TAGE TWO
THE DAILY ADVANCE, ELIZABETH CITY. N.C. 1 FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 13, 1945.
When Elizabeth City Welcomed Roosevelt
Pasquotank's Quota
In 7thLoan$1,318,000
For the Seventh War Loan Pas
quotank County will be asked to
invest $1,318,000 for its quota, ac
cording to figures given out by
Holland Webster, chairman of the
campaign, Thursday morning, and
this time banks and corporations
will be allowed to buy only about
half the issue. The rest of it, to
taling $621,000, will be in E bonds,
available only to individuals. •
“This time they are not selling
bonds to the banks but to me and
you and every other man and wo
man and boy and girl in the coun
ty—and here we have the biggest
challenge that this war has put up
to us,” Mr. Webster said, and he
was a little grim about it when
he added "But we’ll do it—like
every other time the county has
been asked to lend a hand to this
War Prisoners Save
Uncle Sam Money
On Work in State
Raleigh, Apr. 12-(^-German
war prisoners worked 725,601 man
days in North Carolina, principal
ly in agriculture, during the last
six months, the Fourth Service
Command announced at its Atlan
ta, Ga., headquarters.
The Army report showed that
war prisoners were assigned to
private contract work for gather
ing crops, doing general farm
work, cutting pulpwood and saw
ing timber; on public contracts by
working for the State, municipal
for other governmental agencies;
and at Army installations by
-Large crowds line Elizabeth City’s streets in both residential and business
districts on August 18, 1937, as shown above, when President Franklin I).
Roesevelt rode in an open car from th e Norfolk Southern passenger station,
where he had been brought by special I rain, to the Main street dock of the Pas-
|r^',.-b Ki ver where he boarded a Coast Guard cutter lor Keanoke Island
where he spoke that afternoon at Fort Kalcigh and where in the -evening he
iEr f rtc.i the Virginia Dare Day presentation of the Lost Colony. In the lop
^pi.-- ■.■.-;-h To may be seen riding with .th President Mayor Jerome B. flora,
Sr-p-Mm- Robert Rice Reynolds and then Congressman I iudsay C. Warren.
Hell on Wheels Unit
Beasts Across Plains
Leading to Berlin
Perquimans Tops
Easter Seal Goal
Hertford, April 12 Mrs. J.
P.
By ROBERT FINSON
ear Magdeburg, Germany, April 12 — (AP) — Ninth
Aumy tanks crossed the Elbe
' stream before Berlin for the
it more.than a century ago.
The Hell of Wheels (2nd)
River today, forcing that last
first time since Napoleon did
Armored Division was a bare
57. ni.iles from Greater Berlin—the closest reported unit on
the western front. -
A bridgehead was established at an undisclosed point and
tanks  cessed the 450-foot river by means which censorship
would not permit to be divulged.
Perry Jr., Superintendent of Pub
lic Welfare, announced today that
Faster Seal sales in Perquimans
during the recent campaign which
ended Easter Monday netted
5235.30. One half of this sum will
>c retained in this county for lo
cal chapter work.
The campaign is conducted each
year during the Easter season
throughout the nation, in order to
raise funds to finance the program
.of tlie National Society, for Crip
pled Children, which includes sup
port of ail public and private ac
tivities designed to bring about
. Maj. Gen. Isaac D. White
of Peterborough,. N. II., and
Des Moines ordered his Sher-
tern has not been of too much
help to the fast going Americans
man
tanks across onto the
plains leading to Ber-
up to
now, because of
blown
At
■ Ainu
the crossing, the Ninth
was within 115 miles
bridges and other damage.
Advance columns went
boldly without waiting for
ahead
flank-
discovery ■ of crippled children,
physical correction, education, re
creational opportunity, job train
ing and final employment.
The usual goal for the county
(is $200. Thus the county went ov-
' er the top by a margin of $35,30.
' Mrs. Perry headed the campaign
and was assisted by the school
children of the county who made
of Russian lines, projected
ing columns to catch up, and with
scarcely a breather.
