YANKS INVADE
CAPUL ISLAND
(Continued from Page One)
ground east of Sison in the steady
campaign to push the Japanese in
to the mountains of northeast
Luzon.
Heavy bombers swept enemy de
fense positions on eastern an
western Luzon. Fighters and ligh
bombers destroyed 15 gun posi
tions in the Antipolo - Montalban
area west of Manila, where the
enemy has been reported girding
for a stand.
Fighters and bombers swept the
central Philippines in support of
the new invasion and heavy Li
berators ranged across the China
sea for their daily attack onl For
mosa and shipping off the China
coast.
Sixty tons of bomb<, were drop_
ped on barracks, supply areas and
rail facilities on Formosa. The
town of Chosu was raked. Fighters
reaching Formosa’s east coast de
stroyed 13 enemy planes on the
ground.
Five coastal freighters were
sunk off the coast and another
was damaged.
Heavy bombers dropped 72 tons
of bombs on north Borneo air
dromes.
| Official Indicted
Attorney General Walter D.
Van Riper of New Jersey (above)
has been indicted by a federal
grand jury at Trenton on charges
of unlawfully possessing legal
and counterfeit gasoline ration
coupons worth thousands of gal
lons of gasoline. Van Riper said
the indictment was the result of
a "political conspiracy engineer
ed by Mayor Frank Hague’’ of
Jersey City, state Democratic
chieftain. The attorney general
is a Republican.__
Stettinius Says America
Aims At Freedom For All
(Continued from Page One)
ed States will not shirk its respon
sibilities.”
4. Creation before the end o
the war "of an international or
ganization to insure the peace o
the world, by force if necessary.’
This is the aim of the April 21
meeting at San Francisco.
5. The development of an At
lantic Charter peace which wil
assure all men opportunity to live
“in freedom from fear and want.’
This last point, Stettinius assertec
in his prepared address, is not s
mere “rhetorical assertion ol
vague intentions. We regard it as
a necessity if the United Nations
are to build a peace that will en
dure.”
The American Secretary of State
avoided any mention of Argentina
by name despite the fact that Ar
gentine policy presents one of the
most critical questions before the
conference. He did not set forth
unity of the Allies as an objective
of American foreign policy but re
peatedly said that it is a condition
without which the other objectves
cannot be obtained.
He summoned the Americas tc
be on the alert against Azis lead
ers and Nazi funds being hidden
in this hemisphere “for an ulti
mate comeback” and he declared
that tyranny and aggression must
be destroyed everywhere.
Declaring “the Axis leaders will
of course attempt to escape the
consequencies of their crimes,”
Stettinius told the Inter-American
Conference that “we still face the
danger of secret Nazi Fascist in
filtration into the political and eco
nomic life of ths hemisphere.’’
In his first major dplomatic
appearance since the “Big Three”
talks, which he attended, the sec
retary said the conferees had Yal
ta had united in a determination
.to render Germany forever harm
less. <
“The world,” Stettinius declared
. in his prepared address, “may rest
assured that the United Sttes, in
; full agreement with our allies, is
inflexibly resolved upon whatever
steps may be necessary to insure
that neither Germany nor Japan
will ever again have the military
or industrial capacity to make war.
Repeatedly emphasizing that
from now on there are no longer
“purely European problems of war
and peace or American problems
of war and peace,” Stettinius said
the Big Three decisions will give
strong expression to the objectves
of the Atlantic Charter. He stress
ed that the United States is es
pecially interested in the agree
ment for joint action to assure free
dom of government and indepen
dence to the liberated and former
satellite nations of Europe.
“The United Sttes will not shirk
its responsibilities in seeing to it,
so far as it is within our power,
that this purpose is achieved,” Stet
tinius said.
He told the conferees that he
had discussed the meeting with
President Roosevelt only about a
week ago.
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- ‘v-.iw.vu oviutvcmcUlB UI
the Crimea Conference with the
President of the United States
when I met him again three days
after we had left the Crimea,” he
said. "It is the President’s firm
conviction that the results of the
Crimea Conference have greatly
advanced the basic objectives of
United States foreign policy,
He said one of the overall pur
poses of the Crimea Conference
was to lay the groundwork for
stopping war in the future “at the
point, whatever point it may be
on the surface of the earth, where
war begins.
He declared that the same great
objective must be before the meet
ing nere in Mexico City and srve
as a spur to the maintenance and
peace of the same kina of unity
which the hemisphere nations have
had in war.
Stettinius did not go into the Ar
gentine problem which has occu
pied so much of the opening dis
cussions here. Nor in fact did he
do more with respect to Pan-Amer
ican questions than sketch broadly
the need for continued unity in this
hemisphere in defense and political
and economc matters.
He did promise that the United
States government will use to the
fullest its facilities, including the
lending power of the Export-Im
port Bank to promote “economic
ally sound industrial development
and the modernization of agricul
ture” in tne other hemisphere coun
tries.
POLICE PENSION
BILL IS PLANNED
(Continued from Page One)
and substituting in lieu thereof the
following:
"Any Police Officer who has
served twenty years on the Police
Force of the City of Wilmington,
shall receive as a pension one-naif
of his salary, based upon the sal
ary at the time of his retirement
and the same shall be paid to
the pensioner monthly.
"A Police Officer who has serv
ed more than twenty years in the
Wilmington Police Department
shall receive, in addition to the
above one-half of his monthly sal
ary, one dollar for each year’s
service in excess of twenty years
up to and including but not ex
ceeding fifteen years excess over
and above twenty years service,
such additional sum and pension
to be paid monthly from date of
Officer’s retirement; and, further
Section 12. Subsection 3, as amend
ed, the following:
"A Police Officer who has serv
ed more than twenty-five years in
the Wilmington Police Department
may retire on his own volition oy
serving notice on said Pension
Board, and he shall be retired and
his name placed upon said pen
sion roll, the words "Police Of
ficer” shall be deemed to include
Policewoman.”
