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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-10
Granville County Seeks
Cheaper Livestock Feed

OXFORD, Sept. o. Granville
County is putting on a drive to in
crease pasture, hay, and forage
crops So as to furnish cheaper
feed for livestock. County Agent
c. V. Morgan of the State College
Extension Service says that Gran
vile has about $4,000 acres OF
idle land that can be made to give
an annual return of about half a
dollars, if devoted to pas
ture and forage crops, properly
fertiliZed and seeded.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-10
ENGLISH GENERAL DIES

LONDON, Sept. e.-R)IGen.
SIR Walter Pipon B-aithwaite, 70,
Batn King of Arms and former
Aolutant General to the forces,
died at his home, Rotherwick
Hants, Saturday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-10
DIE IN WRECK

BUENOs AIRES, Sept. 9.-(R)-
A La Paz to Buenos Aires pas
senger train jumped the track to-
day near Tres Cruces in Northern
Argentina, killing the engineer
and % passengers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-10

An American trader discovered
the Columbia river while British
naval catain with an elaborate ex-
petition was trying to find and
claim it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-10

r,a f.ir ones are going to step into some
+,;,s nrettv nice around Thanksgiving time
Nylons will be back!
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-10
Fair Enough

editor note.-Ihe Star and the News
views OF Mr.. Pegler, and often disagree
with them as much as many of his read
ers. His articles serve the good purpose
of making people Think
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-10

The population of Mississippi hi
risen from $3.50 - 1000 to ft4s3
~ - 1AD.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-10

The realization that the new (atomic) bomb
is not only weapon for use in war, but
an unequaled weapon against war, is one Of
the best reasons for its observation-disclosures
port. Pa, Sur
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-10

DOT is expected to rid us of insectsLDut
~ +he new car, new gadgets or new nome
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21

"Refuse to abdicate to Roose-
Welt Churchill and Stalin!" Raopl
M. M. Thurman urged a capaclSy
audience of Junior Chamber OF
Commerce members and their
guests in the Friendly Restaurant
BANQUET room last night as climax
to an address in which he descrlb-
ed the quality Of leadership as no
restricted, ready made inheri-
lance. but product of self-appll-
cation open to trial by any man.
mo three leaders are enough for
the whole world" he said.
The meeting which heard his
speech, LEADERS Are Not Bonn
was presided over by w. Elliot
O'Neal and favored with pre-
liminary remarks by Lewis F. Or
mond. comptroller of the Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad Co., who sug-
gested as Jaycee project, the
effort to elk in the community S
life' veterans of World War II.
In. A. Patrill introduced Rabbi
Thurman.
The qualities of leadership, not
Unborn, but cultivated, were listed
by Rabbi Thurman as humility,
patience. daring, thoughtfulness,
| to economic success and passing
popularity, passionate detestatlon
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21
Yank CarrierzPPlanes Attack Japanese Flee
I'm Home Wazrs; Is To II Warships Damaged
III. S. Seventh, Third Armies Join In Saarlant
Guaranteed Wage Plan
Study OrderedByDR
President Also Indicates He Is Not Planning
Action Against LaGuardia for Violation
Of Curfew Edict

planning any action against New
York for relaxing the ban.
2.-Promised a statement Friday
on the food situation, saying the
country ought to know what's hap
pened.
3.-Described as ''iffy' a ques-
ton whether the Government had
any plans to keep the coal mines
running in event of failure of the
operators and unions to reach a
contract agreement.
4.-Said it would depend on the
individual case a good deal when
asked if he favored penalties
against workers who fail to get into
essential war jobs, as well as
against employers who disregard
employment ceiling. He added
that the Government is trying to
get manpower the best way it can.
Continued on Page Seven; Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21
Three Leaders For World
Are Termed insufficient

of Injustice and the determination
to use ones whole ability.
"Bide your time" he told his
attentive listeners, whom he de-
scribed as potential leaders OF the
future, people are not prone to
accept new ideas. What was good
enough for their grandparents is
good enough for them. A leader
must expect repeated set-backs;
his reaction to them is the gauge
of his leadership.
Patience, however, and h e
hard-learned quality of humility,
must not qualify daring. "A lead
err is essentially disturber OF the
peace. the Rabbi pointed, out,
ready to brave being reviled, or,
he added significantly, "cruci-
fed. Criticism should mean MOTH
ing, he said, to a man VINO mas
satisfied his conscience that his
course is right and his causes are
just.
eff you Christians are Christ
like" he asserted "you should pre-
fer those causes as the Prince OF
Peace would have you do, while
we Jews can be glad to be in the
minority, no matter how Cypress
ed. who are not asleep nor I'm
touched by the holocaust.
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21
Reds Capture
Altdan1n1 And
Wipe Out Foe
Other Soviet Forces Slash
Into Pocket South OF
Koenigsberg

