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FORECAST 1 4 ^ Served 3y l eased Wires rr~^„ mxlmxmim iiinrtttttn >5>mt Tjir A aIons + + ++ + %-+ K ^ ^ + W W+ ^With Complete Coverage tf south coast. t State and National Mev/a ~VOJ- 78.—NO. 208. WILMINGTON, nTc., THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1945__ESTABLISHED 186f Mennaid In Net Bathing suits are really the sub ject, and -netty but nice” is what one wit says of the above-pictured rattv creation of net and white jer sey. Not listening? Well, the dainty little miss inside the net is Tee Matthews, cute and cool as any thing on the beach at St. Peters burg, Fla. (International) 10,000 STRIKERS RETURN TO WORK CHICAGO. July 11 — <U.R) — Striking workers returning to their jobs in war and civilian plants cut the nation’s total of strike-idle workers to 45,000 today. About 10,000 strikers in various in dustries v o t e d to return to work, leaving the biggest work stoppage that of 16,600 United Rubber work ers, CIO, at the Akron, 0., Fire stone Tire and Rubber Co. They will meet Friday to vote on ending their 11-day old walkout over a wage dis pute. Some 1,000 members of the United Dairy Workers, CIO, today voted to end a three-day milk strike over unionization of part-time managers in two Detroit creameries, resum ing service to 150,000 families. Elsewhere in Detroit some 14,000 workers were out. The National Labor Relations Board ordered a strike vote among 10,000 employes of the General Motors A-C Spark Plug Division for next Wednesday. Striking members of the Indepem dent Newspaper and Mail Deliver ies Union continued their strike against New York newspapers de spite a War Labor Board ultimatum max xne union wouiu i-iuscu shop status if the strike did not end today. A strike which threatened to par alyze production of warships at the New York Shipbuilding Corp. plant at Camden, N. J., employing 18, 000 men, ended when 3,000 striking welders, members of the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuild ing Workers (CIO) ended a 24 hour walkout. Some 2,500 United Auto Work ers. CIO, who struck at the Mack C plant at New Brunswick, N. J., June 25 against contract cancellations, voted to return to work. Another 5,500 union members out in sym pathy at the company’s Plainfield N, J., and Allentown, Pa., plants were to vote on ending their walk out. About 6,000 workers at the Spicer Manufacturing Co., Toledo, O., whe quit when a girl employe was fired, meet tomorrow to consider return ing to work. A $17,000,000 war eonstructior project was halted in Washing tor when 1,300 AFL craft union mem bers refused to cross picket line! thrown up by the International Fed eration of Engineers, Architects anc Draftsmen, AFL. The union de manded recognition by local con tractors. A strike over refusal of war vet erans to submit to a requires physical examination before beinj reinstated to- their jobs closed foui mines of the Jones and Laughlii Steel Corp., in the Pittsburgh area employing 3,300 workers. IT WEATHER (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hour ending 7:30 p.m., yesterday. Temperature *:30 a.m.; 7:30 a.m. 74; 1:30 p.m. 84 ‘•20 p.m. 76. PRECIPITATION Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. •M inches. Total since the first of the month ■ 04 inches. TIDES FOR TODAY fEr0m the Tide Tables published by I * Coast and Geodetdtc Survey). High Low Wilmington _ a.m. 6:48a.n Tl 12.01p.m. 6:55p.n Masonboro Inlet_ 9:52a.m. 3.38a.n 10:06p.m. 3.43p.n Sunrise 5:11; Sunset 7:25; Moonrise 8:( a,m-J Moonset 9:57p.m. 4 Mrs. Benito Mussolini Reviews 36 Tu Years With D -M CHINESE CAPTURE SINCHANG FI D CHUNGKING, July 11.