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AIRPLANE OUTPUT
LAGS IN FEBRUARY
WASHINGTON, March 6.-(UP)
—Aircraft production fell to 6.286
in February - 168 planes below
schedule and 249 fewer than in
January. .
The War Production Board s air
craft division ascribed the lag to
a combination of factors, mclud
ing designs changes, slow subcon
tract deliveries and the fact that
goals were set too high in some
instances. .
It was the fourth successive
month in which production fell be
low schedule. WPB said the ser
iousness of the situation is fur
ther magnified ’ by the fact that
actual military requirements in
many instances exceed the work
ing schedules.
There was one bright spot in
February. While 249 fewer planes
were produced last month than
in January, the actual daily rate
of output rose slightly more than
nine per cent-from 242 P« day
in January to 262 a day in Feb
ruary, which had only 24 working
On the other hand. WPB said
the February lags were concen
tl«ted “entirely in critical
models," with two Army and three
Navy plants accounting for fail
ure to produce 227 planes.
Biggest lag was in production of
bombers which dropped 101 be
hind the 2.364 scheduled for Feb
ruary. Fighter and naval .recon
naissance plane production fail
ed by 67 planes to meet the goal
of 2.940.
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Dueren Presents Example
Of Problems Facing AMG
BY LOUIS P. LOCHNER
DUEREN, Germany,—itfl—Duer
en, 25 miles southwest of Cologne
and 19 miles northeast of Aachen,
was a rich, flourishing city of 45,
000 inhabitants until a few weeks
ago.
Today, Dueren virtually has
ceased to exist. Only an occasional
sign rising from huge heaps of
rubble tells you that this was Adolf
Hitler street or that was Hoesch
Square.
A former Pacific Coast detective,
assisted by two lieutenants, two
sergeants, a corporal and three
first class privates, has the duty
of bringing temporary order out
of a chaos comparable only to that
of St. Malo, France. I thought I’d
seen the limit of what can be done
in the wav of destroying a city at
Aachen. Dueren is infinitely worse.
Capt. Arthur H. Larkins, San
Francisco, and his assistants ha\*3
only a shattered city to '‘govern.”
They must care for 470 refugees
from localities to the east who fil
tered into Dueren.
These refugees who fled west
ward to American protection com
prise men, women and children
ranging in age from one month to
88 years. Duereners themselves
would have been no major prob
lem; only four civilian inhabitants
of this manufacturing town re
maincu.
Some of the city’s 45.000 popu
lation fled into the Reich, but the
great majority spilled into villages
and towns in the Aachen area,
creating new problems there for
Allied Military Government offici
als. ,
At Stolberg, for instance, plans
were developed for reopening some
factories and available foodstocks
seemed certain that workers could
be fed properly. Then came the
avalanche of Dueren refugees.
These so depleted the stored food
that resumption of work must be
postponed for food reasons alone if
for no other cause.
But caring for a shattered city,
plus 470 refugees, isn’t this AMG
unit's only worry. It also must
govern 82 nearby villages.
If anyone believes that military
government is a soft, swivel chair
job. let him attach himself to any
unit and see this unique experi
ment in action. Living conditions
are primitive. Shelled cities are
without light, heat, telephones, san
itation and transportation.
After the AMG unit is installed
under the most frugal conditions,
the work of establishing some sort
of order begins. Food for the pop
ulation is the most pressing prob
lem.
The AMG is forbidden to touch
Army supplies and all food must
come from the shattered town it
self or from outlying rural dis
tricts. The Dueren AMG unit had
prepared itself two months ahead
of time.
They went through every aban
doned village and locality between
Eschweiler, where they were
awaiting the signal to go into Du
eren. and the Roer river, inspect
ing every cellar, pantry and ice
box in search of abandoned edi
bles. In that way they assembled
6.500 jars of canned fruits, vege
tables and jams as well as a stock
of 100,000 pounds of grain which
they sent near Aachen for milling.
These stocks were hauled to Du
eren where anti-Nazi German
workers with a smattering of Eng
lish were appointed guardians. All
civilians were issued ration cards
entitling them to one loaf of bread
a week and one liter of soup a
day. The soup was prepared in a
huge soup kitchen
The AMG also managed to dis
cover two cows which were
promptly taken to Dueren so that
infants up to two years could have
milk. The cows are guarded like
a precious treasure by a refugee
farmer.
AMG men are furniture movers,
plumbers, electricians, art custo
dians, dieticians, health officers
and scores of other things. There
also is the job of putting up signs
everywhere to guide troops through
the town on the way to the front.
To generate electricity the Du
eren AMG devised a contraption
hitched to a jeep which generated
110 volts, but most of the bulbs
were 220 volts.' Finally they found
some 90 volt bulbs in some shat
tered street cars.
An unusual problem was created
when the AMG found a 16-year-old
Russian girl who had been assign
ed to a wealthy family as a vir
tual slave.
She spoke .only a little German
and could hardly believe it when
an AMG official told her she was
free. Having no place to go she
gladly accepted an offer to cook
for the AMG unit. "I am very
happy now,” she told me.
Dueren had 13 millionaires—
more in proportion to its size than
any other Rhenish city. It was the
center of aluminum manufacture
for airplanes, but also manufac
tured paper, metal goods and tex
tiles besides refining sugar. All in
dustrial concerns were complete
ly destroyed by shelling. Only a
few paintings in the art gallery
were saved.
