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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-27
Interpreting
The War
BY KIRKE L. sJAJpso>,
Associated Press War ~,

SS9 w dr. Analrsl
Events of this August we Sisa
were SO obviously suow.bsII;@n a
a crisis for Germany in Fnsn
that speculation was rife -, Pc
whether total Nazi collapss ns ~ 10
be only weeks, not months a ,"isnt
Nor could Japan read the va. n"aH
tents with much less aporeban.p? Of'
In France, Allied forces Y..
swiftly weaving the struggI. I w..
an old familiar pattern that sa nr0
ed German defeat quarter r o.a
fury ago. German evacuation VII i,
all France west Of the Sor,n. VI
Marine line was so certainly in NV
gress under pulverizing AlIiod p"
tack that Nazi commentators ~
mltted the retreat. e~
Threatened
And even that line, the last ,bo,,
OF German frontiers, was ur.r.i
mehaceo' Two vast and powerful
American forces and rebo,1
French army were converginv t ;.
a junction in the plains Of Fra1o.
southeast of liberated Paris.
Their meeting would d. INV.
than close the trap on remnant, =,
the Nazi occupation troops !,
France south and west Of that Al
lied line. 1t would aim an imms5;
ate thanking threat at the Somn,
Marne front before the Nazis eyo,
reach it. 1t would expose the BbY.
itself to Allied assault
1t is that way the most dangpro,.
Allied spearheads are thrustinc y,
the Loire, the upper Seine and N,
Rhone under a significant head,
quarters news blackout as In tbe,
exact position.
Romanian surrender has bron.b,
no pause by charging Russian fo,
ces already knocking at the Gslaa
gateway to the Danube valley. BnI.
garia is too clearly on her way owl
of the war to be factor Of CON-
sequence. Hungary is rocked nv
political commissions. There are in
timations that a Nazi retreat from
the whole Balkan peninsula alreadv
has set in.
The outline of a total encircle.
ment of Germany probably lore
ago envisioned in Russian.Aliei
strategy councils is taking shane
1t remains only for events in Fin.
land, Norway and Denmark IN
complete its meshing around The
shriveling greater reich of Hitler,
soap-bubble dream.
Nor can Tokyo fail to read Dor.
tents of Allied power drives into
such far-off events as the Roose.
elt-MacArthur-Nimitz conference
at Pearl Harbor, the arrival in
Ceylon of Admiral Frazier, ton.
ranking British sea commander 10
take over British armadas massjDe
in the bay of Bengal and the Indian
ocean, the disclosure of Admiral
Lord Louis Mountbatten's visit 10
London as Allied commander.n.
chief in southeastern Asia. the ele.
walton of General Stilwell in Chira
to four-star American army rank.
The end of the wet monsoon also
is near at hand to quicken cam.
paining in the bay of Bengal and
Dutch east indies regions,
No seven days in all the war
period is - damned with fast-mOv.
ing events around the world 10
foretell the approach of doom for
the Nazi-Nipponese aggression part.
nership as this closing August
week.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-27
Brewster Is Advised
To Pay Labor CLAIMS

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 N,
Refusal of the Brewstoe AeI toaa..
teal corporation to pay fe1 i,or,
tive wage claims of its "0IA'' =,
Ralph A. Bard, underSecre'al! q,
the Navy said today. indlca.s' ss.
desire to incite controversy
tween the workers and the N.'i II.
He made the statement IN ..,i.
ter to Preston Lockwood g Jiirs
dent of the corporation suu h,
you should Immediately pay pay, +
Just claims of your |olnr .o,.
which Bard said t5taled apP'
mately 81 100000. d rir
Lockwood at Long ls-an" oirsi
N. Y. said ne had not Ie'c cor,.
Bard's letter, but SAID 'Is s+ats.
pany probably will issue d
ment later.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-27
rs Years Ago
Today
(FROM THE FILES
OF THE STAR-NEWS)
AUGUST 27. 1919

