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Tlirei Jonrnal-Every Evening, Wilmington, Delaware, Saturday, December 2, 1944 Dollar-Franc Exchange War Mothers Selling Bonds Casualties (Centime Fram Oast Five of Doolittle's Fliers Back After 'Escape From Soviet Tokyo Raiders, Who Landed Near Vladivostok in 1912, Tired of Country Home, Fine Food, Servants, Recreation, Finally Cross Border at Iran with her parents. Mr. and Mxi. William E. Shaw, Tuxedo Park.

Private Godwin writes that he is still a patient in a hospital In England. A graduate of the Wilmington High School, he was formerly employed as a printer by the Charles H. Gray Printing Company. James A. Kennedy Private Kennedy, the husband of Mrs.

Edith A. Kennedy, is announced as wounded on a casualty list with the names of 1.480 men Reconversion Halted as War Output Lags Government Ends All New Authorization of Civilian Goods in About 125 Cities WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 UP). The latest of James H. Doolittle's Tokyo raiders to be heard from, the five who landed In Russia, "escaped" across one of the world! best-guarded border, and have returned safely to the United States.

The Inside story of their adventure wa learned today from an authoritative source. The tale was one of pampered "captives," of Communists Belittled By Lahorite Minister HUDDERS FIELD. England. Dec. 2 UP).

Home Secretary Herbert Morrison asserted todsy that, the Communist Patv in several European countries "shows signs of sup ilium mi inn ii urn iiTrffflniii mi i I band of Mrs. Edith Kennedy, Mar-shaliton. John Mlynarczyk Corporal Mlynarczyk was' married and had a 3-year-old son. His dow Is living in Cam den, N. with her parents.

He entered the Army Dec. 26, 1942, and went overseas in August with an infantry anti-tank unit. He was home on a furlough in June. He is survived by four sisters and four brothers, two of whom are in service. They are E.

J. Mlynarczyk. avi ation metalsmith third class, stationed at Day-tona Beach, Fla John Mlynarczyk and Pfc. Ed Mlynarczyk who served 28 months in the Pacific with the 198th Coast Artillery A. A.

Regiment, and is now at Fort Bragg. N. C. He attended St. Hedwig's School and was employed by the Pusey and Jones Corporation as a shipfitter before entering the Army.

rhllip E. Crossland Private Crossland, first listed as mfssing, was killed Sept. 20, the War Department has informed his par ents. He attended Warner Junior High School, and before entering the Army was employed by the Bethlehem Steel Company. He trained at Camp Blanding.

and went overseas last July. There are three brothers in the armed forces, one of whom. Pfc. Elmer Crossland. was wounded in France and is now hospitalized in England.

The others are Pfc. Charles Crossland, with a military in tne Alps ltaiy on uct 30. according to word sent to his parents. Mr. and Mrs.

George Campbell, Jersey City. N. formerly of Re hobo th. He was born In Selbyville and moved to Rehoboth Beach wlien a small child, and was graduated from the Rehoboth Beach High School. He had served a 6-year enlistment in the Army before reentering on Feb.

14. 1942 He had been overseas about a vear. with the Fifth Arm v. pii ijj IM.ijriiiu.ilMMiiill -o Five war mothers who are among the 6th War Loan Treasury volunteers setting bonds to their neighbors. In the rear, left to right, are Mrs.

tforman P. Watson. Mrs. Charles F. Turner, Mrs.

Thyra N. Lundgren; seated, lejl to right: Mrs. Annie C. MuUins and Mrs. Anna N.

Warren. porting ana wonting with some I curious forces while in the United States its ghost appears inclined to enter upon an alliance with Ameri- can cspuausm Morrison told a Yorkshire confer ence of the British Labor Party that In some way too much attention m'aa given to the "problem" of the Communist Party here and declared: "I don't myself think that the membership of this party or its direct numerical influence is as great as is sometimes aupposed. IU 'respectability is portentous and it flag-wgging a msrvel to behold." The Laborite minister in Prime Minister Churchill's coalition cabi net directed his remarks chiefly at the -position of the Communists in Britain, whose application for affl liation has been rejected by the La bor Party. Photo War Mothers (C.ntlnaed From Pii Om) $600 in war bonds, she says, "I'm doing what I can." "I love it!" says Mrs. Lundgren whose son.

