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SCOUT LEADERS TO TALK PLANS Executives of the Cape Fear Area Scout Council will meet i* Wilmington today and tomorrow to discuss Scout activities for the next few weeks, according tc Courtland W, Baker, Scout exec utive. Heading the list of subjects foi discussion will be district camp orees, Mr. Baker said. Beginning with the South Central Camporee April 13-15, there will be campo rees in the council each week-enc until the middle of June. Other items to be discussed will be summer camp, the standarc troop rating plan, and organiza tion of new units. Wilmington’s first Eagle Seoul for 1945 w'ill be recognized at s Court of Honor in the court house at 8 p. m. tonight, according tc R. Brookes PetSrs, Jr., advance ment chairman. James Trawick, member ol Troop 30 which meets in the Vance community of Maffitt Vil lage, has met all of the require ments of the troop, council, and national boards of review, and ft qualified to receive his Eagle badge tonight His mother will pir the badge on James, and other Eagle Scouts of Wilmington will take part in the ceremony. Troop 36, sponsored by Sunsel Park Baptist church, will conduct the opening and closing ceremo i ies. Friends of Scouting who have not seen an Eagle ceremony are _ invited to attend tonight’s Court ‘ of Honor. -V ntnuEj Ur dULuE BATTLE ARE FREE (Continued from Page One) mas Day their only presents were canteens of water given them su*. reptiously by Russian laborers. The liberated Americans, all of whom were corporals or sergeant* from nearly every state in the Union, were taken shortly after Christmas to Bad Orb between Frankfurt on Main and Wuerz burg. Sanitary conditions there were described as appalling. Privates were left at Bad Ort and forced to work in slate mines. All Jews were segregated and shackled and made to do whatever the Germans desired. The non coms were transported to Sigen ' hain and jammed into wooden barracks with inadequate stoves. “We were cold all of the time,’1 one Yank from the South said. A typical day’s menu consisted of: breakfast: one cup of tea oi one cup of ersatz coffee, not both: dinner: one canteen cup of soup made of dehydrated greens or bar ley or peas; supper: one-sixth ol a loaf of bread plus one pat oi margarine (lately the bread ra tion was cut to one-seventh to one tenth of a loaf per man.) -V SUPER FREIGHT ENGINES PORTLAND, Me., April 1.—(U.Ri Twelve new superlocomotives on the Boston & Maine Railroad hauf ed more freight than old-type en gines during one month at a net saving of $80,000. WATCH REPAIRING GUARANTEED j Quirk Service We Teach Watches To Tell I The Trut>» j The Jewel Box ) 109 N. Front j jPl St. John’s Tavern I J 114 Orange Et. 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' ^^HelJMSeSrHot-Blooded Sjf Queen of the Rogues! 1 Marta Montee, Jon ■ Hail, Peter Coe in B “GYPSEY WILDCAT” ■k In Technicolor A j^k With Leo Carrillo Jap Suicide Fleet Discovered By Yanks In Kerama Isle Caves By GRANT MACDONALD ABOARD THE 77TH DIVISION AMPHIBIOUS FLAGSHIP Oil Kerama Islands, March 30.—(De ma Island and capture of scores layed)—(IP)—The seizure of Kera of Japanese one-man suicide boats by the 77th (Statue of Liberty) Di vision undoubtedly saved the Am erican force destined for the land ing on Okinawa, 25 miles to the east, from serious setbacks. All eight islands of the Kerama group were secured by the 77th the second day after the March 26 landing, and the most unexpected discovery was the amazing num ber of the little boats, and tons of high explosives, hidden in caves Three hundred of the craft have been uncovered to date. American officers said they be lieved the boats were intended for use in suicide smashes against United States ships in the Okinawa landing. (U. S. 10th Army soldiers and Marines landed on Okinawa April 1, seizing their beachheads with few casualties.) These 18-ifoot boats,- powered with four-cylinder engines, were designed to carry two kinds of ex plosive charges—a depth charge in a rack at the stern and a tor pedo bomb at the bow. Enterprising Yanks already have dragged some of them from caves and are racing them around the inlets. ' Dozens of them have been smashedwby American demolition crews, and some have been pull ed up on the beaches and over turned to make shelters for the soldiers. “One of the most vital and valuable aspects of this operation is the capture or destruction of these boats,” said Maj. Gen. An drew D. Bruce, division comman der. “They might have been used with great damaging effect on Okinawa