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MARTIN B0RMANN
IN ALLIED HANDS

LONDON, Aug. 31-(P)-The Rus
sian-controlled Berlin radio report
ed without amplification tonight
that Martin Bormann, Adolf Hit
ler's chief deputy in the Nazi party
who faces war crimes charges, lis
in Allied hands,"
The terse announcement did not
say exactly where Bormann was
or what official announced his az
rest.
A few hours before the broadcast,
Associated Press Correspondent
Charles Chamberlain reported
from Field Marshal Sir Bernard
L. Montgomery's Hamburg head
quarters that British military cir
Giles believe that if he Germany
is prisoner he is in the Russian
zone"
Chamberlain said the Nazi lead
er, once reported to have died at
Hitler's side in the ruins of the
Reichschancellery in Berlin, had
been seen in a Hamburg suburb
on the night of May l by an anti
Nazi German physician who had
been acquainted with him..
The fact that Bromann' S name
appeared on the first list of Nazis
to be tried as war criminals at
Nuremberg next month has lied
to the assumption that he is in
Allied hands, Chamberlain said.
Bormann rose to the position of
Hitler's right-hand man after Ru-
dolph Hess made his historic flight
to Britain in 1911.
When tn Russians crushed
Berlin last May, first reports said
the short, stocky. square jowled
and cropped-haired party stalwart
had died with his defeated leader
Subsequently there came mul.
tltude of reports-followed by de.
nlals-that Bormann has been can
tured.
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GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
OF UNITED NATIONS
TO MEET IN 1916


LONDON, Aug. 31.-(R>--Dr. v.
X. Wellington Koo, Chinese Am.
bassador to Britain, said today
that the early part of next yea,
was the first possible date for the
opening of the United Nation Gen
eri Assembly.
Cr. Koo is temporary chairman of
a committee making preparations
tt' get the United Nations set up
LOT business. United States dele
gate Edward R. Stettinius is ex-
pected to take part in sub-commit
tee meetings next week.
DR.. Koo discussed the organiza
tlop at the first press conference
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Tokyo Rose Had Helpers
According To .Ne1usmen

enemy, she was present in the Jeep
as guide. ",H&
Twenty-Five year-old Masuko Sato
wouldn't admit she was Tokyo Rose
= the girl with the silken radio
voice who propagandized and en-
tertained U. S. troops in the Pac-
ific. But she said she knew a couple
of girls whe were. and they were
both from Los Angeles. So
She identified one of them as Iva
Toguri, who came to Japan in July,
1871, and the other as Ruth Haya-
kaw; who has been here long
time are Nisei Americans.
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JAP RADIO LAYS
SERIOUS CHARGES
BY ROGER JOHNSON

OAAsSN ACSS StdtA Correspondent
= SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 31-The
japanese radio. operating much
the same as 5efore Allied occupa.
ton, today broadcast steady
stream of propaganda, charging
that U. S. sailors had criminally
assaulted Japanese women and re.
questing that Allied planes drop
supplies to war prisoner camps
more carefully.
One broadcast recorded by Unit.
ed Press asserted tina. two Ameri-
can sailors had assaulted the IS.
year-old wife and 17-year-old
daughter of a Yokosuka chauffeur
Eat the point of a revolver" II
claimed that two other sailors as.
saulted maid at another Yoke.
suka house, committing "the out.
rageous acts under pretext of .
search for arms
1t was not known whether the
broadcasts had been censored by
the occupation forces, but they fol.
lowed closely the propaganda lines
Tokyo has laid down throughout
the war. Many Tokyo radio chan
nels were reported taken over by
the U. S. Signal Corps yesterday
but other broadcasts were devoted
entirely to Japan's version of the
news.
GA dispatch from United Press
correspondent James McGlincy in
Tokyo said that Radio Tokyo was
guarded by Japanese sentries and
that japanese officials said the
American Army had made no ar.
rangements to take over the sta
tion)
The Japanese also asked Gen.
Douglas Macarthur to inform Sow
let authorities Immediately to sus-
pend their unlawful acts detain-
ing local government officials Tin
Korea. and promptly release
those officials already interned by
the Red Army" The broadcast
said the Russians ;nterned the Gov.
ernor OF Kanando prefecture and
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US, NOT SEEKING
PAPER CONTRACTS
BY r. H. SHACKFORD
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press SbdIf correspondent
WASHINGTON, Aug. 81 U.D -
Secretary of State James F..
Byrnes said tonight that, in the
settlement of lend-lease, the Unit
ed States will not seek paper con-
tracts TO pay dollars which will
not be available to our debtors. :"
But he added in a formal state
ment that that does not mean that
no lend-leased settlements will be
negotiated.
He repeated the recent state
ment of President Truman that the
purpose of lend-lease was to win
the war and to win the peace. Mr..
Truman indicated that the United
States already had received the
bulk of It's payment for lend-lease
in victory and indicated in his re-
port to Congress this week that
the Overwhelming portion of
lend lease obligations would be
written off the books.
The Presidents report said that
any attempt to add the $4,000
100000 Of lend-lease to the other
enormous financial obligations of
The Allies would "sew the seeds
Of new confiagration.'
Both President Roosevelt, a n d
President Truman as well as the
House and Senate Foreign Rela-
lions committee had stated for
;aany months in their reports on
lend-lease that the money costs OF
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WOMAN GIVES CANINE
COMPANION CREDIT
FOR SAVING HER LIFE

