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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-14
Our Chief Aim
Russians Near East Prussia

There are definite signs OF breakup OF
German resistance at the northern reaches OF
the Eastern front. The enemy has been in
retreat wherever attacked in Russia Tor
long time but this is something different. 1t
gives hint of collapse.
Thus we find the Nazi command advising
women and children in East Prussia to keep
prepared" for evacuation to southwestern Ger
many and all youths in Warthegu, Danzig and
East Prussia modified to bring in the harvest
as quickly as they can.
London quotes German military spokesman
as saying that as long as Hitler's forces are
on the defensive they cannot launch a major
counter-offensive in the area and the only
alternative is to adapt 1.-The entire front to new
Ines This Alternative, he is said to have
announced, is tle plan to be adopted
In normal circumstances, with G e m
forces at strength they had when Hitler first
crossed the Russian frontier, this would sug-
gest a new and mighty blow was in prepara-
ton But, the situation being what it is, and
the Germans frequent resort to subtifuge to
cover up defeats it can now be accepted as
indication that their power to resist as well as
the spirit to fight on the Eastern front is
rapidly ebbing.
Confirmation of this view is to be found
in the fact that moving as steadily as rising
tide, the Russian armies, in a two-pronged
offensive have advanced to within twenty
two miles of the Latvian frontier and thirty
miles OF East Prussia. If they maintain their
present pace they probably will be in East
Prussia within a week.
In light of German indispostion to fight
on home soil it is not inconceivable that once
the Russians begin to overflow the Reich,
the Prussian generals will refuse to 60 on
fighting. They have no stomach for combat
among their own vast estates. There is no
doubt they would prefer to surrender to Anglo
Americans, but rather than have the father
land shredded by Red shells they are likely
to lay their arms at Stalin's feet.
In this country tae especial significance of
this is the possibility that the war in Europe
might be ended before the November election.
In that case the prime excuse for fourth
term would disappear.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-14
Nv ERNIE PYLE

IN NORMANDY-(By wireless)
This war in Normandy Is war
from hedgerow to hedgerow, and
when we get into a town or city
it is a war from street to street.
The other day l went along
quite accidentally, I assure you
with an infantry company that had
been assigned to clean out pock-
ct in the suburbs OF a city.
Since this episode was typical OF
the way an infantry company adj
vances into a city held by the enc
my, I would like to try to give
you a picture of it. I can't do it
in just one column, so you'll have
to read this in installments COW
ering several days. hope your
patience holds out.
AS l say, l hadn't intended to
do it. l started out in tae normal
fashion that afternoon to 60 up to
a battalion command post and just
look around. I was travelling with
Correspondent Charles Werteflbak-
err and Photographer Bob Capa,
both of Time and Life magazines.
Well, when we got to the G. P.
we were practically at the front
lines. The post was in church
that stood on a narrow street. In
the courtyard across the street M.
P.'s were frisking freshly taken
prisoners.
1 mingled among the prisoners
awhile. They were still holding
their hands high in the air, and
you're pretty close to the front
when prisoners do that. They were
obviously frightened and eager to
please their captors. A soldier
standing beside me asked one Ger
man kid about the insignia on his
cap, so the kid gave the insignia
to him.
The prisoners had rank odor
about them, like silage. Some OF
them were Russians, and two Of
these had their wives with them
They had been living together right
at the front. The women thought
we were going to shoot their hus'
bands and they were frantic.
That's one way the Germans
keep these conscripted Russians
fighting-they have thoroughly sold
them on the belief that we will
shoot them as soon as they are
captured.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-14
Mystery Solved

The mystery of the Vatican bombing last
pondent at Vatican City says he has it from
an authoritative source that republican fascsts
were behind this "ps rticular nasty piece of
work.
He says his informant told MIN the bombs
used were of British make, the plane was
German and the pilot an italian aristocrat
who was close friend of Roberto Farinacci
Mussolini's former spokesman.
THE Germans, was told, were furious
but could not themselves say anything publicly
for they had to join in tne cry that the Allies
adds.
The Vatican,' he continues, was in a
delicate position at the time, fo1 it was during
the period of German occupation of Rome,
and the Fascists were going strong The Holy
See always avoids unseemly controversies, and
one vita Farinacci who is the arch anti.
clerical of Italy, would have been especially
distressing.
perhaps that explains the continued silence
of the Vatican on the subject, for Fairinacc
Is still power in the north
There are so many names on the Allied
list of war culprits it may be difficult to gel
around to all of them when the day of re-
tribution comes, but we may be certain thai
this man Farinacci will not be overlooked
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-14

