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I____ :ifrr^~ ilmwgtm Htnnmuj VOL/77. NO. 189 -WILMINGTON, N. C„ TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1944 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1567 ^ Soviet Army Gets Inside Transylvania CARPATHIANS CROSSED Red Soldiers Penetrate 10 Miles Past Border In Forward Smash LONDON, Tuesday, Aug. og. __ (tf3) — Soviet troops, cracking Germany’s last big natural defense wall in the east, crossed the Carpathians yesterday and penetrated 10 miles inside Hungarian-held Transylvania in a swift drive aimed at trapping scores of thousands of disaster-ridden Germans caught south of the mountains in the Ploesti Bucharest area of capitulat ed Romania. Simultaneously Red marines, spilling opt of ships of the Black Sea fleet, captured Romania’s second seaport of Sulina in the southeast and overran the Danube delta by seizing Tulcea, 42 miles inland, a port at the head of the Danube's three channels. Other Soviet land armies cap- - tursd Braila, big Romanian port or. the twisting Danube farther west, cleaned out the Galati Gap defenses in the center, and plung ed on toward the rich Ploesti oil wells and Bucharest. Moscow dis patches said tank-tipped Russian spearheads were within 50 miles of Bucharest, but the communique did not mention the Ploesti-Bucha rest sector where Romanian troops are locked in fierce struggles with their former allies. "Russian troops crossed into Hungarian Transylvania through the pine-clad Oituz pass at Poia na-Sarata. Gen. Rodion Y. Malin- : ovsky’s Second Ukraine army units then rolled on ten miles through ' Bretcu, only 43 miles northeast of Brasov, the Romanian-held city ' which controls four of the Nazi escape passes from Romania into J Hungary. Eleven thousand more German prisoners fell to Malinovsky’* ] troops and the Third Ukraine Ar- J my under Gen. Feodor I. Tolbuk- 1 him and the latter army complet ed the liquidation of 12 Nazi divis- ’ ions, originally estimated at be- ^ tween 40,000 and 80,000 men, which 1 had been trapped southwest of Chi- ■ sinau, fallen Bessarabian provin- 1 cial capital. 1 Axis casualties on the eastern i front since the big summer offen sive began on June 23 are now j well past the 1.000,000 mark, on j the basis of Moscow announce- i ments, j Gen. G. F. Zakharov’s Second , White Russian army in northern , Poland meanwhile scored a great \ victory by toppling the communi cations center of Ostrow-Mazo- ; wiecka. 50 miles northeast of War- , saw, Moscow’s buUetin disclosed. On that front the Russians roll- . ed ahead on a 21-mile sector, cap- j during Piski, 32 miles south of Ger- ] many’s East Prussian border, and < Czerwin, 12 miles northwest of J fallen Ostrow-Mazowiecki and on- ( ly nine miles southeast of Ostrolen- 1 ka, big German stronghold on the Narew river. _‘ THREE INDIANS DIE > AS AUTO HITS TREE LUMBERTON, Aug. 28. — Three ( young Indians of the Pembroke . section—Tooly Lowry, 19, Leon, Baker, 20, and Betty Jane Thomp- ' son. 17—were killed instantly and ? fourth. Gwendola Baker, 22, in jured, when the 1936 Ford in which ' they were riding got out of control »n the western edge of Pembroke ast night and crashed into a tree. The car, apparently going at a ■Sn rate of speed, was being driv ,n hy Lowry and was headed to "avd Max-ton, according to police. The bodies, badly mangled, were Moved from the scene after a ,,oct®T hum Maxton pronounced c three dead. Gwendola Baker 'as Brought to a local sanatori where she is now a patient ith. lacerations and possibly a skuIi fracture. Coroner D. W. Biggs stated that no inquest would be held. i-hare hill Indicates Peace Not Far Off ROME, Aug. 28. —m— Prime ‘ s er Churchill in a farewell 1- sage to the Italian people re a today declared his hope that tako166 and Progressive” Italy will ner place among the leading she 0' S °f Eur°Pe, but indicated ally Mnn';'1 exPect to sit as a full of'., at the peace table at the end se ''ar’ which he said “may net Petted ” 8S WaS formerly ex‘ ir»en!