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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04
U(ssqvades
Islands
yfSchoutens
Unopposed Landings Re-
ported On Woendi And
Owl, South OF Biak
AUSTRALIANS ACTIVE
Lone Naval Plane Rains
Bombs And Bullets On
Jap Ships AT Truk

ADVANCED ALLIED H E A D.
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Sunday,
June 4-tR)-American forces have
landed on two more islands in the
Schouten group, off north Dutch
New Guinea, it was announced to-
day.
The landings, unopposed, were
made Friday on Owl and Woendi
islands, south of Biak, the main
Schouten islands where the Amerl-
cans made their first assault May
81.
Australian forces also landed
Friday on Karkar island, north Of
Madang on the British New Guinea
coast. This is more than 900 miles
southeast of the Schouten area.
Unopposed
The Australian landing also was
unopposed.
Seven of Is Japanese bombers
raiding Biak Friday were shot
down by Allied anti-aircraft fire
This was the most concentrated
Japanese aerial opposition yet re
ported over the American footholo
on this main Schouten island, 88C
miles southeast of the Philippines
japanese forces have been driver
from ground north of Bosnek vii
lage, the original landing point on
Biak. Ane hundred of the enemy
were found to have committed sui
eide after another japanese count
er attack was repulsed.
Saturdays communicate report
ed hopping up operations among
japanese forces holding ridge
which dominates the main road ano
the beach leading from Bosnek tt
Mokmer airdrome several miles
westward, one of the main OBJ
jectives on Biak.
A Ion Liberator bomber, staging
surprise raid on the airdrome a
Woleai atoll in the western Caro-
line islands, killed and wounded
500 Japanese, Truk and Puluwat il
the Carolines also were bombed
Allied planes striking at Timor
northwest of New Guinea, destroy
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i. S. Blasts NaZiS' Wall
Without Loss Of Plane

LONDON, June 3-LR)-The ram
parts of Europe-under vast new
aerial pressure of shuttle raids
by American planes using Russian
bases--were blasted on the west
twice today by U. S. Fortresses
and Liberators without the loss of
a single bomber,
Both the assaults by U. S. hea-
vies were directed against the
Nazis' invasion coast of northern
France and out of a total force
of perhaps 1000 bombers and fight
ers taking part in the double op-
Grafton, only one fighter failed to
return
The Pas De Calais region also
was hit Friday by Fortresses and
Liberators without loss. Thus the
cost of three attacks on Hitler's
Wanted west wall by nearly O.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04
Teletype Operator Responsible
For False Alarm On Inuasior1
ERROR SLIPS THROUGH
British Girl Punched Out
Flash Message During
Practice Session

NEW YORK, June g. R "A
young British teletype operator en-
ployed in the London bureau of
the Associated Press punched out
a strip Of practice tape tonight and
within a matter of moments was
res on b e for transmission
throughout the United States and
Latin America of an erroneous an
nouncement that the Allies had
landed in France.
Through almost incredible cir
cumstances, the error slipped
through the most elaborate sys-
tenn of safeguards and censorship
ever established both by the As
sociated Press and Allied authori-
ties.
Violated Instructions
The girl, Joan Ellis, had been
practicing on a disconnected ma
chine, and in violation of instruc-
lions included in her exercise this
urgent message:
"Flash Eisenhower's headquar-
tiers announce Allied landings
France"
At 4:39 pm, Eastern War Time
the flash appeared on the APPS
direct London printer in New York
and was relayed Immediately
throughout the United States and tc
Latin America.
Less than two minuets later came
message, 'Fbust that flash" anc
word was sent out at once to edi
tors to withhold publication. Al
4:44 pm. another London message
directed that the flash be KILLED, u
and this was done.
In the two-minute interlude be-
tween the erroneous flash and the
withhold order, however, the in
correct news had been announced
over many radio stat in Amer
ca and at some baseball parks. In
New York's polo grounds the crowd
observed one minute of silence aft
er the word was given over the
loudspeaker system.
In Ciudad Trujillo, capital OF the
Dominican Republic, newspaper
sirens were sounded and crowds
gathered, only to exclaim in dis
appointment when the error was
announced.
Not Printed
The error was caught quickly
enough so that it did not appear
anywhere in print.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04

