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Loss Oflwo Jima Weakens Japan s Hold In Pacific: Next Landing May Be Easier By MORRIE SAN'DSBERG rwo JIMA, March 18—1CP—If you want to know what Iwo Jima s capture means, study the map care fully. , The Japanese mainland is only 700 miles away. Almost all possible targets in. future Western Pacific aerial of-j fensives are within convenient bombing range. Haha and Chichi Jima in the Bonns are 139 and 163 mfles northeast. The naval base of Tawao on Formosa is 1334 miles west and it is only a few hundred miles farther to the China coast. Iwo was the strongest base in a itring of islands Japan had built up as a buffer to possible aggres sion from the south. With its fall, all others were weakened to the point of passivity or complete use lessness. But it goes beyond that. In Iwo and the Bonins, the Japa nese had staging bases from which to strike American positions in the Marianas and conceivably to send planes into such by-passed and still potentially dangerous places as Truk in the Carolines. The Japa nese no longer can retaliate in the air except against Iwo unless they risk their few remaining carriers. Japan’s defeat here almost forg ed a ring around the enemy s main land. The ring begins here, touches: U. S. occupied islands in the Mari anas and Palaus and ends on Lu zon. In a sense, all that the Marines and Army have captured for the United States in the Central Paci fic has been made secure by the blow which won this most heavily fortified, most zealously guarded bit of Japan. From the standpoint of strategic positions, the empire now has far less than even before the outbreak of war—and the Japa nese seized points as Far East as the Gilberts. By taking this one island, the United States has cut off the once formidable array of Japanese bases in the Gilberts, Marshalls, Caro lines, Marianas and, now, Nanpo; Shoto. Iwo was the last good shove, that toppled the Japanese ladder! in the Pacific. Invasion of this Volcanic strong-, hold also proved something which! had been indicated all along in ocean-spanning amphibious opera- j tions—that American forces can, land any place, any time, they' choose. This little black speck is 3,700 miles from Pearl Harbor. Its beaches were completely exposed. There was no harbor. Surf breaks on the island like an aquatic whip. Mature and the Japanese combin ed to make a hostile landing theo retically impossible, or at least an over-costly venture. Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal was particularly impres sed. He witnessed the landings from Vice Adm. Richmond Kelly Tur ner’s flagship. He noted that the small island left no alternative of surprise, such as was achieved at ' Normandy and in southern France. There was no flank here, he said, except the ocean. Invasions to come undoubtedly will be tough jobs, but whether over the shores of Japan. China or intermediate islands, the de fenses are not likely to be so in tensive as on five-mile long Iwo. Some future landing targets prob ably will be large enough so that surprise will be on the side of the attackers. .When bomber and fighter pilots gun their engines down the hard, brown runways of Iwo’s airfields, the men who fought for those run ways would like the words of their boss. Maj. Gen. Holland M. (How lin’ Madt Smith, remembered: “In seeking an objective like Iwo, only courage in the hearts of men and their willingness to give their all for their country makes victory possible. We bow our heads in hum ble appreciation to those who, never questioning, have made Iwo ours.’-’ "You know," Rear Adm. Harry H. Hill, deputy commander of the Iwo attack force, remarked one afternoon, “we ought to set aside a special day to commemorate the taking of Iwo Jima—something like May Day." 82,162 Pounds Of Paper Taken By Scouts, Jaycees Yesterday's C i t y - w i d e scrap, pape" drive, carried out jointly by the Junior Chamber of Commerce and the City troops of the Boy Scouts of America, netted 82,162 pounds of waste paper, it was an nounced last night. This take fell nearly 10,000 pounds under that of the second collection, made six weeks ago, bu‘ was substanti liy greater than that of the year’s first drive. The paper was sold to the Wilmington Paper Stock Co. and