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YQL16—NO. 47. -_— __ WILMINGTON, N. C„ SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1944 FINAL EDITION
U. S. Strikes Back At Manila |
Hundreds of U. S. carrier planes, carrying America’s war might
back to Manila Thursday and Friday in the first massive blows there
since the fall of Corregidor in 1942, knocked out 205 Japanese air
craft and sank or probably sank 37 ships in the Manila area (circled).
One of the Pacific war’s greatest Allied air victories was followed
the next day with another Manila raid by 200 bombers, Tqkyo re
ported. (AP wirephoto).
Officials Split
On Peace Policy
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—(JP)—President Roosevelt’s
cabinet committee on German peace policy has split wide
open, it was learned today, over a plan sponsored by Treas
ury Secretary Morgenthau for completely destroying Ger
many as a modern industrial state and conveting it into an
agricultural country of small farms.
Morgenthau s plan, drawn up aft-*’
*r his recent return from Euro- i
pean battlefronts and England, is I
reported to have had the general
approval of the President since be
fore his Quebec conference with
Prime Minister Churchill. It has
failed to win support, however,
from Secretary of State Hull and
is violently opposed by War Sec- 1
retary Stimson. I
Hull, Stimson and Morgenthau 1
form the cabinet committee.
For the time being the dispute j
over the Morgenthau plan has so 1
snarled up Treasury, War and State
department work on detailed ar- ’
rangements for postwar control of ‘
Germany that three - power plan- '
ning by this country, Britain and ‘
Russia on long - range German
policy also has virtually stalled. ,
This planning, carried on through J
(he European advisory commission 1
had been proceeding along lines
other than those advocated by Mor- ^
genthau, so far as American lead- 1
ers were concerned. ,
Mr. Roosevelt presented the Mor- ,
genthau plan to Prime Minister ,
Churchill at Quebec. Morgenthau ,
and British Foreign Secretary An
thony Eden were present. Stimson ;
and Hull were not.
Morgenthau came away from the ,
conference with the impression that
Churchill found his proposals ac
ceptable, especially since Eden is
reported to have held somewhat ,
limilar views.
What Premier Stalin plans with
respect to Germany apparently still
>s not known here. Morgenthau
based his plan on three assump- i
(ions with respect to Russia: (A) :
Russia wants East Prussia and'
most of Silesia to go to Poland
to offset Poland’s loss of eastern
territory to the Soviet Union; (B) :
Russia wants German labor bat
talions put to work on the Soviet '
Union reconstruction; (C) with her
cum huge needs for manpower, ■
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 6)
MST MEETING
TO OPEN DRIVE
The second phase of the Com
nunity War Chest campaign for
lew Hanover county will get und?r
ivay here tomorrow morning, fol
owing an 8 o’clock breakfast meet
ng at St. Paul’s Parish House,
vhen the workers of five unit di
visions will hear Harry Collins
ipillman, nationally known speak
er, in a message of importance,
ind will be charged with their du
ies.
Ranald Stewart, campaign head,
ind E. L. White, vice - chairman of
he 1944 drive, will be in charge of
he kick - off session.
The meeting will open solicita
ions among commercial, indus
rial, utility, governmental and
educational establishments of the
:ity, but will not herald the general
;olicitation work, scheduled to be
;in October 2.
Sitting at the speaker’s table with
Hr. Collins, Mr. Stewart, and Mr.
,Vhite, will be chairman of the five
iivisions, the Rev. Walter B. Freed.
Continued on Page Two; Col. 4)
Finnish Reinforcements
Begin Attacking Nazis
LONDON, Sept. 23.—OT—Finnish
•einforcements rushing 300 miles
iorth of Helsinki have begun at
acking German troops dug in on
he Olunj oki-Oluj ar vi line across
he center of Finland, the Helsinki
•adio announced tonight.
“Since it has become clear that
German troops in northern Finland
lave not withdrawn within the sti
julated time from Finnish tern
ary necessary measures have been
aken,” the announcement said.
New Faces May Be Seen
In Government’s Family
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.— UFI
—A prospect of an early presi
dential signatures — perhaps
next week—on the reconver
*i°n and war surplus bills stir
nd speculation today on Mr.
Roosevelt’s choice oi new
faces in the high official
family.
Fred M. Vinson^ Donald M.
