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' FORECAST 4, j + . iTltf rr ^ Served By Leased Wires ^FzJ umtngnm lUnrmng mar 7oh‘^s(!:m: _WILMINGTON, N. C„ SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1945 , ESTABLISHED 1867 (J. S. Promise^, To Double Army In Pacific; Reds Ask P^£‘ Five To Solve Levant Crisis; 14 Enemy Ships Sunk; Battered Shuri Falls --—-- ^-------'_ * .- * - *---- - I Dew Disorder Is Reported, Shops Looted peace parley cited No Indications Of French Violation; Hundreds Killed LONDON, Saturday, June 2—(U.R) _The Soviet Union today stepped into the Levant crisis, calling on the Big Five to take “timely measures'’ to end disorders in the near east in the spirit of the world security charier now being draft ed at San Francisco. Moscow said the Soviet govern ment had sent notes to the French provisional government as well as the governments of Great Britain, the United States and China “who hold the initiative for postwar or ganization of peace and interna tional security.” The Soviet note, calling for peaceful settlement of the Arab French dispute, shortly after the French government refused to en ter immediate negotiations with Britain and the United States. A dispatch from the United Press Correspondent Sam Souki in the Syrian capital reported that new disorders began when French Afri can troops, set adrift by their of ficers after a French cease-fire or der, began looting food shops which had opened for the civilian popula tion. Syrian nationalists and police fired on the looters from behind sandbags and fairly heavy rifle and machinegun fire was ringing out through the city late last night. There was no indication that the French themselve had violated the cease-fire order given them last night. The information bureau of the Soviet foreign affairs commissari ate issued a communique in which It announced dispatch of the notes to the four powers. "The Soviet government pointed out that military actions were occurring in territory of Syria and Lebanon and that French troops stationed there had armed en counters with the Syrians and Le banese. that artillery shelling and air attack on the capital Syria town of Damascus had occurred,” the communique said. Armed encounters c-lso oecur fed in a number of other towns * Syria and Lebanon,” the note said. "The number of killed and founded is increasing every day. :ne Position is complicated by the set that the three above mention (C«ntinued or Page Two; Col. 5) _ \T WILMINGTON SUFFERS WAR’S HOTTEST DAY Oid Sol had his working clothes dietf jSterday and as a result, he u "ed aP for Wilmingtonians, the cn-rif1 day ot the year to date, ac. officiaf- t0 l0Cal ^ea4her Bureau ilau!!1*™ a g00d start shortly after tho m ^ d ^ steadily jacked up it ,mf.rcury a fraction of a degree until a high of 89 was residents ^ ■ the day’ leavin§ June 1 iPqa£tmg a"d Perspiring. h0.,.„, ■ l?44 was almost as warm showirf1" 5ea,her Bureau records pera g t4lat the maximum tem o/*',re. hf re a year a§° was 88> dSv „eLdeugree cooler than yester j •mmXv* *s '*tis<!,lnE as WEATHER 'Eastern Standard Time) Itet....: ' Weather Bureau) Biding rtata f°r the 24 hours Phi., yesterday, i l:3o am TemPerature 1:30 pm jj'“: 7:30 »m. 76; 1:30 pm, 87; fi9; Minimum 71; Mean 80; J Humidity 7:30 pmm,722; 7:30 am- 84* 1:30 pm, 64; Total Precipitation ,0r' inchesthe 24 hours endir,g 7 :30 p.m., ®0Q inches^ 1lle llls* °* month, (From u T,e?.‘,j: For Todav s- Coa^ J 'Faoles ‘ Published by ast and Geodetic Survey) ^ilmington Hi?h Low - 2:21a 9:47a ^■^born 7nl.a 2;48p 10:02p j ln,et -12:02a 6:30a ..Sunrise s-m. «. 10:33p 6:37p Monn't t' ^'inset, 7:19; Moonrise S^£e n#l eV 11:01a mer at Fayetteville, 10.11. Honoring The Unknown Soldier In solemn Memorial Day ceremonies the wreaths of President Harry S. Truman and the American Leghnr-awplared'on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Arlington National Cemetery at Ar lington, Va. Similar services were held in Allied capitals. (International Soundphoto) Five Jap Ships Sank By U. S. War Planes -:-* _- __ i MANILA. Saturday. June 2—(#>— fcvumt MJUunl IN WAR CHARGES World-Wide Agency Plan ned; U. S. Anxious For Convictions LONDON, June 1—15*)—Delegates of 16 nations attending a confer ence of the United Nations War Crimes Commission moved today to perfect an international Scotland Yard or world-wide counterpart of the American G-men to collect evi dence against Axis war criminals. As the commission's drive (o tighten its detective and prosecu tion machinery gained impetus, Col. Abe McGregor Goff, a repre sentative of the Washington war crimes office, told the delegates that the United States was deter mined to exact a full price from every war criminal — “white or yellow.” He said that the United States vvas “anxious to play its full part in the commission’s work. There were indications that the pool indictment plan was gather ing strength within the commis sion. Originally advocated by Judge Samuel Rosenman, White House advisor, the plan provides a means of bringing to trial the membership of such terror organ izations as the German Gestapo and SS and simplifying convictions In discussing a projected world wide investigating unit Lt. Col. J. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 7) General George C. Kenney’s Far Eastern Air Force made big news again today in the Southwest Pa cific, sinking five Japanese ships and blasting Japanese ground in stallations from the Netherlands East Indies to Formosa and Ma laya. Allied fliers, chiefly American, sank or heavily damaged 2,117,482 tons of Japanese shipping from January 1 through May 31, Gen. Douglas MacArthur reported in to day's communique. Japanese ships represented in that tonnage far exceeded 1,000 in number, for as the air, submarine and naval blockade has com pressed the enemy’s sphere of op erations, fliers have found the Nip ponese resorting to smaller and smaller vessels to transport their supplies. In addition to the huge toll Ken ney’s fliers took of Japanese ship ping, they dropped more than 70, (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) lavalWbetried FOR IIFE IN FRANCE K MADRID, June 1.— (U.R) — Archtraitor Pierre Lavel of Vichy has decided to give himself up to France to be tried for his life and may be flown across the frontier soon to face his fate, dispatches from Barcelona said tonight. Official sources here were sil ent but the Barcelona advices said Laval decided to give himself up after a two-hour conference yester day with Civil Governor Correa Veglisson of Cotalonia. Russia Reported Ready To Talk Of Veto Power SAN FRANCISCO, June 1—OP)— The American delegation at the United Nations conference has been informed that Russia is willing to renew talks about great nation veto powers. A Big Five meeting im mediately was called for tonight. (12 midnight eastern war time.) The key issue of the conference is whether the United States, Brit ain, Russia, China and France each shall have authority to block peace-keeping measures in the se. curity council of a proposed world league. . , , , Many other issues are interlocked with it. snd the conference for the most part has been marking time while awaiting word from Mos I cow on an interpretation of the veto power. But late today a committee ap proved all but a few paragraphs of the proposed section of a world charter dealing with trusteeships. Parts approved include those which would let the United States hold key bases in the Pacific. There were indications that And rei Gromyko, chief of the Russian delegation, finally had heard from his government regarding an inter pretation drawn up by Big Five technicians, in answer to questions raised by small nations on how to the veto formula would work.. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) Five Combat Enemy Ships Are Included SUB SAGA RELATED Secretary Forrestal Says Japan* Destroyed As Maritime Power WASHINGTON, June 1.— — United States submarines have sunk 14 more enemy ships, includ ing a destroyer and four other combatant vessels in Pacific wa ters, the Navy announced today. The other combatant craft were three small patrol vessels and a coastal minelayer. Noncombatant ships claimed in the latest toll were a large tanker, five medium merchant vessels, two medium merchant vessels, two medium freighters and a small merchant vessel. Simultaneously, the Navy re laxed "its security restrictions to tell the story of the Submarine Salmon, which, forced by heavy depth charge attack to surfact af ter helping sink a J-ap tanker, fought it out with surface guns at point blank range with the tankers four escorts, forced two of them to flee, and itself eseaped. For the action, the Navy said, the Salmon has been awarded., the presidential unit citation. The sinkings announced in to day’s communique raised to 1,142 the total Japanese ships of all types sunk by United States subs since the start of the war. includ ing 136 combatant and 1,006 non combatant craft. (Oonthmed on Page Three; Col. 1) u. s. wilTrelease ITALIAN PRISONERS ROME, June 1.— (U.R) —The cabinet announced today that the Allies have informed Italy of their intention to release all Italian prisoners of war as soon as possible, and have asked the government to work out a re paration program. An Allied commission spokes man emphasized that the request for a program was made only as preparation for the eventual re partriatlon of Italian prisoners abroad, and that no action date had been set for their return The Italian government apparently in terpreted the Allied request for a program as a sign that repatriation was imminent. Allied authorities were un-J willing to predict when the return of prisoners from abroad would bedin. Yanks' Lines Facing Light Jap Fighting NEW PENETRATIONS Mopping Up Operations In Progress; Resistance Collapsing GUAM, Saturday, June 2.