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CHURCHILL AIDES
KILLED IN CRASH
Group En- Route To Big
Three Meeting Die In
Plane Wreck

LONDON, Feb. 7.-UP-A Brit
ish military transport plane, car
rying some of the members OF
Prime Minister Churchill's staff to
the Big Three meeting, crashed
February 1, it was disclosed to-
day. Ten passengers were killed,
five are missing and believed dead
and five were injured.
Six members of the British For
eign Office, five members of the
War Office, two Royal Air Force
filters and seven crew members
were aboard the plane, en- route
to the Black Sea area.
Killed were:
1t. Col. 1. S. H. Hooper, 1t. Col.
w. G.. N e y, and Capt. A. K.
CharlesWorth of the War Office;
Miss P. M. Sullivan, daughter Of
Col. Arthur Sullivan of Winnipeg.
Canada, P. N. Loxley, A. R. Dew,
J. Chaplin, R. M. Guthrie and de.
tective Sgt. H. J. Bailey, all OF
the Froeign Office, and group Cap.
tain P. S. jackson Taylor of the
Air Ministry.
Missing and believed dead were:
Aircraftsman J. Chicken of the
Royal Air Force; Capt. w. H.
Finch of the War Office; Flying
Officer A. A. Appleby, the gunner;
Flight Sgt. A. c. ]. Walker, flight
engineer, and Warrant Officer w.
Wright, wireless operator and gun
ner.
Injured were:
Air Commodore H. A. C. Sander
son of the Air Ministry; Flight 1t.
A. Eaton Clarke, the pilot; Flying
Officer A. V. ]. Vernieuwe, second
pilot; Flight 1t. ]. W. Holloway,
Navigator, and Cpl. H. j., Burge,
steward.
The crash had been known in
London for several days w h II
newspapers were given off-the-rec-
ord information to forestan publ.
cation of rumors that some of the
Big Three members or their lead
ing advisors were victims.
1t was recalled that Adm. Sir
Bertram Home Ramsay was killed
in a plane crash January 2 on a
trip to Belgium and Air Chief Mar
shall Trafford L. Leigh Mallory
has been missing since last Novem-
Der II when he started by plane
for the Southeast Asia theater.
Churchill customarily is accom-
panied to conferences by large
staff of advisors and attaches and
often travels by air himself. 1t
was known that Sir Alexander Ca
dogan, head of the British Foreign
Office, and Foreign Secretary An
thony Eden were among the high
British officials at the Big Three
meeting.
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Two Superfort Fleets
Pound Bangkok, Saigon
Without A Single Loss

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.-(OFl-
Two separate forces OF Big SUI
nerfortresses today attacked nav
al and military installations at
SAIGON and communications 1aclh-
ties at Bangkok, capital city OF
Thaland, returning from the 3'ooo'
mile round-trip flight without Joss
of single plane.
Gen. H. H. Arnold revealed that
substantial force" f the india
based Forts of the goth Bomber
Command hit the important Rama
vi bridge near Bangkok, knocking
two-thirds of the center span into
the river.
The raid on Saigon, vital Japa-
nese base on the China Sea. also
was made in daylight by a size
able force,'' possibly more than
100 planes which employed precl-
sion instruments for the bombing
and were not able to observe the
results because of overcast.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. T. lR -
W ar ManpoWer Commissioners
Paul V. MCNutt delivered a tenn
pered endorsement Of the work-or-
Jail bill today. But Senators w h 0
questioned him at closed hear
ing said he expressed confidence
that the current manpoWer prob
lem could be handled by the ex-
listing voluntary system.
On the record, McNutt renewed
his recommendation for the limit
ed National Service bill, amended
to place overall control of the pro-
gram in James F. Byrnes' Office
of War Mobilization and Recover
sion. To enact the bill in the form
it passed the House, with Selec-
tive Service in charge, would hurt
rather than help the war effort,
he declared.
His recommendation, McNutt as
serted, was not based upon any
conclusion that out manpower pro-
gram has failed, but upon a rec
ognition of the fact that at this
crucial period of the war we must
be sure that there will be no fail
ure in our ability to man urgent
plants promptly"
Before McNutt's prepared state
ment was made public, however.
Senator Chandler D-Ky) told re-
porters:
HE definitely said that by vol
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First Drives
Through Last.
Western Zone
Other Patton Forces Ex-
plot Breach East OF
St. With

