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“^forecast " ^ v ^ \ I *0++44 »4 ^4 4.4 ^ ^ m.'jLa, a. :^LjL . . .. REMEMBER umtit^imt nntutjgt s>tar r.sr ' ’ I IZTI---- WILMINGTON, N. C.. SATURDAY. .TTTNF. s 1941 vivir F.niTTnv pctidi icavn ic» historic Shuttle Raid j From Italy To Russia Hits Romanian Targe t fRENCH COAST POUNDED HARD 5 000 Allied Planes Drop 7 000 Tons Of Bombs On Hitler's Europe , loNDDN, June 2.—(/P)— Forging a powerful new link Allied air superiority, U. b. Flying Fortresses and escort |mr Mustangs made an his toric shuttle raid on Romania today and landed in Russia as part'of a massive two-way aerial assault in which more than 5,000 Allied planes drop ped nearly 7,000 tons of ex plosives on Hitler’s Europe. The shuttle - bombers, first Al lied planes to attack enemy soil snd then make planned landings in the Soviet Union, apparently flew from bases in Italy. Their land ings were made on bases previous ly” prepared by American ground crews. While the Mediterranean a 1 r force's blow was the more spectac ular. heavy bombers of the Eighth air force in Britain added their own one-two punch to the loth con secutive day of Allied aerial as saults on Europe. Flying Fortresses ana miDera-j tors swept into France twice dur-| ing the day to hit Prime Military | targets. The first raid, made against the invasion coast of Pas de Calais, was accomplished with out loss either to bombers or es corts; but in the second seven fortresses were missing. The latter strike was delivered against a variety of military tar gets west and southwest of Paris. Ah- Force headquarters said, in cluding railway junctions and bridges. No enemy air opposition cas encountered, but flak was ieavy over some targets. Medium, light and fighter-bomb ers of the Allied Expeditionary air forces also stabbed into France and the low countires at dusk, bombing and strafing railroad yards, bridges, fuel dumps, road transport and coastal objectives. It was announced that none of the more than 300 Marauders and ha vocs participating was lost. An indication that the assaults on the Axis were beng carried into the night came as the Budapest radio again left the air tonight shortly after 10 p.m. The American shuttle planes aft er dropping their loads on impor tant junctions on rail lines upply ing the Germans at the Russian front were met by American Mus tang and Soviet Yank fighters which escorted ‘hem to the newly made bases in Russia. From Britain a fleet of 1,000 British - based Fortresses and Lib erators, with half as many escort ing fightres, slammed into the Pas tie Calais area with some 3,000 tons of explosives for their heavi est assault thus far on the Nazi anti-invasion targets. They were unchallenged by German fighters. The blow from Italy was by a force of up to 750 heavy bombers 'vith an escort of probably equal J'rength which unloaded at least 500 tons of exploding steel. All our bombers and fighters returned safely from the attack on Cerman military installations along the coast of France today,” fhe U. S. Strategic air forces com munique said. The Fortresses and Liberators, escorted by medium - sized forces of P51 Mustangs. P38 Lightnings and P47 Thunderbolts all from the llighth air force, encountered only B?ht flak. A few grouriH rockets "ere sent up, the communique said. -V STREET CARS ROLL AGAIN 5T. LOUIS, June 2.—UP)—Crowd ed street cars and buses once more rolled along city streets to day marking the end of a 37-hour *mke of 3,500 St. Louis Public *-erv;ce company operators and maintenance men. n -~v nea Lines Dented By Nazi Onslaught In Romanian Battle LONDON, June 2—(IP)—Nazi jr°ops, attacking savagely with Jutge forces of tanks and in ■untry through the fourth day e! th«ir battles in the Molda 'lan Province of Romania, have driven another dent into Russian lines northwest of Iasi, Moscow acknowledged tonight. In insignificant wedge” was *ctomplished by the Germans *t the cost of heavy losses in hianpower and equipment in a :ei,es of blows northwest of the the Russians said in their broadcast communique ^corded by the Soviet moni tor. Prefers Movies Sam Greene, 17, graduate of GardnCr-Webb Junior College, near Shelby, and member of the 1943 America.' Legion baseball team, prefers a chance at a moyie career to professional baseball. Having an opportunity to sign with the New Vork Giants, or take studio tests for a film career with Universal pictures, he chose the latter. Japs Register Twin Victory Over Chinese CHUNGKING, June 2—UP>—The Japanese .have captured two strong points—east of Changteh and north east of Changsha—after incessant pounding of the Chinese defenders