Raison, Harold D. Smith and
Chester Bowles have been
mentioned among possibilities
,or the proposed No. 1 de
mobilization job, director of
*be Office of War Mobiliza
Ji*r‘ and Reconversion. Direc
*' James F. Byrnes has de
•lared his intention to step out
*f the government when hi*
Ofttce of War Mobilization be
«°m»j OWMR.
Vinson, now director of the
ol Economic Stabiliza
"**> appear* to have toe ia
1
siae uaciv iivuk,v ■ —
decides simply to promote the
next in line of the executive
hierarchy. His is the job from
which Byrnes advanced.
Nelson, now en route home
from a presidential mission to
China, has indicated a desire
to step out of his stormy War
Production Board chairman
ship, leaving WPB’s role in in
dustrial demobilization to a
younger man—who might turn
out to be J. A. Krug, 36, now'
firmly running WPB as acting
chairman.
Smith, director of the Bureau
of the Budget, entered the run
ning because the bill would
give OWMR power to demobi
lize the government as well
as the industrial .economy- The
President this week assigned
the starting of that job to
Smith.
‘Lost’ Sky Soldiers;
roops Smash Gothic Line Center;
.R. Charges Fraud To GOP Orators
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T
Roosevelt
Hits Hard
At Dewey
OPENS FALL CAMPAIGN
Republican Opposition Ac
cused Of Attempts To
Claim New Deal
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.
—(&) — President Roosevelt
opened his fourth term cam
paign tonight with a hard hit
ting speech accusing the Re
publican opposition of at
tempting to claim credit for
the New Deal. He charged
that G. 0. P. orators were
guilty of “most obvious com
mon or garden variety of
fraud.”
Speaking before the AFL Team
sters union, the President said the
“whole purpose of Republican ora
tory these days ... is to per
suade the American people that
the Democratic party was respon
sible for the 1929 crash and de
pression, and that the Republican
party was responsible for all so
cial progress under the New
Deal.”
“Tbora ie T
old for,” the President declared,
“I cannot talk out of both sides
of my mouth at the same time.”
Mr. Roosevelt made a point by
point reply to almost every crit
sizm leveled against his adminis
tration by h i s Republican oppo
nent, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of
New York.
He declared the government wel
comes "all sincere supporters of
the cause of effective world col
laboration, adding that “millions of
Republicans are with us.”
“And they too will resent this
campaign talk by those who first
woke up to the facts of interna
tional life a few short months
ago,” when they began to study
the polls of public opinion.” the
President said.
Mr. Roosevelt, speaking before
the same union which heard him
open his third term campaign on
September 11. 1940, greeted the
teamsters by saying:
“I am actually four years older
—which seems to annoy some
people. In fact, millions of us are
more than 11 years older than
when we started in to clear up
the mess that was dumped in our
laps in 1933.’’
From that he launched into an
attack upon the Republican cam
paign. although he did not men
tion Governor Dewev by name.
He termed a “callous and bra
zen falsehood” an assertion that
the administration plans "to keep
men in the army when the war
is over, because there might be
no iobs for them in civil life.”
“Why,” Mr. Roosevelt continued,
“the very day that this fantastic
charge was first made, a formal
plan for the method of speedy dis
charge of the army had already
been announced by the War de
partment—a plan based upon the
wishes of the soldiers themselves.”
Mr. Roosevelt said Republican
leaders have carried the attacks
against his administration even
down to “include my little dog
Fala. Unlike the members of my
family he resents this.”
The President said as soon as
Fala heard that “Republican fic
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 2)
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W E A i H t K
FORECAST
WILMINGTON AND VICINITY: Part
ly cloudy with moderate temperatures
today. . ,
Temperatures yesterday: •
High 82—Low 65.
(By IJ. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the 24 hours
ending 7:30 p.m.. yesterday.
Temperature
1:30 am. 70: 7:30 am, 66: 1:30 pm, 81:
7:30 pm, 73.
Maximum 82; Minimum 65; Mean 74;
Normal 71.
Humidity
1:30 am, 76; 7:30 am. 80; 1:30 pm, 42;
7:30 pm, 65.
Precipitation
Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 pm,
0,00 inches.
Total since the first of the month,
3.19 inches.
Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey)
High Low
Wilmington -- 1:54a -9:09a
2:48p 10:14p
Masonboro Inlet-L— 5:47a
12:llp 6:46p
Sunrise. 5:02 a.m.; Sunset. 6:06 p.m.;
Moonrise, 12:25 a.m.; Moonset, 10:46 p.m.
