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ALLIED PLANES BATTER REICH (Continued from Page One) great fires burning in the enemy troop equipment centers. British Lancasters and Halifaxes “in great strength,” some of them packing 11-ton “volcano” bombs, joined with attacks on three com mand posts north and east of We sel, the industrial and railway town of Hildesheim and two big rail way bridges leasing from the Ruhr. Low-level medium and fighter bombers racked enemy positions mercilessly. The entire German communications network north of the Ruhr was said to be a tangle of wrecked freight yards and sta tions and shattered bridges which made the movement of reinforce ments virtually impossible. Today the tactical planes con centrated on 10 small German vill ages in a blazing rectangle west of Wesel. They loosed bombs, rockets and machine gun fire on the vill ages, belie ved co nvert edi tno ages, believed converted into strongpoints, ammunition depots, signal posts and transport points. Farther south, the lighter war planes took a terrible toll of Ger man troops still west of the Rhine. Anti - aircraft fire was intense over many targets. The Luftwaffe offered some resistance, but most of the Nazi planes were beaten off before they could fire a shot at the American bombers. The Mustangs shot down 13 German planes in combat, including three jets, and nine more were destroy ed on the ground for a total of 22. Most spectacular were the Amer ican assaults on the German com mand posts, described as directed against the “immediate rear” of the enemy and patterned on the recent raids on supreme Wehr macht headquarters at Zossen and the north Germany army posts in Holland. These headquarters targets and concentration centers were located in the towns of Mulheim, Bottrop, Gladbeck, Barmingholten, Dorsen, and Geresheim. The RAF Halifaxes and Lancasters hit other advance bases'in the cities of Bocholt, Dors ten and Dulmen. The five enemy airfields attack ed were located at Kitzengen, Gi ebelstadt, Rhein-Main, Schwabjsh Hal and Ahlhorn. Today’s attack brought to 15 the total number of Luftwaffe bases blasted in the two days of attacks in coordination with the ground forces. Some of the escorting Mustangs flew past Berlin to attack a for mation of 15-Focke-Wulfs, carrying bombs, and heading for the Rus sian front. The American fighters shot down nine of the Nazi planes. _ir_ LEGWIN PLANNING FOR RE-ELECTION Robert S. LeGwin, 812 Chestnut street, a member of the City Council since Wilmington’s adop tion of the City Manager form of government, is the first current Councilman to file candidacy for re-election. He entered his name yesterday, according to H. G. Car ney of the Municipal Board of Elections. Whether or not any other mem bers of the present City Council will run again was still in doubt last night, except in the case of Edgar L. Yow, who re-iterated his previously announced intention not to run. The first two entries to file were Kingsley Lee King, of 705 South Fourth street, and George H. Brinson, retired postal employe, of 406 North Fifth street. The advanced filing date this year for the third primaries to be held in Wilmington under election for the third-primaries to be held in Wilmington under election plan “D” is expected to bring out a larger vote than either former run-off. Candidates may file for the municipal election through April 13. -V Italian Front Activity Limited To Patrol Work ROME, March 22—(U.R)—Activity on the Italian battlefront was lim ited today, for the ninth straight day, to patrol clashes and inter mittent artillery duels, it was an nounced. A small-scale enemy raid was repulsed on the central sector of the Fifth Army front. A number of prisoners were taken. On the Eighth Army front, ene my raids on a strong point south east of Alfonsine were beaten off. German raids directed against San Polito and San Severo likewise were repulsed. Tactical Air Force fighters and fighter-bombers concentrated their attacks on communications, sup ply dumps and enemy-held build ings in the immediate battle area. Tired Kidneys Often Bring Sleepless Nights Doctora say your kidneys contain 15 miles ©f tiny tubes or filters which help to purify the blood and keep you healthy. When they gel tired and don’t work right in. the daytime, many people have to get up nights. Frequent ©r scanty passages with smarting and burning sometimes shows there is something wrong with your kidneys or bladder. Don’t neglect this condition and lose valuable, restful sleep, When disorder of kidney function permit* poisonous matter to remain in your blood, it may also cause nagging backache, rheumatic pains, leg pains, loss of pep and energy swelling, puffiness under the eyes, headache* ancl dizziness. Don’t wait! Ask your druggist for Doan’i Pills, used successfully by miUions for over 4( years. They give happy relief and will helg the 15 fiiiles of kidney tubes flush out poison ©us waste from your blood. Gti Doaa.e Pills Yanks Figure About 300 Japanese Left On Leyte EIGHTH ARMY HEADQUAR TERS, Leyte, P. I., March 22.