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FURTHER u. S. DRIVES
Dismounted Texans Con-
tinue To Push Ahead
On Los Negros
By LEONARD MILLIMAN
Associated Press War Editor

American Marines captured Tai
asea and it's nearby airfield within
three days after they landed on the
jungle covered shores of Willaumez
Peninsula on New Britain's north
coast, Gen. Douglas Macarthur an
nounced today.
simultaneously he reported fur
Their advances DyUnited States SOL
diers on the two other Bismarck
Sea battlefronts--on Los Negros is
land in the Admiralty group and
on the northeast coast of New Gui-
nea between Saidor and the Japa-
nese base of Madang.
Landed Monday
Marines landed Monday on Will
laumez Peninsula, supported only
by solitary flivver plane tossing
out hand grenades. BY Wednesday
they took the Talasea emergency
airstrip, less than ITO miles from
Rabaul, and pressed on the next
day to occupy the village.
On Los Negros island dism cunt
ed Texas cavalrymen advanced an
other and a half miles against
big, well-trained Japanese Marines
many of whom killed themselves
rather than accept defeat.
Navy Catalina bombers, making
a foray up the northeast New Gui-
nea coast $50 miles west of their
customary hunting ground, forced
one ship aground and made the
crew desert another near the ex-
cellent harbor Of Hollandia.
Carolines Bombed
Central Pacific air forces en-
countered dwjndling antiaircraft
fire Wednesday as they renewed
their frequent raids on the eastern
Caroline islands and continued dali
ly attacks on four Japanese-held
atolls in the eastern Marshall is
lands. Airdromes and docks were
hit at Ponape, ground installations
at Kusaie. and gun enplacements
and airfields in the Marshalls.
Forty-six japanese planes were
destroyed in Allied raids on three
airfields in central Burma.
In Northern Burma American in
fantrymen began advancing south
from Walawbum, extending the
route of the Ledo road American
engineers are constructing to China
while other units of their force
joined Chinese in hopping up rem
nants of 1000 trapped Japanese to
the north.
This drive, under command of
1t. Gen. Joseph w. Stilwell. is
moving with a speed out of all
proportion to the three other Bur-
mese fronts to the south. Stilwell
is anxious to push through the road
and relieve aerial transports which
are flying around the clock from
India to China. avera gino three
crossings of the Himalayas daily.
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ALLIES REPULSE
BEACHHEAD SLABS
Two Small But Vicious At
tacks Beaten Off By
Americans
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Ma

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Ma
pies, March 10-tR)-Two small
but vicious German stabs at
American posltlons southeast of
Carroceto of the Anzio beachhead
were repulsed by Yank infantry
at dawn yesterday, leaving no.
mans land so clustered with enc
my dead and wounded that Ger
man details req ired several hours
to remove them under a Red Cross
flag Of truce.
The two attacks gained not a
yard of ground, reported Asso-
ciated Press Correspondent
Tucker from the beachhead Other
advices from that tense sector
reiterated that the Nazis were
making extensivo troop move
ments around the beachhead peri
meter, almost certainly in prep
aration for a fourth major try at
driving the Allies into the sea.
Supplementing yesterdays est.
mate that 10000 casualties had
been inflicted upon the Germans
in Italy since Jan. %, when the
landing was made at Anzio, head
quarters announced that the total
of Nazi prisoners taken in Italy
now had passed $1,000. Of these,
5000 were taken on the beach
head and $500 in and around Cas-
sino.
(There has been no comparable
announcement Of Allied losses by
capture in Italy, as only the enc
my could supply this figure. How
ever, it was disclosed earlier this
week that two battalions of Am
erican Rangers were encircled and
most Of them presumably captur-
ed by the Germans in the early
stages of the beachhead opera
tion.)
German Smelling Of the beach
head has dwindled to its lowest
point in over a month, with only
some 20 shells daily from long
range guns now falling in Anzio
and vicinity. There were periods
when these guns poured some 200
big projectiles per day into the
100-square-mile area. Allied at
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RUSSIA WILL GET
AMERICAN SHIPS
U. S., British Vessels To
Be Transferred Instead
OF Italian Fleet

