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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-19
American Assault Forces Storm Ashore
On Eniwetok Atoll In Marshall Islands;
RXp Announce Fall OF Staraya Russo
Re-
go. 90 ~. * -
sHlMsK IS |
Heavily Fort. al
Junction Is Cap,dred
By Storm Tactics

LONDON, Feb. 49, R Soviet
forces advancing along the south
EN- and western shores of Lake
linen today captured ancient Star
ava Russo, heavily fortified rail
junction protecting the heart of the
Nazi northern front, and also the
rail station of Shimsk, 30 miles to
the northwest, Moscow announced
tonight.
The Moscow daily commusaique,
recorded by the Soviet monitor,
said Red Army forces captured 40
communities in the Staraya Russo
sector, just south of Lake linen,
including Vainovo, IS miles to the
south on the road to Kholm.
The Russian announcement came
few hours after the Germans
told the world, they had evacuated
the town, held since the first winter
of the Russian German war. The
Russians, however, said the town
was captured by storm.
Both Staraya Russo and Shimsk,
at the western tip of Lake linen,
are stations on the railway that
runs from Chudovo on the Lenin.
grad Moscow trunk galway, curves
around Lake linen and re-connects
with the trunk line at Bologoe.
A new extensive German with
drawal from the;1 easternmost sail
emit in northern Russian appeared
likely, for other Soviet troops to
the west were reported moving
down from I.uga toward Pskov,
capturing several populated places.
The only railroad from the Staraya
Russo area runs westward through
Pskov and if This town is taken
before the Germans can retreat
they will be cut off.
South in the, Ukraine the Rus
slams beat through ravines and
woods in the shetland bomb-torn
area where Thursday the bulk OF
ten surrounded Nazi divisions was
liquidated. The last few thousand
survivors were being flushed from
their hiding places by Soviet squad
rons cleaning up the area, the
communicate said.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-19
Vast Post War Blueprint Is Given T Nation;
President Is Victor In Battle For Subsidies
FIR Vetoes Bill Repeating
Payments; House Fails
To Reverse Act

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.-RA
President Roosevelt triumphed
again over the anti-subsidy bloc
in Congress today, vetoing..th the bill
which would have repealed food
subsidies, then winning enough
support in the House to sustain
his action.
1t was history repeating on this
major plank in the administra-
tons economic controls. Last yea
Congress voted to ban government
subsidies designed to keep down
retail food prices, Mr.. Roosevelt
vetoed the decision, and was up
held.
Today's vote in the House was
226 to ISL in favor of passing the
bill over the veto, Is votes short
of the required two-thirds. There
was no point to the Senate doing
anything about it after that.
The Presidents opposition today
came preponderantly from Repub.
icans but some farm state Demo
Gratis joined in. Voting to override
we're So Democrats, 166 Republi-
cans and two minor party mem
bers. In support of the veto were
1870 Democrats, 10 Republicans and
two minor party members.
The action was quick. The Presi.
dent sent his veto message to Cap
itol Hill at noon, declaring that
the ~ BIS dy program, costing
about a billion dollars year, was
vital to the anti-inflation fight. The
repeater, he declared, was IAN in
flation measure, a high cost Of
living measure, a food shortage
measure. The House voted i'm.
mediately.
Since the repeater had passed
Congress by the spanking votes Of
278 10 III in the House and 43 to
% in the Senate, there had beer
some belief that veto could be
ove-ridden.
The administrators argument
has been that lack of subsidies
for professors of key food com
modities would Immediately boost
living costs seven percent and Mr.
Roosevelt said IN his veto message
that he did not see how the wage
line against initiation could be helc
if the repeal bill became law.
Opponents contended that the
subsidy outlay is in itself infla
tionary and is only adding to the
debt which eventually must be
paid by the same persons now
benefiting from the subsidies-the
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-19
lis NEAREST TO TOKYO
Radio Silence Still Cloaks
| Action In The Truk
Sector
BY LEONARD MILLIMAN
Associated Press War Editors


