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VOLUME XXXV—NO. 112. FINAL EDITION
ELIZABETH CITY, N. C., THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 10, 1945.
Russian Allies Raise Flag in Elizabeth City
Cuba Asks
Increase in
Size Council
San Francisco, May 10—(TP)—
The United Nations conference
faced its first big test today on
a small nation bid for greater
voice in the proposed peace-en
forcing security council.
A Cuban proposal to enlarge
the council from 11 to 14 or 15
nations was put forward in the
conference committee charged
with
ship
vote
day.
working' out council member-
and some members said a
probably would be taken to-
As the council plan now stands,
it would include the Big Five
powers, plus six smaller ones.
American delegates sought
meanwhile for a formula for fit
ting a Pan American security
system into a world organization
without splitting this organization
into regional blocs.
Regional Control a Problem
They recognized this problem of
regional versus world security
control as one of the most critical
facing the -conference.
It is especially acute for the
United States delegation. Its mem
bers are divided on the issue,
which is: Shall the American re
publics be oh their own, or shall
they be under control of the world
organization, when they feel they
must use force to suppress ag
gression in the western hemis
phere?
Latin Americans want the au
thority to act in the western hem
isphere without waiting for world
organization orders. To counter
this, it appeared likely that advo
cates of regionalism in other
areas would call
thority for other
Amendment
A conference
proved last night
to the Dumbarton
for similar
zones.
Approved
committee
au-
ap-
an amendment
Oaks plan that
Yielding to impulse when the sirens sounded announcing the unconditional surrender of Germany
early this week, four young Russian Naval Aviators, engaged in ferry aircraft between here and Mos
cow, asked with sign language if they might have a hand in raising the American Flag on Main
street. Here they are seen with the flag—one of them explained in intelligible English that it was
now their flag, too—in front of I). Walter Harris store. Mr. Harris is just visible in the rear left.
the proposed assembly of nations
should have power 'to probe trou
ble spots in world affairs. The
big-powers had approved the
change after Foreign Commissar
Molotov of Russia succeeded in
striking out any specific reference
to reviewing treaties. He had ar
gued that would play into the
hands of German propagandists
after this war.
A committee on structures and
WEATHER
Cloudy and mild, scattered show
ers becoming rain tonight. Clear
and cooler Friday.
High yesterday 75
Low last night 57
Sunrise 6:03 — Sunset 7:59
6 PAGES—5 CENTS
Over 400 Superforts
Blast Jap Oil Stores
Americans Invade
Samal Unopposed
procedures of the general assem
bly decided last night jT let each
country have aS many as five re-
but
presentatives in the assembly
only one vote.
These other developments
tracted top interest:
Five Other Issues
1. A Big-Five committee on
at-
in-
Kesselring Sure
Hitler Is Dead;
Respected Allies
Saalfelden, Austria, May
10—
UP)—Field Marshal Albert Kessel
ing, the last commander of the
German armies in the west, is
‘most surprised” that Hitler did
not lead his Nazis into a planned
hold out in the fortified under-
g.ound tunnels of the Salzburg-
Be ehtesgaden area,
Kesselring, found by U. S.
troops aboard his special train in
the Tyrolean Alps and awaiting
completion of arrangements for
h ; s formal surrender, said he was
“absolutely certain” Hitler
dead.
”I was most surprised,” he
Anerican war correspondents
night “at the decision of der
is
told
last
fue-
brer at the last moment to fight
with his soldiers in Berlin.”
Kesselring said he saw Hitler
about the middle of April in Ber-
H'.
Ke
health,”
“It Fas
appeared in excellent
the Field Marshal added,
two or three days before
the Russian attack.”
“I had an opportunity to speak
with the chief of staff of the
rixth air army today, and he was
at the chancellery until two days
before Berlin fell,” the
shal said. “He said
dead.”
Kesselring declared
Field Mar-
Hitler
he did
know how Hitler had died.
was
not
but
Lone Nazi Raider Strikes
Last Blow off Roanoke;
Coast Guard Rescues 14
Guam, May 10—(TP)--Japan’s
dwindling homeland oil supplies
were blasted for the first time
today by a record fleet of more
than 400 B-29s.