Second Lieut. Ernest O. Lundgren, 27. a bombardier, ua Tnim nvi nr. imanyon May 1944 btwrote Germany on June 2.

1944. that he hart hn rsntnrorf aftr Via t-iaila4 by Emnborn. Sailor Actor Claims Dorscy Hit Hall on Nose With Bottle out of his plane which shortly af ter-1 police detachment in Italy, and Seawards exploded. man First Class Joseph Crossland, "I'd stay out all day." she says'111 the Navy, about the $1,575 in war bonds she T. 4 Charles D.

Campbell has sold already. "I have another Untenant Campbell was killed wounded in the European area released today by the War Department. Residents of the Marshall ton section say that family has moved from there. 1,000 Japs Face Doom As Chinese Ring Bhamo SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND HEADQUARTERS. KANDY.

Ceylon Dec. 2 American-trained Chinese troops tightened their hold toaay on the north Burma stronghold of Bhamo. where 1,000 encircled Japanese troops face annihilation. Except for a small frontage on the Irrawaddy River, all entrances to the town are blocked and the entire area is covered by Chinese artillery fire. West of Bhamo British 36th Division troops completed their occupation of Pinwe which the Japanese abandoned without firing a shot.

The retreated southward along the railroad toward Mandalay and Rangoon. Pinwe ts seven miles north of Naba and 167 miles north of Mandalay. Planes of the Eastern Air Command smashed at Japanese forces In the northern Burma area, the communique said, as the enemy, possibly having decided to quit Burma, clogged the roads with men and vehicles Bond Drive (Ootinaea1 Fram Ff Oti bond goal, sales, 332; 19 per cent. Sussex County Over-all goal, sales, '2 per cent. bond goal, sales 20 per cent.

A meeting of zone chairmen in Wilmington was held yesterday in the office of the War Finance Committee and the general picture was encouraging. LSM Bought Wilmington has made its landing medium goal $1,200,000 In E. and bonds This was announced last night by Harry O. Gray, executive manager of the Delaware War Finance Com- This means that the LSM to be In the meantime, word has already been received by officials at Dravo that the LSMs the latest type launching craft of the Navy- have gone into action in the Pacmc and are meeting the specifications and the requirements of the Navy. The LSM which will be christened by a woman selected by top-notch Treasury volunteers in the city will bear a plaque, noting the fact that the ship is a gift of Wilmington to the Navy-The launching has a double sig niflcance, first because it is the third anniversary of America at war and is the anniversary of Delaware's ratification of the federal Constitution the first state to accept the document as the basic law of the land.

The drawing for the sponsor and her escort wiU be. held early next week. In addition to the best Treasury volunteers who will receive special guest tickets for the launching, a certain number of tickets will also be handed out to the best Treasury volunteers in rural New Castle County. Win. Storey (Cantiaard Fram Fata On) Antonio Icaza Says Bandleader Relented Jon Putting Arm Around Hi Wife; Claims Most Of Thofe at Party Intoxicated LOS ANGLES, Dec.

2 The prosecution Anally has found somebody mho claims to know mtut hoppened in that Hollywood apartment braml last Aug. 5 mhen Movie Actor Jon Hall almot lost the end of his nose. Antonio Icaza, swarthy Panamanian sailor and actor, claims that the trombone blowing Tommy, incensed at Hall putting his srm around Mr. Dorsey. picked up a bottle and "Well, you, Mr.

Icaza, how did you Prior to entering the Army he to Askhabad where, a P3 wl lFuUns put it. Uiey would 6Lh War Loan gift of WLmlngton: could -usefully Rate Arouses Gis PARIS. Dec. 2 American soldier about ol.ar-franc exchange rat. hve rearh the ear of the 17 touring member of the Military Affair Comm ttee of the U.

S. House of Represent Uvc. "The GIa 50 dollar a month doesn't go far here because of the exchange rate." aaid RepreenUUys Thorn ss (R-NJ). "Certainly both government should get together soon on the situation because It operating against our boy." The American are paying "'t five time a much as normal because of the exchange rate. It wm estimated.

