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FORECAST BEMEMBEH WILMINGTON AND \ ICINITY: Partly * cloudy, humid and rather hot today, HVABV If ABBAB > scattered afternoon or evening thunder- JtmJmIIi DADBVil showers. Temperatures yesterday: ■ un |)BI|ia m IV Hlgh 87-low 73._ AND BATAAN VoL 77.—NO. 137 ESTABLISHED 1867 3 1 *-------- ---- A - JPIedged By Dewey . .i£>. * * ★ * * * * * * * * British Rapidly Encircling Caen In Great Tank Battle rnze lity Next Goal Of Allies CANADIANS AID DRIVE U. S. Troops Reported In New Campaign Against St. Lo SUPREME HEADQUAR TERS ALLIED EXPEDI TIONARY FORCE, Thursday June 29. (AP)—British tanks and infantry backed by Ca nadian gunners caught the prize inland port of Caen in a steel nutcracker last night reaching to within four miles southwest of the city and throwing at least three Ger man divisions into turmoil in probably the greatest armor ed battle ever fought in west ern Europe. North and northeast of caen tne Eritish pressed down at distances of two to three miles from Caen in a fierce fight to distract the Nazis from the southwestern out flanking move that brought the greatest conflict and threw the Na zis into'the deadliest peril. The German ■ controlled Paris radio said early today that the American Second corps had launch ed an attack in the direction of St. Lo and that violent fighting was in progress. Roger D. Greene, Associated Press correspondent with the Brit ish forces, said in a frontline dis patch that nine separate German counterattacks had been beaten off without any gain for the enemy, while the British tanks and Tom mies pressed ahead, crossing the Odon river line at several places. Crashing through the woods, tank confronted tank at distances as lit tle as 30 yards,he said, and in three days of the British offensive more than 60 German tanks have been knocked out, making a total of more than 160 since the Allies invaded Normandy June 6. British tanks overran German long - range gun positions so swift ly that the enemy could not bring his cannon to bear, and had either to surrender or be mowed down. “It is a big operation, very suc cessful, and very difficult,” said a British staff officer at field head quarters. He described three German ar mored divisions as thrown into “complete turmoil,” milling around ir, confusion all along the front in ■vain attempts to stem the British advance. The German infantry has been so depleted, Green write, that few prisoners are being taken, for the Germans are having to rely on their tanks and artillery in the ferocious but confused effort to save Caen from encirclement. German counterattacks were led by as many as 35 tanks each, but all failed. 'The German radio complained that the British had thrown in “con siderable reserves, especially tanks and artillery,” and that Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery was “stub bornly sticking to his intention of encircling the city of Caen from the south.’ It srpoke also of a Ger man “elastic defense.”) STATE GUARD CAMP TO BE POSTPONED RALEIGH, N. C., June 28. Postponement of the North Caro lina State Guard’s camp of instruc tion, scheduled for July 6-16.at Ft. Bragg, <j>n account of infantile pa ralysis in ceitr-'n areas of the stat* was announced today by Adj. Gen J Van B. Metts, who said he was acting on "information and recom mendation” by -State Health Office) Carl V. Reynolds. Dr. Reynolds, who today lictec 104 cases of infantile paralysis re ported in the state this month, saic he wished to urge people in area where there is infantile paralysi to refrain from going to other sec tions and people in other section to stay away frorp the areas of in fantile paralysis. ‘ -V CHINESE ADVANCE SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMANI HEADQUARTERS, Kandy, Cej Ion, June 28—(ID—Taking swift ac vantage of their capture of tft Japanese north Burma supp base of Mogaung, Chinese troop have lunged six miles eastward ward Myitkyina, Allied headqua ters announced tonight Roosevelt Hammered By Nominee FLIES TO CHICAGO Empire State Governor Teamed With Bricker By Republicans CHICAGO STADIUM, June 28.