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Delaware's Morning Paper Latest City Edition First with the Latest Newt United Press. Associated Press International News Service Fair, continued warm. (Weather Conditions, Tides, Etc, on Page 15.) VOL.127 NO. 87 WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1945 TWENTY PACES. PRICE THREE CENTS Will MM Mm OF A her Taking Hannover etiin llllU lvllM IT YOWL IH Action on Okinawa River Crossing, Family Court II.

S. AIR BLOWS PA TTON'S MEN Bills Defeated Second Time Both Measures Lost as House Democrats NEAR COBURG AND ERFURT MINERS WIK PAY BOOST Oil HEELS OFU Lewis and Operators SD 397 UES III NAZI DAY continue upposmon; rroposai to Permit Games of Chance Killed By Staff Correspondent DOVER. April 10 A second attempt to obtain passage of a House measure to finance construction of a vehicular crossing of the Delaware River failed in the House tonight. Earner the Family Court bill had 0 TeKyuth, "doitK gig Ji- SW msoko -'AA- jay g-T? e.V Xl Onus 1 Ore Wt- 3rd Marine 7 ZAMHCAPf jfe "'ia-V'bioM Com British Tanks Speed Yank Fliers Top 8 Rec German Resistance In West Collapsed, Eisenhower Says been defeated for the second tune. The vote on the crossing bill was 30 for and 13 against, with two absent, which was seven short of the required three-quarters majority.

Announce Wage; Pact The vote against the bill Included ords in War's Most Devastating Attack ELECTION my the Democrats present and Speaker Chester V. Townsend, Jr. (R-Ocean View) and Rep. Raymond B. Phillips (R-Bellefonte), sponsor of the OF Against Luftwaffe Over Wtser River To Within 60 Miles Of Port of Hamburg Canadians 25 Miles From Emden in Big Push to Trap Nazi Forces in Holland proposal.

The two Republican members vot Few Hours Following Presidential Order i Daily Rate of $10 is Granted, Royalty Demand Dropped; Ickes Takes Over at Once ed against the proposal when they I recognized It was lost with the purpose of being In a position to have Overall Enemy Fighter, Bomber Knockouts Among Peaks Shattered; 35 Jet- KATtNAyfe aiitfiiis---. a MtUNZA 3tKS '-i 2lh Army Cor pi MEMBERS VOTED flAMAHtlA YM- Propelled Craft Bagged in Move to Halt Pit Strikes ATCHIN MMNSUIA Uchitomri it restored to the calendar. The bill would have authorized the State Highway Department to issue revenue bonds up to to defray the cost of the crossing construction. A bill which authorises the high Pacific Ocem MA CH WATO. AIKHELD LONDON.

April 10 (JP General Eisenhower's headquarters told the German people flatly tonight that "German resistance in the west' has collapsed'' and called on workers in North Sea ports to block Nazi fanatics from wrecking harbor installations. Allied stations broadcasts in both English and German sent ut this warning from Supreme Allied Headquarters on authority of the supreme commander: "Allied armies are now threatening your towfls. German resistance in the west has collapsed. "In these last weeks of the war the future of your towns is in the gravest danger from fanatics who may make a last minute attempt to make the ports unusable. The power of By The Associated Press By The Associated Press PARIS.

Wednesday, April 11 By The Associated Press i a TSUKM WASHINGTON, April 10 Soft The v. S. Ninth Army, in a neck LONDON, Wednesday, April 11 American fighter pilots and bomber House Bill on Claymont eoal miners won broad pay conces- and neck race with the American First Army toward Berlin, quickly sions in a new contract agreed on gunners destroyed 397 German aircraft yesterday and shattered eight way department to construct and maintain a crossing, which required only a majority vote, has toppled Germany's 12th city of Han Amended in Senate To Take in All of County "been- passed but it is nullified by tonight shortly after federal seizure of 235 mines. A basic wage of $10 a day for the aerial warfare records in the most devastating blow ever delivered failure of the financing measure to pass. nover yesterday and swept on 2i miles into Brunswick's outskirts at a point only 110 miles from the Reich capital.

against the once-feared Nasi Luft CAM CHAMU average inside miner up $1. SO was niwtoi-Mtarxi fan he tm3mriieH In ho Four Republicans Join Demo The measure of Rep. Clarence E. waffe. mOKINAWA agreement reached by operators andJMcVey K-6tanton) to create a President John L.

