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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-25
Consideration OF Vote
Bill Forced In Senate

WASHINGTON, Jan. "a up -
Over riding some Republican OBJ
lection, Senate Democrats forced
consideration today Of a revised
Federal absentee ballot proposal
for armed service voters, obvious
ly seeking to undo an earlier de-
cision leaving the job up to the
States.
Before debate on the new Green
Lucas war ballot bill got very far,
however, Southern Democrats -
determined to safeguard States
Rights - offered an amendment
that nothing in a Federal ballot
low could alter any State regula-
ton on voting qualifications or re-
quirements.
The revised service voting bill
recreates Federal war ballot
once rejected by the Senate, and
revives a bipartisan war ballot
commission, but leaves with the
States full authority to pass on the
validity of all service votes. Back
ers said it meets earlier objec-
lions that the Federal ballot plan
invaded the States constitutional
right to police their own elections.
Senator Vandenberg (R.-Misho
declared, however, that the new
bill legislates against the POSSIBLE
ity of State ballots ever reaching
men and women in the armed
services because it does not make
it mandatory for the Army and
Navy to deliver them.
1.-THE Army and Navy say they
can't deliver any ballot that weighs
more than eight tenths of an
ounce he said. Most State bal
lots probably weigh at least two
ounces. In view of that how can
we say to our States that any
ballot will every reach a soldier?'
eff the States ballots could be
gotten out there would be no pur.
pose in bringing this bill to the
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-25
Maxi High Command Is Confronted
With Another Dilemma In Italy

They served to blunt somewhat. the
Observation-Disclosures threat to
the Casino gateway to the Liri
valley, interior land route to
Rome. Yet they may turn out to
be only rear guard operations to
screen a wholesale Nazi retreat
northWard.
The extent Of the Allied beach
holdings is not clear. 1t is reason
ably certain from both Allied and
Berlin accounts, however, that the
objective is not Rome directly, but
the roads and railroads that fan
south and eastward from that
transportation hub.
First Allied official accounts TOLD
only of the taking of Nettuno with
its unchanged port facilities anc
landing beaches to the north anc
Continued on Page Two; Col. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-25
J INSPECTED TARGETS
Strong Escort OF Planes
Support Raid On The
Roich &

LONDON, Jan. 24.-P9-Amer-
can heavy bombers returned to
their old hunting grounds in west
ern Germany today, bombing I'M
specified targets while hundreds of
medium and fighter bombers at
tackled the French invasion coast
for the 23rd time in Is days.
The heavy bomber raid into one
of Germany's most productive in
dustrial areas was supported by a
strong escort of new Arranging
Mustang fighters as well as Thun-
derbolts and Lightnings.
The escort and the heavy bomb
ers destroyed 81 enemy planes, a
communique announced, while the
Raj got three more off Holland.
From all the days operations, two
heavy bombers, a fighter-bomber
and ten fighters are missing. Ma
tionalities were not specified in the
bulletin. Of the 81 shot down in
the U. S. AAF sweep, the bomb
ers were officially credited with
two and the escort with 10.
A brief official announcement
did not give details, but from a
Flying Fortress station came a
story Of how one formation, hamp-
cred by clouds over its primary
objective, managed to discover an
important target farther north and
destroyed it with an accurate salvo
OF several tons of bombs.
Crewmen declared their bombs
struck right in the middle of the
target land really knocked it to
pieces"
The Vichy radio located the
bombing targets as dozen local
tiles in Normandie.
Meanwhile, early tonight there
was an air raid alarm in Bern.
capital of neutral Switzerland. and
tile German DNB agency said "ap.
glo'SaxGn aircraft flew over south.
western Danubia; bombs we're
dropped.
Sofia was identified in a DNB
broadcast as a target. The Bull
garian capital, heavily damaged
IN previous raids, was reported to
have been struck by Allied bomb.
ers at noon.
A few continental radio stations
left the air tonight, Indicating =
possibility that the RATS bomb.
Continued on Page Two; Col. a.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-25
UNITY IS URGED
BY LORD HALIFAX

TORONTO, Jan. 24.-RNLord
Halifax, called tonight for closer
postwar linking of the British COM
manwealth of nations to make up
together one of the worlds four
great powers.
Saying that the tiny United King
dom could hardly claim equal
partnership with giants like the
United States, Russia and China,
the British ambassador to the
United States thus specified 1.-THE
need as I see it,"
'If in the future Britain is to
play her part, without assuming
burdens greater than she can sup
port, she must have behind her
in peace the same strength that
has sustained her in this war.
''Not Great Britain only, but the
British Commonwealth and EN-.
pire must be the fourth power ir
that group upon which, under prov
idence, the peace of the world viii
henceworth depend"
Halifax spoke at the centenary
dinner of the Toronto board O.
trade and he devoted much of hi!
speech to Canada's progress to it:
status of complete equality" with
Great Britain.
The Dominions, he recalled
swiftly followed the mother coun
try into war in 1889 although ''ir
fact as well as in theory, the,
Continued on Page Twsts Col. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-25
BRIGGS CALLED
BY GRAND JURY