‘noimced that tre was direct tPr,, n :representatives on in mo«a^'?nal oodles to “do their ut !nd . to correct Italian hardship*, vin '"at ' !arge new Italian forces s,,on join the Allied armies.” j t British ‘Crocodile* Spits Big Flame The “Crocodile” flame-thrower, Britain’s newly announced weapon designed to be fitted to a Churchill tank, goes into action during a demonstra tion. Fuel is towed by the tank in an armored trail er. The flame-thrower has a range of over 150 yards. This is a British official photograph. (AP wirephoto). Bulgaria To Get Terms - ★ ^-■— PEACE PARLEY UNDER ATTACK WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.— MP) — Delegates to the world security inference, under pressure for a nore liberal information policy since their closed - door sessions started at Dumbarton Oaks, agreed oday to meet the press tomorrow. Meanwhile Senator Bridges (R 'I.H.) fanned the anti - secrecy ire with a protest on the floor igainst what he called “double alk” about what is being planned, ind the assertion that “the Ameri :an people and the American Con 'ress are entitled to know what s going on.” ' '■ He told the Senate it will hear >lenty of "plain talk about the Dumbarton Oaks conference” in he next few months. Tomorrow’s news conference yith th* heads of the American, British and Russian delegations rill be the first since they went nto session a week ago. Only brief ommuniques reporting the me ihanics of proceedings have been ssued. The latest communique, announc ng plans for the meeting of Under ecretary Stettinius for the Ameri :ans, Sir Alexander Cadogan for he British, and Ambassador An irei Gromyko for the Russians rith the press, said merely that he steering committee met today. Earlier, Secretary of State Hull ;ave hope for more substantial tews on actual progress. Bridges, who is not among the ;roup of eight Republican and Democratic senators who have teld* meetings with Secretary of State Hull on postwar plans, said rom what he has learned so far, he projected assembly of all na ion§ “vyill be a debating society rith no. power save to discuss and idvise” and “ali power will be in he council which will be in the lands of the Big Four.” ; -i—V—:-— SUPPLY LINE THREATENED CHUNGKING, Aug. 28. — i/P) — Chinese forces have posed a new to- the temipqs Sang river uppIy .iiue.Qf the Japanese in Hit tan Province in success which, if ■xploited successfully, m i.g.h t ihange the entire Hunan situa-tion n fyvor of the .defenders and friis rate the Japanese! aitn of conqueri ng the whole CjJntoji-Hankpw fail •oute across China, the high com natid slid’tonighj. Allies Reported Ready To Submit Proposals On Surrender LONDON, Aug. 28.—OP)—Alied surrender terms are expected to be presented to an envoy of Bul garia within a few days, and the Germans put on the pressure to day to keep this Balkan satellite from joining Romania in flight from the Nazi orbit. Peace terms drawn by the Eur opean advisory commission were submitted to Washington and Mos cow for approval, and they are believed insistent . t h a t..Ri4garia disgorge the parts bt Greece and Yugoslavia which she seized at the height of Germany’s successes. Rorrifenia, already fighting beside the Red armies sweeping toward her capital of Bucharest, will sign her armistice in Moscow shortly, it was learned here. (Secretary of State Hull said in Washington that Bulgarian officials had been in contact with Allied governments on the question of an armistice, and added that the United States probably would be represented by both diplomats and military officials at the Romanian armistice proceedings in the Rus sian capital. (Washington also reported the Allied attitude had stiffened to ward Bulgaria in view of her at tempt to bargain on retaining parts of Yugoslavia and Greece, and failure to turn against the Germans.) The pressure was on against Fin land, Hungary and Slovakia, with the Russians calling on them to get out of the war before they, too, are carried down with the fi nal crash of the Reich. The German news agency DNB said Gustave Beckerle, the Reich’s minister to Bulgaria, was hasten ing back to Sofia to discuss “with the Bulgarian government the new situation, in that country.” Bulgaria is believed to have six divisions in Macedonia and south ern Serbia, heavily outnumbering the German troops in that region. Marshal .Tito told Associated Press Correspondent Joseph Mor ton in Italy recently that he could see Bulgaria’s peace overtures only in , the light of the activity of Bulgarian forces of