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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
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ending 7 tnS1Cal data for the 24 hour!
* ‘■30 P-m. yesterday.
I-3H Temperatures
»; J:3o'nm 4ak 7:30 a-m- 51; 1:30 p.m.,
47 p-m. 49, Maximum 49; Minimum
terday' mperature in Wilmington yes
’ 99 deSiees- Normal. 51 degrees.
1:30 = „ Humidity
!00; ’-’SO p.m ;ioo30 a m-’ 85: 1:30 p-m
. Total f0- 24Pr'ipiUUon
*-M inches. ^ h urs endlnS 3:70 p.m.
1-14 incnc$aCe t!le o£ the month—
Sunrise 7-n-i
lIo»ntise 7am-: Sunset 5:03 p.m.
‘-4o a.m.; Moonset 5:49 p.m.
"’‘■minston Tldes Today
’ 10:23 a.m. 4:58 a.m
1Ia!°nboro 10:3° p-m- 5:35 p.m
— 7:56 a.m. 1:37 a.m
, Cape Pear pt„ 8:01 p-,m- 2:18 P-m
-'ni today 11 e/t Stage at Fayetteville a
By JAMES W. CAMPBELL
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
ATLANTA, Ga„ Dec. 4—The
OPA disclosed tonight that hun
dreds of tons of sugar are stored
in warehouses in southeastern
states but said that coupon-starv
ed housewives would not get an
ounce of it until a new coupon
becomes valid January 1.
OPA officials in Atlanta admit
ted there was a surplus in many
areas in the southeast but pointed
out that "rationing is a long term
proposition.”
"Today,” said OPA, "many
communities have warehouses full
of sugar, but three months from
now they may not have any. Our
supplies have not reached pre-war
levels and shipments have been
slow from our two main sources cf
supply—Cuba and Puerto Rico.
In Cuba, there has been a drought,
while in Puerto Rico there have
been labor troubles.”
But sugar dealers replied they
Could get all the sugar they wanted
if they just had the coupons or
if the OPA would call off sifgar
rationing.
(In Washington the Agriculture
Department boosted civilian sugar
rations 12 per cent for the first
three months of 1946, officials
warned that this would mean only
a better distribution rather than
an actual increase in individual
rations.)
One Atlanta wholesaler said he
had between 60,000 and 70,000
pounds of sugar—“and I can’t
move a grain of it because nobody
has any coupons.” He said he
could procure all the sugar he
could sell if restrictions were 'ift
ed.
Grocers in Atlanta and other
Georgia cities also were irked.
Another wholesaler in Atlanta de
cided to get out of the sugar busi
ness entirely because he “refused
to handle something I’m not al
lowed' to sell.”
FOURTEEN KEY MEN
OF LOCK PLANT EAT
BEANS, NOT BACON
STAMFORD, Conn., Dec. 4.— (U.P.)—
Fourteen executives of the strike
bound Yale and Town Manufac
turing Co. tonight were virtual
prisoners in their own plant—
sleeping on crude bunks, eating
canned salmon and soup and try
ing to rig up a bath in the boijer
room.
The striking International As
sociation of Machinists, AFL, had
no objection to the executives’
leaving the plant. But they warn
ed the executives that once they
left the grounds, they would not
be permitted to pass the picket
lines to reenter.
The 14 decided on their self-im
posed imprisonment because it is
necessary to have maintenance
men on hand to keep the power
house going and to guard against
the possibility of fire.
“Let them stay there until they
starve,” muttered pickets outside
the plant which has been struck
since Nov. 7. However, it was re
ported the plant cafeteria was well
stocked—withsalmonand^soup.
British
Garri'
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Communists
Plan Aerial
Attack Soon
MASS CONSCRIPTION
Red Leader Charges Chi
nese Being Forced Into
National Army
By SPENCER MOOSA
AP Staff Correspondent
CHUNGKING, Dec. 4.— UP) —
Rumors of a Chinese communist
air force in northern Manchuria
and charges of mass conscription
for Nationalist forces kept the
threat of renewed civil war alive
in China today.
Lt. Gen. Tu Yu-Ming’s National
ist troops seized 70 former Japan
ese airplanes in a surprise raid yes
terday on a Communist airdrome
near Crimshien, 130 miles south
west of Mukden, Asociated Press
correspondent Olen Clements report
ed. He said all were in operating
condition. Rumors drifting down
from Harbin said Communists had
more planes and were ready to use
them against Tu’s forces.
Advance elements of Tu’s arm
ies were 30 miles from Mukden,
wating a go ahead signed from Rus
sian forces before moving into the
capital.
