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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-23
Army Needs Ships To
Return More Men Home

MANILA, Sept. 22.-P)- The
Army announced today it hoped to
get nearly 100000 soldiers home by
New Years and said it can do II
too if it can get the ships.
"Give us the ships and we'll get
the boys home" declared Major.
Gen. Frederick E. Uhl, whose re-
placement command for the west
ern Pacific is burdened with the
immense task.
In June, July and August 80, 16l
men and 1,474 officers were sent
home, but the pace is slackened IN
September because rescued pris-
oners of war got first pick OF the
shipping space.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-23
CLEANING SUBWAY

BERLIN, Sept. o. N The
Stettiner Inhalter subway, flooded
with sewage waters by SIS elite
Guard troops in the last days OF
the battle of Berlin, has been
pumped down to the platform level
at the Stettiner station. German
workers, padding about in boats
and aided by powerful searchlights
found the decomposed bodies of a
lew of the thousands of civilians
reported drowned in the subway.
The Malodorous station was litter
ed with rusting military equip
ment.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-23
SULLIVAN AYERS
CARRIER TO STAY

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.-R)-
Aircraft carriers will be out-moded
lii hoopskirts only when ''planes
can fly around the world and back
again on a pint of something or
other" a Navy spokesman said to-
day.
But that day is not here yet"
declared John L. Sullivan, assis-
tant secretary of the Navy for air.
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More War Criminals
Go On Trial Oct. 8

WIESBADEN, Germany, Sept. q
-(P-Seven Nazis charged with
killing more than 400 Russian and
Polish men, women and Children
at Hadamar Insane Asylum =
ing them lethal injections in the
guise OF medical aid, 60 on trial be.
fore a military court here Oct. 8.
Headquarters of the U. S. Army
forces in the European theater
said tonight the trials are the first
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"GREAT MORAL DEBT,

LONDON, Sept. %. -(P)- Two
members of Britain's labor cabinet
said today that the world owed
Britaj "a great moral debt" and
predicted that the nation coulo
again become one of the great in
duStrial powers.
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outmode the aircraft carrier Just
yet"
Sullivan added that the fact that
carriers were '.the head man of the
Pacific war does not necessarily
mean that they would have the
Leading role, or indeed any role at
all, IN future war. Carriers were
tn deciding factor in the present
Pacific war because of the geogra.
ply and the, available military
equipment involved.
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series of five big concentration
camp cases.
Hundreds of insane Germans also
were reported killed at Hadamar
by the Nazis regime, starting in
1941. The military court, however,
will try the defendants .1y or the
Russian and Polish deaths.
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In the Evangeline country Of
Nova Scotia, Canada, are the larg-
est pie orchards in the British
Dominions.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-23

The first sanctioned air mail was
flown in the United States from a
temporary field post office in Long
Island in 1911.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-23
NEWsPRINT PRODUCTION
POLAND SPRING. Me-, Sept. 2

POLAND SPRING. Me-, Sept. %.
- (P -Newsprint production in
Canada should be back to pre-war
normal by June of next year. r.
M. Fowler, president of the Cam
adam pulp and paper association,
today told the annual convention
of the Northeastern division of
the American pulp and paper mill
superintendents' association.
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Senators Voice General
Approval OfUtin1atun1

