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tlmuujiim Jflonttttg Star | “S A Ol.. /1!—NQ' --6— ---__-WILMINGTON, y. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1944_ FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867 1st. Army-Navy E Award In Area Goes To Ethyl-Dow Plant Ttie first Army - Navy “E” production Award in the Wilming f area will be presented to em loyes of the Kure Beach plant of jhe Ethyl - Dow Chemical com nv 6t 4 o’clock this afternoon. f Tye ceremony, which will be en to employes, their families pd friends, and a list of invited ouests, will be held at the plant under 'the direction of the Army ,jr forces Material Command, jlajor J*hn W. ThurJpv*, Raleigh erea representative of the AAF jlateriel Command will make the presentation address, and Lt. John j[. Wilson, USNR, first lieutenant of the naval transport now being commissioned will bring the Navy citation and present token pins to employe representatives. The program will open with musical selections by the 142nd AATC Band from Camp Davis, un ^jer the direction of Warrant Offi cer Loy A. Ebersole. This will be followed by the singing of “Ameri ca''. led by Emory N. Grubbs, of Ethyl - Dow, with the band ac companying. The invocation will be pronounc ed by Rev. Herman Duke, and Robert Strange, master of cere monies, will introduce speakers and guests. Mr. Strange is a past commander of Wilmington Post No. lO.i American Legion. G. E. Cantwell, manager of the Kure Beach plant, will accept the award on behalf of the company, and a color guard from the Tem porary Harbor Defense of Wil mington will raise the pennant. Lt. John Marshall Wilson will represent the Navy at the Army sponsored presentation of the Ar my-Navy “E”. He is first lieuten ant aboard a naval transport at present and has been engaged in convoy escort work aboard both destroyers and destroyer escorts. Major John W. Thurlow, of the Air Corps, who will present the Army-Navy Production Award, is from New York City. He served in World War I as a first lieutenant and upon entering the present con flict was commissioned a captain. Max Register will make the ac ceptance address on behalf of the employes, and token pins will be presented to him, E. N. Grubbs, J. D. Loughlin, H. W. Duke and C. W. Lewis, representatives of the employes. The program will close with the playing of the Star - Spangled Ban-! ner by the band. Out of town guest expected to at tend include Colonels Probst and Dexter of the Southeastern Pro curement District, AAF Materiel Command, Atlanta; Lt. Don C. Borgelt, public relations officer of the Atlanta office, and l?t. Naaman D. Anderson public relations offi cer of the Raleigh area office. I. F. Harlow of Midland, Mich, general manager of the Ethyl - Dow Chemical company, will be present, as will J. A. Hyland, as sistant treasurer of the company, and J. P. Dooher of the New York office. JAPS IN U. S. JOBS HAVE RADIO FILES WASHINGTON. July 25.— UR — A house committee today seized foreign broadcast files found in the rooms of two Japanese employed by the government. The group, headed by Chairman Lea (D.-Calif.), and investigating the Federal Communications Com nvssion called an emergency hear ing to question Fred Nitti. a na tive of Japan, and John Kitasaka, American - born Japanese. Nitti is employed by the office of strategc services in “highly confidential” work, he testified. Kitasaka edits scripts of radio Tokyo broadcasts in the foreign broadcast intelligence division of the FCC. Both were in a reloca tion camp after Pearl Harbor. Committee Counsel J. J. Sirica brought out that Ktasaka took to Ins rooms four copies of foreign bioadcasts which were listed as 'restricted” and that Nitti had ac ross to them. Kitasaka said he had the copies c.nly to “study them,” to help him in his work. Nitti said they aided him also, in what he was doing for the highly • secret OSS. Both asserted they were loyal to t h e Jinited States. Counsel Charles R. Denny of the ICC explained to Chairman Lea tiiat the term “restricted” did not mean “confidential”. Denny said that Kitasaka did nothing wrong :n taking the fiies home but he shouldn’t have made them avail able to anyone else. Sirica questioned Kitasaka snarply about articles he has writ ten for a newspaper circulated among Japanese - Americans, re ferring to the “Negro problem” ■ ■id charged that he was "inciting I 'cial prejudice ” Kitasaka argued that he was showing the Japanese Amerieans that “their lot is far •"f.s (worse) than that of the Ne pi’o as far as prejudice is con cerned. ” Denny testified that the articles v«e censored oy the War Reloca twu Authority and “they must thought they were all right.” Some other papers, unidentified, v ere seized by committee investi gators in the rooms occupied by me two men and Lea said “we • we to examine them and de pending on what we find, we’ll 'Jermine the nature of future ac tion.” Denny said he could vouch for dasaka’s loyalty, that he had men thoroughly investigated be (A-6 J?ein2 hired; and as to Nitti, j ? "is extremely careful” ln Personnel matters. CAROLINA