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IBS Wilmington, Delaware, Thursday, June 29, 1944 32 Page Price Three Cents fin Evening Homo Edition A in LT1 II Ll of ovie Armies MO I insk Miles wee Russian Offensives Continue Dewey to Consult All G. O. P. Chiefs, STATUTE MlllS f- V-. Lal" 1 FINLAND iSSL STATUTE Mil Red Artillery, Planes Blast Reeling Nazis Fall of Mogilev Reopens Direct Rail Line Between Leningrad and Odessa; Capture of Borisov Seen Including Willkie li JiWS CUfnfM -rVAPeiflw Vfi' LITHUANIA Vnl' 4T1t 1 PJTy "fl W1U-.

Bobr Smoensfc XrPRUSSIA 1 I Grodno 'Ir-c rlau XjfliK I RUSSIA Black arrows show Russian drives along the northern section of the front (broken line) with major thrusts converging on Minsk. The Red forces are within 37 miles of the White Russian capital. Further north, Germans were reported moving into Finland in force (white arrow) in response to a Finnish plea for help. V. S.

Abandons Key Hengyang Airfield to Advancing Japs Base, Which Enemy Said Was Planned for Mainland Bombing, Is Blasted by Retiring Air Force as Foe Rings Chinese City Reported Afire CHUNGKING, June 29 (ff). The U. S. Air Force has abandoned its airfield at Hengyang, strategic city surroundecr by Japanese forces, and a communique today said American P-51s dropped thousand pound bombs on the field formerly one of the 14th's principal forward bases For MacArthur Grant Ruter (above). 55, Beloit, farmer, was the lone delegate tuft tn.

ufccuyo ft jvr Kj-rt-. Douglas A. MacArthur for presidential nominee. Vote teas thus 1.056 for Nominee Thomas E. Dewey and one for the general.

Two Delaware Men Wounded; One Missing Another Held Prisoner By Is Nazis; 'White Reilly Hospitalized in Italy Four Delaware soldiers are listed as casualties today, including one missing, two wounded, and one formerly reported missing now a pris- oner of the Germans. They are: Missing. Staff Sergt. George H. Devine, 34, husband of Mrs.

Frances McGrath Devine of 1333 Clayton Street, in the European area. Wounded, Pfc. James C. Reilly, 29, son of Mrs. Hannah Butler, 1508 Clayton Street, in Italy; Private Albert J.

Di Mattia, son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Di Mattia of 300 North Lincoln Street, in Italy. Prisoner, Staff Sergt. George W.

Reed. 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Reed of Philadelphia, formerly of this city, reported missing on April 8.

Tail Gunner Sergeant Devine was reported missing in the European area since June 18 according to a telegram received today by his wife. He was tail gunner on a Liberator bomber, B-24, based in England and had been overseas since April. He had taken part in the D-Day invasion of France and in a letter received by his family had said that "it was an honor and a privilege to take part." Son of Mrs. Harry Devine and the late Mr. Devine of the Clayton Street address, he went into the Army in (See CASUALTIES Page 23) 3 I I 1 8 in China.

The P-51 attack, which took place Monday, was aimed at making the airfield useless to the enemy. It- Bond Drive Hits Serious Lag in State War Finance Committee Predicts Failure Unless Buying Spurts; War Show Counted on as Stimulus Delaware's Fifth War Loan campaign that started off on June 12 with a bang as the "Fighting Fifth" has bogged down to the pace of a turtle, as far as the purchase of bonds by individuals is concerned. So slow has the general public responded in the past few days, the Delaware War Finance Committee gloomily predicts a failure by July unless a sudden spurt of sales comes today and keeps up furiously next week. Tomorrow's realistic war show in the athletic field adjacent to the Pierre S. duPont High School is ex- pected to add considerable stimulus to the drive, since admission is by bond only.

The show will start I promptly at 7 o'clock. Record to Date In the meantime, the Federal Re- serve Bank in Philadelphia this morning lssuea ueiaware rum War Loan record to date: Over-all goal $54,000,000. uer-au saies co aate jmi.ouu.uuu. i Individual sales to dat $7,900,000. bond sales to date $2,800,000.

This indicates, the war finance i committee says, that the individual sales phase of the drive the most important phase is about $11,000, 000 from the goal and the bond i sales the people's bond are very' disappoint ins, "heart breaking," one official said. i Two Reasons Advanced The War Finance Committee in spot check today learned two principal reasons for the lag in bonds. 1. Too many have the belief the war is soon over. 2.

