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Evening star., 1944-06-08

many since May
"a, according to
word received
by his mother
from the War
Department.
A flight engi-
neer on a Bit
Flying Fortress,
Sergt. Rose has
b e n overseas
since April. He
was graduated
from Roosevelt
High S c h o o ]
and en- t er e d
service in March
1943. He was
Evening star., 1944-06-08
SHELTON Enters Army;
Goes to Fort Macarthur
Ry the Assnciafed press

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, June 8.-Come-
dian Richard (Red Shelton, 80,
became a member of the armed
forces yesterday and was sent to
Fort Macarthur.
Shelton and Muriel Morriscall,
blond model, took out a marriage
license last April but later called
loff the wedding. Sixteen months
ago he was divorced by Edna Marie
Shelton who continued In her lob
as his gag writer afterward.
Evening star., 1944-06-08

lore Lne war De-
g a n a n d W a s
crew chief of q
group of air me-
chanics.
S e rg t. Levin
W a S graduated
from Jefferson
j u n Tor Hi G h
School and at
tended McKin-
ley High Schoo
for two years be-
fore taking a jot
with the Carpe.
Co. He Joined
the Marines ir
,noo -
Evening star., 1944-06-08

ing in the Medi-
terranean, an
nounced on May
/. Four others
have been re-
ported missing
on an air mis-
sion over Ger
many.
Those killed in
the ship sinkings
were:
Pfc. Anthony
Arcaro, 20, son
of Mrs. Niche
lima A C a r o,
4l16 Thirteenth
Evening star., 1944-06-08
Reporter Describes
Beachhead Battle at
Start Of Invasion
BY WILLIAM SMITH WHITE,


Associated Press War Correspondent, Rep
resenting the Combined American Press.
WITH A UNITED STATES
COAST GUARD RESCUE FLO.
TILLA OFF THE FRENCH COAST
June s Delaye6.-From this so.
ton matchbox of boat, lurchine
about within a few hundred yard.
of the French coast I have watched
our troops dig out a narrow and
as yet, bitterly contested beach
head in the first phase of the Al.
lied invasion along these shores.
-Four of our columns are slowly
beating their way inland under
heavy German fire, which appears
to be coming from well-concealec
batteries, although Allied battle
ships, cruisers and destroyers are
giving the landing troops magnifi-
cent support.
Our tanks are being landed now
and our naval fire is ripping up the
initial landing beach strip just in
front of our troops in an area
about half mile wide.
Destroyers Pump Shells.
Our little vessel was one of So
odd in this flotilla assigned to ac-
company the invading troops right
to the shores edge as a mobile res
cue unit.
The area off which we now are
standing is just to the east of the
Cherbourg Peninsula proper. A Sc
ries of hills rise right from the
waters edge and our columns have
just surmounted these and are
fighting beyond the crest. Our de-
stroyers are standing broadside to
the beach and are throwing in shells
point-blank and also lobbing them
over the hills in an effort to get
the German batteries.
The enemy is after one of our de-
stroyers in particular and just
sprayed these waters with shell fire.
Our destroyers are replying thun-
derously and, to seaward, cruisers
and battleships are joining in.
The beachhead slowly is being
oeepened and the troop buildup is
proceeding fast, but the enemy ar
tillery still has not been silenced.
Three Landing Boats Hit.
Three of our landing boats have
been hit up to now, within our sight
two are burning and one has been
capsized. We just went In near
shore to follow a sinking American
troop barge-her only trouble was
her heavy load and she made 1t
after all.
1t appeared enemy mortars still
were operating from close range. We
were near enough to see every detail
of the beach--in fact near enough
to get occasional small-arms fire
over our heads.
The sky periodically is full of our
planes but so fart is now S pm
we have yet to see an enemy plane.
Our naval f1re-particularly salvoes
from the battleships-has leveled
off one section of the hills behind
which the enemy is holding on.
Wave after wave of Allied landing
craft is going in.
Our boat has yet to pick up a
casualty, and in this area even the
casualties along the beachhead itself
do not appear heavy. We just took
off two Seabees who landed on this
beach by error and are heading for
another. They say it is going pretty
well.
Evening star., 1944-06-08
444 Rescued hy Cutter.