matter how stern, would hasten the
end of the fighting.
Wherry asked permission to put
the ultimatum in the Congressional
Record.
Senator Capehart (R-1nd)), an
other who has insisted on more
precise conditions for the Jap
anese, told the senate:
THE ultimatum spells out what
we mean and have meant by I'm
conditional surrender, and I con
graduate the President, Of the
United States"
Reasonable was the descrip
ton given the Potsdam terms by
Senator Bridges GRIND.
If Japan desires peace anc
wants to save her homeland from
destruction, 1 think she should &C
cept these terms bridges tole
a reporter.
Il have urged the step (delinea
ton of terms) on the Presiden
and other high officials of gov
eminent for some time IN the nope
that a definition of our surrender
terms would help shorten the wal
and save American lives"
Chairman Connally D-Tex) o
the Foreign Relations committee
shown corp of the terms, told ;
reporter:
II thoroughly approve the join
statement. Unless the japanese
intend to commit national Hara
hiri they will surrender and save
millions of lives of their people
and their national existence. IN
less they are determined to be
engulfed in ruin, they will accep
the terms
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WASHINGTON, July 26.-(R-
Senators tonight hailed the Pots.
dam Observation-Disclosures"
ultimatum as likely to shorten the
war with Japan.
The Truman Churchill Chang
Kai Shek statement served also
to underscore Army plans to de
ploy 100000 soldiers for one gi
gantic knockout punch unless the
Nipponese enemy needs the cal
10 quit without quibbling.
Legislators who had been mos1
outspoken in their demands for a
specific definition of "uncondi
tional surrender were prompt
with approval of the formula Of
Potsdam.
Said Senator Wherry CR-Neb)
who only this week had demand
ed a blueprint Of what this coun-
try would accept from Japan:
IT want to compliment the
President of the United States for
defining the terms of unconditional
surrender. I believe it is a steI
in the right direction and thai
something will come Of it,
Before the Potsdam statement
was issued, Wherry, commenting
on a Japanese radio plea for a
soft peace, had said he believed
an actual outline of terms, no
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ing to carry out his responsible
ties not only "for the benefit of the
United States" but also for peoples
all over the world.
The impromptu talk was made
after passing rows of tanks and
thousands of fighting men of the
Third Armored Division, command.
ed by Brig. Gen. Doyle o. Hickey.
At one point the President stop.
ped the car to talk to private. The
soldier told reporters he was Floyd
B. Adams of Charlottesville, Mo.
II used to run barbecue
stand" he said. The President did
not know him, he added, but she
knows my barbecue stand. He has
stopped there"
After playing the piano at Boil
ing s. mess, Truman turned to 1t
Roy E. Wilder. Jr., of Spring Hope
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HOARDED JAP
PLANES FIGHT
CONTINUED From Page One)

Matsuyama has a population Of
l22, 1000, Tokuyama 10000 and Omu-
ia 1T 200. Japan's Ia gest artificial
Iharbor is located at Omrta
Omuta is one of the most i'm
portant chemical centers in the
empire and a vital port for coal
shipments. It also is the home of
Japan's ten largest synthetic oil
refineries and a major zinc refin-
ing district. 1t covers about five
miles along the waterfront and ex-
tends inland for two and half
miles.
| Matsuyama, covering about four
suuare miles, manufa ctured
cotton fabrics before the war but
most of the mills have been con-
verted to war production. Matsuya-
ma, with access to the sea through
the port of Mitsuyama, it connect
ed with other cities of Shikoku is
land by the national railroad sys-
tenn.
Tokuyama, situated about SO
miles east of Shimonoseki strait,
is the home of two large soda and
chemical plants, large refinery
and oil tank farms. 1t covers about
one mile square and its houses are
of the typical Japanese frame
stucco construction, easily milan
mable.
The new raid followed announce,
ment by the goth Air Force 1na'
devastation in Japan's urban IN e
dustrial areas had reached l4'
square miles in 80 cities.
Good to excellent results were
reported from Wednesday lniu ~,
nights attack by 100 super1or'S oi'
oil targets near Tokyo. vs
RADIO SILENCE CLOAko
ACTIVITIES OF FLEEI
GUAM, Friday. july 27-Frlday9
-tRERadio silence cioakeu AZ AZ
activities and Whereabouts OF Ao'
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Leroy Bell of Boston, one-time Red

Leroy Bell of Boston, one-time Red
Sox player.
During the tour Truman stopped
to talk with 286 Missouri members
of the 84th Division especially as
sembled for the visit.
"You have fought SO that we can
live, think and act as we like" he
said. Il want to implement that
policy in following in the footsteps
of my great predecessor, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt
my one regret in the late I'M
pleasantness is that I was not al
lowed to wear a unifrom. GER
tainly tried hard enough, but il
seems to be my responsibility to
speak for all of you
Declaring he admired Roosevelt
more than any other man in the
world,' Truman said he was try
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ULTIMATUM SENT
JAPANESE EMPIRE
CONTINUED From Page One)

