youth is killed
in TRUCK MISHAP
ttMBERTON, March 10.—Wil
. r,-adv (Mickey) Leviner, 8
EarT1 . j on 0f Mr. and Mrs. David
i,'arreviner, of Lumberton, was
,-nJ on Highway 74, one miles
M'1- , gvergreen, about 6 o’clock
rVnrriav morning when a truck
Sa a hv his father and in which
'riding, struck a tree and
overturned on him.
truck was being operated
1 Robert Smith, Jr., who was
j uvering newspapers for Mr. Lev
“el circulation manager for the
h^'lott observer in this area.
Smith "’as not injured.
. inquest into the death will
te held Tuesday at 8 p. m. in
WhiteviU*.
Young Leviner was born in
‘tie Beach, S. C., where his par
jjved for some years before
e” inC to Lumberton seven years
An only child, he was secorKI
gjepupil in the local school.
Beside his parents, he is survived
w bis paternal grand father, Troy
f’ Leviner, of Bennettsville, S. C.,
„d his maternal grandparents,
jtr. and Mrs. D. F. Helton, of Char
lotte.
Funeral services will be con
ducted" from the Stephens funeral
home here Sunday at 5:30 p. m.
1 by the Rev. Edgar B. Fisher, pas
! tcr 0f the Chestnut Street Methodist
church. Interment will be in
jfeadowbrook cemetery.
Berlin Reels Under
Blockbuster Attack
(Continued from Page One)
carrying heavy bombs and escort
ed by five Folke - Wulfe 190’s fly
ing above Linz in the bridgehead
area on a beeline for the vital
Rhine span over which the First
Army was pouring men and equi
ment.
The Thunderbolts swooped down
on the enemy planes despite burst
ing flak from free - shooting Amer
ican ground gunners throwing ev
erything they had into the sky to
protect the bridge.
In a savage pass, the Thunder
bolts shot down one divebomber,
one Folke Wulf escort, and then
in a swirling battle forced the
others to jettison their bombs
and scatter.
Two Thunderbolts were lost in
the short battle which twisted up
to 3,000 feet just under the low
cicuds.
Approximately 100 ’bolts and
Mustangs had been dispatched by
the Eighth airforce to help fight
ers from the Ninth airforce in
maintaining guard over the bridge
during the afternoon.
They moved in after huge forces
of the Eighth's planes, in a 200
nnle procession, struck the Ruhr
earlier in the. day in are lentless
campaign to paralyze transporta
tion and isolate the Ruhr battle
, fields from the rest of Germany.
ATTACK ITALIAN BRIDGE
ROME, March 10.— (A1) —Strik
at v.tal German communications
in northern Italy, heavy bombers
of the U. S. 15th Air Force at
tacked the Paronal rail bridge
across the Adige river three miles
northwest of Verona today.
The American attack followed an
assault last night by the RAF on
the structure, which carries the
Erenner pass rail line across the
river at the foot of the Alps. '
The bridge, a vital link in ene
my communications supplying the
German army in Italy, last was
hit February 28 but it had been
quickly reparied.
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NEW YORK, March 10.—(J9P)— :
Jail sentences were imposed today, 1
for the first time since the amuse
ment curfew went into effect, on
eight women and four men for
patronizing after-midnight speak- ■
easies. Magistrate Anna M. Kross 1
sent the 12 defendants to jail for
two days, in lieu of $5 fines, after I
pleaded guilty to disorderly 1
conduct charges. All were negroes. '
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MANPOWER PLANS
FACE MORE DELAY
WASHINGTON, March 10—OJ.R)_
The long - delayed manpower bill
tonight faced the prospect of be
ing held up further.
Chairman Andrew J. May, D.,
Ky., of the House Military Affairs
Committee, said he planned to ask
Monday for appointment of a con
ference committee to iron out wide
differences in House and Senate
versions of the legislation. But
opponents hinted that they might
block this move, which requires
unanimous consent, by a parlia
mentary objection.
avaoj- amu nidi in auuii an event
he would ask the rules committee
for a resolution whereby the same
objective could be achieved by a
majority vote of the House. That,
however, probably would take up
several days during which the
Manpower Bill would be going
lowhere.
The House and Senate bills em
brace opposite theories of man
power control and the possibility
pxisted that conferences might not
be able to agree on compromise
legislation. In that event, there
would be no Manpower Control
Law. ,_v
President Roosevelt’s newest ap
peal for prompt enactment of some
form of manpower legislation ap
peared to have achieved little or
io progress.
