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Granted Divorce
Film and stage actress c-aroie
Landis is all smiles after being
Granted a divorce in Las Vegas,
C from Maj. Thomas C. Wal
lace of the U. S. Army Air For
res They were wed in London,
England.‘in 1943. (International
Soundphoto)._
JAPANESE TKOUKS
45-Mile Dent In Chinese
Lines M a d e 0 n In
vasion Coast
CHUNGKING, July 22. — (IP) —
Japanese troops covering 103 miles
in 22 days, have made a 45-mile
breakthrough along China’s “in
vasion coast” opposite Formosa
in a drive apparently designed to
build up a defense wall against;
any possible Allied landings, the
Chinese High Command acknowl
edged tonight.
While the enemy forces battled
to link their pockets in the seaports
of Amoy and Swatow in Southeast
China, battle-tough Chinese voter
ans tightened their siege arc
around the Japanese-held airbase
city of Kweilin, a communique re
vealed.
Striking southwestward toward
Swatow, the Japanese advanced
from a point six miles south of
Yunsiao, mid-way between Amoy
and Swatow, crossed the bordei
from Fukien Province into Kwang
tung and captured Chaoan, 20 miles
north of Swatow, the communique
said.
Chaoan, a port on the Han river
Delta and the site of an airdrome,
was, however, recaptured by the
Chinese in bitter fighting and at
Friday noon still was in the hands
of Generalissio Chiang Kai-Shek’s
troops.
The 4,"-mile Japanese advances
from the Yunsiao area to Chaoan
took several days and was made
by troops who were landed on the
coast south of island-bound Amoy
June 30 and now are threatening
to break through for a link with
enemy forces holding the former
treaty port of Swatow.
Chungking observers expressed
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AUSTRALIA RECEIVES
OVER BILLION WORTH
OF AMERICAN GOODS
CANBERRA, Australia, July 22.
— (IP) — United States lend-lease
goods val'Vd at more than a bil
lion dollars were received by Aus
tralia up to the end of last April,
it was officially disclosed here to
day.
Reciprocal Australian lend-lease
goods and services to America be
tween April 1942 and last March
totaled about $800,000,000.
The official report showed that
T S. forces received $10,500,00C
worth of Australian radar and sig
rta! equipment—one-fifth of the to
tai output of the Commonwealth
radio industrial before 1942 had no
experience in this technique.
The report said American carbor
black, tire fabric and synthetic
rubber received under lind-leasc
was used in part in Australia tc
Produce tires for American forces
Jt added that lend-lease tractors
seed and other farming equipment
v as used to increase food produc
Con for American force.
WEATHER
Eastern Standard Time)
. TT. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteor^cgica1 data for the 24 hour
lnS 7:30 p.m.. yesterday.
. Temperature
-0,° am- 74; 7:30 am, 75; 1:30 pm, 82
pm. 80.
Maximum 86; Minimum 72; Mean 79
Normal 79.
. Humidty
am, 96, 7:30 am, 90; 1:30 pm 89
‘ ••jo pm,-.
^ Precipitation
, •otal for the 24 hours ending 7:30 pm
o.nn inches.
m«,Sl ;ince the first of ‘he month
J°26 inches
Tides For Today
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• Coast and Geodetic Survey).
Wilmington ... 8 :25a 3:29
Masonboro Inlet _ s*0fa lllll
,, . 6:41p 12:17
!:,7; Sunset 7:20; Mocnris
'■■ ; Moonset 3:39*.
Conference
May Discuss
Jap Defeat
BIG THREE BUSY
Deliberations Resumed Af
ter Truman Attends
Church Services
By MERRIMAN SMITH
United Press Staff Correspondent
POTSDAM, July 22.—(U.R)—Presi
dent Truman, Marshal Josef Stalin
and Prime .M i n i s t e r .Winston
Churchill returned again to their
momentous discussions today amid
indications that the most vital mili
tary issue in the Allied world—the
defeat of Japan—may be laid be
fore the Big Three conference be
fore the week is ended.
It was believed probable that the
question of the Japanese war
would be brought up before the
conference by President Truman,
who already has voiced his de
termination to achieve the quickest
possible victory in the Far East to
save American lives.
