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NAVY PLANES USE KERAMA ISLANDS GUAM, April 2—UP)—With sol biers and Marines well across cen. f,al Okinawa island after a “toe eaSy” landing on its westerr beaches, one of the principal pur poses of the invasion of this strong point 325 miles south of Japar j,as already been accomplished. Seaplanes based in the nearbj Rerama islands are beginning the sca-air blockade that Adm. Ches <c!- W. Nimitz predicted would be a major factor in assuring “final decisive vict'*-y.” The new Tenth army sent the 24th army corps and Marine Third amphibious corps onto Okinawa’s amazingly lightly defended beach es with their guns slung on their shoulders. By dusk they had seized i o of Okinawa’s five airfields. A half million civilians thus far b;,ve proved neither a burden nor a barrier—they apparently obeyed invasion leaflets scattered from planes which advised the populace tn evacuate. The few thus far encountered were unwilling to light and mostly unwilling to com. init suicide. jam** Strebig, Associated Press aviation editor aboard a seaplane lender in the Keramas, called the Y S. base in Japan’s former wat el-s the "largest and most daring floating seaplane base operation in history.” The first seaplane was pat into operation from the float ing base last Saturday. Kerama waters are excellently protected, with long runways and good anchorages available. Adm. Richard Kelley Turner fold Vern Haugland of the Asso ciated Press the invasion of the central Ryukyus will cut Japan's traffic to the south and for the first time shut off her surface traffic up the Yantze river of China. Fleet headquarters here have not reported any substantial ground rccictanrp. YANKS GET YEN NOTES FOR MONEY OKINAWA, Ay ukyu Islands, April 1.—(Delayed)— (JP> —Ameri can troops invading Okinawa car ried “made in America” yen notes fixed at ten cents to a yen. British participants in the opera lion. possibly thinking of invest ments. said they hoped to see the yen valued eventually at around 25 cents which is one cent under the pre-war price at which the Japa nese pegged it and several cents below the pre-war- open market price. Maj. Gen'. Fred C. Wallace. Mc Minnville. Tenn., supervising the fi nancial aspect of the invasion, ex plained the value was arbitrarily fixed for invasion purposes and was no attempt to set a precedent. He explained that American troops were given from $10 to $15 worth of American-printed yen to prevent any U. S. currency from falling into Japanese hands. Finance Officer Col. Hiram B. Turner, Aurora, Ind. (whose wife lives at Lexington. N. C.) will pay all troops on Okinawa henceforth in yen. -V HEARING POSTPONED WASHINGTON, April 2.#— (AP) — A hearing on the Plaquemine-Mor lun city route of the Louisiana Texas intracoastal waterway was postponed today on requests from Louisiana and Texas interests. Representative Morrison, (D-Ala) said local interests will request that the waterway channel be deep ened from nine to 12 feet at a hearing later in the year. -V NEW ROCKET GUN The British and Canadians on the western front are employing a new 32-barrel rocket gun. Each missile is comparable with a 100 pound shell, and the barrage laid down by a group of 12 of these multiple weapons is described as devastating. -V-i— In the steel industry, a “monkey boss'1 has charge of drawing off molten slag from the blast furnace vetting Up Nights MakesMauyFsolOld Do you suffer from Getting 'Up Nights. “Jfkache, Nervousness, Leg Pains, Dizzi Swollen Ankles. Rheumatic Fains, •MddeJ Weakness, Painful Passages, or feel ® a and run-down, due to non-organic and ^on-systemic Kidney and Bladder troubles? *o. nfre is good news: The very flrst doc# "•Cystex (a physician’s prescription) usu 2 y ^oes right to work helping the Kidneys v„,,n 0l‘t excess acids and wastes which may *v25oCaused your trouble. 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They show him as a man of grim purpose, determined, tight-lipped, pugnacious—personal qualities with which he seems to have imbued his slashing armored divisions in their great drives across Germany. Japs Admit Fateful Hour In Pacific War Is Near SAN FRANCISCO, April 2.