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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-24
AP TAKES POLL
Fifty-One Will Vote APP
proval Barring Unfor-
seen Developments
Copyright, 1915, by the
Associated Press

WASHINGTON, June % up -
A majority of the senate is ready
to approve the United Nations
Charter.
Indications are clear that ratifi-
cation may command the support
of far more than the two-thirds
required for approval.
An Associated Press poll reach
ing IA of the 96 members today
found none declaring outright op-
position. Fifty -one said they would
vote aye, barring unforeseen de-
velopments. Five said they prob
ably would vote aye. Eighteen
were not ready to commit them
selves.
Support Develops
Strong support TO the treaty
which President Truman expects
to bring back from San Francisco
Wednesday developed on both sides
of the senate aisle, with IS semo.
Gratis and is republicans out.
spokenly for ratification.
The question asked them was:
Twill you vote for U. S. adherence
to the United Nations Charter as
it now stands, barring unforeseen
Developments"
The trend ward United States
participation in a world organiza
ton to preserve the peace is SC
strong that some senators shrugged
away the fact they had not stud
led their positions before the tex
was published in full.
"We must ratify and approve i
without delay" declared Senator
Enender (D-La). 1--WE have dele
gated some of our best talent tt
represent us at the conference ane
it is up to us to back their de
cision to the limit.
81 make that statement unquali
fiedly and without knowing wha
the charter will finally contain
but conscious of the fact that I'm
less the United States is willing tt
participate in and become an &C
tive member of the organization
the world will soon again be plung
ed in a war that will destroy civil
Zation."
"Must Accept IT,
Senator Johnston D-SC) saic
he would vote for it, with the at
tude that 1--WE must accept it de.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-24
Twin IMPORTANT.
0ILFIELD AREA
Ninth Division Men Ham
mer Through Jungle To
Effect New Juncture
By HUGH CRUMPLER

MANILA, Sunday, June "a.
- (UP) - Australian troops
have seized two oil rich prizes
from the japanese in Borneo,
capturing the petroleum is
land of Tarakan and driving
|26 miles down the northwest
ern Borneo coast to reach the
oil field city of Seria, Gen.
ID Dug la Macarthur an
nounced today.
Potentially the richest oilf1eld in
the entire British Empire, Seria
was reached by 9th division troops
hammering through the costal
swamps from Tutong toward
junction with other forces which
made an amphibious hop down
the coast and seized the Miri air.
field some Is miles farther on.
The drive to Seria was made
by troops last reported in the area
four miles south of Tutong, 26
miles to the north. Seria is one Of
the two most productive oilfield
areas in northwestern Borneo. The
other is in the Miri area, which is
linked to Seria and to the extern
sive refinery facilities of Lutong
by pipeline.
No Opposition
Front dispatches said that Seria
was reached Friday and that the
town fell without opposition to the
Australian column. However, the
city had been completely wrecked
by the retreating Japanese.
Before the war, the Seria fields
produced 700, LOCO tons of petroleum
products annually as well as g.
100000 cubic feet of natural gas.
Much of the oil from the Se-ia
fields is of such high quality that
it can be piped directly into the
oil bunkers of warshps without
refining.
| Macarthur also disclosed that
the last organized resistance on
Labuan island ended at 4 A. M.
last Thursday morning when 80
Japanese were killed in suicide
Banzai charge. Australian tanks
hunted down 10 more japanese at
daylight.
Borneo's fierce head = hunting
Dyaks accounted for six Japanese
on Labuan island last Wednesday,
it was disclosed, and an Australian
patrol southeast of Brunei on the
main island reported meeting a
group of Dyaks with Japanese
heads impaled on Spears.
The 54-day-old invasion OF Tara
kan ended triumphantly for the
, Australians with capture OF the
last enemy positions in the mills
near Djoeata in the northern part
Of the island, which ended the last
Japanese resistance.
Tarakan lies off the east coast
of Borneo some $50 miles east OF
; Continued on Page Three; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-24

The plea of Wilmington house
wives for more meat is now be-
fore Office of Price Administration
officials in Washington ACCORDING
to a letter received here yesterday
from Representative J. Bayssd
Clark by Clayton c. Holmes; local
attorney. 49,
congressman, Holmes, who last
week prepared petition signed by
5oo local women asking for. more
meat, said he intended to turn Mr.;
c1ark's letter, along with request
for the lifting of native cattle
s1aughtering restrictions, over to
state OPA officials Monday.
MIR. Clark wrote: =.
Have presented the. petitions to
and talked with OPA regarding
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-24
Plea OF Local Housewives For More
Meat Turned Over To OPA Officials

