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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-14

interspersed throughout and the comedy is excellent. The show will play two performances Saturday to wind up its engagement.
 Starting next week burlesque will return to Jacques and the manage ment is planning to bring back all the old time favorites.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-14
HUTroN-Tor GOES WESTERN

Because of her performance in early western sequences in Para mounts "Incendiary Blonde" Tech nicolor production based on the life on Texas Guinan, Betty Hutton, CO., starred in the picture with Arturo de Cordovva, will get starring role in '"The Californian" story of pio- neer days in the state.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-19
10 JAP BARGES
SUNK OFF SAIPAN

U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, June
l0-P,-A Japanese attempt to
counter-attack the Yanks fighting
desperately on southwestern Salpan
island, was repulsed with the des-
tructon of ID japanese troop-car-
rying barges, Adm. Chester M.
Nimitz announced today. .,
Armed American landing craft
On Saturday smashed this move
ment to land troops south Of Cara
pan and cut off the Americans VINO
have already captured approx
mately ten square E1iles CT the IS
land.
The capacity Of Japanese barges
varies from twenty to 100 men. 30
Nipponese casualties might nav pe
been anywhere rom 260 to 5oo
troops.
The brief communique did mol
say whether any Of the enemy
soldiers landed. Nor did it nlnt q
the number of Japanese craft III,
volved. II
Nimitz did not indicate what type
Of landing craft repulsed the coun
terattack nor whether the enemy
used any larger supporting YES
sells.
Lacking the latter information, |
was presumed that the Nipponess
attempted to slip along the snot,
for sneak strike in the darhlles'
Of early morning.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-19
Postwar Group To Name
Scientific High Command

WASHINGTON, June 18-R-A
twelve-man committee of Army,
Navy and scientific experts will
get to work this week on one Of
the least known but possibly one
of the most important proposals
for postwar secucity-the creation
of a scientific high command
ranking with the command stats
of the Army and Navy.
Some Of the persons backing the
project. who include Navy secre-
tary Forrestal and War Secretary
Stimson, are said to feel that this
shares top place with their plans
to prevent the scrapping Of the
nations naval, land and air power
after the war.
One Of the main detectives Is
TO set up the organization in such
a way that it will be responsive
to new and daring ideas in war;
fare and will not be open to the
charge Of BRASS hat" conserva.
tism or interference.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-19
MERCURY SCARS
TO NEAR RECORD

Wilmington suffered its hottest
day of the year yesterday as the
temperature scared to an even 100
degrees, within one degree of the
all-time record for June, Paul
Hess, local weatherman, said last
night.
The all-time high temperature
for the city is 103 degrees which
occurred in July number OF years
an. j.,
The heat wave is general
throughout the south. In some cities
the heat was, aggravated yesterday
by a shortage of ice. No relief
is likely for the next two days &C
cordine to a general weather fore
cast.
Albany and cambridge, Ca,
sweltered in 102 degree temper
atures. Those were the hottest
points reported by the weather man
in mid-afternoon, but the mercury
rocketed to 101 in Columbia S. e.,
and Augusta, Ga. That also vas
the official reading at the Naval
air station near Atlanta.
Other temperatures: COLUMBUS
Miss, Tuscaloosa, Ala, and But
Ter and Adairsville, Ca, loo;
Macon, Ga, Montgomery, Ala,
and Tallahassee, Fla, 49,.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-19
SHOW FEATURES
BOND CAMPAIGN

AS the Fifth War Loan drive
enters it's second week in Will
mington and New Hanover county,
TODAY a benefit show "And the
Angles Sing is expected to high
light the week tomorrow night.
Admission to the performance
NAV be obtained only through a
ticket received for the purchase
of an extra war bond from an
issuing agent.
The musical comedy, to be pre-
scented at $3.50 o'clock at the
Bailey theater, will feature Fred
McMurray, Dorothy Lamour and
Betty Hutton, with supporting cast
composed of Diana Lynn, Mimi
Chandler, Eddie Foy, Jr. and
Raymond Walburn.
This morning, the women's dl-
vision of the war bond drive will
start a survey of Wilmington mer-
chants who are selling bonds in
their stores. It is their goal to
attain the cooperation of 100 per
cent of the retailers in soliciting
bonds, either by filling out ap-
plications or discussing bond
sales with customers.
Reaching more than one fifth
of the city-county quota of S., 7O7,-
600 during the first week of the
campaign war bond sales had
reached $1,249, 637.50 up to last
night. Sales of the E series of war
bonds to date total 1914, $3.50.
j. G.. Thornton, chairman of the
city campaign, said the pleasing
aspect of the bond drive is that
40 per cent of the total sales are
in E bonds. ..
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-19
OIL PLANTS HIT
IN HAMBURG AREA