The Fifth Armored Division is
personal canvassing in
their
within 32 mil's east of the'plunging ahead to bring up the
capital, the city of 4.332,242
. sprawling over some 25 miles
from east to west.
The tank veterans of cam
paigns in Africa, -Sicily, Nor-
• mandy and the Ardennes Forest
reached the Elbe after dark last
niji’i and were bivouacked on the
cast, bank at dawn.
Other Ninth Army units were
approaching the river along flanks
of the Ninth Army wedge, es-
L’aMNTicd in a dash of more than
50 miles in a dozen hours. The
Ninth Army undoubtedly will be
tilling au types of bridges across
northerly tip of Lt. Gen. William
H. Simpson's salient, and has
reached Githorn 50 miles north of
Magdeburg.
Truck riding infantrymen of
the 83rd Division on the southern
flank were 25 miles southwest of
the Second Armored Division’s
post on the river near Magde
burg.
Mopping Up Brunswick
Ninth Army troops were mop
ping up Brunswick, advancing
street by street and hunting out
—a n d convincing handfuls of
I German soldiers who refused to
I believe that for them the war is
over. It is a job these veterans
neighborhoods of the seals.
The school selling the largest
amount of the Easter seals was
the. Hertford Grammar School,
which sold the grand total of $52.-
02. The grade selling the largest
amount of the seals in the
was Miss Ruth Elliott’s
grade class.
Mrs. Perry expressed her
school
second
appre-
ciation to the people of the coun
ty in the way they responded to
the seal sale. Without such res
ponse the association would be
unable to function and many per
sons would necessarily go without
needed care and treatment.
of Maj.
Leland S. Hobbs
I have done many times before.
Yugoslavia Signs
Pact With Soviet
.ReGstance in front of the
Second Armored Division
..■-.: completely yesterday
^••er a sharp tight in Hie
Hermann Goering Iron Works
at Walfenbuttei, south of
Erwns" i-’k. After the great
.steel plants were mopped up,
the CH Hell on Wheels tanks
’■ ''^d unopposed to the
Filho.
If the order comes to “at-
C-vW.aml occupy Berlin,” Gen.
White’s dusty tank crews can
be at the Brandenburg gate/
in Beilin by tomorrow night'
or Saturday morning, unless
the Fermans shift some of
The finish of their job will put
out of business several
training schools for
of Hitler’s
SS (Elite
Moscow, Apr. 12—(.1’1 The
So-i
their guns and armor
the Russian front.
from
There
indications
dayr: ago that the Sixth
Division had been pulled
a few
Panzer
out of
the Imp. on the Russian front and
headed west
Ahead lies a broad superhigh
way, with Berlin at the end. But
the German military highway sys-
Guard) troops and a school
Hitler youth leaders.
Hubbard Kites Held
Funeral services for Mrs.
for
Mary
Duncan Hubbard, who died at her
home at Old Trap Sunday morn
ing, were conducted Tuesday af
ternoon at .2 o’clock at Poplar
Branch Baptist Church by Dr. R.
E. Wall, pastor of Blackwell
morial Baptist Chuhch.
The church choir sang The
Rugged Cross and Beautiful
of Somewhere.
Me-
Old
Isle
The casket pall was Easter
lilies, red roses and white carna
tions.
Pallbearers were Will Grandy,
R. P. Outlaw, Winton Outlaw,
Garnet Gregory, Will Corbell and
B. U. Evans.
Burial was in the church ceme
tery.
viet Union and Yugoslavia con
cluded a 20-year friendship and
mutual assistance agreement to-
I day and early ratification was ex-
I pected at formal ceremonies in
I Belgrade.
The signers were Premier Mar
shall Tito for Yugoslavia and For
eign Commissar Vyacheslav Mol
otov for Russia.
The treaty contains a one-year
cancallation clause whereby eith-
. er party may renounce it one year
before the 20-year period expires.
Otherwise it is automatically val
id for successive five-year per
iods until one party _ cancels it a
year before expiration of any five-
year period.
“The Soviet people will receive
this treaty with feelings of satis
faction,” said an editorial in the
government newspaper Izvestia.