Too many are waiting to be asked by solicitors, instead of going to their banks, postoffice or bond booths and buying bonds. Tomorrow's war show will begin promptly at 7 o'clock. Army officers in charge of the demonstration say. Following the Edge wood Arsenal (See BOND DRIVE FIRST SECOND SECTION) PAGE U. S.

Outshoots Nazis' Artillery By 100 to 1 BOSTON. June 29 iJP). The Germans are taking a 100-to-l projectile pasting from Americans, according to Jacob I. Dever, deputy commander of ordnance forces in the Mediterranean area. In a letter to Maj.

Gen. L. H. Campbell, chief of ordnance, Army Service forces, Gen. Dever said: "It is true that they have guns which shoot projectiles, and that projectiles kill when they hit the right spot.

However, for every projectile they throw over, we throw back one hundred." Dever added that most of the German equipment was obsolete in comparison to American weapons. Eisenhower's Son Pavs Visit to Headquarters SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. June 29 (JP). Gen. Dwight D.

Eisanhower and his son. Second Lieut. John Eisenhower, had their first reunion since before the invasion of North Africa when the youth visited here shortly after his graduation from West Point earlier this month, it was disclosed today. Lieutenant Eisenhower is understood to have returned to an infantry training school in the United States after spending his leave with his father. cessity for them, as the government viewed it.

He stated that referrals would be made where most needed in the war effort, the support of which was the paramount issue, and antici pated little if any change here unless unforeseen developments occur. He said that all allocations of manpower would be made in accordance with-local employment needs. Part-time workers in retail establishments and those required as "peak workers" were not included in the regulations, he said. Mr. Smith also said that local firms would be set up In priorities, and that This arrangement had been made in Washington.

He said that while the regulations would include all employers, those with less than eight employes could be excluded, but that there was little chance of this being done because Chasm Volunteer r- Rev. Dr. Allan A. MacRae Wilmiimtoiiian VIQ HI Cf 11 Jl Vclll7OH Tri 10 I 4I ttev Allan 31aeCrae, On Honeymoon, Starts Descent From Top Rim Ariz june ifTne Colorado River raging at u'Jm iuoifcv UKlOi If.U ai.triiiyw Ul l0 nrw r. amw rescue parties to save three para- chutists encamped on a Grand Canyon plateau but seasoned Rangers, a mountaineer and Army personnel were descending into the gorge today hopeful by the hour of reaching the men.

Ed Laws, veteran ranger, and the Rev. Dr. Allan A. MacRae expert mountaineer and president of the Faith Seminary in Wilmington, left the north rim of the chasm yes- i terday and moved downward through fissures in the rock toward the marooned airmen's shelter. With luck, they expected to reach their goal today.

Dr. MacRae on Honeymoon (Dr. MacRae, also a professor of i the Old Testament, at the Faith! Seminary, is in Arizona on his honeymoon. He married the former Miss Grace Sanderson of Baltimore on May 22 and then left for the West soon after the seminary closed. Their home in Wilmington is at 1205 Delaware Avenue.

Dr. MacRae has studied in America, Berlin, and Jerusalem. His hobby is hiking and mountain climbing. He has scaled the Bavarian, Swiss and Italian Alps and has spent many weeks in th Appalachians and Rockies. His preference has always been for the Grand Canyon country.

Faith Seminary is located at 1303 Delaware Avenue. Wilmington.) Army personnel and two Rangers made up the second party still active today. Dr. H. C.

Bryant, park superintendent, and Col. Donald B. Phil- (See RESCUE Page 6) Bennett Greets Bennett in China Delaware Officers Of Identical Name Hold Talkfest of Home Capt. Thomas A. Bennett of Mil- ford met Col.

Thomas A. Bennett of Wilmington when he landed at an air base in China recently, and a talkfest about Delaware folk continued far into the night. Captain Bennett, "top ace" with General Chennault's Flying Tigers, was unable to return to his own flying base after a flight carried him far over enemy territory. He was advised by radio to land at another base within his flying range. After making a landing at this new base he was preparing to go to quarters for the night when he was accosted by an orderly who inquired if he were Captain Bennett.

