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Evening star., 1944-08-27
Food Scarce in Poris
But Drinks Are Plentiful
BY HAL BOYLE,

Associated Press War CORRESPONDENT.
PARIS, Aug. ga great exodus
began from Paris to the country
side today, with thousands of per-
sons searching for food on sur
rounding farms.
But as usual in Paris, alcoholic
drinks still were available in guam
titles.
Housewives by the hundreds rode
out of the city on bicycles to which
they tied large market baskets to
carry back whatever eggs, butter,
meat or vegetables they might be
able to barter or buy from farmers.
Many are pushing along empty
baby buggies so they could bring
back more" said one soldier. He
declared the main highway leading
south Of the city from Orleans Gate
looked like the Oklahoma land rush
all over again"
Few of the famous Partisan res
taurants were open to the public.
To get a good meal it was necessary
to find some one with entree into
one OF the black market restaurants,
which have been serving de luxe
dinners all through the occupation
in defiance of food rationing regu-
lations. Their prices were exorbi-
tant, and only Vichy officials, Ger
man Army officers and highly placed
collaborationists generally could af-
ford them.
Evening star., 1944-08-27

made Sherman tanks thrust in
from the southern part of Paris.
The famed Luxembourg Gardens
were virtually ringed by solid wall
Of tanks spouting shells at Germans
answering with mortars, artillery,
machine gun and rifle fire.
Fire Directed at Senate Building.
A heavy concentration OF French
fire was directed against the gray
stone Senate building across the
boulevard st. Michel from the Sor-
bonne, meeting place of Frances s
Academicians and housing the
French Hall of Fame.
Explosions thundered through the
broad boulevards and machine guns
chartered necessarily.
Every time my jeep stopped it was
mobbed by kids who pleaded for
bon bon" My five-week ration of
hard candy. boarded for this occa-
sion, gave out in one block. Cigar
cites were gone after two blocks.
The first American soldiers in
Paris may have been Pvt. Robert E.
Paup, York. Pa. and Corpl. Jack
Hamilton of Midlothian, Tex. They
came in with one-star general. and
with 1t. Melvin Stock, COS Redknap
street, Pittsburgh, Pa, and Capt.
Howard j. Crager, 536 West 11lth
street, New York City. who are
public relations officers.
Whizzing past with squeaky sirens
went red Partisan fire wagons pick
ing their way through traffic.
Chased Out by French.
When I first saw Paris today It
was for just few brief moments.
AS soon as my jeep crossed into the
city limits, 6-wheeled armored
car-made in America and manned
by Frenchmen-tore out in pursuit.
1t shouldered the jeep over to the
curb, and blond young French
man waving tommy gun got out.
In an excited manner he said his
captain had ordered that none but
French vehicles be permitted to
some one had an
idea this should be an all French
show.
After we argued a while, the
young Frenchman squared away to
shoot of the jeep's tires-and then
We turned around in a hurry.
With the snout of the armored
cars French 75-mm. gun - also
Evening star., 1944-08-27

One 500 bond will pay for 10 gas
masks!
Evening star., 1944-08-27
1900 Miners Expected
To Resume Work Monday
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 26.-Some
1900 of the 1000 idle bitumino,ls
coal miners in Western and Central
Pennsylvania were expected back
at work by Monday.
Three hundred of the 1000 on
strike at Vesta No. 5 mine of the
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. re-
turned to their jobs today and the
company said the other 100 are ex-
pected back Monday. Another 300
men, employees of the Pittsburgh
Coal Co. at Houston, voted today
to return to their jobs.
Nearly 5000 other miners re-
mained idle, most of them on strike
IN the recognition drive of the
Supervisory Workers Union, a
branch of District so, United Mine
Workers of America.
One S100 bond will pay for 10 ras
masks!
Evening star., 1944-08-27

any reason for such . radical"
change In form Of government.
The committee added that this
Is particularly bad time" to pro-
pose such . change, since 1900
service men and women OF the
county are serving in the armed
forces and will not have an op.
portunity to study the question.
Evening star., 1944-08-27

made in America-pointing at our
heads we beat an inglorious retreat.
Beyond the city limits. 1t. Col.
Bertram Kalisch OF 68l9 Burns
street, Forest Hills, N. Y, saved the
situation by attaching our jeep to
his official In bound film unit.
Evening star., 1944-08-27
De GuuIIe Envoy Given
Audience With Pope !.
y the Associated Press

