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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-08
FIELD DEDICATION

Plans are being laid for the ded-
ication of Peiffer field at 2:30 p. m.
Saturday, June 2. Memorial ser
vices are planned in honor of En-
sign Carl Peiffer, who was lost in
the Pac;f ic. All airmen in the state
are invited to the ceremony and a
large attendance is anticipated.
While nothing definite has yet been
decided, it is known that the Navy
will be present with number OF
planes. The public is invited to at
tend.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-08
Foster Named President
Of Whiteuille Rotar,

WHITEVILLE, April IF. B.
Foster. local plumber, has been
elected president of the Whiteville
Rotary club for the ensuing year.
Officers elected were Lawrence
Sellers. vice president, and Felix
Smith, secretary. Foster succeeds
D. L. Love.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-08
WILL RETIRE

DAYTON, c., April 7,-P)-The
air technical service command
at Wright Field announced today
that 1t Gen William S. Knudsen
would retire May l as director of
the Also to become chief OF all
army production in the undersecre-
tary of wars office in Washington
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-08
Prop Wash
BY MEARES HARRISS

German military ingenuity
reaches peak in the windmill
kite fitted to U-boats, one of the
most extraordinary gadgets of the
war. OF more value to japanese
submarines working in the spaces
of Pacific than to Germans work
ing-as they have at late-Close to
the shores of England, it was
brought out about year ago. AT
least one has been captured.
1t is collapsible, man-iifting au-
togiro kite, consisting of an obser-
vers chair to which is attached a
lifting rotor. A control stick is in
front of the chair It is not a
hellcopter because there is no mo-
tor. The rotor is turned by the
movement of air past it.
After the Uboat has surfaced,
the kite is assembled. Armed with
binoculars, the observer takes his
place and after rotor speed has
been worked up enough, lets him
self up at the end of a steel cable
which carries telephone wires. On
most days there would be enough
wind to fly the kite but if it we're
calm, it could be operated by head
ing the submarine into whatever
wind thre was.
The kite gives a submarine a
much greater range of vision. Coas-
tai Commander of tho Rova1 Air
Force, however, has found the
Schnorkel ventilating shaft, which
allows the U-boat to remain under
the water for long periods a more
serious trouble. The windmill kite
does, nevertheless aid U-boats
greatly in spotting their quarry.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-08
SOLOS

A. c. Everett, Carolina Skyways
student, soloed at Peiffer Field
April 3.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-08

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-04

ordinance and will secure the health, safety and welfare of the community. The zoning commits sion was justified in holding and deciding that the proposed enlarge ment of the building of the Unitels States Time corporation would vio- late the requirements of the pur- poses of the ordinance.
 Findings leading to the final de- cision of the board rested upon the following factors:
 The Zoning Ordinance of the Town of Middlebury became effec- tive October l4th, l942. and under the provisions thereof the use of its premises by the United States Time Corporation is non-con- forming use and the structures thereon located are non-conform- ing structures in which non-con- forming uses are carried on.
 Under the provisions of said Zoning Ordinance, Section IX-1 the United States Time corporation was given the right to file a no- tice of its intended plans for such building within four weeks of the effective date of the Ordinance but no such plans were filed with the Zoning Commission and there was no attempt made to take advan- tage of said provisions of the or- dinance and no proof of the exist ence at that time of plans showing the proposed enlargement was of- fered in evidence.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-04

Tn landing on the two islands the Americans poised the second direct threat at Borneo perhaps the rich- est of the Southwest Pacific Islands in vital oil and rubber resources.
 At the southern tip of the Sulus, MacArthur's forces were only 490 miles north of the big oil center of Balik Papan, already the target for numerous American air attacks.
 On Luzon, the 158th regimental combat team pushed 2l miles north west from the Legaspi beachhead, while the northern arm of the 14th corps pincers moved eastward into the provincial capital of San Pablo, south of Launga Bay.
 In the Central Philippines, Mac Arthur said his forces had almost entirely cleared the three main is- lands of Cebu, Panay and Negros.
 LiberatorS, Mitchells and Mus tangs carried out heavy attacks on Formosa, between the Philippines and China, Sunday, bombing and raking airdromes. buildings and fuel supply depots along the cast coast.
 In new assaults on Japanese ship ping other bombers and fighters destroyed or damaged IA enemy vessels from Borneo to the China coast.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-04
RedsAdvance Past Baden
Continued from Page D


