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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-06

ling CIuDS LnIOI!gLOUI tIIS COO1IV1 y It
Eastern and Western sections OF the Unlteo
States cycling has long been popular. Now,
largely through groups of interested people
in union organized plants, the Middle-West
has become aware of the health and recre-
alton advantages of this sport.
One of the most popular activities OF
cycling clubs is the breakfast rum. A bl-
cycle ride out to nearby picturesque spot
prepares the appetite for picnic-style
breakfast and the ham and bacon III you
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-06

PROBLEM NO. 3s4s
BLACK 8
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-06
Picnic Grounds
Are Improved

The Spring Hill Farm on the
Clinton River, near Utica, Michi-
gan, the former Joe Louis prop
erty that was purchased by the
State of Michigan last Novem-
ber, will be one of the first
recreation centers in south
eastern Michigan to be readied
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-06

for public use.
The conservation commission
has approved a $4,000 expen-
diture to put the 428 acre estate
in shape to handle thousands of
picnickers.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-06

moved on pan fish taken from
Bear Lake southwest of Hills
dale by recent conservation COM
action.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-06
From The
Rule Book
By Wilbert Birdie" Rule
Director of Education and Recreation

Cycling has made its nroad industrial America The
productive worker of today needs and gets heathtu
time recreation and cycling becoming of the widely
favored sports in this category.
Groups of highly enthusiastic fans organizing eye
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-06
TEAM
SET FOR minis

Fifteen boys and four girls an.
sWered Coach Rupert Bryan's first
call for New Hanover High School
students interested in organizing
golf team.
Coach Bryan told the "fairway
aspirants" that Hale Lanier, mem.
her of the Municiple Golf Course
Greens Committee, had volunteer
ed to show beginners the funda.
mentals, and to organize and coach
team of advanced players.
Bryan went on to add that a
plan was being taken up by the
Municiple Greens Committee and
the City Recreation Department
whereby all students desiring to
play with the high school group
would be granted special rates two
days weekly.
In the event that three members
of the team qualify, they will be
sent to Chapel Hill to compete in
the State Golf Tournament and
also to Greenville, S. c., to parti-
cipate in the North-South Tourney.
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NAZI SURRENDER
TERMED UNLIKELY
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launching operations at the proper
time that should partially prevent
4 guerrilla control of any large
area, such as the southern noun
tain area"
These operations may be devel-
oping even now, in the drive to join
Allied and Russian troops in the
lower belt of the fighting across
Germany.
Eisenhower spoke Of the proven
tive moves after saying that he had
appealed to the better sense of the
German people. He said "our local
propaganda stations are constant
ly pointing out to the Germans
that they ought to be planting crops
for next winters food instead OF
fighting"
He mentioned only as secondary
possibilities that a German Gov
eminent might surrender and that
there suddenly might be in Ger
many a life-saving "upsurse OF
popular resentment against the
war"
Eisenhower himself probably
will be the man who decides when
organized German resistance is at
an end and VE-Day has come, the
White House said.
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japanese fighters sought to inter-
cept the American formation but
were driven off. after a running
aerial battle. All the attacking
planes returned. 49,.
Other American bombers block.
aiding the China Sea wrecked six
small freighters from French Indo-
China to Formosa and also bomb
ed Indo-China coastal targets at
the cost of one plane.
Liberators pounded Borneo, now
now only 80 miles away from Mac
Arthur's latest invasion spot in the
Sulu archipelago. Borneo's Miri
airdrome was hit and fires were
started in the Tarakan oil storage
area.
Yanks continued their advance
on all fronts in the Philippines,
while Fifth Air Force planes gave
close support to ground operations.
American engineers were Ell
gagged in extensive reconstruction
OF Cebu City and other areas de-
81 y hxy 4l,c,
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TWO RED ARMIES
FACING JAPANESE
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AOAAA e0S OAASJ
Far East one more than the usual
that area.
One of those armies was reported
unotficially but authoritatively to
have been moved west during the
battle of Moscow in 1941.
BY now, It has probably return
ed to its old stamping ground, but
in any case, the two original ar
mics are in the field. Their quality
has been attested by brief dispatch
es, reporting that they have parad-
through Khabarovsk, showing the
best in tanks, motorized troops,
artillery and automatic arms.
A strong indication that even
more than the first and second
Red-bannered armies are ready
for action in the Far East can be
seen from the fact that Siberian
forces have not been reported
prominently in action since the
battle of Stalingrad in 1912.
During the battle of Moscow in
1941, the Siberians-Russians by
race, most Of them, who had pion-
eered or been brought up in the
rugged Soviet east-played an i'm
portant part in the last-ditch de-
tense that threw the Wehrmacht
back for the first time.
! spent some time then with a
Siberian division, commanded by
Colonel Dodonov, later promoted to
general, who boasted that his men
had never taken a step in retreat
and that they had initiated the So
Wet tactics of night encircling at
tacks.
Again in the battle Of Stain
grad, a year later, the Siberians
figured prominently in the Soviet
accounts of defense and counter
attack that crushed the German
Sixth Army and turned the course
Of the war in Europe.
Since then, the Siberians have
dropped out of the picture-prob-
ably in preparation for today's
denunciation by the Soviet Union
Of its neutrality pact with Japan.
The aviation forces and facilities
in the Soviet Far East are as Sc
cret as the ground forces. 1t is
known, however, that new air bas-
es have been built along the line
from Alaska that Russian fliers
use to bring Lend-Lease aircraft
from the United States.
Soviet naval forces in the Far
East are believed to be almost neg
ligible, although Vladivostok once
served as base for some 80 sub.
marines and a number of light
ships, and large ship-building cen
tiers have been developed at Kom-
somolsk and other Far-Eastern
cities.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Weser Riuer Defense Line

