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V0L_'7-_—N_ ._-—---WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1944 ~ FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1S67
Republicans
Pounce Upon
Sid Hillman
FLAYED as communist
Democrats Promptly Say
G.O.P- Making Capital
Of Postwar Bill
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.
w)—House Republicans to-'
dav pounced on Sidney Hill
man as a ‘‘dictator” and
“Communist” who, they said,
might get the job of adminis
tering postwar reconversion,
and the Democrats promptly
charged the G. 0. P. with
making the subject a “politi
cal football.”
Hillman's role as head of the CIO
Political Action Committee which
is raising funds to further the
Roosevelt-Truman campaign was
injected into the second and final
day’s debate on measures to aid
in reconversion of the nation’s
economy to a peacetime basis.
j ijeiuic me ouujuvi, wmo v
ed. both sides touched on the per
sonalities of the campaign, the
Democratic nfitionalconvention, the
Republican candidacy of Thomas
E, Dewey for president now and
for district attorney in 1987.
Rep. Celler (D-N. Y.) ignited the
fiery exchanges when he praised
Hillman’s views as given to the
house campaign expenses commit
tee. He $aid the detractors of Hill
man call him a communist but it si
"hardly likely” that the two union
banks he heads would permit him
to hold such high office if he were
one.
Celler said Dewey “accepted”
$5,000 from Hillman and the CIO
for his district attorney campaign
seven years ago and “it is alto
gether different when one is on the
receiving end.”
Rep. Knutson (R-Minn.) replied
that Dewey's managers then may
have accepted the money - but
Dewey did not personally, adding
that as it stands now Hillman “is ]
the greatest single asset the Re- i
publican party has in this cam- i
paign.” j
Rep. Rankin (D-Miss.l jumped
into the general melee with a dec- t
laration that the administration— ]
"Everybody in public office” 1
should repudiate the support of <
Hillman and “his communist, fas- 1
cist machine.” !
Hillman's activities at the Demo- (
eratic national convention were <
brought into the discussion by Rep. f
Simpson iR-Pa.) who said the CIO t
leader dictated that the convention j
must not. nominate James F. ;
Byrnes for the vice presidency. .
As war mobilizer, Simpson said,
Byrnes had the faith of the public (
and the people were “shocked when .
this distinguished citizen was de- •
nied the vice presidential nomina- <
tion only because Sidney Hillman j
so ordered.” .
ne saia mat what was done in
Chicago “cdn be done in Washing- ,
>on and Justice Byrnes’ position <
therefore is not permanent.” 1
Should Hillman demand it, Simp- ]
son added. “Byrnes would follow '
Henry Wallace and Donald Nelson ;
on a one-way trip to China.”
He said further that either Hill-, i
tnan or Wallace, the retiring vice ‘
president, might be appointed to
head the reconversion office es
tablished in the legislation now
pending “and then we would see a
real cracking down on industry.” £
Rep. Lynch tD-N. Y.) shot back: 3
,} is to be regretted that a 1
reject si important as this is be- £
mg made a political football.” J
Lynch attacked the bill itself, (
otvever. as a “do nothing” meas- 1
"•e. failing to protect the worker s
lorn the economic shock of war-to.
Peace conversion. s
hi defense of the measure, Rep. 1
euey fR-Hl. ( sided with Ways c
nd Means Chairman Doughton fD
1 L 1 that reconversion should not 1
man programs for which there is 1
™ tax revenue. 1
Fried Chicken For Air Ace ^
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Home from the air wars In Europe, where he shot down six Ger
man planes on one mission, Maj. George E. Preddy indulges in what
he calls his chief “weakness — an appetite for fried chicken. He came
home with the Distinguished Service Cross and 30 days’ leave after
being credited with downing 24 1-2 planes and destroying five others
on the ground.
Reds Accuse Turks
Of Aiding^ Germans
MOSCOW, Aug. 30. — (yP) — Soviet Russia, having
crushed German power in the Black Sea, today called on
Bulgaria and Turkey to assist in the Allied liberation of
southeastern Europe as Pravda, the semi-official newspa
per, accused Turkey of playing a double game with Ger
TYIQ Y1 XT "IC 1 ..—
Apparently the Kremlin was de
ermined to reinforce the Red ar
ny offensive in Romania with po
itico-military decisions by Bulge
•ia and Turkey which would coun
sel immediate German evacuation
if the Balkan peninsula and make
:entral Europe the next battle
ield.
