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country represented in the fund
will have one member on the
board of governors which in turn
will come from an executive group
to manage the funds oay-to-day
operations. A proposal that ap-
pears to have strong backing is
one providing for the election of
an 11-man executive committee.
Five would be FAMED automatical-
ly by the countries having the five
largest quotas. Under a tentative
quota lineup, still lacking confer
ence approval, the five largest
quota nations would be the United
States, Great Britain, Russia, Chi
ma and France.
The other six places would be
determined by a system of pro-
portionate voting among the re-
nations which would re-
suit in the naming of one repre-
sentative for each 16 per cent of
the total votes of those countries
No nation would vote for more
than one man, and the votes, bas-
ed on the quota strength of each
country, would be apportioned
among the six highest candidates,
with the result one man would
perhaps half dozen ma
tons, another candidate six or
eight nations and so or.
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NEW DELHI, India, July 9.-P'
A shattered Japanese army IS
fighting desperately in the jun
giles of northern Burma and just
inside the frontier of India to
avoid complete humiliation, and
the threat of a full-scale attack
on the Manipur capital OF lpphal
appears definitely ended. =
There is every reason to believe
that the bulk of the divisions
which Japan originally hurled into
the abortive invasion of India and
northern Burma have been cut to
pieces as fighting units, with hum
dreds and thousands already hav-
ing met the fate Of starvation and
slow death in the torrid jungles.
An official announcement today
said over 10000 japanese dead
have been busted since the begin
ming of the year by British. Amer
lean and Chinese troops in India
and Burma.
Although japanese suicidal tao
tics may not have resulted in the
usual ratio of two or three Woun-
ded for each man killed, the min
imum estimate of Japanese losses
in Manipur and northern Burma
enters the neighborhood of 10000
battle casualties.
While the monsoon season and
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Peter And Tito
Reach Accord

LONDON, July 9.-(P)-The Nor.
Deco radio, quoting Allied head
quarters at Algiers, said tonight
hing Peter of the Yugoslav gov
efnment-in- exile had signed a pact
with Partisan Marshal Tito agree
Ing to stake his crown on a post
war plebiscite and granting Tito
complete command of all mill
tary forces in Yugoslavia.
The broadcast said that the king
agreed not to attempt to return to
.Yugoslavia until the country had
peen freed from the Germans and
agreed to suspend all other politi-
cal issues until after the war.
1t said creation of az Yugosla.
federation composed of Slovenia,
croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Mace
oonla' Bosnia and Herzegovina was
agreed upon, and confiscation OF
!he property of Nazi collaboration
lists approved.
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Mrs. Eisenhower Claims
Husbands Morale Same
As ANY G. is In Army

FORT BENNING Ga, July
9.-(P)-Mrs. Dwight d. Eisen-
hover, wife of the Supreme AL
lied commander in the Euro
pean theater, said today her
husbands "morale is no differ
ent from that of a G. L.; he
keeps his ear cooked for mail
call too"
Arriving here yesterday with
her son, Second Lieut.. John
Eisenhower, who has been as
signed to a special basic Off
GERS course at the infantry
school Mrs. Eisenhower said
she writes to her husband reg
ularly.
Letters are by far one OF
the most satisfying ingredients
for a soldiers morale" she
said
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TWO YOUNG BOYS
DROWN IN RIVER

Billy Hale, 13, and Sinclair
Futch, IA, both of Rocky Point.
were drowned Sunday afternoon
in the Northeast Cape Fear river
near Miller's landing while swim
ming with several other youths.
According to Deputy Sheriff S.
B. Sneeden, Mnly Hale got in trou.
BILE in deep water and Sinclair
Futch went to his rescue. Sinclair
attempted to pull Billy to shore,
but was unsuccessful. The two
drowned in midstream.
Sinclair was the son of Marion
Futch and Billy the son of Joe
Hale.
The search for the bodies began
soon after the drowning, but they
had not been recovered late last
night.
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R0MMEI OPENS
CAB0URC DIKES
Division And Half OF
Pocketed Foe Troops
Now Cut Off

