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FORECAST Served By Leased Wires . . of the ASSOCIATED PRESS For North Carolina: Saturday consider- an(] tj,e dble cloudiness with scattered thunder- UNITED PRESS shower; gentle to moderate easterly With Ccmp,ete Coverage of winds. State and National New* voFTTsT—NO. 216! ~ 7 WILMINGTON, N. C., SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1945 ESTABLISHED 1867~ Missing Two-year-old Judy G e a g a n (above) of Medford, Mass., report ed misting since July 17 is the object of a wide search as a Navy Blimp and Coast Guard Helicopter joined with 150 ground searchers in an effort to locate the child in the vicinitv of the seashore towr of Marshfield. Mass., where hei parents were vacationing. A little more than a year ago 10-year-olc Frances McGrath’s ravished bodj was found in this same area. (AP Wirephoto) EXILES REQUEST FARRELL OUSTER MONTEVIDEO. July 20.—(JP)—A committee of Argentine exiles, in cluding members of all former Ar gentine political parties, today urged their countrymen to oppose the government of General Edel miro Farrell so as to insure, they said, the country “her freedom, sovereignty and international de corum.” A document signed by formei Deputies Jose Aguirre Camara, Conservative; Julio A. Noble, Pro gressive Democrat; Nicolas Repet Araya, radical, and Communisi leader Rodolfo Ghioldi said “a union of Argentines should free the country from Fascistic humi liation.” It added that exiles should urge the people of all po litical parties “to unite in a sin gle movement to precipitate tin downfall of the present regime.’ For the first time since its in ception last month the committee in a 600-word statement, went al out for a union of all parties anc shelving of all political differences until the present regime is un seated. "Serious events provoked or pro duced by the dictatorship,” the statement asserted, “have put the country on the brink of econo mic and financial bankruptcy and will sink it in institutional anarchy and segregate it from the com munity of nations. “With the people’s sovereignty suppresses, freedom of the press nullified, foreign correspondents threatened with death and laboi and political rights ignored, the republic now has been delivered to the mercy of the Fascist cli que which gags it inside and de motes it outside. The ruthless po litical tyranny which (The Re gime) imposed in an inevitable step toward bellicose designs.” --V iKurilAL STORM MAY REACH TEXAS COAST PORING NIGH1 new ORLEANS, July 20.—(>P) The U. S. Weather Bureau report ea at 3:30 p. m., Central Wa Time, today that the Gulf of Mexi co storm was expected to resum * northwestward north-northwest *'ard movement within the nex lew hours and reach the coast be tween Galveston, Texas and Lak Charles, La., during the night. The 3:30 p. m. advisory said th ttorm had remained stationary 18 miles south of Lake Charles, fo the past 12 hours and that it wa st-ended by heavy squalls an shifting winds estimated at 35 t 45 miles per hour over a ima *rea near the center. weather" (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Metorological data for the 24 hou *ndm£ 7:30p„ yesterday. Temperature 75; 7:30p. 74; l:30p. 80; 7:30p. 1 k maximum 84; Minimum 73; Mean 7 «nnai 79. Humidity “*0a- 95; 7:30a. 96: l:30p. 82; 7:30p. I Precipitation N TMa: for 24 hours ending 7:30p.—0. inches. since the first of the month J0-30 inches. Tides for Today From the Tide Tables published by • Coast and Geodedtc Survey) . High Lo Wilmington - 6:45a. 1:5 ,Tae . ~ 7:27p. 2:0i Masonboro Inlet _ 4:25a. 10:4 5:10p. 11:3i Moon set 2:08. (Continued on Page Two; Col. (Famed Rice City Falls To Chinese Ti ROOPS TAKE Y1YANG New Drive Puts Forces 55' Miles From Vital Changsha --- t By GEORGE WANG United Press War Correspondent CHUNGKING, July 20.— (U.R) — Chinese troops, in a drive to cut Japan’s 1,200-mile land corridor, have seized Yiyang, famed “rice bowl” city in Hunan Province only 55 miles from strategic Changsha, a communique said today. Another Chinese Army, 600 miles to the South and 125 miles South west of Canton, cleared a 50-mile coastal “invasion” strip and reach ed the vicinity of Yeungkong. The capture of Yiyang, on the South shore of Lake Tung in Hunan province, opened the long-predicted drive against Japan’s corridor at its narrowest width. A 100-mile drive Eastward would cut it in two and frustrate escape attempts of an estimated 400,000 hard-pressed troops in Southeastern Chinese provinces. Yiyang, in