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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-23

You'll probably never know
what it's like to see a Japanese
suicide plane and see it coming
straight for you.
you do know you can't tell any
one what it's like.
SM-3c David Stinman, 19-year-
old, blond Wilmingtonian, here on
leave, who watched 'kamikrazy"
Jap dive his plane toward mis- ship,
and specifically toward himself,
tries to tell it like this:
If you're not wearing helmet,
you'll grab one, then start digging
a foxhole in the steel deck Of the
boat. In David's case, the ship,
a destroyer mine-sweeper.
AS it happened to his vessel
David tells, things happened fast
and furious when this particular
radar-eluding Jap plane came in
low off Okinawa and right at the
water line.
The Jap's explosives went off,
the Jap himself went off to his
ancestors, and everyone of the
250-odd on the ship bounced about
two feet. Nine, cEewmen were
killed. The vessel. its fire room and
practically all its guns out of op-
erations, was incapacitated.
Then, knowing your guns are
gone and that the kamikrazy boys
usually attack the ship in punches,
your blood doesn't run cold-it
freezes, David says. After you've
picked yourself out of the debris OF
ship and plane parts and you're
being aided to safety by other
ships, your blood starts crcula-
ting again and you get hot, ac'
companied by weak knees.
David is calm and collected in
relating that experience, or in
telling about the time he and a
friend flushed six Japs from the
bushes of an island or about the
close ones in the Normandy in
vasion. =
This Wilmington boy stepped out
of high school here and into bell
bottom trousers to go to war wher
he was II years old. That was a
long time ago. >1
Now he's here visiting his pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. John R. Still
man, Sr., and family, after sever
months of calling on the Japs
He is soundman, second elias!
and intends to go to school to stud,
commercial art when the Navy let!
him out.
He went to Okinawa with hi:
squadron eight days before the
invasion, helping clear away thu
mines the Japs had left laying
around. He was in on the Nor
mandy invasion for the same rea
son, and he hasn't been hurt-if vol
disregard the 100 pounds of hi:
ships equipment that fell on hi
helmet when the kamikaze plane
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-23

ficials to visit American prisoners
of Japan has been one of constant
negotiation. The Japanese have
agreed in a few cases, but often
they refused.
The State Department expressed
the hope that treatment of Ameri-
cans in Japanese hands will be
improved by the change in jap
anese policy.
When the Swiss have visited the
camps, it said, this government
will be- able to obtain from the
Swiss government more complete
reports of the conditions under
which Americans are held by the
Japanese i
The department pointed out that
all camps where enemy nationals
are held in this country are open
to inspection by protecting pow
ers.
Swiss assumption of japanese in
terests here does not affect
Hawaii, where Sweden has repre-
scented Japan throughout the war.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-23
CONFERENCE MAY
DISCUSS JAP WAR

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to report the social activities OF
the meeting.
These included formal Russian
state dinner at the temporary
Kremlin in Potsdam last night
where Stain entertained Truman.
Churchill and list of high British
and American delegates.
American guests included Secre.
tary of State James F. Byrnes,
Admiral William D. Leahy, U. S.
Ambassador to Moscow, w. Averell
Hartman, special Presidential en-
voy, Joseph E. Davis and Inter-
prefer Charles E. Bohlen of the
State Department.
The British included Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden, Labor
Party Leader Clement Attlee:
Transport Minister Lord Leathers.
British Ambassador Moscow Sir
Archibald Clark-Kerr and Inter-
prefer Maj. Arthur Birse.
Mr.. Truman attended both Prot.
|
day morning in company with hum
dreds of troops.
After following his usual practice
of attending Protestant service. the
President went to Catholic mass
conducted by Chaplain Col. L. Cur
tbs Tiermnan, Kansas City, Mo-.
who served in the chief executives
regiment in the last war.
Protestant services were con.
Quoted by Chaplain Ernest E.
Northern, Midlothian, Va, with
the sermon, Redemption From
Sin," preached by Chaplain Lawr-
ence Nelson, Sarasota, Fla.
Neither the conference or other
political matters were mentioned
in either service.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-23
BASCUM M. STANLEY

