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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-12
LEADING FIGHTER
PILOT DECORATED
Piqua, Ohio Ace Is Award
ed DISC By Invasion
Chief, Eisenhower

AU. S. FIGHTER BASE, ENG
LAND, April 11.-(R-Capt. Don S.
Gentle, Americas leading fighter
pilot and "one-man airforce." was
rewarded for his deeds today by
the Supreme Allied Commander
for the western front invasion.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who
called the handsome, 23-year-old
Piqua, O., youth "one-man air
force" decorated Gentle with the
DISTINGUISHED Service Cross-sec-
ond highest American medal-and
said his citation read like one of
the great deeds of heroism in this
war.
The Mustang pilot, top Ameri-
can ace with 80 planes shot down,
including seven destroyed on the
ground, was cited for "extraordi-
nary courage" in shooting down
three Focke Wulf 1905 April 8, al
though he was outnumbeced by
more than three to one and his
supply of gasoline and ammuni-
ton were running critically low.
IT feel very proud" Gentle
said simply, after the ceremony.
The background of his impress
sive record is story of adven-
tu-e in the true American tract
tion-a tale of an American youth
who loved flying and learned it in
his own plane, although his moth
er once boxed his ears to try to
him.
Gentle joined the Royal Cana
dian Air Force, later transferred
to the American air Force upon
the United States entry into the
conflict, and went on from there
CONTINUED on Page Five; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-12

WASHINGTON, April 11.-R-
The War Production Board (WPB)
has placed limitations on civilian
production in 1873 areas of strin-
gent labor shortage, it was learned
tonight.
The action in effect freezes" CT
villain production at the level of
the last three months, so far as
grants of material or priority aid
are concerned, in order to prevent
civilian goods manufacture from
draining manpower from munitions
plants.
The decision was expected to re-
suit shortly in a reducing produc-
ton of electric irons in 1914 from
100000 irons to 100000 through
the cancellation of contracts in
cities designated by the War Man
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-12
POSTWAR WORK
MEET HELD HERE
Task Requires Cooperation
From All Sides, Off
Gals Are Told

Zone of the most important prob
lens of the present and particu-
larly of the future, is the re-em-
ployment of war veterans said
Colonel Upton at a meeting of the
Selective Service board members
and unemployment committee men
at the Chamber of Commerce last
night. THE task of reintegrating
veterans into civilian life and CO.
ordinating a program to do this,
requires the cooperation of all re-
preventative local agencies who
most work hand in hand with the
unemployment committee men,"
The plan discussed last evening
was a decentralized one beginning
at the local level. The U. S. EN-
ployment Service, for example, will
be responsible for veterans desir-
ing new jobs and for those who
have never held a job or who need
vocational rehabilitation. 1t is estl-
mated that IS per cent of the hon
orably discharged veterans will fall
in this group. A comprehensive
program has been set up to inter-
view veterans to determine their
capabilities.
The Marine Corps, which has had
more battle casualties than any
other service in this state has
detailed system of investigating
veterans background and military
experience before he leaves the
hospital, Captain Ernest Page ex-
planned. Whenever possible, the
Marine Corps urges young men to
seek further schooling. Effort is
also made to find the suitable agen-
cy to take care of a particular
veterans problem. Captain rage
urged that the committee men
treat the veterans as individuals
(Continued on Page Three; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-12
126 German Planes Destroyed
At Cost Of 80 American Planes;
: Nazi Defenses In Crinea F all
On Pearl
.HarbOr Possible

HONOLULU, April H. Up -
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz and 1t.
Gen. Robert C. Richardson, top.
ranking military commanders in
the mid-Pacific, testified in Fed
eral court today that Japanese at,
tacks on Oahu island are highly
possible and are a "constantly i'm
pending" threat.
Their testimony was given in the
Lloyd C. Duncan habeas corpus
proceedings, considered test Of
the validity of martial law in the
territory.
Richardson directly declared his
conviction that the present form
of modified law, enforced by pro-
vost courts, must be continued to
protect the security and operations
of the Pacific fleet and army troops
in the Pacific war theater.
Nimitz was not asked directly
to state his view On the necessity
OF martial law but declared:
Anything injurious to this area
(HaWaiian islands) would be preju-
dicial to our conduct of the war"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-12
10 ARE INJURED
IN AUTO WRECK