Reports yesterday said the Big
Three have cleared their agenda of
all preliminary routine and now
are prepared to make their fate
ful decisions dealing with major
economic and military problems.
It was believed the Big Three
will dispose of their top European
problem — an overall economic
policy for postwar Europe and
broad details governing the oc
cupation of Germany — before
turning to the vital issue of Japan.
The virtual news blackout on the
discussions continues. The only of
ficial news Sunday was a brief
announcement that the conference
reported officially that “much seri
Truman. Stalin and Churchill met
again in the former Kaiser’s
palace at Potsdam.
This announcement followed the
Iirst aenniie siatemem ui attum
plishment yesterday when it was
ported officially that “much seri
ous business has been done” in
the first four days of discussions.
The Big Three did not even per
mit the Sabbath to interfere with
the urgent matters of world import
receiving their attention in the
high-ceilinged conference room of
the palace.
President T r u m an attended
church services in the morning be
fore he returned to the discussions
in the afternoon. As the leaders
met, a freak cyclonic storb struck
the shattered German capital. The
storm ripped up trees, levelled tot
tering walls in Berlin’s ruins and
delayed army communications.
The storm lasted only a few min
utes and early reports said there
were no casualties.
There were no new indications
today when the conference will end.
When Truman and Churchill ar
rived a week ago, it was estimated
the session would last from 10 days
to three weeeks. There is a feel
ing now that it is likely to run
the full three weeks, indicating the
wide scope of issues to be decided.
While the strictest secrecy sur
rounded the discussions themselves
correspondents still were permitted
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SENATE TO PROBE
RAILWAY SYSTEM
WASHINGTON, July 22—(A>)—
The Senate War Investigating com
mittee will give the right of way
tomorrow to an investigation of
the Nation’s war clogged railway
system.
First witness will be Col. J. Mon
roe Johnson, director of the Of
fice of Defense Transportation, the
government agency charged with
coordinating all forms of trans
port during the war
Although the situation has been
developing for some time, public
and congressional interest was fo
cussed on it more sharply after
complaints that some soldiers had
to ride in coaches instead of Pull
mans in making cross-country trips
after their, arrival from Europe.
The situation stems primarily
from two factors, says J. J. Pelley.
American Railroads—first, a short
age of passenger cars, and second
ly the speed of redployment from
Europe to the Pacific.
In a letter to Senator Lucas ( \
111.), who had made inquiries, Pel
ley said:
•The forces which we were build
ing up in Europe over a period of
almost four years are to be rede
ployed in less than ten months.”
And the pressure of that move
ment, he explained, is aggravated
by the shortage of passneger qgrs
and the great increase in other
1 passenger travel.
Peelv said that:
■ ”The total passenger travel on
the railroads this year will prob
ably be close to five times that oi
pre-war years, but it is to be car
' ried in virtually the same number
r of coaches and sleeping cars
i which were then available. This
3 year’s load will probably be near
’ ly two and one-half times that ol
5 (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5)
JapanesT/iiattleship Nagato, 415 Other
Ships, 556 Planes Destroyed, Damaged
By Mighty Third Fleet In Ten-Day Raids
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Singapore Drive
Expected Shortly
COLOMBO, Ceylon, July 22.
—i/P)—The Times of Ceylon said
today that a new Allied offen
sive “with Singapore as the
great prize” was expected
soon.
“Singapore is a great pri\e,
not necessarily to use as a
great naval base again, but for
securing sea passage through
the Malacca Strait which would
greatly shorten the haul of
supplies to our forces in the
Pacific,” the editorial said.
“It is worth noting that Singa
pore ‘ is only 800 miles from
where Australian troops are
now operating in Borneo.”
TRIAL OF PETAIN
WILL OPEN TODAY
PARIS, July 22.— (U.R) —Henri
Philippe Petain, 89-year-old former
hegid of the Vichy Government, sat
tonight in a heavily guarded cell
built specially for him in the Palace
of Justice, resting in the few hours
that remain before he goes on trial
on a charge of betraying the France
which once honored him as a mar
shal of her armies.