American amphibious trooH
stormed ashore on Eniwetok atoll,
nearest to Tokyo of the Marshall
islands, while carrier-borne planes
were blasting Truk, mightiest enc.
my stronghold in the central Pa.
cific.
Admiral Cheste.. w. Nimitz dis
closed the invasion of Eniwetok
yesterday while radio silence still
cloaked details of the Truk attack.
Tokyo radio a i d American
ground forces landed on Truk in
strong reconnaissance" action.
But this was turnel off by Secre-
tary of the Navy Knox who de-
scribed the operation as "a strike
by carrier planes"
Eniwetok, $50 miles northeast of
Truk, was invaded by Marines and
soldiers Thursday, the day after
the bombing of Truk started.
The attack on Truk, Nippon's
Pearl Harbor, may have been de-
signed, at least in part, to cover
the Eniwetok invasion and reduce
Japanese interference.
Invasion of Eniwetok unquestion-
ably was further move toward
Truk and othe: enemy fortresses
in the Caroline and Marinas is
lands. 1t extended the lines of the
growing Central Pacific by $50
miles from Kwajalein, captured the
first week of February.
Some 900 miles south of Truk,
American bombers virtually wiped
out a Japanese convoy, General
Douglas Macarthur reported today.
Fifteen vessels, including three es-
corting warships and transport.
were sunk in the running attack
which began off the NASSAU is
lands and continued towards Ka-
vieng, New Ireland Japanese per-
sonal losses were heavy.
Two good sized tankers, with
their cargoes of oil and gasoline
badly needed by Japanese planes
at Kavieng and Rabaul, New Bit
ain, were among the craft blown
up by bombs dropped from mast
head height.
Airdromes at both Kavieng and
Rabaul were bombed without in
Perception, Macarthur reported.
The Japanese made token raids
on the Green Islands, near New
Ireland, and on Bergen Bay, al
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-19
Eisenhower Is Awarded
The Order OF Suvorov,
High Red Decoration

LONDON, Feb. Is. - @ -
Russia has awarded Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, COM
mander of the Allied invasion
forces, the Order of Suvorv,
first class, the Moscow radio
said tonight.
The order is the highest mill
tary award given by Russia
and is presented only to COM
manders. Premier Marshal 10
seph Stain received the same
award last June IL. At the
same time the Moscow broad
cast recorded by the Soviet
monitor announced that num-
Der of high decorations had
been awarded to British sea-
men for bringing supplies to
the nation.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-19
400 PERSONS DIE
AS ship IS SUNK
Empress OF Canada Lost
Off West Africa Nearly
Year Ago

VANCOUVER, F b. 18.-tRE
Four hundred persons were lost
most of them victims of sharks
when the 81, 50O-ton liner Empress
of Canada was torpedoed at mid
night by an Italian submarine of
Freetown, West Africa, nearly 9
year ago, survivors told the Ca
madam Press today. 4
British rescuers saved 300 per
sons.
The sinking of the one-time Pa
cific ocean liner, an 100000 yes
sci which had been taken over BY
the British Admiralty, was an
nounced in an Italian communiqus
March Is, 1913, but never con
firned by Allied authorities.
Aboard the Empress Of Canada
at the time, it was recounted, were
troops and navy personnel, Italia,
prisoners and Greek and Polish
refugees.
At Ottawa Wing Cmdr. E. r
Emond said the vessel was 40l
miles off Freetown when she wa.
struck by a torpedo, spilling hel
passengers and crew into Sc;
filled with death-dealing shark:
and barracuda.
The submarine surfaced and tn
commander said in English tina
he would give those aboard ;
chance to abandon ship before fir
ing again.
An Italian doctor was picked III
by the submarine and after Capt
George Goold of Vancouver, las
man to come over the side, hat
left the Empress of Canada, thu
submarine finished the stricken
ship with deck guns.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-19
Vosler Resigns Post
As State Secretary
Of Salvage Group


eva nnAAE Z Feb. 10. --P)-. Gov
iba a0r broughton today announced
lar Ieslgnation of James B. Vog.
saos Vi charlotte who was executive
sle'ary Of the North Carolina
M.sage committee, effective
Nv 'o eS was appointed to the post
co one governor two years ago.
er e'sefhor Broughton said Vog-
ss;a IN submitting his resignation
hN I ne found it necessary to give
n n 'iine to his work with the
wb; ~ Food Dealers Association,
reta un ne served as executive sec.
aiS Tor a number of years.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-19
NO SUGGESTIONS
FOR HOME FILED
Health Board Has Not Re
ceived Any Recommen-
49,. dations

