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1 FiRECAST I *f + 4 /flit ♦ OLM Served By leased Wires I tlttliltrfTlTtt 111]©mf "““irePRESS rxrrrzmr- *]UlM /VivU «,252S555. — -— _ State and National Newa _ ^— -—_— _ - -- , yOLjX—NO. 207._ WILMINGTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1945. PCTiRimiipn ic«7 • j i --:--; ------- 1004 Food, Arms Unionists On Strike 55,475 NOW IDLE Fuel Workers Also Walk Off Jobs In Pennsyl vania Mines By The Associated Press Strikes in the fuel, food and armc industries shot tne total number of workers idle in labor disputes above 55,475 yesterday. The figure compared with ap proximately 36,000 on Monday, the lowest of any day since Jun; 19. New strikes involved CIO oil and „a's workers in the United Fuel Gas Company, serving six eastern states; United Mine Workers at five mines in Pennsylvania and Ohio, CIO dairy workers in De void AFL bakers in Rochester, N Y.: AFL Shell workers in Bir mingnain. a nu B-29 bombers in Chicago. The situation by cities or states: Cherleston, W. Va. Some 1,000 CIO oil and gas work ers walked out of United Fuel and Gas Company properties in a dis pute over wage increase demands, tying up operations in West Vir ginia, Kentucky, Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. Pennsylvania All four Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation coal mines were clos ed and 3,316 United Mine Workers were idle. Detroit Thirty per cent of Detroit con sumers, except hospitals and schools, were without milk deliv eries because of a strike of 1,000 CIO United Dairy Workers at the Detroit Creamery Company and the Elbing Creamery Company. A recurrence of an earlier strike idled 2.900 persons at the Graham Paige Motors Corporation. The Chrysler Corporation’s Dodge truck plant was closed and 2.803 employes were idle as a re sult of a strike of 11 CIO United Automobile Workers paint spray ers, who demanded the rest periods be raised from 1 to 20 minutes each hour Rochester, N. Y. Many restaurants were rationing bread to patrons after three days of a strike by 420 AFL bakers at three baking companies supplying 60 per cent of the city’s bread. A (Continued1 on Page Seven; Col. 6) WAR LOAN BUYING SETS NEW RECORD WASHINGTON, July 10.—(U.R)— Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., tonight announc ed the mighty Seventh War Loan drive grand total was $26,313,000, 000, far surpassing every record set previously by all categories of investors. The goal was only $14, 000.000,000. Individuals piled up a total of $3.681,000,000, nearly $2,000,000,000 more than their $7,000,000,000 goal. Purchasers of series E-bonds fell just short of their mark with $3, 9(6.000,000 sold against a quota of $4,000,000,000. Success of the Seventh War Loan brought total sales in all the war time bond drives to the staggering total of $135,749,000,000 of which $36,483,000,000 have been bought by individuals. Morgenthau, who will leave the treasury after 12 years as its head after President Truman returns from the Big Three meeting, called tie drive a demonstration of faith in America. In a radio address (CBS* which he called his “vale dictory," he asked that the entire war finance organization continue under his successor. War Mobilizer Tred M. Vinson, with the same “devotion and zeal’’ which they have shown for the past four years. He praised the 85,000,000 or more more Americans who have bought E'nds and held them since the be ginning of the War Bond program in 1941. He thanked the 6,000,000 volunteer workers for making the *ar financing program a success. It’s The Army’s Biggest Family Snug and secure in their home at Concord, N. H., are Mrs. Barrett and ten ot the twelve little Barretts who give Cpl. Chester J. Barrett his official War Department status as the soldier with the most numer ous ™ „ ration books they’re holding are kept busy with the $300 that Mrs. Barrett draws each month from the Government in de pendency benefits, including $50 for herself. Cpl. Barrett is stationed at a prisoner-of-war branch camp at Spencer Lake, Maine. (International) Mountain Spearmen Help Rout Japs From N. Luzon _* - NEWSPAPER AD BRINGS BRIDE CHICAGO, July 10.