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F0REtilST * * Q: v I REMEMBER * 1 i „r=™ "d Itftftt H i PEARLHARBOR Temperatures yesterday: I ■ ■ 9/_ V ■ I'l ■ High 94, io>v 76._ v1^ AND BATAAN V°L- ':NO:i97—----WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1944 ~ FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1567 | Belgian Flowers Welcome Yanks | Villagers of Forge Philippe, Belgium, shower with flowers the cre« of an American jeep as it drives through their village shortly after its liberation. The British have freed Belgium’s capital of Brus Ifls anti its chief port of Antwerp. U. S. Signal Corps radiophoto. Battle In Italy Nearing Climax Eighth Army Troops Plunge Within Five Miles Of Rimini On Adriatic Coast ROME, Sept. 6.— (AP)—The decisive battle for north ern Italy on the broad stretches of the Po river valley ap peared near tonight after Eighth army troops plunged with in five miles of Rimini on the Adriatic coast and Americans on the opposite end of the front seized Lucca, provincial capital 10 miles northeast of Pisa. Once Rimini is captured, Gen.* Sir haroia mexanuer win puur onto the flatlands of northern Italy the greatest armored striking force ever assembled in the Mediterra nean area to proceed with the an nihilation of Field Marshal Gen, Albert Kesselring’s armies. Due south of Rimini Canadian forces crushed all Nazi counterat tacks and carved out new positions only five miles from the city’s out skirts. Other Eighth army units striking directly up the coast were reported less than six miles from their goal as enemy forces weak ened considerably under cem.bin.ed blows by Allied ground troops, warships and planes. Some of the fiercest fighting oc curred around the key town of Cor iano, seven miles south of Rimini and about two miles from the sea. Allied shock troops captured an important ridge running from Cor ano to the coast and sent patrols for a time into the town itself. The German first parachute di vision, which met the first assault of the Canadians below Rimini and tried desperately for nearly a week to stem the advance, was said to have been so mauled that it was relieved. For the second day two British destroyers stood offshore and slammed more than 600 shells into German batteries and gun pos ters guarding Rimini. An Allied communique said several batteries '■'ere silenced. Return fire from enemy guns was described as inef fectual. Rimini, an ancient Roman port "ith a pre - war population of 65, W, is at the Adriatic terminus of a Po valley highway which runs northwest through Bologna into Fne heart of the northern Italy indus ‘■ral regions. Ten miles northwest c tte city is the Rubicon of Cae sar h fateful crossing. Lucca, captured by American pa ™5 in the Fifth army’s thrust near the western end of the line, is ar> important communications cen ir 'rath a normal population of '000. An Allied announcement of ls occupation did not mention any (Continued on Page Five; Col. 5) -V GOVERNMENT ACTS TO OPERATE’MINES Washington, sept. 6— </p) — rection of President Roose. ■ the interior department took ossession tonignt of 15 more bi 8t anous coal mines tied up by LI, es of supervisory employes. . he mines are operated by nine n. Pan'es in Pennsylvania and t Virginia, employ 5,100 men ., “ave a daily production of ,bo'Jt 27,000 tons. ecretary Ickes announced that e tnn-.es will be opened for work ?y morning. He appointed high icials of the companies as fed a derating managers. ^0use, Senate Conferees Scrap Retraining Plans Washington, sept. 6.—(.pi—The moVr and Senate conferees on de isl ! lzati°n and reconversion leg ofth°V°day sci'apped a provision e,.- e “enate bill setting up a gen in^ Program of postwar retrain v.orkers ‘e-employment of war 'he conference com dlatio agleed to Put into the leg creatert \ restraining program, Veter-Q ■ executive order, for to n nsan<t disabled civilians and corrti °!lde an administrator to statena e. ®d such federal and restraining plans. Brest Saturated With Explosives By U.S. Bombers LONDON, Sept. 6— (IP) — American medium and light bombers saturated Brest with high explosives for more than three hours today, wrecking gun emplacements and road blocks in the Brittany peninsu la fortress and leaving ammu nition and fuel dumps al’laze, “ ~ Three separate rahis were made and pilots returning from the last one said they were convinced the capitulation of the estimated 25,000 Germans holding out in the fortress was only a matter of a day or so. DE/ “CLAIMS