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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-27
UNITED STATES
TIGHTENING UP
ON ARGENTINA
American Vessels Banned
From Calling On Ports
After October |

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.
(P)-The United States tight
ened screws on Argentina to-
day with two moves thinning
trade between the two coun-
tries to a trickle.
The State department announced
the first move-a ban preventing
American ships from calling at
Argentine ports after October l.
At the-same time, it was learned,
the department instructed the For
eign Economic Administration to
restrict export licenses to Argen-
tina to minimum.
About year ago, export licenses
for Argentina were ordered held
down, but the new confidential
directive cuts exports which can
90 to Argentina to those necessary
for public health and to maintain
essential services.
Normally Argentina, brin 6 S
chemicals, lumber and iron and
steel from the United States in
large quantities and has difficulty
getting those commodities else
where nowadays.
The shipping ban means that nc
American vessels can engage in
trade with Argentina, resulting in
a huge slash in the amount of goods
which can be carried.
A State department spokesman
said the reason for the shipping
ban was because routes must be
responsive to war requirements.
Those countries contributing eff.
fectively to the prosecution of the
war will of course continue to
receive sympathetic consideration
with respect to American ships fol
their domestic needs, he contin
ued.
The trade restrictions headed
the list of long series of dip1o
matte and economic measures
which this government has taker
against the militaristic regime o
President Edelmiro Farrell sine
it seized power at the beginning
of the year.
Recognition was refused to Far
relIs government and American
Ambassador Norman Armour was
Withdrawn from Buenos Aires thi
summer.
Secretary of State Hull published
detailed charges against Farrell S
government, citing instances of aie
to the Axis and Totalitarian ac'
tons. Recently, he branded the Ar
gentine government as fascist.
Last month, all exports OF gold
were banned to Argentina, and the
State department made clear yes
terday that Argentine firms which
helped the Nazis will continue on
an American blacklist after the
war.
Political isolation of Argentina
from the rest of the Allied world
was climaxed when Farrells gov
eminent withdrew this month
from the inter-American commit
tee for political defense.
The South American country,
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RUMELY FACING
CONTEMPT COUNT

WASHINGTON, Sept. &c. R-
The House campaign investigating
committee called today for federal
court action against an official Of
the Committe for Constitutional
Government who refused to sub
NIT a list of contributors of $1OO
or more.
The congressional committee,
headed by Representative Ander-
son (D-NM, cited Edward A.
Rumely, executive secretary of the
Committee for Constitutional Gov
eminent, founded by Publisher
Franks Gannett, for ''wilful and
deliberate REFUSAL to produce SUBJ
poenaed records and held that he
was sin contempt" of the House.
The committees finding was GER
titled to speaker Sam Rayburn for
certification to the United States
attorney for submission to the
Grand Jury.
Should Rumely be indicted and
found guilty, he o u d be fined
81 900 and jailed for twelve months.
The rare recourse to formal con-
tempt proceedings recalled that the
Dies committee, in 1910, certified
several communist officials for
contempt, but none ever was tried
or punished in court.
Rumely indicated that he was
ready for court fight in his stand
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-27
GERMANS YIELD
MORE TO REDS

LONDON, Wednesday, Sept. 81
P-Yielding more than 500 towns
and villages to the Russians, the
mauled divisions of the German
northern army corps fell back on
Riga last night for what may be
their last stand in the Baltic states.
A brief Soviet communique re-
ported that Red army forces took
more than 200 places in their drive
10 clear the scattered and disor-
ganized enemy from the west coast
Of Estonia southwest Of Tallinn and
pressed on down within As miles
northeast of Riga, taking 800 places
in LatVia.
A supplement to the commune
que mentioned capture of Cesis, so
miles northeast of Riga, and Mad
Lena, 81 miles east of Riga, as
among the days notable feats.
The powerful stronghold of Cesis,
it said, was reinforced by a mo-
tOrized SIS division and air cadets
freshly arrived from Germany, but
Soviet troops carried the town by
storm in hot fighting.
Madliena fell after combination
outflanking and frontal attack.
Riga, last Baltic capital in enemy
hands and highly valuable naval
base for the newly unfettered Red
Baltic fleet, already is closely
threatened by the Russians six
miles to the south, and only a mar
row escape corridor leading west
ward along the sea remains to the
Germans.
The Soviet communique also an
rounced capture of Turka, in south
em Poland IL miles from the boz
Ger of Czechoslovakia and nine 9TH
er communities in that mountain
Gus frontier region.
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-27
THREE YOUTHS HELD
FOR STEALING CARS

