PERSONALS
Mrs. Michael C. Brown has as
‘r guest at her cottage at Station
•ve Wrightsville Beach, Mrs.
Viliam Hirst of Philadelphia.
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pr and Mrs. James H. Smith
sre vacationing in the mountains
western North Carolina.
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Mr. and Mrs. Alex Sprunt and
daughter, Miss Charlotte Sprunt,
ve returned to their summer
One on Wrightsville Beach, after
spending several weeks at Blow
ing Rock.
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Mr and Mrs. A. Glenn Holt and
, .yho have been spending
L summer at their cottage on
vorth Lumina avenue at Wrights
ville Beach, returned to their home
in Burlington on Monday.
Miss Ann Baker of Greensboro,
rrived Monday to join her par
* tf Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Bak
pr at their cottage on South
Lumina avenue for the remainder
of the summer.
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Mr and Mrs. Irving Ward. Miss
Rosemary Ward and Irving Ward,
jr and Miss Rosemary Conway,
it charleston. S. C.. are the guest
of their cousin. Mrs. Preshy Mills
st the Hanover Inn at Wrightsville
Beach.
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Mrs. Robert Burns of Fayette
ville. is visiting her cousin. Mrs.
w T Cheatham of Burlington, at
her summer cottage at Wrighst
viUe Beach. Mrs. Burns is the
former Miss Mamie Holt of
Fayetteville.
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Mrs. Marsden Bellamy, Jr.,
has as her guest at her home on
Harbor Island, Mrs. Pearl Penn
ington of Taboro. Mrs. Pennington
is hostess at the Charlotte Coun
try club.
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Miss Edith Roach of Richmond,
Va., formerly of Wilmington, is
visiting friends in Wilmington and
Wrighstville Beach.
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Miss Jocelyn Peck, who has been
a camp councillor at Little
Switzerland, has returned to h e r
home here.
WAINWRIGHT NOW
IN CHINESE CITY
(Continued from Page One)
and Maj. Gen. G. F. Moore, a
brother of Lt. Gen. J. Marks Moor.
Wainwright said he was contact-,
ed about lo days ago in the Centra)
Manchuria camp by an American
officer. V. T. Wedemeyer, after
more than three years and three
months in Japanese hands. His
liberation came just a few days be
fore his birthday.
Wainwright took over command
of American forces in the Philip
pines and was promoted to the
rank of Lieut. Gen. on March 19,
1942, when MacArthur left in a
torpedo boat on the first leg of his
journey to Australia.
On April 10, 65,000 troops and
civilians surrendered on Bataan,
but Wainwright and the organized
remnants of his Army withdrew to
"The Rock” — Corregidor fortress
in Manila. There they withstood
the incessant pounding of artillery
and planes until May 6 when Wain
wright realized further resistance
was senseless.
He said he could not go into de
tails of the last days of fight'ng in
the Philippines until he made his
report to the War Department. But
he recalled briefly that tragic per
iod, saying:
"I imagine most of you know
that, because of circumstances
over which I had no control and
in order to avoid what would have
been a far greater disaster, I was
forced on May 6, 1942, to tender to
Lt. Gen. Homma of the Japanese
Army the surrender of my forces
in the Philippines.
“My gallant troops had perhaps
made a defense against more
overwhelming odds and under
more disadvantageous circum
stances than troops of the Ameri
can Army had been confronted
with in the history of that army.
“I had very little direct contact
with my country or official agen
cies thereof..for over three years
but such contacts here and there
as I had crossed caused me to be
lieve the admin stration, the War
Department and the American peo
ple had accepted my dire disaster
with the forebearance and gener
osity which are perhaps unique in
the experience of any defeated
commander.”
Wainwright disclosed that follow
ing the capitulat.on of Corregidor,
he was first moved to Manila,
thence to a prison camp in the
Philippines thence to three dif
ferent camps in Formosa and two
in Manchuria.
After he was found, his rescuers
had “a great deal of difficulty gett
ing out of that little place in the
sticks.
“In fact, fi wnoaelyuottgnleurd
“In fact, we finally got out under
escort provided by Russian
troops,” he said. “From there we
were able to join some 1,500 to
1,600 American officers and enlist
ed men concentrated in Mukden.”
On his arrival in Sian yesterday,
he said, he was given a picture of
his wife which had been radioed
there — his first word from her
in a year and a- half.
“When Wedemeyer handed me
the radio-photograph of my wife
with the message written in long
hand—well, you know how I felt
about that,” he said. “Now when
I hear of my boy I'll feel all right.
He's a sea captain and has been
hauling troops back and forth
across the North Atlantic the past
few years. I haven’t heard a thing
from him yet.”
Among the released British of
ficials who arrived here were Sir
Shenton Thomas, former Governor
of Singapore; Sir Mark Young,
former Governor of Hong Kong;
Lt. Gen. A. E. Percival, command
er in Malaya; Maj. Gen. B. W.
