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has not been foreseen and arranged before hand by the European ad- visory commission" he said.
 Defends Decision
 Churchill defended the Big Three's decision to meet without France.
 "All three great powers felt that while they were responsible for bearing to an overwhelming degree the main brunt and burden of the conduct of the war and pol icy intimately connected with oper- ations, they could not allow any restriction to be placed upon their rights to meet together as they deemed necessary in order effective ly to discharge their duties to the common cause"
 At the same time, however, he said Britain wished to see a strong France and strong French army.
 Churchill said George Bidault, French foreign minister, had re- ceived full information on the re- suits of the Crimean conference and had expressed French views. He contended that any new world order should take into account the special responsibility of the great powers and should be so organized as not to compromise their unity or capacity for effective action at short notice.
 "A world organization cannot be based on dictatorship of the great powers, however" he said. Tt is their duty to preserve the world not to rule it."
 Churchill said the declarations and war by small middle-eaSter ano South American countries since the Crimean conference should be treated with respect and satisfac- tion."
 He did not refer to the warning dispatched to these countries by the Big Three that none could eX- pect a seat at the peace table un- less it had declared war on Ger many and Japan.
 The San Francisco conference will assemble all nations which | IldtC OCCldA Cd wal d6dAAAoO NICl many or Japan, he said.
 Churchill did not define the se- curity voting procedure adopted at Yalta. but said he hoped 1t provid- ed a system both fair and accept able in the light of foreseeable diff nculties.
 Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Deputy Prime Minister Clement Attlee will represent Britain at the San Francisco conference, he re- vealed.
 Better Unity
 "The Crimea conference finds the Allies more closely united than ever before, both in military and political spheres" Churchill said. Let Ger many recognize 1t is futile hope fol a division among the Allies and nothing can avert her utter defeat
 Further resistance will only be the cause of endless suffering. The Allies are resolved that Germany shall be totally disarmed, Nazisn and militarism in Germany de. stroyed and war criminals justly and swiftly punished. Il German industry capable of mil itary production shall be eliminated or controlled and Germany shal make compensation in kind tc thu utmost of her ability for the damage
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'OOIitAAAeASA AOlll obC II southeastern defense triangle based on Guben, on the NeisSe four miles northeast of Gross Gastrose; ForSt, also on the NeisSe 13 miles south of Guben, and Cottbus, 13 miles west of Forst.
 Consolidation of the bridgehead would give the Soviets a spring. board for the encirclement of Guben or an advance northwest toward Berlin in conjunction with frontal push across the Oder river
 Radio Berlin also reported that the Soviets had opened a new at tack in the Slovakian mountains toward Svolen, 125 miles east of Vienna. One column advanced 10 miles to Slatina. seven miles east of Swollen, Berlin said.
 Moscow remained silent on both the Neisse river and Slovakian at- tacks, but Czecnoslovak leaders in London and Moscow broadcast ap- peals to the underground in theil homeland to rise against the Ger mans at once.
 The Red army is at the gates of Bohemia -Moravia." the leaders said. The time has come to fight openly for towns and villages. Strike at the enemy, disobey the enemy's mobilization and evacuation orders intensity sabotage, and increase strikes"
 A Soviet communique announced that Marshal Ivan s. Konev's First Ukrainian army, far behind the Neisse river front, had captured the trolley depot in encircled Breslau, capital of German Silesia.
 Heavily-fortifled Hind bur 2 Square, along with IS more blocks in Southern Breslau, also was cap- tured. More than 1000 Germans were killed in street fighting and 300 others taken prisoner.
 Stiff fighting also continued north. west and southwest of Koenigsberg capital of East Prussia. The Ger mans were trying desperately and at high cost to widen their escape corridor from Koenigsberg to the Baltic port of Pillau, 25 miles west of the capital.
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stand and die in the Roer-Rhine corridor.
 More than $500 Germans surren- dered on the entire western front in then past A hours, most of them to the First and Ninth armies, swell ing the prisoner bag to about Il 900 in AS hours.
 Ninth Advances
 Vanguards of the Ninth Army on the northern flank of the offensive line swept forward six miles in a few hours this morning, on top of a five-mile gain in the preceding "A hours.
 Armored and Infantry units pac- ing the drive fought their way to within five miles of Muenchen- Gladbach, westernmost factory city in Germany's industrial Ruhr valley.
