Northwest Arkansas Times (Newspaper) - April 18, 1945, Fayetteville, Arkansas THE WAR TODAY DEWITT MACKENZIE The slowing of General Eisenhower's offensive need cause no anxiety or disappointment whatever since it's normal de- velopment that hns been pated by observers from the out- set ot this great drive from the Rhine As a matter of fact the western Allies arc much further ahead with their job than we had any right to expect when they began their push and are in grand shape for the kill The slackening off is caused by several id extension of Allied cations which hns hampered movement of supplies a ing German resistance as we near Berlin and he heart of the Reich possibly to the requirements of the operations of the Western Allies with those of the Russians Actually it's one of the ders of the war Eisenhower has been able to move his plies as fast as been a tat Of MACKENZIE tics which lias been drawing ot military experts THE PUBLIC INTEREST IS THE FIRST CONCERN OF THIS NEWSPAPER Local Forecast Associated Press teased Wire Service Associated Press Feature Service and y cloudy tonight scattered light tomorrow partly cloudy continued cool high 01 low 37 noon 52 sunset 83 NUMBER 227 ARKANSAS WEDNESDAY EVENING APRIl 18 1945 PRICE FIVE CENTS Ernie Pyle Killed In Pacific War Theater Enemy Gun point is that an less a vast front comprising several travel faster than supplies and one of the high command's greatest problems has been the movement of food and materiel over great distances to keci with the racing We mustn't forget lhat these originate in the United States and Britain pass through continental ports and thence many hundreds of miles to the fighting zones The have multiplied once the Rhine has been reached owing to disruption of the railways anil the fact that Cologne the most im- portant communications center is out ot commission Won't the present slowing down give the Hitlerites a chance to Quite likely it will but they're so badly cut to pieces on the western front that their urbanization won't profit them nearly as much as it would have earlier in the offensive We must assume that the in battle of Berlin will be a one The tightening up of Nazi resistance as wo approach the capital indicates that and the all along have been that Hitler intends to make a ose gesture in his defense of this pride of Kays Back With Mcllroy Bank Gregory Named A Director Mcllroy Bank officials today several changes in- the return of lim Kays who has been in the army for a year and a day Mr Kays will re- sume his former position as president and trust officer Berry Vaughn has taken over duties as vice president and di- rector and 1 K Gregory has been added lo the Board of Directors it announced J T Bain is Mr Kays will also resume con- with the Ozark While Company and the Industrial Finance Company 11 Will Rogers Jr Wounded Slightly Washington April Will Jr former California member of Congress and son of the cowboy humorist has been wounded in action Rogers his wife here thaMic had been hospitalized but that wound not serious The sage gave no details ai tu time or place Deems Taylor Marries Costume Designer New York April marriage of Deems Taylor 59 composer and Lucille Little 20 New York costume de- signer has revealed by the bride's mother Quite a said Mrs George of her marriage yesterday in Arlington Va Walkout Averted New York April ened strike action by two telephone unions representing em- ployes was postponed indefinitely today after a union spokesman announced that workers and com- pany officials had reached ment on a new formula to be submitted lo the War Labor Board Hits Writer Was Covering Army's Invasion Of le Jima Small Jap Island Guam April Pyle the columnist was killed today by Japanese machine gun fire from ambush on le Jima a square island just south of Okinawa Admiral headquarters said that was killed ly by surprise machine gun at- tack at on the southern part of the small island while observing the advance of 10th Army troops who had invaded the island Pyle when hit was standing the regimental commander of a headquarters group A burst of fire fiom a hidden enemy chine gun the group ing the famous correspondent in- stantly The commanding general of le Jima invasion troops officially reported Pyle's 1 regret to report that Correspondent Ernie Pyle who has made such great contributions to the morale of our foot soldiers was killed in battle on le Jima President Offers Condolence In Washington his death was announced by Secretary of the Navy Forrestal President man issued a statement of con- dolence The nation was quickly again by the death of Ernie Pyle No man in the war has so well told the story or the ican fighting man ns the can fighting man wanted it told Ue the gratitude of all is countrymen Word that the correspondent had been killed by a Japanese machine gun bullet was carried to Mrs Pyle That Girl of his columns by Dr W R Lovelace nnd Mrs Elizabeth widow ot the late E S Shaffer Albuquerque Tribune editor and lifelong friend of Pyle The physician reported lhat Mrs was prostrated with grief and under his care She received sad nl the little while house where she had waited his return from unr The Pyles purchased the in IOW when they decided to make their home here Only recently the 17th ture ol New Mexico by resolution declared August 3 the birthday as Ernie Pyle Day Previously while he was resting here before going to the Pacific the University of New Mexico had conferred an honorary de- gree on