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EI51, ffltlmingtnn Jlitrttta Star AND BATAAN | ^=^.108 ~ ‘ ' --~ — ---- — . -- l -- ---1_WILMINGTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1944 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1S87 I Mac Arthur Waves Goodbye To Morotai Island Invaders I Prom a landing barge, General Douglas MacAr thur waves goodbye to his men as he leaves Moro ni Island in the Halmaheras, following his tour of the beachhead. MacArthur directed the invasion of jlorotai Island personally, and little organized resistance was encountered. The island is only 250 miles from the Philippines. (NEA Telephoto). Dewey Near Death Twice Auto Almost Hits Truck After Special Train Rams Into Another PORTLAND, Ore.. Sept. 19.—(JP) -Gov. Thomas E. Dewey arrived in Portland at 5:13 p.rn. PWT to day after a 63-mile drive through the Columbia river valley during which his car narrowly escaped a collision with a furniture truck. The New York governor, accom panied by Mrs. Dewey, was pro ceeding to Portland by automobile from Castle Hock., Wash., where his special train ploughed into an other train, when the car in which he was riding was forced to swerve crazily to avoid colliding with the furniture truck. The truck proceeding in the same direction, swung to the left off the highway without giving any signal. With several reporters approxi mately a hiuidred yards behind, the governor's car shuddered as the big closed car in which the Republi can nominee was riding careened to the left as the driver slapped on his brakes to avoid colliding with the truck. me uewey car, leaving tire marks 50 feet on the pavement, regained its place on the right side of the road as the truck proceeded down, the highway, angling to the loft off U. S. Highway 99. After this incident the governor’s car brought him to a downtown Portland hotel where he rested briefly before his speech tonight in the Ice Colliseum here. The New York governor and Mrs. Dewey were shaken up severely but not injured when their 13-car special train struck another Great Northern passenger train one mile north of Castle Rock earlier today. ! -V American News Men Captured By Nazis U. S. THIRD ARMY HEAD QUARTERS IN FRANCE, Sept. 19 ^P— Three American war cor espondents—Wright Bryan of the Atlanta Journal, John Mecklin of the Chicago Sun, and Edward W. Beattie of the United Press—en toute to witness the surrender of 20,000 Germans near Chaumont — J'ere captured by^the Nazis Sept. *2. four miles north of the town. Nlecklin was freed two days lat *r by an Allied armored column but Beattie and Bryan, who suf fered a slight wound in his left E?’ Presumably were taken to Ger many. King Christian X Trapped In Palace STOCKHOLM, Sept. 19.—</P)—Aging King Christian X of Denmark and his family were reported besieged in the Amalienborg palace by German Marines tonight, but there were indications that the nationwide rioting resulting from Nazi seizure ot government buildings and police stations L n H nAfi nnrl At — ... . -- ■ iiuu vvukivua The free Danish press service said an appeal had been made by the free Danish council asking all Danes to stop fighting but to con tinue a general strike until Thurs day in protest against German dis solution of the Danish police force of 12,000 men. As a result fighting was presumed to have stopped and word from Copenhagen said the capital was calm tonight. The Swedish newspaper Dageus Nyheter, quoting Danish informa tion unconfirmed from any otner source, said the king, Queen Alex andrina and Crown Princess In grid were under siege by a Marine detachment which sought to seiz? the castle. Amalienborg is one or the royal palaces in Copenhagen. An earlier report from Halsing borg, on the Swedish coast across from Denmark, said Danish con stabulary fought a fierce but un even battle today in defense of the royal palace and killed at least 14 Nazis, but were subdued. by light artillery. The Danes were forced to sur render, this report said, and a number of Danish police officers fled to Sweden. -V GERMAN RAILYARDS SMASHED BY1 PLANES LONDON, Sept. 19—W—Almost 2,000 Allied planes, including 700 Flying Fortresses, blasted seven of Germany’s western front railyards today in some o^ the heaviest day light raids of the war, and left the targets through which te Nazis must funnel troops and materials, battered masses of wreckage. The fortresses attacked Hamm, Soest, Coblenz and Dillenberg, all in