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
ALLIED EDITIO AIRY
FORCE, Monday, July 10 R -
Caen, stubborn hinge of the Ger
man right flank in Normandy for
IS days, fell Sunday afternoon to
a massive twin drive by British
and Canadian tanks and infantry,
while at the other end of the line
American troops stamped out the
last suicidal enemy resistance in
La Haye Du Puts in some of the
bitterest fighting since D-Day.
British troops, attacking from the
north, occupied Caen, which had
barred the 120-mile path toward
Paris ever since the landings of
June 6, while Canadians speared
through half-dozen hamlets from
the northwest into the heart of the
ruined city.
The capture left the Germans
with no natural defense base with
in 20 miles and cut off the rem
nants of a division ard halt of
enemy troops in pockets of re-
sistance now behind the Allied
lines or serving as snipers in
Caen's wreckage.
On the far western flank, the
doughboys of 1t. Gen. Omar N.
Bradley battered through La Haye
Du Puts during Saturday night
and Sunday morning and fought
their way on southwark in the
sixth day Of slow, savage battle
for hedges, dugouts and pillboxes.
Tanks, tank destroyers and
heavy artillery were required to
support the bayonet-wielding. gre
nade-hurling Americans in their
house-by-house conquest of La
Haye. which the Germans had
sought to hold as the controlling
position of the west-coast road
network.
The town already had been by
passed on both sides, but the stub
born Nazi SIS. (elite guard troops
made it real fight to the death.
Beyond Caen, front dispatche.
said, Field Marshall Rommel had
opened floodgates at Gabourg,
sending tidal waters rushing in
land over the roads leading to the
heart of France and along the
coast to LIE Havre, in desperate
attempt to cover new stand.
The waters surged over lowlands
eight to Is miles east of Caen,
presumably intended as a barrier
to prevent Montgomery from
breaking through to the Seine riv-
er of lie Havre.
Falaise, 81 miles south of Caen.
and Lisieux, % miles to the east,
are the next adequate commune
cation centers where Rommel
might mass for a new stand.
Rommel tried but failed to hold
Caen with at least tank divisions
and some of his best troops. HIS
lines broke before Montgomery
power-drive of troops, tanks, and
and slashing air attacks.
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WALLACE VISIONS
TRADE IN PACIFIC

SEATTLE, July 9. -(P)-fTrade
with Russia and China will help
keep the factories of America busy
In the days that lie ahead" vice
President Henry A. Wallace pre-
dicted here today in an address
broadcast TO the nation.
The vice president adopting
Seattle as his port of entry after
seven weeks in China and Siber-
an Russia laid particular stress
in his talk on postwar coopera-
ton and development of resources
in the lands bordering the north
Pacific ocean.
I am convinced" ne said, that
. main area of development after
this War-neW enterprise, new in
yestment, new trade, new accom-
pIshments - will be in the new
world of the north Pacific and
eastern Asia
In his hotel room before going
10 the radio station where his ad-
dress was carried over the Nation
al Broadcasting Company System,
the vice president expressed en-
thusiasm over possibilities for the
Pacific area.
II Rep. Warren G. Magnuson Cd
Wash ne asserted that he believed
the development of the northwest
area. meaning that of Alaska, wes-
tem Canada and the western Unit
ed States, should be a matter of
permanent national policy.
Magnuson explained the vice
presidents view was that develop
ment Of the western Canadian coun-
try was part of the whole pat
tern and that the United States
sAould cooperate wherever possible.
Definite approval of early con-
struction of a Pacific coast link
with the Alaska highway from
Prince George, B. c., to White
Horse, Y. T., was given him, Mag
nuSon said, and would be part
o. the great highway and airWay
connections between the Pacific
continents after the war.
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24EN AND LA HAZE, GERMAN ANCHORS
IN NORMANDY, SEIZED; SALPAN FALLS
TO AMERICANS; RUSSIANS TAKE Ida
ENEMY RETREAT
RESEMBLES R0UT
Russians Claim 1900
Towns On Central
Front In Bag