The difficulty caused by th Germans, mho printed huge quantities of franc. The committee arrived In Paris yesterdsy after inrpectlng faciliUe at Cherbourg and other port. Indian Troops Capture Village Near Faenza ROME. Dec. 2 Indian troops of the Eighth Army, fighting through bitter German opposition hv seized the village of Albereto.

five miles northeast of Faenxa. Allied Headquarters announced todsy. Meanmhlle. Monte Giornetto. 11 miles west-southmert of Faenzs.

fell to the Fifth Army without a struggle. Farther meat on the Fifth Army front several Oerman counter-attacks mere beaten back In the vicinity of Bomblano, 25 miles southmest of Bologna, and subsequent attempts at infiltration were smashed. Fifth Anny patrols probing Nazi defenses Aouth of Bologna met harp artillery and machine gun fire. Let freedom ring on Uncle Sam't cash register! Bay V. S.

War and Stamps! set to Myer. the Dorsey prty7 asked Thst was a question everybody in the courtroom mas waiting for. because nobody had been able to plac Tony as among thow present mhen the hostilities started. "I m'aa in another party at a night club mhere the Dorseys mere, and my people aked me to go to th apsrtment and hsve a nightcap." Hall mas a hemant and contusM m'itness. After about eight hour on the stand.

Hall finally admitted ha mouldn't mant to nee the defendant convicted on the kind of testimony he had given. He said he was beaten and cut, but he couldn't honestly tell mho mas responsible. Everything mas pretty hsiy. Trial Resume Monday Exanperated at the grilling cross-examination. Hail once tried question Rmiley's lam-yer, the veteran Jerry Giesler.

asking him: "Have you ever been in a fight mhere there mere feveral people milling around. All he got for that ma a rebuke, and the quetion ma stricken. Irsza mss still in the mltnrsa chslr mhen court adjourned until Monday. Tony brought a 140,000 damatM ult against the day after the fight, claiming he mas injured. When Dorwy got his notice he exclaimed: "Who is this Icaza?" Well.

Tony is one of the reason the trial is on. Hall.manted to forgive and forget. Not Tony. Ha rime sll the msy from Tanama to tell his story. lit), 'JilfflS about.

You TOP dollar et CASH, the Immediately. II you to a personal friend and the car aoeo wrona he will always blame YOU! There's no rUk of breaking a personal friendship when you sell to us. You don't have to woio time and spend money pul Una your car la shape. Wo do the reconditioning. You can sell your car to us.

pocket the coh and large the transaction. Thero can be no later comeback on you for repairs. You get a sguare deal all around from us. Wo want your friendship new and In the future. OPEN EVENINCS bashed It across big Jon' face.

"Where did he get the bottle?" asked Edmin Myers, mho is prosecuting Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey and their friend Allen Smiley on charges of felonious assault. Bottles All Over PUre That must have sounded like a naive question to Icaza, m-ho iporta a very black, closely cropped moustache. "Why there mere bottles sll over the place," replied Icaza.

The may Tony tells it, everybody but himself at the party staged In celebration of Mrs. Dorsey'a tmenty- sixth birthday, had consumed too much liquor. Myers asked the mitness to tell mho was drunk. He did. He said Dorsey.

Mrs. Dorsey. Smiley. Night Club Singer Jane Churchill. Actor Eddie Norris, "and some fellow mho looked like a refugee" all had been hitting the bottles pretty hard and often.

And there m-ere others, too; people he didn't knom "What about Hall: wrs he drunk?" Mr. Hall. yes. I believe he m-a intoxicated, too." Miss ChurchiH and Hall, mho had preceded Icaza on the tand. hadn't noticed anybody drunk.

Tony said Dorey took a dislike tc several persons sitting on and nearby a sofa mith Mrs. Dorsey, and told all to "get the hell out of here, you so-snd-os." "And then," continued Icaza, "Mr. Dorsey, he ssy: 'Look at their HUy And he laugh, 'Ha, ha, ha! Like that." WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 UP). Plans for reconversion to civilian production went back on the shelf in many parts of the country today there to wait until lagging munitions programs have been brought up to schedule.

Slapping a tight checlc-rein on preparations for return to a peacetime economy, the government last night halted for 90 days any new authorization of consumer goods output in about 125 cities and their vicinities. Besides eliminating additional "spot reconversion" temporarily in these areas, it ordered stringent restrictions on application of the civilian goods plan in all other re gions. The effect is a much more literal Interpretation of the original provisions of the spot authorization plan. These called for approval of civilian production only in localities where there were available manpower and facilities not required in the war effort. Born in strife, the program went Into operation in September and so far embraces projected production of nearly $400,000,000 in virtually all types of consumer products except automobiles, refrigerators and washing machines.