 Driving on to the north without pause, Tolbukhin's forces yesterday seized Moellersdorf, eight miles southeast of Vienna, and then Velm for an overall advance of 2l miles in two days. Velm lies three miles inside the greater Vienna district delineated by Germany after the 1888 Anschluss.
 The advance also won control of a 342-mile stretch Of the Vienna Venice railway thus splitting the German front in southern Europe.
 The Third Army group virtually completed the conquest of the west side of Lake Neusledler main de- fense barrier southeast of Vienna, with the capture of Donnerskirche, 10 miles southeast of Velm.
 Malinovsky's reported push to the approaches to Bruck carried entire ly through the Batislava Gap be- tween the Danube river and Lake Neusiedler and deeply outflanked Bratislava itself, F miles northeast of Bruck.
 Prandorf, three miles southeast of Bruck, and Kittsee, four miles southwest of Bratislava, were cap- tured by the Second Army group yesterday in advances of up to 2l miles in 24 hours.
 Tn frontal advance, Malinov- skys troops captured Prievoc, only two miles east of the center of Bratislava Other units captured Svatyjur. eight miles northeast. and reached the small Carpathian Mountain barrier on a 20-mile front. The fall of Vienna. city of near ly 100000, would batter down the back door to Germany and Czecho- slovakia and lay open the Austrian and Bavarian Alps where the Germans have reported planning last stand to onrushing Soviet troops and tanks
 Tolbukhin's Third Army group also drove three miles across the Yugoslav frontier and captured Danja Dubrava, 5l miles northeast of the Croatian capital of Zagreb, and l2i miles from the Italian bor- der.
 23,O00 Captured
 The disintegration of Germany's southeastern defcnses further was shown by the capture of 23,000 Ger- man prisoners by the two Ukrain- ian Army groups in the past 24 hours. Altogether, they seized 33O towns and village along c 30O-mle front.
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general of the 24th Army Corps, told his field commanders. We can't kill Japs standing still"
 At the northern end of the front. Maj.-Gen. Roy s. Geiger's Third Marine Amphibious Corps also slashed across the island to the east coast in advances Of up to three and half miles.
 The Marines reached the east coast near the .atchin Peninsula, northern arm of Nakagusuku Bay, and sealed off that harrow jut of land. The thrust completed a sec- ond steel band across the southern third of the island
 The entire Japanese garrison was believed concentrated in the south- ern bulge of Okinawa surrounding Naha for a fight to the death, while a majority of the islands 435 900 civilians probably moved to the more rugged northern two-thirds of the island
 Front dispatches said the main advance on Naha down the west coast was being slowed by the nec- essity of bridging deep ravines. The Japanese blew up three bridges within space of few miles and Army engineers were throwing pre- fabricated Bailey bridges across the ravines under enemy mortar and small arms fire.
 Big guns of the l.400-ship inva-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-04
4 Asphyxioted
 In Quincy Home

quincy. Mass, April 4.-UP)- A young Quincy couple and their two children were asphyxiated eagay today when Illuminating gas filled their lower apartment in a two family house.
 Victims were Serafino Santone. %, his wife Mary, 27, and their children Joseph, 3. and Josephine, IT months.
 The bodies were discovered by Police Sgt. Charles Ferrazzi who sa..ashed window to gain entrance after being summoned by the San- tones upstairs neighbors who smell- ed gas.
 On their arrival they found gas pouring from a hot water heater in the kitchen. where Santone's body was found. The bodies of the mother and two children weTO found in bed in another room
 All had been dead for several hours and authorities believed that their deaths were accidental.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-04
.ile-An-Hour Drive
 Of Tanks Continues
Continued from Page l)

