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Polish Problem Darkens
Security Farley Outlook
Painters Start Work
On The White House
WASHINGTON, April 21.-t%

WASHINGTON, April 21.-s%
President Truman kept only
three appointments at the
White House today, then went
to lunch at the nearby Blair
House while painters started re-
doing his office and the rest
of the mansion.
The whole White House in
terror will be redecorated for
the Truman family. 1t will be
largely a paint job, taking
about 10 days or two weeks.
Meanwhile, the Trumans will
continue to live across the
street in the Blair House used
for receiving foreign visitors.
When he left for lunch to-
day the President left word he
would not return to the execu-
tive offices until $3.50 am. Mon
day.
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by DAVID BRINKLEY
wilmington Star-News
Washington Rureau

~. wAsHlNGToN April 21.-sena-
: ~ BOSNIAN W. Bailey and Clyde
D. D. Hoey today recommended to
raeSloent Truman that he nomi-
a aa'e Donnen Gillian, of Tarboro.
, "io 1oroVer 20 years has been
d;a. OF the Second Judicial
Ts ss.lct, to be federal Judge for the
aS S district of North Carolina.
II Inc presidents compliance with
wei, aa recommendation was re-
ssIoed as certain.
IA. me recommendation came al.
", VT q long delay caused both by
NJ oesth OF President Roosevelt
~ su me long list of federal judge
'es waiting to be filled.
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Press North
As Naziis Flee
Over Pc Plain
Fall Of City Seen As Be-
ginning OF Final Vic
tory In Italy
~ LYNN HEINERLING

ROME. April 2'..-lR-The U. S.
Fifth and British Eighth Armies
quickly copied the great fortress
city of Bologna today and swept
on 10 miles northwest in pursuit
of German troops fleeing for Their
lives across the Pc plain.
Gen. Mark W. Clark told his
18th Army group that the fall of
this anc&snt city Of 100000 popu-
lation-wnich through the winter S
bitter fighting stood as defiant
German symbol of resistance
represents to us the beginning Of
final victory in Italy"
Troops smashing into the city
met only light resistance and by
tonight the great pursuit of the
Germans was well under way.
San Giovanni, 10 miles northwest
of Bologna, was overrun and Po-
lsh troops went on to score gains
northwest of the city.
Victory Celebration
Members of the I. S. 34th and
9lst Divisions entering Bologna
touched off a great victory cele-
bration among tens of thousands
Of joyful Italians.
At the eastern end of the front
the British Eighth Army drove
three mi'e beyond Portomaggio-
re, capturing Marrara, and were
reported within eight miles of Fer
rara, important communications
center just below the Pc river and
30 miles northeast of Bologna.
These troops were driving 10 cut
off and aDnihilate segments of the
retreating Germans
West CT Bologna enemy resist
ance was spotty and the Ger
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By DWIGHT L. PITKIN

NHAA - - - - ~AAAN
LONDON, April Fl. -(P)-
Three million terror-stricken
Berliners, fearful of hunger as
besieging Russian armies cut
them off from the rest of the
world, huddled in cellars to-
night after Being exhorted by
Reich defense commissioner
Goehbels to defend the capt.
tai to the death.
A late German broadcast
declared forlornly: '"The hour
is too serious to hide anything
now"
As shells from Russian artil-
lery smashed into the bomb
battered city Goebbels in his
second speech in three days to
Rerliners declared: "What you
have earned with blood and
tears you must defend with all
the means at your disposal.
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SIS ARMY REPORTED FLEEING
WRECKED GERMAN CAPITAL:
u. s. 9TH MAY MEET REDS
Berliners, Ordered
To Hold City, Hide

What you have earned with
sweat and work you must de-
fend as only you Can defend
it."
Later Nazi propaganda Hans
Fritsche said that "during the
years of bitter battle for ma
tiOnal socialism we have learn
ed to love Berlin and we will
under no circumstances let the
enemy take possession of our
own town.
Fritsche, vaguely suggesting
that Hitler himself might be
conducting the city's final de-
tense, said:
"The man who at that time
fought for Berlin-the man who
conquered Berlin-today leads
its defense"
Excerpts of Goebbels' speech
(r~~.is~~~,-I n
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SUPERF0RTS BLAST
KYUSHU AIRFIELDS
More Than 100 Bombers
Attack Five Important
Jap Installations