LONDON, March 20.-tRCRus-
sian troops, laying open flaming
Stettin to a final assault, today
captured the Pomeranian capital S
last outpost of Altdamm, 70 miles
northeast of Berlin, and wiped out
the powerfully fortified German
bridgehead there on the east bank
of the swampy' lower Oder river,
Moscow announced. =
Far to the east, other Soviet
forces slashed into the enemy's
partly-flooded East Prussian peck
ct southwest of Koenigsberg, cap
turing the ancient bastipn Of
Braunsberg and 40 others town:
and hamlets.
Moscow announced these vic
tories in two orders of the day
and a communique said that more
than 5000 German officers a n {
men and more than 300 guns were
captured in the fighting in Eas
Prussia yesterday and today.
At the same time, the Germans
said that Marshal Feodor !. Tol
bukhin had hurled 200, 900 Of his
Third Ukraine Army troops, ano
supporting armor, into a new Of
fensive in northwestern Hungary
sweeping within SO miles OF the
Austrian frontier on the road to vi
emma.
Moscow has not confirmed this
operation, which the Germans sale
began last weekend, and created
temporarily critical situation
for the Nazis. Berlin said the Rus
slams were beyond Tata, which is
10 miles southeast of the big Dan
ube river stronghold of Komarom
Komarno).
Another German broadcast indi
Gated that Marshal Konev's First
Ukraine Army had smashed
across the Moravian-Upper Siles
Continued on Page Seven; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21
BRITISH FORCES
SEIZE MANDALAY
Ancient Fortress Of Burma
Taken After L.
Day Siege

MANDALAY, March 20.-WH-
The ancient and tabled city of
Mandalay fell to the British today
after two years, 10 months and II
days of japanese occupation, and
Adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten, Al
lied Southeast Asia commander,
in a special order of the day re-
minded his troops that the enemy
had held the old Burmese capital
to be of supreme importance.
The end of the 12-day siege came
at noon while artillery of the
10Th Indian Division was pound
ing Fort Dufferin, the mile-square
moated fortress dominating the
city. Four Burmese bearing white
flags and the Union Jack came
forth and reported that japanese
troops had sneaked out of the
fort under cover Of darkness.
The Sikhs, Punjabis and Gurk-
has of the 10th Division immediate
ly entered the fortress in search
Of any enemy troops who might
be hiding in the former British
barracks or the garden surround.
ing the red lacquer palace of the
ancient Bumese kings. The palace
itself was left blazing by the
beaten Japanese, who had been
ordered to fight to the death.
1t now was estimated that 500
Japanese who had been holding
out in the southern part of the
city were hopelessly trapped be-
tween eastern and western prongs
Of the 10Th Division and the Sec
ond Division which drove eastward
from the IrraWaddy river. The be-
ginning Of their end was heralded
Continued on Page Three; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21
ALLIED B0MBERS
HIT U-B0AT PENS
Jet Planes Fail To Block
Attack On Nazi Oil
Refineries

LONDON, March 20.-Up)-Al-
lied heavy bombers, defying saw
age attacks by Nazi jet-propelled
planes, struck U-boat yards, oil
refineries and rail centers in
northwestern Germany today, and
tonight Raj Mosquitoes gave Ber-
lin its 29th straight night assault.
Medium and fighter bombers,
swarming over the Western Front,
took terrific toll of German
troops and civilians fleeing in pan
ic from the Saar.
Returning pilots reported Saar
roads were jammed with hun
dreds of vehicles in veritable
mob scene.'' The highways were
filled with hundreds of vehicles,
moving three abreast to the east
in scenes reminiscent Of the Ar
dennes retreat.
Mile after mile was left a scene
of burning vehicles and bodies.
The planes destroyed at least
900 motor transports and damag-
ed more than one thousand.
American and British heavy
bombers, escorted by fighters, en-
countered a sizeable force of Luft-
waite planes futilely attempting to
ward off the attacks. One U. S.
ortress formation engaged in a
Commute running battle with jet
planes over Hamburg and another
encountered group of 20 jets,
shooting down at least two.
Some 400 Liberators and Flying
Fortresses of the Eighth Air
Force, screened by 300 Mustang
fighters, attacked Germany's Sec
ond largest city of Hamburg. The
bombers blasted the Blohm and
Voss shipyards, which are making
the newest type prefabricated U.
boats, and also hit an oil refinery
and the Hamburg port area.
Another oil refinery at Hem
mingstedt, some so miles north OF
Hamburg on the Danish peninsula,
also was blasted in perfect bomb
ing weather. Last attacked on
September l, the Hemmingstedt
refinery had been restored to pro-
Continued on Page 10, Col. y
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WASHINGTON, March 20.-R)-
President Roosevelt today ordered
a study Of plans for guaranteed
annual wage, described by the War
Labor Board as lone of the main
aspirations of American workers. !"
He told his news conference the
inquiry-requested by the WLB-
will be made by the Office of War
Mobilization advisory board of IL
headed by o. Max Gardner, former
North Carolina Governor. The
board is composed of public, labor,
farm and management represen-
tatives.
At the same conference, held an
hour earlier than usual and con-
fined for the first time in months
exclusively to domestic phases of
the war, the Chief Executive:
L. Stood by War Mobilization
Director Byrnes and his midnight
curfew, but indicated he wasn't
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21
JUNIOR COLLEGE
MEASURE PASSED
County Salary Amendment
Also Approved By
Senate

