Passengers Fume, Play
As Train Waits Out Hour
(Continued from Page One)
coaches, the passengers twisted
into grotesque shapes as they tried
to sleep in the narrow seats. All
except one couple' who embraced
tightly and didn’t seem to mind
the stop. Somebody said they
were newly weds.
‘‘What the train she stop like
this,” complained' a portly French
Canadian woman. ‘‘Don’t she run
on Standard Time, no?”
Two soldiers set their watches
back an hour. Then they begar
to argue whether the next 6G
minutes would be War Time, Stan
dard Time, or no time at all.
Probably the most disgruntled
was Philippines-veteran Pfc Ken
ton Pt. Mudgett of St. Johnsbury.
He rushed from his home to board
the Redwing, only to find he rr.us*
.tir in the yard for an hour.
— Two other St. Jonnsbury iads
had a better idea. They had jusi
left their girl friends and decided:
‘‘We've got an extra hour—let’s
go bacy and say goodbue again.”
They did.
Un in the smoker, the diehards
decided against sleeping but they
couldn’t find a deck of card*
either. So they amused them
selves looking up comical place
names in the B. and M.’s techni
color timetable. The one who
found the most was awarded the
timetable.
"Now if they had a club car with
sandwiches and drinks it would be
all right,” said Marcel Payeur. a
Canadian Army veteran discharg
ed after six years’ service. “We
wouldn’t mind stopping every
trip.”
Alfred Nazzaro of Montreal
woundered if ‘‘the train will have
to go faster to make up the extra
hour next year when they switch
to daylight saving time.”
Out on the platform, the con
ductor argued with a solid-look
ing citizen who wanted the train to
go along about its business.
“But I don’t want to wait here
an hour,” he shouted. He did,
though.
The sixty minutes v/as ending.
Somebody turned on the good
Peter Cooper and after a couple
of huffs the Redwing jerkily
started for Wells River and Bos
ton—right on time, just like the
timetable says.
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Justice Stone. The other seven
justices are Democrats and appoin
tees of the late President Roose
velt. Stone, who will be 73 on Octo
ber 11, also was elevated to Chief
Justice by President Roosevelt.
The new term begins with the
chair of Justice Jackson vacant.
He has been serving since last
May as United States chief of
counsel for the prosecution of the
major European Axis war crimi
nals. He is not expected to return
to the Supreme Court until early
in 1946.
The seating of Burton will be
the highlight of an otherwise rou
tine session. A group of attorneys
are to be admitted to practice Mon
day.
During the week the justices
hold conferences to discuss peti
tions filed during the summer va
cation. Which of these cases will
be reviewed will be announced at
Next Monday’s session.
WEATHER
(Continued from Page One)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—025—Weathei
bureau report of temperature and rain
fall for the 24 hours ending 8 p.m. in the
principal cotton growing areas and else
where:
Station High Low Free
Alpena _ 52 32 0.0(
Asheville---.-77 01 0.0(
Atlanta - - 84 67 o.0C
Atlantic City-59 52 0.7(
Birmingham--- 80 71 0.21
Boston ---——- 52 40 0.0<
Buffalo _ 58 35 0.0(
Burlington- 50 31 0.01
Dallas- 62 — 0.1:
Charlotte_ 79 62 0.0(
Chicago- 53 43 0.31
Cincinnati . _ 70 50 0.0(
Cleveland_ 62 40 0.0(
Denver_,_— 40 38 0.4(
) Detroit_ 55 39 0.01
I Duluth- 54 36 0.0(
! El Paso_71 41 0.0(
Fort Worth___61 __ 0.2C
Galveston _——_ 85 72 0.8i
Jacksonville- 87 75 0.0'
Kansas City- 52 42 0.3'
Key West- 85 73 0.01
Knoxville- 90 68 0.0<
Little Rock_ 73 56 0.21
Los Angeles_ 94 54 0.0(
Louisville_ 80 54 0.0'
Memphis- 83 61 0.6!
Meridian_ 90 73 0.0!
Miami_ 83 71 0.3:
Minn.-St. Paul_ 50 36 0.0(
Mobile_ 86 72 0.0!
New Orleans_ 86 72 0.4!
New York_ 60 45 0.0'
Norfolk_ 68 62 0.1(
Phoenix- 88 55 0.0<
l Pittsburgh_ 60 43 0.0(
| Portland, Me._ 54 36 0.0!
