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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-23
ARMY IS SILENT
ON INJURED men

Bluethenthal' Army Air Base
hospital authorities last night
would give no information as to
the condition of two Marine Off
GERS from Camp Lejeune, who
shortly after midnight yesterday
were seriously injured when the
automobile in which they were rid
ing north on the Carolina Beach
road, three miles south of the City,
collided head-on with Military
Police staff car, causing injury to
six persons.
Police were unable to disclose
the extent of injuries to Marine
Capt. ]. M. Hughes and 1t. NC
Allister. Military Policemen, Sgt.
Coser Kingery and Pfc. Clarence
Company received scratches and
abrasions, authorities said. VIZ
ginia Dare Adkins and Elsie Ale,
both of 1872 Market street, suffer-
ed abrasions and decorations, 1t
was reported. The Military Police
men we're released from the post
hospital after treatment. The girls
were taken to James Walker Me
mortal hospital, and also released
after treatment.
The officers car was on the
wrong side of the road, police said.
Military police reported that NO
charges had been preferred.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-23
Senate Group Shifts Labor
DraftPenalty ToE71ployer

proved work-or-jail bill when the
committee measure reaches the
Senate floor.
Senator Bailey tD.-N.C.l said
that if he becomes convinced he
can obtain majority support for
the action, he will move to displace
the committees bill with the House
bill, written by himself and Chair
man May D.-Ky) of the House
Military Committee.
'"The bill reported by the COM
mittee is not total effort and to
that exent I am disappointed" he
said.
The bill, nearly three weeks in
committee, emerged today by a
vote of IS to 4: with one member
refraining from voting. BY no
means all of those who voted at
firmatively actually favor the 1egis.
lation as whole; their object was
to get something out on. the floor
for showdown -
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-23
LocdlSchool Wins Chance
To Put Name In Warplane

The report showed that North
Carolina schools raised $11 SIT ,038,
with $l9,525 reported from New
Hanover county.
State schools actually sponsored
the purchase of 1888 field ambu-
lances, 104 jeeps, three tanks, Is
miscellaneous items, 147 planes,
including Al iaisons, 81 Army p-i-
mary trainers, rs SNJ Navy scout
trainers, 10 pursuit planes, two P
81 Mustangs, eight F6F Hellcats,
three SB2C Helldivers, SIX hospi-
tai service planes, two TBF Aven-
gers, two PPM Martin Mariners
and one Bog bomber.
It was disclosed that decalo-
manias bearing name of school, or
school group, which sponsored each
particular piece of equipment were
placed in them by manufa cturers.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-23
Flu MANCHU, EVIL
DOCTOR, IS DEAD

LONDON, Feb. 22.-UH- The
insidious DR.. FIJI Manchu, who has
chilled and thrilled mystery lovers
for 20 years, is dead.
Sax Rohmer, the mild-looking
author who conceived and nurtur-
ed this Oriental incarnation of
evil. told United Press today that
DR.. Flu died for his country.
"Just when l had an excellent
Hollywood contract lined up for
him." sigher Rohmer, whose real
name is Arthur S. Ward. "It was
the best thing 1 ever baldwin
Akin Tamiroff slated to play Flu
But the Chinese government sim
ply raised hell about it.
"They insisted that Flu was in
fluencing the worlds opinion of the
Chinese, and that it was astonish-
ingly bad propaganda for an ally
to be putting OUT
Rohmer said he had appealed
to Wellington Koo, Chinese ambas-
sador to Britain, but without avail.
The Chinese sent a delegation to
Hollywood to put an end to the
wicked career of Flu Manchu.
"They got so tough about it that
even the editors were getting cold
feet, so had to put the old boy in
drydock," he said.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-23
RUSSIANS FREE
'' 2,66l BRIT0NS