BEACH FIXES TAX RATE j,'fne Carolina Beach Board of al wmen tentatively agreed upon the , tax rate for the area at a spe meeting last night. This is the 1 me as the rate used for the prev :°us year. Listings of the budget were also i^ssed bv the board and under gen . fmd, $4,005 was set as fhe '"e for the year. The police de JWment was granted $14,135; fire department, $9,417.60; sanitation PMtmeat, $6,500; streets and w-rdv.atks, $12,475; and public rorngs $1.11.120. This makes a t0laJ of $47,652.60. «,addition a water fund grant 1 S,,H97.50 was agreed upon and se\ver grant of $4,100 which to ia)s $21,997.50. U. S. KEEPS CLEAR OF POLISH RUKUS WASHINGTON, July 25. — (JP) - The United States intends to pur sue a strictly ron-partisan course in the Russo-Folish dispute over the administration of liberated areas of Poland, it was reported on high outhority tonight. Officials here are hopeful that a way will be found to avoid any direct clash of interests between Britain and the United States, on one hand, and Russia on the other over the Polish question, despite the outburst of denunciations which has marked the organization of an administrative authority for Po land under Russian sponsorship. The latest shot in this verbal ex change was fired today at the State department by Ambassador Jan Ciechanowski of the Polish govern ment in exile at London. As he called in Secretary of State Hull, Ciechanowski denounced the Soviet approved Polish Committee of Na tional Liberation as a “typical pup pet government imposed by Mos cow.” The committee already has blast ed Ciechanowski’s government as having no legal authority to ad minister Poland and then declar ed its intention to rule until such time as the Polish people have opportunity to express themselves on a government Russia, which for months has withheld any official statement on relations with Poland, announced that it would conclude an agree ment with the committee covering relations between the Red army and civilian administrations of Po lish territories from which Ger man forces are driven. -V Body Of Drowned Officer Recovered The body of First Lt. Hugo Wil liam Spitzmuller who drnowned yesterday at Carolina Beach was found early this afternoon when it washed ashore near the intake at the Ethyl - Dow Chemical Plant at Kure Beach. Lt. Spitzmuller was bathing with two other army officers when he went down about 250 yards north of the north boundry of Fort Fish er. U.S.Invaders On Guam And Tinian Ga; 4 Marines Sweep Ov. Ushi Base; Apra Harbor Taken ABOARD EXPEDITION ARY FLAGSHIP OFF TIN IAN, July 25.—(July 24 U. S. Time)—(Via Navy Radio) — (/P) — American Marines swept onto Ushi point air drome on Tinian island to day and scaled and captured strategic heights command ing it after a night of fight ing in which several hundred Japanese were killed in des perate futile counterattacks. Alert Marines mowed down the enemy in the beachhead perimeter unperturbed by the wild yells and screams of the attacking Japanese and the flash of Samurai swords. GAINS REPORTED U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, July 25—W)—Substantial gains on in vaded Guam and Tinian islands, deep in Japan’s inner defense arc with American forces effect ing a junction on the eastern shores of Guam’s strategic Apra harbor, were announced to day by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz. American forces that invaded Guam only last Thursday thus con trolled all of Apra harbor’s shore lines with the exception of a por tion of the Orote peninsula, on the south. There an unknown number of Japanese had been isolated as the southern assault forces of the third amphibious corps slashed across the base of the peninsula. Casualties on both Tinian and Guam, through Monday, were light compared with the first few days of the invasion of Saipan, first is land of the Marianas lost by Ja pan. They were announced by Nimitz as follows: Guam—443 killed. 2.366 wound ed and 209 missing. Tinian—15 killed and 225 wound ed. At least 2,400 enemy dead had been counted on Guam and 1, 324 on Tinian. Patrols from the northren and southern assault forces on Guam established contact yesterday along Apra’s shoreline, on the west-cen tral side of Guam. Apra is one of the better harbors of the western Pacific and will offer anchorage (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) -v June Bank Clearings Totaled $39,461,914; Half Year Tops 1943 Banks of Wilmington have cleared $39,461,914.65 for the month of June, announced D. M. Darden, secretary to the Wilmington Clearing House As sociation yesterday. Clearances for June are less than for May due to the fact that there were five reporting weeks in May and only four in June, explained Mr. Darden. The clearance for May was $44,037-21. “We are holding our own in Wilmington,’' said Mr. Darden. “A shrinkage was expected by bank officials but we find in stead that the figure for the first six months of this year ex ceeds the figure for the first six months of last year by ap proximately $9,000,000.” The clearance in 1943 was $230,311, 811.93 while in 1944 