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Detroit evening times., 1945-06-13
DEAR 3. D.:

DEAR p. D.:
VOUR well-meaning friends
Il did you great service IN
teasing this mans cruelty 10 the
surface so soon, before you had
become deeply addicted TO the
pipe dream Of being his cher
lshed sweetheart or wife.
At no time were his intentions
serious. however
In fact. ! suspect he had an
uneasy feelings at all times Of
being out with a wrong number;
in brief, with a nice little woman
of uncertain age who was dis
tinct outsider TO shallow sophiS-
ucate circles. somebody at
whom most persons OF his stripe
would lift A mockinG eyebrow.
Thus when mutual acqualnt-
ances began TO advocate mar
rage, doubtless IN testing spirit.
he cravenly sought 10 cover his
red-faced confusion by fgura-
lively washing his hands Of you,
with oStentatlous display Of top
lofty rude indifference.
His disbelief IN love and his
demonlac scorn Of sentiment
don't derive from painful disap-
pointment, which on the con-
trary teach compassion and un-
derstsndlng 10 a thoughtful man
Of fine quality.
His unfeehng attitude has
been his own undoins
II Is the direct derlvatlve Of
concerted refusal 10 practice un-
selfish behavior and true con-
slderatlon.
1t is an axiom ~ psychology
that emotion follows action and
his persistently unkInd behavior
has dried up the fonts Of affec-
ton within him
So don't waste ammunition
trying 10 interest HIM.
VI. II.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-13
Brain Game

Both outstanding W m e n
track and field athletes.
I'm the large building which
housed the offices of the I. G.
Farben Co. in Frankfurt-am-
Main.
@(a) False. II Is the science
of measuring triangles. (b)
True.
4Major.
5-(c) is correct.
6-Boils.
7-Debussy
S-The French Revolution.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-13

grand opportunity for them to
develop leisure time activi-
ties" But, recreation associa-
tons everywhere reported that
II was not the people out OF
jobs, but those still at work,
who took advantage of those
leisure time opportunities. The
person who does not work Just
can't have leisure-either the
play boy and girl, or the man
or woman out of a job. They
have idleness, not leisure. Lei
sure. Leisure is creative, idle
structive. 4,
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-13

VISED 10 make a last will and
testament before leaving the
United States for foreign serv-
ice. He cannot be CON-
PEELED TO do this, however,
If he does not desire TO do so.
If the serviceman makes a will
he will usually deposit the Will
in a safe place but does not
necessarily have TO send II 10
his wife or to the beneficiary or
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-13
EYEBALL PENETRATED

fffBAIL ffNE ~ NJ III
If a wound Of the eye occurs
which penetrates into the eye
ball. the doctor Will dllate the
pupil Of the eye by using afro
pine or some similar substance.
II is also a good procedure 10
take an X-ray of the eye when
some object has penetrated IL.
since the X-ray will reveal any
metal materials which may be
present in the eyebsll a mag
net may often be successfully
employed in removing bits Of
metal from the eye
Sometimes bit Of material
may penetrate the eyeball and
get into the back part of the eye
where there is a fluid known as
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-13
Connolly Answers

1-(D y mile. 2-(c). g.
(c). 4(b). @(a). g.
ta Mexico, (b) Argentina.
(c) Venezuela. (d) Peru,
(e) Bolivia.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-13
BETTER HEALTH
BY DR.. Herman Bundesen

OUR eyes mean so much 10
" comfort and well-being that
IL behooyes US to guard the most
precious parts Of our body. That
is why most people nowadays
who suffer from injuries 10 the
eyes will consult an eye special
Isl for treatment
However, IN many instances
the services Of a phySician IN
certain towns cannot he immedi-
ately secured. Hence, II Is I'M
portant that every one know
few general rules about the
treatment Of these eye emer-
gencles.
4 NY eye injury, no matter
~ how slight, shou d be
treated as serious until all dan
ger Of infection OF the eye has
passed.
A person should not rub his
eyes when something gets into
them, as this will soon make the
eyes sore and will do no good.
The proper thing 10 do If the OBJ
iect cannot be easily removed IS
10 have some local anesthetlc
put into the eye which deadens
all sensation. then the eye can
be carefully Inspected, using a
special hight and magnltyng
glass. When the material IN the
Ane is located, II can usually be
noved quite easily Then an
@tiseptic lotion can be pre-
scrloed 10 be employed AZ home.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-13

ness will win him over eventu-
ally
! have not heard from him
since my visit but l have writ
ten him and mailed A small gift,
thanking him for his courteSies.
Perhaps | should end the
friendship, but before doing so l
would like 10 make one more ef-
fort 10 interest HIM. b. ID.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-13
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Detroit evening times., 1945-06-13
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-17
House Ouerrides COP
To Pass George Bill