Smoke columns rose 15,000 feet
from wreckage of oil storage and
fuel manufacturing centers on
Honshu, main Japanese island,
and returning Superfortress crew
men reported results “excellent."
The big bombers also struck at
airfields ■ on Shikoku and Kyushu
islands, from where Japan sends
suicide planes into the battle for
Russians Paid High
Price for Victory
By MATTHEW HALTON
Berlin, May 9—(Delayed)—(TP)
I heard today from a source
who certainly should know an es-
Manila, May 10—(TP)—Unoppos
ed American invasion of Samal
Island, just off captured Davao
city, was announced today as bit
ter fighting raged on the Minda
nao mainland, where doughboys
sought to outflank a .Japanese
force which has virtually isolated
a Yank battalion.
Meanwhile the Australian-Dutch
campaign on Tarakan Island, off
Borneo, neared completion. The
Allies held all of Tarakan city,
seized strategic Api Hill, and clos
ed in on the Djoeata oil field. They
ternational trusteeships is report
ed to have reached agreement “in
principle” on what sort of ma
chinery to set up for governing
the ex-enemy territories of thi^
world war and the previous one.
2. Senators Vandenberg and
Connally (D-Tex) made clear in
public statements that they and
other American delegates are
timate of what it cost the Rus-1
sians to save their county and
come at last to this triumph in already have the big Pamoesian
Oiknawa.
Fulfilling
W. Nimitz’s
Fleet Adm. Chester
promise of greater
and greater air attacks on Ja
pan, today's "
formation of sky
giants carried a total bomb ton
nage equivalent to the maximum
loads of more than 1,000 Liberator
bombers.
Bombs were dropped visually
and accuurately in a daylight
strike at the Tokuyama and
Otake fuel storage and manufac
turing centers on the island sea,
a major source of Japan’s avi
ation fuel.
The big Tokuyama naval fuel
ing station and a nearby synthe
tic fuel factory which is the lead
ing fueling center for the Japa
nese army were plastered as a
single target.
On Inland Sea
Tokuyama is 48 miles south-
west of Kure on the Inland Sea.
The O'take oil refinery—one of
Japan's largest—27 miles north-
east of Tokuyama, was hit. An ¬
Berlin—between 12,000,000 and
15,000,000 dead, of whom about
half were soldiers and half civi
lians.
“There were times,” said a Rus
sian general, “when we had to
lose half a million men at a time
to save the army itself.”
Science to Create
Millions of Jobs
Chapel Hill, May 10-(TP)—The
creation by science, in order to
win the peace of millions of new
jobs that were never dreamed of
before was proposed today at the
University of North Carolina’s
sesquicentennial celebration by
Dr. William A. Lazier, director of
the Southern Research Institute
of Birmingham.
After World War I, he said,
millions of new jobs were cre-
ated in the United States by re ¬
oil field.
Tokyo radio reported American
Negro troops
were fighting on
Tarakan. There has been no indi
cation from Allied sources of Am
ericans participating in the cam
paign.
Protects Flank
Elements of Maj. Gen. Roscoe
Woodruff’s 24th Infantry Division
invaded Samal Island Tuesday to
I protect the American flank in the
I drive up the Davao Gulf coast.
There were few, if any, Japanese
believed to be on the island, which
is 22 miles long and 10 miles wide.
Other units of the 24th Division
established a bridgehead across
the Talomo River, west of Davao
city, in a flanking move to liqui
date the Japanese force which, in
a counterattack Monday, almost
ringed a U. S. battalion.
The 31st Division under Maj.
Gen. Clarence Martin advanced
seven miles eastward from Kiba-
we, in central Mindanao; while
ated in the United States by re- another column moved northward
search. In the. present war science , and engaged a Japanese force
other target was the
storage area, largest
proper.
Oshima is a small
west of the north tip
Oshima oil
in Japan'
island just
of Kyushu.
