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FORECAST + W + m W Served By 1 eaSed WlreS lMtimtitnimt iHnnttttn >5>iWl otherwise not mueh W W With Complete Coverage of change in temperature. State and National Newe I •^m3NoT224 ' WILMINGTON, N. C., TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1945 ESTABLISHED 1867 Nurenberg Trial Date Will Be Set ’FOR HIGH GERMANS Four-Power Agreement Calls For Opening In Mid-September LONDON, July IO.—(U.R)—Trial of Germany's major war criminals, including Hermann Goering, Joa chim Von Ribbentrop, and Franz Von Paper. will open in Nurenberg in mid-September, it was learned today following disclosure that a four-power agreement establishing in international military court will be signed this w eek. Supreme Court Justice Robert ;ackson, chief of the American "don of the War Crimes Com- ' mission, has informed delegates ; representing Great Britain, France, and Russia that the United States does not wish to see further delay jn negotiations which have already consumed a month. The trial is expected to last about six weeks. The major indictment, charging conspiracy against the peace of the world, will list fewer than 40 leading Nazis—officials of the government, high command of ficers and industrial and financial '•fuehrers.” It is expected that other impor tant Nazis will be turned over to various European governments for trial—although a second trial be fore an inter-Allied tribunal is still a possibility. An American officer who return ed recently from Luxembourg said the high Nazis were in ‘‘good health and high spirits.” Question ed concerning a recent report that Goering had suffered a heart at tack. he replied: “'Goering is in fit condition to stand trial.” Jackson is responsible for press ing through the agreement. Delegates have been reluctant to agree that aggressive warfare should be considered a major in ternational crime. Jackson, how ever, has insisted that this premise be written into the master agree ment. He also has argued that a broad definition of ‘‘aggressive warfare” should be incorporated into the agreement. "The definition will not only fit German aggression, but will be so sufficiently clear that the crime will be recognizable under any cir cumstances,” a spokesman said. “Justice Jackson considers it vital —even if the definition could be construed to cover certain past ac tions of our own country or other countries represented in present negotiations.” BAND WILL LEAD BIRTHDAY PARADE Troops from Bluethenthal field 'ill assemble at Third and Red Cross streets at 10:30 a. m. Wed nesday to start the parade which "ill launch the local celebration of tie 38th anniversary of the Army Air Forces. Led by a 50 piece band from Camp Davis the group of Air Corps men will march down Red Cross to Front street, proceed rLun Front to Market street, up Market to Third and stop be |“re the reviewing stand at City Hall. Guest speaker for the occasion 'HI be Major Gen. Samuel E. An derson, Chief of Staff, Continental Air Forces, who is scheduled to make his address from the revie' *ng stand at about 11 o’clock. Simultaneously with the official ceremony in front of the City Hall, Air Corps men from Bluethenthal held will stage an airshow with twenty-four P-47 Thunderbolts fly “g in formation over the city to fPell out AAF. To swell the parade in celefc "a ion of the day, the officials at luethenthal Field have als lent *ome of the more impressive Items #i equipment at the field for use in ,he march. WEATHER (Eastern Standard Time) (Ry U. g. Weather Bureau) .n^e,?orological data for the 24 hour! *Mlng p. ip., yesterday. TEMPERATURE 1:30 a. IP., 78; 7:30 a. m., 80; 1:30 p. m. "'7:30 p. m. 81 Maamum, 87; Minimum, 76; Mean 92 Normal, 79. HUMIDITY ’:3° a. m., 93; 7:30 a. m„ 89; 1:34 9 77; 7:30 p. m„ 88. PRECIPITATION 08r°lal ,for 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. n «“*«»■ Total since the first of thi m°mh. 11.45 inches. TIDES FOR TODAY U * c y‘:' Ihe Time Tables published bi • Coast Guard and Geodedtc Survey) w. High Low ‘“‘i'igton - 2:34 am 9:45 an >».. , 3:07 pm 10:27 pn f°nbaro Inlet __ 12:24 am 6:40 ar Mr, ”nse' 9:22 a- Sunset, 7.14 p. m. Monrose, 11.48 p. m.; Moonset, 12.1 a- m. ‘Continued on Page Three; Col Uncle Sam Enriched By Nichle Overcharge NEWARK, O., July 90.