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RED PLANES HIT
LATVIA, EST0NIA
Attack German Military
Trains And Stores
In Two Cities

LONDON, May 13.-(P-The So
Wet high command announced to-
night that Russian bombers attack
ing German military trains and
stores at Daugavpils (Dvinsk) in
Latvia and Tartu in Estonia had
touched off violent explosions and
fires Friday night in possible
prelude to a fresh Red Army
Northern offensive.
The German high command al
so indicated that Russian troops
IN force had smashed across the
MoldaVa River, go miles inside Ro-
manias when it told of fighting be-
tween Romanian soldiers and a
full Soviet rifle division on the
west bank of that river.
The Moldava is western tribu-
ary of the Siret, joining the larger
nver IS miles southwest of Iasl
MOSCOW has never claimed cors'
sing of the Moldava but last month
announced the capture of Falticen
near its east bank.
Neither the Germans nor the
russians mentioned the lower
Dnestr River sector near Tiraspol
Continued on Page Five; Col. 8
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BAPTIST MEETING
OPENS TOMORROW
Newton May Succeed Neff
As President OF South
ern Convention

ATLANTA, May 13-lR-Specu-
lation on a successor to Pat M.
Neff, president of the Southern
Baptist convention tonight center
ed On DR.. Louie D. Newton, pastor
Of Druid Hills Baptist church in
Atlanta, as delegates began a-riv.
ing for the annual meeting which
opens Monday.
Several persons high In church
councils said d.. Neff would not
be a candidate to succeed him
self, already having served two
years. There was no convention
last year and he carried through
to the present convention.
Those advocating the election OF
DR.. Newton said Atlanta already
has been designated as the con-
vention city for 1945 and observed
he long has been prominent in
the denominations activities.
DR.. Newton is the Georgia mem
be- of the executive committee,
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CONGRESS FACING
EXTENSIVE WORK
Lawmakers Must Clear
Money Bills If They
/ Want Long Recess

WASHINGTON, May 13- Up :
Campaign minded congressman
who want an extended summer re-
cess are going to have to pay for
it in advance by working long
days and full weeks to clear a
jam of appropriation bills.
House leaders are pointing for a
recess beginning late in June for
the Republican National Conven-
ton. But if the money bills are
not out of the way by that time,
congress would halt its work only
temporarily for the Republican
party gathering, instead OF Knock
ing off for both conventions and
possibly staying away from Wash
ington the entire month OF August.
All current appropriations ex-
pire on June 30. Only two of the
fifteen regular supply bills have
been enacted-the treasury-post-
office fund and a deficiency ap-
preparation for miscellaneous agen-
cies.
Passed by the house and sent to
the senate are supply bills for the
state, commerce and justice de-
partments; the legislative and ju-
dietary branches; the Department
of Agriculture, and the Interior De
partment.
Passed by both branches but tied
Continued on Page Seven; Col. s.
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Maxi High Command Says Aerial
Drive Preparation For Lnuasion
PUSH 'ROMMEL PLAN
Entire Male Population OF
France Will Be jailed
On D. Day
BY JAMES M LONG

LONDON, May 10 Up The
German high command communi-
que, normally the most concerva'
tive of the daily fixtures broad
cast by the Berlin radio, declared
today that the Allied air often.
sive against the Nazi continent
may be regarded as the prepare
ton for invasion"
It was the first time that the
German command, now confront
ed by an Allied land, sea and air
siege, had used the word "inva-
sion'' in its daily bulletins, and
the Nazi press speculated that
the blow would fall simultaneous
ly with a new Russian offensive.
''Rommel Plan"
Inside France the Germans
were reported rushing final prep
arations, requisitioning all re.
naming automobiles and speed
ing a 'Rommel plan" under which
virtually the entire male popula'
ton of France between the ages
of 16 to 60 would be put in con-
centration camps on D-day to
safeguard the German rear.
Even the daily communique
warned the German people of the
impending onslaught, the Allies
in addition to undertaking a cam
paign to destroy the German
armies in Italy, were hammerins
by air with increasing tempo al
Nazi aons to the pc.
tential western battlefront.
The German command describ.
ed the new italian offensive as
being con the largest scale" ano
as an obvious attempt to tie down
German forces" thus linking the
assault with the expected western
invasion.
German accounts took the new
Allied offensive against the Gustav
line as being only the forerunner
of bursting storm. The German
high command expects the flare
up of fighting in Italy to spread
to other sections of the European
battlefront" said the Nazi trans
ocean news agency. eve are
aware of Gen. Alaxander's words
that the Allied troops in southern
Italy are striking the first blow in
a final battle"
Sea action along the invasion
'front.' flared up, British admir-
atty communicates announcing
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REPORT REVERSES
Berlin r a do Admits
Breaches Driven Into
Italian Defenses
GIVE UP AREA
Claims Troops Massing for
Counter-Offensive From
Two Directions