—(U.R)—Chi nese columns have recaptured the former American air base of Sin chang in Kiangsi Province and .driven a wedge from the East into the Japanese trans-continental cor ridor, a communique disclosed to day. Indications increased that the Japanese were abandoning their en tire Southern Kiangsi salient. Capture of Sinchang, the fourth American airfield re-taken by the Chinese in recent weeKs, posed a direct threat to the former prin cipal W. S. airbase of Kanhsien, SE miles to the Northeast. Suich wan, just north of Kanhsien, al so was formerly an important American base. Besides Sinchang, the air bases of Nanning, Liuchow and Tanchuk, all in Southern Kwangsi, have been recaptured. After taking Sinchang, the Chi nese drove forward seven mileg to capture Nankang. “The enemy fled toward Kanh sien on the Kan river with our forces in pursuit,’’ the communi que said. Meanwhile, other Chinese ground troops are advancing toward Kweil in, in Kwangsi province, after cap turing Chungtu, last important bar rier before the strategic Japanese held city. Woochow, another air base town, also was threatened by troops advancing from Tengyim along the west river. In a third major thrust, the Chi nese captured a Japanese base five miles from Paoching, captured by the enemy last summer, from which the Japanese launched an abortive attack on Chinese and American bases. The Chinese central news agency said that the Japanese were “hur riedly” abandoning their positions in Southern Kiangsi and that the Japanese garrison at Kanhsien had begun a retreat Northward Tues day. The news agency said the enemy, could retreat by two possible routes —toward Hengyang on the Cariton Hankow railway, which is controll ed by the Japanese, or try to break through the Kan river 1o Japanese held Nanchang, on the South shore of Poyang Lake in Northern Kiangsi province. Allied planes already have been out in force, harassing the re treat, the news agency said, and in the past three days have attack ed warehouses, dumps and hun dreds of junks and sampans load ed with, looted goods. Meanwhile, however, the Chinese communique revealed that heavy fighting was raging some 14 miles Northwest of Kansien where two Japanese columns engaged Allied forces. ANDERSON CLAIMS FOOD SHORTAGE MAY LAST LONG TIME NEW YORK, July 11— (/P)—Secre tary of Agriculture Anderson said today that food shortages in the United States “could easily last from one to two years after the end of the Japanese war.” “We would be short of some foods —such as sugar, fats and oils— even if the war ended tomorrow,” he said at a press conference. Anderson said earlier in a speech before the Advertising Federation of America that “America can’t feed the world,” and added: “We’ve got to make that clear and positive from the outset, or we are inviting an awful lot of misunderstanding, trouble and ill will. Even if we were to ship across the oceans every pound of food we produce, we couldn’t feed the world.” Widow Reveais> ~arly De sire To Migrate, Raise Family By ANN STRINGER (United Press Staff Correspondents TERNI. Italy, July 11.—(U.R)— Mrs. Benito Mussolini, reviewing her life for 36 turbulent years with the late “II Duce,” said today that her great regret was they did not go to the United States in their youth, as they planned, to raise a family of Americans. “We were happiest in the old days,” she said. “We never really had a home after 1925. We were happy before that. We should have gone to America when we first got married. We planned to do it and talked much about it. We planned to live there and raise children there. “But then Mussolini” — She never called him Benito—“changed his mind. He felt himself too powerful and his friends persuaded him to betray the workers. But his sympathies were always with the working class.” I found the widow of Mussolini inside the barbed wire enclosure of Terni internment camp where she is held protectively with her two younger children, Romano, 17, and Anna Marie, 16. They live in a six-room apartment in the camp hospital, and homeloving Rachele Mussolini at her own re quest does all the cooking for the 42 patients. The camp is an abandoned syn thetic rubber factory. At times choking with sobs or screaming denunciation of her husband’s mistresses, Donna Rachele told me of the last days before her husband was executed last April 28. “I last saw Mussolini about eight days before he was killed,” she said. “I talked to him on the .phone about six or seven hours before he died. He called at 3 a. m. and told me to try to get to Switzerland. He said if I failed, to turn myself and the (Continued on Page Three; Col S) ST ASSE N LOOKING FOR LENGTHY WAR SAN FRANCISCO, July ll.