landing operations.” Some idea of what the little suicide craft could have achieved in destruction was indicated when 65 of the depth charges were col lected and detonated. The explo sion shook this ship a mile off shore. The 77th landed on ‘nine differ ent beaches of the eight Kerama islets with almost no resistance, after the beaches had been plas tered with naval gunfire, air bombs and rocket salvos. It was incredible that on D-Day as the huge invasion fleet steam ed boldly into waters of Japanese islands less than 400 miles from the enemy homeland, only five Nipponese planes appeared. Four of them were shot down. One de stroyer was hit and one strafed, with very few casualties. The First American flag was raised officially at 9:25 a.m. March 27 on Saka island by Capt. Tho mas Donnelly, chaplain of the Third Battalion of the 305th In fantry Regiment. Donnelly’s home is at Bronz, N. Y. Four Japanese civilians watch ed the flag raising. They stared blankly from a stockade close by. Azaleas And Japonicas Attract Easter Crowds Few of the thousands who visit ed Greenfield Park yesterday realize that most of the azaleas and camelias planted along the lake front originated in Eastern Asia and Japan, R. W. Snell, park superintendent, disclosed last night. About a two-mile area has been developed from the Fourth street entrance to the Thirteenth street side of the park, beyond Lake Forest school, and Mr. Snell in dicated that efforts would be j made in the future to cultivate a larger variety which would pro vide a “riot of color" from late winter throughout the summer. Henry Thurman and Sgt. P. J. Parish, of the Wilmington Police Department, were on hand yester day to photograph the park and some of the Easter visitors. They are preparing a film on the City’s activities and development. Mr. Thurman pointed out that the film, in sound and color, is expected to be completed within the next two weeks. The first flower to bloom at tfie park in the late winter is the ca melia, most of which already have lost their blooms. The variety of camelia most prominent at the park originated in Japan. It is es timated that approximately 100,000 azalea plants have been planted i - in the area now under develop ment. Also in bloom are the dogwood and red bud trees, commonly known as the Judas tree, which dates far back into Biblical his tory. Several varieties of wis teria also are to be seen. Some of the unusual fiowers at the lake are the pitcher plant and Venus fly trap. Only one bed of the fly traps have been cultivated, but others are to be planted. Mr. Snell disclosed that efforts will be made soon to provide a larger variety of native flowers. One of the most prominent nativS flowers at the lake this summer will be the cardinal flower, a bright scarlet plant which blooms along the boggy sections of the water. A large number of these flowers were in bloom last sum mer. Several varieties of iris and roses also have been cultivated. Siberian and German iris is most predominant. The area around the spillway on Third street was the first to be cultivated at the lake, and other sections have been addfed from time to time Almost half the dis tance around the lake now has been planted to a point beyond the Lake Forest school, and indi cations are that in the future visi tors will enjoy the flowers most of the year round. First, Ninth Armies Join To Encircle Ruhr Valley (Continued from Page One) struck north and west, forcing the enemy to begin pulling out of the Netherlands. Little was known about the size of the remnants of the German ar mies trapped in the Ruhr, although it was believed the enemy had con centrated in that industrial area the greatest mass of his troops in the west. It was doubtful that many of them had escaped before the First and Ninth Armies slammed the trap shut. Patton’s Third Army continued to sweep through the sector of Kassel and the German radio re ported some forces were fighting in the suburbs of that big (220,000 pop.) manufacturing city on the Fulda river. Associated Press Correspondent Edward D. Ball said the Fourth Armored Division had broken through fierce enemy resistance which had temporarily held it up. Except for isolated pockets, the entire area v/est of the Fulda riv er from a point five miles south of Kassel to the city of Fulda was cleared. Fulda itself was by-passed on the north as the Sixth Armored Division forced a crossing of the river 14 miles south of Kassel. The Seventh Army’s 12th Armor ed Division plunged in an over night drive to the river Main near