Accused of being members of an
auto theft gang reported to have
been responsible for dozen car
thefts within the last two months,
three youths were arrested yester-
day and lodged in Jail by Sgt. J. T..
Smith. veteran state highway pa
trolnan.
The trio is Lee Stanley Flynn,
Jr., of Maffitt Village, Hubert
Jones Bellamy of Hickman's Cross
roads, and Frank Moore Of Pender-
lea.
Four of the cars are reported to
have been recovered SO far.
The three youths will be given a
preliminary hearing in recorder S
court.
Sergeant Smith said his investi-
cation is continuing and that more
of the stolen cars are expected TO
be recovered.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-27

A merchant marine seaman and
a sailor who were riding with Ho-
cult were injured and were taken
to James Walker Memorial hos
pital for emergency treatment.
Hocutt died in a police car on the
way to the hospital.
The condition of William Tay-
lor Beck, U. S. Navy, of 113
Wrightsville Ave-, was reported by
hospital attaches. last night as be-
ing satisfactory, as was that of
Finley McRae, merchant marine,
of % Court J, Lake Forest.
Hocutt was a seaman second
class in the Navy and hao been
recently decorated for his service
in the invasion. He and Beck were
stationed at the Advance Base AS
sembly and Training unit, Naval
Training center, Lido Beach, Long
Island, and had come home on
leave together.
Coroner A. w. Allen reported
that Hocutt died from a basal
fracture of the skull.
Investigating police reported
that at the time of the accident
the car was travelling east on
Greenfield St. The rear axle and
rear housing evidently broke,
causing the rear wheels TO come
off. The car swung to the right,
swung back and hit small tree
on the left hand side of the road.
After knocking over the small tree,
the car hit large tree on the
left hand side. 1t evidently rolled
or skidded approximately so feet
before it came back and stopped
on the left-hand side of the road.
The car was demolished.
Lloyd Wolfe, a city fireman,
who resides near the scene OF the
crash, was returning home and
saw the car travelling out of con-
troll after it hit the tree. Wolfe
said the car was travelling "at a
very high rate of speed. Resi-
dents of the area said that the car
turned over number of times
during its plunge down the slight
incline.
One of the passengers OF the
death car was found nearly 30
feet from the car, another was
lying beside the car ane another
was found several feet away. All
three occupants were thrown
clear of the car during its last
nh1npe down the hill.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-27
5TH ARMY |! HAL7S
C0UNTERATTACKS

ROME, Sept. 26-(R-American
Fifth Army troops advancing to-
ward Bologna, major enemy com
munications cen tie in northern
Italy, have smashed three heavy
German counterattacks, and on the
Adriatic battlefront British Eighth
army forces have crossed the tiny
but famous Rubicon against strong
enemy resistance, Allied headquar-
tiers announced today.
Field Marshall Gen. Albert Kes-
selring, using seasoned troops, hurl-
ed three vicious counterassaults at
the Yanks near Monte la Fine, 81
miles southeast of Bologna. Head
quarters said the Germans suffer
ed heavy casualties in their futile
attempt to check the advance Of the
Americans.
Three miles southeast of Monte
la Fine other Fifth army troops
were reported battling the Ger
mans in the streets of Moradaccio
16 miles south of Imola on the
lateral Bologna-Rimini highway.
Although it had been stated at
headquarters that the Americans
were as close as Is miles to Bo.
logna, no places were specifically
named closer than 81 miles.
On the Americans eastern flank
British and Indian troops took Pa
lazzuola, eight miles east Of Firen.
zuola, and Marradi, four miles far.
Their east, capturing many pris'
oners.
The British also occupied Sar
Beneditto, % miles south of Imola,
and drove the enem" from the
heights of Monte Scarabatolle ano
Monte Carnevale.
The forcing Of the Rubicon, which
Julius Caesar crossed southwark in
40 B. c., was hailed by Gen. Sir
Henry Maitland Wilson, Allied Med.
iterranean commander, with the
hope it will lead, as with a ia.
NOUS commander in the past, tc
decisive victory and to the des'
truction of Kesselring's army"
In Caesars time, the Rubicor
Continued on Page Three; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-27

