davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1944-03-23
Mexico Pushes Mininu

Mexicos coal deposits have been
incorporated into the national min
ing reserves. the aim being to in
crease production, regulate output
and distribution, discover sources
and avoid monopolies.
Evening star., 1944-03-23
|'25-Lb. Boby' Weighed
Only IS, Recheck Shows

RALEIGH, N. c., Mar. 23-A baby
girl born to Mr.. and Mrs Anon
Harris, colored, which was reported
to have weighed 25 pounds, actually
weighed only Is pounds.
The attending physician said a
check of the scales showed a 10
pound error. The child died IL
hours after birth.
Evening star., 1944-03-23
Stark Honors Commander
OF Clark S Submarine
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Mar. 23.-TThe British
submarine commander-Lt. Norman
Limbury Auchenleck Jewell-who
took 1t. Gen. Mark w. Clark to
North Africa on a secret mission be-
fore the United States Army landed
Evening star., 1944-03-23
in 1912, was decorated yesterday by
Admiral Harold r. Stark.

The Legion of Merit was awarded
him "for exceptionally meritorious
conduct in the performance Of out
standing services" to the United
States during the landing on Sicily.
Details of this were not announced.
The 31-year-old officer won the
Order Of the British Empire for the
clandestine removal Of Gen. Henri
Giraud from France to North Africa.
Evening star., 1944-03-23
Pototo PeeIinos Suved

Nazis in the Netherlands have
decreed that throwing potato peel
ings away is a crime punishable
by a fine Of $40 or six months in
Jail.
Evening star., 1944-03-23

Lead the runs that1l Hck ~
Jaus. Save every drop Of wAste
kitchen fats. Take them to your
meat dealer.
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BORDER MARKETS
OPEN TOMORROW

FLORENCE, S. c., Aug. 6.-tR
After weeks delay, ordered in
an attempt to boost price ceilings
border belt tobacco markets of
North and South Carolina begin
the auction season Tuesday amid
predictions of good market.
The markets were originally
scheduled to open Aug. l. Grow
ers, led by their state governors,
sought to have the OPA revise the
price ceiling two cents upward
from AZ IL cents pound. The
OPA refused, contending it would
cause an increase in the retail
price of cigarettes.
The Department of agriculture
has estimated the border belt
production this year at about 174,-
255,00O pounds. This is exceeded
only by the record 231, 1910, 900
pounds produced in the banner
year of 1889.
The war food administration
here said this years crop is far
superior to last years in quality
and quantity. Late rains and fav-
orable weather turned crop
which at one time threatened to
be near failure into one almost
equalling the choice crop of 1912.
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DATA ON BLACK
WIDOW RELEASED

HAWTHORNE, Calf, Aug. g.
R-Northrop Aircraft, Inc. an
nounced today that the war depart
ment had approved the release of
heretofore carefully guarded de-
tails of the Psi Black Widow nigh,
fighter, termed the worlds largest
and most powerful pursuit plane.
The company gave this picture:
Black Widow crews and ammuni-
ton boxes are protected from 3
and so caliber enemy machine
gun fire by specially designed ar
NOR plates, bullet resistant glass
and deflector plates.
incorporated into the ship in the
first full-span landing flap, for
low landing speed, combined with
a new-type Aileron which retracts
into the upper section of the wing,
giving the Black Widow unusual
maneuverability.
Oxygen apparatus for all mem.
bers of the crew is provided for
high altitude work.
OF the ships speed. the war de.
partment will say only that n is
swift as fast pursuit. and cap
able of shooting down anything
that flies"
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RUSSIANS CAPTURE
POLISH OIL. CITY


sector and captured 80 localities
beyond the river on a 12-mile front.
Ameng these were Rozaiciai, eight
miles west of the Dubissa and So
miles northeast of the East Prus-
sian rail city of Tilsit.
Drive Toward TiIsit
This Russian force was striking
above the Niemen river in an ap-
parent drive toward Tilsit and the
Baltic seaport of Memel in anoth-
err effort to split up German army
groupings along the sea.
South of the Niemen river the
Russians were drawn up from five
to Is miles from the east Prus-
sian border, and admittedly were
meeting terrific resistance from
fresh German troops rushed to the
border zone. Thousands of Russian
planes still were hammering tar
gets inside East Prussia. and So
Wet artillery was hurting shells
into that German province. Berlin
itself acknowledged pressure areas
at several points along 70 mile
front from Augustow, below the in
vaded Suwalki triangle part of East
Prussia, to the Niemen river.
Moscow dispatches said Red air.
men under Cherniakhovsky's aerial
chieftain, 33-year-old Col. Gen.
Timofey Kruikin, had flown $500
sorties against East Prussian tar
gets in the past three days.
Russian troops erected signpost
near the positions showing the
dwindling mileage to the border
and wrote underneath onward,
comrades" Cherniakhovsky in his
order to his artillery generals said:
Fire on the enemy's den."
But these same Russian front
dispatches admitted the Germans
were fighting more savagely now
that their homeland was threaten
ed.
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EBERT BAREFOOT

