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^VOL^ 78. NO. 260. WILMINGTON, N. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8,1945 * * ESTABLISHED 18»f
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CRASH
NEAR FLORENCE, S. C.
All Bodies But One Burn
ed Beyond Recognition
Fo 1 lowing Blast
FLORENCE, S. C„ Sept. 7
_;'/p)— Twenty-two persons—
nine of them soldiers—were
killed before dawn today when
an Eastern Air Lines plane
plunged into a dense swamp,
exploded and burned.
The pilot apparently was search
ing for a place to make a forced
landing.
All of the bodies were burned
badly except one—that of a man
who was thrown clear of the
wreckage and killed by a blow on
the head.
The bodies were brought out of
the swamp late today in a tractor
pulled wagon to Army and civi
lian ambulances. Rescuers had to
cut a road three-fourths of a mile
through thick vegetation to get the
ambulances as near the scene as
possible.
The accident occurred about 2
a.m. (EWT). It was not until near
ly 10 hours later that authorities
reacned the place of the unexplain
ed crash, deep in a watery cypress
swamp.
For hours before dawn planes
from three nearby Army Dases
flew over the area, but apparently
the firs caused by the explosion
had died out.
It was not until well into the
morning that a Navy blimp fi
nally spotted the wreckage and
hovered over the spot until recov
ers could cut their way through
the thick, sub-tropical vegetation.
However, hours before that a 12
year-old boy, Hicks Harwell, who
lives on a plantation a few miles
away, came upon the wreckage
and the mass of burned bodies.
The boy could get across the
creeks and wriggle through almost
impenetrable undergrowth, but
rescuers had to cut a road through
the swamp.
About 2 a.m. Mrs. W. L. Rankin,
the grandmother of the Harwell
boy. said she heard a tremendous
explosion, then several lesser ones.
The Rankins immediately noti
fied the authorities and army
planes from Florence, Sumter and
Laurinburg - Maxtqn, N. C., took
off to search for the wreck.
Capt. J. Olin King of Miami,
Fla., was the pilot of the big DC-3
transport on the night run from
Miami to New York. A few min
utes before the crash he radioed
the Florence Air Base he was
''having trouble” and would at
tempt to land there.
He was apparently circling back
(Continued on Page Two; Col, 3)
Education Board
Plans To Aid AU
School Lunchrooms
RALEIGH, Sept. 7.—UP)—Acting
under a law passed by the 1945
General Assembly, the State Board
of Education today made plans to
draw from the state’s general fund
* $300,000 revolving fund to be
used to advance payments to local
lunchrooms participating in the
Federal lunchroom program.
Under the law, the board would
request Governor Cherry to make
he funds available. The Governor
Is director of the budget.
In the past, local school units
''ere forced to wait from 60 to 90
days for lunchroom claims to be
Paid by the Federal government.
By providing the revolving fund,
we State Board of Education would
he able to advance funds to the
lunchrooms within 10 to 15 days
5jler the claims are filed.
The amounts advanced from the
revolving fund would be paid back
0 the state as soon as the lunch
I h°orr>s receive the Federal funds,
he fund would be handled by the
herd's comptroller, Paul Reid.
WEATHER
#iiEaslern ^*anUard Time)
j. 'By U. S. Weatber Bureau)
»krf,eteoiiological data for the 24 hours
d ne 7:30 p.m., yesterday.
,... Temperature
e4 ,30 a-m- 76; 7:30 a.m. 72; 1:30 p.m.
l-0 p.m. 80.
NormaM™ 89’ Minimum 72; Mean 80;
... Humidity
798; 7:30 a.m. 99; 1:30 p.m.
1 ,:30 p.m. 86.
Tni.i , Precipitation
0.18 inchfectr 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m.—
( ;l:-ce the first of the month—
10 inches.
Tides For Today
8, cnalt !ne, Tables published by
a.t and Geodedtc Survey)
tyilmin™. High Low >
m‘ngton - 11:06 a.m. 5:47 a.m.
^asonbnrr. I , . 11:19 P'm- 6:04 P'm'
nooro Inlef _ 8:44 a.m. 2:32 a.m.