.“It has two main aims—to con
tinue the fight .and to continue
friendship with the Soviet Union
after the war.”
war.”
This time the overall quota is
only $128,000 above the overall
quota of the Sixth War Loan,
which was over subscribed, but the
individual purchaser this time will
buy twice as many bonds as have
been bought in the county in one
drive before. It is a tremendous
undertaking, Mr. Webster points
out—but Pasquotank County is
accustomed to doing tremendous
things.
It will take organization and
work, and the ground work for
the campaign will be laid at a
meeting of key leaders, probably
Saturday afternoon, Mr. Webster
said. Information of the quota was
received late Thursday morning,
and the campaign director went
immediately to work on the pre
liminaries of organization. Defin
ite announcement of the time and
place of the meetig will probably
be ready Friday.
Tentative plans are already in
the making, and have been for
some weeks, for what will develop
into the most stupendous camp
aign-opener ever staged in the Al
bemarle, so big that it will invoke
a half dozen surrounding counties.
These plans will be discussed in
more detail at the organization
meeting, but if they materialize,
they will outdo by long odds the
immensely successful Coast Guard
Dog Show that opened the Sixth
War Loan last fall with a “gate”
of about $150,000. This one that
is being planned should net a half-
million, Mr. Webster says.
Casualties Near
Mark Of A Million 1
Washington, April 12—i/Pil-
American combat casualties since
Pearl Harbor have now reached
899,390. .. „
Secretary of War Stimson p
day reported Army casualties
802,685 while the Navy set
losses at 96,705. 1
The increase over last weeBs
figure, 6,481, was one of Me
smallest weekly rises in month®
Stimson said the Army figures
reflected casualties reported
through March 31 and covered op
erations on the war fronts through
the middle of March.
A break down on Army casual
ties and similar figures for the
preceding week:
Killed 159.297 and 156,471;
wounded 489,256 and 486,929;
missing 86.648 and 88.755; priso
ners 67,514 and 66,228. Of the
wounded 250,192 have returned
to duty.
Similar figures for the Navy:
Killed ,37,402 and 36,649; wound
ed 44,444 and 42.988; missing 10.-
605 and 10,623; prisoners 4,254
and 4,266.
Pill Jurors Drawn
For 211(1 Meadows Trial
Greenville, Apr. 12 GP) Thc
Pitt County Board of Commission
ers, in special session, drew a reg
ular venire of jurors to be us
ed at the second trial of Dr.
Leon R. Meadows, former head of
East Carolina Teachers College,
which begins tentatively on April
30.
Governor Cherry has set the
last clay in April as the beginning
of a three weeks special term of
Superior Court for trial of the
case, and has delegated Judge J.
Paul Frizzelle of Snow Hill to
preside. The case may be postpon
ed only at the order of Judge
Frizzelle.
Sixty jurors were named to re
port for the session compared with
a list of 200 called for the first
trial early this year which lasted
eight weeks.
Snow to Address
Ed Bond Post
Edenton, April 12 Commander
J. L. Chestnutt, of the Ed Bond
Post of the American Legion, has
announced that George K. Snow,
department commander of the Le
gion will be guest sneaker at a
meeting on Tuesday night, in the
court house at 8 o'clock.
Commander Snow will be intro
duced by Judge R. D. Dixon.
All members are being urged by
Commander Chestnutt. to be on
hand for Tuesday night’s meeting,
which will be an outstanding one.
A special invitation is being ex
tended to the public in general to
come out and hear Commander
Snow.
Veterans Committee
To Hear Caveness
Lt. Col. H. L. Caveness, of the
State Selective Service of Raleigh,
will meet with the Pasquotank
Advisory Committee on Return
ing Veterans at five o’clock Fri
day afternoon in the courthouse
annex,
working in shops, laundries and to
other tasks by which soldiers could
be relieved.
The working prisoners receive
80 cents a day in canteen coupons.
Private contractors, such as farm
ers, pay the United States Treas
ury the amount they would have
paid civilian labor for the tasks
done by the prisoners of war.
