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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-26
Decisive Hour At
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damage was suffered in earlier raids.
 Osaka army arsenal, largest in Japan. Some 100000 square feet of the main plant was destroyed March IA and four other buildings were levelled June 15.
 Kawasaki Aircraft plant, Akashi, most important of the Kawasaki plants. The plant was put out of op- eration in a raid January 19, but subsequently, was repaired. Twenty five per cent of the factory was des- troyed June p.
 21st Straight Day
 The 10-way Superfortress raid carried the American air offensive against enemy targets along B. 000-mile arc from the Kuriles in the north to Borneo in the south into it's Fist straight day.
 Twenty-one ships were sunk or damaged and numerous ground in- stallations were wrecked in raids Saturday, Sunday and Monday, communiques from Admiral Chester w. Nimitzs and General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters revealed. Four U. s. Army air forces and as- sorted Navy and Marine units parti- cipated.
 Mitchell bombers of the Fourth Marine Aircraft Wing damaged an enemy cargo ship and a fast trans port off the Japanese home island of ShOk oku Sunday
 A small cargo ship probably was sunk and two other ships were damaged in air attacks of Paramu- shiro in the Kurile Islands north of Japan the same day.
 South of Japan, Army Thunder bolts and Marine Corsairs from new bases on Okinawa raked enemy in- stallations in the Saxishima Islands with bombs, rockets and bullets Sunday and Monday. A small ship and a number of other small craft were damaged.
 Two search Marines of fleet air wing one shot down an enemy fighter and damaged two others in a battle of southern Korea. A com munique credited planes of this wink with sinking 122,645 tons of enemy shipping, damaging 128,89O tons, destroying 36 enemy planes and damaging "A others since start ing operations several months ago.
 Planes under MacArthur's con- mand sank Japanese power schooner and three small freighters Saturday of southwest Borneo and damaged seven additional small freighters and four river vessels.
 Targets on Borneo, Celebes, East ern Java and Formosa also were hit b yMacArthur's bombers.
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of war and to try to raise the living standards of men everywhere.
 Twenty-six years ago next Thurs day the treaty of Versailles was signed ending World War I. That treaty incorporated the covenant of the League of Nations mans first but futile attempt in this gen. eration to create international CO., operation and prevent future wars.
 The delegations which helped to produce the present document are aware of all the pitfalls ahead of them. Some of the delegates - the venerable Field Marshal Jan c. Shuts of South Africa, the tall, very-correct Earl of Halifax of Bri- tain, the white, bushy-haired Jo- seph Paul-Boncour of France, and diminutive Wellington Koo of China suffered through the leagues fail- ures at Geneva. They have repeat edly warned the world against ex- pecting miracle this time and have urged that the charter and the new organization be considered only the beginning of a long hard road toward peace.
 The nire-weeks -old United Ma So0s Conference is expected to end sn that note tonight. Preceding SAasident Truman will be speakers evm nine other countries. The key Aote of their remarks - to be de- uvered in eight languages - will be that the success of the present or- ganization depends upon the will of the people to make it succeed.
 Tonight's session will bring to a dramatic and colorful close a con- ference that has been marked for weeks by dull, hard work in the rooms of committees. President Truman took it out of that stage as soon as he arrived here late yes- terday by airplane.
 Riding through the streets of San Francisco. the new president of the United States was given a tumultous reception by San Franciscans and the delegates Of the 50 United Ma 1ons.
 A few hours after he arrived the lucky ticket holders to the ninth plenary session poured into the war memorial opera house for a drama packed meeting.
 Halifax Presides
 It was Halifax turn to preside and he called the meeting to order on the dot-at 9:30 p. m.-and started through the agenda. A routine re- port on release of restricted docu- ments was approved and the meet ing began consideration of the re- ports by the four conference com- missions.
 The reports were approved with out incident except for the one con- taining the recommendation that no mention be made in the charter of withdrawal from the organization. Soviet Delegate Andrei A. Gromyko objected to a phrase of explanation in the report which said that with drawal by a member would leave the burden of maintaining peace on the other members.
 The opinion of the soyist dele
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song was pushed into a Broadway production and made Q smash Of the opus. Some years ago show called The Girl Behind the Coun- ter" was playing to moderate hous- es at the Herald Square Theater. . One night the management inserted Paul Lincke tune tagged Glow Worm" Next day the song and the show were the talk of the town Another time, Reginald de Koven opus was playing the Stand ard Theater at 34th St. Business was off, so new song was written into the production. It carried the show successfully through the sea- son-"Oh, Promise Mel"
 Only one Gershwin tune was ever network banned. That was the ditty tagged Nice Work If You Can Get It." The air censors decided its lyrics were 8 bit too risque . Cole Porter's Love for Sale" from the New Workers" had the same trouble Jimmy Walker did his unsuccessful best to get them radio airings.