Below US there were big fires
in the city, and piles Of black
smoke. Explosions were going on
all around US. Our own big shells
would rustic over our heads and
explode on beyond with crash.
spray over our heads and h t
somewhere in the town behind us.
Single rifle shots and machine-pis-
toll blurps were constant. The
whole thing made you feel tense
and jumpy. The nearest Germans
were only 200 yards away.
we were just hanging around abb
sorbing all this stuff when young
lieutenant, in a trench coat and
wearing sun glasses--altaough the
day was miserably dark and chill
game up and said:
"Our company is starting in a
few minutes to go up this road and
clean out strong point. It's about
half a mile from here. There are
probably snipers in some OF the
houses along the way. Do you want
to 70 along with u.s."
I certainly didn't. Going into bat
tie with an infantry company is
not the way to live to a ripe old
age. But when you are invited
what can you do?
So I said, Sure" And so did
Wertenbaker and Capa. Vert new
er seems nervous, and Capa is
notorious for his daring. Fine com.
oany for me to be keeping.
we started walking. Soldiers OF
the company were already strung
out on bota sides Of the road
ahead Of us, just lying and wait
ing till their officers came along
and said 60.
We walked until we we're at the
head of the column. As we walked
the young officer introduced him
self. He was Lieut.. Orion Shock,
lev, of Jefferson City, Mo. asked
him how he got the odd name
Orion. He said he was named aft
er Mark Twain's brother.
Shockley was executive officer O.
the company. The company com
mander was Lieut.. Lawrence NC
Laughlin, from Boston. One OF thu
company officers was a replace
ment who had arrived just three
hours previously and had nevel
been in battle before. noticed
that he ducked sometimes at oul
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-14
With Ernie Pyle

own shells, but he was trying his
best to seem calm.
The soldiers around us had a
two weeks growth of beard. Their
clothes were worn slick and very
dirty. They still wore the uncom-
Portable gas impregnated clothes
they had come ashore in.
The boys were tired. They had
been fighting and moving constant
ly forward on foot for nearly three
weeks without rest - sleeping out
on the ground, wet most of the
time, always tense, eating col d
rations, seeing their friends die.
One of them came up to me and
said, almost belligerently:
"Why don't you tell the folks
back home what this is like? All
that they hear about is victories
and lot of glory stuff. They don
know that for every hundred yards
we advance somebody gets killed.
Why don't you tell them how tough
this life ISL"
I told him that was what l tried
to do all the time. This fellow was
pretty fed up with it all. He said
he didn't see why his outfit wasn't
sent home. that they had done all
tae fighting.
That wasn't true at all, for we
have other divisions that h c
fought more and taken heavier
casualties than this one. Exhaus-
ton will make a man feel like
that. A few days rest usually has
him smiling again.
AS we waited to start our adj
vance, the low black skies Of Nor
mandy let loose on us and we
gradually became hopelessly soak
ed to tne skin.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-14
rs Years Aeo
Today
FROM THE FILES
OF THE STAR-NEWS
JULY IA, 1919

JULY IA, 1919
We're I still occupying the ot.;.
of county solicitor I would ns J.''c.
INV business to know why ths w. u
mington merchants charge r nl'
more for their commodities 4 Nv
citizens elsewhere paw ndn
George Peschau. in discns, q
foodstuff prices mere YESTERDAYS
Miss Valera Gregg after No..
plotting a course in summer sboa VIII,
near Asheville, will spend tba ,'s 70
mainder of the summer w .e'
friends in western North Carol;a.a
PARIS, - The triumphsI n...,
ct Allied and American troa "a
through Paris began this mor OGpS
at 8 o'clock. More than a thons ,'ls
wounded soldiers in civilian clot tl0
lea the parade preceded bv Gr,,E'
corps. Guns began firing at in, al'
walls as President Poincare pla sII.t
a wreath at the Arc de Trjomn Ssa
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-14
Crash of elders
Fatal To Office,

MAxTON, July 13- Up -FHys,
Officer Charles H. Davis, % q,
Southboro, Mass, was fatally in.
jured at the Laurinburg- MAXIM,
army air base when his glider and
another collided in the air yester
day.
Davis suffered a skull fractpr.
and died at the base hospital. H.
was stationed here and had been
in the service two years and five
days. His mother is Mrs. Era Bell
Davis of Southboro.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-25
Bureouopens In Brussels