— (AP)—Governor Thom as E. Dewey accepted tonight ;he Republican presidential nomination voted him with a lone dissent and pledged his countrymen “a lasting peace’* when Germany and Japan have been taught by force to say: “Never again.” Acclaimed by thundering thous ands who interrupted 58 times to cheer his words, the.youthful New York executive hammered at an administration he said had ‘‘grown old in office” and had become “tired and quarrelsome.” A white orchid gleaming brilliant ly on her black dress, Mrs. Dewey shared the tumultuous reception accorded her husband. While the governor spoke, she sat on the platform about 10 feet from him and watched him intently. When Dewey completed hi® ad-v' dress and the applause had quit ed,- Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio, unanimously named his run ning mate, came forward and clasped his hand. The two chatted briefly in a hubble that drowned their words for all others. jjewey, ms own lace glistening with perspiration, told the Re publican delegates that "it seems that the great men who founded this nation really knew what they were talking about when they said that thre? terms were too many.” Predicts Vivtory In an ultimate victory next No vember, the governor voiced the highest confidence. And, he said, if the turn of the political wheel of fortune brings him to the presi dency, the military conduct of the war “must remain completely out of politics.” As for winning the peace, Dewey made it clear he stood firmly on the Republican platform, which advocated an international organi zation employing "peace forces” to keep in check the forces of ag gression. "We shall not,” he said, “make secure the peace of the world by mere words.” His remarks drew from Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, chairman of the convention platform com mittee, the comment to report ers: Stands On Platform "He stands on the platform 100 per cent. He did not attempt to go into specific detail on the nature of the international peace organi zation that will grow out of the war. The details can not be reach ed until we know what Great Brit ian and Russia will do.” Building the structure of peace, the governor declared, “is no task for men who specialize in dividing our people,” no task for "stubborn men, grown old and tired and quarrelsome in office.” He listed “full employment” aa the first objective of Republican dpmestic policy. By that, he said, he meant ” a real chance for every man and woman to earn a s decent living, at a decent wage.” "Do we have to have a war in (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) -V U. S. MAY BREAK WITH FINLAND WASHINGTON, June 28. —(ff)— American relations with Finland appeared today to be headed for a final break as the result of tHe Finnish government’s announce ment that it will fight an active war with the Nazis against Russia. At the same time, further diplo matic moves were under consider* ation to show this nation’s concern over Argentina’s failure to take part in a united hemispheric front against the Axis. The decision is now up to Presi dent Roosevelt on whether to snap the thin diplomatic thread remain ing between the United States and Finland since Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope was sent home from Washington 10 days ago. Of ficials here consider it extremely unlikely that Finland would take the first step. rlane Service For Wilmington Nears Reality Early Release Of Equipment For City Stop Pushed Before CAB By Bayard Clark By HOWARD SUTTLE Star Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 28.—(AP')—Plans for early re lease of planes to permit commercial air service to Wil mington and eastern North Carolina were made public to day by Rep. J. Bayard Clark of Fayetteville, following a conference with civil aeronautics board officials. Clark’s revelation came while of-* ficials of Southeast Airlines, ol Spartanburg, were submitting at a CAB hearing argument in support of an application to connect Wil mington by air with Cincinnati and Jacksonville and to render a “lo cal service” to cities of Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida. The Fayetteville congressman an ticipates that the board’s policy may provide for early inaugura tion of service by National Airlines between Jacksonville and New York. Approval has already been accorded the route, which would extend through Savannah, Charles ton, Wilmington, Norfolk and Phil adelphia. Clark said the board is also plan ning release of equipment to en able Eastern Airlines to resume flights which were temporarily dis continued due to requisitioning by the government of planes to be di verted to military use. R. Z. Cates, president of South east Airlines and a Spartanburg textile mill executive, and several of his associates asked the board at today’s hearing to permit the new line to provide a local service to cities on its proposed route and to permit them to inaugurate a community development program. The Southeast witnesses assumed a position similar to that of other so-called small lines which have charged the larger air carriers with being “more interested in hauling play boys between New York and Florida than in developing the com munities they sesye.’ ’ The line is one of nine compet ing in the current proceeding be fore the CAB, generally known as the Great Lakes—Florida case. State Airlines, of Charlotte is the only other carrier proposing to in clude Wilmington and other coastal North Carolina cities on the pro posed routes. State’s case is slated to be presented following conclu sion of the South east testimony. South east proposed Wilmington as a terminal on routes to Knox ville and to Winston - Salem, con necting with North - South trunk lines leading to Cincinnati and Jacksonville. Proposed flights follow: Two daily flights each way, Cin cinnati to Jacksonville, through Portsmouth, Ohio; Huntington, W. Va.; Charleston W. Va.; Bluefield, (Continued on Page Two; Col. <) BORDER BELT OPENS AUG. 1 RALEIGH, June 28. — (IP)— Open ing dates for flue-cured tobacco markets were set here today by the Tobacco Association of the United States in the closing ses sions of its two-day meeting as follows: Georgia - Florida Belt, Monday, July 24; Border belt (South Caro lina and North Carolina), Tues day, Aug. 1; Eastern Carolina belt, Monday, Aug. 21; Middle belt, Monday, Sept. 11; Old Belt Mon day Sept. 18; and Dark-Fired Vir ginia Belt, Monday, Dec. 11. Regulations concerning sale of tobacco at auction were passed by the Association, upon recommenda tion of the marketing committee, as follows: Not more than 360 piles of to bacco may be sold during an hour, except at the end of a sale when there will be a tolerance of 15 piles to complete sale of a farmer’s crop; weight of each pile of to bacco must be limited to 300 pounds. The selling period on the Geor gia belt will be four and a half hours per day per set of buyers; selling time on markets of the (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) HUGE SHIPMENTS LENT WASHINGTON, June 28. —((F)— Advance shipments for the inva sion piled up more than 16,000,001 tons of supplies in Britain in a year, twice the tonnage which Gen eral Pershing received during World War I, Lt. Gen. Brehor Somervell reported today. _ BIG AIR FLEETS STRIKE EUROPE LONDON, June 23—(A5)—In one of the most impressive demonstra tions of air power to date, the Al lies flung seven major heavy bomber spearheads into four Eu ropean countries today, hammer ing important enemy installations all the way from France to Ro mania. From England, fleets of Ameri can and British bombers roared out simultaneously in daylight for the first time, hitting an array of targets from French airfields to railroads within the Reich itself. The Mediterranean air force— with a force of some 500 heavy bombers plus fighter escorts — smashed two oil refineries at.Buc harest, rail yards at Chitila, on the route to Bucharest from the Plosti oil fields, and a German air drome at Karlova, Bulgaria. A Britain-based Liberator and Flying Fortress group split like wise into three task forces, one going to the railroad yards a1 Saarbrucken just across the Ger man border. The second streaming over the Paris area for blows or unspecified targets, the thirc rumbling on to Lyon, 70 mile! northeast of Paris, and unloading explosives on a trio of air bases Simultaneously, RAF Halifaxe: gave flying bomb installations it the Pas - de - Calais their fourtl heavy drubbing in less than 2‘ hours. Civilian Supplies Due To Be Curtailed More WASHINGTON, June 28. —(A>) —The civilian is “just begin [ ning to feel the pinch” of war s time shortages and, despite government efforts to fill i® 3 the worst gaps in civilian sup ply, can expect no large-scale relief until the war ends. Di rector William Y. Elliott of the office of Civilian requirements ) said today. “Up to this point this country l has suffered no serious depri E vation,” the War Production „ Board official said in an m s ter view. “Now the war is com ing home to civilians.” “The average American must expect a very thin time of it unless mere is an eariy ena w hostilities.” Large supplies of consumer goods built up in the period of intensive manufacture before war work hit its stride have now been drained from factory, wholesale and retail stocks, El liott explained. A new shortage has develop ed in steel—the result of in vasion demands for landing craft, heavy artillery shells and more tanks—which will af fect all consumers’ goods made of that metal, Elliott reported, adding that the munitions cut backs that were expected to cut military demands have not ar rived. j Republican Nominees In 1944 Presidential Campaign 1 _it... ■ 3BB6W-1 -8jjj J ,-•„,;; - ''" -- 5t •-•■. • GOV. THOMAS E. totSVEY OF NEW YORK __._GOV. JOHN W. BRICKER OF OHIO _ SOVIETS SMASH TOWARDS MINSK LONDON, June 28.