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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-02
KAHUzU CAPTURED
by YANK FORCES
American Divisions Reach
For Shuri And Yona-
baru Airfield

GUAM, Wednesday, May 2.-P)
Seventh Division infantrymen
entered the village of Kahuu on
the eastern flank OF the southern
Okinawa line yesterday. Local
gains were scored along the re-
mainder of the front.
Adm. Chester w. Ninitz,' pro-
gress report today said a few Jap
anese planes attacked the Oklna-
wa area yesterday and one medl-
UNI sized ship was damaged.
There was no indication as to the
type or casualties.
Two American divisions sup
ported by blistering tank artillery
fire reached today for the city OF
shuri and Yonabaru airfield in the
core of japanese defenses on
southern Okinawa.
The goth Division in the cen
trail sector was within 300 yards
fCou}lnuad nm Pa 90 Seven: Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-02
SMALL NATIONS
WIN TOP SPOTS
Belgium, South Africa
Norway, Venezuela
Head Major Groups

SAN FRANCISCO. May IT,
The United Nations conference
today put Belgium, South Africa,
Norway and Venezuela in charge
of four major commissions which
VIII draft its charter for world
organization.
Without chance of a hitch, il
approved assignments to the COM
missions and to a dozen commit
tees which will serve under them.
The lineup was as recommended
by executive and steering COM
mittees. Thus small nations won
top spots in the conference.
The conference thereby squar-
ed away to real work, but with
the question of its voting proce'
dure still undecided. Yet to be
determined is whether majority or
two-thirds rules, or a combina,
ton of these, should be employed
in reaching, decisions.
One authority said a proposal
had been blocked this morning ir
the steering committee to require
Continued on Page Two; Col. 4,
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-02
Ch rchill
Hin is Of
Big News

LONDON, May / -tR- Prime
Minister Churchill told the House
of Commons today that he might
have information of Importance
to impart before Saturday, but dis.
appointed hopes that he would clar.
ify Immediately the prospects OF
peace in Europe.
Never once using the word
peace" Churchill told an expec-
tant house that should informa-
ton of importance reach his. ma
jesty's government during the four
days of our sitting this week as it
might dol will ask the speakers
permission to ask the indulgence
of the house to interrupt the bust
ness and make a brief announce
ment."
Parliament's normal weekly pro-
gram ends Friday night.
The fact that the Prime Minister
did not divulge the progress of
peace negotiations carried poten-
tial significance. Only few hours
earlier the foreign office had an
nounced Churchill would have a
statement to make when he appear
ed in commons. In the interval he
changed his plans.
Shortly before Churchill spoke
Count Folke Bernadotte, the Swe-
dish intermediary who carried
Heinrich Himmler's first surrender
offer to the Allies, returned to
Stockholm from Denmark, where
it had been reported he had
fresh meeting with Himmler.
The Swedish foreign office, how
ever, announced that Count Ber-
nadotte did not bring with him
Continued on Page Two; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-02
FORECAST

Increasing c1oudiness and warmer.
High, Go. Low, 50.
Evening star., 1945-11-15
ChiId-Care Centers
Continuance Assured
By Senate Unit Action

Continuation of the child-care
centers here and elsewhere over the
country until March l was virtually
assured yesterday when the Senate
Appropriations Committee, acting
on the huge funds cutback bill,
agreed to the House provision leav-
ing S5,415, 900 available for the pur-
pose.
Belief prevailed the Senate would
ratify the decision of its appropria-
tions group, headed by Senator Nc
Kellar, Democrat, of Tennessee.
1t had been planned to close down
the Districts % chld-care centers
and those in the States October 81,
since they were established as a
wartime measure. The four-month
extension was planned, however. at
the instance of President Truman
and Spokesmen for working mothers,
on the ground that many mothers
still must work and must have
means of care for their children
since many servicemen still ARE
overseas.
The rescission bill as it came from
the House proposed to rescind $52,-
653, ,713,879 of wartime appropria-
tions previously made for this fiscal
year. The Senate committee reduced
the amount of the cutbacks to $751;
245 ,920,213, to leave s1,407 900 ,00C
more than the House total still
available to Government agencies
This is mostly for the military and
naval establishments, little change
being made in House totals on civil.
ian branches of the Government.
Evening star., 1945-11-15