along a 120-mile front, and new battles have developed for those two major enemy objectives in the Human province offensive, the Chi nese high command said tonight. Pingkiang, Chinese bastion 50 miles northeast of Changsha, fell last night to invader troops strik ing along the Milo river, while to the west, some 100 miles northwest of Changsha, the Japanese seized Ansiang and drove southward to within nine and one-half miles of Hanshow, where they were stop ped, the communique said This places the enemy 22 miles east of Changteh, scene of last —-’ „ 1, 4 4- „ ~ T7 : „ ~ 71-1 T_4± — A third major prong of the Hu man offensive a center column driving down the Canton - Hankow raiway. was stopped at Kweiyi, 40 miles north of Changsha, the com munique said, after the town had changed hands several times in bitter fighting, with casualties heavy on both sides. Major objective of the Hunan offensive is complete control of the Canton Hankow route, but the Japanese apparently are planning other new blows at China, Maj. Gen. C. C. Tseng, Chinese army spokesman, said. The enemy strategy, he said, is to apply more pressure on China as the Allies increase their pressure on Japan in the Pacific. -V Indiana Republicans Reject Dewey Proposal INDIANAPOLIS, June 3.—(JP)— The Republican state convention completed Indiana’s delegation of 29 to the national convention to day and thundered its rejection of a proposal that the delegates be instructed for Gov- Thomas E Dewey of New York. This action left all of the dele gates free to vote as they chose for the party’s presidential nom inee except the two from the se cond congressional districts which instructed its representatives in favor of Dewey. XT Airplane Production Undergoing Changes WASHINGTON, June 2- — (fP) — Seemingly unstable conditions ir some aircraft production areas re fleet changeovers to new models and adjustment of programs which were accelerated originally tc reach schedule peaks quickly, rath er than any general cutback ir warplane output, industry repre sentatives said today. broad ruling given WASHINGTON, June 2. — {JP> - A broad ruling that no statute au thorizes court review of War La bor Board orders came today frorr the United States Court of Appeal; for the District of Columbia. 290 GRADUATED BY HIGH SCHOOL American Legion Stadium Filled To Capacity For Exercises Dressed in grey cap and gown, 290 seniors received their diplomas at commencement exercises of the New Hanover high school held at the American Legion stadium last night. Highest scholastic award, the Amy Bradley medal presented by Margaret Wenberg, was awarded to Mary Emma Humphrey and Al ton Hall, who tied for top honons Each will get a medal. The ceremony, attended by an audience which filled the stadium to capacity, was an impressive one with the seniors seated in the cen ter of the stadium in the formation of an airplane. The theme of the program, “Wings For The Future,” a series of dramatic addresses given by 20 members of the senior class, stressed the importance of the role of the public schools in educating young Americans to carry on in the years of peace so that the bat tle of those who have fought for America may not have been in vain. r I 'll o pnVlArtln 1ITAVA n n IV, n hope of coming generation and of the world. > The addresses were given by Perry James, Ray Bennett, J- B. Joyce, Mary Elizabeth Barefoot, Alton Hall, Betty Harriss, Jay Car ter, Nancy Jeffrey, Lester Pres ton, Virginia McCormick, Harry T. Williams, Sara McAdams, Donald Russell, Norman Skelton Edgar Williams, Ann Montgomery, Joe Venable, Joyce Scott, Mary Emma Humphrey and Eugene Montgom ery. Music for the procession of sen iors to and from the stadium was played by the high school band under the direction of Lt. Eugene Lacock. The glee club, under the direc tion of Mrs. Inez F- Chapman, gave an excellent rendition of •‘Give Ear Unto My Prayer, “This Is My Country”, the Army Air Corps song, and ‘‘Mother of the Man in Khaki,” written by Rae Bennett. Diplomas were presented by T T. Hamilton, principal. Roll call of the graduates was read by William Mcllwain. The commencement committee was composed of the following: Faculty members: Mrs. S. George LeGrand. Mrs- Josie Brock, Mrs. O. A. Bijonerud, Mrs. George West, Miss Francis Formy Duval, Miss Virginia Walsh, Miss Emma Lessen, Mrs- Edith B. Winmng ham, Mrs. Charles B- Newcomb, Albert O’Briant, George West, Fred Capps, Mrs. Eric Norden, Mrs. Inez French Chapman, Lt. Eugene Lacock; student mem bers: Barbara Marshall, Lester Preston, Laura Roe, Margaret Wenberg, Joyce West, Alton Hall, Stanley Prouty, Robert Kester, Samuel Loftin, Julian Morton, L. W. Fonvielle, Barbara Leeuwen burg Harry Williams, Margaret Smith, Cleo Paturis, Virginia Me Cormick, Barbara Rivenbark, Do ris D’Lugin and Harriet Walsh. _-V Pope Declares Against Total Victory In War LONDON, June 2.