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ALUES CAPTURE
PRIZE IN BURMA
KANDY, Ceylon, Feb. 26—
British and Indian troops, plunging
into the heart of Burma’s rich oil
fields, have slashed across the Ir
rawaddy river 92 miles southwest
of Mandalay and captured the an
cient Burmese city of Pagan _ fter
a short but bitter fight, Southeast
Asia Command headquarters an
nounced tonight. ,
A bridgehead four miles deep
and two and a half miles long was
established and troops of the 14th
Army were thrown across the ri.
er in strength for a two-pronged
drive on the big oil field towns of
Chauk and Yenangyaung. Fighting
was in progress tonight, a com
munique said. . ,
Pagan, seized in the initial as
sault is known throughout the
world for its 5,000 glittering pago
das and is considered one of the
wonders of the East. It was found
ed in 847 and was the Burmese
capital until 1298.
The latest crossing gave the Al
lies three strong bridgeheads
across the Irrawaddy above and
below Mandalay. Earlier today it
was announced that British and
Indian forces had cleared the ^Jap
anese from a 20-mile stretch of the
eastern bank of the river north of
Mandalay, joining their bridge
heads at Singu and at Thabeikkyin
into one solid base of operations
for the final 40-mile drive on Man
dalay.
“Progress southward continues,
a communique said.
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Man In Assault Case
Reported A Fugitive
From Georgia Prison
Harry E. Fales, of the City-Coun
ty Bureau of Identification, dis
closed yesterday that Leon Beary
Queen, 22, who with another youth
is accused of criminally assault
ing a 14-year-old girl, is a fugitive
from the State Department of
Corrections in Atlanta, Ga.
Superintendent Fales said he
had been advised by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation that Queen
is wanted by the State Prison at
Reidsville, Ga. and by the Board
of Pardons and Paroles, Atlanta,
for his escape from the Depart
ment of Corrections.
Queen is being held in New Han
over jail pending trial in Superior
Court. Sixteen-year-old Gordon
Fowler, Jr., scheduled for arraign
ment with Queen on the same
charge, was released under bond.
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Warsaw Woman Receives
Word That Relatives In
Luzon Prison Are Saved
WARSAW, Feb. 26—Mrs. Charles
F. Carrol, of Warsaw has received
a communication from the War
Department stating that her
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Norwood
Carroll, and three children, have
been liberated from the Santo
Tomas concentration camp in the
Philippines, following the inva
sion of Manila. No mention was
made in the telegram to Mrs. Car
roll of her son, Norwood Carroll,
who also was interned with his
family.
r-i,* u~
ceived a postal card from her son
written in Japanese Internment
Camp No. 1. He was connected
with Liggett and Myers Tobacco
Co. for many years and was locat
ed ir the Philippines at the begin
ning of the war.
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WANTS BRASS RAIL BACK
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 26.—(U.R)—
Polishing the brass rail with the
sole of your foot would be an ex
clusively made prerogative under
terms of a bill now pending be
fore the state Legislature. The
measure would prohibit women
and minors from being served at
bars, allowing them to be served
only at tables “not less than
four feet from the bar.”
Thirteen-Year-Old Bride Mothers Big Family
Thirteen-year-old Mary Lou Houdeshell (second from left) has taken charge of the large family of
her farmer-husband, Ralph Houdeshell (left), a veteran of World War 1. He is holding his youngest child
bv a former marriage, two-year-old Patricia Aliene. Other members of the family, in their home at
Sheldon, Mo., are. left to right: Viola Ruth Houdeshell, 13: her sister, Dorothy Ruth. 6. standing in
front; Lenora, 8, Fannie May 11. and Juanita Pauline. 4 standing in front. Houdeshell is the father of 11
children, two of whom are in the armed services. ( AP Wirephoto).