A crossing of the Wester, coupled with Pattons drive through central Germany, would break down Ber- lin's last big water barrier short of the Elbe river, 100 miles to the east.
 Field dispatches said a big fleet of aerial transports were ferrying gasoline and ammunition to Pat tons speeding tanks, using captured German landing fields. Berlin spokesmen said Patton also was using glider trains to ferry in his supplies and keep the advance roll ing.
 Gotha, 75 miles southwest of Leip- zig and one of the Reich's biggest aircraft manufacturing centers, was entered by vanguards of the fourth armored division and it's fall was expected any time.
 Other tank spearheads hooked around the southern corner of the city and struck for Erfurt, 16 miles to the east.
 GA BEG broadcast heard by the United Press in New York said the Americans had advanced seven miles east of Gotha, more than halfway to Erfurt)
 Bra on Move
 The Third Army was on the move along an 80-mile front curving southeastward from Kassel to the Werra river line 27 miles south of Gotha, where the Americans made their closest approach to C0echo- Slovakia.
 The advance penetrated the formidable Thuringian forests, probably the toughest obstacle in the Third Army's path all the way to Berlin.
 The breakthrough ended a brief German delaying stand that had stalled Pattons troops momentar- fly before Eisenach and Kassel, 40 miles to the northwest.
 Eisenach was by-passed in the drive to Gotha, and Kassel finally was won by Doughboys of the Third Armys 80th division after three days of the bloodiest street fighting since the Rhine crossing.
 Front dispatches said isolated German pockets still were holding out in Kassel, but the city was firmly In American hands and the Tanks were swarming through the streets to clear the remaining Na- zis out with grenades and bayon- cts
 United Press War Correspondent Reynolds Packard reported that Kassel was blasted into flaming rubble by the crossfire of German and American guns.
 Long rows of German and Amer ican dead filtered the streets and huge piles of abandoned enemy equipment were burning fiercely this morning.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-04
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positions in Duisburg and Duessel- dorf at the western end of the Ruhr. A surrender ultimatum to the Ger man garrison in Duisburg was ig. nored by the Nazis.
 High-ranking spokesmen at It. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's American 18th Army group headquarters as- serted. however. that the German chances of breaking out of the Ruhr are very slim. The American line around the pocket was anywhere from 10 to 70 miles thick and the enemy apparently had very little armored strength inside the pocket to support an attack.
 Scattered tank and infantry counter-attacks by German rehei columns east of the Ruhr were re- pelled yesterday and First Army troops captured the enemy strong point of Warburg, g miles southeast of Paderborn.
 Pattons Third Army front. mean- while, was bulging steadily eastward and northeastward, raising the double threat of A breakthrough to Leipzig and Czechoslovakia and a new envelopment of the German forces facing the First Army to the north.
 Vanguards of the Fourth Ar- mored Division were out in front 0t the attack. They eTicircled Eisen- ach. which with Kassel had formed the keystone Of the German dee lenses in the center of the reich and raced ahead for ootha and Erfurt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-04
|Nozis Cheek
 GeFmon Coup
CcOntinued from Page D

ANEAEAaArAAAA@NA kirchen area to escape the advane- ing Allied armies. it was said.
 The so-called free German press bureau. an a:.ti-Nazi propaganda agency in Stockholm. said Dr. Will lelm Prick, Reich protector for Bo- hemia and Moravia. was assassinat- ed while enroute back to Prague from a conference at Berchtesgaden.
 The press bureau said Prick op- posed Hitler's plan for the complete destruction of Germany as the cost of defeat. As a result, Prick may have been killed by the new were wolf" organization of underground workers, the agency suggested.
 The German werewolf" radio said werewolves had reported the arrest and execution behind the AL lied lines of a member of an Amer ican liquidation commission" which was to set up headquarters in Co., blenZ.
 The werewolf station operates on on the same wave length as the former German-controlled Warsaw radio from to 10 p. m. DIST. The program is almost entirely of music, broken by brief news bulletins which are repeated several times.
 Allied propaganda students were certain that the werewolf organiza- ton was the brainchild of Nazi propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels rather than the spontan- eous underground movement that Berlin has claimed 1t is.
 The broadcasts obviously all are written in Berlin and broadcast from a transmitter situated some where in that part of Germany un- der Nazi control, these sources said.
 Radio experts said 1t was tech- nically impossible for the trans hitter to be situated behind the Al- lied lines as the Germans have claimed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-04

