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MRS. PEARL M. GILLETTE

MhS. FEAhL NJ. OlLLExl6
Funeral services for Mrs. Pearl
Marine Gillette, SO, wife of Col.
George w. Gillette, former Will
mington district Army Engineer
and now commander of the Engi-
neering Training section at Fort
Lewis, Washington, were incom.
plete last night pending the arriv-
al in Charlotte of daughter and
son.
Mrs. Gillette, who died Satur.
day, had been in declining health
for sometime.
A member of an old Eastern
North Carolina family, she was
born in Onslow county, the daugh-
ter of the late Mr.. and Mrs. Wyler
N. Marine. She had lived in On
slow county and Wilmington the
greater part Of her life.
She is survived by ner husband;
one son, Lieut.. George w. Gillette,
Jr., USNR, now stationed in Bos-
ton; one daughter, Mrs. John A.
Miller, of Austin, Texas, the wife
Of a major serving overseas with
the Corps of Engineers; three Sis
tiers, Mrs. L. H. Harrison, of
Southport; Miss Daisy Marine, of
Wilmington, and Mrs. Lewis Kill
patrick, of Kinston; half-sister,
Mrs. T. H. Wilson, of Tasmania,
Australia; and two brothers, Capt.
Walter N. Marine, of Masonboro
Sound and F. W. Marine, Of Jack
sonville.
The body will remain at the Ho'
Wis funeral home, in Charlotte, I'M
til arrangements for funeral serv'
ices and burial are completed.
Col. Gillette, also a native OF
Onslow county, assumed his duties
at Fort Lewis last month, going
there from Boston, where he was
Division engineer for the New
England area. Previous to thai he
assisted in organizing the Engi-
neering Training center at Fort
Belvoir, Va.
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JAPAN IS WARNED
OF COMING BATTLE
CONTINUED from Page One)

ferred to possible additional Jap
anese operations in that area.
The premier spoke of reckless
enemy advances in the Philip
pines and on Two lima and said
American air raids, by Superfort-
resses and carrier-based planes,
on the japanese homeland, had
reached 'serious proportions"
But, he added, his government
would speedily adopt bold meas
ures" to meet the situation.
Koiso said Judging from past
enemy strategy of reckless ad-
vance on the basis of material
superiority, the enemy may in the
near future start a blind direct
advance to our mainland in his
desperate effort to end the war
as soon as possible" An invasion
of Japan proper, he said would
be 1.-The God-sent opportunity Tor
the decisive battle.
eff the enemy should invade
waters near OuI lIld1AAAo1Ao we w"
crush him on the sea. If he should
attempt to land we will intercept
him at the waters edge and drive
him back into the sea. If ne
should finly succeed in landing
we will annihilate him with sledge-
hammer blows.
Geographical advantage will
be with our side because the battle
will be fought on our home
ground. There will be solid unity
among us.
what is more we can count
upon the brilliant strategy of cur
high command and the grim de-
termination of our officers and
men to defend the country to the
last.
II am more than confident that
we will never allow the enemy
to stay on our sacred mttherland
alive"
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 11.-(R)
Fleet Admiral Chester w. Nimitz
today said the time is almost at
hand when the Japanese will be
unable to operate any shipping
whatever to the Netherlands East
Indies or to their holdings on the
South China Sea-"
American submarines are oper-
ating freely along the China coast
now and "our fleet is approaching
the extreme westward part OF the
Pacific Ocean"
The admiral made the state
ments at press conference here
after his daughter, Mary, had
christened the USS Buck at a de-
stroyer launching at Bethlehem.
The United States Fleet has TAX
en- command of the sea and can 60
where it needs to go, but the JAP
anese still have their Asiatic con-
tinent land lines and their Army
is 80 per cent intact, Ninnitz said,
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WORLD FOOD PACT
NEAR COMPLETION

WASHINGTON, March 11.-tR-
Ratification by only two more ma
tons is needed to put into opera
ton the food and agriculture or
ganization of the United Nations,
Canadian Ambassador L. B. Pear
son revealed today.
Pearson, chairman Of the Unit
ed Nations Interim Commission on
Food and Agriculture, which was
formed at the Hot Springs Va.)
international food conference in
1943 and authorized to draw up a
constitution and tentative program
for the new organization, said 18
nations had officially agreed to &C
cept the plan. $50. 49,
Twenty acceptances are needed
to bring the constitution into force.
Nations which have accepted
Australia, Belgium, China,
Czechoslovakia, Dominican Re
public, Egypt, Guatemala, Haiti,
Honduras, Iceland, India, Mexico,
Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway,
Philippines, Poland and the Unit
ed Kingdom.
Acceptance for Poland came
from the Polish government in ex-
lie in London, Pearson told a ques-
toner. He added: This occurred
last October"
The plan has not yet been SUBJ
mitted to the Congress of the
United States for approval, al
though President Roosevelt indi-
Gated in his February 2 message
on the Breton Woods proposals
that it soon will. be.
Pearson said action is pending
in "a number of other countries. "
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OBITU A RIES

