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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-14
COUNCIL TO SEEK
MORE DEPARTMENTS
Civ To Ask Deferments
For Employees OF All
Departments

Following appearance before the
City Council yesterday morning Of
Attorney William X. Rhodes, who
asked the council to change its
policy in connection with the handl'
ing of draft deferment requests,
authority to ask for deferments
for members of all departments
who are considered essential to
the operation OF the city of Will
mington was delegated by the
council to Mayor w. Ronald Lane,
City Manager A. c. Nichols ano
the head of the department from
which the employee might come
Mr.. Rhodes, who appeared chief
ly for members OF the Police De-
partment, pointed out to the coun'
cilmen that two trained officers
recently had been called for in
duction and are due to report i'm
mediately, and that three more are
eligible.
City Manager Nichols said that,
under the present system, the city
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-14
School Bus Drivers Set
Record During Semester

Carrying total of 3,347 pupils
from their homes to school and
back again each day throughout
the first semester of the 1944-45
school year, the Is white bus
d. vers. four of whom are women,
and four Negro drivers, completed
their task without accident of a
serious nature to any student and
with little or no damage to the
buses operated by the City and
County Board of Education, ac-
cording to report issued yester-
day by Wallace West, business
manager for the board.
During the term the school buses
Travelled an average of 1,5548 miles
per school day, buses carrying
white pupils covering 1888
miles daily while the buses carry
ing Negro children averaged 1885,
miles each morning and afternoon
throughout the term. The average
daily milage per bus, according
to Mr.. West, was SIG fo- buses
carrying white students and 63.8
miles by buses carr. ing Negro
children. This represents total
average daily milage per bus OF
$50.
The non-accident record of the
school bus drivers, both white and
Negro, is all the more remarkable,
Mr.. West pointed out, by the T. It
that the white buses carried an
average of 12l pupils each every
day while the Negro drivers hauled
a average of IS per bus each day.
This figure, however, represents
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-14
FIVE N. E. SHIPS
SUNK IN ACTION
Transporting Troops; IS
Lives Lost On These
Vessels

Five of the Al British and Ameri-
can ships reported by the War de-
partment as lost or damaged while
on troop transport duty during the
war with Germany and Italy were
built by the North Carolina Ship
building company, a study Of the
list of vessels delivered by the yard
revealed yesterday. The total num-
Der of merchant ships built at the
Wilmington yard and sunk during
enemy action was not reported.
According to figures given in the
Associated Press story from Wash
ington, only Is soldiers lost their
lives aboard four of the ships. In
formation on the fifth was not re-
leased.
Persons familiar with the role
of transports in the war were in
clined to look upon the unusually
low casualty figure as indicative
Of sturdy ship construction.
All the five ships from the Will
mington yard were of the Liberty
type.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-14
TWO ARE KILLED
IN AUTO CRASHES
Wilmington Man, White.
vile Child Die In
Separate Wrecks

A 36-year-old Wilmington man
and an eight-year-old Whiteville
girl were killed in separate auto.
mobile accidents on the highway
between Leland and Whiteville al
4:30 a. m. yesterday and 1880 p.
m. Tuesday, according to State
Highway patrolmen, who said that
two others were seriously injured.
The dead are Eugene Edward
Sullivan, of 1922 Cline road, and
Shirley Ann Parker, daughter Of
Mrs Bessie Parker.
Sullivan was killed when a large
truck and trailer, driven by Pvt
Lawrence Ingersoll, of the 1079th
Air Force base unit, Camp Davis,
crashed into tree in front of the
residence of Lester Phillips, al
Leland, early yesterday, accord.
ing to Officer w. B. Riddick, Of
the State Highway patrol.
Riddick, who along with Rural
Policeman Dillon Ganey, of Bruins.
wick county, investigated the acct
dent, said Pvt Ingersoll was being
held for a coroner's inquest at 8
o'clock tonight.
The Parker girl was instantly
killed instantly Tuesday night when
the car in which she was riding
struck the concrete abutment of,tne
Sole's Swamp bridge, one mile
south of Whiteville, according to
Patrolman Porter Davis.
Seriously injured in the crash
were Mrs. Harold Payne, operator
of the vehicle. and her mother,
Mrs. J C. Newsom. Mrs. Payne
was reported to be in a critical
condition at the Columbus County
hospital this morning and Mrs.
Newsom's condition was said to
be fair"
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-14
Port Taken
By Chinese

