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Polish national unity" government
shifting from Moscow to Washing
ton, it was believed that Mr.. True
man may take a direct hand in the
problem.
Much Negotiation Remains.
There appeared to be little hope,
however, that the way could be
cleared for actual formation of the
new government along the broadly
democratic lines agreed upon by
the late President Roosevelt. Prime
Minister Churchill and Premier
Stain in their Crimea Conference
before the San Francisco meeting
opens next Wednesday.
While some progress has been
made in Anglo o-American-R Russian
consultations at Moscow toward Sc
lecting democratic Polish leaders to
60 into the new government, it was
understood that much detailed he.
gotlations remains to be done.
1t was assumed that the Soviet
government was convinced that this
task could not be completed before
the United Nations meet at San
Francisco when it renewed its re-
quest that the provisional group in
Moscow be invited to send repre-
sentatives.
New Note From Moscow.
The latest development was dis
closed in statement issued at the
State Department after a conference
this morning between Secretary of
State Stettinius and other officials
with w. Averell Hartman, Ameri-
can Ambassador IN Moscow, who
arrived in Washington last night
tor consultations preceding Mr..
Molotov's appearance.
Mr.. Stettinius had revealed at a
press conference yesterday that a
new note on the subject had been
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Yanks Near Bologna
After 60-Hour Fiqht;;
British Take Pc Town
Strategic ItoIion City's
Outer Defenses Cracked
In Bitter Struggle
BY the Associated Press.

ROME. April 19.-American
5th Army troops, cracking the
outer defenses of Bologna, drove
to within 8 miles of the impor-
tant Italian industrial city today
after seizing the key heights of
Mount Adone and Mount Rumici
in bitter 60-hour battle.
The advance appeared to have
loosened German defense before the
Pc Valley gateway city and gave
the Americans a downhill road to
Bologna with each mountain gen.
orally smaller than the last, front
dispatch said.
Troops of the 91st Division took
Mount Adone, between Highways
81 and IS, as other forces dug the
Germans out of caves on Mount
Rumici. These actions south of
Bologna yielded nearly 200 enemy
prisoners-a high figure for this
mountainous sector.
Advance Continues.
Continuing its advance another
1900 yards, the 91st Division over
ran Mount Del Frati. American
troops also took the village of
Badolo, just east of Highway 81
within miles of Bologna. For the
first time in six months the Ger
mans have been deprived of heights
which enabled them to pour fire
down on American positions.
To the northeast British 9th Army
troops, knitting through the toughest
defenses on the road to Ferrara,
stormed through the Argenta gap
and captured the Pc Valley town
of Boccaleone.
Chiesa Delbandon, an outpost of
the German Sabbiosola Canal line
was captured in the heavy fighting
as the British forces moved north
westward.
Gaiana River Reached.
Southwest of the Argenta Gap, AL
lied troops fighting through flooded
fields reached the Gaiana River in
many places along an Smile front
north of Highway g. Patrols have
crossed the river and are holding
some strong defensive positions on
the far bank.
There was no report on the prog
ress of Polish troops driving west
ward along Highway 9, but below
that main lateral artery to Bologna
Italian troops pushed across the
Gaiana in two places and drove
through the Apennine foothills
northwest of Castelazzo.
Several forces of heavy bombers
again supported ground troops yes
terday, while medium bombers and
fighters attacked defense positions
behind the German communications
lines
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Mrs. Roosevelt Will Continue
Column; Seeks No Office Now

myself obligated to do and that
want to do. My daily column have
always looked upon as a job which
I wanted to have considered on
its merits. Because I was the wife
of the President. certain restric-
tions were imposed upon me. Now
I am on my own, and I hope to write
as newspaperwoman. I certainly
should have background to bring
to the job, and If I have not de-
veloped powers OF observation and
correct reporting in the past years,
that will soon be discovered.
MY magazine page is also a con-
tract that I wish to fulfill as well
as I possibly can. Outside of these
two occupations I hope I shall be
able to do an occasional article on
subjects which are Of interest to
me and to Others"
Because of the Presidents death,
her column failed to appear for
three days for the first time since
1t began in 1885.
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Chaplain, 4 Stretcher-B Bearers
Brave Fire to Get PyIe's Body