Sunrke a.-n - 8:56 p.m. 2:49 p.m.
rise 1-it 5’a9’ °un?et 6:29 p.m.; Moon
Fa,':, Moonset 7:57 p.m.
'a!etteviiie River Stage 11.3.
Continued on Page Two; Col. 4)
Bands Blare As MacArthur Takes Over Tokyo;
Nation’s Strik^ Idle Mounts To Over 11,000;
Congress 7V/M Of 18 Per Cent Income Tax Cut
Sen. George
Plugging On
Relief Plan
HOUSE FAVORABLE
Federal Levies Are One
Big Noise In Dull
Day At Capital
By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—(JP)—
Congress talked today about an
average 18 per cent cut in your
1946 income tax.
Senator George (D-Ga) plugged
for it. He’s chairman of the Sen
ate Finance committee, which
bandies all tax bills.
And there’s backing in the House
for a tax slash like that. Rpp.
Knutson (R-Minn) wants a 20 per
cent reduction.
President Truman has recom
mended a ‘‘limited” cut. An 18
per cent cut would lower by around
$3,000,000,000 the total income tax
taken from individuals.
George wants to slice another
$2,000,000,000 from taxes paid by
business. He didn’t put that on a
percentage basis.
Taxes were the big noise in Con
gress. But a couple of rows—
ever payments to the unemployed
and full employment and full em
ployment—gave sparkle to the
day.
Congress had no regular session.
It ambled along, arguing in com
mittee rooms; talking in offices,
trying to get bills.
There won’t be any Senate or
House session until Monday. Then
the House is going to vote for ap
investigation of Pearl Harbor—al
ready approved by the Senate.
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 1)
BOARD APPROVES
STATE FAIR PLAN
RALEIGH, Sept. 7.— (m —The
State Board of Agriculture today
stamped its approval on Dr. J. S.
Dorton’s plan for developing the
State Fair into a $3,000,000 perm
anent exposition honoring thij
state’s world war veterans and
presenting with one sweep a bird’s
eye view of North Carolina’s indus
trial, governmental, and agricul
tural life.
After hearing Dr. Dorton outline
the project, the board members
posed numerous questions regard
ing the cost of the various build
ings, their maintenance, their long
range usefulness as educational and
advertising mediums, and then
voted unanimously that work on the
plan — especially that portion
honoring the veterans of the two
world wars — be started as soon
as possible.
Dr. Dorton: Fair manager now
on leave as State Director of the
War Manpower Commission, prom
ised the board to devote his full
time to the development of the ex
position *‘just as soon as I possibly
can” and expressed his intentions
of having full architect’s drawings
for the enterprise within six
months.
He said that a large model of
the new state fair would be placed
on exhibit for the fair to be held
in 1946.
Farmers Hunt Monkv ^
Who Raided Corn Roas.
_:.1
LATROBE, Pa., Sept. 7.—(/P)
— State police joined with
Game Protector Bob Reed and
local farmers today in a hunt
for an animal variously identi
fied as a large Rhesus monkey
or a chimpanzee, loose in near
by Wildcat Hollow.
Reed school, which closed
yesterday when the animal
boldly leaped into the center of
a corn roast at the school and
made off with two ears of corn,
resumed classes today.
The monkey is believed to
have escaped from a circus
which played in the area about
six weeks ago. Authorities think
it is now living in abandoned
mines.
INSURANCE GROUP
HEARS Cl STORY
J. H. Hale, Mrs. M. E.
Howell Speakers At
Luncheon Meeting
Mrs. M. E. Howell, Home Service
secretary of the American Red
Cross and J. H. Hale, Interviewer
for the United States Employment
Service, were guest speakers at
the monthly meeting of the Under
writers Association yesterday at
the St. John’s Tavern.
The meeting was in the form of
a round table discussion, to help
in every way the problems of the
returning veterans not only in re
habilitation but also the many
problems of benefits, to convert
army insurance back to civilian,
and pensions.
The purpose of the discussion
was to broaden the viewpoint of
the insurance men with the advice
of Mr. Hale and Mrs. Howell, in
order to meet the incoming ques
tions of the veterans, which are
beginning to come in daily to the
insurance group.
