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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-16
Army's Biggest Travelling War Bond Show
To Be Presented At Stadium Next Friday

The ASST Signal Corps comes
through Sin time" with cornmuni-
cations. The ASST Medical Corps
tends to the wounded, and the ASST
Engineers replace a blown TIP
bridge at a critical moment.
At the conclusion of the battle,
a spectacular bond-buying finale is
achieved through the medium Of
each of the ten services standing at
salute in a maze of colored smoke
and a brilliant pyrotechnic display
while against an American flag
raising background the narrator
makes powerful bond buying
appeal.
Battle suspense, explosions, and
firing, original scenic and lighting
effects, and specially arranged
mood music, combine to make
'..ASF ATTACK" produced by the
Fourth Service Command, the out
standing Army War Bond show OF
the country.
No admission will be charged for
this big show next Friday night
and Mr.. and Mrs. New Hanover
County and the children are cor
daily invited by Wilmington Lee
gionnaires to. visit Legion Stadium
and witness the big spectacle.
Assisting Mr.. Latimer on the
COMMITTEE on arrangements are
Charley Ford and c. R. Gudgeon.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-16
OSAKA SUFFERS
SEVERE DAMAGE
Near-Record Force Leaves
City In Flames; One
BIG Lost

GUAM, Saturday, June 16-R-
Osaka was in flames today from
what may have been a knockout
blow such as the commander OF
the Superforts say already has
been dealt to two Of Japan's five
key cities.
After a near-record force Of $40
Superfortresse unloaded 5000 tons
of incendiaries on Osaka Friday
Japanese date), Maj. Gen. Curtis
lie May said further raids on this
greatest of all Japan's industrial
cities might be unnecessary.
One of the big bombers failed to
return, Goth air force headquarters
in Washington announced.
The chief of the 21st 1omber
Command declared that his giant
raiders already were well on their
way toward the destruction OF the
five cities which Gen. H. H. Arnold
on his visit here said yesterday
would have to be RACED to rob
Japan of the power to resist. :
Arnold, commander OF U. S.
Army Air Forces, listed the five
as Tokyo, Nagoya, Yokohama,
Kobe and Osaka, and this is how
he may checked them off:
Yokohama and Kobe are gone"
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-16
10 ARE KILLED
In TRAIN CRASH
Pennsylvania Dom i Mon
Express Rams Derail-
ed Freight Car

MILTON Pa. June IS. --fR-
Nineteen were killed and 80 in
jured in a nightmarish collision
early today between the Dominion
Express and a freight train thrown
into its path by broken journal.
The 14-car Washington-to-Buffa-
10 express Numbered at SIS miles
an hour into the Saith car of the
freight train, proceeding in the
opposite direction along a parallel
track
No warning was possible as the
locomotive ploughed INTO the
freight car, knocking 20 other
freight cars from the tracks and
pulling seven cars behind it Of
the rails in grotesque pileups.
AS the din of the crash subsidized,
the screams of passenger injured
and trapped rose from the smash
ed coaches. Passengers aboard
even sleeping cars which remained
on the tracks were shaken but
joined in rescue efforts quickly
spurred by hundreds of residents
of the surrounding countryside
who had been aroused by the shat
tering noise.
Hours after the crash, only seven
bodies had been eXtficated. Ot?l-
ers were wedged in the wreckage
Rescue workers with acetylene
torches cut through tangled steel
under the glare of searcElights and
continued as the hot sun beat down.
Thirty-two injured survivors were
taken to hospitals at Lewisburg
Danville, and Sunbury, where two
died during the day.
J. N. Gamble, Harrisburg, ticket
collector, said "there was one bump
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-16
BRITISH PLAN TALKS
WITH INDIAN CHIEFS

LONDON, Saturday, June l6.-
R-The British government an
aounced today that a British-1ndian
Conference has been set for June
% at Simla to discuss Britain S
offer Of additional posts for Indians
In the Indian government.
An Associated Press dispatch
nom Bombay said later that
Mahomed Ali Jinnah, Moslem
league president, pledging the Mo-
Aammedans' cooperation and good
Will, had asked that the conference
postponed for TWO weeks to per-
NIT fuller discussion of the situa-
uon by the leagues executive
committee.
JlMah, first Indian political
Naoer TO comment on the British
04eT said he hoped the Moham-
'eoans would contribute 10 any
'USl interim settlement of the In
uail problem. 1t was generally
ueileVed the Sinla conferees would
"cept yesterdays British white
PAPER proposal, which the British
1,med a step toward Indian self
AVernment.''
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Yanks Tear
Last Stand
Of Japanese
MAKE MAJOR GAINS
Enemy Survivors Put Up
Fierce Fight, Face
Heavy Fire

