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• f ^___ _; Served by Leased Wire of the __ -y>?rr-;rji*^ ^ AVFNfiF j—TUF BTAR-NEW5 i State and National News * ■ I Hi ~V PUBiTshcP Ilf ■ i^i■■ ■ ■ »» AND DATAAN | \ ----- atTMIg ffOCSTT €HYV ©F !Pia©®15Eg8 AM® IPIUBASMU^a _ -' WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 1944 FINAL EDITION _PRICE FIVE CENTS L — '■ ' ■ ■■■■■ ■■■ ■ 11 ■ ' 5th W ar Loan Drive Opens Here Monday Goal Set At $5,707,000, Including $2,190,000 In Series E’ Type programs ARRANGED Rally For Reta‘l Store Em ployes Will Be Held At Bailey Theatre The Fifth War Doan campaign, .,,-ing which Wilmingtonians are expected to pay $5,707,000 for hnnds including $2,190,000 for the Star • type “E” bonds, will open here Monday with the big „est day’s program ever to be scheduled in connection with a Treasury department drive. The schedule is of such large pro portions that it extends from 9 o'clock in the morning until the close at night of the showing of a Camp Davis war bond variety show. At 9 a.m. retail store employes wiU gather at the Bailey theater {or a bond - selling rally, where each will be assigned a $300 bond sales quota. They will be address ed bv three Bluethenthal fighter pi lots. Capt. Robert J. Weaver, First Lieut. MacArthur Powers, and Lieut. Col. Andrew J. Reynolds, deputy base commander. At 9:30 a.m.. retail stores will be opened and sales-persons will start their sales of bonds and stamps. (War bond folders and oth er advertising material are avail able to merchants at the Chamber of Commerce.) Shipyard Program At 11:30 a.m., a 42-piece Wom an's Marine band from Camp Le jeune will play at the shipyard. Major J. C. Bell, Marine public relations officer, will address the shipbuilders. At 4 p.m, Police Chief. Charles li. Casteen has ordered the traffic ' clearance of both sides of- Market street. Thirteenth to Fourth streets, east side of Third street from Mar ket to Grace; and north side of Princess street, between Third and Fourth streets. Cars left in these sections after 4 p.m. will be re moved by a wrecker, as these areas are designated for the Camp Davis parade. At 6:45 p. m. an impresive War bond parade will proceed west on Market from Fourth to front; north on Front to Red Cross street; east on Red Cross to Third street; south on Third street from City Hall to Market and east on Market to (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) _V_ WHOLESALE MART TO OPEN JUNE 19 Comoletion Of $10,000 Project Is Announced By City Manager Nichols Completion of construction by the city of the $10,000 growers’ whole sale market at Fourth and Ashe streets was announced yesterday by City Manager A. C. Nichols, and the opening set for 4:30 a-m., Monday. June 19. The covered-shed platform mea sures 24 by nearly 300 feet and is iurnished with electric lights, water and telephone. A rest room is also located there. An attendant w;ll be employed at the market. Charge to the growers for the use of one bay—or a width of 12 feet — for the sale of produce has temporarily been set at fifty cents per day. In announcing the opening of the market, Nichols said the “city council hopes thse facilities will be found much more convenient and comfortable for those who buy and sell produce than Dock street bas been.” -V WEATHER ... FORECAST NORTH CAROLINA: Partly cloudy and continued warm Sunday. Scattered thun dershowers in afternoon. 'Easern Standard Time) „ 'By v. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours 7:30 p.m.. yesterday. , Temperature am- 75; 7:30 am, 73; 1:30 pm, 80; Pm. 79 Maximum 83; Minimum 73; Mean 78; Normal 76. i Humidity 1:30 am, 80; 7 ;30 am, 95; 1:30 pm, 69: 1:30 Pm, It. » , Precipitation Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 pm inches. tioce the first of the month inches. Tides for Today „ High Hou "iiming\n __1:12 h 8:35: v l:37p 8:49] "asonboro Inlet_11:27a 5:K: 5:34! Sunrise, 5:00 a.m.; sunset, 7:23 p.m. Moonrise, 11:48 p.m; Moonset 9:54 a.m. (Continued on Page Four; Col. T U.S. Drives ThirdOf Way Across Normandy; \ Air Force E New Bases In France; Fleeing Na: X Turn And Make Stand In Italy --- - + + - *_★ - Bond Belle _ The original Liberty Bell pealed out the news that D-Day had ar rived. Here’s screen attresS Fiye Emerson, posed behind a replica of the famous bell to remind you that the Fifth War Loan is the Invasion Loan. Back the invasion by buying an extra bond. BROUGHTON SEEKS VICE PRESDENCY 'V' North Carolina Governor Says His Name Will Be Placed In Nomination NEW YORK, June 10.