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The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-01-03

be made one Of the issues OF COM
ing city election.
Planning for the future can be
another issue in the coming cam
paign for city officials. Not hear
say and do-nothing planning, but
planning that will be in earnest
and that the public can be sure
will be placed in operation, as soon
as the material and manpower are
available for the plans.
1t is nice to see : lot OF fancy
pictures depicting the Cumberland
of the future, such as the one
shown recently in connection with
food control. The picture depicted
park running from Western
Maryland Railroad Station to the
intersection of Mechanic and north
Centre Streets. All that property
on North Mechanic Street and
abutting Wills Greek would be
RACED and q parkway put in Its
place.
This Ii an artists dream, and
when he awakes, he will find
that he has been mar0oned by
the high waters Of Wills Creek.
They talk good food prevention,
but do nothing to make food
prevention . reality.
But the voters Of Cumberland
can be sure of one thing. When
the funds are provided for some
system to prevent floods. q certain
local contractor will get the con-
tract for the work. This concern
has that certain knack for being
in on the ground floor Of all city
needs in the building or construc-
ton category and invariably Sc
cures the contract.
Candidates for the post of City
Commissioner can be expected to
file any day now and there may be
as many as fifteen candidates. In
the mayoralty race, 1t Is the gen.
eral belief that both old parties
will nominate candidates, but as
we stated the election is non-parti-
san, so the fact that q candidate
may be known as the candidate for
a certain element in power, or the
candidate for the state crowd, Is
only idle gossip. SEE you!
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-01-03
GRAPE VINE
Polly Ticks
By MARY LU CON

honesty and fearlessness, and were
poor in matter Of finances.
It has often been said OF Abra-
ham Lincoln, that when he first be-
came a candidate for public office
in the state Of Illinois, he didn't
have two dimes to rub together.
II Honest Abe were that poor, then
surely he didn't own $500 or $1,000
worth Of property. The nation
can only thank Divine Providence
that Honest Abe was not compelled
to be a candidate under such laws
as the property ownership pro-
visions of Cumberland candidates.
If such had been the case, then
this great nation would never
have been able to elect Lincoln to
the highest post in the land. No,
Abe would have been just another
unknown.
During the last session of the
State Legislature, efforts were
made by the Labor Unity Confer
ence Of Western Maryland, to have
this unconstitutional provision of
Cumberland charter repealed. After
passage in the Senate, the bill was
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-01-03
1871: ELECTION YEAR

With the turn into a New Year,
1914, political aspirations Of hum
dreds of would-be lawmakers and
town as we'll as state officials will
rise or fall with the whims Of pub
lie fancy. Every State will have
It's political reverberations this
year. eliminating in the greatest
battle of the century, the Presiden-
tial Election in November.
Western Maryland will start Its
many campaigns Of the year, with
the free-for-all fight for Mayor and
City Commissioners for the City
Of Cumberland, second city OF the
Free State. This election, held in
the spring. promises to be knock
down and drag-out battle.
The officials are elected on a nom
partisan basis, and as many candi-
dates as can qualify under the
property-holding provisions Of the
city charter, can file as candidates
in the primary After primary
election. the eight highest candi-
dates for Commissioner, and two
highest for Mayor. meet in a rum
off election, with the four highest
nominees for Commissioner and
high man for Mayor being declared
the elected officials.
The candidates for Commits
siOner must qualify by owning
personal and taxable property to
the extent Of $500 and shall
have paid taxes on such amount
for two years prior to election.
The nominees for Mayor must
qualify by owning property to
the extent Of $1,000, and must
have paid taxes on same for the
two years preceding the election.
Cumberland is the only city In
Maryland, and probably in the
nation, that requires candidates for
public Office to own property.
Many of the nations most emf
nent citizens have been honored
because they were known to have
attained high Office on ability and
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-01-03

New York, Dec. 18-Ths Corn
Exchange Bank and the United
Office and Professional Workers Of
America have agreed that there
should be q consent election to de-
termine the bargaining rcpresen-
tative desired by the company's
$500 bank employees in New York
City. The election will be the first
to be held In a major bank. an
industry which employs the larg-
est single group Of salaried work.
ers employed In private industry.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-25
SENATE APPROVES
CT AID MEASURE
Provides Aim ost Every
thing Except Bonus
For Servicemen

