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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-19
STIMS0N HALLS
IW0'S CONQUEST
Victory Termed Essential
To Speed Close Of
Pacific War

WASHINGTON, March 18-(P)-
Secretary of War Stimson con-
graduated the Marine Corps today
on it's conquest of Two Jirna and
said the feat has brought closer
the day of our final victory in the
Pacific
The letter:
1.-The Honorable, the Secretary
of the Navy,
s'Dear Mr.. Secretary:
1.-THE announcement that all or
ganized Japanese resistance on Two
Jima ceased last evening has
brought to a close one of the most
brilliant and decisive campaigns
in the entire history of the Marine
Corps. This mission was given the
highest Importance by our chiefs
Of staff in the scheme Of opera
tons planned to bring up within
striking distance of the japanese
homeland. This island bastion
across the route to Tokyo was vital
to provide us with forward bases
from which to prosecute with the
greatest intensity our assault on
Japan itself. Never has the Ma
rine Corps been called upon to
overcome an enemy entrenched in
such well-placed and stubborn for
tifications. Never has the corps
acted more heroically.
II extend to you and to the gal
liant members of the Marine Corps
who took part in this campaign my
personal congratulations and the
congratulations OF the entire army.
The price has been heavy but the
value of Two lima is in
estimable. Its conquest has brought
closer the day of our final VIC
tory in the Pacific.
Sincerely Yours,
'Henry L. Stimson
Secretary of War;"
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WASHINGTON, March 18-U.H-
Joseph Dunbar Medley, 43-year-old
escaped convict sought for the al
legged murder of three red-haired
women, was captured in St. Louis
hotel early today after an inten-
sive hunt.
His arrest was announced by FBI
Director j. Edgar Hoover. He said
that arrangements were being
made to return the dapper kid
naper and confidence man to Wash
ington to face murder charges in
the brutal Staying of Mrs. Nancy
Boyer, 52-year-old divorce and
capita socialite.
Her body with bullets in the head,
was found in her soundproof and
blood-spattere. apartment 10 days
ago. Police traced the Staying to
Medley through finger print rec
ords. They said he is wanted for
the alleged murder of two other
re l-haired women-Miss Laura
Fischer in New Orleans and an
other in Chicago who was not nam
ed.
Hoover said Medley was picked
up by FBI agents and St. Louis
police as he entered his suite at
the hotel in company with an at
tractive St. Louis woman he be-
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-19
Reds Capture
Kolberg, Fix
Baltic Flank
Other Forces Springing
Trap Around Suburb
OF Stettin

LONDON, March 49, (UP) -
Russian troops today captured the
ancient Pomeranian fortress port
of Kolberg after a 13-day battle
clearing $50 miles of Germany's
Baltic coastal flank in preparation
for the final onslaught on Berlin
The last German-held strong.
point between the east shores Of
Stettin Bay and the Polish corridor
was seized by the northern wing
of Marshal Zhukov's First White
Russian Army, now massing along
and over the Oder river for the
battle for the German capital.
Kolberg, a city of $4,000, was
encircled on March 6 and the
Germans had fought bitterly to
hold it as a menace to Zhukov' S
flank.
Its capture was announced in an
order of the day from Premier
Josef Stain who revealed that
troops OF the First Polish Army
had fought alongside Russian sold
iers in the final street battle.
Sixty-three miles to the south
west, other Zhukov forces were
springing a trap around the Alt
damn suburb Of Stettin and norta-
ern and southern prongs driving
along the Oder toward that town
were II miles apart. Hundreds of
big guns continued pounding Stet-
tins intricate defense system On
the west bank of the Oder in soft
ening up bombardment prepare
tory to tank and infantry on
slaught on that northern anchor
of the Berlin line.
A security blackout continued to
mask Soviet operations along the
Oder front due east of Berlin.
American planes, perhaps giving
the signal for the start of the i'm
minent grand scale Soviet often
sive, battered Berlin with a rec
ord daylight attack, hitting among
other targets two rail stations on
lines leading to both the Stettin
front and the Frankfurt-Kues
area east of Berlin.
Soviet dispatches said Russians
troops pushing past the Oder's
west bank beyond Kuestrin, seized
last Monday, were so close to Ber-
lin that at night they could see the
capitals searchlights stabbing the
skies in search of attacking Allied
planes. Kuestrin is 80 miles east
of Berlin.
Along the Baltic coast of the
Danzig Free State and East Prus-
STA two other Soviet army groups
battled to seize encircled Gdynia,
Danzig and Koenigsberg and free
themselves for the drive on Ber-
lin. The Nazis also reported the
Russians had resumed their Of
fensive against Germans trapped
on the Courland peninsula of west
ern Latvia. The remnants of forces
that once numbered about AGO. 900
men are trapped in the Danzig-
Gydnla, East Prussian and Lat
Wan coastal pockets.
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NAC0YA POUNDED
AGAIN BY B-29S
Burned Out Heart OF
Japan's Third City Hit
By 300 Planes