It was put into use over vigorous protests of the military, which ararued that the war effort might suffer. The plan was conceived by Donald M. Nelson, then War Production Board chairman, and has been championed by his successor, J. A. Krug.

In announcing operation of the plan would be tightened drastically, Krug Joined in a statement with James Forres tal. Navy secretary; Robert R. Patterson, undersecretary of war. and Paul V. McNutt, War Manpower Commission chairman.

"The first and foremost obligation, they said, "continues to be to maintain production for prosecution of the war and to increase ifw here necessary to bring lagging programs irr to schedule. "Less urgent production and services must not be permitted to Interfere with such demands. Affected by the 90-day suspension order are all 63 Group 1 areas of acute labor shortage. The order also applies to 43 areas not in Group 1 but recognized as regions where war production must be boosted Wilmington is in the list of 125 cities in which the government halted industrial reconversion for manufacture of specified civilian goods. All authorizations for non-military production under the WPB spot reconversion order, to permit manufacture of limited quantities of civilian goods, were ended on under the order.

One applications for reconversion to civilian production was made to the WPB in Wilmington tinder the original spot reconversion order. Street Fighting Iti Nazi Cities Austrian Archduke Tells Of Clashes In Enemy Areas LONDON, Dec. 2 (X Skirmishes in Vienna and street fighting in Budapest between civilians and Ger man police have occurred during the last two weeks. Archduke Robert of Austria reported today. As the Rus sians threatened the rear gateway of the Reich.

He said his information, obtained from reliable sources in Austria and Hungary, disclosed "a particularly jjrave situation" in Budapest. There Hungarian civilians erected street barricades and fought Gestapo battalions after the Germans began to round up persons suspected of underground activities, he said. "My informants." the Hapsburg scion said, "reported that the Germans used Tiger tanks to smash the barricades." He said "many persons were killed" in Vienna In fihts between Austrian workers and German police. "These skirmishes occurred in the factory district," Robert said. "The situation became so bad that the Germans had to bring, up reinforcements and call on.

the Vienna police for help." Pearl Harbor (Continued Fran Fata Ont and Navy boards, to both houses of Congress. On the point of culpability, the Navy said: "The secretary in his findings upon the evidence before the court of inquiry and all the other proceedings in the matter to date, has found that there were errors of Judgment on the part of ertain officers In the naval service, both at Pearl Harbor and at Washington." Secretary Stimson said: "The Army Pearl Harbor board, although it recommended no disciplinary or other action, concluded that there were several officers in the field and in the War Department who did not perform their duties with the necessary skill or exercise the judgment which was required under the circumstances. On the recorded evidence, I agree with some but not all of the board's conclusions." Stimson said that In his opinion removal of General Short from his command was a "serious result" and "sufficient action" for an Army officer of excellent record. Forres tal did not mention Kimmel by name. His conclusion was that "the evidence now available does not warrant the trial by general cvirt-nartial of any person or persons in the naval service." prolonged boredom and finally of easy escape.

The five formed the crew of one of the 18 B-25 bombers which hit Tokyo April 18. 1942. Thia' one made a forced landing on the Rus sian maritime province while the other flew on to China. This crew was interned in the Soviet Union, and left a year later. By a bit of fast talking, the fliers almost escaped Interment when they first came down without gasoline at an airport near Vladivostok.

They told the Russians their plane should be accorded the privilege of belligerent ships in distress to put Intc a neutral port, refuel and proceed. The Russians seemed milling and put the Americans up for the night. The next morning, however, the fliers found they had been interned under international law, and were not permitted to return to the plane. Given Country Home The United States embassy, then headed by Admiral William H. Standley.

was notified through a message from the Soviet diplomatic agent in the Far East. They turned up in the central Russian town of Penza, between Moscow and Kuibyshev, where they mere given a "dacha." or country house. U. S. officials were permitted to visit them.

Later the fliers were moved east to Ohansk. on the Kama River near Molotov. where they mere given a large house. Admiral Standley visited them Sept. 12.

1942. inspected their quarters and took them for a boat excursion on the Kama, complete with caterers, musician and an English-speaking hostess. The fliers had comfortable rooms, plenty of food, servants and an interpreter-guard mho taught them Russian. They had the freedom of the river-port town, went swimming and were promised hunting in the fall, but chafed at their inactivity. 'Escape to Iran That minter they mere trans- the be em ployed Ashkahabad is on the So viet-Ira nis an border.

