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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-27

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The Literary Guidepost

that anything of this sort has hap
pened in this country: This is an
adventure, to be read only for en-
tertainment, to be disbelieved.'
In the meantime, it makes an
exciting story not only for what
it is but for what it ominously
implies.
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Missouri ranked ninth among
the states in the number of shing
licenses issued during the l943-44
fiscal year, and 18th in hunting Ii
censes, the U. S. Fish and Wildlife
ServiRe reports.
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QUOTATIONS

The main trouble is that most preachers
have avocabulary which is not the language of
the man in the pew.-Dr. W. A. Benfield, Jr.
PRESBYTERIAN Seminary, Louisville, KY.
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Our business machine operates smoothly m
der conditions Of free competitive pricing for
both goods and services, but when that free.
dom must of necessity be suspended it f,nc.
tons badly.-Brig. Gen. Leonard P Avres
Cleveland, Ohio.
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Confessedly, the Gospel of Jesus Christ ha $
in it saving grace, for wherever men have
accepted it, they have realized the Kinodo,, ~
Heaven in their own souls-Marion. Ind.
Chronicle-Tribune. lila"
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If you want to get more meat and have rea-
sonable assurance tn at 1t will be available when
YOU 60 to the store, JOIN the oPA Iii its efforts
r. s+smn out the black market.-Anniston, Ala.
Star.
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Enemy attacks are becoming ever more
violent but let us have absolute faith in the
landings on our ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Suzuki
of Japan.
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The first Coast Guard cu'ls'
was 48-foot sailing vessel
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-08
CHINESE TAKE LASHIO
Indian Troops Are 4 IL Miles
From Mandalay

WITH BRITISH 14TH ARMY IN
CENTRAL BURMA, March 7-U.D
The 18th Indian Division today
swept to within IL miles north
Of Mandalay against lessening op-
position while troops of the Chinese
First Army captured the ancient
section OF the Burma road town of
Lashio and it's adjacent airfield
The 10Th Division, moving south
along the IrraWaddy toward Bur-
mas second city where 10000 Jap.
anese combat troops have been
cut off, advanced IA miles through
hilly country to get into artillery
range. Another British force was
advancing on Mandalay from the
west and was believed less than
20 miles away.
Capture by the Chinese of Lashio,
chief city of the northern Shan
states, cuts the last escape route
for the Mandalay Japanese forces
which comprise the bulk of the
left in Burma. It also
opens up the old Burma Road as
far south as that city to facilitate
early establishment of a second
land route to China, supplementinx
the Stilweu Road.
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British Sea Lord Renems
Pledge To Strike Nippon

LONDON, March 7-tP-Britain
is determined to range her navy
alongside U. S. naval forces in the
Pacific to play "a full and worthy
part in the speedy overthrow of the
Japanese empire" A. V. Alexan-
der, First Lord of the Admiralty,
said in the House of Commons to-
ay.
He said that this would be done
in spite of a renewed threat of a
German U boat offensive that
might require strong British naval
action in Atlantic waters.
His declaration came as London
naval circles denied reports that
British war vessels were likely ia
prove a minor factor in Pacific
naval operations. Without referring
to the reports, Alexander told Com
mons that 1--WE have been steadily
massing forces for the Far East,
with the great fleet train OF sup
ply, accommodation, repair and
amenity ships which they will re-
quire to sustain them
Corporations already conducted"
he said, "are but the beginning OF
the tasks of the British Pacific
fleet and the East Indies fleet,
which will continue to be reinforc-
ed and supplied so that they may
play an ever-growing part in the
defeat of Japan
Asserting that Experiences gain
ed in supporting landings Gin the
European theater) will stand us in
good stead in our united opera
tons against JAPAN the First
Lord stated: "A large share Of the
task of defeating Japan will fall
upon the men of the Royal and
Merchant Navies."
Alexander mentioned the power
full battlesnips Queen Elizabeth and
Valiant and the battle cruiser Re-
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u. S. Seiizes'
Two Towns In
South Luzon
Drive To Clear Entire Is
land Believed Coming
Shortly