L
tice shall be meted out to all war
criminals, including those who have
visited cruelties upon our prison
ers."
Japanese military f,ices, after
being disarmed, shall be permit
ted to return to their homes with
the opportunity to lead peaceful and
productive lives" the document
promises.
Further, Japan shall be per,
mitted to maintain such industries
as will sustain her economy and
permit the payment of just re-
parations in kind, but not those
industries which will enable her
to rearm for war.
ITO this end, access to, as dis
tinguished from control Of, raw
materials shall be permitted
Eventual japanese participation
in world trade relations shall be
permitted.
1.-The occupying forces of the
Allies shall be withdrawn from
Japan as soon as these detectives
have been accomplished and there
has been established in accordance
with the freely will of
the Japanese people a peacefully
inclined and responsible govern
ment.
It also was demanded that 1.-The
Japanese government shall remove
all obstacles to the revival of
democratic tendencies among the
japanese people.
''The time has come for Japan
to decide whether she will con-
tinue to be controlled by those
self-willed militaristic advisors
whose unintelligent calculations
have brought the empire of Japan
to the threshold of humiliation,
or whether she will follow the
path Of reason
The proclamation was drawn in
Potsdam by Truman and Churc-
hill, and submitted to Chang, who
promptly concurred, it was an
nounced.
The document will be broadcast
to the Japanese people in every
way possible by the Owl, White
House Press Secretary Charles
c.. Ross said.
The warning to Japan was
| phrased thus:
THE prodigious land, sea, and
air forces of the United States,
the British Empire, and of China,
many times reinforced by their
armies and air fleets from the
West, are poised to strike the
final blows upon Japan.
This military power is sustained
and inspired by the determination
of all the Allied nations to prose.
cute the war against Japan until
she ceases to resist.
1.-THE result of the futile and
senseless German resistance to the
might of the aroused free peoples
of the world stands forth in awful
clarity as an example to the peo-
pie of Japan.
THE might that now conve-ges
on Japan is UNNECESSARILY
greater than that which, when
applied to the resisting Nazies,
necessarily laid waste to the lands,
the industry, and the method Of
life of the whole German people. "
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miral Halsey's third fleet today as
Allied strikes against the Japanese
were confined to land-based aerial
actions.
The last report on the great
American and British force which
smashed at the Japanese fleet rem
nants Tuesday and against bases on
the Inland Sea Wednesday was con-
tanned in yesterdays commune
que. which said Wednesdays ac-
ton was limited to hitting small
vessels and damaging ground in
stallations because of extremely
bad weather:
Admiral Nimitz, communique to-
day made no mention of Halsey's
fleet.
Twenty-four of Japan's warships,
including IA carriers, battleships
and cruisers, were damaged within
week-2o of them Tuesday.
Only the fog that rolled in Wed
nesday saved the Japanese from
another crushing blow by the more
than 1,lOo ". .. anu BRUSH car
rier planes which wrought Tues
days devastation.
While there was no new word
from Halsey, Japanese broadca SITS
said they expected a return of the
fleet and cautioned the empire to
be vigilant.
The Japanese, also invasion lit
terry, began broadcasting advice to
their citizens on the weapons the
Allies were expected to use. They
predicted flame-throwing tanks
would lead the invasion forces on
the beaches, but said there was no
need to fear these monsters too
much. wv
"
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Complete Text of Three-Power
Proclamation Sent To japanese