HOP CANNON CHICAGO, Sept. 6 —<£■>— Bishop James Cannon, Jr., 79, whose long career in ecclesiastical and tem perance work and brief excursion into the political arena earned him national attention, died today. The Methodist clerkyman, an Chicago to attend a meeting of the Anti-Saloon league succumbed to a cerebral hemorrhage in Wesley Memorial hospital. The Virginia churchman, who de voted decades to what he once termed “active anti-liquor war fare,” was projected into the po litical news in 1928 because of his efforts to defeat Alfred E. Smith, Democratic spriedential candidate. Bishop Cannon was accused of opposing Smith because the nom inee was a Roman Catholic, but he contended the bases of his op (Continued on Page Five; Col. 1) —-V More Civilian Goods Will Be Manufactured WASHINGTON, Sept. 6— (JP) — American industry can turn out simultaneously the war materials needed to defeat Japan and more consumer goods than were pro duced in 1939, the prewar peak War Production Board Chairman J. A. Krug said today. Krug predicted that soon after Germany’s defeat every civilian item that is “really needed” will be appearing again on the shelves of stores. Laggin%pupplies Slow Down Allies As P /tle For Germany Gets Started; Russians Smash Way Into Yugoslavia Soviet Force Gets Across Danube River JOINS TITO’S TROOPS Turnu - Severin Captured On Romanian Side 01 Stream LONDON, Thursday, Sept. 7. — (/T) — The Red army has smashed across the Dan ube into Yugoslavia to join with the Yugoslav partisans, Marshal Tito’s radio station broadcast early today short ly after the nightly Russian communique had announced capture of Turnu-Severin, on the Romanian bank of the river. The Russians did not announce a crossing into Yugoslavia, and Tito’s broadcast gave no details, but the development was entirely reasonable, particularly since Mos cow dispatches have said the Red army often has outrun official statements by ten miles or more. Tito’s broadcast did not state that a juncture had yet been made be tween his partisans and the Rus sians, but the fact that he was able to announce the Russian ar rival indicated some connection al ready existed. The Danube is 4,000 feet wide at Turnu-Sevei'in, but an inkling that a crossing may have been made by air was contained in a midnight Moscow dispatch from Associated Press Correspondent Eddy Gilmore who wrote: me Red army is employing large groups of parachutist* in its lightning advance westward in an operation which promises soon to link up with Tito’s forces.” He added that occupation of Tur nu-Severin put the Russians 100 miles from Belgrade, Yugoslav cap ital, and a little over 140 miles from the Hungarian frontier, .“but by the time this is in print, from the way the Russians are going, they will be considerable closer to both objectives.” Paired with the spectacular dash of more than 50 miles westward jn a single day in Romania, the Russians gave equal or greater mention to capture on the Polish front of the Narew river fortress of Ostroleka in a hard-slogging gain of two miles through some of the heaviest German defenses. This victory, extending an out flanking movement against War saw and creating an ominous new threat to East Prussia, 26 miles (Continued on Page Five; Col. 4) ARMY ESTABLISHES HELICOPTER SCHOOL FREEMAN FIELD, Ind., Sept. 6 W—The Army Air Forces disclos ed today the establishment of the nation’s first military helicopter training school at this field in southwestern Indiana. Col. E. T. Rundquist, command ing officer of the field, which also is used as an advanced two-en gine pilot training school, said per sonnel of the new helicopter sec tion were officer-instructors ratfcd as pilots, and field mechanics, vfao are enlisted men. The training in the use of heli copters is given at the field and at the Sikorsky aviation Bridgeport, Gonn. England Will Relax Rigid Blackout Rules LONDON, Sept. 6—(#>—'The rigid blackout regulations which plunged Britain into darkness five years ago will be relaxed Sept. 17, the gov ernment announced tonight. In addition to turning on the lights again', an act which probably will be a greater boon to morale than anything short of the end of the war itself, joyful Britons will drop many civilian defense duties they undertook in the days when Prime Minister Churchill proclaimed “we’U fight on the beaches and in the hills.” The blackout—the most de pressing of all British war time restrictions—will be re laxed almost to the vanishing point a week from Sunday. \ • . Daytime firewatchiijg will end and night fir® guard duties will cease in all Britain ex cept London and the south ern coastal areas, and com pulsory drills for Britain’s 2,000,000 anti - invasion home guards will end next Monday. The ministry of home se- . curity published these procla mations as - the war turned a full cycle. Now Germany was being invaded, and Hitler was training sharpshooters for guerrilla war on German soil. In the stores sales of black out drapes already had fallen off sharply and sales of flags and bunting for Victory Day boomed. (Continued on Page Five; Col. S) -— ■ --1 _TRIAL AND D00M 0F FRENCH traitors SIX FRENCH TRAITORS CONDEMNED TO DEATH READY FOR FIRING SQUAD Guns of a firing squad bring to end the lives of s ix young Frenchmen, tied to stakes after being sen tenced to die as traitors. This drama of retribution, staged in Grenoble, is being repeated in many sec tions of France as the Germans are driven out and those Frenchmen who assisted the Nazis are brought to justice. Ten were taken at Grenoble clia rged with being members of Vichy’s Gestapo. Six were found guilty. Above, the story unfolds in three chapters. U. S. Army Signal Corps Radiophoto. No Peace Plea Made Yet DAVIS OFFICIALS HONORED BY CITY A buffet dinner honoring Camp Davis’ high ranking officers, and their staffs was given by the City of Wilmington at the Cape Fear Country Club last night at 7 o’ clock. The dinner was an expression of appreciation for the consistent as sistance rendered Wilmington by the Camp Davis authorities, nota bly during and following the tropi cal storm of August 1. Councilman Robert R. Romeo, chairman of the committee in charge, stated last night that the city is becoming acquainted with new faces at Bluethenthal Field, and bidding farewell to others of Camp Ftivis. Those attending last night’s function in addition to the city’s official family were Brig. Gen. C. V. R. Schuyller, commanding gen eral, AAATC, Camp Davis; Col. D. S. Ellerthorpe, commander of the AAA school. Col. A. E. Potts, camp commander, Col. Kelly, com manding officer of the Davis hos pital, and Major Edward Bullard, commanding officer of the Davis air base. Representing Bluethenthal Field was- Col. J. C. Shibley, command ing officer. DEWEY TO MAKE SPEECH TONIGHT NEW YORK. Sept. 6—{#)—Grat ification with what he called the progress being made toward a non partisan postwar peace organiza tion was coupled by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey today with an announc ed determination to discuss for eign policy fully during his cam paign opening tomorrow. The Republican candidate for president, who leaves for Philadel phia tomorrow morning for the first of a series of speeches that will carry him across the country, made it clear at a press confer ence that he would speak out on world affairs as well as on domes tic issues. “Certainly I’ll discuss foreign policy during this campaign,” he said in response to a Question. Dewey will speak at 10 p. m. Germans Make No Effort To Negotiate Truce With Allies LONDON, Sept. 6. — <A>> — No peace plea has yet been made to the United Nations by Germany, a spokesman for the British gov ernment stated emphatically to night. He made the seatement, he said, to dispose of recently recurrent ru mors that Germany has been seek ing opportunities to open talks with the Allies. Any German peace emissary can approach the western Allies only through the supreme' commander, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the spokesman said, and the wetsern Allies will not cease fighting until Eisenhower gives the order. This he will not do until he gets an unconditional surrender from the German high command, en dorsed by the German general staff, this source said. The Germans then would be pre sented with a document informing them that the Allies demand a free hand in all matters relating to en emy forces, food, transport, eco nomic and financial facilities, in dustry and political affairs. Only if the Germans accept ihese terms will the “cease fire’’ order be is sued. ine same conditions appiy on the eastern and other fronts, he' said. Thus the war will end only when military defeat of Germany is utter and complete' and there will be no German alibi this time that they were not beaten on the battlefield, he added. Surrender terms have been drawn up and agreed upon by the Allies, and under the terms of this agree ment, there will be no chtnce for Hitler or any of his henchmen to come forward with an attempt to deceive the Allies, the spokesman pointed out, adding that it has been said officially the Allies realize Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels will try to capitalize on the United Nations’ uncompromis ing attitude. -V-<— MARCUS ISLE ATTACKED U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR, Sept. 6—(IP)—American warplanes slashed anew into the island step ping stones south of Japan and made their first attack since May 19 on Marcus Island, 1,200 miles southeast of Tokyo, in widespread actions announced today. SOLDIERS TO RETURN SOON WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.