— —Eighth Army forces which have been doing what military men term “mop up’’ on Leyte, now figure there aren’t more than two or three hundred Japanese left on the entire island. During the first 67 days from the initial invasion until last De cember 26 when the Sixth Army turned the job over to Lt. Gen. Robert Eichelberger's Eighth Ar my, by actual count, Japanese dead totaled 55,344. These burial figures ignored estimates of oth ers probably killed or wounded. It does not attempt to figure in probable enemy losses when con voys were sunk off Leyte’s west coast. When Eichelberger took over from Lt. Gen. Walter Krueger of the Sixth Army December 26, 1944, the backbone of the Japa nese organized resistance had been broken. The job ahead was mopping up aU i\ght, but to Doughboys slug ging it out with the fanatical en emy in the mountains of western Leyte it was mopping up on a large scale. From December 26 to March 18, 1945, Eighth Army troops killed and counted 21,774 Nipponese — about as many as were killed on Iwo Jima. Before Eichelberger took ovar, 375 Japanese prisoners were tak en. His troops have captured 373 more. Most of the Japanese not killed preferred fo starve in their hopeless mountain and jungle iso lation. Occasionally there were Japanese counterattacks. On January 15, a battalion made a well coordinated infantry-artillery attack near Bil laba, on the west coast. They were in good condition, well trained and apparently unhurt in previous con* bat on Leyte. The attack carried through the Yank lines briefly but like most others petered out and ended in bitter defeat. More than 360 Japanese dead were counted after the battle and 77th Division Doughboys who met the attacks took an exceedingly dim view of the phrase “mopping up.” However attacks like this were infrequent. Most of the work v*as done by patrols probing far into the mountains and occasionally making concentrated drives when the target merited it. Some days as many as 40 pa trols would be out. Now the Doughboys can rest. If only a hundred disorganized Japanese are left the Yanks can turn the job over to the First Fili prino Regiment—a fighting unit comprising American and Filipino volunteers and draftees. All Major Resistance West Of Rhine Ended (Continued from Page One) one column slashing eight miles southeast through the Phalzerwald forest, where it severed the ene my’s last good east-west road and railway by capturing Annweiler, six miles west of Pivotal Landau. Westward, other armored col umns drove south to the vicinity of Muncheweiler, only five miles north of Seventh Army forces bat tling against the Germans dogged ly holding a 35-mile stretch of the Siegfried Line from near Pirmas ens eastward to the Rhine. After capturing Annweiler, the Tenth drove two miles east to near Albersweiler, three miles west of Landau. There the Third Army was seven miles north of the Sev enth Army fighting in the Siegfried line at Dorrenbach, 17 miles west of Karlsruhe. West of Pirmasens, Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch’s Seventh and Patton’s Third Armies were mesh ing together, crisscrossing each oth er’s path in total disregard for ar my boundaries in a mop-up that was netting more prisoners in large numbers. Fighter - bombers speeded the cleanup by catching a concentra tion of enemy vehicles trying to pull out beyond the Rhine and destroyed 200 of them. It was this kind of beating from air and ground that had destroyed 350 tanks, 200 heavy guns and more than 5,000 vehicles on the Third Army front alone since Pat ton broke across the Moselle river into the rear of the Saarland and the Palatinate. Mechanized cavalry cleared a six-mile stretch of the Rhine bend between Mainz and Bingen, and the Fifth Infantry and Fourth Ar mored Divisions closed up to the river bank on a seven-mile stretch six to 13 miles south of Mainz. Patton’s forces took 11,300 pris