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___1 FORECAST 4 ^ ^ v Served By Leased Wires g^ii timtngto ntnnmtn mar _ —- State end National News VOL 78.-NO. 164._. _WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1&46 -- ESTA BT.ISHgn i86t Re-Deployment Of European Troops Ordered; Liberation Of^Prague Announced By Stalin; Goering An /Kesselring Surrender To U. S. I Small Groups I Still Resist I In Slovakia I Russian Troops Join ■ Americans In Ansteiten ■ Area Of Austria ■ LONDON, Thursday, May 10.— |f !#—Marshal Stalin announced the A liberation of Prague yesterday and B said that while a small group of H die-hard Germans still was resist R ing in Szechoslovakia, “we must R believe that the Red Army will R succeed in bringing it to its ■ senses. R Just after midnight the Mos ■ cow radio broadcast a Soviet com munique which stated that the S capitulation of the Germans was H proceeding on all fronts except in S’; Czechoslovakia, where a group of German troops, “avoiding capitu B lation to Soviet forces, is retreat ill ing hastily to the west and south H west.” B The Moscow' communique said R Soviet troops had linked up with Jfr Americans in Austria in the area H of Anstetten. "m Shortly before Stalin announced that Prague had been freed the W Prague patriot radio broadcast B; an invitation to President Eduard jE Benes and the national govern B merit to return to Prague from B Kosice. P. The German high command in H; what the announcer on the Flens » burg radio said was the “last com K munique” announced tonight that ■ all German arms had ceased fir H ing on order of Grand Admiral jH Karl Doenitz. jl|: ‘We have achieved great vic R tories but also heavy defeats—we Jll (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) I DIPLOMATS TALK I OF POLISH ISSUE ® Soviet Commissar Molotov ft Leaves Peace Parley HI For Moscow fil SAN FRANCISCO, May 9—(/P)— |H Soviet Commissar Molotov left for fg|| Moscow today and Secretary of jftj Stole Stettinius and British For ft °>S!i Secretaiy Eden huddled im mediately with top advisers on the ^B Polish problems, ftj. Mt-loiov boarded a Moscow-bound P*ane in mid-morning. No sooner 'Ip bad he left than the British and ft American foreign ministers got to ■ SHher with W. Averell Harriman, ffi V- s- Ambassador to Russia, and K s,r _ Archibald Clark Kerr, Bri tt! tain's envoy to Moscow. '|||’ Apparently they reviewed the ftj pllre ciue stion of broadening the Mi ' ™>sh government. And apparent ';,]ft i), aiso, Harriman and Kerr got fSp aeir instructions on how to pro ft °n ttlis issue from now on. ■ they were leaving tonight for ft! Moscow b\ way of Washington and London, jS|: Silting iu un the conversations mk v bH't'urou:,' Fairmont hotel pent ft “use was Charles E. Bohlen, State S epart.-.-iem. Russian expert and Mb ;aiS01; n:an with,the White House, JIL, ^'j1 is flying back to Washlng WM , b , *•" ;t'*!ned that the British Kr Atnencfuis still have received Jit' w >' frorn the Russians to their S’ '“,na for r> full explanation oi ft WcU^Th’* 16 Polish undergr°und ft fr ‘ " ■ Tnc>- are reported standing ft, tvT,i= °n .their insistance that thfts ft tat'“l" be Provided, with Bri ft t,j'vand the United States main ft' .mn» a united front. m Rus?;an .reply is expected 111 tin in? a days, however. Stet ft them 8nd Eden are known to feel ft r"= Can bp little, if any, pro ft the V'" C01t‘Plele adjustment oJ jig tkng b i3sue until it comet |K rp, ft: cee;ef nt. e.scussions could pro ff Harri-i1 °-'eow between Molotov, ft p’™aR and Kerr. ft that Pr;r:e®„deiegates beard, too, urghw ph ,"1!nister Churchill was y becau% ' /l’ to return to London ft Germ-!,, the slt'uation raised b> ft: But ' 3 SUrrender. ft issue ,be second large-seals I ent lands -Lmeships over depend 'I rep,, ted t S'u unsettled, Eden is tovSi °,be dtl',ying his depar ft ■ later in the week. Guns Of Victory Roar Over Russian Capital Stalin Says Soviet Union Does Not Intend Tc Destroy Germany; No Mention Of Japan Is Made LONDON. May 9 —(£>)— Marshal Stalin climaxed Russia’s jubilant VE - Day celebration tonight by personally announcing Germany’s unconditional surrender and Mos cow’s victory guns roared out their greatest salute—30 salvoes from 1,000 guns. Stalin, declaring that the final act of capitulation was signed yes terday in Berlin after a “prelim inary act” at Reims, made no ref erence to Japan or the far eastern conflict, and he reiterated that Russia "does not intend to destroy Germany.” The victory ended a Soviet-Ger man conflict of four years and 10 1-2 months, one of the most gruel ling struggles in history. Both sides suffered millions of casualties, and in a two-year march from Stalingrad to Berlin the Red Arm: fought its way back 1,360 miles the airline equivalent from Nev York to . Oklahoma City. “This is no longer a mere serai of paper,’’ Stalin said of the sur render. “It is the actual capitula tion of the armed forces of Ger many. . . .all the suffering. . . .o our people in defense of our moth erland was not in vain. Stalin made his announcemen as thousands of Russians jammec the streets in front of the Ameri can embassy in Moscow, toastin; the United States, President Tru man, and the American people. “Hitler declared three years ag( ‘we shall destroy Russia.’” Stalii said. “But Hitler’s insane ideal (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 2] City Auditorium Plans Discussed By Council A two-man committee was ap pointed today by Mayor W. Ron ald Xiane to confer with City Man ager A. C. Nichols on the possible post-war construction of a city au ditorium, with the thought of des ignating it as a memorial to Wil mington’s war dead. Councilman Garland S. Currir and Robert S. I^eGwin, who were elected Tuesday for another two year term, were told tfe bring the Council a recommendation, follow ing study of plans mappec four years ago and investigatior into the building and operation o! similar structures in other cities. It was generally conceded tha "public sentiment” favors erection of a municipal auditorium, whict also, would contain athletic faeili ties. Its location would be at the site of the old Marine hospital, prop erty now leased to the Federal government by the city and uti lized as a German prijoner of war internment camp. Work could noi start until termination of th« lease. City Attorney W. B. Campbell explained that plans alreadj evolved call for the building of at auditorium, with an athletic fielc and equipment, at the hospital site, a two-block area bounded bj Ann, Church, Eighth and Tent! streets. In opening the discussion before the Council, Mr. Currin declarec “there is one thing very' impor tant to the citizens of Wilmington and that is a City auditorium. 1 think it’s time we make some plans, so that when the war i: over we can start it. I’d like t: see us get in there and make plans for an up-to-date auditor! um.” Mr. Currin asked for the ap pointment of a committee an: suggested that it possibly shoulc be designated as a memorial to the Wilmingtoh men who have giv< en their lives in the war. The possibility that Federa funds might be available to helj with the cost of construction, anc other methods for carrying on ap eration of the municipal project were advanced by City Manage] Nichols. SOUTH PICTURED AS SCIENCE AID Two Areas Forecast To Lead America To New Industrial, Riches CHAPEL HILL, N. C., May 9—MP> —The South and the Pacific north west were pictured here tonight as leading peaceful America through science to a new era of industrial riches. The forecast was made by Dr. Wilson Compton, president of Washington State College at the University of North Carolina’s cel ebration of its 150th birthday. He spoke at the opening of a confer ence on research and regional wel fare. He is the brother of Dr. Karl T. Compton, president of Massa chusetts Institute of Technology, and of Dr. Arthur H. Compton, No bel prize winner in physics, of the University of Chicago. Dr. Compton said that the South’s forests alone can yield a pulp and paper production four times their present volume, and can make wood sugar equal to half the world’s present production of sugar. Wood sugar makes fodder for livestock, many plastics and scores of basic chemicals. “The South’s forests and forest industries,” he declared "can be made to provide more employment than was ever provided by cotton in its hey-day. The humble pine tree, as a successor to cotton, and capable of producing four times as much cellulose per acre per year, is the South’s finest richest store house of industry and employ ment”. Mines, farms and water power he listed as the other great south ern resources. In explaining the scientific wealth in these sources, he said that the south has been living off of its resources instead of off its ideas. Selective Service Bill Is Signed By President WASHINGTON, May 9.