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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-19
Canadians Shatter Outer Defenses OF Goch
Americans Gee 1000 Hostages In Manila
Pacific Fleet Flash

u S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS,
GUAM Monday, Feb. 19.-(AP)-Amercan carrier
planes scored decisive victory the Japanese in
the mighty 1,50O-pane raids on the Tokyo yokohama
area of the Japanese homeland Friday and Saturday.
Adm. Chester w. Nmitz announced today.
Admiral Nmitz announced the Americans, scor-
ing complete tactical SURPRISE, destroyed 1892 Jap
anese aircraft in the air and LII on the ground.
He said Japanese escort carrier was bombed and
set afre nine coastal vessels SUNK destroyer
sunk, two escort destroyers SUNK cargo ship
sunk and % other ships of various kinds damaged.
Nimitz made mention of the Tokyo claim that
American forces had landed on Two lima, $50 miles
south of Tokyo. The enemy radio said the American
invaders were engaged in fierce fight on two Two
beaches g
Nimitz said 40 American planes lost in the
days of destructive raids Thirty to 40 Yank filters
were lost.
"None of our ships suffered damage from enemy
action the special communique reported.
The Fifth Fleet force under Adm. r. A. Spruance,
one of the greatest ever assembled, achieved de-
cisve victory the enemy in attacks Tokyo Feb
ruary Is and II EAST Longitude date)' Nimitz an
nounced.
He said complete tactical surprise" was ac-
compished under Of weather adverse it also
hampered enemy air operations.
Nimitz congratulated ''al hands, for "very well
done job
He praised the Nays Intelligent teamwork"
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-19
de- CAULLE REBUFF
CHARGED TO FDR
President Declines Invita-
ton To Visit France,
Reports Say
BY EDWARD KENNEDY

PARIS, Feb. 18.-(P)- President
Roosevelt's m " m e n IS were
cloaked in secrecy tonight, but
one thing seemed certain - the
President and General de Gaulle
were having a hard time getting
together.
This has been interpreted by
some persons as meaning French
American relations have Worsened,
not among the people, but regard
ing the chiefs of the two nations,
one rich and fighting the war to
it's end, the other poor and trying
to regain its place in the world.
French officials were disappoint-
ed about being left out of the
Crimean conference, but still would
have welcomed r o S ev e tide
Gaulle conversations which might
have smoothed out difficulties.
To this end, it was learned on
good authority, the French renew
ed their Invitation to Roosevelt to
visit Paris, and would have been
satisfied if he had visited Southern
France.
Instead. it was further learned
reliably, they received message
Roosevelt would be willing to talk
to de Gaulle in Algiers. This was
a double rebuff. Not only was it
refusal to come to France, but
also an invitation to the head of the
French state to territory which
had been French for more than a
century.
AS is well known, the American
Navy has used Algiers for the last
two years, but to the French it
seemed much it would to Amer
leans if some foreign ruler had said
to the President of the United
States, sorry I can't come to see
you, but you can come to see me
in Honolulu"
American Ambassador jefferson
Caffery left Paris three days ago,
apparently to see the President
as SO many prominent Americans
have departed for presumable con-
ferences with the chief executive
somewhere in the Mediterranean
None of them has yet returned.
Several days ago the best infor-
nation here was that the President
probably would visit both Italy and
France before returning to Wash
ington.
This belief was held by several
important generals and others US
ually well informed, although it
was said at the time that num-
Der of factors, including business
at home and the Presidents ply
steal condition after the strain nj
the Yalta conference, might govern
the final decision.
Political nuances of the moment
also might be a determining FAC
tor in whether the President would
stop off in France, 1 was told.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-19
MONTGOMERY SEES
THE FINAL ROUND
British Marshall Tells His
Troops That End OF
War Is Sighted
DIST ARMY HEADQUARTERS,