occupation, according to dispatch from Bari, Italy, datelined Sunday. “ i v i ■ - Paris Seeks To Get Rid Of Rowdy Maquis Groups 1'ARIS, Aug. 28. —(#>— Paris wants food, which the Allies; can and Will give her, and, now she is rid of the Germans, she ' also wants disorderly elements of the Maquis and the French forces of the Interior kept in check. The Allies are determined that Gen. Charles De Gaulle must solve the latter problem. Today, some 72 hours after Paris was liberated, the city 1 is still in an uproar. Wild-eyed youths waving rifles and ma chineguns in one hand and driv ing careening automobiles with the other still roam the streets. There still are sporadic out bursts of rifle fire and fist fights among the French then selves. The streets present no semblance of order. The majority of the Maquis and the French forces of the Interior were described as lev-* el-headed patriots anxious to get on with the task of restor ing peace and order. De Gaulle requested that two divisions of British and Ameri can troops parade through Paris and it is likely such a show will be arranged, But t Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower has given no indication that he plans to take over the policing of the city. The need for food is evident on every hand. Already the Al lies have arranged a fleet of 3, 000 trucks to carry foodstuffs into the city. The present need has been estimated at 75,000 tons a month. De Gaulle, who barely miss ed assassination Saturday at the hands of snipers who some resistance leaders believe were left behind by the German ar my for the express purpose of if killing members of the French | government, was reported to p oe in Southern France. I T" PAC COMMITTEE RAKED IN HOUSE WASHINGTON. Aug. 28.— UP! — A hot exchange broke out today between Rep. Church (R.-Ill.) and Sidney Hillman during a House committee hearing at which Hill man reported his CIO Political Ac tion Committee had spent $371,086, including $67,320 in primaries and state elections. Church set off the clash by de claring that the CIO’s political plan directed by Hillman, is “commu nistic - engineered from the top down’’ with local unions having no say in it. .| “Would you say Du Ppnt’s con tribution of $186,000 to the Repub licans and Pew’s of $108,000 came from the bottom up?” Hillman re torted, adding: “You’re trying to prejudice the public against us. It’s a below the belt campaign. I’ll put my record of fighting communism against yours any time. I’m opposed to communism because I’m opposed to all totalitarianism—even in in dustry.” As Hillman appeared before the House group investigating cam paign expenditures, Senator Bridges (R.-N.H.) told the Senate that a magazine article by Hill man entitled “The Truth about the PAC” only covered up the “real truth” that the PAC is an “enor mous danger” to labor interests. Bridges said the New Republic, which published the article, had re fused to give Senator Butler (R. Neb.) the same space for a reply. Butler’s proposed reply, Hillman’s article and an exchange of letters between Butler and Bruce Bliven, New Republic editor, were placed in the Congressional record by Bridges. NAVY BLASTS JAPS NEAR PHILIPPINES By The Associated Press American bombing planes, strik. ing against Japanese island strong holds over a wide Pacific front, were reported late yesterday by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz to have blasted Nippon bases from the Kuriles to Nauru, south of the Mar shalls. . Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur’s com munique today said Navy patrol planes of the Southwest Pacific command hit within 300 miles of the southern Philippines when they destroyed or damaged four Japa nese freighters at Mando. Celebes. Other raiders wrecked four parked Japanese planes at Liang, air drome, Amboina, on Ceram island west of New Guinea. American headquarters in China announced other aerial smashes along the Chinese east coast with Yank airmen striking in the region of Shanghai and at Amoy, directly west of Formosa. FRENCHCOMMANDER IN CHARGE OF PARIS PARTS, April 28.