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Detroit evening times., 1945-09-02
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A Time-Sauing Cake

TIME-SAVING ideas invade
the kitchen in a steady
stream these days. Even the
traditional way of making a
cake has been shortened,
not only by electrical beat
ers and other good devices,
but by an everything-at-
once method of mixing.
New Mixing
LERE'S a recipe for a
~ cake which the Alma
nae staff sampled a few
days ago and declared ten
der, delicate and delicious:
Measure into your mixing
bowl:
2 cups cake flour (sifted
before measuring
Ia cups sugar
y cup shortening
l teaspoon salt
rs cup milk
Stir all this vigorously by
hand, or with the electric
mixer at medium speed for
two minutes. Then stir in:
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-02

3 teaspoons double-action
baking powder or 4 tea
spoons tartrate powder
Add 2 eggs, unbeaten
Il cup milk
/ teaspoon vanilla
Blend by hand or in a
mixer at medium speed for
two minutes. The batter will
be smooth and thin. Pour il
into two nine-inch layer
cake pans which have been
CREASED and lined with
waxed paper also creased.
Bake in a preheated oven
(375 Deg. F.D 25 TO 80 min
utes. Frost with your IA
vorite frosting.
varidfionS
OR BAKE in an oblong
~ pan (8 by II inches)
same oven, 30 to 35 minutes.
Or bake in cup cake tins
same oven, IS 10 20 minutes.
Spread with jelly or jam
if you haven't sugar for
icing.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-26
.Soviiets H url
New Army In
Vienna Drive
Offensive Carries 80 Miles
To Menace komarom
In Hungary

LONDON, March Is. - R - A
second mighty Soviet Army has
entered Russia's Vienna-bound Of
fensive and has slashed % miles
across western Hungary within
six miles of Komarom, Danube
river key to the Australian capital.
Marshal Stain announced tonight.
In the unchecked lunge toward
Austria, potential hide-out for Nazl
leaders, others Russian troops
gained up to seven miles in
thrusts toward the Austrian from
tier and won the rail town of Var
osloed, 48 miles east of Szombathe.
1y, key city near the Austro-Hun-
garian border.
At points, these forces pushed
to within 81 miles of the Austrian
border and were 70 miles southeast
of Vienna.
The new Soviet offensive south
of the Danube river west OF Ruda.
pest exploded as the vast Eastern
Front was erupting into an ap2ar'
ent full-scale spring offensive and
Berlin spoke of powerful new
Soviet drive in southwestern Pol
and aimed at the Moravian Gar
leading into Czechoslovakia to
Prague and Vienna -
The enemy said Marshal Ivan
S. Konev's First Ukraine Army
was attac king on a 10-mile front
toward Moravska-Ostrava, indus
trial Czechoslovak city guarding
the Moravian Gap.
The Germans conceded that
Konev's troops had torn deep
breaches in Nazi lines between
Zary, % miles northeast Of
Moraska-Ostrava, and Strumien,
81 miles east.
In second order of the day
Premier Stain announced that
Marshal Alexander M. Vasile.
vsky's Third White Russian Army
had captured Heiligenbeil, last big
resistance center near the east
Prussian coast Is miles southwest
of Koenigsberg.
More than $4,000 enemy troops
were captured in the Heiligenbell
area as the Russians virtually
[ completed the East Prussian of.
fensive except for the final re.
duction of Koenigsberg and the
1nopping up of ''Dunkerque" ports.
In the Danzig area, Marshal
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky's Sec.
ond White Russian Army captured
the suburban town of Olivia, less
than one and one-half miles north
west Of the former free city's out
skirts, and also took Borgfeld, two
and a half miles southwest. Rus
sian bombers blasted the enemy
! in DanZig.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-26
By Yves Gallagher and Robert
EunSOn