GUAM, Sunday, April 22.-R-
One hunuled to $50 Superior
tresses usually bombed airfields
on Kyushu, southernmost of the
Japanese home islands, this morn
ing.
Five airiields were the targets.
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Served BY Leased Wires
Of the
ASSOCIATED PRESS
and the
UNITED PRESS
With Complete COverage Of
State and National News
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~ BY Alice Brooks

Variety for your linens! Use the
embroidery and Pinch crochet
edging together or each alone on
pillow cases, towels, scarfs.
Use natural colors for the flow
ers. Pattern 1882 has transfer of
2 motifs in each design averaging
4x12 inches; crochet directions.
Send FIFTEEN CENTS in coins
for this pattern to Wilmington
Star-News Household Arts Dept,
259 w. 18th ST., New York II, N. Y.
Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS
and PATTERN NUMBER
Just out! Send fifteen cents
more for our NEW 1945 Needle
work Book 81 illustrations of
designs: crocheting, knitting, EN-.
broidery, dolls, other toys, home
decoration. Free Pattern for two
crocheted handbags printed right
in the book.
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Matinee Idol Recalls
Swoon Set OfGay COS

basso he set it to music-the first
Of more than 40 songs he COM
posed.
Our Allan-a-Dale, Jessie Bart
lett Davis, suggested I call it For
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AP Newsfeatures

BOSTON Up The dean of
American light ope ra5 singers
would rather be known as long
time singer of patriotic songs.
Eugene C. Cowles, leading bas-
so of New York and London in
The Nineties and composer of the
plaintive b ALA d Forgotten"
chuckles at the idea of being a
light opera dean and says:
when ! was four in 1864, I
sang, when Johnny Comes
Marching Home at a sanitary
commission fair in Vermont. 1
also sang to the soldiers of the
Spanish-American war and World
WAR l." .
His patriotic songs helped to sell
thousands of dollars worth OF war
bonds in World War l. He is sit.
ting this one out in his pleasant
Back Bay apartment, having re-
tired at 70.
II felt the public deserved a
rest from my voice." he explains
impishly. Despite this decision, the
original Will Scarlet Of the Bos'
tonians' Robin Hood has led q
special hit parade for IL years.
His Forgotten is one OF two
numbers most requested on the ra-
dio program American Album o.
Familiar Music since Frank
Mum first sang it in 1888. Pro
Queer Frank Hummert reported
recently that SO times as many
appeals come in for it each veal
than for any other selection.
CoWles was an outstanding crush
of New York and London matinet
girls from 1890 to the turn Of the
century, his wife recalls, whe1
shoals of perfumed "mash notes
were delivered daily to his dress
ing room. s.
Mrs. Cowles, Al years married
and daintily pretty, shifted as sh'
told of those days when she wa.
a very young member of the lgh
opera company. Her husband wrig
gled embarrassedly.
The former Louise L. Cleary ad
nitted, however, that Gene, wht
had switched to singing from ;
bank job, kept his head admirably
despite the adulation.
In fact, it helped him, she said
as one Of the missives contained
a copy of an anonymous newspaper
poem that so impressed the young
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Frances Jean Bryan,
Lieut.. Heathcote Wed

Miss Frances Jean Bryan,
daughter OF Mrs. Margaret F.
Bryan and the late Daniel F.
Bryan Of this city, became the
bride of Lieut.. John Heathcote,
II, son of Mrs. M. Heathcote of
Harrisburg, Pa, in a quiet cere-
mony Wednesday afte noon,
March Z, at $3.50 o'clock. The Rev.
J. F. Herbert performed the cere-
mony.
Prior to the ceremony a program
Of nuptial music was rendered by
Mrs. Ella Maud Murphy. Pate Fish
brother-in-law Of the bride, sang
Always" and Because"
The home was decorated with
tall white candles and white flow
ers.
The bride, given in marriage by
her uncle, J. r. Dobson, Jr. wore
a gown Of white slipper satin with
train and veil Of illusion. She
carried white prayer book topped
with a white orchid, tuberoses and
satin streaners.
The matron-of honor and only at
tendant was her sister, Mrs. Pate
Fish. She wore a pink net gown
with lace bodice and used pink ro-
ses. Lieut.. Neil Dillon of Michigan
was best man.
The brides mother wore a black
lace and crepe dress and cor
sage of gardenias. a.,...
Immediately after the ceremony
a reception was given and the
couple left later in the afternoon
for short wedding trip. The bride
Travelled in a two-piece blue dress
with navy accessories and wore a
corsake Of orchids.
Mrs. Heathcote is a graduate OF
New Hanover High school and at
tended Peace college. For the past
year she has been employed by
the Tidewater Construction com
pany. Lieut.. Heathcote is a grad
uate of Fort Union Military AGA
DENY and before entering the Air
Corps was attending Pennsylvania
State college. r.
Nicolas Appert, Frenchman
received the French government
award for inventing canning in
1909. a..
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Sunday School Study
Course Scheduled A:
Baptist Church Monday

