YANKS DISPUTE JAPS ON B-29S By The Associated Press A Japanese claim that lo Ameri can Superfortresses out of a flight of "some 70" were shot down dur ing Sunday’s raid on Tokyo was disputed by a U. S. 20th Air Force communique. The communique said one B-29 was lost to Japanese fighter .olanes as they offered moderately strong opposition. Japanese radio broadcasts, re corded by the Federal Communi cations Commission, made these additional claims: That their fighters scored heavily j In spite of “extreme difficulties In the form of very strong winds: j That B-29 bombs started fires at ceveral places but the flames were controlled quickly by civilian air defense units; That damage was slight. Tokyo said the Superforts also ranged over nearby Yokahama and were over the capital itself for cn hour and a half. Prior to announcement of the Sunday raid — the fourth B-29 strike against war industries in the Tokyo sector — the Nippon ra dio broadcast a commentary on "air raiding and the Japanese out look.” It said “why worry — let the enemy planes come — all you have to do is to shoot them down and if a fire starts all you have toj do is to put it out.” ‘-V YANKS STRAFE RUSSIAN UNIT (Continued from Page One) eommander of the forces involv- j ed.” A Rome dispatch last Wednes day, reporting arrival there of W. Averill Harriman. U. S. Ambassa- j dor to Russia, said he was believed, conferring with military officials j on efforts to achieve closer coop eration between Soviet troops oper- j ating in the Balkans and the Al lied forces based in Italy. , The dispatch, part of which was held up by censorship, said Har riman came to Rome with Lt.-Gen. Ira C. Eaker, commander of the Mediterranean Allied Air Force, after visiting the Western Front, j and that “Eaker has faced the! difficult task of trying to bomb Germans in Hungary and Yugo-' slavia, which are Russian zones of opera4ion.’’ -V EDUCATOR IS DEAD WEST JEFFERSON, Dec. 3.—(TP) Robert Lee Plummer, 75, pioneer Ashe county educator, died late Saturday at Healing Springs. Fu neral services will be held at 2 o’clock Monday at Healing Springs Baptist Church. Keep Working ! When Colds Cause Sore Throat, Coughs Take just one swallow of Thox ine. See how quickly it brings pal- i liative relief. Soothes the throat as you swallow it, then it works through the system. Made of pre scription medicines, it is pleasant, safe, and pure. A reliable ihroat and cough med icine for the whole family. Keep it handy—100% satisfaction or money back. 35c, 60c, and SI.00 at drug stores. Stay on the job. Take Thoxine! Escaped Survivor Tells . Of Japanese Prison Ship HOUSTON, Tex., Dec. 3. -=W— A Texas Army sergeant has reveal eu a story of thirty American pris oners who were recaptured after they escaped from a Japanese pri son ship that was torpedoed. Twenty nine of these, the ser geant said, were shot to death. For the one who got away—Tech. Sgt. Denver B. Rose of Houston—it was a second major experience in Jap anese treatment to American pris oners. Rose, captured on Corregi cor, was one of the thousand pris oners on the “March of Death.” Rose has told his story. He was on the prisonship with 749 other Americans. The ship was sailing north along the coast of the Zam booanga peninsula when the tor pedo struck last September 7. “■When the torpedo hit us,” Rose related, “many were caught below decks and never had a chance. The Japs turned machine guns on-those who got into the water. I was with in 50 yards of land when the Japs caught me and took me and 29 others into a small boat and back :o another prison ship.” Back on the ship, his hands tied Dehind him, Rose resolved on a iespera e plan. He rubbed his bonds against a frayed steel cable, in flicting painful wounds on his rands, the cable broke through the ■opes, finally, and his hands were free. Then said Rose “I decided I’d just as soon be shot trying to get iway as the other way so I made i break for it. I ran to the front ?nd of the ship and slipped down nto the anchor-hole. I hid there for about 20 minutes while they searched the ship for me. When I P-T BOATS SI K JAPANESE VESSEL (Continued from Page One) out American confirmation, the sinking or damaging of American ships in waters near Leyte. A Jap anese imperial headquarters com munique said Nippon fliers sank or damaged 13 ships in the Ca motes sea, immediately west of Leyte. It listed a destroyer, seven torpedo boats and a transport as destroyed and four torpedo boats damaged. It acknowledges loss of a destroyer.) The Sunday headquarters com munique said Yank bombers lash ed the Legaspi airdrome, on south east Luzon island just north of American-held Samar. They un loaded 27 tons of bombs, cratering runways with 1,000 pounders. Sev eral parked planes were destroyed. To the south other Yank fliers attacked three airdromes at Da vao, on Mindanao island. They started fires, exploded fuel dumps and bagged two ground planes. -V Sunday School Adjourns To Save Home From Fire CHARLOTTE, Dec. 3.