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79 Enia Jwrul rM IMS Kt Imlu Fannta 1(71 Eaaln( Jaaraal aa4 ttw Oasis C.ihUIiM Jas. IMS Wilmington, Delaware, Monday, April 2, 1945 18 Page Price Three CenU IP uvJua Am A JV VJ Home Edition 1 hi JVJ i i Crack German Troops Trapped in Ruhr Where Americans Made Latest Pacific Landing Cf MOO, Body of Last Of 3 Firemen Is Discovered British Noose Nazis 3 Jap Airfields, 12 Deserted Villages Seized With Ease Throwing Around All in Holland MdA vonje Hitler Faces Loss of Two-Thirds Of Search of More Than Tmo' Month End on Finding Of Carroll Norri, One Of Fori DuPont Employe Forces on Western Front: Pation'sj Fanatical Fijhtiii2 Likelv a 60.000 To 100.000 Nipponese on Isle Reorganize for Defense; Landing Greatest Amphibious Operation of War By Prri GUAM. April 2 Thousands of U. Tenth Army ir.fantryrr.en Be, Arniv Enters Kassel ami Fidda To! 77 77 1 Th search for three en i.n tire- i Drive Within 155 Miles of Berlin tn jon Jan. 2S for a three-rf ee By Associated Press UrKd the of the third body Carroll Norris, S.

PARIS. April 2. The American First and Ninth Armies have trapped 21 divisions of lfo.000 first line enemy troops in the Ruhr, The body wa discovered in and the British Second Army, driving swiftly northeast, threatened marsh three south of Wood- i today to throw a noose about another whole army group in Holland. hand Beach, by Harvey Gardner and reducing German strength in the west by two-thirds. iHaaei both of Smyrna.

The Germans launched their first coordinated attack today toiwru they a-ere fishing. I break an escape corridor through the Allies' steel ring circling the identification made by taej Ruhr. Hard fighting still was in progress early tonight. through clothing and personal! German infantry supported by tanks hit the First Army's article found on the bodv. Ninth Division near Winterburg about halfway between Paderborn Norris was one of the thre eml-; HMMMMlBaaPatW KIR AMI ISLANDS NAHA 13 land Marines invaded atrategic Okinawa 325 from Japan i proper Easter morning at little cost and the going aur-tpmingly eay as they pushed eastward today toward the important jNakagusuku Bay fleet anchorage.

The Yanks went ashore on the west, coast at JJ.yi a. m. yesterday 6 30 p. m. Saturday, eastern war timet, quickly captured two airfields and a doze virtually deserted viilajfj and towr.a.

By nightfall they had carved out a beachhead three deep at jpoinu on an isthmus eight miles wide. Admiral Chester W. ftfanit announced today. Front reports third airstrip unidentified vaa I The Yank invaders walked inland! from the beaches 200 yard A itottjan 1 Hodges' Iir.es to the east. (failed to armt at their' home.

But at last reports the doughboys were holding firm and beat- The other mere. Harold Harnng-ing back this desperate attempt of Marshal Kesseiring to save some 4T- n'T Frederic, owner of the ir, in shich they were rtd- of hi troops trapped in the Ruhr. Bnd AlfnM, The Ninth Army ha driven 100 miles east of the Rhine, welljneaT Thomrwonviiie. cast the Ruhr and its vast steel and coal works. 1 rnnd In AotnbUe 35 or mere without once having to seek shelter.

Tough fighting expected, ho m. ever. a he Japanese reorganize for 1 "fjr defense. The enemy, aurpnaed by; Cllare 1101116 Pcuntert from flag epprojfna'e ex'ef fs 4 ti'-w-o barhieMl on liinasra, Japa nets The Third Arm v. ramblir.c wift- Hamr.gton's bocy wu found in: the automobUe the CAUsewav imada tn hat Admira' S'imtt described et the largest ampthtnut operation et the PacHe uar.

iy ana aunot a. 1 over central jcaRai MtT woodland Beach March 4 rrOK; from flag point to taken on Oktnswa and to Xmim tiandj, tcJcem by American force five ir.vsion of Okinawa wetm ahore; near Katena after a 15-day bomb-i Report Calls yjraiMiiy, cmara idmj fvsci ma ig nd that oi Braaiora in adaa earlier. canal on March 9 ing and bocr.hsrdmerit of his eastern. Fulda and drove within 135 milfts of Berlin and 138 of the Russian tn which the The automobile Soviet Forces Attack Town Below Vienna shore defen-ie, waa expected to fight I 1 4 ro.drorth.S of Chancery Is Asked prepared pom- US IV OC111IU9 prepared posi line In the east in a mighty cam fanatically from paign to bisect Germany. probably in the low hiiis in) rr 4 A II 5 the renter of the Island.

