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Camp Davis
May Close
ortly

As current rumors again
were advanced yesterday that
Camp Davis would be closed,
Brig. Gen. George H. Usher,
commanding officer at Camp
Davis, disclosed last plight that
the closing of the convelescent
center chad been discussed for
some time"
Gen. Usher said that Major
General Ralph Royce, COM
manding officer of the Jerson-
mel Distribution Command at
Louisville, KY, of which Camp
Davis is part, visited Camp
Davis yesterday. eve talked
over quite a few things" Gen.
Usher said.
Although the War Depart
ment said last night that any
announcement of the closing
of the camp would have to be
made by the commanding Of
ficer of the camp, Gen. Usher
said he had received no Of
ficial word from the depart
ment.
Gen. Royce arrived in Will
mingtOn yesterday morning
and went to Greensboro last
night, Gen. Usher said.
Gen. Usher said that the only
reason he could see for clos
ing the camp was because the
influx of overseas veterans
had not met expectations.
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ARGENTINA ANSWERS
MEXICAN CHARGES

BUENOs AIRES, July 4.-U.P)-
Foreign Minister Cesar Ameghlno
issued a written statement today
answering Mexican Foreign Min
lister Ezequiel Padilla's criticism
at Washington yesterday that Ar
gentina had failed to fulfill the
commitments assumed at the Cha
pultepec Inter-American Confer
ence.
Anneghino asserted these com.
mitments are reciprocal and thai
Argentina also is waiting Tor otner
countries to fulfill them.
The foreign minister said Argen'
tina had placed 1874 German firms
under control in fulfillment OF Its
Chapultepec obligations but added
that the economic aspect OF the
situation was only one ir the broac
picture of the commitments I'm
dertaken.
His statement stressed that these
obligations, besides being recipro
=. also pledged American Repub
lies to policy of non-interventlor
in the internal affairs of their sis
ter republics.
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Giuen Up To Die ,GI
Eniovs Watermelon Feed

The new doctors said that should
the corporal live fours or five days
longer, he might conceivably live
on indefinitely.
This was encouraging news to his
mother Mrs. J. o. Newman, who,
between her tours in the kitchen
preparing his favorite dishes, was
looking for an electric refrigerator
for his insulin which must be kept
at an even, low temperature.
HE slept like baby last night
she said.
Cpl. Newman is SO weak
he scarcely can make himself heard
but he listened contentedly to Sgt
Jimmy Johns, his boyhood friend,
who came around to visit. Gifts
we arriving from sympathizers
springing up in legions. One was an
air conditioner to keep his room
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GERMAN CHILDREN
KILLED TO ORDER
u. S. Army Uncovers
Charnal House Opera
ting In Bavaria

MUNICH, July 4-tR-Charged
with killing at least 211 children,
four German doctors and three hos
pital attendants have been arrest
ed by the U. S. Army in Nazi
Murder Experiment station in
Bavaria - which operated up to
three days ago.
A nurse, charged with poisoning
40 adults, and the grisly murder
factory's'' food administrator also
have been apprehended, military
government authorities revealed
tonight.
The determination station was
uncovered IN the Kaufbeuren area
As miles Southeast of Munich. Au-
thorities asserted that the institu-
Incorporating behind the title OF
a public sanatorium and insane
asylum-was only one of series
of systematic starvation and drug
experiment a tt on S scattered
throughout Bavaria and Austria.
Children and adults were sent
to the station from all parts OF
Germany by the Nazi ministry
of the interior and by the Bavar-
ian provincial government, rec
ords showed.
The patients were used S
guinea pigs in research" into
scientific starvation, aided by the
administration of drugs. After
deaths, frequently induced by in
jections, the bodies were cremat-
led.
Two public health officers OF
the Munich military government,
Maj. Marvin Linick of New York
City and Capt. Loyal Murphy OF
Memphis, Tenn, uncovered the
murder plant
They reported it housed 1,578
men, women and children on June
80 and branch of the experimental
station at nearby Irsee had an
other 468-all in various stages Of
malnutrition.
A statement issued here said all
the institutions papers were burn
ed prior to the officers arriva.
and there was no way of knowing
the total number of persons treat
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Americans Abroad Celebrate Fourth
With Gusto; Wilmington Enjoys Day
Quitely With Only One Accident
Carolina Beach Thronged
With Bathers; War
Workers Busy