— <.P> — Teachers and pupils of the Wil grove Baptist Church, ten miles from Charlotte, turned from re ligious worship suddenly this morn ing to save the furniture and other household belongings of a family whose home across the highway from the church was in flames. The home was that of Mrs. Alice Gladden, who with her two daugh ters, were attending Sunday school and were among the rescue party. heard more shooting;> I let myseit down into the water.” Rose says wha„ he heard were death shots for the 29 other Ameri cans. They were killed singly and their bodies were tossed overboard. ‘‘I treaded water very softly so p,s not to stir up the phosphore sence,” the sergeant continued. ‘‘Gradually I moved away from the ship and finally lit out for the shore.” Rose reached the shore in safety. He was one of 83 out of the 750 men on the prison ship who were rescued. The others perished. Rose and the 82 others were rescued when the Philippines were invaded. LOCAL CITIZEN GETS COMMISSION (Special to the Star) FORT BENNING, Ga., Dec. 3.— Wilbert James Snipes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie S. Snipes of the Carolina Beach road, Wilmington, has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army of the Unit ed States upon successful comple tion of the Officer Candidate course at the Infantry school at Fort Benning. Lt. Snipes was inducted into the Army June 7, 1943. and served with Company B, 15th batallion, second regiment, Camp Wheeler, Ga., be fore going to Officer Candidate school four months ago. Before re ceiving his commission, Lt. Snipes held the rank of sergeant. He at tended New' Hanover High school in Wilmington. WAR DEPARTMENT TO PUSH OUTPUT OF SMALL ARMS WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—UP)—In addition to speeding up production of heavy artillery ammunition, the War Department is taking steps to push the output of small arms am munition up to peak levels again. The reason for this, it was ex plained today, is not any actual existing shortage but a desire to get back into full production to augment already large stockpiles. A substantial cut-back in small arms ammunition was put into ef fect about a year ago. The Army recently has viewed with some misgiving the trend of war workers from the small arms ammunition field into other indus tries. It is represented as feeling that the production lines should be replenished with something like full manpower now before any ac tual crisis in that category of mu nitions develops at some future date. The greater part of small arms ammunition is produced by gov ernment plants, although huge quantities also are turned out at several privately owned plants, in cluding those in Connecticut. In that area the labor market is es ! pecially tight. RHINE DAM BLASTED LONDON, Dec. 3.—(ffi—1The Ger man radio said tonight that a spe cial German commando force had blown up the lower Rhine dam j southwest of Arnhem, Holland, “thus flooding the British positions tover i wide area.” The radio said that the Arnhem I Nijmegen road ''is flooded at four points.” City Briefs TALK ON POW’S Mrs. Phililp Fleming will speak on “Relief to American Prisoners of War” at 8 o’clock tonight in the hall of St. Pauls’ Lutheran church, Sixth and Market streets. MINISTER’S ASSOCIATION The Wilmington Ministers’ Association will hold it- month ly meeting at the Y. M. C. A. at 11 a. m. today. SENIOR FRAT TO MEET The Senior Fraternity will hold its regular meeting at 6:30 p. m. today at the Little Inn on the Carolina Beach road. BIBLE DEPOT SCHEDULE The Bible, Book and Tract depot, 29 North Third street, will be opened daily from 10 a. m. until 6 p. m. until Christmas. POCKETBOOK LOST The loss of a pocketbook containing S475 in War Bonds was reported to city police last night by Cadet Nurse Irene Grice, of James Walker Mero rial hospital. Miss Grice told police that she lost her pocket book in the downtown business area Saturday night. BIBLE CLASS MEETING The McClure Fellowship Bi ble class will hold its fellow ship supper at the Y.M.C.A. at 6:30 p. m. today. The Rev. E. L. Bradley, pastor of Cal vary Baptist church, will teach the International Sunday school lesson for the following Sun day. -v_ Obituaries JAMES C. STANLEY WHITEVILLE, Dec. 3.