500 planes dropped an estimated
4,500 tons Of explosives has been
one single-engined plane.
This means that only one man
is missing from a total of nearly
$4,000 airmen flying against Pas
De Calais in the last two days
an example of the way in which
air units are paving the way for
the landing Of ground forces at
a minimum loss of life.
While the heavy bombers were
hitting the coastal Notifications
hundreds of fighters and fighter
bombers of both the American and
British sections of the Allied ex-
peditionary air force ranged back
and forth across France and the
low countries in a series of at
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04
INJURIES FATAL
TO NJ. c. STOCKS
Dies In Hospital Following
Accident At Ninth And
Taylor Streets

Marvin Cleon Stocks, shipyard
employee Of $40 North Fourth street,
died at $40 o'clock yesterday NOR
mig in James Walker Memorial
hospital as the result of injuries
sustained in an automobile acct
cent at 5:55 o'clock Friday after
noon at Ninth and Taylor streets.
Inc condition of J. w. Parker,
Of s South Sixteenth street, a pas
Senger in Stocks automobile. was
reported by hospital attaches yes
'erday as favorable"
Coroner Asa w. Allen said Stocks
Death was due to a hemorrhage
Oh the brain and that he died be.
cause Of "his own negligence"
investigating Officers C. H. Pet.
eFSon and w. r. Bradshaw found
mat Stoke, whom eyewitnesses re-
ported was driving a Ford coach
south on Ninth street at a high
rate OF speed, lost control of his
car struck a parked automobile
and then Travelled about y feet tc
crash down an embankment on the
east side of the street.
Inc automobile went out of con
Uol about 153 feet before striking
sm Oldemobile parked in front Of
1917 North Ninth street, and owned
ny D.; A. Church, Jr., of R. F. D.
= wilmington, according to police
BON cars were damaged.
Nh BLOCKS is survived by his widow
Inc body was taken to Greenville
Yesterday morning for burial.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04
NC. Shipyard ToLaunch
First AKA Craft Tuesday
Mai. Gable Will Return
To Civilian Life Soon

CULVER CITY, Calf, June
-(R- Maj. Clark Gable of
the Army Air Forces will re-
turn shortly to civilian life,
subject to recall to duty, Col.
Roy M. Jones, commanding Of
ficer of the Army Air Forces
first motion picture unit, said
today.
The former actor recently
completed the special overseas
Photographic mission to which
he was assigned by General H.
H. Arnold. commanding general
Of the Army Air Forces.
Gable went to England In
April, 1913, and produced a
combat film dealinf with aerial
gunnery. In this capacity he
participated in bomber mis-
sions over Nazi Europe as aer-
ial gunner and photographer
and for these flights was award
ed the air medal. He is now
completing the film made un-
der his supervision.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04
BOND DRIVE PLANS
TO BE DISCUSSED
City And County Commit
tees Scheduled To
Convene Monday

Plans for Wilmington's Fifth War
Loan campaign will be mapped at
a joint meeting of the city and
county war bond committees at 10
am. Monday in the directors room
of Wilmington Savings and Trust
company, bond leaders announced
yesterday.
1t will be the responsibility of the
committees to make arrangements
for the overall campaign, during
which New Hanover citizens are
asked by the Treasury department
to invest $5,7O7,OO0 in war bonds.
OF this amount, individuals ae ex-
pected to put their monies into ST.
100000 worth of Series E bonds
There are 80 members of the
joint committees. j. G. Thornton
heads the city war bond orgal.iza-
ton and E.. A. Laney is chairman
of the county group.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04
Fifteen ARRESTED
ON DRAFT CHARGES
Accused OF Aiding Undue.
tees To Feign Mental ALL
ments During Tests

BALTIMORE, June 3-(R-Flf-
teen persons, among them three
servicemen and a woman, were
arrested today by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation on charges
of aiding inductees in feignlng
mental ailments in order to 3D.
tain 4-F deferments and OF dra1t
evasion.
Special Agent John w. Vincen,
of the Baltimore FBI office SAID
eight Baltimore men were charg,
ed with draft evasion, and ina;
seven other persons were accuses :,
of assisting and counseling in dral'
evasion. He said that amounts
ranging from $3.50 to $500 hao Deel.
paid for assistance in obtalnine
psycho-neurotic reflections 1or 'lle
men.
The three servicemen held mere
are Chief Petty Officer Chester !
Ruby, Al, clerical supervisor
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04
Drastic Action Needed
At James Walker
Gan Edit0rial)