WASHINGTON, JAM 24.-(P-
George N. Briggs, suspended con-
fidential aide to Secretary Ickes,
added another chapter to the
Hopkins Letter mystery today,
asserting that he is a pawn of
power politics. and a victim of
a grudge which, he said, Senator
LANCER R.-N.D.) holds against
Ickes, Wendell Willkie and Harry
Hopkins.
Briggs gave that account to
newsmen before spending % min
utes with a Federal Grand Jury
investigating the letter, which
deals with Wilkes presidential
prospects and is signed with the
name of Hopkins, presidential ad-
wiser. Some critics of the new deal
and of Willkie have asserted that
the letter indicates Hopkins wants
Willkie to be the Republican presi'
dental nominee.
Senator LANCER h S named
Briggs as the go-betWeen IN hand.
ling of the letter which appeared
in. C.. Nelson Sparks book, lone
Wendell Willkie." Hopkins
has denounced it as a forgery, but
Sparks insists that he believed il
was genuine and that he though,
he was getting it from lex Is
through Briggs.
Disclaiming that he is a mar
of mystery" Briggs told newsmer
before his jury appearance thai
this was his first taste of power
politics" and that he supposed he'e
have to acquire a taste for it
like olives" LANCER, he said
doesn't like Willkie, Hopkins OF
Ickes.
Briggs appeared voluntarily be
fore the Grand Jury but declined
Continued on Page Two; Col. 6
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-25
LAWMAKERS AGREE
ON PAY MEASURE

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.-tRA
Senate and House conferees drew
up compromise bill providing
500 to $500 mastering out pay fol-
service men and women TODAY
with the top payment going tc
those who serve overseas or ir
Alaska.
The measure, designed to wir
speedy passage in both Houses
generally retains the House-ap
proved range of payments and the
Senate's restrictions on service.
Senator Johnson Cd. -Colo.) esti
mated the cost of the compromise
proposal at $4,000 100000, or $780,.
100000 less than the House meas
sure, and $4,000, 100000 less than
the Senate version.
The scale provides:
500 to service men and women
who serve less than so days in
the continental United States.
5000 to those who serve more
than go days in this country.
$500 for those with service over.
seas or in Alaska.
The House bill had provided $500
for 60 or more days and minimum
of $500 for less than 60 days, re-
CARELESS of whether the service
was at home or abroad. The Sen.
ate's sliding scale called for pay.
ments ranging from 5000 to $500
depending on the length and place
of service.
The compromise legislation will.
come up in the House on Wednes'
Hav
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-25
18th Term Row
Bubbles Over
In The Senate
AMENDMENT PROPOSED
Senator Charges Stimson
And Knox Also Rum
ming

The fourth term issue boiled ove1
Ia the Senate today with a charge
by Senator Taft (R.-Ohio) that Wal
Secretary Stimson and Navy Sec
retary Knox are supporting a uni
form federal ballot for service per
sonnet because they are running
for another term.
Senator Lucas D.-Ill.), one Of
the authors of a proposed com.
promise on the absentee ballot bill,
retorted that the Ohioan was talk
ing the purest kind of policica]
poppycock."
Challenging a joint statement by
stimson and Knox, Republican
members of the cabinet, that the
War and Navy Departments could
not guarantee the delivery of State
absentee ballots t omembers of the
armed forces, Taft declared:
1.-THE truth is the Army and Navy
have determined to have FEEDER
al ballot and have determined not
to have State ballots. Mr.. Stimson
and Mrs Knox are running for a
fourth term, too. They are con-
vinced they are essential to the
conduct OF the war"
Lucas replied heatedly that if
Senate Republicans kept up their
"dnlaving tactics' against action
on The compromise bill you'll
guarantee a fourth term for Pres
ident Roosevelt.
Lucas said that while he held no
brief for Knox OR Stimson, Il be-
teve I can recognize patriots when
| see them and they certainly are
patriots.
Meanwhile, Senator Vandenberg
R.-Mich.). urging action to limit
the tenure of presidents, declared
in a penciled statement handed to
a reporter that a virtual fourth
ter endorsement by the Demo-
cratic national committee here Sat-
ue'a~ demonstrated the growth of
"a PERSONAL and dynastic power
w7icn eliminates all rivalry"
Vandenberg asserted that the
co~7nittee's shouted approval of
a resolution soliciting President
Roosevelt to continue in his role
III uwcd on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-25
HOSPITAL MONEY
VOTED BY BOARD
100000 Placed In Re.
serve Fund For Build
ing Sanitorium

