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Evening star., 1944-08-24
Newsom Turns SIeuth,
Nails Auto Borrower

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 24.-Bobo
Newsom, Philadelphia Athletics
hurler, turned detective.
Bobo hid in a garage to learn why
his car mileage was increasing with
out him driving. He caught a cul-
prit about to move the auto and
turned him over to police.
Evening star., 1944-08-24
Toto Champion Dobermon,
Makes Greet Record in East

minion Kennel Club, recently fell
Ind broke her shoulder bone. Dur
ing her inactivity she'll think about
the coming fall shows and how to
entertain her dog-minded friends.
Capt. win Judy, editor and pub
Usher Of Dog World, recently made
his debut as 4 Judge at Regina,
Canada. Evidently his placings
pleased as he has been asked to
repeat at the Alberta K. G. show
at Calgary September and 8.
There is q new liquid on the
market which Is said to be q PAN
acea for eczemas and itchings
caused by fungus growths and grass
auergies. It has been pretty well
determined that many so-called
summer eczemas are caused by
grass allergies.
The judging question still is the
live issue among dog fanciers and
exhibitors. 1t is being helped along
by Popular Dogs, q magazine which
rapidly Is forging to the front. The
latest contribution is p. DIS sug-
gestion that the limit class be
changed in character from its pres
ent status as the class for the not
quite good enough dog to one lin
tied to dogs bred by the exhibitor.
1t Is an excellent suggestion as it
would do away with the bathing
six blue ribbons ruling. 1t really
would limit the class to breeders or
amateurs, as few professional han
dlers take their own dogs into the
ring and, if properly publicized, it
might result In giving the amateur
well-deserved break. The sugges-
ton follows our idea of limiting the
novice class to novice handlers
rather than novice dogs.
An outstanding feature of the
Old Dominion show on October Is
is likely to be the sheltie Judging
In addition to the regular classes
this breed will have a special ex-
hibition Of veterans of the breed
consisting OF dogs over 7 years Of
age. Another unusual set of classes
will consist of stud dog and two OF
his get and brood matron and two
OF her get. These classes will be
judged on the quality Of the unit
OF three dogs. Other interesting
classes will consist of braces (pairs)
and teams (quartets) Of matched
Shetland sheep dogs. Judge OF
this breed will be Dorothy Allen
! Foster of Austell, Ga.
Evening star., 1944-08-24
Six Ex-Ring Champs
See Troinees' FinuIs
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 24.-Six for
mer boxing champions will witness
tonight's finals Of the tournament
among trainees of the United States
maritime service center at Sleeps
head Bay.
Ensign Bob Olin, former light
heavyweight champ. will be in
charge as station boxing instructor
Guests of It. Comdr. Clair Bee vii.
include Capt. James J. Braddock
1t. Benny Leonard. Specialist Gus
Lesnevich, Pete Scalzo, Melio Bat
tina and Mickey Walker
Evening star., 1944-08-24
Lands Sees Sailors
Conquer Giants, 81
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GREAT LAKES, Ill, Aug. "a
Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw M
Lands got look at the Great
Lakes ball team yesterday and
found out why the sailors have beer
bowling over major league competi-
ton this season.
The sailors, with former major
Lacquer in every position, beat thu
New York Giants, to l, for theil
sixth win over big league clubs and
their 44th victory in As games. Vir-
gil Trucks, ex-Detroit pitcher, set
the Giants down with three hits.
Evening star., 1944-08-24
Field Of 200 Turtles
Lacks Any Speedster
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PORTER Ind, Aug. A.-Ther'
wasn't a cspeedster in the entir'
entry Of SOME 200 turtles which vii
compete tonight in the nth annua
Chesterton-Porter turtle race .
Porter's Baseball Park.
Two heats are scheduled, with
the first 10 finishers IN a 20-foo
race to compete to determine tn.
grand champion. over the sam.
course.
Evening star., 1944-08-24

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NeW 3-Flavor Red Heart first of
all is super.appealing that's
been proved everywhere by dogs
themselves. And second, New
Evening star., 1944-08-24
Open SoftbuII Series

The Navy Yard and Signal Corps
Office mat on the Banneker field
today in the first of a three-game
softball series. Navy Yard was last
years winner. The second game will
be played tomorrow at Randall, with
the final tilt Monday at Banneker.
Evening star., 1944-08-24
No-Hitter Is Full
Of Achievements
By the Associated Press.