body but not to risk any more lives,
and to wait until dark If necessary.
Four litter bearers volunteered to
make the attempt. They were Corpl.
Robert Toaz of Huntington, N. Y;
Corpl. Paul Shapiro of Passaic, N. j.;
Sergt. Minter Moore of Elkins, w.
Va, and Sergt. Arthur j. Austin of
Tekamah, Nebr.
Because Of enemy fire, they crawled
in a small roadside ditch until they
reached the body.
On the way back the nttermen
crawled on their hands and knees,
holding the litter a few inches of
the ground.
Mr.. Pyle will be buried with simple
military honors here Friday. along
side CT Joes, his friends and COM
rades in life and death.
Chaplain Saucier will officiate at
the ceremony. It will be at II am.
(10 pm. Thursday. April 10. Eastern
war time).
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Sd Army Pressing Toward Asch;
Russians Now 18 Mi. From Berlin
Last Organized
Enemy Resistance
Ceases in Ruhr
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, April l9.-Leipzig has
fallen to lst Army troops
front-line dispatches disclosed
today, and other American have
smashed the last organized re-
sistance in the Ruhr, culminat-
ing perhaps the greatest single
victory of the war.
The Sd Army was driving down
into Czechoslovakia within gunshot
of Asch, after bisecting Germany
geographically. cutting routes into
the Nazis' hideaway in the Bavarian
Alps.
Other Americans fought hand
picked SIS troops through the streets
of the Bavarian Nazi center of
Nuremberg, now virtually sur
rounded.
The British closed within miles
and artillery range OF Hamburg.
greatest port on the continent and
Germany's second city, and within
miles of Harburg, which lies south
of Hamburg on the Elbe Heinrich
Himmler, Gestapo chief and home
army commander, was said by ref
ugeeS 70 have visited besieged
Bremen Tuesday in an effort to stiff
fen the swaying defenses OF the
North German ports. The British
fought in the suburbs of Bremen.
Ruhr Resistance Ceases.
@All organized resistance in the
Ruhr pocket has ceased and Allied
forces have virtually completed
mopping up the last enemy strag-
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Rhine Victory Cost
47,023 Casualties,
Stimson Reveals
March Toll Placed at
6,214 Killed, 81, ,443
Wounded, 1886 Missing
b. the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
The battle for the Rhine and
crossing the river in March cost
American Army ground forces
47,023 casualties, Secretary of
War Stimson reported today
While this total was larger than
in February. when there were 34.46S
losses, Mr.. Stimson pointed out that
it was smaller than for any other
month since October.
The March casualty figure in
cluded 6,214 killed, 35,443 wounded
and 1886 missing.
473,215 Since d Day.
Since D day last June, Mr.. Stim-
son disclosed, American ground
casualties on the western front
totaled 473,215 up to the end of
March. Included were 1875 killed,
334,919 wounded and 58,501 missing.
At the same time, Mr.. Stimsop dis
closed that Army casualties in all
theaters have reached 813.870 on the
basis OF names compiled in Wash
ington through April 7. Added to
the Navy's losses of 93,608, this puts
aggregate casualties since Pearl
Harbor at 912,478, an increase of
1908 since last weeks report.
| Mr.. Stimson said that, while cur
rent casualties on the western front
are not yet available, they are mot
high"
Breakdown on Casualties.
I A breakdown on Army casualties
in all theaters and corresponding
figures for the preceding week fol-
| lows:
Killed, 162,5o5 and 159, ,267; wound
ed, 496, 1903 and 489 9,256; missing, 49,
926 and 86,648; prisoners, 70,636 and
67,514. Of the wounded, 261 ,596
have returned to duty.
Similar figures on Navy losses:
Killed, 38035 and 1902; wound
ed, 45,725 and 44,444: missing, 1O,589
and AO,605; prisoners, 4,259 and 1854
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u. 5. Stands :! PAT,
RejectsNewRed
Note ON Poles
Demand for Place
At PorIey Renewed;
MoIotov Due Soon
BY GARNETT P. HORNER.

