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Evening star., 1944-12-05

and selection of the seat of the
permanent world air agency will be
decided by secret ballot at the final
meeting.
Canada is understood to have been
selected for the seat Of the interim
organization. It was also decided.
Evening star., 1944-12-05
of war and 7ls friendly nationals"

of war and 713 friendly nationals"
liberated.
Associated Press Correspondent
Fred Hampson reported that the
Japanese defending Leyte are dis
playing improved fighting qualities,
and said the Americans face plenty
more tough fighting before the
island can be liberated, The enemy
has given up his suicide tactics and
is making the best possible use of
his manpower, he said.
Evening star., 1944-12-05
World Air Farley Experts
To End Work Tomorrow
BY the Associated Press,

BY Inc Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Dec. 5.-The world air
conference moved into It's final stage
today, with craftsmen hurrying their
work to completion SO that an agree
ment can be adopted and signed no
later than tomorrow night.
Selection of the 81 members of the
council of the interim organization
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-01

Germany could be beaten In
1914 if everyone on the battle
front and at home did their
duty.
The four-star general brought
his scotty pup with its four
star studded collar along to the
press conference. This man
with the greatest weight Of
war responsibility any Amer
lean general has ever had was
in high hun1or.
Looking very boyish with his
broad grin and twinkling eyes,
Eisenhower spoke to the men
before him of utter destruction
of the German military might.
He forcefully declared the
battle must and would be car
ried home hard and decisively
into the Reich, and he scorned
the Wanted Siegfried line by
not, being able to remember
its name.
In announcing the new set
up in field command in France
elevating Bradley to an equal
footing with Montgomery, Ell
senhower, with a ringing note
of defiance in his voice, told
pres S representatives VINO
sometimes seem critical that
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-01
JAP DESTROYER
SENT TO BOTTOM

GENERAL HEADQUARTERS.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Friday,
Sept. Catalina flying boats
damaged or sank a Japanese de-
stroyer and four merchantmen in
another raid at heavily-hit Ceiebes,
headquarters announced today.
Two tankers and two freigilters
were included in the new shipping
damage at Celebes, where at least
II other Nipponese vessels have
been sunk or damaged in recent
raids.
Celebes lies northwest of New
Guinea and is an integral pert OF
the Moluccas, which Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's airmen have been
pounding consistently.
Liberator bombers struck again
at Palau, eastern approach TO the
Philippines, causing heavy damage
to installations during a raid Wed
nesday.
During heavy attack on Cele-
hes August "a, Allied airmen prob
ably sank a light cruiser among
eight craft hit off Manado, Jap
anese harbor on the northeastern
arm of the island. t-
Today's communique also re-
ported the bombing or straflng OF
Davao, main city on Minandao is
land in the Philippines in night
raid.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-01
Eisenhower Sees 1914 Victory

MONTGOMERY and he were
close and warm friends and the
British general was one OF the
greatest soldiers of this or any
war.
Turning to the progress OF
the Allied forces in France, the
supreme commander predicted
that if the American and Brl-
fish troops entered the low
countries the Germans would
probably be forced to pull out
Of Denmark and Norway.
Eisenhower declared that
Field Marshal Won Kluge's
crushing defeat in France was
partly a result of the German
iand-greedy strategy OF inflex-
, lille defense-a do-or-die stand
on a flank south of the Seine.
Commenting on the power OF
the German army, the general
seemed convinced that the
Germans were scraping the
bottom Of the barrel for forces
to brace their broken western
front. About the much talked
of German fort chain around
the Reich frontier, Eisenhower
declared that no defense sys-
tenn is better than the men
who defend it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-01
0PA DIRECTOR
QUITS OFFICE