CHUNGKING, June 13.-(P-
Chinese troops forced the broad
Feiyun river barrier and reQc-
cupied the small port of Julian on
China's east coast today in a fast.
moving drive on Wenchow, only
IA miles north, the Chinese high
command reported.
Closely supported by Armed
Chinese guerrillas emerging from
coastal hills, Chinese regulars
poured into Julian after a 10-mile
advance from captured Pingyang,
"a miles south of the big former
treaty port which lies 44o miles
west of Okinawa.
The Japanese were falling back
on Wenchow, with its population
of 10000, with the Chinese close
on their heels and battling to clear
the entire invasion threatened
Chinese coastline northwest of the
japanese island of Formosa.
The Chinese command said thai
it took the Chinese four days tc
advance from Pingyang and cross
the deep Feiyun river with the aic
OF local militia who swept dowr
out of the hills to aid the crossing
Pingyang was recaptured Satur'
day, communique said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-14
ALLIED CONFERENCE
ON FOOD WILL OPEN

LYNDON, June 13.-lRERepre-
'entatives of at least nine Allied
nations will meet tomorrow to
NE threat of European starvation
Vnlle Britain's national farmers
union predicted a winter of "the
most frugal rations in living mem
orv."
British Food Minister Col. J. ].
.,e"ellln, expected to direct dis
.aSSl0ns Of the Allied food confer
. . opening in London, today told
~, that some 100, 900, 900 peo-
T.. N liberated Europe were look
'hs for food.
T.. II viii not be a good foundation
l., w. peace if they have to 60
'grsly'' LleWellin warned
{. roo experts from the United
w S,''eS' Britain. Canada, Denmark.
S,,'u,Nay' Holland, Belgium. Luxem-
,4 als and France are expected to
N %eno the conference. Russia,
h,.usoslavia, and Czehoslovakia also
d DIVE been invited but there is no in
$'"oh they will attend.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-14

the trips to and from schools OF
the city and county.
Sixty-four trips were made daily
by the Is buses carrying white
children, while nine trips were
made each day by the four Negro
drivers.
In commenting on the excellent
record made by the school bus
drivers, Mr.. West said that all OF
the Is white and four Negro driv-
ers have a combined total of 1877
years of experience driving school
buses and years have passed since
serious accident to a New Han
over County school bus has been
recorded. All drivers have to pass
a rigid driving test and all have
been granted certificates by the
North Carolina Department Of Mo-
tor Vehicles.
New Hanover County is one of
the very few counties in North
Carolina, Mr.. West pointed out,
which uses only adult drivers, and
this in a large measure, is the
reason why there has been but few
minor accidents such as bent fen
ders, etc.
Another interesting feature of the
report issued by Business Manage
West is that school buses haul a
total of % loads daily from Maffitt
Village alone. -.
The Is white and four Negro
drivers have been employed by the
Board of Education all the way
(Cnnt;ru.a an p.r. Tvo. Gal p
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-14
u S. Planes Rain Bombs
On Enemy Suicide Bases

GUAM, Thursday, June 14.-Wn
forces of U. S. planes
roared over Kyushu Island Tues.
day in a rocket and bomb assault
against Japanese suicide plane
bases at Kanoya and Kushira and
sent a virtual round-the-elock aer-
ial offensive against Japan into its
eighth consecutive day.
American bornbers and fighters
also raked Japanese outpost is
lands in the Kuriles and the Ryu-
kyus. Light units of the Pacific
Fleet, streaming into the Kurilc
waters 400 miles north of the
Japanese homeland, bombarded
Matsuwa island Tuesday.
Intense anti-aircraft fire met
the planes striking at Kyushu,
southernmost Of the home islands.
Rockets and bombs blasted install
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-14
Ground
Seized Near
City s Edge
RESISTANCE SLIGHT
Invaders Spec Advance
On Borneo By Aid OF
Bridge Laying Tanks