WASHINGTON Feb 16PlTe House today OVERRIDE strong
House the
George bill which shears Henry Wallace
Secretary of Commerce.
The roll 399 to 2.
The chamber voted Overwhelmingly in favor
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-17
NAZI FUEL, RAIL
TARGETS BLASTED
1000 Yank Planes Shift
From Eastern To West
ern Front

LONDON, Feb. 49, R Seven
fuel and rail targets in the Ruhr
and northwestern Germany were
bombarded today by 1000 U. S.
Eighth Air Force planes as the
relentless air assault on the Reich
shifted from the Eastern to the
Western Front.
Hamm, Osnabruck and Rheine,
three o + t-bombed rail centers
which feed supplies mainly to Ger
man forces opposing the British
and Canadians in the Kleve Sec
tor, were on the target list of
more than 1000 Flying Fortresses
and Liberators guarded by 200
Mustang fighters.
Runr benzol plants at Dortmund
and Gelsenkirchen and natural oil
refineries at Dartmund and Sal
bergen, on the outskirts of Rheine,
also were hammered by the fleet
of heavyWeights, which unloaded
approximately 5000 tons of explo-
sives.
Preliminary reports indicated
there was little opposition by the
Nazi air force.
Clouds sealed off Dresden,
Chemitz and Cottbus-focal points
of the Allied air assault hurled
in support of the advancing Rus
sian armies in the past two days
but the American bombers took
advantage of somewhat better
weather conditions to strike in the
west.
All oil targets were hit usually
and favorable results were report
ed. Direct hits were scored on the
3O-mile-long rail yards at Hamm,
largest and best equipped in Ger
many. Broken clouds swirled over
the other detectives, requiring in
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-17
Hitler And HmmIer Put
Reich Under Iron Glove

for damaging the Reich by ut
tering or repeating a rumor.
The summary courts are to be
established, said the decree, ION
orders of the Fuehrer in agree
ment with the Reichsminister of
the Interior (Himmler), and they
will be packed firmly with Nazis.
Residing judges will be "assis-
ted'' by political leaders or sec
ton leaders of the Nazi party and
by officers of the army, the SIS
Elite Guard or the police. Since
Hitler is commander in chief of
the army and Himmler controls
the SIS and the police, it will be
a thoroughly Nazi setup.s
Before the summary courts will
be brought all persons charged
with "crimes by which German
Continued on Page Three; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-17
LECRAND SIGHTS
BOND BILL 0KAY
Local Legislator Explains
Measure; Would As
sist Cities

Rep. ]. @. LeGrand predicted
last night that the Wilmington Rev
enue Bond bill, authorizing the
City to issue bonds to finance such
self-liquidating construction-pro-
jects as port terminal facilities
and sports amphitheaters, would
pass the State House of Represen-
tatives in the near future and
emerge as law from the Senate
shortly thereafter.
The measure has been favorably
reported to the House by the Jul
dicial and Finance Committees to
which it went for investigation
after it's introduction and is now
awaiting the first of three readings
from the floor which will bring 1t
to vote.
Purposed chiefly to extend to
1919, on Wilmington's behalf,
Statewide act enabling municipal
tiles to finance util;ty-building by
loans floated without popular vote.
the measure comes to the House
with a limitation-amendment writ
ten in by Mr.. LeGrand. Last night
he explained the amendment,
which deletes the purchase OF pow
or companies from the list OF au-
thor.zed Council actions, by say
inc that too many changing fac
tors could be foreseen III trans
actions of this nature to allow tfelr
being made subject to long-range:
blanket rulings.
Oueried on other pending lesls.
lative matters, Rep. LIE Grand SAID
that he would make public his
views on such measures as the
nouch-debated Civil Service revls-
ion and the transfer of the New
Hanover Bureau of identification
To the Sheriff's department after
Weekend consultation with inter-
ested parties in Wilmington.
He said that he has not yet read
the bill formulated to put Super
;ntendent Harry B. Fales' finger
nr;nt bureau under County control,
an attempt to block which was
made in Wednesdays CITY Council
meeting by Mayor Ronald Lane
and Councilman r. S. LeGwln on
tho grounds that Legrand had evil
denced reluctance to present IL 10
the Legislature.
Mayor Lane, who with County
Commission Chairman Addison
Hewlett, ST., had exercised super
visory authority over the Bureau
in it's previous status, stated tnat
he had never received complaint
concerning its operation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-17
Jqpan:s Good Days Gone
With Nays Tokyo Raid