"Would it not be possible for the
retail grocers to keep a record for
definite period of say one week
to determine how many ration
points or books of issue other than
by the New Hanover board they
served? The OPA should be pre-
val upon to accept these figures
in making an adjustment. -
Mr.. Clark went on to suggest a
request to the State office for an
adjustment as the next step. He
said that in the overall picture, the
War Food Administration fixes
the amount of meats for civilian
consumption and the OPA sets the
point values so that each individual
should receive his pro rata share
Of course, he continued, it is pos
Continued on Page 8, Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-24
Highway Patrol, Safety
Divisions Consolidated

RALEIGH, June 23.-lRACarry-
ing out in part recommendation
he made in his inaugural address,
but which never was acted upon
by the 1915 legislature, Governor
Cherry today consolidated the state
highway patrol and safety divi-
sions under a single head, and
left the other state police agencies
intact.
Cherry named chief of Police
Walter F. Anderson of Charlotte
to head the consolidated patrol
and safety division, and renamed
T. Boddie Ward as commissioner
of the department of motor We
hicles. Anderson's salary will be
set by the advisory budget COM
mission.
The consolidation thus achieved
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-24

in part a proposal outlined by
Cherry in both his campaign and
inaugural speeches, in which he
that the legislature
create a department of state po-
lice and public safety, embracing
the present highway patrol and
safety divisions, bureau of inves-
tigation, drivers license bureau,
fingerprint bureau of the S a t
prison system, and possibly other
agencies.
A bill carrying out the COVER
nor's recommendation was prepar.
ed and released to the press but
was never introduced. At one time
during the legislature, Cherry was
known to have expressed senti.
Continued on Page 10, Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-24
By SPENCER DAVIS

MANILA, Sunday, June "A.
-P)-The campaign in Lubon's
broad Cagayan valley raced
toward swift climax today
as the U. 5. 37th Infantry DI-
vision moved Is miles north
ward to within II miles of
guerrilla forces holding off the
Japanese at the town of Tugue-
garao.
The Japanese, now estimated
to number no more than 10000
In the whole valley, ave been
counteratacking furlously for
two and one alf days against
the guerrillas, led by Col. Rus
sell w. VOlckmann.
The guerrillas, who cut down
the valley and seized the town
three days ago, were withstand
ing tank, mortar and artillery
attack while waiing for the
9th Division to relieve them.
There was no new word on
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-24
Australians Capture Two
Rich Borneo Oil Prizes;
So Jap Warplanes Downed
Cagqyan Valley Drive
Moving Toward Climax

operations of the U. 5. Sixth
Army and Igorot guerrilla for
ces who were disclosed yester-
day to have captured APART,
last Japanese escape port on
LuzOn,
These guerrillas already had
sliced eight miles southwark
from Apart, however, in a
move to join with the Tuguega-
rao guerrillas and the 37th
Division.
The days of the Japanese oc-
cupat:on of the big northern
valley seemed definitely num-
bered, however, as the Ameri-
can and guerrilla forces in the
valley moved toward a triple
conveyance.
japanese troops made their
initial landing in the Philip
pines at APART, north coast
port, on Dec. 10, 1941, in their
Enntinuod nm papo Two. Col 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-24
WEATHER
FORECAST

FORECAST
North Carolina: Sunday. increasing
eoudincss continued warm north and
west. Showers and not so warm SOUTH
.ast portion Monday cloudy, rain ana
not SO warm east and central portion.
increasing winds Sunday night becoming
'fong east portion Monday.
WASHINGTON, June 23.-LP)-Weather
bureau report of temperature and rain
ID. .dii for the "a hours ending pm. IN the
p p!p cotton growing areas and else
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-24
Majority of Senate Set
To Approve New Charter
CHARTER COMPLETED
Formal Acceptance Seized
uled At San Francisco
Conference Monday
BY DOUGLAS B. CORNELL

