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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-01-26

national championship University of Michigan swimming
After disaster at sea- Long Bill" Beebe and fell
sailor who knocked thrown into
the sharknfested waters The navy officer saw his friends
plight and sped his aid holding him above the water until
they rescued several hours later
"That" said Lieut.. Beebe, twas the greatest in
which ever competed"
Golf tdbts from the Spicer Unit: Cal Wilson, Toledo
Open Golf Champion only the second amateur champion
to perform a feat Jerry Lake is organizing golf
league members the Spcer Unit says that several
players have the golf bug and that by the time the
opens he will have enough names for a full schedule
Tug Wilson and Jerry Lake amateur best ball chaa
pions last year at Sunnngdae They scored &c. which is
five under par
Did you watch squirrel bury nut and then you
go out to find it? When lad Ia short while ago.
tried that but successful Just found out that the
squirrel does have remember where it hdden their
highly developed of smell enables them to find this
food when they need it.
Walter Madrzykowski, bowling with Harry's Southpaws
in the BoWO- -Drome Major League, proved that good
eftie do things the right way when he crashed the
naples for 2O5, 1T and 226 for SOB total Mmmmm not
bad.
letter was sent by Horace Kuehnle fireman second
class attached submarine base and former member of
the Paskon Unit He says that he glad that the UAWC1O
is fighting to give servcemen seniority for the length OF
time which they spend in service He also that he is
that the UAW-CIO is keeping close watch the
u. l. Bllf or Rights.
You may rest assured Horace that every word in the
bill will be anayzed.
Butch Heintz of the better bowers of the Spicer
Unit unable to bowl in the Spcer AlStar League last
week and his substituted for him. Little Butch rolled
well and bettered his pops average there some
sharp glances in the Heintz home
The Spicer Sportsmens Club, made up of members of
Local H. have arranged with the farmers their hunt
ing grounds New Rochester, Ohio, to supply plenty of
food water and grit for the birds The farmers simply pre-
sent bill for the feed and the club pays for it,
Some parents in the east sending their children,
mostly little girls to fencing school to have them taught the
art of thrust and parry According to the parents fencing
develops poise and grace better than dancing does and at
the time gives them heahul exercise and interest in
sports.
Wonder if the refined art of knife throwing will be next
on the program for the little darlings.
According to Bill Hahnen, formerly with the marines
at Guadacana voeyball is popuar sport that isand
The soldiers had to clear enough space for and then
had to the ground with saWdus before play could
begin Bill who is mxoogist at Charley Marks says
that the temperature lis degrees in the shade and that
the officers and men wage large their favorite
players
Jim Rosenberger chief steward of the Spcer Unit, is
captain of the Hot Shots currently the number bowers
in the Spcer Major League Jim says that only game
separates each of the four teams. Really close
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-01-26
From The
Rule Book
By Wilbert "Birdie" Rule
Director of Education and Recreation

Many stories of herosm told these days about
of athletes who serving in the armed forces
In most the athletic training which they received in
schools sandlots and in the old swimmin hole proved
invaluable in outsmartng and oumaneuverng the enemies
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-01-26
JAI-ALAI GETS BREAK

Since the ban placed horse and dog rae
ing, betting, in Miami Florida has switched to Ja-
Alai a sort of combination of tennis and handball.
Jai-Alai has monopoly on legaized gambling and is
doing a record business.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-05
WAGE DEADLOCK
MAY BE BROKEN

WASHINGTON, March 4.-LP-
A break in the deadlock between the
War Labor Board and Economic
stabilizer Fred M. Vinson over
granting of fringe wage adjust
ments is expected momentarily.
The prospective settlement was
disclosed today by source in the
know, but how soon it actually
would come, Chairman William H.
Davis of the WLB declined to pre-.
dict.
Vinson said 1.-The whole question
still is under considerations and
that he did not care to comment
further now on the reported soiu-
ton.
The War Labor Board has SUBJ
mitted to Vinson an outline of
standards for Limits" for the most
frequently ranted Of these
fringe" demands.
They include items, not directly
touching on basic wage rates, such
as shift differentials, vacations, in
u pldl1I dIC 1llCda1eiSo' III
of work clothes and tools, and even
portal to portal pay for travelling
on company premises to the place
of work, as in the case of coal
miners.
The Little Steel formula hold
ing general wage increases to 10
per cent above the levels of jan
uary, 1941, operates as much the
same sort of brake on base pay
rises.
Davis said the fringe stand
ards which the board had presented
to Vinson were based on pas
practice.
This recommendation was made
by the board when the Economic
Stabilizer had demanded that no
further adjustments be announced
by the board until it had first de-
termined from the OPA that no
price increase would be required
for affected products.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-05
Japs Fight Well AS Individuals,
Stupidity In Groups, Writer Says