sion armada joined some 1,5OO car- rier planes in supporting the ground forces with an around-the-clock bombardment of Mana and other strong points on Okinawa, as well as on other Japanese islands in the Ryukyu chain.
 Targets in the Sakashima islands southwest of Okinawa were at tackled by carrier planes yesterday.
 The unloading of supplies across the beaches of OkinaWa continued satisfactorily" an American com- munique said. It reported that II counter attacking enemy planes were shot down over the island by anti-aircraft guns and carrier planes.
 The communique also revealed that carrier planes destroyed or damaged 39 Japanese ships and small craft and 41 enemy aircraft in the last two days of the pre- invasion bombardment of the Ry- ukyus Saturday and Sunday.
 Summary of the bombardment showed:
 Shipping: Sunk-three motor tor pedo boats, two small cargo ships. nine small craft; probably sunk one small cargo ship, four small craft; damaged-one motor torpedo boat, four small cargo ships, one lugger. IA small craft. Aircraft: Shot down-17; de- stroyed on the ground-5; damaged -19.
 Ground Installations: Six sub- marine pens on Unten bay, Okin- ava, destroyed and another heavily damaged; a mill, barracks, radio stations, pillboxes, buildings, docks, gun positions and covered revet- ments destroyed or damaged on Okinawa. Other installations on Tokuno. Amami, Kikai and Minami aDito islands hit heavily.
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(Continued from Page D Ukraine, or of risking almost certain rejection of it by the United Nations at San Francisco.
 American officials are hoping that Russia will drop her plan. That would solve the delicate delegation problem. They are hoping that Stalin will follow the pattein set by Mir. Roosevelt.
 If Russia decides to submit the proposal to the conference, 1t seems almost certain to be rejected. The small nations cannot be expected to vote for more influence for a big power on the only major body of the organization on which they have been promised an equal voice. Russia's reaction to rejection is problematical, but it is doubtful that she would go so far as to withdraw from the organization.
 The Presidents decision to drop the U. s. bid for three votes was favorably received generally. Even such administration stalwards as Senator Claude Pepper. D., Fla. had opposed the plan and now expressed the hope that i've can prevail upon Russia the theory of keeping the principle of sovereign equality t1 the assembly"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-04
U. s. Time Loses
 Middlebury Plea
(Continued from Page D

Section IX-3 of the Ordinance prohibits the enlargement of a structure in which a non-conform- ing use is carried on after the ef- fective date of the Ordinance, ex- cept when the zoning Commission concludes that such enlargement conforms to the requirements and betterment of the community and the other purposes of the Ordin- ance.
 The purpose of the Ordinance appearing in the preamble is stated to be, among other things. the encouragement of the use of the land in the town for residential and agricultural purposes and not for industrial purposes.
 William P. Ferguson is chairman of the board.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-04

