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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-24
FBI STATE CHIEF
SHOWS PAST FORM
IN CHECKER MEET

The North Carolina Open Check.
err tournament got away to a good
start Monday afternoon with Is Ell
tries listed, seven of them having
been eliminated in the three rounds
played at the Industrial USO club,
223 Princess street.
Eight players will resume play
in the major tournament at l p. m.
Tuesday, while the seven eliminat.
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ed will continue play in the minol
tournament
Edward Scheidt, FBI man OF
Charlotte, showed the form tina
once made him Southern champion
to win over Sgt Robert A. Day
Indianan stationed at Camp DAVIS.
Other Monday winners were Il.
IC. Grant, Wilmington; r. c. Har
ris, Wilmington; R. w. Garrls'
Charlotte; J. Paul Lewis, Lumber
ton; 0. L. Jpock, Goldsboro; ". M
Eubanks, Wilmington; and S. s.
Taylor, Oxford.
Those who will play in the minor
tournament Tuesday are Sgt. Day;
Avis Hardy, Wilmington; =. n
Pickard. Wilmington; N. A. Averd
Wilmington; Gerald Peletler, Ste
la: H. P. Williams, and j. Craig
Presley.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-24
BUS BLAZE

City firemen responded to q
call at sol p.m., yesterday, to
extinguish a motor fire In
Safeway Transit company bus
at 4th and Nixon streets. The
blaze, which burned away the
insulation from ignition wires,
did little damage.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-24

RALEIGH, July 223-(P)-A total
of 63, 760 veterans received services
from local United States Employ
ment offices in North Carolina dur
ing the first six months Of 1915.
Ninety-five per cent of them were
veterans of World War two.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-24

that the continuing of large Low.
lease shipments to Vladivostol,' ..l'
pended upon some still.soo
terms. secret
In carrying on Roosevo,.
policies, Truman has had f. ell.
plement such a Yalta underV+o i,!5'
ing with actual operational nI a,,u'
The impression given by N AZ,
smooth, work-a-day advance ~ as
Potsdam meeting was that ser r sne
bitches concerning the Far Eos
have not arisen. N'S'
If Japan's rulers are less blind
then were the Nazis last WHY ''
there is a chancd they may be abb ot,
to read the handwriting on tbe u.' v
peace saving the national existe gS.
of Potsdam. '|i'Ve
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-24

EMBARK fveweek planning tour of Europe
Washington Left
(ron Victor Wckershan Oklahoma; Pvt
N H. who lost leg battle and flying
Walt Washington Rep James G. Fulton,
Chester Morrow, N H. Maj j. E. Whitnore who is
charge group Walter Huber Ohio a. to r
Michael Feghan Oho Frank L. Che KY Rep George
Mich Canadian, No. Rep A. Weiss, Penna
and Homer T. Ra1ney Ohio. (InterndtionaD
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-24
CIGARETTES RECOVERED

CIGARETTES RECOVERED
Some cigarettes were recov-
cred when City Detective E. B.
Murray arrested two Negro boys
in an investigation of the theft
of IL cartons of cigarettes and
$50 in cash from the Mills gr0c-
ery at Fifth and Red Cross
streets. Detective Murray said
that the boys claimed the
money had been stolen from
them.
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City Briefs

THIEVES TAKE CHICKENS
Sixty fryers and former fry
ing-sized chickens were stolen
from the yard Of E. r. Rey-
nolds, of 1926 North Third
street, he has reported to po-
lice.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-24
IGNITION SETS FIRE

IGNITION SETS FIRE
City firemen responded to a
call at 9:48 o'clock last night
to extlnquish a blaze in an au-
tomObile at Front and Princess
streets. The fire, which appar-
emily started In the ignition
system of the vehicle, did only
minor damage.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-24
BREAK-IN

Police reported that they were
investigating the theft of
number of articles stolen Suns
day night from an A. c. L.
work car which was spotted in
the lower yards of the terminal.
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COMPLETES PASTORS COURSE

