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Evening star., 1945-04-25

man tommy gunners are riding in
this jungle"
He said the Germans had "bricked
up the Brandenburg gates so the
Russian triumphant march into the
capital could not go through them
Only state of hysteria and despair
brings about such action
At some points. Russian infantry
men charged with bayonets against
Germans blinded by smoke bombs.
Nazis laid ambushes, correspondents
said, and suddenly fighting would
break out deep in rear areas.
"a Moscow broadcast recorded
by the Federal Communications
Commission said about 5000 900
Germans had been killed or cap
tured on the eastern front up to
January l, and that German
losses since then were estimated
at close to 100000 men,
Capital in Ruins.
Describing Berlin's main streets.
Correspondent Leonid Mikulin said.
Those who remember Berlin from
before the war could scarcely recog-
nize this city after Anglo-American
bombers have been working over 1t.
Very little has remained of Unter den
Linden, of Kurfierstendam, Alexan.
derplatz apa other central streets r
= The Germans counterattacked
fiercely in the outskirts of Potsdam,
Berlin's western suburb, with King
Tiger tanks, self-propelled guns and
antitank forces. Hand to hand
struggles were reported. German,
planes also swooped in, trying to
keep Russian big guns out of the
area between Potsdam and Berlin
and prevent their shelling roads to
Magdeburg and the Elbe.
Heavy fighting was reported in
the area southwest of Beelitz, where
Germans from the Elbe sought to
hold off any Russian drive north
westward across their last communi-
cation lines.
There were few reports from the
region where Russians reached the
Elbe close to American lines, but
southwark triple drive on Dres-
den gained ground, and almored
units were but to 10 miles away.
West of Berlin in the Nauen re-
gion, Soviet tanks and cavalry were
81 miles from the Elbe in the STEM
dal area.
Evening star., 1945-04-25

Washington Advertising Club yes
terday at luncheon in the Statlel
Hotel.
This Nation cannot afford to re-
peat its mistake Of World War T.
he warned, when wholesale dump
ing of surplus aircraft sabotageo
Americas air power" Mr.. Monro
declared that this policy caused
such an attrition in aircraft pro-
duction that the manufacturers
could not develop a market for
planes for nearly decade, resulting
in the decline of chronological
progress.
Mr. Monro said air supremacy
means "the maintenance in high
gear at all times of aeronautical re-
search and engineering. the very
heart Of aviation progress"
Chairman Randolph of the House
Civil Service Committee served as
toastmaster at the luncheon, which
honored Pea and its officials Mem
bers of Congress and the District
government attended.
Evening star., 1945-04-25

than 300 flying Fortresses which
struck In two waves.
Shortly before Q am, while the
bombers were roaring across Central
Germany, the. Allied controlled
Luxembourg radio flashed the warn
ing to the Skoda slave workers to
take cover.
The broadcast said the warning
was issued on orders of Gen. Eisen-
hover in an effort to spare the lives
OF slave laborers and other civilians.
1t was the first time. that such a
direct message ever had been issued
to the residents of city selected
by the Allies as target for air
attack,
Evening star., 1945-04-25

The following pair was announced:
BROOKS, Republican, for and THOMAS
tUtah). Democrat, against
Not voting but announced as favoring
the amendment:
WHEELER, Democrat, and WILLIS and
YOUNG, Republicans
Evening star., 1945-04-25
Market Rent Increase
Delayed by D. c. Heads

The Commissioners yesterday de-
cided to hold off increasing the rent
OF merchants at Eastern Market
$l3 month because of the critical
food situation facing the shops. The
city heads acted on the recon-
mendation of J. Thomas Kennedy,
superintendent of District weights,
measures and markets.
Mr.. Kennedy said 10000 was IN
cluded in the 1945 budget for re.
modelling the market and that rent
was to be raised to Offset the costs.
The work has not been finished, he
said. and the critical food situation
has cut income of some of the
stands.
Evening star., 1945-04-25
Expiration Date Unaltered.
Berlin
Continued From First Page.)