— !#) — The Army announced today the method it will use in demobilizing part of its strength after Germany is defeated, but the:e was every in dication that the number of men released immediately would be small. Moreover, the Navy empha sized' that it planned no demobiliza tion until Japan is beaten. One highly placed person said only a “trickel” of soldiers would start home after V-Day in Europe, largely because of the Pacific war’s priority on them. The ap proved discharge basis — under which the men will be released individually and not by units—will be complicated and therefore slow. To determine priorities for dis charges, the Army will use a point system giving weighted credits for total months in the army, decora tions awarded, time spent in com (Continued on Page Five; Col. 2) •-V 'GERMANS ‘DISAPPEAR’ STOCKHOLM, Sept. 6.—(/P)—An estimated 1,000 persons “disap pear’’ daily in Germany as the Na zi wave of terror ’ and violence grows, it was reported tonight by a neutral informant just returned from the Reich. Meuse Crossed; 1 Move On Liege Infantry And Armor Push Relentlessly On Reich; Nazis’ Belgian Defenses Breached SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDI TIONARY FORCE, Thursday,' Sept. 7—(AP)The swift, Germany-bound drive of the U. S. Third army has been stalled for almost a week by lagging supplies, but in the north, American First army tanks in mass formations were on the move eastward toward Liege after leaping across the Meuse river and breaching the Nazis’ Belgian defense* before the Reich, field dispatches disclosed today. Tne First army drive was along at least a 25-mile front, and Su preme Headquarter indicated it was operating from three secure bridgeheads over the Meuse at Na mur. Associated Press Correspondent Don Whitehead, with the First army, said the YanKs had started the real battle *or Germany, and that as infantry and armor pushed relentlessly toward the Nazi home land, the rate of advance soon would bring ft within range of Al lied big guns. The Americans poured across the Meuse after rounding up hordes of Germans in the Mons trap. They stormed the river banks where the Germans were waiting in a mid night thrust Tuesday, and a battle raged all day, Whitehead wrote. Some of the fighting, he said, was the hardest since the St. Lo break through. On the Americans’ southern flank, supplies and necessity for re grouping stepped the Third army's swift drive toward the Nazi border and reinforced Nazis taking advan tage of the lull have begun their first real stand since the Allied Normandy breakthrough, other front dispatches disclosed. A heavy battle raged in the Mo selle valley invasion corridor. An umn smashed through stubbron re American mechnized cavalry col sistance to within four miles of Metz, key city on the French side of the Siegfried line. But as the Yanks closed in on the stronghold, every yard of ground was being contested bitterly After the enforced halt supplies finally have caught up with the Third army, but. the Nazis, flee ing in confusion a week ago, have had time to regroup and reorganize front dispatches disclosed. Associated Press Correspondent Wes Gallagher wrote from the front that temporarily, at least, the brunt of battle against the newly reinforced German strongpoints has been turned over to the ever-readjr infantry, which must drive a wedge through which Lt. Gen. George S. (Continued on Page Five; Col. 2) -V JAP FREIGHTERS SUNK BY PLANES GENERAL HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Pacific, Thursday, Sept. 7.