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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-10
BY HAL WARD

A A ANY smart WITH
M student of ~
W. political affairs pre- NJ
diets that, when the Nazis III
and the Japs are mopped up,
royalty will climb back on a
throne here and there. And
that an occasional coronation will
lend sparkle and spice to the inevi.
table round of important, but unSpec-
tacular, councils and conferences.
These sideshows in a war.weary
world will be elaborate-but down.
right dull compared to a coronation
staged almost 600 years ago.
The center of that all.but-forgotten
ceremony was Queen IneZ of Portu.
gal For hours the noble subjects of
her realm moved in slow and stately
procession to her throne. They knelt,
kissed her hand, mumbled the Por.
tuguese equivalent of your majesty"
Not once during the day-long ritual
did the queen move, or speak, or
smile. She couldn't-she'd been dead
two years.
Portugals patricians didn't attend
this macabre show because they
wanted to. They came because they
were commanded TO do so by Dom
Pedro, their king.
They remembered his loveleSs mar.
riage when he was young and heir
apparent to the throne of his father,
King Alfonso the Proud They recol-
lected his outspoken opposition to
an unsentimental merger of money,
royal blood and power. And his ardent
love for IneZ de Castro, one of his
wife's ladies-in-waiting
1t became an obsession with Dom
Pedro to marry this pretty little ,vln-
moner and make a queen of her.
When his wife died in childbirth,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-10

Some OF the High
Born Ladies and
G emile men Had
Faces as Yellow
Gray as the Life
less COuntenance of
The Thing on the
Throne But They
Knelt and Kissed
the Claw.like Hand.
Evening star., 1944-10-19
ADVERTISEMENT. A
To Relieve Bad Cough In a
Hurry, Mix This at Home

honey. instead of sugar syrup) Then
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Add your syrup and you have full
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This simple mixture takes right hold
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Pinex is special compound of pro-
ven ingredients, in concentrated form.
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Money refunded If not pleased.
Evening star., 1944-10-19
ADVERTISEMENT.
Swift Acting, and Saves
Big Money. Easily Mixed.

You'll be surprised how
quickly and easily you
can relieve coughs due
to colds. when you try,
this splendid recipe
mixed in your own
kitchen. 1t gives you
about fourtimesas as much
cough syrup for your
Evening star., 1944-10-19

teen during the past year, and be-
longs to the American Society OF
Oral Surgeon. Born In Kansas 56
years ago, he came to Washington
originally as secretary to the late
Senator Thompson of Kansas.
DR.. Mead Is the author Of Diseases
Evening star., 1944-10-19
50 Bronze Statues
OF War Personalities
Placed on Exhibition

An exhibition of so bronze statues,
representing leading personalities in
the war era, was opened today in
the Smithsonian Institution.
All of the bronzes were done by
Max Kalish, sculptor, during six
month period. With one exception,
the statues were made from life
after subjects sat for the artist in
their Offices. Selections were made
by a private committee headed by
w. M. Kiplinger, editor of a WASH
ington news letter, and were pre-
sented to the Smithsonian Institu-
ton under the name of The Living
Hall of Washington, 1914"
Mrs. Roosevelt was nominated for
one of the honors but declined be-
cause she said she did not feel her
statue should be included among
the list of notables. Secretary OF
Labor Perkins is the only woman
represented III Gllc sloup.
Those included are:
President Roosevelt. Vice PreSi-
dent Wallace, Chief Justice Harlan
F. Stone. Speaker of the House Ray
burn, all the cabinet officers, Un-
dersecretary of State Stettinius and
Undersecretary of War Patterson,
Admiral William D. Leahy, Gen.
George G. Marshall, Admiral Ernest
j. King, Gen. Henry H. Arnold, Gen.
Douglas Macarthur, Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower, Admiral Chester w.
Nimitz and Admiral William F. Hal
sey, jr.
Also Harry L. Hopkins, James F.
Byrnes, Donald M. Nelson, Charles E.
Wilson, Vice Admiral Emory S. Land,
Chester Bowles, Vannevar Bush,
Paul v. McNutt, Marvin Jones,
Bernard NJ Baruch, William M.
Jeffers. j. Edgar Hoover, Elmer
Davis, Byron Price, Nelson A. Rock
efeller, Thomas E. Dewey, Philip
Murray, John L. Lewis, Henry j..
Kaiser, Eric A. Johnston, Raymond
Clapper, Ernie Pyle, Walter Lipp-
man and Bob Hope.
Evening star., 1944-10-19

terday by a unanimous vote at the
associations annual meeting In
Chicago. He will be installed as
president at next years convention.
Dr. Mead, who does dental surgery
exclusively, is 1914 graduate OF
the George Washington University
Dental School and for 10 years was
a professor of oral surgery at
Evening star., 1944-10-19