the enemy failed to make the most
of favorable terrain.
By the end Of January the way
was cleared.
The fighting inside Manila was
hard form start to finish, Jungle
trained troops had to learn new
tricks.
'There is no doubt that the
Japs fought as well in Manila as
anywhere we met them" the
general said. There were a lot
OF Imperial Marines and although
there may have been some odds
and ends among the Manila troops
they fought ably as individuals. +"
Military men feel that Manila
could have been conquered con.
slderably faster if air power had
been used!> But no air strike is
accurate in an area congested
with civilians and the high com
mand decided to reduce the jap
anese defenses with artillery.
Subsidiary landings by Ameri-
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-05
Rickenbacker Predicts
Russian Attack On Japs

ASHEVILLE, March 4.-(R)-
Capt. Eddie V. Rickenbacker said
last night that Russia would join
the fight against Japan "once the
situation in Europe is in hand"
The World War l ace, and
president of Eastern Airlines, said
in an interview that the struggle
with Japan would last 1.-TWO or
three years. and that the end of
the primary fighting would be
followed by a decade of guerrilla
fighting in the Far East.
The war in Europe, Ricken-
hacker said, would end some time
between June and September and
i lean to the latter. months
Russia's entry against Japan,
he said, will shorten that strug-
gle by years, saving us more
millions of casualties"
Rlckenbacker left this afternoon
!or Charlotte to catch a plane to
New York. He visited his son,
William, student at Asheville
school for boys, over the week
end.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-05
KING OF JAZZ
''' DEFENDS TITLE
~ ROB THOMAS

,vwOOD. March 4.-P-ln
H .ice paternal way, Paul White
81, MD disagrses with A sn .r sh tarm
is . a don't get me in trouble 2aDI
NU .r+ie " said the King OF jazz
win 1. a. his massive hulk in a res
s ss''isrt booth, but I think mes a
' 'srl pessimistic' -, :,
the The Of the music world had call
P e oonten1porary band leaders IN
ed 'o+ a+ents who have found a mar
c0lll tor mediocrity in the wartime
kel ELITE tit for popular music
APPEAL l15taT 7 wouldn't call Harry
wsH Jimmy Dorsey and Tommy
Jall,eS, incompetents,' said White
Dols'' aiming few contempor-
man, Even if the quality has
af Ia,, off somewhat during the
falle" No added, great hope for the
Ee a,rs is offered by accomplished
l .,,,,v and Navy orchestras.
Ai ~ know that whatever I may
80 scbieved in music is due to
nav nso experience I got in the Navy"
.i.' declared. Whiteman organized
Nc hands at Mare Island dur
Na va +be last war. Musicians in
we 4a war have been doing marvel
u al,s work, and they will raise the
w. .tsndsrd of popular music when
tbey get out of the Army and
Navy"
rhe rotund Maestro, now music
director for the Blue Network, said
i.zz will advance as an art only
rben band leaders present some
tbing more advanced than the 80
bar song.
~ used to lose S10,0 every time
presented a concert of American
music in New York. But figured
4 was worth it when we fostered
such works as the Rhapsody in
Blue and the Grand Canyon Suite. :"
Here's a note to jam session ad-
diets. Whiteman says jam ses-
sions and swing concerts will do
more to kill than to promote Jazz
as an art.
1T is pure punishment to make
an audience listen to a saxophone
man play Is bad choruses before
he plays one good one"
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-05

can Eighth Army troops at Subie
Bay and Bataangas Peninsula kept
the Japanese off balance, and the
paratroop and amphibious assault
on Corregidor Island clinched the
quick opening of Manila Bay.
THE Corregidor operation was
one of the finest ever pulled In
this war;" Std the general.
Now the battel is swinging east
of Manila. The Nipponese are
strongly defending the Shimbu
line from Ipo to Anti2olo, a well
prepared system Of hill positions
roughly $500 yards deep.
In the north-around Baguio
and in the Cagayan Valley and
Balete Pass area-the Japanese
positions are thick, strong and
hard to get at.
The general points to a map.
1t shows that the Americans sold
relatively small part of the Luz
zon land mass. There's still much
| to be done.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-05
BY RICHARD BERGHOLZ