HALLSBORO, Aug. e.-Funeral
services for Ebert Barefoot, 20.
who was drowned in a river near
Philadelphia last Tuesday, will be
conducted Tuesday afternoon at the
Mckenzie funeral chapel in White
VILE with the Revs. r. J. Ras-
berry and W. M. Traywick offici-
ating.
Burial will be made in the Flvnn
cemetery.
Mr.. Barefoot was the son of Mr.
and Mrs. T. N. Barefoot, of Halls
boro. In addition to his parents
he is survived by four brothers
woodrow Barefoot of Supply: SGT.
James H. Barefoot and four sis
tiers, Mrs. Harley B. RADON. of
Shallotte; Miss Freddie Barefoot
OF Wilmington, Mrs. Irwin Stevens
OF Whiteville, and Miss Sally Louise
Barefoot of Hallsboro.
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PHILADELPHIA CARS
GUARDED BY ARMY
Continued from Page One)

deferments for all draft-age strik-
-ers. and the Smith -Connally act
was invoked against the four lead
ers
Several thousand soldiers from
camps in Pennsylvania, New Jer-
sew and Maryland, rushed to the
CITY late yesterday, were on duty
with full battle equipment on ev-
or trolley. bus and train and ev-
cry station.
The army reported rs of Al lines
operating this afternoon, 43 OF 81
trolley lines, and subway and ele-
waited trains running on a limited
basis
At $50 p. m. (EWT) the army
announced II more bus lines and
10 more trolley lines were operat-
ing and said Market street .'El"
operations were good" and the
Broad street subway operations
"fair.'
No exact figures on the number
of vehicles operating on any of the
lines were availa ble,- but the army
said overall service was about 50
per cent of normal
Meanwhile soldiers were seen
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SGT. James B. Melton
Is Killed In Action

Mr.. and Mrs. James B. Me~
of Wrightsville Beach, received a
message from the War department
Yesterday reporting the death in
action of their son, James B. Mel
ton, Jr.
According to the message. Sgt.
Melton was killed in France by
enemy action on July II.
Sgt. Melton was 10 years old, and
had been in the Army since last
August "a. He WAS graduated from
Fayetteville High school and later
moved with his family to Wrig]lts-
vile.
Besides his parents, one sister.
Mrs. Lloyd Memory OF Memphis,
and one brother, Carlton Melton,
survive.
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der government control. There are
no doubt many among us who do
not wish to establish a free eco
nomy. But those who do will de-
liver themselves right into the
hands of those who do not if they
do not have the wit and the wis
dom to see that here is no chance
whatever in the contemporary
world of an automatic return to
free economy. Unemployment,
initiation and deflation, bankrupt
cies, would be the same result of
relying on the automatic return
to free economy. These disasters
would mean the political doom of
the free economy. ~~
This is going to be hard les
son to learn. as hard as it was to
realize in the '30s and well into
1941, that automatic security
against war that peace, by not
preparing to defend ourselves, by
not taking positive measures, had
become an impossibility. But if we
do not teach ourselves the hard
lesson of the economic realities to-
day events will teach the lesson to
us in still more forceful way.
We shall have to face fully the
realities which, if the Administra-
ton understands them, it is not
explaining to our people, the reali-
ties which, it one judges by the
two platforms and by the Congress
sional debates, are as little under
stood as were the danger and i'm
minence of war in the winter OF
1910. How little that was under
stood may be judged from the
fact that two months before fall
of France, the House cut the num-
Der of replacement airplanes of
the Army to fiftyseven, and the
President did not publicly object.
What is this reality? 1t is that
we shall emerge from this war the
only great creditor in a world of
debtor nations, the only nation
committed to free enterprise
among nations tending to various
degrees of collectivism. Let us not
imagine for a moment that this
country can muddle its way
through the problems which this
situation entails by substituting
the slogans Of free enterprise for
serious thought.
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DEWITT TAKES
M'NAlR'S PLACE

