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* GSR ffitlmtujgtmt illitntutg 8>tar | ™T _ WILMINGTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1944 FIN&L EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867 i __1_ I _81st Division Troops Invade Angaur _ tnder the protecting guns of American warships. U. S. troops of the 81st Infantry division swarm on to northern beaches of Angaur in the Palau Islands of the Pacific. Intense fires were started on the Island by the terrific bombardment delivered by naval vessels and American planes. Four days later Angaur island was secured, and soldiers turned to mopping up scattered remnants of the Jap force. The 81st, known as the “Wildcat” division, trained at Camp Rucker, Ala. Its predecessors, the fa mous "Wildcat” division of World War I, helped s mash the Hindenburg Line in the Allied drive that forced the Germans to call for the armistice. (AP Wirephoto.) GERMANS YIELD MORE TO REDS LONDON. Wednesday, Sept. 27.— fPS—Yielding more than 500 towns and villages to the Russians, the mauled divisions of the German northern army corps fell back on Riga last night for what may be their last stand in the Baltic states. A brief Soviet communique re ported that Red army forces took more than 200 placer in their drive to clear the scattered and disor ganized enemy from the west coast of Estonia southwest of Tallinn and pressed on down within 45 miles northeast of Riga, taking 300 places in Latvia. A supplement to the communi tp mentioned capture of Cesis, 50 miles northeast of Riga, and Mad liena, 37 miles east of Riga, as among the day’s notable feats. The powerful stronghold of Cesis, it said, was reinforced by a mo torized SS division and air cadets freshly arrived from Germany, but Soviet troops carried the town by storm in hot fighting. Madliena fell after a combination outflanking and frontal attack. Riga, last Baltic capital in enemy hands and a highly valuable naval base for the newly unfettered Red Baltic fleet, already is closely threatened by the Russians six miles to the south, and only a nar row escape corridor leading west ward along the sea remains to the Germans. The Soviet communique also an nounced capture of Turka, in south ern Poland 12 miles from the bor der of Czechoslovakia and nine oth er communities in that mountain ous frontier region. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) Japanese Keep Up , Advance On Kweilin CHUNGKING, Wednesday, Sept 2"-®—The Japanese continued to advance today toward Kweilin tom positions east of the Kwangsi Province city, whose loss would he the greatest reverse for the Chinese since the fall of Hankow •rd Canton in October, 1938. The high command acknowl edged a 12-mile gain* by a Japa cese Colmun cutting southward from Kwanyang, 50 miles east, Dcrtheast of Kweilin. At the same time invaders jhshing northwestward from Tungming, 75 miles east of Kwei in an apparent attempt to {lit the Hunan-Kwangsi railway •“ttth of Kweilin were reported by “e high command to have ad **nced 28 miles. Severe fighting *ts in progress in this area the communique said. 1 Killed> 2 Hurt In Auto Accident William Ivon Hocutt, 20, of 2014 Metts Ave., who was home on rehabilitation leave from the Navy after serving overseas, was fatally injured about 9 o’clock last night when the rear wheels of the 1941 coach he was driving dropped off at 11th and Greenfield St., causing the car to spin around several times and crash into a tree. A merchant, marine seaman and*-— a sailor who were riding with Ho cutt were injured and were taken to James Walker Memorial hos pital for emergency treatment. Hocutt died in a police car on the way to the hospital. The condition of William Tay lor Beck, U. S. Navy, of 113 Wrightsville Ave., was reported by hospital attaches- last night as be ing satisfactory, as was that oi Finley McRae, merchant marine, of 22 Court J, Lake Forest. Hocutt was a seaman second class in the Navy and had been recently decorated for his service in the invasion. He and Beck were stationed at the Advance Base As sembly and Training unit, Naval Training center, Lido Beach, Long Island, and had come home on leave together. Coroner A. W. Allen reported that Hocutt died from a basal fracture of the skull. Investigating police repotted that at the time of the accident the car was traveling east on Greenfield St. The rear axle and rear housing evidently broke, causing the rear wheels to come off. The car swung to the right, swung back and hit a small tree on the left hand side of the road. After knocking over the small tree, the car hit a large tree on the left hand side. It evidently rolled or skidded approximately 50 feel before it came back and stopped on the left-hand side of t:>e road. The car was demolished. Lloyd Wolfe, a city fireman, who resides near the scene of the crash, was returning home and saw the car traveling out of con trol after it hit the tree. Wolfe said the car was traveling “at a very high rate of speed. ’ Resi dents of the area said that the cat turned over a number of times during its plunge down the slighl incline. One of the passengers of the death car was found nearly 3C feet from the car, another was lying beside the car and another was found several feet away. A1 three occupants were thiowr clear of the car during its Iasi plunge down the hill. _ RUMELY FACING CONTEMPT COUNT WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.