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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-18

LONDON, May 17-lRAThe Ger
man west wall has been mapped
for invasion, gun-by-gun and mile
by-mile, and has been found to be
a buried fortress sunk in concrete
and screened by minefields and
barbed wire, it was disclosed to-
night.
The secret map, made up of jig
saW-fitting Allied reconnaissance
photograph, provides Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower and his command
with details on the potential bat
tlefields where, the Paris radio
commentator Paquis suggested to-
day, the decision probably will be
reached this summer.
Paquis said Gen. Eisenhower
had massed so divisions and 3d.
900 parachute troops in southern
England, that invasion craft filled
the harbors and asserted AL evil
dence points to the fact the inva'
sion will be launched sooner thar
some people may expect"
In the staggered lines of deptf
back from the mined coast, the
map shows pattern of farmland
broken by installations of defense
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-18
Germans Increase Resistance
x>.In Fighting Before Casino;
(Z( z<< u. S. Filters Support Chinese
s Aest Honor
: ardedMarine

WASHINGTON, May 17-tR-
Marine Private Henry Gu-ke,
who gave his life so a companion
could continue to battle the Japa-
nese on Bougainville in the Solo
mons. today was awarded post
humously the nations highest
decoration, the Congressional Me-
dial of Honor.
Gurke, son of Mrs. Julius Gurke.
of Neche, North Dakota, threw
himself on a japanese hand gre
made to protect a comrade who
was operating an automatic wea-
poin in defense of vital road
block near the initial landing
point at Empress Augusta Bay
last November 9.
Concluding from the increased
ferocity of grenade bacrages that
the enemy was determined to an
initiate their shallow two-man
fox hole" the Navy said, 'he re-
sorted to a bold and desperate
measure for holding out despite
the torre:ntial hail of shells. When
a Jap grenade dropped squareiy
into the fox hole, Gurke, mindful
that his companion manned an au-
tomato weapon of superior fire
power and therefore could provide
more effective resistance, thrust
him roughly aside and flung his
ow.l. body over the missile t.
smother the explosion"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-18
D-LEASE ACT
EXTENDED BY FIR
President Halls Plan As
Symbol OF Allied Unity,
Speeding Victory

WASHINGTON, May II In
President Roosevelt today signed
the third extension of the lend
lease act and hailed the program
as the symbol of Allied unity which
will hasten the day of victory.
Through lend-lease and reverse
lend-lease," the President said in
statement accompanying his ap-
prevail. "the material resources
and supplies of the United Ma
tons have been pooled for their
most effective use against our
common enemies.
This unity of strength, both in
men and in resources, among the
free peoples of the world will
bring complete and final victory.
That victory will come sooner
and will cost less il lives and
materials because we have pooled
our manpower and our material
resources, as United Nations, to
defeat the enemy"
The lend-lease administration
said in it's last report that the
actual total of 1end-lease opera
tons was ,0OO,oO0,00o (Billions)
through January 81.
Mr.. Roosevelt's statement de-
scribed lend-lease as "a powerful
weapon working for the United
States and the other United
Nation against our common enc
mics"
He reviewed the progress OF the
program from its inception In l94l
to the present and said:
The promise of ever-increaslng
help which the United States held
forth to those who defied the AXIS
has been fulfilled.
in April, 1941, the first full
month of the lend-lease program,
we furnished aid valued at $751;
100000 In the month Of March.
1914, the lend-lease aid supplied
amounted to S1.529,554,000 - al.
most as much as the aid rendered
during the entire first year Of
lend-lease operations.'
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-18
MADE
NAVY SECRETARY
New York Financier APP.
proved Without Oppo-
sition In The Senate

