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The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-09-22
TWO INJURED IN
DEWEY TRAIN CRASH

PORTLAND, Ore, Sept. 21.-
Two were injured Tuesday when
Governor Dewey's special train
plowed into another passenger train
near here. Frank Simpson, a clerk
in the governors Albany office, was
thrown through the glass window
by the impact, and a porter, F. B.
Robinson, of Richmond, California,
was tossed the length of the dining
car. His head was cut.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-17
Nearly $4,000 Raj
Men Were Involved
In Greatest Smash

LONDON, Feb. 16. - R -
Nearly $4,000 Raj men were
involved in the tremendous
task of carrying out history's
greatest aerial assault last
night.
One station commander said
approximately 50 men were
working on the ground for ev-
cry bomber that got into the
air.
It took 1000 men about five
hours to load the bombs.
Some 1000 flying personnel
were briefed for the raid.
The planes used well over
1000, 900 gallons Of gasoline,
many thousand gallons of oil
and q great volume of fluid
for their hydraulic undercarri-
ages, de-icing systems and var
ious pumps.
Not the least of the advance
chores was the preparation Of
1000 flying suits and the load
ing Of 10000 rounds of ma.
chine-gun ammunition. =
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-17

Wilmington would be direct
linked with acknowledgements
vile and Memphis, Tenn, togetl
er with intermediate points il
North Carolina, Tennessee, Missis
sippi, Alabama, Georgia and Soutl
Carolina by two proposed airline
routes, as a part of Is routes in
Guided in applications filed by
Southern Always, Inc, with the
Civil Aeronautics Board in Wash
ington.
The Southern Anyways applica.
tons now before the board pro
pose a system of Is airline routes
covering an accumulated mileage
of 1921 miles in eight southeastern
states, including North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi
and Louisiana.
With Wilmington and Asheville'
Hendersonville as terminal points
in one of the proposed routes, and
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-17
CAPITAL
BATTERED AGAIN

STOCKHOLM, Feb. 16. - (P) -
Two waves of Russian planes
bombed Helsinki tonight and caus-
cd fires and damage to the Fin
rish capital from which rumors
Of maneuvers for separate peace
have been emanating since it was
attack on Feb. 6.
Reports to the Swedish press
said that so Russian planes in
the first formation kept the city
under alert from to 10 pm.
The second attack, which ap-
peared heavier, began at II pm.
and ended shortly before mid
night. Dispatches said that heavy
anti-aircraft fire forced some Of
the bombers to drop their loads
outside the city.
The attack was described as
medium by the Helsinki CORES
pondent of the Swedish newspap-
er Dagens Nyheter in brief
phone call to Stockholm.
Widespread damage and mum.
Der of casualties were caused in
the Russian bombing of Feb, 6,
which was carried out by bright
moonlight. The Moscow radio
warned that this blasting was only
the prelude to heavier blows.
Henrik Ramsay reported on the
foreign political situation to the
Finnish Foreign Minister Sir
foreign affairs committee of parlia-
.nent today, Swedish news agen-
cy dispatch from Helsinki said.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-17
PEACE NOW GROUP
UNDER Dies FIRE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 49, R =
Acts CLEARLY seditious and which
tend toward the encoura cement OF
treason were attributed to the
peace Now Movement today by
the Dies Committee.
The group was organized last
year to advocate negotiated
peace.
The special House Committee on
,Unamerican Activities condemned
it in a formal report to the House
as IAN unamerican group whose
activities are calculated to inter-
fere with the successful ,prosecu-
ton of the war;
In New York. Miss Bessie Simon,
Secretary of the Organization, said
the executives of peace Now
had been advised unofficially of
the Dies Committee report, but
added:
eve do not wish to make any
comment until we are officially
notified-that is, until the commit
tee gets in touch with us. I talked
it over with DIR. Hartmen George
w. Hartman, chairman) and he
said we could not comment until
then"
Particularly attention was given
in the report to letters which the
committee said were sent last year
to leading churchmen and others
inviting them to publicly request
all the followers of Christ under
your banner at once to lay down
their arms and cease supporting
this war"
Fifty-seven copies of the letter,
the committee said, were sent last
October to ''some of the most
prominent religious leaders in the
United States,'' including cardi'
nails, bishops and clergymen Of
various denominations.
In a follow-up letter to a religi'
GUS leader who had rejected the
organization invitation, the com
i(Continued ON Page Ten; Col. 3
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-17