WASHINGTON March "a III
The Senate passed unanimously
late today SO, 500, 0O0,O 'G-1 bill
of Rights measure providing vir-
tually every suggested aid to vet
Grams of this war except adjusted
compensation (bonus) payments.
The roll call vote was 9 to 0
fo1 passage of the measure.
The measure, which now goes to
the House, carries an estimated
SO, 900, 900, 600 in benefits plus flat
$500, 100000 authorization for con-
struction OF new hospital facilities.
It provides for government-paid
education of from one to four years
(based on length of service) for
service men and women, plus:
l. Unemployment compensation
Of $15-a-week for a maximum Of
So weeks out of 2-month peri
cd.
2. Loans up to $1,000 for the pur-
chase of farms, homes or bust
nesses.
8. A veterans job placement
service.
4. Designation of the Veterans
Administration to administer all
of it's provisions under a status as
a war agency.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-25
POWELL IS HELD
UNDER BOND HERE

Cpl. Robert c. Aldred, Batter
c, Ill AAA, Gun Battery, Camp
Davis, was fatally injured on U.
S. Highway No. 421, South, eight
miles from Wilmington, when he
was struck by a car operated by
Joe Powell, Negro, of Wilmington,
at 1915 a. m. Friday.
Powell is being held under a
bond of $4,000 following an inquest
yesterday afternoon, Coroner Asa
W. Allen stated last night, adding
that he is being charged with muir
der,
Cpl. Aldred was attempting to
direct traffic with flashlight,
while a small Army truck and
trailer were negotiating turn in
the road, and had already stopped
several cars when he was struck
by Powell, highway patrolmen
said.
Coroner Allen said last night that
10 witnesses appeared for the in
quest, but that it was only neces'
sary to question eight of these.
sit will be necessary for the
Grand Jury to determine what de-
gree Of murder Powell will be
tried for" he said.
Aldred died at 1890 en- route to
James Walker Memorial hospital.
Powell was arrested immediate
ly following the accident, and is
being held in the New Hanover
county Jail, pending the decision
of a coroner's jury scheduled to
study the case at $3.50 this after
noon in the Grand Jury room of
the courthouse.
Powell was proceeding north on
the highway in 1910 convertible
Pontiac automobile, in which
Mary Ann Coley Of Fremont and
Ruth Saunders of Pikeville were
pa sengers, when Aldred was
struck. Powell allegedly rode 276
feet after he ran over the soldier
before stopping.
First to arrive on the scene were
men from the sheriff's department.
Powell and his passengers were
carried to James Walker Memorial
by policemen for a checkup, and
an Army vehicle carried Aldred
to the hospital, where he was
found dead on arrival.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-25
Farm Machinery Probe
Situation Asked By Scion

facts as to what amount supply
of farm machinery has been sent
tc areas outside the United States
and what plans have been adopted
for future foreign distribution.
The President read letter from
Foreign Economic Administrator
Leo T. Crowley citing the 2 per-
cent figure. Crowley, Mr.. Roose-
welt announced, has resigned as
alien property custodian in order
to give all his time to his other
two big government jobs, foreign
economic administrator, an d
chairman of the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation.
The President disclosed several
weeks ago that Crowley wanted to
quit as alien property custodian,
but that he had asked him to stay
on while. James E. Markham,
of Lowell, Mass, who has been
deputy custodian for two years,
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-25
Reich Battered In Great Strength
By Raj; Berlin Is Main Target;
Reds Stay 10000 Nazis In Push:
Run1ania Admits
Mazis Occupation

LONDON, March 24.-R)-The
Rumanian legation at Ankara,
Turkey, announced today that it
had confirmed the German occu-
patton of Rumania, and diplomatic
quarters in London agreed that
Hitler's Balkan grab had fore
stalled any effective peace move
by the Nazis' nervous satellite ma
tons.
The possibility that the Allies
have been quick to stir up as much
trouble for Hitler as possible in the
dissatisfaction Balkans was seen
in Berlin radio reports that para
chutists in British uniforms had
been dropped into Rumania and a
Rumanian Jewish ring dealing
with them had been caught.
There were numerous indications
that the Nazi maneuver has not
ended with the occupation of Hun
gary and Rumania. Turkish ad-
vices reported that German rein
forcements had been rushed to all
points on the Rumanian and Bull
garian coasts of the Black Sea in
an apparent German move to pre-
pare a stand against the onrushing
Russian army.
The Moscow radio broadcast a
lass dispatch dated Istanbul which
quoted Trustworthy sources" in
the Turkish city as reporting that
German billeting officials recent
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-25

