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the first warship in history to enter
the port OF Jidda, as well as the
first United States vessel of its
kind to pass through the Suez Canal
during World War II. The de-
stroyer decks were covered with rich
oriental rugs while gilded chairs
gave added touches of unusual
splendor as also did the flowing
robes and accessories that make the
Arabian dress so strikingly pic
turesque.
While a cabin was prepared for
the King aboard his ship, he pre-
ferred to live out of doors. A tent,
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therefore, was set up on the fore
castle deck and he lived in it as II
he were making pilgrimage some
where in the vast desert regions of
Arabia. The Kings entourage
numbered 48, comprising his brother,
Emir Abdullah, Emir Mollammed
and Emir Mansour, sons of the
King; Sheikh Abdullah Es-Sulei-
man, Minister of Finance; Sheikh
Yussuf Yassin, Deputy Foreign Min
ister; Sheikh Hafiz Wahba, Min
lister to London. and others.
Col. William A. Eddy, Marine
Corps, retired, now serving as
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Reaction Is Mixed
On Curfew Ediet, but
Support Is Indicated
Restriction on Night Life
Primarily to Save Cool,
Goes in Effect Monday

A midnight curfew for Ameri.
can night life goes into effec,
Monday, primarily to save coal.
Decreed by War Mobilization Di.
rector Byrnes, the ruling covers al
places of entertainment" public
and private. Listed specifically are
night clubs, sports arenas, theaters
dance halls. road houses, saloons
bars and other similar enterprises
Excluded are restaurants en-
gagged exclusively in serving food
This would indicate that establish
ments might remain open after
midnight, If their operations are
confined to dispensing food.
Director Byrnes couched his an
nouncement in terms of a request,
but the program is backed by the
disciplinary powers of four wal
agencies.
Reaction Varies.
Reaction among sdsertainmen,
leaders ranged from enthusiastic
assurances of support to outright
defiance, declarations such as we're
ruined" and predictions of return
of the speakeasy.
The decree will have the effect oi
closing Washington's night spots two
hours earlier, five nights q week
Monday through Friday. The Il
o'clock closing already is effective or
Saturday nights.
The Byrnes announcement was is
sued late yesterday just a shor'
while after a new 48-hour ban was
invoked on the use of natural OF
mixed gas in amusement places ir
the Appalachian area, because Of
the gas shortage.
Text Of Announcement.
The text of the announcement:
Director of War Mobilization and
Reconversion James F. Byr.4es an
nounced today that he is requesting
all places of entertainment to close
lSee CURFEW, Page AID
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Arrival Of Nuzi's Son
In Argentine Is Denied

By the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES. Feb. 20.-Argen-
tine spokesman last night said q
Moscow broadcast reporting the ar
rival in Argentina of Karl Friedrich
Bormann, son of Martin Bormann,
deputy leader Of the Nazi party, be-
longed In the realm Of fairy tales.
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Italian Front Activity
Limited to Patrols
" the Associated Press.


ROME. Feb. 20.-A German loud
speaker propaganda broadcast and
concentrated mortar fire which
stifed it relieved monotony on the
static 9th Army front today. Ac-.
tivity in Italy otherwise was con-
fined to patrols in which the 5th
Army improved its positions some
what in the Tyrrhenian coastal
area.
Eighth Army troops also were en-
gagged in q skirmish on the Senio
River near Fusignano with one Ger
man.
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Three U. S. Cruisers Lost
At Two, Jups Claim
~ the Associated Press.

- sS@S ~HsSOStAstHzHttf
The japanese Domei agency de-
clared In q broadcast dispatch today
that the Americans had lost three
cruisers, three warcraft Of unde-
termined category, two patrol boats
and four transports in the opera
tons against Two Island.
There was no Allied confirmation
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British Troops Expond
|lrruwoddy Bridgeheod

~ The Associated Press.
HANDY, Ceylon, Feb. TO- British
18th Army troops haxe expanded
their hridgehead across the IRA
waddy River 35 miles below Manda-
lay in Burma despite japanese coun-
terattacks and artillery fire, Allied
headquarters announced today.
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Heavy Howitzers Blast
Manila Walls 10 Rout
Japs' Final Stand
Guns Open Way for Tonks
And Infantry to Free
1000 CiviIion Hostages
BY the Associated Press.