Estimate run into tha canal. 13S leet iromi Search ha been under way with iSolcllCFS 1 VC The British Second Army, m-heel-: lng toward the north German ports, I plunged to the outskirts of Len- 1 UeTlJie SIlliqUe LtOUCCllOn of Japanese strength on Okinawa PrronneI, Ri.in 100.000 troop, i increasing Intensity lor more than. I Size of the Yank invasion force. Lives orNation Col of Food, Clothing Raie Problem to Staff Bill for Inatniction in Mr. Helen Roger Bradford Mrot nu'n perhaps 100.

P00. Will I Filed bv TruM Company; Other Complex 1 'American assault forces landed two month. Police traced the men to a far as Appoquiniminlt Creelc, learning that they had stopped at a number of place. Cm Now Closed With the dicovery of the body of Norris. Supt.

Paul W. HavUand of the state police said today the case (See BODV FOUKO Pa Quetion Are Raided in Cae time, 8 25 a. m. Sunday EWT on the southern tip of Hum Island, Four, Including Marine, Killed in Action; Wound 1 own 3ear Aircralt Center; WestphalUn capital of Muenater T. nu: n.l,- and 122 from Hamburg Lengerich Is Objectne; Other 74 mlte lrom Brw.en 217 20 Mile From Capital Fieid Marshal Montgomery lifted I the long silence about the 21st Army MOSCOW, April 2 Russian Group advances In the Ruhr and on forces battled for Neudorfl, three 'the Westphalian plazas late today.

miles east of the Messerschmitt as-1 Among tom'ns captured wera j'Rhfine and Enschede. Bntons were aembly center of Wiener the outskirts of Gronsu. th. A bill for Instructions waa filed in the Court of Chancery todav bv 52 miles west of invaded Okinawa The rlawre State Weifire Hoira at Sm-mi. reduced per or -el nd the shortage and h.ffh cost of food and cloth.nj, has been "faced with a serious the past year la mamtaiRir.2 its standards, accord- Prove Fatal to Another Equitab Trust Company.

akin the court to settle a number of complex iht Rvukyus. the Tokyo radio re ported today. Kume is the mos j3uestionV arising out of the settlement of the estate of Mrs. Helen. tcogera itraaiora.

mciuaing- a unique request ior a juaiciai oi landing there wouid be intenaed to ir.z to the annual report by the Old IVla war casualty roster, in-f nr ntini holrf on Okinawa.) in Austria today. Zutphen-Enschede Canal has been' Cold Weather The Equitable Trust Company, executor of the will of Mrs. Brad- iinn irwry to oov. wa.ter w. Bacon today.

av, za, nufoano or Mrs. Marion i within 20 miles of Vienna and drove Entire Model Army Trapped hard against Germans in the Bra- The entire German Army Group tislava Gap. jB commanded by Field Marshal (London dispatches said thejwalther von Model was trapped in 11 'd Cn jVriht Curdy of near Delmar. who 'ford who dwj last July 4. tva named OllOM in France on March 18 from 33 respondents in the bill eight; ixiai.

tin. tnwij i Muiru. 1, j. rricaett, superintenaent. jNimita declared as he personaUy repom that the legislature is being "Tl-ki 1 hi Sund-V communique an- requested "to consider aenou.1V til if 1 II I 1 1 1 ZC nouncir.g the invasion.