WASHINGTON, March 10.-R-
American and British warships will
be turned over to the Russian navy
in satisfaction of Soviet wartime
claims on the Italian fleet, inform
ed reports said today and were
apparently borne out by statements
from President Roosevelt.
At the Chief Executives press
radio conference, the gist of these
reports-as related in an Associat-
ed Press dispatch-was read by a
reporter who asked for comment.
Mr.. Roosevelt replied that it was
matter of military strategy
which ships were going where and
perhaps he had better not say.
Along the same line, however,
he told the newsmen emphatically
that there was no conflict Whatso-
ever between what he has said
and what Prime Minister Churchill
has said about the Italian fleet.
1t would have been apparent all
along that there was no contro-
versy, he asserted, if some reports
of what he said a week ago had
not left out certain key words.
''Were those key words or the
equivalent reporter asked.
They were, Mr.. Roosevelt
agreed.
The President first disclosed last
Friday that Moscow had made a
claim on the Italian navy since
Marshal Badoglio's surrender was
to Britain, the United States and
Russia. He said it had been half
decided to transfer to the Red Ma
Wy about one third Of the Italian
fleet or the equivalent.
(The Associated Press account
for morning papers of March 4 re-
ported the words "or equivalent,
said they were not expressly clari-
ded-and added that they left the
possible implications the Russians
might take some other types of
war materials of equivalent value,
rather than ships "or" if ships of
the categories desired by the Rus
slams are not available in required
Britain or the United
States might supply them.')
In some quarters the Presidents
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stage AFL-CO rivalry for prestige
accelerated campaign to over
turn the Little Steel Formula, and
the troubled War Labor Board
turned to the White House for gui-
dance.
That formula, first originated by
the War Labor Board and since
incorporated into an executive or
der by President Roosevelt, limits
general wage increases to Is per
cent above the level of January,
1941.
The CLOS principal attack on it
now is through the demand by
the United Steelworkers for a wage
increase above the formula. The
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CLAIM l09 MILE GAP
Ten Nazi Divisions Report
ed Heavily Defeated
By Russians

LONDON, Saturday, March II.
--P9- Moscow announced today
that the Red Army had torn .
l09-mile gap in German lines in
a third great offensive in the Uk-
raine and heavily defeated" ten
Nazi divisions forcing them to
abandon over LOO mired tanks
and big guns and flee for their
lives.
More than 10000 Nazis were kill
cd and $500 captured by the pow
erful Russian thrust, Moscow an
nouncements said, and 300 popu-
lated places, including the pivotal
ST. orghold OF Uman in the middle
of the southern front, were cap
tlTed.
Five German adolf Hitler Tank
Divisions" which were intended
to stop our offensive were com
PEELED to abandon all their mill
tary and technical equipment and
recorded by the Soviet monitor.
This third offensive already has
relied forward from "a to A miles
IN five days. Stain announced in
al order of the day, thus setting
aplaze the entire Russian southern
front along a curving battleline
more than 500 miles long. 1t join
ed offensives already under way to
inc east above Nikolaev and Kher-
son and to the west in the region
of Tarnopol.
The Germans were retreating on
the Red army mounted a supreme
effort to throw them back into
each of the three big fronts as
Rumania and Poland or cut them
to pieces if they should elect to
make a stand in the Ukraine.
The latest push directed by new
ly-promoted Marshal Ivan S. Kon-
ev, commander of the Second Uk-
rainian Front, was pushing south
toward Bessarabia from the top of
the German salient into the Dnie-
per bend
On his right were the First Uk-
rainian Front forces under Mar
shall Gregory K. Zhukov moving
into southern Poland and toward
Rumania and on his left were the
Third Ukrainian Front troops of
Gen. Rodion Y. Malinovsky.
Zhukov's forces continued to
fight street battles in the town of
Tarnopol, the communique said,
while his left wing captured the
district center of Khmelniki and
more than 30 other populated pla-
ces. Khmeniki is on the Ukrainian
Bug River, "a miles northwest OF
V;nnitsa. Also captured was the
rail station of Uladovka, % miles
northwest of Vinnitsa.
Malinovsky'S troops swept up $50
more communities in the area west
Of Krivoi Rog, the communicate
said, and "retreating under the
blows of our troops, the enemy is
suffering huge losses of men and
material" The Russians captured
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AnotherPlane
Line For City
lgxis,,ssPlanned
lEY WITH FDR
4Saington Being Con-
.dered For Stop Route
To The Caribbean
Star-News Washington Bureau