Section 2. Amend Chapter 268 of
the Private Laws of 1939 by strik
ing out in line twenty-one of Sec
tion 1 of the said act after the
word "the” and before the word
"amount” the word "average”.
And, further amend by striking
out in line twenty-two of Section
1 after the word "officer” and be
fore the word “retirement” the
words "during the preceeding six
months before” and substitute in
lieu thereof "at the time of his
or her retirement”.
Section 3. All laws and clauses
of laws in conflict with this act
are hereby repealed.
Section 4. This act shall be in
full force from and after its rati
firatinri
A bill to be entitled an act to
amend Chapter 26 of the Private
Laws of 1937 relating to the fire
men’s pension fund of Wilmington,
The General Assembly of North
Carolina do enact:
section 1. That Chapter 26 of
the Private Laws of 1937 be
!tnking out » Sec
tion 7 Subsection 2 in line fifteen
.after the word “increase’’ and be
fore the word “of’ in line sixteen
the words and figures “Five (5 nm
“s !Z “c\
years and insert in lieu thereof
Uie words and figures “One a M)
lor .Mta,ZaZ
Section 2. All laws and clause’
of laws in conflict with thi« . *
are hereby repealed S ®Ct
Section 3. This act shall k -
teoe „d .Oort ilSh*“ b* “
Its ratification. “
LAWMAKERS CLASH
IN FIST BATTLE
(Continued from Page One)
adopted overwhelmingly. If it is.
Hook will be brought before the
House by the sergeant-at-arms
and administered an official re
buke by the Speaker.
The two Democrats said a simi
lar resolution of censure might be
advanced against Rankin, but they
predicted it would be tabled.
Cox said “the only thing that
saves Mr. Hook from expulsion is
Mr. Rankin’s prior remarks”
which led up to the fight. Cox
thought they were “pretty harsh.
Hook heard the talk of discipli
nary negotiations without getting
very disturbed.
“If they do, there might be an
other resolution too,” remarked
Hook, his thoughts still obviously
aimed at Rankin.
"If John Rankin would resign
his seat I’d be more than happy
to go with him, for the good of the
countrv.’’
There was a confusion of shouts
and short angry words between
the two before Rankin plunged
down the aisle to grapple with
Hook. But these are the words
that led up ot the battle as the
official reporters for the Congres
sional Redord heard them:
“Mr. Hook: If the gentleman
from Mississippi will quit his rav
ing and ranting and get down and
at least assist the good citizens of
the CIO he would probably be do
ing a service to this country.”
‘‘Mr. Rankin: Whenever I get
down to the gentleman’s level as it
is reflected down here by this
FEPC and Communist party that
he has been mixed up with—
‘‘Mr. Hook: You are a God
damned liar when you say Com
munist party—”
That did it.
Rankin ripped out of his seat
shouting ‘‘I won’t take those
words,” He hurried down the aisle
and tore at Hook, flailing his
arms as he advanced. They clinch
ed and heaved around for almost
a minute before other members
came between them.
It was the first time the House
had seen a fight since about four
years ago when former Rep. Bev
erly M. Vincent of Kentucky and
former Congressman Sweeny of
Ohio traded punches.
Hook said after the encounter
that he once was welterweight
champion of Michigan, Illinois and
Indiana.
After today's flurry, the word
liar, with its adjectives, were
stricken from the record by Rep.
Ramspeck (D-Ga) the Democratic
whip who happened to be presiding
at the time.
Both Hook and Rankin are quick,
short-spoken debaters in House or
atory, frequently on their feet to
argue with colleagues.
Their clash toda/ came as a
complete surprise to the represen
tative who actually had the floor,
Rep. Hoffman (R-Mich). Hoffman
was making an attack on the CIO
Political Action Committee.
He yielded briefly to Hook who
spoke in defense of Political Ac
tion Committee associates—and the
next thing Hoffman knew he was
standing on the fringe of battle.
About 100 members were on the
floor to see the fight—but several
missed it. It happened too sudden
ly.
The clash upset the peaceful mid
afternoon atmosphere of the staid
House of Representatives shortly
after the members had sat atten
tively through a solemn reading of
George Washington’s farewell ad
dress to Congress—a Washington's
birthday tradition on Capitol Hill.
House Approves Rivers, Harbors Bill
(Continued from Page One)
$25,000,000 Santee-Congaree devel
opment.
Separate bills also have been
proposed for the Missouri Valley
Authority and the St. Lawrence
Seaway.
This was the first Rivers and
Harbors measure passed for sev
eral years. It authorizes nearly
300 projects—navigation, irrigation
and hydroelectiric power. Among
them are the $60,000,000 Alabama
Coosa Waterway, the $15,000,00t
Trinity River, Texas, program, the
$25,000,000 Illinois Waterway, and
the $58,625,000 Snake River devel
opment.
Congress sent a rivers bill tc
President Roosevelt shortly before
the U. S. entered the war.
He vetoed it on the ground that
such work should be postponed
until after the emergency.
But since then he has approved
the policy of authorizing projects
to help build a shelf of public works
for jobs after the war.
■ Chairman Mansfield (D-Tex) of
the House Rivers and Harbors
Committee explained that the bill
had been stripped of all contro
versial sections and projects that
bogged down last year’s bill.
He urged passage now to permit
the Army Engineers to go ahead
With plans to begin construe
when peace comes.
There was no opposition.
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