o,noN Feb. o. up The
russians have freed 2'00l BRUSH
n 1 prisoners of war
:. German camps, Maj. Arthur
, ~ undersecretary fol
announced today in Com
mons,
.n, had sent word they were on
.hsir way to Odessa, where they
ll ;1i stay until ships arrive to
bring them home.
henderson gave the first detail
inforrnation received here on
+be movement of American and
British prisoners.
ue said prisoners from Stalags,
oA FOB and 2B were moving
through Mecklenburg, some by
rail
From Stalag Luft 3 some 1000
American and British prisoners
hive been transferred to Stalag
"a and to Luckenwalde, 1000 to
Marlag Milag Nord near Ham,
burg 1000 to Stalag &C east of
frankfurt on the Main and 1000
70 stalag IA in Bavaria.
Prisoners from Stalag's ga and
&C are moving through Saxony.
Some prisoners from Stalag Luft
4 are reported to be at Usedom,
near swinemuende on the Baltic.
stalas Luft 8 was reported to be
near Spremberg in Brandenburg
whence prisoners are being trans
terred to the neighborhoods of
Nuremberg and Moosburg in Ba-
varia.
Stalag 8B is reported to be NOV
Ing TO Aussig in Bohemia.
Stalag 344 is said to be moving
TO Theresiestadt in Bohemia.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-23
PAINTING SOUGHT
FOR LEGION HALL

In an effort to raise $500 to pur-
chase Rangwald Jonnson's paint
ing, The Advance" which hangs
in the assembly room of the
Woodrow Wilson hut, for presen-
tation to the American Legion
when the new Legion home on
South Third street is dedicated
March 4, members of the Alpha
Zeta sorority will sponsor tag
sales in the downtown area Satur-
day.
It was pointed out that already
more than $500 has been donated
by servicemen, formerly stationed
in Wilmington, now overseas.
The painting was hung in the
Woodrow Wilson hut in Deem
Der, 19442, through the courtesy
Of the Wilmington artist, a veteran
of World War I, and at 10, the
youngest corporal in the U. S.
Regular Army. He was the son
of Army parents. His father,
nearing retirement, served with
the First Division of the Fifth
Field Artillery, with the Army of
Occupation until early in 1919 near
Coblenz, Germany.
An alumnus of N. c. State col
lege, the artist, who now lives at
2 North Eighteenth street, studied
commercial Illustrating jointly
with the United YMCA College
and Columbia University, and fine
arts through the assistance of
Winfield Scott Cline, portrait
painter of New York and Con-
nectieut.
The Advance portrays the
advancing of the American flag
from the trenches to the crossing
Of the Rhine river over the now
famous pontoon bridge.
Johnson has been awarded the
Victory Medal, Old Army, Navy
Union medal, Marksman Pistol
Shot Medal, Artillery Observer S
Medal and decorations from
North Carolina, New York and
Connecticut.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-23

North Carolina schools ranked
fifth throughout the Nation in the
sales of War Bonds and stamps in
the fall school term ending De-
cember 3d.. and Chestnut Street
school in Wilmington will have its
name placed in an Army primary
trainer and a field ambulance. as
results of the drive conducted by
students there, according to re-
port received yesterday from the
War Finance Division of the
Treasury Department in Washing
ton.
Sunset Park school will have its
name placed in a jeep. The train
er sponsored by Chestnut Street
school is valued at $4,000, and
the ambulance $3.50, while the
jeep sponsored by Sunset Park
school cost $1,165.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-23
ROMANlAN FASCIST
WARNING SOUNDED.

MOSCOW, Feb. 22-P)-The in
ternal situation in Romania was
viewed with solemn seriousness to-
day by the official Communist
party organ Pravda, which charg-
ed that Germany on the eve of her
defeat is looking for places to mo-
blllze secret agents and intimating
mat Bucharest was not being over
looked.
Soviet public opinion cannot fail
to watch impartialy the inner
struggle Of democratic elements
with the Fascists in Romania,"
pravda said in a long editorial.
Inc paper called for "a complete
summation of the last remnants"
Oh Romania's Fascist regime
The war, is not over YETI it
continued. Hitherto Germany is
NOT finally crushed. On the eve of
h her flnal collapse she seeks to mo-
oulze agents and partisans. We
snould not forget that Romania is
III III . INT Red Army's rear, and that
III lhls rear the rule of pro-Fas-
siSes should be iquidated."
heilecting a growing Soviet i'm
pauehce over developments in Ro-
~ mania Pravda gave a Russina
war "a5h II Declaring that pro-Nazis
~, n,.a German sympathizers do exist,
80 sle organ said they ought to be
"- !'r: out and then added:
This is now a requirement OIL
we decisions of the historic Cri
a sae5.: conference. No government
. 1Ieh'ng the support of reactionary
with r1a.3 and compromising itsei5
p c'ose contacts with (formel
Hit glnier lon) Antonescu and The
r nhae can create an atmos
u,eF er in ,5 BONANZA sympathetic t.
&c pr sne1-Aitlerite coalition"
do r nat indicated the Russian
less l'0t regard the situation as hope
rjot;o' despite such incidents as
and oi''' a5. between printers and police
lums. e'eiioeo as hooo
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-23
CARE COUNTS
Care taken by war plant work.

