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OPTICIANS MAKE
IT SIX STRAIGHT

'Sluger' Brown hurled one-bi,
ball to give the City Optical team
a l3 to victory over the spoffor1
Mills club in Municipal softbau
league game played last night at
Robert Strange.
Last nights win for the On
ticians is their sixth victory in =,
many starts. %
In an afternoon game the Wi
mington Firemen defeated fo
Wrightsville Coast Guard team, 3
to 3.
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TODAY'S GAMES
National League

St. Louis at New Yo-k-Munge-c
(4-1( VS. Melton (0-D
Cincinnati at Brooklyn-De La
Cruz (2-2) or Heusser (2-2 VS.
Davis (3-2).
Pitts burga al Philadelphia
(nighD-Butcher go VS. Schanz
(3-2)
Chicago at Bosto2-Wyse (3-4)
VS. Barrett $50
American League
New York at Chicago-Dubiel
GID VS. Lopat Q-2
Philadelphia at Det-oit-Chris.
TOPPER Q-3) VS. Newhouse: $50
Washington at CleSeland-Wolf
(3-2) VS. Kleine (1-2)
Boston at st. Louis Woods
Q-2) VS. Hollingsworth (O-O.
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TIGERS DROP BIRD ,
!: TO ATHLETIC 81

DETROIT, May 26. -(P)- The
Philadelphia Athletics continued tc
cool off the once red-hot Detroit
Tigers, winning to today be-
bind the pitching of Bobo NeWsom
and Jittery Joe Berry for their
third straight victory of the series.
1t was Detroit's 18th home defeat
in 10 games and their sixth in
succession.
Newsom BANKED his former
mates for eight innings but was
removed after passing the first
two batters in the ninth.
The Tigers then broke through
for two runs after II scoreless in
nings before Berry stamped out
the rally. Newsom lost to Detroit on
two unearned runs last week.
The AS gathered nine hits Oft
Paul Trout, who suffered his fourth
defeat, but all three runs were I'M
earned. Trout had beaten Philadel-
phia seven straight games.
The AS scored two runs in the
first and one in the third. With
two out Ford Garrison was safe IN
the first on Joe Hoover's error
and stole second. Frank Hayes
doubled Garrison home and scor-
ed on Dick Siebert's single.
George Kell singled and took
second on Roger Cramer's error
in the third and scored on Hayes
single.
Rudy York and Pinky Higgins
drew passes in the ninth, and jim
my outlaw greeted Berry with a
single, scoring York. The bases
were filled on a fielder's choice.
but Berry famed Bob Swift and
got Pinch hitter Paul Richards
on a run scoring fly. Pinch hitter
Don Ross then lined out.
Philadelphia POI 600 00O-3 Q 1
Detroit 1000 900 002-2 8 2
Batteries: Philadelphia: Hayes,
Newsom and Berry; Detroit: Swift
and Trout.
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SERVICE TO BE HELD

Members of the Laymen's Lea.
que, St. James Episcopal Church
will conduct services at the county
stockade tomorrow afternoon at 3
O clock. All members are asked to
meet at the church at 2::30 o'clock
Transportation will be provided.
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ENLIST IN NAVY

Enlisting this week in the U. S.
Navy reserve from nearby areas
were Lafayette Lloyd Sandy and
Harold Maxton Price, of Clinton,
James Hutchinson Smith and
Bernard Clayton Hester, of Baden
boro and Fred Douglas, Negro, of
Wilmington.
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STANDINGS
RESULTS
National League

National League
st. Louis 5, Brooklyn 3.
Pittsburgh 7 Boston 5.
Chicago 9, Philadelphia 1.
Cincinnati 4, New York 3.
American League
Washington 5, Cleveland 8.
Philadelphia 3, Detroit 2.
New York 4, Chicago 0.
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HEAVY B0MBERS
SWEEP FRANCE