MANILA, Thursday, March g.
W.R-Troops Of the 18th Airborne
Division and the 158th Infantry
Regiment have driven south from
Manila to capture the towns OF
Calatagan and Balayan at Bala-
yam Bay, across the Verde island
passage from Mindoro, Gen. Doug
las Macarthur announced today.
Amid signs that powerful
American offensive to clear the
entire island was about to begin,
Macarthur announced that demo-
ition teams of the First Cavalry
and Sixth Divisions had sealed 10
enemy cave strongpoints along the
bitterly defended Antipolo WaWa
line some 10 miles northeast of
Manila. He said counterbattery
fire. had noticeably reduced enemy
artillery and rocket fire in that
area.
The 38th and 43rd Divisions are
completing the combing Of the
Zambales range of mountains
stretching north from Bataan, seek
ing out scattered japanese rem
nants, while other troops are push
ing toward the Japanese noun
tain stronghold of Baugio In north
ern LuZon.
Dispatches said the men Of the
33rd, fighting through the rugged
Benguet mountains. were approach
ing the city limits of Baguio, which
is atop mountains more than $500
feet high. The city area measures
approximately 20 square miles and
the Japanese commander, Gen.
Tomoyuki Yamashita, was report
ed to have his headquarters amid
the luxurious surroundings of the
city, which was the former sum-
mer capital of the Philippines.
Elsewhere on the Luzon front
elements of seven other divisions
were reported regrouping for the
final push to crush the estimated
30, 900 Japanese still on the island.
The main group of about $4,000
was around Baguio. Some $4,000
were in the Sierra Madre noun
tains east of Manila and smaller
groups were in the Zambales noun
tains north of Bataan and in south
ern LuZon
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.B0NOMI ACCORDED
CONFIDENCE VOTE
Long Cabinet Session Is
Guarded By Soldiers
And Two Tanks

ROME, March 7-(P)-Premier
Ivanoe Bonomi weathered his sec
ond political crisis in three months
tonight as the cabinet in an ex-
traordinary session convoked aft
er the riot at the Royal Palace
yesterday, reaffirmed confidence
in the premier who promised a
swift Fascist purge.
The expression of confidence
came after a long session in the
Viminale Palace while rifle-bear-
ing policemen, supported by two
tanks commanding the driveWays
sloping up to the palace, guarded
the ministers.
A Cabinet announcement, issued
as opposition press clamored for
overthrow of the Bonomi regime,
said the four-party coalition gov
eminent ''has agreed there is no
reason for breaking up the coalition
which first planned and already
has begun vast action for inten-
styling the war and lettering
Italy's position in the world"
The decision threatened wide
split in Communist ranks and was
expected to provide more fuel for
a fire which Socialists, Actionists
CnI Ky
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By EDWARD H. HIGGS

WASHINGTON. March 7.-lR)-
Once Allied armies leap the Rhine,
the Germans won't be able to stop
them, military men said today.
Moreover, one authority said
that once bridgehead has been
firmly established and Allied forces
have driven so or SO miles beyond
the Rhine's east bank, it will be
possible to fix date for the end Of
organized German resistance.
At that. point in Germany, the
Allies would be well on the way to-
ward splitting the Western Front in
two and would be tanning out to
pocket any German forces showing
fight.
This optimistic view was based
principally on estimates that the
harassed Germans can place no
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-08
House Passes
Bill To Draft
Single Nurses
Measure Would Offer Com.
missions Before Induc-
ton Into Service