— '•«— The House campaign investigating committee called today lor federal court action against an official of the Committe for Constitutional Government who refused to sub mit a list of contributors of $100 or more. The congressional committee, headed by Representative Ander son (D-NM), cited Edward A. Rumely, executive secretary of the Committee for Constitutional Gov ernment, founded by Publisher Franks Gannett, for “wilful and deliberate refusal” to produce sub poenaed records and held that he was “in contempt” of the House. The committee’s finding was cer tified to speaker Sam Rayburn for certification to the United States attorney for submission to the Grand Jury. Should Rumely be indicted and found guilty, he could be fined $1,000 and jailed for twelve months. The rare recourse to formal con tempt proceedings recalled that the Dies committee, in 1940, certified several communist officials for contempt, but none ever was tried or punished in court. Rumely indicated that he was ready for a court fight in his stand (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) -V Ex-High School Head Stricken In Asheville ASHEVILLE, Sept. 26.—UP)—Jo seph Bascoin Huff, 65, head of the English department at Mars Hill college, died unexpectedly at an Asheville hospital today. Before joining the Mars Hill faculty 26 years ago, he taught in *he high school at Troy, Ala., was princip*l of Wilmington, N. C high school, was professor of Eng lish at Garson-Newman college and for several years was president of Wingate junior college. Funeral arrangements are in complete. White House To Remain Shabby WASHINGTON, Sept. 26—Ml “The little old lady halted on Pennsylvania avenue in front °f the White House grounds •nd humphed: "Humph! It’s about time.” Sure enough, there were ■ •caffolds at the pillars just •s though the painters were suing to give the President’s home the coat of paint it has heeded ever since the war •tarted. A couple of guys banged •way with chisels, knocking •hunks out of t'nd stately, once white columns now blistered •na kind of sorry looking. "No it isn’t so,” unhappily txplained Chief Usher Howell •-rim today. “No paint, war’s •HU on.” That was the dictum when the Japanese struck at Pearl Harbor and it still goes, even if Germany quits next week, he says and he’s boss . . . even over the Interior depart ment which is nominally charged with the maintenance of the mansion. Crim had to call in the work men to fix the pillars because of some lazy characters of long ago. “We had gas lights on the pillars once,” he said. “Then they were removed and elec tric lights put on. Somebody ordered the electric fixtures removed, oh, 30 years ago, I guess. I don't know why. The workmen put plaster in the - holes. We’re putting stone in now in case we do paint some day.” Here ar.d there, spots or black are showing up on ne building through the four-year old coat of white paint- They’re the marks of the terrible scorch When the British set fire to the White House in the war of 1812. The decision to make the old coat do after Pearl Har bor was based pretty much on a “good example” for the na tion idea but it goes beyond that now. “We don’t have enough workmen there to handle such a big job now,” says Crim. New workmen would have to clear through a maze of checkups before the secret service would let them that cloSe to the chief executive, and the secret service is pretty busy witn other things. “Oh, well,” Crim added, “If we get through this war needing only a coat of paint, that’ll be quite satisfactory.” Pew Drive Launched On Germany As American Transports Bring Aid To Beleaguered Paratroops UNITED STATES TIGHTENING UP ON ARGENTINA American Vessels Banned From Calling On Ports After October 1 WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. (#)—The United States tight ened screws on Argentina to day with two moves thinning trade between the two coun tries to a trickle. The State department announced the first move—a ban preventing American ships from calling at Argentine ports after October 1. At the-same time, it was learned, the department instructed the For eign Economic Administration to restirct export licenses to Argen tina to a minimum. About a year ago, export licenses for Argentina were ordered held down, but the new confidential directive cuts exports which can go to Argentina to those necessary for public health arid to maintain essential