Lewis of theTFamilv. Court for New Castle County crats in Supporting Plan; 2nd Injury Fund Passed Countless other German craft were damaged as both American and British planes again assaulted the went down-to defeat for a second time when the vote on it fell one See EISENHOWER Page 7 V. S. Army troops encountered heavy Japanese resistance in the United Mine Workers. Lewis abandoned a demand of 10 cents a ton German Reich.

southern part of Okinawa, out Marines advanced tn the northern tec royalty. Thunderbolt pilots of the TJ. m. Ninth Air Force who attacked Brunswick yesterday reported whit flags began to appear throughout the city while divebombmg was id progress. While tank units of the Ninth, also overran Salzgitter, site of the Goering steel works 10 miles southwest of imperilled Brunswick, U.

S. tion, cutting off the Motobu Peninsula and taking part of the eoast Losses of the U. S. Eighth Air short of a two-thirds majority. The vote was 23 for and 10 against, with two absent.

of Katena harbor, where the Japs once based submarines. Force were announced as 25 heavy C. A. HIGGINS, The plan will be ready for ratification tomorrow afternoon by the full negotiating committee. It will be subject to review by the War Labor bombers and 15 fighters.

Jet Fighters Hit When the bill was called up for passage, Rep. Francis Q. Lemon, Wilmington, Democratic floor leader, again offered an amendment which would fix -the term of the judge at In attacks on more than 26 enemy UNTEN BAY NAVAL By Staff Correspondent DOVER, April 10 The Senate adopted an amendment to Rep. Raymond Phillips' (R-Bellefonte) measure calling for the election of the board of education for Claymont Special School District, rather than appointment the resident judge of Newcastle County, which would also provide for the election of the board of education in Wil MISSING First Army troops in a 40-mile ad-a vance on the south smashed into Nordhausen and likewise struck II ACTION air fields, 336 German planes were destroyed on the ground and 61 were shot down In' aerial ebmbatr'Thfrty- Yanks Invade Jolo To Control.Entire Sulu Archipelago four yean instead of 12 years, as proposed in the bill. The amend nM nliMAU) A five of the 61 were the deadly jet- A within 110 miles of Berlin with the seizure of localities near AUleben, 45 miles west of Halle and 57 miles ment met defeat, 22 to 11, as it did propelled fighters, the largest bag of Ull UlAIIIMIIiH before the loss of the measure last 2 DEAD, 2 HURT these high-voltaged interceptors ever from Leipzig.

mington, and all special school districts of New Castle County. Friday. Farther south the U. 8. Third Board and Economic Stabilization Director Davis.

The mines taken over to keep steel production, flowing are a small part of the 3,478 total over the country. Nearly sis weeks of negotiations' were ended by announcement of Ezra Tan Horn, chairman of the bituminous wage conference, that the two sides had gotten together on a contract to supplant 'the one which expired March 31 and that Its form will be perfected by a subcommittee meeting at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow. Rep.

Elwood B. Gruwell, Felton, collected in a single day. Fighter pilots destroyed 284 parked planes and shot down 21 others, When Representative Phillips bin Army, capturing 285 members of tha. was the only Democrat to vote with FALLSTO MARINES German foreign ministry at Muehl- the Republicans for the measure. Two members of the minority were came up for a vote in the Senate, the amendment to make the bill applicable to all of New Castle County hausen, rolled on and reached the" outskirts of Erfurt and Coburg, 50 miles from the CzecHoslovakian while bomber gunners accounted for 17 enemy aircraft Continent-based U.