AUGUST Fl, 1919
vast quantities of fresh m a
and countless dozens of fresh eggs
nave been burned at the city incin.
orator during the summer, accord.
ing to Street Superintendent Hol.
ton and lncinerator employees. The
meats were held by dealers, whole.
sale al retail, until unfit for con.
sumption and then DESTROYED while
the cltizenry is called upon to paw
hlgh prices for that which is wrap-
pea and passed over the counter
before 1t reaches this stage.
Miss Gladys Council has return.
ed home after spending ten DAYS
at Wannlsh with relatives and
friends.
--V-
Potatoes were first discovered
by white men in Colombia, South
America, in 1888.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-27
The Road To Berlin

1-Russian front: 800 miles fron eastern
suburbs Of Warsaw
2-Northern France: 4e5 miles Frorn
Troyes)
3-Italian front: COL miles from Florence)
4-Southern France: 608 miles from Gre
noble.)
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-27

CROSBY ARRIVES ,,,
LONDON. Aug % ~ .aia,
Crosby arrived in Britain w."
to entertain troops in EuF0P"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-27
Our Chief Aim

To aid In every way the presecsao@ o.
Ne war to. complete Victory.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-27

We are never to think of God with craven
fear. He loves the last, the least and the
"Christian Herald
Evening star., 1944-07-23

moved the 9Th Air Force commond Gen. Quesodo
tneushed Flying Cross the Legion and the Medo Of Conn.,
mo"der OF the British Empire The British his super
'' ~ ~ "
eoduo eK"Iey High School, Gen. Quesodo offended the
University OF Maryland ond Wyoming Seminary Pennsylvania He
oe9on MS Ar Force engineering officer Boiling It
wo boek those eor doys tho he ond the Ira Ecker
poted et expedition Greeny sIond when the Ger
mon plane Bremen forced down the Aonc cross
" oy or he o'so oted ephon hunting expedition into
o 0en Quesodos mother Mrs. Helen Quesodo at 476
Ninth NV. NV
This portraits Of our decooed foh+;,, NM, h
Newmon Sudduh Of The Stors stoff
Evening star., 1944-07-23

1nvoon hot hove mode thrilling odng hometowners
ore only o"other high light Of flying tho hos been poked with
them the 80 old oommonder the 9th
joined the Army Air Forces 20 yo oeo couple doys
personally poted Gen Eisenhower the Normandy bottle
the Fourth Of july Moi Gen Quesodo hod led bombing
hot the go eno for the big Amecon push the
Of the Normandy line
Commenting Ioter tho good get owoy
change the general led dozen fighter pilots deck
oose delayed oeton bombs within few feet Of the ground soften
oermon positions specially tough for the I'VE
beot up the oe sold the And Gen Eisenhower
when he picked Gen Quesodo otter hot
mondy fehtbeeved be the qeneros
pIone built for person.
Veteon Of the North Acon ond Itoon compoens
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-14
Two Parties Man
State ConcIaves

SACRAMENTO, July Ia. up
California Republicans will kick off
a campaign for the party's nomi-
neeS for national and state offices
with a dolled-up state convention
next Thursday and the biennial
meeting of the state central ccm-
mittee the following day, State
Chairman Edward H. Tickle dis
closed Friday.
Election of new chairman by
the state central committee on Fri
day will clear the way for actual
campaign organization. Leo Ander-
son, a Los Angeles attorney and
candidate for state party chairman
in 1910, is slated for the pest, and
William F. Reichel. Oakland, for
mer acting national committeeman,
is the leading candidate for vice
chairman.
The Democratic meeting has been
postponed until Aug. II to avoid a
conflict with the party's national
convention in Chicago, and Town
send and Communist parties were
disqualified this year fer failure to
register members constituting one
tenth of l per cent of the total
registration in the state.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-14