~ the Associated Press.
VATICAN CITY, Aug. 26.-Pope
Plus XII received M. Guerin, rep-
resentative of the French Provi-
sional Government to the Holy See,
IN q private audience today.
Mr.. Guerin called later on the
state secretariat.
The Vatican newspaper II Osser-
vatore Romano said that Leon Ber-
ard, French Ambassador to the
Holy See. had informed the state
secretariat he considered in his mis-
sion ended since Marshal Henri
Petain cannot exercise his powers.
Evening star., 1944-08-27

order to restore the domestic gas
supply.
Emphasizing that the steps being
taken were only temporary, Supreme
Headquarters said the overall policy
Of the Allied leaders was to do every
thing possible to enable the French
to help themselves,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-02
RUSSIANS ADOPT
new GOVERNMENT
Each OF 16 Republics Will
Have Right To Raise
Own Army

MOSCOW, Feb 1-tR-The Su-
preme Soviet (Russian parliament
adopted unanimously tonight pro-
posal by Foreign Commissar WA
cheslav Molotov giving the 16 in
dividual republics within the Soviet
Union their own commissariats of
national defense and foreign at
fairs with the right to raise their
own army formations and deal di-
recently with other countries.
This history making RECONSTRUCT
ton of the Soviet Union. the first
since the adoption of the consti-
tuition in 1886, was achieved after
a four-hour debate.
The Supreme Soviet also elected
Nikolai Shvernik, secretary of the
trade unions, as first vice chair
man of it's presidium. an office
amounting to vice-president. of the
country His name was proposed
by President Michael Kalinin.
Kalinin said vice chairman was
needed to help handle the increas-
ed work of the presidium in foreign
affairs, Interpretation of domestic
law and bestowal of decorations.
Continued on Page Two; Col. "
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-02
BOND SALES SET
AT TWO MILLION

No official report on war bond
sales for New Hanover county was
received from Richmond Tuesday,
e. J. Thornton, chairman of the
drive for New Hanover county
stated Tuesday night. Mr.. Thorn
ton said that he believed that ap.
proximately $4,000 in bonds had
been sold in this area since Friday
however, and this would bring the
total to approximately $4,000, 1000.
When asked about the progress
OF the campaign up to this point,
Mr. Thornton declared that ne felt
it was going along in satisfactory
manner
The goal set for New Hanover
County is $4,859. 900 in the Fourth
War Loan Drive, which means that
citizens of the county must reach
far down in their pockets to SUBJ
scribe the remaining $2,859, 600
The drive closes on Tuesday, Feb
ruary Is, which leaves less than
two weeks foc individuals to cx-
press in the most effective manner
possible, their anxiety to support
men on the fighting fronts, and
their resentment of the treatment
meted out to American soldiers in
japanese prison camps
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-02
ALLIES REPULSE
JAPANESE DRIVE

ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Wednes-
day, Feb. 2-lR The Japanese
have been repulsed in an attempt
to attack an Allied post in south
ern Dutch New Guinea, a sector
northwest of Australia which
Hitherto has been dormant
theater. Headquarters announced
the enemy reverse today.
Sixty Japanese casualties were
inflicted as a small force tried to
land from barges in the Eilanden
River $50 miles north of the Dutch
New Guinea-Papgan border Mon
day.
Four of eight barges were de-
stroyed. Dutch soldiers were in &C.
ton with the Australian for the
first time.
Over Rabaul, New Britain, ia.
pans swiftly growing air disaster
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-02
WAR BOND DRIVE
0NE-THIRD 0VEE

WASHINGTON, Feb. L. R
The first report of "big money
subscriptions drove the $4,000
900. 1000 Fourth War Loan car
paign to the one-third mari t
night.
Of 81, 628, 900, 900 now subsc ibe,
the Treasury said 1886 900, 90 r.
presented purchases by copor;
tons and other large invstorl
with the balance-$1, 720, 100000
Accounted for in individual 'aleE
A $156, 900, COZ gain in indii du'
sales in the last "a hours w II
largest since the drive bega an
reflected, the Treasury repo9ed,
mounting indignation over tn Jat
anese atrocity reports.
A Treasury spokesman sal tn
while an excellent showin'' hi
been made in individual sal
through the first half of tn car
paign, stress would continu to |
placed on the little monet su
scriptions until the drive cloes tV
weeks from tonight.
Individual subscriptions sill al
less than 80 per cent of te s.
500, OO0,0 900 goal.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-02
ON KWAJALEIN ATOLL
Japs Reported Putting Up
Fierce Resistance To
Americans

