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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-04
GERMANS PULLING
OUT OF FLORENCE

ROME, Aug. 3 -(R- German
troops are pulling back behind the
Greve river preparatory to with
drawal from Florence and advance
units of the British Eighth army
already have stabbed within 'thre
miles of the historic city, field dis
patches said tonight.
Loosening up of German defenses
became apparent overnight and it
was believed the enemy would pull
into tight pocket behind the Greve
where it flows below the south
western edge of the city, in an
attempt to hold until NaZi troops
can be moved through Florence,
Associated Press Correspondent
Lynn Heinzerling wrote from the
front
On the other end OF the Italian
front the enemy showed determi-
nation to make desperate stand
along the Arno river and on both
sides of the besieged city Of Pisa
strong German patrols OF up to 200
men slashed into American posi-
tions on the south bank Of the river,
other field dispatches said.
Heinzerling, who>is with heEigh-
tn. army, said New Zealand troops
were firmly established on the last
commanding ridge south of Flor
oyApp y .'-.. = - f,,.t -
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-04

by South America could offer.
The snakes were loosed in the
jungle surrounding the .planta-
tons.
The move was only too sue
cessfull. The slaves weren't the
only ones who thought twice be-
fore stepping off the big road.
So they brought in Mongoos-
es to kill the snakes. Lincoln
related.
Trouble with that was, the
Mongoose was nobody's fool
and soon found he could make
an easier living stealing eggs
from ground nesting birds. He
went his way, the snakes theirs.
The Lacey act also forbids
the importation of flying fox
es, fruit bats and-under stol-
endorse, locked-barn clause
English sparrows and starlings.
By later regulations, the sec
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-04
TROLLEY SYSTEM
SEIZED BY ARMY

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. g. H
The Army seized Philadelphia's en-
tire transportation SYSTEM tonight
on authorization of President Roose-
welt to end a three day walkout
that reduced war production d
caused clashes between whites and
Negroes.
Maj. Gen. Philip Hayes, COM
manding general, 3rd service com
mand, was designated by the War
department Ito see to it that the
trolleys, buses, subways and ele-
waited lines on which Philadelphia
war workers depend for their trans
portation resume normal operations
at their regular starting time be-
ginning tomorrow.
More than 4,50O of the 5000 idle
employees of the Philadelphia trans
portation company, gathered for a
mass meeting at one of the COM
pany's depots, where Army officers
posted notices that the system row
was being operated by the govern
ment.
The Transport Workers Union
(CIOO, bargaining agent for the
workers and a foe Of the. work
stoppage from the start, immediate
ly called upon them Ito return to
work.
Cast from your midst the small
band of company union elements
who are in league with subvers We
conspirators, said James J. Fitz-
simon, TWU vice president in an
open message. Resume operation
of buses, street cars, subway and
elevated trains for our war work
ers and soldiers and sailors"
James McMenamin, stoppage
leader, could not be reached i'm
mediately for comment. >s 4
The work stoppage, which began
Tuesday morning in protest against
upgrading of eight Negro workmen,
was referred to the President by
the War Labor Board yesterday.
after sporadic violence in which at
least 10 persons were hospitalzed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-04
War Goods Paddock Fauored

THE object Of the plan it to
speed industrial reconversion,"
Johnson told reporters. 1T
would mean a loss to the gov
eminent to paddock these
goods. but the government
would have to take the same
loss anyway if it dumped its
surpluses and demoralized in
dustry"
Johnson said the limited
congressional control over dis.
position of an estimated S16,.
000,000,000 worth Of govern.
ment-built war plants & equip.
ment would not interfere with
ammunity plans to see that
~e plants are Immediately
converted to civilian produc.
ton.
In tWo-hour closed morning
session. the military committee
decided to consider surplus
property disposal separately
from other reconversion legis.
lation
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-04

= WASHINGTON. Aug. 3-'R-
Senator johnson Cd : Colo.)
proposed today that the govern
ment inpound billions of dol
lars worth of durable surplus
war goods for five years after
the war to give private indus
try full access to civilian mar
kets. -. ss--z..
.. johnson. VINO laid the plan
before the Senate + military
committee said that to dump
vast stocks of government
owned goods on postwar mar
kets would retard Industrial
reconversion and might disrupt
the entire civilian economy.
In general, ne said, the pad
locking plan would apply to
all durable goods. including
wool and cotton products, but
allow the sale of perish
ables'' such as foodstuffs.
johnson gave these as other
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-04
Rehabilitation Work
Continues At Beaches

