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The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-12-10
Trenton Briefs i.

Ray Witter. Monsanto chemical
engineer, was called TO his home
at Alexandria. La. Thursday by the
death of a member of the family.
C. F. Letter, drama and speech
coach at Trenton Slocum- Truax
high school. was in Chicago over
the weekend on Business.
Theft Of light bulbs from Tren-
tons Christmas street decorations
has already been reported 20 the
Trenton polite.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-12-10

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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-23

ers and fighters from British bases
and tactical planes over the front
lines. Italy-based warplanes join
ed the massive assaults, psnetrat-
ing southern Germany to within IS
miles of Berlin.
Tonight British Mosquitoes hit the
German capital for the 31st con-
secutive night.
Skies were clear and crew mem
bers saw their bombs strike di-
rectly on enemy barracks, head
quarters posts, bridges and other
detectives across the river from
where Allied armies stood poised
behind a smokescreen for the big
push. d,
Lieut.. Gen. James H. Dootlittle' S
Eighth Air Force sent more than
1900 Fortresses and Liberators
against nine German army posts
in the Ruhr Valley and five air
fields, including jet-plane bases, in
northwestern and southern Germa-
ny. The more than 700 escorting
Mustangs ranged far to the east,
past Berlin, engaging the Luftwaffe
and hitting ground detectives in the
center of the Reich.
The American four-motored
bombers scored direct hits and left
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-23
MASS EVACUATION
OF TOKYO LIMITED
Diet Hears Of Plans To
Combat American In
vasion Believed Near

SAN FRANCISCO, March o.
R-The evacuation of nearly g..
100000 air raid victims from To.
|kyo-one of the greatest mass civil
liam excavations of the warts ir
progress in the bomb-torn Nippon.
csc capital, the japanese radio in.
Dictated Thursday.
A Domei, Japanese news agen.
cy, broadcast recorded by the
FEC, said Home Minister Shigeo
Odachi told a Diet committee
that Tokyo probably had less than
100000 inhabitants now, with
more to leave. The city's prewar
population before the war was
around 100000, making it the
third largest in the world.
The prospect of population cen
tiers of Japan being isolated by an
American invasion was raised as
the. government speeded steps to
organize a civilian national, or
"special-attack," corps.
Gen. Kaneshiro Shibayam, vice
minister of war, was quoted by
Continued on PAGE FiveJ Col. u
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small fry-"I am interested in the
fellow with the suite of big rooms
and the lush boys"
Trey Investigated free spending
ir the Florida resort and brought
back lists of some of the visitors
there with unusually a g e
amounts of money to spend.
These names have been sent 20
home districts of the persons in
volved SO that their income tax
returns could be checked.
This, taken in connection with
Morgenthau's rather cryptic dis
closure today at news confer
ence, indicated that one of the
major approaches to the problem
will be through the money tossed
around in pleasure spots.
Morgenthau also linked his a.
vestigation with trip he made
to New York this week. He refused
to say whether a definite program
Of cracking down has been formu-
lated, but said he is spending
"quite a little time'' on the prob
lem and is going into it Every
seriously
The discussion began when a re-
Continued on Page Three; Col. y
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WOMB DESTROYS
BRITISH FACTORY
Interior Turned Into Infer
no; Many Persons
Killed, Hurt

LONDON, March 22-R-A Ger
man V-bomb scored direct hi
on a southern England factory re
Gently, exploding inside and turn
ing the building into blazing in
ferno, it was announced tonight.
Rescue workers, includ din 6
American soldiers, toiled four
hours amid the smoke and debris
in an effort to save those trapped
in the wreckage as crowd, many
of whom had relatives killed,
gathered anxiously around the
main gate. Watchers collapsed
when they learned relatives had
been killed or injured.
The first sent huge smoke clouds
rolling through an adjoining street
and the U. S. troops and firemer
were handicapped by a gas main
that blazed for six hours in one
dogs were used to help locate those
buried in the debris.
~AAAO.AA$A V-0O11lO Ill Lllt
gardens behind a row of cottages
in southern England community
killing six persons, demolishins
three houses and strewing wreck
age over a wide area. Dazed sur
vivors were pulled from those ruin!
too.
Thirteen other persons were kill
ed and six injured when two Y
bombs struck other localities, in
GLIDING the grounds of hospital
Part of tn hospital was so badly
damaged that 120 patients had tt
be evacuated.
Two children escaped virtually
unhurt when a V-bomb explosion
sent tn roofs of their homes crash
ing down. Roof beans shunted
heavy pieces of concrete that fell
toward six-year-old Peter Mosely,
and Mrs. Dorothy Weber's 10.
months-old daughter was tossed
across a room. but uninjured.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-23
Draft Call May Drop
81 Per Cent In Mly
Average Will Be Reduced To About $4,000
Men Monthly; Selective Service
Act Extended