wrote Boris Afanasiev, correspondent
for the newspaper Trud.
German antitank guns and ma
chine guns are opening fire from
basement windows and special en-
brasures made in the walls of brick
buildings" he said. German SOL
diers with grenades lie waiting in
ambush for Soviet tanks.
Enemy guns are firing from bar
ricades, enemy tommy guns are
opening from roofs and windows
and from the tall buildings of all
Berlin. All streets and squares are
mined"
At one unidentified canal, 'front.'
line correspondents said Soviet
xappers repaired a bridge. Else
where infantrymen built a make
shift bridge of captured German
equipment, including trucks and
guns, and Russian tanks clanked
over. Other troops waded across,
helping each other up the bank.
Guns Smelling City. =
in the center of Berlin on
bridges over the Spree. on the
northern and Stettin railway sta-
tions, guns answer the command Of
ofIicers-'fire on the Fascist ca pita1,
battery f1re' Izvestia Correspondent
Roman Karman declared.
"I stayed all night in the cellar
OF a five-story house where the staff
Of Gen. Krivoshein was located.
Nobody slept that night. The tele-
phone rang every minute. Officers
rushed in with dispatches about
operations of some groups. We
didn't wait for morning. We got on
the roof to look at Berlin"
Karman said there were signs in
fresh white paint on houses with
Goebbels' appeal, "all Germans will
defend Berlin with their bodies. Let
us halt the Reds at the gates to
Berlin"
But the Soviet avalanche wipes
everything out of the way" he
added.
Reds Refuse to Rest.
Whole units of hardened Russian
troops refuse to rest inside Berlin. "
. Red Star writer said. One unit
shouted nobody is tired" when Or
dered to rest after fighting seven
days and nights.
Press photographs showed Russian
tommy gunners advancing along Ber-
lin streets lined with rubble to 10
feet high. and past blasted build
tngs and houses.
Another Moscow correspondent de-
clared "the major part of Berlin is
converted into stone jungles. Ger
Evening star., 1945-04-25
Strong Aircraft Industry
u. ). Need, Ad Club Told

A strong aircraft manufacturing
industry, capable of instant quantity
production of the best airliners in
the world, is our best insurance
against future Pearl Hsrbors, C.
Bedell Monro, president of Pennsyl-
vania Central Airlines, told the
Evening star., 1945-04-25
Aerial
Continued From First Page }

had been warned in an Allied broad
cast to flee to safety in the country.
Liberators attacked railway tar
gets at Hallein, 10 miles northeast
OF Berchtesgaden, Salzburg, Is miles
north of Berchtesgaden; Traun-
stein. Is miles northwest, and Bad
Reichenhall, Is miles northwest.
The Stockholms Tidningen, quot
ing what it said was an authorita-
tive source, reported Monday that
the German government now is To-
Gated at Salzburg.
The Skoda works, formerly the
third largest armament producers
in Europe, were attacked by more
Evening star., 1945-04-25
Russia
Continued From First Page,

LuftWaffe, husbanded for this final
defense Of the capital lost 26 air
craft shot down yesterday, Moscow
said.
Encirclement Completed.
The junction of the two armies
in Berlin completed encirclement of
all Germans remaining in an area
so miles long and 80 miles broad
stretching back to the Oder and
Neisse Rivers.
Already battling toward a cleanup
Of this region, the Russians gester.
day captured the fortress of Fuer-
stenberg on the west bank OF the
Oder and Guben on the east bank
Of the Neisse just south of the con-
fuence Of the two streams. ~ al
South of Berlin in the, region
where Russian and American forces
were drawing together on a broad
front, Soviet troops captured Gros-
senhain. 20 miles northwest of Dres-
den. Without any confirmation, the
French Press Agency said the east
and west fronts already had joined
at Eilenburg, 8 miles northeast OF
Leipzig.
Evening star., 1945-04-25
Lectures on Psychology

The National Institute of Psychol-
ogy Is sponsoring two free lectures
to be given at 1888 Sixteenth street
NV. by John Lambert at 8 pm
Friday and Tuesday.
Evening star., 1945-04-25
Curb on Combat Duty
For Youths Now Goes
To House for Action
~ the Associated Press,


