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The Gazette and Daily, York, Tuesday Morning, February 20, 1945 Published Daily Except Sunday. Entered Second Clau Matter at Um Poet Of lice la York. under act of Mareh U7B. Casualty Report Lists Deaths Of Three Servicemen, Another Wounded Churchill Back Home From Conferences London, Feb. 19 (UP)) Prime Minister Churchill returned tonight to 10 Downing street, and conferred immediately with his cabinet on the momentous Crimea decisions for winding up the war and winning the peace.

He had stopped enroute home at Athens and Cairo, and is expected to address Commons in a first-hand report, perhaps later this week. days have been scheduled for his review and for debate. A communique on Churchill's visit to Egypt will be issued tomorrow. He and Foreign Secretary Eden were there while foreign ministers of middle east countries drafted a proposed Pan-Aras league. in the South Pacific for 26 months.

Besides his brothers and parents a sister, Mrs. Dorothy Grove, 702 West Princess street, also survives. S2c Jasper met death during an accidental explosion of his ship in the Pacific on Nov. 10, according to a telegram received 13 from the War Department by Mrs. Olewiler.

She had received word previously that her son had been The East Prospect sailor enlisted in March, 1542. He was formerly employed by the U. S. Expansion Bolt company. Chiselers Turn To Meat And Sugar Black market buyers now putting most of their money into steaks and sugar, rather than gasoline and liquor.

Bowles says dishonest consumers form basis for illegal sales. (bpecial to The Gazette and Daily) By CHAKLK8 A. MICHIK Washington, Feb. 19 The black market shopper is paying out his money for thick steaks and sugar in preference to gasoline and liquor these days, the Office of War Information disclosed today. From information suppiled by the Office of Price Administration, the U.

S. Secret Service and the Alcohol Tax Unit of the Treasury, OWI reported that organized black markets in meat and sugar are reappearing in dangerous numbers while illegal diversion of gas, liquor and cigarets has practically disappeared. Revival of the black market in red meat and sugar depend largely on the counterfeiting of coupons, the report declared. Institutional and industrial consumers are the chief offenders. The OPA flatly denies the existence of any organized black market in cigarettes.

Officials claim that "petty chisellers" are the chief support of any illicit market in smokes. As for liquor, OPA reports that the black market has been practically eliminated. The report puts the blame first on organized racketeers and second on "dishonest, greedy customers who foster illicit operations to the detriment of millions who respect the law." Government officials in all departments are Yanks Seize Manila Fort McKinley, one of two Manila forts taken by Americans. Has large airfield. Mopping-up operations continue in south Manila, Corregidor and Bataan.

Towns of Hagonoy and Tagig, southeast of Manila taken. Formosa, northwest Borneo bombed. Manila, Tuesday, Feb. 20 UP) Eleventh Airborne Division troops captured Fort William McKinley at the southern outskirts of Manila Sunday. Other Yanks on Corregidor fortress continued to mop up the Japanese defenders behind their own gun batteries, -and pursued enemy remnants on Bataan.

McKinley is one of Manila's two forts. The other is Fort Santiago, inside the old Intramuros (walled city), where the Japanese are making a stand. Fort McKinley -before the war was headquarters for the Philippine Scouts and part of the Philippine Division of the American Army. It has a large airfield and extensive military facilities. The towns of Hagonoy and Tagig on the northwest shore of large Laguna de Bay, southeast of Manila, also were taken.

Frequent patrol clashes were reported near Novaliches and Norza-garay, northeast of Manila, while, in the Zambales mountain sector along Luzon's west-central coast the 40th Division was clearing Jap-anese remnants. Light naval craft operating in Manila bay, now open to U. S. fleet units with the invasion of Corregidor, sank four barges. A concentrated 175-ton bombing r( Talrnn nirrlrnmp nn 'Formosa hv 1 1 '1 (1 mill Ti MJjj 1 ill Late casualties reported to The Gazette and Daily include two Infantrymen sons of York famil-" ies killed in action on the Western Front, an East Prospect sailor killed in a shipboard explosion in the Pacific and another countian with an airborne unit wounded in Belgium.

KILLED IN ACTION: Pvt. Charles W. Fleming, husband of Mrs. Anna Mary Fleming, ,514 North Third street, Columbia, and son of Mr. and Mrs.

Curtis Fleming, 1003 South Albemarle street. Pfc. Donald N. Suereth, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Edward Suereth, 805 West Poplar street. KILLED IN EXPLOSION: Jack A. Jasper, seaman second class, son of Mrs. John Olewiler, East Prospect. WOUNDED IN ACTION: Pvt.

Richard L. Boyd, husband of Mrs. Mary Eckard Boyd, near Glen Bock. PVT. CHARLES W.

FLEMING Pvt. Fleming, U. S. Infantry, was killed in action in France on Jan. 25, according to word received Thursday by his wife.

The father of a 15-months-old son, Wayne Charles Fleming, the soldier was inducted from here on Dec. 21, 1943. He trained at Fort McClellan, and Ft. Meade, going overseas in August of last year. He was attached to Company Seventh Infantry.

