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Detroit evening times., 1945-10-26

with more brain eenters tthan
any of the other Ii senses. For
that reason 1t Is the keenest Of
all senses. AS stated by chemist
Marston T. Bogert, u. Of Chi
cago, your nose can detect one
part of camphor in 100000
parts of water, musk. one in
100000; vanilla, one in TO-
100000. The nose can smell one
twenty-thousandth of a milli-
gram (which is one-thousandth
of a grain) Of altar Of roses.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-26
Connolly Answers

Ia. &c. 3-a. "A. 5rc. e.
(a) horse: (b) fire. (c)
served; td) does; (e) aatu-
raj.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-26

Any Questions?
THE ROfT TIMES
4 mails personal answers TO
questions about the needs
and welfare. rights and privi-
leges OF servic IN n and
women, veterans and their
dependents.
Many answers are printed
daily I'm this column, but ALL
questions will be answered
directly by mail.
Address questions this way:
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Detroit evening times., 1945-10-26

WHEN a fat person Is sud-
w denly seized with an attack
OF severe pam ia The upper part
Of the abdomen. has no fever,
but von1Its and develops shock
or collapse, ii Is possible that
the condition known as acute
pancreatitis is present. This is
disorder IN which there ~ in
flammation OF the pancreas. the
gland that supplies the body
with insulin needed so that the
body can use sugars
In addition 10 these symptoms
there may be severe pain in the
left upper part Of the abdomen
when il Is touched and there IS
also swelling OF the abdomen
IN ACUTE pancrestitis there
i may be edema or swelling OF
the tissues OF the pancreas. due
10 a collection OF fluid in them,
together with inflammation. This
, type 0t disturbance may gradu-
ally Subside
In other instances. the trouble
y-Ae--a!.s--ta-spIsat-is--Ss!!ed-
hemorrhagic necrosis, that rs
death or me TISSUES in The pam
creas. together with hemorrhage
into them and. in such instances,
prompt operation is necessary.
Hence, when acute pancreatitis
occurs IL is necessary 10 know
which Of the two types is pres
ent 90 that proper treatment
may be carried out.
ACCORDING 10 DR.. John
"a Morton of Rochester, n. Y.
this distinguishing one condition
\ from the other may be accom-
plished by the study OF a certain
substance found in the blood and
called amylase. Amylase is an
engine or substance which
breaks UP Starches and IL is pos
sible 10 measure the amount OF
amylase present by certain
chemical tests.
In patients with edema Of the
pancreas the amylase in the
blood rises rapidly TO high
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-26

THE Showfolks: Spencer
L Tracy, starring in Robert f.
Sherwood 5 The Rugged Path,
packed the National Theater,
Washington. Not single seat
left for the entire engagement.
Although critical opinions
on "Therese2 at the Biltrnnre
Theater were conflicting. the
melodrama is sold out until Dec.
]. II attracted SGT 900 in Phila-
delphia the previous week,
record for the Locust Street
T'heater there "Polonalse"
didn't get one pattycake from
the New York critics, but the
audiences all through the first
week -reEaalaned- their -pasrs-
latter the final curtain) and
-cfapppd IKE KTds LOUISE
Rainer also had two Broadway
play offers but disregarded them
10 produce her own image.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-26

don't kao,o ,0hot tools We WW use IN the nert lca
But this kit tCtH do until the more modern piunbes gt
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-26

Lenore Aubert, the beautiful
Frenchie that Sam Goldwyn
gave a huildup- fora year-aS
THE Girl With the Most Beau
tiful Eyes Since Wilma Banky"
tand then dropped, is starting
all over again at Republic :.
OF all things! Billy Minsky. the
burlesk king, once worked on a
New York paper as a society
reporter
Owe Letter -offhs Week:
Il From the Oct. Consrss.
sionai Record fths quote 10 a
complaint by Norman Thomas.
famed Socialist. stcstsro): The
worst of IL is that supporters OF
common sense can barely get a
hearing on the radio or in the
press Senators Of very largely
different political beliefs have
told me that a large part Of their
correspondence merely echoes
the outpourings of a WineheH
or some less popular eommen-
foforv
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-26

