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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-12

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WANTED: coLoRED WOMAN FOR
flat work. Hand ironers and shirt
finishers. Apply Ideal Laundry. Front
and Orange Street.
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FLIES 18TH MISSION

Second 1t. Edwin K. Warren,
20, 1907 Ann St., Wilmington, CO.
pilot in a 18th Air. Force BOA Lib
orator group, commanded by Col.
Brooks A. Lawhon, Tacoma, Wash,
recently flew his 25th combat mis-
sion over enemy territory.
The target was the railyards at
Klagenfurt, Austria. These yards
are vital link in the Nazis' chain
of commune alton. Through them
pass men and material bound for
the southern, Russian and Italian
fronts.
Warren entered the AAF on Nov.
4, 1912, and received training at
the army airfield at Moody, Ga.
Prior to his entry into the army
he was employed by the Atlantic
Coast Line railroad. He waa grad
uated from New Hanover High
school in 1912.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. ]. F.
Warren, live at the Wilmington
address.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-12
SERVING ON Lei

Julius J. Ezzel1, Radioman,
Third Class, USN, of 1913 Ann St.,
Wilmington, is now serving aboard
an infantry landing craft, the
LCIN) 401.
Ezzell, %, is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. c. Ezzell of 1923 Fender
avenue. His wife, Marjorie, and
their son, ]. Kenneth, live on Ann
street. Prior to entering the serv-
ice last September, Ezzell was
employed by the Atlantic Coast
Line Railroad company in Will
mington,
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ARRIVES IN FRANCE

+ v t. J. a C k
Mountcastle, III,
s o n of j. R.
Mountc Jr.,
has arrived safe
ly in France, ac-
cording to word
received by his
father. He is at
tached to an in
fantry unit. Be-
ginning his train
i n G a t F o r t
Meade, Md, ne
was later trans
ferred to Camp
and finished his
us Obispo. Calf.
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FOR SALE: 6 ROOMS, BATH, HOT
and cold water, store, stock and fix
lures. Hughes & Morton, Wallace Bldg.
3rd and Princess. Dial 1891
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-12
Hampstead Soldier Held
AS German War Prisoner

Pfc. Edward Hudson, son of Mrs.
Bertha Hudson of Hampstead, is
now a prisoner of war in Ger
many, according to a letter re-
ceived by his wife, Mrs. E. Bats
Hudson, of Masonboro sound.
Pfc. Hudson was serving with
the 44th Engineers before his cap
ture. He entered service in De-
cember, 1912
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In The
IN PARIS

r r a n C l S E.
Stanley. Special.
ist Third Class,
U S N R, Of 125
Keaton Ave, sta.
toned on t h c
staff Of Vice Ad-
2niral Alan C.
Kirk, Command
er of U. S. Naval
Forces in France
recently visited
Paris on a fur.
Tough.
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LARGE SELECTION OF SPRING CON-
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complete your suite. Railroad Salvage
Co. SOB Castle.
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GENERAL OFFICE WORK AND TYP
ist. Attractive salary. Experienced and
Wilmingtonians only need apply
CraWford's.
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FOR RENT: TWO OFFICES. BIS 10
North Front Street. Samuel Bear
Or and Sons Bill No. Front Street.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
Yankees Swine
NorthWdrd to
Heart Of Isle
bat+erins Forces Bypass Southern
Tip to Advance in Hard Fighting;
Supplies Landed for Longtime STAY
= BY WILLIAM F. TYREE

