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FORECAST I - , ■ --j WILMINGTON AND VICINITY: Most- ^ 1 a * . ^ d ^ V. . BEMEMWM | umnujtmt Ufwrtrouj mar ■g^sr 1 j _ WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1944 . . FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867 7 Germans Hurl Armor At British - —z ___ + Dewey Asks Party Heads ForSupport WELCOMES ALL ADVICE GOP Nominee Pledges ‘joint Decisions’ On Campaign CHICAGO, June 29—(AP) __Gov. Thomas E. Dewey in vited Republicans everywhere today to share the driver’s ! Seat with him for the presi ! dential campaign, pledging j “joint decisions” with Gov. John W. Bricker and welcom ing any advice from Wendell l. Willkie. At what he called “the world’s biggest news conference,” the GOP nominee endorsed his party’£ platform as “representing my views,” declined to join in cabi net speculation, defined his for eign policy stand and welcomed “the support of every good Ameri can m the United States.” Then he went to work putting in to effect hat has emerged as a ( set policy of drawing the entire Republican organization in the in- : ner councils of the campaign. He i began conferences with national I committee members, state chair men and other party leaders, in cluding former President Herbert Hnnvpr. His day began with a breakfast conference with Governor Bricker, his running mate. Dewey said Bricker would share in all of the campaign plans and would ''make with him all the decisions of ma jor policy matters. Bricker went home to Columbus J for a civic celebration there to- 1 night and Dewey planned to con- 1 suit him by telephone particular 1 over the question of filling the na- ; tional committee chairmanship. The committee delegated six of its ] members to consult Dewey on this 1 question. i There have been reports that the present chairman, Harrison E. ■ Spangler, would be placed in j charge of the western campaign, with Herbert Brownell, Jr., _ di- 1 recting the national show. Spangler was one of a long line of visitors who streamed in and out of Dewey’s suite. Others in cluded Alf M. Landon, 1936 presi- . dential candidate, and Edgar ; Broivn, of the National Negro Council, Washington, D. C. In what his associates called un precedented procedure, Dewey was conferring, by groups of states at half-hour intervals, with members of the national committee and state chairmen and vice chair He talked twice with a subcom mittee of the national committee concerning the party’s national chairman, who probably will be named tomorrow by the full com mittee which Dewey has been in vited to address informally. Ten minutes late to his first news, conference since he became the nominee Dewey walked into a Stevens’ hotel ballroom where more than 500 persons, including some curious spectators, had gath ered. The grinning governor, dress i ed in a light gray suit and appear ing fresh despite a handshaking marathon that lasted well after midnight, posed politely for photo graphers. He confessed that the | size of the gathering left him “awestruck.” Sitting on a table and puffing at a cigaret in a six-inch holder, Dewey covered a wide range of is sues as reporters popped ques tions at him from every angle. Those in the rear of the crowded ballroom stood on chairs to see him better. * -V U,UUV Jap rlanes Destroyed By U. S. Washington, June 29— wt — American airmen have destroy ed more than 12,000 Japanese planes since the war started — Setter than one plane shot down °r bombed on the ground every two hours since the Pearl Harbow attack. This was disclosed today by a Navy report that its airmen—Navy and Marine flyers—have shot out of the air 5,521 Japanese war planes since the Dec. 7,1941 attack on Hawaii. -V bond sales near goal Washington, June 29.— — War bond sales in the $16,000,000, 000 Fifth War Loan drive have reached 79 per cent of the quota, Ted R Gamble, war finance direc tor, announced today. 9 c I u. S. Generals Figure In House-To-House Battle | In this remarkable photograph, two American major generals (their identities were not reveal ed) are seen scrambling over the roofs of sheds dn ring the last hours of the battle for Cherbourg when house-to-house fighting was under way and G erman snipers were being trapped. The picture dra matically visualizes the type of warfare faced by high ranking officers and men alike. U. S. Signal Corps Radiophoto. (International). s PEAS, TOMATOES AGAIN RATIONED WASHINGTON, June 29. —UP)— The Office of 'Prttse Administra tion tonight ordered the restora tion of ration point values for can ned peas, tomatoes and asparagus, effective Sunday, and dropped a broad hint that other vegetables now ration-free may require points again soon. OP A assigned a value of five points for No. 2 cans of peas and tomatoes. Asparagus goes back on the list at 10 points. Price Administrator Chester Bowles said the changes were in line with OPA’s earlier statement that points would be restored when the