He said during his Friday news
inference that he had not chang
;d his views on the problem. As
“xpressed several times previous
ly, those views are that war plants
3o not have adequate numbers of
workers and that the way to get
hem is to give some federal agen
:y authority to tell individuals
where they should work.
The House accepted this theory
when it passed a bill several weeks
igo. It provided penalties for men
18 to 45 who refuse to stay in or
ake war industry jobs. But the
Senate balked.
The bill finally passed by the
Senate on Thursday provided no
lenalties for workers. Instead, it
jave statutory authority to war
nanpower commission orders lim
ting the numbers of workers em
iloyers may have and provided
lenalties for recalcitrant employ
:rs.
There was no indication of a
fielding attitude among leaders of
:ither the House or the Senate.
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ARRANGES CREDIT
LONDON, March 10.—(/P)—The
Norwegian government in exile
innounced tonight that the Bank
>f Norway had arraged with 11
Jew York banks for $16,000,000
iredit to facilitate financing of
essential Norwegian industries
md trade after the war.
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CIGARETTES WITHDRAWN
WASHINGTON, March 10. —(/P)
-A total of 321,856,156,236 cigar
ttes were withdrawn from ware
iouses for consumption during
944, an increase over 1943 of 25,
91,856,734, the internal revenue
ureau announced today.
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The song of the cricket is pro
ceed only by the male animal of
he species, the female cricket
naking no audible sound at all.
t has been reported that in cer
ain instances the song of the
ricket has been heard as far as a
nile away.
Americans Nine Miles
In Rhine Bridgehead
(Continued from Page One)
preme headquarters did not con
firm this, but a field dispatch said
enemy resistance was stiffening and
at least one armored division was
deployed against the American ad
vance.
It was said at headquarters that
the original bridgehead was being
enlarged steadily.
The Germans had not yet tried
to seize the initiative, more than
three days after the American First
crossed, and had not yet made a
major counterattack, Associated
Press Correspondent Hal Boyle
wrote from east of the Rhine.
This was the Ardennes in re
verse, with Field Marshal Karl von
Rundstedt forced to make heavy
commitment of reverses against
this threat to the heart of the Reich
at an hour when four other Allied
armies were lined up on the Rhine
in position to cross.
Still on the defensive, the Ger
mans were building up artillery
in a desperate effort to knock out
the Lundendorff bridge at Rema
gen before the advancing Amer
ican infantry and tanks drive their
guns beyond reach of the crossing.
Air Battle
Alert U. S. Eighth Air Force
fighters broke up an attempt by
six enemy planes to bomb the
bridge this afternoon In a spec
tacular air battle, 3,000 feet direct
ly above the bridgehead, while
German and American antiaircraft
gunners filled the sky with flak.
Standing outside the bridgehead
of 50 square miles, enemy medium
artillery and tank guns blasted at
the bridgehead and the bridge,
across which U. S. First Army
guns, men and tanks streamed in
endless procession.
To the south, the U. S. Third
Army hammered within two miles
of the Rhine city of Coblenz, and
flushed 9,000 prisoners from the
Eifil mountain trap which it shut
on six enemy divisions by a junc
tion yesterday with the First Army.
On the north side of the trap,
the First Army seized 20 miles of
the Ahr river, mover so swiftly
that it took 20 carloads of military
supplies at Ahrweiler, two flying
bomb sites, an ordnance dump at
Brueck, 14 miles west of the Rhine,
and numerous U. S. jeeps and
trucks taken by the Germans in
the Ardennes breakthrough. Some
prisoners wore shirts of U. S. units
mauled in that breakthrough. At
Brueck in the heart of the Eifels,
the First Army was eight miles
or less from a second junction with
the Tihrd Army in the center of
the trap. The First Army’s pris
oner bag was 3,000.
Pocket Collapses
On the north end of the front,
a field dispatch said the Ming-held
Wesel pocket on the west bank of
the Rhine collapsed under com
bined blows of the Canadiai First
and TJ. S. Ninth armies.
As Allied forces drove within
two miles of Wesel, in the north
west corner of the Ruhr, the Ger
mans blew both bridges there and
rearguards fled across the Rhine
by barges in a storm fff bombs and
shells.
This was the final act in the great
battle west of the Rhine which
supreme headquarters estimated
;ost the enemy 100,000 men in pris
oners alone since February 23.
