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IsS c SUN R-NEWS P^r 1-_ ^TMULE®! SSiftift* ^ _ __ WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, MAY 13,1945 --FINAL EDITION " Allies Vote Peace Power Concentration Americans Agree On Hot Issue Of Regional Security Systems ... DOUGLAS B. CORNELL •AN FRANCISCO, May 12.-(tf) The United Nations conference Tnve forward tonight under the S.,,1 impetus of a vote to concern f-ate peace-keeping power in the I of li nations and an Amen J delegation agreement on the Jot issue of regional security sys tems. Each decision has a long way to „„ before it is written finally into L charter of a world organiza tion for preserving peace. But the basic pattern for keeping teace, drafted at Dumbarton Oaks fn Washington last fall by e,hina, Kussia, Britain and the. United States, has survived two stiff tests. The big powers had been insis .ent that hte major instrumentality for nciciing me wuuu ^ ke a security council of 11 mem bers with broad powers to step into Wy situation threatening peace. A conference committee voted unanimously todab to restrict the council membership to 11, although jome countries abstained from bal loting. Must Be Ratified The decision still must be rati fied b ya conference commission Under which the committee oper ates, and by the entire conference. What it approved today was the original pattern for a security council drafted at the Dumbarton Oaks discussions by China, Bri tain, Russia and the United States. These countries, with France, would have permanent council seats. The six remaining seats Would be rotated among other na tions at two-year intervals. And the American delegation Worked out a formula for giving regional blocs of nations the right to take emergency action to keep peace without depriving the coun cil of over-all powers. The action in the committee and Jn the delegation were separate. ,Yet they were laced strongly to gether. And the attitude of Latin American nations posed a big ques tion mark over both decisions. For Cuba withdrew a motion to increase the security council’s membership to 15 only after at taching a major reservation. Cuban Delegate Guy Cisneros said his country ‘withdraws it proposal on condition that inte gration of the inter-American (se (Continued ou Page Sight; Col. 6) CHURCHILLMAY GIVE VOTE HINT May Indicate Date Of Elec tion In Anniversary Broadcast Today LONDON, May 12.—(ff)—Britain anticipates that Prime Minister Churchill may give a hint during his anniversary broadcast Sunday night 3 p. m. E.W.T.) of when it tan expect general election in 10 years, the longest stretch this coun wy has gone in modern times with out choosing a parliament. There is almost unanimous opin ion the election will be this year, probably either in July or in Oc lober, August and September gen ially are ruled out for voting as harvMthe time *°r ®at^erinS the A hot fight aside from party plat orms appears developing around urchill’s dual position as both -ader of the conservative party, , Post he accepted five months af ar becoming prime minister, and leader 0f the nation’s war effort. lo7atl0r, “misters in the coalition I ,’net, i\ave stated that while they e Pledged allegiance to Church Page Two; Col. 4) Wartime‘Whistler’s 1 , ■ In a pose inspired by Whistler’s famed painting ofTiis mother, seen on the wall, Mrs. Catherine Bellmore sits in her New Haven, Conn., home, sewing a fifth star on her service flag. Three of her sons are in the Army, one in the Navy and one in the Coast Guard. She does her bit by working in a local war pl^nt. 2,500 Veterans Of War Return To Civilian Life - *-, Are Vanguard Ut Approx imately 1,300,000 To Be Discharged Soon (By The Associated Press) Men who took it at Kasserine Pass and dished it out from New Guinea to Normandy—2,500 of them—went back to civilian life yesterday after years of the hard est soldiering in history. , They were the vanguard of some 1,300,000 to be released by the Army specifically because they have done a man’s full duty to country. Nearly all wore battle stars for the bloodiest combats of World War II. Rows of short gold stripes on sleeves betokened long service abroad, in many cases three years and more. From military posts in various parts of the nation they walked out, still clad in khaki but no longer answerable to the bugler’s call. They have