os inc aSSocidtSu rieSs
| MANILA, Feb. 20.-American
heavy howitzers today tore holes
in the thick outer walls of Ma
nila's Intramuros walled city,
to clear the way for tanks and
infantrymen determined to wipe
out the last major Japanese
strong point in the capital and
free 1000 civilian hostages.
1t was possible some of the ci-
villains already had reached freedom
by risking heavy enemy fire to slip
into the waterfront areaAand escape
in small boats.
While 18th Air-borne and 1st Cav
airy Yanks entered Fort William
Mckinley. at the southern out
skirts of the capital, 37th Division
troops wheeled big howitzers over
pontoon bridges spanning the Pasig
and began shelling medieval Intra-
muros walls 40 feet thick at the base.
Walls Still Being Battered.
Three days ago Maj. Gen. Oscar
w. Griswold asked the Japanese
commander in the Intramuros to
liherate the civilians within the
walls in exchange for honorable sur
render No formal answer was forth
coming, so the Americans proceeded
to knock the walls down.
BY noon yesterday a considerable
portion of the outer wall had been
preached, but further pounding will
be necessary before tanks and troops
can move in.
The 37th Division and elements
of the 1st Cavalry were girding for
final assault on the spot in which
the cornered japanese are deter
mined to make bloody final stand.
Gen. Macarthur, announcing con-
tinued mopping up of japanese on
Corregidor and Bataan, also re-
ported the capture of Fort William
Mckinley in his communique today.
Patrols entered the fort annex
and occupied most of the old mill
tary area. but officers were hesitant
4 to claim the complete capture of the
fort until mopping up of the ad-
jacent area is finished.
Clashes Northeast of Manila.
| Mckinley is one of two forts in
Manila. The other is Fort Santiago,
inside the Intramuros. Mckinley
before the war was headquarters
for the Philippine Scouts and part
of the Philippine division of the
American Navy.
Gen. Macarthur announced the
capture of Hagonoy and Tagig, on
the northwest shore of Laguna de
Bay, southeast of Manila, but there
was increasing indication the Jap
anese may be forming a defense
line northeast of the capital. Some
of the Manila defense garrison may
have escaped in that direction. Gen.
Macarthur reported patrol clashes
in the area.
American bombers ranging the
China Sea poured ITS tons of ex-
plosives on Formosa's Takao area.
An aluminium plant and railroad
yards were damaged extensively.
Northwest Borneo airdromes were
hit with "a tons of bombs.
A small Japanese cruiser. was
sunk at night off Cebu, in the Gen.
trail Philippines by patrol torpedo
hOatS
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By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, Feb. 20.-The Canadian
1st Army today virtually cleared
the ruins of Goch, fortified Sieg-
fried Line ro4d cEtiter, and re-
PEELED at least five vicious coun-
terattacks which checked gains
on the northern wing of the
western front.
At the opposite flank, the Amer
lean 7th Army widened its resur-
gent front inside the industrial Saar-
land and captured five towns in a
move to within 31a miles of the
blackened steel city of Saarbrueck-
en-. The 7th Army, at least II di-
visions and 155, 900 men strong. was
applying increasing pressure in its
limited offensive at the fringe Of
the packed arsenal region.
Yanks Cross MoseIle.
In between, 1t. Gen. George S.
Patton's American Sd Army stormed
into Germany at a new point, cap
turing Wincheringen, mile across
the border east of Luxembourg City
and 5 miles from the fortified road
hub OF Saarburg. The Gath Division
seized four towns along a 4-mile
front between Saarbruecken and
Trier, Germany's oldest city and
birthplace of Karl Marx.
Gen. Patton'S forces made a sur
prise crossing Of the Moselle River
to capture Wincheringer.
The Gath captured Oberleuken,
Kesslingen, Faha and Munzingen,
from 2 to 3 miles east and southeast
OF Sinz and miles inside Germany.
The cluster of villages is about 8
Evening star., 1945-02-20
Stassen Accepts Bid
Top Choice
AS Political Liability
Duty to Work for Peoce
|. Cited in His Decision
On April Conference
BY GOULD LINCOLN

