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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-30
REDS Is MILES
WEST OF DANUBE
Great Offensive, Reported
By Berlin, Is Con-
firmed

LONDON, Thursday, Nov. &c.
lR-The Red army has thrust
westward Is miles beyond the
Danube in southern Hungary and
extended its breakthrough to a
width of SO miles, outflanking en-
battled Budapest and posting a
mounting threat to Austria, Mos
COW disclosed last night.
The great offensive, about which
the Berlin radio has been talking
dolorously for a week, was con-
firmed in an order of the day by
Premier Stain, followed by h e
regular nj g h tly communicate,
which said that more than $50
communities had been captured in
southern Hungary and northern
Yugoslavia.
Most notable were PEGS, coal
mining and railway center SO
miles southwest of Budapest; Mo-
hacs, the same distance south OF
Budapest; and Bataszek, IS miles
south of the Hungarian capital
The Germans acknowledged loss
Of the first two.
The Moscow communique speci-
fled that the break across the D2n-
ube by Marshal Feodor Tolbuk-
hln's Third Ukraine Army and Yu-
goslav partisans was north OF its
confluence with the Drava. That
point i, 100 miles due south of
Budapest.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-30
House Group Expected
To Pass On Freeze Of
Social Security Levy

WASHINGTON, Nov. 90 Up -
A poll of the House Ways and
Means Committee indicated to-
night it will vote, is to 8, tomor-
row to freeze the Social Securi-
ty tax, scheduled to double auto
matically on January 1.
Republican leader Martin OF
Massachusetts said that ii who
expressed themselves at meet
ing of the party steering commit
tee late today were in favor of
the freeze. forecating a heavy G.
O. P. vote to that end.
However, some leading propon-
ents of the freeze" conceded the
President will promptly veto the
measure if Congress passes it.
They added that there are not
enough votes to override a veto.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-30
BOY, II, INJURED
FATALLY BY BUS
Robert Branch, Local
Youth, Struck Down In
Business Area

Robert Branch 12-year-old step.
son of Norwood Miller of BOG Woos-
ter street, was injured fatally by
a Tidewater Power bus, operated
by R. G. Ramsey OF POPS Cline
road, about 6:45 p m. yesterday, at
Front and Market streets.
No arrests were made but Ram
sey was ordered to appear at a
ccroner's inquest at pm. Friday.
V. L. Beachum, 121 cd Marion
drive, Maffitt Village, a witness,
said he was travelling west on Mar
ket street and had stopped at a
stoplight when he saw the child
and his 16-year-old sister, Hilda,
cross the street in front of his car
and said they apparently walked
into the bus. He said the rear wheel
ran over the child's body.
Hilda Branch said that she and
her brother were crossing Market
street, going south, and they had
g green light. She said that the
bus turned in front of them and
they stopped to let it pass. She
said the front end of the bus, had
passed them ane that the left7s side
OF the bus struck them and knock
ed them down Her brother fell I'M
der the bus and she fell to the Side,
according to he- statement.
She suffered slight bruises.
Ramsey, said that he did not
know that he had hit anyone until
someone on the street stopped him
and told him he had run over a
child.
He stopped the bus before at
tempting to park in the bus stop
on the south side of Market street
at Front.
Witnesses agreed that the acct
dent apparently was unavoidable,
according to investigating officers,
C r. H. Peterson and w. r. Brad
shaw.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-30
CAA URGES WORK
ON AIRPORT HERE
S. New Fields Recon-.
mended For State; "a
To Be Improved
BY ALLEN ]. GREEN
Star News Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. - Post
war construction Of six new airports
in southeastern North Carolina and
improvements to six others, at a
total cost of 81, 614, 900, was recon-
mended to Congress today by Civil
Aeronautics Administration as part
of national airport plan costing
81, Psi, 000,0 1000.
For the state as a whole, CAA
recommended SIS new airports and
improvements of "a existing ports,
at cost of SIG, 776. 900, which would
give. North Carolina a total of 122
airfields from Manteo to Murphy.
The CAA airport plan was pre-
pared at the request of Congress
and proposes financing the nation
wide program by system of Fed
eral aid with matching State funds
over a period of five to ten years.
An immediate appropriation Of So
100000 for surveys and preliminary
work was requested.
These are the CAA recommends
tons for the southeastern area of
the State:
Wilmington: 100000 for lighting.
$4,000 for radio equipment a n d
$4,000 miscellaneous for Bluethen-
thai field, which the CAA points
out is now a class v airport suit
able for ''the largest aircraft now
in use and those planned for the
immediate FUTURE The field is I'M
der lease to the War Department
and in use as an Army air base.
Carolina Beach: construction of
new 500, 1000 class I field suitable
for private flying.
Whiteville: construction Of $40
600 class I field.
ElizabethtoWn: construction of
$14O,00O class I field.
Southport: construction of $140,-
900 class I field.
Continued on Page Two; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-30
JAPANESE GAIN
FAST IN DRIVE
FOR KWEIYAN0