— (A1) — Pvt. Clifford Poehling was con vinced today that it pays to advertise. The 34-year-old combat vet eran, who spent 11 months in a German prison camp, advertis ed for a wife in Chicago papers last Saturday. Today he and Mrs. Marie Nassey, 23-year-old blue - eyed blonde, discussed plans for their wedding next Saturday. Mrs. Nassey, mother of Mickey, 4, and Sharleen, 2, was the only one of 41 appli cants for Pvt. Poehling’s hand to call on him in person at Gar diner General Hospital, where he has almost recuperated from leg flak wounds. ‘'A beautiful blonde walked into my room and into my life forevermore,” said a beaming Poehling. “Burn the other let ters.” The couple planned to be married in the bride’s home, where she lives with her chil dren and a woman friend. She was divorced in April. After the wedding, they will go to Poehling’s La Crosse, Wis., home, for his 90-day furlough. (Continued on Page Three; Col 3) -V MACARTHUR ASSUMES OPERATION CONTROL OF ARMY AIR CROUP GUAM, Wednesday, July 11.—(U.R) Gen. Douglas MacArthur, com mander in chief of Army fdrees in the Pacific, has assumed opera tional control of all Army air forces in the Ryukyus for greater operative efficiency in the all-out aerial offensive against Japan, it was anounced today. Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimilz, anouncing the command change, said that the capture and devel opment of the Marianas, Iwo Jima and Okinawa “have permitted thfe deployment of strong United States Air Forces within effective strik ing distance of Japan and such air forces are being deployed as rap idly as possible.” The Army Air Forces in the Ryu* kyus—based on Okinawa and sev eral other smaller islands—have passed to MacArthur’s control “in cident to a regrouping of such air forces.” Nimitz said. Naval Air Forces, including the Marines, operating in the Ryukyus and at Iwo, will continue to oper ate as units of the Pacific Fleet in connection with their task of tightening the naval blockade of Japan and “destroying Japanese forces and shipping, wherever found, preparatory to further am phibious assaults.” NORTHERN LUZON, July 10.— (U.R)—A mountain tribe of Spearmen who have learned a fierce hatred of the Japanese are aiding the U. Sixth Division in wiping out the last organized Japanese force in the Kiangan-Bontoc area of North ern Luzon. Known as the Ifugao tribe, these spearmen now are friendly to white men for the first time in their his tory. This friendliness springs from their hatred of the Japanese, who raped their women. Although the Ifugaos migrated to the Philipines from Japan or Asia between 1,000 and 2,000 years ago, they never have intermarried. The second Malayan invasion of South ern Luzon drove them into the hills several centuries ago and they have Under the strange Ifugao mar riage, custom, young males are en couraged to become familiar with tribal "oologs,” or marriageable girls. They don’t actually marry un til the girl becomes pregnant, but tribal laws forbid divorce and in fidelity is punished by behead ing. The Ifugao is superior physically among Filipino tribes and is a first class fighting man, as the Japa nese have learned. They have a well-developed chest with mus cular arms and legs, which one American officer said would make them "great mile runners.” They not only are fighting with the Sixth Division, but also with Col. Russel W. Volckman’s famed Luzon guerrillas. They are good scouts and foragers and are adept at encircling the Japanese. They attack with five-foot spears, tipped with razor-edged hand-forged heads. The Ifugaos also are proficient in the use of Bolos and the bow and arrow, but the spear is their favorite weapon. The Americans at one time furnished them some ri fles, but they immediately shot up their ammunition in childish glee. The army decided then that guns were not for the Ifugao. The men have a keen sense ol smell and can detect humans and animals at hundreds of feet. They wear their hair long and dress only in loin cloths, although they keep their women fully clothed. Every autumn the tribesmen hold a spear-throwing contest. They