The N. c. State Senate last night
approved a bill providing for a
Junior college in New Hanover
county and likewise passed a
measure which would permit the
board OF County Commissioners
to increase salaries Of County en-
ployes.
Both measures, introduced by
Rep. J. @. LeGrand last week,
were passed without opposition.
the junior college proposal, pre-
pared by Cyrus D. Hogue at the
instigation of the New Hanover
county Board Of Education, will
authorize the County Commission
to call an election to establish the
school and to levy a tax not to
exceed seven cents per $500 to
initiate its operation.
While no definite site has been
located for the college, reliable
sources indicated last night that
the Lake Forest housing project
if abandoned by the Federal Hous-
in, Authority after the war, would
make an ideal location. 1t also was
pointed out that the Lake Forest
school building, one OF the Coun-
tvs most modern, was Ideally
suited for this purpose.
The County salary amendment
will allow increases in individual
wages up to $1,000 yearly: AT pres
ent, the County can increase sal
aries only by $7O0.
Another measure, County Box
ing Regulation bill, was not IN.
clIded in the Associated Press
renort on the Legislative Record
hut Rep. LeGrand earlier yester,
day expressed the opinion that II
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21
Swedish Writer Says German People
Hate Ndzi Leaders And Wait Reuenee

ed the houses and apartments in
which 4,250,000 once lived to a
state in which they now can house
only about 100000 &
In the remnant Of Berlin which
still stands there is gas, water and
electric light. But blocks around
the Bayrischer Platz in the south
western end of the city already
have been evacuated because it is
no longer possible to keep track
of all the time bombs which land
in the ruins.
In the east end, a plague wall
Of masonry has sealed off a whole
block of houses in the Spittelmarkt
area where piles Of corpses have
been rotting because it was found
impossible to remove them. The
! wall runs from ruined house t.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21
Tanks Drive Into NoiLo Outskirts;
Filipino Troops Take San Fernando
Japanese Put Torch To
Capital City Of Panay
Island

MANILA, Wednesday, March Il.
- W.D u. S. 10th Division troops
have driven into the outskirts Of
burning 1loilo, capital Of newly
invaded Panay island, and cut all
Japanese escape routes with a 25-
mile sweep around the northern
side of the city, Gen. Douglas
Macarthur announced today.
The Japanese, it was disclosed,
put the torch to the city Of 5000
on the south coast OF the central
Philippines island.
Maj. Gen. Rapp Brush's troops
pushed seven allies eastward
along the coast to enter Iloilo and
struck inland on a 15-mile front
in the 25-mile drive that cleared
the Panay plains and made con-
tact with Filipino guerrillas in the
hills.
Smashing triumphs alos were
announced for the Yanks and Fill
pinos on the island of Luzon.
There, the Filipinos seized the big
northwest port of San Fernando,
80 miles north of Lingayen Gulf,
and American 33rd Division troops
drove ten miles northward along
the coast to seize the town of Bau-
ang, six miles south of San Fer
nando. That was the most north
erly point on Luzon yet reached
by the Americans.
On. Panay, Macarthur said that
10th Division, which landed Sum-
day, was taking full advantage OF
the Japanese confusion.
One column advanced seven
miles eastward to break into the
outskirts Of Iloilo, a city Of 80, 900,
after first Selling Mandurriao air
field, 1,500-yard long strip a mile
to the west. D.
They also seized Carpenters
bridge across the Iloilo river
which runs through the city.
At the same time, other forces
struck inland for an overall adj
Continued on Page Two; Col. A.
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CARRIER MIDWAY
lSCHRISTENED
Worlds Mightiest Will
Bear New Type Navy
Aircraft