WASHINGTON. March 24.@RE
Farm machinery exported under
lend-lease has been less than 2
percent of the American supply,
President Roosevelt said today,
and emphasized that those exports
are helping feed the American ar
my overseas, soon to rise to 5,000,-
600 men.
Mr.. Roosevelt replied indirectly
at his press-radio conference to
complaints, in Congress and else
where, that farm machinery is be-
ing shipped abroad when Ameri-
can farmers are unable to get all
they want.
At the Capital, meantime, an in
yestigation of the farm machinery
situation was asked by Senator
Clark D.-Mo.). He introduced a
resolution proposing that the ag-
riculture committee review pres
ent and prospective production of
farm machinery, and secure
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-25
MELLETT QUITS
AS AIDE TO FDR

WASHINTON, March "a up -
Lowell Mellett, gray-haired vet
eran behind the new deal scenes,
quit his $1O,OO0-year job as ad-
ministrative assistant to Presi-
dent Roosevelt today to become a
newspaper columnist for the Wash
ington Star.
The resignation was announced
at a news conference by the Pres
ident who told reporters he was
sorry to see Mellett leave the ad-
ministration family. The President
used the occasion to praise pub
fishers who print views contrary
to their own.
Mellett, a neWspaperman with
years of Washington background,
went to work for the government
in 1887 and headed trio of war
born alphabet agencies-the Ma
tional Emergency Council (NEC)
Office of Government Reports
(OGR), the motion picture bureau
of the Office of War Information
(OWD.
His expressed views and his &C.
tons frequently brought congress
sional wrath down on him. The out
cry from Capitol Hill reached its
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-25
FDR IS SLAPPED
BY THE SENATE

WASHINGTON, March "a. -(R
The Senate, approving the So.
557, 1000, independent offices appro-
priation bill, voted today to with
hold funds from any government
agency in existence IL months
without direct Congressional ap-
preparations.
This ban, sponsored by Senator
Russell D-Ga), struck particular
ly at the Presidents Fair Employ
ment Practices Committee and
other agencies Mr.. Roosevelt has
financed from funds given him
for discretionary use.
The Senate also wrote into the
bill an amendment requiring that
the Senate confirm all Federal
employees appointed to jobs paying
81, 500 a year or more. The vote
was 81 to %.
The employment committee, set
up to prevent discrimination in
war jobs, first was excluded from
the money ban when Republicans
teamed with northern and west
ern Democrats in support of a
plea by Senator Buck R-DeD
who said ''the colored folks feel
deeply interested
But after Senator George ID
Ga) had charged that by this ex-
ception, Republicans had forfeit
ed all rights to complain against
bureaucracy, the Senators about
faved and killed Bucks amend
ment on a 80 to 26 vote. They had
approved it previously, 81 to p.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-25
JAPANESE MASS
FOR CHINA PUSH
Navy Search Plane Bombs
Ant Islands, In The
Caroline Group
BY LEONARD MILLIMAN
Associated Press War Editor


Japan, who's three pronged
thrust into India is running into
trouble, appears to be massing
troops in China for new often
sive.
In the Pacific all news yester-
day was bad for Tokyo. The Navy
announced American submarines
had sunk II more Japanese ships
two tankers. three transports,
five freighters, and a converted
minelayer.
A Navy search plane bombed
the Ant islands, the sixth target
in the Caroline islands to be at
tackled. The Ant islands atoll is
near much-bombed Ponape, east
ern outpost of Truk. Fires were
started on one of four enemy is
lands raided in the Marshalls.
President Roosevelt promised
america will fulfill its pledge"
of independence to the Philippines
and noted that the return of free
dom draws closer with each
island victory"
Tokyo radio asserted fierce at
tacks are being continued" by Jap
anese troops on Bougainville in the
northern Solomons But Associated
Press War Correspondent Spence:
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-25
$26,o65 GIVEN
in DRIVE HERE
Wilmingtonians M a king
Average Response, Of
ficiafs State

