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ARMY ESTABLISHES
HELICOPTER SCHOOL

FREEMAN FIELD, Ind, Sept. 6
P)-The Army Air Forces disclos-
ed today the establishment of the
nations first military helicopter
training school at this field in
southwestern Indiana,
Col. E. T. Rundquist, command
ing officer of the field, which also
is used as an advanced tween.
CINE pilot training school, said per-
sonnet Of the new helicopter sec.
ton were officer-instructo-s rated
as pilots, and field mechanics, VINO
are enlisted men.
The training in the use of hell
copters is given at the field and
at the Sikorsky aviation pant,
BRIDGEPORT. Conn,
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More Civilian Goods
Will Be Manufactured

WASHINGTON, Sept. e-R =
American industry can turn Out
simultaneously the war mate-ials
needed to defeat Japan and more
consumer goods than were pro
duced in 1889, the preWar peak
War Production Board Chairman
; j. A.. Krug said today. t
Krug predicted that soon after
Germany's defeat every civilian
item that is really needed" will
be appearing again on the shelves
of stores.
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MARCUS ISLE; ATTACKED

u. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR,
Sept. 6-(P)-American warplanes
slashed anew into the island step
ping stones south of Japan and
made their first attack since May
10 on Marcus Island, 1000 miles
southeast of Tokyo, in widespread
actions announced today.
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house, Senate Conferees
Scrap Retaining Plans

~,
HaannooHlNGTON, Sept. 6.-R)-The
m Tlse and Senate conferees on de-
ir,o9,iiilzatlon and reconyersion leg
Of tSo + Today scrapped a provision
era Ile senate bill setting up a gen.
ing program of postwar refrain
Nor,a ana unemployment of war
nit +toweVer' the conference COM
is]st te agreed to put into the leg
crest ol a restraining program.
vefere eu by executive order, for
10 n ans and disabled civilians and
cord pIoVlde an administrator to
STATE i'ia'e all such federal and
'e restraining plans.
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England Will Relax
Rigid Blackout Rules

Daytime firewatching will end
and night fire guard duties
will cease in all Britain ex-
cept London and the south
ern coastal areas, and COM
pu1sory drills for Britain's
100000 anti invasion home
guards will end next Monday.
The ministry of home Sc
curity published these procla-
nations as the war turned
full cycle. Now Germany was
being invaded, and Hitler was
training sharpshooters for
guerrilla war on German soil.
In the stores sales of black
out Grapes already had fallen
off sharply and sales Of flags
and bunting for Victory Day
doomed.
lHontinuad m PzUo Five. Col
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Laggin2 6upplies Slow Down Allies
AS P1tle For Germany Gets Started;
Russians Smash Way Into Yugoslavia
Meuse Crossed;
Move On Liege
Infantry And Armor Push Relentlessly On
Reich; Nazis' Belgian Defenses Preached

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED ExPEDI-
TIONARY FORCE, Thursday, Sept. 7.-(AP)The swift,
Germany-bound drive of the U. S. Third has been
stalled for almost week by tagging supplies, but in the
north American First army tanks in formations were
on the eastward toward Lege after eapg across the
Meuse river and preaching the Nazs Belgian defenses
before the Reich field dispatches disclosed today.
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STOCKHOLM, Sept. 6.-R)-An
estimated 1000 persons ''disap-
pear daily in Germany as the Ma
ii wave of terror and violence
grows, it was reported tonight by
a neutral informant just returned
from the Reich.
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Battle In Italy
Nearing Climax
Eighth Army Troops Plunge Within Five
Miles Of Rimini On Adriatic Coast

ROME Sept. 6.-(AP)-The decisive battle for north
m Italy on the broad stretches of the Pc river valley
ed near tonight after Eighth army troops plunged with
in five miles of Rini the Adratic coast and Americans
on the opposite end of the front seized Lucca provincial
capital 10 miles northeast of Pisa
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GERMANS DISAPPEAR