SAN FRANCISCO, June 23-WH)
Delegation chiefs of so United
Nations approved tonight the char
ter they will offer to the world as
as a basis for permanent peace.
Formal, routine acceptance still
is requestede at a plenary session
of the United Nations conference
Monday. That will be followed by
the signing of the constitution for
new United Nations League.
Approval was voted at meeting
of the conference steering COM
mittee tonight. The chairman of
every delegation is member of
the committee.
Secretary of state Stettinius left
the meeting beaming.
"We've got a charter!' he ex-
claimed.
Delegates raised their hands in
unison when he put the question
of approving the charter except
for whatever refinements in spell
ing and punctuation the experts con-
slider necessary.
There was one last minute flare
up about treaty revision. 1t center
ed around an old Bolivian-Chilear
dispute over Bolivian access to the
sea. But in the end, nothing addit'
ional was done.
When it comes to ratification Of
the Treaty, The United States may
lead the way.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 23.-lH
delegates at the United Nations
conference jubilantly hailed today
indications that a new world char
ter easily will win United States
Senate ratification, and one sale
this was lone of the most impor
tant facts in world history"
The Senate probably won't vote
before fall, but an associated pres!
poll in Washington showed that
majority already is lined up be
hind the charter as it now stands
and that probably far more thar
the necessary two-thirds of h
members will support ratification
President Truman was reported tt
have counted less than IL poten
tial votes against ratification.
Representatives of so United Ma
tons who brou ut the charter init
((,Ontinued m Pape Two. Col 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-24
COUNTY PASSES
WAR BOND GOAL
Reaches l08 Per Cent OF
Overall Quota But e.
Sales Still Lag

New Hanover county went over
the top in the purchase of War
bonds on June 20 when it reached
1OS percent Of the fixed quota for
the Seventh War Loan Drive OF
S., 1877 1000, J. G. Thornton, chair
man of the City War Finance
Committee, announced yesterday
On that date the purchase OF bonds
of all issue amounted to S., 587 1872.
SO.
Though the quota has been reach
ed in the overall purchase of bonds,
with only one week left in the
drive, the sale of 'E" bonds re,
main at 70 percent of the quota. o.
the total individual sales amount.
ing to 1885, 1891 through June 70
E bond sales were 81, 781, l57.50 TO-
ward quota set at $2,47S, 900.
Mr.. Thornton again urged lndl
viduals to make their purchases Of
E bonds to help swell the sales te
meet the county's quota, which still
lags in this respect.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-24
.MIGHTIEST OF ALL

WASHINGTON, June 23.-U.D-
The mighty Seventh War Loan bid
fair tonight to become the might
est of them all as sales to all invea-
tors reached $40, 467, 100000.
With another week to so, sales
were only about $4,000, 100000 be-
low the record-breaking Sixth War
Loan total of 1921 900, 900.
The Treasury's war finance di-
Continued on Page Two; Col. -
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-17
THEY SA Y

Guam-Adm. Chester NINTH, an.
nouncing a powerful U. s. carrier
plane attack on Tokyo: This oper-
alton has long been planned and
the opportunity to accomplish 1t full
fills the deeply cherished desire OF
every man in the Pacific feet"
New York - Barnard College
Dean Virginia Gildersleeve, dele
gate TO the San Francisco United
Nations Conference: Il don't be-
lieve democracy can be forced
upon the German people by an
alien nation"
Moscow-President Roos evelt. in
message to Premier Stain hailing
result OF the Yalta big Three"
conference: 1T is a real guarantee
that the three nations can work
together in peace as we'll as in
war"
New York-Lieut. Gen. William
S, Knudsen, director OF the Air
Technical Command: Lets make
education cheap and attractive.
letting the young after Is or Is
years OF age work part Of the day
and also 20 to school
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-17