ty bar, county and town officials
served as honorary pallbearers.
Mr.. Greer is survived by his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jackson
Greer; his, widow, Mrs. Madge
Heath Greer; a son, Jackson Greer
III; three sisters, Mrs. Gladys G.
Wooten and Mrs. George c. Green,
of Whiteville, and Mrs. Johnny
candy, Of Wilmington, and four
brothers, Charles L., Of Castle
Hayne, Pvt. William w. Greer,
with the U. S. Army in China,
Francis B., Of Whiteville, and Sgt.
Max N. Greer, U. S. Army.
Mayor Greer served as a cap
tain in the U. S. Army until two
years ago, when he was honorably
discharged.
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Indians Tighten Grip
On Mandalay Bastion

Meiktila cuts all Japanese escape
routes to the south, leaving them
only torturous routes to the east
toward Thailand and Indo-China.
There are no east-west roads
capable of carrying 'vehicular
traffic between Mandalay and
Meiktila and the enemy troops
caught in the Pakkoku-Meiktila-
Mandalay triangle now face the
choice of surrendering, suicide
fight or Of abandoning their equip
ment for the long trek over for
bidding mountain terrain towards
Thailand.
In Mandalay some $4,000 Japa-
nese troops were putting up fanati-
cal resistance. Allied forces hold
Mandalay hill, key defense posi-
ton at the northeast corner OF
Fort Dufferin and fighting was re-
ported on three sides of the bastion.
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CALCUTTA, March IL R =
Veteran troops OF the Indian 18th
Division have frightened their grip
on Fort Dufferin inside Manda1ay,
the Southeast Asia Command an
nounced today.
At the same time, headquarters
disclosed the British 36th Division
had captured Mongmit. 90 miles
northeast of Mandalay, threaten
ing japanese escape routes to the
east.
An additional threat to the Sapa'
nese were Chinese troops tanning
west, south and east from Lashio,
14O miles northeast Of Mandalay
at the head of the old Burma
Road.
British and Indian troops south
of Mandalay in the Meiktila area
increased their hold on the vital
Thai railway. The capture OF
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The crops are coming along good
that was the picture painted yes
terday by County Farm Agent R.
W. Galphin, but all is not velvet,
with the final outcome in the hands
of the weatherman and the will
ingness Of people to help the farm
er.
Although Thursday nights cool
weather checked the crops from
growing somewhat, no damage
was done, Galphin said. Lettuce,
which was the farmers big seller
last year. is coming along well,
and more has been planted. and
it will again be the big crop. The
salad crops, such as .turnips, are
doing good throughout the coun-
ty, and carrots, radishes and some
onions are coming up. Beans will
be planted the latter part of the
month.
Truck crops will not be as abun-
dant as last year, Galphin stated,
because Of the low OPA ceiling.
The farmer planted more lettuce
this year, the farm agent said, be-
cause it sold at the ceiling last
year. more heads of lettuce were
cut per acre last year." Galphin
added, than in all the eight years
I have been here" The bean crop
will most likely be cut, because
Of the low ceiling, the agent said.
More squash will probably be plant
ed as fairly good price was OBJ
tanned fo- it last year.
Farm labor will be a little
tighter this year, Galphin said
because of the continual drain on
manpower. Womanpower seems te
be more abundant than last year,
however. Women seem to work bet.
ter before Easter, the farm agent
added, perhaps to get money fol-
the holiday, and Easter will be
about two weeks early this year
During the fall harvest season Of
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MRS. LUCY M. WATKINS

CHADBOURN, March 11.-Fu-
neral services for Mrs. Lucy Mae
Watkins, wife of Pete Watkins, S
&c, who died Thursday in Thomp-
son Memorial hospital, were held
at p. m. yesterday from Clark
ton Presbyterian church by the
Rev. J. w. Miller, of Clarkton,
assisted by the Rev.. A. T. Pea
cock Of Chadbourn. Interment
followed in the Clarkton ceme-
terry.
Mrs. Watkins is survived by her
husband, eNo sons, Jerry Watkins
and Jimmy Watkins; her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. R. L. Gooden, of
Clarkton; three brothers, Private
Leroy Gooden, of Buffalo, N. Y,
Staff Sergeant w. D. Gooden, U. S.
Army, overseas, and Alfred Good
en-, Of Clarkton; ana one sister,
Mrs. Joe Tuberville, Cerro Gordo.
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WILLIAM G. FAULK