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
ALLIED EXPEDITE o NARY
FORCE, June 18--R--An all-Ame--
lean armada of more than l,3OO
heavy bomber dealt Furnishing
blows to oil 1efineries and storage
plants in the Hamburg area and
other targets in northwest Ger
many today while up to ESQ other
heavy bomers pounded the Pas
De Calais sector of France in the
sixth Allied assault on that Ger
man secret weapon" bases area.
This continued assault on the
Pas-DeCalais area came as the
Germans continued their flying
bomb attacks On southern Eng
land throughout the day and on
into the evening, causing addi-
tional damage and casualties.
Just before dark, a long pro-
cession of Raj bombers headed
across the Channel toward France.
Several hours later their targets
still had not been officially iden-
titled.
Although American planes
struck from Hamburg on down
through western Germany, where
three airfields were bombed, and
on into the Paris area, where
Mustangs attacked supply lines,
the. German air force put up nc
serious opposition.
Not one enemy fighter arose te
challenge the great fleet striking
into Germany but the Germans
threw up flax barrage described
as one of the heaviest ever en-.
countered.
Numerous oil refineries and
depots were battered in the Ham
burg area raid, the headquarters
announcement said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-19

Nehou. That is where the
Americans battered the Ger
mans in one Of the bloodiest
encounters of the invasion.
st. Jacques de Nehou lies
directly north of the st. Lo-
D'Ourville crossroads, where
the doughboys first sliced
across the peninsula road to
cut off the enemy escape
route. 4..5
There, near st. jacques the
Germans made their bid to-
escape, under orders rumOred
to have been from their high
commander. But before Civ
ing an account of this bitter
engagement, there is some
background which should be
given.
When the Ninth division
burst through stldbborn-Gen>
man defenses on Friday and
swept forward toward the sea.
units of the division drove
to the high ground east Of
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-19
Yugoslav Factions
Reported In Accord

BARI, ITALY, June 49,. Up :
Marshal Tito and the royal Yugo-
slav government announced today
an accord had been reached to
help the peoples of Yugoslav lib
crate their country as speedily as
possible.
The accord was reached at con-
ferences in Yugoslavia attended
bv DR.. Ivan Subasic, chared by
King Peter of Yugoslavia to form
new cabinet under the royal
government in exile; Marshal
Tito, guerrilla chieftain and head
of the national liberation COM
mittee. and other parties.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-19
5 Jap Freighters Sunk
50 NIP PLANES
HIT BY YANKS
ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD,
QUARTERS. New Guinea, Mon.

ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Mon
day, June 19-(P)-Mitchell medium
bombers sank five Japanese mer-
chantmen in a folloW-up raid upon
Sorong in Dutch New Guinea, head
quarters announced today.
On Friday, more than SO Mitch
ellis with Lightning escort hit
Sorong drome and destroyed more
than so enemy planes on the
ground and in the air.
In the second attack on Satur-
day the medium bombers sank two
5000 ton ships and three small
freighters and damaged two 1,5OO-
ton vessels. Six small coastal YES
sells also were wrecked.
On Biak island off Dutch New
Guinea Americans were closing
in on the Japanese forces atop a
ridge north of Mokmer airdrome.
One hundred and twenty-five
more Jap dead were counted Fri
day.
Liberators meanwhile dropped ~
tons of bombs at Truk and 56 tons
at Rabaul airdrome.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-19
Rocket Planes Again
Hit Southern England

LONDON, June ;18- ZAP Adolf
Hit1er,s stubby winged comet
bombs. scattered obstruction
across southern England today, as
the trumpeting Berlin radio ap,
nlied the new tag Of Hell
Hounds, to the wierd weapons and
coriured. up fantastic pictures OF
Hhorror and devastation" in their
" hut this weapon no longer was
secret to British ground gunners
!; and fighter pi1ost who rapidly J,
were getting their sights trained
On the ghostly rockets. A number
we're believed 10 have been de-
stroyed in flight.
Raj fighters patrolling over the
channel and on the watch for the
nilotless planes. were believed to
have bagged at least one during
the morning, and during. the night
the path of the bombs when
zooned inland was marked by
so1id bursts of anti aircraft fire.
| r. ~ g. n
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-19