remainder of the 1943 pack was cleaned up. Indicating that the time is near for placing other vege tables back under rationing, he added: “We are already getting into the new canning season, the problem now is to distribute this year’s out put of canned vegetables evenly, giving everyone an opportunity to buy his share. This could not be done with canned vegetables at zero Doint values." Other canned vegetables stui ra tion-free are green and wax beans, beets, carrots com, spinach and leafy greens. Other processed food changes for the period through July 29 include the return of brandied, spiced and pickled fruits to rationing. They get the same point values as oth er canned fruits. (Continued on Page Five; Col. 5) -v—:— Attempted Lynchings Reported From Paris LONDON, June 29.—(Pr-The Ber lin radio, broadcasting what it said was a dispatch from Paris, assert ec today that residents of the Prtench capital attempted to lynch American prisoners as they were marched through the streets. “Late this afternoon almost 1,000 Allied prisoners were marched through Paris from Gare du Nord to Gate de L’Est,” the broadcast SU“There were some incidents caused by the population who, tried to lynch American soldiars. Mighty Air Fleet Hits Plane Plants LONDON, June 29.—“t Af*) —Two thousand U. S. war planes — 1,000 heavy bombers and an equal fighter es cort — struck deep into Germany today and smashed at seven. aircraft factories and a number of other targets while Allied fighters and medium bombers swarmed over the Normandy battle field in scorching support of ground tvnAnc ★---— Flak and swarms of German fighters challenged this mighty air fleet and 33 enemy fighters were knocked down by the vigilant es cort, while bomber gunners picked off three more which fought through to the heavies. Fifteen U. S. heavy bombers and three fighters are missing. Eleven other enemy planes were shot down over Normandy and four Allied planes were missing in that area. Methodically the heavyweights unloaded their cargoes of destruc tion visually on plane plants of Leipzig, Oschersleben, Aschersle ben, Magdeburg, Bernberg and Wittenburg all within a 150-mile radius southwest of Berlin, and Fallersleben, 40 miles east of Han nover. Other bombers hit synthetic oil plants at Bohlen, near Leipzig, and airfields at Celle Stendal and Urg, west of Berlin, as well as two im portant railroad yards and other military and industrial targets. Another prong of this ceaseless aerial offensive was aimed again at the Pas-de-Calais coast of France against the German flying bomb installations. As the robot bombs continued to fall on Eng land, RAF heavy bombers swept over the channel during the af ternoon and plastered launching ramps and equipment, losing five of the attacking force. _V-— Count Drops Litigation Against Barbara Hutton LOS ANGELES, June 29.— — Count Haugwitz - Reventlow, for mer Danish count, today filed a dismissal of his suit against his former wife, Barbara Hutton Grant dime - store heiress and wife of actor Cary Grant, in which he had sought control of the rearing and education of their son Lance, 9. Gas Unit Explodes At Bakery Plant; Houses Damaged A regulator on a gas heat ing unit exploded last night at 11:45 o’clock at the National Biscuit Company bakery at Fourth and Brunswick Sts., causing damage to surround ing dwellings when the con cussion shattered windows, broke mirrors and blew over trees. The unit was located next to a 6,000-gallon fuel oil tank in the rear of the bakery, but the tank did not explode. Minor damage was done to the bak ery. No fire resulted and no one was injured. _v_ TAX OFFICIALS HOLD MEETING Collection of property taxes, foreclosure of property taxes and special assessments were discuss ed yesterday by city and countj officials from Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover and Pen der counties at a district tax col lector’s meeting conducted by the Institute of Government, Chape: Hill, under the direction of Pey ton B. Abbott, assistant directoi of the Institute. One of the most 'mportant points stressed by Abbott was that taxes should be collected immediately oi before they have time to become greatly in arrears. Collection o] taxes by the city and county is good on the whole, he said, delin quencies amounting to only six 01 eight per cent but they do not ap pear so good when compared tc the percentage of federal collec tions made. Difficulties in collection are pri marily caused by a failure to col lec+ past due taxes, to let them ac cumulate until such time as the del inquent tax payer is unablesto pa: and must be forced to do so b: having his personal property levies upon or by foreclosure, he said This might be avoided, he added if a stronger effort were made t< collect these past due taxei promptly. Methods of foreclosing real es tate for non-payment of taxes am special assessment and other ger eral problems raised by the offi cials present were