Prior to entering the service Pvt. Fleming was employed as a town manager for The Canteen company here. He was a member of Fourth United Brethren church. Besides his wife, son and parents, he leaves a sister, Catherine Fleming, Springdale road and a stepson, Russell A. Wallick, serving on a submarine in the South Pacific, Pfc.

Suereth, 19, was killed in action in Germany Feb. 8, according to a War Department telegram received by his parents yesterday. Pfc. Suereth, who entered the service Oct. 17, 1943, was serving with the infantry.

He left for overseas duty Aug. 6, 1944, and arrived in France. He received training at Ft. Benninjj, and Camp McCain, Miss. In June, 1943, he graduated from Y.

C. where he took his senior year of high school. He had attended William Penn Senior High school. He was active in sports and at Y. C.

I. played on the basketball team with his brother, Dale, under Archie McVicker. His two brothers are in the armed forces. Technician Fifth Grade Dale Suereth is stationed in England, and First Sgt. Edward Suereth is at a convalescent hospital in Springfield, after Destroyed 66 Jap Planes In Raid On Tokyo U.

S. Pacific Fleet Headquarters, Guam, Tuesday, Feb. 20 UP) The biggest Superfortress raid of the war Monday on Tokyo resulted in the destruction or damaging of 66 enemy planes. Maj. Gen.

Curtis Lemay, heading the 21st Bomber Command, disclosed. today that in Monday's big strike, delivered in support of the Marine inva-. sion of Iwo Jima, 750 miles south of Tokyo, the big bombers shot down 21 enemy fighters, probably destroyed 20 and damaged 25. Three B-29s were lost. (Good results were obtained in the raid, the War Department announced in Washington, with the Nakajima Musashina aircraft factory among the industrial targets attacked.

Fighter opposition was light, but antiaircraft fire heavy. My Byrnes "Requests" MidnightCurfewIn Amusement Spots Washington, Feb. 19 UP) A midnight curfew was proclaimed today for night clubs, theaters, road houses, saloons and all other "places of entertainment" throughout the nation. The action, taken by War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes becomes effective Feb.

26. Byrnes' mandate took the form of a "request" to operators of entertainment places, from swank night spot to neighborhood movie, to have their patrons out and the doors locked up by midnight. But Byrnes invoked manpower controls to make compliance, to all intents, obligatory. He said he would ask the War Manpower commission to "deny ceilings to any places violating this request." This would deprive such establish-' ments of employes. The War Production board, the Office of Defense Transportation the Oirice of Price Adminis tration also were asked to aid the WMC as far as possible in enforcing the "request." Byrnes said his purpose "is primarily to save coal consumed in heating and in providing electricity.

But it will also be helpful in the fields of transportation, manpower and in other ways." Places of entertainment were defined as all night clubs, sport arenas, theaters, dance halls, road houses, saloons, bars, "and other similar enterprises, whether public or private, excluding restaurants engaged exclusively in serving food. "Moreover, the War Production board, the Office of Defense Transportation and the Office of Price Administration are being requested to use their powers to the full extent consistent with the law in assisting the War Manpower commission." In announcing the broad step, Byrnes said: "Conservative measures previously taken by the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion, including reduction of travel, the elimination of the use of electricity in outdoor advertising, the lowering of. temperatures in government buildings and an appeal to the public to lower temperatures in homes do not appear to suffice in view of the coal shortage. "I am advised by the War Production board that the industrial coal stocks on hand are inadequate. "Unfavorable weather conditions and possible spring floods render the coal situation even more serious than a few weeks ago.

"The closing of places of entertainment at midnight should im- pose no real hardships, and I am convinced our people at home will gladly comply with this request in view of the fact that in the period just ahead of use those in- the armed services will be making greater sacrifices than ever before." The Byrnes statement said he felt sure "that state and local officials would cooperate wholeheartedly with the federal government in carrying out this objective and in bringing any violation to the attention of the proper authorities." FDR Names Merrell U. S. KepresenTanve io inaia Washington, Feb. 19 UP) President Roosevelt today nominated George R. Merrell of Missouri, a career diplomat, to serve as United States representative in India with the rank of minister.

Ambassador William Phillips remains as the President's personal representative to India. Merrell already is on duty in New Delhi where he has been serving as secretary of the Amer- PVT. RICHARD L. BOYD Pvt. Boyd was slightly wounded in action Jan.

22 in Belgium, according to information recently received by his wife. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Boyd, also of Glen Rock, and has been serving overseas for the past 10 months with the 82nd Airborne unit. He is now hospitalized in England.

Jap Navy Must Be "DugOiif'-Halsey Washington, Feb. 19 (UP Admiral "Bull" Halsey, freshly back from his stamping ground in the Pacific, declared today that the Japanese navy has "very little left to fight with and what is left is not in good shape." For that reason, the commander of the western Pacific task forces told a news conference, he doesn't believe the enemy fleet will accept the bold challenge of the American naval-air strike at Tokyo and come out to fight. "We're going to have to go in and dig 'em out," Halsey said when asked how the 'Nipponese navy can be engaged. The enemy has made two-fundamental mistakes: "I don't know why those little (here review officers interposed to strike out a word) rats thought they could lick an American. That was the first mistake.