and about IT'S miles from the Rus
sian lines.
The Eleventh Armored Division
on the south flank overran 10 small
arms factories as it speared with
in 63 miles of the Czech border,
and pilots reported considerable
southwark enemy movement to-
ward that Nazi-occupied country.
Sent ree]ing beyond the Weser by
the furious American and British
blows, the Germans blew all the
bridges in the sector around Min
den. The Ninth promptly brought
up heavy pontoons, bridged the riv-
err near Tundern, and kept right
on going
The Ninth Army was negotiating
for the surrender of Minden, which
would have given the Americans
one bridge, when British tanks sud-
denly appe AIRED on the north and
began Smelling the city.
Whereupon negotiations were
terminated and the startled gar
rison sent the bridge tumbling in
to the Weser.
In the rush to the Weser, the
converging British and American
columns cut off the German 84tn
Division and number of smaller
units in pocket seven miles wide
and IS miles long, and veteran U.
S. infantrymen hurried up to begin
the mop up
The. 30th Infantry Division. fol-
lowing the hurrying treads Of the
Ninth Ari,cy's tanks. drove the last
Germans from the Tutobergerwa!d
passes, through which the Ninth
Army burst to the Weser.
It was the Second Armored Di-
vision that racked up "a hour gains
Of % miles in hurtling through the
mountains to the Weser opposite
Hamelin, south Of where the Fifth
Armored Division reached the
stream Wednesday.
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MACARTHUR LEADS
ARMY ON NIPPON
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north and west to the Philippines,
had been bending the geographical
line. The Two lima invasion was
an all-Navy show, involving only
Marines on land. But the more
recent drive onto Okinawa, at ia
pans doorstep and involving Ar
my forces, pointed up the need
for realignment.
Nimitz has been in technical
command at Okinawa. That sort
of arrangement can be continued
under the joint chiefs provision
that either OF the top command
ers might be assigned specific re-
sponsibility for a particular oper-
alton, with the other furnishing
necessary, aid.
Macarthur already had overall
command of Allied forces in the
Southwest Pacific, including Brit
ish Empire troops.
In effect, Nimitz had had much
the same authority at sea, since
the British naval units recently as
signed there had operated under
his command.
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direct and fortnight" Evatt said
lit shows that the Soviet despite its
gigantic war effort in the West
spurns the arch asgressor Of the
East"
Evatt said the denunciation of
the treaty would be hailed with
the greatest satisfaction through
out the whole Pacific area"
Reuters diplomatic correspon-
dent commented: Even the most
sanguine :. among the Japanese
must now abandon the sense of
security in the direction Of Russia
which Japan has Hitherto cherish
ed" .4.. ...~. ...
Molotov handed Sato the note At
pm. It. pointed out that since
the conclusion Of the treaty in 194l
the tion has radically
changed.'@
Germany attacked the U. S. S.
R. and Japan-Germany's ally
helped the latter in her war
against the U. S. S. r." it con-
tinued. 'In addition, Japan is fight
ing against the U. S. A. and Great
britain, which are the allies Of the
Soviet Union. In such a situation
the pact of neutrality between ia
pan and the U. S. S. r. has lost
its meaning and the continuance
of this pact has become impos-
sble.''
The Russians took action under
article three of the pact. The 9TH
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-06