the heart of China’s rice bowl area, was seized Mon day, the communique said. Cap ture of the highway and rail city opens the way for a drive toward Changsha, key' city on the vital Canton-Hankow railway. The Chinese advance along the Southeast coast has forced the Japanese high command to rush reinforcements from Indo-China, a Chinese army spokesman said. Meanwhile, the steel arc about Kweilin, most important former U. S. air base city in Southeast! CJiina, was tightened by a half dozen Chinese columns. A small force was battling inside the city. One column, which cut a wide arc eastward from Liuchow, seiz ed the important highway city of Laipo and then swerved North ward toward Kweilin. Moving from Laipo, 65 miles East of Liu cihow, that force threatened to overrun Yangso. 45 miles away. Three hundred miles to the East, on the flank of Japan’s corridor, two battles were reported East and Northeast of Suichwan, important U. S. air base city in Kiangsi province. The two enemy columns, fleeing from recently captured Kanhsien, another U. S. air base city, were caught near Wanan and Taiho, the communique said. Wanan, 18 miles East of Suichwan, 1 is on the East bank of the Kan river. Taiho is 25 air miles to the Northeast. -V KANSAS CITY NOW WITHOUT MILK BULLETIN KANSAS CITY, July 20.—(/« —Contending parties agreed to night to a truce in the milk dispute which had virtually halted milk deliveries in Kan sas City since last Wednesday. KANSAS CITY, July 20.—(JP)— Kansas City virtually was without milk tonight as all but one of the city’s major dairies were idle be cause of a dispute between the milk drivers’ union and milk pro ducers. Last deliveries of milk were re ceived by processors Wednesday and today’s retail sales exhausted the reserve supply. The Farmers Pure Milk Produ cers Association, which supplies most of the dairies, ordered de i liveries halted after plant represen tatives were notified by R. O. Jack son, representative of the Milk Drivers and Dairy Employes Un - ion (AFL) that union men would : unload no more milk trucked in - by non-union haulers. : Many of the producers have been - dumping their milk on the ground, t rather than accede to the unions - demand. s Producers and union represen tatives were upable to agree on a e proposal that deliveries continue 3 while negotiations for settlement - of the dispute were in progress. U. S. SEEKS 4 GAIN, h, _ 1 He Has Fortitude If Little Courage WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., July 20.—(U.R)—The following entries appeared today on* the police blotter: 1:55 a. m.—Injured in fight— Ernest Jenkins, 21 . . . during course of an argument . . . his wife, Ruby struck her hus band over the eye with a piece of wood. The couple then walked to White Plains hos pital where he received three stitches. No complaint. 3:15 a. m.—Injured in fight— —Ernest Jenkins, 21 . . . treat ed at White Plains hospital for laceration of right forearm re quiring eight stitches. Wounds inflicted by his wife, Ruby with a milk bottle. No com plaint. -V NAVY CONSIDERS NEW POINT PLAN 11,600 Officers, 19,000 Enlisted Men May Be Released WASHINGTON, July 20.—— The Navy disclosed today it is considering a point formula for release of older Navy personnel. By December the plan is esti mated to release 11,600 commis sioned and warrnt officers, and 19,000 enlisted men. The Navy emphasized that the formula under study will be in no way a demobilization measure, since the Navy’s strength will not be cut below the present autho rized maximum of 3,389,000 which was reached June 30. Because it is not a demobili zation measure, the Navy explain ed, the formula gives no weight to such facts as dependency and combat service which might be a part of a demobilization plan. It called the proposal a “comput ed service age formula.” The Navy said the purpose of the new policy will be to increase the service’s over-all efficiency by releasing older men and men not fully qualified for general duty, thereby permitting the Navy through voluntary enlistments and Selective Service to increase the number of younger men qualified to meet future needs. Under the formula, the Navy would release upon individual ap plication or upon resignation, cer tain enlisted personnel and reserve officers who meet requirements. Service age of officers and en listed men would be computed by allowing one point for each four months of active duty in the Navy since September 1, 1939. The minimum computed service age required for release, resigna tion or discharge, would vary for different categories of the service as follows: -v — Gas Stove Rationing Will End On July 31 WASHINGTON, July 20.