—(TP)—The com mander of the American forces which helped liberate Paris offi cially delivered the city to Lt. Gen Joseph Pierre Koenig, military commander of Paris, at noon to day. General Koenig now is responsi ble for security of the city but i: any disorder arises a unit of thi United States Army is preparec to aid. The job of supplying the city with extra food was turned ove: to a major general who is com manding the services of supply here. Army food supplies now ari coming in and no shortage Is ex pected. AMERICANS DRIVING TO EAST APPROACH CHATEAU-THIERRY; TANKS ROAR UP RHONE VALLEY - M + - GERMANS FIGHT TO ESCAPE TRAP American Armored Column Throws Deadly Wedge In, River Sector ROME, Aug. 28.—(JP)—An American armored column has thrown a deadly wedge into the Rhone valley 100 miles north of Marseille, and tonight battered remnants of the German 19th army in southern France fought fran tically to escape a trap which was closing on their last ave nue of escape to Germany. An official announcement said heavy losses already had been in flicted on fleeing enemy, troops on the east bank of the Rhone, but did not disclose whether Yank for ces had yet throttled all highways and railways on both sides of the stream, effectively stoppering the wide Rhone valley. speeding tne Nazis' disorderly flight and driving them into the blazing guns of the cut-off force just above Montelimar was anoth er American column pounding up the Rhone valley from Avignon, some 45 miles down the river. All bridges across the Rhone have been flown, and French patriot troops holding the countryside on the west side of the river were re ported harassing the flank of the reeling army. The last Germans who had been holding out on the Marseille water front and on islands in the harbor finally surrendered, six days after capture of France’s greatest port was officially announced by the Allies. Allied engineers had been waiting impatiently to begin clean ing up the harbor, badly needed to supply the Seventh army. More than 50,000 German front line troops—possibly half the en emy force which garrisoned south ern France— were estimated to have been killed, wounded or cap tured in less than two weeks of lightning warfare, Allied brand. Fall of the naval base of Toulon over the weekend packed another 7,000 prisoners into Allied pens and brought the' total of captives to more than 30,000, Lt. Gen. Alex ander M. Patchch’s headquarters announced. Some units of the American col umn which lanced across southern France and struck the Rhone val ley above Montelimar travelled an incfedible 200 miles in two days, reported Associated Press War Cor respondent Edward Kennedy. -v Reports State Nazis Leaving Gothic Line ON THE ITALIAN FRONTIER, Aug. 28. —(JP)— Frontier reports to night said German troops were withdrawing, from Piedmont, .Lig uria and Emilia provinces and fall ing back towards.the (lips apd the Brenner Pass, leaving behind Mussolini’s Fascist forces to cope with resurgent Partisan onslaughts and advancing Allied forces. Abandonment- t>f -Emilia would indicate a withdrawal from the Gothic line fortifications, since this province embraces part of the Apennine mountains ,iij which they are anchored. (Coastal Liguria includes the port of Genoa,'and the big manu facturing center of Turin is in Pied mont. Both are threatened by the invasion of southern France which has branched out eastward toward the western border of Italy.) \ Developing Allied Drives In France » Sea ambu. q j , . houand J , • I V- I ENGLAND / i ~ £<■* s / ^ >/ Rotter dam^^7 Siegfried Line I Hannovo. LONDON ^-:—7-' } ?®3 - r *&.. «»*MNV ■ ■ |^ver ygf^rvBfusseis ^^Plymouth Somme ft. r^lFrankliiil Cherbourg Brest, l^Stiitlqail -—K Zaragoza S'! o <90 •* )&r staTuti Mitts Vf^y ^^^Barcelona Arrows indicate possible Allied drives from territory already won in France (black areas). Allies threatening: Rouen are in position for a drive toward the Somme. Southeast of Paris they have reached Troyes in a push toward the Alsace-Lorraine border areas. From southern France a thrust toward Belfort appears likely. (AP photo). Bright Belt Sales Light At Opening "*•" By The Associated Press Three of the largest markets in the North Carolina new bright, flue-cured tobacco belt reported the lightest open ing day sales in years yesterday, with averages around the 431/) cent weighted average ceiling set by the Office of Price Administration for graded and tied leaf. Wilsnn flrfienuillo anrJ Ifinctnn'A’ — . ...