Rome's Capture Without Damage Is Allied Problem : By LYNN HEINZERLING WITH THE FIFTH ARMY AT CASSINO, Feb. 7.—(Delayed)— Ml —The Fifth army’s scrupulous re spect for the abbey of Monte C'as sino, high on a hallowed peak above the battle-torn town of Cas sino, emphasizes a delicate prob lem facing Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark ini planning for expulsion of the Germans from the Holy City of Rome. The Italian capital, in addition to embracing Vatican City, is stud ded with shrines sacred to all Christians. rlt will present a problem even 'pore perplexing than that of Paris Ijj 1940. Paris was declared an open eity and left undefended as the Germans approached. It ’escaped damage. In the final analysis the type of warfare employed by the Allies in expelling the Germans from Rome will depend on the manner in which the German high command decides to defend it—if the city is to be defended. It is certain that the Allies will make every reasonable effort to spare the multitude of ancient and holy shrines in the city. The Allid record in their advance through Italy and particularly in its re gard for Monte Cassino indicate this beyond a doubt. Monte Cassino stands out above the Cassino-Rapido valley and sur rounding mountain peaks for miles almost like radio city dominates rhid-town New New Yrok. It is a perfect observation posf and many soldiers are convinced it is being used as such. Whether or not it is being used as an observation post the Germans have installed a series of stone, concrete and steel fortifications about it using its pre eminent position for defensive pur poses. Although it puts the Allies at a disadvantage and undoubtedly has cost American lives, Allied artil lery has carefully, spared the ground trod by St. Benedict. It has picked off targets far down its slopes and scrambled German . traffic on the road which winds about its base but the peak and abbey have been scrupulously pro tected. The Germans, taking advantage of the Allied atti' -de toward re ligious shrines, have seized it and -established positions in the very shadow of the aged buildings. There is nothing to indicate this extreme patience on the part of Allied commanders will be chang •~ed when Rome is reached. There have been reliable reports that the Germans already have laid mines in the Eternal City, al though so far there is nothing to in dicate they are r repared to blow ip churches and shrines. ' As one soldier put it today, the Sermans will determine the scope }f the fighting in Rome and if they decide to make it another Stalingrad they must answer for it ’fi the world’s history. The Allied attitude toward :hurch property was illustrated at Salerno where the Germans used a ;hurch on the side of a hill as an ibservation post. Allied artillerymen, not realizing ;he building was a church, put a tiole in it. That afternoon an Amer ican chaplain saw the damage and ;ook up a collection. He presented 10,000 lire ($300) to the church for repairs. This is not to say the churches in Italy, have been unscathed by var. I have seen many of them dam aged or completely wrecked. Many Df them were brought down by High explosive bombs dropped by planes. A few were hit by Allied artillery seeking to silence enemy guns placed in the protection of their walls. I have seen German mortar shells falling intc churches as Allied ground troops fought their way into towns. Nevertheless, the policy in the Fifth Army is that churches are not to be damaged or used unless absolutely necessary. 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You Can Fight, Too, Buy War Bonds Americans Slow Beachhead Drive (Continued from Page One) in the slowing down of the Ger man’s first main attempt to drive the beachhead defenders back in to the sea. There is no doubt in my mind the Germans were attempting to smash through one sector in an attempt to split the beachhead and then run in tanks as fast as pos sible. But despite wave after wave of German troops and tanks thrown into this push it did not break through, but made only a num ber of indentations which during the last 24 hours the Allies have : smashed. 1 reel now mat inn enemy wm have to mount a new drive as the One which began Monday night was petered out. During the night the Germans made several small attacks against both American and British lines, but they were quickly re pelled. One of these German as saults during the night was sup ported by 15 Mark IV tanks. Rising Enemy Power ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al giers, Feb. 10.—(ffl—Superior Ger man forces slashed with rising power at the entire 30-mile peri meter of the Awed beachhead near Rome in the past 24 hiRirs, probing for a weak point against which they might throw men and armor in an all-out assault on American and British troops who have been fighting almost continu ously for 16 days. The violence of Nazi artillery fire was increasing, and dispatch es said advanc d Allied forces were being supplied only at great risk. Even though the Allied air force struck with overwhelming power at the enemy’s immediate communications, with fighters op erating from an improvised land ing strip on the beachhead itself, the Germans still appeared to be massing reinforcements of men and tanks. “In order to try to give the blitzed and war weary German people their first big victory since Marshal Rommel’s last desert drive, Hitler is throwing the book at the beachhead,” wrote Kenneth Dixon of The Associated Press. Allied pilots say the German air men over the beachhead are the toughest yet seen in the Mediter ranean theatre. Dixon wrote, and they are in greater numbers than previously met over Italy. The German ground troops, too, arc powerful, including the 26th Panzer Division, veterans of Rus sia. They are willinp to spend many lives to gain a little grounr, he noted, declaring: “Everything points to one ob vious conclusion—the German high command has ordered the beach head knocked out regardless of cost.” He predicted that the full Ger man counter - offensive probably would come from the north. There was n) — Army quartermaster corps inspec tors