Upon an affirmative reply he was told that the colonel wanted him immediately at headquarters. Puzzled, and with some apprehension as to whether he had made some blunder, he walked to headquarters and saluted the commanding officer who sat behind the desk, "Is this Tom Bennett from Delaware?" asked the officer. Captain Bennett replied, "Yes." The officer held out his hand and said. "Shake! So am It developed that the commanding officer was Col. Thomas Alan Bennett of Wilmington.

i i 1 1 i r- 1 1 -i--s L-'-rf -'i -XXk 1 I British Widen Gap in Line, Threaten City From 3 Sides iGernians Throw 2 Entire Armies Into Fierce Fight; Allied Forres Smah 9 Nazi Counter-Attacks In 24 Hours in Normandy By Associated Press SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June 29 xff). The Germans were reported today to have thrown the bulk of their 15th and 17th Armies into the defense of Caen in an attempt to halt the British flanking thrust south of the inland port. But Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's men smashed nine counter-attacks in 24 hours and widened a breach in the enemy lines.

Supreme Headquarters announced British infantry and armor were streaming across the Odon River southwest of Caen in an ever-widening bridgehead. Field dispatches said the German command had sent virtually the entire strength of the two armies into fierce armored fighting raging on three, sides of the city. Break-Through Admitted (The German communique said the British were attacking on a 17-mile front and had achieved a "minor break-in" in the bushy terrain southwest of Caen. One German tank formation destroyed 53 Allied tanks, the communique declared. The Germans' Hitler Youth 12th Tank Division was said to have distinguished itself in the fighting.) A field dispatch from Associated Press Correspondent Rogei Greene said hundreds of British guns laid "down a "murderous barrage" against German armored forces moving up to attack the British right flank and quoted British officers as saving German movement on the roads is being slaughtered by, our planes." The Germans threw 150 tanks into flank attacks yesterday, the dispatch said, and much hand-to-hand fighting occurred in the woods where the British hunted down Germans in camouflaged nests.

While the battle raged at points less than four miles southwest of (See INVASION Page 6) 3rd Quarter 4T' Gas Coupons Valid July 1 WASHINGTON, June 29 iff). gasoline coupons marked "2nd. qtr." (quarter) will be replaced by coupons bearing the designation "3rd Jul? 1 through Sept. 30, the Office of Price Administration announced today. These coupons, used by truckers, taxicabs and ottier commercial operators, become invalid at the end of each quarter, and "leftovers are not usable, OPA explained.

Special rations which do not ex pire until after June 30 may be exchanged at local war price and rationing boards for the new coupons. Honduras Exporting Crude Rubber to U. S. TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras. June 29 (VP).

Honduras hns exported pounds of crude rubber to the United States from August to June of the present year, the Rubber Development Corporation reported today. The rubber came, from several zones in the Central America' republic where wild rubber trees have been exploited under the direction of the corporation. The areas were discovered in a search prompted bv the wartime shortage in the United States. In Today's Paper DELAWARE PARR Entries end Selections, Page Page 6-9 X-3-4-5 24-25 29-30-31 26 IS 23 8 23 23 18 27-28 10-11 18 WAR NEWS CONVENTION NEWS Amusements Answers to Questions Classified Comics Culbertson on Contract Death Notices Editorials Financial Obituary Radio Sports Society Women's Interests Nominee Gives Approval To Platform of Party But Shuns Talk on Any Possible Cabinet Aides Welcomes Support Of All Americans Exprees Satisfaction On Party's Foreign Policy Stand at Firt Conference Tith Members of Press (Text of Dewey Acceptance Speech on Page 2.) By Associated Press CHICAGO, June 29. Gov.

Thomas E. Dewey told what he called the "world's biggest press conference" today that he hopes to confer with all of the nation's Republican leaders, including Wendell L. Wilikie, on presidential campaign plans. Declining to discuss cabinet possibilities if he wins the White House race the smiling G. O.

P. nominee gave speedy indorsement to many planks of the party's platform, including those on foreign policy, the Presi- dent's Fair Employment Practices Committee, foreign trade, and others. Wearing a light grey suit, Dewey appeared fresh and rested at his press conference, despite the physi-; cal strain of shaking thousands of hands at a public reception lasting past midnight last night. Welcomes Support of All Dewey was asked specifically if he welcomes the editorial support of of the Chicago Tribune," which once criticized his views on foreign policy. There was a laugh from the reporters.

