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FORECAST ^ Icy53 itaratttfmt HHiinutui Star 1 SErl \ NO. 109 --------- [ Cj 7~~ - --WILMINGTON, N. C., SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1944 _FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867 [ House Almost Sills FEPC; Voting_Close MARGIN ONLY 4 VOTES Controversial Committee Is Kept In E x i s t e n c e Despite Enemies WASHINGTON, May 26.— __ A four-vote margin saved one of President Roos evelt’s most controversial agencies, the Fair Employ ment Practices Committee, tonight as the House passed the SI.033.358.367 war agen cies appropriation bill. less than an hour before a roll caU vote of 47 to 58 sent to the Senate the omnibus measure fi nancing almost a score of home front war agencies for the year starting July 1, the House tenta tively had refused to include in the bill a $500.,000 fund for FEPC and then reversed itself to restore the item. FEPC was set up by the Presi dent with instructions to assist in ending job discrimination because of race, color, or creed. The original action, in cornmit tee of the whole where record votes are not possible, came on adoption f an amendment to eli minate the fund, the teller vote being 141 to 103 with a large bloc of Republicans joining a solid southern delegation in opposition to the FEPC. In the House proper, however, the amendment was defeated by a 13 to 119 teller vote after Repre sentative Marcantonio (AMN. Lab.-Ny.) had failed to force a record vote. Marcantonio was one of the leaders in the fight to saye the FEPC. Aside from the FEPC fight, only two other amendments were offer ed ar.d both were voted down. Qne, by Representative Dworshak (R. Idaho), would have cut $5,500,000 from the $58,625,367 OWI fund, me o t r, t . by Representative Keefe (R.-Wis.), would have trijn med $660,700 from the War Labor Board's allotment. -V Miller Tells Jury Of Shooting Lind WASHINGTON. May 26— (TP) — " . . Then I reached Into my poc ket, pulled out the gun and shot him.” With those words, Robert I Mill er told a district court jury trying him for his life today that he kill ed Dr. John E. Lind, 57, on the spur of *he moment last February and because “I though he was reaching for a gun.” Sobbing at times, the 67-year old police court lawyer told of discovering an intimate relation ship between his 42-year-old wife and Dr. Lind, of attempting vainly to break it up, and finally of *he shooting. ~ --V Police Seek Thief After Hotel Robbery Police continued search last l.ight for an unidentified white man who early yesterday morning held up and robbed S. E. Sellers, right clerk of the Brunswick ho tel, O. F. Smith, a guest, and Ste vens Washington, the hotel bell boy. £47 from Smith and a watch, emp After taking $577 from Sellers, Washington, the robber was re ty purse and cigarette case from toned to have tied all three in a room of the hotel and then made his escape. -V Hospital Situation Remains Unchanged No new overtures have been made by either side in the con troversy between local nurses and the James Walker Memorial hospi tal medical staff and board o1 managers, and the situation las1 nght remained unsettled. There has been no indication that a fur ther meeting of the three group: involved will be held in the neai future. --V Program Announced For USO Week-End The week-end program of thi WSO at Third and Grace street is as follows: Saturday, 7 p.m. "Guadalcanal Diary”, movie; 8:3 Pm., porch dance; Sunday, 9:3 a m., coffee and doughnuts: P- m., tea and concert by Mr: W. S. Young, cellist, accompanie' by Mrs. A. T. Bahy at the piano 5:30 p.m., snack supper- The publi is cordially invited to attend. Famed Benedictine Monastery In Cassino Now In R.^ I An Allied soldier picks his way through the ruined remains of the famous Benedictine monas tery which overlooked Cassino, Italy, after the town and abbey was wrested from the defending Ger mans May 18. The Nazis had fortified the structure, despite . pleas from many sources that the place j be spared. (AP wirephoto via Signal Corps Radio.) Rocking Chair Deal Factor In State Gubernatorial Race CHARGES HURLED IN 3D1RECTI0NS RALEIGH. May 6.