K. The State Department today
made clear that the United
States is rejecting a renewed
Soviet request that the Polish
provisional government func-
tioning in Warsaw be represented
at the United Nations Security
Conference opening in San Fran
cisco next week.
The department disclosed that a
note received from Moscow yester-
day reiterated the demand for an
invitation for the Communist-dom-
mated Warsaw government. This
demand first was rejected by the
United States and Great Britain
more than two weeks ago.
The American position still is that
only a new national unity" Polish
provisional government formed in
accordance with the Crimea agree.
ment could represent Poland in the
San Francisco Conference, the State
Department said.
Molotov May Get Reply Here.
It was uncertain whether this
Governments position was being
communicated to Moscow again in
an immediate reply to the latest
Russian note, or whether it would
be delivered personally to Soviet
Foreign Commissar Molotov when
he arrives here tomorrow or Sat-
urday.
Mr.. Molotov, who will visit Pres
ident Truman en- route to the San
Francisco Conference, is expected
to discuss the Polish and other dele
gate issues with Secretary Of State
Stettinius and British Foreign Sec
retary Anthony Eden in week end
meeting of the Big Three's foreign
ministers.
With the scene of stalemated ef.
forts to settle Big Three difficulties
over creation of the projected new
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Roosevelt Desk
Will Be Taken
TO Hyde Park i

The desk at which President
Roosevelt worked during his IL
years in the White House has been
given to Mrs. Roosevelt by President
Truman and will be removed to the
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at
Hyde Park, where so many me-
mentos Of the Roosevelt admins.
tration have been placed.
The desk previously had been used
for time by President Hoover.
In its place, big dark mahog.
any double desk at which six other
Presidents worked has been moved
into President Truman's ONCE.
The accumulation of keepsakes
which Mr.. Roosevelt kept on the
top Of his desk also have been
turned over to Mrs. Roosevelt.
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BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, April 10. - Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt said today in her
newspaper column she would not
accept or run for public Office or
any Office at the present time.
She added, however, that she
planned to continue her column,
MY Day" and her magazine page
in the Ladies' Home Journal as we'll
as writing IAN occasional article"
George A. Carlin, general man.
ager of United Features Syndicate,
said Mrs. Roosevelt's contract to
write MY Day" had been renewed
last March 10 for five years.
Mrs. Roosevelt is a great lady
and a great person in her own
right" he declared. "Her column
will be accepted on its own merits.
From now on she can speak more
freely on ell matters"
In her column today, Mrs. Roose-
welt said:
II have two jobs that ! consider
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(Other Pyle Story on Page A-4.)
By GRANT MACDONALD,