A Coast Guard correspondent with
the f1otilla reported that the small
cutters operating with both Ameri-
can and English forces rescued at
least 444 troops and sailors from
drowning.
This correspondent said a boat
commanded by 1t. q. g. r. v. Nc
Mail of Gastonia, N c., picked up
126 survivors of three ships. Another
under the command of 1t. q. g.
Gordon w. Crafos, Oakland, Calf,
pulled 80 aboard.
Evening star., 1944-06-08
On the Roll Of Honor

Three District men and two from
nearby towns in Virginia are in
cluded on a War Department casual
ty list Of men killed in a ship sink
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-07
VALIDITY OF GAS
COUPONS WILL BE
CHECKED BY OPA

!, WASHINGTON, Dec. g. Up -
AsFeattee all gasoline ration cou-
gaS accepted by dealers will be
Clicked for validity.
!. announcing this today, the OPA
Sla that up to now the check has
.FeA on a spot basis, with only
d certain percentage of stamps ex-
'n M in each area.
), while all counterfeit or other
Nm wv invalid stamps now will be
% ~, against the account Of
w. receiving them. the "mar-
-. ,.l d error provision recently
'" nrr is being continued.
H.. nus provision recognizes that
" WI precautions dealers m a y
I tYsN some invalid coupons. 1t al
NJ m's credit for these to the extent
r W Oae per cent of each months
, %.alAe Of business, except in
N.Y., where there is evidence OF
Illegal e operation,
1, lns proposed 100 per cent check
i, " as;,. possible, OPA explained.
h. s4llilng The debiting operation
d W., ai-l NE agency's district offices
ts,s 'SN' regional verification CEN
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-07
COUNTY WAR BOND
SALES REACH 80
PER CENT OF GOAL
CONTINUED from Page One)

Of the campaign and now are head
ed, toward new over-subscription
marks.
The Carolina Beach War Loan
drive, sponsored by the Wave the
alter and the Parent-Teachers AS
sociation, was opened Monday by
Mayor A. P. Peay who bought a
$500 bond at the theater.
The following features f o the
prosecution of the campaign have
eeen planned by James Long
worth, manager of the theater, and
Mrs. F. D. Russell, president of
the P. T. A.:
A bond premiere on December
IA Of ''BoWery to Broadway, a
film starring Jack Oakie and
Maria Montez and not to be re-
leased commercially in the vicini-
ty in the near future.
Bond auctions at which high bid
ders will receive valuable prizes.
The first auction is scheduled for
December II.
A dance, with the music of Tom
NJ Heads orchestra, tentatively
planned for December 8 at h e
City Hall. Admission is by pur-
chase of two dollars worth of war
stamps.
Bonds for the motion picture
premiere will be sold by P. T. A..
volunteers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-07
U.S.. UNCERTAIN q
OF PEACE PLANS
Continued from Page One)

for the Serbs. In diplomatic quar-
tiers here there is every conviction
that the Serbs will never accept
Tito and that conditions in Yugo-
slavia are full of dynamite.
Czechoslovakia has worked out
stable arrangement with Russia
but Poland remains torn between
the rival eXiled government, which
has British and American support,
and the Lublin Committee of Ma
tional Liberation which has Soviet
backing. At the moment prospects
for bringing the two groups togeth-
er and settling the exiled govern
ments row with Russia over terri
tory are bleak.
AS for Italy, Allied differences
were pointed up by the American
admonition to Britain that the peo-
pie of defeated Italy and "even
more those of the liberated coun-
tries should choose their govern.
mentS without interference.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-07
POLICEMEN NAME
FORMER COMRADE
TO LOCAL BOARD

