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Delaware's Morning Paper First with the Latest News United Press Associated Press International News Service tnrnmg Netojgi Latest City Edition Cloudy, occasional rain. (Weather Conditions, Tides, on Page 5.) VOL 127 NO. 54 WILMINGTON, DELAWARE. SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1945 EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS 911 AMY IT ELDOBF IHImiimtan HH, mm DIES Uo So Patrols A re Across River. London Hears FEELING FURY OF U.

S. GUNS Democrats Charge 'Ripper' Bill Passed in Their Absence THIRD SEIZES TRIER, REICH'S OLDEST CITY Intimations They Will Block Two-Thirds Measures Come After House Adopts Constable Proposal While in Caucus By Staff Correspondent DOVER, March 3 Passage by the Republican majority in the House Hodges First Drives a bill authorizing appointment by the the three counties of the state developed suddenly into an outbreak resentment by the Democratic afternoon. There were strong intimations that, as a result, the Democrats may Duesseldorf, one of Germany's greatest manufacturing and trade 'Output yesterday felt under bombardment by guns of American troops fhe city. This picture was made before Allied bombers left, their mark Gen. Eisenhower Nearly Captured In German Attack Governor of additional constables members after adjournment this not support bills requiring; a two- thirds vote.

The Republicans lack two-thirds majority in both houses. The measure, which provides for appointment of IS additional con stables for New Castle County and each lor Kent County and Sussex County, was passed by the House while the minority members were in caucus discussing bills due to be brought up for consideration. The 20 Republican members pres ent voted for the measure. The 13 Democratic members and two Republican members were absent. The bill required only a majority vote for passage.

Francis Q. Lemon. Wilmington, Democratic floor leader, and his Democratic colleagues did not learn of the passage until the House had adjourned for the week-end. Characterizing the bill as "ripper" legislation, Mr. Lemon declared publicly that had the minority mem bers been present they would have voted against passage of the bill and would have assailed its presumed purposes from the floor.

The minority floor leader charged that the purpose of the proposal is to make available 15 constables of Republican faith for attachment to the magistrates'! offices of New Castle County in place of constables to be earned by the New Castle Levy Court, which is under. Democratic control. This, he asserted, would relegate the appointees of the Levy Court to a status of "constables in name only" while the constables provided for by the new legislative proposal would "get the jobs." Mr. Lemon added that while the Democratic House members were In caucus, they were informed by a House attache that the House was only reading bills into the calendar and they were, consequently, un aware that the constable bill was up for passage. Otherwise, the Democratic members would have left their caucus and protested the bill, he said.

From the other side came reply that the Democrats had asked for See DEMOCRATS Page 1 AL CAPONE'S BROTHER CHARGED WITH MURDER Arrested During Haircut in Connec tion With Race Follower's Death CHICAGO, March 2 (INS) Matt Capone, 31 -year-old brother of Al Capone, one-time King of Chicago's underworld, was arrested in a bar bershop in suburban Cicero today on a warrant charging him with the murder of J. D. Larkin, a race track follower, last April 18. The younger Capone apparently anticipated the arrest, for his attorney, George M. Crane, was on the scene immediately with a petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

Larkin, who was known to police under several aliases, was wounded fatally in the Hall of Fame saloon operated by Capone in Cicero. Also sought for the murder was Walter Sanders, bartender in the saloon. Capone was getting a haircut when he was arrested by Police Chief Er-win KonovsKi of Cicero who turned him over to Wilbert F. Crowley, first assistant state's attorney. VOLUNTEERS To Within Four And Half Miles of Cologne on West Bank Canadians Crumble Two Other Enemy Stro ng points Foe Says British Attack By The Associated Press PARIS, March 2 The U.

S. Ninth Army smashed to the Rhine at two points today, engulfed all the arsenal cities in the Ruhr Basin west of that formidable river, routed the German 15th Army, and began shelling Duesseldorf in the greatest offensive in American history. (The Ninth Army already has sent patrols across the Rhine at Neusse, which is opposite Duesseldorf, dispatches London newspapers said, as the German radio reported "Americans are making efforts to cross the It split the German defenses and sent the mauled enemy in frantic retreat across the Rhine as the U. S. First Army fought to within four and a half miles of Cologne and the V.