--Smash ing westward toward the big White Russian capital of Minsk, four pow erful Red armies virtually complet ed destruction of the German “fath erland Line” today by capturing the fortified cities of Mogilev, Le pel and Osipovichi and completing the encirclement of Bobruisk, it is announced tonight by Moscow. Altogether more than 1,000 popu lated places within the flaming 250 mile zone of fighting were taken during the day as the Soviet forces swept through what were reputed to be the Nazis’ strongest defenses on the eastern front. Movilev fell to Col. Gen. Matvei Zakharov’s Second White Russian army after 24 hours of bitter street fighting, Premier Stalin announced in one of two special orders of the day. In the course of blasting the Na zis out of their la"t fortress on the Dnepr river, the Russian troops captured iwo German generals, Lt. Gen. Bammler and Maj. Gen. Kr mannsdorf, and completely routed the 12th German infantry division, said the daily broadcast communi que recorded by the Soviet monitor. The capture of Lepel placed the advancing First Baltic army of' Gen. Ivan Bagramian about 20 miles from the old Polish border, the closest the Reds have reached to t h e frontier in North Central Piissia. Field dispatches said the Rus sians, who opened their tremen dous summer offensive last Friday, were within 50 miles of Minsk and it seemed possible; that this major goal of the White Russian front might be reached in the first week : of fighting. i Osipovichi, 60 miles southeast of i Minsk on the railway to Bobruisk, : was taken in a “dep out - flank ing” maneuver by Gen. Konstantin K. Rokossovsky’s First White Rus sian army and completed the en circlement of Bobruisk, Stalin an nounced in his second order of the day. --V Japanese Troops Circle Hengyang CHUNGKING, June 28. — (JP) - Hengyang, junction of the Canton Hankow and Hunan and Kwangsi railways, has been encircled com pletely by hard-driving Japanese forces, the Chinese high command admitted tonight, and the way ap peared open for enemy drives eith er directly south to capture the rest of the Canton-Hankow route, or southwest toward Kwangs pro vince. Chinese still held the vital rail way town against battering pres sure from the Japanese, a commu nique said, with both sides losing heavily. U.S. Battleships Shell Parimushiro U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR, June 28.— (AP)—United States warships shell ed Japanese positions in the northern Kuriles and on Tin ian in the Madianas, thousands of miles apart, over the week-end while carrier planes again raked Guam and Rota to support a further American advance on invaded Sai pan, key island in the stepping stone chain to Japan. ±_:_ xnese last - oreaicing actions were announced today by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz. He also report ed futile attacks by Japanese tor pedo planes on an American car rier force and transports off Sai pan. The advance on Saipan took Ma rines and infantry two miles north ward along the eastern coast of that island. At the western end of the sector assault forces had bat tered their way further into Ara pan. The Nipponese were making a desperate effort to hold that island capital city. Kurabu Zaki, principal town at the southern tip of Paramushiro in the Kuriles was shell<*i Sunday night. There were no details of this third bombardment of the war on that enemy naval base. In a prelude to the shelling, Ar my and Navy planes hit Paramu shiro and adjoining Shumushu is land before dawn Sunday. They started several fires. A follow - up attack was made again before dawn Monday. In both strikes in tense antiaircraft fire was encoun tered. In Monday’s attack, 11 Japanese interceptors pounced on a single Navy Ventura. The American gun ners fought back, damaging two oi the attackers. A third disappeared in the fog, trailing smoke The Ven tura was damaged superficially. Two attacks were made by Nip ponese torpedo bombers on the flee' off Saipan, both of which were un successful. GERMANS TURN 