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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-10
YANKS ENCIRCLE
ITALIAN SECTOR

ROME, March 9 -CUP)- Fifth
Army troops, pressing toward Ver-
cato from three directions, corn
pleted a virtual enlightenment Of
the city with the occupation Of Gar
viano, one mile to the northeast, it
was announced today.
With the U. S. Tenth Mountain
division firmly established in Cas-
tel d'Adiano several miles to the
west, and Brazilian units holding
the village of Castelnuovo to the
south, it appeared that the Ger
man garrison in Vergato, 10 miles
southwest of Bologna, might be
preparing to abandon its strong
hold astride the Pistoia Bologna
highway. Little opposition was en-
countered in the advance which
netted Garviano, but German bat
teries continued to shell the roads
leading south and southwest from
Castel d'Aiano. Heavy concentra-
tons of enemy artillery and NOR
tar fire also were directed against
Allied positions on Mount Della
Spe.
On the central sector of the front
where the Allies have been pinned
throughout the winter months to
an area roughly 10 miles south of
Cologne, German forces can
Army patrols venturing forward
drew immediate artillery and NOR
tar fire. On the right flank raid
ing party reached an objective
northeast of Monte Belmonte. An
entire enemy platoon, together with
mortar pieces, was captured in a
futile attempt at infiltrating Allied
lines.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-10
Deductions
After Death
Add To Grief
BY RUTH MILLETT

Perhaps you saw the story of
a Massachusetts mother who re-
ceived her sons final pay check
after he was killed in action in
the Normandy invasion - with a
$1.58 laundry deduction.
She was shocked into declaring
that she intended to write letter
to President Roosevelt, telling him
the story, in the hope that no other
mother would receive the same
kind of letter.
The laundry deduction was pure
ly routine, and of course no hurt
was intended.
But parents of men killed fight
ing for their country shouldn't be
hurt by such callous treatment.
The grief and loss are h d
enough for them to bear without
having the business transactions
made by the army hint in any
way that their son was just anoth-
er serial number.
GENTLENESS NEEDED
If there were ever a place where
it was important for business mat
tiers to be handled with gentleness
and consideration for human feel
matters bet ween the serv icn-
and consideration for human feel
ings-it is in the cases Of routine
matters between the services and
the families of men who have died
in service
Just such a thing as deducting
$1.58 from a dead soldiers pay
for the washing of the clothes he
will never wear again is likely to
add bitterness to the grief of those
who are trying to ease their loss
with the knowledge, "He died for
his country"
Can they help but be bitter at
the thought: For his country
which deducted laundry expenses
from his last pay check"
If such business like unfeeling
procedure is a matter of money
to the army, then shouldn't spar
ing parents bitterness, when they
can't be spared grief be added to
the total cost of war?
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-10
TODAY and TOMORROW
BY WALTER LIPPMANN

I venture 10 think, made a funda-
mental misjudgment.
He has nisjudged the meaning
OF his pact with the Soviet Union.
Believing himself automatically
isolated by the United States, and
also by Great Britain, he very
properly went to Moscow and OBJ
tanned a mutual assistance pact
against Germany. But he seems to
have interpreted that pact as being
something more than an agree
ment to enforce the German set
tlement, as being in fact an alli-
ance which made France and the
Soviet Union political partners.
This is, at least, what his subse-
quent actions indicate. For when
he went to Moscow, the British
fully expected that he would at
once negotiate also a Franco-Brit-
ish pact. This he did not do, and
in fact made speech suggesting
that he was in no hurry about a
British treaty, and that American
participation in the German set
Element, and in the world organiza-
ton, were of no urgent interest,
now that France had a treaty with
Russia. In his approach to the
Dumbarton Oaks plan his mind
appears to have been dominated by
the same idea: that the Franco
Soviet pact was for Russia as he
supposed it was for France, the
foundation of foreign policy.
This, it has now become quite
clear, was never Stalin's idea. For
while Russia is strong enough,
provided there is a wise and gen.
erous political solution in Poland,
to deal with the Germans from the
east, France alone is not strong
enough to deal with Germany from
the west. France is indispensable
in the west. But France is insult
ficient without Britain, without
the Low Countries, and without
America.
Therefore, Stain has made it
very plain to De Gaulle that the
Franco-Soviet pact is not a thing
in itself, is not an alternative to
pacts with Britain and America,
and that he will not permit it to
be used in that sense. The pact is
only one necessary link in a chain
of pacts and agreements which
must be forged to keep Europe and
the world at peace. The con-
clusion is that De Gaulle cannot
find French security by two
power alliance with Russia, and
that having gone to Moscow, he
will have to 60 also to London, and
to Brussels and the Hague, and
to San Francisco and Washington.
The problem of bringing France
into equal partnership is soluble
because it arises from errors of
judgment, that can be corrected,
and not from conflict Of in
terest that is irreconcilable. The
problem will be resolved when in
Washington, and also in Moscow,
it is as fully understood-as it
already is in London - that the
partnership of France is neces-
sity, not merely an ordnament In
a European settlement; and when
in Paris the real alignment OF
power and of national interests are
seen without illusions.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-10
205TH CRAFT SET
FOR CHRISTENING

