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.”
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YANKS STRAFE
RUSSIAN UNIT
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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.’’
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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.
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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
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JAPANESE VESSEL
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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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