— (A —Thej operation of the State Alcoholic* Board of Control emerged todaj as the hottest issue of the Demo cratic gubernatorial race as more than 300,000 voters awaited the opening of the polls at 6:30 a.m., tomorrow to register their choices for offices ranging from the state's highest to township constables. Candidate Ralph W- McDonald, W. B. Umstead, manager of R. Gregg Cherry's campaign, and Governor Broughton issued state ments involving the purchase by the state of 175,000 cases of Rock ing Chair whisky, which was turn ed over to the 5 wet counties for retail. Governor Broughton, upon his re turn to Raleigh last night, issued a statement describing as “utter ly without foundation and wholly unworthy” assertions made by McDonald Monday night in which the candidate asked these ques tions: “How much money was in volved; what would have been the ordinary commission for the sales man making the deal? Who got the commission in this instance? Is all or part of, this money being used in this campaign? McDonald replied this morning with the assertion that the Gover nor’s statement was but a confir mation of “every statement I made about the rocking chair deal.” Then Governor Broughton and Umstead answered. The governor, saying he had nothing to add to his previous statement “which contains the true facts of the transaction, asserted: “The attempted distortion or mis statement of these facts by Dr. McDonald will not deceive the peo ple of North Carolina. The deci sion rests with them” Umstead said: “I emphatically deny that Gregg Cherry is the candidate of the liquor forces as alleged.” In still another statement issued tonight, E. D. Broadhurst, Mc Donald’s manager, charged that the head of the state liquor board (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) Lyon Railyards Hit; Bad Weather Interrupts Big Aerial Offensive LONDON, May 26- — (fP) — Between 500 and 750 Italy-bas ed American heavy bombers blasted railyards at Lyon, fun nel Point for Nazi defenses in southern France, for the se cond time in two days today, and ripped other rail installa tions in the south of France, bringing a furious aerial offen sive against Fortress Europe j into its eighth straight day. The weather halfed' the hea vy offensive from Britain after a devastating week in which more than 32,000 Allied air craft battered pre-invasion tar gets with some 35,000 tons of bombers. -V-—^ Reds Bomb Troopships Off Norway LONDON, Saturday, May 27.— (£■)—The Russians reported early today that bombers of the Red fleet air force had attacked German troopships in the Barents sea, north of Norway, early Friday! morning, sinking two transports, and a destroyer and damaging; three others. i The Soviet announcement in a midnight war bulletin did not spec-J ify whether the transports were carrying new German forces to Norway or withdrawing troops al ready there. Earlier the Germans, in a com munique, had reported the attack on their convoy and claimed to have shot down 69 of 80 attacking planes- The Russian bulletin said only seven bombers were lost in repeated “mass attacks with bombs, gunfire and torpedoes.’’ This was the first time in months any large scale German troop con voys have been reported in Arctic waters. ■ Police Get New Evidence In Lake Murder Mystery DURHAM, May 26—(IP)—Po lice, working on the theory that wealthy, 67-year-old Mrs. Ed ward M. Jewett, of Boonville, Mo., was slain and her body weighted down in the depths of 80-acre Easwtood lake, re ported another bizzare piece of evidence today. While tons of water poured through a valve in the rock built dam, lowering percepti , bly the level of the big pond, ; the officers early in the after noon came upon two cinder \ blocks weighing about 50 j pounds, only 100 yards from 5 the point on the shore where I a foul-smelling, maggot-infest i ed boat was found Monday. Police expressed the theory c that the blocks were used as a weight to hold on the muddy lake bottom a receptacle of some description containing the body of Mrs. Jewett, whose grandson, Edward Jewett Mar tin, 24-year-old Charlotte chem ist, has been indicted on a charge of murder. The two blocks were held together with a wire and a piece of newly cut rope. Mrs. Jewett has been miss ing 16 days. She was driven from North Carolina to Mis souri by Martin to inspect her extensive holdings there. She arrived on May 8, and disap peared from her hotel on May 10. Martin, recently classified 4-F, and a University of Mis souri graduate, was arrested last Saturday after. Detective C. W. Gates said, he left a blood-spattered car parked in a garage here. 1C HEAD ASKED FOR FULL TIME RALEIGH, May 26. —UP)— The joard of trustees of the Greater University of North Carolina, neeting here today, heard a re jort from its visiting committee •ecommending that Dr. Frank P. Graham, president, devote his full ;ime to the university Graham is a member of the War L,abor Board and recently had been ipvoting two -thirds of his time to .vork of that board. The remain der of his time has been devoted to university administrative du ties. In making the recommendation, he visiting committee, headed by Victor Bryant, of Durham, said that the administration of the uni versity “is confused as to authori ty and that the complicated ad ministrative system