The S. S. American Banker, 205-
tn vessel to near completion at the
yard of the North Carolina Ship
Building company, will be launched
at 9 am. today under the sponsor
ship Of Mrs. George Seidler, OF
Wilmington.
Mrs. Seidler is the wife Of a
leading assistant foreman in the
Steam Engineers department OF the
shipyard.
Her attendants will be Mrs. M.
J. O'Donnell and Mrs. G. j.
Howell, both of Wilmington. :
A CO type ship, the S. S.
American Banker is being built TOR
the United States Lines.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-10
Police Seek Man To Tell
Him of Sisters Demise

City police yesterday received
telegram from Mullins, S. c.,
asking them to locate a easel
Plat or easel Jackson.
The telegram read as follows:
'Please try to locate easel Plat
or easel Jackson. His sister is
dead, and I want him to come at
once" Signed "Wilson Jackson.
Police said that the name is
not in the City directory, or listed
at the Draft Board.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-10

happens, the wives complain to
her.
1T won't be- Miss Scott as
sures them, eff you'll keep few
pads around and jot down things
as they occur to you. Keep one
by the telephone, by your night
table and in your purse. There's
plenty that happens every day
which will interest your husband.
They don't have to be world-snak-
ing events. He wants to hear about
the baby cutting his first tooth,
about the new recipe you concoct-
ed, about the chair you bought from
junk dealer and reupholstered
with pair of Grapes you found
at the bottom of the trunk
Miss Scott, who has been made
an honorary member of WIVES
a group of servicemen's wives VINO
organized to keep each other COM
pany while their husbands are ov-
erseas - goes down to their cam
teen very often on Sundays to help
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-10
Miss Hunsaker'
II. McCulloch
Are M arrie d
bridegroom Is Son of Mrs.
=, F. McCulloch of
ElizabethtoWn

rl1zABETHToWN, March g.
hD ND Mrs. William Fay Hun
Nj. a4 of Fairmont, West Virginia,
s s.zs' announced the marriage OF
nave laughter. Avarilia, to Nor
tnsn r McCulloch, Lieutenant,
man ar Grade, UsNR., which was
]uniu, on Friday afternoon at
s'l .,clock in Dillon, S. c., at the
ss,s.sodist parsonage, the vows be-
Ns' +oken before the Rev. Pierce
as ro M, pastor Of the Dillon Meth
ol No. bride, is member of the
u .1.1 She was educated at Fair
N sn+ West Virginia, is member
a u +be Beta Sigma Phi sorority and
u 1 BUSINESS and Professional
IM W. Clubs OF West Virginia.
" Tho bridegroom is the son Of
~, Edgar F. McCulloch and the
, M-s' Senator McCulloch of Eliza
s ,a. He received his educa-
W.. g. at Davidson college and the
,, ,y of North Carolina. He is
W. member of the sac social fra
..rnitv. He volunteered for service
IN The United States Navy in No
usmber. l941, and has recently
,stl,rned from two years with the
pacific Fleet. Prior to his entrance
into the Navy. he was associate
q, EDITOR Of The Bladen Journal.
After brief honeymoon, 1t. and
Mrs., McCulloch came to Elizabeth
tovn for a visit with the BRIDE
sroorn's family. At the expiration
n their leave, Mrs. McCullock will
rs+llrn to the Philadelphia Navy
Ward where she is stationed and
If McCulloch will return to sea
duty.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-10
Victory Menus
BY CHARLOTTE ADAMS
Sunday Dinner In The Oven