““ reported very light offerings, Wil son’s the smallest in 25 years, and attributed it to the late crop and labor shortages. Some farm labor is being diverted to cotton picking. Meanwhile, the War Manpower Commission announced yesterday that 400 war prisoners were being assigned eastern North Carolina to help expedite the movement of to bacco from the farm into the fac tories, through the redrying plants. Two hundred of them will be placed at Seymour Johnson field, Golds boro, and the others to a camp near New Bern. The War Food Administration re ported from Wilson, its eastern headquarters, that “demand was strong for the limited amount on hand and most grades sold from $2 to $3 per hundred above last sea (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 1) Moscow Radio Reports Nazis Leaving Bulgaria LONDON, Aug. 28. —(IP)— The Moscow radio, quoting the Bul garian news agency, said tonight Germans had begun withdrawing troops from Bulgaria. 'Die radio said the withdrawal would “be completed within a few days.” “Disarming of 'German troops crossing the Bulgaria-Romania frontier is going on,” said the broadcast. FIGHTER PILOTS SHOOT UP TRAINS LONDON, Aug. 28.— UP) —U. S. Eighth Air Force fighters today made their heaviest raids since D Day on enemy railroad junctions and equipment in all-day attacks ranging over the Franco-German border, Belgiurr£ and Holland, as Ninth Air Force Marauder medi um bombers continued the offen sive at dusk with sharp attacks in France against fuel dumps- at Amiens and ammunition stores at L’Aigle. Aimed at liquidating any at tempts to bolster the .fading Ger man defenses, 500 fighters ranged over thousands of square miles at tacking from Nijmegen, Holland, to Frankfurt, Germany and en countered negligible opposition. The virtually continuous attack? shot up 13 German troop trains, strafing German soldiers as they leaped from the trains to seek cover destroyed or damaged 270 locomotives and 1,496 railroad cars, shot up 237 trucks, blew up two ammunition trains and set fire to several ammunition cars. In addition, 21 Nazi planes were destroyed, 13 in the air and eight on the ground. Nineteen of the Mustangs, Thun derbolts and Lightnings failed to return from the huge offensive. Ferguson New Deputy Recorder The Board of County Com missioners after much dis cussion yesterday afternoon provided that the salary of the deputy judge of recorder’s court be increased from $1,400 to $1,800 annually, and approv ed the appointment of J. H. Ferguson to fill the vacan cy, effective September 1. After hearing pleas from a delegation of six lawyers, the board also decided to increase the pay of the deputy solicitor from $100 to $600 per year, but made no appointment to fill this vacancy. [ The lawyers spoke of the strain provoked by a steady ■ j increase in the county court’s ,1 business, which began an up ward trend in 1941. when it was under the administration of r Alton Lennon. • Offering support on behalf of Judge Winfield Smith, Lennon told the board that he did not > believe any member of the bar in this county would accept the responsibility of deputy , 6 recorder for less than the amount asked. Judge Smith ’previously had recommended the appointment of Ferguson to fill the vacancy. David Sinclair took the floor at the meeting and told mem bers of the board that the cost of crime should not be con sidered when it comes to com bating it. Bill Rhodes, who ran against Judge Smith in the last elec tion (Smith carried 17 of 18 precincts), stated that he was indebted to the recorder for beating him out of the job. There was some question among the commissioners as to whether or not Judge Smith should be allowed to recom mend anyone as deputy re corder, but Aaron Goldberg up held his move, stating that if Judge Smith was going to have the responsibility of the court, he should have tc right to select his own man for deputy. “Besides,” he asserted. “I know of no man worth his shingle who would handle the job for less than $1S0 a month.” In his mind this was the ab solute minimum. The group of lawyers were agreed that Judge Smith spent more time at his job than any employe of the county. They also were agreed that no man would accept the job of deputy recorder for less than the amount