by th6 A1SoCIHted PfeB6.
PHOENIX, Ariz., Aug. a.
Coon Rosen, pitcher for the o. s.
Stapley team in the Arizona soft
ball tournament, wasn't content
with i1o-hit, no-run, 20 victory
over Williams Field. He also:
Famed 18 batters in seven in
nings,
Struck out Is of them in q row,
and
Famed four in one inning
after the catcher allowed one to
escape by dropping a third strike.
Evening star., 1944-08-24
Sports Mirror
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Today a year ago--Rip sewell
hung up win No. 10 as Pittsburgh
stopped Brooklyn, 9-6.
Three years ago-Bobby Jones'
team trimmed Ryder Cup golfers,
Sh-6l2, Jones downing Henry
Picard, 2 and |,
Evening star., 1944-08-24
BUGS, Cubs to Exhibit

BUTLER, Pa. Aug. "a (P.-The
Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago
Cubs will play an exhibition game
here September S to dedicate Deshon
Hospitals new 16-acre athletic field
Evening star., 1944-08-24

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|S0VIETS ATTACK
ON NORTH FRONT

LONDON. Monday, June II. =
~ : The Red army, opening a
major offensive on the Karelian
isthmus above Leningrad, has
smashed Is miles through the
strong Finnish Mannherheim line
and captured 80 towns and villag.
es, archaeological Stain dis
closed last night in an order of the
day. f 49,
The Russian assault, on a 25-
mile-wide front between Lake Lad.
oga and Gulf of Finland was aim
ed at knocking out Finland, Ger
many's co-belligerent in the war
against Russia, and was launched
after Finland had rejected Russian
armistice terms which included a
demand for the expulsion of seven
Nazi divisions operating in Fin
land.
Other Red army offensives were
expected to unfold soon on the
long front from the Baltic to the
Black sea as part of the Allied
master plan aimed at defeating
Germany this year. ,.. s>...
Reports from uneasy Finland
said the massive Russian assault
began Friday-three days after the
Allied invasion of western France.
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whipping Joe Louis down to
pulp. In this column I want to
tell you what opening the Sec
ond front in this one sector
entailed so you can know and
appreciate and forever be
humbly grateful to those both
dead and alive who did it for
you.
Ashore facing us were more
enemy troops than we had in
our assault waves. The advan-
tages were all theirs; the dis
advantages all ours. The Ger
mans were dug into positions
they had been working on for
months. Still they weren't yet
all complete.
A 10O-foot bluff a couple OF
hundred yards back from the
beach had great concrete gun
emplacements built Nght into
the hilltops. They opened to the
sides instead Of front, thus
making 1t very hard for naval
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LIBERAT0RS BAG
Y JAP PLANES

ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Monday,
June 12.-R)- Apparently catch
ing the Japanese off guard, Lib
orators of the Fifth Army Air
Force raided Palau Friday, de-
stroying % planes on the ground
in the first daylight raid by land
based planes on the enemy island
fortress only 536 miles from the
Philippines.
Headquarters announced today
that the Liberators were not in
tercepted, indicating the Japanese
were taken by surprise. Palau
first was raided March %, 80 and
81, when carrier-based planes sank
% Japanese ships and destroyed
more than 100 airplanes. The first
attack by land-based planes was
Thursday night and in the dark
ness results were not observed.
In addition to destruction of %
grounded planes Friday, many
buildings in the vicinity of Palau's
airdrome were blown up. a head
quarters spokesman said. He add
ed that 'this remarkable extension
of 1t. Gen. George c. Kenney's
bomber line is the result of our
capture of Dutch New Guinea air
bases within the last two months.
Truk, in the central Carolines L.
600 miles east of Palau. under
went heavier attack on the same
dav
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FRENCH. PATRIOTS
KILL QUlSLINCS

IRUN,. Spain. June IL. - @ -
French partisans have occupied
strategic centers in the cities OF
Toulouse, Limoges and Tarbes n
southern France and have shot the
projects of police, mayors. and 9TH
err collaborationist authorities in
all three cities, direct dispatches
reaching here said today.
The dispatches did not make
clear whether the actions consti-
tuted general uprising, saying on
ly that important points in the
three cities. as well as in the reg
ions surrounding them were &C.
cupied by the partisans.
CA major uprising by French
patriots, extending from Metz to
Avignon-almost the entire length
of eastern France-and including a
major coup at Bellegarde near
the Swiss border, was described
today in Swiss and Swedish news
paper accounts, the Office Of War
information reported. About 100
French patriots were said to have
seized the Bellegarde railway sta
ton, location of a Nazi headquar-
tiers, and to have proceeded sys-
tematically to sabotage all the in
stallations. About a mile away, the
reports said, 481 Germans were
killed and $50 prisoners taken in
a violent clash" between Ger
mans and patriots last Thursday
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Wilmington Filler
Lands In France