discussed. This was the ninth in a series o 18 meetings being conducted by th Institute of Government for coun Jty city and town officials. Nazi Lines Collapsing In Russia THOUSANDS KILLED Moscow Heralds Losses ‘Greatest Defeat In History’ LONDON, Friday, June 30. — (AP) — Shattered by pow erful blows from the air and on the ground, German de fenses in White Russia were collapsing ' today in what some Moscow dispatches de scribed as “The Greatest De feat In History” — with scores of thousands of Nazi troops either killed or captur ed and approximately 7,000 populated places liberated in the first week of the Rus sians’ mighty summer offen sive. Operating under .waves of Red warplanes, the Soviet armies ad vanced more than 20 miles yester day on two different fronts in the blazing central battle - zone and closed to within 30 miles of Minsk, the capital of White Russia, which itself was being bombed and burn ed by the Red air foree. Bobruisk, the fortified German stronghold which the speeding Rus sian troops had by - passed two days before, was cagtured and five trapped German divisions “there were liquidated at a cost of 16,000 dead and 18,000 prisoners, Premier Stalin announced. A special Moscow communique also enumerated the German toll of the fighting around Vitebsk in the first four days of the offensive placing the dead at 52,000 and the prisoners at 25,000—a total of 11, 000 Germans killed or captured in these two sectors esxclusive of the enormous losses the Russians have described, from day to day on all fronts since the new campaign got uuucx wa>. Far to the north of this German debacle, the Nazis’ warring part ners, the Finns, also were being routed all along the Aunus isth mus between Lakes Ladoga and Onezhskoe, and Stalin announced the recapture of the Karelian So viet republic capital of Petrosa vodsk, clearing the last stretch of the Murmansk - Leningrad rail way. This triumph gave the Soviet free use of the entire railway from the Berents sea in the north to Odessa on the Black sea in the south. Three thousand Finns were kill ed in one sector of the northern front, Moscow said, and' Soviet troops liberated 30,000 civilians held in Finnish concentration camps. -V Recreation Head Resigns City Job Earl B. Underwood has resigned his position as athletic director of the city recreation department to return to his family in Elizabeth, N. J., Jesse Reynolds, recreation department director, announced yesterday. Underwood went with the depart ment December 1, 1943, and since that time, has organized several basketball and softball teams in the city. He also organized the Municipal League of eight softball teams. The staff of the department hon ored Underwood at a luncheon giv en in the Woodrow Wilson hut yes ■ terday and presented him with an ail - leather brief case. Vance Chadwick will replace LTnderwood as athletic director. ■ Chadwick has been with the de partment for some time. Copenhagen ^Patriots Stage Demonstrations [ STOCKHOLM, June 29.— UP — More than 1,000 bonfires burned in ’ the streets of Copenhagen tonight ! as Danish patriots continued anti Nazi demonstration in which 11 - persons have been killed and 24 1 v/ounded, the Free Danish press - service reported. Danes ran through the streets hurling pictures of Adolf Hitler into E the fires and singing “God Save : The King,” the news service said adding that British flags were hoisted at many places. < CLARK’S ARMY GAINSj MILES ROME. June 29— W—Fighting. * stifling heat and against intensify German resistance, Lt. Gen. M; \ W. Clark’s American troops clip bed their way another five miles up the west Italian coast yester day and captured the town of Cas tagneto, 25 miles from the major port of Livorno (Leghorn). Another Yank column, plunging inland up Highway 73, hurled the Nazis out of Monticiano and con tinued on within less than 12 miles of the communications center of Siena, 31 miles below Florence. Highways behind the hard - hit ting American troops were littered with enemy dead and burned - out and abandoned enemy equipment. The roundup of German prisoners continued, with more than 25,000 now in Fifth army enclosures, and an Allied spokesman delcared that the Nazis were “showing signs of confusion” in the coastal sector In an effort to check Clark’s re lentless pursuit, which has been aided in recent weeks by the cap ture of several usuable ports, the Germans were resorting to the most elaborate demolitions — even to felling trees across the roads and stringing the limbs with booby i traps. Y — MAROONED FLIERS , START LONG CLIMB GRAND CANYON, June 29— (#— Three army fliers who have been marooned in a little - explored area of the Grand Canyon for more than a week rtarted the long climb cut to civilization today under the guidance of a ranger - native of the Canyon country and an eastern college professor whose hobby is mountain climbing. If all goes well the trio, who were reported to be uninjured and in