The conditions of the ten per-
sons injured yesterday morning
on U. S, Highway "a and rs, 10
miles from Wilmington and approx
lmately mile and a half west
Of Leland, when a bus transporting
Bladenboro shipyard workers, en-
route to the city and travelling
through fog, struck a beer-laden
truck parked on the side of the
highway, are improved, local hos
pital authorities disclosed late last
night.
], c. Pate's condition was stated
as fair" by hospital authorities,
and that Of the other persons in
lured, Albert Layton Hester, Will
liam Burden, Alex Turner, Carry
Jones and James Burden, Negroes,
as Satisfactory"
l. 7. Foster of Monroe, driver
q the beer truck, the property of
6ennett Transportation company,
Monroe, was arrested by S t t e
highway Patrolman c. J. Fergu-
son on a charge of parking on the
~gAWay, resulting in a wreck in
'olVlng serious injuries and dam
'Se 10 property. He was turned
cef to Brunswick county authori-
,Fs' It is understood his bond was
-4ed at $500, pending the prelimi-
'afy court hearing.
Dix of the injured are patients
a James Walker Memorial hos
gNa' -Four men were treated at
leased.
:, According to Foster, the rear
nsnlS On the beer truck suddenly
went out. He stopped the vehicle
s anu look out a flashlight to inves-
u3ate the trouble.
me Shlpyard bus, owned by A.
a. wnlte Of Bladenboro and driven
49, !. yohh Winford Cheshire, of Bla-
~ -'oIo approached through the
''S' According to Cheshire he did
.COnnnued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-12
'Freeze'Put On Civilian Output

inch howitzers, eight-inch guns,
and 1856 nm. guns. The order will
run concurrently with the special
directive covering the landing YES
sci program, which repeatedly is
behind schedule on two or three
of the IA types of invasion craft.
The labor shortage, which is the
limiting factor on almost all lag
ging munitions programs, prompt
ed the civilian goods policy laid
down by L. R. Boulware, opera
tions vice chairman of WPB, in
recent memorandum to bureau
and division chiefs.
The officials were told TO hold
production of civilian goods, in the
affected cities, at the actual rate
Continued on Page Five; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-12
|WLBEStablishes
Shipyard Wages

WASHINGTON, April H. R-
Inc War Labor Board shipbuild.
ing commission established today
pattern for wage adjustments
IN East Coast shipyards which is
expected to increase payrolls by
SIS, 100000 a year.
Three orders of the commission
apply directly to the New York
Shlpbuilding Corporation, Camden.
N. j.; Maryland Dry Dock Com
pany, Baltimore, and Federal
Shipbuilding and Drydock Com
pany, Kearny, N. ]. Eventually it
is expected the revised wage sche-
oule will be applied to about 60
yards employing 100000 workers
from Georgia to Maine.
The commission previously had
oenled general increase, as none
is permissible under the little steel
formula. The adjustments it was
announced, are to correct intra
plant inequalities and stabilize the
structure.
Not more than 80 percent of
the workers will receive increases.
and for these the average increase
Will be 4 to 5 cents an hour.
Industry members of the COM
mission dissented, asserting that
the adjustments were ell conceal
ed wage increases which "vio-
lated both the letter and the spir-
1t" of sterilization and also that
the entire approach to this prob
lem has been opportunistic, theo-
retlcal, and completely unsound."
The $15,oOO,ooO figure on increas-
ed wage costs is based on esti-
mates of government procurement
agencies.
The decision retains the stand
ard first class mechanic rate at
S1.2O an hour but in a few in
Continued on Page Five; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-12
County Board
Leases Tract
1oLaborCanlp
ACTION IS UNANIMOUS
ryDansion OF Present
Housing Facilities
Is Planned
MANS for increasing the facil

MANS for increasing the facili-
=, At the Federal labor camp or
Cost1e Hayne road were given add
" impetus Tuesday by action oil
HE county commission.
vo+ing unanimously, the commits.
,;on granted the U. S. government
lease on a section of land, 600
-. 8OO feet on the Rock Quarry
y which will be used to ex-
rsnd the present housing capacity
m the project.
In granting the lease, commits
,ion members pointed out that the
.4ructures erected will be of tenn
norarv nature, and therefore, it
will not be necessary to fell trees
m further clear the land. No
csa-ge will be made to the Fed
eral government for use of the
contys property. The lease will
run from April l, 1914 to Deem
Der 81, 1914
The commission voted to allow
H. G. Carney, county election Of
fetal. an additional clerical work.
pr 10 assist in his office in con-
Dec,ion with the May primary cleo
tons,
Beer licenses were granted to E.
D Shaw, Carolina Beach road, and
Ernest w. Stacy, Route 2, the lat
Ter subject to approval by Sheriff
C. David Jones.
Approval for the purchase of 10
cubic yards of cement for rein
forcing portions of the railroad
trestle on the ACL route over
Burnt Mil creek was also grant
ed. This work is being done in
conjunction with the malaria con-
troll program, it was reported.
Severa commissioners ex-
pressed satisfaction with the scope
and increase of work being done
among county negroes by the
home demonstration department.
j. A. Orrell, county auditor SUBJ
mittsd the following report of the
Continued on Page Seven; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-12
GA BOMBERS LOST
Attack Called Most Savage
Aerial Battle For Yanks ,
Since Berlin