FASIONS COUNS1
Laurence Bridges, of Will
mington, will be among the ia
to graduate from the Moody
Bible institpte in Chicago
August 2, after completing the
Pastors course. He is the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. L. j.
BRIDGES, 81 10 South Eighth
street.
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Enforcement of this ordirar,.
he h added, will be carried out :,
the letter. WV %
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TIRE TAKEN

TIRE TAKEN
An automobile tire valued at
SIG was taken from Hollis
taxi while it was parked at
104 Walnut street, B. L. Russ
has reported to police.
LUMBERTON BOY KILLED
The owl has announced that
Pfc. Samuel Stancfl Locklear,
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Dock Lock:
lear c. Lumberton, has been
killed I, action. He was serv-
ing VI h the Marine Corps.
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LUMBERTON BOY KILLED
CONDITION FAIR

Harlee Wade, Negro, of Sea-
breeze. was reported in a fair
condition last night at the
Community hospital, after be-
ing injured Saturday night. Ac-
cording to State Highway pa.
trOlman, Wade walked into the
side OF an automobile operated
by Carl E. Phillips. 1851 e.
Adams St., Riverside apart
ments, Saturday night on tho
Carolina Beach road near Sea-
breeze, and suffered severe
stomach and body decorations
from the door handle of the
vehicle. Patrolmen said that no
arrests has peen made.
Fred Thomas, Jr., general
field representative of the AM
erican Red Cross Southeastern
area office at Atlanta, Ga..
will make routine visit to the
Wilmington Red Cross chapter
July Is and rs, 1t was announc-
ed yesterday.
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R11y WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
Evening star., 1945-09-10
Senator Walsh Urges
National Defense Council
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Chairman Walsh of the Senate
Naval Affairs Committee said yes
terday he was opposed TO the en-
actment of legislation consolidating
the War and Navy Departments,
and urged establishment OF "a Coun-
Gil of National Defense, to consist
of the Secretary of State, Secretary
of War and Secretary of the Navy.
presided over by the commander IN
chief"
Speaking over the Washington
Story" program, Senator Walsh SAID
the council would perform den-
mite duties and would require COM
plete cooperation Of the other de-
partments' plans and operations.
Referring to the proposal to unity
the War and Navy Departments, ne
said:
With the uncertainties which
exist in the world today, we should
not exchange real and substantial.
organizations for proposed system
with which we have had no test OF
experience in this country"
! Speaking on the same program.
Senator Hill, Democrat, of Alabama.
sponsor of the unification bill, said:
AT Pearl Harbor there was SO
much division between the Army
and Navy that three different in
vestigating boards have been unable
to fix the responsibility. We saw
the tragic loss of the island of Crete
because the British Army, Navy and
air commanders. wrangling among
themselves, failed to unite their
| efforts against the Germans"
Evening star., 1945-09-10
Ford Recalls 1900
AsS1,750 Remain Idle
In IS Of s. Strikes
nv tho Asso.;ated press

BY the Associated Press.
Eighteen of 56 reported labor dis
turbances today accounted for al
most exactly three-fourths of the
approximately 10000 persons idle,
but the picture was frightened
somewhat by the recall Of $4,000
Ford workers to their jobs.
The 1s disputes ranged from the
$1,000 idle at the Consolidated Steel
Co.'S plant, Orange, Tex, through
such firms as Westinghouse Elec-
trio $4,000, the H. c. Prick Coke
Co., Pittsburgh (7,500). and the Kel-
sey-Hayes Wheel Co., Detroit (4,500)
Other disturbances involved num-
bers from Is upward to $500. The
Is strikers were at the Oklahoma
Rendering Co., Oklahoma City
while the 1,500 was duplicated in
several other places.
The Ford recall came after com
pany officials announced they haC
arranged for alternative sources OF
supply when the strike at Kelsey.
Hayes interfered with the supply o1
parts for 1916 cars. Some $500
Ford workers remained idle else
where from the same cause.
The Westinghouse strike. a new
addition to the labor scene, was
voted by members of the Federation
OF Westinghouse Independent Sal.
aried Unions covering white-collal
workers in nine cities. Bonuses anc
incentive pay rates were the issues
Another major walkout kept 78(
foremen and $4,000 other workers
idle at the six B. F.. Goodrich Rub
ber Co. plants in Akron.
Evening star., 1945-09-10
HimmIer Reinforced Ties
With Spanish Police in 40

