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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-13
ROOSEVELT HITS
ATPERSECUTI0NS

WASHINGTON, June 12.-R-
President Roosevelt said today the
Nazis, facing defeat, are carrying
on a ''fiendish determination cam
paign against the oppressed peo-
pies of Europe and added that
this government is determined tt
punish call participants in these
acts of savagery."
'"This nation is appalled, by the
systematic persecution of helpless
minority groups the President
said in a report to Congress.
Gas the hour of the final defeat
of the Hitlerite forces draws clos
err, the fury Of their insane desire
to wipe out the Jewish race in Eu-
rope continues undiminished. This
is but one example: Many Chris
tan groups also are being muir
dered."
Knowing that they have lost
the war, the Nazis are determin-
ed to complete their program oil
mass determination. This program
is but one manifestation of Hit.
ler's aim to salvage from military
defeat victory for Nazi principles
the very principles which this
war must destroy unless we shall
have fought in vain''
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-13

have been waging a bitter air
war over Germany and western
Europe. They have had two
main detectives: to destroy
German war industries which
maintain the German armies
and air forces; and to shoot the
German Luftwaffe out of the
air. As result German pro-
duction force now has only a
fraction of its former power.
ssThis great air campaign,
strategic and tactical, will
continue with increasing pow
err.
Con the west-the hammer
blow which struck the coast
Of France last Tuesday moxn-
ing was the elimination of
many months of careful PLAN
ming and strenuous prepara-
ton" y
The President said 1--WE still
have long way to Tokyo"
but he reviewed the relentless
Pacific smashes which nave
taken the initiative away from
the Japanese.
"Today we are on the often
sive all over the world-bring-
ing the attack to our enemies.
Declaring we have deprived
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-13
ALLIES KEEP UP
AERIAL ATTACKS
Cologne Reported Bombed
As Sequel To R aids
Over France

SUPREME HEADQUA R.
TIERS ALI E D EXPEDl-
TIONARY FORCE, Tuesday,
June 13.-(P)- Cologne was
reported by DNB today to
have been bombed just before
midnight in an after-dark Sc
quel to daylight invasion at
tacks Monday in which Allied
air fleets flew up to 10000
sorties against German hold
ings in France.
Many Nazi-controlled radio sta
lions in~France and Germany shut
down, suggesting widespread ac-
tivity by the Raj.
A record 1,40O U. S. heavy bonn
bers participated in the daylight
attacks, which met rising German
air force resistance. Sixteen enc
my airfields and six bridges were
among the targets.
The heavyweights, in the great
est force ever sent on a single
mission, lost seven planes to flax
while their fighter escort shot II
of the enemy from the sky at a
cost of IA fighters.
The supreme command threw
every class of bomber and fight
er into close support of thu ex-
panding Normandy beachhead, and
the Germans, putting up their stiff
fest opposition since the Channel
crossing, were unable to check
this whirlwind of Allied aerial
might.
U. S. Fortresses and Liberators
scourged air fields from St. Ma
zaire to Lyon, to which the Ger
mans had been shutting their lean
air force, and one pilot declared
that "every airfield within ra-
dius of so miles of our target
seemed to be under attack
Other heavyweights planted ex-
plosives on six bridges and other
installations, while clouds of light
err bombers, fighter-bombers and
fighters filled the skies over north
ern France, some engaging in dog
fights with ,as many as 20 enemy
planes.
Air fields pounded were at
Lille-Nord, Montdidier, Evereux
Fauville, Dreux, Vitry-en-Artois
and Bauvais-Tille, all landing
fields the Germans need for any
sort of serious defense against
the Allies.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-13
DE CAULLE PLANS
VISIT TO FRANCE