Grave side services tor Bascum
M. Stanley, So, of Shallotte, who
died Saturday at James Walker
Memorial hospital, will be held at
$3.50 p. m. Monday at the Chapel
Hill cemetery with the Rev. W..
E. Lowe, officiating.
Active pallbearers will be Harry
Tatu1n, Leo Levenien, Earl Mill
ken, Ellwood Cheers, W. M. Swim
son and Bob White.
Honorary pallbearers will be 1.
E. Reynolds, Bill eyn DIS,
Kenneth Benson, D. L. Gore, AL
vim Milliken and DR.. j. w. Hayes.
He is survived by his widow
and one daughter, Mrs. M. E.
Stanley, of Shallotte; four sisters,
Mrs. Hortense CARLYLE of Whining
ton, Mrs. Nora L. HeWett of Shall
lot.e, Mrs. Pearl Gore of Dover,
Fla, and Mrs. Ruby Rogers OF
Plant City, Fla; two brothers,
Benjamin R. Stanley of Wilmington
and Rufus Stanley of Plant City.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-23
Obituaries
w, H, HALE

Funeral services for w. H. Pat)
Hale, 81, who died at James
Walker Memorial hospital Satur-
day afternoon, were held Sunday
at 4::30 p. m. at the Pike Creek
Presbyterian church with the Rev.
I. Strawbridge officiating and the
Rev. C. N. Phillips assisting.
Survivors are his widow; one
daughter, Patricia; three brothers,
w. A., of Rocky Point, H. S., OF
Castle Hayne, and J. E., of Will
mington; two sisters, Mrs. w. S.
Balcombe Of Rocky Point and
Mrs. H. L. Holly of Long Creek.
Active pallbearers were Willie
Futch, John Futch, T. ]. Hare
Woodrow Wroten, Wilbur Harris,
and Edward Hale.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-23
Being Kamikruzed Is No
Pink Tea, Stillmqn Says

hit. His head was in the helmet.
AS pleasant as a Sunday after
noon, David likes to tell how the
boys on the little PIT boats would
irritate the Jap suicide pilots:
When the Jap indicates he's COM
ing in on PIT boat, the boat stops
until the plane is $3.50 yards away,
then scampers away. The Jap
plunges into the water where the
boat was, but amt.
You may see David, slim and
serious-looking, strolling about the
streets of Wilmington. He'll be
wearing the uniform he bought off
another sailor on the West Coast.
It's the only uniform David has
right now. After his ship was hit,
he had only pair of dungarees
to wear back to the States. He left
the ship being temporarily repair
e6 at Okinawa.
It's the first time his vessel hA
been battle scared despite her
many battles. And David says she
handed it out to the Japs and
Nazis with fair success.
She has had a lot of dealings
with suicide planes, he says. The
iJaps tried, all times of the day OIL
Okinawa to get the do-and-dle
pilots to their detectives, then set
tied down to nighttime suicides.
| One night, as David describes it,
his ship was attacked by sever
suicide planes, Crew members shot
down five Of them. u
That was the night the Com.
! mander beloved overtime to his
gunners. It seems the gunners had
habit of shooting down a plane,
then despite hell or high water,
stopping to cheer. The commander
had to below to tell them that an
other Jap was coming in.
David will rejoin his ship August
~, on the West Coast and will help
bring her home to Philadelphia,
where she was spawned and where
she will be permanently repaired.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-23
JAPANESE TROOPS
IN BREAKTHR0UCH
CONTINUED from Page One)

belief it was possible that the Jap
anese were seeking to carve out a
corridor to Swallow for the handful
of enemy troops garrisoning Annoy,
which might be abandoned, leav-
ing all Fukien Province in Chimes
hands.
Some Chinese military common
tators here also believed that the
combined Annoy and Swallow garrl
sons then might withdraw IT'S miles
southwestward to Hong Kong and
Canton.
The weeks-long battle for Kweilin
$50 miles southeast of Chungking,
meanwhile blazed relentlessly as
six Chinese columns converged OIL
the city with its three importan
airfields abandoned by the U. S.
14th Air Force last year.
While one column fought eight
miles north of the Kwangsi Pro-
vince capital, a spearhead sweep
ing toward the city from the ives;
advanced to a point nine and one
half miles away, headquarters said.
This spearhead had by-passed the
japanese stronghold of Paishou, Is
miles west of KWeilin, but another
Chinese column was locked in sew
ere street fighting within the walls
of the old fortress town of Paishou.
Confirming front dispatches, the
High Command reported that d
fourth column had recaptured
|Liangfeng, IS miles south o.
Kweilin, while fifth spearhead
pressed along a secondary high
way from Liuchow to Kweilin anc
rea ched point II miles south OF
Yangso (Yangsa).
Yangso is "A miles south of Kweil-
in and the high command disclo3'
ed it formerly was the site of All
American air base-a fact publicly
revealed for the first time. Chinese
soldiers threatening Yangso were
10 miles southwest of the Japanese
supply base of Plnglo.
US. 18th Air Force Mustang fight
er-bombers al the same time went
to the aid Of a sixth column O.
Chinese troops battling to gain
ground near Yungfu, 81 miles south
west of Kweilin, an American com
munique said.
Other American fighter-bor.lbe~.
strafed Japanese positions neai
Suichwan in Kiangsi province, tn.
first of six former American all
bases recovered by the Chimes
and now threatened by a trappet
FLOATING pocket of japanese
troops.
In other air operations, U. S
bombers and fighters attacked en
envy shipping, destroying or dam
aging so enemy craft on the Kan
| Yangtze and Slang rivers and sew
en- Japanese river steamers on tn
North and ST (West) rivers. II
French Indo-China, P-38's hit ship
ping in the Haiphong area while
locomotives also were strafed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-23
TRIAL OF PETAIN
WILL OPEN TODAY
Continued from Page One