SGdI.NCWS VdSAuS tOA ouAS
WASHINGTON, March 10.-Af-
ter four-year fight for CONNER
cial air service, which resulted u
designation by the Civil Aeronau-
tics Board of Wilmington as a stop
on a National Airlines route from
Florida to New York, the North
Carolina port city is now being
considered also for service on a
route planned eventually for ex-
tension into South America.
Representative Graham A. Bar
den of New Bern, and l.. Mendel
Rivers, of Charleston, revealed to-
day President Roosevelt has invit-
ed a group of Carolina and Vir-
ginia congressman to confer at
the White House tomorrow on the
application of Colonial Airlines for
an extension south from New York
to the Caribbean area. The plan
would also provide local service
to Carolina cities passed up by
the CAB in authorizing the Nation
al line from Jacksonville, Fla.
along the Atlantic coast to New
York.
Gov. Olin D. Johnston, of South
Carolina, and Mayor Henry W..
Lockwood, of c. arleston, S. c.,
president of the Atlantic Coastal
Cities Air Service association, will
accompany the congressional
group to the White House to press
for presidential approval for the
Colonial application
Under the plan, stops would be
provided on the proposed Coloni-
al route at Atlantic City, Norfolk,
Elizabeth City, New Bern, Will
mington, Myrtle Beach, and
Charleston, with other possible
stops at Savannah and several
Florida cities, before extending to
Nassau in the British Bahamas.
Colonial proposes eventually to in
clude further extension to Cam
aguev, Cuba; Port au Prince, Hal
ii; St. Thomas, Virgin Islands:
and Port of Spain, Trinidad, off
the South American coast.
The White House conference to-.
morrow will follow meeting at
Columbia last Monday, in which
South Carolina state officials and
civic leaders, headed by Governor
Johnston, adopted resolutions sup
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huin S. Cobb, Top Humorist; Fails
To Announce Nearness of Death

NEW YORK, March 10 Up -
Irwin S. Cobb, one of Americas
best-known humorsist, has voiced
his last quip, written his last
story.
The 67-year-old Paducah, KY,
author, actor and after-dinner
speaker, died today at the Hotel
Sheraton. He had been i'll for
three months.
In a coma during his last "a
hours, he was unable to keep a
vow made last December to Kent
Cooper, executive director of the
Associated Press, that he would
keep friendly newspapers fully
advised when he got ready to
depart.
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Move Underway To Put Wage Formula
Into Act Extending Life Of OPA

WASHINGTON, March 10.-R-
With pressure mounting for higher
wartime wages, movement de-
veloped on Capitol Hill today to
write into law the Little Steel
Formula curling wages.
Representatives Gore O.-Tenn.)
and Monroney (D.-Okla.) announc-
ed they will seek to add wage re-
strants to legislation prolonging
the life of the Office of Price Ad-
ministration, now due to expire
June 80. Hearings on measure to
extend OPA began today before
the Senate Banking committee.
The wage control issue got at
tention at the Capitol as an Off
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Army, Navy Men Can't Seek Political
Nominations But May Accept Them

