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_ *■ FORECAST ^ --- tlmtngtntt nntutQ ^tctr NO. __ WILMINGTON, N.E., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1944 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867 Axis labmet In Hungary Goes Down frontier bolstered German Troops Withdrawn From Bulgaria To Aid Defense Of Land LONDON, Aug. 29.—(/P)— The Hungarian government of pro-Nazi Doeme Sztojay fell today amid Allied and Axis reports that Nazi troops were withdrawing from Bul garia to bolster the Hunga rian frontier defenses against the approaching Red army. The Hungarian regent, Admiral Nicholas Horthy, accepted the resignation of Sztojay’s govern ment and appointed Col. Gen. Vitez Geza Lakatos as new pre mier, according to the German news agency, Trans-ocean. At the same time the Germans occupied Slovakia, pouring troops into that puppet country because of recent parachutist and guerril la activity there. The occupation of Nazi-created Slovakia was disclosed in a broad cast of Gen. Ferdinand Catlos, commander in chief of Slovakia’s armed forces, over the Bratislavia radio. The nation had been under martial law since Aug. 12. Catlos appealed to the people to receive the Germans as Allies and abev “only government orders.” The Hungarian development fol lowed a visit to Budapest by Field Marshal Gen Wilhelm Keitel, supreme commander of German forces. Keitel flew back to Ber lin after conferences with Horthy and War Minister Lajos Ssatay, who retainedhi s place in the re shuffled cabinet. inu; muei appeared 10 De Iran, tically shoring up the greater Reich’s last defenses against the onrushing Russians, who already have been reported crossing the Carpathian mountains into Hun garian territory. Occupied Hungary — frightened by the Red Army and its promise to help Romanians recover Tran sylvania—has been quailing politic ally under German demands for a “total war” effort. In addition to Csatay the new cabinet retained Finance Minister Lajos Remenyi-Sc'neller, Agricul ture Minister Bela Yurczek and In terior Minister Nikolaus Bonezos. Lt. Gen Gustav Henyey was named new foreign minister. Other' new ministers, Transocean s‘aid, were Minister of Justice Gabriel Viadar, Minister for Culture Ivan Rakovszky, President of Board of Trade Oliver Markos and Minister for Industry Tibor Gyulay. Qualified observers in London saw the Hungarian reshuffle-exe cuted within 24 hours of the Rus sian crossing into Transylvania— as producing a Hungarian “Man nerheim” cabinet, studded with generals and strong men. Both the new premier and foreign minister are military fig ures. Henyey is former corps com mander at Stuhlyeissenburg. The German controlled Hun garian news agency, Mti, reported Sztojay resigned because of “his •fate of health.”) The Sztojay cabinet -was formed last March after the Germans formally occupied Hungary. Sztojay had previously been Hun garian minister to Berlin. Immedi ately after his government was formed to succeed that of Nicholas Kallay, the Germans poured in ad ditional troops. Before the March occupation Hungary had been a favored and sometimes recalcitrant satellite, bribed with a slice of Ruthenia. some Yugoslav territory and the Province of Transylvania taken from Hungary by the Vienna sward. v\as commanaer oi nun. E«ian troops on the eastern front. *te waa awarded the knights cross ™ tje iron cross by Hitler in May *t ^is,year for action there. Officially denying “foreign press statements” that it had accepted Bulgaria's declaration of neutrali '■ Moscow served notice that Sofia Jaust surrender to, and take terms rnm the United States and Great ,‘ainrwith whom she is at war. Soviet leading circles consider neutrality proclaimed by the J-garian government entirely in ucient under the circumstances • he present situation.” a Moscow pff'ce statement said. T..is ;s Moscow getting into line J o us and notifying Bulgaria to .fake terms with us.” said foreign Lce spokesman. ■ was Moscow which Saturday standnCet* Bulgaria’s neutrality -V safety pin removed PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 29—W n open safety pin lodged inside in ~est °f 15-months-old Patty ; u Thorne, of Belpre. Ohio, was ,moved today at the Chevalier TV ,011 Bronchoscopic clinic of ^P’e university hospital. The Little Foxies It might seem crazy of these two fox cubs to get caught and kept as