ADMIRAL NIMITZS HQRS, GUAM Feb 81 (UP)-
American marines sormed Iwos second air field Wednes
day. bypassng the southern tip and driving toward its
heart from the south in general advance averaging half
mile along the blazing island front
Fleet Admiral Chester w. Nimitz announced on the
third day of the invasion of the island prngboard Japan
that the two marine divisions had suffered 1850 casualties
One hundred fifty of the casualties officers.
Toughest Battle In History of Marines
communique the Two battle, the toughest in the long
history of the marine corps said the two divisions
suggng forward yard by against heavy machine gum
mortar, small arms and rocket fire.
Major General Keller E. Rockey's fifth division ham,
mered the west coast beyond the lower end of the
of the last air field remaining japanese hands The
first and main base firmly in American hands,
At the time Major General Clifton B. Gates fourth
division launched frontal assault against the field from
the south and by pushing toward the center of
the field" Nimitz's communique said
The fifth amphbous corps, having secured the south
ern Two air field made general advance toward the isl
ands central ardrome Wednesday,, the communque said
Gains were made along the whole lne and generally
about 500 to 1000 yards in extent"
AT the south end of the island where part of the Japan
garrison cut off by the marinedrve across
island American forces driving slowly up the slopes
Of Mt Suribachi, from which the enemy pasering
the marines.
u s. warshps and guns supported the marines through
out the night rocking the Japanesehed part of Two with
ceaseess barrage which continued Wednesday morning
Carrier-Borne Planes Suing Into Battle
Carrer-borne planes swarmed back into the battle of
Two wednesday, carrying out heavy bombing and strafng
attacks
Making plain that the marines had come to stay, the
unloading OF supplies and raons the beaches went
all Tuesday night.
THE japanese resisting desperately and the fight
ing is fierce in some parts of the combat area United
ship off Two.
He said the japanese were resorting to their night in
itraton tactics which has become standard practice with
hem One U >. battalion alone reported that than
100 Japanese were killed in these attempts.
The going was the toughest in the center of the line
the No. Mooyama air field, Johnson reported The Jap
nese appeared to be throwing everything they had into
the defense of this base the second important obec
tive on the island The No. field, already captured
the first.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
Axis Sees U.S. Laying Plan
To Land on Eastern China

LONDON, Feb. 81. (UP)-
Axis broadcasts said We'd
nesday that an army of 30,-
900 American troops and 80
Chinese divisions has been
massed in southwestern Chi
ma to support an American
landing on the east coast of
China.
The German Transocean news
agency, quoting dispatches from
Tokyo, said the Allied expeditionary
force awaited a signal to start in
overland offensive in coordination
with the amphibious assault on the
coast.
The Chinese were said to be con-
centrated in Yunnan province, in
Guiding troops transferred from the
Burma front.
The location of the reported Amer
ican army was not specified, but
Transocean said the Yanks were
equipped with tanks and heavy ar
tillery.
In western military terms, the 80
Chinese divisions would represent
well over 100000 men, but Trans
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
j. 5. Subs Sink
Is More Jap
Fighting Craft

WASHINGTON. Feb. 81. UP)-
American submarines have sent a
Japanese escort carrier, large con-
verted cruiser, destroyer, and %
merchant vessels to the bottom in
rev operations, the navy announced
Wednesday.
The cruiser was believed to be
an 18,000-ton converted merchant
ship.
This latest submarine haul in
cluded two transports, three cargo
transports, and II cargo vessels, the
communique said.
Total sinkings by Amei ican sub
marines since the beginning of the
war now total 1925 vessels. These
include 100 warships.
Since January |, the navy has
announced sinking by U. S. subma-
rines of 121 vessels--an average of
more than two day in the last
two months.
All the sinkings announced We'd
nesday took place in Far Eastern
waters, close to the enemys home
land and stolen southern empire.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
Farley Convenes
In Mexico CITY

augurated on March l.
U. S. Secretary of State Edward
r. Stettinius Jr. will speak Thurs
day night.
The conference will be divided
into four major committees, as fol-
lows:
A committee en- continued cooper
alton in the war effort. Ambassador
Adolph A. Berle Jr. to Brazil prob
ably will be the U. S. representative.
A committee on world organiza-
ton. Stettinius, who was chairman
of the Dumbarton Oaks conference.
probably will be not only the U. S.
representative but also chairman OF
this one He has brought with him
the decisions on this problem
reached by the big three at Crimea.
A committee on inter American
organizaticn--how to adapt it to
the new world organization Assist
ant Secretary of State Nelson A.
Rockefeller will represent the U. S.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
Full Blood Crow
Indian Wants
Golfers Place

WASHINGTON, Feb 81. (UP)-
A full-blooded Indian modestly
told the Senate Indian Affairs
committee that he could do a bet
ter job as commissioner CT Indian
affairs than anyone WHO has held
the post during the Goth century.
He is Robert YelloWtail, superin-
tendent of the Crow Indian reser-
Vation in Montana and admittedly
a candidate for the commissioners
post. He appeared in opposition to
the nomination Of William A.
Brophy to succeed John Collier, who
resigned last week, as commits
sioner.
Yellowtail and Representative
Paul Stewart, CD, Oklahoma, beth
said Indians want an Indian as
their commissioner. Brophy, a New
Mexico lawyer, is not an Indian.
In response to numerous ques-
tions, Brophy promised that if he
we're confirmed as commissioner
he would carry out congress poll
cies and not circumvent congress. v
Il think the function and the
purpose of fellow that's in a de-
partment is to carry out the laws
as written" he explained.
Representative William Stigler,
CD, Oklahoma, who said he was
racially an Indian and on the rolls
of the Choctaw tribe, told the SEN
atcrs the interior department is
Continued on Pg. 6, Gel. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
Diptheria Cases
Mount to Is