PARIS. Feb. 7.-lR-The u. S.
Third Army thrust elements OIL
four divisions across the Our and
Sure rivers into Germany + r m
Luxembourg at ten places on a
24-mile front today as the U. S
First Army burst through the last
main zone of the Siegfried Line
defenses in the Olef river sector
near Schleiden.
At the same time, the Third Ar.
my forces already in Germany ex-
plotted the breach they had made
in the Siegfried Lines permanent
works east of st. With, making
gains of mile southeastWard
through the Schnee Eifel hills and
taking Wascheid, three and one
half miles north of the stronghold
of Pruem.
These force s formed an arc
around Pruem as close as three
miles on the west down to seven
miles away on the southwest with
the capture of Hollnig.
First Army Doughboys, moving
up in a heavy rain, cracked the
Siegfried emplacements' innermost
belt by capturing Hellentha1, two
ard pnesilaff miles southwest OF
Schleiden and pouring across the
Olef river.
There they left the main system
of concrete barriers and pillboXes
behind them and threatened to out
flank the Schleioen-Gemund sector
of the West Wall.
Second Infantry Division soldiers
making the assault, reported that
German civilians spread the alarm
and awakened sleeping Nazi troops.
During the day the First Army
also made gains north and south
east of the Roer river network Of
dams inside the Siegfried defenses
east of Monschau, Germany, reach
ed within 500 yards of the strong
point of Schmidt and captured NAL
slender. suburb of the Siegfried
Line foundation town of Gemuend
These two American armies I'M
der 1t. Gen. Omar N. Bradley
thus were already through the Ger
mans most vaunted permanent de-
lenses at two points besides the
original 35-mile-wide Aachen gap.
and standing at or inside the line s
concrete emplacement zone for an
other ten miles.
The Allies appeared to be mount
ing an offensive to smash Ger
many's western defenses, which
Hitler has weakened by troop shifts
to the Eastern Front.
German propagandists reiterated
with urgent insistence their predic-
tons that Gen. Eisenhower would
strike soon with a full scale often
sive.
'He is now waiting only for
more favorable weather because he
wants to use airborne forces on
the Anthem and Niimegen scale"
said Capt. Ludwig Sertorious, Ger
man radio military commentator.
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CORRECID0R HIT,
JAPANESE REPORT
American Task Force Held
Pounding Former
Naval Base

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.-UP)-
American warships have been sys-
tematically Smelling rocky Correg-
idor at the entrance to Manila Bay
since Monday night, Tokyo broad
cast reported today.
It was evident that the Japa-
nese command expected G e n.
Douglas Macarthur to land troops
there soon with the intention of
opening the bay for his ships.
Eighth Army troops who landed
in the SuD1c Bay area are pushing
rapidly down the east coast of Ba-
tam toward the tip of the PENN
sula, separated by 2 IL miles OF
the so-called north channel from
Corregidor. MacArthur's planes
have dropped well over 900 tons
of bombs on it in IL attacks In
two weeks.
Macarthur communicate an
nounced that his heavy bombers
had dropped 2O4 tons of bombs
the biggest load yet-on Corregi-
dor the latest attack. Attack bomb
ers at the same time opened up
on little Caballo Island, one mile
south of the eastern tip of Corregl-
dor.
United Press War Correspondent
William B. Dickinson revealed
that enemy ant.-aircraft batteries
on Corregidor now were silent ana
that no troops were to be seen:
1t was on little tadpole-shapeo
Corregidor, four miles long and II
miles west of Manila, that the last
American resistance in the Philip
pines ended May 6, 1912, when an
enormously superior enemy force
overwhelmed the heroic garrison
Breakfasts recorded by the Fed
eral Communications Commission
and by the United Press IN Lon
don reported the Corregidor shell
ing. presumably by the ships OF
Vice Adm. Thomas c. klnkald
Seventh Fleet.
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making suicide stand in the SOUTH
ern part of the city across the now
bridgeless Pasig river, it was an
nounced today.
The japanese dropped mortar
and artillery shells on northern
Manila yesterday, hitting the San
to Tomas and Bilibid prison areas
as Gen. Douglas Macarthur made
his re-entry into the city he left
more than three years ago.
The daily war bulletin announc-
ed that the japanese had blown up
the last two bridges across the
wide. swiftly-flowing Pasig, and it
was believed probably that the en-
envy would be able to hold out in
southern Manila until crushed by
the 18th Airborne division fighting
up from the Nichols Field area
against stiff resistance.
(The British radio. heard by the
Blue Network, said the Americans
had crossed the Pasig and estab-
lished two bridegeads on the south
bank. The broadcast sad they had
captured Fort Santiago, near the
Pasig's mouth, by assault after a
Commute bombardment)
Macarthur also revealed that
Japanese casualties for the first
four weeks of the LuZon campaign
through Monday had mounted to
more than $4,000, an increase of
IS. 900 over the three-week figure,
and that American casualties to-
tailed 7,O76-1, 500 killed; 191 miss
ing 5,276 wounded. That brought to-
tai enemy casualties for the Philip
pines campaign with the invasion
of Leyte last October 20 to more
than $4,000 against 8,293 for the
to one.
AS the 9th Infantry and First
Cavalry Divisions took control OF
approximately seven of Manila S
IA square miles. and the northeast
ern suburb of Quezon City, Liber-
,(COntinued on Page Three: Col. AZ
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Jan Resistance Crushed
In North Part Of Manila