developments, including:
IA letter from Secretary of
War Stimson telling Senator
Vandenberg (R-Mich) that he had
ordered discontinued from future
issues of the Army War College
Library Bulletin a list of maya
zine reprints which the Senator
said contained a smear" article
against the man he wants to see
president-General Macarthur.
PA unity luncheon at the
Capitol participated in by 40 of the
So Democratic Senators, including
members of all factions, and Of
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His letter to Cooper, prompted
by news stories of his illness at
that time, added that Cobb was
the only person on record who
did not, in similar circumstances,
say that ''the reports of my death
have been greatly exaggerated. "
In another letter. written the
same month to George H. Good
man, Kentucky CPA director and
lifelong friend, Cobb disclosed
that he realized the seriousness
of his condition.
"The doctors talk big about ul-
innate recovery but these babies
don't fool me-" he wrote.
nm Pape Twn. fol Ky
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Soviets Open Third Great Drive
In The Ukraine, Capturing Uman;
Marines Take Talasea Airfield
1000 Tobacco Strikers
In Durham Defy WLB

DURHAM, March 10-(R)-One
thousand men and women en-
ployes of the Durham plant Of
the American Tobacco company
tonight crowded themselves into
room designed for half that
number and voted unanimously,
amid roaring applause, to con-
tinue their strike here until hell
freezes over or the company signs
a union sho1 contract"
Running rough-shod over the rec
concentrations of their executive
committee, and defying openly for
the first tt e the mandate of the
regional War Labor Board in At
lanta that they return to their
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SENATOR WALSH
VISITS LEJEUNE

CAMP LEJEUNE, March TO-
senator David L Walsh, O-MassJ
Senate Naval Affairs Committee
chairman, today described this
Marine base as "the" biggest, best
organized and equipped I have
ever seen anywhere. -
After a tour of the 200-square-
nile reservation with Major Cen
eral Henry l.. Larsen, USMC, camp
commanding general, the senior
Masss chusetts senator expressed
his amazemeat with its facilities
Of every kind for military train
ing.
On the inspection trip, one of a
series which included visits to Ma
rlne air stations at Miami and
Jacksonville, Fla, and the Ma
slne Recruit Depot at Paris Island,
.. I, Senator Walsh saw how the
ooasf Guard, Sea-Bees, Medical
corps and Marine Land, Sea and
AT Forces train here as a team.
wish every American could
see this camp, particularly the
FAMILIES of the enlisted men and
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member of the reserve on active
duty, such as Stassen, could an
nounce as candidate without
waiting on a nomination.
The new regulations, clarifying
previous ones and bringing those
of the Army and Navy into line
for the first time, require re-
lease from active duty for any
military man elected to public
office.
They were made public at a
news conference with the Presi-
Dental comment that they were
not new and were not directed at
any one in particular.
The day brought other political
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NOTICE

Your Star-News Carrier Is
striving to give you better
service. If you should miss
your Star please call Star
News office before 9 a. m.
and one will be sent you by
special messenger.
Your carrier buys his papers
at a wholesale rate and re-
sells them to his subscribers
at a retail rate. He will natual-
ly be better satisfied, and
give better service if he makes
the maximum amount from
his route. Please have his
money ready when he calls to
collect on Saturday.
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AFL members of the WLB, or
their part, have asked the board
to recommend that Mr.. Roosevelt
lift the wage ceiling.
AS a result, it was learned, pub
lie members of WLB have decided
to seek conference with the Pres
ident for general canvass of the
situation and his advice.
Gore, who at the outbreak of war
sponsored unsuccessfully a bill to
impose overall ceilings on prices,
wages and profits, sad today that
for any control measure to be
effective all the major economic
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Ireland Refuses us.
Request To Gust Axis
Diplomatic Officials
ERE SAID SPY BASE
Irish Say They Are TAX
inc Effective Antics
pionage Measures