Wilmingtonians having donat-
ed S26, 065.27 in the first six
days of the Red Cross War
Fund campaign, according to
the Friday night audit, shows
that citizens are making
satisfactory average response,
officials stated.
Officials pointed out that
due to Indictment weather many
workers have been handicap
ped in covering their assign
ed territories, and it has been
reported to Red Cross head
quarters that many firms are
awaiting pay days on Friday
and Saturday before soliciting
employees. When these reports
are made, it is expected the
campaign will be boosted con.
siderably.
Friday afternoons solicita-
tons were not added to the to-
tai to date, whereas, divisional
captains submitted reports ear
ly In the day.
The Wilmington chapter of
American Red Cross divisional
standings will be found else
where in this issue of the Star.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-25
AIR ASSAULT DID
LITTLE IN ITALY
ALICE HEADQUARTERS. N;

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Ma
pies, March 24.-lREThe Germans
have thrown powerful new artil-
lery and aerial support into their
defense of Casino, their ground
troops are resisting as desperate
ly as ever in the ruins of the
mountain-locked stronghold, and it
becomes plain that last weeks ter
rifle air assault did little to help
Allied forces break through into
the Roman valleys.
Enemy artillery fire from north
of the town has mounted steadily
in recent days, and between 40
and so Nazi planes swept low yes
terday to shoot up Allied traffic
on Highway Six behind the lines.
New Zealand troops wormed for
ward in the ruins at the southern
edge Of Casino and an Allied
spokesman reported they made
"some little progress" German
parachute troops chung to wreck
age of the Continental and Des
Roses Hotels and other buildings.
Allied III atn e S of breaking
through into the Liri Valley ap-
peared as remote as at any time
since the start of the struggle over
two months ago. The Allies,
though, have learned many lessons
at Casino which may prove of
value in the forthcoming invasion
of western Europe.
One is that air attacks, though
effective against cities and indus
trial establishments in the rear,
are of little value against fortifi-
cations manned by determined sol
diers. Above all, it has shown that
the walls of Hitler's Europe still
are strong and intact and that the
German army still is capable Of a
most desperate defense.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-25
WHlSKEY COUPON
BOOST IS DENIED
State ABC Board Rejects
Proposal By M'Millan To
Increase Value

The state Alcoholic Beverae
Control board yesterday rejected
proposal presented by W. D.
Macmillan, chairman of the New
Hanover County ABC board, that
it liberalize the current stringent
liquor ration during the remainder
of March because of the large sur
plus here which will be subject
to an additional federal tax of So
gallon on April J.
This tax must be paid by the
consumer and will increase the
prices of liquor now on the shelves
of the stores 80 cents and up"
bottle.
The action of the state board
was taken at a meeting in Dur
ham, according to a telegram re-
ceived by Macmillan from Carl l..
Williamson, chairman.
In his message, Williamson said
1.-THE extra merchandise you have
on hand and referred to in your
telegram is actually April and
May allotments and should you dis
pose of these goods in March, you
would not be able to take care of
any appreciate number of your
outstanding coupons during April
and May and subsequent months.
1--WE will not want to take the
responsibility Of further reducing
the present value OF the coupons, !"
the telegram continued. 1--WE be-
ieve it to be to the public interest
and the public good that the mer-
chandise allotted by the shippers
for the months of April and May
should be sold during these two
months and We are not impressed
with your suggestion that the rules
should be changed on the 25th of
March in order to evade the pay
ment of the new tax levied by Con-
gress which becomes effective
April LIST. We have had no request
~, Darn Es1,n. ToI Ky
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-25
PRICE CONTROL
HELD NECESSARY

WASHINGTON, March 24.-R-
Two of the administrations top
men-War Production Chief Don
aid M. Nelson and Federal Re-
serve Chairman Mariner S. Ec-
c1es-urged Congress today to
keep the country under stabiliza-
ton controls beyond the wars end.
Nelson declared, however, that
the need has passed for national
service act, recommended some
time ago by President Roosevelt
to authorize the drafting of civil
an labor for essential industries.
He did say limited service law
might help break a manpower
deadlock between industry and the
armed forces.
Eccles told the Senate Banking
Committee Congress should keep
the sterilization program alive two
years after the end OF the war
ito maintain the public faith and
the value of the dollar" The COM
mittee is considering legislation to
extend the price control act year
beyond June 30.
A sudden release of pent-up
spending as soon as hostilities end
Knight well be fataP' to the ma
TONS economy, he said.
1.-The inflationary pressure will
continue until a balanced budget
is in prospect"
Without sterilization controls
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-25
CHURCHILL VIEWS
U. S. 'CHUTISTS
'Chutists Told Day Coming
Soon When They Will
Do Big Jump

