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♦ Reap the Greatest Benefits + ' Mill | tttttltttttittttttttf JUBWW FOR CRIMES, fa PROMISE U. S. OFFICIALS ■ ' - ~ ~ • - — ■ ' - " — ' New Cm^ties Are Revealed In Report; Agencies list Japa For Trial Washington, Sept. 6.—The United States moved swiftly today to punish Japanese war criminals aft«r the State Department told b°w toe enemy burned, buried alive and beheaded American prisoners. Two separate agencies are completing lists of allied war crmnnals whom Americans and Allied forces are hunting down in Japan and throughout liberated Asia, it was learned. The agencies are the National War Crimes Council, strictly an American organisation, composed of State, War and Navy department officials, and an Allied War Crimea Commission in China on which Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley is United States representative. In making public another list of Japanese atrocities, in which criminals frequently were named outright, the State Department said the cases would" "be dealt with by the properly constituted authorities. Secretary of-State Byrnes was more blunt The United States certainly must see to it that prosecution of Japanese war criminals » carried out just as in Europe, he I said. . 1 The atrocity report as not a I pleasant story, Byrnes grimly. It was not published mita j the war was over for fear of additional reprisals against American I captives, he explained. I The report consisted of a series of formal State Department protests on the atrocities, sent to Tokyo by way of neutral Switzerland. There were about 2*0 such protests filed during the war, and frequently they resulted in improved conditions fori American prisoners, the report said. Examples of the atrocities: \bout 760 Americans were cram- j med into the hold of a J*pane«freighter and kept there virtually I without air, water or food for nearly 1 three weeks, until the ship was tor-1 pedoed. Americana who ma^ag*1 to get off the ship were *tdchine gunned in the Wter, those who did ntft get out were killed in the hold byJapanese grenade*. _ . J Four American civilians—Carroll C. GrimveH. Alfred F. DuggW*. Ernest E. Johnson, and Clifford I* Larson—were arrested without explanation at the Santo Tomas internment camp near Manila. Their bodies were later found wired to 10 unidentified corpse in a field near Japanese military police headquarTheir brutal murder constituted a "flagrant violation" of the Geneva rules regarding civilian internees, the report said. . The only other American victim named in the report was George J. Louis, who was shot and wounded while returning to the Los Banos camp in the Philippines, after buying food. An appeal by other internees to take Louis to the hospital for treatment of his wound* was denied. Finally, the Japanese guards carried Louis on a stretcher to a dump of bamboo outside the camp and shot him fatally through the head. All American airman uaneu ouv at his crippled plane over' the New Guinea coast After pwimfning ashore, he was captured by Japanese troops who beat him with sticks virtually all that day, throughout the Might, and until the following afternoon. Then a Japanese civilian named Inooye behesdei the flyer with six throats of a sword while the troops howled. The State Department named names in relating that incident. 1st Lts. Kurita, Seto and Wstanabe, all of the Japan eat 20th sir construction unit; were named along with Inoaye, sn overseer of coolie laborers, as guilty of "wanton murAt a Philippines air base, lFW ^ nTX mKI KflTja* pottred buckets of ' " 7Mt It SIPI tta , tod 1 F^fty of them Met to escape by - from a 60-foot dW. Some " " leap were shot* wers buried *ve % the AT THKHOtART CLUB * World's largest Long Beach, Call#., Sapt f. — A iter American sky giant, dasighwt for war and peace and capable of circling the (lobe with only two stops, took to Uu air today. The Douglas C-74 Globem aster, Army version at the DC-7, which ia now on- commercial order, was teatflown before a group of military and Douglas technical experts. Douglas spokesman said It ia the world's largest land plane, has a maximum range off 7,800 mOea, has four engines, a wmgspan of 173 feet, ia 124 feet long and 43 feet high. Its gross weight is 165,000 pounds. The commercial version will carry lOfr passengers and a crew of 18, with a modern galley serving full course meals aloft, dressing rooms and cargo compartments. Among its features are reversible propellers, enabling it to taxi backward as well as forward. After landing it can back into its hanger.