Ochsenfurt and another column reached Bad Mergentheim in the . same vicinity. In this area, Lt. Gen. Alexander , 1(1. Patch’s troops were 45 miles from Nuernberg, Germany’s 16th city with a population of 430,850, and within 124 miles of Munich, the Bavarian capital. One force, entering the town of Kirchheim, found an underground tank factory. The enemy continued to fight fiercely inside Aschaffenburg, which once was reported cleared, but the 45th Division advanced beyond the city to a point six miles past the Main river. The French First Army linked up with the Seventh Army at Hock enheim, ten miles south of Mann heim. The Third Army had swept al most two-thirds of the way across the waist of Germany, and stood 100 miles from the western tip of Czechoslovakia. The U. S. Seventh Army was as close to Czechoslovakia, and its last-announced advances had car ried within 45 miles of Nuernberg, Germany’s 16th city of 430.850 popu lation, and within 124 miles of Munich, Bavarian capital. The Third Army was barely more than 200 miles from the Russians on the Neisse river southeast of Berlin. The Seventh was 315 miles from Soviet troops striking into Austria. Latest available dispatches told of heavy fighting Saturday in the area of Paderborn, about midway between Kassel and Muenster. First Army troops battled there toward snapping completely shut the trap of the Ruhr. Some Germans fought from behind dug-in tanks. Two or three German divisions of perhaps 40,000 troops in the Ruhr were known to have pulled out of the area along the Rhine between Duisburg and Bonn, but it was doubtful if they had been able to make good their escape. Two columns of the Third Ar my’s Fourth Armored Division charged to the area of Bosserode, 14 miles west of Eisenach and 33 southeast of Kassel. Another ad vanced five miles to near Heringen, 13 southwest of Eisenach. The Ger mans threw tanks into heavy fight ing near Heringen. In the Bosserode-Heringen area the Third was on or near the Wer ra river. The German high comt mand said Americans had reach ed the Werra, which farther north east winds within 145 miles of Ber lin, but it did not specify the sec tor. Demolitions and stern German resistance checked the Sixth Ar mored Division five miles south of Kassel, industrial stronghold 185 miles from the Reich capital, aft er it had dashed 85 miles from the Main river. The Germans said tanks which reached Kassel’s southern suburbs “were held in the barrack quar ters and largely destroyed.” Another Sixth Armored column turning northeast reached the Ful da river near Neumorshein, 18 miles south of Kassel. -V POLICE BEAR SIGNS In Glasgow, Scotland, traffic po licemen have white helmets bear ing illuminated signs. The word “police” appears on the front of the helmet, and “stop” on the back. Electric power for the signs is sup plied by batteries on the wearer’s belt. -V A little garlic or garlic salt add ed to boiled rice to be served with creole chicken gives a new flavor combination. -V Put the leftover ham bone into bean soap to make a sturdy main dish. 1 I® I HANOVER -1 MAFFITT TILLAGE TODAY AND TUESDAY "STAGE DOOR CANTEEN" 48 Stars from i Radio, Stage, Screen WED. ONLY “And The Angels Sing" ” Obituaries MRS. ALLIE J. HAMILTON Funeral services for Mrs. Allie J. Hamilton, 57, who died Satur day at her home at 423 Carolina avenue, Sunset Park, will be held at 2 p. m. today from the home with the Rev. O. K. Ingram, Meth odist minister, officiating, Burial will be in the Atkinson cemetery. Survivors are her husband, T. D. Hamilton, of Sunset Park; two sons, M. W. Johnson, of Atkinson, and George R. Johnson, U. S. Army, stationed at Camp Wheeler, Ga.; two daughters, Mrs. E. Gf Patterson of the home, and Mts. Billie Bowers, also of SunBet Park; two step-sons, A. J. Johnson of Magnolia, and Henry Lee Johnson of Rocky Mount; two sisters, Mrs. Atwood Johnson, of Rose Hill; and Mrs. Bertha Mallard, of Atlanta? five brothers, W. R. Peterson, Winter Park; E. R. Peterson, Hampton, Va.; Roy T. Peterson, Washington, N. C.; Marsden C. Peterson of Arlington, Va., and M. R. Peterson of Atkinson; and four grandchildren. JOHN W. BURTON Funeral services for John W. Burton, 79, of Jacksonville, who died Friday night at 11:30 o’clock of a heart attack, were held yes terday from the home in Jackson ville. Burial was in the Jackson ville cemetery. Survivors include his widow, Lee Cutchen Burton; one daughter, Martha Burton and one brother, N. A. Burton, of Jacksonville. Mr. Burton was clerk of Onslow county court for eight years, chair man of the board of