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CORNELL SAN FRANCISCO, June 9.—f/P)— Australian Foreign Minister Her bert V. Evatt declared today that the tight is on" and the United Nations conference moved toward i showdown on a Big Five inter pre.ation of their veto-voting au thority. The great nations were trying to convince all small countries that they have supreme veto-voting rights in the security council of a new world organization, ^vatt’s four-word pronouncement under scored the difficulties, but they vw: e confident of winning out after some speech-making. | The Australian has been leading Fir.all-n.viion opposition to broad veto powers. Russia, China, Brit ain. France and the United States insist that the veto must apply at ah levels when the security council ac'-s to erase threats to peace or prevent aggression. i Passes Up Interpretation A subcun miuee considered their interpretation today, then passed it up to its parent committee, iv.r.u.- recommendations for ap prove! disapproval, for more study and debate tonight. 1 Complaints rang out in the sub tommittc-p. delegates reported. (Continued on Page Nine: Col. 5) M PASSENGER SHOT IN FIGHT Condition Of Clay R. Val entine Is Reported To Be Satisfactory Attbc'j,:s (,r James Walker Mem yyA reported last, night ~f- ^ay Huberts Valentine, re to have been shot in ‘he h- ■: 25-caliber automatic . ..1 nd? .,f A. D. Yopp about V icl.iy at the East gate ;,';f K: 'y! Dow Chemical Co.. ■’ "v - Beach, was resting that -his condition seem', 10 be satisfactory ” r. opP' a bus driver for the y*" tCoach Co, who was icompany officials to have " ,:’l ity at the time of the jj”8'"’- " arrested by New j’ rvaa‘.v police early Satur • Ho was charged with jj£ “ssa_u!: wiin a deadly weapon. $5oo *3^ i:‘V; released on bond of KAi; ;/-cUV- -■ Deputy Sheriff G. R. ti„c"M'' v n° arrested Yopp, Valen ]v‘jD;a:rj 10 have been disorder tj0v.|.' | :l; bus and had been called Tv r- -driver several times. v.-5s stated that Valentine Seat' ai° to have gotten out of his h,: nn ;l'ie driver, Ray Gil viop slopped the bits. iaj ,..y " ilnd told the guard at r' •'•’t ’he police, Koonce _ ;i"d »* that time Valen r,n Rage Nine; 1. 4) Britain May Break Deadlock In India LONDON, June 9—</P)—The Sunday Times said today that the government would an nounce this week a proposal to bring the Indian leaders back into the administration and thereby end the political dead lock in India. Under the plan Britain will release the Indian leaders now under detention and will offer to Indianize the Viceroy’s ex ecutive council completely with the exception of the war port folio, the Times said. _\T_ ACCORD PUTS LID ON TRIESTE ROW Anglo-American Forces Will Control Railways, Roads To Austria WASHINGTON, June 9.—(#)—Ar Anglo-American and Yugoslav agreement today put a lid on the troubled Trieste situation, at least, officials hoped, until a peace con ference can settle it permanently whereby the Yugoslav forces ol Marshal Tito are to withdraw east ward, leaving the Anglo-America:: forces in control of the railways and roads to Austria which th e j consider vital. No mention is made in the agree ment of the Austrian province oi (Continued oil Page Two; Col. 6) Plan To StjJi Reich Ol/A* Mills C . M OUTLINED BY ENVOY Would Avoid World War I Program Of Seeking To Recover Damages By AUSTIN BEALMEAR SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, PARIS, June 9— (J>) —A reparations program to strip Ger many of its war plants and avoid the unsuccessful post - world war one plan of attempting to recover v ar damages in dollar value by revitalizing German industry was outlined today by Ambassador Ed win W. Pauley. “Our primary policy is to de industrialize Germany, to destroy its war potential in the future," said Pauley, who is president Tru man’s personal representative on the Allied Reparations Commis sion. “With that in mind there is considerable material for repara tiohs.'’ Pauley did not outline all Ger man industries that would be per mitted to operate if Britain and Russia adopt the United States yiew that all those of war nature should be removed or destroyed. First To Go However, the first to be dis mantled would be armament plants followed probably by air craft. shipbuilding and machine tool industries. Presumably all manufacture of consumer goods will continue to ehlp feed and clothe the German people. The same goes for the making of medical supplies—but a line must be drawn in many cases such as heavy industry, building materials and the manufacture of precision instruments to permit production of peacetime needs while eliminating items such (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) STILWELL VISITS OKINAWA TROOPS _ Navy Also Discloses Gen eral’s Conference With Admiral Nimitz GUAM. Sunday, June 10—UP>— . Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, com mander of American Army ground forces, recently conferred with Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz here and then inspected troops at Okinawa; the Navy disclosed to day. “Vinegar Joe,” a veteran of the Asiatic mainland campaign, thus has held strategic meetings with both five-star leaders of the Paci fic drive oh Japan. Earlier it had been disclosed that General Stil well met in Manila with Gen. Doug las MacArthur. Nimitz is commander of all Navy forces in the Pacific and MacAr thur holds the same role for Army fc res. While in the Philippines, Stilwell visited the fighting fronts. * On his way out, General Stilwell conferred in Hawaii with Lt. Gen. Robert C. Richardson, Jr., com mander of Army forces'in the Paci fic ocean areas, visited jungle training centers and staging areas. 222 Receive Diplomas At High School Finals - * The week-long series of gradua tion ceremonies for the Senior class of New Hanover High school was ended with the commence ment exercises last night at the American Legion stadium. Members of the graduating class of 222, led by the High School principal, T. T. Hamilton, filed to their places in the star-shapea section in the center of the arena. The invocation, in the form of a responsive reading, was led by Max Godwin and Virginia Franks members of the senior class. “America Singing", the theme of the program, presented in song the spirit of America from early pioneer times through the present, capturing the spirit and sweep of the national character. Walter Goldburg introduced the narra tors of the program Members of the senior class, re. lating the musical hisiory of America were: Helen Hicks, Lu cile Conley, Elsie Corbett, John Walker, Jimmie Wells, Betty Jane Harrison, Frances Thompson, Wil liam Lassher, Betty Sue West brook. Jean Bostian, Judity John ston, Robert Strickland, and Wil ton Rankin. Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) / SPIES EXECUTED MANILA, June 9.—(U.R)—Six Jap anese and one Filipino have been convicted spies in a U. S. Army court martial and hanged, it was announced today. pAmerican Air Forces Strike _ » i On Wide Jap Homeland Front; Noose Tightened On Okinawa PO DING ENEMY FROM ALL SIDES Japanese Have Lost 67,703 Men In Bitter Campaign For Island By LEIF ERICKSON GUAM, Sunday, June 10— (fP)—The U. S. 10th Army tightened a noose Saturday on a doomed pocket of Japa nese on Okinawa’s southwest coast while the only other Nipponese force, backed into a rugged escarpment, was pounded from sea, air and land with a tremendous bom bardment. The foe, which has lost 67,703 killed in the campaign and has perhaps around 15,000 left, dug in and offered heavy resistance—with their last gesture banzai charges expected at any time. On Oroku peninsula, the 22nd Regiment of Maj. Gen. Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr.’s Sixth Marine Di vision swung around the eastern Nahe harbor. The Leathernecks joined Maj. Gen. Pedro^ A. Del Valle’s First Marine Division in compressing that trapped enemy group into a space of less than three square miles. Well Dug In Along the five-mile-width of the Yaeju-Dake escarpment, the Nip ponese were well dug in but took a heavy lacing from bombs, roc kets and shells laid down by war ships, planes and artillery. Some First Marine Division ele ments pushed south below the Oro su pocket toward Kunishi ridge, southeast of Itoman town. The 150 foot high ridge covers the west flank of the escarpment line. These elements apparently are working nto position to drive across fairly flat ground between the southwest eoast and the end of the escarp ment. In another flanking drive on the east side of the escarpment, Maj. Hen. Archibald V. Arnold’s Seventh Infantry Division, veterans of the Marshalls and Philippines cam paigns, fought hard in an effort (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) BRUNSWICK ROAD PAVING TO START Dickinson Company Will Begin Work On 7-Mile Stretch Monday Work will be started tomorrow by the Dickinson Construction com pany, of Monroe, on a $103,358 State Highway Commission con tract to pave a seven-mile stretch of U. S. Highway 177 in Brunswick county, from Bell Swamp to Gris settown, R. A. Ashworth, resident highway engineer, said yesterday. The resurfacing of a six-mile portion of the Carolina Bebch high way, U. S. 421, from Wilmington’s city limits to Spindle’s place; and the paving of one and one-half miles of