I
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Home From Pacific
The ‘‘Lone Eagle,” Charles A.
Lindbergh, is shown leaving Penn
sylvania station, New York, after
serving for several months in the
Pacific with the U. S. Air Force.
The flyer received citations for
successful experiments in stratos
phere flying. (International).
WAR PRISONERS
TO BE OBTAINED
Prisoners of war for emergency
work in harvesting New Hanover’s
corn and soybean crops are not
immediately available, but may be
obtained by October 4, Addision
Hewlett, Sr., chairman of the
Board of County Commissioners,
disclosed yesterday.
Hewlett said none of the prison
ers sent from the Carolina Beach
camp to Halifax county, where
peanuts are being harvested,
would be returned for local work.
Governor J. Melville Broughton,
with whom Hewlett talked in Ra
leigh this week, has delegated
Dean I. O. Schaub of the Agri
cultural Extension service, Ra
leigh, to secure the prisoner-labor
for this area.
Schaub, in a telephone conver
sation with Hewlett yesterday
morning, declared that no workers
could be released within the com
ing week from the Halifax harvest
ing, inasmuch as wet ground would
rot the peanut crop unless the pick
ing could be consummated with
out delay.
The entire force of German la
borers has been sent to Halifax
county from here, leaving New
Hanover fertilizer manufacturers,
(Continued on Page Five; Col. 5)
Po Valley
Lays Open
To Advance
EIGHTH ARMY GAINS
British Units Fight Out
Onto Plains In East
As 5th Moves Up
ROME, Sept. 23.—(ff) —
American forces have smash
ed through the center of the
German Gothic line and are
looking down on the Po val
ley of northern Italy, it was
disclosed tonight, while the
British Eighth array on the
east coast, fighting out onto
the Po plains, pushed the Na
zis out of strategic road and
rail positions.
Sid Feder, Associated Press cor
respondent with the Fifth army,
said the exact location of the new
American positions could not be
iisclosed, but that, ‘‘it seems safe
to say the smash which carried
Fifth army troops over some of
the tallest peaks in Italy to where
the broad Lombardy plain—at the
gateway of which lies Bologna—
is unfolded before them, tore the
heart of the Gothic line at a point
where if was probably the
J__i ft
»vvyv»».
Previous reports had put the
Americans 2 miles south of Bolo
gna at the southern threshold of
strategic Futa pass.
The American advance was
rammed home with one of the
aeaviest artillery concentrations
af the war, with some German
prisoners reporting the shellfire
nad cut some of their battalions
to as few as 60 men.
The Brazilian expeditionary
Eorce on the western seaward
Elank was well on the way to cap
turing its first big objective, ham
mering on 20 miles northwest of
Pisa to within 23 miles of the
Italian port of La Spezia.
Lt. Gen. Sir Oliver Leese’s
Eighth army routed the last ene
my troops south of the Marecchio
river, which flows through the
'alien eastern Gothic line anchor
}f Rimini and was swiftly deepen
ng the bridgehead across the
stream which puts it out on the
Po plain.
As they fought out on to the
ancient Via Aemilia, a highway
which runs along the southern
edge of the Po valley 75 miles
lorthwest to Bologna, British and
Canadian troops were rounding up
an increasing number of pri
soners.
Other Eighth army forces were
Eighting straight north toward
Ravenna, 34 miles beyond Rimini,
driving before them concentra
tions of enemy troops who were
raked yesterday by the fire of
the British destroyer Loyal.
Airborne Allies Span Rhine
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R. A. F. Halifaxes tow gliders with 'Allied airborne troops across
the Rhine river during the early phases of the airborne invasion of
Holland. More than 1.000 transport planes and gliders carried the
airborne army from England. This is a British official photo.
Nazi troops 1 rapped
> By Soviet Offensive
LONDON, Sunday, Sept. 24.—(JP)—Russian troops
racing across Estonia reached the west coast yesterday,
capturing the port of Parnu on the Gulf of Riga and seal
ing off thousands of Germans in a week-old offensive which
is estimated to have cost the enemy eight divisions, or 80,
AAA
The Red army aided by an Es
tonian corps captured Par'iu -n an
other two-miles-an-hour advance
from Paide, 50 miles to the north
east, and its fall cut the land es
cape routes for thousands of h be
wildered foe caught between Par
nu and Tallinn, captured Eston
ian capital 72 miles to the north.