Comdr. Harold E. Stassen, aide
to Admiral William F. HalSey in
the South Pacific, who recently
was selected by President Roose-
velt to be a member of the Amer
lean delegation at the United
Nations conference in San Fran
cisco, told a press conference
at the Navy Department today
that he has accepted the ap-
pointment and will serve.
AS a Republican-he was Gov
ernor of Minnesota before he en-
tered the Navy-Comdr. Stassen
said, however, he believed that serv-
ice on the delegation would be .
political liability
II have accepted the President s
appointment he said. ''I consider
1t as much my duty to take an as
Isignment for a successful peace as
to take an assignment for a success
full war"
Asked to give his views on the
appointment, Comdr. Stassen re-
piled:
Politically, it is liability to me,
but cannot let that weigh against
such service in the. cause of inter-
national peace"
Further Politics Indicated.
Comdr. Stassen'S statement was
interpreted as an admission that he
intends to be politically active in
the future and to seek Republican
nomination for the presidency. He
was candidate for that nomination
in 1914, passive, rather than an
active candidate, for he was on duty
with the Navy in the South Pacific
during the preconvention campaign.
Further, his assertion that the ap-
pointment was a political liability"
was interpreted as meaning that he
had no intention of letting himself
be labeled a Roosevelt candidate"
for the Republican presidential
nomination, or even a Roosevelt
choice for such a nomination.
Comdr. Stassen said he would at
tend the conference in civilian
clothes He added, however, he was
not leaving the Navy and as soon as
the conference was over he would
rejoin Admiral Halsey at sea.
Comdr. Stassen said that during
his present leave he planned to talk
with Republican leaders in the House
and Senate and with Gov Thomas
E. Dewey In New York. He will re-
main here about five days and then
start for Minnesota, travelling by
way of New York.
Advocate Of CO. Operation.
He plans also to make a definite
statement of his own views on an
international peace organization. He
has always been a strong advocate
of international cooperation.
Comdr. Stassen said he thought it
was q wise thing to have Repub-
licans as members of the American
delegation to the San Francisco
conference. although such service
might be considered political IL
ability to any Republican.
1T is essential that I express my
own views before the conference
begins, the 37-year-old former Gov
ernor said, adding that he hoped to
obtain public relation to these views,
which he would put forth either In
a public speech, If opportunity pre-
sented, or in written statement.
My general views are well known"
he continued. II believe in strong
world policy for the United States,
(See STASSEN, Page A-5.)
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Four additional men from
the District area haze been
reported killed in this Wdr. See
"On the Honor Rol," Page Az.
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Canadians HurI Back
Five Counferattacks;
Goch Nearly Cleared
U. S. 7th Army Tokes
Five Towns, Widens
Sourlond Front
BULLETIN.

PARIS (P.-Furious Ger
man counterattacks to the
northeast of Goch today broke
through Allied lines and
seized positions on the Goch-
Calcar road. Gen. Henry
Crerar hastily threw in tank
and troop reinforcements and
furious fighting was under
way, q front dispatch said.
Southwest OF Goch, Scottish
and British troops advancing
l,500 yards seized Buchholt
and Halvenboom.
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(See MANPOWER, Page A-50
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(See NURSES, Page A-I0.)
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(See STASSEN, Page A-5.l
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(See RUSSIA, Page A-5.D
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tsee ROOSEVELT, Page A-12D
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'(See TWO JIMA. Page A-5.l
Evening star., 1945-02-20

The Berlin radio said the German
situation was critical in the Tuch-
eler Forest area of the Polish COR
ridor and west of the Vistula, where
the Soviets are pointed toward
Danzig.
The Moscow communique declared
1,500 Germans were slain when they
tried to break out of encircled
(See RUSSIA. PAGE A-5.)
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Ibn Soud's Arrival Like Page From Arabian Niohts

tSee CURFEW, Page A-12)
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-19
ROBERT TATE NAMED
TO SUCCEED DARDEN
AT PEOPLES SAYINGS

Robert H. Tate, formerly vice
president and trust officer OF the
Peoples Savings Bank and Trust
Co., was elected vice president
and cashier at yesterdays regular
meeting of the Board of Directors.
Mr.. Tate, whose appointment is
affective as of September Is,
succeeds D. M. Darden, who re.
signed the first Of this. month to
60 into business for himself. Mr..
Darden plans to go into the auto
mobile finance business at Rocky
Mount at an early date.
Mr.. Darden came to Whining
ton in 1888 from Raleigh, where
he served as State bank ex-
aminer for several years.
Mr.. Tate has been with the
Peoples bank for more than 70
years, serving as teller, assistant
cashier and trust officer.
M. Darden also was secretary
of the Wilmington Clearing House
Association.
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NEWSPAPER UNION
DENIED BENEFITS