-Gov ernor J. Melville Broughton o f North Carolina, announcing his candidacy for the Democratic vice presidential nomination, told a press conference here today that ‘the American public mind in its present state will overwhelmingly reelect President Roosevelt.” Broughton, who said his name would be placed in nomination for the second place on the Democrat ic ticket, declared that “the issue in the coming national campaign will resolve itself into the question of the conduct of the war and ne gotiations at the peace table. All other problems will be forgotten.” He predicted that a general plank in the Democratic National plat form against Federal encroach ment of states’ rights would ap pease southern Democrats now threatening to bolt the new deal. The So - called southern revolt, Broughton said, was “not so much anti-Roosevelt nor anit-fourth term as it was resentment against Fed eral interference with matters of sole state concern.” The principal questions at issue between southern exponents ' of states’ rights and the administra tion, Broughton added, were the poll tax and the racial problem. “I can agree with leaders of'the movement that these questions and many others are exclusively state perogatives,” Broughton said. He expressed the opinion that President Roosevelt would be re nominated, would accept and would be elected withthe “border states” —Oklahoma, Kentucky and West Virginia—going Democratic. Broughton said he was strongly in favor of state management of new public works in the post-war period. FIRE ON ALLIES ■ ABOUT 40 MILES NORTH OF ROME Run Into Maze Of Enemy 88-Millimeter, Anti-Tank Guns At Village 'SIZABLE ACTION* Withdrawal Before British Eighth Army On Adri atic Coast Continues ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS IN ITALY, June 10— (fP) — Nazi forces in Italy, fleeing northward in a rout that the Allied command de clared had become a “catas trophe,” turned to make a stand of stubborn but not ful ly-disclosed proportions late today around a village some miles northeast of Viterbo, which is 40 miles above Rome. George Tucker, Associated Press correspondent with the Fifth Army in the field, wrote in a dispatch timed 9:30 p.m. tonight that the previously almost-unopposed race of the Allies to overtake the retreat ing Germans had slowed per ceptibly when they ran into a maze of German 88-milli meter and anti-tank guns in and around the village. The Allies brought up tanks. In fantry and artillery, and the fight ing “quickly assumed the character of a sizable action,” Tucker said. Engage Big Units Indications were that the Fifth Army, which has advanced at a speed of about 15 miles a day since the fall of Rome last Sunday, had succeeded in its racing efforts to overtake and engage some impor tant units of Col. Gen- Eberhard Von Mackensen’s 14th Army Capturing the ancient town of Tuscania, 13 miles northeast of Tarquinia. which fell Friday, the Fifth Army had fanned out with just such an overtaking battle in tended. Earlier Saturday a headquarters spokesman had described the Ger man army as “retreating in a completely disorganized fashion,” with the Fifth Army “unable to catch up with any important ele (Continued on Page Twq; Col. 4) -V BURNS ARE FATAL TO BUS MECHANIC William T. Shore, 19, Dies As Result Of Fire At Garage Here William Thomas Shore, 19-year old mechanic at the Queen City bus line garage, died in James Walker Memorial hospital yester day morning at 11 o’clock as the 1 esult of burns suffered in a fir« at the garage Tuesdav afternoon. He was burned when his clothes caught fire after he failed in an attempt to throw a pan of gasoline from a burning bus. The engine of the vehicle had berome ignited while Shore was working on the distributor and the gasoline had (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) French Civilians Aid Yanks | A grim-faced American paratrooper, cigarette hanging trom his lip>, questions two French civilians after he and other air-borne troops had invaded the continent. Allied forces in France have re ceived much aid from civilians in the way of information concerning the enemy. U. S. Signal Corps Badiophoto. Japs’ Second Try To Aid Biak Garrison Thwarted -- ¥, DESTROYERS ROUTED Palau Islands, Guarding Philippines, Bombed By Land-Based Planes By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Press War Editor Accurate Allied naval gun fire routed a Japanese destroyer force in a brief night engagement off northwestern New Guinea, thwart ing a second attempt to relieve beleaguered enemy troops on Biak island, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today. The Nipponese turned and fled at high speed without firing a shot. American and Australian warships chased them for an hour and a half and possibly damaged one by long range fire. Japanese troops in barges were abandoned by their escort U. S. ships wiped them out. Destroyers sunk Within the last week MacArthur has reported the sinking of five Japanese destroyers, damaging of two