WASHINGTON, March 22.-LRA
Draft calls may drop an average
Of 81 per cent after July l, the
White House disclosed today CO.
incident with a House Military
Committee vote to extend the
draft law without change.
President Roosevelt, sending up
a request to Congress for $54, $780,.
600 to finance Selective Service
another fiscal year, said this con.
templated an average draft call
of $4,000 a month.
This compares with a figure Of
$4,000 which Maj. Gen. Stephen
Henry told the House Committee is
the expected average from now
until June.
The White House spoke Of the
after-July need as being merely
one Of repla 1t said that
by then mobilization of the larg-
est armed force by far in the ma.
tons history will be complete.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-23
Treasury To Investigate
Free Spending At Resorts

WASHINGTON, March 22.-LR)
The Treasury disclosed today
that it's famous 'T Men, are
checking up on freewheeling
spenders in big-time pleasure re-
sorts to determine whether they
have paid their income taxes.
Officials said that Elmer Trey,
chief coordinator of Treasury en-
forcement activities Chats the T.
mem, picked up $4,000 of de-
linquent taxes in a few days in
Miami, Fla.
His contributors, they said, were
persons who fastened to pay -
forgotten taxes.
Trey is the man whose sleuthing
brought Scarface AL Capone to
grief back in the roaring days OF
gangsterism.-for gettinghis taxes.
taxes.
Now he and his agents are after
| other people suspected of having
income they haven't bothered to
report-some of them, perhaps,
because it came from such frown-
ed-on practices as black market
ing. ~"'
Secretary of the Treasury Nor
genthau told news conference to-
! day the department is not after
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-23
EDEN SELECTION
BRINGS PROTEST
Labor NJ e m b ers Attack
Churchill Choice For
Peace arley

LONDON, March o. W.H--
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
today named Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden chairman OF a
nine-me1nber delegation to the
San Francisco Security Confer
ence over the angry protests
which he called "churish' - OF
two Labor party members.
Emanue, Shinwell and Aneurin
Bevan, tireless critics of the gov
eminent, charged that in making
Mai. Clement Attlee, Laborite
deputy prime minister, an ordi-
nary member of the delegation
under Eden, Churchill was trying
to grab power for his Conserva-
tive party with view to the
election to be held after the Eu-
ropean war.
Churchill made history by nam
inc two women to the delegation
Ellen Wilkinson, veteran Labor
party member of the House OF
Commons and parliamentary Sec
rotary to the Ministry of Home
Security. and Florence Hors'
brugh, parliamentary secretary t.
the Health Ministry.
The Earl of Halifax, British. am
bassador to the United States, who
also is War Cabinet member,
will be on the delegation.
Other members are: Lord Gran
borne, dom n ons secretary;
George Tomlinson, joint parlia'
mentary secretary to the Ministry
of Labor; Dingle Foot, Parliamen'
tary secretary to the Ministry fol
Economic Warfare. and William
Mabnane, parliamentary secre'
tary to the Food Ministry.
As soon as Churchill had an
nounced the makeup of the dele
cation to Commons, Shinwell anc
Bevan objected. Shinwell asked
Churchill.
as it not all quite consistent
with his (Churchill's declaration
at the conservative conference
that the conservative party, hav
ing got all they wanted in the
WV of assistance and guidance ir
the war, are now going to get ev
erything which is useful in theil
own hands?"
This was reference to the La
Dor membership in the war time
coalition government.
"I never said that answered
Churchill. "There could hardly be
anything more unfair, or more
! characteristic tie r n &c thar
that" $500.
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. y
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worked without interruption yes
terday.
The difficulty arose after the
discovery that the night-shift of
Germans employed at the Swift
Fertilizer Co. were accomplishing
far less than the day-shift. Ac-
cordingly 1t. Hazel set definite
tonnage of phosphates for handling
during their next shift. Their fail
ure to comply resulted in the
whole groups being penned in the
north end of the stockade and told
they would be kept there, without
food nor additional clothing, for "a
hours or until they agreed to per-
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Yanks Invade
Cuiinaras Off
Liberation of Philippines
Becomes Mopping-
Up Operation

