PRESIDENT URGES
RED CROSS GIFTS
WASHINGTON, March 20.——
President Roosevelt called upor
his fellow Americans tonight t(
give to the Red Cross War Fund
not through a feeling of charitj
but through one of necessity.
“The need never was greater,”
he said. “It will not soon be less.”
The Chief Executive broadcasl
his appeal to over-subscribe the
$200,000,000 fund. His text follows:
“There was a time when you
and I gave to the Red Cross large
ly in a feeling of aid to others.
That was a giving in humanity
and in decency. This year we give
in necessity — necessity for our
own. The need never was greater.
It will not soon be less.
“As your President, I have nev
er indulged myself or the Ameri
can people in the pastime of pre
dicting the advent of peace. I do
not know when victory will come.
I do know that tonight there are
over seven and a half million
Americans overseas or fighting
afloat in this great war. I know
that there are nearly 70,000 Ameri
cans in enemy prison camps. And
I know there is nothing unpredict
able about their need.
"We can be proud of all that
the Red Cross has meant to them.
From personal observation abroad
I can testify to the usefulness of
the Red Cross in the battle zones.
‘It has reached through the
barbed wire of enemy prison
camps with millions of parcels of
food, and clothing, and medical
supplies.
“It has collected for the Army
and Navy vast quantities of pre
cious blood plasma, which has sav
ed thousands of American lives.
“It has supplied refreshment,
entertainment and good cheer. It
has served as a link between the
fighting man and his loved ones
here at home. Never, in the an
nals of voluntary service to hu
manity, has an agency performed
so many tasks so well.
‘This is no call for charity. This
is our chance to serve those who
serve us.
“As their commander-in-chief I
call upon you, my fellow Ameri
cans, to over-subscribe the 1945
Red Cross War Fund. We cannot
give too much to those who have
given us the heroic hazard of their
lives.”
RED CROSSAM
STRESSES NEED
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his knowledge through study of
books.
“If he needs recreation, let us
be sure he has equipment to play
games or books to read.
“Give in the spirit for which
Rotary stands and invest in the
future of the country.
“Keep your Red Corss at his
side.”
Mr. Bliss ended with an appeal
to citizens generally to help put
the drive over the top on schedule.
Earlier in the meeting, guests of
the club were introduced and a
letter was read from Albert E.
Robinson, of the Rotary Interna
tional Service committee in Lon
don, in which he pleaded f/r
greater, understnding of thrf valiant
British war effort. Mr. Robinson
enclosed two copies of a British
“White Paper” which described
Britain’s part in the war.
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. New Camp Davis Officers
MAJOR JOYCE
Major Donald S. Joyce, recently
returned from the China-India
Burma theater, has been appoint
ed director of Administration and
Services of the Camp Davis Air
Forces Personnel Distribution
Command.
MAJOR CONANT
Major Frank E. Conant, Jr.,
formerly assigned to the Ninth Air
Force in France and England, has
been named chief of Intelli
has been named chief of Intelli
gence and Security Division of the
Camp Davis AAF Distribution
Command.
Yank Carrier Planes Hit
Jap Fleet In Home Seas
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the invasion of the Philippines at
Leyte last October.
In that battle, six enemy battle
ships, four heavy cruisers, one
destroyer escort were sunk or
damaged.
In June of 1944, in the first battle
of the Philippine Sea, Mitscher’s
airmen located the Japanese
grand fleet apparently moving to
threaten the American invasion of
Saipan, and sank or possibly sank
eight warship. Not an American
ship was lost.
The defiant Pacific Fleet planes
twice raided Tokyo in February
with devastating effect, wiping out
667 Japanese planes.
This startling report came in a
communique telling of further
mopping up by the Marines on Iwo
Jima and new air raids on Chichi
Jima in the Bonins and other tar
gets.
Admiral Mitscher, overall com
mander of the task force, said
only a few days ago that the Jap
anese fleet could not now over
whelm “even a fraction of our
ever-growing fleet” and said the
enemy’s only sanctuary is the em
pire’s inland seas.
Those inland seas are where the
Americans found the Japanese
fleet.
The attack came as sections of
the Japanese homeland still smold
ered from the first major beating
dealt inland sea cities by U. S. car
rier planes. Mitscher’s carrier
struck the southern homeland Sun
day and Monday.
Thq attacks Monday on Kobe,
Japan’s principal seaport and
shipbuilding city already heavily
hit by Army Superforts, and Kure,
number one naval base on the in
land sea, gave increased destruc
tive attention to the enemy’s naval
building and repair centrs.
Tokyo radio said the American
task force made a daring penetra
tion to within 60 miles of the Japa
nese mainland in the Sunday at
tack when the carrier fliers hit
enemy aircraft bajses and installa
tions on Kyushu 1 island, at the
southern end of the Nipponese
archipelago.
