FORECAST ♦ f A- ^ W *erTed ***£?* **** ---^.-- ummgtmt iwnrmwj mar ^ms; g^lNam WILMINGTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1945 ^ ESTABLISHED Hurricane [eaves Toll Of 8 Killed flLUONS in damages 135-Mile Wind Dies Before Striking Houston; Crops Suffer Hv JOHN D. ALEXANDER JV press Staff Correspondent l“oCSTON, Tex., Aug. 28.-A kirricane whirling out of the Gulf (Mexico blew itself out today as ? veered inland 50 miles below Houston, after killing at least eight "s0ns and causing millions of jollars property damage. While the 135-mile wind died be fc,e striking Houston, Texas’ larg city, this area received a de L, ,f 15.65 inches of rain in a Mhour period and there was a possibility that floods might cause .dditional damage. Meantime, a freak tornado struck a section of Houston and killed T T. Wolf, 62, about 300 yards from his wrecked _ home, four other persons were injured. The eighth casualty from the kurricane was John Dilley. 13, gbo drowned in a drainage ditch. Rehabilitation work already was under wav along the Southern beaches of the coast, where the force of the storm first struck Sun* ^ Robert Edson, director of the Midwestern Area office of the Red Cross revealed that the Red Cross tad requested priorities for 5,000, (00 feet of lumber and 52 tons of jteel for rehabilitation work, fifty disaster workers were on the scene and 15.000 refugees have been cared for so far by the Red Cross. Edson said that he expect ed emergency conditions would prevail for at least six weeks in the stricken coastal area. Three Missouri Pacific trains which were unreported last night cn the Houston-Brownsville line Were located today with passen gers and crew unharmed. In the Corpus Christi area alone, crop damage was estimated at $1, 860.000. The shrimp fleets of the coastal towns were battered badly. RIOTING NEGROES NOW IN BARRACKS STUART, Fla., Aug. 28—(£>)—Ap proximately 2,200 imported Negro farm laborers were confined to their barracks at Camp Murphy toda following a riot in which 27 were hospitalized and six arrested. Their emergency war work in fields along the Eastern seaboard at an end, the farm laborers were assembled at the former army camp to await transportation to their homes in the Bahamas and Jamaica. Some were impatient to get going, others reportedly didn’t like the idea of leaving the United States. Yesterday their likes and dislikes bubbled over into a riot that was quelled by law enforcement offic ers from three counties, many ol Whom stood by today along with Btate Highway Patrolmen ordered to the scene by Governor Caldwell. Herbert Spangler, area director of the Department of Agriculture's office of labor, reported that with the men confined to barracks “an to the camp until the trouble quiets "°"n, aH was “sweet and lovely.” The only complaints heard from •be men were about delays in ship Pwg space, Spangler said. The last g>°uP sent home left about 10 days ago. Bickering abom going home is going on constantly, but we had no aerious trouble until yesterday,” he tcpoited. “We've got the ringlead rs, and the Highway Patrol is on a,‘ to see that riots do not flare “P again. workers for three hours •ashed furniture in barracks, , Pleces as clubs to belabor «cn other, seized control of the cl ? anc* defied authorities, ‘luffs and deputies hurried to the from Martin, Palm Beach c,’ !_ov'arc* Counties, followed by ,Iate Troopers. WEATHER . Standarl1 Time) Met..*, 1 • *• Weather Bureau) lading "d?S‘cal d5ta for the 24 hours 5 '-“0 P-m., yesterday. 1-tn . Temperature RS(i P m ■,83; 7:30 a.m. 68; 1:30 p.m: 80; Hormara™ 831 Minimum 65; Mean 74; l ift ^ Humidity 1:30 p.m™ 856’ 7:30 a'm' 79; 1 ;3° pm- 54; Tot.i , Precipitation ”*t 1:31 p.m. J(™Mle river ^tage 10.3. ^otitinucii on Page Two; Col. 4) To Occupy Korea General MacArthur announced that the U. S. 24th Army Corps under the command of Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge (above) will oc cupy the southern half of Korea on th$ Asia mainland, including Keijo, the capital city. ROOSEVELT SEEKS FULL PUBLICITY WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—W The House Ways and Means Com mittee will consider tomorrow a request by Brig. Gen. Elliott Roose velt that it make public im mediately “the full report” on in vestigations into his financial af fairs. In a telegram today to Commit tee Chairman Doughton (D-NC). the late President’s son said “il the full statement is not made available immediately to the pub lic, continued speculation and er roneous stories can only