Continued on Page Five; Col.
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WILMINGTON and VICINITY-Partly
cloudy and cooler.
Temperatures yesterday:
High "a, low rs.
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The Literary Guidepost

the enlightened course the union
follows in the rt,:stry Itself. The
pubic has sinai. idea of this 1T
does rot realize that the make up
Of the cloak and suit industry il
such that great departments Of e.
scar + and Development like thos"
CT General Motors and the Duponls
cannot exist, and that the ILGWU.
not the manufacture is still lead
ing in development within the in
dustry. That is, development on the
owners side as well as the work.
ers'.
The educational activities of the
MGWU have had enormous pub.
icity, but Mr.. Stolberg shows that
(for him, at least) they have not
been very successful. Even IN e
enormous hit made by Pins and
Needles" which eomewhat uneasi-
~ rests among the educational
achievements, almost wrecked the
recreational plans of the union.
Consistently, the ILGWU has op-
posed labor racketeers, without do
ing too much in that department.
What it has unQusstionably accom-
clished is to lift an industry which
once was symbol for industrial
oppression onto q high plane, con-
sidering the difficulties among
which it operates, and this story
Is explicit in 'Tailor's Progress.
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moments. It sold the German people hoped
up, sadistic, pseudo-my tholgical bill of goods
But this example seems hardly worthy OF
race Gas they prefer to be known which
has produced a good share Of the worlds
influential philosophers and perceptive analy-
SITS of human behavior It must seem awfully
transparent to any German who still practices
the forbidden pleasure Of thinking for himself
The fact that we hate what we fear was
one of mans earlier psychological discoveries.
And surely the thinking German can see in
these hysterical exhortations to hatred that
fear of another great power has gripped the
official Nazi heart.
Nazi propaganda tells the people that we
treat German prisoners as .supermen" and
guests" feeding them good food and ice
cream cones. To hungry Berliner in the
soup line, that may seem more like prosperous
strength than softness. Nazi propaganda says
that we are money, sex, skyscraper- and
Hollywood mad. That, too, must be little
hard to swallow in the same edition that car.
ries news from France and Italy.
All this seems to suggest a determination
to steel the Germans against the temptation
to wave us into Germany ahead Of the Rus
slams, as some suggest might happen And
that would seem to fit in perfectly with an
Allied strategy that calls for unconditional sur.
render
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sion - maybe not. In the meantime he and
his committee, and particularly his publicity
agents, are placing stumbling blocks in the
way of General Eisenhower's forces in Nor
mandy by Withholding liaison service and fail
ing to cooperate with the Allied troops whose
presence in battle against the Germans is
the best proof that the United Nations have
only the good of France at heart. In effect
if not in avowed purpose, de Gaulle is helping
Hitler, because he is not allowed to have his
own way.
The pity Of this is that as skilled military
man he could have had, prominent part
in the reconquest of his native land and won
glory enough for any man if he had chosen
to apply his talent to the fighting of battles
instead of setting himself up as a political pom
tiff
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Superf0rt Proves Worth

Two significant facts stand out in the Welter
,f words written about the Super fortress raid
on japanese industrial areas. One is that the
great warplanes of which little has been said
in advance of their battle baptism are by
far the most deadly air weapon with the great
est cruising power in existence. The nearest
allied base in the China India Burma area is
all of sixteen hundred miles from the objec-
tives in this their first major fighting flight
This meant that they must fly not less than
5000 miles on their round trip. Roy Porter,
whose voice has been silent long time on
the air, but who was aboard one Of the planes,
says that the accuracy of fire was little short
of miraculous. Subsequent reports estimate at
least one-fifth of Japan's steel production was
wiped out
The other fact-and this means much to
the families of the crews-is the durability
of the super-fortress. Though the japanese
opened heavy antiaircraft fire on the attack
ers and sent up swarms Of fighter planes to
intercept them, though they were hit time and
again, the engines continued to function No
plane was downed by enemy fire. The two
that did not return were victims Of accidents.
1t may be wondered why this raid was not
upon Tokyo Possibly the answer is that the
object now is to disrupt Japan's industrial
production. If this is done, the Allies will
give hard-pressed China assistance every bit
as effective as if large reinforcements and a
great volume Of equipment could be thrown
into the Peiping Hankow Canton war zone
where the enemy is threatening to cut of
eastern China. The japanese there would
soon become im2otent without steady flow
of supplies This would be more harmful ir
the long run than a raid, or repeated raids
on the Japanese capital for the present al
least.
The Super-fortress has proved its worth. We
may expect to hear that it is playing a con.
stantly increasing and efficient part in the
Pacific war-which is not likely to comfort
TOTO whose dreams are becoming more and
more troubled with each advance toward his
timer bastions.
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DeGaulle Aiding Hitler