Unite dPress Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, F b. 16.-UP)
Japan read portent today into
the United States Navy attack on
Tokyo. The good days of three
years ago were gone, The Domei
agency broadcast that workers,
students, officials and members of
neighborhood associations were
strengthening their fighting lines
-"determined to fight to the
death when their mainland be-
comes a battlefield"
Enemy broadcasts showed also
a plain expectation that little Two
island $50 miles south of Tokyo
would become battlefield first.
Tokyo read into the merciless
warship and plane attack on the
island the portent that a landing
by American troops was inmi-
nent.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-17
FROM THE ENEMY VIEWPOINT

LONDON, Feb. 16 -P)- Adolf
Hitler and Heinrich Himmler i'm
posed martial law upon virtually
all Germany and poised the ex-
ecutioner's axe today with a de-
gree establishing courts martial
to "handle ruthlessly'' anyone
who shirks the Nazi death strug-
gle.
The courts of summary justice"
will be set up Immediately in all
invasion threatened areas OF the
Reich, with power to deal the death
sentence to anyone who attempts,
especially through cowardice or
selfishness," to evade his duties.
The decree, broadcast by the
German radio, meant that even IN
deepest Bavaria a German could
be sentenced to death for selfish
ness in refusing shelter to refill
gee from an overrun province or
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-17

work camps in the Philippines.
For 80 months he had endured
this.
So, he thought the worst was
over when he and some 1900
comrades were put aboard a
japanese prisoner ship last Oc-
teber II. But the worst was just
ahead
The Japs herded them like cat
tie into the filthy hold of small,
rickety transport. There were
no sanitary facilities to speak of
only four 5-gallon buckets. The
stencil was unbearable. The heat
was sitting. Food consisted of
one teasup Of cooked rice twice
daily and canteen of dirty water
once day. Scores of prisoners
were stricken with dysentary and
other sickness. Five men died.
Hundreds of others went out of
their minds.
There was room for only a few
to lie down. Most had to stand
(COntinued on Pare Two: Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-17
Monty S Men
Crunch Ahead
Yard By Yard
Allie d Warplanes Join
Struggle To Knock
Foe From Hills

PARIS, Feb. 16-lP1A roaring
battle ragged today on ten-mlle
front south and east of Relieve,
where Field Marshal Montgom.
e1ys offensive crunched southeast
ward yard by yard into strongly
reinforced German line standing
between his forces and the rich
Ruhr and Rineland.
Over a battlefield where hun
dreds of big guns blazed, swarms
Of Allied warplanes attacked with
bombs, bullets and rockets, trying
to knock the Germans from ri
sing ground before the three stra-
tegic road networks of Goch, I'm
dem and Calcar.
The Canadian First Ar1ny-now
disclosed to be made up OF IS per
cent British forces-Was about two
miles from Calcar, five miles from
Undem and two and a half miles
from Goch. More Allied tanks were
joining the bruising struggle as the
ground firmed underneath.
German civilians, men, women
and children, streamed from the
battle zone, seeking safety behind
the Allied lines. f,---- '1sss.~.ss-.
Scottish infantry driving east and
gaining nearly mile were attack
ing bitterly defended heights south
of Moyland, possibly within two
miles Of Calcar and II from Vessel
at the gateway to the industrial
Ruhr Valley.
The Germans had thrown in ele-
ments Of eight divisions to block
the path to the Ruhr-last great
source Of enemy munitions-and
U. S. heavy bombers battered at
those war factories as more than
$500 warplanes of all kinds took
to the skies of Western Europe.
Massed German artillery and
mortars earlier in the day pinned
down the advance on pivotal goch
along the Niers river, but late
dispatch said that once more the
British were advancing on Hassum
three miles west of Goch.
Three battles southwest of Kleve
at the approaches to Calcar, on
the road to Uedem, an over rolling
hills in between-Were merging in
to one.
One Of the fiercest was south.
east of Bedburg on the road to
Uedem, where the Canadian
charge by foot and armored troop
carriers over sandy fields was met
by salvos of whining multiple NOR
tars.
German resistance was light on
both ends of the 20-mile front,
along the Mas river on the south
where killed Scots pressed on from
captured Heijen-eight miles west
of Goch - and along the Rhine
northeast of Kleve.
A front dispatch said German
resistance was ended along the
flooded Rhine. where the enemy
appeared to be relying on breach
ed dikes for defense. Both the
floods on the Mas and Rhine were
believed ebbing. the ground was
drying, and the Canadian-British
forces hoped soon to swing their
armored superiority into the scales
of battle.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-17