GUAM, Monday, March 49,
UD-Three hundred or more Sup
erfortresses poured upward OF
1000 tons of incendiary bombs in
to the charred heart of Nagoya,
Japan's third city, today shortly
after Tokyo reported that 1,4OO
carrier planes had hit targets OF
Kyushu, Shikoku and Honshu
islands in the area which shelters
the Japanese main fleet.
1t was the second devastation
attack in seven days on Nagoya
and the fifth in nine days on ia
pans greatest war industry cen7
tiers. ~
AS in the previous attacks, the
Superfortresses attacked in the
early hours of the morning, show
ering ton after ton of unquench-
able fire bombs on their target
area.
In the first raid, week ago to-
day, two square miles of Nagoya
had been burned.
Announcement of the attack by
what was officially called a very
large force followed by only a few
hours Tokyo reports of a giant
carrier plane attack on southwest
ern Japan.
Long after the Tokyo reports,
there was no official word here
that the American carrier fleet
had returned to the attack on the
japanese homeland, but there
seemed no reason to doubt the
detailed enemy reports.
Japan said that the carrier
planes opened their attack at 6
a. m. Sunday and continued it for
at least eight hours.
Enemy broadcasts said the u.
S. fleet remained off the coast as
if for a further attack today, and
they revealed a premonition of the
Superfortress raid.
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ENEMY REFUSED
NEAR zAMB0ANCA
Planes Give Close Support
To Ground Forces
In Advance

MANILA, Monday, March 49,
WP-Heavy Japanese counter at
tacks in the Zamboanga peninsula
Of southwestern Mindanao have
been beaten off with heavy losses
as the American 41st Division con-
tinues to press inland and up the
coasts, Gen. Douglas Macarthur
announced today.
Airplanes gave close support tc
ground troops as they advanced
into the foothills to which the Jap
anese retreated after the original
American landings and bombers
hit enemy encampments in the
Sarangani bay area of southeas-
tern Mindanao.
In southern Luzon, Brig. Gen.
Hanford Macnider's 158th Regi-
mental Combat team landed a
force of men at Talaga, on the
west shore of Batangas Bay and
the troops drove northward. throw
ing off an enemy counter-attack,
to join at Mabini other troops who
had crossed to the east side of the
Calumpan peninsula.
The Sixth and 43rd Divisions,
after smashing heavy japanese re-
sistance advanced eastward in the
mountains east of Manila, driving
through rugged country into the
enemy's secondary defenses, to
the south the First Cavalry <ad-
vanced five miles of Antipolo.
The 25th Division, advancing
from the south, reached within
three nlilae of the Balete Pass
escape route for enemy troops into
thee Cagayan valley of northeas-
tern Luzon. At the same time the
32nd Division, advancing from the
west, advanced three miles from
Continued on Page Two: Col. 81
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Continued on Page Two; Col.
Kandenberg Seeks Change
In DumbQrt0n Oaks Plan