S. Ninth Air Force pilots, in attacks on 15 air fields, destroyed 39 planes on the ground and shot down 18 others. The Ninth lost five including Wilmington was presented by Senator Harris B. McDowell, Jr. frontier in the swelling drive to U.

S. Infantrymen Land (D-Middletown), who said he was in split Germany. absent. After the session, Mr. Lemon declared that (toe minority party would have given its support to the bill if his amendment had been accepted by the majority.

"If the Republicans are so sincere in their purported desire for a favor of the bin and thought it i Son of Hercules President Was With Combat Photography Unit Eben A. Townsend, Georgetown; Lewis F. Foley, This City, Lose Lives in Reich British Cross Weser In the north the British Second The full committee will meet then fighter bombers. should apply in the rest of the county. He said that the boards are elected On Tsugen Island, Off Nakagusuku Harbor MANILA, Wednesday, April 11 uP Veteran mfantrymen of Jens A.

Doe's 41st Division invaded Jolo Island Monday and quickly seized the capital city and its air fields to take "complete control" of the Sulu archipelago. Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur reported today. He announced also that all organized resistance had ceased on southern Luzon Island, and that American invasion forces had liberated hundreds of Filipino lepers in the Culion Colony by occupying Coron Bay, fleet anchorage between Busu-anga and Culion Islands north of Palawan. The 41st Division, which captured the big harbor 'of Tawi- Three more Luftwaffe bases were in Kent and Sussex County and that Army sent tank columns across the shattered Weser River line, north of Hannover, and reached the Aller he saw no reason for a section of Family Court, why did they refuse at 3:30 p.

m. for final approval. The government stepped in to operate those mines affected by a wave of wildcat work interruptions which had partially closed plants turning out war-vital steeL ripped up by fighters of the First Tactical Air Force operating from France. They accounted for 13 parked enemy craft and five others the northern end of the state hav an amendment to change the term ing their boards appointed, rather Yanks in Southern Drive On of the Judge from 12 to 4 years, River at a point within 60 miles of Hamburg, great German port. Ber-.

lin said units of this army already had crossed the lower Aller and than chosen by tne people, benator which would be a minor concession shot down in combat. In the last four davS 61 German It acted while the negotiators in comparison with the importance J. Carl McGuigan (D-Wilmington) also spoke for the amendment. were only SO miles from Hamburg. or tne oui?" Mr.

Lemon questioned. plodded doggedly ahead in their deliberations. Van Horn's announce air fields have been pounded and at Second Lieut. Charles A. Higgins, lmst TfiS memv nlanns hv teen Ut.

23. son of Charles A. Higgins, The amendment was adopted by Capital Locked in Close Quarter Battle With Japs By The United Press GUAM, Wednesday, April 11 ment came less than three hours af "The court would be entering but an experimental stage, and we be destroyed. Ipresident of Hercules Powder Com- a vote of 10-7 with Senator Robert H. Yerkes of Houston, majority ter the federal action.

The German Jet planes drilled into pany, nas oeen missing in action, in floor leader. President Pro Tem Europe since March 24, according to the American bomber formations in lieve a four-year term would be nore in keeping with getting It under way. The deputy judge of the Wil See JOLO Page 7 Harry H. Mulholland of Milford President Roosevelt ordered Interior Secretary Ickes to take over any mines where stoppages exist or waves of up to 10 abreast. a telegram received yesterday after United States Marines have cap Senator Harvey H.

Lawson R- mington Municipal Court is ap noon by his father, who lives at 906 The combined force of heavy Millsboro), and Senator W. Deane DuPont Road, Westover Hills. Mr are threatened. Within an hour, Ickes followed through and the gov tured the Japanese Unten Bay naval base on the west coast of Okinawa pointed for but a four-year term, as is the judge of the Kent County Court of Common Pleas and the Higgins left yesterday for New York to join Mrs. Higgins and to inform Johnston (R-Dover), and six Demo cratic members favoring it.

