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handit murders taxicab driver MIAMI BEACH. Fla., March 25 bandit killed a taxicab ^iver during a holdup last night, seriously wounded a special police man and apparently escaped in boat early today after he was himself wounded. Miami Beach Police Chief A. W. Simps°n said that taxicab driver pavid Newman, 35, was fatally shot bv a passenger and his body was hidden in an alley under a palm shrub. The bandit drove the blood-stain ed taxicab to Sunset Island No. 4 and abandoned it, then apparently jtole a bicycle and rode to Sun jet Island No. 3. ' He was challenged here by spe cial Officer Harold Burgoyne, 50, ,nd shot Burgoyne in the stomach. Burgoyne managed to wound his assailant. Leaving a trail of blood, the ban dit went into a private estate and made away with a motorboat which was tied up at a dock. Coast Guardsmen searched the bay for the missing boat. Newman's wife said her husband should have had between $25 and S50 but it was missing. Simpson said there may have fcen a connection between the in cident of last night and the hold up Thursday night of three New Yorkers, who reported the loss of $4,000 in cash and valuable jewelry. -V Italo-American Group Seeks Seat For Italy At Security Conclave NEW YORK, March 25 — (JP) — Formal recognition of Italy as a United Nations ally and her parti cipation in the forthcoming World Security Conference at San Fran cisco were urged today by the Columbus Dry Citizens Committee, Inc, in a resolution sent to Presi dent Roosevelt and Secretary of State Stettinius. The committee, which claims to represent 575,000 Italian Americans, is headed by Generoso Pope, pub lisher of an Italian language news oaper. -V Marine General Cited For Work In Solomons U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, March 25.—(A3)—A Pacific Fleet Headquar ters announcement today said Brig. Gen. Joseph Howard Fel lows. of the - United States Ma rine Corps, has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal for “meritori ous service’’ as logistic plans of ficer on the staff of the Com mander Service Squadron, South Pacific Force. The general was cited specifical ly in connection with the Solomon Islands force. --V-, POSTMASTER APPLICATIONS WASHINGTON, March 25—(JP)— The Civil Service Commission has announced that applications will be received until the close of business April 12 for the following postmas lerships in North Carolina: Barium Springs: Dobson; Morven; Orien tal; Star. -V VAST CABLE SYSTEM The earth is belted with more than 300,000 miles of submarine cables, 100.000.000 miles of tele phone wires, and 5,000,000 miles of telegraph cables. -V Fight blue mold on those tobac co plants, especially if you have Oxford 26. No extra plants will be available. : COUGH LOZENGES ; Get below the gargle line with ; F & F Cough Lozenges. Each F & F ; Lozenge gives your throat a 15 ; minute soothing, comforting treat* ; n^nt all the way down. Millions ; use them for coughs, throat irrita ; tionB or hoarseness resulting from ; colds or smoking. Box—only 10)1. NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING PAYS 1 u u^asi ^5ster,i anc* three children of Stoneham, Mass., hold some ox the letters received in reply to an advertisement Tasker put m newspapers in quest of a wife. Tasker, who was divorced a year ago, says he’s too busy tending his children to go a-wooing in person. Among the many replies were some from grandmothers, school girls, and a society divorcee who said she had two country j estates and two automobiles. Tasker hasn’t made his selection yet. Occupations Will Govern Passenger Tire Allotment WASHINGTON, March 25—UP)— A priority list of occupations gov erning distribution of the limited supply of new passenger tires to eligible motorists was announced today by the OPA. Drawn up with the help of the War Manpower Commission, the list covers all “B” and “C” card drivers but rates them in four groups with respect to their es sentiality to the war effort. This preferential rating is neces sary, OPA explained, because of the sharp reduction in the alloca tion of new tires for rationing. The April quota is 1,000,000 cas ings, a 37 per cent cut from the 1,600,000 made available this month. The reduction results from an acute shortage of the tire ingred ient, carbon black. The first priority group is limit ed almost entirely to persons whose occupations are of an emergency nature, and to workers at “must” war plants. Included are physi cians, public health nurses, police, and war workers such as those 'producing urgently needed aircraft and ammunitions—projects facing a critical manpower shortage. About 300,000 cars are represented in the first priority group, offi cials said, out of the 25,000.000 still operating. These plants will be designated after consultation with local WMC officials, OPA said. In group 2 are persons employ ed in other essential plants and those whose occupations are high ly important to the-war effort. Ex amples are farmers, farm work ers, and representatives of man agement, labor and government who recruit labor for essential es tablishments. Group 3 covers such motorists a: buyers for essential establishments and those w'ho travel to such places to perform necessary tech nical services. Group 4 takes in all other “B’ and “C” drivers. OPA stressed that each indivi dual tire applicant must continue to establish his need for a tire even though rated in a high pre ference group. Former German Chancellor Held Seeking Old Office MOSCOW, March 25.