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
Allied Expeditionary Force, June
23-lRE u. S. Fortresses and Libe.
rators swept over France twice to-
day, climaxing a 24-hour aeria.
bombardment of enemy commune
cations behind the battle zone by
hitting airfields and rail bridges
after making an earlier assault or
the launching ramps of the Nazis
flying bombs in Pas-de-Calais.
The new campaign to disrupt
the flow of American reinforce
ments and supplies to the front
lines in ormandy was pushed
throughout the day although head
quarters said bad weather during
the morning somewhat restricted
aerial operations.
At least II enemy aircraft were
destroyed while no Allied planes
were missing, headquarters said
preliminary reports showed.
The assaults on Hitler's Europe
from Britain were coupled with
raids against Rumanian oil centers
and Yugoslav rail targets by bomb
ers based in Italy.
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measures give them muster
lng-out pay, and provides,
through the &c. l.. Bill of
Rights" a program. for their
,restor alton to civilian > life
through educational and job
opportunities, disqualification
and loans.
Mindful also of the weight
the soldier vote might throw
into the balance in the forth.
coming election, the Congress
wrote a soldier-ballot law to
expedite voting by members
of the armed service abroad,
resolving a bitter controversy
in favor of giving the indivi-
dual states the maximum of
control over the absentee-vot-
ing.
To keep the national debt
from bullying through its war
weakened ceiling, it enacted a
law bosoting the debt limit to
$260,000, 900, 900. Pres iden t
Roosevelt estimated the ac-
tual debt would reach $685..
600, 900, 900 by July 1, 1915, il
the war continues. q
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Congress Ends Session
For Five-Week Vacation

WASHINGTON, June 23-lR
Congress left Washington to-
day for a five-week vacation
after six-month session de-
voted largely to charting the
course for return to normally
when peace comes.
Rejecting the belief of many
Of its members that the major
battles of the war will have
been won in the notebooks
tant future, Congress rushed
through in the final days of
the session legislation to ex-
pedite the return of industry
to civilian production and put
.one-year limitation, to June
30, 1854, On the extended life
of the wartime price, rent and
wage control act. The business
legislation was designed to
expedite settlement or termi-
mated war contractors and
give industry quick capital for
conversion to civilian produc-
ton.
Fully half of the six-month
meeting was spent blueprint
ing a program Of aid to return
ing servicemen. The main
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Flour Prices Decline
30 Gents Per 100 lbs.

MINNEAPOLIS, June % Up -
The wholesale price of flour sold
for home consumption - flour
known to the trade as family
patent flour-dropped 80 cents a
hundred pounds today to $4.16.
The change is the first in several
months and vNas explained as
rejecting a gradual fall in the
price of wheat.
At the same time standard
flour, which is sold in large
quantities TO bakeries and insti-
tutions, rose five cents to ST.
Millers explained that. standard
flour, which is sold on small
er mar gin of profit, follows the
wheat market much more close
ly than family flour, Wheat rose
l 1-8 cents bushel today.
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ROBOT PLANES
KEEP COMING

r LONDON, June % --lR- Ger
man. rocket bombs exploded in
south England tonight for the ninth
straight night, causing deaths and
damage and underscoring a warn
ing to parliament by Home Secre-
tary Herbert S.. Morrison that lit
may be these attacks have not yet
reached their peak
Morrison today gave parliament
authoritative word that up to now
the robot bombs are doing little
damage of national Importance
and killing fewer people than did
the Nazi's light air raids in Febru.
airy.
An implied threat that the flying
bomb and other secret weapons Of
which German propaganda has
limited, would be used elsewhere
came today from Martin Won Hal
lensleben, Nazi radio commentator.
Il think I am not mistaken in
assuming" he said in a broad.
cast, that certain improved wea.
pons of war will not be used ex.
clusively on the western 'front.'
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Bay Of BENGAL Isle
Blasted By Planes

WITH A CARRIER TASK FORCE
OFF THE ANDAMAN ISLANDS,
June Observation-Disclosures
and bombers Of the fast-expand-
ing Allied eastern fleet caught the
japanese completely by surprise
early today and delivered a smash
ing blow at the enemy's installa-
tons at Port Blair, capital of the
Andaman islands group in the Bay
OF Bengal and an outpost guardian
OF Japanese shipping lanes to Ran
COON in Burma.
Attacking through rainstorm.
carrier-borne fighters first sent
japanese ground gunners scurry-
ing for cover through a hail Of
machine-gun fire and then the
bombers went in and pin-points nd
their selected targets. No air OPP
position was encountered and but
one Allied plane failed to return
to its deck.
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Hallsboro Youth Held
For High Court Trial

Ross Kennedy, % Of Hallsboro,
who is charged with robbing, three
men of 1924 : at the Brunswick
hotel on North Front St. on May
IS. was at liberty yesterday under
81 900 bond pending trial in New
Hanover superior court after prob
able cause was found at a preimi-
nary hearing in recorders court.
Clarence Garland, negro, of 1920
Palmer ST., Portsmouth, who is
charged with statutory rape Of a
child under II, is being held with
out bail after probably cause was
found at preliminary hearing
in recorders court.
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Chinese Civilians
Flee From Henqyanq

