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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-25
Won Papen Reported
In Madrid To Head
Nazi Peace Mission

LONDON, Jan. "a. - (P - The
Ankara radio reported from ire
liable source" today that Franz
Won Papen, German ambassador to
Turkey, had arrived at Madrid at
the head of a German peace mis-
sion.
The Ankara report said Won Pa
pen had the confidence of the Ger
man army and that he was going
to Sound the possibilities for the
best possible peace terms for Ger
many"
Similar unconfir1ned reports have
come from neutral capitals in the
past when Nazi war fortunes were
taking a turn for the worse, always
without confirmation.
Reports few months ago sale
Won Papen was slated to become
German ambassador to Madrid.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-25
FDR REAPPOINTS
PERKINS; REFUSES
HER RESIGNATION

WASHINGTON, Jan. "a R -
President Roosevelt has declined
to accept Frances Perkins resle
nation as Secretary of Labor, i
was learned today, quitting pre-
inauguration reports she would be
replaced in the Fourth Term cabi
net.
Miss Perkins refused to make
public a letter from the President
asking her to continue and reject
ing her request to be permitted to
quit after IL years.
The Presidents decision was re-
ported to have been conveyed to
her orally last Friday, the day be-
fore his latest inauguration.
One of the last two members OF
Mr.. Roosevelt's original cabinet
Secretary of Interior Ickes is the
other - she has been represented
as wanting for long time to step
out of the labor post.
The President was known to
have offered nearly month ago
to appoint any successor on whom
the CLIO and AFL could agree.
He discussed personalities with
CLIO President Philip Murray and
ALL President William Green, but
the talks apparently. were fruitless.
Murray would not say anything
about his conversation with tn e
President. Green said merely that
he had asked for appointment OF
man from the ranks of labor.
During Miss Perkins tenure her
critics Including some labor lead
ers) frequently have laid stress on
what they termed the need for a
new appointee to handle labor is
sues.
Miss Perkins, New Englander
who nearly always appears in Sc
we're black topped by an inevitable
tri-cornered hat, has taken great
pride in her contribution to the
New Deals legislative record, not
ably Social Security laws.
When she took the labor helm
it's principal preoccupation was
with the immigration and Natur-
alization Service. Since then that
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-25
CTS Forget Vest Front
To Watch Russian Drive

respondents about the latest word
from the Eastern Front instead of
the correspondents interviewing
them about what is happening
here.
For the moment the big battles
on the Western Front are over.
Even the capture OF st. With was
an anti-climax to the men who
took it. The Germans were fight
ing only rearguard actions with a
second rate conglomeration of
troops. The bulk of their forces
have disappeared into tn Eifel
hills, under air attack, to appear
again only Won Rundstedt knows
where. ...
Even the fighting in Alsace is
minor battle in comparison.
Many American officers here are
Of the opinion Won Rundstedt SIM
ply is committing divisions in the
Continued on Page Three; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-25
Yanks Drive
To Center OF.
Clark Field
Liberators Pound Corregi-
dor For First Time
Since Fall
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. Lu-

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Lu-
ION, Thursday, Jan. 25.- (UP) -
American troops, killing Japanese
at a ratio of 10 to one in the first
two weeks Of the Luzon invasion,
have penetrated almost to the cen
ter of the Clark Field network OF
airdromes, while U. S. heavy
bombers have made their first raid
on Corregidor, fortress i S | a d
guarding the entrace to Manila
Bay, it was announced today.
Pushing ten miles southwark on
Highway No. from Capas, strong
motorized forces of Maj. Gen.
Rapp Brush's 40th Division cap
tured the Japanse stronghold OF
Bamban and it's airstrip, one OF
the IL comprising the sprawling
Clark Air center, and swept on
beyond to seize Mabalacat, Al
miles from Manila.
Gen. Douglas Macarthur an
rounced that up to noon Tuesday.
the Americans had killed 6,449
Japanese; taken 423 prisoners;
and wounded an estimated 1900.
American casualties were 657 kill
ed; 1877 missing and 2,30l wound
ed.
Every possible strategical and
tactical ingenuity is being success
fully employed to hold our losses
in men to an absolute minimum
Macarthur announced.
Bamban was seized Tuesday by
a force headed by 1t. Col. James
Ruckle of Los Angeles and calling
itself 1.-The Los Angeles Imperial
Guard" The advance south of the
town, where only a few Japanse
snipers were encountered, broke
the Japanese Bamban river line
and left the enemy only the Pam.
tense barrier before Manila.
Frank Hewlett, United Press
war correspondent with the 10th
Division, described tn Bamban
airfieldas the finest captured by
the Americans in the Pacific since
they took Henderson Field on
Guadalcanal. His dispatch said ~
gineers could prepare the strip for
quick operational use.
Mabalacat, four miles south Of
Bamban, was taken yesterday and
the Americans advanced south OF
it to within less than a mile OF
Clark Field-the main part of the
big air base which stretches some
five miles along the west side of
Highway No. 3.
The Yanks also struck three
miles westward from Clark Field
to the vicinity of Fort Stotsenburg,
where Macarthur father. 1t.
Gen. Arthur Macarthur, served as
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-25
FOE IS BUILDING
BERLIN TRENCHES
Germans Reported Forcing
Civilians To Evacuate
Silesia