Barneville, while another unit
pushed on to a ridge north
east Of st. Lo-D'Ourville.
Then units Of the northern
force pushed on into Barne-
vile, whine southern troops
moved into St. Lo-D'Ourville,
thus cutting the coast road in
two places.
In the meantime the enemy's
18th division troops attempted
to withdraw south to La Haye
du Puts, but the routes of
withdrawal already had been
cut by dOughbOys moving much
faster than the enemy had an
ticipated. -
The German nth division
made desperate effort at 6
a. m. today to break through
the doughboys' wedge of steel.
Their infantry supported by ar
NOR, moved southwark. 1-
In the early morning haze,
battle of small arms fire broke
Continued on Page Two; Col.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-19

COW dll11O Q1lOOO So11y COoNV'
Finnish Premier Edwin Linko-
mics, acknowledging that the Rus
slams had scored a considerable
success" in their effort to knock
Finland out of the war, called on
his people to fight on to the end
I'VE are fighting for our free
DOM. Linkomies said in Helsin'
XII broadcast We cannot imagj ne
life here except as free and In
dependent people"
Koivisto, western anchor of In
old Mannerheim line, was selzeH
by the Russians who pushed or
through Makslahti, II miles SOUTH
of Viipuri, the Russian communl-
que said. Koivisto, also known as
Piorko, is on the Gulf of Finland,
and its capture represented a 3d.
mile coastal gain in nine days
since the offensive began June IL
at Beloostrov.
Viipuri, with a peactime pobula
ton of 10000, is being evacuated
German broadcasts said.
The Russians were declared tt
have gained all along 72-mlle
front from Koivisto and Max.
slahti in the west to Valkjarvi ane
Rautu in the east. Valkjarvi is q
miles from Lake Ladoga, and Rau
l.. =: ~ ,,,i1eS inland
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-19
Japanese Capture
Chinese Positions

CHUNGKING, June 18. = h =
Three Chinese strongholds naye
fallen to swift, slashing japanese,
advances in Human province, avia :.
10 the north i Hoan provlce. lis
enemy also has made serious
gains along the Peiping-Hankow
railway, the Chinese high con-
h2Ad admitted tonight.
Diving to me south OF os-paseso
ChsA9sha, The japanese have csp.
tired Chucow, rs miles norlle's ;.
81 he vital railway junction 9,
hengyang ard IS miles sou.ncaS'
Oh Casrgsha, while another COZ,
INN, driving Is miles southwest g
NE surrounded provincial cap.'..
seized Siang,an on the west pan, an,
VI me SIZING river, conmunlqu>
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-19
100 ATTENDING
LEGION MEETING

ASHEV1LLE, June 49, R -
More than 1,100 delegates had reg
istered tonight for the three : day
state convention of the American
Legion and it's Auxiliary, which
was launched this morning.
Those who had registered includ-
ed some 500 members of the Lee
gion, including 300 members of
the 40 and 8, Fun and Honor So
ciety of the Legion, and about $50
members of the Legion Auxiliary.
The Legion convention program
will get underway tomorrow morn
ing at o'clock in the city audit
orium, with Department Comm an
der Robert C.. Stevens of Colds
boror presiding. The visitors will
be welcomed, on behalf of the Xii
fin Rockwell and C. W. Francy
posts, by Mayor L. Lyons Lee, of
Asheville, and George K. Snow of
Mount Airy, department vice-com-
mander will respond.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-19
French Repel
Nazii Troops
On Elba Isle
EIGHTH ARMY GAINS
CoIonials Rout Germans
From Fortifications
On Barren Island