—OP)— Japan today officially claimed Americans were meeting ‘furious” resistance on Okinawa while Tokyo radio warned the homefolk their fate-determining hour was near an*! that the government was taking over all hospitals and mobilizing doctors. The imperial communique, re corded with other broadcasts by the Federal Communications com mission. said the Okinawa garri son was engaged in “furious fight ing” with reinforced American troops. It claimed 41 ships of the Amer ican amphibious force had been sunk. Adm. Isamu Takeshita, president of 1he Japanese Retired Naval Of ficers’ club, was quoted by Tokyo radio as saying Okinawa Japa nese would inflict “irretrievable losses” cn the invaders. .‘‘The Americans are learning a great lesson now.” he declared. “They are beginning to realize that Japan cannot be defeated.” All American official annouce ments and correspondents' field dispatches said resistance * was light through Easter Sunday—the first day of the invasion. There was no mention of American losses. Tokyo iadio, ill warning that it would be a “matter of a short time before the rise or fall of our na tion will be decided,” said the Oki nawa invasion went “one step” be yond the aims of previous Amer can Pacific moves—‘‘Severance of connections between Japan and China.” “Thus,” the broadcast added, ‘this move bears a seriousness that has not been seen previously.” An unconfirmed Tokyo report said Americans Sunday night land ed on Kume island, 52 miles west of Okinawa. The broadcast reporting the gov ernment was taking over hospitals and clinics and preparing to mobi lize doctors and “other medical ex perl s” said the action was decided upon at a special meeting of Pre mier Kunniaki Koiso's cabinet;, A Domei news agency dispatch reported the death “in aption” of Vice Adn; Noritada Ishi and 13 rear admirals. This brought the total of announced deaths of Jap anese admirals to 108 since May, 1944. Tokyo radio announced that For mosans, granted representations in the Japanese diet in an imperial rescript issued the previous day by Emperor Hirohito, also would be given a voice in their >ome af fairs. They have been granted re presentation on the advisory coun cil to the Japanese governor gen eral of Formosa. j Air Force Pounds Nazi Escape Routes In Italy ROME, April 2.—{B—U. S. 12th Air Force medium bombers smash ed at main German escape routes from Northern Italy today as tacti ' cal planes hammered enemy com munications and installations in the Po Valley. Meanwhile, it was announced that Allied warships have been raking Nazi positions along the French-Italian frontier, including the harbor of San Remo. The German High Command communique said fighting had broken out on the “forgotten front-’ in the French-Italian border reg ion, and acknowledged Allied seiz ure of “a small foothold on Petit (little) St. Bernard, a 7,064-foot mountain 15 miles south of the Swiss border. A French communique had an nounced Saturday that troops oh this front had stormed and cap tured a German strongpoint on the southern, slopes of Mount Valazzan near the St. Parnard. Pass. Forces commanded by Brig. Gen. Ralph C. Tobin along this front have been fighting a holding action in the mountains for months. An offen sive drive in this sector would threaten the rear of German forces holding the Po Valley in Italy. Reports of renewed activity in the area were viewed as signifi cant in the light of the naval ac tion off the French-Italian coast. The U. S. destroyer Laub w'as identified as among the ships in action. The lull in the ground fighting continued across the Italian front except in the British Eighth Army sector, where the Germans at tacked two British gositions along the Senio river. The attack was 1 repulsed. In a mission in close support of the Eighth Army forces, Spitfires and Kittyhaw’ks bombed enemy helcf houses north of the Valli di Comacchio lagoon. American Mitchell bombers ranged orth Italy and Austria, at tacking Nazi escape lines. Thunderbolts destroyed a num ber of enemy-occupied buildings and started fires in four methane plants in northern Italy. All Reich Farmers Urged To Raise Food For Selves PARIS, April —UP)—Germany is threatened with famine, Allied Supreme Headquarters declared tonight in a broadcast urging all farmers in western Germany to remain on their farms at all costs in order to prevent a cataetrophe. General Eisenhower ordered the instructions broadcast, warning the Germans that if they disobey ed there is “nothing either you or the Allies can do that will pre vent a catastrophe in Germany this y.ear.’