A Senate-approved but Army
opposed restriction on the use of
18-year-old draftees today faced
q House which last month re-
fused even to consider the pro-
posal. f
Approved yesterday by a 5O-to-25
vote as an amendment to House.
passed legislation extending the
draft law beyond its present May Is
expiration date, the restriction
would prohibit assignment of 1s-
year-old inducted men to combat
duty until they have had at least
six months Of military training. 1t
would not apply to Navy assign
menis to combat ships for training.
Two Courses Of Action.
Two courses of action lay before
the House:
/. The chamber may accept the
Senate amendment and send the
legislation to the White House, or
2. 1t may reject it and send the
measure to Senate-House confer
ence committee to work out COM
promise.
Chairman May of the Military
Affairs Committee. who will handle
the bill in the House. said he was
uncertain which course he would
elect to pursue.
Although many House members
favored a similar restriction when
that chamber passed the bill last
month, the Military Committee and
the House itself sidetracked the is
sue in order to expedite the legisla-
ton.
Expiration Date Unaltered.
House passage of a straight-away
continuance Of the draft law until
May Is. 1916. or the end of the war,
whichever comes first, was by unan-
imous vote. The Senate did not
alter the expiration date in approx
ing the measure by voice vote.
While in the past the House gen.
orally has followed the recon-
mendations of the high command
Evening star., 1945-04-25

"Wishful thinking won't win the
war-buying bonds will do much
more"
Evening star., 1945-04-25
Bank Robbery
(Continued From First Pape,>

boys are being held at the Childrens
Receiving Home.
Capt. Strange said the FBI had
not told police Of the case until l8
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-16

tools rather than a large quantity
of cheap ones.
Adequate space to house the av-
erage size machine for doing a re-
pair job is important. This space
may be used for sheltering an i'm
plement which is easy to move out
when the space is needed for work.
And in this connection, be sure to
provide wide door to permit ma
chinery to pass through.
And other important points to
light and ventilation; heat during
cold weather; adequate working
space around each major piece Of
equipment such as benches, grind
er, drill, forge and anvil. and a
place for every tool, no matter
how small. Lack OF this featlt j,
will cause inetfitiency and dest4"y
the main purpose of the shop.
For a suggested list of shop
tools and equipment, write to TIC
Department of 4; ricultural Eng
neering, North "a Gina State Co..
lege, Raleigh, North Carolina,
Giles says.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-16
BY F. H. JETER

approximately 500 acres Of hybrid
corn in the Winston-Salem section
and from all the reports coming
to him and from his own personal
observations, the adapted hybrids
are giving pleasing results.
One thing, certainly, that these
new methods of corn growing are
teaching is the value of ample
fertilizers under corn and the
value of nitrogen about the corn.
William Wheless of Franklin
makes the observation that fertil-
zier is cheaper than labor as he
grows his corn under the new plan
in these days of acute labor short
ages on the farm. Walter Fuller,
farm agent, says that fertilizer
certainly is being given the op-
portunity to prove its value in the
county corn growing contest this
year. N. H. Griffin of Centerville
has a four-acre field of beautiful
corn for which he began to pre-
pare in the fall of 1914 At that
time, he made a liberal applica-
ton of barnyard manure to the
four-acre field. Next he added 400
pounds per acre, each, Of basic
Stag and 10 per cent superphos-
phate; then he seeded crimson
clover which made an excellent
growth. He turned under the Glow
er early this spring and when he
planted his corn, he used 400
pounds per acre of a 4-10-6 fer
tilizer mixture in the drill. During
subsequent civilizations, he has
added 200 pounds per acre of
10-0-10 mixture and 400 pounds per
acre Of a nitrogen side-dresser.
Right now that corn is going aft
er the county championship and
the farmer who beats Mr.. Griffin
will certainly know that he has
been in contest.
But Fuller says that all corn
demonstrations in Franklin are
looking good. Prospects for a high
acre yield are indicated by the
present growth and condition of
the crop and the farmers should
so profit from these lessons that
they may produce all the grain
they shall need for their livestock
in future years. AS one farmer
wrote me the other day, eve can
not allow these corn demonstra.
tons to fail. We must begin to
produce all of our own feed if
we are to stay in the livestock
business.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-16
Keen Homes Cool During
Summer; Expert Tells How

and the water needs changing
only once a week. 1t will seem
"cool as a cucumber" and is en-
titled to be included in your list
of labor savers.
Use Cool Colors
Color is undoubtedly one OF the
expressive elements in decorat-
ing. It has a tremendous influ-
ence on ones moods and reac-
tons.
Warm colors are yellow, red,
orange, and combinations OF these
colors. They have a stimulating
and exciting influence and may be
used appropriately in large, dark
rooms, especially in the winter.
Cool colors are those in which
blue and green predominant. Cool
colors are soothing and restful
and may be used appropriately IN
rooms with a southern exposure.
The clever homemaker will COM
mandeer cool colors fur use in
mandeer cool colors fur use in
her home during the summer
months.
Keep Heat Out
An excellent way to keep cool
is to prevent heat from entering
the house. Insulation is the best
barrier to both summer heat and
winter cold. If your house is m
sulated, and it should be, prevent
additional heat from entering the
house by keeping the doors and
windows closed and the shades
drawn during the hot part of the
day. 1t is easier to keep heat out
than to fight it after such an I'M
welcome guest is within your
house,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-16
Expert Gives Pointers
For Corn Yield Increases