services. Normally Argentina, bring s chemicals, lumber and iron and steel from the United States in large quantities and has difficulty getting those commodities else where nowadays. The shipping ban means that m American vessels can engage ii trade with Argentina, resulting in a huge slash in the amount of good: which can be carried. A State department spokesma: said the reason for the shippini ban was because routes must bi responsive to war requirements. Those countries contributing ei fectively to the prosecution of thi war will of course continue t< receive sympathetic consideratio: with respect to American ships fo their deomestic needs, he contin ued. The trade restrictions heade( the list of a long series of diplo matic and economic measure which this government has takei against the militaristic regime o President Edelmiro Farrell sine it seized power at the beginning of the year. Recognition was tefused to Far rell’s government and America) Ambassador Norman Armour wa: withdrawn from Buenos Aires thi summer. Secretary of State Hull publishec detailed charges against Farrell'; government, citing instances of ai< to the Axis and Totalitarian ac tions. Recently, he branded the Ar gentine government as fascist. Last month, all exports of gol< were banned to Argentina, and the fetate department made clear yes terday that Argentine firms whic! helped the Nazis will continue oi an American blacklist after thi war. Political isolation of Argentm: from the rest of the Allied work was climaxed when Farrell’s gov ernment withdrew this montl from the inter-American commit tee for political defense. The South American country (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) _IT_ THREE YOUTHS HELD FOR STEALING CARS Accused of being members of ai auto theft gang reported to havi been responsible for a dozen cai thefts within the last two months three youths were arrested yester day and lodged in jail by Sgt. J. R Smith, veteran state highway pa trolman. The trio is Lee Stanley Flynn Jr., of Maffitt Village, Huber Jones Bellamy of Hickman’s Cross roads, and Frank Moore of Pender lea. Four of the cars are reported ti have been recovered so far. The three youths will be given : preliminary hearing in recorder’ court. Se.geant Smith said his investi gation is continuing and that mori of the stolen cars are expected ti be recovered. - -- I Yanks In Reichswald Forest t _ J Arrows on this map indicate where Allied troops on the western front are active. Americans with the British Second Army entered Germany in the Reichswald Forest area, and British forces contact 1 ed airborne troops in the Arnheim pocket, and drove toward Mae 1 seyck. Canadians advanced northeast of Antwerp. U. S. First Army ! troops continued pressure near Geilenkirchen, after clearing Stol berg. (AP Wirephoto.) iSuperfortresses Hit Manchurian Industry l " . By The Associated Press Seeking to cripple Japan’s main war arsenal on the Asiatic continent, a heavy force of American Super 1 fortresses yesterday blasted Anshan, the Manchurian in ’ J_-i—,* 1 «-i-- ±_ , UUULi JU1 VV/UI/V/lt I In the third attack on Anshan -»:.n as many months the skyvgiants unloaded explosives on steel and chemical plants just after dawn Tuesday Oriental time (Monday afternoon U.S. time). While complete details of the : raid awaited reports from Yank .pilots, an Associated Press dis patch from a B-29 base in western n China said significantly the borr.b j ing “was expected to knock Anshan out as a functioning arsenal for many months.’’ In the two earlier raids the superfortresses smashed basic L steel and coke installations. The ! latest attack was designed to j wreck ‘anything overlooked” pre l viously. [j The American fliers spotted Jap «' anese interceptors over points in occupied China but said the Nippon airmen did not challenge the mis [ sion as it flew toward Manchuria. ■j Radio Tokyo, heard by FCC, i named Anshan and two other • towns as the targets. A Japanese domestic broadcast said damage was negligible and claimed two B-29s were shot down and fourj damaged. A later Nippon propa-, ganda broadcastin the English language said 13 planes were de stroyed. With some 900 Japanese planes destroyed in the Philippines secto , in less than three weeks, most of . them by Yank naval airmen flying ■ from carriers, the Japanese Pro pagandists got busy again. A To ■ kyo broadcast, picked up by FCC, said fortification of the Philippines ■ and adjacent islands as air bases has been completed ... by newly i arrived aircraft.” . On Peleliu Island, *00 miles east ■ of the Philippines, the survivors of • the Japanese garrison appeared hopelessly trapped. Leif Erickson, > Associated Press War Correspon dent there, wrote that two columns 1 of Yank forces—one Marines and > the other Infantrymen—cut off the Japanese holed up in Umorbrogol ' mountain, only one-tenth of Peleliu ! remains in Nippon