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Served by Leased Wire of the ASSOCIATED PRESS I f\T Cor,p1!, .. , J I .ijgBimttB’mV J._- - _hib.tocct cnrv®?E>®@®iaEag ___ VOL 16-—NO. 43.____ WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 1944 FINAL EDITION _ PRICE FIVE CENTS Rooftop Clipper \ vivid idea of the daring of Allied flyers is given by the remark able photo above, sl owing a rocket-carrying Beaufighter of the Balkan Air Force roanng in at rooftop ljevel to shoot its cargo of destruction at a building suspected of being German headquarters in Dubrovnik. Yugoslavia. U. S. Engineers To Start River, Harbor Work Soon —-- *_-_ TOTALS $750,000 Improvement Of Cape Fear At And Below Wilming ton Is Planned Work on three quarters of a mil lion dollars in rivers and harbors improvement projects in eastern North Carolina will get under way shortly by the U. S. Army Engi neers. it was announced yesterday by Col. E. E. Haring, district engi neer here. Among the extensive rivers and harbors work planned is improve ment of the Cape Fear river at and below 'Wilmington, Col. Har ing announced. It is proposed to dredgs In the ocean bar channel for about two months, restoring the channel to project depth and width of 30 feet and 400 feet respectively. This work was formerly performed by the district-owned seagoing dredge Comstock. The latter is now en gaged on war duty, and it is ex pected that the dredging will be done by another seagoing hopper dredge of the Engineers, accqrd incr in Pnl TTarirtO1 Will Remove Shoals There are also a few shoals In the river channel which will be re moved with s hydraulic pipeline dredge, The work of these two dredges is expected to make proj ect dimensions available from' the ocean to Wilmington, as well as restoring a depth of 30 feet in the inchorage and turning basin here. Restoration of project depths in the river and on the bar will per mit passage of all but the very largest oceangoing commercial vessels, Col. Haring declared. Other projects planned by the engineers include: 1 Cape Fear River, above Wil mington: The work of maintaining the upper Cape Fear river consists of dredging shoals in the river be tween Navassa and Fayetteville, removing snags, trees, and other obstructions, and operating three locks and dams. Freshets in this dream result in shoaling quickly [od the accumulation of logs and dags which must be promptly re moved to insure safety in navigat mg me upper river. The three locks w the rivet. at Kings Bluff, Eliz abethtown. a n d Tolars Landing, "‘11 be operated throughout the 'ear. The work will result in an • foot low water depth at Fay the head of navigation. Ihland Waterway from Norfolk, a ■ i0 Beaufort inlet. N. C.: (Sec ncn from -.he n. c.-Va. state line oBtauior! Inlet.).—This section of !le waterway connects with Waterway from Beau J We Cape Fear River, which t'J"l-ac’;: ’u'li the waterway from jJ.'Po Bear River to Winyah f0;nainS a complete 12 jr ° c ' across the State of J -n Carolina, all ot which is used (Continued „n Page Two; Col. 2) -V I WEATHER North FORECAST •rs and CAROLINA: Scattered show *^erate tempest storms SundaF and J*"**™ Standard Time) *• "rather Bureau) •hdiriE ’7°™ ca‘ data for the 24 hours 6 <-m p.m,. yesterday. 1:30 „„ TemperatuJe 1:30 pm 73W,: 1:30 *m. 67; 1:30 pm, 80; ^otnia)my6m 81 ’ Minimum 65; Mean 73; 1**£-*' 7:3° am%4; 1:30 pm, 44' Totj] f . * Prf,f,%itation •■00 inched 24 hours ending 7:30 pm, •.58 inchedCP °* *nonth, fFrom ... Tides F°r Today V. s r r,rle Tables published by M>as Raid Geodetic Survey) Wiltningtou . ^_"iils Sunrise ».z, l:48p 8:17p ^oonriJ- .'-V * m* Sunset, 6:45 p.m.; .. P.m.; Moonset, I London Receives Rest From Robot Bomb Raids LONDON, Aug. 26 — (/P) — London and southern England went through the second straight day without a robot bomb attack, the longest quiet interval since the assaults be gan in mid-June, and there was some cautious hope that the Germans had abandoned their launching bases across the Channel as a result of ter rific Allied aerial bombard ments and the outflanking of Nazi lines east of the Seine river. Unofficial reports circulated that the enemy’s robot per sonnel was being evacuated, but-many person* believe that even if this is true the Ger mans will be able to launch their flying - bombs from more distant bases by merely in creasing their fuel. -V— BOMBERS ATTACK NAZI OIL CENTERS Also Strike Supply Depots And Communications In France LONDON, Aug. 26.