Care taken by war plant work
ers in handling tools and materials
means more equipment for our
soldiers. Enough material to build
a fourth airplane can be con-
airplanes. Enough rivets to bould
a fighter plane are swept up each
day in each of the nations air
craft plants. Proper cutting OF
sheet metal will allow several
more pieces than normally expect
ed to be cut from a piece Of sheet
metal. Tools hardened until they
are as brittle as glass will be
scrap in a short time unless pro-
erly handled by workers.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-23
Do FALSE TEETH
-. Rock. Slide or Sir?

= FASTEETH, an improved powder to be
sprinkled on upper or lower plates,
holds false teeth more firmly in place.
Do not slide, slip or rock. No gunlmy.
gcoey. pasty taste or feeling. FAS-
TEETH is alkaline mon acid. Does not
sour Checks "plate odor" ldenture
BREATH. Get FASTEETH at any drug
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-23

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-P)-
The Senate Military Committee, in
approving a revamped manpower
control bill today, shifted the pro-
posed fine-and-jail penalties from
industrial workers to their en-
ployers.
At the same time, the committee
voted for five years Imprisonment
and 5000 fine for deferred farm
workers who leave the farm With
out their draft boards permission.
Almost Immediately a move was
started tosubstitute the House ap-
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-23
EATS HIS SHIRT

PROVIDENCE, R. l., Feb. d.
Wn)- Vice President James P.
Adams Of Brown University literal
ly ate his shirt recently as he had
promised to do if the university
topped its $65, 1000 sixth war loan
goal. However, the shirt was made
of pastry.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-23
COWBOY PARKS sTEED

CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 222. -
U.H-A cowboy rode his horse UP
to parking meter in Cheyenne re-
Gently, dismounted, tossed his reins
over the post, dropped five cents
in the slot and strobe away on
high-heeIed boots.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-23

One hundred forty-eight forests
are controlled by the United States
government.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-05-16
WHY MORE ARE NEEDED IN THE SEVENTH

80 As the fury of the fight for victory
mounts, the COST of war becomes higher.
The nearer we get TO the heart of the en-
envy, the longer our communication lines
become. ! hat means more trucks, more
transport planes, thousands of more troop
and supply vessels. We need more special
equi pment, more B-20's and planes of all
types, more tanks, more guns-more Of
every weaPonuf war. There are thousands
OF "aNsln which Your money is needed TO
supply our fighters with the best
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-28
Circus Tour
 opordized

Sarasota, Fla, March 28-UP)- The greatest show on earth headed for New York today, but even the clowns forgot to be fun- ny-aware that after a single en- gagement the circus might have to return to quarters.
 As the animals and. performers boarded gaudy red and yellow rail- road cars, Robert Ringing, pres ident of the Ringing Bros, and Barnum and Bailey circus said that if present expectations ma terialize. the rest of the tour would have to be cancelled.
 Sine the devastating "big top" fire last summer at Hartford, Conn.,, which cost 168 lives, the cir GUS has been shouldered with rising debts resulting from claims filed against it.
 In addition, Hartford courts found six major employees guilty of criminal negligence in connec- tion with the fire and sentenced them to jail terms beginning April 6, only two days after the show opens in Madison Square Garden, New York.
 Ringing said that without these six key men, the circus would have to pack up and return to its win ter quarters at the end of the New York run.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-28
Entire Nazi Front Appears
 Disintegrated Thousands
 Of Planes Hit Fleeing Foe
BY BOYD D. LEWIS