But he need for repair and replacements wounaa repei vea act.on. corpora' ion and the remainder in- Bratislava radio went silent and the Ruhr. In Army Group arej warned that Japan itseii sti.l must and the early erection of a building be conquered. to accommodate 150 Negro residents Flood, Torn A the Army in June. 1944.

he" waa mARl of thTO beies; Tiartoea, mai; yougejit pangT conductor on the under the wiiL 13 Til VJllltSIi Live Delmarva Division of the Pennsyl-j Principal question raised by the; w- Capture of Okinawa will afford; Tn the 10-vear tmnrovement unconfirmed reports said the Fifth German Panzer Army, sians had made a 13-mile dash to last tank army the enemy has in the outskirts of that capital of the the west, the 15th Army and por-BUDoet state of Slovakia less than tions of the battered First Para- irfields for intensified aerial neu- Waves Take Eich Eight vania Railroad Equitable Trust in its effort to set-; I i tralization of the empire a home erection of a building Jr 100 resi- A nAt rwla.r Vfarin is an chute Army. 30 miles eat of Vienna.) and a llirill I 1 (II11V.U airneids ana contmuea dents, a service building. iof its war vital industrial centers. 1 uV, disro.sal nlant In the 4.000 square mile Ruhr bag Spearheads of Marshal Feodor I It is dimcuii to over-empnasie Total oooulation of the home waa Damaging Fronts Feared By Associated Press A cold wave swept down across the border from the Canadian Tolbukhins Third Ukrainian Army are five tank, 10 infantry, two para-pounded Gap fortifications from the chute and four other divisions of south between captured Sopron on Volkssturm and Volksgrenadier the Neuseidler See and Wiener Neu- troops. Model was believed to have Reiirnalinn lr IWnme th imPOrUnf ci thls deration, 3fi9 of Dfc.

3ithe average duly KeMgnatlon to Iome Simon Bolivar Walllng cording to the report. Effective When Senate. Buckner. commander of the newlWmA persom. 10th Army.

His command comprises; Receipts for the pat year amount-, Annroves ew Annomteeithe 24th Army Corps and the Ma- -rf tr 1144 843 41. consisting of nouneed as killed in action on Iwoj1 la Ifur3y an1 W-Jima, and three other Delaware sol-jre: diers are listed as killed in How much of the furniture at the another died of wounds, a fifth family mansion. Dunleitti." south of was killed in an accident and a Wilmington, near Rogers Corner, sixth soldier died following ill- can be considered as coming under nest at Fort Belvoir. Va. They are: the category of "a collection of an-Killed In Actios tique furniture?" Private Ralph O.

Patterson, 19. son What, if any, personal property in of Mr. and Mrs.) W. E. Patterson -Dunleith" did Mrs Bradford aetu- escaped before the Second and Rockies today in the wake of floods tornadoes and tidal waves which left at least eight dead, hundreds atadt.

and pushed into the Lietha Mountains farther north. The Russians drove within eight miles of Wiener Neustadt, and were only (See RUSSIAN WAR Page 4 Third Divisions slammed shut the tight steel trap on Easter Sunday. The trapped Germans thrashed about looking for a weak spot they could not find. Xueraberg Menaced nne inira ompmoious i-urp. maar 071 from lfle Lew Court or New up of probably six divisions all caatle County 454 82 from, Ken veterans of Pacific fighting.

I r.r 1,400 Ship. Participate (See FI.FARE raKe 81 WASHINGTON. April 2 0P. ally own at the time of her death? homeless and uncounted property damage in the Deep South. In a special warning, the U.

S. Weather Bureau forecast the possibility of damaging frosts to Mid- President Roosevelt accepted today What gifts or legacies mentioned the resignation of James F. Byrnes of Dover, on Feb. 8 on Iowa Jima. Private Frank A.

Weber. 25. son of Mr. and Mrs. Matthew T.

Weber (See CASUALTIES Page 10) Farther south, the Seventh Army in the will should be subject to as director of war mobilization and Buckner watched the landings from the flagship of Vice-Adm. Richmond Kelly Turner, commander) threatened the great Nazi snnnf I Western an(j Missouri valley fruit Japanese Using Women Soldiers abatement in whole or in part be-(See BRADFORD WILL Page 10) Red Cross Drive In Final PJuise city 01 Nuernoerg irom posinuua miles away, as well as Stuttgart. The Third Army in the center threw tanks thin 95 miles of Leipzig and 92 of Caecho-Slovakia. (See OKINAWA Pate 4) Wilminstrin Marine Plays Part on Okinawa The first Wllmingtonian known to be on Okinawa is Marine Private M.P.s Learning Traffic Control Enschede. captured by the British, Yanks Kill Group Upon Okinawa; 3 Die Suicides reconversion, and picked Fred Vinson to succeed him.

Byrnes will stay on the job until Vinson's nomination is approved by the Senate. Then he will break Vinson Into his new duties. It was the second change of jobs for Vinson in less than a month. On March 6 he was nominated federal loan administrator. Prior to that date he waa director of economic stabilization.