LONDON, July 9-tR-The Red
Army today captured Ida, rail-
way junction SO miles south of
doomed Wilno, and took more than
200 other towns on the central
front as the Germans fell back
in disorder across OLD Poland and
Lithuania in a military collapse
that was growing more disastrous
by the hour.
The first Baltic front, compare
lively quiet in recent days, fam
ed back into action with Russian
advances which Soviet communi-
que said took more than 700 towns
northeast of Wilno, including Bra
slav, Is miles southeast Of Dau-
gavpils (Dvinsk), Druya, on the
old Palish-Latvian border, and the
railway junction of Yyntupy, be-
tween Daugavpils and Wilno.
Street fighting continued hotly
in Wilno itself, with the prospect
that it would be entirely wrested
from the Nazi Almost immedi-
ately. To the northwest of Wilno,
the Russians had reached within
so to IS miles of East Prussia at
unspecified points.
Besides taking Ida, loss of
which was admitted by the Ger
mans the Nlird White Russian
army seized more than 300 other
communities in. the district, the
Soviet midnight communique said.
The second White Russian Army,
driving in south of Ida and NORTH
Of Ba-anoWicZe, announced cap
ture of $50 towns including Novo
g1udok and Dyatlov0, y miles
each southeast and south OF Ida.
The first White Russian Army
meanwhile continued its advance
westward in the Pripat marshes
east and north of Pinsk and took
a total of 100 towns, the broad
cast Moscow communique said.
The toll Of Nazi casualties
mounted rapidly as the Russians
methodically cleaned out pockets
of enemy troops that had been left
behind in their swift thrusts to
the west
The official count, tagging be-
hind the actual toll, added $3.50
Germans from the traps east of
Minsk Saturday, the Russian COM
munique said. This raised the list
in that sector alone to 1852
killed or captured since July 4.
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Police Chief Shot By Boy
Wanted In Clothes Theft

TAYLORSVILLE. July 9.-LP-
Chief of Police Dexter Millsaps,
so, was shot to death in the lobby
of the Alexander hotel this morn
ing by 15-year-old youth identi-
fled by police Officer Ransom Lit
tie as Marvin Matheson.
Little said Matheson was cap
tured after a tWo-hour manhunt on
highway lis by officers after he
had compelled a taxi driver at the
point of gun to drive him from
the scene of the Staying.
The killing occurred when Chief
went to the hotel this
morning to question the boy on
request by the Hickory police, who
wanted the boy in connection with
the theft of clothes, Little said.
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FOREIGN POLICY
PLANK DEMANDED

WASHINGTON, July -(R-
Two senators who will help draft
the 1914 Democratic platform call
ed in unison today for strong
plainly worded foreign policy
plank to let the world know Am
erica will take hand in interna-
tional affairs after the war.
Both Senators Truman D-Mo)
and Tunnel (D-DeD agreed the
platform should emphasize foreign
affairs rather than domestic is
sues. They will join q other DEM
ocrats in Chicago two days before
the national convention opens on
July 10 to begin sorting out ma
terial for a platform.
With most of the convention pre-
liminaries out of the way, Virginia
added to evidence of Southern dis
affection in the party by voting
last night to leave her "a dele
gates uninstructed on whether to
support a fourth term for Presi-
dent Roosevelt but directing them
not to vote for denomination OF
Vice-President Wallace.
President Roosevelt apparently
is keeping hands off in the vice
presidential squabble, although
pressure has been turned on the
White House from numerous Dem
ocratic sources in the last few
days to try to squeeze out some
hints of presidential intentions.
Sentiment for Senate Majority
Leader Alben W. Barley of Ken
lucky apparently has been picking
up. And there has been more fire.
quent mention of the chances Of
Supreme Court Justice William O.
Douglas and War Mobilization Di-
rector James F. Byrnes.
AS for concentrating on foreign
policy in the platform, Tunnel told
a reporter that the Democratic
record is pretty well established
on domestic issues.
"We stand for the so-called new
deal legislation which the Repub-
licans dare not promise to re-
peal" he declared.
"That's why Thomas E. Dewey
was such a strong man for the
Republican nomination. Any Re-
publican who tells what he stands
for alienates some dissatisfied ell
ement.''
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Eight Nazi Prisoners
Escape In Michigan

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, July g.
~A'J-State Police and Federal Blu
Ieau Of Investigation agents comb
ca Michigan and adjacent states
.ooay for eight young Nazi pris-
oAefs of war who escaped from two
western Michigan encarpments
last night.
Howard r. Bobbitt, special agent
N charge of the FBI here, said
IAFe prisoners fled from camp
al Lake Odessa, Mich, and three
rom Fremont, Mich. He added his
oel ct there was little likelihood the
'"o breaks were jointly planned
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Father, Son Charged
In ALLEGED Assault