Georgetown University. He has
been practicing here since gradua-
ton, and has an office at 1149 Six
teenth street NV.
He has been vice president of the
American Dental Association and
chairman of its Legislative Commit
Evening star., 1944-10-19

money, and you'll find it wonderful.
Make syrup by stirring cups of
granulated sugar and one cup ofwater
a few moments, until dissolved. No
cooking needed-it's 81 no trouble at all.
(You can use corn syrup or liquid
Evening star., 1944-10-19

Of the Mouth" "Oral Surgery" and
"Anesthesia In Dental Surgery" as
welly as many articles in scientific
journals
Evening star., 1944-10-19
Six Six Bows in Service

PHILADELPHIA (PD.-James D.
Six, one of the six Six boys in the
armed forces, is home on furlough
Four of the other six Six boys are
in the Army and the sixth Six is
sailor
Evening star., 1944-10-19
Wool Broad|oom Rugs
6 Long-wearing Varieties

These rugs bound ready for service your floors Note
the emphasis larger szes-so important when you
planning proper roon1-size rug In the foIIowine
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-23
Special Stationery
Used For Prisoners

U. S. Post Office officials an
nounced yesterday that due to the
fact that enemy countries do not
permit the delivery of mail post
marked with victory symbols such
as those imprinted on three cent
stamps and regular envelopes,
special airmail stationery has been
issued for correspondence with
prisoners of war.
The stationery which is similar
to "V' mail, and is obtainable at
the Post Office free of charge, is
lined in order that writing can be
typed or printed clearly to ex-
pedite censorship. The enveope
side of the stationery is marked
with spaces to filled in with the
proper address.
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MADE
TO UNDERGROUND

LONDON, May 22.-LR'-Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower invasion
headquarters today broadcast a
second time to the waiting, listen
ing European underground, sup
plying detailed instructions on how
it could guide the invaders over
strange and difficult terrain.
At the same time an enemy
broadcast, presenting the biggest
estimate the Axis has voiced on
the Allies British based strength
declared Eisenhower had $500, 600
troops "ready for an invasion
jump" from south England. The
German commentator Won Olberg
warned Germans to prepare for
blows on the east front and in the
Balkans as well as from across the
channel. He specialized upon Por-
tugal as possible Allied landing
point, and said several divisions
might even parachute behind the
German lines extended along the
continents rim.
A spokesman for General Eisen-
hover told the Europeans waiting
for the day of liberation that the
Allied forces would need precise
details of roads, bridges, rivers
woods and possible landing fields.
1T is every Important he said,
that this information should be
accurate and that guides should
be quite certain of the way by day
or night"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-23
Income Tax Bill
PassageDelayed

WASHINGTON, May 22.-|R-A
crowded House schedule caused
postponement today of final con
gressional action on the painless
tax bill simplifying and stream
lining the nations income tax laws
affecting 5o,0O0,O00 taxpayers.
Chairman Doughton (D-NC) OF
the Ways and Means committee
announced he would ask the House
tomorrow to accept Senate amend
ments, and send the legislation to
the White House.
Approved unanimously in the
House, and by voice vote in the
Senate, the legislation would re-
lieve 3O,O0O,0O0 wage and salary
earners of the requirement of com.
putting federal tax returns, and
simplify procedures for the 100000
900 others.
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411C1C 1ldo DCSll III A11IOo Oil
nouncement of such an attack and
the need for radio silence may de-
lay any American version for some
days. Tokyo frequently has given
the first word of the U. S. Navy
strikes at its island strongholds.
Tokyo declared 1872 carrier based
planes attacked in seven waves
Saturday and Sunday, asserted 80
OF them were shot down and ac-
hnowledged only negligible da-
mage"
The main striking force may
have sailed much closer to Tokyo
than Marcus, 1000 miles away. The
Japanese communicate said it ZAP
peared in the waters east of the
Ogasawara (Bonin) islands. The
Bonins are only 600 miles from To-
kyo and well to the west OF Mar
Gus, suggesting that the main blow
was delivered by fleet that had
steamed close to the Bonir1s and
approached the target from the
West.
Suggesting japanese SURPRISE
Domeii broadcast said while our
units were keeping close watch ov-
err the activities of enemy squad
rons in the Marshall Islands wa
ters," west of Marcus, enemy
naval forces appeared east OF the
BONN Islands to launch the at
tacks.
"What requires our attention at
this point is the fact that the en-
envy, relying upon his numerical
strength and speed, stealthlly
speaks around us and tries to at
tack US suddenly from the TANKS
The broadcast said the U. 5.
Naval Command. organized re-
serve fleet, another is set up as
a decoy unit, and the two units
take different routes. AS soon as
this decoy unit is discovered and
attacked, the reserve force strikes
it added.
Berlin, quoting Tokyo, said air
raid alerts were sounded IN the
whole North and East OF japan,
during the blows, indicating fears
of another air assault upon the
capital or upon the mainland.
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PRISONERS SHOT
WITHOUT CAUSE

