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Evening star., 1945-04-07
Is Pct. Of Available
Warships Lost by
Japanese, Navy Says
BY WILLIAM ]. WHEATLEY.

A good Is per cent" of the
major combat force which the
japanese had available for sur
face battles has been placed out
of action in the tWo-day naval
air engagement in the East
China Sea so miles southwest OF
Kyushu, southernmost of the
japanese home islands. an Off
cial naval spokesman said today
He said the new losses left the
Japanese with a task force that
can be handled easily by any of
our major task forces. The enemy's
losses included six warships sunk
and three others left burning.
The remains of the rapidly dwind-
ling Jap fleet is being kept under
constant surveillance, he said. This
is made possible by the fact that
our air force is able to fly at will
all over the area and because of
the many submarines we now have
operating in the area. This sur
veillance undoubtedly was what led
to the discovery of the fast enemy
task force which was moving from
the Inland Sea into the East China
Sea, the spokesman said.
Composed of Fast Vessels.
Naval officials presume that the
Jap force was heading for an Of
fensive action since it was headed
by battleship and all of the other
ships were fast vessels.
The sinking of the battleship
See SPOKESMAN, Page AID
Evening star., 1945-04-07
Jap Fleet Admiral Kogo Captured by FiIipinos,
But Released, Dying, to Save Natives Lives

mumbled something about being a
general. But we got word who he
was and the Japs later confirmed it.
+. Anyway, we took our 10 prisoners
up into the mountains and started
to make it to headquarters. Koga
and three others were badly wound
ed. We had to carry them all the
way.
Immediately the Japs, who
learned the story from the two sur
vivors they had, started out after
us in force. 1t was slow going for us.
We had to carry these four little
patients and had to be doubly care
full to avoid any possible traps and
to conceal the presence of our
prisoners.
II guess we should have known
from the beginning we couldn't keep
Koga. The Japs had enough
strength to throw against us, 50
sooner or later they would catch us,
"But they took it out on the civil
ians. In following us they passed
through villages and barrios we had
left. They were absolutely ruthless
They tortured and killed innocent
people to gain information and
often killed apparently just as an
object lesson.
I'm one village they killed more
(see ADMIRAL, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1945-04-07
BY RICHARD BERGHOLZ,

assOSldlcu IlCSo war SOIIcopoHucHt.
CEBU. P. l., March 81 Delayed
Tokyo radio wasn't kidding when
it announced March that Admiral
Mineichi Koga, commander of the
combined Japanese fleet, was killed
in plane crash.
But Tokyo didn't mention that the
paunchy, balding admiral was cap
tured by Filipino guerrillas and re-
leased, dying man, only to stop
Japanese troops from numbering ma
tives en- masse.
The remarkable story of Koga's
last days were told to me here today
by 1t. Col. James Gushing of Dow
ney, Calf, who held him prisoner
and had to decide to trade Koga' S
life for the lives of innocent civilians.
Col. Cushing, a mining engineer
in the Philippines when the war
broke out, is the leader of Filipino
guerrillas on Cebu, officially cred
tied by Army sources with killing
more than 10000 Japanese.
When Admiral Koga's big trans
port plane crashed off the coast of
Cebu, the few people to get to the
wreck were Filipinos.
There were 27 passengers and
crew members on the plane" Col.
Cushing said. but only IL survived.
When they reached the beach the
Evening star., 1945-04-07
Court Upho|ds 1O-Yeor Term
F or SoIdier-Critic of President

Court held Callan had taken the
oath.
Callan, a native Of Ireland, was
naturalized in 1886. He was induct-
ed at Camp Upton, N. Y. He was
charged with making the remarks
in the presence of other inductees
there.
The Appellate Court said the SEN
tence did not exceed the punish
ment authorized by law.
The court said Callans remarks
included:
1.-The President of the United
States is dirty politician, whose
only interest is gaining power as a
politician and safeguarding the
wealth of Jews =.
president Roosevelt and his cap
italistic mongers are enslaving the
world by their actions in Europe and
Asia, by their system of exploit
ing -.
Japan, and Germany were justi-
fled in their war against the United
States"
Evening star., 1945-04-07
Russians Inch Ahead
Within 4 Miles Of
Center Of Vienna
Shock Troops RepuIse
Nuzi Counteruttucks
In Bitter Fighting
Ry the Associated Press.