oners Wednesday and a late front dispatch said the Germans still were surrendering “in droves.” Indicative of the close team-work of Patch and Patton, the Third Ar my’s 65th Division and the Sev enth Army’s 63rd Division cleared Neunkirch, northeast of Saarbruec ken. Patch’s Sixth Armored Division, 28 miles beyond last reported po sitions, was in the vicinity of Gru enstadt, 10 miles west of Worms, after passing through Kaiserslau tern in the Third Army lines. Right behind came the Seventh’s 45th Division, which also sped through Kaiserslautern and on four miles north into Otterburg. This division alone took 1,400 prisoners Wednesday. Farther east, however, Patch's troops were slugging it out with crack enemy units determined to hold the small segment of the Siegfried Line long enough to per mit further withdrawals across the Rhine. -V BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS CONGRESS HEARS FOOD DISCUSSION (Continued from Page One) also reported that fighting men will get more food in the next three months but that civilians and for eign relief agancies will get less. Republican Congressmen charge that the Government is shipping too much food overseas. The Senate War Investigating Committee said that in an investi gation of surplus property dispos al it found ‘‘a number of cases of foodstuffs which had been permitt ed to spoil.” The committee plans a trip to Atchison, Kans., next week to investigate reports of spoilage in that area. On the brighter side, the biggest single shipment of hogs sent to any U. S. market in years was un loaded at the Kansas City livestock exchange. And southwest Kansas, the country's oiggest oreaaoasKet, was reported to be raising the lar gest wheat crop in history. Bowles’ meat subsidy announce ment came after he had spent two days defending OPA price policies against bitter criticism of Repub licans and packers. They charged that packers are going broke and that only a price increase blocks a large boost in meat supply. The additional subsidy will be based on amounts paid by slaugh terers for live cattle. It will be computed on the basis of the amount paid by the individual slaughter in excess of the “floor” established for live cattle prices. It will reach the maximum of 50 cents a hundredweight when the slaughterer pays ceiling prices for cattle. Winn told the committee that both slaughterers and packers are losing money under present OPA regulations and that the subsidy in crease would not help. He said there are more cattle on the range than ever before but that OPA price ceilings are preventing an increase in the .beef supply would be a great help in overcom ing the pork shortage, but that this was not possible under pres ent regulations. President Roosevelt meanwhile asked Congress to appropriate $178 000,000 for the OPA for the fiscal year beginning July 1. That i 000,000 more than it got last year. He said the boost is necessary be casue of “growing inflationary pressures and a decrease in the supply of civilian goods.” The increase in poultry prices is expected to be announced by Eco nomic Stabilization Director Wil liam H. Davis, perhaps before the end of the week. It probably will be for a little more than one cent a pound. The overall U. S. food supply will be distributed during April, May and June as follows: U. S. civilians—73 per cent of the total store, compared with 75 in recent months. U. S. armed forces—17 per cent compared with 14. Lend-Lease—eight per cent; oth er relief and rehabilitation agencies two per cent. EDEN SELECTION BRINGS PROTEST (Continued from Page One) Churchill defended his choice of delegates by saying that Eden was leader because he was For eign Secretary. He said that Att he had agreed to the arrange ment and praised Attlee for al ways trying to ‘‘play the game and do the best he can in the cir cumstances.” He charged that Shinwell was trying his hardest to break up the coalition government. “Any fair minded man would say that the Labor party have had fair representation,” he added. "Not from you!” shouted Shin well. “I am the persons responsible for nominating this delegation,” Churchill said, ‘‘and the Labor party have had fair representation in it.” Amid interruptions from the La bor side. Churchill continued: “I must say I think it is a churlish manner in which to re ceive a statement of this kind. All my colleagues are in .full agreement. I do not mean with what I have said just now, but with my statement on the delega, tion.” Churchill