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ROARING ALLIED OFFENSIVE
SWEEPS SOUTHEAST OF CAEM;;
SOVIETS ENTER OLD POLAND
II new TOWNS
FALL IN DRIVE
Breach In German Lines
More Than Doubled
By Onslaught

SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TIERS ALLIED EXPEDl-
TIONARY FORCE, Thurs
day, July 20.-P)-Gen. Sir
Bernard L. Montgomery's
British and Canadian forces
more than doubled their
breach in the Germans east
ern Normandy line Wednes-
day and in the second day of
a roaring offensive drove
their armor inland almost to
Vimont, eight miles southeast
of Caen on the main road to
Paris.
SCATTERING Nazi Marshal Erwin
Rommel's last fixed defense line
short of the Seine river 40 to As
miles eastward, the Allied troops
hurled the Germans from II towns
and progressed well into new
phase of their break-out from the
invasion beachhead.
British armor supported by in
fantry battled its way into the out
skirts of Troarn seven miles due
eastward from Caen, but in the
thrust toward Vimont 112 miles
from Paris, the Nazi erected a
strong screen of anti-tank guns
to stem the Allied tide, Associated
Press Correspondent Roger Green
reported from the front early to-
day.
General Montgomery reported
steady progress in the face of the
best resistance Marshal Rommel
could muster with strong infantry
reinforcements. and SIS armored
division, the flower Of the Nazi war
machine.
Fluid, armored battles were
flaming over miles of the Caen
plain and German counterattacks
were collapsing before the impact
of the Allied drive.
After an original breakthrough
on a front of slightly less than
three miles, launched from the
wedge across the Orne river north
of Caen and Vaucelles, the second
days battle widened the breach to
six miles.
The towns overrun included these
II in a sweeping arc east and
southeast of Caen; Bonneville, SAM
erville. Ftouffreville. Giberville,
Demouville, Colombelles, Eau
bourg, Devaucelles, Cuverville,
Cagny and 'Grentheville.
The last two named, respective
ly five and four miles southeast of
Caen, were taken in an important
thrust across the Caen-Vimont
highway and railroad.
! Many hundreds of prisoners were
being taken, and one Canadian unit
reported capturig so many Nazis
that its progress was delayed, Cor
respondent Greene reported.
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Troops Gust
Germans From LivOrnO
POLES CAPTURE
ADRIATIC PORT

ROME, July 10 American
troops, who have slashed their way
$50 miles northward in Italy in
Just over two months, drove the
Nazis out of the big port of Livorno
today a few hours after Polish
infantry had seized Ancona on the
Adriatic coast.
Capture of the two ports gave the
Allies valuable supply bases for
their forthcoming onslaught against
the enemy's heavily-fortified Gothic
line. Engineers moved in swiftly
to begin reconstruction of wrecked
dock facilities while infantry and
armor pressed on.
"Our engineers have been order
ed to work quickly to restore
Livorno's battered harbor and as
many as possible of its 60 docks"
an Allied spokesman said.
Use of the port will be restricted,
however, until the Nazis have been
driven off Mt. Pisano, which rises
Immediately northeast Of Pisa. The
Germans have installed many big
guns there to shell Livorno's har-
Dor from a distance of about II
miles.
After fighting desperately 70
DAYS on the hil1y approaches to
Livorno, the Nazis pulled out hur-
ridely last night after an American
thanking column had driven to Pom
fedora on the south bank OF the
Arno river, between Pisa n q
Plorebt. No attempt was MADE TO
defend the city street by street.
Peacetime Livorno, Italy's third
largest port, was capable of hand
ling 1880 tons of shipping daily,
but Nazi demolition squads left It's
docks, its IS power cranes ana Il
huge warehouses mass OF wreck
age. Mines, BOBBY traps and de-
layed demolition bombs were a
problem to the occupying dough
boys. Ancona, medium sized port
So miles below Rimini on the
Adriatic, was similarly wrecked.
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WILMINGTON MAN
KILLED BY TRAIN