GEN MACARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Thursday, g.
(UP)-Unied States Infantry
fighting the
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The Kure Beach plant of the
Ethyl-Dow Chemical Co. has re-
ceived its second Army-Navy
Production Award, it was an
nounced yesterday by G. E. Cant
well, plant manager. Notification
of the award was received in a
letter dated February 8, from
Robert P. Patterson, underSecre-
tary of War, which reads as fol-
lows:
ITO the Men and Women of the
Kure Beach, Ethyl-DoW Chemical
Company: I am pleased to in
form you that you have won for
the second time, the Army-Navy
Production Award for meritorious
services on the production front.
"You have continued to main
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Critical Periods Mark
RooseueH;S War Talks
RuDOuGLAS CORNELL.
WASHINGTON,

WASHINGTON, Feb 7-L9-Critical hav
Roosevelts
menous have flowed from them
guiding destiny generations ma
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FORECAST

Cloudy with occasional showers today.
booming colder in afternoon.
Yesterdays temperatures:
High. SLOW, 80.
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Hyl-Dow Plant Receives
Second Production Award

tain the nigh standard which you
set for yourselves and which won
you distinction more than six
months ago. You may well be
proud of your achievement.
The White Star, which the re-
neWal adds to your Army-Navy
Production Award flag is the
symbol of appreciation from our
armed forces for your continued
and determined effort and pa
triotism."
Mr.. Cantwell stated that the
new award brings with it an add
ed star on the Army-Navy &c"
flag which has flown over the
Kure Beach plant since July 26,
Continued on Page THREE; Col. 81
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BIG THREE FARLEY
EXPECTED TO TAKE
CONSIDERABLE TIME

LONDON Feb. 7-UP)---Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Prime Minis
ter Winston Churchill will return
to their capitals almost direct from
the Big Three conference, diplo-
matte quarters reported tonight
the President to urge the Allied
program on the American Con-
gress and public, Churchill to re-
port to somewhat critical House
of Commons.
Announcement that the Big
Three now were meeting merely
confirmed reports-some of which
came from Berlin-that had circu-
lated for days.
But announcement of the scope
of problems discussed indicated
that the meeting would be long
one and showed that as victory
neared, the task of the big powers
in restoring normal conditions and
securing peace became more press
ing.
1t had been expected, as an
nounced, that agreement on mill
tary plans would be easy.
The mere statement, however,
that the Big Three now were dis
cussing joint plans for occupying
and controlling Germany, problems
of liberated Europe and proposals
for establishment of a permanent
international misrepresentation
ganization, showed the great
scope of discussions.
It was believed that there might
be two immediate results OF the
conference-an appeal to the Ger
man people to overthrow the NaAs
and an intensified two-Way All..d
offensive coupled with even more
tremendous aerial blows on Ger
many from the west and south.
There was speculation whether
President Roosevelt might have
|passed through the Turkish OAR
|danelles Strait in an American
warship. By treaty Turkey has
barred warships so far.
No information was available on
ChurchilTs means of transport.
Diplomatic quarters suggested
that partly for political reasons
neither the President nor Church
i'll wanted to visit Moscow at this
time. SO the Black Sea site was
agreed on.
Frances demand for dominance
in controlling the Rhine and the
fact that France was not even re-
presented was only one problem
regarding control of Germany.
European problems included Bel
GUM. where the cabinet resigned
today; Greece, where civil war
had just ended; Yugoslavia, where
King Peter is disputing with his
government in exile and the Mar
shall Tito regime inside the coun-
try; Poland, with an exile govern
ment here bitterly opposing Russia
and her Lublin regime, and the
Balkan countries in general as well
as co-belligerent Italy.
There also doomed a big and
delicate problem in a new surge
of cooperative activity of the Arab
states of the Near East which
meet February IA. They are deter
mined to assert themselves in mat
tiers concerning the rich and stra-
logically important area in which
they live.
The most hopeful word of the
probably results of the Big Three
conference came from Berlin in
the fact that the Nazis are openly
fearful that in some way the Allied
leaders may undermine them and
force Germany's collapse. !
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well be reached at the meetings OF
the big Three now in progress
overseas.
This is the ninth or twelfth wal
council in which President Roose.
welt and Prime Minister Churchill
have been principals. 1t depends
on whether conferences which shift
ed localities with little or no in
terruption are counted as one OF
several.
Only once-14 months ago in Teh.
ran-did Premier Stain sit doWr
with them to go over war plans
and discuss peace aims.
The trio talked four days Their
about a second front and postwar
treatment of Germany. They an
nounced they had achieved:
A determination that "our ma
tons shall work together in the
war and in the peace that will fol
low"
Concerted plans for 1.-The destruc
ton of the German forces"
Complete agreements. "as to the
scope and timing of operation!
which will be undertaken from the
east, west and south"
That those were no idle words
is apparent now, a little more thar
year later, when the might O.
their combined forces is assault
ing Germany's inner fortress =
from the east, west and south.
America wasn't even in the war,
though her synpathies and even
measure of support were on the
Allied side. when Roosevelt d
Churchill met for the first time
in August, 1871, aboard warships
off the Newfoundland coast.
From that parley came promul-
cation of the Atlantic Charter-a
declaration of international princi-
pies to which all the United Nations
subsequently have subscribed
Some of those principles, particu-
larly those bearing on rights OF
peoples to select governments OF
their own choice, may be up for
discussion at the meeting now I'M
der way.
Churchill crossed the Atlantic in
a battleship just before Christmas
of 1941--a fortnight after America
became a combatant. He and the
President even then talked tenta-
lively of an invasion of North Al
RIGA. They set up joint strategy
and supply boards.
They drew up the declaration OF
the United Nations, and all the
signatories endorsed the Atlantic
Charter and pledged the use OF
all their resources against the Axis.
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. -
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-10-04
Communion Service