"Their second was when dhey started fighting dirty." No Negotiated Peace To a question, Halsey reiterated his views about the possibility of a Japanese attempt at negotiated peace. "1 think the handwriting is pcetty thoroughly on the wall about that," Halsey said: "I'm one of the few people, from the very beginning, that believed the Japs would break, eventually. industrialists in Japan undoubtedly see that their empire, which has taken a great many years, to build up, is rapidly getting in position where its going to absolutely crumble, ahd it all means just as much to them as it does to any other industrialists in any other part of the world. "When they can get the upper hand of these beasts in charge of the army, they will take over, and they will begin to put out very attractive peace feelers. "To my mind, that is the mosf dangerous period we are facing until peace is actually declared.

"If we let them negotiate a peace now and don't demand absolute and unconditional surrender, we will be committing the greatest crime in the history of our country, Halsey was asked if we would "negotiate that final peace with. the mikado or whom?" "It won't make any difference," Halsey said. 'There ought not be any mikado when this thing is over." 700 Children Return To England London, Feb. 19 UP) Approximately 700 children have returned to England from where they Went when England was under attack in 1940. loud in their denunciation of m-divjdual consumers "who basically create and perpetuate the demand for illegal or stolen coupons" and "willingness to pay extra sums for more than his rationed share." Chester Bowles, administrator of OPA says: "Black markets thrive on dishonest Consumers.

If all consumers in America were to adhere strictly to rationing regulations, enacted for their protection, and reported all observable violations," we would not have such an evil as black marketing." Bowles reported that gasoline coupon counterfeiting was substantially reduced over the previous year and even at that more" than 3,000,000 counterfeit coupons representing 11,000,000 gallons of gas were turned in to the OPA in two monts. The greater number of these phony coupons were found along the Eastern seaboard, particularly in Newark, N. and New York. Devers Decorated By Polish Army York's Lt. Gen.

Jacob L. Devers, commanding general of the 6th Army group, on Feb. 7 was awarded Poland's highest military decoration, Virtuti Militari, at a ceremony which took place at Gen. Devers' headquarters. Lt.

Gen. Wladslaw, commander of the II Polish corps, fighting in Italy, presented the medal, authorized by the Polish commander-in-chief, General Sosnkowski, in recognition of outstanding services. General Anders also read a message from General Sosnkowski. all feel proud that it will be worn by you, a highly distinguished leader of the admirable United States Armies with whom we deem it an honor to fight side by side and one which has been so greatly instrumental in the achievement of the splendid Allies victories of the last few months. "May this decoration be a token of the fraternity of our two nations in the field and in our future victory." General Anders has served under General Devers when the latter was deputy supreme commander of the Mediterranean theater of operations.

General Devers, whose 6th Army group includes both the U. S. Seventh and the French First armies, also wears the Distinguished Service medal witK Oak Leaf Cluster, the Brazilian Order of Merit and is a Knight Commander of the Bath. ical Political Mission. Such a mission is similar to an embassy organization.

Since India, however, is not an independent nation this country cannot send a regular diplomatic mission to New Delhi. If You're A Nurse The Service needs you first. Army Liberators caused extensive damage to an aluminum plant and rail yards, MacArthur reported. Air patrols damaged three small freighters off the Formosa coast and sank another in the Saka-, shima Islands nearby. Other patrol bombers bombed and strafed a freighter-transport off the French Indo-China coast.

The vessel was left aground and blazing. Northwest Borneo took a 64-ton bombing concentrated on the runway and dispersal area of Miri airdrome as well as two other airfields in the vicinity. A patrol ship and a loadecf barge were sunk off the coast. An Associated Press correspond- ent with Maj. Gen.

Oscar W. Gris-wold's 14th Corps at Fort McKinley said officers hesitated to claim the full capture of the fort until mopping up is completed in the adjacent area. Elements of the Firsf Cavalry Division aided the 11th Airborne push into the fort annex and most of the old military area. To the north, heavy howitzers were hauled across the Pasig river and were set up within 500 yards of the Intramuros' thick outer wall. By noon yesterday a considerable portion of the wall had been breached by shells, but further pounding will be necessary before tanks and foot troops can move in.

Army Hospital Rejects Three Colored Nurses Cleveland, Feb. 19 Three Cleveland Negro nurses who had applied for six months' final cadet training in an army hospital were refused last week on the basis of color, despite the nation's oft-repeated calls for military nurses. The three women, Miss Edna Haused, Miss Grace Abner and Miss Lucille Sauls, received letters from Major. Edna B. Groppe, Army Nurse Corps, refusing their applications because "we have no facilities for colored cadets in army hospitals." The discriminatory decision was met by protests from the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Cleveland Press, both daily papers, from the Cleveland Call and Post, Negro weekly, and from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

The Cleveland Press, afternoon paper, asked what kind of facilities are needed. 'For years. City Hospital has trained Negro nurses without any special facilities or requirements. Is there any reason why army hospitals should not do the same?" Congresswoman Frances P. Bolton, who was contacted by the NAACP, said she was unable to understand the rejection, and promised to out.

what was meant by lack of facilities..