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Evening star., 1945-01-22
Labor BIomes Officials
For Navy Yard Troubles

NORFOLK, Va, Jan. % tP.-The
Executive Board of the Hampton
Roads District Labor Council issued
statement last night declaring
hundreds of naval officers in the
administration of the Norfolk Navy
Yard had more authority than
their experience warrants" and that
there had been production delaying
actions" by the management.
Executive Secretary R. I. Pinkson
issued the statement for the board,
which represents all AFL-Affiliated
unions in Norfolk, Portsmouth and
Newport News.
The action followed a recent sur
prise visit to the Norfolk yard by
the Senate War Investigating Com
mittee.
The Hampton Roads Labor Coun-
Gil said it welcomed an investiga-
ton of the yard and stated that
labor had complained of "unsatis-
factory conditions which have re-
SUITED in thousands of workers
leaving the yard, tournover of
close to l25 per cent. # 3"
The councils statement said fur
ther lin the opinion of the council,
contributing factor to the diff
culties is the fact that civilian en-
ployes with many years of expert
ence in their trades must take orders
and fall under the authorities of
naval personnel some of whom are
fresh from training schools. There
are now hundreds of naval officers
in the administration who have
more authority than their expert
ence warrants.
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victory. We must carry the fight to
the enemies of our constitutional
system of Government and of the
freedom and progress to which we
are so oeeply devoted"
Perry w. Howard, national COM
mitteeman for Mississippi. planned
to tell the committee that the
Democrats had won the recent elec-
tion "by reason of the colored vot-
ers." He made the following rec
concentrations to the committee
to win back the vote of the colored
people:
/. That the sum of 100000 be
allocated for use in the colored press
to carry on campaign of educa-
ton.
2. That a colored assistant or
ganizer and colored assistant pub
licity director be employed by the
chairman in our headquarters.
Advisory Committee Urged.
3. That an advisory committee
of colored leaders be appointed by
the chairman without compensation
as consultants on the best means of
restoring the colored voters to his
natural place as a factor in the
Republican party.
4. That the committee seriously
consider the question of cutting
down representation in Congress in
tho South in cnpSop O moo with the
Federal Constitution because Of the
denial of the ballot to a certain
segment of our citizens.
Evening star., 1945-01-22
Norfolk
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ers. When the survey was finished,
Senator Mead asserted. the need
had been reduced to 1000 and pro-
duction had jumped from 81 to Z
ships per month.
Yet many plants will not cooper
ate with the VINO on such surveys,
Senator Mead said, and declared the
War Manpower Commission must
have all needed powers to do plant
surveys wherever they are needed
and to force action on its findings.
"It must have this power now" he
ADDED.
Asks Services to Clean House.
Senator Mead called on the armed
forces to clean their houses-not
only their arsenals and Navy yards
but also their actual uniformed
ranks"
There has been too much evi-
dence of wasted manpower in uni
FORM" he said. There are too
many men now assigned to nom
productive jobs"
In discussing the Norfolk Navy
Yard, he said the committee had
|s'no reason to believe that the per-
sons in charge are any less able
than those in charge of any other
Navy yard or war plant.
"In fact" he added, I'VE are in
formed that the record of the Nor
folk Navy Yard in comparison to
other Navy yards is excellent"
There are indications, he con-
tinued, that at another Navy yard,
which he did not name, 'only 80
per cent of the potential work of
common laborers is actually real
ized."
Waste at Yard Cited.
At Norfolk, Senator Mead said,
this was one situation disclosed:
Men waste valuable time and
materials making personal trinkets
flor their superiors. . Valuable
|hand-carved furniture is made-in
Iwartime-for the use of the shop
masters. Many weeks Of labor were
wasted on one table alone.
while we were in the yard work
was being done on an ornate checker
board and on special table for
opening oysters. The table was in
tended for use at just one oyster
feast to be attended by few shop
masters. Erection Of an elaborate
christmas tree and model village
with elaborate lighting took many
days work. All Of this work was
directed to be done by supervisors.
Evening star., 1945-01-22
Additional Snow Limits
Activity on Italian Front
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, Jan. 22.-Snowfalls on
already mowbound mountain posi-
tions limited even patrol activity
along the Italian front today-the
first anniversary of the historic
landing at Anzio.
In the Adriatic sector, an enemy
raiding party penetrated 21a miles
into Allied lines northeast of Alfon-
sine after heavy artillery barrage,
but were thrown back to their orig
inal positions by 9th Army troops.
Farther southwest. patrols were
active on both sides of the Senio
River. to which the Germans are
clinging as their defense line in the
9Th Army sector.
A few Allied patrols operating in
the 5th Army sector northwest of
Vergemoli, 3 miles west of Gallicano
in the Serchio River valley, reported
only light contact with the Germans.
Allied headquarters said enemy
patrol action had been speeded up
on the American front south and
southeast of Bologna.
Evening star., 1945-01-22
Confederate Who Saw
Lee Surrender Dies at 101