Good weather permitted visual
bombing for the Superfort crews
in a continuation of their stra-
(See JAPS page 2) *
has done far more than ever be
fore to aid victory and has gone
ahead at a faster pace.
This pace, he declared, can be
maintained in new science crea
tions for the needs of peace and
in adapting war’s discoveries to
peaceful pursuits.
Peanuts and Tobacco
Dr. Lazier enumerated many
(See SCIENCE page 2)
near the southern airstrip of
Maramag airdrome.
the
BROOKS TO LEAD
The Rev. D. P. Brooks, pastor
of Salem Baptist Church, will
lead the Men’s Christian Federa
tion meeting Friday morning.
Battle Vets To Get
Guard Duty in Area
Atlanta, Ga., May 10- Battle
veterans, returned from theaters
of war, will be used in the south-
east as guards and in.administra
tive duties over German prisoners
Committee Approves
Gilliam Nomination
Washington, May 10—(TP)—The
nomination of Don Gilliam of Tar
boro, to be Federal District; Judge
for the Eastern District of North
Carolina was approved today by
a Senate Judiciary subcommittee.
The committee had called a
of war. Major General Frederick j hearing today but no witnesses
commanding general,! appeared in opposition to the
E. Uhl,
Fourth Service Command,
day.
Especially will this be
American soldiers, both
said to-, nomination.
Previously. Ira Baker.
true of, Mount, N. C., had indicated
officers, Sen. Ferguson (R-Mich) that
and enlisted men, who have, them- wished to testify.
selves, been prisoners of war,
After Giving Away Two Hospitals
Here is the U. S. Coast Guard’s first and only four-star admiral
sr-id he had “the absolute convic
tion der fuehrer was unwilling to
fall into Russian hands alive.”
Kesselring was asked if he
thought the Germany army could
have fought better without Hit
ler’s “intuitive” leadership.
“To give justice to der fuehrer,”
he said, “I must say he was a
genius in operations sense and
conception. Sometimes, however,
th- ideas of genius are misunder- !
stood.
Hitler Overburdened
“I only regret that der fuehrer
had to direct Germany's military,
political and economic
was overtaxed by the
his burdens.”
Discussing the war
Kesselring declined to
life. He
weight of
in general
offer any
specific criticism of Allied stra
tegy.
-.He singled out Field Marshal
Bernard L. Montgomery, Gen.
, "forge S. Patton and Air Chief
marshal Sir Artrur Tedder among
die Allied commanders who had
when he stopped briefly here enr
visit to the Outer Banks, during
Alpheus W. Drinkwater, two Coas
ty. Left to right they are Capt. E
ficer of the Coast Guard, Admir
and Commander Stanley Linholm,
City Air Sea Rescue Task force.
oute hack to Washington after a
which time he tendered, through
t Guard Infirmaries in Dare Ooun-
Ilis Reed-Hill, public relations of-
al R. R. Waesche, commandant,
commandant of the Elizabeth
Army Says 85 Points
Required f^r Discharge
Washington, May 10—(TP)—The
War Department announced today
w 1. his respect and admiration. • . «. --x-y - —UZ^V
Hti referred to the Field Marsh-pi that' a point score of 8a h;
as! ’'Monty.”
Me assorted the Germans “nev-
er did entertain the
gas.”
He remarked, "I
extreme increase in
idea of using
have seen an
the ability of
American and English sodiers in
combat. We have always spoken
I of our aggressors with the great
est esteem.”
constantly concerned with what
the United States Senate may or
may not be willing to accept, by
two-thirds vote, in the way of a
security league.
3. In Washington, the House
Britain Planning
To Push Attacks
On the Japanese
London. May 10—(TP)—Prosecu-
. Ition of the war against Japan
passea—and sent to the Senate—- t ^ ed the tasks facing Britain
a resolution calling for a consti-1 nation settled down today
after a joyous celebration of V-E
tutional amendment to require
treaty ratification by a majority
vote of both branches of Congress.
Prospects for success looked bleak.
