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FORECAST ^ \ ^ ^ W Setred By Leased Wires &iniLiNs wxmxmtm UUntrtttttn vtsr rsisi >4#' State and National New WILMINGTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1945 ” ESTABLISHED 186? Gets Promotion Leaving her assignment as WAC director of the continental air forces, Lt. Col. Helen Hamilton Woods (above) of Washington, D. r, was assigned to the post of Dep uty Director of the Women’s Army Corps. She v;as assistant to Col. Ovieta Culp Holly, former WAC director, in the early days of the organization. (International) COMMUTE VOTE KILLS $25 DOLE Senate Finance Group Against Federal Supple ment To State Funds WASHINGTON, Sept. 11— (fPj — The Senate Finance committee late today voted against any Fed eral supplements to increase state payments to the jobless, but ap proved aid to make the maximum duration 26 weeks in all states. Chairman George, (D.-Ga.) an nounced after a two-hour session that the group had agreed tenta tively on a bill also embracing 1, Unemployment compensation for all Federal civil workers. Rates will be at the same rates as are paid by the state where the Federal workers is employed. Federal workers abroad will be paid the District of Columbia scale. 2, Transportation payments to enable migrant workers to return to their former homes, or to a place of new empoyment. It was agreed to limit individual pay ments to a maximum ol $200 and to allow only travel for a worker and his dependents. No allowance was approved for movement of household effects. George said no estimate had been received as to what the Re vised measure might cost and no ted that in any case the cost would depend on the extent of unemploy ment. It had received an estimate that the cost of the original bill, includ ing the now-defeated $25 proposal, might run as high as $2,000,000,000. The number of Federal em ployes who would be brought under unempoyment compensa tion by the measures is about 3, 000,000. Most of them are employ ed in sir yards, arsenals or other industrial establishments. Left out of the committee bill were two groups who were includ ed in the original Kilgore meas ure: 1. Processors of agricultural pro ducts, Kilgore proposed to bring them under unemployment com pensation. George said there was no vote at all on this. 2. Veterans. The Kigore bill pro vided an increase from $20 to ?2o in the weekly allowance to un employed veterans, plus a $5 a W’eek allowance to those with de pendents. George said this was not cons.dered because separate legis lation dealing with veterans is pending. WEATHER (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours •nding 7:30 p.m., yesterday. Temperature „ 7:30 am. 78; 7:30 am, 79; 1:30 pm, 86; 7:3G pm, 81. Maximum 89; Minimum 76; Mean 82; Normal 74. Humidity 1:30 am. 98; 7:30 am, 93; 1:30 pm, 58; 7:3G pm, 84. Precipitation oni - for 24 hours ending 7:30 pm 0.00 inches. Total since the first of the month 3 (8 inches. (v, Tides For Today IT F(cm Tide Tables published bj • s- Coast and Geodetic Survey.) t».. High Lou wumington _ 1:15a 8:38a w , l:55p 9:12i wasonboro Inlet _11:25a 5:00« ~ . ll:29p 5:39i aunnse, 5:53a; Sunset, 6:23p; Moonrisi dPi; Moonset, 9:57p. stage at Fayetteville at 8 a.m. Tuesday, 1.05 feet. (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 2] NA TIVE HELP IS GAINED KOREANS COOPERATE Leaders Helping To Set Up American Military Government By HUGH CRUMPLER United Press Staff Correspondent KEIJO, Korea, Sept. 11.—Kor eans were joining with American military personnel today to set up an American military government which is being stablished to re place gradually the Japanese ad ministration that has held Korea in bondage. (At Tokyo, MacArthur directed the 24th Corps Command in Korea to replace all Japanese in govern mental positions as rapidly as possible consistent with safe op eration, it was announced in To kyo.) Americans obtained Korean co operation despite the opposition of some Koreans to maintaining Jap anese officials on a temporary basis. The Japanese government of Governor-General Noboyuki Abe, although remaining in office for the present, will not be permitted to take any independent action. Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge, Ameri can military commander, has an nounced that the Japanese admin istration would be maintained in southern Korea until 100,000 Ameri can troops have been landed as a occupation force. A provisional Korean commis sion, representing all classes and all political parties, is working together in this part of Korea and hopes to take over the government soon. It is headed by Woon Kong Lyuh, former representative of a sewing machine company (Singer) in Korea, It is not connected with any of the overseas exile Korean administrations, Koreans sources say. American soldiers thus far have found Keijo one of the most pleas ant of the Far Eastern capitals. They say it is one of the cleanest. Koreans equalled or perhaps even outdid the Filipinos at Ma nila in cheering the entry of Am erican troops into their capital, and the city promises to be a G. I. paradise. “Incidents” continued to occur in connection with the occupation. Two