Chinese press dispatches said
Gen. Chang Hsu-Shin had already
moved into the city with his inde
pendent army and was waiting to
t olcome TuChang is the brother
of Marshall Chang Hsueh-Liang,
who once kidnapped Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-Shek.
Communist quarters in Chung
king charged that the Nationalists
were carrying out large-scale con
scription in six north China
provinces to increase their forces
fr- civil war. The Communists said
a mark of 100,000 men was set in
Honan province alone. No figures
were mentioned for the other
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 1)
FDR TOOK HAND
IN WAR WARNINGS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—(IP)—
Disclosure that President Roose
velt took a personal hand in get
ting war warnings to the Philip
pines in 1941 brought a Republi
can demand tonight that Gen.
Douglas A. MacArthur be called
as a witness in the Pearl Harbor
inquiry.
The demand came from Senator
Ferguson (R-Mich) who declared
it was evident that MacArthur,
then commander of Army forces in
the Philippines, received a great
deal more information on the
threat of hostilities than did Army
and Navy commanders in Hawaii.
Ferguson, a member of the joint
Pearl Harbor investigating com
mittee, told reporters he would
ask formally that MacArthur be
called as a witness “if he isn’t
called otherwise.
Mr. Roosevelt’s role in the war
warnings was developed during
questioning of Maj Gen. Sherman
Miles, pre-Pearl Harbor head of
Army intelligence. A message
which the late President sent on
Nov. 26, 1941, to the United States
Commissioner in the Philippines
was read into the record. It said
in part:
1 “I consider it possible that this
: next Japanese aggression might
■ cause an outbreak of hostilities
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 4)
House Committee Gives
Okay To Employment Bill
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—(U.RJ—
The House Executive Expenditures
committee today spurned Presi
dent Truman’s latest appeal for
jobs-for-all legislation by approv
ing a strictly watered-down ver
sion.
The committee acted one montn
after the President accused it of
“damaging delay” in clearing the
full employment measure passed
by the Senate in September.
It eliminated a Senate provision
requiring the President to- submit
to Congress a yearly job-budget—
a forecast of employment, pros
pects- which Congress might use
' as the basis for authorizing public
works projects to fill job gaps.
The committee recommended a
three-member council of economic
advisers to provide the President
with continuing reports on the
economic outlook and suggestions
fc • unemployment cures.
The council would help the Presi
dent prepare a general ecoonmlc
report which he would be required
to submit to Congress within GO
days after the start of each reg
ular session. Along with it, he
would submit recommendations for
legislation to stimulate public and
private enterprise, with the aim of
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 8)
: Rash Reinforcements To Aid
't0i At Bandoeng; Chiang’s Army
f Enemy Planes At Chinhsien
—...■■ ——
Among 59 Top Japs Arrested For MacArthur
SHUNROKU INOSUKE FURUNO SEIHIN IKEDA
Included in the group of 59 prominent Jap war crime suspects just ordered arrested by Gen. Douglas
MacArthur are these three outstanding representati ves of the banking, newspaper and military fields.
They are (1. to r.): Field Marshall Shunroku Hata, former commander-in-chief of Jap forces in China;
Inosuke Furuno, president of the recently dissolved Domei News Agency; and Seihin Ikeda, former gov
ernor of the Bank of Japan and later Minister of Finance, Minister of Commerce and Industry. (Inter
national)
Murray Breaks With Government;
Labor industry In Head-On Conflict
Union Leaders Object To
Anti-Strike Legislation
As Offered
WASHINTON, Dec. 4 — UP) —
Labor and business groups which
had joined in President Truman’s
Labor • Management conference
were in head-on conflict tonight
over various labor bills pending in
the House.
Leaders of the nation’s biggest
labor organizations, addressing a
meeting of more than 100 House
members, vigorously objected to
proposed anti-strike legislation and
a bill to include labor unions in
the so-called anti-racketeering act
of 1934. .
AFL President William Green
said the legislation had united all
of labor in “immovable opposi
tion” and contended that such
measures would endanger free en
terprise and swing American labor
“to the left, as the trend has been
in other countries.”
Other opposition speakers in
cluded President R J. Thomas ol
the CIO-Auto Workers, and repre
sentatives of the United Mine Work
ers and railroad brotherhoods.
Shortly before, the U. S. Cham
ber of Commerce had announced
its support of the legislation which
they denounced.
Resolutions re-affirming the
Chamber’s stand were approved
by the board of directors Friday,
the closing day of the Labor
Management conference, but were
not announced until tonight.
Neither the labor leaders nor the
U. S. Chamber referred to Presi
dent Truman’s message of yester
day, however, in which he asked
for legislation to curb big strikes
by creation of fact-finding pro
cedure patterned after the Rail
way Labor Act.