LONDON, March 24.-tR-Prime
Minister Churchill on his first in
spection of an all-American force
in Britain watched hundreds of
parachutists in a mass leap at a
U. S. air-borne base yesterday,
clambered about a glider, discov-
cred a jeep inside and pronounced
the air-borne troops "the most
modern expression of war;"
"Soon," he told the parachute
troops who gathered around him
on his surprise visit, unannounced
until today for security reasons,
''you will have the opportunity of
testifying to your belief in all those
great phrases embodied in the
American constitution.
Mentioning the comradeship in
arms of American and British
troops, Churchill said "our troops,
British and American, at this mo-
ment are shedding their blood side
by side in Italy, at Casino or in
the Anzio bridgehead, fighting
hard and losing heavily in the
struggle
The Americans in Britain, he
said, "are preparing themselves to
strike a blow for a cause which
is greater cause than either of
our two countries have ever fought
for in by-gone days"
TT is a world cause" he con-
tinued, because though no one
can tell how the future of the
world will shape itself, we are de-
termined that the dark tyrannies
which have overcroWded our lives
and drawn or people from their
homes shall be broken and bat
tered down, and that an example
shall be made Of the guilty which
will prevent such tyrannies being
erected again upon the masses of
the people,
Churchill spoke from a jeep,
bare-headed, with Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower close by, along with
1t. Gen. Omar N. Bradley, senior
commander of American ground
forces in the United Kingdom, and
Maj. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton,
commander of the U. S. Ninth Air
Force.
From a grandstand the Prime
Minister and the generals watched
splendidly executed parachute
leaps. Many scores Of aircraft
swept down and as trey reached
the saluting base a number of par
achutists tumbled out.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-25
German Troops Land
On Aaland Islands,
In The Baltic Sea

NEW YORK, March 24.-(R
The British radio said to-
night that according to reli-
able reports reaching London
German troops have landed on
the Aaland islands in the Bal
tic Sea midway between Fin
land and Sweden.
Hitherto Finland has per-
mitted no foreign troops on the
islands," said the broadcast
which was recorded by CHS.
The London radio said the is
lands are of "great strategic
importance since they control
the Gulf of Bothnia and the sea
approaches to Stockholm"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-25
62 MILE ADVANCE
Russians Threaten To Trap
Thousands OF Enemy
Troops In East

LONDON, March 24.-(R-Rus-
sia's First Ukraine Army in a g.
mile thanking smash has killed TO-
600 Germans ard broken through
to the Dniester River at the gate
way to the Balkans five miles
from the former Rumanian prov
ince of Bucovina, Moscow an
nounced tonight, threatening to
trap thousands of battered Ger
man forces to the east.
A four-day avalanche of Red
army power unleashed by Mar
shall Gregory K. Zhukov south of
by-passed Tarnopol engulfed 400
towns and villages and reached
the river at aleshchiki, in the
southeastern tip of old Poland just
rs miles north of Czernowitz, big
Rumanian rail hub controlling
lines into Poland. Czecho-Slovakia,
Hungary and Southern Rumania.
The killing OF 10000 Germans,
along with the capture of $500
more, was announced in the Soviet
daily communicate.
Premier-M rshal Stain an
nounced the break-through to the
Dniester at Zaleshchiki, and also
the capture en- route of the "op-
erationally important rail juno
ton of Chortkov, % miles to the
north, and Gusyatin rail station II
miles east of Chortkov. An order
Of the day, recorded by the Soviet
monitor, recorded the gains.
The daily communique later an
nounced that Soviet troops strik-
ing northwest of besieged Tarnopol
had crossed the Sereth River and
cut the railway to Lwow at point
only so miles from that big Axis
communications city in southern
Poland.
That stroke snapped the pcinci-
pal German feeder route into Tar
nopol, made the capture of Tarno-
pol an early possibility, and fur
Their opened the way for three-way
drive on LWow.
The Russians also broke into the
outskirts of Proskurov, 81 miles
east of Tarnopol on the trunk rail-
way to Odessa.
Voznesensk, German Bug River
stronghold 80 miles north of Odes-
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