CHANGES IN COAST
GUARD UNDER WAY
The future of the United States
Coast Guard in Wilmington and
Other Atlantic ports was discuss
Od yesterday in an announcement
from district headquarters, Sixth
Naval District, Charleston, the
"home stretch” is being reached
in the transferring of Coast Guard
officers and men to combat units
at sea and to shore bases fiu^er
fce theatres of combat.
A seriei of changes in person
nel, policy and operational rou
tines are in the making in the
naval district as a result of the
shifting of Coast Cuard officers
and regular Coast Guardsmen to
the war zone, it was said.
Captain M. J. Ryan, district
Coast Guard officer, announced
•These transfers of men certain
ly do not mean the lessening of
the war effort, but a change in
amphasis. For instance, the
ahanging war situation has made
necessary certain adjustments in
the use of manpower and equip
ment in the Coast Guard port
security program. This reduction
of men assigned to pot secuirty
duty on the Atlantic coast, along
the Gulf, and on the inland rivers
and lakes is being made with the
view of using these men for the
more urgent duty of manning ad
ditional vessels recently construct
ed for overseas service as well as
for port security work beyond the
Continental United States and to
increase port security activities
in west coast pors.”
"This means that even a great
er responsibility for port secur
ity and other vital functions in
•ssisting the Coast Guard to guard
end protect the important ports
of this region will pass to the
Coast Guard Volunteer Port Se
curity Force battalions and to the
Coast Guard Auxiliary.
"These fine organizations in
Wilmington, Charleston, Jackson
ville and Savannah have been
functioning splendidly,” he said,
"and I am confident that with
the added responsibility which
will now become clear to them
and to their fellow citizens in
these cities, additional forces will
be forthcoming to handle any task
asked of them by the Coast Guard
to assist in their home commu
nities and to take the places of
the men who have gone and are
going to the fighting fronts.”
AMERICANS BUT 16
MILES FROM COLOGNE
(Continued from Page One)
advance captured Porselen, Ober
bruch, Kempen and Schan.
Eisenhower announced that the
Ninth army was under operational
command of Field Marshal Sir B.
L. Montgomery in the new offen
sive and that its movements were
linked to those of the Canadian
First and British Second armies.
The British Second army remain
ed quite along the Roer and Maas
(Meuse) rivers. But the Canadian
First added new fury to the Allied
assault by jumping off at dawn
under a five-hour artillery barrage
In a new drive for the Rhine. The
attack gained a mile in the first
few hours and there were signs
that the Germans were withdraw
ing to high ground to meet it.
Greatest Gains
The greatest gains were scored
by Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s
Third army as it smashed five
miles deeper into disordered Ger
man defenses east of the Luxem
bourg border, seizing 21 more
towns.
' ledium and fighter bombers
harassed the Germans for the
second straight day, flying more
than 4,000 sorties in the immediate
battle area and attacking German
traffic in the rear.
Pilots said the Germans were
fleeing in disorder before Patton's
drive in the Luxembourg area,
seeking the temporary safety of
the Pruem river as his 6th Armor
ed division swept up the key road
center of Nuererburg.
The Third Army took 1,359 pris
oners Friday and additional hun
dreds were pouring into prisoner
cages yesterday.
North of Duren, Maj. Gen. Terry
Allen’s famed 104th ‘'Timber Wolf”
division led the drive for Cologne
and captured Birkesdorf, Oberzier
and Neiderzier. South of Duren.
the 8th division was identified as
the captors of Niederau.
There were indications that the
awift American advance soon
would bring Eisenhower's armies
up against the main German fgr
cas defending the Rhine, and the
Allied supreme commander indi
cated that one of the decisive bat
tls of the war would be fought on
the Cologne plain.
The purpose of the offensive is
to destroy all German power west
of the Rhine, Eisenhower declar
ed, and then cross the river and
march to a meeting with Rus ;ian
•rmies in the center of Germany.
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Forty And Eight Holds
Monthly Meeting Here
The Wilmington Voiture No 245
of the Forty and Eight Society of
tint American Legion held its
monthly promonade last week at
the Famous Grill, with 21 members
present.
The promonade was called to
order by Chef de Gare W. J. Riley,
and the committee reported on
Scouting. A motion was made
by J. B. Edwards that the Voiture
meet with the Sea Scout Ship, and
preseri a motion picture on Sea
Scouting in order to learn some
thing of that organization. Charles ]
Trout of Southport said that they
too haid formed a Sea Scout Ship,
and had obtained a building at
Long Beach for both Sea and Boy
Scout*.
MARINES CAPTURE
HALF OF 1WO ISLE
(Continued from Page One)
enemy resisted our advance to the
full extent of his armament. Wea
pons of the ‘bazooka’ type were
employed against our tanks and
the use of rocket bombs weighing
about 500 kilograms (approximate
ly 1,000 pounds) continued.”
Many Caves
Testifying to the powerful de
fenses the remaining men of the
Japanese garrison of 20,000 were
fighting from, Nimitz said that in
a single area of approximately 200,
000 square yards along the east
coast, the Marines neutralized
about 100 caves ranging from 30
to 40 feet deep.
The Marines, rooting the Japa
nese out of their defenses with
bayonets, tommy guns and hand
grenades, were encountering rein
forced blockhouses and pillboxes
having four-foot bulkheads.