Richmond_ 57 56 Q.0'
> St. Louis- 57 49 0.1(
I San Antonio_7; 56 0.01
I San Francisco_ 77 48 C.0(
Savannah- 85 71 0.0{
! Seattle- 69 43 0.01
i Tampa- 89 75 0.IX
j Vicksburg_ 86 72 0.0!
] Washington- 57 54 0.01
i Wilmington_84 71 M.0I
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OVER JAP BANKS
(Continued from Page One)
side Japan or to finance war pro
duction.”
Among the financial institutions
! seized were what might be called
j this “big three” of Japan’s bank
i ing imperialism:
1. The Manchurian Heavy In
j dustry Development Company, a
! combine greater even than theh
i famous house of Mitsui. It exploit
: ed the riches of Manchuria and
■ made fortunes for bankers, indus
: trialists and generals.
2. Branches in Japan of the Bank
’of Chosen (Korea), aligned with
the Bank of Japan. It was the fi
| r.ancial center which in the late
] I920’s fed smugglers from Korea
j into China in a long-range attempt
I to spread economic chaos and pre
' pare China for conquest.
! 3. The blanches in Japan of the
Bank of Taiwan (Formosa.), mon
opolistic financial control agency
by which the industrialists exploit
ed the Philippines, Dutch Borneo!
and New Guinea. The houses oil
Mitsui and Mitsubishi were believ
ed deeply involved in the Bank
of Taiwan.
All the 21 seized houses were
controlled directly or indirectly by
the Japanese government, and
their shareholders mainly were
members of the Imperial household
and the captains of industry.
American authorities tyook steps
at once to notify the Japanese pub
lic fully that “there is no intention
to confiscate the savings of the
The Finance Ministry was in
I structed to present a plan for liqui
dation of all the institutions and
to pay at face value all individual
deposits therein of the "ordinary
man.” Most of the institutions,
however, are not banks of deposit.
MacArthur’s drastic step follow
| ed by one day his orders stripping
i from the Japanese government all
j control over the press, radio or
I any other methods of communica
tions in the island empire.
! These were the other develop
ments in the unfolding story of the
fallen empire:
The Ministry of Agriculture and
Forestry told Domei Agency that
in a move to meet the thret of fam
ine it would lanuch a five-year
program to put military air fields,
cavalry horse pastures and state
forests into cultivation.
The Welfare Ministry, reorganiz
ed into the "Social Affairs” Minis,
try, reported Japanese unemploy
ment had reached 3,000,000 and
would be doubled with the return
af demobilized soldiers from
abroad.
A spokesman for the cotton spin
ning industry told Domei that the
available spindles in 39 big mills
had been reduced by bombings to
one-sixth of the pre-war total.
Domei, the propaganda agency
used by the military to mold the
minds of the people, announced it
would dissolve as soon as a new
press associatiin to be known as
Kyodo can be formed, possibly
within a month.
Domei also announced that a
nine-day campaign to clean up the
ruins of Tokyo would begin Mon
day.
Lt. Gen. Toyama formally sur
rendered Friday his 58th Japanese
army of 51,000 men on Cheju Is
land, in the East China Sea south
of Korea, headquarters announc
ed.
| Shigenori Togo, Japanese For
, eign Minister at the time of Pearl
; Harbor, suffered another heart at
tack and his removal to prison
alongside other suspected war
criminals was postponed.
Plans were speeded to move
Japanese now in custody from the
Yokohama prison to a camp in
Tokyo bay where American pris
oners once were held. It was ex
pected that both Togo and formed
Premier Hideki Tojo both would
be lodged there when fully recover
ed.
Whether the individuals involved
by the seizure of the financial
houses would be tried as war
criminals will depend upon the
War Crimes Commission, said
Col. Raymond C. Kramer, head of
MacArthur’s economic and scien
tific section.
xviamer saia tne principal ob
ject of the move closing the
houses was to untangle the inter
locking and overlapping financial
operations of the government’s
financial institutions in the areas
occupied by its conquering ar
mies.
The orders told the government
to close all such institutions at
once and reopen none without
MacArthur’s permission.
The Japanese were ordered to
take custody and deliver to oc
cupation authorities all books, re
I cords and papers an. to impound
all gold, silver, currency, securi
ties, notes, mortgages, pledges and
other assets not on the premises.
Headquarters viewed the banks
as institutions which worked “with
the Japanese government to fur
I ther Japanese political, economic,
military and financial inroads” in
occupied lands.