three months, if they wish, to get home from the point where they were discharged be fore they must take off their uni forms and hang them up in the family closet. On ceremonial oc casions they can brush off the dust and wear them again, along with whatever battle decorations they won. Those discharged yesterday were veterans of battle in Europe and the Pacific, home for rest but in most cases expecting to go back until they came under the point discharge system adopted by the Army. With a minimum of 85 points — for fatherhood, length of service, time overseas, and combat awards —required for discharge, the men’s scores ranged up to the 158 points reported for Sgt. Irby Garner of Andalusia, Ala., who was given his papers at Fort McPherson, Atlanta, Ga. , For some of them freedom from military disci^ine, from the mud and toil and blood and sweat and noise of battle was still not quite believable. “I can hardly believe I’m being (Continued on Page Two; Col. 8) Government Reviewing Lend-Lease Programs WASHINGTON, May 12.—(/P; —Hie government Is reviewing its lend-lease programs. This was announced tonight by Leo T. Crowley foreign eco nomic administrator, who add* ed that: “Pending its completion, new shipments to Europe are being held up except those destined to countries now at war with Japan, or to countries through which redeployment of our troops now in Europe will be facilitated thereby.” “Lend lease is purely an instrument for winning ths war,” Crowley’s statement said. DRAFTADVOCATED FOR PEACE ARMY Leaders Cenvinced It Is Only Way To Maintain Big Force BY WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST WASHINGTON, May 12 — — Congressional advocates of a peace time draft said today army lead ers are convinced the draft is the only way a postwar military force of 4,500,000 “availables” can be maintained. While the army has insisted that dt has no definate plans for the size of the postwar military estab lishment, it submitted to the House Military committee this week a written statement containing these words: “The active reserve will be com posed of those individuals and units sufficient in types and numbers which will, together with the other components, constitute an over-all balanced force in the army of the Uriiied States of four and one-half miffim (4,500,000 men).” mat figure, an army spokes m^B said, is strictly “a planning figure” and represents the “avail (Continued an Page Two; Col. i) WEATHER FORECAST Partly cloudy and warmer Sunday. Monday partly cloudy and continued warm, (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m., yesterday. Temperature 1:30 am, SO; 7:30 am, 61; 1:30 pm, 69; 7:30 pm, 69. Maximum 70; Minimum 57; Mean 54; Normal 70, Hamidity 1:30 Mn, 94; .7:30. am, 87; 1:30 pm, 7:30 pm, 90. Precipitation Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 pm, 0.10 inches. Total since the first of the month, 0.76 inches. . Tides Far Today (From the Tide Tables published by the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey) High Low Wilmington r-11:06a 5:54a ll:32p 5:58p Masenboro Met *-8:55a 2:48a 9;2Qp _. 2:54p No Relaxation Of Labor Controls Indicated Here ere Was no indication yester sy that there would be any im late relaxati°n of the current by th C°ntrC,ls in Wilmington listed in G * ^ar ^anpower Commission r°up 1 classification, meaning b«re * labor surplus exists eftJlU' .*• Employment service through rl110 orders had come * Dorta them‘ However, Dr. J. •inner k’ Siat® Y-M-C. commis Wh deriUed a statement in Ral »,r,h rjC a,nn* that controls in With little Would be continued After « ?ange until July 1. •idering 8 policy of con' % DroheM 8bor case individu ke Mid wJp .J'1';1 be instituted, the state v, 6 b® labor situation in € has unproved somewhat A in the last few months, Dr. Dorton pointed out that there still are sev eral labor market areas in which shortages exist. “We have had nothing but in an indication from Washington that labor controls will be relaxed,” Dr. Dorton said. "We have had no direct orders to relax controls in any area, regardless of classifica tion. However, the North Carolina War Manpower commission will lift the labor control regulations just as early as any other state. Dorton said: an acute shortage still exists in the New Bern area, less acute shortages exist in the Asheville, Charlotte, Winston-Sal em-Greensboro, and