WASHINGTON, May II IT.
James v. Forrestal was confirmed
as Secretary of the Nay today to
carry on the sea war which, in
his own words, has been so sue
cessful that Japan's outer Pacific
defenses have been beaten down
to the level of "a line of defense
in name only"
The Senate acted shortly after
the former undersecretary, at his
first news conference since his
nomination to succeed the late
Frank Knox, paid that tribute to
the fighting forces at sea.
Following the course of the naval
committee which approved the APP
pointment unanimously Monday
without questioning the 52-year-old
former New York Financier on his
qualifications, the Senate ratified
his nomination without even taking
formal vote.
AS evidence of the accuracy OF
his description of the japanese po-
sition, F'orrestal cited to reporters
that American sea forces have pen
etrated 1900 miles within the enc
my defense perimeter extending
from the North Pacific Kuriles
through the Mis-P Pacific eastern
Marshalls to the Bismarck archi.
pelago.
He invited Major General Will
liam H. Rupertus, commander Of
the First Marine Division which
drove the Japanese from Cape
Glouchester on New Britain island
last December, to sit in with him.
Rupertus said that in the Cape
Gloucester operation American
casualties totaled about 300 men
killed and 1000 wounded, while
nearly 10000 Japanese were either
killed or wounded. He said 1850
Japanese dead had been counted.
Forrestal reported that little ene-
my surface interference and prac-
tically no air opposition is being
encountered in constant aerial at
tacks against ensny positions in
the Caroline and Marshall groups.
We have ample proof of the
enemy's weakened position in the
mandate area" he commented.
But, he continued. there is evil
fC.4;~rs - Dora .ron. rnJ Ql
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-18
GERMAN SHIPPING
DEALT new BLOW

LONDON, May 17-4R-CarriAr-
borne planes of the British home
fleet have blasted German shore
installations and shipping near Sta
dalandet in surprise blow at Nor
ways west coast, the Admiralty
said today.
Bomb-carrying Grammar Hell.
cats bombed oil tanks and a fish
oil factory, scored hits on two sup
ply ships, damaged two traWlers
and possibly three other supply
ships, while escorting Wildcat anc
Hellcat fighters shot down nine
Nazi interceptors. One othe- enc
my plane may have been downed
and two others were damaged.
Five naval aircraft are missing
said the Admiralty announcement.
The Grummans and Wildcats are
planes.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-18
LAW ENFORCEMENT
MEET HELD HERE
Fifty Persons Attend Con-
ference At The Second
And Orange USO

A conference of law enforcement
officers was held by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation at the Sec
ond and Orange USO yesterday
afternoon. Among the so men pre-
sent were representatives of law
enforcement agencies and national
defense plants in and around Will
mington; Sgt. P. j. Parish and
Sgt. Thomas D. Hughes of the Will
mington Police Department, Capt.
William I. Thomas, provost mar
shall at Bluethenthal field, 1t. Nor
ton BROKER, naval intelligence, G..
L. Kennel. chief of plant protec-
ton at the North Carolina Ship
building Company, James B.
Swails, U. S. Commissioner, Har-
ry E. Fales, superintendent of the
New Hanover Bureau of Identified.
ton, and w. L. Tisdale, chief OF
plant protection at the Ethyl-Dow
Chemical Company.
Special agents of the FBI office
in Charlotte who attended were:
Edward D. Scheidt, chairman OF
Continued on Page Ten; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-18
SANFORD PREVATT
IS FOUND GUILTY

Sanford Prevatt, charged with
assault with a deadly weapon with
serious injury with intent to kill
for an attack on his wife, was
found guilty in Criminal Court
Wednesday afternoon and sentenc-
eo to not less than seven years
nor more than ten years to be
worked under the supervision OF
the State Highway and Public
Works Commission.
Jurors serving on the case were
Lawrence Cox, T. E. Peterson, c.
W. Fulford, T. C. Jones, R. M.
Williams, Stone C. Pulliam, Wal
ter Braswell, Austin Bordeaux, C.
H. Smith, W. E. Keen, C. j. Gun
ningham and T. c. Clark.
Levi Robertson, Negro, charged
with the murder of Arthur Nc
Cloud,s another Negro, during a
card-game brawl, through his
counsel, David Sinclair, rendered to
the state a plea of manslaughte1
which the state Solicitor Clifton
Moore accepted. After hearing the
evidence, it was adjudged by the
court, Judge W. H. S. Burgwyr
presiding, that Robertson be con-
fined to state prison for not less
than eight nor more than 10 years
to be worked on the public roads
Dewitt Hinson was found guilty
by the jury of operating an auto
while under the influence of intoxi
cants. He was allegedly involved
in an accident with damage to {
car driven by James McWatty
Carolina Beach. Sentence was no
passed Immediately.
At the close of evidence in the
case of Horace Tyler, charged witt
jack-peeping, the d e f n d n
through his counsels rendered tt
the state a plea of guilty of forci
/ (Cnnfiuuod m pouo Ten. Col NJ
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-18
Blows To Hurl Japs
From Stolen Territory
Seen By Marine Head