U. S. SIXTH ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS, ZION, P. l.,
March 4.-(P)-The Japanese on
Luzon island have fought well as
individuals, stupidity as an organ
lied force. That stupidity gave
hard-fighting Yanks the addition
al edge which eliminated in the
conquest of Manila and the cen
trail Luzon plain.
But, as an American general
pointed out, this covers only the
initial phases. There still are
thousands of Japanese, many
strongly entrenched, on Luzon.
Many bitter battles must be
fought.
The general, whose identity can
not be revealed, reviewed the
campaign from the landing on
Lingayen Gulf January 9 to the
capture of Manila and the assault
on the enemy's Shimbu line east
of the city.
Failure of Gen. Tomoyuki
Yamashita, the japanese COM
mander, to plan and fight an in
telligent defense and the enemy's
misuse of his weapons has cost
the Nipponese heavily.
From the beginning, Yama-
shita had three alternatives" the
general said. "He could rusa
forces into Lingayen and fight it
out on the beaches and in the
swamps; he could take a little
more time and set up strong de-
lenses along the Agno river, or
he could resort to delaying &C.
ton and fall back to the hills.
Because our boys are better
fighters and our material is SUI
perior, Yamashita couldn't have
stopped us cold no matter which
choice he made. But the Jap
general failed to make a stand
either on the beach, where any
successful scale landing is touch
and go business, or in the Agno
where the terrain gave him the
first easy opportunity to dig in
anu snug IL OUT.
Instead, Yamashita fell back to
the hills. The Yanks found it
easy going through the plains to-
ward Manila at first, but tough
in the hills.
1t. Gen. Walter Kruger, U. S.
Sixth Army commander, also had
difficult decisions to make. Krue-
ger and his staff realized they
couldn't reach Or take Manila
with the Lingayen landing force.
Until sufficient force could be
built up, Kruger had to decide
how far he could advance with
out leaving his flanks too vulner-
able to attack. He had to guess
if or where the Japanese would
attack if given a chance.
The Americans knew the Nip
ponese were holding their second
armored group on the left flank
of the drive toward Manila. Until
its effectiveness could be destroy
ed, any strong extension toward
Manila was menaced.
| AL lIllS pOlIlt, dIlldSIlLd Ildue
a serious blunder. Instead of
keeping his armed group intact,
he broke this force into groups
for use as defensive artillery.
This misuse of the armored
group was an unforgivable mill
tary error said the general.
And although it was hard going
to dig them out it might have
been many times harder in the
long rum
Thus the bitter battles for such
places as San Manuel, where more
than so Japanese tanks were de-
stroyed, and Umingan and Lubao
were actually the turning points
in the Manila drive because they
freed, to a large extent, the Am
erican driving force from the
threat of a flank attack:
On the right flank the japanese
made their first strong organized
resistance in the Bamban hills
south of Harlac, but here again
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-05
Navy Mother. Schedule
Meeting At Legion Home


The Cape Fear Navy Mothers
Club Will hold its monthly meeting
at 3:3o p. m. at the American Leg.
ion home at Third and Dock streets
according to Mrs. Harold Serrel
publicity chairman.
All members are asked IN he
present as urgent business will be
discussed, Mrs. Serrel said. and
each is requested to- bring new
deck OF playing cards which will be
given to the Red Cross to be p,,t
in duffle bags for Navy personnel
leaving the States.
At 3 p. m. an executive meeting
will be held, and all officers are
asked to be present.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-05
Red General Declares
Nazis Have Sent All
Line Troops To East

MOSCOW, March A. up Only
insignificant reserves are avail!
able to the German High Command
in the west and the Nazis must
count on the Rhine for their de-
fensive effort against General
Eisenhower, Col. A. Kononenko,
military analyst of Izvestia, de-
clared today.
The Hitlerites have shifted their
main forces to the east. 1nSignifi-
cant reserves in the west make it
impossible to wage a stubborn de-
tense on theawest bank of the Rhine,
and obviously the enemy will de-
pend upon this water line to protect
its position" Col. Kononenko wrote.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-05