CHUNGK1NG, June % III
Thousands of Chinese civilians are
fleeing the rail junction of Heng-
yang, the Chinese announced to-
night, making no attempt to mini
n1ize the city's peril as the Japa-
nese closed in within Is miles of
their goal in a drive which may
become a virtual battle for China.
Fighting ragged furiously in Heng-
shan, Is miles aorth-northeast of
the city, and the invader was pour
ing troops into the fight even
drawing them from the vital Peip-
ing-Hankow rail- area in Honan
province to the north, in the all
out drive to split China in two
end prepare for future American
landings in the embattled country.
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Byrd Refuses To Join
Republican Movement

WASHINGTON, June % -lR-
A group of Republican congress
men started a Byrd-for vice presi-
dent boom today but the Demo.
cratic senator from Virginia de-
c]ared he was not a candidate.
He barely took time out from a
renewal of his governmental eco.
rcmy demands and an excoriatior
Of Senator Guffey D.-Pa.) to tel
reporters:
I'm not candidate on any
ticket whatsoever. -.~
That also had been his response
to southern anti-fourth term moves
to make him head of the Demo.
cratic ticket.
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Russians Launch
Great Offensive
Against Germans
DRIVE OPENS
ON VlTEBSK
Long Expected Assault
Results In G aims
OF 10 Mile:

LONDON, Saturday, June
24.-(P)-The Red Army
crashed into German lines on
two sides of the fortified city
of Vitebsk in White Russia
yesterday, opening the long,
expected Soviet summer Of
fensive, and early today Mos
COW announced that "enor-
nous losses" had been inflic-
ted on the enemy.
The westward onslaught, which
the German radio said actually
opened on Thursday, third anniver-
sary Of the Nazis' declaration of
war against Russia, was on a
mighty scale with artillery and
aircraft. joining in hours of terri
flc Commandment before the in
fantry started forward ''in the
wake of a wall of fire." sup
plement to the Russian communi-
que stated
The Red troops struck northwest
and southeast of Vitebsk, near the
center of the 2,00O-mile long east
ern front, and in the first day
gained nearly 10 miles and liber.
ated more than $50 localities.
Carving swiftly through enemy
defenses, the twin offensive cut
the last railway line connecting
German troops at Vitebsk with the
rear and battered German forth
fled positions into tangle of deb
ris.
Hundreds of Russian guns of all
calibre and mortars kept UP a
continuous fire against the Nazis
and the supplement said that en-
envy firing positions not wrecked
by this steady barrage were soon
wiped out as the infantry broke
through the German lines.
1.-The enemy is suffering enor-
nous losses. German trenches and
battlefields are Uttered with corp
ses, smashed equipment and mate
rial. Our troops captured booty and
prisoners, the supplement broad
cast early today said.
The Russians new drive, along
the Smolensk-Orsha road which
Napoleon traversed more than 100
years ago, did not diminish the
fierce fighting on the Finnish
fronts and the supplement said
that Red troops continued to swarm
across the Svir river between
Lakes Ladoga and Omega as well
as to advance north of Viipuri at
the top of the Karelian isthmus,
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JapCarriier
Likely Sunk
By US. Sub
2S,ooo-T0N SHIP HIT
Crushing Naval Losses
In Philippines Sea
Mont Higher

U. S. PACIFIC FLEET
HEADQUARTERS, Pearl
HARBOR, June 23.-(P)-
Japan's naval defeat in the
Philippines sea vaulted tx
crushing proportions today
when it was disclosed official
ly that one of her biggest and
newest aircraft carriers prob
ably was sent to the bottom
by a submarine.
cThe carrier was of the Shokaku
class, probably $4,000 ton, 815-
foot long warship).
The announcement of Adm. Ches.
ter W. Nimitz, made in commune
que, also listed the definite sink
ing of destroyer. That made the
score of the June 1919 action:
Definitely sunk - a Hayataka-
class carrier, destroyer and three
tankers. 90.
Probably sunk - Shokaku class
carrier. u
Damaged-a Hayataka-class car.
rier" left burning furiously";; ui-
kaku-clase carrier, hit with three
1,000-pound bombs; light carrier
hit by two aerial bombs; Kongo.
class battleship; a cruiser two de.
streyers and two tankers. 90.
In addition, the Japanese lost
more than $50 carrier planes
Two U. S. carriers and a battle.
ship Sustained superficial damage
and lost 70 planes.
The Shokaku class carrier was
hit by three torpedoes Sunday,
the first day of victory scored
largely by aircraft of Task Force
%, commanded bySty.ice Adm.
Marc A. Mischer.
Tile communique did not mention
the fighting on Saipan island in
the southern Marianas, the iava.
sion of whichby American assault
forces goaded a major part of the
Japanese fleet into action. When
the fleet ran into the American
navy's air arm in an attempt to
assist some 10000 defenders of Sal
pan, it turned back.
American ground forces aided by
this stunning victory, were last re-
ported boring northward in steady
gains. Enemy forces wera under
constant pressure from the air,
land artillery and big naval guns.
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Votes
For Dewey:
Disputed

