Arnold Stresses Air Power To GuardU. S. In New Wars WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-(UP)-The United States will be the * ct nation attacked in any future war and must at all times have a fir3err hard-hitting air force as its first line of defense, Gen. Henry modern. general*---—— _J J- the Army Air Forces, asserted l0Hewarned in a report to Secre t, y of War Henry L. Stimson on A a'f activities last year that U S. vnnwer must be strong enough to * ,,e ,he rest of the nation time to g Kiii7e In World Wars One and STe said, the United States "luckily” had time to arm' But warrior nations have learned their ' - on for World War Three. This country will be the first target. ■•There will be no opportunity for gradual mobilization; no chance f rely on the efforts of others,” he said '"The United States must be ,he world’s first power in military pie disclosed that the AAF lost niv n.830 planes while destroying «. B38 Axis aircraft in the first three years of the war. The AAF flew j 271 784 sorties in 1944 and drop ped 1 082-813 tons of bombs on en emy targets. He placed total U. S. aircraft production last year at 962 541,000 pounds. Arnold classed the week of Feb ruary 20-26 last year as probably marking ‘‘a decisive battle of his lory and ... as of greater import ance than Gettsburg.” Record num bers of Allied planes blasted Ger man aircraft factories and the Luft waffe never recovered. On D-Day "it was conspicuous by its ab sence." ; After the landings in r ranee, ou| refineries became the main bomber targets and the campaign was equally successful. He said that research and scien tific development must be kept up after the war so that the air force can continue to improve its equipment — a “second-rate air force is worse than none.” There also must be a strong and healthy aviation industry to experi ment. with advanced designs. Some plants, including Government-own ed factories, must be ready to turn immediately to mass production of planes. He urged that out-moded planes be sold or scrapped right after the war so that “they will not hang over the air force and the aviation in dustry retarding development.” Likewise, the nation must encour age private flying to build up a re serve of trained fliers. Outlining strides made in air plane development, he said the army has three new bombers in production—the E-35, B-36 and B-42. They will be “more powerful and capable than those now in opera UUil. EICHTFROMAREA WOUNDED IN WAR The names of eight more service men from eastern North Carolina who have been wounded in action in the European area have been announced by the War Deport ment. In each case the next of kin has been notified, and will be inform ed by the War Department of the serviceman’s condition. Lumberton—Pvt. James P. Da vis; Mrs. Mortie Davis, mother. Rocky Mount—Tech, fifth grade Linwood S. Harper; Mrs. Katie Dixon, grandmother. Clinton—Tech, fifth grade Hooper C. Lee; Mrs. Ellen E. Lee, moth er. Pfc. James P. Willis; Mrs. Sarah L. Willis, mother. Richlands—Pfc. Raz P. Sander son, mother. Chinquapin — Pfc. Horace W. Walton; Mrs. Nora D. Walton, mother. Laurinburg—Pfc. Paul T. Whita ker; Mrs. Lizzie Whitaker, moth er. Pollocksville—Pfc. Earl W. Wil liamson; Mrs. Beulah B. Williams, mother. PHILIPPINES GET CIVILIAN REGIME (Continued from Page One) south of the Pasig are being en gaged by Yank Liberation forces. Liberated sectors of the Philip pines include Leyte, where the American invasion operation op ened last October, nearby Samar, a large portion of the main island of Luzon on which Manila is situa ted and smaller islands in the cen tral part of the Archipelago. Ministers of the Philippine Cabi net, members of the Congress and other high officers of the civil gov» ernment attended. General MacArthur said more than three years had elapsed since he left Manila an open city before the invading Japanese. “Much that I sought to preserve has been unnecessarily destroyed by his (the enemy’s) desperate ac tion at bay.” He said the enemy’s destruction of the great Philippine capital means that “by these actions he wantonly fixed the future pattern of his own doom.” MacArthur continued: “My country has kept the faith. “American soldiers came here as an army of free men dedicated with your people to the cause of human liberty. They came to