of the consoli dated university makes it necessa ry that the president give his full time to his duties here.” The report further said that op inion among faculty members at Carolina was unanimous in favor of a full-time president. The time for policy-making at the univer sity, with reference to the postwar era, has arrived,” it said. “The faculty believes that the president’s absence part of the time has retarded unduly and in evitably the administration of af fairs,” and that “the work of the faculty lacks cohesion and direc tion,” the report went on. Dr. Graham told the board that the chairman of the War Labor Board had asked him to “keep on my present schedule of one-third of my time in North Carolina and two-thirds in Washington, and then to try for a while a schedule call ing for two weeks with the univer sity and two weeks with the WLB.” -V Monetary Conference Called By President WASHINGTON, May 26. — (/P) - President Roosevelt sent out a cal] today for a conference of the Uni ted and associated nations on post war money problems starting Julj 1 He invited 42 governments, in cluding the French Committee oj Liberation, to send representatives to Bretton Woods, N, H. for con sideration of proposals which in elude: 1. An international monetary plan, revolving around an $8,000, 000,000 gold-based stabilizator fund, providing for a value in golc for each nation’s currency and re stricting fluctuations of any coun try’s market transactions in moner of other countries. 2- A $10,000,000,000 internationa bank for reconstruction and devel cpment—a sort of world RFC. -V— Sheriff To Question Victim Of Accideni Questioning of Hulan Donald Huf man, only survivor of the hit-rui accident in Atkinson this week will be undertaken by Sheriff J A. Brown of Burgaw, Monday a the youth regained consciousnes at James Walker Memorial hospi lal and his condition is greatly im proved, the sheriff announced las night. FDRIndicates Invasion Due This Summer CALLS IT ‘LIBERATION’ | President Drops Hiinit On Coming Attack At Conference WASHINGTON, May 26.— (AP) — President Roosevelt dropped a hint today that the Allied offensive against Eu rope is not far off, saying the actions coming off this sum mer ought to be called the lib eration rather than the in vasion of Europe. In a news conference, Mr. Roose velt also said he hoped to have another conference with Prime Minister Churchill but was indefi nite as to the time. Asked if he expected to see the British leader this summer, he said in the summer, the fall or the late spring. “Why not winter?” a reporter asked. He didn’t like to travel, particu larly on the Atlantic, in the winter, Mr. Roosevelt replied. It was not developed whether Mr. Roosevelt, by saying late spring, meant this year or next year— which would be after the inaugura tion of the president elected next fall. Rough Draft Ready In a discussion of post-war plan ning, Mr. Roosevelt said ideas for a post-war plan for over-all secur ity have been reduced to a rough draft and, in. response to a ques tion, that he was finding Russia a satisfactory and cooperative collab orationist. The whole discussion began with a reference to a recent editorial in the Washington Post. Calling invasion “a common or garden episode in warfare,” the editorial said the assault upon Hit ler’s Europe was far more than that. >| "It# liberation,” it added. ‘That .is * the .heart- Let us- then, call this invasion the liberation— the end and not the means, the civilizing purpose and not the mili tary mission, the war aim and not the battle operation.” Mr. Roosevelt said he heartily agreed. More Than Warfare He went on to speak of liberation as more than the military opera tion and recalled reading recently that it was late in the summer of 1918 before this country began a study of post-war problems. This time, he said, we are taking up the problems and making spe cific recommendations' or plans. There was the international food conference last year, the recent j international labor office confer [ ence, and he has called a monetary conference for July. ! In other words, he remarked, we | are making far greater progress in this war than we did in the last. -V Naval Commander Berated By Truman WASHINGTON. May 26—!/P!