MANILA, Thursday, June IA. -
W.R-Australian 9th Division vet
Grams in an amphibious landing
from the Brunei river in north
west Borneo have seized high
ground only 200 yards from the
outskirts of Brunei, capital Of Bru-
nei protectorate, front dispatches
disclosed today.
AS the Australians landed from
the river, second force drove
eight miles along jungle trails
from the Brooketon area Of Brunei
Bay to capture the Brunei Air
drome and reach a point only two
miles north of the city.
Speeding their advance by using
new bridge laying tanks, the Aus
tralians made their big gain with.
out meeting resistance.
It was indicated that the Japa
nese main forces had abandoned
Brunei after setting key buildings
afire and blowing them up, leav'
ing only a rear guard to hold the
city as long as possible.
PT-boats which shened the coast
southwest Of Brunei reported that
fires were visible 40 miles in the
area between Seria and Mir as the
Japanese fired and blew up the
wells and tanks of the rich oil
fields.
The Australians who carried oui
the amphibious landing moved up
! the Brunei river from the bay.
They landed about two miles east
of the city and drove on to reach
the outskirts, Selling high ground
from which they dominated the
waterfront.
On Labuan Island at the north
side of Brunei Bay the Australians
cleared the entire southern part OF
the island. driving the japanese
into the wild northwestern area.
The Australians were now moving
on Timbalai airdrome on the north
west coast after taking Labuan
airdrome.
Both Naval and air units hit JAP
anese positions in. the Labuan Is
land area. and they sank two coas-
tai vessels off the East Borneo
coast.
Front dispatches said japanese
resistance along the northwest Bor-
aeo coast was still light and reveal
ed that in the first day of opera
tons, Sunday, only 81 japanese
were killed. One was captured.
Along the Macarthur blockade
line between Singapore and Shang
hal, and in the Netherland East
Indies generally. the air forces
continued widespread operations.
Patrol planes wrecked three
coastal vessels off Malaga. Con-
fContinued nm Papa Nine. fol n
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-14

WASHINGTON, June 13- U.D -
Gen. George S. Patton confessed
today that he's not rootin', tootin'
two-gun man-just o N E gun:
Furthermore, he blushed, the
gun he wore at Boston last week
on his triumphal return from Eur
ope was just my social gun.
The swashbuckling Third Army
commander set the record straight
after spending Is minutes with
President Truman as couple Ut
old soldiers reminiscing about the
artillery and our men," Mr.. TIT
man was an artillery captain IN
World War l.
Patton, who flew here from the
West Coast earlier in the day 10
report to Gen. George c. Marshall
for a new assignment, said he did
not know what his next assignment
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-14
u. s. WHITE COLLAR
BILL PASSES HOUSE

WASHINGTON, June 13.-WD-
The House today passed legislation
to give 1,450,000 Federal white col
lar workers Is per cent salary in
creases totalling $4,000, 900 .
year.
The bill, in line with the little
steel formula, also would grant
government employees time-and-
one-haf for overtime.
Chairman. Robert Ramspeck, D.,
Ga, of the House Civil Liberties
Committee, said the bill would
raise wage standards among cleri-
cal employees up to the level Of
the other 100000 governments
owned plants.
The Senate passed a similar bill
recently but it provided only time
and-onetwelfth for overtime. The
House bill goes to the Senate
for agreement on differences.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-14
Gen. Patton Confesses
He's A One-Gun Soldier

would be. But he expects to return
to Europe, probably within two
weeks, and hopes" he eventually
will get to the Pacific.
After visiting with the President,
Patton told reporters about his
plans for the immediate future.
II hope to get where I can drive
my Ford without motorcycle es-
cort and three armored cars be-
hind me-" he said.
Asked how long he planned to be
in ashington, he flashed big
smile and replied:
tits none of your damned bust
ness"
In the chorus of laughter that
followed, he said he would return to
Boston in two days and then 60 to
his Massachusetts farm with Mrs.
Patton.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-14
Senate May Ratify
W0 Treaty July Is

WASHINGTON, June -. - (P)-
The administration today set July
IS as the goal for Senate ratifi-
cation of the World organization
treaty being drafted at San Fran
cisco.
Senate authorities represented
President Truman as thinking the
conference On the coast would be
concluded by Wednesday, June 20;
the formal treaty would be sub
mitted to the legislators the fol-
lowing Monday.
1t is the hope of Mr.. Truman,
those sources said, that the United
States becomes the first of the 50
participating nations to approve
the postwar pact designed for keep
ing the peace.
That is in keeping with the Pres
ident's advice that the Senate take
up the proposal before Congress
takes projected summer recess.
A recess starting about July 10
had been under discussion.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-14
u. s., Britain Cautioned
On Ideas Of Sovereignty