students were killed by Japanese police yesterday when they tried to take over the police station. Their action was not in conjunction with a general move ment, it was indicative of Korean feeling toward the American poli cy of leaving Japanese police in office. Korean sources estimate 35 Kor eans have been killed by Japanese police since Aug. 15, but not one Japanee has been kileld by a Korean as far as is known. With Japanese has been killed by a position as police over the Korean people, they are regarded here more as the ^Allies” of America than an enemy. TAX REDUCTIONS NOW SEEMS SURE, CAPITAL OBSERVERS STATES WASHINGTON, Sept. 11— HI — Tax reductions on 1946 incomes— individual and corporate — were virtually assured today. The tax initiating House Ways and Means committee voted unanimously to proceed quicky with writing the first post-war tax bill. The size of the first peacetime cut of wartime pocketbook burdens became an immediate matter of controversy. Chairman Doughton (D-NC) told newspapermen “I ‘hope we can give some relief to individuals and corporations both, but I can’t say in detail just what we will do.” The tax revisions must be on the statute books \fj November 1. he said, if they are to affect 1946 in dividual incomes. He explained that the early date is necessary to allow preparation of new tax forms by the treasury. Senate Group Calls Marshall, King Today WASHINGTON, Sept. 11— (ff) Congress, under fire to get the boys back home faster, undertook today to divert some of the heal to ATmy and Navy leaders. The Senate Military commit tee invited General of the Amies George C. Marshall and Fleet Ad miral Ernest J. King to come tc the capitol tomorrow and ex plain their demobilization plans Bolstering sentiment for public hearings was a War Departmeni report that the Army totaled 8, 050,000 on September 1, a net r duction from a year earlier ol 53,000. The committee also re ceived assurances that the Armj is discharging 11,000 men a daj and hopes to double that figure soon. MacArthur Orders Arrest Of Top Japs; Amr/f)can Blood Keeping Tojo Alive; Me lfitbatten Accepts Surrender Today p * Singapore Will Change HandsAgain DIGNIFIED PROGRAM British To Reap Vengeance for Rankling Defeat By Japanese SINGAPORE, Sept. 11.—(IP)— Britain reaps vengeance for her rankling defeat of 3 1-2 years ago when Japan’s southern armies formally surrender tomorrow at this mighty naval bastion. (Singapore broadcasts heard in London said Adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Southeast Asia Commander, had arrived there to receive the surrender). Everything held consistent with Imperial dignity will be done to recover, in the surrender cere mony, the “face” Britain lost when the tide of Japanese con quest washed over Singapore Feb. 15, 1942, and Lt. Gen. A. E. Per cival, commanding, yielded uncon ditionally to haughty Lt. Gen. To moyuki Yamashita. The surrender ceremony will be public. The British want all Singapore residents who can to see the Japanese humbled. Japanese labor parties, under Indian guards, toiled today to manicure the turf on the Padang for tomorrow’s outdoor show, which will precede the actual signing of the surrender. High-ranking Japanese Army and Navy officers, headed by Lt. Gen. Seishiro Itagaki, commander of the Japanese Seventh Army, will be drawn up in their brass and braid for the formalities. They include the chief of staff of Japanese southern armies, with headquarters at Saigon, French Indo-China, and the com manders of the Third Area, Burma area and 18th Armies. But the ceremony will be rob bed of some of its savor by the absence of Field Marshal Count (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 5) SIMON TO SUBMIT PLANNING REPORT A special committee to hear the report of George W. Simons, Jr., City planning consultant, on his in dustrial and economic survey of Wilmington, has been invited t o meet with the City Planning Board at 11 a.m. today at the Wilmington Savinj s and Trust Co. ‘ Mr. Simons arrived in Wilming ton from Jacksonville, Fla., yes terday afternoon with a nearly completed draft of the survey. There are few details missing from the report, but it is hoped that they will be incorporated with the final draft after today’s meeting of the Planning Board. The planning consultant began the survey last February, and has been working with his staff at J ack sonville, making frequent visits to Wilmington for consultation with City officials, as well as civic and industrial leaders. Hie completed report will con tain several hundred pages of in formation, charts and maps on the entire srutheastern section of North Carolina, with emphasis on the u» mediate tributary area of Wilming ton. 1_ _1 Bill Provides Death For Atomic “Leahs” WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—(/P) — Legislation providing the death penalty for divulging^, atomic bomb secrets to for-' eign powers was introduced to d.y by Chairman Sumners (D Tex) of the House Judiciary committee. "Some safeguard to protect our interests should be taken pending a determination of policy,” commented the veteran legislator. "Everybody is discussing what T.ve