further distort the facts.” Doughton told newspapermen he would bring the request before the committee tomorrow, in executive session. On instructions from the com mittee the Treasury Department has been studying loans made to Roosevelt, in connection with a radio chain development. The study was ordered when reports were published that he borrowed $200, 000 from John Hartford, President of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., that the loan was settled by Jesse Jones, former Commerce Secretary, for $4,000 and Hartford listed $196,000 in his 1942 income tax return as a bad debt. The committee yesterday receiv ed a partial report from the Treasury, including written state ment to the Treasury, but the com mittee has not yet read it. Some members said privately they doubted the practicability oi releasing immediately the material gathered in the Treasury study, saying that it is voluminous and there are only single copies avail able of the various statements filed in connection with the inquiry. Be sides, they said, the inquiry is not yet completed. LT. AUGUST MEYLAND ARRIVES ON COAST ON 30-DAY FURLOUGH & First Lieutenant August L. Mey land, Jr., has arrived on the West Coast alter completing a tour oj duty in the Pacific theater of op erations during which he flew 35 combat missions over Japan, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Mey land, of Harbor Island were in formed by telephone. Lt. Meyland, a member of the 20th Army Air Force was station ed in Guam and as the lead navi gator for a group of B-29’s partici pated in all of the first five low level incendiary raids on Tokyo, Yokahama, Nagoya, Osaka and Kobe during the first two weeks of March. Lt. Meyland attended the Uni versity of North Carolina prior to entering the service on August 20, 1942, and holds the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf clusters and the Asiatic-Pacific theater ribbon with two major engagement stars. THANKS AMERICANS General Will Join MacAr thur For Tokyo En try Tomorrow By ALBERT RAVENHOLT United Press Staff Correspondent CHUNGKING, Aug. !!8.—Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, who sur rendered Corregidor in America’s darkest hour, arrived in this Al lied capital today after more than three years in Japanese prisons. His first gesture was to thank his countrymen for “generosity” in standing by a defeated command er. Lean and wrinkled but rigidly erect and his eyes twinkling, the 62-year-old general who took com mand when Gen. Douglas MacAr thur was ordered to leave the Philippines, said it had been “the happiest day of my life” when an American officer found him in a small prison camp about 150 miles north of Mukden in Manchuria. He met with newspapermen only a few hours after planes, carrying him and nine other American gen erals and a number of high Brit ish military and civil officials, landed at Chungking’s Nine Drag ons’ airfield, all fresh from a long captivity. “Here I am, looking pretty old but I assure you feeling 20 years younger than I did 10 days ago,” he said. Among the other Americans who arrived in Chungking with him were Maj. Gen. Edward P. King, Jr., of Atlanta, Ga., who signed the surrender of Bataan, Maj. Gen. William F. Sharp of Monk ton, Md., commander in the Southern Philippines before Pearl Harbor; Brig. Gen. J. C. Beebe oi Faribault, Minn.; Brig. Gen. Max om S. Lough, whose brother lives at Highland Park, Mich.; Brig. Gen. Clifford Bluemel, Trenton, N. J.; Brig. Gen. James R. Weaver of Columbus, Ga., and Maj. Gen. Thomas Dooley of McKinney, Tex. Also in the party were Maj. Gen. A. M. Jones, who commanded the Southern front on Luzon while Wainwright commanded in the North before their forces were united for the retreat to Bataan, (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) BRITISH TO MEET WITH JAPS TODAY RANGOON, Aug. 28-M—Making the first surrender contact with the rich, stolen lands of Malaya. Bri tish officers today ordered the Ja panese commander of the former Japanese-German submarine base of Penang, 375 miles Northwest o 1 Singapore, to meet with them to morrow. The order went out as Japan ese envoys left Rangoon after sign ing preliminary agreements pre paring the way for Allied reoccu pation of Singapore, all Southeast Asia and the East Indies. Authorities here prepared to re ceive liberated Allied prisoners ot war, estimated to number 150,000 to be flown from camps over the vast enemy-held area. The Japanese at Penang^ an is land just off the West coast of Brit sh Malaya, were ordered to rendezvous at 11 a.m. tomorrow with the British aboard the flag ship Nelson North of the island. The enemy was told to come out in a white-flagged launch, and to be prepared to submit full details of minefields in the discussion of surrender preliminaries. Penang was abandoned by the British in February, 1942. The Japanese emissaries who signed the preliminary agreements here shortly after midnight return ed by plane today to Saigon. They brought all requested information, and the conference was "extreme ly satisfactory and the Japanese attitude was very correct,’’ said Lt.