LONDON, Tuesday, May 23.-R)
A Stockholm dispatch to the Daily
Express said today a detailed &C
count of the killing in March OF Al
British and Allied prisoners of war
by the Nazis showed the "massa-
ere x did not take place IN a
clash between prisoners and
guards. but was carried out by
groups of guards who lost their
heads and shot prisoners haphaz-
ardly in barracks, courtyards and
workshops"
The Daily Express correspond
ent, B. D. Masterman, said British
rilots who escaped and reached
Sweden gave eyewitness accounts
OF the affair on which an official
report, based on their statements,
is expected within a few days.
ct understand it will be one OF
the most shocking stories OF the
war;" he wrote.
Masterson wrote that he had
learned the witnesses most en-
phatically refute the German allie
CATION that the prisoners were shot
when rushing toward gates which
they tried to force and said mel
ther inquiry nor trial preceded the
killings.
1.-The shootings lasted several
days. he added, "although most
of the officers were shot March %.
'''They were apparently due to
breakdown of German discipline
and morale. Witnesses state: 'Du-
ring the past months most of the
guards at Stalagluft III German
prison camp behaved like luna
tics.'''
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-23
Contempt Fines Given
Sedition Trial Lawyer

WASHINGTON, May 22.-(R-
Justice Edward c. Eicher raped
out four contempt fines totaling
5000 against lawyer in the sedi-
tious conspiracy trial today, fined
one defendant 500 and threatened
to impose Jail sentences for any
other disturbances.
The jurist acted when he was IN
able to halt a flow of words from
the defense section, where % per
sons are being tried on charges OF
conspiring to undermine the arm
ed forces and promote Nazi form
of government in this country.
Henry H. Klein, of New York, a
defense attorney, drew the quad
ripple fine when he kept on talking
after the judge ordered him to sit
down.
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Dy his OlllCe.
C. L. Myers, assistant clerk, al
so requested through Mr.. Meyland
that his bond be increased from
81, 900 to $1,000. The board unani-
mously agreed to both requests.
The increase in funds 10 partly
attributable, Mr.. Meyland told the
commission, to the fact that his Of
flee is now handling the funds and
records of Recorders Court in the
absence of Harry Dosher, former
clerk now on leave with the Navy.
Dosher's bond has already been
cancelled anr refund made.
Mr.. Meyland asked for the en-
ployment of a temporary clerk to
serve in his department until an
appointment could be made nam
ing a clerk of Recorders Court.
The commission, Addison Hewlett,
sr.. presiding, voted the temper
airy appointment.
Meyland told the commission
that funds in his account on April
% amounted to $26, 4S4.55 and an
additional $3,192.67 ear marked
fund, together with bonds held IN
escrow, amounted to $15,325.0o.
The commission voted to renew
the contract with the War Depart
ment for the approximately 55o
acres comprising Bluethenthal air.
port for the next fiscal year, July
/, 1914 through June 80, 1915 on the
same terms and conditions as be-
fore. The lease will be executed
through the office of the division
engineer, South Atlantic Division,
Atlanta, Ga.
The Grand Jury report made
during the May term of Criminal
Court was received for considera-
ton.
A request by the Winter Park
Service Club that members be al
lowed to use the school athletic
bus for transportation to district
meeting of the home demonstra-
ton clubs in Kenansville in June
was approved and referred to the
Board of Education by the COM
Commissioner Coleman present
ed a resume of Is months activity
of the back tax department to the
commission. The report revealed
that total collections for the city
and county from March Is, 1912 to
May 1, 1914, amounted to $3.50, $780,
q, with cost of collection amount
ing to 0039 per cent, including fees
(Cn-,f;nuod m paoo TxUn. EnJ ~
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-23