GUAM, Saturday, June 16-{H
1t. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner.
Jr., predicted today that the IT.
day-old Okinawa campaign will
be wound up by his advancing 10th
Army within week.
He expressed the belief as his
divisions, tearing to pieces the last
stand line Of the Japanese at the
southern tip of Yaeju escarpment,
overran a fourth Of its plateau
area.
A fleet communique today re-
ported that Maj. Gen. James L.
Bradley's Goth Division, which
captured 500-foot-high Yaeju peak
Thursday. Tanks and flamethrow-
ers led the way.
At the same time, Maj. Gen.
Archibald v. Arnold's Seventh In
fantry Division, curling in the
eastern arm OF pincers behind
the escarpment, moved ahead zoo
yards through Nipponese strong
points.
The 331st Regiment Of the S6th
Division also completed capture
Of the southeastern ridge Of Yaeju
hill.
The 96th drove west from the
promontory to get behind Yuza
hill, less than mile away. The
pressure they can bring should
cut down the weight of artillery
and automatic weapons fire the
Nipponese are hurting against
Maj. Gen. Pedro del Valle's First
Marine Division on Kunishi ridge.
General Buckner characterized
the bulk of the estimated 10000
or less enemy survivors the
garrison originally totalled about
IS, 000-as service and labor troops
and Okinawa conscripts. Never.
theless, the survivors were put.
ting up a fierce fight from forti-
fled strong points built on the
plateau out Of coral knobs and
outcroppings.
These points must be wiped out
one by one by famethrowers and
tanks. The rough terrain atop the
plateau is difficult for armor but
the tanks are giving effective sup.
port.
The Japanese on the plateau were
being pounded hour on hour by
artillery, warship guns and bombs
and rockets from Okinawa-based
Marine Corssirs and Army Thun-
derbolts.
General Buckner told Associated
Press Correspondent Al Dopkin2
the japanese either must attempt
final suicide, banzai charge or
keep falling back until they are
killed or driven into the sea.
Adm. Chester w. Nimitz said the
10th Army, irresistably tearing to
pieces the enemy's last stand posi-
tons despite the rugged terrain,
brought heavy pressure on the
center and eastern TANKS"
On the west, where the First
Marine Division seized Kunishi
ridge, japanese opposition held up
the Leathernecks, who strengthen
CONTINUED OH Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-16
Tremendous Damage To Saratoga
In Pacific Battle Is Disclosed
BY POPE HALEY

WASHINGTON, June Is ZAP, -
The Navy disclosed today that the
famous old Aircraft Carrier Sara
toga had sustained tremendous
damage in the early stages of the
battle for Two Jima.
But. it was stated triumphantly.
she has now been fully repaired
and is back in there, pitching
again.
Seven direct bomb hits. includ-
ing some by suicide-planes, struck
the carrier, causing els casualties
The casualties included 1913 killed,
missing or dead of wounds, and
1872 wounded.
The fleets oldest surviving car
rier, affectionately known to ali
hands as the Sara" previously
had twice suffered serious damage
from torpedo attacks but the Two
Jima action marked the first time
she ever had received Gripping
damage from the air.
The attack came on February 81
two days after Two Jima D-Day, as
she was cruising with fast carrier
task group northeast of the island.
Four days earlier her planes had
joined in plastering Tokyo in the
biggest carrier task force attack
up to that time.
The Navy described the action
against Sara as lone of the
most concentrated attacks in which
a carrier has survived. which might
have sunk any other ship" A
record-breaking repair job at the
Puget Sound Navy Yard, however
has already returned the huge flat
top to the fighting line.
1.-THE Saratoga said the yard $
hull superintendent, was the mos.
extensively damaged vessel the
Puget Sound Navy Yard has re.
ceived. She received more varied
types of damage all at once than
any ship we've seen since Pearl
Harbor."
The carrier was launching her
planes in the Two lima action when
an estimated nine or 10 Japanese
bonbers, all believed to be on sui
eide missions, closed in. Four were
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-16
WAR FUND GROUP
MEETS AT RESORT
Noted Lecturer Speaks !;
Importance OF POW
Work Talked

