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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-27
Russian Writer Raps
Sections Of British
And American Press

MOSCOW, May 20. -P)-Com-
munist writer David Zaslavsky in
sharply-worded attack on sec
tons of the British and American
press declared today that the Dem
ocratic states Of Europe had found
their "truest and strongest pro-
tector'' in the Soviet Union.
Defending Russia's approach to
international problems as compar-
ed with so-called western meth
ods," Zaslavsky took issue with
articles in the British Yorkshire
Post, the Australian Sidney Mirror
and with the handling by some
American newsmen of activities OF
the Soviet delegations to the San
Francisco conference.
Writing in the communist organ
Pravda,s Zaslavsky predicted his
article on a declaration that the
Allies can achieve understanding
but said any failure to reach such
harmony now was because the
western Allies did not understand
or would not acknowledge the Rus
sian methods. -
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WASHINGTON, May rs. -P)-
Responding to an emphatic appeal
by President Truman, House DEM
ocrats rode eroughshod over Re-
publicans today to vote the execu-
tive broad new authority to cut
tariffs in reciprocal trading with
other nations.
The count on passage was 239 to
153 as Mr.. Truman made the tar
if bill the first direct test OF his
congressional following on ma
jor piece of legislation.
The president said fatty, in a
letter read by Speaker Rayburn
D-Tex) that further tariff cutting
authority is needed ''for the sue
cess of my administration, and
Democrats and some Republicans
rallied behind him.
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GLOVER TO SPEAK
ON MEMORIAL DAY
Exercises Will Be Held In
Front OF Legion Home
Here Wednesday

The Rev. Mortimer Glover, rec
tor of st. James Episcopal church,
will be the principal speaker at the
Memorial Day exercises to be held
Wednesday morning at II o'clock
in front of the American Legion
home, Third and Dock streets,
Emmett H. Bellamy, chairman of
the Arrangements committee, an
nounced yesterday.
A large attendance is expected
for the services, as Wednesday will
be a general holiday in Whining
ton, with the Atlantic Coast Line
general offices, banks, courthouse
and other public offices closing for
the day.
Special emphasis at the Legion
exercises will be placed on honor
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Harry Hopkins Confers
With Stain At Kren1lin'

MOSCOW, May 26.-tR-Harry
Hopkins and Marshal Stain con-
ferred in the Kremlin today. The
nature of their initial conversation
was not divulged, but it was be-
lieved to have covered a. broad
range of subjects, including pos
sibly meeting soon of the big
Three"
President Truman's personal rep
resentative, who arrived yesterday,
was accompanied to the Kremlin
by U. S. Ambassador w. Averell
Hartman.
(The>Moscow radio, heard in
London, said Foreign Conmissar
Molotov also was presently
Before the meeting, Hopkins held
4 series of conferences with mem.
bers of the U. S. Embassy staff
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BIG THREE MEET
BY JULY 5 seen
Churchill Indicates Farley
May Be Held Before
British Vote

LONDON, May 26.- P Prime
Minister Churchill indicated today
he might meet with President
Truman and Premier Marshal
Stain before the British general
election July 5.
In tour of his constituency just
outside London, Churchill told sew
eral meetings he might be called
away from his campaign for re-
election to parliament to partici'
pate in post-Europeap war con-
ference of the big three.
IT have informed President Tru
man, with whom am in constant
and cordial communication" he
said at Woodford, that the cleo
ton must not be allowed in any
way to delay for even a day 8
meeting between the heads of the
government"
Joseph Davies, Truman's person
al representative, planned to NEE
over the weekend with Churchill
for a conference which may EN-
brace all Europes most pressing
problems.
The Polish and Syrian disputes
the Trieste affair, Austria, the oc
cupation of Germany and the trla
of war criminals probably will b.
on the Agenda.
''The world is in terrible con
dition and I must in the days aheat
devote a great deal Of my TIM
to world affairs" Churchill de
clared before the Woodford meet
ing.
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JAPS CALCULATING
CHINA PORTS
Withdrawing From Canton
And Hong Kong To
Avoid Encirclement