vets, but the vhoto above indi cates they’re crazy as a fox. Cud dling them is their owner, Mrs. John Hubbly of Southport, where her husband. In the navy, Is sta tioned. Foxes are so numerous around Southport that there is no closed' season on them. F.D.R. OUTLINES NEW PEACE PLAN WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. — (£>)— A proposed world peace agency de signed to have more formidable teeth than ihe defunct League of Nations was outlined today by President Roosevelt, who also warned against what he termed carping discussion of its details. He said at a news conference that to lose sight of the main ob jective through discussion of de tails would lead to misunderstand ing. The world security organization under discussion by the United States, Britain and Russia at Dum barton Oaks will be different from the old league (which the United States refuged to enter) because the league’s council had no means to enforce peace in the world, he said. Roosevelt outlined the steps through which disputes which threaten peace would be handled by the future organization just a few hours after chief delegates of the three countries announced their general agreement on its outlines. First of all, he told, a news con erence, a dispute would go before the world court. If it cannot be set tled there, there must be a meet ing place where you can talk it over, he said. He added that you could call this an assembly. The assembly would be compos ed of all nations large and small, the president declared, presentingi the same general blueprint decid ed upon at Dumbarton Oaks. Tf anyone kicks over the traces and violates a frontier, Mr. Roos evelt went on, you have got to have quick action. The council of the security organization, he indicat ed, will have force at its disposal to move immediately in such cas es. When someone starts bombing or invading, he said, you can’t have a man send out word that there will be a meeting next month. -V Wilson Youth Killed In Airplane Mishap GULFSPORT, Miss., Aug. 29.— (/P) — Ten members of a Flying Fortress crew in training at Gulf port Field were killed Sunday night in a crash about 42 miles north west of here, Gulfport Field public relations office announced today. The dead included Second Lt. Paul Bishop Lyles, 20, Navigator, Wilson, N. C._ Nazi Armies Flee France FromSout! -- THOUSANDS CAPTU _:_ Disorganized Remna. Scatter Equipment In Their Flight ROME, Aug. 29.—(fP)—The battle for southern France and destruction of the Ger man 19th army neared com pletion tonight as uncounted thousands of Nazis trudged back to Allied prison camps and disorganized enemy rem nants fled up the Rhone val ley, scattering their equip ment behind them. The greater part of the army to which Adolf Hitler entrusted the defense of southern France against Allied invasion has been wiped out in a fortnight’s whirlwind cam paign by Lt. Gen Alexander M. Patch’s American and French 7th army. Whatever battered remnants managed to slip through the Allied noose and escaped to the north will have to be re-equipped and reorganized completely before they will again be of any real use to Hitler’s hard-pressed forces. American troops slashed relent lessly at the fleeing enemy above Montelimar in the Rhone valley, 100 miles north of Marseille, where a rfying Yank column reached the eastern bank of the Rhone river in a surprise thrust last week. Mon telimar itself was in American hands. Valley roads were littered with abandoned German vdiicles, guns and supplies. The few vehicles still in use by the shattered Nazi columns were able to use the roads only under almost constant attacks by allied warplanes, still favored by perfect flying weather. Allied headquarters said Ameri can tanks and infantry were lock ed a particularly bitter fight with enemy elements in the area of Sauzet, four miles up the Rhone valley from Montelimar. From Montelimar to the sea west of Mar seille the great valley was declar ed free of Nazis except for a scat tered few who were left behind in the enemy’s mad scramble to es cape the Allied trap. (A German news broadcast told of “fierce fighting” in the Rhone valley between Montelimar and Valence, 27 miles to the north, but declared that Nazi forces were withdrawing “in accordance with plan.” (The enemy radio also confirm ed that American troops command ed by Brig. Gen. Frederic Butler had driven