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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-30
FRENCH GENERAL
GOING TO SAIGON
Allies Criticized Because
OF Small Number OF
Men In Indo-China

Sept. 29.-lR-The for
eign office announced today that
Gen. Jacques Leclerc would pro.
coed from his headquarters in In
dia to take command of French
forces in Saigon, Indo-C China, where
''the presence of high French
official is needed
Gen. De Gaulle cabled the or
der to Leclerc last night, after
Minister of Colonies Paul Giacobbi
had criticized at a cabinet meet
ing the small number of Allied
troops in Indo-China, which has
been the scene of Annamite dis
orders.
De Gaulle was said to have re-
ceived assurances from Leclerc at
Rangoon and Admiral Thierry
D'Argenlieu, high commissioner
for Indio-C China" at Handy that
calm had returned to Saigon.
Giacobbi attributed unrest in
1ndochina to the freedom of &C
ton still displayed by the Japa-
nese, as a result of the small num-
Der of Allied troops" on the scene.
(. Allied forces will be bolstered
soon with arrival of French di-
vision from Marseille. In addition,
900 airborne reinforcements were
summoned several days ago by
British Gen. G. D. Gracey.
The battleship Richelieu, en-
route to Indochina to cover land.
ings of French troops, struck a
mine today in the straits of Ma.
lacca, but damage was minor, the
Navy ministry said the ship con
tinued without assistance. The
Navy said there were no casual.
ties.
Meanwhile, some French official
circles expressed dissatisfaction
with the behavior of Chinese
troops in their occupation zone.
These sources said 10000 Chinese
troops had entered Laos and were
taking over the civil administra-
ton, whereas we have the ad-
rninistrative personnel there per.
fectly capable of doing it,
TIGHTEN CONTROL
q HANOI, Indochina, Sept. &c.
(DelayeO-lR-Chinese military
forces clamped complete control
on the northern part of political
ly-boiling 1ndochina today, after
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-30
TIGHTEN CONTROL

2 HANOI, Indochina, Sept. 3d.
(Delaye0-(R-Chinese military
forces ciamped complete control
on the northern part of political
ly-boiling 1ndochina today, after
the japanese formally surrender
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-21
Efforts To Compromise
With Southern Senators
On FEPC All But Fails

WASHINGTON, May 20. -((A0-
Efforts all but collapsed today to
work out some compromise, ac-
ceptable to southern Senators, on
Legislation for a permanent post
war Fair Employment Practices
Commission.
Senator Pepper (D-Fla) still was
pursuing the possibility but Sena-
tor Ellender D-La said he had
given up.
'I don't believe it will be pos
sible to get together on anything
acceptable Ellender told report
ers. 1.-THE committee as whole
apparently doesn't want any bill
without a full set OF teeth IN 1t.
The education and labor com
mittee has bill by Senator Cha
vez (D-NM) and six others to
create a permanent FEPC en-
powered to issue prohibitions
against job discrimination because
origin, or ancestry. The commits
sion could apply to federal courts
for enforcement of its orders.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-21
Enemy Warship
Reported Sunk

LONDON, Monday, May 21.-(H
"A Southeast Asia Command COM
munique received here today an-
nounced that the sinking OF .
Japanese cruiser Of the 10,000-ton
Matt class in Malacca straits the
night Of May IS was accomplish
ed at the cost of two dead and three
wounded aboard the British de-
stroyer Saumarez.
Japanese destroyer was damaged
in the same engagement.
The British admiralty had an
nounced the action Friday, saying
that aircraft from the British car
rier Shah first hit the enemy cruis.
er and that five dest-oyers follow.
ed up the strike and sank her with
torpedoes.
Besides the Saumarez, destroyers
III the action were the Venus, Wig.
liant, Virago and Verulam.
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Army Takes Control
Of Gastonia Plant
On Truman's Order

GASTONIA, May 20.-(P)-By ex-
ecutive order of President Tru-
man, the Army today at 2 p. m.
took over the plant of the Cocker
Machine and Foundry Co., here,
which has been tied up by strike
since last January because of la
Dor disputes.
Pursuant to the order, the Army
took possession Of the facilities of
the plant and the order directs the
military authorities to operate or
organize for operation, as deemed
necessary. for the successful prose-
cution of the war.
Capt. Benjamin P. Anderson Of
the quartermaster generals depart
ment, arrived here as represent
alive of the War Department and
will direct the procedure.
The Cocker plants, makers of
textile machinery needed in tire
production, were closed in January
because of two labor disputes.
Some points have been agreed on,
but one is yet in dispute and in
wolves compulsory company main
tenance of union membership.
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Min ers Return
To Work Today