Headquarters also said the move
was in line with making the eco
nomy of liberated Korea independ
ent of Japan’s. The Bank of Chosen
in 1940 had assets of two billion
yen (now worth about $133,000,000)
and the bulk was Japanese-owned.
It maintained 14 branches in
Korea which will remain open, six
in Japan which now are closed,
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Vip Othman Takes Bath
In Palace Of Nazi Spy
(Continued from Page One)
Vips too, and I gather they are a
nuisance to the hardworking Army.
AH Vips have to be entertained at
the Villa Maas where a wealthy
publisher used to further the Nazis
cause in one of the world s most
fabulous residences.
Herr Mass is in the clink in Al
giers now waiting trial for his
life. The French have turned his
gardens, pools and house where
the walls are plate glass and the
floors are poHshed marble over to
the ATC.
So we went to the Villa Maas
where a fflet steak dinner set us
back 25 cents per copy. You’d
think a Vip on an expense account
could afford to pay more than that.
I announced that even if I didn’t
need a bath, I’d like to take one.
The man led me up to Herr Maas’
private sanctum where the plumb
ing was as German as it was de
luxe and I crawled into the tuj).
I wash my ears and admired the
North African Ughts outside and
then it was I noticed a silver cord
hanging from the ceiling. The best
is barely good enough for a Vip.
I puHed the cord and in came an
Arab I wasn’t expecting (I don’t
exactly know what I was expect
ing), I told him to scram. He
thought that was Arabic for wash
Othman’s back. I finaUy got rid
of him.
I’d better explain now that Arab
ic is a weird language.- In print,
it looks like shorthand aquiggles
upside down. Spoken, it sounds
like a Model-T transmission in re
verse.
I put on my *2.40 round-the-world
pants and wandered downstairs
and so help me there were bulbuls
singing, fountains splashing, and
couches waiting in a room with fil
ogreed walls and a mosiac ceil
ing. I reclined and called for a
houri but the ATC said it couldn’t
produce one even for a Vip. It was
nice dreaming anyhow.
That’s all I know about Casa
blanca. I looked for Humphrey Bo
gart but never did find him. I can
announce, however, that Rick’s
Cafe where Bogart did his dirty
work in the movie is open, now sell
ing beer to soldiers, and thereby
making honest men of the Warner
brothers. Otherwise all T ve got to
report is scenery as seen from the
windows of this flying machine at
the moment.
We’re heading over El Alemain.
The wreckage of war still is spread
on the desert after two years and
I’ve got a crink in my back from
trying to sleep on what the ATC
calls a plush seat. These are cush
ions that start out soft but grow
harder as the nights progress.
There are nine pyramids outside
of Cairo. I spent *1.40 to buy my
bride an ivory bracelet in Tripoli
and if you’ll pardon me now I’m
going, back to sleep and dream
about life in the Villa Maas.
City Briefs
CIRCLE TO MEET
Circle No. I of Immanuel
Presbyterian church with Miss
Mildred Horne as chairman,
will meet with Mrs. Frank J.
LeRay, Jr., 106 Park Terrace.
Sunset Park, on Tuesday at 8
p. m.
MEET TONIGHT
Tonight at 8 o’clock, the
Catholic Daughters of America
will meet in the Parish Hall.
SOCIETY TO MEET
The W. H. and F. M. Society
of the Fourth street Advent
Christian church will meet to
night at 8 o’clock.
COUNCIL TO MEET
The Woman’s Council of the
First Christian church will hold
the regular meeting at the
church tonight at 8 o’clock.
The executive committee will
meet at 7 o’clock.
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NAVY MOTHERS
The Cape Fear Navy Mothers
club will meet on October 9 in
stead of October 2 as schedul
ed. Members are requested to
make note of the change.
CHANGE PLACE
The North Carolina Junior
Sorosis will hold the regular
business meeting tonight at 8
o’clock at the Little Clubhouse
of the Fifth and Orange USO,
instead of the Sorosis clubhouse
as previous planned. All mem
bers are urged to attend.
MINISTERS PLAN
TO END PARLEY
(Continned from Page One)
One delegate said Molotov at a
dinner party, discussing the give
and take of the conference, re
marked that he had to do his best
at persuasiveness, but that Byrnes
“doesn’t need to persuade anyone.
He just has to hold up a little
bomb. The remark was made jok
ingly, the delegate said, but he
added that “Mr. Molotov never
makes jokes just to be funny.”