YEAR EXTENSION bombers and fighters, the greatest fleet ever put aloft to blast air fields, dug up seven jet plane bases and an experimental testing field all within a 70-mile radius of Berlin. with its submarine pens, valuable ernment thus was back In the eoal business the fourth time since the her their son is missing. Amended Bill Passed 19-8 installations and good harbor. Ad See HOUSE Page After the adoption of the amend Other casualties include two Dela miral Chester W. Nimitz announced today.

ment Senator Yerkes asked for a Yesterday's erippling air blow on (British troops, last reported Monday five miles south of Bremen, have entered the western suburbs of that big port, ABSIE, the OWI transmitter in London, said in a broadcast heard by N. B. 25 Miles From Emden To the west the Canadian plunged within 25 mile of tto seaport of Emden in their race to clot the last corridor leading into Holland where between 100,000 and 200.000 Germans are pocketed. Other units fought deeper into Holland itself. At the southern end of the 400-mile front curving deep into Germany the U.

S. Seventh Army struck within 45 miles of the Danube headwaters and the French First Army captured Pforsheim, 15 miles southeast of Karlsruhe and 92 miles from wareans dead and two wounded. five-minute recess and when the the Luftwaffe's striking force, most The dead are: On the east coast, mfantryrnen bill came up later as amended, It STATE EMPLOYES Pfc. Eben Alden Townsend. 18, landed on Tsugen Island, 2'4 miles passed, 10- with one member ab of which was grounded for lack of fuel, shattered the previous overall fighter and bomber score of enemy Georgetown, March 24 to Germany.

country declared war. The new wage contract meant the operators had acceded to Lewis demands of a 7-hour day with time and half for all other time spent under ground except a 15-minute lunch period. This was the proposal of Labor Secretary Perkins on the main wage demand of the miners. It was frank-See GOAL Page I Private Lewis F. Foley, ZZ, 1906 down from the Katchin Peninsula and commanding the entrance to Nakagusuku harbor, onetime Japa See SENATE Page 6 planes knocked out in a single day, Scott Street, in a Jeep accident in Vice-President Breaks Tie Germany.

nese fleet anchorage. PENSIONS PASSED ACTRESS GLORIA DICKSON The wounded are: To Kill the Amendment Put In the south, infantrymen sup SUFFOCATES IN BLAZE Private Anthony Dalessandro, See AIR WAR Page 2 $3,700 TAKEN IN TWO DOWNSTATE ROBBERIES ported by the greatest artillery concentration of the Pacific war were 19, 628 East Third Street, March 4 in ting Curb on Roosevelt Body Found After Hollywood Home Germany. battling the Japanese at close quar Is Gutted By tire Corp. Tech. Charles Edward Mac- Senate Approves Measure JURISTS FAVOR HAGUE By The Associated Press ters in the enemy defense Uneabove HOLLYWOOD.

April 10 Safes Forced Open In Millsboro, Milford Business Places See CASUALTIES Page 2 See WEST FRONT Page 4 WASHINGTON. April 10 The Retirement Fund for Police, Film Actress Gloria Dickson, 27, was suffocated today in a fire that gutted AS WORLD COURT SEAT crackers stole more than Senate passed a one-year extension of lend-lease today after Vice-Presi United Nations' Experts ts Disc am her two-story home. Firemen Goes to Governor 13,700 from two lower Delaware busi Her body was identified by Mrs 'Emergency' Sites Today dent Truman Joined in defeating, WASHINGTON, April 10 Sidney Toler. wife of the actor. ness establishments Monday night or early yesterday morning after gaining entrance to both places By Staff Correspondent 40 to 39, a Republican amendment designed to make doubly sure that lend-lease ends when the shooting The blonde actress body was found face down on the floor of the Legal experts of 43 United Nations agreed tonight that the seat of the DOVER, April 10 The Senate tnrougn unlocked windows.

