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FORECAST ^ --— gaP5- tlttmtgtim nrttmg&for j™sr VOI. 77 —NO- 173 — __WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1944 ~~ FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHES 1867 " Postwar Pay For Workers Stirs Debate SENATE FORCES SPLIT All Talk Of Compromises Brings Flat Rejection From Spokesmen WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. (/P) — Spokesmen for and against uniform federal stan dards for postwar unemploy ment pay flatly rejected all talk of compromise today as the Senate engaged in in creasingly bitter debate on the problem of reconverting the American economy to a peacetime basis. Senator Revercomb (R-W. Va) said that back of the Murray-Kil gore mobilization and adjustment hill calling for uniform standards of pay up to $35 a week, was “a philosophy cf government entire ly foreign to America.” “We should be thinking of re storing individual freedoms to the people, rather than of setting up a dictator over one segment (la bor) of our population,” he shouted. Retorting, Senator Murray (D Mont) called a rival, Republican supported “states’ rights’ propo sal offered by Senator George (D Ga), the product of a “reaction ary philosophy-” Murray declared the policy of r.QAroo Vvill urViirh wnnlH 1 pqvp control of unemployment compen sation to the states, is similar to the policy of “those who led this country into the great depression of 1929.” “I call upon all true Democrats” he said, "upon all members of the senate who refuse to allow the crea tion of new ‘Hooverville’s and ‘Deweyvilles’ to vote against the pending amendment.” With the administration’s hand as yet unrevealed, both Murray and Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich) supporter of the Republican-south ern Democratic coalition, told re porters there was no ground for a compromise between the conflict ing viewpoints Asked if the coalition had enough votes to win, Vandenberk replied: “I’m not worried.” Vandenberg, in a Senate speech, accused Sidney Hillman of the CIO Political Action Committee of “a misstatement—or at least a pnis conception” of the George bill. He referred to a telegram in which Hillman declared the “states rights” bill would offer no addi tional protection to war workers than they now have under state laws. ‘‘If it is no additional protection to workers to have the federal government set up a fund to guar antee the solvency of the state funds, then Mr. Hillman has less respect for the necessity of sol vency than I have,” Vandenberg said. The Michigan Republican said the plan also contemplated bring ing 3.500.000 federal workers under unemployment compensation at federal expense and broadening the social security act to include work ers in small firms. POLISH PREMIER OFF TO LONDON MOSCOW, Thursday, Aug. 10.— (.fi—Shortly after his second meet ing with Premier Stalin, Stanis law Mikoiajczyk, premier of the Polish government-in-exile, radiat ing optimism, announced today he would return to London with pro posals concerning the rival Polish regimes on which “no definite agreement” was reached here. “Premier Stalin has assured us his desire for a strong, inde pendent, Democratic Poland,” he told a press conference, adding had a deep conviction that a durable, close and friendly coop tation between Poland and Soviet Russia must exist now and in ^acetime. As negotiations between the ri val regimes, the government-in ox|ie and the Soviet-sponsored na tional Committee of Liberation, roke up, Mikolajszyk said, “We have agreed not to make any statements and counter - state ments,” __IT Cigarettes Scarce In Tobacco Country loris, s. c., Aug. 9.—<#-)—Mor an 400,000 pounds of flue-cured obacco—the kind cigarettes are bade of — was sold today on the auction markets of Loris and nearby Whiteville, and Tabor City, aciPss the border in North Caroli na. But at none of these tobacco cen eis could you buy a popular brand ? cigarettes. Throughout the to bacco country cigarettes are as ^carce as they are elsewhere and y°u can’t always get your brand. Yanks Ready For Snipers In Italy Crouching behind a vehicle, Cpl. Duane T. Moen, Minneapolis, Minn., is on the alert for snipers while his Fifth Army buddies set off enemy mines planted in one of the main streets leading to Leg horn, Italy. The pall of smoke is from mines located and exploded by Yank sappers. Official U. S. Signal Corps Radiophoto. 