LONDON, May 13- ~
The Berlin radio admitted to-
night that the power of the
Allied offensive in Italy hao
driven breaches in the Ger
man defenses and forced the
evacuation of the town OF
Castelforte and nearby terri
tory on the Fifth Army front
in western Italy.
Included in the area admit
teddy abandoned by the Nazis
was the sector from Castel-
forte to- the eastern fringe
of Santicosmo, as well as the
Monte Faito area to the north
of Castelforte.
The German broadcasters, how
ever, modified the announcement
of the Withdrawals with the expla-
nation that German armies were
massing for counter-offensive
from the southwest and northwest.
Another Nazi spokesman pictured
the general Allied onslaught as
probably a 'diversionary opera
ton" to screen new seaborne in
VISION OF the Italian west coast.
se-e-'E arge Eeserve Force
Asserting the Allies were hold
ing five fully equipped divisions
in reserve in Italy, one Nazi COM
mentator said new amphibious
landings lin all probability
would be made between the<Fifth
Army's main front and the Anzio
beachhead, or Immediately north
Of the beachhead:
Another German broadcast, sug-
costing Nazi fears that Corsica
might be the base for an amphibi-
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Ten CT Vessels Built Here Purchased
From VISA By Two Steamship Lines

Five of them have been or will
be completed by the Newport News
Shipbuilding and Dry Dock COM
pany, parent company of the North
Carolina yard, as refrigerated car
go vessels. The Napier, it was said,
is now in service.
All ships Of the Grace Line are
in war service. The company, serv-
ing as an operating agent for the
VISA, is managing all its own YES
sells except those turned over to
the Army and Navy, plus its share
Of the new ones built as war
measure for the government own
account.
The Mississippi Shipping compa-
ny, whose home office is in New
Orlens, has purchased the S. S.
Continued on Page Seven; Col. ~
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Appeal Made For Women
To Work In Stores Here

not been working for go days in
essential industry and have been
in the community for 80 days, they
may apply directly to the place OF
employment and can be cleared by
the employer through the United
States Employment Service.
To furthr assist these potential
workers to fit into urgent needs
in stores and offices, the USES
will have someone at the Chamber
of Commerce tomorrow to help
speed up placements.
A survey of needs of retail stores
made by the Chamber Of Com
merce last week, points the way
for real service for women who
are asking What can do?"
The fact that one retail store
Continued on Page Two; Col. y
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dence in the ability and reputation
of the yard that built her. It also
means that these vessels are des-
tined for long-range service and
are practically assured place in
the postwar days of the American
Merchant Marine, it was said.
Six of the ships have been or will
be acquired by the Grace Line,
whose headquarters are in New
York.
They are the S. S. Napier, S.
S. Santa Rita, S. S. Santa Leonor'
S. S. Santa Catlina and the 5. ..
Santa Elisa, which have been
launched, and the S. S. Santa ines
to be launched in the near future
The majority are named for Tor
mer Grace Line ships and were
christened by wives Of officials Oh
the line.
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BISHOP TAKES STEP
Priest Who Conferred With
Premier Stain Plans To
Make Appeal