-CF) Navy Commander Harold E. Stas sen, a veteran of war and of world efforts to prevent it, said today Japan probably would not be de feated without a long-bitter strug gle, and asked the horde front not to let up in backing the fighting men. The 38-year-old former governor of Minnesota, on h s way to re join the staff of Admiral William F. Halsey’s Tokyo-smashing Third Fleet, expressed confidence at a press conference that the “superb forces” battling Japan, augmented oy manpower irum me ^uiu^ccui theater, would win final victory. “But any letdown on the home front costs lives on the fighting front,” he said. “Any delay in ship repairs, in turning out supplies like rockets, in transport of new divi sions—all this means that at a cru cial time there will be de ficiencies.” Stassen, a member of the United States delegation to the recent Unit ed Nations Conference here saw a “definite possibility” of unanimous ratification of the World Peace Charter by the United States Sen ate. “I think we have to count on a long and bitter fight before the war is concluded,” he said. “The only thing that would stop it would be undorjditional surrender. Thit would be the wisest thing they (the Japanese) could do.” Stassen, who has seen the Japa nese suicide pilots in action, feels certain Admiral Halsey’s Third Fleet will overcome the Kamikazes “with a minimum of casualties.” After all, he added, American forc es have been outfighting and out foxing the Japanese for three years, as some predict. Army Promises To Cut 7,000 Doctors Off Roll WASHINGTON, July 11.— vP) — The Army promised today to re duce its doctors by 7,000 by May, 1946—a rate of demobilization that was criticized by a Senate Military s subcommittee as too slow. Plans for releasing doctors were i disclosed at vie committee’s hear ing on the relative needs of the civilian population and the Army for medical care. Senator Johnson (D.-Colo.) said “the leisurely attitude of the Army toward this problem is something ' that this committee ought not to accept lying down.” Brig. Ged. Robert W. Berry, re i. presenting the War Department, l- took exception “to the use of the word ‘leisurely’ ”, but Johnson A. reiterated ne tnougm u. was right word.” ‘‘There is a tragic and critical need for these doctors in our com munities,” put in Senator Downey (D.-Calif.), subcommittee chair man. Testimony brought cut that the Army now has about 45,000 doctors and that, including those in the Navy and the Veterans Adminis tration, the, total serving the arm ed forces is approximately 60, 000. In active civilian practice, by comparison, Vere roughly 74,000 doctors, although another 20,000 are in salaried jobs with stat? hos pitals and industrial plants, or arc serving as interns. tf' Australian Troops Break Through a Japanese Defenses At Balikpapan In Face Of Heavy Counter Blows _The Stomach’ Goes Into Action On The Food Front|| ...... Pfc. Chester “The Stomach’’ Salvator of Southb ridge, Mass., the Army’s eating wonder who con sumes as much as 10 men, goes into action in a ca fe at Atlanta, Ga., after getting his first pass in four weeks from nearby Fort McPherson. He has been under observation of Army doctors at the fort. His bill at the cafe came to $9.95. He ate: Seven orders of chicken, 10 orders of potatoes, nine glasses of orange juice, two quarts of milk, one giant sala d, five egg salads, two orders of olives, two glasses of coffee, two slices of watermelon, five orders of r oils, five slices of pie topped with ice cream. (AP Photo). Opposition Witnesses Blast Charter 1 Before Committee; Da pies, Eden Talk -- m ± . Conference Sets Off Busy Diplomatic Sparring LONDON, July 11.— (U.R)—Joseph E. Davies, confidential envoy of President Truman conferred with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden today on a one-day visit to Great Britain and then flew on to Paris, en route to the Big Three confer ence which is expected to start at Potsdam this week-end and con tinue for about 10 days. It was Davies’s second visit in six weeks. Arriving on the Queen Elizabeth last night, he flew to London from Scotland, conferred with American Ambassador John G. Winant and then conferred and lunched with Eden. It was believed that Allied policy regarding Germany was the chiei topic for discussion. Davies expected to visit Frank fort, Allied Supreme Headquarters, on his way from Paris to Berlin and Potsdam. Davies’ visit was part of unusual diplomatic