The continued failure to adjust differences among
tne ooard OF managers, the medical staff and Y
nursing association at James Walker Memorial hos
tal IS matter of grave public concern.
IL must be obvious to all these groups that 50 long
as settlement of grievances is not achieved the well
fare OF the community and of large beyond it's
periled. ~ 1''4- ~ I'LL
Whlle the doctors and the nurses and the man.
ayers debate people continue to get sick and need hos
pltalzatlon with standard care while abed
DouoCleSs there are grievances, some of long eX-
stance put 1t IS not apparent that any of them could
not be adjusted, if all parties concerned sought COM
mon ground and approach with willingness to eld in
matters not of primary Importance in administration
BUT the TACT remains that something has been amiss
at the hospital for years. that the present war eer
gency has not created the issues but only intensified
them.
Final responsibility therefore, would seem to rest
upon the board of managers which enjoys the privilege
of perpetuatng itself indefinitely and has not even
before the conducted the hospital either in the
business administration, service to patients hygenc
and sanitary conditions to win public approval or gain
Grade sanitary rating.
The Star-News has favorites in the present con-
oversy Its sole object to represent the public which
has been the chief sufferer In the public interest it is
convinced that if the hospitals board of managers
not effect settlement of present differences and raise
the hospitals services to the highest standard of eff
ficency it should resign and give another board OPP
portunity at least to try do what has failed to &C.
complish.
If it neither corrects existing faults in adminstra
ton and service steps aside, the public would be
justified in demanding investigation by special
grand jury and report to the court all conditions
revealed through searching inquiry
Any distress this course might cause members of
the board would be offset by the fact that the hospital
is bigger than it's MEMBERS that the public health is to
be safeguarded and maintained at whatever sacrifice
by any Individual and restored when under the attack
of disease under conditions best adapted to that
pose.
The hospital is bigger than any controversy be-
tween the medical staff and the nursing association
Service to the sick, which includes clean dishes for all
meals and bedside attention when needed less than
medical care is prerequisite to the satisfactory adj
mnistration of the hospital.
If the board of managers cannot provide it, it's
duty is to resign.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04
JAPANESE DRIVE
NEARS CHANCSHA
American Planes Brought
Into Fight Against Re-
newed Human Drive

CHUNGKING, June 3.-'REJap-
anese troops driving down the east
ern side of the -Hankow rail-
way have lunged an additional IL
miles toward Changsha, their ma
jor goal in the renewed Human
nrovince offensive, a Chinese COM
munique admitted tonight as an
nouncement was made that Ameri-
can planes have been thrown into
the fight
Striking South from Changshou-
chieh. Is miles east of the cap
tured town of Pingkiang, the enc
my now was within come 35 miles
of Changsha, which Chinese press
reports aid was the target OF
fresh attacks by japanese planes.
AT. last reports another enemy
column in the many-fa ceted drive
was haulted Immediately west OF
the Canton-Hankow route at KWel-
vi, about 40 miles north of Chang
sha.
The Chinese high command also
admitted that the invaders made
fresh landings on the southern
shore of Tungting lake and were
driving down the western side OF
the railway toward their objective.
A communicate said that fighter
bombers of the fourteenth air force
attacked Japanese installations at
Kweiyi with bombs Well-centered
in the target while P40 and Psi
fighters lashed at troop concentra-
tons along the Milo River, where
the enemy has been stormlng the
southern bank at many points. The
P4O's also attacked the Japanese
held town of Pingkiang on the Milo,
starting many fires, the communl-
que of 1t. Gen. Joseph w. Still
wells headquarters said.
The Chinese communicate report
ed continual attacks by the invad-
ers from Pingkiang against Chinese
positions to the South yesterday,
but said all attacks were repulsed
there and the enemy made no prog
reSs.
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Continued on Page Eight; Col. 2
Democrats To Keep Eye
On Mississippi Meeting

Democratic presidential electors
was a question that apparently
could only be answered by the
conventions action.
However, both advocates and
opponents of a fourth term SAID
there was little doubt that the
convention would condemn con-
gressional attempts to repeal the
poll tax.
Some sought to have it invejgh
against the supreme court de-
cision UNFOLDING the right OF Ne
groes to vote in Texas Democrat
ic primaries and there was talk
even of an attempt to put the
convention on record against re-
nomination of Henry A. Wallace
for vice president.
Politicians here protested ina
Continued on Page Five; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04
By JACK BELL