WASHINGTON, March 18-F-
Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich) has
filed with the State Department
proposals to amend the Dumbarton
Oaks agreements to provide, among
otr things, for review of war
time political decisions threatening
future peace.
The Michigan senator declined to
discuss the proposed amendments
but he declared today the world
security conference in San Fran
cisco faces 1.-The tremendous respon'
sibility" of deciding if the projected
international organization will be
limited in it's operations to enforce.
ment of peace-table decisions with.
out change.
Vandenberg is a member of the
American delegation to the United
Nations meeting opening April 25.
"Peace-making and peace-keep.
ing are two totally different func-
TONS" he told a reporter. 1.-THE
San Francisco conference will deal
only with peace-keeping. 1t must
be followed by another conference
which does the actual peace-mak-
ing.
"But there is this collateral re-
lationship. The San Francisco Con-
ference will have the tremendous
responsibility of deciding whether
peace-keeping is to be confined to
|
makers dictate, or whether the new
peace league shall have jurisdiction
broad enough 20 explore and recon-
mend correction Of errors and in
justices in the peace itself which
could again threaten ultimate
war"
Vandenberg said he expects the
proposals which he has filed with
the State Department to be laid
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-19
LaGuardia Extends Cunew
Without Byrnes' Sanction

NEW YORK, March 18.-WD-
Mayor F. H. LaGuardia extended
War Mobilization Director James
F. Byrnes' midnight curfew by
one hour today, and all over the
town saloon keepers were leaping
for joy. .
1t was the first sizeabIe deflec.
ton from the Nationwide contrac-
ton of the customary hours for
alcoholic and other revels Byrnes
ordered February 26 as a war
measure. The mayor wouldn't say,
but it was understood he acted
without Byrnes' knowledge or con-
sent.
Now Byrnes either must extend
the curfew by one hour in every
city and hamlet across the land
or crack down on the Nations
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-19
Rail Stations.
Devastated In
Greatest Blow
More Than 5000 Tons OF
Bombs Believed Hurl-
ed By U. S.