AU. S. FIGHTER BASE IN
ENGLAND, June 11.-(P)-A 30
pound former Tennessee state foot
ball player landed damaged
Thunderbolt on a landing strip in
France while American engineers
cleared the last 100 feet for him.
The pilot was 1t. Andrew Cal
houn of Memphis. Tenn. He was
followed to the ground by his
squadron leader, Maj. J. A. Ca
rey, q Jackson Drive, Lake For
est. Wilmington, N. c., who weights
$50 pounds, and both returned to
England squeezed into a Thunder
bolt cockpit not built for two.
II had to dodge Bulldozers and
Scrapers when | came down, Cal
houn said. 1.-THE engineers certain.
ly were glad to see me, because
they had been out of communica-
ton with the fighting forces since
D-Day. They rushed me for news
Of how the war was going and were
amazed to see how far our lines
had advanced on a map I pulled
out"
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Shuttle Bombers
Return To Italy

LIE D HEADQUARTERS,
Naples, June II. P) - U. S.
heavy bombers taking off from
new bases in Russia and personal
ly commanded by 1t. Gen. Ira c.
Eaker, chief of the Allied Mediter.
ranean air force, landed in Italy
today after bombing Axis Balkan
air fields during their return trip
to the Italian bases they left nine
days ago.
Headquarters here named only
the Focsani airdromes near Gala.i,
Romani, as the targets.
GA communique from the east
ern command, U. S. Strategic Air
nounced that more than 1000. Am
erican planes based in Russia and
Italy and supported by Russian
pilots, teamed up to blast targets
at Constanta and Giurgiu in. Rom
ania and Smederevo in Yugos1avia.
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the European advisory council in
London, composed of American,
British and Russian diplomats, sub.
ject to final revision and approval
of the Moscow, London and Wash
ington governments.
They are being rushed into a
final working agreement because
Allied leaders feel they must be
prepared for possibility, no mat.
ter how remote, of German col.
lapse. From. the White House down
there is no evidence in official
quarters here that a collapse is
expected.
The plan for what to do when
victory comes considers two main
contingencies; Cd that the German
surrender will be given by gov
eminent or a military command
capable of hating resistance on
all fronts effectively or (2) that
the Germans will break down piece.
meal, losing their armies and their
territory in prolonged retreat.
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BigParade
ToFeature
Bond Drive

The opening Of the Fifth War
Loan drive today, designated as
Civilian D-Day," will be observed
in Wilmington with full program.
Climax of the day will be mann
moth parade composed Of enlisted
men, WAVES, WACS, SPARS and
Marines.
Wilmington aims to secure $5,-
100000 of the country's SIG, 1000,
100000 quota. North Carolina
goal is SLAB, 100000.
Beginning at 9 a. m. retail store
employees will gather at the Bailey
theater for a bond sale rally. Each
employee has undertaken to sell
$500 in bonds. Addresses will be
given by three Bluethenthal fight
er pilots: 1t. Col. Andrew J. Rey-
nolds, deputy base commander,
Capt. Robert j. Weaver, and First
1t. Macarthur Powers.
At $50 retail stores will be open
ed and the sale of bonds and
stamps will be made by employees.
Stores will feature window dis
plays designed for the campaign.
A parade led by the band from
the Marine Corps Women's Re-
serve at Camp Lejeune will launch
the Fifth War Loan campaign at
the North Carolina Shipbuilding
company, which has quota OF
s25O,00O the largest quota the
company has had). Major j. c.
Bell, Marine public relations off,
eer, will address the shipbuilders:
At 6:45 p. m. the parade Will
start, led by color guard which
will include a WAC, a WAVE. a
SPAR and Marine each carrying
an American flag, and composed
Of troops from the Antiaircaft Ar
tillery Training center; detach'
ment of the 679th AA Ordnance
company, one of the Army's crack
Negro organizations; two compan'
les Of WACs, one from the fourC',
Service Commands troops al
Camp Davis and one from the An
tiaircraft Artillery school; bands
from Camp Davis, including the
l42ad and 143rd Army GROUND
Forces bands; and big Marine
band from Camp Lejeune.
The parade will proceed west or
Market from Fourth to Front
north on Front to Red Cross
street; east on Red Cross to THIRD
lront;,...a n.. r;aht. Col. 8
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Fl. Bragg Infantrymen
Will Get Decorations