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, May 13-
R-Rev. Stanislaus Orlemanski,
Polish-American priest suspended
by his bishop upon. his return from
Moscow conference with Premier
Stain, said today he would cele-
brate mass in his home parish to-
morrow as usual and declared he
was "being crucified for my
church."
Only short time after Bishop
Thomas M. O'Leary of the Spring
field diocese stripped him Of his
priestly privileges, Father Orle'
manski announced he was appeal
ing the suspension order to the
apostolic delegate in Washington
Late today the delegation al
Washington reported that the
Springfield priest had "never" con-
tacted them and added that like
every diocesan priest, he is direct,
" subject to his bishop"
Father Orlemanski explained tt
newspapermen at a press confer
ence that his appeal automatically
invalided the suspension order ano
made it possible for him to carry
on his parish duties pending action
by Archbishop Amleto Cicognanl
the apostolic delegate.
Most Rev. Thomas M. O'Leary
bishop of the Springfield diocese
announced the suspension only q
few hours after FIR. Orlemanski re
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WEATHER

FORECAST
NORTH CAROLINA: Partly cloudy,
continued warm Sunday, some wldeiy
scattered thundershowers in mountain
secnon Sunday afternoon.
Eastern Standard Time)
=, by U. S. Weather Bureau)
meteorological data for the "a hours
e'lolhg 7;3o pm, yesterday.
Temperature
p l;So am So; 1880 am, IS; 1:30 pm' fo'
d3O pm, 70. m.
=, Maximum 30; Minimum 60; Mean ~;
Normal 10.
Humidity
l;5o am, 81; 1880 am, 80; 1850 PM III
7:3O pm, SO.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 7:oo pill
900 inches.
Total since the first of the month
"a inches.
Tides For Today -.
,tf rom the Tide Tables publishes ~
T. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey ,ou
Wilmington - Elsa s:S22s
2:51p 1o:0Or
i''ie' 1882 6:45E
Sunrise, Sill am; Sunset, Eo2 p :. ~,
Moonrise, 1918 am; Moonset, lo'oo a''i'
Continued on Page Two; COL I"
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Ten of the many CO type ships
built by the North Carolina Ship
Building company here have been
purchased outright by two proml-
nent steamship lines-the Grace
Line and the Mississippi Shipping
company-from the War Shipping
Administration, officials OF the
shiyard announced yesterday.
ordinarily when a yard delivers
vessel to the Maritime commits
SION the commission at once de-
1ivers it to the VISA which stimuli
taneously allocates it to an estab.
1ished shipping company for opera
tion The lines role in it's operation
is that of an agent.
Outright purchase Of ship by
q company is indicative of its pref.
erence for that craft and shows
that it has great deal Of conf
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1884 DEMOCRATS
REGISTERED HERE
Books Are Closed For Pri-
maries To Be Conduct
ed On May Il

The registration of voters IN
New Hanover county for the prl-
maries on May 81 totals 1884
democrats and 40 republicans, H..
G. Carney, chairman of the coun-
ty board of elections, announced
last night following closing of the
books at shutdown.
These figures, he added, repre-
sent a gain of approximately 1000
democrat voters and 100 republi-
cans.
The books were opened April
20 and registration in the 10 pre-
cincts was considerably greater
than in previous years.
Registration by precincts fol-
1nyryc.
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Allied Forces Seize Five Villages
AS They Drive Into Gustav Line;
Castelforte E Evacuated By Nazis
Two Thousand u. S. Planes Blast
Major Targets In North Germany

The formation was part of a
total of approximately 5000
American and British planes
which hurled 5000 tons of ex-
plosives on occupied Europe
in two-way attacks from Brit
ain and Italy during the day.
The bag of 63 German planes,
81 by the fighters and nine by
bomber gunners, made a two
day total of 213 Axis aircraft
shot down over Germany.
No enemy opposition was
met over Osnabruck, the Ger
man pilots instead ganged up
on the formations which flew
deep into northeastern Germa-
ny. "Many enemy fighters we're
driven off or destroyed by our
escort before they could reach
our bOmberS," the cOmmuniQue
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Orlemanski Is Suspended
Upon Return From r russia
DR.. Dow Is Honored
By American Chemists