Folks, feeling of pride up in your throat tina
tips your hat That Is the feet that really busted in tn
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-26

pull mistakes of the London conference
1922 when sank while they tore up blueprnts
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-26
BUGS BAER
One Word Led
to Another
prtruft Time,

vXyELL, took my 2020 specacles down to the Hudsc
w River. / saw 20 battlescows with eye and 20 mo-
with the other.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-05
Local Shipyard Gives
$4,000 To N. c. State
Engineering Foundation

RALEIGH, Jan. 4.-iR-A gift of
90 o00 has been presented h e
North Carolina Engineering foun-
cation and N. C. State College by
me North Carolina Shipbuilding
20, of Wilmington.
Coi. j. W. Harrelson, admins
native dean of State College, said
m q letter of appreciation to Cap
ram Roger Williams, president of
Tue shipyard, that the gift would
De used to carry out the objec-
yves of the foundation.
me foundation plans to expand
e@A.slneering research facilities at
o'aie College, to improve teaching
!aclhtleS to strengthen the colleges
lhStructional staff, and to develop
plan OF engineering extention
whereby the college hopes to broad
an It's services to industry.
tarrelson said the company S
SilC was the largest yet presented
he foundation, headed by outgo-
ing Governor Broughton. The foun-
oatlon recently was chartered to
promote engineering education and
ssaearch at the college.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-05
War Casualties Cause
I" ODT To Warn Citizens
Against Florida Trips

WASHINGTON, Jan. ..4.-UP)-
Defense Transportation Director j.
Monroe Johnson today warned
travellers planning Florida vaca-
tons that they will have addition.
al Inconvenience as a result of
the German counteroffensive,
which he. said would mean higher
casualty movements. 81
"The military situation in Eu-
rope means more than a bulge on
the war MAPS" he said, 'As soon
as the wounded are in condition to
be moved to this country they will
be shipped to various East coast
ports In order to effect the trans
fer from shipside to hospital with
speed and dispatch, it will be nee
essary to call on the railroads for
the needed equipment The first
place we must look for extra equip
nnent is on the regular runs Of
the roads serving resort areas"
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-05
COAL MERCHANTS
CURTAIL SERVICE
Customers Cannot Get De.
livery On Less Than
One Ton

Deliveries of coal in Whining
ton have been placed under rigid
restrictions following meeting
of local merchants with John L.
Ingram, ODT representative, il
was announced last night.
Complying with ODT General
Order II and Amendment B, the
merchants agreed not to accept
any orders for less than one ton
of coal except in case of emergen-
CIV and not to accept any orders
for delivery at specific time.
Taking action, to conserve. tires,
trucks, gasoline and cnanpower,
the companies said that they
would not deliver coal into any
bin where there was as much as
one ton of coal on hand.
The requested cutomers in
rural areas VINO have means Of
transportation to haul their own
coal for the duration.
Before attempting to deliver any
coal, it will be ascertained il
there is a receiver for the deliv.
cry and driveways must be clear.
They ask that receivers have
correct change for payment if the
order is COD, and no call backs
Tor special deliveries can be made.
The merchants further agreed
to furnish truck. drivers, helpers.
other equipment and employees tc
assist each other in unloading and
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-05
Stimson Explains Delay
In Compiling Casualties

ers-brought the overall total tc
638,139.
Stimson also warned at news
conference that despite the early
success of American counter meas.
ures, the Nazis still possess enough
forces within the breakthrougt
area to launch sizeable offensive
actions-to make another punch
possible
He said that while any new at
tack probably would not be com.
parable to the recent assault, the
Germans are determined if pos
sible to prevent Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower from regaining lost
ground. The German thrusts along
the Saar are designed to this end,
he said. r.-s-.
Having made his GAMBLE he
said 1.-The enemy is not yet pulling
out. He is not willing to retire
from his temporary advantages.
He has dug in at certain points or
the perimeter and maintained
enough troops in the, center to
make another punch possible
He reported that American tank
losses in the big German counter.
drive were only six per cent heav.
Ter than the normal monthly at
triton rate and that while it was
too early to give comprehensive
repor, materiel losses were heav'
lest in commune atoms equipment
and wire because Of the difficulty
of withdrawal.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-05
LABOR, CONGRESS
CENSURE BYRNES
AFL Paper Assails Meth
DDS To Dragon
Manpower