WASHINGTON CALLING
by
MAROUIS CHILDS
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HEADQUARTERS, 29TH TACTI
CAL AIR COMMAND. IN Holland—
Wind blows across the field, and
the gray sky seems pulled down
tight to the horizon, yet P-47 fight
er bombers take off from the air- :
strip that bisects a sea of mud.
The squadron, part of this tactical
air command, has waited all morn
ing for minimum visibility in order
to go out and get another crack at
a railway bridge near Neuss
which, for two days, they have
been trying to knock out.
These flyers are constantly
slugging bridges, railway trains,
highways and other targets in ad
vance of American Ninth Army.
It is a never-ending cycle of dan
ger.
The first thing about the danger
is its impersonal quality. The P-47
pilots these days rarely see any
enemy fighters, but the anti-air
craft fire in the Roer and Rhine
valleys is persistenely heavy and
the pattern of the flak is constantly
shifting. Losses among pilots, who
do over 90 missions in the course
of a tour of duty are heavy. Their
scores do not show up in the num
ber of German fighters shot down
but in the number of locomotives
Colonel Harold N. Holt, 28-year
old commanding officer of one of
the fiqhter-bomber groups I visi
ted, feels that the public back
home doesn't appreciate or under
stand the job our tactical air forces
are doing. A veteran of 137 mis
sions. he was a rug salesman in
Philadelphia before the war. He
calls his plane “Magic Carpet,” and
it certainly has been that for him,
pulling him out of more than one
tight spot since the first days of the
Normandy invasion.
Holt’s complaint is that the pub
lic thinks of the air forces almost
entirely in terms of plane-to-piane
combat with the enemy, and rates
pilots on the number of enemy
fighters shot down. They fail to
understand what it means to dive
bomb a target with heavy flak
bursting all around.
What is even harder to under
stand. it seems to me, is the utter
boredom of waiting out weather
through a rainy, foggy, snowy win
ter Pilots sit around in draugh
ty. dimly lighted tents, talking or
playing cards against a back
ground of incessant radio. When
rare good days come, they work
round the clock.
One such day has occured while
I've been visiting this command.
Holt’s group flew three missions
that day, in beautiful clear weath
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:r. The entire command flew 553
sorties for what they may have
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“Tree and was certainly a record
or this command. The score roll
ed up on that good day was im
pressive. It included the des
ruction of 50 locomotives. 187 rail
oad cars, 2 railroad bridges, and
S3 cuts made in rail lines.
What the 29th has acheived is
part of the war”s greatest aerial
offensive, with American and RAF
oombers dropping thousands of
ons of bombs on the battered
Reich. The work of the heavy
oombers in the strategic air for
ces invitably seems more remote
Tom the war than that of the tac
:ical pilots so close to the battle
ines. Here, ground and air forces
vork together on an immediate
common objective, which is to
mock out the enemy in a fixed
area.
Every morning. Brigadier Gen
eral Richard E. Nugent, command
er of the 29th TAC, meets with
ground-force officers to discuss
operations for the coming 24 hours,
rhey go over the targets to be hit
Erom the air and set up priority
ratings based on the order of the
targets importance.
Nugent, 42-year-old West Point
er, has worked out an ingenious
plan for improving the understand
ing between ground and air forces.
Each week, five of his pilots are
selected to go up to the front with
the ground forces for a week, and
five men from ground forces go
to fighter-bomber bases. When
they go back to their respective
units, they have a new under
standing of the dangers and hard
ships faced by their opposite num
bers.
Tactical bombing is a never-ceas
ing process. The destruction across
the Rhine is undoubtedly wide
spread. However, the men here
enow how thorough is German or
ganization for the repair of dam
age. Ten minutes after bombs sev
med a main rail line, a reconnais
sance plane found German repair
mews at work on the site. Major
targets must be hit over and over
again.
With the coming' of spring and
better weather, overwhelming air
attacks will be thrown against the
Reich. Then progressive deterior
ation will make repairs almost im
possible. That is wliy here, where
they try to guard against false op
timism, you can begin to detect
dgns of something like hope that
the end of this weary war in Eur
ppe may not be too many months
away.’