During the last six months, the
Army’s report showed, prisoners
worked 492,198 man days on Ar
my installations, saving the gov
ernment $1,367,020.01 in wages;
they worked 228,988 days on pri
vate contracts, showing a profit to
the government of $44,129.43, or
the difference between 80 cents
a day and the regular wage scale;
and 4,465 man days on public C
contracts, showing a labor profit
of $13,932.95.
Meanwhile, 750 prisoners of war
have been assigned the State this
fall for harvesting beans . and
peaches. The number will drop to
250 in August, but will jump to
1,900 in September when peanuts
will be added to harvesting duties.
The last month of the harvest sea
son, October, will find 1,650 pris
oners assigned to harvest duties.
Vienna Favored
As Place to Hold
Peace League Meet
Washington, April 12 -(/P>—The
world peace-keeping organization
to be blueprinted at San Francis
co may conduct its first deliber
ations in the United States.
Diplomats speculated on this
possibility today as they awaited
word on the extent of destruction
in Vienna to determine whether
that old world capital now al-
m-ost entirely in Russian hands
remains a likely choice as a per
manent meeting site.
Officials say the league itself
—assuming that everything goes
at top speed could be set up by
late summer or early fall.
Then, as soon as it is ratified
by enough countries, the first as
sembly meeting of all member na
tions probably will be called. This
session, would elect non-permanent
members of the security council
and get the organization going.
The United Nations will have to
decide at San Francisco how many
ratifications will be necessary to
establish the peace organization.
Probably, a majority of two-thirds
of those attending the April 25
meeting will be required—specifi
cally including Britain, Russia, the
United States, China and France,
as permanent members of the
council.
Because of the necessity for
Senate debate and ratification, it
is generally felt this country will
be the time-clock and that when
America, is definitely in, the agen
cy will begin to function.
Possibility of the first meeting
in this country is strengthened
by the devastation in Europe
where the coming winter undoubt
edly will be cold and hungry. Phil
adelphia, San Francisco and De
troit already have put in bids to
be host to the meeting.
However, Vienna at this point
seems to head the speculative list.
The Russians appear to favor the
Austrian capital, which long has
been the cross-roads of eastern
and western Europe.
In addition, Russia along with
Britain and the United States
promised at Moscow in 1943 to re
constitute an independent Austria.
In line with this pledge some dip
lomats believe that establishment
of the peace organization in Vi
enna would go a long way toward
helping that impoverished nation
back on its economic feet.
Eighth Army
Overcomes
Second Barrier
Rome, April 12—GP)—Eighth
Army troops battling heavy op
position have pushed across a sec
ond barrier thrown up by the Ger
mans at the Santerno River, while
on the opposite end of the front
American troops, assisted by Ital
ian partisans, have captured Car
rara, Allied headquarters announc
ed today.
The Santerno River runs paral
lel to and about five miles west
of the Senio. River line from which
the Eighth launched its new of
fensive four days ago.
Carrara is four miles north of
Massa, west coast hub whose cap
ture by the Fifth Army was an
nounced yesterday.
(Meanwhile, in a message to
Italian patriots behind German
lines in northern Italy, Gen. Mark
W. Clark said the “final battles
for the liberation of Italy have
begun,”
ROOSEVELT
(Continued from page 1)
siderable comment among White
House correspondents.
Mr. Roosevelt’s voice also had
become weak in recent months.
And he frequently asked reporters
to repeat their questions.
This was attributable, according
to those close to him, to a sinus
leakage into the throat which
caused slight constrictions-.
TRUMAN
(Continued from page 1)
enjoyed by a congressional com
mittee.
4. Whose friendliness and mod
esty is the same as it was when
he entered the vice presidency
and as it probably was when he
was a farmboy down in Missouri.
During the campaign, Truman
called repeatedly for the defeat
of eight Republican candidates for
Senator whom he termed “isola
tionists”
When his campaign moved into
Massachusetts, he was asked at a
z press conference in Boston wheth
er he felt the same way about
Senator Walsh (D-Mass), an op
ponent of administration foreign
policy prior to Pearl Harbor.