others and a cruiser in a sud den reappearance of enemy war ships which have avoided naval engagements for six months. Four Japanese merchant ships were sunk Friday, three of them off Manokwari, 150 west of Biak island where sixth army troops were ferreting Japanese from caves around recently captured Mokmer airdrome The Paulau islands, guarding the approaches to the Philippines, were bombed for the first time by land-based bombers Thursday night, MacArthur reported. Large fires and explosions were start ed. The' attackers- probably came from the Japanese built Wakde airdrome, 700 miles south of Pa lau. Cover Islands United States aircraft ranged the full length of the Caroline is lands. Besides Palau, south and southwest Pacific planes' lashed at Truk, Stawan and Nomoi. Central Pacific bombers swept over 1,500 miles of Nipponese islands in the most extensive aerial sorties reported recently (Continued on Page Four; Col. t>) Poles In Nazi Army Asked To Surrender NEW YORK. June 10—UP)— A spokesman for Gen. Eisen hower broadcast today a mes sage to Poles who have been forced to fight in German armies, directing them not to shoot Allied soldiers and to come over to the Allied side. “Do not shoot at the soldiers of the Allied armies,” said the message beamed to Europe by the British broadcasting company and recorded by the Blue Network. “If you are forced to shoot, take care to miss. At first oportunity come over to the Allied armies, or hide and await their arrival.” GERMANS SAY U. S. NEAR MONTEBOURC Claim Six American Divi' sions Have Started Big Scale Attack dune J.U—uri—uermai n'ews agency broadcasts said to night that six American divisions with “orders to conquer Cherbourg fortress” began a large-scale at tack yesterday and rolled to t point near Montebourg, 15 miles southeast of Cherbourg. Nazi formations “fighting delay ing actions withdrew northwarc .and northwestward and by short ening their positions were able t< successfully stem a further ad vance of the Americans by Friday night,” the Transocean agencj said. More U. S. parachutists droppec behind German lines, Berlin said The Americans were using tw< airborne and three infantry divi sions, one tank division and num erous special formations on a 14 mile front between Montebour; and Carentan, the Germans said The Axis high command report ed without Allied confirmatioi that the Allies .-had made a no the: attempt to land at Trouville, sever miles across the Seine estuary south of Le Havre. The attemp “collapsed in the fire of our' coas t a 1 batteries, which inflictec heavy losses on the enemy,” - th< communique said. “One enemi warship was sunk and the othe: forced to withdraw.” While not admitting Americar advances on the Cherbourg penin sula, the German high commanc did acknowledge that British-Ca nadian troops fighting in the Caen Bayeux sector to the east had “sue. ceeded in pushing back our real guard lines, behind which our re serves are being deployed.’ Heavy tank fighting was continu ing in the sector, it said. “Along the entire front,” saic the bulletin, “many German nesti of resistance and fortified points encircled by the enemy, are hold ing their own in stubborn fighting Within the first three days more than 200 enemy tanks were de stroyed and several thousanc prisoners taken.” 4 Price Ceilings On Used Automobiles Effective July 10 At January Levels WASHINGTON, June 10 — UP)— Price ceilings lor all used passen ger automobiles, under considera tion by the Office of Price Ad ministration for over a year, gc into effect July 10 at levels general ly of January. 1944. Price Administrator Chester Bowles, announcing the new regu lation at a news conference today, said the ceailings would roll-back previaling prices an average of It per cent. The measure covers sales by privStte owners as well as deal ers. The regulation fixes maximum prices for 23 makes and aboui 6,000 models manufactured from 1937 through 1942. Ceiling for 1942 models are the same as maximum prices for new passenger cars as of February 29, 1944, while prices for 1937-41 models ere fixed at January, 1944, levels. For older cars, the price is held to that estap'ished for the nearest comparable 1937 model. Prices will vary, as they have done in normal 'times, in three geogrpahical pr eo /f ees establish ed. They will be lowest in region a which inch’d :s all states east of the Mississippi river, highest in re gion C comprising Washington, ore gon, California, Nevada and Ari zona, and abaft halt-way between the two levels in regon B, covering the rest of the country. • Typical prices are $990 for a 1942 Ford V-8 deluxe • four door sedan sld “as is’’ in region A, $1,025 in region B, and $1 v65 in region C. For warranted cars, the ceilings in respective areas are $1,238, $1,201 and $1,331 The ceiling on a 1937 Chevrolet master deluxe four dor sedan will be $340 “as is” in region A. in region B and $470 in regon C. Warranted prices are $440, $500 and $588. The regulation permits additions to ceiling prices for extra equip ment, such as $10 for any heater and $20 for any radio. 