AAA~y DAAhNA AL AAS OtNA
Roast Chicken
Dreamed Onion and Peas
Roast Potatoes
Cornsticks
Molasses Pudding with
Lemon Sauce
(Recipes serve four)
Dreamed Onion And Peas
IL small onions
2 cups. peas, canned or cooked
2 tablespoons butter or SUBJ
stitute
2 tablespoons flour
l cup milk
IL cup liquor from peas
Salt and pepper.
Coop onions in sailed water I'M
til tender. Drain. Melt butter in
saucepan. Remove from stove.
Add flour, making smooth paste.
Return to flame, add milk and
liquor from peas and stir con-
stantly until sauce thickens. Place
onions and peas in baking dish
Pour sauce over all. Cover with
breadcrumbs and bake at $50 de-
grees 20 minutes.
Molasses Pudding
IA cup sugar
1-8 teaspoon salt
IA cup molasses
l teaspoon cinnamon
IA TEASPOON cloves
IA teaspoon nutmeg
2 egg yolks
l teaspoon vanilla
2 cups milk
l tablespoon butter or substitute
l cup soft bread crumbs
Mix sugar, spices and salt to-
gether. Add molasses and egg
volks. Add butter to milk and heat.
Add to mixture. Add bread crumbs
and vanilla and pour into baking
dish. Bake at 1926 degrees 80 min
utes. Serve with lemon sauce.
Cake layers can be cut in half
for frosting Or filling by using a
length of thread with a saving
motion.
New combs are decorated with
colored feathers made to look like
tropical butterflies.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-10

the girls serve supper to men
passing through town. Canteens,
she believes, are as much a mo-
rale-builder for the girls as the
men. 1T keeps them in touch with
what the men are going through
and helps them to realize the
changes in viewpoint they must ex-
pect from their husbands when
they come home," she says.
This group, which has bought
out the entire theater for two per.
for.nances of the play, tell Miss
Scott they are planning to make
their weight felt in maintaining
peace after the war. They're study.
ing international and national pol.
tiles as closely as their ration book
headlines.
Politicians will find these girls
will have lot to say about the
way the affairs of the nation are
handled from now on" Miss Scott
is certain.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-10
PERSONALS

Colonel S. H. Morrow, who has
oeen overseas for the past three
years and who recently arrived in
ne states from Paris, will arrive
N Wilmington this morning to visit
MS wife at their home, lis North
18th street.
. Mrs. Al G. Dickson is spending
@e ween-end in Rocky Mount with
her mother, Mrs. Edward Weav-
G.
MfS' N. a. Culbreth has returned
70 her home, Shore Gables at Caro-.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-10
by Alice Brooks

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Mexican motifs can be used on
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Send FIFTEEN CENTS in coins
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Star-News Household Arts Dept.
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more :. 100 illustrations of de-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-10
BRIDGE Party
Slated Monday

A bridge party will be given on
Monday evening by the Business
and Professional Wonen's club of
Wilmington. The party will be held
at the Woodrow Wilson hut, Fourth
and Princess street, and will begin
at 8 o'clock.
Persons desiring to make reser-
vations may do so by calling Ver-
ma Sheppard, 7788; Ruth Humphrey
T74l or 1886, or Mrs. Louis B.
polvogt 7406.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-10
CHRISTENING

CHARLESTON, S. c., March 9.
-U.H-A military guard Of honor
composed of former University of
Alabama students attended the
christening of the destroyer-trans-
port, U. S. John @. Roberts, at the
Charleston navy yard yesterday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-10

lima Beach after spending the past
four weeks in New York and Hart
ford, Conn. She was accompanied
home by Miss Gay Chamberlin, of
Hartford, who will be her guest
for two weeks.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-10

For easier handling place apples
or stuffed peppers in muffin tins
before baking.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-10

A hint of nutmeg or mace in a
cream sauce adds zip to snap
beans.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-10

BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-10

Cake layers can be cut in half
for frosting or filling by using a
length of thread with a saving
motion.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-10

New combs are decorated with
colored feathers made to look like
tropical butterflies.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1945-11-30

IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA
 WRANGELL PRECINCT.
 FIRST DIVISION IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LOUIS A. OLSON, DECEASED
 NOTICE TO CREDITORS
 NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been duly appointed executrix of the above entitled estate of Louis A. Olson. deceased. All persons having claims against said estate are hereby re- quired to present them to the undersigned, (with the necessary vouehers), at her residence in Wrangell, Alaska, within six months from adte of publication hereof.
 Elsie Christine Jenkins 1st publication November 23, 1945 Last publication Dec 14, 1945
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-01
Late Bulletins
Churchill Wins 413-O Vote