LUMBERTON, March 11.-Fun-
eral services for William G. Faux,
40, farmer of Route 2, Fairmont,
who died Friday, were held to-
day at the residence by the Rev.
C. P. Herring, pastor of the Fair
mont Baptist church. Burial was
in the family cemetery.
Mr.. Faulk is survived by his
widow, the former Miss Lillian
Dozier, of Southport; a son, Will
lam G. Faulk, Jr., of Fairmont;
a daughter, Mrs. jeff Simpson, Of
Chesterfield; a grandson, J. T.
Simpson, Jr., and three sisters,
Mrs. Rosa Williams and Mrs. J.
N. Grantham, of Fairmont, and
Mrs. 'Sallie Faulk, of Maxton.
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NAZIS SPOIL A STORY

NEWBURYPORT, Mass, March
IL WD When Arthur Coffey
fought in France during World
War T, he used to scribble his
name on barn doors. Recently his
brother Ernest wrote from a
French hospital that he had seen
Arthur's name on a barn, ducked
inside to have a look, then heard
enemy planes overhead. THE
barn was blown sky-high and here
am" Ernest concluded.
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BUNDLES AID GIs

BOSTON,, March II. - W.H -
Bundles for Americas New Eng
lend distribution depot recently
received an emergency request
from a group of servicemen just
returned from the South Pacific.
Shlvering in near-zero weather,
the men were soon supplied with
what they wanted most-sWeaters,
scarfs and gloves.
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HERO MARRIED

LOS ANGELES, March 11-RE
Marine Sgt. Douglas Bogue, one of
five who escaped the Japanese
prison camp massacre of $50 Amer
leans on Palawan Island in the
Philippines, and Miss Betty Wear
ing, both of Los Angeles, were
married yesterday by DR.. o. M.
Kellison at Wiltshire Christian
church. They plan a wedding trip
to Salt Lake City.
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NEGOTIATIONS DEN,rn

VATICAN CITY, March II Dcp
Inc Vatican press office TODAY d.
MED a report published in the Pom w.
press quoting authoritativ. Hnl,,
See quarters as saying negotiation,
now were in progress for an ,r. s,.S
with Soviet Russia, 'u
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MAYOR JACKSON GREER

Funeral services for jackson
Greer, Jr., 81, mayor Of White
Vile and prominent attorney, were
held at p. m. yesterday from the
Mckenzie chapel here. The serv-
vices were in charge of the Amer.
lean Legion. Members of the coun-
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MOTHER OF 3 GETS DEGREE

MEDFORD, Mass, March IL
U.D-Mrs. Marjorie H. Skillin of
Medford received a college degree
from Tufts college recently. In
Like the other seniors graduating,
Mrs. Skillin had youthful audi
ence looking on-her three young
children.
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ROBERT A, BENNETT

SHALLOTTE, March 11.-Funer-
al services for Robert A. Bennett,
70, who died Saturday at his home
near Shallotte, were held today
from the residence by the Rev.
Tom johnson. Burial was in the
Bennett cemetery.
Surviving Mr.. Bennett are his
widow, Mrs. Emma Bennett; three
daughters, Miss Viola Bennett,
Mrs. j. D. Mears and Mrs. K. O..
Causey; and two sons, Bryan
Bennett and r. B. Bennett, all of
Shallotte.
Pallbearers were Grant Gore, j.
McLamb, Lloyd Mclamb, Harry
Bennett, Dick Causey and Bobby
Summerset.
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MRS. SUE ANNA MILLER

TABOR CITY, March H. Mrs.
Sue Anna Miller, Is, died Satur-
day afternoon at the home Of her
son, R. B. Miller, of Whiteville.
She is survived by one other
son, Eddie Miller, Of Delco; two
brothers, F. E., Of Tabor City and
Austin Cox, Of Chadbourn; and 10
grandchildren.
Funeral services were held to-
day at the Lebanon Methodist
church with the Rev. J. F. Coble,
officiating. Burial was in the Lee
banon cemetery.
EDGAR M. KEITH
ROCKY POINT, March led
gar Matthew Keith, So, of Rocky
Point. died this morning at the
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BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-26
Graduates As Ensign

