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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-27
MARINES SCALE
SAIPAN HEIGHT
Push Into Island Capital,
Win Major Anchorage
As Guam Pounded

u. S. PACIFIC FLEET
HEADQUARTERS, PEARL
HARBOR, June 26.-P-
American ground forces have
scaled Mt. Tapotchau, domi-
mating height of Saipan is
land, battered their way deep
or into the Marianas capital Of
Garapan and won complete
control of Magicienne bay,
major anchorage on the east
ern side of the island cross
roads to Japan, the Phillip
pines and China.
A hard hitting carrier task
force, supporting these advances
announced today by Adm. Ches.er
w. Nimitz pounded the Japanese
on Guam and Rota Islands to the
south.
Nine more enemy planes were
destroyed in the various actions
that raised to 756 the number of
aircraft sacrificed. in Japan's
desperate but futile efforts to stem
the Saipan invasion.
The 1,554-foot Tapotchau was
mounted by United States Marines.
They had to rout the enemy from
caves and cliffs. When the going
got too tough they called UP ar
tillery which shelled surrounded
and isolated nests of resistance.
Often the heavier guns fired at
close range, somtimes point
blank.
Admiral Ninitz made no direct
claim of capture of Tapotchau, a
key position on Saipan. From its
summit American observers can
spy On the eneny's every move,
direct artillery fire and bombing
and emplace big guns to fire down
the enemy's throat.
A dispatch earlier from Howard
Handleman, representing the COM
bined American press, said the
height had been captured and held
against an enemy counterattack.
Handleman, aboard flagship of
the joint expeditionary force at
Saipan. reported the ground forces
had extended their positions about
the base of the peak. It is situat-
ed at the center Of the island. Run
ways, revetments, aircraft and
shipping were bombed. by carrier
planes which struck Saturday at
Rota and Guam, the former
American base.
Six planes were destroyed and
probably two more on the Orote
peninsula airfield on Gaum. A
large cargo ship in Ap:a harbor.
on the western side of the island
just north of Orote peninsula was
damaged.
Two Nipponese planes were de-
stroyesd in the aerial slash at
Rota, the first island north OF
Guam. Fires started among build.
ings at the airfie1d.
High ranking officers on Saipan
were reported by Handleman to
have expressed confidence that the
invasion progress assured cap
ture Of all the Marianas.
Stunning defeats had virtually
eliminated the Japanese fleet as
factor in the invasion. In addi-
ton to the heavy aircraft losses,
one Nipponese aircraft carrier had
been sunk, one probably sunk and
four others damaged.
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DEFENSE LINES
RIPPED APART
Twin Victories Pave Way
For Invasion March
Towards Berlin

LONDON, June 26.-(R)-
Premier Marshal Stain an
nounced tonight the capture
of Vitebsk and Zhlobin, north
ern and southern anchors Of
the Germans white Russian
defenses, cracking open both
ends of the "Fatherland Line"
and paving the way for at
tacks along historic invasion
routes leading to Berlin.
Vitebsk was taken by storm on
the fourth day of the gigantic
steamroller offensive by troops of
Gen. Ivan Bagramian's first Bal
tic army, whose northern and
southern wings united to trap five
German divisions-possibly $4,000
men-within and around the city.
Shortly after the announcement
of the fall of the great Nazi bas-
ton, Marshal Stain issued another
order of the day, his seventh since
the start of the offensive, announc.
ing that troops Of the first White
Russian army under Gen. X. X.
Rokossovsky, hero of Stalingrad,
had taken Zhlobin, $50 miles south
of Vitebsk, exposing Bobruisk, IS
miles to the northwest.
The value of these two bastions
scarcely can be overrated. Through
Vitebsk run roads to the Baltic
and East Prussian, and through
Zhlobin are those leading to Minsk,
capital of White Russia.
In his sixth order of the day, the
premier told of the fall of Vitebsk,
held by the Germans since its cap.
ture July 10, 1941. The Russians
swarmed into the city Sunday Oh
the third day of their offensive.
Stain commanded IL salvoes
from 124 Moscow guns to mark the
Zhlobin victory, and ordered 20
salvoes from 224 guns to mark the
capture of Vitebsk, 10 miles east
OF the former Polish border and
100 miles northeast of Mipsk.
CA Moscow broadcast recorded
by the federal commune atoms
commission said Col. Gen. Ivan
Cherry akhovsky, commanding the
Third White Russian army, had
been promoted to the rank of army
general. His troops joined the First
Baltic army of Gen. Ivan Bagra
milan in Selling Vitebsk)
Other Soviet forces stormed the
outer defenses of three other ba-
ton cities in great blows which the
Germans declared might be only
the forerunners to even heavier
assaults farther south.
Driving along the shortest road
to Berlin, the Russians were throw
ing out the familiar pincers around
the "Fatherland Line" fortresses
of Orsha, Mogilev and Bobruisky
below Vitebsk-tactics with which
They have hammered the enemy
back IL the way from Stalingrad.
The British broadcasting COM
pany said the Red avalanche Of
tanks and infantry had rumbled to
within two miles of Orsha, half
way between Vitebsk and Mogilev.
while outflanking columns were
circling above and below Mogilev
and BobruiSk.
Faced with break through
which might lance through Lith.
uania and East Prussia and cut
off German divisions in the Baltic
states, the enemy was hurrying ev.
cry available reserve to the front
but was being driven steadily back
Moscow said.
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Willkie Protests G. 20. P.
Proposed Foreign Plank

