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FORECAST * \ 4 ^ Served By Leased Wire* 1 ggr ~ umutmmt iirrntm mar :=§=“. _______J State and National New* yOL178::=m 194. _WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1945 ESTABLISHED 1867 Delegations Tentatively OK Formula VOTE PLAN PLEASES Conference Now Consider ing Regional Security Arrangements SAN FRANCISCO, June 13—(U.fi) mie United Nations Conference MV.e tentative approval today to *s most controversial problem — .lie Yalta voting formula—and to night considered another issue that kad pla«ueti and divided the 50 United Nations earlier, the region j[ security arrangements. The voting formula, including me hotly-contested veto power of the Big Five nations, was given overwhelming approval by a tech nical committee this afternoon, al though there were many absten tions from the voting. Tonight, in the lirst after-dark session at the Ssn Francisco Opera House, the regional arrangements committee made its report to the Security Council Commission. V. K. Wellington Koo, Chinese delegate and rapporteur of the lommittee, told the Conference fcat the report, representing a compromise on the issue of World Security vs. Regional Security ar rangements. had been unanimously approved. Committee acceptance ns preceded by six meetings and 10 other sessions of a major sub committee. he said. a bitter fight on the regional ar rangements issue with demands that the Pan American security system be exempted from author ity of the Worid Organization. The mise whereby the supremacy of the World Security Council is recogniz ed. but where also regional secur ity arrangements will obtain in the early stages of disputes where hopes for settlement are high. In line with that compromise, the committee inserted a paragraph in the original Dumbarton Oaks pro posals recognizing the right of in dividual or regional self-defense by members if an armed attack oc curs. But it also points up the auth ority and right of the Security Council to intervene. Other changes in the original proposals, as recommended by the committee report, included: 1. That the Security Council should encourage peaceful settle ment of local disputes through re gional agencies. 2. That the Security Council 'should at all times be kept fully informed on activities undertaken or in contemplation under regional arrangements or by regional agen cies for the maintenance of inter national peace and security.” Koo underscored that paragraph, and the committee report empha sized that the new world peace or ganization should not conflict with previous regional pacts, nor with the act of CViapulepec affecting the Western hemisphere. The committee report on region* »! arrangements, an important Part of the proposed charter, was overshadowed in importance by the veto acceptance which termin ated a long and bitter fight. -\r_ ALLIED CONFERENCE ON FOOD WILL OPEN j LONDON, June 13.—UP)—Repre *entatives of at least nine Allied nations will meet tomorrow to he threat of European starvation '‘hhe Britain's national farmers’ linion predicted a winter of "the host frugal rations in living mem crv. s British Food Minister Col. J. J. expected to direct dis JSSI0ns of the Allied food confer ee opening in London. today told win.mons that some 100,000,000 peo ?‘e 'n liberated Europe were look, for food. L will not be a good foundation '■peace if they . . have to go “rs:'y.'’ Llewdlin warned ‘"od experts from the United ®>'itain. Canada. Denmark, j, "’a-v- Holland. Belgium, Luxem j..,and France are expected to y''L® conference. Russia, ^ -oslavia. and Czehoslovakia also ■« e.been invited but there is no in atl0n >hey will attend. WEATHER ^Eastern Standard Time) 1 l - S. Weather Bureau) data for ,he 24 hours - j 6 <oU p.m., yesterday, j Temperature 7;3o p^m7^; 7:30 am> 78; 1:30 Pm* 85‘ Kormglm^ 8fi’ ^Iinirnum 75; Mean 80; 1 J.-5A Humidity T:3o°p^m'g33: 7:30 am, 86; 1:30 pm, 65; Total f Precipitation e.oo incj^ tne 24 hours ending 7:30 pm, *-330tfnche"Ce *‘rst °* *he mon^'1, 1 (pr0m v lT,dps For Today) V. s r ..tlie iide Tables published by ‘ f,a't and Geodetic Survey) T.'iltn? Hi^Yi Low -.. 