mitted.
12) The occupying forces Of the
Allies shall be withdrawn from
japan as soon as these detectives
have been accomplished and there
has been established in accordance
with the freely expressed will OF
the Japanese people a peacefully
inclined and responsible govern
ment.
dO We call upon the Govern
ment of Japan to proclaim now the
unconditional surrender of al!
Japanese armed forces, and tc
provide adequate assurances OF
their good faith in such action.
The alternative for Japan is
prompt and utter destruction.
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WASHINGTON, July 26.-9U.H-
Following is the text of the three
mower proclamation released at
:Potsdam as issued here through
.the Office of War Information:
: Cd We-The President OF the
United States, the President OF the
!: National Government of the Re-
Z public Of China, and the Prime
!: Minister Of Great Britain, repre-
/: senting the hundreds OF millions
: Of our countrymen, have conferred
and agreed that Japan shall be
given IN opportunity to end this
war.
q, The prodigious land, sea and
air forces Of the United States,
the British Empire and OF China.
many times reinforced by their
armes and air fleets from the West,
are poised to strike the final
. blows upon Japan. This military
power is sustained and inspired
by the determination OF all the
Allied nations to prosecute the war
against Japan until she ceases to
resist.
G. The result Of the futile and
&anseless resistance to the might
q the aroused free peoples of the
world stands forth in awful clarity
as an example to the people OF
japan. The might that now con-
serqes upon Japan is immeasur-
ably greater than that which, when
applied to the resisting Nazis,
necessary laid waste to the lands,
the industry and the method Of
life of the whole German people.
The full application of our mill
tary power, backed by our re-
solve, will mean the inevitable and
comlete destruction of the Jap
anese armed forces and just as
inevitably the utter devastation
of the japanese homeland.
90 The time has come for
Japan to decide whether she will
continue to be controlled by those
self-willed militaristic advisers
whose unintelligent calculations
have brought the empire OF Japan
to the threshold Of humiliation.
or whether she will follow the path
or reason.
90 Following are our terms. We
will not deviate from them. There
are no alternatives. We shall
brook no delay.
60 There must be eliminated
for all time the authority and
influence of those who have de-
ceived and misled the people OF
Japan into embarking on world
conquest. We insist that a new
order of peace, security and justice
will be impossible until irrespon'
sible miliatrism is driven from the
world.
CO Until such a new order is
established and until there is con-
vincing proof that Japan's wa
making power is destroyed, points
in Japanese territory to be desig.
mated .by the Allies shall be oc.
cupied to secure the achievement
Of the basic detectives we are
here setting forth.
CO. The terms Of the Cairo Dec
1aration shall be carried out and
Japanese sovereignty shall be
limited to the islands Of Honshu,
Hokkaido, Kyushu, Shikoku and
such minor islands as we de-
termine.
30 The Japanese military forces,
after being completely disarmed,
shall be permitted to return to
their homes with the opportunity
to lead peaceful and productive
Hves.
(1W We do not intend that the
Japanese shall be enslaved as a
race or destroyed as a nation,
but stern justice shall be meted
out to all war criminals, includ-
ing those who have visited cruel
ties upon our prisoners. The Jap
anese government shall remove
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ICKES PREDICTS
LOW COAL OUTPUT
CONTINUED From Page One)

CONTINUED From Page One)
which thus far is we'll below the
rate needed to meet minimum re-
quirements.
He believes there is reasonable
chance that some 100000 tons of
U. S. coal, or two-thirds the goal
he has set. actually can be shipped
to Europe.
Because of Europe's plight, he
said, the shortage in this country
probably will become more severe,
and home users may not get even
the 80 per cent of normal supply
which he estimated last week. He
said the deficit in this country now
is around 35,00O,000 tons and pro-
badly will 60 up to about 100000
90.
Ickes asked Patterson to release
80, 900 soldiers with mining exper-
fence to ease a critical manpower
shortage. Patterson replied that the
Army could not release men to
meet the labor needs of specific
industry. To do so, he said. would
disrupt the disqualification point sys-
tenn.
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TpIJMAN REVIEWS
AMERICAN TROOPS

Continued From Page One)
Erankfur+ and ate fried chicken
md ice cream at the officers mess
~ the 84th Division, commanded
-, Maj Gen. Alexander Boiling.
Heavy guards patrolled the high
,,,,v and camps as the President
narty drove through. German civil
Iians stared but showed no out
ward emotion.
The natty 5O8th Parachute-1nfan-
try Regiment, wearing white silk
scarfs and gloves, formed an honor
guard at Frankfurt Airport. The
battalion was commanded by MAJ.
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all obstacles to the revival and
STRENGTHENING of Democratic ten
denotes among the Japanese peo'
pie. Freedom OF speech, OF re-
igion and of thought as well as
respect for the fundamental hui
man rights shall be established.
QD Japan shall be permitted
to maintain such industries as
will sustain her economy and
permit the exac ion of just repara-
tons in kind, but not those which
would enable he- to rearm for
war. To this end, access to, as
distinguished from control OF,
raw materials shall be permitted.
Even usl Japanese participation in
world trade relations shall be per-
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FRIDAY, JULY q IL,

piano." 0oillh GOOD
Before departing for po+sd,
the evening, tie Presidann.. NodFn IN
ed the Distinguished seryiooa award
to Gen. H. D. G. Crerar ~ ~ >}1al
der OF ,t the First Canadian ', Arrs'
and three British military ANY, NJ,
tains, Maj. Gen. Sir F W cAlet'
Gulngand, Air Marshal Sir A. a.. %
Conlngham and Air Marsb.i5 'a III
James Robb. '''a1 Sir
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-10-18
GLENTANA
By Mrs. Ruby Stein