A resolution was passed by the
Board of County Commissioners at
their regular weekly meeting Mon
day afternoon, placing $500, 900 in
capital reserve fund to be used
for tie construction of the new
tut a. cular sanitorium. Previously
this money was in the county gen.
eral fund, which was surplus
carried over from last year.
Chairman Addison Hewlett said
that special registration and a
public election will be held the
middle of March to vote the money
out TO-, the construction of the
County hospital.
Plans for the construction of the
new building have been estimated
to cost $780, 900. However, until
bids are submitted, it is impos-
sible to determine the costs, Chair
man Hewlett said. A site for the
new building has not been chosen.
DR.. John C. vessel, who was in
charge of the old tubercular hospi-
tai here, submitted a report show
ing that estimated expenses for
the new county hospital would
amount to $40, $50.
These figures, according to DR..
VESSEL, are based on the costs
of labor and materials at the. pres
ent time. The new budget calls for
one full-time physician and seven
nurses instead Of five, as previous
ly. Labor for care of the hospital
will be increased Is per cent
according to DR.. Vessels report.
He stated that while he thought
it wise to ask for a budget suf-
flcient to care for all expected ex-
pense, II am Of the opinion half
this amount would not be used
for at least two years, as under
the best of circumstances we
could not build and be in operation
before the last of 1914. While we
would probably open with Is pa
tients, it would be at least the last
Of 1915 before we would be caring
for IS or more patients.
'By 1916, most of us feel that
the war will be over and, of
course, there will be quite a drop
in the expense of running an in
stitution of this kind. And, no
doubt" said DR.. VESSEL, ''the bud
get could be held to around $780,
600 a year"
1t is expected that definite date
for a public election will be de-
cided on at the next weekly meet
ing of the board, January 81.
H. R. Gardner, county commits
sioner, reported to the Board of
County Commissioners this after
noon on his trip to Washington Fri
day, when he attended a meeting
of the Atlantic Coastal Cities Air
Association.
Gardner stated that the meeting
was one of the most enthusiastic
ever held by the association, and
it was his opinion that the air
service would be established. 1t is
believed that final approval on a
plan will be issued in approximate
ly 10 days, by the commercial
committee.
The commissioner said that
everyone present was enthusiastic
in postwar planning of aviation. He
was expressive in saying that the
proposed air service will definite
ly effect the future of Wilmington
and New Hanover county.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-25
Nazis Lash Savagely At Main 9Th Army;
Western Germany, Invasion Coast Hit;
Keys ,fman Rail Line Is Cut By Russians
Only East : " soap
Line For Enemy troops
Is Blocked

LONDON, Jan. 24.-H-Gen.
Leonid A. Govorov's victorious
army slashed the Krasnogvarde-
isk-Narva railway today, blocking
the only east-west escape line for
for perhaps 100000 Germans i'm
perilled southeast of Leningrad, a
Moscow bulletin disclosed tonight.
Russian troops also drove to
within two miles of Krasnogvarde-
isk. (GatchinO itself and, % miles
to the east, were less than five
miles from Tosno, the railways
junction with the Leningrad-Mos-
COW trunk line.
Fifty miles south of Krasnogvar.
deisk another Russian army under
Gen. K. A. Meretskov, in strike
west of Novgorod, raced to within
20 and 80 miles, respectively, OF
Batetskaya and Luga. Seizure OF
those two functions would com.
plete the gigantic trap closing or
German army which had been
besieging Leningrad since August.
1941.
A special order of the day by
Premier Marshal Stain announced
the fall of Pushkin (Tsarkoye Selo)
and Pavlovsk (Slutsk), twin rail
hubs IA and 10 miles due south Of
Leningrad. The two functions con.
trcl at least II lines running into
Russia's second city.
Then a broadcast communiuue
recorded by the Soviet monitor
told Of the cutting of the Vita
German escape railway. The tri
umphant smash apparently oc
CURED in the Smolkovo area, 4C
miles southwest of Leningrad, and
16 miles west-southwest of Kras
nogvardeisk. Smolkovo is only one
mile above the railway.
The entire 100-1nile German line
extending from Leningrad south
ward to Lake linens western
shore appeared to be crumbling ir
one of the worst Nazi defeats since
Stalingrad as the Russians drove
lines leading to the Baltic states
The free section of the Tosno
.Krasnogvardeisk line apparently
already was under Soviet artillery
fire.
German troops still were count
er-attacking savagely in the lower
Ukraine to stave off another de-
bacle at that end of the long Rus.
sian front. The communique sale
that Soviet troops east of Vinnitsa
20 miles from the Odessa-Warsav
relentlessly forward astride raj
line supplying German forces ii
the Dnieper bend, had repulsec
heavy tank and infantry attacks
That was the only other major
action reported by Moscow afte1
Sundays disclosure that Gen. 'Kon
stantine Rokossovsky's Lower
White Russian army had stabbed
through the Pripet Marshes te
within 80 miles OF. the old Polish
frontier.
Berlin broadcasts, however, &C
knowledged new German with
drawals in the face of heavy Rus.
sian attacks near Vitebsk, upper
White Russian stronghold 800 miles
south Of Leningrad, and declared
Continued on Page Two; Col. A
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-25
Spaniel Is Sold
ForOuer $50, 900