MANILA, Friday, March "a
P-Guimaras island, just mile
and a half southeast of captured
Iloilo on Panay, was invaded by
American Doughboys Wednesday
as heavy bombers on three sue
cessive days poured 214 tons OF
bombs on Cebu island to the east
Gen. Douglas Macarthur re.
ported this 9th island invasion oil
the Philippines in his communique
today, announcing only that Sin a
shore shore operation our troops
seized Guimaras island, southeast
of Panay."
The heavy bombing OF Cebu is.
land, across the Camotes Sea from
Leyte, was concentrated on Japa.
nese bivouac and supply areas il
the vicinity of Cebu City, midway
along the islands east coast.
'Many explosions and fires
were Observed" the communique
said. Meanwhile naval PIT boats
patrolling the Cebu coast by night
sank several enemy small craft
and navy rocket-firing planes sank
a. midget submarine off Cebu CT.
ty.
Patrol bombers ranging the
blockaded China Sea sank or dam
aged IL small freight vessels anc
four landing craft.
General advances on all ground
fronts on Luzon were reported
Forward elements of the 33rd Di
vision, probing closer to Baguit
from the west, reached the Ma
guilian river and an airfield a
the outskirts of the Philippine
summer capital.
In southern Luzon, the 1871
regimental combat team drove in
to the environs of Cuenca, south
east of Lake Taal. and cut the
main road east Of the town.
Liberation of the Philippines be
came generally a big mopping uE
job as American troops and Fill
Pine guerrillas pursued broker
japanese forces ON Panay, Min
danao, Leyte and most OF LUXOR
today.
Only in northern Luzon, where
japanese Gen. Tomoyuki Yamas
hita is supposed to have estab
ished headquarters at Baguio
were there reports of extensive
organized resistance.
Gen. Macarthur announced
Thursday the collapse of the Jap
anese Antipolo-Wawa line in thu
Sierra Madres east of Manila. HI
reported the capture of mucl
equipment by 33rd and Sixth Di
vision troops and said enemy
losses In men were "extraordinar
lily heavy"
Thursdays communique also
announced that south of Manila
Luzon's Cavite province had beer
cleared Of the enemy except fol
scattered remnants now in flight"
1t added that "all organized en-
envy resistance on Panay has been
kcrushed" except for minor peck
cts. Fortieth Division Doughboys
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-23
Recalcitrunt Mazis Find
Wilmington Wind Too Cool

More than 100 German prison
ers of war in the Wilmington con-
finement center who displayed re-
calcitrance yesterday over the
setting of a work task for fer
tilizer-plant details among them
by 1t. R. H.. Hazel, camp COM
mander, changed their minds af-
ter two hours segregation in a
chilly corner of the stockade, it
was announced last night.
The war-prisoners will be back
at work today, 1t. Hazel said,
adding that he plans to have the
group at fault work Sunday to
make up for the hours they miss
ed last night. All labor contingents
OF the 504 Germans in the camp
except the fertilizer-plant group
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-23

erers by 50 cents per hundred
pounds. The increase was an.
nounced before the Senate Banking
Committee by Price Administrator
Chester Bowles who was answer
ing charges that OPA price policy
is to blame for the shortage
crisis.
Bowles said the new subsidy
should put meat packers in "a
reasonably good position. But Ar.
Sur L. VIM of the National In
dependent Meat Packers Associa.
ton, another witness, disagreed
He said the packers would con
tinue to lose money.
With President Roosevelt plan
ming to give the Nation the facts
on the food problem at his press
conference tomorrow, there were
these other food developments:
The price Of chickens is goins
up. The Government soon will raise
price ceilings on poultry to en-.
courage production.
'Meat-easies" are springing ul
in New Jersey. Joseph Wan, pres.
ident of the Independent Retail
Butchers of New Jersey, told 9
House committee investigating the
food shortage that meat dealers
are beginning to operate behind
drawn Venetian blinds.
Acting Secretary OF War Robert
Patterson said the Army's food
supply IS below the minimum
safety factor"
War Food Administration offic.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-23

After hearing only two wit.
nesses-Army generals who en-
phasizsd the necessity Of furnish.
ing fighting requirements until
the last enemy has qult-tne com
mittee sent the bill to the House
floor for a vote probably early
next week.
Without the legislation, the Sc
lective Service Act, under which
millions Of men have been induct
ed, would become imperative
May Is. The bill approved extends
it for another year, or until the
end OF hostilities, whichever is
first.
The committee needed, though
reluctantly, the Army's request
that no restriction be placed or
the present policy of putting in
ductees into combat five months
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All Major Resistance West OF Rhine Ended
New Rhine Crossings Near; Germans Report
Reds Wipe Out $4,000 Nazis On Czech From
g, 900 Allied Planes Batter Mazi
7argets In Eastern Rhine Sector
Extensive Attacks Believed Prelude To New Crossings Berlin
Pounded For 3ls Consecutive Mig hit By Raj