the proceeds given to the Boy Scouts for tl*2 purchase of a motion picture pro jector to be used for training pur p ses. Eighteen trucks, furnished by agencies and commercial concerns within the City and manned by 30 Jaycees and 250 Scouts, commenced their sweep at 1 p.m., under a broiling sun. They garnered 38 loads of scrap from curb-piles built up by residents of the City, the suburbs and Carolina and Wrights ville Beaches, and brought them for bailing and weighing to the yards of the North-South Coal Co., at Sixth and Campbell streets. The complete yield had been handled by 8:30 p.m. The co-chairmen of the drive were Plarley Kenan, for the Jay-i cees, and Courtland Baker, for the f Boy Scouts. Earl Biggs directed routing, Graham Russ managed; personnel, Carroll Tinsley handled; publicity and Lloyd Dunn procur ed the trucks. Four trucks were volunteered by the City and two by the Wilming-i ton Paper Stock Co. Other truck contributors, who furnished one each, were the Queen City Coach Co., the Home Furniture Co., the Hyman Supply Co., the Sunshine Laundry, W. & J. Sloane, the Wfi mington Housing Authority, the Todd Furniture Co., the Tide Water Power Co., the North Carolina Shipbuilding Co., Brooks’ Cash Grocery and the R. F. Hall Feed Store. NAGOYAPOUNDED AGAIN BY B-29S (Continued from Page One) In detailing the attack by carrier planes, Tokyo said that Super-j fortresses might appear over southwestern Japan at any hour :o back up the Navy’s attack. As it proved, the Superfortresses left their Marianas bases here soon after the carrier planes complet ed their day shift. The carriers attacked along a front of 285 miles from Kumamoto on the west coast of Kyushu, southwestemmost of the Japanese home islands, to Wakayama on the southwest coast of Honshu, as re ported by Tokyo. The Superfortresses hit Nagoya, 115 miles northeast of Wakayama. Since the first fleet of 300 orj more Superfortresses attacked! ffokyo Saturday, March 10, at east 28 86 square miles of four >f Japan’s five biggest cities had 3een wiped out by fire bombs up o the pre-dawn hour when the j first Superfortress hit Nagoya to-: lay. Nagoya had been hit last Mon lay, Osaka, Japan’s second city, Wednesday, Kobe, the fifth city, Saturday. Of the five biggest cit es, Kyoto alone had not felt the veight of one of these new type attacks in which from 2,000 to 2, i00 tons of incendiaries are drop ped within a few hours in a con centrated target area. -V Never grease the piepan. Good pastry greases its own pan. I r-^ STOP that CO0G*! KREY quickly relieves the misery and shock of coughs —due to common colds, dast, smoke or fumes. You'll like the way KREY gets to the seat of the trouble, soothing dry, ir ritated membranes, loosens sticky phlegm, brings wel come relief. KREY is worthy of a doctor’s pre scription! A.SK FOR KREy Contains Ingredient* Physicians Prescribe \_J /---1 I (Wnv ajj-TonuCto Soup j as a dish by itself-Jts delicious used as a sauce -it's superb \ Heinz \ CwAmmAI \ C/U2AHU oftlamatb ! Soup One tin of soup, plus one tin of milk or water makes four ft bowlfuls delicious soup • (h & SmctBoic for meatloaf and spaghetti, Heinz _£ Condensed Cream of Tomato Soup gives a flavor folks simply can't resist 1,300 BOMBERS POUND BERLIN (Continued From Page One) The Liberators dropped approxi mately 8,500 bombs — explosives and large incendiaries—on tilt two plants. Returning crew members said fires and explosions were raging and that smoke rose thousands oi feet above the city. Bombs were aimed both visually and by in strument when the pianes en countered mixed cloud conditions. Capt, Harrison Cordoff of Me chanicsville, N. Y., said the "bomber boys hoed a path right down the center of Berlin.” The action of Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle in sending only 700 fight ers to cover the bombers, com pared with the thousand-plus es cort thrown around bombers in strikes at German oil plants a few weeks ago, was a striking testimonial to the decline of the Luftwaffe as a fighting torce. One Mustang group claimed to have shot down several Focke Wulf 190’s out of a formation of 20 which was grouping for an at tack on the bomber columns. The American Mustangs and Russian Yak fighters went into ac tion side by side in defending