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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-25
Don't HObble Oil Industry

One of the nations leading oil men, when
tal oil reserves, said: II do not have the re-
hottest idea, and neither does anyone else. But
on the basis OF past experience, it appears
that we have explored only about half the po-
tential oil lands in the continental United Sta
tes' He then pointed out that the only way to
find out what is in the unexplored part is to
drill holes and see.
Given reasonable encoura cement and with
out unnecessary deterrents by governmental
interference, it is the consensus of our indus
Try that. il necessary, it can supply the people
sf the United States with oil. from within It's
borders for many years to come. The oil in
dustry is concerned about the present stua-
ton, for it is a stupendous job to supply the
to have to cut down the civilian supply. The
present situation is for concern because,
momentarily, we are using oil faster than we
are making new discoveries. The primary
reason for that is that we are not drilling
enough exploratory wells and the reasons for
that are shortage of materials due to other
war demands for these same materials: Sc
Yious shortage of skilled manpower: and 2
frozen price structure which we do not think
sufficiently encourages wildcattng We can
not find oil unless we hunt for it. Every oil
man is convinced that, as soon as the restric
tive influences I mentioned disappear new
and rich oil reservoirs will be found
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-25
Hitler's "Lucky Month"

1t started back in 1888, this legend that
March is Hitler's month. 1t was then that
an election was held which gave Hitler his
first effective populfr will victory. 1t was
only partial triumph, to be sure, but paved
the way "constitutionally'' for all that has
followed when it coupled Nazi brutality with
the Third Reich government Then, on March
II, ten years ago. Hitler and the German
General staff introduced consumption and
openly began the great rearmament program
that led directly to this war.
In the meantime, on March 10, 1898, Ger
man forces entered Austria and a year later
the rape of Czechoslovakia was committed.
Yes, March seemed Hitlers lucky month
for a time Now, we don't know how he,
personally, is fairing. But the nation he looted
and led into war; is under assault, and from
within its own boundaries. March may yet
prove Hitlers and Germanys most tragic
month of all the year.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-25
Two-Way Trade Lanes

The Jeffersonian formula OF tariff for reve-
nue. only underwent sudden resurrection the
other night at the hands of James A. Farley,
former Postmaster General and chairman Of
the National Democratic Committee, during
an address on Port of New York Day. before
the Foreign Commerce club, in which he dis
cussed postwar trade problems and the need
for two way trade lanes when the world is
ready to resume its commerce.
It is his view as then expressed that to
enable Europe to get on IT'S feet there must
be 1.-TWO way trade lane,'' and lending
machinery, mot necessarily out Of our gen.
crosby but out of our business sense, because
Europe will need loans for reconstruction. "
He further holds that we must be ready to
trade in kind-the only way in which Europe
will be able to make payments
eff we are going to sell abroad, we must
buy Abroad he said IF we are going to lend
abroad, we must accept goods from abroad,
1t is hopeful sign that both political parties
are developing an increasing interest in the
problem in recognition of the fact that the
modern position of the United States in the
world makes it necessary that we reconsider
many of the tariff policies of the past"
Mr.. Farley saw test of American thinking
on tariff in the offing when the Reciprocal
Trade Agreements Act comes up for renewal
in Congress this spring.
IF the vote is Close he said, ut may
mean that the Administration will hesitate to
move resolutely toward larger exchange Of
goods. If the vote is by a wide margin we
may expect sentiment In both parties to move
progressively toward real reconsideration Of
our tariff policy now that American prejudices
in favor of higher tariffs are subsiding before
the great facts Of American efficiency and nee
essities''
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-25
The Final Assault

The battle was moving so fast on n e
Western front when this was prepared it would
be hazardous even to guess where the Allied
forces had moved on to by the time it reaches
the reader All that we may know for certain
is that Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Mont
gomery has said that the final assault on
Germany is under way.
Thursday night in a surprise maneuver Gen.
eral George S. Patton, Jr., sent his Ihlro Army
across the Rhine in amphibious tanks and as
sault boats, without drawing single shot from
the enemy, and establishing bridgehead start
ed inland toward Berlin. The landing &C
cording to German reports was at Oppenhelm'
ten miles south Mainz, although the Allied
command has been silent on this phase OF the
operation.
General Patton was no more than well IN
motion toward the Reich capital that the
American Ninth army stormed across t h
Rhine, working il closest cooperation with the
Second British army and the Allied First Air
borne Army, in the greatest assault the his
toric river barrier has ever known. With the
American First army occupying a bridgehead
at Remagen and American and British forces
reaching the east bank Of the river constantly,
it seems that German resistance, already at
low ebb, must soon end.
This makes the German High Commando
announced decision to 60 on with the war
mo matter under what conditions the more
The Allied drive obviously is
against the Ruhr, the German arsenal, which
will be taken. When that is done, the German
army cannot 60 on fighting, whatever t h e
High Command decides.
With the Russians again increasing the pace
of their attack on the east the pincers are
the Nazi fanatics as well as the
Prussians commanding the military forces
How soon the end can be brought about is
dependent upon the power behind the sinful
taneous assault from the West and the East
upon their homeland that the two great forces
now driving ahead can apply.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-25
By HAL BOYLE