Reports from Washington de-
scribing the $4,000, 900, 900 Fourth
War Loan campaign as ''by all
odds the most successful drive
the, treasury has conducted" Ted
Gamble, national director, pre-
dicted Wednesday night final
total of mot less" than SIG, $780,.
DOC, 900. Sales through Tuesday $
official closing date amounted to
$14, 1911. ZOO. 900.
Gamble was most enthusiastic at
a press conference review OF the
month-long campaign over results
Of, Series E sales to small money
investors. Declaring it would be
impossible to fall below a $2.sW.'
OOO, 900 aggregate when all the re-
turns are in next month, he added
.sIt's safe to say that the $3,ooo'
o00. 900 goal is in sight.
Gamble explained that the de-
Law in tabulating sales is the re.
suit Of the vast checking required
| to clear reports from some 7o,oV
issuing agencies through Federal
Reserve banks. A deadline Of
February 20 had been fixed to as
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-17
RUSSIANS TRYING
TO REACH EST0MA
Moscow Reports More
Than $500 Nazis Slain
In Days Fighting

LONDON, Thursday, Feb. IT,
~ Soviet forces, driving down
from the north, have reached the
narrow neck Of water between
Lakes Peipus and Oskov, As miles
northwest of Kskov, and German
reports said today the Russians
had already sent sledges over the
ice in an attempted crossing into
southern Estonia.
Meanwhile, Moscow reported
that $500 more Germans were
killed and 107 Of their tanks wreck
ed in a frenzied German attempt
to break the relentlessly contract
ing Soviet ring around the rem
nants of ten Nazi divisions trap
ped in the Ukraine.
The Berlin radio said Russian
forces had sped across the ice
on Lake Peipus on sledges
and reached the western shore
but were thrown back by German
defenders.
Inc Russians reported the Cap
ture of Chedskoye-Zakhodi in this
urea and large scale maps show
Zakhodi on the blight OF lane
that is but two-and-a-haf miles
from the shore. A little furthe,
south the neck is but a mile-and-a
half wide.
A successful Russian crossing il
this area might completely disrup'
German plans for the defense o
Estonia for they have apparent!
built a solid defense line in tai
land bridge to the north between
the Baltic Sea and Lake Peipus
No recent Russian advances hav'
hem reported officially in the
Narva area but Stockholm dis
patches said the Russians hat
forced the Narova river south o
the fortress city.
| fC.~%;rua1 nm page Ten: Col 5
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-17
CAPITAL IS SCARED
Well Over 1880 Tons OF
Explosives Dropped On
Nazi City

LONDON, Feb. 16-lR-The Raj
scared the remains of Berlin last
night with well over 1890 tons Of
explosive and fire bombs - the
heaviest aerial bombardment OF a
single target ever delivered.
This unprecedented bomb load
was dumped on the capital by
probably close to 1000 bombers
in 80 minutes from 9:15 and 9:45
p M, sending through it a hur-
ricane of flame and SCATTERING
explosions from which smoke
quickly rose four miles high.
In the raid on Berlin, a feint
attack on Frankfurt-on-Oder, 50
miles to the east, Mosquito raids
on western Germany and Holland
and mine-laying operations, the
Raj used more than 1900 bomb
ers, including 1000 'heavies," and
lost 43.
The Raj armada sent out last
night probably was the largest
ever to operate over the Reich
in a single night.
Stockholm advices said that
great fires were ringing Berlin to-
day in the wake of the RATS
18th heavy attack in the "elimina-
ton series which began last
Nov. 10.
1t was apparent vast new dam
age was done in the already hard
hit capital, mostly in the indus
trial outer belt including the Wit
tenau, Lichtenberg and Marienfel-
de districts.
Swedish correspondents were
unable to send early reports on
the raid to their papers. All forms
of communication in the city were
disrupted. Late in the day traf-
fic was reported moving in the
center OF the city but still was
Iparalyzed in the outskirts.
Travellers reaching Malrnoe,
Sweden from Berlin, said the at
tackers struck particularly hard
at the northern and northwestern
section of the city and in the
Schoeneberg district not a house
was left standing.
One traveller said Hotel Bris-
Continued on Page Seven; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-17
Scion Asks Treasury
To Warn Americans
Against Tax Experts