LONDON, April 7.-Russian
veterans of Stalingrad and
Budapest, inching ahead against
the hastily reinforced defenders
of Vienna, battered their way
today to within four miles of St.
Stephan's Church in the middle
of the city.
Moscow announced that the Ger
mans not only were fighting for
every factory and stone building, but
also had thrown in a number of
counterattacks which were repelled
by Russian shock troops in bitter
fighting.
Soviet forces captured four
suburbs along the city line, cleared
the south bank of the Danube River
east of Vienna in 10-mile advance
and reached the Morava River bar
rier protecting the Austrian capitals
northeastern approaches on a 81
mile front.
The big aircraft assembly and
testing center of Schwechat and the
suburban communities of Alt
Kettenhof, Rothneusiedl and Han
nersdorf, all on or adjacent to
Vienna's southern boundary, were
taken by Marshal Feodor I. Tol-
bukhin's Sd Ukrainian Army.
Advancing swiftly from Bruck in
the Bratislava Gap, Marshal Rodion
Y. Malinovsky's I'd Ukrainian Army
drove into the twin industrial towns
of Fischamend-Markt and Fischa-
men-Dorf, IL and 13 miles southeast
of the heart of Vienna. -
A mass of armor from these two
Evening star., 1945-04-07
Suzuki Completes
His New Cabinet Amid
laundering Air Raid
BY the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. April T.
Japan's third war cabinet was
formed today amid the roar of
demolition bombs bursting in
Tokyo from the greatest land
based air raid ever mounted
against Japan.
The japanese Domei agency an
nounced that Premier Admiral
Baron Kantaro Suzuki appointed
himself foreign minister and Great
er East Asia minister, two of the
most important posts in the cabi-
net.
Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, was
retained as navy minister although
under his administration the i'm
perial navy suffered two disastrous
defeats in Philippine waters and
lost more than 100 admirals.
Gen. Korechika Anami, recently
appointed director general of army
aviation headquarters, was appoint
ed war minister. Both Yonai and
Anami had the blessing of the con-
trolling military cliques of their re-
spective services.
Baron Suzuki's retention of the
key nonmilitary posts recalled spec
ulation that, with his old-time
reputation as a moderate, he may
have been selected to lead efforts to
arrive at a negotiated peace. The
cabinet positions he kept for him
self are the ones that would be in
volved in any peace offensive.
Admiral Yonai was second man
(See CABINET, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1945-04-07
American Tanks
Now 10 Miles
From Hanover
British Near Bremen;
Nozis Report Bottle
On Sd Army Front
MAP on Page Az

Ry the Associated Press.
PAR rs, April T. American
tanks today struck to within 10
miles of Hanover in a breakout
from their WeSer River bridge
head, and British armor fought
less than IL miles from the great
port of Bremen.
Both Allied advances bearing
down on the great Northern Ger
man cities still were going strong
this afternoon.
The American 9th Army lashed
out from Hamelin on the Weser
and careened miles toward Han
mover population. 472,500. The
British plunge carried IS miles,
flanking Bremen (342,0OO) and hit
ting to within go miles of Hamburg
Germany's third city of 100000.
The German high command de-
clared a fierce battle was raging in
the American Sd Army territory east
of MuehlhauSen and within 100
miles or less of Berlin.
Report Unconfirmed.
The German-reported battle is
near the Eisleben area, where en-
emy broadcasts yesterday announced
air borne operations within 80 miles
of Berlin. Third Army correspond
ents said they were unable to con-
firm or deny the Eisleben sector
operations.
Canadian armored columns were
lunging through Holland, and al
ready were 10 miles from the Zuider
Zee and within 9 miles of cutting
the last German rail escape from the
big Western Holland cities.
Even as news of the latest swift
advances by American and British
armor was received, supreme Allied
headquarters advised correspondents
that the pace had so stretched COM
munications and kept operational
headquarters moving SO much that
considerable time lag had de-
veloped between reported positions
and actual advance points.
Allied forces bagged at least 40,094
prisoners yesterday. Reports were
not yet in from three of the nine
armies in the west.
Twin British Drives.
British tanks in twin drives
charged from Diepholz, 35 miles
southwest of Bremen, in a beeline
toward Hamburg. Armor reached an
unidentified point a dozen miles
from Bremen, and also Buecken, %
miles southeast of the tranS-At-
lantic port. Buecken is a mile and
a half from the Weser River. and
so miles from Hamburg at the mouth
of the Elbe, last natural barrier line
| left to the Germans short of Ber-
| lin.
To the south American 1st Army
troops pushed another miles
to point II miles east OF Kassel.
Other 1st and 9th Army forces slow
ly compressed holdings of the 10000
to 100000 Germans trapped in the
Ruhr.
The Canadian 1st Army drove
3 miles north of captured Coevor-
den into Dalen on the highway to
Groningen in Northern Holland.
They were 9 miles from the Ger
mans sole remaining railway link
ing with Amsterdam, Rotterdam,
The Hague and Utrecht.
To the east, other Canadians
fighting in Germany cleared Mep-
pen, 48 miles south of Emden, and
fought on at points IS miles from
the North Sea.
Southwest of these actions, Cana
Evening star., 1945-04-07
BY the Associated Press.