12:46a 8:03a , Uasonvw , l:13p 8:12p bor° Inlet _ 11:12a 4:53a : Sunri»i> - , 11:24p 5:0Cp •v,s. n;°G; Sunset, 7:24; Moonrise, . Moonsst U;26d. / Borneo Invaders Move Inland The North Borneo campaign, which began when Gen. < the Army MacArthur stormed ashore with Australian 9th Division troops at strategic points on Brunei Bay, has begun with relatively light casu alties. The above close-up of the invasion area shows the key invasion sites: (1) Muara Is. and Brooketon on the mainland, from which they pushed ahead to Brunei town (2). On Lamuan (3), where other land ings were made, Victoria was taken and an air base acquired. _ (International) W m d *». » •mm' v Loss ut Allied merchant Ships Total Over 4,000 By MILTON MAGRtDER United Press Staf Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 13—(U.R)—More than 4,000 Allied merchant ships, including 543 that flew the American flag, and 460 neutral ves sels were sunk by enemy sea and air forces during the past five and a half years of war, it was disclosed officially tonight. COUNCIL TO SEEK ' MORE DEFERMENTS City To Ask Deferments For Employes Of All Departments Following appearance before the City Council yesterday morning of Attorney William K. Rhodes, who asked the council to change its policy in connection with tne handl ing of draft deferment requests, authority to ask for deferments for members of all departments who are considered essential to the operation of the city of Wil mington was delegated by the council to Mayor W. Ronald Lane, City Manager A. C. Nichols and the head of the department from which the employe might come. Mr. Rhodes, who appeared chief ly for members of the Police De partment, pointed out to the coun cilmen that two trained officers recently had been called for in duction and are due to report im mediately, and that three more are eligible. City Manager Nichols said that, rnder the present system, the city (Continued on Page Nine; Col, 3) ‘ -V DE GAULLE PLANNING TRIP TO WASHINGTON PARIS, June 13.—UP)—An offi cial informant said tonight that Gen. de Gaulle would fly to Wash ington next week to discuss the Syrian-Lebanese problem directly with President Truman following a report that the United States had declined France’s invitation to at :encl a five-power conference on the entire Middle East. The government was believed to De considering the advisability .of abandoning its five-power proposal, j rhe foreign office has not heard from Britain, Russia or China, and heir silence was interpreted as in dicating they also did not favor the aroposal. Uverau tonnage tost was estimat ed at a staggering 32,000,000 dead weight tons. The losses were announced si multaneously, by the war shipping administration, the Navy and the British admiralty. WSA said that of the 543 Ameri can merchantmen lost to enemy action, seven were sunk before Pearl Harbor. It also disclosed that another 984 U. S. ships went down in colisions and other wartime Maritime dis asters in convoy operations and as a result of blackouts and reduced navigation aids. Most of these craft were small and were lost in inland waters. Twenty-seven more were sunk deliberately off Normandy to form artificial harbors for Allied invasion forces. This brought to 1554 the number of U. S. Mercaant ships lost from all causes. The latest Merchant Marine cas ualty list shows 5,579 seamen dead or missing and 487 taken prisoner through last May 1. A joint U. S. Navy-British ad miralty announcement disclosed that 3,742 Allied merchantmen, ex clusive of American vessels, were (Continued on Page Two; Col 6) _ _v'__ Senate May Ratify WO Treaty July 15 WASHINGTON, June 13. — (A1)— The administration today set July 15 as the goal for Senate ratifi cation of the World organization treaty being drafted at San Fran cisco. Senate authorities represented President Truman as thinking the conference on the coast would be concluded by Wednesday, June 20; the formal treaty would be sub mitted to the legislators the fol lowing Monday. It is the hope of Mr. Truman, those sources said, that the United States becomes the first of the 53 participating nations to approve the postwar pact designed for keep, ing the peace. That is in keeping with the Pres ident’s advice that the Senate take up the proposal before Congress takes a projected summer recess. A recess starting about July 10 had been under discussion. Gen. Patton Confesses He’s A One-Gun Soldier WASHINGTON, June 13— (U.R) — 3en. George S. Patton confessed oday that he’s not a rootin’, tootin’ wo-gun man—just ONE gun. Furthermore, he blushed, the fun he wore at Boston last week >n his triumphal return from Eur >pe was just “my social gun. The