CAMP DAVIS, Jan. A.-A
little boys cocker spaniel pup
py sold for SIS, 900 in the record
breaking war bond rally-net-
ting $500, 900 - conducted by
Camp Davis soldiers and civil
ians last week in Whiteville.
tanning the Whiteville high
school auditorium, citizens of
the city, in surge of patriotic
response to the Fourth War
Loan Drive, went the limit in
outbidding each other for
prizes contributed by mer-
chants of the city and auction
ed from the stage by Lieut..
John B. Rand, special service
officer of the 556th Battalion,
between acts of "ScOtch and
Sofa,' the 556th's smash hit
Continued on Page Two; Col. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-25
BY KIRK l.. SIMPSON
Associated Press War Analyst


Caught flat-footed by the Allied
sea-borne thanking attack gust
south of Rome, the Nazi high COM
mand is confronted with the same
sort of dilemma in Italy that it
faces on a larger scale, in Russia.
It must decide, and decide now
before it is too late, to run for it
in Italy, abandoning Rome and
substantially all of the Italian pen
insula south of the Livorno line,
or fight it out at the risk of dis
aster. The choice probably has
been made, although the decision
is not yet discernible.
The first indicated Nazi reaction
to the Allied blow came in furious
counter t t a C k S against Fifth
Army positions on the Casino
Minturno line far to the south
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-25
Sale Of N. e. Auto
Tags Far Below That
Of 43, State Says

RALEIGH, Jan. "a R -
The Department of Motor We
hicles said today that auto IL
cense sales through Jan. II
totalled 428,349, a drop of 3d.
289 for the same period III 1913.
T. Doodle Ward, vehicles
commissioner, said the de-
crease in sales was due partly
to the extension of valid time
for 1943 license plates. An act
of the 1943 legislature extended
authorized use of plates for
last year to Jan. 81. 1914. !
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-25
individual Bond Sales
Hit S863,0OO,00O Mark
Treasury Report Shows

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24-R-
Individual bond sales in the
nourth War Loan hit $780,, OOO,-
wv IN today's Treasury report,
gain of $81, 0OO. 900 over Sat-
ufday's total.
Inc drive thus was nearing
W.. we 10 percent mark of the $5,-
o.v'oVo'OO0 goal set for indi-
'r uuai sales. with reports on
o's money" purchases to-
o mala the $4,000, 600, 000, 900
vial, wal objective still being
~, hield for the balance of
'hls month
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-25
BRAZIL ALSO