NEW ORLEANS. April IA &c.
year-old former soldier faces a 10
year Federal prison sentence on
charges of sedition and making re-
marks uncomplimentary to Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
The United States Circuit Court
of Appeals ordered the inductee,
Hugh Callan, remanded to the peni-
tentiary at Atlanta to start serving
the sentence.
The court dismissed yesterday a
habeas corpus ruling of a Georgia
Federal District Court setting aside
the sentence of an Army court-mar-
tial at Camp Blanding, Fla.
The court-martial gave Callan 20
years and the sentence later was
reduced to 10 by President Roose-
velt.
The lower court held the court
martial had no jurisdiction because
it was not proven Callan had taken
the induction oath. The Appellate
Evening star., 1945-04-07
0PA Asks S1,146,6O0
In Suit Here Against
Wholesale Meat Firm

The Office of Price Admins
tration today filed treble-dam-
age suit in Distrist Court against
Sam Seigel and Berry G. Wright,
described as partners in the
Wright Beef Co., wholesale meat
dealers, 1900 block Fourth street
NE, seeking $1,146,600. The
sum represents three times al
legged overcharges of 1882, 200.
In an affidavit filed in support
of the suit, Wright is charged with
having received s106 as side
money" The OPA claims the
method of overcharging was to bill
retailers at ceiling prices and later
require them to pay additional sums
in cash.
Wright was arrested several days
ago on a charge of selling meat at
above the ceiling price and hear
ing was set by United States Com
missioner Needham c. Turnage for
April 18. The suit filed today is a
ClVll CdSc.
Local OPA Enforcement Attorney
Carl w. Berueffy claimed that the
alleged overcharges by the whole
saler made it necessary for a re-
taller to overcharge about is cents
a pound in order to break even."
Mr.. Berueffy estimated that side
payments to the wholesaler may
have added as much as three-quar-
ters of a million dollars to the cost
of meat to consumers in the District.
The OPA said many retailers,
allegedly caught in the web of side
money payments, had preferred to
take loss on meat and had sold
to consumers at or near the ceiling
prices.
Filing the suit with Mr.. Berueffy
were Assistant Enforcement Attor-
neys j. Grahame Walker and F. l..
will op,cor
Evening star., 1945-04-07
; Missing, Cook Escapes
When TrawIer Blows Up
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
BLOCK ISLAND, R. l.. April T.
Three fishermen were missing and
presumed killed and a fourth was
injured seriously yesterday when the
trawler Nathaniel B. Palmer, out of
Stonington, Conn, was blown to bits
in an unexplained explosion.
The only survivor was the ships
cook, Romeo Bessette, 80, of Spring.
field, Mass, picked up IS minutes
after the blast by the trawler
out of New London, Conn
Bessette was quoted as saying the
crew of the Palmer was hauling in
a net when Bessette remarked to his
captain, Robert Moran, "a, of New
London, There's something awfully
heavy in this net"
Next thing Bessette knew he was
blasted into the water.
When he came to the surface, he
grabbed piece of debris and clung
to it until rescued, strapping on a
life jacket he found floating. He was
the only crew member unable to
swim.
Others aboard the 50-foot beam
vessel were George Potter, about As,
of North Adams, Mass, and Francis
Jocks, IS, of New York City.
Evening star., 1945-04-07
Commandant at KasseI
Surrenders 10 D. T.. Man
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KASSEL, Germany, April 4 de-
layed by CENSOR Gen. Vonerxle-
ben, commandant of the Kassel
garrison, handed over his sword to
Mai. Gen. Horace L. Mcbride of
Washington, commander of the
United States 80th Division, today
and the battle for this Hessian capi-
tai was over.
After the Americans had wrested
most of the city from the Germans
Col. George w. Smythe, Arlington,
Va, and 1t Col. Augustus c. Elegar,
Tulsa, Okla, sent a one-hour ulti-
matum to the Nazi commander. He
hoisted white flag in less than As
minutes.
Gen McBride's wife lives at 1871
Forty-fourth street NV.
Evening star., 1945-04-07
Little Lambs Mary
Marks goth Birthday
81 the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GRANTHAM, England, April T.
Eighty years ago little lamb in
sisted on following Mary Partridge
to school and had to be tethered on
the village green during lesson
hours.
The girl who was the inspiration for
the famous nursery rhyme celebrat-
ed her 90th birthday anniversary
at her home here today.
Evening star., 1945-04-07
Allied Bombers Thwurt
Use of Nuzi Rocket Shell
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 7.-Allied
bombers and invasion armies
thwarted a German plan to wipe
out London and other English cities
last spring with a secret weapon
a 120-pound rocket shell with a
40-pound warhead, the British In
formation Services said last night.
The underground firing site, near
Calais, only 80 miles from London,
was subjected to terrific and eff
cient bombing" and then captured
after D day, the services reported
The Germans planned to fire the
shells at the rate of 10 per minute,
to pin London f1remen and police
in shelters while flying bombs and
Vas caused the main destruction.
Evening star., 1945-04-07
House Inquiry Urges
Army 10 Take Over
Closed Meat Plants
BiIIion-Pound Shortage
Feared; Independents
UrqeWur on Black Market