Elizabeth City areas, he said. (Continued on Page 8lx; Cei. t) Himmler, Top Nazi Terror Leader, Taken Goering Reported Indicted As War Criminal On Several Counts By EDWARD V. ROBERTS LONDON, May, 12— (U.R)—Hen rich Himmler, No. 1 surviving Nazi terrorist, was reported an Allied prisoner tonight and it was learned that hefty Hermann Goer ing, who blandly denies any wrongdoing, has been indicted as a war criminal on several book fulls of evidence. The Allied dragnet for the Nazi murderers and scavengers of ov errun nations was rapidly catch ing the fugitives, and dossiers and witnesses were being prepared for the judgment of international courts determined to mete out full expiation and punishment. CBS Correspondent Charles Col lingwood reported from Paris that Himmler, Nazi home front dicta tor, chief of the Gestapo and spon sor of such terrorists as the late Reinhard Heydrich, had been held under house arrest in Flensburg by Adm. Karl Doenitz. ■ Doemtz is now believed to nave turned him over to British forces in that area,” Collingwood said. “AIRTIGHT CASE” As for Goering, “I would like to prosecute him myself—we have an airtight case against him,” said a member of the United Nations War Crimes commission. Goering has been indicted on at least eight counts, it was learn ed, all but one of them arising from his responsibility as a min ister of the Reich for the criminal policies of the German govern ment. The eighth count charges him with specific responsibility for forced labor and slavery'pre grams within Germany in direct violation of the articles of the Hague convention. Hitler named Goering commis sioner of th* fdur-year economic plan under which civilians .f&rjs conquered countries were enslav ed in conditions that frequeutly brought on wholesale disease end death. Tne actual documents out (Continued on Page Three; Col. S) FRANCE ANXIOUS TO FIGHT JAPAN Bar jot Says Allies Tarn Down Offers To Send Men To Far East PARIS, May 12—UP)—Admiral Pierre Barjot of the French Gen eral Staff said today that the French wanted to fight the Jap anese “and we don’t care where” but that repeated requests by the Government to send troops to the Far East for combat duty had been turned down by the Allied combined Chiefs of Staff. “We can’t understand the reason,* the Admiral added. uaijub sam fiaiiLC uau iuui ui* visions ready to go to the Pacific but there was no indication auth orization would be given for the units to be shipped out. The Admiral said the French completed the arming of a bat talion of Commandos over a year ago and formally requested last November th«t it be sent to the Pacific. The unit was specially equipped and trained for jungle fighting. “It took three months to get an answer,’’ he said, “and when the answer arrived it was negative.’’ The French, he said, again re quested permission to send troops to the garrison also had been re fighting flared in Indo-China be tween the Japanese and the French garrison. He said the Frencji garrison of about 20,000 men had pinned down (Continued on Page Three; Col. 7) MARINES SLASH INTO NAHA SUBURB, ARMY ALSO GAINS; MINDANAO AIRFIELD SEIZED U. S. WITHIN MILE OF ANOTHER HELD Two American Divisions Pressing Enemy On Philippine Island By RICHARD G. HARRIS MANILA, Sunday, May 13 — (UP) — Swiftly-moving columns of two American di visions, pressing enemy forces from the north and south, have captured one Japanese airdrome and are within a mile of another in central Mindanao, Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur announced today. The 31st (Dixie) Division advanc ing northward along the Sayre highway in the mountainous in terior secured the Maramag air field, while the 40th (Western) Di vision smashed southward 10 miles from its beachhead on Macajalar Bay to within a mile of the Del Monte airfields, the Allied com munique reported. The two Yank columns are now less than 40 miles apart on the main highway through the heart of Mindanao and are rapidly clos ing in on other enemy airfields. These fields long ago were neu tralized by Allied air power but the Japanese left fairly strong gar risons on them. Enemy Surprised strong forces of the 40th landed Thursday at Macajalar, caught the enemy by surprise, and dashed to the village of Alae the same day. There, they cracked the first inemy defense line and drove an other six miles to the