cHUNGKING, Nov. 90 Up 49,
Japanese vanguards have made
startling advances n d e kWel'
chow province toward Kweiyang.
its Burma road capital and juno
ton point of highway network
linking Chungking, Running ana
other southwest China cities, a U.
S. 18th Air Force communique dis
closed tonight.
The Air Force bulletin, relayed
by the headquarters of Maj. Gen.
Albert C. Wedemeyer, announced
that fighters strafed enemy caval-
nv troops on the Pachai-Tukiang
road yesterday. This indicated the
Japanese had either cut through
or outflanked some Of the Chinese
units which had been expected to
defend Kweiyang.
(The Japanese news agency
Donei broadcast a report that So.
600 Chinese were fleeing toward
Kweiyand along the southwestern
highway and h e Kwangis-Kwo.-
chow railway after Japanese for.
ces yesterday occupied Nantan.
The report called Nantan 1.-THE re"
manning important enemy strong.
hold" in KwangsD.
Pachai is Is miles east southeast
OF Kweiyang and less than ID
miles from Tuyun, terminus OF the
Kwangsi- KweichoW railway. The
Pachai-Tukiang road roughly par.
alle1s the main highway from Jap
anese-held LiuchoW to KWeiyan4.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-30

Front to reinforce Canada's deplete
infantry lines.
In the most serious instance to
date, a French Canadian unit at
Terrace, B. c., prevented by force
of arms an English speaking unit
from entrainipg for another camp,
repeatedly enNoute abroad. A mill
tary spokesman on the scene de-
scribed the troops as "mutineers."
Referred to this by an opposition
spokesman, King protested "use OF
the word mutiny.'
''It is not mutiny,' the Prime
minister said, "most decidedly
not.'
King was replying to R. B. Han
son, acting floor leader of the Of
fetal opposition group, the Prog
ressive Conservatives who said the
reports from British Columbia were
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-30
King Saws Anti-Draft Disorders Under
1Scrutiny But Admits Some Difficulty

''rather alarming He said the
troops involved "are armed d
have live ammunition, and he ask
ed the government what it pro
poses to do or has DONE about it.
Gen. McNaughton. who does not
have a seat in Parliament, took
cognizance of the situation public
ly for the first time with state
ment that the disturbances were
chiefly due to comparatively
small minority in each unit.
The trouble has been stirred, he
said. by about Is per cent of the
$4,000 home defense troops station
ed in the West Coast province. He
acknowledged h t in some in.
stances these troops were exceed
ingly active.''
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-30
County Given $4,000
Bond Credit By Airline

purchase of $4,000. The total Sixth
War Loan purchases in New Han
over county recorded so far
amount to almost $1,50O, 1000.
Cartier said that circulars had
been mailed to merchants asking
that reports of staff War Bond sales
hc in his office by Friday. Fig
ures released SO far do not in
c1,1de sales of bonds by clerks. he
said More than half of the re-
ported total has been made by
company purchases.
High school authorities said the
GOAL there probably would be in
to $4,000 upon action by
the committe in charge. headed
by willis Rogers. The quota,
scheduled to be reached by De-
cember T. was $4,000 nd sur
passed by $1,000 through the auc'
ton.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-30
WOMAN USES BROOM
TO AVERT CRASH OF
TRAIN WITH PLANE