Byrnes had submitted his resignation on March 24, while preparing (See BYRNES Page 1) Chairman Confident 715,900 Fund Will Be Subscribed Claymont Ambulance Makes Trip to Virginia The longest trip in the history of the Claymont Fire Company ambulance was made on the week-end, when the crew went to Fork Union, to pick up a sick schoolboy. He is Fred Pierson, 15, son of Dr. W. Morris Pierson of 2312 West Seventeenth Street, who was attending school in Virginia when he became ill with rheumatic fever. Franklin J.

Adler, who is mentioned! crops. In the Far West, Cheyenne. had 10 inches of snow and Denver six. Wyoming reported temperatures of 10 to 15 degrees. The snowstorm (See STORMS Page 4) Werewolves Guerrillas Proclaimed by Berlin LONDON, April 2 OP) Formation of German guerrilla bands called Werewolves was proclaimed last night by Berlin, and the Moscow radio commented today: "The wolf hunt is on good is 98 miles from Bremen and 106 (See WESTERN FRONT Page 4) Two Reported Dead As Service Plane Falls Their Presence in Mid City Areas Arouses Attention LANCASTER, April 2 OP).

in an International News Service dispatch telling how the Marines bewildered natives on the island by kindness. After a Marine had braced the broken arm of an injured Ofcina-wan, Private Adler is reported to have offered the victim candy and a cigarette, and "was almost as solicitous for him as the wrinkled An airplane believed to be a Navy or Marine iignter crasnea ana Unable to locate an ambulance in Virginia, Dr. Pierson contacted the Col. Ruhlen, Retired, WITH THE TWENTY-FOURTH ARMY CORPS, Okinawa. April 2 INS).

Eleven Japanese women, dressed in Jap uniforms complete with helmets and earning grenades and one light machine gun and four rifles attacked a Twenty-fourth Corps artillery unit some distance behind the lines during the night in what is believed to be the first instance of the use of women in ground operations In the Pacific. Claymont Fire Company, whose hunting." To Reside at "Westhaven Twenty-one military police from Fort DuPont. the vanguard of a company which will guide traffic at heavily travelled points in Wilmington for two months, began this crew left here Friday, spent the Berlin exhorted au Germans in burned In the Welsh Mountains about 10 miles southeast of here this morning, state police reported. Police said fanners who witnessed the crash told them two bodies, one burned beyond recognition, could be Col. George Ruhlen, who retired occupied areas to support the Werewolves and continued to fight the night In Virginia, and returned the patient to The Memorial Hospital old mother." Private Adler is the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Nat Adler of 3511 TatnaU Allies. The broadcast said the name Saturday afternoon. morning to learn how to handle civilian traffic by directing it along was taken from German mythology. His condition was reported fairly Street.

He was graduated from the It described Werewolves as wild good at the hospital today. Market Street. Their prtsence attracted consid seen In the wreckage. The plane, traveling northwest, cut a path nearly a mile long through the woods as it crashed, police said. beings who hide in forests and Both the driver and his assistant from active service in the U.

S. Army as commanding officer, Fort DuPont, in October of last year, has established permanent residence at Westhaven, suburb west of Wilmington. Colonel Ruhlen returned to Wilmington late last week after an absence of several weeks. "pounce on all God's creatures with unpaid volunteer workers offered Pierre 6. duPont High School and worked for a year with the Sunday Star in Wilmington before joining the Marine Corps.

He has been in the Pacific theatre more than a year. towering rage. to give up their Easter holidays to erable attention this morning and impressionable civilians started a false rumor that the M. had come to control the celebration of make the trip. The driver was Lee Five men accompanied the women in the attack.

Doughboys opened fire and killed all but six women. Of the six three committed suicide by exploding their grenades. The other three were wounded and later died. The women's ages were estimated at from 28 to 40. Murphy, who is a nigtit supervisor for the Pure Oil Company, and who V-E Day.