activity in preparation for the Big Three talks. Russian Ambassador Fedor Gustev left for Moscow last night and was expected to accompany Marshal Josef 'Stalin to Potsdam. Hasan Saka, Turvish foreign min ister returning from the San Fran cisco Conference, conferred with Eden today on Russia’s demands in return for a new Russian-Tur kish friendship treaty. Rene Mas sigli, French Abassador, also talk ed to Eden, presenting his coun try’ views on problems which the Big Three will consider. France (Continued on Page Three; Col 5). -V JUDGE DECRIES USE OF FIREARMS WHEN IT COMES TO WIVES CHICAGO, July 11 — (ff) — T6o many women are “shooting their husbands” and “expecting judges to be chivralrous,” Judge William V. Daly today told a 26-year old mother charged with assault with. intent to kill. - , “No wonder husbands are get ting scarce,” Judge Daly comment ed after George Leenheer, 26, a war worker, testified that on June 12 his wife shot him in the chest with a revolver. * Leenheer testified .that on that date he borrowed $50 from Mrs. Frances Leenheer, mother, of his four children, to arrange for a di vorce. “Instead, he took the money and got drunk,” Mrs. Leenheer told the court. Judge Daly changed the charge to assault with a deadly weapon, en tered a motion for probation, con tinued the hearing to July 25, and ordered the Leenheers to consult a court psychiatrist. 1 OFFICIALLY DEAD FOR TWO WEEKS, HEN COMES BACK TO LIFE MONTREAL, July 11.—(U.R)— A resurrected hen strutted around the laboratory of the city morgue today after being officially “dead” for two weeks. A farmer shipped the hen to the morgue in a sealed box on June 22 with a note saying he 'relieved it had died of paris green poisoning and wanted to know the facts. Chemists were busy so the “corpse” was pushed aside and yesterday when they got around to the autopsy the chicken raised its head and emitted a weak cluck. After being fed, it got back on its feet. Now the chemists don’t know what to do with the chicken because the farmer didn’t en close his address. \7 _ WALKOUTS CLOSE ALABAMA PAPERS BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 11 — (U.R)—Publication of the three Bir mingham daily newspapers was suspended tonight when compos ng room employes stopped work in a contract dispute and began picket ing the plants. The walkout stopped a combined daily circulation of approximately 228,000. The two afternoon papers, the Post and News, had gone to press with final editions when the walk out begart around 6 F.M and so will not be affected until tomorrow. The Morning Age-Herald will not appear tonight. Approximately 280 members of the International Typographical Union (AFL) were involved. A management spokesman said that the union and publishers had reached complete agreement on a new contract when the 1944 contract expired March 31 and that the new one included "many concessions” from the publishers. He said, how ever, that the international union had rejected this contract and that re-negotiations had,beer under way since'. ' " . . The walkout came as a result of the publishers’ refusal to accept a clause injected by the international union which would require the pa pers to abicje-by all 1945 union laws, some of which have not been writ ten the management, spokesman said. ' It would be “like signing a blank check to accept such a contract," said James E. Mills, Post editor. Both union and publishers were holding meets on the issue today and tonight. 7 Attacks Cover Opinions Of Various Groups In Nation WASHINGTON, July 11-—(U.R)— Opposition witnesses came before the Senate Foreign Relations com mittee today to attack the World Security Charter variously as a communist plot, a military al liance, a demagogic document, a fraud and deceit, but mostly on the grounds it was unconstitu tional. They appeared at the third day of the committee’s hearings into the Charter signed at San Fran cisco by the 50 United Nations and soon to go before the full Sen ate for ratification. Invited by Chairman Tom Connally, D., Tex., the witnesses represented organiza tions ranging from national groups (Continued on Page Three; Col 2) -V NAVAL GUNS SEND U. S. S. DICKERSON DOWN TO DAVY JONES WASHINGTON, July 11.