WILKES-BARRE, Pa, May 20.
-W.R-District union officials said
tonight that Pennsylvania $4,000
anthracite miners will return to
work tomorrow in compliance
with a request by John L. Lewis,
United Mine Workers president,
to end work stoppage which cost
an estimated 100000 tons of coal.
Lewis asked the miners to re-
turn to their jobs after reaching
an agreement with anthracite op-
orators on new wage-hour con-
tract in Washington yesterday.
The contract provides for a
$1.37 IL daily wage increase.
Michael Kosik, district l pres
ident, predicted large turnout
tomorrow, but said full produc-
ton would not be attained until
Tuesday. He reported that some
locals received back-to-work no
tees too late to enable them to
schedule meetings for the miners
to vote officially to return. A
survey indicated the miners were
anxious to resume production.
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U. S. SHIPS NEAR
KUYSHU, JAPS SAY
1nvasion-Jittery Enemy Re-
port Navy Up To Some
Scheme

WASHINGTON, May 2o.-W.D-
Tokyo reported today that new
U. S. Navy task force was on the
prowl in the. Western Pacific and
that it appeared the. Americans
were "up to some new scheme.
The invasion-Jittery enemy, reel
ing under mounting blows by BIG
Superfortresses and carrier planes,
said the new force appeared to be
attempting to approach Kyushu,
southernmost of the Japanese main
land chain which has been under
almost constant air attack for more
than month.
Tokyo said, however, that it
could not as yet predict what
course the enemy fleet will take"
the broadcast, heard by the FEC,
said it was the same task force
which Tokyo reported Friday had
left bases in the Marianas islands
last Sunday or Monday. Kyushu is
approximately 1,500 miles north
west Of the Ma-ianas, where Adm,
Chester W. Ninitz has his U. S.
Pacific fleet headquarters.
Tokyo did not specify whether
the approaching force was purely
raiding group of aircraft carriers
and other warships, or one includ-
ing both warships and transports.
The enemy indicated the new
force was in addition to one which
Adm. Nimitz announced has been
operating off southern Japan dur
ing the past week. Nimitz last
week announced that carrier planes
attacking Kyushu and Shikoku May
12-13-14 had destroyed or damaged
357 Japanese planes in the air and
ground.
His Sunday war bulletin from
Guam reported that carrier planes
had swept the northern Ryukyu
islands, south of Kyushu Thursday
and Friday, sinking number OF
luggers and small craft.
Tokyo, taking note of those at
tacks, said: sin view of the north
ward strike of enemy warships
May 10 and IA, coupled with the
fact that the enemy task force
is again on the prowl after leaving
it's Marianas bases, we can sur
mise that the enemy is up to some
new scheme. The enemy armada
appears to be attempting to ap-
proach Kyushu but we cannot as
yet predict what course the enemy
fleet will take
Other Japanese broadcasts heard
by the FEC meanwhile reported
that a force of 80 B-29 Superfort-
resses had attacked the Tokyo area
Sunday Japanese time) and that
other U. S. bombers had hit Man.
king, capital Of the Japanese-con-
trolled Chinese government, and
continued attacks against japanese
shipping off southern Korea.
The japanese radio at Hsinking
in occupied Nancuuria said that
according to a report from Tokyo,
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-21
CHINESE CAPTURE
MIN RIVER PORT
Japanese Flee By Land
And Sea From Vital
Foochow Area