PEARL HARBOR, Feb. I.
= - American amphibi.
Gus forces have invaded the
very heart of Japan's fierce.
'y-defended mid-Pacific Mar
shall islands.
Marines and soldiers land
ed on Kwajalein atoll, estab-
shing beachheads near the
powerful Japanese bases on
2oi and Kwajalein islets.
Defending forces, described by
Tokyo radio as 'the best imperial
units were putting up fierce op-
position, Adm. Chester w. Nimitz
announced in brief communicate
today. But indications were that
American casualties so far have
been moderate.
This first bold move into pre-.
war Japanese territory was proceed.
ed by heavy air attacks and shin
commandment. For three days car
rler and land-based planes rained
hundreds of explosives on enemy
air-fields and ground defenses.
Army and navy planes had
struck at the Marshalls daily since
Jan. S, and almost daily since
mid-Novembe-
Battleships, cruisers and destrov-
ers. forming history's greatest sea
armada, joined in the battle Sun.
Gay. They sailed close in, defying
Japanese shore guns that may
have survived the aerial pound
ing, and laid down terrific bonn
bardment.
Presumably the ship ba-rage
and drumfire bombing sent the de.
tenders cringing into their under
ground positions. Strong defenses.
both above and underground. were
expected as the enemy hal nearly
quarter of century in which to
build them.
American Marines and infantry
took to their landing boats after
the ship barrage had reached its
height. They crashed the beaches
of islands adjacent to Roi and
Kwajalein islets of Kwajalein atoll.
Roi, at the northernsmost tip Of
the atoll, was the site of one Of
the enemy's better airfields. Kwa-
jalein islet is at the southern tin
Of the atoll.
The guns of the American war;
ships blasted at all shore installa-
tons on Roi and Kwajalein islands.
The Fourth Marine Division,
commanded by Maj. Gen. Harry
Schmidt, made the landing in the
Roi area, Admiral Nimitz said:
The Seventh Infantry Division of
the U. S. Army, commanded by
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-02
YANK AMPH|BI0US forces
INVADE MARSHALL ISLANDS
Important Facts
About MarshaLLs

PEARL HARBOR, Feb. /. -
P)-Facts about Marshall Is
land bases which were invad-
ed today by an American
force:
Kwajalein - 66 miles long
and Is miles wide the main
airfield, probably tie principal
target, is on Roi i.let, having
four paved runways and cause
ways which provide taxiway
has a seaplane bale at Kwa-
palein islet: harbor one of best
in Marshalls.
Wolfe - rs mile. long and
about II miles Wild; has air.
field on Wolfe isle approxi-
mately 5000 feet lon,; also ac-
tive seaplane base.
Maloelap-Taroa arfield has
two concrete runwgs, hang
ars, repair shops, many bar
racks and buildings for stor-
age of ammunition and sup
plies; such areas probably
were set afire by tie heavy
concentrated bombing power
of carrier planes in ontinual
relays.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-02
HouseAgaiinst
Vote
On BallotB Bill.
DEBATE INTENSIFIED
Demand That They Stand
Up And Be Counted Is
Rejected
.,rAcu1NGTQN Feb.

WASHINGTON, Feb. L. R -
pv vote of 233 to 100, the House
decided today against a roll call
vote on the question of q Federal
ballot for those in uniform, thus
rejecting President Roosevelt's de-
nand that Congress stand up and
he counted on the issue.
The decision foreshadowed prob
.bIe House approval tomorrow OF
Measure leaving the whole ques-
tion of soldiers voting to the States
procedure which Mr.. Roosevelt
bas declared is impractical and
viii mean millions of those in uni
form will have no chance to cast
ballots.
denv this is true, and the argu-
r,ent as well as today's House
vote promises to carry over in
the election campaigns.
The specific question before the
House was whether to adopt a spe-
cia1 rule requiring a roll call vote
w a Federal ballot bill which Rep.
W. (D.-Tex.) will offer later
as substitute for the States
p;ohts'' measure reported by the
House ELECTORS Committee.
On the division, 100 Republicans,
- democrats, and one minor party
n9ember voted against the rule.
For it we're 146 Democrats, IL Re-
nublicans. and three minor party
members.
Fifty of the Democrats who vot-
ed against the roll-call are from
the South. one (Elliott) from Cali
fornia and the Sind Disney from
Oklahoma.
In general they favor the States
Rights bill now before the House
and those taking the opposite posi-
ton are for the proposed Federal
ballot. But some Democrats and
Republicans as well explained that
their votes were in line with the
tradition of upholding old-line
standing committees. The House
rules committee had recommended
against special vote on the Fed
eral ballot plan.
An acrimonious debate preceded
the House decision while across the
Capitol in the Senate the Presi-
dents demand TIL at Congress
stand up and be counted also
became target for criticism.
In the House, Rep. Fish (R..
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-02
Republican Party Urged To Draft
Stassen AS Presidential Candidate