respect courage and have some head-huntincr instinr-tc a youth may sometimes produce hu man heads when called upon tc prove his courage by the father oi his prospective bride. U.S.ARMYHANGS GERMAN KILLERS ■- \ FORT LEAVENWORTH, Karfc., July 10. — Cd.R)— The Army early today formally hanged five Ger man soldiers in an elevator shaft of its disciplinary barracks for the crime of murder. ‘ In an Oklahoma prisoner of war camp, on Nov. 4, 1943, they beat to death a fellow prisoner of war who had committed treason, in their opinion, by losing faith ir Adolf Hitler and the Nazi ideology They were the first prisoners 01 war ever executed in the Unitec States for crimes after theii capture. All five pressrved the iron com posure engrained into soldiers b; the harsh German discipline. Wear ing parts of the uniform of the Afrika Korps to which they belong ed, they were hanged in the presence of seven reporters admit ted to the execution by order of the War Department. Each was given the opporunity tc speak before dying. Only first Sgt. Wafter Beyer leader of the prison camp kangaroo execution, availed (Continued on Page Three; Col 3) » Public Health Service Watching Polio Progress WASHINGTON, July 10.—(U.P.)—of ncials of the United States Public Health Service are keeping their lingers crossed in the hope that last year’s epidemic .01 infantile Paralysis—19,000 cases, second vorst in the nation's history—will not be repeated this summer. ihe seasonal rise in polio has begun with 155 new cases, one third of them in Texas, reported during the week ended June 30, lA Charles Armstrong, director of 'be division of infectious diseases, National Public Health Service, said tonight. This compares with 116 cases the previous week and 96 during the V;ecb ended June 16. It brought Ibe year’s 'oil to 1,270. An even sharper rise for the first week of July is indicated by in complete figures which show 10 new cases in New Jersey, com pared with only one in the last week of June. Eleven new cases have been re ported in the Washington, D. C., area during the past two days. Armstrong said there was reason to hope thrt localities which were “hard hit” last year may escape another polio epidemic this sum mer. A severe epidemic does not usually strike in the same place two years in succession, he ex plained. Any predictions are dan gerous however, he added. (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 3) President Will Finish Trip By Air ON CRUISER AUGUSTA Mr. Truman Holds Confer ences On Ship Board With Byrnes ABOARD THE U. S. NAVAI CRUISER, AUGUSTA, July 10. (U.R)—President Truman was ir mid-Atlantic today aboard this vet eran cruiser enroute to a Northern European port where he will dis embark and fly to Potsdam, Berlin suburb, for the Big Three confer ence whitch begins, there, nexl week. The Chief Executive, accompani ed by Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, Admiral William D. T 1 • 1 J _• 1 -e _ £ _ i uvuixj ) jixx odiuviniui v,xixv.x vxi uccix-x-, and a small corps of attaches was four days out of Newport News, Va., where on July 6 he began a trip that will carry him more thar 10,000 miles. Because of security considera tions no advance announcemem of the date of Mr. Truman’s ar rival can be made, according tc White House Press Secretarj Charles G. Ross who also is ac companying the President. Skipper of the fighting ship whicl Mr. Truman chose for his firs Atlantic crossing since he returnee from France World War I is Capt James H. Foskett. Another cruise: the U. S. S. Philadelphia makes up the special two-ship task forci carrying the Presidential party Rear Adm. Allan R. McCann com mands the task force with Capt Robert L. Boiler commanding th< flagship. It is a veteran of thi African, Sicilian, Italian and Nor mandy campaigns. As he headed for his conference with premiers Winston Churchil and Josef Stalin to map the end o the war and lay groundworks for i durable peace settlement, thi President traveled under condi tions drastically changed fron what they were a relatively shor time ago when Germany still wai fighting the war. There was no blackout at night no accompanying