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Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1944-11-08
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mi, bin bolt bod guat fir 50 g'pes
ien."
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IieB' Die fleine Srau Die S1udt ergrei-
fen. Die unterrebung batte foum flint
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geniiet, nm uIrifas Seelenfrieoen gu
pernidten. g8ie glidli6 tparen oieie
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niitige, aufri9tige Sreunoi6aft 3u be-
greifen? ,,Die @irtin t6u19t It9, ite
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forn1ig ite oabin 5u flieBen i6ienen,
umtpoben 6as iunge WGo9en tpie NIT
einem 3auber. 8enn ulrita I'M 4el-
Ter Die Mil6mirti6aft beiorgte, lebn-
te Sir Gilbert am Eiirpfolten un6
fem Auge folgte ieoer ibrer 8eme-
gungen; penn ite Die 8auernbiitten
oes Dorfes beiudte, ba einen Stat, BORT
einen Eroit lpenoen6, blieb er ibr tets
3ur Seite; er ma6te lange 5pa5ier-
gdnge nit ibr, uno nenn Elm Gegen-
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81
8aIo geraten. Sbnobl bic Sbatten
Der ftntenoen Some fie on bic $eim'
fcbr btdte mabnen iollen, tparen iie
unbetiimmert nm tbre nmgebune i'm.
mer tiefer binetngegangen. Blosli9
belt ulrito inne, oiele @egeno oes
8oloes NOR ibr gan5 fremo, 10 tpett
mar iie nod ME gefommen, uno i'm
@ifer oes @eiprddes bate ite iogar
ben Bfao berloren.
sd m06te Elm 8eripreden bon
Dir baben'', batte iie geiagt, als iie
in oen 8al0 getreten paren.
ulno oieies iit?"
u0aB Ou, Iobolo 6u na6 2onoon
fomit, Dart Street aufludit."
,@s miro ni6ts niiben."
~Ofag iein, oo6 i6 CLAUDE, lfon
Der Geriltd miro 0id5 3ufrieoener ma.
den."
~8os tiimmert's 0id, Oh id 5ufrie-
Sen bin?" 1par @ilberts 9lnttport &C.
meien, uno Ieine Stimme bate gon3
belIer getlungen. Srageno bate iie
gu ibm aufgeleben, i6on einigenale
Ipor er 10 erregt gelpele11, obne ooB iie
Den @runo leiner Nufregung b0tte er-
griinoen fonnen.
uWillt ou ber1pre6en? 2"
~So" botte er fur5 gela9t uno
oonn lofort 0o5 @eiprG6 ouf onoere
0inge getpenoet. 60 daren 1ie 3eit
uno Srt Oergeiieno tiefer uno tiefer
in oen 8alo geton1men, Bis ser Iebte
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egntport 5uriidrief. $50 moren ite BIN
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gen Weinuten itanoen tie am gingange|
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5uBen ianft obu6rts i6l6ngeIte.
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merung 1pabeno. Sn Der grosreiden
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Woiien> Die man fir 9aus9en balten
tonnte. 8oren oies ni6t moosbepo6-
Iene Oa6er, itieg BORT ni9t blGuIi6er
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iener peiBe S6immer 5tpiI9en ben
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getpol6en? DaS 8ilo mar aIIer6ings
ettpas beri6wommen, etpoS nebeIboft,
uno elm i6orfes Auge entoedte audi
balo, ooB Die Siitten bemooite SelS=
Itiide, Die &audtpolte Elm NebeIltreif
uno Die Baideltude Die tpeiBen 5tGm,
me bon 8irtenbdumen ieien.
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einIam un0 idpeigeno lag es Dor ben
betoen Spa3ierganeern.
~gines lit itder", iogte l1lrita auf-
otneno, ~tpir baben uns berirrt." sSSm
lelben Iugenblid oefte ouh ffon cine
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treu5ten Gilbert uno lllrita raid Die
2l9tung> Inn ienieits mieoer in ben
Balo gu treten. lllrita gloubte ben
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Die &epnblif 8araaman
(sfort1ebuna bon 5eitp AZ

NOUII1eBHHg UuH Se1Ie q
eigenen Erager nidt mebr aure9tfin,
ben, uno oas enoen muB i'm relieio.
len Nibilismus tpie in Noroamerifa
ielbit, uo itd idon 100000 aIs
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"R,af tuR FREE iRlAI MfkRi