A father and son, o. L. and J. l..
Turnage were held in New Han
over county jail Sunday night,
charged with assault with a dead
ly weapon with intent to kill, re-
sulting in serious injury to Sam
Stephenson.
A. L. Wood of Lake Forest was
also held in connection with the
cutting, which happened late Sat-
urday night at the Richfield serv-
ice station in Sunset Park.
According to police, the affray
was the result of an argument over
parking place.
Deputy Sheriffs P. S. Gangloff
and S. B. Sneeden investigated and
made the arrests,
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Allies Urged To Arm
Italians By Thousands

ROME, July 9.-LR-Communis'
minister without portfolio Palml-
70 Togliatti called upon the Allies
today to furnish arms to thousands
of Italian youths, declaring that
Italy can rise again only with
weapons in her fists in the armed
struggle to kick out the Germans
end destroy the last vestiges OF
fascism.'
Addressing mass meeting, he
said: "When we ask this we are
talking not as class or party but
for all Italy. 1t would mean saw.
ing the blood of English and Amer
lean troops. 1t would also mean
doing a political service to the
Allies because it would be laying
the basis for a new Italy"
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WASHINGTON, July 9. - (P) =
President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Churchill reported jointly
today that "Hitler's submarine
fleet failed on all counts in June,
1914"
No detailed figures were given
but the monthly report on the anti
submarine campaign asserted that
merchant vessel losses to the I'M
dersea raiders reached almost the
lowest figure of the entire war"
II added:
For every United Nations mer-
chant vessel sunk by German SUBJ
marines, several times as many
U-boats were sent to the bottom.
A supplementary communique re-
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B0MBERS
HAMMER EUROPE

LONDON, July 9-tR-Approxi-
mately 1000 U. S. heavy bombers
with a fighter escort of equal size,
closed in on Hitler's Europe from
the west and south today, joining
Allied tactical air units in a cam
paign designed to starve out the
German war machine cam
paign which is beginning to show
concrete results on the Normandy
battle front.
AS Britain-based U. S. Fortress
es and Liberators in one of their
three attacks of the day hammer
ed bridges in the area of Tours in
France, an armada of U. S. FIT
teen Air force heavy bombers
streamed up from Italy and rained
blows on refineries on the Ro-
manian oil center of Ploesti..
Other Fortresses and Liberators
from Britain smashed the Nazis'
flying bomb launching sites and
related install ations in the Pas
oS So1dlS al cd VI L dIlCC dilu
pounded a German-held airfield
a. Chateaudun some rs miles
southwest of Paris. Four U. S.
heavy bonbers and three fighters
were missing from the Tours,
Chateaudun and Pas De Calais
attacks.
ghter-escort Raj lancasters
and Halifaxes also joined the cam
paign against the flying bomb sites
today, attacking several install
ations in northern France. One
British bomber was missing.
American Marauders attacked
a highway bridge south of Orleans
and Havocs bombed fuel dump
near Rennes. One Havoc was
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
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Texas Demos Refuse
Trade Or Compromise

AUSTIN, Tex, July 9. - up -
Leaders of the regularly-c onstitut-
ed Texas Democratic convention,
which refused to bind its electors
to vote for the party's presidential
nominee unless the Chicago con-
vention fulfilled certain conditions,
announced today it would not trade
or compromise upon its position.
Regular convention delegates go
to Chicago uninstructed, and it's
electors are bound to vote for the
party nominee only if the Chicago
convention restores the two-thirds
rule and adopts a platform plank
critical of the supreme courts re-
cent Negro vote decision.
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JAPANESE LOSE
1850 SOLDIERS
Enemy Pacific Supply
Line Cut; Japan In
Bombing Range

