FORECAST I”————— North Carolina-Rain and windy SeiTed By Leased Wire* Monday followed by clear weather and |f the diminishing winds Tuesday. Squalls and A qqswsy A II DDPCQ heavy rain over east portions Monday AOiSULln 1 r uDOtJ and Monday night with danger of de- and the structive winds on the coast. Little ITNlTITn PR ITGG change in temperature Monday; warm- „„ 11 ~u . er Tuesday. With Complete Corerace at __ ' State and National Newe VOL. 78.—NO. 267. _ WILMINGTON, N. C., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1945____ ESTABLISHED 1867 I r ^ar^y Christmas may seem quite a long way off to many, but here’s Barbara Hale, Hollywood starlet, to remind you that there are many Yanks in far-away spots and get ting those precious packages on their way is important. They should be in the post office between Sept. 15 and Oct. 15 (International) AMERICAN OWNERS TO GET UTILITY Chinese Government Plans Return Of Shanghai Power Plant By WALTER RUNDLE United Press Staff Correspondent SHANGHAI, Sept. 16.—(U.PJ—Chi nese government officials prepared today to return the city power plant —keystone of Shanghai public util ities—to its American owners to morrow in the first major test of Chungking’s 1943 treaty guarantee ing return of foreign property seiz ed by the Japanese. The city water plant will be re turned to its British owners at the same time, a government spokes man said. The development came as Adm. Thomas C. Kinkaid, Seventh Fleet commander, arrived on a mine sweeper to examine progress made in removing mines in the harbor and other obstructions to evacua tion of war prisoners, and as arm ed Japanese still swaggered through the streets. Kinkaid left his flagship, the Rocky Mount, earlier today and boarded the minesweeper for the journey. The Rocky Mount and other vessels have been cruising off Shanghai for three days, while U. S. and Japanese minesweepers worked to clear the approaches. Foreign interests were watching closly Chungking’s handling of the utilities problem for indications as to whether other property held by the Japanese will be returned tb foreign owners. Chinpcn and n 1 i+Vl ties began forcing Japanese to e turn thousands of tons of coal to the power plant, where only six hays supplies are on hand now. The Japanese have been selling the coal throughout the city. Meanwhile date for return of oth er utilities has not been set. The Telephone company, taken over in the name of T. C. Tsao, director general of the Shanghai Public Utilities Commission, still is sub Uct to negotiation as is the Shang hai Gas Company. U. S. Army officials, while ad mitting that the disarmament and segregation of enemy forces was Proceeding slower than anticipated, said today they were confident the switch of control in Shanghai would be completed within the next five hays and without incident. Despite these assurances, the for eign community in Shanghai found (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) WEATHER (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. yesterday. Temperature 1:20 a.m. 74.0; 7:30 a.m. 73.0; 1:30 p.m. 8G-0; 7:30 p.m. 74.0. Maximum 81; Minimum 72; Mean 76; Normal 70. Humidity 1-30 a.m., 91; 7:30 a.m., 68; 1:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 91. Precipitation Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m., 0r>6 inches. Total since of the first of the month.._ fl-77 inches. Tides Tomorrow High Low Wilmington 5:41 a.m. 12.48 a.m. 6:22 p.m. 12:58 p.m. Masonboro Inlet 3:20 a.m. 9:41 a.m. " 4:05 p m. 10:35 p.m. Tomorrow's sunrise 5:57 Sunset 6:16. Tomorrow’s moonrise 3:47 p.m. Moon Set 12:53 a.m. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) MILITARISTS CROWD PRISON TOKYO, Monday, Sept. 17.— — Japan’s militarists crowded Yokohama’s prison today and with the technical arrest of Shigenori Togo—who as foreign minister he’p ed plunge his nation into a d!s astrous war—the manhunt for top rung war criminal suspects was nearly ended. General MacArthur summoned Japan’s Premier Higashi-Kuni to his headquarters and it was be lieved he told the prince the same grim facts laid down to the new censored Japanese press Saturday. That was a blunt statement Japan was a beaten nation. equal of the Allies; hence HigaSi. Kuni’s government could not nego. tiate with the victorious powers but would do as it was told. With Japan’s 3,000,000-man home army more than half disarmed, Admiral Halsey announced his Third Fleet demolition squads had dismantled the once-formidable coastal defenses south and east of Tokyo. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 6) Italy Ready To Fight Territorial Demands LONDON, Sept. 16.