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 IR -
James F. Byrnes' proposed new,
tough manpower policy tonight
evoked a cascade of protest in
labor circles and on Capitol Hill.
Union publications sharply criti-
cized the war mobilizer' proposal
to draft 4-Fs for war jobs. Mem
bers of House and Senate levelled
their attack on the order to screen
young farm workers again for
possible military service.
A labor contention that there is
no shortage of workers for war.
supporting civilian tasks collided
sharply, however, with statements
of War ManpoWer Commission Of
ficials in various states who spoke
of serious" and acute short.
ages
The publication Labor, organ
of the railroad brotherhoods, ac-
cused Byrnes of acting like "a
bull in a china shop" 1t said a
confidential memorandum cir
culated in one of the war agen-
cies denied there is shortage.
The AFL weekly news service as
sailed methods ''to dragon man.
power"
Senator Kilgore (D-W VO hint
ed that he had in mind differ
ent approach than that adopted
by Byrnes. He suggested as a
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-05
Many Mighty Russian Armies Poised
At Warsaw For Decisive Winter Push

part Of the city, across the river
where the Germans are.
However, the Germans, though
they can not be seen, are en-.
trenched underground and behind
the vestiges Of war-Wrecked tene-
ments.
They broke the monotony of the
day with bullets and artillery
shells which wined or screamed
over US.
As we stood on the edge of no
mans land, more properly the
bank of no mans river, Col.
Prusk, tn e conducting officer,
said:
"This is quiet day-the same
kind as the quiet day on which
German shell killed or wounded
more than 10 civilians in Praga."
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-05
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. ~

New York from which it is sep.
arated by the East river.
From the banks of the Vistula,
I looked at the wreckage of one Of
Europe's greatest capitals, for War
saw is city of ruins.
Standing below one of the city
four bridges. saw mile afte~ mile
of desolation. The naked frame Of
a history building dominated the
skyline like a skeleton.
For miles behind the long line
of German trenches, pill boxes
and artillery emplac ements there
was no, sign of any living thing
in Warsaw.
Even from the highest point in
Praga and with the aid of power
full binoculars, l was unable to see
any sign of life in the western
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-05

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-UP)-
If will he some time before the
Nation learns the extent of Amer
lean casualties suffered in the re-
cent German counteroffensive,
Secretary of War Henry L. Slim
son said today.
He explained that compilation of
casualty figures is difficult when
elemen are withdrawing -. as
American troops were forced to do
before the Nazi surge was stopped.
Front dispatches have made it
plain that American losses were
heavy. The Germans claim to have
captured as many as $4,000 troops.
This does not take into account the
dead or wounded. German losses
have been estimated at $4,000 cap
tured, killed and wounded. Slim
son said that %, 430 were captured
from December Is, when the NaZi
drive started, through December
80 ~ %. r.
He said that U. S. Army COM
bat casualties reported to Wash
ington from all theaters through
December 81, but not including
those in the COMPREHENSIVE, to-
tai $50, 1852, including 1903, 1891 killed.
1926, 1877 wounded, 66,567 missing
and 59.667 prisoners of war. The
total is $3.50 greater than that an
nounced a week ago.
The latest Navy casualty tota
of 81, 1871 1892 dead, So, 697 wound
] ed, 9,277 missing and 4, 481 prison
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-05

Fifth War Loan last summer.
The Nation in its first Christ
mas season bond drive took u e
theme, The Wars Not Over
Yet and piled up one and halt
times the quota of IA billion dol
lars.
The hard-to-get quota Of $780,
100000 for series E bonds was al
so over subscribed.
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau,
announcing the final results at a
special news. conference, said final
sales of 1.-The peoples war bond"
were s2,S68, 900, 900.
This was not new record but
it was more than many Treasury
officials had dared to nope. The
Sixth was not only the first
Yule season drive, but it marked
the first time three drives h a d
been held in one year.
No exact figures Were ready on
sales to individuals and corpora
tons. But Morgenthau said indi-
vidual sales were about S., 900, 000,-
900, nearly billion dollars above
the Individual quota of $4,000, O0O,-
900.
Corporation sales were estimat-
ed at about SIS, 700, 100000.
The nine-billion-dollar corpora
ton goal was passed with ease
early in the drive as insurance
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-05
ELIAS Shell Athens &
Heart AS Plastiras
Seeks To End Fight