WASHINGTON, May II -R-
Heavy new blows against the Japa-
nese-possibly very soon-to hurl
them back from stolen territory
were forecast tonight by 1t. Gen.
a Vandegrift, comm an
dant of the Marines.
The general, who knows the Pa
cific from personal experience
there with troops on Guadalcanal,
on Bougainville and in other cam
paigns, gave no indication, of
course, of when and where the new
blows will be struck.
But, he asserted definitely, that
the campaign against the Nippon
csc will not be delayed by invasion
of Europe. In that he echoed other
military leaders, among them Adj
miral Ernest j. King, navy COM
mander in chief, who said months
ago that plans were ready for in
classification of, the Pacific cam
paign.
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Labor Rows
Cause $4,000
To Be Idle
FOREMEN END STRIy
Arnold Says Disputes
Affect Invasion Opera
tions, Take Lives
(By the Associated Press)

Labor disputes in various parts
of the nation left $4,000 men and
women idle yesterday while lead
ers of foremen's union decided
to end strikes that have kept ap-
proximately $4,000 war workers
away from their jobs in the De-
troit area.
The national executive board of
the Foreman's Association of
America, independent organization
that had sought recognition as
bargaining agent for supervisory
employees in Detroit, directed Of
ficers of the six striking chapters
to call meetings of their members
For he purpose of an immediate
return to work"
Might Hurt Invasion
The board acted after General
H. H. Arnold, chief of the U. S.
Army Air Forces, asserted alta
Washington War Labor Board
hearing that continuation of the
controversy might affect invasion
operations and might cost the lives
of bombing crews through lack of
sufficient fighter plane protection.
The decision to call off the
strikes of $500 members of the
foremen's association opened an
avenue for the return to produc-
ton tasks of an estimated $4,000
workers who were off duty as a
result of fthe foremen's walkout.
In addition to those affected by
the foremen's dispute, other labor
difficulties in Michigan factories
put 1850 on the sidelines, and
elsewhere in the country 10,400
were off duty.
The Michigan idle included 1880
at seven units of Chrysler Corp.
in Detroit; $500 at Graham-Paige;
1,400 at General Motors Buick
foundry at Flint; 400 in two Ae-
partments of the Chevrolet trans
mission at Saginaw; and 500 at
the Campbell, Wyant and Cannon
Foundry at Muskegon.
Approximately 5000, represent
ed by the Clio United Steel
Workers, were out at the Harrison
and Newark, N. j., plants of the
Worthington Pump and Machinery
Corp. in a dispute over retroactive
pay. About 1000 members of the
United Auto Workers (CIO) were
away from their posts at the
Watson-Flagg machine company
at Paterson, N. J. The unions de-
scribed both strikes as unauthori.
ed.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-18
TENANT VICTOR
IN EVICTION SUIT

NEW YORK, Nay 17-lREA
landlord who barred Mrs. Helen
zwilIiag from newly rented
apartment when he learned she
Mad a child was instructed by a
court today to let them enter
but instead he changed the Jock
Oh the door to keep them out.
Anthony Michaels, owner of the
three room, S5O-a-month Bronx
apartment, told reporters that
Mrs. zwilling and her son, Brian
two, could not occupy the prem,
ises under any circumstances.
He said in court that she mao
not told him, in leasing the apart
ment, that she had child:
Describing Mich IS stand as
"outrageous,'' Municipal Court
Justice William Lyman held the
landlord had failed to show cause
Tor barring her and issued ar
order emitting her to enter.
Mrs. Zwilling, wife of an or
ches+ca musician who is on tnf
road, thereupon went to the
apartment. but Michaels hac
reached there first. He changed
the lock in the presence OF re
porteTs and left again before Mrs
ZWilling arrived.
She said she would attempt tt
gain entry again tomorrow, &C
com2anied by city marshal
Also scheduled for tomorrow L
q hearing on a complaint by MRS
ZWilling that Michaels violated
State law which makes it mis-
derneano- to refuse quarters I
anyone solely on the ground Una
Ne has child.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-18
PAVING PROGRAM
UNDERWAY HERE
Comprehensive Plan For
Fixing Sidewalks Is
Instituted By City