mo DE JANEIRO, Jan. 24.-lR
'ofeign Minister Cswaldo Aran-
nd SAID today in a written state
nielV that, in view of information
e1changed by the American gov
O. nlH'nents, he could not advise that
. pIazll establish diplomatic rela-
'ioAS with the Bolivian junta.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-25
bloI IVAN REGIME
REJECTED BY U. S.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.-tR-
TIE United States Government Of
ficially linked the new revolution.
airy regime in Bolivia with sub.
versive groups hostile to the Allied
cause today and refused to dc
business with it.
Referring to the La Paz regime
as the present revolutionary
]unta,' the State Department an.
nounced that Ambassador Boal has
been directed to return to this
country.
The refusal to recognize, state.
ment said, grows out of the fact
that the new rulers of Bolivia
came into office as part of a ''gen.
eral subversive movement having
Tor its purpose steadily expanding
activities in South America"
These Developments the state
ment added, viewed in the light
OF the information the American
republics have been exchanging
among themselves, dispose mega
lively Of the matter Of this gov
ernmenfs recognizing the present
revolutionary junta at La Paz."
OTHER NATIONS AGREE
CARACAS, Venezuela, Jan. a.
u venezuela joined Uruguay and
cuba and other Western hemi
sphere nations today in refusing
70 recognize the revolutionary Bo
AVlan regime Of Gualberto Villar
foel and ordered the Venezuelan
charge d'affaires at La Paz tt
Come home.
Argentina is the only country Sc
lsf recognizing the new govern
! ment
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-22
PAROLED SLAYER DENIES
NEW KILLING IN L. A.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. %. CUP)-
District Attorney Fred N. HowSer
Friday said he would issue mur-
der complaint against Mrs. Louise
Peete for the six months old mur-
der of her lifetime friend and ben
efactress although the 63-year- old
paroled murderess claimed the wom-
ans husband committed the crime
in an insane fit of rage.
In a nine-page statement, pencil
led after the discovery of the body
of woman identified as Mrs. Mar
garet Logan, 60, in shallow grave
in the Logan backyard, Mrs. Peete
blamed the late Arthur C. Logan
for her death, according to reports
from the district Attorneys office.
Mrs. Logan was believed murder
ed June 2, 1944-24 years to the cay
after Mrs. Peete killed Jacob G.
Denton, wealthy mining executive
whose body was found sealed in q
cellar crypt.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-22
President Offers Defense
Of'AtIontic Charter

tain documents had been presented
to the world for a good many thous-
and years looking ito betterment of
life itself. One of these, he said, is
the Atlantic charter, but somebody
will come along in the future with
something better.
Some people are saying that the
objectives of the Atlantic charter
cannot be attained, he noted, and
he pointed out that people cont
always live up to the Ten Com
mandments.
The President hastened to add
that he was not necessarily COM
pairing the Atlantic charter with
the 10 commandments but that
both were pronouncement for world
betterment.
President Woodrow Wilson's FAM
Gus IA points peace aims in the last
war constituted another declara-
ton in the same class, he said
Life has its peaks, and valleys,
the President observed, with the
trend always toward betterment
Some people who 6oubt that i'm
provement can be achieved, he said
are just congenitally against that
sort of thing.
The President departed from
usual press conference custom to
permit direct quotation of one phase
in his discussion--his assertion that
its principles "are as valid today
as they were In 194l."
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-22
Russians Mass
100000 Men
On Baltic Line

LONDON, Dec. %. CUP)-Berlin
said Friday that the Red Army,
launching a new offensive at the
northern end Of the eastern front,
hurled 81 divisions-possibly 400. 900
men-against the southern rim of
the German pocket in northwest
Latvia and conceded that the Sow
lets had broken into the Nazi lines
at several points.
The offensive, it confirmed, would
appear an all-out attempt to liqui-
date tens of thousands of German
troops trapped against the Baltic
and thus release additional Russian
forces for the Soviet winter often
sive in east Prussia and Poland.
A United Press dispatch from
Moscow said the Russians were be-
lieved massing the greatest concen-
tration of men. artillery, tanks and
aircraft yet seen on the eastern
front for campaign that is ex-
pected to conclude the war"
observers confidently expect that
when the Red army hits the Ger
man fortified lines from east Prus-
sia to the Carpathians, it will break
through to Germany in successive,
fast operations" the dispatch said.
Ernst Won Hammer, German mill
tary commentator, reported the Lat
Wan offensive in a Berlin broad
cast. He said the Soviets had at
tackled along 22-mile front south
west and south of Saldus, SIS miles
east of the Baltic port of Liepaja
Gibau), Thursday with strong air,
artillery and tank support.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-22
Supers
Blast
Hit Homeland,
luzon in
New Offensive
BY UNITED PRESS

About 100 Superfortresses
delivered the third heavy at
tack in nine days on Japan's
aircraft center of Nagoya
Friday and American fighter
planes swept over a wide
area of central and southern
Luzon from new Philippines
bases within Ids miles of
Manila.
The new assault on Nagoya-an
attempt to deal an eventual knock
out punch to japanese aircraft pro-
duction-was made by huge B-29s
carrying individual bomb loads hun
dreds of pouncs heavier than ever
before.
The Superfortresses dashed Nago-
rya and either targets on Japans
main island of Honshu almost two
and half hours in daylight. Tokyo
said the B-29s from Saipan bases
also swept over Shizuoka and Osaka,
s. miles southeast ano southwest
respectively from Nagoya. 49,. ..-