LONDON, June IL. 49, Gen.
Charles DeGaulle is expected to
visit France in an effort to obtain
evidence of popular backing for
his national liberation committee
before leaving for Washington to
continue his fight for full recogni-
ton, it was reported today.
French quarters here said De
Gaulle, still dissatisfied with his
relations with the British and AM
erican governments, was willing to
gamble on a popular demonstra-
ton and the qualities of his fight
ing French troops-if and when
used-to strengthen his hand.
One of these men said Allied
plans for administering civil at
fairs in liberated parts of France
were "AMGOT under another
name and took the position it
would mean dealing with "a whole
series of Darlans'' with results
dangerous to the military.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-13

WASHINGTON, June 12.-(F
President Roosevelt said to-
night we can force the Japa-
nese to unconditional surren-
der or to national suicide much
more rapidly than has been
thought possible"
The President, speaking on
a national radio program OPEN
ing the $4,000, 100000 Fifth War
Loan drive, said our original
strategy Of eliminating Ger
MANY first and then turning
our full strength on the Pacific
can hasten the day of our VIC
tory on all fronts.
Germany, he said. is ''first on
the list for destruction" and
added:
germany has her back
against the wall-in fact three
walls at once.
con the south = we have
broken the German hold On
central Italy. On the east -
our gallant Soviet allies have
driven the enemy back from
the lands which were invaded
three years ago and great So
Wet armies are now initiating
crushing new blows.
cover head-vast Allied air
fleets Of bombers and fighters
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-13
BOARD ASKSCAB
FOR EQUIPMENT

Decision to write the Civil Ae-
ronautics Board in Washington
requesting that equipment be made
available to National Airlines so
that work on the proposed air
line through Wilmington can get
underway soon was made by the
Board Of County Commissioners
yesterday.
A letter also will be written to
Senators Josiah W. Bailey and
Robert R. Reynolds and Congress
man J. Bayard Clark.
It also was decided that a
statement concerning the status
of the James Walker Memorial
hospital, defined at the joint meet
ing of the commissioners, the city
council and the board of mana
gers of the hospital, be included
in the minutes for future refer
ence and record.
Discussion was held to deter
mine ways of making the county
Jail more comfortable and it was
recommended that bids be asked
| for the reconstruction OF the sky
light and the installation OF three
&c. electric fans.
! Beer licenses were granted te
the following: Annie Ruth Ashley,
Seabreeze; E. c. Boldie, Castle
Haynes; Thomas Solomon, 2olt
Princess Street Road; j. B. Scott
Summer Hill; J. D. Lockamy, Sea
Gate, and Mrs. H. L. Pope, Roose-
welt Gardens.
"A petition signed by residents oil
South Washington street, Sunse
Park, asking that the street II
front of their residences be fixed
was given to committee fol
further study.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-13
Leap-Frog Landings
Predicted By Berlin

LONDON, June l. Up The
Germans admitted loss Of Carentan
today, and said great Allied
drives were impending on both
ends of the Normandy front with
possibly leap-frog landings plan
ned to hasten the chocking-off OF
Inc port of Cherbourg.
Berlin blamed Nazi retreats
CHIEFLY on "the constant hail OF
smells from giant guns of Allied
Warships,'' and gloomily forecast
there would be IAN armada OF
oombers to support Anglo-Amerl-
can land forces when the fighting
moves farther inland"
The enemy broadcasts said the
real weight Of Allied power would
We 1elt only after port like
H.herbourg has been captured, fol
giant Allied supply ships still
are waiting at sea for capture o.
port which would permit land
ing OF men and material"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-13