Nana, capital city ot OKinawa. (At the same time, according to Associated Press, the London radio broadcast a Tokyo radio claim that American forces had made a new landing on Okinawa Just north of the present battle center. (London also repeated an earlier Tokyo claim that Americans had landed on Tsukata Island, east of Okinawa.) Gain Mile and Half bathroom upstairs. stops. More than $3300 was stolen from a safe in the feed store operated by Her dog, a boxer, burned to oeatn passed without a dissenting vote the bill introduced by Senator Mulholland providing pension benefits to all state employes.

The bill pro new World Court under the projected World Security Organization should be The Hague, headquarters of the Soviets Take All of Vienna West and South of Danube LONDON, Wednesday, April 11 (Pi The Russians seised siH ot Vienna west and south of the Danube except the narrow island between the river and the Danube Canal yesterday and thrust wittain three and one-half miles of the German rail escape route northward to Brno (Brunnl, the Soviet communique disclosed last night. Fall of the remainder of the old Austrian capital appeared imminent The Delaware senators split, C. Douglas Buck (R) voting for the John A. cordrey on Main Street, in a bedroom on the same floor. Firemen said the flames appar present Court of International Jus amendment and James M.

Tunnel! Millsboro, after the thieves had used a sledge hammer to knock the com vides that any male employe shall ently broke out in a first-floor rum tice. D) voting against it. bination off the vault. retire at the age of 65, and female employe at the age of 60, provided The bill, already passed by the The other theft occuired at the Kent and Sussex Motor Company tnat prior to July 1, 1947, any cov The Marines captured the Unten Bay base in their drive westward The United Nations committee of Jurists reviewed and approved the first 22 articles of the statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice, created after World War I. House, now goes to President Roose velt.

i pus room. Overstuffed furniture in the room was badly charred. They theorized that Miss Dickson was taking a nap in the upstairs bedroom and was driven into the bathroom by flames. through the Motobu Peninsula, at as heavy street fighting raged on, ered employe may continue work at the option of the head of the department or agency irrespective of omce in Minora wnen 1400 was stolen from the safe which was Administration officials have said there are no plans to use lend-lease and Moscow told how the enemy's See OKINAWA Page 7 opened after the combination had However, the question of "emer age, but after this cate, retirement been battered and broken. for post-war relief and rehabilita at the respective ages named in the Mr.

Cordrey discovered the theft tion of foreign countries, senators gency" meetings of the court at other places if it should be inconvenient for the Judges to gather at The Hague, will be brought up at bill becomes mandatory. opposing, the amendment "offered by at his place of business when he opened the store at 6i30 a. m. He Eligible employes re those who Senator Tart (R-Ohio) told the have or will have served for 15 years Senate today it was superfluous and said that usually such a large sum tomorrow's meeting, it was revealed defenses were crumbling in announcing that on Monday 2,000 soldiers were captured along with 72 tanks and 75 field guns inside the city. Russian artillery from three sides was raking the three-mile-long, half-mile-wide crescent of land between river and canal, where the Germans still were holding out in the old Jewish quarters of Leopold- during the period that ends on the would hamstring orderly liquidation The question also must be submitted oi money is not left in the safe over night.

date of retirement. oi the vast program. to tne san Francisco conference. SCHOOLS TO MAP PLANS FOR OLD CLOTHES DRIVE Representatives to Meet Today to Discuss Their Role; Class Rooms, Churches To be Centers for Collection The pension benefits shall be When the roll was called on the POSTAL OFFICIALS FIND Taft amendment, the vote was 39 JAMES ADMIRES NURSES, to 39. Under Senate rules this de SO WEDS THREE OF THEM BABY'S BODY IN PARCEL Autopsy Indicates Infant Died After feated the amendment but Truman, exercising for the first time his payable monthly and shall not exceed S150 a month or be less than $50 and the monthly payment by an employe to the pension plan shall be one-seventieth of the monthly retiring base salary multiplied by the number of years which stadt and in Brigittenau and Prater Didnt Bother WUh Divorces; Is commercial districts." Being Put Mail Placed on Probation PALO ALTO, April 10 PV Within the battle zone were twoj A dead baby boy sent through the large railway stations, the 125-Augarten Park, Vienna's mc th employe shall have served dur mails to Palo Alto from Dallas, Tex.

