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atter ' D. m. The harbor was jammed with ships, loaded with war goods.
 The planes announced themselves with string of chandelier flares, which lighted the harbor.
 Then the bombs came cascading. The harbor's two long piers stand out from shore that runs straight for more than a score of miles so it was almost impossible for the en- emy to miss.
 The first bombs fell short but one pitched into the town 150 yards from the car in which my party was driv- ing and sent spout of smoke and dust skyward. We drove through the middle of the town to the other side of the harbor.
 Watching across a neck of sea a mile from the docks, we saw yellow flame spread out and then a cloud of smoke pour upward, its under side tinged with red.
 Without warning this was blot ted out by a terrific explosion. The whole sky seemed to fill with dull reQ0lSh name.
 A sailor near me whispered:
 My God, they got the ammuni- ton ship"
 There were a few seconds of silence. Then wind whipped through the town like tornado.
 There was a continuous crunch of breaking glass, punctuated by the heavier sound of doors, win dow frames and venetian blinds be- ing ripped out.
 Although 1t was then too late, many persons dropped to the ground for shelter.
 We could only conjecture the havoc wrought amid the ships and personnel. GU. s. Secretary of War Stimson announced on December 16 that there were roughly 1000 casualties to service personnel.)
 Scores were wounded by flying glass. They walked about as if stunned, their faces like maps drawn with lines of blood.
 The plate glass doors of a hotel behind us blew out and as the wounded and those seeking shelter poured through the revolving door. the fragments were ground with screeching sound.
 One of the freaks of the blast was three large window frames blown across a room without a single pane of glass damaged.
 A naval officer, slightly wounded. told me later he stood within POO yards of the ammunition ship when 1t went up and was not even knocked down.
 Ten miles inland, the wind blew out windows. The force was felt at some points 20 miles away. But 1t freakishly jumped some areas closer to Bari.
 Several score persons were killed in the town and virtually every window in Bari proper was shat tered.
 The ammunition ship set atire several other ships. Some sank swiftly and some burned all night. The next morning I counted nine ships partly sunk or burning so fiercely they could not be saved.
 The Navy has been criticised for putting so many eggs in one basket, but hundreds of ships supplying the Allied Armies had passed through Bari in a few months. Bari and Taranto probably were the only port at that time capable of handling a large amount of traffic so the ships pushed in time and again. Every opportunity was taken of a strange German reluctance to attack the port. When they did attack, 1t was a profitable target but the total score was only IT vessels destroyed out of several hundred safely berth ed and unloaded and thousands of tons of war materials delivered to the fighting men.
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tContlnued rom Page D waters. Ponape, between Kusaie and Trpk. and Palau. last Carolines base to the west towards the Philippines.
 Announced along with the Kusaie raid was an attack on Mile Atoll fin the Marshalls, where army planes hit shore facilities and air drorne in- stallations.
 No American planes were lost in either raid.
 (The Japanese Domei news agency reported today that Allied B-25 bombers also attacked the Mill Atoll Tuesday and Wednesday. The Domei dispatch, recorded by U. s. Govern ment monitors. said 10 planes at- tackled the island Tuesday and 12 on Wednesday with a loss of one bomber each day and that dam age to our positions was negligible)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-20
ATacARTHUR no STICK

Washington, Jan. 20 - (U.P.) = Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said today that General Douglas MacArthur will retain his present command though he will reach the statuatory retirement age of 04 on January 78.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-20

India has made provision where by educational institutionus may purchase national savings certlfi- eates on behalf of students out of their savings or prize money.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-20

hall. A bell boy, Walter Schaute the first outsider to enter the room. first told police that he had passed a woman hurrying along the hall. He later changed his story and said he had passed no one. No one left the eighth floor by elevator.
 Police took the gun to examine pososible fingerprints.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-20
WOMEN's IDEAS sAE TIME

Akron, o. (UP) - Suggestions made by women workers of the B. ?. Goodrich Go. plants during Q recent six-month period saved an estimated 24,6OO man-hours. company officials said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-20
Which Signs
 of Tired Kidneys Bother You?