Occasionally. when the President Is
very busy, he eats in his Office.
Dinner is at pm. and the Presi-
dent prefers steak, if he can get it,
and baked potatoes. He goes to
bed as early as he can-9 pm. if
he can get away. In case he gets
hungry between meals there's a re-
frigerator In third-floor kitchen,
stocked with milk and fruit Juices.
For their meals, the Trumans eat
OF dishes that may date back to the
Cleveland administration. Con-
trary to reports, Mrs. James Helm,
White House social secretary said,
the dishes do not change with the
administration.
Unless there's a major upheaval
in the White House kitchens, Mrs
Truman's chances Of selecting new
set OF White House china are slim
Mrs. Roosevelt chose a new set, Mrs
Helm explained, but only because
the old set was no longer adequate
to serve 110 guests at state dinner
That's the measuring rod.
The china closets of the White
House now are stocked with china
chosen by Grover Cleveland, Theo-
dore Roosevelt, woodrow Wilson and
the Franklin Roosevelts. Depend
ing on the occasion-and how much
of each set still is unbroken- -all OF
this china Is used at various times.
Evening star., 1945-11-15
County Red Cross
In Office Space Plea

The Montgomery County Red
Cross Chapter has issued an appeal
for space in which to carry on its
work.
The chapters present quarters at
7012 Wisconsin avenue will be taken
over as a place of business Decem-
Der l, it was explained, and the or
ganization has been unable to find
another home" so far.
Any one who knows of place with
approximately $500 square feet of
space which may be used by the Red
Cross is asked to notify the chapter,
Oliver 1897.
Capt. w. B. Armstrong, Wood
acres, has been named chairman of
a nominating committee to select
officers for the chapter for the COM
ing year. Members are Mrs. George
Smoot, MIS-. Charles T. Williams,
Austin A. LIE Mar and Mrs. Ransom
H. F. Luce. The committee will re-
port at the annuar chapter meeting
January 30, 1916.
Mrs. Kestef Hastings and Mrs.
PGad Morehouse have been appoint
ed to represent the chapter at the
annual meeting of the American Red
Cross December 12
A foreign message was received
recently by the chapter for D. Paul,
4 Agnew street. Montgomery 6, Md.
Any one knowing the whereabouts Of
such a person was asked to call the
chapter.
Evening star., 1945-11-15
Detectives Lose IS MPHChuse
Get 7 Others in Numbers Cases

Detective Sergts. Howard E. Ogle
and Paul H. Clarke, spearlYead of
the anti-gambling squad, were at it
again yesterday, roaring through
traffic in a 65-mile-an-hour pursuit
of a fugitive car. The car got
away, but in the pairs later activ-
tiles there was another chase, two
arrests, and the seizure of paper
bag containing $500 and numbers
slips.
A tip that the corner of Warner
street and New Jersey avenue NV.
was meeting place for the trans
ferring of lottery slips and money
to cars bound for Maryland started
the mile-a-minute chase through
more than 2 miles of crowded streets.
The two detectives spotted large
new car parked at the intersection
with two colored men in it around
l pm. The men saw them at the
same time and left at top speed, ac-
cording to Sergt. Ogle.
Five scout cars and three motor
cycles In all joined the pursuit
through traffic in the Northwest
section. At Florida and Rhode
Island avenues NV, the traffic was
SO heavy the chase had to be aban-
doned because of the danger to other
drivers and pedestrians, Sergt. Ogle
said. The fugitive car got away.
The two detectives then drove
Evening star., 1945-11-15

back to the rendezvous spot. AS
they approached the corner, Sergt.
Ogle saw man whom he said he
recognized as in the numbers busi-
ness throw package into a parked
automobile and sprint away.
The detectives pulled their car in
front OF the automobile and arrested
the occupants.
The man arrested, John Henry
Kendrick, 80, colored, 100 block of
Quincy place NE, turned over a
paper bag containing more than
$500 and slips, Sergt. Ogle said. He
was charged at No. precinct with
operating lottery and with the
possession of lottery slips.
Kendrick pleaded not guilty to a
charge OF possessing numbers slips
in Municipal Court and asked for
a jury trial. Judge Thomas D.
Quinn set December Is for the trial
and ordered bond of $500.
In short chase, William Boone,
"a, colored, 1900 block of Ninth
street NV, was arrested by the
two detectives and charged with the
possession of lottery slips. The de-
tectives pursued him to the fourth
floor Of a building in the 1900 block
of Ninth street NV, Sergt. Ogle
said. Cornered, he handed over the
numbers slips, saying, Here it is,'
according to Sergt. Ogle.
Evening star., 1945-11-15
Trumon's Thanksgiving Dinner
Will Follow Turkey Tradition