The Kure naval base was hit
Sunday by about 150 Yank carrier
fighters and bombers, another
Japanese broadcast said, making
the unconfirmed claim that 45
were “definitely” shot down by
Nipponese fliers. There was no
mention of damage to the base.
Domei, the Japanese news
agency, broadcast Nipponese im
perial headquarters’ claims that
the American naval air attacks
were met by defending fliers who
shot down 183 Yanks planes, sank
seven war ships and damaged an
other.
The enemy claims of destruc
tion, all unconfirmed, included two
American vessels of "unknown
type” sunk Monday; one standard
carrier, one carrier or battleship,
one battleship or cruiser and two
destroyers, sunk Sunday, and one
standard carrier heavily damaged.
The Japanese communique said
some of the Japanese planes
“have not yet returned” from
their defense attacks, but gave no
number. An earlier Tokyo broad
cast said 20 Nipponese aircraft
were lost Sunday.
Fifteen or 16 aircraft carriers
were in the American task force,
which was divided into five
groups, Tokyo radio said, placing
the Yanks’ Sunday striking power
at 1,400 planes and at 1,100 in the
Monday attacks.
SEVENTH! THIRD
JOIN IN GERMANY
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ing about ten miles east of Saar
lautem to about three miles east
of Homburg.
There was no way to estimate
the number of enemy troops who
might be in this encirclement, but
it was evident the enemy was suf
fering tremendous loses in man
power.
A few days ago Field Marshal
von Rundstedt’s First and Seventh
Armies in the Saarland were be
lieved to total more than 80,000
men. These forces now have been
chopped into pieces—countless lit
tle isolated groups. Those not yet
cut off from the Rhine were in
headlong retreat.
Associated Press Correspondent
Edward D. Ball said all opposi
tion on the Third Army front west
of the Rhine had ceased. The Ger
mans’ remaining positions in the
Siegfried and Hunsbrueck Lines
facing the Seventh Army south
east of Zweibruecken were out
flanked and untenable, making a
quick withdrawal compulsory if
not already too late.
The base of the remaining ene
my salient on the west bank of
the Rhine was only 45 miles and
at its deepest point, somehwere
east of Zweibruecken, it was less
than 40 miles.
T'Vi« _
ment of the link-up of the Ameri
can Third and Seventh Armies
was the first disclosure that the
Sixth Armored Divison had been
transferred from Patton's forces
to Patche’s command. To accom
plish the junction the Sixth Ar
mored, commanded by Maj. Gen.
Robert Gerow, made a northward
sweep of 12 miles during the day.
Mainz, a city of 160,000 at the
confluence of the Rhine and Main
rivers, was reached after a spec
tacular dash by the Fourth Ar
mored Division and the 90th In
fantry working together. The
Fourth also made the plunge to
Worms, a city of 50,000 which lies
16 miles north of the twin indus
trial cities of Mannheim and Lud
wigshafen.
Kaiserslautern, from which a
super-military highway runs 23
miles east to the Rhine, was the
main supply point for Nazi forces
in the Saar-Rhine-Moselle area.
Its loss meant the end of organiz
ed enemy resistance west of the
Rhine, and the entire Saar Basin
upon which the Germans depend
ed for much of their coal supply
is lost.
Doughboys of the 80th Division
drove into Kaiserslautern, and Al
lied pilots flying over the city re
ported its streets were lined with
people waving white flags as the
Americans sped through. The
plunge to the three German cities
in a single day eclipsed anything
accomplished by the Third Army
in its rampage across France.
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WILL REFUSE
GASTONIA, March 20—The
Cocker Machine and Foundry
company announced today it had
notified the War Labor board that
it would refuse to comply with
the WLB order requiring it to put
into effect a maintenance of union
membership policy in its shop. All
other directives of the board will
be accepted, the company spokes
man said.
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SAN DIEGO, Calif., March 20
—(U.R)—Fifty nine Naval fliers to
day were awarded medals for
heroism fn the South Pacific, the
Eleventh Naval district announc
ed. The awards were presented
by Rear Adm. Alfred E. Mont
gomery, USN, commander of
Fleet Air, West Coast.
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Obituaries
MRS. DORA BRANCH
Funeral services for Mrs. Dora
Branch, who died at 4 a. m.
yesterday at her home, 604 South
Front street, were held at 4
p. m. yesterday at the Yopp funer
al home by the Rev. C. D. Barclift.
Burial was in Bellevue ceme
tery.
Survivors are her daughter, Mrs.
B. F. Brittain, one son, S. P.
Branch, and a niece, Mrs. F. W.
Gerken, all of Wilmington.
Active pallbearers were L. M.
Page, J. N. Jenkins, K. B. Croom,
A. P. Westbrook, Woodrow Mal
lard, H. B. Register.