Pwenty-two German divisions were
iestroyed or so badly mauled
bey must be refitted.
farther south, the Germans said
heir soldier wounded, the aged,
vomen and children were moving
?ast across the Rhine in long lines
n flight from the Saar industrial
oasin and the Palatinate, the only
wo provinces still in enemy pos
session west of the Rhine.
Allied armies now were lined up
>n 150 miles of the Rhine’s west
sank from the Dutch border to
lear Coblenz, and the Ruhr’s great
irsenal cities were learning to their
:ost what this meant as the Ninth
Irmy rocked them with giant
!40-mm howitzers.
Duisberg and Duesseldorf have
seen catching it for a week, and a
ront dispatch said that from now
>n, other cities within range, es
secially essen with its sprawling
Crupp Munition Works, would
mow no peace.
German attempts to slash into
he Remagen bridgehead yester
lay with the aid of tanks were
■epulsed, and since then the enemy
las been reluctant to return to the
uieidalu attacks. &
VFW WILL HONOR
GREENSBORO HERO
GREENSBORO, Mar., 10.—W—
Major George E. Preddy, Jr., an
outstanding ace of World War II
and first member of Greensboro
post, Veterans of Foreign Wars,
to be killed in combat, will be
honored when the name of this
post is changed to ‘‘Maj. George
E. Preddy, Jr., post number 2087”.
‘‘The idea back of this change
is to memorialize the name of one
of the great heroes of World War
II who was killed in action Dec
ember 25, 1944, and to honor the
first member of this post to lose
his life in defense of his country
in any of three wars in which
members of the Greensboro post
have served,” Commander C. D.
Hodgin, of the post, said.
Approval of the use of Preddy’s
name was given by members of
his family, Mr. and Mrs. George
E. Preddy, and a picture of Major
Preddy will be erected in his hon
or in post headquarters here, it has
been announced.
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CUT ORDERED
WASHINGTON, March 10.—(fl*)—
The OPA today ordered a cut in
the rationed food allotments of
nearly all industrial users, effec
tive April 1. The action was taken
OPA said, to bring allocations in
line with the smallest supply of
rationed food since the start of the
war.
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REASONS FUNCTIONS
HELSINKI, March 10.—(UP)—
Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustav
Mannerheim has resumed his func
tions as president of Finland fol
lowing a prolonged illness, it was
announced officially today.
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Leather shoe soles, treated with
an oil solution, show an increase
of 25 per cent on an average in
their wearability. All Army shoes
are now being treated with this
solution and through the use of
this process civilians will require
less shoes in the future.
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Watching A t Tho Dike
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Residents of Portsmouth^^
Soldiers and volunteers threw up a sandbae dike at on whL? th»h inVi?r move1 ?ntP ^residential area.
area. (AP Wirephoto) P g aiKe’ at op whlch onlookers watch In the Second street
Allied Assaults Hasten
German Economic Decay
LONDON, March 10—(IP)—There
are Increasing signs tonight that
the process of economic and poli
tical decay in Germany is being
accelerated sharply by the Amer
ican and Russian drives.
Allied economic experts report
that Hitler’s belt-tightening home
front is faced with a growing fam
ine as a result of disrupted com
munications by the round-the
clock Allied aerial blows. These
day and night attacks were coupled
with Russian advances which de
prived the Reich of roughly 16,
000,000 tons of food.
Signs of decay inside Germany
—each considered significant in
view of the -Allied drives—were:
1. Allied economic experts said
that on the basis of reports from
inside Germany that country’s
food situation had deteriorated
rapidly within the past weeks be
cause of disorganized .transport
and the influx of millions of refu
gees from areas overrun by Al
lied armies and from cities lev
eled by British and American aer
ial bombing.
2. Hints that Hitler’s widely
spread armies face a shortage of
ammunition and were operating on
a “hand to mouth” basis.
3. A survey of Allied governments
disclosed that Europe’ resistance
RACE BILL FACES
STORMY SESSION
WASHINGTON, March 10. —(IP)
—An issue laden with political
dynamite — Whether Congress
should outlaw racial and religious
discrimination by employers—to
day was ticketed for a public air
ing by the influential House Rules
Committee.
The bill, to establish a perma
nent fair employment practices
committee, is in for a stormy ses
sion, even though its principles
have the endorsement of both
major parties.