western Germany east of the Rhine river, and other unidentified rail targets in the same area. In dustrial targets at Wiesbaden also were hit. At the same time medi um bombers smashed at rail yards at Duren. Eshweiler and Merze nich. __ U. S. SUBS SINK 29 JAP VESSELS By The Associated Press While America! Marines and doughboys pressed their conquests of two of Japan’s strategic Palau islands yesterday, the U. S. Navy disclosed loss of a minesweeper in the operations there and an nounced the sinking of 29 addi tional Nippon ships by Yank sub marines. The first ship lost in the Palaus campaign was the minesweeper Perry. Casualties were light. The Navy aiso reported the loss with out- casualties of the auxiliary transport Noa in the Pacific as a result of a collision with an American destroyer. The biggest kill by American submarines ever announced in a single communique—29 ships—in cluded two destroyers and one es cort. Three medium tankers, a large cargo-transport, and 22 cargo ships also were destroyed, bringing the total of Jap ships sunk by subs to 913 American planes were operating from captured Peleliu airdrome where 117 Japanese planes were found wrecked or damaged by Yank fliers in pre-invasion raids. In a Pearl. Harbor communique last night, Marine control of the eastern coastal area of Peleliu was announced. Confronted by stiff enemy resistance, there was little change in the center and along the west coast. American Southwest Pacific medium bombers resumed attacks on Mindanao island, southern Phil ippines, starting many fires. Among the targets was the Buayan airdrome on Mindanao’s southern tip. 17 JAYCEES SPONSOR TB BOND CAMPAIGN A decision to sponsor and sell Tu bercular Health bonds during the November campaign, immediately preceding the annual Christmas Seal campaign, was made by the Junior Chamber of Commerce m its weekly meeting last night. Seventy - five per cent of the proceeds from the sale of the bonds will be retained in New Hanover county for the education of the public in the prevention of tuber culosis. Since the county at present has no definite facilities for the treat ment of the disease, and war con ditions are probably causing a* increase in the spread of it, the campaigners feel that the educa tion of the public as to the 'vM| of tuberculosis is most important. --—V-■ BROWDER TESTIFIES WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—(/Pi Earl Browder in defense of Com munism, told a House committee today that the Chinese war effor: would continue to go “downhill” until the Allies recognize that the Communists represent that na nation’s most potent force againsl ihe Japanese, ■s * Reds Capture 3,000 Towns In Offensive DRIVE CLOSE TO RIGA All-Out Baltic Campaign Aims At Driving Nazis Out Of South States LONDON, Wednesday Sept. 20.—(/P)—The Red ar my drove within six miles of the Latvian capital of Riga yesterday in the fourth day of a new all-out offensive that has captured nearly 3, 000 towns and aims at total destruction of the Germans in the Baltic states. A single one of the three Red Army groups participating has smsahed through the deep nework of Nazi defenses south and south east of Riga on a 75-mile front 25 miles deep, Moscow announced. Closest approach to Riga came with capture of Kekava, on the west bank of the Daugava (Dvina) river six miles south of the sprawl ing city limts of Riga, the Rus sians disclosed. The Germans had orders “not to retreat a single step and to hold their positions to the last man,” a Soviet communique said this morning, but the Soviet First Bal tic front army broke through the deep defensive zone, crossed the Lielupe and Niemenek rivers south of Riga, and drove ahead to the Daugava through the bitterly-re sisting enemy. In a single day on that front the Germans lost more than 3,000 men besides many prisoners, the Rus sians announced. Eddy Gilmore, Associated Press correspondent in Moscow, said in a dispatch early today that “the Red army’s breakthrough towards Riga was so massive that advance motorized units and leading tank forces actually are probing the city’s outer defenses,” and added: “There are definite signs that this will be Hitler’s end in Esto nia, Latvia and Lithuania, for the winter is coming on fast and the armies of the Baltic are eager to drive out the last Germans befors the first snow. “The Baltic drive, however, is only the first step in the Russians’ autumn offensive which is expect ed to be bigger than anything yet; developments may be expected from the Gulf of Finland to Yugo slavia.” -V BATTLESHIP TIRPITZ BOMBED BY ALLIES LONDON, Sept. 19—(#!