ALBION, N. Y. Jan. 22.-Andrew
Hall, Confederate veteran, died to-
day, two days before he was to cele-
brate his 102d birthday.
| He and his wife, who is 85,. OBJ
served their 62d wedding anniver-
sary November Q. Mr.. Hall, twice
wounded in the Civil War, served
under Gen. Robert E. Lee and wit
messed the Confederate leaders sur
render in 1865
Evening star., 1945-01-22
Russia
Continued From First Page.)

Torun, $4,000 population. on the
Vistula.
BY official Moscow announcement
Marshal Ivan Konev's 1st Ukrain-
ian Army had broken into Silesia
second only to the Ruhr and the
Saar in it's rich German mines and
industries, on a 56-mile front and
to depth of 10 miles or more.
The Russians were last reported
in the neighborhood of Namslau
% miles east of Breslau, city OF
refuge for Hitlers bombed in
dustries from the Ruhr.
The Russians had broken into
the first Silesian line of defense
running from Oels. Namslau to
Kreuzberg and Beuthen in at least
five places, and were within 10 miles
of the Oder, which the Polish gov
ernment at Lublin has set for its
western frontier.
Moscow said the Russians were
within IA miles of severing the main
railway from Berlin to the rich
cluster of industrial cities, Beuthen
Gleiwitz and Hindenburg. Their
combined population totals nearly
$50 900.
Five major towns inside German
Silesia had been taken by the Rus
slams, who were about 200 miles
from Berlin in this sector.
General Withdrawal Seen.
There were indications that the
unchecked blows of the five Russian
armies north of the Carpathians
might be forcing general Nazl
withdrawal to prepared defenses
along the Oder River-with the pos
sible sacrifice of East Prussia in an
effort to stem the mighty Soviet
tide.
From Stockholm came a state.
ment by well-informed military
sources that the Germans seem tc
have little chance of Offering any
serious defense to the Russian drives
short of the Oder River line. Re.
ports from Bern, Switzerland, esti.
mated the Nazis still had 140 di.
visions ready to throw into a de-
fense line roughly from Danzig te
Breslau to Vienna.
Whatever the Nazi strategy the
fact remained that the huge winter
Soviet offensive-now in its tenth
day-surged toward the Reich ir
spectacular fashion.
Evening star., 1945-01-22
U. 5. Flyers Brave
Cold Gales 10 Bomb
Targets in Germany
Ry the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
LONDON, Jan. 22.-Flying Fort
resses and Liberators from Britain
this afternoon braved wintry gales
over the continent and bombed
targets inside Germany. Billiards
checked the pace Of the Allied air
operations during the morning.
One of the targets identified was
a synthetic oil refinery at Sterkrade
in the Ruhr.
The day raid followed night
attack on Kassel. rs miles south
of Hanover, hy RAF bombers.
Yesterday American heavy bomb
ers from Britain, flying in tempera-
lures as low as 81 degrees below
zero, hammered rail targets in
Southwest Germany while ITALY
based bombers attacked objectives
in Austria.
Mine hundred United States 9Th
Air Force Liberators and Fortresses,
with an escort Of 500 fighters, hit
Mannheim, Ascha6enburg and He'll
bronn. A medium force Of heavy
bU4uuClS AIO1u tAIC OAAICu f0thgCS AoVAA
Air Force skirted the Alps and pene-
trated as far north as Vienna.
Continent-based dive bombers OF
the United States 9th Air Force flew
$50 sorties, principally against motor
transport and armored circles on
German roads east of the Ardennes
The 9th's medium and light bomb.
ers took off for the first time in five
days, and supplemented the heavy
bomber assault on rail traffic with 8
series of attacks directly behind tht
German lines.
On the British sector Spitfires anc
Typhoons flew $50 sorties, ahead O.
1t. Gen. Sir Miles c. Dempsey.
troops tanning out into Germany
from Sittard.
One Marauder and two dive bomb
ers were claimed by German fax
One British bomber was lost in tn.
jab at Kassel.
The Mediterranean Allied All
Forces announced II bombers wer,
missing from the more than 1,50t
sorties flown yesterday. Two enemy
planes were shot down. The Unitee
States 9th Air Force losses were no
yet disclosed.
Evening star., 1945-01-22
Two Nazi Spies Reported
Seen in Baird rex.) Cafe
BY the Associated Press.