should do about this ter rible weapon. We have invest ed $2,000,000,000 in public funds in it. We have in it the world’s most powerful force, yet with all this talking we may be letting the secret out before we formally determine what policy we should adopt.” MINISTERS OPEN HISTORIC PARLEY Peace Treaty With Italy Tops Agenda Arranged At First Session LONDON, Sept. 11 —(U.R)— Fore ign Ministers of the five big Allied powers, opening a historic confer ence designed to restore world or der, agreed in their ninitial session today that a peace treaty with Italy first of the Axis countries to fall will be the first order of busi ness. Spending three hours and 15 min utes in outlining the agena for the conference, the Foreign Ministers of the United States, Russia, Great Britain, France and China agreed to approach their problems in the order listed at the Big Three Ber lin conference. This was announced in a state ment by the British Foreign office on the first day’s meeting, which said that “it was agreed to pro ceed first with discussions of ques tions referred to the council by the Berlin conference.” Under this program, the treaty with Italy comes first, followed by consideration of treaties with Hun gary, Romania and Finland. In a press conference before the meet ing, U. S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes said that discussion of control of European waterways would come next. The Foreign Office statement specifically stated that the agenda would be left open for discussion of subjects not directed to the council’s attention by the Berlin Conference. This leaves the door open for consider of many ticklish problems, such as the dardanelles and the Runr, which Russia and France are anxious to present to the Council. Byrnes said at his press confer ence, however, that discussions on control of the atomic bomb and the problems of Germany, Palestine and India are not on the agenda. The discussions are taking place in three languages. Informed sour ces said the first meeting was con ducted in an air of extreme cordi ality and that no difficulties were met in reaching afreement on the agenda. An expected Russian de mand for consideration of Balkan peace treaties before that with It aly failed to materialize. The statement said that chair manship of the meeting will rotate, with Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov acting as chairman of tomorrow’s first plenary session. The delegates’ deputies will meet in the mornings to do the spade work, and the Ministers themselves will meet in the afternoons for ary sessions. Ex-Premier Puts Bullet In Himself SUICIDE TRY FAILS Makes Statesment Accept ing Responsibility For Pacific War By FRANK H. BARTHOLOMEW and FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondents TOKYO, Sept. 11.—Gen. Hideko Tojo, instigator of the Pearl Har bc. attacks and of the Pacific War, shot himself in the stomach at 4:21 p.m. Tokyo time today (3:21 a.m. EWT) when told he was being arrested as a war cri minal. . “I assume responsibility for the war,” he said. ‘‘I now realize it was bad for the people. I am now happy to die. Banzai.” Six hours later, he arrived at thw U. S. Army’s 98th Evacuation Hospital in Yokohama, still alive after a number of transfusions of American blood. American doc tors said he might recover. The fallen war lord apparently acted on the spur of the moment. He was locked alone in the study of his home in the suburbs of To kyo, 12 miles from the city pro per, when he pressed the muzzle of a .32 caliber pistol to his ab domen and pulled the trigger. Cor respondent Bartholomew was at his side when he became conscious 23 minutes later. “I wanted to die by the sword but the pistol had to do,” he whis pered. He used his next labored breath to take responsibility for the war and to say ‘‘Banzai.” (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 4) DR. 1.0. SCHAUB QUITS AT STATE RALEIGH, N. C.’/sept. 11—(At— Dr. I. O. Schaub, whose name has been linked with North Carolina’s march toward agricultural diver sification and progress since 1909, has resigned as dean of the N. C. State College School of Agricul ture, Chancellor J. W. Harrelson announced today. Dr. L. D. Baver, director of the State Agricultural experiment sta tions, has been appointed to suc ceed Dr. Schaub. Dr. Schaub, affectionately known as “The Dean” by thousands of Tar Heel farmers, agriculture leaders, statesmen and scientists, will devote his full time as direc tor of the State College Extension Service, a post he has held since July 1, 1924. Harrelson said the Agricultural Service’s functions had grown to widespread proportions under Dean Schaub’s direction and that the college’s Extension Service is recognized as “one of the most out standing services of its kind in the nation.” He paid tribute to Schaub’s "ex ceptionally fine job” since he in augurated boys’ 4-H Club work in the state in 1909. He added that Dean Schaub’s resignation was ac cepted “with regret” by the execu tive committee of the board of trus tees of the Greater University of North Carolina and by the col lege’s administration. I.