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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-16
Allied Forces
StormAshore,
Seize Morotaii
PREPARING BASES
Army Engineers AT Work
Building And Repair
ing Airdromes

ALLIED HEADQUAR-
TIERS. NEW GUINEA, Sat
nrdav Sept. 16.-P)-Allied
f. forces seized all their objec-
ives on Morotai island with
IN q few hours after storm
IN mo ashore, and Army engi-
neers already are at work re-
blilding an airdrome, head
onarters revealed today.
Ambitious assault forces land
NJ Yesterday on Mortal, northeast
~ ualmahera island and within
am miles of the Philippines.
" u. S. Navy carrier-borne planes
and land-based aircraft maintain
ID a CONSTANT and unchallengec
cover for the landing forces as they
heean at once to prepare bases
FIR intensifying the assault
,oainst the Philippines.
Todavs communique said the
enoineers landed with the assault
waves"
The engineers were at work re-
building the Pitoe airdrome, on
the southwest coast of Moro+ai.
Thu island is 375 miles from Da-
vac, main city on Mindanao is
land.
Infantry units drove to their OBJ
iectives under cover OF ground
and naval gunfire.
Up to nightfall yesterday, there
had been no reports of any organ
lied Or even casual japanese re-
sistance. as the Americans over
ran Pitoe airdrome and narrow
five-mile-long peninsula which
form the islands southwestern tip.
While the Navy provided an air
tight aerial umbrella over Moro
tai, land-based planes of the far
eastern air force continued pound
ing all potential bases in the re-
mainder of the Moluccas, Dutch
Celebes and Dutch New Guinea.
The purpose was to neutraliZe any
possible japanese aerial counter
blows.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-16
FORMER RESIDENT
ACCIDENT VICTIM

RICHMOND, Va, Sept. bro
bert IT. Slaughter, Jr., "A, 1914
Avondale avenue, died this, after
noon, at 2:O5 o'clock at the Medi-
cal College of Virginia hospital
here of injuries received Thursday
midnight when he was struck down
by an automobile on Broad street.
According to hospital reports, the
car, driven by Anna K. Geiger,
2s17 Connecticut avenue, N. w.,
Washington, D. c., also struck a
street car, injuring two soldiers,
passengers in the automobile.
Funeral services will be held to-
morrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at
Nelson's funeral home here.
Slaughter, a former resident OF
Wilmington, is survived by his WI
dow, Mary Slaughter, "a step-daugh-
ter, both Of Richmond; his parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. T. Slaughter. OF
Audubon boulevard, Wilmington;
three sisters, Mrs. R. K. Sparrow
of Wilmington. Mrs. Edward J..
Smith, formerly of Wilmington. but
now of cambridge, Md, and Mrs,
Mildred Pate of Raleigh: broth
er, W A. Slaughter, MoMM, &c,
III 6 NAVY. Fort Pierce, Fla.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-16
VLB CHIEF SEES
new WAGE POLICY

WASHINGTON, Sept. IS Up
Chairman William H. Davis Of the
War Labor Board asserted today
that a change in the country
wage policy is inevitable, due to
shifting economic conditions.
Davis was asked at a news con.
ference whether the nation was ION
THRESHOLD of a new wage
policy. Of a new wage policy, he
replied: Inevitably"
He added that ''if we come to a
period of superabundance of labor,
we are not going to continue with
policy designed to take care OF
storage of labor"
He later commented that
the question has gone beyond the
problem of breaking the Little Steel
formula.
Davis called the conference to
explain the boards procedure
In considering panel reports just
submitted on the demands OF
the Go steel workers that they
De granted wage increase of II
cents an hour above the Little
Seel' formula.
Davis stated that we're not 60
ing to sidestep this issue" and
mat there is a possibility of the
board coming out with Victory
h-Europe day program relating to
labor.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-16
CAMPAICNERS SET
POLITICAL STAGE
BY The Associated Press