Honorary pallbearers were Carl
B. Marshburn, Ben King, James
H. Westerman, Hardy Schulken,
Dick Mallard and E. M. West
brook.
MRS. R. F. CROOM
Funeral service for Mrs. R. F.
Croom, 81, of 319 South Sixth
street, will be held at 2:30 p.m.
today from the Yopp funeral home.
Burial will be in the family plot.
Surviving are four daughters,
Mrs. E. S. Buck, of Wilmington,
Mrs. J. H. Eakins, of Atkinson,
Mrs. S. M. Way, of Savannah. Ga.,
and Mrs. I. J. King, of Wilmington
and four sons, J. C., R. R., E. R.,
and George W. Croom, all of Wil
mington.
Active pallbearers will be Jim
Potter, Lewis a Gurganus, James
E. Fisher, H. L. Herring, John
Lewis and Joe Reaves.
Honorary pallbearers will be
John Resley, Porter Wagstaff, J.
M. Hall, Dio Lewis, Alton A. Len
non, Wash Kin^ and C. L. Myers.
JOHN M. SPENCER
John M. Spencer, 57, died at 7 -30
a.m. today at his home in Garden
City.
He is survived by his widow,
Mary Neal Spencer; three daugh
ters, Mrs. W. G. Harris, of Swan
Quarter, Lt. Mary L. Spencer, of
Camp Rucker, Ala., and Miss Ju
lia Spencer, of St. Paul’s; three
sons, Joe M., with the U. S. Navy
at Norton Heights, Conn., Sgt.
Warren G. Spencer, with the Army
Air Corps in India, and Charles N.
Spencer at home; and five sisters,
all of Hyde county, except Mrs. J.
F. Graham, of Wilmington.
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed, but services will
be held at Swan Quarter, where
Mr. Spencer and his family resided
before moving to Wilmington five
years ago.
CHESTER LEE
LllMBERTON, March 20.—Ches
ter Lee. 44-year-old farmer of the
Center Church section of Lumber
ton, died at 5:15 p.m. yesterday at
a local hospital.
The son of the late Andrew and
Caroline Lee, Mr. Lee is survived
by his wife, Mrs. Mae Parker Lee;
four sons, Andrew James, Robert
Earl, Ellis and Kenneth Neil Lee,
and three daughters, Mrs. Earl
Caulder, of Route 3, and Agnes
and Martha Ray.
Funeral services will be held at
3 p.m. tomorrow from the home
with the Rev. E. A. Paul, pastor
of Smyrna Baptist church, officiat
ing. Burial will be in the Cox
family cemetery.
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INTO ILOILO
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vance of 25 miles. One column
plunged up a secondary road to
seize the town of Jancuay, 18 miles
north-northwest of Iloilo. Another
captured the seven-way rail and
highway junction of Pototan, nine
miles to the east, then crashed
six miles southeast to the Barota
Nuevo, 16 miles northeast of Iloi
lo.
That swift envelopment cut a
total of eight roads and railroads
radiating in all directions from
Iloilo and left the Japanese no ov
erland escape routes. Indicating
that the Japanese already might
have put the torch to Iloilo, Mac
Arthur said big fires were raging
in the city.
The drive to Jancuay put the
Americans within 40 miles of split
ting Panay from north to south,
and in that area MacArthur said
they made contact with strong
Filipino guerrilla forces.
Warplanes meanwhile attacked
two of the last three big Philippine
islands in Japanese hands. They
battered Pangdan airfield on Cebu
with 44 tons and runways on Ne
gros with 31 tons. Those two is
lands, along with Bohol, represent
the last important Japanese hold
ings and lie southeast of Panay.
In capturing San Fernando on
Luzon, guerrillas destroyed the
Japanese garrison. Some 25 miles
to the southeast, American col
umns pushed within six miles of
the city limits of Baguio, Japanese
headquarters for the Philippines,
by seizing Camp Three.
East of Manila, the Sixth and
43rd Divisons scored new gains in
flattening the flanks of the Japa
nese Shimbu line in the Sierra
Madre mountains. At the southern
end, the Americans captured Pan
tay, 63 miles east of Manila. Four
miles to the north, they pushed
within striking distance of the Jap.
anese strcngpoint on Mt. Baytan
gan.
Far to the south, the 11th Air
borne Division captured the west
ern slope of Mt. Macolod as they
swung up the southeastern coast
of Lake Taal.
U. S. 41st Division troops fight
ing on the Zamboanga peninsula
of southwestern Mindanao repuls
ed a Japanese night counter-attack
above San Roque, on the coast
and the following day resumed
their push northward. To the
south, on the tiny island of Basil
an, the Americans occupied the
town of Isabela by a combined ov
erland and amphibious movement
and thus won full control of th»
island.