— James Council Stanley, 74-year-old farmer of Clarendon, died at 10:30 o’clock last night. Mr. Stanley was a member oi the Masonic lodge of Tabor City, and the WOW lodge of Whiteville. Surviving are his widow, former ly Miss Flora Jane Currie: three sons, N. M. Stanley of Clarendon, H. C. Stanley of Wilmington, J. R. Stanley of Clinton, Tenn.; two sis ters, Mrs, Wilson Walters, of Clar endon and Mrs. Gray Hughes oi Tabor City; three brothers, S. P Stanley and H. E. Stanley of Clar endon, and J. W. Stanley of Taboi City; and 14 grandchildren. Funeral services will be held ai 3 p.m. tomorrow at the Clarendor Baptist church with the Revfl A. D Harrelson officiating, assisted b> the Rev. J. Robert Carter. Buriai will be in the Stanley cemetery a1 Mollie. Masonic services will be conduct ed at the graveside by members oi the Tabor City lodge. County com missioners will serve as active pall bearers. ROBERT G. BRANCH Funeral services for Robert Gile: Branch, 12-year-old step-son o Norwood Miller, 306 Woostei street, who was killed in an acci dent involving a Tide Water Pow er Company bus at Front anc Market streets last Wednesday night, will be held from the horm Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock. J. J. LONG TABOR CITY. Dec. 3.—Funera services for J. J. Long, who dice at his home in Nakima this morn ing at 9:15 o’clock were held Sun day at 5 p, m. at the Stanley ceme tery with the Rev. A. R. Sole: in charge. 'Surviving are five daughters Mrs. Emma Faulk, Mrs. Carrie Gore and Mrs. Mary Faulk of Na kina, Mrs. Olymphis Stevens o: Whiteville and Mrs. Nara Cox o: Tabor City; and one son, Ed Lonj of Dulah. ALLARD GRIFFETT Allard Griffett, 69, of Shallotte, died last night. He is survived by his widow, three daughters, Miss Ilene Grif fett, Mrs. J. S. Parker and Mrs. G. R. Gore; eight sons, Walter, Oscar, Russell, Gilbert, R. E., Otis, Roy and Norman. Funeral arrangements will be announced later. YANKsJlY B-29 OFF SANDBAR IN CHINESE STREAM CHUNGKING, Dec. 3.— UP) - From every vantage point on the hills overlooking a tiny sandbar airdrome on the Yangtze river at Chungking, tense knots of people today watched four Americans win a gamble with death by taking off in a Superfortress which risked crashing into a hillside or plung ing into the swirling river. The Superfortress was the “Dot tie” which, after the American raid on Amura, Japan, November 21, made an emergency landing on the hazardous sandbar. Before the take-off, the plane was stripped of every unneces sary piece of equipment. A dog leg Extension 1,400 feet long was added to the original 2,150-foot runway by several thousand Szechwan laborers. Among those watching the plane’s takeoff — which cleared high tension cables lowered by express order . of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek for the flight — were Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hur ley newly appointed ambassador to China, and Maj. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, chief of staff to Chiang. Patton’s Forces Break 1 Into Siegfried Forts (Continued from Page One) northwest of the stronghold of Du ren, was seized by American in fantry cut off in the town. Refusing a German demand to surrender, the Americans radioed supporting artillery to shell the town—even if they were in it— and with this help drove out the enemy, capturing 100 prisoners. Nine miles northwest of Duren the U. S. Ninth army drew up to the Roer all the way from Linnich to Julich—two main river strong holds. This army cleared the Ger mans from that part of Linnich west of the river and fought bitter ly to extend its hold inside Julich. Against the rising menace on the edge of the Cologne plain, the Ger mans sent up large numbers of warplanes in the murky weather, ana antiaircraft crews of the First army alone claimed destruction of irom io xo zu 01 mem. The weather closed in on the Al lied forward bases, and fighter bombers were unable to provide the sort of close support which yes terday ripped troops and defense positions east of the Roer. The capture of the Saar bridge was an epic of American daring. A front dispatch said troops in assault boats crossed and seized the east end of the bridge as other forces came up from the southwest Demolition charges were torn away before the surprised enemy could detonate them. Tank destroyers and soldiers then moved across the Saar and the bridgehead was being consolidated. The Americans were attacking the fringes of the Siegfried line. A mile and a half northwest of Saarlautern, American troops found the Saar town of Nieder Limberg burned and abandoned. The 90th Division occupied Reh linger, five miles northwest of Saar lautern. Seventeen miles north, pi lots reported civilian refugees streaming east out of Saarburg. ENGINEERINGWORK IN SOUTH LISTED BALTIMORE, Dec. 3.