 Their big guns already were pounding the city in the first land bombardment of the Ruhr since the war began, and the beWildered Ger mans appeared to have little or nothing in the area to stem the American advance.
 At the center of the assault front, giant -millimeter Long Toms of the First Army poured shells into the ruins of Cologne, Germany's fourth city, and fast-rolilng tank columns were probing the Erft line in preparation for a thrust across to the Rhine.
 The Germans were known to have strong defensive positions along the east bank of the Erft, but it was becoming increasingly questionable whether they could pull back enough of their demoralized units from the rivers west bank to make a major stand there.
 Field dispatches quoted American staff officers as saying that the entire German defensive system had broken down and that the front was disintegrating into confused mass of milling men and armor Many German units were completely out of touch with their command posts and unable to offer coherent resistance.
 American troops captured one town on the Cologne plain yester- day, seizing an entire battalion and three commanding officers. Long after the town was in their hands,
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  an hour more of amusement than the rest of the nation.
 The curfew, most drastic home front directive since the ban on hores racing last month, slipped in- to war time living quietly. There were no demonstrations and police and War ManpoWer Commission agents reported no deliberate viola tions.
 Police in New York patrolled the nightclub and amusement sections under orders to arrest no one. They were told to merely warn violators after taking down their names ana the names of patrons !n the pres ence of two police witnesses.
 Philadelphia police took no part in checking compliance with the curfew. However. WING agents were reported making the rounds of the Quaker City's night clubs and tap rooms.
 Chicago crowds dispersed quickly after midnight and the streets were soon deserted. By a. m. Randolph street, Chicago's Broadway, wa! empty except for cops on their beats and an occasional cab.
 The darkened taprooms and clut entrances added to the brownou gave most cities a dismal atmos- phere. The only lights, except fol street lights, came from the win dows of all-night eateries, exempted under Byrnes' order
 One downtown Washington res taurant called police when a patror refused to leave in time for tho midnight closing.
 | The curfeW, aimed at saving fuel transportation and manpoWer, wil probably remain effective for al least the duration of the war 1T Europe.
 The Hotel and Restaurant division of the United States Employmen Service in New York reported thar there was little hope that the ordel would release men for work in tht manpoWer-short small cafes anC restaurants.
 Only four men who registered a USES offices in New York yesterday were two walters and two bartend CTS. All refused war jobs because they wanted to seek work in thei own trades for $70 and $80 a week One private employment agenc. said any nlghtclub personnel re | leased under the curfew would prob ably not be willing to work in smal restaurants because wages and tip would be far under the totals the! had been getting.
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Cod and Hoddock Prices Drop Cent

Washington, Feb. 27. CUP)--The retail price of fresh and frozen fish of the North Atlantic species-such as cod, haddock, founder, and whit ing-will drop about one cent per pound as the result of a change in pricing regulations, the office of price administration announced to- day.
 Fish covered by the new price ceilings are landed promarily in Boston, New Bedford, and other New England ports. Minor landings are made in New York city and New Jersey ports.
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(Continued from Page D power from $3,oOO, 900, 900 to $5,o0O,- 100000.
 Olmstead said American agricul- ture is due for an economic jolt be- cause:
 1. It has been shown that the European market, counted on to support American farm production for a couple of years after the war. will not exist.
 2. Even the demand for free food (among liberated countries) will be nothing like what has been forecast year or two ago."
 3. Domestic demand will decline because of the release of labor from war plants.
 4. A vast surplus of foodstuffs is in army warehouses.
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said, but he gave no hint of when either might be expected.
 Churchill defended the Curzon line fixed by the Crimean conference for the Polish Russian boundary as "just and right" He denied that force of fear played a part in American and British concurrence in the Soviet proposal for the boundary.
 He broke his speech at 1:15 p. m. (8:15 a. m. EWT) for lunch and was scheduled to resume an hour later.
 Calling for strong vote of con- fidence in his governments com- mitments at the Crimean conference, Churchill also said:
 Hollands future is in it's own hands with the single limitation that they the Poles) must honestly follow in harmony with their Allies a policy friendly to Russia"
 2.-Britain will continue to recog- nize the Polish exile government in London until Britain considers the new provisional government provided for in the Crimean declaration has been formed properly.