education for two terms, chairman of the county commissioners for two terms, state representative and president of the Bank of Onslow for 25 years. MRS. ESSIE G. FLOWERS Funeral services for Mr*. Essie G. Flowers, who died Saturday afternoon at her home, 624 North Fourth street, will be held at * p. m. tomorrow in the chapel at Andrew’s mortuary by the Rev. C. N. Phillips. Burial will be in Bellevue cemetery. In addition to her husband, O. B. Flowers, Sr., she is survived by five daughters, Misses Frances Gertrude, Marie, Jessie Lee. Hil da Mae Flowers, and Mrs. W. L. Russo, all of Wilmington; two sons, O. B. Flowers, Jr., of Wilmington, and Leroy Flowers, United States Navy; two sisters, Mrs. J. E. Hughes, of this city, and Mrs. S. A. Phillips, Washington, D. C.; three brothers, W. C.. F. D., and G. H. Grimstead, all of Wilming ton. MRS. W. P. COOK TABOR CITY, April 1.—Funeral services for Mrs. W. P. Cook, of the Aynor section of Horry coun ty, S. C., were held today at the Rehoboth Baptist church with the Rev. A. R. Soles, officiating. Burial was in the church ceme tery. Survivors are her husband, two daughters, Mrs. Gracie Brown and Mrs. Bertha Johnson of Ay nor; two sons, Samuel and Gab riel of Gallivants Ferry; Three sis ters, Mrs. C. Rackley, of Loris, Mrs. Lottie Murrow of Gallivants Ferry and Mrs. Henrietta Campbell of Mullins; two brothers, Lafayet te and Wiley Edwards of Aynor. MRS. LOUISE M. BOHAN Mrs. Louise M. Bohan died at 12:15 p. m. yesterday at the home of her sister, Mrs. E. A. Futrelle, of Piney Woods. Besides her sis ter, she is survived by her father, F. R. Graetz, of Wilmington. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday from the residence. Burial will be in the Zion Methodist church cemetery in Town Creek. The body will re main at the Yopp Funeral home until 5 p. m. Tuesday, when it will be taken to the residence. RALPH E. BELL Ralph E. Bell, 62, of Currie, died yesterday at 1 a. m. at James Walker Memorial hospital. He is survived by seven broth ers, Graham, of Greensboro, H. C., of Currie, R. Bell, Jr., of Bur gaw, and W. C., C. H., and L. M. Bell, all of Currie; and a sister, Mrs Henry Newkirk, of Willard. Funeral services will be held today at the home of W. C. Bell, of Currie. The Rev. P. L. Clark, pastor of the Presbyterian church in Currie will officiate. Active pallbearers will be the brothers. -V The literary work of the first Oliver Wendell Holmes was only, a hobby. His life work was that of medici) ' rEMPLE TO CLOSE PASSOVER RITES The concluding service of the Passover Festival will be conduct 'd in the Temple of Israel at 8 ?.m., Tuesday. Lt. Alex Zimmer, special service officer, will assist Rabbi Thurman in reading the ri tual. Pfc. Ernest Schoen, a for mer member of the Vienna State Opera and the San Francisco Opera will sing “The Lord Is My Shepherd” by Malotte. Major Richard R. Potter, Camp Davis base chaplain, will preach the sermon. Chaplain Potter is a veteran of 46 months in the Army chaplaincy, 31 months of which were spent overseas in the South and Southwest Pacific. He served at Guadalcanal, Fiji, Bougainville, and Dutch New Guinea. Chaplain Potter is a Presbyter ian minister, having attended Boys High school in Atlanta, Ga.; Pres byterianan College in Clinton, S.C., and Columbia Theological Semi nary in Decatur, Ga., where he gained his B. D. degree. While in the Pacific he promoted the building of five chapels, using bam boo, grass and other improvised material. A social hour, during which the Ladies of Concordia will serve as hostesses, will follow in the lounge immediately after the service. The public is cordially invited. -V City Briefs MINISTERS TO MEET The Wilmington Ministerial Association will hold its month ly meeting at 11 a. m. today at the YMCA, it was announc ed. BIBLE CLASS The weekly gathering of the McClure Fellowship Bible class will meet for supper at 6:"0 p. m. at the YMCA, it was announced. Dr. William Crow‘j will teach the Sunday school jesson for the follow ing Sunday. -V New York City’s first apartment house is still functioning at 141 East 18th street. r" Marines And Doughboys Invade Okinawa Island (Continued from Page One) the task of taking the 65-mile long island, defeating the enemy gar rison estimated at around 80,000, and administering the worst ter ritorial defeat of the war to Ja pan. Maj. Gen. Roy S. Geiger, com mander of the Third Amphibious Marine Corps, expressed amaze ment at the ease of the landings, said James Lindsley, Associated Press correspondent with the Leathernecks. Geiger, who