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former resident wins armyjhonor wttGHELL FIELD, March 2.— cMf TsC„t Garland B. Cook, 30, of staft a.'nn N c , son of Mrs. Val nSam South Fourth street ^/husband of Mary Reigle Cook, ■P* * sent in Mississippi with her a P/nic recently arrived here at Pf1 "ew cantonment hospital by ’hospital transport plane fran‘ v ’'who was with a tank de ffn,-er battalion with the 28th nwis’on was in the heaviest fight D]J ;n this war in the Ardennes irip :n Belgium. Wounded four ff'°; he has a Purple Heart me l!? with three clusters. He"doesn’t care to speak of his exploits, but the fact that he has So won the Silver Star and the traze Star, tells his story for hit "1 exposed myself more or , js about ail he would say. A member of the Regular Army, h entered it in 1938. His outfit i n-'ed in France on D-Day plus {‘‘ o' Though wounded in S#ptember and October he still stayed in the fHll in Belgium. On November 5\e was wounded again. Caught by the Germans in a trap he saw most of his friends k-lle’d or wounded in a spot called "Purple Heart Road” on Novem ^For four days they suffered, of which he lay seriously wounded for three. Wien help came hut seven of the company were alive. Bv that time Cook had assumed command. Tall, serious, he is one of the men who really knows what war means. '‘Those boys were close friends, I knew them for years,” he laid quietly. “The members of my platoon knew they were in a trap knew there was no hope. Not one gave up. They remained at ,heir posts until they were knocked out.” 100 NAZI PLANES DOWNED IN BATTLE (Continued from Page One) fights and 33 bagged by ground strafing. Tactical air forces based on the continent sent fighter, medium and light bombers in relays at German communications all along the flaming battlefront. Reconnais sance disclosed the Germans were making especially strenuous ef forts to supply troops east of the Rhine on the Ninth Army front. The continual air attacks, howev er, stranded many German trains on torn-up stretches of track. Italy-based Fortresses and Li berators of the U. S. 15th Air Force blasted targets in the Linz area of Austria for the fourth time. Their escorting Mustangs and Lightning^ carried out strafing »missions in the same region. Tar gets in northern Italy also were hit. Allied fighters and medium and light bombers from forward bases in France and Belgium were be ing thrown at German communi cations on the blazing Western Front in maximum strength.. By noon U. S. Ninth Air Force planes alor.e had flown 1,111* sor ties gougmg road and rail move ment in the Krefeld area ahead of the Ninth Army and attacking other traffic from Duesseldorf southward along both sides of the Rhine to near Bonn. Twin-engin ed Lightnings scored hits on the big Hohenzollern rail and road bridge. The main span over the Rhine between the eastern and western parts of Cologne. Racing to within 31 miles of Berlin in a diversionary stab, the LT. S. Eighth Air Force heavy bombers broke into four separate teams and hit these targets: 1—Railyards in Dresden serving the Eastern Front, hammered by 450 Flying Fortresses to support the Russians. These yards were badly mauled in a series of at “ms last month. 2- A synthetic oil plant at Mag eburg and the big Krupp tank and self-propelled gun factory, combed by 350 Liberators. 3- A synthetic oil plant at Boh an, south of Leipzig, and the na fal oil refinery at Rostiz, south tress°ehlen’ Ut by 225 Flyin§ For" 4- Railway yards at Chemnitz, wTlS, from the Czech border, n-,. eb by 225 Flying Fortresses. f als° is an important eastern • •“ defense hub and was hit in Ai,ri«? °* raids last month, vi^li, euoil targets were bombed ad by cbSs!he r6St W6re °bSCUr' Pledges Office 0 Develop Production 'Continued from Page One) been fai... pariment'n aWay from th- de‘ about t'l003evelt now is casting loan ‘L lnd s°meone to run the aonferene^t6^’ He told his news boldin? n~ l0day Chat Jones is not choice80f!r m this P°st pending Jones hart success°r. ad over t d comment. He turn tary Wav1'! °utles to Undersecre and since hasChTayl°r January 24 affairs m -u bfen winding up his built dutdnnu* blg RFC building ington'c v-0,.1 s regime in Wash Wdllaee e'ng district. follower] )h Rrst act as Secretary “the littL fti,Pa!tern in behalf of ers sav av'1.