—UP)— Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buekner, Jr.’s 10th U. S. Army troops com pleted capture yesterday of the fortress city of Shuri, battered keystone of Nippon’s smashed southern Okinawa defense line, and drove southward against dim inishing resistance. The central areas of the Ameri can lines, which had bulged badly northward as four divisions virtual ly encircled Shuri while the Japa nese held tight in that citadel, were straightened and shortened by the day’s gains, Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz reported in today’s com munique. Strong elements on both flanks made new penetrations toward the south into enemy held ground. Progress was so great that Nimitz reported “mopping up operations were'in progress in newly captured areas behind the lines.” Several hours earlier, Maj. Gen. John R. Hodge, commander of the 24th Army Corps, told Associated Press Correspondent A1 Dopking that only weather now could stop the Yanks. He said that to all out ward aDnearances. organized Jap anese resistance on Okinawa was on the verge ot collapse. Detailing the ground action, which was supported strongly by Marine aircraft and heavy Naval guns, Nimitz reported: The 6th Marine Division moved forward to occupy about 1,000 yards of the north bank of the Kokuba river. It met considerable resis tance from Japanese in the vicini ty of Kokuba village, but forward elements crossed the river and penetrated southward. The First Marine Division cap tured Shichina hill masses after an advance of about 2,000 yards, which gave them positions overlooking the Naha-Honabaru highway crossing the island from east to west. In the central sectors, the 24th Army Corps reorganized its In fantry forces and mopped up rem nants of the Shuri fortress garri son. Launching a poweful attack on the east, the 7th Infantry Division advanced 400 to 1,000 yards to cap ture positions in the southern Ozato (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) Osaka Is Left Burning As 450 B-29's Hit City GUAM, Saturday, June 2 — (TP) — American Superfortresses rained fire bombs for two hours on Osaka in a daylight attack Friday and Radio Tokyo hinted of a great con flagration, saying resulting fires ‘‘are generally being brought under cantrol.” This picture was presented by Japanese broadcasts as 21st bom ber command headquarters here disclosed that 86 square miles of Japan’s great war productio ncent ers were in ruins before the Osaka raid. The destruction there will be added. Japan’s sorely tried air force of fered no opposition to the Mustang fighters from Iwo, escorting the big bombers, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz disclosed in his fleet communique today. Tokyo reported that the attack ing U. S. planes—which the 21st Command announced numbered more than 600 B-29’s and escort ing fighters—came over in forma tions of 10 to 30 planes starting at 8:35 am. yesterday (7:35 p.m. Thursday, EWT. Fires, the broadcasts added, broke out in the northwestern sec tion of Osaka city and also Ama gasaki city, and “are gradually be. ing brought under control.” The Osaka mission—the second mass fire raid against Nippon’s second largest city in three months —followed similar heavy blows against Tokyo and Yokohama with in a week. More than 450 of the mighty B-29 from Marianas bases, shielded by 150 Mustang fighters from Iwo Jima scattered some 3,200 tons of incen diary bombs on Osaka’s congested industrial area. As the fires still burned, the 21st Bomber Command announced here that 6.9 square miles of Yokohama were destroued in Tuesday's day light attack on that Tokyo bay port city. This, with the ruins added to Tokyo's fire-blackened area by two pre-dawn raids last week, brought the E>-29s’ score to 86 square miles of ruined city districts in J apan. The 21st Bomber Command, in announcing the figure, made clear it did not inqlude the area burned in the Osaka raid yesterday. In describing the conflagration, Second Lt. E. H. Burton, Jr., of Champaign, 111., gave the vivid de scriptive phase about the fires “melting” in the clouds. He told how the overcast dissolved into a light haze over Osaka as he made his target run Returning B-29’s crews reported that Japanese interceptor planes, doubly cautious because of the American mustangs, showed little willngness to close for battle. Anti (Continued on Page Two; Col. S) More Meat Promised For U. S, By July 1 WAsmiMiiiUN, June 1—(U.R) —Price Administrator Chester Bowles predicted today that housewives will f'-.d more meat for their dinner tables around July 1. He told a joint committee on streamlining Congress that OPA has devised for immediate op