NEW YORK, May 13.-(R-
The gold medal award Of the
American Institute of Chem
lists was presented to DR..
Willard H. Dow of Midland,
Mich, at the organizations
22nd annual meeting tonight.
DR.. Dow, president of the
Dow chemical company, was
acclaimed ''the outstanding
man who has done the most
for the chemist as a man, the
chemicI profession, and the
translation of research into
products useful in both peace
and war -
The award was presented by
DR.. Gustav Egloff of Chicago,
president of the American In
stitute Of chemists.
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LONDON, Sunday, May IA
- up - Two thousand U. S.
bomber and American-Allied
fighters hammered three ma
jor targets in northern Germa-
ny yesterday and shot down 6
Nazi planes in sky duels which
cost the invading Americans IL
b0mbers and 10 fighters.
Up to $50 Flying Fortresses
and Liberators, escorted inland
by nearly 1000 U. S. Light
nings. Mustangs and Thunder
bolts, and covered in their
withdrawal by hundreds of
Raj Mustangs, attacked a
Focke-Wulf plant at Tutow, rail
yards and locomotive repair
shops at Osnabruck, synthe-
tic oil refinery in the Stettin
area and other targets.
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ACCUSED ROBBERS
HELD FOR TRIAL
Are Scheduled To Answer
Charges In Brunswick
Court On May y

Probable cause was found in
the cases of five persons allegedly
involved in the armed robbery Of
Clyde Kennedy's roadhouse, six
miles west of Wilmington on the
night of April 20, at a preliminary
hearing before Judge John j.
Burney here yesterday morning
and the quintet was bound over to
Brunswick county Superior court,
at Southport, for trial on May ".
Bond TO the three principals,
David, Robert and Alice Steven
son, charged directly with armed
robbery, was set at $5,O 900 each.
William Massey and Henry Fritz,
charged with serving as access
cries and aiding and abetting If
execution Of the crcime, were
placed under bonds of $1,000 each
David Stevenson, q, of Green's
boro, who escaped from a road
gang in Orange county in 1913 is
the alleged husband OF Alice stew
enson and the brother of Robert
Massey is Wilmington taxi drlv-
err and Fritz, who resides in High
Point. is an unemployed me-
chanic.
According to the report OF State
Highway patrolrnen who worked
on the case two weeks, two mer
appeared in Kennedy's establish
ment, unmasked, and forced Ken.
needy, at the point of pistol, te
lie on the floor while they riflee
Continued on Page. Two; Col. q
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JAPS WITHIN TWO
MILES OF L0YANC
Chinese Hopes OF Holding
Ancient Honan Citadel
Fade Rapidly

CHUNKING, May 13.-tR-Jap'
anese troops using up to 200 tanks
have driven to within two miles
Of Loyang, the Chinese command
acknowledged tonight, and Chi
nese hopes of holding the ancient
Honan province citadel ia lei rap
idly.
Enemy troops made their deep
est penetration 70 the wc':. and
also had reached point only
three miles northwest of the city,
the high command said.
The Japarese appeared ready
to spring a vast trap threatening
several hundred thousand Chinese
troops, now hemmed in by enc
Continued on Page Seven; Col. s.
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Continued on Page Seven; Col. A.

An urgent appeal to all women
of the community to enlist their
services now on the home front
was made yesterday by officials
OF the Greater Wilmington Cham
Der of Commerce. With critical
emergency facing places of public
service, retail stores and shops, it
was pointed out that this is the
opportune occasion to rejoin the
home front forces where help is
SO badly needed and not only earn
money, but do a truly patriotic
service and express community
pride.
There are easily some 500 po-
tential women workers in the city
of Wilmington, the War Manpower
commission estimated last week.
Where these women, service wives
Of other unemployed women, have
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said.
Completing an unprecedented
series of 16 heavy bomber mis-
sions in Is days for the Brit
ish-based Eighth U. S. Air
force, this days assault rock
ed the targets with neatly 70
900 tons of bombs.
At the same time, Italy-based
heavy U. S. bombers continue
ed their far-reaching attacks
in support of the newly launch
ed Allied land drive, ripping
into rail facilities at IA points
in northern Italy. Their tar
gets included points in the i'm
pOrtant Bremen Pass through
which Hitler sends most of
the supplies to his embattled
Continued on Page Two; Col. l
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Chinese Moving Against
Bases At Kamaing, Mo-
gaung, Myitkyina
OTHER FRONTS ACTIVE
Fresh Offensive Supported
By Tanks, Dive Bomb
ers And Artillery
nv CHARLES A. CRUNCH
oo1ruFAST ASIA HEADOUAR-

