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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-13
THREE CAMP DAVIS
PROJECTS STARTED

Construction work on three large
Camp Davis projects was begun
recently and they should be l.
pleted by the dates previously
hxed for their completion, the resi-
dent engineer at the post an
nounced yesterday.
The projects include construc-
non Of five 1200-man mess halls
lor enlisted personnel and one 2000-
man mess hall for officers re-
modelling 20 barracks for con-
"lescent patients at the hospital
and remodeling of 236 barracks
iof the returnee enlisted mel. and
officers.
completion dates set for the
"Eee projects are August 6 for the
mess halls and July II for both
barracks jobs.
Plans for additional work to be
Undertaken at Camp Davis have
wen prepared, but no announce
''ient as to their nature or the
regulation of contracts in their
soAhectlon was made.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-13
B-24's Hit
Japan For
First Time
TWO SHIPS SUNK
$50 B-29's Arrive At Tin
ian From India; 10
Japs Downed
BY WILLIAM F. TYREE
Jnited Press War Correspondent

By WILLIAM F. TYREE
United Press War Correspondent
GUAM, Wednesday, June 13-Wp>
japanese planes raided American
warships off OkinaWa Monday,
damaging one light fleet unit,
while U. S. aircraft carried the
aerial assault against the Nippon
csc home islands into the Seventh
consecutive day, Adm. Chester w.
Ninlitz announced today.
B-24 Liberators, presumably fly
ing from Okinawa, hit Japan for
the first time, Nimitz announced.
Liberators, teamed with Navy
privateers to sink two cargo ships.
They damaged two others and
scored hits on several fishing craft
in waters off Kozu island south O.
Tokyo bay. Large fires were start
ed on the island.
Heavy reinforcements arrived
for the 21st Superfortress bomber
command and Tokyo predicted the
United States was preparing to
base thousands" of planes on
nearly-conquered Okinawa.
A fleet Of $50 B-29's from the
Goth bomber command, which
made the first large scale. assault
on japan a year ago, arrived at
Tinian from India.
In yesterdays enemy raid on
Okinawa, 10 Japanes fighters were
shot down by American intercept
ors and anti-aircraft fire.
Land-based American planes
struck at enemy air fields on Kyu.
shu Monday, shooting down four
Japanese fighters. Escort carrier
aircraft bombed anG strafed air
fields and installations in the Saki-
shima islands south OF Okinawa.
causing several fires.
Seventh AAF Liberators bombed
the air field and other installations
on Marcus island yesterday, while
Marine Bombers and fighters
struck at targets in the Palaus.
A total of 10 American Naval
units have been damaged and eight
sunk by Japanese air attack off
OkinaWa since April rs.
The 21st Bomber Command an.
nounced the arrival of the pioneer
ing 58th Bombardment wing at Ii
imam after 3,600-mile mass flight
via China from India bases.
Brig. Gen. Roger M. Ramey,
Denton. Tex, led the BIO migrat-
ion over enemy territory and merg-
ed with Maj. Gen. Curtis E. Le-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-13
ENGLAND H0N0RS
GEN. EISENHOWER
Becomes Fourth American
To Receive Freedom
OF The City

