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JUNE 15, IMS 11 .r Sees Prospects of Com plete Settlement; tBig Tlttee' Will Confer Soon Washington, June 13. — President Truman jubilantly disclosed today the definite setting of an early "Big Thread meeting and said there are prospects for a complete settlement of the Polish issue. Obviously elated over confidential reports from Harry Hopkins and Joseph E. Davis, his special emissar ies, the President announced to a news conference: 1. While he cannot divulge the time or place, upon which all have agreed, he will meet soon with ltarwhal Stal in and Prime Minister Churchill to iron out any remaining difficerence among the Big lime. , Miuins Satisfactory. 2. The results of the Hopkins and Davis missions have been completely "satisfactory and gratifying" and very pleasant yielding by Russia on some points has clarified three-powered re lationships substantially. 3. He has every hope a free and democratic election smong the* Polish people will grow out of a conference June 15 to seek a compromise basis for the reorganisation of the provi sional Polish government. 4. James- P. Byrnes, former war mobilisation director, will accompany him to the "Big Three" meeting along with Secraary gf State Stettinius;, Hopkins; Davis; Fleet Admiral Wil liam D. Leahy, presidential chief of stsff, and Charles G. Ross, press sec retary. Meanwhile the British radio said it was reported from Copenhagen without 'confirmation that the Danish capital would be the site of the "Big Three" meeting. There was no White House comment , ■ Asserting the Polish problem which long has' disturbed relations among the Big Three is on the road to a set tlement, the President pleaded, that nothing be done on this side of the Atlantic to muddy the waters by raising the questions as to final ac quiescence by present members of the London Polish government. The Russians, the President said pointedly, are just as anxious to get , along with the Americans as the Americans are to get along with them. r - • v realm Mopkins He said that he could say cate gorically that Hopkins, in one of his four conferences with Premier Stalin, was instrumental in Rqpaia's decision to recede from its previously firm stand at 8an Francisco. Thsr Bailing, until after Hopkins had talked with the Soviet leader, had insisted upon the right of any of the biff powers to veto a discus sion of international disputes. Asked what would happen if the in vited British Polea_(who include for mer members of the exiled govern ment) refused to participate in set ting up the new government, the President said: They an going, dont you worty about that; those are mat ters that have to await developments. He added, however, that present mem ben of the London government wen not invited. This was fax answer to a reporter's assertion that some of the members of the present Polish government had shown no disposition to partici pate. The President said he hoped that questions alone this line would net be brought into the picture hark We're on the road to a settlement, Mr. Truman said, and an in a bet ter position today than ever bofore on the Polish issue. > Backs OWL J In one of his few comments today en domestic affairs, the President asked the Senate to reston a *17, 000,000 Booaa cut in appropriation* for the Office of War Information. In a statement he sai<f this was re quested hi the "interest at a nation stfll CAMP * whkh in far from - RECORD FLIGHT Casabalanca, Air Tnmpport Com fornix! Bite, June 11.—(Delayed)—Ln the first non-stop flight from Natal, Brasil, to Cinahlanra,van Amy Air Transport Command aw brought a Douglas C-54, 4,S30 miles to challenge records for the longest over-water flight. The flight pioneered a program to speed up the transfer of American troops from the Europau theitsr to the Pacific by way of the United States. 