ATHENS Jan. q. -UP)- Bri.
fish troops occupied half of an
ELIAS stronghold and laid a wall
of shellfire across the roads north
of Athens today, and mortars Of
the insurgeat ELIAS killed or
wounded a number Of persons and
threw hundreds OF civilians into
panic by Smelling Constitution
Square in the heart Of Athens. 4
The fighting in and around Ath-
ems continued even as the new
government of Gen. Nicholas PIas.
tiras prepared to cope with the
task Of bringing peace to a nation
torn by civil strife. Troops of the
Left-Wing ELIAS organization or
the one side were pitted against
those of the British and the Greek
national guard on the other. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-05
F0RM0SA BLASTED
AGAIN BY PLANES
Huge Fleet Operations Off
Island Are Thought
Underway

U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Jan. 4.
= UP) Flying from powerful
task force, A m c n carrier
planes blasted Formosa, 220 miles
north of Luzon. and its companion
bastion of Okinawa, for the second
straight day Wednesday, Adm.
Chester w. Nimitz announced to-
day.
Japanese broadcasts, estimating
the attacking planes to number
400, connected the raids directly
with Philippine operations, limiting
at the possibility of new landings,
and the Japanese Domei agency
reported that a task force escort
ing a transport convoy had been
sighted in the Sulu.- Sea at the
southwest corner of the Philip
pines, seemingly to effect new
landings.'
Adm. Nimitz, announcing yes
terday's actually made to-
day, Japanese tlme-gaVe no De-
tails.
This was taken to mean that
the attacking naval force was still
in enemy waters and that radio
blackout was necessary.
Formosa, the great fortress is
land and Philippines supply base
22O miles north of Luzon, was the
chief target in both attacks. enc
my broadcasts indicated. Okinawa.
the chief island of the Okinawa
group in the Ryukyu islands, $50
miles east of Formosa, was Sec
ondary target.
/r.-A:.J ~ r r.V ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-05
RUSSIANS DESTROY
III ENEMY TANKS
German Attempts To Aid
Budapest Garrison
Repulsed

LONDON, Friday, Jan. sup
The Red Army, destroying III
German tanks and 70 planes in the
first three days of Germany's first
major counteroffensive on the East
ern Front in a year, yesterday re-
PEELED continuing enemy attempts
to break through to encircled Blu
dapest and expand small initial
gains.
The great mechanical battle
some 80 miles northwest OF Buda-
pest was increasing in feroclty.
Both sides were reported rushing
reinforcements into the struggle
which may decide the fate OF Blu
dapest and of the Red Arny's stall
led push toward Vienna.
Moscow's midnight communique
said units Of six tank divisions
and many infantry divisions were
taking part. and described the
German forces as Superior
That counterattack was smashed
when the Red Army opened drives
on seven OF eight other fronts, for
cling Field Marshal Fritz Erich Won
Mannstein to dispense his reserves.
Within the Hungarian capital, the
fanatical defense of Nazi Elite
Guard regiments appeared to be
weakening as Soviet fighters des-
troyed enemy transport planes at
tempting to fly supplies to be be-
leaguered garrison.
With concerted blows in Buda
and Pest, eastern and western
halves Of the capital, two Soviet
armies today captured 277 city
more than yesterday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-05
Freiighters.
|Luzon Waters
Another Is Ships Either
Sent To Bottom Or
Damaged