At sea Red naval planes pursu
ed some German ships which es
caped from Tallinn with troops
aboard. During Friday the Soviet
airmen sank 11 of these evacuation
vessels, and apparently thousands
of Germans perished in the Gulf of
Finland.
The fall of Riga, Latvian capi
tal 97 miles south of Parnu, appear
ed imminent as four powerful So
viet armies pressed the speedy
cleanup of Estonia and Latvia in
sensational gains. Some Russian
units were fighting in Riga’s outer
southern defenses, and Red artil
lery was laying down barrages on
Nazi positions in the strategic city.
The Soviet victories in Estonia
and Latvia were regarded merely
as the forerunner of great attacks
on East Prussia, in Poland and on
Hungary. They shortened the front
by more than 120 miles, gave the
Red fleet new bases and the air
force fields from which the Rus
sians can control two-thirds of the
Baltic sea.
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TEXAS DEMOCRATS
FORM NEW PARTY
AUSTIN, Tex., Sept. 23. —{#)—
A new party which will file its own
slate of presidential electors was
organized here today by a group
of Texas anti-Roosevelt Democrats
in a closed convention.
A spokesman for the meeting
released a formal statement say
ing the convention was palled to
form a party “since the name De
mocratic has been stolen from us
by those new members of the party
who believe in state socialism.”
The anti-fourth termers announc
ed their plan of action a few hours
after the state supreme court un
animously ruled that Roosevelt -
pledged electors nominated by the
September state Democratic con
vention, and not the electors chos
en at the May convention, should
be certified for printing on the Nov.
7 ballot as the Democratic elec
tors.
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ROLLS UNDER CARS
NEW YORK, Sept. 23. — (/P) —
A 34-year-old blind man, James
Turner, walked off a subway plat
form tonight, rolled into a depres
sion between the tracks and was
helped out, uninjured, after two
:ars of a train had passed over him.
RISING ARRESTED
ON NEW CHARGE
Bill Rising, 32, of 108 South
Eighth street, who was free under
$5,000 bond for his appearance at
the October 2 term of superior
court on charges of storebreaking,
larceny and receiving, was rear
rested last night on a warrant
charging an attempt to break into
the Carolina Furniture company at
617 North Fourth street.
The former sheetmetal worker,
who emerged successfully from a
series of robbery trials in Super
ior court here last January, was
arrested at 8:46 p. m. at Front and
Orange streets on a warrant
sworn to by Officers M. M. Jef
fords and G. H. Hines. He was
(Continued on Page Five; Col. 4)
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Jap Drive In China
Temporarily Halted
CHUNGKING, Sept. 23. —UP) —
The Chinese high command an
nounced tonight that fighting was
continuing against the Japanese
on the Hunan-Kwangsi railway
about 40 miles northeast of Kwei
lin, strategic defense center which
the Chinese press urged the mili
tary authorities to hold at all costs.
Failure of the Japanese to ad
vance on that front in the past few
days was regarded by observers
in Chungking as an indication that
they were assembling forces for
an all-out push.
Britishers
Also Join
Paratroops
POSITION STILL BAD
2nd Army Patrols Forge
Thin Link With Men
In Arnhem Sector
SUPREME HEADQUAR
TERS ALLIED EXPEDI
TIONARY FORCE, Sept. 23.
—(TP)—British Second army
patrols tonight forged a ten
uous link with units of the
“Lost division” of airborne
troops in the Arnheim sector
in Holland, and thousands of
British and American glider
troops, with large amounts of
supplies, were flown in de
spite strong opposition to re
inforce Lt. Gen. Miles C.
Dempsey’s hard-slugging res
cue troops.
A late front dispatch said the sit
uation in the Arnhem sector re
mained serious, even as the Sec
ond army, after a bloody six -
mile relief march, hurled shells
across the river into enemy lines
ringing the valient sky troops just
a quarter of a mile away from the
hard - won British position on the
north bank of the Rhine.
The British advance was punch,
ed out through enemy strength,
and extremely heavy fighting con
tinued in the whole sector tonight.
To the South, U. S. Third army
armor churned forward through a
sea of mud in a six mile push, cap
turing Buriville, six miles north of
Baccarat and about 30 miles east
of Nancy. The remainder of the
Third army front was stalled by
rain and strong Nazi resistance.
British tanks and infantry and
the American sky .troops who fought
through stand - and - die resistance
apparently sent their patrols across
the river at the Arnhem bridge.
A link - up in force would signalize
a great Allied victory on the Ruhr
valley route to Berlin.