 Total Disarmament
 3-The Allies intend to take steps against Germany far more drastic and effective than those which fol- lowed the last war, including total c.saG destruction of Naziism and militarism, swift punishment oi war criminals, and elimination or control of industry capable Of mili- tary production.
 4.-The world security organiza- . ton envisioned by the big three will net shrink from the use of armies navies and air forces again an "evii doer or an evil planner."
 5.-The war in Europe has been prolonged a good many months beyond what had been hoped for last fall, but American victories in the Pacific have advanced the peak per iod of the far eastern war.
 6.-Simultaneous prosecution oi the war in Europe and in the Fal East has confronted the Allies with a greater shipping shortage thar ever before.
 7.-Churchill and President Roose- welt flew to the Crimea after 9 three-day conference at Malta al which they approved joint plans fol the great operations now develop ing on the western front and fol the campaigns against Japan.
 An overwhelming vote of confi- dence in the government will strengthen Britain's position among her Allies, Churchill told the packed house at the opening of debate or the "big three" conference.
 He conceded that the peak periot of the war in Europe had been pro longed a good many months" be. yond what had been hoped last fal when the Allies were racing across France.
 However, the peak period of tn war against Japan has been ad vanced by American victories in thu Pacific, he said.
 He reported that British an' I American missions conferred fo three days on the prosecution of tn European and Far Eastern wars a Malta en route to Yalta for tn Crimean Conference.
 IF we were confronted tomor row with the collapse of the Ger man forces, there lS nothing tha
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still were off Tokyo, awaiting bet ter weather before resuming their assault.
 Admiral Chester w. Nimitz. com- mander of the Pacific Fleet, an- nounced in a communique early to- day that TAI more Japanese bodies mad been counted on Two, bringing he number of known enemy dead 70 3,568 for the first eight days of battle.
 However, as many more enemy dead probably still remain behind enemy lines, United Press War Cor respondent Mac R. Johnson, aboaro the invasion flagship off Two, said 10000 Japanese were believed dead or seriously wounded.
 Major General Graves B. ErSkine's s Third Division advanced 400 yards four times the length of football tield-at the center of the line in bloody fighting yesterday. By dusk, the Marines had seized high ground of the 342-foot- central plateau and most of the central alrf1eld Motoyama No. 2.
 The Fourth Marine Division on the eastern flank and the Fifth on the west also scored new gains. The Fourth captured hill 382 near the east coast, dominating a major DOT tion of the remaining enemy-held territory to the north.
 The Third Division was only a little more than a mile and hali from the north coast and was threat ening to split the enemy defenses.
 An advance of another half mile to the north would cut both re- maining lateral roads between the east and west coasts, though bott Hanks still could communicate ovel mountain trails.
 Enemy resistance was mounting al the Marines steadily compressed the territory remaining in Japanese hands. The Japanese stepped uf their artillery and rocket fire and .Nimitz reported a very heavy vol ume" of small arms fire. Some of the Japanese were fighting from con- crete pillboxes with walls four fee thick.
 The bitterness of the fighting wa: shown in part by the fact that only nine Japanese prisoners have beer taken.
 South of the airfield, mopping III operations continued around Mt Suribachi.
 Little enemy fire fell on the in terior of the American beachheat and supplies and equipment flowed ashore in increasing quantities a :. road and beach conditions improved
 Carrier planes strafed targets 1T and around Chichi in the Bonin Is land just north of Two. A smal merchant vessel was sunk, tW medium merchant ships were se {. afire, one plane on the ground Wa burned and oil storage facilities were 1. destroyed.
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Continued from Page D B. Horan, Inc, was hired by the city to make the survey at an estimated cost of $70,O00
 To date total of $26,248 has been paid to the Horan firm for services rendered plus costs. The city, in it's contract. agreed to meet all costs of the survey in addition to payment for services.
 In MT. Walsh's report it was noted that the city's system was an "out- moded one" yet was being generally used throughout the state. If the oill should be passed 1t would mean that the city will be one of the first in the state to adopt such modern methods. Efforts of the present board of tax commissioners in con- ducting their duties under the old system received praise from the state tax commissioner.
