold
I Reported One Third
In Allied Hands

SOUTHEAST ASIA HEAD
QUARTERS, Handy, Ceylon,
May 21.-{P)-American air.
men have sunk boatloads of
japanese fleeing the encircled
north Burma stronghold of
Myitkyina, already one-third
in Allied hands after bloody
street fighting, and 1t. Gen.
Joseph W. Stilwell's troops
have blocked the main enemy
forces at Kamaing to the
west, an Allied communique
announced today.
With Gen. stilwelrs northern
Burma campaign obviously ap-
preaching a c1imax-the capture
Of Myitkyina would plant a strong
peg on the path to China and give
his forces their first big strategic
victory of the offensive -. Allied
headquarters declared japanese
battle casualties in all sectors had
exceeded $4,000. Total enemy
forces il Burma have been esti-
mated at well over 100000.
The enemy in Myitkyina was be-
ing dive-bombed and he was I'M
der Allied artillery fire.
A front line dispatch from As
ISOLATED Press Correspondent Tho
burn Want said Japanese resist
ance was beginning 20 c1umble.
First indication that the Japa-
nese were attempting to retreat
from Myitkyina came in an Off
cial announcement that On Friday
American planes sank number
Of boatloads of Japanese attemp+-
ing to flee across the river"
Only Retreat Route
The only other remaining ave-
nue. of retreat for the Myitkyiaa
garrison was the road to Bhaaaso
to the south, which the announce
ment pictured as harassed con-
stantly by long-range penetration
forces and continuous Allied air
attack.
The plight of the japanese 18th
division, conquerors OF Singapore,
and other forces in north Burma,
was summed up officially as fol-
lows:
'Kamaing, the principal enemy
base il the Mogaung valley, where
his main forces are believed con-
centrated, is now blocked from
the south by British long.ra7ge
penetration forces; on the railway
by combined Chinese and AmeTi-
can forces at Myitkyina Ito the
southeast), and by the main Chi
nese forces of 1t. Gen. Joseph w.
Stilwelrs command, pushing down
the Mogauag valley d-om The
north)."
Savage Fighting
The communique said that aft
err savage street fighting. Chinese
American troops with strong ar
tillery and air support, now oc-
cupy approximately one-third OF
Myitkyiaa, including the railway
station"
Isolation of the japanese in the
city was completed when, after
Chinese patrols swept across the
Irrawaddy to the south, rear ele-
ments joined forces to capture the
villages of Namkwi and Charpate
few miles to the northwest, cut
ting railway and motor roads to
Mogaung, the bulletin said.
Main Chinese iorces in the Mo-
gazing valley, only eight miles
from Kamaing, were inflicting Sc
we're casualties on the japanese.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-22
Committee In Accord
On World Peace Plan

WASHINGTON, May 81. -R)-
A Senate liaison committee was
reported today to have reached
preliminary accord with Secretary
of State Hull on the board prin-
ciples of a postwar International
peace organization which the
big Four" Of the United Nations
would take the lead in forming.
Although there apparently was
no agreement on details, it was
said authoritatively that the plan
calls for creation of an interna-
tjonal council as a directing body,
with the United States, Great
Britain, Russia and China as the
councils chief members.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-22
IS Enemy Planes Shot
In Raid On Ploesti

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Naples, May 21.-(P)-A full eval-
uation has shown that American
oombers and fighters shot down IS
enemy planes in the May 10 raid
on the Romanian oil center of P]oe-
sti, the Mediterranean Allied air
force announced today.
Gunners of the bombers ba4Ted
q victims and escorting fighters
accounted for 10.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-22
Governor Broughton
Gets Honorary Degree

SALISBURY, May 21.-(P)-Ca-
tawba college graduated Sc seniors
at exercises here today that clos
ed it's 93rd academic year.
The honorary degree of doctor OF
civil law was conferred upon Gov
ernor ]. M. Broughton, who deliv-
cred the literary address; the Rev.
A. G. Ehrli, Of Webster Groves,
Mo-, who preached the baccalau-
reate sermon, and the Rev. J. N.
LeVan, of Philadelphia, Pa.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-22
british TANKS
IN HARD FIGHT
srd German Defense Wall
Endangered By Blow
In Coastal Area