21sT ARMY HEADQUARTERS,
Feb. 18.-(R-Marshal Montgon-
cry in personal message to
troops under his command declar-
ed today 1--WE now have come to
the last and final round, and we
want and will go for the knockout
blow"
His order declared:
1.-THE operations of the Allies
on all fronts nave now brought
the German war to its final stage.
There was time some years
ago when it did not seem possible
that we would win this war. The
present situation is that we cannot
lose it; in fact, the terrific sue
cesses of our Russian allies on
the Eastern Front have brought
victory in sight.
I'm the 21st Army Group we
fstand ready for the last round.
There are many of us who have
fought through the previous
rounds; we have won every round
on points. We now come to the
last and final round, and we want,
and will go for, the knockout blow,
1.-THE rules of the last round
will be that we continue fighting
till the final count; there is no
time limit. We know our enemy
well; we must expect him to fight
hard to stave off defeat, possibly
in the vain hope that we may
crack before he does.
But we shall not crack; we
shall see this thing through to the
end.
THE last round may be long
and difficult, and the fighting hard,
but we now fight on German soil.
We have got our opponent where
we want him; and he is going to
receive the knockout blow -
somewhat unusual one, delivered
from more than one direction.
"You remember the poem writ
ten by a soldier Of the Eighth
Army in Africa before going into
battle, in one verse OF which ne
described what he considered we
were fighting for:
Peace for the kids, our broth
ers freed,
GA kinder world - cleaner
breed
Let us see to it that we achieve
this object, so well expressed by
fighting man of the British
, Empire.
"And so we embark on the final
round, in close cooperation with
our American allies on our right
and with complete confidence in
the successful outcome of the on
slaught being delivered by our
Russian allies on the other side
of the ring.
Somewhat curious rules, you
may say, but the whole match has
been most curious. The Germans
Continued on Page Five; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-19
IL. S. IS CAUTIOUS
| ON EUROPE POLICY
Nation To Steer Clear OF
Trouble In Liberated
Countries
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER

WASHINGTON. Feb. 49, -(P)-
The United States intends to move
with the greatest caution in its
share of handling the political af-
fairs of liberated Europe along the
lines worked out at the Crimean
conference.
Authorities here said today that
while this government will not
shrink from any necessary duty
to protect the independence of the
European peoples and to assist
them to recover political order il
will not go looking for trouble.
Furthermore, it would seek to use
it's influence to the limit in favor
of non-intervention wherever that
policy is justified.
The real measure of the declara-
ton on liberated areas, which
President Roosevelt proposed to
the Crimean conference to launch
this country on new European
policy, is in its application. And it
could be applied either to foster
the freedom and independence of
the smaller countries OR to bring
them under a sort of great power
dictatorship.
The conviction here is that no
such great powers domination OF
European affairs is contemplated.
The declaration binds the United
States, Britain, Russia and France
to joint action. American officials
hope to keep the big powers from
stepping in any place until the
need for action becomes evident
and even acute.
This American attitude may be
put to the test severely in the
months ahead. Considerably more
political unrest is expected in Eu-
rope, especially if the present suf-
fering and hunger of liberated mil
lions go unrelieved much longer.
In times of turmoil, one faction or
another is always seeking outside
support. 1t will be the job OF the
foreign ministers of the great pow
ers to decide when such appeals
are justified and when answering
them would constitute straight
away meddling.
There are several countries, how
ever, in which the powers may
have to take joint action, or at
least establish clear joint policies:
The most obvious of these is Aus
tria, which has yet to be liberated
and which has been so long under
German control that it may need
Allied supervision for many
months before it can raise forces
for its own government.
Belgium and Norway present
widely different possibilities OF
necessary action from outside.
So far as is known here the
Crimean conference did not discuss
either Greece, where the British
are running the show, or Romanla
and Bulgaria where the Russians
fix policy through the mechanism
of Allied armistice control com
missions. There is no reason known
here, however, why in event OF
trouble in either of those areas, the
joint policy should not be applied
if it became essential to the indie
pendence of the people.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-19
Italian Armistice Terms
Asked By Senator Bridges

by the International Law Review
at Geneva.
It said the Review was found
ed and edited by DR.. Juris An
tome Sottile, professor at the
Academy Of International Law at
the Hague, and permanent dele
gate to the League of Nations.
Sottile published it with the
notation that it had been obtained
from unofficial sources and that
there were doubts as to its au-
thenticity.
Allied governments have declin-
ed to reveal the surrender condi-
tons on the grounds of military
security.
The purported armistice terms
outlined in the Review called not
only for Italy to deliver to the
Allies her navy, aviation and all
Notifications, but stipulated that
after the war she should place
her merchant fleet and civil avia-
ton of the disposal Of the AL
Continued on Page Five; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-19
Soviiets Take
Sagan; Drive
Toward Baltic
Russians Encircle VistuIa
River Stronghold OF
Crudziadz