Benn sic an 8ron6ial>aItbma.
8arorismen (5teigerl.ng Ser 9ranf'
beitserideinung) teu6enoem ODER ro'
6elnoem SuIten leioen - oerlangen
sic iofort oas ireigeblee frete ger'
imds.Mnerbieten. glnfragen iiber ioge'
nannte "boffnungsloIe" Salle lino
aan5 beIonoers wiatommen. Naeur,
316s8N., State 2ife 8lSg., Snoiann'
polls 4, Snb.
Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1944-11-08

religionSlos erfl0rt baben Oas lit Die
religiole 8efreiung, Die oiele 5eno=
linge uns bieten t0nnea. Wan iiebt
bierous, ooB lebten @noes oas @an5e
einen politii6en Sintergruno bot uno
Sen 8ooen iiber ooS @nongelium our
politil9en DurhOringun9 uno 9luf'
iougung gum 3lpede bot. - Tatber
Sole &reuiler, 5.89, Barroquln
y5onto Gru5", Goronel Bogooo, Yo'
roguoD, 5outb 9lmerica.
Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1944-11-08

ununterbrodenen auitrengung aud
in ibrem aeuBern f,1nogab.
Sbre 5a0nbeit mar bisber our9
ettpos Sartes, 5drtffes beeintrd@tigt
getpeien; oa bic gr0Bte @efabr fir ite
in ibrer Beiblidfeit lag, 10 bate ite
ii5 formli6 oagegen getpebrt, Elm
8eib gu iein. llniere @rafin lit wie
Elm Mann, batten bic @lodenauer BE-
tpunoerno eeiast, penn ulrifa einen
neuen 8etpeis ibrer gntfdloiienbeit
ODER ibres perionliden Mutes gab,
nun iagten's Die guten 2eute ,ni6t
mebr, >penn lte lid iiber Die Ser
Gnoerung oie nit ibrem 2iebling por-
ginG aud nidt redt flar peroen
fonnten.
SD freue mid meiner Sugeno, id
freue MIDI meiner 560nbeit" f1iiiterte
ulrifa leile bor ltd bin, tpenn lte 1td
Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1944-11-08

IA. Cine alte 8efanntlaaft
@ines Cages, Der September ging
5ur Netge, tparen @tlbert un6 l1lrifo
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-28
BR0UCHTON SEES
LEAF FIGHT END
All State Interests, He
Says, Favor Accept
ing Ceiling

RALEIGH, July 27-tR-Gover-
nor Broughton said today that after
comforting at length with tobac.
CO growers in all North Carolina
belts he had not found nthe slight.
est sentiment in favor of further
rostponement Of market opening
Gates in an effort to obtain in
creased ceilings"
Instead, he said, 81 find over
whelning sentiment against fur
tier delay. While disappointed In
the 43 IL cent ceiling set for North
Carolina belts, an overwhelming
majority OF growers and ware
rousemen favor acceptance of the
ceiling and the 4 IL cents diff
ferential set between ungraded and
united tobacco, and the graded
and tied leaf in North Carolina
belts"
North Carolina growers, he said,
favor further efforts in getting
higher ceilings, '1but not to the
extent of Indefinitely closing the
markets."
Meanwhile, the Governor an
nounced that he would join other
fIue-cured tobacco state governors
in Washington Saturday for further
conferences with Economic Stabil.
izer Fred M. Virson and OPA Of
ficials in an effort to get increased
ceilings.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-28
Coebbels Says No Rest
For Women Of Germany

STOCKHOLM, July 27-(R-The
nrs total war; orders fo1 Ger
many by Reichsminister Paul
Goebbels are two forbidding all
vacations for women and direct
ing the front line troops do the
manual work o. building bridges
md repairing roads formerly done
by the TODT speer labor organi-
.ation.
The newspaper Dagens Nyheter
Berlin correspondent quoted from
an article in Dash Reich written
ooy Goebbels' righthand man, Hans
ochwarz Van Berk.
When women and children
worked in Leningrad factories
under artillery fire" it said, cit
obvious that we cannot take
reactions when the enemy is
standing at the doors of East
Prussia.
When English women have
nelped load ships in the invasion
lsroors and 100000 American
.onen are working in armament
factories, millions of German
women cannot stay away from
war work.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-28
Gen. McNaiir
Killed By
Enemy FIR.
Commander OF Gr,
Forces War Vic,.
In Normandy