swashbuckling Third Army ;ommander set the record straight ifter spending 15 minutes with Resident Truman ‘as a couple of >ld soldiers reminiscing about the irtillery and our men. ’ Mr.. Tru nan was an artillery captain in ,Vorld War 1. Patton, who flew here from the Vest Coast- earlier in the day 1o •eport to Gen. George C. Marshall or a new assignment, said he did lot know what his next assignment would be. But he expects to return to Europe, probably within two weeks, and ‘hopes” he eventually will get to the Pacific. After visiting with the President, Patton told reporters about his plans for the immediate future. “I hope to get where I can drive my Ford without a motorcycle es cort and three armored cars be hind me,” he said. Asked how long he planned to be in Washington, he flashed a big smile adid replied: "It’s none of your damned busi ness.” In the chorus of laughter that followed, he said he would return to Boston in two days and then go to his Massachusetts farm with Mrs. Patton. X: Marines Smash Jap Defensive; Aussies Take Brunei Airfield; Meeting Of Big Three Settled -— T High Ground Seized Near City’s Edge RESISTANCE SLIGHT Invaders Speed Advance On Borneo By Aid Of Bridge Laying Tanks MANILA, Thursday, June 14. — (U.R)—Australian 9th Division vet erans in an amphibious landing from the Brunei river in north west Borneo have seized high ground only 200 yards from the outskirts of Brunei, capital of Bru nei protectorate, front dispatches disclosed today. As the Australians landed from the river, a second force drove eight miles along jungle trails from the Brooketon area of Brunei Bay to capture the Brunei Air drome and reach a point only two miles north of the city. Speeding their advance by using new bridge laying tanks, the Aus tralians made their big gain with out meeting resistance. It was indicated that the Japa nese main forces had abandoned Brunei after setting key buildings afire and blowing them up, leav ing only a rear guard to hold the city as long as possible. PT-boats which shelled the coast southwest of Brunei reported that fires were visible 40 miles in the area between Seria and Miri as the Japanese fired and blew up the wells and tanks of the rich oil fields. The Australians wno carried out the amphibious landing moved up the Brunei river from the bay. They landed about two miles east of the city and drove on to reach the outskirts, seizing high ground from which they dominated the waterfront. On Labuan Island at the north side of Brunei Bay the Australians cleared the entire southern part of the island, driving the Japanese into the wild northwestern area. The Australians were now moving on Timbalai airdrome on the north west coast after taking Labuan airdrome. Both Naval and air units hit Jap. anese positions in the Labuan Is land area, and they sank two coas tal vessels off the East Borneo coast. Front dispatches said Japanese resistance along the northwest Bor neo coast was still light and reveal ed that in the first day of opera tions, Sunday, only 61 Japanese were killed. One was captured. Along the MacXrthur blockade line between Singapore and Shang hai, and in the Netherland East Indies generally, the air forces continued widespread operations. Patrol planes wrecked three coastal vessels off Malaya. Con (Continued on Page Nine; Col. 7) r— — ■ 1 Poles Defy Big Three LONDON, June 13—(11)—Poland’s Government-in-Exile here refused today to recognize the authority of the three major powers to su pervise the formation of a new Pol. ish national unity administration at a conference set to open Friday in Moscow. London’s Poles assailed the pro posed meeting as an outright con cession to Russia and clung ten aciously to the hope that the Mos cow negotiations would break down. In a tense and troubled atmos phere they planned tentative*}’ to hold an emergency cabinet session to place before the world—and par ticularly before American Poles— a formal protest against the latest development in their relations with Russia. “Never, never will our people recognize this agreement,” said a spokesman for the group. “Never, never will they recognize a so-call ed government formed in this man ner.” And never, he emphasized, has the exiled government acceded to the Crimea Conference agreement for a broader-based provisional government. Truman Will Meet Allied Chiefs Soon PRESIDENT ELATED Reports Hopkins, Davies Missions Are Satis factory WASHINGTON, June 13.