Kanhsien was severed by the re-
cent Chinese reoccupation OF
Chaling, Lienhwa and YungsiH, re-
spectively 60 and 120 miles east Of
Hengyang.
The Chinese who retook Chaling
have pursued retreating japanese
units II miles northwestWard.
Now the Chinese are only nine
miles from Yuhsien, an enemy
held Human province highway town
IS miles east-northeast of Heng-
yang, the High Command said.
In the maritime province OF
Chekiang, the japanese column
which struck toward Tsingtlen,
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-05
VANDENBERC WINS
POINT ON FARLEY
CONTINUED from Page One)

were expected to support pre-
conceived American plan. The
Breton Woods monetary meeting
last year has been cited as such
case.
Vandenberg has made it a car
dinal principle of his stand on in
ternational security matters that
the United Nations organization
which is expected to be formed at
San Francisco shall have the right
to review prior political agree
ments in subsequent years, in the
light of their effect on the peace OF
the world.
In other words, he has told <iends
that while he expects a separate
peace conference to settle such mat
tiers as boundary questions, he feels
that the league should be empower
ed to recommend and enforce
changes if those agreements threat
en- to breach the peace in later
years.
President Roosevelt made it
plain in his talk to Congress last
week that the western boundary OF
Poland, for instance, will be fixed
at the peace table. 1t apparently
will not be a subject for immediate
discussion by the international Or
ganizat ton, once it comes into be-
ing.
Vandenberg's views on this and
other international questions ap-
parently have been recorded care
fully at the State Department.
where much hope for Senate mi
nority support of forthcoming treat
les is placed in the Michigan Sena-
tors leadership.
Copyright 1915 by the Associated Press
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-05
CHINESE DRIVING
TOWARD SUICHWAN|

CHUNGKING, March A. B -
Chinese units which recaptured
Yungsin have pushed toward Snich-
wan, one of the lost Kiangsi pro-
vince air base cities As miles to the
south, the Chinese High Command
announced tonight.
The Japanese supply line to
Suichwan and the air base city OF
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-05
Priesthood Clinic Set
AT Washington-Catlett

The Washington Catlett pre-
school clinic for students entering
me school for their first year next
lall will be held this afternoon at
I o'clock in the school building.
All parents concerned are urged
10 bring their children.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-05

The daughters of the U. S. COM
missioner of patents, Annie Els
worth, chose the words: what
hath God wrought for the first
commercial telegraph message
sent in 1874.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-05

about 20 miles up the WI river from
Yungkia wv e n h W. sustained
heavy losses and was forced to re-
treat, the High Command said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-05

The life expectancy of man has
doubled since the 18th centur".
from 80 years then to above 50
today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-05

Before the war, the seal fur in
dustry on the Pribilof Islands
of Alaska maintained an annual
production worth two to three mil
lion dollars. 49,.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-05

Henry Wits fifth wife, Katha-
rine Howard, introduced pins
from France into England.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-02
''REDJULY"
 IS COSTLY FOR JAPS
Beginning of Knockout Blow on Nippon En-
 pire Is Registered

GUAM, Aug. 2-The 31 days of Red July will go down in history as the beginning of the knockout of the once great Empire of Japan.
 Months of American planning, the storing up of tremendous supplies building new bases on Okinawa and Luzon, constant sea and air pressure erupted into the most destructive period in Japan's history.
 No country ever lost so much of its fleet, air force and war produc- tion capacity as Nippon did in Red July"
 July was red in flames squirting from more than 36,000 tons of bombs mostly incendiary-dropped on 3t cities and eight oil refinery centers by B-29s gradually building up to the promised l,000-plus plane raids or the homeland.
 The B-29s struck Japan on 1s days of the month. Japan was red in flames squirting from cornered remnants of her Navy By July 28 Admiral Halsey could say every major shop of Nippon's navy ht had started out to get had beer knocked out.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-02
STARLINER JUNEAU HAS 21 pASSENGERS
 IN FROM WESTWARD