to Britain as assistant commander
OF division and later Ssv action in
the North African and Sicilian cam
paignS.
ONE OF FOUR BROTHERS
He was one of four sons of the
former president, all of Wnom dis
tinguisheo themselves in the serv-
ice. One brother, Lieutenant Quen-
tin, attached to the 95th aero squad
ron, was killed in action near
Chanlery July ID, 1918 when hts
plane was attacked by a German
squadron.
Another, Major Kermit, VIII o
served with the British and Amer
ican armies in THE First World War,
died June 4, 1943 of illness while
serving with the U. S. army.
The third, Archibald B., served
as an infantry captain World War
and was wounded while leading a
trench raid March II. 1918. Archi-
bald, new a lieutenant colonel, was
wounded June 20 in fighting on
Biak Island off the New Guinea
coast in the Southwest Pacific.
His sister, Alice Roosevelt Long
worth, widow of Nicholas Long
worth. speaker of the lower house,
survives.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-14
Ernie Pyle
81 March With DOughbOys AS
They Silence PillbOxes
In Streets of Invaded Town"

up the rear, the rest of the heavy
weapons outfit to protect us from
behind
ACCEPTS MIDDLE SPOT
1--WE don't know what we'll run
into. and I don't want to stick you
right out in front, so why don't you
come along with me? Well go in
the middle of the company"
I said, "Okay." BY this time
wasn't scared. You seldom are once
you're into something. Anticipation
is the worst. Fortunately this little
foray came up so suddenly there
wasn't time for much anticipation.
The rain kept on coming down,
and you could sense that it had set
in for the afternoon. None of us
had raincoats, and by evening
there wasn't a dry thread on any
of us. l could &C back to tent for
the night, but the soldiers would
have to sleep the way they were.
We were just ready to start when
all of a sudden bullets came whip
ping savagely right above our heads.
ITS those damn 20-millimeters
again. the lieutenant said. Better
hold it up a minute"
CROUCH BEHIND WALL
The soldiers all crouched lower
behind the wall. The vicious little
shells whanged into grassy hill
side just beyond us. A French CUB
urban farmer was hitching up his
hcrses in a barnyard on the hill
side. He ran into the house. Shells
struck all around it.
Two dead Germans and a dead
American still lay in his driveway.
We could see them and we moved
up a few feet.
The shells stopped, and finally
the order to start was given. As
we left the protection of tie high
wall we had to cross a little culvert
right out in the open and then
make a turn in the road.
The men went forward one at a
time. They crouched and ran, ape
like, across this dangerous space
Then, beyond the culvert, they fill
Continued on Page g. Col. 81
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Sailor Accused
OF Staying

LOS ANGELES, July IA. (UP) =
A coroner's jury Friday recommend
ed that Chief Petty Officer John
M. Maloney, 27-year-old former
Notre Dame football player. be held
for the death of Mrs. Mary Frances
Walker, 80.
Our gay weekend drinking party
ended early Sunday morning at
Mrs. Walkers house." Mrs. Pearl
pGipe told the jury. -r-s,..,,---.-.--E--s-
"Maloney went to bed with Mrs.
Walker in her bedroom she said.
land a sailor, Donald Pinta, went
to bed with me in another room"
Mrs. Gipe said about five o.
clock Sunday morning Maloney left,
saying Mrs. Walker was still asleep.
The witness said she found the
nude body in bed after Maloney
left.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-14
Johnston Would
Trade With Russ
WASHINGTON July Id (UP)

