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Mm Delaware's Morning Paper First with the Latest Newt United Press Associated Press International News Service Latest City Edition Clearing and Warmer. (Weather Conditions, Tides, on Page 13.) VOL. 127 NO. 52 WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, THURSDAY, MARCH 1. 1945 TWENTY-TWO PACES PRICE THREE CENTS Hilmiw Netos qw HE MS Marines Pray During Lull in Iwo Battle 2 New U.

S. Sub Presumed Lost, Navy Announces YANKS CRASH MAIN COLOGNE DEFENSE LINE II. SHIPPING IN MANILA llfr mils First Army Miles From Big Industrial City; Crosses Erft River in 3 Sector ROOSEVELT SEES LONG PROBATION FOR miS FOES Congress Hears Presi dent's Personal Re port on Yalta Today I if tx LAX I National Broadcast tensive smashed to within 6 '4 miles Allied Progress Towardiof th gr'at industrlal city oi i i today with the U. S. First Durable Peace tO be TOld.Army making three crossings of the (shallow Erft River near Modrath, By The United Press WASHINGTON, Feb.

28 Fesi- During a. lull in the fighting before receiving communion. Left for airstrip No. 1 on lino Jima, three United States Marines kneel in prayer to right, they are Pfe. Edmond L.

Fadel of Niagara Falls, N. and Private dent Roosevelt returned today fromdraw from tneir positions west of waiter bocowskt and Private Nicholas A. Zmgaro, both of Syracuse, N. tographer with the wartime picture pool. (AP wirephoto.) trie Big Tnree Crimea eonlerencetthe Rhine as tanks and Infantry of and will report in Derson to Con-1 Courtney H.

Hodge gress tomorrow on his historic mg with Premier Josef Stalin andiand other loroes pressed their Prime Minister Winston Churchill. assault all along the front. The personal accounting marks a new era in his relations with con gress. it will be the nrst time he has reported directly to the legislators on any of his conferences with theiexact movements of these troops WASHINGTON, Feb. 38 (Pi-Two United States submarines the Escolar and the Shank, are overdue from patrol and presumed lost.

The Navy, in announcing this today, did not identify the area of the submarines' operations. The vesels were of 1.525 tons. tyt which normally carries a complement of about 65 officers and men. Nest to kin of all casualties have been notified, the Navy said. The announcement raised to 39 the number of submarines lost from all causes since the start of the war, including four sunk.

33- overdue and presumed lost, and two destroyed to prevent capture. Comm. William J. Millican was skipper of the Escolar and Comm. Edward N.

Blakely, skipper of the Shark. The Shark was the second sub- See SUBS Page 10 U. S. BLOC DRAFTS MITED PLEDGE 0 Under It Force Would Be Used Against Ag gressors for Duration After War Treaty Would Be Negotiated Subject to Its Ratification by Congress By The Associated Press MEXICO, Feb. 28 The United States delegation has drafted a compromise pledge to Latin America that armed forces would be used to crush aggression In this hemisphere.

Whether this will be presented to the Inter-American conference depends upon consultation with Senator Tom Connally (D-Tex) and probably with the White House. It was learned on the highest authority that the U. S. delegation has a draft ready, modifying the text- presented to the conference committee yesterday, which provided for automatic use of armed forces without reservation. Divided Into Two Periods The changes made by the United States consist mainly into dividing operation of the commitment to put down aggression into two periods, because of U.

S. constitu tional limitations. The declaration would take effect as soon as signed and would bind the American nations so long as the war emergency continues. This direction was taken because President Roosevelt has the authority to use armed forces to protect the United Nations' war effort under his special war powers. Congressional approval would be unnecessary during this period.

After the war, a treaty would be negotiated which would carry the same principles and be subject to ratification. In a second historic action, mem bers of the U. S. Mexican and othw; delegations are understood to have agreed on a reorganization of the Pan-American union to take effect as soon as the declaration is signed. It is a compromise of U.

S. and Mexican views and is expected to be reported out of committee tomorrow, Mam provisions are: 1. Political powers for the Pan- See INTER-AMERICAN Page 9 LATIN-AMERICA Y. Picture by Joe Rosenthal, AP pho 25 NURSES LEAVE TODAY TO ENTER MILITARY SERVICE Largest Single Group From State to Go To Hospital at Fort Dix Delaware Quota Now Cut To 38 as Red Cross Chapter Speeds Processing Work Twenty-five nurses, graduates of hospitals in Delaware, will report to day to Tilton General Hospital, Fort Dix, N. for duty with the Army Nurse Corps.

