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CAPTAIN REPORTS LONG TRIP FUTILE HONOLULU, Feb. 23—t2?'— The captain of the Liberty ship Poca hontas said today he nad sailed aU the way to Okinawa and Manila with badly-needed supplies for Army forces stationed there only to be ordered back to the United States with his cargo intact. Capt. Anthony H. Bledsoe, whose ship reached Pearl Harbor enroute to a,n East Coast port, said he was puzzled by the orders from Wash ington because such articles in his cargo as laundry and dry cleaning equipment for Manila were criti cally needed there. In his cargo were such other items as 50.000 cases of beer, band instruments, fire trucks, cranes for structural work, textbooks, phonograph records and cigaret tes. Bledsoe said his original orders took him to Okinawa Dec. 7, where bad weather delayed unloading op eratiofis. On Jan. 11 he was or dered to proceed to Manila. ‘'At Maniljt” he added, we waited our tfTrn to discharge but on Jan. 29 I was told to return my ship to San Francisco with the nricrinaT eal£0. “Five days out on Honolulu the orders were changed again and the Pocahontas was directed to proceed through the Panama Canal to an east coast port (un named.) “All I know is my orders come from Washington,” Bledsoe said. RUSSIA’S ARMY AT FULL POWER (Continued from Page One) is of the American people, demo bilization has become, in effect, disintegration, not only of the arm ed forces but apparently of all con ception of world responsibility and what it demands of us. Definite measures must be taken imme diately to determine at least the basic principles of our postwar military policy. I have never felt go certain of anything in my life.” In a house committee hearing Rep. J. Leroy Johnson, R., Calif., asked fleet Admiral Ernest J. King this question: “Is the navy now so badly dis organized ‘by demobilization) that it could not now fight a major battle?” King replied: “I’m afraid I’d have to answer ‘yes’ to that ques tion.” ARMY WILL REMAIN MUKDEN, Feb. 20.—Delayed)— (U.R)—Maj. Gen. Andrei Kovtoun Stankevitch, commander of Soviet forceg in the Mukden area, hinted today that the Red army will re main in Manchuria as long as Am erican marines and soldier* are stationed in China. The Soviet general greeted Bri tish and eight American correspon dents when they were released to day after 54 hours internment by the Russians in Mukden’* best hotel, the Yamato. Asked when the Red army plan ned to evacuate the territory, the general said, “If I’m ordered by the Soviet high command to with draw, I’ll do it, but not before.” So far, he said, there had been no word from his superiors regard ing evacuation. Pressed further, and reminded of the Soviet agree ment to withdraw all troops by Feb. 1, he snapped back: “Let me ask you: when are Am ericans going home from China?” (Ulcer Stomach Pains GAS, INDIGESTION, BURNING Due to Excess Stomach A cfd ■ Don t neglect burning stomach or ulcer pains t° excess acid. Get a 25c bo* of UDGA Tablets from your druggist and make simple, easy, quick home trial. Over 200 million used. Highly recommended for relieving gas pains, heartburn, indigestion, sour or upset stomach4 and other hyperacid symptoms. &-minute trial 1 convince or DOUBLETYOURMONEY BACK. Saunders Drug Store and Drug Stores Everywhere. BRITISH RUSH MORE MEN INTO CALCUTTA (Continued from Page One) way officials. A wing of the Koh-1 Noor textile mills was set afirt here. Firemen, escorted by polict and soldiers, extinguished th« blaze. British authorities put curfew hours at 7:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. and warned that anyone caught erect ing road barricades would be shot at sight. Indian sources described the situation north of Bombay as more grave than it was Friday. Reinforcements were sent there. Calcutta dispatches said demon strators, mostly railway workers, halted trains at the Lillooah and Belur suburban stations of the East Indian railway by standing ct t m tracks. Similar derhonstrations were staged at Barrackpore on the Bengal-Assam railway. Authorities rushed food and water to passen gers marooned on a train stalled by a strike