Just east of the Caspian Sea. One day they drove across the border in a truck to the Iranian city of Meshed, and never returned. Soviet officials never drew the attention of the United States embassy to the "escape." and the Americans never mentioned it to the Russians. 22 Nazi Planes Drop in Air Duel Coblenz Area Railroad Yards Blasted By 230 U. S.

Bombers LONDON, Dec. 2 (JP). More than 250 American heavy bombers attacked three railroad yards today in the Coblena area: 50 miles benind the German western front, and at least 22 German planes mere shot down when 550 escorting Thunderbolts and Mustangs tangd with 200 enemy fighters. Air raid warnings broadcast oy Berlin indicated that American heavy bombers from Italy struck had permitted a synchronized day- nnratirn. The bomber fleet which hit rail facilities in the Coblenz area car ried more than 1.000 tons of ex plosives.

Cologne Is 50 mLes north of Coblenz. The Moselle River empties into the Rhine at Coblenz. a Norwegians Driven Into Exodus of Misery LONDON. Dec. 2 (JP).

Terje Wold. Norwegian minister of justice, reported today that Norwegians in the Arctic province of Finmark who have been turned into freezing, starving bands of wanderers by the Germans, have stocks of food sufficient for only two or three weeks. In the first full official account of German devastation in Norway, gathered at first hand during a recent visit. Wold described the forced evacuation of Norwegians as an "exodus of misery" from a section of the country that has been "burned, plundered, and laid waste until it is only a barren desert." The health position, he said. is serious with doctor and medicine lacking.

stfnECj 4 Spanish Gvif'War Likelv, British Told LONDON, Dec. 2 (JP. The London Times, calling Francisco Franco's Spanish regime "increasingly insecure," said today there is" a danger that when a change comes it will "take the form of a. catastrophic upheaval which may well result in civil war Many Spaniards look to Britain as a champion or liberty ana toler ance and as an exponent of well-tried methods of compromise and peaceful change," the Times said. "That fact no doubt imposes on this country special responsibility but it establishes no kind of British interest in the survival of a regime which has consistently emulated our enemies and spares no demonstration short of actual war of its sympathy with them." Allied Drive (Contlnaed From race On junction on the main highway be tween Geilenkirchen and Duren.

had been cleared of Germans in house to house fighting, except for one pocket of infantrymen sup- ported by tanks and howitzers. nrst Army elements won mgn ground within 1,000 yards west of Gey. four miles southwest of Duren, and made moderate gains toward Brandenberg, seven miles southwest of Duren. Battle planes raked German tanks and defenses along the Cologne plain front. British Front Quiet On the British front in Holland, all was quiet save for patrol activities.

A British staff officer de clared the Germans all alon? the western front were suffering more asuaities than they could replace with trained men. Comnanv strength in some cases is down to 40 men, compared with the normal 160. he said. The Third Army corralled 595 prisoners yesterday for a total in this current operation of 25,167. Yesterdays advances enveloped the towns of Fltten, Fremersdorf, and Oberlimberg, and Americans entered Felsberg.

Below Strasbourg, armored units wheeled steadily down the Alsatian plain and liberated a dozen or more villages, among then! Boofzheim. 16 mersheim and Kogenheim 18 miles southwest of the city. Infantrymen pushing into the nine plain through the Vosges Chatenois and Klntzheim in thrusts to within two miles of the road junction of Selesut. On the upper Rhine near the Swiss border, French troops occupied Rosenau. Allies On Four Rivers Gen.

Eisenhower's armies were on the western banks of four rivers forming natural barriers to further pentration of western Germany. The Nazis were striving desperately to keep the Allies from smashing across at such key points as Venlo on the Mass. Duren on the Roer. Merzig on the Saar and Strasbourg on the Rhine. The bitterest struggle was taking place on the Roer, the one place the river barriers are not backed up by tne toieginea Line.

Flying Bombs Increase Augmenting the German air force attack, the enemy loosed a barrage of flying bombs on rear areas in Belgium and Holland. A front dispatch said the barrage represented an Increase of almost 100 per cent in 24 nours. Chinese Admit Japs Penetrate Kweichow CHUNGKING, Dec. 2 VP). The Chinese High Command admitted officially tonight that the Japanese had penetrated Kweichow province.