LONDON tR.-The House
of Commons today gave
Prime Minister Churchill a
unanimous vote of confidence
in support of the Big Three
decisions at Yalta. The vote
was 413 to 0.
Earlier Story on Page A-3.)
I 800 Planes Hit Reich
LONDON tP.-The massive
Allied air assault on Ger
many carried through its
18th straight day today when
more than 1000 United States
heavy bombers blasted eight
rail centers in the Southern
Reich while 600 Raj bomb
ers hit two rail and oil cities
in the Western Reich.
New Rent Ceilings Urged
Price Administrator Chester
B0Wles recommended to Con-
gress today that commercial
rents and charges for barber
and beauty parlor services be
brought under price control.
He also stated that absence of
checks on prices of real estate
was bringing about a boom
(which can have disastrous
effect"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-01
American Casualties
Rise 1880 in Week

STIMSON SAYS war needs forced
use OF 18-year-oldS. Page Az
BY the Associated Press.
Army and Navy casualties since
Pearl Harbor have mounted to 3d.
OBJ.
Secretary of War Stimson report
ed today that Army losses now total
722,695, while the Navy placed its
casualties at 90,337. The aggregate
represents an increase of IL ,870 from
last weeks report, of which the
Army accounted for all except 672.
Secretary Stimson also disclosed
at his news conference that Army
losses in Italy, from the invasion on
September 9, 1943, to February 25,
1915, amounted to 100, 100, including
1889 killed, 70,402 wounded and
10,499 missing.
A breakdown on Army casualties,
based on compilation of Individual
names through February 81 and
corresponding tallies for the pre-
vious week, follows.
f AHiCo, 11o,ooo diiu LOO, iAo, WotIlu-
ed, 430,757 and 420, 465: prisoners,
60,535 and 60086; missing, 81 ,037
and 1929. OF the wounded, Mr..
Stimson said, 213.948 have returned
to duty.
Similar figures for the Navy are:
Killed, 1928 and 33,862, wounded,
10000 and 40,783; prisoners, 4,476
and 4.474; missing, 1854 and TO-
546.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-01
500 Carrier Planes
Raid Ryukyu Islands,
Tokyo Radio Reports
Okinowo Is Main Target
Jops Claim Sd Craft
Hit or Shot Down
BY the Associated Press.

Ely the ASSOclateu FTeSS.
Tokyo said approximately 600
American carrier planes attacked
Okinawa and other Ryukyu is
lands for six and a half hours
today. This archipelago lies be-
tween the japanese home islands
and Formosa.
The enemy planes came from a
task force which penetrated waters
south of the Ryukyu Islands early
this morning" said Domei broad
cast recorded by the Associated
Press. The enemy task force is be-
lieved to be the same one which
Withdrew southwark after the raid
with carrier-baSed planes on the
eastern part of the Japanese MAIN
land, February %.
I'm the course of an interrogation
battle against the enemy raiders to-
day Japanese air defense forces OF
the Ryukyu Islands up to 1:30 pm
are known to have accounted for 50
enemy machines shot down or dam
aged"
The attack began at am. and
continued until 100 pm. (Tokyc
time, the broadcast said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-01
Pay Demands Of Lewis
Withheld al Opening
OF Wage Farley Here
General Wage Increase
Is Reported Vetoed by
Policy Committee
By JAMES Y. NEWTON.

John L. Lewis and his United
Mine Workers opened negotia-
tons with bituminouS coal OPP
orators here today in an effort
to work out a new mine contract
without the strife and strikes
that attended development of
the last agreement in 1943.
While both sides were hopeful
agreement as to wages and other
working conditions could be reached
without work stoppage, the shadow
of strike definitely was cast over
the conference by Mr.. Lewis action
three days ago in requesting the
Government for strike vote under
the Smith, onnally Act.
(While Mr. Lewis kept silent on
the demands he would make on
the operators, it was learned the
UNIV Policy Committee had
vetoed any general increase de-
mand, the Associated Press re-
ported. Prior to the committees
meetings this week, it was under
stood the miners might ask for
SIPS instead of the present ST.
an-hour rate.
CThe Lewis strategy now APP
pears to be to concentrate on
fringe" or secondary demands
which some operators estimate
would increase each miners
daily earnings as much as $150.
(Other demands, the Associated
Press said, are expected to be
full-time portal to- portal or
travel time, an increase in vaca-
ton pay allowance from $50 to
500 and shift differentialS of 10
lSee MINERS PAGE Al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-01
Hill Opens Debate,
Demanding End Of
Hysteria Over Wallace
Says Denial of Cabinet
Post Would Weaken
Faith in Government
BY GOULD LINCOLN.