Charging that Turkey’s- diplo
matic break wi*h Germany has
leen turned into a “friendly rup
ure.” Pravda declared that-Nazi
spionage and propaganda against
ha Allies — especially against the
Soviet Union — had increased un
ler Nazi influence: that German
liplomats still held receptions at
ended by Turkish officials and
hat an estimated 1,300 Germans
ncluding diplomatic, military, avi
ition and commercial attaches,
till wer-a in the country.
The article, carrying the dateline
if Batum nearest Russian Black
eaport to,Turkey, asserted that
‘♦he unbecoming picture of the
ervile attitude of Turkish author
ties to the Hitlerite diplomats can
lot help but provoke surprise.”
(In Washington, Pravda’s blast
ras widely recognized in official
[uarters as a Russian determina
ion to gain unlimited access to the
Mediterranean sea through the
['urkish-controlled Bosphorus 1 and
Dardanelles.
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Philippine Gateway
Pounded With Bombs
GENERAL HEADQUARTERS,
outhwest Pacific. Thursday, Aug
1—(AP;—The fourth heavy raid iti
;ss than two weeks cn Halmahera,
ateway to the Philippines, was an
lounced today by headquarters
>ne hundred and thirteen tons
ounded the island’s defenses and
upplies.
It was the sixth 100-plus explo
ive air attack in that time on the
Moluccas chain of islands south
f Mindanao.
In the latest Halmahera smash,
.iberatoi-s and Mitchells caused
eavy and widespread damage
’uesday at Wasile and Kaoe bays, j
Slovak Partisans
Fighting Germans
In Puppet State
LONDON. Aug. 30. —UP)— A
' ' rferv menace to the whole rear
of the German defense struc
ture in southeastern Europe
• flared up in Slovakia today as
Czecho-Slovak armed forces of
the interior joined Slovak par
- tisans in fighting the Germans
is that a puppet state next door
to hapless Hungary.
The Czecho-Slovak govern
ment in exile in London re
quested quick Allied aid for
the resistance forces as the
underground in the partitioned
homeland issued its first com
munique announcing capture of
one town and fierce fighting in
four areas.
MOSCOWRAMO
' HITS BULGARIA
LONDON, Thursday, Aug. 31.—
(#)—The Mascow radio sharply at
tacked the Bulgarian government’s
“proclaimed neutrality’’ today and
asserted it was “in order to enable
the Germans to hide in Bulgaria
from prosecution by the Allies.”
The broadcast—quoting a Tass
dispatch from the newly captured
Romanian port of Constanta, said
that “according to verified reports
the other day 23 German armed
ships reached Ruse (Rushchuk),”
Bulgarian port on the Danube and,
“in violation of the neutrality pro
claimed by Bulgaria, these ships
were not subject to a regime of
interment.’’
In addition, Moscow said, Ger
man ships including subarines find
shelter in the Bulgarian Black Sea
' ports- of Varna and Burgas and,
“with the assistance of Bulgarian
; authorities, the Germans already
have sunk several of these ships,”
The attack came as a Bulgarian
peace delegation reached Cairo to
negotiate an armistice with the|
United States and Britain. The
country is not at war with Rus
sia.
“According to reports reaching
here,” the Tass dispatch said,
“Germans turned over a part of
their ships to Bulgarian authorities
in payment on German trade obli
gations.
“All this indicates that the Bul
garian government’s proclaimed
‘neutrality’ is in order to enable
Germans to hide in Bulgaria from
prosecution by the Allies.”
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Romanian Delegation
Arrives At Moscow
LONDON, Thursday, Aug. 31 —
(JP)—A Romanian government ar
mistice delegation has arrived in
Moscow to discuss peace terms
with Russia, the Moscow radio an
nounced today.
The broadcast, recorded by the
Soviet monitor, said the purpose
of the delegation was “the car
rying on of conversations and the
conclusion of an armistice,”
Police Get Pawnbrokers
To File Daily Reports
Moving to halt thieves from
Warning money through loans
10m Pawnbrokers on stolen
dll cles, the city police depart
jWit now requires a daily re
from pawnbrokers on all
icles on which loans are
made.