WASHINGTON, July 27-lR-Lt.
Gen. Lesley J. McNair, one of the
nations most able and most fear
less military leaders, has been
killed on the Normandy front.
Enemy fire struck him down
while he was with leading ele-
ment of the new allied offensive
in France, observing the work OF
the American ground army which
he organized and trained, the War
department announced today.
McNair, commander of Army
ground forces until he received an
unspecified but important over
seas assignment a few weeks ago
had gone to the battlefronts OF
this war twice. On his first visit,
in March, 1913, to Tunisia, he was
wounded by shell fragments. On
his second visit he met death.
He was the highest ranking
American officer to die in action
in this war. Four other generals
have been killed in battle, in adj
dition to number of other deaths,
including eight who died in plane
crashes while travelling to or in
war zones.
HAD he had the choice, he prob.
ably would have elected to die as
he did, in the forefront of the at
tack" said General George c.
Marshall, Army Chief of Staff.
The 61-year-old McNair was gen
orally credited with bringing into
being the vast and complex Army
ground force, that aggregation Of
millions of men, tens of thousands
of guns, tanks and trucks and
specialized weapons. Marshall had
said he was 'the brains of the
army"
His loss was mourned by those
who had reason to know of his
abilities. Undersecretary of Wlr
Patterson said:
From the wars beginning, his
soldierly skill has directed the de.
velopment Of our ground forces
into a striking force of the great
est power. On the many trips Of
inspection which we undertook to-
gether in this country, I was inn
pressed by his insight into every
detail of training and by the en-
phas4s which he placed on the bat
tie preparations of the individual
soldier as the basis Of successful
tactical lessons to the training
ground"
Marshall declared t'the Ameri-
Continued on Page Two; Col. ~
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FIGHT GOES ON

WASHINGTON, July 27-tR-Cig-
arctic tobacco growers and ware
tousemen, still angry at the re-
Duff given their demands for high
err ceiling prices of the 1914 crop,
laid plans today to renew their
efforts.
The group, headed by H. L. Win
gate of the Georgia Farm Bureau,
arranged another meeting here for
Saturday to bring further pressure
on the Office Of Price Admins
tration and Economic sterilization
Director Fred M. Viason for re-
consideration.
Originally set for tomorrow, the
meeting was postponed "a hours to
accommodate Senator George ID
Ga) and Rep. Cox D-Ga) who
plan to arrive here Saturday morn
ing
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-28
BUDAPEST STEEL
I. FACTORY BOMBED
Italy Based American
Planes Shoot Down
1913 In 3. Days

ROME, July IT. Up More
than 500 American heavy bombers,
fiercely protected by lightning and
Mustang fighters, cracked down
today on the Manfred Weiss steel
works at Budapest, Hungary, STIR
ring up great aerial battles such
as those which cost the Nazis 70
planes yesterday and a record
Mediterranean 5oll of 1913 craft il
the past three days.
Liberator and Fortress creWmen
returning from today's assault
said the Weiss works, large pro-
Queer of aircraft engines, guns,
ammunition and machine tools for
the enemy, was left enveloped in
smoke from many direct hits.
Twenty of yesterdays 70 Allied
victories in southern Europe were
scored by American fighter pilots
in the Ploesti Bucharest area
on their return flight from three
day hunting trip" to Russia, dur
ing which they joined Soviet air.
men Tuesday in a, series of smash
es at German air forces in Po-
land. ..
In all, the three day operation
netted the hunting party a total
IF "a enemy planes shot down and
many more destroyed on h e
ground. Two American fighters
were lost on the round trip of
perhaps 1900 miles. The biggest
individual score was credited to
1t. James L. Brooks of Roanoke.
Va, with four victories. ee-
An official report called the op-
Grafton a successful demonstra-
ton of the flexibility of Allied air
Eower over the entire European
continent"
Most. of yesterdays other Allied
victories came as US. Flying Fort
resses and Liberators pounded the
Wiener Neudo:f Aircraft Engine
factory and two air fields near
Vienna in Austria, an air. field in
Hungary and an oil refinery in
albania. .-. 49,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-28
Buenos Aires Holds
Policy Demonstration