___ Give Preacher A Snake Funeral Members of the Dolly Pond Church of God, near Daisy, Tenn., are pictured giving their deceased preacher, Lewis Ford, the sort of fun eral he wanted, fondling snakes at his casket—among them the snake that killed him. Struck by the snake as he was handling it, Ford con tinued preaching ten minutes and died an hour later. (International) General Kennedy Leaves Fort Bragg For Atlanta BRITISH SEEKING HUGE LOAN HERE Republican Outbrusts Herald Hot Debate Over Question In Congress WASHINGTON, Sept. 11— (/P) — Britain’s Labor government open ed negotiations today for a multi billion dollar American loan and a Republican House member imme diatey demanded “just what kind of saps do they think we are?” Rep. Knutson (R-Minn) declared that in seeking financial assistance here the British are asking the American people “to finance the assoialization of the United King dom through the forcible acquis tion of business and industry.” Rep. Curtis (R-Neb), also refer ring to the program of change pro jected by Britain’s new Labor gov ernment, said he understood ‘‘that negotiations are now underway wherein England is attempting to borrow from the United States the sum of $6,000,000,000.” “This is not a loan to relieve starving people, or suffering hu manity or to defeat a Hitler,” Cur tis declared. “The purpose of this exploitation of the American tax payer is to furnish funds so that the English government can buy the Bank of England, their mines and their railroads.” Whatever kind of financial as sistance American negotiators finally agree on with the British —and the prospects are that they will plan some sort of credit ar rangement amounting to at least $3,000,000,000—will have to be ap (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 5) , FORT BRAGG, Sept. 11— (Special)—Brigadier General John T. Kennedy, World War II com mander of Fort Bragg has been transferred to Headquarters Fourth Service Command, Atlan ta, for re-assignment. Col. Landon C. Rosser, executive officer is serving as commanding officer until a new commanding general reports for duty which is expected to be Saturday. General Kennedy was named commanding general of Fort Bragg the week before Pearl Har bor, on December 2, 1941 to be exact. He is the 30th on the list of outstanding officers who have received the assignment. Under the leadership of General Kennedy, Fort Bragg served the nation as one of the most impor tant training centers and the work carried on here has gained Fort Bragg a prominent place in the annuals of World War II. The overall commplishments of Fort Bragg would stagger the imagina tion. Even before large numbers oi men began to pass through the Post for redeployment or separa tion, the total number of men hav ing some contact at Fort Bragg was well over a million. It was General Kennedy’s re sponsibility to administer the Army service forces activities oi this huge post and at the same time coordinate these activities with the many Army ground forc es units undergoing training on the reservation. The superior rec ord of Fort Bragg reflects his tire less effort, skill in management (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 3) INDIANS THREATENS TO TAKE CONTROL OF COUNTRY IN 5 YEARS POONA, INDIA, Sept. 11—(JR— A warning that the Indians them selves would take control of their country within five years, if the British did not allow them to do, so earlier, was made today by Sardar Valabhai Pate, high rank ing member of the Congress par ty’s working committee. In an interview with the Asso ciated Press on the eve of the meeting of the Congress working committee, Patel said the Congress was waiting to see whether the new Labor government would come forward with a proposal. Asked whether he had in his mind any time limit for India to get her independence, Patel said: “We will not wait long.” Reminded that the new Labor government could normally expect to remain in office five years, he was then asked whether India would take matters in her own hands if no acceptable offer ap peared within that time. “We will certainly settle affairs i before five years,” he declared. Rotarians Hear Interesting Story Of Institute Of Government From Lips Of Man Who Started It Hotarians yesterday heard Dr, Albert Coates, director of the In stitute of Government at the Uni versity of North Carolina de scribe the initiation of the school and its development into the out standing position it now holds as a practical training ground for city, county and state public of ficials. Dr. Coates, who has been de scribed by associates as an edu cator “who had the courage to gel off the beaten path,” said that the idea had grown out of his expe rience in teaching law at the Uni versity, when he was suddenlj struck with the wide gap betwe^r law as it was taught in schools and its practical application. At that time, he said, he was teaching criminal law from a case book of Supreme Court decisions on appeals. After realizing that only four-tenths of one per cent of all court cases ever get into the Supreme Court, he started inves tigating other departments to see what their teaching practice was. Finding social science and relat ed subjects in worse case