— WP) — Rationing of gas cooking and gas heating stoves will end July 31. Oil cooking, oil heating, combi nation oil-gas stoves and oil con version burners for stoves will re main under rationing. The War Production Board and the Office of Price Administration said a substantial increase in pro duction of gas heating and cook ing stoves is scheduled for the current quarter, making rationing no longer necessary. Oil burning stoves are being re tained under rationnig because of the short supply of fuel oil and kerosene. \Reporters “Derriere Width Worries Justice By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent rS PARIS, July 20.—(U.R)—The Presi dent of the High Court of Justice 7 that will try Marsha! Henri Philip 8- pe Petain touched off a contro versy today by asking for a formal opinion on the width of a average foreign correspondent’s “derriere.’’ 05 Everyone has considered Paris a rear arear since the liberation. ~ Thus thee has been lots of sitting around by correspondents-who now u. display the so-called “middle-age spread’’. That the sharpeyed French have been observing this ip' “battle of the bulge’’ was evident >a. when the question arose as to how lp- many correspondents could be fit ted into the Petain courtroom. 5) Andre Laguerre, of the Ministry of Information, told the court he thought he could squeeze in 40 French and 40 foreign correspon dents. Pondering this for a moment, Pierre Mongibeau, President of the Court, remarked: “Monsieur Le Di recteur, in your opinion how big across the seat is the average foreign correspondent?” Then followed much stretching and narrowing of arms to indicate the sizes of various correspondents —but no names were mentioned. Finally, Laguerre said he would estimate 15 inches. Mongibeau exclaimed he wanted the sitting'down measurement and in his opinion that was 25 inches. v President Tells World Sacrifices 0 f W a r Not Tradeable POTSDAM, July 20.—(/P)—Presi dent Truman told the world today that the United States does not intend to trade its sacrifices in the bloodiest of wars for territorial conquest or monetary gain. Speaking only a few miles from the former Kaisers’ palace where he is working with Prime Minister Churchill and Generalissimo Sta lin on a formula for preserving Europe against future war he de clared pointedly: “We are not fighting for con quest. There is not a piece of ter ritory or one thing of a monetary nature we want out of this war.” The words were spoken at the historic occasion of the raising of the Stars and Stripes over the capital of Germany—"our great est adversary.” Picked infantry men from the second ("Hell on Wheels”) Armored Division then heard this solemn warning: “We must not forget that we are fighting for peace and for the welfare of mankind.” This was interpreted as an expo sition of the American position, not only as relates to present ne gotiations for settlement of Eu rope’s age-old territorial and other problems, but as new advice to the Japanese people that the war in the Pacific is not aimed at the people themselves. "We want peace and we want to see the time come when we can do the things in peace that we have been able to do in war,” the gray-haired Missourian assured the victorious outfit. “If we can put this tremendous machine of ours which has made this victory possible to work for peace, we can look forward to the greatest age in the history of man kind. Iimu.l >» XU- onnnliirlnrl firmly, “is what we propose to do.” Flanked by War Secretary Stim son, Gen. Eisenhower, Gen. Omar N. Bradley, Gen. George S. Pat ton, Lt. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, and Maj. Gen. Floyd L. Parks, the President spoke extemporaneously for about two minutes in the cob blestoned central court of what had been the headquarters of the German Air Force district com mander. He had hurried to the ceremony by automobile direct from formal discussions with Churchill and Stalin. When the President concluded, the historic flag which flew over the Capitol at Washington the day the U. S. entered the war against the Axis and which will be taken to Tokyo was raised over the quar ters of the American Control Forces occupying Berlin. The flag, which belongs to Mau ry Maverick of Texas and Wash ington, was previously raised as a sign of victory at Casablanca, Al giers and Rome. Mr. Truman reminded the troops