CHICAGO, June % -tRE Sup.
porters Of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
for the Republican presidential
nomination claimed Substantial
additions to their cause today, but
heard a manager for Gov. Johr
w. Bricker call their draft move
Coke and predict. Bricker's
nomination in the third or fourth
ballot. ''.'.'
Backers of 1t. Comdr. Harold
E. Stassen also asserted Stasser
was in the race to the finish.
AS platform-rnakers for the con
vention opening Monday received
variety of proposed foreign and
domestic planks, all factions seem.
ed to agree that key states such
as Pennsylvania, California, and
Illinois may. hold the answer to
the party's choice. These delega-
tions-controlling 179 of the con
vention's 1,057 votes-win caucus
Sunday and Monday.
j. Russell Sprague, New York
national committeeman and E
"draft-Dewey" leader, said there
has been very substantial addi
tons to the list of leaders from
q states he announced yesterday
as having voluateeder to help
nominate the New Yorker. He did
not name the new states the re.
ported aid came frome.
Rep. Clarence j. Brown of Ohio
floor manager for Bricker, arrived
and holly disputed the claims O.
the Dewey forces that the New
Yorker will be nominated on thu
first or. second ballot.
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CA broadcast by CHS said the
Nazis had counterattacked strongly
and recaptured the town of Chiusi
nine miles southwest of Lake Trasi-
memo and Is miles southwest OF
Perugia.)
Heavy rains early in the week
gave the Germans much-needed
breathing spell in which to reorga-
nize and strengthen their defenses
at the center of the line, and it
appeared they would not be thrown
into retreat again until the Eighth
army could gather itself and at
tack in force. e-....--
Today's Allied communique said
the Eighth was meeting strong
resistance both north and north
west of Perugia and at the south
west corner of Lake Trasimeno,
where several enemy counterat-
tacks had been repulsed.
On the two wings the Allied ad-
vance continued, though the Amer
leans pushing up the west Italian
coast and the French on their i'm
mediate inland flank encountered
increasingly stiff resistance. Only
in the Adriatic sector was the
Nazis flight unchecked. There
eighth army trops crossed the
Chienti river and reached the vici1-
ity of Morrovalle and Montecosaro,
less than Is miles from the big
port of Ancona.
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WASHINGTON, June 23.-H)
President Roosevelt declar-
ed today that more of France
must be liberated from the NA
zis before action is taken 70
set up civil government admin
istration m that country.
He made the remark 70
news conference as word came
from Supreme Headquarters =.
the Allied Expeditionary Force
that French officers Will w
liaison work in France, uhoe.
control of SHAEF. on q day W
day basis.
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High School To Open
Summer School Glasses

The second semester of summer
school work at New Hanover nigh
school will begn Monday, it was
announced yesterday.
No students will be accepted Tor
second semester work after that
date. Students are asked to report
to the office at 8:15 am. Monday
fol- assignment to classes. Class
room studies are scheduled to be-
sin at $3.50 am.
The following subjects will be
offered: eight through Twelfth
grade English, one and two
algebra, plane geometry, United
States history, and American
government.
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900 Guns Pound
Cherbourg Fortress

LONDON, Saturday, June "a. -
P)-The German radio said early
today that the Cherbourg fortress
had been pounded for the last "a
hours by a thousand Allied guns
of all calibres in the most power
full artillery barrage on the inva-
sion front so far.
The broadcast by Transocean,
Nazi news agency, said the aerial
bombing had been going on al
most without interruption.
Taking into consideration this
enormous concentration of mate
rial, the resistance of the German
defenders who are numerically
far inferior is extraordinary" the
broadcast said.
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18th AKA Ship In Fl Days
Observation-Disclosures