Like many other Americans, the
Trumans will eat turkey and
pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving Day
at a family. dinner in the White
House.
The Thanksgiving menu was given
to women reporters by Mrs. Tru-
mans secretaries today, along with
a schedule Of the Presidents living
habits.
The Thanksgiving dinner, at
which Mrs. Truman's brother and
sister-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
erick Wallace OF Denver, and their
two children are expected to be
guests, includes:
Soup Julienne, curled celery, as
sorted olives, turkey, dressing, cram
berry jelly, asparagus, buttered
beets, glazed sweet potatoes, green
salad, pumpkin pie and cheese.
As for the Presidents schedule
Mrs. Truman told her secretaries te
report that he arises at s am. and
reads the newspapers. She gets ur
in time to join him for breakfast
at am. The meal, eaten in the
family dining room, includes fruit
toast, bacon and coffee.
The President likes light lunch
soups and salads which he eats
in the family dining room. Usually
Miss Margaret Truman comes home
from school to join her parents
Evening star., 1945-11-15
Milk Supply Outlook
Continues Gloomy,
Producers Believe

The tightest pinch since the milk
shortage developed is in store for
District consumers this week end
and there is nothing to indicate
turn for the better in the near
future.
This was the prediction made to-
day by Bruce B. Derrick, manager
of the Maryland and Virginia Milk
Producers Association, who has
waged an unsuccessful fight to
alleviate what dairymen claim is the
dryest fall season they have seen.
The way it looks now we can
expect further decline of 1000 to
5000 gallons by Saturday. Mr.. Der
rick said. I'VE seem to be at the
end of our rope in the quest for new
sources of supply and right now I
wouldn't dare predict when things
will get better
New Sources Sought.
Turned down by the OPA in max
ing deal with Ohio and Indiana
producers which would have re-
turned the District supply almost to
normal, the dairymen said they
still were casting about for milk in
areas where ceiling prices would
make purchases feasible.
The manager of one large dairy
said there was hope of obtaining
some milk from Wisconsin by this
week end, but in what quantity he
could not say.
Analyzing the shortage, Mr.. Der
rick said he had observed that in
five of the last eight years, the low
for the dry season was reached
about November Is, but that during
the past three years, the critica,
point was about November Is. He
said that in view of the current sit
uation, "anybody's guess was as
good" as his as to when the turning
point would come.
IL Per Cent Below Normal.
Today the daily production oi
milk for the area was running $4,000
gallons below the 137,000-g gallon
normal, a decline of about 5000
gallons since the first of the week.
Very little cottage cheese or but.
termilk was available either to home
consumers of stores, and dairymer
predicted chocolate milk would be
next to go.
Although deliveries to schools have
been slightly curtailed in the past
few days, there is no real hardship
and authorities are making certain
that smaller children are served
Mr.. Derrick said.
The Department of Agriculture's
action yesterday in repeating 9
wartime order against sale of milk
in pint bottles will mean little In
improving distribution, as pint bot
ties are almost nonexistent at this
time, dairy managers said.
Evening star., 1945-11-15
Montgomery Group Plans
Christmas Gift Sale

A sale of 5000 handmade ar
ticles, suitable for Christmas gifts,
will be held from 9 am. to 6 pm.
tomorrow and Saturday by the
arts and crafts group of the Mont
gomery County Homemakers' Coun-
Gil and the Home Demonstration
Office in the Rockville urthouss
and in Jesup Blair Community
House, Georgia avenue and Blair
road, Silver Spring.
Made under trained supervision
the articles represent the work o1
the members of the Is county
home demonstration clubs.
The display includes toys, novel.
ties, sweaters, childrens pinafores
and mittens, textile-painted scarves
hooked and crocheted rugs, ane
many other articles.
Mrs. James c. Henegar, Fairland
is chairman of the sale, with Mrs
Harry Westcott, Rockville, II
charge of the Rockville Salesroom
and Miss Frances Wolfe and Mrs
Hale Sehorn in charge of the Silver
Spring sale.
Evening star., 1945-11-15
Gen Wonwishts Own Story
BoIky Locomotives, Damaged Bridges and Mud
Impede Path to Freedom After Reds Open Prison