500 German Subs Sunk By Allies WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—(£>)—More than 500 Ger man submarines have been sunk by the Allies since the start of the war, it was reported tonight in a joint Anglo American statement Issued under authority of Presi-i'——-— , dent Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, the statement added thal Nazi U-boats were “ineffective during July,, a month which has been so important for the success of continental operations.” The report said that the number of German submarines destroyed in July was “substantially great er than the number of merchant ships sunk.” The Joint statement follows: “The number of German U-boats sunk during the war now exceeds 500. It is therefore understandable that the U-boats still operating are extremely cautious. Their efforts have been ineffective during July, a month which has been so im portant fpr the success of conti nental operatinos. “The number of U-boats destroy ed has been substantially greater than the number of merchant ships sunk. Seventeen U-boats have been sunk while attempting to in terfere with our cross-channel traf fic since the first landing of the army of liberation. "The U-boat fleet is still of im pressive size. Nevertheless the U boats remain the hunted rather than the hunters. They have been attacked from the Artie to the Indian ocean, aircraft playing a great part wiht the surface forces. This pressure will be maintained until all chances of revival of the U-boat campaign are killed, what ever may be the new devices and methods developed by the enemy. “The Nazi claims of sinkings continue to be grossly exaggerat ed. For instance, their claim for June, the latest month for which complete figures are available, was an exaggeration of 1.000 per cent.” -V POLITICS FEARED IN TROLLEY TIEUP PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 9—l/PI Federal Judge George A. Welsh charged a special grand jury of 11 men and 9 women today to search out any political motive that may have been involved in the calling of Philadelphia’s wildcat transit strike, declaring he could not be leive that the strikers were actuat ed ” solely ‘‘by the thought that eight negroes were going to be up graded.” Allied Planes Hit Massed Nazi Tanks On Invasion Front i 1 1 < LONDON, Aug. 9.—(A>)—Wav* ; upon wave of Allied aircraft 1 slashed viciously in a day-long * assault south of Caen today at , a great concentration of Ger- s man tanks, presumably gather* * ed to spearhead a large-seal* 1 counterattack, and Canadian* 1 in the sector advanced tonight < without meeting the armored thrust. While the enemy armor ft 1 the vital “hinge” of the west- 1 ern front was being plaster ed, other aircraft struck at 1 submarine pens on the west French coast and at the Na- '■ zi’s patched industry and ! dwindling oil resources in Ger- : many, Hungary and Yugosla- J via, while still others threw a protective canopy over the whole Allied front. FLORENCE FACES FOOD SHORTAGE ROME. Aug. 9—(i¥)—The city of ; Florence, tightly locked in a dead- ' ly vise formed by the British and German armies, was reported fac. ‘ ing a series of food and water shortages and beset by looting and outbursts of civil strife to day. i While military operations in and i around Florence were limited to i patrol forays, machinegun posi- 1 tions lined both banks of the Arno i river along its course through the ] city. ; The battle lines had cut the city off from food supply from the 1 surrounding countryside, one of : Italy’s richest agricultural regions, : and no food had been distributed j on the German side of the city ] since'last Friday. German destruction of the pow er plant had deprived the city of ■ light and caused ,an alarming : ; water supply situation, with black marketeers demanding 20 lire : 120 cents) for a bottle of water. Eisenhower Moves To Franee GEN EISENHOWER’S AD VANCE COMMAND POST IN NORMANDY, Aug. 9—Utl—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander of Allied forces, has established his headquarters on the continent in order to maintain the clos est possible contact with the . Allies fast rolling offensive against the German army.. The supreme command head quarters unit, it was anounped tonight was moved to Norman dy by air during the pa»t few days. Officers and enlisted personnel—including WACS- — are living in tents in a camau flaged area under constant patrol by heavily armed mili: tary police. The general is situated near an airfield from which he makes speedy trips daily for personal conferences with Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery and Lt. Gen. Omar N. Brad ley. Yesterday he saw his Brit ish and American field com manders, both of whom were able to give highly favorable reports on the progress of the renewed drive from Caen and the tank smash on the western and southern ends of the far flung Allied front. Instantaneous telephone com munication ■ with Supreme •Headquarters in London is available from the General’s trailer-living quarters which is under 