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13 ANSWER CALL FOR WAC-MEDICS Thirteen Wilmington women thus frg^Vjve answered the Army’s call fc^?6 volunteers from this area' to train and serve as medical and surgical technicians of the Wo men’s Army Corps, Lt. Helen L. Madden, WAC, reported yesterday. Of the thirteen, four have pass ed their examinations and taken the service oath, six were rejected for various reasons and four were examined yesterday and are now awaiting reports on their status. The national recruiting drive, begun two weeks ago, aims at bringing into the service 8.000 Wac-Medics to help cai*fe for Army wounded, currently being shipped back to the United States at a rate slightly higher than 1.000 men per day. Army medical officials esti mate that even with a nurse-draft in effect, the general hospitals in the nation lack 50 percent of the personnel that will be needed to staff casualty wards. Accordingly, Wac-Medics are being enlisted, giv en six weeks’ intensive training in hospital procedure and being assigned to hospitals in companies of 100 for every 1,000 patients. Entrance requirements for vol unteers for service with the Wac Medics, admittedly stiff in re gard to intelligence, education and character, can be investigated at all Army Recruiting stations, 'ap plicants are advised. \T NAZIS REPORT SOVIET CAINS (Continued from Page One) nigsberg. within range of Russian guns. The Third White Russians clamp ed a 12-mile ssige arc around Braunsberg on the west, south and east after renewing their drive on that coastal communications --cen ter from the west. Braunsberg lies astride the Passarge river. On the west bank of the stream, Red Ar my men captured Stangendorf, two and a half miles west, and Sagern, two miles south. On the river’s east bank, the Soviets won Schillghnen, three miles south southeast, and Pagen hof, three and a half miles east. The arc around Braunsberg extend ed to New Bahnau, five miles east north east,’ captured by troops which crossed the Bahnau river. One mile and a half north of Neu Bahnau, the Russians drove to within three miles of the last high way linking the two strongholds. Converging o n Heilignebeil, which lies on the Jarft river, the Third White Russians also captur ed Freihufen and Gruenwalde, four miles west of the -eight-way road and rail center in an advance along the south bank of the Jarft. On the river’s north bank, the Soviets’ closest approach was five miles northwest where they took Wuilit ten. Sixteen miles southwest of Koe nigsberg, other elements moved three miles down the coast of the Frisches Haff (lagoon), capturing Schoelen in an advance that nar rowed the pocket to 18 miles in length and no more than seven miles from the sea at its deepest. CAR ENTERED Hugh Long, of 310 North Seventh street, reported to City police last night that his car was broken into and a liquor ration book, a half car ton of cigarets and three pack ages of chewing gum taken. The loot was valued at $1.50. Third Army Threatens To Trap 80,000 Nazis (Continued from Paje One) This closed the door on a pocket of approximately 300 square miles which contains an estimated 2,000 Germans. Another column of the unidenti fied division crossed the Gian river in an eight-mile advance and reached Elzweiler, 14 miles north west of Kaiserslautern. One column of the Tenth Armor ed Division in a six-mile advance also reached a point 14 miles west of Kiaserslautern, knocking out nine tanks enroute. Two other col umns of the same division were 15 to 23 miles from Kaiserslautern after five-mile advances. The Tenth Armored was possibly 35 miles or less from a junction with the Seventh Army at Kaiser slautern, which would form the biggest of three traps, one of which already has been sprung, west of the Rhine. The third trap was devised to snap shut in the center of the Saar and lacked 14 miles of closing after the Seventh Army cleared the Sieg fried barrier and Third Army In fantry to the north captured St. Wendel and drove another mile south into Ober Linzweiler* The Fourth Armored Division, the one that made the Rhine val ley breakthrough, was running in to rougher opposition as it cut across the lines of German forces washing over into its path in re treat from the charge of three oth er armored divisions. Nevertheless, it battled on east two and a half miles beyond the broken Nahe river line, clearing Wolfsheim, 12 miles southwest of Mainz, and plunged four miles southeast