Allied Headquarters, Leyte,
Philippines, Friday, Jan. s.
(UP)-Lt. Gen. George c.
Kenney's Far Eastern force
bombers have sunk at least Is
Japanese vessels and possibly
sunk or damaged Is more in
Lingayen Gulf and Subic Bay
in the latest of their six-day
series of attacks on enemy
shipping around Luzon Island
in the northern Philippines, it
was disclosed today.
Five luggers also were sunk or
damaged by Kenney's airmen,,
who used Havoc attack bombers,
Mitchell medium bombers and
Warhawk fighterbombers in their
attacks. In addition, today's Al
lied communique reported that
light naval units operating in wa
ters west of Leyte had sunk Is
other vessels, II of which were
barges.
If there is no duplication in the
totals reported today and those
reported previously for air strikes
Tuesday, Allied airmen now have
sunk or damaged IS enemy vessels
IN Luzon waters in their six days
of attacks. This total does not in
clude the small luggers.
Two Allied planes were lost in
the shipping attacks Tuesday and
Wednesday.
The vessels hit ranged from 300
to 10000 tons, and included
freighters and transports, a sea-
plane carrier, three naval escorts
and a coastal vessel. The seaplane
carrier and IA freighters were
definitely sunk, a headquarters
spokesman said.
On Wednesday, Kenney's heavy
bombers, continuing their "reduc-
ton of the Clark air center"
bombed Clark Field destroying 20
Japanese planes aground and ex-
tending the attacks on enemy land
installations on the northern Phil
ippines island to five straight
days. Seventeen other enemy air.
craft were shot down by American
planes or anti-aircraft fire in 9TH
er actions throughout the Philip
pines.
No japanese fighters challenged
the Clark Field raiders, and the
communicate made no report of
enemy anti-aircraft fire.
Mitchell bombers also hit the
Negros and Cebu airdromes in the
Visayas Tuesday, destroying Il
planes by bombing or strafing,
and starting fires in supply posi-
lions. One bomber was lost to enc
my anti-aircraft fire. Off the north
coast OF Mindanao, American
fighters shot down two of nine
enemy planes attacking Allied
shipping
The Japanese struck back in
minor way, hitting shore installa-
tons and shipping Tuesday night
in a raid against Mindoro The
communique said the enemy in
flicted damage" but gave no de-
tails. A headquarters spokesman
said five separate raids were
made. Anti-aircraft guns shot
down three of the enemy planes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-05
Raging Storm
HampersYank
Artillerymen
Third Stands Up Under
Heavy Blows Without
Retreating

PARIS, Jan. 4.-(AP)-U-s
5. First Army armor and in-
fantry struck through a rag
ing blizzard today on a IT.
mile front, grinding out gains
up to three and a half miles
which put them scarcely II
miles from where the Third
Army was hammering back
an enemy onslaught led by
400 tanks.
Berlin broadcasts said British
tanks and the U. S. Ninth Army
had joined the offensive on the
north, and the U. S. Seventh en-
tered the struggle from the south.
indicating Gen Eisenhower was
throwing such powerful forces in
to the battle that he had abandon,
ed his winter drive into Germany)s
The fury Of the Doughboy attack
matched the fury of the elements.
Three Belgian towns were engult"
ed. at least six others were enter'
ed, and the battle to drive the ems
envy from Belgium for the second
time in four months was breaking
inside the main German northern
6efenses.
On the south, the Third Army
stood up under great enemy blows
withous losing an inch Of ground,
then dashed out with half-mlle
gains both east and west of Bias"
togne which cut to three and a
half miles the neck Of five-nlle
deep box between Bastogne and
Wilt, 10 miles to the east. -
American artillery fire was burst-
ling in the ranks of the Germans
massed within the box, and daz"
ed prisoners emerging from this
mountainous inferno in northern
Luxembourg told of company cas-
ualties as high as rs per cent. :
The enemy lines at the tip OF
the Belgian triangle we're giving
way the village of Bure, four miles
southeast of Rochefort, was over
run, and a field dispatch said the
enemy appeared to be pulling OUT
of his dearIy-won apex running
westward from Bastogne.
There was little sign of enemy
armor anywhere west of a line
running north from Bastogne, and
Allied forces driving in from the
northwest between Marche and
Rochefort found the Germans were
pulling back.
A high Army officer told Asso.
ciated Correspondent Kenneth l..
Dixon it seemed obvious the Ger
man high command was shifting
his armor to prepare a new line
stretching in an arc about half
way back from its deepest present
penetration, robbing the Allies OF
any opportunity to trap any large
number of two Panzer armies now
within the bulge,
Another front dispatch from AP
Correspondent Hal Boyle said the
gap between the First Army in the
Grandmenil sector on the north
and the Third Army in the Bias.
togne sector on the south had been
narrowed to about IL miles, bring.
ing the Germans within range Of
heavy American artillery.
To the southwest, the U. S. Sew
enth Army threw in counterbloWs
that blunted the tip Of German
salient driven seven miles deep
into Doughboy lines near Bitche
in the northern Vosges. The Sew.
enth also had Withdrawn from its
last footholds inside the Reich'y
Palatinate to the east.
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