S. Third Army captured the ancient fortress of Trier, guarding the Moselle River route to Coblenz. The Canadian First Army on the north knocked out two other strong-pointe in a five-mile surge through tne buckling lines, and was 10 miles from a junction with the Ninth Army, threatening entrapment of thousands of German broadcasts said that be tween the closing jaws of this nutcracker the British Second Army went over on the offensive, and broke across the Maas River in a drive -designed to pin down and destroy the German army west of the Rhine. Duesseldorf's cross-Rhine suburb of Neuss and the steel city of Kre-feld near the Rhine, 10 miles to the northwest, fell with astonishing speed as ihe Ninth Army roared 15 miles through broken lines. German rearguards fought fiercely between the Neuss and the Rhine to See WEST FRONT Page 15 DYNAMITE EXPLOSION FELT OVER WIDE AREA Blast Occurs at Gibbstown When 500 Pounds of Scrap are Burned An explosion that occurred while about 500 pounds of icrap dynamite were being destroyed at the Repauno plant of the DuPont Company at Gibbstown, N.

rocked nearby sections of New Jersey and the entire South Philadelphia riverfront area yesterday afternoon. The blast was not felt in this city. Buildings were shaken violently In the Philadelphia area, and in some towns near Gibbstown. Most resi dents thought the explosion was "only a few blocks away" because of the intensity of the shock. One of the peculiarities of the explosion was that it was hardly felt In Gibbstown itself.

Company officials explained that the burning of scrap explosives is a customary procedure at the plant and that occasionally some of tho material detonates before burning is complete. The burning takes plact in an isolated area about, a half-mile from the plant and caused na damage. All known safety devices have been installed at the grounds and a large earthen and concrete shelter barricade protects the workers from unexpected explosions. Index1 of the News U.S. DESTROY 109 fflMNES Luftwaffe Finally Puts Up Fight When 6,000 Allied Bombers And Fighters Rake Reich Six Oil, Rail and Armament Centers Pounded; R.A.F.

Sends Nearly 1,000 Craft To Batter City of Cologne By The Associated Press LONDON. Saturday, March 3 American airmen fought one of the biggest sky battles in weeks ester day, destroying at least 106 enemy planes, as more than 6,000 Allied aircraft hammered German" targets In a series of attacks which included two by R. A. heavy bombers against besieged Cologne. The U.

S. Eighth Air Force hurled 1,250 four-engined bombers and nearly 800 escorting fighters deep Into the Reich during the day and Incited the Luftwaffe into sending aloft its carefully hoarded interceptors. American fighters shot down 87 and wrecked an additional 36 on the ground. Gunners aboard the big bombers shot down six. A communique from the Eighth "Air Force last night said a tally of Its own losses still was incomplete The spectacular aerial battle in volving the Americans was but one phase of the gigantic Allied air as sault which carried through its 18th consecutive day.

The operation marked the 12th straight day of at tacks by the Eighth Air Force and the 11th during that period when the force has numbered more than 1,000 bombers. British Rip Cologne Battered Cologne, next to Berlin the most bombed city in the world. was struck by 3.600 tons of bombs from nearly 1,000 British heavies even while artillery of the U. S. Ninth Army continued its ceaseless shelling from little more than four miles away.

The bombers and artillerymen avoided the famous cathedral in the Rhine's first city, but found plenty of targets in the glaring sunlight which was softened only by pillars of smoke rising 8.000 feet into the air. More than 750 R. A. F. Lancasters and Halifaxes bombed Cologne during the morning and more than 150 R.

A. F. bombers returned during the afternoon to repeat the blow. Airmen said the cathedral was standing, but that most of the rest of the city "looked like a heap of nibble." The city now has been See AIR WAR Page 16 $100 BACHELOR TAX WOULD AID SPINSTERS Proposal Affidavit Loophole Offered In Georgia Measure ATLANTA, March 2 UP) A bill to tax Georgia's bachelors, with the proceeds divided among the state's spinsters on Valentine's Day, was Introduced in the House today. Every Georgia male who reached 30 without being married would be subject to a $100 tax, and the levy would increase $10 a year every year he continued a bachelor.