Ip The Service
BROTHERS MEET
G. FARROW G. D. FARROW
Graham D. Farrow, S 2/C, and
Gurthy L. Farrow, S 1/C, sons of
Mrs. Elizabeth Farrow, Mason
boro Sound, met recently in the
Philippines for the first time since
entering the service over a year
ago. After an invasion landing,
the brothers met when their ships
anchored side by side. Recogniz
ing his brother’s ship, Gurthy re
quested permission to board her
and they were permitted a long
visit.
AWARDED PURPLE HEART
Pfc. Isaac J. Brinson, husband
of Mrs. Frances Brinson, Maple
Hill, recently arrived at Stark
General hospital, in Charleston,
S. C., where he will undergo fur
ther treatment for wounds re
ceived in the European theater
of operations. Pfc. Brinson, holder
of the Purple Heart and the Euro
pean theater of operations ribbon,
has served overseas seven months.
IN ATLANTIC THEATER
James Dewitt
Snow, Jr., Sl/C,
s o n of J. D.
Snow, 405
Wrights ville
Ave., is now
serving in the
Atlantic war the
a t e r. Seaman
Snow enlisted in
the Navy in Au
gust, 1944, and
received his
training at Bain
SNOW bridge, Md.
IN FRANCE
Pvt. Leon Earl
Walker, Rocky
Point, has re
c e n tly a
safely in France
a c c o r ding to
word received by
his wife, the
former Elizabeth
Jackson, of Tur
key. Before en
tering the ser-it
vice in Decern-’
ber, 1943, Pvt. |>
Walker was em- '
ployed by the WALKER
North Carolina Shipbuilding Co.
He received his training at Fort
Bragg, Fort Sill, Okla. and Camp
Shelby, Miss. Mrs. Walker, with
sons Leon, Jr., and Linwood, is
making her home with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Jackson
of Rocky Point.
FIGHTING JAPS
Pfc. Tom Foy, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Gardiner Foy, and husband
of Mrs. Ruby Foy, all of Verona,
is now serving with an ordnance
company somewhere in the South
Pacific. He entered the service in
June, 1942, and received his basic
training at Camp Lee, Va., going
overseas in April, 1943. Prior to
entering the service Pfc. Foy
owned and operated a cafeteria
and service station in VerOna.
TAKES REST
First Lieutenant George Thomas
Rich, son of Mrs. D. S. Rich, 314
South 4th street, recently enjoyed
a recess from aerial warfare at
an Air Service Command Rest
Home—a remodeled English ma
nor where America’s airmen may
relax between missions. After a
stay of a week, Lt. Rich returned
to active duty. He has completed
more than 51 missions. Before
entering the service, Lt. Rich was
a salesman for the Atlantic To
bacco Co.
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WILL BE H NGED
LONDON, March 6.—(U.R)—Home
Secretary Herbert Morrison ruled
today that Pvt. Karl Hulten, 22, of
Boston, must hang on Thursday for
the “Cleft Chin” murder, but he
spared the life of Elizabeth Jones,
18, striptease dancer and Hulten’s
erstwhile sweetheart.
Mrs. Jones’ death sentence was
commuted to life imprisonment.
Morrison followed the jury’s re
commendation for clemency in her
case. The jury did not recommend
clemency for Hulten.
An appeal from relatives of Hul
ten arrived by air from Boston a
few hours before Morrison’s deci
sion, which is final, was an
nounced. Scaffolds had been erect
ed for both Hulten and Mrs. Jones.
The American paratrooper will be
taken from Wormwood Scrubbs pri
son. to Pentonville prison, which
is seven miles across London, early
Thursday and hanged.
The Home Secretary gave no ex
planation of his rulings- He never
does. They are sent to the King
who approves them as a matter of
course.
Mrs. Jones and Hulten murdered
a London cabbie. George Heath,
who had a cleft chin. She main
tained throughout their six-day
trial that he terrorized her into
accompanying him and had looked
on horror-stricken when he shot
[ Heath. Hulten said she had taunt
ed him into shooting Heath to pro
vide her a thrill.
Cologne’s Capture Came
Earlier Than Expected
COLOGNE, March 6. — <*> —
Doughboys and armor of the U.
S. First Army captured Cologne
today rolling through this fourth
largest of German cities with as
ton'shing speed against light re
sistance.
The Germans gave up the fight
and made no effort to hold Co
logne as they had Aachen, and the
fall of the city, announced by First
Army Headquarters officially to
night, came much sooner than
anyone had anticipated.
It had been the consensus that
Cologne, a city normally of 768,
000 population, would be a hard
nut to crack, with the Germans
dug into the rubble and contesting
every house and every Street.
Cologne fell on the 12th day of
Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’ pow
erful offensive, and it climaxed
one of the most sensational drives
since the First Army broke
through at St. Lo and smashed
across France into Germany last
summer.
Tonight there was resistance on
ly in the southeastern part of the
shell-shattered city, standing at
the head of a corridor down which
the enemy had fled southward to
ward Bonn before the blasting
drive of the Third Armored Divis
on and the 104th Infantry Division,
which spearheaded the offensive
and crossed into Cologne.
Capture of the city was made
the "Vnore spectacular because it
was accomplished by an army
which only a few weeks ago was
fighting forfe its very life in stop
ping the powerful December of-1
fensive launched by Nazi Field
Marshal von Rundstedt. From the
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lied his army for this steamroller
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