LONDON, March 18.-W.H-An
American air fleet of 1900 bomb.
ers and 700 fighters, the largest
force ever sent against a single
city, today hurled thousands Of
high explosive and incendiary
bombs on communications and
war industry targets in Berlin.
The Eigth Air Force Fortresses
and Liberators devastated two
big mid-city railway stations
which funnel supplies and troops
to the Russian front and also blast
ed two spraWling armament works
on the outskirts, leaving great
fires raging.
German fighters, including some
30 speedy jet-propelled planes, at
tackled the bomber formations. AT
least 10 enemy planes were shot
down. A squadron of some Is Rus
sian fighters joined the Americans
in the air battles.
The massive assault began about
noon and lasted for more than al
hour, with Bottom salvos hitting
the city every 80 or 40 seconds.
More than 5000 tons of bombs
were estimated to have been loos-
ed on the capital, which also has
been hit for the past 26 nights
running by fast Mosquito bombers
of the Raj.
The principal targets today were
the Schlestscher railway station
and the freight yards of the Ber-
lin north station. They were blast
ed by a heavy bomber detachment
1000 strong.
The Schleisischer station is on
the main railroad line leading to
Kuestrin and Frankfurt, where
the Wehrmacht is striving desper-
ately to halt the Soviet army, now
only 81 miles from the capital. It
was believed that the Red troops
may have seen the giant bombers
wheeling over their objective.
The north station is main
terminus on the rail route to the
embattled city almost ringed by
the besieging Red Army. 1t is the
site of one of Berlin's biggest
freight yards and frequently is
iammed with troops and freight
cars.
An estimated 12,40O high explo-
sive bombs, many of them thou
sand Founders. and 650,OOe small
.ncendiaries were loosed on the
two stations.
The remainder Of the force
some 300 Liberators struck at
the Rheinmetal Borsig plant at
Tegel, six miles northwest of the
center of Berlin. and the big tank
factory at Henningsdorf, IL miles
northwest of the city's heart.
War material for the German
army, navy and air force is pro-
duced at the Rheinmetal Borsig
works, including anti-aircraft
guns, field guns, machine guns,
tanks, armored vehicles, bombs
and torpedoes. The half mile
square factory is in highly in
dustrialized area.
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
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LII IlIIle IIlUIe tudlI lllOIllll.
I Adm. Chester W. Nimitz said a
strong force of carrier planes
attacked air bases and other in.
stallations on Kyushu, but Tokyo
radio claimed that Shikoku island
and southern Honshu also were
raided in an attack lasting eight
hours.
Nimitz' reference to strong
force would indicate the attack
was carried out by at least as pow
erful an air fleet as the more than
1,2G0 planes which swept the To-
kyo-Yokohama area February It,
II and again February 1926.
The carrier raid came just be.
fore more than 300 Superfortfesses
flying from bases in the Mari
anas dropped more than 1000 tons
of incendiary bombs on Nagoya,
Japan's third largest city, on Hon
shu island. Nagoya was bombed
with about the same tonnage on
March IL.
The island, long isolated by a
careful Japanese barrier Of ST:
lence, is known to provide much
of Japan's war machinery. 1t is
the site of the great YaWata steel
works, one of the largest in, the
world, and many other important
industrial plants.
Populous Kyushu also is thick
ly studded with airfields, and con-
stitute strong military barrier
on the southern road to the main
island of Honshu.
Admiral Nirnitz' communique
gave no results of the strike, but
the mention of air bases as prime
targets meant that Japan's dimin-
ishing air force again was under
heavy attack. A total of 1872 enc
my planes were destroyed or dam
aged in the two previous carrier
raids.
This bare announcement was
given in a communique which re-
ported that the Marines on Two
Jima mopped up isolated rem
nants of the enemy garrison which
once numbered more IMAM ZU,UUU
troops.
The heavy carrier strike against
the Japanese homeland was the
third in recent weeks by Vice Adm.
Marc A. Mitscher's task force, the
worlds largest. In the two pre-
vious attacks 1872 enemy planes
were destroyed or damaged and
81 japanese vessels sunk or dam
aged.
(Eontinued OH Pace Two. Col a
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before the American delegation il
advance of the International meet
ing.
It is his understanding that the
delegation will decide whether they
and any amendments proposed BY
others of the American group art
to be laid formally before the Unit
ed Nations delegates. There is nj
provision, he added, for individual
action in the conference if tn,
Americans as a unit decide agains
submitting any proposal.
Supporters have contended tn,
Dumbarton Oaks agreements leav'
the way open for the proposed
league to review such political de
cisions as European boundary def
nitions if they threaten to provoke
aggl ession.
But it is Vandenberg's position
that, under the tentative agree
ments reached here last summer
the organization could not act unit
somn specific threat of aggression
is cited to it.
He fears that even if it become!
obvious a year or two afterward!
that some decision of the peace
makers is going to cause conflic
a DECADE later, the security league
may find itself unable to start its
review machinery in time to pre-
vent another war.
1t is understood Vandenbers
hopes to clothe the proposed league
as he said when he accepted APP
pointment as a delegate, with So
constant, conscious mandate to seel
and to maintain Justice as the
basis of peace"
He pointed out then that the
Dumbarton Oaks formula, excep1
Continued on Page Three; Col. y
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largest city. No one believed the
remainder of the country would be
satisfied with less than New York
City has-particularly OF pleasure.
In Washington, it was learned
that the move was without Byrnes'
consent and it was indicated that
Byrnes would have nothing to say
tonight and perhaps nothing to-
morrow. Capital quarters were
not certain that Byrnes had been
caught unaware, though it ap-
peared he had. They predicted
that if he had been-that if La
Guardia actually was defying a
war measure upon which he was
banking-there would be quick
and perhaps drastic action.
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
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Third Crosses Maize, First Drives Eastward
Remagen BriSe Falls, Many Yanks Killed
| 300 American Heavy Bombers Pound Berlin
Xank Carrier Planes
SweepKyushu Island
Air Bases And Other Targets Hit; Japs Claim
Destruction Of Three Warships In Amer
lean Fleet Including Carriers