—A fishing, suspended Naval com mander, who had acknowledged sending a "restricted” document to his private corporation with a request that it be burned after use, heard Senator Truman (D-Mo) recommend today that he be “im mediately court martialed-” The commander, John D. Cor rigan, has testified before Tru man’s war investigation committee that half a dozen firms he inspect ed as a production “trouble shooter” for the Navy”s ordnance bureau have engaged the private engineering and management con sultation firm, Corrigan, Osburne and Wells, in which he still re tains a half interest. -V ABC Stores Closed Because Oi Primary ABC Stores in Wilmington and New Hanover County will be clos ed today by order of the State | ABC board because of the state I wide primary FWAGivesCounty TwoSchools C. W. Churchill, local direc tor of the Federal Works Agency, announced here yes terday that the Maffit Village Schools have been completed and will be turned over to the Board of Education early next ! week. The two schools, one for white and one for negro chil i dren, with a total valuation of ; $105,000, will be leased to the board rent free under an agreement whereby the board t will operate and maintain the added enrollment occasioned by the influx of war workers to this area. All equipment for the build ings has been received except 123 chairs, Mr. Churchill said, and they are expected to ar rive early next week. The buildings are fire proof, constructed of cinder blooks and brick with concrete floors covered by asphalt tile. The walls are of sound absorbant interior of the buildings. The buildings have been provided by FWA to take care of the celotex and wainscoated with plaster, they are painted both inside and out. They will house pupils in the primary grades from the first to fourth. The building for whitte children contains 8 classrooms and one multipurpose room in addition to sanitary facilities. The other building is similar but can tains only six class rooms. Construction was by Fowler Jones Contracting company, Winston-Salem, ar.d equipment was furnished by Universal School equipment company, Raleigh. ALLIED ARMIES GAINING s ON ALL ITALIAN FRONTS i AS BATTLE INTENSIFIES _______+ - * CORI STRONGHOLD j SEIZED BY YANKS i - > Nine New Towns Taken, ‘ Six Heights Seized In Great Drive ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS Naples, May 26.—(/P) —Veteran American tank and infantry forces smashed six miles beyond newly-captured Cisterna today and seized the enemy mountain stronghold j of Cori and a companion drive to northv|est closed on Velle ti’i strongpoint of the Nazis; other Allied armies swept ahead on all fronts headquar ters announcing capture of a total of nine towns and half a dozen important heights. Velletri was being pounded by massed artillery and its fate ap peared to be sealed. Associated Press Correspondent Daniel De | l.uce reported from the front to night, and as the Allies fought up the Appain Way the-e came word from within Rome itself that the approaching battle already could be seen from there. The plunge to Cori carried the beachhead forces nearly halfway from Cisterna to the Via Casilina, escape highway for tens of thou sands of German troops hastily falling back toward Rome from the shattered Hitler line in the Liri valley and adjacent mountains. The imperilled enemy forces rep resented the bulk of the German 10th army. .'Nazis a wane ot Danger l^iere was evidence the Nazis were aware of the danger and were withdrawing with all speed toward their naw defense line. To day they abandoned lofty "Monta Cairo, towering height, just north of C'assino, and the town of Roc casecca, eight miles further west. San Giovanni, at the southern edge of the Liri valley and four miles from the Via Casilinu. also was evacuated in the retreat. San Gi* ovanni had been the scene of ex tremely bitter fighting in recent days. Capture of Cori by the Ameri cans brought under control a mountain mass from which Ger man long-range guns battered ths beachhead for nearly four months. The town is only nine miles from where the Via Casilia intersects the new German defense line at Valmontone. Already the wav was within sight of Rome. The German radio ie ported that the flash of heavy guns could be seen at night from the housetops of the Eternal City. (A Swift Telegram Agency dis patch said the sound of cannon could be heard "clearly” in Rome and added that ’Romans are quite conscious that the battle is ap proaching Rome.’) Planes Blast Troops Swarms of Allied fighter-bomb ers continued their merciless at tacks on German road and rail transport in the battle zone, de railing several trains, destroying more than 400 vehicles and damag ing 300 others today. This brought the total of enemy vehicles des troyed or damaged by air attack in the past three days to 2,500. As a result of these blows the Nazis were being forced to aban don much equipment. An air force spokesman said the Germans had been rushing rein forcements from north of Rome into their new defense line for two days, but declared highway con ditions were “chaotic” on both sides of the Italian capital. The count of German prisoners taken in the 15-day-old offensive passed the 