WITH THE U. S. NINTH ARMY,
March 25.-lRHThe famous 'Old
Hickory" 30th Division broke clear
through Hitler's Rhine defenses into
open country north of the Ruhr to-
day in one of the most brilliant in
fantry successes of the war.
The 30th troops found German
resistance apparently completely
disintegrated at point eight miles
from the Rhine, and jumped on
tanks shortly after noon and 'took
off,
Every element of a breakthrough
such as characterized the armor-
ed-infantry gallops after the Roer
river crossing and in dashes
through France-was indicated.
Field officers of the 30th said the
division had gone clear through or
ganized German lines and broken
into the OPEN"
The 30th's surge carried it to the
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-26
JEWISH BRIGADE
ON ITALIAN Line
Members Wearing Star OF
David Shield AS
Units Emblem

ROME, March 25.-P)-The first
and only completely Jewish bri-
gade is operating with the British
Eighth Army in Italy, Allied head
quarters announced today as pa.
troll raids continued along the
stalemated front.
1t. Gen. Mark w. Clark, com.
mander of Allied ground forces
said he twas delighted" to have
the Jewish outfit fighting under
his command and pleased that
"the Jewish people who have suf-
fered so terribly at the hands Of
the Nazis should now be directly
represented by this frontline fight.
ing force"
Members of the brigade wear
blue and white arm insignia with
the Star of David superimposed on
shield.
The brigade is led by Brig. Gen.
L 1AAA oF1lJ o1IAA1l, q oSW III VAN
regular British army. 1t has been
involved in patrol actions since
the early part Of March and sew.
eral Germans were killed recent
ly by patrol leader who is a
German refugee whose family dis
appeared after being deported te
Poland.
Many of the brigade's members
previously were held in Nazi con
centration camps in Europe. Theil
family origins are spread ovel
81 different countries and at leas
so per cent have lost parents OF
other relatives through German
persecution.
The brigade is a self-containec
unit consisting of artillery, in.
fantry, engineering, signal, trans.
port, ordnance and medical units.
The men were drawn from IS, DOC
volunteers and although it is es.
timated 10000 Jewish soldiers
are fighting on the Allied side
this outfit is the only group spe-
officially designated as a Jewish
unit.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-26
GREEKS OBSERVE
LIBERATION DAY
Local Group Finds Hope
And Cheer For First
Time in Five Years

AS they marked the 124th ami
versary of their homeland's indie,
pendence, Greeks in Wilmington
yesterday could find little more
cause for festivity than in the pre-
ceding five years for their home
LAND again was rid of the enemy.
In Greece, all Athens was report
ed out for the first full-fledged
celebration since 1899.
For many, however, who have
not heard from their families and
relatives since the start of the war,
not knowing if they are alive, ii
meant just another day OF hope
until some word was received. But
for all Greeks to whom March q
| is as important as the Fourth Of
July is to Americans, yesterday
marked their freedom from rule
bv the old Ottoman empire.
Chris Rongotes, proprietor OF a
r. staurant on Princess street, sale
that his mother, sister and two
brothers still were in the home:
land. ''When the Germans came, .
Chris said, my. brothers, VINO are
in the Greek army, hid their rifles
in their bed, and when the Nazis
were forcing Greeks into slave la.
Dor, they hid in the mountains. .
An overseas veteran of the last
World War with a cousin now fight
ing in Gen. Mark Clark's Fifth
Army, Chris has not heard from
his relatives since April, 1941.
Having heard from their mother
two brothers and sister in Athens
about two weeks ago, Tommie anc
Jim. Cotroukis, owners of a Prin
cess street. restaurant, feel they
can be thankful that their people
are in free country once again
When the Germans came, Tommie
said, they took everything from hi$
brothers hotel and occupied the
rooms. r..
/ Mike Fellis, North Front street
said he heard from his mother
Hast week for the first time in three
and one half years. She wanted him
to send her shoes and stockings
Fellis said, as it still is difficult
fol people over there to get cloth
ing. Louie Fronistas, of NORTH
Front street, said that he has q
mother and two sisters on Icaras
4 Island, in the AEGEAN sea from
whom he hasn't heard since 1910
1910. I'll
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-26
WHEELER STRESSES
FREEDOM OF NEWS
Senator Says Foreign Press
Reception Should Be
Independent