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.-lR -
The assignment OF Lieut.. Gen
John L. Dewitt to succeed Lieut..
Gen. Lesley J. McNair in an I'M
disclosed command OF great i'm
portance in Europe was announc-
ed todnight by the War depart
ment.
Dewitt, former commanding gen.
eral Of the Fourth Army and the
western defense command with
headquarters at San Francisco,
has been commander of the joint
Army Navy staff college in Wash
ington for the past ID months.
In his west coast command, he
headed the mobilization of defens-
es of the coast after Pearl Har-
Dor, and carried out the evacua-
ton of Japanese nationals from
critical areas.
McNair, former commanding
general of the Army ground, for
ces, was killed in Normandy July
Is by a bomb from an American
plane participating in the bonn
bardment which opened the way
for the break-through of Ameri-
can forces near St. Lo.
His assignment overseas, and
the designation of Lieut.. Gen. Ben
Lear as his successor in command
OF the ground forces, was an
nounced by the Army July Il, but
no hint was given, then or since,
OF the nature of the assignment,
except that 1t was of great i'm
portance.
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REGIONAL TOURNEY
HELD AT ALBEMARLE

4 ALBEMARLE, Aug. 6.-(R-Dr.
w. T. Shaver, state commissioner
of American Legion junior base
ball. announced tonight that four
state regional series tournament
would start at Albemarle Saturday,
Aug. II.
3 States to be represented will oe
North Carolina, Tennessee, West
Virginia and Virginia.
& The tournament will be played
under the double elimination sys-
item. Pairings for the first round
will be announced at dinner here
Friday night.
(. The W nner of the regional tour
tnament will be sent to the sectional
Tournament al Charleston, S. c.,
which opens Aug. 18.
Albemarle won the Tar Heel title
Saturday by defeating Shelby.
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SHOWDOWN FIGHT
SOUGHT IN TEXAS
BY DAVE CHEAVENS

AUSTIN, Tex, Aug. 6.-(R-Tex-
'ssas' militant pro-Roosevelt demo-
7 Gratis spouted fighting talk today,
challenging anti-Roocevelt demo
7 Gratis to a showdown battle for
! control based on a nose count Of
!, delegates at the September state
,, convention.
I Out of the clamor to flatten the
Z opposition came an organization
! extending into every county of the
safe, the primary purpose of which
:. will be to make sure that Texas
: % elecors with the Democratic
slabel also go down the line for Roos-
evelt and Truman.
{ The anti-compromise minded eau
Gus named Herman Jones of Aus
Tin chairman. 1t will seek to make
sure every pro-Roosevelt delegate
named at last weeks county con-
ventions is on hand at Dallas Sept.
u, that those who are not will put
their proxies in the right hands,
and that the campaign be carried
Ito every individual uni7structed
delegate we'll as to friendly dele
gates in counties got bound by the
unit rule.
/: Purpose number two OF the pro-
Roosevelt forces will be to talk
over the party organization and
thereby divest themselves of such
terms as ''rump' or "pro-Roose-
welt democrats.
{ Woodville Rogers of San Antonio
said that under his Interpretation
of the election laws, the September
-conyention could refuse to certify
! the names of the % electors named
, at, the so-called regular" cor1vea-
ton, declaring vacancies if they re-
fused to take the pledge.
/, Then we could proceed to certify
the right names to the secretary
of. the state. If he refuses to certify
! them for printing on the ballot we
would have another law suit.
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NAILS SHELL ALLIES
IN SOUTH FLORENCE
Continued from Page One)

rier was considered untenable.
The enemy. raining long-range
six and half inch shells into that
part of Florece which lies south
Of the Arno was firing from good
mountain positions north OF the city
Small arms fire was exchanged
inside Florence across the Arno-
Most Of the shooting came from
buildings demolished near Pcnte
Vecchio, the only one of the city s
historic bridges left intact BY he
retreating enemy.
On the Adriatic end Of the Ital-
ian front, the Germans were draw
ing back toward Rimini, the east
ern coastal anchor of their Gothic
line with Polish troops in pursuit.
The Poles captured the cillages
of Brugnetto, Monte Di Ripe and
San Vito, two to three m les be-
vond the Misa river and some ~
miles south of Rimini.
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NAILS BROADCAST
CONFIDENCE CALL
Continued from Page Onej

Ter had agreed to a request from
Heinrich Himmler, commander of
the home army, for an increase in
the strength of his dreaded SIS for
ces.
This Is the organization which
hangman Himmler intends to use
to stiffen the civilian spine and
bolster morale as the German ar
mics backtrack home, bringing the
war with them.
Tass also reported in a dispatch
from Bern that the Nazfs intend
ed to extend total mobilization to
foreign workers, which may mean
that hundreds of thousands in la
Dor battalions from occupied coun-
tries will be pressed into the army
under the guns of German Off
GERS.
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Kill Your Piles!