it is $239, 047,040.80. Woodrow Wilson Hut Exceptionally Busy In submitting her annual report as hostess of the Woodrow Wilson Hut, Mrs. Ethel S. Powers said that it is impossible to give a complete resume of all activities because no record can be kept of the little personal services render ed such as writing letters to moth ers, mending, buying gifts for rel atives and the thousand and one courtesies to the enlisted men of this area. Otherwise, Mrs. Powers says, the Hut program has consisted largely of dances for Service men. One hundred and one dances were given from July 1, 1943 to the same date this year, at a cost of $3, 771..35. Food and table decoration* were prepared by Mrs. Power* and two paid assistants. Volunteer assis tants serving in the evening were Mrs. Irene Rich, Mrs. Louis Good man, Mrs. Lucile Sternberger, Mrs. Maud Devenport; with Mrs. Henry Emory and Mrs. Charles Block on hand when music was r^ded. In addition to the dances there were many other special events at the Hut, wnich Mrs. Powers lists thus: Below are other special events held at the Hut during the year. Two dances given by the staff (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) F/SENHOWER, IN NORMANDY, SPURS 0/REA TEST THRUST SINCE D-DAY; t* REDS ONL Y 7 MILES FROM WISLA \ - *___ RUSSIANS CATCH NAZI OFF GUARD Typical Muscovite Tactics Open Way To Warsaw; Foe Encircled LONDON, Wednesday, Ju ly 26.—(fP)—The conquering Red armies thrust within seven miles of the Wisla (Vistula) river yesterday, immediately threatening to outflank Warsaw on the south and confront the har ried Nazi command with a smash due west across that last big waterway guarding the German fatherland 150 miles distant. This sudaen maneuver, catch ing the enemy off balance and pos ing the most terrifying prospect for him, was but one of a series of victorious advances anounced by the Soviet midnight communi que for the seven great armies now on the offensive. On other sectors of the 80-mile long front the Russians reported they had furthered their frontal drive now between 40 and 50 miles east of Warsaw, surrounded and broke into the city of Lwow, Po land’s third largest, fought into the outskirs of virtually - encircled Bialystok, cut the last Nazi escape railway between Riga and Daugav pils in Latvia, and threw deadly nooses around Brest Litovsk and Stanislawow. Russian tanks and hard-riding Cossack cavelrymen were “rout ing the Germans piecemeal,” Mos cow anounced, with the enemy fail ing tn every attempt to dig in and re-form his shattered lines against quick charging Red infantry. The rumble of big gun* already was audible to the enslaved resi dents of Warsaw and to the Ger man masters who, air reconnais sance indicated, were preparing to flee. But the great threat to Warsaw, ■ and to the original German Reich beyond, was the drive to the brink of the Wisla 66 miles southeast ol the old Polish capital which sits on the west bank. The Russians were approaching the big stream on a 50-mile front, with the closest announced posi tion just past the village of Ku row, seven miles east of the hNji way bridge at Pulawy, which Mar shal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky’s cavalry already could spy on the horizon. The staggering Germans, who (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) bmith, Laratvay Trailing In Vote For U.S. Senate By The Associated Press Senator Ellison D. (Cotton Ed) Smith, 79-year-old dean of the Senate, and Senator Hattie D. Ca raway, the Senate’s only woman member, trailed opponents last night (Tuesday) in their bid for renomination in South Carolina and Arkansas Demcoratic pri maries. In South Carolina, Gov. Olin D. Johnston set the pace, building up a majority over Smith, long a bitter administration critic, and three other candidates. Reports from 932 of 1,540 pre cincts gave Johnston, an adminis tration supporter, 61,932 votes against 41,882 for Smith, who is seeking his seventh term. Far in the rear were Attorney General John M. Daniel with 5,549, Dr. Carl B. Epps, strong new deal a<i (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) SQUEEZING THE PINCERS j With the invasion of Tinian underway and the battle for Guam going well, this map provides a comprehensive round-up of the action areas in this vital Pacific section. Saipan is now being effec tively used for air attacks on the Bonin Islands which lie but 600 miles off the Japan coast and Guam is reported completely surrounded by a mighty U. S. warship fleet. Meanwhile, Admiral King states that we are now ready to hit at the Philippines, the China coast and the mainland Japan itself. The in set, upper right, is Lieut. Gen. Holland F. Smith, appointed commanding general, Fleet Marine force n the Pacific. ALLIED ARMIES NEAR FLORENCE ROME. July 25—l/P)—British in fantry, gaining in smallbut bloody battles through mountainous coun try, advanced to within less than 10 miles of the historic city of Florence from the south, while American troops fighting inland along the Arno river were report ed tonight only 18 miles west of the great are center and