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Col. Hans c. Adamson
Wins Legion OF Merit

NEW YORK, Nov. 70 (A9 -
Col. Hans C. Adamson, who re-
Gently retired from the Army Air
Forces, has been awarded the Lee
gion of Merit for his service as
chief of personnel narrative of air
intelligence, it was announced to-
day.
Col. Adamson was one of group
of fliers, including Capt Eddie
Rickenbacker, who spent "a days
on life RATS after their Army
bomber went down in the Pacific
in 1912.
The Colonel was on leave as as
sistant to the president of the
American Museum of Natural His
tory during his military service.
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WANTED - COAL OR WOOD HEAT
ers Heatrolas and Oil Heaters. Highest
prices paid Dial 5128 H. Berger g. Son
Furniture Co., 707 North 4th st
WANT TO BUY FIVE THOUSAND
pounds best peanuts and fifty kegs
salt mullet-quote lowest price and
grade in first letter. F. M. Higgins,
Little Rock, S. c.
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Muse NJ. with Ford Locktite' s,,ineles
A Az ~? Just lock but Ford Locktite. :"
Lumhex a.llerence. Dial 4347. McIver
/ N'Aoef Co.. 2ll N. Sixth.
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ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE

ADvI1NlS hAIHIA NOIICE
Have qualified as Administrative of the
estate of w. M. Spaulding deceased, late
of New Hanover County, North Carolina
This is to notify all persons having
claims against the estate of said deceased
to exhibit them to the undersigned on OF
before the 23rd day of October, 1916 OF
this notice will be plead in bar of their
recovery.
All persons indebted to said estate will
pleae make immediate payment.
This the 22nd day of October. 1945.
MRS. C. SPALDING,
Box 800. Rt. 2. Wilmington, N. c.
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cANADA-BoRN Bertha Demers, 20.
is shown in White Plains, N. Y,
after she had signed a statement,
according to District Attorney +. T.
Gallager, admitting that she shot
and killed Walter ]. Robichaud,
painting contractor. Held on q
charge of first-degree murder, she
stated she shot Robichaud when he
tried to end their nine-year rela-
tonship. (Internationul)
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RECORDER OPPOSES
PAY FIXING MOVE
Says County Seeking Pow
er To Set Elective Of
ficers' Salaries

Recorder H. Winfield Smith, who
has advocated pay increases for
himself and the solicitor of re-
corder's court, went on record yes
terday opposing what he called a
county movement to secure full
power to set elective officers sal
aries in any amount they see fit. y
The new county movement was
described as one to ''strike out
the limitation clause" in the 1941
act, which gave the New Hanover
Board of County Commissioners
the authority to raise or lower sal
aries within definite bounds.
In setting out his objections to
Rep. J. @. LeGrand, the judge
of recorders court said he feared
that control over salaries of cleo
tive officials by the board of coun-
ty commissioners would lead future
boards to believe they should
Continued on Pave Five, Col. 81
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TRANSFER OF SEA,
AIR POWER SLATED
Plans Made For Movement
To Far East As Soon
AS Nazis Beaten

LONDON, Feb. 10 UP) DE.
tailed blueprints already have beer
drawn for a mass transfer of Brit
ish land, sea and air power to the
| far east the moment Germany has
been defeated, it was learned to-
night.
The transfer of sea power al
ready has reached the point where
most of the Royal Nays newest
and most powerful striking units
aside from those retained &c
guard the convoy route to MIR.
mansk-have joined either the East
Indies Fleet Commanded by Adm
Sir A. ]. Power or the newlytorr-
ed eastern fleet under Adm. Sir
Bruce Fraser.
The fall of Germany will be the
starting signal for what one in
formed source called 1.-The biggest
removal job in military history. -
1t was learned that Britain's
military planners already have fig
ured the exact number of divisions
they will be able to use against Jap
an, the number of heavy bomber
plane squadrons to be sent, and
even where the bombers will be
based.
It is logical to assume, however,
that British forces who have been
under fire on the continent will be
given a reasonable home leave. IS
sued new equipment and trained In
jungle and possibly amphlblous
warfare before going to the Far
East.
1t is generally recognized mere
that British forces will be employ
ed who ever high command strate-
gy directs. To date, many BRUSH
regiments, plus the 36th DIVISION
two African divisions, and AZ IN
dian regiments, have been ldentl-
fled as part of Adm. Lord Louis
Mountbatten 18th army which is
spearheading the present British
ground drive in Burma under 1t.
Gen. Sir William Slim.
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National Housing Body Sets Pattern
For Disposal OF Surplus War Homes