LONDON, June 12-lR-Amid all
the pomp and pageantry of the
centuries old English court, tn e
City of London today bestowed its
highest honor of Freeman" on
Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower, who
just 80 years ago today was gradu-
ated from West Point as a second
lieutenant.
Later, at an informal tea at
Buckingham Palace, King George
vi invested the victorious Allied
communicating chief with the Order
of Merit, second only to the Order
of the Bath, first class, among the
honors by which Britain rewards
it's heroes.
General Ike was acclaimed by
the rank and file of Londoners on
triumphant drive through tn e
streets, and then at the ancient
bomb SCARED Guildhall by a
throng of cheering dignitaries, to
whom he was introduced as the
genius" who steered the Allied
armies to victory over Fascism.
As a token of recognition of his
great leadership, the soldier from
Abilene, Kas., was presented with
the gold-decorated sword carried
by the Duke of Wellington at the
Battle of Waterloo. After the color
full ceremony it was returned to
the museum where it had rested
for nearly 100 years, and in its
stead Eisenhower will receive a
sword being specially forged with
his name engraved on the blade.
The general was visibly touched
by the applause which greeted him
as he strobe into the historic meet
ing hall to the strains of THE
Battle Hymn of the Republic. y
Standing at the center of the huge
rostrurn, he was flanked On three
sides by members of the cabinet
and scores of notable figures, in
Guiding Prime Minister Churchill,
Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Will
liam Tedder and American Ambas-
sador John C. Winant.
Following presentation of the
Sword by the Lord Mayor, Eisen-
hover spoke with emotion when he
said he was so overcome he might
well lose complete confidence did
I not know I was among friends.
''The high sense of distinction l
feel in receiving this great honor
from the City of London is ines
capably mingled with feelings OF
profound Sadness he said. "All
of us must always regret that your
country and mine were ever faced
with the tragic situation that COM
PEELED the appointment OF an Allied
commander-in-chief.
Interrupted often by cries OF
"Hear! Hear' and applause, Els
enhoWer declared his most cher
ished hope was that after Japan
has joined the Nazis in utter de-
feat, neither my country nor yours
need ever again summon its sons
and daughters from their peaceful
pursuits to face the tragedies OF
battle"
But he added, ''the fact that
is important for both OF us to re-
member is that neither London nor
Abilene, which are sisters under
the skin, will sell her birthright
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-13
Work Of Junior Chamber
Praised At Annual Meet

After paying sincere tribute to
the unselfish, progressive and pa
triotic work accomplished during
the past year, Judge John J. Bur-
ney of the Eighth Judicial Dis
trict, told members of the Will
mington Junior Chamber of Com
merce last night that there is 60
ing to be even greater work to be
done in the immediate future-the
task of building greater and bet
ter Wilmington. The occasion was
the Annual Installation Banquet of
the Jayces which was held at the
Cape Fear Country Club, with the
wives and friends of the members,
honored guests of the evening.
Introduced by Vice-President
Hal Love, Judge Burney delighted
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-13

ers, Mr.. McKeithan said, the ma
jority of whom will go back to
their homes, thus causing no I'M
employment problem here.
Figures for May show re-
duction in the number of job place
ments through the USES office
here as compared to April, and
also a reduction in the number Of
persons who have come to the Of
flee. seeking employment, the man.
ager said. However, there were
more positions open in May than
in April, it was pointed out.
OF the total job placements last
month, 81 were veterans of the
present World War, McKeithan
said. This is an increase over pre-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-13
County Home Attacked
In Grand Jury Report

Taking cogn1zance OF the appar-
ent lack of inspections Of the Coun-
tv Home, the grand jury reported
ty Judge Burney tDe observation
that "surely it is tue that inspec-
lions should be made of our County
Home as we'll as restaurants and
eating places in Wilmington and its
environs. Other recommendations
embodied in the report included
the transfer Of white men in the
Home to the building built by WPA
or PWA and known as the I'm
Urinary; that temporary partitions
be placed in the building, built by
WPA or PWA for prisoners dining
quarters, and that all Negro in
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his audience with an address Of
praise, spiced with ready wit and
admiration for the City of Whining.
ton and all it stands for.
At the outset of his talk, Judge
Burney stated that he believed
fundamentally in the future of
Wilmington and cautioned the Jay.
ces that the future of the city de.
ponds to very large extent on the
effort that is put behind the task
OF making Wilmington one Of the
great ports of the nation. He point
ed oft that Wilmingtonians must
build for the future on hat we
have today and that great posi-.
bilities are in store for this area.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-13
SMALL NATIONS
FIGHTING VETO
Farley Drives Toward
Final Approval; Crucial
Vote Planned