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(Continued from Page D and that they would ha able O pick up an additional four votes. ce enough to get through a comprom. ise measure. It has been proposed that the governors powers be re- newed, but that the legislature hold a veto power to countermand any executive war order within ten days. This, and several other suggestions for breaking the deadlock and 'sav- ing face" for both parties, has been rejected
 The Legislature entered it's ninth full week today without acting any major measures, and but few minor. matters. Committees, meanwhile, continued their public hearings and were prepared soon to issue a flood of reports to both chambers.
 RIJY WAR RONDR AND STAMPS
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LETTER FROM EVELYN NESBIT
 THAW

THAW
 The writer of the letter below was the Belle of New York when she was a show girl almost 4 dec ades ago. Evelyn Nesbit was one of the most beautiful girls in the world. Her husband, Harry Ken z da1I Thaw, a multi-millionaire, shot and killed Stanford White, famed architect, at Madison Square Garden, when 1t was To- cated at Madison Square 24th Street., Manhattan. Thaw was saved from the electric chair when i. he was adjudged insane at the time of the killing. This is the ! first time, we believe, she has ever written to a newspaperman about { any part of it.
 Dear Walter Winchell: You have always been one of the newspaper men who have dealt justly with me and that is why am writing you l. this letter.
 Yesterday another Thaw case ar- ticle appeared in a N. Y. paper anc the terrible untruths it contains re- garding me and my dead mother arc so monstrous that I am just about frantic.
 "One man wrote a book about Stanford White in which he tries his best to blame John Barrymore for Whites offense against me. Anc in yesterdays story 1t is strongly l-s. .I Ta n cr1at1I t1oiuI1f hf the guilty party.
 "The truth is I met Barrymore long after knew White and, a! Jack always told people, I was tho only girl who refused to marry him.
 The yachting party aboard Gar lands steam yacht was a Sunday trip to West Point and there were other guests. I did not like MT Garland and only saw him a few times.
 The affair with White did mol begin in the Madison Sq, Garder Tower. It happened in one of hi' secret hide-outs on w. 24th St. where he had superbly decorated two floors over the rear ol Schwartz's toy shop. That was the locale of his famous red velve swing and the room of mirrors.
 "On my death bed-in my las moment on earth I could not tel you any different, for this is tht truth.
 Every reporter who covered tho Thaw trials-men like Irwin $ Cobb, Frank O'Malley, Charlie Sum-
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State Forest Industries. Inc, state-owned organization of Swe- den, reports $1.245,O00 gross profit for It's second year of operations.
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town after town and holding the confused German garrisons until the Infantry arrived to clear them out.
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BUx WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-10-21
Fifth, Orange US0
To Honor Navy Day
With Special Parties

The Fifth and Orange USO club
announces the following activities
at the club this week including
special salute to the Navy as fol-
lows.
Sundays ANIL pm. Coffee
and doughnuts: 1920 am. to 6
pm. Horseback riding. Transport
tation provided; % pm. Clas-
steal Music Interlude; $50 pm.
Buffet supper-served by Navy
Mothers: 7:3O pm. Quizz Contest
DO You Know All The Answers?
Monday 2:30 pm. Brownie
Girl Scout Craft Class; 8 pm.
DRuthers Night.
Tuesday-8 pm. Record Dane
ing; pm. Craft Shop Open; 8
pm. Bridge Glasses. Beginners
and Advanced pupils.
Wednesday-9-10:3O am. Break
fast Hour; 2:30 pm. Leather and
Shellcraft Class.
Thursday-8:3o pm. Craft Shop
Open.
Friday, October 26-Navy Day
Eve Celebration.
Saturday, October n - Navy
Day Celebration.
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nected with the firm of A. Pom
erantz and Company in Phila-
delphia.
Out-of-town guests here for the
wedding were Miss Gertrude We'll,
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman We'll, Miss
Elizabeth We'll, Mrs. Leslie We'll
and Mrs. Sidney Reitman all OF
Goldsboro; Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
Falk, Mrs. Julius W. Cone, Mrs.
Edward Loewenstein all of Greens.
boro; Mrs. Sydney Greenberg, Jr.,
Mr.. and Mrs. Sydney Greenberg,
Miss Barbara Greenberg, Mrs. A.