Pyle George Vaughan Dies In Court At Little Rock Former Professor Of Law At University Was Tax Authority George Vaughan 72 former University professor of law and since a practicing attorney in Little Hock died unexpectedly today in the capital city while attending a hearing before Judge J Mitchell Cockrill ot the Pulaski Circuit Court the Associated Press reported at noon Judge Vaughan was an authority on tax matters He died of a heart at- tack He was a native of Fayetteville and a graduate of the University where he taught for 10 years He was a member of the slate Senate nnd a member of the Committee on Local and State Taxation and Expenditures ot the United States Chamber of Com- merce from 1027 through 1920 He was a former president of the Southwestern Political and Social Science Association and the American of Title Men and National Tax Association Vaughan was a member of Phi Beta Kappa honorary scholastic fraternity and a mem ier of the Methodist church He became professor emeritus of the University in when he resumed law practice in Little Rock Survivors are his wife two sons Col Burton Vaughan of the Air Corps in China and former Mayor George Vaughan Jr of now with the army in Belgium and two daughters Mrs W H Groves of Fla and Mrs Webb of Little Rock District Bands Will Hold Meet In Many Schools To Take Parr In Program Here April 21 Eleven bands and three tras from eight Northwest Ar- kansas high wilt meet here Saturday for the first an- band meet The event was some time ago when band was taken in as a regular activity in the Northwest Ar- kansas Conference Schools participating in the mcel will be Rogers Bentonville loam Springs Van Fayetteville Fayetteville Siloam Spring and Rogers will enter junior high school in addition lo their regular organizations white Ben Van and Roger will enter orchestras Awards will consist o cates fcr bands and ribbons foi soloists The awards will be siv excellent and will be made in the junior ijUi orchestra brackets The events will open Saturdaj morning at with eight band the marching band con test at Harmon Field From 8 the regular band concer contest will be held at ville High School with 11 band entering three of them from junio high schools From noon the orchestra contest will b conducted also at the high schoo building At In another section o the high school building solos an mixed instruments will be hear ami judged At 1 p.m all high school band will parade at where the Northwest Arkansa Conference track meet will held From 2 p.m until p.m so contests will ue held at the Ini school building Featured will piano drum cornet baritone Czechoslovakia Invaded by Troops of Third Army Red Offensive to Link With Allies Reported tattle Near clarinets flutes and duct manu ui trombone brass a clarinet Red Cross Not Charged Sales Tax Office Says The Red Cross is tax exempt merchants were reminded today by the Disaster Relief ui connection with disbursing orders which arc gWng out to businesses in Fayetteville and Elkins These orders are issued for stated amounts and the Red Cross of- fice said that all merchants to fill in the amount of Near Climax Reds Reported Able To See Capital In Flames London April broadcasts declared lo Tor the eastern approaches to Berlin bad its climax with Russians breaching defense ines only 18 or 20 miles from the and that the Soviets had a third offensive south of Stettin aimed at linking with Allies on the North German plain Front dispatches IB Moscow the Russians could see lin burning but did not yel fy that any offensive was under- way Nine Russian armies are ing toward Berlin the German said conceding Red army gains through the strong positions in the arc cast and northeast ot city The enemy declared Stalin hat thrown in a third offensive on i Oder river front south o Stettin intending to slice in be ween that Baltic port and Berlin and join the western Allies and west of Berlin This drive ha assumed great dimensions th broadcasts said The Germans also declare Konev's offensive acres he Neisse southeast of Berlin o front still was drivin westward Moscow has not con firmed any ot enemy reported drives Russian forces springing 01 from Neisse river bridgeheads two main columns declare by the Germans today to be ing across the last 75 miles t Central Germany toward a link the goods sohl on each order There is a section printed on each order and this the chant signs Only the amount is to be placed on this order which goes to Little Rock and is aid by the Red Cross office there Sales tax is not included in tho orders Miss Margaret Hatch h charge of disaster relief here said Stricken Youth Carried Across THE WEATHER Fair afternoon tonight and not much change in temperatures Missouri Light Pay for Electors Is Held Legal Little Rock April nev Guy K Williams has held legal an appropriation passed hv the legislature to pay ex- penses of presidential electors Passage of the appropriation had been since it failed to get a three-fourths majority in the House and was signed by ernor mark in appropriations had been reached Williams said however the appropriation was for ment of a just of the slate and did not require a vote State Expenditures In April Up Over March Little Rock April expenditures last month showed an increase of over 1044 Comptroller John J Truemper said yesterday The in- crease he said was due largely to bills inherited from mis administration Expenditures for March of this year totaled More Dismissals Coming In Revenue Department