ALLIE d HEADQUAh-
rERs. Naples, May 21.-P
American troops have cap
+,,red Fondi at the base of
src.shaped mountains form
ing the Germans last high
coastal barrier between the
Allied main front and the
Anzio beachhead only 80 air
line miles away.
The Appian Way junction town,
seized in a seven-mile advance
of+er the crushing of the Nazis'
soutbe-n Hitler line, is midway
between Pico and Terracina, an
cbors Of the enemy's thi-d or
"switch' defense wall running
along mountain ridges, including
9N0.foot Mt. San Biagio.
A front dispatch said Fondi was
taken Saturday against light re-
sistance. Other U. S. forces On the
coast advanced beyond Spe1longa,
annroachi:lg within nine miles of
he bomb battered port of Terra
Gina.
And the long-quiescent Anzio
beachhead - where other Fifth
arn,y forces stand only Is miles
from Terracina-fla1ed last night
i, the bitterest action since mid
April with powerful American
reconnaissance thrust. The Amer
leans dug 500 yards into German
nositions southeast of Ciste-na,
then withdrew.
Smash Outposts
On the north end Of the main
front, headquarters declared, the
Eighth army has driven in all the
outposts of the Hitler line in the
Liri valley, and now is attacking
the main defenses, striking at
some points with armo1 and
snokescreens in attempts to
breach defenses featured by thick
and deep eatanglements of barbed
wire.
A German counterattack il this
sector Friday afternoon forced the
Allies to yield some ground, it
was announced, but the Eighth
army's positions now are firm.
The German Sunday communl-
que said Allied forces which broke
into the southeastern part OF Pie
dimonte, just above Highway 6,
the road to Rome, and four miles
west of Casino, had been thrown
ou4 by couHter-attack, and decla--
ed particularly heavy enemy at
lacks were checked on the out
skirts of Pontecorvo," eight miles
southwest of Cassino.)
Germans Counter-attack
In the center, the Germans coun-
ter-attacked frequently east OF
Pico, attempting to prevent any
American French breakthrough
into the Forma di SAINT Olivia val
ley-which would thTe aten the Hit
Ter line defenses across the Lirl
valley.
Allied planes pounded heavily al
Germans fleeing along the Appian
Way in front of the Americans
southern advance, and blasted al
TersaciHa-a coastal communica-
tons bottleneck - at Vallecorss
farther inland on a lateral roae
linking with Highway 6, and al
Pontecorvo. A special announce
ment said the Mediterranean all
force had flown 1877 so1ties ane
dumped $3.50 tons of bombs il
the last week in supporting th'
powerful ground offensive.
Shippers and isolated German
forces offered slight resistance a
American infantry advanced alonl
the Appian Way toward Fondl, /
miles northeast of Ter-acina. Ao
vance elements Saturday after
noon were halfway along the sew
en-mile stretch from Itri to Fond
and later front reports said the.
mad pushed even close-.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-22
Army Takes Over
New Ward Plant

SPRINGFIELD, May 21.-(F)-The Army took possess
sion of properties owned by Montgomery Ward and Com
pany for the second time in less than month today when
ten Army representatives seized the strkebound Hummer
Manufacturing Company here orders from President
Roosevelt
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-22
GIRLS DROWN IN FLOOD

DIES MONIES, May 21-4ReTwo
little girls were drowned today in
a flooded street in Chelsea, Ia,
bringing to seven the numbe-- of
dead from floods and to1nadoes
il, the state in the last four days.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-21

I only hope that the account of my experience
battling at first glance, deeply rewarding on
closer examnaton-will help them endure the
trials and diSappontments of their quest.
One of my fathers friends who lived
neighboring island in the Escaut, rather dashed
my hopes at the outset by soothing at the tales
l had heard.
His visits to the spot had turned up
nothing remarkable, he assured me- All he had
seen legion of common graves and their
guardians, old man and his wife These two
the islands only living inhabitants, evidently
quite mad, he said, as well as quite content with
their grsly neighbors
Perhaps l was chasing a willothe.wsp.
Nevertheless, ] persisted in my plans, for his
attitude seemed too bourgeois, too mattcr-of-fact
10 be wholly trusted.
His SON. young man as eager as I in the
quest of forbidden knowledge, asked and was
granted, leave to accompany me.
We embarked in his light skff on day as
wild and romantic as our errand. A bitter wind
whipped us along; the sullen river seemed to be
full of menace, and the flying clouds overhead
were panic-stricken.
After such a voyage our first view of the
islands lone house was an anticlimax. 1t was an
ordinary looking building. Long and low, it
Rugged the shore, turning blind wall to the wind.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-21

BY COUNT MAURICE NIAETERLINCK
Famous Poet Nobel Pie Winner, Scientist and
Author of "The Bluebird,' ETC.
Written Exclusively for The American Weekly
- OES tiny Dutch island in one of the Escaut
4 j River estuarics hC.I key TO the ageold
- mystery of survival after death?
Does that little dot of land known as Cemetery
Island, crowded with corpses from France, from
England even from America point the way to
communication with the spirit world?
l asked myself these questions after hearing
of strange occurrences there l asked them with
particular emphasis, for at that time / CHANGED to
be pursuing some exhaustive researches into
mans position in the universe, his destiny, and
mis- possible access to hidden powers, above and
beyond natural science.
Anxious to follow any trail that might lead
further into the unknown, prepared to visit this
reputed haunt of ghosts and poltergeists.
Now years later, the afternoon / spent on
Cemetery Island has returned TO haunt me, more
surely than the island itself was ever haunted.
understand 1t is because of the war. And it
is to those who are haunted by the war, who have
lost loved ones and live today with ghosts, that
dedicate this brief memoir.
Many must now be seeking, even as in that
far-on time, to communicate with the afterworld.