Mr. Hale, in addressing the as
sociation said, “I speak foi the re
turning veterans, as their inter
viewer, the veterans receive em
ployment advice in my office.
“To the veteran, the first thing
he wants is a job, and hundreds
are com,ng to Wilmington to shop
for a job every day. There are
two types of veterans; first, the
veteran who doesn’t know what
kind of a job he wants; second,
the veteran who has definite ideas
as to what kind of a job he wants.
The boy who has definite plans gets
the better job.” .
At this point, Mr. Hale explained
to the club members, the GI Bill
of Rights, which entitles the vet
eran to an apprenticeship course of
training. The length of the training
course depends on the period ot
time in the service. An example
used by Mr. Hale was, “a veteran
who was in the service four years
is entitled to four years of train
ing.” .
Mr. Hale stated that so far many
jobs have been found for the vet
eran and many are now receiving
special training.
Mrs. Howell told the insurance
men that she as a social worker
for the Red Cross, also assists the
veteran on his insurance problems.
“My advice to the servicemen,’
said Mrs. Howell, ‘‘is not to con
vert their insurance at once, but
to wait until they are more ad
justed to their new living condi
tions, jobs, etc.”
Mrs. Howell explained the three
types of veteran insurance and 1 ie
differences involved.
iso-Strike
Pledge Off
Green Says
AGAINST HT PLAN
Walk-out Total Now Lar
gest In Many Months
Records Indicate
By The ASSOCIATED PRESS
The national total of strike idle
mounted Friday to 111,000, high
est in months as AFL Presidenl
William Green declared labor’s
no-strike pledge ended with Ja
pan’s surrender.
In Washington, Green told re
porters he could not accept Presi
dent Truman’s request for con
tinuance of the wartime "no
strike, no-lockout policy” but “we
will try to work out some under
standing with management to
minimize work stoppages.”
A labor-management conference
will meet in Washington Oct. 29 or
Nov. 5 to work out means to mini
mize labor disputes. The confer
ence was called by Secretary oi
Labor Schwellenbach and Secre
tary of Commerce Wallace.
Records maintained by the As
sociated Press showed yesterday’s
high total of idle over the country
compred with a previous high oi
92,815 on June 27 reached during
the wave of optimism growing out
6f victory in Europe.
The Detroit automobile industry,
racing to supply the peacetime
market with new cars, was hardest
hit by the new wave of stoppages.
Approximately 45,000 were idle in
the motor capital.
A continuing strike at the Kelsej
Hayes Wheel Company prompted
the Ford Motor Company to halt all
its passenger car and truck pro
duction in eight cities and lay off
more than 30,000 workers.
Ford officials said, however, 22,
000 of those laid off would be re
called to Detroit area plants Mon
day and that it was hoped all plants
outside Detroit could resume pro
duction next week. Other arrange
ments were said to have been made
for materials ordinarily supplied
by Kelsey-Hayes.
The Kelsey-Hayes strike, involv
ing 4,500 CIO United Automobile
Workers, centers on company re
fusal to rehire three minor union
officials.
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 3)
QUISLING TRIAL
IN JURY’S HANDS
OSLO, Sept. 7.— (JP) —Vidkun
Quisling capped his two-day de
fense of his puppet dictatorship
today with the defiant statement
that, if his actions were treason.
Norway needed more traitors like
him.
The case went to the seven
judge panel trying him, but a ver
dict was not expected before Sept.
12.
After boasting that “Hitler took
a deep liking for me and wanted
me for other tasks in Europe,”
Quisling told the court:
“If my activity has been trea
son_as the records of this case
charge—then in the name of God
I hope that for Norway’s sake
many of her sons will become the
same kind of traitor as I . .
Throughout his defense Quisling
contended that patriotism dictated
his policies, arguing that he knew
Russia wanted Norway’s Northern
provinces and that the Allies plan
ned to invade the country. He
denied implication in any secret
plot to deliver his country to the
Nazis.
Speaking with fluency and pas
sion, the pale-faced defendant
said:
“Any charges that I gave Ger
many secret information are
fantastic.”