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.-LP)-
The director of the standards di-
vision of the Office of Price Ad-
ministration, Harry D. Robinson,
resigned today and attributed his
action to a "do nothing policy"
within the agency with respect to
controlling the quality of clothing
and other consumer goods.
The resignation came only two
days after President Roosevelt. had
commended OPA Chief Chester
Bowles on the absence of internal
disputes in the. agency.
The retiring Official told report
e. his resignation was in protest
against a lack of action on my
recommendations aimed at pro-
tecting the public, and the tenden-
cy Of Congress to oppose price
CONTROL
He said congressional opposition
was reflected in refusal of the leg
islators to site price control and
quality control together"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-01
HUNGARY SEEMS
NEAR CRACK UP

LONDON, Aug. 31.-RAHungary,
new keystone of Adolf Killers
southeastern defenses, seemed on
the edge of a crack-up as neigh
boring Solvakia fell rapidly under
the control of Szechoslovak armed
forces and Romanian and Bulgarian
peace delegates waited in Moscow
and Cairo. respectively, to sign
terms of capitulations.
Moscow radio said information
had reached Switzerland that rail
way strikes had broken out in
Hungary and traffic on the three
main lines into Budapest was COM
pletely paralyzed. The report said
the whole country was ION the
verge of general strike"
The United Nations radio at
Algiers said that German troops
had occupied all strategic points in
Budapest, and that all official
buildings in the Hungarian capital
were under guard of German ma
chine gunners.
Hungarian newspapers carried
customary 1ast-ditch appeals but
also mentioned the growing peril
from military deserters, escaped
prisoners-o f-War, enemy mercen-
aries, criminals with no homeland
who are capable of anything, par
tisans and saboteurs infesting the
roads"
The extent Of the crisis in Aus
tria and Bavaria-which. are next
in line if Hungary fallsAwas hid
den under Nazi censorship. Swiss
reports, however, told of wide
spread arrests in these regions as
unrest increased, despair deepened
and Berlin officaldom tried to keep
its nerves steady.
The German radio said ''politi-
cal developments behind the south.
ern flank of the eastern front are
being closely watched" The radio
blamed Soviet agents for the
Slovakian revolt which it admitted
involved parts of the Slovak army.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-01
POISON GAS USE
WOULD BACKFIRE

LONDON, Aug. 31-|R-The Al
lies with their air fleets could re-
taliate a hundred-fold against Ger
many if the Nazls should resort to
gas warfare, military men de-
c1ared tonight, but they added they
thought it unlikely gas would be
used in this war.
If Nazi extremists bent on rul-
ing or running should employ gas
against civilian populations In a
better-end resistance, the Allies
would be in a position through
their air strength to drench Ger
man cities, one Briton in a high
position observed.
If the Germans should use gas
only on limited scale. such as
spreading blistering gases to hole
up Allied troops, the Allies woulo
be able to turn that into bao
battlefield bargain because of then
mechanical and air superiority.
Recurrent rumors that the CIR
mans are preparing to initiate gas
warfare bring no official reactlof
here.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-01

~ 2 r E NJ E HEADQUAR-
Ems ALLIED EXPEDITION
Any an FORCE, Aug. 31.-(P)-
general Eisenhower, bronzed
anu smiling, voiced anew to-
4lght his confidence that a vic
s wIy over Germany was pos
s.Ole IN 1914 and announced
VII. 1t. Gen. Omar N. Bradley,
S Sn1Se American troops are
.asAlng head-long toward Bel
ss.uin, has been made full
, Commander of American
e.lnles in northern France in
sqgdI status to Gen. Sir Bern
'lo L. Montgomery.
WI on,uefScoring Eisenhower's
S "Tla was a huge battlemap
r nsllnd him blazing with huge
.st t AFRO, arrows indicating the lat
81. Allied advances toward Bel
T. S'Nin and the German border
r, an invasion which he de-
ss,. eo was already fully five
'ss ahead Of schedule.
.o asked when he expected
,or ,5plete victory, the supreme
Mum nllhander said he would
,i a.u by his statement in Al
F ss Just before he left for
,ia asiand to take over the inva-
~" 1oh. At that time he said
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-01
HouseLeaves
Jobless
With States
r0NFEREES GET BILL
c,oulmittee Will Attempt
To Reach Agreement
On Measure