24-hour guard by an MP who squats in a dugout behind .a machinegun. t The general’s guardians are taking no chances on his safety. Eisenhower’s aide, Com mander Harry C. Butcher, former CBS executive of New York City, sleeps in a tent a few yards away. He was awakened late the other night by thunder from a nearby ack - ack battery. Scrambling out of his bedroll to make for a foxhole, Butcher tripped over a wasnstand, ' grunted and sent pans clatter ing to the ground. “Halt!” roared an MP. “I crawled back into my tent and got back into bed,” Butcher grinned. It wasn’t a raid just a false alarm. . Le Mans, St. Malo Capitulate WTo Whirlwind U.S. Offensive; Desperate Nazis Slow Soviets FURIOUS BA' I RAGES ON FRONT _ Powerful Russian Armies Continue To Make Gain Against German Foe LONDON, Thursday, Aug. 10.—(IP) — Slowed but not stopped by desperate Ger man counterattacks all along the eastern front, powerful Russian armies yesterday ground out nine to 12-mile jains in the battle of Latvia, "enewed the offensive north last of Warsaw, and climbed higher into the Carpathians toward Czechoslovakia. In telling of the day’s furious fighting and hard-won advances, the Soviet midnight communique and an early-morning supplement aver and over again used' the phrases "‘stubborn resistance” and ‘‘repeated counterattacks” but said that in no case had these Nazi jfforts succeeded. Thoroughly alarmed, the Ger mans drafted every able-bodied nan and woman from 15 to 65 to lig trenches against the imminent ;ntry of the Red army onto the ‘holy” soil of East Prussia. It was there, too, that they put n the most frequent counterat acks, east of the border town of Ichirwindt and northwest of Mari impole and on the flank of the widening Latvian corridor that is hreatening Memelland. { But thr» Moscow radio, in a spe- J i*l -air forces broadcast today, aid lall the digging would do the Jermans little good, for Soviet lanes, with a sixfold superiority in umbers were attacking the Nazi [efenses at will. It confidently concluded: ‘‘Soviet troops will advance far her and farther to the west until hey link up with our Allies.” Up and down the 1,000-mile front he counterattacking Germans l*;t nore than 3,800 killed yesterday aid the Soviet war bulletin, whil# mother 120 enemy tanks were de stroyed or knocked out. It was he ninth consecutive day that the lussians had recorded loss of more han 100 tanks by the Nazis East of Warsaw and northwest >f Siedlce the Russians reported hat they had “renewed their of fensive after powerful artillery and lir preparation,” taking the key •oad junctions of Wengrow and Sok >low, 20 and 22 miles northwest and lorth of Siedlce. These were pav ng the way for eventual all-out issault on Warsaw, already besieg ;d for 10 days. WOTIONPICTURES BANNED FOR ARMY WASHINGTON, Aug. 9—(/B—1The dotion picture “Wilson” drama izing the career of the first World Var president has been banned by he Army for distribution to roops, as has the picture “Heaven y Days” starring Fibber McGee ind Molly. The War Department said today >oth pictures had been banned by i board of the moral services divi sion as containing material which night be construed as violating jrovisions of the soldier voting ict. That act prohibits the distribu ion by the armed forces of books, nagazines or other material con aining matters calculated to in fluence the results of national elec ions. ----—- — ■ . ■ ■■ ■' n T U. S. Bombers Blast Jap Ships In Bonins | Five U. S. Helldivers from a Pacific task force fleet head back for their carriers high above the smoking ruins of four Japanese ships they have ju st blasted at Haha Jima in the Bonin islands, which lie but 600 miles from Tokyo. Official reports cred ited the raid with 13 Jap ships sunk; 20 ships dam aged and 32 planes shot down, and 59 more planes damaged. Official U. S. Navy photo. Guam < IDLE STRIKERS TOTAL 42,000 By The Associated Press Government intervention in the! strike of midwestern truck drivers and helpers was expected as the number of idle in that and other labor disputes yesteraay reached a post - invasion peak of more than 42,000. A source close to the White House indicated a solution had been agreed upon, and there was a strong hint truck lines would be taken over by the Army or the Office of Defense Transportation. M. M. Krupinsky, chairman of the truck operators association in Nebraska, one of the eight states affected by the controversy, said he understood the ODT would as sume control of the struck lines in the midcontinent area today. Operators in Kansas City, Mo., also awaited Federal action. Picketing was reported at North Platte, Fremont and Blair, Neb. V. J. Hons, district ODT manager at Omaha, asserted the tie-up of petroleum