— (fl — Ameri can heavy bombers, operating on a schedule of 100 sorties per hour since 8 p.m., Friday night, joined tactical air units today in a series of smashing assaults at Germany’s oil production centers as well as supply depots and communicatior in France. The bombers lent a massive hand to the ground troops rapidlj obliterating the Nazi seventh ar my and driving closer to the Reich borders. Enemy air opposition in the pas 24 hours was slight after a brie flar#jp in the preceding three days. From the heavy bombers ovei Germany, the Mediums over north eastern France and fighters ant fighter bombers over the Seine the reports were identical—few if an; Nazi fighter planes anywhere. The bombers reported flak over Ger many ranged from light to intense One Nazi fighter was destroyec in the air and another on the ground in the operations agains Germany and American losses fo the day were 10 bombers and si: fighters. Some 1,500 heavy bombers ane escorting fighters ranged over ; wide area of Germany batterinj vital oil targets for the third da; in succession, and a smaller forci of flying fortresses and liberator: teamed with Allied warships eavy artillery ini a final -assaul to wipe put the stubborn Germai garrison holding out in the port o Brest at the tip of Brittany. Extension Of European Advisory Body Favored / . BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, Aug. 26—UPl-Ex. tending the European advisory commission and broadening its power is being advocated by Am erican officials, it was learned to day, as the best way to bridge the expected gap between the end of the war in Europe and the pro posed creation of a "world security agency. Diplomatic measures have been developed for continuing the com mission, with its Russian-American Brtish membershp, into the peace period. They could be' adopted by three t powers either through reg ular diplomatic channels rr in a meeting of big-three leaders—-Pres ident Roosevelt, Marshal Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill, The need to bridge the gap has been urged expecially by military and naval leaders on three mair arguments: 1. Though German resistance can be prolonged, it may collapse any time. The next two months are critical, with the Allies driving foi an autumn victory and the Ger mans trying for a winter stale mate. 2. The end of the war is alrnosi certain to be followed by interna revolutions and “little wars’’ be tween traditionally quarrelsome neighbors, such as Romania anc Hungary, over territory. If there is to be any order in Europe the big powers will have to enforce it (Continued on Page Five; Col. 1) Herd Fleeing Nazis As Mighty e Swirls Nearer Reich’s Borders; Bulgaria Causes Fall Of Balkan Line „ —-—- * - ★ - i ORDERS GERMANS OUT OF COUNTRY Romanians Seize Carpa thian Passes And Battle Former Allies By WADE WERNER LONDON, Aug. 26—(/F)— The Germans' Balkan front caved in tonight as Bulgaria ordered Nazi troops out of the country and Romanians seized the Carpathian moun tain passes and did battle with their former allies who were trying to escape the Russian onslaught. (The Bulgarian domestic radio in a broadcast recorded by the U. S. Federal communications com mission, said that German troops in Bulgaria already had been dis armed by Bulgarian forces and confirmed that Bulgaria had ap proached the United States and Britain for terms on withdrawing from the war.) Bulgarias formal withdrawal from the war was expected hourly, but the Moscow radio indicated she already was as good as out, an nouncing that she had adopted an attitude of strict “neutrality’ and planned to disarm any Germans who did not leave the country peaceably. Ability Questioned Bulgarian ability to enforce this position was an open question but there have been reports of exten sive withdrawals of German forces from that country in recent weeks, so that those remaining might not be able to put up effective resis tance, while those seeking to flee from Romania would have to fight their way into doubtful sanctuary. The broadcast Soviet statement, most concrete of the many cur rent reports concerning the Bal kans, said Bucharest was firmly held by the new pro - Allied Ro manian government, that the old Premier, Gen. Ion Antonescu was under arrest in King Mihais pal ace, and