U. S. 17 highway from Smith’s creek bridge to the first turn-off to Bluethenthal airield, is now in progress and is expected to be completed by June 23. The construction firm of F. D. Cline, of Raleigh, was awarded a $84,186 contract in May to do the New Hanover work. Ashworth said traffic would be maintained throughout work on both projects. CHINESE STRIKE INDO-CHINA LINE Continue To Pursue Enemy Units Into Isolated Southeast Asia CHUNGKING, June 9— (API —Chi nese troops, clearing Japanese forces from south China, have reached the Indo - China frontier and today were pursuing enemy units into isolated southeast Asia along an 85-mile front, the Chinese high command said. Veteran troops under Gen. Chang Fah-Kwei captured the bor der town of Chungchingfu. lg miles northeast of the Indo-Chinese high way junction of Caobang, Wednes day. “Enemy remnants fled to ward Coaban.” 110 miles north of the capital city of Hanoi, a com munique said. The Japanese were falling back into Indo-China from the shattered southern end of their overland cor ridor from Korea and were joining an estimated 200,000 enemy troops trapped in southeast Asia. Eighty - five miles southeast of Chungchingfu, Chinese assault forces also won the town of Szelo. on the highway to Indo-China and 23 miles from the frontier, and were pressing toward the town of Between Chungchingfu and Szelo —capture of which widened to 175 miles the breach in Japan’s land bridge — Chinese troops and local militia also attacked the big high way junction of Lungchow, 110 miles northeast of Hanoi. The Chinese command disclosed that twice in the past three months Japanese forces had launched at tacks from Caobang with the inten tion of threatening Tsingti, a Kwangsi province highway center 30 miles north, but on each oc casion were repulsed. The drives were made through Chinese-captured Chungchingfu. VICTORY PARADE NEW YORK. June 9—CP>—The British radio, quoting a Russian announcement, said today that an Allied victory parade “will be held in Berlin as soon as British, and American troops arrive in the German capital.” Red Marshal Says Hitler May Have Fled Berlin Hideout Just Before City Fell BY HENRY SHIE1RU United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN, June 6.—(U.R)—The fate of Adolf Hitler still is an unsolved mystery and instead of dying in Berlin’s ruins he may have fled just before the city fell, Marshal Gregory Zhukov said today. The Nazi fuehrer also may have taken Eva Braun, his mistress-sweetheart with him, because there is fair evidence that they were married. “We have not discovered any corpse which may be definite ly identified as Hitler’s and consequently we cannot make E e- ■, any statement about his deatn, and he could have fled from Germany up to the last min ute,” Zhukov said in his first meeting with Allied newsmep since the occupation of Ber lin six weeks ago. (A high Russian military source previously told the Unit ed Press that a body found be neath the Berlin Reichchancel lery, one of four smoke-black ened and burned corpses found in the underground shelter, had been identified “with fair cer tainty” as that of Hitler.) Diaries of Hitler’s aides re vealed that the fuehrer marred | Miss Uraun, the girl Deueveu to have been his only sweet heart, two days before Berlin fell, Zhukov said. The cere . mony of marriage, decided upon after the girl had lived as his mistress for months, ap parently was performed in the underground hideout as Rus- « sian shells burst overhead. Col. Gen. Nikolai Bezarin, Russian commandant of Berlin, said it was his personal view that Hitler was hiding some where in Europe—probably in Spain. He said that several bodies had been found which might have been the corpse of me iuenrer out none nau ueeu identified pos'tively. v “I leave it to you to find hjs body," Betarin said. There is no doubt about the suic'de of Paul Josef Goebbels, Nazi propaganda m'nister and intimate of Hitler, he said. The bodies of Goebbels, his wife and two children were found in an undergound apartment be neath the Reichschancellery. Bezarin said Goebbels ad ministered potassium cyanide to his children, then took his own life. His body and those of his family were carefully (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) f- _;--—— Tokyo Reports Allied Invasion Of Island Off Coast Of Borneo By FRED HAMPSON MANILA, Sunday, June 10 —(/PI—The Japanese reported Saturday an Allied invasion of Labuan island oft the northwest coast of oil-rich Borneo. General Douglas MacArthur did not confirm the enemy ra dio report but his communique today announced heavy air raids for the eighth consecu tive day on