Recommendations for drastic
improvements by sanitary inspec'
tors who found conditions at the
New Hanover county home dis
graceful" have not been turned
over to the Consolidated Board o.
Health, accol ding to Dr. A.. H
Elliot, city-county health officer
Neither DR.. F Dot nor Addison
Hewlett, Sr., chairman of the
Board of Heath, disclosed any
indication that special session
Of the board will be called tt
consider them.
The next regular meeting Of the
board is scheduled for March 10
Mr.. Hewlett said, however, that
some improvements are already
under way-specifically that of re.
storing hot water.
Il am 100. per cent in favor Of
correction of those conditions that
need it," Hewlett pointed out. He
added further that it was not q
matter of insufficient county funds
that prohibited renovation and
broad changes in the home set-up,
but a matter of labor difficulties
and inability to set materials.
Mr. Hewlett revealed that the
Board of County commissioners
has every intention, when the
emergency is passed, of building
new institution. He said thai
such a building might have beer
erected several years prior, hao
not state welfare groups promoted
then a plan for eliminating county
homes altogether, with the estab
lishment of the federal Old Age
Assistance grants.
THE Old Age money is moi
enough to support an old person
and we now see that elimination
of the county home is not feas
ible. It is not only matter Of
money; there are many old per
sons who have nowhere to ge
even though the federal funds
were adequate" he continued.
1T is possible" Hewlett ex
planned, that the Board of County
Commissioners will set aside {
certain amount at the end of thi:
fiscal year for application on {
new home after the war"
Meanwhile DR.. Elliot comment
ed that there is every reason why
sanitary conditions should prevail
at the county home and at othel
public institutions.
He declared that up until the
most recent months there wa.
no State law, requiring periodic
sanitary inspection of public in
situations, as has been necessar.
| Continued nm Pare Tvo. Col. 4
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-19
Gigantic Change Over
Program Is Drafted By
Bernard Baruch

WASHINGTON, Feb. 49, UP -
Bernard Baruch, economic "elder
statesman" tonight gave the ma
ton a plan for the gigantic change.
over from war to peace-a blue
print designed to avoid another de-
preston and lead to an "adven-
ture in prosperity"
Highlights of the massive set OF
documents totalling some 10000
words were these suggestions:
Revamped governmental ma
chinery to help assure everyone a
peacetime job; preparations now OF
a bill reducing taxes to peace-time
levels, the bill to take effect when
the war ends; measures to take
the government out of business aft
e1 the war by swift termination ct
war contracts and orderly disposal
of huge stocks of surplus govern
ment goods; loans for service men
and business needing assistance to
readjust themselves; plans for pub
lie works, to be ready if needed.
Baruch was chairman of the War
Industries Board in the First
World War and now heads a post
war planning unit in the Office OF
War Mobilization. He and John
Hancock, an assistant, prepared
the report at the request of Presi'
dent Roosevelt and Mobilization Di
rector James F. Byrnes and it was
made public by the White House.
At a press conference, Baruch
emphasized that the report is only
start toward meeting postwar
problems. Whether the recommen.
dations are carried out, he said,
is up to Mr.. Roosevelt and Con
gress. The President said he hao
not yet finished reading the docu.
ments.
The report emphasized that mill.
tary victory is the first essential
and said that while the producers
should be restrained from exces.
sive profits during the war, the
workers so long as hostilities are
on should refrain from strikes. ~
Looking into the future, it said
that there is no need for a post.
war depression" if the adjustment
is handled with competence.
In the reconversion and read.
justment will come improvements
IN our standards of life - better
houses, better clothers, better food,
better safeguards for children, bet.
ter health protection, and wider
educational opportunities. These
bring hope for the future instead Of
fear; they give security instead oil
unrest"
To achieve speed and efficiency
! in industrial 6emoblliza ton,
Baruch and Hancock proposed:
/. Quick, fair and final settle
ment of terminated war contracts
through negotiations by the con
tractors and the procurement agen
cies."
2. Enactment now of a post
war tax program SO that business
men will know what taxes they
face and can plan accordingly.
8. An immediate start on dispo
sition of the vast government store!
of supplies. 1.-The months to come
while the war is still on, are tn.
most precious months for disposal
Market conditions will never b,
better"
4. Government loans to help bust
ness ''change over" from war t.
peace production.
S. Unifying government force
dealing with the humsn problem
! CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. 4
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-19
Major Assault