Brussels, Sept 26,-(UP)-The United Press Bureau in Brussels was open again today after being closed almost four years.
 United Press Correspondent John A. Paris, who flew to Brussels with the returning Belgian government, reopened the bureau. Lucca Riz- zardi was reappointed manager. He served in that capacity until the German occupation forces suspend cd his filing privileges because he refused to send NaEi.dictate6 stories blaming the starvation of Belgians on the British blockade.
 The offlce of United Press had bee fore the war in the Le soir build- ing had become a bare room. The equipment was taken by the Ger. mans when they closed the bureau,
 Before the war the United Press served Le soir. La Libre Belgique, and half dozen other Brussels newspapers, as well as others ct Antwerp and Liege.
 Rizzardi had lived on Tneager ra- tons and without work during the four years of German occupation. He is regarded as one of the best fine formed Tlewspapermen in Belgium. and is well acquainted with high Belgian authorities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-25
More Honors For US Regiment {

With Fourth Infantry Division in tho Hchnee Eifol, Sept 24,-(UP)- The .. 6. Fourth Tntantgy Division, first American army outfit to crack the HindenbEFg line at Mouse Ars gonne iEs the last war and first to enter Paris in this enc, also was first to penetrate Germany through the eiegsFied line in force, it was disclosed today.
 It, C.. M. shugaFt Of Sioux City, Sa., was the first United states iFs fantry officer to lead . patFoI iSis to Nazi Germany, and three days ;ateF, the door 10 Germany was opened when Col. Charles q. Laii' ham, . West Pointer from Washs ington, D. C., ied his 22nd Infantry regiment in Q gallant, daring charge through lines which had beeii cofi' sldeTed iFnpFegnabie,
 fn eaugaFtS patrol was Pfc James c. Carney Of Taunton, Mass.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-25
PHILIPPINE LOSSES STYM|E JAP LEADERS
BY FRANK TREMAINE United Press War COrrespondent)


 Pearl Harbor, September 25. - (UP) - Admiral Wil- liam F. Halsey's Third Fleet, smashing 10S ships and 406 planes in a two-day assault on the Manila area, was re- vealed today to have knocked out Japan's air power in the Philippines and wrecked the eneny's inter-island com munications.
 The heavy assault, on Wednes- day and Thursday, brought the Japanese face to face with the problem of whether to throw their home fleet and air force Into battle to repeal an American invasion of the islands, which Tokyo insisted was imminent.
 The situation of the Japanese in the Philippines was emphasized ny Admiral chester W. NimitS's offi- clal report of the results of Halsey'S powerful attacks,
 "The operations of the third fleet have forced the enemy to withdraw his naval forces from their former anehorageS in the Philippines and to see new refuges in the same general area, have disrputed inter- Island communications, and have broken his airforee In the Philip' pines," he said.
 Attempt
 Although NimitS' eommunlque on tho Manila attack did not specify the number Of cotnhattant ships among those wrecked, it was be- lieVed they largely were cargo yes. aels and tranSpoFts, indicating the Japanese were making on attempt to reinforce their large garrison on LuEon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-25
Three Towns By Finn FOODS
By JACK FLEIsCHER

United Press Stan C0FrespOndent)
 Stockholm. Sept. 2b - (U.P) - A Helsinki communique said today that Finnish troops had occupied HRukipudas and Paulanska in the drive to expel or diSarm German forces in northern Finland.
 '"rhe advance continues," tho communique said.
 Earlier advlees said the Tinns had occupied SuoTnussalfni, strategic town In the Sovi0t-F -Finnish area, A Helsinki statement said there were no reports of clashes with the NaEis,
 'The advance was being slowed by German destruction of bridges and roads, the Helsinki statement said. Other reports reaching here asserted the NaSis were burning villages and farm houses and seising Finnish officials.
 Finnish civilians in German occu- pied areas were reported embittered over the Germans for the eonflSea. ton of foodstuffS, locomotives and rolling stock.
 A BEG broadcast said the sheriff and other local officers in the Kuu. samo district, were seized and taken to Rovaniemi, capital of Finnish Lapland, above the northern end of the Gulf of Bothnia.)
 Finish reports estimated that about 100000 civilians had been evacuated from northern Finland, of which i7,000 entered Sweden with hundreds of others following.
 In occupying suomuSsalni, the Films took the eastern anchor of the nah railline from Ouiu on the eastern bank of the Dothnian Cuff. The railroad Is the dermans outer. most line across central Finland, There were no reports of whether the Films were attacking other points west of suomusSalmi.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-25
British Drive In Germany