LONDON, Wednesday, April II.
-(P-U. S. air forces ripped an
other jagged hole in Germany's
aircraft industry and destroyed l26
Nazi planes in the air yesterday at
a cost of 81 bombers and is es-
corting fighters in the most savage
aerial battle Americans have
fought since their blow at Berlin
March 6.
The great daylight attack, direct
ed at the plane factories in Osch-
ersleben and Bernburg and at in
dustrial targets in Rostock and in
Arnimswalde, just east Of Stettin,
was an estimated 1000 bombers
and fighters.
At dusk a huge armada of Raj
bombers scared west toward the
continent in a continuation of the
air offensive which had been going
nonstop for the last u hours.
Observers of the east coast de-
scribed the force as the biggest
sent over that area in the last
three weeks.
Besides the 1876 Nazi planes
knocked out of the air in the day.
light operation, American fighters
who strafed enemy airfields on
their way home destroyed at least
So planes on the ground, accord
ing to compilations of their re-
ports. This brought the total of
German planes destroyed to 1874.
The Germans sent up hundreds
of interceptors, both single and
twin-engined fighters, in a des-
perate effort to ward off the blow.
Besides machine-gun and rocket
fire, the Americans were harassed
by a new "tank-busting" cannon.
AS result the loss of "a bonn
bers was the second heaviest ever
suffered by the Eighth Air Force
-four under the 68 knocked down
during the first mass daylight as
sault on Berlin-and the total OF
80 planes missing was one more
than the total of 70 bombers and
fighters the Americans lost there.
Nine of the American bombers
in Yesterdays raid, however, were
known to have made forced land
ines in Sweden as the bitter aerial
brawl spread back and forth across
the Baltic Sea.
Of the German planes shot down.
"a were victims of sharp-shootlns
gunners aboard the Fortresses and
I,iberators and 81 fell to the escort
of Thunderbolts, Mustangs ana
Lightnings of the Eighth and Ninth
Continued on Page Three; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-12
Coal Mining Now Essential Job

Tennessee, eastern Kentucky, and
southern Wyoming. Directors were
instructed to release younger min
ers for induction after May l.
Hershey decided on deferments
for some miners and also for a
handful of pre-professional stu
dents on recommendation of Man.
power Chairman Paul V. McNutt
although an inter-agency govern
ment committee had not included
either group in its proposed list
of critical occupations.
The basis of the list is the group
of war-vital msnufa curing Indus
tries, such as radar, landing craft,
certain airplanes, ETC., which 1t
CONTINUED on Page Sc. en-; Col. %
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-12

s. IIsAsSoIfINGToN, April 11.-tR-
n;a .Sl'IVe Service announced to-
m eu. II has approved draft defer
iro oi,. lof coal miners aged 1925,
er [-oS-Ve' with three years expert
ivy IN SIX states and parts of
t,o ooal mining had been omitted
j,sn .n list Of critical occupations.
d, osu earlier, in which state draft
dr. tt'ofs We're authorized to grant
ds p'' u aeferment for key men I'M
's5ective Service Director Lewis
tb.+ hershey instructed, however,
in q "e1erments for coal miners
be- we an Fps age brackets should
sttar w not longer than 80 days
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-12

"Prior to August l." he wired
state directors, 1.-The coal mining
activity will be reviewed with the
Solid Fuels Administrator and fur
ther activity will be based upon
the results of that review"
Secretary of Interior 1ckes, as
Solid Fuels Administrator, had
sought deferment for at least the
miners aged 1925. He estimated
that even with deferment for these
about 5000 younger miners would
be drafted and a. prospective coal
shortage next winter would be in
creased.
The deferments in the 22-25
bracket were approved for miners
In Pennsylvania, West Virginia,
Virginia, Alabama, Washington,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-12
JAPS THREATEN
INDIA HIGHWAY
By The Associated Press