Sheriff's officers and state
highway patrolmen throughout
southeastern North Carolina
were on the lookout last night
for the hit-run automobile. or
truck that early yesterday kill
ed two Pender county boys and
critically injured a third at
Atkinson.
The boys had been to White
Lake swimming and were
hitch-hiking on their way home
after the bus left them off ct
Atkinson, when an unidentified
driver hit them.
The two youths killed were
EIwood Feron Bostic, II, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Mervin N.
Bostic, Of Burgaw, and Aubrey
Eldridge Ramsey, II, work.
er at the North Carolina Ship
yard, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Au-
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-23
Allies, Naziis
xgStAir Battle
s Il Europe
SAT FIGHT RAGING
700 Bombers, Fighters
? Sweep Many Targets
Over Continent

LONDON, Tuesday, May
23.-(P)-DNB said a great
air battle was raging over
Europe early today between
Allied bombers and Nazi night
fighters and claimed Is four
engined planes were shot
down at the outset.
The action, indicating the Raj
was keeping up round-the-clock
assault on Fortress Europe, came
after a ..rike by perhaps 5000
bombers and fighters by daylight
yesterday at the German subma-
rine base at Kiel, at Pas de Calais
and at widespread targets in oc-
cupied France and Belgium.
The German broadcast, record
ed by Reuters, said Nazi night
fighters had shot down Is four
engine bombers in the first Is min
utes of battle and the aerial strug-
gle still was raging at 2:25 am.
DNB did not identify specific
targets, but various broadcasts
said bombers were over central
Germany and the greater Berlin n
area. und that heavy anti-alr-cra1t
fire was heard in northwest and
western Germany.
About 1000 United States bonn
bers and fighters made the DAY
light attacks upon Kiel and Pas
de Calais. These followed up a
Raj saturation raid Sunday night
en- industrial Duisburg.
Five bonbers and eight flghters
failed to return from these twin
daylight missions, which brought
to more than 1900 tons the
amount of bombs poured on shaken
Europe in the last four days OF
aerial softening for the invasion.
The Raj dropped 2,240 tons on
often-bombed Duisburg alone.
In all, about 5000 sorties (slngle
flights were flown against Ger
many and occupied countries from
British bases during the day and
about 4,5OO tons of high explosives
and incendiaries were dropped.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-23
US. High Court
BackSOPARu1es

WASHINGTON, May %. -P1-
me Supreme Court ruled today
mat the Office of Price Admins
Ifatlm has power to issue suspen-
Son order against retailers and to
withhold rationed materials from
'aen when they have obtained and
distributed products in violation
OF regulations.
In another case, the court held
mat conspiracy to stuff ballot
boxes in the election of federal Of
wee holders violates federal law
prohibiting conspiracy to "injure.
cypress, threaten or intimidate"
any citizen in the exercise Of his
constitutional privileges.
The 8 to l decision on the OPA,s
powers upheld the agency's order
limiting the sales of L. P. Steu-
art and Brother, Inc, Washing
ton, D. c., fuel oil dealer accused
d 227 violations of rationing regu-
.ations in obtaining and selling
.oel oil. The firm was prohibited
rom selling to any more custom
FRS than it served during the year
ended October %, 1912.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-23
Ward Plant Seizure
Upheld Bv WLB Head

WASHINGTON, May 22.-aP-
WLB Chairman William H. Davis
today told House committee that
the government dramatic seizure
of the Montgomery Ward Chicago
plant was legal, and asserted that
his agency had to act to avert a
possible strike "epidemic
AS Davis testified, the Hummer
Manufa curing company at Spring.
field, Ill, second Montgomery
Ward concern to be seized by the
army within month, resumed
production with the government in
charge. President Roosevelt order.
ed this strike-bound company
maker of war materials, to be TAX
en- over yesterday after the War
Labor Board informed him it had
rejected WLB directive to sign a
union contract embodying mainte-
nance of union membership
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Winston Mayor Warns
Striking City Workers

WINSTON-SALEM, May 22.-(P)
Mayor George w. Coan, Jr., to-
night warned 100 striking employees
of the city public works depart
ment that they are in an essential
occupation and cannot accept 9TH
er employment without being idle
for so days.
Meanwhile, the strikers, all Me-
groes and employed mainly as
garbage collectors and workers in
the incinerator plant, gave no in
dication when they would return
to work. They are requesting a
pay raise from AZ cents per hour
to so cents per hour.
Mayor Coan pointed out that the
city have given the employees a
raise in pay from u cents per hour
to AZ cents per hour during the
past year. He said that the City
was preparing to begin the annual
budget study in July and raise
for the employees might be includ-
ed in the budget.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-23
FRONT
REPORTED QUIET