from the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida will attend a confer ence here Feb. 15-16, the Charlotte quartermaster depot announced to night. Discussions will be led by Maj. A1 Corbin of quartermaster inspec tion service headquarters in New York and Dr. H. P. Bachus, field consultant of the quartermaster general’s office in Washington. -V-— President Seeks U. S. Owned Shops (Continued from Page One) President Roosevelt said tho money also would continue needed public works program- including “essential services among which are educational, health and child care facilities. Congress already has appropri ated $350.f>noono for this work, first authorized in 1940. I .. ..... - Slogan WASHINGTON, Feb. 10—W —The Treasury tonight passed along this slogan suggesting that money is better spent for War Bonds than for merrymak ing: “War Bonds do not grow on sprees.” The department identified the author as Edward Franz, a one time New York newspa perman who was badly wound ed in the First World War and since has undergone a long series of operations resulting from his wounds. -V Badoglio Given Old Authority (Continued from Page One) gime in Italy had been abrogated and that full civil and political rights were to be restored to jews. The decree annulling more than a dozen anti-semitic acts of the Fascist rule will immediately af fect not more than 1,000 Jews, as the majority of Italy’s Jewish pop ulation—never as much as 100,00C — lives in the German-occupied north. Mason-MacFarlane said returr of territorial administration to the Italian government was “withou prejudice to the rights which the United Nations have under the ar mistice,” but m-ant that Alliec military government personne would be reduced and woulc change “from executives to advis ers.” City Briefs STATE HIGHWAY PLEA The State Highway Patrol has issued a second plea to motorists to remove old license plates from vehicles and carry 1944 license tags on the rear of all motor vehicles. MARRIAGE license Harlan P. Brede of Milwau kee Wise., and Alice Price of Pink Hill, N. C., received a marriage license through the registrar of deeds office in the courthouse Thursday EDISON DAY The USO at Second and Or ange streets plan to hold a Thomas Alva Edison Anniver sary celebration on February 18th, and extends an invita tion to any interested person who owns a cylinder disc pho nograph of the old-fashioned Edison type to attend the cele bration, and demonstrate the phonograph. The club is also in need of a pressing iron for use by servicemen and their wives, and would much appre ciate the donation of an iron. ENGINEERS’ BARBECUE The Wilmington District En gineers and employees will hold an old fashioned barbe cue and dance Friday night at 6 p. m. at the garage building of the U. S, Engineers yard. RADIO THEFT Leroy Robinson, employe of Shoemaker Book Store, report ed the theft of a radio from the delivery truck while parked in rear of 113 Market street in Purcell alley about 1:15 p.m. Thursday. -V Stale Has Passed Two-Thirds Mark In Sales Oi Bonds WINSTON-SALEM, Feb. 10.—1UP) —Sales to individuals in North Carolina’s Fourth War Loan Drive have passed the two-thirds mark on the way to the quota of $70, 000,000, State War Finance Chair man Clarence T. Leinbach disclos ed tonight. Individual purchases reported thus far total $47,000,000 or 67 per cent of the goal, Leinbach said. 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Some 150 miles to the southeast the Russians said one Soviet fo» matlon of Gen. Rodion Y. Malin ovsky’s third Ukraine • army had killed 1.300 more Germans yester day and captured a considerable number in a steady push west of Aoostolovo to outflank the iron city of Krivoi Rog. The Russians In this area were renorted more tnao 45 m'les west of fallen Nikopol on tiie low Dniener river, where thousands of- other Germans had been decisively dMrated in opera tions still not completed. Hundreds of guns, supoly-laden trucks and wagons, and other Axis military equipment, were oeclare-i swept up by the Russians under Malinovsky and those under Gen eral? Nikolai F. Vatutin and Ivan S. Konev which are conductin ' the liquidation of the Korsun trap. Korsun. cn the Ross river 25 miles south of the middle Dnieper river, was being hit by seven Rus sian columns. One Soviet column yesterday gained six miles from Gorodishche, taken ’Wednesday, to seize Zavadovka. a railway village seven miles southeast of Korsun, and other hamlets in-the area. An other smashing .down from the northwest took Nekhvorosch, the same distance from Korsun. and other villages in that area. It was the Zavad<" t cp-tOT where the Russian communique said “our troops cut off severa1 German groups from the mair enemy grouping and are wipinj them out.” Behind them, at the approaches to and in the streets of Gorodische Bishop Purcell Appoints Dryman CHARLOTTE, Feb. 10. The Rev. F. O. Dryman. pas[ of the Weaverville Method^ Church, today was appointed p tor of the Methodist Church ^ Franklin' by Bishop Clare pj cell. He fills the vacancy caused by the previous appointment 0f th Franklin pastor, Dr. J. l gto' e * II, to the pastorate of the tu !' Methodist church at Elkin, S Dr. Stokes succeeds the Herman F. Duncan, who yesterda was appointed pastor of the p;r J Methodist Church at Asneboro 011* ing the vacancy caused bv .a death of Dr. M. T. Srmthers jpi! ! in a traffic accident Feb. 1, ’ ‘ ‘e“ The vacancy at Weaverville be filled shortly, Bishop pu said. -V-. ARRESTED STOCKHOLM, Feb. 10 f I our former members of the~\- 7 wegian parliament have been f' rested by Quisling police, thef" dish Norwegian press service today in a dispatch from Oslo to the Stockholm paper Dagens heter. region, the bulletin said 1,000 dead Germans had been counted. Twer, ty-four guns, 65 machineguns and more than 1,000 trucks were cap tured at that point, Moscow sad' For the first time since the trap was sprung on the Germans the Soviet comm unique did not men tion German counter-attacks in the Zvenigorodka area, southwest oi the Korsun pocket, in a Nazi at tempt to break through. 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