that Romanian troops now held the’ Carpathian mountain pass es that had been the Germans (Continued on Page Seve#; Col. 6) 5 \T JOHNSON ASSERTS NELSON ‘DITCHED’ Upheaval Develops In War Production Board’s High Command WASHINGTON, Aug. 26—UP—An upheaval i n the war production . board’s high command resulted to , night in expressions of congression ^ al concern lests it hinder both war , and output and reconversion, and . a declaration by Senator Johnson (D-Colo) that WPB Chairman Do ald M. Nelson is beeing “ditched” > permanently. Nelson has left on a mysterious : mission to China with his status : when he gets back an open ques tion, Executive Vice Chairman i Charles E. Wilson has quit, and i President Roosevelt has lifted Lt. ; Cmdr. J. A. Krug, a former WPB r executive, out of the Navy and in - stalled him as acting chairman, i Of Nelson’s trip to China, John son told a reporter: t “It is the regular Roosevelt tech ‘ nique. Nelson is being ditched— (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) French Political Chiefs Move In To Reorganize Paris Rule By JAMES F. KING SUPR T*M E HEADQUAR TERS ALOED EXPP EDI TIONARY FORCE, Aug. 26. —(iP)—The last enemy machine gun was stilled in Paris to night, French and American infantry stalked the last few stragglers and snipers, and ev en the Germans admitted they had cleared out of the capital which they had held under an iron rule since the first sum mer of the war. As the military cleaned out the last resistance, French po litical leaders moved to reor ganize the Paris government, and Lt. Gen. Omar N. Brad ley’s forces began the great task of helping to feed and run the city. Food stocks enough to feed Paris for ten days were on the way to a population which had hungered since it rose last Sat urday against the German gar rison and bring the fight for freedom to a swift conclusion. Gen. Charles De Gaulle, long the symbol of resistance in the minds of the French, walked down the Champs-Elyses today and a shot rang out as he ar rived at Notre Dame Cathedral the Free French radio at Paris said. There was an answering vol ley, but the shot was reported to be an accidental ene, and the crowds remained calm. The first 3,000 tons of food ar rived in Allied convoys, and French authorities began or ganizing to feed the population in communal restaurants. A dozen different newspapers reappeared in Paris, including such well known prewar names as “Figaro”, “Oeuvre” and “Populaire.” (French forces of the inter ior were heard broadcasting ov er the Vichy radio that they had liberated that seat of French puppet government and food was oh the way, the feder al communications commission reported.) Even as the final shots of lib eration echoed through the city last night, Paris threw it self into a carnival of celebra tion that equalled any in its long and often gay, often tur bulent history. Hundreds of thousands of (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) Russians Reconquer Bessarabia; Others Drive Into Carpathians -:-x •• ★—: : — — LIBERATORS BOMB ROUTES TO JAPAN Tokyo Bemoans Fate Of Thousands Of Troops Isolated On Truk By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Press War Editor Sizeable forces of American Lib erators smashed at strong points on the approaches to Japan and the Philippines, Pacific command ers announced yesterday as Tokyo radio bemoaned the fate of thou sands of imperial soldiers isolated at once-threatening truk in the mid Pacific. Southwest Pacific bombers un loaded 85 tons of bombs at mid day on Koror in the Palau islands, Japanese Southwest Pacific admin istrative center, despite fierce in terception by Zeros. One Libera tor was shot down. The relatively heavy bombardment followed two weeks of nightly reconnaissance raids over Palau, 600 miles east of the Philippines. Other Southwest Pacific bombers raided airdromes and wrecked a large freighter in the Dutch East Indies. Another squadron of Liberators, operating from the Marianas is lands, struck within 750 miles oi Tokyo hitting Iwo island in the vol cano group in a daylight raid. Ten Japanese planes intercepted. Three (Continued on Page Two; Col. .4) -V GERMANS RETREAT TO GOTHIC FRONT Poles Feel Out New Enemy Positions North Of Metauro River ROME, Aug. 26.