Alaska Airlines' Starliner Juneau flew 21 incoming passengers to Juneau and carried p people out yes terday.
 Incoming passengers from Anchor age were: Amy Marek, Rose Hal vorson, Robert Lee, pr. o. F. Sarle Charles Commack, Aida McCalester Euginio Pascut, w. P. McCreight Raymond Puitte, Emil Phiel, Kitty Nelson, Irving Knapp. Commander Wolfe, James L. Bue. Joseph L. James, Tony Terro, Oscar Erickson L. E. Woods and Willard Gaynor.
 From Yakutat: Ernest L. Sunnell and John Harry.
 Outgoing passengers to Anchorage were: Mrs. A. M. Ross, James Ross, June Young, Estelle Casler, Harry J. Hill, Violet Eidsmoe, Kenneth E. Smith, Rita Harper, Barbara Van Hagle, Mrs. Betty Snooks, Bobby Snooks. Albert Kangas, James Will son, c. A. Barnett, Juanita Bar nett, Basil St. Clair, Grace St. Clair and John Rankin.
 To Cordova: Mir and Mrs. H. A. Brindle, Clarence Payne and John Dawson.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-02
opA PRICE FIXING METHODS IMPROVED

In its constant effort to pass along to both Alaskan retailers and consumers the benefit of any changes in the price structure, the Alaska OPA announces Amendment 5 to RMPR 288 Specific dollars and cents ceilings).
 This amendment. effective here Aug. 2, makes a number of changes in the maximum prices of certain commodities, such as: certain canned fruits, vegetables, cereals, coffee, flour and flour mixes. Some prices have been increased, others have been reduced to reflect the changes in landed costs due mainly to shifting wholesale markets. as shown by periodic surveys.
 Two other important changes are incorporated in this new amend ment. A number of electric irons are added to the previous list of those brands and models having specific dollars and cents ceilings in Alaska. This is indicative of the course of action OPA must follow as reconversion goods come onto the market.
 The other major change is a widespread revision of specific prices for tires and tubes. This tends to reduce the average price level for passenger car tires, ad- justs prices on certain sizes and types of truck tires and tubes, and provides a differential for rayon truck tires. This revision also elimi- mates from the schedule many ob- solete and unobtainable sizes.
 Retailers and dealers affected by these changes are being notified in detail and will thus be able to pass along to consumers any downward revisions. Likewise, this amendment through any of its necessary up- ward adjustments, relieves inequi- ties to retailers caught between a fixed retail ceiling and an in- creased wholesale cost. This latter condition has been dealt with by issuance of temporary price orders to individuals as need was indi- cated, but is now provided for on territory wide basis. OPA said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-02
Mrs. Hdgerup Home
 After Visit in South

Mrs. Patricia Hagerup, owner of the American Beauty Parlor, has returned to Juneau, after spending the past six months with her hus- band, Pfc. Erwin Hagerup, in Georgia and Mississippi.
 Erwin, who is the son of MT and Mrs. Trygve Hagerup. is at present still at camp in Mississippi.
 On an 18-day furlough, MT and Mrs. Hagerup visited New York City, Washington, D. C., and other cities in the vicinity. They lived for a month in Atlanta, Georgia, about which place Mrs. Hagerup was quite enthusiastic. ''The people there were so nice, and it was a really lovely place to live," she said, but Mississippi was too hot" for com fort.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-02
LAVAL IS
 ACCUSED
 WAR PLOT
British Charge Is Lodged Against Former French
 Premier , Facing Trial

LONDON, Aug. 2.-Pierre Laval, under arrest in Paris on charges of collaborating with the Germans, was confronted today with an offi- cial British statement accusing him of plotting to involve Britain in war with the Vichy government in the fall of 1940.
 The allegation against the former Vichy chief of government was made in a British white paper issued last night while Laval was awaiting in- terrogation by French authorities. The paper said Sir Samuel Hoare, the British Ambassador to Madrid, had cabled the Foreign Office on Nov. 1, 1940 that the French ambas- sador to Spain had informed him Laval was planning to use the French fleet and military units in efforts to recover French colonies which had rallied to General Char les de Gualle.
 Sir Samuel, now Lord Temple wood, was quoted as saying in his cable:
 The French) ambassador regards the plan as not only very mean, but very clever. He agreed with me that if it was carried out it undoubtedly would mean war between Great Britain and Vichy."
 Britain had promised to support De Gaulle, the white paper said, and if the Royal Navy and French fleets come into conflict Laval would have charged British aggres- sion.