Democratic nations Of which
Great Britain and the United States
are the leaders, must be prepared
when the long-awaited peace does
come, to limit their ideas of sover.
eighty for the good of the rest Of
the world, DR.. Gerard Priestly,
noted traveller, teacher and lee.
turer told members of the Whining.
ton Kiwanis Club at their regular
weekly luncheon meeting yester.
day at the Friendly Cafeteria. Dr.
Priestly, who is on the faculty Of
Springfield College, Springfield
Mass. is currently on a speaking
tour of the nation under auspices
of the Army and Navy USO Of
New York City.
The guest speaker, who already
has travelled over 46 of the 48 states
of the Union, was introduced by
Kiwanian Charlie Robinson who
is an almunus Of Springfield Col
lege.
Following a reminiscent theme
throughout his address, DR.. Priest.
ly reminded his audience at the
outset that he was a native Bit
Usher and had lived most of his life
in that tight, little island which
had known the horrors OF five anc
one-half years of total war, anc
recalling a Churchillian remark
made January 80, 1888 that ''the
world is standing on the watch
towers of history"
He then traced his pre-war
travels through Germany, Italy anc
Czechoslovakia where he witnessed
a parade of the goose-steppine
Hitler youth movement personnel;
heard Mussolini declare from his
Wanted spot on his palace bal
cony in Rome that the world would
get peace only at the point of a
million Fasist bayonets; of stand
ing along the Danube-not the Blue
Danube of song and story, but a
muddy, brown Danube polluted by
the filth of Nazism.
The speaker dwelt briefly on the
persecution of the Jews of Prague
by Nazi SIS troopers; of the looting
of shops owned by Jews and Their
in lowered voice he described the
arrival in England of Premier
Chamberlain for his meeting with
N0nfinuad mn pavn Nine. FOL g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-14

|lations at the two airfields which
have been under heavy attack for
several weeks.
Japanese aircraft failed to ap-
pear over Okinawa Tuesday. AM
erican strikes through the Ryukyus
and against Kyushu had been aim
ed at paralyzing the enelny's sui
eide plane corps. The japanese, in
80 days Of vicious aerial attacks
on fleet units off Okinawa, have
lost 938 planes, but have sunk
eight and damaged 40 American
ships.
Liberators and Privateers of
Fleet Air Wing 10 maintained theil
blockade of Japan's home waters.
They sank a small cargo ship,
probably sank fishing craft and
damaged a lugger and. a number
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-14
Truman Will
Meet Allied
Chiefs Soon
PRESIDENT ELATED
Reports Hopkins, Davies
Missions Are Salts
factory

WASHINGTON, June 13.-(P-
President Truman jubilantly dis
closed today the definite setting
of a. early big Three" meeting
and said there are prospects for a
complete settlement of the Polish
issue.
Obviously elated over confiden.
tial reports from Harry Hopkins
and Joseph e. Davies, his special
emissaries, the President announc.
ed to news conferences:
l. While he cannot divulge the
time or place, upon which all have
agreed, he will meet soon with
Marshal Stain and Prime Ministe-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-14
DE GAULLE PLANNING
TRIP TO WASHINGTON

PARIS, June 13.-iP)-An Off.
cial informant said tonight that
Gen. de Gaulle would fly to Wash
ington next week to discuss the
Syrian-Lebanese problem directly
with President Truman following
a report that the United States had
declined Frances invitation to at
tenC a five-power conference on
the entire Middle East.
The government was believed to
be considering the advisablllty OF
abandoning its five-power proposal.
The foreign office has not heard
from Britain, Russia or China, and
their silence was Interpreted as IN
dicating they also did not favor the
proposal.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-14

!, Overall tonnage lost was eStlmat-
ed at staggering 100000 dead
weight tons.
The losses were announced ST.
multaneously> by the war shipping
administration, the Navy and the
British admiralty.
VISA said that of the SAB Ameri-
can merchantmen lost to enemy
action, seven were sunk before
Pearl Harbor.
It also disclosed that another 984
U. S. ships went down in collisions
and other wartime Maritime dis
asters in convoy operations and as
a result of blackouts and reduced
navigation aids. Most of these craft
were small and were lost in inland
waters. Twenty-seven more were
sunk deliberately off Normandy to
form artificial harbors for Allied
invasion forces
This brought to 1854 the number
of U. S. Merchant ships lost from
all causes.
The latest Merchant Marine cas-.
ualty list shows 5,579 seamen dead
or missing and 487 taken prisoner
through last May /.
A joint U. S. Navy-British adj
miralty announcement disclosed
that 3,742 Allied merchantmen, ex.
elusive of American vessels, wele
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-14
Delegations
Tentatively
OK Formula
VOTE PLAN PLEASES
r.nference Now Consider
ing Regional Security
Arrangements