WASHINGTON, June s.-lR-
p1,emocratic leaders will watch
.aiSSlsSlppi next week for ba-
aO'netrlc reading on the spread of
cotton belt political revolt that
. las raised some serious doubts
% HoOut the south'e solidity in the
-'VJvember presidential election.
win an anti-administration fac
stoI apparently in control, Mis-
msSlppl Democrats meet We'd
+iy to name a 2O-vote delega-
u t0N 10 the national convention.
Il some leaders have their way,
fo,, WIN 60 uninstructed on the
'ul'n term question and bearing
wy white supremacy" banner.
~ whether Mississippi will follow
S e pattern set by Texas and
~, HUN Carolina Of leaving oper
course 70 he followed by thei,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04

insofar as the Germans use the
city, its railways and roads for
military purposes"
Promptly the German propa-
ganda agency Transocean
countered with what it called
an official statement by a Ger
man foreign office spokesman
concerning the Pontiff's plea.
1t said:
ION the German side, every
thing has been done for months
to preserve Rome from such
fate. Rome today can be re-
garded as city free of arm
ed forces"
The Allied communique de-
cIared the United Nations
forces to be interested only In
''the destruction and elimina-
ton of German forces" in TIA
ly, adding that every possible
precaution had been and will
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04
BAKERY DRIVERS
SUSPEND STRIKE
Number OF Idle In Scat
tered Labor Disputes Re-
duced To 10000
{By The Associated Press

The number Of idle in scattered
labor disputes dwindled yesterday
to 10000, one-fifth Of the midweek
total.
Four hundred bakery drivers and
supervisors, whose six-day-old
strike had halted bread deliveries
to retailers in Cincinnati, voted to
suspend their walkout 'for rea-
sonable time" to permit action by
the war labor board on an appeal
by 10 bakeries against wage in
crease order.
At Lackawanna, N. Y, 40 cleo
trical workers went back to their
jobs at the Bethlehem Steel Com
pany plant in the wake of a two-day
stoppage which union leaders term
ed unauthorized.
Washington employees of tn e
Pennsylvania Greyhound bus lines
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04
s3.92O,O7O,OO0 Supply
R;II Also Includes Mon
ev For FEA Agency
GOES TO SENATE
cannon Hints That Inva-
sion May Come Within
The Next Few Days
NJ WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST

WASHINGTON, June g. Up -
After hearing a hint that the Allied
evasion of western Europe may
come within the next few days."
The house passed by a record vote
of $50 TO % today a SO, 920,070, 900
slnnlv bill to finance lend-lease,
tne Foreign Economic Administra-
tion and the United Nations Re
lief and Rehabilitation .Administra-
tjon for the fiscal year starting
July l.
The measure went to the Senate
after Chairman Cannon D-MoD of
the appropriations committee de-
plored talk about 'juggled funds
and the new DEAL and added COL
emily:
Now who wants to juggle funds,
when over across the seas within
the next few DAYS I hesitate to
mention the number of men who
are going to be wiped out?'
Off the floor, Cannon declined to
elaborate.
amendment Rejected
Before it acted finally, the house
killed off a tentative move to with
hold lend-lease funds from nations
not actually furnishing troops for
combat An amendment offered by
Rep, Calvin johnson Or. ILL to
prohibit use of Lend-lease funds
for any nation whose troops have
not been engaged in actual battle
participation in the present war"
vac accepted once by a teller vote
Of 81 to IA only to be rejected later
on a roll-call count of 264 to Al.
Efforts to restore technical cut
Of S35O,000, 900 in UNRRA funds
failed despite a final administra-
ton fight and a warning that the
reduction would cripple" the leg
islation.
Cannon sought in vain to restore
Continued on Page Five; Col. "
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04

WASHINGTON, June 3-(R-
A spokesman said today the
Justice department will ask
dismissal Of suits brought by
Montgomery Ward & Company
to enjoin enforcement of War
Labor Board orders against it.
The United States Circuit
Court of Appeals ruled yester-
day in another case that the
statutes do not authorize court
reviews of WLB orders.
On the basis of this decision,
the Justice department spokes-
man said, the government will
renew a motion In U. S. dis
trict court to dismiss the Ward
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04
II. s. Will Ask Dismissal
Of Ward Firms Action

actions. An earlier such mo-
ton was denied by the district
court in one case. The govern
ment then petitioned the ap-
peals court to be allowed to
appeal the decision without a
hearing on the merits of the
case. The appeals court yes
terday rejected the petition.
Montgomery Ward has five
separate suits pending involv-
ing as many WLB orders in
connection with various of its
stores and interests.
The Justice Department
spokesman said it had not yet
been decided when the new mo
ton would be filed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04