As depleted enemy units fell
back toward the Florence area
with the greater part of their
equipment lost, the Nazi high
command faced the immediate
necessity of sending heavy rein
forcements from France or else
where in Europe if any real attempt
was to be made to hold northern
Italy.
1T is now quite clea-,' the Al
lied announcement said, that the
original 18th army has been dis
persed to the four winds. All that
remains is a few scattered rem
nants who mainly are engaged in
stealing one another's transport
to get away as fast as possible.
Prisoners describe the situation
as wholly chaotic
The German commander, Field
Marshal Albert Kesselring, not
only has been forced to throw all
but one of the "a division he had
in Italy into desperate effort to
slow the Allied steamroller, but
has brought in three fresh infan-
try divisions, it was disclosed to-
day.
What is left of the Nazi 10th
army, which once struck hammer
blows at Allied troops clinging to
the Anzio beachhead, appears to
have been put on an every-man-
for-himse1f basis in the flight to-
ward Florence.
THE most striking evidence of
the degree of disintegration was
provided by the fact that captured
stragglers were provided with
passes saying the bearer was
authorized to proceed either alone
or in small groups to an assembly
place near Florence the Allies
announced.
Across the breadth Of Italy the
Allied Fifth and Eighth armies
pressed grimly forward, meeting
organized resistance only where
the Nazis badly needed time to
extricate their troops. The country
side was Uttered with abandoned
enemy equipment.
Fifth army troops pas he'd
through the important road juno
ton of Montefiascone near the
shores of Lake Bolsena and fought
on toward the town of Bolsena,
eight miles beyond. Eighth army
columns moving up both sides OF
the Tiber river north Of Rome
heared Bagno Reggie and Rieti.
In the rugged central sector the
eighth army overran Avezzano
and nearby Lake Fucino, which
was drained some years ago and
now is a 45,O00-acre farm develop
ment. In the Adriatic sector all
Germans had been cleared from
the lower side of the Pescara
river.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-13
japanese Invader Troops
Pound Besieged Changsha

three hills outside the town,
and attempted an unsuccessful
flank from the south, a COM
munique declared.
While American bOmbers and
fighters blasted enemy troops,
river craft and installations
over q wide area of the Human
front. the. Chinese still were
holding in the area Is miles
northwest of Changsha, while
directly north Of the city the
japanese were fought to a
standstilL the high command
said.
The japanese also were driv-
ing ON Changsha from the east
only six miles away, and
fierce fighting was reported in
all these sectors. with casual
ties heavy on both sides.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-13
Reds Launch
MajorDriue
On HeLsinkii

LONDON, June IL. - R -
Russian tanks and picked
troops struck through breach
es in the rebuilt Mannerheim
line today in drive toward
the big Finnish port Of Vipuri
less than As miles away from
advanced spearheads-with the
capital of Helsinki itself as the
ultimate goal.
Churning up the Karelian is
thmus ravaged by the 1939-40
Russo-Finnish war, Russian ar
tillery, bombs and guns of the
Baltic fleet cracked the defens-
es along a 25-mile front and
stunned the Firms with cam
nonading which echoed through
Leningrad, more than Is miles
away.
Dispatches from Moscow said
the Red Army had seized sew
-eral large railroad centers be-
yond the 1898 Russo-Finnish
border and that Finnish casual
ties, heavy from the start. were
increasing.
They pictured the Films as
dazed by the suddenness and
weight Of the attack and as ILL
prepared for threats of big
scale landings behind their
lines under cover of the Soviet
Baltic fleet.
More enemy positions were
being rolled up hourly as the
Russians under Col. Gen. Leo
mid Govorov, liberator of Len
ingrad, struck repeatedly in
the virtually constant day.
light of the northern summer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-13
TENTH OF QUOTA
SOLD FIRST DAY