CHUNGING, May 90 Up "A
second east coast port has been
seized by Chinese troops in pursuit
of Japanese fleeing by land and
sea from the vital FoochoW area,
the high command announced to.
day.
Approximately 200 enemy troops
who tried to make stand were
moved down as the Chinese storm.
ed yesterday into Diongloh, a
smaller Min river port Is miles
southeast of Foochow, the an
nouncement said.
The Chinese drove on three miles
east and also were heading north
east in an attempt to pin the Japa-
nese against the sea.
Across the Min river other Chi
nese forces broke Japanese resist
ance and were nearing Mamoi,
eight miles east of Foochow and
one of half dozen points in the
area which the enemy had forti-
fled against an American invasion.
These latest successes tended to
bolster rumors in Chungking that
the Japanese were pulling out of
numerous coastal positions all the
way from Hangchow bay $50 miles
southwestward to Hongkong, fear
ing they would be turned into
pockets of death with an American
landing.
Continued On Page Two; Col, A.
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land Thursday, has opened the
highway from Novaiches to the
dam, which supplies one-third of
Manila's water needs.
F'ilipion guerrilla units have
landed at Dinahican Point six
miles from Infanta, on the Luzon
east central coast, and pushed
seven miles northward in move
to catch the Japanese from the
rear.
Australians continued the mop
up OF japanese troops on Tarakan,
island Dutch Borneo, while heavy
and medium bombers blasted Nip
ponese installations at Kudat, Sibu
and Bintulu on Bornea.
Australian captors of Wewak,
on northeastern New Guinea, en-
gagged Japanese troops at the edge
OF the Boram airfield and cleared
Brandt plantation, three and one
half miles to the east.
One of the largest Japanese
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: the American standard of living
The factories, for the most part
are waiting only for arrival of the
date upon which WPB has prom.
ised pool of uncontrolled steel
copper and aluminium.
Some notable gaps still appear in
the industrial automobiles
stoves, radios and few other ele.
ments prominent in the peacetime
pattern of life.
But WPB has indicated its will.
ingness to let even some of the
biggest metal users - automobiles
and refrigerators, for example
ct rolling in the last half of the
year.
The motor makers want to build
100000 passover cars in 1915 and
WPB calls this "pretty good ap-
proach' although unable to guar
antee materials and unwilling so
far to set starting date. But re-
frigerators are so badly needed
that WPB will grant priority help to
get 100000 built between July and
December-one third the pre-war
production rate.
For the industries already re-
leased, ranging from airliners and
typewriters to juke boxes and chill
dren's toys, the production ceiling
will be limited after July / only by
the amount of materials left over
from munitions production for the
Japanese war.
Most Of them have set their ulti-
mate production SHIFTS higher than
in any peacetime year. The refrig-
orator industry hopes to hit rate
OF $37O,000, 900 annually against
$3.50, 100000 in peak 1871, but cal
culates it will take IL months to
get there. Other industries have
set up similar lofty targets, count
in on pent-up consumer demand
for new records in employment and
sales.
Exactly 1876 orders and regula-
tons, affecting at least as many
different industries, have been re-
voked by WWPB. The agency be-
gan dropping controls a few days
before We Day and will shed
more than 200 in all, before slow
ing down.
When WPB wiped off its books
famed order ''M-126" last week, it
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-21
SOUTH IS ELATED
AT RATE VICTORY
ice Winds Up With Com
plete OverhauEng OF
Present Plan

WASHINGTON, May 20.-4R-
The South's political leaders jubi.
lated today over the successful
end of their long fight for ''parity'
in the class rates which are the
base frame work of the freight
rate structure.
They viewed a far-rea ching
Interstate Commerce Commission
decision as removing "a domestic
tariff WALL against the South and
the West, and predicted it would
pave the way for greater indus
trial development. Spokesman
for those areas long have con-
tended that higher class rates have
put their manufa curing enter
prises at a disadvantage in COM
petition with the east.
Winding up an investigation
which it launched in July, 1889, the
ICC yesterday ordered complete
overhauling of the present jig
saw "class'' rate structure and
pending this:
l. A 10 per cent rate reduction
in all parts of the country except
in the east and the far west, eff
fective August 30.
2. A 10 pei cent rate increase
in the East, effective at the same
time.
Rates will remain unchanged
west of the Rocky Mountains,
where no petition for revision was
filed.
However, the commission also
ordered nationwide application,
covering the Far West too, Of a
uniform classification system, so
that an article will fall in the
same rate category no matter
where it is shipped. Under the
present set-up, for instance, a
might fall in nigh
rate class in one part of the coun-
try, lower and less costly rate
in another section, and still a
third rate if moved from one ter
ritory to the other.
The commission conceded this
change will be long and tedious
task, possibly taking years.
The temporary rate adjustment,
the ice said, will greatly reduce
the difference in the levels of the
class rates in the various terri
tories, and bring to minimum
the "undue prejudice" which it
found to exist.
When the job is finally done,
much of the present completely
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-21
%,Slo POUNDS
OF PAPER GIVEN
Junior Chamber OF Com
merce Reports Second
Largest Drive