MADRID. Sept. 10 (P).-Reports
from Berlin Indicating that police
in Spain had a prewar agreement
with the Gestapo for combating
Communism caused little surprise
today among foreign observers here.
They recalled that Heinrich
Himmler, Gestapo chieftain. came
to Spain in October, 1910, when he
was reported to have reinforced re-
lations with the Spanish police At
the time of his visit the Falangist
organ Arriba commented: In men
like Heinrich Himmler strong states
reach their zenith"
There was nothing secret about
the Spanish police contact with the
IGestapo in 1910 or throughout the
greater part Of the war. Most of the
officials which Himmler knew in
Spain at that time are still in public
Office, with the exception of Ramon
Serrano Suner, then Foreign Min
lister, and Count Mayalde, then chiei
of all Spanish police. Mayalde
served as Ambassador to Berlin in
Il94l-2
Evening star., 1945-09-10
Jap Chief at Singapore Named
To Surrender to Mountbutten

merely trying to dodge the respon-
sibility of signing Japan's surrender
The physician and his fellow Brit
ish officers reported back that Ter
auchi was a very sick old man. as
the result Of paralytic stroke last
April.
'In this" an official statement ex-
planned, there obviously lay the
seeds of possible strategem on the
part of Terauchi to escape the hu-
initiation which he naturally was
anxious to avoid"
Itagaki will be required to seal the
surrender document with Terauchi's S
own personal chop (signature). The
single page instrument will be read
by Admiral Mountbatten and laid
before Itagaki for signature.
A sword surrender ceremony in
which Admiral Mountbatten is ex-
pected to touch Terauchi's preferred
samurai sidearm and then let him
keep 1t out of military courtesy will
be deferred until Allied occupation
OF the southern areas is completed
In the ceremony Wednesday the
Japanese will park their samurai
cutlery in the anteroom before en-
tering the Singapore council cham
Der and pick 1t up afterwards.
Evening star., 1945-09-10
BIomey Refuses
To Recognize
Jups as Gallant
,y the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
MELBOURNE, Sept. 10-Gen. Sir
Thomas Blamey, Australian COM
mander in chief, accepted Yesterday
the surrender of thousands of Jap
anese troops in the Eastern East
Indies.
In the presence of Dutch, Ameri-
can and Australian forces on the
small island of Morotai, 315 miles
southeast of Mindanoa, Gen.
Blamey told the defeated troops:
IT don't recognize you as an hon.
orable, gallant foe, but you'll be
treated with due courtesy in all
matters"
The direct recipient of his blunt
remarks was 1t. Gen. Tishima, COM
mander of the japanese I'd Army.
japanese troops were reported
laying down their arms in all
sectors, from Bougainville in the
Solomons to Wewak in Northeast
New Guinea, following the surrender
of an estimated 1400 900 enemy troops
under. the island command Of 1t.
Gen. Anamura.
Maj. Gen. E. J. Milford of the
Australian 7th Division accepted the
surrender of all Japanese troops in
Dutch Borneo aboard the Australian
frigate Burdekin.
Evening star., 1945-09-10
Hc the Associated Press.