Domei said there was a strong
possibility tn e carrier planes
would open an attack on Tokyo
for the second day.
The agency revealed that t h e
planes dropped leaflets as well as
bombs.
indications of heavy damage to
Tokyo included the silence of the
Tokyo overseas transmitter for 80
minutes and Domei message to
japanese editors that scheduled
review Of Tokyo newspaper arti-
Giles would not be broadcast. In
stead, Domei promised a rebroad-
cast of an earlier news program.
30 Japanese broadcasts mentioned
were recorded by the United
Press, the Federal Communica-
tons Commission, CHS and NBC.
Continued on Page Three; Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-17
Reds Crash Into Breslau;
Battle Raging Near Berlin

LONDON Saturday, Feb 17lFRed Army siege troops
the edge of Breau yesterday
Siesan capital the while Germans announc
ed that other Soviet forces had
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-17
UNRRA FAILURE
WILL Be PR0BED
Congress And Parliament
To Study Reasons
For Fiasco

LONDON, Feb. 16-(P)-A storm
over UNRRA was brewing tonight,
with the strong possibility inves-
legations would be precipitated in
+ both the U. S. Congress and the
British Parliament into the organ
iantion's involuntary failure to get
relief work underway on a larger
scale.
Congress and Parliament are the
two chief sources of revenue for
the mercy agency, once envision-
ed as the first major test for inter
national non-military collaboration.
Within week UNRRA has
drawn sharp criticism from oppo-
site sides of the globe, with au-
thoritative quarters insistent that
the chief difficulty lies in a lack
of understanding between UNRRA
and the Army.
Among UNRRA personnel from
the United States, belief mounted
that Congress, probably through
the House Appropriations and the
Senate Finance Committees, would
call for a thorough-g going inquiry
before approving the $3.50, 900, 5000
balance of 1850, 900, 900 American
contribution.
Here in London, the Laborite
Daily Herald bluntly demanded
what has gone wrong - why
should this vast organization stand
paralyed in an hour when its &C
tivities should be mounting to
peak?"
''Action there must be-" the pa
per said in an editorial. GAS a
matter of the utmost urgency, the
whole set-up and operations of UN-
IRA must be overhauled. The
condition of liberated peoples ur-
gently requires it, the honor of the
United Nations demands it's
This criticism followed a state
ment by DR.. H. v. Evatt, Aus
tralia's minister of external at
fairs, that something of crisis
is emerging in relation to UN-
RRA's functions.
1T must be admitted by any
candid Observer DR.. Evatt said
yesterday at the opening of
six-day meeting of the Far Eastern
Committee Of UNRRA at Sydney,
THAT there are signs of frustra-
ton and disillusionment Despite
much elaborate organization, UN-
IRA has not functioned to any
extent in Europe"
Earlier in the week M. A. Lamp
ing, representing the Netherlands,
and Vicomte de Thieusies, dele
gate for Belgium, told UNRRA's
Committee that their
people were first led to believe
that they could expect everything
from UNRRA, but that subsequent
ly they came to the conclusion
after liberation that they could ex-
pect nothing.
Rene Mass gil, French ambassa-
dor to Britain, has told the COM
mittee that UNRRA should have
to send emergency re-
lief supplies Immediately to lib
Grated areas on the grounds that
months have passed since liber
alton, with the people still suffer-
ing greatly.
Meanwhile UNRRA's hands re-
main tied, especially in the cases
If France and Belgium. AS British
Minister of State Richard K. Law
pointed out in the House of Com
mons Wednesday, the organization
,an enter liberated country only
Upon the invitation Of its govern
Continued on Page Two; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-17