4. The Russians finally won a
partial victory in their fight to
get a world trade union congress
spokesman to the conference even
though Foreign Minister Molotov
left yesterday. The conference
committee on a world economic
(See CUBA page 2)
Fourteen Killed
As Mine Explodes
Sunnyside, Utah, May 10—(TP)—
Fourteen miners were known to
have been killed in an explosion in
the Utah Fuel Company's No. 1
mine here yesterday and.' rescue
workers were combing the
nels today for the bodies of
possible victims.
Seven injured, three in
tun-
more
criti ¬
cal condition, were taken to hos
pitals.
Deadly carbon fumes which
spread through the mine follow
ing the explosion three miles un
derground hampered rescue oper
ations and removal of bodies.
Citizens Make Or Break
Peace Efforts McMillan
Tells Blackwell Group
[ “The failure of the League of
: Nations following World War I
i was not Woodtow Wilson's fail-
ure and the failure of the. world
I dream of peace now being imple-
Rocky : mented at San Francisco will not
to be Stalin’s failure or Churchill’s
he failure, but your failure and
Sen. Bailey- (D-NC) told
the
General Uhl has advised comman- committee “Gilliam’s whole life is
ding officers of posts and camps way above any possibility of at-
in this command. Before taking,tack. He can stand any amount
mine,” R. L. McMillan of Ral
eigh told the Brotherhood of
cisco.
“Ours has been called the tragic
era of the failure of distribution.
We have developed a lopsided civ
ilization. We have learned much
about physics and chemistry and
we have learned to produce en
ormously; but we have neglected
decided on as the minimu
been
quired for discharge of ground, air
and service forces enlisted
at this time.
Men with this total will be
sidered eligible for release
men
con-
and
will start moving next week for
separation centers.
Separate critical scores' for each
of the services will be established
in about six weeks.
About 1,300,000 men are to be
released in the next 12 months un
der the point system.
Four Factors Count
The points for each of four fac
tors for discharge are as follows:
Service credit—One point for
each month of army service since
September 16, 1940. This is the
same as 12 points per year. (More
Dunkerque Returns
To Allied Hands
London, May 10-(TP)—The al
lied controlled Luxembourg radio
declared today that the German
holdout garrison in the French
channel port of Dunkerque has
surrendered.
Dunkerque was the last pocket
of German resistance in France
to surrender to the allies.
Aluminum, Copper
And Steel Going
To Be Released
up their duties, the officers and ! of examination: I think we got the
. men who will handle the prisoners '
will be given a thorough training
as to disciplinary measures to be
taken as well as provisions of the
Geneva Convention.
best man.”
The full judiciary committee is
expected to send the nomination
to the Senate/for action, probably
early next week.
Blackwell Memorial
nual banquet in the
Wednesday night.
"I salute you as
of public opinion in
at their an-
church annex
the moulders
this free land
of ours. What we think, we are;
and in groups like this will be
decided the fate of world confer
ences like the one at San Fran-
the
We
not
study of the social sciences,
have learned how to get, but
how to distribute.
A Tragic Picture
“All of us recall that in the
depression there was no market
for wheat and farmers used it for
fuel. At the same time breadlines
of hungry people were forming in
our great cities.
(See CITIZENS page 2).
Day and shouldered its share of
the tremendous problems connect-
tion of liberated continental coun-
ed with the care and rehabilita-
tries and the occupation of van
quished Germany.
With the war in Europe fin
ished, it is expected that British
fighting men and equipment will
be transferred as rapidly as pos
sible to the Far East, where oth
er British' land, sea and air forces
already are in action.
The government is rushing to
completion plans for support of
UNRRA work in feeding and shel
tering the European continent’s
war-stricken millions. Organiza
tion of the commission which will
control the British-occupied por
tion of Germany is already nearly
complete. It has been speculated
in London that either Field Mar
shal Sir Harold Alexander or
Field Marshal Sir Bernard L.
Montgomery may head the British
commission.
Prepares Postwar Program
Britain also is prepared to start
a post-war program at home to
aid thousands of bombed-out fam
ilies. Approximately 30,000 Amer
ican made pre-fabricated houses
are among those that will be
erected for civilian war victims.