team the ball on the kicking teams
40-yard line after a second out.of-
bounds boot is enough to discour-
age any conniving team. The kick
er will practically escort the bali
down the field on the second kick
now to prevent that penalty.
The one-inch tee permitted will
make Tor kicking accuracy. We
don't think Wen see teams plac-
ing the ball fiat on the ground
for the kickoff with the idea that
its haywire bounding along would
make for fumbling. Some team
we saw last fall, possibly Navy,
used to do that, particularly on
moist days.
The rule permitted passing from
anywhere behind the line of scrim-
mage long has been advocated.
The pros have used that style for
long time, with fine results from
spectators standpoint. The new
rule also will take some pressure
Oft the officials, who had to carry
around mental Vineyard stick
with them.
The rule making it necessary for
blockers to keep a hand, or their
hands, in contact with their own
body is fine, theoretically, but it s
going to take a lot of enforcing,
as We can't recall ever seeing an
open field block under those con.
ditions. It's instructive to get the
hands out in front as protection
for the coming fall, and we don t
mean 1915.
If strictly enforced, this keep
your-hands-to-yourself rule might
cause quite difference in the eff
fectiveness of the "T'' formation
or any formation calling for quick
openings. The boys just won t
have the surreptitious help of their
hands for a Sulit second.
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D. E. JUBILANT
OVER RED MOVE
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and east by sea and air and hand
to hand fighting on Okinawa which
prompted Tokyo's Premier Koiso
to turn in the resignation of his
entire cabinet today.
A Tokyo communicate spoke OF
a formation of far more pow
erful administration" but official
Washington saw no chance that
any such changing OF the guards
could save any part Of the empire.
Assuming the accuracy of the
general Interpretation given the
Russian step, here is the situation
in which Japan finds herself:
From the south she is threatened
by advance American positions on
the islands of Okinawa, and Two
Jima. Both offer a direct menace
to the Tokyo area. In addition, Oki-
nawa seems to offer forward
base from which to operate ships
and planes against the enemy
supply lines with Asia.
On the east, Japan lies wide open
to the sea for attack or invasion.
To the north, her Kuriles island
chain lies vulnerably open to as
sault from American forces in the
Aleutians. She has lot all except
a trickle of supplies from the Indies
to the south and only in China are
her armed forces still occasionally
successful.
The one area where the Japa-
nese have been free of active, Or
gained fighting has been Manchu-
ria-Kora.
1t is the Manchurian sector
which would burst into flaming
warfare il the implications Of Rus
sia's denunciation OF the neutrality
pact are read accurately here. In
event Of hostilities in that section
the United States Air Force pre-
sumably would be afforded bases
for raiding Japan from the north
in the vicinity OF the Russian port
of ValadiVoStok.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-06
Galsn, Sanaeck Report
To Dodger Training Camp

BEAR MOUNTAINS, N. Y, April
5.--NR-Augie Galan, who may be-
come Brooklyn S first baseman,
and Mike Sandlock, former Boston
Brave infielder who may win the
shortstop job from Tom Brown,
reported to Manager Leo Durocher
today.
An early morning rainfall wash
ed away the practice game which
had been arranged with the Army
team in the afternoon, despite
high wind, Durocher sent his play
ers through an outdoor session in
which Galan performed at his new
position.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-06
Valentine Meets Red
III. In 7halina Mat Event