carriers threatened fuel supplies for harvest tractors and farm trucks. War Labor Board of ficials in the national capital de clared they were powerless to di rect the strikers to return to their jobs because the operators were ignoring a WLB order for a wage increase of seven cents an hour. Management spokesman maintain ed government agencies had fail ed to afford them ‘‘fiancial re lief” to offset the proposed pay hike. Major Alex Baxter, ehief of the highway branch of the Army trans portation corps in Chicago, figured r non rwor-thp-rnad truck drivers and helpers were off duty in the area — embracing Nebraska, Mis souri, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, the Dakotas and part of Wisconsin. But Thomas Flynn, acting presi dent of AFL International Broth erhood of Teamsters, estimated at Indianapolis headquarters that “about 30,000’’ were affected. Ma (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) -V Five Chinese Generals Fighting On To Last CHUNGKING, Aug. 9—UP*—Die hard Chinese forces headed by five generals apparently were making good oday their vow to fight to the death in battered Hengyang, opposing a Japanese assault to the last. The Chinese high command said broken raido contact made the sit uation obscure inside the city, where street fighting last was re ported. Tuesday night five generals headed by Fang Hsien-Chueh, 39 year-old commander of the Tenth Chinese army, sent a farewell mes sage to Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek declaring they would stick with their troops and die fighting. conquest Ended I -- ■ American Forces Again Control-Isle Seized By Jap Forces By RAY CRONIN Associated Press War Editor Another of Japan’s inner-circle ring of western Pacific defenses— strategic Guam island—has been brought under American control. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, chief of the Pacific fleet, announced late yesterday that Yank forces have completed their conquest of Guam and that remnant of the once powerful Japanese garrison are surrounded inland from Pati Point on the northeast coast. The trapped Japanese, under heavy pressure, are expected to be liquidated shortly. Guam, seized by Japan in the early days of the Pacific war, was liberated by hard-hitting Marines and doughboys in 20 days. Successful conquest of Guam, Saipan and Tinian, all in the Ma rianas. position American forces for future operations against the Japanese homeland, the Philip pines, Formosa and the China coast. American forces of the South west Pacific command encircled Japanese front lines in Driiiiumor river sector of British New Gui nea. They killed 1,072 additional Nippon soldiers as they intensi fied their liquidation of the Jap anese within the Wewak-Aitape trap. In another aerial strike toward the Southern Philippines an Allied Liberator bombed a Japanese freighter off Davao. Other Allied planes hit Halmahera and Yap is lands and blasted die Japanese bases at Sorong and Manokwari, Dutch New Guinea. LEAF PR ES REMAIN FIRM FLORENCE, S. C., Aug. 9.—OP) —Several grades advanced a cent ■ a pound but most grades remain ! ed firm today on the Carolinas bor der belt tobacco markets, the War Food Administration reported. The volume of sales continued heavy on most markets. The WFA also reported that the general price average yesterday, the first day of sales, was $43.12— $1.89 higher than the $41.23 average on the opening day last year. ' Gross sales yesterday on the South Carolina markets were 2, 529,862 pounds at an average of $42.93, while North- Carolina sales were 1.753.874 at an average of $43.39—a total of 4,283,736 pounds at an average of $43.J2 for the whole belt Last year the same markets sold 3,211,714 pounds on the opening day for an average of $41.23. The WFA said $1 advances were (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) -V Allies Driving Japs Over Burma Frontier -SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND HEADQURTERS, Kandy, Ceylon, Aug. 9— (ffl —The Allied drive to push the last Japanese invaders out of northest India penetrated today to a point 54 miles south of Imphal, where Japanese rear guards were encountered. It appeared likely that the last of the beaten 33rd Japanese di vision would be chased over, the Bruma frontier toward Tiddim within another week. These retreat ing elements of the enemy still must pass Allied “shadow” troops lodged in their rear and harassing Tiddim road traffic. Blue-Eyed Girl Attorney Will Oppose Clare Luce .•BkidCtEPuRT, Conn., Au gust 9.