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2e-lA
line little old lady halted on
pennsylvania avenue in front
of the White House grounds
and humphed:
Humph! It's about time"
Sure enough, there were
seaffolds at the pillars just
Is though the painters were
gong to give the Presidents
nome the coat of paint it has
neeoed ever since the war
Started. -
A couple of guys banged
away with cnisels, knocking
eaunks out of the stately once
white columns now blistered
snd kind of sorry looking.
No it isn't So" unhappily
explained Chief Usher Howell
INN .>il today. mo paint, wars
still on"
mat was the dictum when
tqe Japanese struck at Pearl
"dfpor and it still goes, even
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-27

if Germany quits next week,
he says and he's boss
even over the Interior depart
ment which is nominally
charged with the maintenance
of the mansion. .-,.- ~.
Grim had to call in the work
men to- fix the pillars because
of some lazy characters OF
long ago.
1--WE had gas lights on the
pillars once" he said. Then
they were removed and cleo
trio lights put on. Somebody
ordered the electric fixtures
removed, oh, 80 years ago, l
guess. l don't know why. The
workmen put plaster IN the
holes. We're putting stone IN
now in case we do paint some
day."
Here and there, spots OF
black are showing up on ne
building through the four-year-
old coat Of white paint. They're
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-27
Japanese Keep Up
Advance On Kweilin

CHUNGKING, Wednesday, Sept.
H-R-Tne Japanese continued to
ADVANCE today toward Kweilin
rom positions east of the Kwangsi
Province city, whose loss would
We the greatest reverse for the
VnlneSe since the fall of Hankow
ma Canton in October, 1888.
Inc nigh command acknowl-
edged a l2-mile gain by a Japa-
aese Colmun cutting southwark
Hom KWanyang, so miles east,
northeast of Kweilin.
At the same time invaders
n,asnlng northwestward fro m
iuhgming, Is miles east of Kwei-
w. IN an apparent attempt to
"l the Hunan-Kwangsi railway
- of Kweilin were reported by
we nigh command to have ad-
"nced % miles. Severe fighting
was IN progress in this area the
eommunique said,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-27

~ NAo IL 4Gt1 SS1ACSAs
In the third attack on Anshan
in as many months the sky>giants
unloaded explosives on steel and
chemical plants just f t. dawn
Tuesday Oriental time monday
afternoon us. time).
While complete details of h e
raid awaited reports from Yank
pilots, an Associated Press dis
patch from a B-29 base in western
China said significantly the bomb
ing "was expected to knock Anshan
out as functioning arsenal for
many months.
In the two earlier d s tie
superfortresse m S h e d basic
steel and coke installations. The
latest attack was designed to
wreck anything overlooked" pre-
viously.
The American filters spotted Jap
anese interceptors over points IN
occupied China but said the Nippon
air1nen did not challenge the mis-
sion as it flew toward Manchuria.
Radio Tokyo, heard by FEC,
named Anshan and two other
towns as the targets. A japanese
domestic broadcast d damage
was negligible and claimed tw O
B-29s were shot down and four
damaged. A later Nippon propa-
ganda broadcastin t h e English
language said 10 planes were de-
stroyed.
With some 900 japanese planes
DESTROYED in the Philippines secto~
in less than three weeks, most OF
them by Yank naval airmen flying
from carriers, the japanese Pro-
pagandists got busy again. A To
kyo broadcast, picked up by FEC,
said fertilization of the Philippines
and adjacent islands as air bases
has been completed by newly
arrived aircraft.
On Peleliu Island, 500 miles east
of the Philippines, the survivors OF
the japanese garrison appeared
hopelessly trapped. Left Erickson
Associated Press War Correspon-
dent there, wrote that two columns
of Yank forces-one Marines and
the other 1nfantrymen-cut off the
Japanese holed up in Umorbrogol
mountain, only one-tenth Of Pelellu
remains in Nippon hands.
Continued on Page Three; Col. ~
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German Troops Flee Greece

where Albanian partisans are
concentrated, is heading north
eastward to lake Ohrid to join
Nazi units streaming in the
same direction from Serbia and
Macedonia.
The fleeing Germans in
northern Greece and southern
Albania also were attacked by
Allied Balkan airforce fighters,
while fighte--bombers ripped
up enemy communications in
Yugoslavia.
While the Albanian forces
were holding up their end of the
campaign to bottle up all the
Germans in the western Bal
kans, Marshal Tito followed up
his announcement of the cap
ture by Yugoslav partisans Of
Banj aluka in eastern Bosnia
with a communique reporting
the capture Of three more
towns and determination of all
enemy forces in them between
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-27