LONDON, March 22-U.R-The
Allies unleashed terrific air as
saults on German ground defenses
east of the Rhine today, sending
some 5000 planes against the
Reich in the second day of all
out attacks precluding mass cross
ings of the historic river barrier
Every type of aircraft, from
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-23

fighters to four-enginad bombers,
dashed German army camps, COM
mand posts, supply centers, air
fields and railroads in the Ruhr
Valley dropping an estimated TO-
900 tons of bombs. ..---
1t was one of the greatest aerial
slaughters of the war. Some 1900
sorties were flown by heavy bomb
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-23

mailing given apanese Warshlps
Monday in Japan's inland sea.
There has been no official Worc
on the Whereabouts of the force,
part of the Fifth Fleet, since il
moved close to Japan to permit
it's planes to search out enemy
fleet units at their bases.
In the nine days that have
elapsed since that strike, Admiral
Mitscher has had time to move his
ships into the Fo1mosa area about
900 miles from the scene of Mon.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-23
Congress; Probing Food,
Hears Of Army Shortage

WASHINGTON March 22-WRIhe Government today
ed something shortage Congress
told that cattle population history roaming range
that safety
ot-hitched belts must be pulled tighter.
With hope bringing consumers
Price Administrator increased subsidy slaug
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-23
JAMS Claim Fifth Fleet
Still howling Pacific

u. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS GUAM Friday March
potent
ssmaby still proWl today Tokyo limiting
might scourge Rukyus while withdrawing
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-23
FORECAST

Fair and slightly warmer today with
moderate northwest winds.
Yesterdays temperatures:
High, 6o-Low. Is.
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The nuts ore Hooded into socks md No viSes
90 into hoy during peonut harvesting on form
in Georgia Peanut production hos more than
doubled in the lost two yeors ond hos become a
S2OO, 900 600 q -yeor crop Prices ore o'most
three times higher thon ever before.
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Special delivery service for fOWers-delivered
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-25
Miss Candis McLamb,
John Davis Married

LUMBERTON, Feb. "a. - The
marriage of Miss Candis Airline
McLamb, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. D. NJ. McLamb Of Lumber
ton, Route 2, to John Clarence
Davis, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charlie Davis, of Red Springs
Route, took place at the Methodist
parsonage in Red Springs Janu-
airy 81. The Rev. Allen Lee Of
ficiated at the double ring cere-
mony.
The bride wore a suit Of blue
wool, with black accessories and
pink orchid corsage. A graduate
of Philadelphus High school, she
is employed in Fayetteville. The
bridegroom holds a posistion at
the neutrality-suspicious. Army Air
Base.
Among entertainments given for
the bride was an announcement
party and shower by Mrs. W. B.
Warren in Fayetteville; a party
and shower by Misses Belva and
Ida McLamb of Dunn; shower
by Mrs. Russell Humphrey of
Route 2; and a dinner party and
house warming by the groom S
parents.
Miss Nell Rose Hicks, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. K. H. Hicks of
Lumberton, became the bride of
Technical Sgt. John Adams Sch
wartz of the U. S. Marine Corps,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Adam
Schwartz of Irvington, N. j., in
the Church of the Immaculate
Conception in Jacksonville, Fla,
February Is. The Rev. Father
Richard Lyonas officiated.
Attending the bride as maid-of-
honor was WAVE Teele Tiovaras
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-25
Woman Arrested For
Lye Water Assault

Four Negroes were treated At
at James Walker Memorial hosn;.
tai Friday night for burns alleged.
ly caused by I've having been film q
on their faces by a Negress ;n
the New Brooklyn Grill, police re-
ported yesterday.
Hospitalized and released were
Mary Davis, 1108 Loves allev.
Katerine Williams, 1920 North Siy,
tn street; Marie Gore of Seventh
and Dixon streets, and ANTHONY
Madden of BIT North Eight.
Police arrested Betty Damon OF
1112 North Ninth street and ar.
cused her of assault with I've water
injuries. Preliminary hearing will
be held Feb. o. Sh rmains linton
be held Feb. u. She remains in
Jail in default of $500 bond.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-25
FAMILY COUNSEL
MEET CONDUCTED