IE SHIMA, April 18 Delayed -
An Army chaplain and four of the
heroic stretcher-bearers so often
praised by Ernie Pyle crawled 1875
yards across open ground and under
enemy fire today to bring back the
dead war correspondent body.
Corpl. Alexander Roberts of New
York City, a former New York Daily
News camerman who went with the
group to make pictures, related the
story.
Three tanks went forward to get
Mr.. Pyle's body, Corpl. Roberts said,
but because Of intense machinegun
fire which kept tankmen inside, they
were forced to stop LIS yards from
where Mr.. Pyle lay.
Chaplain N. B. Saucier OF Coffey-
vile, Miss, had orders to get the
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glers,' supreme Allied headquarters
announced.
This meant that the great cities
of Dusseldorf (539,O0O), Solingen
Q38,58D. Remscheid 003,43O and
Barmen 165,10O) were in 1st and
9th Army hands along with the
great Ruhr factories which produced
rs per cent of Hitlers war materiel
as late as 1912.
Gen. Omar N. Bradley said 316,-
$50 Germans were taken from the
Ruhr pocket and that more remained
to be counted. This compared with
100000 Germans captured and killed
at Stalingrad. the greatest previous
German disaster. The Allies have
not yet estimated the number of
Germans killed and wounded in the
Ruhr. The pocket was wiped out
Wednesday. Gen. Bradley said.
10000 Prisoners Captured.
The last strongholds in Leipzig,
including its City Hall, were cracked
this morning and infantrymen were
ASAiStAlA6 ool tllO idot olliPClo. 14oi
than 10000 prisoners and thou
sand 88-mm. guns have been cap
tured in or near the city.
The final German stands were
made near a statue of Napoleon in
the southeast part of the city; at
the railroad station and in the City
Hall. The final hours of battle were
Illuminated by a violent electrical
storm, blending like Wagnerian
scene with the flashes of gunfire.
Leipzig and it's ruins swarmed
with war-swollen population of
100000 Germans. 1t fell at 7
o'clock last night. 1t was the fifth
city of Germany. Dusseldorf was
the 10th largest.
Infantry of the fighting 69th and
the Indian Head (2d Divisions met
In the center of Leipzig and then
wheeled guns up to blast the City
Hall where the Nazi commander had
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Big Three Preparing
Warning 10 Germans
On Prison Atrocities
MoIotov, Stettinius, Eder
To Droft Note Here,
Churchill Reveals
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press. .-
LONDON, April 19.-Prime
Minister Churchill announced
today that solemn warning"
to the Germans against prison
camp atrocities was being pre-
pared to be issued over the sig
natures of himself, Premier Sta
lin and President Truman.
The foreign secretaries in Wash
ington-Vyacheslav Molotov for
Russia. Secretary Stettinius for the
United States and Anthony Eden for
Britain-are preparing the warning
to bring home responsibility, not
only to the men at the top who are
already on other grounds war GRIM
inals in many cases. but also to the
actual people who have done this
| foul work with their own hands, u
Mr.. Churchill told Commons.
Sidestepping attempts to draw
from him hint as to when a proc
llamation on We day will come-he
declared it would be made jointly
with the Russians-the Prime Min
lister made clear that the matter CT
atrocities is now taking top priority
in Big Three discussions.
New Atrocity Discoveries.
The whole matter had become
"one of urgency" he said. and the
solemn warning will be issued by the
~
He disclosed he had received only
this morning a letter from Gen
Eisenhower saying new discoveries
particularly at Weimar, far sur
passed anything previously dis
closed" The Buchenwald camp was
at Weimar.
A parliamentary delegation will
leave tomorrow, on invitation OF
Gen. Eisenhower, to get first-hand
proof of the atrocities disclosed in
captured camps. he announced.
The Prime Minister said mo words
can express the horror which is felt
by his majesty's government and
their Allies at the proof of these
frightful crimes now daily coming
| into view"
Deprecates Speculation.
| Mr.. Churchill told Commons he
had nothing to say on We day at tbs
present time except that 1 depre-
cate premature speculation upon this
subject"
The House cheered and then Mr.
Churchill added, "the matter is not
one we can settle by ourselves"
He said the whole matter of We
day, taking in both military and
political considerations, would have
to be discussed by the three OF
four principal powers engaged, be-
fore the final defeat of Germany
was proclaimed.
One member asked whether Gen
Eisenhower statement that We
day would not be proclaimed until
all important centers had been liqui.
dated meant that Norway, Denmark
and the Channel Island and At
lantic ports would have to be lib
Grated first.
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Py the Associated Press.
TWELFTH ARMY GROUP
HEADQUARTERS, April 10
Gen. Omar N. Bradley said today
his 1st, Sd and 9th Armies had
finished one phase of the thrust
into the heart of the Reich and
sit is necessary to pause tempo
rarily before we 60 into the
next"
Let the Germans guess as to
what the next is going to be-" the
commander said.
Gen. Bradley said that in his
opinion 1--WE will not be through un-
til we have occupied all of Ger
many"
The general added:
VIRTUALLY every German soldier
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Bradley Says Pause Is Needed
Before Next Phase of War
One Port Completed, Let Nozis Guess
What Is Coming, General Says