A comprehensive sidewalk paw
ing program embracing all sections
of the city was inaugurated by the
city government yesterday. 1t is
expected to take all summer to
complete it.
Acting City Manager James r.
Benson announced that the con-
tract for the work had been award
ed to James Donnelly. local con-
tractor, who was the lowest Of
three bidders, on square yard
basis.
MIR. Benson said that sidewalks
were in bad shape in all sections
of the city, and that the city build
ing inspection department was
completing survey to determine
the locations of the paving to be
undertaken.
Cost of the project has not been
determined, pending the compile
ton of the survey.
Work was started yesterday on
the west side of econd St. between
Chestnut and Grace SITS. in the
rear of the Cape Fear Hotel. Only
a portion of the sidewalk in the
block is involved.
Next on the list are part Of the
west side of Second St between
Dock and Orange SITS. near the
USO club and the south side Of
Market St. from Third St. for one
half block toward. Second st. in
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JAPS NOW IN SPOT
Nips Believed Developing
Entrapment Loop In
Loyang Sector
BY RAY CRONIN
Associated Press Pacific War
Editor

With American-trained Chimes
forces driving forward on three
north Burma fronts yesterday the
Japanese armies in that war
theater fround themselves in a spot
that was getting tougher every
minute.
On the eve of the monsoon rains
the Nipponese were being pushed
back by hard fighting Chinese who
were heavily supported by Ameri-
can air forces.
Picture Not Bright
The picture on the other exter-
nifty of the Asiatic war one was
anything but bright from the Allied
viewpoint. In the bloody Honan
sector of China. japanese van
guards appeared to be developing
an entrapment loop for the Chinese
forces battling furiously at Loyang
However, the Chinese strengthened
their hold on section of the north
south Peiping-Hankow railway tc
the rear of the sector where the
invaders appeared to be forming
their trap.
Optimism prevailed at Alice
Southeast Asia Headquarters
where a spokesman declared ap
proach of the monsoon found the
japanese on the defensive general
ly in the Indo-Burma region.
Smashes Continue -.
Two of 1t. Gen. Joseph W. Still
wells Chinese columns continued
their smashes toward the enemy
base at Kamaing. One was nin'
miles to the northeast; another Il
miles northwest the Chinese GU
a main road leading to Kamalns
as the japanese battled "stub
bornly."
The Chinese offensive from tn
Salween river area of Yunnan pro
vince, coordinated with the Stilwel
drives, was pressed through noun
famous terrain. At one point thu
Japanese were reported to be re
sisting fiercely but the Chimes
command said they were being en-
circled. Chungking announced cap
ture of several additional towns
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F amedWa Correspondent
Will Be Returned To us.

changed for 700 Germans and as
he walked off the Axis exchange
ship Gradisca he Immediately an
nounced he wanted to get back
to work.
The 36-year-old native of Mt.
Savage, Md, who was accredited
to the British Mediterranean fleet
at the time of his capture, first
was held in an Italian prisoner
of war camp near Chieti, east of
Rome, but after the Italian ar
mistice he fell into German hands
and was sent to a prison camp
in northwestern Poland.
Allen declared that number of
Allied parachutists were dropped
in prisoner of war camps in Italy
just after the Italian armistice,
but that nearly all were rounded
up.
IT was at Camp 81 near Chieti
at first" Allen said, then I was
transferred to another nea- Sui
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Ministry Students
Granted Deferments
M By Draft Officials