Key, commander of the 11th Indian
Division; Maj. Gen. Michael
Maltby, stationed at Hong Kong;
Sir Percy McElewain, stationed at
Singapore and Major. Gen. F. K.
Simmons.
A number of liberated Dutch of
fleers, many carrying Japanese
swords which had been given
them by the Russians, also arriv
ed.
King said his liberation and that
of his companions came on Sun
day, Aug. 19, when the Japanese
sentries told their prisoners they
no longer were guarding them but
were protecting them.
Gen. Sharp said that when the
Russians arrived they gave Ameri
cans prisoners the job of guarding
their former Japanese sentries.
‘‘A Russian captain ordered the
Japanese sentries to stack their
arms and asked for one American
captain and 10 buck privates,” he
said. ‘‘The Russian grabbed a rifle
and thrust it into the hands of an
American private and said: ‘‘from
this day you are free—now march
these Japanese around and take
them off to the guardhouse.”
The British Generals and offi
cials had known nothing of what
was going on outside their prison
enclosure.
‘‘We knew nothing about Hitler’s
collapse, Roosevelt’s death or
Churchill’s defeat in the British
election,” Sir Shenton Thome* told
newsmen.
General Percival said he was
proud of the manner in which Bri
tish officers and men had taken
captivity.
‘‘They were dignified, correct,
proper and cheerful,” he said. ‘‘At
no time were we satisfied with out
treatment and most of the time we
were dissatisfied.”
SHIP LAUNCHED
QUINCY, Mass., Aug. 28.—(/P) ■
A new heavy cruiser, the U. S. S.
Rochester was launched today at
the Quincy shipyard of .the Beth
lehem Steel Company.
Obituaries
J. G. MOSER
GREENSBORO, Aug. 2S.—(U.R)—
Funeral arrangements are being
made here today for J. G. Moser,
42, well known Guilford county
contractor, who died of a heart
attack yesterday. Moser is sur
vived by his wife and one son.
RACHEL ELEANOR BSOOKS
WHITEVILLE, Aug. 28 —Miss
Rachel Eleanor Brooks, 18, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. William D.
Brooks, d:ed Monday afternoon at
4:55 at the Columbus County hos
pital after a short illness.
Funeral services will be held
Tuesday at 5 p. m. at the home in
Evergreen with Rev. . W. Line
berger officiating. Internment will
be in the Chadbourn cemetery.
Surviving are the parents, one
sister, Claire, one brother, Billy
and grandmother. Mrs. R. J. Ed
wards, Sr., of Forest Hills, one
aunt, Mrs. L. C.' Robertson, Jr., of
Forest Hills, two uncles, R. J.
Edwards, Jr., and E. Eugene Ed
wards, both of Sunset Park.
PROF. VICTOR V. ADERHOLT
HTCKORY, Aug. 28.—(U.R)—Fun
eral services will be held here
today for Prof. Victor V. Ader
holt, 54, head of the department
of history and government at
Lenoir-Rhyne college.
Prof. Aderholt, a native of Gas
ton county, died yesterday after
a long illness-1
ADMIRAL HALSEY
ENTERS HOME BAY
(Continued from Page One)
cruisers, destroyers and carriers,
getting set to move West, would
take part in occupation of North
ern Japan—for which General Mac
Arthur as yet has made no an
nouncement.
As th4 large scale occupation
oprations scheduled for Atsugi and
Yokosuka to the South of Tokyo,
impended,, an Associated Press
correspondent aboard a Liberator
over Takyo reported that a deathly
stillness gripped that 'metropolis.
Japan’s defeat plainly was written
in its ruined sectors, said Spencer
Davis.
Fleet Admiral Nimitz himself
was expected during the day to
join Admiral Halsey’s Third Fleet,
vanguards of which dropped anchor
here at 1:30 p. m. Tuesday (12:30
a. m. Tuesday, U. S. Eastern
War Time.)
As commander of Pacific ocean
areas, Nimitz will sign the formal
Japanese surrender papers along
with General MacArthur and other
Allied leaders aboard the Battle
ship Missouri.
He will use the battleship South
Dakota as his flagship.
The top Navy commander an
rrounced at Guam that four fleet
and three amphibious forces—the
full strength of the fighting forces
under his command—will partici
pate in the surrender landings and
natrnls
Rear Adm. Oscar C. Badger’s
flagship, the cruiser San Diego,
and eight other ships were the
first vessels of Halsey’s Third
Fleet to enter Tokyo Bay from
Sagami Bay.
Some Marines may go ashore to
day—a day ahead of the main land
ing schedule announced by Gen.
MacArthur at Manila—on three
small islands in the bay at Futtsu
Point.
This possible preliminary man
euver would determine whether
fortifications dominating the bay
had been abandoned by the Jap
anese, as ordered.
All indcations were that every
condition of the pre-surrender pro
gram was being complied with.
White flags were waving from
coastal gun positions as Badger's
force moved through heavily forti
fied Uraga Strait into Tokyo Bay.
A destroyer exploded the only
mine sighted and the action, treat
ed as routine, caused hardly a rip
ple of comment aboard the ships.