suppress lorces bent on brutality. “They came to re-establish in dustry. to restore the sanctity and happiness of your homes without fear of intrusion. “You are now a liberated peo ple.” MacArthur concluded: “On behalf of my government, I now solemnly declare, Mr. Presi dent (Osmena) the full powers un der the constitution are restored to the Commonwealth.” He said the Commenwealth of the Philippines again was “at liberty to pursue its destiny in the family of free nations.” President Osmena, accepting the power of government, praised Mac Arthur and his troops in liberating his country and said the five star general “never has lost faith in the strength of our people.” “His campaign has been a cru sade,” Osmena declared. The large crowd cheered wildly. Osmena expressed the hope for Philippine independence in 1945. He asked that “political differ ence” be forgotten and the Philip pines go on to secure “the blessings of democracy for ourselves and our children.” -V BRIGADE PLANS PAPER CAMPAIGN The Brigade Boys’ Club last night announced plans for their fourth scrap paper drive in Wil mington and suburbs, after an or ganizational meeting when a spe cial committee in charge of the drive was named. Further plans for the drive, to be conducted March 11, will Le announced later. Funds derived from the sale of scrap paper collected will be used for construction of the Brigade Boys’ Club summer camp. Named to the special committee was Louis Harrison, Elliot Living ston, Lawrence Bowden, Ben Dlayton and Walter Keen. _v Five From This Area Are Killed In Action The War Department has an lounced the names of five more servicemen from eastern North Carolina who have been killed in action in the European area. In aach case the next of kin has been ratified. Acme—Pvt. Ausley D. Bush; Julius R. Bush, brother. Chadbourn — Pvt. Herman N. NTobles; Mrs. Etta M. Nobles, mother. Fayetteville — Pfc. Lacy H. Reaves; Mrs. Lou M. Reaves, mother. Mt. Olive—Pfc. Daniel C. Sut :on; Mrs. Carrie C. L. Sutton, wife. Laurinburg—Pfc. John E. Tur ler; tint. JAYCEES MEETING A meeting of the Junior Chamber of Commerce will be held at 7 p. m. today at the Friendly cafeteria, it was an nounced last night._ Pow-Wow Before Marine-Navy Invasion of Iwo _ __ Marine Lt. Gen. Holland M. Smith, commander of the troops that participated in the Iwo Jima as sault, addresses a press conferences shortly before the joint Navy-Marine forces sailed for the strategic Jap stronghold in the Volcanos. Seated (left to right) in the front row are: Adm. Richard K. Tur ner. Secretary of the Navy Forrestal; and Rear Admiral Harry W. Hill. Official U. S. Marine Corps photo. (International Soundphoto). Might Spots Prepare | To Close At Midnight \ Wilmington entertainment placesj yesterday took steps to regu late their service and hour; to comply with War Mobilization Di rector James F. Byrne’s midnight curfew on entertainment and drink ing. effective last night. City and County police officials reported that they have received no definite orders for enforcement of the order. Chief of Police C. H. Casteen said City police would make a record and report of all violations and call the matter to the attention of the violator, but would take no action until fur*her orders were received. Sheriff C. David Jones said that he had received no orders out would “go along with Federal au thorities in -i enforcement.” Mike Pattelis. manager of the Famous Club and Grill, located on the Carolina Beach road, said that he would change his opening time from 8 to 7:30 p.m. and had instructed his staff to stop taking orders for hot food and drinkr. at 11:30 p.m. so that all might be served and out by midnight. The manager of Stacy’s Tavern, also located on the Carolina Beach road, said that he had been clos ing at midnight but that people had not been leaving immedialely. Under the new order, he plans to eliminate the service of food after 11:30 p.m. and will have the music cut off at 11:50, so that all lights may be out and the doors locked by 12 o’clock. He announced that he intended to continue to open at 6 p.m. It is understood that the St. John's Tavern will not be affect ed by the curfew but the Finca Room, a private club located in the basement of the Tavern, will be closed at midnight. The Recreation Bowling Alley, according to its manager, “won’t be hurt any by the order because we have been closing at 11 p.m. anyway ever since the war.” Two local billiard parlors re ported that they would not come under the cur{gw because, accord ing to law, they had to close at midnight. Woman ’s Body Is Found A fter Apparent Burial BINGHAMTON, N. Y„ Feb. 26.