— W> — President Truman today signed into law the bill extending the Se lective Service act one year, and it was officially announced that draft cans “will continue to be large.” The latter announcement came from the Office of War Mobiliza tion, which said: “Deferments for men under 30 will continue to be relatively few and will become fewer as more veterans return to industry and the farms.” President Truman, in signing the draft law extension, made plain he would have vetoed, if he could, a section forbidding the use of 18-year-olds in combat withou six months training. He objectei that this “places added restric tions on the War and Navy De partments in their management o the fighting forces.” “I signed the legislation only be cause the immediate extension o the Selective Service Act is o compelling necessity in the con tinuance of military operation against Japan,” he said in a state ment. The bill extends the draft ac for 12 months beyond May 15, 1945 or until the end of the Pacific war, whichever comes sooner. In a report on “phase two” o (Continued on P^e Two; Col* 5] l First Of Top Nazis Taken By Doughboys Farmer German Air Chief Says He Was Sen tenced By Hitler ! By A. I. GOLDBERG ■ KUTZBUEHEL, Austria, May 9 ■ — (A>) —Reich Marshal Hermann C Wilhelm Goering, whose Nazi air ■ force once frightened the world, and Field Marshal Albert Kessel ; ring, German commander-in-chief [ on the Western Front, have sur . rendered to Lt. Gen. Alexander ; M. Patch’s American Seventh Ar-( 1 my. Goering, a self-professed fugitive i from the wrath of Hitler, surrend i ered near here last night with his i wife and six-year-old daughter and was flown today to Gen. Patch’s headquarters. Details of Kessel ring’s capture were not immedi ately given. The first of the top Nazis to fail into American hands, Goering said he was sentenced to execution by Hitler April 24 when he suggest ed that he, Goering, take over the crumbling Reich. He declared that his air force followers shot their way through SS troop* who were guarding him at Berchtesgaden and spirited him away to a hfcfgbut In mi* area. It was with relief, apparently, that the Nazi leader surrendered last night to Brig. Gen. Robert Stack, assistant commander of the U. S. 36th Division. Another of the original Nazis to fall into the 36th Division’s hands (Contfnaed on Page Three; Gol. 1) IT _ CURFEW LIFTED IN NIGHT SPOTS Wilpington Retailers Ad vised They Can Use Display Lights The lights went on again and the midnight “curfew” was lifted in Wilmington and elsewhere through out the country last night as part of the reconversion program of War Mobilization Director Fred Vin son. , Walter Cartier, executive secre tary of the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce; advised retailers that they can once again use win dow, outside and display lighting, and added that restaurants, cafes, and other places which were effect ed by the 12 a.m. curfew can now go back to their accustomed hours. Although New York’s Mayor La Guardia and others questioned (Continued on Page Three; Col. 6) --------4 German Surrender Focuses Attention On Pacific ■** ————MM MM Open arrows indicate scheduled movement of U. 6. troops and equipment from Europe in both direc tions toward the Pacific area to throw Allied power into the war against Japan following the uncondi tional surrender of Germany. Black areas are those under Axis control in both Europe and the Pacific at the time of German surrender, and shaded area s indicate greatest extent of Axis holdings during -tne war--(AP Wirephoto). 2,684 YANKS DIE ON OKINAWA ISLE Catuakies through Mon day Total 16,425, Nimitz Reports GUAM, Thursday, May 10—MV American casualties on Okinawa total 16,425 through Monday, Fleet Adm, Chester W. Nimitz said to day, Japanese casualties for the same period — beginning with D-Day, April 1, on Okinawa and a week earlier in the Kerama island group nearby—were 36,535, Nimitz an nounced earlier. American casualties were 2,107 soldiers and 577 Marines killed; 10,402 Soldiers and 2,800 Marines wounded, and 501 Soldiers and 38 Marines missing. Nimitz’s last figure on Ameri can casualties, as of May 3, was 2,337 killed, 11,432 wounded and 514 missing—a total of 14,383. That figure was not broken down into Army and Marine casualties. Two unidentified units of the Brit ish Pacific fleet suffered “minor damage’’ yesterday in a Japanese retaliatory air attack after the Brit ish sent carrier planes to assault Miyako and Ishigaki islanda in the Sakishima group, of the southern Ryukyu chain. British pilots destroyed two planes in the air and one on the ground as they attacked airfield installations. , Supported by heavy Naval and aerial bombardment, Doughboys on Okinawa “continued to move south’’ yesterday, Nimitz said with out any details, after having been held to no gains Tuesday because of adverse weather. Associated Press Correspondent Vern Haug land reported from Okinawa that heavy rains had bogged down ve hicles. Reconversion Picture Brightened By Vinson WASHINGTON, May 9.