Wilmington Joined the nation yes
terday in celebration of Americas
independence, when more than
30, 900 were reported at Carolina
Beach, record equalled only be-
fore the U. S. entered the war.
However, at Wrightsville Beach,
Police Chief M. S. Faircloth re-
ported q crowd less than half OF
that which Attended the resort over
the weekend. Afternoon rains
marred the celebration at Wrights-
vile, while only meager showers
prevailed at Carolina Beach.
According to law enforcement
authorities, New Hanover county
observed one of its quietest Fourth
of July celebrations, with only one
wreck, at la tie hour yester-
day.
City police reported that a 1887
Chevrolet left the Castle Haynes
highway between an overpass and
the Smiths creek bridge, hurting
into the marsh, but no one in
volved was found in the vicinity
of the wreck. Police said the auto
mobile was listed in the name OF
R. W. White of Rocky Point. A
check of all local hospitals dis
closed no one who was apparent
ly connected with the wreck. Po-
lice said that according to the evil
dence at the scene, no other car
was involved. .-------
Officials of the bus terminal al
Second and Walnut streets report
ed that approximately 5000 per
sons Travelled on buses leaving ano
entering the station yesterday. This
figure is small for a holiday, il
was stated, but probably a little
larger than travel was on July 4
of last year, when the weather was
comparatively cold.
Police Chief Faircloth reported
CHontinuod m pouo Ton. Gn1 q
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AUSTRALIA LOSES
VETERAN PREMIER
Death Calls John Curtin
After Lingering Illness
At Canberra

CANBERRA. Thursday, July S.
Minister John Curtin
of Australia, who took office two
months before Pearl Harbor and
guided his country through the
most perilous times Of her 156-year
history, died today in Canberra
Lodge, his official residence.
Curtin, son of a policeman, be-
came Australian Prime Minister
and Minister for defense in Octo-
Der, 1941. He led the Common
wealth through days of threatening
japanese invasion and with Gen.
Douglas Macarthur, converted
the continent into the greatest Al
lied base of operations during the
early years Of the Pacific war.
Curtin, who was so, suffered a
heart attack in November, 1914.
Although seriously ill, he remain
ed at his post until he was hosplt-
allied April 30 with a lung con-
gestion. He was released from hos
pital in mid-June and retired 10
Canberra Lodge. His death at
am. was attributed to heart dis
sease.
Deputy Prime Minister and Army
Minister Francis M. Forde, who
has been in the Curtin Govern
ment since its formation, succeeds
him as head of state.
Curtin is survived oy his widow,
a son and a daughter.
He was born Jan. 8, 1885 at
Creswick, Victoria. His education
in the state schools was cut short
at the age Of IA when he became
a printers devil on country news
paper. He worked as copy boy
on a Melbourne daily and In 1917
became editor Of the West Aus
tralian Worker, the official labor
newspaper.
For 10 years prior to his election
to the premiership, Curtin sat as
an opposition member in parlla-
ment. During those 10 years, Cur
tain's party grew from a small
divided group to the most power
full single political unit in Austral-
ia.
Curtin assumed parry leadership
in 1885 and, when war broke out
in 1899, he refused to sink the
party identity in a coalition gov
eminent similar to the British re-
gime.
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Liucheng
Recaptured
By Chinese
JAPANESE RETREAT
18th American Airforce
Gives Support 10
Ground Forces