north from Grenoble near Annemasse, five miles east of Geneva. Capt. Ludwig Ser torius, leading enemy military commentator, declared however, that this represented only a “pres tige victory” for the Americans as (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) -V IKEASURY TO HONOR WHITEVILLE YOUTH WHITEVILLE, Aug. 29. — UP) ■ - The United States Treasury radio program, Youth on Parade, Colum bia broadcasting system, will sa lute North Carolina at 10:30 a.m. when Phillip Weaver, 10-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Weav er of Whiteville, will be awarded a certificate of merit by the Treas ury department. Allison James, executive manag er of the North Carolina War Fin ance committee, said the certifi cate would be awarded in appre ciation for the presentation of -a Cocker Spaniel puppy by Phillip for auction during a war bond auc tion at Whiteville last January for which $50,000 was high bid. Phillip and his mother, M,rs. G. E. Weaver, expect to leave here tomorrow for Boston, Mass., where the program will originate. Phillip will appear on the program. Fear Hitler Will rlee (jermany WASHINGTON, Aug. 29—(A>> —Military leaders here are be coming increasingly appre hensive over the possibility that Adolf Hitler and some of his henchmen may fly from their battered inner fortress in the next few weeks and seek refuge in a neutral country. Concern has become such that a new appeal may be is sued to the neutrals not to give sanctuary to the men who led the worid into war and now appear bent upon a final drama of umparalleled bloodlust in Europe. Such an appeal would be di rected particularly to Spain and Argentina, because of their past or present current links diplomatic and treasury circles here that the German leaders have stored funds in both countries. American .officials consider U a foregone conclusion tnat many of the Nazi heirarchy who are too well known to have any chance of concealment in Germany by ' going under ground will try to save them selves from Allied trial and punishment by dramatic air plane escapes. This last hope of escape, it is believed, Is one or the rea sons why so many of the top. men in Nazidom today are will ing to stick with Hitler while all over Europe their political and military fortress is cav ing in. What Hitler will do remains -the all-consuming speculation in Washington and the convic tion of officials with whom the subject has been discussed is that he is not killed at the last minute by some of his own henchmen he may very well Kill nimseu. mere aiwajrs remains the chance, however, that he will quit the country. It has been almost exactly a year since the question of sanctuary was last taken up with the neutrals. At that time Italy was falling and the future of Mussolini was a sub ject of speculation like that now centered on Hitler. The State department then instructed its diplomatic representatives in Stockholm, Ankara, Madrid, Lisbon, Bern. Vatican City and Buenos Aires to call attention of the neutral governments to a press con ference statement by Presi dent Roosevelt urging against asylum for “Axis leaders or their tools.” Mussolini made his escap to Germany and spared the neutrals from deciding the question at that time. Allies 55 Miles From Belgium f//n Rout Swallowing Soissons, '*/ Belleau Wood, Chateau-Thierry - ★ Snipers Open Fire On Paris Streets ] RUSSIAN FORCES TAKE CONSTANTA Great Romanian Seaport Falls To Onrushing Soviet Armies LONDON, Wednesday, Aug. 30.—(ff>)—Russian for ces in a daring combined land and sea operation today captured Constanta, Roma nia’s great Black Sea port and for three years the main German naval base in those waters. Seizure of the city of 60,000 rep resented an 85-mile advlnce by sea from the port of Sulina, tak en Monday, and of 70 miles by land from Tulcea on the Danube, and it put Russian troops only 29 miles from the Bulgarian border. Constanta, terminus of the oil pipeline from Ploesti, has at least 37 huge petroleum storage tanks and a special tanker basin. In announcing its fall, Premier Stalin credited fast-moving motor ized and tank formations of Gen. Feodor I. Tolbukhin’s Third Ukra nian army and naval forces under Admiral E. S. Oktyabrsky. Twenty-nine miles farther south lies the border established in Sep tember, 1940, when Romania ced ed the southern Dobruja territory of 2,883 square miles below the