The second largest scrap paper
drive to be held in New Hanover
county was staged yesterday by
the Wilmington Junior Chamber of
Commerce, it was announced last
night. The canvass Melted 94,810
pounds of waste paper, urgently
needed as a vital war material.
Although the drive was 1880
pounds short of the amount col
lected in the February 4, waste
paper collection, the total was the
largest per person, as the county's
population now is approximately
10000 compared with $4,000 in Feb
ruary, according to Walter J. Car
tier, of the Greater Chamber of
Commerce.
W. Elliot O'Neal, president of the
Jaycees, expressed appreciation to
the residents of Wilmington and
others of New Hanover county for
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-21
Federal En1ploye
Manager Talked

WASHINGTON, May 2o.-(R-
President Truman was reported
today to be very interested in
plan to name general mana
ger'' over all Federal employees.
The proposed special assistant
to the President would be charged
specific ally with achieving econ
ony and efficiency in the govern
ment's huge civil establishment.
The general manager would
have authority to override regular
agency heads on methods con-
corning procedure of operation
and handling of personnel, but
would not determine policy
The plan is one presented to
Mr.. Truman by Chairman Ram
speck (D-Ga.) of the House Civil
Service Committee, who has spe-
cialized for several years in Fed
eral employment problems. He
has authorized much of the pres
ent civil service legislation. -
s'Tl1e President is seriously con-
sidering the proposal and is very
interested in it," Ramspect told
reporter.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-21

that Yugoslav military control re
manned as tight as ever.
tUnconfirmed reports ~ reaching
Trieste said Tito's troops had
agreed to withdraw from the Kla-
genfurt area of Austria, another
disputed piece of territory. Gre.
dence was lent to the report by a
Belgrade. radio broadcast heard
in London which indicated a with.
drawal from Austrian Carinthia.
cThe broadcast quoted the Bel
grade newspaper "Borba" as say
ing: withdrawal of our troops
from Carinthia does not mean our
peoples will renounce their justi-
fled demand.")
AS another indication Of the cri-
teal situation created by Mar
shall Tito's rejection of Allied de-
mands to withdraw Yugoslav
troops from Trieste, British and
Americans were warned by their
embassies to avoid any action
which might cause personal clash
es.
The best opinion, however, indi-
Gated that any evacuation-which
apparently would take place on
ly if the situation reached the point
of open conflict-would be unnec-
cessary. Allied diplomats still are
hopeful Of finding a friendly soll1-
ton.
Evacuation plans came immedi-
ately on the heels of information
that Field Marshal Sir Harold Alex
ander had informed his command
in the Mediterranean theater in a
special message of the factors in
volved in the dispute and his reve-
lation that an agreement with Tito
had not been reached.
Despite the precautions, there
was no indication of an unfriendly
feeling against the two Allies in
the streets Of Belgrade. nor were
there reports of any such feeling
anywhere in Yugoslavia.
There was no official Yugoslav
reaction Immediately to British
Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexan-
der's message, which said that
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They found few vessels in the
waters once regarded by Japan
as her private sea.
MacArthur's communique said
Allied heavy and medium bombe-s
under his command dropped 286
tons of explosives on airbases, IN
dustrial plants and communications
in the fifth day of concentrated
attacks on Formosa. The japanese
who mounted most of their suicide
attacks from heavily-bombed south
ern Kyushu now are launching
some Of the planes from Formosa.
The planes hit ai~dromes at Tain
an, Taichu, ShichiAu and Koshur
starting fires which sent smoke up
to 1000 feet. Factories, rail lines
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-21
Special Allied Sleuths
Searching For Treasure
Stolen By Nazi Looters