CHARLOTTE Nov. 29.-P)- A
dramatic escape from death right
Out Of an old time serial thriller
occurred here today when an Ar
my Flying Fortress crash landed
On the Southern Railway tracks
as speeding passenger train
founded the bend.
faSt thinking by Peggy Parsley,
an airlines employee, averted a
eGlASlon. No one on the train or
pane was hurt or injured.
rive members of the Fortress
sleE were trapped in the plane
Slen Miss Parsley heard the Whis-
NJ Oh the approaching train. She
uaSAed into guardhouse at Dou-
gas airport grabbed a house broom
aSnled it at a stove and ran with
,.ie oiazlng torch through rain and
w At the tracks a section hand
sssu inc broom to signal the train
10 a halt.
o. I. Milton, engineer on No.
{" SAID; When the train stopped
WEI, were wasn't room for the thir,-.
.sSs OF my finger between my
Ss Ill and that plane.
Inc names Of the planes crew
a . were not Immediately
eH ~. at nearby Morris Field
~: VIZ aircraft was based at McDill
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-30
Tokyo Hit Again By Superfortresses;
US. Drives Another Wedge In Nazis;
ALLIED Army Enters German Sol
Liberators Strike
Iwo lima Airports
In Two Large Raids

u. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, N v.
o. lR In the seesaw air war
revolving around the B-29 raids on
Tokyo, Lightning-escorted Liber.
ators have struck heavy blows at
enemy airfields on Two lima in
the Volcano Islands, the Navy an
nounced today.
The big bombers dashed with 112
tons of bombs at two Two Jima
alrstrips Sunday only a few hours
after enemy fighters, believed bas-
ed there, strafed the Superfortress
bases on Saipan.
From Saipan, the B-29s thrice
have struck at Tokyo, the latest
raid announcnced occurring Wednes-
day.
Two lima is 725 land miles north
of Saipan and is the nearest base
from which the Japanese could
raid Saipan.
Plainly indicating intent to
knock out the Two lima fields, the
Liberators returned Monday n d
unloaded So more tons of bombs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-30
FIRST IS CLEAR
OF HURTCEN WOOD
Doughboys Use Flame.
throwers To Hurl Foe
Back On Rhine

PARIS, Nov. 20. up -
American doughboys ham
mered new wedges into the
Duren-Julich gateway to the
Rhine today in a smash
through five more of Germa-
ny's ruined towns. Elements
Of a Fifth Allied army battled
onto Nazi soil in a stab at the
northern anchor of the Sieg-
fried Line.
"a Canadian Press war report
er's dispatch said Canadians of
the Fifth and latest army to pene-
trate German soil were fighting
in the area of De Wyler forest.
The town of Wyler is just inside
Germany east of Nijmegen, Hol-
land, and about six miles north
west of Cleve, northern end of
the Siegfried hne.)
The flaming American assault
west of Cologne toppled Hurtgen,
In the vicinity of which 1t. Gen.
Omar N. Bradley's men have
fought so fiercely for weeks. Ian
gewehe, Jungersdorf, Kleinhau
and Koslar also fell in surge
which broke across the indie river
at two points and carried to with
in 3 IL miles Of the stronghold of
Duren.
It spread to the north where
flamethrowers opened path
across the road connecting Lindren
and Linich, five miles northeast of
Geilenkirchen and seven miles
northwest of Julich, threatening the
latter place.
This northeastern push Of the
Americans, matched by another
flamethrower assault around Wurm
to the west caused the Germans
to open the floodgates of dams
along the Roer river, flooding the
valley north of Geilenkirchen to
the width of nearly a mile.
1t Gen. Courtney Hodges u. S.
First Army, in its smashing drive
along both sides of the Adolf Hit
Ter highway toward Duren, also
seized Hurtgen, Jungersdorf, and
Kleinhau.
The U. S. Ninth Army, boring
forward on Hodges left through
knee-deep mud, drew an assault
arc around the fortified road cen
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-30
JAP NAVY AIR ARM
HELD KNOCKED OUT
Admiral Mitscher Says
About 1000 Planes
Destroyed

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-lR-Be-
lef that japanese naval aviation
has been practically eliminated"
was expressed today by Vice Adj
miral Marc A. Mitscher, command
ing officer of a Pacific fleet car
rier task force
Admiral Mitscher made his re-
marks at a news conference in
which he revealed Navy f Ii e S
have shot down approximately 1000
Japanese naval filters in the past
year and half and added:
IT have an idea Japanese plane
production is not as great as they
would have us believe"
Published estimates Of Japanese
plane production have been around
1900 planes monthly.
Admiral Mitscller said our ma
terial is much better than Japan
Continued on Page Two; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-30