Rehabilitation work at Carolina
Beach and Wrightsville Beach
was being pushed yesterday as
Red Cross officials, arrived on the
scene to inspect damages and set
up offices to aid in repair work.
Water service had been restored
at both beaches, but many power
lines were still down ant fights
were only available in certain Sec
tons. Telephone service was being
restored.
The boardwalks, hardest hit Sec
tions at both beaches, remained
maze of wreckage, but every eff
fort was being expanded to clear
away the debris.
Meanwhile, in Wilmington, Wal
ter J. Cartier, executive secretary
of the Chamber of Commerce, tele
graphed the North Carolina Cham
Der of Commerce at Raleigh that
both beaches will accept vacation
lists this Weekend.
His telegram inviting all-comers
to the storm stricken areas was
sent after he visited Wrightsville
and said he found damage much
less than wild reports indicate. y
To combat the extensive damage
in this area, the Red Cross Off
cials from regional headquarters
in Atlanta set up registration Of
fees at. Carolina Beach and In
Wilmington to aid persons seeking
up registration offices at Carolina
Beach and in Wilmington to aid
persons seeking to make repairs.
AS thousands returned to their
homes after wild day and niIht
when the tropical storm of hurri-
cane proportions struck late Tues
day, Col. j. j. Stealey, Red Cross
general field representative. de-
clared that Red Gross work has
switched from the emergency Ell
forts to rehabilitation
Me-rw.li1e, crews from Southern
Bell Telephone and Telegraph com
pany, the Tide Water. Power com
pany, and several city departments
were continuing their swift repairs
OF. broken facilities. and within the
city and at the beach commun1f. es
fContinued on Pare Six; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-04

EAST PRUSSIA
DRAWS CLOSER
Pontoons, Rats Used
In Initial Thrust;
Tanks Follow

LONDON, Friday, Aug. a.
army troops shat
tered the Axis Vistula river
line in Poland yesterday,
smashing Is miles beyond
that last natural defense
barrier short of the "holy
soiP' of Germany in a broad
flow of men and tanks that
thanked burning Warsaw and
sped toward German Silesia,
only 100 miles away.
The Vistula, which a desperate
enemy had attempted to hold with
reinforcements sent from central
German reservoirs was crossed
ITO miles south of besieged War
saw on a front nearly 10 miles
wide between Koprzywnica and
Polaneic.
German broadcasts also said
that another strong bridgehead was
established on the west bank near
Warka, only 80 miles southeast
Of Warsaw, where Polish patriots
were fighting the Germans in the
streets, but Moscow did not con-
firm that enemy announcement.
The west bank towns of Koprzy-
wnica and Polaniec fell to the
Russians, Moscow communique
said along with Staszow, Is miles
west OF the swift-flowing Vistula.
By Selling Polaniec the Russians
were only 60 miles northeast of
Krakow. Glands fifth largest CT
ty. With the capture of StaszoW
they were only 30 miles southeast
of the German stronghold Of Kielce.
4 midnight Soviet bulletin said
infantrymen first crossed the Wis.,
tuln on pontoons and RATS, follow
ed by tank forces. In heavy fight
ing, beyond the river amid strong
Notifications the Russians said
they killed 5000 Germans and cap
tured 500.
More than 50 localities fell in
this swift Russian strike which APP
parently was delivered by the up
per wing of Marshal Ivan S. Kon-
evs First Ukraine army. The Mos
cow bulletin did not mention the
Warsaw area, where Marshal Kon-
stantin K. Rokossovsky's First
White Russian armies are engag-
ed in a bitter fight with the Ger
mans just east of the city.
Russian troops were reported ev-
en- nearer ancient German soil in
western Lithuania, attacking to-
ward East Prussia on a broad front
Moscow dispatches said these units
wereEonly three miles from East
Prussia.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-04

bids entry Of the scrappy, fer
ret-like Indian mammal as. a
menace to the agricultural and
horticultural interest OF the
United States. r
Perhaps, speculated Freder-
lex c. Lincoln, senior. biologist
of the Fish and Wildlife serv-
ice, Congressman Lacey had in
mind an unfortunate episode on
the island of Jamaica.
Due to an impressive string
of victories over the venemous
cobras of his native Orient, the
Mongoose's reputation as han
dy mammal at a snake fight
had penetrated the West Indies.
Jamaica at the time was
teeming with dissatisfied slaves
honing to leave their masters
bed and board. An inspired ov-
erseer talked the boss man into
ordering a cargo of bushmas-
tiers, the deadliest reptile near
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-04
ALUMINIUM PLANTS
CLOSED BY WPB