NEWPORT NEWS, Va, March
20.-UP)-The mightiest of all
aircraft carriers-the 45,000-ton
Midway-was christened today,
but an uncooperative tide delayed
the actual launching.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
for Air Artenus L. Gates revealed
that when the Midway goes into
battle against Japan she will send
aloft planes SO modern that they
have not yet been used in combat.
He said the carrier and her planes
will not be pleasant combination
to be contemplated by the Japa-
nese warlords."
So vast is her flight deck, that
the Midway can accommodate
more than 30 planes.
Named for the memorable 1912
battle which swung the Pacific
war in favor of the United States,
the Midway was built in drydock
instead of on the conventional
way. She was to have been floated
at 9:43 a. m. by the simple process
of letting sea water into the dock
at high tide. But the tide failed tc
do its job. 1t fell four inches short
of expectations, so the floating had
had to be delayed. Navy officials
said they expected the tide to pick
up the needed four inches by to.
morrow.
The christening proceeded as
scheduled, however.
Sponsoring the new queen of air.
craft carriers was Mrs. Bradford
w. Ripley II of Dayton, Ohio
daughter of former Ohio Gov
James M. Cox and widow of a
- TnI .
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21

Editors note: Chris ter
Jaederlund, for II years Ber-
lin correspondent of the SWed-
ish newspaper Stockhol,ns-Tid-
ningen. has just returned to
Stockholm with the latest first
hand account of conditions in
Germany. Jaederlund left Ber-
lin because he found it no long
err possible to work there.)
BY CHRISTER JAEDERLUND
STOCKHOLM, March 20.-P-
In all Berlin, once the fifth city of
the world, there are today habit
able accommodations for no more
than the population of New Or
leans.
Allied bombinss have been SC
devastating that they have redue
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21
RED CROSS AIDE
STRESSES NEED
Rotarians Hear Plea For
Continued Support
In Drive

At the Tuesday meeting OF The
Rotary club, Harry Bliss, staff
member of the American City Blu
reau of the American Red Cross,
who is heading the current Red
Cross drive in Wilmington, made
an appeal for contributions to the
organization war funds.
Introduced by Rabbi M. M. Thur
man, MI. Bliss, a member OF the
International Kiwanis staff, Ro-
tartan and former Chamber of
Commerce secretary, emphasized
his speech with the Rotary motto,
s.he profits most who serves BEST
He said that a contribution to the
Red Cross was not a gift but an
opportunity to investin the Amer
lean way of life by helping the boys
who are fighting for it. :.
eve are going to win this war
ne stated, because the boys fight
ing it were sired by the builders
of this country, raised under the
system of free enterprise, found
by the men who built this Nation
to be the best and only way for
this country. These boys have been
taught he profits most who serves
best".
LET us make certain that when
soldier reaches behind him for
something, be it gun, plasma OF
anything else, what he reaches W
will be there.
eff he is wounded, let us be sure
there is Gray Lady at his Side
to write his letters.
IF he is prisoner, let us MAKE
sure he has a chance to increase
fCort;nued m Page 2: Column ~
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FORECAST

partly cloudy and cooler today with
nrobable showers.
Yesterdays temperatures;
High, 79-Low, s..
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21

ruined house to prevent the spread
of infection from this district,
which once was the center Of Ber-
Inns f1ourishing clothing industry.
In Munich there is neither light,
gas nor running water. Just as
in the cities of western Germany,
Munich's population has been
obliged to melt snow to obtain wa
ter for cooking.
1t is estimated that 10000, 900
Germans already have fled from
their homes to escape bombs and
guns. This figure is constantly
growing.
The misery which this war has
brought on other nations now has
befallen the Germans on n vast
Continued on Page Three; Col. d
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first group of Seaman Guards fired
for record with As pistols last Fri
day at the Waldron range.
Doyle shot PAT out of q possible
$50. Three men, K. L. Hickman,
A. L. Arthur and v. L. Bryant, all
Sic, qualified as sharpshooters,
and L. c. Henschen and J. e. Tay-
lor, both Sic, qualified as marks
men.
An expert must have score of
245 or above, a sharpshooter 225,
and a marksman 200.
Scores: Doyle 247, Bryant 227;
Hickman and Arthur 226; Taylor
PA; Henschen 2l2; A. f. Olson,
1874; G.. B. Powell, 1874; F. c.
Sweat, l9l; J. C.. Burton, 100; L.
E. Cheever, 1877; G. Grems, ITO;
H. p. Apologize l60, and M. L,
Skinner, 139.
Don is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Angus Doyle.
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COL. Matthias Is
Project Head
CONTINUED From Page u