transpor tation hun. The enveloping Allied drives on the Metropolis, 140 miles north west of Rome, were being press ed in the face of bitter enemy re sistance. Nazi troops yielded each successive position only after be ing blasted out, and there always was a new stronghold into which they could retire. As the Fifth and Eighth Armies converged for a final assault on the city there was no indication that Field Marshal Albert Kessel ring had any plan other than to defend it desperately, rather than to withdraw his forces into the “Gothic line’’ on the norhern side of the Arno, which flows through Florence. On the American front, extend ing from the Tyrrhenian sea through the city of Pisa and on inland along the twisting Arno river to a point 18 miles from Florence, the last German soldier either had crossed the wide stream and entered the “Gothic” defenses or had died in a futile attempt to stem the advance. Heavy fighing occurred east of San Miniato and about 20 miles from Florence, where the Nazis yesterday twice counterattacked against advanced American groups. Both counterattacks were repulsed with losses. 4 Horsemen, Hitler, Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Ride Roughshod In Germany And Occupied Lands STOCKHOLM, July 25—(/P)— Ten days before the attempt was made to kill Adolf Hitler Berlin was flooded with small leaflets bearing the single line, “Let’s make peace now. Smash Hitler and his gang,’’ a source with close connections inside Germany told the Associated Press today. LONDON, July 25. —(JP) —Adolf Hitler tonight invested Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering and propaganda chief Paul Joseph Goebbels with sweeping powers ov er German public and private life and in effect placed Germany and the occupied territories under an arch-Nazi quadrumvirate. In a move apparently extermin ating any conservative influence which had remained in authority, Hitler produced a blueprint for crumbling Germany's death battle, a last fanatical struggle to be di rected by the “big four’’ of Nazi ism—Hitler. Goering, Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler, the gestapo chief appointed last week to be an all-powerful commander-in-chief 6f the army at home. Hitler issued a decree naming Goering and Goebbels to extract fro mthe peoples of “the great er German reieh and the occupied countries the last ounce of strength for the German army and the arms industry,” and he empowered them to “issue instructions” to even the highest Reich authorities, whoever they may be. Having apparently insured Nazi control of the army by last week’s ruthless Himmler-directed purge of rebellious Junkers, tonight’s move was directed at clinching control of the home front. Goering was appointed chairman of the ministerial council for de fense of the Reich and Goebbels was named his executor as Reichs commisar for total mobilization for war. The decree made Goering a dictator over all private and pub lic life in Germany and occupied Europe, with Goebbels his execu tor to scrape the bottom of the barrel for manpower and mate rials for a fiery armagedon. Goering was charged with a total overhaul of state administration and public services “with the pur pose of freeing the maximum man power for the German army and the arms industry and of adapting the entire public life in every pos sible respect to the demands of to tal war.” Scfap Paper Collection At Wrightsville Beach Scheduled For Friday The Senior Fraternity, mem bers of which have recently collected 60,000 pounds of scrap paper, has announced that the truck will visit Wrightsville Beach on Friday, sometime after 5 o’clock, and remain as long as there is a scrap of pa.oer to be had. Residents of the resort city are asked to have their paper on the front porch and if pos sible tied-' up in bundles con venient for handing. The truck is plainly marked and it is also to be noted that the men aboard are eminently successful in making their presence known. There is little danger of missing them. The chief need is to have the paper out where it can be readily picked up. Meantime, collections con tinue in Wilmington. If any one has any doubt about how to have it gathered, a tele phone call to 6843 will bring full information. STIMSON WARNS AGAINST LET-UP WASHINGTON, July 25— W) — Germany has been shaken and “shot through with doublts’’ by the three-sided Allied attacks in Eu rope, Secretary of War Stimson said tonight, but there is no col lapse in sight and no excuse for relaxing on the home front. “There is only one sure strategy to finish this wai with finality and speed,” tne secretary declared in a radio report on his recent trip to Italy and Normandy. “That is for us and our Allies to gear every resource we have in men and equipment in a final, un remitting assault on land, sea and in the air. The determination to do this is unmistakably present in our men in uniform. It must also be the guiding thought of every one behind the lines.” Stimson spoke over the Blue and Mutual networks. Stimson said many persons are talking of a quick victory through collapse of