LONDON, Monday, Feb. 19.-tR
Russian troops driving toward
the Baltic coast yesterday en-
circled the Vistula river stronghold
of Grudziadz, 81 miles south of Dan
zig, while Berlin announced that
other Soviet forces had swept to
within IS miles of Goerlitz, Silesia S
second city on the upper Neisse
river near the German Saxon from
tier.
A violent struggle ragged on the
muddy southeastern approach to
Berlin, where Marshal Ivan S.
Konev's First Ukraine Army cap
tured the big rail center of Sagan,
86 miles southeast Of the Reich
capital.
Several prisoner of war camps
one of which held Allied airmen
shot down over Germany were 10.
Gated around Sagan. The fate Of
these prisoners has not yet beer
determined, but it is likely the
Germans moved them westward
Berlin had reported the fall of the
town of $4,000 on Saturday.
The Russians also recapturec
hamburg, another Bober river
stronghold 10 miles north of Sagan
It first was taken on Friday, ane
the Germans claimed to have re
taken it the following day.
Berlin reports acknowledged thai
other Soviet forces had crossed
the Bober farther north in their ct
fort to turn Berlin's eastern de
lenses along the central Oder river
Moscow's s. eernnauniqae gave IA
details of the struggle in this area
but Soviet front dispatches sale
that Russian troops were menacins
Cottbus and Guben, Al and 81 mile.
southeast of Berlin, and that those
two targets were being raidec
heavily by Soviet bombers.
Russian infantry was reported
within 10 miles east of Cottbus
after crossing the Neisse river
north of Forst.
Berlin claimed that these spear
heads, including one that thrust
through Sommerfeld, II miles wesr
OF hamburg, had been cut off.
In the push toward Dresden
Saxony capital, Red Army tank
forces were reported by Berlin tc
have reached Thiemendorf, l:
miles east of Gocrlitz and IS mile!
east of Dresden. At this point they
were only three miles from the
road junction of Lauban, on the
Continued on Page Five; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-19
ARMY TAKES OVER
n. c. RAY0N FIR N
Seizure OF Strike-bound
Plant Ordered By
Roosevelt

ASHEVILLE, Feb. 10 Up The
War Department took over opera
ton of the strike-bound plant Of
the American Enka Corp, today
under authorization Of President
Roosevelt.
Col. Curtis G. Pratt of the Army
General Staff Corps, assumed
charge of the plant at p. m. EVIL,
under orders to end work stop
page that has kept more than g.
600 workers idle since February 8.
The plant manufacturer . n
for use in critically needed tires
for the military. The Presidential
order said continuation of the Ia
Dor dispute was impeding the war
effort.
Colonel Pratt after taking over
issued statement in which he said
production of rayon yarn for mill
tary tire fabric sis already danger
ously behind requirements"
The strike began after the COM
PAW in what it described as a
friendly suit" obtained an injunc'
ton in Federal District Court tc
prevent arbitration of issues rails
ed by the United Textile Workers
of America, AFL.
Both management and labor are
cooperating perfectly" Colonel
Pratt said.
He said work would be resumed
at the II o'clock shift tonight. This
will involve some 30 chemical
workers.
Col. Pratt said it would be four
to eight days before all 5000 work
ers were back at their tasks. Work
would not be available for employees
in the spinning, finishing and tex
tile departments, he said, unit
chemical workers had started the
processes moving again.
Col. Pratt said he and his stat
of seven officers we're operating
the plant and that no troops hae
been sent to Asheville.
DR.. A. J. L. MoritZ, executive
vice president of the Enka Corp.
issued this statement:
"We have received from Col
Pratt and his staff notice of the
}, Government taking possession O.
the properties and facilities OF the
company and the Army officers are
established at the plant. am con-
fident that I express the sentiments
not only of myself but of all o.
our officers and employees when
say we will cooperate in every way
with the Army and with each other
to restore full production in the
shortest possible time
c. E. Earnhardt, international
vice-president of the UTW, said:
''We are requesting all of our
members to return to work as they
are notified to report. We are glad
to cooperate with the Army in any
way possible. This evening we are
sending out union cars to assist
the Army in getting those who are
scheduled to report at II o'clock
notified and are assisting in round
ing up the workers for the cheni-
cal department, the first that will
be put in operation"
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-19
Stimson Demands Passage
Of National Service Law

critical hour deny to them the
strength they say they need to
bring this conflict to a close, with
the saving of as many lives as
possible?"
The bill to force males 1845 into
war jobs was passed by the House
almost three weeks ago. 1t now is
sna1led in the Senate Military At
fairs Committee witt several
members predicting that it will
never get out in its present form.
The big stumbling block is whether
Selective Service as provided by
the House, or the War Manpower
Commission, favored by the com.
mittee, shall exercise the man
power ~ controls.
The administration is rolling up
it's heavy artillery to prod the Sen
ate into action. War Production
Chairman ]. A. Krug said last
night that munitions goals cannot
be met without it. And Sen. Albert
Continued on Page Five; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-19
Bv JACK BELL