of fallen Bad Kreuznach into Wollenstein. The Germans were clearing out of the western Saar rapidly, and Dillingen, another stronghold at its frontier, fell with the same ease as did the nearby anchor of Merzig yesterday. A total of 5,500 Prisoners taken yesterday testified to the speed of the Third Army dash, while the Germans who got away were ma chine-gunned, bombed and blast ed with rockets from dawn to dusk by U. S. warplanes ruling the Saar land’s skies unchallenged. Bingen, nine miles north of Bad Kreuznach on the Rhine and Nahe rivers also was cleared. Behind the Fourth, the 87th In fantry Division completed the sub jugation of Coblenz and pressed on south to the Rhine, giving Gen. Rhine's west bank southeastward from that city. 8,000Allied Warplanes Batter German Targets LONDON, Tuesday, March 20.— UP)—Nearly 8,000 Allied warplanes in an endless procession battered German targets yesterday, with U. S. Flying Fortresses and Li berator spearheading the ' assault by attacking three jet-plane fac tories and other war plants deep inside the Reich against aroused Luftwaffe opposition. The Nazis sent up swarms of interceptors of all types in an at tempt to break up the armada of 1,200 American heavy bombers and their escort of 600 Mustangs. A communique tonight announc ed 39 of the enemy planes, includ ing five jets, were shot down by the Mustang pilots but said tabula tion of American losses was in complete. One group of jet fight ers was known to have broken through into a group of Fortresses, stabbing at the big bombers in groups of threes and fours. Reports from the U. 5. Ninth Air Force boosted enemy losses as fighter-bombers from this com mand ripped up £2 Nazi planes on the ground and American-French squadrons of the First Tactical Air Force destroyed five in dogfights. The combined Nint and First TAF losses were 1 fighter bomb ers. These two Tactical Air Forces, stationed at forward bases on the continent, flew nearly 4,000 trips today, prowling from the crum bling Saar Basin to the devastated Ruhr in the relentless assault on German troops and vehicles. Operating at near record strength, they blanketed the ene my with explosives, medium and light figher bombers of the Ninth alone shooting up 1,292 vehicles of all types and cutting rails and roads in 157 places. SERVICE CHIEF NAMED AT DAVIS CAMP DAVIS. March 19—Major Donald S. Joyce, recently return ed from the China-India-Burma theater of operations has been as signed to duty as Director of Ad ministration and Services at the new installation of the Army Air Command at Camp Davis. From the period Feburary 1 — March 10, Major Joyce acted as commanding officer of this post. He was relieved by Brig. General George L. Usher who assumed command on that date. The Major, a former resident of Tenafly, N. J., entered the service in April, 1942, and was sent over seas two months later. He was assigned to the China-India-Burma theater, where he served as As sistant Adjutant General. He serv ed in this capacity until October, 1944, a wiiich time he was return ed to this country and was ordered to Redistribution Station No. One. Atlantic City. N. J. It was from this station that he was transferr ed to Camp Davis. Prior to his entering the service, Major Joyce was affiliated with the Merlis Real Estate Co. of New York. He attended N6w York Ivtili tery Academy, Cornwall on-the Hudson, N. J. PRICE MARK-UPS FROZEN BY OP A (Continued from Page One) Price Administrator C h e st e r Bowles promised consumers that the actions taken tonight will as sure them of their share of the reductions which will be made pos sible by operation of the new pric ing regulation to be known as the maximum average of the new maximum average price order. Under this regulation manufac turers are required to restore lines to the averages of 1942-43. With controls over the additions that retailers may make to their cost, the reductions which will start at the manufacturing level and will be sifted untouched down to the retail buying level. -V BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS GERMAN REVEALS COUP’S FJ! IRE (Continued from Page One) and Ulrich von Hassel, and later some former labor leaders, this in formant said. This is his story: It became increasingly clear that only someone in uniform and from the. old Prussian military caste could carry out the assassi nation. Unknown even to Hitler, a first attempt was carried out in December, 1943 but the bomb was