WITH THE U. S. NINTH AR
MORED DIVISION IN GERMANY
-LP)-The first doughboys to cross
the Rhine are not waiting for con-
gress to vote extra combat pay for
frontline medical men. They are
divided up among themselves to
take care of their own aid men.
They take care of us SO We'll
take care of them" say doughboys
of the 9th armored infantry bat.
talon.
Wearers of the combat infantry
mans blue badge get $40 month
more pay than soldiers in rear
areas, but it does not include the
medics, who take equal risks.
Doughboys of the 9th battalion
pool enough money so that every
aid man in the Medical detachment
gets an extra ten bucks.
This goes to men like ia Ro-
land K. Epperson, (3418 R ST. Lin
coin, Neb., who walked through
heavy ack ack fire across the
Ludendorff bridge while carrying a
wounded man on his back. And IA
Arthur ]. Westbrook of Glover, Ok
la, who used a captured German
bicycle to carry medical supplies
to the Remagen bridge site and
then ran the gauntlet of artillery
shells time after time to bring back
and treat infantrymen wounded in
the heavy enemy barrages.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-25
FIGHTINGEsT DOUGHBOYs

Pop" Adams may not be tn e
oldest doughboy on the western
front-but he is one of the fighting
est.
Pop is s-Sgt. Earl A. Adams,
81, who is fighting in his second
world war He was a sergeant in
the last war and has at least two
notches on his MI rifle.
He got them by saving the life
of an officer in a Goth armored
infantry battalion. 1t. Albert NJ.
Banta, OSLO Whitney ST. Houston,
Tex, was walked up to check cas-.
ualties in a machinegun squad
when two German snipers took a
bead on him. Pop spotted them
and dropped them in one-two Or
der before they could fire.
Adams, brother of Mrs. Mar
celia Wynn, 1904 Forteguste Ave.
Sunbury, Pa, is not interested wher
half envious younger men poin+
out that doughboy who is pas
so years old could get out of the
army right easily.
Il am here to stay until it's ov
err he saws
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-25
Question And Answer

It is easier to follow this thrust into Ger
many, in the opinion of Dewitt Mackenzie,
Associated Press analyst, if the situation is
summed up in question and answer form. In
complete agreement with him, we herewith
reproduce both his questions and his answers:
Question What are the immediate Allied
detectives? Answer, Cd To capture the great
industrial Ruhr, which has been Hitler's num-
Der one source of war manufactu (2) To
force the six German armies Cor remnants
Of armies) to make a stand, with the pur-
pose of annihilating them. 90 To open the
routes to Berlin and the heart of the Reich
for junction with the Russians.
Question: What are the purposes Of the
Hitlerites? Answer: To do exactly what
they've been doing for long months, namely,
continue to wage q defensive delaying ac-
ton. Having fought, those who are able will
run away, to continue the battle somewhere
else-perhaps in southern Germany-another
day.
Question: What general strategy Will the
Allies follow? Answer: Your map will show
you that the Ruhr stretches back from the
Rhine in the Duisburg sector. The Ruhr is
densely covered with factories and towns, and
presents tremendous obstacle for an at
lacking army. This being So why should the
Allies make a frontal attack? The answer
is that they may not, but may choose the
alternative of thrusting out on both sides of
the Ruhr and dealing with it after they have
it in a sack.
Question: Is there chance Of the Allies sur
prising the Germans? Answer: The Hitlerites
are on, the qui vive but there is chance OF
surprise in that they lack 1.-The forces to de-
fend their entire front and the Allies might
fling an attack at a lightly held position.
Question: What is the relative strength of
the opposing forces? Answer. The Nazis are
badly mauled and disorganized along much of
the front. The Allies have numerical superb
ority in troops, and vast superiority in
armor and other equipment They also are
going into battle with the greatest air-force
ever got together to oppose the ghost of the
once huge luftWaffe.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-25
U. s. MAY ENTER
COAL DISCUSSIONS