vicinity of the air strips. As the Japanese defenses crumbled in the north, 24th Divi son “Dogfaces” were steadily pushing the enemy back from the Davao port area of southern Min danao into the hills between the Talomo and Davao rivers. The enemy fought stubbornly and the Americans had to break up sev eral night counter-attacks north of Davao and near the town of Mintal, four miles to the west. On Luzon, two Yank columns converging on the Ipo damsite, 20 miles northeast of Manila, clos ed the gap between them from four to two miles. One unit was north of the dam and the other to the south. Allied light naval units patrol ing the east coast of Luzon de (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) moreIazIsubs prep ro QUIT Ten Enter British Ports With Others Standing By To Be Received LONDON, May 12.—W—Coastal patrol aircraft have reported sighting large numbers of Nazi U-boats bobbing up in the At lantic and North Sea ready to sur render and by late today at least ten had entered British ports with another five standing by to be re ceived. Most of the submarines were a considerable distance from Amer ican shores but some were be lieved to be heading for United States and Canadian ports to give up. (The German submarine U-858, ! first enemy vessel to surrender in American home waters since the outbreak of the war, is now enroute to Cape May, N. J., where (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) U.S. Planes Blast Japanese In China UMUlsuKiNti, May 12—(U.R;— U. S. 14th Air Force fighters today blasted Japanese troop concentrations east of the air base city of Chihkiang, objec tive of an enemy drive smash ed by the Chinese this week. A Chinese communique said Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek’s forces had inflicted 1,000 casualties on the Japanese in two days’ fighting on that front. Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chen nault’s fighting caught an es timated 1,000 Japanese troops around Tungkow, 66 miles east of Chihkiang, and hit them with bombs and gunfire. Japanese gun positions were bombed in the Paima Shan Sarea, north of Tungkow. The Chinese communique said Tungkow was recaptured by the Chinese Thursday and that the victorious forces con tinued eastward to take the vil lages of Lungtanpu, and then Taohwaping, 21 miles west of Packing. Paoking is the base from which the Japanese launched their drive against Chihkiang. Chinese ground forces and American airmen were assault ing Japanese transport lines northeast of the Hunan pro vince, a Chinese force com manded by Gen. Wang Chung Lien smashed a Japanese col umn Friday in battle six miles west of Hslhiakow, a Chinese communique said. The Japs were caught on a mountainous highway, and 1,300 Japs dead have been counted in the area, the communique asserted. Russians Seize 700,000 Nazis In Mop Up Drive ■-- •» Prisoners Face Job Of Re storing Ruined Red Cities, Factories By ROMNEY WHEELER LONDON Sunday, May 13.—(JP)— Russian armies have captured more than 700,000 enemy troops and 63 Nazi generals in mopping up scattered resistance on the east ern front since Germany’s uncon ditional surrender Tuesday, Moscow said last night. Thousands of these-troops wtye being moved eastward "by the Red Army. They were bound for Rus sia for the work of restoring ruin ed Soviet cities, villages and fac tories- “Before them now is no role of idle gentlemen,” the Soviet newspaper Izvestia said. The only area on the eastern front where some German troops still resisted was in Czechoslovakia and Austria. But three Russian ar mies had closed a ring around the last remnants of Field Marshal Ferdinand Schoemer’s “Middle Army group” in Czechoslovakia and the trapped Germans were being rounded up in a 1,200-square mile pocket. In Austria, another Soviet army was clearing dispersed units of Nazi Col. Gen. Otto Woehler’s Army from hideouts in the Austrian Alps, but the last enemy surren der-resisters in the two countries were giving up the fight and sur rendering. In Czechoslovakia and Austria, a total of 475,000 German captives had been seized. Along with the prisoner haul taken from Latvia to Czechoslovakia, the Russians bag (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 5) •\T TRUMAN TO LEAD VICTORY PRAYER ed To Be Held Through out Country Today WASHINGTON, May 12— (U.R) — President Truman tomorrow