directed Marines in the Bougainville and Peleliu inva sions, said the coral reefs made the movement of amphibious trac tors difficult but the vehicles scarcely drew an enemy shot. He had expected the invasion to be the toughest the Marines ever fac ed, he said. Nimitz said that more than 1, 400 ships under the overall com mand of Adm. R. A. Spruance, were involved in the operation, which had its preliminaries in the March 18-19 carrier plane attack uii Japanese warsiupo, uaoco airfields in Nippon’s inland sea. The U. S. forces then moved south westward into the Ryukyus for intensified bombardments which started March 23. While 1,500 naval planes ham mered the Ryukyus in the oper ation in which a British task force of battleships, cruisers and car riers participated, the Army’s 77th (Statue of Liberty) Infantry Divi sion invaded the Kerama group, west of the southern tip of Okina wa, on March 26. The 77th, under command oi Maj. Gen. Andrew Bruce, swept up the Keramas and put heavy artillery in place to support the Okinawa landing. Closest previous approach to the Japanese homeland was the Ma rines’ capture of Iwo Jima, in the Volcano Group 750 air miles soutt of Tokyo. Organized Japanese re sistance ended on Iwo March 17 after 26 days of bitter fighting. “As our sea and air blockad( cuts the enemy off from the work and as our bombing increases i* strength and proficiency, our fin al decisive victory is assured,” Nimitz said. Nearly . 1,000 Japanese planes were destroyed by Allied naval fliers in sweeps over the Ryukyus preliminary to the invasion. When the 77th Division ' landed on the Keramas only five enemy planes attempted to interfere with the op eration and four of them"\vere shot down. The bitterest fighting, equal to that on Iwo Jima, where the Jap anese fought to the last man, i5 expected on Ikinawa. Capture of Okinawa will be a major defeat for Nippon, and the enemy soldiers can have no other orders than to try to stop the Am ericans at all costs. “No one responsible for the de* fense of Japan could possibly over look the importance of Okinawa,” said an American staff officer. The total length of tne coastline in the Okinawa landing area is about eight miles, of which fiv>? and one half are useable. The ir regular landing shore runs south from Zampa Cape. Farther south is the city of Na 1.. _-1 +U „ Kn r bor. Naha has about 60,000 of -vki ijawa’s approximately 435,000 pop ulation. The degree of fanaticism in the opposition expected of the Japa nese was demonstrated in the 77th Division’s experience in the Ker amas, where nearly 200 Nipponese civilians, men, women and chil dren, were found in a ghastly sui cide pile. Grant McDonald, Associated Press correspondent with the 77th, said the American soldiers could hardly believe the bloody sight be fore them at the scene, frhere the Japanese civilians killed them selves in preference to capture by American “barbarians.” -V NO SALES AT THIS STORE One boxboard manufacturing company, to enable customers to visualize the qualities of the con tainers, stocks a complete grocery store, from which not an article is i sold. Glass cases hold fresh pas tries and confections, perishables ! fill the refrigerators, and the bins ■ I are loaded with fresh fruit. 300,000 JAPS COUNTED DEAD (Continued from Page One) velop Bacolod Friday that the hard-pressed Japanese had no time to set off prepared demoli tion explosions. It was evider,t that the Nipponese intended to devastate Bacolod as they did Manila and Cebu. The Yanks took -intact all of the bridges spanning two rivers. They raced through Bacolod north ward and mechanized units were hitting for the Talisay airfield A small Japanese group near the town of Murcia was being liquidated. The general also reported th-.t Yank fliers, blockading the China sea, sank 14 ships, including three destroyers. The airmen blasted the Philippine cities of Legaspi, Davao and Baguio and again hit Formosa. First Corps troops, driving into the Benguet moun tains toward Raguio, advanced three miles. In Luzon’s Zambales mountains the Yanks counted an additional 1,262 Japanese dead. This car. ried Japan’s Philippines fatalities to just above the 300,000 mark. -V If permitted to grow, corn suck ers add materially to the yield of grain and forage. HIKER DIDN1 — that’s why his “lame back” took so long to cure. Don't endure muscle aches, pains and strains. Apply a Johnson’s RED CROSS Plaster to chest or back light on the spot. This tried-and-true relief goes to work instantly. 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