—A rain of 12,000 pound bombs was poured on the German 41,000-ton battleship Tirpitz in her Norwegian hideaway, the Air Ministry reported today. The attack was made last Friday by big RAF Lancasters of the bomber command. Although un escorted, the bombers suffered no losses. Visibility was excellent but an in tense smoke screen made it diffi cult to assess results, a commu nique stated. It was the sixth at tack on the ship lying in the Nor wegian fjord of Kaa. Stockholm reports said the great ship was heavily damaged and that at least 39 of the crew were killed and more than 100 injured. -V Lewis Tells Roosevelt To ‘Lay Off’ Of Miners CINCINNATI, Sept. 19——A government appeal to John L. Lewis for strike prevention kid drew a request for the Roosevejt administration to “lay off us” and a demand for improved safety conditions in the mines taken over by the government. Delegates to the United Mine Workers’ convention cheered 1he reply proposed by their president. John L. Lewis, to a telegram signed “Secretary erf the Interior.” i 5th Army Troops Get 3 Gothic Line Peaks HOME, Sept. 19—(#)—Ameri can Fifth army 'troops brought 'he fighting front to within 27 wiles of Bologna today after capturing three strategic Gothic line peaks in savage Wountain fighting. Hologna is an important communications and industrial center in the central section °f the p0 Valley. The capture yesterday of 3, , foot Monte Pratone, Monte Altuzzo and Monte Celli akainst the Nazi’s best efforts 0 defend them was officially described as a “great suc cess” The Americans, crawl lng over exposed slopes and Messing forward from rock to r°ck and through Ravines, met onrerne concentrations of ar e,’y> mortar and small arms ire. One barrage of 2,000 shells was hurled at Americans at one point. The action was described as one of the fiercest engage ments of the Italian campaign. British and Indian troops under Lt. Gen. Mark Clark’s com mand contributed materially to the success by flanking and pinching off some enemy em placements. Some 25 miles of mountain ous terrain faces the advanc ing Fifth Army before it can emerge into the Po Valley in this central! sector. Yester day’s experience tells the Al lies they can expect rugged passes and peaks fortified with dug-in positions, concrete em placements, tank turrets buried for use as artillery, mine fields and extensive wire entangle ments. The going is expected to be difficult and slow British 2nd Army In Holland ^Completes Another Junction |r With Allied Airborne Troops K*f ——————— w — ■ - * Germans Lose Netherlands’ Seventh City EINDHOVEN CAPTURED Combined Units Fighting Desperate German Foe On Waal Rhine Bank SUPREME HEADQUAR TERS ALLIED EXPEDI TIONARY FORCE, Wednes day, Sept. 20. -— (A5) — The British Second army, racing to flank the northern end of the Siegfried line, has com pleted a new junction with Allied airborne troops in Holland and' now is fighting on the southern banks of the Waal Rhine, field dispatches said early today. Reports received from the front by Reuters said Lt. Gen. Sir Miles C. Dempsey’s forces had reached the last large pocket of the air borne army on the edge of Nij megen, forging a solid link with Lt. Gen. Lewis H .Brereton’s sky troops with whom a union was made first in the vicinity of Eind hoven Monday. Dempsey s swift armored units advanced more than 37 miles during the day to cap a 50-mile drive in the last 48 hours. Eindhoven, seventh city of the Netherlands, was captured by the joint action of the British Second army and the airborne troops, who had doggedly held open a gate way between Nijemegen and Arn hem to aid the main thrust toward Germany’s industrial Ruhr valley. By completing the new junction, Dempsey’s army now was four miles from Germany on the south ern banks of the Waal Rhine. After dashing through country largely cleared of the enemy by American, British, Polish and Dutch sky troops, the British were within three miles of Nijme gen ,a field dispatch said. On a dozen different battle grounds the Germans were held at bay while the Allies' power blow on the northern flank took shape rapidly. Attention centered on Nijmegen and Arnheim, offi cially identified as the targets of Sunday’s landings by the air troops. A front dispatch said tne mz.is gradually were recovering from the shock of landings by Lt. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton’s sky-trains and were stiffening their resistance. Heavily reinforced Germans, fac ing entrapment in western Holland between the advancing British Second army and the air troops, opened counterattacks Tuesday, {he dispatch said. The American First army, after making still another crossing into Germany, began shelling Duren, 20 miles southwest of Cologne, and Prum, eight miles inside Germa ny and 45 miles west of Coblenl. Further south the Germans, in desperation, were turning robot flying bombs against. American Third army troops as a mighty battle raged in the area of Nancy. The breath-taking British driv» through southern Holland began at Valkenswaard, five miles south of Eindhoven. Airborne Troops Take Off For Invasion Of Holland Troops of the Allied First Airborne Army board their C-47 planes to take off for the invasion of Hol land. Over a thousand planes took part in the invasion. The troops quicklv captured several towns and, according to enemy reports, seized a bridgehead across the Rhine 315 miles .from Berlin. (NEA photo). Surplus Property Bill Passes DEMOBILIZATION TOJJESPEEDED WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 — UR— President Roosevelt today notified the government's war agencies to get ready to go out of business, but economy advocates on Capitol Hill advocated that the cuts begin right now. Chairman Byrd (D-Va) of the joint committee on reduction of nonessential federal federal expen ditures expressed the belief that 300.000 to 400,000 civilian employes could be released before the end of hostilities without impairing government functions. Rep. Taber (R-NY), a member of the same committee, suggested “Let’s do it now; let’s not wait.” Mr. Roosevelt himself estimated that some of the cuts could be made as soon as the fighting is over in Europe. In a letter directly affecting three million government workers—their ranks tripled by wartime employ ment—the Chief Executive told Budget Director Harold D. Smith to reexamine all government acti ties and to report to the White' House as soon as possible plans for: The liquidation of war agencies and reassignment of any perman ent functions they nave; the re duction of government personnel to a peacetime footing, and the sim plification of the administration’s structure to peacetime require ments. --V— BIG THREE PEACE FLAYED BY DEWEY PORTLAND. Ore, Sept. 19. — MF —Declaring there “are no indispen sable men,’ Thomas E. Dewey told the nation tonight that the making of peace is too important “to be dependent upon the life span and continued friendship of two or three individuals.’’ Obviously referring to the “big three*’ leaders—President Rocse-' velt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin—the 42 year old Re publican nominee for president said in a prepared speech. “The peace we seek must not hang by the slender thread of per sonal acquaintance of any two or three men.” “The pages of history are litter ed,” he declared, “with treaties proclaiming permanent peace made privately by rulers of nations and quickly and publicly broken.” Senate Approves Measure With Three-Man Board Directing Disposal WASHINGTON, Sept. IS. — (4P)— With Senator Wherry tR-Neb) pro testing against elimination of a provision directing that all receipts be applied ' against the national debt, the Senate passed tonight and sent to the White House a bill setting up a three-member board to dispose of more than $100,000. 000.000 of surplus war properties. Wherry asserted that the provi sion was written into both senate and house bills and deleted by a joint conference committee in vi olation of the senate rules. “Debt hangs over the head of eveFy citizen in this country,” he declared. Earlier the senate passed and sent to the house a compromise bill setting up an office of war de mobilization, but stripped of house apposed provisions guaranteeing post-war unemployment compen sation for 3,100,000 federal workers and back heme travel pay up to ?200 for displaced war workers. Leaders served notice, however, that the government employe com pensation issue would be revived after the November election. The senate’s actions today large ly cleared the decks for a recess beginning late this week and last ing until the election. The reconversion bill sets up an affice of war demobilization and reconversion to coordinate all phases of postwar adjustment, and provides a federal insurance fund to guarantee the solvency of state unemployment compensation sys tems. Senate conferees agreed earlier in the day at a conference with a rouse group that house rejection of obless pay and transportation features yesterday left no other rhcice than to pass the abbreviated Mil. NAZI CIVILIANS DISOBEY HITLER WITH THE AMERICAN FIRST A.RMY, Sept. 19.