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Ma.
nles Feb. -tREThe Allies
opened a major assault before
dawn today on the stubborn Ger.
man fortress OF Casino, sending
ground troops smar-ing against
the towns powerful defenses after
an earth-shaking 81 ;-hour artillery
barrage. On the Anzio beachhead
60 miles away American and Brit
ish forces continued to hurl back
savage German onslaughts.
Hundreds of Allied guns belched
steel into Casinos battered
streets and sprayed the slopes of
1,8O0-foot Mt. Casino which tow
ers above it in one of the deadli-
est barrages of the Mediterranean
war before 1t. Gen. Mark W.
Clark's seasoned ground troops
moved to the attack. Barrels OF
some of the guns were almost red
hot when the c''rtain of fire lifted.
Many Germans must have been
dead before the massed cannon
completed their terrible work and
Allied troops charged in to finish
the job at close quarters. From
steel-and-concrete pillboxes con-
cealed within the blackened rub
bic Of Casino itself and thickly
dol ing the bare, jagged mountain,
the Nazis have for more than a
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
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Foe Continues
HeavyAttacks
0nBeachhead
ALLIES ABSORB BLOWS
ne]uee Says Situation Is
Mt Critical Out
Offensive ~.
Rv DANIEL DE LUCE

At THE FIFTH ARMY BEACH
HEAD SOUTH OF ROME, (5:4;
nm.). Feb. 18.-R-Elastic Alliee
gefenses absorbed continued heavy
attacks by German infantry anc
tanks today, exacting thousands Of
enemy casualties and protecting
the beachhead line.
Although the current German
ouerations p r o b b ~ constitute
field Marshal Gen. Albert Kessel.
rings about offensive to clear the
Allies from next door to Rome, +"
# should be emphasized that the
situation is not critical.
Since the enemy assault began
Wednesday German artillery fire
has been heavier and more sus-
tanned than in any other battle in
which American troops engaged In
North Africa, Sicily or Italy,
The Germans lost heavily in the
pusb which failed to smash
through the Allied front at any
point. Large scale German attacks
continue
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A.S.T.P.PR PROGRAM
TO Be ELIMINATED

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.-tRL
The Army announced plans tonight
10 eliminate most of its special
lzed military training program in
colleges, and an education leader
predicted a very serious effect
on schools already hard hit by
the war.
Some 10000 specialized train
ing troops will be transferred from
college campuses to combat fields
me Wac Department said, because
ufaft boards have failed to NEE
Inc Army's manpower require
ments to the full.
Df' George F. Zook, presiden'
VI me American Council on Edu
vallon who made the remark abou
uie seriousness OF the action from
oil educational standpoint, said i
would naturally bear hardest or
muse colleges which have no WON
tracts.
Except for advanced courses ii
iheolclne, dentistry and engineer
ms; the entire ASTP-Army Spe
s sE,. Training Program-will be
eliminated.
me decision was reached be
. .s the army is 100000 mer
r m OF It's goals, The high com
h ,a wanted 10000 men in uni
T I5dn by the end of 1943. Il 60
,,S;osv'OOO, n e War Department
I'M. tals S h ortage Immediate,
Hs tseu Inc prospect of another belt
,9 Srlehlng for the draft boards, re
ne nL.pihs files of the deferred an,
S''naps more emphasis on speed.
"0n'lnued on Page Two; Col. 6
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-19
FDR Receives 18th Term
Report Very Humorously

WASHINGTON, Feb 1s- Up -
Vice President Wallace. back from
a trip around the country with a
prediction that Presiden! Roose'
velt will be reelectea. lqnched with
the chief executive today. The
Cice President said he gave his
analysis of the poitlcal outlook te
Mr.. Roosevelt.
Asked how the President re
ceived the report, Wallace laughed
and replied, "aumorously, very
hunnorously
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FORECAST