—[JP) —The government was 994,95 ahead today because a sand wich shop charged Mrs. Doug las of Newark, O., a nickel over the ceiling price for a deviled egg sandwich. Under OPA’s regulations, Mrs. Douglas couldn t col lected either treble . damages for the overcharge (15 cents)) or 995, whichever is greater. Mrs. Douglas just took her nickel back and the rest of the i money reverted to Uncle Sam. The case was settled out of court at the board here. CHINESE DRIVING FOR TWO PASSES; -1 1 Jap Attempt To Jab 1 South China j - t CHUNGKING, July 30— (A>) — Counterattacking Chinese fighters s ire battling for possession of two 1 strategic border passes leading in- j o Indo-China after hurling back j rapanese attempts to invade South t China from the enemy - occupied French Colony, the Chinese High Command said tonight. j A communique reported see-saw fighting near Chennankwan (South Guard Pass), 84 miles northeast of Hanoi, and near the 1,500 highway pass at Shuikow, 116 miles north of the Indo-Chinese capital. Battles raged around these points after the Chinese virtually completed clearing Japanese fore- : es which had broken into the Chi nese province of Kwangsi from the Indo-Chinese towns of Dong Dang and Caobang. Chinese troops under local com mander Gen. Chang Fah - Kwei counterattacked enemy forces who had thrust into Shuikow, 24 miles southeast of Caobang, and pushed them across the Indo-Chinese fron tier, headquarters said. The Chinese also ousted the Jap anese from Pingsiang, 11 miles north of Chennankwan. Gen. Chang’s forces then attacked Chen nankwan, but the pass still was enemy-held. At the northeastern end of a 330 mile gap in Tokyo’s shattered cor ridor from Korea to southeast Asia, other Chinese forces com pleted the mopping-up of Japanese remnants in the suburbs of the airbase city of Kweilin, the High Command said. Spearheads advancing northeast from Kweilin meanwhile ap proached the southern suburbs of Lingchwan after a 14-mile advance up the Hunan - Kwangsi railroad and were preparing a coordinated attack on the town with a Chinese column approaching from the west the communique said. More than 300 miles northeast of Kweilin, fierce clashes were re ported with a Japanese force, orig inally estimated at 20,000 men which was fighting toward the Yangtze river port of Nanchang, 160 miles southeast of Hankow. NAVY RECRUITERS HERE LEAD STATE IN JULY ENLISTMENTS The Wilmington Navy recruiting station at the postoffice led all other Navy recruiting stations in the state, on a per capita basis, during July in the recruitment of 17-year-olds for the regular Navy and the Naval Reserve, and also topped its quota in the recruitment of WAVES and radio technicians, passing its over-all quota for re cruiting by 37 per cent, Chief J. W. Brown, petty officer in charge, revealed yesterday. With the WAVES third anniver sary just past, and with the cur rent drive for enlistment in the WAVES, Brown expressed hope that August will sell more women joining the Navy than in any other previous month since August a year ago, when 15 women joined the WAVES._ Adjournment Of Big 3 Is Postpone NO EXPLANATIONS Correspondents Hear Lead ers Met Last On Sat urday Afternoon BERLIN, Tuesday, July 31.—<U.R> -Adjournment of the Big Three onference has been suddenly post* loined due to some development rhich has interrupted plenary nestings, it was understood ear’v oday. Censorship, severe since the con erence opened, has been tightened rom the top level to the most ex reme degree. The censorship makes it impds ible to say why the conference! has ■een prolonged. It is said that the ■resent situation does not mean hat anything is materially wrong, lut thing are not going according o plan. This plan was to adjourn the con ’erence yesterday with a world haking communique, it is possible o say now. At the moment it looks as if the President, Premier Josef Stalsn ind Prime Minister Clement Att lee will be here two or three days nore. The most reliable sources avail ible say that the Big Three plenary neetings will be resumed this aft ;rnoon. Five P. M. is the usual lour. Under the tightened censorship it is not possible to report the normal activities of any of the Big Three or any of their conferences acti'd ties, except the barren fact that “conferences continued.” These have not been plenary meetings of the Big Three. Routine conference business has continued and the foreign ministers have held their daily meetings. (It seemed possible from Smith’* iispatch that Russia was the center of the new situation and that Salin might have gone on s brief visit to Moscow. This was purely specula tive.) What has happened is that the Big Three met Saturday evening immediately after Attlee’s arrival from London with Ernest Bevin, Foreign Secretary in his Ne • Labor government, and has not met since. The best information is that the present situation does not meai) that anything serious has developed as regards the conference as a whole. There is no indication of basic difference over the primary principles of the conferecen. There is no explanation, either, of the sharply tightened censorship, it may be due in part that with the conference near its end and the departure of the Big