Paris, March 28. = (UPy The seven Allied armies of the west struck with their full ar1nored power along the German 200-mile battle line east of the Rhine today in a series of break throughs that sent American tank columns to within 230 miles or less of Berlin.
 Hundreds of American and British tanks swept ahead of the advancing infantry di- visions and raced almost un- opposed across the flaming Reich anywhere from 20 to 90 miles beyond the Rhine. The entire German front ap. peared to have disintegrated.
 Into a few blazing hours that threatened Germany with her greatest military disaster of the war were packed these developments
 The American First Army swept 60 miles or more beyond the middle Rhine to the outskirts of Giessensg 230 miles southwest of Berlin, split ting through the center of the Wehrmacht front and outhank1ng Frankfurt z
 Lieutenant General George s. Dol ipI ct into Frankfurt and 45 miles be- yond in a free-swinging drive for the vital factory city of Schwein- furt, 90 road miles east of the Rhine. Patton's men unofdcially were reported striking north near Fulda, 198 miles from Berlin, and southeast within 30-odd miles of Nuremberg.
 The American Seventh Army broke out of it's Rhine bridgehead south of Patton's men and raced ahead to the Main river S miles east of the Rhine.
 The American Ninth Army crack ed into the northern flank of the Ruhr and outdanked that great German arsenal with surprise armored drive last reported sweep ing swiftly eastward almost 20 miles east of the Rhine. Radio Luxem- bourg said rioting had broken out In the Ruhr.
 Huge tank formations of the Bri- tish Second Army still farther north were loose in the Westphaian Plains 20-odd miles beyond the Rhine and less than 270 miles due west of Berlin.
 Britains Foreign Secretary, An- thony Eden, served notice on the Nazi leaders that Adolf Hitler has been branded as the number one German war criminal. British sole diers in the field, he told the House of Commons, can decide for them.
 Continued on Page 4)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-28
Cool Miners Poll Starts
By CHARLES II. HERROLD

Washington, March 28.-(UP)- The nations 100000 soft coal mi ners were being polled today on their willingness to strike if their new wage demands are not granted by time the present contract ends at midnight Saturday.
 The vote was expected to be over whelmingly in favor of strike. But it was virtually certain that the government would step in before the Saturday deadline to prevent a halt in coal production.
 The polls were scheduled to be open from a. m. to p. m., local time, in all bituminous producing areas. The National Labor Rela- tions Board, which is conducting the balloting, said it hoped to have final results tabulated by a. m. to- morrow. The poll will cost about $500 000, most expensive ever con" ducted under the Smith -Connally anti-strike law.
 The official ballot advised the miners that the issues were 'ques" tions relating to negotiations of q new contract" They were asked to vote yes or no on this one ques- tion:
 "Do you wish to permit an inter ruption of war production in var.
 Continued on Page A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-28
Circus Given
 Hearing Date

Hartford, Conn, March 28-CUP) Hearing on motion to reopen the circus fire cases today was set for next Monday before Superior Court Judge William J. Shea.
 William l.. Hadden, attorney for Ringling- Brothers Barnum & Bai- ley Combined Shows, Inc, and for the six circus officials sentenced by Judge Shea to jail and prison terms on manslaughter charges in connection with the circus fire which took 168 lives here last July, moved for suspension of the sen- tences or for permission to change the pleas of his clients. William Galley, seatman, has begun his one-year jail term, but the five other men received a stay of exc cution of sentence until April 6 in order to help get the circus req dy for the 1945 season.
 Hadden told Judge Shea that he knew that Doyle Carlton and Spessard Holland, former governors of Florida, had conferred with Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin and States Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn, Jr., about the circus cases and had said they believed imposition of sen- tences against the five men might interfere with operation of the cir GUS this year. The former goVer- nors are representing the state of Florida, which owns 300 shares of circus stock.
 Alcorn said he had heard of uni
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-28
Yunks Sweep
 Across Cebu
By H. D. QUIGG

Manila, March 28-(UP)-Ameri- can invasion forces swept over Cebu today to within two and a half miles of burning Cebu city, capital of the Central Philippines Island.
 Elements of the American divis- ion, which landed on the mil1e- streWn beach at Talisay on the east coast Monday, were battling the Japanese garrison at Pardo just south of the capital. Cebu city is the second largest port in the Philippines.
 Huge fires were reported out of control in Cebu city and the Jap- anese apparently were following their theme of distraction, which devastated Manila and other island capitals in the Archipelago.
 A naval bombardment from cruisers and destroyers covered the landing by Mai Gen. w. H. Ar holds veterans of Guadalcanal and Bougainville.
 Although the Japanese were caught off guard by the invasion, the shallow beaches were mined and the assault troops ran into mortar fire from the Talisay area, five miles south of Cebu city.
 Bombers and fighters of the 18th Air Force joined the drive and blasted a path for the ground forces as they cut across the narrow guage rail line and moved onto the hard. surface road parallelling the coast.
 Five small villages were swept I'D
 (Continued. on Page 4)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-28
Meat Yarns ConfIictinQ
By ANN HICKS