The Germans, who throughout the
day battered with tanks and 88
mm. guns at Dempsey’s Eindho
ven - Nijmegen corridor, sent
planes in groups of 20 and 30 to
battle the troop . laden gliders and
transports reinforcing the Second
army. The Nazi airmen were driv
en back by hundreds of fighters—
the largest escort yet sent with
The British widened the corridor
through which they rushed to the
lower Rhine, taking the town of
Beek, three miles southeast of Nij
megen at the corridor’s upper end
and two other small towns two or
three miles east of Eindhoven and
about an equal distance west at the
base.
Heavy fighting raged in almost
a 100 - mile stretch from the Dutch
frontier south to the Moselle front
as the Germans threw in one tank
led counterattack after another.
Each successive attack was thrown
back.
In one of these counterthrusts
about seven miles southeast of
Aachen the enemy suffered the loss
of 40 per cent of his forces before
he was beaten off. In the Met*
area, to the South, American troop*
beat off small forces of Germans ,
who drove into the Third army’*
lines in the Pournoy area.
STATE
Wake Forest 7 North Carolina 0.
Duke 61 Richmond 7.
State 27 Milligan 7.
Charleston Coast Guard 0; Third
Air Force 31.
Emory and Henry 0; Catawba 6.
SOUTH
South Carolina 48 Newberry 0.
Clemson 34 Presbyterian 0.
Virginia 37 Hampden-Sydney 0.
southwest
Arkansas 7 Missouri 6.
Oklahoma 41 West Texas State 6.
Texas Aggies 39 Bryan Army Aii
Field 0.
Mississippi 7; Kentucky 27.
EAST
Connecticut 27 Norwich 0.
Atlantic City Naval Air Base 3
Swarthmore 0.
Franklin & Marshall 26 Ursinus
0.
Coast Guard Academy 40 Tufts
7.
Villanova 13 Scranton 7.
Bucknell 14 Muhlenberg 0.
Worcester 12 Rensselaer 0.
Rochester 27 Union 7.
Pittsburgh 26 West Virginia 13.
Harvard 43 Bates 6.
Wesleyan 6 Dennison 40.
Cornell 39 Syracuse 6.
MID-WEST
Missouri 6 Arkansas 7.
St. Thomas 27 St. Olaf 0.
Indiana State Teacher 0 Cen
tral Michigan 25.
Great Lakes 27 Purdue 18.
Illinois 26 Indiana 18.
Iowa Navy 19 Minnesota 13.
Bunker Hill (Indiana) Navy 33
Western Michigan 7.
Baldwin - Wallace 13 Bowling
Green 6.
Olathe Naval Air 6 Pittsburgh
(Kan.) Teachers 0.
Michigan 14 Marquette 0.
University of Idaho, South, 27 Po
catello Marines 0.
FAR WEST
2nd Air Force 78 Whitman 0
Colorado College 67 Washburn 0.
Southern California 13 UCLA 13
(tie).
California 31 St. Mary’s 7.
Fort Warren 7 Colorado Univer
sity 6.
Washington 71 Willamette 0.
105th Army Engrs 0 Naval Trg
Center ** 1
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Transports Defy Flak
To Carry More Troops
LONDON, Sept. 23.—(TP)— At
least 27 German planes were
destroyed in a series of dog
fights over Holland today as a
great armada of American and
British glider-towing transports
delivered thousands of fresh
troops and supplies to help ef
forts to relieve the “Lost divi
sion” in the Arnhem area.
The transports flew through
blinding flak to accomplish
their mission..
The daring trip was carried
out in the late afternoon with
the aid of a sudden break in
the weather. The German radio
later warned that night bom
bers, which had been held back
for several days by weather,
were over the Reich again.
Observers accompanying the
airborne reinforcements de
scribed it as one of the most
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j f
dramatic of any of the week’s
numerous leap-frogging opera
tions to land among the dikes
and windmills.
First reports regarding en
emy air opposition were some
what confusing. A special an- '
nouncement from Supreme
Headquarters of the Allied Ex
peditionary Force mentioned
“strong opposition from the
ground and in the air,” while
one observer reported he saw
only one Nazi planes.
Recalling the desperate ef
fort the Luftwaffe made to
break up the last glider convoy
to the Netherlands—with a loss
of 20 Allied planes—it is prob
able that a much stronger es
cort was employed today.
Probably today’s escort num
bered well over 1,000 fighter
plan*
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