will lead the nation in prayer for vic tory over Japan and guidance “into the way of peace.” The President will offer his per sonal prayer in one of Washington’s churches. Throughout the country special prayers will be said in houses of worship of all creeds. In proclaiming victory in Europe last Tuesday, Mr. Truman desig nated tomorrow, which also is Mother’s Day, as a special day of thanks and supplication. He said: “I call upon the people of the United States, whatever their faith, to unite in offering joyful thanks to God for the victory we have won and to pray that he will sup port us to the end of our present struggle and guide us into the way of peace. “I also call upon my country men to dedicate this day of pray er to the memory of those who have given their lives to make possible our victory.” Mr. Truman will observe Moth er’s Day with his mother—92-year old Mrs. Martha Truman of Grand View, Mo.—at his side. Mrs. Truman flew here from Grand View yesterday. It was her first airplane trip, and she enjoy ed it. Today the President sched uled no appointments because, the White House said, he wanted to spend as much time as possible with his mother. ~ _ Big Three May Meet In German Territory LONDON, May 12—<A*>—Sec tions of the British press said today the next meeting of the Big Three—President Truman, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Marshal Stalin—might' be on German soil, and possi bly in some Prussian country house near Berlin. Hie London Sunday Chroni cle said Stalin had rejected London as the site of the im portant conference on vital problems arising from victory in Europe, while the Sunday Times expressed the belief the meeting would be in Germany. The Hmes suggested that Churchill has traveled more than the other leaders and “should not again be asked to undertake a lengthy journey.” A hint that diplomatic re lations among the three big powers have reached a deli cate stage came this week when he cautioned Commons against a foreign affairs de bate at this time. -v_ ALLIED MILITARY TO RULE TRIESTE Will Also Control Sur rounding Area Despite Yugoslav Claims WASHINGTON, May 12- —(/P) The United States tonight served notice on Marshal Tito that the Al lied military will control Trieste and the surrounding area in north eastern Italy despite Yugoslav claims. Noting that Marshal Tito, accord ing to radio reports, is setting up a “national federal government of Slovenia” in Trieste acting sec retary of State Joseph C. Grew issued a public statement reaffirm ing the policy of the United States that territorial changes should be made only after thorough study and full consultation among the governments goncerned. “Only on this basis can ade quate consideration be given to the human, economic and political el ements involved and a just and stable solution be found,” declared Grew. He said that solution of such (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) JAPANESE PLANES ATTACK WARSHIPS Nimitz Reports Damage To Fleet Unit, Several Small Ships By LEIF ERICKSON GUAM, Sunday, May IS— (/P) — Leathernecks of the Sixth Marine Division drove into a suburb of Naha, about 500 yards from Naha itself, as trQops of the 10th U. S. Army made a general, slow* bitterly-fought advance along the southern Okinawa front yesterday. Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner’* 10th Army Yanks battled ahead doggedly on the second day of their new full-strength drive de spite strong Japanese air attacks. These attacks, made in strength Thursday and Friday, damaged one major fleet unit-probably a battleship or large carrier— and several other smaller ships. Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz laid in today’s communique. Destroy 165 Attackers Paced by one destroyer which alone shot down 19 Japanese air craft, carrier pilots and ships de stroyed 165 of the attackers. The destroyer’s 19-gun record probably is an all-time mark for a ship of that size in one air attack. (The old carrier, Hornet, claimed 26 Japanese raiders downed before she was mortally wounded Oct.26, 1942, and the battleship North Da kota claimed her guns downed 34 in defending another carrier in the same battle. The Hornet’s claim was for one 80—plane attack; The North Dakota’s for several at tacks.) The advance by Maj. Gen. Lemuel C. Shepard’s sixth marine division into Tadamotopi was