Sixteen cases CT diphtheria re-
ported in Imperial Valley in the last
so days Wednesday led officials CT
the Imperial county health depart
ment to urge immunizaticn against
the dread disease.
Officials of the health depart
ment refused to say whether there
have been any deaths.
DR.. j. B. Askew, of the state de-
partment of health, who is carrying
on tie school immunization program
during the absence of DR.. Miriam
Hubbell, county health officer, rec
commended that all children under
IL years of age, who have not re-
ceived diphtheria immunization
during the past year, be taken to
their family physicians for immuni-
zations at once.
He also recommended that anyone
having sore throat and temperature
call a doctor Immediately.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
Yanks Recapture
Italian Peak

ROME. Feb. 81. CUP)-American
troops of the Fifth army, storming
up precipitous terrain against
strong German resistance. recap
tured 5000-foot Mount Belvedere
dominating the entrance to the
Fararo river valley, headquarters
announced Wednesday.
The advance was aided by ar
tillery fire and strong air support.
The sector is about 30 miles south
west of Bologna.
The peak had been in German
hands since November when a
German counterattack pushed back
tie doughboys four days after they
had occupied it.
The troops encountered heavy
mine fields as they pressed for
ward, captu; ing the mountain viii
lager of Polla and Valpiana and
other commanding features in addi-
tion to Mount Belvedere.
On the right flank, artillery and
mortars effectively engaged enemy
personnel and installations near
Mount Calderaro.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
Cornered Enemy
Annihilafed in
Manila Fighting

MANILA, Feb. 81. GJP)-Japan-
ese forces, with their casualties in
the Luzon campaign nearing the
100000 mark, fought back Savagely
from shrinking pocket in southern
Manila Wednesday against Ameri-
can flame -throwers and heavy artil-
lery.
General Douglas Macarthur SAID
the "bitterest fighting" had develop
ed as the American infantrymen
slowly compressed the enemy lines
and big guns maintained a STEADY
bombardment of the ancient wall
around the Intramuros sector.
JAPS LOSE HEAVILY
The last-stand death battles wag-
ed by the japanese was taking a
heavy toll of the enemy forces. A
communique reported that the jap
anese casualties in the first six
weeks of the Luzon campaign eX-
ceeded $4,000. In that same period
the American casualties totaled g.
CTS dead, 10,0o8 wounded and 245
miSSing-a ratio of seven-to-o
over the enemy.
AS the trapped japanese faced
almost certain death in their hold
out positions below the Pasig river
they let loose an orgy of sadism and
destruction on Filipino civilians and
property.
The communque officially disclos-
ed that the japanese were "acting
with the greatest savagery in the
treatment of non n-combatants anC
private property"
A survey showed that almost all
private possessions of Filirinos were
thoroughly looted during the enemy
occupation and apparently taken
to Japan.
HEAVY WEAPON FIRE
In thea battle around Intramuros,
the japanese were reported increas-
ing auto0Gtic and heavy weapon
fire in a desperate attempt to halt
the Americans who Topped off an
ether block fro the southern siCe
OF the pocket.
Pushing behind ame-throwers,
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. d
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21

city 81 miles southeast of the Ger
man capital.
Berlin reE.raed flareups in sew
eral sectors between the Danube
valley and the Latvian coast, indi-
eating that front-wide Soviet Of
tensive might be shaping up.
Nazi broadcasts said five Russian
divisions and one tank brigace OPEN
ed a new offensive northeast of Rat
ibor on the Polish-Silesian frontier
II miles north of Moravska Ostrava
the gateway to the Czechoslovak
passes to central Germany.
Moscow said the scale of Konev's
renewed attack couid not be gauged
on the basis of the skimpy facts, and
it might prove to be either tactical
operation or full dress offensive.
Konevs First Ukrainian army
plunged across the last enemy-held
stretch of the lower Bober river
yesterday just below its confluence
with the Oder and pressed on
through 30 towns and villages to-
ward GuEer. ..-'
TAKE TRANSPORT HUBS
Vanguards drove INTO the suburbs
of Guben, 12-way communications
hub 81 miles southeast of Berlin
after capturing Schegeln, eight miles
to the east at the center of the
breakthrough front.
Heavy fighting also was raging
in forests east of Guben. which al
ready was unc er artillery fire Guben
guards the 23-mile gap between the
Spree and the Oder rivers on the
southern approaches to Berlin.
The advance carried six miles or
more beyond the Oder river to with
in 13 miles of junction with the
first of the bridgeheacs which the
NaziS said the First White Russian
army has thrown across the Oder
east of Berlin.
1hirty-two enemy tanks were
knocked out in the Glben area and
more than 1000 Germans killed
Konev's campaign gradually was
strengthening the southern flank of
the Berlin front for a frontal smash
across the Oder toward the capital.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
Yankee Bombers
Rake hifIer's
Fortress Home