— — The Government notified its civil ians today they must remain in virtually full war harness until Ja pan is beaten, but abolished im mediately, the racing ban and midnight curfew on entertainment places. “Some reconversion” to civilian goods production was promised at Once by War Mobilization Director Fred M. Vinson. But he laid ciown the policy that nearly all the economic controls imposed for the two-front war— t price ceilings, many manpower j and production controls — should be maintained in force until the ' last shot is fired in the Pacific. Vinson warned at a news con 1 ference of a dire struggle still ahead, predicting that Japan • would not surrender unconditional f ly without a “successful and com f plete invasion” of her homeland. This means that "a great part” i of the war worker force must stay - on the job and that munitions pro ■ duction will finally stabilise at not t less than two-thirds of the present , huge armament rate, Vinson St*t : ed, in his first meeting with the press since he became director oi r the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion. The Army will reduce strength by 1,300,000 men in the next year, but slowly at first. The Navy will not cut, he said. Draft calls*“will continue to be heavy and defer ments for men under 30 “will con tinue to be relatively few.” Probably 1,500,000 war workers will lose their jobs in the next six months, Vinson predicted, per haps 3,000,000 more in the follow ing half year. But reconversion should soak up most of them, leav ing 2,500,000 unemployed in twelve months compared with today’s 1, 000,000 jobless. On the optimistic side of the picture, he forecast: A few new passenger cars com ing off assembly lines in six to nine months, an immediate start on moderate numbers of refriger ators and washing machines; and An increase in gasoline rations perhaps amounting to 50 per cent for A-card drivers; just when, he could not say. Commercial users, and perhaps B-card motorists, will get an increase too. In a report released at the news Conference, entitled “the war— phase two,” Vinson gave the War production Board encouragement to start gradual its relaxation of industrial controls as soon as ar Samal Invaded By U. S., Aussies Seize Api Hill MANILA, Thursday, May 10—(£>>—Samal island in Davao gulf was invaded and virtually cleared by the 24th Infantry Division Tues day while on the Mindanao mainland the Japanese near Davao City fought bittjerly, apparently intent on a bloody' Stand ■** ■•’*‘•.4.. t . ■ ** ... t The invasion of Tarakan island, off Borneo, near completion as Australian and Dutch troops seized Api hiR and closed in on ---*the Djoeata oil field. xaraitan ouy, in ine miaaie Ox the rich Pamoesian oil field was totally in Allied hands. Derricks had been destroyed but the wells appeared salvagable. Elements of Maj. Gen. Roscoe Woodruff’s 24th Division occupied Sama island to protect the flank during the drive up the western coast of Davao gulf. The landing was unopposed and few, if any, Japanese, were believed on the island. Samal, about 22 miles long and (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) yanksTnItaly LEAVE FOR JAPAN Movement To Pacific War Area Will Be Via The United States ROME, May 9.— Ut)—Some American combat troops already have been transferred direct from Italy to the Pacific war zone, Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, commander of U. S. forces in the Mediter ranean area, disclosed today. Only a relatively small number of the troops in this area will be demobilized and these probably won’t leave Italy for several months, McNarney said in a V-E Day broadcast. Most of the soldiers in Italy, the commander said, would be need ed either for European occupation assignments or for more cam paigning in the far east. The movement to the Pacific theater, he said, would be via the United States. “For most of you,” McNarney told the troops under the his com mand, “your return to civilian life will come only when Japan has been utterly and finally defeated.” WAK lUMiNUtS WITHIN SERBIA Former Pro-Axis Premier Continues To Fight Stalin's Victory KITZBUEHEL, Austria, May 9. —(A)—Field Marshal Milan Nedic, former pro-Axis premier of Ser bia, declared today he and his forces would continue to wage war against Marshal Tito and “fight any victory for Stalin in our coun try.” “Maybe the big powers can live together — England, the United States and Russia,” he said, “but Balkan politics is something en tirely different and we will con tinue to fight any victory for Sta lin in our country.” It was suggested to him that he may have no troops left, and that realism might dictate that Balkan politics bow to the welfare of Eu rope. The former Premier asserted “we fought with (Gen. Draja) Mi hailovic against Tito and against the communists and against Sta lin. We have been here seven months, coming out of Bosnia when the pressure of the Russian and other armies forced us west.” He and his brother, Col. Gen. Milutin Nedic, former Yugoslav minister of war, were in a hotel room here When the premier made his statement, in which his brother concurred. -V FDR MOURNING ENDS WASHINGTON, May 9— (iP) — By order of President Truman, Acting Secretary of State Grew today fixed the end of the* period of official mourning for President Roosevelt at sundown, Monday, May 14. Flags will remain at half staff until then. 400 Superforts Smack Jap Industrial Center WASHINGTON, May 9.