„e low ’ which his back He .ays bas been, his guide, business Pn cled a c(>mmittee of port as and bankers to re lations fnrn as Possible on “sug ness to dn' . .enabling small busi nishlng tjls share” in fur 8 Postwar employment. (j reatest American Drive Reaches The Rhine River (continued from Page One) miles, and tonight it was clear that the battle of the Rhine, one of the swiftest of Allied triumphs was near an end, a dispatch from Field Marshal Montgomery’s headquarters said. As the flight became as chaotic in some places as that in Norman dy last summer, Gen. Eisenhower toured the front with Simpson to see how well the Ninth had car ried out his orders to destroy every German soldier west of the Rhine. The smoke of American shell bursts mingled with the smoke from the factories of Duesseldorf, administrative center of the Ruhr Basin with a population of 539,000. The suburb of Neuss, itself with a normal population of 60,000 held out but a short time before the charge of the 83rd Infantry Divi sion. German guns, emplaced on the east bank of the river, opened fire as tlfe Americans appeared, and mobile American artillery return ed the fire in a thunderour can nonading. The river is 1,180 feet wide at this point and is 50 feet deep. Ten miles to the northwest, the 102nd Division in 10-mile advance captured Krefeld,- a steel and rail way city of 170,000 population. Between the two cities, the Sec ond Armored Division also reach ed the Rhine last night almost si multaneously with the 83rd Divi sion and today- captured Boesing hoven, three miles south of the Germans’main Rhine escape bridge on the superhighway east of Kre feld. To the west the 35th Infantry and the Eighth Armored Divisions sealed off an undetermined num ber of Germans left along the once formidable Maas river line south of Venlo, and, striking seven miles northwest of that fallen citadel, captured Straelen. Farther' south patrols entered Roermond and found it deserted, but between Venlo and Roermond patrols crossing the Maas got a sharp reaction, indicating possibly sizeable forces had been trapped. The greatest peril to the Germans still west of the Rhine was rising from the . Kerfeld push, for here Simpson’s tanks and infantry were closing fast on the best roads of retreat to the Rhine. In the broad sweep, which won control of the Rhine plain all the way from the Maas 30 miles east ward to the Rhine, the Ninth Army captured such small industrial cit ies as Duelken and Viersen, with a combined population of about 30,000. In some of the cities‘ smoke still rose from chimneys of factories making materials for Hitler’s arm ies as the Americans charged through. s Sullen German civilians watched from windows, but made no at tempt to scorch the earth and snipe as ordered by Hitler. A Ninth Army staff officer de clared that the German defenses for the most part had degenerated into a rout. With this peril rising behind tVipm olompntc nf 1ft divisions OD posing Gen. H. D. G. Crerar’s Canadian First Army abruptly broke off the battle and headed for the Rhine. Bitterly-contested Weeze fell to British troops who then sped on two and a half miles south to within a mile of Kevelaer, 10 miles from the Americans at Straelen. Canadians six miles to the east swept forward five miles to within a mile and a half of the road junc tion of Sonsbeck as the Germans there likewise abruptly broke off contact. Other Canadian troops stormed to within two miles of the Rhine stronghold of Xanten, five miles northwest of Sonsbeck, and were mopping up the Hochwald, a fir forest where the Germans had stopped them cold for days with dug-in tanks and machineguns. Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s Third Army too a giant stride in its own drive for the Rhine with the capture of Trier, Germany’s oldest city with a normal popu lation of 88,000. The Third Army was lashing out all along its 50-mile front gaining up to two miles, seizing nine more towns and so many prisoners that it was having dif ficulty taking care of them. The Tenth Armored and 94th Infantry Divisions, which took Trier, were grinding to bits a pocket of Germans caught south west of the old fortress. Among the towns captured was Konz, one of the fort towns guarding the southern approaches to the city. Prisoners told their captors that the Trier airfield and some of the streets of the city itself were heavily mined Other elements of the Third Army were moving up both north and south of Trier, which is 60 airline miles from Coblenz on the Rhine. A field dispatch said six large fires blazed in Trier, but the _m n v,4- ft# 4-Via Viietftrift nilv li'-'i S' -— - -* had escaped severe damage. The Americans speared through Trier so swiftly that the Germans did not have time to touch off the dynamite to the south bridge. They managed to blow only one span from the north bridge. 