;0E course you can't shoot Piles, but
Within a few minutes after the first
application. China-Roid usually starts
Fighting the agonies of Piles in ways:
l. Soothes and eases pain and itching.
2. Helps shrink sore swollen tissues. s.
Promotes healing by comforting irritat-
I'd membranes and alleviates nervousness
due to Piles. Has helped thousands while
they worked and enjoyed life in greater
comfort Get c. ina-Roid from your drug
gist today under positive guarantee Of
complete satisfaction or money back.
DON'T wait. Fight your Pile misery with
China Roid today. Tear this out: Take
y to your druggist. Be sure to get genu-
Inc, guaranteed China-Roid, Knox
Company Quality Product. II he il sold
Suts, ask him to order IT fur you. Only
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NAZI INDUSTRIAL
CENTERS BLASTED
CONTINUED from Page One,

Continued from Page One)
Eighth Ar Force but was the frs,
on Berlin since June q.
General Doolittle said the wa,
was going so well I'VE now ar.
able to get to any point in Ger.
many with only quarter Of tn,
loss rate per sortie VIVA, it was
short time ago. Our aim now ,
to reduce production and use d
German jet and rocket propelled
planes to a minimum
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CONVERSION BILL
DEBATE SCHEDULED
Continued from Page One)

N0VAtAA0SA OAA @6O OASJ
civilian unemployed, with the fed
eral government paying whatever
portion the states failed to pay.
In the case of mastering out pay,
the reconversion bill would more
than triple present discharge al,
lowances in some instances.
Under the mastering out pay law
enacted last February, payments
range from 500 to $500 depending
On length OF service and whether
service was overseas. The new
bill would make 5000 the minimum
for 4 single veteran serving under
one year, $3.50 the minimum for
a service man with one dependent,
and 5000 for veterans with two or
more DEPENDENTS.
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Moscow Halls American
!, Triumph In Brittany

/ MOSCOW, Aug. 6.-tR,-Moscow
today hailed the American break
Through in Brittany as the best
foreign news in weeks, with Soviet
newspapers publishing a detailed
account of the accomplishment to-
Egether with maps.
The performance in the west.
along with the same kind of opera
tons by the Russian armies in
the east, is the quickest way of
bringing the war to close, it was
asserted here,
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TASK FORCE SINKS
II JAP VESSELS


NSOHtAAuCu AIUH rage OucJ
their heavy air losses from the six
previous American land and air
strikes at the two strategic island
groups, now within range of bonn.
bers based in the southern Mari
anas islands.
Since fast carrier forces first
struck at the Bonins and Kazan
islands June IA, they have destroy
ed 280 Japanese planes. sunk q
ships, and probably sunk or dam
aged 80 other vessels, excluding
barges. Forty one U. S. planes
have been lost.
In the newest strike, first report
ed by Tokyo radio last Friday, air
fields and ground installations
were raided on Chichi, Haha, Mu-
ko, and Ane (AnD islands in the
Bonins and Two in the Kazan
group.
Ninety-seven per cent Of the
Italian people are Roman Catho-
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REV. IGNATIUS B. REMKE

CHARLOTTE, Aug. 6.-R-The
Rev. Ignatius B. Remke. o. S. B.,
IS. died in hospital here today
after five months illness.
He was chaplain at Mercy hos
pltal here from 1887 until he be-
came i'll last March. He was or
dained to the priesthood so years
ago.
From 1924 to 1927 he was pastor
Of st. Loe's in Winston-Salem.
Funeral services will be held at
Belmont Abbey at 1890 a. M,
Wednesday.
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WILL RECRUIT WORKERS

RALEIGH, Aug, 5.-P- Seven
oht-of-state firms will be admitted
to North Carolina during the month
Of August for the purpose Of re-
cruiting BIG workers, It was an
nounced today by DR.. J S. Dorton
state director of the War Man.
power Commission
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Obituaries
MRS. IRENE LAWSON