Quick as a flash, Truman came
back with the statement that he
saw no difference in the voting
records of Walsh and the others,
but that Walsh was not up for re-
election and there was still time
to convert him.
Once, on the West Coast, a re
porter asked Truman whether, in
the tragic event of Mr. Roosevelt’s
death, the 60-year-old Missourian
thought himself capable of step
ping into his shoes.
Never a question dodger, Tru
man promptly came back with the
assertion that many newspapers
had said he had a knowledge of
the war program second only to
that of Mr. Roosevelt himself.
Truman recently told an aud
ience in his home state that Miss
ouri is, both georgraphically, and
politically, a little to the left of
center.
That describes his own political
philosophy. He has said that the
nation can provide all the post
war jobs necessary—60,000,000 if
that is the required figure—if
men to the left and to the right,
will bet together.
Japs Losing 11
Men to One Yank
In Okinawa Fight
By LEIF ERICKSON
Guam, April 12—(/Pl—Southern
Okinawa’s grim, no-quarter artil
lery battle went into its eighth
day today as the navy announced
American casualties of 2,695 for
the first nine days of the cam
paign. The Yanks were killing 11
Japanese for every American.
Japanese in the bitterly-contes
ted southern sector hurled four
determined and well-prepared
counterattacks against Maj. Gen.
John R. Hodge’s 24th Corps
Doughboys yesterday after firing
4,000 rounds of mortar and artil
lery fire.
The Japanese were calling foi-
supporting mortar fire even
though some of it was falling in
to their own lines. Artillery shells
and small arms fire poured into
the American positions in increas
ing amounts along the “little Sieg
fried Line” about four miles
north of Naha, the capital.
Nd Substantial Changes
Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
again reported “no substantial
changes in the lines in the sou
thern sector.”
Maj. Gen. Roy S. Geiger’s Mar
ines in- the north ran into organ
ized resistance for the first time
as they passed toward the end of
the top of the Motobu peninsula.
Other Marines advanced into the
I mainland of northern-Okinawa
I against only slight opposition.
| Carrier and land-based planes as
| well as naval guns gave close sup
port to the ground operations.
Fighters wrecked 14 Japanese am
phibious tanks and 15 camouflag
ed boats along the southern shore.
A shore battery was silenced.
Associated Press Correspondent
Vern Haugland reported that the
Japanese were suspected of using
a small observation plane with U.
S. markings. The tiny craft was
believed observing American posi
tions and directing Japanese mor
tar fire.
432 Dead
Admiral Nimitz announced the
2.695 American casualties includ
ed 432 dead, 2,103 wounded and
160 missing. This count was up to
midnight on Monday.
The last report of Japanese
dead showed 5,009 by midnight
Sunday, but much heavy fighting
has been under way since then.
The ratio of better than 11 to 1
still is considerably under that of
Iwo Jima and Saipan. The ratio
at Iwo Jima was around 20 to 1.
Further details were disclosed
of an attempted suicide boat at
tack on American shipping off
Naha last Monday by a dozen
enemy craft. Five were destroyed
and one damaged. At least 15
swimmers, some of them carry
ing hand grenades, were killed.
Some took their own lives when
threatened with capture.
Announcements
I WISH to announce to my num
erous customers, friends and for
mer employees that I now op
erate The Brooklyn Cafe, 723 N.
Fourth St., and The Star Cafe,
420 N. Front Street, both locat
ed in Wilmington, N. C. Any for
mer employe and others wishing
employment communicate with
me at either of the above men
tioned addresses. Free transport
ation, housing accommodations
and free meals, plus Humane
Treatment. Milton Christopher.
Formerly of the Busy Bee Cafe
and The Puritan Cafe. ll-13n
Massive Navy Crane Saves
Precious Cargo of Gasoline
When Gas Trailer Turns Turtle
By grace of the Naval Auxiliary
Air Station’s intervention with a
massive mobile crane, a heavy
gasoline truck owned by Sheriff
J. E. Winslow of Perquimans
County, which had turned turtle
at the county line bridge just west
of South Mills, was lifted back to
the highway and hauled away al
most without losing a drop of its
precious cargo.