Beginning Monday night, March
10 at 1880 at Calvary Baptist
church, an Associational Sunday
school study course will be con-
Quoted for all Sunday school Off
ers, teachers and workers in the
Wilmington association. The books
and the teachers for the week in
clude the following: Teaching
Adults in the Sunday School" +,
Clarence Moore, Calvary Baptist;
Teaching Young People, E. F.
Knight, First BAPTIST: The Art
of tea ching intermediates"
George White, Calvary; Guiding
Junior Boys and Girls, W. F.
Buck, Winter Park; Guiding the
Primary Child, Mrs. L. L. Mills,
Tabernacle; Gliding the Little
Child, Mrs. G. w. Murray, Glib
son Avenue Baptist; Vacation BIZ
BILE School Guide. Miss Sue FL
len Ray, First Baptist; THE Ex-
tension Department., Mrs. L. F.
Gore. First Baptist; Sunday
Schoo4 Officers and Their Work.
for General Officers, Rev. Lewis
Ludlum, Carolina Beach; How to
Win to Christ, for Evangelistic
committees or others interested,
Rev. E. W. Pate, associational
missionary.
A good representation from each
church is expected during the
week.
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Girl Scout
Leaders Meet

The Leaders association Of the
Girl Scouts, Cape Fear Area, Inc.
held its regular meeting this week
at 1920 a. m. in the Community
Chest council room in the Tide
Water building. Mrs. Henry En-
DRY presided. A report Of the COM
mittee on Leaders association
detectives for 1915 was given.
Mrs. w. A. Cannon, Leaders rep
resentative on the council, gave
report of the council meeting
held recently. she also announced
the chairmen of the various stand
ing committees Of the council.
The Girl Scout Birthday party
which is to be held March II,
from 10 to II o'clock at the USO
club for all Scouts, including
Brownies, was discussed. Mrs. H.
Wander Schalie reported the pro-
gress of camp plans. Before the
closing of the meeting each leader
gave a brief report on the activi-
ties of her troop.
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tive, busy women.
Spring styles pictures here are
part of those shown at the recent
Philadelphia Assembly of Famous
honoring Americas top-flight de-
signers.
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Gals Deal
IsContraband
For UncleS
BY BERYL SHOENFIELD
AID NewSfeatureS

Az NcWSICdtuIOS
INSTITUTIONAL brunette and
blonde dispose of sawed-off shot
Guns. espionage boats, gems ara
Soo+ch whistles confiscated by the
government. Mas
Hilda Ryan, chief and staff res
nectiyely of the Treasury's Di-
vision of Forfeited, Seized and
Abandoned Properties, have the
lob of handling customers Tor
spoils taken for violation OF feder-
al regulations.
"Mules," Celebrates Mrs. Ryan,
hickles, alcohol and sugar are
snapped up.
The lob requires the ultimate
in honesty. AL confiscated items,
bv law must 60 to federal agen-
cies for official use. Individuals
get nothing.
TT breaks your heart not to be
able to sample champagne, and I'M
ported Scotch Mrs. Benedict ad'
mits. .-......
| She says Sne mas, 10 eAelC1Se k
straint in disposition of nylon
hose. French perfume, fur coats
and wrist watches.
Sometimes the ladies deal in
big stuff. When the Commerce De-
partment seized 10 Japanese fish
ing vessels in 1941 for Illegal regis.
try off the Honolulu coast, the girls
had to find market. Several boats
have gone to the Army and Navy
for official use. !
Disposition of alcohol is an art,
Most of the confiscated alcohols
are seized by the Internal Rev
enue Department for violations o.
the liquor law repeal and enforce.
ment act. Some has been left I'm
claimed in government ware
houses.
Mrs. Ryan says the good stuff
goes to Army hospitals for medic
inal purposes. Charitable institu'
TOMS. such as old peoples homes
also are entitled to confiscated Ii
tquor.
Next alcohols goes to the Y.
5. Public Health Service for use
But the ladies say they dispose
partments of Interior and Argi
culture for experimental work
Some go to the photo laboratorie!
of the War Department.
But the ladies say hey dispose
If the bulk of il as anti-freeZe fol
Internal Revenue and Post Offic.
Department trucks!
They admitted mingled feelings
Of desire and duty in handing ove1
77,02O cigarettes to veterans hos
pitfalls and 10,797 cut diamonds t.
the Bureau of Standards.
And it's all in a days work fol
the ladies to unpack, sort and sene
on to the War Department al
assortment of German Luger pis
OILS sawed-off shotguns and rifles
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FK1DAY, MARCH is, 1s.,