Three close at hand, secretary officers are watch ing closely lest anything be pub lished which would tell too much. Censors are watching closely for any possible reference which would disclose anyththing the delegations have been doing in the Potsdam compound, except by official an nouncement. Before the disclosure that the Big Three had not held a plenary ses sion since Saturday, the usual sources had said they met Sunday and yesterday. It was indicated — and that ap parently is still the case — that a communique was being drafted for Publication on adjournment, a statement to the world on what the Big Three has done. Whether the question of Russia’s entry into the Pacific war was dis cussed is naturally one of the great secrets of a most secret cppfer ence. It has been suggested 1'.at ar." agreement in which Russia was included regarding the war against Japan would not be made public and that later developments would be left to speak for themselves. Well Known Britisher Facing Treason Charge LONDON, July 30—UPh-John E. Amery, 33, was committed for trial on charges of high treason today after the Bow Street Court heard testimony that he tried to persuade British prisoners of war and civilian internees in France to fight for Hitler against Russia. Amery is the son of the former British Secretary of State for In dia, Leopold S. Amery. His case will be taken up at the next ses sion of central criminal court ir Old Bailey, which opens Sept. 9. Wilfred Brinkman, who was em ployed at the American Consulate at Nice from June, 1940. to April, 1 1941, testified that while he was | interned at St. Denis he saw : Amery trying to enlist recruits ir I the “Legion of St. George.” Brinkman and Royston Francis i Wood, another internee, told the court Amery visited the camp April 21, 1943. and offered them freedom if they would agree to don German uniforms and battle the Russians. Brinkman said Amery told him he was acting on behalf of a com mittee in England, whose names he could not divulge. The witness said Amery declared about 1,500 men had joined the legion from prisoner of war camps in Ger many. The court received a long state ment alleged to have been written by Amery after his capture by partisans in Italy. The statement said Amery met his father in Paris I in 1940 and was advised to join the army. It said he agreed, but that the surrender of the French army prevented him from doing so, and he was trapped in South ern Franco NEW ARMY JET PLANE IN FLIGHT . — Shown for the first time in flight is the U. S. Army Air Forces’ new lMiO Shooting.Star. The jet fighter plane is powered by a new jet propulsion gas turbine engine and is capable of a speed in excess of 550 mile? per hour. The service ceiling is above 40,000 feet. This is an official TJ. S. Army Air Forces photo.__ Pierre Laval Enroute To Face Trial For Life * MADRID, July 30— (U.R)—Vichy arch traitor Pierre Laval and his tearful wife slept tonight on hast ily installed cots at the Prat De Llobregat airdrome at Barcelona, awaiting the departure probably tomorrow morning of a plane ex pected to deliver him to French justice. Apparently compelled by the Spanish government to leave Spain, Laval arrived at the air drome at 4:30 in an army car, followed by another containing an escort, and boarded a waiting plane with his wife at 4:50 afjf&r having been greeted by Lt. Col. Garcia Yanes, airdrome comman dant. The plane taxied three times around the field and started off in an easterly direction but motor trouble forced it to return to a hangar for repairs. As Laval boarded the plane he said: “I suppose if Petain can face the music I can.” But later, as mechanics tinkered with the plane, Laval sat glumly on a camp stool smoking innum erable cigarets. ‘‘It is unfair what is being d^ne with me,” he said. ‘‘I don’t under stand why the Spanish government is delivering me to my country.” Laval’s wife sobbed almost with out pause for hours. At 8:10 p.m. army doctors raced to the airdrome in an ambulance. It was reported that Laval had been overcome by the heat com bined with an attack of nerves. But he revived and cots were placed for him and his wife, who refused to remain at Barcelona without him. Belief increased that Laval would be flown direct to France and handed to his countrymen in stead of being flown somewhere else and delivered to Allied troops. (The Brussels radio, heard in London, reported that special po lice squads were standing by on French soil awaiting Laval. (An earlier Brussels radio re port, regarded as unreliable, quot ed a Spanish news agency report that Laval would testify against Marshal Henry Philippe Petain, now on trial in Paris.) CHURCHILL DECLINES ORDER OF GARTER AS OFFERED BY KING LONDON, Ju,y 30—(/P)—Winston Churchill has