eration a new plan it hopes will keep the nation’s meat distribution system in better balance. Supplementing a recent or der for more Federal meat in spection, it will require slaugh terers to send into each county the same proportionate quota of meat that he shipped into that country in the first quar ter of 1944. Bowles said both programs should “begin to show effect” at retail stores about July 1. He said the quota system was “overdue” and should have been placed in operation with the inspection plan which al ready is “pushing a lot more meat” into legal distribution channels and forcing some 11, 000 “fly-by-night” slaughterers out of business. Civilian supplies also will be increased slightly by cancella tion of all lend-lease and for eign relief meat shipments dur ing July, August and Septem ber. The only meat exports for those months will be con signed to U. S. armed forces overseas. Bowles’ statement and dis closure of the ban on meat ex (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) ENEMY RETREATS BEFORE CHINESE Japanese Pounded On 900 Mile Front; Hit By U. S. Planes CHUNGKING, June 1—Jap anese units along the western side of their China land corridor with drew under pressure at points along a 900-mile front today, while oth er enemy forces to the east push ed along the Chekiang province coast in an area vulnerable to American invasion, the Chinese high command announced. From the French Indo-China bor der northward to the area of Shanh sien in Honan province the Japa nese were pulling back from ex posed salients under heavy attack by U. S. 14th Air Force planes. A Chinese army spokesman said the Japanese had found it inad visable to longer hold their con tinental corridor linking Manchur ia with French Indo-China, Thai land, Burma and Malay. He said the Japanese had found the corridor vulnerable to air at tacks and subject to pressure from Chinese ground troops, and had discovered it was impossible to build the projected railroad be tween Liuchow and French Indo China. That railroad, connecting at Liu chow with lines to the north, was to have been the enemy's answer to the Allied cutting of sea com (Continued on Page Three; Col. 6) BIG THREE MEETING MAY BE HELD SOON WASHINGTON, June 1— (U.R) — President Truman said today that he definitely will meet with Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Russian Premier Josef Stalin in the not-too-distant future. He declined to reveal when or where the next Big Three meeting would be held, but told his news conference that the time was get ting closer and hinted that it would be held overseas. Asserting that he expected the San Francisco security conference to end within 10 days, Mr. Tru man said in response to a question that a delay of as much as two weeks in the conclusion of the conference would not affect the tim ing of the Big Three meeting. Churchill recently suggested thht the meeting be held some time be tween June 15 and July 5. 50 FORMER NAZIS TO BE PUNISHED Berlin Mayor Seeks Merci less Justice; Under ground Cited LONDON, June l.ftJ.R)—Disclosing disorders including arson and at tacks on Russian soldiers in Eerlin, Lord Mayor Arthur Werner of the Russian-occupied German capital announced tonight a program_of merciless justice calling for the ex ecution of 50 former Nazis, as well as those specifically guilty, for each incident. In addition, Werner said in a broadcast over the Berlin radio, persons who have knowledge of an intended act of disorder will be ex ecuted unless they inform police at once. It was indicated that members of the Hitler youth organization or the Werewolves who, the Nazis hop ed, would carry on underground resistance in event of an Allied victory might be involved in the in cidents. ‘‘I warn all deluded and misguided persons, especially members of the former Hitler youth, not to continue these activities,” the mayor said. ‘‘Parents and teachers, make it clear to your children what a sense less and ruinous crime against the nation any kind of attack or out rage represents toaay Apparently speaking for Russian occupation authorities who had giv en him his office after their re organization of Berlin, Werner said: "Berliners! Hitler's war of crime has thrown our home town into the deepest disaster in its history. “Criminals are still to be found who by crazy actions want to pre vent the return of peace and quiet. Human lives and property that had been spared by the war already have fallen victim to their treacher ous activities. “As far as these outrages are directed against members of the Red,,army they are both senseless and criminal provocation of an oc cuping force whose good under standing and friendly attitude to ward the population is a primary and essential prerequisite for es tablishment of normal conditions and for general well-being. There had been