« The plane haa a speed of more than 300 miles an hour and can handle a useful load of 30 tons. Final Rites Today Garland M. Holden ________ V Interment To Be Made . Ifi St. Barnabas Cemetery, Snow Hill • I i a Final rites for Garland McGee Holden, 66, will be -held from the Farmville Funeral Home this afternoon at 4:00 o'clock by the Rev. M. Y. Self, pastor of the Farmville Methodist Church, of which he was a member. Interment will be made in St. Barnabas cemetery, Snow Hill. Mr. Holden succumbed Thursday morning to a critical illness of two weeks duration at the Eastern N. C: Sanatorium, Wilson, where h^ had been receiving treatment for the past 14 months. He had been in ill health for a period at 18. months. Prior to this time, he was engaged in the insurance and tobacco business. Mr. Holden was the son of the late Rev. and Mis. L. J. Holden, of Snow Hill. He came to Farmville to reside in 1914, was well known throughout the community and will be missed by a host of friends. Surviving are his widow, the former Miss Virginia Dall, of Snow Hill, to whom he waa married in 1911, two sister*, Mrs. W. W. Snakenburg and Mrs. Claude Huniting, of Raleigh, and three brothers, Herbert, Percy and Paul, pf Snow Hill. Active pallbearers will bfe Walter B. Jones, W. A. Pollard, Jr, H. M. Winders, Fred Dixon, of Raleigh, and Fred C. and Theodora T, Moore. Farmville Public Schools Opened On Thursday Last Week Superintendent Moore Requests Regular Attendance and Fewer Dismissals This Year." ~ The Farmville Public SAools opened Thursday, August 30th, at 8:46 o'clock, with an enrollment of' 702 compared with 665 in 1944, reported by Supt. J. H. Moore, who expressed gratification at the eaae with which schedules and claw got underway. H. B. Sugg, Principal of the colored school, repotted aa enrollment of 526 this year and 418 last ytwr on opening day and stated t£at the launching of the new tens Vas most sgtisfactory. Supt Moore said in an interview today that he eomeetty desires and requests the cooperation of pttmte in -regard to dismissal of pupils, stating that it is most important that children remain in schoo^untfl many children requesting to be excused SERVICE HEN'S • CENTER • **• Service meet awl women visiting the Center dmri&r the past week included^ Farmville—Lt Lucy J. Rumley, N*ry Dept., Washington, D. C.; Mas Janie Johnston, Cadet Nufrse Cdrps., Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md.; Pvt. John L. Causey, Welch Company Hospital, Daytona Beach, Fit.; Pvt. Causey, son of Mr. and MM. W. H. Causey of Parmville, has just ifetthred a'medical discharge and has returned to school Albert Sidney Darden, who has returned to tike states after 18 months in England, France and Germany. After a furlough he will leave for Camp Claiborne, La. Walstonburg—Lt. Kirby L. ^"heeler, Big Springs, Texas. Fort Bragg and Greenville—Sgt C. M. Morris; Pvt. Guy Mozingo. Capt Peary, Williamsburg, Va.— Maurice Ryder, S 1/c, Vallejo, Calif.; Eleno C. Arriaga, F 1/c, Long Beach, Calif. Camp Lejeune—Pvt. Clayton H. Clark, Cassopolis, Michigan, Sunday dinner guest of Dr. and Mrs. W. M. Willis. Cherry Point—Hector O. Dunaagan, Canton, G*., "Frtak Demyanivich, Lincoln Park, Michigan; Sgt. Reuben G. Dennis, Columbia, S. C., and CpL Paul S- Aquila, New Bern and Riverside, UL, guests Sunday of Mr .and Mr* Ik E. Turnage; Cpt. Jimmie Giatras, Baltimore, Md., Spt. J. R. Wiseman, Hunda, N. Y„ and CpL J. E.' Slicker, Jr., Oarbondsle, 111., guest of Miss Tabitha M. DeVisconti, Saturday and Sunday nighta. Pvt. Walter D. Sherman, Jr., Seymour Johnson .And Northbrook, 111., also Jfiss DeVisconti's guest on Sunday night; S/Sgt John Mac, Seymour Johnson Field and Mitchell Field; and Lawrence, L. I., New York; Opt. Qharles E. Sholdes, Marine Air Base, Greenville, and Cleveland, Ohio. Donations were Devil's Food Cake, given by Mrs. Haywood Smith; milk, Mrs. Joe Moore; milk and eggs, Mrs. B. A. Norman; tomatoes and flowers, Mrs. Ben Lewis; pecans, Mrs. L. E. rurnage; drinks, E. N. Hatem; a iollar, G. W. Davis; and two dollars From another friend. The menu also included potato salad, roast beef, relish sandwiches, coffee and apples. A letter from T/Sgt. Matthew Gibbet says he is in the southern part »f Germany about 20 miles from Kerens berg, not very far from, the Blue Danube which in his opinion looks ;reen. He has recently