Another threat to Allied supply
lines in eastern India developed
Tuesday as Japanese snipers fill
tered through to a vital highway,
but in the central Pacific theater
of action the Nipponese found their
holdings in the Marshalls shrink
ing with the American flag going
up over one additional island and
four atolls.
In Burma Allied forces were adj
vancing on two fronts and ham,
mering away at Japanese supply
lines on another.
Pushing through the jungles
north of Kohima, Allied Indian
base, Japanese snipers reached the
highway leading to Dimapur. on
the Bengal-Assam railway, New
Delhi communique said Tuesday.
The invaders bypassed Kohima
after their initial smash there was
repulsed with sharp losses. The
snipers were less than IS miles
from the rail supply line OF Amer
lean Chinese forces in north Bur-
ma.
If the Japanese cut the high
way, the British garrison at Kohl
ma would be isolated except by
aerial transport. Imphal, so miles
southwark, previously was cut off.
A Pacific fleet headquarters an
nouncement said United States
sovereignty was reestablished over
four additional Marshall atolls and
Mejit island, all less than 145-nau-
teal miles north by west of Japa-
nese-held Wolfe.
American airmen continued their
attacks on the Marshalls Easter
Sunday. They dropped SIS tos OF
bombs on four japanese positions.
A U. S. Navy search plane reg
istered the first reported raid or
Continued on Page Seven: Col. Al
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-12
RAIN AND STORMS
CAUSE 46 DEATHS
Bv The Associated Press

The death toll of storms rose to
46 last night as weather disturb
ances swept over wide areas of the
South, Central and Rocky Noun
tain states.
More than $50 persons were in
jured.
Arkansas was the hardest hit,
counting "a dead due to scattered
tornadoes.
Six persons were killed in Fort
Wayne, Ind, by wall which fell
before a high wind and trapped
employees of a bank.
One person was killed by wind
storms in Alabama, Oklahoma,
Texas, Kentucky, &c or g and
Tennessee. Other tocnadoes, caus-
ing considerable property damage.
hit Kansas.
Thirty two persons trapped on
Berthoud Pass in Colorado since
Sunday night by snow which block
ed highways were provided high
way to safety by rescue crews
late yesterday.
Ration Pass, between Colorado
and New Mexico, was closed by 81
inches of snow.
At Sterling, Ill, a 341-foot high
state police radio tower collapsed
in the wind, measured on the
ground at the airport as q miles
per hour. Several other Illinois
communities reported high winds
damaging, power and communica-
ton lines and buildings.
Rain and snow in Nebraska cut
deeply into voting in that states
primary election Tuesday, and
added to the spring flood moving
down the Missouri River toward
Continued on Page Three; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-12
BY d. HAROLD OLIVER
Associated Press Staff Writer

Gov. Thomas E. Dewey again
displayed popular strength in the
Midwest in yesterdays Nebraska
Republican presidential preference
primary, with first returns from
eight scattered precincts giving
him a written vote lead of SOB
against 254 for Lieut.. Commander
Harold E. Stassen, whose name
was on the ballot.
Dewey, who got Nebraska's del
egation four years ago when he
was an avowed candidate, was not
on the ballot yesterday. Last week
in Wisconsin he captured most of
the delegates and prompted Wen
dell L. Willkie to withdraw from
the Presidential nomination race.
Wilkes name remained on Ne
braska's ballot and in the same
eight precincts received 125 votes.
In Illinois, Gen. Douglas MacAr-
thur maintained a healthy lead in
early returns from the Republican
presidential preference primary,
and kept pace in the popular count
with COP candidates for state Of
flee.
Returns from 1872 of the states
0,729 precincts gave Macarthur
68,645; Riley Bender, 1881. These
were state nomination leaders:
For governor: 1857 precincts;
Gov. Dwight H. Green 146, 903; o.
car E. Carlstrom 20,834.
For senator: 1852 precincts:
Richard ]. Lyons 54,569; Deneen
Watson 7,730.
Meanwhile Gov. Dewey n
President Roosevelt spurted ahead
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-12
Meatless Outlet Wins
Caterers First Prize
For War; Recipe

NEWARK, N. j., April 11|R-
To Miss Ruth Van Dyk of Pater-
son goes first prize for a war
time recipe-she evolved a meat
less outlet which cost only three
cents serving and which judges
at a stewards and caterers as
sociation contest last night said
was the best entry.
Into her outlet went whole wheat
cerael, celery, corn kernels, car.
rots, green peppers and eggs, but
nary ration point.
For it Miss Van Dyk received
, coz war bond
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-12