WITH THE BRITISH SECOND
ARMY, May 90 R Supreme
Headquarters has sent special
sleuths throughout Germany to
track down art treasures valued
at 100000 stolen by cast
Nazi organization created for the
purpose of looting on an incredi-
BILE scale, it was disclosed today.
British Captain Felix Harbord,
member of the SHEAF's 12-man
commission Of monuments, fine
arts and archives" said much of
the loot has already been recov-
cred. Lists giving the location
of the hidden treasures, some of
it German art, have been found.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-21

totaling $1,000 tons, were destroy
ed in spectacular, 75-minutes at
tack, it was announced. The larg-
est ship, estimated at $500 to 1901
tons, was sunk when machinegui
bullets from the bomber set fire to
a deckload of gasoline.
Adm. Chester w. Nimitz an
nounced here that search planes
Of fleet arriving one sank medium
freighter, probably sank two small
freighte-s and damaged a number
of landing craft in the waters off
Korea-Japan's asiatic backdoor.
Carrier forces concentrated their
support on the Okinawa operation,
while shore-based planes searched
the Asiatic seas for good targets.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-21
TENTH MEETS FIERCE ENEMY
ASST BATTLES TO ENVELOPE
0KzNA WA FORTRESS OF SE1URI
Enemy Loses 369,818
In Philippines Drive

MANILA, Monday, May 2l.-lR
japanese casualties for the
seven-months Philippines cam
paign total 369,S1s killed and cap
tured, Gen. Douglas Macarthur
announced today.
The headquarters communique
said 1886 Nipponese dead had
been counted and 6O2 prisoners
taken in the past two weeks OF
action, mainly on Mindanao and
Luzon islands.
In the Mindanao fighting, where
American divisions have cut the
Japanese garrison into three seq
ments, the oath Division north of
Davao city advanced two miles
past the Sasa airdrome and en-
tered the town of Panacan.
The 31st Division in the interior
OF Mindanao pushed three miles
north along the central highway
to within II miles of Malabalay,
capital of Bukidnon province.
The 43rd Division, captor of Ipo
dam east of Manila on Luzon is
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-21
One Liberator Wipes Out Five-Ship Convoy

and roads were heavily damaged
in low altitude sweeps, while al
cohol plants were severely damag-
ed and a sugar refinery left burn
ing.
Othe- Macarthur planes ranging
over the China Sea scored direct
hits on three ocean going vessels
off Hong Kong, started fires in
the Japanese puppet capital Of
China, Marking, and bombed the
Tien Ho airdrome at Canton
The attacks were carried out
while final details Of the Super
fort strike against Hamamatsu
were awaited.
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Nazi Leaders Assets
Frozen By Government,
Except $50 Per Month

IN GERMANY, May 2o.-(P9)-
The American Military Govern
ment froze the financial assets of
Nazi leaders today and limited
them to $50 a month for living
expenses. ,Ts
Their safety deposit boxes were
sealed and institutions which yield
ed the Nazis income must make
future payments into the frozen
bank balances. ..< ..-t
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-21
Drought Reduces
output Of Food

Nv WASHINGTON, May 2o.-lRA
al aIe ra o1tice of Foreign Agricultur-
dro nela'lons reported today that
a tbo a11 have materially reduced
s b.s output of food in the southern
n nsaaIpere just at the time of
s'sa'est need in liberated Europe.
d,, "a SUBSTANTIAL reduction in pro
u uorti0n was reported for such ex-
A Ay,tr.g areas as Argentina, Brazil,
, roaa and South Africa. Eu.
t6a ~, normally takes the bulk of
tbers eAportable surplus of the SOU
drol PRESENT indications are that
raS usn' conditions will tend to
no raee = southern hemisphere ex-
f tyr,s o. u meats and dairy products
vesr i ), me high levels of recent
port S, the office said in a re-
duel on southern hemisphere pro-
cro OF the past season.
re5 dram supplies also have been
flonr t' particularly wheat and
T Iives from Australia and Wheat and and
tina ''0ek feed grains from Argen-
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GUAM, Monday, May 21.-u.D-
A single U. S. Navy Liberator wip-
ed out five ship japanese convoy
IS miles north of Formosa, while
other Army and Navy aircraft
pounded japanese positions on a
1,O0O-mile arc from the Kuriles to
Okinawa it was announced today
A communique from headquar-
ters of Gen. Douglas Macarthur at
Manila said the Liberator was on
patrol Friday night when it OBJ
served the convoy, believed carry
ing troops and supplies from Japan
to Keeling harbor at the northern
tip of the island.
The convoy of three freighter-
transports and two freighters,