—(A5)—Con struction awards made in the Southern States during the first 11 months of 1944 had a value of $786,484,000, the Manufacturers I Record reported today. The publication said that value of Southern construction for No ; vember stood at $43,366,000 and there was a total of $140,953,000 in 1 projects to be started below the ! Mason-Dixon line. The Record disclosed that No vember awards included $13,783,000 J for heavy engineering work, $10, ! 878,000 for industrial projects; $10, j 456,000 for public building; $4, 408.000 for private building, and ; $3,841000 for highway and bridge projects. Texas contributed a large pro portion of the November figure and the closest rival to Texas’ $14, 272.000 was Florida with $5,244,000 worth of construction awards. Oth er states with substantial Novem ber totals were Louisiana, $4,741, '000; Maryland, $3,076,000; North Carolina. $3,051,000, and Virginia, i $2,763,000. Texas also led the various Southern states in contract awards for the 11-month period, with a $151,028,000 total, the trade journal . continued. Following Texas were 1 Virginia, $80,399,000; Florida. $78, ; 748,000; Arkansas, $67,796,000; ■; Maryland, $57,741,000, and Louisi •j ana, $57,339,000. --V Nazi Fear Of Yank Artillery Is Told (Continued from Page One) any more. We shoot until the bar rels sizzle. We think the worst is over when suddenly he breaks through on our left. We cannot hold him any longer. There are only a few of us left here. Now there are only five. “We have got to go back. Al ready we can see the brown fig ures through the trees. As they get to within 70 paces I turn around and walk away; very calmly with my hands in my pockets. “They are not even shooting at me, perhaps because of the red cross on my back. “Maybe I will get out of this alive. But if I stay in these torn-up woods then perhaps some comrade will find this book and send it to my wife.” -V WEATHER (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m., yesterday. Temperature 1:30 am, 29; 7:30 am, 27; 1:30 pm, 39; 7:30 pm, 85. Maximum 41; Minimum 25; Mean 33; Normal 51. Humidity 1:30 am, 77; 7:30 am, 44; 1:30 pm, 34; 7:30 pm, 47. Precipitation Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m., 0.00 inches. Total since the first of the month, 0.00 inches. Tides for Today (From the Tide Tables published bv U. S. Coast and Geodetic Sur vey). High Low Wilmington . 12:38a 7:44a l:05p 8:25p Masonboro Inlet_10:47a 4:26a ll:16p 5:08p Sunrise, 7:02 a.m.; Sunset 5:03 p.m., Moonrise, 9:37 a.m., Moonset 11:04 a.m. TOKYO POUNDED AGAIN BY B-29S (Continued from Page One) 00 miles around Tokyo,” related Lt. Martin Nicholspn of Kingsville, Tex. Two interceptors hung around Nicholson’s plane but did not at tack. However, when Lt. Col. Wil liam McDowell of Brady, Tex., flew over later he encountered “40 or so enemy fighters, 10 of which were fairly close.” McDowell said the Japanese were not very aggressive and dove away when the Superforts came close. Capt. Charles Moreland of Live Oak, Tex., said his tail gunner set one Japanese plane smoking but lost sight of him when another attacker demanded his attention. Lieutenant lid and others in the lead plane confirmed the destruc tion of one enemy plane by Ron ald Talbot of Catonville, Wash., central fire control gunner. Capt. Donald Thompson of Ny ack, N. Y., said Japanese fighters were plentiful and persistent. They maintained an attack or threat of attack for 50 miles in the Tokyo area. A B-29 commanded by Capt. Robert McClanahan of Los Ange les, caught fire in the tail turret before leaving the target and has tily descended to a low altitude to enable the plane to depressurize. The Musashima engine plant of the Nakajima aircraft factory was the prime target of the mid-after noon attack with visual pinpoint bombing. -V NEW POLISH CHIEF ATTACKED BY RED NEWSPAPER PRAVDA MOSCOW, Dec. 3.—(A*).