FORT BRAGG, June II -EE
Seven Tooth division soldiers will
receive decorations for heroism
from Maj. Gen. Withers A. Bur-
ress division commander, in cere-
monies here Thursday marking
the divisions observance OF In
fa1try Day.
Combat infantry badges will be
awarded to three men who served
in major American battles abroad
and Soldiers medals will 60 to
four who helped rescue five I'M
conscious men from burning
,1ane here May IL. r.
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longings are strewn all over ON.
these bitter sands.

longings are strewn all over on
these bitter sands.
That plus bodies Of soldiers
living in rows of covered blan-
kets. the toes Of their shoes
sticking up in line as though
an drill. And other uncollected
bodies still sprawling grotes-
ouely in sand or haf-hidden by
high grass behind the beach.
That plus an intense grim
determination of work weary
men to get the chaotic beach
organized and get all the vital
supplies nd achievements
moving more rapidly over 1t
from stacked-up ships stand
ing in droves out to sea.
Now that 1t is over it seems
to me a pure miracle we ever
took the beach at all. For some
of it was easy but in this spe-
cial sector where I now am our
troops faced such odds that our
getting the shore was like me
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Pescara Falls To Eighth Army;
Fifth Gains On Eastern Coast
Germans Lose 10000 In
Italian Fight

ROME, June 11-(REThe Fifth
and Eighth armies, pressing close
behind the mauled Germans who
have lost 10000 men in month,
sped northward today in a general
ten-mile advance that over-ran the
important industrial city of Pes
cara on the Adriatic coast.
Midway ON the Italian peninsula
east of Rome the former German
bastion of Avezzano also fell to
the Eighth army which was fight
ing over difficult rolling wooded
land heavily mined and studded
with stubborn rear guards. Avez-
zano lies on the important lateral
road from Rome to Pescara and
the Eighth was methodically clear
ing it of the enemy.
The Fourteenth German army,
which turned to make brief and
costly stand six miles north Of
Viterbo, was in full retreat again
and the Fifth army pushed ten
miles north of that city.
There were indications the Ger
man flight was even faster than
before since mine sweepers steam
ed into Santo Stefano to find that
port, 80 miles northwest of Rome
and Is miles beyond Allied pa
trolls advancing up the coast,
abandoned.
The Tenth German army, which
had been falling back more slow
ly, accelerated its retreat as the
Fourteenth swift withdrawal I'M
covered it's right flank and Indians
of the British Eighth army seized
not only Pescara but Chieti, anoth-
er provincial capital farther in
land; the coastal resort Of Fraaca-
vile five miles south of Pescara,
and Sulmona.
The Fifth army continued to
meet only slight opposition as it
roared north, capturing Montalto
di Castro. 60 air line. miles north
of Rome, ten miles beyond Ius-
cania and "a miles west Of Viter-
bo. and the small town of Can
nino,' about ten miles northeast
Of Montalto di Castro, the farthest
announced point of advance so far
Other towns to fall were Tessaa-
<r,..ks..a -. Do~a E;mJ,<. CoJ e.
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Continued on Page Eight; Col.
BY ERNIE PYLE

WITH AMERICAN FORCES
IN FRANCE, June 11.-Due to
last minute altered arrange
ment ] didn't arrive on the
beachhead until the morning
after D-Day after the first
wave of assault troops had MT
shore.
By the time we got here the
beaches had been taken ana
lighting had moved a couple
miles inland.
All that remained on the
beach was some sniper and ar
aiiery fire and the occasional
startling blast of q mine gey-
sering brown sand into the air.
mat plus the gigantic and pill
'ui litter wreckage along miles
Of shore line. Submerged tanks
and upturned boats and burned
trucks and shellshattered jeeps
and sad little personal be-
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Republican Chairman
: Target OF Attacks