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.-(P)-
Senator Bridges GRIND is ask
ing the State Department to at
firm or deny the authenticity of
purported Italian armistice terms
sending 100000 Italians to Allied
countries for postwar reconstruc-
ton work.
Bridges told reporters he plan
ned to put into the Senate record
tomorrow a review of pur2orted
armistice terms he said had been
published in neutral countries.
Frankly" he said, Il don't
know whether these are the true
terms or not. But they have been
published in supposedly reputable
Journals in neutral countries and
/ think the American people are
entitled to know if they are the
real conditions under which Italy
surrendered. "
The New Hampshire senator
produced a translation from the
French of document published
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-19
Gen. Cherniakhovsky.
First Red Leader To
Enter Reich, Is Dead

LONDON, Monday, Feb. 49,
(R-Gen. Ivan D. Cherniakhovsky,
brilliant 37-year-old Jewish tank
commander whose Third White
Russian Army was the first to
invade Germany, died yesterday
of wounds suffered on the battle
field in East Prussia, Moscow
announced early today.
The conqueror of Minsk, Wilno,
Kaunus and most of East Prussia
died from a heavy wound re-
ceived on the battlefield of East
Prussia said the official an
nouncement.
Cherniakhovsky was the young
est general in the Red Army, the
youngest army group comman-
der, and one of the nations out
standing StrategistS.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-19
u s. Troops Battling
To Clear Corregidor
yanks Capture Huge Philippine Hospital To
Liberate Americans and Other Enemy
Captives; Fleet In Manila Bay

MANILA Monday, Feb. 49, (AP) American troops
d on the rocky slopes and tunnels of Corregdor today
IN MOP up Japanese pockets as Gen. Douglas Macarthur
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-19
.,.eet Pounds
Two lima For
A Third Time
Tokyo Reports Four Land.
ing Attempts On Tiny
Island

u. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD.
QUARTERS, Guam, Monday, Feb
19.-R-Iwo Jima's coastal de-
lenses were further shattered Sun
day in the third straight day Of
bombardment of the invasion
menaced island, $50 miles south o,
Tokyo, Fleet Adm. Chester w
Nimitz announced today. He made
no mention of Tokyo claims thai
four Yank invasion attempts hac
failed.
Nimitz said heavy U. S. flee
units had the tiny but strategic
islands under fire" all day Sun
day, knocking out three more
strongly-defended coastal guns anc
probably damaging three others.
Obviously for security reasons,
the communique carried no report
of the powerful naval force which
Friday and Saturday sent 1,50o
carrier planes in waves over the
Tokyo okohama industrial area.
Tokyo said the fleet apparently
retreated.'
The fleet without doubt still is
in enemy waters, and not breaking
radio silence.
Tokyo radio said the American
Fifth Fleet, greatest ever assembl-
ed, was headed toward the Ogas-
awara CBonin) group after "suf-
fering from Gripping blows meted
out by our air defense"
The enemy claimed ITS Ameri-
can planes shot down and Is 9TH
-ers damaged in the two-day attack
on the Tokyo area.
The communique said U. S. car
rier planes damaged Is small
ships in the BONN islands on Sun
day.
The three-day bombardment Of
Two, Nimitz announced, has been
under the tactical direction of
Rear Adm. w. H. P. Blandy.
Nimitz said battleships' gunfire
damaged the defense installations,
including three heavily casemat-
ed coastal guns knocked out and
probably three more damaged, dur
ing a heavy bombardment of shore
defenses on Two Jima in the Vol
cano Islands February 10.
1.-The island was under the fire
of heavy units of the U. S. Paci-
fic Fleet throughout the day."
Two, only eight miles square,
was pounded by Army Liberators
Saturday, with large fires result
ing. Antiaircraft fire was report.
ed intense. Chichi Jima in the
BONN group Immediately to the
north also was hit by carrier
planes. Three enemy aircraft were
damaged on the ground there.
Marcus, Truk and Babelthuar
islands were other targets.
The Fleet Chief said no new re-
ports were available concerning
the mighty carrier plane strikes
against the Tokyo-Yokohama reg.
ion Friday and Saturday. 1t was
possible that the Naval airmer
cried their ticks on the Toxic
area into the third consecutive day
Radio Tokyo, after indicating
that the Yank naval f1iers were
hitting the capital again, said later
there were no carrier plane raids
Sunday and added the enemy
task force seems to have retreatec
southwark.
Gan unconfirmed japanese broad
cast, recorded by NBC, said the
Naval airrnen continued the Tokyo
attacks through the third day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-19
Tanks Invade Reich
In 7wo New Sectors
Feeling Rises That Great Allied Storm About
To Break Over Western Front; Nazis
May Abandon Strongpoint