—CU.R)—Italy’s Foreign Minister and a delegation of experts were enroute to Lon don tonight to battle in person at the Council of Foreign Ministers against Yugoslav and Austrian de mands which they claim would bring economic ruin to their war ravaged country. Acide De Gasperi left Ciampino airport at Rome at about the same time a Jugoslav .delegation headed by Vice Permier Edward Kardeij left Belgrade for London. The two foreign ministers will meet tomorrow in the ornate com mittee room in Lancaster House where the foreign ministers will hold their sixth and largest meet ing. Kardeij is the most outspoken Yugoslavian proponent of heavy reparations and territorial con cessions from Italy. If he wins the fight for Istria, Italy will be deprived of her entire production of aluminum, more than 1,000,000 tons of coal produced annually, the ports of Trieste and Fiume and their shipyards, factories and fish ing industries. The Yugoslav delegation in cludes Sava Kosanovitch, Minister of Information; Drago Marusitch, Minister for Posts and Telegraph, and Dr. Uavle Gregorich, Minister for Croatia . The Austrian demands for South Tyrol were presented through an Austrian committee in London, and although Austria is an enemy country, Italy fears her proposals because they were reported to have the support of Russia. Loss of South Tyrol would de prive Italy of industrial power feeding industries in Lombnrdy and Venetia provinces. In 46 years as master of the South Tyrol, Italy has invested billions of Lira in power plants that produce 500, 000 kilowatts, 14 per cent of Italy’s total production of electric power. The area also includes the bauxite mines in the Bolzano and Mori areas. Italy apparently was resigned (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) HALSEY GETS RIDE ON HORSE BUT IT WAS NOT HIROHITO’S TOKYO, Sept. 16.—)—Admiral Halsey rode a horse in Tokyo to day—but it wasn’t white and it didn’t belong to Emperor Hirohito. The Third Fleet boss once an nounced it was his ambition to ride Hirohito’s white horse down To kyo’s main stem. Well, peace came and so did Halsey. But the Admiral veered off course and said he’d never been on a horse. This was painful to the Reno, Nev., chamber of commerce. It had heard of his ambition and sent along a silver-trimmed saddle. Halsey’s old friend, Maj. Gen. William Chase had also heard of the yearning and so when the Admiral visited the First Cavalry Division commander today there was a horse saddled and waiting. It wasn’t white. It was gray. It was a nag. Chase grinned. The horse was non-committal. Halsey was game. He climbed aboard, settled him self amidships, got the horse once around the bivouac grounds, then debarked with alacrity. “Don’t leave me alone with ’bi animal,” Halsey grinned. “I was never so scared in my life.” --- I REDS APOLOGIZE FOR BOMBER SHOT TOKYO, Sept. 16.— W) Genera] MacArthur lodged a strong protest with the Russians who shot down a U. S. Superfort over northern Korea and the Soviets subsequent ly apologized for the “mistake,” Supreme Headquarters announced today. The text of the protest over the incident, which occurred Aug. 29, was not disclosed. Headquarters saic. its language was strong. Headquarters gave this account: The Superfort was flying over Russian - controlled Korea when Russian fighter planes intercepted it and by signals attempted to force it to land at a nearby air field. The big bomber headed toward the sea and the fighters again tried to force it to land. Then they made a third pass, shooting out an engine and the pilot ordered the crew to bail out. The report here said all mem bers of the crew managed to es cape. MacArthur’s protest pointed out that the Superfort was obviously an American plane and had been shot down after the'Japanese had been ordered to cease fire and keep all their planes grounded. The protest was filed a few days after the incident. The Russians replied that the shooting was to be regretted, that it was a mistake but that Russian fliers knew some Japanese planes still were in the The Russians said their pilots thought the Japanese might have repaired a Superfort forced down in Japan and were taking no chances. It wasn’t learned whether Mac Arthur considered the case closed. This was the only known case where the Russians had any con tact with the Americans’ long - range bomber. BLUMADVOCATES BLOC OF NATIONS PARIS, Sept. 16.—(A*)—Former Premier Leon Blum says the for mation of a western European bloc of nations is "one of the necessary conditions” for world peace but that the group must not be anti-Russian politically or anti-American economically. Blum, in a front page editorial printed in the Socialist party’s organ Le Populaire today, said he and “our labor party com rades in Britain” hope for inti mate rapprochement between Britain and France so the two nations “can exercise increased influence in the organization ol universal peace.” The socialist ex-premier declar ed a strong union of France and Britain “will forcibly result in at tracting to unified Britain and France democratic states of north ern and western Europe as well as the future Italian and Spanish republics.” But Blum warned “there is pc hope of constructing world peace without the cordial and confident (Continued on Page Three; Col. lj China s Premier Enroute * Home After Money Talks By MORRIS J. HARRIS (Associated Press News Analyst and formerly chief of bureau at Shanghai) Dr. T. V. Soong, China’s Premier, is e'nroute back to Chungking to day after far-reaching but unpub lishable conversations In Washing ton. “T. V.,” as he is known to his i- timates, declined to discuss the details of his objective with news men. Instead he dismissed report ers’ questions with, “we talked about most everything,” and gave the impression satisfactory solu tions were arrived at In a word, it can be said Soong was here about “credit ararnge ments.” The talks will get no such airing as those now going on here between American and British of ficials on what is to be done about British needs. But the Chinese talks are as vital to our future in th-; Pacific area as those with the Eiitish are to the future in Eu rope. After virtually 15 years of war, China is down to bedrock in her needs. The nation comprises about 450,000,000 persons, virtually all (Continued on Page Three; Col. 11 t \ BJg Blow Heads For Charleston Moving 50 Million Dollar Toll f In Florida; Gulf Cities Escape w a. Okeechobee Dikes Hold During Blow TRUCK CROPS SUFFER Daytona Beach, Palm Beach, Other Points Es cape Serious Damage WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Sept. 16.