it was being raised in the name of the people of the United States, who are “looking forward to a better world, a peaceful world, a world in which all the people will have an opportunity to enjoy the good things of life, and not just a few at the top.” Wilbur Richard of Portland, Ind., and Frederick J. D’Angelo, Wilmerding, Pa., handled the flag lines, while two other combat cor porals, Charles Magnifico, Jersey City, and Abraham Liberman, Cambridge, Mass., stood as color guard. Looking well and slightly heav ier than when he left Washington nn .Tulv 6. the President walked about 200 yards from his automo bile to the ceremony. JAPS ~SMASH BRITISH ATTACK NEAR MAWCHI IN THAILAND AREA CALCUTTA, July 20.—(TP)—Japa nese troops in Burma have smash ed a British attack West of Ma wchi, important stronghold 40 mil es from Thailand, a communique from Adm. Lord Louis Mountbat ten’s headquarters said today. British Gurkha troops along the stalemated Tougoo-Mawchi front opened the drive after Allied bom bers had blasted strongpoints East of Paletwa, 17 miles beyond Toun goo, but were halted by Japanese fire, the communique said. Mawchi reportedly is one of the enemy’s last-ditch strongholds in Southweast Burma. Untold thou sands of Japanese, caught in Bril ish traps west of the Sittang, have attempted to battle their way to ward that fortress. Northeast of Pegu, concentration point of about 6,000 Japanese, ac tion was confined to small clashes The communique admitted that most villages in this area were held by the Japanese. Patriotic Burmese forces have aided recent British units in that sector, it was reported. Flood Water Causes Huge Farm Losses VERMONT TOWNS HIT Communications Cut Off, Cattle Washed Away By Rains RUTLAND, Vt., July 20.—(/P)— Flood waters from a myriad of streams and rivers swept through Western and Central Rutland coun ty communities today, washing out highways, carrying away bridges and causing damage estimated un officially at hundreds of thousands of dollars. A steady six hour rain sent the streams over their banks. Communications were cut off in many sections and first intimation of the extent of the damage came tonight as the waters began reced ing. Poultney, where damage was es timated unofficially at $100,000, was hardest hit of the communities, with water a foot deep tumbling down the main street. West Rutland’s water supply was hard hit as a 16 foot section of the reservoir dam washed away and all residents were advised to boiJ their drinking water. Many hill towns were isolated and without power. The heavy rain, which left a three inch fall in Rutland, was the third bad storm in the area within 30 days. Cattle were swept from the pas tures of many hill farms and towns folk in Clarendon watched a pig float down the Cold river, but no body dared wade after it. Truck gardens in the Middle town area were destroyed and roads were impassible in many sections. -:-V HIGHWAY HEARING SET FOR JULY 25 (Special to the Star) RALEIGH. July 20.—Hearings on the Federal inter-regional super highway plan in North Carolina will be held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in the offices of the State High way Commission, it was announced yesterday by W. H. Rogers, as sistant to Sandy Graham, chairman of the State Highway Commis sion. Mr. Rogers disclosed that Raleigh will be represented in an effort to show why that city should be in cluded in the inter-region plan. Also to be represented are Greensboro, Durham, Charlotte and other cities already included in the proposed plan, to show cause why they should be retained. It was pointed out that the near est to the east coast that the super highway plan will extend on the proposed system in North Carolina is on U. S. No. 301, which extends all the way through the State. Another proposed route on the super highway plan enters North Carolina from Virginia on U. S. No. 1 to Henderson, then to Ox ford, Durham, Greensboro and thence to South Carolina. Yet, another route is proposed from Tennessee to Asheville, Char lotte and Greensboro. It was explained that the Feder al inter-regional highway system will extend throughout the United States, amassing a total of ap proximately 40,000 miles. The pro posed plan will not interfere with any other proposed State or Feder al highway plans, it was stressed. Mr. Rogers explained that it would be to the advantage of North Carolina not to have any more miles than absolutely necessary in cluded in the inter-regional system, because of the excessive