U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, GUAM, Monday
March Of American carrier planes he japanese
1400 from the worlds mighe vital
the souhernmost island of Kyuhu yesterday
third devastating
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FORECAST

Partly cloudy and slightly cooler 10
DAY.
Yesterdays temperatures:
High, Glow, s.. .
The echo., 1945-04-27


As listened to the program of
the Lauaerdale County Medical, Den
tai and Pharmaceutical Society, I
learned many things that will help
boys and girls grow healthy bodies.
Dr. /. F. Brooks told us that good
living means keeping our bodies clean
and eating the RIGHT kind of food. He
said that such first aid treatments
as axle grease, SCOT and kerosene
should never be used on wounds.
Rouge, lip stick, finger nail polish
and skin bleaches sometimes cause
skin disease.
Continued on page 2
The echo., 1945-04-27

A card from the Beard Of Relie-
ious Education Of the CME Church,
Jackson, Tenn, with Reverend B.
Julian Smith, Secretary, stated that
the meeting scheduled to convene on
Monday and Tuesday Of next week
in Jackson, Tenn, has been can
celed because of government restrict
ions
At this particular stage Of the war
and under the conditions that now
confront us, the government is de-
manding and placing certoin res aict-
ions on large gatherings. Tie war
effort should cause all of us to use
economy and help to win this was
Many years ago when ! was q lad,
Presiding Elders would hold District
Conferences for four days. however,
many of the Presiding Elders in the
CME Church and other churches are
holding their District Conferences in
two days. In fact, some Methodist
Bishops are holding Annual Confer
ences in three days.
This goes on to show and indicate
that our leaders have seriously taken
under consideration this war effort
under consideration this war effort
the rationing of food, gas, cars, Tres
etc. They are therefore going to
these places opening Up and com
peting their business and leaving
without being a burden.
The echo., 1945-04-27
Federation Of Clubs
Memorial Service
To President Roosevelt

To the Editor:
Dunbarton Oaks Week will be OH
served in this country April 10th a.
22nd, eliminating in church and
synagogue service with prayers for a
successful world organization.
BY Ruth Taylor
Almighty and most merciful Fa-
Their of all mankind. We t..nL Thee
that Thou has vouchsafeed to us am
oteer opportunity to work together,
men Of all nations. that we NAV in
the spirit of obedience to Thy bolv
laws, seek to bring Thy kingdom in
which al. men are brothers, to
reign on earth.
Grant, we pray Thee. wisdom to
those who are about to meet in
soIem concIeave. Keep their minds
ever alert to Thy call, their heaEte
free from selfish ambitions and from
personal pride. Fill them with Thy
spirit Let Thy love for all men,
Thy sons, motivate their actions,
May Thy truth be ever before them,
cloud of smoke by deg apd-a pi}las
Of fire by night, to gvtde theiy
+boi,Ob+l aud eDaacb
The echo., 1945-04-27
w ayneshOrn

NdNueSDOrO
Dear Editor: This is your AGENT
VIM. kinslow speaking. I have lust
held two successful meetings with
Lodge No. 355 and Lodge No. 1914.
I visited Brother George Pierce's
lodge and I wish to report to You
that thy are living up to the Con
stitution. They In fine shape and you
can depend on them. They donated
me $500 for my service. ..-....-..
I visited Lodge No. 1914 at which
time the election was held. Every
thing went out nicely. All officers
We're reelected with the exception Of
Vice President. Brother c. W. Nc
Laughlin has served them 19 years
and he is still their President. They
are i'm fine shape. They donated me
$500 for my service rendered.
Agent VIM. Kinslow.
The echo., 1945-04-27