HO1u OIL OTOSSen, O5 miles SOUTH
east of Berlin.
An enemy broadcast late last
night said that the decisive
battle for Breslau had begun, with
Soviet artillery slamming shells
into the city from all sides.
Breslau is the biggest German
city yet within the grasp of any
Allied army. 1t had 1912 popula-
ton of 100000, later swollen te
l 600, 600 by the influx of refugees
from Berlin and other bomb shat.
tered Nazi cities. Most of the civil.
ians were believed to have beer
evacuated, and the sta &c was set
for death grapple in its ancient
streets.
The Russians officially were de.
clared to be only four miles from
the heart of Breslau, a sprawline
industrial city On the east and west
banks of the Oder. They broke into
the edge of the city with the seizure
of Drachenbrunn, adjoining Bis
chofswalde, a forest on the south
eastern side of the city next to the
geological gardens.
More than 100 miles northwest oil
Breslau wild battle had develop
ed on the southeastern approaches
to Berlin, and a late Moscow dis
patch said the Germans were rush.
ing reinforcements of veterans and
unseasoned home army recruits in
to the area in an effort to stop
the Russians who were threatening
to turn Berlin's eastern defenses.
Soviet front dispatches said that
Marshal Konov's northern wing.
moving toward Cottbus, huge rail
center AZ miles southeast of Berlin
was within sight of the Spree river,
last natural defense line guarding
the Reich capital. Cottbus. it's mill
tary-glutted rail yards shattered
by Thursdays American air at
tacks, is on the Spree.
The Soviet communique did not
mention this sector, where Berlin
also told of heavy fighting in the
area of Forst, II miles east OF
Cottbus, nor did the Russians con-
firm the German announcemt mt
that Crossen already had fallen.
But the Russian bulletin an
nounced the capture of Rusdorf
one and half miles southeast Of
Continued on Page Five; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-17

Republican CONSERVATIVE Demo-
cratic coalition lost by the narrow
margin of 204 to 1876 a motion to
send it back to the Banking Com
mittee.
The Senate passed the bill three
weeks ago with the understanding
that it would not confirm Wallace
until the House had UNDERWATER
its guarantee that the former vice
president would not fall heir to the
loan powers vested in ousted Sec
rotary Of Commerce Jesse Jones
The House coalition sought tt
defeat Wallace by writing in ad
ditional restrictive amendments
This same objective would have
been achieved had the recommit.
tai motion carried.
Reps. William Lemke, (R-N.D.)
and Earl Wilson, (R.-Ind) cas-
the two negative votes on fina
passage. Wilson also had sponsor
ed the recommittal motion.
The measure would have divorc-
ed the Commerce Department
from all Federal loan agencies, i'll
Guiding the huge Reconstruction
Finance Corp. 1t was supported by
Democrats in both houses as G
means of eXpediting the Wallace
confirmation.
Administrator leaders in ootll
chambers accepted the measure as
a compromise after the Senate
made clear that it would not con
firm Wallace If he got Jones' loar
powers. While the dispute was al
it's height, President Roosevelt lei
it be known that he would sign the
measure if it were passed. In ad
dition, Wallace said that he woulc
accept the Commerce Post 9TH.
out the loan job although he pre-
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-17

BY LEONARD C. SCHUBERT
APPLETON, Wis, Feb. 16.-U.D
Sgt. Avery E. WILDER had sur
vived the horrors of Cabanatuan
and Bilibid; the semi-starvation
and filth of sinking Japanese
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-17
! 800 Carrier Planes Continue Tokyo Raids
Yanks CaptW Bataan In Surprise Landing
Canadians, Nails Lock In Battle Near Kleve
1900 Americans Die
In Jap Ship Sinking
Allied Submarine Torpedoes Enemy Trans
port damned With Prisoners From Lu-
ION; Only Five Are Known To Be Alive

Editors Note: The United
Press herewith reveals for the
first time nearly 1900 Allied
prisoners, mostly Americans
who already had endured 80
months of hell as Jap prison
ers after the fall of the Phil
ippines, apparently persisted
when an enemy prisoner ship
was sunk last October "a. The
vessel was torpedoed in the
China Sea by an Allied SUBJ
marine. The raider had no
way of knowing that friends
were aboard its target. There
were only five known sur
vivors. One was Sgt. Avery
E. WILDER, 80, of Navarino,
Wis, who told his story to
the United Press.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-17
FORECAST

Cloudy and cooler today with scatter
ed showers.
Yesterdays temperatures:
High, 74-Low, SO.
The Apache sentinel., 1945-02-02

Clerk: 81 have checked the fig
ures on the morning report eight
times"
1st Sgt: every gOOd.".
Clerk: Here are the eight an
SwerS." \
And then there is the story OF
the solitary baby chick who, after
observing the electric incubator full
of unmatched eggs, uttered: We'll,
1 guess I'll be an only child. The
old lady's blown fuse"
Short history of Germany: Dis
order, Order, New Order, more
New Order. Disorder and-mOre
Disorder.