— IJfl —Germans are retreating to the shelter of the Gothic line in central portions ol the Italian front and Polish forces of the eighth army are feeling out new enemy positions north of the Metauro river, Allied Headquar ters said today. The Nazi withdrawal was con centrated mostly in the area ol the upper Tiber River and on the east side of the upper Arno behind Pontassieve. Following up the re treat, eighth army units drove with out opposition to Apecchio, 35 miles from the Adriatic and 24 miles due south of the Republic of San Mari no. Polish troops, continuing theii aggressive patrolling activity north of the Metauro, found roads, rivei crossings and front hill position; heavily mined and boobytrapped. RAF Mustangs shot up f o u i trains yesterday on the Zagreb Banova Jaruga rail line in Yugo slavia—at least two of which were loaded with troops—and strafed '< motor convoy near Arta, Greece Thirteen enemy planes were de stroyed in yesterday's MAAF op erations, most of them by Ameri can fighters escorting fortresse; and Liberators on a raid agains two aircraft component factorie: and an airdrome at Brno, Czecho Slovakia and Prostejov airdrome 30 miles northeast of Brno. PURSUE GERMANS Approximately 61,000 German And Romanian Prisoners Captured By W. W. HERCHER LONDON, Sunday, Aug. 27.—W— Russian troops yesterday recon quered. Bessarabia, ! reaching the Danube waterway from the Prut river dcavn to the Black Sea, while other Soviet forces struck west ward into' the Carpathian moun tains in pursuit of an enemy flee ing toward Hungary and leaving behind scores of thousands of cap tives and great quantities of war material. Moscow's nightly bulletin an nounced that at least 6.000 pris oners were taken in a 24 - hour period, including five Romanian di visions numbering some 30,000 men. The Romanians surrendered with all their arms, and equipment. Marines Land A midnight supplementary com munique said, that Soviet Marines landed at Valcov, Black Sea port at the mouth of the Danube, and joined land forces in seizing huge stores of material in that town. The Germans threw away their arms and fled across the Danube, the bulletin said. The old fortress town of Ismail, farther upstream, also fell to the Red Army, which now controls a 75 - mile stretch of the lower Dan ube. In the middle of the Romanian front other Red Army units struck to within 2 miles of Galati and to within 5 miles .of Focsani, op posite anchors of the Galati gap defense line guarding the road to Bucharest, the Ploesti oil wells, and the heart of the Balkans. Swiftly exploiting one of the war’s greatest victories, the Rus sians on the seventh day of their lightning offensive aimed at trap ping entire Nazi armies in the Bal kans had killed or captured nearly 275,000 Germans and Romanians, and were hacking to pieces the remnants of 12 encircled Nazi di visions southwest of fallen Chisi nau, now far to the rear of ad vance units driving toward Bucha rest. . Will Be Reorganized Most of the Romanian prisoners probably will be reorganized into I Continued on Page Five; Col. 5) 14 MORE TOBACCO MARKETS TO OPEN Sales On State’s New Bright Belt Get Under Way Tomorrow RALEIGH; Aug. 26 -MIPi—Four teen eastern-North Carolina tobac co markets comprising the new bright, or eastern belt, will begin operations Monday and during the next three months will market ap proximately '35 per cent of the na tion’s total production of fluecured, or cigarette-type tobacco. The war food administration and the state department of agriculture have estimated the 144 pastern belt crop Will exceed all others since 1939 in total production, and have a money . value higher than any _ ■_ m r\ Vi VJ/. OiMVV iuiw. The belt’s total acreage has been increased by 16 per cent over last year and total production is expect ed to'reach 344,244,000 pounds, 22 per cent more than the 267,543,271 pounds of producers’ sales market ed last year. Weight and quality are expected to be considerably better than last year. The marketing season was de layed one week while growers and officials of the flue-cured tobacco states attempted to get an increase in the ceiling price of 43 1-2 cents a pound set by the office of price administration. Growers had asked for a 45 1-2 cents ceiling. The agriculture department’s crop reporting service on. August 1 estimated the belt’s crop at 344, 244,000 pounds, an increase of 44, 000,000 pounds of a July 1 forecast. The belt was mid-way in a drought in late May, but received relief from general rainfall early in July and August. The crop generally made a remarkable recovery. Markets are located at Ahoskie, Goldsboro, Greenville, Kinston, Rocky Mount, Robersonville, Smithfield, Farmville, Wendell, Washington, Wallace, Wilson, Wil liamston and Tarboro. DENIES RUMORS BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 26—M The Argentine government press of fice issued a communique denying rumors of an uprising attributing them to "a plan prepared by com munist and other similar ele ments.’ . SOUTHERN FIGHT NEARING CLIMAX Americans Slash Up Rhone Valiev To Trap Enemy Below Lyon By NOLAND NORGAARD ROME, Aug. 26— (/P) — The battle of southern France entered its final phase today as the Americans slashed deeply up the Rhone Valley in a race to cut off the flee ing German forces below T irnn Lt, Gen. Alexander M. Patch’s fast-rolling Seventh Army already had freed all of southern France east of the Rhone below newly captured Avignon and Briancon, the latter only five miles west of the Italian frontier, and now controlled more than 9,000 square miles of territory. The German high command said, “in the Rhone Valley severe fighting is in progress with enemy mechanized formations which are trying ,to intercept our movements in the direction of Lyon.” No Comment There was no comment frorr Patch’s headquarters on this oi on a German report that an Amer ican column from the east hac broken • into the Rhone Valle: near Montelimar, nearly 50 mile! north of Avignon and less than 81 below Lyon, and was astride thi highway and rail routes of Ger man retreat. it was perhaps significant, how ever, that the Allied command ha< given no intimation whatever fo three days on the activities of thi Aug. 15 invasion drove 140 mile; deep into the enemy’s east flan! to Grenoble. (Some unconfirmed border re port? have placed this force a far northward as the Swiss-Frencl frontier, but a swing southwest ward down the Isere river Iron Grenoble to the Rhone would bi a logical development.) The Germans claimed their ar mor was counterattacking th American attempts to bottle u] the narrow Rhone escape line, bu (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 4 NEW FARM EXPORT PROGRAM DRAFTED Administration Formulates Post-War Plans For Agriculture WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 — Postwar agriculture policies now being formulated by the Rooseveli administration would establish s more aggressive export prograrr designed to push extra productior into world markets instead of al lowing it to pile up in this countrj under government ownership. These plans do not envision there turn of the rigid production control programs of the thirties under which attempts were made to re duce farm production of the coun try’s own needs and to the small quantities which could be sold aboard at our prices which, in the case of most products, were held above W'orld ievels by government action. Under the programs of the thirties hugh surpluses were accu mulated by the government. Instead, the United States would employ a broad two-price system (Continued on Page Five; Col. 2) SHATTER SEINE 1 RIVER BARRIER Luxembourg And P r o - vinces Of Alsace, Lor raine May Feel War By JAMES M. LONG SUPREME HEADQUAR TERS ALLIED EXPEDI TIONARY FORCE, Sunday, Aug. 27 —(/P)— The Allied armies, having broken across the Seine river barrier on a 200-mile front, herded the once-indomitable Germans be- • fore them today in a battle of pursuit that swirled steadi ly nearer to the Reich’s fron tier. . “The elimination of the German Seventh army as a fighting entity has decided the battle of France,” declared supreme headquarters in warning the little Duchy of Luxem bourg and the French frontier prov inces of Alsace and Lorraine that they soon “may become a theater of war.” “What there is left of the Ger mans in northwest France is hang ing like meat on a butcher’s hook, waiting to be cut down.” said a high officer at British field head quarters. Brisk Fighting 1 Southeast of Paris there was 1 brisk fighting on the northeast 1 bank of the Seine between the Am erican bridgeheads at Corbeil and Melun as the enemy strove to de . lay the American advance. I The ragged remnants of the Ger - mans remaining on the southwest , bank of the river at its mouth were ■ frenziedly trying to cross in day . light as Canadian and Belgian troops