that faced us back on the Siegfried
Line on February % when Ameri-
cans crossed the Roer River now is
either killed, wounded or prisoner
Of war.
Il think the area occupied at the
present time by the Allies in the
west is some 36 per cent of the
greater German Reich-that includes
Austria-so that we are an occupa-
ton army on a considerable scale
already"
Asked how far he thought Allied
armies would have 10 go, Gen. Brad
ley said:
I'm my opinion when he fthe
enemy did not quit last fall. after
we had proved to him that he was
licked, it was clear that We would
tSee BRADLEY, Page A-3)
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Bibo Would Name
Memorial Stadium
For Roosevelt

A proposal that the national
memorial stadium being planned
as a postwar project for Wash
ington be named in honor of
Franklin D. Roosevelt is being
advanced by Senator Bilbo,
Democrat, of Mississippi.
The chairman of the commits
sion created by Congress to con-
slider plans for the project, as a
memorial to the veterans of the
two world wars, said he would
submit the suggestion to COM
mission members at their next
meeting.
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1See OKINAWA, Page A-3.5
Tokyo Reports Attack
On Nearby AirfieIds
an the Associated Press.

LONDON, April 19.-The Tokyo
radio announced today that air
dromes in the Tokyo and Kento
areas had been strongly attacked by
American bombers and fighters this
morning.
The Domei News Agency said
about so fighters, probably Mustangs
from Two Jima, and Super For
tresses raided airfields around Tokyo
for 80 minutes.
The dispatch claimed a "consid-
cradle number" were shot down.
There was no American confirma-
ton Of the report.
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Month S Casualties
In 0kinawa Campaign
Are Placed at 1888
l,482 Killed and 4,750
Wounded; Navy Losses
Exceed Other Services
By the Associated Press.

GUAM, April 19.-American
Army, Navy and Marine casual
ties of 1888 in the Okinawa cam
paign were reported by Admiral
Chester w. Nimitz today, as Ma
rines overran the northern end
of that strategic island and
Doughboys virtually ended the
conquest of little Ie Islet off,
shore.
The casualty toll, as of yesterday,
was 1,482 dead, ALSO wounded and
1,756 missing. This dated back to
March 18 when Vice Admiral Marc
A. Mitscher's carrier planes first
began sweeping the Ryukyus and ia
pan itself to soften the way for the
Easter morning invasion of Oki-
naWa.
Japanese dead in the ground fight
ing on Okinawa alone were 9,108
killed and 39l taken prisoner, count
ed up to midnight last Friday Con-
siderable heavy fighting has been
in progress since then.
Navy Casualties Highest.
Naval casualties of 4,70O for this
action exceeded those of the Army
and the Marines for the first time in
the Pacific war. The 1.400-ship in
vasion armada for days was under
heavy Japanese air attack, including
crash dives by kamikaze tsuicide)
pilots. Four American destroyers
were acknowledged sunk and other
fleet units were damaged.
The Tokyo radio made the wholly
unsubstantiated claim today that
1893 enemy" warships had been
sunk or damaged by kamikaze fly
ers since March %. The Japanese
reported sinking or damaging 81
aircraft carriers, 10 battleships, 16
battleships or cruisers. S. cruisers
and scores of other war vessels
The Navy total was 989 officers
and enlisted men killed, 2,20C
wounded and 1,49l missing. Sol
diers and Marines of the new 10th
Army suffered 495 dead, 1880
wounded and 265 missing.
The figures of naval missing may
be reduced, for many men likely
have been rescued by other ships.
Casualties Surprisingly Heavy.
Admiral Nimitz's casualty figures
surprisingly heavy in view OF the
lightness of the initial opposition
compared with Marine casualties
of 1888 on Two Jima, the bloodiest
conquest of the Pacific war. Seizure
of Saipan in the Marianas cost
16,525 American casualties.
Tenth Army figures included those
for the invasion of eight Kerama
Islands off the southern tip of Oki-
nawa, Okinawa itself and Ie Island,
1000 yards off the west-central
coast.
On lie, IS Americans have been
killed and 70 wounded in the three
days of the invasion.
The Yanks had a firm grasp on
the 10-square-mile islet and were
eradicating Japanese from dug-in
positions and pillboxes. In three
days 388 japanese were killed on Ie
Tired and dirty-faced Doughboys
on Southern Okinawa still were try
ing to crack the tough Little Sieg-
fried Line" miles north of the
capital city of Naha, amid a bitter
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Complete Nozi Files
OF Allied Prisoners
Of War Captured
6y the Associated Press