This is the largest single group from the state to be assigned to military duty and reduces the number of nurses now needed to fill Delaware's quota to 38. The nurses will leave headquarters of the Delaware Chapter, American Red Cross. 911 Delaware Avenue, this morning at 10 o'clock in a bus 1 especially chartered for them by the be accompanied by Mrs. Edith Ken- P. R.

R. FLIER DERAILED; SOME TRAPPED IN COACH 'Spirit of St. Louis' Leaves Rails Near Steubenville, Ohio STEUBENVILLE, Thursday, March 1 iP The "Spirit of St. Louis" passenger train was derailed 15 miles west of here early today, trapping "at least six or seven" in an overturned coach. A spokesman for the Pennsylvania said it could not be immediately determined if any persons were dead or injured, but that a general call had been issued for physicians and! nurses.

Eighteen persons were believed to be in a coach which upset, he said. Eight were taken out. The train, en route from St. Louis to New York, was composed of a locomotive and 11 cars. Nine were derailed, but all but one remained upright.

FILES FOR MAYOR First Democrat to Become Candidate Declares He Will Wslxnma Drlrnxm 1 1 HENRY GEORG IE, German Commentator Describes Battling In South Part of City As eas urive on Bamc Neustettin, Major Traffic Hub, Captured in Russian I a Push Through Pomerania; Fl nthn. I -i- i. The United Press LONDON, Thursday, March 1 Berlin reported last night that Soviet troops, advancing 33 miles along the Vistula delta, had broken Into the former Tree port of Danzig, while Moscow announced the cap ture of pivotal Neustettin to the southwest in the Russian surge through Pomerania. An estimated 100.000 Germans were reported being pinned against the sea in the Danzig area and east- era Pomerania in what was develop. lng into the greatest encirclement of the Soviets winter offensive.

No confirmation of the reported Danzig entry was in the regular Mosca communique which has not mentioned that sec tor for a week, or from any other source. i Foreign broadcast monitors were Incredulous when German offi cial commentator. Ernst von Ham. mer, reported that Soviet troops in sensational break-through had reached Danzig. In Southern Part of City The United Press carefully checked the broadcast with it own and other monitors.

His remarks as transcribed were as follows: "West, of the tower, course of the Vistula where a strong Soviet troop contingent tried to push through straight to Danzig, the German bolt fiosition has held against enemy at tacks. "Soviet waves rolling forward were beaten back. The garrison succeeded tn fluctuating fighting in successfully defending its bastions in the south ern part of the city. He used the German words "in dem suedllchen stadteil" literally "in the southern part of the city." (Associated Press said subsequent German news roundups Jd a broadcast by the com-intator Karl Bluecher indi-ied Von Hammer had merely ambiguous and that the vusslans still were 30-odd miles from the great Baltic city. (The later German broadcasts, Associated Press reported, gave a similar description of the situation at Pollnow, 83 miles southwest of Danzig.

(Bluecher said that as part of the Second White Russian Army's drive northward in Pomerania, the Soviets made "diversionary attacks" against the Cnojnlce-Tcaew railway and "in the Vistula bottomland near Gross WollenthaL" Gross Woll-enthal is 35 miles south of Dan- tig.) In East Prussia, the Third White See RUSSIA Page 10 'IMPOSSIBLE' TOMCAT, TRICOLORED, ON SHOW Scientists Scarry to View Specimen, Unknown Among Male of Species CHICAGO, Feb. 28 INS The three-colored male cat that veterinarians said was "Impossible" was on exhibit today at the Anti-Cruelty Society, and scientists scurried about trying to trace its ancestry. Dubbed "Impossibility," the cat was brought in from somewhere on the south side. He is about six weeks old and has distinct black, white and yellow markings. Dr.

W. A. Young, director of the society, explained that three-col ored cats always have been found to be females. He recalled that the Queen of England once offered 500 pounds for anyone bringing her three-colored male cat. The offer never was claimed.

CHASING BICYCLISTS IS DOG HERO'S DOOM Another Offense Voids Reprieve Gained Saving 8 in Fire EMDERBERRY, Eire. Feb. 38 U.R) Smokey was a mongrel dog and he didn't like cyclists. He raced along behind them, snapping at their heels. For this habitual offense Smokey was sentenced to death a week ago.