Robert H. Williams, former city
policeman, was elected to repre-
sent the Police Department on the
City Civil service commission, re-
placing C. w. Shackelford, at a
meeting at 6:45 pm. yesterday in
the council chamber at City Hall.
Nominations for the position went
to Williams and Henry Thurman,
and 48 policemen were present for
the election
Williams was a member of the
department for eight years, and
for the past three years has been
an employe of the North Carolina
Shipbuilding Co., in the engineer S
department.
Shackelford was elected to the
position following the resignation
in the spring of 1912 of E. W..
Carr, who went into office in 194l.
The incumbent member of the
board said yesterday he had re-
ceived no official notice from po-
licemen that they wanted his re-
signation. His term on the COM
mission was supposed to continue
until May, 1915.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-07
AMERICANS GAIN
ON LEYTE FRONT


to point south of Balogo on the
cast and Kang Dagit village in
land. the communique said.
THE enemy's line of reinforce
nlents by water through Ormoc bay
has been cut by our naval and air
forces" Macarthur said on this
third anniversary of the Japanese
attack on Pearl Farbor.
with the increasing pressure of
our ground troops the enemy's sit
uation must be regarded as seri-
GUS" the general said.
The communique told of Allied
air thrusts against Nipponese in
stallations, airfields and shipping
from the Manila area on the north
to the north coast of New Guinea.
dumped on airfields, destroying
parked planes. Three 1,000-ton en-
envy freighters were sunk-one off
Eondoc peninsula, southern Luzon;
another off BChol island in the
Philippine archipelago and the third
off the north coast of Flores. be-
tween Timor and Java in the Meth
erlands East Indies.
American fighters attacked JAP
anese defenses at Kananga. on the
road from Ormoc on Levte island.
destroying supply buildings and
dumps.
Ten japanese planes attacked
American shipping in Leyte gulf
but Yank fighter planes shot down
six of the attackers and anti-air-
craft gunners brought down two
more.
eve sustained some damage {"
Macarthur said.
In the American bomber attack
on Dumaguete airdrome. on the
south coast of Negros island below
Leyte, Sc tons of bombs were drop-
ped WITHOUT opposition. Two of the
Iank bombers were lost in mid
air collision, tie communicate said,
Hitting at Fabrica on the north
coast of Negros, American fighters
destroyed five of II Intervening
japanese planes
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-07

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
FORCE, Paris, Dec. 6-R- Gen.,
Eisenhower s great winter offensive
is behind the schedule of advance
which had been hoped for it in the
KEY sector as it nears the end of
it's first month. But by that very
fact it is all the more sure of &C
complishing is strategic purpose
a single, final and clea-cut victory.
This may sound contradictory but
here is the explanation;
The place where the pace of the
advance has Jagged behind the pre-
jumpoff estimates is the hot spot
of the entire battleline-the Co.
logne plain, where two American
armies still are battering at the
Roer river barrier, one-third of the
way to the Rhine.
Elsewhere there is every reason
to suppose the Allied Breaching of
the Saar river line and steady wi
dening of the hold along the west
bank of the Alsatian Rhine has
kept pace with the highest hopes of
its planners.
For appraisal of this great and
still increasing battle it must be
borne in mind that it came from
the-~same planning table as the
victory in Normandy. It's primary
purpose is not yard by yard or
mile by mile seizure of German
soil but the utter, complete and
final distractions of the German
army and German fighting power.
For that death blow it was ne
cessary first of all to engage the
German army-to create an often
sive threat SO terrific that the is
sue could not be avoided-to COM
NIT the Wehrmacht to the last
ounce Of blood in a battle from
which, once committed, it could
rot be Withdrawn.
Up to the hour when 1t. Gen.
George S. Patton, il. struck the
t1rSt blow OF what became SIX
army offensive there was no way
of foreseeing whether this strategy
would be successful. Now clearly,
it has been.
Germany still has reserves but
their number is skinny and re-
placements are hopelessly unable
to keep apace of the attrition rate
of 5000 dead OF long-term casual
ties per day.
The death battle the Germans
are putting up on the Roer line
gives the clearest evidence of all
by it's very stiffness and intensity
that the German army has been
plunged into the hilt.
:. Had the Allies been able to smash
forward two or three miles a day
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-07
CORRECTION NOTED
City Manager Clarifies Letter
To Civil Service Head