memories of four years of German
occupation marshalled an imposing
array of charges, witnesses, and
prosecutors against the venerable
Petain.
His chief antagonist in court will
be another old man, Prosecutor
General Andre Mornet, Y. Mornet
of the bull voice and brilliant IN
tellect, has record of victory on
legal battlefields. He obtained the
conviction and execution OF Mata
Hari, glamorous woman spy Tor
the Germans in World War l.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-23

uni IL, rms were made on several
loC@1' ,;tches. errors and base on
pans, ,, williams started off on the
p s.d for the winners holding the
q 4,;@aers hittless while his team
LIE scored four runs. Harvard
lH' q. over the mound duties in the
. ,n41 inning, while showing much
l0 ;td NJ he was relieved by Rich
WY" VIZ Williams, brother of the fiSt
S-.T1er and formerly OF the Tide
nr a,er League, in the sixth inning.
Unward Pepper to the mound for
..o locals but had to use W. A.
W. l11;nniet Brown as a relief hurler
IN the fourth stanza.
The TWO Masonboro pitchers, a
.;ab+ and a left handler, surrender
sd Is hits including many good
for extra bases.
~ Fred Caswell, All-Star first
b.seman. showed the fans a lot
NJ excellent ball playing. Fred will
On TO New York in August to play
With Babe Ruth's All-Eastern team
when they meet the All-Western
nine managed by Tye Cobb. Cas-
well won this opportunity in the
North and South Carolina All-Star
contest few weeks ago.
Bobby Hickman, outfielder who
is awaiting a call to the Navy
showed up good also in the outer
Garden. Bill Harrellson, Whiteville
catcher built up his batting aver
age. HARRISON is one of the Stars
leading sJuggers.
Wednesday afternoon the Mason
boro outfit will take on the strong
Hampstead nine on the Masonboro
diamond. In the first meetiAg of
the two teams the hampstead club
edged out a 80 win over the 10
Gals in a 13-lnning pitchers duel
between Sna Allen and Johnnie
Edens, both players are favorites
Of local fans.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-23
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-23
MRS. NANCY SWAIN

Mrs. Nancy Swain, II, widow of
T. w. Swain, died at 11:10 p. M.
Saturday at James Walker Me-
mortal hospital after short ill
ness. Her home was at RID No. l.,
WinnaboW.
She is survived by seven daugh-
tiers, Mrs. w. L. Lewis, Mrs. w. r.
Lewis, Mrs. Frank Lewis, and Mrs.
C. T. Willetts, all of WinnaboW,
Mrs. LESSEE Skipper and Mrs. ).
T. Skipper, of Leland, and Miss
Clarice Swain, of Wilmington; four
sons, T. L., of Wilmington, w. r.
of Elmhurst, Long Island, T. p,
Of Burgaw, and T. w. Swain, with
the u. S. Navy in the South Pa
cific; three brothers, E. J. and E.,
of Bolivia, and Thomas Danford'
of Wilmington; three sisters, Mrs.
William Eichorn, of Bolivia, Mrs.
A. J. Rouse, of Rosehill and Miss
Lavina Danford, of Carolina Beach;
and al grandchildren and eight
great-grandchildren.
The daughter OF John ana Har'
riet Greer Danford, Mrs. Swain
was a life long member of the
Mill Creek Baptist church, and hao
lived in the WinnaboW community
/ for the past so years.
Funeral services will be held al
8 p. m. Monday at the Mill Greek
Baptist church, near WinnaboW
with DR.. C. R. Taylor, pastor, ano
the Rev. A. L. Brown, of South
port, officiating. Burial will be il
the Mill Creek church cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be Jacl
McCracken, Elmore Willetts, Floye
Hickman, Dewey Lewis, Euclid Fl
chorn and Joseph Willetts.
Honorary pallhearers will be DR.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-23
PHILLIES-CUBS
HALVE TWIN BILL