Worldwide communion service
will be observed by the First Meth
odist church beginning at 5 p. m,
Sunday the time of the regular YES
per service, the Rev. Hiram X. King,
pastor announced today,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-10-04
N VIZ NORItN.
In owing memory OF W. Il. REM
ing. Jr.. who passed away October
l. 1914.

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Evening star., 1945-02-18
Where was Pete Grover, who
might clear the name of a
u. S. Marine hero? Here was
a job for Terrible Tessie"

while Junior partner in Melrose. Minor. Boren Denny
& Terry, lawyers. 1t read
Dear Tess:
YOU'RE going to splutter like wet fre-cracker
fuse and Judge Melrose will yell like painted Indian
at the suggestion that our firm defend Tim Hardy,
who you'll remember, was charged with sailing the
old whistling Marmot mine to promote stock sales.
Charged too, with breaking Jail and vanishing with
out trace Tim denies the sailing and insists that
he broke Jail to hunt missing witness, Pete Grover
prospector and rum pot whose testimony would free
him from the stock fraud charge. believe him.
Hes Marine now recuperating from wounds
in this Hawaiian naval hospital. and hearing that
was also here he looked me up No man could be in
tougher spot. With most of the medals except the
Congressional - and he may get that - he'll soon
be shipped home, which means headlines, banquets,
speeches. Bond drives ~ and then an anti-climax of
arrest and trial the sailing DEAL He's worried over
the kids disillusionment, mostly Idol with feet of
clay you know.
'I've told him that when you blaze with indigna-
ton your mind sparks. and you are plenty good.
Okay, Tess start blazing. It's in swell cause"
The rest of the letter was personal gossip. Tesse
put it on Judge Melrose's desk.
HE Hardy case had been sensational and Tessie
remembered details Tim Hardy could easily have
been the boy next door who moved lawns, carried
newspapers and did odd jobs In high school he'd sold
jalopes for used-car dealer. He was born sales
man. good-looking. and with natural charm. His
own faith in his product - whatever it happened to
be - always convinced people of its worth. 1t had
been easy for him to sell magazine subscriptions in
college. His next ambitious step had been hiring the
largest hall in the city and importing name dance
bands.
Tessie recalled that Tim Hardy had stumbled onto
the Whistling Marmot mine fishing trip. He
learned its history from Pete Grover an old sourdough
who was working failing dumps and making his own
whisky
In the Eighties, Pete told him. prospector had
found gold ore which had been dug out by Whistng
Marmot building den. He had sunk shaft and the
mine had paid big dividends for several years. then
the ground seepage was more than the pumps of the
period could handle. and operations had ended.
I'M HARDY, with young modern's slant thought
he saw the answer water power from falls mile
upstream. Electric pumps; electric ball mill; electric
drilling and tramming. Old records confirmed Pete
Growers story of early-day values.
Tim Hardy bought the mine for almost nothing.
bulldozed road to the site, then organized stock
company and sold shares to build the power plant
and put the mine into operation. Lacking organizing
experience on so large scale, Tim had called in
Judson fremont an experienced promoter, who was
elected president and to it that the stock was
sold and development money was forthcoming. Tim
was made general manager, with power to hire the
needed experts to install the machinery.
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