The Republican high command
and the John L. Lewis army Of
labor took pot shots yesterday al
President Rooseveh's tax and en-
ployment policies and his methods
in settling coal strikes.
From the Democratic side, In
terror Secretary Ickes, calling or
his flexible vocabulary, termed
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's criticism
Of the presidential order creating
the jackson hole national monu.
ment in Wyoming "beagle-like
snuffing about for votes.''
On the Senate floor, Senator
Hatch D-N.M.) hit at Dewy's Ne.
braska remarks that General
Douglas MacArthur's a e n t S
should be given greater scope
and recognition" He said he had
observed the statements by the
civilian candidate for president or
the republican ticket = civilian,
I repeat - who characterized civi.
liam influence, in the war effort as
being something - shall I say
damnable.
While these word battles
progressed, Democratic ranks in
Texas were broken deeply once
more over the electoral controver-
sy when the Secretary of State
said he would certify for the
November ballot the names of %
electors chosen by the May con-
vention controlled by anti
fourth termers.
The pro-Roosevelt forces, VII o
thus lost in an attempt to substi-
tute a different elector list. will
carry the issue to the courts for
the second time. Twenty three cleo
toral votes are at stake there.
Gov. Dewey, the Republican pres
idential nominee, directed the as
sault on the administrators tax
and regulatory policies in a news
conference at Billings, Mont. He
said the effect of these policies
has been to put an increas-
ing percentage Of production into
large industries Small business,
he added, must look to the Repub-
lican party if it wishes to survive.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-16
BIG WIND SPENDS
FURY IN CANADA
BY The Associated Press

A hurricane that scourged the
Atlantic seaboard from the Caro-
linas to Prince Edward island was
spending its fury in the north At
lantic last night after bring
ing death to at least % persons
in five northeastern states and
causing property damage unof-
ficially estimated at $50, 000,0 900.
All the deaths and most of the
devastation conferred in the
New York - New Jersey area,
where the Caribbean-born hur-
ricane roared inland Thursday
night, and in the New England
states, where similar storm kill
ed nearly 500 persons IN 1888.
Uprooted trees, snapped p W r
lines, ruined crops, flooded streets
those were the aftermath of the
85-mile an hour gale that dashed
more than $500 miles of coastline
with torrential rain. More than S.
900 persons were. evacuated from
their homes and some 300, 1000 tele-
phones in the stricken area were
out of service.
New Jersey, where two persons
were killed and damage to crops
and seashore properties exceeded
$4,000, 900, appealed for federal aid
as rescue workers strove to reach
hard-hit areas of Long Beach is
land.
Thirteen persons died, most Of
them by electrocution, in metropo-
Titan New York and Long Island,
although the city escaped the hur-
ricane's full fury. Store windows
we're shattered and subways
flooded in Manhattan. Parts of
Long Island, flayed by a 95-
mile gale, still were without cleo
trio lights.
Connecticut, its multi million
dollar tobacco and fruit crops raw
aged for the second time in eight
years, counted four dead. Three
deaths were reported in Massachu-
sets, where the hurricane leveled
fruit trees, battered shore proper
ties and cut communications to is
lands, including Nantucket and
MarthaTs- vineyard. An addition
al death was reported as the 100
mile-wide gale oskirted Maine.
New England's total damage ap-
preached $10,000,000 half Of it in
New, Bedford, Mass.
The Canadian Meteorological
bureau said the hurricane, born a
week ago in the West Indies, was
sweeping out to sea after brushing
the northwestern edge of Prince
Edward island. No fatalities were
reported from the diminish
ing winds but communications
were disrupted in Canada's mari
time provinces.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-16
Russians Drive On Warsaw
Soviet, Polish Troops Hurl
Germans Back Against
Capital

z LONDON, Saturday, Sept. 16-
R-Russian and Polish troops hurl-
ed the Germans into sack form
ed by the Vistula and Narew rivers
northwest of Warsaw yesterday in
a steady development of the be-
seiged Polish capital, while Berlin
said that other Soviet forces in a
powerful new offensive had cross
ed the Nyemanek river 81 miles
below Riga, Latvian capital on the
Baltic sea. y
A German broadcast said the
Russians threw 40 divisions, up
wards of 100000 men, into the
fresh offensive on curving 49,
mile front extending from Bauska,
south of Riga, into Estonia on Doth
sides of the key rail junction Of
Valga. Soviet troops last were re-
ported within seven miles of Valga.
Moscow, as usual at the begin
ming of Soviet offensives, did not
mention this drive which is aine3
at crushing two German armies Of
the north now that Finland has
been knocked out of the war. Dis
patches from the Soviet capital al
ready had limited that such de-
velopment was expected in that
theater.
''All available forces including
an entire mass of newly assembled
reserves went into action, fighting
for operational elbow room for
their march on German East Prus-..
STA, IA Berlin broadcast said. THE
new offensive was made possible
only by the detection of Romania,
Bulgaria and Finland, as result
of which the Soviets found them
selves with enough available man
power to switch the attacks back
to the Baltic and get the assault
on East Prussia running again."
A midnight Soviet comnunique
said that 5000 Germans were kill
ed in four days of fighting before
Thursdays capture of Praga, War
saws suburb on the east bank of
the Vistula river, and the Russians
now were believed to be in contact
with Poles fighting inside the cap
ital across the river.
Moscow dispatches said it YVES
believed that Red Army units al
ready had crossed the river inEo
Warsaw while other units fought
for the four bridges, or what's left
of them, between Praga and War
saw. -, - ~
During yesterdays actions the
Russians and their collaborating:
Polish army units captured I'll To-.
ealitiess north of. Praga. Fighting
along the Warsaw-Danzig railway
on the east bank of the Vlstula
they seized Apollo. two and one.
half miles northwest OF Praga, and
series of other towns stretching.
II miles up to the Narew river at
Rynia.g - 4s +
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-16
UNIV. Favors housekeeping