“Of course they lost more than
ia drop,” reports Highway Patrol
man L. B. Lane, “but they didn't
lose very much, not more than five
per cent or so, and without the
Navy’s coming well, it was a
menace to traffic and it would
just have broken some A-card
man’s heart to see any of it w,ast-
ed.”
It was one of those freak accid
ents that leave people wondering
how anybody escaped alive and
how anything was salvaged. The
heavy gas truck, driven by Ellis
Weaver was coming from Norfolk
and a Kraft Cheese truck driven
by Ernest C. Byrd, Negro, was pro
ceeding toward Norfolk. Weaver
was on the bridge and Byrd appli
ed brakes to slow up to give Weav
er time to clear it.
Then things happened. Byrd's
left front brake grabbed and pitch
ed his truck to the left past the
center line of the road. Weaver
swung off the load to avoid collis
ion and then the heavy trailer part
of the truck, loaded with 3,200
gallons of gasoline, broke its
coupling and rolled over with its
wheels in the air. Its intake vents
were buried in mud and no leak
age was taking place.
Hastily summoned to the scene
Patrolman Lane saw that no or
dinary devices would do. He then
called Chief Boatswain's Mate
Anderson at the Naval Air Sta
tion here and put the matter up
to him. Anderson got permission
from his commanding officer and
with a crew set out for the scene,
arriving in half an hour. Fifteen
minutes later the truck and trailer
were right side up-and scarcely
any gasoline , missing. Nobody was
hurt and nobody was arrested. It
was just one of those wrecks.
Lane, long acquainted with And-
eson, moved him up several more
notches in esteem.
Aircraft Plants
Near Tokyo Hit
Again hy B20s
Guam, April 12—Tokyo and in
dustrial Koriyama on Honshu Is
land were plastered with bombs by
American Superfortresses today
roaring out on a 3(800 mile round-
trip mission from the Marianas.
The Nakajima Musashino air
craft engine plant was a Tokyo
target. .
Returning pilots who made the
3,800 mile round trip flight, the
longest central Pacific bombing
mission to date, termed their at
tack “very successful.” The B-29s
were escorted by Iwo Jima based
fighterplanes.
Koriyama targets were not
identified except, as “industrial’' in
the city situated 110 miles north
of Tokyo.
. Part of the Superforts hit a
second industrial target at Kori
yama in the first raid on that
city.
Bombing was done visually; from
8,000 feet with the ,aid of unusual
ly good weather, and while Japa
nese fighters were encountered,
11-2(1 crewmen said they were “on
the timid side.” 'Phere was no re
port of Superfort losses.
"The target was burning when
we left," said Lt. Joseph Currier
of Lincoln, Maine. “There was one
damned big lire there. We saw a
few lighters but they weren’t
aggressive. After a few bursts
they were scared away."
Lt. Roy Collingwood of Fox
Chapel, Penna.. who watched
bombs from his bombardier’s com
partment, saw them “go right in
the money.”
"The target was burning, fierce
ly and all we could see was smoke.
“Four fighters made a coordin
ated attack but they were scared
off.”
Collingwood said after his
bombs were away he Was unable
to lock the bomb bay doors, until
concussion from bombs exploding
8,000 feel, below closed them for
him.
Tokyo radio said a fleet of “ap
proximately 150" Superfortresses
escorted by a "sizeable” force of
fighter planes concentrated an. at
tack on Tokyo's west section,
while "some 50” B-29s bombed
Fukushima perfecture north of
the Japanese capital.
Frequent "feinting” movements
were conducted by the planes the
broadcast, recorded by the Feder
al Communications Commission,
said.
A lone B-29 feinted at Shizu
oka, site of a new aircraft engine
plant, the enemy broadcast said.
Eight such sorties of one plane
each were conducted, the Japa
nese reported.
Fifty B-29s reportedly struck
the Tokyo area, and a similar
number hit Koriyama, said the
broadcast.
HOG MARKETS
Raleigh, April 12-—CP)—
(NCDAl -Hog markets steady
with tops of 14.55 at Clinton and
Rocky Mount and 14.85 at Rich
mond.