of employes at the Sel adah railway station. Hooligans tried to set fire to the Salvation Army building in the center of Bombay. Military patrols fired upon them and wounded six. A crowd of about 100 set a branch of the Imperial bank on fire in the Moslem quarter of town and at tacked a municipal building in the same quarter. A huge boulder thrown from a building roof nar rowly missed a truckload of Bri usn iruups. Streets Were littered with refuse which was rioting. The municipal garbage collectors stayed away from their jobs. Street cars and buses gave only skeleton service. Stones, boulders and glass blocked many roads. Few shops were open. The postoffice at Chowpatty beach was broken open, its con tents strewed in the streets and set afire. The British communique describ ing the naval surrender, issued here and at New Delhi, gave no hint as to what lay in store for the surrendering naval mutineers who seized Koval Indian navy vessels in Bombay harbor and barricaded themselves in castle barracks Thursday. Baltimore Man Elected President Of Postal Supervisors* District Charlotte, Feb. 23.—(fP)— Carl W. Seipel of Baltimore was elect ed president of the third regional district of the National Association of Postal Supervisors, at the con cluding business session of the giuup UC1C lUUdJ. Other officers elected are: Charles L. Gault, Parkersburg, W. Va,, Russell H. Thompson, Washington, George R. Grant, Fayetteville, John Swygert, Col umbia, S. C., Leslie J. Montague, Portsmouth, Va., Roy M. Harris, Frederick, Md., vice presidents; and Morris, Eisenberg, Baltimore, secretary-treasurer,. AIRPORT FACT COM MITTEE FINDINGS BEING COMPILED (Continued from Page One) Wooten, Wilmington aero club member. Leaving here early Thursday, the delegation visited two airports in and near Raleigh, and the Greensboro - High Point - Guilford county field that day. The Win ston-Salem and Charlotte airports were inspected Friday and the group returned to Wilmington late that night. Hewlett said yesterday the group found the Raleigh-Durham airport “in much the same position we are, but very enthusiastic about the future.” That field now has an average of 24 landings daily, Or rell reported. * The chairman said airport auth orities were operating a number of the fields. Some of the authorities were created by legislative act and others by appointment. 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BUILD STURDY HEALTH and L..p StALWART • STEADY • STRONG S5STOMIC','tt»-»™ PASTOR ADDRESSES TROOP 19 BOY SCOUTS — ■ ■ • '?yF>fr 7' ' "" , " v'f»> ‘"/W, . .. zM[>A .?*£ JiL .me in.. >->• i-.iani.uii, pastor oi nrst baptist cnurcn, spoite to memrers 01 troop ty, iioy scouts of America, sponsored by his congregation, on the occasion of their recent banquet in observance of National Scouting week. To the left of the speaker are Courtland W. Baker, scout executive; E. Z. Blan ton, Sr., scoutmaster; Alton Lennon, chairman of the troop committee; Luther Hodges, scout commis sioner, and Carrll Tinsley, assistant executive.—Ph oto by Harry Wettig City Briefs "QUEEN OF HEARTS" Ross Garner, 10 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Garner, 6-A 1 Sumpter drive, Maffitt Village, will be featur ed on the STAR-NEWSREEL radio program WMFD 1:15 p. m. today. Miss Garner was recently chosen “Queen of Hearts" in a popularity poll of fourth grade students in the Maffitt Village schc*!. DANCE SCHEDULED The Blessed Martin de For res’ club of St. Thomas Cath olic church will conduct a dance in St. Thomas auditor ium Monday night, starting at 8 o’clock. CHURCH CENSUS MEETING The Rev. J. O. Walton, church census leader for the Lake Forest area, has called a meeting of his co-workers in Lake Forest Tuesday night at 8 o’clock in order to make plans for starting the census March 3 POLICE SEEK NEGRO Wilmington police officers have been asked to locate J. Lee Buck, Negro, formerly Red Cross street resident, whose father died in Mullins, S. C., yesterday. ANNUAL RED CROSS CAMPAIGN READIED (Continued from Page One) pestilence, famine, fire and flood and to devise methods of preven tion. Funds of the Red Cross are divided into the following