The new procedure was re
Wed yesterday when Police
Kef T Casteen appeared
„ the Grand Jury, to show
mbers the form used in
complying with a recommenda
m on the daily reports made
oe iurers at the July term
criminal court.
, ,A 'eport of grand jury activi
hiring the August criminal
"f superior court to Judge
h. Stevens yesterday
co that a total of 61 wit
nesses were examined, result
ing in a return of 32 true bills
and one no true bill.
The need of special polic^ig
of Oastle and Dawson streets .
from Sixth to Sixteenth
streets, was cited by the jur
ors, and this recommendation
was made to law enforcement
officers. The phrase used was
“bad existing conditions and
lawlessness in this section of
the city.”
It also was recommended
that law enforcement officers
have taxicab drivers conform
more closely to the law. There
were several reports which
showed that many cabs were
being “recklessly and careless
ly driven. The grand jury call
ed this a menace to public safe
ty.
Allies Speed Toward Belgium;
Reds Get Ploesti Oil Fields;
Nazis Hacked In Rhone Valley
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FLEEING ENEMY !
ABANDONS ARMS
Germans Attempt To Use
Bridges In Flight
To Fatherland
ROME, Aug. 30.—(JP) —
American forces hacked re
lentlessly at fleeing surviv
ors of the German 19th army
along a 20-mile stretch of
the Rhone valley today, while
90 miles to the east a strong
Nazi armored force struck
into France from the Italian
frontier in an effort to re
lieve the pressure on Gen. Jo
hannes Blaskowitz’s shredded
army.
Yank motorized infantry attack
ed the Germans retreating from
southern France with particular
ferocity at Loriol, 13 miles north
of Montelimar, where the Nazis
were attempting to get across 4he
Drome river on hastily-thrown
pontoon bridges and resume their
flight toward the fatherland.
One three-mile German oolumn
estimated to have contained near
ly 300 vehicles, including numer
ous pieces of horsedrawn artillery,
virtually was wiped out by Amer
ican artillery and planes in the
Nazi “graveyard" between Mon
telimar and Valence, headquar
ters announced.
Advance American elements,
skirting the maelstrom of battle
at this point and driving to head
off another segment of the ene
my’s disorganized forces, had
reached the town of Chabeauil, 27
miles up the valley from Monteli
mar and only six miles east and
slightly south of Valence.
The 56 miles from Valence on
to the city of Lyon promised only
more unremitting punishment for
the Nazis, and even the vanguard
of the fleeing enemy appeared un
likely to escape the closing Allied
act except in very small, disor
ganized groups.
The Germans were in such des
perate straits that in the past two
days they had abandoned 800 load
ed trucks and two batteries oi
their famed dual-purpose 88-milli
meter guns. For scores of miles
the Rhone valley was littered with
Herman equipment, tossed aside in
the mad rush to get away.
Presumably hoping to compel
Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch to
divert part of his forces from the
methodical slaughter along the
Rhone, the Nazis sent a striking
column across the Alps from
northwestern Italy to attack the
American garrison at Briancon,
eight miles inside France and
about 50 miles southeast of Gren
pble.
Although the Yanks were driv
en out of the medieval fortress
;own, suffering some casualties
and loss of equipment, the setback
.vas considered of minor import
ance. Edward Kennedy, Associat
ed Press field correspondent, re
ported from the vicini’y:
“The German attack was of lo
eal character and Briancon is of
ittle value in itself. Americans
still hold all of the route Napoleon
lollowed up to the outskirts of Bri
ancon and the Germans are far
:rom achieving an escape route
through France x x x.”
Begins Suit
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Seeking $1,000 a month from
John D. Spreckles 3rd; heir to the
Spreekels sugar fortune, Mrs. Ma
ry Spreekels told a Los Angeles
court that he spent more on race
horses than on her. She is shown
here in her lawyer’s office.
U. S. SUBS SINK
17JAP SHIPS
WASHINGTON. Aug. 30 — (A>) —
Destruction of 17 Japanese ves
sels. including two warships, by
American submarines operating in
enemy waters, was reported by the
Navy today.
The two Nipponese destroyers
sent to the bottom by far-ranging
American submersibles could have
been trying to protect Japanese
convoys carrying supplies to
hard-pressed enemy garrisons.