With the British 2nd Army in Germany, September a. - (UP) -. British armored spearheads, sup. ported by American paratroops, fought their way onto German soil for the first time today after over. running strong Nazi Elite Guards defending the frontier east of Nij. megen.
 The crossing was made in the Beck area against heavy opposition from Nazs SS shock troops, espe. cially picked to keep the frontier intact. British tanks and Ameri- can sky soldiers battled the Ger man border guards for two days and nights before they were able tc break through into the Reich.
 Massed fire from German 8es l06s, 20min guns and all types ol machine guns stalled the Allied in- vasion thrust for 4e hours, and tho first actual attempt to break across the frontier was repulsed by c fierce German infantry charge.
 The Anglo.ATnerican force hal succeeded in driving through, how. ever, and they now hold positions well inside the Reich and are push- Ing patrols deeper into enemy terri. tory.
 Crossing Hampered
 The crossing was hampered by
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-25
Nozi Morale Gets Better

U. s. ist Army Headquarters Belgium, . P. M. Sunday, Sept za~ (UP)-A 6O.mile wall Of American heavy artillery opened a tremens dous softening-up boinbaTdment of the German Rhineland today, send- ing giant shells screaming down hour after hour into fortified toWnS and villages halfway between ta9 border and the Rhine.
 The spectacular harraee ls tho American arlny's answer to the re- cent sustained pounding of our front line troops in the SiegIiied area. Ofacial sources estimated that we are outshooting the 0ermans at least ten to one, including great eight and 10 inch shells capable of penetrating and blowing up tho strongest Qualifications.
 Meanwhile, there is evidence that German morale is stiifening. pnrfIg because of the re-appointment If Field Marshal derd von RnnBisqi as commander-in -in-chief Of Ned forces in the west.
 All signs now indicate chat .a Heaviest fighting Is in prospect q Q
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-25
Settle Three Lobor Rows
By United Press

Settlement of three major labor disputes today reduced to 10000 the number Of workers Idle because ol strikes, but at oadson, Ala, walk out Of 90 bFicklayeFg at the Repub- lican Steel Corporation plant thFeat- efled to force afl additional a,boo workers Into idieness.
 Approximately 10000 workers at Detroit, Wilmington, Del, and Ser. wick, pa, returned to work this morning.
 At least Ooo0 steel workers were out ct the CarneglesIliinoi Steel plant at Clalrten, Pa, ct Cleveland, At Chicago, c strike of 2,O00 work. CTS ct the Revere Copper and Brass Company halted work on critical NaVy materials.
 The biggest wAlkout, Q thFee.day strike Of 5000 workers ct the Alnera lean Gar and Foundry Go, Berwick, Pa., was ended when the United Steel Workers (Cio) reached RgFee- Tnsnt with officials on seniority reg. ulaticns in . vacation"wtth.pAy plan.
 At DetFcit 5000 workers on tho day shift at the Briggs Manufacture ing Company plant returned C work, ending 6 WaIkout in protest against dismissal Of 10 de setteFs A total Of 7,2B0 workers had been on strike at the Briggs plant, How- . yer, i,i0e workers ct that factory
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-25
1,2oo Forts Smash 3 Big Rhine Cities

London, Sept, 20.-CUp) Upwards of 1900 American Flying Fortresses smaShed today At the Rhineland cities Of Frankfurt, Cohiens and Ludwig -ghafen today to speArhead c broadSide assault on the continent by thousands of Allied heavy bonnb- CTS.
 The Royal Afr Force sent At least five big formations of Lancastere and Hallfaxes against Nad pogI- tionS. Their main weight was thrown into c crushing boESibardment of tho stubborn holdout garrison at Calais,
 Lt. Gen, James F. Deolittle dis- patched . near record force Of his Eighth Air Force FoFtresses to the Rhineland to batter rail yards and military and industrial targets key. ing the NaEl defenseB ahead of the Allied land Armies.
 A fleet of about 2,000 FoFtresHeA and eseoFting Mustangs, Thunder. bolts and Lightnings struck the threesway blow at Frankfurt, Cob. leng and Ludwigshafen. The bomb- ing was carried out by instrument
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-25
Eyewitness
 Tells How
 Relief Came
Ry RICHARD D. MCMILLAN