a Soviet airfield east of the Oder river from an attack by four Ger man fighters. Then the Russian planes flew back over Beilin with the Yanks. Anti-aircraft fire was intense over the center of the city and meager to intense over the out skirts. Today’s attack surpassed even the record raid of February 27, when some 1,200 heavy bombers concentrated on the Schlesischer and Berlin north stations and hit the Alexander Platz as well. The explosives dropped today boosted to well over 20,000 tons the total weight of bombs drop ped on the Berlin area by the Eighth Air Force. ENEMY REPULSED NEAR ZAMBOANGA (Continued From Page One) Santa Fe, just north of the pass. In the costal area of the north ern Luzon zone, planes dropped 337 tons of bombs in the area of Baguio, summer capital of the Philippines and center of perhaps the largest Japanese concentra tion remaining on the island. This was only part of a big aerial day which showed the in creasing power of MacArthur’s air force. In raids on Baguio, Min danao island, the Visrfyas, Formo sa and Borneo, planes dropped 848 tons of bombs. Three hundred tons were dropped on Formosa targets including air bases and an electric plant. A destroyer and a destroyer es cort were left in flames by planes which attacked a convoy off the China coast as their part of main taining the new blockade of enemy communications to the South Seas. WEATHER (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) ! Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m., yesterday. Temperature 1:30 am, 70; 7:30 am, 65; 1:30 pm, 81; 7-30 pm, 66. Maximum 82; Minimum 65; Mean 74; Normal 54. Humidity 1:30 am, 65; 7:30 am, 80; 1:30 pm, 47; 7:30 pm, 74. Precipitation Total for the 24 hours eneding 7:30 pm, 0.00 inches. Total since the first of the month, 0.20 inches. Tides for Today (From the Tide Tables published by the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey) High Low Wilmington _ 1:57a 9:17a 2:25p 9:29p Masonboro Inlet _ 6:02a 12:18p 6:17p Sunrise, 6:17 a.m.; Sunset, 6:23 p.m.; Moonrise, 10:22 a.m.; Moonset, - -V Prior to the war, there were 500, 000 automobile builders in the Unit ‘ed States. Obituaries MRS. J. S. HOLLAND Funeral services lor Mrs. J. S. Holland, 83, who died at 8:30 p. m. Saturday in her home on Mar ket street, will be conducted at 3 p. m. today at the Yopp funeral home by the Rev. Sankey L. Blan ton. Interment will follow in the Bethel church cemetery near Ma rion, S. C. Mrs. Holland is survived by two daughters, Mrs. L. C. Hawkins, of Portsmouth, Va., and Mrs. T. S. Hampton, of Florence. S. C.; two sons. C. P. and W. M. Hol land. of Wilmington; one sister, Mrs. Robert Carter, of Wilming ton: 18 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren. Active pallbearers will be Mrs. Holland’s grandsons, G. W. Hol land. T. E. Holland. E. C. Haw kins, C. F Hampton, W E. Sears and J. E. Long. MRS. J. E. WILLOUGHBY Funeral services for Mrs. J. E. Willoughby, 78, widow of the for mer chief engineer of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad, who died in Sarasota, Fla., at 5 a.m. yesterday, will be conducted from Trinity Methodist church at 5 p.m. Mon day by the Rev. F. W. Paschall. Interment will follow in Oakdale cemetery. Mrs. Willoughby is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Charles Hazel hurst, of Norfolk, Va., and Miss Ruth Willoughby, of Sarasota. Active pallbearers will be Wil liam Hazelhurst, J. C. Christian, W. J. Turner, E. B. Register, A. B. Grimsley, D. B. Packard, R. S. Hall and A. C. Wessell. MADISON M. MOORE ? BURGAW, March 18.—Madison Monroe Moore, 70, died at his home in Currie at 6:30 p. m. Fri day and funeral services were held at 3:30 p. m. Sunday at the late residence by the Rev. H. F. Brinson. Burial followed in the family cemetery near Currie. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Lula S. Moore, of Currie; five sons, Marion M. Moore, and H. L. Moore, all of Wilmington, and Pfc. Carl Moore, serving with the U. S. Army overseas; a daughter, Mrs. Rosa Lee Casteen, of Wil mington, one brother W. C. Moore, also of Wilmington; a sister, Mrs. Annie Mass of Rockingham, - and 17 grandchildren. Acting pallbearers were Elbert Moore, George Moore, Charlie White, James Malpass, Frederick WTiite and Zachary Moore. Honorary pallbearers were Willie Atkinson, W. D. Malpass, Franklin Rowe, Dr. N. C. Wolfe, B. W. Lo$rey and Sloan Bell. GEORGE F. TURLEY WINSTON-SALEM, March 18 — George F. Turley, 77, retired gen eral superintendent of the Winston South Bound Railroad Co., died this morning at a 'Winston-Salem hospital. Burial is to take place in Winston-Salem Monday after noon. CAR ER PLANES BOMBARD KYUSHU (Continued from Page One) Tokyo radio said 1,400 planes were in the attacking force, which was over the three southwestern Japanese islands for eight hours early Sunday, Japanese time. The enemy broadcast said the American fliers concentrated or# airfields, with Kumamoto and “other cities” on Kyushu taking the heaviest pounding. Japan claimed its aircraft were attacking the raiders and s%id three U. S. warships had been sunk, including two carriers. Adm. Nimitz announced the lat esi assauu on me enemy Home land in this brief paragraph of his communique: “On March 18 (east longitude date) a strong force of carrier aircraft of the Pacific Fleet at tacked enemy aircraft bases and installations on the island of Kyu shu.’’ Nimitz said that on Iwo Marine uniforms again had been found on Japanese soldiers. One enemy soldier, he report ed, “stopped one of our ambu lances, shot and wounded the driver and escaped. Snipers still were active dn Iwo’s rugged northern end where the few remairting Japanese are entrenched in caves and lateral tunnels. Army fighters bombed and straf ed Chichi Jima, in the Bonins to the north of Iwo. Barge concen trations were hit and radio and I radar facilities disrupted. The air field was cratered by Army Liber ators whcih met no opposition. Heavy bombers bombed Shimu shiru in the Kuriles Saturday. -V Young Negro Is Reported Drowned In Smiths* Creek City police about 9 p.m. Satur day night received a report that Harry Merritt, Negro, nine-year old son of Alexander and Louise Merritt, of 1010 North Fifth street had drowned in Smith’s Creek. Walter Moore, Negro, of the same address told police that he and Arthur Bradshaw, Negro, of 1211 1-4 Love’s alley, Robert Mose ly, Negro of 808 South Sixteenth street, and Merritt were swimming in the creek. He stated that “Ar thur and Harry” were in a boat' and Harry was standing Up and fell out. Bradshaw made several attempts to save the boy nolice reports showed. -V-___ California produces the birth stones for every month excent iff,, and July_the_emeraM^CnedPtrSyy Harvard University conducted /series of tests as a study offali^ East Meets West—In ‘Bicycabs’ The once-lowly bike has risen to be almost de luxe transportation, thanks to the motor and gas shortage. Photos above, taken on op posite sides of the world show, top, a Burmese couple, forced to flee by the Jap invasion, returning in style to their home near Sadaung, following its liberation by Britsh forces; bottom, a swanky-looking bicycle taxi in Paris, hailed by Red Cross worker Marguerite Tickle, of Carmel, Calif. She's laden with gifts for Yanks. Riverside Units Slated For Armed Forces ’ Use Federal authorization to open 100 four-room dwelling units in the Riverside Apartments for oc cupancy by members of the arm ed services and their families was received Saturday by the Wilming ton War Housing office, Louie E. Woodbury, Jr., reported last night. Approximately 50 of the apart ments are ready for immediate occupancy, he explained, while Army and Navy applicants may move into the others as they are vacated by the industrial war workers to whom they are cur rently rented. A number of Maf fitt Village units, furnished and unfurnished, are also available now to military tenants. Each of the Riverside units, built to house essential war work ers moved into this area from elsewhere and until now restrict ed to their use, consists of two bedrooms, a kitchen and a living room. They are equipped with an elec tric stove, an electric refrigerator, a hot-water heater and a coal space-heater apiece. They rent for either $41.85 or $43.85 per month each, depending on whether they are corner or inside apart ments. Military applicants for the dwellings are directed to inquire at the War Housing Authority of fice in the Southern Building. The agreement between the Ar my and Federal housing officials which opened