WASHINGTON, Aug. 81.
P,-Shouting down a sub
.+it7lte bill for broad liberali-
,atjon of benefits for the
postwar unemployed, n e
House passed by a voice vote
TODAY rehabilitation legisla-
linn leaving jobless compen-
sation in state hands.
The legislation was sent to a
eonate-House conference commit
w. 10 iron out differences between
the two houses.
s. Senate tand House were agreed
- leaving unemployment insur-
o 0ncp with the states, but the
uonse refused to accept the Sc
no+o provisions for a government
nrooram to refrain war workers
tor other jobs, to transport them
S w. home, and to put $500, 600 gov
ornment workers under employ
ment compensation at government
expense.
Nv humping 1873 to 81 vote. 1t
would have set federal standards
for iobless payments-running up
n q weeks at SIS weekly fer CIV
;Iians while raising veterans pay
ments from a present maximum OF
$40 to s35 weekly.
Then, after hearing pleas not to
nut premium on idleness,' the
House specifically rejected:
|. A proposal that the federal
government pay the transportation
If war workers back to their
home. up to 5000 per family. The
vote was SO to Al.
q The suggestion by War De-
mobilization Director that the
House substitute minimum STAN
dsrd for unemployment benefits,
with payments for top bracket
workers ranging up to at least $40
weekly for 26 weeks. State COM
pensation now varies widely, and
James Byrnes, the director, would
have the federal government help
nav the cost of attaining this mini
mum standard. The House voted
down the proposal. 113 to Al.
An effort to write in an amend
ment blanketing 100000 federal
employees Under the bill by Rep.
Forand ORD was ruled out OF or
| der.
Rep. Dingell, author of the sub
stitute bill. and Rep. Celler (D-NY)
! told the House it had the support
Of the A. F. of L., the CLIO and
the railroad brotherhoodS. In 1t
we're many provisions of the Muir
.ray-Kilgore bill rejected by the Sc
mate
Before the vote on the Dingell
BILL Chairman Doughton O-NC)
Of the Ways and Means committee
declared: Those who are sponsor
! ing this bill don't know what's in
it."
Rep. Knutson R-Minn), ranking
Ways and Means Republican, SAID
the question is whether we are
going to put premium on idle
ness or encourage individual I'M
tiative."
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-01
FOUR CARS COLLIDE
AT 3RD AND CHURCH

A collision involving four auto
mobiles at the corner of Third
and Church st. last night result
ed in the arrest of Johnnie E.
Lamb of Supply on a charge OF
reckless operation and driving
without brakes.
City police reported that Archie
Bordeau, 722 South 4th ST., stopped
on Third St. for traffic in front,
when he was nit by an auto driven
by James B. Mintz, SOB North 3rd
St. Mintz was struck from behind
by pickup truck driven by J.
r. Lewis, Route 3, Watch in turn
was hit by a truck operated by
Lamb, according to police.
Damage was reported to an
vehicles.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-01
Indicted Again

Teachers college, Gin any wise
pertaining to matters and
things referred to in the bill
of indictment or bill of par
ticulars," and to question state
witnesses.
the order specifics that Wall
may talk to states witnesses
sin the presence of Solicitor
Clark, or his associate, j. R.
Harrell."
DR.. Meadows applied for re-
tirement and relinquished the
presidency of the institution
after his board of trustees ex-
honorated him at a state audi
tors report that he mad unsst-
isfactrily accounted for more
than $4,000 in college and
student funds. The audit was
filed and hearings before the
trustees occurred earlier this
year.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-01
American Troops At Belgium Frontier;
Red ArnH|T anks Rumble Into Bucharest;
Allied lpture OF Lyons Held Imminent
BALKAN CAPITAL
FALLS QUICKLY
Citv Provides New Base
For Overland Sweep
Into Hungary