Racial and religious organiza
tions rallied a host of witnesses
to appear before the Rules Com
mittee when it opens hearing on
the administration-backed meas
ure Wednesday.
Some indication of the trouble
that stretches ahead for the meas
ure came from southerners on the
Rules Committee this Week when
the bill got a brief' preliminary
hearing.
Even Republicans shied away
from definite commitments on the
pending bill which emerged from
the labor committee several weeks
ago.
Republican Leader Martin of
Massachusetts told a reporter he
is in favor of the principles of a
I fair employment practices law
but he wouldn’t say he will back
the present bill.
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SEEK SETTLEMENT
INSTITUTE, W. Va., March 10.
—UP)—Company and union offi
cials held a day-long conference
with a war production board medi
ator today in an effort to settle a
labor dispute which stalled produc
tion in the U. S. Rubber Com
pany’s processing division of the
nation’s biggest synthetic rubber
plant here.
forces had reduced Germany’s war
weapon output in enslaved coun
tries at least 40 per cent by sabo
tage and “go slow’’ tactics. Lost
to the Germans also were war
weapon plants in France, Belgium,
Yugoslavia and Poland.
4. Stoppage of Swiss coal and
iron shipments and electric cur
rent into southern Germany and
rorthern Italy as a result of the
-illied-Swiss trade agreement sign
ed in Bern this week.
In order not to be caught nap
ping should Germany suddenly col
lapse the Allies have speeded up
moves in recent weeks for the oc
cupation of the country.
EFFORTS^TODR0P
STRIKE VOTE FAIL
WASHINGTON, March 10.—WI—
The Naiional Labor Relations
board will reject on Monday the
plea of the southern coal produc
ers that plans for a strike vote
March 28 among the miners be
dropped.
Action of the board was unani
mous, an informed source said to
night. The decision was reached
after consultation with the labor
'department and the War Labor
board.
Edward R. Burke, former Ne
braska Senator and spokesman for
the southern coal producers asso
ciation, yesterday filed a petition
with the NLRB seeking to have
the strike vote plan unified.
John L. Lewis, of the United
Mine Workers Association, now
engaged in negotiations with the
coal producers, had filed notice of
the strike vote, when the discus
sions began last week.
Lewis today charged the opera
tors with ‘‘bad faith” in attempt
ing to block the strike vote.
It was learned that when Burke
is formally notified of the board’s
rejection of his petition, Burke
will ask the Federal District Court
to grant the producers an injunc
tion to restrain the national labor
relations board from going ahead
with the strike vote.
Burke said the "bad faith”
charge was hurled at him by Lewis
in today’s closed session of t h e
committee representing the soft
coal producers and the miners.
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A theater at Thornton Heath,
Surrey, England, has "cosmetic
rooms” where women can make
up.
TOKYO RAID SETS
DESTRUCTION MARK
(Continued from Page One)
The total of the ruined area was
shown as 15 square miles, from
which clouds of smoke had covered
the returning B-29s with soot.
Fires were still burning at seven
points in Tokyo when the photo
graphs were taken Saturday after
noon, hours after the night strike.
Three were blazing at the north
end of the rectangle of destruction
and four at the south end. On the
south one burned on each side of
the mouth of Sumida river water
front and the other two midway be
tween the mouths of the Sumida
and Naka rivers.
The area of destruction, if lad
upon metropolitan New York, w-ould
cover all the industrial sections of
Brooklyn and Queens and half their
residential sections, plus Manhat
tan from the Battery to Sixtieth
street.
Le May said the area destroyed
was “clearly identifiable" in the
photographs. Large scale photo
graphs showed that„the destruction
had spread eastward from the de
signated 10-square mile target area
another five square miles to the
bulge of the Naka river.
The destruction extends roughly
from the Imperial palace (which
Le May said was not a target, al
though Tokyo radio reported it had
been set afire) to the waterfront at
the mouth of the Naka river, thence
approximately four miles north.
Le May added soberly. “I have
something else to say at this time.
\roat I have to say is not easy to
say. I shall try to say it as if I
were saying it to the people at home
who belong to my officers and men
and to whom my officers and men
belong.
"I believe that all those under rsy
command on these island bases
have by their participation in this
single operation shortened the war.
“To what extent they have short
ened it, no one can tell. But I be
lieve that if there has been cut
from its duration only one day, or
one hour, my officers and men
have served a high purpose.'*
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