The Chinese told of skirmishes in the Limingkwan (Dawn Pass), through which runs the Kwangsi-Kwelchow railroad. The pass begins just inside the Kweichow border north of Lluchai. on the railroad 110 miles southeast of the Kweichow Burma Road capital of Kweiyang. The high command said attacking enemy units were thrown back at Limingkwan. and also claimed to have repulsed Japanese thrusts east of Liuchal.

Furore About Threats By Leclerc Is Ended PARIS. Dec. 2 (WS). The contro versial question of multiple reprisals threatened against the Germans for sniping appeared ended, at least temporarily, today by the departure from Strasbourg of Jacques LeClerc. General LeClerc.

upon entering Strasbourg, threatened to shoot five German hostages for every soldier under his command who wajrstruck down by a sniper. It appeared that this threatened procedure was automatically cancelled since General LeClerc no longer is in control of Strasbourg. I after which he returned to Dover. simultaneously at He was admitted to the practice ofjern Germany. It was the first time taw in 'rv'n-ir.

nn Anrn la? In almost tmo week that meather son in service." she adds. "Private Carroll A. Lundgren. with the field artillery at Fort Sill. Okla.

Public Is Encouraging "You don't do any talking everybody seems to be waiting for you." is what Mrs. Mullins says after selling $1,000 in war bonds. She is the mother of First Lieut. James D. Mullins.

28, who. while on his thirty-first mission as a bombardier. was shot down over Austria and' captured on July 8. .1944. bv the! Germans.

we cant do enough for our sons, she says. "Im working my son. Every mother should the same." "I don't want our bovs to be let down." exclaims Mrs. Watson, whose son. Pfc.

Thomas E. Watson, suffered facial shrapnel wounds on Guam, and is now undergoing treatment at a Marine Corps hospital in Oregon. While her sffti has been recuperat ing, she has sold $575 in war bonds. But the amount, even though small, is a large one for she says. "Most of the people in my block are buying bonds through their place of employment." These four war mothers have been under the leadership of Mrs.

Turner whose son, Sergt. James M. Turner. 23. completed 50 missions over Europe.

Her son recently came home on furlough after his overseas duty and while home received an extendi furlough so that he could appear at local bond rallies during the Sixth War Loan drive. Sells $600 Worth "He's personally sold $600 worth of bonds." she proudly states. "He attends on the average three or four rallies or meetings each day." His furlough will end at the completion of the drive. night. Dhnvntr com have a terrify a a Ifflf7 "at covers 7t "nffh Carter and Pine Streets.

Bubbling over with enthusiasm for these war mothers. Mrs. Turner remarks: "They've been steadily pushing door bells, going out on rainy nights but they get a kick out of it and they've turned in some mighty good results!" Philippines (Caotinaed Fram Faa One) destroyed seven convoys seeking to sneak reinforcements and supplies onto the island. Two Air Attacks At Pearl Harbor, a Navy communique reported that Liberator bombers made two more attacks Tuesday on airstrips on Iwo Jima Island in the volcano group from which the Nipponese have been bombing U. S.

Super-Fortress bases in the Marianas. Army bombers attacked the island again Wednesday, and shot down one of three or four Japanese interceptors, probably destroying another. All American planes got home, although five were damaged. Safeguarding the aerial route to Tokyo. Marine medium and Army heavy bombers hit at Japan's Bonin Island bases northeast of Iwo Jima Wednesday, the communique announced.

Marine fighter planes set afire a supply dump on Babelthuap in the Palau group. Japs Tell of Landings By Associated Press A Japanese imperial communique claimed today that airborne Japanese assault units were landed on eastern Leyte Island last Sunday near two American air fields in the Philippines and were believed to have caused considerable damage The communique, broadcast, and recorded by the Federal Communl cations Commission, was wholly un confirmed. It asserted that air commandos of the army special attack corps land ed in the vicinity of Dulag and Burauen airdromes from four transport Bust of Cordell Hull WASHINGTON; Dec. 2 OP). The Senate has passed and sent to the House a resolution authorizing Congress to accept a bust of Cordell Hull, former secretary of state, and place it on display in the Capitol.

The bust is by George Con! on, sculptor. I I for do to employed by the Kraft Cheese Com nint-monm-OM son. Mitcneu. now living in Beaumont. Tex.