Asserting the Germans “knew
more about our defenses than our
Dwn officers,” he said his meet
ings with Hitler and Adm. Erich
Raeder, German naval comman
der, were “perfectly innocent.”
With Hitler, he said, he talked
Df peace—although he admitted
Hitler told him in their December.
L939, meeting that Germany would
nvade Norway ruthlessly if the
Allies violated her neutrolity.
Daeder also warned him of alleged
\llied plans to invade Norway,
le said.
POISSON ELECTED
STATE BAR HEAD
Wilmington Man Honored
At Annual Convention
Dinner Meeting
RALEIGH, Sept. 7.—(IP)—The
North Carolina Bar association
tonight elected Louis J. Poisson
of Wilmington its president, and
heard a declaration by Judge
John J. Parker of Charlotte that
the United Nations Charter “pro
vided the frameworks from which
we can build for the world a sys
tem of ordered liberty, a world or
ganization based on law.”
Eelected with Poisson were S.
J. Ervin, Jr., of Morganton, John
S. Bradway of Durham, and Judge
Jeff D. Johnson of Clinton, vice
presidents; and Edward L. Connon
of Raleigh, secretary.’
Charles R. Jones of Lincolnton
and Clifton Moore of Burgaw were
elected to the board of directors
for three year terms.
Judge Parker, senior judge of
the Fourth Circuit Court of Ap
peals and widely endorsed for ap
pointment to the United States Su
preme Court, cited the United Na
tions Charter as one of the most
important documents ever produc
ed by the mind and purpose of
man.
World organization on the basis
of law, he said, means primarily
three things: (1.) Adequate judi
cial machinery for the settlement
on the basis of reason of disputes
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 3)
Cigarettes, Chewing
Gum Orders Canceled
By Army QM Division
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—(JP)~
More chewing gum, cigarettes,
cornstarch, Cereals and chile con
earns are in prospect for civilians,
Termination or cutacks in Army
demands for the products will
make more automatically avail
able for distribution through aivi
lian channels.
The Army said it had stopped
buying cigarettes and had can
celled orders for 165,135,000 packs
of cigarettes, worth $8,156,750.
Contracts for 20,000,000 packages
of chewing -gum, valued at $600,
000 have been terminated, along
with qpes calling for 6,617,702
pounds of chile con carne, valued .
at $1,200,000.
The Army also decided it
doesn’t need 20,000,000 half pound
packages of peanuts, valued at $2,
500.000, or 742,500 pounds of corn
starch, worth $63,855.
The military’s breakfast cereal
needs, under contracts calling for
Setptember delivery were reduced
13.000. 000 pounds.
Chewing gum, a comparative
civilian rarity during the war, was
provided for the armed forces by
the manufacturers under a volun
tary agreement without direct gov
ernment controls. 1 J
Allied Prisoners
* Sabotaged Jap'Ships
OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 7.—
(A5)—A liberated prisoner today
disclosed that sabotage in
Japanese shipyards where he
and others were employed
slowed the output to a crawl.
John M. Leaverton, 26, of
Denver, Colo., was a sweep in
the Mitsbishi shipyard at
Yokohama.
“In all the three years I
worked at the shipyard, the
Japs built 21 ocean going 10,
000-ton tankers and only one of
them floated.’’
MCCAIN FUNERAL
SET FOR MONDAY
SAN DIEGO, CALIF., Sept. 7—
(A”)—Funeral services for Vice Ad
miral John Sidney McCain will be
held at Arlington National Ceme
tery Monday,- it was announced to
day as Admiral Halsey credited
the stout-hearted officer with a
great share of the victory over
Japan.
The body of the veteran Naval
officer, whose death Thursday
night was attributed to battle ex
haustion, will be flown to Wash
ington, D. C., in a Navy plane,
accompanied by a guard of hopor.
Times of the plane’s departure
and the funeral services were to
be announced later.
One of McCain’s sons, Gordon
McCain, attorney for the Federal
Communications Commission in
Pasadena, Calif., arrived here to
day. The other son, John Jr., was
in the Pacific and it was not known
whether he would be able to re
turn for the services.