The. Wilmington projects were
built under the supervision of the
Housing Authority of the City Of
Wilmington, which now. operates
them. The authority has recon.
mended an overall disposition plar
to Federal Public Housing Author
ity, an MIA constituent agency. II
provides:
Cd Acquisition of Hillcrest, 216
unit project for Negroes built al
cost of 1854, 900, by the authority
for loW-rent housing.
(2) Sale of Lake Forest, a 1859
unit white project on Greenfield
Lake built at an overall cost Of
SO, 521.000, to private owners.
80 Removal of 800 demountable
units in Maffitt Village and razins
of the remaining 2606 family units
and 1856 dormitory units. Maffitt
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POSSIBILITY RAISED
Provisions Would Be Tim
ed With Major Military
Setback OF Foe
BY ALEX SINGLETON

LONDON, Feb. 10.-CP)-The Big
Three, in a move to eliminate Ma
Ii Propaganda Minister JOSEPH
Goebbels dire interpretations Of
unconditional surrender, may soor
lay down the first specific state
ment of the price the German peo
pie must pay for ten years of MAJ.
militarism.
This possibility was raised il
both British and American quar-
tiers today with the prediction thai
d formal outline of surrender pro
visions would be timed to coincide
with major military setback for
the Germans.
Time Uncertain
Just when this will be remain.
ed uncertain, but its importance
was reflected in unofficial reports
that the Allied leaders turned their
attention to victory terms soon at
ter completing military discussions
at their BlackSea conference.
The likelihood that these reports
were well-founded was strengthen
ed by indications that the meet
ing somewhere in the Black Sea
are, attended by one of the great
est arrays of diplomatic experts
since the Versailles peace parley,
already has lasted longer than was
originally scheduled. There w s
some speculation that the an
awaited a new mill
tary development. ..-.
In London, it was believed that
the difficulty of finding a formula
to break Volkssturm resistance OF
the Aachen pattern has conferred
on two points:
l. Russia's reported plan to use
forced German labor to rebuild CT
ties ruined by German forces, just
as the Germans themselves used
slave labor from all over Europe
in their years of triumph. Neither
Britain nor the United States want
such forced labor for their own
use. "
2.Whether Germany's industrial
machine should be dismatled COM
Continued on Page Five. Col. ~
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WASHINGTON, Feb. TO- R -
Meats may virtually disappear
from civilian markets by mid
summer government food officials
predicted today. The forecast &C
companied new steps to divert the
larger portion of current produc-
ton into war stocks.
Civilian supplies could be ex-
pected, however, to reappear when
fall marketings of livestock begin
their normal increase.
Three factors are involved: I'm
expectedly smaller total meat pro-
duction; the sharp drop in live
stock marketing which normally
occurs in spring and summer; and
the combination Of those factors
which may leave the government
unable to satisfy its wants before
hand and get out of the market
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CRAMP SHIPYARD
hit BY STOPPAGE
Crane Operators, Members
OF Clio Union, Fail To
Report For Work

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 10.-(P)-
Crane operators failed to report
tor work today at the Cramp Ship
Building company shipyard here
and President Harry E. Rossell
sald the stoppage caused all opera
IONS requiring cranes to be halt
ed.
The operators are members of
Local AZ, United Marine and Ship
Guiding Workers, (CIO). A spokes-
man said the stoppage was prompt
ca because foreman holds a hos
ule attitude towards union activi-
1ossell said the company has
.eceNed no complaint about the
fireman. NORMALLY we should be
, ave 10 obtain from union officials
NiOFmaton concerning the nature
"Oh'ihued on Page Two, Col. p
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JAPAN'S PREMIER
CHANGES CABINET
Stakes Shakeup To Quiet
Rising Criticism OF
War Programs
(By The Associated Press