BAIRD. Tex, Jan. 22.-Federal
Bureau of Investigation agents are
investigating a report that two Ger
man espionage agents, whom FB1
Director J. Edgar Hoover had said
are under orders to enter the United
States, had been seen here.
Sheriff Alfred Peterson of Gala
han County said a railroad fire.
man and a cafe employe identified
two men who ate in a cafe here
Saturday as Max Christian johann
mes Schneemann and Hans Rudolf
Christian Zuehlsdorff. Identifica-
ton, he said, was made from a pic
ture of the men published in an
Abilene paper shortly after the men
had eaten in the cafe. ......s
Director Hoover sounded Nation
wide alert Friday for the two and
for third, Oscar Max Wins.
Evening star., 1945-01-22
Is Jap Planes, Attempting
To Reach Luzon, Downed

PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUAR-
TIERS, PEARL HARBOR, Jan. %
P.-United States carrier based
aircraft, which japanese reports
said were again striking at Formosa
and the Ryukyus, shot down 16 en-
emy planes attempting to reach the
Philippine battlefront on Luzon.
This Navy interception of air re-
Inducements for Gen. Tomoyaki
Yamashitas hard-pressed Luzon
force was reported in Pacific Fleet
communique yesterday. 1t said the
enemy planes, flying from Formosa.
were shot down Friday.
The communique made no nen-
ton of any new attack on Formosa,
as reported by Tokyo
An Imperial Japanese communi-
que today claimed three American
aircraft carriers and an unidentified
warship were set afire yesterday Of
Formosa by japanese bombs.
Such enemy reports frequently
precede official announcement from
this headquarters of fleet operations
Admiral William Fa aHalsey's Sd Fleet
carrier planes last hit Formosa
January IA and Is after raids along
the Indo-China and China coast.
The Navy communique also re-
ported Army Liberators of the Stra-
tegic Air Force again struck at Two
Jima, in the Volcano Islands, $50
miles south of Tokyo, January 18.
Chichi Jima Bombed.
Other Army Liberators, the COM
munique said, bombed Chichi Jima
in the Bonins.
japanese still clinging to Wake
Island, long since bypassed in the
American surge westward, put up
moderate antiaircraft fire January
10 against raiding Navy Ventura
search planes. Marine aircraft hit
enemy bases in the Marshalls.
Evening star., 1945-01-22
DR.. Fisher Formally Named
Archbishop Of Canterbury

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 22.-The Right
Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher was
formally elected Archbishop of Can
terbury today.
The 57-year-old Lord Bishop Of
London was nominated by King
George vi and his election took
place at a meeting of the greater
chapter, consisting of cathedral
canons, in Canterbury Cathedral.
He succeeds DR.. william Temple,
who died October 26.
Evening star., 1945-01-22
Men are told to stretch out jobs

Men are told to stretch out jobs
and to appear to be working
When investigators 60 through
the men are warned in advance to
look busy. They must put work into
machines even if they merely ruin
metals. A few minutes before the
investigators actually appear another
warning is given by Paul Revere.
who tears through the shop just
ahead of the Investigators. Our
committee did not receive this treat
ment, probably because we appeared
on short notice. 1t was worked on
Others"
Evening star., 1945-01-22
Suaur Broker Dies

NEW YORK, Jan. 20 R.-Wl
liam Dickens Haxworth, rs, sugar
broker and director of the Cuban
American Sugar Co.. died yesterday
A native of Yorkshire, England, he
formerly was associated with the
United Fruit Co. In New Orleans
and Boston
Evening star., 1945-01-22
$50 Carrier Planes
Raid Ryukyus Again,
Tokyo Radio Reports
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Tokyo radio reported that
about $50 American carrier
borne planes struck at Okinawa
Island in the Ryukyu chain,
south of Japan proper, today for
the second successive day.
There was no Allied confirmation
Today's attacks began early in
the morning, the Tokyo broadcast
said.
1t admitted that Okinawa's in
stallations had suffered damage, but
reiterated that the losses were
light" Forty-five of the attacking
planes were claimed shot down and
"a damaged.
This is one of the largest raids
that Tokyo has ever reported.
Evening star., 1945-01-22
National U. Reception