LONDON, Jan. 4.-tR-The Ma.
zis dug new trenches to guard Ber
lin and Gestapo Chief Himmler'
whipmen ordered every able-bod
led German male thrown into the
"Red inferno of the east" today
While the Moscow radio broad
cast frontline reports that the Ma
ziss@wcre~evaeuating all civilians
from Silesia, Pomerania and War
thegau (Poznan province), the Ma.
ri Transocean new service report
ed new lines are under construc'
ton inside the Reich"
The Paris radio added that Der.
liners were digging trenches
around the capital.
Every German able to bear
arms is being thrown against the
advancing Russians" Transocear
reported, saying all available for.
ces are being modified and the
remaining civilians are being re.
cruited for the Volksturm, or
home guard.
A Moscow broadcast tonight said
Himmler had set up new Eastern
Front defense council with "unlim-
tied powers and with himself per-
sonally presiding.
Moscow reports did not indicate
how this affects the position of Col.
Gen. Geinz Guderian, believed in
military command of n whole
Eastern Front, but said Iimrnler' S
council had unqualified command
over all garrisons and reserves IN
the Eastern theater of war and all
troops transferred f m other
fronts as well as power 10 mo-
Billie all civilians for service in
the Vokssturm, Landwehr and on
fertilization works, to evacuate
people and industrial plants and to
confiscate and dispose of personal
property" ...
Himmler's- Gestapo is tearing
men from their women and chill
dren in Silesia, a Moscow report
said. The men are thrown into the
Volkssturm battalions and the
women and children are sent west
ward as refugees, it said.
A Moscow broadcast reported
clashes between Vokssturmers
and the Gestapo as men resisted
separation from. their families.
Russian broadcasts called upon
the Nazi fleet and Vokssturm To
mutiny and thus show they we're
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-25
STATE WILL HELP
WILMINGTON PORT
Raleigh Meeting Carries
Problem To N. e. Plan
ming Board

The Port of Wilmington's hoped
for million-dollar terminal facilities
became a matter largely of State
concern Monday, when after meet
ing with port, City nd County
deegates in Raleigh, Gov. R.
Gregg Cherry added them to the
responsibilities of the State Plan
ming Board.
Subsequently, detailed study OF
the project was promised by Felix
Grissette, executive director OF the
Board. The Board had been ap-
preached by Port Commission
members earlier in the winter in
an effort to induce it to survey
port needs and make recommen-
dations on its own initiative, but
without effect.
No definite amount of State fl
nancial aid was asked Monday by
the delegation from the City, al
though the tobacco warehouses,
wharves and access facilities de-
sired are expected to cost approx
mately 100000. This is the third
way the projects hackers have
tried to raise money, bond issue
and loan of $685., 1000 from the
Reconstruction Finance Corpora
ton having been previously con-
sidered.
When and if tn Planning
Boards findings are compiled they
will be presented to the current
legislature with probable endorse
ment by Gov. Cherry, who told
the Wilmington delegates that ne
would be glad to entertain what
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-25
Sunset Park Group Votes
Against City Extension

Embattled Sunset Park residents
thrashed out the question of inclu-
sion of their community in Will
mington at a two-hour meeting
last night in the old Sunset Park
school building and finally regis
tered a token vote of 119 to 9
against it.
committee, formed immedi-
ately, sent telegram to Rep. ].
@. LeGrand after the meeting in
which they advised him of their
vote and requested that he defer
action on the bill until they could
confer with him
Wilmington was described by
anti-inclusionists during the course
of the meeting as municipality
run by a City Council who don't
even know the score and whose
promise "isn't worth snap pro-
tected by police who '1oiter or
The main street while housebreak-
ers wreak their will unopposed
on helpless women" and ''pollut
ed by garbage tossed hapnazaro
on front porches."
Their opponents countered by
picturing Sunset Park, without
City services, as being top-soilee
with rotting tin cans and as ut
terly bath-les. during the ho'
summer months. when lawn
sprinklers absorb most of the
water pressure. =,
The anti-inclusionist majority
was headed by Capt. J. L. Ghol
ston and w. c. Weeks, una4lmous
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-25
By IVES GALLAGHER