4—Mutual suspicion — some ob
servers feel that both western and
eastern powers have proved to be
extremely touchy and suspicious
of each other’s moves. The tight
bond of fighting a common enemy
has loosened, they said.
5—The difference of meaning
among the powers on such words
as “Democracy.”
146 CGA MEN GET
RAISE IN RANK
(Continned from Page One)
unteer basis. They maintained their
civilian status except during a
specified number of hours each
week while on duty and then they
were subject to all military rules
and regulations of the Coast Guard.
Members of the Auxiliary in the
temporary reserve, most of them
peace time yachtsmen, performed
in-shore patrol duties in small
craft. Those of the Port Security
Force maintained watches at vital
waterfront installations, where
they guarded against fires, sabo
teurs and other dangers.
Chief petty officers, warrant of
icers and chief warrant officers
automatically become ensigns un
der the promotion order. The or
der is limited only in that it ap
plies to those who have not beer
advanced in rank or rate within the
last 60 days. Neither does it apply
abcve the rank of commander.
BUY C. g. VICTORY BONDS
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TELEPHONE UNION
STRIKE LOOMING
(Continued from Page One)
state walkout which threatens to
cause transportation tie-ups in sev
eral areas.
The Oil Workers International
Union (CIO) withdrew picket lines
which had blockaded the Standard
Oil Company refinery at Whiting,
Ind., permitting some 5,000 CIO
and independent union members to
return to their jobs. Gov. Ralph
Gates of Indiana had ‘alerted”
State Guard troops after local
Whiting authorities asked for aid
in keeping order.
More than 15,000 building service
employes, including elevator op
erators, returned to work in New
York City in compliance with Gov.
Ihomas Dewey’s request for ar
bitration of wages and hours
grievances. Thig action permitted
about 1,500,000 office workers to
resume their duties in the tall
buildings.
Another work stoppage which be
gan Sept. 9 in plants of the West
inghouse Electric Corporation and
affected 38,000 employes in six
states showed some prospects oi
being settled this week, with dis
putes over bonus and incentive
pay to be submitted to arbitration.
Conciliation conferences betweer
officials of the CIO Oil Workers
International Union and major
companies, which began in Chicagc
last week and shifted to Washing
ton, were adjourned until today
(Monday) after a day-long Sunday
session had produced few pros
pects for early agreement on dis
puter wage rate increases.
Union members have asked a 3(
per cent rate increase w?hich woulc
give them the same pay for a 40
hour work week plus overtime
Several companies have offered 8
15 per cent rate increase which
would represent a cut in take
home pay and was pronounced in
acceptable by the -workers.
As a result approximately 35,
000 employes were idle in oil re
fineries across the nation, aboul
23.000 of them being in the oil-rich
Texas coastal area.
Latest refinery to be closed ir
the oil dispute was the Phillips
Petroleum Company plant, Kansas
City, Kans., employing about 90C
persons.
Other management-labor dis
putes throughout the nation re
mained unchanged. They affected
about 65,000 wood and lumbei
workers in half a dozen states;
100.000 automotive workers, mosi
of whom were in the Detroit area;
40.000 miners, most of whom were
in Pennslyvania and West Vir
ginia, and 50,000 textile workers
mostly in Newark, N. J., area.
PHONE EMPLOYES HERE
HAVE NO WORE
The employees of the Southern
Bell Telephone Co. of the Wil
mington branch who number from
130-140 are members of the South
ern Federation of Telephones and
Telegraph Workers, but up to s
late hour last night no word has
been received from the National
Federation as to any action to be
taken by the local group according
to C. L. Gamer Wilmington Fed
eration representative.
Red Army Soccer Team
Defeats Tommies, 2-0
OLYMPIC STADIUM, Berlin,
Sept. 30.— W —The Red Army,
which was left out of last Sunday’s
Allied “Olympics,” and its day in
the Stadium today, defeating the
British Tommies two goals to zero
in a Soccer game. The nimble
footed Red Army outplayed the
Tommies through out.
A goodly sprinkling of GI’S in
the crowd of 4,000 played no fav
orites until the Russians got ahead
and then yelled for the underdogs.
“It is a lot diffemet from our
kind of football which it goes with
out saying I like best,” said Sgt,
Paul J. Gross, of DuPont St., Phila
delphia, Pa.
CONGRESS TO GET
NEW TAX PROGRAM
(Continued from Page One)
toward the needs of the working
population. Failure to provide
increased unemployment benefits,
leaves “bleak and bitter” pros
pects for millions of workers dur
ing the transition period, it said
Relief from high personal in
come taxes, the Guild contended
will help “pump the blood oi
spending power” through the
economic system.