Washington, March 28.-UP)- American civilians got conflicting stories from their government to- day on how much meat they could expect to eat this year.
 OPA said they would have more than they did before the war.
 The War Food Administration said 1t would be less
 And at the same time, the Labor Departments Bureau of Labor sta- tistics told housewives something they already know-that they can't buy much at their butchers these days except hot dogs and bologna.
 War Food Administrator Marvin Jones made the WFA's meat fore cast last night as he briefed the country on the food situation. He said there was nothing to get "hys- terical" about.
 Jones termed meat one of the fighting mans most essential re- quirements, advised civilians to be ready to sacrifice" a little, and added fiatly:
 "In review of the greatly in- creased military demands, you and I will average about seven or eight pounds less during this year than the average in the five years before the war"
 Deputy Price Administrator James F. Brownlee told the senate food investigating committee that the civilian meat supply in 1945 would be 92,OO0,000 pounds larger than it was during the average year from 1886 to 1889.
 Sen. Harlan J. Bushfield. R.. SD, said he couldn't believe it, but Browplee said the civilian meat sup ply averaged l6.303, ,O00. GOO pounds a
 (Continued on Page D
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-28
Tanks Invade Keromo Isles
Bv FRANK TREMATNE


 Guam, March 28-CUP)-Tokyo said that American carrier planes raided southern Japan today in support of the reported invasion of the Kerama Islands, 380 miles to the southwest.
 A broadcast Domei News Agency Dispatch said that approximately 90 carrier planes raided Kyushu, south ernmost of the Japanese home is- lands, this afternoon (Japanese time) The raid was centered on the Miyazaki and Kagoshipa pre- lectures in the southern part of the island, Domei said.
 An early Tokyo raido broadcast reported that American reinforce ments had landed in the Kerama islands, southwest of Kyushu, and said savage battles" were under way.
 The invasion of the Keramas, part of the Okinawa group, is only a prelude to imminent landings on 0kinawa Island itself, site of an A...,ortant naval base and several elrfields in Japan's inner defense seAt, Radio Tokyo said.
 Supporting American warships, Including at least Il battleships and 15 aircraft carriers, shelled and bombed Okinawa and other islands to the west and south for the sixth straight day today, Tokyo said.
 Pacific fleet headquarters re- mained silent on the enemy reports of landings in the Keramas, but confirmed that warships and car- rier planes continued yesterday to attack enemy forces and and de- fense installations" in the Ryukyu chain, of which the Okinawa group is part.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-28
Allied Drive. Cost Germans 100000 Men
By EDWARD ROBERTS

London, March 28-(UP)-Ger- man casualties in the battle of the Rhine have cut the enemy's com- bat divisions west of Berlin to few CT than 100000 men, and at least one-third of these are of very doubtful" fighting caliber, a Brit ish military commentator said to- day.
 This informant estimated that eight to 10 German divisions-80, 900 to 100000 men-Were knocked out in the great Allied drive across the Rhine.
 These divisions, he said, can be written off because their strength is so low they are no longer able to exist as separate formations"
 The Wehrmacht now has only 55 to 57 divisions. possibly 550,O0O to 570,000 troops, to defend the western roads to Berlin, the British expert said. He asserted that few if any of these units are up to combat strength, apart from the Elite Guard Paratroop and Panzer Divisions which received priority in the Ger man build-up that preceded the crossing of the Rhine.
 The estimate of Germany's re- maining forces in the west, it was emphasized, covered only divisional formations. It did not include the tens of thousands of non-divisional troops who have been assignedt largely to hold the isolated Atlantic ports in the rear of the Allied lines.
 In the east, where Germany had 160 to 170 divisions massed before the Russian winter drive began, the British commentator estimated that the enemy now has about 120 divisions or about 100000 men.