The new quarters of National
University, at 1225 New York ave-
nue. NV. were inspected yesterday
by TOO alumni during a reception
given by Judge George P. Barse Of
Municipal Court. chancellor. Glasses
have been held there since October.
Evening star., 1945-01-22
Republicans
Continued From First Page.)

adequately represent the Republi-
can National Committee and Re-
publican party as he should" Mr..
Nelson said. when one of the
members of his firm appears for a
corporation in a matter involving
organized labor, Immediately the
public will tie in the Republican
National Committee as being against
labor. No man in a law firm can
at the same time run the biggest
job in the world, no matter who the
man may be. This is national
politics.
Seeks Disinterested Chairman.
Il sincerely and honestly believe
we should pick man for chairman
who will determine now or in the
immediate future whether his per-
sonal interest and those of Tom
Dewey are more important than the
interests of the Republican party"
The committee, however, adopted
a resolution accepting Mr.. Brownell's
plan. 1t was offered by Raymond
Evening star., 1945-01-22

Speed the day Of peace and
plenty"-Buy an extra War Bond
today.
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IF this program is carried out in
telligently, we shall win in 1896"
Mr.. Brownell told the committee.
1T is rank and file program, COM
piled after checking many hundreds
of letters and memoranda received
since election day. We cannot af-
ford to gamble that the mistakes Of
the opposition alone will insure our
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-18
Two Droops and a Drip
Former AA Favorites, To
Appear in Show Tonight

CAMP DAVIS, April 1.-two
Droops snd Drip, comedy
trio that has travelled over $4,000
miles in the past few months,
playing at every installation in
the Personnel Distribution Com
nand, will be featured in tonight;
C. I. Varieties at Camp Davis.
Pvt. Jackie Whalen, Cpl. Bill
Cohen and Pvt. rnie Sultan, on
temporary duty at Camp Davis,
are celetra ting kind of home
coming, stree they were formerly
stationed at the base when it was
an anti-a:rcraft installation. Will
mington audiences will remember
their work from many bond
shows, local entertainments. and
Sack.
Sgt. Bugs Benedict, holder Of
the Allied ribbon because OF his
prior connection with the Raj
will once again BE- featured in 4
dance act, while Sgt. Aston
Townley will be the featured vo-
calist of the evening.
The 'Bombardiers" popular
post orchestra, conducted by W-O
Thomas i Nichols, will play sew
eral special arrangements by Cpl.
Andy Gaios.
The show is being produced by
Pvt. Jackie Raynes.
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Warsaw Methodist
Zone Meeting Held

WARSAW, April II. - The dis
trict zon3 meeting OF the Woman S
Society OF Christian Service was
held in The Methodist church here
on Thursday. Mrs. Leland Teach
sy, of Rosehill, presided.
The RsI. o Williams gave
the devotional, and Mrs. H. R.
Hipp, president of the local W. 5.
c. S., extended greetings. Mrs. W.
L. Hussey OF Wallace, responded.
Mrs. NJ. P. Edans spoke. A BUT
fet supper was served.
Principal and Mrs. j. P. Har-
mon ente. tanned at a dinner par
ty on Thursday evening at resi-
dence of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. c. Russ
for the members of the Warsaw
school faculty, the members OF the
Board OF Education, and other
school officials. Mrs. Harmon was
assisted by Mrs. Warren A. Smith
in serving a turkey dinner and
dessert course 10 the 80 guests.
Games were played and Mrs. W.
M. BUCK, received a gift for high
score in bridge, Mrs. Emma
Chambers in bingo, and Miss Mil
dred Hamilton, in runmy.
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Doolittle;s Tokyo Raid
CHANGED Trend OF War

ground and fire-proof her indus
trial areas.
They do not know that the Japa-
nese fleet was rampaging at will
in the Indian ocean during early
April, 1912, after knocking out the
British eastern fleet consisting OF
the obsolete aircraft carrier
Hermes and heavy cruisers Dore-
setshire and Cornwall. Filters from
the same Japanese fleet hit the
important British supply base Of
Colombo, Ceylon, and the only ma
val base in the Indian theater
Trincoma,ee, burning out hanger:
and military installations.
The same powerful fleet sup
ported the Andaman islands land
ing and another at Akyab, neal
sprawling, helpless, teeming Cal
cutta.
The situation in early April wa
desperate. There was disaffectiol
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-18
Mrs. Hacker
Enter tainS AT
Bridge Tuesday