—(U.R)— A fleet of more than 400 American Superfortresses, probably the larg est bombing force ever sent against Japan, today blasted industrial military and air installations on the enemy home islands of Honshu and Kyushu. The massive strike bore out the promise made yesterday by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz that, with tile end of the war in Europe, the aerial pounding of Japan would be *tef> ped up immediately. A 20th Air Force announcement said the massive daylight attack. made Thursday, Japanese time, was directed in part at strategic targets not previously hit by the big bombers. One very large task force of Maj. Gen. Curtis E. Lemay’s Marianas based Superforts concentrated on industrial and military areas on the southern tip of Honshu on the inland sea and apparently in the vicinity of Shimonoseki. Other B-29’s of the 21st Bomber Command made another of the al most daily ‘neutralization” attacks on air installations on the-^sou them moat home island of Ky vhu f _ 45.000 Will Be Returned During May j Occupation Force of 400,« 000 Will Remain, War . Department Says _ WASHINGTON, May 9.— UK — Approximately 2,837,000 troops will be moved out of Europe with in nine months, the Army* disclos ed today. Within 12 months, the Army ex cepts to have out of Europe 3,« 100.000 troops, leaving only an oc cupation force estimated at 400, 000. The majority of these soldiers will come to the United States for redeployment to the Pacific area or for discharge from the Army. The others will be routed direct to the Pacific. About 45,000 soldiers, including many who have been prisoners of the Germans, will be returned to this country by air and surface ships during this month. Maj. Gen. Charles P. Gross, chief of the Army Transportation Corps, outlined at a news confer ence this schedule for the move ment of troops from the European . and Mediterranean theaters: Approximately 1,185,000, or an average of 395,000 a month, will be moved out during the second three months. ADOUt oUY.UUU, or 209,000 H month, will be shifted during the third three months. After that, the redeployment will be carried on until only the occupation force of some 400,000 is left. Gross said that all of those troops who are destined to be brought out under the redeploy ment program should leave Eu rope .within a year. After the last world war it re quired 10 months to evacuate 2, 000,000 troops. U. S. troop ships not required in the Pacific, many British troop ships, more than 400 converted cargo ships and 800 transport planes will be used to transport the troops. Gross said that by us ing captured enemy passenger ships the movement of troops may be speeded up by as much as 60,000 men during the second three months of the redeployment and by 117,000 men during the third quarter. Gen. Brehon Somervell, chief of . Army Service Forces, told the news conference that once the troops arrive in this country they will be sent to 22 Army personnel centers distributed throughout the United States. "Wherever possible, the soldiers will be sent to the personnel center closest to their ; home. Within a week after arriving In this country, Somervell estimated, the soldiers should reach home for furlough, or permanent re lease, as the case may be. Fur loughed men, on completion of their leaves, will go bavk to the i personnel centers, will be formed into groups and sent to assembly i points for reassignments and spe cial training. • The personnel centers to which jthe troops will go after reaching 'this country follow: Camp Atterbury. Ind.. serving the states of Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee; Camp Beale, Calif., serving n o r t h e rn Cali fornia; Camp Blanding, Fla., serv ing Florida; Fort Bliss. Tex., serv- ( ing Arizona, New Mexico and (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2)| -_V Confederate Memorial Service Will Be Held , At Oakdale Cemetery The annual Confederate Memor ial Day service will be conducted at 4 p.m. today at the Confeder ate monument in Oakdale ceme tery. The Rev. W. J. Stevenson of Temple Baptist church will deliver the address and invocation will be offered by the Rev. A. S. Parker. Louis T. Moore will act as mas ter of ceremonies. Music will be under the direc tion of Lt. Eugene Laycock and the High school ROTC band, and the concluding portion of the rite will be "Taps” by George Dar den, bugler. The entire service is sponsored by the local chapter of the Unit “““ 1
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