cate gories: “For the man overseas.” “For the man in the hospital.” “For the returned veteran.” “For victims of war.” “For our own here at home,” and volunteer special services including volunteer nurse’s aide corps; home service corps; hospital and recreation corps; air and skills corps; motor corps, canteen corps; dietitian’s corps, and production corps. During the war, Red Cross volun teers made over two billion surgi cal dressings plus thousands of hospital garments; received dona tions of over 13,000,000 pints of blood and exhibited 281,000 movies in hospitals. Red Cross workers served in some 700 military and naval hos pitals with 2,197 members of the organization serving overseas, were furnished hospitals and mill- 1 tar} installations. These services > More than 25,000,000 articles, the 1 co-chairmen pointed out, will be 1 continued to meet peacetime needs ! as they arise. < WEATHER ... c Meteorological data for the 24 hours ] ending 7:30 p.m. yesterday. . T Temperatures i 1:30 a.m. 52; 7:30 a.m. 51; 1:30 p.m. 64; < 7:30 p.m. 58. t Maximum 69; Minimum 50; Mean 60; Normal 49. c Humidity 1:30 a.m. 84; 7:30 a.m. 82; 1:30 p.m. 42; , 7:30 p.m. 72. I Precipitation t Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m.— . -inches. . .Xota' since the first of the month— ' inches. « Tides For Today i (From the Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey) TIfil . . High Low Wilmington - 3:51 a.m. n:i0 a.m. J , 4:06 p.m. 11:29 p.m. ' Mesonboron Inlet _ 1:22 a.m. 7:44 a.m. i c1lr,_2e 0 1.32 p.m. 7:52 p.m. , 6 ,6-7 am-: Sunset 6:03 p.m.; Moon rise 1:1a a.m. Moonset 11:38 a.m. i B™INGT.°N' Feb- 23.—(iP)—Weather ' M w rrt.° temperature and rain fau for the 24 hours ending 8 p.m.: 1 WILMINGTON _: AtUrni11* - 54 37 000 - 66 48 0.16 IW^nBham - 55 47 0 55 Chattanooga - 53 42 008 Cleveland - 33 32 o.OO Uetroit - 31 30 o_oo Fort Worth-I_I 65 51 0.00 , Galveston _ __ 77 60 0.00 Kansas City_ ~~ 57 34 0.00 Knoxville _~~ 53 41 0.00 Los Angeles_ _I 71 49 0.00 Louisville _50 31 0.00 Memphis _" _ 64 50 0.23 Miami __I 75 ' 64 0.00 Mobile _ ~~ 78 49 New York__41 26 0.06 Pittsburgh_ 38 32 0.00 Richmond - || 46 o.05 San Franciscao - o nn Seattle - gj® Washington- uu0 1 Coast Line Sends Diner Employes Back To School It’s “school days” again for employes of the dining car de partment, Atlantic Coast Line railroad. But “reading, ritin’ and ’rithmetic” are out and in their places are neatness, team work and courtesy to the pub lic. And a dining car is the "classroom.” Inaugurated last December by F. A. Cooke, general super intendent dining cars, Wash ington, D. C., the training pro gram affecting more than 700 dining car employes is designed to insure more efficient and courteous service for the tra veler. Classes are being held in Washington and New York, where during January, 455 em ployes and 30 visitors from other railroads took the course. Conducted by D. M. Wallace, assistant to general superin tendent dining cars, C. H. Reis er supervisor of operations,O.J. Duffin, traveling chef, and F. O. Mitchell, traveling waiter, sessions have included demon strations of the right and wrong way to serve, proper prepara tion and service of various menu items, teamwork in the compact diner kitchens and co operation between kitchen and dining room forces. The training program will continue indefinitely on a “re fresher course” basis, accord ing to Cooke. Classes will be held each month and stress will be laid on new ideas that arise* from actual service. During the war period four times as many patrons were served on Coast Line diners as in the pre-war period. Many inconveniences were suffered by patrons as a result of food rationing regulations and stimu lated travel, as well as by the railroad which met the increas ed traffic with no increase in equipment and a decrease in experienced manpower. In 1939, the Coast Line ser ved 650.674 meals and in 1944 served 2,595,842. These figures are exclusive of tavern or buf fet lounge car service. An aver age of 55 dining cars and 12 tavern cars did the job. DEMOCRATIC VICTORY SEEN IN ARGENTINA (Continued from Page One) and province which have 156 elec toral votes, to get the 