BARI, Italy, Sept. 26.-P)-
Heavy fighting was reported
today in the neighborhood of
Sarande, a southern Albanian
port, as German troops crossed
the Albanian border in their at
tempt to escape from north
western Greece.
Advancing up the Adriatic
coast, Nazis repeatedly were
thrown back six-and-a-haH
miles by Albanian partisans be-
fore they could make stand.
Details of the battle were not
yet available.
Other enemy elements, be-
lieved to total approximately
1000 men, were concentrating
on the Greek border at a point
Is miles east Of the Albanian
town of Argyrokastrom, with
advance elements moving north
ward on foot.
It was believed that this
force, in order to avoid the area
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-27
White House To Remain Shabby

the marks Of the terrible
scorch When the British set
fire to the White House in
the war of 1872.
The decision to make the
old coat do after Pearl Har-
Dor was based pretty much on
good example" for the ma
ton idea but it goes beyond
that now.
eve don't h ave enough
workmen there to handle
sucn a big job now says
Grim. "
New wo-kmen would have
to clear through a maze of
checkups before the secret
service would let them that
close to the chief executive,
and the secret service is
pretty busy with other things:
ooh, WE'LL" Grim added, IF
we get through. this war
needing only a coat of paint,
that'll be quite satisfactory"
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Banjaluka and the Sava river.
IS miles to the north. The com.
munique claimed the death or
capture of 1000 of the $4,000
Germans and collaborationists
who had defended Banjaluka
and its approaches.
The capture of the city, Tito's
announcement continued, net
ted some 80 airplanes, Is heavy
guns, and several thousand
badly needed rifles.
The Partisans also reported
hopping up enemy resistance
in the Mosmaj hills south Of
Belgrade and said the Germans
were working furiously to
strengthen the defenses of the
Dalmatian port of Split.
Elements Of the partisan
force which took the airport
northeast of Fiume last week
were on the move again and
were reported clearing the ene-
my from the coast south of the
city.
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Ex-High School Head
Stricken In Asheuille

. ASHEVILLE, Sept. 26.-LR)-Jo-
seph Basco1n Huff, IS, head of the
English department at Mars Hill
college, died unexpectedly at an
Asheville hospital today.
Before joining the Mars Hill
faculty rs years ago, he taught in
4he high school at Troy, Ala, was
principal of Wilmington, N. C.
high school, was professor of Eng
lish at Garson-Newman college and
for several years was president
of Wingate junior college.
Funeral arrangements are III
camplete.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-27

the Dutch-German border.
At the same time an alternate
supply route into the fiercely-con-
tested Nijmegen-Arnhem area was
opened up through Grave by Brit
ish armor striking along the west
ern side of the corridor that leads
up form Eindhoven.
This new drive came as Ameri-
can transports landed close behind
the front in Holland with men,
weapons and supplies for the Be-
leagured airborne troops in the
Nijmegen-Arnhem sector and boil
stored the Allied forces for the in-
creasingly vital struggle at the
northern gateway to the Rhine.
There still was no word early to-
day, however, of the fate of the
British airborne Red Devil di-
vision which has chung stubbornly
to a little foothold on the north
bank of the Neder Rhine for nine
days and nights.
A German broadcast, unconfirm-
ed by Allied sources. asserted that
the valient little band of British
skytroopers finally had been liqui-
dated with the last 900 surrender
ing yesterday morning.
The combination Of powerful
ground blows by British armor
and the reinforcements and sup
plies landed from transports and
elders eased the critical situation
along the narrow corridor stretch
ing up into Holland and Supreme
Headquarters announced that the
highway between Veghel and Nj
jmegen now was cleared of the
Germans although still under artil-
lery fire.
Cleaning up the west flank of
the tenuous communications i ks
with the northern spearhead of 1t.
Gen. Sir Miles c. Dempsey's Sec
ond army, British armor knocked
the Nazis out of Oss, ten miles
west of Grave, and from Heesch,
eight miles north of Veghel. These
successes provided an alternate
supply route to Nijmegen by way
of Grave. 80
| Still farther south, Belgian
forces of the Second army were
driving toward the German from
tier east of Maeseyck.
The Germans were resisting
strongly and in some sectors the
opposition seemed to be gaining in
strength as the critical battle
famed toward a climax.
Big American freighters Of the
air, CAT transports towing gliders
loaded with men, weapons, Jeeps
and supplies, landed at forward
airfield yesterday giving succor to
the harrassed Allied forces.
Associated Press Correspondent
A. I. Goldberg, who made the
flight in the sky-train, said these
first actual landings of supply
planes were made in a grassy pas
ture within sight of the smoke Of
battle
The supply operation was run SO
smoothly that the first planes were
unloaded and taking off for their
bases in England before the last
Of the transports flew in through
the narrow, uncertain corridor.
More than 200 Mustang fighters
escorted the unarmed transports.
Neither enemy planes nor flax was
encountered and the entire convoy
completed its round trip from Eng
land.
Another dispatch from the front
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-27
European War Flashback
Nv The Associated Press