James Holland Taylor, III, Of
$40 IL Ann St., was killed acct
dentally yesterday afternoon by a
train at Rosehill as he returned
from Stantonsburg with his wife
and son. They had been visiting
his mother, Mrs. W. n. Taylor.
fo-- a few days.
Taylor was employed in the
freigh traffic department OF the
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.
He is survived by his widow,
the former Miss Audrey Smith;
one son, J. H. Taylor, w; his
mother; two sisters, Mrs. Ralph
Gorham of Stantonsburg, and Miss
Mary Taylor of Williamson: and
one brother, w. R. Taylor, Jr., Of
Wilmington.
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed.
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In lengthy resolution adopted
at meeting called by the sales
committee of the state a r m
bureau, the tobaccon;sts declared
they would join South Carolina and
other states in asking for a five
day sales holiday at the beginning
of auctioning if ceilings are not
satisfactory.
A portion of the resolution was
the same as that adopted by South
Carolina growers and related to
ceiling prices and differentials
only. However, at the request of
North Carolina border belt growers
a section was added protesting the
alton of the sales committee Of
the Tobacco Association of the
United States in cutting down the
daily sales time ad reduction of
the number of sets of buyers on all
markets with three or more sets,
by one set.
In the section dealing with cell
ing prices, the resolution stated
that tobacco growers are entitled
to know well in advance of opening
dates the ceiling prices that are
to be fixed on their products" It
said that recent amendments to
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. ~
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RUSSIANS CROSS
1871 FRONTIER
Historic Entrance M a d e
Along 10-Mile Front;
Enemy Keeling

LONDON, Thursday, July
20. - up - Russian troops
smashed 10 miles across the
1911 German-Soviet frontier
on the Bug river north of by
passed Lwow yesterday, and
for the first time in three
years Of war were attacking
on soil which Germany seized
in the conquest of Poland.
Opening new offensive along
the north Latvian border the Rus
slang also hurled back the enemy
Is miles on a 43-Inile front in two
days, Moscow announced last
night.
The Bug river, from which the
Germans attacked Russia June %,
l94l, was crossed on nearly a TO-
mile front north and south OF Sokal,
10 miles north Of outflanked Lwow,
by Marshal Ivan S. Konev's First
Ukraine army on the fourth day
of its offensive aimed straight at
the heart of Germany.
Prusinov, 10 miles west of Kry-
stynopol on the Bug river border,
was captured by Konev's troops,
who were supported by perhaps the
biggest air coverage yet attained
en- the eastern front. Krystynopol
itself and Sokal, 10 miles to the
north, another river city, fell to
The Russians. Boratyn, five miles
west of Sokal, and Ostrov, eight
miles southwest of Sokal, also were
taken in the leap across the Bug
The historic crossing was an.
rounced casually in the daily broad
cast communicate recorded by the
Soviet monitor, and was not made
an occasion for special announce
ment.
1t came three years and % days
after Adolf Hitler's legions broke
the German-Russian non-aggres-
sion pact by attacking the Soviet
Union.
Imperilled Lwow, one of the big
sest rail functions in Europe, and
fortress city guarding the open
plains leading to German Silesia,
now less than 235 miles from the
advancing Russians, was also be-
ing attacked frontally while part
CT Konev's troops by-passed it on
the north.
One Russian column captured
Remenov, less than nine miles
northeast of Lwow, and another
unit took Olshanitsa, % miles east
of the city. Derevya, 81 miles
north of Lwow, fell to units which
were breaking into the Polish plains
behind the city.
The Russians gained from 10 to
Is miles during the day, and the
Germans were fighting back saw
agely. Northeast of the Lwow in
the area west Of Brody, the Rus
SLAMS had encircled four or five
German divisions.
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CIGARETTE MAKERS
HAVING BUYING CUT

WASHINGTON, July 49, fA -
cigarette manufa cturers today
were ordered by the War Food
Administration to restrict their
purchases Of 1914 crop flue cured
looacco 10 "A per cent of the guam
'lly Used by them for manufacture
ing purposes in the year ending
June 80. :
a VIA spokesman said, how
:; ever there probably would be little
any cut in the cigarette supply
.vl the nation during the next year
'Vm rp with the past year.
me order was based on the
Suiy agriculture department est
m1S'e OF flue cured crop of 1884,
Wv pounds, but good rains in the
s ,o"aceo areas since then have
o oa the trade to estimate g
5 CSop Of up to $50, 900. 900 pounds
tob taIles Gage, head of the VIA
''"dcco section, said.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-20
ITO SUPERFORTRESSES
BEING BUILT In JULY