-Gen. F. A. J. Browning, who (Continued on Page Two; Col. A) Dollar-A- Year Men Stay On Jobs In Washington By MAX HALL WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—tff)— This time" it’s different. Dollar-a year men are staying at their gov ernment jobs — even though the war’s over. Not a single one of the 500 dollar a-year men at the War Production Board has left his post since the Japanese surrender two weeks ago. Authority for that statement is Carlton Hayward, WPB personnel director. After the last war, dollar-a-year men left Washington in droves. Nowadays, not only dollar-a-year men but also regular government employes are sticking to their jobs. The Civil Service Commission said it has no evidence of any unusual amount of quitting. The War Department said resig nations among its civilian employes in Washington have actually fallen off since the war ended. Fewer are quitting now than they did in war time, says Louis E. Rumpff, who is War Department employment co ordinator. A lot of the government’s 2,915, 000 civilian employes will be laid off sooner or later—but so far there (Continued on Page Two; Col. lj &■ i ■ — 0> First On Japan t / ~ Arinn__ While flying over Japan on a reconnaissance mission, Lt. Col. Clay Tice, Jr., Phoenix, Ariz., commander of the 49th Fighter Group, noticed that one of the planes in the group has develop ed engine trouble. Tice ordered the pilot to follow him in landing as he knew the terrain. They landed on Nittagahara airfield on central Kyushu on Aug. 25. The American fliers talked to Jap of ficers until a B-17 flew in a sup ply of gas so that the Yanks could return to Okinawa. COMMUNIST LEADER READY FOR TALKS By GEORGE WANG United Press Staff Correspondent CHUNGKING, Aug. 28.—(U.R)—Co mmunist leader Mao Tse-:tung, es corted by Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley, American Ambassador to China, arrived today for conferenc es with Generalissimo Chiang Kai shek looking toward a reconcilia tion of differences which threaten China with civil war. A United China appeared finally in sight with Chiang’s position strengthened by close American and British support and by his new treaty of friendship with Russia. Mao himself said upon his arrival that internal unity was of ‘‘the ut most urgency.” The plane bringing Hurley and Mao was met by Chang Lan, 74, president of the Democratic League of China; Tan Ping-Yhan, veteran Communist, Shen Chun-ju, leader of the Salvationist political party, and Chiang Kai-shek’s eldest son, Chiang Ching-kuo, representing his father. Mao said he hoped Chinese unity would be realized. “I’ve come to Chungking in re sponse to an invitation of Mr. Chiang Kai-shek, president of the National government, to discuss im portant issues of unity and na tional reconstruction,” he said. “Now with the victorious conclu sion of the war against Japan, Chi na is about to enter the stage of peaceful reconstruction. “The present time is of extreme importance. At the present time the ration of democracy and the con solidation of the internal unity is of the utmost urgency. BIRD THAT WHISTLES AT PRETTY WOMEN IS ARRIVAL ON CLIPPER NEW YORK, Aug. 28.— (JP) — “Raffles,” a dark brown Mynah bird that whistles at pretty girls and says “Hello, darling,” arrived at La Guardia Field today aboard an Airways Clipper from Bermuda. Mrs. Carveth Wells, wife of the explorer-author, who brought the bird, said it had entertained ser vicemen in Bermuda and had helped sell $15,000,000 in U. S. War Bonds. At the airport, it sang a few bars of “America,” and talked and whistled. Mrs. Wells said “Raf fles” sang the same song with the words of “God Save the King” for British audiences. The bird, allied to the Starlings and a bit smaller than a parrot, was found in the Malayan jungles in 1940, Mrs. Wells said. Leather Restrictions Are Cut; Shoes Coming Bach WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—(AP)— Restrictions on the use of leather in luggage, handbags, belts, up holstery, wallets, slippers, and Jackets were removed today by WPK In addition, WPB Chairman J. A. Krug said sufficient leather now is available to increase civilian shore production “substantially and rapidly.” Price Administrator Chester Bowles said shoe rationing would end ‘‘just as soon as WPB tells us that production has reached a level of normal output to meet the shoe requirements of the nation.” TO CLOSE SCHOOL WASHINGTON, Apg. 28.