at just 6 o'clock, taking Marui along
with us to report to his colonel in
Mukden.
The village of Sian had been .frigid
and its streets deserted when last
I passed through it, December /,
1914. But now, on this great August
"a, 1945, Sian hummed with life.
Thousands of Chinese lined the
streets. waving Chinese and Russian
flags and cheering us. Some came
up and offered us fruits and cigar
cites and when some of us indicated
that we had no money they simply
pushed the wares into our buses.
The Russians came into Man.
churia with poor maps. At least
our Russians did. For the next five
hours we travelled on wrong roads.
At midnight we reached a fair sized
town and I suggested to the Rus
sian that he pick up a Chinese
guide. This took another hour, and
then We started off again. But at 4
a. IN. the road petered out into a pig
track. So we had to go back to the
town.
Roads Jar Filings Out.
We reached there about daylight
on August Is and drove all that day
over roads that Jared the new fill
ings out of our teeth. We were per-
petually being stuck in the mud, out
OF which the Russian jeeps would
pull our wheeling buses.
At noon that day I got lesson
in the hardy ingenuity of the Rus
sian soldier. Our convoy reached a
river as wide as the Missouri is at
Kansas City. 1t was deep and fast
flowing and the iron bridge was
down.
The Russian colonel stopped us.
turned his jeep around and drove
back to a place from which he shot
the jeep up on to the rough ap-
proach to narrow railroad bridge
which spanned the river. With his
wheels straddling the rails and his
tires humping along the ties, he
drove straight across the long bridge,
turned around and drove back. He
called Leith and muttered some
Russian at him.
The colonel says that the whole
convoy will have to cross the river
tSee WAINWRIGHT Page By
Evening star., 1945-11-15

arm the Jap guards. 1t was a most
satisfying sight. ...
When it had been completed I
went to Marui, now minus his sword.
Il will no longer allow myself or
the other Americans here to be
considered prisoners of war;" I told
him. 1--WE will take no further Or
ders from you or your men, and
We will leave with the Russians"
Asked for Statement.
The methodical Jap nodded his
agreement but asked me to write
out statement for the record. This
I did. And when I put my name to
it l felt that here was liberation,
formal liberation just three
years, three months and 18 days
after I became a captive.
The Russian commander showed
up at S o'clock, conferred for an
hour after that with Marui, and
then came out, got in his jeep and
gave the word to roll on. We rum
bled through the gate of Sian prison
Evening star., 1945-11-15
Mike, FoIo's Successor,
Denied Run of House

Fala, the late President Roose-
velt's scottie, has a successor at
the White House but the new canine
incumbent can't boast Falas privi-
leges.
Mike" Margaret Truman's Irish
setter, is kept outside the Executive
Mansion, Mrs. James Helm, Mrs.
Truman's social secretary, told a
press conference today.
Fala had the run of the house,
often appearing at press confer
enceS.
Evening star., 1945-11-15
Cannon Withdraws
Objection 10 Gym
Glasses for Cadets

DR.. James A. Cannon, Board of
Education member, said today he
had investigated the schools physi-
cal education department and found
it so efficient that he is withdrawing
his opposition to making cadets take
full gym classes.
DR.. Cannon told the Student Ac-
tivities Committee discussing the
physical education department to-
day that the department is doing
the best it can" with Sc per cent
temporary personnel and inadequate
equipment. He previously had said
he had heard it was conducted in an
incompetent" manner.
He recommended that doctors be
present at all football games and
asked for survey of need for
shower and gym facilities. The de-
partment here never will be equal to
those in other cities until equipment
is overhauled completely, he con-
tended.
Will Air Principals Opinion.
Board members decided to ask
principals whether they can en-
force more lenient version of the
present smoking ban at football
games. The proposed relaxation
would permit adults and private
school students, but not public
school students, to smoke.
DR.. Cannon sale. that at Central
High School only~5O per cent of
each gym class could be accommo-
dated in showers.
Two schools for colored students
have no showers at all, DR.. Garnet
e. Wilkinson, assistant superintend-
ent in charge of divisions 10 to 10.
reported.
DR.. Cannon suggested that a
monitor time the students to min
ute each in the showers until more
showers can be obtained.
School officials said that manv
girls refuse to take showers for
fear of disturbing their makeup
and suggested that new schools have
showers for girls starting at shoulder
height instead of overhead.
Other Recommendations.
Other recommendations made and
now being considered by the Stu
dent Activities Committee include
more physical education for ele-
mentary school children; more
gang" showers, organization of girl
cadets on a city-wide basis instead
OF separately at each school and
establishment of central laundry
for high school gymnasium towels
Students at Western High School,
have no towels supplied by the
school because no laundry service
is available. DR.. Cannon pointed
out.
Evening star., 1945-11-15
Navy Yard Personnel Here
Cut by 1000 Since VI Day

Civilian personnel at the Navy
Yard has been reduced by more
than 1000 persons since the end of
the war, yard officials announced
today.
Latest figures showed 1901 per-
sons employed as of October 81,
compared with 1920 in August.
A total of 1900 workers was dis
missed. The others resigned or re-
tired.
Evening star., 1945-11-15
Cosmos Club to Mark
9th Anniversary