japanese premier Kuniakl Kolso
shook up his cabinet Saturday ap-
parently to quiet rising criticism
of the nations war production
and labor mobilization programs.
Radio Tokyo broadcasts, record
ed by the FEC. told of the cabinets
reshuffle affecting two posts close
ly linked with the munitions minis
try in frantic efforts to mobilize
manpower for war production.
Welfare Minister Hisataka Hirose
was replaced by Katsuroky Aka
wa. the vice minister.
Education minister Harushige Nj
nomiya gave way to Count Hldeo
Kodama, state minister without
portfolio.
Chief cabinet secretary Taxed
Tanaka was replaced by Hirose.
The latter automatically became a
member of the house of peers.
With the war going against ia
pan, especially in the Philippines,
there have been rumblings against
Premier Koiso. Criticisms IN con-
nection with war production were
underscored during the recent SEES
sion of the imperial diet when the
powerful imperial rule assistance
association demanded that kolso
call special session on the SUD-
ject.
When Hirose took office as vel
fare minister he said his prime
problem was the mobilization OF
labor services to break through the
tight situation of the war in which
we stand and the successful at
tainment of increased production
The criticisms indicate Hlrose
failed in MODELLING workers for
war production. Yet the japanese
agency Domei, speaking OF MS
fro,+;puad on Page Five, Col. 81
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Village, located near the North
Carolina Shipbuilding Company's
yard, was built at an overall cost
of $9,813,0O0.
indications are that when the
Wilmington projects are declared
surplus to the war effort by MIA,
the local authority's recommends
tons will be carried out.
A special act of Congress is nee
essary, however, before the local
authority can purchase or other.
wise acquire Hillcrest and no de-
cision has been made on whether
to ask Congress to empower MIA
to dispose of such projects to local
authorities or whether each case
of local authority seeking to
acquire war housing for low-rent
Continued on Page Two, Col. q
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Ate ADMITS ERROR
In BLAZE INCIDENT
George Says Granting OF
Priority To Dog Can
not Be Justified

WASHINGTON, Feb. TO- P) -
The Air Transport Command ac-
knowledged in 900 typewriter
words today that a plane priority
for Col. Elliott Roosevelt's dog,
Blaze was "a serious mistake"
1T cannot be justified," Maj.
Gen. H. L. George, ATC chief, said
in a report to Senate Military
subcommittee.
George said Col. Ray W. Ireland,
assistant chief of staff for priori.
ties and traffic at ATC headquar-
tiers here, issued the widely discuss
ed "A' plane priority for the no.
pound mastiffs journey f r o m
Washington to Hollywood, Calf
Col. Roosevelts sister, Mrs.
John Boettiger, had telephoned
from the White House, asking that
Blaze be flown to Mrs. Elliott
Roosevelt in Hollywood. George
said, however, that mo mention
of priority was made in the con-
versation.'
Senator NJ y a n k (D-SC), a
member of the subcommittee, said
he got the impression from talk
ing to General George that the
high priority was issued lust as
sort Of a favor"
The generals report corroborat-
ed the story of three servicemen
who said they were bumped" off
an army transport at Memphis
while Blaze got to stay on. But
the general added that the service
men would have had to be I'M
loaded anyway, as they were trav-
cling on &C. priorities and there
was backlog of "B" priority
go west.
THE dog did unquestionably
displace sn equivalent weight of
'B" priority freight he said.
Blaze's air journeying began in
England last Nov. 10. A BIZ
bomber, commanded by the Pres
ident's son and carrying 10 men,
Blaze and a 20-pound female pup,
roared off for Maine by way of Ice
land The senators said Blaze
didn't rock anybody out of a seat
on that trip as the plane had oxy-
gen and life RATS for only 10 men.
Roosevelt left h e dogs at
Continued on Page Six. Col. u
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Superforts,
Earthquake
Rock Tokyo
Rio Bombers Believed To
Have Given Capital
Heaviest Raid OF War
Bv FRLD H. SCHERFF

WASHINGTON, Feb. TO-
(UP) Superfortresses gave
Tokyo probably its heaviest
pounding in perfect daylight
bombing weather today, less
than an hour after an earth
quake shook the main Japa-
nese island of Honshu and
Hokkaido island to the north.
One of the largest forces of the
giant B-29's ever to hit the Japa-
nese capital, flew 5000 miles round
trip from the Mariana Islands to
blast Industrial targets with good
to excellent results"
They encountered only light fight
er opposition.
Reports from Maj. Gen. Curtis
E. LIE Mays 21st bomber command
indicated that this eighth major
attack on Tokyo was one of the
most successful. One spokesman
said the force was as large as any
group ever to hit Tokyo and prob
ably was the largest.
Shakes Island
The earthquake which fortuitous-
" preceded the raid shook t h e
entire eastern and central part
of Honshu island, including t h e
cities of Tokyo and Yokohama, at
$50 pm, according to Japanese
broadcasts.
Seismographs at Fordham Uni
versity in New York indicated it
was fairly severe" but not as
severe as the tremors which shook
the Japanese mainland last Dec.
T. causing tidal waves which ad-
mittedly caused heavy damage.
Forty minutes after the quake
started, and possibly while it still
was in progress, five waves of sup
Continued on Page Two, Col. y
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Also Advance
Into Suburbs
Of Liegnitz
Drive Pomeranian Spear.
I head Within 81 Miles
OF The Baltic
By RICHARD KASISCHKE
LONDON, Sunday, Feb. II