CHICAGO STADIUM, June &c.
P}-Wendell L.. Willkie raised his
voice in protest tonight against
the proposed foreign plank OF, the
Republican platform but his criti-
cisms were showed aside summa-
,rily by some convention leaders.
In statement issued in New
York, Willkie said he was oppos-
ed to the tentative declaration,
which would pledge responsible
participation" by the United States
in an international organization
which would employ peace for
ces" to maintain future world Sc
curity.
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Heb School Youths Walking Tracks
To Helm Railroad Manpouer Shortage

effort in this manner should
contact the local u S. EN-
ployment Services office for
details.
The first group of youths
who started working on the
tracks yesterday include Emile
Aysh, william Keith, Raymond
Smith, Robert Holmes, Clifton
Dixon, William Dew, Jack
Mathis, Frank Branch, Luth-
er Milburn, Wilbert Ivey,
Herbert Frazier, Herbert Lee
airy, John Walker, Herman
Groom. Curtis Craig, Kirby
Sullivan, Lester Sessions, Pet
er Herring, Solomon Troy,
Theodore Pickford, Willie Sas-
sion and Thally Carney.
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French Patriots Aid
Stranded u. S. Airmen

NEW YORK, June 26.-REAd.
vance American patrols, penetrat-
ing into Cherbourg, discovered four
U. S. Airmen who had landed near
the city on D-Day and had since
teen hidden by French patti lots
The story was told tonight by B3C
Reporter Colin Wills in London
broadcast recorded by CHS.
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MANUFACTURER DIES

CHARLOTTE, June rs Up =
Eugene M. Cole, 81, president Of
the Cole Manufacturing company,
died today in a hospital here of
an illness which followed a stroke
the night of January 2.
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S. troops tackled the last few pill
boxes and Germans fighting in
the city's arsenal area last night.
Fall of the port, third largest in
France, came just three weeks at
ter the Allies landed in Normandy
in the early hours of June 6.
Associated Press Correspondent
Don Whitehead, in dispatch
from Cherbourg at 9:12 pm. said
that as the mop-up squads moved
through the smoke-filled streets
shells whistled into the city from
German positions farther west on
Cap de la Hague.
To rout Germans from cliff posi-.
tons overlooking the city, he de.
clared, might be job of several
days.
(NBC reporter W. w. Chaplin
broadcast from the beachhead that
"all organized resistance has ceas-
ed in Cherbourg,' and CHS cor
respondent Larry lie Sueur broad
cast the same report, although he
said Germans in forts and the
arsenal were putting up death
struggles"0
Supreme headquarters, which a
few hours earlier had reported
street fighting raging in the city.
was awaiting word of the final
cleanup momentarily, but official
word Of the capture is unlikely to
come until the last enemy gun is
silenced.
Seize Docks
U. S. troops advanced street by
street and house by house, leaving
hundreds Of fanatically resisting
Germans dead in the rubble OF
their posts, and took firm posses
sion Of the docks, which can han
die the flood of men and weapons
waiting to pour in from Britain
and direct from the United States.
Communique No. AZ said there
still was some resistance to the
west on Cap de la Hague, where in
last stand positions the Germans
threw shells into the heart Of the
city, but there was little opposition
along the northeastern tip of the
peninsula.
Thus the prize for which the Al
lies have fought in the 81 days OF
the invasion-21 days which have
cost the Germans 100000 men kill
ed wounded and captured by I'm
official UNDERSIGNED about to
fall.
Strike Near Caen
But without waiting for Cher
bourg's capitulation, Gen. Sir Ber-
nard L. Montgomery cut loose the
biggest barrage ever laid down
on the eastern end of the Norman
dy front and with warship guns
firing in support off shore drove
four miles of Tilly-Sur-Seulles to
within mile of the main road run
ming southwest from Caen across
the base of the Normandy PENN
sula.
The communique said progress
had been made in this sector after
heavy fighting and Allied forces
improved their positions.
This local action was tying down
German reserves and armor while
the main event roareC to climax
in the smoking streets of Cherbourg
and to the northwest-last islands
OF resistance in the peninsula -
where remnants of garrison OF
from $4,000 to 5000 fought with
their backs to the sea.
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Governor Warren
.=.:. Sees COP. Win