been awarded the bronse star medal and has five tattle stars for the Normandy, Northern France, Ardennes (Battle >f the Bulge), Rhineland and Central Europe, campaigns. He .has sighty-one points and is hoping and praying1- that the War Department (rill lower the score so that he can lie home by Christmas, says he knows >f no nicer Christmas present than io spend the holidays with his folks, it home. Sgt. Gibbs has been very busy since the" end of hostilities in Europe in the readjustment and redeployment system and is happy that so many boys are on their way to the States and to civilian life once more. He hopes the end of the war in the Pacific will be the end of wars for fenerations to come, is very proud of the boys in the Pacific and thinks they hive done a wonderful job. T/Sgt. Paul V. Hemmer writes ggpm Piaedaba, India, that since the end of the war they just pass the lays mostly in different activities of recreation, have a nine hole golf course, two hase ball diamonds and ihoe courts. He says they til are waiting for the "go home' 'order. He bar not spent a Christmas at iome in four years and hopes he will tiave that pleasure this year, thinks It would be nice if ha could pass thwisfr N. C., and pay a visit to heavy T axbs ^ Washington, Sept Poughton (D-NC) of the UtxiiiiiiMM fednesdafr with Secretary of Fred M,J'in90n ^ for Rotar-tMtM. So did Chair 3umb (D-Mo) a# tli > •nr—^ oi uie nouse vi#w» aa mitte* met to luw t). Smith'. Comptroller Soys Truman Should Be Given Pdwer To Reorganize Agencies > Washington, Sept. 6.—Comptroller General Lindsay Warren told hi* oki colleagues m Congress today they'd never reorganize the government in 100 yean. So they'd better let President Truman do the job. He said he knew what he was talking about, for he served on House committees which songht to revamp the setup. "Congress could sit in daily {session for the next 100 years and they'd never do it," the purse-string watcher of the government testified. Warren urged that the President be given full authority to pull- together what he called _a higgledypiggledy patchwork of agencies, bureaus and departments. Some of the agencies wont like it, he said, and they'll lobby strenuously to stop it. But the whole government setup is in. a mess, Wqrran said-bluntly. JV>r example, Congress is responsible for running an ordinary commercial hotel in Panama and doesn't even know it. There are now some bureaus with "no earthly reason for existence" but they'll never admit it voluntarily. Warren told the House expenditures committee considering a reorganization bill. "Congress can set up a bureau for the edification of the three blind mice or for the rehabilitation of Humpty Dumpty and within a ydar those who head the bureaus can come in with glowing accounts of their work." Warren agreed largely with the reorganization measure suggested by the President, though he-had some changes in mind. He was against the House bill by Committee Chairman Manasco (D.-Ala.) who would exempt 21 agencies from any reorganisation. "The more you exempt, the less reorganization youH have," he siiid. Nevertheless, Speaker Rayburn told reporters there is no chance to pass a bill in the House without exemptions. "There'll be some, that's a cinch," Warren said. SOCIAL SECURITY Benefits are NOT AUTOMATIC Tom Larkin reached hia £&th birthday on a Saturday. He was pleased as a kid about it "It'B neat to have it come out that way," he said. "Ill finish up the week and finish up the job at tiie same time." That night he walked home from work for the last time. "From now on I'm a mas of leisure," Tom said to his cronies. "With our savings md my -old-age benefits, Delia and I can live out the 'rest of our- lives without me working. It's the pipe and the paper for me from now on." After that day Tom Larkin was ■iwaya oh the lookout for the postman—he was expecting his benefit check to come any mail. But it didn't come and it didn't come. After two month's time Tom Larkin got mad. He wrote to the Social Security Board. "What's the matter you don't fend me my benefit check?" he said. "Is it because there's a war on? I need my benefits now, not when I'm dead!" He got a letter back pronto. And that was the fi$st Tom knew he had to file a claim before he could get benefits. , Are you another Tow Lvirin or do you know that benefits are not automatic that you have to file a claim before you get your monthly cheek? And do you know that every month's