United Press War CoFrespondent)
 With Relieving British Forces Near Arnhem, Sept. 23-(Delayed)- tUP)-Breaking through oil ob- staeles the Germans were able to throw in their way, British infantry men broke through to the lower Rhine near ArnheFn late yesterday and ell night and this morning they have been feFrying desperately needed food and other supplies tc heroic Red Devil paraehutists trapped for Q week across the river.
 The relief came just in time. The airborne division, already scattered, had been attacked day and night for the whole week by superior Ger. mna forces, suffering losses of dead, wounded and prisoners, and was holding on by sheer guts.
 Parachutists who had been hold. ing the northern end of the bridge and fighting from house to house against stronger forces still were out of contact and their fate caused anxiety.
 The gallant British infantry, matching the heroism of tho Red Devils, had struggled through after forced march, fighting, advancing and fighting again.
 marched with the reiiving col.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-25
Nelson Back, Close Lipped

Washington, Sept, % - lUP) --- War Production Board Chairman Donald N. Nelson, back from Q epos ciai White House mission to China, vas optimistic today about prospects of boosting ChinaS industTial role in the waF against Japan but silent about his future status in the WIPE.
 Nelson returned with what . WIPE apokeGman said was 0oneFaiisSinle Chlnang Kai.Shek's approval Of plans "lor bringing moro Of ChinaB strength Into the waF eE1oFt."
 Nelson hoped to confer with Pres. id0nt Roosevelt within day or two to report on his talks with Chinese leaders. The impending meeting with the president BptFTed speculas ton as to whether it would resolve his future status as WIPE boss. Shortly after he departed on August 2O, MT. Roosevelt told c news cone ference that he did not know whes ther Nelson would continue in his old role because it waB difficult to say what was going to happen n the future.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-25
BIG GUNS SKATER GERMAN RhIlIEL AND AIRBORNE TROOPS RECEIVE REINFORCE MS
Red Army Completes Estonia Liberation

The entire German defense sys- tenn in the Battles appeared to have collapsed. Riga's fate evidently was sealed, with two Soviet columns converging on the city from the north and east while the vanguard battered at the suburbs.
 Word of the invasion of Hungary came in a Romanlan high command announcement that a combined Romanlan army broke across the frontier iiB miles from Budapest after Q nine-mile advance north- west from the captured Romanian railway tovIh of ArAd,
 Moscow's earfy ftfVg ss .'s.'sys,s.e : 'sy,s.e. l'''' letln did not confirm G N@ announcement, put
 Turkish reports said the AIvaa.. captured BRttonya, i2 miles north west of Adad and three miles Inside Hungary.
 A Moscow broadcast tacitly con- flrmed the drive Into Slovakia, re- porting that General Ivan Y. Pe- trov's 4th Ukainian Army reached the southern slopes of the Breskid Mountains in drive southwest of the Polish border town of Sanok The Soviet spearheads apparently were aimed ct Humenne, % miles
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-25
Extraordinary Bitter
 Campaign Is Foreseer,

variety of fraud"
 He accused Dewey of uttering a "callous and brazen falsehood about demobilization" "a reference to Dewey's charge on Sept. 2 that the administration planned to keep men in the armed forces until they found jobs-and called COP leaders ''la- bor baiters."
 Shaping back at Republican charges that he had failed to pre- pare for this war, the president said many Republicans had been isola- tionists and would be in control fl the COP wins in November.
 Mir. Roosevelt declared that his administration would lead the na- ton to victory in the war and to "the greatest epoch of free achieve nent" afterwards. rle said the gov verson plans the keynote os which
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-25
By ROBERT s. MUsEL

OhthNGN ANEH9 WV9A SVhhS1KSAhNASaAN
 London, Sept. 25. (UP)-The Red Army has completed the liberation of Estonia, e Moscow dispatch said today, and far to the south was re ported driving deep Into Hungary and Solvakia.
 United Press Correspondent Henry shapiro reported from Moscow that Soviet forces which yesterday seized the big Latvian transport center of Valmiera had smashed 70 miles westward to the Gulf of Riga, merg- ing with Marshal Leonid A. Gov orov's army which had swept through Estonia,
 Russian naval forces which cleared the whole Estonian coast sailed down into the Gulf of Riga oajoin In 0 land.sea assault on the Latvian capital the suburbs of which al- ready were invested by Red Army troops.
 The Moscow report of the end of the whirlwind campaign through Estonla indicated that sizeable Ger man forces might have been trapped In the western hump" of the Baltic state and by the spurt westward from Valmiera and that whatever NaEl clements had failed to escape now had been destroyed.