declined a Knight hood of the Order of the Garter one of Britain’s highest honors, of fered to him by King George VI, Buckingham Palace announced to night. The order was constituted by King Edward II in 1348. It con s'sts of the sovereign and lineal descendants of King George I and Knights admitted by special statutes. The Royal announcement said: ‘‘After Mr. Churchill had tender ed his resignation to the King last Thursday His Majesty asked him to accept the Order of the Garter in recognition of his great services throughout the war. Mr. Churchill, however, begged His Majesty that in the present circumstances that he might be allowed to decline.” During the day Churchill express ed his gratitude to all those who sent him messages after the defeat of the Conservative party and his resignation as Prime Minister. -V BATTLESHIP DAMAGED MANILA, Tuesday, July 31.—(U.R) Gen. Douglas MacArthur disclos ed today that the Japanese battle ship Haruna was heavily damaged by Liberator bombers Saturday but still was afloat. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz’ communique yester<|ay said the battleship was beached. n HERRIOT ASSAILS MARSHAL PETAIN Defense Presents First Witness At Trial Of Leader PARIS, July 30.— OJ.P) —Former Pfemier Edouard Herriot, assail ing Marshal Henri Philip. Petain for building a “full-fledged dicta torship’’ in France, asserted today at Petain’s trial that President Roosevelt put American resourq^s at France’s disposal in 1940 and of fered "the hope, perhaps even a conviction, that the United States would enter the war.’’ The defense offered its first wit ness, Protestant pastor Marc Moeg ner, shortly after Herriot’s testi mony. Boegner said that Petain at Vichy seemed “powerless” to alter Nazi practices in France. Herriot, 73-year-old perennial mayor of Lyon, was followed to the stand by a “mystery” witness, Maj. Georges Loustaneau-Lacau. The major first was mentioned in the trial Saturday during testimony linking Petain’s name with the Cagoulards, Rightist political or ganization in France. Loustaneau-Lacau, leaning on a case, came to court from the hotel Lutetia, transit camp for returning political deportees. He denied t’ it either he or Petain were Cagou lards, and took up much of his testimony with bitter , attacks on Communists and on pre-war Frenck politicians, including former Pre mier Edouard Daladier. Herriot charged that in June, 1940 Petain’s "game” was to block the movement of France’s republican government to North Africa until an armistice was signed. He said Petain was aided by Pierre Laval, former Vichy chiew of government. France, he recalled, carried on a fight alone against Germany in 1870, while in 1940 she gave up the fight while she had an ally, Great Britain, and aid from the United States at her disposal. Herriot said that when some of his colleagues tried to get to Al geria on the steamer Massilia to continue the struggle against Ger many “they were subjected to no thing but insults, and some of them, including George Mandel (Justice minister in the Reynaud cabinet) where arrested..7’ Orte passenger, Jean Zay, return ed, was imprisoned on the order of a military court, and later was “assassinated,” Herriot charged. Mandel, described by Herriot as a “bitter political opponent of mine but an inflexible patriot,” was kill ed while in German captivity. —---v Luther £. Morton Dies Of Heart Attack; Was Well Known Realtor Luther E. Morton, 46, of the firm of Hughes and Morton, Princess street real estate dealers, died about 3:15 p. m., yesterday short ly after he suffered a heart attack while dining at a Princess street cafe, according to Coroner A. W. Allen. He was removed to James Walker Memorial hospital. A veteran of World War I, Mr. Morton is survived by three sons, William, Gerald and Donald Mor ton, of Wilmington; three sisters, Mrs. Harry L. Bell, of Wilmington, Mrs. Della Gray, of California, and Mrs. Sudie Chappell, of Florida; and a brother, H. L. Morton, of Florida. Funeral arrangements will be an nounced later by the Yopp funeral home. American Destroyers In Daring ^ctack Today, Bomb Shimizu; 24 Warships, 36 Other Boats Hi£ w __ w M -■ ■ ■ — \rmy Seizes U.S. Rubber Tire Plant ON TRUMAN ORDER strike At Detroit Factory Curtails B-29 Work Contract By The Associated Press The Army yesterday seized the picketed United States Rubber Company plant at Detroit where an 18-day strike over a jurisdictional dispute halted production of B-29 bomber tires. Throughout the nation more than 37,000 workers remained idle in 27 work stoppages. The seizure was made by Presi dential proclamation. An Army] spokesman said the work stoppage had cost the Army Air Forces and ordnance department 70,000 mili tary tires. Some 2,000 of the 6,000 workers