ROME, June 18. - up -
French Colonials cleared the
Germans from their central
and southern strongholds on
Elba today in a drive to Sc
cure the seward flank of a
mainland push rolling up the
Italian peninsula all along the
line.
The Eighth army fought yester-
day into the outskirts of Perugia,
big road hub IS miles north Of
Rome, and about 70 mile ssouth-
east of Florence, near where the
enemy may make a stand for what
may be a final reckoning in Italy.
The Fifth army wae meeting lit
tie resistance in it's drive north.
Dispatches from the barren isle
where Napoleon spent his first ex-
lie revealed the operation was a
combined effort of the Allies with
the French storming ashore after
British and United States naval I'M
it's, with an assist from British
commands and Allied air forces,
had cleared the way.
Associated Press Correspondent
Joseph Dynan in a field dispatch
said ships were bringing wounded
to Bastia, in Corsica, across the
narrow strait from Elpa, and that
number of prisoners had been
taken. -
(The German communique de-
clared forces landing in the north
and southeast of the island were
thrown back into the sea, but &C
knowledged bridgehead had been
established at Marina di Campo,
on the south coast and said a coast
al battery had damaged British
cruiser of the London class.)
A brief naval announcement said
British and U. S. units carrying
the French to Elba were preceded
by minesweepers while gunboats
poured their fire on shore defenses.
Dynan reported British naval COM
mandos slipped past the German
garrison, entered Colo di Campo
harbor and knocked out gunboat
lying at a jetty in Marina di Cam
po with a sudden volley of IS gre
nades.
The assault craft tossed graphing
irons onto the gunboat in the old
naval tradition, threw in the gre
nades, wiped out the crew with he.
volvers, bayonets and blackjacks
then withdrew as German batteries
opened up on their own gunboat
and blew it up with shot into the
ammunition locker.
Once ashore, famed French Co.
lonials and a COMMUNICATIVE bat
talon made up chiefly of refugees
from metropolitan France, assign
ed to a special mission of clearing
out enemy strong points in south
ern, central and southeastern E1ba
achieved every objective ahead OF
schedule, headquarters announced.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-19

smash through to the port OF
Cherbourg.
1 visited the closed corridor
today with Other correspon-
dents and got an idea Of the
confusion which enveloped the
Germans when the American
advance swept forward SO that
the last of the enemy units
were literally running in cir
cles trying to find a way out
Of the trap.
But there was no way out
except 10 Overrun the Yam
KEGS strangling line to the
sea-and the Germans already
had tried that and failed.
The Americans cut the west
ern coastline road in two
pIaces-at Barneville and at
St. Lo D'Ourville- and i'm
mediately got set to repulse
the Germans counterattack-
ing which came today.
It literally was a massacre
the massacre of st. Jacque de
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-19
Major General Uhl
Visits Camp Davis
On Inspection Tour

CAMP DAVIS, June 18-Ma-
jor General Frederick E. Uhl,
commanding general. Fourth
Service Command, left here
this weekend 10 return to
Atlanta after an inspection
tour of this installation, his
first trip to Camp Davis since
assuming command Of serv-
ice units in this area.
Accompanied by his chief
of staff, Brigadier General
Sydney Erickson, General Uhl
was received at the air field
by Colonel Adam E. Potts,
camp commander, who escort
ed the official party on a tour
of the camp. During hiss visit,
General Uhl met members Of
the camp staff and discussed
with officers and enlisted men
the work being done here.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-19
Los Angeles Feels
Strong Earthquake

LOS ANGELES, June 178.-(P)-
Thousands of Sunday theater-goers
in downtown Los Angeles, Long
Beach and Inglewood felt the jolt
Of strong earthquake at SOB
o'clock this afternoon. 1t lasted for
a few seconds but caused no prop
erty damage of consequence.
Windows in thousands of homes
were ratified. Some glass was
broken, and stock was knocked
from store shelves.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-19
Nv DON WHITEHEAD


WITH AMERICAN. TROOPS
ON CHERBOURG PENINSU-
LA. June 49, Up -American
troops have cut through the
Cfelbourg neck in a '1ast
mile" drive and have. beaten
off the first fanatical German
attempt to break out of the
PENINSULA trap.
The American Ninth division
solidly sealed the last energy
escape corridor today, Gaping
a dramatic and historic three
and-a-half day drive west
ward to the sea.
The doughboys cut the pen
insula's west coastline high
way last night and officially
reached the sea at IL pm.
June II to climax. the swift
thrust.
Now the stopper is in the
bottle and the big question IS
how long It will take to clean
out stubborn resistance ana
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-19
SEVEN MzLE-WzDE PATH CUT
ACROSS NECK OF PENINSULA;
$4,000 GERMANS ENCZRCLED
|NAN DIVISION
|
BADLY SLASHED
Bloody Massacre Results
When Enemy Attempts
To Break Out