189 votes needed for election. As the country tensely awaited its first presidential elections in nine years, both sides predicted victory. A 24-hour period of politi cal inactivity prior to the opening if the polls at 8 a. m. tomorrow was being obse$ved. It is required by electoral laws. Tamborini and Peron cested af :er delivering their final appeals :o the voters over the radio last night. Peron had a sore throat which compelled him to broadcast !rom his bed. WOULD SOLVE PROBLEMS By GRAHAM HOVEY WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 —— Government officials and Latin American diplomats today were agreed on at least one thing in connection with tomorrow’s na ;ional election in Argentina: Defeat of Col. Juan D. Peron, ^residential aspirant whom the Jnited States regards as an ex >onent of fascism, would solve all immediate inter-American political iroblems — provided, of course, hat Peron could not subsequently eize power by military force. In any case the outcome will hape general i n t e r-American [ealings for some time to come. The officials and diplomats are harply divided on the chances of 5eron’s opponent, Dr. Jose Tam iorini, democratic union candi late. Some Latin diplomats say hey believe Tamporini will win lecisively. State department officials are iot so optimistic. They point out hat predictions of a Tamborini . ictory are based on the assump- [ ion of a free election and say ' ome fraudulent aspects already . lave developed. These officials are particularly ] ifraid that the violence inspired ly Peron’s followers at democratic . inion rallies during the campaign ‘ nay have intimidated Tamborini ;upporters from coming- to the >olls. All agree, however, that Tam- i iorini’s election—and installation ! n office—would pave the way for- ] 1. Speedy restoration of Argen’- < ina to official good standing in i he inter-American family , 2. Early convening 0f ’the Rio i ie Janeiro conference to draft an 1 nter-American defense treaty in which Argentina’s partir-inot-1 would be welcomed by all < :r American renuhliL ■ th,e oth' 3 he U S. Publics, including ' , ”£er01? Wins, however, some U ' berets1 aSDond'hdiil>l0mats believe | inference the Rio mce—may not be heW ^tpone(d ! ng now is scheduled meet' ‘ ime between March* is^nd AprU |! II 13 PERSONS HELD IN CANADIAN ‘SPY’ PROBE (Continued from Page One) were detained at the start of the investigation. The announcement was a letter written to Justice Minister Louis St. Laurent by the three counsels to the two-man Royal commission conducting the inquiry. The com missioners authorized St. Laurent to make the letter public. “A great deal of evidence is still to be placed before the commis sioners,” the letter said, ‘‘and the reasons for proceeding in camera become more apparent every day. “The inquiry is proceeding as rapidly as possible, especially con sidering the difficult circum stances under which the work is being done (it obviously must be done with greatest discretion) and the commissioners desire to make a report which will contain at least some of their findings within as short a time as possible which, however, as appears at present cannot be less than two or three weeks from now.” The probe is being conducted “sub judice,” a legality calling for strict secrecy and providing heavy VY1UV.11 might prejudice the case. Govern ment officials have become in creasingly reticent. There remained no official clue to the exact nature of the' secrets handed over to Russia. Moscow ras said that they included atomic md other data but added that the Information gleaned already had seen published in scientific papers. The letter confirmed that the in /estigation began early last fall, m order in council creating the itoyal commission having been massed last Oct. 6. It was disclosed iurther that those detained are leld under provisions of the sweep, ng war measures act, which re named in effect after the end of lostilities and later was continued mder the national emergency ransitional powers act. Under these laws, those detained ire held without habeas corpus ights. ROUND VIEW WINS MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 23—(JP)—Lad lie Sanford’s Round View won the 130,000-added Flamingo Stakes at lialeah race track today, nosing >ut R. S. McLaughlin’s Wee Ad niral by a neck. W. W. Adams’ Jaj Moonbeam took the show, our lengths farther behind, by a ead over W. P. Chrysler’s Cedar ’reek. Round View ran the mile nd one furlong in 1:52 and paid 7.30. __ STRAWBERRY PLANTC Senator Dunlap, worlds most r " ** * B popular, or Giant Mastodon vertiearin*... 