CHICAGO STADIUM, June -QP)-Obviously in
tent on nominating Thomas E. Dewey for the presidency,
the Republican national convention assembled tonight to
hear favorite for the partys No spot predict Re-
publican sweep in November, pumme the New Deal, and
pound "power-intoxicated bureaucracy"
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Cherbour& Falls
T0Allied Forces
Germans Resist To End In Bitter F;ob+;,, q,
Street By Street And House By House

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EYpE W 81
Tme) - Tuesday, June 27.-QF9-Capture of Cherbourg
by American dougboys was officially announced early to-
victory that gave the Allies their first great fort
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oCD STAFF REDUCED

RALEIGH, June 26-lREGover-
nor .Broughton, in a statement is
sued today, said the employed
staff of the states civilian de-
Tense had been reduced from ST.
739 to ST $50. 80
Evening star., 1944-08-29
Three New Awards Set Up
For Merchant Marine

President Roosevelt today pre-
scribed three new awards for the
men and ships of the Maritime
Commission and War Shipping Ad-
ministration. Both United States
f1agships and foreign ships operat-
Ing under the auspices of the Amer
ican agencies. together with their
crews, are eligible.
The Presidents order esta ablishes
the Merchant Marine Meritorious
Service Medal, which is to be given
to seamen for service that is meri-
torious but does not warrant award
of the Merchant Marine Distin-
guished Service Medal, previously
established.
A second award calls for citations
for ships serving in outstanding ac-
tion against attack or in gallant
action in marine disasters or other
emergencies at sea- A plaque will
be awarded to any ship SO cited.
The third mark of recognition Is
a service ribbon bar, which is to be
given only to officers or crew men,
bers OF a United States ship for the
period between September 8, 1899
and December 6, 1941. The other
two awards cover the entire period
subsequent to September 8, 1899.
Evening star., 1944-08-29
Southern Railway Fined
$500 on WAGE CHARGES

The Southern Railway Co. was
fined 5000 on three charges brought
by the District Minimum Wage and
Industrial Safety Board in a de-
cision announced yesterday by Judge
Aubrey Fennell in Municipal Court.
In three counts the board charged
the railway company with employing
one woman for seven days a week,
one woman for So hours a week and
one woman for 13 hours day.
The company was fined $50 each
on the first two counts, which were
under the District hour law and
500 on the third count, under the
minimum wage law.
THE decision is important because
it confirms the Interpretation gen.
orally given that the hours law is
applicable to clerical and office
workers in general office of COM
pany such as the Southern Railway
Miss Elizabeth Champe, executive
secretary of the Minimum Wage
Board, said
The company had contended that
the hours law was not applicable
to its Office employees.
The company had been given a
permit to work employees in excess
of the basic eight-hour day. 49,
hour week law, as doing business
essential to the war effort, but the
charges involve cases where the en-
ployes were worked in excess of the
hours allowed under the permit,
board officials said.
Evening star., 1944-08-29
Weather Bulletin Editor Retires
After SO Years Service
Joseph B. Kincer
Leaves Bureau to
Work in Gurden
By GEORGE KENNEDY.

Joseph B. Kincer today wrote his
last weekly Weather and Crop
Bulletin" guide to The farmers,
great industries and spectators in
the big grain and cotton markets.
He retired after SO years in the
Weather Bureau. This afternoon he
and Mrs. Kincer were to attend a
little ceremony in his Office in the
old brick building at Twenty fourth
and M streets NV.
Mr.. Kincer has spent most of the
time in the same office. But it has
not been a confined existence. Every
day the world reported to his desk
not its crimes, disasters or revolu-
tions-but it's changes that know
no political boundaries or human
hindrance-the weather.
He daily scanned the weather
map. noted cool air masses over
Siberia and Alaska. tropical storms
brewing in the Antilles, rainfall in
the plains and interpreted their ef-
feet on the Nations wood and fiber
And he Travelled far. His last trip
was in 1885. when. as a member of
the International Climatological
Committee, he went to a meeting
in Warsaw, then travelled the Soviet
Union watching, thinking, talking
weather.
Its been long time" said Mr..
Kincer, leaning back in his shirt
sleeves and pushing the weather
maps aside, but it doesn't seem so.
It's gone by awfully fast.
1T reminds me Of the man who
asked. When did I get old?' Well
I don't feel old yet"
Evening star., 1944-08-29
BY HARRIET GRIFFITHs.