the day’s outstanding forward push. Tadamotoji is north of the Asato river, which forms still another natural barrier to capture of Naha and its big airfield to the south. The Leathernecks, at a cost of scores killed, bridged the Asa river only two days ago in a daring maneuver. Progress The first Marine Division and the 77th Army Division in the center of the Southern Okinawa line made progress against Japanese cave ridge positions. On the east coast, the 96th Divi sion captured important strong points and straightened its line, which flanks Yonabaru airstrip. The 96th troops hold positions a mile and a half beyond the southern end of the airstrip, but the Japanese have prevented cap ture of the field because they still hold commanding positions from which they can pour artillery eo to the runway. In operations presumably intend ed to deny islands flanking the Okinawa area to any Japanese use, cruisers and destroyers bom barded Minami Daito island about 200 miles east of Okinawa Thurs day. Yesterday, troops of the 10th army invaded small Tori island, about 55 miles west of Okinawa. The island was occupied without opposition. Both Tori and Minami Daito were valuable to the Jap anese for observation posts. Street fighting was underway in Takamotoji as the Marines battled for entry into Naha itself after ^ days of the Central Pacific'* most sustaned bitter ground campaign. All four divisions on the southern line are employing tanks. The 77th division effectively employed flame (Continued on Page Two;.. Col. I) Seventh War Loan Drive Will OpenHereMonday Highlighting the opening of the Seventh War Loan drive here Mon day will be a “kick-off” rally for retail store employes at the Bailey theater at 9 a. m., War Finance committee officials announcedd yes terday. Following the showing of a movie short, featuring Bob Hope, the store employes will hear a brief war bond sale talk by Postmaster Wlrbar R. Dosher. Workers will be asked to sell $500 worth of bonds individually during the campaign, and merchants will be requested to use bond displays in their windows. The Treasury department has asked New Hanover citizens to invest $5,167,000 in war bonds during the campaign, which ends June 30. Individuals are asked to purchase $2,478,000 worth of Series E bonds. Farm leaders and wives, bankers and businessmen will meet at 8 p. m. Thursday, May 17, at the Wrightsboro Home Demonstration chubhouse to discuss plans for co ordinating the facilities of New Hanover bankers with activities of the County War Finance organiza tion and other groups taking part in the Seventh War Loan cam paign. Individual ownership of war bonds is a part of the A. B. A. Agriculture commission program to “keep agriculture financially sound,” and will be the general theme of the Thursday night’s meeting. The program will include a dis (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 5) ( Ration Values For Lard And Other Fats Boosted WASHINGTON, May 12—OR— Price Administrator Chester Bow ies tonight ordered higher ration point values for lard, shortening, cooking and salad oils, effective at 12:01 a. m., Sunday. They will be increased to ten points a pound from the present value of six points. This action, Bowles noted, was forecast two weeks ago when the Inter-Agency committee on foreign shipments reported that “the free world’s needs for this basic nut rient and industrial raw material including the needs of liberated Europe, exceed prospective sup plies by nearly 500,000 long tons.” The repprt also said that the United States "must be prepared to economize its use (of fats and oils) if any real contribution is to ■ V V be made to this pressing problem.’* The point value increase an* nounced today does not apply t# butter or margarine. Bowles said the War Food Ad ministration’s revised allocation of fats and oils for civilian use dup« ing the April—June quarter is 814,• 200,000 pounds. The allocation pre> viously. approved for that period was 856,500,000 pounds. OPA also announced that current quarter supplemental allotments of fats and oils to industrial users are being reduced. That cut, he said, rate at which these products are wfll trim by about 20 per cent the used by all except Pharmaceutical manufacturers. The Inter-Agency committee, (Continued on Fag* Hum* CM. 4£ v r
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