Everything is in readiness for
one of the most outstanding wrest.
ling cards Of the season. A dash
of color along with lot of scientif-
ic wrestling is in store for the fans
when the gong sounds tonight at
$50 sharp.
Violet Valentine, of st. Louis,
meets the colorful mysterious
Miss Red in the main event.
Scheduled for two out of three falls
90 minutes time limit. Plenty OF
action should prevail throughout
the match. if Violet Valentine pins
Miss Red two falls out of the
three, she will have to take off the
red mask that she wears and dis
close her identity.
Promoters from larger Cities
have recommended Miss Valentine
as suitable opponent and just the
one to probably do the job of un.
yelling the masked Lady in Red. "
Abe Tourist, popular young Jew
ish wrestler, was chosen by the
fans and also the Promoter to
''cool off, the hard-to-get-along
with Jimmy Coffield of Kansas
City. Coffield has a way of weak.
ening down his opponents and Their
beating them, but Tourist has il
all figured out and figures that
he can out-nanage the K. c. Ter.
ror.
Promoter Causey was lucky ir
getting Sonny Meyers, the lad tina
made such hit on his debut here
last week, to handle the whole care
for Friday Night at ITALIAN Hall.
Promoter Causey requests tha'
all patrons please stay in theil
seats. and do not interfere with
the wrestling, while the matche:
are in action.
Last time the lady wrestler!
were here, some lady patron de
cided to take things into her hands
which was broken up quickly
enough, so just sit back, yell ane
cheer your favorite on to victory
but do not take part in it.
| A few choice seats are left a
the usual sales place, but thu
doors will open Is minutes earle
to take care of Rush seat" Gus
toners. Due to the heavy expense
Of getting this outstanding card to
gether, the Free List will be sus
pended.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-06
Bryan Cancels Wildcat
Teams Remaining Nine
Class "A League Tits
States That He Take. This
Action For Obvious
Reasons"

Coach Rupert Bryan, New Han
over director of athletics, ans
nounced yesterday that New Han.
over High schools remaining nine
Eastern Conference baseball game
had been cancelled, due to OBJ.
vious reasons"
The high school coach described
the lack of any lettermen on the
team as the first reason for with.
drawing, saying that the only let.
terman in school is ineligible for
conference competition. The play.
er is Hur]er Raymond Smith, who
won most of the Wildcats games
last season.
Bryan pointed out yesterday
that, since Kenneth Rogers, forn~
ar Maurey, High moundsman, has
recently been declared ineligible to
play in +.he conference because Of
his scholastic standing, three is
not another. pitcher out for base.
ball who can go nine innings"
The third reference in Coach
Bryan's obvious reasons" was
the game at Wilson Tuesday.
when the Wilmington lads suffered
a 1910 shellacking by Leon Brod-
denis Cyclones. Bennett Flowers.
Cyc hurler, held the Wildcats hit.
less for seven frames, when the
game stopped at the last of the
seventh by agreement.
During the contest with Wilson.
the Cyclones went to bat six
times, and never allowed Whining
ton players to pass second base.
The last reason cited by Bryan
was the transportation problem.
He said that probably other teams
in the conference would welcome
the withdrawal of the New Han
over team" making t h problem
somewhat easier on their part.
Bryan disclosed that he plans
for the Hanoverisns to play White
vile, Hallsboro, Fair Bluff, Tabor
City, Wilson, Goldsboro and other
naighborjng towns. He added that
he hoped to increase interest in
baseball in Wilmington by having
the Cats play intra-squad, intra-
mural, and community games.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-06
The Sports Trail
By WHITNEY MARTIN

NEW YORK. April s. UP =
There can be little argument
aaainst the merit of the recent
ebsnges in the collegiate grid
niles which were thawed to 4 pill
.hle state after apparently being
frozen for the duration.
We we're on record as being
.oainst any changes in the code
1t this time, not because changes
wouldn't benefit the game. It was
more the principle of the thing.
changing the rules while SO many
sthletes and coaches most vitality
Interested weren't on stage for
sneaking parts seemed like rear
rsnging the furniture while, a
housewife was downtown shop
njng She might like the change,
hut YOU never know.
Anyway, the changes have been
made. and probably just as well,
AZ an ailing pup might die if you
T.it for its master to arrive be-
fore giving it some medicine. And
college football, it has been sug-
oested. was in danger of eclipse
Hnless it kept pace with the Iber-
al pro rules.
The rule changes are said to
helm the otfense, although we don't
know just what help the Army
teams offense needed last fall.
That was just about the most Of
tensivs team we ever saw, and
uouIdn't' have scored much more
# if had been using gasoline.
The two major changes are
those pertaining to the kickoff and
tbe forward pass. The allowance
for one mistake in kicking off. and
then seeking on stiff penalty il
the error is repeated, is fair
enough as it can be figured that
ordinarily the second mistake isn't
mistake. Giving the receiving
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-06
Fishing In Inland
Waters OF The State
Discontinued Today