the change of administration IN
Washington, for the house
cleaning so badly needed, for
the firm establishment of a
square-deal administration IN
all the departments OF govern
ment where the ex-new deal
ers have imposed their bureau"
cratic design, your committee
feels that the UMWA should
not depart from its tradition
al political policy and it's
constitutional provisions and
indorse candidate or party
in the 1914 campaign.
in the election to come the
mine workers will know their
enemy. and can be relied
upon to protect their home,
their country, and tn ei r
union.''
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-16
NEARING
WAR WITH NAILS

3 :
STOCKHOLM, Sept. IS. =. R -
Finland found itself virtually a
war with Germany today, as MAJ
troops invaded the Firms strategic
and well-fortified island of Suursa
ari Hogland and German troop.
moved to close the Finnish-Sweflis
frontier in the north.
It appeared doubtful, if not i'm
possible, that German troops would
be out of Finland by midnight
the deadline for their Withdrawal
under terms of the Finnish-Rus
sian. armistice agreement. and re
ports circulated here that Germany
might attempt to blockade FINLAND
both by sea and air.
The Swedish foreign office to
night confirmed the German inten
ton of closing the border of nor
them Finland effective tomorrow
The German attempt to seize
Suusarai, in the Gulf of Finland
occurred early today, but the well
manned Finnish garrison there ap
peared to have the situation under
control at nightfall.
Late tonight the newspaper Fa.
lukuriren reported from Helsink
that the Firms had completed iqui
dalton of the German beachhead
on the island, but there was no Of
fetal. confirmation.
The possibility that Finland
might formally declare war or
her former Nazi brothers-in-arms
as Romania and Bulgaria have
done, remained uppermost tonight
The Finnish parliament was
scheduled to meet in secret ses.
sion tomorrow. 1t held an eight
minute session today, but no an
nouncement was made concerning
its discussions. - q
Zone Finnish broadcast said that
the brief meeting was called to
consider matters connected with
Premier . Hantti Hackzellssa i'll
ness Hackzell, head of the Fin
nish armis,ice delegation in Mos
COW, was stricken last night with a
brain hemorrhage which was said
to. have. left him paralyzed.s
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-16

phon tremendous forces into the
far east once the German mill
tary machine has been wreck
. ed.
While the war chiefs of Bri-
tain and the United States may
keep on talking details, p-esid-
entail secretary Stephen Early
told reporters today:
1.-The conferences in Quebec
between the president and
prime minister will be conclud-
ed by tomorrow noon"
Vocal stress which he gave
the words in Quebec" and the
fact that he declined to say
whether Roosevelt and Chur.
chill might continue personal
talks elsewhere pointed to
probability they would do just
that. Each will 60 ''off the re-
cord" tomorrow.
The hints of informal, addi-
tional discussions between the
two United Nations leaders
pointed up two definitely relat-
ed factors:
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-16

Lewis several times admon-
ished delegates to conflne
their remarks to the resolu-
ton and after the first dele
gate spoke in praise of Mr..
Roosevelt, he told the conven-
ton this is not an endorse
ment. This is a statement OF
fact. There is no sense IN
taking the floor unless you
disagree with this statement
of fact"
Lewis himself closed a half
hours debate in which five
delegates spoke in favor OF
Mr.. Roosevelt and two sup
ported Lewis in his denuncia-
ton of the president.
Despite" said the resolu-
ton, "the recognized need in
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-16
Transit Firm Workers
+. To Receiiue. Bonus Pay