The program also called for:
1. Elimination of the “infamous,
regressive flat three per cent mis
named “Victory Tax,’ which is now
designated the normal tax. It is
levied on all income over $500
without credit for dependents.
2. A provision giving indivi
duals a two-year carryback and
carryover or unused personal ex
emptions and credits for depen
dents.
3. Relief for small business
through an extemption from the
corporate income tax of the first
$5,000 of net income, adoption oi
liberal graduation of corporate in
come tax rates on net income
under $100,000, and option to such
corporations of being taxed in the
same way as partnerships.
4. Repeal the $5 automobile
use tax and excise taxes on
electric light bulbs, toilet prepara
tions, leather goods and luggage
and reduce other mass consump
tion excises, including tobacco,
gasoline and beer.
PETTY ROBBERIES
ON POLICE BOOKS
*
Several cases of robbery were
reported to the police department
over the past weekend.
Billy Stone, 46 Pine Crest Park
way reported to police officers that
a 17 jewel watch was stolen from
his bicycle last Saturday night in
the downtown district. Police re
ported that they are investigating
a list of suspects.
Police made a survey of dam
age caused by a prowler-Saturday
night at the home of Miss Mildred
Britt, 201 Chestnut St. Evidence
showed that the prowler had brok
en out a porch light, cut a window
screen, broke some pictures and
trinkets on a table by the window
but nothing was reported missing.
J. W. Lynch and H. A. Hummet,
Marine privates at Camp Lejeune
had their billfolds and trousers
stolen from their room in a hotel
Saturday night. The next morning
the billfolds and trousers were
found in the building minus the
money, police said.
Police stated last might that
someone entered the cabin of John
Rose, Negro, in the rear of 1005
Castle St. Saturday night and stole
his clothes; and a bicycle belonging
to Pete Johnson, 422 Campbell St.,
was taken from in front of a thea
tre Saturday night.
Harold Wilson, Negro, 608 Camp
bell St. was hit in the eye by an
unknown Negro Saturday night and
as a result he will lose the sight of
his right eye. He was attending a
party when the mishap took place
and was treated at the Community
Hospital by Dr. Griffin, for a punc
ture and laceration of the eye ac
cording to the police.
A Negro man, George Patrick,
618 1-2 Nixon St. was found dead
in his bed Sunday morning by his
wife. He was pronounced dead by
Acting Coroner Strickling. The
dead man’s wife told police that he
had been drinking Saturday after
noon, came home, went to bed
and had not responded to her call
Sunday morning.
William Thompson, Negro taxi
driver, is held for leaving the scene
of an accident by police under a
$300 bond after the cab he was
driving hit the parked car of J.
Moskowitz, in the 800 block of
North 4th Street.
GLOBESTER HITS
QUARTER MARK
(Continued from Page One)
3:18 p. m. local time (7:18 a. m
Eastern Standard Time, having
left Tripoli at 9:05 a. m. local time,
(2:05 a. m. Eastern Standard
time).
The eight men and one woman
making the entire globe-circling
flight were joined at Casablanca
last night by nineteen U. S. Army
Air Force crew men bound for
India and China.
On the Atlantic crossing two
hours were lost in rain and fog
over the Azores. Some time was
made up by hurrying a dinner for
the passengers given by the ATC
at Casablanca and more on the
hops to Tripoli and Cairo. Eggs and
bacon in the palm - surrounded
rriess hall at flat and sandy Tripoli,
on the shores of the Mediterranean,
were presided over by Lt. Col. F.
M. Elton of Cleveland, Ohio, who
for fifteen months has been base
executive officer—and likes it.
The India and China—bound Air
Corps youngsters split up into card
games and dice in the Globester’s
seats and on the floor. They, along
with the other male passengers,
also shaved—hence the desert wa
ter shortage. And some of the
boys were busy with paper and
pens. But a reporter who thought
one might be keeping a flight log
found out differently in an over
shoulder glance at what one boy
was writing. It definitely was no
log. It began: “My dearest Darl
ing”.
Obituaries
MRS. HADIE MAE WEIGHT
Mr*. Hadie Mae Wright, 56, of
1504 Ann street, died Saturday eve
ning at 5 o’dock in the James
Walker Memorial hospital after a
short illness.
Funeral services will be held this
afternoon at 3 o’clock in the Tem
ple Baptist church with the Rev.