WASHINGTON, June IL. -P)-
A fight to supplant Chairman Har-
rison E. Spangler will be carried
before the Republican national
committee when it reorganizes for
the presidential campaign after the
party's Chicago nominating conven-
ton, it was learned today.
A member of the conn .lee,
who declined to be quoted by name,
told reporter that he and others
would oppose Spangler's reelection
at meeting which is expected to
be dominated by the wishes of the
party's presidential nominee.
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fire from the sea to reach
them. They could shoot paral-
lei with the beach and cover
every foot Of it for miles with
artillery fire
Then they had hidden ma
chine gun nests on the for
ward slopes with cross fire
taking in every inch Of the
beach. These nests connected
with networks Of trenches SO
the German gunners ! could
move about without exposing
themselves. -
Throughout the length of
beach running zigzag q couple
hundred yards back from the
shoreline was an immense "
shaped ditch Is feet deep. No
thing could cross 1t, not even
q man afoot until fills had been
made. And in other places at
the far ends of the beach
where the ground was flatter
Continued ON Page Eight; Col. 2
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AMERICAN TROOPS ADVANCE
ON CHERBOURG> PENINSULA
DESPITE NAZI RESISTANCE
1000 WARPLANES
HAMMER FRANCE
1000 u. S. Heavy Bomb
ers Spearhead Attack
On Normandy

SU P R E M E H E A D.
|QUARTERS ALLIED EXPE-
dictionary FORCE, June
11.-P)-Spearheaded by L.
900 U. S. heavy bombers,
nearly 1000 Allied warplanes
supporting Allied armies en-
larging their beachheads in
Normandy today dealt the
Germans the heaviest series
of daylight blows since the in
vasion began.
U. S. Flying Fortresses and Lib
orators smashed at nine enemy
airfields, eight bridges, a German
army headquarters and other OBJ
jectives in an area stretching
from the beachi1ead to Paris and
as far north as Vau de Calais. At
the same time fighters kept up a
day-long pounding of communica-
ton lines and enemy conveys.
Mustangs, Thunderbolts an 4
Lightnings dive-bombed and blast
ed enemy targets, shooting up
more than 300 railroad cars, IS
trucks, a number of tanks and ar
mored cars, Is locomotives and a
dozen oil tanks.
Headquarters of the Strategic
Air Force announced that five
German planes were destroyed
and that three heavy bombers and
eight fighters were missing from
all the days operations.
Since D-Day, until p. m. Sun
day, headquarters Of the Strategic
Air Force announced. planes of
the Ninth Air Force alone flew
more than $4,000 sorties, averag-
ing about 100 flights per hour over
enemy territory despite bad wealth
er which grounded all except re-
connaisance planes for "a hours
June 9.
Since H-Hour, the announc ement
said, mediums, light and fighter
bombers of the Ninth have drop
ped more than $500 tons of bombs
in and around the battle zone.
Fighter bombers alone have hit
more than 300 different detectives.
CAT troop carriers and gliders
have flown more than 1000 opera
tons. Altogether, the announce
ment said, the Ninth has lost 112
planes since the invasion began,
excluding elders abandoned after
unloading. Forty German planes
out Of the small forces willing to
challenge the Allies were shot
down by the Ninth Air Force.
While Allied planes based in
Britain and on newly-won air
strips in France were battering at
the Nazis, Hitler's Balkan de-
lenses were pounded by American
heavy bombers which flew from
their new bases in Russia to smash
at two Romanian airfields north
of Bucharest and complete their
shuttle trip back to Italy.
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Japanese Attacking
Gates OF Changsha

+ CHUNGKING, June II. :. R =
Japanese driving from the north
are hammering at the very gates
Of Changsha, their major objec-
tive in the about Human province
offensive. the. Chinese high COM
mand announced tonight, but there
was no confirmation of an enemy
claim that the invaders already had
entered the beleaguered Canton :
Hankow railway city.
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WAR WORKERS SCORED

WASHINGTON, June II. -P)-
The American Automobile Asso-
citation today said war workers
as a group are reckless drivers.
completely disregard wartime
speed regulations and are notori-
ously Indifferent to any and all
measures of car conservation.
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Yugoslav Partisans
Capture German Base

LONDON, June 11-tR-Yugo-
slav partisans Of Marshal Tito,
working closely with Allied troops
hacking away at Hitler's back
door in the Balkans, announced to-
night the capture of the German
base at Pousnik in Slovenia, and
the Croatian town of Koreaica,
seven miles south of Zagreb.
As the Yugoslav partisans car
ried the fighting to the Nazi forces
in the Balkans, Allied forces aided
the guerrilla fighters with land,
sea and air attacks.