elassim@ When disorder of kidney 2mfaeAs eunetion permits polsonoua ns...~-vs1e matter to remain In youI G~s-@ blood, tt may cause naggina sG baekaehs. rheumatic pains, le3
 pains, Isas e pep and enerRy, - ~ getting uD night1, swelling. ~n4 sassAyl Duflnsas under the eyes, head. MEeilaS Up aches and dizxineas. Frequent MlNAls or 9eaneg pessaRee with MMNI'lmm aMaEeing nmd burning some NralInees tima1 ah0ws therO is some. fls@sr Fsas thing wrong with yUur kid. es~s1-.ksa nay1 CT bladder.
 %s--,- Don't waifi Ask y0aR drus. aise foE Doans Pslls. used sue. R1aaEntIY kV millions for ever @ yeAra. 1ho4 slge happy sellee and VII help the @asta assm yeaF hIood. Get Doans kills.
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Landlords found guilty of evad- ing Argentina's new rent-reduction decree are being fined from S20o
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Mayor Names Committee

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Offensive In
 Center Pacific

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BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
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Huh? The Louisville. (Ky.) Times says: ''MacArthur's political boost CTS say they consider him a candi- date because he has never said he isn't Q candidate, and come to think of it neither has Walter Win chell."
 Whatl And take a cut?
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-21
Junior Ked Cross Is Carrying Out
Wide Program Of Community Service

possible" Membership is OBTAIN.
cd, not only through paying mon
ey' put by performing worthy ser.
Since last July, the Wilmington
chapter has produced $4,000 ar.
llcles IN cooperation with the
camp and hospital council of the
Heo cross. These articles consist.
ca OF holiday favors, bound books,
recreatlonal articles such as
checker boards, weaving boards
and blackboards. Members sewed
articles like bed jackets, utility
oags' and card table covers
christmas marked great activity
with loo stockings filled and 100
boxes sent to refugee children.
Not only have Junior mem hnrs
participated in their. own cam
palgns and in salvage drives but
requested permission to take part
IN the regular Red Cross cam
paign.
'iiey worked 1ard," Mrs.
oternberger added. 'They helped
assemble material for the drive
and made collections in local the
aires for whole week"
The enthusiasm and sincerity
OF Junior Red Cross members was
Illustrated last year when We cele-
brated our Silver Jubilee Mrs.
Sternberger said in conclusion.
"A colored school with an enroll
ment of only 70 students made a
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-21
Nv ETHEL TIGUE

,,ictory garden with flowers!
a., indeed! That's exactly what {
...o,,rceful Junior Red Cross group
-. nlanted in Wilmington.
~ The presence of the vegetables
:. sa1f.explanatory - and the flow
D., that blossom so brightly
els e.sona carrots and radishes have
81 .l"e enually important destiny. They
o., III end up in colorful bouquet
V. .'t tbe bedside of some soldier pa
a a. at one of the station hospi-
W.. .tt cheerful message from
'@ hearts that are remember.
Ing. ,,17 a.o,,. ..+;
.1nne is embodied every phase OF
.be entire program on which the
T 1nnior Red Cross was founded:
uoaltb. citizenship, good will and
,ervice to others.
"In Wilmington alone the Junior
pod Cross has $4,000 members, -
aid Mrs. Alfred Sternberger,
chairman Of the local chapter. 1--WE
work through each of the % schools
with the teacher and council form
Mating program to fit each indi-
yidual school.
Mrs. Sternberger's enthusiasm
for her work is contagious. She
has been with the Junior Red Cross
here for over six years and has
seen it develop from a member
ship which included only a few
schools to one which now includes
me parochial school and every
white and colored public school in
he county
This membership has been
achieved" she said, Through the
splendid cooperation of the teach
srs and board of education. In no
other way would it have been
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-21
SCHOOLS GRANTED
EQUIPMENT FUNDS

A sum between $4,000 and ST..
900 is being granted by the federal
government to the local schools
to provide additional vocational
shop equipment for the Williston
Industrial school, Superintendent
H. M. Roland announced yesterday.
"This fund will put out system
in excellent condition to handle
vocational work in the Negro
schools" Roland commented.
Willston has broad Vocational
program. In its shops, boys are
training for bricklaying, plaster
ing, concrete work, woodwork, au-
to mechanics and other diversi-
fled occuna IONS.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-21

contribution of $25-a dollar for
each year of the organization
existence. The students took jobs
IN plants and on farms to earn
the money
The 25-year record of the Junior
Red Cross speaks for itself. It is
certainly proof that the organiza-
ton was worthy of the faith that
brought about its inception in 1917
at the spontaneous request of
school children and authorities
throughout the United States.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-21
US. STEEL REPORTS