WASHINGTON, March 25.-P)-
Senator Wheeler D-Mont) con-
tinued today that facilities for
bringing in foreign news to the
American Press should operate in
dependently for any postwar inter
national communications monop-
oily.
The chairman of the Senate In
terstate Commerce Committee
asserted that preservation Of
Press Wireless, Inc, is essential
to American policy in the field Of
communications.
"The committee is getting all
the factual information and all the
recommendations it cam" he said.
Wheeler added that he personal
ly was opposed to Navy propo.
sal calling for private communi-
cations corporation with five OF
its 20 directors drawn from the
cabinet, with inclusion Of Press
Wireless in the vast American mo-
nopoly.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-26
TEN JAP SHIPS
SUNK BY YANKS
MacArthur's Bomb ers
Wreck Hydroelectric
Plant On Formosa

MANILA, Monday, March a.
R)-Nine freighters and destroy
err escort were sunk in the China
Sea by patrol bombers Saturday
while Liberators with 145 tons OF
2,000-pound bombs wrecked a big
hydroelectric plant On Formosa
and softened up Cebu, in the cen.
trail Philippines, with 210 tons,
Gen. Douglas Macarthur reported
today.
On Luzon, meantime, six Japa.
nese counterattacks were repuls.
ed as the 25th and 33rd Infantry
Divisions converged on the i'm.
portant Balete Pass, leading into
the extensive Cagayan Valley, and
the First Cavalry Division began
a drive into the long peninsula Of
southeastern Luzon. d..
Bombers patrolling the blockad.
ed China Sea sank 3,0O0-ton
freighter-transport and probably
another of the same size, sent
four smaller freighters to the bot
tom and damaged three other
small freighters plus a destroyer.
escort.
Liberators, flying with fighter
escort, concentrated on Formosa' S
Jitsugetsu hydroelectric plant, the
main source of power for the
important Nipponese islands in
dustrial areas. The power plant
was wrecked. Water was observed
pouring from broken penstocHs OF
the main dam.
One American plane was lost to
antiaircraft fire.
The attack on Cebu was centered
on targets in the vicinity of Cebu
City, midway along the east coast
of the narrow island, one of the
two major Philippine islands still.
in enemy hands.
Attack planes bombed and STRAIT.
ed the area from low level.
Bombers and fighters also at
tackled coastal defenses and sup.
ply dumps at Legaspi and Infanta
on the southeastern tip of Luzon,
and supported all ground opera
tons on the island.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-26
BY ROBERT vERMILLION

WITH BRITISH PARACHUTE
TROOPS ACROSS THE RHINE,
March 24.-UH-Three and one
half hours ago l jumped with the
British parachute troops six miles
this side-the Berlin side-of the
Rhine ahead of Field Marshal Sir
Bernard Montgomery's armies.
Halt an hour ago, at pm, the
paratroops were able to report
that with light casualties they had
attained their detectives and that
the situation was in hand.
The detectives included killing
a good number Of Germans, taking
good number prisoner, Selling
high ground, built up areas and
roads.
Now our force has been assembl-
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Chain Is 325
Miles Below
Jap Mainland
Enemy Fails To Say If As
sault Waves Are
Beaten Back