LONDON, May 22.-lR-The lull
on the eastern front continued into
the second month today while the
Germans, trying to guess all the
places where the vast double
squeeze might be applied predicted
a flare-up soon in the south.
Moscow, contributing TO the war
OF nerves, merely said the Red
army was ready with much improv
ed weapons for the finish fight.
The Soviet communique, broad
cast from Moscow and recorded by
the Soviet Monitor, again told only
of aerial warfare and said II Nazis
planes were destroyed Sunday. OF
the land front, the Russians said
there were no essential changes.
DNB commentator, Ernest Won
Hammer, in broadcast from Ber-
lin, declared 'major Soviet often
sives in the Grigoriopol dover
Dnestr river) and the middle
Sereth sectors are imminent.
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Lend-LeaseSeen
AS Invasion Aid

WASHINGTON, May %. -(P-
President Roosevelt told Congress
today that Allied invasion forces
backed by billions of dollars in
lend-lease fighting power ARE
now about to strike new and
mightier blows at Hitler's Euro
pean fortress.
Declaring that decisive battles
are ahead" the President said the
drives will be launched from Of
fensive bases in the west, the
south and the east.
In his 18th report on operations
Of the lend-lease program, MIR.
Roosevelt disclosed that the total
value of weapons, supplies and
services made available to the
United Nations has reached $24,-
225, 900, 600.
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RlJRMA FIGHTING
RACES UNDATED

SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUAR-
ERs. HANDY. CEYLON. May %
lg-Heavv monsoon rains breaking
suddenly over North Burma have
ra1sf0rmed the battle-ground at
tbe encircled japanese stronghold
of Myitkyina into slogging sea
Of mud, but as the Allies prepared
for the final assault on the city,
already one-third captured, Chi
aese troops Stabbed to the north
and seized a strategic road juno
ton it was announced today.
The bloodest fighting of the en-
tire north Burma campaign was
developing inside the city where
Allied troops smashed at the
enemy garrison street by street,
house by house, front dispatch
from Associated Press Cor1espon-
dent Thoburn Want said.
The rains were causing a delay
in the battle for the city, he said,
reporting that a strategic railway
sta ion occupied by d Chinese
column yesterday had changed
hands several times, and the sit
uation was confused throughout
The town.
With the capture of the junction
Of roads tanning to the north and
west. 1t. Gen. Joseph w. Still
wells forces have established a
firm line on an arc four miles
northwest of the city, from Char
pate TO Namkwi, blocking the
enemys Burma railway and road
communications between Myitk-
yiaa and Mogaung to the west and
Fort Hertz, far to the north,
headquarters communique said.
Chinese troops were reported to
have established solid line north
west of the city, blocking Japa-
nese attempts to relieve the hard
pressed garrison and Tightening
the Allied hold on likely escape
route. Other Chinese, who drove
down the Mogaung valley, crushed
five enemy strong points, and east
Of the Magaung river the Chinese
broke up strong japanese at
tack aimed at reinforcing troops
trapped at the little mountain vii
large of Warong.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-23
Drag Lake For Woman;
Grandson Lodged In Jail

bloody clothing, a woman's
purse, a new unused meat
chopper and a hatchet.
Gates said he also found an
unsigned copy of will by
Mrs. Jewett which would have
left to Martin sizeable share
in er half-million dollar es-
tate.
Mrs. Jewett, who has made
her home with her daughter,
Martins mother, in Charlotte,
for two years, was last report
ed seen May 10 at a hotel in
Boonville, where she was driv-
en- by her grandson to inspect
some of her property.
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DURHAM, May 22.-(R-A
24-year-old college graduate
chemist was held in Jail tonight
on an open charge while Off
GERS and civilians dragged a
nearby lake in a hunt for his
grandmother, Mrs. Edward M.
Jewett, 81, wealthy Boonville,
Mo-, woman, who has been
missing for IL days.
Detective C. w. Gates, in
charge of the. investigation,
said Edward Jewett Martin,
of Charlotte, was arrested here
Saturday after leaving bQod-
spattered automobile parked in
a garage. In his hotel room,
the officer said, police found