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.-(R
Representative O'Toole ID
N.Y. called upon Treasury Sec
rotary Morgenthau today to
protect taxpayers f r o m
"quacks' posing as income tax
experts.
In a letter to the cabinet
member, the New Yorker urg-
ed that:
1. The Treasury issue an i'm
mediate statement warning the
public of the danger.
2. The government require
an examination and registra-
ton of all persons desiring to
engage in the business or pro-
fession of making tax reports
for others.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-17
THREE AGENCIES
SEEKING FUNDS
c o m m cree Department
May Be Hub For Post
War Expansion

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.-RNA
recommendation t h a t the Com
merce Department be made the
hub" for Federal postwar plan
ming came from the House ap-
preparations committee today in it's
report on a 1921, 304, 700 bill to H.
nance State, Justice and Com
merce Departments in the IL
months beginning next July l.
The committee expressed the
view that postwar planning should
be aimed primarily at stimulation
of business and trade. The Com
merce Department. the committee
said, should 'serve as the hub
rather than the periphery OF any
postwar planning which is to be
done by the Federal government. :"
The recommended appropriation
was $685. 700 below the budget
bureaus estimate of the three de-
partments' needs. It was divided
So, 234, 500 for the State Depart
ment, $116, 200 for Justice, and
$40, 500, 900 for Commerce. :,
Much of the testimony, O00
printed pages-received by the
committee in closed sessions and
made public with its recommend
atoms was concerned with post
war matters.
Secretary of Commerce Jesse
Jones, it was disclosed, told the
group he saw little opportunity for
postwar use Of airplane and en-
CINE manufacturing pl n t S in
which the government has invest.
ed 50, 700, 100000.
'.Of course, you can convert the
buildings he said, adding that
some of the machinery could be
converted also.
Your idea," asked Rep. Carter
R. -Calif.), is that a lot
will just have to be written OF
as a dead loss?"
eyes," swere d Jones, u
Continued ON Page Ten; Col. l,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-17
Fourth War Loan Drive
Called Great Success

sure that all purchases are credit
ed to the drive. A final report mas
been promised March 2.
Local bond leaders have express
the belief that New Hanover coun-
ty has met its Fourth War Loan
goal while the lates report from
the Federal Reserve band for the
end OF business Monday disclosses
this county has reached 81 per
cent of its overall quota Of 81
859, 900 and 81 per cent of the Sc.
ries E bond quota Of 1924, 200.
From all indications the report
for the end of business on Febru-
airy Is will show that New Hanover
has met its overall goal, officials
stated Wednesday, but there is nc
hope" that the Series E bond goa
will be reached during this week
However, it is believed the Series
E bond drive will be accomplished
counting the purchase Of this type
bond, and others, through Febru'
airy 20.
State War Finance Chairman,
Confined on rak Ten; Col. 2,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-17
COAL SHIPMENT
BAN IS DROPPED

WASHINGTON, Feb. Is In
interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes
Today ordered the discontinuance
OF an emergency diversion Of do
nestle coal from Southern Appa-
lachlan mines 10 meet fuel short
ages IN seven Southeastern states.
The diversion, under which ship
ments have been channeled into
georgia, Alabama, Florida, and
parts Of South Carolina, North Car
onha, Tennessee and Virginia, was
ordered terminated tomorrow.
lckes said sufficient coal had
oeen diverted to dealers to avert
Widespread distress in the South
cast and now it is possible to re-
sumo a normal flow of coal into
Softhern and Middlewestern areas.
however, the Solid Fuels Admin
lsuauon for War kept in effect a
PROVISION requiring certain mines
~ set aside per cent of their
LUMP and double-screened Goals for
emergency diversion to critical
areas, This set-aside 1ule was ex.
shoed, moreover, to cover all
t .ui IN bituminous production dis
v WY No. 8, takes in Southern
wy "ss' Virginia, eastern Kentucky
oIQ parts of J;rr;,,;o md Tap.
nessee.
,. also still in effect are provisions
,eSlictlng dealers reserves of do
,aeSuc Goals from district no. 8 tt
n NV more than 20 per cent of theil
h huiinai winter deliveries and pro
hh19lung deliveries of coal to house
.oiuers who have more than 1!
udys supply on hand.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-17
HEALTH OFFICERS
VISIT HOME HERE
County Institution Is under
Fire Again By State
Official