Their destruction brings to 59
the number of Japanese warships
thus far sunk by American sub
marine action.
Other ships in the latest bag of
the submarines included two tank
ers from the badly depleted fleet
Df Japanese fuel-carrying vessels.
The total included also 13 cargo
vessels, all of which could have
been loaded with materials vital
ly needed at the enemy’s Pacific
bases.
DRIVE ON SOMME
LONDON. Aug. 30.—LT)—A field
dispatch from the headquarters of
Sir Miles C. Dempsey said tonight
that British forces driving forward
from the Seine were only eight
miles from the Somme river and
going fast against slight enemy
resistance.
Wilmington War Hero
Tells Of Experiences
A Wilmington war hero, S
Sgt. Davis Polvogt, twice shot
down in the Pacific and
thrice decorated, gave the Ki
wanis club yesterday a thrill
ing account of his battle ex
periences..
Introduced as an airman who
had flown on more missions
than any other flier in the
Seventh Air Force, Sergeant
Polvogt told of having taken
part in the Gilbert and Marsh
all Islands campaigns and in
the conquest of Guam and Sai
pan Islands. Wounded slightly,
he was recently flown back to
his home here.
The historic turn of the for
tunes of war in the Pacific was
illustrated by ' the airman’s
statement that when he parti
cipated in the first army air
raid on Wake Island after its
capture by the Japanese, 170
Zeros came up to meet the 12
raiding bombers, but “today,
when a B-24 flies over Wake,
nothing comes up; either they
haven’t got it or they are afraid
to come up.’’
Sergeant Polvgot said he was
with the first air groups to raid
the Gilbert Islands, starting
from Hawaii and stopping first
at Midway. He described in
vivid detail the Marshall and
Gilbert campaigns. Later he
told of the Guam and Saipan
battles.
Sergeant Polvogt wears three
decorations, two from the Ar
my and one from the Navy,
the latter conferred by Adm.
Chester W. Nimitz.
The speaker was introduced
by the Rev. Walter B. Freed,
secretary of the club.
The club voted to cancel next
week’s regular meeting and to
meet instead on Thursday night
at the Wrightsbpro club house
to hear Congressman J. Bay
ard Clark at a farmers’ meet
ing.
Resolutions on the death of
Henry Heller, a Kiwanian,
were read by Harry M. Solo
mon. chairman of a committee
appointed to draw them, and
were adopted.
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SOVIET ARMIES
NEAR BUCHAREST
Capture Of Fuel Sources
From Germany Hailed
As Great Victory
LONDON, Thursday, Aug.
31. — (jP) — The Russians
cleared the Germans out of
all the rich Ploesti oil fields
and penetrated the Bucha
rest metropolitan area yester
day while linking up their
two armies in the Romanian
theater for a concentrated
alow in the direction of the
Hungariari plains.
Fall of Ploesti, long the greatest
single source of oil for the Ger
man armies, was hailed as the
most significant day’s victory of
the 12-day campaign, which fore- <
ed Romania a week ago to jump «
from the Axis to the Allied camp. 1
In capturing more than 200 towns 1
in a day around Ploesti and north- ’
east of Bucharest, the nearest an- j
nounced Soviet approach to the .
Romanian capital was 17 miles
at the village of Meriuta.
Speedy patrols, however, were ■
believed to be much nearer to the
capital, which the Romanians
have announced they themselves
already have retrieved from the
Germans.
Aiie iiguuung auvaute suuuiwcsi
ward by Gen. Rodion Y. Malinov
sky’s Second Ukrainian army
caught another 15,000 Germans
Tuesday,. Moscow announced, the
prisoners including e corps com
mander, Gen. Heii; a divisional
commander, Lieut. Gen. Weitzner,
and two colonels commanding divi
sions. This brought -the total of
captured German generals to 34
since the general summer offen
sive began June 23.
The bag in Wednesday’s race of
more than 45 miles from Buzau
had not yet been counted, but the
German losses in the unsuccess
ful defense of Ploesti were declar
ed by the Moscow communique to
be “tremendous.”
East of Malinovsky’s newly-won
positions, the Third Ukrainian ar
my of Gen. Feodor I. Tolbukhin
captured 100 towns , in the big poc
ket between the Danube river
bends and the Black Sea and
shouldered up to the river next to
their comrades of the Second ar
my.