Senator Hill, Democrat, of Ala
bama appealed to the Senate
this afternoon to put aside
''malignance and hysteria" and
confirm Henry Wallace as Sec
rotary of Commerce.
Confirmation of the appointment
was confidently predicted by ad-
ministration leaders.
Here at home" Senator Hill said
in opening debate, there are few
men in public life today who have
as great personal following among
men and women of all groups and
all sections of the country as Henry
Wallace His presence in the cabi-
net will broaden and strengthen the
base support for Government in
these critical years. Likewise, a de-
NAL of this opportunity for him to
re-enter the cabinet will weaken
and undermine faith in Congress
and the National Government
Symbol to Other Nations.
Senator Hill said Mr.. Wallace
has become a symbol to those in
other nations who look< to America
with new respect and a new faith"
He urged that Senators put malig-
nance and hysteria aside, turn our
minds to other pressing considera-
tions and confirm this appointment
Immediately
Discussing Mr. Wallace's career
as Secretary of Agriculture, the
Alabama Senator said the farmers
of America were bankrupt at the
time Mr.. Wallace became Secretary.
Henry Wallace was the man who
conceived the basic remedies for
this tragic situation" Senator Hill
said.
Inexperience' is indeed a silly
description of the man who di-
rected the most intricate and COM
prehensive economic structure ever
devised in a democratic nation-a
structure that included such varied
programs as production quotas for
100000 farms, loans of all kinds to
farmers totaling $4,000, 000, 000.'''
Aiken Follows Hill.
There are cynics who scott at
Henry Wallace as an idealist 1T is
a startling and depressing thought
that man should be ridiculed be-
cause he believes in applying the
of Christianity in every
day life
Senator Aiken, Republican, Of
Vermont followed Senator Hill in
the demand for the confirmation
of Mr. Wallace's appointment.
A majority of the Republicans and
(See WALLACE, Page A-4.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-01
Only Northern Third
OF Two Remains 10 Be
by Marines
Chutes Drop Supplies
AS Yonks Begin to Clear
Isles Central Plateau
BY the Associated Press.

PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Guam, Mar. ALI but
the northern third of rocky little
Two Jima was in American hands
today as the marines, their Spe-
cial supplies parachuted from
transport planes, fought to clear
the vital central plateau.
Front dispatches said Sd Division
Marines already had crossed the
plateau in places and were moving
doWnhill for the first time since D
day, II days ago.
The battle for the pillboXastudded
central plateau was termed a de-
cisive operation by Maj. Gen. Graves
B. ErSkine, whose Sd Division over
ran the main village of Motoyama
Just beyond the captured central
airfield, IN gain of several hundred
yards yesterday.
Reach Third Airfield.
They reached a third airfield. Mo-
toyarna No. 3, which was under con-
Struction when the Americans land
ed February 10.
The marines had artillery, naval
gun and close air support as they
drove ahead more than 500 yards all
along the 2-mile battle line against
the toughest, cleverest defenses en-
countered anywhere in the Pacific.
Associated Press Correspondent
Jim Lindsey called the terrain
'Hell's principal suburb"
An important supply problem was
licked yesterday as American trans
port planes flew in low and dropped
supplies on the captured southern
bomber field, Motoyama No. /. Red
and green parachutes landed special
parts and medical supplies flown
from the Marianas in response to a
hurry-up call. Several days would
have been required to bring supplies
700 miles by ship.
Main Jap Line Penetrated.
The Sd Divisions push penetrated
the center of the main enemy line
of resistance. From there north
ward japanese strength can be ex-
pected to weaken.
Maj. Gen. Keller S. Rockey's 5th
(See TWO. Page ABB
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-01
Bait Declares European Forces
Must Be Re-equipped for Pacific
We Day Will Bring Only 2ooo Reconversion
To Civilian Goods, WPB Official Saws
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Mar. William
L. Bait said today war produc-
ton must continue full speed for
big military landings" in the
Pacific and land fighting on per-
hapS the European scale.
The Army and Air Forces will
have to be pretty completely re-
equipped" to fight Japan. the War
Production Board vice chairman said
in an address before a Rotary Club
luncheon.
Mr.. Bait announced staggering
figures on Americas production
now equal to that of "all our Allies
and enemies" combined-but fore
cast that Germany's fall will permit
less than 20 per cent reconver-
sion to peacetime goods.
Il can tell you that our military
men may not use much of the equip
ment they have employed in Europe
against the japanese" Mr.. Bait said,
since other types of materiel are