General Charles de Gaulle has placed him.
self in the class Of mortals who must rule
or ruin. This has been his attitude from the
start He seems to think that destiny has
chosen him to lead France back to security
and if the nations which are actually doing
the job of liberating France refuse to grant
him full powers he'll do what he can to
thwart them. Contemporary history reveals no
more striking example Of the Big Me and
little Thou.
The danger Of allowing him to head any
temporary government in any part of France
from which the Germans are driven il that
with the increasing power he would thus gain
he would set up dictatorship in France
This danger is recognized, not only in Allied
Quarters but among Frenchmen who cling tt
the principles of democracy which existed Ii
France, despite the communists and fascists
before this war. De Gaulle il a hero to man,
In France misled by his publicity department
but sober, hardheaded thinkers among hi
fellow countrymen are not blind to his ambi
tons.
It il not easy to foresee the outcom
Of his forthcoming visit to Washington, Mayb
President Roosevelt can give him new Vi
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BY JOHN SELBY

'Tailor's Progress by Benta-
min Stolberg Doubleday, Doran;
$2.75).
Probably the International La
dies Garment Workers Union is the
most picturesque and the most pc.
culiar of all such organizations in
this country. One gathers + n m
Benjamin Stolberg's history Of the
union, 'Tailor's Progress, that
one important treason this is so
must be the fact that its member
ship is largely feminine.
His book shows many things very
clearly, but particularly two things.
One is the extraordinary influence
the inescapeable female urge to-
ward culture has had, and the
other is the continuing battle in
side the union (and other unions
as welD between the extreme left
and the middle grounders - there
are very few out and out conse,>
vatives in the organization de.
sc1ibed.
I doubt that the general public
will be much exc TED over the fan.
tastically involved history OF 4 e
lLGWU in the labor movement, al
though this is a Fart Of S. olbers' s
o'tk, unavoidatly., More imp or-
taiat fcr labor, 1. srpears to me, IS
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The Nazi Way

An American correspondent repatriated
from German prison camp reports that
Nazi propaganda for domestic consumption is
now aimed at building up fierce, consurn-
ing hatred Of Americans. He offers examples,
among them the following, from Berlin new.
paper, by Nazi labor boss Robert Ley:
Hate! Hate ! Hate! Every German must
hate the Sansters, the murderers, the ASA.
sins who come from the center Of world
Jewry and capitalism the United States Of
America
r. Nazi propaganda has had its effective
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With Ernie Pyle
the beachhead seem like nothing
at all, really nothing at all.

Tie UedCuilcdu SEEM Ike 11OEn1QS
at all, really nothing at all.
A few hundred yards back on
the beach is a high bluff. Up there
We had a tent hospital, and a
barbed wire enclosure for pris-
oners Of war. From up there you
could see far up and down the
beach, in spectacular crow's-nest
view, and far out to sea.
And standing out there on the
water beyond all this wreckage
wac the greatest armada man has
ever seen. You simply could not
believe the gigantic collection of
ships that lay out there waiting
to unload.
Looking from the bluff, it lay
thick and clear to the far horizon
Of the sea and on beyond, and 1t
spread out to the sides and was
miles wide. It's utter enormity
would move the hardest man.
AS stood up there I noticed a
group of freshly. taken German
prisoners standing nearby. They
had not yet been put in the prison
cage. They were just standing
there, a couple of doughboys lei
surely guarding them with Tommy
guns.
The prisoners too were looking
out to seattle same bit of sea
that for months and years had been
SO safely empty before their gaze.
Now they stood staring almost as
if in a trance.
They didn't say a word to each
other. They didn't need to The
expression on their faces was some.
thing forever unforgettable. In il
was the final Mortified acceptance
Of their doom.
If only all Germany could have
had the rich experience of standing
on the bluff and looking out across
the water and seeing what their
compatriotS saw.
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rs Years Ago
Today
(Trom the files
Of the Star-News)
JUNE II, 1919