SAN FRANCISCO, March 25.-
R)-Japan's Domei news agency
reported without confirmation to-
night that American troops, sup
ported by intensive bombardment,
had ''attempted landing" in the
strategic Ryukyu Islands Sunday
morning Japanese time and
fierce engagements were taking
place.
Domei said the landings began
at 7:30 a. m. on Akajina and
Tokashika islands near the main
island of Okinawa.
The enemy landed attempt
was made" Domei said, latter
continuous aerial bombing at
tacks and Navy commandments by
the enemy task force since the
morning of March "a against
Okinawa, main island of the
Ryukyu group, as well as Hiyak
Jima and Kerama Jima.''
Tokyo radio reported that a
large American task force was in
the waters just southwest of
Okinawa, and described the fleet
as containing Is aircraft carriers,
IL battleships, 10 cruisers, 80 de-
stroyers cas- well as innumerable
other auxiliary vessels"
Donei said the Americans tried
the invasion in Approximately 100
barges," and the Nipponese gar
risons were now fiercely inter-
cepting" the Yanks.
The broadcast, beamed to the
United States, was picked up by
the Federal Communications Com
mission.
Okinawa is the main island in
the Ryukyu chain, which stretch
es between the southernmost Jap
anese mainland island of Kyushu
and the big island of Formosa to
the south. 1t has airfields and sew
eral good harbors suitable for
warship anchorages.
Okinawa is about 325 air miles
southwest of Kyushu and 1865 miles
northeast of Formosa, the pivotal
base guarding Japan's southern
flank.
Domei said the Americans at
tempted the invasion at 7:30 am.
Monday Japanese Tine).
Vice Adm. Marc A. Mitscher's
powerful carrier task force So raid.
ed the Ryukyu chain for two days
after six days Of assaulting Jap
ans r'einland islands and the re-
luctant imperial fleet in the inland
sea.
Today, Admiral Chester Nimitz
reported destruction of an eight
ship Jap convoy west of Amami
Jima, in the northern Ryukyus.
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crashed so yards away. Other en-
envy fire landed in the river as
he watched from the western end
of the bridge.
Churchill, Field Marshal Sir Ber-
nard L. Montgomery, Field Mar
shall Sir Alan Brooke, chief Of the
British Imperial Staff; Gen Eisen-
hover, Allied Supreme Comman-
der; and Gen. Omar N. Bradley
chief Of the 18th Army Group, met
at the headquarters of Maj. Gen.
John Anderson, commander of the
American 18th Corps. Eisenhower
was called away before the party
crossed over to the east bank OF
the Rhine.
While Churchill was in the
bridgehead sniper fire could be
heard few hundred yards down
stream.
The Prime Minister made the
crossings in an American landing
craft.
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
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odd Hickory Division
Spearheads Ninth Drive

Editors note: The 10th In
fantry Regiment of the 30th (Old
Hickory Division featured in
the following story, was a pre-
dominantly North Carolina unit
at the start of the war. Company
"I' of the 12Oth was located in
Wilmington and at that time
was composed Of local men who
left the city when the regiment
was modified. The regiment
trained at Fort Jackson, S. c..
and many Wilmington men still
are supposed to be in the out
fit.)
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British Parutnoops Gain
Objective In Three Hours

ed, it is in contact with British
and American paratroop and Gid
er troops and We are moving out
against the Germans, spearheading
a break across the Rhine which
may be the blow that, breaks the
back Of German resistance.
I came across the Rhine in a
plane with 13 British paratroops.
They invited me in, to make the
18th.
We knew the Germans expected
US. They had been broadcasting
their expectation of an airborne
assault.
Just before I jumped, I could
see the German anti-aircraft fire
poisoning black and thick in the
Confined on Page Two; Col. y
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head of all other advances in the
21st Army Group.
The U. S. 10th Division on the
30th's flank made almost as good
progress, but encountered some
spotty German armored pockets
which held it up slightly behind the
Goth.
The two veteran outfits spear.
headed the Ninth Army's burst
across the Rhine, and the 30th had
a bridge over the historic river
just a. hours and Is minutes after
it launched its attack.
Resistance in front of the 30th
dwindled to almost nothing as the
morning progressed and cooks,
bakers and all sorts of odds anc
ends which characterize rear areas
flowed into the prisoner cages.
With more than 1000 prisoners
taken up to noon, officers of the
30th reckoned the German 180th
Division which faced them was
destroyed almost completely.
The forward surge carried the
bridges which the Ninth Army
threw over the Rhine in record
time out of artillery range. The
engineers were so little bothered to.
day that some sat in pontoons, fish.
ing in the Rhine while fighters
circled over barrage balloons on
the lookout for German planes
which never showed up.
Regimental command posts were
moving so fast, they were almost
impossible to find.
There is no doubt about it, we
Continued IN Para Two: Col. q
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Patton Gains II Miles, Takes Main Bridge
First, Ninth Flash Through Foes Defense
Tokyo Says y. S. Attempts Ryukyus Invasion
EnemySheNE4
Near Prime Minister
Churchill, Viewing Operations Of Ninth
Army, Misses Death By so Yards;
Crosses Rhine River