More than 100000 worth o.
bonds were sold yesterday TOWARD
the city-county goal. of $5,707, 00(
in the Fifth War Loan drive to
spring-boa the Civilian D-Day'
attack, j. C. Thornton, city wal
bond chairman, announced las
night.
A gala parade high-ighted the
first day of the campaign yester-
day afternoon at GAS p. m. as
three companies of Wacs, the 142no
Army Ground Force band, the
517th IA battalion, and detach'
ment of the 679th IA Ordnance
company, all from the Anti-Air.
craft Artillery Training center al
Camp Davis; and the Marine Post
Band from Camp Lejelne, follow
ed by Army equipment, marched
through the downtown streets oil
the city as enthusiastic citizens
thronged the sidewalks.
Retreat, the daily evening sa-
lutte to the Stars and Stripes, was
carried out by a group of troops
at City Hall after the parade.
Many citizens viewed the Army
equipment displayed in front OF
Thalian Hall which had it's worth
in $25 war bonds painted on the
side. The largest antiaircraft ar
tillery piece in the Allied armies.
the new 120 nm. "stratosphere'
gun, which was seen by a large
group of civilians for the, frs
time, was valued at 5,76O twenty
five dollar bonds. A half-tracl
amounting four so calibre machine
guns was valued at 1862 twenty-five
dollar bonds. Other equipment dis.
played included an amphibious
jeep, 80 nm. and 10. nm. antiair-
craft guns, two of the 800, 900, 00C
candle power anti-aircraft search,
lights and fighting jeep armed
with SO calibre anti-aircraft ma
chine guns.
After the parade, many Will
mingtonians, with admission
through tickets received from the
purchase of a Series E war, bond
| saw the show ''Furlough Fun al
ITALIAN Hall, which featured Pvt
Arnie Sultan, the 'sSad Sack" Pvt
Jack Wheelan, Pvt. Merlin Marx
Pvt. Patricia Norris, Pvt. Walter
Fuller, ia John Mooney, IL Wacs
in chorus, and the 143rd AGF
band.
Prior to stage show performance
Lieut.. Col. Philip H. Brewster, di
rector of supply at Camp Davis
who was introduced by master o.
ceremonies Pvt. Jack Wheelan
made brief address in which
he urged the citizens Of Whining
ton and New Hanover county tt
''buy more bonds" ''You are mo-
asked to give, but to lend your
money to your government on in
terest for your protection so that
your freedom might live forever"
Colonel Brewster declared.
The first large subscriber in the
Fifth War Loan drive was the
Virginia Carolina Chemical COM
pany, which sent a check to War
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-13
Yanks Smash At laps
In Biak Isle Bunkers

ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD.
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Tues
day, June 13-tR-Japanese ara
being cleaned from their strong
positions on Biak island west Of
Mokmer airstrip, headquarters
announced today.
American infantry troops were
advancing westward from cap
tured Mokmer drome Sunday
against enemy machinegun fire
coming from bunkers.
Headquarters also disclosed thai
Palau and Truk again were bomb
ed Saturday night. Palau's air
strip was hit and installations or
Truk were attacked by planes
from southwest Pacific bases.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-13

CHUNGKING, June 12.-R
Invader troops are pounding
necessarily at all sides of be-
sieged Changsha against heroic
Chinese resistance and the
battle around the outer defens-
es has reached its ''fiercest
proportions" a Chinese COM
munique said tonight, indicat-
ing virtual enlightenment of the
Canton-Hankow rail city.
Far to the west, however,
near the Burma border. Chin
csc troops were scoring furth-
err successes and were mop
ping up enemy remnants in
the outer areas of Lungling, inn
portant Yunnan province base
whose fall was announced yes
terday. The Japanese still held
strongly-fortified positions on
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-13
Yugoslaus Partisans
Launch Nev Offensive

LONDON, June 12.-{P)-Marshal
Tito's Yugoslav partisans have
launched an offensive in Serbia and
caused more than 400 German
casualties in stiff fighting on 9TH
err fronts, the Free Yugoslav com.
munique said tonight.
The Germans, in a broadcast,
acknowledged the Partisan drive
on the Croat-Serbian frontier. but
declared it had been halted.
Both sides reported violent fight
ing in eastern Bosnia with Parti-
sans claiming that Nazi bases at
Majevica and Semberija in peril.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-13
POLITICAL FIGHT
FLARES In TEXAS
BY The Associated Press