track taa down the author of tn. Il,
concert singers carolled = ''l'
i emphantly as the royalties 10 ~ III
~ The music publishers b.s
Keep a11 y, printing D Words by A nau 70
,,,r; reopl I used 10 hint that t'fl sS;
written S',i1 ea the whole thing as I'll. mad
added chuckling, as Nr ~l'a IT. h.
ticism. "4'ely Skep.
Then one summer Wa 49,.
an old friend in Cincinnati VISITED
sic publisher" he went on ~ Sn
ing a carriage drive his wifs pu'
fessed that years before. who, rGa'
was young girl, she had WHY rn IN.
the words of Forgotten for .' t.S
lly paper in New York ststs ,s,A'
SO ever since Eugene c, Con,..
discovered the forgotten woo u"le,
much to the relief OF his vita
the name Flora Wulschner has :.
peared with his on each sheet 's J,
music and record of the sons v
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Mrs. Kellum
WinsC Country
Club Award

Airs. W. ]. Kellum was winner
OF the high score prize in bridge
yesterday at the weekly luncheon
at the Cape Fear Country club.
Among those playing were: Mrs.
Clyde Gaffney, Mrs. U. Lee
Spence, Mrs. Hilary Humble, Mrs.
R. B. Rodman, Mr.. D. H. carp,
Mrs. John Knox Ward, Mrs. H..
". Wells Jr., Mrs: Thomas B.
Lilly, Mrs. W. ]. Kellum, mrs. H.
b Oldham, Mrs. 7. j.. Christian,
Mrs. W. E. Begore, Mrs. James
2. McClary, Mrs. Fred A. kean'
Mrs. Don Hyatt, Mrs.. E. o. Beas-
ley, Mrs. David McEwan, ISM. G.
W. Diggs, Mrs. Thomas Crouch
Mrs. Haywood Moore, Mrs. Bax-
ter Taylor, Mrs. Earl Boushes'
Mrs. Gordon Doran and Mrs
Charles Swayne.
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For crisp bacon place slices in a
cold frying pan and cook slowly
turning often. Pour off fat as it
accumulates in pan. Drain on OBJ
sorbent paper.
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How To Relieve
Bronchitis

Creomulsion relieves promptly be-
cause it goes right to the seat Of the
trouble to help loosen and expel
germ laden phlegn, and aid nature
to soothe and heal raw, tender, in
famed bronchial mucous. men,
branes. Tell your druggist to sell you
bottle Of Circumcision with the I'M
Outstanding you must like the way it
quickly allays the cough or you are
to have your money back.
CIRCUMCISION
! for Coughs. Chest Colds. Bronchitis
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Victory Menus
Nv CHARLOTTE ADAMS

By CHARLOTTE ADAMS
Special Salad
Stuffed Eggplant
Cucumber and Cottage Cheese
Toasted Hard Rolls
Lemon Ice with Peanut Butter
Cookies
(Receipes serve four)
Stuffed Eggplant
medium-sized eggplant
"a pound scrapple
2 tablespoons drippings
2 .nedium-sized tomatoes, quar-
tered
onion, chopped
10 green pepper, chopped
Salt and pepper
10 cup bread crumbs
Cut + top from eggplant and
scoop out pulp. Cook pulp in salt
ed water until tender and mash.
Meanwhile, melt -drippings in
saucepan and add tomatoes, on
ion and pepper and stew over low
flame tor 10 minutes. Combine
eggplant pulp, tomato mixture
and scrapple and mix thoroughly.
Fill eggplant shell with mixture.
Cover TOP with bread crumbs.
Bake at 375 degrees 30 minutes.
Cucumber and Cottage Cheese
Salad
cup cottage cheese
IL cup sour cream
IL cup diced cucumber
! tablespoon chopped chives
Freshly ground pepper
Lettuce leaves
Combine cottage cheese, sour
cream, cucumber, chives and pep
per and mix lightly with fork.
Make a bed of lettuce leaves On
individual salad plates. Shape
cheese into mounds on leaves.
Peanut Butter Cookies
IL cup peanut butter
IL cup sugar
1 egg
? teaspoons baking powder
IA teaspoon salt
- cup milk
1 cup sifted flour.
Mix peanut butter, sugar and
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BOXES AND CRATES