defective and was recovered be fore Hitler’s associates discovered it. The circle of conspirators ex tended even to Himmler and Mar shal Erwin Rommel, supposedly two of Hitler’s most trustworthy paladins Rommel was killed in Brance and escaped detection. Himmler afterward reneged. It was he who delegated Popitz, the Prussian finance minister, to sit in on the conspirator meetings, and he also sent an attorney nam ed Langbehn to Switzerland to ask the Allies whether he, Himmler, would be acceptable in case Hit ler ceased to exist. In a meeting with Gauleiters seven days after the ill-fated at tempt, however, Himmler claimed Popitz had contacted him and that he had pretended to play along just to get evidence on the plot ters. The. ideal occasion, for. putting the plot into effect seemed ot come when Hitler, invited Mussolini to general headquarters near Loezen in East Prussia to attend a cere mony incorporating two Fascist di visions into the German Wehr macht. Von Stauffenberg, as executive office to the chief cf troop induc tions. Maj. Gen. Friedrich 01 bricht, was the customary officer designated formally to take in the Italian units with a crisp brief speech. Von Stauffenberg and his fellow-conspirators, however, as sumed that Hiter as usual would preside over the ceremony in a bomb-proof concrete bunker. Instead, Hitler desired to put on an act of fearlessness before Mus solini, and hence held the staff meeting that particular day in a wooded shed camouflaged as a grove of willow trees. The session opened with a 10 minute address by Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel expressing grati tude to the Fascists. Von Stauf fenberg followed. Stooping to fetcn a piece of paper with his remarks from a brief case next to his chair, he also pulled out an egg-sized bomb and with his boot shoved it unobserved under Hitler’s chair. His Drief address over. Von Stauffenberg left since he had no further business and Hitler called for the daily overall Wehrmacht report. Von Stauffenberg lingered outside a few moments. There was a terrific explosion. Von Stauffenberg, looking through a door that had been blown open, saw Hitler lying on the floor, blood-covered and aflame, and took it for granted the Fuehrer was dead. He calmly entered a waiting plane and flew back to Berlin, certain the plot had been successful. But he learned later tha Hitler, while listening to the Wehrmacht report, had left his chair and step ped to a cupboard for a magnify ing glass. Thus the bomb hit him indirectly. The effectiveness of the blast also was marred by the fact it was intended for a concrete bunker rather than a resilient wooden shed. At the War Offices in Berlin, Von Stauffenberg met Generals Beck, Erwin von Witzleben and Erich Hoeplner, according to my informant, and told them Hitler was dead. Machinery was put in motion for the coup. “Two vital mistakes of omission were made, however,” the inform ant said. ‘‘First was the failure to make certain that a ‘right’ duty officer was in charge of the Ber lin guards regiment. Instead, an ardent young Nazi named Renner —who in a short time advanced from sergeant to major—was on duty. He carried out the first or der unqucstioningly — namely, for the regiment to seize the so-call ed government quarters (roughly between the Unter den Linden and the Leipziger Strasse and between Wilhelmstrasse and Friedrich strasse). "Another order, however, was to arrest Goebbels. Instead of mere ly obeying instructions, he told Goebbels ‘we must arrest you be cause our Fuehrer is dead.’ ” Goebbels intuitively, and with accustomed bluff, replied, “It isn’t true! I’ll prove it to you!” He seized a secret private telephone connected directly with general headquarters and got Hitler to stammer a few words. Then he called together all propaganda ministry officials and told them of the attempt on the life of the Fuehrer. Then Renner, on Goebbels’ or ders, rushed back to the War Of fice where his men overpowered and shot von Stauffenberg and 01 bricht and gave Beck, who was bleeding to death slowly from a self-inflicted wound, a final shot. Then he had the other plotters ar rested. Meanwhile, instructions devised by the conspirators indicating what to do, who would head the government, et cetera were go ing out on the army teleprinter. Even then, in the opinion of my informant, the coup might have succeded if steps had been taken to see that the “right” enlisted men sat the machines. Instead, ardent