4 symposium on Family coun-
.sina in Wartime" yesterday at
r.c Rear school was attended by
tu,.ntv-seven home economics, CO
..n.ion. and farm security work
- from Brunswick, Fender, On
.1ou and New Hanover counties.
Or. Edward P. Cutter, venereal
H,a.ee consultant of the Consoli-
x,4sd Board of Health, discussed
n. subjects of why Dangers In
.,,oived in Counseling'; the Rev.
Harvey W. Glazier, rector Of the
rhrrc6 Of the Good Shepherd, talk
~ On The Neurotic Personality
md Simple Maladjustments", and
.Tecbniques of Counseling."
Following the meeting, presided
ey.r by Miss Cordelia Foster,
home fservice supervisor of the
Tide Water Power company, lun-
ehson was served at st. John 6
Tavern.
Those attending the meeting
ware Margaret Burnes, Mrs. Alice
e Burton, Mary Elizabeth Grover
man. Ann Mason; Carolyn Duke,
Betty Halligan, Katherine Gray,
Mrs. Harrell, Virginia Ward, Eliza
beth Jordan, Mrs. Harvey Glazier
md Mrs. E. P. Cutter, all of Will
rington: Rose Mary Codell of Ra'
leigh, Kate league and Jewell P.
Xii. Frances o. Weston, and En-.
ma Bryan all Of Burgaw; Helen
sorrell Of Swansboro; Sudie H.
Simmons of Jacksonville; Clara
D. Reid OF Richards; Marion Wills
nj Camp Lejeune; Marie Ham
mond and Mary Ellen Gibbs, both
pf Bolivia.
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Victory Menus
BY CHARLOTTE ADAMS

Saturday Night Oven Dinner
Macaroni and Ham Casserole
Mixed Green Salad
Pumpernickel
Apple Betty
(Recipes serve four)
Macaroni and Ham Casserole
2 cups cooked macaroni
4 tablespoons butter or butter
substitute
2 tablespoons flour
IA Id. grated cheese.
2 cups milk
1 teaspoon grated onion
l cup cooked snap beans
IL Id. boiled ham, minced
IA cup fine bread crumbs
Melt two tablespoons of butter
in saucepan. Remove from heat
and mix with flour, making a
smooth paste. Return to heat and
add milk, stirring constantly until
thickened. Stir in grated cheese
and cook over low heat init,
cheese melts. Stir in grated onion
Place a layer of macaroni in g
buttered casserole, then a layer
each of beans and ham. Pour hal
the sauce over the contents of The
casse File. Add remaining ingredi
entst'Snd pour on the rest of the
sauce. Top casserole with butteree
crumbs and bake at 375 degree:
30 minutes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-25
HARRISON KILLED
in PACIFIC AREA

Fireman First Glass Charles
Preston Harrison, 10, son of Mr..
and Mrs. r. V. Harrison, was kill
ed in action Jan. 6 while assisting
in preparation for the invasion of
the Lingayan Gulf area, Luzon. P.
l.. The following day he was buried
at sea with full military honors.
Fireman Hardison was a student
at New Hanover High school when
he enlisted in Aug. 1913. After
training at cambridge, Md, he
was assigned to his ship and went
to the Pacific area in Nov. 1914,
for active service until his death.
He is survived by his parents,
two sisters, six brothers, and his
maternal grandparents, Mr. aad
Mrs. U. S. Mintz, of Wilmington.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-25

In planning your spring
garden be sure it's not too
large if the wife tires easily.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-25
CHINESE TROOPS
MOVE ON LASHI0

SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND
HEADQUARTERS, HANDY, CEY-
LON, Feb. 24.-tRETWo Chinese
formations converged today on La
shio, Burma road railhead and the
biggest Japanese base in Eastern
Burma, from positions less than
Is miles away.
One force drove across the
Namtu river and captured the town
Of the same name Is miles north
west Of Lashio.
A communique announced that
these troops, members Of the 50th
Chinese division, then fought on
southwark and seized some hills
after a sharp fight.
In the hills near the Burma road
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-25

and James A. Sechser of the Navy
was the bridegroom's best man.
The bride is employed as a
bookkeeper in Jacksonville. Sgt.
SchWarts recently returned to the
States after 20 months in the
South Pacific area and is station
ed at present at Jacksonville Ma
val Air Station.
National Chief of Staff Mrs.
Helen Murphy of Union, N. j., and
Mrs Civilia Stephenson of Char
lotte, state president, were guests
of the V. F. W. Auxiliary to Robe
son Post No. 2678 in an informal
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-25

less than Is miles notheast of La,
shio, Chinese wiped out japanese
elements which tried to make a
stand, the war bulletin said
Southwestward, British Fourteen
tn army troops were patrolling the
south bank of the Irrawaddy river
west of Mandalay, where a bridge.
head has been secured as an out
thanking threat TO Mandalay itself
Heavy bombers of the Eastern
Air Command and other aircraft
were active.