Little Rock April additional or 10 dismissals will be made in the Revenue Deportment by May 1 Otho A hns Ictl Twelve reductions in nel were on he April ITi Bus Driver Sentenced For N C April A Fort Smith Ark bus driver accused of laving six wives drew a two-year sentence after he was adjudged guilly of and The sentence was passed on Ernest Raymond who has a wife and young children here did not testify Solicitor Himter Martin said Setzer an had married two women in South Carolina one in London one in New York and another in California Flooded Creek A log across the swollen Crosses creek at Crosses served as a bridge over which Virgil Baker Delancy was carried to a waiting Moore's bulance to be rushed to City pital for tion today n appendicitis up eastbound America Troy Holt Long Prisoner Of Recovering Will Visit Here Cpl Troy K Holt of lle long n p: Gorier of the will be well enough on to visit his family in He is receiving nut at the Army imd Navy nl hospital in Hot Springs here he lias been since arriving the United States following his in Philippines from Japanese The Hot Springs hospital today Corporal Holt made a rapul recovery from effects of malnutrition His is David R Holt of and mother Mrs A veteran of six years in the Corporal Holt was stationed in Manila with u Military Police unit before the Japanese invasion He was on Hainan with the Second Corps Headquarters It took me two weeks after I was liberated to get my stomach accustomed to food once he said after arriving at the Army and Navy hospital From then on I've done nothing but cat Boy have fed Milk quarts of it with eggs and meal Corporal Holt has gained 65 pounds since his release from the enemy He was n prisoner for First Striking At The Center 01 Leipzig Ruhr Victory To Be Greatest Of War So Far Paris April Third bisected Germany today nvading Czechoslovakia As LI Gen George S roops crossed the Czechoslovak frontier the First Army stormed to within 1000 yards of the center Holt lives near this city three years on a starvation diet Civilians Freed By Americans In Philippines Jap Airdromes Hit in Force Again Guam April resses delivered another heavy bombing on six principal dromes on the southernmost anese mainland island of before large force had returned from the same targets Probably around 150 ing from Marianas again wrecked and era runways of airfields from which Japanese planes Manila April fought inside the Japanese Bagnio today as MacArthur announced the escne of more than civilians rom the once attractive mer of the Philippines From a line on the north west outskirts miles from the center of ruined city cans encountered heavy fire from ins dominating his approach The hat tie increased in sity as the they intended to defend their mountain citadel to the limit Americans were within three miles of the city limits on the southwest Kinnon road approach Still other units were moving in over mountain trails from the west and southeast Heavy rains heralding the approach of the we hampered movements mountaineers were with saving many of the civilians mostly Filipinos als among the rescued include t Americans B r i ti s h Russian French Chinese Poles Swiss gians Italians Spanish Turkish Cubans Bel Germans and Tour members of the collabora ionist cabinet were among th behind th American lines MacArthur an that the Court Chief Justice Jose Yuk Finance Minister de Las Alas Interior Minister Teofilo son and Justice Minister ho turned over after the war to the Philippine government for trial and American forces have attacked on and around on Stricken ill his home early tins morning the youth was ns far ns Crosses creek where n washed nut bridge prevented car from comma any farther The which sped to the scene after a telephone call was stopped on the opposite bank A tree cut to fall across the stream made a bridge but the bov WHS carried safely across He is now a patient at City hospital Okinawa 323 miles to the The attacks 17 supplemented carrier plane strikes Kyushu Sunday To Rebuild County J R said not today lhat the county rebuild Tempi does school which was destroyed in the cyclone which struck the Crosses community last Thursday All of the school and contents destroyed except one Plain io Washington Thai Truman Will Run His Own Show Washington April Tinman intends to run his own show He will take advice from Rut will make tho was the interpretation put on several separate actions in which the new president displayed ri ness not surprising to those who knew him on Capitol Hill 1 He definitely overruled the high command on a matter that had more domestic than military significance in nominating L-t Generals George S Patton Jr arid Courtney II Hodges to rank 2 He Joint W Kt hanker and a friend nf 25 years standing nc federal I oar had that President was to Budget Director Harold D Smith to this post He told news conference rather tartly yesterday lhat of course Foreign Commissar tov will slop in Washington to jay his respects to the president of the United ns hc should 4 He announced positively flatly and briefly lhat he five leaders De Gnu lie generally the Eretton Woods agreements and the monetary reciprocal trade program enacted by Con- gress Pointing to his own record of congressional support on such proposals he did not take to urge them as 5 He snid ho welcome n t a 1 r Gen Oi y r 3 c s d c try n moot hiin with by HERE AND THERE THE OBSERVER The University may have a girls new dormitory by fall if the problems now facing officials can DC