From aboard his flagship, the
South Dakota in Tokyo bay, Ad
miral Halsey sent a message say
ing: “With the death of John Sid
ney McCain, America has lost a
freat man—one', with the heart of
a lion whose courage and ability
stood uis in good stead.; wbep we
(Continued on Pag^ Two; Col. 4)
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WAKE NIPPONESE
ATE RATS, BIRDS
Marines Find 3,000 Deac
From Starvation On
P a c i f i c Island
GUAM, Saturday, Sept. 8.—(JP)
By-passed Japanese on Wak
Island ate rats and birds and wer
plagued by malnutrition, diseas
and constant American air raid
as they paid dearly for the tin;
Pacific island they captured earl;
in the war.
The Navy today revealed condi
tions found by Marines when the;
reoccupied the island Aug. 5.
Thousands or rats had been trap
ped and killed, as had the birds
incduding feather-masked pirat
birds, love birds and wild canaries
A single turnip was careful!
nurtured and shielded from th
strong, salt wind whipping ove
the island. It served as a mea
for five Japanese sailors whe
boiled.
An astimated 3,000 Japanes
died from starvation and in ai
raids by U. S. Navy and Marin
fliers.
All but a few officers, of the 1,
250 found alive, were staving
This number would have been halv
ed in another month, the Japanes
admitted.
“A few hundred Marines couli
have sebdued Wake i na few hour
anytime in the last two months
even if we’d had the finest equip
ment and plenty of it,” a Japanesi
lieutenant said. “Less than 300 o
our men could have stood u]
and fought more than half a day.’
High Nazi Criminal
Attacks Guard; Gets
Worst Of Argumeni
NUERNBERG, Sept. 7- — UP) -
One of the principal Nazi wai
criminal defendants being held foi
trial here attacked liis guard in «
city jail, all, and & psychiatris
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 4)
Old Glory
Waves Over
Jap Empire
COMMANDER SPEAKS
Nip Citizens View Cavalry
Parade Into City; No
Demonstrations
TOKYO, Saturday, Sept.
—General MacArthur covered the
last mile of the long road back,
from defeat in the Philippines by
entering Tokyo today with occupa
tion troops of the First Cavalry
Division and raising the same
United States flag which flew over
Rome and Berlin. The Axis de
fer' was complete.
MacArthur made his triumphal
entry in a three mile parade of
American mechanized military
might through the heart of Tokyo
as bands blared “The Star Span
gled Banner'’ and ‘‘The General’s
March.”
Japanese in downtown Tokyo
stared in silence as the parade,
led by the Seventh Regiment of
the First Cavalry Division — the
regiment which fought for Custer
on Little Big Horn—moved from
a point just east of the Emperor’s
palace to the United States
Embassy.
At the Embassy, MacArthur or
dered Lt. Gen, Robert L. Eichel
berger, whose Eighth Army is oc
1 cupying Tokyo and all Hon
shu to the North, to have the flag
unfurled. It was the same flag
| which flew over the White House
> in Washington, D. C., on that
never-to-be-forgotten day of Dec.
7, 1941.
“Have our country’s flag un
furled,” the Supreme Allied Com
. mander said, ‘and in Tokyo’s sun
let it wave in its full glory as a
symbol of hope for the oppressed
and as a harbinger of victory for
the right.’ ’
At the momentous ceremony on
, the grounds of the Embassy, Mac
Arthur was surrounded by men
who fought back with him on
Bataan in the closing days of 1941
7 and ^e early days of 1942.
The flag rose over the Embassy
- grounds at 11 a. m (10 p. m. Fri
, day Eastern War Time.)
2 The right wing of the nearby
. Chancellery had been damaged by
f a B-29 incendiary raid but the
* white stone Embassy building,
r where MacArthur will set up his
1 headquarters, was untouched.