NEW YORK, April 20 Up -
Registered owners of United States
Steel Corporation common stock
held 6,6O5, $50 shares, of 10 per-
Ger. of the total stock outstand-
Ing on March 81, the corporation
reported today. Held in brokers
names were 2,o97, 622 shares. AS
Of last Dec. 81 investors holding
totaled 6675, $50 common shares
and 2,127,422 were held by brok-
ers.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-21
Debris Is Removed
From Kenan Fountain

M'Kean Maffitt, superintendent
OF the Municipal Water and Sew
age Department, announced yes
terday that the debris which had
accumulated around Kenan foun-
tain at 5th and Market Streets, had
been removed and that the water
in the fountain is now running.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-21
SKIN ERUPTI0NS

VeAIeTu1Ny CdUS60J
CHECK ITCHING-BURNING
the antiseptic-stimulating way with ia
nous Black and White Ointment. Pro-
motes healing. lOt, 25t. 50t. Money back
daily with Black and White Skin Soan
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-26
May Lend-Lease
Exceeds Billion

WASHINTON. July 20 nNS)
Foreign economic administrators
Crowley reported today that lend
lease shipments of munitions and
other war supplies reached rec
ord total of $l,159,000,0O0 last
May.
OF this total. Crowley said.
1853, 100000 worth of lend-lease
war supplies was shipped to the
United Kingdom, $3l6, 000, 900
worth to Russia; $4,000, 900
worth to the Mediterranean the
alter; S130. 600, 900 worth to China.
India. Australia and New Zealand
and S44,000.000 worth went to all
other areas. including other Amer
lean republics.
Crowley said that planes. guns,
tanks and other military equip
ment constituted almost go per
cent of lend-lease shipments in
Nav
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-26
Allies Gain
I'm India

HANDY, Ceylon, July 26 (INS)
divisions, with Gurkhas,
swept the japanese from seven
hills astride the Palel-Tamu road
in the Manipur hills of India. re-
moving the barrier TO the Allied
advance southeast from Imphal,
it was revealed today.
japanese resistance east of I'm
phal in the direction OF Chindwin
has increased.
In northern Burma, American
and Chinese troops made new
gains in the northwest and south
ern sectors of Jap-held Myitkyins
while south of the town advances
were registered after fierce street
fighting,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-26
Dewey Talks
To Define Policy

ALBANY. N. Y. July 70 (INS)
Gov. Dewey indicated today
that he expects his St. Louis con-
ference with Republican gov
errors next week to result in a
definition of party policy along
several lines not covered in detail
by the party platform.
The governor Is known to feel
that the areas of responsibility
between the states and the fed.
eral government are poorly de-
fined and that this is becoming an
acute problem in many fields.
ranging from flood control to en-
ployment services.
Dewey will have a prolonged
meeting in Albany today with
Gov Bricker, his running mate.
on campaign plans. the governors
conference and the issues OF the
campaign.
Broker will go to New York
tomorrow 10 talk with national
chairman Brownell. and he will
meet with Dewey again at st.
Louis next week.
Dewey worked today on agri-
cultural problems, one of the SUBJ
jects 10 be covered at his confer
ences at Pittsburgh and Spring
field. H.. next week with repre-
scntatives Of labor. business and
agriculture
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-26
Raj Repeats
Stuttgart Attack

LONDON. July 26 GNS)--
Stuttgart, the Reich's vital pre-
cision tool center, was torn by
new explosions and flames today
after the Raj administered sec
ond successive concentrated night
assault.
Allied fighters and bombers
early today headed for Calais.
Berlin was battered with block
busters for the third straight
night by speed" Mosquitoes.
Anti-aircraft batteries put up
one of the biggest barrages yet
against the robot bombs, which
were described as going down
like nine pins"
In the last "a hours Allied aerial
armadas rocked centers of Ger
man industry and hammered
battle fronts with the heaviest
blows of the war.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-26
Calls Allied Artillery Unfair