The measure, however, offered one loophole for the bachelors. If! they could present an affidavit each year showing they had proposed to St least three spinsters during the preceding three years, they would be exempted from the tax. A bid was made for the support of feminine members of the legislature bv orovtdine that tax receipts de rives from bachelors in the House and Senate would be divided equally among the women members of the assembly. There was only one hitch to the bill. Its fun-loving sponsors, most of them married men themselves, in traduced the measure too late for It to receive consideration.

SENATOR MOSES WORSE, MAYO CLINIC REPORTS Physicians Fear for North Dakotan Under Treatment for Ailment ROCHESTER, March 2 (P) The Mavo Clinic physician at tending Sen. John Moses (D-ND) said tonight the North Dakotan "has taken a definite turn for the worse." Moses, first Democrat ever elected to Congress from North Dakota, who defeated incumbent Gerald P. Nye, Republican, underwent an operation here last September, tie re cornea si weeks ago for X-ray treatments. IB of for of centers second only to Essen, in arms who drove to the Rhine River opposite on the city. WILLIAMS TURNS WITHDRAWAL PLEA REA Appointee Said To Have Told Senators He Will Go Down Fighting Opponents Win First Round As Agriculture Group Votes 12-8 Against Confirmation By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, March 2 Senate leaders were reported tonight to have proposed to Aubrey Williams that he ask President Roosevelt to withdraw his nomination as rural electrification administrator.

They told him, the report went, that there appeared to be no chance for confirmation, but Williams replied that he would prefer to go down fighting. Republicans and southern Democrats fighting the nomination won the first round today with a 12-8 irmauon. The suggestion that Williams withdraw was made after canvasses showed a heavy Democratic defec tion from support of him. Oppon- ents were claiming 44 to 48 assured votes depending on whose poll was used against confirmation with many senators still uncommitted The Senate membership is 96. But Senator Ellender (D-La), Williams supporter, told reporters: We ve got a fighting chance.

If the Senate will read the printed record of the hearings, I do not see how it can turn down Aubrey Wil liams. I have never seen such bias See WILLIAMS PM.fr IS $14,000,000,000 WN NOMINATION RUSSIANS 4 MILES FROM BALTIC SEA IN POMERANIA Drive Slashes Berlin- Stettin-Danzig Road; Traps German Troops Nazi Report of Trap Uncon firmed in Red Communique Telling of 30 Towns Taken By The Associated Press LONDON, Saturday, March 3 The Germans announced last night that Red Army spearheads had rolled within four miles of the Baltic Pomeranian coast, slashing the Berlin-Stettin-Danzig military superhighway near Koeslin and trapping scores of thousands of Nazi troops in a 5, 800 -square-mile section of northeastern Pomerania, the Polish "corridor," and Danzig. The Soviet High Command did not immediately confirm this sensa tkmal' development, telling only of the capture of 30 villages on the western side of the Baltic salient. Moscow apparently was waiting until the narrow tank-tipped wedge had been strengthened before an nouncing that Pomerania had been chopped in two and another great trap sprung on the reeling foe. Strike Above Bnbliti Striking 22 miles north of captured Bublitz, Marshal K.

K. Ro-kosaovsky's Second White Russian Army veterans reached the Koeslin-Schlawe section of the big highway at Zanow after three days' hard fighting and the employment of 60, 000 men, an enemy broadcast said. The Berlin-Danzig trunk railway last artery connecting central Germany with the imperilled north eastern forces lies only a mile north of Zanow, within easy range of Russian guns, and one German Transocean Agency report from the front said that Soviet troops also had reached it. Backed by six divisions, three armored and three motorized infan try. Russian vanguards yesterday were "feeling their way forward to the eastern outskirts of Koeslin, bottleneck junction town four miles southwest of Zanow and four miles from the coast, the Germans said.

The nearest the Russians were placed to Koeslin officially by Mos cow was at captured Dubbertech, five miles northwest of Bublitz and 18 miles southeast of Koeslin. With the seizure of this village one Soviet column was only 10 miles northeast of Gross-Tychow, site of a large American prisoner-of-war camp. Although it is likely the Germans already have begun moving these prisoners westward a dispatch to See RUSSIA rue 5 GOAL Between Individuals, In addition to this seven-week drive, an "intensification of activi ties" in the sale of series bonds will begin April 9, when millions of persons in payroll savings plans throughout the country will be asked to enlarge their participation as part of the seventh war loan. Over a period of nearly three months April 9 through July 7 all series and savings bonds and series savings notes processed through the federal reserve banks will be credited to the drive. Morgenthau said at a news con ference he feels that lifting the quota on individual sales and bonds and extending the time over a three-month period "ought to have a good effect in curbing inflation.