closed inexorably in for the kill. But all the German efforts were ’ of a sporadic nature born of the 1 knowledge of their ultimate futili Only the harried survivors of the ! Normandy debacle and a handful of divisions of the onee-mighty 15th ' Army guarding the rocket coast '■ stood before the Americans, Bri 1 ^h and Canadians surging across tne Seine over at least six bridge heads northwest and southeast of Paris, Force Crossing The British in a spectacular 40 mile forced march in six hours forced a crossing of the Seine at Vernon, ten miles northwest of the strong American bridgehead at Mantes, and turned loose another powerful force against the Germans scrambling from their channel forts. And these forces—supreme head quarters said they now were cap able of fighting only delaying ac tions from here on into Germany— were being ponded night and day by swarming warplanes whose pi lots said thehy were in full retreat toward Belgium and the Rhine. The German air force, possibly sensing that the game is up in France and these forces may have trouble even reaching Germany, threw its planes into some of the greatest aerial battles since D-day and lost 93 Friday, most of them in northwestern France. Few enemy planes w'ere sighted today, indicating that the groggy German air force no longer can keep up suoh furious infighting. Le Havre Abandoned The big port of Le Havre was being abandoned by land and sea, huge convoys were on the move from Rouen and Dieppe toward Amiens and Reims, and pouncing Allied warplanes- shot up 56 more tanks and 549 vehicles in the last 24 hours. Scores of motor vehicles and railroad cars were blasted by fight ers returning from escort duty to day. The Germans, with the Seine bridgehead threatening them with encirclement, were pulling out of the .formidable channel fortifica (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) -.- V 10,000 German Soldiers Captured Near Belin IRUN, Spain, Aug. 26— <A>) — Ten thousand Germans encircled by American and French force* around Belin, 30 miles south of Bordeaux surrendered late thi* afternoon, French authorities in Hendaye said tonight. , The capitulation of the Nazis ended all organized German re* sistance in southwestern Franc®. American and French forces which had trapped the Germans had been hacking them to pieces whan the Germans hoisted a whit® flag. Three Arrested After Cache Of Bogus Ration Coupons Uncovered At Wilson WILSON, Aug. 26.— UP) —Norm an j C. Shepard, chief enforcement at- j torney for the Raleigh District OPA, said today that two men; and a 21 - year - old girl were placed under $15,000 bonds each , here this afternoon following a , three - day OPA search which end , ed last night with their arrest and the finding of the largest cache of serially - numbered counterfeit , “C-4” gasoline coupons yet discov ered in the southeastern states Shepard said members of the i Wilson police department and the ; State Highway patrol last night j arrested Sam Kushner, 39, and 21- ■ year old Mrs. Viola Sandros, alias! Peggy O’Neal, of 1801 California; street, N. W., Washington, D. C., | and Roscoe Grice, 41, Fayetteville automobile dealer A fourth per son was also arrested, he said, but OPA has not made known her identity. . . .. In the lining of the automobile allegedly operated by Grice, Shep ard said police and OPA investiga tors found counterfeit Nos. 31, and 32 and 40 sugar coupons amount ing to 134,280 pounds. Meanwhile, Shepard said, count, erfeit serially - numbered “C-4” gasoline coupons, worth .14,840 gal Ions, and fuel oil coupons, thought to be genuine and stolen, redeem able for 70,810 gallons, were found in a yellow traveling bag at the ACL railroad station here Shepard said the arrests a n c ' finding of the two caches of ratior J currency ended a three - day in ; tensive investigation in Wilson | Kipston and New Bern. Albert A ! Corbett, chief investigator for OP£ j reported that Wilson police, mem | bers of the state highway patrol i and members of his staff had beer | working on the case since Wed' nesday ■ Corbett said OPA immediatel) launched charges against the thre< persons arrested, charging them with the possession of counterfeit sugar and gasoline coupons, ille gal possession of ration currency, possession of stolen coupons, and (Continued on Page Five; Col. 4)
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