100 plants, very special $3.50.1 ay postage on cash orders, or sentC. O. D j)lua barges. Sent at proper planting time. Send ack for full refund _fnot satisfied. FREE for rompt action, 2 hardy Cushion Mums. $1.00 alue. Order now. JAMES W, OWEN NURSERY, ept. 16, 1-B, Blooming, 111. Clip E1U*. BATTLE FOR LABOR SUPREMACY HINTED (Continued from Page One) government. It does not constantly depend upon the government to make all decisions affecting the policies of organized labor.” Without mentioning CIO Presi dent Philip Murray, with whom he broke in 1942 after a comradship of two decades in the miners’ union, Lewis obviously was referring to Murray’s acceptance of the steel strike compromise proposed by President Truman. The CIO has supported efforts to continue war time controls. It wanted the war labor board carried through criti cal post-war months. Lewis opposed Murray’s efforts to bring the issue of reconversion wages before the November Labor Management conference, and the public utterances of both Lewis and AFL President William Green since then have followed identical pat terns. This is taking the form of an at tack on the ideologies of an element of the CIO—without, however, men tioning Murray who is regarded as a conservative influence in his mass production organization. Now the plan appears to be un roicung as an eliort to wean away from the CIO such unionists as would find themselves more in sympathy with the traditional economic and political views of the federation than with those of cer tain CIO factions. Besides Lewis’ remarks on the radio, the AFL publication, Labor’s Monthly Survey, hit precisely the same task. Claiming that the AFL has won ‘wage increases averaging from 10 to 20 cents an hour and up for about 3,000,000 workers”- with relatively few strikes, the publica tion said: ‘‘Unions outside the federation, however, had other methods. Sim ultaneous strikes in basic indus tries, with uncompromising de mands, were designed to force gov ernment intervention with fact finding boards and wage for mulas.” M’VAY’S SENTENCE REMITTED BY NAVY (Continued from Page One) guiuy oi ianure to zig-zag. it ac quitted him of a charge of inef ficiency in failing promptly to is sue and insure execution of or ders to abandon ship. He was not tried for loss of the ship. The court recommended to the Navy that he be moved back 100 numbers in his temporary grade of captain and 100 numbers in his permanent grade of commander. In setting aside the court’s re commended sentence, the NavJ announced that Secretary of Navy James Forrestal had released Mc Vay from arrest arsd restored him to duty. However, Vice Adm. Louis E. Denfeld, chief of Naval personnel, told reporters at a press confer ence that McVay probably would never be given command of an other warship. The Navy also disclosed that Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, chief of Naval operations, admitted that he —as wartime commander of naval 1 I' taxes in the Pacific—“must bear ny share of responsibility for the oss of the Indianapolis.” The Navy’s disciplinary action igainst the four officers held re sponsible for not initiating a prompt search for survivors con sisted of three letters of reprimand ind one letter of admonition. Letters of reprimand were writ sen by Forrestal to Com. N. C. Gillette, of Chicago, acting com mander of the Philippines Sea frontier at the time the Indianap olis sank, and his operations of Eicer, Capt. A. M. Granum, of Wilwaukee, Wis. A second letter of reprimand over Nimitz’s signature was sent to Cmdr. Jules C. Sancho (no ad dress available), acting port di rector at Leyte. Nimitz sent a letter of admonition to Lt. 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