The Russians claimed'no towns
in the vicinity of the present Bul
garian border on their left flank,
but Moscow dispatches said it was
considered a certainty that they
had thrown out flanking guards and
established some sort of frontier
contact with the southern Dobruja
territory that Bulgaria took from
Romania in 1940. Moscow will have
an important voice in deciding the
ultimate disposition of that terri- ■
tory. I
Whether the next main Russian
thrust will be westward up the
Danube to Hungary or through the
Carpathians into Transylvania re
mained a Soviet secret.
Hungarian-held Transylvania ter- ;
r' ^-v nlreadv has been penetrat- ]
ed in two places by elements of .
i.*aiinovsky’s army. The Russians
remained silent about that front, (
but German accounts indicated a ,
major push might be shaping up
there.
A drive up the Danube, however, ‘
would present the possibility of j
forming a solid front with Marshal
Tito’s partisans in Yugoslavia. :
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NAZIS REPORTED
MOVING UP GAS I
NEW YORK, Aug. 30. — (ff) - ,
Time correspondent John Scotl j
broadcast over the Blue Network ,
from Stockholm today a report j
that Germans were sending poison ]
gas cylinders to the English chan- ^
nel coast. ^
The correspondent said ap Allied -
plane had strafed a heavily-guard- (
e4 train, enroute from Germany
through Holland to the coast, and
that poison gas had escaped from
cylinders it was carrying, killing
several of the guards and throw
ing a nearby Dutch town into pan
ic. 7*
"Many trains, heavily guarded
such as this one, have passed
through Belgium and Holland re
cently towards the Channel coast.”
Scott added.
Meanwhile, sr British broadcast
monitored by NBC said Polish pa
triots in Warsaw have reported the
capture of “gas grenades” from
Germans fighting inside the Polish
capital.
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NELSON IN MOSCOW
MOSCOW, Aug.. 30.—(A>)—Donald
M. Nelson and Maj. Gen. Patrick
J. Hurly arrived in Moscow today
enroute to Chungking for a brief
visit at the Chinese capital.
Murder Mystery i]
——BBaaaaaa^BR him■■urn
The mystery of the Hayden Plan
etarium is Manhattan’s latest
Time puzzle and the victim shown
ibove, is Mrs. Phyllis Newmark,
rife of a prominent importer. She
vas found badly beaten and
strangled in a clump of bushes
tear the famed Planetarium.
ALLIES DEMAND
FULLSURRENDER
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—<iP)—
The American government, it was
emphasized today, is resolute on
unconditional surrender as the
Dnly terms for Germany and it
does not intend to let Hitler and
his henchmen escape punishment
by taking refuge in some neutral
sountry.
Secretary of State Hull restated
this policy in effect when asked at
lis news conference for Comment
in the broadcast of the ace Nazi
military commentator, Lt. Gen.
Kurt Dittmar, admitting that the
iefeat of Germany is drawing clos
er.
It is evident, Hull declared, that
the Germans are desirous of a ne
gotiated peace but the Allied posi
;ion for unconditional surrender is
;o well known to require reitera
;ion.
As for the possibility thaf Hitler
ind other leading Nazis may flee
:o a neutral country, Hull said this
government is keeping that con-:
itantly in mind. President Roose- ;
felt, he recalled, appealed to th-; ,
leutrals a year ago not to furnish
sanctuary to war criminals and
he British government did like- (
vise.
Dittmar’s broadcast was the lat- -
sst in a series of German appeals^
.0 the Allies to be reasonable. He,'
leclared that the Germans must i
:ight "as long as our enemies are|i
maintaining their war aims.”
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7.D.R., CHURCHILL ]
ARRANGING PARLEY ;
By The Associated Press
Signs multiplied last night that !
^resident Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Churchill are arranging
mother meeting soon to discuss (
he future of rapidly-weakening
Germany and plans to step up the ]
var against Japan.