Charles D. Hurley, world travel
er and lecturer and former secre-
tary of the International commit
tee of the YMCA, yesterday told
an audience gathered at the Dis
trict meeting of the United War
Fund of North Carolina at Wrights-
vile Beach, the importance of work
being done by the War Prisoners
Aid of the "Y'' and the increased
need for services of the United
Service Organization and the
United Seamen's Service.
Hurley called attention to the
fact that various generals have sa i'd
that the USO's operation must in
crease in former enemy occupied
territories. The military leaders,
Hurley said, pointed out that serv-
icemen in these areas are wait
ing for an opportunity to go home,
and during this period OF waiting,
should he provided the entertain
ment of tne USO.
The speaker also called atten-
ton to the fact that the War Prls-
oners' Aid and the USO will have
to increase their services in the
South Pacific and the China-Bur-
ma theater.
Demands will also be heavy on
the United Seamen's Service, ne
said, as the work of the Merchant
Marine will also grow larger, due
to redeployment Of supplies and
personnel.
The USO, USS and the War Pris-
oners' Aid are members OF the Ma
tional War Fund.
The state executive secretary for
the United War Fund OF North
|Carolina, Charles E. Kerr, outlin-
ed the program necessary for the
carrying out of the National War
Fund Campaign beginning Septem-
Der 80. He revealed that Gov. r.
Gregg Cherry will make record
ing to be broadcast throughout the
state on or aDOuC llldt .odtC'
Present at the meeting, We're j.
@. LeGrand, district chairman. j.
b.. L. Wade, co-chairman, who
gave brief preliminary talk. Wal
ter Cartier, publicity chairman, and
representatives + r o m Bladen,
Brunswick, Columbus and Pender
counties. and the executive com.
munty of the War Chest OF New
Hanover county. where the usua!
combined Community Chest and
War Fund campaigns will be held
Other officials were J. L. Crump-
ton. chairman of the state cam
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-16
ARMY THROWS WEIGHT
INTO DRAFT BATTLE

WASHINGTON, June 15.-(P)-
The War Department threw its full
force into the Congressional 1lgn'
for compulsory peacetirne military
training today.
Secretary Stimson stressed the
view that quickly available force
is it's own insurance against the
need to use force, and that it would
represent American determination
to make peace work.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
based arguments for peacetlme
training on the greater tactical
effectiveness, and personal chances
for survival, of troops who kno"
their business Of "e~
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-16
END OF 0KINA WA WAR SEEM;
7IMBALAIALRSTRLP TAKEN:
Won RLBB0NTROP CAPTURED
F ormer German Chief
Questioned By Allies

the Main, for questioning by
the most skillful examiners in
the Allied supreme command.
The once-tlapper foreign min
lister, generally credited with
having "sold" Hitler on the idea
that he could invade Poland
without interference from Brit
ain, was identified to British
authorities by his sister, Frau
Doctor Marie Jenke, also
taken into custody. Several
days ago Ribbentrop's SON,
Rudolf, was discovered in an
American prisoner of war cage.
Ribbentrop told his captors
he was on "a mission from the
dead Fuehrer," it was said Of
ficially, when asked whether
Hitler was really dead, Rib
bentrop is said to have replied,
81 am certain he is but, Of
course, l might be wrong"
1t. j. B. Adam of Paisley.
Scotland, who led the arresting
detachment, was interviewed
by telephone tonight from
Eighth Corps headquarters
IN Pare Three: Col.
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ALLIED CHIEF SEES
HARMONY WITH REDS

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS,
Allied Expeditionary Force, June
15.-RAGenera] Eisenhower today
forecast continued harmony with
Russia, and told a press confer
ence there was nothing in his ex-
perience with Russians that led
him to doubt the Western Allies
could cooperate with them per.
fectly.
1.-The individual Russia" the
Supreme Commander added, lis
one of the friendliest persons in
the world"
Eisenhower gave his longest re-
view of the war. and also discus
sed prospects for the peace, in
talking to correspondents at his
headquarters here before ne left
by plane for his Frankfurt head.
quarters.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-16
Ohio Troops
Crash Vale
0fCagayan
MAKE 22-MILE GAIN
Sudden Thrust By Buck
eyes Highlights Ac-
tivity In Pacific