- (P) Russian troops cap
tured the East Prussian port
of Elbing and drove a new
Pomeranian spearhead with
in So miles of the Baltic yes
terday, while Berlin an
nounced that other powerful
sou t h ern formations had
broken into the suburbs OF
Liegnitz, big industrial city
and road hub guarding the
back door to Breslau, lower
Silesian capital.
The battle for Berlin's immediate
approaches was cloaked in Sc
curity silence by Moscow, but Ger
man broadcasts indicated that the
Red Army had broken the last
substantial Nazi resistance east
of the Oder river and had crossed
the stream in great strength at
points 80 to 43 miles from Berlin.
Marshal Ivan S. Konevs First
Ukraine Army in Silesia was re-
ported to have smashed Is miles
west of the Oder river in two days,
penetrating to within 90 miles of
Dresden, German saxony strong
hold 80 miles below imperilled Ber-
lin, but Moscow's communique did
not mention this sector either.
Announces Fall
An order of the day signed by
Premier Stain, presumably still
at the big Three" meeting in the
Black Sea area, announced the fall
of Elbing, 80 miles southeast of
Danzig and SIS miles southwest OF
besieged Koenigsberg, East Prus-
sian capital.
Marshal K. K. Rokossovsky' S
Second White Russian Army top
pied Elbing, a city of 71,000 and
the site of shipbuilding yards and
big engineering works, day after
its enlightenment had been announc-
ed by the Russians. His troops
smashed fanatically resisting
garrison which had been bolstered
Continued on Page Two, Col. A.
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Severe Shortage OF Meat
Expected By Midsummer

ahead of the low-supply season.
The war stocks are those the gov
eminent buys for the armed forces,
for lend-lease, and for civilian
consumption in U. S. territories
outside the continental limits OF
the country.
With livestock marketing falling
below previous expectations, the
agriculture department cut its fore
cast of total production this year
from %, 75O,OO0,0O0 pounds to a.
900, 900, 900. Last year "a, 100000, :
900 pounds were produced.
1t is possible that per capita civ
ilian consumption this year may
fall to the lowest level since 1885
when meat supplies dropped after
emergency slaughter of drought
stricken cattle on western plains
Continued on Page Five, Col, "
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BY ALLEN J. GREEN
Wilmington Star-News
Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. - Ma
tional Housing Agency, in series
of regulations this week, set the
pattern for eventual disposal OF one
of Wilmington's largest war sur
plus''-$13, 988, 900 worth OF FEEDER
ally-financed war housing.
Empha sizing that no steps Will
be taken toward disposal until the
war need ceases, the regulations
provide, in general, that perman-
ent and demountable family dwell
ings can either be acquired for low
rent housing, by Federal or local
public agency, or sold to local con-
sumers, occupants included. lem
porary war housing is to be de-
molished for salvage.
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First Army Wigs Battle For Roer River Dams;
Reds CapturZEast Prussian Port OF Elbing;
u. S. Tightens Trap On Japs In South Manila
Reds Report Revolt
OF German Sailors
At Port OF Bremen

LONDON, Feb. 10.-UP)-
The Moscow radio reported to-
night that German naval per-
sonnet had revolted at the port
Of Bremen, the site Of commun-
ist-inspired uprisings which
preceded conclusion of the first
World War.
A German-language broad
cast by the Soviet radio claim
ed that sailors who had been
dragged" from ships for
Army duty had barricaded
themselves in barracks and
refused to go to the front.
German SIS ELITE Guard)
troops were dispatched to
Bremen, Moscow said, and
their Attempts to quell the re-
volt resulted in a pitched battle
with number of casualties on
both sides.
During the Political and So
cial upheaval in Germany in
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Big Three May Disclose
Price Germany Must Pay
20 Allied Prisoners
Freed In Red Drive