In Washington the belief was j
[eneral that the swift Allied in- ,
-oads against the German de- j
enses in Europe have spurred ,
>lans for the meeting. Military and
iTaval men take the view, it was j
earned, that while German re- (
istance can conceivably be pro- \
onged. it may collapse at any s
ime. j
This poses, n°t only the question
if the armistice terms to be im- i
losed on the Reich, but the broad t
ubject of how to bridge the gap 11
letween the end of the war in 1
Europe and the proposed estao- 1
ishment of a world agency to keep I
he peace. t
MS CAPTURED <
WITHOUT BATTLE
Armored Columns Within
36 Miles Of Belgium; .
No Let-Up In Sight
SUPREME HEADQUAR
TERS ALLIED EXPEDI
TIONARY FORCE, Thurs
ay, Aug. 31.—<7P)—Ameri
an armored columns rolled1
hrough the cathedral city of
teims and streaked on with
n 36 miles of the Belgian
>order yesterday in an un
:hecked pursuit of Germans
'ailing back upon their home
and, while British forces, in
i 23-mile breakthrough, made
;heir first deep thrust toward
;he Nazis’ rocket bomb coast.
Both the American First and
rhird armies were disclosed to be
taking part in the great drive
rortheast of Paris across first
world war battlefields and through
the Germans’ old Hindenburg line.
The First army, under Lt. Gen.
Courtney H. Hodges, gained 20
miles in a drive from captured
Soissons northward to Laon, and
early today was believed to have
run through this town just 36 miles
from Belgium. It also struck nine
miles to the east and reached
Montaigu.
The Third army under Lt. Gen.
George S. Patton, Jr., captured
Reims, great liege city of the first
world war, wi#iout firing a shot
and rolled on beyond. The city fell
after the Americans had outflank
ed it and forced a German with
drawal during the night.
British armored columns after
moving relatively slowly for days
struck north from the Seine and
drove beyond the town of Beauvais
in a smash of 23 miles from Etre
oagny, which carried to a point on
ly 25 miles south of the big com
munications center of Amiens on
;he Somme river. Beauvais is 40
miles north and slightly east of
Paris.
The British also reached the
:own of Gournay, 16 miles west of
Beauvais, driving in strength di
rectly for the heart of the robot
jomb coast from which the Ger
nans have been attacking London
md southern England in "reprisal”
varfare.
At the same time Canadian for
:es outflanked the important Seine
iort of Rouen, a city of 123,000
vhich the Germans announced dur
ng the day they had evacuated.
Tie Canadians advanced five miles
lortheast of the city, which lies
lear the mouth of the Seine.
It was disclosed today that it
vias General Hodges’ First army
vhich had captured Chateau-Thier
y and Soissons yesterday, driving
m today to Laon. These First army
roops took 1,466 prisoners in th®
mash to raise their total since D
lay to 115,131, it was announced.
Che Third army as of Aug. 28 re
lorted 81,000 Germans killed or
aptured since the start of the Brit
any campaign.
The Third army, in addition t®
aking Reims, drove on northward
0 miles and established a new
iridgehead across the Aisne in th®
’icinity of Neufchatel, where these
nen, like those of the First army
vere only 36 miles from Belgium.
Here Patton’s men were just 45
niles southwest of Sedan, histone
ity through which the Nazis in
aded France in 1940. Hodges’ men
tood 50 miles from this invasion
ateway to the Reich.
Supreme headquarters early thie
norning was without late news ot
he American forces east of Cha
ins, southeast of the Reims, area,
iut the German radio put th®
.mericans on approaches to Sgt.
lizier, which is only 83 miles from
le German border.
Seventh Paralysis Case
Reported In Wilmington
A seventh case of infantile j
paralysis was reported for New
Hanover county yesterday by ;
Dr. A. H. Elliot, city-county
health officer.
The officer said the victim,
Richard Briggs Register, a 7
month-old baby had been kept
under observation for the past
several days at James Walker
Memorial hospital by the at
tending physician, Dr. J. B. Sid
bury, and that the disease was
only defined as polio yesterday.
In the meantime, Paul Doug
las Sharpe, small son of Mr.
and Mrs. P. L. Sharpe of War
saw, was carried to the infantile
hospital at Hickory yesterday.
His condition was dignosed aa
polio at James Walker Me
morial hospital, where he had
been brought earlier in the
week. It is reported to be only
a slight case.
Opening date of Edwarda
Military Institute, Pineland col
lege and associated schools at
Salemburg has been postponed
from September 5 until Mon
day, September 13, on account
of the Polio epidemic, according
to an announcement received
here yesterday.
Public schools in New Han
over and over the state will not
open until September 18, at
least.
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