The county home was under fire
again Wednesday when an inspec-
ton of the institution was made
by B. M. Slower, of the State
Board of Health and w. c. Hass,
sanitarian of the Consolida ted
Board of Health Of Wilmington.
DR.. A. H. Elliott, city-county
health officer, stated that any rec
concentrations resulting from the
inspection would be turned over
to the Board of Health for action
on their part.
DR.. Elliott SAID that the board
of health feels that any recon-
mendations for the betterment OF
conditions. which will perhaps
remedy the situation at the insti-
tuition would be well received.
Mr.. Hass stated that letter
containing recommendations would
be turned over to DR.. Elliott
Thursday which in turn would be
taken up with the Board Of Health.
The two inspectors made thor
ough inspection Of the kitchen and
dining rooms, eating utensils, util-
tiles, sewage disposal, drinking
water, and other facilities provid-
ed at the home. This was per-
haps the most thorough inspection
ever made Of the institution. Mr..
Hass said in his unofficial report
Wednesday afternoon that his rec
concentrations would be turned
over to the Board Of Health before
conditions uncovered by his in
spection would be publicly re-
vea1ed.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-17
SENATE APPROVES
SUBSIDY OUTLAW

WASHINGTON, Feb 16.-lRH
The Senate quickly gave final ap-
proval today to legislation outlaw
ing subsidy payments to hold down
the cost of food, one OF the ad-
ministration's chief weapons in its
sterilization program.
The subsidy repeater, hitched to
a measure extending the life OF
the Commodity Credit Corpora
ton. now goes to the House where
prompt acceptance tomorrow is
expected.
Senate action followed agree
ment of Senate and House con-
ferees on the Senate version of
Legislation to end the subsidy pay
ments next June 80 and continue
the &C, which pays most OF the
subsidies, until June 30, 1915. The
House had favored immediate
termination of the payments.
AS soon as the House acts, the
bill will go to the White House
where Democratic leaders say it
faces an almost certain veto. The
final test will come when subsidy
opponents try to muster the two
thirds vote necessary in each
house to override the veto.
The CCC legally expires tomor.
row, but to forestal any legal tan.
gle that might arise from its tech.
meal lapse, conferees wrote into
the bill a provision making its ex'
tension retroactive to Feb. II. This
permits the agency to continue
normal operations pending fina
disposition of the legislation.
u
; Continued on Page Seveh; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-17
ROME RAIL YARDS HIT
Alexander Declares Smash
Toward Italian Capital
Is Making

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Ma
pies, Feb. 16.-lR-American A-36
dive-bombed the Rome
railway yards for the second
straight day today and the Bari
radio appealed to Italian patriots
behind the German lines to further
the destruction by sabotaging Nazi
traffic.
Gen. Sir Harold Alexander, COM
mander-in-chief of Allied forces in
Italy, said American and British
troops were winning the second
round of the battle on Anzio beach
head and ultimately would smash
on to Rome without assistance
from the Casino front.
Even while the invaders struck
again at the freight cars of Ger
man war material and switching
facilities in Rome, P-40 Warhawks
bombed the ruins of the Benedic-
tine Monastery on Mt. Casino. Ar
tillery was reported still pouring
shells into what was left of the
monastery by yesterdays attack.
In it's appeal, the Bari radio
called for sabotage on the roads
from Rome to the Anzio beach.
head and the Garigliano front on
the west coast and urged the Ital-
ian patriots to blow up bridges,
change danger signals, cause land.
slides, sprinkle the road with
glass, nails and sharp stones and
try to fire gasoline and ammuni-
ton dumps.
In the most cheering forecast to
come from the bloody beachhead
since it was established Jan. %,
Alexander told his troops there
two days ago that there is alb.
solutely no Dunkerque h e
there's no basis for pessimistic
rubbish" and said that with ideal
conditions Rome might have beer
captured quickly by the landing
forces.
II assure you the Germans op
posite us here are a very unhappy
party" he said, his eyes glinting
with determination. The Germans
realize they've lost the battle
though events have not gone as
swiftly as we ourselves hoped. Hao
everything been perfect we nigh
have gone straight through tt
Rome in the first round.
GAS it is, we are near the enc
Of the second round and we are
winning it. The third round viii
come when we've built up for ;
strong push, have gathered ou
forces and start our punch. W,
will pull it off. Don't compare thi'
situation to Dunkerque or Saler
no."
Coincident with this encouraging
news from the achhead, whicl
otherwise had been blanketed il
semi-silence for several days, wore
came that American doughboy
were Progressively patrolling'' tn
area around the Benedictine Mon
astery on Mt. Casino, all but oh
Continued ON Page Seven; Col. 8
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-17
Australia Is Given
10000 Alarm Clocks.
For Its War Workers