—<iP>—Pope Pi us declared today that the idea that the war must end in complete victory or complete. destruction is “a stimulant towards prolonging the war,” and, expressing hope for an early peace, he praised “the heralds of wisdom and modera tion” as against those “who open ly espouse vengeance.” Addressing the College of Cardi nals on his name day, the pontiff said, as Allied armies approached Rome, that “whoever dared raise a hand” against the city “would be guilty of matricide.” §|§p Orders j**s Controls DrawnTight SHORTAGE ACUTE All Male Workers Must Clear Through USES In Changing Jobs WASHINGTON, June 2. — (/P)—Practically all the na tion’s male workers were placed under strict new job controls today as the war manpower commission moved to channel more labor into war industries. Extending its “priority referral” plan to blanket the country, WMC ordered that beginning July 1 all men except farm workers must clear through the United States Employment Service in seeking jobs. Only men referred by the employment service may be hired although businesses with eight or lees employes are not affected. Job applicants will be assigned to top priority war jobs, wherever they exist. “The plan will make it possible for a worker anywhere in the coun try to take his most useful place on the industrial firing line,” Paul V. McNutt, war manpower chair man, said. Already in effect in about a doz en “critical labor shortage areas,” the referral program was extended by McNutt under President Roose velt’s executive oder establishing the War Manpower Commission. It authorizes the recruitment of work ers and referral to jobs in which they are most neded. McNutt emphasized that while the referral program is on a volun tary basis, it will be difficult for workers to get jobs unless they clear through the employment ser vice. On the other hand, workers will not be referred to employers who do not cooperate, he said. ) Overoptimism Scored An acute national shortage of male labor in certain types of in dustry made 'expansion <:,J the re ferral program necessayr! McNutt said. He added he had been “most disturbed” because over-optimism with respect to an early ending of the war had caused many workers in essential industry to transfer to peacetime jobs. Among industries most urgently in need of workers, he listed foun dries and force shops, rubber and tire production, ship repair and lumbering and logging. Shortages are developing in the textile field, in coal mining, and electronic equipment production, it was added. The new program provides that job seekers will be offered assign ments in the order of importance of the job to the war. Workers will be given the widest choice “consistent with the war effort” in the acceptance of jobs. An applicant may be referred to a non-essential job under these con ditions: If he is not needed for an es sential job in the area; if he is not adaptable to an essential job outside the area; or if there is un due hardship, special emergency circumstances, or other good cause. -V Tito Escapes To Hills As Nazis Raid Hideout BAKI, Italy. May 29.—(Delayed) —UP)—Marshal Tito escaped to the mountains along with Maj- Ran dolph Churchill when German paratroopers and glider-borne in fantry captured the Bosnian head quarters of the Yugoslav partisan leader May 25, it was disclosed here today. Partisans declared Field Marshal Erwin Rommel per sonally directed the attack. -V REFUGEES MAY COME TO U. S. WASHINGTON, June 2. — <fP) —Some war refugees unquestion ably will be brought to the United States, President Roosevelt said today, and one of the plans under study contemplates housing them in an army camp no longer need ed by the military. VALMONTONE, VELLETRIFAUT AS YANKS CUT VIA CASILINA IN VICIOUS FORWARD SMASH ■-* - Italian Refugees Return To Homes After Battle Passes j i.M _ . I—III This group of Italian refugees was among the civilians, old and young, who returned weary and forlorn to take up life anew in their home city of M inturno after the Allies had driven out the Germans. AP staff photographer Henry L. Griffin, serving with the war still picture pool, made this and other sim ilar pictures of returning reG^^s. (AP wirephoto). Bluethenthal Air Base Completely Reorganized -v -—-—-----^-— MANPOWER SAVED BY CHANGES M E Complete reorganization of the Bluethenthal Army Air Base in the interest of conserving vital man power has been