A court battle over the fourth
term issue was shaping up today
as result of an intraparty split
among Texas Democrats.
The Texas Democratic executive
committee, meeting yesterday at
Dallas, voted 81 to 6 against Ger.
tifying a slate of pro-Roosevelt
presidential electors for printing
on the July primary ballot.
The slate was advanced by a
faction that broke away from the
party's state convention after be-
ing twice outvoted by anti-admin-
istration elements.
The convention then went ahead
and named its own group of %
electors and instructed them not to
support the party's presidential
nominee unless the two-thirds
nominating rule is restored at the
national convention and other con-
ditionS are met. fs -.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-13
Fifth War Loan Campaign
Gets off To Good Start
Is More Jap Ships
Sunk By u. S. Subs
In Pacific Ocean

WASHINGTON, June 12.-(R
The toll Of Japanese ships
sunk by American submarines
rose today to 607 with a Navy
announcement that Is more en-
envy vessels had been sent to
the bottom in the Pacific and
far east.
All the ships reported in to-
days communique were car
go vessels or merchantmen
needed by the enemy in sup
plying ouslHing posts.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-13
British Troops Gain
In Indian Fighting

SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND
HEADQUARTERS, Handy, Cey-
loh' June 1.-tR-British troops,
engaged in clearing the enemy out
Vi India, have driven to a polnt
81 miles east of Kohima, almost
W the Burma border, where re-
heWed resistance has been en-
eouhtered, a communique from
safnlral Lord Louis Mountbatten 5
Neacquarters said today.
The Burma border is 80 miles
east Of Kohima at the nearest
point.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-13
Allies Chasing
Routed Germans
Far From Rome
Disorganized Forces Nearly 20 Miles North
Of Eternal City In Flight

ROME, June 12:-QF9-The German 18th army has
been dispersed to the four winds Allied Headquarters
declared today 1t. Gen. Mark w. Carks American and
British forces pursuing the dsorganized Germans up the
Italian west coast approached Orbetelo II miles northwest
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-13
FORECAST

WILMINGTON AND VICINITY: Partly
cloudy and warm today.
Temperatures yesterday:
High 85-Low "A.
Evening star., 1944-11-06
brookIngs Advises Transfer
|Of crop Credit Controls

Ownership and control Of agricul-
tural production credit should be
transferred from the Government to
the farmers under ! definite plan
for the retirement Of Government
capital" the Brookings Institution
believes.
Unless such plan Is drawn up
and put in operation private bank
ing interests may be expected to
continue their opposition because Of
the Federal subsidy involved, a study
written by Dr.. Earl L. Butz and
made public yesterday, stated.
A new system of production credit.
he wrote, should limit itself to the
granting OF sound credit and should
not be concerned with rural relief
and emergency rehabilitation, The
farmers investment in more than
$40 production credit associations
operating at the end Of l943 was
Evening star., 1944-11-06
Chang Sees Prospects
|0f Co operation With
III. 5. as Excellent
~ the Associated Press.