Miss Ade'yn Barbee of Raleigh,
is visiting in the city, the guest
of Miss Marguerite Bellamy, after
having been the honor guest Of
Miss Bellamy on house part at
Wrightsville Beach. T h aviators
who come from Pope Field, Fay
etteville. were week end guests
on the party which included in adj
dition to the honoree and hostess
Miss Jennie Gilchrist, Miss Emma
Williamson and Miss Ruth Stiles,
Dorsey Lynch, Lawrence O'Neil,
Ensign Donald Sturneir of Chicago,
Ensign Bell of the Seminole, USCG
cutter, Charles E. Menefee n d
Charles Loder. The party was
chaperoned by Mrs j. D. Bellamy.
Showing at the Victoria theater
(now the Carolina) this week is
Mary Pickford in Daddy Long.
Legs.
Arriving empty from Norfolk, the
American steamer Indian Chief,
put into port this morning to take
on a cargo of cotton for a foreign
destination. She is locked at the
Champion Compress, where she
will load.
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ice, our aspirations to be ourselves
real helpers in this war, and our
constant quest for a clearer con-
sciousness of Thee. Day and night
we pray, with inarticulate lips, for
succor from on high. God save our
song. God save our Cause. God
save our souls in new fitness for
W h lies ahead. Thou art AL
Thou art all wise; Thou
hast a fathers feeling toward Thy
children. Lord, increase our faith,
and our dependence upon Thee.
Amen,-W. T. E..
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NORMANDY BEACHHEAD,


Day Plus Two-(by Wireless, De-
layed)-I took a walk along t h e
historic coast Of Normandy in the
country Of France.
1t was a lovely day for strolling
along the seashore. Men wer
sleeping on the sand. some Of them
sleeping forever. Men were floating
in the water, but they didn't know
they were in the water, for they
were dead.
The water was full Of squishy
little jellyfish about the size of
your hand. Millions of them. In
the center each of them had a
green design exactly like four
leaf clover. The good luck en-
hleln. Sure. Hell yes.
I walked for mile and half
along the waters edge of our
many miled invasion beach. You
wanted to walk slowly, for the de
tail on that beach was infinite.
The wreckage was vast and start
ling. The awful waste and destruc-
ton of war, even aside from the
LOGS Of human life, has always been
one of its outstanding features to
those who are in it. Anything and
everything is dependable. And we
cid expend on our beachhead in
Normandy during those first few
hours. .--.
For a mile out from the beach
there were scores of tanks and
trucks and boats that you could no
longer see, for they were at the
bottom of the water-swamped by
overlooking, or hit by shells. or
sunk by mines. Most of their crews
were lost.
You could see trucks tipped half
over and swamped. You could see
partly sunken barges, and the an
gled up corners of jeeps, and
$ all landing craft half SUBJ
merged. And at low tide you could
still see those vicious six-pronged
iron snares that helped snag and
wreck them.
On the beach itself, high and
dry, were all kinds of wrecked We.
hicles. There were tanks that had
only just made the beach before
being knocked out. r here were
|jeeps that had burned to a dull
gray. There were big derricks on
caterpillar treads that didn't quite
make it. There were half tracks
carrying office equipment that had
been made into a shambles by a
single shell hit, their interiors still
holding their useless equipage Of
smashed typewriters, telephones.
office files.
There were Let's turned coin
pletely upside down, and lying on
their backs, and how they got that
way I don't know. There were
boats stacked on top Of each other,
their sides caved in, their suc-
pension doors knocked off.
In tn1S SnOre'1ne museum OF car
mage there were abandoned rolls
OF barbed wire and smashed bull
dozers and big stacks of thrown
away lifebelts and piles of shells
still waiting to be moved.
In the water floated empty life
raftr and soldiers packs and ra-
ton boxes, and mysterious oranges.
On the beach lay snarled rolls
ct telephone wire and big rolls
Ct steel mating and stacks of brok-
en-, rusting rifles.
On the beach lay, expended. suf-
ficient men and mechanism for a
small war. They were gone forever
now. And yet we could afford it.
We could afford 1t because we
were on, we had our toehold. and
behind us there were such enor.
nous replacements for this wreck
age on the beach that you could
hardly conceive Of their sum total.
Men and equipment were flowing
from England in such a eieantic
stream that It made the waste on
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Daily Prayer
FOR INCREASE OF FAITH

