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dFH tlmutglmt Hunting S>tar | —T VOL. - k—NO. 211 _ . _. , WILMINGTON, N. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1944 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867 _——^ J ' ---- - - -- - ■ 11 ' * Hurried Hunt, Slow Return Allied soldiers in the top picture move on the double during street fighting in Brest, France. Below, at a more leisurely pace, Allied soldiers march back up the same street with some German prison ers. (AP wirephoto). Roosevelt Gibes At Dewey Charge WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—(IP)—President Roosevelt gibed at the recent flurry of Pearl Harbor stories and Gov ernor Thomas E. Dewey’s campaign charge of administra tion “defeatism’’ today in a news conference discussion ranging all the way from domestic politics to international allairs. * He looked for a lot more such| things before election day, the^ President said when a reporter mentioned the story told in Con gress. and denied by Australian of. ficials. that Australia warned this country 72 hours before the Pearl Harbor attack that a Japanese task force was headed for Hawaii. Mr. Roosevelt commented that anybody who had undisclosed information about the attack ought to give it to the army and navy boards now in vestigating the circumstances. Dewey’s contention that the ad ministration is saturated with de featism was brought up by Blair Moody of the Detroit News who asked if the President would com ment. Mr. Roosevelt replied by asking Moody whether he thought so. "No, that’s why I asked the question,” the reporter replied. He didn't think so either, the (Continued on Page Three; Col. 7) -V UNRRA ADOPTS RELIEF FORMULA MONTREAL, Sept. 22. — (/P) — Toe impoverished people of the Axis-invaded nations of Europe will deceive, depending on supplies and resources, a daily diet of a maxi mum 2,650 calories a day and one "'earable pair of shoes or boots’ Under a relief formula adopted to uay by the policy committee of the United Nations Relief and Reha bilitation administration. The formula was worked out in Lundon bv the European commit tee of UNRRA. It was explained at a press con terence by Director General Her bert Lehman that these were the bjaximum goals of UNRRA. UNJt FlA cannot bind itself, Lehman *aid to promising everyone shoes *nd that much food because of imitations of supplies and money. Allied Night Bombers Cripple Nazi Effort To Evacuate Aegeans ROME, Sept. 22. —UP)— Al lied night bombers rained a concentration of explosives on the Greek port of Salonika last night, attempting to cripple German efforts to evacuate the Aegean area, and reliable re ports from Cairo said the Na zis already had pulled out of a greater part of the Peloponne sus. Previous unconfirmed reports said the Germans were- at tempting to abandon several of their Aegean island holdings. tVRECKSURVIVOR BADLY INJURED George Marks of Carolina Beach, survivor of Thursday’s automobile wreck on the Castle Haynes road right miles north of Wilmington, in which three persons died, was re oorted last night by attaches at lames Walker Memorial hospital o be in a critical condition,'. suf fering from serious back injuries. The bodies of the three persons rilled have been shipped from Wil mington to their homes, where the funeral services will be held. The body of Rupert J. Perry. 3ueen City Coach company bus Irivtr, was shipped to Roberson rille, where funeral services will be held sometime today. The body of Mrs. Allene Sides, 23, of 7-A-12 Hooper Drive, Maffitt Village, who was killed instantly, was sent to Albemarle, and the body of Mary Newland, 7-A-ll Hoo per drive. Maffitt Village, was ship ped to Manassas, Va. ■ Heroic Sky Troops Fight Desperately In E^//>rt To Hold Open Invasion Road /Nazi War Factories In Ruhr Valley -___ _* U.S. Fliers Hit Manila Second Time HARBOR AREA HIT Japanese Radio Reports Airfields Smashed In New Strike By The Associated Press Daring American naval air men, flying from Pacific fleet carriers, were reported by the Japanese radio yester day to have smashed the Ma nila area of the Philippines for the second consecutive day. News of the second Yank sky visitation to the Philippines capi tal district was not confirmed by American sources. Domei, Japa nese news agency, and the Japa nese-controled Manila radio said 200 carrier planes, in four waves, blasted harbor facilities and the airfield Thursday morning. American night air patrols were