NORTH CAROLINA: Partly cloudy
and rather cold Saturday night with
slightly lower temperatures in east ana
central portions. Cloudy and moderateiv
cold Saturday night and Sunday. with
rain Sunday, beginning in mountains
Saturday night. ------S
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-11

first time the show has been pre-.
sented at popular prices.
Included among them are such
top notchers as Tosh Hammond,
Sonny Lee, Cinema, Tiny and Joe
Bird, Grace Smith, Fine And Mel
low and the Three Swing Maniacs.
Add to this a chorus Of sepia dars
lings and the torrid music Of Steve
Pullman's great orchestra and you
have the nucleus Of magical stage
entertainment.
The music is catching, the songs
up to the minute and the dancing
and comedy sequences nothing short
of excellent. AL in all the show has
everything to give the onlooker bet~
ter than two hours of fast moving
and thoroughly enjoyable entertaine
ment. It is show designed for
every member Of the family. Clean
and wholesome but definitely packed
with laughs.
Jacques theater is now under new
management which stresses the fact
that "BlackbirdS OF 1914" is not q
burlesque show but rather a high
class musical comedy revue done In
the grand manner. There will be two
performances daily all this week at
2:30 and $3.50 with an extra liar.
lem Jamboree" midnight show on
Friday Immediately following the
regular evening performance. The
box office is open daily from II a.
m. and advance reservations for all
performances are available.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-11

ASSAAAAAe0
THE men in here have to be-
ueve they are getting out" he sale
as he sat at long table in the
visitors room, a taciturn guard be-
side him. eff they don't believe it
they're finished-it's all they have
left"
Guy was convicted in 1929 Of
robbing a bank at st. Michael
Mimi, and was sentenced to the
state penitentiary. He was par.
doned in 1886, but was ordered
back to prison in 1910 when he wa:
involved in the burglary of Min.
neapolis garage in which police
man was killed.
The Minnesota supreme court
denied his appeal for release or
a writ of habeas corpus, yet Ear
Guy talked about a small town in
Missouri where I'm going to live
when am released"
Could Really Write
The 33-year-old CONFEDERATION
whose hair is stone gray, smiled
His deep-set eyes appeared more
sunken than before.
you could write there and no
body would bother you. You coulc
sit up on that big bluff, high on q
hill overlooking the Mississippi
and really write, your back ur
against your own house and no
body around"
did you know that I wrote
Heaven in less than a year," he
asked. IT'D tip the chair in my
cell back against the wall so ]
could sit comfortably and use a
magazine to write on-all in long
hand.
my mother In Minneapolis
typed 1t for me and sent it on to my
publishers"
He looked around the bare room.
Sometimes I think about this,
and then I can't write at all for 10
minutes-for day sometimes"
Guy smiled again and said he
kept pretty busy.
Writing New Novel
my publisher has 81 short stories
he wants to put in book form, and
now I'm working on another novel,
about an American soldier who
comes home after the war to find
his country slowing going Fascist"
He said he liked to write about
thinks that might happen.
I'm a citizen, you know. The
pardon gave that back to me for
good. This is my country and I'm
concerned with it,"
A large vein in Guys throat
swelled as he spoke of his prison
term.
II don't feel about it," he said
In a dead voice. "It's tough"
The guard, who had been drum
ming an unknown melody with his
flngertipS on the visitors table,
cleared his throat loudly. Guys
time was up. He had talked a min
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-11

songs, pretty girls and hilarious
gags.
As his first Metro oldwyn-
Mayer role, Kyser portrays serious
minded young musician whose "evn
eye" unfortunately inherited as far
back as ape ancestors, gets him into
many funny situations. "Swing
Fever not only reveals the famed
orchestra leaders ability as q
comedian already known to 10000, :
600 radio listeners and service men
all over Allied territory-but II
definitely reveals him as an out
standing actor, also. This Is his
first hoy gets girl" role.
The girl he gets is Marilyn Max
well, who portrays Ginger Gray, q
torch singer-the most literal bit
of casting in many a day, since, be-
fore talent scouts got her into pic
lures. In Swing Fever" the beau
tiful blonde contralto not only car
ries the romantic interest but sings
songs of the kind that set audiences
singing and humming, too.
Another song treat is number by
luscious Lena Horne. There are
several dances by the Merriel ABB
bolt dancers.
An interesting touch in Madison
Square Garden fight sequence is the
appearance Of Make Rosenbloom,
Nat Pendleton, Lou Nova and VIII
liam Gargan. Also, playing chem
selves" are Tom Hanlon, famous ra-
dio announcer; Billy Coe, time
keeper, and Abe Roth, referee.
On the same program is "Tu-
nissan Victory" produced by q. s.
and British governments.