Government and business lead
ers already have started making
plans to recapture Britain's share
of world trade and a keen race
with American businessmen for!
world markets is foreseen. .
While his government was get
ting ready to grapple with these
problems, the average Britisher
returned to work and his normal
routine after a double V-E
celebration.
Day
Benes Back in Prague
After Seven Years
London, May 10—(TP)—President
Edward Benes has returned to
Prague, the Czechoslovakia capi
tal which he left in 1938, after
Munich, the Prague radio announ
ced today.
The Prague radio said German
than 15 days will be
a full month.)
Overseas credit—1
each month overseas
tember 16, 1940.
Combat credit—5
each award of combat
counted as
point
since
points
for
Sep-
for
decorations
since September 16, 1940.
Parenthood credit—12 points for
each child under 18 years of age
with a limit of three children.
Those who attain the required
score will be released unless mili
tary necessity dictates their re
tention until replacements can be
obtained.
44 Points for Women
Washington, May 10—(TP)—The
Government has decided to open
up steel, copper and aluminum
supplies to civilian goods manu
facturers July 1.
This decision, reported today by
officials in a position to know,
is scheduled for early announce
ment by the War Production
Board. It follows the shift from
two—to one— point warfare.
It was learned also that most
of the remaining restrictions on
production of consumer “hard
goods” such as radios, washing
machines and vacuum' cleaners.
will be lifted shortly. Only those
covering such products as auto-
A temporary score of 44 points
has been set for members of the ’ mobiles, trucks and stoves will be
Women’s Army Corps. retained for a time until material
The combat credits are based | supplies are moving more free-
on awards of the Distinguishel | ly.
Service Cross, Legion of Merit,
Silver Star, Distinguished Flying I
Cross, Soldiers’ Medal, Bronze
Star Medal, Purple Heart and
Bronze Service Stars (Battle Par
ticipation Stars.)
Credit also will be given for the
following naval decorations to Ar
my personnel: Navy Cross. Dis-’
tinguished Service Medal. Legion
of Merit, Silver Star MedqJ, Dis
tinguished Flying Cross, Navy
and Marine Medal, Bronze Star
Medal, Air Medal and Purple
Heart Medal.
(See ARMY page 2)
Edenton Aviator
Gets Second Award
A second Oak Leaf Cluster to
his Air Medal has been awarded
to Sergeant James M. Bond, 21,
Edenton for “meritorious achieve
ment” while participating in
bombing attacks upon military and
industrial targets in Germany in
conjunction with advances by Al
lied Armies.
Sgt. Bond is the tail gunner of
an Eighth Air Force B-17 Flying
Fortress in the 385th Bombard
ment Group commanded by Col
onel George Y. Jumper, Natoma,
California.
So’s of Mrs. M. F. .Bond, 107
planes again were bombing the ] West Church street, he was em-
big concentration camp at Tere-1 ployed as an apprentice electrician
zin (Theresienstadt), 53 milesiby Norfolk Navy Yard, prior to
entering the Army Air Force in
March, 1943.
He received his aerial gunnery
wings at Las Vagas Field, Nev
ada, in July, 1944,
northeast of Prague, where thou
sands of Jews still were held. The
camp was among places bombed
yesterday, Czech broadcasts re
ported.
Control Orders Be Amended
Even in the case of these items,
Forty miles due east of Roa
noke Island a German submarine
struck the dying Third Reich’s
final desperate blow in continental
waters of the United States at
2:50 p.m. Monday, April 23rd.
Cruising off shore a PBM from
the Elizabeth City Coast Guard
Air Sea Rescue Task Force inter
cepted a radio message from the
master of the Norwegian tanker
“Katy” saying that he was aban
doning ship. He gave his location
40 miles off shore.
Relayed to the Oregon Inlet
Coast Guard Station, the message
brought instant action from, the
crew of the Coast Guard Rescue
boat temporarily on duty there
while the station's regular crash
boat was undergoing overhaul
here in Elizabeth City. With Chief
Boatswain's Mate Lippincott call
ing the course, the boat streaked
out through Oregon Inlet.