MANILA, Saturday, June is -
(P)-The 37th Ohio Division, in a
spectacular smash out of the noun
tains of Northern Luzon, rolled o
miles deep into the broad Cagayan
Valley in single day, while
Australian troops pressing the in
vasion of Borneo cleared Labuan
island and captured timbalai air.
strip.
Gen. MacArthur's headquar-
ters disclosed the sudden thrust of
the Buckeyes on Luzon as the high
light of successes on all the active
Southwest Pacific fronts.
At least free of the gorge-like
confines on highway no. S, Maj.
Gen. Robert S. Beightler's divis-
ion raced % miles between
Wednesday afternoon and Thurs
day night and liberated the import
ant valley towns of Santiago and
Echague, as 1900 Japanese dead
were added to the casualty list on
all Luzon fronts.
A headquarters spokesman said
the 37ths advance did not meet
determined resistance after it had
been pressed through the heavily
defended Orioung Pass guarding
the valley entrance.
There are now no major OBJ
stacles ahead of the veteran me-
chanized infantrymen until they
reach the Cagayan River crossing
at Naguillian, 27 miles Northeast
of their present positions in the
broad, 100-mile valley that runs
North to the sea.
The valley is the location where
the japanese have been expected
to make possibly their last major
stand on LuZon.
simultaneously, elements of the
U. S. Sixth Division drove five
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announcement uldQe yesterday NY
the OPA in Washington.
The statement revealed that the
county's industrial sugar allot.
ments will be reduced 10 per cent
in the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. per.
iod, as compared to. the current
quarters supply.
ALLEGATION decreases for New
Hanover county are based on popu.
lation changes as indicated by the
issuance of War Ration Book -Four
and the latest information on mill.
tary personnel in this area. it was
revealed.
'"The supply of Coca-Cola in Will.
mington definitely will be affect.
ed by the further curtailment in
the supply of sugar after July H.
w. L. Sheffield, manager of the
Wilmington Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
said. mo substitute will be used
to compensate for the sugar loss
However," Sheffield added, AN
equitable system of rationing will
be maintained during the short
age"
Carl Brown, owner of the 7-Ur
Bottling Co. of Wilmington sale
that his concern had been produc
ing this month on a so per cent
basis of the 1941 June gross sales
and that it appeared that the new
slash in sugar allowances may
put bottling down to about IS pei
cent of 1941 figures.
"Our output for this month"; he
said is approximately $500 cases
less than for June a year ago
This sugar decrease will also at
feet our manufacturing Of Tru-Ade. >
eve are now bottling on g.
|per cent basis of our use of sugar
for the corresponding period ir
1941," said ]. T. Watts, Of the
Wilmington DR.. Pepper plant. 1.-The
reduction may bring our production
down to about so per cent of the
1941 amount. We were bottling q
grape and orange drink, but we
discontinued this in order to have
more sugar for the making of DR..
Pepper. 1t is possible that this new
order may bring our output to the
lowest point thus far since the be-
ginning of the war. OF course, the
varying in the size Of the popu
llation in this area, along with en-
ployment changes, may reduce the
demand.
J. w. jackson, bother of Pepsi.
Cola in the Wilmington area, was
not available for comment.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-16
ITO Years Old
Engineers To Be Feted

Established in ITS by the Con-
gress of the United States upon the
insistence of George Washington
the Army Engineer Corps today
celebrates it's 10th anniversary.
In connection with this event, Col.
E. E. Harring, district Army en-
gineer, announced that the Viii
mington office will hold dinner
dance this evening at the Blue Top
lodge.
From its origial compliment Of
three men, a chief engineer and
two assistants, the Corps has
grown to its present strength of
100000 men, topped in size by only
the Infantry and .he Air Forces.
1.-The Engineer Corps is one
branch of the armed forces that is
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active in the service of the country
in peacetine as in wartime" Col.
Harring said.
In war the primary function Of
the Engineers is to increase the
combat power of American forces
by construction or destruction,
facilitate movements of friendly
troops, and impede that of the
enemy, he stated. Without the En-.
gineers the Infantry could not
move in on the beaches, armored
forces would stop al the first river
fertilization and planes could not
advance beyond their initial bases.
he added.
In peacetime the work of the
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-16
BY DANIEL DE LUCE