destroyers o: covering aircraft—just the tw cruisers churning along in picture perfect weather. Aas his warship sliced througl the Atlantic, President Truman wil meet, wnn premier josei Stall] and Prime Minister Winstoi Churchill at Potsdam, Berlin sub urb, next week to discuss a perma nent peace treaty and speedy con elusion of the Pacific war. As the powerful cruser August; sliced through the calm Atlantic three days out from the U. S coast—Mr. Truman held continuou conferences with two of his to] international advisers, Secretar: of State James F. Byrnes and Ad miral William D. Leahy, presi dential chief of staff. They were preparing for Mr Truman’s debut in Big Three de (Continued or Page Three; Coll i; 1945 LEAF CROP OFF 3 PER CEN1 WASHINGTON, July 10.—(Ah_Th, 1945 tobacco crop will total 1,890, 328.000 pounds, the Agriculture De partment estimated today. This represents a drop of threi per cent from last year’s recorc harvest of 1,950,213,000, but is mori than 36 per cent above 10-year aver age. ^ The flue-cured production fore . cast is 1,091,060,000 pounds abou the same as last year. A burley crop of 552,000,001 pounds is indicated. If realized this would be larger than any yea: of record except last year whei 592,000,000 pounds were produced Total production of all types b: states, compared with last yearh crop, included: Pennsylvania, 44, 965.000 pounds and 52,893,000; Ohio 19.920.000 and 25,347,000; Missour 7.600.000 and 8,700,000; Maryland 28.875.000 and 32,160,000 Virginia 124.756.000 and 144,691,000; Nortl Carolina, 774.875,0000 and 755,606, 000; South Carolina, 132,000,000 anc 132,250,000; Georgia, 96,720,000 anc 93,780,000; Kentucky, 434,383,001 and 477,020,000; Tennessee, 122,380, UUU ana 125,645,000. Production of burley, by princi pal producing states and com pared with last year’s yield, in eluded: Ohio, 15,600,000 pound and 18,480.000 Missouri, 7,600,001 and 7,700,000 Virginia, 19,240,001 and 19,317,000 North Carolina, 18, 200.000 and 16,666,000 Kentucky 383.350.000 and 418,300,000 Tennes see, 91,350,000 and 93,200,000. Production of flue-cured tobacco by belts and compared with las year’s yield, included: Old Bel (Virginia-North Carolina'), 354,200, 000 and 381,100,000 pounds East ern North Carolina Belt, 397,129, 000 and 373,290,000 South Carolina Belt (North & South Carolina), 227, 450.000 and 221,950,000 Georgia J’lorida Belt, 1,125,2.5,000 and 110, 443,000. U. S. Carrier Planes KO 154 Jap Ships In Raid; Beachhead Wider -V-«-* - Dutch Join U. S. Troops In Assault MAKE NEW LANDINGS Jap Suicide Squads Around Refineries Are Cut Off MANILA, July 10.—(U.R)—Dutcli troops joined the battle of Balik papan today and helped to extent the Allied beachhead to 23 mile: with two new amphibious landing! on Balikpapan bay north of th< Pandanshari, refinery area. Going ashore on two peninsula on the northern shore of the bay the Dutch threw new power into i flanking attack by sea aimed a linking up with Australian force; ' that captured the village of Soem ber in an overland drive througl ; the Soember river swamplands. Japanese suicide squads holdinj ' out in the Pandansari refinerie; were completely cut off and rapid Iv 'hoinrf Tninorl r\ivf unrloi’ n ++ onl : from all sides. Reports from tin front said the major portion am possibly all of the ruined refiner; ! area were in Allied hands. ! Japanese broadcasts admittei advances by the Allied troops, bu declared that the defenders of th* ' Balikpapan area were holding ou in strong hill positions agains ; fierce attacks by the Australia] ; Seventh Division. In the Manggar area on the op posite end of the beachhead th Australians were battling fiercel; to drive a tank column througl * strongly defended road blocks es tablished by the Japanese on th road to the Balikpapan oil fields 1 CHINESE MAKE 1 IMPORTANT GAIN! 1 CHUNGKING, July 10.