SINGAPORE, Sept. 1O.-Lt. Gen.
Seishiro Itagaki, the obdurate COM
mander of Singapore and one Of
Japan's top ranking militarists, was
nominated today to go through the
humiliation of formally surrender
ing Japan's southern armies to
Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten
here Wednesday.
Itagaki was accepted by the Allies
for the task when it was found that
Field Marshal Count Juichi Terau-
Chi. supreme commander of the
southern armies, was suffering from
residual paralysis and will be un-
able to be present for the for
malities.
But it is unlikely that Admiral
Mountbatten, in his present bitter
mood toward the Japanese, will al
low Terauchi to escape entirely a
public display of defeat and will in
sist that the Count be brought here
at a later date regardless of his con-
dition.
Admiral Mountbatten sent his
personal physician to Saigon to de-
termine for himself whether &c.
year-old Terauchi was really sick or
Evening star., 1945-09-10
Prisoners
Continued From First Page.)

Americans were given the japanese
back bend" Their hands were tied
behind their backs and to their
ankles with their feet being bent
back.
In other parts of Japan, China,
Manchuria and Korea, American
authorities continued to evacuate
American prisoners from Japanese
camps and rush them to medical
centers.
At half a dozen Far East ports
Americans were being placed aboard
homeward-bound ships.
More than 500 prisoners in North
ern Kyushu have liberated. them
selves and are roaming the south
ernmost Japanese home islands
awaiting the arrival of occupation
troops.
It was estimated by American au-
thorities that Allied prisoners liber-
ated from Honshu CAMPS reached a
total of IL ,322, and of those 6,096 al
ready were on their way home.
Reports from Singapore reveal
that British authorities were looking
for japanese stool pigeons who were
planted in nearby prisoner war
camps.
List of II Furnished.
Freed prisoners furnished a list Of
II, all members of the Japanese Sc
cret police.
Scores of liberated American
prisoners sent home messages from
the Far East to their families. Sew
eral had been previously reported
dead. 1t. Louis Zamperini, former
University OF Southern California
athlete, from Torrance, Calf, was
en- route home from Yokohama.
zamperini was reported killed in
action, but survived A days on a
raft and cruelties of japanese prison
camps from the Marshall Islands to
Honshu.
At Manila the escort carriers
Block Island and Santee and four
destroyers arrived with 1859 Allied
prisoners from Formosa. The group
included ,050 British soldiers. Tween
ty-four of the party were Americans
captured In the Philippines.
United States Navy rescue teams
gathered up ooS internees, veterans
Evening star., 1945-09-10
Koreans Resent
u. 5. Retaining laps
AS Puppet Rulers
CONTINUED From First Page.)

ument was signed by Gen. Hodge
and Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid,
commander of the United States
7th Fleet, and Sozuke.
Parading Koreans Killed.
Two Koreans were killed and 10
wounded by Japanese as they pa
raded. unarmed and carrying small
American flags, to greet American
occupation forces at Jinsen. Ko-
reans charged the Japanese fired
without provocation.
In Tokyo, Gen. Macarthur pro-
claimed today that any act to dis
turb the peace in Korea, or any
hostilities there against occupation
troops, would. be punishable by
death or such other punishment as
the occupation authorities deter
mine.
Gen. Hodge told the Koreans that
their desire for immediate inde-
pendence cannot be granted because
of the danger of political chaos
among their own factions. He said
Japanese Governor General Noboy-
uki Abe and his staff would con-
tinue in Office, but only to carry
out his Gen. Hodge's) directives.
Qn Washington, Kilsoo Haan,
representative of the Korean Ma ;,
tional Revolutionary party and
of the Sino-Korean Peoples
League, made public a telegram
to President Truman protesting
the action.
ASSERTING that obviously the
appointment was matter of ex-
pediency, Mr.. Ham added I'VE
are forced to look up this act as
highly ill-advised, to say the least
and We are afraid that it will
have far-reaching psychologi-
cal repercussion unfavorable to-
ward democracy and toward the
United States')
Gen. Hodge promised that he
would consult with native leaders
regarding his future course, but
stressed that decisions were subject
to approval by United Nations
leaders.
MacArthur's Control Spreads.
Meanwhile, Gen. MacArthur'S
softly firm control spread through
the length of Japan.
Vice Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher
and his North Pacific naval forces
accepted Japan's surrender of all
Northern Honshu and the northern
most home island of Hokkaido at
Ominato naval base Sunday. Japa-
nese we're ordered to disarm and to
continue their civil administration.
Patrol boats and carrier planes cir
cled alertly, pending the arrival of
occupation troops.
Gen. Macarthur simultaneously
issued two statements from his new
headquarters in the United States
Embassy in Tokyo. One pledged
that japanese militarism would be
eliminated. The other assured his
troops they would go home as soon
as peace could be made secure.
In his first statement he explained
that the Japanese would rule them
selves, subject to his orders and
with occupation troops ready to en-
force his decisions if necessary.
Warned to Respect Rights.
He warned his own troops to re-
5pect the rights of Japanese: Loot
ing, pillage, rape .. would be but
stain on your own high honor
To the japanese, he announced
that freedom of speech, press, re-
ligion and assembly would be en-
Evening star., 1945-09-10