—Reorgani zation of the Polish Committee of National Liberation into the pro visional government of the Polish Republic loomed today as Pravda attacked Tomasz Arciszewski, new premier of the Polish government in London, as “one of the worst enemies of the U. S. S. R.” Arciszewski “for many years was connected with the Pilsudski cli que,” the newspaper declared. It also attacked the London govern ment’s foreign and war ministers as “extreme nationalists, anti-Se mitts, and Fascists.” The news agency Tass reported that a movement favoring forma tion of a provisional government in Lublin by the Soviet-sponsored Polish-Committee of National Li beration was “spreading throughout liberated areas.” Proclamation of a provisional gov ernment appeared likely before the end of the month. -V Swiss Cheese Price To Rise. OP A Says WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—(31— Consumers will pay about 2 cents a pound more for Swiss cheese and generally one cent more for brick and Munster, the Office of Price Administration announced today. The increase will result from an increase in wholesale margins, ef ftetive December 7, which OPA will allow dealers to pass on to the public. Actor -Sailor Will Testify For Jon Hall L-lj JON HALL LOS ANGELES, Dec. 3.— UP) — Tommy Dorsey’s assault trial swings into its second week tomor row with Antonio Icaza billed for further testimony about the bal cony battle in which movie Actor Jon Hall nearly lost the tip of his handsome nose. A probably rigorous cross-exam ination looms for Icaza, Pana manian actor-sailor, who has de clared that Dorsey bopped Hall on the brow with a bottle. The scene was a party last August 5 in Dorsey’s honor of the 26th birthday of his pretty wife, Ac tress Pat Dane, who with their friend, Allen Smiley, also is on trial. Icaza has filed a $40,000 damage suit against the Dorseys for in juries allegedly sustained in the fracas. Their attorney, Isaac Pacht, asked prospective jurors whether they would take into con sideration the fact that Icaza’s civ il suit probably would be strength ened by a conviction in the pres ent trial. Just how much Icaza was in volved in the battle is a point on which defense counsel is ex pected to dwell. Hall testified, in answer to one of Pacht’s ques tions, that he saw Icaza afterward with no more bandage than a piece of couftplaster on one ear. Referring to Icaza’s $40,000 suit. Pacht asked Hall: “You knew this was a false and baseless lawsuit, didn't you” Hall said he didn’t. Drs. Bernard Pearson and Mar cus £rahan, who patched up Hall’s lacerated nose, are scheduled to follow Icaza to the witness stand. And then, defense lawyers have disclosed, they will ask for a dis missal on grounds of insufficient evidence. FLYING BOAT LOST VANCOUVER. Dec. 3.—JA1—An R.C.AF. Canso flying boat with a crew of nine aboard is reported missing from its base at Patricia bay after the aircraft failed to return from a routine operational flight Saturday night, Western Air Command announced tonight. MEMPHIS, Ter.n., Dec. 3_f3> Long distance telephone of Mehphis remained • • -, ■ a|°rs today, awaiting uniot - 7 :s tion of a strike which man for the operators said ^ stop telephone service all 0VJ* nation. The Memphis affiliate of tional Federation of Lo’-'g t [n '3' erators voted yesterday 7 their posts unless they are a $5 weekly raise, $3 ~ the War Labor Board recent^*5 proved. •' s?' National union President Moran of New if , d /'/• tee, to which the striLV^* was referred, v.:;s , , ''t tomorrow when the Lion S** reopen in New York. Moran h C?i dicated, however, that tde^' ee may defer any action uni ter a strike vote is taken bv L , :' vile operators December 11, ' Moran said the threat of a trywide tie-up of telephon?7 was contained in a pledge'ofL ' tual support his union has with *' National Federation of TeloL’5 Workers, which has 21 a fE6 workers”11"8 ^ tyPW * ‘*2 1,000 MILES AN HOUR Canadian Air Marshall pre. il diets Top Speed For Planes NEW YORK, Dec. S._® Marshal William A. Bishop 0f c'7 ada predicted today speeds in 7 air of more than 1.000 miles 7 hour within the next five to 1 years. Everything is obsolete compar. ed to what is coming in the kv of jet propulsion and rocket plate and possibly a combination 0f I both,” he told reporters as 7 I boarded a plane at La Guard', I field for Montreal. I \r I CONGRESS FACES WEEK OF FICHIS (Continued from Page One' In the senate, most of the wets probably will be taken up by r:, sideration of a .$500,000,000 rivers and harbors development bill, companion to a $1,000,000,000 fi t) control measure passed by that body last Friday after a week ol debate. Still bottled in the senate art the House-passed bills reviving :r.t crop insurance program and ex. tending the second War Power! Act expiring December 31. Tied up in conference are a 1 673,000,000 postwar Federal at road construction bill and the flood control measure. 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