Fishing in inland waters of
North Carolina ceased yesterday
and will be discontinued until May
20 it was announced last night
by w. P. Floyd, State fish and
game warden of the southeastern
area.
However, Floyd pointed out that
sportsmen may fish in the Cape
Fear river as high as the Kings
Bluff locks, in the North East river
as high as Highway No. SO bridge,
and in the Brunswick river, where
no limitations are specified.
Floyd emphasized that there had
been some misunderstanding on
the part Of sportsmen who had mis-
interpreted the State law, which
provides that all inland waters Of
North Carolina will be closed to
fishermen from April 6, through
May 10, both dates inclusive.
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river line and were retreating as
much as 120 miles eastward to the
broader Elbe, which, while nc
Rhine, is much more formidable
military barrier than the Weser.
The fleeing conveys were ham
mered by hundreds of Allied war.
planes defying the Indifferent
weather.
The U. S. Ninth Army, under
Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Mont.
gomery's command since the Ar
dennes breakthrough, was back un.
der the command of Gen. Omar N.
Bradley, who thus become the first
warrior in American history to
command four field armies-a
force of at least 1,OO0,0 1000 fighting
men.
Allied armies, capturing at least
26, 900 additional prisoners Wednes-
day, were driving for the knock
out all along the front.
The Germans said Parachute
troops were being rained down by
Allied planes in the path OF Cen
Patton's Third Army. which was
pounding across Thuringia in ! a
daring bid to cut Germany in. two
at the waist and balk any large
scale final stand in the Bavarian
mountains.
The Sixth Armored Division cap
tured Muehlhausen, with popu,
lation of $4,000 and then roared on
eight miles northeast to near Sch
lotheim, which is 1872 miles south
west Of Berlin.
Here the Third Army was Y
miles from the great transit city
Of Leipzig and ITO miles from the
Russian lines.
The Fourth Armored Division to
the south pushed four miles to the
vicinity of Nuremberg, So miles
from the border of Czechoslovakia
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-06
Yank Planes Hit Docks,
Shipyards AtHong Kong

MANILA, Friday, April 6.-(P-
Philippines-based heavy bombers
attacked the vital waterfront area
OF Hong Kong across the China Sea
bombs which set huge fires and
Wednesday dropping 1853 tons of
sank nine merchant ships. Two
other merchantmen and a Destroy
er were damaged.
Gen, Douglas Macarthur, an
nouncing this second successive
strike at Hong Kong in his ccp-
munique today, reported that the
! ,00O-pound bombs raked shipyards
and waterfront installations as
well as shipping in the vast harbor.
Oil storage tanks were left burn
ing, with smoke rising 1000 feet.
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JAPAN'S CABINET
QUITS EN- MASSE
Continued from Page Onc)

course, that Suzuki may fail to
form a government, but the like
lihood is that possibilities were
thoroughly canvassed before ne
received the imperial nomination.
of his cabinet includes several
of his own kind, elders who wers
prominent before the TOTO era, the
evidence would be strong that g
new phase in Japan's war 'effo-.
had begun. This would be per-
iod of peace gestures and peace
propaganda, calculated to strike
at American determination to see
the japanese war through during
the vulnerble period just after
the collapse of Germany"
Collapse of the Koiso regime
had been STAYED off for time
by his promise, fulfilled only last
week, of forming new "sure vic
tory political party that would in
clude leading figures from all OF
Japan. Koiso's downfall came at
a time whe1 Nippon is faced with
the most critical war situation 1t
has known.
American forces have secured
footholds in the Volcano Islands.
only $50 miles from Tokyo, and
on Okinawa in the Ryukyus, clos
err yet, and remnants of the once
mighty Imperial fllet are forced
to hide out in home waters. subj
iect to American air attacks.
Fail of Loiso was announced by
the japanese board of information
with earnest hopes for the ma
FERTILIZATION of an even more pow
erful cabinet in view of the gravl-
tv of the war situation" said the
Tokyo home broadcast recorded
by FEC.
Marquis Koichi KIDD, lord keep
er of the Privy Seal, recommended
Suzuki 70 the Emperor as q new
premier after conference OF SEN
ior statesmen. Shortly thereafter,
the Emperor summoned Suzuki to
his presence land commanded
him to- organize cabinet, SAID
an enemy broadcast.
Less than IL hours, elapsed be-
tween Koiso's resignation and the
command TO Suzuki.