'The lightly-loaded four-engined plane passed up the usual stop at Darfcar in a flight of 16 hours and 55 minute*, leaving Natal at 5;85 p. m. (Greenwich Mean lime) and ar riving at Casablanca at 10:30 a. m. (GUT) on June 11. The distunce covered exceeded the 3,136-mile Gsy ! Ion to Australia route. The longest record flight of 3,444 miles was made by a B 17 from Newfoundland to Oran. While not all of the 92 40-passen ger planes assigned to shuttle 38*000 GIs home each month through Casa blanca may fly non-stop from Natal on the eastward trip, ATC officers explained they would be able to do so whenever weather over Darkar otherwise would prevent a- takeoff from Natal. Darkar lies only 1,641 miles from the Brazilian base. ■ Postwar Health # . Program Expansion of the Blue Cross plan, providing hospitalisation insurance on a prepayment basis, to every com munity or area m this country, is ad vocated by Dr. Morris Hinenburg, president of the Qreater New York Hospital Association. - Urging the development of. a "more adequate health service," Dr. Hinenbnrg declared that the service's benefit* should be extended to people in-the lower income brackets. "Its ultimate goal should be to provide for as many types of illnesses as pos sible, not for twenty-one days or thirty days, but for as long as the real need for hospitalization will ex ists. Every effort should be made to j establish a comprehensive type of j coverage that will confirm to a na tional plan of hospital service. "In fashioning an adequate program of-health for the nation, there must be a way to determine how voluntary hospitals, Blue Cross plans and vol untary medical service plans can. com bine their initiative and activitk* with those of government programs in medicine. "There is a need for both, and there is room for boti^ , Neither can nor should attempt to assume the great er responsibility of a complete pro gram, bet should hand every effort to •hare in the ree&ation of this con structive purpose." To extend -hoepilization protection will involve money, and Dr. Hinen burg makes aA appeal for support to employer groups, to industry, and for the continued aid of government and philanthropy in caring for the indi gent and unemployed. Dr. Hinenbarg*s ideas coukt well form the basis for one of the most constructive postwar programs that could be adopted by any community in oar land. The United States has outstripped the world in raising its standard of living by the voluntary effort and initiative of its own citizens. If it turns this same energy toward pro viding adequate medical facilities for all, it will soon set a record in that Employees Report Of Bond Sales) Total War Bond Sales by Employ eoa of Faravifle to date is *66,125.00. | The local over-all quota has been ful filled with around *300,000 m Bonds] ■old to date, however the a | portion of "E" Bonda la atill laming,| with *22,000 atm to go. Joah W. Munden, chairman of thej Employees Drive 10901 that all mm continue their efforts in thel 0< A# fE" Bond, that this pwrt] | of our drive may he complete >on as possible. UW Bonda i* easy to buy. 18540 Bond may be purchased fori 118.75 and the buyer will have full! value for it in 10 years, or it can be | cashed in at the end of 60 days. «£"| may* also be bought in Cm e ia over the top in »t«rp—Mi » iwutM that peace end tfrbteonaneaa ikd iimfl. ThU, efltoial ipatgaia ef (he Mighty Sereetfc War Lean, ahowa the ralainf ef the tar m In ItaM fcy C. 8. Miikw. It to the piotare that has hen mere widely oaed &aa Uf hi thia war, iwcufc W which the AT ii—tit te aarvtoe relief. A series of Revival Services will begin Sunday, June 17, at the Baptist Church with the opening service at the 11:00 o'clock hour. Rev. L. R. Jordan, paster of the Baptist Church in Creedmoor, and a former assistant paster of one of the Wilmington Churches, will be the guest minister. Rev. Mr. Jordan, one if^ the younger preachers of the State, is a forceful speaker and the congregation is looking forward to lis messages. Service# will be held each week day evening at 8:30 o'clock. Dates and the hour of the morning worship will >e announced later. Rev. Brace Hartssll, of Franklin ton, who is well known as a splendid soloist, will lead the singing. Mrs. Hartsell, an accomplished jfafcMt, will iccompaoy him. here arid take pait in tome of the special music. 