(Copyright 1945 By United Feature
syndicate, Inc.)
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TYRO LANDS BIG ONE
VANCOUVER, Wash.. Feb. 26.—
U.R)—For a beginner, David Ben
iett is doing okay as a fisherman,
rirst attempt to catch a steelhead
■esulied in his landing just about
he biggest specimen ever hook
ed in this area. It measured 41
nches and weighed 25 pounds.
Wost anglers are lucky to get a
:0- or lij-pounder.
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MEETING
The Young Men’s Civic club
will hold a special meeting
Tuesday at 8:30 p. m. at club
Del Morrocco.
MANN ACT ABUSED,
MURPHY DECLARES
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26— (>*>)—
The Mann Act is being abused,
Supreme Court Justice Murphy
contended today.
Congress aimed solely at “the
pernicious white slave traffic”
when it passed the law in 1910, the
Justice said, leaving voluntary vice
to local laws.
The act forbids transporting a
white woman for immoral purpose
across State lines or in the District
of Columbia. Murphy said that
“courts in the past have ignored
the plain Congressional purpose and
have applied these statutory word'
in a literal sense, so as to punish
anyone transporting a woman foi
immoral purposes quite apart from
any connection with white slavery."
Civilian Dairy Supplies
Expected To Drop In ’45
RALEIGH, Feb. 26.— UP) — Al
though there probably will be a
slight increase in milk productior
this year, supplies of dairy pro
ducts available to civilians on a
per capita basis will likely b<
less than in 1944, but about thf
same as in 1943 on a whole mill
equivalent basis, according to C
W. Pegram. head of the State De
partment of Agriculture dairy di
vision.
Per capita butter consumption is
likely to be at a record low o:
about 10.5 pounds compared witl
11.8 pounds in 1944 and a 16.7
pound pre-war 11935-39) average
Pegram explained. He said thal
fluid milk and cream consumptior
will be at a record level of slightly
over 420 pounds per person.
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SOLVES MAN PROBLEM
PAWTUCKET. R. I.. Feb. 26.—
' (U.R)—The manpower shortage has
been nicely solved by the Paw
tucket Community Players. For
their annual spring production
they have chosen Clare Boothe
Luce's play, “The Women.” The
cast consists of 38 women and no
men.
TOLEDO ZOO AIMS UlCill
TOLEDO, O., Feb. 26.—(U.R)—
Officials plan to spend $500,000
to improve Toledo's Zoo to an ex
tent that will make it the world’s
largest concentration of zoologi
cal, botanical and natural history
exhibits of its size.
eviction rules
STILL IN FORCE
Clarifying eviction laws, Mau
rice H. Moore, associate director
of the Wilmington Defense Rental
area said yesterday that three
months must elapse, as a general
rule between the time a rental
house is sold and when action can
be started under the local law to
evict the present tenant.
The OPA rent director said that
he felt it necessary to restate the
conditions governing eviction of
the existing tenant by a pursiiaser
when a house is sold, in view of
the increasing number of such
sales in recent months.
“Not only must three months
elapse from the date of the sale,”
Moore added, “but no certificate
authorizing the start of eviction
action will be issued until at
least 20 per cent of the total pur
chase price has been paid. This
certificate authorizes pursuit of
eviction action in local courts
three months from the date the
.petition requesting the certificate
is filed and approved by our of
fice.” .. „
“There are exceptions to this,
Moore said, ‘‘One of which is that
equivalent accommodations can
be found into which the tenant
can move without undue hardship
or loss. However, with the hous
ing situation as tight as it is in
Wilmington, this exception won’t
be put to use very often.
In general, we want tenants
to know that they will have at
least three months in which to
find other quarters if the place
they now lice is sold,” Moore con
cluded.
