F0RE-AST * \ 4 + Cy W Served By Leased Wire. gmg tumtujfcm iHnnttttg Star ^[^ZmTn. ~ WILMINGTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1945 ESTABLISHED 186? RIOTERS WRECK NEWSPAPERS IN TURKISH CITY ISTANBUL. Dec. ^UB-Nearly -MO rioters - chiefly university ^ high school students-wrecked a" Istanbul newspaper plants and Tie ‘ two book stores in what ndice called a sudden violent ^.Communistic demonstration t0The crowd showed little signs of •i Tsing as soldiers and hun tds of police patrolled the city early this afternoon Newspapers destroyed were ..Tan- which had been critical cf *e government and “La Turquie, ’ r/rench language publication. Also destroyed was a bookstore neav the famed Tacsim Circle and one on newspaper row Flags appeared swiftly on store fronts along Beyoglu street, Istan burs Fifth Avenue, as the throng marched toward Tacgim Circle. Steel shutters clanged down, cov ering store windows, and the street filled quickly with demonstrators and marchers. In front of a bookstore operated by a Russian they stopped and smashed through steel shutters, destroyed it and moved toward the Russian Embassy. Finding the way blocked by po lice and military forces the crowd swept around through a back street and wrecked the “La Turquie” tSant. Passing the American Consulate the throng cried “Long Live Free America’’ and then paused in salutation at the British Legation. No one was reported killed but numerous students were injured by glass. OP A Admits Surplus Of Sugar In Storage IIPSTRANI i IN M1D-AT NTIC Henry Ward Beecher, Carrying Troops, Loses Propeller NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—(U.R)— The Liberty ship Henry Ward Beecher, carrying 541 homeward-bound vet erans, tonight was stranded with out a propeller in mid-Atlantic, 510 miles from Bermuda, awaiting a rescue tug which is expected to reach the ship late Thursday. The Beecher radioed an SOS ear ly today, disclosing that it had lost its propeller and was unable to proceed into port on its own pow er. The Navy tug, Restorer, left Ber muda a short time after the mes sage was received. The tug was believed carrying emergency food supplies to the crippled freighter, which was due in Norfolk today. The Navy said passengers and crew aboard the Beecher were not in danger and that communica tions were being maintained with the vessel. The ship's position was reported tonight as north, northeast of Ber muda. The Navy said the Restorer, traveling at a speed of 10 knots an hour, could not possibly take the Beecher in tow before Thursday afternoon. The ship sailed from Marseilles and was believed to be cruising at a speed of 10 to 12 knots an hour when its single propeller was lost. It was expected the vessel might be towed to a Bermuda port. City Managers Hear Plan For Veteran Committees City Manager A. C. Nichols re turned Monday night from Raleigh "'here he attended a conference of city managers of North and South Carolina. One of the meeting high lights, according to manager Nich ols, was the discussion of appoint ing a series of community commit tees for the purpose of making a detailed study of the problems and needs of the veterans of World War II. The managers group received a suggestion from Col. Wiley M. Pickens that each committee when appointed keep in constant touch "■th the various veterans’ bureaus so that the members may be able o refer a more comprehensive and aetaiied account of the needs of the eterans, and in turn receive all available information for their benefit. NEW AIR ROUTE SkvAri!S’, Dec’. 4-(A>)-The Paris nor ’ Instituting a new com ,, .'Cl,„ ruute for Transcontinental and Western Airlines, landed at Fiew at 10;35 a_ m_ (4;35ai flirt < today a£ter a 24-houi clurirtfr°m Washington, which in C uded a stop at London. WEATHER )— The bodies of four Army fliers were found today in the wreckage of a B-24 bomber, in the rugged hills of Cowlitz county, Washing ton. An Army search party from Mc Chord Field, Tacoma, found the plane, one of two which disappear ed Nov. 1. Soldiers began a three mile trek to bring the bodies tb a logging spur line, where they will be transported to McChord Field. The bodies were not immediately identified. Earlier, however, the Army had announced that those aboard the bomber carrying four men were 2nd Lt. John A. Norris, Knoxville, Tenn.; Flight Officer Ro bert C. McClean, Adams Garden, Harlingen, Tex.; Staff Sgt. John Sullivan, Dubuque, Iowa; and Stafl Sgt. Lowell Sauer, Bremerton, Wash. The other bomber carried five men. Hope for all nine was given up several weeks ago; • .....■—w AIRPLANES OF FOUR NATIONS SEARCHING FOR LOST U. S. SHIP BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 4.—(/P) —Planes of four nations search ed today for a U. S. Army C-47 transport plane missing 30 hours with 14 persons aboard. Argentine, Brasilian and Uru guayan ships joined a U. S. Army plane in searching for the transport, lost on a flight from Asunciono to Montevideo. Aboard were members of a ge ographic mission enroute to the United States. The U. S. Embassy said names of those aboard were be ing withheld until the plane has been found. MACARTHUR ORDER STUNS MANY JAPS Diet Members Uneasy Over Possibility Of Further Arrests TOKYO, Dec. 4—<^*)—Still groggy from the shock of General Mac Arthur’s latest list of wanted war criminal suspects, Japan's poli ticians and high military leaders pondered today the nation’s urgent postwar problems with the uneasy realization that their own necks might soon be at stake. The Diet, half-heartedly discus sing the gloomy financial situation and the prospect of drastically in creased taxes, was described in the Japanese press as stunned by the inclusion of 26 of its members on MacArthur’s list, and appre hensive lest the dragnet be widen ed to take in more of them. Field Marshal Shunroku . Hata, member of the Supreme 'Military council and former commander-in chief in China, who was named on MacArthur’s list, solemnly stated that in his opinion a war-criminal suspect could choose hara-kiri or leave it alone—and still “save face” with the Japanese army. The stern-faced Field Marshal left no doubt that he intended to fol low the second method. The newspaper Yomiuri, whose president, Matsutaro Shoriki was named on MacArthur’s list, said “the present arrest demand cer tainly represents an advance for Japan’s democratizing bloodless revolution.” Adm. Sankichi Takahashi, once commander-in-chief of the com bined Japanese fleet, showed no surprise over the order for his ar rest, and said bluntly: “I am one of the persons re sponsible for the war.” Field Marshal Hata, in addition to dis closing his own lack of inclina tion to commit hara-kiri, put in a good word for Emperor Hirohito. He said Hirohito’s personal inter vention halted the execution of captured Doolittle airmen after three of them already had been beheaded. The Emperor, he said, learned of the three executions when they were reported by the Army chief of staff, and immediately ordered that there be no further killings. BIRDS THROW THE SWITCH CORSICANA, Tex., Dec. 4.—(U.R) —Blackbird blackout? A 21-minute interruption of the electric-power service in a sizable section of central Texas was blam ed on a flock of birds. They swoop ed down and came to rest on a main switch between generating plants of the Texas Power and Light Co., at Trinidad, causing a flash and disruption of power flow on main electric circuits. Indonesians Set Fire To Many Homes 40 DIE IN FLAMES Native Premier Makes New Attempt To Halt Wide spread Disorders By VERN HAUGLAND 1 AP Staff Correspondent BATAVIA, Java, Dec. 4.— (A*)_ British reinforcements were sent to troubled Bandoeng by air today and Premier Sutan Sjahrir of the unrecognized Indonesian govern, ment declared he had sent repre sentatives there to try to halt mounting disorders. A British press statement said 40 persons, most of them Eura sians, were killed, injured or miss ing after their homes were set afire in Bandoeng during the last week. It declared 14 personsvwere locked in a house yesterday by In donesians and burned to death. Attacks on British headquarters in Bandoeng were dispersed yester day by mortar fire, the British said. The new disorders were disclosed even as an Indonesian radio sta tion, calling itself “Revolt Ban doeng,” broadcast today that Brit ish and Indonesian forces in a con ference Sunday had reached an agreement for joint responsibility in maintaining order. The radio said the agreement called for Brit ish troops and Indonesian police to guarantee the safety of all Dutch and Eurasians, who were to be con centrated in one sector of Ban doeng. The broadcast appealed to Indonesian youths to cease activi ties against the British. The first airborne reinforcement* took off this morning in 12 trans port planes for the 75-mile hop to (Continued on Page Two; Col, 4) 20 STATES BEHIND IN E BOND SALES WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. — m — Sales of E bonds in the Victory Loan today totalled $1,069,000,000 with less than a month left to reach the $2,000,000,000 goal. War Finance Director Ted H. Gamble reported that 20 of the 48 states are lagging in E bond sale*. Sales of all securities to individ uals totalled $3,946,000,000 — about 99 per cent of the individual sale goal which includes E bonds—but Gamble said that the E bond quota will not be met unless “selling volunteers and the buying public throw all possible weight into the balance of the drive.” The cam paign ends officially Dec. 8 al though sales will be counted up to ■Jan. 1. Gamble said that Rhode Island had sold only 76 per cent of what it was expected to have sold by the end of the fifth week of the drive, Texas only 77 per cent, Idaho 79, Kentucky 80, Arkansas and Mary land 83, Florida 86, Georgia and Louisiana 87, Delaware 89, Arizona 90, Massachusetts 93, Michigan 94, Tennessee, Northern California and Missouri 95, Ohio 96, Pennsylvania and South Carolina 98, Utah and Southern California 99 per cent. Highest above the level of ex pected sales was North Dakota with 237 per cent. “The time has come to talk plain ly,” Gamble’s statement said. “Suc cessful completion of the E bond goal is still definitely possible but there’s been too much talk of ‘the war’s over’ variety. Christmaa shopping is showig up in the ranka of the competition. We can’t af ford to lose sight of the problema of the nation, principally the pay ment of the bills of war even though it Was a victorious war. Officer Says He Heard No Abandon Ship Order WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.— (JP)—An officer of the Indianapolis testified today that he heard no orders from the bridge to abandon ship after the 10,000-ton cruiser was apparent ly torpedoed July 30 with the loss of 880 men, one of the greatest dis asters in naval history. This information was given to a Navy court martial at the trial of Capt. Charles B. McVay III, the ship’s commander. McVay plead ed innocent to charges of negli gence and inefficiency. The witness, Lieut. (J. G.) Charles B. McXissick, of McKin ney, Tex., was one of only 15 of ficers to survive the sinking of the ship enroute from Guam to Leyte. The court martial developed testimony from a half dozen wit nesses, that: 1—Three submarine contacts had been made only 72 to 105 miles from the charter course of the cruiser and any one of the sub mersibles could have crossed its path. 2 — McVay ordered zig-zagging ceased at 8 p. m. July 29 because the weather had closed in—“pitch black.’’ 3—Two “terrific” explosions rent the ship shortly after midnight of (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) ,5? i A , -A*. " t I^^hhbI