2,000 WARPLANES SENT INTO ACTION AGAINST GERMANS Clearing Weather Enables Bombers To Roar Across Channel Again BLAST GUN POSTS Troop Carriers First To Take Advantage Of Air fields In France SUPREME HEADyuAL TERS ALLIED EXPEDI TIONARY FORCE, Sunday, June 11 —</P)— A11 i e d air power swept back into action in support of the invasion yesterday, establishing bases on the beachheads in France, and, it was announced today, U. S. fighter' commands alone sent nearly 2,000 planes into the sky. , Clearing weather enabled heavy bombers to roar across the channel again after a 15 hour lull and Allied planes of all types blasted German troop concentrations and tanks, big gun positions and airdromes as well as rail and highway transport. Liberators dumped heavy loads of explosives behind the battle zone in ‘both Normandy and Brit tany and the tireless Marauder medium bombers made three at tacks during the day. Pa,ns itaaio ©item* An indication that the assault was being continued through the night came as the Paris radio suspended at midnight and Ber lin broadcast warnings of nuis ance raiders penetrating into western Germany. (The Hungarian radio also left the air early in the night, the federal . communications commis sion reported-. The German air force still avoided a show-down, but several aerial battles developed. The Eighth Air force listed ten German planes shot down and 21 American craft missing while the Ninth Air Fare® announced al ' least ten of the enemy shot dowr and five U. S. planes missing. Fly Wounded Back The first planes to take advan tage of the newly constructed landing strips — whose existence placed Allied aircraft in action from French soil for the firsl time since 1940 — were Ameri can C47 troop carriers which were used to fly wounded back to Brit ain. Alley ldiiucu vxx unc v»x uic three strips built since last Wed nesday by a newly formed Ninth Air Force engineering unit in the heart of territory held by the | Allies, picked up wounded and returned to Britain within 4 1-2 . hours of their original takeoff. British fighters also were over Normandy in strength and some of them used for the first time a landing strip just completed by RAF Servicing Commandos. They refueled and returned to battle without having to return to home ’ baces. Bombs, rockets and a hail oi bullets were poured down upon the Germans as the Allied airmen ‘ put a protective roof over the embattled infantrymen aground (Continued on Page Four; Col. 5) First Invader Capt. Frank Liilyman (above), former Army recruiting officer al Syracuse, N. Y., is said to have been the first Allied soldier t« set foot on France in the invasion on the Normandy coast. He led those jumping from the lead plane of the parachute troop carriers. AXIS CLAIMS REDS HAVE OPENED PUSH Reports Launching Oi ‘General Offensive’ On Karelian Isthmus LONDON, June 10 —W— Th< Germans and the Finns said to nighfcthat the Russians had launch ed a “general offensive” on th< Karelian isthmus of the Finiisl front above Leningrad, and on< Berlin commentator suggested tha it might be the opening blow of i Soviet onslaught across the entiri eastern front. Moscow itself said “there wen no important changes at the front’ during the day. The broadcast' RUs *sian communique said 14 enem; planes were shot down Friday, bu made no mention of any other ac tion. Berlin said there was acceteratec action on five sectors of the easteri front in addition to the new actioi in Karelia. From the bloody Iasi front ii Romania to the long - dorman northern theater suspense wa heightened as the thir anniversar; of Hitler’s June 22 invasion of Rus sia appraoched, and in high place everywhere it appeared that Mas ter Soviet strokes could not b deferred much longer if they wer not already under way. The Finnish army commun que bboke the first word of the r« ported new offensive, declai ing that the Russians early yestei day morning started a general ol fensive on the Karelian isthmu supported by “particularly heav; artillery fire and strong air forces’ “Attacks made at various place were repulsed except for a fev small and limited penetrations,’ the bulletin said. “The enemy sus stained considerable losses in kill ed and more than 10 tanks weri destroyed. Our fighters and anti aircraft defense shot down a tota of 24 enemy planes. The. German transocean com mentator Von Olberg said over thi Berlin radio that it was “too earl; to judge what tactical and strategii (Continued on Page Four; Col. 6; French Showing Greater Resistance Against Nazis By NED NORDNESS LONDON, June 10.