pounds of nitrate of soda. 200
pounds of Is per cent superphos.
phate, and ia pounds of so percent
muriate of potash.
Zone can easily see that with
the present use of fertilizer. it
would be impossible to produce
large yields of corn unless the fer.
tilizer was already in the SOIL
Collins says
Spacing
Third, plants in the tests were
spaced thick enough to produce big
yields. Corn is like broilers or hogs,
the food or feed is most efficiently
used up to certain weights. In the
case of corn, the fertilizer is used
most efficiently and higher yields
result when the ear size is below
half a pound. This is a small car.
Most farmers grow large ears that
do not use fertilizer efficiently. The
stands of corn were regulated so
that the desired yield could be
produced with about one-half pound
ears.
With plants averaging 1 to IL
ears per stalk, the following spac-
ing is required for ID foot rows:
so bushels per acre, "a inches in
drill; rs bushels, 81 inches: and for
rs to 100 bushels. is inches in drill,
Cultivation
Fourth, the tests showed that the
cultivation h u l d be shallow
enough to kill weeds without dam
age to the corn roots. The corn
root system is very extensive and
close to the surface of the ground.
Deep cultivation destroys the roots
injuries the plant, and prevents 1t
from feeding in the surface soil
which contains most of the fertil'
ty. These roots are closer to the
surface than most people think
They can be easily observed by
digging in the surface soil where
deep cultivation has not destroyed
them.
Shallow cultivation means using
a weeder, spiketooth harrow, Or
similar implement until the corn IS
about 6 to 8 inches high. Then
Just use sweep which will Just
scrape under the surface to kill the
grass and build the type of rldge
desired.
Fifth, a topdressing of nitrogen
and potash where needed, was ap,
piled when the corn was about IL
feet high. The corn was laid by at
this stage, as later cultivation
would destroy too many roofs
close to the surface.
Demonstrations
Corn production demonstrations
are being carried out in all paris
of North Carolina this year
county agents will be glad to direct
farmers to one of the demonstra-
tons near them. In one section they
have a slogan that goes like 'nlS'
use more fertilizer to replace tle
work of growing corn. Inc Ie9"
show, however, that all of the pfac'
tees must be included if maximum
production is to be obtained.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-16
Manpower Regulations
Have Not Changed Here

According to a recent bulletin is
sued by the United States Cham
Der of Commerce, local manpow"
er officials henceforth will have
the authority to suspend wartime
manpower regulations either In
communities or plants. There has
been no relaxation, however. Of
such regulations in the Whining
ton area, according to Henry J.
Shepherd, local area director.
Wilmington is still in the No. 3
Labor Market area, he said. mean.
ing that the supply OF labor is =,
little greater than the demand
and there are no present indica'
tons that show it will be put into
another classification.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-16

Corn yields can be materially in.
creased in North Carolina, if in
creases in both tobacco and cottor
yields in recent years are taker
as an index. The 1914 tests of the
Agricultural Experiment Station
at State College give supporting ev
idence and also the more than sec
demonstrations that are being con
Quoted this year in all section d
the state.
Att ough about ona-t third of the
cultivated acreage in North Caro-
lima is devoted 10 corn, still the
state is forced to bring in large
amounts Of ;rern from other states
10 support its livestock population
In the past, when farmer needed
more corn, he simply planted add
t;onal acres AID slightly incrcas'
ed the amount of fertilizer p e
acre.
Feed Bottleneck
With beef cattle, dairying, and
hog production on the increase, to-
gether with large increases in poul
try, feed production has become
the bottleneck Of livestock produc-
ton and more corn per acre is
one Of the answers.
When tobacco and cotton acre
ages were reduced, growers SIM
ply gave more attention to select
ing varieties seed bed preparation,
spacing, fertilization, cultivation,
rotations and other factors which
gave larger yields per acre.
The result is that total produc-
ton has been maintained, and in
some cases increased, onsa much
smaller acreage and at a lower cost
per pound. DR.. B. A. Krants, soil
scientist for the Experiment Sta
ton. maintains that the same thing
can be done with corn, if all the
factors which lead to high corn pro-
are put into practice.
To Double Yield
Last year he studied corn fertili-
cation, especially nitrogen, and
such other factors as spacing, meth
DDS of cultivation. and varieties.
These studies, together with other
corn tests of the Experiment Sta
ton, have caused many to believe
that the average yield of corn in
North Carolina can be doubled in
the next ten years.
DR.. Emerson R. Collins, in charge
of Extension agronomy in discuss
ing the work of the Experiment
Station with corn, outlines five
points that lead to higher corn
First, proven local
variety, or an adapted hybrid
strain, should be selected.
Fertilization
Second, the tests show that fer
tilizer applications should be made
in line with the requirements of
the corn crop. For example, fifty
bushel crop of corn actually takes
up about SO pounds of nitrogen,
SO pounds of phosphoric acid, and
81 pounds of potash, when both
the stalks and leaves are counted.
This would be equivalent to 519
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-16
Horn Worms Damaging
Leaf Crop In Edgecombe