Rampaging Allies
Toppling l ife
Like Tenpins
By JAMES M, LONG
Paris, Apr. 12—UP)—American
Ninth Army tanks crossed th®
Elbe River today and debouched
onto the flat, unbroken plain lead
ing 57 miles toward Berlin and
115 miles from Russian siege lines.
The First Army approached
Leipzig in Saxony over the old
battlefields of Frederick the
Great. One unconfirmed report
placed American tanks near
Halle.
Cities fell like tenpins: Weimar
Heilbrown, Essen, Colbuig, Nord-
haussen, Schweinfurt, Halhe 1-
stadt, Emmen, Neustadt and-—
German account—Bochum.
The Third Army farther south
broke out again in armored gains
of up to 46 miles which carried
within 42 miles of Czechoslovakia
and 32 of Bayreuth in the Bavar
ian redoubt where the Nazis may
make their last stand.
The British thrust within less
than 50 miles of Hamburg. Ger
many’s greatest port and second
largest city, capturing Celle (2A”
000) and Rethen, crossing the Al
ler River. They were shelling ht e "
men, second German port. ,,
All along the western front, 11
was a hound and hare chase of
disorganized and shattered G® r “
man armies who had lost their last
water barrier before Berlin, the
Elbe.
Traps containing up to
Germans in the Ruhr and 200,00
in Holland were under vigorous
assault.
To the south, Third Army tank
divisions broke loose again and
thundered forward up to 46 mil® 3
on the approaches to Leipzig'
Czechoslovakia and the Red Army
lines.
No German City
Will Be Declared
Open Says Himmlef
London, Apr. 12—GP)—Heinrich
Himmler, commander of the Ger
man home army and Gestapo
chief, issued a decree today da-
elating that "no German city
be declared an open town," DNL
announced in a Berlin broadcast-
“Every German town and ev
ery house must be defended," the
SS leader declared.
“Every village, every town vol
be defended with all means. Ev
ery German man responsible for
the defense of a place who does
not follow this order loses his
honor and his life.”
DNB said the decree was neces
sitated by a tendency toward eas'
surrender in the west to Amen
can spearheads commanders who
promised that if the towns gave
up they would not be destroyed.
Delayed
Washington, Apr. 12—i7Fl-
Senators Bailey and Hoey.
North Carolina Democrats-
said last night that recom-
niendation of a successor to
I- M Meekins as dirfri'T
judge for Eastern North Car
olina has been delayed untH
after April SO.
Their statement followed a
conference with Attorney
General Francis Biddle, who
said, Bailey reported, that
there were at least 16 other
judgeships ahead of the North
Carolina, vacancy and that the
department would decide on a
recommendation for that ap-
pointmeHl as soon as possible-
Judge Meekins retired in (Feb
ruary.
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London has heard a report that
Hitler has been, assassinated-— 3
story which unfortunately has
found no confirmation.
There's another report of a sph-
in the Nazi party. It's said the
Fuehrer is being thrown over in
favor of the Gestapo Chief Himm
ler. the bloody minded wholesale
murderer. To this a British spokes
man has replied that the foreign
office is operating on the theory
that tire Fuehrer still is in control-
with Himmler in command of de
fense forces. The spokesman add
ed that all sorts of stories are go
ing the rounds about Hitler, all o
which could be true but most ox
which probably are not.
Positive knowledge of Hitler”
passing certainly would have a
vast repercussion. General Ne-org''
C. Marshall, tt. s *r-— c’' '
Staff, recently told the Senate
Military Committee that “dea- '
capture of the Nazi chief woul
contribute tremendously to a col
lapse of the German military ma
chine.
Death Would Produce Collapse
That assay fits a view whic
this column often has voiced an
has carried a step further. Having
studied Hitler at close range s
Germany I have ventured the re
lief that he is the mainspring 0
Nazism- that in fact he and Naz
ism are one and the same thing-
and that his death or incapacity'
tion would produce a collapse hot
of the military machine and 0
the government,