While awaiting the executioner, he smelled smoke in the building where he was quartered and raised the roof with his barks, thereby saving eight persons from fire. For his heroism, he was reprieved on good behavior, but when the next bicycle came along he chased it. Today they took him out and killed him and gmokey snapped at his last bike rider on the way. AAQcf-o ClU IV VIET TROOP Ml IIS Allied leaders. He will address a joint session from the well of the House at 12:30 p.

E. W. T. His speech will be broadcast nationally and tomorrow night will be short- waved throughout the world. Mr.

Roosevelt was so inspired by the Big Three's progress toward a durable peace that he could foresee I lor the future but not the nearj future armament reduction by-, the! major Allied fighting powers. tie leeis, however, that Germany and Japan must be put on probation for 50 years or more before being re-admitted as equals to the society of nations. Until Germany and Japan can prove that they belong in the family of peaceful nations, he said, force must be used if necessary to see that they cannot arm or otherwise prepare for war. Zones of Occupation Mr. Roosevelt also discussed the occupation of Germany.

He said the original three-power plan had provided that: 1. Russia would occupy eastern Germany. 2. Great Britain would occupy west and northwest Germany. 3.

The American zone of occu pation would start at the turn of the Rhine River at Mainz and ex tend through southern Germany. It would include a supply corridor to the sea at Bremen and would extend into the provinces of Wurt-temberg. Baden and Bavaria. But this plan will have to be changed according to the degree of French participation in the occupa tion. A French zone would change either the American or British zones.

This obviously means that Russia will occupy eastern Germany regardless of what France does. As for reduced armament among See ROOSEVELT Page 5 Smashing of Enemy's Corregidor Garrison Virtually Completed, MacArthur Reports Marines on Iwo Jima Take Most of Island's Central Plateau, Thrust Downhill Toward the Northern Tip American shipping today began use of Manila Bay, carrying supplies to the war-wrecked Philippines' capital for the first time in three years. Destruction of the Japanese garrison on Corregidor, at the entrance to the bay, was termed virtually complete, just 14 days af Jer U. S. paratroopers and infantrymen landed to engage an enemy double the size of the Yank force.

Meanwhile, on bitterly contested Iwo Jima. Marines using special equipment parachuted from planes, seized the bulk of the central plateau and were! moving downhill toward the northern tip. MANILA, Thursday, March 1 (TP) Gen. Douglas MacArthur today announced the entrance of Ameri can shipping into Manila Bay and the end of the Corregidor campaign just 14 days after paratroop ers and infantrymen landed on the fortress island to engage a well- armed enemy double the size of the Yank force. The Americans took "The Rock" at the entrance to Manila Bay in just half the time the Japanese re quired to defeat the gallant defenders under Jonathan M.

Wainwright in early 1942. A force of 3,038 Americans, land ing under fire Feb. 16, avenged that surrender by smashing approximate ly 6.000 Japanese. (Tokyo radio, meanwhile, reported without confirmation that a regiment of American troops had invaded stringbean-shaped Palawan Island, westernmost of the Philippines, and were engaging the small Japa-: nese garrison in a "violent Japs on Corregidor, MacArthur said, were "reduced in a period of 12 days by a combination of sur prise, strategy and ngntmg tech nique and skill, perfectly coordinat ed with supporting naval and air forces." American shipping was using Ma nila Harbor today, sailing past the See PACIFIC Page 10 OHIO RIVER OVERFLOWS BANKS ALONG WIDE AREA Weather Bureau Predicts Two-Foot Rise in Crest CINCINNATI, Feb. 28 The Weather Bureau upped its predic tion of Ohio River crests by two feet today as the stream slipped be yond its banks all the way from Pittsburgh, to Cairo.

111., and toward stages set tentatively at three to five feet above flood level. The river receded at Pittsburgh after touching 265 feet shortly after midnight. Flood stage there, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers, is 25 feet. But from there west and southward along its 981-mile length, the stream reached or surpassed the danger mark, its overflow isolating a few towns or disrupting travel and communications. Charles A.

Higgins, president of Hercules. Writing from Italy, Lieutenant Dienendener told Mr. Higgms that Hercules, operator of the nation's largest rocket powder plants, should be very proud of the important part which rockets are playing in the; European theatre of war. "Thunderbolt fighter planes are See HERCULES Page 18 OPERA CLAIMS GRIDDER NEW YORK, Feb. 28 OJ.R) Ken neth Shon, former University of Minnesota football player, today signed a contract with the Metropolitan Opera Company.