necessary to care for the workers
who reached 5000 at the peak
Of construction activity. High
ways, 1856 miles of them, and many
miles of railroad were built for
transportation of workmen, mater
ials, supplies and equipment
There followed the actual con-
stfuction of the plant areas, build
ings whose designs and features
were totally different from any
engineering program ever before
conceived.
With the people came problems
in new settlement which totaled
10000, including the families OF
workmen, and these problems in
the midst of desolate, isolated
location were successfully handled
by the native of Wisconsin who
likes to be called Fritz" and who
has the highest regard of all those
under him, from scientists to Ia
borer.
Colonel Matthias, who now con-
trolls the model village of Rich
land, town of $4,000 which
houses the operationaF employees
of the project recalls the ear Of
Hanford, now a "ghost" construc-
ton town, with high praise for the
cooperation he received in his I'M
precedented job from such Gov
eminent agencies as the War Man
power Commission, the Public
Roads Administration, the Office
of Price Administration and the
Federal Works Agency, and has
further praise for the Quarter
master Corps, Ordnance, the
Transportation Corps, the Signal
Corps, the Air Forces, various
divisions of the Corps of Engin-
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GERS, and the Commanding Gen
eral of the Ninth Service Com
mand.
He gives labor great credit
lauds his staff, praises the neigh
boring towns for their assistance
on housing and other problems
halls newspapers and radio sta
tons for their security observance
and lauds the aid given by public
officials. The know-how of thu
du Pont Company in the construc'
ton and operations also elicit:
the greatest praise from the Col
onel.
Colonel Matthias was born IL
Glidden, Wisconsin, March Is
1908. His parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Christina thompson F. II. Mat
thias now reside at Curtiss, Wis
consin.
The Colonel has had practically
81 years of military connection
He was member of the Wisconsin
National Guard from September
1924 until June, 1890, when fol
lowing graduation from the r. o
T. c., he was given an honorable
discharge as sergeant to accept &
Second Lieutenant's commission II
the Reserve Corps. He remained
active in the reserve until he en-
tered active service on April, ID
1941, as a first lieutenant.
Before being assigned to Han
ford, Colonel Matthias served sia
months under General Groves il
the Office of Chief Of Engineer:
on the construction phase of the
Pentagon Building. The remain
der of the time he was Chief Of
the Planning Authorization Unit
of the Ports and Supply Depots
Section in the Construction Divi.
sion of the Corps of Engineers
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no is visiting at the home of Mrs.
Floyd Donnelly.
DR.. Goldie Merrill of Seattle
will be the superintendent of the
Hover-Finley school for the COM
ing year.
Some relatives of Mr.. Stay
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III o v e r

Mr.. and Mrs. Hatch went to
Dayton Sunday to visit her son
and wife and took their grand
son Robert Sap to his father.
Mr.. Cruines from Elk, Wash.
is the cook at MIR. Waters home.
Mrs. Linquist of Lewiston, Ida
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bauch from Canada were v,.''
week. N'yi
MIR. and Mrs. Butterfiel6,,
Pasco visited Sunday at the
Of their daughter. Mrs. w ~
and family. VIII
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SERVICE MEN
continued from Page u

WO0Cl0UeO 1IO1u 308S ~
Group, is being processed at Camp
Detroit in the Assembly Area
Command in France.
Moving to Normandy in August,
the group followed armored spear
heads into Rennes, LeMans, Villa
coublay and, on to Saint Dizier.
Among the numerous inven-
tons originating in the group are:
the electrical bomb release for p
AZ Thunderbolts; the design Of the
belly tank mail bag, and modifi-
cations to increase the operating
efficiency of the Napal fire bomb
A member of the 9th Air Depot
Group is Cpl. Ralph Morton OF
KenneWick.
Staff Sergeant Loren G. Win
terscheid is now stationed at 33rd
Armd. Regimental Headquarters
with 3rd Armd. Spearhead Divi-
son at Russelsheim, Germany.
Loren is in a medical detachment,
and has charge of regimental
headquarters dispensary.
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DOYLE IS EXPERT
Don A. Doyle, Sic, was the only
one to qualify as expert when the
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You will find it in the classified
ad section Of this paper.