—(IP)— President Truman jubilantly dis closed today the definite setting of a- early “Big Three’’ meeting and said there are prospects for a complete settlement of the Polish issue. Obviously elated over confiden tial reports from Harry Hopkins a-id Joseph E. Davies, his special emissaries, the President announc ed to a news conference: ■ 1. While he cannot divulge the time or place, upon which all have agreed, he will meet soon with Marshal Stalin and Prime Minister (Continued on Page Nine; Col. 5) Port Taken By Chinese UMUXSU1S.1XNU, June u.—yrj— Chinese troops forced the broad Feiyun river barrier and reoc f cupied the small port of Juian on China's east coast today in a fast moving drive on Wenchow, only 14 miles north, the Chinese high command reported. Closely supported by Armed Chinese guerrillas emerging from coastal hills, Chinese regulars poured into Juian after a 10-mile advance from captured Pingyang, 24 miles south of the big former treaty port which lieg 440 miles west of Okinawa. The Japanese were falling back on Wenchow, with its population of 80,000, with the Chinese close on their heels and battling to clear the entire invasion - threatened Chinese coastline northwest of the Japanese island of Formosa. The Chinese command said that it took the Chinese four days to advance from Pingyang and cross the deep Feiyun river with the aid of local militia who swept down out of the hills to aid the crossing. Pingyang was recaptured Satur day, a communique said. U. SBritain Cautioned On Ideas Of Sovereignty FIVE N. C. SHIPS SUNK IN ACTION Transporting T r o o ps; 15 Lives Lost On These Vessels Five of the 41 British and Ameri can ships reported by the War de partment as lost or damaged while on troop transport duty during the war with Germany and Italy -were built by the North Carolina Ship building company, a study of the list of vessels delivered by the yard revealed yesterday. The total num ber of merchant ships built at the Wilmington yard and sunk during enemy action was not reported. According to figures given in the Associated Press story from Wash ington, only 15 soldiers lost their lives aboard four of the ships. In formetion on the fifth was not re leased. , Persons familiar with the role of transports in the war were in clined to look upon the unusually low casualty figure as indicative of sturdy ship construction. All the five ships from the Wil mington yard were of the Liberty type. (Continued on Page Two* Col 1) r - 1 Democratic nations of which Great Britain and the United States are the leaders, must be prepared when the long-awaited peace does come, to limit their ideas of sover eignty for the good of the rest of the world, Dr. Gerrard Priestly, noted traveler, teacher and lec turer told members of the Wilming ton Klwanis Club at their regular weekly luncheon meeting yester day at the Friendly Cafeteria. Dr. Priestly, who is on the faculty of Springfield College, Springfield, Mass, is currently on a speaking tour of the nation under auspices of the Army and Navy USO of New York City. The guest speaker, who already has traveled over 46 of the 48 states of the Union, was introduced by Kiwanian Charlie Robinson who is an almunus of Springfield Col lege. Following a reminiscent theme throughout his address, Dr. Priest ly reminded his audience at the outset that he was a native Brit isher and had lived most of his life in that tight, little island which had known the horrors of five and one-half years of total war, and recalling a Churchillian remark made January 30, 1933 that “the world is standing on the watch towers of history.” He then traced his pre-war travels through Germany, Italy and Czechoslovakia where he witnessed a parade of the goose-stepping Hitler youth movement personnel; heard Mussolini declare from his vaunted spot on his palace bal cony in Rome that the world would get peace only at the point of a million Fasist bayonets; of stand ing along the Danube—not the Blue Danube of song and story, but a muddy, brown Danube polluted by the filth of Nazism. The speaker dwelt briefly on the persecution of the Jews of Prague by Nazi SS troopers; of the looting of shops owned by Jews and then in lowered voice he described the arrival in England of Premier Chamberlain for his meeting with (Continued on Page Nine; Col. 6) TWO ARE KILLED IN AUTO CRASHES Wilmington Man, White ville Child