He will make his debut as an operatic baritone March 17, singing Beethoven's "Fidelio." i 1 i ai, Cross Motor Cor xngj, will Simpson's Men Push Around Rail Center; Warning is Given To Citizens of Trier By The Associated Press PARIS, Feb. 28 General Eisen hower's rampant Western Front ofi There were indications the Ger mans were being forced to with ArmJ "hta through The U. S. Ninth Army of Lieut. iGen William H.

Simpson continued ciose arouna me Dig rauway cen- ter ol Muenchen-Oladbach, but tho remained masked behind a security news blackout. Front dispatches said Simpson's doughboys were advancing with great speed In soma places and slowly at others. The Germans threw in King Tiger tanks, their latest and most powerful armor, in an attempt to halt the Americans. Resistance Stiffens Enemy resistance stiffened against mc iaiiuiu ru Army, wroca was held to an advance of about a mUe in the north. Even so it was reported Field Marshal Von Rund-stedt had withdrawn some of the German defenders from this end of the front with the obvious intent of trying to bolster the enemy line in the center, where the industrial metropolis of Duesseldorf was being imminently threatened as well as Cologne.

The American Third Army cleared the important German road center of Bitburg, and five other towns beyond, and also fought into Pel-lingen, five miles southeast of Trier. The Sixth Armored Division crossed the Pruem River at a new place and took six towns. A warning I rem General Eisenhower to the German citizens of Trier to prepare for artillery shelling was broadcast by the Luxembourg radio tonight as Berlin commentators reported a rapidly-developing pincer movement by the U. S. Third Army against that Important Moselle Valley strongpoint.

The message, broadcast "on orders of General Eisenhower," toid the Germans to resist evacuation by the Nazis and to find shelter in cellars and caves around the city and to take with them enough food and drink to last out the battle. "Allied armies are approaching See WEST FRONT Page 14 Three's plan for post-war Poland tory in compensation and which would Involve formation of a new coalition provisional government of national unity. Eden asserted that Britain's major objective must be the preservation of the unity "cemented at Yalta" which, he contended "would have See CHURCHILL Page 19 Index of the News Pages Amusements 14-15 Births 4 Classified 20-21 Comics it Deaths 4 Editorials Ernie Pyle 9 Financial 19 Marquis Chlldi Obituaries 4 Radio lg Society News Sports I6.i7 State News 14 Travel and Resort News II Westbrook Pegler With the Service Men 7 Woman's Page i City Collection Dr. Henry George in of 2212jdall, secretary of the nurse recruit Baynard Boulevard filed his candi-for Idacy for mayor with tht Democratic Committce yesterday afternoon TWO FROM STATE OIE AS CASUALTIES TO 1,739 R. Everett, Z.

J. Rafal-skUKilled, Nine Hurt One Lost, One Captive Delaware War Losses Show 576 Deaths, 856 Wounded, 145 Missing, 131 Prisoners The deaths of two Delaware soldiers, Sergt. Ross L. Everett, 34, of near Newark, and Private Zygmund J. Rafalski, 28, of 100 Logan Street, a n-nounced yesterday by the War Department brought 1 a- ware's casualties for World War II up to 1.739.

The casualties, tabulated monthly by Edward L. Parker, s.rsu b. l. E.errtt Spanish War Veterans, show that deaths from all causes among Delaware men now have reached 576. So far, 856 men have been announced as wounded, 131 are listed as prisoners of war, and 145 are missing.

The casualties also include 33 men who have been See CASUALTIES Page 10 BECAUSE HE'S 4-f James Vlahos, 18, Had Brooded Over Rejection By Army, Police Assert An 18-year-old youth, James Vlahos of 2204 Van Buren Place, who police said had brooded over being rejected for military service, hanged himself yesterday to the basement of his home. The boy, recently graduated from the P. S. duPont High School, was found hanging from a joist by his sister, Betty, who heard a radio playing in the basement and went there to investigate. She immediately called Dr.

Anthony F. Vitiello of 617 West Street. The latter, upon his arrival, said the youth had been dead for three hours. Relatives said James had gone to; Camden. N.

in November for a Idraft physical examination and as a result was placed in 4-F. He had brooded over his rejection for some! time, tney said. Deputy Coroner C. Everett Kelley investigated with Detectives James Wilson and Charles McCooL The Vlahos youth is survived by his par ents, Mr. and Mrs.

Peter Vlahos and two sisters. Betty and Fatina. His iather conducts a restaurant ar 402 Market Street. UN YOUTH HANGS SELF grave recorder the Veterans and ana stated, immediately after, that he would welcome a primary contest for the nomination. Becoming the first Democrat to file for an office at the city election on June 5, Dr.