smashed through outer deenses to within 1000 yards of
Goch today amid indications that the Germans pre-
pairing to abandon this oufanked bason at the thresh-
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SLUNfcKO.
Frank J. Rosner:

vysoko ma obloze stale
jeff zjev Sc objevil -
opet paprsky jasu vysllalo
pc celem okoll SVEN.
vyjadToval touhu
pc polibku -
nez sc den sesoi s noel,
omamen podlehl sve touze
a opajel Sc jej1 vGni.
Jeji blizkost byla mu nebem;
&C 81 vedom kratkosti casu,
pc c1Si ohniveho VIVA
tanec rozpalil jej vice.
Pr rozchodu vrely pollock
mel byti poutem ma vecnost -
blazenost rozlila sc v dust
on byl ocarovan.
Kytice RUIZ, poslednl pozdrav--
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jak pTikl1zen stall dlouho
zamyslen,
bylf krasny sen -
slunfcko zapadlo.
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Tezba uhli v Ceskoslovensku
Stoupa.

(CTK) = DIE zpravy posle-
chove sluzby Columbia Broad
casting System zaznamenane z
prazskeho rozhlasu prohlasil
csl. ministr prGmyslu Bohumil
re nedostatek uhli,
topiva a pohonnych latek nenf
pouze problemem ceskosloven-
skym, nybrz celoevropskym.
We vSech evropskych statech
must byt Tide pripraveni ma
Spatnou zimu.
Ceskoslovenska vlada podni-
ka vsechny kroky "a 1celem
zvysenf uhelne tezby. Pres to,
re jsou v dolech We zvysenem
poctu zamestnany n6mecke pra
covn1 silly a dobrovoln1ci, je ire
ba jeste dals1ch dobrovolniku
do dol6. V minulem mes1ci by
10 vydolovano celkem 964,00O
tun uhl1, tedy celkem O 10000
tun vice nez v predchozim me-
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stale nalehavy, je tez znesnad-
men spatnou dopravou a nedo-
statkem nakladn1ch vozn.
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veZme parable a zabodne no do
p1sku ma dosud volne mfstecko,
jake prospektori zlata ma zapa-
de, kdyz obsazovali sv1j
Claim" Slunfcko prazf, Why
stale bijf o breh a pri strfda-
VEN opalovanf, koupanf a hra-
nj m1cem ubiha rychle cas-. Te-
la Sc zdajf byti stale bila, jako-
by Sc nechtelo slunfcko jich
chytiti, tfebaze je natfrajf ole
jem. Ale vecer = ouvej!
AZ sem pronasleduje rekla-
ma obyvatele mesta, nebof ne
ustale letajf mad pobrezfm gy-
roskopy, ktere "a sebou tahaji
rady SLOW, jake "Kings Beer -
Fit for a King" a podobne, We
vode Sc projlzd6jf motorove To-
dice S velikymi napisy a opa-
irene ampliony, z nichz stale
hluc1 "kupujte jen to naSe - to
jest to nejlepsf."
Zpatecnf costa IDA Sc trvati
dele. Mnohy jest unudeny a
vysilen, jen tn a tam popevuJe
krouzek nekterou novou pfsnic-
ku skoro tise. W Sc ami tolik
netanc1. Jen prodavaci zmr-
zliny, rGznych napoj1 a osve-
zenf neustavaji We sve agilnosti,
stale nabfzejf "~ajskrfm", "kol-
bfr'', "kolemonejd'', "cerysou-
de-"
Mica odpociva ma Jardov6
rameni. Vlasta s Harlem po-
zoruj1 hv6zdy a odraz svitu
mesfce We vode. w uz sc bl1z1
mrakodrapy, "a chv1li sc vystu-
puje a uj1zd1 k pTlbytkGm pc
"pekne prozitem dnu."
Donna nastava srovnavanf,
KIDD re Sc vice opalil, kazdy 81
vezme sprchu, ably smyl re sebe
sp1nu a mofsky p1sek.
"Ty mas ale cerveny nos,
Milco," pozoruje Karel.
Zach, to mne palejf zada a
nohy," vzdycha Vlasta - ito
Sc Ease budu loupat."
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Belcamp, Md. Odbocka ces.
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