CHUNGKING, May 26.-UD-
Japanese forces are withdrawing
hastily from Canton and Hong
Kong to avoid entrapment in south
China by a powerful Chinese drive
that has collapsed the west wall OF
the enemy's transcontinental cor
ridor in Human province, reliable
reports said today.
Chinese troops, assaulting the
150-mile- wide Japanese corridor
along the Canton-Hankow railroad,
captured the bitterly-contested city
of Taohwaping, % miles west Of
Packing, after it had changed
hands five times in two days Of
fighting.
Reports on the Japanese with.
drawal said that only a skeleton
garrison has been Left in Cantor
and that enemy forces in the en-
tire Kwangtung province area o:
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and Maj. Gen. ]. R. Dan, chief Of
the American military mission =
Russia.
Hartman sat in on the confer.
ences with Deane and U. S. Minis.
ter George KEENAN,.
Hopkins came by plane from
Paris. News of his arrival with
Mrs. Hopkins in Moscow was pri-
minently displayed in the Moscow
press and given special attention
on the radio.
A foreign diplomatic source said
Hopkins visit should not be inter.
preted as the result of any "crisis''
in Allied-Russian affairs but rather
as full discussion on the numer-
GUS developments since the Yalta
conference.
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Doolittle Will Comm and Eighth
Air Force In War Against Japs
MORE RAIDS PLANNED
General Preparing To Fin
ish Job He Started On
Tokyo In April, 1912
WASHINGTON, May 2s. = up

. WASHINGTON, May Is. - up -
The Eighth Air Force, pioneer
in American bombing of Germany,
is going to the Pacific under com.
mand Of 1t. Gen. James H. Doc
little.
The Army air forces, in announc-
ing today the redeployment against
Japan today, said that 'the pres
ent tempo of bombing of the Jap
anese homeland will be stepped
up to the point that japanese war
industries can expect an even
greater volume of attack than was
accomplished against Hitler's for
tress Europe.
General Doolittle is now pre-.
pared to help finish the job he
started on Japan in April, 1912,
when he hit Tokyo with his car.
rier-based B-25s, but now he'll be
using landbased engined bonn.
bers with plenty of fighter cover
Doolittle, who has been seen in
Washington during recent days hac
been described as the former
commander of the eighth all
force. A recent announcement re
ported that Maj. Gen. William E
Kepner was the new commander
The AAF explained that Doolittle
would be the commander of the
Eighth in the Pacific and KEEP
ner would be in command of those
elecents of the air force remain
ing in Europe until redeploymen1
is completed. Kepner was deputy
to Doolittle in Europe.
The announcement said that while
the movement of the Eighth tt
the Pacific does not necessarily
mean that all personnel and units
will be a part of the new set-up
enough combat trained personne
will be included to maintain it,
high experience level.
Certain ground units of the or
ganization were ready to move tt
the Pacific Immediately after We
day and some are already on thu
way, the AAF said.
Other units are returning to this
country under the redeploynlen
and rehabilitation plan. 1t is ex
pected that additional personns
will be drawn from pools set uE
in this country to replace men de
modified or given domestic as
signments.
Reports have indicated the Eight
Air Force while in Europe hae
about 100000 personnel, both all
and ground crews. 1t was not i'm
1nediately clear what part of thi!
total force would go to the Pacific
So far as is known, the Eighth
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JAP FORCES FLEE
AS ATTACK FAILS
Torrential Rains. Slow The
American Advance Along
Okinawa Front
By WILLIAM F. TYREE


GUAM, Sunday, May H.
(UP) - American oops
drove to within 800 yards of
Naha harbor Saturday in a
tank-led push through the
ruined Okinawa capital city
as Japanese remnants fled
southwark after a desperate
counter-attack failed to halt
the U. S. forces pouring
across the Asato river.
Torrential rains swept over the
embattled 70-mile long island on
Japan's doorstep and slowed the
American advance along the curv-
ing seven-mile front.
The ground troops 9inched for
ward through thick mud while ad-
ditional reports on the Thursday
Friday aerial attack against
American fleet units disclosed that
a total of approximately 166 jap
anese airchraft had been destroy
ed.
Toll Increased
Fleet Adm. Chester w. Nimitz
raised the toll of japanese planes
by SIS. Details of the 18-hour ac-
ton, reported yesterday, in which
the Japanese threw swarms OF
suicide planes and bombers into a
vicious attack which damaged II
light U. S. naval vessels, revealed
that 81 planes had been shot down
before they ever. reschtsp the area.
Army Thunderboits sweeping
northward of Okinawa to protect
the shipping knocked down the
group of "a enemy aircraft. Car
rier and landbased aircraft, ships
guns and shore batteries bagged
| the others.
The Sixth Marine Division re-
pulsed an enemy attack
Friday night as they pushed
through the rubbed and mined
streets of the capital, once a city
of IS, 900 population but now mass
of wreckage.
Marine fighters battling toward
Naha harbor said that the Jap
anese were moving in considerable
strength to the east and northeast
from the Naha area. 1t was indi-
Gated that the enemy migth be
deserving the capital for other de-
tense positions around Shuri.
Four American divisions were
| Continued on Page Three, Col. A.
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ihe possibility that Wilmington
t has De serviced by daily air
meisht transportation following the
w. w. was revealed yesterday by
r nsl,ef j.. Cartier, executive Sec
nary mos Of the Chamber of Com
a. "l, Cartier said he had answer
tr ~ requests from two new air
vo Snsport companies on estimated
Of lu uas and density of shipments
NJ peSlshaOles by air.
nina e Two companies, one plan
nnrz regular airplane freight trans
t rsr' and the other glider opera
nicl l' anticipate regular daily
p yvhup OF flowers, berries and
t 10 aaai for overnight delivery
T nhsuon-wide points
o]ain . requests, Mr.. Cartier ex-
u' are the result of initial
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THIRD OF E BOND
QUOTA SOLD HERE
Plans Advanced For War
Bond Movie At Bailey
Theater Tuesday Night