'Father's Day Sunday, June 17 Governor Cherry yesterday pro :1 aimed Sunday as Father's Day and uUled upon the citixana of North Carolina to "observe this day in their :hurcjiee, homes. and public places in ftamg lofty American spirit of ove and reverence in which tkey have Men fit to do honor to American Fathers each year for 86 yean." The Governor suggested that citi zens give expression to tfie love ind honor for American fathers by prayer and devotion to duty. He pointed out that "the father is the Foundation stone of the American home, the sanctity of which we are struggling to save for the present ind the futon. « "The fathers of America have paid in Meed and death for vic tory in «urope, and an heroically Fighting today in the Pacific, and Presentation Of Evi dence In Second Trial of Former College President Begins Greenville, June 14.—Presentation of evidence in the trial of Dr. Leon R. Meadows got under way in Su perior Court late Tuesday after Judge J. Paul Frizxell* denied motions to quash (dismiss) the bills of indict ment on which the former president of East Carolina Teachers College is being tried before a Pasquotank coun ty jury* * T. 0. Bundy, a defense worker, was the 13th juror to be secured. He will Qot sit in on the deliberations of the jury unless one of the 12 regular jurors is excused. The regular panel was sworn in early last night from the special venire imported by.bus from Pasquotank. Most of the jurors are carpanten, or work in war plants. Dr. Meadows is being1 tried on five bills, including1 one at false pretense and four of embeszlement, the latter totaling $14,561.30. The false pre tense bill involves $705.40. The first embezzlement bill includes five counts, the second includes three counts, and hills three and four relate to memorandum books one and two kept by Dr. Meadows of his financial transactions. Is asking that the bills be quashed, the defense contested*Dr. Meadows was being placed, in jeopardy a second time and- that the state could not "build up" similar indictments against the defendant. Arguments on the motion were held stmt me noon recess. Only a handful of spectator* were on l^ndasfte wiy was clesxed for evidence. This special term was opened June 4, and the jury finally was seated Tuesday from the fourth special venire ordered by Judge Friz KIWANIS CLUB Washington, Jtsie 14. — Jiyumi broadcasts yeitwdiy took a propa ganda line strikingly similar to that at Nasi Germany in its last daya, saying that whatever happens, Japan trill fight "unflinchingly andunahak aUy, exacting the greatest possible Ml from enemy," to the and. There was no promise of a Japanese victory in tite broadcast, which largely quoted an editorial m Ilia Nippon Times wanting of "the actual peril of w - — - •_ -» i 111 i.L - ah enemy luwimy in force, wttu tne existence of the empire at stake." - "Japan stands inflexibly and un changeably resolute in her determi nation to resist the enemy to the bitter end," the Tokyo broadcasts recorded by United Press add. "There can be no thought of such a thing as unconditional surrender." The newspaper editorial was baaed on the Diet's grant of powers to Pre mier Xantaro Suzuki to rule by decree a measure which conatitutes "con crete and practical proof of the inten tion of Japan to prusent the most da* termined resistance regardless of cost, whatever may be the extent of enemy attacks," the newspaper said, - The Diet adjourned at 10 a m., Tokyo aaid, and Suzuki reassured the members privately that his powers would be used cautiously, presumably only in case of invasion of the home islands—the contingency for which they ware put through. > The measure waa designed to "con tribute to drastic intensification of Japan's war effort in this crucial stage of the war," the premier waa quoted. The cabinet, meanwhile moved swiftly to improve overland trans portation, putting motor trade and "other small freight" transit agen ciea under the control of the war ministry. This waa dona, said a broadcast recorded by the federal communications commission, be cause "of "recently intensified enemy air raids." Operations of the mate rial mobilisation program aa it af fects such land transport also were assigned to the war ministry. Japan's fascist - modeled imperial rule assistance association party was formerly dissolved today, the Tokyo radio reported, in line with a deri sion taken last month and ita various auxiliaries were merged into the "civilian volunteer corpa" for the de-~" fense of the home ialands. The party's functions