cost of construction as required by the Federal government. -V SHORTS SHORTAGE MAY BRING DEMAND FOR PINK PANTIES While the shortage of shorts for men becomes critical in some sections of the country, Wilmington gentlemen have yet to face the somewhat em barassing situation of no shorts at all or wearing la dies’ panties. That’s the situation in De troit, where the report leaked out that that city’s huskies were turning sissies, and lean ed to the feminine side of the under side, and were getting their wives to buy ladies’ pan ties for them to wear. At any rate, some brave male citizens of Wilmington were heard to have become especially vehement in their denial that “their panties weren’t pink,” and they offer ed to prove it. However, from the results of a survey conducted in the city yesterday, the fair sex should take heed: “Lock up your scanties, ’cause men’s are scantier, still.” YANK BOMBERS BUST SHANGHAI AIRFIELDS; DOCKS ARE DAMAGED _ _+ -- j --- From Chile For Polio Treatment --- Six-year-old Allan Stevenson, son of an American school teacher in Santiago, Chile, arrives in 'Miami, Fla., and is made comfortable by Stewardess Alice McLane of Pan-American Airways at the end of a 4,500-mile flight from Santiago en route to Warm Springs, Ga., for treatment for the after-effects of infantile paralysis. He enters the Warm Springs foundation on a scholarship arranged by the late Presi dent Roosevelt. The boy was stricken when he was 14 months old. (AP Wirephoto). Emissary Brings Note On Camp Davis Closing CONGRESS CLEARS WAY FOR CHARTER -- x Bretton Woods, E-I-Bank Bills Approved Op Eve Of Holiday WASHINGTON, July 20. —(U.R)— Congress today completed action on two major international mone tary bills — the Bretton Woods agreements and the five-fold in crease in lending resources of the Export-Import bank—thus clearing the way for' Senate consideration of the World Security Charter. The House, which begins a sum mer recess tomorrow concurred in three minor Senate amendments to the Bretton Woods agreement, ment, which the Senate approved Friday, 61 to 16. The Senate then approved the House measure which increases the capital stock of the Export-Import Bank to $1,000,000, 000 and gives that agency a hike in lending power f/on\ its present $700,000,000 to $3,500,000,000, mostly to be used for foreign loans. Both measures now await Presi dent Truman’s signature. Senate action on the Export-Im port Bank was in contrast to the debate on Bretton Woods. Republi can opposition to the agreements which make the United States a $6,000,000,000 shareholder in the $17,900,000,000 World Bank and In ternational Stabilization Fund, was notably absent on the E-I issue. Gen. Eaker Sends Personal Reply To Star-News Publisher Colonel Bowman, a member of Lt. Gen. Ira C. Eaker’s Army Air Corps staff, arrived in Wil mington yesterday as emissary from General of the Army H. H. Arnold to the Star-News to ex plain the Air Force position in ordering abandonment of Camp Davis as a redistribution and con valescent center. When it seemed apparent Iasi week that some change in the status of Camp Davis was :m minent, the Star-News addressee a message to General Arnold ask ing a statement as to the future of the camp. The appeal was immediately ac knowledge, and in the absence o: General Arnold, Lt. Gen. Eaker Deputy Commander of the Ai) Forces, dispatched Colonel Bow man to Wilmington to supply ad ditional information on the clos ing of the camp. Colonel Bowman was in confer ence with Rinaldo B. Page, Star News owner and publisher, anc members of his staff at the Star News office for an hour and fol lowing lunch took off on the re turn flight to Washington. General Eaker, in a letter tc Mr. Page delivered by Colone: Bowman yesterday, sets forth the reasons governing the Army’s de cision to discontinue Camp Davis as a redistribution and Convales cent center as follows: “A. Our origina lplanning in dicated that we would have a much larger number of convales (Continued on Page Three; Col 2) 66 Per Cent Ur bleeping Cars Available To Army NEW YORK, July 20.