Shipping boxes and crates for
the armed forces in which to ship
material overseas as well as wind
breaks for Yanks in the battle
zones are taking up most Of the
lumber being produced in the
United States today. AS much lum-
Der is used for the shipping boxes
and crates as for all other uses
combined, as three-fourths of all
the material shipped overseas is
packed in wooden containers.
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American Easter Parade

new spring finery. No hint of or
nate, voluminous Paris lines will
mar their streamlined silhouette,
for these clothes were made by
and for Americans, to fit smoothly
and smartly into the lives of ac-
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beaten egg. Sift dry ingredients
and add alternately with milk to
the first mixture. Drop by tea
spoonfuls on creased baking
sheet, about one inch apart. Bake
at $50 degrees about is minutes or
until cookies are lightly Drowned.
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FOOT BROUGHT REFILL

Liquid refreshments were
served in a curious whistle glass
in 18th century England. When
further refreshment was desired,
the user gave a toot on the whis-
tie on the end of the glass and
servants came running with re-
fill.
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AP Newsfeatures

American designers will have
have their biggest innings in this
years Easter parade, as Miss
and Mrs. USA step out in their
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-03-10
New Device Aids
Wounded Soldiers

Ann Arbor. Mich. Mar. 10-AP-
American soldiers wounded in the
European war theater are benefit
ing from a new device used by
Capt Frederick d. Trautman, for
mer University Hospital staff sur
geon.
Capt. Trautman. chief of ortho-
pedic surgery at an Army general
hospital in England. has devised
a type OF splint using bicycle wheel
spokes to speed the recovery OF
use OF fingers, hands and rearms
while outer wounds are healing.
Many months of highly specialized
physiotherapy previously had been
required after wounds had healed
before stiffened hand could be
made flexible.
The spokes are incorporated in
a forearm cast to extend over the
fingers and thumb TO act as offsets
to the cast. Loops OF adhesive tape
and. rubber for the fingers are at
tached to the spokes. allowing the
hands TO bend with the spokes.
Capt. Trautman had private
practice in Frankfort. Mich, and
served on the surgery staff at Uni
versity Hospital for four years be-
fore entering the Medical Corps.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-03-10
Tropical Disease
First in Country

Ann Arbor, Mich, Mar IO-AP--
An Ann Arbor woman has recover
ed from rare tropical disease
which state health authorities said
never before had been isolated in
the United States.
The ailment. known as salmonel-
la iaviana. Is similar to typhoid.
paratyphoid A and paratyphoid y.
and previously has been recorded
only in the island Of Batavia I'm
the Dutch East Indies. said DR..
Otto X Engelke. Washtenaw Coun-
ty health officer.
DR.. Engelke said several types
OF salmonella. including salmonel.
la Stanley, have been discovered in
several countries. but he quoted
DR.. +. S. Leeder. director of the
state health department bureau
OF epidemiology. as saying the Ann
Arbor woman was the first person
in this country to contract the
iaviana variety.
She became i'll in St Louis. AZ.
ter suffering from abdominal
cramps, accompanied by vomiting.
for several weeks. she was treat.
ed for week at an Ann Arbor
hospital.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-03-10
Two Couples in
Ann ArbOr Wed

Ann Arbor. Mich. Mar. 10-A re-
ception at the Michigan League
Monday will honor Pvt. and Mrs.
Kenneth Zemke who were married
Wednesday in ST. Mary's Chapel
Rev. Frank J. McPhillips officiated
at the ceremony.
Mrs. Zemke is the former Shirley
F. Strahan, a senior nurse at the
University Hospital. Pvt Zemke
is the son of Mr.. and Mrs Max
Zemke, Keech Ave.
On Wedding Trip
1t and Mrs Peter barrow, the
former Charlotte McMurtry Noble.
are in the east on a wedding trip
following ceremonies at st. An
drew's Church Wednesday. The
Rev. Laurence Pearson, rector OF
St. PauI's Church. Brighton, Off
Ciated
It. barrow is lhe son OF Wassili
Podarowshi Of Glen Cove, Long Is
land, and has just returned after
two years with a naval amphibious
force in the Mediterranean