1 - tAAS AScoSs4ScO 3 AcSu. +
Prospects are NOW excellent" for
close and effective Chinese-Amer-
ican military, political and economic
Ico-operation, Generalissimo Chang
Kai-Shek said In message to the
Associated Press in response to. a
request for his views on the situation
Ispotlighted by Gen. Joseph w. Still
wells recall to Washington.
Making his first statement for
publication on the Stilwell incident,
Chang said he believed President
Roosevelt's explanation of that mat
ter to be adequate and that he
had nothing further to add.
He referred to the President s
statement, made at a White House
news conference on October 81, that
Gen. Stilwell's recall was due to a
clash of personalities between the
general and the generalissimo and
that 1t had no connection with mat
ters of strategy or policy in China.
Chiang's message from Chungking
was addressed to Kent Cooper, ex-
ecutive director of the Associated
Press, and was received at the New
York office of the A. p. yesterday.
Text Of Message.
It's text follows:
Telegram dated November l re-
ceived November 3. Thank you for
expression of interest in this sit
uation. According to press reports
received here, President Roosevelt
already has given adequate explana-
ton Gen. Stilwell's transfer to which
I have nothing to add. Prospects ef-
fective and close Chinese American
military, political and economic CO.
operation now excellent"
Mr.. Cooper had asked Chang for
his views on the Stilwell case and
other elements of the China situa-
tion after public discussion OF the
American generals withdrawal and
the publication of stories detailing
the background OF Chinese-Amer-
ican relations.
Additionally" Mr.. Cooper's mes
sage to Chang said, 'the President
referred to stories written by news
papermen serving as correspond
ents in the China Burma India
theater, these stories purporting to
set forth conditions and arrange
ments respecting China's part in the
war and referring particularly to
your governments attitude as re-
spects the organization and activi-
ties of Chinese Communists.
Statement Requested.
"In view of these public state
ments and stories, / ask and earnest
ly hope that you will give me for
publication through the Associated
Press your personal statement on
the Stilwell case and any comment
you deem desirable on other mat
ters under public discussion, since
believe your views carry the deepest
public interest everywhere and will
serve to present the situation af-
fecting China In the clearest pos
sible light"
While Cbiang,s reply to this mes
sage did not refer to the Communist
situation, it was touched upon by
Foreign Minister T. v. Soong in q
Chungking press conference No
vember 3, at which he told corre-
spondents that this was an internal
problem Of China and respected as
such by the United States.
Soong added, however, that the
matter Of cooperation between
Chiangs government and the Chi
nese Communists had been the SUBJ
ject of friendly discussion" during
conferences at Chungking in which
Donald M. Nelson and Maj. Gen.
Patrick Hurley represented the
United States.
Evening star., 1944-11-06
NEW POPOVER MIX
HAS MANY FEATURES
1opovu Provides Quiek. tosy Woy
To Nuke Delicious Popovers

Housewives who have tried
Topova are enthusiastic about this
new mix for making popovers. They
claim it has the following advan-
tages: y AL the dry ingredients
are ready-blended; p Only eggs
and milk are left to add; - Takes
but few minutes from package
to oven; y Makes popovers that
really pop, with crisp glazed gold
en- crust and wonderfully light
treat with every meal; s. Results
are always delicious at every bak-
ing because Of the precision mixed
ingredients; s. A package makes 8
to IL popovers; y And an easy to-
make method is printed right on
the carton.
Topova is a companion product
to Flako Pie Crust and .Flakorn
Corn Muffin Mix, all made by Flako
Products Corp, Midtown, NJ.
Double Your Bond Buying.
Evening star., 1944-11-06
|Jops Announce End
|of Ties With Roli,oniu.

~ the Asseeiated Press.
SAN FRANC1sco, Nov. s.--Dip-
lomatic relations between Japan
and Romans have ceased, Domei
Japanese news agency. announced
In : broadcast today. The report
recorded by United States Govern.
Evening star., 1944-11-06
Prime Minister Curtin
I'LL, Ordered to Rest

~ the Associated Press.
MELBOURNE. Nov. 6.-Prime
Minister john Curtin OF Australia
Is III and Is not expected to resume
his ofhcial duties for several weeks
Meetings OF the var cabinet and
war council scheduled for Wednes-
day and Thursday were cancelled to-
day.
The Prime Minister has been or
dered by his doctors to take q rest
Evening star., 1944-11-06
Judge Bentley to Speak

Judge Fay L. Bentley of Juvenile
Court will discuss Juvenile Delin-
quency" at meeting of the St
Thomas Apostle Home and School
Association at. 3:l5 pm. tomorrow
at the parish hall. Twenty-seventl1
street and Woodley road NV.
Evening star., 1944-11-06

/ ~, 100 900, plus on, oOoo invssted
~ the Treasury. the study said. 4
Or. Bntx was gr1nted leave from
Purdue Uniyefxity to make the
Brookings survey.