WASHINGTON. Aug. 3-{Rt-A
new cut back in aluminium pro
duction,s involving the closure OF
two plants and curtailment OF a
third. tonight followed a War Pro
duction Board announcement that
48 per cent of the entire 1914 sar1na-
ment program was completed at
mid year. .. 49,. 80
The new pairing of aluminium out
put, which came within a week
after announced reductions in sub
marine, magnesium and aircraft
production, was attributed by WPB
to IAN increasing surplus of in
got aluminium. Other slashes in
aluminium production were made
earlier in the year. =.
The three plants government
owned but operated by the ALUMNI
mum Company of America. are at
Riverbank. Calf, and Burlington,
N j., both going out of production
entirely. and that at Los Angeles,
trimmed by one-third.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-04

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.-(R
The Four Freedoms do not
apply to a mongoose. govern
ment authorities made clear to-
uay, exhibiting concern over the
xmas of pets that returning
sefVlcemen are trying to bring
home.
lhese pets have ranged from
'eoatmundiS, which have faces
IKE foxes and tails like ra-
eoohS, to spotted wildcats,
WI whlch are self explanatory.
ms indulgent republic, under
certain conditions, will tolerate
ue lmportion of an ocelot or
wen a kinkajou, but it draws
ue line at Mongooses. 81
Twice in the past year, it
was disclosed today, the gov
eminent has sentenced Mon
sooSes to the lethal chamber
,of Illegal immigration. The
Lacey act of May Is. 1900, for
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-04

They completed three more items
of a 14-point declaration of princi-
oles, leaving FIVE to go.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New
York, the presidential nominee,
who is leading the melting, said
statement of general conclusions
also was nearing approval. But it
and the five remaining points will
be released tomorrow morning.
A report on agriculture assailed
impractical and whimsical re-
straints'7 which the governors said
now hampers production and Gre
ates confusion. They declared there
was a federal responsibility to as
sure its economic stability and
quality with labor and business"
"Abundant production, necessary
to national prosperity, can be at
tanned only under a free agriucl-
ture," the report asserted.
Demanding return of public en-
ployment services to the states,
the governors said this should be
done as soon as is consistent with
the best interests of those seeking
war effort, since the services have
ben used by the New Deal to
''extend its political control over
labor"
Operation of our public employ
ment offices by the states" the
governors asserted, will prevent
the RECOMMENDATION of labor which
now is a major objective of the
New DEAL
They said, too, that exclusive
power to regulate and control the
insurance business should be pre-
served in the states where it be-
longs.
Whenever necessary, they
said, state and fedora legislation
appropriate to accomplish these re-
suits should be universally sup
ported by all who believe in the
protection of the families, homes,
and businesses of our people,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-04

main points in his. proposed
bill: 5--.
~ War plants costing more than
S5,0OO,0O0 could not be sold
without congressional approx
al. but could be leased to
private, operators p EN- d i n g
sale. Smaller plants could be
leased Or sold under general
rules laid down by Congress.
Ma cninery and equipment
disable for civilian production
could be sold or leased with
the plants themselves, the
"obselete" machinery to be
junked. The government would
be barred from operating any
plant itself
Ships and planes could not
be sold by the government
either to o..her countries or to
private operators.
The military group referred
the proposal to corcmittee
which, arranged to open hear
ines on it Monday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-04
Uncle Sam Taboos G.l. Joes Mongooses

rotary Of agriculture has bar
red the importation of sky
larks, house mice, rats and Eu-
ropean bullfinches, hares and
rabbits. Even the Indian house
NINA. which can out-talk par
rot, was banned, possibly on
the theory there's too much
talk in this country already.
Lincoln said it is probable
that the bulk of the soldiers
pets are monkeys and parrots.
However, having working
knowledge of the kind of ami
mails with which a G. I. might
strike up an acquaintanceship
in the African or South Ameri-
can jungles, he's trying not to
think too much about the pets
which may be slipping in on
fast flying transport planes.
('.>All right, if you don't be-
lieve that's what more than one
mongoose are, see Webster So
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-04
Cupid Victorious
Over Wm-Boom Job
In Close Decision

DURHAM. Aug. 3 -H-,A
pretty Durham girl, with office
experience, had secured an es-
sential job in a war-boomlng
city through an agent stationed
here. The employer furnished
travelling expenses.
She had accepted the job, and
with the prepaid ticket in her
handbag she was waiting at the
station. Her beau, an officer In
a military unit stationed near
Durham, came to say goodbye.
They decided they just could
MT part, and so they were mar
ried. ..f
The employment agent has
received the cancelled travelling
ticket, with the heart-Warming
explanation. Now he hopes the
new bride will cooperate and
send an employe replacement
for herself.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-04
ENGLAND HARD HIT
IN RENEWED SALVOS