TARBORO, July ia heavy in
festation of horn worms has &C.
Cured in many sections of Edge
co7nbe County causing serious
damage to the tobacco crop, re.
ports County Agent j. c. Powell
of the State College Extension
Service. Shortage Of both busting
equipment and labor has made it
difficult to control the worms, but
many farmers are having their
tobacco sprayed by the two air
plane busting services offered in
this section.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-16
Pitt County Will Have
Million Dollar Crop

GREENVILLE, July 15.-Oxford
rs tobacco, developed by the North
Carolina Agricultural Experiment
Station, will be worth one million
dollars annually to Pitt County
farmers because of its resistance
to Granville wilt, it was reported
here today by County Agent F.-~F.
Hendrix of the State College Ex-
tension Service. The only disad-
vantages of the tobacco discover
ed by Pitt farmers are that it is
brittle and is easily damage by
wind, Hendrix said.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-16
FARM FACTS

The United States never has and
probably never will produce
enough wool for it's own use, and
the price of wool should always
be good, according to L. I. Case,
animal husbandry specialist of the
State Extension Service.
Total crop production for the
whole country promises to be we'll
above the average-not quite in
the bumper class of 1912 and 1914,
but higher than any of the other
years on record.
The domestic wheat supply for
1945-46 is now indicated to be
about the same as the supply Of
1895 million bushels a year ago.
Cooperative sales of both mar
ket lambs and wool in North Caro-
lima are helping producers to in
crease their profits, according to
State College livestock specialists.
-V-
Polo was played in Persia only
few hundred years after the
birth of Christ, and is one of the
worlds most ancient games.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-16
Many Perquimans Acres
Replanted To Peanuts

HEREFORD, July 15.-Perqui-
mans County farmers failed to OBJ
tain proper stand on approxima-
tely 1000 acres of cotton this
spring, and most of this acreage
has been replanted to peanuts,
according to County Agent L. w.
Anderson of the State College Ex-
tension Service. Because of recent
heavy rains and the shortage Of
farm labor, it now appears that
some peanut acreage will neces-
sarily be abandoned.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-16
Bahamians Helping Crop,
Work In Pitt County

GREENv1LLE, July 15.-Nine-
ty-one Bahamians have cen
brought into Pitt County this year
to relieve the serious labor short
age, it was announced by County
Agent F. F. Hendrix of the State
College Extension Service. The
labor problem in Pitt is more acute
than in prior years, and some
communities are almost in panic
trying to secure enough labor to
house their tobacco CROP, Hen
dirk said.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-16

Miss Ruby S. Pearson, home
demonstration agent of Johnston
County, became assistant state All
club leader on July l with head
quarters at State College, accord
inc to an announcement by Dean
I. o. Schaub, director of the Ex-
tension Service. She succeeds Mrs.
:Iohn D. Wall, formerly Frances
MacGregor, who is now making
her home at Morven. Miss Pearson
is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
B. P. Pearson, Sr., of Apex.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-16

STAGE AND SCREEN actress Luise
Rainier and Robert KNITTED, a pub
Usher, are shown following their
marriage at the Church Of Assem-
sion in New York City. 1t was the
second marriage for Luise and the
first for KNITTED. She divorced Cliff
ford Odets in 1910. (International)