plans for the coming assault on
the continental European fortress,
the supreme commander for the
western front invasion told the
fighter pilots packed in briefing
room at this station that he would
drive them SO hard they would not
have proper sleep of food for
weeks but they would knock the
Nazi air force from the sgy.
Gen.. Eisenhower, accompanied
by 1t. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, COM
mander of the U. S. strategic Air
Forces; Maj. Gen. Lewis H. Bre-
neton, commander of US. Ninth
Air Force, and 1t. Gen. James H.
Doolittle, commander of the U.
S. Eighth Air Force, toured the
fighter-bomber station and told the
f.iers they we're dong their part
in the great triad of sea, land and
air blows which finally would
crush the Germans and crush them
properly. The supreme command
er added that at the moment it
was entirely an air show.
The land army, he said, can
not do aiming until the airmen
knock out the German air force.
Eisenhower said he had a feel
ing of great privilege and almost
humility in visiting such a group
of fighting men.
The leader of the Allied forces
spent busy day by inspecting
three U. S. air bases and pre-
senting Distinguished Service
Continued on Page Seven; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-12
Military Authorities
Continue To Question
Camacho's Assailant

MEXICO CITY, April 11-R-
Physicians worked today to save
the life of a Mexican Army Lieu
tenant who was gravely wounded
in a vain dash for freedom yester-
day after attempting to assassl-
nate President Gen. Manuel Avlla
Camacho. Military authorities con-
tinued to qestion him.
The assailant, identified as L.
Jose Antonio de Lama Rojas, 81
was attended by DR.. Gustavo Baz,
Secretary of Public Health IN
President Avila Camacho's Cabl-
net and military physicians.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-12
Dewey Tops
Voters
Of Nebraslss.
STASSEN IS BE
M'Arthur Is 7 = So
nois; N. Y. g (
Not O.. s. =

OMAHA, April IL 1T.
Comm. Harold Stassen took a
good lead in the Nebraska Re-
public preferential with 1881
votes in Is of 2031 precincts,
compared to 247 for Wendell
Willkie, on the ballot with him,
and 1884 written votes for
Gov. Dewey. In the Demo-
cratic preference, President
Roosevelt, unopposed, had 735
votes in AZ precincts.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-12
Observation-Disclosures
Near. Ike Tells Fliers

A u S. FIGHTER MAsE, Angland April 11-(P--
American fighter pilots told today by Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower that their role in the great three way invasion
of Europe will be flying dawn-todusk death express
against the German air Disclosing details OF his
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-12
3-SIDED RED ATTACK
Independent Soviet Army
Goes Into Action, Cap
turing Kerch

MOSCOW, Wednesday, April IL.
-tRHGerman defenses in the Cri-
mea rumbled yesterday under a
three sided Red Army assault
which found the Russians return
ing to the historic soil from which
they were driven July, 1912, when
Sevastopol finally fell.
An independent coastal army I'M
der Gen. Andrei I. Yeremenko,
who will 60 down in history as
one Of the Stalingrad stalwarts,
went into action for the first time
and captured Kerch on the East
ezn end of the peninsula, a COM
munique said.
Yeremenko' troops had cross
ed the Kerch strait from the Cau-
casus to take Kerch, and then
swept on 10 miles and through
40 villages to pass the ancient
Turkish wall Notifications where
the Germans had been dug in
Slice WAY, 1S4A.
On the northern side of the Pen
insula Gen. Feodo1, 1. Tolbukhin' S
Fourth Ukrainian Army cleared
the Chongar peninsula leading
through the Sivash Sea from the
mainland, seized Dzhankoi, the
most important communications
center in the northern Crimea, and
so other localities.
With the Red army pouring to-
ward the centre of the Crimea
along a network of modern high.
ways, the German positions ap.
peared to be untenable for any
thing more than a delyaing action.
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NEW AMPHIBIOUS ARMY

LONDON, Wednesday, April IL.
-(R-A new amphibious Red ar
my under the Stalingrad hero,
Gen. A. I. Yeremenko, joined the
assault on 100000 isolated German
Continued on Page Three; Col. g.
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FORECAST

NORTH CAROLINA: Mostly Cloudy
Wednesday with showers in east portion
during forenoon. Cooler in west and cen-
trail portions in afternoon,
Temperature yesterday:
High: 79-Low: 80.
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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-02
THE Willow RUN News
Spencer School Seeking to
Keep Character, Traditions

Spencer School, enveloped in the
federal housing area east OF Ypsi.
lanti, today was engaged in a
struggle to maintain it's character
and the traditions established be.
fore the Ford Bomber Plant was
erected
Parents OF children IN the school
and residents OF the district have
been highly pleased with the man.
ner in which the school has been
operated and are objecting to plans
for blending 1t with the three gov.
eminent schools built last sum.
mer and put into operation in the
fall. Projected staff changes, by
which teachers in Spencer may be
shifted to other schools and teach
ers from the federal schools placed
In Spencer are bringing objections.
Crux OF the situation seems to be
centering on the Spencer School