STANLEY, N D., Aug. '31.-P)-
Mrs. Lena Molzhon, e, today
credited her dog with twice saving
her life when she was attacked by
COW with newborn calf Tues
Gay afternoon.
Mrs. Molzhon said the dog drove
the enraged COW away after it had
knocked her down, breaking her
hip and dislocating her shoulder.
Then, said Mrs. Molzhon, the
dog lay down close beside her anJ
Kept her warm Throughout the
night. Mrs. Molzhon was found ly
ing in the pasture, the dog still
close beside her, % hours later by
son-in-laW.
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Boy Called Incurable
To Haze One Large Day

has been going down before a
sister, to the disease that took
Lou Gehrig, the pride of the Yam
KEGS, - muscular dystrophy. His
arm and leg muscles are wasting
away and he cannot walk. An ap.
peal was made a few days ago
for stroller" in which ne could
be taken to the beach, and his
story came to light.
Jerry hasn't seen his father for
three years, and he and his notify
think the day will lack only one
thing-Sgt. Frank J. Wrinn will be
in Czechoslovakie with the 144th
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Tokyo Out Of Bounds
To Occupation Forces

NEW YORK, Aug. 31.-The BIC
SAID tonight in a broadcast
molntored by NBC that ''Tokyo has
oeen placed out of bounds to the
american occupation troops at the
suggestion of japanese officials.
The japanese officials have ex-
planned that they offered the sug
gestlon for the security of the
american troops" the broadcast
said.
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By RICHARD w. JOHNSON
limited Press Staff Correspondent

United Press SLaTf Correspondent
YOKOHAMA, Aug. 81 - W.R -
Tokyo Rose was several girls.
1 have spent slightly delirious
afternoon Jeeping around Yokoha-
ma with a pretty graduate ct the
Los Angeles Business College who
may have been one of them.
She was a rose by another name,
in any event, and she looked pretty
and sweet = especially in contrast
to some of the Japs I've met on
certain Pacific islands during the
last couple of years.
In case there is any question
about "fraternizing'' with the
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-01
BY RICHARD C. GLASS

O1HCcU I1CSS 0td11 VU11oSPO1I"CHs
MIAMI BEACH, FLA, Aug. 81
-W.H-Little Jerry Wrinn will have
the kind of day mil1ionaires dream
about tomorrow, although he's
doomed to die before he's II and
won't be able to tell his thanks.
The eight year old boy whose
father has been at war for thb,e
years is getting the full treatment
at the rich mans playground
Roney Plaza Hotel here. From the
time they carry him from a taxi.
cab at the door, whatever Jerry
wants is his.
For two and a half years Jerry
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BULLETIN