Labuan and the Brunei Bay area in which La buan is situated. Allied light naval forces also shelled the northeast coast of Borneo, MacArthur announc ed. U. S. Army 13h Air Force, Royal Australian Air Force and U. S. Seventh Fleet heavy, medium and fighter-bombers dealt the Borneo bows as the air war in the East Indiet reached a crescendo. Liberators of the 13th Air Force cascaded a heavy ton nage of bombs on Labuan and on a nearby airfield, while de layed reports showed the RAAF on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday smashed the nearby mainland town of Brunei in a succession of raids, destroy ing many Japanese buildings. These strikes were followed by another 13th Air Force raid on the same area. The airdromes of Ranau, Jes selton. Sandakan, Kudat and Keningau all were hit and ca tered, while the railroad bridge over the Pados river near Brunei was damaged in the heaviest series of strikes yet made by planes based in the Philippines and the East In dies. Tokyo had said that Allied invaders went ashore on La buan after Japanese positions on the isle were battered by battleships, cruisers, destroy ers and 50 smaller warships. Labuan is on the northern flank of the mouth of Brunei Bay, on the opposite side of Northern Borneo from Tara kan island, which Australian and Dutch forces invaded 41 days ago. Japanese opposition on Tarakan has been virtual ly knocked out. MacArthur reported Ameri can planes set fires in harass ing raids on Taihoku, on For mosa, caused a large explosion (Continued on Page Two; Col. 8) Japan s Diet Ordered To Give All Its Powers To War Cabinet RULE BY DECREE Premier Says Country Fac ing Greatest Crisis In Its History (By The Associated Press) Emperor Hirohito directed the Japanese diet yesterday to hand over virtually all its powers to the war cabinet, which wili rule by decree in an effort to cope with what Premier Kantaro Suzuki call ed “the most critical situation in the history of our nation.” Opening of the two-day emergen cy diet session in bomb-ravished Tokyo with a prediction that the unprecedented war powers would be granted quickly was reported | by the Domei agency in a series of broadcasts recorded by the Federal communications commis cir»n Forecasts Invasion Addressing both houses, Prem ier Suzuki forecast an American invasion of Japan and warned of new shortages of food, munitions and transport, but -reected uncon ditional surrender and declared that Japan’s only choice was “to fight to the last.” In a brief imperial rescript, which was read before Suzuki spoke, Hi rohito called on the people to “ful fill the purpose of the holy war”, and ordered the diet to “do your duty of deliberating and support ing the war emergency measures “in accordance with out imperial will.” Domei said that there were six measures which would empower the cabinet to “issue orders or take steps without parliamentary approval” in the fields of trans (Continued on Page Nine; Col. 4) ARMY, NAVY WILL PUSH DRAFT BILL Line Up Big Guns In All Out Drive For Univer sal Training WASHINGTON, June 9.—Iff"—'T^he Army and the Navy will roll their big oratorical guns up to' Capitol Hill next week in a final all-out drive for peacetime draft legisla tion. Chairman Woodrum (D.-Va.) an nounced today that the final wit nesses in the two weeks of public hearings on universal training be fore t}ie house post-war committee on milita'ry policy will be: _i „ c ut_a_ __ /-i Marshall, fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, General A. A. Vandegrift, Marine commandant; Lt. Gen. Ira Eaker, chief of the army's a i i staff; Vice Admiral Aubrey VV. Fitch, Deputy Chief of Naval op erations for air; Vice Admiral Ran dall Jacobs, chief of the bureau of naval personnel, and Secretary They will testify during an all day session next Saturday, witfl Secretary of War Henry L. Slim son preceding them on Friday as proponents take over the last twc days of the hearings. There is a possibility, commit tee members said, that Generals George S. Patton, Jr., and Omar N. Bradley, recently returned from the fighting fronts of Europe, will be added to the impressive list oJ proponent witnesses. “If General Eisenhower desires to be heard when he comes to the Capitol on June 18, we will extend (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) U. 5. Will Keep 600,000 Nazi POW’s As Laborers -i TRUMAN ON CRUISE WASHINGTON, June 9.—(/P)— President Truman left this after noon on an overnight river cruise on the yacht Potomac. He will re turn to the White House some time tomorrow. [ SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Paris, June 9.