HOUSTON, Texas, July 19-|A-
Rep. Albert Thomas (D-Tex) dis
closed today in an address before
the Houston Lions club that the
United States will build 10 giant
Bog Superfortresses during July.
1--WE have IS aircraft carriers
now" Thomas said, "and there
have been "a carriers leased to
our Allies
Thomas stated that he recently
"saw two 45,OOO-ton aircraft car
riers' in an east coast port.
Superfortresses recently bombed
the Japanese. mainland.
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Draft Boards Wary
Of Aging Youths
Trying To Registe,

Officials of City Draft Board
No. l are unable to decide what
is caVaing the epidemic of 16
and II year-old youths trying to
boost their age to Is and join
the services whether it is
the invasion, the battles of
Saipan, Caen. St. Lo. or bore
dom of vacation from school,
or the want of an exciting
cob.
For the past six weeks, five
and six youths per week have
entered the board office and
registered with a rodomontade
and Observation-Disclosures
years-old-smile," officials re-
vealed yesterday.
Draft officials said they wish
ed to caution parents and boys
that it is a federal offense to
register before a youth has &C
tually reached the age of Is.
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FINAL SERVICES
HELD FOR MAYOR

An atmosphere of lamentation
and devotion was prevalent yes
terday afternono at the last rites
for Bruce Barclay Cameron,
mayor of Wilmington and one of
the most prominent businessmen
of southeastern North Carolina.
The services were conducted at
the Cameron home.
Hundreds of persons, including
city and county officials, business
associates, and friends, attended
the services of the executive who
was stricken halfway in his first
term of office and at the peak of
a successful business career.
Brigadier General Bryan l..
Milburn, commandant of the AAA
school at Camp Davis, Brigadier
General C. V. R. Schuyler, COM
manding general of the AAATC,
and Colonel Adam E. Potts, camp
commander, attended the funeral
representing the three commands
at Camp Davis.
Attendants remarked that there
were "nearly a thousand" per-
sons at the service and that the
array of flowers, sent by organiza-
tons and individuals, "would
easily cover two lots
Messages of coincidence have
streamed constantly to the Cam
eron family from persons through
out the city and state who feel
keenly the loss of Wilmington S
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LONDON, July 49, UP The
death of sly German officers In
a fight over strategy and COM
plants of captive Nazi gen.
eral deploring discord among
Hitler and his military leaders
were announced by Allied
quarters today and from Ber-
lin came word of = Shakeup in
the low countries.
The Nazi high command ap-
parently had become entangled
in bitter disaffection while
fighting its three-front war.
The Greek gOvernment-in-
exile announced in Cairo that
high German officers who met
at the Hotel Brentague In
Athens for \ conference dis
agreed violently over policy,
drew pistols and began shoot
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preme war lord, rendered his res
ignation as premier and minister
of war to Emperor Hirohito along
with those of his lesser colleagues
and, for the time being at least,
was without high office.
It remained to be seen whether
he would be appointed to form an
other government.
A statement by the Japanese
board of information, broadcast by
the Domei news agency and re-
ported by the Federal Communi-
cations commission, said nothing
about the makeup of the new gov
eminent but asserted, 1--WE antici-
pate with great anxiety the ap-
pearance of new, strong cabinet at
this time"
Referring to the present grave
situation" the wireless dispatch d.
rected to Japanese-occupied areas,
stated 1.-The government finally
has decided to renovate its person.
mel totally in order to prosecute
the war totally
The announcement followed one
day after TOTO had been relieved
of his post as chief of the army
general staff and disclosed that
the cabinet designations also were
presented to Hirohito on Tuesday.
No reason was given for the de-
lay in making the change public.
TOTO presented the collective res
ignation of his government to EN-
peror Hirohito after Having recog-
nized the fact that it was most
appropriate to carry out total
resignation" the Domei dispatch
said.
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Japs Seek To Outflank
Allies On New Guinea