1e18-Routed meeting
armsce eventual
capture series OF trenches and
fortified farms which formed the Hmdenbg
tenn of lie Catelet
Sept 81 194O-Gemany 10year pact to
POLITICAL economic and military
contracting powers is attacked by power at
the Chnesapanese
continue their air raids each
others cities airfeds and industrial installations
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-27
I Killed, 2 Hurt
In Auto Accident

William Ivon Hocutt, 20, of 2014 Nets Ave., who was
home rehabilitation leave from the Navy after serving
overseas fatally injured about o'clock last night
when the wheels of the 1871 coach he driving
dropped off at 18th and Greenfield St. causing the to
spin around several times and crash into tree.
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blew Drive Launched On Germany
AS American Transports Bring
Aid To Beleaguered Paratroops
And Supplies
Senth ByPlane
Alternate Supply Route Through Corridor
Opened Up Into Nijmegen-Arnhem Area

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDI-
TIONARY FORCE, Wednesday, Sept. 27-(P)-The Brit
sh Second army sent another column east toward Ger
many yesterday pulling up on the Mouse river at Box
meer 13 miles south of Nmegen and only three miles from
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|SuperfOrtreSSeSH Hit
|Manchurian Industry
BY The Associated Press

Seeking to cripple Japans main arsenal on the
Asiatic continent heavy force of American Super
fortresses yesterday blasted Anshan the Manchian
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-27
FORECAST.

WILMINGTON AND vICINITY-part-
" cloudy today, with moderate temper
atures
Temperatures yesterday:
High 49, low So.
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o
Clearing Holland

Pushed back in France and Bel
GUM, the Germans were being
showed out of their last holdings in
Holland by Canadian and British
troops applying a double squeeze on
some 10000 Nazis in the southwest
ern part of the country.
Only in Holland was there major
action on the western front, with
rain and snow begging U. S. drives
about Aachen, Metz and the Vosges
mountains.
Even though the British End army
had overrun the entire eastern sec
ton of Holland in a drive that the
Nazis only stopped at the gateway
to their important Ruhr valley, the
Germans held their ground in the
western part of the country. for the
purpose of denying the Allies use of
the great North sea ports for the
supply of their o%nrushing armies.
Principal port denied the Allies was
Antwerp, which the Nazis blocked
off by occupying both sides of the
Schelde river leading inland to the
city. Dotting n side of the Schelde
are the Walcheren and South Beve-
land islands, connected to the main
land by a causeway below Bergen
OPP Zoom. In attempting to knock
the Germans out of their strategic
positions along both sides of the
Schelde, Canadian troops cut into
the enemy's defenses on the south
bank of the river, and fought to cap
ture the causeway below Bergen OPP
Zoom and cut off island communi-
cations with the mainland.
Meanwhile, British troops smashed
through Nazi defenses to the north,
with the aim of racing toward the
Laurel outlook., 1944-11-01
PACIFIC:
SaUe Communications

Long in hiding, Japan's imperial
navy came out for battle in an eff
fort to smash the American supply
line to General Douglas MacArthur's
forces in the Philippines, and limped
off in defeat as the U. S. 3rd and 7th
fleets shattered the attack and Sc
cured the vital communications.
The Japs' attack took the shape
of a three-pronged assault, with one
enemy force coming in through the
harrow Surigao straits south of
Leyte; the second driving in through
the San Bernardino straits north of
Leyte, and the third heading south
ward from Formosan waters.
Apprised of the Japs' approach by
alert U. S. carrier planes, Vice Adm.
Thomas c. Kinkaid divided his out
numbered 7th fleet into two forces,
which, with the aid of carrier planes,
dealt the enemy a telling blow be-
fore he could fully develop his at
tack. Meanwhile, Adm. William F.
Halsey's' 3rd fleet, made up of war
ships, carriers and subs, caught
the Japs sailing down from For
moSa.
After the smoke of battle had
cleared, two Jap carriers, two
battleships, five cruisers and
three deStrOyerS were sunk, with
three more warships probably
sunk and a dozen damaged. For
their mart the JanS claimed tn
have primarily struck trans
ports and landing craft.
As the crippled Jap fleet limped
homeward licking its wounds, Gen
eral MacArthur's ground forces con
solidated their hold on Leyte island
despite mounting enemy resistance
and also strengthened their grip on
Samar island just across the San
Juanico straits.