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Obituaries
MRS. KATHERINE WOLF
Funeral services for Mrs. Kath
erine Wolf, of 304 South Second
Street, were held at 4:30 p. m.
yesterday from Andrews mortu
ary chapel. The Rev. Mortimer
Glover officiated, and burial was
in the Oakdale cemetery.
Surviving Mrs. Wolf are her hus
band, H. F. Wolf; a daughter,
Carolyn E. Wolf, of Wilmington;
and a sister, Mrs. L. Perauit, of
Cambridge, Mass.
Active pallbearers were Joe
Russ, Earl Russ. Kenneth Davis,
C. Y. DeVane. Harry Walker and
Luther T. Rogers.
MRS. ORA A. KENNEDY
Funeral services for Mrs. Ora
Adeline Kennedy, 74. who died
Saturday In James Walker Me
morial hospital, were read at 4
p. m. yesterday by G. E. Fiske
at the Kennedy residence at 148
Spofford street.
Mrs. Kennedy is survived by one
son, John A. Kennedy, of Wilmir.g
ton, two daughters, Mrs. Sudif
Evans and Mrs. Harlee Durben
both of Wilmington, four sisters
Mrs. B. B. Carlisle, of Beula
ville, Mrs. Letha Cumbee, Mrs
C. E. Hix and Mrs. Dorothy Sry
ant. all of Fayetteville, as well as
a number of grandchildren, nieces
and nephews.
Active pallbearers were W. G
Milligan, D. C. Cannady, Avillie
King. Herbert Elam, J. J. Potter
and W. H. Bonham.
JOHN A. McDOUGALL
Funeral services for John A.
McDougall, 65, of 205 Walnut
street, were held yesterday at
Calvary Baptist church. The Rev.
E. L. Bradley and the Rev San
key Lee Blanton officiated. Burial
was in Oakdale cemetery.
Surviving Mr. McDougall are
his widow, Mrs. Ella McDougall;
a son, John M. McDougall; four
sisters. Mrs. O. H. Furr, of Hick
ory, Mrs. A . L. Wagner, of
Charleston, S. C., Mrs. H. B. Far
rington, of Charlotte, and Mrs. W.
W. Miller, of New Bern; and a
brother, Robert H. McDougall of
Wilmington.
I Active pallbearers were R. G.
Holliday, G. W. White. J. L. Col
ley, R. A. Elmore, L. T. C. Skip
per and E E Dye.
Honorary pallbeaers were Z. E.
Murrell, W. H. Cox, A. W. Allen,
L. J. Jones, Dr. J. E. Evans,
Clint Russ, W G Bmadfoot, Earl
Gallagher, Richard A. Cromwell,
J. E. Allard, C. L. Carter and
Paul C. Lee.
HARKINS INFANTS
Graveside funeral services for
twin infants, the children of Mr.
and Mrs. James E. Harkins, of
208 South Eighth street, Winter
Park, were held yesterday at the
Winter Park cemetery. The Rev.
C. D. Barclift officiated.
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Former Salvation Army
Lender Tells Of France
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Chap
lain James L. Neighbours, who is
with an infantry regiment advanc
ing toward the Siegfried Line, has
described to a representative of
the General Commission on Arm’'
and Navy Chaplains, Washington,
D. C., certain marks of similarity
between Christmas in Normandy
and the original Advent season.
The Chaplain also states that the
last piece of luggage to be dis
carded by the soldier is his Bible.
Often it arrives with him at the
hospital and sometimes is buried
with his slain buddies.
Chaplain Neighbours was born
in Hillenville, Oklahoma. He resid
ed in Tecumseh in his youth and
where he graduated from the Sun
set High school. In 1937 he was
graduated from the Salvation Ar
my College at Atlanta, Georgia. In
this institution he taught from 1938
to 1941 at which time he was trans
ferred to Wilmington, North Caro
lina, to take charge of the work
of the Salvation Army. It was
while here that he received his
commission as a Chaplain. He is
now assigned to an infantry regi
ment which has seen combat duty.