One particularly arrogant He said our artillery
was unfair" asked him what he meant He said kept
coming over all the time gave unfair advantage
ren,naed him the iuftUafe gaze the Germans an
unfair advantage in Poland and the Lou Countries IN
the early days of the Uar
He maintained that for man. the Germans
could lick infantry and they had our artillery and
air supremacy they could haze throWn us back INTO
the
Having American youngsters in action am
willing to my life they much than able to hold
their time with the Germans man for man on an equa
footing
Naturally am prejudiced concerning our own boys
hut am that the impartial historian of the future
that CUTS resourceulness, and intelligence they
proved themselves better than the Germans any
battlefield
Our boys have complete faith that they are hghng Tor
right just Fewer and fewer captured Germans show
evidence Of faith in the righteousness of their cause
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-26
Rebels Face
Nazi Repfisd|s

LONDON. July 26 GNS)-Ncw
Nazi threats of reprlsals against
the families OF diSaffected German
officers were reported today.
The latest threat to German
officers was contained in an order
by DR.. Robert Ley. Nazi leader
Of the labor front. according 10 an
Exchange Telegraph Co. dispatch
from Zurich.
The dispatch quoted a Berlin
correspondent as stating that Ley
directed that the entire officers
corps be notified that members
of families Of officers uncloaked
as traitors to the Nazi regime will
be held responsible and executed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-26
Pope Fears
Raid on Rome

WASHINGTON, July 26
(INS)-The Vatican has
transmitted a proposal to
Washington that Rome be de-
clared an open city to protect
ii from a possible German
sneak attack, it was learned
in diplomatic circles today.
The proposal expresses the ap-
prehension of Pope Plus XII that
Allied military activity in Rome
might provoke a German air at
tack similar 10 that of last No
vember, when an unidentified
plane released four bombs close to
the baslica of st. Peter.
The Pope's proposal has not
been favorably received by the
war department, which describes
il as academic" in view of the
fact that the war has passed far
10 the north of Rome and the
Germans have few planes even at
the battlefront.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-26
Visions Hitler
Safe in Dublin

LONDON. July 26 tUP)--
George Bernard Shaw, in his only
reference TO world affairs on his
88th birthday, said today that
Adolf Hitler. like Napoleon and
Kaiser Wilhelm was almost GER
tain to get away with it" and
come out of this war with his life,
The Irish master of satire
pointed out that Napoleon ended
his days quietly on st. Helena.
and the kaiser died in luxury at
Doom.
Hitler" he said. almost GER
tainly will end up In some
peaceful retreat-probably In
Dublin"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-26
Rubber Chief Quits,
His Job Completed

WASHINGTON. July 70 ciNS)
Rubber director Dewey Bradley
has re gncd effective Sept. l,
and recommended that his office
be abolished The Job Of providing
the tinted states with a new
supply of rubber having been
completed
Dewey aid That s36 600 tons Of
rubber are beng produced an
nuallt 100 TIC nations synthetic
rubber plants with q lack Of
marpo"rr as the chief problem q
be Soi} -.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-26
eHOId'---
ROIllIllel

LONDON. July 26 (INS)-
Nazi Field Marshal Erwin ROM
mel has ordered his. infantry along
the four mile front south of Caen
to hold at all costs" regardless
of losses, a Reuter- dispatch from
the Normandy battle area said
today.
The ferocity of Nazi counter
attacks at lilly la Champagne. it
was said, forced the British Sec
ond army units to effect a slight
withdrawal to the northern OUT
skirts of the village.
The British grip on Verriers
still is strong despite the powerful
counterattacks of the enemy, it
was said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-26
Stinson Doubts
Nazis' Fall Near

WASHINGTON, July 26 uNSl
Secretary of War Stimson. re-
porting to the nation by radio
on his three weeks trip TO the
fighting fronts in France ano
Italy, said that Germany anc
Japan can be beaten only by over
whelming Allied power.
Collapse cot the German
army Is not yet apparent to
our men who are locked I'm COM
bat with a brutal. resOurceful.
and stubborn enemy" the war
secretary declared.
"If there IL one clear picture
have brought back from the
battle front, II Is this: Our men
and our Allies have begun to
apply the grinding pressure Of
superior power upon Germany.
Her armies and her people are
shaken and shot through with
doubts. But In no sense are they
yet broken"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-26
BY WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST. JUNIOR
Publisher. New York JOurnal-American