reaus and agencies in Washing
TOM
Ball said Stassen has shown by
Ibis out-in-front leadership on for
eign policy in state considered
isolationist" that he is capable of
furnishing the leadership which he
asserted the nation needs "desper-
ately" today.
The Minnesota tor also
pointed to Stassen's accom- plish-
ments as "a governor in support
of the contention the latter was
equipped with the political under
standing, the capacity and the will
to work with congress as a team
in developing national policies"
Efforts Of the present admin.
istration to hammer congress into
Continued on Page Two; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-02
Book Matches Must Be
Given With Cigarettes,
Local OPA Board Rules

Many complaints have been
made recently concerning Will
mington retailers not issuing
matches with the purchase of
cigarettes.
The following statement is
an excerpt from the OPA rule
book: The Office of Price Ad-
ministration has ruled that re-
tailers who during March 1912
gave away book matches to
purchasers of tobacco must
continue this practice. This in
cludes sales made through
vending machines. The estab-
lishment of these maximum pri-
ces on resale book matches
shall in no event relieve the
retailer of his responsibility for
continuing this practice.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-02
Won't Comet Back
Til Job Is. Done
BY LEFT ERICKCON

WITH U. S. NAVAL FORCES IN
THECENTRAL PACIFIC, Feb. l.
= Up - Il have every confidence
that We'll put this over" said Rear
Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner
before he led amphibious forces in
to the Marshall islands.
1--WE won't come back until
we've finished the job.
do any of you gentlemen have
any questions?"
That was the way the admiral
finished briefing correspondents as
signed to cover the invasion as,
sault on Kwajalein, the world S
largest aton and key position in
the Japanese held islands.
We were assembled in a Navy
movie theater. Clutching a wobbly
microphone standard loosened at
its base, the tall, lean admiral had
started by counting off the ire
mendous naval power in fighting
ships-the greatest concentration
of Navy might in the worlds his
tory-that would be employed in
the operation.
1--WE will have the power there, p"
Turner said, land we expect to
use it,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-02
GERMANS RUSHING
TROOPS TO ITALY,
Allies In Outskirts OEam-
poleone, Is Mills
From Rome

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
ITALY, Feb l. R -Reintrced
American and British troops, trik-
ing out in their first major cfen-
sfve since the landing on tn, A.
zio beaches 10 days ago. i've
fought into the outskirts of Canso-
lene, only 16 miles southeast Of
Rome on the main coastal rail line
supplying German forces on the
lower Fifth Army front, headquar
tiers announced today.
AS the Nazis rushed more troops
from northern Italy to oppose the
Allied drive - now approximately
halfway to the Eternal City from
the landing beaches-American in
fantry and armor lunged within
half-nile of the strongly fortified
rail and road junction of Cistera
guarding the Appian Way at
point "a mics from Rome.
Describing the drive agains
Field Marshal Albert Kesselring'
lines of communications between
the two italian fronts. the German
high command said the Allie
continued their heavy attacks to
ward the north and northeast, ant
declared that the Allied thrust
"collppsed in heavy fighting"
With the capture of both Campo
lene and Cisterna, the Allies woult
effectively sever rail and highwa.
traffic between Rome and the NAH
Fifth Army front except by an in
land route = the Via Casilina -
which already must be burdenet
with Nazi transport. Fully awake
to the threat of losing the Appial
Way, the enemy was resisting
fiercely at Cisterna.
Field dispatches said Nazi de
lenses across the northern peri
meter of the bridgehead were a
elaborate as the flat terrain mad
possible, with every farm house
silo and cowshed concealing ma
chine-gun and mortar nests. Eve
innocent looking hay-stacks turne'
out to be deadly pilboxes. Tn
Germans were well supplied wit
big Cotton Tiger tanks and sell
propelled guns, and their counter
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-02
SPAIN LEARNING
US. CAN BE HARSH
Diplomats Believe Some
thing Is In The

