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EXCHANGE hears CAMP DAVIS PRO Lt Charles Mokhay, public rela ys officer of Camp Davis, spoke t the Wilmington Exchange Club the group’s regular meeting at m. in the dining hall of the F-iendly restaurant, and elabor {ed 0n the work and accomplish ment* of the American Red Cross overseas. . "It gives one real pride in Amer ica to iand in a foreign country and see the Red Cross workers on the job. lie said. Lt. Moxhay enumerated some of the projects sponsored by the Red Cross in England, where libraries ,nd snack bars are provided, and dances, games and tournaments are given for the men and women in the armed forces. "Ip addition, the Red Cross also maintains a service in the larger cities where service men and wom en on furlough may receive tour in formation, show tickets, hotel foonis and baths. These are the things your Red Cross contribu tions make possible,” he stressed. During his talk, Lt. Moxhay men tioned the redistribution station for returnees and convalescents at Camp Davis. The Rev. C. D. Barclift was pre sented the “past president’s” lapel emblem by J. L. Allegood, in honor of his service as president of the club. Ranald Stewart, present presi dent, thanked Lt. Moxhay and Wil bur Jones, program chairman, for the splendid presentation of what the Red Cross does for the men and women stationed overseas. _v_ DEATH SENTENCE GIVEN TO NEGRO A sentence of death in the gas chamber at the State prison was meted out last night by Superior Court Judge J. Paul Frizzelle to Ernest Brooks, Jr., 15-year-old Negro of 901 Queen street convicted of criminal assault of a 28-year-old white mother. Caswell Gates, Negro attorney from Durham and counsel for the defense, immedi ately after the sentence gave notice of appeal to the State Supreme court. Brooks, who also was simultane ously convicted of burglary, alleg edly entered the house of his vic tim threatened her with a knife, assaulted her and left when he heard her seven-year-old child cry. He was apprehended December 22 at Tenth and Queen streeis. Asked after the jury returned its verdict whether he had anything to say, Brooks said that half of what the two investigating officers said was not true. The jury was polled, and each member answered in the af firmative. --V Former Nazi Prisoners To Speak At Red Cross Meeting^ In Charleston On April 2 the Charleston, S. C., chapter of the American Red Cross will be host to repatriated prison ers of war appearing as part of a Ration-wide speaking tour planned by the Red Cross in cooperation with the U. S. Army Air Forces, it was announced. A meeting will be held at 8 p. m. at the Citadel in Charleston on that date. Three members of the party will speak of their experiences in pris oner of war camps, and the next of kin will have an opportunity to participate in the question and answer period with the whole party, it was learned. Anyone wishing further infor mation concerning this meeting is asked to call the Red Cross Home Service Department. 2-0321 or Mrs. Blake D. Applewhite, Wrights ville, 8522-J. --_V— Obituaries MARGARET J. LEMMON Funeral services for Margaret J. Lemmon, 19, who died Wednes day morning at her home at 311 North Seventh street, were held at 2 p.m. yesterday at the Forest Hills Presbyterian church in Rich mond. Burial was in the Maurey cemetery. The Rev. C. C. Craw lord officiated. Surviving are her mother, Mrs. G. T. Lemmon, of Wilmington; and three sisters, Marie Carolyn Lemmon, of Wilmington and Janet | Lemmon and Mrs. J. W. Long, i both of Richmond. Active pallbearers were Giles Robertson, E. C. Peace, J- W. Long, Jr., T. F. Loughborough and J. J. Farrow. Beware Coughs from common colds That Hang On Chronic bronchitis may develop if four cough, chest cold, or acute bron chitis is not treated and you cannot afford to take a chance with any medi cine less potent than Creomulsion which goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm and aid nature to •oothe and heal raw, tender inflamed bronchial mucous membranes. Creomulsion blends beechwood creosote by special process with other hme tested medicines for coughs, ft contains no narcotics. . No matter how many medicines Jon have tried, tell your druggist to J*11 you a bottle of Creomulsion with the understanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough, per mitting rest and sleep, or you are tc have your money back. (Adv.) You Can Fight, Too, Buy War Bonds City Briefs EASTER CANTATA The choir of the Clinton Bap tist church, under the direc tion of Mrs. J. r. Best) win render the Easter cantata, Ho at Winter Park Baptist church Sunday evening at 8 o clock. The