reported in today’s southwest Pa cific command to have hit Japa nese shipping in southern Philip pines waters. They sank or dam aged four vtssel-s, including a transport. Carrier and landbased planes struck against Japanese airfields on Halmahera island, 300 miles south of the Philippines, destroy ing or damaging many planes. Yank fliers unloaded 58 ons of , bombs on Celebes airdromes and , destroyed seven small surface craft at Ceram. The U. S. Navy reported the : initial Manila sector raids Wed The definite sinking of 11 ships, including a big destroyer and four large tankers, and the probable s/nking of another destroyer, two major tankers, a large transport, a floating drydock and 24 other ( craft The destruction of 205 Japanese planes—110 shot down and 95 on the ground. Heavy damage to military ob jectives at and near the Cavite navy yard, Nichols and Clark air fields and Manila and Subic bays. The Japanese claimed flak ac counted for 15 American raiders, including four probables, in the Thursday strike, and that two were shot down by interceptors. They also said Nippon naval (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) SHIPYARIMJNiONS IMPLY STRIKES WASHINGTON, Sept. 22. —(A1)— Shipyard unions today added their weight to the labor pressure upon wage ceilings with an AFL union implyingthere may be strikes un- 1 less wages are raised. John P. Frey, president of the AFL metal trades department, in a shouting, table-thumping demand upon the War Labor Board, insist ed that the government “honor” a 1942 wage contract “or we will take matters into our own hands and use our own judgment.” An industry spokesman said that shipyards “are .paying the highest industrial wages in the country.” John Green, president of the CIO Marine and Shipbuilding Workers union, presented his union’s de mand for an increase of 17 1-2 cents an hour, contending that the i government wage policy “has been unfortunately allied with an arti ficially construed index which is no longer indicative of present war time conditions.” Marines Hit Beach In Peleliu Invasion TJ. S. Marines take cover on the beach of Peleiiu, in the Palau islands, as they storm ashore Sept. 1 [4 in the invasion of the Japanese stronghold. Marine amtracs, hit by Jap mortar fire, burn in the background. Two thirds of the island is now in American hands. This is one of the first original pic tures of this invasion to reach the United States. (AP wirephoto). Nazis Retreat In Italy Greek, Canadian Troops Shatter Gothic Line To Drive Up Po ROME, Sept. 22.— <-© —German hopes of holding northern Italy through the coming winter were blasted today as decimated rem nants of 12 Nazi divisions fell back into the Po valley before the vic torious onslaught of Greek and Canadian troops who forced a crossing of the Marecchia river west of the captured Adriatic stronghold of Rimini. Rupture of the enemy’s Gothic line defenses at Rimini and to the west of the shattered resort city gave Gen. Sir Harold Alexander, Allied commander-in-chief in Italy, the opportunity he had long sought to throw his great armored su periority against the Germans where there was room for maneu ver. “The battle of Italy is not yet over,” wrote Associated Press War Correspondent L y n n Heinzerling from Rimini, “but it appeared to be entering its final phase today.” Eighth army tanks from their foothold across the Marecchia were ready for quick smashes in two directions—northwest along the ancient Via Emilia toward the big industrial city of Bologne and north-northwest toward Ravenna, Ferrara and the Po estuary. The Nazis, with much of their trans port lying in rusting heaps beside Halian roads. aDDeared literally to face a fight for their lives. As the four-week assault on the Gothic line thundered toward a climox American troops of the 5th army stormed into Firenzuola, ar important road junction 26 miles south of Bologna, and seized the Southern slopes of Monte Coloreta, a mile and a half northeast of Firenzuola. As they moved up, the dough boys found large numbers of enemy dead littering the slopes on which withering artillery and ma chinegun fire had been laid pre ceding the advance. -V Policemen ‘Capture’ Captured Machinegun MALDEN, Mass., Sept. 22. — (fP) —First a Japanese machine gun was captured by an American ma rine sergeant and today it was cap tured by the Malden police. Apparently forgetting that he no longer was at Saipan, the sergeant —home on furlough—tofik his fath er to the rear