* « **•# “Do everything in your power whatever the difficulties to con tinue the necessary farm work,’’ the warning said. “Use to the full the evacuees from the danger: areas. They need your help and you need theirs. “Refuse at all costs to leave your farm work for service in the Volks sturm. If you have been conscript ed already, escape at once and re turn to work on the land. “Resist, if necessary by force, attempts by the party to remove stocks from the district where you live. Resist, if necessary by force, the slaughter of cattle, pigs, poul try. Preserve your livestock in tact. “Remember, for years Germany has relied on plundering food from occupied territories. This year Ger many must depend on her own ood resources.” Writer Defends View On West’s Security Against German Might NEW YORK, April 2—UP)—Wal ter Lippmann, columnist, in a replj to criticism by Pravda of his re cent book, “U. S. War Aims,” in sists the Western powers have a: much right as Soviet Russia tc organize security against Germany Lippmann telegraphed a state ment sevA'al days ago to Moscow answering an article by A. Gyor giev published Marph 16 in Prav da, the Communist party news paper. So far as was known here today, Pravda has not yet publish ed the reply. Gyorgiev had declared that Lipp mann advocated an Atlantic com munity of powers separate from the Russian sphere, and thus es poused “the old plan of Versailles, Locarno and Munich,” reviving the idea of a “cordon sanitaire.' Lippmann's reply said he had el ways regarded “the conception o: a cordon sanitaire as criminal fol ly,” and that “in my recent bool which M. Gyorgiev has so griev ously misunderstood, I have in sisted that not the cordon sanitaire but collaboration with the Sovie Union is the key to American se curity, to the pacification of Eu rope and of Asia, and to worlc peace.” Lippmann continued, “I hav( assumed that strategical security is“ the objective of the Soviet Un ion when it insists that in the bor derland between the Sovi * Unior and Germany, all states should align themselves diplomaticallj and militarily with the Soviets foi a common strategical defense against the revival of German mili tary power. “Yet when I say that the states west of Germany must also aligi themselves diplomatically and: militarily for the common strate gical defense against a revival of German power, M. Gyorgiev com plains that I want a cordon sani taire against the Soviet Union. Why, I should like to know, is it right to organize the security of eastern Europe against Germany and wrong to organize the security of western Europe against Ger many? “Why should he impute to me a sinister purpose which I do not impute to him? “Surely it is as necessary for the Western powers to organize the security of the western theater of German aggression as it is for the Soviets to organize the securi ty of the eastern theater. And surely the binding together of these two security systems is as necessary to the preservation of peace as it has been indispensable 1 to winning the war. “M. Gyorgiev ignored the plain facts of history and geography ; when he talks as if I personally had invented the community of nations on the two sides of the Atlantic ocean. The Atlantic Com munity is a fact, not a theory: the two wars of he Twentieth Cen ury have demonstrated beyond the possibility of doubt that France and Great Britain, Canada and the United States, belong to the same strategical system, and that when any one of them is vitally attacked, all are bound to be engaged. We have fought these two wars under a single and unified, command be cause the military geography of the basin of the Atlantic ocean • is such that military isolationism is an irrantional and an impossible conception.” Lippman said the Pravda article also mistakenly declared that he wished to “exclude Germany from the Soviet orbit and to include Ger many in the Atlantic Community. “What I have actually said is that in dealing with Germany the paramount consideration is to pre vent Germany from dividing the Allies, from playing the Western powers off against the Soviet Un ion, from seizing the balance ol power between them, and by this means recovering her military position.” Lippmann declared that “the sus picions which M. Gyorgiev has raised, and which I have now ans wered, must be removed if, as 1 hope and confidently believe, there is to be a growing collaboration between the U. S. S. R. and the