Our numb hearts are full of I'M
spoken prayers which are yet heard
OF Thee, o understanding Father.
We yearn, we grope, we reach to-
ward Thee, sure only that Thou
art a good God, eager to do for
us more than we can ask or think.
So we leave with Thee our deepest
desires for our dear ones in cerv-
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ALLDRAFTa
PLACED

Officials of City q
/ revealed yesterd|
trants forwarded I'd
tons for pre-indut
ton and found qua
tary service will be
being acceptable 70
tary duty or limited
ice rather than acc
er the Army, Navy
From July /, eff
the ruling, one call
be received by the
Army and Navy, WI
men report to the
lions, they will 'he1
branch of service WI
are to serve.
The board also rel
men who previous1
found accepted for |
placed in this comb
son for formation q
because they have
anced in relation |
quirements of the
vices.
It is anticipated 1
will not have a call
indicted before the
goes into effect. W
fected are those who
Bragg for examinatl'
June Z. and Negro
ported May 5.
When a male pc
the ages of IL and
for induction he will
to indicate at the
ton the service to
ters assignment. If
Is found qualified a
he will be as
preferred service.
The local board
point that it has no
10 assure a man tn
INTO a specified bral
as assignment Of in
of armed
1el at the induction
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SOCIALISTIC PARTY WINS

REGINA. Sask., June 16--R-
Scoring an overwhelming victory
in yesterdays Saskatchewan pro-
vincial election, the Cooperative
Commonwealth Federation, Cana
da's socialistic party, prepared
today to establish the first CCF
in the dominion.
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WAGES MGR

WASHINGTON, Jul
The War Labor Boa
thorized wage increa|
Of standard levels fol
ton employees of the
bon COMPANY st ~
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lnterpr|
They
BY KIRKE l..
Associated Press

Initial British re
Nazi cross-channel
with robot flying b
that this particular
cret weapon is ar
much more effect O,
the war in Europe
gun firing on Paris
one had on that 81
was none at all.
That was a hit
Projectiles hurtled
through the stratos,
points in Paris a
miles apart. The
tor was too great
effective bombardm|
detectives. The d
the Allied air bate F
many in Gripping el
dustries or commur
in prolonged round
mass attacks follow
light precision mopr
ed wholly on that Cd
Inc robot bombs
ain so far as yet
even less controlla
is too early yet to
as a NaZi war nov
them as just anothd
Of German war o
nique. 1t hardly S
that Berlin placed
in their ability to
morale on the homo
put into their man
would have been mel
them out in effel
Presumably that wi
scores or hundreds \
to be launched in a
bardment, but thou
Of thousands of the
ain is a small pla|
but a big target to
In any event, thu
for concluding that
lected invasion ared
where American for|
flank are close to
cutoff line across
peninsula tip to II
garrison, caught thu
surprise. The set-up|
flying bombs was Il
presumably on the
natural bridgehead
tai invasion. It coul
ed, or at least 1t V
against the embar
in England from '
cent on Normandy
nor. upon the huge
val craft, landing b
and supply ships W
channel crossing ir
the Seine little hi
foe.
| Resort to the robe
firms the Allied d
weeks ago that the
up some sort Of sp
sion equipment. Flo
| Allied bombers var
| remote operations
range at the enc
coast installations
| Now that the rob
been sprung it coul'
although that find
ton otherwise as y
to check the inv
beaches or behind
the Germans to pl
broad retreat in FIR
lines beyond reach
guns and material
conserve manpowel
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Fair Enough

Ediotr's Note.-The Sta, and the New, aeesp. M
responsibility for the personal viaws Of Mr.. Pegsr
and often disagree with them much a. many 81
his readers His articles serve the good purpose Of
making people think
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TOP O, THE MORNING

TOP o. THE MORNING
You lent hand to fallen one,
A lift in kindness given;
It saved a soul when help was none,
none
And won a heart for heaven.
And SO for the help you proffered there
You'll reap a joy sometime-somewhere.
Daniel Garrett Bickers.
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Our Chief Aim

To aid in every way the prosecution q
the war to complete Victory.