involved, voted Friday to return to work today, but picket lines pre vented them from entering the plant. A company spokesman said less than half of the plant’s 2,800 day shift workers had entered the plant. The dispute, which began July 13, followed dismissal of 12 work ers gt the request of the CIO-Unit ed Rubber Workers Union because of alleged anti-union activities. In Chicago, 3,500 members of the International Moulders and Foun dry Workers Union (AFL) refused a second WLB return to work or der. The foundry workers, through their district representative, Wil liam Lorenz, said they would nft return to work unless the 39 com panies involved in the dispute guaranteed their demands. The strikers seek wage increases. Plants involved in the week-old dispute are located in Chicago, Aurora, Batavia and Joliet. 111. Eleven of the nation’s strikes, in cluding the Chicago area foundry men’s dispute, accounted for 32, 000 idle. t r STATE TO SURVEY CITY TRUCK LANE A survey of the area around Wil mington has been authorized by the State Highway Commission in an effort to determine a satisfac tory truck route into the city, it was disclosed yesterday by City Manager A. C. Nichols. Mr. Nichols was advised by A. H. Graham, chairman of the State Highway Commission, that al though the resolution authorizing the survey has been passed by the Commission, there will be a delay due to the shortage of locat ing engineers. Mr. Graham said that a regular project is being set up to cover this survey. Mr. Graham’s letter was in re ply to a communication from City Manager Nichols, in which Mr. Nichols requested information per taining to available Federal funds to be used for this type of post war development. “Wilmington has long needed and is much interested in the pos sibility of working out a trucK route through or around this city and we would like to be supplied (Continued on Page Two; Col 3) Boy With Penny Asks i To See “World” First I PAYETTE, Idaho, July 30.— —A small boy clutching a penny walked into a depart ment store and informed man ager John Weber he wanted to see “everything.” Weber pointed out several items to the unresponsive youngster and finally inquired impatiently: “Look here, my boy, what do yon think you can buy for a penny—the whole world with a fence around it?” The lad con- ] sidered, then piped: Let’s see it.” YOUTHFUL GUNMEN SEIZE $111,300 ] Hold Up Messengers For Bank, Bind’ Rob Them Near Plane Plant BURBANK, Cal., July 30.—(U.R)— Two youthful gunmen, one dressed as a soldier, robbed two Hollywood State Bank messengers today of $111,300 in cash which they were delivering to a check-cashing agen cy near the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. plants. , The victims were bound and left on a deserted foothill roadway but freed themselves and walked for two hours to report to police. By that time, the bandits had made good their escape. The messengers were rounding a corner within a block of their des tination—the Currency Exchange— when they were stopped by the bandits and forced into the back seat of their coupe, they said. The gunmen then drove into the hills, bound them and escaped with six bags of currency containing $3,000 silver and $108,300, ranging from $1 to $20 bills. They fled in the coupe which carries California license plate 2RM4R4. Thurston M. Patterson and Vic tor H. Lohn, the messengers, said they worked themselves loose from their bonds and walked to the San Fernando Valley division police station. There, they said, they were told the case was under jurisdiction pf the Burbank police, and would have to go there to report it. That took another half hour. They described the hold-up men as being approximately 23 years old. One, dressed as a soldier, wore a garrison cap and the arm (Continued on Page Two; Col 6) electIonchairman EXPRESSES CONCERN IN DAVIDSON VOTING RALEIGH, July 30.—(^—Chair man William T. Joyner of the State Board of Elections said today that a State Bureau of Investigation re port of alleged election irregulari ties in Davidson county “fully sup ports the position taken by the board, and the facts cause me grave concern.” Describing the SBI report as “elaborate, painstaking and forth right,” Joyner said in a statement that as chairman of the State Board of Elections he would “join with Solicitor R. Lee Wilson in re questing assistance in prosecuting the case, if assistance is desired.’ The lengthy SBI investigation grew out of the alleged mishandling of 204 absentee ballots in the 1944 general elections in Davidson coun. ty. The State Board conducted its own survey shortly after the No vember 3 general election. New Floating Fortress Now Battling Japanese WASHINGTON, July 30. — (U.R) - The Navy disclosed tonight that a new floating fortress — the 27,000 ton battle cruiser Guam—has been pounding the Japanese for nearly six months. The Guam, one of two ships oi her type now in service—the other is the Alaska — is the American version of a pocket battleship. More than 800 feet in length, she is longer and heavier than many old er American battleships. Extensive compartmentation has made her one of the most combat-worthy ships in the world. Disclosure that the Guam has been in action since last March came when the Navy reported that her 12-inch guns have blasted two Jap-held islands, that she engag ed in carrier-borne air strikes al most within sight of Japan ana that her anti-aircraft batteries shot down two enemy planes and helped bag six others. Skippered by Capt. Leland P. Lovette, former Navy public rela tions chief, the Guam was commis sioned last Sept. 17 at the Phila delphia Navy yard. A third ship of the Guam’s class, the Hawaii, is under construction at the New York Shipbuilding Co., Camden, N. J. Some naval officials have com pared the vessels with Germany’s 26,000-ton battle cruisers Scharn horst and Gneisenau and the 26, 500-ton French battleships Dunker que and Steasbourg. The 761-foot German ships carri ed nine 11-inch guns while the 702 foot French warships mount ed eight 13-inch guns. 4 Ships Steam 30 Miles In Nippon Bay DARING RAID TODAY ialsey’s Fleet Flaunts Con tempt For Jap Coastal Defenses By HENRY SUPER United Press Staff Correspondent American destroyers steamed 30 niles into a Japanese bay early ruesday to bombard the port city >f Shimizu, 100 miles Southwest >f Tokyo, a few hours after mors ;han 1,500 U. S. and British carrier >lanes in a day-long assault sank >r damaged 60 Japanese vessels, ncluding 24 warships. Flaunting their contempt for Japan’s coastal defenses, the de stroyers penetrated deep into land locked Suruga bay and brazenly shelled Shimizu at a point where the channel is but 10 miles wide. Shimizu, a city of 69,000, is the center of the Japanese aluminum industry. The bombardment began shortly after midnight Tuesday (Japan time), Fleet Adm. Chester W, Nimitz announced. Among the par ticipating destroyers were the U» S. S. Schroeder and the U. S. S. Harrison. The Tuesday Guam communiqu# disclosed that in Monday’s great raids over a 300-mile stretch of Honshu—from Tokyo to Kobe—U. S. and British dive bombers, fight ers and torpedo planes destroyed or damaged 138 Japanese planes. Dispatches from Adm. William F. Halsey’s Third Fleet said the carrier aircraft attacked at least 60 air fields in cooperation with, army land-based planes, and hit military targets in the Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe, Osaka and Nagoya areas. U. S. planes yesterday destroyed 58 aircraft and damaged 69 on the ground. They sank one cargo ves sel, two midget submarines, and (Continued on Page Three; Col 3) t r BRITISH PLANES HIT AT BANGKOK CALCUTTA, July 30 — W — Carrier-borne aircraft of the Brit ish East Indies Fleet have struck heavily at enemy approaches to Singapore, while land-based bomb ers hit anew at Bangkok, capital of Tahailand astride the railway connecting Singapore with tht mainland, Southeast Asia Com mand Headquarters said today. A naval communique detailing fleet activity from July 24-26 said lhat guns of the aircraft carrier Ameer shot down a Japamese plant attempting to make a suicide at tack. (A Tokyo broadcast said Japan ese troops frustrated two attempts to land British troops on the island of Phuket (Puket), just off tht West Coast of the Malay Peninsula 430 m'les Southwest of Bangkok and 600 miles North West of Singa pore. The enemy broadcast said the landings were attempted July 25 and 26, and that one cruiser was sunk.) The naval communique said “heavy units” of the fleet wert part of a task force supporting Brit ish minesweepers operating off tht West Coast of the Malay Isthmus North of the Malacca Strait. Ont British minesweeper, the Squirrel, was lost when she struck a mint, the bulletin added. Meanwhile, operations to clear enemy troops between the Mand* lay-Rangoon road and the Sittnag river area in Burma continued, with greater resistance by the Jap anese no ;ed i n several villagt strongpoints. -V- — BAB* KIDNAPED DURHAM, July 30.— UP) —Mrs. Alice Myers of Durham Route 1, notified Sheriff E. G. Belvin to day that a 17-month old baby boy she adopted in March, 1944, was kidnaped from her home shortly after noon today by an unidenti fied white woman. -V RELEASE DATE SPT | WASHINGTON, July 30.— (U.R) Brig. Gen. Elliott Roosevelt, late Presidents second son and the center of much Congressional censure during his five years in the Army, will be released from the service on Aug. 15, th« Wa* Department said tonight. ‘i
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