CHICAGO, Sept. 49, @ The
WLB Daily Newspaper Commits
sion, acting on last summer
strike in New York, today denied
the unions request for a welfare
fund and other benefits and the
publishers proposal for an arbi'
tration clause in the agreement.
The agreement, based on hear
ings conducted in Chicago in Aug,
ust, was drafted by the three-mar
commission to dispose of issues ir
dispute that resulted in strike
that tied up circulation of II maj
or New York dailies in July.
It left wages for the unaffiliatec
Newspaper and Mail DELIVERIES
Union of New York and vicinity a
the old level of $4967 for a 40-hou1
five-day week for day workers ane
$49.S7 for a 37-hour five-day weel
workers but established six holi
days for time and one-half pay ane
set up vacation schedule. Tit
union asked a ST day raise.
The Labor member of the com
mission, Charles V. Ernest, Balti
more, international representative
of the International Printing Press
mems and Assistants Union, dis
sented with denial Of the welfare
fund and of severance pay and sicl
leave, along with several othel
points included in the agreemen
at the publishers request.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-19
Truman Merges Three
Major Labor Agencies

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 -(R -
President Truman today merged
three labor agencies into one and
handed Secretary of Labor Lewis
B. Schwellenbach broad powers to
cope with postwar industrial strife.
Mr.. Truman shifted the War La
Dor Board and War Manpower
Commission to the Labor Depart
ment.
He also wiped out the Office of
Economic Sterilization from Under
William H. Davis, shaggy-headed
New Dealer who had served pre-
viously as War Labor Board chair
man. Davis duties were handed
over to Reconversion Director
John w. Snyder.
Davis made no immediate state
ment, but the President said he
would have nothing to do hence
forth. The implication was that
Davis's long desire to resign would
be fulfilled.
Schwellenbach, genial, bespec-
Continued on Page Two; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-19
"LIQUOR RING" BIG
POLITICAL FORCE,
GOVERNOR STATES

COLUMBIA, S. c., Sept. 49,
Ex-Governor Ransome j. Will
liams said today the '1iquor ring
in South Carolina was ''the most
potent political force" the state
has ever seen.
cts annual $10,00O,O0o profits
on $35, 100000 worth of business is
the weapon of its political force, "
the Governor said in a press in
terview.
He was questioned afte-- 1.-THE
Decanter," state beverage trade
publication, announced it would
print an article in its forthcoming
October issue that Williams had
reversed his legislative liquor con-
troll demands.
'I'll wait until see the article
in print before making any direct
comment" Williams said, cal
though I think its quite clear that
my most urgent request to the
Legislature was for state liquor
stores"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-19
lord HAW HAW"
WINS COURT BOUT

LONDON, Sept. 18.-(P)-William
Joyce, Nazi radio propag andist
defending himself against charge
Of treason, appeared today to have
established his claim to U. S.
citizenship and the court ruled
that only one of three counts
against him was effective.
The Lord Haw Haw' Of Ger
man broadcasts still must prove.
however, that he did not owe ale
legiance to the British crown when
he went to Germany on British
passport, the court ruled. Argu"
ments on this point will be resum"
ed tomorrow.
The first count of the Indictment
charged Joyce with broadcasting
Nazi propaganda between Sept. ID.
1889, and May %, 1915, while ow.
ing allegiance to Great Britain.
The second accused him Of Fad.
herring to the Kings enemies" by
purporting to become naturalized
subject of Germany.
Both of these were ruled ineffec.
tive.
The third and remaining count
was the same as the first except
that it was limited to the time be.
tween Sept. 18, 1889, and July 2,
1910, the period in which Joyce's
British passport was valid.
If the court rules that the pass
port privileges Joyce accepted
when he went to Germany did not
require British allegiance, he still
must face another secret British
indictment. Andi + British courts
invest him with the legal status Of
an American, and set him free, the
U. S. Attorney Generals office
has said it would grab him
quick"
The defense completed its case in
three hours today, without calling
Joyce to the stand. Defense At.
torney G. o. Slade produced certi.
fled and sealed copies of the Am.
erican naturalization record Of
Joyce's father, Michael, recorded
in Hudson County, N. j., in 1892
and 1894. He also introduced
Joyce's birth registration, pur-
porting to show the defendant was
born April "a, 1906, at 1877 Ker.
kimer St., Brooklyn.
H. E. Seedlings, First Secretary
of the U. S. Embassy in London.
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. u
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Hazel Says No Change
Expected In POW Status

1t. r.. H. Hazel, commanding
officer of the Wilmington POW
camp, said yesterday the work
situation Of the German prisoners
If war would remain "unchanged''
as reports were circulating here
that local users of the prisoners
soon will be deprived Of this help
and that the workers will all be
sent back to Germany.
The officer said the 461 prisoners
who have been at the installation
for the past three months were
still there but he had no informa-
ton as to how long they would
remain.
Although he was unable to pre-
dict the future Of the camp in re-
gard to its possible discontinuance,
Lieut.. Hazel did say he did not
expect any additional prisoners to
be sent here. III
Farmers, dairymen and fertilizer
and 7ulpwood industries, who have
been depending to a great extent
on prisoner labor, are still using
the Germans, contrary to rumor<
that the workers are no longer
available, it was stated.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-19
TIDE WATER POWER
LINESMAN KILLED
NEAR TABOR CITY