Petain was brought to the palace
secretly in the “Black Maria’’ Sat
urday from the Montrouge prison.
He has been held at Mntrouge al
most, all the time since he gave
himself up on the collapse of Ges
mony and has spent his time com
posing his memories. His wife was
reported with him at the Justice
Palace as she was at Montrouge.
Before leaving Montrouge, he was
permitted to confer with Marcel
Peyrouton, former Vichy Interior
Minister, to clarify a point of his
defense involving the Dec. 13, 1940
arrest of Pierre Laval, Vichy chief
of government now a fugitive in
Spain. It was reported their con
ference confirmed Petains conten
tion that he gave Pelrouton a free
hand to arrest Laval.
Only a few spectators were pres
ent as he was moved into the Jus
tice Palace. The Republican guards
and police, 600 of which will guard
the building and its surrounding
during the trial, doubled their
vigilance.
Republican guards had walked
those pavements before to guard
notable prisoners of France. In
1793 Marie Antoinette, Queen of
France, was led forth from the
Justice Palace to the Guillotine
after a revolutionary court found
her guilty of treason.
A France smarting under the
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 4)
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BRITISH NAVY MEN
SEARCHING CLYDE
FOR GERMAN MINES
LONDON, July 22.—(JP)—A Ger
man submarine slipped into the
Firth of Clyde three weeks before
VE Day and planted 15 large
magnetic mines, three of which
have not been located despite a
search since April 20, when the
first of them exploded and sank a
200-ton fishing trawler.
Disclosing this today, the Ad
miralty said an area of more
than 1,000 square miles had been
dragged by Royal Navy mine
sweepers.
Both the Queen Mary and
Queen Elizabeth, loaded with
American troops returning to the
United States, have made at least
two departures down the Clyde
since the potential danger has
existed. They are equipped with
every known anti-mine device.
After VE Day, the Admiralty
said, the commander of the U
boat 218, one of the first Nazi sub
marines to surrender, told question
ers he had penetrated the Clyde
April 18 and laid 15 mines. He
gave the exact position where each
was placed.
Japs Break
Trap, Start
Hard Drive
IN PEGU MOUNTAINS
Mountbatten’s Troops
Counter-Attack Enemy
In Force
CALCUTTA, July 22.—(U.P.)—Jap
anese troops in the Pegu mountains
have broken out oi a trap and
opened a powerful drive toward
Pyu, vital Rangoon-Mandalay rail
town 19 miles west of the Sittang,
a. communique said today.
Allied infantry, supported by ar
tillery, tanks and armored cars
counter-attacked in force, Adm.
Lord Louis Mountbatten said.
The enemy group, estimated un
officially at several thousand, re
cently was pocketed west of Pyu,
120 air miles north of Rangoon.
The Japanese drive apparently was
aimed at crossing the rain-swollen
Sittang and either joining the hard
pressed Wawchi garrison, 50 miles
to the northeast, or lunging toward
Thailand, some 70 miles away.
Mountbatten said that Pyu was
the “center of the zone of activi
ty.”
Northeast of Pegu at the bend
of the Sittang river, Japanese units
moved toward Myitkyo. British
Gurkhas seized two villages in that
area after fierce skirmishes.
British artillery shelled a con
centration of 200 Japanese two
miles northwest of Taunggyi, 117
miles east of Maiktila.
Liberator bombers yesterday bat
tered supply points at Singora in
Southern Thailand. Heavy dam
age and fires were reported by re
turning airmen.
Supporting ground troops south
east of Pyu, other warplanes at
tacked enemy positions. Twenty
huts and buildings were destroyed.
On the previous day, Japanese
bunker positions and supply dumps
were pounded west of Pyu and in
the Myitkyo sector.
T 7
TWO WOMEN GET
NIEMAN AWARDS
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.,July 22.—
—An Associated Press editor
and a political reporter for the
San Francisco News today became
the first women to receive Nieman
Fellowships in journalism at Har
vard University.
Charlotte L. Fitz Henry, AP
night editor at Chicago, and Mary
Ellen Leary, San Francisco news
political reporter, were among the
ten men and women chosen for a
year’s study at Harvard begin
ning in September.