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Rabbi Thurman Speaks To Jaycees
Rabbi M. M. Thurman is shown speaking to the Junior Chamber
of Commerce at their “business associates’’ meeting in the Friendly
Cafeteria dining room last night. Elliott O’Neal, president of the
Jaycees is seated. __
Health Board Plans Study
Of Greatest County Fault
The Health Division of the Com
munity Chest and Council decided
yesterday to try to choose at its
next meeting the fault most suit
able for present remedial action
out of those mentioned by the
United States Public Health Serv
ice’s recent survey-report as mar
ring the performance of the Con
solidated Board of Health.
Selections from the report and
the Board's prepared commentary
on its criticisms was read to the
division by Dr. A. H- Elliott, City
County health officer.
Gardner D. Greer, chairman of
the division, expressed the group’s
intention to attack the problems
implied by the report, but suggest
ed that a better start could be
made after the survey of current
health agency functions, ordered at
the last meeting, had been com
pleted.
To Mr. Greer’s inquiry as to
what shortcoming the Board of
Health considered “most press
ing”, Dr. Elliot replied that the
services of at least one additional
physician and a full-time sanitary
engineer were recognized by the
Board and pointed to by the re
port as the chief present need.
The USPHS report, he said, had
recommended that several addi
tional doctors be added to the
staff. Latest local efforts to se
cure even one, however, had run
afoul of State Health Board regu
lations freezing available doctors
in their present locations, as well
as a salary difficulty, he explain
ed.
An allied report-recommendation
for more nurses—six had been set
as the desideratum—had encoun
tered similar difficulties, it was
explained by Miss Columbia
Munds, of the Public Health Nurs
ing service. Responding to an of
fer by Mr. Greer to get the divi
sion “behind” an effort to secure
nurses, she said “a regards per
sonnel. you can get behind, but
you can't push anything out in
front”. The local attempt to em
ploy a supervisor has already run
two years’ unsuccessful course,
she said.
The possibility of securing medi
cal and nursing personnel either
released by the Armed Services
or now located in non-defense
areas was agreed by the group
to be the "most hopeful”, but not
very promising even so.
A brief discussion concerning
the feasibility and utility of ex
panding the current High school
interest program, consisting of
annual talks to girl seniors by
private and public nurses, evoked
the decision that such action would
be “long-view” in nature and ir
relevant to the present personnel
problem.
The meeting was attended by
Miss Jennie Glisson, Miss Sue
McQueen, Mrs. Ida Speiden, Miss
Jennie Stout, the Rev. Mortimer
Glover, Miss Munds, Dr. Elliot,
Mr. Greer and George L. Stearns,
executive secretary.
Earlier, Dr. Elliot, health of
ficer, disclosed that the Consolida
ted Board of Health is consider
ing the employment of a labora
tory technician at the Sweeney
water plant.
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Pre-School Clinics
For Pender Announced
BURGAW, March 20.—Pre-school
clinics for Pender county schools
were announced today by T. T.
Murphy, superintendent of the
Board of Education. They are:
Wednesday, March 21, Rocky
Point white school; Thursday,
March 22, Rocky Point Negro
school; Friday, March 20. Top
sail white school at Hampstead;
Wednesday, April 4, Penderloe
school; Thursday, April 5, Bur
gaw white school; Wednesday,
April 11, Atkinson white school
and Long Creek white school;
Thursday April 12, Burgaw Negro
school; Friday, April 13, Maple
Hill White school.
At least one parent is asked to
attend each clinic with children
expected to enter school next year.
If this is not possible, the super
intendent pointed out that it would
be necessary for an information
form to be filled out by the parent.
This form may be obtained from
the school principal.
fflURMAN DECRIES
LACK OF LEADERS
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Quoting William James’ “Com
>ared with what we ought to be,
ve are only half awake” Rabb'i
rhurman said that as a clergy,
nan he considered among the
greatest of human sins “the ten
lency to be satisfied with the
east we can do”. He claimed that
lappiness went with fulness of ef
:ort, not comfort or complacence.
“Thinking is a painful process”
le admitted, but warned that a
:ontinuing American tendency to
let others do one”s thinking can
only end fn a form of fascisni
ustices akin to those which
“our sons and friends are fight
ing overseas”, he said, “exist
lere now on America’s blessed
soil.”
“A famine of leadership” faces
the world, he said, and to cry
mt in torment “God, where art
Thou?” is meaningless if no self
lelp is attempted. “God cannot be
made the Cosmic Scape-goat” he
warned, explaining that the cur
rent war is going on “because you
and I sat back and did nothing
when we heard the first cries of
the oppressed.”
A report of the Jacee-Boy Scout
scrap paper drive was read prior
to the speeches and Hal Love re
ported for the project committee
a forthcoming consultation among
city and civic groups and nearby
camp commanders to organize en
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