The stated objective of the com ing drive is to sell as many securi ties as possible outside of the bank See WAR LOAN Page 4 Harmon, Pacific Air Forces Head, Reported Missing Lieut. -Gen. Millard F. Harmon WASHINGTON, March 2 (IP) Lieut-Gen. Millard F.

Harmon, commander of Army Air Forces in the Pacific Ocean area, was reported tonight to be missing. Reports current in Washington said a plane in which the general was a passenger was overdue. These accounts could not be confirmed immediately at the War Department. The Blue Network, in a broadcast from Washington, had said that General Harmon had been lost in a plane crash in the Pacific. It was presumed an intensive See HARMON Page 16 mm bond Funds for Post-War Road Improvement Program Would be Provided by Bill By Staff Correspondent DOVER.

March 2 A state bond issue for $5,000,000 for the financing of a post-war highway improvement program would be authorized by a bill introduced today in the Senate by President Pro Tern Harry H. Mul-holland of Milf ord. The bill, offered as a substitute measure for the original which was submitted in skeleton form, is some of the legislation recommended by Gov. Walter W. Bacon in his bi ennial message to the General As sembly.

The bill, which requires a three- fourths vote of the members of each branch, calls for the Governor, sec retary of state, and state treasurer to act as the "issuing omcers oi tne bonds. The bill provides that the bonds would not be issued until the Governor proclaims that moneys appropriated by Congress are available. In his biennial message Governor Bacon pointed out that the Federal program allocates to the state 500,000 for each of the fiscal years, 1S4S, 1946 and 1947, and that this program exceeds the state's usual highway allowance by about and urged that legislation auth orizing a bond issue be carried out in order to take full advantage of the Federal program. The principal of the bonds would be payable at 40 years after the date of Issuance but may be redeemed at the option of the state at the rate of 105 per cent twice a year after the bonds have been issued for one year. The money irom tne sale oi the bonds would be placed to tne credit of the State Highway Department in a special account at the Farmers Bank In Dover.

The State Highway Department would be given the powers and func tions of the defunct Mosquito Con- See BOND ISSUES Page 3 Zr A Wi Jim I ISSU PROPOSED a 10 NEUSS. Germany. March 2 IP) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, on the heels of the fast-moving U.

S. Ninth Army's drive to the Rhine, personally inspected the battle area today with the Ninth's commander. Lieut. -Gen. William H.

Simpson and at one point on his trip forward the supreme commander came close to being caught' in a German counterattack. -tn the Nazi attack from the south- rrn nan along the Ertt River, German tank force broke through il Eisenhower then was visiting. There stop a tank in ttie area at the time. Thunderbolts of the 29th Tactical Air Command roared to the rescue, knocked out five German tanks and drove the rest back across the Erft. AMERICANS LAND ON LUBANG ISLAND Is 18th of Philippine Areas Invaded; MacArthur Orders Flag Raised at Corregidor Invaded; MacArthur Orders MANILA, Saturday, March 3 (IP) Men of MacArthur, making their 18th island invasion in the Philip pinesthe fifth in a little over a week have landed on Lubang Island, 35 miles southwest of Manila Bay's entrance and thus completed clearance of the shortest sea route through the Philippines from the United States.

This newest move in the recon- quest of the Philippines was an nounced just one day after Gen. Douglas MacArthur. in a symbolic return to Corregidor, ordered the Stars and Stripes to be raised over the rocky fortress and admonished, "Let no enemy ever pull them down." General MacArthur's communique today announced seizure of the 18- by-eight-mile Lubang Island at the west end of Verde Passage just one day after he disclosed his forces fur ther southwest had invaded Pala wan Island where a third air field now is in American hands. Elements of Frederick A. Irving's 24th Division, who played a major role on Leyte.