WASHINGTON, Sept. Is. -
The Wa Labor Board today On.
flolmced a bonus pay policy based
on increased work load for employ
.ees Nof street. railways, and other
local transit firms. However. a
spokesman said the policy will be
applied only when the union and
company voluntarily agree to such
a bonus. 80
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-16
Nazi Plans To Euacuate
Greece Blasted By Raids

ROME, Sept. IS. -P)- German
plans to evacuate key military per-
sonnet from Greece by air have
, peen shattered by series OF Al
ned raids on Tatoi, Elevsis and
Aaiamaki ai-dromes near Athens
winch made junk of massed trans
port planes rushed south to rescue
stranded Nazi officers and technl-
Clans.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-16

les VI COlOSllc anu OOUICllL.
On the south, the Third U. S.
Army broke the back of the last
German stand in northern France,
seized Nancy, and sent the en-
envy Keeling in retreat toward the
Rhine on a 30-mile front ON both
sides of the city.
The Dutch city of Maastricht on
the northern end of the front fell
to the onruhsing Americans, the
first point in the Netherlands to
be liberated afte- more than four
years of occupation.
The outer works of the Siegfried
line were found less formidable
than many obstacles smashed on
the Normandy beaches, a front
dispatch said, and there were indi-
cations the Germans were in fight
ing retreat to a second line of de.
tense on the Rhine.
Deepest penetration into the
Reich was north of the fortified
city of Trier, which itself echoed
to the shots of doughboys fighting
in the outskirts after Drawing hot
machinegun and rifle fire to blast
maze of pill boxes.
Thirty-five miles to the north.
west tanks and self-propelled ar
tillery rumbled up to the edge Of
Prum-supposedly a fortress an
choring the main Siegfried defense
!zone-shattering concrete tank bar.
riers-. Drawing artillery and anti
tank fire and routing the Germans
from pill boxes with bayonet, dyna-
mite and flame-thrower.
The German frontier fortress OF
Aachen, 40 miles farther north, was
surrounded by doughboys who
fought into the fringes of the city
as massed fire of U. S. guns pound
ed it's buildings into rubble. A front
dispatch said this key city was
within American grasp.
In a gathering threat to the nor
them reaches of the westwall -
the weaker links from Aachen 70
miles north to Kleve-other Ame-i-
can forces captured the Dutch city
of Maastricht, the first in the Ne
therlands to be freed by Allied
arms and Eysden. five miles south.
On the south, the last enemy
stand in northern France was wilt
ing in the fire of the U. S. Third
army, which captured the Moselle
liver stronghold Of Nancy, capital
of German-annexed Lorraine, with
only the whiz of sniper bullets con-
testing the entry.
Thirty-seven miles to the south
west, the Third army captured the
road junction Of Epinal, which is
about midway between Nancy and
Belfort.
The Seventh army was driving on
the stoutly-defended gap at Belfort,
30 miles from the Rhine, and the
failure Of the Mediterranean can
munique to pention its operations
limited that soon it would come un-
der Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
western front command.
(The Germans said Belfort was
manned "for a good fight but the
rush of the Third army east and
southeast of Nancy toward the Vos-
ges mountains and Strasbourg i'm
periled any determined stand
there)
The British in northern Belgium
were cleaning up pockets left on
a field of slaughter between the
Albert and Escaut canals after
Selling the only bridge left intact
by the Germans over the Escaut at
Continued on Page Two: Col. n
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-16

CINCINNATI, Sept. 15-lR-
A resolutions committee re-
port put the United Mine Work
efS on record today as favor
ing what it termed a ''house-
Cleaning SO badly needed" In
Washington, but President
John L. Lewis said this did not
constitute endorsement Of
lhomas E. Dewey, the Re-
publican presidential nominee.
The report declared the
roosevelt administration had
an aim to destroy the UMWA
oy subtly attacking its leader
SNIP and praised Governor
DeWey as a firm believer in
equal justice, fearless and
courageous action and a cap
able administrator"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-16
European War Flashback
BY The Associated Press

98Aerican increased artillery activity
Flanders
President Wilson rejected the of
non-bindng talks.
forces Egypt occupied
planes raided
guns guardsnen report
ed for years training in federal service.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-16
Marines Tain
Beachhead0n
Peleliu Island
NEARING DAVAO
Raids on Kurile, Volcano
and Other Island Groups
Continue