Smilingly. Dewey replied: 'T don't know that I have the editorial support of the, Tribune. I shall welcome the support of every good American in the whole United States." The nominee sat a table and puffed a cigarette-in-holder, much after the Franklin D. Roosevelt fashion, while the reporters asked their questions. One query was how he planned (See DEWEY Page 4) Individual Bond Sales Sought Only 39 Per Cent of This Quota Attained; New Mark Set WASHINGTON, June 29 With sales to corporations and other non-banking investors shooting upward, emphasis shifted today to sales to individuals in the Fifth War Loan drive.

Sales Tuesday totaled the highest ever reported for one day in any of the war loan drives. This increased total sales since the campaign opened June 12 to $9,374,000,000,000, 59 per cent of the quota. The current drive ends July 8. Sales to corporations and other non-banking investors now total 71 per cent of the quota for these investors, but sales to individuals have reached only 39 per cent of this quota, with subscribed so far. Ted R.

Gamble, war finance director, said he was pleased with the results so far, particularly Tuesday's record sales, but called for greater emphasis on sales to individuals. Italians Recover Loot Taken hv Fascist Aide ROME. June 29 OP). Italian newspapers said today Italian police found numerous art treasures, paintings, pottery and silver, as well as liquor, valued at millions of lire, in the Rome garage used by the mistress of Roberto Farinacci. former secretary of the Fascist Party in Italy.

Farinacci had p'ored them in the carase. the scid. Ac cording to recent frontier reports in i MOSCOW, June 29 iff). Soviet armies converging on Minsk drove within 37 miles of the White Russian capital today pushing the Germans swiftly back over the same road to Warsaw and Berlin which Napoleon followed in his disastrous retreat from Moscow. Like a huge grasping hand, the Red Army reached for Minsk while artillery and bombers blasted a way for the ground forces.

The hand-like Soviet offensive was formed by units fanning out to the northeast of Minsk like fingers, while strong groups southeast of the city formed the With the freeing of Mogilev the Russians for the first time in nearly three years have a direct rail route between Leningrad and Odessa. Importance Stressed A Russian military commentator. Col. Nikolai Akimov, said the reopening of this rail route "is a factor which should not be under-estimated, for the advantage it affords in transferring forces parallel to the line of the front is one of the major conditions for achieving supremacy in any direction chosen for new blows." The Russians have had four-fifths of the railway in working order since the winter, but nave been to use the section passing thiough Vitebsk, Orsha, Mogilev and Zhlobm Field dispatches said the Germans had retreated from this area so quickly they had had little time to damage the rail line. The three main thrusts at Minsk -zj 11..

were: Down the old Smolensk-War-S saw road; over the Bykhov-Minsk highway across the middle of the Berezina River: nn t.hrons-h the val- i t. r.irv, vn Gomel-Minsk railway and highway, Reds Reach Upper Berezina Rirf armv trnnrn; nn th Smnlotitlr I road reached the upper Berezina north of Borisov, near the actual place where Napoleon, with his staggering remnants, made a crossing at the village of Studenky. Here advance units were 37 miles northeast Minsk and Borisov appeared as good as gone. On the Bykhov-Minsk highway; Rpd army units approached the mid die Berezina area through rolling woodlands. In the valley of the Ptich the Russians northwest of Osipovichi were 55 miles from Minsk.

Two large scale outflanking move-(See RUSSIAN WAR Page 6 Britain Plans Jewish Refuse Colony in Lihya NEW YORK, June 29 (INS). Great Britain has agreed to establish a refuge for Jewish war sufferers in one of the former Italian colonies in Libya, Edward R. Stet-tinius, undersecretary of state, dis- lrte-r4 Alnl' He told a dinner meeting honoring Rep. Sol Bloom D-NY) that he hoped other countries would follow the example of Britain and the' United States, which will set ur5 a haven for Jewish refugees in Oswego, N. and provide similar projects.

"Large numbers of refugees are arrivingi in southern Italy every day from Yugoslavia," he reported, adding that "great efforts have been made to find places of refuge for them." 5 U. S. Fighter Planes Do 400 Miles an Hour NEW YORK, June 29 (INS). The United States has nve fighter planes capable of speeds more than 400 miles an hour, the "Aircraft Year Book," published today disclosed. Great Britain has three 400-mile-an-hour fighters, Germany two and Japan none, the annual reference publication said.