WITH ALLIED FORCES EAST
OF THE RHINE, March 25.-(P)-
Prime Minister Churchill crossed
the Rhine today for an inspec-
ton of British and American
bridgeheads and came within so
yards of being struck by a Ger
man artillery shell while standing
on the shattered western end of
the bridge at Vessel.
Churchill, described as looking
"extremely well and pleased" dur
ing his tour of part of the British
front entered positions occupied
by the enemy as recently as So
hours previously.
The Prime Minister spent a
quarter of an hour with U. S.
Ninth Army troops on the east
bank Of the river, being guided by
1t. Gen. William H. Simpson, COM
mander Of the Ninth.
Later, while he was peering
through binoculars at the battered
remains of Vessel, a German shell
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-26

ana pIeQSeS turned 1ntO neaQQuar'
tiers as soon as possible, as the
drive ends Wednesday.
Saturday marked the passing OF
the halfway mark in the drive to-
ward the goal, with an overall total
of $45, 603.32 recorded. The totals
from the divisions that reported
were:
Industrial, $4,e24; N. c. Ship
building Co. employees, $12, 1924;
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad en-
p1oyes, $3,475; Public Employees,
$7,244.45, Commercial, $5,636.05;
Business, and Professional, $4,169;
Special prospects, $3.67796; Wo.
mems county division; $1,44173;
Women's residential division, &c.
047.64; and Negro, $115.45.
''Memos for Joe" we're still be.
ing secured in large numbers, ac-
cording to Strange; and awards
for Merit, which are given to
firms and employe groups reach
ing or exceeding their detectives,
are being mailed as fast as pos
sible.
Additional firms and employe
groups that have reached or ex-
ceeded their unit quotas in the Red
Cross Campaign are: Ideal Laun-
dry and Dry Cleaners; employees
of the Smith Building Supply Co. /;
employees of Sneeden-York; en-
ployes of the Shell Oil Co.
Employees of Kingoff s.; employ.
es of Shoemaker Inc; employees
of F. w. Woolworth Co.; Boots
Cafe; Dixie Cafe and Grill and en-
ployes; Saffo's Restaurant; en-
Continued on Page Two: Col. 81
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PARIS, Monday, March 26-(P)
Three U. S. Armies surged to-
ward Berlin in breakthroughs yes
terday, with Third Army tanks
setting the pace in a 27-mile sweep
that carried 40 miles beyond the
Rhine and across captured bridge
over the river Main possibly 235
miles from the enemy capital.
The U. S. Ninth Army broke out
into the open through the enemy's
Rhine line, crashed eight miles or
more beyond the Rhine, was with
in reaching distance Of Berlin
superhighway, and was but 10 miles
from Essen, industrial heart of the
Reich.
The U. S. First Army burst the
bonds of it's Remagen-Erpel
bridgehead between these two
fronts in a general assault on a
35-mile front that ground nine miles
east in a massive attack on the
road to Berlin and was roaring
on unchecked.
The Third Army sprang at least
two new crossings of the Rhine
south of Coblenz and was nearing
a junction with the First Army
forces beyond the river. They last
were reported only II miles apart.
The British Second Army height
ened the power of the grand West
ern Front offensive by pushing
eight miles north of the Rhine
onto the German plain, hurdling
one river barrier on the Berlin
route and slashing across a SUPER
highway running to northern Hol-
land.
With four firm Judgments along
200 miles of the Rhine's east bank
from Rees to Worms, German re-
sistance was disintegrating almost
everywhere in this spectacular day
of gains.
1t was 1t. Gen. George S. Pat
tons famed Fourth Armored Di.
vision which speared the break
through along Germany's waist,
and cut across the formidable RVS
er Main by capturing bridge in.
tact somewhere southeast of Frank.
furt- the Main.
(This might have been the bridge
at Aschaffenburg, which is 20 miles
southeast of Frankfurt and is about
38 miles west of the Rhine.)
The Fourth was divided into two
! hfYI m e CT ~ u.
And at last reports it still was 60
Ing strong under security black
out to keep it's movements from
the bewildered enemy.
A front dispatch said the surge
beyond the Rhine was going even
faster than Patton's drive up to
the Rhine, and it was sweeping
up German soldiers by the thou
sands.
Frankfurt itself was only 10 miles
in front of the Fifth Infantry Dr.
vision, which made the Third Ar
my's original Rhine crossing, and
the industrial city was reported be.
ing evacuated tonight of it's 546..
$40 population.
The Paris radio reported a high
Nazi official had announced over
the German radio that all CIVILIANS
in the Ruhr between Dusseldorf
and Dortmund would have to be
evacuated Immediately. That miaht
include Essen, since the Duessel-
dorf-Dortmund sector embraces
most of the Ruhr industrial val
ley.
The Third Army from its Mainz
bridgehead seized the German in
dustrial city of Darmstadt.
The Third Army's new Rhine
crossings were made at several
points between Coblenz and Bon
pard, which are seven miles apart
One force had pushed two and :.
half miles inland, but a second
CONTINUED on Page Two; CAY ~
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-26
Local Red Cross Campaign
Expected To Exceed Quota