SUPREME HEADQUA R.
TIERS ALLIED EXPEDI-
TIONARY FORCE, Monday,
June 10. - P - American
troops, headed by the Ninth
division blasted a seven-mile-
wide path across the neck of
the Cherbourg peninsula Sun
day, putting a stranglehold
on $4,000 to 10000 Germans
in and around the priced port
of Cherbourg, and then slash
ed the Nazi 77th division to
pieces in a bloody massacre
when the enemy frantically
tried to break out.
The Allied midnight commune
que, confirming earlier dispatches
direct from the field, said the
peninsula was cut off from the
rest of Normandy when the Amer
leans reached the west coast near
Barneville-sur-Mer.
That was the exact point where
the cutoff had been planned by
officers who worked out the prob
lem on sand-tables long before
the invasion Of France began June
6.
The battle on which the success
of the bold American stroke hing
ed began seven hours after the
first troops had reached the sea.
It ragged for two hours, with the
ninth division laying down the
heaviest concentration of mortar
fire since D-Day and ciimaxing
it with an artillery "serenade'-
a laundering chorus of every
available gun hurting shells into
the point of greatest danger.
The German 77th division, at
lacking in waves, virtually COM
mitted suicide in this inferno.
It's remnants finally fled north
under relentless assault from AL
lied fighter planes and dive
bombers that Uttered the roads
to Bricquebec with new Nazi dead.
American Thunderbolts alone
were credited by the Ninth ali
force with killing or wouading at
least 300 of the fleeing foe.
Following up the Nazi retreat,
the Americans steadily Widened
their salient and rushed up re-
Inducements and guns in antici-
patton of new counterattacks from
either north or south.
Reports from 2lst Army group
headquarters said, . however, that
any real rescue attempt by the
Germans was unlikely and that
the vital port of Cherbourg would
not remain long in enemy hands.
The Allied communique contain
ed word of new developments
elsewhere on the front but con-
firmed that in the center of the
beachhead area a steady advance
had brought the Allies within six
miles Of ST. Lo, key road juno
ton. On the eastern flank, the
British and Canadians still were
tightly engaging German armor.
Despite low clouds over Europe,
1900 Flying Fortresses and Liber-
ato-s-the biggest single force yet
hurled against a tactical target
in davlig ht-pounded Germany,
while lighter planes ranged the
Normandy battlefront in variety
of attacks.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-19
Congressman Seek
Early Adjournment

WASHINGTON, June 1s-h-A
y, ont1,long recess starting next
Saturday, its goal, Congress will
zen no it's legislative machinery
,t,is week to dispose OF a for
r mi, array of major measures.
eleven appropriation bills top
docket crowded with legislation
daali,g with termination Of war
contracts. regulation of insurance,
nr;t.e control and the Women's
| Airforce Service Pilots.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-19
Chinese Troops Gain
Approach To Mogaung

SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND
HEADQUARTERS, Handy, Ceylon,
Ceylon, June 49, (P) = Chinese
troops have captured the northern
approach to the town of Mogaung,
and juncture with Chindits east
of the town appeared imminent as
Mai. Gen. W.. D. A. Lentaigne's
forces penetrated to within 200
yards of the Mogaung valley
bridge. it was announced tonight.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-19
MANY KILLED

LONDON, June 18.-REA Yu-
goslav communique reported to-
night that from May 25 to June 10
Marshal Tito's forces had slain g,
900 Germans and Quisings in
western Bosnia, had killed 1,500 in
eastern Bosnia in the past six days
and another 900 in recent opera
films in Raniia
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-19
s sHIPP1NG SIGHTED

LONDON, June 18.-lP)-A Ger
man war correspondent broad
casting from Normandy via the
berlin radio reported tonight. that
large formations of Allied shipping
were cruising off the French coast
and the German high command be.
1ieved the Allies were about to
start the second phase OF the
invasion.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-19
Mannerhei11 Line
Smashed By Reds

LONDON. June 19.-lH9-Russas Leningrad army
under Marshal Leonid A. Govorov has smashed through
Fnlands last main defense system the old Mannerheim
line whose collapse caused Finands capituation in the
1939-4O winter war; is within II miles of Fnlands
ond city Vpuri the top of the Karean sthmus Mos
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-19
FORECAST

wilmington and vicinity = Fair 70
nartly cloudy and continued hot TO-DAY.
Temperatures yesterday:
High 100, low rs.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-02

LOST-C gas book belonging to
G. o. Venable. Return to Ration
Board. 2-3
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-02

LOST-A gasoline book belonging
to Frank D. Grace. Return to
Ration Board. 2-3
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-02
5--Beautv Aids

WANT RIDE to l.. A. Friday. Share
expenses. Phone 78l Hoag. 2-5