Howard Mingos, editor of th book, said similar American superiorities were apparent in every category of combat aircraft. The American fighters given the high speed rating were the Lockheed Lightning, Republic Thunderbolt, Grumman Hellcat, Vought Corsair and North American Mustang. Australia Has Spent Half-Billion on U. S. CANBERRA, Australia, June 29 iff).

The war cabinet has received a Treasury report that Australian expenditures to United States forces on a reciprocal-aid basis totaled 150,000,000 pounds (roughly equal to $500,000,000) to last April 30. Of this total 90,000.000 pounds were spent in the 10 months start-I ing July. 1943. ford alone account-I ing for 30,000,000 pounds. left one runway destroyed, Joseph W.

Stilwell's headquarters said. The communique added that Hengyang was reported to be in flames. Loss of this Hunan province center would be the greatest military blow to China since 1938. (Hengyang still was in Chinese hands tonight, the Chinese High Command said, although Japanese forces besieging the Hunan Province rail junction had been reinforced. (The communique declared Chinese troops left behind enemy lines east and west of the Canton-Han- (See CHINA Page 6) Allies Liberate 1,100 Square Miles in France SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June 29 (P).

Allied armies haw liberated approximately 1.100 square miles of France, counting to day's British advances, or slightly more than one hall of one per cent of the nation's 212,659 square mile area. The Allies hold approximately 125 miles of French seacoast. The total French seacoast measures about miles. Full Collapse Of Democracy Faced by Finns I Five Cabinet Ministers as ISazis Country Slated to Quit Swarm Over STOCKHOLM, June 29 was faced with the threatened collapse of virtually all semblance of Democratic government today as Nazi troops swarmed through that tragic Baltic country, now plunged into full military collaboration with Germany. At a Parliament meeting today the five cabinet ministers of the dominant Social Democratic party were scheduled to withdraw formally from the government of President Risto Ryti and Premier Edwin Lin-komies, which opened the doors of southern Ffnland to Nazi troops.

Such action would strip the Finnish government of a great segment of popular Support. Associated Press (See FINLAND Page 6) more communities will get a share, limited though it may be, of the beef and lamb available," OPA Administrator Chester Bowles explained. He added that in some localities it may be "days or even weeks" before the supply Improves. The decision to put points back on lamb was made. OPA said, when three out of four of the agency's 94 district offices reported that choice cuts were short of demand.

Because return of popular lamb cuts to the chart is counterbalanced by a smaller supply of beef, housewives will continue to get only 30 points a month for buying meats and fats. The allotment was 60 points a month before all meat except choice beef was made ration-free early in May. All pork, veal and the cheaper cuts of beef and lamb remain point-free, and butter and margarine continue at 12 and two points p. pound, respectively. on cneeses, tne so-caiied per- ishable varieties including Swiss and cream, go from a point-free value to four points a pound.

(New Point Values Page 23) Choice Lamb Cuts and Soft Cheese Back on Ration List Retail Merchants Register Protest to New WMC Rule WASHINGTON, June 29 (ff). Housewives will have to take their ration books to market again in buying choice lamb cuts and soft cheeses, and the butcher will take one to two more points a pound for beef steaks and roasts. The Office of Price Administration, announcing point values for the period from next Sunday through July 29, said today it was necessary to put lamb cuts chops, steaks and roasts back under rationing because national distribution has not been equitable. Values assigned ranged from three points a pound for some chuck roasts to 10 points for loin chops. The supply of beef steaks and roasts will be smaller by 12 per cent in July, OPA explained in hiking the point values to a record high, a porterhouse steak, for example.

will cost 14 points a pound, up two, while a seven-inch-cut standing rib roast goes from eight to 10 points a pound. "By increasing the points on some beef steaks and roasts and establishing point values on preferred lamb cuts, we hope to even out dis tribution so that more people in The Retail Merchants Section of the Chamber of Commerce, at a special meeting this morning, registered its opposition to the establishment of the proposed war manpower regulations that begin Saturday and govern the employment of labor in the Wilmington area. The position of the retailers is that the WMC program is unnecessary and will have an adverse effect upon the present satisfactory situation as affecting employment in retail establishments. It directed that this attitude be transmitted to the proper federal officials. This action follows similar stands taken by the Manufacturers' Construction Industries, Wholesale and Traffic and Transportation' Sections of the chamber.

Acting WMC Director Elmer H. Smith attended the meeting at the Switzerland Farinacci has gone to; request of the section, and explained 1 that group represented a large per-Munich. 1 the proposed provisions, and the ne- centage of the labor market..