LONDON, Friday, Sept. l..
army tanks and
motorized infantry rumbled
into the broad avenues OF the
Romanian capital
5f Bucharest yesterday, Win
ming a great rail-air base for
an overland sweep into Hun
gary and southern Germany,
and also reached the Bulga-
rian frontier in a 30-mile ad-
vance below the captured
Black Sea port Of Constanta.
The dusty Second Ukraine army
units under Gen. Rodion Y. Malin-
ovsky, victor at Odessa, clattered
into 'the little Paris of the Bal
kans' after a 80 mile march
southwark from the burning Ploestl
oil fields, wrested from the bitter
ly resisting Germans Wednesday.
Other Soviet columns had turned
northwest of Ploesti, chasing the
retreating Germans nine miles be-
You'd the great oil center along the
roads leading across the Predeal
pass into Pennsylvania.
A 20 salvo salute from 1924 Mos
cow victory cannon marked the col
lapse of the Germans in Romania
and the entry into Bucharest.
The parade of big Russian tanks
and guns down the broad Calea Vic
toreia, Bucharest's main thorough
fare, came three. years and SIX
weeks after Romania made the IA
tai mistake of joining the Germans
in their June, 1941, attack on Rus
STA - step that has cost the
Romanians more than 300, 900 men,
either captured or who persisted on
the vast Russian steppes leading
far back to Stalingrad.
For Malinovsky, who, as a SER
geant in the First World War
fought beside American troops in
France, it was a great climax to
IL day terrific offensive begun
in the Iasi sector, 200 air line
miles to the northeast. Beyond lie
i the roads into Bulgaria, Yugoslavia
Hungary and Germany. Belgrade,
Yugoslav capital, is 275 miles west
of Bucharest, and Marshal Tito's
partisans are reported fighting on
that area.
On the Fifth anniversary of the
Nazi march into Poland, Sept. l,
1899, another huge Soviet army
had smashed to within nine miles
northeast of Warsaw, Moscows
communique said. in steady flank
ing movement on that capital.
Moscow said the Russian march
through Bucharest was made with
out incident, and that thousands lin
ing the streets cheered the REQ
Army and tossed flowers to the
men.
Bucharest was the second former
Axis capital taken by United Ma
tons arms, and Vie first by the
Soviet army.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-01

,GREENVILLE, Aug. 31-tA
The Pitt county grand jury
today returned an additional
true bill of indictment against
DR.. Leon R. Meadows, former
president of East Carolina
Teachers college, charging the
embezzlement of $18,636.34 of
college and student funds.
Solicitor D. M. Clark said.
the new bill was presented to
the court after the grand
Jury had heard additional testi..
mony on the various charges
already pending against DR..
Meadows.
The grand jury previously
had returned true bills against
the former president of the
institution charging him with
16 counts of embezzlement and
one of false pretense. Mea-
dows at that time was charged
with the embezzlement OF about
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-01

Two more declSlVely beaten.
The generals total of Nazi
losses, for the northern France
action alone since the June
debarkation on the Normandy
beaches, ran some $4,000 more
than the total of American casual
ties in all armed services and in
all theaters since Pearl Harbor.
But the cost still is grievously
high in men as we'll as materials,
Eisenhower's report and a news
conference statement from Under
secretary of War Robert P. Pat
te-son showed.
Patterson's announcement list
ed %, 249 new American armv cas-.
ualties for the approximate period
of heaviest action when Allied
forces were making their break!
outs through fixed German de-
lenses Into the main y. area OF
France. His repor twas for all
theaters. t<.
General Eisenhower reported
some representa- tive totals of ma
terial used and lost, topped by the
announcement that in support Of
the northern France operations
the air force has lost some 5000
planes and used up the equivalent
of 225 more in replacement parts
and spares. The filters, he said
dropped more thin $4,000 tons Of
bombs and used 100000 gallons
of aviation gasoline.
The. generals figures were six
days old and probably were IA
out of date in view of the thrusts
by American, British and Cana
dian forces toward Germany. Bel
GUM and the robot coast since
they were complied Aug. Is. The
report took no account of actor
in southern France which has
ruined a German army there.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-01
FLEEING NAILS
HEAD FOR HOME
Unequal Fight In Rhone
Broken Off By Enemy
Battered, Beaten