W. J. Stephenson, officiating. In
terment will be in Oakdale ceme
tery.
Surviving are her husband, Ri
onal Wright, of Texas, one daugh
ter, Mrs. A. O. Underwood of Wil
mington, one sister, Mrs. L. G.
Shiley of Camden, S. C., one broth
er, W. E. Blankenship of Durham.
N.'c., and one grandson, Eddie Un
derwood of Wilmington.
HIRAM W. SCHOLAR
Funeral services will be held for
Hiram W. Scholar, 73, who died
Saturday in Norfolk, Va., on Tues
day afternoon at 2 o'clock in Yopp
Funeral Home with the Rev. C. D.
Barclift, officiating. Interment will
De in Bellevue cemetery.
Surviving are three daughters,
Mrs. Walter Wilkerson, Miss Annie
T. Scholar, and Miss Mary B.
Scholar, all of Norfolk, Va., two
sisters, Mrs. John Langford, of
Decatur, Ga., and Mrs. Etta L.
Norwood, of Chester, Pa., and one
brother, John T. Scholar, of Golds
boro, N. C.
MRS. MART WEBSTER
Mr. and Mrs. George Gaskins, of
Whiteville, were called to Dillon,
S. C., Saturday night, Sept. 22, on
account of the serious illness of
Mrs. Gaskins’ mother, Mrs. Mary
Webster, who passed away the fol
lowing Sunday.
Funeral services were held Tues
day afternoon at 4 o’clock at Be
thea Funeral home in Dillon. Fol
lowing the services the body was
taken to Rowland, N. C., for inter
ment in the family plot in Row
land cemetery.
Surviving are her husband, J.
D. Webster, one son, Marion; two
daughters, Mrs. Carl Medlin of Dil
lon and Mrs. George Gaskins of
Whiteville.
ROBERT COWAN DEHAVEN
Funeral services for 19-month
old Robert Cowan DeHaven, son
of Warrant Officer and Mrs. Ron
ald DeHaven, of Wilmington, who
died Friday afternoon in Phila
delphia, Pa., will be held today at
11:30 a. m. at 205 South Fourth
street with the Rev. Mortimer
Glover, rector of St. James Epis
copal church officiating. Inter
ment will be in Oakdale ceme
tery. /
Active pallbearers will be Ross
i
i
Troth and J. F. Hannan.
Surviving are his parents, grand,
mother, Mrs. R. H. Cowan, of Wil«
mington, and grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. R. W. DeHaven, of Wil
mington.
Mrs. DeHaven, mother, is the
former Sarah Cowan of Wilming
ton.
Warrant Officers DeHaven is at
present stationed in the South
Pacific.
MARINES TO POLICE
CHINA “HOTSPOT’
(Continued from Page One)
! guard ar.d care for 200.000 Japa
aese civilian* who had moved hna
the area since the Nipponese ag.
gression of 1937. and protect Unit
ed States national*, property ar.d
records.
The end of the war has brought
tittle peace or security to North
China. In the past six weeks there
have been pitched battles between
j Japanese regulars supported by
' Chinese puppet troops and well
armed “Palu” units purporting to
be soldiers of the Chinese Com
munist Eighth Route army.
In one clash near the Tientsin
race course two weeks after hos
tilities presumably ceased. Japa
; nese tanks and artillery fired for
10 minutes before the Palu with
drew.
Trains have been fired ’upon and
derailed and looted. Bridges have
been blown up and railroad tracks
dynamited. The main line between
Tientsin and Shanghai is so badly
disrupted it has been impossible
to send some 1.500 civilians inter
nees from the Weihsien camp in
Shantung Province either to Shang
hai or Tientsin by rail.
About one-third of the Weihsien
camp internees, who include Bri
tish, Dutch. Italian and Belgi
nationals and about 200 Americans,
have been moved to Tsingtae, said
O. Joerg, Swiss Consul General and
International Red Cross represer.
tative at Tientsin. A few have been
flown to Tientsin.
Overall commander of the Ma
rine mission is Maj. Gen. Keller
E. Rockey, Washington, D. C.,
commander of the Third Amphi
bious Corps. Division commander
is Maj. Gen. Dewitt Peck, an “old
China hand" who was commander
of the Marine Fourth Regimen: at
Shanghai during the 1937 Japanese
attack. Maj. Gen. Claude A. Lar
kin, Guadalcanal veteran, com
mands the air unit. Seabee batta
lions and port workers were put
ashore at Taku.
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