Nazis were in control. Messages with instructions and information already had gone to a number of army headquarters, including Paris, Munich and Bres lau, when one radio operator in the War Office picked up news that Hitler still was alive. He ad vised his Nazi comrades operating teleprinters and they in turn ask ed their lieutenant what to do. The lieutenant called General Fellgiebel, chief of the signal corps, and Fellgiebel, who had sat in on the conspiracy, ordered him to continue. Instead, however, the lieutenant called Fellgiebel’s superior, Gen eral Hermann Reinecke and a loy al Nazi Reinecke gave countor ders and the revolution was nipped in the bud. Reaction among high army of ficers to the plot was three-fold. Some, like General Otton von Stuelpnagel at Paris, actively sup ported the revolution and were ar rested by a SS security detach ment. Others like General Krievgl at Munich simply went travelling several days until they could see which way the wind blew. Some, like an unidentified gen eral in command at Breslau, came to the gauleiter for their areas and assured them of loyalty to the regime. Once the revalution was avert ed, trials by the dread Volksger icht (peoples’ court) in Berlin made short work of the plotters and their friends. SENATE PASSES HOSPITAL BILL (Continued from Pa«e One) arrangement of the money still leaves all the funds on this same contingent basis. In support of the amendment, Lumpkin said, “these rural hos pital funds are so much more ur gently needed than the funds for indigent patients that I feel we have the cart before the horse. He said that there is “a crying need” for 6,000 hospital beds in the State at present and that it is “the least we can do to lend a hand to the rural hospitals.” Lumpkin’s proposal was support ed by Sen. Ward of Craven, who with the proposed amendment would make for “a greater, richer, happier North Carolina.’’ Opposing the entire medical care bill was Sen. Aiken of Catawba, who said that the State’s local units should provide hospital fa cilities and that the State-supported medical care program would grow into “tremendous proportions as our general fund revenues de cease.” Sen. O’Berry of Wayne, weeks ago, told the Senate that he thought the State would not have the money to meet the contingent appropriation. Under provisions of the bill, a 20-memfcer medical care .commis sion would be appointed, and plans would be made for the establish ment of a four-year medical school at the University of North Caro lina with the understanding that a standard four year medical school includes an adequate teaching hos pital. Loans would be made avail able to medical students who agree to practice in the State’s rural areas for four years after receiv ing their degrees, and special at tention would be given to aid of Negro medical students. Investiga tion would be made of the needs for hospital facilities in every county in the State. Two other amendments to the big bill, which was considerably reduced from its original scope by the Appropriations Committee, were adopted by the Senate. The first by Sen. Blythe of Mecklen burg, provides that a survey of the best place for the four-year school be made by an organization such as the Rockefeller foundation and that a report of its findings be presented to the Governor before the medical care commission pre sents its final recommendations to the board of trustee of the great er university. The second, by Sen. Smith of Stanly, removes a length ly preamble from the original bill. Considerable House debate is ex pected over the amendments. The House passed the hospital bill last week, and will be asked to concur in the Senate amendments. If the House fails to concur, a confer ence committee from both houses will be appointed, and adjourn ment of the Assembly, expected tomorrow or Wednesday, well may be delayed. The House, meanwhile, passed a bill providing for a new 15 mem ber State Hospitals Board of Con trol to be appointed for staggered terms by the Governor. The new board will be appointed from the State's 12 Congressional districts with three members at large. The measure wlso provides that the hospitals board business manager be appointed for a six year term instead of two. RED CROSS DRIVE GETS GOOD START (Continued from Page One) her prisoner of war husband “through the Red Cross." Strange commended the women of the Canteen Corps who served the breakfast; the Rev. Freed, host; the Tide Water Power