hands. ) (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) -—-TT-I I FDR, CHURCHILL WILL AID ITALY WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—(^»)— President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill announced to night a greater measure of home rule for Italy and projected a pro gram of industrial reconstruction to help that one-time enemy na tion join “the struggle to defeat Germany and Japan.” How this program is to be fi nanced was not disclosed and spec ulation immediately arose that since its announced purpose is the prosecution of the war, United States lend-lease assistance and British mutual aid might be ex tended to Italy. The new policy was decided by Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill at Hyde Park Sept. 18 and 19, where they met secretly following their conference at Quebec. The effects of tne policy seemed certain to be far-reaching. The resignation of Italy as an “enemy” nation barred from normal com mercial relations with this country and Britain is to be removed, the president and prime minister said, and direct political relationships are to be entered into between Rome and Washington and Lon don. The purposes of placing this “in creasing measure of control” in the hands of the Italian government were described as being to help re (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) European War Flashback By The Associated Press Sept 27 1918—Routed Bulgarians in Macedonia request meeting with Allied’military chiefs to arrange an armistice and eventual peace American forces in France capture a series of trenches and fortified farms which formed outer defenses of the Hindenburg sys tem southwest of Le Catelet. Sept. 27 1940—Germany, Italy and Japan sign a 10-year pact to “assist one another with all political, economic and military means when one of the three contracting powers is attacked by a power at present not involved in the European war or in the Chinese-Japanese conflict.” Germany and Britain continue their air raids on each other’s cities, airfields, ports and industrial installations Men And Supplies Sent In By Plane t Alternate Supply Route Through Corridor; Opened Up Into Nijmegen-Arnhem Area SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDI TIONARY FORCE, Wednesday, Sept. 27—(£>)—The Brit ish Second army sent another column east toward Ger many tyesterday, pulling up on the Meuse river at Box meer, 13 miles south of Nijmegen and only three miles from 5TH ARMY HALTS COUNTERATTACKS ROME, Sept. 26—W—.American Fifth Army troops advancing to ward Bologna, major enemy com munications center in northern Italy, have smashed three heavy German counterattacks, and on the Adriatic battlefront British Eighth army forces have crossed the tiny but famous Rubicon against strong enemy resistance, Allied headquar ters announced today. Field Marshall Gen. Albert Kes selring, using seasoned troops, hhrl ed three vicious counterassaults at the Yanks near Monte la Fine, 21 miles southeast of Bologna. Head quarters said the Germans suffer ed heavy casualties in their futile attempt to check the advance of the Americans. Three miles southeast of Monte la Fine other Fifth army troops were reported battling the Ger mans in the streets of Moradaccio, 16 miles south of Imola on the lateral Bologna-Rimini highway. Although it had been stated at headquarters that the Americans were as close as 15 miles to Bo logna, no places were specifically named closer than 21 miles. On the Americans’ eastern flank Eritisli'and Indian troops took Pa lazzuola, eight miles east of Firen zuola, and Marradi, four miles far ther east, capturing many pris oners. The -British also occupied San Beneditto, 23 miles south of Imola, and drove the enem” from the heights of Monte Scarabatolle and Monte, Carnevale. The forcing of the Rubicon, which Julius Caesar crossed southward in 49 B. C., was hailed by Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Allied Med iterranean commander, with the hope it “will lead, as with a fa mous commander in the past, to a decisive victory and to the des truction of Kesselring’s army.” In Caesar’s time, the Rubicon (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) FINANCE COMPANY WILL OPEN HERE A new $200,000 automobile fi nance business for Wilmington was disclosed yesterday with the filing in Raleigh of a certificate of incorporation for Finance, Inc., of Wilmington. The company, which has an au thorized capital stock of $200,000, with $30,000 subscribed by Fred erick Willets, Garland F. Palmer and Rosalie J. Newman, will open offices in the central part of the city about October 15, according to information obtained from Willetts, head of the Willetts Realty Co. The lat*er said that Palmer, cashier of the Morris Plan bank of Wilmington, would resign ihis position with the bank and man age the new business, which h£ described as one needed by Wil mington as a postwar measure. tne JJUicn,-Lrerman