WASHINGTON, July Ia. tUP) =
President Eric A. Johnston of the
U. S. chamber of commerce advo-
Gates postwar cooperative industrial
effort between the United States
and Russia with American business
giving the Soviet Union long-term
credits to assist in her reconstruc-
ton.
He expressed his views late
Thursday, "a hours after he re-
turned to Washington from five
week visit to the Soviet Union
where he conferred with Premier
Josef Stain and other officials.
"A prosperous United States and
a prosperous Soviet Union will go
far toward preserving peace after
this war Johnston said.
And" he added, Il can see no
reason why Capitalist America and
Communist Russia should not CO.
operate with each other"
He said the Russians were wholly
desirous of winning the war as
quickly as possible and settling Gown
to a long period of peace"
"Stalin," he said, lis completely
desirous of rebuilding Russia and
not engaging in world conflict
Johnston said that cooperative ef-
fort by the two nations was entirely
possible, because they had no con-
flict, with neither seeking terri
torial aggrandizement. Each, he
said, could fill the others needs in
world trade.
The busineSsmen's ambassador
to Russia stressed that by speaking
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. II
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-14
Ndziis
Flee
yunks
Retreat Starts
In Normandy;
St. Lo To+ters
SUPREME HEADQUAR-

SUPREME HEADQU AR
TIERS, AEF, July Ia. (UP)
The American First Army
drove forward along its en-
tire 42-mile Normandy front Friday
in the wake of what was described
officially as a general German re-
treat, capturing four villages and
pushing within little more than a
mile of Le5Jdy, the nazi western
defense anchor
The grim and bloody battle for
ST. Lo, central base of the German
line, ragged unabateG but supreme
headquarters had no information
later than front reports which said
the American onslaught was re-
Sumed after a setback - the out
skirts of the wrecked town.
HINGES ON ST. LO
1t. Gen. Omar N. Bradley'S whole
line hinged on st. Lo was swinging
southwark, showing the stubborn
Germans back through hedgeroWs,
groves, ano marshes in slow but
steady retreat.
American control of the Atlantic
coast was advanced as far south as
the mouth of the river Ay west of
Lessay. U. S. Forces won the area
slightly southeast of st. German
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. ID
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-14
Kidnapped Baby
Found Safe

NEW YORK, July Ia. (UP)-Kid-
naped Barbara Anne Goggin, six
months old, has been found alive
and well and returned to the New
York Founding hospital where she
was stolen early Thursday, police
announced Friday.
Police received a mysterious tele-
phone tip which directed them to a
rooming house on the upper
west side wnere they found the
baby.
She was being cared for by Mrs.
Joan Schlutter, 80, who confessed,
police said, to kidnapping her from
the New York Founding hospital
early Thursday morning,
Mrs. Schlutter, divorce, told de-
tectiveS she had been drinking and
acted on a constant, gnawing desire
for baby. She was physically I'M
able to bear child of her own, she
said
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-14
Lawsuits Mount
AGAINST Circus

HARTFORD. Conn, July H. CUP)
-Avalanched with million dollars
in lawsuits from last weeks fire
which killed 162 spectators and in
jured more than 200 others, Ring
ling Brothers, Barnum a. Bailey
circus was working out an arrange
ment with the courts Friday for the
release of its properties so it can
go back on the road again.
Assets of the circus in Hartford,
valued at approximately 100000,
were under attachment and in the
hands of Edward S. Rogin, superior
court-appointed receiver authorized
to accept all claims against the big
top.
Meanwhile. hospitals reported that
1l6 persons still were being treated
for burns and other injuries. but
that only eight cases were consid-
,red critical.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-14