no previous in dication of disorder in Berlin or of what appeared to be at least partly organized attacks on Russian sol diers, possibly officials also, and attempts to burn Russian headquar ters or other buildings. Survey To Begin Monday On Cijty Extension Plan The new City Council’s action at its first meeting Thursday in auth orizing City Attorney W. B. Camp bell to start extensive surveys and collect data necessary for the calling and holding of an election on the extension of the city limits, was viewed yesterday by city offi cials as a definite indication of a favorable attitude of the new body towards the measure. City Manager A. C. Nichols and City Engineer J. A. Loughlin are expected to start Monday on field surveys, required by the city limits extension law, showing that munic ipal facilities can be provided to the new areas if and when they are taken into the city, it was learned. Several officials predicted that the results of the survey would be presented to the council by the first of July. City officials must, according to legislation enacted in the last session of the General Assembly, know enough about the costs of extension of municipal facilities to enable them to make a public statement that such facil ities can be provided to the annex ed territory. The city attorney yesterday ex plained that the information must contain a complete estimate of the (Continued on Pa re Two; Col. 7) Truman Calls For All-Out War On Jap$ WORKERS SOUGHT { _ 1 All Escort Vessels Not Needed For Training Will Be Used WASHINGTON, June 1— UP—'The. U. S. Army in the Pacific, presi dent Truman declared today, ulti mately will be twice its present size and ‘‘bigger than our army was in Europe at its height.” In a special message to Con gress, reviewing the war and reit erating this country’s determina tion to fight the Japanese conflict ‘‘to complete finish,” Mr. Truman called for workers in ship repair yards to meet the suicide attacks of the Japanese and asked civil ians to abstain from travel during the mass movement of troops to the Pacific. Mr. Truman said the Pacific war has developed all the major ele ments of a Naval war and told Congress all escort vessels not needed for training will be sent there. He praised the Navy’s aid in bringing about successful land in vasions all over the world, and said the Japanese surface Navy “has'now been reduced to a frac tion” of its full fighting strength. The Japanese merchant marine, he added, “has now been reduced to a quarter of its pre-war size.” For this we can thank our sub marines, air and sea bases, and surface and sky fleets, he con tinued. J\S we appiUdUi me v.**w**»y. homeland the density of his air power becomes greater,” the Pres ident reminded. “This means tough fighting in the air. “In the future we shall have <o expect more damage rather than less,” he said. The message, read to Congress by clerks, said the joint chiefs of staff have decided “that our Army can deliver its heaviest blows in the Pacific and win final victory most quickly with a strength whicn a year from now will be about 7,000.000.” "By maintaining our army at this size,” the President said, “we shall be able to more than double the force we now have in the Pa cific and hurl against the Japanese an overseas force larger than the 3,500,000 men who united with our Allies to crush the Wehrmacht and the Luftwaffe.” The President said the strength of 7.000.000 men was decided on bv the joint chiefs of staff after consultation with General Douglai MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz. ‘ These are the men, the Presi (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) _V TOTALITARIANS SEEK JAP CABINET PARLEY, WASHINGTON, June 1— <U.R> — Japan’s new totalitarian political party is pressing for an emergency session of parliament, Tokyo broad casts disclosed today, and it was indicated that the government of Adm. Baron Kantaro Suzuki might be headed for trouble' less than two months after it assumed of fice. Directors of the party — called "sure victory”—met today and de cided to ask a parliament meeting "in view of the present war situa tion,” the Japanese Domei news agency said in a broadcast record ed by the Federal Communications Commission. Secretary General Kenzo Matsu mura told the meeting that he had [conferred with cabinet ministers yesterday and exchanged views on the possibility of a session of the diet. GEN. SCHMIdTsAYS : | - ■ i WASHINGTON, June 1.— —A War Bond message from Major General Harry Schmidt* commanding general, Sth Am phibious Corps, U. S. Marine i Corps: “If any Americans feel their ] personal War Bond quota in the 7th War Loan is too high, let 1 them think of the task assigned j a Marine in taking a Jap-infest* i ed Pacific island like I we i Jima.’> ^ A
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