BUENOS AIRES, July 27-(R-
Sound trucks Travelled the streets
of Buenos Aires today, urging the
citizenry to attend toaight's demon
stration tc support the govern
ment's foreign policy and leaflets
ard posters summoned the people
to reaffirm Argentine sovereignty.
The demonstration, which an Of
fetal announcement said was at
the request of numerous organi-
cations, came "a hours after an
assertion by foreign minister Gen.
Orlando Peluffo that Argentine was
resolved to continue her present
course of conduct, course o.
ficially criticized by the United
States as 'tpro axis
Women employees of the Uaited
States Embassy were dismissed an
hour early to enable them to reach
their homes before the crowd gath
cred for the demonstration close
to the Embassy.
Pelufo's announcement that Gen.
sorship had ben lifted In Aegen-
t;ra percolated slowly through the
lower ranks of the government
structure. Five hours after he
made the statement with president
Gen. Edelmiro Farel's authori-
zation in his international policy
radio address last night, a cable
company Intervention deleted from
dispatch the explanation that the
street corner selected for tonight S
popular demonstration was the site
Of tn United States embassy.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-28
TANKS SKATER
ENEMY DEFENSE
Heaviest Blow Since D.
Day Struck On West
Sector In France

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
EXPEDITIONARY
Friday July 28.- R -
U. S. tank columns shat
tered the Germans western Nor.
mandy line yesterday IN a sud
den break through that plunged
the enemy into chaotic retreat and
Grove to within five miles of stra-
tegic Coutances, whose fall might
trap the entire 54th corps of seven
battered Nazi divisions.
laundering lines of tanks. half
tracks and self propelled artil-
lely, revealed NY Supreme Head
quarters for the first time to be
striking in divisional strength in
the greatest armored blow since
D.day, smashed all organized re-
siStance, field commanders declar-
ed.
Without fight the enemy yield
eli the old seacoast strongpoint OF
Iessay, IL miles north of Cou-
tarces, and Periers to the west,
and fled south under a hail of
bombs and sh:I fire to, try to
make a stand, possibly around
Ccutances.
But the midnight communicate
disclosed that besides the column
driving head on toward Cou-
tances from the east, second
column famed out four miles
southwest of fallen Canisy in what
may be an outflanking threat to
that next stop on the American
drive deeper into France.
Field dispatches said one arrnor-
ed finger had stabbed to Cerisy
La Sale, seven miles southwest Of
Canisy and IL miles southeast
Of Coutances.
The column heading straight
down the road toward the city and
erveloped Camprond. north Of the
highway and less than five miles
from Coutances
Coutances already was within
artillery range and it appeared it
could not hold out for long with
the sporadic resistance the Devil
dered enemy is offering on this
sector of the flaming 40 mile
frcnt. Prisoners up to noon totaled
1900 and tank crews did not both
el to corral them.
Yet another tank column, pour
irg through gap in the German
lines around Clnisy, in gain OF
ar to six miles captured LIE Mes
nii-Herman, six miles southwest OF
St. Lo.
This thrust. drawing a steel ring
about the Germans who from the
strategic heights south of st. Lo
nave been holding up the Ameri-
can advance, seveyed the road
from st. Lo to Avrances, 30 miles
south, which is the side door to
TIE Brittany peninsula and its ma
val base of Brest.
Supreme headquarters said the
east flank positions were unchang-
cd. and had no comment on Ger
n an broadcast claims that h e
British and Canadian offensive
south of Caen had been resumed
All day long the Germans re-
pt rted powerful Allied reinforce
ments had been landed at t he
mouths of both the Wire river, en-
tie American front, and the Orne
river, on the British front, and
The Nazis predicted even mightier
offe.lsives.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-28
8O-Mile Gale Sweeps
Down Arkansas Valley

MUSKOGEE, Okla, July 27.-'R
"A wind reaching 10 miles an
hour drove dowa the Arkansas riv-
er valley today leaving two per-
sons seriously injured and scores
of homes without roofs.
The blow, accompanied by rain
1;l as heavy as two inches in half
an hour, swept through dozen
or more Oklahoma communities.
Dave England, Sallisaw, suffer-
ed chest INJURIES and his wife re-
ceived fractures of the leg and arm
when the wind overturned their
house.
Wheeler Mayo. editor at Salli-
saw, said the damage in his town
would "reach at least $65,OO0." At
Wan, Editor j. D. Reavis declared
there was hardly a whole build
ing left in tn. business district.
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l:ans listened with approval and
pledged support of the two bills
row pending before the Senate.
The legislation includes for North
Carolina $1O5, 10000 Yadkin-P
Dee flood control navigation and
hydro electric program and au-
thorization of $1,970,O00 for i'm
provement of eastern North Caro-
ina waterways and harbors, a ma
jar portion of which would be sent
On the Port of Wilmington II d
Cape Fear River.
Hogue also believes that the adj
ministration of inland waterways
and navigation should continue in
The hands Of the army engineers
r edging his support of a resolu-
ton to be submitted tomorrow by
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NAILS IN CHAOTIC FLIGHT ON U.S..
= '2ONT IN NORMANDY; REDS PLUNGE
xx<AHEAD: ELEVEN JAPANESE SHIPS SUNK
POLISH BASTIhNS
CAPTURED BY REDS
T hun der OF Stain S
Artillery Heard
In Warsaw