uoruer. At the same time an alternate supply route into the fiercely-con tested Nijmegen-Arnhem area wae opened up through Grave by Brit ish armor striking along the west ern side of the corridor that leads up form Eindhoven. This new drive came as Ameri can transports landed close behind the front in Holland with tnen, weapons and supplies for the Be leagured airborne troops in the Nijmegen-Arnhem sector and bol stered the Allied forces for the in creasingly vital struggle at the northern gateway to the Rhine. There still was no word early to day, however, o£ the fate of the British airborne “Red Devil” di vision which has clung stubbornly to a little foothold on the north bank of the Neder Rhine for nine days and nights. A German broadcast, unconfirm ed by Allied sources, asserted that the valient little band of British skytroopers finally had been liqui dated with the last 600 surrender ing yesterday morning. The combination of powerful ground blows by British armor and the reinforcements and sup plies landed from transports and gliders eased the critical situation along the narrow corridor stretch ing up into Holland and Supreme Headquarters announced that the highway between Veghel and Ni jmegen now was cleared of the Germans although still under artil lery fire. Cleaning up me west nan*, or the tenuous communications 1 i n lea with the northern spearhead of Lt. Gen. Sir Miles C. Dempsey’s Sec ond army, British armor knocked the Nazis out of Oss, ten miles west of Grave, and from Heesch, eight miles north of Veghei. These successes provided an alternate supply route to Nijmegen by way of Grave. Still farther south, Belgian forces of the Second army were driving toward the German fron tier east of Maeseyck. The Germans were resisting strongly and in some sectors the opposition seemed to be gaining in strength as the critical battle flamed toward a climax. Big American freighters of the air, C-47 transports towing gliders loaded with men, weapons, jeeps and supplies, landed at a forward airfield yesterday giving succor to the harrassed Allied forces. Associated Press Correspondent A. I. Goldberg, who made the flight in the sky-train, said these first actual landings of supply planes were made in a grassy pas ture within sight of the smoke of battle. The supply operation was run so smoothly that the first planes were unloaded and taking off for their bases in England before the last of the transports flew in through the narrow, uncertain corridor. More than 200 Mustang fighter* escorted the unarmed transports. Neither enemy pianes nor flak wa* encountered and the entire convoy completed its round trip from Eng land. Another dispatch from the front (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) German Troops Flee Greece BARI, Italy, Sept. 26.— (JP)— Heavy lighting was reported today in the neighborhood of Sarande, a southern Albanian port, as German troops crossed the Albanian border in their at tempt to escape from north western Greece. Advancing up the Adriatic coast, Nazis reportedly were thrown back six-and-a-half miles by Albanian partisans be fore they could make a stand. Details of the battle were not yet available. Other enemy elements, be lieved to total approximately 7,000 men, were concentrating on the Greek border at a point 25 miles east of the Albanian town of Argyrokastrom, with advance elements moving north ward on foot. It was believed that this force, in order to avoid the area i where ^Albanian partisans are concentrated, is heading north estward to lake Ohrid to join Nazi units streaming in the same direction from Serbia and Macedonia. The fleeing Germans in northern Greece and southern Albania also were attacked by Allied Balkan airforce fighters, while fighter-bombers ripped up enemy communications in Yugoslavia. While the Albanian forces were holding up their end of the campaign to bottle up all the Germans in the western Bal kans, Marshal Tito followed up his announcement of the cap ture by Yugoslav partisans of Banjaluka in eastern Bosnia with a communique reporting the capture of three more towns and extermination of all enemy forces in them between Banjaluka and the Sava river, 35 miles to the north. The com munique claimed the death or capture of 7,000 of the 13,000 Germans and collaborationist* who had defended Banjaluk* and its approaches. The capture of the city, Tito’* announcement continued, net ted some 30 airplanes, 25 heavy guns, and several thousand badly needed rifles. The Partisans also reported mopping up enemy resistance in the Mosmaj hills south of Belgrade and said the German* were working furiously to strengthen the defenses of the Dalmatian port of Split. Elements of the partisan force which took the airport northeast of Fiume last week were on the move again and • were reported clearing the ene my from the coast south of the city.
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