The following Wyandotte man
graduated this week as Ensign in
the u. S. Maritime Service from
the Licensed Officers School at
Fort Trumbull, New London, Con-
necticut; it was announced today
by Ensign Robert Schrecengost, De-
troit Enrolling Officer for the Mar
thine Service.
Graduating as Licensed Engineer
Officer was Ensign James N. Crise,
USMS, sic Vinewood avenue, His
parents are Mr.. and Mrs. E. H.
Ringler. Ensign Crice wears the At
lantic and Pacific War Zone Bars.
According to Ensign Schrecengost
there is an acute shortage of rner-
chant Seamen. He urges that all
men who are interested In enlist
ing !. this branch of the service,
please contact the U. S. Maritime
Service Enrolling Office, Room Ill,
Federal Building, Detroit.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-26
Florence, Italy
Study Center
Opens for els

Complete with examinations and
''cram sessions, the University
Study Center at Florence, Italy,
has been set up for troops await
ing redeployment to the United
States or other theaters of oper-
atoms.
The first CT university overseas
to operate on a full-time basis is
open to all army personnel who
have made a grade of los or more
on the Army General Classification
Test; high school graduates, or
those who have attended college.
Dedicated on July 9, an enrolment
Of 1000 Is expected by September /.
The student body is made up of
WACs, nurses, officers and enlisted
men and the university will follow
the plan Of American Universities
in setting up student government
with an advisory board and student
council selected by the students.
Each of the 48 states and the Dis
trict of Columbia are represented
at the University and the students
have made their choices from a
course of study which includes 81
courses ranging from Agriculture
to Sociology, Shakespeare to Beef
Production. Business Administrator
is the most popular of all courses
offered with 923 students enrolled.
All textbooks are furnished the
students and the city of Florence
itself furnishes much material for
study with it's wealth of Renais-
sance culture.
Some of the nine buildings occu-
pied by the University have been
renamed Harvard Hall, Duke Hall,
Yale Hall, Stanford Hall, and Cor
nell Field House. Other facilities
include a theater, chapel, discus
sion center, library, swimming pool,
riding stable and Red Cross and
social center.
Soldiers can enroll in the Uni
versity without any fear that it will
delay their return home. If stu
dents outfit is alerted for ship
ment back to the States, or if he
becomes eligible for discharge, he
will be Immediately released.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-26
1t. III. LOeffler
Awarded Bronze
Star On LuzOn
Former Sergeant Gets
Battle Field Commission
in Action Against Japs

WITH THE SIXTH ARMY ON
LUZON: For meritorious achieve
ment in connection with a military
operation, Second Lieutenant Har-
old v. Loeffler, nephew of William
Nicholas, 70 Walnut street, Wyan-
dotte, has been awarded the Bronze
Star Medal by General Walter
Kruger, commanding general,
Sixth Army.
1t. Loeffler was in charge of con-
structing a supply road, which was
made over step terrain. The work
was done under sniper fire and dur
ing the construction a Jap was
killed within 20 feet of where the
officer was standing. At times he
personally operated bulldozer to
help speed the construction of the
important road, in which the work
was delayed several times by rain.
He is part of the 1279th Engi-
neer Combat Battalion, veterans of
five major campaigns. He has par
ticipated in two D Day landings
with the Engineers on Luzon, COM
ing in to Lingayen gulf in the ini-
tial beach and then landing at Le-
gaSpi, seaport town in Southern
Luzon, as supporting elements of
the 158th Regimental Combat team.
Formerly a staff sergeant, 1t.
Loeffler was recently commissioned
on the battlefield by General Krue-
ger. He has been overseas for the
past "a months.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-26
COAL SIZES

COAL SIZES
Buckwheat or rice coal can be
used efficiently in domestic heat
ing with an automatic coal stoker.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-26
Attends Radio School

Technical Sergeant David Coax
ley, son OF Mrs. Milton Winnie of
Riverside drive, Trenton. is now
at Scott Field Army Air Forces
Training Command radio school.
A veteran of the Mediterranean
theater Of war, Sgt. Coakley went
overseas in September of 1914 as
a radio gunner on a B-24 Liberator
Bomber and flew IS missions.
AT the school where he is sta
toned now, he will be given an
opportunity to study new types
Of communication equipment and
procedures, developed since his
original training to help him pass
on to Radio-man.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-26
BerkIich Graduate
as Navigator