LONDON, Friday, July 28-(R-
Russian troops, inflicting the wars
most disastrous series of defeats on
the Germans, yesterday plunged to
within thirty miles of Warsaw,
captured the great city of Lwow
and five other enemy bastions, and
crossed the San river in a wide
sweep toward Germany itself.
Lwow, Bialystok, and Stanisla-
WOW, ancient Polish fortresses, fell
to the Soviet tide pouring west
ward through broken German
armies, along with 1885 other
cities, towns and villages. This was
the greatest one-day bag yet an
nounced by Moscow during the gil
gantic Soviet summer offensive.
In the north Daugavpils and Pc
zekne in Latvia and Siauliai, stra-
tegic rail junction in Lithuania,
also were seized, and the capture
of Siauliai plugged the last main
enemy escape route out of the
Baltic states.
Routed German armies nearly
everywhere appeared to be falling
back in precipitate fight, and mil
itary men here now believe the
Germans may retire to the Oder
river in eastern Germany itself.
A dispatch from Eddy Gilmor,
Associated Press correspondent in
Moscow, said the Russians were
rushing up pontoons and other
equipment for crossing OF the
Vistula river below Warsaw, but
Moscow has not yet confirmed Ber-
Inns report that crossing already
had been achieved.
The Russians, however, were
pounding toward the Vistula ON a
wide front, and had penetrated be-
yond the San in the south, spread
ing out on a front between Nisko
and the Jaroslaw-Przmysi sector.
Premier-marshal Joseph Stall
in an unprecedented issuance OF
five orders of the day announced
the fall of six major German
strongholds, including Daugavpils
and Rezekne in Latvia, on this
"Black Thursday for Germany.
The crash of Russian artillery
could be heard in Warsaw, Mos
COW dispatches said.
Stains fifth order of the day
told of the capture of the strategic
rail junction of Siauliai, 70 miles
southwest of Riga and 80 miles
east of Memel in East Prussia.
The fall of this large commu-
nications center linking the Baltic
with East Prussia" to Gen. Ivan
Bagramian's first Baltic army Ell
fectively boxed up 80 German d.
visions of perhaps 100000 men un-
der Nazi Col. General Llndemam
retire ting toward Prussia from Is
tonia and Lativia with other Rus
sian armies in hot pursuit.
A small railway running from
Riga to Liepaja IibaD on the
Latvian west coast, thence down
to Memel, is all that is left to these
disa ster-ridden German forces, and
is considered ineffective for mass
movement. The nazi alternative IS
escape by sea. and it was be-
lieved the German Navy was IN
capable of handling the fleeing
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TROOPS
DRIVE UP COAST
Full Scale Offensiv e
Figures In Allied
Florence Thrust

ROME, July a. ZAP Driving
up the Adriatjc coast OF Italy
against weakening German resis-
lance, Polish troops have pushed
II miles beyond the captured port
Of Ancona and seized Senigallia at
the mouth of the Misa river only
% miles from Pesaro, Allied Head
quarters announced tonight.
The Nazi radio said yesterday
that the vengeful Poles had opened
q full scale offensive in n G
Adriatic sector as part of the gen.
eral Allied push toward the enc
ray's Gothic line" defenses. but
there was no Allied confirmation
until tonight's special announce
rent.
Pesaro, next objective of the
Poles, is believed to be an out
pest of the Gothic line" whose
main Notifications are said to be
anchored on Rimini, another 20
miles up the coast.
British, New Zealand and South
African troops engaged in closing
a steel clamp on Florence gained
up to four. miles at some points
II bitter fighting, winning positions
within six miles of the Arno river
west of the historic city.
Battle tried New Zealanders
were meeting the brunt of fierce
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