public is cor dially invited. INVALID APRIL 1 Effective April 1, b-5, C-5, 1 "-*> and non-serial num ber D coupons, respectively, ; will no longer be valid for a transfer of gasoline to a con- , sumer. First quarter T cou pons also become invalid on < that date. FARMERS MEETING 1 A meeting of farmers inter- , ested in the handling and pack ing of lettuce will be held at 8 ! p. m. Tuesday at the Wrights boro Club House, it was an nounced by R. w. Galphin, county farm agent. NURSES MEETING A special meeting of all private duty nurses in Wil mington will be held at 7 p. m. today in the nurses’ home at James Walker Memorial hospital. PRE-ENTRANCE EXAMS Parents of children that will enter Cornelius Harnett schdol next year were advised yester day that pre-entrance examina tions will be held for them at 2 p. m. April 9 at Tileston school. WAR PRISONERS RETURN TO WORK German war prisoners who spent seven hours yesterday in a chilly corner of the stockade of the Wilmington confinement cen ter had returned to work yesterday “because they couldn’t stand the cold weather and go without food,” it was reported by the camp com mander, Lieut. R. H. Hazel. Approximately 400 prisoners, he said, will work nine or 10 hours on Sunday “to make up the time lost” at local fertilizer plants. Lieutenant Hazel said the men offered to return to work at 3 p. m. Thursday and the fertilizer plant night detail, which had not fulfilled a “work task” he had as signed, went on the job last night. Peeved over confinement of the night detail to the work house early yesterday, between 150 and 200 were penned in the compound fence “without shirts or anything to eat,” he said. _v_ TINY THREESOME ARRIVE AT H E With the much publicized world wide jaunting of the United Na tions’ “Big Three” at a stop for the time being, the jaunting busi ness was taken up yesterday by Wilmington’s “Little Three” — the Godwin triplets, of course. Their first trip outside James Walker Memorial hospital, where they were born January 11, took them home, to 304 B. Vance street. Maffitt Village, where they were resting comfortably last night. For the journey, three-and-a-half month-old Betty Jean. Doris Ju dith and Joseph Charles—less for merly known as Jean, Judy and Joey—were attired in the first clothes, other than triangular trou sers, they have ever worn, identical dresses procured for the occasion. E'rought into the world two months prematurely, the City’s first triplets on recent record now weigh from five and a half to six pounds, Joey being the smallest. They are described by the hospi tal staff as “husky and healthy”, with normal appetites and consid erable vocal volume, especially in what might be termed choral cry jngs The triplets’ parents are Mr. and Mrs. Coleman Goodwin and the physician who will continue t» at tend them at home is Dr. George Johnson. Daughter Is Born In Doctor’s Office Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Camptbell, of 63 Lee Drive, Lake Forest, an nounce the birth of a seven-pound daughter at 4:30 p.m. yesterday in office 314 of the Murchison j building. Dr. William S. Dosher delivered I the baby, which he said came without any warning at all,” in his office. „ , Three flights below, the father was trying frantically to flag a taxi. The oflice nurse called an am bulance, around which a crowd of late afternoon shoppers milled. A policeman was on hnad to direct traffic and dispel the curious from near the carrier. Ten minutes later down came the 39-year-old mother on a stretcher. The smiling office nurse carred the infant. The crowd dis solved. , . , The obstetician laughed and said "that’s the first lime I ever delivered one in my office.” Communion Mass Planned For Catholic Servicemen A corporate Communion Mass, followed by a special breakfast for Catholic servicemen and women will be held Sunday by members of the National Catholic Communi ty Service, it was announced. Mass will be held at St. Mary’s church at 9 a.m. and breakfast will follow in the “little Club” at the Fifth and Orange streets USO. Patton*s Forces Storm Rhine, j" Begin Drive Toward The East\ --- * (Continued from Page One) pushed on inland and more and more and more men and supplies were landing on the bridgehead in assault boats. Ball said the beachhead by then had become "as tjuiet as a Sunday picnic.” There was no question of Patton’s ability to exploit his surprise, for the stuff that he had planned far • outweighed that which the Ger mans were able to muster after the debacle west of the river. The Third Army was striking in land with the same lightning speed with which it broke across the Moselle river and turned or smash ed all the