This is the first year that wo
men have been eligible for the
Fellowships, which provide sti
pends that approximate the salar
ies of the recipient.
The awards were first made in
1938 under the will of Agnes Wahl
Nieman, widow of the publisher of
the Milwaukee Journal, and since
then 87 newspapermen have stud
ied at Harvard under the Fellow
ships.
The eight men who received
awards this year for study be
ginning in September are:
James Batal, editor and publish
er Cleghorn Courier, Fitchburg,
Mass., now with the OWI in New
York; Arthur W. Hepner, St. Louis
Post-Dispatch reporter; Frank W.
Hewlett, United Press war cor
respondent; Robert J. Manning,
state department reporter for the
United Press at Washington; Cary
Robertson, Sunday editor of the
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 2)
Truman And Churchill Inspecting Honor Guard
Two of the “Big Three,” President Harry S. Truman and Prime Minister Winston Churchill inspect
an honor guard, composed of Second Battalion Scots Guards, on the lawn of Churchill’s Berlin residence.
The President was Winnie’s luncheon guest at the moment. British Official Radiophoto. (International)
Australian Troops Make New Landing
In Balikpapan Headwaters Area
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Third Fleet Box Score
GUAM, Monday, July 23.—(U.R)—Here is the box-score of
Adm. William F. Halsey’s sweeps against Japan now in their
14th day:
PLANES
Destroyed Damaged Downed Total
Tokyo, July 10..-109 231 2 342
Hokkaido-Honshu, July 14-15_ 36 45 1 82
Tokyo Area July 17_ 17 5 22
Tokyo Area July 18_ 43 67 110
Total __„205 348 3 556
SHIPS
Sunk Damaged Total
Tokyo July 10_ 3 14
Hokkaido-Honshu July 14-15. 140 234 374
Tokyo area July 17_ 3 10 13
Tkoyo area July 18 _ 12 9 21
South Tokyo July 23 _ 2 2 4
Total _ 160 256 416
DISCHARGE POINT
TOTAL UNDER 85
WASHINGTON, July 22.—(U.R>—
Soldiers with slightly less than 85
points will become eligible for dis
charge within a few days. The
promised revision of the “critical
score,” set at 85 in May, will he
made before the end of this month.
War Department spokesmen said
tonight.
Meanwhile, many veterans with
more than 85 points, who werp
returned to this country monit s
ago, are complaining bitterly that
the Army won’t release them. Over
point men in camps here, rated
“non-essential,” but unable to get
discharges, are resentful cf the de
lay.
Others with a surplus of points
say their commanding officers
won’t declare them hon-essential
because of personal prejudices or
because they hope to keep up »
big army.
The Army’s answer to charges In
that five chief barriers are in the
way: Time required to transfer
men from one service to another,
to supply replacements, to train
them, and give furloughs, and lack
of shipping space.
Chairman Edwin C. Johnson. D..
Colo., of the Senate Veterans sub
committee. charged however, that
the Army is “leisurely” about
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 4)
ICKES PLANNING
TERRITORY END
WASHINGTON, July 22 — (U.R) —
Secretary of the Interior Harold
L. Ickes is planning a policy dec
laration aimed at future liquida
tion of U. S. territories and de
pendent areas through political
self-determination, it was disclosed
tonight.
The plan, which may be Ickes’
swan-song to Washington political
life, points at final disposal of the
nation’s outlying possessions ac
cording to the democratically-ex
pressed will of their peoples.
Ickes is expected to leave the
cabinet within a month or six
weeks, according to reliable quar
ters which said that President Tru
man soon will accept the self
styled “old curmudgeon’s” resig
nation. The source said there is
“no acute reason” for Ickes’ de
parture “other than that the Presi
dent wants a cabinet of his own
choosing.
Ickes has been charged With the
administration of territories, and
island possessions since 1934. He
said recently that “colonial” ad
ministration under the Interior De
partment was a “mess” and that
a “coherent policy” is needed.