Last evening Mrs. FIR n k
Hacker entertained at her home
In Fores: Hills with bridge honor
ing Miss Frances Thornton, BRIDE
elect of Saturday afternoon. Mrs.
Hackers guests were invited Tor
8 O'Clock and bridge was ENJOY
ed during the evening, after which
. salad and sweet course was
served.
Miss Thornton was presented
with gifts in silver and linen by
her hostess. The brides table IN
the dining room was beautifully
appointed and was conferred with
an Arrangement of white snap
dragons and white stock with
burning white tapers in Candida
bra.
Invited guests were Miss Thorn
ton. honp1ee; her mother, Mrs. }.
Goodlett Thornton; Mrs. W. W.
Holiday. the bride-elects grand
mother: Miss Lucretia Thornton,
Mrs. William Broadfoot, Mrs.
Winston Broaofoot, Miss Juliette
Robertson. Mrs. William Thorn
ton, Miss Mary Davis, Miss Betty
Blue Willis, Miss Betty Swain,
Mrs. Jackson Baulch, Mrs. Ted
Bennett. Miss Anne Burr, Miss
Mae Clark, Miss Alice Sprunt,
Miss Louise Hooper, and Miss
Mary Taylor.
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BY EUGENE BURNS
Associated Press War Editor

SAN FRANCISCO, April 17-CR,
Jimmy Doolittle's raid on Tokyo
three years ago tomorrow chang
ed the trend of the Pacific war.
That was because bombs and
incendiaries dropped for the first
time on Japan's homeland left the
very real threat that it could hap
pen again.
To answer that threat, Japan's
military leaders pulled a strong
Japanese carrier fleet out of the
Indian ocean and sent it speeding
back to protect it's homeland. Il
was the strongest carrier fleet ever
assembled up to April, 1912, con
sisting of five first-class carriers
three battleships, heavy and ligh1
cruisers and destroyers.
To intercept future possible U
S. carrier-borne bombers, the
same frightened leaders also tiee
up many planes in Japan sorely
needed in the South Pacific-anc
helped the U. S. to get a precari.
Gus toehold on Guadalcanal foul
months later.
Those 80 volunteer Army flier'
taking off, from the Navy carrier
also gave the shot in the arm
needed by our discouraged fight
ing men in the Picific after tax
ing a beating at. Pearl Harbor
Wake, Bataan, Hong Kong, Sin
gapore and Burma.
Pearl Harbor convalescents il
Oahu hospitals cheered themselve
hoarse at the good news,
| The famed carrier Enterprise
it can now be revealed, not onl
accompanied the Hornet but it ais
. did hard work on that histori
raid-Enterprise pilots closely ps
trolled the seas during extreme
ly dirty flying weather while tn
Hornets deck was tied up wit
the .16 twin engined Mitchell bomt
ers.
Doolittle's blow was the first tel
ing offensive struck by an Arm
and Navy team working togethe
and that helped in those wranl
ling: days of Pacific retreating.
Critics, merely evaluating dan
age inflicted by Doolittle's fliel
: and failing to note the global a!
) poets, have said that the raid wa
, premature, caused little damag
> to Japan's war machine and fore
warned her to put factories under
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SoroSiS Meet
Set Thursday

The Conservation and Thrift
committee of North Carolina So
rosis will have charge of the pro-
gram on Thursday afternoon at
4 o'clock IN the Sorosis clubhouse
on North Third street
Miss Co1delia B. Foster, home
service director of the Tide Wa
ter Power company, will talk on
Conservation in the Home and
give a demonstration of spring and
summer salads and desserts.
Each member is privileged to
bring a guest to this meeting.
Officers of the committee are:
Mrs. Addison Hewlett, chairman;
Mrs. N. D. Edwards, vice-chair'
man; and Mrs. E. E. Purvis, Jr.,
secretary.