 Speaking of Walker, most of us know his own big song hit: Will You Love Me in December AS You Do in May?" But not many know Jimmy has a score of other songs to his credit, including: Goodbye, Eyes of Blue" T Like Your Way" Kiss All the Girls for Me" and There's Music in the Rustic of a Skirt.
 No man ever wrote a song under more agonizing conditions than did John H. Newsom-in 1883. Then Newman was on board boat bound for Merseilles becalmed at Corsica |. . Hacked in pain and stricken with a fever of 105 degrees, New man persisted in finishing 8 hymn he had started. Since then, it has given solace to millions-"Lead Kindly Light!"
 Vamp Till Ready: x Cugat's of- fer of $15.000 per week Cat Slapsy Maxie's in Sept) is the tallest tariff we think, ever paid any orchestra |. Dulcina Garcia (Cugat's new band-thrush) and her brother Otto ad libbed some exciting rhumba rhapsodies at J. Pasternak's house party Satde night, where the stal film producer signed them fol MEMS No Leave. No Love" Otto went to another room and wept like 8 kid-from joy Rene Touzette Che composed "Le Me Love You Tonight') is the new. pianist in Moro Morales Rhumband He's Cubanotable The on, song that most professional musi, men rate the greatest torchant O. ali time is: T Wonder Who's Kiss ing Her Now?" Because it embrace all the queries any torch-carrie would ask :. Half the music playet in Latin-A American nations is U. A. music. Especially the foxtrot |. . 100000 juke-boxes will go oversea to keep our men entertained witi the latest recordings c. Porter. Begin the Beguine" and Night ane Day" are still printed in lots O. 100000. Known as popular stand ards" in the music biz Ottt Harbach is doing 8 musical play named Meet Miss April 40t million recordings were sold thi year :. They say 100 new record ing firms have popped up
 Rose of No Mans Land" (whicl sold five million copies) and ''Til We Meet Again" (which sold sL million were the biggest song hit of World War I. All the ditt!es O this war haven't equalled the sal, Of any of the above standouts.
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In the Philippines fighting, about 50 miles now separated the 37tf Division advancing north in the Ca gayan Valley and the airborne troops driving south from where they landed near Aparri on the north coast Saturday morning. The airborne force made fresh progress, but no details were given.
 The 37th was meeting steady op- position in its drive on Tuguegarao, which was under Japanese attack from the east
 Gen. Douglas MacArthur's com munique today said that the Jap anese in Northern Luzon were thoroughly trapped" between the 37th and the airborne troops. The enemy had an estimated 10000 troops in Northern Luzon, but their losses have been high in recent fighting.
 Of the fighting in the oil regions of northwest Borneo, the commun- ique said only that ground, air and navel units continued the reduction of enemy forces.
 The 5th and 18th air forces joined to send more than 150 fighters and bombers to hit the Balikpapan area again.
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DIARRHEA KILLS 2

New York, June 26-(UP)-Nurs- cries at Misericordia hospital were closed today after the department of health announced an outbreak of diarrhea had killed seven of 31 infants there.
 Health officials said II infants became i'll June II. The seventh death occurred Sunday, Dr. Frank A. Calderone, acting health com- missioner, said.
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WORDS WITHOUT MUSIC

The Warner Brothers film biog of George Gershwin remind of sev- eral musical oddities which should be new to most of us. For example, the origin of Yankee Doodle" During the French and Indian War in 1755, ragged army was camped on the Hudson, little south of AL bany. The militia was so pitiful an Englishman named Shuckberg just for giggles revived ditty tagged Yankee Doodle" which was whistled in Cromwell's time . He passed the tune off as celebrat- eo European martial air, scribbling some double-talk lyrics for it. . :. The gag was on him. Two decades later, a tiny American army won its independence from Britain to the tune of Yankee Doodle"
 Mention of Yankee Doodle" above recalls that an American gratefully returned the British favor in another war over century later Most of us know Keep the Home Fires Burning" was probably the most popular of English songs during World War . Ivor No- vello English actor, created its ly- rics, of course. But little known fact is that Lena Guilbert Ford composed its melody reportedly in ten minutes after Novello had eX- citedly read her it's words via the rhone Miss Ford was killed ir t,> oir roid London. She was an American, born in Elmira, N. Y.