German defenses in the Saar and the Palatinate. Assault boats and emphibious craft piled the calm Rhine, putting supplies and men on the beaches and keeping the surprise push roll ing. The location of the crossing was not disclosed. If it was in the Mainz area, as the Germans said, then it was within 265 miles of Berlin, much closer than any other of Gen. Eisenhower's armies in the west. Twelfth Army Group headauar ters announced that the crossing was made at 10:25 Thursday night without aerial or artillery prepara tion, and since then the bridgehe .d had been steadily enlarged. The operation had been planned and rehearsed for months, long be fore Patton's forces stood on the Rhine. NAZI WAR PLANS FOR FUTURE TOLD (Continued! from Page One) war industries put underground and safeguarded and a political program for revenge prepared. Heinrich Himmler directed the organization of armed bands with in the country for the purpose of ultimately sabotaging the peace administration. Wilhelm Schep man, who directed German sabo tage of the Ruhr in 1923, was said to have been named chief of coun ter-espionage. Throughout the Reich, thousands of “cells” of Nazis have been or ganized. Party workers are going, or are ready to go, into prison camps posing as anti-Nazis to undergo fake trials as enemies of the regime to win confidence in Allied circles—then to turn against the Allies. Printing depots, clandestine radio sets and buried munitions stories are included in the plan. “Weltwoche,” a Swiss weekly, reported many '“dead” were com ing back to life from Germany. These are Nazis whose “obituar ies” were published in papers and now are reappearing under assum ed names to avoid the wan- crim inals list. The paper declared that lour weeks after his death notice in Germany, SS Leader Olaf Fickert was seen on the streets of Bar celona—but under another name, Wilhelm Kleinert. Another case listed was that of Hitler youth staff member Helmut Moeckel, reported “accidentally killed.” Moeckel is under the protection of Alvarez Serrano, leader of the Spanish militia college, the paper said. Labor ^Director Robert Leitner blew himself to a “funeral” Jan uary 26 in Prague which party, state and Wehrmacht leaders at tended while newsreels of the pro cession were taken—but the “de ceased” travelled through the country under the name of George Hanauer with new papers and a new beard. Weltwoche asserted. SS Men Karl Heinz von Duffais, , Hans Steudemann and SA Fuehrer ' Frick went to Buenos Aires under i phoney names, the paper contin '< ued. “It is so customary in party circles to indulge in "painless ; death,” to disappear from the t war criminal list, that people no ; longer believe the real death notices,” the paper jsaid. Third Drives Over Rhine Without Loss Of A Yank (Continued from Page One) i pie of Messersehmitt 262 jet pro- ( pelled planes poked inquisitive t noses over the bridgehead and promptly were knocked down. j Assault craft and amphibious j ducks were plying the calm Rhine ] back and forth across the river, c The operation, which had been t planned and rehearsed for months, t went off far smoother than any- 1 one could have hoped. The Germans simply w e r e 1 caught by surprise and by the ov- < erwhelming weight of American 1 arms. | Patton’s men moved like light- j ning. Besides the surprise ele ment, the Germans utterly failed to produce anything like the amount of fire the Americans were ' throwing at them. Patton’s Rhine-conquering ex ploit followed one of the greatest 1 armor and infantry thrusts in mil- ' itary history — the tremendous sweep through the Saarland. Together these successes ap peared to be decisive blows against the Germans. The elated . Doughboys, who three weeks ago : were urging the Russians on to ' Berlin, now nominated themselves for the job of taking the German ( capital. I saw the Doughboys who went in on Omaha Beach in Normandy last June 6 and I went across the Rhine with them last night. The spirit was identical, and so was the overwhelming superiority ■ in men and equipment. The Rhineland never saw a more amazing sight than last night’s. Probably it never will. For miles back the roads were lined with trucks and other vehicles struggling up the hills. Hundreds of conveyances of all kinds which had pulled up just out of sight of the river during the day stood silent and shadowy in the moon-splashed fields and along the edges of woods near the Rhine. Engineers who had spent back-breaking months at home preparing for this show were on hand to help get the vehicles acrus-v A fleet of pint sized artillery spotter planes, impressed into service as emergency one-man troop carriers, stood