ST. WITH, Belgium, Jan. a.
Pj-The Battle of Belgium is over
ard the Germans are trying to
fend off the Allied forces on the
Western Front with one hand
while trying to cope with the new
Russian offensive with the other.
At least two German divisions
recently on this front have been
rushed eastward to try and stem
the Russians.
The No. l subject of interest
among CTS, even in this commun-
ications heart of Field Marshal
Won Rundstedt's Western Front
drive, is "how far did the Rus
SLAMS make today?" What is going
ON along the Western Front is sec
ondary.
CPS and officers alike on this
front, out of contact as they are
with radios and the newspaper
Stars and Stripes. interview cor
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-25

t11eQ TO the OeIldCo cOI1lIIllLLee
before a jam-packed crowd OF
500 interested in President
Roosevelt's proposed cabinet
change.
Jones said he still regarded him.
self as Secretary of Commerce and
loan administrator until Wallace
is confirmed.
He studiously avoided mentioning
Wallace, nominated on Monday TO
succeed him, until he was question
eG sharply by a Wallace adherent,
Senator Pepper ID. -Fla.)
They squared off in duel Of
sharp exchanges climaxed when
Pepper asked Jones if he thought
Wallace could handle his job. The
banker said he didn't think so and
Pepper tried to get more 'factual
data for that opinion. Jones final
ly barked at the senator:
"You talk too much at one time.
I didn't say he was incompetent.
Stick to the text
Chewing gum and cGpping his
ear from time to time, Jones was
questioned at some length after he
read a $50 word statement in
which he warned that ''untried
ideas" and visionary planning in
his job could wreck the country.
The session consumed more than
three hours and the committee re-
cessed until 1890 am. Thursday
when Wallace will have his say.
Until he was irked by Peppers
questioning, Jones never mentioned
Wallace's name but he left no doubt
of whom he was speaking IN his
sharply worded testimony before
the Senate Commerce Commute.
President Roosevelt's summary
replacement of Jones as Com
merce Secretary and RFC head to
pay a political debt to Wallace had
the capital so steamed up that the
huge caucus room was damned
and an overflow crowd hammered
historically at the doors.
The hearing itself was on "a bill
by Senator George D.-Ga.) to dl-
vorce the RFC and other big lend
ing agencies from the Commerce
Department. 1t was offered be-
cause some senators are loathe to
confirm Wallace except for t n C
routine duties of the Cabinet post.
His nomination has been sidetrack-
Continued on Page Three; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-25
'Anti-Uniion'
Clause Taken
FromMeasure
Workers Would Have
Reasonable Choice OF
Employment

WASHINGTON, Jan. "a
lp,-Nlinus an "anti-closed
shop" clause, a limited Ma
tional Service bill for men be-
tween 10 and as won final ap-
nroyal of the House Military
Committee today.
As Substitute for the closed
sbop ban which it had written into
the measure tentatively Monday
bv "A to 10 count, the committee
voted TO give registrants a "reas-
enable choice of employers for
whom to work. when directed to
do so by their local draft boards.
The original amendment would
have permitted a man assigned
to an essential job to work in a
closed shop without joining a union
II was deleted by margin OF one
Or two votes.
The bill itself was approved by
20 to 5 count, and Chairman
Nav (D-Ky) said he would ask
the rules committee tomorrow to
clear it for House debate starting
either Friday or Monday. With sew
eral days of debate in sight, a fin.
al House decision is not expected
before late next week.
May said the closed shop amend.
ment was rejected because the
committee wanted to eliminate
controversial things"
The committee also gave to local
draft boards authority to deter
mine whether a man should re-
main in his present job or move
into one more essential. the deter
mination of what is essential to be
made by the Director of War Mobi-
lzation or some agency he desig'
mates.
Local draft boards also were
empowered to fewer discharge
service men from orders to take
essential jobs.
Ex-veterans taking jobs listed
as essential would be considered
to have remained in service for the
time they stay on the job. This
provision, May said, was approved
in order TO protect veterans right
to apply for reinstatement in his
original draft act.
Left in the bill was language
emphasizing that nothing in the
proposal shall set aside provisions
OF the Tydings amendment setting
up formula for the guidance of
Graft boards in considering the
cases of farm workers.
As finally approved, the legisla-
llon. requested by President Roos-
evelt. provides that man aged
u through 45 who is not already
IN service or deferred by Jaw shall
not leave an essential job with
out graft board approval, or must
move INTO such a job at draft
BOARD request. Failure to do so
would subject him to immediate
induction or maximum punish
Aehtlnued On Page Three; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-25
Foe Increases
On
Seventh Army
British Drive To Within
Three Miles OF Roer
River