frontal assaults and a series
of probing drives have been
repulsed along the Driniumor,
81 miles east of Aitape. The
japanese attempt to break -
Allied trap began July 10.
Allied medium bombers and
fighters continued to harass
Japanese concentrations, and
naval units shelled coastal traf-
fic.
Headquarters also announc-
ed japanese dead and prison
ers tOtaled 81 in the five-day
capture of Noemfoor island, off
north Dutch New Guinea, invad-
ed July 2.
American forces freed a to-
tai of 26S Japanese-held pris-
oners on the island
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Six German Officers Die
In Fight Over Strategy

ing. Five were said to have
been killed in the melee, and
the sixth, chief administrative
officer for the Peleponnesus,
was reported shot to death by
an SIS guard while Fleeing.
Another Cairo report said
the Athens provost marshal,
one Colonel Fritse, an Austrian,
was executed for speaking
against the German command.
The German news agency
DNB said in broadcast Hit
Ter himself decreed the dis
charge of Col. Gen. Alexander
Won Falkenhausen, friend of
the deposed western command,
Field Marshal Gen. Karl Du-
dolf Gerd Won Rundstedt, as
commander In Holland and
Belgium.
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Governor Dewey Favors
High Military Strength

ALBANY, N. Y, July 19-tR-
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's determi.
nation, if elected president, that
the United States shall maintain a
high level of military strength after
the war, was disclosed today by
Rep. James w. Wadsworth (R-NY)
longtime advocate of compulsory
military training.
Wadsworth, co-author of the Sc.
lective Service act, was guest OF
the Republican presidential nomi-
nee at a conference which he said
dealt mainly with postwar nationa
security.
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ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD

ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
GU ART E r S, New Guinea,
Thursday, July 20.-(P)-Stung
by the loss of 1869 men in I'M
successful frontal assaults, the
Japanese have changed their
tactics and now are attempting
to out-flank Allied lines on the
Driniumor river in British New
Guinea headquarters announc-
ed today.
This toll of known japanese
dead, up to Tuesday, included
582 reported today. The Allies
also have captured rs prison.
erS.
Japanese forces are attempt
ing to bypass the right flank of
the river line by moving
through the foothills of the Tor
riceli mountains. Three heEvy
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LONDON HARD HIT
BY ROBOT BOMBS

LONDON, July 19-Salvos Of
flying bombs rained on London ano
southern England yesterday, last
might and today in the greatest
sustained attack since the Nazi
terror weapon was introduced.
Civilians braced themselves, re-
calling Prime Minister Churchill S
warning that there could be no
diversion of men or material from
the battle front to meet the robot
menace.
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Berlin Communications
Reported To Be Cut Off

LONDON, Thursday. July 20.-P)
Berlin was cut off from the out
side world early last night, the
Daily Mail reported in a dispatch
from Stockholm which said there
was speculation that the suspen-
sion of telephone and telegraph
communications might be the re-
suit Of some internal upheaval"
The shutdown went into effect at
S pm. Nondon Time) Wednesday.
Communications usually are cut
during an air raid but German ra-
dos kept broadcasting.
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OPA Not To Relax
Rationing of Shoes

NEW YORK. July 1s-tR-Tae
Office of Price Administration
sees no 'hope of relaxing shoe
rationing, certainly not this year"
Charles Philips, OPA deputy ad-
ministrator in charge of rationing,
said today.
He said occasional "odd lot"
shoes would continue to be re-
leased from rationing The most
acute shoe shortage has been in
infants and children's shoes, he
added.
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Nazi Losses In France
Estimated At 10000

GENERAL MONTGOMERY'S
HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE,
July 9-lR1Gen. Sir Bernard L..
Montgomery, in his most optimis-
tic mood since D-Day, estimated
today that $4,000 Germans had
been written off, in the invasion
campaign thus far-60,000 captur-
ed and 5000 buried by Allied troops
in Normandy. and the rest killed
O.. wounded con the other side" OF
The lines. .
cit is reasonable to suppose, y
the British commander in chief
told press conference, "that there
are another 5000 dead on the other
side, so that $4,000 of the enemy
has been killed"
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GERMAN ACE KILLED