Under his plan, which parallels
President Truman’s Potsdam dec
laration that the United States
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MANILA, Monday, July 22.—
ll.R)—Australian Seventh Division
troops have made a new landing
in the headwaters of Balikpapan
Bay on Eastern Borneo while Al
lied heavy bombers have wiped
jut a Japanese base in the North
ern Celebes across Makassar
Strait, Gen. Douglas MacArthur
announced today.
The new Borneo landing was
made Friday night and Saturday
morning at Tempadoeng, 14 miles
Northwest of Balikpapan, after a
six-mile shore-to-shore jump. There
was no opposition and the Aus
tralians sent patrols six miles
southeast to the village of Ber
angoe without meeting opposition.
(Heavily armed U. S. naval
landing craft in cooperation with
Australian Spitfires attacked and
completely wiped out a Japanese
barge hideout in the nearby Riko
river, according to the Netherland
News Agency Aneta.)
Lt. Gen. George C. Kenney’s 13th
Air Force stepped up its hammer
ing of the Japanese in the north
ern Celebes, some 230 miles East
of Borneo, by sending 20 Liberator
bombers to destroy the enemy base
at Toboli in the Gulf of Tomini.
The planes heaped scores of 100
pound bombs on Toboli, site ol
large Japanese troop concentra
tions, and completely levelled the
town, Toboli is the Tomini gull
terminal of the Japanese sup
ply road across the narrow waist o!
land separating the Northern is
land from its Southern section. H
was the first raid against Toboli
The Makassar strait terminal
of the road, Donggala, has beer
repeatedly and heavily hit by Al
lied fliers blasting Japanese in
stallations and airfields in that
area.
Other night bombers of the Far
Eastern Air Force returned’ again
to hammer Japanese installations
in the Pescadores islands West of
Formosa, while other planes de
stroyed or damaged 43 large junks
and luggers along the China coast
near Hong Kong.
(Continued on Page 8; Col. 5)
CHURCHILL, ATTLEE
TO RETURN HOME FOR
RESULTS OF ELECTION
LONDON, July 22 — UP) —Prime
Minister Churchill and Clement
Attlee, leaders respectively of the
Conservative and Labor parties,
are expected to return Wednesday
night from Potsdam to be on hand
when results of the July 5 genera)
election are announced.
All day Wednesday returns wil)
be coming in and the complexior
of the new House of Common;
should be known by late afternoon,
A special service has been arrang
ed to Churchill’s residence to keep
him speedily informed on all re
turns.
It is believed that if his govern
ment gets a working majority
Churchill will quickly return tc
Potsdam, assuming the conference
there still is in session. If Chur
chill should be defeated, then some
interruption of the conference's
work would seem inevitable while
political changes c0are made at
home.
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Civilians To Feel Pinch Of Japanese War More
In HomeHeatingFuel Tanks ThanAuto Gas Tanks
WASHINGTON, July 22.— (£>) —
Henceforth civilians will feel the
pinch of the war against Japan
more in their home heating fuel
tanks than in their automobile gas
tanks, 'the Petroleum Industry War
Council said today.
“From now on this is largely a
fuel oil war,” the council said in
a report from its committee on
petroleum economics.
“The moderate decrease in gas
oline requirements is more than
offset by increased requirements
for diesel and residual fuel and
hence the total demand for crude
oil and its products is greater than
before VE-Day.”
(,
The supply and distribution oi
home heating oil for the coming
winter present real problems, par
ticularly on the East Coast and in
the Midwest, the council said in a
statement.
“Earlier Navy diesel fuel pro
grams,” it added, “have resulted
in substantial losses of normal pro
duction of burning oils for this
winter. The operation of catalytic
cracking units for the 100-octane
program has further reduced kero
sene and distillate fuel oil yields.
Unless more crude oil can be ob
tained and refined it appears that
a substantial increase in the yields
of distillate fuel and kerosene at
the expense of gasoline will be
necessary to avert a serious situ
ation next winter. Even this would
not allow for prospective demands
to offset possible coal shortages
either here or in Europe.”
The increased mileage between
the United States and Pacific bat
tle areas was cited by the-Petrole
um Council as one of the factors
requiring more fuel oil.