—(U.K>— Rear Adm. William M. Fechteler, assistant chief of Navy personnel, said today the Naval diesel train ing school at North Carolina State College, Raleigh, will be closed sometime before Jan. 1. Halsey. Enters Tokyo Bay As MacArthur Flies North From Manila For Signing OP A- Retailers Open Hot Price Fight; ] Labor Leaders Urge Higher Wage Rate i. _ Shorter Working Week Al so Advocated By Green, Lewis WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 — (A>) — Higher wages and shorter hours were urged by labor leaders John L. Lewis and William L. Green to day. They said this would give as surance that job opportunities would keep pace with production techniques. They joined Secretary of Com-1 merce Wallace in endorsing so called full employment legislation before a Senate Banking subcom mittee. Opposition was sounded however, by Ira Mosher, president of the National Association ol Manufacturers. He called the legis lation “unworkable.” It was oppos ed also by other business spokes men. Lewis, shaggy-browed president of the United Mine Workers, said the problem of providing employ ment opportunities in coming years of rapid scientific advance was in evitably linked up with the num ber of hours of work. He offered an amendment to the Wagner-Murray bill that would make it a specific government responsibility to adopt policies from time to time “looking to the adjustment and shortening of the hours of labor.” Green, president of the Ameri can Federation of Labor, like-wise stressed increasing productivity of workers and improved industrial techniques. Because of these factors and the growing population, he said, Amer ican industry will have to provide about 1,000,000 new jobs annually to obtain full employment. “We will have to shorten the work week to create some of these new jobs,” he said. He also said that higher wages would be es sential to give workers the buying power to sustain mass production. Although endorsing the legisla tion, Green said its enactment would constitute only “the initial responsibility of Congress” and would have to b e supplemented by other legislation to provide a favor able “national economic environ ment.” Among supplemental measures he mentioned were increased un employment compensation, higher minimum wages, housing, rising farm living standards, Federal aid for schools, public works and con servation of resources. Lewis, shaking hands with Green (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) ALLIES READYING WAR TRIAL LIST By ALEX SINGLETON LONGDON, Aug. 28 — (ffj — The list of Germany’s 25 to 40 arch war-criminals who will go on mass trial at Nuernberg after Septem ber 1 will be made public in a few days, a responsible American source said today. The group of Nazi party big wigs, high-ranking military chiefs and former diplomats will face the four-power International Tribunal just as soon after Sept. 1 as pre parations can be made. The list of those to be tried will be released in London, Berlin, Par is, Moscow and Washington for simultaneous publication, it was said. Tne list represents weeks oi extensive envestigation and selec tion. More than 30 of the potential de fendants and key witnes ses among them such Naxi chiefs as ring and former Foreign Minister Jocachim Von Ribbentrop, already are in Nuernberg jail. They have lost the status of war prisoners and now are booked as civilian crimin als. The list will disclose whether Nazi will be tried as a war criminal. Both Yugoslavia and charges against him before the United Nations’ war crimes com mission, but British officials who hold Hess have remained official ly silent on his future. The announcement also may dis close whether Adolf Hitler’s terror organizations, the Gestapo and the SS (Elite Guard), will be tried collectively as part of the pro secution agains those responsilb for Germany’s master war plans. Under this proposal, strongly supported in some American quar (Continued on Pa*e Two; Col. 6) Found Near Peiping 1 Commander Winfield Scott Cun ningham (above), overall com