WASHINGTON, March 7.-U.D-
The House, grimly determined that
sick and wounded servicemen will
not wanting for medical at.en-
tion today passed legislation auth
orizing the draft of unmarried nur-
ses 20 through A.
To forestall marriage epidem'
ics" to escape the draft, it stip-
ulated that graduate nurse would
he considered married. only il
she was wed before March IS,
1915.
Passed by a 347-42 vote and re-
ferred to the Senate, the bill was
the Houses answer to President
Rooseyelts rquest for means to
conscript 10000 nurses Immediate
" to offset a shortage in the arm
ed services.
The measure was thoroughly re-
written during two days of debate.
In its present form, Selective Ser
vice boards will have the final say
on which nurses should be taken
for military service and in what
order.
A last minute amendment assur-
ed drafted graduate nurses an op-
portunity to receive, before induc-
ton, commissions of Ensign in the
Navy or second lieutenant in the
Army. If they refused, they could
be drafted as Navy seamen or
Army privates.
Another last-minute change auth
orized commissions for accredited
male nurses, including those al
ready in service.
An attempt to give the volun-
tary recruitment method one last
chance failed when the House de-
feated, 139 to 1873, an amendment
which would have postponed IN
ductions for 30 days while the arm
ed forces intensified their recruit
ing drives.
Passage followed a furry of or
atory over proposal to include
married nurses in the draft. 1t was
rejected amid charges that it
would wreck the American
home"
Debate ended with ADOPTION of
an amendment requiring all nurs-
es 20 to a to register for the draft,
but exempting three categories:
L. Inose married before March
ID Of this year.
:. Those with dependent chill
dren
J. Those having children under
IL years of age.
Inc chamber adopted an amend
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VIII 1O11OWCQ L dCIOll dCl OSS
the Sure, said there was about
a foot of snow on the ground when
We got to the Sure river somewhere
near the meeting place of the Lux
embourg, German and Belgian
borders.
eve learned that we had to take
the town Of Bettendorf on the op-
posite side and do it quickly"
said Defibaugh, a member of the
Fourth Infantry division which
helped relieve the pressure on
Americans trapped at Bastogne by
the German counter-offensive last
December.
1.-The Germans began firing ma
chine guns and artillery at us as
we came up to the river bank, y
continued Deifbaugh, now touring
war plants in the Baltimore area
with other heroes of Bastogne.
"Just before dawn we started go.
ing across in three-man boats. The
river was very swift and cold and
had pieces of ice floating in it.
CATER a while though, General
Patton called the boats back and
ordered the men to swim across
with rifles, bazookas, and every
thing they could carry because
they were sitting pigeons for the
Germans in the boats, sitting two
or three feet out of the water.
HE figured the men would have
a better chance swimming since
they would then present only the
tops of their heads as targets to
the enemy gunners.
ITO show us it could be done and
to inspire the troops, General Pat.
ton jumped into the water and
swan across to the opposite bank,
then swan back. Thousands of
troops followed him.
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Tanks Gain 500 Yards
AgainstEnemyOnhvo
Japs Show No Sign of Cracking AS Marines
Drive Ahead in Hand-to Hand Com
bat; Advances Termed Spotty

U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Guam, Thursday,
March 8-tR-1n hand to hand COM
bat, United States Marines drove
two 500-yard salients Wednesday
into the rocky, intricately fortified
north end of Two but the Japanese
still showed no signs Of cracking
on the 18th day of the invasion.
All three Marine divisions, on
the second day of renewed Of
fensive 10 end the bloody operation,
registered gains but they were spot
ty and officers were not inclined
to regard them as significant.
Enemy resistance continued
heavy.
Adm. Chester w. Nimitz announ-
ced the progress in a commune
que today.
The Nipponese resistance was
fire. There was no reference to
mortar and artillery opposition.
The big gain Wednesday was re-
gistered on the west side by Maj.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-08
Germans Say
All Out Push
Is Under Way
Seven Soviet Armies Re-
ported Moving Toward .
Reich Capital :