of a cemetery to show how the weapon worked. The roar brought a swarm of po lice. After explanations the sergeant lost his souvenir. “No charges,” said the cops. CHINESE ADMIT JAPANESE GAINS CHUNGKING, Sept. 22 — tf) —A Japanese force estimated at 20,000 has captured Wuchow, Sikiang port 145 miles southeast of Kweilin, and pushed on in the direction of Liu chow, strategic junction of the Hu nan - Kwangsi and the Kwangsi Kweichow railroads, the Chinese announced- tonight. A Chinese spokesman admitted Wuchow had fallen without much opposition, but declared the Chinese resistance would stiffen as the ene my drove deeper into Kwangsi province. About 60 miles southwest of Wu chow, other Japanese forces cap tured Jungyun. If the Japanese close the gap between Jungyun and Wuchow, they will have a line running from Hainan island to Hongkong for defensive operations against any American landings. Japanese troops bearing down on Kweilin from the northeast still were apparently stalled along the Hunan - Kwangsi railroad about 40 miles from the evacuated U. S. airbase, but the Chinese spokesman said the enemy was bringing up reinforcements. The Japanese orig inally started their push on Kweilin with five divisions. Kwanyang, about 50 miles east ot Kweilin, was reported again en dangered tonight. Recently, the Chinese succeeded in hurling back more than 40 miles a Japanese col umn which reached the town’s out skirts. Another column, however, was heading. toward Kwanyang from the direction of Chuanhsien. Gen. Chen Mu-Nung, comman.der of the Chinese 93rd army, was exe cuted Sept. 20 for his failure to de fend Chuanhsien. Fighters and medium bombers of the U. S. 14th Air Force continued to support the Chinese by attack ing Japanese supply lines, storage depots, troop concentrations and river shipping. The Americans now had the added handicap of having to operate mostly from western Chi na bases. -V— Armed Holdup Men Stage Three Robberies In N. Y. NEW YORK, Sept. 22—(#)—Arm ed holdup men staged three rob beries in Manhattan and Brook lyn in less than two hours today and escaped with approximately $44,000 in cash. Police were investigating to de termine if the hold-ups were the work of the same men. European War Flashback (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) Sept. 23, 1918—British forces captured a strong German post northeast of Epehy after a three-day attack. The French took pos session of the west bank of the Oise on a three-mile front between Moy and La Fere. Sept. 23, 1940—British and Free French naval squadron bombard ed Dakar after French governor refused to acceed to order from Gen. De Gaulle to permit a landing , * ' $ BIG PLANES HIT GERMAN TARGETS LONDON, Sept. 22.—(*—Twelve1 hundred American heavy bombers blasted deep into central Germany, today from bases in both Britain and Italy, hitting the industrial city of Kassel, the Munich area! and other targets, while Allied fighters continued their assault along the flaming battlefront de spite thick cloud conditions. The German air force made no challenge to the 650 Fortresses and I Liberators which sped from Brit-; ain straight across Germany and showered explosives on Kassel, but flak over the target was relatively heavy and nine bombers as well as one escorting fighter were miss | ing. During the night Italian-based Liberators also flew a perilous 1, j 750-m i 1 e roundtrip to Warsaw where tons of food, medicine and war equipment were parachuted to Polish patriots holding out in the capital. It was at least the third j such mission made by Allied heavy' bombers in as nany weeks. The glow of fires raging in War saw could be seen 60 miles away, the pilots said, so they had no difficulty in picking out the as signed spots for parachuting sup plies. EISEIWOWfi? RARFS FUTURE POUCIES SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Saturday, Sept. 23.— (tf*)— Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower today bared his policy for dealing with occupied Germany—a policy of two fisted firmness stamping out the infamous reign of Hitler and the Nazis and already in effect in con quered German towns. The Allied supreme commander minced rfo words in proclaiming the death penalty for Germans “who aid the Nazis in any way.” Aiming at swift justice for war criminals and threatening the fir ing squad for those who disobey, the Allies have ordered Nazi par ty administrative officers to re main at their posts until all funds, records, equipment' and property are surrendered. Plight Critical For Arnhem Men Gallant Allied Force Digs In Flaming Ruins To Stave Off Charging German Tanks SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDI TIONARY FORCE, Sept. 22.