good spirits, should reach the nearly 9,000-foot e’evation of the north rim of the world - famous gorge some time tomorrow. Parachuting from a B-24 bomber at 2 a.m. June 21 from an eleva tion of 14,000 feet the three men had the good fortune to descend onto the same small plateau, one of the thousands of formations in side the mile - deep gorge which at some points is 10 to 12 miles wide. SHEEHAN QUITS MERCHANT POST John A. Sheehan, executive sec qetary of the Retail Merchants' division of the Wilmington Cham ber of Commerce, tendered his re signation to the board of directors of the merchants division and it has been accepted, L. C. Robert son, Jr., president of the division, announced yesterday. Complete acceptance of the re signation which Sheehan will tend er to the executive committee ol the chamber this morning at 10:3C o’clock, also is expected. Sheehan, who said he had nc plans for the immediate future, assumed the position of executive secretary of the Retail Merchants division June 1, 1943. He was for merly with Kingoff’s Jewelry Store for 10 years in charge of accounts Prior to that time, he was con nected with the National Biscui' company and the Cape Fear Ter minal. A native of Wilmington and i graduate of Belmont Abbey Junioi college, Sheehan is the immediate past president of the Junior Cham ber of Commerce and is a membei of the Kiwams club. Robertson said last night tha Walter J. Cartier, secretary of tin chamber, would take over Shee han’s duties temporarily until i successor can be found to fill thi position. YAP ISLAND AGAIN POUNDED BY BOMB! ADVANCED ALLIED HEAL QUARTERS, New Guinea, Fridas June 30.—UPl—For the fifth tim since June 22, Yap island wa pounded with 28 tons of bomba b; American planes in raids which al so included a strike at Palau, head quarters announced today. Four Japanese planes were de stroyed in the blow at Yap, whicl is 700 miles southwest of Saipan In other aerial assaults, eightei Japanese barges were deatroye< and four damaged off the N e v Guinea coast June 26 and 27. The Yap and Palau attacks con tinued American raids against Ja panese flank airbases to the Mari anas campaign. -V MARINE PLANE CRASHES WILSON, June 29—(AT—A Ma. rine plane from the Cherry Poin air station crashed and explodec iin a corn field at Rock Ridge neai here late today killing the pilot. First Group Thrown Back Below Caen NAZIS RUSH RESERVES Additional Help Streams From Central France And Germany SUPREME HEADQUAR TER S ALLIED EXPEDI TIONARY FORCE, Friday, June 30.— (AP)—The Ger mans hurled all available ar mor last night in a bold bid to lop off the menacing Brit ish thrust five miles below strategic Caen but were thrown back as more enemy reserves streamed from cen tral France and the Reich it self for the developing show down battle of Normandy A British staff officer told Asso ciated Press Correspondent Roger D. Greene that Field Marshal Gen. Karl Rudolf Gerd Von Roundstedt had sent his tanks hammering at the flanks of the firm bridgehead across the Odon river to try to dent the lines but “he is not suc ceeding.’’ Only 2 1-2 miles north of Caen, astride the road to Paris, the Bri tish clugged out local gains in fierce fighting, the Supreme Head quarters communique announced. Allied air might, which smash ed at the-strategic troop reserves Wednesday night with an RAF raid on the big rail center of Metz, turn ed its attention to the tactical re serves speeding up from Paris over devious routes already attacked by bombers and had a field day in smashing more than 100 vehicles. Casualties Heavy Tommies who stormed Gavrus, a mile and a half north of Evrecy, and tanks which approached near the right flank of the bridgehead, said enemy casualties were heavy on this front. The communique said the posi tions across the Odon, which at points reach within a mile of the big Orne river, w'ere “strengthen ed after further heavy fighting’’ in which all counterattacks were “firmly repulsed”. The Germans . were reacting swiftly and vigorous ly to this threat to Caen, coming closely on the fall of Cherbourg. Although Caen does not compare i with Cherbourg as a naval port, ■ its peace-time commercial cargo ' tonnage was roughly 10 times greater than Cherbourg, a source ; at supreme headquarters said. 1 The Germans loosed one counter ' attack at 6 p.m. yesterday on the 1 right flank in the Grainville area : and were met by a terrific barrage laid down by British artillery and tanks. Across the Caen-Villers-Bocage , road the British stormed Gavrus, I and at last reports held most of the town. On the left flank of the . river bridgehead, British infantry mopped up enemy remnants in I Colleville and Mouen, the latter five j miles southwest of Caen, r Artillery Hits Hard The ranks of enemy reserve* ■ were decimated by the massed ar tillery of Gen. Sir Bernard L. ■ Montgomery and by fighter-bom i bers which struck road and rail , bridges near Montfort-sur-Risle, i Cherisy, 40 