The fan OF GrOdno would open
the way for a 45-mile Soviet push
straight westward to the soil of pre-
war Germany.
The nazi transocean news agency
also reported strong Russian tank
and infantry attacks north of Grod-
no. The tip of the Suwalki tri-
angle, annexted to East Prussia by
Adolf Hitler in 1899, is 20 miles due
north of Grocno.
Ernst Won Hammer, Berlin mill
tary commentator, said the Russians
broke into Grodno twice and were
thrown back. He added that the
Soviets were exerting extreme pres
sure on German detaching move
ments near Grodno"- a likely hint
that the loss of the key stronghold
was expected.
The German high comand re-
ported that Pinsk, commanding all
the northwestern part of the Pripet
marshes, was evacuated in connec-
ton with our detaching move
ments' which now we're assuming
the scale of momentous retreat in
old Poland and the Baltics.
The fall of Pinsk indicated Mar
shall Konstantin K. RokossovSky's
White Russian Army had completed
the conquest of the Pripet swamp
land and was set for a push 100
miles west against Brest Litovsk.
Two other columns already we're
moving against the city from some
So miles to the northeast and 81
miles to the southeast.
Germany'S admissions of grave
reverses on the eastern front indi-
Gated the defenses of central Po-
land and the Labtics were falling
apart under the impact of the
mightiest Russian offensive of the
war, and that the nazis we're pre-
pairing for the first defense of Ger
man soil.
THE center of gravity of the
fighting was east and north of
Grodno," the German high COM
mand said, suggesting that Red
armies were massing before East
Prussia for an imminent plunge in
to its annexed Suwalki triangle and
Germany itself
Grodno, 280 miles from the start
ing line of the Soviet offensive, is
440 miles east-northeast of Berlin.
Latest Moscow advices-notably
we'll behind naI accounts of the
great battle in the east-Said Soviet
forces were 18 miles northeast and
81 miles southeast of Grodno and
developing pincers attack against
it.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-14
Robot Bombin9s
Show Decline

LONDON, July Ia. (UPo-Ger-
many'S robot bomb assault on Lon
don and southern England went
into its fifth week Friday on a de-
clining scale and Home Secretary
Herbert Morrison said Allied defen-
sive measures were having an i'm
portant measure of success"
However, Morrison warned that
the flying bomb had not yet been
completely mastered and said that
England may have to put up with
quite bit yet"
Some of the German flying tor
pedoes crashed and blew up in
London in daylight Friday, but the
capital had respite frcm attack
during the night for the fourth
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-14
u. s. Bombers Hit
Oil Centers in
Hungary Sectors

LONDON, July IA. OUP)-Five
hundred American bombers from
Italy smashed at four oil refineries
in Hungary and railway yards in
Budapest Friday while another big
bomber formation crossed tho Eng
lish channel in clearing weather to
strike at targets on the continent
that were not Immediately identi-
fled.
Three of the oil rtfineries were -
the Budapest area, and the attack
ing force, which included Liber-
ators and Flying Fortresses, report
ed good results. The fleet was ac-
companied by strcng forc,l o..
fighter planes.
The daylight raids followed a new
strike into Germany Thursday
night by Raj Mosquito bombers
which scattered two-ton block
busters over industrial objectives
in the Ruhr and mined enemy
waters without loss.
With the weather somewhat i'm
proved over beth the channel and
Normandy, British and American
air forcus were expected to provide
stronger support to the ground
forces battling in France.
Although the operations over
France Thursday we're carried out
by comparatively small forces, the
U. S. Ninth air force and the Brit
ish Second tactical fighter-bombers
and rocket-fighters hit numerous
targets by army request with good
results.
The Germans sent about SO
planes into the air behind the bat
tie area, and Is of them were shot
down. Seven Allied planes we're lost
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-14
Two Naval Heads
Of japan Killed

of the central Pacific. and Rear
Admiral Yano were killed en- Sal
pan July 7, exactly 81 months after
F. arl Harbor.
The death of Nagumo cost Japan
one of its greatest naval tacticians
and eliminated from the Japanese
navy the two men who devised and
carried out the Pearl Harbor raid,
Admiral Isoroku Yamamotc. who
planned the attack, was killC d in an
air accident" about year ago.
Nagumo, 81, formerly headed the
big naval base at Sasebo, which was
raided last Friday by BIO Super
fortresSes and commanded the
Japanese carrier fore. that was de-
stroyed in the battle of Midway
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-14