LoNDNoN, Aug. 3.-|R-The Ma
zs renewed their flying bomb sal
Vos against London and southern
England tonight after a late after
noon respite from damaging a.
nour blasting that was record for
length and severity.
Night explosions increased the
casualties and destruction as res
suefS still dug for victims among
We rubble of some of the dwellings
BUSINESS houses and the 10 hosN
Ns NIT in the days barrage of hor
or missiles.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-04
$500 Big Bombers
Smash Many Targets
In France, German,

LONDON, Friday, Aug. f.
(P)-PoWerful Allied air fleets
-totaling around $500 bombers
and fighters smashed at flying
bomb bases in northern France
and aircraft plants and COM
munications targets in Ger
many Thursday as the August
air offensive mounted in fury
with widespread operations
from both Britain and Italy.
Raj heavy bonbers, ordin-
arily used chiefly at night,
made two strikes during the
day at robot supply bases in
the biggest British daylight
bombing attack of the war.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-04
JUNGLE FIGHTERS
TOSS JAPS BACK

GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
Southwest Pacific, Friday, Aug. 4
- R Veteran American jungle
fighters have thrown back u r
more Japanese suicide attacks in
the Aitape area of British New
Guinea, after II hours Of fierce
fighting which left the battlefield
Uttered W t h enemy dead, head
quarters announced today.
In desperate attempts to break
the Amer can ring, the Japanese
Wednesday hurled wave after wave
of men in the AFUA sector. on the
left flank of the Driniumor river
line, some II miles east of Aitape.
Afua is. few miles inland.
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Aug. 3
-GP-A two mile advance We'd
nesday by American troops on
Guam, made against increasing
japanese resistance and over
rough, wooded terrain. was report
ed today by Adm. Chester W. Nm
it,.
This placed the reconquerors of
Guam well into the upner third Of
the island, southernmost Of h e
Marianas group. 1t gave them con-
troll of an important road junction,
north of a ridge that extended
nearly across the island.
u. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Aug. 8
-tR-Carrier Air Group Two Of the
Pacific fleet probably destroyed or
damaged 19 japanese warships, in
Guiding two large carriers, in
record fortnight of destruction from
June II to "a, Adm. Chester w.
Nimitz announced today.
The same pilots, from flattor
of the Essex class, also destroyed
or dana ged 200 enemy planes in
that period.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-04
Tide Water
Stock Sale
Draws Fire
FIRM CALLED CRIPPLE
Prospective Purch a S er
Attacked For Effort
To Buy Control
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 8

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 8.
-P-David 1. Bursten of
the Securities and Exchange
COMMISSIONS public utility
division said today that War
rem W. Bell, prospective pur-
chaser of the common stock
# Tide Water Power compa-
nv. Wilmington, N. c., is
"trying to buy the drivers
seat in the forthcoming re-
organization'' Of the COM
pany.
Bursten said during oral argu-
ment on the case that reorganiza-
tjon under provisions of the hold
inc company act will no longer be
necessary if General Gas Elec-
trio corporation is permitted to sell
The stock to Bell, since the COM
many will then cease to be a SUBJ
sidiary of registered holding COM
pany.
Calling Tide Water "A financial
cripple Bursten said that on the
basis of past earnings, it could not
pay dividends for years to come.
He argued in support of the utili-
ties division recommendation that
Tide Water be recapitalized on a
single stock basis prior to its di-
vestment from the General Gas &
Electric system.
Clarce F. Brows, counsel + o r
General Gas, said she was "coD-
fused and dismayed" by Bursten's
attitude, since Bursten was aware
of continued negotiations for the
sale of the Tide Water stock. Since
Bell proposes to reorganize, S h e
said, Bursten, in questioning wheth-
er this could properly be done aft
er Tide Water is removed from the
Jurisdiction of the SEC, 81 C k 5
faith in the state commission"
I'VE have in Tide Water the
anamalous situation of simultan-
eous orders. . to divest and reor-
ganize,'' Miss Brows said.
There is no suggestion anywhere
in the holding company act that
where the method of compliance
with Secitnon II OBJ Cd (Geogra-
phic integration) is to remove the
particular company from regis
tered holding company system, Sec
ton II OBJ CD Corporate simpli-
fication) must nevertheless be car
ried out prior to the divestment.'
G. B. Ruddick of Upper Mont
clair, N. j., holder of 900 shares
of Tide Water preferred stock, ar
gued against the sale and in favor
of reorganization to remedy what
he termed inequitable distribution
Of voting power.
Ruddick said he was party to
an offer for the common o C k
which did not receive considera-
ton in keeping with competitive
bidding requirements. Miss BroWS
termed this argument ''last min
ute effort to sabotage the sale.
Ruddick and his associates whom
She said represented the Whining
ton Chamber of Commerce devel-
oped extraordinary civic passion
to protect the citizens of Whining
ton after the General Gas plan to
sell the stock to Bell was made
Known she added.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-04
RENNES SEIZED
IN GREAT DRIVE
Mighty Offensive Rolls
East In Direction
OF Prize Ports

SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TERS ALLIED EXPEDI-
TIONARY FORCE, Aug. 8.
.(P)-A mighty tide of U.
S. troops and armor swept up
Brittany's capital and main
rail city of Rennes today and
rolled on unchecked toward
the prize ports of Brest and,
st. Nazaire along roads lit
tered with the wreckage of
enemy tanks and vehicles.
The powerful force that brushed
past resistance at Rennes pound
ed on south toward st. Nazaire,
the Nazi U-boat base less than
so miles away, after travelling 40
miles in "a hours in the invasion's
swiftest dash.
Another great force of triumphant
Yanks headed straight west across
the Breton peninsula toward Brest
and probably already was well
past Oman after breaking across
the Rance river, 10 miles east Of
the second port Of France where
their fathers landed to fight the
first world war.
Behind them, other forces meth
odically widened the corridor
through which these forces were
pouring into Brittany from Nor
mandy, pushing 20 miles east Of
Avranches to Mortain on the road
to Paris.
While making the American
breakthrough into Brittany more
secure, this force also was execut-
ing a broad outflanking movement
against remaining enemy positions
along the 150-mile front and was
tightening the moose on six enemy
divisions already in mad flight
TO the north.
This once-proud force of two en-
envy armored and four infantry
divisions. which had held back
the Allied advance east of Gran
vile. was on the run before a four
and one-half mile gap was closed
| below Wire, abandoning tanks and
other heavy equipment.
Following up swiftly in a seven
mile advance from the southwest,
American forces pushed to within
a mile of St. Sever-Calvados, mid
way between Wire and Villedieu-
les-Poeles.
In a fruitless attempt to stall
their pursuers. the Germans drove
French civilians out into the high
ways in the path of the American
advance, but the non-combatants
were shunted off to temporary
camps.
1t appeared that the Germans, far
from offering threat to the Nor
mandy Britain corridor, were pull
ing out of the whole salient be-
tween their fallen road centers OF
Mortain and Wire.
The announcement OF Rennes'
fall came from Secretary of War
Stimson in Washington and was in
advance of information available
to correspondents at Supreme
Headquarters. Last reports had
said street fighting still was rag
ing in the city although advance
elements had speared on to the
south.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-04
PLAN CHEAP AIR TRAVEL,

NEW YORK, Aug. 3.-tREPost-
war (. air transportation to Latin
America for as little as three and
a half cents mile on long distance
routes is part of the expansion
program of Pan Americ an. World
Arrays system announced today
bv Juan T. Trippe, president.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-04
Republican Heads
Lash At Nelu Deal

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 3.-(P-Repubican governors
ed the end of politically significant conference here to-
ton and broke out in rash of predictions of eeton
tories in state after state.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-04

WILMINGTON AND VICINITY: Con-
siderable cloudiness and warm today
with scattered afternoon or evening
thundershowers.
Temperatures yesterday:
High GLOW rs.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-03-09
BAND NEWS

In order to receive a grade I'M
band this six weeks each mem
Der must either take part in an
ensemble or play a solo. Last
week there was one solo and
several ensembles.
Melody in F" by Anton Rub
inStein was given as a cornet
duet by Charlotte Cammock and
Evangeline Smith. They were e
compan1ed by Earl E. Cammock.
A saxophone sextette consist
ing OF Donna Marie Cochran.
Billy Snyder. Jake Sturzoegper'
Raymond Zelka. Vernon OFT
and Donald Hammer PLAYED
The Troubadore'.
A trombone solo, schubert,s
Ave Maria, was played by
Tommy Scally. who was accom-
panied by Earl E. Cammock,
A clarinet quartet played ct
ude" by Frederick Won. The
members of the quartet were
Martha Saunders, Alberta Nav.
Earl E. Cammock and Edwin
Lewis Jacobson.
The last ensemble of the week
was a mellophone quartet con-
sisting of Rachel Weinberr.
Billy Simmons. Jane jackson and
Mary Riebeth. who played SulT-
vans Lost Chord.