Mr.. and Mrs. Hans Stannebein
and son visited Sunday at the Nor
man Zemliska home.
Ralph Renner returned from Chi
cago Saturday. He had accompanied
a shipment of cattle there.
Hans Sorenson spent Sunday with
his son Lloyd and family.
Mrs. Ray Belle entertained at din
ner Sunday in honor of her son
Lawrence's birthday. Those present
yer Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Bailey and
sons, Jimmy, Quanna and Miss
Shirley Siefert.
Jim McKinnon and Gus Grcthus
left for Butte Sunday, where they
will spend the winter.
Mrs. Hans Sorenson. of Opheim
spent Sunday visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
H. j. Quasi.
Frank L. Bailey drove to Glasgow
Monday. Mrs. Estrem and daughter,
who have been cooking for Mr..
Bailey's h~arvesters, returned to
Glasgow with him.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stannebein and son
and Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Bell and
family spent Thursday evening at
the F. w. Bailey home.
Mrs. Dorothea Stuber and son Joe
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Stein
evening. Joe has returned
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TAMPICO
BY Agnes Molvig

Corp. John Kolstad of Bocs
Ration, Fla, arrived on furlougt
Monday morning to visit his par
ents, Mr.. and Hrs. Ben Kolstad.
MI. and Mrs. Tony Bengochea
and family attended the show in
Glasgow Saturday evening.
Mrs. Agnes Hartley returned home
Friday after visiting her brother,
Tom Scott, and family at Harptree
Sask.
Helen Scott of Hinsdale visited at
the Hartley home Sunday.
Ronnie Martin spent Saturday
night at the home of his grandpar-
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. D. A. Martin.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. E. Flesjer and son
Lorin of Bellevue, Wash, arrived
Friday to visit her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Elias Stensland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ole Enkerud, Mr..
and Mrs. liver Martin and son
Douglas, Mr.. and Mrs. Chris Molvig
and Alyce Mae and Charles, Mrs.
Olaf Qualey, Mrs. Lloyd Henning-
son. Mrs. Hulse Billingsley, Mrs.
Harold S%tensland, and Rudolph Os-
terman were among those who at
tended the auction sale at the Harry
Wright farm Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. Tony Arrotta and Miss Car
men Dupper were callers in GlaS-
Cow Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Magnus Swanson
and children Mickey and Cheryl
Kaye are spending several days at
the Martin Swanson home north of
Hinsdale.
Mrs. j. Kirwan and granddaugh-
ter. Margaret Ellen Burroughs, re-
turned home Sunday after visiting
relatives at Lakota, N. D.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. B. Kirkland, Mr..
and Mrs. F. E. Nielsen and family,
Mr.. and Mrs. Chris Molvig and
and Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd
and o Lorin were dinner
Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs. Elias
5tensland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Meek and
oaby visited Sunday at the home of
Mr.. Meek's uncle and aunt, Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Schneider.
Mr.. and Mrs. liver Martin and
spent Sunday afternoon in
Glasgow.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Reding, Mrs.
Collins and E. Reding spent
Tuesday at the Legion plunge.
Miss Carmen Dupper and Patrick
Jonnoughton we're callers in Glas-
,oW Saturday afternoon.
The Tampico school will give a
dance Saturday at the hall.
Music will be provided by Blanken-
)urg orchestra.
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from 214 years overseas duty in
North Africa, Italy and Europe.
Callers in Glasgow Saturday were
Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Stolen and
daughter, William Niehoff, v. j.
O'Brien, Lloyd Draper, Otto Bullock,
Lloyd Sorenson and his mother,
Mrs. H.. C. Screnson of Opheim,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hiltner and AL
bert Gunderman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Bruhahn
moved into Jim McKinnon's house
Saturday, where they will live this
winter.
Roy Alderman spent Sunday Wis
iting Leo Hiltner.
Oscar and Charles Goodrich were
shoppers in Glasgow Monday.