— (fP)—Dark-haired, blue eyed, five foot-five Margaret E. Connor* was happy but a bit sleepy today after a night of excitement which saw her cho sen unanimously to head the Democratic fight in Connecti cut’s fourth congressional dis trict against its phrase-mak ing, author, playwright, and actress, incumbent, Mrs- Clare Boothe Luce (Jt). Shaping up with the-nomina tion by Republicans tonight of Mrs. Luce for a second term was the first all-woman, major party, congressional , contest in the east since 1942 and one of the few in political-history. "It’s too early to make plans and I’m top happy to think about them now,” said Miss Connors. Graduate of Wellesiey col lege and of the Yale law school Miss Connors is no stranger to public speaking nor to public office. At 25 she was deputy secretary of state, youngest person ever to hold that job and first woman. During her years at Yale, she worked one vacationin the New Hkven office of the depart ment of justice, earning news paper mention as “Connecti cut’s G-woman.” In Bridgeport, her law prac tice is mixed but she takes few criminal cases. Despite a sub stantial clientele she finds time to keep up with tennis and golf as well as to interest herself in industrial advisory work at the Y. W. C. A. DRIVE TO PARIS GAINING FORCE Nantes, Angers Reported Entered By Americans In Swift Drives SUPREME HEADQUAR TERS ALLIED EXPEDI TIONARY FORCE, AUG. 9. —(JP)—Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley’s whirlwind wedges rushed without check on the last 100 miles toward Paris tonight after sweeping through Le Mans and forcing the die-hard defenders of Brittany’s sea fortress of St. Malo to knuckle under in sur render. The captureof St. Malo, whose defenders had been ordered to fight to the last man, was reported in field dispatches. Never before had it been taken, though it had been the scene of many sieges in the middle ages. The historic fishing village and resort on the north coast was perched on an island connected with the mainland by a defended causeway. Unconfirmed reports said Am erican troops had pushed into Nan tes on the Loire and into Angers, just north of the Loire and 50 miles upstream from Nantes, indicating the Americans were still sweeping forward without any stiffening Na zi resistance that would presage a real fight for southern France. On the northern end of the far flung Allied battleline British and Canadian forces continued to ad vance. The Canadians broadened their wedge into the German lines to six miles at the base and pushed a three-mile-wide spear to within about five miles of Falaise. The Germans launched a coun terattack at Canadian positions north of Falaise tonight but the attack had been anticipated and the Canadians were well dug-in on hill positions. Canadian artillery and mortar fire replied furiously to the German attack. British troops defending their bridgehead across the Orne river beat off German counterattacks and advanced amid indications the Germans were getting ready to withdraw |rom their positions be tween the British and Canadian forces With Allied forces sweeping for ward in Fi ance Gen. Dwight D- Ei senhower moved his headquarters from Britain to Normandy to be closer to the battle front. The official announcement of the complete occupation of Le Mans— automobile manufacturing city 85 miles east of Rennes — made it clear that American tanks were well beyond the city and the Ger man news agencies reported the fast spearheads were only 87 miles from Paris. The German report that Brad ley’s forces had scored this furth er advance of 23 miles from Le Mans was without Allied confirma tion, but there was a possibility it might be correct as the Ameri cans had not yet met any solid re sistance. On the Caen front, wave after wave of Allied planes slashed sav agely at a great concentration of German tanks which had been drawn up presumably for a large scale counterattack. The Canadians on this front rolled up their total catch of prisoners to more than 2,000, most of them from the Ger man 89th division, badly mauled in the initial Canadian attack a ^Aiir rlotrc oftor thov nrpro Krniiffht to the front from Normandy. -V Freakish Wave Blamed For Big Clipper Crash MIAMI, Fla,, Aug. 9.— VP) — A freakish wave that knocked the bottom out of a fast moving four-engined clipper as it took off from Antilla, Cuba, was blamed by a passenger today for the w*rst wreck ever suffered by Pan Amer ican airways’ Latin American di vision. Seventeen passengers died when the big, luxurious flying boat’s back was broken and it sank in Nipe Bay. The wings and part of the fuselage remained barely awasn, the cabin under water, and about One-third of the rear section including a passenger compart ment extended downward into deep water. Nine passengers and five crew men were safe. Only those in the extreme front and extreme rear of the plane survived.
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