 Speaking of the Gershwin flick CT, here is how wrong some critics can be This is what the concert appraiser of the N. Y. Herald Tri- bune Lawrence GilmanD had to say of the now-famed Rhapsody in Blue" when Paul Whiteman pre- miered it here: Most ambitious piece on yesterdays program was the Rhapsody in Blue of MT. Gcrshwin. Weep over the complete lifelessness of its melody and har- mony-so derivative, so stale, so inexpressive!'
 Speaking of Gershwin and the Rhapsody" here's what critic Carl Van Vechten had to say some years ago on the subject Blues music is peculiar language of it's own, wreathed in melancholy ornament. It walls, this music, and limps ianguidly; the rhythm is angular like the sporadic skidding of an automobile on wet asphalt pave ments. The conclusion is abrupt, as if the singer suddenly became too choked for utterance."
 The first blues song, according to authority Isaac Goldberg, was per- formed in New York on May 29, 1769 .. Then a comic opera tagged ''The Paddock pcemiered in a theater in Gothma. It was an adap- tation of a diversion written by Charles Dibdin and first performed at the Drury Lane Theater in London. Lewis Hallam, playing the part of 8 West Indian slave, had this for the punchline of his big E musical number: We wish to de LoN me was dead!"
 h the Warner film, there Is a scene demonstrating how Al Jol- son inserts Gershwin's "Swanee" ir "Sinbad", at the Winter Garden. .. O,d-Timers in show biz will par. don the dramatic liberty. First time "Swanee" was heard on B'way was in the initial show opening the Capi- :. tol Theater on the Stem Jol- , son later interpolated it in his show
 This is not the first time A hit
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mile arc stretching through Akashi, Osaka, Nagoya and Gifu in today's attack on the main enemy home island of Honshu.
 Never before had a B-29c hit SO many separate targets on so large a scale. A Japanese communique said eight Superfortresses were shot down and IA others crippled, but the claim probably was exagger- ated.
 All 10 plants had been damaged in earlier attacks, and todays as- sault was designed to administer the coup degrace. Their destruc- tion would be major step in the reduction of Japan's war potential preparatory to an invasion of the enemy homeland.
 The jittery Tokyo radio, turning temporarily to the threat to the home islands, suggested today that American invasion forces may strike at Amami and Kikai islands no miles northeast of Okinawa, be- fore landing on Japan proper.
 Occupation of Amami and ad- joining Kikai, only 1855 miles south of the home island of Kyushu, would give the Americans addi- tional bases from which to supply the 5O0,0OO to 100000 men neces- sary for an invasion of Japan, the Tokyo broadcast said. On Okinawa, the capture of an additional 794 prisoners Monday swelled total Japanese casualties in the 86-day campaign to l1,546- an unprecedented total of S,696 prisoners and 101 1853 dead.
 Japanese planes shifted their counter-attacks from the American fleet of Okinawa Sunday to Amer ican air bases on the island. Four damage and two of the raiders small formations caused minor were shot down, Pacific fleet com- munique reported.
 The Superfortress raid on Japan today was the 10th this month and boosted June bomb tonnage to A,- $50.
 Important Targets
 The B-29S, escorted by 100 to 15C Mustang fighters from TWO, thun- dered over the main Japanese home island of Honshu at medium alti- tude just before noon then split into separate formations to hit the following targets:
 The Nagoya arsenals Atsuta ammunition factory in northeast Nagoya. Thirty-five per cent of its original roof area of 1,241 ,00C square feet had been damaged in previous raids.
 The Nagoya orsenars Atsuta factory in south-central Nagoya manufacturers of artillery and anti aircraft guns. Thirty-four per cent of its roof area was damaged in three previous fire raids on Nago- va.
 Nippon vehicle Company. Nagoya, manufacturers of munitions. Thirty per cent of the plant, in peacetime Japan's second largest manufactur- CTS of steam locomotives, already was in ruins.
 Sumitomo Duraluminum mil l, Nagoya, makers of Duraluminum sheets and aircraft parts. It was 32.3 per cent damaged in earlier raids on Nagoya.
 Aichi Aircraft Company's Eitoku liant, southwest Nagoya, largest of several Aichi Company plants. Pre- vious damage totalled 20 per cent.
 Mitsubushi Aircraft Company's Kagamigahara plant, five miles east of the center of Gifu, used exclusively for aircraft assembly. It suffered only minor damage in earlier raids.