1 After the flag-raising ceremony,
the Chaplain of the First Cavalry
5 Division spoke a brief benediction.
' The advance reconnaissance
; units entered Tokyo and pulled up
in front of the Emperor’s Palace
at 7:25 a.rr f0 ‘'5 p.m. Friday
Eastern War Time).
| The masseu iu. ces of 'steel
, helmeted troops followed in by
( (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4)
TEARS DOT FACES
! OF BERLIN JEWS
BERLIN, Sept. 7.— UP)—Songs of
Israel were sung tonight by Jews
with tear-stained faces.
Some 400 Jews, mostly the aged
, who, by years of hiding, had
escaped torture and death, hailed
the Jewish New Year—Rosh Has
honah — in a small reconstructed
chapel adjoining a burned-out Syn
agogue beside the sewage-filled
Thielsch canal.
Nearly 30 American soldiers at
tended, including two military gov
ernment officers of the Steglitz
borough who had encouraged Jews
to reorganize their community.
The new Rabbi, Martin Riesen
burgler, in his address singled out
Maj. Merle H. Smith, of Jackson
Heights, N. Y., and Lt. Harry
Nowalsky, of New Orleans, La.
“You have brought us out of
shame,” he said, "Be your names
sacred in Jewish history.”
WILMINGTON JEWS
HOLD SERVICES
Here in Wilmington, services
were held last night at the Temple
of Israel and B’Nai Israel marking
the beginning of the traditional
ten-day period of self-judgment and
penitence culminating in Yom Kip
pur, the "Day of Atonement,” on
Sunday, September 16.
The services held in commem
oration of the beginning of Rosh
Hashonah also denote the fir?£day
of the new Jewish year. 6706.
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Tokyo—Now In Allied Hands
The above view of downtown Tokyo, taken from the air,, shows some on the principal buildings in
the business district of the Japanese capital, which was taken over last night by General Douglas
MacArthur, Supreme Commander. , 4
Allies Seeking Yacht
Said To House Hitler
HAMBURG, Sept. 7—Ur)—A mys
terious, handsomely appointed, 90
foot yacht is being widely sought
in the belief that Adolf Hitler
might be aboard it.
The search, which has covered
every islet and inlet of the Schles
wig-Holstein coast, got new im
petus in recent days as British
Security Police took official cog
nizance of persistent rumors that
Hitler and his Deputy Fuehrer,
Martin Bormann, were in the
Hamburg area in early May.
Bormann, one of the 4 Nazis
the Allied War Crimes Commission
has listed for trial at Nuernberg
is known to have been with Hitler
in the last days of the Nazi re
gime.
A recent broadcast reported to
have been picked up in Sweden
and purporting to come from Bor
mann declared inner was in uer
many, alive and in good health.
British investigators have dis
covered that equipment taken
aboard the missing yacht in the
weeks just before Germany’s col
lapse included two radio transmit
ters.
Germans questioned have re
ported seeing Bormann in Ham
burg the night of May 1-2. They
asserted he made a dash from
Hamburg in a high-powered Army
car loaded with SS officers the day
before Hamburg capitulated.
The yacht, described as Diesel
powered and luxurious, is reported
by dockworkers to have sailed
early in May from the small Elbe
river port of Gluckstadt, 30 miles
northwest of Hamburg. There the
trail ends. • t
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DDT Program For County
Faces Possible Delays
Dr. A. H. Elliot,’ city-county
health officer stated last night
that he believed that “there is
very slight possibility”' that work
could begin on the DDT dusting
in the city, and county next week.
“The DDT is not here yet air.
though it will be available when
the work is ready to start,” he
added.
Dr. Elliot said that E. L. Hin- i
ton, director of typhus control for
the State Board of Health, who i
had originally been scheduled to J
arrive here around the middle bf 1
this past week had not come as ]
yet. 1
A request has been put in at the i
LJ. S. Employment service for £
Eoreman and personnel for the op
sration, but Dr. Elliot said tha
ie did not know of any men beinj
lired.
It will first be necessary for Mr
Hinton to obtai and organize £
:rew and zone the city and count}
lefore the actual dusting againsi
he typhus flea takes place, he
iisclosed.
The use of the powerful inseett
:ide against the typhus-earing ral
leas is scheduled for as soon after
^abor Day as passible but Dr.
Elliot emphasized that as far as
ie knew, no definite dajte had been
et.