solved Money for the new long needed according to University authorities was set -isidc by the Board ot Trustees at Us last meeting it Is reported Still to be agreed upon 1 The size Shall it be built to house 160 girls than this Officials would like to house as many as 160 at least but they also would like it ready for pation by fall semester students Delay would ensue if the building were lo cost over because it would then have to be to Washington D C for approval 2 The site The plot behind Hall facing the tennis courts been suggested Some advocate having the dormitory right on the campus to simplify connection with the heating plant and water system Fire Department Makes Calls lo Three Homes The Fitc Department was called n three homes today two outside tho city one on street At this morning a flue fire it the Glass home in Greenland was with slight ami fit a shor t ted 1 cord at Leverett resulted in a call This afternoon the department was called to the borne west the to put out r flue fire No damage was reported Ship To Bear Name Of Ouachita College A trial yesterday in Court on a charge of disturbing the peace was really its potentialities For deep it c center of it was race ire and exposed The charge wa nat a person of another back round than American had been It was o case with lore than usual social Judge Ptak told group of spectators jus are the responsibilities am he privileges that go with bein n American lie emphasized th quality of any citizen no matte his background His reasser ion of the rights of men in th were pointed and the verc good to hear of surrounded Leipzig and the Seventh Army cleared halt the Nazi city of Nuernberg All along the front General Eisenhower's armies were ing strength for the final drive eastward to meet the Russians The Ruhr triumph assumed portions of the greatest victory ot the war even more costly lo Germans than the defeat at ingrad Already prisoners have been taken from the Irap nnd more were expected to surrender today The Germans lost In killed and captured at Stalingrad one of the decisive victories of history The Ninth Army captured Magdeburg securing a firm anchor on the Elbe river opposite Berlin The industrial nnd commercial center was the 20th largest city Germany before bombs and ells reduced it to the smoking ins which the Wheels id Old Hickory Divisions cap- red ill Have Contact The halving of Germany was ot ore geographical than immediate Hilary Importance because the still has circuitous contact North and South Gerr any through the mountains of Censors would pass only the arc report that Czechoslovakia as entered Presumably the in- aslon was in the area here of Che and last were reported i four miles of the frontier The British fought through tht suburbs and advanced to 22 miles of the greater ort of Hamburg in exploiting a breakthrough of German nes before the Lower Elbe greatest city of the uhr was falling to trie 17th orne Division The Ruhr pocket vas stamped out except for 125 quare miles around Supreme Headquarters an- that Germans Tad been captured in the west ince D-Day Some yesterday to run the April otal above Chaplin Ordered To Support Child Ij Mr Truman yesterday directed of a refinery left idle by a controversy over charged in a nearby ect He closed his day with a brief at 9 p.m CWT to members of the nation's forces throughout thn world He recalled that in Frame in war I saw find men fall and be Mr has fullon hfr Ci fii educational en to Vic o so n 11 w undo lion the Maritime reported universities given to victory Tiie Victory Ouachita Col Arkadelphia Park Vie lory Park Mo News Official Dies New -N Y April 13 V Connolly of King Syndicate Service International die here early n He had been in ill Los Angeles April egai conference was called Cour today over ho much support Charlie Chapl shall pay for Car Ann Berry declared by a jury be bis The verdict yesterday cheer and applauded by many spectator was a bitter reversal for the act in his court battles resulting fro ft romantic involvement with II infant's mother Joan MIAS monthly for support of Carol Ann has paid lier more for attorney fees and support and still weekly under a pre- trial agreement Polish Troops Near Bologna Germans Holding Base In Italy Rome April or Eighth Army sweeping up ihc Po Valley advanced today to 10 miles ot Bologna major German base in Northern Italy Fifth Army forces also fought slowly closer to the big Italian art and industrial center from the their way through enemy troops entrenched in caves tunnels and pillboxes along mountain highway from Florence Other Eighth Army forces have advanced beyond Argenta on extreme right cutting the mans off from this in the gap the key to rara and the Po Valley The Germans were out in Argenta but they appeared to trapped with Allied troops astride the railway a little more than mile beyond the town Three Plays Scheduled At The University The speech department at the University will present three one- act plays in the Studio theater Fewer Taxes the second floor of Old Main at Omaha April p m tonight and Thursday postwar city without taxes has Students taking part are Almcda White Mary Latham Pauline Mary Harrall Newton Pollock Helen Copeland Dick Stiles James Foreman Harriett Sachs Doris Winger and John The public is invited be no admission charge the approval the Omaha Cily but there catch applies only to honorably dis- charged war The council's action exempts owners of such from paying tag fees or taxes on the animals