miles west of Paris, St. I Paul-Courtonne about 45 miles east ' of Caen, and ranged far south and hammered trains at Orleans and . near Flors. The Germans, throwing in their . air force during the generally un favorably weather, lost at least 44 air craft in air battles'that swirl ed over the French front and deep into Germany itself. M'h a narmane fnimVif o PfifieU encircling move south of Caen mainly with armor, but the Nazi line of tanks—thinned by the loss . of 292 wrecked or disabled since D-Day—including 121 destroyed— was being pressed steadily back upon the Ome river. It appeared that the first big German counterblow was being shaped as Field Ma~shal Gen. Karl gled to mass men and armor in the Rudolf Gerd Von Roundstedt strug hail of Allied blows raining down from the air. The supreme com mand said a “major co-ordinated counterthrust” was expected. -V-7— CHINESE ADVANCE CHUNGKING, June 29—(JB—Ele ments of Chinese forces have reached a point only three milee north of the main Japanese Yun nan province base of Tengchung, in the Salween river offensive aimed at reopening an overland supply route to China, A Chinese communique said tonight. ■# Nation W amed T oughest F ight Still Remains Sombre Report By Top Military Commanders Cautions People Against Over Optimism WASHINGTON, June 29.—(AP)—President Roose velt tonight made public a report from his military commanders warning the nation that “there is still a tough fight ahead of us” in the war. iirra_l_in___ • ____a. jkiiv in ugi wn0 entail heavy losses in material v^hich American industry must replace,” the report said.” The sombre report, warning against over optimism on the home front, reached the Presi dent from Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff, Adm. Ernest King, and Gen. H. H. Arnold of the Air Forces, the three United States joint chiefs of staff. They said that upon their re turn from the fighting in Nor mandy they discovered “a state of mind in this country against which we believe the public should be warned.” The report said favorable news from the fighting fronts appears to have started a pub lic feeling that the war is as good as won and declared the prospects of victory will be cut down unless that idea is check ed immediately. The three top men of Ameri ca’s armed forces declared the war “is not yet won; it will be won the soon rif everybody in war work sticks to his job till complete victory has been attained.’’ The three military command ers visited the Normandy front shortly after the Allies smash ed into the French coast. To day’s report to President Roose velt, the commander in chief, was their first detailed analysis on home front reaction to the invasion. They said the pro gress of the fighting deserves “the higheirt gratification’’ of America, but warned a home front let down may prove dis astrous. Human Skeletons Found Beneath Thalian Hall Workmen digging beneath Thalian Hall have discovered what appear to be six human skeletons, none of them com plete, under the old furance room which is now being made into a recreation room for the city police department. Whose bones they are and why they were there remains a mystery, but city officials suggested yeeterday that at one time the grounds may have been a burial place of the Indians. Thalian hail was built in 1855, but there are no authen tic records bearing out the su position that the structure was built on a cemetery, although several old Wilmingtonians hold this to be true. Adding to the mystery were reports by workmen of the dis covery of a piece of jajer near some bones. It was an old theater program dated March 10, 1870, 15 years after Thalian hall was built over the spot where the bones were found. U/ ij ***** ■ __—■ - Hengyang Stronghold Falls To Jap Hordes CHUNGKING* Friday, June 30_im—Encircled and battered Hengyang has been bombed by American planes and left aflame after abandonment of the American airbase nearby, it was disclosed last night by an American communique which referred to that vital Hunan province railway junc tion as a “Japanese strong hold.” A Chinese communique de clared that the city still was in the hands of the defenders, but was based upon reports through Tuesday night, while Stilwell’s report of the bomb ing of the junction detailed operations Thursday. Hand-to • hand fighting was reported in the outskirts of the city by the bulletin, and a later communique early today re ported the Chinese had scored their first success in Hunan in several weeks by recapturing Yiyang, more than 120 miles northwest of Hengyang. A ma jor portion of the enemy forces at Yiyang was annihilated Thursday, and reinforcements have been routed, the Chinese said. . The Chinese also said their troops who had remained be hind Japanese lines east and west of the Canton-Hankow railway had started a large scale counteroffensive at both ends of the 85-mile Hengyang front. V
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