It is 6,900 miles from San Fran
cisco to Okanawa, and 11,009 miles
between the Gulf coast refinery
area and the Philippines, the coun
cil reminded, compared with the
3,000 miles between New York and
the United Kingdom, when the war
f
against Germany was being fought.
“Because of these distances,” the
council said, “it requires about
11.000 barrels of fuel oil to deliver
100.000 barrels of gasoline from the
LJ. S. Gulf coast to the Pacific
heater, including the return trip
af the tanker, as compared with
5i000 barrels in the case of the
European theater. This does not
;ake into account the fuel necessary
;o return dry cargo vessels.”
The report, covering the period
anding June 30, 1946, said the prob
able production of crude oil in
3urma, Borneo, and Tarakan had
seen added in considering available
;upplies outside the United States.
Light Units
Also Blast.
Omura Town
BRITISH TAKE PART
Raiders Meet Strong Anti
Aircraft Fire At Yoko
suka Base
By EDWARD L. THOMAS
United Press War Correspondent
GUAM, Monday, July 23 —(U.P,)—
Adm. William F. Halsey’s mighty
Third Fleet, augmented by units
of the British Navy, destroyed or
damaged 416 ships, including the
32,702-ton battleship Nagato, and
556 planes in their sweeping at
tacks along the coast of Japan
which are now in their 14th day,
it was disclosed today.
Lifting the curtain of secrecy
which had shrouded activities of
history’s mightiest fleet since it
bombarded the Japanese shoreline
South of Tokyo early last Thursday,
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announc
ed that light units operating in the
same area today destroyed or dam
aged an entire four-ship convoy.
Other light units of the Third
Fleet, Nimitz disclosed, early Mon
day morning shelled the town of
Omura on the island of Chichi, in
the Bonin islands 165 miles north
of American held Iwo and 725
miles south of Tokyo.
Nimitz disclosed that in last
Wednesday’s aerial bombardment
of the Tokyo area by some 1,500
American and British planes, U.
S. Navy pilots attacking the Yoko
suka naval base 30 miles south of
Tokyo heavily damaged the battle
ship Nagato, previously damaged
in the Philippines sea battle last
October.
The Americans, it was disclosed,
found only a small part of the
remnants of the Japanese fleet at
Yokosuka. They attacked through
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JAPAN FINALLY
RECOGNIZES LAW
WASHINGTON, July 22.— UP) —
Japan has agreed, after three and
a half years of war, to comply
with the international law permit
ting neutral observers to visit
prisoner-of-war camps.
The State Department disclosed
the Japanese decision today in an
announcement that Switzerland
will take over representation of
Japanese interests in this country.
Spain represented Japan here un
til April 4, 1945, when it decided
to stop after receiving unsatis
factory replies from Tokyo to pro
tests about treatment of Spaniards
in the Philippines.
The announcement said the Jap
anese then asked the Swis* to
take over. Since the Swiss also
represent United States interests
in Japan, they said they would
.agree on condition that Tokyo al
lowed their observers to visit “all
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MARINE SERGEANT,
INJURED IN WRECK, .
DIES AT HOSPITAL
Sgt. Herman E. Smith, 30-year
old Marine of Camp Lejeune, who
was injured Thursday afternoon
when th" car in which he was
riding skidded and overturned
about three and one-half miles
north of Wilmington on U. S. High
way 17, died at 5:22 p. m. yester
day at James Walker Memorial
hospital, Coroner Asa W. Allen
reported last night.
Coroner Allen said there would
be an inquest this afternoon. A
coroner’s jury will be impanneled
at 10 a. m. at the hospital and the
inquest will take place at 3 p. m.
at the courthouse.
The operator of the car, Cpl.
Clyde E. Tyler, 25, also of Camp
Lejeune, was removed to the Blue
thenthal Army Air Base after the
accident, where it was reported
that he suffered only minor cuts.
Smith was unable to be removed
from James Walker Memorial
hospital before he died.
Investigating officers said the
accideni occured at 4:15 p. m.
Thursday in front of the High Hat
club, where the vehicle was at
tempting to pass another car, also
headed south, when the Marine’s
automobile skidded about 53 yards,
overturning and skidding another
55 yards, stopping on the right
side of the road.