— (U.R) - Chinese troops, in a swift 20-mil advance that shattered resistanc in North Kwangsi Province, hav stormed into strategic Chungtu, ; _ communique said today, as othe units captured Tayu and rolled un ' checked toward the vital Cantor ' Hengyang rail line. Early yesterday, Generalissirm . Chiang Kai-Shek’s forces dro.v* . northeast from captured Lojung t seize the highway town of Luchai From there his forces wiped ou ’ routed enemy troops and ad vanced another 10 miles to Chung tu. Chungtu is 35 miles southwes of Kweilin, the last of four forme: U. S. air bases in Kwangsi Pro vince still in enemy hands. Thi drive toward Kweilin was in sup 1 port of a secondary force that yes terday battled from the West int the city’s outskirts. The capture of Tayu marked th' ' opening of a second general offer sive against Japan’s stolen coi ridor in South China. Tayu, i: Kwiangsi Province near the Kwng : tung border, was seized Saturday 1 Heavy casualties were inflicted o the enemy. Remnants of the Japa qese force reportedly were unde constant attack as they fled tc ‘ ward Tukong, 150 miles to th ■ Southwest. Kukong, on the Cantor Hengyang railway, is a stron 1 fortress city 250 miles from Cantor ; The capture of Tayu severe* the enemy’s communication lin 1 between South Kiangsi and Nort! Kwangtung. It marked a gain c ’ 80 miles from recently-capture; 1 Kahnsin, a former Allied air bas ' I town. On the Fukien front, about 25 ' miles to the East, other units in tercapted the Japanese force tha 11 days ago landed on the Chin; East coast South of Amoy. FEDERAL HOUSING AUTHORITY LODGES LIGHT RATE PROTES1 RALEIGH, Nr C., July 10.-® ’ the Atlanta office of the Federa ’ Housing Authority has proteste' the order of the State Utiiitie Commission requiring the Tid Power Company to grant a lowe > power rate to the '.Vilmingto ' Housing Authority, Chairman Star ley Winborne of the State Utiiitie ' Commission would hear the Au - thority’s protests at its offices her I on July 24. "Eie lower rate schedule—avei aging two cents per kilowatt hou —was ordered by the Commissioi to become effective July 1. Utiiitie commission officials said the nev rate would mean a savings of $16, 822.32 annually to the local Housinj Authority. ranks rind Human boap Factory In Danzig Area -- 1 GDANSK, (DANZIG), July 8. — (U.R)— Decaying chunks of human skin and fat, ready to be thrown into white-enameled pressure boil ers with spigots on the sides, were found in an experimental human soap laboratory today, one of the few buildings still intact in this ruined city. The laboratory and one captured laboratory assistant, who already is exhibiting signs of insanity induc ed by his horrible work, constitute irrefutable proof of the sadistic practices of German science. Outside the laboratory, the ground was covered with hideous looking white skulls and hundreds of human bones, providing mute testimony to one of the most ghast (Continued on Page Three; Col 1) GRANDMA CARRIES A. M. PAPER ROUTE PEORIA, 111., July 10._(/P)— A grandmother is delivering the Peoria Morning Star, ful filling a pledge to two soldier sons to keep the route in the family as it has been since 1929. Mrs. Haskell Bandy, mother of four and grandmother of three, hikes over a hilly route near Peoria Country Club. Her two eldest sons and a daughter formerly carried the route. They wanted their young brother to succeed them, but he had to leave for high school too early. WOMAN ARRESTED ‘ FOR BABY SNATCH i MARION, O., July 10.— (U.R) — ; Police announced today that a wo ' man, identified as Phyllis Lanmen, ■ of Marion, O., had confessed to the : kidnapping of Jean Eileen Crevis : ton, week-old baby. I Police arrested Mrs. Lanman, 29, ' in her home where -they found lit tle Jean none the worse for her i adventure. Tearfully, she confess t ed. The burden of her story was : this: She had meant no narm — t she merely had wanted a baby, t Police took little Jean Eileen to 1 her mother, Mrs. Helen Elizabeth Creviston, wife of Sgt. John Crevis - ton, of the Army Air Forces, after - she had been examined at the hos 1 pital and identified by foot prints 1 Mrs. Creviston went to the home ; of her parents from the hospital ' Monday. Her baby was stolen Sun. day night. Mrs. Lanman, a wife for a year, j tried to convince a physician that Jean Eileen was her own baby and , authorities indicated that led to > her undoing. After two rniscar , riages, she became convinced of [ tier own lack of capacity to bear - a chij,d. Sunday evening she wandered - into the hospital nursery. It was unattended. ) “I didn’t intend to take a baby,” i she said. “But when I saw the > baby in its crib, I just took it.” ; She took Jean Eileen’s name plate. No one saw her leave. At the corner, sne iook a laxicau aim t rode toward the business district. , An emergency developed — She told the driver to stop. ■ ‘I got out and went into a house —I didn’t know whose it was — and asked if I could change the , baby’s diaper,” she told Police Chief William Marks. “They gave me one to put on her.” 1 She went on home then and went . to bed with the baby. Her hus 1 band’s daughter by a previous . marriage came home and she told the girl to call Dr. Maude Bull. i When Dr. Bull arrived, Mrs. Lan man said she told her she had giv r en birth to the haby unattended. . Dr. Bull, of course, was aware of , the difference between a new born . baby and one eight days old. ; Mrs. Lanman’s husband is em ■ ployed in a warplant at Mansfield, 1 O. 2 She was charged with abduction 1 and held in jail pending arraign f ment. 1 -V-— ; BARBARA HUTTON > SUES CARY GRANT t FOR DIVORCE BILL i HOLLYWOOD, July 10.—(U.Rj— Barbara Hutton, the second richest woman in the world, filed suit for divorce today against actor Cary Grant and charged that he caused * her ‘‘grievous mental distress, suffering and anguish.” Attorney Jerry Giesler filed the j brief complaint in Superior Court. ! Miss Hutton and Grant, whc J renounced any claim to‘the Wool ’ worth heiress’ $40,000,000 fortune 5 when they eloped to Lake Ar r rowhead, Claif., on July 8, 1942, 1 have separated twice in the past ' year. “ They first parted August 15, [ 1944, and said there was “no chance of a reconciliation.” Seven weeks later they were back to ’ gether. ! The reconciliation lasted until ; last February 26, when Miss Hut ’ ton moved out of their Bell-Air . mansion. They issued a joint state ment saying they had decided ‘‘we J.can be happier living apart.” ACCORD REACHED ON BERLIN FOOD BERLIN, July 10— (U.R)—Ameri can, British and Russian army leaders, working smoothly together to settle troublous points of dis pute, set up an Interallied govern ing authority for Berlin today and reached a friendly agreement or temporary feeding and fueling oi the German capital. During the weekend the food and fuel situation was in dispute. American and British occu?atior forces had not taken over theii zones of Berlin because of that anc the general situation looked bad for Allied cooperation in adminis tering together a city of 2,750,00( thoroughly beaten and disco'^ag ed people. American officers persisted ir being optimistic and today thej won out. Lt. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s deputy Lt. Gen. Sir Ronald Weeks, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery’s deputy, and Marshal Gregory K Zhukov of Russia met with Zhu kov presiding. They agreed to sei up at once the new governing au thority to operate under the In terallied agreement on controlling Germany. At the same time they reached an agreement on temporary pro vision of food and fuel for greatei Berlin by contributions from thi Russian, American and British oc cupation zones of Germany as a whole. The conferees agreed also t< bring into operation soon variou features of the Interallied contro machinery. “Useful decisions were reaches in an atmosphere of complete mu tual understanding,” a communi que said. Tomorrow a new Interallied gov erning command for Berlin prope: holds its meeting in the suddenly improved atmospnere / with Maj Gen. Floyd Parks, Maj. Gen. L O. Lyne and Col.-Gen. Gorbatot representing the United States Britain and Russia as the respec tive commandants for Berlin. A French representative will be in eluded, probably Maj. Gen. Marii Geoffroi Du Bois De Beauchesne chief of the French mission. This council of command will op erate under the control council for Germany. The four commanr'Bits will take turn as ruling officers each 15 days. Gorbatov will serve first. -V GHEZZI DISCHARGED DAYTON, O., July 10.