—(U.R)— The Navy revealed today that U. S. naval guns were compelled to sink the high speed transport U. S. S. Dickerson after Japanese planes blasted her into a hopeless hulk off Okinawa and killed 51 of her crew of 150. The enemy planes bombed and set the vessel afire last April 2 while she was.steaming some 15 miles off Okinawa. After one of the planes dropped its bombs, the Dickerson was swept by flames and rocked by explosions. A moment later a second Jap plane roared in from dead astern, clipped two smokestacks and crashed ito the bridge, killing all personnel on the forecastle. War Department Probing Case Of Condemned GPs WASHINGTON, July 11;'—(/P) — The War Department is investigat ing the case -of two army privates in China who have written home that they were condemned to die for the death, of a Chinese .woman. The soldiers are Pvt.- - John V. Brenman, West Hartford- Conn., and Pvt. James Cooper,, Norwood, Ohio. A letter from Brenman to an aunt telling of his court maftiai was turned over to Senator Mc Mahon (D.-Conn.), who a3ked un dersecretary of War Robert Pat terson to investigate. Cooper’s case was turned over to the War Department June 16 and the Department said Monday that “full information in reference to his court martial is en route here by courier mail (carried by an offi. cer) and should be received within * ' t the next “few days.’’ It assumed that Brennan’s report accompanied it. McMahon said Brennan’s letter related that he and Copper mount ed a water buffalo at a Chinese village “intending to take a ride and have a little fun.” Chinese vil lagers tried to pull them from the animal’s back and a 71-year-old woman succeeded in pulling Bren nan off, McMahon said. Brennan fell on her and the woman died three hours later, the Senator said. Brennan wrote that they were court martialed late in May and sentenced to be shot. At their trial, McMahon quoted the soldier’s let ter as saying, two peasants testified the soldiers beat and pummeled the villagers jfter they were pulled from the buffaloes. y ■ J» Plunge Three-Mile Wedge Inland From Island Core AL1 ) GENERALS TAKE OVER TODAY BERLIN, July 11.— (i?) -Four general upon whom devolves the task of governing the defeated Ger man Reich’s bomb-cratered capita! today constituted themselves Ber lin’s “Kommandantur” and an nounced they would take over the city at 9 a. m. tomorrow. < hTeir names soon will be house hold words in Berlin—Col. Gen. Alexander V Gorbatov of Russia, Maj. Gen. Floyd L. Parks of the U>S. Maj. Gen. L. O. Lyne of Brit ain. and Maj Gen Geoffrey de Be auchesne of France. In what Lyne, as spokesman for the “Kommandantur” or com mancfery, described as an “at mosphere of ‘great friendliness,” the four met in Gorbatov’s head quarters in Berlin’s veterinary col lege only a short distance from Hitler’s ruined chancellery. The Soviets had raised the banners of the four victorious nations in the huge building’s courtyard, leaving a large red and gold star Hammer and Sickle atop the building to in dicate this was Russian occupied territory. The conferees sat at a T-form ed, table with Gorbatov at top. He will head the “Kommandtur” at first, after which other members will rotate on a 15-day basis. Lyne admitted great difficulties lie ahead, but said 17 subcommit tees of experts were working out details and added “1 cannot believe there is any problem which can not be solved.” For the present, each Allied oc cupied sector will be responsible for supplying its troops as well as civilians, but there will be inter change and possibly a pooling of commodities to insure unified sup. (Continued on Page Five; Col 5) _IT_ WORK AT CAMP DAVIS TO CONTINUE UNDER ENGINEER’S ORDER All contracts for improvements at Camp Davis were ordered carried out yesterday by Col. C. T. Hunt, district engineer of the Savannah office of the Army Engi neers, according to an announce ment yesterday from Comp Davis. Construction work at t h e camp was reported to have been impair ed by persistent rumors that work on projects at the camp had been halted entirely. It was reoorted yesterday that progress had been somewhat delay ed on the five new mess halls, which were to have been completed yesterday. It is expected that they will be completed next wee"k. Completion dates for the re modeling of barracks for both con velescent patients and returnee of ficers and enlisted men also will be delayed. 