Red drive to raise
in New Hanover county underway Robert Strange campaign
the top
that much emphasis be firms
employee groups getting completed
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Third Within
235 Miles OF
Reich Capital
British Break Out Into
German Plain; New
Crossings Made ~,
The Road To Berlin
BY The Associated Press
EASTERN FRONT
80 miles (from Zellin).
vryrSc--DNy r,D nNyYr

WESTERN FRONT
u. S. Third Army: 235 miles
(from river Main).
u. S. First Army: 266 miles
from FlammersfelO.
U. S. Ninth Army: 272 miles
(from east of Hiersfeld).
British Second Army: 277
miles (from north of WeseD.
U. S. Seventh Army: 282 miles
(fron Worms.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-26
FORECAST

Partly cloudy and warmer today with
moderate southerly winds.
Yesterdays temperatures:
High, 73-Low, Il.
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Continued on Page Two; Col. 5
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29
Complaints Filed
On Black Mart

LOS ANGELES. June 90. (UP)-
Criminal complaints were filed Fri
day by the U. S. attorneys office
against seven meat market oper-
ators and one meat salesman, all
charged with black market opera
tions.
Filing of the complaints followed
the arrest June IL of George De
Normand, market operator, and the
disclosure of his alleged connection
with giant meat point counter
feiting ring which investigators said
had flooded southern California
with 20,000,000 bogus red points.
De Normand was caught selling
100000 red points to the operator
of Hollywood meat market.
Counterfeiting of the coupons, be-
lieved to be done in the Midwest,
was done so effectively, experts said,
that only exposure to flourescent
lighting could reveal they are fakes.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-29
$4,000 Metals
Workers Wait
WLB Settlement

LOS ANGELES, June %. CUP)-
Eighty thousand members of the
Los Angeles Metal Trades Council
(AFL) returned to their jobs Friday,
deferring strike plans for the time
being" on the 10th regional war
labor boards promise to begin wage
hearings next W eek.
The unionists left more than &c
factories and machine shops idle
Thursday as they met to warn the
WLB that unless it grants an "equi-
table upward revision of wage brack-
cts" by August IS, they will petition
the national labor relations board
for strike vote.
We've found out" one speaker
told the meeting, "that pressure is
the only thing the was labor board
will yield to-"
Chairman Thomas Fair Neblett
telegraphed the council promising
the WLB will start hearings next
week on its request for wage boosts
of to 25 cents an hour