— (JP)—'The son of one of the five Binghampton residents whose de composed bodies were found Sat urday in an abandoned funeral home said tpnight he had attended his mother’s funeral last fall and saw a casket- which he believed contained her remains, lowered in to a grave. Oscar Harding, son of Mrs. Hat tie J. Harding, 82, who died '+ober 7, made his statement to Detective Captain Otto J. Krause as authori ties continued to press for a pos sible motive for the non burial of the bodies. The funeral home was abandon ed about two or three months ago. Mrs. Harding and the other resi dents were identified earlier today by police. The other bodies were identified as Mrs. Edna Schoolcraft, 79, died March 23, 1944; Mrs. Flossie Gray. 56, died March 11, 1944; Edward Oshelt, 71. died July 5, 1944. and a baby named Smith who died four hours after birth March 29, 1944. Children playing in the building opened a coffin and found one body. They called police who discovered the others. Krause said several of the de ceased were welfare cases. Mrs. Harding was not a welfare ease, he said. In his statement, Harding said he attended funeral services at the funeral home where he saw her body in the casket. Then he drove to a cemetery at Forkston where the casket was lowered into a grave. The casket was not op ened at the grave, he said, but he believed it contained the body. Krause also disclosed that Don ald Collins Ackley, whom he identified as the former owner - of the funeral home, apparently had gone to California. He said the local rationing board report ed it had issued him gasoline to drive to that state on January 11 upon his statement he planned to open another undertaking estab lishment there. First Army Shells City Of Cologne; Third Gains > _- * (Continued from Page One) nications center of Erkelenz, and a cluster of seven villages on the west, south and east of that stra tegic town of 6,600 population fell in quick succession. Another column pushed on north east and was nearing Kaulhausen, six miles from Muenchen-Gl ad bach, western Ruhr city of 127,000 population. It was disclosed that the 30th Infantry Division, nicknamed by the Germans the “Roosevelt SS (elite) Division”, was in action with the Ninth Army and was the one which drove seven imies beyond the Roer in the Juclich area. ijrernian ieM&icuitc woo ed to bomb-smashed towns. A driz zle of rain deprived ground for ces of air support, but it wasn’t needed. The civilian-dug of trenches with which the German high command had hoped to stop the Allies simp ly were not manned, and were quickly hurdled along with 'he antitank ditches. American casualties were de scribed officially as low, and the Hermans had yielded but 5,000 pris aners so far in the drive, indicat ng that they were pulling back skillfully. The Third Army was crashing through the Eifel mountains 45 niles from1. Coblenz on the Rhine ;n what a front dispatch said look ed like a breakthrough. BRONCHIAL IRRITATIONS —of children quickly soothed by Penetro—Grandma’s old-time nutton suet idea developed by nodern science into a counter rritant, vaporizing salve for ‘ luick relief. 25c, double size 35c. PENETRO iA«l_glCW_INJMUTTON SUET \ 0. S. PRESENTS ECONOMIC PLAN (Continued from Page One) intended the cushion the inevitable vertigo of a leap from war to peace and improve living stand ards throughout the hemisphere. The security issue, which in ef fect underlies all these proposals, was brought up more directly in another U. S. resolution against admitting war criminals into any of the Americas. It provides also for setting up an inter-American program for re porting individuals charged with war crimes and delivering them to another united nation or a United Nations agency. Other important points which arose at the conference today were: 1. A proposal TO mvne v-anaaa to join the American system with responsibilities equal to the other nations. It remains unclear how far such an initiation would affect Canada’s relations in the British Empre. 