the Riverside pro ject apartments to soldiers, sailors and Marines stemmed from the re opening of Cam Davis as an Army Air Forces Distribution Center and Convalescent Hospital, Mr. Wood bury said. As additional personnel arrive to fill the camp, War Hous ing officials expect the develop ment of a considerable lodging shortage. The Wilmington War Housing office, which regulates occupancy of the Lake Forest and Maffitt Village units, as well as the 500 at Riverside, will “increase its facil ities as the demand dictates”, Mr. Woodbury said. In addition to providing the new ly-built project-units, the Hous ing office refers aplicants to HOLC brokers in connection with pri vate houses being converted to apartment use and during 1044 placed more than 3,700 families in privately rented rooms and apartments. /-■ ... - I,. City Briefs HELD IN LARCENY Alfred Brown, Negro, of 516 1-2 Campbell street, was book ed by City police yesterday for larceny and receiving and two charges of assault with a deadly weapon. He was put in jail in lieu of a $500 bond. He was charged with taking $9.40 from John Anders of Long Creek. THEFT REPORTED W. B. Haight of the Morris and Mott service station told police that a wrist watch, three shirts, an animal carrier, a man’s suit and underwear were taken from his automo bile. The loot was estimated at ?75. WALLET STOLEN M. B. Peacock of Camp Le jeune reported to police that his wallet containing five dol lars in cash and personal pa pers was taken from his room at a local hotel. CHICKEN DINNER A chicken dinner and oyster supper will be held at 8 p.m. Friday at the residence of Ri chard Peters on the Middle Sound Loop road by the offi cial board of the Advent Chris tian church and Sunday School for the benefit of a new church building, it was announced by George Shepard, deacon of the church. The public is invited. --V OWN RED CROSS DRIVE FORT WAYNE, Ind., March 18. — (U.R) —Lew and Charles Clark, owners of a restaurant, prepare far the Red Cross Fund Drive all year. They have a glass jar near their cash register and into it go all the pennies and most of the nickels that their customers give them for their checks. Whenever the jar is full, they set it aside until time to give it to the Red Cross. Third Pushes Nahe, ' First Plunges Eastward (Continued From Page One) r to hold the bridgehead, now about eight miles deep. It was known that Lt. Gen. Hodges had one pontoon bridge across, and this probably is sup plemented by other emergency structures and ferries to keep men, tanks and guns rolling over the river. Third Army troops were pour ing into the Western Saar across the Saar river, and the quick fall of fortified Merzig, a city of 10,000 population, testified to the want of resistance. Gen. Patton’s first invasion of the Saar last fall ground to a stop in front of Merzig, which was a keystone in the Siegfried Line. It was 28 miles north east of here that the Tenth Armored Di vision was driving 35 miles from a junction with the Seventh in the very center of the Saar. The tanks roared into Birken field, a highway control point 35 miles north of last reported Sev enth Army positions south of the Saar city of Zweibruecken. Thirty-five miles farther east, the German communique said the Fourth Armored Division had crossed the Nahe river, last na tural barrier before Mainz, a: Bad Muenster. This is three miles south of where enemy broadcasts Saturday said the rampaging tanks had crcssed at Kreuznach. Here, deep behind the lines of the German Seventh and First Armies, the en emy said the Third Army was hurrying up reinforcements for renewed blows. To the west, the Eleventh Arm ored Division last was reported in the vicinity of the road hub of Kirchberg, six miles southwest of Simmern, through which the Fourth Armored Division sped in its breakthrough from the Moselle river bridgehead. Patton was disclosed to have hurled an additional armored di vision into the battle, giving him a total of four in action, and was employing the blazing tactics which overran Fran. Without regard to the flanks of rear, his tank , rtpp:r.g thi lgh toe . ... 35 giving the enei n -tr to rally. -y Northward -he - , being fired .- • . ’ *e?* j Coblenz, at tne .• . 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