PARIS, Jan. "a lP) British
and American armies slowly fore
ed back the Germans in Holland
and Belgium today while Supreme
Headquarters disclosed that enc
my pressure was increasing against
the U. S. Seventh Army in north
eastern France and that the Ameri-
can withdrawal in that sector, an
nounced yesterday, amounted to
seven or eight miles.
Enemy resistance also stiffened
against the Allies in the north,
and snow and cold added to the
handicap.
However, the British Second Ar
my forged within three miles of
the Roer river at two places in
Holland, capturing the communica-
tons centers of Heinsberg a n d
Montfort, and the U. S. First and
Third Armies continued their clean
up of the enemy's Ardennes bulge
now reduced to a strip roughly
five miles wide and 40 miles long.
Allied fliers reported a great ex-
odus of German rail and road trans
port streaming northeastward from
the Ardennes battle sector into Ger
many in a mystery move which,
lacking official Qualification, gave
rise to speculation that the Nazi
command was shifting large armor-
ed forces from the Western 10 the
Eastern Fronts.
In addition to taking the seven
day traffic center of Heinsberg.
1t. Gen. Sir Niles c. Dempsey's
British troops also captured Haaren
and Weerd just to the north in
Holland and entered the southern
section of Lime, three miles from
Roermond on the n1ain highway
from the southwest as the Germans
fell back to their defense line along
the river Roer.
Heinsberg, with a normal popu-
lation of 5000, was the last i'm
portant road center west of the
Roer river in the Cologne plain.
1t is 81 miles from Dusseldorf and
is from Munchen Gladbach, both
of which lie to the northeast.
Despite wretched weather, which
in general slowed the Allied aerial
assaults on the retreating Nazis aft
er two days of powerful attack,
Raj Sp;tfires, Tempests and Ty-
phoons bombed and shot up many
scores of trains streaming north
eastward from the bulge.
Presumably loaded with large
part of the Panzer forces which
bore the brunt of the German pre-
Christmas offensive in the Arden
mes, the enemy continued to move
in broad daylight despite wholesale
carnage and wreclSage inflicted by
the Allied planes. Roaring up and
down the three main rail lines
which run from Dusseldorf to Han
mover, the Raj beat off feeble Ger
man air force attempts to protect
the trains.
The obvious explanation was that
Germans were rushing reinforce
ments to meet the Russian often
sive in the East. 1t was regarded
as unlik kelly, front dispatches said,
that the Germans were pulling
back from the Western Front mere
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-25
Blizzard Sets Stage
For Coming Cold Wave !.
In New York Section

ALBANY, N. Y, Jan. 24.-tR)-A
storm that reached blizzard pro.
portions in some sections set the
stage today for another statewide
cold wave in New York tonight
and tomorrow.
Buffalo was the main target
today. Snow squalls and strong
winds reached into central and
eastern New York tonight. I
A sudden snow furry hit New
York City this afternoon. Tempe.
ature forecasts were for 10 above
in suburbs east and south of New
York and five below north and
west of the city
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-25
FORECAST

r.;,. TODAY with highest temperature
fa 40 degrees. Moderate Northwestern
" winds
Yesterdays temperatures:
High, 6o-Low, 3s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-25
.0ppelnF Falls
As Huge Trap.
Seems Closed
Sixth Army Joins Great
Drive On Berlin, l49 /
Miles Away /