The Cosmos Club will mark the
9th anniversary of its founding to-
morrow with an open house" and
dinner for members only.
Speakers will be Col. Harry H.
Semmes, Benjamin M. McKelway
associate editor of The Evening
Star. and Robert Lincoln O,Brien.
Dean Henry Grattan Doyle. presi-
dent OF the club, will preside.
The open house begins at 4 pm,
when the club will be closed to all
but members. The dinner begins at
Z pm.
Evening star., 1945-11-15
Cows Don't Like Cold
So Milk Supply
Takes Another Drop

So you don't like the wealth.
er? Neither do the cows, and
that's another reason you may
have been a quart short on this
mornings delivery.
AS though things were not bad
enough, this chill, damp tenn
perature had to come along to
put a new crimp in the milk
supply. Cows just don't feel
like giving their all" when
their teeth are chattering
hom the cold, dairymen said.
1t would be much better for
all concerned if the tempera-
ture would drop so low that
cows would be placed in the
barns on winter feeding" and
thus find contentment again,
the experts said.
Evening star., 1945-11-15
II Veteran talents Leave
ST. Elizabeth 5 for West

Eleven patients from the armed
forces left st. Elizabeth's Hospital
today for Veterans Administration
hospitals in the West, placing them
nearer their families
Under care of Veterans Admins
tration attendants, the patients are
travelling by train. Four will go to
Palo Alto, Calf, and seven will go
to Wadsworth, Kans.
All were transferred at request OF
their families, officials at st. Eliza
beths said.
Evening star., 1945-11-15
One Be||boy Indicted,
Another Cleared in
WAVES Assault Case

Robert Shackelford, %, Washing
ton bellboy, was indicted on two
counts yesterday by the Montgomery
County grand jury, one charging
assault and the other attempted
criminal assault in an alleged attack
on one of three WAVES Septem-
Der Is.
His companion, Allen Hughett, jr.,
18, also bellboy, who had originally
been charged with attempted GRIM
inal assault in the same case, was
not indicted.
Under Maryland law, the maxi
mum penalty for attempted criminal
assault is death. The minimum is
two years imprisonment.
Were Free on Bond.
The WAVES, who live at Arlington
Farms, had accused Shackelford of
assaulting each of them and Hughett
of assaulting one Of them in the
Great Falls section of the county
following an evening of beer drink
ing.
Both defendants had been at lib
erty on $3.50 bonds each. Bond
was set by Circuit Court Judge
Stedman Prescott as he admon-
ished the WAVES that a woman
should fight to the last ditch" to
protect herself in order to provide
case of criminal assault.
A bench warrant has been issued
oatya xr-1,n he p
raigned at a date not yet set ir
Circuit Court at Rockville Tria
was set for November 26.
Nine Cases Presented.
The grand jury at the same time
| reported that 9 cases had been pre-.
-sented to it by the States Attor.
ney, "a witnesses were examined
and Z indictments were found. II
added that one case was referred to
Magistrates Court and another to
Juvenile Court.
Mabel Lester Dove, 10, colored, OF
Rockville, was indicted on a murder
charge in the fatal stabbing of her
husband, Willie Vernon Dove, %
late Sunday night at a tavern at
Scotland, Md.
William Harrison, colored, was in
dicted on charges of robbery and
larceny, while Frank j. Watts, col
ored, was indicted on perjury and
bigamy counts.
All three pleaded not guilty anG
trial was set for November %.
Donald-E E. Carter was indicted fol
embezzlement. Trial was set for No.
vember 26.
The grand jury reported it had in.
spected the county Jail and found its
condition to be excellent" although
it noted that screens should be fur.
nished for windows and a PADDED
cell provided.
Almshouse Needs Repair.
The county alnshouse was in.
spected, and the jury found paint.
ing and plastering needed to be done
and general renovation of tn.
pantry.
Police headquarters in Silver
Spring, the report continued, are in.
adequate, while those at Bethesda
were listed as -very small"
TT is recommended" the repor
said, that the county commission.
ers take steps to enlarge count,
quarters at Silver Spring and Be
thesda. It is also recommended tha
they acquire available property TO
enlarging quarters at Bethesda"
The jury, noting Judge Prescott
remarks as to the absence of gam
bling in the county, urged police t,
remain particularly vigilant" to tn
j, end that such conditions be con
4 timed
Evening star., 1945-11-15
lsiHRst;onmiq
&Remiinde,y6s

Meats. Fats. Etc.-Stamps FL
through XII good through No
vember 80. Stamps LII through
Q-1 good through December 81.
Stamps RI through vi good
through January 81. Stamps
W-1 through Z-1 and green stamp
N-8 good through February %.
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
will pay four red ration points for
each pound of waste kitchen fats
you turn In.
Sugar Stamp SO good through De-
cember 81. Next stamp valid
January !.