WH1TEVILLE, Sept. 18.-John
McCaskell Cook, 39-year-old lines
man for the Tide Wate-- Power
Co., was killed instantly at 3
a. m. today while he was chang
ing a transformer at substation
of the power company near Tabor
City. Cook is the second lines.
man of the Tidewater Power Co.
to be electrocuted within week
Clarence A. Langley was killed
at Evergreen about a week age
by a current of 1000 volts. Cook
was present at the time Langley
was killed.
Present when Cook was killed
were Dewey Hardee, Thurman
White and J. r. Stanley, all o.
the Tide Water Power company.
DR.. G.. S. Cox of Tabor City wa:
called Immediately and an attempt
was made to revive him until
about 5 o'clock, when he was
pronounced dead.
Cook had been connected with
the company since February Of
this year. His wife and one sor
had been making their home near
Whiteville.
Funeral services will be held
Thursday. However, arrange.
ments are incomplete.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-19
UNIONS TO STICK
ON WAGE DEMANDS

DETROIT, Sept. 49, P) Off
Gals of the United Automobile
Workers (CIO) asserted tonight
that the union plans to proceed
with its demand for a 80 per cent
general wage increase in the ma
TONS automobile industry but that
it would not refuse temporary in
creases at this time.
One union spokesman said tenn
porary increases might provide a
means of averting strikes in plants
Of major production. He pointed
out that negotiation Of an industry
30 per cent increase probably
would require months Of confer.
ences.
The union executives fastened to
add, however, that temporary in.
creases could be accepted by local
unions only so long as they left
the way open for an ultimate gen.
eral increase that would total SC
per cent. They emphasized that
there had been no offer to the in.
dustry in connection with stop-gar
increases and that they had men
toned no specific minimum as an
acceptable temporary increase al
this time.
Walter P. Rerther, JAW - C1O
vice-president, said in press con.
ference last week that if any com.
pany were to grant a 10 per cent
increase now and later agreed to
the full 30 per cent raise, the union
would expect the additional 20 per
cent to be made retroactive to the
effective date of the initial in
crease.
With no new work stoppages re-
ported in the Detroit area, those
idled by strikesand shut-downs re-
manned at approximately $4,000,
including the $4,000 workers sent
home last week by the Ford Motor
Co., when it closed its production
lines because Of labor difficulties
among its supplying firms.
Developments today in the battle
between the worlds biggest labor
union and the $4,000, 100000 AUTO
Continued on Page Two; Col. .
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WEATHER
Eastern Standard Time)

Eastern Standard Time)
by u. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 7:30 pm. yesterday.
Temperature
1870 am. 70; 7:3o am. rs; 1880 pm
oS; 1870 pm. n.
=, Maximum 80; Minimum u; Mean 49,
Normal 70.
Humidity
$50 am. 80; 1880 am. 80; 1870 pm
%; 7:30 pm. 70.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1880 pm
200 inches,
Total since the first of the month
oo5 inches
Tides For Today
,, IRON the Tide Tables published by
Y. s. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
r High Low
Wilmington ---- 7:31 am. 2:27 am
NJ 8:08 pm. 2:A pm
Masonboro Inlet STA am. 1882 am
SAB pm. 600 pm
sunrise 5:58; Sunset 6:14; Moonris'
VIC pm; Moonset Bill am.
River Stage at Fayetteville, N. c. at
am, Tuesday, Sept. 18), Sc feet. Expect
To to rise to 81 feet, by Thursday am
Continued on Page Two; Col. Il
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RAINFALL TO DATE
BREAKES 68-YEAR-OLD
RECORD, HESS STATES

The meteorological Turkish bath
which has lowered over Whining
ton during the summer, broke a
long standing precipitation record
of 60 years, U. S. Weatherman
Paul Hess disclosed yesterday.
During the period from June !
to Sept. 18, 1915, rainfall amount
ed to 41.97 inches, in comparison
with the same period during 1877,
when the record precipitation was
37.75 inches. In 1886, during the
same period, precipitation was
registered at 34.46 inches.
After look at the records, Hess
decreed the summer of 1945 to be
the wettest on record in the Viii
mington weather bureau.