A survey of the apartment supply
and demand in Washington makes
it obvious that there are only two
benevolent gods watching over nat
hunters-just plain luck and the
War Housing Center.
Luck steps In sometimes when
the apartment hunter telephoning
apartment houses happens to call
just after some one has given no.
tice. In this case. luck Is often
abetted by persistence.
Then there cases like Mrs. Smiths
Mrs. Smith was giving up her house
and wanted an apartment. After a
long and firing search, she had
come to the conclusion, which was
confirmed by her friends, that she
could not find an apartment.
Sharing a taxi one day, Mrs.
Smith mentioned her disappoint-
ment. Luck was riding. too, for an
other occupant Of the cab had just
decided to give up her apartment
and invited Mrs. Smith to look at it.
The only string attached was $500
WOI III VI lOI IllIuIC WlllCll 1ldO W UC
sold before the apartment could be
vacated. Mrs. Smith already had
enough furniture in her house to
furnish two apartments, but after
she had seen the fiat. she readily
agreed to buy its furnishings If it
took that to get it. A chance like
this didn't come every day.
This practice, Of course. is subject
to Once Of Rent Control regula-
tions, which state that any one
contemplating such a transaction
must furnish full details to the Rent
Control Once and to the manage
ment Of the building in which they
live before completing It,
The War Housing Center is prob
ably the most informed agency In
Washington as to just what, II any
thing, Is available in apartments
Established in 1912, primarily fol
the purpose of being a referral cen
ter for war workers and military
personnel coming into the city, II
has developed as a station for al
home hunters in the CITY.
Evening star., 1944-08-29
Federal Health
Bill Approved
|bYhouseunit
Benefits for All
Workers Provided
In Amendments

The bill providing for health bene.
fits for Federal employees was report-
ed out of executive session of the
Randolph subcommittee of the House
Civil Service Committee today.
Amendments to the bill, intro.
duced by Representative Randolph.
Democrat, Of West Virginia, would
make the measure applicable to all
Government employees. Originally
only members Of the executive
branch were to be eligible.
Mr.. Randolph expressed confidence
that the full Civil Service Committee,
which meets at 10 am. tomorrow,
will promptly approve the action Of
the subcommittee.
One o. the amendments introduced
today provides for the continuation
Of such health programs as are cur
rently in operation for the benefit Of
Government workers until June,
1o45. Another authorizes the treat
ment of dental as we'll as medical
cases.
The entire measure has the ap-
proval OF the American Medical AS
sociation, the National Association
Of Manufacturers and labor unions.
The subcommittee, which unani-
mously approved the bill, includes
Representatives Randolph, Mcmillan
Of South Carolina, Jackson Of WASH
ington, Scanlon of Pennsylvania, all
Democrats, and Gale, Minnesota; !;
Carson, Ohio, and Herter, Massa =
chQsetts, all Republicans.
Evening star., 1944-08-29
.WLb Orders Return
Of Mine Supervisors

Ey the Associated Press.
The War Labor Board telegraphed
orders today to presidents of six
local unions of mine supervisors
directing termination immediately
OF strike at the mines of two
Western Pennsylvania companies
the Ford Collieries Co. and the
Rochester &, Pittsburgh Coal Co.
The pledge of labor and the
policy of the Government that there
shall be no strikes for the duration
of the war must be kept" the board
said in the kilograms. The strike
is interfering with the production
of coal which is necessary to the
war effort. The Government mus,
insist that labor disputes
be adjusted by peaceful means. The
needs OF our armed forces in Europe
and the Far East demand that the
national welfare come before the
grievances Of few.
In the hearing yesterday the
National War Labor Board made
clear that when the strike is ended
but not before, it will take prompt
action to settle all the issues in dis
pute which are within its jurisdic-
ton
This includes all the outstanding
issues except those involving rights
of bargaining and alleged discrim
inatory discharges which are I
the responsibility of the Nationa
Labor Relations Board = ="
Evening star., 1944-08-29
.lsNRstoniing
&Remiinder5@a