ROME, Feb. 81. CUP)-American
fliers raked Adolf Hitlers fortress
town of Berchtesgaden with a gar
rage of bombs and rocket shells for
the first time Tuesday and they
may have blasted the Fuehrer's Sec
ret mountain retreat, a communi-
que revealed Wednesday.
In a daring attack on one of the
most heavily defended targets in
all Europe group of eight AM
erican Thunderbolt pilots roared in
over Hitler'S rock fortress almost
at eye level, to bomb and strafe the
Continued on Page 6, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
By Il. ii. SHACKFORD

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 81. CUP)-
TIE American conference on
problems of war and peace opens
Wednesday, Official emphasis will
be on postwar economic solidarity
and reorganization of the Pan
American set-up to fit into the new
world security system.
Unofficially the Argentine prcb-
lem overshadoWed all others-de-
spite efforts to defer any consider
alton Of it until other issues are
settled.
President Manuel Avila Camacho
formally opens the conference at
8 p. m. (EWT) Wednesday with an
address in the chamber of deputies
tc the delegates of 10 of the 81
American republics. Argentina still
is excluded from the conference and
Ell Salvador will not be represented
until her new government is in
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
MARINES DRIVE ON SECOND Two AIRFIElD D
FederaI-State
Duck Feeding
Plan Approved
Program Includes More
Feeding Grounds and
Open Shooting District

A federal-state game man.
agement program, providing
for establishment of feeding
areas for ducks in the Salton
sea area and public shooting
grounds to keep the duck
population thir.ned out, was
indorsed in Ell Centre Tues
day night by the Imperial
County Game Depredations
committee.
Farmers are So .5oking, how
ever, for someone to pay the cost
of herding the ducks off their fields
by airplanes and Tuesday night
passed a resolution asking the state
legislature to include the airplane
herding cost in appropriations to
incluCe the airplan2 herding cost
in appropriations to the state fish
and game commission.
MORE FEEDING GROUNDS
Albert M. Day, assistant director
of the federal Wildlife service, ex-
planned the federal-state program.
He said the federal government will
obtain more land adjacent to Sal
ton sea and plant and scatter food
there for the ducks as a means of
tolling them from valuable food and
feed crops in Imperial Valley. The
federal government also will estab-
lish public shooting grouncs adjac-
ent to the feeding areas, the public
shooting grounds to be managed by
the state fish and game commits
sion in California.
Day and Emil OFT, OF the state fish
and game commission, both said
their organizations have no funds
to pay for herding cucks by air.
planes and have no authority to use
other funds appropriated to the two
organizations for that purpose.
The committee therefore passed
resolution asking the California
legislature to appropriate funds for
airplane herding, including them
in the appropriation to the fish and
Continued on Page 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21

ticn of Nuernberg's vital railway
yards. About $50 Mustang and
Thunderbolt fighters escorted the
heavies.
The Nuremberg railway yards We're
reported choked with troop and
supply trains. Unofficial reports
Tuesday suggested that the main
target was big troop train stalled
there en- route to the eastern front.
Fires visible for 100 miles were
set at Dcrtmund, the air ministry
announced.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
GripshoIm Brings
1905 Back Home

JERSEY CITY, Feb. 81. CUP)-
The exchange ship Gripsholm ar
rived Wednesday from Marseille,
France, carrying 1906 soldiers and
civilians, among whom were a large
number of seriously i'll and wound
ed American and Canadian prisoners
of war.
The passengers included 463 Am
erican soldiers, 78 Canadian soldiers
and 665 civilians-Americans and
nationals of Mexico, Venezuela and
Peru. The white ship flying the
neutral Swedish flag, pulled in at
pier after 13-day voyage.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
u. s. Planes Hit
At NuerenberQ