II, in all this matter Of Yalta.
Breton Woods, Dumbarton Oaks,
the President and the radio com
mentators had pleaded inevitab Bile
national necessity, their candor
would be appreciated But when
a commentator spoke OF the Presi-
dent being an unofficial presiding
| officer at a round table while one
/ OF the two other attendants walk
/ ed Of with all the marbles, II was
just too much Owl.
Anyone who does not admire
| Marshall Stain and his magnificent
feat in enriching his country by
territorial loot is lacking in a
sense OF values. But what did the
/ United States Of America get out
Of the Yalta Conference? Specific
ally-what did We get?
Listening to Jimmy Byrnes the
principal gain seems TO have been
a knowledge Of vodka spiced with
red pepper-a connection new to
me although In my younger days
! sampled all that Russia had to
offer Perhaps, we of the earlier
days Of the Revolution. required
neither cayenne nor paprika to zest
vodka-our appetites were not yet
faded
What Ed Flynn will add to this
is not available. Ed Flynn. Of the
Bronx. is medium.to-good ward
politician who once lost an am
bassadorship because OF an error
in paving blocks which was really
/ neither here nor there and seemed
to be a fuss over nothing that
isn't done by those in the know.
Now. he sits among the great n
the world and is applauded in the
Bolshoi Theater where once the
Cars OF Russia sat and pondered.
What now, little man" When he
returns we shall have to inquire
whether Soviet competence pro
, duces a better prune whiskey than
is sold on Southern Boulevard n
the Bronx. Maybe Ed Flynn. who
is noted for having an eye on the
main chance. can tell the American
people specifically and beyond
doubt what We landed at Yalta.
Walter Lippmann has attempted
TO discover what We got. And after
bordering the problem in majestic
punditry he has reached the con
clusion that the Importance OF the
Yalta. Conference lies In the fact
that the coalition OF powers did not
break up. Usually. he said, when
the end Of a war approaches, the
allies knock each other on the
head. This time. Roosevelt, unoiii-
cially presiding over a round table.
reversed that trend. Lippmann's
exact words:
q" They have checked and re-
versed the normal tendency of a
victorious coalition to dissolve as =
the war. which called it into being,
approaches its end. They have
seen TO It that the coalition, has
become closer and larger, the alli-
ance more firmly knit, as the war
has developed
Possibly this is H. And if so,
it IS al Ito the good as long as II
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-17
Prospect Pack Dinner Closes
Scout Week Activities Here

the gathering. Awards for Den
one. Mrs. Z. Heinrich. Den Mother,
were made to James Tackman,
Richard Helmer and Bert Conrad
Awards for Den two. Mrs. d. +.
Waldenmyer. Den Mother. were 10
Clare Tremlin and Clark Cohee.
Awards for Den four. Mrs Alva
Hunter, Den Mother, were to James
Greenwood. Wayne Duane F1ana-
gan and Alvin Shelton Awards 10
Den five, Mrs Martin Flanagan,
Den Mother. were given to Melvin
Skillman and Keith Hanlon
Pack committeeman, Martin
Flanagan, Alva Hunter and Claude
Cahie set February 10 at the date
for the next pack committee meet
ing The program was closed with
the pledge Of allegiance TO the
flag led by Den one.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-17
Wolf in Mans Clothing
By Mignon @. Eberhorf

Nugent got up. -We ought to
hear from Miss Cable soon," he
said. I'm convinced that she left
voluntarily. Try to be patient,
Brent"
Nugent went toward the door but
Craig stopped MIN. Have you got
the details Of my fathers death
well established"
THE general set-up, yes" an
swered Nugent. There are two
alternatives: One is that whoever
killed him could have poisoned the
brandy with digitalis taken from
the medicine box which was then
oh, thrown away, suppose. We've
searched for it and not found it."
My hand went to my pocket. But
| waited somewhat nervously.
'In that case, your father could
have taken the poisoned brandy
shortly before his Interview with
Miss Gable. :"
Then you don't think Drue killed
himW declared Craig.
81 didn't say that" said Nugent
just before leaving. After he'd gone
Craig told Peter and me what the
late DR.. Claud Chivery had told him.
II was, Craig believed, the motive
for Glands murder. The trouble
was that he didn't dare tell the po-
lice because II might prove a BOOM
erang. Claud had said "she" in
tnIL.rn. L. 6aI rar..I - 5000.
he had used only the pronoun and
it was a dangerously inclusive pro-
noun for Claud might have meant
Drue.
Craig made me shut the door be-
fore he said this, in brief: DR..
Chivery had told him that someone
had been looking up digitalis in one
Of his books. The book h3I been put
back in the wrong place on the
shelves and Claud, q stickler for
order, had seen it at once. Then
(he'd told Craig) he found a paper
marking the place where the infor.
nation about digitalis began.
And when Craig asked him what
paper, and If he could tell who'd
been looking up that particular sub.
ject, Claud had frozen up, looked
scared, referred to the person (and
without realizing 1t, Craig thought)
as She" and said he had to think II
all over before telling the police OF
letting Craig tell them. He'd beer
afraid Of setting them on the wrong
person.
And the way he told me, the way
he looked, / was afraid, too" de.
clared Craig. But now that Drue-
where are you going, Miss Keate1'
ITO my ROOM / said. "Ill bt
back presently"
I didn't hurry until wa. out oil
the room. / didn't want Craig OF
Peter to stop me. Night was com.
ing on; IL was already nearly dusk
and there was still no word Of Drue
kept thinking OF all the littl,
wooded valleys and hedges and
clumps Of shrubs among the low
lying hills.
took my cape. No one was in the
upstairs hall; the door TO Craig's
room was closed. ] crept down the
stairway.
] But Beevens was in the hall be.
/ low And he had something in hi.
hand--the famous clipping which
he gave to me.
81 had removed IL that evening
Miss, when ! emptied the ash trays
The night Mr.. Brent was murdered
] mean. Ard someone had crunpled
1t up and dropped it in an ash tray
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-17