A brief article in yesterday S
Star concerning the status OF E.
M. Berry who was long chairman
of the Civil Service board, was in
error when it stated that City
Manager A. c. Nichols had re-
quested Mr.. Beery to present his
resignation to the council, and that
in reply Mr.. Berry had advised
the City Manager that he had been
reappointed for another term upon
the expiration of his term last
March.
Under date of December 2, Mr..
Nichols wrote Mr.. Berry that the
Council had considered the ap-
pointment of another person, add
ing: IT thought that you might
like to know of this situation so
if you wished you could send in
this (your) resignation before the
next meeting of the Council"
In his reply, dated December 5,
Mr.. Berry said: For your infor-
nation, will state that I was fully
aware that my time had expired
and under the conditions do not
feel that my resignation would be
in order"
Mr.. Berry explains that he was
serving merely as an interim chair
man up to such time as the Coun-
Gil desired to name a new chair
man
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-07
ATHENS WATTS
FOR ALL-OUT
ELIAS ASSAULT
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(COntlnued from Page One)
control over the center of Athens,
working out in concentric rings.
Militant British action was started
today when a truckload of British
soldiers was fired upon before dawn
from a roof. One officer was killed
and an enlisted man wounded.
Led by tank which battered in
the door of EAM headquarters, a
British platoon cleaned out the
building with half a dozen bursts
CT fire. One British soldier was
killed am dying Elias fighter was
found on the roof Most of the de-
tenders escaped. however.
The British also captured the
Communist party building on Con-
stitution square. forcing the main
entrance with hand grenades. They
seized AZ armed Communists, in
Guiding women
Continual fighting occurred dur
ing the day along the Athens
Piereaus road where it enters the
capital. British soldiers, angered
at the fatal attacks on their COM
rades, famed out around the
Acropolis and the ancient stadium,
two-tnirds of a mile southeast on
the opposite side of the highway.
Fighting also flared around the
Temple of Zeus and Hadrain's
Gate.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-07

what is happening in Greece and
Belgium easily might happen as
other countries are liberated. How
ever, some governments in exile,
realizing that four years under the
Germans undoubtedly have chang
ed the peoples views attempted to
formulate programs to keep all ele-
ments pacified until free elections
could be held.
Both the NorWegians and Dutch
have maintained close contact with
their people at home.
Out where home fronts had little
contact with their governments
there was a tendency to establish
their own regimes and lean toward
Russia for help.
Such has been the case of Yugo-
slavia and Poland, whose exiled
governments have been in constant
turmoil.
There is no evidence that Mos
COW has actively fostered the leftist
trend, although her influence has
taken deep root.
Russia has insisted all along that
she has no intentions of mixing in
the internal affairs of European
countries, except as to conditions
which might th1eaten her.
Throughout the war the Soviet
policy has been to back those who
fought the Germans and to this
end Moscow has offered encour-
agement and aid to the suppress
ed in Europe.
This and Russia's energence as
a great power undoubtedly has
zone much to promote the leftist
trend.
Only the years can clarity the
Ultimate result.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-07
ALLIES ESTABLISH
LAMONE CROSSING
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Continued from Page One)
less than a mile of the Lamone
river six miles west of Ravenna,
where the Germans have establish
ed new positions on the vast bank.
The British and Polish crossing
Of the Lamone southwest of Faenza
was made in strength, the COM
munique said, and forward ele-
ments pushed into the steep hills
beyond.
Patrols of the Fifth Army along
the central front. Immediately south
Of Bologna, key German supply
center in northern Italy, probed
into Nazi defenses on the ap-
proaches to the city.
In an offensive aimed at clean
ing out the northern Adriatic, Brit
ism warships and naval planes at
tackled the islard of Lussino on De-
cember 3, corlmunique said, DIES.
troying shipping and silencing enc
my gun batteries.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-07
vlvK AND BRITISH
AIR FLEETS BLAST
NAzI OIL SYSTEM