LONDON, Feb. 10.-P)-The
Lublin radio in Poland said
tonight that about 70 American
and British prisoners of war
who had been freed by the
Red army in Silesia now were
safe in Lublin and awaiting
transportation home.
For the past few weeks"
the broadcast said, "a strange
sight has been seen in Lublin.
Groups of British, American
and French soldiers and air.
men walking in the streets are
enthusiastically greeted by
crowds of Polish people. They
are prisoners of war liberated
from German camps by the
advance of the Red army.
They have come to Lublin
where they hope to get trans
portation home"
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the last days of World War
], there we're assertions by
German sailors and street
fighting. The activities of COM
munists had to be put down
by government troops after the
armistice was signed.
The Moscow radio also quot
ed Stockholm that Berlin was
growing increasingly panicy
and that only three weeks
supply of food was available.
All activity in the capital was
reported limited to indispens-
able jobs and other workers and
civil servants modified in the
Volkssturm.
Feverish preparations for the
defense of Berlin against Red
Army troops only 81 miles
away also were reported. At
least Is SIS divisions were re-
(Coof;ruoJ -, Do oo Txro. CnJ
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First Cavalry
Within Three
Miles OF Bay
Enemy Converts Houses
And Public Buildings
Into Pillboxes
By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON

By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON
GENERAL MacARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, Sunday,
Feb. 11.-(UP)-The United
States First cavalry, tighten
ing the trap around japanese
h o d i n g out in southern
Manila, has crossed the Pasig
river in a wide outflanking
maneuver southeast of the
capital and is within three
miles of Manila Bay, it was
announced today.
Troops of the 37th Division, wild
ening their bridgehead across the
Aspig in the center of the city, push
ed ahead in house to house fighting
on front almost two miles long
and within a mile and a half of
the southern edge of Manila.
Using Artillery
AS the battle of Manila entered
its second week, Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur's d a i y war bulletin an
nounced that the japanese h d
converted houses and public build
ings into pillboxes and fortified
strongpoints and were using artil-
lery against the steadily advanc-
ing Americans.
The bulletin disclosed that Maj.
Gen. Verne D. Mudge's LIST cal
vary, which made the first pene-
tration of Manila last Saturday,
had advanced five miles in its OFT
thanking drive around the eastern
side of the 14-square mile city.
The cavalry struck eastward
through New Manila, a northeast
ern suburb of the capital, and then
plunged four miles southwark to
force the twisting Pasig near the
town of San Pedro Makato, mile
southeast of the city's lower bound
CONTINUED on Page Six; Col. 81
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BURCWIN ELECTED
T0PENSI0N BOARD
Attorney Will Fill Vacancy
Created By Resigna-
ton OF Poisson

Kenneth o. Burgwin, Whining
ton attorney, has been elected to
the City Pension board to fill the
vacancy created by the resigna-
ton of Fred Poisson, it was an
nounced yesterday by j. R. Ben
son, secretary of the board.
Because of proposals to amend
the pension act so as to make
members of the Alcoholic Bever-
age Control board eligible for
benefits, Mr.. Poisson, also a mem
Der of the ABC board, said he was
resigning from the Pension board
because he felt it would not be
CONTINUED on Page Five, Col. 81
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WEATHER
FORECAST

r., ~. FORECAST
srostI, wilmington and Vicinity: Sunday
shft iSsr e4oudy, moderate southwest winds,
20 70 northwest Sunday.
Eastern Stand ard Time)
Ms.,ny L. S. Weather Bureau)
endj r's0foioglcal data for the "a hours
'''o pm, 3estelday.
LIN Terlt1aiure
O.. an, am, 4l.0; 7:3O am 418. Ian nm.
W., w. 1880 pm, $40 no. LOU p''
Norn.siIi ~ IS; Minimum 4O.4: Mean At;
I'm 49,, - Humidity
7:3o ~ na am ~ 7;3o am, 80; 1870 pm, 27;
Total =. Precipitation
900 jncb nor Inc "a hours ending 1880 pm
100 S0' ia,a since The first of the month,
Nror, i, Tides For Today
U. s. Cos .ne 1ide Tables published by
0's' and Geodetic Survey
Wilmington, High Low
Masonboro 1o,.. 9:08p 4:03I
''i'ee --------- 6:4Oa 1920
Sunrise -.n, 6:54p 1:03l
VIZ am; Moonset, 4:50 pm
'S'n'lnued on Page Two, Col. 81
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