—W—Two thirds of the nation’s sleeping cars are now available to American servicemen taking part in the coun try’s greatest military movement— from the European theater, to their homes, to the war against Japan. The Pullrrtan Company said today a total of 151,000 beds. 115,000 owned by'Pullman and 36,000 by the government, are accommodat ing military personnel, and an ad ditional 57,000 on regularly sche culed trains are reserved for the government. The company, under last Sun day’s ODT order discontinuing sleeping car service on trips less than 450 miles, transferred 895 Pullman cars to military service, alone, 78 from New York, and 26 from Washington. Fifty runs were | discontinued temporarily in the Southeast, 22 in the Southwest and 23 in the West. The swift transition of the cars from civilian to military service was possible, the company said, because of Pullman’s flexible poo] system, which since Pearl Harbor has moved 29,000.000 troops, about two-thirds of all the organized mil itary passenger traffic in the coun try. Pullman cars, which in 1944 trav eled more than 28,000,000,000 pas senger miles — three times that traveled in 1940—are “maintenance starved,” the company said. At least 2,000 workers are needed in its six shops in Chicago, St. Louis, Buffalo, Atlanta, Wilmington, Del., and Richmond, Calif. Full Scale Raids Cause Many Fires MLLi wu urruaintm Ground Activity On Borneo Light As Aussies Dig In MANILA, Saturday, July 20.—m — More than 200 Far East Air Force bombers and fighters lash ed airdromes and docks a‘ Shanghai Wednesday for (he second straight day, headquarters announ ced today. Continuation of fuli scale raids to knock out the largest Japanese held air and shipping center in China brought attacks on five air dromes by close formations of Liberator heavies. Mitchell med ium and Invader attack-bombers. The Seventh Air Force heavy bombers dropped 100-pound general purpose bombs on Woosung air drome on the banks of the Yangtze, causing three fires. Smoke rose 6, 000 feet. Sixtv-two Mitchells bombed and strafed Tachang airdrome North west of Shanghai and Tinghai air field, near the entrance of Hang chow bay, Cratering reventmerhs and starting fires. Woosung was hit for the second time by another group of heavies, which then pounded Kaingwan's six runways and the Hangar area One grounded enemy plane was destroyed in this attack. Two or three more parked air craft were smashed when 44 A-20 attack Invaders smacked Lunghwa airdrome in the old Chinese city section of Shanghai. There was no interception in these forays. Kyshu, southernmost of the Japa nese main island, continued to draw the fury of bomb-carrying Seventh Air Force Tunderbolts. with Fifth Airforce Mustangs roam ing at will over the island in at tacks on communication lines, bridges and shipping Wednesday. The Mustangs damaged locomo tives, box cars and factory areas in two industrial surburbs 'il Kagoshima, maior city of Southern Kyushu. Both Kush:kino and Miya kanojo, sururbs of Kagoshima, site of rayon mills and munitions plants were bombed and strafed. More than 35 Thunderbolts hi* sulphur and phosphate mines on tiny Iwo island in the Soumi group, iust off Southern Kyushu. A flight of 16 Mustangs caught a 6.000-ton freighter in Naze harbor . at Amami Oshima. 110 miles north , of Okinawa, scoring two direct hits and three near misses off her port , (Continued on Page Two; Col 8) \7 U. S. MUST SHARE COAL, ICKES SAYS WASHINGTON, July 20.—(U.R)— Fuel Administrator Harold L. Ickes warned today that the Unit ed States must share its depleted coal supplies to prevent serious disorders in Europe. He said this country must ship 6,000,000 tons to the continent be tween new and Jan. 1, beginning immediately. That is about one per cent of U. S. annual pro duction. He asserted that it will be im possible to supply Europe unless the Army grants his requests to release at least 30,000 miners. He said he expects the Army to do so. Acting Secretary of War Ro bert P. Patterson said Thursday, however, that it is impossible to discharge men solely on occupa tional grounds to fill civilain needs. The War Production Board meanwhile put coal mining ma chinery on the production urgency list, giving manufacturers high manpower priorities. Ickes warned earlier that the worst fuel shortage of the war is threatened for the coming winter. He said domestic coal users must get along on 20 per cent less and fuel oil users face a 25 per cent cut. In Europe, he said, the race is “between coal and anarchy.” “Europe must have coal without loss of time if serious political and social upheavals are to be prevented. I don’t think it is going too far to say that a coal famine of such severity as to destroy all semblance of law and order is certain to occur in certain dev asted countries in Northwest Europe next winter unless imn*e* diate and drastic action is taken,’*
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