Prospects of billion-pound
meat shortage after July l to-
day led a House investigating
committee to propose a series of
remedial measures, including a
recommendation that the Army
take over closed packing plants
and turn out its own beef.
At the same time, members of
the Independent Meat Packers As
sociation in a flve-State area, in
Guiding the District of Columbia,
called on the War Food Admins
tration to revoke the licenses of
approximately $4,000 slaughterers
to stamp out "a growing black
market in meat"
The proposal for Army produc-
ton of meat was the outgrowth
of a White House meeting yester-
day between House committee men,
bers and top Government officials
concerned with the domestic and
world food supply. Chairman An
derson of the House committee told
that the prospective short
age would hit Army. lease-lend.
UNRRA, the home front and other
consuming quarters.
Swift Action Needed.
UNLESS something is done soon, "
he said, I'VE are likely to have
such a short supply that nothing
can be done for liberated areas"
He added that there may be. no
balance for export after midyear.
Mr.. Anderson said the committee
now is trying to determine if FEEDER
ally-inspected packing plants have
closed because of price disputes or
for other reasons. He mentioned
three in Pueblo, Colo; Phoenix
Ariz, and Ell Paso, Tex.
Army representatives said they
would require time to study the pro-
posed plan.
The Anderson committee met in a
closed session with War Mobilization
Director Fred M. Vinson, Economic
Sterilization Director William H.
Davis, OPA Administrator Chester
War Food Administrator
Marvin Jones. Lease-lend Director
Leo Crowley, UNRRA Director Her.
bert Lehman and other Government
officials.
Most of them, the chairman said,
were very favorable to the sug-
gestions that the Army take over
Federally y-inspected packing plants
that have been forced to close and
operate them for the Army's own
meat supply. Such action, he said,
would break the growing glut of
range cattle and increase the flow
from packers, at the same time
easing the general supply.
1t also was proposed that quotas
to State packers be lowered and
Evening star., 1945-04-07
Sd Army Approaches
400,00Oth Prisoner

Py the Associated Press,
WITH THE UNITED STATES
Sd ARMY, April THE Sd Army's
400, ,000th prisoner is scheduled to
pass through its cages today.
1t. Gen. George S. Patton's men
have taken 388,873 since they went
into action. Fridays bag was 1888,
for a total of 86,013 in the current
16-day-old operation.
Evening star., 1945-04-07

Filipinos met them. Ten were
turned overyto us but unfortunately
two were taken to the local mayor
who in turn gave them up to the
Japs.
"One Of our prisoners was Admiral
Koga. He didn't tell us that. He
Evening star., 1945-04-07

ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, April
7 (P).-Sir William Henry Norwood,
81, chief justice of Newfoundland
since 1902 and administrator in the
Governors absence, died here today.
Evening star., 1945-04-07

Ten additional men from
the District area haze been re-
ported killed in this Dar. See
"On the Honor Roll," Page Az.
Evening star., 1945-04-07
Sir William Norwood Dies

(See WESTERN FRONT, Page A..
Evening star., 1945-04-07

(See FOOD, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1945-04-07

(See RUSSIA, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1945-04-07
Weather Forecast

Fair. high near IS today; low near 43
tonight; little warmer tomorrow.
Temperatures today-High, So, at
pm: low, 36, at tbs am. Yesterday
High. So, at 4:25 pm; low, IS, at $50
am.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-02
NEW MONEY ORDER
PLACED ON SALE
AT LOCAL OFFICE