Canned Foods, Etc. - Book No. 1.
blue stamps A-8 through Z-8 and
AS through F-5 good indefinitely.
Stamps G-5 through LIS valid
September /. Each stamp worth
10 points.
Meats, Fats, Etc.-Red stamps A-8
through Z-8 and AS through DIS
good indefinitely for 10 points
each. All meats except beef steaks,
roast beef and choice cuts of lamb
and pork are point free.
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
win pay two ration points for each
pound Of waste kitchen fats YOU
turn In. The fact that lard, short
ening and cooking oils have been
removed from the ration list does
not mean fat collection Is less
essential
Sugar-Book No. 4 stamps 80, 81 and
80 valid for S pounds indefinitely.
Book No. 4 stamp 40 good for s
pounds for home canning through
February %. 1945.
Gaaoline-A-11 coupons good for 4
gallons each through November 8.
B-3, B-4, C-3 and CA coupons
good for S gallons each.
Shoes-Airplane stamps l and 2 in
Book No. 3 good indefinitely for
one pair Of shoes each.
Fuei Oil-Periods No. 4 and S cou.
pons good for 10 gallons per unit
through September 80. Period /.
!s44-5 fuel oil ration good nov
Tor 10 gallons Dor unit.
Evening star., 1944-08-29
.Thomus F. Burke Buried
In CuIpeper, Va.

Funeral services for Thomas F
Burke, 10. who died last Thursday
at his home at AL South Sixth
street, Arlington, Va. after an i'll.
ness of five years, were held yester-
day at the Ives funeral home in Ar
lington. Burial was in Culpper, Va
A native of Culpeper Mr.. Burke
formerly was employed in the Gov
ernnent Printing ONCE. He retired
several years ago.
Mr.. Burke is survived by his
widow. Mrs. Ida M. Burke; two
daughters, Mrs. Luther Eastwood
Arlington, and Mrs. Charles john
son, Washington; two sisters, Mrs
Frank Keough Of Washington and
Mrs. Elmer johnson of Bryn Mawr
Pa; three brothers, Wilmer Burke
Washington; j. G. Burke, Culpeper
and Omer Burke, Columbus, Ohio:
six grandchildren and three great
grandchildren.
Evening star., 1944-08-29
Many Workers Here
Will Remain on Jobs
During Labor Day
U. S. Offices Will Stoy
Open; Union Groups
PIon No Celebrations

Labor Day will be observed here
Monday with little celebration and
great percentage of residents al
their desks in Federal Offices, which
will remain open in accordance with
the executive wartime order allow
ing only Christmas as a holiday.
Labor organizations in the city
plan no special observance because
war conditions. leaders of the CIO
and the AFL say, make celebrations
inappropriate.
Department stores will be open
Saturdays again, beginning this
week. They have been closed on
Saturdays since July 1. The stores
will be closed Monday. however
Banks will also be closed on the
holiday.
Employees of the District govern
ment who can be spared will be
given the day of. That excludes
persons engaged in work affecting
the health and safety of the COM
munity.
The Public Library will be open
Monday from pm. to 8 pm, with
telephone service starting at 9 am.
according to Miss Clara w. Herbert
District librarian. Woodbridge and
Chevy Chase branches will increase
their hours of service to the public
beginning the day after the holiday
to ga hours a week to accommodate
persons who hitherto have been un-
able to use the facilities. These
branches will be open from 8 am
to 9 pm. weekdays and from 8 am
to pm. Saturdays.
The ONCE of Defense Transpor-
tation, foreseeing a weekend rush
again has appealed to the public te
refrain from unnecessary use ol
trains and buses over the holiday
The ODT points to the fact that
many service men and women will
be inconvenienced If civilians use
up available travel space.
Evening star., 1944-08-29
Three 1een-Age Boys Held
In Greenbe|t SHOOTING

Police arrested three teen-age
boys yesterday in connection with
the shooting Sunday of Sharon
Phelps, 8, daughter of Ensign Will
liam j. Phelps in Greenbelt. The
child is in critical condition at
Providence Hospital, with wounds
in her arm and side.
Police said the boys admitted
firing in the direction of the girl as
she sat on the front lawn of her
home after police confronted them
with empty .22-caliber shells found
son farm about quarter of mile
from the Phelps home.
! The youths, one of them from the
District, were released TO their
parents under $500 bond each. They
will be tried at the County Service
Building in Hyattsville on Septem-
ber 5, on charges of illegal discharge
of a flrearm and assault by shoot
ing, according to police.