effected, Col. John N. Jones, base commander, an nounced yesterday. The move provides for the elim ination of all over-lapping -func tions and centralization of author ity in a single command, accord ing to the announcement. Elimination of duplicate func tions and centralization of com mands will result in a curtailment of administrative personnel and make the resulting surplus of man power available for immediate ov erseas duty, the colonel declared. The reorganization is in line with similar changes instituted throughout the First Air Force by Maj. Gen. Frank O’D. Hunter, commanding general. Discussing the move. Colonel Jones said: “These changes are a direct con sequence of the War Department’s present decision to permanently assign the First Air Force to the United States. This decision makes it possible to dispense with various service companies needed by a tactical organization, but not re quired where an air force is lo cated on zones of interior bases.’ Key officers of Colonel Jones newly organized staff are as fol lows: Deputy Base Commander — Lt. j Colonel Andrew J. Reynolds. Air Inspector — Major Augustus' Becker. Director of Operations and Train ing — Lt. Colonel William J. I’cal lock, 2nd. Director for Administration and Services — Major James E. Gra ham. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) Yank Jungle Troops Wrest Wooded Ridge From Japs On Riak ADVANCE ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS, New Guinea, Sat urday, June 3 — I/P) — Ameri can jungle troopers fought to the top of a heavily wooded ridge overlooking the Bosrek Mokmer road to increase their pressure Thursday on the des perate Japanese defenders of Biak, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today. Enemy resistance atop the vital weights was shattered by the tough Sixth army Yanks who invaded the largest of the Sehouten islands a week ago today. “We arc row mopping up,” a headquarters spokesman said of ‘the Americans’ struggle to throw' out the Japanese who have been holding up the ad vance on the important Mak mer airdrome since Monday. The enemy had dug in in pre pared positions on the ridge and streamed sniper fire down on the Yanks moving west along the road. Storming of the ridge was achieved near Ibdi and Man dom, villages just off the main rou'ie between Bosnek ard Mokmev airdrome which is only 880 miles from the south ern Philippines. The Sorido and Borokoe airfields are just be yond Mokmer. Posession of the cliffs poises the Americans for their main thrusts for the three airfields. The Japanese positions enabled them to threaten the Yanks’ flanks and commanders order ed the advance slowed until Vhe enemy could be driven from the heights, which parellel the road about 200 yards inshore. $1,300 REFUNDED IN RENT REBATES Overcharges aggregating $1,300 were refunded to tenants by err ing landlords in the area controlled by the Wilmington Rent Control office during the month of May, it was reported yesterday by George W. Jeffery, director of the local office. In spite of repea'ed warnings by the Rent Control office, a few land lords persist in attempting to raise their rents without first applying to the rent control office for au thorization for the increase, Jef fery said. “In order to make this matter clear”, he said, “no rent should be increased without first obtain ing written permission from the Rent Control office. Landlords who have never rented before can ob tain advance opinions as to the proper rent by applying to this of fice.” Any person who demands or re ceives rent in excess of those pro vided for under the rent regulation may subject th’emselve to be asked to refund the amount overcharg ed, or may subject themselves to heavy penalties, Jeffery added. --V Commitee Aoproves War Price Controls WASHINGTON, June 2. — (JP) — A one-year extension of wartime price controls, to June 30, 1945, was approved unanimously today by the house banking committee, after it voted to permit present 'ood subsidies, but no more, and passed up a modified “Bankhead amendment” for special price - treatment of the cotton textile in- : dustry.” j The committee action, if sus- : tained by the House and Senate, ■ would permit subsidies on meat, < butter and flour to continue but ] would ban any extension f sub sidies to other commodities- , - —V- t Americans, Chinese Gain On Myitkyina SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND HEADQUARTERS, Kandy, Ceylon, June 2—W)—Americans and Chin ese attacking from three sides are gaining steadily within and out side the north Burma Japanese bastion of Myitkyina. an Allied communique announced today. -V Arabian Pipeline In ‘Iffy’ Stage WASHINGTON, June 2. — UP) — President Roosevelt raised doubt ioday that this government will go through with its project of con structing a 1,250-mile oil pipeline across Arabia. % U ROUTED GERMANS LOSING HEAVILY Allied Forces Draw Knot Around Nazi Remnants From Hitler Line ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS, NAPLES, June 2.