U. S. A. Only by the continual ex change of views can we dissolve the suspicions and misunderstand ings which are the result of geo graphic distance, our separate his torical experience, the difficulty o: language, and our differing ideolo gies. We have to overcome the con sequences of the schism whict reaches far back of our times, ir fact to the division of the ancienl world, more than a thousand years ago, into the Western and Eastern Empire. We shall not succeed easi ly or quickly. Ye we shall sue ceed. For we in our time have the opportunity and the historic mis sion of reuniting the two main parts of our common civilization, and the consciousness of this mis sion will enable us to overcome all misunderstanding.” liUMBAKlUN OAKS WEEK SUPPORTED NEW YORK, April 2.—W)—Presi dent Roosevelt has expressed the hope that Dumbarton Oaks Week, April 16-22, will be observed by the entire country "joining in prayers for the success of the Unit ed Nations Conference and for the firm establishment of a world organization for permanent peace.” Clark M. Eichelberger, execu tive director of the American As sociation for the United Nation, made public a letter from the President today which read: "I was happy to learn that the American Association for the United Nations and 50 other co operative organizations are urging that the week of April 18 to 22 be observed as Dumbarton Oaks Week. "I understand that a number of governors have already respond ed to your appeal by issuing proclamations urging their peo ple to observe Dumbarton Oaks Week. "I hope that the whole country will observe this week by studying the Dumbarton Oaks proposals and by joining in prayers for the success of the United Nations Con ference and for the firm estab lishment of a world organization for permanent peace.” Eichelberger said proclamations calling for observations of the week were issued by Governors Frank J. Lausche, Ohio; Maurice J. Tobin, Massachusetts; Lester Hunt, Wyoming; Mon. C. Wallgren, Washington, and Simeon Willis, Kentucky. IThe Jewel Box GIFT SHOP Wilmington's Only Downstairs Store Headquarters For FINE GIFTS ' Come In and Make Tour Selections! Located Downstairs THE JEWEL BOX 109 North Front St. GETTING I CONSTIPATED because your diet lacks bulk? If your daily mfcals lack bulky fX : foods ... and you’re getting constipated as a result...try Nabisco 100% Bran at once! It’s so pleasant to take... so ! mild in action. • .: Eat it as a breakfast cereal | ...when diet-bulk is needed. Remember, too, it contains all ;0>> d the nutritive values of who.a f 4 bran... important Vitamin Bt • j ...needed iron and phosphorus. V ^ Finer-milled by special pro- v ■ cess... Nabisco 100% Bran i > particles are smaller... less I likely to irritate! You’ll be sur prised . . .and pleased! If your cotisti■ Patton does not respond consult your physician. BAKED BY NABISCO NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY Plans Are Advanced For Sale Of Local Transit Facilities Sale of the bus transportation franchise of the Tide Water Power company to North Caro lina interests was reported near ing consumation yesterday but officials of the utility company were not immediately available for comment. t has been known for some time that Tide Water was inter ested in selling the franchise and all transportation facilities. The proposed new owners, it is understood, have been in the transportation field for some time and are in a position to develop the system consider ably. LAUDS WORKERS §•:* '': .<v-—^ — • ••••'. Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr., is shown as he addressed em ployes and military personnel at the Naval Aviation Supply De pot in Philadelphia, Pa. He said, that there was no reason w’.y we couldn’t invade the Jap home land. LIBRARY LISTS 105 NEW BOOKS The Wilmington plblic library has received 105 new books, it was announced, 55 books of fiction, 36 works of non-fiction and 14 chil dren's books, six fiction and eight r.on-fiction. Fiction: Arno, The Bedside Tales; Arnold, Tomorrow Will Shig; Bailey, Red Fruit; Baume. Yankee Woman; Blizard, Obey Thy Heart; Brink, Buffalo Coat; Bums, Jenny W.R.E.N.; Case, Written In Sand. *Crabb, Breakfast at The Her mitage; Craig, Flight Nurse; Crane, The Indigo Necklace; Cris pin, Obsequies at Oxford; Cuthrell, Arizona Star; Field, Road to Lar amie; Fox, Thomson of Thunder Gulch; Gaddis, Cadet Nurse; God