2. A strong indication that the United States will support Colom bia’s proposals for a mutual guar antee of American boundaries, in which sanctions would be depend ent upon consultation. 3. The steering committee re ported favorably on a Cuban reso lution recommending that all the American nations declare war against Germany and Japan. 4. A Mexican proposal, which appears to have U. S. support, for continuing consultations a m i n g the military staffs of the Ameri can nations to keep the hemis phere constantly defended against aggression. 5. A decision to pigeonhold any discussion of relations with Fran co Spain at this meeting, leaving ths problem to each country in dividually. WPB OFFERS PLAN TO SAVE WORKERS (Continued from Page One) victory and damned as a move to “horsewhip the country.” The measure would try to cure manpower ills by ending labor hoarding and waste. Soon after de bate began two amendments were introduced to strike out the pen alty provision that would subject an employer who violated labor ceilings to one year in jail, $10, 000 fine or both. The preview of the stormy re ception promised the controversial bill came from four senators — Chairman Elbert D. Thomas of the Military Affairs Committee whc presented it, Harley M. Kilgore, (D-W. Va.) who framed it and the opposition team of A. B. Chandler, (D-Ky.) and Joseph C. O’Mahoney, (D-Wyo.). Thomas urged early passage tc give the men in the front lines “as surance that the people of Ameri ca stand ready to sacrifice as nev er before.” It is not a punitive measure but “it is a bill, above all, to punish the home front, he said, make certain, as the great final months—I hope not years—of the war come to an end, that there will be no letup in reserves of men and supplies.” Chandler, red-faced and angry, told the Senate that he was “against any bill to force Ameri cans into a labor draft.” Keferr ng to Army and Navy sponsor ship of work-or-jail manpower leg islation, he shouted: “The military apparently set out :o take advantage of the German oreak - through to horsewhip the country into a labor draft to make people realize there’s a war on.” He insisted that there was no over-all manpower shortage; that Sreat Britain with a forced labor aw had 16 per cent more strikes on the basis of the labor popula tion last year than did the United States. He poo-poohed Army and tfavy assertions that the measure was needed to bolster front-line norale. u ivianoney nnewise pointed to ;he United States’ great production -ecord under the voluntary labor system and emphasized that “\ye lave built a bridge of ships across he Atlantic and the Pacific, and lave equipped 12,000,000 soldiers md sailors. “And we’ve done it all under the voluntary system,” he added, “we lave not only supplied our own orces, we have supplied the ar nies and the navies of the coun tries that are operating on the 'orced labor system.” Sen. Harlan J. Bushfield, (R-S. 0.) offered the first amendment hat would strike the penalties. Kilgore, who voted against his neasure in committee after the >enalty amendments affecting 'arm workers and employers were acked on, introduced amendments to strike both out. -__\7 Foe Announces New Battle Along Oder, Neisse Fronts (Continued from Page One) Nor was any mention made by Moscow of the 200-mile northern Soviet flank front stretching from the lower Oder to the Vistula river in Poland, but Berlin said that Red Army troops attacking along the middle of this line had reached to within 11 miles of Neustettin at a point only 52 miles from the Baltic coast. At the eastern end of the line the Russians were report ed only 30 miles south of Danzig. German reserves were being hurried into middle Pomerania in an effort! to keep the Russians from splitting Pomerania and sealing off thousands of Germans in the Dan zig-Gdynia area. The Nazi High Command official ly announced that German troops attacking on Samland peninsula west of besieged Koenigsberg, East Prussian capital, had opened rail, water and road connections be tween Koenigsberg and Pillau, es cape port 20 miles to the west. -V 10,000 GIs ENROLLED SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 26.