Danube to Bulgaria under press- • ure from Bulgaria, Germany and Italy. Bulgaria is not at war with Russia and has been seeking to get out of her war against Brit ain and the United States. The Germans already had ac knowledged during the day that Soviet troops had reached the Ploesti-Constanta pipeline. They also admitted withdrawing from Bubau, oil and railway town 40 miles northeast of Ploesti. The Soviet midnight communi que, confirming capture of Buzua, said more than 150 other towns were taken in the extending drive in that region less than 60 miles northeast of Bucharest. The com munique also listed 50 towns tak en in the southward sweep across the Danube to Constanta. Gains of as much as 25 miles were registered in a single day in the area south of the Danube and north and northwest of Constanta, an early-morning supplement to the communique said, while gains of 19 miles were made in the drive that was declared to have sent the Germans pelting out of Bubau in “disorderly flight.” The Russians were silent on the progress of the thrust into Hunga rian territory, but devoted a por tion of the communique supple ment to a prediction that “the time is not far off when all the Hungarian lackeys of Hitler will fall head over heels.” With Russian mountain troops invading Hungarian-held Transyl vania at two points to the north west, the shadow of a potential death trap fell over the Germans stfll standing to defend the vital Ploesti oil region. At least one division of elite an tiaircraft troops is believed to be in the Ploesti district, plus the Nazi forces driven out of Bucha rest by the Romanian army and those falling back before the So viet drive down through Focsani and Buzau. -V PARTY REORGANIZED MEXICO CITY, Aug. 29— Iff) — Reorganization of the political party of former president Manuel Azana of Spain was announced today by Spanish refugees here. 1 _.. ... —^i— i mm mimn iinui . .. . ., .j... French snipers hit the pavement in a hurry when enemy snipers fired into a crowd of patriots and Yanks trying to dislodge armed groups of Nazis. Note a newsreel cameraman grinding away as the street fight gets under way. Signal Corps radiophoto. (International soundphoto). Chest Adopts ‘45 Budget ■ ★ - 'k I NAVY AIR POWER NEARS NEW PEAK WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. — (ff) — The Navy, reviewing the thump ings handed to both ends of the Axis in the past 12 months, de clared today that “these blows were light compared with the blows we are now prepared to deliver.” Commenting on the progress f the Navy’s air arm, which marks its 31st anniversary tomorrow, Vice Admiral Aubrey W. Fitch, de puty chief of nav^l operations for air, siaid in a statement: “Task force 58, which scourged the Jap so effectively in the last eight months, was just a sweet, summer Zephyr compared to the arrangements of ships, planes and other weapons—old and new — which are ready to lash out now.’’ He disclosed that the Navy now has approximately 100 carriers “in or near action.’ Included are 14 of the mighty Essex type and nine of the fast and powerful independ ence class, converted from cruis ers. More than 70 carriers were commis .ioned during the year and work was started on two of the three projected 45,000-ton battle ship-type carriers. Naval aviators averaged more than four Japanese planes shot down for every American plane lost during the year, Fitch said. The actual score was more than 2,300 Japanese craft destroyed against 560 Navy planes lost. He added that “a high percentage of our pilots was rescued.’ “Long before another anniver sary rolls around, . naval aviation will be hurling at least two more new weapons against the foe—a twin-engined fighter and a scouting plane of unmatched speed and range,” the admiral said. -V-— General Plane Fare Lowered By Air Line NEW YORK, Aug. 29 —UP)— A gentral fare base of five cents a mile for travel by plane from New York to Jacksonville, Fla., was an nounced today by H. S. Parkers, Jr., vice president of National air Lines, which recently received the approval of the civilan aeronautics board to operate the route. In announcing the schedules, Paker said the lines will use Lock Heed Lodester planes of 14 pas senger capacity. Flying time be tween New York and Miami will be seven hours, and 50 minutes: to Tampa, six hours and 20 minutes; to Jacksonville, four hours and 50 minutes and to Char leston, S. C., three hours and 25 minutes, Parker said. -V Armstrong Gets Post In Police Association RALEIGH, Aug. 29.