Mrs. Neighbours and their child
reside in Charlotte, North Caro
lina, where the former is director
of young people’s work in the Sal
vation Army.
Concerning his experiences dur
ing the Advent season and after
ward, Chaplain Neighbours has
sent the following description:
“It seemed to me that never
before was the story of the Christ
Child and His message so filled
with meaning for us all. One of
the services was held in a setting
very like our Lord’s nativity, in
a small stable with the soldiers
sitting on sweet-smelling hay. At
another service the flock was scat
tered by enemy strafing but hap
pily, when they regathered, not a
man was missing or wounded. An
other service was held in a dimly
lighted cellar reminiscent of the
early Christians worshipping in
the catacombs. Needless to say,
the gratitude with which all serv
ices are received here is a con
stant inspiration to me.
“One of my painful duties is to
list sometimes the personal be
longings of casualties on the bat
tlefield. I have found that, almost
without exception, their most cher
ished possession has been their
Testament. It has grieved me to
bury a Testament soaked with a
soldier’s life-blood but, at the
same time, I have exulted at their
great Christian faith.”
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British War Office Says
Germans Moving Invalid
Yank Prisoners In Reich
LONDON, Feb. 26. — LT> — The
British War Office said tonight it
had been informed that 4,000 sick
American and British prisoners of
war have left stalag 344 at Lams
dorf in eastern Germany for anoth
er German prison camp as yet un^
known.
Physically fit prisoners from
Stalag 344 were reported on the
march between Boehmisch Leipa j
and Karlsbad.
The War Office also said that
prisoners from Stalag 8 had been
divided, part proceeding toward
Kassel and part to Neurnberg, while
prisoners from Stalag 8-c were mov
ing toward Hanover and Kassel.
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Cavite is at the end of a curved
peninsula, jutting out into Manila
Bay. ten miles southwest of the
Philippines’ capital.
Cchr(‘ Wfeiiar' Divislon
olates Conference T0(jay
A regular meeting of ,h ,y
division of the Commune
and Council will be held »t\ “
today in the conference J' P- m'
the fourth floor o£ the Tid*°J *
building, according tn v>. .... lEr
M. Henderson, avv,."1"'
Most of the meet
v°ted ,o planning **•
work for the rema PA°»«« t»
Mrs. Henderson said. Ae
division meets even- fourth
day of each moi 'rp, r/pTi!ES
or\ ’s vice rh •••*-,>„ . ■ *1, hrr.
ehatrntanrtjhe grn„r
gestu re to youngsters
NORFOLK. Mass.. Feb 26 u,
—Prisoners at the No^olk n ■
colony here are dob v 7
to help make the days of JLB;:
men’s families brighter. Tne.
making tiny figurines of
blue and khaki-clad service^
wmch are given to the ,hna
of fighting men to remind thel'
ofjnetr daddies. em
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A EVERYBODY (even mi
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or more in 1944 must file.
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St. John’s
Lodge No. 1
K. F. & A. M.
A stated communication of this
lodge will be holden this Tues
day evejiing, February 27, at
7:30 o’clock in the Masonic Tem
ple. The Degree of Fellowcraft
will be conferred. All qualified
brethren arc cordially invited to
attend.
Chas B. Newcomb, Secretary.
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BIF YOU EARNED less
• than $500, but taxes
were withheld, file a return.
(You may get a refund!)
C SERVICE PEOPLE ordi
• dinarily won't have to
file unless their income was
more than $2,000. (They get
a special exemption.)
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AS LONG AS
THIS FELLOW
AND HAD
SORE THROAT
miDUETO COLDS
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reduce monthly. Get the facts!
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Roger Moore, Pres. W. D. Jones, Asst. Sec.-Treu
Murray G. James, V.-Pres. J. 0. Carr, Atty.
NOTICE
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requires 2% penalty on all unpaid taxes after March
1st., 1945.
Please make promp payment in consideration of serv
ices rendered.
C. R. MORSE
City & County Tax Collector
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