Badger injected a note of laconic
humor to the non-eventual passage
by his message to Halsey report
ing: “No runs, no hits, no errors.’’
The inital force anchored a few
hundred yards off Yokosuka Naval
base, where the Marines are sched
uled to land later.
Yokosuka and the great port city
of Yokohama, also plainly in view,
were in ruins from repeated air at
tacks.
Shelby Defeats Tucson
With Ninth Frame Single
CHARLOTTE, Aug. 28.-^ UP) —
Third Baseman Charles Hutchins
slapped a single to right center to
bring home shortstop Alien Wash
burn from second with the win
ning run in the ninth inmng here
tonight as Shelby, N. C., scored a
3-2 victory over Tucson, Ariz., in
the concluding first round game of
the American Legion’s Junior
baseball tournament national fi
nals.
The hit, the third straight for
Hutchins, gave the Tar Heels their
13th straight victory and broke up
a t ght hurling duel between Shel
by ace Harry McKee and Tucson’a
Capt. Jim Tully. The North Caro
linians next play Thursday night
against Oak Park, 111., 2-1 winner
over Trenton, N. J., in Monday’s
openrr.
Trenton and Tucson will meet
tomorrow night, the loser beic;
eliminated.
The box:
Tui:so«> Ab R H O A
Vasey. 2b - 4 0 0 2 4
Robnson, lb _ 4 0 1 30 1
Cerey, 3b - 4 0 3 0 4
MyricS:. Iff - 3 0 0 2 C
Edwards, cf _ 4 0 3 3 ]
Murray, c _ 4 0 0 7 3
Johansson, rf _ 4 0 0 2 0
Arce, ss - 4 2 2 1 3
Tul3y, p - 3 0 1 1 3
Tota3s - 34 2 6 2«xl3
xTwo out when winning run scored.
shclbJr Ab R H O A
Washburn, ss _ 2 2 3 2 2
Bowen, cf -J_ 5 0 0 2 0
Clicek, 3b - 5 0 3 9 0
Hutchins, 3b _ 5 13 14
Bridges, c - 4 0 2 6 0
Webber, rf __ 3 0 14 0
Page. If - 4 0 0 1 0
Megginson, 2b _ 2 0 0 1 2
McKee, p_1_ 4 0 0 1 3
Totals - 34 3 8 27 11
Score by innings:
Tucson - 001 000 100—2
Shelby - 100 001 ooi—3
Errors: Robinson. Cheek, Arce, Wash
burn. Carey. Tully. Runs batted in:
Cheek. Robinson. Webber, Hutchins
Two base hits: Cheek, Arce. Rob’nson,
Webbe1*. Stolen bases: Washburn. Sacri
fices: Washburn, Webber. Double plays:
Carey to Murray to Robinson. Left on
b?ses: Tucson 6: Shelby 11. Bases on
balls: Tully 4, McKee 1. Strikeouts: Mc
Kee 8; Tully 4. Wld pitches: Tully Mc
Kee. Passed ball.: Prdges. Umpires:
Barry, Burnett and Horne. Time:, 1:51.
GRIPSHOLM SAILS
WITH DEPORTEES
(Cowtimied from Page One)
said, adding, “will I be glad to
see him!”
Seventh Day Adventist mission
aries aboard were Mr. and Mrs.
Grover C. Winslow. Jr., of Am
herst, Mass., and their son, Don
ald Grant, aged eight months.
Tbey will go to Teheran, Wins
low said, and will work in the
Russian colony founded in the.
time of Peter the Great. '
LEJEUNE OFFICER
VOICES THANKS
Congratulations were forthcom
ing yesterday from Camp Lejeune
for the City’s participation in a
recent dance at the Marine base,
held in cooperation with Wilming
ton’s recreational activies.
Lt. Col. Edward A. Clark, Camp
Lejeune special services officer,
expressed appreciatiorf to the vari
ous organizations of Wilmington
which took part in the dance, at
which several hundred of hostesses
from Wilming'on were present.
‘‘We have overheard so many
compliments as to the loveliness
of the ladies in their formal
gowns,” Colonel Carlk wrote, and
‘‘we hope in the not too distant
future we can make arrangements
through your office for similar
social events at this camp.”
Col. Clark completed arrange
ments for the dance through the
office of Jesse A. Reynolds, super
intendent of the Recreation Depart
ment.
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Sncl of Summer
Clearance
Wednesday 9.00 to 5.30
Now is the time to buy those few extra summer
things that you need . . . while we are making
every effort to clear all racks and to clear all
shelves of every last bit of summer wear at a
slashing sacrifice. Beautiful summer eyelets,
cunning cotton play suits and delightfully brief
bathing suits are but a few of the lovely things
to be found at the lowest imaginable price.
Formerly TTp te
SMALL AND LARGE SIZES IN ALL HYLM
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Play Suits
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Were «| «• UMI
Slack Suits
$3oo
Ware Up to fll.M
Were Up to $0.9t
Shorts-Skirts- (Bags
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