sAN FRANCISCO, June 13-W.p
Who United Nations Conference
1 tar tentative approval today to
t. IT, most controversial problem -
t nv Ya!ta voting fornula-and to.
III, n;obt considered another issue that
h.. .: plagued and divided the So
United Nations earlier, the region.
u security arrangements.
The voting formula, including
tho hotly-contested veto power ot
no Biz Five nations, was given
Overwhelming approval by a tech
meal committee this afternoon, al
though there were many Austen
lions from the voting. Tonight, in
the first after-dark session at the
San Francisco Opera House, the
REGIONAL arrangements committee
made its report to the Security
Council Commission.
V, X. Wellington Koo, Chinese
delegate and rapporteur Of the
.ommittee, told the Conference
Nat the report, representing a
compromise on the issue of World
Security VS.. Regional Security ar
rangements, had been unanimously
approved Committee acceptance
was preceded by six meetings and
10 other sessions of a major SUBJ
committee, he said.
Latin America had precipitated
bitter fight on the regional ar
rangements issue with demands
that the Pan American security
system be exempted from author
ity Of the World Organization. The
mise whereby the supremacy of the
World Security Council is recogniz-
ed, but where also regional secur-
iy arrangements will obtain in the
early stages of disputes where
hopes for settlement are high.
In line with that compromise, the
committee inserted a paragraph in
the original Dumbarton Oaks pro-
posals recognizing the right of in
dividual or regional self-defense by
members if an armed attack &C.
ours. But it also points up the auth
GRITTY and right of the Security
Council to intervene.
Other changes in the original
proposals, as recommended by the
committee report, included:
l. That the Security Council
should encourage peaceful settle
ment of local disputes through re-
gional agencies.
2 That the Security Council
should at all times be kept fully
informed on activities undertaken
Or in contemplation under regional
arrangements or by regional agen-
cieS for the maintenance of inter-
national peace and security
Koo UNDERSIGNED that para graph,
and the committee report empha-
sized that the new world peace or
sanzatlon should not conflict with
previous regional pacts. nor with
the act Of Chapulepec affecting the
Western hemisphere.
The committee report on region
arrangements, an important
part Of the proposed charter, was
oVershadowed in importance by
me veto acceptance which terrnin-
a'eo long and bitter fight.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-14
$500 Japs
Are Killed
In Advance
FOE FALLING BACK
Total Japanese Dead Set At
10000 In 75-Day
Campaign
By LEFT ERICKSON

GUAM, Thursday, June IA. up
The Sixth Marine Division smash
ed the Japanese Oroku peninsula
pocket on Okinawa yesterday after
a fierce nine-day battle while the
first Marine aud Seventh Infantry
Divisions pressed back both TANKS
Of the precipitous Yaeju escarp-
ment.
Maj. Gen. Lemuel c. Shepherd,
Jr.'s sixth division killed $500
Japanese on the peninsula, raising
to more than 10000 the number
of enemy troops killed on OkinaWa
in the 75-day old campaign.
Shepherds Marines overran an
enemy hospital on Oroku and found
$50 Japanese dead inside. The bo-
dies presumably were those OF
wounded who were killed by the
Japanese before they withdrew
from the area.
It is a matter of policy for Jap
anese not to permit wounded to
fall into American hands.
Mai. Gen. Archibald v. Ar
nold's Seventh Division Doughboys
advanced up to 400 yards on the
east flank of the Yaeju line to gam
control of most Of the escarpment
rim in their area.
With control of that rim, the di-
vision is in a position to develop
pincer arm around the eastern
side of the escarpment. There are
some roads and draws in this area
and some small villages through
which tanks and self propelled
guns can be brought up.
On the west bank, Maj. Gen.
Pedro A. Del Valle's First Divi-
sion Marines carried troop rein
forcements forward on tanks
through heavy japanese fire to
strengthen their positions on the
Kunishi ridge. The reinforcements
had to move across open rice pad
dies before the ridge.
Units of the divisions Seventh
Regiment had taken the western
half of the crest yesterday.
With complete capture Of Kuni-
shi ridge, the Marines will be able
to push down the western coast
and develop the right arm of the
pincers around the escarpment.
In the central sector, the 96th
Infantry Division assaulted the
highest and steepest escarpment
faces. Maj. Gen. James L. Brad
|ley's New York Doughboys ad-
vanced about 400 yards on it's west
flank to reach outskirts of Ozato
town. Ozato is at the foot Of the
escarpment face at a point where
the cliff line curves southwark
from the nose, already captured
by the 96th Division.
Bradley's troops were under hea-
wy machinegun and automatic
weapons fire. The Japanese also
were employing mortars in con-
tinued fierce resistance all along
the Yaeju line, but their artillery
fire has fallen off materially since
the start of the U. S. Tenth Ar
rny's assault against the enemy's
last-stand defense there.
Great concentrations Of Ameri-
can artillery were fired on Japa-
nese troop assemblies observed
on top of a plateau behind the es-
carpment face.
On Oroku peninsula, the Sixth
Division Marines still had consid-
cradle hopping up OF Japanese
strongpoints to complete their task.
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