LONDON, Feb. 81. (UP)-More
than 1850 American bombers and
fighters pounded German railroad
and industrial targets in the Nazi
shrine city of Nuremberg Wednes-
day for the second straight day.
Following up Tuesdays 2000-ton
raid on the city, the U. S. Eighth
airforce sent more than 1900 Flying
Fortresses ana Liberators back to
the attack Wednesday in an appar-
ent effort to complete the destruc-
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
Curious Jap inquiries Why
Armv Advunc es Backward

Hamada told the Imperial Diet
that If Two was lost "our homeland
will be covered by enemy fighter
planes"
Domei news agency disclosed that
Sotaro Ishiwata lao been relieved
of his post as finance minister In
the Japanese cabinet and named
minister Of state without portfolio.
Juichi Tsushima, vice president OF
the Bank OF Japan, was appointed
finance minister.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
D AMBlINe
EpoRTER

The Ice Box
Maybe you think The court house
is pleasant place these cold windy
days. But it isn't.
The furnace has been cold as you
know what all this week. Everyone
in the building has Shivered and
gone about the usual work with
chattering teeth.
1t is common sight to see the
court house personnel struggling to
work each mo hing, carrying some
kind of stove To alleviate the frigid
atmosphere. A small oil stove in the
county school superintendent Of
flee was used to boil a pot of cof-
fee Wednesday morning, the staff
making the poor old thing do double
duty.
Why is it, we wonder, the court
house furnace is always overhauled
during the coolest weather?
Just Retributi0n-
Cold weather is still slapping
Weathe-man Roy Simpson around.
Continued on Page 6, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21

the enemy has finally advanced to
Saipan and Luzon islands"
The legislator. a representative
Hamada. was quoted by a Tokyo
broac cast recorded by the FEC.
Only last week General Tomoyuki
Yamashita, commander in chief of
Japanese forces in the Philippines,
said he had chased" General Doug
las Macarthur all over the South
Pacific and now had the Americans
where he wanted them.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21

of an early American attack on the
China coast, which Admiral Chester
w. NimitZ, U. S. commander-in-
chief in the central Pacific, has
named as one of his major objec-
tives.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21

ocean indicated the divisions were
believed to be considerably smaller
than those used in European. or
American armies.
Japanese spokesmen repeatedly
have speculated on the possibility
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
WEATHER FORECAST

Generally clear Wedne d a y
night and Thursday, with de-
creasing wind by Thursday after
noon. Slightly higher daytime
temperatures Thursday with the
maximum around 68 degrees. Wind
Wednesday night will keep tenn
peratures above freezing i'm all
exposed locations. Temperatures
Thursday night will be somewhat
lower, with light to moderate
frost. Temperatures of 20 degrees
i'm the coolest spots.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
BY UNITED PRESS

Japan's war lords must
have been embarrassed We'd
nesday by a question posed
.in the Imperial Diet.
A legislator, who once serv-
ed in the Two garrison, asked
Why since Guacalcanal, our strong
holds have fallen into the hands
CT the enemy one after another, and
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
u. S. Casualties
On Wo Mount

ADMIRAL NINiITz HEADQUARTERS, Guam, Feb 81
today that the fourth fifth
1850 casualties killed
first 48 hours action that bleak island the
There breakdown of the headquarters
would
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
Russ SiunS Sweep
On Danzi9 in
Wide Offensive
Big Rail Junction on Berlin Line
Falls to Onrushins Red Force;
Dresden-Breslau Battles Reopened

LONDON, Feb. 81. (UP)-Marshal Konstantin K. Rok-
ossovskys norhward sweep the old Polish corridor We'd
nesday Czers big rail junction the Berlin trunk
line Al miles southwest of Danzig.
Marshal Stain issued special order of the day
nouncng the capture of Czers in the center of the
ridOr 46 miles north of Bydgoszcz.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21

Other MOSCOW reports said Mar
shall Ivan S. Konev had renewed his
two-way drive toward Berlin and
Dreso en-, and his forces were storm
ing the suburbs of Guben, fortified
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21


arshalS invasion brefO
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-21
WEATHER

Maximum Tues. 20, minimum Wed.
80; 5 am. Wed. A, mo humid. read.)
noon Wed. 81, (no humid. read.) /;
5 pm. Tues. Sc, (no humid. read.)