WITH AMERICAN FORCES IN NOR
MANDY, July 22-The battle-ground around ST. lo
has been APPLY described as Jungle fighting in the
Garden of Eden"
The countryside here is made up of little
French fields. bordered on all sides by very high
hedgerows, sometimes by double banks of them
with ditch in between.
They provide perfect protection for defensive warfare
There is no place where you get any high ground
TO get a general view of the action.
You Just keep driving until they stop you and
then go by foot.
Driving I'D around there, our little almost
bown off the road by the impact of firing oUer
our heads from batteries located Just of the road
Though it scared the dayEghts out of we stopped
and went to talk to the boys.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-26
Attack Gets an Early Start

That night slept advanced command post in an old
chateau.
doomed occasionally during the night but they really
o'clock in the morning. Our infantry went
forward a ) o'clock
The attack only lasted about hour, little
later farther tothe battalion command post
and rUolked the road lined side Dth CTS
forhoIes q company command post at a Uery for
Da,d field.
field who had just from the front line
They tired and
We did TO weary them further with lot Of ques
obtained few interviews made few sketches, and
left.
Then the fact that there snpers working the
nearabous and German SIS dropping nearby have
had something do with reaching promptly this
sderafp derlslnn.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-26
Jury Fails TO Agree
In Shop smuggling

Seven members Of Local 400.
UAW-C1O charged with beating
an assistant superintendent OF the
Chrysler plant during q recent
strike. will face a second trial on
Aug Is following failure Of a
jury 10 reach verdict yesterday.
They are charged with man.
handling Jesse 4. Johnson.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-26

cislon of the Germans TO flee
northward last night prevented
San Ubaldo from becoming sec
ond Monte Casino"
Thus. Gubbio's residents we're
joyful over the liberation Of their
city despite that 80 men and two
women rest in freshly-dug graves
after facing German firing squads
for alleged patriot activities.
Most relieved Of all was Fir.
Peter BaptiSte Michele, director
of the abbey. who got food
through the battle lines for the
hostages. which included 20 chill
dren. and tried to persuade the
Nazis 10 abandon the abbey as an
observation post, and remove
nearby mortar positions.
The man who guided the hos
tages from Cubbio to this beauti-
full abbey. 1000 yards above the
city. is another Itsiisn who Is re-
joicing at the departure OF the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-26
Robot Bases
Frenchmsn Reports IS
Near Cherbourq

LONDON. July 26 tINS)-The
London Evening News quoted the
mayor of a French town as say
ing that the Germans had built
IS robot emplacements in the
Cherbourg peninsula. including
nome from which they hoped TO
launch long-range missiles against
the East Coast Of the United
States
According 10 the mayor. the
Germans ended work on the robot
sites two weeks before the first
Allied landings in Normandy.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-26
9Th Gains
i'm Italy

ROME. July rs QNS)-Allied
troops gained along 30-mile
front south of Florence today,
particularly west of the Poggi-
bonsl-Florence road, where ad-
vanced elements are approaching
San Casciano, IL miles southwest
of Florence.
Gains of as much as three miles
were scored west of the Arezzo-
Pontassieve road. Local gains
were chalked up in the upper
Tiber River valley and also in the
area south of San Sepolcro.
FEAR REVENGE FOR ROBOTS
A German prisoner, explaining
the stubborn resistance 10 the
Eighth Army's advance on the left
flank, said German soldiers were
told the British we're SO furious at
the effect of flying bombs on
England they would shoot any
captured German.
Positions of Polish troops Of the
Eighth Army in the Adriatic
sector are unchanged.
RESISTANCE STIFFENS
American Fifth Army troops
are encountering stubborn re-
sistance in the Pisa area, where
heavy exchanges of artillery and
considerable patrol activity have
taken place.
Sixty-five enemy planes were
estroyed in yesterdays air
operations, during which planes
of the Mediterranean Allied air
force flew approximately LOO
sorties, and struck a hard blow
at the Hermann Goering tank
works at Linz, Austria. Twenty
six Allied planes failed TO return.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-26
Suit for Lost Sight
Heard by u. 5. Judge

Trial OF a 100000 suit against
F.. |. du Pont de Nemours & Co.
filed by Elmer d. Kapp, -. Of
l7201 Goldner. continued today
before Federal Judge Arthur
Lederle.
The company allegedly manu-
featured ammonia which exploded
three years ago in the blueprint
department of the Detroit Steel
Products Co. where Kapp was
employed. and blinded him.