ready on a dozen uncharted wheat fields. The little cow-pasture transport force was to shuttle across the river, putting down anywhere it could, if the Doughboys storming the Rhine found more than they could handle. But the planes were not needed. For months columns of trucks with their tons of assault boats had been edging toward the front at night and hiding out by day. Sometimes they got in the way of swearing tankmen and, played hob wdth traffic. Along toward the end of the Third Army’s recent sensational spurt to the Rhine they lagged un easily behind, but they put on a spurt and were on the spot last night when needed. For some of the Doughboys it was their 20th river crossing. It was their most important, but not the most exciting. Not one man was lost in the actual crossing last night. In groups of 12, the men be gan assembling along the tree-lin ed west bank after nightfall. There was a quiet command shortly af ter 10 o’clock and the first wave moved out of the shadows like pallbearers carrying their little as sault boats with six men on each side. ■ With hardly a sound they slip ped the boats into the water, climbed in, and the drive over the last major water barrier be fore Berlin was on. Moonlight was so brilliant the reflection on the water hurt the eyes. Besides the moonlight, the Ger mans had the advantage of direct observation by the light of an am munition dump that was fired by an anti-tank gun during the after noon and still was burning through the night, sending up towering pil lars of flame and shaking the earth with explosions. Between blasts I could hear on ly the heavy breathing of the men starting to make the over-water assault. I ai iu.zo p.m. uame urns mes sage from a walkie-talkie radio on the Rhine's right bank: “Blank company across. No fire received at all. Everything quiet.” Everybody breathed easier in the little riverside cottage where Lt. Col. William Birdsong of Greenville, Miss., had set up his command post. “The engineers did a swell job getting the boats up without letting the Heinies know what was up. God bless ’em,” said Pv. Harry Saghbazarjan of Watertown, Mass., The colonel’s runner. More men started across, their long boats dancing crazily on the only slightly ruffled water which reflected the brange glow of fires on the east bank. “We’ve either surprised hell out of them or they don’t have it ” commented Capt. Ramond Bitney of Bloomer, Wis. "Maybe it’s both,” added Capt. Tober T. Gill of Charlotte, N. C. “This is like a picnic.” chimed in Pfc F. B. Hib'ols of Davenport, Iowa who added, “I crossed the Saar and the Moselle and this looks easy.” About that time the picnic end ed. German burp guns on the other side cracked 'a few bursts. That was twenty minutes after the first Doughboys pulled ashore. “Let ’em shoot. This is old stuff now,” said Pfc Eric H. Doering Chicago, as he started for the river. “The boys who worked their way in are now getting some small arms fire,” said Sgt. Robert C. Bradley of Durand, Mich., calling down from an upstairs window of the cottage. “Hitler must know where they are by now,” added Lt. Don Larson of Oshkosh, Wis. Things began popping then along the Rhine. The Germans fired four orange signal flares and gunfire broke out all over the place. A couple of machineguns started fir ing blue tracers wildly our way.. They didn't last long. Infantrymen charged two nests and -frcyn the other side came blood - curdling screams. As the screams grew fainter, Pfc. Evans, Huffstetler cf Charlotte, N. C., com mented “That was a Heinie. They all do that when they get it—like stuck pigs.” Off to the right the Doughboys charged. “Come out you basl^rds. Come out,” they *yere shouting. The Ger-; mans didn’t come out, so the, Doughboys shot them out and mov ed on. | “They know they are licked. Why . don’t they give up?” asked Pfc Leonard Isenhour of Liberty, Mo. "Damn the Germans anyway,” i Sgt. Kenneth A. Harris of Bedford, Ind., added as an afterthought. “I’ve crossed ’em all from New York harbor to the Rhine,” said CdI. Walter Rainey of North «Con cord, N. H. ‘‘I guess we 11 have' to cross ’em all to Berlin.” Capt. Harry (Pete) Smith of Georgetown, Ky.. who led the first wave across had moved in swiftly from the liver bank. It was time for Rainey and his comrades to move. He went over paired with Pfc. William Palcher of Kansas City, Kans. In midstream they passed a boat coming back with the first bag of five Nazi prisoners. The captives told Lt. Stephen Duke. Cleveland, they had been dumped on the river bank two days ago and did not even know the number of their regiment. Asked why they did not shoot, the Ger mans replied, "we