WASHINGTON, March 24-IR-
The first sign of possible govern,
ment intervention in the sou CO.
contract negotiations came 1ooa'
head Of the U. S. Cancellation sew
when Howard T. Colvln, actns
head of the U. S. Cancellation seiH
ice. conferred with John l.. Leu.'
and Charles O'Neill, represeA'a
tive of the operators. II,
Colvin appeared on the scene ~.
the first time since the negtlauoll ~,
began March /. He lmneais.e!ti1,
consulted separately with y Ne'4
and Lewis.
Two Cancellation commissioner
Thomas Lambert and John T. Az
dicks, have been present through tss
out the negotiations, OUTSIDE wv
door, but have not thus lar nl''-
coded.
The present contract expires a
week from today. The neg0"N
tons begun March /.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-25
TODAY and TOMORROW
BY WALTER LIPPMANN

when we remember how we have
hitherto explained why there is nc
popular rebellion in Germany. The
usual explanation, which in the
earlier years was probably suffl-
cient, has been that an unarmed
population cannot rise up against
an armed and ruthless govern
ment. But since last summer a
very large part of the male cl-
william pop ia O n have been
armed, and have been thrown IN
to the fighting as a so-called PEG
pies army They we re well
enough armed to cause us a good
deal of trouble in the Siegfried
line, and so it can hardly be ar
eued that they were not well
enough armed to overpoWer the
Gestapo somewhere.
It has also been argued that
there is no German popular uprls-
ing because our terms are so
harsh, the fear of Russia so great.
that Goebbels has been able by
propaganda to inspire fanatlcal
resistance. We are finding that
once General Eisenhower broke
through the fixed positions, the
peoples army has not fought ia
natically. The notion that the Ger
man people are making an heroic
but suicidal defense of their nome
land is a myth.
The heroic and suicidal defense
is being carried out by that rem
nant of the German army which
consists of Panzer divisions and
paratroopers. But tn clvlllan
army has neither the fanaticlsm
to die rather than to surrender,
no the patriotic courage to rise
up and save, if not Germany, then
at least a few German cities, from
useless devastation.
The situation is, OF course, oil
ferent from what we found In lta-
~. But in one important respect
Italy gave us a faint hint OF what
Is to come in Germany. 1t is that
after ten or fifteen years of totall-
tartan rule, those who might like
to restore some sort OF free gov
eminent are if not dead, then too
en1eebled by persecution, or too
oAo' or too young and inexperi-
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-25

enced, to take over power effec.
lively. In Germany the totalitarian
process of corrupting the will pow.
er and reason OF men was car.
ried out with a systematic thor
oughness which was never posi-
BILE, or attempted, in Italy. And
that is why we are finding that
the German civilian population
does not rebel against the Nazis
nor die rather than surrender to
us.
Stain, who has been weu-in.
formed about Germany, appears
to have understood from the be-
ginning that the Nazi power would
not be overthrow by a popular
rebellion, that neither the old So
clal Democrats and trade union
lists. nor the Communists, were
capable of organizing and leading
a rebellion. The only possible can
didate for the leadership of re-
belllon was the hereditary Prus-
sian military caste. Last July it
MADE a serious attempt to over
throw Hitler. But it was a failure
and almost certainly the reason
was that the Prussian officers
have themselves been so corr,,nt-
ed by Nazism that they were in
capable OF organizing an efficient
conspiracy. The effect of their
failure was to deliver them into
Hitler's hands, and to enable him
to destroy their power to bring
about az unconditional surrender
OF the whole of Germany.
what we are witnessing now is
a spectacle which the word defeat
no longer describes. It is the dis.
indignation of Germany as a ma.
tlonal state Like the cities Ger.
many as corporate entity is be-
ing reduced to rubble. In a house
winch has been blasted bv a
bomb, the materials which were
the house are still there but thew
are dust and loose stones and hits
OF metal and wood. In Germany
mere Will remain individuals.
families, villages, and even popu-
lated towns. But the institutional
structure will have been so broken
down everywhere, and in many
parts so pulverized, that we can
not yet imagine how Germany is
to be governed by the Allies, and
how from the ruin a German DO
htlcal society is to be constructed
again.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-25