BanTINDoN, July 49, R9 - The
Man. saolo announced today that
ing vt " burmheller, one of the lead
VIZ herman err fighter aces, credited
+bs "a D !oz Kills, and commander of
sbo4 Nlchthofen squadron, had been
No. ooWn ana killed over Nor.
~'''ioy by British pilot
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JAPS PUSHED BACK

SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND
HEADQUARTERS, Handy, Ceylon,
July 19.-(P)-Allied troops have
pushed the Japanese invaders Of
India back as far as 80 miles be-
low Imphal into the Palel sector
near the Burma border and beat
down sharp counterattacks, head.
quarters announced today.
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Wallace Men
Demand Vote
0fFree Will
AK WORD FROM F.D.R.
Cu{}ey, Pepper Cry Out
Against Convention
Being Controlled

CHICAGO, July 19.-P)-
Psckers of denomination for
Vice President Wallace, ask
mo whether the Democratic
invention is to be "boss con-
froLed' called on party lead
,rs tonight to make public
any communication fro nj
President Roosevelt concern
ing second place on the ticket.
In last ditch fight to save for
Wallace a nomination which seem
ed to be slipping away to Sen. Har-
rv S Truman, Sen. Joseph CUT
few of Pennsylvania and Claude
Pepper of Florida both voiced SIM
liar demands.
Word has spread through the
convention earlier in the day that
Mr.. Roosevelt had advised Demo
cratic Chairman Robert E. Hanne-
gan that his second choice, after
Wallace, was Truman, with Su-
preme Court Justice William o.
Douglas rated third.
This convention at this moment
is on trial" Pepper said in
statement. The peoples eyes are
upon it. Is it going to be mani
pulated and boss controlled?
Il believe the delegates are not
gong to be controlled or bossed,
ro~ are they going to take any
word handed out privately as to
what they are supposed to do.
If Chairman Hannegan has a
letter from the President concern
ing the vice presidency, other
than the Presidents endorsement
of Henry A. Wallace, he should
have already read it to the conven-
ton or disclosed it to the press.
If Chairman flanagan has
such a letter, I as chairman OF
the Florida delegation call upon
him to produce it and make it pub
lie now. Also let Chairman Hanne-
gan tell the delegates when such
letter was written, the circum-
stances under which it was writ
ten, and whether he requested the
letter or not. If any names are
mentioned in the letter as being
agreeable to the President, did Mr..
Hannegan submit other names to
the President also?"
Guffey said in a statement:
Il doubt very much if Mr.. Han
negan quoted all of the letter the
President is supposed to have writ
ten. 1t is time that Mr.. flanagan
remember that he was elected
chairman of the national committee
to serve all the members of our
party, to give some of his time
to the party and not all of it en-
trely to the candidate of Hanne-
gan, Kelly Hague and Flynn"
Guffey thus implied that Truman
was backed by Hannegan, Mayor
Edward j, Kelly of Chicago, Mayor
Frank Hague of Jersey City and
Edward ]. Flynn, Bronx leader.
Wallace, arriving in the forenoon
to take over personal direction of
his campaign, spent the greater
part of the day in conference with
Clio labor leaders, one of his
S. '3Agest sources of support, and
with Attorney General Biddle and
Secretary of Interior Ickes.
Party leaders were reported to
be urging him to withdraw to pave
the way for a first ballot nomina-
ton Of Truman but Wallace made
clear at news conference that, if
ne is to lose. he would 60 down
fighting.
Il am in this fight to a finish,"
he said.
DO you think you can VIM" he
Was asked.
i haven't the slightest idea"
II
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TOTO Quits Post
AS Jap Premier
(By Tie Associated Press\

The Japanese government headed by Gen. Hideki TOTO,
which led that nation into against the United States
less than two months after the cabinets formation in Octo
ber 941 has resigned collectively Japan continued
tic overhaung of her political and military commands in
the face of mounting disaster Tokyo announced last night
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Tobacco Growers
Demand Ceilings

RALEIGH July 19-(P-North Carolina tobacco
growers warehousemen and agricultural leaders went
record today favorng immediate and acceptable CELL
ing price tobacco and against reduction of selling
hours and sets of buyers fue- cured markets.
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FORECAST

WILMINGTON AND VICINITY: Part
l., cloudy and rather hot today with
scattered afternoon thundershowers,
Temperatures yesterday:
High BLOW So.