CHICAGO, July q Up The
Philadelphia Phillies put on a
lO-run outburst in the second game
of a double-header to defeat Chi
cago, 11-6, today after the Cubs
had won the opener, 8 to 5, before
33,O73 fans. Ray prim won his
seventh game for Chicago in the
opener, but Jack Kraus stopped
Hank Wyses string at seven as
he won his second of the year in
the nightcap.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-23
JAP BATTLESHIP
HIT BY AIRMEN
Continued from Page One

strong anti-aircraft fire which be-
came weaker as the attack went
on.
The Nagato apparently had been
driven to Yokosuka by earlier
American attacks on other hide
outs. 1t is one of the four known
remaining Japanese battleships, al
though two of them, of the Ise
class, have been converted to half
carriers-half battleships. Damage
inflicted on the Nagato at Yoko-
suka, it was believed, would put
the ship out of action for some
time.
They also sank IL othe~ ships, in
Guiding destroyer, and damaged
eight others, including an old de-
stroyer converted into an anti-air-
craft ship.
The Nagato, completed in 1919
and one of Japan's few remaining
battleships, had its superstructure
heavily damaged, Nimitz announc-
ed in providing the final summary
of the Today forays in which U. S.
warships had ventured close to the
shores of Japan to deliver four
crushing aerial commandments and
some 1000 carrier plane sorties
were flown in five major strikes
from Tokyo to the northern island
of Hokkaido.
The Nagato and her sister ship,
the Mutu, were extensively recon-
structed between 1884 and 1886 so
that they are modern ships, even
though they were completed in
19l9-192O.
Nimitz disclosed that 43 Japanese
planes were destroyed aground and
81 were damaged in Wednesday, S
Arranging raids around Tokyo.
In the opening sweep against
Tokyo July 10 a total of 342 Japa-
nese planes were destroyed or
damaged; in the two day assaults
against Nokkaido and Honshu July
14-15, 81 planes were destroyed or
damaged; and in a July II attack
against Honshu % were bagged.
Today's addition of ITO more thus
brought japanese plane losses to
$50 against American and British
losses of 48.
Four ships were bagged in the
first Tokyo sweep, 374 were sunk
or damaged in the two-day Hok-
kaido-Honshu sweep and 10 were
bagged at Honshu July IT. Today
addition of 81 more in the Tokyo
area by carrier planes and four by
the attack on the convoy off Tokyo
bay brought the total to 416.
Halseys bold forays ended tenn
porarily last Thursday morning
with a bombardment of the No
jima Cape area at the mouth OF
Tokyo bay so miles south of the
rubbed capital. That was the fourth
shore bombardment in the series.
Today, however, Nimitz revealed
that light Third Fleet units-prob-
ably destroyers and possibly includ-
ing light cruisers-again steamed
up to the same area to attack jap
anese shipping. Operating only five
miles west of Jojima Cape shortly
after midnight, the force sank a
medium cargo ship and small
cargo ship, probably sank another
medium cargo V eel and damaged
Japanese escort ship.
The Japanese, apparently sur
prised, gave no signs of fight as
American shells struck home at
ranges as close as mile. None of
the American ships was damaged
as was the case during Halsey' S
other foravs along their coast.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-23
City Briefs
KILLED IN ACTION

Pic. Samuel Stancil Lock
lear, of the Marine Corps and
formerly Of Lumberton, has
been killed in action, the OWL
has announced. He was the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Dock Lock
lear of Lumberton.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-23
ATHLETICS SPLIT
TWO WITH TIGERS

PHILADELPHIA, July 22.-(P-
The Philadelphia Athletics defeat
ed the Detroit Tigers 2 to 1 in the
second game of a Shibe Park
doubleheader called at the end of
the sixth because of rain. The Tig-
ers took the opener to /.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-23
MISS REBA MYERS

Funeral services for Miss Reba
Myers, we'll known teacher in New
Hanover county schools for over
40 years, who died Saturday at
ner home at 205 South Eighth
street, will be held at IL a. m.
Monday at the home with the Rev.
E. w. Halleck, officiating. Bur-
ial will be in Oakdale cemetery.
Honorary pallbearers will be
John Carter, Frank Higgins, DR..
!. D. Freeman, DR.. D. R. Murchi-
son, Fred Poisson and j. H.
Holmes.
Active pallbearers will be Robert
Williams, Rufus LeGrand, Willard
Cantwell, Emmett Crow, j. @. LIE
Grand and George Roundtree.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-23
REDS TAKE PAIR
FROM OFT CREW