CHARLOTTE, Aug. 31.-P1-
Trenton, N. j., scoring seven runs
in the last four innings, eliminated
Oak Park, Ill, from the national
finals tournament of American
Legion Junior baseball here to.
night, 8 to l. Trenton and Shelby,
N. c., will meet tomorrow night
in the tournament finals.
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WEATHER

eastern Standard Tine)
=, 'by |. S. Weather Bureau)
ar me'e9- 'loglcal data for the "a hours
''s :5V pm, yesterday.
10. Temperature
i'm l'o am. 70; 7 30 am. rs; 1870 pm g.;
Ky pm. 70.
maximum 86 Minimum 70; Mean 49,;
Humidity
,55c,'o am IS; 7 80 am. IS; 80 pm. So;
Precipitation
N0 M ID; "a; for "a hours ending 1880 pm
$50 inches. ~ III - Vi '''e n'o''N
H. Tides For Today
E ra the Tide Tables published by U.
00eSI ana Geededtc Survey.
Wlroi,, High Low
wilmington 49, 500 am. 1905 am.
Masonh SAB pm. 1917 pm
'0foort Inlet - 3:16 am. 1923 am
Smart. $3.50 pm. 1916 pm
~ 'ullrlse 5:46; Sunset 6:38; Moonrise
E F., an: Moonset 1874 pm.
eSeueVlile River stage 1872.
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List OF Signers
OF Surrender Csrms

TOKYO, Saturdg a. = -
W.R-Signers Of s o. -
surrender tomory - - o.
battleship Miss s. 80 70
bay as announ . q & ~:
For the ? = as
Douglas M =
For the 3 Adm.
Chester w..
Great Brita.- ADM Sir
Bruce Fraser. saV
France - Gen. Jacques LIE
Clero.
Russia -. 1t. Gen. Kuzma
Nikolaevech Derevyanko.
China-Gen. Hsu Yung-ching.
Holland-Lt. Gen L. H. Van
Oyen.
Australia-Gen. Sir Thomas
Blamey. =.
Japan, according to Japanese
Foreign Office spokesman:
Premier Gen. Prince Naru-
hike Hisashi-Kuni.
Representatives of Imperial
Army and Navy.
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FORECAST

For North Carolina - Saturday fair.
highest temperature about 80 degrees.
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RussO-POlish Treaty

This new treaty Russia has made with the
Warsaw Provisional Government by which the
two nations pledge friendship, mutual aid and
postwar collaboration proves that Stain pro-
poses to dominate eastern Europe exclusively
and in his own way. What its effect will be
on the proceedings of the San Francisco Sc
curity Conference cannot be clearly foreseen,
but it may be explosive.
Great Britain and the United States have
not recognized the Warsaw Provisional Gov
eminent of Poland, but have stood out for
inclusion of the Polish Government in Exile
at London in any regime to be set up at
Warsaw.
If Washington and London back down it
will be a sign that Stain has more power
than Britain and America unitedly have and
will exercise the dominating influence in post
war Europe.
The Russo-Polish treaty is daring step
by Stain.
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Movement Must Go On

The County Board of Commissioners has
refused to call an election for a junior col
lege, for which an enabling act was approved
by the recent Legislature, but the movement
must not be allowed to die for that reason.
A junior college is too important in the fur
Their educational and cultural development of
Wilmington and all southeastern North Caro-
lima.
The Board of Education, which sponsored the
bill introduced and put through the Legisla.
ture by Rep. ]. @. LeGrand. may be expected
to carry on, and it is hoped that the public
will get solidly behind the project so that
the Board of County Commissioners, seeing
the wide sentiment for the college, will re-
consider its action of Monday and order the
election.
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A Complex Problem

The city election scheduled for May 8. in
which new Council will be chosen, will also
be run-off election to determine which OF
two candidates who failed to secure the nee
essary votes in Mondays poll will join the
other four who were selected and join them
on the Council
That there may be no confusion among
the voters on May it is to be said that
while six names will appear on the ballots
only five can be elected To vote for six
would void the vote
At the top of the ballot will be four names
james E. L. Wade, Ronald w. Lane, Rob-
ert S. LeGwin and w. E. Yopp. These candi-
dates came through with flying colors in the
Monday primary To all intents and purposes
they are on the Council for the next two
years The May election is but formality
by which they will be advanced from nomi-
nees to office holders.
The other two names appearing lower on
the ballot and separated from this group,
are Robert R. Romeo and Garland S. Curtin.
They failed to receive enough votes Monday
to be &C -edited nominees. BY virture of run
ming next below the successful four, they are
entitled to a run-off.
Be str to vote for only one of them
Wilmington. voters are to be congratulated
for turning out on Monday in such large
numbers despite the inclement weather. The
total was larger than in any previous pri-
mary since the new form of city government
was instituted. Let us hope it indicates an
awakening to political responsibilities among
privilege and duty OF voting in municipal
elections.
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Jefferson And Truman