with pro fessors teaching platitudes, which he defined as “a truth which has lost its truthfulness," he began his search for the knowledge that is used in the every day practice ot law which he realized was in the brains of the officials in charge of administering it. Too many young men could trace Caesar around Rome b u t were lost in their own city halls and court houses—too many citi zens could read Latin but not their ballots. This he described as the gap between schools and govern ment. So Dr. Coates went to school. He went to school first with law enforcement officers, actually working with police, at headquart ers and patrolmen on beats, fol lowing officers into court to see the work between the prosecuting attorney and the arresting officer. He learned their problems, the mistakes that were being made and saw the law in its practical application. Working with sheriff’s officers, state highway patrolmen and fed eral investigators, he got a wide view on law enforcement and by going to Justice of the Peace courts, Recorder’s courts and Su perior Court he followed cases through to penal incarceration and finally parole. Members of his staff worked in the same manner with other de partments of government such as city accounting, tax listing, finan cing and budget forming. Dr. Coates made the point that in North Carolina, we have built a pyramid of overlapping govern ments; city, county, state and fed eral with citizens paying taxes to all of them. Officials of the four govern ments, often working on the same problem affecting the same people (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 3) Forty High Officials To Be Held ON CRIMINAL LIST Occupation Zone Expan" sion Continues With More Landings E x p e c t e d TOKYO, Sept. 11.—{£>)— Tighten, ing the occupation grip on Japan, General MacArthur today ordered 40 important Japanese held for questioning and one of them, for* mer Premier Hideki Tojo of Pearl Harbor infamy, promptly shot and gravely wounded himself. Ten members of the cabinet w -h helped the former dictator plunge Nippon into war with the United States were among the ranking personages ordered de tained. Steady expansion of the occupa tion zones continued. It was an nounced that two more landings would.be made shortly. The U. S. 81st Infantry Division was schedul ed to go ashore at Aomori, north ern Honshu, about Sept. 23. A few da>* later the U. S. 77th Infantry Division and the Ninth Corps headquarters will land at Otaru, on Hokkaido, the northernmost home island. MacArthur’s directive ordering important Nipponese political Army and Navy figures into cus tody included Lt. Gen. Masahara Homma, Japanese commander ia the Philippines. Homma was re sponsible for the “Death March” from Bataan. Others, a headquarters spokes man said, were Jose Laurel, pup pet president of the Philippines; Jorge Vargas, puppet ambassador to Japan; Heinrich Stahmer, Ger man ambassador to Japan, and Pratap Mahendra, president of the “Aryan Army,” SWG pro-Japa nese organization. Tojo’s Pearl Harbor cabinet as sociates ordered held were Adm. Shigetara Shimada, Shigenori To go, Nobusuke Kishi, Rear Adm. Ken Terashima, Michiyo Iwamura, Kunihiko Hashida, Hiroya Ino, Chikahiko Koisumi and Sadaichi Suzuki. ■"'acArthur already had abolish ed t’ ■ Imperial General Headquar ters and ordered censorship on Ja pan’s newspapers and radios. Japanese headquarters, center of Nippon militarism where the Pearl Harbor plan was drawn up, ■ was ordered dissolved by Thurs 1 day. Any newspaper or radio station • apprehended in the act of stirring ■ up unrest or issuing false infor mation will be closed under Mac [ Arthur’s order. ! (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 1) GROUP WILL ASK WILSON HUT USE A resolution requesting the City of Wilmington and New Hanover County, joint owners of Woodrow Wilson Hut, at Fourth and Prin cess streets, to turn over the build ing for use as headquarters for the Chamber of Commerce, Port Traf fic Association, the Traffic League and an Industrial Agent for Wil mington, if and when such a man is appointed, was unanimously adopted yesterday afternoon at a meeting c a joint city-county busi nessmen group. City Commissioner J. L. Wade presided over the meeting which was held at the Hut and among others attending were Addison Hew lett, Jr., and Harry R. Gardner, representing the New Hanover County Board of Commissioners, City Commissioner Garland S. Cur rin and Mr. Wade, representing the city, and a group representing the business and industriai interests of the city. The resolution, as adopted yes terday, will be presented to the City Commissioners at their regu lar meeting this morning by a committee representing all inter ests. In addition, a group of busi nessmen will be invited to sit in' on today’s meeting. Receiving the whole-hearted and unqualified approval of those pre sent including a representative of a Wilmington railroad, the resolu tion also set forth that an architect be invited to meet with the com mittees for the purpose of suggest ing plans for re-arrangement of the interior of Woodrow Wilson Hut.
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