4 Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’ power-laden U. S. First Army dug into the Germans fighting savage ly from behind the slag heaps and hilltops to hold it back from the last five miles to Cologne. Fierce fighting erupted around Moedrath, bridgehead town on the Cologne-Dueren highway, where the Germans counterattacked. Seven miles to the north, tanks fought into Neideraussem in an ad vance of nearly two miles, and four miles farther on the Ameri cans were fighting inside Buckholz. Striking out southeastward, the First Army registered, overnight gains of three and a half miles, capturing Erp, 15 miles from Bonn on the Rhine. The strategic road center of Zul pich west of Bonn was all but en circled with some American for ces a mile away. Eight miles southwest of Zul pich, the Americans were rolling up the last vestiges of a Roer river line on the First Army front. They captured Heimbach, which Is just east of Schwammenauel re servoir across the Roer river. Oth er forces crossed the neatly-drain ed reservoir from the west. * Four miles farther south was Ge muend, in the eastern fringe of the Siegfried Line, where the First Army was held up last month after it had taken control of the Roer dams, which paved, the way for the current offensive. The German Air Force bombed and strafed the First Army posi tions, and 26 of the attackers were shot down. The Allied Air Forces swarmed out today, striking at corivoys flee ing for the Rhine, and trying to knock out the bridges to trap and destroy as many of the enemy as possible. -V Obituaries SAMUEL J. ELLIS Funeral services for Samuel James Ellis, 81, of 216 North Ninth street, retired employe of the At lantic Coast Line railroad and for mer Wilmington alderman, were held at 4:30 p.m. yesterday from the chapel of the Andrews mortu ary. The Rev. Frederick Lewis, pastor of St. Andrews-Covenant church, officiated and burial was in Oakdale cemetery. Surviving Mr. Ellis are two daughters, Mrs. Lelia Corbin and Mrs. Henry R. Emory, of Wilming ton; two grandchildren, Elizabeth and Irene Emory; and two nieces. Active pallbearers were J. N. Jenkins, Oris Young, Robert L. LeGwin, Fred Tienken, Carl 01 denbuttel and Morris Haskett. Honorary pallbearers were H. F. Fechtig, George Mitchell, Tho mas Cowan, J. E. Hearn, C. B. Case, F. Lacy King, Z. E. Murrell, J. Arthur Brown, Glen Marlowe, S. H. Fulford and A. B. Love, Sr. SIDNEY G. WILLIAMSON LUMBERTON, March 2.—Sidney G. Williamson, 83, prominent Ro beson farmer, died at 4 p.m. Fri day at his home on Route three, Lumberton. A native of Marion county, he was a member of Oli vet Methodist church. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Bertha Galloway, of Lumber ton, and Mrs. J. Verne Williamson, of Hartsville, S. C., and seven sons, Rembert and G. W. Williamson, of Raeford, O. W. and L. C. William A w-. Vt i« sn o si Leighton and Charles Williamson, of Lumberton, as well as 21 grand children and 15 great grandchil dren. Funeral sendees will be con ducted at 3 p.m. Sunday at the re sidence by the Rev. Edgar G. Fish er, of the Chestnut Street Metho dist church, in Lumberton, and the Rev. F. B. Boone, of Olivet church. Burial will be in the Mari etta cemetery. WMCASKSHELP IN CURFEW LAW Henry I Shepherd, area director of the War Manpower Commission, announced yesterday that he has requested the cooperation of the Mayor, Sheriff, State Highway patrolmen and other law enforce ment officers in reporting violations of the new midnight curfew on places of entertainment. Shepherd said that tvhen he has been notified of any violations, im mediate action will be taken against violators. All establish ments affected by the curfew order are requested to cooperate with the War Manpower Commission in carrying out the order of the Di rector of War Mobilization and Reconversion. , The War Manpower'Commission has the responsibility for the en forcement of this curfew, Shepherd stated, which has been put into ef fect in order to conserve fuel, as well as to alleviate the manpower shortage and the burdens upon transportation and other facilities. -V City Briefs RELIGIOUS FILM “The Great Commandment” a religious film, will be shown at 7:30 p. m. today at the Cape Fear Presbyterian C h u r c h, Shipyard boulevard at Vance street. Maffitt Village. There is ho admission charge. ARRESTED City Police reported the a% rest yesterday of Fred A. Mc Kinney, 35 year old white man, at the Orton Hotel where he resides, on a charge of issu ing a worthless check on the Security National Bank of Greensboro in the amount of $33.80 to the State Distributing Co. here on February 9. ST. ANDREW’S MEETING A congregational meeting, at which all members were urged to be present, has been called for tomorrow morning by the officers of St. Andrew’s Cov enant Presbyterian church. -V European colonists to northeast America brought the lilac with them. MORTON FUNERAL SCHEDULED TODAY /• JULIAN W. MORTON Funeral services for Julian W. Morton, 48, president of Hugh Mac Rae Co., Inc., who died of a heart attack Thursday at his home, 12 Magnolia Place, will be held at 4:30 p,m. today from St. James Episcopal church. The Rev. Mor timer .Glover, rector, and the Right Rev. Thomas C. Darst, Bishop of the East Carolina diocese, will of ficiate. Interment will be in Oakdale cemetary. Active pallbearers will be Walk er Taylor, Dr. David B. Sloan, R. D. Cronly, Emsley Laney, James Herring and James Hughes. Honorary