A new postal note, simplifieo
and cheaper form of money order.
went on sale yesterday at the Will
mington postoffice. The first of the
notes, limited for the present to
the sending of sums between one
cent and $40, was bought at 9:15
am. by Assistant Postmaster j.
D. Dosher.
Mr.. Dosher explained that the
uniform service charge is five
cents. They come in IL denomina-
tons, the first of which is zero,
used for the sending of any sum
under dollar. The sender pays a
nickel for a note, buys a stamp
for the sum he wishes to send,
and the postoffice clerk sticks the
stamp on the note.
The other ten denomination are
from one to ten dollars, he add
ed.
Although limited stocks confine
sales to 1900 first-class postoffices,
notes can be cashed at any Post
office in the country, he added,
adding that they will be availab BILE
in all postoffices as soon as suffi-
cient stocks are on hand.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-02

now serving in Ceylon, India, on
the inter-Allied staff; brother,
Charles Bagby of Kinston, sister,
Mrs. C. E. Mason of Wilmington,
and two grandchildren.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-02
Shipyard To Observe
Anniversary Saturday

The North Carolina Shipbuilding
company will observe the fourth
anniversary Of its establishment
Saturday with the occasion to be
marked by the launching Of its
2O0th ship, the U.S.S. Diamond
Head, at $3.50 p. m.
The ammunition escort vessel
will be sponsored by Mrs. David
Bill, of Norfolk, Va. She is the
wife of a naval officer serving in
the Pacific and daughter of Wind
err R. Harris, of Norfolk and Wash
1ngton, secretary of the Shipbuild-
ers Council of America.
Her attendants will be her sis.
tiers Misses Florence and Betty
Harris, also of Norfolk.
Mr.. Harris will attend the cere-
mony. Veteran newspaper editor
and former member of Congress,
Mr.. Harris was member of the
STATS of several North and South
Carolina newspapers before going
TO Norfolk many years ago. He
was managing editor of the Vir-
glnian Pilot at the time he was
appointed to Congress from the
Second Virginia district. He was
Later reelected and served in both
the 18th and 18th Congresses be-
tore resigning to become Secretary
OF the Shipbuilders Council.
The U.S.S. Diamond Head, the
Yards eighth AE, is named for a
famous extinct volcano, near Hon.
olulu, on the island of Oahu in
the Territory of Hawaii.
Ground for the yard, greatest OF
North Carolina industries devel-
oped as the result of the war, was
broken on February 8, 1941. Origi-
nal plans were for a six-shioway
establishment but demands for
more ships resulted in an addition
Of three ways and other facilities.
The yard, subsidiary Of the New.
port News Shipbuilding and Dry
Dock Co., launched its first
vessel, the Liberty ship SIS. Zebu-
lon B. Vance, December 6, 1941.
Mrs. J. Melville Broughton, then
North Cardinals First Lady, was
sponsor.
In delivering 1875 Libertys, % c.
type vessels and IS AKA's and
other military craft, the yard has
won a reputation for fine ship.
building and praise from sources
extending from the country's high
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-02
MRS. w. NJ. GREASY

CHARLOTTE, F b. 1.-Funeral
services for Mrs. W. M. Greasy,
70, formerly of Wilmington, who
died here Wednesday at the home
Of her daughter, Mrs. Ernest B.
Hunter, will be conducted here at
II am. today.
For many years Mrs. Greasy
was associated with National and
State organizations. She was re-
cording secretary Of the Daughters
Of the Confederacy for many
years as well as being active in
the Daughters of tn American
revolution and the nial
Danes.
Sne was one of the first students
Of the Old State Normal and In
ooStral College at Greensboro. At
Ter graduating, she taught high
School in Wilmington.
Her husband was connected with
me Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Ut oO years before his death in
1899. "
Survivors tire Mrs Hunter,
VIE OF the managing editor of the
H y, Observer: one son, Col.
W. M Greasy of the U. S. Army,
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-02

est authority. Vice Admiral Emory
S. Land, chairman of the U. S.
Maritime Commission, down to the
men who have sailed its vessels
throughout the world.
Recently it was awarded con-
tract for Is additional CO type
ships which, with work already I'M
der contract, assures its operation
during the coming year.
The award was in keeping with
the policy of the commission to
assign additional work to the most
efficient yards. The fact that the
North Carolina company delivered
so "C' type vessels to lead the
nations yards in this type con-
struction during 1914 was an i'm
portant factor in it receiving the
contract.
This contract brings the total
number of ships awarded the yard
to 243. AS of today, it still has
so, including the Is in the latest
assignment, to deliver.