— (# —Maj. John T. Armstrong, commander of the State Highway Patrol, has been appointed regional chairman f o i the southern region of the nation and provincial division of the In ternational Association of Chefs of Police, it was learned here todav. ft Customary Appropriation Of $5,000 Allocated Charities Unit V. The board of directors of the Community War Chest yesterday unanimously adopted a campaign goal for 1945 of $164,838, including a $5,000 appropriation for the As sociated Charities, a member agency, for the entire yfear. The board also voted, after mo tion by W. D. McCaig, budget committee chairman, seconded by James Wade, that a' committee be appointed by the Chest to confer with one from the Associated Cha rities to effect a study of the agency. Differences began when it was reported that the Community Chest would withdraw funds from the Associated Charities for 1945 and would sponsor organization of another agency, the Family Ser vice Society, . to serve the same purposes in family case work. It was first recommended by the budget Committee of the Chest that the budget of the Associated Charities be approved for the first six months of 1945 in the amount of $2,500, and that an equal amount be ear-marked for the use of the agency during the last six months of the year, pending the result of further study by a joint committee of the Associated Char ities and the Community Chest. The budget for 1945 approved by the Chest directors, provides an increase of $12,647 over the $152, 191 for 1944. Broken down, the campaign fig ures include a $74,087 total for the ten member agencies: $67,500 for the National War Fund quota; $15, 402 for general services in the of fice of the Chest, Council of So cial Agencies, and campaign funds and $7,849 for shrinkage. The 1945 budget, adopted in tota after motion by Paul Wilson and seconded by C. Van Leuven, takes in the following categories: Local Agencies — Associated Charities $5,000; Boy Scouts $8, (Continued on Page Three; Col. 7) MIGHTY FLEET HITS GERMANY "V > LONDON, Wednesday, Aug. 30.— (/P)^A mighty force of RAF heavy bombers roared across the Chan nel toward Germany during the night and a few hours later the Nazis radio reported attacking planes over Berlin, Danzig, East and West Prussia and other parts of the Reich. The size of the armada winging away from England and the Ger man reports of the territory under attack indicated one of the big gest Allied night air assaults in weeks was under way. While the heavy force was hitting Prussian stronghlods, the Germans said that nuisance raiders had ap peared over northwestern Gferma ny.: j uc iiJgiit ct v- iiuuo ut-vuuiJtu a-*-1 •_ i the fourth day of sustained attacks, on German transport in France and the lowlands by U. S. Eighth Air Force fighters. It was 1940 all over again above the French battle zones and be yond, except that this time the planes were American instead of German. There was virtually no opposition. A recapitulation tonight showed that in three d*;ys of the attack the the fliers had destroyed 1.507 rail road cars and damaged 1,874, Hit 1.223 motor vehicles, two oil trains. 42 oil tanks, 411 locomotives, 46 barges, three ammunition trains and 82 ammunition carriers. SWEET POTATO CROP HARVEST STARTED RALEIGH, Aug. 29.—(TP)— The harvesting and marketing of the state’s sweet potato crop has be gun in the southeastern section, the State Department of Agriculture said today. A yield of 8,000.000 bushel's, three per cent more than last year, is expected. raving Bids Received For Maffitt Vi11age Bids for paving approximate ly five and a half miles of streets in the Raleigh section of Maffitt Village, were re I ceived from two concerns at a meeting yesterday of the Hous ing Authority of the City of Wil mington. Low bidder was F. D. Cline of Raleigh, with an offer of $10,034.98. The second low bid der. at $13,345.83, was Grannis and Company, Fayetteville. The bids were referred to the Housing Authority engineer, T. N. Ingraham, for study. Award of the contract will be made at a special meeting of the board of commissioners to be held in the near future. The authority also received bids for supply of gasoline, oil and reDairs from eieht con cerns, including the American