ROME, Aug. 31.-P-Al,-
lied capture of the great
French city of Lyon ITO miles
from the Mediterranean
beaches, appeared imminent
tonight after survivors OF the
German 10Th army broke off
the unequal fight in the
Rhone valley and resumed
their headlong flight before
1t. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's
American forces.
Nice, largest of the Riviera's
famed Fairgrounds, fell without a
FIGHT to an American force driving
east toward the Italian border,
about II miles away. The famous
resort city of 100000 population
was virtually unchanged except
for Nazi demolitions in the harbor
area.
Indication that the Tanks had
punched to the immediate vicinity
of Lyon, largest French city still
in Nazi hands, came in today S
official announcement that IRON
the vicinity of Livron to Lyon ia
distance of 10 miles, the Germans
are fighting where they are fore
ed to. and are delaying and block
ing at a heavy cost in men ano
equipment"
I ntheir pursuit Of the fleeing
enemy the American forces occur
pied Valence, SIS miles down the
Rhone valley from Lyon. French
troops, fast cleaning up the Medlt'
erranean coast line, occupied the
city of Montpelier and passed
through Narborne, the latter only
so miles from the Spanish border
From near Lyon Sid FEEDER
Associated Press war correspond
emit reported seeing three railroad
carloads of American Red Cross
supplies-plainly marked-that hac
been looted by the fleeing Ger
mans. He said smashed and tori
cartons of food and medical sup
niles were scattered over a wide
area.
The bag of German prisoners
rose so steadily that a total Of
50. 900 announced today was obso
lete before it could appear in print
Amid the litter Of abandoned en-
envy equipment on the roads soutf
of Lyon were many hundreds J.
German bodies-men sacrificed II
desperate gamble to get some
portion of the shattered 18th army
back to Germany.
Few of the Nazis streaming
northeastward out of Lyon appear
ed destined to reach the fatherland
Their escape route would leac
them through the old French fort
ress city of Belfort near the north
ern Swiss frontier-160 long, hare
miles from Lyon. An American
armored column of Gen. Dwlgh
D Eisenhower northern invasion
armies, dashing eastward from
Paris to intercept the beaten en-
envy force, was last reported a
Dizier, only ITO miles from Bel
fort.
What few Germans-if any =
succeeded, in running the gantle
were due to reach Germany witt
little more than their personal bag
gage. They already had left behint
| thousands of motor and horsedraWl
vehicles, and acres of guns ane
supplies strewn .along the ROAD
marked the flight of what Wa'
IN - . a,oo proI1I army
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-01
$4,000 in college and student

$4,000 in college and student
funds.
Clark said the previous true
bills and the one returned to-
day would be combined into a
single presentment and tried
at the same time, possibly at
a special term of court to be
called in October.
Meadows counsel today OBJ
tanned from Judge R. Hunt.
Parker, presiding over the
criminal term, an order grant
ing permission to F. P. Wall,
auditor and accountant hired
by DR.. Meadows, "to make a
special audit of the college
books"
The order permits Wall to
inspect and examine all origi-
nal records from which state
audit was made, now in pos
session of state auditors or the
treasurer of East Carolina
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-01
POWERFUL DRIVE
CROSSES MEUSE
Field Dispatches Report
No Major Resistance
Short OF Germany