SOUTHEAST Asia HEADQUAh-
TIERS HANDY, Ceylon, May 13-
PA new Allied offensive has
boe, launched against the north
prr,na japanese bases at Ka-
maing. Mogaung and Myitkyina
bv Chinese forces, which storm
81 a two-mile front with tank,
dive bomber and artillery support,
r. Gen Joseph W. Stilwell's head
nuar:ers announced today.
IN the early stages of the Ns-
sault, thrown against japanese
forces a mile south of Malakawng
On the south bank of the Kwelon
river and west of the Mogaung
river several japanese anti-tank
Guns were knocked out, and an
official announcement said Still
wells advance columns were hold
i2g Manpin, east of the Mogaung
and oalv 10 miles above the Jap
snese base at Kamaing.
Press Offensive
Simultaneously, Allied fighters
md dive bombers in close CO.
operation kept up continuous
DAYLIGHT air offensive against the
Kolima front, while on the I'm
phal sector. heavy fighting ragged
as tae japanese battered unsuc-
cessfuliy toward the Palel noun
tain pass.
In the Kamaing drive, Still
wills announcement said, advance
columns have repulsed an enemy
attack on their position after in
fiicting casualties, among them
Two enemy commanders.
Driving OF Myitkyina from the
north. another Stilwell force was
reported to have penetrated the
re-imeter of the japanese de-
fenses around Tiangzup, strong
outpost about 40 miles above
Myitkyina.
Northwest of Myitkyina and
rorth of the town of Mogaung,
Chinese troops forced
Stream and advanced mile south
Of Auche in the hills, almost due
east of Malayaw7lk.
Continued ON Page Seven; Col. s.
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PLANS FOR NAZIS'
SURRENDER MADE
Call For Complete De
struction OF The Prus-
sian-Built Army

LONDON, May 13@REAmerican
-British-Russian plans for accep-
lance of Germany's surrender are
nearly completed, and call for COM
plete destruction of the Prussian-
built army, reliable informant
disclosed tonight.
This wars terms for Germany
are said to differ from the last
wars in that they are Surrender"
TENS rather than .Armistice" pro-
posals.
The European Advisory Commits
sion has nearly finished drafting
these surrender tersm and Will
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-05
Cannon Wants
Old Time Back

Washington, April 5.-(UP)-Rep.
Clarence Cannon, D., Mo-, said to-
day that he will redouble his efforts
after the Easter recess for congress
Sional action to abandon war time
and put the nation back on stand
ard time.
Charging that "only the golf play
ers want daylight time" Cannon
said he has had letters from every
state in the Union urging that day
lgiht time be abolished"
I'VE went into war time with the
idea Of saving electric power he
said. Actually we are wasting 1t
and at the same time undermining
the health Of the nation"
by getting up an hour earlier we
use the same electric power that
we would have used at night, but
we don't necessarily save It at night
because no one yet has proved that
people are going to bed an hour
earlier"
Cannon said war time presented
an especially bad situation for
working men in most parts Of the
country during summer months.
"They go to work an hour earlier,
but at their regular time to retire
the night air Is still so warm from
the heat Of the day that 1t Is i'm
possible 70 Sleep" he said.
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CUPBOARD MOTORS
NOES AUTO PARTS Dial 4-612s
Help Lack
Hurts Output

New York, April s. Cup - The
manpower shortage is the chief
threat to war production now and
the situation "is likely to become
worse before 1t becomes better"
Howard Bruce, deputy director Of
materiel for the army service forces,
said today.
Bruce described to the Commerce
and Industry Association of New
York how the problem OF supplying
basic raw materials for war pro-
ductfon has been solved through the
governments controlled materials
plan and then said:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-05

ASHES, RUBBISH. MISCELLANE-
GUS removed. Also Light trucking
Call FRANK" Telephone A-0634.