—(/P) —Powerful American armor ed and infantry forces smash ed through the key German strongholds of Valmontone and Velletri in the Alban hills before Rome today, shatter ing the enemy’s last-ditch de fenses and foreshadowing the beginning of the end of the battle for the Eternal City. Valmontone, 20 airline miles from Rome on the Via Caslina. main escape route for the mauled German 10th army retreating from the Hitler line, and Velletri, 18 mies southeast of the Itaian cap tal, fell af*er days of vicious as sault and flaming resistance. ^Early tonight fierce fighting was reported stil in progress as Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark’s victorious forces continued to pound back the stubbornly struggling Hermann Goering armored division and oth er crack Nazi units. The Allies held three miles of the Via Casilina. Capture of Valmontone and sev erance of the Via Casilina drew the Allied sack tighter on the remnants of what once were 12 German divisions1 holding the Gus tav and Hitler lines. Less than 18 miles separated Clark’s troops from Canadian forces who pound ed up the Via Casilina and seized Ferentoni. Cought between the two Allied wings. Marshal Albert Kes selring’s battered forces were streaming northward on several secondary roads toward the tem porary safety of a new defense line hinged on Avezzano. Crack Division In Fight It was disrclosed that the crack American First Armored division and other strong American rein forcements had been thrown into die battle now raging within sight if Rome. The First Armored divi sion played a conspicuous part in •he Tunisian victory last year. Tonight a front dispatch report ed Fifth army vanguards were fanning out in a wide arc through the Alban hills above Velletri, ad vancing on a mountain front ex tending from the Appian Way to the Via Ca.-ilina—the two principal highways into Rome. German prisoners captured since the Allied offensive began May 11 approached the 20,000 mark. Street fighting raged in Velletri 'or several days before its fall. American armor and infantry pen etrated to the hill town’s central square yesterday, rooting “clus ers of shuddering Germans” out if backyards and wine cellers, but he remainder of the doomed Gar rison continued to give desperate apposition. Their every avenue ol escape had been cut by American Eorces pushing through the moun tains north and northwest upon Rome. The Nazi commanders threw more and more troops into the battle raging in the storied Alban hills immediately before the Eter nal City, but these were offset by reinforcements of American and French divisions made available to General Clark by the collapse of enemy resistance between Terraci na and Littoria in the coastal sec tor last week. These now veteran troops — in (Contiuued on Page Two; Col. 5) FEAR BALKAN THRUST LONDON, June 2.—(.Pi—As Al ied bomber armadas methodically ;oftened their western anti-inv# ;ion defenses, the Germans ex iressed fear today that General Cisenhower’s cross-channel blow vould be preceded by an invasion 'f the Balkans from the Middle Cast. -V ?5 Workmen On Ship Overcome By Fumes At New York Pier NEW YORK, June 2— — Another mass overcoming—the second in two days—struck la Brooklyn today but again there were no fatalities. While all but 26 of 1,000 pedestrains and subway riders felled or otherwise affected by escaping chlorine gas yes# terday were reported out of danger, 25 workmen in the hold of a ship were overcome by foul air stirred up when bal last was shifted. Ten of the men were taken to a hospital and 15 treated at the jrter where the ship was tied. None was believed ia serious condition. Tf Trapped Nazi U-Boat Is Forced To Surface Pertain doom awaits this Nazi submarine, so dramatically pictured here when forced to the surface, battered by gunfire in the North At . ..erA® German U-boat wallows helplessly, HMCS Chiliwack and the Icarus close in. The diver made a desperate effort to escape but th relentless pursuers never lost sight of their prey. After firing on the sub for several minutes, Canadian and British ships stood by for th ‘‘kill ” The sub came to the surface and the survivors were later picked up and taken aboard Canadian ships as prisoners. (Int..)
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