,.nov Dec 6.-lR-Allied air
+bo American Eighth air
a .,r by day and the Raj with
w., g,O r1ane blow at night, smash
., .s,i9 today at German oil plants
' T,o lI Raj targets, a synthetic oil
,,, .~' and two freight yards, were
p g+'' de9tified in an Air Ministry
.,ro,jncement shortly before mid
si..s. =, eo.,,
4 rerseberg ard t h e railway
r " that feed into the Ruhr at
Eeleeeld were attacked by 1000
american planes. 1t was the 18th
i,vjgbt at acl on Merseberg.
Some 800 Fortresses and Liber-
;t'w escorted bv similar num-
mr. nj Thunderbolts and Mustangs,
dyopped 1900 tons of bombs
through the clouds by instrument.
-Four bomber5 and tw o fighters
we're los to heavy flax, but there
vas 70 German fighter opposition,
dominique announced.
The German radio reported to-
ng5t that more bomber formations
were over the Reich.
Il appeared that today's aerial
offensive in support of land armies
in he seventh month of their drive
from the channel on Berlin. would
brine far past 10000 the total of
gl9no oDeraGonS in three days.
The bombing OF Beilefeld COM
lstng a trianqle of rail targets
where Inc Germans have been
being men, ammunition and sup
Pies Ia he Roer river front be-
70" Cologne.
Fiahter bombers of the U. S.
Nh Air Force in Italy ranged over
aF Verona area destroying rail
mad locomotives and cutting the
Sren0er Pass rail line into Ger
Sa1v in two places. Liberators of
ter $. 18th Air Force. cooperat.
A' with The Fec Armv. bombed
,a Yards on lines leading to the
front IN western Hungary.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-07

ever, have the support of Allied
commanders, Camus asserted.
10 put it in nutshell, we are
row watching, in vicarious way,
d latent conflict between European
resistance and the armies of lib.
Grafton
Fernand Demany, Belgian resis-
lance leader who resigned from the
government, asserted that the other
ministers do not seem to under
stand the enormous evolution
which has been taking place in the
Belgian population.
"a relentless battle is going on"
ne said, between those who ca
pitulated to the enemy, the war
pofiteers and collaborators, on the
one hand, and, on the other, the
elite of the nation-the resistance,
which consists of decent people,
from laborer to middle Glass;
1t generally is agreed that Brit
ain has been put on the spot. Leftist
newspapers have attacked her pol
icy Of supporting the governments
in power and have accused her OF
recognizing non-representative re-
gimes.
The Communist Daily Worker
said editorially yesterday that
British policy in Greece is on the
brink of catastrophe that may stain
the good name of Britain in Eu-
rope for generations to come. The
only way to avert civil war in
Greece, to restore coincidence in
British good faitE. throughout Eu-
rope, is to end this policy of giving
blank cheques to reactionaries and
brow beating all who mistrust
them"
Diplomatic observers believe
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-07
,15TVAR RESORT
PA PLANS Are URGED