SAN FRANCISCO, June 12-(P)-
The United Nations conference
drove steadily ahead today toward
approving both veto rights fol
great powers and the vital peace
enforcement mechanism they will
control.
Some small nations kept talking
against granting Russia, Brlteln,
China, France and the United
States authority to block by lndl-
vidual votes any actions to pre-
serve peace in the security council
of a new world league.
But with crucial test vote COM
ing up in COMMITTEES considering
the councils functions. the little
powers were on the losing side and
knew it.
They were giving in gr';dglngly
to the idea that veto over investi-
tigation and peaceful settlement OF
disputes had to be accepted If a
new United Nations organization IS
going to work. 49,.
With the biggest battle of the con.
ference all but over, delegates OF
so nations .converged on the San
Francisco opera house to cement
into place what a committee caals
"!the keystone of the peace .struc-
ture'' the measures the Security
Council can take to blot OFT future
threats to peace. .'..-r
Up for approva. in an open COM
mission session was committed
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-13

carrying a singing Indictment of
sanitary conditions at the County
hume, members Of the New Han-
r rser County grand jury filed it's
d tepoft covering the jury's work
auiilg the June term of criminal
t tUurt with Judge John J. Burney
o euS morning. Prefacing the report
WI me County Home with a state
m 1enV 10 the effect that Mr.. and
wi 49, Long have done a wonderful
wv: wv, considering the allowance
b ''o help which have been allowed
~ me county Commissioners, the
"a o. ana jury recommended among
T., ha'eI things, that steps be taken
49,. " hS1er to the State all mental
tTtllents now living at the County
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-13
Allies Plan
Farley With
Pole Chiefs
HOPKINS RETURNS
Meeting Scheduled In Mos
COW Friday; Reorgani-
cation Talked

WASHINGTON, June 12- W.G -
Harry L. Hopkins returned today
from a Notwithstanding mission to
Moscow, and the success Of his
visit was evidenced a few hours
later with announcement that the
Big Three deadlock over Poland
had been broken.
A statement issued jointly in
London, Washington and Moscow
said that IL representative Poles.
including three associates of the
exiled regime in London. have
been invited to confer in Moscow
Friday on plans for reorganization
of their country's government.
1t was agreed at Yalta that the
Soviet sponsored Warsaw regime
should be replaced with a moro
representative government Of ma.
tional unity. Fridays Moscow con-
ference is the first concrete step
toward forming such a regime.
Hopkins talks with Soviet Pre-
mier Josef Stain were believed to
have played a major part In break
ing the Polish impasse, long sore
spot in Anglo American Russian
relations.
President Truman dispatched
Hopkins to Moscow last month and
it was understood then that one Of
the chief purposes of the mission
was to seek solution to the Polish
problem. Hopkins repeatedly also
was delegated to arrange for Big
Three meeting. Success of that
phase of his mission was revealed
last week by Mr. Truman who said
he would meet with Stain nd
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
within 40 days.
Hopkins reported to Mr.. Truman
Immediately upon his return home.
He would not comment on his
visit to the Krenlin, but the White
House said Mfr. Truman would dis
cuss the Polish situation as well
as other international topics at his
news conference tomorrow. This
presumably will include a report
onHopkins talks with Stain.
The ailing corfidante of the late
President Roosevelt is conceded to
have improved U S.-Russian rela-
lions to marked degree. Besides
helping to break the Polish dead.
lock and laying the groundwork
for the coming Big Three confer.
ence, he apparently cleared the at,
nosphere on many other disputed
issues.
Hopkins made the long flight
back to this country in an air
transport command plane. He look
ed tired but said that he felt "all
right" He conferred with Mr.. Tru.
man for a few minutes. left a
memorandum on his mission and
then went home to rest.
He will continue his report TO the
President at breakfast at the White
House tomorrow. They will Be
Joined by former Ambassador 10.
seph E. Davies who undertook q
companion mission to London.
Hopkins flew back with Charles
E. Bohlen, State Department Rus.
sian expert and political adviser
who was in Moscow with him. Hop.
kins' wife went to Russia with him
but did not return. He said she Is
visiting hospitals in Europe.
Meanwhile, White House Press
Secretary Charles G. Ross said Mr..
Truman would have nothing to say
until Hopkins completes his report.
He added, however, that the Presi.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-13
j. s. Forces
Use Ladders
In Advance
ATTACK BEFORE DAWN
1000 Yards Gaine d f;
Battle For Last jap
Defense Area