Gen. Omar Bradleys wife . Returned soldiers asking: Who is Lily Ann Carroll?" because she vocal'd a record of T Walk Alone. So popular, the armed forces radio repeated 1t for lis hrs.
 William SeabroOk, the book-wri- ter, out of the hosp and looking filter Frances Robinson, the actress, turning exploiter Tenn pie Texas. in the - Lively Arts show, who turned down a film con- tract because she expects to enter politics"l R. Swing working lf hours daily on his l5 minute script Marshall Fields new book (hE f!rsD: Freedom Is More Than a Word" due on the 18th. Makes so much sense Art Hodes. the scholarly pianist at Village Van- guard) who took his trio to Smith College Northampton, MassJ and played to standing room. The Bos- ton Symphony Of no attracted a partly-filled house The stupid comic who. entertaining at St. AL bans Hospital for wounded mem !, opened his act by firing pistol!
 Nell Brinkley's will. The creator of the famous Brinkley Girl (which brought her fortuneS) left only 54 Gs Gypsy Rose Lees mother, who is not so sure of publishing her book because her helper insists on telling all The romance runors of pretty Florence Pritchett, the mag-fashion writer Intimates argue her intended is handsome California rancher, not a movie or social guy, at all The magazine essayist assigned to write up Peter Lorre of the horror feelms. Her name is Patricia Coffin Jackie Edson, of the Stork Cub ciggie staff, leaping right out of botf shoes and then glarlng at two sail CTS who gave her that Who, me?" expression Walter Thornton, the model agency exec, who has changed the name Of model named Clare Welton to Walda.
 Frank Kingdoms piece, Are Col umnists Necessary" in the newest of the miniature mags The Docks visit to England (which he hopes for), which is being angela by Beaverbrook .. The playwright, Tennessee Williams, whose play Battle of Angels" which was such flop in Boston the Guild apolo- gized to it's subscribers. They add ed, however, some day he'd write hit. MT. Williams auth'd The Glass Menagerie," which was em- braced by every critic The pro- ducers of Lady in Danger" (which was insulted by the reviewers) who have just put up another $25000 ito fight it out" . Actress Julie Hay don twhose feller is George Jean Nathan, the Critic with No Feel irgs) learning Try Hoffman adored her show. She sighed with relief say ing: "Oh, I'm so glad. He was the only critic who had me worried" Flaw! And the reason" Cugat isn't resuming at the Waldorf for the first time in IA years: His head', they are saying, has gotten too big for his toupee."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-04

students because of race, color or creed. Frederick II. Wiggin. New Haven, appearing for Yale Uni- versity. declared the bill implied that discrimination now was being practiced, and he called it vicious and preposterous.
 Similar protests were made by officials of Trinity College and Wes- leyan University.
 Sturdy opposition also was voiced at a public health and safety com mittee on bill to set up a state social protection committee to CO., ordinate the task of controlling vice and venereal diseases. State Health Commissioner Stanley H. Osborn called it "A waste of state money" and duplication of the work of existing agencies He did not ob- ject to a substitute proposal for a commission ito study and reduce conditions productive of vice and promiscuity."
 Groton Health Officer Dr. l.. M. Allen declared the argument that men being discharged from military service needed protection from ven- eral diseases "so much baloney," and charged 1t Ian insult to the army and to the men in uniform"
 A favorable report was expected from the judiciary committee on a bill allowing the state pardons board to act on a two-thirds majority rather than a unanimous vote of its membership as now required.
 The veterans affairs committee was asked to approve an appropria- tion of $2,500,000 to double the ca pacity of the Rocky Hill Veterans home. Col Raymond F. Gates, con- mandant at the home, said the in- stitution would be unable to care for returning veterans with its pres- ent facilities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-04

Some 750 flying fortresses with an escort of more than $50 Mus tangs attacked submarine building yards at Kiel yesterday. Return ing pilots said they saw their bombs burst among ships at the waterfront.
 About 30 other vessels headed out to sea like mad" to escape the bombs, the pilots said. One bomb CT and three fighters were lost in yesterdays attack.
 RAF Lancesters, escorted by Mustangs and Spittires, supported Allied ground forces this morning with an attack on German troop concentrations at Nordhausen, 50 miles northeast of Kassel.
 British mosquitoes bombed Ber- lin again last night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-04
NO COUPONS FOR SHOES

New York, April = (UP) = If the Universal Scrap Iron and Metal Company has its way there will be some l.700 persons in crtm- inals shoes soon. The company bought i.740 pairs of shoes dis csrded by prisoners Ion Rikers Is- land for q cents . pair. They will be repaired ard sold without ration coupons.
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MT. Madden is being assisted ny James M. Roche as secretary of the Committee; Mrs. Eloise Broc- kunier as treasurer and Walter P. Barrett. Richard F. Corkey, Jerome H. John and John s. Monaean.
 Reservations may be made with any member of the committee or with the Democi W.ic State Head- quarters, 525 Main street, Hartford.