had been taken over by the newly organised political association of greater Japan. SERVICE MEN'S • CENTER • Visiting the Center during the pact week were: Farmville, Ursula Cair, SP (S) 8/e, Charleston, S. C.; T/Sgt, Robert Malcolm Hardy, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Handy, who recently returned after thirty-two months in the European Theater at war; Pvt. John L. Causey, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Causey, patient in the Welch Company Hospital, Daytona Beach, Fla.; Pvt. Harry S. Joyner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim R. Joyner, returned to the States after three yean duty in the Pacific. He ia now at United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, as Gunnery Instructor. Seymour Johnson Held, Goldsboro, N. C„ Cpl. John A. Bonacie, Cold Springs-on-Hudson, New York, and T/Sgt. Graydon G. Kenmitz, Ripon, Wis. — Cpl. Frank Detnyanovich, Cherry ftint and Lincoln Park, Mich., and Pfc. John C. Delaney, Camp Lejeune and Harviell, Missouri, dinner guests Sunday of Miss TaWtha M. DeVis contL Pfc. Dale C. Martin, Cherry P«lnk and Knights ville, Lad. • Pfc. Richard £• Newman, Camp Le jeune and Troy, Otto, Sunday dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs. Thad Nichols; Cpl. Charles C. Sholdee, Greenville Mr w ■ ■1 . " ■ 9 ^ Air Baae and Cleveland, Ohio, Mon day night gueat of Miss DeViaconti. Milk was donated by Mrs. B. A. Norman and magacipee by Miss An AMERICAN TROOPS PUNCTORE LAST JAP LINE ON OKINAWA; AUSTRALIANS REACH BRUNEI K t WAR IN BRIER : Amur forces pierce last Jap 11m <m Okinawa, while Marines roll up enemy's ft asks; heavy casualties on bath skiea -y. 8. planes make strong assault en Jap suicide plane bases; bombers from Aleutians hit Jap islands. Australians read* outskirts of Brunei in northwestern Borneo; Japa destroying 08 installations. Chinese push to within 14 miles of walled port of Wenchow; acceler ated drive promises to clear 300 miles of China coast between Foochow and Hangchow Bay. Mrs. AdaGray Smith Passes Suddenly Mrs. Ada Gray Smith, 36, wife of Haywood A. Smith, died at her home here early Sunday morning. She had been in declihfcig health for several yean but was stricken suddenly Sat urday and died in her sleep during the night Funeral services were conducted from the home Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock, with interment in the Holly wood Cemetery beneath a lovely flor al tribute. Due to the illness of Rev. C. B. Mashbum, pastor of the Fann ville Christian Church, of which she was a member, Rev. E. C. Camblee, pastor of the Farm ville Baptist Church, officiated. A quartet composed of Mrs.Tf. V. Jones, Mrs. Mauley Liles, Miss glvira Tyson and Mrs. C. R. Townsend sang "My Faith Looks Up To Thee," "In the Sweet By and By," "Abide With Me," and "Have Thine Own Way" Mrs. Smith, daughter of Mrs. Clara Askear^ Baker of Farm ville, and the late Hud Askew, Was a devoted wife and mother and a zealous church worker, taking an active part as long as her health permitted. Surviving are her husband and two sons, Joseph Haywood and Cart Thomas of the home; her mother, three brothers, Thad Askew, of New port News, Va, Harry Lee and Alton Earl Askew, of Farm ville. Active pallbearers were Earl Forbes, L. T. Mallard, Hopton Smith, Elijah Smith, L. E. Flowers and R. D. Rouse. Flower bearers wen members of Circle No. three of the Christian, Woman's Council. Among those from out of town at tending the funeral wen Mrs. B. F. Parker, Misses Elizabeth and Etta Parker, Sam Parker, of'Marion, S. C.; Mrs. D. B. Askew and family, of LaGrange; Mrs. Robert Carter, Mrs. George Carter, Mn. Mae Carter, of Kinston; Mrs. Mathew Smit^. of Maysville; Mn. Otis Winboume, cf Goidsboro; Mrs. James Hardy, of Jason; Miss Rath Askew, Miss Vir ginia Askew, Snow Hill; Mr. sad Mrs. Earl Forbes, Mr. and Mrs. Thad Askew, Newport News, Va.; Kenneth Parker, New Bern; Mn. Elijah Smith ind family, Mr. and Mn. W. E. Phil lips, Mr. and Mrs. Bruee Foy, Mr. utd Mn. Harry Killingsworth, Mr. and Mn. D. O, Gray and Mn. G. O. Mallbrd, of Trenton. NEWS OF OUR BOYS IN SERVICE te **8—~ "'- i Home on Furlough Pvt. Harry S. Joyner, son of Mr. and Mrs: Jim R. Joyner, returned to (be States in March after completing