OTTAWA, Nov. 9.-LR-Anti-con
scription disorders among draftee
troops on Canada's west coast are
being carefully watched and COM
pletely CONTROLLED Prime Minister
w. L. Mackenzie King told h e
nation from the floor of the House
of Commons today.
In the first official comment On
t h increasingly tense atmos-
phere in half dozen draftee camps
in British Columbia, both King and
his defense minister. Gen. A. G. L.
McNaughton, sought to reassure the
country, but they admitted the stu
alton was difficult.
The protesting troops were draft
ed originally for service only at
home. Under the government new
partial CONSUMPTION policy they are
now liable to be sent to the Western
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-30

1900 enemy troops to death at sea,
sinking 10 transports and three DIES.
troyers.
Piling into the sixth large con-
voy the Nipponese have sent to
Leyte, the fighters erased eight
transports far from their goal at
Ormoc in accounting for the 1000
troops but other enemy soldiers got
ashore from two locked transports
at Ormoc which later were sunk.
Headquarters announced the &C
ton today.
The 1000 made enemy losses at
sea in such reinforcements more
than 21,000 in recent weeks.
Allied fighter planes destroyed
three cargo transports, seven troop
transports and three destroyers.
Probably an entire reinforcing
division was aboard the convoy.
Some of the remnants may have
reached Ormoc, the west Leyte
port into which the enemy has fed
troops into the Yamashita line.
Two of the cargo ships partially
were unloaded during the two day
and night air attack November e.
49,.
The total ships destroyed by AL
lied air and patrol torpedo action
since the Japanese began theu re-
enforcement efforts stands at 2e
CONTINUED OH Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-30
French Nation Takes
Responsibility For
War Relief Agency

PARIS, Nov. 90 Up It h e
French government has assumed
full responsibility for allevlatlon
of war distress within France, and
the United Nations Relief and Re
Mobilization Administration is just
standing by in case help is need
ed, Herbert Lehman told press
conference today.
Lehman, UNRRA chief, predict
ed extreme hardships this winter
among liberated nations because
of lack of supplies, shortage of
shipping and disrupted conditions
of inland comnunica atoms.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-30
Col. Elliott Roosevelt
To Wed Faye Emerson,
Actress, This Weekend

BEVERLY HILLS, Calf, Nov.
29.-P)-Col. Elliott Roosevelt, a.
year-old son of the President, with
in a week will take his third wife,
Actress Faye Emerson, 81.
This announcement came today
from a spokesman for the colonel
and later from blonde Miss Elmer
son herself, but neither added any
details concerning the wedding
plans.
However, her mother, Mrs. Jean
Young Of San Diego said in Beau
mont Tex, that the wedding would
be this weekend" The exact time
and place are being kept secret,
she said,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-30
USED TIRES RELEASED
December 5 Set As Date For
Ration-Free Passenger Use

WASHINGTON, Nov. %. - R -
Used passenger car tires will be
removed from rationing December
5.
In announcing this today, OPA
said distribution Of used tires had
become very spotty, with certifi-
cate holders unable to find suit
able tires in many areas.
For this reason, the agency said,
rationing of used tires has ceased
to serve any valuable purpose and
has become an unnecessary burden
on local boards.
Used truck tires will continue
under rationing.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-30
filters IGNORE
| ENEMY THREATS
Japs Denounce American
Bombings; Results
Undisclosed
WASHINGTON, Nov. %.

WASHINGTON, Nov. q.
new 21st Bomber
Command today rained de-
struction on Tokyo targets
from their Superfortresses
for the third time in a week.
The War Department an
nounced simply that targets
in the Tokyo area were at
tackled. No details were avail.
able. 1t was stated a commu-
nique will be issued.
The attack, the third since IA.
nouncement of formation Of the
21st Command last Friday, was
launched from its base on Saipar
island, south of Japan.
(Tokyo radio said "a minor foe.
nation of B-29's attempted their
first night attack" today on the
Japanese capital, starting two
fires. Both were brought under
control Immediately, the broad<
cast asserted, claiming as usual
that there was practically no
damage" The big bombers, Tokyo
added, were "repulsed by our ct.
fective interception.)
Today the Japanese radio Kissed
angrily that the Americans are
"enemies of civilization. The
propaganda broadcast described
the bonbings as ''indiscriminate"
and the speaker said that 'Ameri-
can fiers participating in such at
tacks are not entitled to protection
Of international law" The broad
| cast was heard by the owl.
It was the eighth foray Of the
mighty sky dreadnaughts this
month, sharply emphasizing the
stepped up tempo of their opera
tons.
The last raid on Tokyo was made
Monday when a sizeable force
spilled it's cargo through an over.
cast, using precision instruments.
Not a plane was lost on that mis-
sion.
A previous attack on Tokyo 1ase
Continued on Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-30
ARNOLD SAYS u. S.
WILL BOMB JAPAN
INTO PARALYSIS