IN NORMANDY (By Wireless
Lieut.. Orion Shockley came over
with a map and explained to us
just what his company was going
to do.
There was German strong point
of pillboxeS and machine-gun nests
about half a mile down the street
ahead of us.
Our troops had made wedges into
the city on both sides of us. but
nobody had yet been up this street
where we were going. The street.
they thought, was almost certainly
under rifle fire.
This is how we'll do it," the
lieutenant said. "A rifle platoon
goes first Right behind them will
go part of heavy-weapons pla-
toon, with machine guns to cover
the first platoon.
Then comes another rifle pla-
toon. Then a small section with
mortars. in case they run into
something pretty heavy. Then an
other rifle platoon. And bringing
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-14

straight night. Not even an al:
raid alert was sounded in London
for the third straight night. though
a few flying bombs fell elsewhere In
southern England without causing
casualties.
Another 2l,0OO women and chill
dren we're to be evacuated from
London by the government Friday,
bringing the total sent to the safei.
ty of the provinces in the past
month to 1888. Some $4,000 more
were scheduled to leave tomorrow.
Two mothers. six children and a
taxi driver were killed Thursday
when one cf the flying torpedoes
landed near cab In which tho
women and children were to leave
to entrain for the country.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-14

Urging that smaller manutac-
turerS be given head start" in
beginning production of civilian
goods, Murray asserted that the
trend toward concentration of pro-
duction" had been accelerated dur
ing the war by construction of new
facilities at government expense and
then turning them over TO large
corporations to operate.
McNutt reported a shortage OF
100000 workers in absolutely essen
tial' war and war-supporting indus
tries. He said the two-fold job of
manning essential industries while
providing for orderly resumption of
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-14
Army Renews Opposition
To ReconverSion Plan

civilian production could be done
only with the support and coopera-
ton of all the people.
McNutt announced the start Of a
campaign to recruit 10000 workers
to transfer from one area TO another
to fill vital jobs
The army meanwhile has renewed
its objections TO any plans for re-
conversion at this time. Acting
secretary of war Robert 2. Patter-
son said Thursday that army sup
plies fell 100000 short during the
months of April, May and June. and
emphasized that there Is only ons
barrel OF manpower."
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-14

PEARL HARBOR, July ID; CUP)
American forces in the central Pa
cific were believed preparing for
new thrusts in.o Japan's inner de-
fensss Friday after a communique
announced the seizure of Mania
gassa island, two miles west of
Saipan where the enemy lost two
of its top naval leaders, including
the commander of the sneak attack
on Pearl Harbor.
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz indi-
Gated new strikes against the en-
emy were in the making in an
nouncing that the two Japa. nse
naval officers. Vice Admiral Chui-
chi Nagumo, commander in chief
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-14

said.
The Moslem newspaper Azad well
coined Ghandis statement as one
that would save his political career
and the all-Indian congress. 1t
added that Ghandi had taken the
Congress to stage when further
negotiations with either the Moslem
league or the government was i'm
possible, and now he had retraced
his steps, opening the way for a
settlement.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-14
Cleanup Day
ForrestaI Names
Inquiry Board

WASHINGTON. July ID CUP)-
Secretary of the Navy James v.
ForreStal has ordered court of in
quiry to investigate the circum-
stances connected with the Japa-
nese attack on Pearl Harbor, the
Navy announced today.
Forrestal named Admiral Grin G..
Murfin, retired, to be president of
the court of inquiry. The two other
members will be Admiral Edward C.
KalbfuS. retired, and Vice Admiral
Adolphus Andrews, retired.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-14
Gandhi Pledges Full Aid
To Allies for Duration

that for the duration of the war he
would not resume his campaign of
civil disobedience, drew surprised
but favorable comment.
His "unequivocal declarations, +"
should "chase away the mist that
has allowed to gather round the
quit India slogan devised in Sep
tember, 1912, an editorial in the
Amrit Bazaar Patrika, pro-nationalist
publication and the Oldest daily
newspaper published by Indians,