delay in filing after you quit Mtork mem a loss of part of your benefits.? The amount of your benefit depends primarily on your "average monthly wage." That "avenge" is figured by dividing *11 the wages you received in cevered jobs since NEWS OF OUR BOYS IN SERVICE AwatMT Braue Star Major General Horace L. He Bride, Commanding General of the 80th Infantry Division, announces that Sgt. Claude Q. Little, of 531 N. Main St., Farmvllle, N. C., recently was awarded the Bronze Star for destroying an enemy machine gun, thus allowing: his company to deploy and destroy a road block that was delaying a convoy. He is the brother of Chester Little of Farmville. The Citation Bead: "For heroic achievement in Germany on 14 April 1945, in connection with military operations against «f enemy of the United States. At Weimarv Germany, when a convoy was delayed by a road Meek, Sgt. Little, with utter disregard for personal safety, drwe his vehicle from a defilade to an exposed position from which he fired on "and destroyed an enemy machine gun, thus allowing the company to deploy and destroy the road block. His courage and devotion to duty are commensurate with the highest traditions of the armed forced of the United ■States." • ■ Stuart W. Sugg Receives Bronze Star Stuart W. Sugg, who served as Private First Class in the Headquarters Company, 9th Infantry Division, until his discharge on August 8, was awarded the Bronze Star in July lor "distinguishing himself by meritorious service in connection'Vith'military operations against the enemy during the period 11 June 1944-30 April 1945 in tjbe European *Theater of Operations." The letter of award by command of Brigadier General Ladd continues: "Throughout this period, Pfc. Sugg performed his duties as' Driver for the Division' Chief of Staff in an outstanding maimer. Displaying expert judgment, technical skill, and aggressive initiative, he frequently j made long tripe under adverse conditions and insured the Chief of Staff of swift transportation to his destination. Pfc. Sugg constantly maintained his" vehicle in an excellent operating condition by having it, property serviced, thereby1 greatly prolonging the life of the vehicle. His devotion to duty and untiring efforts Were instrumental m enabling the Division Chief of Staff to maintain contact with all units of the Division at all times. Entered military service from North Carolina." Mr. Sugg, son of Mr. and Mrs? Retho T. Sugg, of Greene County, served 32 months overseas in battles and campaigns in the Rhine!and, Tunisia, Normandy, Aidarne*. Sicily, Northern Prance and Central Europe. He wears the East Mediterranean Campaign medal with 7 Bronze stars, the American Defense Service medal, the Good Conduct medal with clasp lot 4 years good conduct, and the Bronze Star medal. Since being released from military service, Mr. Sugg has accepted a position here with the REA and will reside at 303 E. Church St Mrs. Sugg -has held a position In the City Clerk's office fer several moqjths and the many friends of the couple will welcome them to Fannville as permanent residents. The Anti-Aircraft Unit Commended For Speeding Redeployment Antwerp, Belgium. — Soldiers of Battery B, 659th Anti-Aircraft ( Anto matic Weapons) Battalion were commended recently by Colonel A. C. Spalding, of Stony Point, New York, commander at Camp Top Hat, for speeding the redeployment of over 20,000 troops to the United States in the first month of operation here. The Ack-Ack men ate among units operating the camp, and they have helved build Post Exchangee, Red Cross clubs, two beer gaidens, six movies, and an athletic plant for the use of transit troope daring thsfr stay at Top Hat Before coming to Antwerp the 569th saw action with the Ninth Air Force and the First, TMrd, Seventh, and Ninth U. S. Armies. They were with the Ninth Amy during its driv* from the Wuiro River to a junction with the Red Army a* the Elbe. While protecting supply routes, gasoline dumps, and other vital installations, the battalion'#' guns shot Kr FOR MEMORIAL Washington, Sept 7.