a. Raaey, president of the
,'1 10, Of Commerce, presented
r'''Y' Cartier, secretary OF the
f'''s- -.o.ion 10 the Kiwanis club
8: .;'a.4 ,ssv to discuss Chamber Of
w.. ,ssrcc activities
.ai-( Csr+ier devoted most OF his
IT. ". u address TO the need for
srnlal o " of development
d P poem resorts in this vicinity
lbe 0e5 5;.,o postwar undertaking.
Il. ls" he declared, will consti-
19Fis'S' orea s bumper crop, and
1' me g "a progress will depend in
u area a.sIIre upon the way in
>t9s .ae crop is harvested.
5a'n United si[ out the need Tor a
BE- P E,..,b the best accommoda-
p' @ ad accessories, 'sucn as a
.sa' aliu and facilities for rid
pl SoJ hiking. But he put the
D! anu anu emphasis on the need for
q ''s ED effort among all the
! aa nj. toward a common goal
tss:}e esncSed also upon the wrap
He t0u0" .,..,, service now be-
r1ss anu ..5arcted by The Chamber OF
~ ;apo", for which the business
c5nl1se- wilmington y, are paying. 1t
nsl o. o.. nr,iect, he declared, but
ia t.a .sd r the hope that this will
@9fe'''1r last year that it will be
be t ts.s -5j IN the Chamber of Com
coada''S offices because it largely
per'' y- +bo routine procedure OF
di'foe VA By next year, he sald'
the '.a+'. 70 be possible to remove
i 'ls WV. 10 some other quarters
t +5i p p9der Chamber of Commerce
s11 i, .Iao dwell. briefly on the or
ht he siSy good neighbor policy
ssallzo ,5;na m a more intimate and
BY E.. oalLr'"T relationship with other
tienoA! ~ titles in this trade ter
-;tnrv
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-07
WEATHER

Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm. yesterday.
Temperature
1:30 am. SO; 7:30 am, 80; 1870 pm, SO;
1880 pm, 80.
Maximum g.; Minimum 81; Mean 46;
Normal so.
Humidity
1:30 am, 81; 1880 am, 81; 1870 pm, II;
1870 pm, 46.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 7:30 pm,
600 inches.
Total since the first of the month,
600 inches.
Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
High Low
Wilmington -------------- 3:06a 10:16a
3:28p 10:52p
Masonboro Inlet ------- 1:0Ga 7:04a
1:18p Tap
Sunrise, 705 am; Sunset SOB pm.
Moonrise. -; Moonset, 12:49 pm
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-07
Yank Schedule Seems Sure
OF Victory Despite Delay

it would have been a sign the We
hrmacht was either only partly
committed or was openly withdraw
ing.
American armies would have
been on the Rhine by now. perhaps
at Cologne or Dusseldorf, but they
would have had that great water
barrier to cross, with the We
hrmacht still in front of them. on
it's feet and fighting.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-07
Lemon Juice Recipe
Checks Rheumatic
Pain Quickly

" nepri,i1' iler from rheumatic, arthritis
sensiyss pain, try this simple mex
taags nome recipe that thousands are
Pound, =. d package of RU-EX Com
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Results oiIcfimes ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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BY SAVING is for sale and recommended
"etywhere DIug Store and drug stores
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-07
SERVICE MOTHERS CL11R

The Service Mothers club
will hold its regular meeting
tonight at the USO club, Fifth
and Orange street. Officers to
serve for the coming year will
be elected. Plans will be dis
cussed for a Christmas pro-
gram for service men and wo-
men. Two fruit cakes will be
awarded at the meeting to-
night.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-07
DE GAULLE, STAIN FARLEY

MOSCOW Dec. 6. -(R- Pre-
mier Stain and General deGaulle
early tonight had the third Of their
talks since the French leaders ar
rival here last week for discussions
of political and military matters.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-07
NAZI CONVOY ATTACKED

LONDON, Thursday, Dec. 7.-(P)
Allied planes attacked a SOUTH
bound German convoy off Bohu-
slaen, north of Gothenburg, early
today, Reuters dispatch from
Stockholm said, one vessel was
sunk and others damaged, it was
repOrted.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-07
City Briefs

MERIT BADGE COUNsELORs
Merit Badge CounselOrs for
Wilmington district, Boy Scouts
of America, will meet at the
court house tonight at 8 O'Clock
for a discussion on counseling
with Scouts.