—(.P>—Ilya Ehrenburg, writing in Pravda as serted today that Dr. Heinrich Bruening, Hitler’s predecessor as chancellor of Germany, has put forth “his candidacy as the heir of Hitler.” tBruening now is professor of government at Harvard Universi ty. He held the German chancel lorship from March, 1930, until May, 1932. A staunch Catholic, he was a foe of Hitler’s policies.) “In East Prussia,” Ehrenburg wrote, “I met a Catholic vicar who explained a plan to create 'a strong Catholic German power.’ Other priests spoke of the same thing. We have before us not dreamers but representatives of a disciplined organization. “The salvation of German im perialism has been turned over to the Catholic center. The fuehrer of German Catholics, Bruening, r.ow living in the United States, has sDoken. now that the route of Zhukov and Eisenhower has be come clear. In articles for Ger man social democratic newspapers he speaks about the past but thinks about the future. He puts forth his candidacy as the heir of Hitler. “It is easy to understand, if the fuehrer of German Catholics can peacefully express such abomin ; ble opinions in the United States. This means he has supporters and defenders. “Bruening is not a dreamer. The Catholic newspapers of the United States are busy now with the rehabilitation of Germany. If cne could forget these newspapers were published in the English lan guage one might take them to be German newspapers. “Like the Germans living in America or the Americans who think in German, the Roman Pope is also busy with one thing—how to save Germany from retaliation. All this has not any relation to religion—this is politics. The Vati can does not want to save Germar children but the German arms from the Stormoviks. “The Catholic religion as such is not at fault. The Catholics oJ France, Belgium and Poland cour ageously fought against the Ger man invaders. These Catholics can only be surprised at seeing how the Vatican is attempting to white wash the criminals. The Vatican is afraid that with the doom ol Fascism there will be a rebirth 61 light, wisdom ani? freedom.” --V FORMER RESIDENT FLIES FOR GUNS Captain Odell Williamson, for mer employe in the fitters depart ment of the North Carolina Ship bsilding Co., whose home is ai Shallotte, now is a liaison artillery observer with an artillery divi sion on the Western Front with more than 300 missions to his credit. One of Captain Williarson’s lat est assignments was to pilot Wes Gallagher, Associated Press wat correspondent, over the Rhine March 4, to cover one of the greal battles of this war. He flew the correspondent in a Cub. Most oi his 300 missions have been as a spotter for artillery fire. Captain Williamson is the son of J. B. Williamson of Shallotte and the late Mrs. Williamson. His wife, Mrs. Virginia Cox William son, lives in Wilmington and is employed in the purchasing De partment at the shipyard. His present fighting service be gan with the invasion of Normandy last June 15. He has been award ed the Air Medal, five bronze clus ters, one silver cluster, the Sil ver Star, the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Croix de Guerre. He was employed at the ship yard October 8, 1941 and was re leased in the spring, 1942, when he was inducted for military serv ice. -V Saving more baby pigs, calves, and chicks will greatly help to solve the meat shortage. A FREE 3 NEW ROSE DAWN PLANTS Please enclose 25 cents to help cover packing, postage, handling and advertising expense. To advertise our unique method of selling direct from nursery to you through the mail, we’ll send you three well rooted Rose Dawn perennial flower plants, ready to set out in your yard Those are the new flowers you have been hearing about through radio stations and the garden magazines of the country. They grow two to three feet high and .bear loads of silver pink flowers from April to August. Fine for cutting 01 for yard decoration. Ideal, planting time now. We want you to have three of tiiese plants io transplant in your yard so you can see what strong, healthy flowers we raise. Current catalog value 60 cents. Now you may have three selected hardy specimens, shipped postpaid for 25 cents inci dental expense as above. Offer good during brief shipping period only. Send your 1 request, enclosing 25 cents, to: CLARK GARDNER Route 14 Box 26 Osage, Iowa --- 15TH AAF PICkED BERLIN AS TRIAL ROME, March 25—(£■)—1The 15th Air Force said today that yester day’s record 1,600-mile roundtrip raid on the Berlin area during which 13 Jet propelled German planes were knocked down — the largest single ^day’s bag of the new enemy craft—was a last min ute idea. The night before, headquarters explained, pilots were being brief ed for an attack on a target some 100 miles closer to Italy than Ber lin when Maj. John Hogan, Jer sey City, N. J., came up with the idea. Previously it had not been con sidered “feasible or possible” for the big bombers and their escort to strike the Nazi capital from Italy. Hogan, a graduate of Rutgers and a wing navigator, noticed there would be enough reserve fuel and good enough weather to switch the objective to Berlin. At first the suggestion was greet ed as a gag but after Hogan sold his idea to the commanders they went to work on it. Sgt. Lincoln F. Broyhill, Arling ton, Va., knocked down a pair of jets yesterday. Among the pilots scoring victor ies over the jets were Col. Wil liam A. Daniel, Birmingham, Ala. The 463rd Bomb Group was the first 15th Air Force outfit over Berlin. The lead plane was piloted by Capt. Robert C. Ball of Winona, Minn. -V BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS WITH THE AEF: The 34th’s Proud Record Of Combat By SID FEDER (Substituting for Kenneth L. Dixon) ON THE ITALIAN FRONT—(IP) It’s a matter lor argument wheth er the 34th Division has had morS than 500 days in the line or wheth er it’s