—(A3)—Hurricane winds estimated at 90 miles an hour swept Lake Okeechobee last night, and the dikes held. There were no deaths. This report, so different from that of 1928 when another hurri cane pushed the water out of the lake and drowned about 2,000 per cons, came to Disaster Chairman W. H. Hitt at West Palm Beach today. Dikes were thrown up around Lake Okeechobee, huge fresh water body in the central part of South Florida, by Army Engi neers after the disaster of 1938. The Dikes were a major project costing millions of dollars. Their purpose is to hold lake waters in when hurrican winds blow. Last night they got their first test. No one ventured atop the great embankments in the darkness lit by plicking flashes of hurricane lightning as the storm roared louder and louder until the 90 mile velocity was reached. But today, with the winds gone and the sun returning, the lake was in the lake bed, not spread over scome of the riches farmland in the United States. The dikes stood like ramparts, untouched by the storm. Residents will breathe easily henceforth when the dread red and black flags of the hurricane warning go up in this region. Cro?s were extensively dam aged, but not even one personal injury was reported. In West Palm Beach and Palm Beach proper, the wind struck a maximum sustained velo city of 75 miles an hour, with guets that touched 82 miles at 11 p. m. There were no deaths or injuries, but damage to trees and shrubbery was considerable. GALE BORN DURING HEIGHT OF HURRICANE WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Sept. 16.—(TP)—Gale was born difring last night’s hurricane— Karen Gale Landau. Her parents, Lt. and Mrs. Carl Landu, took shelter in the Norton Art Gallery for the duration of the storm. The baby was born there while 75-mile winds whistled cutside. . WILMIN GTONIANS Wilmingtonians have been watch ing and listening with keen eye and ear the progress of the cur rent hurricane that has swept (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) LUCAS SUGGESTS STRONG COUNSEL WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—(ff)— The Pearl Harbor investigating committee was urged by Senator Lucas (D.-Ill.) today to draft as counsel “a man in whom the pub lie will nave complete commence. Lucas, a committee member, told a reporter he intends to sug gest at an organization meeting this week that it obtain the ser vices of some law school dean or other person of national stature who has no active connection with politics. “It is imperative that we find a man for the chief of our investi gation staff who will have the confidence of the public,” the Illinois Senator declared. “We want an impartial investigation, without politics entering into it, and the counsel must be a man above reproach.” Senators Ferguson (R-Mich) and Brewster (R-Me) .agreed with Lucas1 analysis. But they said that if the committee is to get anywhere, it will have to have a staff trained in investigation work. “We Will be wasting time if we don’t have a preliminary investi gation by a staff that know's what they are doing,” Ferguson de clared. “We can’t just start hear ings without advance work being done.” (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) J Quebec Hails Miracle Girl As "Bernadette” Here are some of the hundreds of people who come to visit the spring at Val D’or daily. In the presence of 5,000 persons, Pierette i§ reported to ha ve brought about her latest miracle at this spot. The Church is investigating the incidents concerning the 13-year-old girl who is being hailed as Quebec’s Bernadette of Lourdes” by more and more persons each day. (International Exclusive) Kelsey-Hayes Strike Continues; Labor Troubles Will Face Truman - ■ ■ — v >!■ _ President May Speed Reorganization As Solution WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.-GF)— President Truman may be forced to accelerate his planned govern ment reorganization to cope with current and looming labor trou bles. With more than 200,000 workers now idle because of disputes, and other strikes which would throw another 325,000 out of work threat ened, the government is less pre pared to meet a labor crisis than at any time in the past decade in the opinion of top officials. Chief concern is over lack of any place of the War Labor Board, tribunal or machinery to take the place of the War Labor Board which the President has ordered liquidated. It is taking no new cas es unless both parties agree be forehand to abide by its decisions. The proposed Labor-Manage ment Conference, from which some substitute for the WLB may emerge, will not be called before Oct. 29 and perhaps not until Ncv. 5. Chairman George W. Taylor of the War Labor Board says there is no justification for believing there is a wave of unrest, however. He blames “bottleneck” strikes for most of the present idleness. Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach, old friend of the president who was to have a free hand in reorganizing strengthen ing and consolidating government labor services, is known to be concerned over the lack of Auc tioning machinery to help with settlements. . His department reorganization timetable got caught in a political storm which has been raging under cover between agencies on Capitol Hill and in democratic party coun cils, over placing the U. S. Em ployment Service and the unem ployment Compensation Agency un der Schwellenbach’s wing. These and other controversial factors have tied up the plan for reorganizing other key postwar de partments as well, such' as Com merce and the Veterans Adminis tration, it was learned. Mr. Truman’s advisors, mindful of the labor situation, are expect ed to press for swift action to re move the block when the president returns this week from Missouri. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) JOHN MCCORMACK DIES AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS AT HOME IN IRELAND DUBLIN, Sept. 16.—(#)—John McCormack, world famous tenor, died at his home in County Dublin tonight after a brief illness. He was 61. The great Irish singer has been living quietly in Booterstown, just outside Dublin, under doctor’s orders to give up singing. “I guess my bellows are over stretched from holding those long ones,” he said in an interview only two months ago. “While I was on a concert tour for the Eritish Red Cross my health broke down and the doctor ordered me to leave the concert stage and come to Ireland for a rest.” Later McCormack’s health was reported to be somewhat improv ed. He still had difficulty in breathing, however. “Tails” On Must List Now In London “Spots” LONDON, Sept. 16.—Uf)—It matters not how sparse the fare, London’s swank restaur ants are decreeing that, now the war's over, customers m ist wear evening clothes to order it. Headwaiters in several West End places hand customers neat little cards telling them to wear evening dress next time. Other spots are warning that full dress will be necessary during Christmas. “Out of courtesy to the la dies,” says one notice, “it is expected that gentlemen will wear uniforms, evening dress or dinner jackets.” TRUMAN RETURNS TO WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—W— President Truman returned to Washington tonight to look into la >or disturbances and to complete plans for changes in his adminis ;ration. His big C-54 airliner, in which le flew to Missouri to visit ‘Mama” and the home folks over .he week-end, landed at National Airport at 7:55 P.M. Eastern War rime. It was the President’s first light landing. He drove at once to ;he White House. His last admonition from his mo :her, 92-year-old Mrs. Martha Tru man was to “be good and be *ame.” He said before leaving Kansas City that he would look into the ;roubled labor situation in Detroit where the stoppage of production at Ford Motor Company plants has thousands of men out of work. Mr. Truman is expected to dis cuss rumored changes in the War Department command at a news conference at 4 p.m. Tuesday. Reports have been current that Henry L. Stimson,. Secretary ol War, is anxious to retire, and that General George C. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, may do likewise, possibly to be succeeded by Gen eral Dwight Eisenhower. The President flew here from Grandview, Mo., where he took off at 2:40 p.m. EWT after saying goodbye to his mother at the air port. His wife and daughter, Mar garet, who also saw him off will return to Washington in about twc weeks. About 100 persons were al the grandview field. 80,000 Workers Idled With 325,000 More On Walkout List DETROIT, Sept. 16— (ff) —Strik ing Kelsey-Hayes workers refused today to heed the call of their union executives and resume pro duction of vital automotive parts. Thus the gigantic automotive in dustry started a new reconversion work week with strikes and shut downs making 80,000 men and women idle in the Detroit area, and the threat of strikes involving some 500,000 more over the na tion. The United automobile Workers (CIO) has pledged $4,000,000 —vir tually all its resources—to a fight for an industry-wide 30 percent wage increase. Of auto’s Big Three, Ford has already closed, blaming lack of vital parts; General Motors has been served notice that the union will call on the NLRB to conduct a strike vote, and Chrysler waits on the outcome of a union meeting called for next Sunday which will determine whether a similar vote will be sought. • Only 350 of the 4,500 Kelsey Hayes workers, on a “wildcat” (Continued on Page Three; Col. 7) U. S. NOWREADY FOR WAR CRIMES TRIALS JACKSON DECLARES NUERNBERG, Sept. 16.