three years doty in the Pacific. Dur ing this time he was with the Mercal Division and saw service an Guadal canal, New CaledoniS Tulagi, Bora Bora and in the Florid* Islands. He lerrad under General Pntch until the General was transferred, to the Euro pean Theater. He war track driver, Banner Corporal and Machine Gun Corporal, but gave up Corporal rat ing for a chance to come home sfad is now a Gunner Instructor at West Point Pvt. Joyner is at home on a forty tiVe day furlough. T •' la Hie States '%'g Henry Skinner, Fh M 2/c, arrived in California, Thursday, after spend ing five months in the South Pacific on a hospital ship. He-spent a four day pan with his brother, Hugh Skin ner, at San Diego, California. Strong: Forces of U.S. Pianes^Batter Jap Siii sies at Brunei Outekii^ Landing In Borne#; Phinrmn a -* ^ ' V. OptTu IJTl Vt: Oif . Port of Wenchow - Guam, June 14. — TlstHa hsrisnsd U. 8: Array forces Masted open the last flsme*earod Japeneae Una on Okinawa for gains of 400 mis through, the center and sasteni fink Wednesday while Marinas eoUapstd passed Oroku.Peninsula. es as they stormed the southern Oki nawa heights, the Americana batter- t ed and burned their way through two key positions dominating the north ern rim of ^aeju-Dake plateau. In the southern or Seventh Infantry Di vision sector, thay wan the entire dm of the plateau. ' - Marines KiB In crushing the Oaoku pocket, the Sixth Marine Division waa disclosed ^ to have annihilated 8£00 enemy troops, bringing to 71,203 the total number of enemy dead in the 74-day old campaign—an average of almost 1,000 a day. > With that small sector wiped out, the Tenth Army had eompnaeed an estimated 9,000 desperate rem nants in a 13-square-mile pocket oa Okinawa's extreme southern tip be hind the Yaeju-Daks line. The %th Division, "over the top* of the plateau one-half aula south of newly won Yuxa, fanned out saafth westwani to the outskirts «f Oaato town in a thrust to split the line* of the last Japanese from north te south. : _ Oaato, a half-mile northeast of Kuniahi ridge where FlAt Marina forces are strongly emplaced, was reached in a 400-yard advance. Hie Marines were streagthsnlng their forces and a link-up of the two di visions would open the way for a heavy assault against the northwest ern edge of the plateau. Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimita an nounced that the Japanese pocket on Oroku Peninsula south of Naha had been broken and that mopptogup operations wen under way after days of intense fighting. Marines of Maj. Gen. Lemuel C. Shepherd's Sixth.Division were clean ing out some strong points in the Oroku pocket where isolated Japa nese remnants clung to their (area and holes to the ladt. Individual group* of Marinas moved through the small _ area along Naha Harbor to reduce the Japanese positions one by bm. American forces into high ground at four points along the rugged and stubbornly-defended hill maae. Marines and Doughboys of three divisions expanded their positions as land and naval artillery shattered Japanese troop concentrations with a barrage as probably the greatest-of the entire Pacific war. Heavy resistance was"* still being met along the line of the escarpment wd the final battle of Okinawa waa not easy. The Seventh Infantry Division or the eastern flank moved 400 yards forward beyond Hanagusuku, south eastern sector of tiki piUeau defenses. By the end of the day they had jrought the plateau rim in their area mder full control. In the center, the 86th Diviaton was imashing into the 0S£»,'jHMtt's rug fed defenses in drives aimed at eoa luest of two hills rising above the plateau. > lite Pint Marines moving through Kunishi ridge were attacking the plateau from- the weak and wese Mttling toward a junction with the Seventh Infantry Division, now leas than six miles away in the Sanagusu cu area. ' Foot soldiers wars sweeping caves utd breastworks wfHt blasts of fire from WO-foot long fire hose. The \rniy disclosed the new fiame-throw trs were fed from tanks whose crsws it the foot of the eecarpmsnt covered the advancing firemen with hwvy | The hose was deeigned at Amy ieadqua>ti{fe| Pacific Ocean Areas, when tBe need for such a weapon be
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