WASHINGTON March TO- Up -
The United States publicly accused
Ireland tonight OF affording a base
for Axis spies endangering the an
preaching Allied invasion of Eu.
rope, but the Irish government re-
Piled it was taking effective anti
espionage measures and refused an
appeal TO expel German and Japa.
nese diplomats from the country,
The State Department announced
that the request for expulsion of
the enemy officials held to be lead
ers in the spy ring, was trans
mitted to Prime Minister De VAL
era at Dublin February 81. The de-
partment made public the text of
note setting forth the spy ac-
cusations.
Text Is Released
simultaneously the Irish Legation
here issued the text of De Valera's
reply rejecting the request and
stating that should American
lives be lost it will not be through
any Indifference or neglect of its
duty on the cart of this state.'
De Valera also said ne had re-
ceived the assurance of the Ameri-
can government that it does not
contemplate using military mea-
sures-presumab bly, invasion of Ire
land-because OF rejection of the
request that the Irish eject the
enemy officials.
The American note. presented by
Minister David Gray had reminded
the prime minister of the vast mill
tary preparations now underway in
Britain and northern Ireland and
declared it is vital that informa-
ton from which may be deduced
their nature and direction should
not reach the enemy"
Lives At Stake
mot only the success of the oper-
alton but the lives of thousands of
United States soldiers are at stake.
Specific evidence of enemy es-
pionage operations within Ireland
were given in the assertions chat.
(1) the German legation in Dublin,
at least until recently, had posses
sed a radio sending set and (2)
German planes had dropped into
Ireland two parachutists equipped
With radio sending apparatus.
While acknowledging Ireland's
good faith in their efforts to main
ain strict neutrality, the United
States said it actually is impossi-
lie to determine with certainty
he extent of the enemy's Irish
BASED espionage against American
shipping and troops.
It then cited the fact that Ger
nan and Japanese diplomatic and
consular officers in Dublin still en-
Joy their customary immunity and
declared Axis representatives in
every country use these special
and irnmunities as
cloak foc espionage activities
against the United Nations"
The Irish government was speci-
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OPA Treble Damage
Suit For $331,184
Filed In California

SAN FRANCISCO, March 10
--(R-An OPA treble damage
suit for 1881, 1874 was filed In
Federal couI. here today
against the Italian-Swiss Col
ony Corporation for alleged
violations of ceiling prices on
bulk wines.
The )PA said the suit was
the largest ever filed in the
wine and liquor industry. Over
charges of from l IL to 7
cents gallon on brands dis
tributed nationally through
agencies in San Francisco,
New Orleans. Chicago and New
York were alleged.
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WASHINGTON, March 10-lR-
President Roosevelt today APPROX
ed joint Army-Navy policy
agreement which would permit
General Douglas Macarthur,
Lieut.. Commaner Harold E. Stas-
sen or other members of the
armed forces to become candl-
dates for elective offices but
would bar them from campaign
ing.
A regular Army or Navy man,
such as Macarthur, could be-
come a candidate, however, only
if a nomination sis rendered with
out director indirect activity or So
icitation on his part" while a
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jobs, the strikers loudly acclaim
ed their decision, during an ap-
plause-rocked meeting here to-
night, to remain away from the
jobs they vacated on February
% until their demands have been
met.
Sitting with his hands over his
eyes during the tumultuous SEES
sion was Paul Aymon, Atlanta
representative of the American
Federation of Labor, with which
the Durham tobacco workers I'M
ions are affiliated.
Aymon earlier had pleaded with
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NORTH CAROLINA - Sat,,rd.
creasing cloudiness and warmer u,,.,.
light rains in west portion in atter
neon.
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Evening star., 1944-04-19
Dah|gren Terrace Citizens
Re-eIect luers President

The Dahlgren Terrace Citizens
Association at it's meeting last
night elected as officers for the
coming year William H. Luers, pres
ident; Mrs. Nellie Dodson, vice pres
ident, and Mrs. Melvin r. Marloe
secretary. Both Mr.. Luers and Mrs
Marloe were reelected.
The group gave vote of appre-
citation to Senator Bilbo, Democrat
of Mississippi, for his work with the
Senate District Committee.
A motion was passed 20 refer to
the Northeast Council to investigate
the possibility of bus line between
Brookland and Anacostia.
John L. Fowler. public relation:
chairman for the Rhode Island Ave-
nue. Citizens Association, spoke or
the Covenant Act pending in Con-
gress and answered the members
concerning the bill
The meeting. held at the CROSBY
Noyes School, Franklin and Tenth
streets NE, was opened by the
president, William H. Luers,