Co. for furnishing the space for cam paign headquarters; and the press and the radio station. Following the invocation by the Rev. Mortimer Glover, vice-chair man of the Red Cross Disaster committee, the group remained, standing for the National Anthem. Harry Bliss, representative of the American City Bureau, which is conducting the drive here, asked that all divisions turn in progress reports as often as possible, and reminded the workers that the campaign ends March 8. Bliss explained the use of the Award of Merit certificates and the ‘Memo for Joe”, emphasizing that the latter is personal and that the Award wdll be given only to units and not individuals. “Within hours,” he said, “bul letins will be placed in the mail assigning each team a quota or minimum objective as its share of the county's $88,000 :,oat „ the same kind of sole^riin ■ v D<1 did last year and tke^^f out there proud of vn; n,, al,fcoy« possibly can by nex* <s„ , yo'J he concluded. Satur%," CANDIDAXe” **i CHICAGO, March ip_r. _ Charles W. Phillip: tions director at Wr,man's‘cn't” *’ Greensboro, N. C , today wa^nlm’ I ed as a candidate for second president of ,he National Col‘C! of Parents and Teachers. 8 !s Most versatile vehicle of the war helps in Philippines invasion THIS new “Champion” in invasion warfare is the amazing Studebaker Weasel— powered by the same brilliant 6-cylinder engine that gives such outstanding operating economy to the sensational Studebaker Champion motor car. In action on the Pacific islands and in Europe, the Weasel nego tiates sand, mud, swamp, solid ground or snow. It takes to deep water like a boat—propelled from shore to shore by the movement of its flexible, rubber padded tracks. Designed by Studebaker engi neers, this versatile new person nel and cargo carrier supple ments more than 5 5,000 Cyclone engines that Studebaker has already built for the Flying For tress, more than 165,000 heavy duty Studebaker military trucks. ^ (Good prices | paid I See nearest I Studebaker J dealer I I SU U," d c7r,Thant I aasSS I W'lcomc. Hava be I BATSON MOTOR COMPANY 1102 Market St. Dial.4545 Studebaker... Peacetime builder of fine cars and trucks j u ■ When raw wi cut like a knife.. CHAPPED UPS SOOTHED QUICKLY! Crocked lips —so cruel, and painful! | Caused when raw, bitter weather driesskin cells, leaves them “thirsty.” Skin may crack, bleed. Mentholatum acts medicinally: (1) Stimulates local blood supply. (2) Helps revive thirsty cells so they can retain need ed moisture. For sore, chapped hands, lips—Mentholatum. Jars, tubes, 30S. _ I St. Lukes ’ A. M. E. Zion Church Corner 7tn and Church Sti. ANNOUNCE EVANGELICAL SERVICE Now In Progress 19th Thru 30th SERVICES AT B P. M. with REV. W. W. HENRY of Washington, D. C. PUBLIC CORDIALLY INVITEE Rev, A. J, Kirk, Pastor ■MnHMMNONooo«gHu«HMarr..n--':jaHK.... .v.j^v.v. ... — 1 . ■ —■w—waawiv —a—BB li 1 1 "Somewhere at sea," a FT boat roars past an aircraft carrier. The planes are Navy Dauntless Dive bnmbett. lOffiriiil £;. 8. .Yacy pktfoprovk-i Bombers, fighter planes, PT boats are pow ered by 100-octane gasoline. It's well known that gasoline of this rating can be made from oil of low sulfur content. But urgent demands for the gas were even greater than enormous supplies of the oil. Atlantic supplied an answer... with the help of the glass wool that comes in “bats” As a result, high sulfur content of certain crude oils no longer limits production of 100-octane combat gas. At the start, Atlantic's scientists jumped in to produce 91-octane fuel from these oils. That was when unheard-of quantities of such gasoline suddenly were demanded for our aviation training program. Battling against time, Atlantic engineers whipped problem after problem in pilot plant runs finally got 91-octane from high sulfur oils. With the switch to full-scale operation in the refinery, new "bugs" popped up. Car bon particles plugged the top of the huge catalyst bed, retarding the flow of vapors. Here's where Atlantic researchers broke up the game" with glass wool bats. The glass wool caught the carbon... licked the last trouble in volume production under the new process. So successful is the proc ess that today it's being used to produce 100-octane fighting fuel. The?s typical Atlantic research. Help ing win the war today ... it will bring yoa even finer petroleum products for peacetime use tomorrow. 25 YEARS' PETROLEUM PROGRESS SINCE PEARL HARBOR
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