0N5TH ARMY ROME, June -28. —(JP)*- Ameri can troops pushed within some 30 miles of the big Italian west coast port of Livorno (Leghorn) today after a savage all-night battle in which they hurled the Germans out of San Vincenzo, a little coas tal town which had been convert ed into a fortress. The ferocity of the Nazi’s resis tance to the Yank advance was duplicated clear across the penin sula as the enemy clung stubborn ly to every defensible position and took the fullest advantage of rough terrain. Fresh German infantry and guns -continued to join the battle, and the fighting was the fiercest since the Gustav and Hitler lines were cracked at the outset of the Allied offensive. Every civilian was cleared fro- r San Vincenzo before the Ameri cans attacked last night,, and for hours the fighting raged from house to house. Every street was protected by barricades and wire entanglements. It was regarded as a sample of what the Allies may expect in every Italian town now between them and the Germans’ Pisa-Rimini defense line. !Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, having halted t)ie disorganized ; flight of his forces, now obviously was determined to forestall an Al lied assault on the “Gothic” line. LAMB PUT BACK ON RATION UST WASHINGTON, June 29— UP) — Choice lamb cuts and some cheeses go back on the ration list Sun day and current values on beef steaks and roasts go up one to two points a pound, the Office of Price Administration announced tonight. In ordering the first important changes since most meat was re moved from rationing May 4, Price Administrator Chester Bowles said: “We are restoring points to choice lamb cuts not because of any expected decrease in supply, but because such cuts have been very unevenly distributed. “We are forced to increase the point values for the more popular cuts of beef because we will have a 12 per cent decrease in supply of rationed beef for distribution to civilians in July.” Bowles said three out of every four OPA district offices had re ported that lamb was short oi demand, and in a majority oi areas it was scarce. Choice steaks chops and roasts are the cuts re turned to rationing. Values rang* (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) -_V Australians Capture Hansa Bay From Japs ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS, New Guinea, Thurs day, June 29—(#1—Hansa bay or the British New Guinea coast wesl of Madang has been captured by Australian soldiers, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today. Capture of the supply port re duced the distance between the westward moving Aussies and American bypassing troops at Ai tape to approximately 200 miles. In that area, which includes We wak, thousands of Japanese have been trapped. Invasion Casualties lop 40,000 LONDON, June 28. —(JP)— The first two weeks of the Eu ropean invasion cost the Allies 40,549 casualties, including 24, 162 Americans killed, wound ed or missing, Supreme Head quarters announced today com pared with 70,000 German cas ualties in three weeks of bat tle. The Allied casualty figures do not include last week’s loss es in the final assault on Cher bourg, or in the launching of the new British offensive in the Caen sector. The casualty total for the period from June 6 to .Tnne 20, inclusive, listed 3,082 Ameri cans, killed, 12.7 per cent of all American losses. Many of these came in the first two bloody days of fighting on the beaches, when elements of the first and 29th divisions ran headlong into a German division engaged in maneuvers. The British lost 1,842 dead, 13.5 per cent of their total loss es, and the Canadians, 363, or 12.9 per cent of their casualties. The total dead for all forces was 5,287, 13 per cent of the total casualties. Meanwhile Southeast Asia command headquarters at Kan dy, ^Ceylon, disclosed that in Burma and India from Jan 1 to May 31 the Allies lost 6,000 killed or missing and 12,000 wounded, against Japanese losses of 21,700 dead and a probable of 20,000 wounded. These were exclusive of Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stillwell’s Chinese-American forces in nor thern Burma. Total missing in the fight ing in France was 12,183, some of whom probably are dead. Wounded totaled 23,079. The Americans lost 13,121 wounded, and 7,595 missing. Of the British total of 13,572, 8,599 were wounded and 3,131 miss ing; and of the Canadians with a 2,815 total, 1,359 were wound ed and 1,092 missing. <v
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