MELBOURNE, Feb. II. -
(F-Australfa will wake up
earlier.
Thirty thousand alarm clocks
have arrived from the United
States and another 1000 are
on the way. These, the first
alarm clocks shipped here
since the war started, win be
distributed t. workers In es-
sential industry.
War industries, suffering
from the late arrival Of work
ers, predicted the alarm clocks
would add many hours to pro-
ductiOn.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-17
Requests For Air Route
To Serve City Are Filed

7ilmington and Memphis as term
lal points in another, the two air.
ne routes would provide fast di-
ect service for passengers, mail
md freight to IA intermediate
oints on the two lines.
Direct service from Wilmington
would be provided to Florence,
rumter, Columbia and Greenwood,
IN South Carolina; Athens and At
lanta, in Georgia; Gadsden, De
.catur land Muscle Shoals, in Ala.
bama; and Corinth, Miss, on the
Wilmington-Memphis route. On the
Wilmington Asheville Hender.
sonville route direct service would
be maintained to intermediate
points of Goldsboro, Durham, Ra-
leigh, Charlotte, Shelby.
The entire Southern Anyways
system, as proposed in the appli.
cations now pending before the
Continued on Page Ten; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-17
Berlin Suffers Greatest Aerial Attack In History
Allies ~ Winning SecondR Battle;
HeqXH,om bers Blast Jap Base In Caroline Island
Allies
.7eqA
9TH AAF 6ers Batter
Ponape With Explosives

/. U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Feb. 16
-R-American heavy bombers
stabbed westward to Ponape Mon
day to blast that important Japa-
nese base in the inundated Caro-
line islands with IS tons Of bombs
in its first air attack of the war.
The daring raid, farthest western
penetration by land-based Army
bombers, was made in consider.
able force" and without the loss OF
a single plane, Admiral Chester w.
Nimitz announced today.
The Liberators of the American
Seventh Army Air Force dropped
most of their bomb loads on enc.
my installations but also sank a
small cargo ship in the harbor.
There was no air interrogation, and
antiaircraft fire was not mention.
ed, indicating the midday strike
caught Japanese by surprise.
Ponape and the big naval base
of Truk are TIE administration cen.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-17
MOVIE COMEDIAN
TO FACE TRIAL

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 16.-RE
Blood tests have indicated that
Charles Chaplin is not the father
of Joan Berry's baby, but the NOV
lie comedian will be prosecuted, U.
IS. Attorney Charles H. Carr said
today. on charges that he violated
the Mann Act and conspired to
deprive his potential leading lady
of her constitutional rights.
The findings of three medical
experts, who made the blood tests
of the 54-year-old Chaplain, Miss
Berry, who is %, and her four
months, old daughter, automatical-
ly quashed redhaired Joan's legal
action to have him legally de-
clared the infants father.
Carr pointed out, however, that
the findings, ''even if conclusive,
are matters concerning the civil
action and are not involved in the
pending criminal charges by the
government. "
The England-born Chaplin and
six other persons indicted with
him on charges resulting from
Miss Berry's arrest on vagrancy
charge in Beverly Hills last year,
must appear in court next Mon
day for arraignment.
Chaplin alone is accused OF
transporting Joan from Los An.
geles to New York, and thence
back here, for immoral purposes.
He and the others were indicted,
also, on accusations of conspiracy
to force her to leave Beverly Hills,
Chaplin's residence.
Joan was given a suspended sen.
tence on the vagrancy charge on
the condition she leave and stay
away from Beverly Hills, When
she returned she was re-arrested
for violating the terms of proba.
ton. She was released, however,
when the Jail physician reported
that she was pregnant, and the
vagrancy charge later was dis
missed.
Miss Berry's civil suit was al
but formally ended yesterday
when the three physicians, one Sc
lected by Chaplin, another by Miss
Berry, and third neutral observ
er. made blood tests of the prin
1 cipals and concluded Chaplin wa:
mot the father. Under stipulation
when Chaplin answered her suit
he paid $15,80O to cover medical
hospital and legal expenses ane
|support for the child to the TIM
1T the paternity tests.