OF Bataan, Corregidor, Hong Kong
and Singapore, from three war
camps in the Nagoya area.
Two crewmen from 1t. Comdr.
John Bulkeley's famous PIT Al,
which carried Gen. Macarthur from
Corregidor to safety were liberated
from camp in Japan.
After rescuing the general and
his wife and child their little ship
went aground near Negros. They
were captured when they made their
way in small boat to Butuan where
they thought American troops were
stationed.
Lit. George E. Brown of New York
who arrived at Oakland, Calf, from
a prison camp in Japan told how
Capt. John Cromwell chose to 90
down with the shattered submarine
Sculpin rather than be captured by
the japanese and forced to tell what
he knew.
Evening star., 1945-09-10
Comdr. John Lord Dies;
Rebuilt old Ironsides'
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BATH, Me-, Sept. 10.-Comdr.
John A. Lord, 72, the Navy's wooden
ship expert who reconstructed the
famous old frigate Constitution,
died Saturday.
That Job. made possible by the
contributions of American school,
children. kept Comdr. Lord busy at
the Boston Navy Yard from 1925
until 1881, when "Old Ironsides"
was recommissioned and sent on
a triumphant voyage to the prin-
cipal ports of the United States.
Comdr. Lord, retired as lieu
tenant in 1882 after 80 years serv-
ice in the Navy construction corps.
was recalled to active duty in the
past war and served In the wooden
Evening star., 1945-09-10
Wainwright SideIiqhts

Promptly at noon thousands of
Government workers began pour
ing out of their Offices to find van
tage points on the Monument
Grounds before the ceremonies hon.
oring Gen. Wainwright started.
Special police details strung miles
of rope waist high the length of
Constitution avenue to keep crowds
back on Gen. Wainwright's motor
route. Police officers stood at 20
foot intervals along the route to
handle the crowds.
Despite detailed newspaper stories,
not many were certain where Gen
Wainwright would be at any given
time. Most of the early crowds
elected to take their chances of
seeing the hero and his party amid
the crush at the Monument rather
than gain 1eeting glimpses of the
generals motorcade.
Many Women in Crowd.
Women and teen-agers made up
a large majority of the throng.
Some Catholic schools gave their
students a half holiday to see the
general.
Ice cream vendors and soda pop
statesmen were in evidence on Con-
stitution avenue and around the
Ellipse, banking on. the high hu-
midity to boost their sales.
A native of the Philippines, So
year-old Robert S. Valencia of 1912
Sherman avenue NV, stood on the
Monument Grounds to give his per-
sonal thanks to Gen. Wainwright
for his heroic defense of the Phil
ippines.
Relatives Liberated.
A niece and nephew of Mr.. Va
lencia recently were liberated from
Japanese prison in Manila. A son,
Robert Valencia, jr., is in the Navy
and recently arrived at Manila.
Lotus Ventura, 10, gunner's
mate BIC, arrived home yesterday
Evening star., 1945-09-10