Prospect School pack 1873 closed
Boy Scout week activities for the
district with a potluck dinner meet
ing at the school at $50 with 10
cubs and parents attending. Table
decorations were made by the
cubs Following the dinner. cubs
and parents enjoyed a program Of
games and songs led by r. V. Ter.
rill. Ypsilanti district clubbing com
missioner. Then while the boys
played games, parents discussed
the organization of new Dens and
a new Den mother, Mrs. William
Hughes, was chosen. The date OF
the next pack meeting was set for
March II when the theme OF the
month will be birds
Den four led the opening cere-
mony and each Den entertained
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-17
CHAPTER FORTY-THREE

CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
Peter had been swelling a little
around the cheeks and getting very
pink. He cried, Look here, Nugent,
if you mean me, II didn't. Look
here. | may as well admit, l L
think she's terribly attractive; who
wouldn't! Butt" he faltered,
and Nugent said. "You WHAT"
well, I-oh, gosh! | didn't muir
der Mr.. Brent. And - there's
something did get into that l tried
TO stop and couldn't, and | didn't
want to tell :" he faltered again,
scarlet TO his blond hair.
"If you mean Alexia," began
Craig, Say so. 49,"
81 don't mean Alexia," explained
Peter. 81 mean Mrs. Chivery."
Maud" cried Craig sitting up.
you've not fallen in love with her.
have you7"
"No-no-no" stammered Peter.
what do you meant" snapped
Nugent. eff you've got anything to
say, get it out"
"All right" said Peter swallow
ing hard. But it's not easy. It
| didn't mean to-you see, it's the
Spanish jewels"
The Spanish jewels again. And
Mauds talk of investment. Peter
had got stuck again, and | sug-
gested. "You wanted her to invest
in Spanish jewels"
Spanish =" began Craig in
credulously, and Peter interrupted
with, Eyes, Spanish jewels. II was
this way: | was talking-too much !;
you know the way one gets carried
away. Anyway, l was telling about
a chap who was in the Spanish war,
and he told me about taking a truck
oh, know it sounds utterly ride
ulous, but that's what he said and
what I told Mrs. Chivery about
he said he was taking a truck full
Of jewelry and silver that had been
donated by various Loyalists from
one place TO another when the war
was over. He was caught en- route,
so 10 speak. So he didn't know what
to do with his stuff and he hid it
somewhere behind an old church.
He knew the exact location, and he
said il would take some money for
oh, greasing palms and that kind
Of thing. but he insisted that some
time he was going TO get the money
and go back and bring out the jew
elry.
"But Mrs. Chivery - well, she
kept talking to me about it; said
she had some money and wouldn't
get in touch with the fellow. She
said her husband would be against
her putting up the money and that
Mr.. Brent would be against it, so
wasn't TO tell them. | couldn't be-
lieve she was in earnest about il
then, when began 10 think she was
IL did everything could think OF
to discourage il. Told her how abb
surd it was, the whole story. Blu;
she didn't think IL was absurd a,
all: and I suppose things like that
did happen.
"But as an investment IL was the
bunk" said Peter simply. And
told her so. But the more | said
against it, the keener she was"
yes" agreed Craig, maud
would be. But all you had TO do was
to refuse TO take the money"
We'll, naturally | did" said
Peter. "But she kept insisting"
"well. all you have to do is q
keep or refusing" remarked Craig
YEARLY, and looked a. the clock.