SUPREME HEAD'QOA
TIERS ALLIED EXPEDI.
TIONARY FORCE, Friday
Sept. 1. - P) - American
troops have crossed thu
Mouse river near the Arden
mes forest in the Belgian
frontier in tidal offensive
stabbing into the outskirts Of
the historic battle city of Sc.
dan, and field dispatches ear.
ly today said the Yanks were
unlikely to collide with any
m al German resistance
short of the famous Sieg.
fried line, or West wall, on
the German frontier itself IS
miles east of Sedan.
The Meuse apparently was cross
ed between Sedan-where the Ger
mans broke into France in 1910
and Charleville, and hard riding
Yank armored units then famed
out against both towns just five
miles from the Belgian border.
A Rabble of disorganized Ger
mans was melting in the path Of
the Notwithstanding in an eff
fort to get into Germany, field dis
patches said.
/ Leaping in single day through
the Argonne Forest, where Gen.
John J. Pershings doughboys bat.
tied for six weeks, freewheeling U.
S. Armored units may already
have sprung the barrier of h
Mouse, just south of Sedan.
Matching the speed of 1t Gems.
Courtney H. Hodges and George S.
Patton, Jr., British tanks broke
loose into the open plains of Pic
cardy, and, advancing so miles in
two days, captured the cathedral
: and industrial city of Aniens,
where the "Black Day" defeat OF
the German army in 1918 induced
Germans to make their first bid
TO-, peace.
From strong bridgehead across
the historic Somme at Amiens, 1t.
Gen. Sir Richard Nugent OCon-
nor's armor plunged on 10 miles
to Corbie, SIS miles from the Bel
gian border, and virtually sliced
: off half the Germans buzzbomb
coast.
The Canadians, driving straight
> through Rouen, licked off 16 miles
5 to Buchy, only II miles south of
Dieppe, and a third of the way
across LIE Havre peninsula.
Supreme headquarters had no
; immediate confirmation of the re-
port that Sedan was almost reach
. ed, but latest accounts from the
field said the Americas were
= sweeping on to the northeast from
T Rheims, Laon, Chalons and Vitry
on a 90-mile front, unchecked and
scarcely hindered by totally dis
:, organized Germans.
II The Americans were simply
y motoring along in their tanks and
= armored cars, occasionally en-
: countering suicide squads, usually
e made up of a few rifIemen and an
antitank gun, at the cross roads.
n The spearhead near Sedan was
: the second aimed at the Reich,
d for it was announced earlier that
Gen. Patton's third army had
reached St. Dizier, 40 miles from
the old Maginot line and 81 miles
e from the Reich. Some field ac-
, counts said this column was fight
ing only 70 miles from the Sieg.
/, fried line in Germany.
: Even these sensational accounts
a apparently were behind the actual
l strides of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-
! hower's armies fighting along 4
winding 270-mile front.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-01

me river. The British made gene
raj advance in furious fighting,
capturing Bouchavesnes; Rancourt,
Morval and Beaulancourt, an d
seized 1000 prisoners.
Sept. l, 1910 - Sixty thousand
u. S. National Guardsmen were
called into active service for. one
year, beginning Sept. is, 1910.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-01
Allies Preparing
German Government

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.-LF-
The state department disclosed to-
|cay that work has started on or
sanlzing an Allied military gov
eminent to run Germany cnce its
armies lave been kraten into eth
ef chaos or unconditional surren-
| der
CONFIDENT with German threats
% Flelong The war while seeking
negotiated peace, the disclosure
yves 1--WE, positive evidences that the
nlleS have no intention Of giving.
"IManS a voice il thsic own i'm
.tos'e postwar future and are
sohs ahead with arrangements tc
IdAclt Germany in their own way.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-01
By The Associated Press

SEPT. l, 1918-American troops
fought on Belgian soil for the first
time, capturing Voormezeele ana
several strong positions between
that point and Ypres. Peronne also
fell to the Allies as the Austral-
ians forced. a crossing of the Som