— W) —French resistance to the Germans is rising, with sabotage and insurrection all over France, it was learned at Al lied headquarters tonight. Every French village, it was de clared, offers information, medical assistance and any other possible help to the Allied forces Although the Allied high com mand was withholding for the stra tegic moment its instruction to the underground to strike all - out for the liberation of the country, front line dispatches and continental re ports told of multiplying blows against the Nazis. Unrest also was j reported in the German Reich it self. While some observers were in dined to be conservative in thei estimates of these reports—whicl seeped out of the Netherlands ant northern Italy as well as Franct and Germany — it was concedet that the invasion of Normandy hat inspired increasing sabotage behint the French lines. The most sanguine reports camt to the French press service in Lon don. These said French patriot: were engaged not only in wide spread sabotage but were fighting pitched battles with occupatior (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) ’ * / INTENDS TO CUT OFF CHERBOURG; CAPTURES TOWNS Nazi Broadcast Says Amer icans 15 Miles South Of Vital Port ENEMY WITHDRAWS Progress Continues Along 50 Mile Stretch From Caen To Montebourg SUPREME HEADQUAR TERS ALLIED EXPEDI TIONARY FORCE, Sunday^ June 11—(£>)— U. S. troops smashed a third of the way across the Normandy penin-* sula yesterday in a drive to seal off the prize port of Cherbourg and captured two towns and a handful of vil lages under cover of Allied fighters striking from newly-, seized airfields in France. A German broadcast plac ed the Americans near Monte-; bourg, only 15 miles south] east of Cherbourg, after th« Germans had withdrawn to “shorten defense lines.” Allied headquarters bulletin No. 10 issued just before midnight said “Allied progress continues along the whole of the beach head.” This meant that the Am erican, British and Canadian troops now were attacking heavi ly along a 50-mile stretch between Caen in the east and Montebourg in the northwest. VIAUi iiiiaiiu A dispatch from the front dis i closed that the Americans, with i artillery support, had begun strik : ing inland Friday after using the ; first three days to secure their i beachheads and establish contact i with the British-Canadian forces in the Bayeux sector, east of the ‘ expanded 35-mile-wide American front. The Americans gained six ' miles in their first smash inland from the sea, and veteran troops * were spearheading the attack, the dispatch said. Improving weather which found Allied fighters now hitting from 1 France for the first time in four 1 years aided the Allied forward l movement. Heavy bombers attack £ ed German airfields In Normandy 5 and Brittany, behind the battle ’ line, and fighters strafed the ene my’s armored and transport s movements. The Americans under Lt. Gen. e Omar N. Bradley captured the » small but valuable port of Isigny, 32 miles southeast of Cherbourg, - toppled Trevieres eight miles east - of Isigny, closed in from both sides - on Carentan, six miles west of - Isigny, and slashed “in several - places” the main Paris railwej|r s leading into Cherbourg. ’ Fichtinar At Carentan Heavy fighting raged at Carer!* 5 tan, ’ the late Allied bulletin saia. [ The Germans had flooded the tei|» rain in that sector, causing diJMb culties, a spokesman said. | Sever fighting with strong enemy ' armored units also flamed through I the fifth day in the Caen area c® the Brilish-Canadian sector. A front dispatch said Allied artillery , men had taken up positions in ft ; struggle for a ' ridge commanding . Caen, and that engineers had been partly suocessful- in the setting of a tank trap against reinforceg Nazi panzer units there. “In the Cherbourg peninsula oug advance,' patrols are west of thfc main railway in several places,f the Allied communique said. ? • The apparent immediate objeqjr tive of the American troops strfl$ . ing in the Montebourg area, at Vichy broadcast said, was Valog ■ . nes, the communications key t > • Cherbourg. Valognes is only 1 I i miles southeast of the big porl | Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montg^rr « i ery, Allied ground commander, na i | established advance headquarter I 1 in France and has visited th , 1 troops in the front lines. He wai reported well satisfied with deve lopments. The Eighth and Ninth U. S. A!* Forces flew nearly 2,000 sortie! during the day in their relentless battering of German position! i throughout Normandy and beyond^ (Continued on Pag* Four; Col. 4)1 fc* I
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