U. S. PACIFIC FLEET
HEADQUARTERS, PEARL
HARBOR, Sept. Is. -E -
American Marines of. the
First division, heroes of Qua
dalcanal, have established a
beachhead a mile and one halt
long on the southwestern
shore of Peleliu island in the
Palau group, SIS miles from
Davao, headquarters announ-
ced today.
The Marines were reported
moving toward the islands air
port, main one on the Palaus
group, despite furious opposition
by 5000 Japanese. Possession of
the field would provide another
bomber base for attacks on the
Philippines.
In landing On Peleliu, the Ma
rines crossed a reef to reach the
southwest beach.
Palau's only other airfield
which can be operated is on An
guar Island, just south Of Peleliu
and the southernmost in the Pa
lau group.
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz said
in a communique that fast car
rier forces are covering and sup
porting the landings by far rang
ing operations throughout the west
ern Pacific. They are commanded
by Vice Admiral Marc A. Nit
scher.
Raids Continue
Raids in the Kurile, Volcano,
Marianas and Marshall Island
groups continue. Ventura search
planes bombed Shimusnu in the
Kuriles Tuesday. They were in
tercepted ineffectively by seven
japanese fighters.
Land-based Liberators bombed
Paramushiro, also in the Kuriles,
during Wednesday night. Liberia
tors also hit Two lima, $50 miles
south Of Tokyo( with 80 tons of
explosives Wednesday. Also raid
ed were Pagan and Rota islands
in the Marianas, Mill, Jaluit and
Wolfe in the Marshalls and Mar
Gus Island, southeast of Japan.
The airstrip goal on Peleliu
Island has two crossed runways
possibly 5000 feet long which can
be heightened.
:, 1t is believed impossible for the
japanese to reinforce the Palau
garrisons, but it is considered pos
Sible for the enemy to move troops
southwark from other Palau
islands to aid the Peleliu force.
The latter includes probably not
over 5000 combat troops among
the 5000 soldiers on the island.
Peleliu is only slightly larger
than Kwajalein and is smaller
than Tinian. This indicates the
possibility of speedy conquest,
probably in less than a week.
Capture of the Peleiu airfield,
plus new bases in the Moluccas,
would widen the range of pulver-
izing Allied aerial attacks, against
both the Philippines and Japan's
important oil areas in Borneo..
These invasions posed a double
pronged threat to the Philippines,
which previously had been under
attack four days by carrier-borne
Typhoons that demolished SOL
Nipponese planes and 173 surface
vessels. We.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-16
RESIGNS

+ WASHINGTON, Sept. IS. - @-
Democratic strength in the house
fell slightly below so per cent of
the present membership today with
the resignation of Rep. Winder R..
Harris, of Virginia. He left to be-
come vice president of the Ship
builders Council Of America
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-16
Hitler's West Wall Buckled By Allies
At Nhree Critical Points As Offensive
DIVes 10 Miles Into Nazi Homeland
Nancy Captured
By US. 3rd Army
Americans Make Great Drive Toward Ger
man Cities of Cologne and Coblenz

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDI-
TIONARY FORCE, Sept. 15.-(P)-Hter's west wall
buckled at three critical points today broad front
der deuge of blows from American forces driving deep
ten miles into Germany toward the great Rhneand cit
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1944-04-17
From where | sit g. by Joe Marsh
A dog story with
a happy ending

Lem Martins dog went on a
rampage last week. killed four
Of Ed Carey's best hens.
Naturally, Ed was pretty mad.
Went around vowing he was 60.
Ing TO get his shotgun and blow
the blazes out Of LENS dog when
he saw him. And Lem says, Let
him try itand I'll blow the blazes
out OF hin. Ought TO keep his
chickens locked up, anyhow
But Ed and Lem arc really
mighty sensible fellows. And
the whole thing was settled
when Lem invited Ed over for n
glass of beer, and they sat around
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1944-04-17

rhatting over the quarrel as II II
were Il kind Of joke.
"Shucks." says Ed. Chem
hens didn't amount to much no.
how ~ And Lem says: Just the
same I'm bringin' you a barrel
y apples TO pay for en-"
From where 7 sit, II would be
n lot better for the world if folk,
would settle their arguments
notwithstanding around
over n friendly glass of beer
instead of going OFT haIf-cockcd.
ana making mountains out 81
molchills.
@s M""s
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1944-04-17

raised 10 auproXimatrly 100000
Yesterday nv u special communi-
que announcing thr death or cap
TURF of 1873 men between
March Il and April - i'm the Of
fcnSivc which carried the second
krainc army fifty miles inside
KnmlniA.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1944-04-17

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