LONDON, Thursday, March
-lREThe Russians hurled seven
armies yesterday into an about
frontal offensive towards Berlin
from bridgeheads on the Oder riv-
er 30 to 40 miles to the east, the
Germans announced.
Moscow was officially silent, as
is customary at the start OF ma
jor operation, but unofficial dis
patches from the Soviet capital
limited guardedly that the German
accounts might be substantially
correct.
German broadcasts said the at
tackers, Marshal G. K. Zhukov's
First White Russian Army group,
jumped off after a gigantic 24-hour
artillery barrage and punched into
the outer defenses of Kuestrin, west
bank Oder river fortress which was
under attack from the north, east
and south. Two tank armies were
among Zhukov's forces, these
alarmed announcers said.
A dispatch late last night from
Associated Press Correspondent
Eddy Gilmore in Moscow said
many signs pointed tonight to
early launching OF the about Of
fensive on Berlin" and continued,
1.-The logical place for the first at
front.
'Large-scale scouting operations
have been under way for several
days out of Zhukov's bridgeheads.
These operations, plus the mag
nificant victories in Pomerania, III
which the Russians hurled the Ma
zis to the Baltic and dropped them
off the Oder flank, indicated that
Zhukov may be ready to COM
mence activities"
The Germans said Zhukov's ac-
tivities already had commenced
with roaring offensive that ex-
tended along about 100 miles of the
Oder front but was concentrated
mainly almost directly east Of Ber-
lin.
The Russians officially dealt with
other sectors in their regular COM
munique and in three orders Of the
day by Premier Stain.
One order announced that Zhu-
kov's right wing, which only Tues
day had thrust to the Oder's Bal
tic Sea outlet, had captured Ste
pentz, Gollnow and MassoW. Is
and 20 miles northeast and east OF
Stettin. The communique listed 9TH
er towns captured in that zone
along the Oder's east bank and the
Stettiner Half Qagoon from Is
miles northeast of Stettin north
ward to the sea, a distance Of IS
miles.
Stettin, Berlin's outlet to the Bal
tic, thus was placed in increasing
ly grave danger and had lost much
of its importance as an outer cita-
del for the capital.
Another Stain order announced
that the Second White Russian Ar
my had captured Starogard, Is
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Gen. Keller E. Rockney's Fifth
Marine Division.
Maj. Gen. Graves B. Erskine's
Third Marine Division also punch
ed ahead in the center where the
Leathernecks are getting into po-
sition to cut the Nipponese gar
rison in two.
Maj. Gen. Clifton B. Gates
Fourth Marine Division scored
gains up to 200 yards.
Reports received at headquarters
were vague as to the specific To-
cations of the new gains.
The progress was stepped up
over that of Tuesday when the
about offensive to crush the last
Japanese organized resistance was
opened. Tuesday gains were
measured in meager yards.
Carrier planes continued to neu-
tralize Japanese bases in the 3D.
nins north of Two, hitting Chichi
and Haha with rockets and bombs.
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
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END IS SIGHTED
IN FLOOD THREAT
Colder Weather Puts End
To Heavy Rains;
Crest Rising