by DANIEL DE LUCE
MON T GOMERY'S HEAD
QUARTERS, Germany, June
15-(R- Long-hunted German
Foreign Minister Joachim Won
RibbentrOp, who knew thou
sands of Nazi secrets, was be-
ing questioned tonight by Allied
military experts as his captors
recounted the details of his ar
rest.
The silver haired former
champagne salesman, whose
capture resulted from a tip by
the son of a Hamburg wine
merchant who refused him ha-
ven, was taken yesterday in
the Hamburg apartment of In
attractive landlady, dressed in
a pair of pink and white paja-
mas and with phial of poi
son on his body.
An officer said Ribbentrop
spent the night at Hamburg and
was moved today to Luneberg
air field for a destination
Somewhere in Europe" He
was reported to have been
taken to Gen. Eisenhower's
headquarters at Frankfurt on
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-16
Revision Is
Defeated By
Big Powers
SHOWDOWN IS SEEN
Proposal To Revise Char
ter Within 10 Years
Turned Down

CAN FRANCISCO, June 15-tRA
css.t powers squeezed out a vic
WV today when a United Nations
o W., committe rejected a
s 1an for automatic revision Of a
paw r world charter within five to
ten years.
,.ns the toughest issue left in the
M conference, big majority of ma
.;ons favored a Canadian-BraziliaE
nrOposal for conversation to over
t.nl the charter no sooner than
five and not later than ten years
,ftpr if goes into effect. But they
filled by a narrow margin to roll
IN the necessary two-thirds ballot.
delegates reported the vote was
"a for the revision plan. II against
The committee still had 10 act
m counter-oroposal of big pow
ers for provision for reviewing
tbe charter later without specify
;no time limit. and with the right
reserved for them to approve or
reject any changes.
MANY small nations wanted to
write in a time schedule because
tbev want assurances of another
crack at big power veto rights
orer peace enforcement mechan-
i'm Of the world organization if
bev aren't satisfied with the way
It operates.
The committee action today had
been expected to clear the way for
swift conference progress. unless
+he question of future amendment
of the charter was raised again at
an open commission session.
But Russia raised the prospect
Of reopening arguments over pow
ers of an ALIENATION general assem-
bly, to discuss anything in the field
Of in irrational relations.
Soviet Delegation Chief Andrea
Gromyko. repeatedly following in
structions from Moscow. brought
I'D the question at (. melting with
The three other conference presi-
dents - Secretary Of State Stet-
tjnus. Lord Halifax Of Britain and
wellington Koo Of China.
He was reported to have object
ed to what he argued was a trend
in the conference toward granting
the assembly too much power and
subordinating it to peace-entorc-
ing security council of II members.
He was said to have contended a
committee had gone far beyond
The Dumbarton Oaks blueprint for
world charter in saying the as
sembly should be able to dis
cuss anything pertaining to inter
national relations instead of just
matters affecting international Sc
curity.
Gromyko's action projected a
possibility of delay at time when
leaders we're trying to spur the
conference into its greatest burst
d speed so it could complete the
charter a week from tomorrow.
The White House in Washington
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are set in a hundred yard semi
circle facing the grandstand, Lati-
mer said.
Each stage is a self-contained
unit with full theatre stage setting.
The terrific battle action which
opens the show. and continues in
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-16

it's various stages for an hour and
a half works up to a tremendous
climax. of actual explosion and
grnfire.
During the battle, the function
OF each ASST service is depicted
in the foreground field Of action.
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WEATHER
eastern Standard Timel

Eastern Standard Time)
w.. 'by U. s. Weather Bureau)
ns' Astrological data for the "a hours
s Gs0 p. M, yesterday.
Ia, Temperature
Tan am, "a; 7:30 am, IS; 1870 pm, 81;
Maxim MAXIMUM SO; Minimum 70; Mean 81;
,,o Humidity
Ian s'v am %; 1870 am. "a; 1870 pm, 60;
H., Precipitation
Ion W. tor the "a hours ending 1880 pm,
b, 49, 4. since the first Of the month,
fr,. Tides For Today
LIN the Tide Tables published by
eoast and Geodetic Survey
Eil,:. High Low
''ie'on ----- Elsa 9:42a
-N,,., .:55p 9:58p
oAooro Inlet --- 12:14a 6:3la
su,n.. 12:56p 6:47p
il:is, u 500; Sunset 7:25; Moonriss
p;'' Moonset -.
IN, II rage al Fayetteville at 8 am,
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Many Wilmington Plants
Hit By Sugar Shortages

cake and long the favore refreshments of
the production of which has been reduced
steadily beginning will suffer another blow in
starting july according to
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Continued on Page Three; Col. .
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