12,000 mark and was growing rapidly during the enemy withdrawal. -V New ‘Super Cabinet/ Of Big 3 Considered LONDON, May 26—UP)—Forma tion of a tri-power “super cabinet’’ to deal with the international di plomatic problems of Britain, Rus time and its likely membership create, before victory, an inter the next development in plans te national organization to keep ths peace, according to information gleaned from high officials today. Just how far the idea has devel oped remains uncertain, but its ne cessity has been urged for some time an dits likely membership would be on a high level—men ol such position as Ambassador John G. Winant, of the United States, Lord Halifax, of Britain and Maxim Litvinoff, of Russia. Lieutenant Sentenced To Hang ’■ i-™ >Ti I'll Mil I III I ... JK22S £2X2L.Xa*2ZZ. An army courtmartial at Camp Anza, Calif., yesterday convicted Lt. Beaufort G. Swancutt, shown above in wheel chair, on a charge of murdering his sweetheart and three other persons in a shooting affray there last March 5 and recommended that he be hanged. Under guard, he is pictured as he sits in court. He was wounded during the melee by police bullets._ Roosevelt Scored For PlarU Seizure WASHINGTON, May 26,—(AP)—Every government agency concerned with the Montgomery Ward case was tak en sharply to task today in a Senate judiciary subcommit tee report which held that President Roosevelt had “no constitutional or statutory authority” to order seizure of the company’s ■! . a i tirViinVi -rf-t-rlVmfi~ 1-1 ' ■ ■ ——, . .■— ■ *»*» * ^ r v -- -— “erroneous, misleading, irrelevant and immaterial statements and al legations” to Attorney General Francis Biddle, was assa!%fd by the latter in turn as containing “absured conclusions. .” Biddle, target of the subcom mittee’s severest criticism, de clared he had been denied an op portunity to appear before the group and likened its investigation to “star chamber methods.” The subcommittee, which split two to one on its findings, said the attorney general “was misad vised” when he ruled that the President was empowered under the War Labor Disputes act to seize the plant. The committee majority. Chair man McCarran (D.-Nev.) and Sen ator Revercomb (R.-W. a.), said Biddle was “in error when he stat ed that the President is in pos session of an ‘Aggregate of pow ers’ which ‘are derived from the constitution and from various sta tutes enacted by Congress’ which would empower him to take posses sion of the Chicago facilities of Montgomery Ward and Co.” Senator McFarland (D.-Ariz.) the dissenting member, siad the subcommittee had “denied the in terested parties an opportunity to be heard” and had based its report on documentary evidence and on the “hearsay” conclusions of in vestigators, -V Eisenhower Completes Tour Of Armed Forces LONDON. May 26. — {£>)— Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose word will hurl the full might of an Al lied invasion upon the Nazi-bound1 continent, returned to supreme headquarters today after a swift 1 inspection tour of British land for ces under his overall command, well pleased with the thorough training of this army Britain has assembled to wring vengeance for the Dunkergue of four years ago. j 40 AND 8 NAMES RILEY NEW HEAD W. J. Riley was elected Chef de Gare to succeed J. Carl Stey mour as members of the Forty Eight, fun and honor society of the American Legion, held their annual election of officers last night. Other officers to serve the oi ture during the coming year are: Chef de Train, Max B. Regis ter: Correspondent, E, F. Troy; Lampiste. Carl W. Fulford; Com missaire Intendant, Felix Scroggs; Conducteur, George G. Avant; Guarde la Porte, T. D. Hall: Co'#i Amonieur, Ray C. Galloway: Medicin, Dr. John T. Hoggard; Publicist, Theodore Webb; Avo cat, Bunn Frink; Cheminots, J. Carl Seymour; N. S. Westbrook and Rober K. Davis. The following were named as delegates to the Grand Prome nade to be held in Ashevite June 17-18: N. S. Westbrook, W. J. Ri ley, Ray C. Galloway, J. R. Hol lis, Felix Scroggs. Named as al ternates were: Max B. Register, Theodore Webb Guy Gaines, E. F. Troy and George G. Avant. -V--, Exchange Club Members Elect State Delegates Exchange club members yester day elected C. D. Barclift and a. L. Allegood as delegates to at tend the state Exchange club meeting in Durham June 21. J. B. Edwards reported upon the inter club bowling banquet and Sam Beyer was elected chairman of next year’s inter-club bowling group. Lt. Helen L- Madden of the WAC spoke to the club on “What the Ar my Is Doing for the Women’’. Guest at the meeting was Fred Warner, of Roanoke, Va. Be Sure To Cast Ballot In State-Wide Democratic Primary loday % i
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