Representatives from every school for the drive in connection with the in Wilmington and vicinity will meet j' Second Ukrainian forces drove west along the Danube's north banks to the southwest city limits of Vienna at Muehleiten. Malinovsky's men seized a dozen, other suburbs, including Deutsch Wagram, three and one-half miles from the single-track railroad that leads northward to Brno in Czechoslovakia. Deutsch Wagram, in the center See RUSSIA Page Index of the News Pages Amusements IS Births -J 1 4 Classified ftl-M Comics IS Deaths 4 Editoriata Ernie Pyle Financial Jack Stinnett Marquis Child Obituaries 4 Radio Society News SB Sports tt-M State News With the Serviea Mm I Wonts Pa IS sports stadium, and the modest site ing the period that ends on the date of retirement. i started police and postal Inspectors on a search today for both the today at 4 p. m.

in the board rocan opportunity of partiCipating In the where in 1867 the younger Johann Strauss wrote the Blue Danube Agencies of the state Included in of the administrative waicung oi tne i drive with great enthusiasm, said Board of Education to outline plans i Dr. Clark. Waltz. Nasi Shoot Civilians the bill are the State Board of Health, the Old Age Welfare Commission and its sub-divisions; University of Delaware, school districts for the old clothes drive. This an-t schools and churches will be used privilege of voting when there is a tie, gave it the final knock on the head by voting "no" in an emphatic voice.

Check i.n President The extension measure then passed without a record vote. It prolongs the life of the lend-lease law until June 30, 1946, but provides that nothing in the act shall be construed as authorizing the President to enter into an agreement with any foreign government for post-war relief, rehabilitation or reconstruction. That, part of the provision was agreeable to Senator Taft, but he sought to eliminate additional lan- Street fighting in age-old Vienna noun cement was made yesterday byjM collection centers but firehouses NEW YORK, April 10 7V-James J. Smith, 34, a grocery clerk who married three nurses without benefit of divorce, today was placed en probation for two years by General Sessions Judge George L. DonneUan who commented: "What is it that gets you the uniform?" The judge suspended a two-to-tomr year prison term and said he would "give Smith a chance" after the defendant, who pleaded guilty to bigamy March 20, said he would pay for divorces for his first and second wives.

Clyde Dart, legal aid counsel, said Smith had been motivated by a was desperate and the Russians re Dr. Zenas R. Clark, administrative win not be used, said Mr. Koester. which are a part of the state school Calling upon all citizens for co system, and the Wilmington Board assistant for the Board of Education, who was appointed as chairman of the schools committee by Edwin F.

operation, Mayor Albert W. James sender and the woman to whom the parcel was addressed. Dr. Bert Davis reported after an autopsy that the boy was born alive and died of suffocation, possibly after being placed in the small box in which he was mailed. Posta inspectors noted an odor from the box after the postman reported he was unable to find Miss Betty O'Donall to whom it was addressed and that there was no such street or number as "362 Mercerd Ave." -V- of Education.

Senator Mulholland also offered an amendment to the bill which was civilians as the battle roared on. All the main portions of Vienna, has issued a proclamation designating April as United National Clothing Collection month. adopted unanimously which provides The proclamation cited the war that an employe who shall become Koester, drive chairman. The representatives, including pupils and members of the faculty of the schools, have been designated by the school principals to act as a steering committee to outline plans victims who have died from ex- disabled while in "covered" employ Third Ukrainian Army, while See OLD CLOTHES Page 7 See LEND-LEASE Pag See PENSION Pag I Marshal Rodwn x. Maiinovwky's to have ehUdren..