George, who was defeated by Mayor Albert W. James in 1943, said that, "If necessary. I will make an issue of a primary." If he becomes the Democratic nominee, he continued, he will "campaign for a city manager-commission form of government and for the initiative and referendum whereby voters of Wilmington will have a chance to express their desires on important issues." Referring to Chief Deputy Thomas Herlihy, Jr, who has announced that he will be a Republican candidate for the office, Dr. George said, "I have nothing See GEORGE Page 3 Commons to OK Churchill's Decisions at Yalta Parley LONDON. Feb.

28 iPi The House of Commons, in the first formal legislative action on the Crimean charter among the great powers. crushed a move to censure the Big tonight. It was in effect a blanket approval of the Yalta decisions when a vote is taken tomorrow. By a top heavy tally of 396 to 25. Commons rejected a motion include a protest against the Polish? ROCKET-FIRING PLANE BEARS HERCULES NAME Lieut.

J. C. Diet fender fer, Given Per ment committee for the Delaware Chapter, and Miss Alice Speer, lay co-chairman of the committee. Because of the accelerated program of processing nurses through the local chapter of the Red Cross, instead of sending the applications to Washington, the chapter has been able to fill the quota faster. This process also eliminates a great deal of delay on the part of the nurses while they wait for their applications to be accepted, it was said.

The quota to be filled by July 1, is 80, and so far, 17 nurses have left for service with the Army and Navy since December. The remaining 38 nurses have applied for dutv but as yet have not received their physi cal examinations. "This does not mean," said Mrs. Kendall, "that the need for nurses is not as great as ever because not all who have applied will pass their examinations, and there is no reason why Delaware should not go over the top, fulfilling its quota. Those nurses who will report to See NURSES Page 3 and four-fifths long fibre paper, he expiainea.

Cartons should be flattened and tied bundles, and paper bags should also be tied in bundles or put into a carton. Mr. Groves emphasized that all paper to be collected Monday must be on the curbs. The men of the Street and Sewer Department, who are to make the collection, will be unable to go into 'garages or cellars to get the paper, he said. Persons unable to carry their paper out to the curbs themselves were asked to request assistance from a neighbor See PAPER DRIVE Page 3 Vl VVl mission to Call Thunderbolt 'Little Here After Praise of Firm's War Role CARTONS, BAGS NEEDED IN PAPER DRIVE MONDA Heavier Types Should be Placed on Curbs With Papers, Magazines for Collecting By Street and Sewer Board Trucks policy in the general endorsement of the Big Three decisions which has been demanded by Prime Minister Churchill as a "vote of confidence.

With the Polish question almost the sole issue under challenge and that only by an outnumbered group of Conservatives tonight's action provided a solid guarantee that Churchill would win overwhelming support tomorrow at the conclusion of Britain's important foreign policy debate. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden carried the ball for the government in aeiending the Polish plan against bitter denunciations that it violated principles of the Atlantic Charter and betrayed the Polish allies at the expense of British honor. Eden built his case around two major arguments; that the Big Three's plan would make Poland as "strong or stronger" than It was in iH3. ana tnat Britain had never guaranteed Poland's pre-war frontiers. As had Churchill himself, he up held the, plan as Just, as one which wouia meet Russia claim for a western frontier on the Curzon Line and give Poland German terri- Up Ul JL "Little Here," a P-47 Thunderbolt! fighter plane with the figure of Her- cules painted on its fuselage, will soon be harass ing the Germans in Italy with rockets, for which the powder was made in ordnance plants operated by Hercules Powder Company.

Permission to! use the familiar Hercules trademark has been given Lieut. John C. Dieffen-derfer. Jr, 12th U. S.

Air Force Dfeffndertcr, Jr. fighter pilot by Ponor Ic JL CIJVJL XU 1 1 Cartons and paper bags as well as newspapers, magazines and loose paper, are needed for paper pro duction and should be put out on the curbs for Monday's city-wide paper collection. J. Stuart Groves, chairman of the Delaware Salvage Committee, WPB. said last night.

Conceeding that newspapers and magazines are easiest to collect and bundle, Mr. Groves said that mills must have some cartons, brown paper bags, or other strong paper to make wrapping paper one of the varieties of paper in great demand for the armed forces. Wrapping paper can be made from about one-fifth newspapers KJLA, V- JLd Arvirvmn if rNQT70 HTratnr kpron nf If 1 1111111 Ulll tl VIA Next Monday.