The labor representatives object
ed to bills reported out by the
House Military and Judiciary com
mittees, on which they contended
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 5)
FIVE FILIPINOS ROB
MANILA BANK USING
U. S. ARMY REVOLVERS
—
MANILA, Dec. 4. — (U.R)— Five
bandits armed with United States
Army automatics and using a jeep
robbed bank messengers of $206,
500 in broad daylight today on a
downtown street.
Seven hours later police sur
rounded and captured five Filipinc
youths who confessed. Police said
$199,500 of the loot had been re
covered and a thorough search was
underway for the remaining $7,000.
Authorities described the hold-up
as the largest and most daring in
the history of the city.
The robbery took place outside
the Chinese-owned Philippine Bank
of Communications where the
money, owned by the ank, was
being loaded into a car for transfer
to the National City Bank.
The bandits told police they had
borrowed the jeep from a Philip
pine Army Lieutenant who is under
investigation. The gang was round
ed up in the Santa Ana district oi
southeast Manila.
Col. J. P. Holland, chief of po
lice, said he had not been notified
that the money was being moved.
Otherwise, he said, he would have
furnished police protection.
I
WILMINGTON SWEPT
BY HIGH WINDS, 1.74
INCHES OF RAIN
Rain that descended steadily
all day yesterday and intermit
tently last night, had at 7:30
p.m., registered an official
mark of 1.72 inches, according
to the local weather bureau.
The likelihood was that the
downpour, which was at times
driven before brisk winds,
weald officially register over
two inches for the 24-hour peri
od.
Meteorologist Paul Hess pre
dicted, however, that this area
will have fair and colder weath
er today.
SNOW-MAN VISITS
ASHEVILLE AREA
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rain and near-freezing weather
buffeted the Carolinas yesterday
and the Weatherman held forth
little prospect of any general im
provement in conditions today.
Temperatures of around 32 to 34
degrees were general last night in
most sections of the two states, and
colder weather is expected today
—accompanied, in some cases, by
snow.
Wintry blasts at Durham failed
to prevent some 800 women from
standing in long, damp queues be
fore a department store featuring
a sale of (you guessed it!) Nylon
hose.
Asheville reported a half inch
of snow prior to 6 o’clock last
night, when the fall changed to an
icy rain. More snow, with tem
peratures dropping to the freezing
level, is forecast for today. At
Mount Mitchell,, near Asheville,
seven inches of snow was re
ported.
At Raleigh, the mercury dropped
to 32 degrees early last night
after a day of steady rain. Clear
ing skies are expected today;
however, they will be accompanied
by the lowest temperature of the
season in the North Carolina capi
tal
Following a day of sustained
rain, the temperature in Charlotte
early last night rested at 40 de
grees. However, a drop to a level
of at least 34 is anticipated and
the weatherman predicted some
snow would accompany the low
temperature.
In South Carolina, weather con
ditions similar to those in North
Carolina prevailed Clear—or, at
least, less cloudy—skies are pre
dicted today, but will be ushered
in by lower temperatures.
At Columbia, a heavy rain was
reported, with fair ' and colder
weather in store for today. The
temperature, however, will drop
to about freezing stages this morn
ing, the weatherman warned.
Shrine Bowl footballers, who will
play in the annual high school
game in Charlotte on Saturday,
were forced indoors for their prac
tice at Greenville yesterday, as
rain interfered with their work
out. Members of the two squads
visited the Shrine Hospital for Crip
pled Children, for whose benefit the
game will be played, prior to their
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 2)
CIO Chief Charges Truman
Plan Aimed At
Labor Ruins
By WALTER M. BERKOV
United Press Staff Correspondent
PITTSBURGH, Deer-4 — Presi
dent Philip Murray of the CIO
charged tonight that President Tru
man’s labor-industry peace pro
posals were designed to “weaken
and ultimately destroy labor union
organizations” and pictured the
Federal government as yielding in
“abject cowardice” to industrial
"arrogance.”
In a bitter break with the admin
istration, the CIO leader predicted
that the President’s proposals were
but the forerunner of “even more
savage legislative repression,” said
that the government was following
a policy of appeasement toward in
dustry and deplored the failure of
the President and the Secretary of
Labor to effect collective bargain
ing conferences in recent labor dis
putes.
Murray’s criticism tonight was
the sharpest a CIO leader has
made toward the Democratic ad
ministration since 1940 when John
L. Lewis bolted the New Deal
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 5)
SEARCH PARTY FINDS
BODIES OF 4 FLIERS
ON WASHINGTON HILL
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 4.—(£>)—
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; •
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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
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