CINCINNATI, o., March 7-Rl
Flood waters of Midwestern rivers
principally the historically men
acing Ohio-grew deeper tonight,
but the end Of the valleys great
est wartime flood threat was in
sight.
The Ohio apparently reached a
crest of 69.2 feet here tonight, 17.2
feet above flood stage and the
Weather Bureau said no further
rise was 10 be expected barring
further rain although no fall was
indicated for at least "a hours.
Forecasters predicted crests OF
from Is to 20 feet above flood stage
would be reached tomorrow all
along the river and its tributaries
as colder weather put an end to
heavy rains.
THE crest here was approximate
ly 10 feet below the record Level
in 1897 when there was more than
half billion dollars worth OF
damage.
Thousands of families along a
! .OOO-mile stretch of loWlands scu--
lied to higher ground and war pro,
duction staggered under reduced
operations.
AT least lives were lost ana
the property loss was believed to
be in the millions.
Western Pennsylvania had It's
worst flood in eight years as the
Monongahela and Allegheny spew-
ed muddy flood waters out OF banks
and forced hundreds OF families
from their homes.
The crest at the confluence OF
the two rivers in Pittsburgh
where the Ohio comes to life-Was
expected to be 80 TO "a feet to-
night or tomorrow.
The river town of Portsmouth,
Ohio had the Ohio hanging on its
neck like the Sword OF Damocles--
with only a thin thread of con
crete and sandbags keeping water
from the business district. A g.
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nown, as being among other YES
sels'' ready for action in the Far
East.
In London, naval men counter
ed reports that the British fleet
was likely to prove an impotent
factor in the Pacific because of
lack of speed with the assertion
that the Royal Navy has both bat
tleships and carriers in those wa
tiers capable of matching Ameri-
can warships.
Regarding the threat in the At
lantic, Alexander said the Germans
were making great efforts to re-
new U-boat warfare on big scale
which he contended shows that
they still consider it to be their
chest hope of averting defeat
against a nation which lives by
seaborne supplies"
These efforts, he cautioned, prob
ably will result in the appearance
of new types of German subma-
rines. And with improved equip
ment, he said, eve may be sure
they will develop new tactics"
Meanwhile, alexander declared,
the number of U-boats being sunk
Continues to increase SATISFACTORY
1y."
In the House of Lords, Admiral
of the Fleet Lord Chatfield urged
a special government investigation
at the "earliest practicable mo-
ment" of the organization and ad-
ministration of imperial defense
ito. safeguard the empire against
future unreadiness for war
"You must not think that be-
cause you have Dumbarton Oaks
or San Francisco behind you that
you are all right he cautioned.
1--WE have to have defense policy
that takes into account not only
international agreements but our
physical dangers"
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RALEIGH, March 7.-P)-A bill
to create State Ports Authority
to have charge of present port
facilities and to promote the ex-
pansion of traffic by water, was in
t. luced in the House late today
by Rep. LeGrand of New Hanover.
The authority would be composed
of seven members to be appointed
by the Governor. One member
would come from Carteret county,
another from New Hanover, and
one from Brunswick. The other
four would be named from other
counties at Random. Members
would serve staggered terms, with
the first three being named for
six years, two of the latter group
for four years and two for three.
Members would serve without
pay, but secretary would be paid
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Foe Staggers
In Chaos AS
Defense Lays.
Third Army Covers IS
Miles In So Hours For
Fastest Offensive

PARIS, Thursday, March 8-P)-
Tanks of the American Third Ar
my stormed up to the west bank
of the Rhine northwest of Coblenz
last night, having plunged more
than so miles inside Germany in
whirlwind advance that sent the
enemy Keeling in chaotic defeat.
The German collapse on the
Third Army front, started by the
Fourth Armored Divisions break
through at Bitburg three days ago,
soon developed into rout with
other units of the Third Army plum
ging eastward and the First Army
swinging southwark after the cap
ture of Cologne.
It was the Ardennes break
through in reverse. The Germans
obviously had nothing with which
to prevent the American sweep
from enveloping Coblenz and Bonn.
Dispatches said there actually
was no semblance Of front in
the Third Army sector.
Virtually all resistance had been
overwhelmed and the German
troops appeared concerned only
with retreating to safety or sur
rendering as quickly as possible.
Masses of Nazi equipment were de-
troyed and supply dumps were cap
tured so rapidly that the loot had
not been evaluated.
The Fourth Armored Division
reached the river just northwest of
Coblenz in a drive which carried
% miles in II hours. In its greatest
surge since Normandy, the Third
Army had covered IS miles in So
hours, making the Western Allies
retreat and offered but little re-
sistance as 1t. Gen. George S. Pat
toms men rolled through town af-
ter town and streaked past thou
sands of prisoners, captured in
such numbers they all could not
be chaperoned to the rear.
To the north, the U. S. First
Army struck southwark along the
Rhine's west bank from captured
Cologne to a point only two miles
from Bonn, the First and Third Ar
mics together having formed in the
past week the greatest Allied
breakthrough since st. Lo.
The Allied prisoner bag on the
Western Front scared past the one
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