cHUNGKING, July 4.-U.H-Chi-
nese forces have recaptured Liu-
oheng. Is miles north of the Amer
Ian air base city of Liuchow, and
driven hastily retreating remnants
~ the Japanese garrison toward
Cbungtu, 20 miles to the northeast.
Liucheng fell to the Chinese Mon
dav a communique said, which
disclosed that other troops, driv-
ina forward along the Liuchow-
Kweilin highway, had reached the
wewst bank of Liukiang river, sew
ON miles east of Liuchoww.
In newly-lib ated Liuchow, the
Japanese pursued a "scorched
earth" policy before evacuating,
Chinese Central News CORE
spondent, who flew to the city, re-
norted However, the airfield can
still be used, the correspondent
reported. =,
A communique from 1t. Gen. Al
bert C. Wedemeyer's. headquarters
said that 18th Airforce fighters and
bombers were giving effective
support to ground troops in oper-
atoms extending from the Yellow
River to Frer Indo-China.
No opposition was encountered
and all Allied aircraft returned
safely.
Liuchow is an "endless heap of
redeemed bricks" the front dis
patch from that city said, and ap-
proximately 60 per cent of the
houses were demolished by the
Japanese.
A message, signed by Emperor
Hirohito and believed to have been
distributed to all Japanese soldiers
in China, was found in the city
which said:
THE empire is facing an I'M
precedented crisis in its history.
Our internal and external Difficult
ties are growing increasingly. I
hope all of you struggle desper-
ately,"
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SOUTH HAS GREAT
FUTURE CD SAYS

WASHINGTON, July A. Up -
The Commerce Department made
a glowing report today on economic
opportunities in the South after
this war and advised Southerners
to concentrate on developing small
businesses.
There is not village or ham
let in the entire South too small
for small processing plant, pro-
vided the raw materials are there
and markets are near BY" it said.
The department cited these
points concerning the South s., fu-
ture.
lit would be hard to select a
region in the U. S, with greater
opportunities.
1.-The South is an area with
abundant raw materials.
81 has ample manpower.
4.-The war has greatly stepped
up its management know how,
skills, plants and equipment.
5.-Income earned in IS South
ern states increased from Is per
cent of the national income in
1929 to 10 per cent in 1913. The
Southern income in 1943 was $780,
OO0,0OO,OOO.
6.-The per capita income in
those states increased from ar
average of 1912 in 1929 to $672 II
1913.
The 10 states covered by the sta
tistics are Virginia, North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, Georgia, Flor
ida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisl
ana, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas
Tennessee, and Kentucky.
The report, prepared by Wllfore
White, chief of the Department
special studies unit, said:
TT would be well to concentrate
upor developing and strengthen
irg small business organization
t. produce, distribute and consum'
the products and services OF tn
South
Large plants with expensive
machinery are not needed. Sinai
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FORT WORTH, Tex, July 4. -
U.P)-More civilian doctors examin-
ed Cpl. Jim Newman today and
took tentative exception to the YER
dict of their Army colleagues: may
be the emaciated victim of three
years of japanese brutality will live
after all, they said.
The doctors were impressed that
Cpl. Newman, back at home with
his father and mother and sister,
had eaten Watermelon and had
been happy to have his boyhood
chum sit on the side of his bed and
talk to him.
1t was the spirit which counted,
they said, and the spirit could con.
ceivably triumph over his wrecked
and ruined body which Army doc
tors h a d predicted, when they
brought him home Monday to die,
was doomed to extinction in "a few
days"
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Hitler Beer Hall
To Become CT Club

PARIS, July 4.-P)-The famed
Munich beer hall where Hitler
made his first bid for power short
ly will become a "G-P' club, and
American soldiers will MUNICH
doughnuts in the Fuehrer's Eagle
Nest overlooking Berchtesgaden.
Frederick Carroll, American
Red Cross Commissioner, said to-
day, repair work on the bomb
damaged hall would start soon.
The "R6ugh-Nut Dugout" will sup
plement "G-I clubs already op-
Grating at Berchtesgaden.
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TWENTY-FIVE HURT
WHEN TRAINS CRASH