Jackson, Miss.,-The Executive
Board of the Miss, State Federation
OF Colored Women's Clubs met in
jackson April 14th, with Mrs. L. r.
Miller of Yazoo City presiding. First
Act Of the board was to conduct a
brief but impressive memorial service
to the late Franklin D. Roosevelt.
President Of the United States. Fol
lowing the service the board approved
the following telegram: Mrs. Frank
lin D. Roosevelt White House,
Washington. D. c.
Dear Mrs. Roosevelt; Humanity has
lost a friend in the death of Pres
ident Roosevelt. Signed: Ruby r
Suits Lyles, President Mississippi
State Federation Of Colored Women's
Clubs.
The echo., 1945-04-27
PROGRAM
By Bettye Jean High
r. ]. Harris, Senior High School
PROGRAM

Lauderdale County Medical, Den
tai and Pharmaceutical Society, HBA
Auditorium. Sunday, April 8, 1915 at
$3.50 P. NJ, rendered a splendid pro-
gram ending the National Negro
He<h week The program was
opened with the Negro National An
them. Invocation, Reverend r. l..
Young. Vocal solo, Holy City
(Weatherly) DR.. H. W. Wilson. Ad-
dress, Glow to preserve your Health"
DIR. L. F. Brooks.
Good living was his subject. He
stated that life had q deeper mean
ing than fine clothes, cars, and other
things. To normal healthy peaple,
life is a pleasure. The art Of life
embraces. US t. obtain what we want.
The greatest thing in the world is
life. 1t is better to feel good and
haye torn clothes ON than to feel
badly and have fine clothes. Cos
metics of all kinds are now used
to make the body beautiful. A mum
Der of these cosmetics contain dead
ly poisonous ingredients which causes
certain skin diseases. He also stated
that cleanliness is next to Goodness.
One of the simplest ways to keep
clean, is taking a bath. It is esti-
mated that the body contains $500
pores. A person should be freef rom
diseases if he or she is to handle
food
Some bad habits are overeating,
eating too hurriedly eating too late,
etc. To insure good health, follow
these rules: eat, drink. sleep and get
the proper amount of fresh air. Wor-
ry is a mental habit which lowers
the body's resistance. Worry kills.
Life is a journey over rough and evil
roads. Life is the best thing in the
world, then why not live clean. hon
est and healthfrl life.
This was very healthful address.
The nerve and blood supply to the
teeth and their relation to the other
organs of the body by DR.. R. L.
Coleman. He diagramed The circu-
latory system and emphasized the
fact that an affected tooth can cause
The echo., 1945-04-27
Stymile Law
-~.-
By GEORGE S BENSON
President Of Harding College
Seorcy. Arkansas

AERIAL bombs and floating
mines are going to seem pretty
cheap on V-Day. Their values
will appear again as minus guam
titles. Then slow, cautious men
will set to work getting rid of
them. But there are other in
stIuments of war more ruinous
than any block buster ever de-
vised, and we have one; trained
on American industry now, ready
to start doing serious damage on
Armistice Day.
1t is a law against progress.
The bill was not passed to stop
scientific and industrial develop
ment, but if it's on the statute
looks in peace time it viii be a
government freeze of creative
work am not criticizing the
purposes of the act 1t was
passed in 1910 to raise money for
national defense and to keep war
mongers from profteering on the
misfortunes of others.
Law of THE SENSE Of the-law
Hunger is this: Add up all the
profits a firm made i'm
four pre-war years, 193G-l939 i'm
elusive; figure $3.50 of the total
and call it a sample pre-war
years profit. If a corporation