mander of the gallant defenders of Wake Island had been contact ed by an “emergency liaison team” at the prison camp near Peiping, China, where he had been held by the Japs for nearly 4 years. GRIPSHOLM SAILS WITH DEPORTEES JERSEY CITY, N. J., Aug. 28. I£)—The Swedish liner Gripsholm sailed tonight for Italy and Greece with 1,340 passengers. Among pas sengers were 798 deportees, the largest number ever to be deport ed on one ship from this country. Others aboard were mission aries, business men and teachers. The vessel also carried 500 tons of clothing and 10 tracks. Among the missiftiaries was Dr. Ida Scudder, Indian missionary whose family for four generations administered medical aid to the Hindus. En route to join her husband with the Chinese National Aviation Corporation was Mrs. John Gable of Tallahassee, Ala., who said she would serve as a link trainer in structor with the corporation. Her husband had been in Cal cutta, India, for 28 months, she (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) BRITISH SOLDIERS SWIM TO FREEDOM ON BOARD YANK SHIP LONDON,, Aug. 28.— Ufl —Two British servicemen who swam out into Tokyo Bay to meet the Ameri can Fleet were the first two A1 lied prisoners to gain freedom after the fleet entered the bay, a Reuters correspondent aboard the British battleship Duke of York reported today. Correspondent Astley Hawkins said the two prisoners were fish ed out of the bay by a picket boat from an American cruiser. They had escaped from a prison camp near , Yokohama by slipping through a typhoon fence, and had walked 30 miles to the bay shore. They saw the huge fleet at an chor and a Japanese fisherman told them the fleet was American. They were transferred to the Duke of York after being fed on the American cruiser. foremen Want Increase While Agency Seeks To Hold Line WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 OT—The ] light over the price you’ll have ;o pay for things like refrigerators , and washing machines started 1 Eull blast today. It’s OPA versus the nation’s storekeepers. OPA wants prices on the new peacetime goods set at where they were in 1942. Storekeepers want higher ones. And here was the rest of the ] country’s fast-changing picture: l Butter—Points are coming down < —Sept. 2—from 16 to 12. 1 Soldiers—The Army’s set to ' lower its discharge points: From ! 85 to 80. Rubber—Suddenly available for rubber toys, kitchen tools, floor mats. Used cars—Prices have started falling. Average drop: ?25 a car. Toys—This Christmas pretty much like last Christmas. Tin’s scarce. Black markets—Beginning to fade in used cars and chickens. Bath towels—Any size is all right to make now. This is the heart of the OPA storekeeper fight which may con tinue bitterly: OPA wants the new peacetime things sold to you to be sold at the price you would have paid in 1942. But retailers — Their spokesmen had a session with OPA today say this puts them in a squeeze, that they may go broke and for this reason: The manufacturer sells to the wholesaler. The wholesaler sells to the retailer (storekeeper). The storekeeper sells to you. Because of some increased costs, OPA will let the manufacturer charge the wholesaler a little more than he charged in 1942. But by the time the goods reach you—passing from wholesaler to re tailer—the price must be back down to 1942 levels. So—somewhere between the time the goods leaves the manufacturer and reach you—the wholesaler and retailer must absorb that higher cost. They want a better break than that, they say. OPA shakes its head, says it will consider the mat ter. But it already has laid down the rule. The fight is not likely to end there if OPA stands firmly on a “no” answer. But President Tru man is backing the OPA policy. As to butter—OPA says the point reduction, starting Sunday, is due to larger butter supplies. Thus butter red-point values be come only half of what they were (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) East Trims West 5-4 In Esquire Boy’s Game NEW YORK, Aug. 28.