The enormity of the German
condition is just beginning to be
dimly visible, now that an impor-
tant region like the Rhineland is
in Allied hands. No one, l think,
had imagined in advance what
would be the consequences when
highly developed nation, though
Enthusiastically defeated, is unable
to surrender.
There has been much discussion
among us bout whether we
should demand an unconditional
surrender, or of f er Germany
terms of surrender. The debate
has tuned out to be meaningless.
For under either formula there
had to be some German national
authority, the successor to the
Nazi power, to accept the formu-
la. But what Hitler has succeeded
in doing is to arrange it SO that
there is in existence no national
authority of any kind to follow
him, none which can surrender
Germany as a national state, be
it condit;onally or Internationally.
IT. as many have wished to be-
lieve, there were in Germany an
organized underground resistance
movement. comparable to that
which existed in the occupied
countries. it must by this time
have shown its hand. We know, of
course. that there are individuals
and even groups OF German anti
Nazis who at great personal risk
have committed sabotage and es-
n;onage to help the Allies. But
there is no evidence that thew
have been part of national re-
s;stance movement which has
been preparing underground to
take over power as the Nazis fall.
II there were such a movement
= would. one must suppose. have
ooue to the surface somewhere
IN one of the many German towns
~ the Rhjneland which our armies
I've overr1n. Powerful and ter
living as is the Gestapo. it can.
nnf be so omnipresent in the chaos
~ ~ the retreat across the Rhine
ut nowhere as yet has an un-
dtIelareround committee been able to
u e;z 81 q city and be in control
: sJ,e we entered it.
With This is all the more striking
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-25
Without Shame

TO show their patriotism, Seattle welders
maintained a strike for II days, which was
damaging to ship construction. Then they went
back to work. Theirs is only one of countless
work stoppages Of similar nature Strikers
suffer no penalties so long as other men fight
and die to maintain strikers right to loaf.
Men who strike and keep others from working,
while their brothers die, must be without
shame.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-25
KEEP LINES INTACT

Three signal corps men who kept
telephone lines intact across t h e
Ludendorf bridge can qualify as
champion quarter mile sprinters.
They strung the first telephone line
across the river at Remagen.
1t was just matter Of grabbing
the wire and running like h II
across" said Pvt. Jack B. Sheahan
of Hutchinson, Kans. He and T-5
John Finder Of Spencer, Ind, dash
ed across the span with machine
gun bullets splattering at h e r
heels while Pvt. Ademar Breaux,
Jr., Of Loreauville, La, unrolled
wire.
Each time enemy artillery knock
ed out the line the three signal
corps soldiers had to gallop out on
the rocking bridge to replace or
repair the strands.
1T sure seemed like a thankless
job" said Finder, 1T was three
days before the line stayed intact. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-25
.USO Industrial Club
Plans Dance Thursday

The USO Industrial club, at ~
Princess street, is featuring
dance on Thursday, with music '.
Guy Billiard. The schedule 1of '"'
entire week will be: q
Sunday, Open house, pm
pm. !
Monday, Basketball girls als
boys) 8 pm; Jitterbug class
pm.
Tuesday, Girls Gym class
pm; Social dancing class, pm.
Wednesday, Special dancing c-a.'
7:30 pm; Bridge class, 0;5o jpg ,rJ
Thursday, Dance, Guy bu1''
and his orchestra, s pm.
Friday, movies.
Saturday-Open house
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-25
New Japanese Offensive

Chinese farmers have been busy raising
crop of wheat in southern Honan and northern
Hupeh provinces. Probably the crop is not
what we commonly call bumper" Chinese
farmers are not far advanced in agriculture
and besides they have been fighting a war
for long time and most of the younger men
are under arms or under the sod. But at
least there is wheat that would help tide
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-25
WAR CORRESPONDENTS NOTEBOOK
"7hey Took Care of Us"

Afterward Gibble, with the per.
mission of his command general,
accepted the surrender of the hos
pital town of Linz, where the Ger
mans had 600 patients.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-25
FIRST CHAPLAIN OVER

The first Chaplain over the Rhine
was William T. Gibble, who had
been wounded twice during the
battle of St. With.
Chaplain Gibble held prayer
of Thanksgiving in the railroad
Ludendorff bridge the morning aft
er it was seized. Thirty soldiers of
all faiths attended the services.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-25
TOP O, THE MORNING

You will notice that Jesus did not feed the
multitude He created the food and asked
His discipls to distribute 1t. Jesus was the
Cneator-not the waiter-at this banquet.
Jesus created salvation in His death on the
cross. That is the food that will feed the
xniritua1 hunger of this world. But the task
nj distributing it is in the hands Of His
fellows. From Billy Sunday.
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Fresh. moist, delicious dates
Allied with either walnut meats
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Music. Doncins. Dromoties C-3

CAPITOL. Schools OF Music and
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Roseville, Gratiot avenue at Utica
road. Featuring such teachers as Ray
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Studios also in East Detroit. 9 Mile
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