agreed upon. Addison Hewlett, Sr., chair man of the board. sa'd he had the greatest respect and ad miration for the accomplish ments of Judge Smith and J. A. McNorton, solicitor. Former Judge Lennon em phasized that Judge Smith had actually saved the county more money than when he. himself, had the job of recorder. He stressed the fact that this prob lem alone was a strain on a man’s nerves. He asked that the board compensate the job and not the man, no mat ter who might sit on the bench ie Recorder’s court. MARNE CROSSED IN POWER SMASH World War 1 Battlefield Within Grasp Of Units | Striking At Reich SUPREME HEADQUAR rERS ALLIED EXPEDI riONARY FORCE, Aug. 28. — (/P) — Powerful American forces broke across the Marne at Meaux today and stormed on eastward in a 30-miie ad vance to within five miles of the World War I battlefield j V/X V^XIMUVUU X 111V1 1 J • Other U. S. Third army spear heads, sweeping northeast from j the broken enemy lines along the upper Seine, welded a 45-mile are of steel within 40 miles of the great rail city of Reims, whose fall would imperil any German at tempt to stand in northern France. In their advance on Chateau Thierry, where theii fathers help ed to shatter the final German of fensive in 1918, the doughboy* were 30 miles east of Lagny, a Marne town ^hose capture was announced yesterday. With their breakthrough at Meaux, which blasted any enemy hope of a determined stand along the natural barrier of the upper Marne, the Americans were 25 miles south of the forest of Com piegne, where the first world war armistice was signed and where Adolf Hitler forced his harsh truce on France in 1940. The general 10-mile advance be low Reims will force the Germans to decide quickly whether they will try to defend the robot bomb coast to the northwest or fall back toward the Reich. The Americans were 35 to 40 miles away from Reins on the southwest, south and southeast— before Chateau-Thierry, at the big road junction of Montmirail at Se zanne, and at an undefined point about 30 miles north of Troyes, the farthest eastward advance 85 miles east of Paris. All these latest surges on the plains between the Marne and Seine were from 10 to 18 mile# north of last reported positions, and outlined a great wheeling movement which now has swept to within about 110 miles of Ger man’s frontier at the Saar. These American columns were knifing in behind the Germans’ 15th army, which was believed be ing bolstered by troops pouring into France along virtually every rail line from Belgium despite a storm of bombs and bullets from hundreds of Allied warplanes. In the race from Meaux, the tanks of Lt. Gen George S. Pat ton bowled through a La Ferte Sur-Jouarre and rumbled on east. One field dispatch said they had reached Chateau - Thierry, and while it was not confirmed it was possible, since tank columns often maintain radio silence. This was all new terrain for the troops of this war. but for at least some of their field officers it wa« a return to a battle-ground where they fought more than two de cades ago. _v STATES PAY RU E GAINS IN FAVOR WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.— <*) — Strbng bi-partisan support develop ed in the House today for demo bilization and reconversion legisla tion shorn of liberal unemployment benefits and emphasizing rigid economy in postwar federal ex penditures. Following a Republican caucus, Rep. Knutson (R.-Minn.), ranking minority member of the ways and means committee, reported there was “ample strength" to put over the committee’s bill which leaves unemployment benefits entirely in the hands of the states. Floor de bate begins tomorrow. Rep. Mills (D.-Ark.), a com mittee member, likewise predicted adoption of the bill, saying he had found "widespread support” among Democrats for the “com mittee’s stand against large fed eral postwar commitments at thil time.” -V STRIKE ENDED DETROIT, Aug. 28.—<2P)—Pro duction of aircraft engine parts at the Ford Motor company’s High land Park plant, halted by a strike last Friday, got underway again today with the return to work ot most of 8,000 employes involved in the stoppage that threatened for a time to affect 50,000 other workefs in Ford plants in the Detroit area. < ' tj
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