One immediate result of me gen
eral advance was a ‘‘marked de
crease of enemy artillery fire” into
the rear areas of southern Iwo
won by the Americans in the open
ing days of the invasion which
started last Monday morning,
Nimitz said.
The bulletin issued early this
morning gave this picture of the
flaming front from the east to
west coasts:
4th Marine Division commanded
by Maj. Gen. Clifton B. Gates open
ed a drive along the east coast
which carried northward about 600
yards to extend the original in
vasion beachhead to a stretch of
approximately three miles. Struck
up the central plateau on the right
flank of the 3rd Division hitting
the center of the Jap lines.
3rd Marine Division commanded
by Maj. Gen. Graves B. Erskine:
hammered 300 to 500 yards through
a maze of interlocking pillboxes,
blockhouses, fortified caves and
thick minefields to burst across the
center of the central Iwo airfield
atop the central plains. This put
the Yanks in the center of the is
land in an area where Japanese
military headquarters and govern
mental centers were located. . -
5th Marine Division, commanded
by Maj. Gen. Kellar E. Hockey:
resumed its advance up the west
coast after being pinned down by
terrific Japanese fire for 90 hours.
It drove ahead several hundred
yards to win a two-mile grip on
the west coast.
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PENALTIES DRAWN
FOR CURFEW CODE
(Continued from Page One)
ing rinks, activities of clubs, dance
studios and gambling establish
ments.
The WMC sent a 550-word list of
instructions to its 300 field offices
which will do the enforcing. But
the WMC offices are to act only
on complaints from local official's
—city, county and such—and refer
private complaints to such officers
for investigation. Enlistment of lo
cal enforcement cooperations is
recommended.
WILL FEEL PINCH
RALEIGH. Feb. 24.— IJPI —Night
spots and other places of amuse
ment in North Carolina will feel
the pinch of wrar time restrictions
effective at midnight Monday,
February 26, Dr. J. S. Dorton.
state director of the War Manpow
er Commission, said tonight.
He said steps to require compli
ance with a recent directive of
War Mobilization Director James
F. Byrnes to blackout places of
amusement to conserve fuel and
electricity, transportation facili
ties and manpower which may be
diverted to war activities, are be
ing taken by his department.
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Greater Drafting Of Men
3G-33 Years Old Ordered
(Continued from Page One)
duction or in support of the na
tional health, safety or interest.”
Being "regularly engaged in”
such activity continues to be the
deferment rule for men aged 34
through 37.
“Physically fit men in the 30
through-37 year old group—especi
ally those under the age of 34
are confronted with the prospect
of induction to the extent neces
sary to fill the calls,” the Selec
tive Service announcement said.
MORE PRISONERS
QF JAPS FREED
(Continued from Page One)
1942. First interned at Santo Tom
as camp, they volunteered to take
over duties at the Los Banos hos
pital when the Japanese opened
the latter camp in May, 1943.
The rescue was engineered by
Col. Robert H. Soule with 1,500 sol
diers of the 11th airborne division
and the guerrillas.
The guerrillas filtered into the
area through volcanic country for
several nights before the actual
strike. These jungle-wise fighters
were not detected by the Japanese.
Before dawn Friday unit* of the
11th divsiion moved across Laguna
De Bay in amphibious craft.
As the guerrillas and amphibi
ous forces closed in, big transport
planes loaded with paratroops
roared away from Nichols Field,
on the outskirts of Manila. These
troops, a selected detachment of
the 511th parachute regiment,
jumped directly over the prison
camp.
All three forces attacked simul
taneously. The Japanese camp
commander, members of his staff
and 243 guards were at morning
exercise, The Nipponese, taken
completely by surprise, were killed
to the last man in a brief battle.
-V
Force Strikes For 3rd
Time Within Week
(Continued from Page Orte)
out an echelon attack.” Tokyo
radio, as usual, claimed that Japa
nese air units were intercepting
the raiders.
Tokyo said the attack occurred
at 7 a. m. Japanese time.
Mitscher, master of carrier war
fare, had undoubtedly brought his
great carrier task force just as
close to Honshu as before. Stand
ing 300 miles off the main island
last week, he directed incessant
aerial assaults against Tokyo and
the surrounding area which spread
fires throughout the capital.
Superfortresses had joined in all
out air assault against Tokyo last
week. They appeared over the
burning city while more than 1200
carrier planes still roaffTd over
the area.
There was no hint of the amount
of damage being caused to Japan’s
vital naval and military installa
tion.
But it appeared that Japan’s
major docks and anchorages were
being singled out for special at
tention in the latest carrier-bone
strike. ;
Nimitz termed the first carrier
attacks on Tokyo an historic vic
tory and disclosed that 509 Japa
nese planes were destroyed and
over 36 ships destroyed or damaged
in the raids, which caught the en
emy airforce napping and were
carried out through weather that
hampered the Japanese defenders.
An additional 200 to 300 planes
were damaged.
The first two attacks W'ere car
ried out at a loss of only 49 planes,
with a loss of from 30 to 40 pilots,
some of whom may have been
picked up by U. S. submarines
which helped scout the J*p home
w'aters for the fleet’s daring opera
tion.
The attacks marked the first
time Tokyo had been hit by planes
other than B-29s since Lt. Gen.
James H. Doolittle led a small
group of carrier-based B-25 Mitch
els against Japan in 1942.
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