HONDO ARMY AIR FIELD,
HONDO, Textile curtain came
down July 81 on three years of
mountaineering wartime navigation
training as this AAF Training Com
mand airbase awarded wings and
commissions to its final graduating
class of combat navigators.
Principal speaker for the gradu-
alton was 1t. Col. Virgil NJ. Cloyd,
Jr.. veteran B-29 pilot of Waco,
Texas, who recently returned from
combat duty in the China-Burma-
India theater.
The new flying officers are
stepped in the knowledge of maps,
navigational charts, radio naviga-
ton, the stars, driftmeters and
countless other items of combat
lore and equipment with which
Americas navigators chart their
course on bombing missions over
vast reaches of the Pacific Ocean.
They learned their skill under 9TH
er young Americans who are COM
bat returnees from every theater
in the world. w
The graduates now await assign
ment. Those who took the course
as cadets received commissions as
second lieutenantS or appointments
as flight officers.
Among the graduates from the
Hondo army air field was Second
Lieutenant Walter Berklich, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Berklich of
Detroit and husband of Kathryn
Berklich. who makes her home at
488 Spruce street, Wyandotte.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-26
Representative Added to Local
USES Office for Vet COunselling
Francis B. Hogan. World War II Veteran. to Aid
Solution of Employment Personal Problems

Downriver veterans who apply
for jobs at the United States EN-
ployment Service may receive aid
and counselling from Francis B.
Hogan, 32-year-old World War II
veteran, who has been appointed
Veterans Employment Representa-
tive in the Wyandotte office, Roy
w. Straight, Local office Manager
announced.
This appointment has been made
in line with similar appointments
throughout the state in connection
with the expanded job counseling
and placement service of the War
Manpower Commission and the
USES for veterans Of all wars.
Hogan saw service in the u. S.
Army until honorably discharged
in November, 1943. He entered the
United States Employment Service
as an interviewer that same month
and has been interested in the
placement problems of veterans, es-
pecially youthful, newly returned
veterans with little or no employ
ment experience prior to their en-
trance into the armed forces.
The VINO reports that Hogan is
well fitted by temperament and
experience to promote the interest
of veterans in the 'downriver COM
munitieS and aid in solving the
many personal problems that will
be presented in the effort Of veter-
ans to adjust themselves to new
circumstances. His background in
cludes experience as an employment
manager for a pulp and lumber
company in Tomahawk, Wis, where
he was born. He did all of the hir-
ing, timekeeping and payroll work
there and the USES office reports
that "hiS experience has always
been in jobs which neceSSitated
meeting and dealing with people"
/ Edward L. CuShman, State Direc-
tor of the VINO and the USES in
announcing these appointments
emphasized that service to veterans
is a first responsibility of each unit
of the local USES offices concerned
with registration for work, coun-
selling, referral of workers to jobs,
and development of job openings
and the Veterans Employment
Representative will assist the man
ager in supervising these functions.
I'm addition" Cushman said, "the
Veterans Employment Representa-
tivtN will be the major point of con-
tact with veterans organizations,
employers, trade associations, labor
unions, and other immunity
groups with whom USES will CO.
operate in placement Of veterans.
Every effort will be made" he
continued, ito help the men and
women who have fought for us to
make prompt and satisfactory oc-
cupational adjustment on their re-
turn to civilian life"
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-26
EcOrse Marine
Serves auth Z
"Wolfpack'' Unit

Ell CENTRIC, CALF, July 26-
After action on the doorstep of ia
pan aboard a Navy Essex class car
rier, Marine Technical Sergeant Jo-
seph Simo, q. of Ecorse, has re-
turned to the Marine Corps Air
Station here for furlough and re-
assignment. He served as a mocha
mic with the "Wolfpack", a Marine
fighter squadron which flew with
Vice Admiral Marc A. MitScher's
Task Force So in strikes against the
Jap homeland and fleet targets.
Repairing and servicing the gull
winged Corsairs in storms of ty-
phoon intensity, and with the con-
slant danger of Jap KamikaZe at
tacks, the Eoorse Leatherneck con-
tributed to his squadron's amazing
record of IT'S Jap planes destroyed
or damaged. Enemy shipping total
ling 10000 tons was destroyed or
damaged by the "Wolfpack.
Their planes took part in the
first carrier-based raids over To-
kyo last February. They supported
troop landings on Two Jima and
Okinawa, and blasted enemy tar
gets in KyuShu, Honshu, Amani
o Shima, and other bases in the
RuykyuS. They attacked the Jap
fleet in the East China Sea.
Sergeant Sino is the son of Mr..
and Mrs. Paul Simo of 4517 Ninth
street, Ecorse. His wife, the former
Pauline R. Riegel, and their ten
months-old son, Joseph Glen, live
at 333 w. Ortega, Santa Barbara,
California.