den, Take Three Tenses. Goris, Strangers Should Not Whisper; Govan, J e n n i f e'r’s House; Gregory, Hermit of Thun der King; Gunther, Troubled Mid night; Harris, Navy Blue Lady. Haycox, Canyon Passage; Hoff, The Silver Answer; Irwin, Young Bess; Karis, Lower Than Angels; Kelsey, Fear Came First; Ken drick, Death Knell. Kielland, Shape of Danger; Kirkbride, Winds, Blow Gently; Knight, Stream Sinister; KrolL Fury in The Earth; Lawrence, Time to Die; Loos, Return to The Vineyard; .Lutz, All Through the Night; MacDonald, Cartridge Car nival; Mace, Blodes Don't Cry; MacLannan, Two Solitudes. Maltz, The Cross and the Ar row; Manning. Trigger Trail; Mar quilies, The Flags Were Three; Mydans, Open City; Oellrichs, And Die She Did; Olsen, Cats Don't Smile; Randall, Rogers Sud den; Rider, Death Stalks the Range; Robey, The Innovator; Scott, Ranger Rider; Seifert, Doc tor Woodward's Ambition; Sher binin. By Bread Alone. Shriber, Pattern For Murder; Slaughter, Touch of Glory; Stan ley, Iron Cayse; Tarkington, Im age of Josephine; Willoughby, Gilden Totem. Non-fiction: Gross an, Do You Know Your Daughter; Lloyd Jones, Coming of Age; Parker, For Mothers and Daughters; Em rich, Earth Might be Fair; Ruml, Tomorrow's Business; Miller, Sit uation Normal; Lounsberry, South ern Wild Flowers and Trees; Bred er, Field Book of Marine Fishes of the Atlantic Coast; Talbot, What Ship Is That?; Good Housekeep ing Cook Book; Garnell, It’s Fun to Make a Hat; Davis. Georgetown Houses of the Federal Period; Germaine, Handbook of Drapery Patterns; Lee, Antique Fakes and Reprodlctions. Bozyan, The Yale Carol Book; Mason, The Adult Approach to the Piano; Adams, The Shape of Books to Come; Yordnn, Anna Lu casta; The Thurber Carnival; Welles, An Intelligent American * Gude to Peace; Marlowe, Coach ing Roads of Old New England; Beston, Outermost House: Burt, Philadelphis; Stevens, Shenandoah and its Byways; Footner, Rivers of the Eastern Shore; DeWeerd, Great Soldiers of World War II; Harriman. Take Them Up Tender ly; Stein, Wars I Have Seen; Dris coll, Pacific Victory, 1945; St. John, Leyte Calling. Perry, Where Away: Cunba, Re bellion In The Backlands; Eur chett, Pacific Treasure Island; Lennon, Victoria Through The Looking Glass; Thane, Tudor Wench; Stone, Rolling Stone; Wechsberg, Looking For A Blue Bird. Children’s Books: D’Aulaire, Wings for Per; Garrard, Running With Nebby; Roberts, Mystery Schooner; Stuart, Piang; Tunis, Yea! Wildcats: Ware, Crazy Dog. Loveland, The Illustrated Bible Story Book; Loveland, The Illus trated Edble Story Book. New Tes tament; Olcott, Book of The Stars For Yo.'ng People: Atkinson, How to Raise Your Puppy; Parker, What And What-Not; Sung Under The Silver Umbrella; Busoni, Stanley's Africa: Seeming, Brave Ships of World War II. NET EARNINGS NEW YORK, April 2—<JP>—Soc ony-Vacuum Oil Co. today report ed 1944 net earnings of $62,300,000, bqual to $2 a share, compared with $35,900,000, or $1.15 a share, for the preceding yeaf, -V Women smoked one-tenth of the 45,000,000.000 cigarets used in England in one year. MacMILLAN & CAMERON Webster says -.—“Alarm—A call to arms for defense A Bell that rings for Liberty... Every Morning Millions of alarms have rung since our people were forced by war to clench their friendly hands into hard-hitting fists. Some of the hands were dainty and beautifully manicured... some were wrinkled and tired ... but, all proved equal to the biggest job that ever faced this or any other land. Our nation has shown that it can produce the sinews of war on a scale never believed possible be fore. New found energy, ingenuity and skills have given our people self-reliance. They are determined to apply themselves to the task ahead until final victory is won. Surely, the seasoned veteran and self-disciplined civilian, work ing together, will master whatever problems peacetime may present. The future for America and for all of us can be as bright as we wish to make it. Budweiser VftAOC MARK «K0- U * PAT. OFF. People who get results agret , that there is no substitute for hard work and also that recre ation and relaxation are essen•' tial to accomplishment. In your well-earned leisure, select a beverage of moderation. A tall, stately glass of Budweiser is a standing invitation to make your moments of relax ation complete. A1-56T © 1943 ANHEUSER-BUSCH •• • SAINT LOUIS * r " .
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