A total of $780, $40. SO per cent of
wilmington and New Hanover
eounty's Seventh War Loan E
pond quota, has been reached, War
finance committee chairnnen E. A.
Aaney and ]. G. Thornton announc-
ed yesterday.
1t was reported that $1,527, $50.
o. 81 per cent of the overall quota,
naa been subscribed as of May "a.
rlans TO- the War Bond pre-
mler Of THE Fighting Lady"
.en L at the Bailey theater
p N. Tuesday, include an ad-
ereSs of Lieut.. Roy Schmidt and
'ongs by Pfc. Ernest Schoen, both
Of Camp Davis.
". pfc. schoen, formerly of the
riehha State opera and the San
francisco opera company, will sing
plof 10 the showing of the feature
Nontlnued Oh Page Nine: Col. u
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House Votes Truman Ne1u
Power To Reduce Tariffs

The legislation, which now goes
to the senate, would prolong the
life of the reciprocal trade act for
three years with expanded powers
allowing tariff cuts in some items
up to rs per cent below the level
of the Republican Hawley-Smoot
Act of 1880.
Just before the final vote the
Democrats beat down 2l2 to i8l
la Republican motion to SEND the
Legislation back to the Ways and
Means committee with instructions
that any reference to any broad
ened executive power over tarl11s
be deleted. This was the cruslal
test.
Only thirteen Democrats crossed
CONTINUED On Page Two; Col. u
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Strike Voted By Office
Workers In Manhattan

NEW YORK, May 26.-P)-
Elevator operators, Janitors, and
maintenance employees of 5000
Manhattan office and lofe build
ings-including some of the city's
tallest skyscrapers - voted $3.50
to 1879 tonight to strike.
The vote, conducted by the Ma
tional Labor Relations board, fol-
lowed a stalemate in negotiations
between Local BIB of the ALL
Building Service Employees Inter-
national union and two real estate
owner groups-the Realty Advi-
sorry board on labor relations,
representing more than 5000
buildings, and the Midtown Realty
Owners association, representing
the remainder,
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Air Transport Concerns
Show Interest In City

work done by the Chamber OF
Commerce in contracting freight
airlines for the purpose OF explain,
ing Wilmington's facilities and
need for air freight service. Will
mington forms the hub Of one Of
the leading flower growing areas
in the country and for SIX to
eight months growing season snlps
such perishables as flowers, Der
ries and vegetables to points as
far north as New York city and
as far west as Chicago and st:
Paul. Air freight service would
enable growers to widen their
markets to include all points IN
the Continental United States, ne
added. Mr.. Cartier estimates that
this area would furnish enough
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
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SOLDIER Who HIT
NAzI P0W'S FREED
Private MCGEE Is Released
After Storm OF Con-
gressional Protest,