Oil company, Wilmington, Mac Millan and Cameron Texas Oil company, Gulf Oil corporation. Standard Oil company of New Jersey, Greenville Esso sta tion and Causey Automobile service. The companies entered the same bid of 18.55 cents, a gal lon for the gasoline. Apparent low bidder for oil supply was the Texas Oil company with 44.2 cents. These bids also have been referred to the engineer for analysis. Present to hear the open bids were the following members of the board of commissioners, H. M. Solomon, chairman, Ran ald Stewart, the Rev. Walter B. Freed, and Fred E. Little, and H. R .Emory, director of the Housing Authority. HISTORIC ROUTE TRAVELED AGAIN Americans Cover Miles For Yards Fathers | Won In 1918 SUPREME HEADQUAR. TERS ALLIED EXPEDI TIONARY FORCE, Wednes day, Aug. 30. — QP) — The American Third army in a swift 25-mile smash across hallowed battlefields of the first World War captured Belleau Wood, Chateau-Thier ry and Soissons yesterday, rolling northward along the historic Ardennes invasion route within 55 miles of the Belgian border. Covering miles for each bloody yard their fathers won in 1918, the American under Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., encounered only minor resistance, and Associ at Press Correspondent Edward D. Ball reported from the front that the Germans were “in headlong flight.” toward Belgium and their homeland. lurmng nortnwara from their positions east of Paris and advanc ing at a rate of better than a mile an hour, the Third army threaten ed to flank the Nazis’ rocket bomb installations to the northwest. Northeast of Paris they drove to the approaches of the Warld War siege city of Reims. East of the capital they were, by German account, fighting in the streets of Chalons, only 96 miles from the German frontier and a bare 50 miles from the battlefield east of Verdun on which the Ger mans and Allies were fighting when the first world war armistice was announced November 11, 1918. Supreme Headquarters had no confirmation at midnight Tuesday of a report that either Chalons or Vitry to the south has been com* pletely occupied, but General Pat ton’s men were disclosed to have made further gains across the Marne just below Chalons. Latest reports reaching the Su preme command said the eastern most of Patton’s operations had carried units of his 3rd ary four miles and six miles southeast of Chalons to Lepine and Marson, re spectively. Well to the south still another column made a farther eastern ad vance from Troyes about 15 miles to Piney, on the route to the river Aube. reached the south bank of the Aisne river and promised momentarily to break across the Aisen-Somme line, the last important water bar* rier guarding German positions in Belgium and thh homeland. As the Allies neared Belgium pa triots in that occupied country got a preliminary call to arms from the independence front. All able bodied patriots were ordered to join the resistance arm}, to steal arms from the Germans and to prepare for an all-out battle for liberation. The Americans also were on th# south bank of the Aisnc at Fismes, 16 miles east of Soisson. This spectacular thrust north westward toward the Ardennes forest and Sedan was putting in reverse invasion marches which the Nazis made southward in 1870, in 1914, and finally in the present war when the blitzkrieg triumphed over the crumbling French in the spring of 1940. The 25-miles which Patton’s men made northward from Cha teau-Thierry to Soissons in o n • (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) -V BOARD ANNOUNCES LIQUOR RATIONS RALEIGH. Aug. 29 —UO— The state ABC board announced that four whiskey ration coupons would be valid during September and list ed additional merchandise on the more plentiful list. Chairman Carl Williamson said coupons No. 37 and 33 would be valid at any time during the month for one quart, two pints or one fifth of domestic whiskey, gin or scotch. Coupons Nos. 39 and 40 will be valid at any time during the month for one quart, or two pints, or one fifth, or two tenths of all domestic gin. Additionally, he said, coupons No. 39 and 40 will be valid for one fifth each of “Rocking Chair", “Autogrlph”, “Stop Bottle,’* “Bronze Label,” or “Private Stock,” at the option of the holder. Rum, Tequila, Cordials, and im* ported brandy will remain ration free.
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