— Hv*> L. Hopkins was appointed today as chairman of a committee to make recommendations for a suitable memorial to the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt Announcement of Hopkina' appointmmt to serve aa chairman of the Rooeevelt Memorial Association was anwaneed by President Truman, at a brief news conference, shortly alter the meeting of the committee, over which the President pwitot Mr. Tram an said Hopkins, together with Kiss Francis Perkins, the former secretary of labor, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., the former secretary of the treasury, Frank C. Walker, former postmaster general, arid Admiral William D. Leahy, chief of staff to the President, will nominate officers for the association and recommend additions to the executive committee. The group will also; recommend a suitable memorial. Joseptras DanJels, Raleigh, N. C, editor and former Ambassador to Mexico, was among those attending the meeting today. Tobacco Markets Placed Ob FourDay Sales Week Due to shortage of labor and congested conditions in the redrying phaita, an announcement has been mads by tobacco officials of the Bright Leaf Beit that all markets will be closed each Monday until current conditi&ia in factories and warehouses are alleviated. In effect, this order reduces the number at selling days from five to four. Markets already are operating under reduced selling speed regulations, and in some cases, with fewer buyers. Farmers are urged to handle their offerings with extreme, care at this time, to prevent spoilage .and to market the weed in a more orderly manner. Despite unprecedented congestion, unfavorable weather conditions, which effect the leaf while en route to market and after being placed on warehouse floors, prices have remained at high levels throughout the wefek and farmers have expressed satisfaction at receipts on the Farmville market. ■ KJWANIS CLUB i\ __ . 1 The meeting this week was under the direction of Edgar Barrett, who hfd as his guest speaker, Ram Mapvin Y. Self. The Rev. Mr. Self delivered a very appropriate message to the Club and in his talk sounded a warning against false conceptions of the underlying principles upon which a lasting peace might be had. The speaker made clear the point that it was well to have "might to hack right" However, ha went on to say how eaay it was for the conquener to overtook the necessity at supreme guidance and by example he showed how fruitless such a gain. Throughout the talk many excellent points were brought from the dark corner* where we are prone to leave them and given the just light to which they are entHW, and as the speaker neared his cOhctasiofi the group could well grasp the purpose of hi* endeavor to reveal that "As Salvation Exalteth a Nation, so Can Man fle flatted." &V • Glasgow Smith, of Greenville, and iacft Wfthactf, of " Petersburg, V*. were visiting Kiwanikns for the occasion. Rev. Edwin S. Coatee was a guest of the Club. ^ ^ unjlar the direction of Frank Allen, a member of the Board of Director*. Recipe Offered On Stains For P Home econ< State College Gen. MteArtiiur Ptaku To Use American Etnijr mm* Personal ft Yokohama, Sept. 6^-The Hon of Tokyo will begin thia weak. The U. S. Firet (jhanaalii) Cavalry Diviaion, lint into Manila, where camp last February, will aatav tW bomb-M»attered ciftUl city theft. G«ol Arthur ia «|mM to move Ma heodquartan boa Yak*Kama to United _ building ill Tokyo abMfr the time. The Supreme Allied-power» the Firet Cavalry after ha laeaed a _ „ tive which drove hniaa to the Ml impact of defeat atrimi The directive all — f » ly diaamlng Japaa'e war SpOHC-'. place vast facilitiaa at the caU of cteackly enlargi foroae. • Lt. te. Robert L. wfaoae Eighth Army will Honehu north of Yehghaaaa, md all Hokkaido Ulan* toi* aU J*a n<ee troopa will be (BaalMi by October 1„ la hia area, which embaacee Tokyo, Eichelberser expects to have eight and twe-thieda combat dleiaioaa (more than 180,000 troopa) by that date. He ' the hWr' eeeepation of Japaa'a four ialanda weald require Ldweaii KMVOW and 4MJOOO troopa. Occupational strength equal to that of Efcheltorger's Eighth prohahly will to concentrated on euwth Honshu and the southern ialande of Shikoka and Kyuahn hy Gen. Walter of his 82nd Div^TTandsd tram ships and air tnuaaoprt yesterday at the south end of Kyuahu, takin* over The First Cavalry, now comftUad ed by Maj. Gen. William C. Cham, presently is stationed lists uun Yokohama and Tokyo. MacArthar'i lengthy dlmliw included these specifications: Hie commander of the Japaneee first amy will report to Ftftolksr ger; the commander of the Japanaae Second Army will report to Krasgar; the Japan eat commander in Korea will report to Lt. Gen. John Hodge, of the U. S. 24th Amy Corps. Arms must to turned orer on odsn of those three gvnsrals.
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