CINCINNATI, July 22.-tP- The
Cincinnati Reds advanced to sixth
place today as they defeated the
New York Giants FL and lis in
twin bill. Joe Bowman was knock
ed from the mound in the seventh
inning of the second game but was
credited with the victory. his eighth
of the season.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-23
TAXI LOSES TIRE

TAAl LOSES 1ARC
City police yesterday receiv-
ed a report from B. L. Russ,
who stated that an Atlas make
automobile tire, size 600 by 16,
was taken from a Hollis taxi
VIII lie 1t was parked at 104 Wal
nut street. The tire vas valued
at SIG.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-23
FINALLY
RECOGNIZES: LAW
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camps where, American nationals
are held in Japan and areas now
occupied by Japanese armed
forces" .'~
The Japanese War Ministry
agreed in principle" Then Swift
erland asked for American approx
al of the Tokyo request for repre-
sentation here and Acting Score.
tary of State Grew assented.
The proposal to allow Swiss Of
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-23
DIR. GRANT C. ELLIOTT

RALEIGH, July 21.-Services for
DR.. Grant c. Elliott, 60, a resident
of Wilmington for 20 years who
died here Saturday, were held
at the Yelverton funeral home
Sunday at S p. m. Burial was at
the -Mountlawn cemetery at Raj
eigh.
DR.. Elliott had been living at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. W. A.
Watts, 1919 Sunset avenue, for
three years preceding his death.
After leaving Wilmington. he prac-
ticed in High Point for four years.
He was member f the Acacia
Masonic Lodge, A. F. and A. M.
the Sudan Shrine Temple of New
Bern, and an honorary life-term
member of the Chiropractors' AS
ISOLATION of North Carolina.
Survivors besides his daughter
are his widow and one grand
daugher of Raleigh, and one sister,
Mrs. James Holden, of Syracuse,
New York,
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-23
CHICKENS DISAPPEAR

CHICKENS DISAPPEAR
E. R. Rynolds, of 1925 North
Third street, reported to city
police yesterday that 60 chick
ems, ranging in size from fryers
to full grown, had been taken
from his ward
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-23

cent United States Supreme Court decf
sions unfolding the previous actions OF
those State Commissions in reducing in
trastate fares, unless something is done
within permissible limits to avoid it. J.
The predicament of the railroads
is simply this: They must have sufficient
total revenues, derived from both passen-
ger and freight transportation, to sustain
their services. Reductions in revenue
from both sources could defeat the major
objective of equalizing territorial freight
rate structures. The railroads can stand
only so much loss in revenue, beyond
which point the public must choose be-
tween uniform freight rates or preteren-
tial passenger fares.
The Supreme Court decisions nulli-
fy orders of the Interstate Commerce
Commission requiring uniformity in intra'
state and interstate passenger fares in
the South because of lack of specific
findings by the Commission as to what
contribution from intrastate travel would
constitute fair proportion of the rail-
roads total income. 1t is the purpose OF
each of the railroads indicated below to
participate in any effort to meet the SUI
preme Courts criticism and to endeavor
to thereafter maintain intrastate passen'
ger fares generally on a uniform level
with the interstate fares. No general op.
position from the travelling public to such
program is anticipated, for, unlike freight
rates, passenger fares have no important
regional economic implications, being paid
usually by individuals for transportation
of their own persons.
H.
This expression of desire to con-
time to strive for new era Of prosperl'
ty in harmony with the South's indus
trial, agricultural, and other leadership
and in a relationship of mutual contl'
dence and cooperation with all those VINO
share the same aim, is extended by:
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-23
HELD FOR RECEIVING

Henry higgins, Negro, was
booked by city police yesterday
for receiving stolen goods, and
put in jail in default Of 81 600
bond. He was charged with OBJ
tanning three cartons of Gig
arets, valued at s3.75, from
James Andrew johnson and
Walter Bennett, knowing that
they were stolen goods.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-23
TWO WOMEN GET
NIEMAN AWARDS
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Louisville Courier-J ournal; Rich
ard E. Stockwell, associate news
editor, Station WCCO, Minneapolis.
Columbia Broadcasting System;
Leon Svirsky, science editor OF
Time Magazine, and Ben Yah
lonky, foreign news department
reporter for the newspaper PM.
The word button comes from the
French word 'bouton'' which
means something to be pushed out.