Island and also helped recapture Corregidor See PACIFIC Page 4 CONGRESSMAN UPHOLDS SLACKS AS ESSENTIAL Not Luxury But Necessary for Women War Workers, Kansan Says WASHINGTON, March 2 UP) Are women's slacks a luxury? Definitely not. opined Representative Rees (R-Kan today in protesting against a War Production Board regulation which he said; if 4 KILLED IN ACTION John Frame, Newark, Dies After Having Been InilirPn ThrPP TimPi John E. Adams, Norman H. WatterSOn, Howard J. Kalbach, Listed Slain Four Delaware soldiers were reported killed in action in yesterday's casualty list which included seven men wounded.

Those killed are Private Norman H. Watterson of Newark; Pfc. John Frame of Newark; Pfc. John E. Adams, of Georgetown; and Second Lieut.

Howard J. Kalbach, formerly of Newport. Those wounded are: James F. Anthony, pharmacist's mate second class, of Greenwood. Corp.

Edward K. Budd. 2715 Jeff erson Street. Corp. Aloy E.

Linus of Baldton, New Castle. Sergt. Lloyd Pleasanton, of Smyrna. Pfc. John R.

Butler, of near Middletown. Pfc. Clarence J. Phillips, of Harbeson. Private Joseph J.

Montcalmo, 1704 West Ninth Street. Wounded three times, May 24 in Italy, Sept. 29 in France and Oct. 31, in France. Pfc.

John Frame serving with the 7th Infantry, was killed in action in France on Jam. 23, according to word received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Frame. He was a student at the Newark High School, and before entering the service in August, 1942.

was em- See CASUALTIES Page ft WILL MAN Paper Drive Facts Here are the facts at a glance on how householders and business establishments are asked to help in the city-wide paper collection Monday: 1. i newspapers and magazines in separate bundles, any size. 2. Flatten cartons and tie them in bundles. 3.

Put loose waste paper into bags or cartons. 4. Put all the scrap paper you have saved on the curb early Monday morning. 5. 6on't put out anything but paper no ashes, no rubbish.

asked to submit bids for furnishing from 20 to 24 dump trucks with drivers, and 60 additional men to take over the ash and rubbish col- See PAPER Page 8 DELAWARE MEN EEIV1UND SET FOR 7TH WAR LOAN SCRAP TRUCKS IF NEEDED Sum Divided Evenly Corporations; Quota Largest Yet Asked of r. and rs. America Private Owners Ask ed to Provide Vehicles as Strike Menaces Drive for Paper On Next Monday The city-wide collection of paper scheduled for Monday will be conducted even if volunteers have to man the trucks, salvage officials said last night. The collection first of its kind to be held in what salvage officials regard as a critically important salvage program is endangered by the strike of 40 ash truckers of the Street and Sewer Department. The department is to make the paper collection.

Yesterday wie department ap pealed to private truck owners to furnish trucks and men to conduct the collection. Contractors were March 2 (JP Secretary Morgenthau announced today a 814,000,000,000 goal for the Seventh War Loan, divided evenly between individuals and corporations. The $7,000,000,000 quota for individuals is the highest ever assigned them. The Series quota of is also more than Mr. and Mrs.

America have been asked to dig up for that class of securities heretofore. The total quota is the same as that of the Sixth War Loan extend from May 14 to June 30 seven weeks as compared with four weeks in the Sixth War Loan from Nov. 20 to Dec. 16. Pages Amusements 13 Births 4 Church Notes Classified 16-17 Comics 14 Deaths 4 Editorial Ernie Pyle Financial 15 Jack Stinnett Marquis Childs Obituaries 4 Radio 18 Real Estate Notes 11 Society News Sports 12-U State New 18 With the Service Men 7 Woman's Page 18 classified them as a luxury and cur-1 in order to sell the unprecedented tailed their manufacture more than 'amounts of war bonds to non-cor-that of most other cotton clothing, i porate investors the Treasury set the "They may have been a luxury in longest sales period yet.

the past when women wculd wear The formal drive with its custom-them in the evenings and on the ary great promotional campaign will streets," he told a reporter. "But in war plants they are a necessary article of clothing just as! are overalls for men." I Get Your Scrap Paper Into the Scrap Collection Monday.