—(£>)—'The .British Second army battered forward yard by yard tonight in an attempt to rescue heroic airbone Tommies and Poles who six miles to the north dug into Arnhem’s flaming ruins and were determined to hold open the door of invasion to Hitler’s war factories in the Ruhr valley. The cannonading of Second army tanks and artillery blasting away it the Germans, entrenched across ;heir path and armed with anti tank guns, rumbled up from the southern horizon to the encircled British division. As the Arnhem warriors held off waves of charging German tanks and infantry with the light weapons with which they plummeted into Holland six days ago, Supreme Headquarters described their plight is “critical”. The British Second was joined by the bulk of the Allied First Air borne army, which launched the battle for Holland last Sunday, but their combined weight had pushed them only two miles north of Nij megen and six miles from Arnhem. Some field dispatches placed for ward elements a little nearer the beleaguered “lost” division, but no one was able to report that it had been relieved. Late advices said there still was heavy fighting in Nijmegen, where the Allies won their all - important crossing of the formidable Waal Rhine barrier, despite previous re ports that the last German had been routed from the city. This bold attempt to wheel around the northern end of t h e Siegfried line and strike for the heart of Germany was hamstrung by bad weather, which grounded Allied air strength, but there was a possibility skies would clear to morrow. There was violent fighting inside Germany itself, where the U. S. First army has cut through the Siegfried line east of the German frontier bastion of Aachen. A late front dispatch said the Germans were driven from the southern half of Stolberg, 6 miles east of Aachen, but house-to-house fighting still raged for the remain der. Canadian First Army forces won the day’s most resounding Allied victory by crumbling the last re sistance north and south of the French coastal city of Boulogne and freeing that important port for Allied supply ships. The Canadians seized 7,300 pris oners, including a Lt. Gen. Heim, in mopping up Le Portel, overlook ing the port on the south, and Wim ereux, just to the north. But even this victory, vital for the continued even flow of supplies and reinforcements, was dwarfed by the desperate struggle on Hol land’s western fields. Belgium Will Be First To Get Its Goverment LONDON, Sept. 22. — (£>)— Bel gium probably will become the first liberated country in Europe to reestablish constitutional govern ment, in view of a Brussels radio report today that the government of Premier Hubert Pierlot had re signed. Prince Regent Charles is expect ed in Belgium quarters here to Eorm a new government this week end. . Pierlot’s action came as no sur prise, because he said before leav ing for his homeland that he plan ned to retire in favor of someone who had lived in Belgium during he German occupation. RUSSIANS S l BIG NAY BASE LONDON, Saturday, Sept. >3.—(/p)—The R e d army japtured the Estonian capi ;al and naval base of Tallinn yesterday, opening up the Bulf of Finland to the Soviet Baltic fleet whose airmen sank three transports choked vith Nazi troops attempting ;o escape from the port. Simultaneously, another power ful Red army was on the verge of crossing into prewar Hungary E r o m western Romania after sweeping up 50 towns and villages near the frontier, and a Polish communique from Warsaw said the Polish patriots had contacted Red army troops in the northern and southern districts of Warsaw after the Russians crossed the Vis tula river. A few hours before Moscow an nounced the fall of Tallinn to Rus sian troops which had reached it after a lightning advance of nearly 50 miles in 24 hours, Berlin re ported that German troops were giving up northern Estonia now that Finland had quit the war. There was no longer any need to protect Finland’s southern flank,” Berlin said in explanation of the fresh Baltic disaster heaped upon the Germans. lviarsnai Leumu uuvuiuv a Leningrad army, aided by an Es-, tonian corps, overran 800 more towns yesterday, making a total of nearly 3,000 seized on the1 sixth day of the big offensive. The Russians in their