WASHINGTON, May 26.-P)-
Army Private Joseph MCGEE was
ordered released from confinement
today after a storm of congress
sional protest developed over his
two-year sentence on a charge of
seeking German prisoners of war.
Acting Secretary of War Robert
Patterson directed also that the
23-year-old Worcester, Mass.
soldier be restored to active duty.
He voided a dishonorable discharge
ordered by the court martial.
Patterson acted less than "a
hours after the case came to the
attention of Congress where House
Democratic Leader Mccormack OF
Massachusetts assailed the SEN
tencece as ridiculous.
A court martial at lie Mans,
France, convicted MCGEE on Oc-
tober II last year of assaults and
batteries on npe captured Ger
mans held at stockade in France.
The prisoners said he hit them,
kicked them and in one instance
used a club.
MCGEE pleaded innocent but did
not take the stand. He was con-
victed and sentenced to two years
at hard labor and a dishonorable
discharge.
The case came to light after Nc
Gee was returned to his country
and wrote his family that he was
back but not on furlough. Later
he sent a copy of the court mar
tial proceeding to his father who
sent it on to Mccormack with a
protest that 1.-THE kid got a raw
deal"
MCGEE arrived at the disciplln'
airy barracks at Fort Benjamin
Harrison, Ind, May II.
Mccormack asked a review O
the case yesterday and today tbs
War Department Issued this an
nouncement:
"The case of Private Joseph V
MCGEE has been reviewed by tne
Honorable Robert P. Patterson, the
undersecretary of war. The sen
tence, two years and dishonorablf
discharge, has been found to be
excessive. The sentenced is re
duced to the time already served
Tho balance of the confinement il
RENTED, the dishonorable dis
charge is cancelled, and MCGEE Il
restored to duty as a soldier as o:
this date"
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Japs Admit Tokyo Laid In Ruins
By Record Superfort Fire Raids;
US. TroopsNearing Harbor
Yank Bon1bers Destroy 80 Ships
off Asiatic Coast, East Indies

freighters off the west coast
of Borneo the same day. Thurs
day, in the same area, a Navy
LlDerator bagged two more
small freighters. A coastal YES
sci was destroyed elsewhere in
the East Indies.
Continuing paralyzing pres
sure against enemy shipping
along the Asiatic coast, two
Navy Liberators sank four
small freighters off TIE Malay
peninsula. They also damaged
an auxiliary and other freight
laden craft.
Some of the tiny craft hit
also We're sunk, including a
tug which, a spokesman said,
was carrying troops.
American 25th Division troops
outflanked the Japanese-held
'HNnfinuoI NJ, poUo Tuc. Fol
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Mother Hurls Four Of
Her Children To Death
Then Takes Own Life

GLASGOW, Mont, May 26.-R
-''Mental suffering from an
emergency appendectomy tw o
days after giving birth to child"
caused a 24-year-old mother to
hurl -four of her children to death
in the Milk river, then leap to her
own end yesterday, Coroner J. A.
Holland said tonight.
Andrew Campbell, the woman's
husband, said his wife underwent
an operation early this month, two
days after bearing a child, and
had been ill since then.
Undoubtedly her physical con-
dition affected her mind" Hol-
land added.
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Early Accord
On Yalta Vote
Formula Seen
RIG FIVE TO MEET
American Delegation To
Security Farley Relaxes
News Gag Rule
BY R. H. sHAcKFoRD
rn,,od Press Staff Correspondent

United IlCoo o
CAN FRANCISCO, May. 26.-u.H
Tho American delegation to the
World security conference relaxed
its news gag rule tonight and said
. ~. # was in complete agreement
Cr'' interpreting the Yalta voting
sorroula and that early agreement
o Nv the rest of thee Fig Five
was expected.
~" A meeting of the Big Five was
,s11ed tonight to consider the draft
IT statement Interpreting the
Voting formula. Approval is ex-
noctpd but announcement of ac-
i;on will be withheld until Mon
ri The earlier gag" on the Amer
iran delegation resulted from con-
troversy within the delegation over
the language of the interpretative
statement and earlier leaks
.hout the lack of progress. The
Americans were told not to talk
IN anyone about what was trans
hiring in the delegation meeting.
put the ban lasted only a few
hours.
NeWsmen Protest
delegation Of neWspapermen
protested to a state department
public relations man who said the
GAP would not be imposed gener-
slly but only on this important
issue-the voting formula. The cor
respondents then emphasized that
because of its importance, the vot-
ing procedure discussions should
not be kept secret.
The gag was lifted on this point
during a 90 minute meeting of the
American delegation. At its con-
clusion, delegated spokesman tolo
the press of the American agree
ment and the hopes for full Big
Five agreement soon. He added
that the United States position has
not changed since the Yalta vot.
ing procedure was announced two
months ago. The only problem
now, he said, was to achieve the
language for the formulas inter
probation.
During the meeting, the United
States delegation continued its
study of a working paper on the
voting procedure being drawn uI
by committee Of four technicians
representing the United States, Bri
tain, Russia and China. When the
meeting recessed, the technica.
committee continued its work or
what the spokesman said were
minor language changes"
Difficulties
The present difficulties involve
re-drafting of a proposed big foul
answer to big questions on the
Yalta voting formula posed by
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REPORT IMPERIAL
PALACE DAMAGED
Airmen Inflict Great De-
struction On City At
Cost OF 81 Bombers
By HAMILTON w. FARON