A. brother. Staff Sergt. Theodore Campbell, is a prisoner of war in Germany. James K.

Hill Private Hill has sent the Purple Heart he received for his wounds to his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan T. Traile of 417 East Tenth Street, with whom he made his home. He was wounded in France, but has since returned to duty.

Private Hill is serving with an Ordnance company. A graduate of Howard High School, class of 1940. he was employed by the Pullman Company before his inducttion into the Army in December. 1942. He had training at Camp Forrest, and went overseas in October, 1943.

He is one of three brothers now serving with -the Army in France. The brothers met in England before the invasion. The others are Corp. Rufus P. Hill and Pfc.

Nathan S. HilL John P. H. Warner Sergeant Warner was slightly wounded in France, the War Department informed his sister, Mrs. Dell W.

Keen. 2602 Monroe Street. He had attended the University of Virginia, and was employed by the Pusey and Jones Corporation when he entered the Army in March. 1944 He went overseas in July. James J.

McCarthy Private McCarthy, son of Mrs, Margaret McCarthy, Delaware City, was slightly wounded in France on Nov. 16. He went overseas in April, was wounded in JOJy and again In October. He has already sent home the Purple Heart with one oak leaf cluster. A graduate of Delaware City High School, he was employed as an electrician at Fort DuPont before he entered the Army a year ago.

Horace Oat Private Oat was wounded Oct. 1 in Italy for the third time. He is now in a hospital In Italy. The soldier was wounded first on July 17 and again on Sept. IS.

A former employe of the Orange Meat Market, he has a wife, the former Miss Frances Lozue. and a 19- month-old son, Horace. Frank J. Gleeson Private Gleeson was wounded Nov. 8 in France, according to a War Depart ment telegram re ceived by his wife.

Mrs. Mary Ellen MdBhollan Gleeson. The couple a a small son, Jerry. In a letter to his wife, received last week. heJ told her he had received shrap nel wounds of the leg and was undergoing an operation in a os pit al in France.

A former bellboy at 'the Hotel Du Frank J. Gleeson Pont. he was in ducted into the Army last January and sent overseas in June. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Michael J. Gleeson. Bellefonte. YVUlard L. Godwin Private Godwin is recovering from injuries sunered Sept.

13 when he was struck by an ambulance while at work with the Medical Corps in Germany. He was awarded the Purple Heart Oct. 5 and has sent it puny. In addition to his parents ne is survived by his wife. Mrs.

Catherine Smith camnn nrt James R. Hill F5 and opened his private law m-hlch he still continues. He mas a member of the State Board of Accountancy from 1329 to 1333, serving the last three years as president of the board, and mas clerk of the Kent County Court of Common Pleas from July, 1931. m-hen the court mas established, until his appointment tm-o years later as deputy attorney general for Kent County. He held the latter office from July 8.

1333, until he became secretary of state. Storey m-as Judge advocate general of the National Guard of Delaware from December, 1936, to January, 1941. mith the rank of captain; is a past president of the Dover Kiwanis Club, a past president of DuPont Chapter, No. 78, National Sojourners; a trustee and treasurer of Wesley Junior College, a direc tor of and legal counsel for the Dover Gas Light Company. Actively interested in politics since he was first able to vote, he was secretary of the Republican State Committee from 1932 to 1934 under the then state chairman Francis V.

duPont. and was secretary of the Kent County Republican Committee from 1936 to 1940. WHY Sell Your Car to Wilmington's Largest Dealer? Beliaving in tho inherent honesty and patriotism cl the overwhelming majority of our citlzeni and fl ina that they would never KNOWINGLY rialc their good names and the possibility of drastic penalties for alicnina themselves with "black market" operationswe are glad to publish the following facts and reasons as a guide and assistance to those who may be considering the sale of their present cars. GET YOUR FAVORITE BRANDS OF Do you know that cam pay you os much lor your car as can any Individual? And that If you are approached by an Individual who elfors you trior than coUlnq prico and you aecopt It. It la YOU.

sot ho. who 1 suk'oct to loool action, a drastic ponaity. and tho adverse newspaper publicity that usually follows? Do you know that the sale of your car involves tho Sills In and lor warding to ov-enunent agencies el various forms all handled by us when you sell to us. When you sell to us you have bo adverttslna on-pens, bo haaellna ever tern, ne car to take la trade, future collection to worry Jj III I Now Don't rfJ I I Disappointed 7 Been, Cordials. Glna i 1" ni Rom Are In Oaf Stock Plus Friendly Service.

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