U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, July
forces have completed
the conquest of Saipan'' at the
crossroads of Japan's Pacific sup
ply lines, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
announced today.
Organized resistance collapsed
Saturday afternoon ending a four
week campaign in the southern
Marianas islands that has cost
Japan at least SO ships, 900 planes
and the lives of more than H.
500 of her soldiers.
1t was the longest, pltterest and
most costly campaign of the cen
trail and western Pacific
Elimination of scattered, dis
organized remnants of the enemy
force is progressing rapidly" Ad-
miral Nimitz said.
This means the dangerous, te-
dious process of cleaning out hun,
dreds possibly even few thous-
and enemy troops from caves and
crevices still faces the Marines
and soldiers.
The actual ground campaign
against an estimated garrison Of
10000 japanese five times as
many as encountered on any atoil
in the Gilbert or Marshall islands
conquests-lasted Is days.
COMMUNICATES have listed total
of 1850 Nipponese troops slain
on Saipan. The Yanks have found
evidence the japanese buried
many of their own dead some.
thing they were unable to do on
the atolls of the central Pacific
SO there is no way of estimating
how many enemy combatants re-
main.
Carrier planes again bombed,
strafed, and showered rocket
bombs on Guam and Rota islands,
thanking Saipan in the Marianas
chain, during the last two days of
the ground campaign.
They shot down nine fighters at
tempting to fly from Guam to
zap, destroyed six twin.engined
aircraft. and probably destroy
ed two more On the ground near
the town of Agana on Guam.
Conquest of Saipan gives Nj
mitz' amphibious thrust toward
the Philippines and the China
coast its most advanced and fin
est base.
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1000 Nurses Needed
In Veteran Hospitals

WASHINGTON, July 9 - IN -
Nearly 1000 registered nurses ars
needed in 80 of the "a veterans
hospitals throughout the nation,
Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, veter-
ans affairs administrator, said to-
day. "
In recruiting appeal, Hines
said the jobs are eight hours a day,
six days a week, with rotating
shifts, in general medical and sur
gical, tuberculosis or neuropsykh
usnic hospitals.
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Roosevelt, Churchill Join In Reporting
German Submarine Failure During June

que. recommended by the Prime
Minister and approved by the Pres
ident:
Thousands of Allied ships have
been moved across the channel to
Normandy and coastwise to build
up the military forces engaged in
the liberation of Europe. No mer-
chant vessel of this vast concourse
has been sunk by U-boat with the
possible exception of one ship. In
this case doubt exists as to ha~
destruction by U-boat or mine.
"This is despite attempts by a
pass up-channel from their bases
il, Norway and France. Such at
tempts were of course expected
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ported the signal failure of the
German undersea fleet to accom-
plish any important interference
with the Normandy invasion opera
tons, asserting that only one mer-
chant ship of the great fleet taking
part in that action could be charg-
ed off as possible U-boat victim.
I'm this case" it was added,
doubt exists as to her destruc-
ton by U-boat or mine"
The text of the regular Roosevelt
Churchill report:
.Hitler's submarine fleet failed
on all counts in June 1914. Not on
ly were the U-boats unable to halt
the United Nations invasion OF the
continent, but their efforts to pre-
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vent the necessary supplying OF
our constantly growing Allied army
in Europe were made completely
ineffective by our counter-meas-
ures.
''The U-boats apparently concen
trated to the west of the invasion
during the month. relatively few
of them being disposed over the
Atlantic. Their sinking of United
Nations merchant vessels reach
ed almost the lowest figure of the
entire war. For every United Ma
tons merchant vessel sunk by Ger
man submarines, several times as
many U-boats were sent to the
BOTTOM
The additional special communia
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Lumberton Filler
Downs Big Bomber

SUPREME. HEADQUARTERS
A LII E D EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE, July 9.-(R-Lt. Jesse E.
Carpenter, Jr., 81 West 18th ST..
Lumberton, N. c., hit a jackpot
with his Lightning fighter today.
He knocked down a four-engined
Ju-2o9 bomber during forenoon
mission when escort pilots went
down looking for targets of oppor-
tunitY.
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Monetary Conference
Hits Committee Snag

BRETON WOODS, N. j., July
9.-P)-The makeup of the man.
agement committee of the project
ed world monetary fund has been
the subject of sharp debate at the
United Nations Monetary confer
ence, it was disclosed today.
1t has been agreed that each
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Enemy Force In India
And Burma Shattered

Allied troops slowly grind out what
may prove t. be major disaster
for the Japanese, today's commu-,
nique from Admiral Lord Louis
Mountbatten' headquarters, Kan.
dy, Ceylon, mentioned few impor-
tant changes in positions.
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MORE JAPS KILLED

ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea. Monday,
July 10.-(P}-Two hundred and
three more Japanese have been
killed by Allied troops mopping
up Biak island off Dutch New Gut
nea, headquarters announced TO.
day.
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FORECAST

WILMINGTON AND VICINITY. PART
lv cloudy with possible thundershowers
in afternoon. Slightly warmer.
Temperature yesterday:
High 85-Low II.