—(A>)— Chief U. S. war crime prosecutor Robert H. Jackson said today that the United States expects to be ready to begin trials of Nazi war leaders by November 1, but that Russia, Britain and France were behind in their preparations which might cause further delay and pos sibly force the Americans to go ahead on their own. As he formally established headquarters of the American di vision of the War Crime Commis sion here today, Jackson sought scrupulously to avoid giving any impression that lack of coopera tion by any of the other powers caused the delay. But his 'disap pointment with the slowness of preparations for the International Trials was ev'deht. “The United States expects to be ready to go to trial by No vember,” Jackson told corres dents at his first press conference in the office of the Palace of Justice where the trials will be | held. “But I cannot speak for the others. First Rubber Trickle On Way To England Now SINGAPORE, Sept. 16.—(IP)—The first thin trickle of natural rubber from the world’s pre-war major producing areas, now reclaimed from the Japanese is on its way to England. The trade and industry branch of the Military and Civil Affairs Commission said today the ship ment was a small one taken from 8,000 tons of the commodity Allied forces found on their ar rival here. An accurate accounting is not yet available on the extent of rubber production during Jap anese occupation of Malaya andj the Netherlands East Indies, which together furnished the peace-time world with 70 per cent of its an nual supply of approximately 1, 000,000 tons. A British buying commission is in Malaya to survey the effects ol Japan’s exploitation of her four year monopoly. The Dutch gov ernment also is sending commis sions to the Indies. Until these experts appraise the situation none can tell how long it will be before production can be resumed. Some estimates (Continued on Page Three; Col. 7) Storm Path Turns East From Tampa BUMP BASE RAZED Only Two Deaths Reported Throughout Florida; Winds Subside MIAMI, FI*., Sept. 16.—(M—A hurricane that did approximately $50,000,000 damage in South Flori da stepped out to sea tonight with the promise that it would regain force and strike again on the South Carolina coast near Charleston or northward. While passing over South Florida Saturday night with a peak veloci ty of 143 miles an hour, the terrific winds battered down the hangars of the Navy's Richmond blimp base. Three great hangars, 366 air planes and 25 patrol blimps were destroyed in a wind-whipped con flagration. All day today the storm traveled overland up the Florida peninsula and at 9:30 emerged into the Atlan tic again, the Weather Bureau re ported. Continued north - northwestward movement was indicated which would bring the center inland on \he South Carolina coast tomorrow before noon. Hurricane warnings were hoisted from Brunswick, Ga., to Cape Hat teras. Storm warnings were order ed lowered in Florida at midnight. Severe damage to crops, hun dreds of buildings and communica tions lay in the wake of the storm* rampage through South Florida. It lost force during its trip over land and North Florida escaped lightly. The weather bureau at 9:30 p.m. (EWT) issued this advisory: “Hoist hurricane warnings 9:30 p.m. (EWT) from south of Hat teras North Carolina to Brunswick, Ga.; northeast storm warnings dis played from Hatteras to the V?r ginia Capes. “The tropical storm Is entering the Atlantic near St. Augustine, Fla., latitude 30 north, longitude 81 west moving north-northwestwcid with tendency of increasing for ward movement which at present is about 15 miles per hour. - “It is attended by winds of about 50 to 60 miles per hour with occa sional gusts to 70 miles per hour. “Indications are for the storm to again attain hurricane force while moving over water. A north northeast course is likely to con tinue which would bring the center inland on the South Carolina coast from the Charleston area north ward Monday forenoon. “All precautions should be taken immediately on the Georgia and Carolina coasts against dangerous destructive winds and abnormally high tides. “Winds will begin to diminish over northeast Florida and warn ings will be lowered at midnight.” The loss at the blimp base alone was between $30,000,000 and $40, 000,000, a Navy spokesman said. An exact figure will be determined (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) DENMARK REPORTS BIG MEAT SUPPLY COPENHAGEN, Sept. 16.—(AV While the rest of Europe starves for meat Denmark has 3,000 to 4,» 000 tons of surplus beef weekly which cannot be exported for lack of shipping space, Hoegsbro Holm, permanent secretary of the Agri cultural Council of Denmark, said today: For the last six weeks farmers have had as many as 16,000 head of beef cattle ready for slaugh. ter but Denmark has been able to use and export only 10,000. “At the time of the liberation we told the Allied powers there would be a surplus of meat by the first of August. We have been try. ing to get transport for at least two months but to date nothing is ready to take the meat. It is impossible to get boats in France, Belgium or Great Britain.” In an effort to hold back fat cattle, farmers are not allowed to put more than a certain percentage of their beef on the market. This means th£ animals eat valuable food which might be used to in (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5)