Pomerantz, Mr.. and Mrs. Austin
Pomerantz, Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Pomerantz, Richard Pomerantz,
Jr., all of Philadelphia; Mr.. and
Mrs. James Edgar, Tony Edgar
of New York city; Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Bear, Mrs. Richard Saper-
stein and Arthur Bluethenthal all
Of Richmond, Va, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Herbert Bluethenthal, Jr., of
Lock Haven, Pa.
Among those who entertained
honoring the bride prior to her
marriage were: Mrs. Alfred Stern
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-10-21
Miss Mary Davis
Honored AT Tea,
Shower Party

Miss Mae Clarke and Ms.
pchard Cantwell, Jr., were host
seses Saturday afternoon at the
horne of Miss Clarke at lovely
4oa and kitchen shower honoring
Miss Mary Davis, popular BRIDE
elect of November.
Guests were received at five
o'clock by the hostesses and bride
elect. and during the afternoon
dainty refreshments were served.
Mrs Holmes Davis presided at
be tea table, which was conferred
with an arrangement of white
dahlias and silver candlesticks
holding white tapers.
Guests included Miss Davis,
bonoree. Miss Betty Blue Davis
Mrs. Ralph Nesbitt, Miss Eliza.
beth Bridgers, Miss May Taylor
Miss Jocelyn Peck, Miss Nudge
Strange, Miss Louise Hooper, Miss
Julia Sprunt, Miss Alice Sprunt.
Miss Anne Burr, Miss Louise
Wells, Miss Mary Corbett, Miss
Mary Crittenden, Mrs. Harold
Alexius, Mrs. Hampton Tillery,
Mrs. Robert Cantwell, 3rd., Mrs
lack Balch, Mrs. j. Holmes Davis.
Jr.. Mrs. George Trask, Mrs. i.
Holmes Davis, ST., Mrs. Burke
Briogers, Miss Mary Lucas Can't
well, Mrs. Champ Clarke, and
Mrs. Raymond Holland.
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Joan Bluethenthal Becomes Bride
Of Lester Pomerantz Of Philadelphia

The marriage of Miss Joan Blue
thenthal, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Herbert Bluethenthal, 1904 Market
street, this city, to Lester Pome-
kaniz, of Phil a d elphia, was
solemnized in lovely home cere-
mony last evening at 6 o'clock.
Rabbi Fred I. Rypins of Green's
boro formerly of Wilmington, per-
formed the ceremony in the pres
ence of the immediate families
and a few close friends.
Miss Bluethenthal had as her
only attendant her sister, Mrs.
James Murray Kempton, as ma
tron-of-honor. Mr.. Pomerantz was
attended by his brother, Richard
Pomerantz of Philadelphia, as best
man.
The bride, who was given in
marriage by her father, wore a
wedding gown of heavy satin and
taffeta which was worn by her
maternal grandmother, the e
Mrs. Henry We'll of Wilmington and
Goldsboro, over seventy years ago.
The gown was made on quaint
lines featuring a long full quilted
skirt caught with clusters of dainty
flowers, made with long sweeping
train in the back. The tight fitting
basque had a deep V-neckline and
the sleeves were bracelet length
caught with a wide band of self
pleating held with a cluster of flow
ers. Her wedding veil of silk illu-
sion was banded with satin, a part
of the brides mothers wedding
gown, and was worn over the face
falling from a coronet OF orange
blossoms. She carried bouquet
of camellias madeup into an old
fashioned nosegay.
Mrs. Kempton. sister of the
bride, wore gown of soft gold
with satin basque and full net
skirt. Her flowers, an arm bouquet
of chrysanthemums, shaded from
gold to russell.
Immediately following the serv-
ice a reception was held with
few close friends and out-of-town
guests attending.
The bride, a graduate of Ashley
Hall in Charleston, S. c., received
her A. B. degree at the Woman
college of the University of North
Carolina in Greensboro, after
which she graduated from the Phil
adelphia School of Occupational
Therapy. For the past year and a
half she was an occupatlonal
therapist at Fletcher General
(army) hospital in Cambridge
Ohio.
Mr.. Pomerantz is graduate OF
the University of Pennsylvania and
in 1941 enlisted in the Army OF
the United States. He was navl-
gator and a captain in the Air
Forces and saw 18-months of serv-
ice in England and France with
the 9th Air Force. He now holds
reserve commission. He is con-