the German armyi but “such a collapse is not yet appar ent to our men who are locked in combat with a brutal, resourceful and stubborn enemy. Polio Committee Asks $50,000 Fund Increase RALEIGH. July 25— OP) —The North Carolina committee of the National Infantile Paralysis Foun dation today called for an addi tional $50,000 for use in combat ting the state’s current infantile paralysis epidemic which has in f fected 383 persons and caused 17 deaths since June 1. Former Gov. J. C. B. Ehring haus. chairman of the committee, said the additional funds would be needed to carry out the board pro gram of care and treatment out lined for use in the infected areas. Ehringhaus said that $45,366.69 was contributed by 93 counties during the first drive for funds last month., A $50,000 grant was made by the National Foundation. The Governor estimated that the care and treatment program would cost approximately $80,000 in the infected areas alone next month, even if the epidemic continues on its present scale. More than $35, 000 will be needed in Catawba county, where an emergency hos pital has been set up to care for more than 100 persons. C. H. Crabtree, the foundation’s state representative, said the cur rent drive for funds had the ap proval of Basil O’Connor, head of the National Foundation. O'Connor, Crabtree said, had assured the North Carolina committee t h at DOUBLE PRONGED DRIVE UNDERWAY Montgomery And Bradley Strike Under Biggest Aerial Cover AN ADVANCED COM MAND POST, SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, July 25.—(JP)—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower made his sixth trip to the Allied beach head in Normandy today for an eleventh-hour conference with Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery and Gen. Omar N. Bradley before the Brit ish and American ground forces merged in an all-out attack—the sequel to anoth er terrific blasting of Ger man positions from the air. GREAT OFFENSIVE SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Wednesday, July 26,—UPI - The Allied armies in Normandy opened the greatest coordinated of fensive of the western invasion Tuesday as the Americans smash ed west of St. Lo in their heaviest assault since Cnerbourg and Brit ish - Canadian forces on the east d. ove south of Caen against some of the strongest German resistance of the ent're campaign. With their supreme commander, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, on die beachhead tc confer with fie'd commanders for seven hours as the Fig push got under way, the Ailed armies srtruck to end a rel ative stalemate of several days’ Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's American First Army launched its drive at noon after “very large forces” of heavy, medium light and fighter - bombers had joined ia a concentrated aerial assault, headquarters announced in its mid night communique—no. 100. Dis patches from tne front said the aerial assault was borne by more t’ an 3,000 Amercan planes com prising the mightiest aerial fleet ever hurled at a German battle line. British and Canadian infantry men and armor hit below Caen on a four - mile front before dawn, seizing at least two towns in a cne - mile advance through ter rific opposition employing tanks and 88 MM. guns. Headquarters said that the ad vance was maintained dur,ng the day despite the enemy resistance, which produced “heavy fighting.” By early evening, dispatches from the Orne front reported, the Germans were hurling tanks and (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) -V 7,000 Workers On Labor Front Idle In Strikes By the Asscicated Press ■At least 7,000 workers were idle yesterday (Tuesday; in work stop pages on the nation’s labor front, and the War Labor Board called upon two of the strikng groups to resume work. Undersecretary of War Patterson, in a telegram, also pleaded for termination of a walk out in Michigan. In a telegram to Oakley Mills, local union president of the CIO United Steel Workers at Chicago, the WLB directed 400 striking em ployes at the Western Foundry company to resume production im mediately. The walkout, result of a dispute over a change in wage lates, "is seriously interfering witfc the production of critical mater •s's,” the WLB said. The WLB alsu directed an esti mated 2,000 to 5,000 workers ip the foundries of the Wright Aero nautical plant at Ockland, Ohio to resume work. Both union anc company officials of the Unitec Automobile Workers said they hac been "locked out of the plant.” In Detroit, aircraft engine pro duction was curtailed by a walk out of 900 metal polishers in a wage dispute at the Packard Mo tor Car plant. Officials of th« United Automobile Workers said a meeting was being arranged with company representatives, who said the aircraft assembly line had been shut down because of a shortage of stock. Seven hundred striking hotel em ployes of Detroit’s hotel Statler, (Continued on Paare Three: Col. fi) (Continued on Paae Three: Col. 7) I (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) • ** ^
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