This morning the men were was accompanied by Luther Weaver City 'Cheated9 of Wastepaper As Early 'Birds9 Scour Curbs spotted at every intersection on coordinator of cooperative work for Market Street from Front to The $715,900 was fund campaign of the Delaware Chapter. American Red Cross, went Into its final phase today. Report meetings have been scheduled this week through Friday, the last day and C. W. Baker.

war fund chairman, has expressed con-Idence that tr goal will be met. The total reported to date is 69,150. On WDEL at 6:15 o'clock tonight discharged staff sergeant, Harold Carey of Dover, veteran of the North African and Sicilian campaigns, who lost several fingers of his left hand when a shell struck him in France, will tell what the Red Cross means to the combat soldier. The fund will be increased by a public dance tomorrow night sponsored by the Milford Kiwanis Club in the Milford community building. William Love is chairman of the dance committee.

Music will be furnished by the "Sandunaires" of Fort Myers, under direction of Corp. Stanley Ross. Liberation of Paris Officially Celebrated PARIS, April 2 OP). Units of the reconstructed French army marched through Paris today as tens of thousands cheered in an official celebration of the city's liberation. The celeDration was preceded last night by a ceremonial relighting of the flame at the tomb of the unknown soldier.

For the first time since this war began the flood lights cf Notre Dame were on. Veterans Urged to Turn Back GI Material to Ease Shortage In Today's Paper Eleventh Street, on King Street at Tenth and Eleventh, and along the streets surrounding the DuPont, Nemours, and Delaware Trust The city of Wilmington found It had a number of competitors when Such returns can be made at no Buildings. Discharged veterans who-still have WAR NEWS All the men are veterans of over seas lighting. They have been sta tioned at Fort Custer, and will come to Wilmington daily from Army clothing and equipment can help ease the critical clothing -situation by returning to Army supply channels any GI materials they possess. Col.

Randolph Russell, commanding officer of Fort DuPont, announced today. Families whose service men have the Wilmington Board of Education. Ration Points Validated In Blocks of 5 Stamps WASHINGTON, April 2 The Office of Price Administration's latest plan to simplify the job of keeping track of ration points is now underway. Under the new plan, which went into effect yesterday, both red and blue points will be validated in blocks of five stamps each on the first of every, month. They will be good during the four months after their validation.

The following stamps became good yesterday and will remain (so until July 31: Red stamps K2. L2, M2, Nl and P2; blue stamps T2, U2, V2, W2.and Fort DuPont. They are experienced In directing military traffic but are learning the differences involved in civilian work. to call in the police. In fact, we don't know if this can be considered a form of larceny or not." But he pointed out that the city and the War Production Board committee have cooperated to the second test "city-wide, city-sponsored" curb collection hoping to make an arbitrary 150-ton goal-missed by only four tons in the March collection.

The city must sell sufficient paper collected to cover the expense of having a dozen trucks and crews on the job. If it cannot meet expenses, the collections will not be "'regular" and salvage officials agree that only by regular city-wide collections can (See PAPER DRIVE Page 10) Pag 4-5 It 14-16-17 14 IS IS IS 14 13 I They are under the command of it began its waste paper drive collection today. Early birds" had scoured many a curb before the Street and Sewer trucks arrived. Officials reported in disappointment that the total collection is expected to be under 100 tons. Only 50 tons had been gathered by 3 o'clock this afternoon.

Householders reported that Boy Scouts, school children, private waste paper dealers, and other enterprising citizens had taken up much of the paper. They reported strange trucks and at least one touring car loaded down with paper. L. C. Hastings of.

the Delaware Salvage Committee said: "We hate I sent home GI equipment are also expense by shipping the clothing or supplies by express collect to any nearby Army post, in a container which does not weigh more than 30 pounds when filled. The package should be addressed to the Army installation. "Attention: Quartermaster, Clothing and Equipage Classification Officer." Every item given back to the Army in this way will save the government money which would otherwise be spent on new stocks. Colonel Russell explained. In addition, he said, it will lighten heavy military demands on the (See GI MATERIAL Page 4), Capt.

Robert Huddleton, operational Amusement Answers to Question Classified Comics Culbertaon mi Contract Death Notice Editorials Financial Obituary Radio Society porta Women's Interest officer of the company, and Lieut. urged to "put It back in the fight' by returning it to the Army. In the Wilmington area inquiries about returning Army material may Dayle Smith, who has been visiting each of the men to give suggestions on their first day's performance. Lieut. Arthur Wilson of the Wil be made by contacting the Quartermaster Office at Fort DuPont or by phoning or writing to Maj.

James mington Police Department ad J. Goode, director oi supplies at Fort DuPont. dressed the men this morning on traffic detail- X2. 1.

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