home" Gen. Macarthur said, "as
speedily and as effectively as the
consolidation and securing Of peace
can be accomplished through or
derly occupation of Japan and the
demobilization of Japanese armed
forces"
The date will depend to a great
extent upon how the troops carry
out their occupation duties. he
added.
In addition to Ominato, 400 miles
north of Tokyo, two other japanese
naval bases were taken over. by
American forces Sunday: Katsuura,
southeast of Tokyo, and Katuama,
south of Tokyo.
1t. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger
said part of his 9th Army would
continue to spread northward from
Tokyo. and that two divisions would
occupy Hokkaido, northernmost
island, about October :.
Evening star., 1945-09-10
Berlin Secret Report
ShowsPrewarG Gestapo
Tieup With 13 Nations
Ey the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Sept. 10.-A secret re-
port recovered from files which the
Germans failed to destroy IN the
last days of Berlin claims that the
Gestapo had a prewar agreement
with political police of 13 nations
for combating Communism and
movements dangerous to the
state"
The document, dated August %,
1888, and bearing the signature of
Reinhard Heydrich, "the Hang
man." named the countries bound
in written agreement with the
Gestapo as Belgium, Bulgaria, Fin
land, Italy, Yugoslavia, Portugal and
Spain. 1t claimed a similar agree
ment, not put into writing, was ef-
fected with Brazil, Greece, Holland,
Japan, Poland and Hungary.
Heydrich, then chief of the Ger
man security police and later Nazi
protector of Bohemia and Moravia,
addressed his report to Reichmar-
shall Hermann Goering and said he
| dS lidflilS llOtdDic SuCCcSSeS WIN
Germany's Communist police
| friends.
He told Goering it was absolutely
necessary to continue international
police cooperation further on this
line"
Heydrich's report said all of the
countries except Romania had sent
authorized police representatives to
be guests of the German police and
in some cases these officers had been
frequent visitors to Germany.
I Heydrich, who claimed this clam
destine international police agree
ment just year before war broke
out in 1899. was assassinated in
Cchechoslovakia in June, 1912.
Goering is awaiting trial as a war
criminal.
Evening star., 1945-09-10
Berlin Report Causes
No Surprise in Brozil

By the Associated Fress.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 10-A
Berlin report that Brazil was among
13 nations having a secret anti
Communist police agreement with
Nazi Germany in 1888 produced
little surprise here today.
There was no official comment,
but it was recalled that in 1888
Brazil was making large armament
purchases from Germany and was
actively engaged in prosecution OF
Communists who had attempted a
revolution In 1895
Evening star., 1945-09-10
Boxes Cookies as Hobby

FREEPORT. Ill (P).-As a boy
Fireman Alvin Lawyer always liked
to nose around in his mother s
kitchen. So now he bakes Is to
40 dozen cookies weekly for the
servicemen's snack bar-and has
10 favorite recipes.
Evening star., 1945-09-10

-AP WrephotO.
couraged, and limited only by the
demands of military security.
Tokyo newspapers relieved one
japanese worry by reporting that
notes of the Bank of Japan would
be legal tender and that no occu-
patton money would be used.
Gen. Macarthur proclaimed to-
day, however, that supplemental
military yen issued by occupation
forces were legal tender in Korea
He added that regular yen-except
Bank of Japan and Bank of Taiwan
Formosa) notes-could be inter-
changed in Korea at face value.
Under the proclamation, all mill
tary or occupation currency issued
by the japanese government, army
or navy become valueless in Korea
and all importing or exporting OF
currency there is prohibited except
by his permission.
"Occupation troops will be sent