Fourteen Rescued ’
With every ounce of its power-
poured into its propellor shaft the
rescue boat cut through the wa
ter, making the fifty miles from
Oregon Inlet to the scene of the
torpedoing in 75 minutes, arriving
there at 4.20 p.m. Two hours and
fifty minutes later it was back
at its dock with 14 men who were
transferred to the Naval Auxil
iary Air Station a,t Manteo for
hospitalization and the treatment
of wounds received when the tor
pedo crashed into the tanker.
Even as it flashed the message
to Oregon Inlet the Air-Sea Res
cue PBM continued eastward to
the bearing given by the tanker’s
skipper. It was joined by two oth
er PBM’s and by Navy aircraft,
including dirigibles The crew had
taken to their boats, the sea was
calm and. the men were in no dan
ger, except from wounds.
Unarmed, the Air Sea. rescue
craft were intent upon rescue. The
Navy searched for the submarine,
believed to have been the one
which sank a ship off the Mary
land coast above Hampton Roads
l ive days before and to ba Co bee:,
the same which torpedoed another
vessel off the New ®nf;land coast
several days later.
Other Sinkings
Announcement of this sinking
and others farther up the coast
and one off the coast of South
America in this last gasp of Gel
man under sea power was made
through the Associated Press to-
day. News of it had spread by
word of mouth, sometimes multi
plied in the telling, until it was
common knowledge all over the
Albemarle. The Navy made the
matter public at headquarters of
Fifth Naval District in Norfolk
Wednesday night. »
Surviving members of the crews
brought into Norfolk were allowed
to tell the newspapers about the
(See NAZI page 2)
Riddick Admits
Liability For Crop
Upon admission oy the defend
ant Henry Riddick in the case in
which tire Virginia Carolina Chem
ical Company was plaintiff that
he had disposed of mortaged
property involved in the suits Sup
erior Court Judge Richard Dixon
immediately ordered a. mistrial
and directed an order placing fun
burden of payment of ’claims in
the two actions brought by the
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Cor
poration upon Riddick and ad
journed the term of civil court-
Riddick, by ordci of the judge
and under an agreement approv-
however, control orders will be ed by counsel of both parties, was
amended to permit some produc- placed under a $500 bond for ap-
tl0n /c pearance in recorder's court on
(See ALUMINUM page 2) (See RIDDICK page 2)
Matchless Shooting Wins
Acclaim Here for Expert;
Fish Fry Follows Meeting
If he could shoot half as well conference arranged by Ue FBI
when he was a youngster as he I for law enforcement offkials in
does now it must have been a this area, under the supervision of
happy day for the jack rabbits
when Daniel A. Hruska grew up
and moved out of the state of
Texas., In a matchless exhibition
of plain and fancy shooting at the
Coast Guard pistol range Wed
nesday afternoon the man from
the Lone Star State who is now
an instructor in the FBI Academy
at Quantico, Virginia, riddled tar
get after target for a near per
fect score.
Firing at a. silhouette of a man
all of his bullets save one landed
in a vital area and that one went
into the arm of the make-believe
criminal. This was in.the course
of shooting inat started from the
60 foot mark and ended at the
25 foot mark. A strong cross wind
made the shooting more difficult
and it was considered remarkable
that the expert was able to make
such a score under this condition.
Mr. Hruska’s appearance here
was in connection with a special
Edward Scheldt, special agent in
charge of the Charlotte office. He
was assisted by Special Agent T.
D Easterling and Chief of Police
Walter W Spence of Elizabeth
City who arranged a fish fry for
the visiting law enforcement off
cials and guests at ’his camp on
the Pasquotank Riser following
the shooting exhibition.
Meeting Opens at Two
The meeting opened shortly aft
er two o’clock at Hotel Virginia
Dare with Mr Scheldt presiding
He told of the law enforcement
conferences which have been held
in this area and voiced the opin
ion these were largely reponsible
for the total absence of foreign
inspired sabotage in thjs. coastal
defense area since Pearl Harbor.
He complimented local law en
forcement officials upon their co-
operation, efficiency and friendli-
11CSS
(See SHOOTING page 21