—(U.R)—'Die East made it two in a row over the West tonight in the second an nual all-America Boys’ baseball game, defeating the West squad 5 to 4 at the Polo Grouas. The East won the first game last year and, as was the case then, a kid from Detroit was the winning pitcher. Bill Glaine, who tossed a seven-hitter was the winner to night with George Fisher of Syra cuse, Utah, the loser. Last year Bill Pierce, now with the Buffalo Bisons of the International League, was the winner. He also is from Detroit. West _004 000 000—4 7 1 East _ 000 200 003—5 9 4 Danze, Fisher (5), Finch (8) and Ficha, Tharasher t5); Smmons, Phelps (5), Glane (81 and Henderson, Mace (4). When Human Bites Man It’s Worse Than Dog Nip By FRANK CAREY Associated Press Science Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 — (fl>) — When a man bites a dog it’s not only news but the dog would get a rougher deal than would a man under reversed circumstances* Such a conclusion seems indicat ed from a report today by a Navy doctor. He said that when a hu man bites another human the re sult can be far nastier "than when Rover takes a chew out of a citi zen’s leg. “The human bite,” declared Lieut. Comdr. M. G. Henry of the Naval Medical Corps Reserve, “is potentially one hundred per cent infected and serious, while dog bites are — with the single excep tion of rabies — practically al ways clean as a ‘hound’s tooth’ and the wound heals quickly with no secondary infection.” ‘‘It is positively amazing how really filth the human mouth is,” Henry wrote in ‘‘The Military Sur geon.” Staphylococcus, Streptococcus and germs of Vincent’s Disease, or ‘‘Trench Mouth,’’ are among the many which may lurk in the hu (Coatsmed on Page Two; Col. 5) Battleship Missouri In Parade Lead ENTRY MADE QUIETLY Indications Pont To Fnll Cooperation Of Dt feated Japanese MANILA, Wednesday, Aug. **■ —(JP)—General MacArthur flew North today on his way to make a triumphal entry into Japan Thurs day. As a plane carried him to Okinawa, the mighty Battleship Missouri entered Tokyo Bay where next Sunday Japan’s surrender will be signed aboard her. Admiral Halsey rode the 46,000 ton dreadnaught into the bay while sea and Airborne forces were poised for large scale occupational landings. The unfolding of his master plan for the powerful occupation pointed toward the historic sur render signing Sept. 2 aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. Today he invited Lt. Gen. Johna than Wainwright, the American hero forced to sign the surrender of the Philippines in 1942, to be with him at the formal capitulation of Nippon. Wainwright recently was released as a prisoner of war in Manchuria and has been taken to Chungking. Airbore troop raised til* stars and stripes at Atsugi Airfield, Southwest of Tokyo, which they are reparing for the arrival ands of troops in sir transports from Okinawa. Thursday of MacArthu rand thous While advance third feet units rode at anchor in Tokyo Bay and mighty battlewagons made ready to join them from nearby Sagami Bay, a pending fleet movement from the Aleutians was disclosed. Observers at Adak assumed that Vice Adm. Frank Jack Fletcher’s (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) COMMON PEROXIDE “SHOT” V-BOMBS WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.— (* — Secretary of the Navy Forrestal disclosed today that hydrogen per oxide, the common bleach and an tiseptic, was used by the Ger ans as a propellant for their V bombs. At the time of their surrender, the Secretary said in a. statement, the Nazis were obtaining “surpris ingly good results’’ in harnessing power from disintegrating hydrog en peroxide and were adapting it to naval uses. Forrestal made the disclosure in reporting on his trip to Europe last month, during which he in spected the work of the Navy Technical mission. He said other German technological develop ments, which were not put into use because of the surrender, includ ed: 1. A torpedo which could be guided unerringly to its target by a connecting electrical wire unreel ed by the torpedo. 2. Steam propulsion using nearly double the pressures and tempera tures used by the U. S. Navy. Faulty application, he said, gave the Nazis less efficiency than the American Navy’s. 3. Wind tunnels for aerodyna mics ^research far in advance of any in this country. The Navy « bringing one to this country for experimental work involving speeds greater than that of sound. The first work on hydrogen per oxide as a propellant, he said, wa» (Continued on Page Two; Col. •) ATTENTION i Crossword Puzzle Fobs To crossword puzzle fans sf this immediate area of Eastern North Carolina, The Wilmington Star today offers sincere apolo gies over omission of the daily crossword puzzle the past few days. Publication of the dally puz zle was interrupted temporarily because the release of puzzles for the current week apparently became lost in the mails. Daily publication of the cross word puzzle feature will be re sumed in The Morning Star just as quickly as the releases are received at this office.