were eating.” Lt. Col. Lyoal Berley, Bethlehem, Pa., poked his head into the com mand post and said he had crossed the Meuse with the same division 25 years ago and now was jumping the Rhine with it. “The same di vision was on our flank then as now,” he added. Two hours after the silent wa ters of the Rhine had been churned into action, the Germans collect ed themselves and their artillery opened up. Mortars and anti-tank shells began slamming into the American positions on the banks. A mortar tore a chunk out of the cottage command post and every body decamped. Shells crashed in to the y.ard covering the men who had hurried out of the house with debris. “It's time we were getting some of it.” calmly announced Capt. Mer le Potter, formerly of the Minneap olis Star-Journal, now a public re lations officer, who now was in on the big story. American artillery, which had kept quiet, erupted into action and gave the Germans a hundred for one. Engineers, busy with their duties on the ground and on the water ignored the two-way traffic of shells overhead. ‘‘Hell, this Rhine is nothing but a creek,” said Lt. David Spaulding | Portsmouth, Va., who commmand-1 ed our boat. His men included Joe Wasiele of Scranton, Pa., and Sev erio Benfari, New York. \T_ 4,000 BOMBERS ! HIT RUHR AREA (Continued from Page One) shattered in recent attacks, and military men said the Ruhr could be considered isolated. A third fleet of Lancasters took advantage of the clear weather to go below their usual altitude and make a daring attack on German troop concentrations and fortified positions on the east bank of the Rhine. Fighters and medium and light bombers made several thousand sorties from continental bases dur ing the daylight hours. The Ninth Air Force alone registered 1,300 sorties before the noon hour, while the Second Tactical Air Force had made more than 1,000 several hours before nightfall. RAF rocket-firing Typhoons, flocking up for the first time from bases inside Germany, joined the carnival of* destruction. So thor oughly have the Nazis’ rail routes been hammered that only two trains were seen moving in the entire Ruhr, both near Osnabrueck. Berlin was bombed Thursday night for the 31st consecutive night by RAF Mosquitos, which also struck follow-up blows at enemy troop movements in the Ruhr. Re turning pilots said smoke from burning towns hung so thickly oyer the Ruhr they had difficulty locat ing their targets even in bright, moonlight. ,l Five American bombers and five fighters were lost in Thursday’s great assault by more than 8,000 planes. -V The East Texas oil #eld, great est pool in the history of world petroleum production, was discov ered in 1930 by a. veteran wild catter named C. M. (Dad) Joiner. As Patton’s lines moved remorse lessly eastward, first across the Eifel mountains, then across the Moselle and southward across the Hunsrueck plateau to th Rhine plain, the engineers and the assault boats moved too. There were many tons of these assault boats, which were moved at night and hid out by day. The crossings was made with such smoothness that it went better than the rehearsals. Infantry in the assault waves were so elated by the success of this bold stroke that they began nominating themselves for the job of taking Berlin. For miles back on the Rhine’s west bank the roads were lined with trucks and prime movers, all hurrying toward the river. This second setback for the Ger mans east of the Rhine, which might well be mortal, came as history’s greatest aerial onslaught scourging the north German plain warned the enemy that Field Mar shal Montgomery’s three massed armies were about to strike across from the Ruhr. A Berlin military spokesman said American units also had at tempted crossings near Duesseldor# and six miles south of Cologne, and Allied pilots reported that the Germans were frantically digging in farther north, where the enemy was expecting Field Marshal Mont gomery to strike hourly While these might well reflect German anxiety, the facts were that Allied strategists had written off he Rhine as a military barrier, and that the Ruhr, after weeks of terrific bombing, was isolated and paralyzed, ripe for assault, 100 PER CENT WOOL EXCLUSIVE STYLING Here are the three top coats in Spring's hit parade of fashions. The shortie that goes with everything. The doll-waist coat that slim beauties like to tie tightly around their waists. And the boy coat . . . long may it reign! In bright shades . . . navy and black. $24-98 PRINTS AND PASTELS CLASSIC AND DRESSY EXCLUSIVE VALUES 214 NORTH FRONT ST. SHALL AND LARGE SIZES SOFTLY BEAUTIFUL SHADES
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