WASHINGTON, May II |RN
selective Service tonight authorlz-
ed the deferment of students pre-
pairing fo- the ministry regardless
If whether they are attending theo-
logical or divinity schools.
The revised regulation stlpulates'
however, that stuednts in other IN
stitutions must be under he dlrec-
tion of the specialized schools and
pursuing specific full time
course on an accelerated basis. "
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The Wilmington Defense Housing
Committee housed 604 families in
war housing apartments in April,
the largest number If families
housed in the city in any one month
since the war housing projects
onened in November, 1912, the COM
mittee reported yesterday after its
May meeting at the War Housing
Center.
At the end of the month, the
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House Arrangements Set Record

though all units have not been COM
pleted. The last are expected to be
finished early in June. So far, 1927
units have been occupied, with the
first families moving in the latter
part of March.
The committee reported that a
small number of units, both fur
nished and unfinished, were avail
able in the new Maffitt village Sec
ton.
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total housing units occupied which
are certified by the War Housing
Center exceeded 5000. The center
certifies all government housing
units and S46 private units in Will
mington and the county.
The new Riverside apartments
were reported to be filling rapidly.
with 3S9 leases signed as of yes
terday. A total of 500 units are
contained in the Riverside, al
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BARCELONA, May II -R-
Wearing odd parts Of an army
uniform, Larry Allen, Associated
Press Pulitzer Prize winning war
correspondent, who survived tine
sinkings of two British warshlps,
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Destroyer To Honor
Late Navy Secretary

WASHINGTON, May 17-tR-The
name of Secretary of the Navy
Frank Knox will be carried into
battle by United States destroy
err, Secretary James V. Forrestal
announced today.
The name of the late secretary,
who died two weeks ago, has been
assigned to 2,250-ton destroyer
now under construction at the Bath
Iron Works at Bath, Me.
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TO MAKE ALCOHOL

WASHINGTON, May II R -
The War Production Board today
authorized an idle New Hampshire
distillery to produce beverage al
cohol from Maine Gull potatoes,
declaring that use Of the plant for
war alcohol was ''impracticabls."
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was exchanged
today after 20
months in Ital-
ian aad Ger
man prisoner of
war camps.
Bronzed and
smiling, Allen
told of unsuc-
C e S 8 + u l at
tempts to es-
cape after his
capture Sept.
10, 1912, during
a CO mmando
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in North Africa when the British
destroyer Sikh. on which he was
sailing, was sunk.
Allen was one of 900 American
and British war prisoners ex-
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FORECAST

NORTH CAROLfNA-Thursdav fair IN
partly cloudy and warmer with scat
tered thundershowers in the afternoon,
Temperatures Yesterday:
High: 81. Low: rs.
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1944-01-20

the futility of hobnobbing with pro-
fessional educators, hoping to wean
them away from an economic interpre-
tation of their craft. Our educational
institutions are nothing less than the
spiritual and cultural slaughter
houses for our youth. What we need
desperately are enfranchised minds in
men who have the courage Of pioneers,
the resources of leadership, and a per-
sonable quality that commands the
confidence and enthusiasm of our
youth.
They must be in themselves free of
all systems except the system that
promotes a disinterested search and
adventure into the things obvious and
simple about them Such men, and
women too, can lead youth away from
It's conventional prisons and reveal to
them thru such prisms as The Natural
History Society can hold up to the
gaze the realities of nature that will
20 a long way in making life real on
this mysterious earth.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1944-01-20
FACTS

the career Of smiling. white-haired
Gen. Henry H. Arnold. His report
could well have been a monument
to personal achievement.
NO CHOSEN INSTRUMENT
Again the monopoly proposal for
postwar international aviation has
been attacked, this time by Ralph
S. Damon, vice president of Ameri-
can AirlineS, speaking in Washing
ton on behalf of II of the 10 U. S.
airlines which favor competition.
This country should not adopt
single operation, even though called
by the high-sounding name of "cho-
sen instrument" he declared, mere
ly because some other country has
1t. Better service to passengers
and better transportation between
countries will be achieved only by
true competition" he said, land not
by having chosen instrument of
the U. S. and a chosen instrument
of some foreign power operating in
conjunction on the same route and
doffing their silk hats to each other
in the morning to distribute bust
ness or income by cartel methods"
QUESTIONS FROM READERS
Q. When was the first helicopter
flight? A. First successful flight
probably was that of Heinrich
Focke, in Berlin, in 1887. Sikor-
sky's first was in May, 1871. Pre-
viously, many models had been
flown, one by Frenchman as long
ago as 1907.
What is your aviation question?
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