pallbearers will be Richard Tufts, of Pir.churst, and Charles D. Tompkins, of Alexan dria, Va. Mr. Morton was a leader in the developement of Oleander, Mag nolia Place, Piney Woods, Princess Place, and the north extension of Wrightsville Beach and the com pany which he headed, owns large holdings of real estate in this sec tion. He was actively identified with the developement of Linville, a popular summer golf resort in west ern North Carolina and was presi dent of the Linville Real Estate Company. Mr. Morton was born in Savann ah, Ga., educated at the University of Virginia, and after World War I devoted his abilities with his father in-law, Hugh MacRae, in the de velopment of resort and residen tial properties. He was a past president of the Carolina Golf Association and has iu jiidijj ui iuc v/aiuima tournaments during the past 20 years. Past president of the Cape Fear Country Club, he was a member of the Linville Country Club. A member of the American Le gion, he served overseas during World War I for more than 21 mon ths and was awarded the Purple Heart and Silver Star. Mr. Morton is survived by his widow; three sons, Sgt. Hugh Mac Rae Morton, with the U. S. Army in the southwest Pacific; Aviation Cadet Thomas L. Morton IV, now stationed in California, and Julian W. Morton, Jr., of Wilmington; one daughter, Miss. Agnes Morton, student at Woman’s college; Univ ersity of North Carolina; his mot her, Mrs. Thomas Locket, and one sister, Miss. Blanche Morton, all of Wilmington. -V PLAN TO WED HOLLYWOOD, March 2 — UPC Movie actress Mary Elliott, 23, whose home is in Gaffney, S. C., and actor Robert Cummings, 36, an Army Air Forces flight instruc tor, will be married tomorrow at Riverside, Calif. The ceremony will be performed by Cummings’ mother, Rev. Ruth K. Cummings, minister of religious science. -V BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS EXCHANGE HEARS TALK ON NURSES “Our wounded are coming home at the rate of 30,000 per month and the need for more nurses is urgent,” Lt. Helen Madden, in charge of the Woman’s Army Corp recruiting office, told Exchange Club members at their weekly luncheon yesterday. * Lt. Madden was presented by Mrs. Hargrove Bellamy, member of the State Advisory Committee for nurse recruiting. ‘‘Unless more nurses enlist im mediately, it will be necessary to draft them,” Lt. Madden stated, “and even if all trained nurses available enlist, there still will be an insufficient number to meet the requirements nationally of the 600, 000 beds set up for wounded men.” “The WAC needs 8,000 more nurses by March 20 if we are to keep the ratio of ninety seven out of one hundred wounded men liv ing. Nursing is a woman's work al though there are one hundred thou sand women in the WAC, the serv ice must have thousands of addi tional enlistments for the • WAC. “The training period of four months is open to women between the ages of 20 to 49 who have had two years high school education and no children under 14 years of age,” she said. Ladies night will be observed at the Country Club Wednesday, March 7, from 7:30 p.m. until mid night with a special dinner and or chestra program arranged by the entertainment committee. The committee announced a special program for this once-a-year occa sion. B. Gurr was introduced by Doc tor Ronner as a guest. Jack Fussell, member, was greet ed on his attendance. An invitation to the club to join with the American Legion on its celebration Saturday was read by Secretary Leo Sykes. President Stewart urged a full attendance at the ladies night pro gram in view of the suspension of next week’s regular meeting. CITIZEN REPORTS DOUBLE ROBBERY Military police, sheriffs officers and City police yesterday were in vestigating a report by Wilbur W. Merritt, of 2649 D Adams St., Sun set Park, that he was twice robbed by servicemen last night and after being assaulted by a Marine pair left abandoned on the Camp Davis highway. Merritt said that an airman ap proached him at Toms News stand on North Front street, twisted his arm, and at the point of a gun forced him to rent a room at the Brunswick hotel where the first robbery took place, police said. In the room, Merritt told police the soldier ordered removal of his clothing and thereafter took his Elgin watch. Redressed, Merritt dashed to the street to recover his watch, police said, and on the sidewalk was ac costed by two Marines, who forced him into a convertible and drove to the intersection of U. S. High way No. 17 north, at the Wrights boro-Winter Park road. The Sun set Park man said it was there that the pair beat and then robbed him of a $45 10-carat gold cameo ring and $50 in cash at the point of a gun. Abandoned in a dazed condition, Merritt reported he walked back to Wilmington as the Marines drove on toward Camp Davis. Police Sgt. T. B. 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