—(S—Unit ed States armies, which held 2, 852.000 German prisoners in Eur ope when victory came, will keep 600.000 of them as laborers. Col. Robert J. Gill disclosed today. Another 200,000 to 225,000 Ameri can-held troops will be handed over to France for labor in this country said Gill, chief of the prisoner of war division in the European the ater Provost Marshal’s office. With nearly 500,000 prisoners in the United States and another 25, 000 in Britain, Gill estimated it would take at least nine months to cut the total figure to 600,000 by various means, some of which still have not yet been decided up on. Gill reiterated previous state ments of high American military authorities that German prisoners would be “permitted” to remove land mines but declined further comment on that subject. He emphasized, however, that all plans for employment of prisoners in the rehabilitation of battered Europe were based on rules of the Geneva Convention despite the fact (Continued on Page T^o; Col. S) y i/ CARRIER PLANES ATTACK KANOYA Raids Follow Superfort ress Strike At Import ant Aircraft Plants By HAMILTON W. FARON GUAM, Sunday, June 10— (/P)—Japan felt the might of American aerial forces along a wide homeland front over the week-end as Navy carrier planes and the Army’s B-29s and P-51 Mustangs attacked with high explosive bombs, rockets and strafing machine guiio. Adm. William F. (Bull) Halsey, Jr.’s Third Fleet carrier pilots heavily attacked Kanoya Naval air base on Kyushu yesterday destroy ing 30 planes and heavily attack ing ground installations, a pilot training center and supply depots. Army Mustangs ripped installa tions of all kinds at Kagamigahara airfield. 13 miles north of Nagoya on Honshu island. The Mustang attacks closely fol. lowed a three-pror.ged Superfor tress strike at important aircraft plants at Nagoya, Naruo and Aka shi in daylight yesterday. Other Attacks Escort carrier pilots also attack ed ground installations in the Sa briuia islands, southernmost of the Ryukyus. Flying a 1,500-mile round trip from their Iwro island bases, the Mustang strafed two airstrips at Kagamigahara, probably putting them out of operation temporarily. They also battered an army pilot training center and other installa tions. Then, for good measure, they strafed a supply vessel caught offshore. Seven Japanese Interceptors sought unsuccessfully to halt the attack. One was damaged, the oth ers driven off. Mustang pilots said they destroyed five Japanese planes on the ground and damaged XU. Three Mustangs were shot down. One pilot was rescued. Tokyo radio, reporting on raids, said that one of every 15 Japanese in the home islands now is home less as a result of air raids. The 21st Bomber Command here announced that between 100 and 150 of B-29s pounded aircraft fac tories at Nagoya. Naruo and Aka shi in the industrial heart of Ja pan. from medium altitude without fighter escort. At Washington, the !S)th Air Force announced that all planes returned safely and that only a few enemy fighters were encoun tered. Antiaircraft fire was quite heavy but inaccurate the announce ment Said. Tokyo said the Superforts, on their third daylight mission against the Japanese homeland in a week, struck between 7:30 and 8:50 a.m. Saturday (6:30 p.m. and 7:50 p.m. Friday, U. S. Eastern War Time.) The Mustang attack on the same general industrial area of Honshu island. Tokyo said, came about, three hours later. About 50 of the Two Jima-based Mustangs struck at unidentified targets between Nagoya and Osaka and immediately to the north, the broadcast said. These new fighter and bomber blows came while Japan’s diet fparliament) was meeting in traordinary session to act on dral (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) -V WEATHER ! - FORECAST I Noith Carolina—Considerable cloudi ness and warmer Sunday and Monday [afternoon. Thundershowers Sunday and in mountains Monday. WASHINGTON. June 9.—f/P)—Weather bureau report of temperature and rain fall for the 24 hours ending 8 p.m. Station High Low Free. Asheville _ 76 61 9.40 Atlanta _ 92 68 G.ffc Birmingham _ 75 69 Poston- 73 50 0.00 Chicago -!_ 71 55 0.00 Cincinnati _ 75 54 0.75 • Cleveland _ 75 48 0.00 Denver _ 71 46 0.05 Detroit _ 66 51 0.00 Fort Worth _ 92 74 0 00 Jacksonville_ 98 73 0.00 Kansas City_ 81 63 0.17 Little Rock _ 90 68 0.01 Los Angeles_ 73 53 0.00 Louisville _ 78 64 0.66 Memphis _ 91 66 0.60 Miami - 83 76 0.00 New Orleans _ 90 74 0.00 New York _ 77 57 0.00 Norfolk _ 77 62 0.00 Pittsburgh - 75 57 0.00 Richmond _ 75 60 0.04 St. Louis _ 78 62 0.39 San Francisco _ 60 53 0.00 Savannah _ 93 71 0.50 Seattle _ 90 52 0.32 Washington _:_ 73 36 0.0® Wilmington _ 82 65 0.00 # *