— (J> —Although spearheads of the U. S. First Army are pointed through the Siegfried line toward the heart of the Rhine Land, thousands of German civil ians are remaining in their homes in direct disobedience to Nazi party nrders for evacuation. This was the first crucial test af Nazi authority over millions who nave been forced to adhere to party discipline, and Hitler has failed in it. The civilians were ordered un der threat of death as traitors to jvacuate the Cologne - Aachen irea in advance of the American drive but many are refusing to eave. There is no way to estimate just ,vhat percentage of the civil popu ation is defying the order but it is ;onsiderable and reflects passive disobedience on a large scale to Hitler’s authority. tf GOVERNOR’S AID ON LABOR ASKED A promise from Governor Broughton to consuit the proper au thorities in an effort 1o return some 65 war prisoners to the Wilmington area to relieve the critical need for farm and dairy labor, was given yesterday to Addison Hew lett, chairman of the county board of commissioners. Making the trip to Raleigh with Hewlett were Adam Sonday and R. B. Slagle, Castle Haynes farmers, and Otto Leeuwenburg, dairyman. Hewlett said last night that the governor was very sympathetic and exceedingly interested in relieving the situation.” He has promised to let me know the outcome just as soon as he has taken the matter up with the proper authorities,” Hewlett declared. Meanwhile, word was received yesterday by city Manager A. C. Nichols from Major General F. E. Uhl. commanding officer of Fourth Service Command headquarters, (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) -V Senators Endorse Plan To Quell Aggression WASHINGTON. Sept. 19. — (JP) — Senators Ball (R-Minn) and Bur ton (R-Ohio) endorsed today the idea of permiCing an international peace organization to use United States armed forces to quell ag gression without awaiting specific congressional sanction in each case. Ball told the Senate that debate would slow congressional action so much that a declaration of war or a resolution authorizing use of our forces could not be approved in less than a month. European War Flashback By The Associated Press Sept. 20, 1918—British captured the strongly fortified village of Moeuvres. Gen. Allenby's British force in Palestine broke through Turkish positions between Rafat and the sea. Sept. 20, 1940—Brig. Gen. George Strong of the U. S. Army, re turning to United States after a trip to London, said Nazi bombs fail ed to do serious military damage as yet; retaliatory raids continued on both sides of the English channel. Legionnaires Propose Tighter Alien Control CHICAGO, Sept. 19—(if)—The American Legion adopted a series of resolutions today asking tightened controls over Japanese nationals and other aliens in this country and im mediate return of war prison ers to their own lands after the war. Approving the report sub mitted to the 25th annual con vention by the committee on Americanism, the legionnaires urged congress to abolish the war relocation authority and turn control of all Japaneses in America' over to the army. They called upon the WRA to halt relocation from the Tule Lake, Calif., segregation center of Japanese 18 years or older who expressed a de sire for repatriation to Japan or who refused to pledge al legiance to the United States Another measure sought to guarantee that no Japanese nationals would be relocated for WRA centers without "ex haustive” investigation and hearings. If congress enacted a law proposed by the legion, Aliens would be prohibited from speaking over or using the radio “oh behalf of or under the auspices of any political party, or for or against any candidate for public office.” Another resolution adopted would include in the peace terms provisions for immediate return of all aliens in fhii country with records of su^ versive activities to the landl of their origin and amendment of immigration laws to pro vide for deportation of natural ized citizens whose citizenship was revoked for such activi ties
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