/, The Greensboro Record notes that in these
first Jew days of President Truman's admins
tration the game of analogies" is already off
to head start. He is compared with JEFF
ferson, for example, because OF his talent
as a pianist. Jefferson was an accomplished
violinist. Thus they are alike in musical ac-
complishment.
And the Record cites the st. Louis Post
Dispatch which points out that Jefferson also
walked to and from the Capitol Mr.. Truman
has given the Secret Service men assigned tc
protect him fits and commissions trying to keep
up with him.
These comparisons are interesting, but there
is one attribute of jefferson which we doubt
the keenest search will duplicate in Mr.
Truman. Jefferson had an inventive soul ano
we are indebted to him for the swivel chair
without which no office Is complete.
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ny ERNIE PYLE

OKINAWA- (by Navy radlo) -
It's marvellous to see bunch OF
American troops go about making
themselves at home wherever they
get q chance to settle down for a
few days.
My company of First Division
marines dug in at the edge OF a
bomb shattered village. The village
was quaint and not without charm.
Twas astonished at the similarity
with the villages of Sicily and
Italy.
The town didn't really seem ORR
entail. The houses were wooden one
story buildings, surrounded by lit.
tie vegetable gardens. Instead OF
fences each lot was divided by
rows of shrubs or trees. The cob.
blestoned streets were just wide
enough for jeep. They were wind
ing and walled on both sides by
head-high stone walls.
A good part of the town lay
shattered. Scores of the houses had
burned and only ashes and red
roofing tile were left. Wandering
around, 1 counted the bodies Of
four Okinawans still in the streets
Otherwise the town was deserted
The people have fled to their
caves in the hillsides, taking most
of their personal belongings with
them. There is almost no furniture
m japanese houses, so they didn't
have to worry about that.
After a few days the grapevine
carried the word to them that we
were treating them well so the,
began to come out in droves ano
give themselves up. I heard one
story about a hundred Okinaws
civilians who had Jap soldier
among them, and when they real
lied the atrocity stories he had
told them about the Americans
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Clean The Plate

Persons who eat at restaurants complain
that the variety of food is dwndling and por-
tons shriveling While their complaint is JUST.
fled, it may be noted by inqusitive observ.
ers that by over-ordering or ordering what
they do not like many persons leave consid-
cradle food on their plates which goes into
the garbage can and is sheer waste
And while this is going on millions Of peo-
pie throughout the world are starving-scrap-
ing cutters for scraps and seldom finding
them.
Without relieving the Office of Price Ad-
ministration of an iota Of it's responsibility
for the scarity of food it is still true that
we are a wasteful people.
The Army has rule in its training reser-
vations 1t may only be practice and not
an actual rule at all, but it does as well.
The soldier must eat everything on his plate.
If he fails to do so, the sergeant in charge
of the company mess calls him back and
secs to it that he does. Lining up for his
next meal the recruit is not likely to ask
for more than he can comfortably consume
and enjoy.
The same practice should be in effect in
all public eating places. When ordering your
next meal at restaurant, do your part by
cutting the meal to your capacity. Maybe
if everybody does the same thing there will
be fewer starving people in the world
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The Literary Guidepost

Fry's home for time included
Antoine de St. Exupery's wife,
Kay Boyle, Peggy Guggenheim.
Among those whose lives were
forfeit because they didn't reach
a haven in this country was the
Partisan journalist Charles Wolff
who was to succumb to tortures
inflicted by the French Fascist
militia.
The book is written without
flourishes, with little philosophiz-
ing; perhaps Fry could not prop
erly stand aside and praise his
committee and himself. But the
critic is free to. This volume, to
me, is an encouraging and inspir-
ing record of a noble democratic
effort.
The experiment was undertak-
en-, it should be noted, by the peo-
pie. The government, in particu-
lar the State Department, had
nothing to do with it. Fry says
the department took 'the attitude
that l should 60 home, and the
(Vichy) embassy cooperated with
the French police in bringing pres
sure on me to CO."
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were untrue, our MPs had to step
in to keep them from beating him.