advance on Tallinn seized Tapa, strategic road junction 43 miles southeast of the capital, and also Paide, 27 miles southwest of Tapa. The Russians now have recover ed approximately half of the 18, 353 square miles comprising Es tonia—an area about equa) to New Hampshire and New Jersey com bined. The Germans were fleefng to ward the west coast and south west toward the Gulf of Riga, hot ly pursued by the mobile Russians who apparently killed or captured thousands of them during the day. Naval airmen attacked German evacuation ships in Tallinn harbor Thursday night, the Soviet com munique said, sinking three large German troop ships and a patrol vessel and damaging many other vessels, including three troop ships. Along the southern Estonian-Lat vian frontier area northwest and west of Valga Gen. Evan Maslen nikov’s Third Baltic army captured 60 localities yesterday, and 87 miles southwest of Valga the Lat vian capital and port of Riga was under Soviet shellfire and Red army infantrymen were reported in Moscow dispatches to be fight ing its outskirts. Seizure of Riga would cut off the land escape routes for all the Germans caught between there and fallen Tallinn. Rome’s Ex-Police Chief Killed fort BRAVETTA, Rome, Sept. 22.—(A*)— Pietro Caruso, Home’s police chief during the Nazi occupation, war ■ put to death with shots in the back by * 16-man firing squad today and * Fascist radio in German-oc «upied northern Italy shortly ■merward announced that 40 hostages had been arrested there for execution in reprisal. Caruso was the first Fas *lst collaborationist sentenced ® death by the Italian high hourt. He was convicted yes terday of charges that he turn ed 50 hostages over to the Ger thons for execution in the drea ry Ardeatin caves last March in reprisal for the bombing of a German SS column. These were shot in the back. • . The Fascist . radio station “Te Vere”, in announcing that 40 persons had been arrested and marked for death, said that one of them was a hrother of Falmiro Togliatti, Italian com munist who returned to Italy from Moscow in March .to .be come a minister without port folio in the Bor.omi govern ment. The Fascist threat to execute 40 hostages for Caruso was first made last week, at which time the Italian government turned down a suggestion that 80 Fascists be put to death in turn if the threatened reprisal should be carried out. Wearing a light blue suit, and haggard but unflinching, (iaruso was tied by guards in a white, unpainted chair as a blackrobed priest laid a hand on his shoulder and adminis tered the last sacrament. Ca ruso stared at the priest and listened intently. “Viva L’ltalia^r’ Caruso shouted as. the priest moved away and the firing squad took aim. The words echoed back from the thick walls of the century old fort and the shots followed. No coup de grace was nec essary / Dewey Urges More Security LOS ANGELES, Sept. 22—(JP) —Outlining a program to “pick up and carry forward an Am erican system of social pro gress.” Gov. Thomas E. Dew ey tonight proposed broaden ing and strengthening the So cial Security act, unemploy ment insurance and other means to this end. He also called for develop ment of a program to assure medical service to those who cannot otherwise obtain it, de scribing this as ‘‘a task that must be carried out in coopera tion with our medical men.” “The Social Security act should be amended to provide old age and survivors’ insur ance,” the Republican presid ential nominee said, “for those who most desperately need protection and are not now cov ered by Social Security or some other pension or retirement ment system.” The New York governor, in a prepared speech broadcast from the Los Angeles coliseum said 20,000,000 Americans — "farmers and farm workers, domestic workers, employes of non-profit enterprises, many government employes, and those who work for themselves” —are left without this protec tion as the law now stands. / He described “difficulties of administration” as “not a good enough answer” for failures to include people not now protec ted, and said the proposed changes would involve many problems. • “We will have to adopt dif ferent methods of collecting the Social Security tax in or der to avoid a bookkeeping bur den upon small employers, fa mily-type farmers or others we seek to protect,” he continued. “If we make up our minds that protection against old age is something to which every Am erican is entitled, we shall find a way to reach that objective.”