BY holland NORGAARD
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Naples, June 3-R>-With its
armies nearing Rome, the AL
lied command today placed
upon the Nazi military the re-
sponsibility for making the city
a bloody battlefield or with
drawing and sparing it further
ravages of war, and the Ger
mans countered quickly with
claim that Rome "can be re-
garded as a city free from
armed forces"
Issuing a special communal
que, one day after Pope Plus
expressed hope that Rome cat
all costs may be saved from
becoming theater Of war;"
the Allied command said the
United Nations forces "have
only taken and will only take
military action against Rome
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04
~ s. TROOPS RACE THROUGH
OUTER APPROACHES TO ROME
AFTER BLASTING NAX LINES
Allied Command Places Rome's
Fate In Hands Of German Army

be taken 'to spare innocent
civilians and cultural and re-
ligious monuments of perma-
nent value to civilization"
eff the Germans choose to
defend Rome" the cOmmuni-
que said, "the Allies will be
obliged 70 take appropriate mil
itary measures to eject them.
It is therefore the sincere hope
of his majesty's government
and the United States govern
ment that the enemy will not
m AXE this ill considered
choice"
The statement said the Al
lies were deeply conscious OF
the unique position Of Rome as
one of the chief religious, his
toricaI and cultural centers Of
the world, "and Of the fact that
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04
Five OF Is Nazi Divisions
Have Been Practically
Annihilated 4
ARE CHASING OTHERS
Enemy Taking Time To
Pillage Countryside And
To Leave Shippers
By SID FEEDER

TIERS, Naples, June 3-(P-
A m erican troops raced
through Rome's outer ap-
proaches from the south and
southeast tonight under Or
ders to destroy the retreating
German armies, five of whose
10 divisions already have been
practically annihilated and
whose defensive lines have
been blasted apart.
With the city's skyline in
easy view of the advancing
American armor and infantry,
it appeared that within a mat
ter of hours Rome might be-
come the first European CAPT.
tai to be liberated from the
Nazis.
1t. Gen. Mark w. Clark COM
mander of the Fifth Army, in
structed his subordinates, how
ever, that the immediate task was
to pursue and destroy as much as
possible of the German tenth and
Fourteenth armies and that en-.
try into Rome would come after
wards.
Others Badly Battered
Besides the fivs Nazi divisions.
virtually destroyed since the
present Allied offensive began
May IL, several others have been
battered badly, and front line dis
patches tonight said further prog
ress was being made towards the
goal of humiliation.
There was no word as to how
many Germans might be caught
by the American, British and
French troops converging below
Rome and be added to the 10000
prisoners already in the Allied
bag.
The belief grew, however, that
the Allied forces closing in on
pocket in the northern edge of the
Sacco valley still held by the en-
envy could hope to trap only
relatively small proportion of the
German units which earlier had
been reported there.
This was supported by front line
accounts tonight showing that de-
spite it's apparent speed, the Ger
man retreat was not rout.
Edward Kennedy, Associated
Press correspondent with the
Fifth Army, reported that there
were still many German pockets
behind us, raking the road with
machine-gun and shellfire, but
these were being mopped up"
He said further that the Ger
mans were taking time in their
flight to pillage the countryside
and were leaving snipers behind
to try to delay the Allies.
Present distances of the Allies
from Rome were not disclosed,
but front dispatches indicated
clearly that they were short and
growing shorter.
The americans were thrusting
up both the Appian and Casilinian
ways and across open country,
while other Allied troops con-
verged on routes leading up to the
city.
h e British Eighth Army,
which had pushed up through the
Liri and Sacco valleys, made
junction with the Americans on
the Via Casilina 10 miles east of
Valmontone shortly before noon
Continued on Page Five; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04
JOHNSTON HONORED

MOSCOW, June Up Eric
Johnston, president of the United
States chamber of commerce was
the honored guest today at a for
NAL luncheon of Russian trade Of
ficials at which Anastas I. Miko-
yen, Soviet commissar of foreign
trade, was the host.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04

Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm, yesterday.
Temperature
1870 am, 70; 1880 am, IS; 1870 pm, 80;
7:30 pm, So.
Maximum 81; Minimum 70; Mean "a;
Normal rs.
Humidity
1880 am, 90; 7:30 am, 81; 1870 pm, 81;
7.30 pm, n.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 1880 pm,
600 inches.
Total since the first of the month,
GOO inches.
Tides for Today
High Low
Wilmington ------------- 7:54a 2:58a
8:30p 3:08p
Masonboro Inlet --------- 5:37a LISA
6:15p
Sunrise, SOL am; Sunset. 7:20 pm,
Moonrise, 5:1s Pm; Moonset, 3:42 am.
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