— , U.R)—GI ambition is tremendous, i is evidenced by more than 10,000 : servicemen, in the United States i ind abroad, who are taking j courses through the University ! >f Colifomia extension division. ‘ \ LEGRAND EXPECTED TO PRESENT BILLS Bills aiming at the control and licensing of professional bondsmen in New Hanover county, at legal izing overpayments made during 1944 by the Board of County Com missioners to Recorder’s Court of ficials, at spreading City Pension benefits and at rewarding long service rendered by retired Fire and Police department members were expected to be presented to the Legislature during the coming week by Rep. J. Q. LeGrand. An additional measure given to him last night for presentation to the Assembly, entering its penul timate week of the present session, would authorize a popular election in the Town of Carolina Beach to determine residents’ willingness to be taxed for a community adver tising fund. awaiting submittal is a product of the new Hanover Bar Association. It requires an annual license fee of $200 (Which Mr. LeGrand has in timated might be reduced) to both county and City from each pro fessional bondsman, sets his risk and-service charge at five per cent of the bond, with a minimum fee of five dollars, and forbids his so liciting in public buddings and his recommendation by' local attor neys or law enforcement officers. The two pension acts would in clude ABC Board, Public Health Nursing and Associated Charities employes under the City Pension Act, and would add to the 50-per cent-of-salary allowance now giv en to retired police and firemen a monthly dollar for every year above 20 which they spent in service. The County salaries measure, to be submitted by Mr. LeGrand in stead of a bill authorizing County Commissioners to raise employes’ wages $500 beyond their present range, will simply ratify overpay ments made in 1944 to Recorder H. Winfield Smith and the late J. A. McNorton, solicitor of Record er’s court. COURT Cf BINES ROBBERY CASES The first afternoon of the spe cial one week criminal session of State Superior Court, with Judge W. H. S. Burgwyn on the bench, disposed of a combined three man highway robbery case, a lar ceny charge in which a verdict of “not guilty” was returned and a plea of guilty to a charge pt re ceiving stolen goods. Thirty crim inal cases representing charges ranging from crime against nature to drunkenness were slated for continuance. The case of Robert Dow, Negro accused of auto larceny, occupied the court at adjournment. An ear lier case of similar nature in which Willie Blackmon was defendant terminated with a “not guilty” ver dict. in «i case wuinuineu. iui me uuuu s convenience, Benjamin Locke, Wil liam Moore and William L. Parker, all Negroes, were tried for high way robbery and found guilty. Judge W. H. S. Burgwyn sentenced the men to terms in New Hanover County jail, with hard labor on State roads, of 18 months to three years, one to three years and two to three years respectively. Charged with store-breaking, lar ceny and receiving stolen goods, a Negro named John Cornelius Davis pled guilty to the last charge and was sentenced to two and one half to five years in State prison, with labor on the roads of the State. -V COMMONS MAY GET BIG THREE FACTS (Continued from Page One) Churchill intends to demand a vote of confidence on the basis of this motion. Despite the dissa.is faction of some members with the political course of the war he is expected to get an overwhelming ballot. Poland and France are expected to loom large in the debate with Allied, and especially British po licy in such liberated countries as Belgium and Greece as subsidiary topics. icgcmao x i. uiivv-j v/iiuii-.jiu was expected to try to soothe French sensibilities wounded by Gen. Charles de Gaulle’s failure to get an invitation to the Crimea Conference. French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault now is in London as a guest of the government. Churchill gave a luncheon for him today, with Foreign Minister Anthony Eden and French Ambassador Rene Massigly among those ores ent. Bidault spent the week end in the country with Eden. He is expected to return to Paris to morrow to report to de Gaulle. TYour Child Is Coughing Creomulsion relieves promptly be cause it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, in flamed bronchial mucous mem branes. Tell your druggist to sell you i bottle of Creomulsion with the mderstanding that your child is to >e benefited and