. LONDON, Feb. l. Up -Diplo-
mats studying American and Bit
ish relations with Spain speculated
tonight that something was in the
wind awaiting a final decision since
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
did not make an expected state
ment on the subject today to the
House of Commons.
The American suspension Of oil
shipments to Spain had brought
home to the Spanish people that
the Allies mean business and had
created a crisis which Generals
simo Francisco Franco could not
keep secret.
It appeared here that Franco had
sought to reassure his home front
over the Allied oil ban with the
explanation that it merely was a
question of supply difficulties.
Meantime Franco was expected
to meet shortly with his ambas-
sailors to London and Berlin be-
fore making a decision on Spain's
future-perhaps with his own job
at stake.
The Duke of Alba, Spanish am
bassado-. to London, already is in
Madrid and the German-controlled
Paris radio said the Spanish am
bassador to Berlin, Gines Vical Y
Saura, was on his way home from
Germany, apparently to report.
No official statement was forth
coming ove.. Eden's failure to ap-
pear in Commons.
Both pro-Franco and santi-Fran-
co Spaniards here expressed doubt
that Franco would go so far as to
break off relations with the Nazis
this week, as predicted by an I'm
identified diplomat last night in
Buenos Aires. The Spanish embas-
sy here refused comment.
Franco adherents, protesting
neutrality, said Spain had more to
fear from the Germans, just across
the border in France, than from
the United States and Britain, who
have the power of sea blockade
but are at a distance. FRANCOIS
opponents declared France was in
sympathy with the Germans ideo-
(Contiuued nm Page Two: Col. n
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-02
HOME IS VISITED
COUNTY BOARD

Following an investigation of the
New Hanover County home, by the
Junior Chamber of Commerce,
county commissioners made an in
spection of the institution Tuesday
morning.
The local institution was the SUBJ
ject of much discussion at the
boards meeting Monday afternoon
after six members of the Junior
Chamber asked the group for a
new home and separate juvenile
detention quarters, declaring that
present arrangements were both
insanitary and inadequate.
The Board of Commissioners
purchased from the National Youth
Administration rs steel, double
deck beds complete with mattress
es which have replaced much of
the old, worn furnishings at the
institution. The DIS were part of
the equipment which was in the
NYA center buildings on the Caro-
lima Beach road. Commissioners,
it was learned, had been in the
market for moro than six months
to purchase furnishings of this de-
scription to be used in the institu-
ton.
The committee from the Junior
Chamber made seven recommen-
dations for the juvenile set-up and
IL suggestions for the county home
structure. The Board of Commits
sioners lauded the organization for
taking an interest in the situation.
Addison Hewlett, chairman OF the
board, said that the building ana
farm is a public institution and that
it is open at any time for visitors
,uho wish to see the county home.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-02

! The Moscow broadcast communi-
que, recorded by the Soviet mont
tor, said more than so more COM
munities were captured by Gen.
Leonid Govorov's Leningrad front
forces sweeping toward Estonia
north and south of the trunk rail-
way to Reval (Tallinn), capital of
pre-war Estonia.
In addition to capturing Kinsi-
sepp, which is seven miles east of
the old border and IA miles from
Narva, first important Estonian
station on the railway, the Rus.
slams crossed the Luga river to
capture Keikino, seven m i ! e s
northeast of Narva. This town was
either on the old dividing line or
few hundred yards away and
marked the farthest western adj
vance of the Russian offensive.
Forty more towns and hamlets
were taken by other Russian forces
to the east and south of the north.
ern-most fighting.
Troops of Gen. Kyrill A. Meret.
SHOWS Volkhov front, driving west
from the Leningrad-Moscow rail.
way - now entirely in Russian
iands-captured the railway sta
ton of Novinka. IS miles west OF
the Leningrad-Moscow line and on
the Leningrad-Vitebsk lire.
Meretskov's left wing, which had
cut the Leningrad-Vitebsk line SIS
miles to the south, moved close
to the rail junction of Batetskaya
by capturing Toroshina. three
miles northeast.
Continued on Page Two; Col. y