Die In Separate Wrecks A 36-year-old Wilmington man and an eight-year-old Whiteville girl were killed in separate auto mobile accidents on the highway between Leland and Whiteville at 4:30 a. m. yesterday and 7:30 p. m. Tuesday, according to State Highway patrolmen, who said that two others were seriously injured. The dead are Eugene Edward Sullivan, of 1922 Cline road, and Shirley Ann Parker, daughter of Mrs Dessie Parker. Sullivan was killed when a large truck and trailer, driven by Pvt. Lawrence Ingersoll, of the 1079th Air Force base unit. Camp Davis, crashed into a tree in front of the residence of Lester Phillips, at Leland, early yesterday, accord ing to Officer W. B. Riddick, of the State Highway patrol. Riddick, who along with Rural Policeman Dillon Ganey, of Bruns, wick county, investigated the acci dent, said Pvt. Ingersoll was being held for a coroner’s inquest at 8 o’clock tonight. The Parker £irl was instantly killed instantly Tuesday night when the car in which she was riding struck the concrete abutment of.the Sole’s Swamp bridge, one mile south of Whiteville, according to Patrolman Porter Davis. Seriously injured in the crash were Mrs. Harold Payne, operator of the vehicle, and her mother, Mrs. J C. Newsom. Mrs. Payne was reported to be in a critical condition at the Columbus County hospital this morning and Mrs. Newsom’s condition w'as sa^l to be “fair.” (Continued on Page Two; Col 3) School Bus Drivers Set Record During Semester Carrying total of 3,347 pupils from their homes to school and back again each day throughout the first semester of the 1944-45 school year, the 25 white bus dr'vers, four of whom are women, and four Negro drivers, completed their task without accident of a serious nature to any student and with little or no damage to the buses operated by the City and County Board of Education, ac cording to a report issued yester day by Wallace' West, business manager for the board. During the term the school buses traveled an average of 1,554.8 miles per school day, buses carrying white pupils covering 1,299.3 miles daily while the buses carry ing Negro children averaged 255,5 miles each morning and afternoon throughout the term. The average daily milage per bus, according to Mr. West, was 51.9 for buses carrying white students and 63.8 miles by buses carr; ing Negro children. This represents a total average daily milage per bus of 53.G. The non-accident record of the school bus drivers, both white and Negro, is all the more remarkable, Mr. West pointed out, by the f" ’t that the white buses carried an average of 121 pupils each every day while the Negro drivers hauled a average of 85 per bus each day. This figure, however, represents the trips to and from schools of the city and county. Sixty-four trips were made daily by the 25 buses carrying white children, while nine trips were made each day by the four Negro drivers. In commenting on the excellent record made by the school bus driverSi Mr. West said that all of the 25 white and four Negro driv ers have a combined total of 187 years of experience driving school buses and years have passed since a serious accident to a New Han over County school bus has been recorded. All drivers have to pass a rigid driving test and all have been granted certificates by the North Carolina Department of Mo tor Vehicles. New Hanover County is one of the very few counties in North Carolina, Mr. West pointed out, which uses only adult drivers, and this in a large measure, is the reason why there has been but few minor accidents such as bent fen ders, etc. Another interesting feature of the report issued by Business Manager West is that school buses haul a total of 28 loads daily from Maffitt Village alone. The 25 white and four Negro drivers have been employed by the Board of Education all the way (Continued on Page Two; Col 2) , )■ U. S. Planes Rain Bombs On Enemy Suicide Bases GUAM, Thursday, June 14.