Mrs. Irene Lawson. mother Of
James A. Lawson, died last night
at the home of her son at 1922
Chestnut street.
Funeral services will be con
Quoted today at 2 p. m. at An
drew's Mortuary.
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Be sure to wear peds or socks
70 arsoro foot perspiratio when
substituting makeup for stock.
lngs. Otherwise the alkaline effect
OF the perspiration will ruin your
leather shan- Az
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driving empty trolleys, each "GI"
operator with JTC-uniformed man
standing behind him, presumably
instructing.
All lines must be ir operation
morrow, General Hayes said. or
soldiers will run any (which 9TH
erwise would remain idle
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WEATHER
Eastern Standard Time)

eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a
hours ending 7:30 pm, yesterday.
Temperature
1870 am, II; 7:30 pm, II; 80 pm
81; 1880 pm, 81.
Maximum SO; Minimum IA; Mean
81; Normal 70.
Humidity
1880 am, Sc; 7:30 am, IS; 100 pm,
81; 1880 pm, 81.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending
7:30 p. M, 600 inches.
Total since the first of the month
4.21 inches.
Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tables published
by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Sur
vey)
High Low
Wilmington --.. 6:56a
12:08p 7:17p
Masonboro Inlet :. 10:O0a 3:53a
10:28p 4:09p
Sunrise 5:28 am; Sunset, 1908
pm; Moonrise, Gal pm; Moon
set, 1852 am.
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- NAH DIVISIONS
SMASHED IN FRANCE
Continued from Page One,

Continued from Page One)
the idea Of a fortress Europe
Allied bombers with fighter
protection virtually could flat
ten the Reich.
Commenting on the present
phase of the campaign, the
general sad 1T is very diff
cult to see how the Germans
san stay here and fight with
any hope of success. The ex.
tremely exhilirating display by
the Americans has badly
shaken and demoralixed the
German Seventh army"
The German high command,
he said, still is trying to move
up achievements to plug the
breaches in Normandy and
Brittany land they are getting
here somehow on bicycles or
flat feetz-but too late. The,
blow has been struck and the
enemy now is merely react
ing to an extremely difficult
situation"
The German forces are split
about even against the Ameri-
can and Br fish fronts with IL
divisions on each sector, he
said, although the greatest
weight of enemy armor still
is massed against the Fr
around the vital Caen hinge.
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Ninety seven per cent Of the
Italian people are Roman Catho-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-22
Woman Killed , 2Huri
In Maryland Crash

One person was killed and two
others hospitalized by traffic acct
dent yesterday in nearby Maryland
and another died today of injuries
received in a crash Tuesday.
Mrs. Helen Sans, 80, of 5312 Marl-
boro pike, was killed instantly yes
terday when the automobile in
which she was riding struck a pole
and a concrete bridge abutment in
front Of the Maryland Club Gar
dens on the Marlboro pike, Prince
Georges County police reported.
Police said Mrs. Sans husband.
William r. Sans, %, listed as the
driver, and Mrs. Virginia Slime, IS,
of 52l3 H street Sc, a passenger,
were treated at Casualty Hospital
for cuts and conclusion.
According to police, the accident
occurred when Mr.. Sans apparently
lost control of the car and it struck
the pole. Police said Mr.. and Mrs.
Sans were co-owners of the Helen
& Rich tavern near Hillside.
Albert B. Watkins, 4610 Highland
avenue, Bethesda, died today at
Georgetown Hospital from injuries
received when his motorcycle
crashed into a fence in front of the
Army Map Service on Macarthur
boulevard in Montgomery County.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-22

and put her back in action again.
He and Sergt. Margolis had been
friends. s-
More mortar shells rained down
even as Sergt. Sweet swept the en-
envy positions, and he was wounded
in two place by shell which should
have demolished the gun but,
miraculously, didn't.
Pfc. John j. Doerr of Raritan, N.
j., and Pfc. Albert j. Newly of Hix-
on. Tenn. left their rife pits and
dashed over to No. l.. Before they
got there. another Jap mortar ended
it. The shell exploded squarely atop
the machine gun, killing Pfc. Doerr
and wounding Pfc. Newly before
they could fire a shot.
Never Had Chance.
When the smoke cleared away, the
other marines could see that No.
would never fire again. Her muzzle
was jagged hole: her water jacket
was shattered; only one steel leg was
there.
Marines call the gun "her" be-
cause a machine gun is a woman;
the men treat their guns like ladies.
They love them and take care of
them. They stood by No. / gun until
there weren't any of them left. But
thew re-er he'd chovre 81