SUPREME ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, PARIS, April 10.
-Germany's complete roster of
prisoners of war, including an
itemiZation of all captives from
every Allied country taken by
the Germans since the outbreak
Of the war, has been seized by
American troops of the same
Sd Army Corps which captured
the German gold reserve.
The captured records contain
the latest whereabouts of
Allied prisoners of war, their
dates of capture and other data.
They list the prisoners who
have died since their capture
and those wounded when
taken.
The complete staff of 10
German officers and 40 en-
listed men engaged in keeping
the prisoners cards up to date
also was seized.
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St0ssen Names Two
Wounded Soldiers
As Porjey Aides

A Marine lieutenant and an
Army sergeant. both wounded
in this war. will help represent
Americas fighting men at the
United Nations Security Con-
ference as aides to Comdr. Har-
old E. Stassen. one of the
American delegates.
Comdr. Stassen. former Re-
publican Governor of Mime
sofa, said today he has appoint
ed 1t. Cord Meyer, jr.. New York
machine gun officer who lost an
eye on Guam. and Sergt. John
Thomson, Minneapolis, who was
wounded near Aachen, as his
aides.
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Croot Regime Formed

LONDON, April 10 R.-The
Moscow radio said today a new
Croat government headed by Rade-
visko Jerkstulovic and a new Mace
donian peoples government under
Lazar Kulishevski, had been formed
and would enter the Yugoslav fed
Grafton. The broadcast quoted dis
patches from Belgrade.
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Giants Beot Braves, 4-3,
In Patriots Day Opener
By the Associated Press

BY INt ASSOC1dCeu PTeSS.
BOSTON, April 19.-New York S
Giants scored four times after two
we're out in the eighth inning today
to defeat the Boston Braves, 4 to 8,
in the morning game of a Patriots
day doubleheader. Johnny Rucker
hit a homer in the big frame.
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LONDON. April 10 (P).-Sir Hubert
Bond, "a, eminent brain specialist
and authority on mental diseases,
died yesterday at st. Anne's-on-Sea,
Lancashire.
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SeDen additional men from
the District area haze been re-
ported killed in this Ddr. See
"On the Honor RoIl," Page Az.
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(see WESTERN FRONT, Page A-a)
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N Associoted Press Newspaper
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Sir Hubert Bond Dies

(See SECURITY, Page A-6)
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Temperatures today-High. SO, at 1:30
pm; low, AZ, at $40 am. Yesterday
High, II, at 4:45 pm; low, 50, at 645
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VIRTUALLY every German soldier
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-07

Mrs. B. J. Turner has returned
to her home after being guest OF
Mrs. J. G. Carroll at her home
on Market street. She was here
to attend the w. H. S. class ban
uuet.