The fourth AKA ship to be
launched within 81 days at the
North Carolina Shipbuilding
company, the U. S. S Tolland,
will slide down the ways Mon
day at $3.50 pm. under the
sponsorship of Miss Beverly
PEBBLES, niece of H. X. PEBBLES,
j purchasing agent of the COM
pany.
Her attendants will be Miss
Muriel TSeadersen of Hamp-
ton, Va, and Miss Anne Sum-
mers of Hampden-Sydney. Va.
The U. S. S. Telland, 169th
vessel to be launched here, is
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FIGHTS NAILS
French Partisans Battle
Large German Forces
All Over France

SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TIERS ALLIED EXPEDI-
TIONARY FORCE, June %.
German armor-
ed, artillery and air forces
have been diverted from the
invasion front and are fight
ing the French underground
in battles raging over a large
part of the countryside, a
special communique said to-
day.
Systematic .disorganization Of
enemy transport has contributed
directly to the success of Allied
operations in Normandy" said the
second special war bulletin Of Su-
preme Headquarters. It pictured
resistance reaching fullbattle pitch
as Partisans harassed and imped-
ed the Nazis.
~ CA Brazzaville radio broadcast
recorded at New York by NBC
said in southern France partisans
had fought a German army of TO-
600, killing 1900. Other patriots
were reported to have disprupted
cable lines at Rouen, Cannes and
three other cities. The broadcast
said the Germans are adopting the
suberfuge of peasant garb.)
In some sectors where the Ger
mans attacked with heavy ,artil-
lery, air and armored forces, the
n1aquiss have been forced to give
ground, but not without infiicting
losses on the enemy, the communal
que said. In other areas, despite
considerable Nazi forces sent
against them, the partisans have
held stubbornly to their positions.
In addition" the communique
said numerous engagements ara
reported from the Pyrenees, the
Vosges, Marine, Ardennes, Aisne
and Cruise. Elements of several
German divisions and large num-
her of local defense troops are esti-
mated to have been contained in
side France by the action of the
resistance forces.
Many cuts on the railways, and
numerous obstacles on roads have
effectively hindered the passage of
German reinforcements to. the
beachhead. In this way two armor-
ed divisions have been seriously
delayed in southwest France. In
the La Rochelle, La Reole-Per-
iguez and Bayonne Anglouleme
railway lines have been sabotaged.
Railway cuts also were report.
ed throughout the Phone valley and
in Brittany, the Loirett, Aisae and
the area north of Paris"
The French press service here
quoted authoritative Frenc
sources as stating that Gestapo
Chief Gissler, in command of the
southern French zone, had been
executed by French patriots at Mu-
rat.
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named for county in Connec.
ticut.
Dimensions of the AKA's are
similar to the C-2's but certain
changes are being made to
meet new Navy requirements.
and the tonnage is greater.
At the launching Of the first
AKA ship here on D-Day, Rear
Adm. Jules James of Charles
ton, cOmmandant of the Sixth
Naval district, declared that
the AKAs were needed by the
navy for their ability to "at.
tack and attack again" and for
cargo capacity and seavsorth-
mess.
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Fuel Renewal Blanks
Slow To Be Returned

Attacking the neglect of some
$50 household using enst rfa l
heaters who have failed to return
renewal fuel blanks sent them, Of
ficials of the fuel division of the
War Price and Rationing board
yesterday said that such neglect
would cause delay in issuing fuel
coupons to them and delay the
mailing of similar applications to
some 5000 space heater fuel con-
sumers.
In order to fo-estall such delay
and a later more serious one, the
renewal blanks must be returned
promptly, it was stated. ~
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Summer Drowns
At Moore's Inlet

H. N. Lowder, middle-aged Will
mington man, was drowned yester-
day afternoon while in swimming
at Moore'e Inlet on the northern
extension of Wrightsville Beach.
He was rescued by Mrs. Ruby
Martin Of Wilmington, Route /, and
Fl. Batson of 6O7 South, Front
street, who reported that Lowder
was not over his head, but appar-
antly became caught in the strong
undertow and began calling for
help. A futile two-hour attempt was
made to revive him.
Lowder formerly lived in Abe
marie.
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Storm Kills Two Score
In Penn, West Virginia

PITTSBURGH, June 2 3. -(P)-
AT least 80 persons were reported
killed and hundreds injured to-
night when a violent wind of tor
nadic force twisted through south-
western Pennsylvania and north
ern West Virginia.
The death toll was rising as scat
tered reports came IN from areas
that were at first isolated as the
storm cut commune cation lines.
Sixteen were reported dead in
Pennsylvania, % in West Virginia.