By HAMILTON w. FARON
GUAM, Sunday, May H.
was described to-
day by the enemy radio as a
city laid in ruins by B-29 fire
bomb raids Thursday and Sat-
urday but the list Bomber
Command, while optimistic,
reserved judgment until it
had the photographs to prove
it.
A bomber command spokesman
limited his report, after recon.
naissance planes visited Tokyo,
to the fact that .nonstrous wind
whipped fires had a1gulfed the
government and Imperial palace
areas hit by 1000 tons of fire
bombs from 500 Superfortresses
yesterday.
Nineteen of the big bomberS
were lost to unusually heavy anti-
aircraft fire, making 81 lost in
the two raids this week. Unof-
fetal reports listed the destruc-
ton of 20 enemy interceptors Sat-
urday, half Of which may have
been "Baka" or suicide rocket
bombs, each carrying one man.
Great Fires
A reconnaissance pilot, 1t W.
L. Abbott, PITT 38th ST., Des
Moines, who flew below the over
cast briefly before anti-aircraft
fire hit one engine and the tail,
said:
1T saw large masses of fire all
over the area and could even see
flames they were leaping so
high"
However, the weather was so
exceptionally bad that it was i'm.
possible to obtain the pictures on
which to base the only accurate
assessment of the damage.
Conflicting broadcasts fir o m
Japan indicated the imperial pail
ace had suffered but there was con.
fusion as to the extent.
An English language version OF
an imperial Japanese commune
que, said:
among the buildings damaged
are the (fronD palace and other
edifices within the compound OF
the imperial palace"
Reports Vary
An FCC-recorded Tokyo broad
cast first reported Premier Suzuki
as saying the imperial palace was
detroyed. Later the chief of the
government was quoted as stating
the pacale burned" Still later he
was represented as apologizing to
the emperor for damages" to
the palace.
Tokyo was declared '1iterally
scorched to the ground by one
Japanese radio reporter. A gale
dashed the flames which followed
Saturdays raid. The spreading fire
apparently consumed the heart
of the modern business and govern
ment sections.
The Twentieth Air Force an-
nounced at Washington that 10
BIOS were lost in Saturdays raid,
the heaviest toll yet in the missions
of the big bombers over Japan.
Twelve were lost in Thursdays
raid.
Some 500 Superfortresses flying
from Marianas bases participated
in each raid They were the larg-
est fleets of the mighty planes ever
put in the air.
Returning crews agreed with the
Tokyo reports of immense dest-uc-
ton and told of walls of fire sweep
ing upon the imperial palace cons
pound.
Greater Raids Forecast
In Washington, House Appropria-
ton Committee members report
ed, after closeddoor session with
Gen. George c. Marshall, Army
Continued on Page Three; Col. -
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By JAMES HUTCHINSON

by JAMES HUICHESON
MANILA, Sunday, May 81
R-Southwest Pacific planes
destroyed 80 enemy ships-one
plane alone made a sensational
bag Of 20-Wednesday and
Thursday in waters off the
Asiatic coast and the Dutch
East Indies.
The blow, reported On to-
days communique Of Gen.
Douglas Macarthur, was the
heaviest such delivered i'll the
theater in many weeks.
Most of the ships sunk were
small freighters. Several more
were damaged.
The spectacular individual
performance was turned in
Wednesday by a Seventh Fleet
reconnaissance L bera tor
which discovered a c0ncen-
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tration at Bandjermasin, south

tration at Bandjermasin, south
ern BOrneO.
The lone bomber sank seven
freighters and destroyed eight
others by setting them afire.
Then it raised its total to 20
by plotting out five more ships
in nearby shipyards. The JAP
anese built the shipyard for
the construction of small wood
en- cargo vessels. The enemy
has placed reliance in such
vessels due to steady shipping
losses.
The daylight attack drew
only light anti-aircraft fire and
no air challenge. The planes
bag included eight ships Of 300
to 1000 tons and seven Of $50
to 800 tons.
A Navy Privateer destroyed
a schooner and two small
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STRIKE

MARSEILLE, France, May 70.
-R,-A 24-hour general strike by
all workers closed down virtually
all businesses and Industries IN
Mar.eille today, and tonight even
motion picture theaters failed TO
open.
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WEATHER

FORECAST
North Carolina-Partly cloudy and
warmer Sunday with widely scattered
n.rtlv c1o1dv and continued warm.
WASHINGTON, May 26. -(R)EWeath-
err bureau report of temperature and
rainfall for the "a hours ending pm.
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Cape Fear river stageat Fayetteville
May rs, at am, 1912 feet.