LONDON, Thursday, JAM
25.-(AP)-Ripping through
G rm an Sill e S i a and
East Prussia at Blitzkrieg
pace, the Russians yesterday.
captured Oppeln, Upper ST.
lesian capital, and reached
within Az miles of Breslau
amid reports that they al
ready had crossed the Oder
river line and had snapped
shut the wars greatest trap
on East Prussia.
In westernmost Poland, against
apparently stiffening opposition, the
Soviet forces nevertheless plunged
ahead dozen miles in the neigh.
borhood of Poznan on the most di-
rect path to Berlin, 1877 miles west
of Poznan. a.
Four orders OF the day by Pre-.
mier Stain and long midnight
communique broadcast from Mos
COW disclosed the continued sweep
ing scope of the Russian mid-win-
ter offensive and announced that a
Sixth Army had joined, the great
drive. d
The C r nj themselves an-
nounced that the Russians had
thrusts tanks and patrols across
the Oder river in Silesia but con-
tended all had been wiped out. A
Reuters dispatch from Moscow said
the Russians mad established lat
least one bridgehead" across the
river which guards the hart of Ger
many.
While Moscow did not confirm
h preaching of the Nazis last
ditch line. the nightly commune
~ue said that Marshal Ivan S. Ko-
ev's First Ukraine Army group
ad extended it's frontage on the
asst bank of the Oder and among
lore than 200 German towns cap
dred was Msrgareth, four and one
alf miles southeast of Breslau,
chief city of the industrially-im-
portant province.
Earlier, Stain had announced Ko-
news capture of Oppeln, 48 miles
southeast of Breslau.
The German radio said all Won-
en- and children had been removed
from Brewlay and that every man
in the city from 16 to 60 had been
called into the peoples army. The
gauleiter of Silesia declared Bres-
lau was fortress to be defended
to the utmost.
Shortly after disclosing the Rus.
slams Oder crossing and the i'm.
minent peril of Breslau, the Ger
man DNB agency broadcast that
the battle for East Prussia had
"become somewhat acute" W tn
tank columns of the Second White
Russian Army reaching the dis.
trict of the Vistula estuary south.
west of the port of Elbing," last
land escape route from East Prus.
STA.
While the Germans added that
this thrust was forestalled, he
Russian communicate lie TT little
doubt that the less than tWo-thirds
of East Prussia still in German
hands soon would be totally severe
ed from the fatherlAna.
Marshal X. K. Rokossovsky's Sec.
ond White Russian army group, in
a day of steady progress, thrust
to within Is miles south of Elbing
and within AZ southeast of Danzig,
the communique showed.
Among the 200 German towns
taken in this northWard drive
Continued on Page Three; Col. n
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-25
Jones Declares Wallace
Unqualified For His job

WASHINGTON, JAM 24-(AP)-Jesse Jones capped
his long feud with Henry Wallace by declaring fatty today
the former Vice President just isn't qualified to take
his job as Administration banker
Lack Of experience the big graythatched Texan testi
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-08
Defeated Japan's Status

WILFRID FLEISHER, au-
w thor Of Volcanic Isle" and
Our Enemy Japan" has turned
his knowledge on japanese
affairs into another book.
What TO Do With Japan"
doubleday. Doran). This short
well documented book outlines
the authors solution to the
complex problem OF Japan's
status after defeat.
Fleisher is former managing
editor OF the Japan Advertiser,
his fathers newspaper. He was
the Tokyo correspondent Of the
New York Times and since
1929 has been a special writer
on Far Eastern affairs for the
New York Herald Tribune.
Rather than give only his
personal answer 10 the conun-
drum OF what to do with
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-08
Asks Political Revision

Among his other major
points, and there are many. he
calls for revision of the present
political system OF Japan. He
foresees in the future the possi-
bility OF democracy blooming
in the same soil that nurtured
fanatical militarism. Towards
this goal, when Japan is de-
feated. the system OF shadow
government must 60. II has no
place i'm democratic govern
ment." He writes. II knew high
japanese officials who were un-
able TO put their fingers on the
sources Of power in Japan.
Even now Koiso Is the front
or spokesman for a collective
military dictatorship that is
running Japan" but "the power
must come out into the open.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-08
Aboard the Flagship

Aboard the flagship as Young
Bess" opens are most Of the
court who were TO figure in her
struggle for happiness and her
tight for the throne: Henry
e n
father; Bess' latest and last
stepmother, Catherine Parr.
nearest TO a real mother the
girl ever knew: Edward Sey-
mour. cool and opportunistic
manipulation OF the protectorate:
- Tom. his brother, admiral
be feet.
Bess' love for Tom, growing
from the alteration of a child 10
the tragic passion of her youth,
is the moving theme Of much OF
Miss Irwin's story. The unhap-
piness OF that love for the gay.
tender man who married her
fathers widow was, Miss Irwin
hints, one of the goads which
drove a vigorous, thwarted girl
to her destiny. The public
scandal IL became was proving
ground for a 15-year-old girls
greatness.