 Kawasake Aircraft mpany's Kagamigahara plant. only 3,200 feet from the Mitsubishi plant, a plena factoy 35 pc cent destoyed in a raid June 2.
 Sumitomo light metal industry company plant, Osaka, major producer of propellers and alumi- nium duraluminum. Only minor d&1%t;ni,,c Tr Can Tnno ronna1lv
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N. J., northward.
 Weather bureau officials at At lantic City said no alarming situa- ton was expected from high tides. The next high tide at the Jersey resort is at g p. m. By that time, 1t was said the winds are expected tc veer to north-northwest, bringing clearer weather.
 If the northeaster continues to- night, however, the weather bu- reau said, there will be some flooding of the usual coastal areas, " but no need for evacuation of in- habitants. A few New Jersey ocean, front establishments were boarded as a precaution.
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BALL GAME OFF

Boston. June 26.-CUP)-Today's National league baseball game be- tween the Boston Braves and the Cincinnati Reds was postponed be- cause of rain and wet grounds. The teams will play a doubleheader to- naacrnW-
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(Contlnued from Page U dy invasion in July with wounded soldier to whom he was administer ing first aid on the battlefield. He entered the service in August. l943. and trained at Camp Grant, H.. be- fore going overseas in December of the same year.
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(Continued from Pare D days of the soldiers in Europe as pleasant as possible" Ten amphi- theaters accommodate as many as 84.000 for movies and stage shows. Fifteen post exchanges are dispens- ing 1900 gallons of coffee and 25,- 900 doughnuts day. Beer consump- tion at 29 gardens runs to 500,000 mugs a day. Soft drinks total 300.- 900 day.
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and the coroner reserved his de- cision with a statement he probably
 would render a verdict in ( few days.
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Natural gas supplies are now plentiful in the vicinity of Monter- rey. Nexico.
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Prisoner
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Service Boys
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-17
MISS EMMA COPELAND

Funeral services for Miss Emma
M, Copeland, AZ, of 7O7 South
Fourth street, will be held at II
am. today from the Yopp funeral
home. =
The Rev. Harvey Glazier will Of.
hcate and burial will be in Bellevue
cemetery.
Surviving Miss Copeland are her
mother, Mrs. J. W. Copeland; two
sisters, Mrs. D. L. Rogers and Mrs.
w. u. Rogers, both of Wilmington:
and three brothers, Chief Woman
James W, Copeland, of the U. S.
coast Guard, First Engineer Elmer
3: Copeland, of the U. S. Merchant
Marine, and F. W. Copeland, of
Wilmington.
Active pallbearers will be N. J.
Kelly, T. A. Rivenbark, Aubrey
everett, D. F. Sandlin, Jr., o. D.
Curtis, and H. W. Primer.
Honarary pallbearers will be c.
n: Platt, w. E. Eagle, DR.. D. R.
Murchlson, DR.. R. B. Rodman, J.
Z. Hardwick, Walter j. Hines and
vestry OF the Church of the Good
Sheppard.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-17
JOHN E. SHANNON

Funeral services for John E.
Shannon were held at 10 am. yes
terday at St. Mary's Catholic
church. Monsignor c. E. Murphy
officiated. Mr.. Shannon was
auditor of disbursements for the
Atlantic Coast Line railroad.
Surviving Mr.. Shannon, who was
born in Savannah, the son of the
late John E. and Mary Ann Shan
non, are his widow, Mrs. Margaret
R. Shannon; two sons, George and
Thomas Shannon, both of Whining
ton; four sisters, Frances Shannon
and Mrs. Charlie White, of Will
mington, Mrs. S. E. Smith, of West
Palm Beach, Fla. and Mrs. E. D.
Crubbs, of Ocala, Fla
The active pallbearers were
Dan Lockfaw, W. F. Quinlivan,
J. N. Brand, Jr., George Daughtry.
Thomas Cox and James Tillman.
Honorary pallbearers were
Jack Sweeney, w. D. McCaig. DR..
W. c. Mebane. DR.. W. Houston
Moore, DR.. D. R. Murchison, P. J.
Baschon, K. w. Price. Louis F
Ormand, Albert Trundell o. M
Nestbrook, A. r. Hardwicke. J.
I: Newland, W. E. jenkins, Thomas
Mitchell, James Allen, E. A. And
erson, George B. Lynch, R. P.
houston and j. L. Gholson.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-17
MRS. ALICE S. BURRISS

Funeral services for Mrs. Alice
Skipper Burriss, 80, who died at
the home of her daughter, Mrs.