GUAM, Wednesday, June 13-W.D
u. S. Marines and soldiers drove
onto the Yaeju-Dake plateau from
the east and west Tuesday, gain
ing up to 1000 yards, while troops
attacking frontally from the north
cracked the center of the Japa-
nese line with the capture of Yuza
stronghold.
The First Marines, launching a
surprise attack before dawn, ham,
mered forward against light re-
sistance to win positions on Kuni-
shi ridge on the western side OF
the plateau, last defense position
for approximately 10000 Japanese
holding the southern tip of Okina-
wa.
The 7th Infantry Division, using
rope ladders, climbed the escarp-
ment in the east at point north
west of Hanagusuku.
The goth Division, battering in
from the north, seized Yuza, four
miles from the extreme southern
tip of the island, and then plowed
forward to secure high ground on
the approaches to the plateau.
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz' daily
war bulletin said that substantial
gains" were scored by the Leather
necks and Doughboys as they
launched final general offensive
after the japanese had turned
down civilized" offer to surrend-
er. The gains averaged 200 to y
600 yards.
The Japanese, however, recov-
cred quickly from the initial sur
prise of the assault and fought
viciously from their rocky positions
with machine guns, mortars and
grenades.
Maj. Gen. Pedro del Valle's First
Marine veterans of Guadalcanal
and New Britain opened the as
sault about $3.50 yesterday morn
ing, meeting only light resistance
as they stormed Kumishi ridge
The Marines slipped up the 150-foot
height with comparative ease.
When day broke heavy fighting
developed, but the Marines held
their gains.
The Leathernecks advanced L.
900 yards in their new assault and
were reinforcing their positions as
the battle ragged on.
In the east, Maj. Gen. Archibald
v. Arnold's crack Seventh Infantry
Division also climbed the escarp-
ment after surprise attack that
gained 500 yards. Using ropes, the
18th Infantry regiment scaled the
face of the plateau at point north
attacked high ground southwest
southeast of Yuza. Their elements
west of Hanagusuku, two miles
of Hanagushuku
Maj. Gen. James L. Bradley's
96th Division won Yuza after a
see-saW battle and then continued
pounding southwark for gains OF
200 yards. The 383rd Regiment
spearheaded the assault on Yuza,
repulsing at least one small Japa-
nese counter-attac before taking
the town.
North of the Yaeju-Dake battle
zone, Sixth Marine Division forces
carried on their humiliation of
Japanese Marines and Naval land
ing forces cornered at the southern
edge of Naha harbor. They reduc-
ed the enemy pocket to less than
a square mile. The Japanese, how
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-13
Ports Group
Is Approved
By Governor
WILL MEET SOON
Publisher OF Wilmington Is
Named; Chairman
To Be Chosen

The new North Carolina State
po.ts Authority, appointed yester
sov bv Gov r. Gregg Cherry, is
ovnected to be called to Raleigh in
the near future to be sworn in al
tn ne ceremonies, and a chair.
.nan is to be elected at the first
n,peting of the group, it was dis.
closed yesterday.
The authority, composed Of
seven members, was empowered
~, legislation enacted at the last
session of the General Assembly
~ improve the states port facili-
ties.
Members of the authority are:
R B. Page, publisher of the Will
minpton Star-News, for term OF
sx years to represent New Han
over county.
sB Frink, prominent Southport
attorney now serving as a lieuten-
,o+ in the Coast Guard, term OF
,y wears to represent Brunswick
county.
H S. Gibbs, of Morehead City.
member of the State house, term
nj six years to represent Carteret
county
W. 0. Huske, of Fayetteville,
tour.year term.
W A. Goodson, Winston-Salem,
tour-year term.
A. G. Myers, Gastonia, three
year term.
T. Henry Wilson, Morganton,
three-year term.
Under the terms of the Ports
Authority bill passed March 20, the
Authority is authorized to issue
self-iquidating revenue bonds to
finance the acquisition, construc-
ton, equipment, maintenance and
operation Of facilities for North
Cardinals ports. Also under terms
Of the act, the state may inv st
its surplus funds in the bonds OF
the Authority.
The act further provided that
three members of the board shall
come from New Hanover, Carteret
and Brunswick counties, sites OF
North Cardinals main waterway
facilities. The remaining four
members are to represent inland
points.
The bill providing for the Au-
thority was the result Of recon-
mendations by the State Planning
board that funds be made avail
able for development OF the ports
Ct Wilmington, Morehead City and
Southport. These proposals were
submitted to Governor Cherry
after the board visited here last
spring.
The legislation, since its first n
ception, has been looked upon by
local interests as the first definite
recognition ever accorded by the
legislature of the importance to the
state of its seaports. This trend,
It was pointed out, will help keep
North Carolina in line with other
seaboard states which have taken
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-13
GEN. EPSON SAYS:

WASHINGTON, June 12-tR
"A War Bond statement from
Brigadier General Merritt A.
Edison, USMC, chief of staff,
Fleet Marine Force, Pacific:
"There is only one way the
enemy can escape final doom.
That is for the home front to
relax. Let the Seventh War
Loan show the crawling Jap he
cannot get away from the pun
ishment he deserves"
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-13
3, 6M Tanks Are Killed
In Troopship Sinkings

WASHINGTON, June 13lTThe Army disclosed tonight that
1904 American soldiers died the sinking oophps
in Al months of war against Germany and Italy.
This of which
Army good World
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Partly cloudy and continued warm to-
a,v Gentle to moderate southerly
winds.
Temperatures yesterday:
High So, Low "a.
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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-15

hastily recruited in the Russian
capital.
No wonder Hitler screeched
that the Russians were through.
Thousands of Muscovites were
dying in battle, and his generals
couldn't have known what Zhu-
kov had in store for them. They
saw only green troops in their
path. They didn't realize that
the woods around the Russian
capital were filled with thous-
ands of trained reserves, ready
to spring at their threats and
to inflict a singing defeat on
them.
The Germans had further rea-
son to respect Marshal Zhukov
after their crushing losses at
Stalingrad. For SO days the Ger
man Sixth Army had laid siege
to the city, with 100000 of their
men engaged in the titanic bat
tie.
Zhukov trapped the Germans
with a masterfully-planned sur
prise counter-offensive. His
swift-moving tank drives swept
across hastily-erected bridges
over the Volga, north and south
of the city, to forge two steel
rings around the besiegine
Nazis.
Within q few short weeks af'
ter Zhukov's counteroffensive
had been executed, nothing re-
manned for the Germans at Stall
ingrad but to "dig graves fol
themselves and prepare crosse:
or surrender" as one Russian
staff officer said. Zhukov hac
already departed, to start work
on a plan to rescue Leningr1d.
Since 1912 he has been Rus
sia's First Vice Commissar o.
Defense as the ranking deputy
of Marshal Stain in the Com
missariat.
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ponese treachery, had paved .
seemingly unfordable river bed
behind which they were en-
trenched, with rocks and piles
strong enough to keep his heavy
tanks from begging down. They
haven't yet learned how he
camouflaged his might SO that
planes couldn't detect it.
Peasant-born Gregory Zhukov
has an invaluable asset which
has helped him to outwit the
proud Prussian generals many
times. He has imagination. He
is methodical, thorough, skillful,
brilliant and completely unor-
thodox. The Germans simply
can't fathom his style.
Zhukov looks anything but
the military master-mind he
really Is. His close-shaven skull
Is round as a basketball, his
heavy lips, strong nose and COM
pact body are typical Of the Rus
sian peasant. He's under so,
and has been in an army uni
form since he started as a Car
list private in 1918. A veteran
of many wars, Zhukov first won
world fame when he saved Mos
cow from the clutching fingers
of the Nazis. From the World
War l rank of private he had
advanced so far along the road
to military success by the time
the Spanish Civil War broke out,
that Stain loaned him to the
Loyalists as a tank expert.
He is recognized now as Rus
sias greatest authority on tank
warfare, military sommunica-
tions, and paratroop fighting.
He is credited with organizing
the modern Russian army into
a superb war machine. His APP
pointment as Red Army Mar
shall was the first to be made in
wartime.
SAVED MOSCOW
Zhukov's legendary salvation
of Moscow provides a spectacu-
lar example of his brilliant gen.
eralship and of his masterful use
of surprise tactics. When the
German armies approached the
! city, they were met by monde
script mob of civilian defenders,