KANSAS CITY, Nov 20. -(P)-
Gen. H. H. Arnold, commanding
general of the Army Air Forces,
told Veterans of Foreign Wars
meeting tonight that we're going
to bomb Japanese industry into
a state of paralysis-just as we're
doing in Germany
''First with our BIOS, then, as
we get bases closer to Japan, with
our fortresses and Liberators, we
are going to destroy the heart and
the nerve centers of Japan's war
machine" he said. Japan will
have little industry left when our
Army and Navy air forces COM
plete their tasks of destruction.
"They've asked for AND they're
going to get it,
Cautioning that the war is far
from over, the general asserted
the air battle against Japan is
in its earliest phases"
General Arnold also warned the
war in Europe sis not over-not by
a long shot" and asserted that all
our forces-air, ground and serv-
ice-are still Gin daily need OF I'M
mense quantities of material.
"These men," he declared,
shave a right to expect that, such
postwar planning as we must DO
shall not be at the expense OF
their chances of survival.
German prisoners captured
around Metz may not have been
the cream Of the crop" he report
ed, but "they were well equipped,
cocky, defiant and full OF tight.
There are millions more where
they came from"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-30
ChurchillSays.
End Indefinite.
In NaziWar
Parliament Told OF Open
mo Of Antwerp For
Allied Use

LONDON, Nov. 29.-(F-
Prime Minister Churchill ii
a,s a new session of the
british Parliament with cen
III +uries-oId ceremonies, gave
s so warning today that
his predictions of German de-
f f bv the early summer of
1915 may be too optimistic.
He disclosed that the Belgian
,o,t Of Antwerp now is receiving
,.roe conveys of ocean-going ships
II, the supply of the northern
,.onn If Allied armies in Europe,
.,d declared that the enemy "has
everywhere been thrust back with
enormous losses.
But the Prime Minister never
thelass reminded that the lower
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-30
NEW ATLANTIC RECORD
Mosquito Pilot Spans Ocean
In 6 Hours And 8 Minutes

MONTREAL, Nov. 29.-lR-Fly-
ing Canadian-built Mosquito
bomber, Raj Capt. Ernest M.
Gill has spanned tine Atlantic in
6 hours 8 minutes, eclipsing all
transatlantic records, the Raj
transport command announced to-
day. His Labrador to Scotland
course covered 1900 miles. Gill
set the last record of 6 hours a.
minutes over a course 100 miles
shorter.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-30

W. view Hanover county yesterday
"a 1S oS gsedlted with the purchase of
Ir1 Guv IN War Bonds by National
ON I nne Inc, which invested ST.
dr SuUO IN the Sixth War Loan
,rn ,e Purchases were divided
o. wig the cities along its present
rons opposed @ m m ercial air
rsn tS, according to an announce
o. tbo from G. T. Baker, president
Men, ue Sixth War Loan drive in
Cd II t5a anover country also receiv-
sbo aae credit of $4,000 from high
,re 4ul students who conducted an
abo u1n - at New Hanover High
Tpo tuesday and Wednesday.
ehas %U additional company pur-
BY w., We're announced last night
be "dl ef j. Cartier, chairman OF
aeys numerical committee. Kin.
Snoe store announced t h e
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-30

LONDON, Nov. 20. - up -
Prime Minister Churchill will
observe his SEVENTEEN birth
dav tomorrow quietly in the
fashion Characteristic of his
wartime leadership of the
British people.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-30
Yanks Sink Is Jap Ships
Killing 1000 Soldiers

IPPINES, Thursday Nov. 30.-QE9-Dive-bonlbing Amer
fighter planes wiped out 13shp Japanese reinforce
ment convoy Tuesday and Wednesday, spng estimated
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-30

North Carolina: Partly cloudy with
..in in some sections and rather cold
Thursday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-30

Continued OH Page Two; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-30

Continued on Page Two; Col. A.
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