—(JP)—Vic Ghezzi, winner of the 1941 PC A championship, announced today he had been given a medical dis charge by the Army after four years of service. Navy Holds Mastery Of Tokyo Skies OPPOSITION LIMITED Admiral Nimitz Reports Good Results From Mass Attack GUAM, Wednesday, July 11.—(U.R» —Carrier planes of a great U. S. Naval Task Force, winning mas tery of the air over Tokyo, destroy ed or damaged 154 enemy planes in unopposed attacks against 80 airfields near the Nipponese cap ital yesterday, preliminary reports showed today, and there were in drcaitons that the unprecedented assault was continuing. Enemy broadcasts said that the at tacks were expected to continue for several days, but the Japanese were doing nothing about it. By late Tuesday, no warship of Adm William F. Halsey’s fleet—possibly only 25 miles from the Japanese coast—had been attacked. Even Japanese suicide pilots failed to make an appearance. Two enemy reconnaissance plan es flew near the U. S. surface units, but they were promptly shot down by patrol planes. The remnants of the Japanese navy refused to come out for a finish fight. More than 1000 carrier planes operated from the mighty fleet stretching from horizon to horizon. Late dispatches from Iwo said that Mustang fighter planes, mean while, ripped up two airfields, an aircraft factory and shipping in the Kobe area, 260 miles South west of Tokyo, yesterday and met only one ancient dive-bomber the Japanese threw in as an intercep try* orrmr o i rin on damaged 19 Japanese planes mak ing the day’s total bag by the Army all but three of them on the ground, and Navy 173 Japanese planes — Dispatches from fleets units where American commanders were so con fident they permitted correspond ents to broadcast running accounts to the United States, said the Jap. . anese took a “terrific beating” yesterday. Adding in some 550 B ' 23’s which made a pre-dawn strike at five cities on Honshu, upwards of 2 000 American planes were over . Japan yesterday, giving the Orient I al enemy’s Homeland its greatest beating yet in the 36-day non-stop pre-invasion offensive. ‘The Third Fleet achieved com plete tactical surprise and by noon, local time, the enemy had offered no determined resistance in the air,” Nimitz said. The planes from Iwo which hit the Kobe area swept in at low 1 level against heavy ground fire to destroy 13 planes aground and (Continued on Page Three; Col 2) -—V Horace King Remains In Critical Condition Horace T. King, Jr., who was seriously injured Monday after noon when he feel from the roof of a house at Wrightsville Beach, remained in an "unsatisfactory” condition at James Walker Mem orial hosiptal last night, and vai reported still unconscious. Mr. King, manager of the Han over Iron Works, was taken to the hospital following the accident when he fell from a ladder while inspecting the roof of a house on the northern extension of the beach. $1,000 Bills At Bargain Prices Worry Uncle Sam By JACK STILLMAN Bargain hunters and financia wizards alike will be interested t< know that the price of a U. S. $1« 000 bill has dropped in somi instances to as little as 800 bucks— bucks being that tender used bj cheats and crooks. But you can’ cash the grand without getting in volved with the Federal Bureai of Internal Revenue. Here’s th< hitch All Wilmington financial institu tions have been advised by the of fice of the Secretary of the Treas ury to file monthly reports con cerning each deposit or withdrawal, payments and transfers of U. S. Currency which they may deem A as exceeding the “legitimate and customary conduct” of those pei> i sons or businesses involved. The Wilmington branch of the ! Federal Bureau of Internal Rev ' enue reported yesterday that an increased staff here is anticipated ; to aid in the crack-down on war profiteers who have failed to fnake complete income tax reports. In an advisory from the Secre tary of the Treasury to all financial institutions in the City, it was point ed out that the fact that any trans action involving $1,000 or more in denominations of $50 or higher, or involving $10,000 in U. S. currency (Continued on Page Three; Col 6)
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