you are to like its tuick action in allaying the har assing cough without upsetting the tomach or you are to have your noney back. No narcotics. CREOMULSION or Coughs. Chest Colds, Bronchitis Three Alarms Answered; House Is Damaged Badly Three alarms were answered last night by City firemen, two fires starting in trash piles and the other in a kitchen at the home of W. V. Sellars, 407 Queen street, at 10:20 p.m., causing considerable damage to the rear end of "the house. At 6:29 p.m. a fire started in a trash pile in a closet at a vacant home at Third and Castle streets, causing minor damage. At 9-35 p.m a blaze started in a trash pila underneath a house at 704 South Fifth street, firemen said. No dam age was caused. BERLIN POUNDED IN BIGGEST RAID (Continued from Page One) haps been swollen to 5,000,000 by refugees from the battlefronts. The great mass of American air power arrived over the city in three waves just before noon and dropped 5,000 high explosive bombs and 500,000 small firebombs on the Schlesisher, Alexander Platz and Berlin north railway stations, all within two miles of the heart of the capital. The bombs began dropping at 11:54 a.m., the “zero hour” set in the briefing, and continued in sal vos of 100-ton lots at 10 minute intervals. Although the big American bom bers offered an inviting target tc the Luftwaffe with their bold tac tics, there were no reports of en emy air interception. An Eighth Air Force staff of ficer said “Berlin has now won oui most bombed championship.” “The Eighth Air Force,” he said “has dropped approximately 18,00( tons of bombs on Berlin in 16 at tacks, passing the 15,000-ton mart for Cologne and 12,000-ton allot ment for Munich.” In addition 55,000 tons of bombs have been dumped on the Nazi capital by the RAF in night at tacks since the start of the war The huge armada exceeded b> more than 200 planes the size of the assault on the German capita February 3 by American bombers and fighters. Preceding today s raid, me cuj had been hammered with two-tor block busters for six successivt nights by RAF Mosquitoes. The three railway stations were not hit in the February 3 raid by 1,000 Flying Fortresses, an Eight! Air Force officer said, and are lo cated within two miles of the Ger man Air Ministery building, which received eight direct hits in the raid earlier this month. Schlesisher is a main passen ger station and also is equipped with vast freight and rapair shops and extensive sidings. Most of the traffic through the station is roued through Danzig. The Alexander Platz is essential ly a passenger station and Berlin north is a large freight terminal. Even though battered by scores of previous attacks and variously estimated as 50 to 75 per cent des troyed all supplies and reinforce ments for the Eastern Front must move through it. Bad weather hampered aerial op erations from bases in Italy but medium bombers attacked bridges in northern Italy and hammered enemy communications in Italy and Yugoslavia. Thunderbolts stat ed rolling stock in Yugoslavia. WONDERFUL RELIEF From Bladder Irritations! 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CHURCH PLANNING LENTEN MEETINGS Beginning at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Great Hall of the Parish House and continuing on each Wednesday evening thereafter dur ing Lent, there will be a series of five discussions on the general sub. ject, “The Christian Doctrine of God”, it was announced by St. James Episcopal Church. These discussions, which are un der the sponsorship of the Lay man’s league, will be conducted by five outstanding laymen parti cularly fitted to lead such discus sions, it was stated. The discussion groups oner an opportunity for constructive think ing on vitally important subject All members of the congregation and their friends are urged to at tend. Following are the several phas es of the general subject to be covered, together with the names of the leaders of each discussion: “God and the Church”, Robert Strange, Wednesday, Feb. 28 8 p.m.; “God and Yourself”, Geoige B. Elliot, Wednesday, March 7, 8 p.m.; “God and Race”, H. E. Rodgers, Wednesday, March 14, 8 p.m.; “God and the Nations', Carl H. Davis, Wednesday, March 21, 8 p.m.; “God and Economics”, Emmett Bellamy, Wednesday, March 28, 8 p.m. -V AIR BASE HAS WAC MP’g COLUMBUS, 0., Feb. 26.—