W. B. Klander, in Winter Park
Thursday afternoon, will be held
at pm. toda.' by the Rev. Har'
vey W. Glazier at the Yopp funer-
al home. Burial will be in the
family cemetery.
Besides Mrs. Klander, Mrs. Bur
riss is survived by another daugh-
ter, Miss Blanche Skipper of Viii
mington, eight grandchildren and
nine great grandchildren.
Active pallbearers will be Ro-
bert Klander, William Klander,
Jr., Walter Sykes, D. H. Maultsby
sr., W. F. King and James Skip
per.
Honorary palbearers will be
Herbert Klander, j. B. Parker,
Howard Skipper and J. A. Rlven'
bark.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-17
|TB GROUP TO BUY
X-RAY EQUIPMENT

Plans to begin spending the SILL
222.15 contributed since September,
1914, to the New Hanover County
tuberculosis and Health Associa-
ton with the purchase of an X-ray
machine and the employment of
an additional nurse were made
yesterday at a special meeting of
the Associations operating commit
tee in the County Health Center.
After DR.. John C. VESSEL said
that the sooner we begin to use
the money given to us for that pur-
pose, the better. the committee
moved in short order to authorize
the procurement of an X-ray al
paratus to be used to determine the
incidence of tuberculosis in child
rem who had reacted positively to
tuberculin skin-tests.
The skin tests can be applied in
the schools, but until now the ''sus-
poets" with positive reactions had
to be checked with County X-ray
equipment in the Health Center,
awaiting their turns.
Upon a subsequent motion by Dr.
VESSEL and Dr.. A. H. Elliott, it
was decided to authorize the ex-
penditure of 5000 to hire Negro
nurse, or trained health worker
if no nurse could be found, to
check and follow up tuberculosis
cases among the children in the
County's Negro schools. This func-
ton was expanded to include in.
vestigation of h o m e-conditions,
likely to be conducive to discovery
of additional contact cases.
The service of the additional
nurse or case worker was author
lied to continue throughout the
| remainder of the present school
| term.
Tribute was paid to the efforts
of the Junior Chamber of Com
merce, who through the sale of
TB Bonds and of waste paper
collected on their first City-wide
salvage drive collected more than
81, 900 for the Association. A vote
of thanks was asked by Chair
man Emmett Bellamy, passed by
the committee and seconded with
a personal commentator to
Claud O'Shields, who was pres
ent. the prime mover" in the
organization anti-TB activities.
Mrs. Harriss Newman, treasur-
er of the Association, presented
an account of receipts and ex-
penditures for the period from
September, 1943, through January
26, 1915. After the deduction of
opeating expenditures from the
$6,271 garnered from the 1943-
1914 campaign and the $11,222
taken in 1944-1945. a balance of
S9,213.16 remained, it, was shown.
Additional reports on progress
in fighting the disease were given
by Miss Jennie Gibson. execu-
tive secretary, and MA; Columbia
Munds, County Health Depart
ment worker. 1t was reported
that 81 local cases were current
ly under treatment in the State
sanatorium, % were taking 2neu-
-mo-tnorax treatment from DR.. R.
B. Rodman and that 81 new cases
had been discovered in the County
during the year.
Present at the meeting also were
Mrs. J. Winder Hughes and Miss
Johanna Render.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-17
YMCA DIRECTORS
NAME COMMITTEES

o..d;,e committees of the
vMcA for the current year were
o,ed by the Board of Directors at
meeting in the YMCA building
1-,.sdav as reports. Of various
u,;ce departments were submit
ed by the STALL
uigblight of the reports was that
-, Finance Committee, which
" Vowed good financial condition,
snd the report of the boys divi-
a ;or which showed increased &C
s ;,,;tv of the group over last year.
classes -t at the "Y" had increased
t~on 1897 in January, 1914, to 1853
.l.sses last month. Thirty teams
,ow are playing in the basketball
l0,g1es and all-round yearly pro
ram of athletics has been set up
= hold the interest of the member
ship it was pointed out.
total of 1882 members was
renorted by the Membership Com
nittee, and plans were outlined for
+be annual spring membership
campaign.
Heading the various standing
committees this year are the fol
lowing chairmen.
religious committee, Sturgeon
Baxley: Boys Work, the Rev. c.
\ Barclift; Physical Work, D. H.
Howes: Finance, W. D. Caig
Membership, E. A. Laney; House
Committee, E. L. White; and Per
sonnet H. M. Roland.