commented half-jok ingly that the coalition govern ment must continue until after the San Francisco Conference Ap ril 25. Actually, it has bean agreed to hold an election after the war ends in Europe. Three members of the San Francisco delegation are Labor— Attlee, Tomlinson and Miss Wil kinson, Eden and Miss Horsbrugh are Conservative. Foot and Ma bane are liberals. However, Lords Halifax and Cranborne are con servative peers. -V Assembly Appropriated $3,060,544 For State Agricultural Program RALEIGH, March 22. — UP) — The 1945 General Assembly ap propriated $3,060,544 for the devel opment of agriculture in North Carolina during the biennium 1945 47. Of the total funds, $1,632,269 were set aside for the Department of Agriculture to be used for the development of marketing facili ties. to improve laboratories, car ry out a program for improvement of the poultry industry, control poulty diseases and to assist with research projects. The Agricultural Experiment Station received $610,983 for the biennium. The funds will be used especially for food processing and nutrition and for tobacco inves tigations and research. Extension service funds total $817,292 for 1945-47. In this field, increased appropriations will be used for educational services. -V Mexico City was rebuilt in 1521 by the Spanish. DRAFT CALL DROP SEEN AFTER JUNE (Continued from Page One) after donning the uniform, if nec Many members had talked of keeping teen-age draftees out of combat until they had been train ed a year in this country. They still may seek to write such a pro vision into the bill on the house floor. Such a restriction, said Major General Idwal Edwards, assistant chief of staff in charge of train ing very definitely would be harmful” to the orderly system of furnishingfighting men. General Edwards disclosed to the committee the present train ing program by which a man can reach a fighting front five months after induction. He told of one man who was a combat casualty “five months and nine days” af ter entering the service. The average training for a green recruit, he added, is about six months for a man going into the European theater and seven months for a man who will fight the Japanese. That time includes a furlough before embarkation and a short waiting period abroad prior to assignment to a combat unit. Edwards told the committee the Army never intended to give 12 months of home training to its combat troops. Any impression Congress had received to that ef fect during discussion of the teen age draft bill, he said, was based on a misconception of the testi mony. While an earlier policy restrict ed the use of 18-year-old induc tees, Edwards testified, war de velopments, including the German winter offensive of 1944, *upset a good many plans.” Major General Henry, assistant chief of staff in charge of per sonnel, testified that to meet the needs for replacements, draft calls up to June would approxi mate 100,000 monthly for the Ar my and 35,000 monthly for the Navy, with “substantial” replace ments thereafter. Following the defeat of Ger many, Henry said, the Army plans to release the men who have beyn abroad the longest, and who have been subjected to “the severest hardships.” ■-V Madame de Pompadour was born Jeanne Poisson in Paris in i721. How To Relieve Bronchitis Creomulslon relieves promptly be cause it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, in flamed bronchial mucous mem branes. 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Fronl St. Get the War Over— Bay Bends 'the old judge says... 1 “Adding another War Bond to your ! collection, eh, Judge?” “Yes, Josh, I’ve always looked upon buying Bonds as one of the best ways older folks like me here at home can help our fighting men overseas. For the past couple of years I've put every extra cent I had into them ... not only during the War Bond drives...but on a regular basis. Of course, when there’s a drive on I always try to buy an extra one or two.” “We’ve done the same in our family, too, Judge. We figure the more we buy...the ! better we equip our men... the quicker 1 i they’ll finish their big job and come march ing home again.” “That’s the spirit, Josh. And let's be sure of one more thing. Let’s be sure that they come back to the same kind of place they left. While they are away and can’t express tV dr opinions, let’s not make any decisions < n "~s that are going to concern them in year: to: me." 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