4 The need still remains for about 500 construction workers at Camp Davis—primarily carpenters and brickmasons— to carry through to completion die $1,600,000 projects contracted for at the camp, it was said. The future of Camp Davis still is not clear, however, and A. Hand James, secretary to Senator Jo siah W. Bailey, said that he had received no word from the War department as to what disposition is to be made of the camp. Army (Continued on Page Three; Col 2) Enemy Assaults Thrown Back; Other Gains Recorded MANILA, Thursday, July 12.— (U.R)—Australian troops In heavy fighting have broken through Jap anese defenses at both ends of the Balikpapan beachhead and have hammered a three-mile wedge in land from the center, Gen. Lou glas MacArthur announced today. The breakthrough in the center of the beachhead took off from the coastal road in the area of Seping gam-Ketjil, three miles east of Balikpapan, and rolled three miles inland through a series of wood ed hills before the Japanese re covered and staged a counter-at tack. The enemy assault was stopped and thrown back, Mac Arthur announced. Other troops which cracked the Japanese lines northeast of Mang gar airstrip, at the Eastern end of the beachhead, hammered out an other half-mile gain in a drive that reached one and a half miles North east of the airfield. The advance came after a week of heavy fighting around the air field, where the Japanese have established powerful road blocks supported by artillery and mortars in an effort to halt the Australian drive against the East Borneo oil fields to the Northeast. A third Australian column at the western end of the beachhead ad vanced to within a half mile of 200-foot high Mount Batochampar, a powerful enemy strongpoint pro tected by minefields and supported by coastal guns, after seizing com plete control of Balikpapan Bay and the Pandansari refineries. Mount Batochampar is about six miles north of Balikpapan. Planes of the 13th Airforce join ed the ground assault, with 25 P-38 Lightning fighter-bombers raining fire-bombs on enemy positions 12 miles inland from the beachhead. Another force of more than 20 B-24 Liberator heavy bombers plastered enemy barracks at Band jermasin, administrative center of South Borneo some 200 miles southwest of Balikpapan, and ship yards at the oil shipping port of Samarinda, 60 miles North. Ground action in the Brunei Bay area of North Borneo was confined largely to patrolling, but more than 50 Australian fighter-bomb ers bombed and strafed the Kudat and Jesselton areas while 10 med ium bombers of the 13th Airforce hammered enemy positions west of Beaufort. Another group of 30 Australian Spitfires blasted strong points and suspected enemy troop concentrations south of Mirl. NIMITZ ANNOUNCES NEW AIR STRIKES GUAM, Thursday, July 12.—(U.R) —New strikes by the Navy’s im proved Corsair fighters and Aveng er torpedo bombers against the Japanese homeland were announc (Continued on Page Three; Col 6) COMMITTEE PULLS FAST ABOUT FACE WASHINGTON, July 11.— UP) — The House appropriations commit tee about-faced today and recom mended a $250,000 fund for continu ed and unrestricted operation of the Fair Employment Practice Committee. It did so at an afternoon session less than three hours after it had voted FEPC $250,000 to liquidate. The latest action left both side* in the six-weeks fight over FEPC somewhat bewildered, and assur ed a record House vote tomorrow that may jar loose the $752,000, 000 National War Agencies supply bill that has been riding a parlia mentary merry-go-round sine* June 1. The deadlock has tied up funds for sixteen home-front war agen cies, many of them facing playless pay-days until it is broken. All are operating now under special legis lation allowing them to incur obligations but spend no actual money. The joy of Southern foes of FEPC over the committee’s morn ing action quickly died down aft er the afternoon results were an nounced. Conversely, backers of FEPC who condemned the morn ing proceedings finished the day praising them. “This is just what we wanted,* commented representative Mar (Continued on Page Five; Qjji 6)
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