just getting ready for the birthday party, but no matter how you look at it, the ‘‘Red Bull’s Head” has spent more time fight ing Germans than any other out fit around here. With becoming modesty, Col. Hubert (Hub) Desmarais Min neapolis and Ninah, Wis.,. one of the original staff officers with the First American Division to step on European soil in World War Two, tells you it’s not time for the ‘‘birthday” yet. He says the 34th has had only some 480 days in which it commanded a division sector in combat and won’t hit the 500 mark until some time next month. On the other hand the records show that while the division it itself at times might not have been running the show, elements of it, among them the 133rd, 135th and 168th Infantry Regiments, have racked up more than 520 days in Africa and Italy. It was the 34th Division which first grabbed Algiers when the show started and all the way up the Italian boot a patch with a red bull’s skull has been in prac tically every spot now in the his tory books. The Doughboys wear ing the patch are still at it up here in the mud and snow in the mountains south of Bologna. Naturally, the division has changed a lot for some 15,000 re placements have been needed to plug holes made by the wear and tear of almost 40 months overseas, nearly 30 of- them in combat. In Africa, they were at Algiers and Faid Pass and Fondouk and through Tunisia and they took Hill 609 in Italy. They were at Salerni, the Volturno, Cassino, the beachhead, La Nuvio, -Rome, Lt vorno, Pisa, and the Gothic Line. They had a hand in every head line. It now is pretty generally ad mitted that Cassino, as such, wouldn’t have happened if a fresh regiment had been sent in to back up the Bull’s Head battlers, al ready weary from a solid month of slugging through the mountain. They' stormed the Rapidi, took half the town itself, Lt. Paul Rior dan of Kansas City personally dug the Jerries out of their hot spot in the jailhouse and the 34th was parked practically on the outer walls of the monastery when hu man endurance reached its limits and they just ran out of gas. With just enough fresh troops for a fresh punch there might liavS been none of the months of wait ing and worrying of last winter. It’s a matter of record that when the Eighth Army finally did cap ture Cassino and the abbey, it took five divisions to do what the Bullshead just missed doing alone. When Pfc. Milburn Henke of Hutchinson, Minn., led the way down the gangplank into Belfast, Ireland, January 26, 1942, the first soldier on European soil in this war, the 34th was almost exclu sively national guardsmen from Icwa. Minnesota and the Dakotas but 80 per cent of the “originals” have long since been replaced by Doughboys from coast to coast. The 135th Regiment’s 3rd Bat talion which Lt. Col. Edwin Swen son of Stillwater, Minn., took into Algiers November 8. 1942 has less than 25 riflemen still doii^g busi ness at the old stand. This force was led by Maj. Gen. Charles Ry der, the division’s original com mander, who now heads a corps in the South Pacific. The divisional boss now is husky Maj. Gen. Charles Bolte of Chicago, 111. As of last November, the entire 135th- had about 700 left of its original more than 3,000. The 168th had 437 and the 133rd had 1,100. This includes all rear units as well as the scattered lemnants up where they play professional rules. The 135th has had 1,000 dead. The 133rd had a bloody average of more than 100 killed, captured or wounded per week from its ar rival at Anzio in January 1943 un til late last fall. Half the 168th was lost at Faid Pass alone. There have been 15 reg: lental com manders, two were captured, one was killed and one wounded. -V Thinning young pine and hard wood stands is one of the most im portant steps in producing a good crop of timber. FIRST OF ITS KIND When the trading schooner, Emanuel, put into Southampton, ; England, it was the first vessel in 2000 years to dock there with an all-Jewish crew of sailors. -V YEARS FOR PROOF A man must be habitually drunk for three years before his wife can obtain a divorce on the grounds of habitual intoxication in New Hampshire. -V One Army general hospital In the Mediterranean Theater, which has handled more than 26.000 pa tients. reduced hospitalization time 30 per cent, by improvising phy siotherapy apparatus for arm and leg exercise. -V buy war Ronds and stamps HEAT RELIEVES BACKACHE! Heat relieves muscle pains — quickly, effec tively. To get welcome, continued heat relief, for days, right at the sore spot, apply one big Johnson’s RED CROSS PLASTER. — or the heavier, warmer Johnson’s Back Plaster. . , . 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Unseen parts—your steering assem bly, braking system, battery, gears and many others—must be cared for constantly for safety’s sake! Shellu brication provides expert car care—a 35-point inspection and maintenance system developed by Shell engineers and performed by specially trained Shell Dealers. Far from being a mere “grease job,” Shellubrication requires the use ol nine different types of lubricating equipment—six different testing de vices—fourteen kinds of maintenance tools, eighteen different, specialized Shell lubricants! In giving your car a Shellubrication job your Shell Dealer inspects danger spots—checks 35 “break-up” points as he works! And finally he gives you a record of service and a written guar antee covering both workmanship and materials! Don't Drive a Booby Trap! v—.. Watch Out! This hidden part of your car is your steering | assembly, the means by which you steer it. | Neglected, it can become a Booby Trap— \ throw your car out of control. 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