were untrue, our MPs had to step
in to keep them from beating him.
Our company commander picked
out a nice little house on a rise at
the edge of town for his command
post.
The house was very light, fairly
clean, and the floors were covered
with woven straw mats. A couple
of officers and a dozen men moved
into the house and slept on the floor
and we cooked our rations over an
open stone cookstove in the rear.
Then the word went around for
the men of the company to dig in
for several days. Two platoons
were assigned to dig in along the
outer sides of the nearby hills for
perimeter defense.
| The boys were told they could
keep the horses they had com
Wandered, that they could carry
wooden panels out of the houses to
make little Lighthouses for them
selves, but not to take anything
else, and that they could have
fires, except during air alerts.
They weren't to start their daily
mop-up patrols in the brush until
the next day, so they had the after
noon off to clean themselves up
and fix up their little houses.
Different men did different
things. Some built elaborate houses
about the size Of chicken houes,
with floor mats and chairs and
even kerosene lanterns hanging
from the roof.
One Mexican boy dug a hole,
covered it with boards, and then
camouflaged it so perfectly with
brush you really couldn't see it.
Some spent the afternoon taking
baths and washing clothes in the
river. Some rode bicycles around
town. Some rode their horses UP
and down. Some foraged around
| town through the deserted houses.
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LIGHTS Go On In England

The blackout in England, instituted on Sep
TENDER l, 1889, when Germany attacked 70
land is lifted at last, save for a five-mlle
coastal strip The light on Big Ben shines
again. Britons may once more light up their
home without drawing black curtains at all
windows and outer doors.
We in America can't realize what this
means to the people of England. We had
our blackouts, and grun1bled at them, even
disobeyed them shamefully, but the war was
so far away and the chance of enemy attack
ca slim the whole proceeding had little mean
ing for most of us.
But for the English blackouts meant the
difference between life and death. The Lutt-
waite was coming over nightly. Their only
hope of escape was to keep their towns and
cities so dark enemy planes could not spot
their detectives, for though the Royal Air
Force performed wonders of defense it could
not prevent some planes breaking through
and leaving death and destruction in their
wake.
Coventry. London, hardly a city in Eng
land escaped the terrible toll levied by the
Luftwaffe during the period Hitler and Goer-
ing believed they could bring England to its
knees by air attack.
Now it is all past. Hitler is beaten. Ger
many is a defeated nation. The cruel danger
of night attacks by buzz bombs has largely
been overcome. England is safe again, even
at night And the lights 60 on.
Certainly no better morale builder could e
found, unless it might be to parade Hitler
through the streets at the end of chain
dressed in monkey clothes and holding cup
with hand organ furnishing the music.
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Kour War; With Ernie Pyle

Some went looking for chickens to
cook. Some sat in groups and talk
ed. Some just slept.
An order went out against wear
ing Jap clothing or eating any OF
the local vegetables, pork, goat,
beef or fowl. But this was before
the order came out.
The marines had dug up lots OF
japanese kimonos out of the
smashed houses and put them on
while washing their one set Of
clothes. If you ever want to see q
funny sight, just take look at a
few dozen dirty and unshaven ma.
rines walking around in pink AND
blue women's kimonos.
A typical example was Pvt. Ray.
mond Adams of Fleason, Tenn. He
had fixed himself a dugout right
on the edge of a bluff above the
river. He had a grand view and g
nice little grassy front yard. Ou'
there he had driven stakes ano
built a fire. He hung his helme'
over the fires like kettle and was
stewing chicken. He had taken Of
his clothes and put on a beautiful
pink and white kimono.
Later a friend came along with
Jap bicycle with one pedal off
aand Adams tried without much
success to ride it up and down e
nearby lane.
If there ever is a war play abou
marines I hope they include ont
tough-looking private in pink
and-white kimono, steWing CHECKER
and trying to ride one pedallee
bicycle through a shattered Japa
nese village.
Private Adams is married ane
has a boy eight-months old he ha!
never seen. If the baby could have
seen his father that day he would
probably have got the collie from
LAUGHING so much.