—(jP)—Navy Catalina planes sank three small Japanese freighters off Mindanao, sou+hern Philippines, Monday night and Tuesday morn ing, headquarters announced to day. Liberator bombers meanwhile continued the relentles sneutrali zation of ihe airdromes around Davao, most important port in the southern Philippines, toward which Gen .Douglas MacArthur’s forces are aiming. Simultaneously strong forces of Australian and American fighter bombers swept Vogelkop peninsula on Dutch New Guinea, hitting at Japanese positions. They did ,fieir work without encountering ’%emy opposition. Bad weather hampered opera tions in other southwest Pacifi* sectors. •-V Nazis’ Siegfried Line Not Considered Strong SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Sept. 6.—(.iP)—A senior staff officer at Supreme headquar ters said today that Germany’* Siegfried line was no stronger than the overrun Atlantic wall, if a* strong, and declared that “of course we’re going to break it.” The officer stressed that the greatest problem for the German defense was insufficient manpow er, the Nazis having far fewer troops for the line than it was in tended to have in defense against a major assault. The big blows might come anywhere along its length from the Swiss frontier to Cleve, in the Rhineland 50 mile* northwest oi Dusselford. A ALUED FORCES NEAR JUNCTION Troops In South France Moving Up Rapidly To Meet Patton ROME, -Sept. .6—-(fP).—French troops pursuing German forces try ing to escape from the debacle in southern France have swept through Chalon-Sur-Saone and to night were believed approaching the communications center of Di jon, 38 miles to the north. Dijon is 110 miles north of Ly ons and nearly 300 miles from the beaches where the Allied seventh army landed just over three weeks ago. It is less than 90 miles from the. Belfort Gap into southwest Germany. Only about 60 miles separated the speeding French column from Americans of Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s U. S. third army, who last were reported at Bar-Sur Seine in their push southeastward from the Paris area. A junction of the French-American forces would trap every German soldier remaining in . southern and west ern France. American troops rolling up the east bank of the Saone occupied the village of St. Germain du Chalon-Sur-Saone, after a brisk fight with Nazi rearguards. Allied headquarters offered no information on the position of the main German force, which last was reported fleeing toward Dijon. (There was no immediate offi cial explanation of the Nazis’, ap ; parent decision to retreat through Dijon, which is well north of the main, most direct route from Chalon-Sur-Seine through the Bel fort Gap. The latter route, roughly paralleling the Swiss border, runs ‘through Besancon, 64 miles north I east of Chalon,- and Baume-Les Dames to Belfort. (Continued on Page Five; Col. 3) _v__ Bulgaria Appears Near To Upheaval LONDON, Sept. 6— <JP> —Bul garia, frantically struggling to get | out of the war, seemed on the edge of an internal upheaval as Mos ! cow radio urged the population to “take fate in your own hands.” Unconfirmed reports from other sources pictured Soviet troops al ready marching into the ccrnere* and bewildered country. The regime of Premier Constan tine Muraviev, confronted by a Russian declaration of war in the i very midst of its efforts to wriggle out of war with the United States and Great Britain, appealed to Moscow for an armistice without waiting for the entry of Soviet troops. Most Processed Foods Soon To Be Point Free WASHINGTON, Sept. 6—(JF) —Virtually all processed foods other than canned fruits will be returned to pre-war non rationed status in 10 days, the White House announced today, and a War Food Administration spokesman indicated that addi tional meat also may be made ration-free soon. War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes directed -the removal from rationing on Sep tember 17 of these items: All jams, jellies, fruit but ters, asparagus, lima beans, corn, peas, pumpkin and squash, mixed vegetables, bak ed beans, tomato sauce, paste and puree, and all varieties of soups and baby foods. Byrnes’ acted on the recoin mendation of Marvin Jones. WFA administrator, who advis ed that available and prospec tive supplies of these foods jus tified the step. All other canned vegetables except tomatoes are ration free at present and are expect ed to continue so, WFA said in elaborating on the Byrnes’ announcement. Among the various types ot juices, pineapple, tomato, grape and vegetable combina tions remain on the point charts, but indications are that grapefruit and orange juices, blends of these two and prune juice will continue to be avail able without stamps. (Continned on Page Five; Col. 1)
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