—(U.PJ —Strong forces of U. S. planes roared over Kyushu Island Tues day in a rocket and bomb assault against Japanese suicide plane bases at Kanoya and Kushira and sent a virtual round-the-clock aer ial offensive against Japan into its eighth consecutive day. American bombers and fighters also raked Japanese outpost is lands in the Kuriles and the Ryu kyus. Light units of the Pacific Fleet, streaming into the Kurile waters 480 miles north , of the Japanese homeland, bombarded Matsuwa island Tuesday. Intense anti-aircraft fire met the planes striking at Kyushu, southernmost of the home islands. Rockets and bombs blasted instal lations at the two airfields which have been under heavy attack for several weeks. Japanese aircraft failed to ap pear over Okinawa Tuesday. Am erican strikes through the Ryukyus and against Kyushu had been aim ed at paralyzing the enemy’s sui cide plane corps. The Japanese, in 30 days of vicious aerial attacks on fleet units off Okinawa, have lost 938 planes, but have sunk eight and damaged 49 American ships. Liberators and Privatefers of Fleet Air Wing 18 maintained theii blockade of Japan’s home waters, rhey sank a small cargo ship, probably sank a fishing cr,aft and 3amaged a lugger and. 3 number (Continaed on Page Nine; Col. t) 3,500 Japs Are Killed In Advance FOE FALLING BACK Total Japanese Dead Set At 70,000 In 75-Day Campaign By LEIF ERICKSON GUAM, Thursday, June J4. —(TP) The Sixth Marine Division smash ed the Japanese Oroku peninsula pocket on Okinawa yesterday after a fierce nine-day battle while the first Marine apd Seventh Infantry Divisions pressed back both flanks of the precipitous Yaeju escarp ment. Maj. Gen.' Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr.’s sixth division killed 3,500 Japanese on the peninsula, raising to more than 70,000 the number of enemy troops killed on Okinawa in the 75-day old campaign. Shepherd’s Marines overran an enemy hospital on Oroku and found 150 Japanese dead inside. The bo dies presumably were those of wounded who were killed by the Japanese before they withdrew from the area. It is a matter of policy for Jap anese not to permit wounded to fall into American hands. Maj. Gen. Archibald V. Ar nold’s Seventh Division Doughboys advanced up to 400 yards on the east flank of the Yaeju line to gam control of meet of the escarpment rim in their area. With control oi mat run, me di vision is in a position to develop a pincer arm around the eastern side of the escarpment. There are some roads and draws in this area and s me small villages through which tanks and self - propelled guns can be brought up. On the west bank, Maj. Gen. Pedro A. Del Valle’s First Divi sion Marines carried troop rein forcements forward on tanks through heavy Japanese fire to strengthen their positions on the Kunishi ridge. The reinforcements had to move across open rice pad dies before the ridge. Units of the division’s Seventh Regiment had taken the western half of the crest yesterday. With complete capture of Kuni shi ridge, the Marines will be able to push down the western coast and develop the right arm of the pincers around the escarpment. In the central sector, the 96th Infantry Division assaulted the highest and steepest escarpment faces. Maj. Gen. James L. Brad ley’s New York Doughboys ad vanced about 400 yards on its west flank to reach outskirts of Ozato town. Ozato is at the foot of the escarpment face at a point where the cliff line curves southward from the nose, already captured by the 96th Division. Bradley’s troops were under hea. vy machinegun and automatic weapons fire. The Japanese also were employing mortars in con tinued fierce resistance all along the Yaeju line, but their artillery fire has fallen off materially since the start of the U. S. Tenth Ar my’s assault against the enemy’* last-stand defense there. Great concentrations of Ameri can artillery were fired on Japa nese troop assemblies observed on top of a plateau behind the ea carpment face. On Oroku peninsula, the Sixth Division Marines still had consid erable mopping up of Japanese strongpoints to complete their task. (Continued on Page Two; Col 1) -V U. S. WHITE COLLAR BILL PASSES HOUSE WASHINGTON, June 13.—(U.R)— The House today passed legislation to give 1,450,000 Federal white col lar workers 15 per cent salary in creases totalling $736,000,000 a year. The bill, in line with the little steel formula, also would grant government employes time-and. one-half for overtime. Chairman Robert Ramspeck, D., Ga., of the House Civil Liberties Committee, said the bill would raise wage standards among cleri cal employes up to the level of the other 1,500,000 government owned plants. The Senate passed a similar bill recently but it provided only time and-one-twelfth for overtime. The House bill goes to the Senate for agreement on differences. h
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