TALBOTTON, Ga, July 4.-P-
The au-steel, streamlined Dixie
Flagler en- ror+, from Chicago to
Miami collided head-on with 10.
cal passenger train today and ap-
proxilnately Is persons were in.
jured, most of them slightly.
Most seriously hurt was the
Flagler's engineer, o. C. Malone,
of Atlanta, who stayed at the con-
trolls as the two engines crashed
and telescoped mile north of Tai.
bottom on the Atlanta, Birmingham
and Coast Railway tracks.
Other members of the engine
crews leaped just before the crash.
Steak Walker of Fitzgerald, fire.
man on the Flagler, sustained a
head injury nd burns.
The crash occurred on a curve
and both engines apparently had
slowed down to round it. All cars
remained on the tracks.
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OFFICERS PROBE
CHARGES BY CI'S

MARYSVILLE, Calf, July T.
R)-Army officers today investi-
gated the Complaints of 500 combat
veterans that they were required
to ride cross-country in over
crowded day coaches while Ger
mar prisoners Of war were being
transported in Pullmans.
The re-deployment-bound vet
Grams, from the European theater.
arrived at Camp Beale here yes
terday in eight commuter-type day
coaches. One Of the cars had this
sign chalked on its side:
eve get back from England and
we have to ride all the way to
California in chair car while
the German P. WIS ride in Pull
mans. Now is that fair? We ask
you"
However, Brig. Gen. Oscar B.
Abbott, commanding officer OF
Camp Beale, said his investigation
of the runor that German pris-
oners of war had been seen in 4
Pullman in Omaha, Neb., or Den
yer, Colo, failed to disclose any
man in group Of over 1900 of the
veterans personally questioned by
him. who had actually seen Ger
man prisoner of war being trans
ported by Pullman.
1t. Col. Peter De Paolo, ranking
officer aboard the train, described
the trip as "a mess" At a stop in
New York the colonel called Wash
ington, protesting the over-crowd-
ed condition in the cars where
three men were OCCUPYING seats Tor
two. Sleepers were promised at
at Chicago and later at Omaha,
but failed to materialize.
After report swept the train
that trainload of German
prisoners had been spotted travel
ling in Pullrnans the veterans
really raised the roof" the colonel
declared.
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Old Glory Flies High
Over City of Berlin

Also present were Maj. Gen.
Floyd Parks, commanding the First
Air Borne Army, and Brig. Gen.
De Deauchesne, commanding the
French Administrative zone in Ger
many.
United States and Russian Army
bands played, and six American
self-propelled guns roared out a
48-gun salute as the United States
flag was raised on the flagpole
on the main building of the Adolf
Hitler military barracks in the
Zehlendorf suburb. On the adjoin-
ing building, flew the Red hammer
and sickle flag of Russia.
The generals and their aides
stood in front of the building fac
ing the parade ground. A Russian
honor guard, standing stiffly at
attention, was on the left Of an
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BERLIN, July 4-WD-The Stars
and Stripes flies over Berlin TO-
night, symbol of one of the
greatest victories in world history.
Russia formally handed over the
Southwestern district OF Berlin this
afternoon to an American Army of
Occupation. The Northwestern Sec
ton was handed over to the Brit
ish and at last, two months after
the end of the European war, the
joint occupation of the German
capital by the three Allied armies
was effected.
Russian Maj. Gen. Viktor Bara-
nov, commandant of the Red Ar
my's Berlin zone, handed over the
American zone to Gen. Omar N.
Bradley, retiring commander OF
the 18th Army group whom Presi-
dent Truman has named head Of
the Veterans Bureau at Washing.
ton.
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Is Limited
FORTS BOMB CITIES
Two D estroyers Hit In
Great Fourth OF July
Offensive

GUAM, Thursday, July s.
R-More than 1900 Mustang
fighters of the U. S. Seventh
Army Air Force roamed at
will yesterday over hundreds
of square miles Of Japan,
shooting up six airfields
around Tokyo the same day 500
Superfortresses set mammoth
fires in four homeland cities
with 5000 tons of fire bombs.
One Mustang squadron vainly
broadcast an hour-long invitation
to the Japanese airforce to come
up and fight. The fighters circled
three airfields for an hour but
the Japanese declined combat.
Securing both Japan and the
water around it, American planes
put on an unprecedent Fourth Of
July pyrotechnics, including bomb
hits on two destroyers of a four
ship convoy blasted in the Yellow
Sea.
Fresh reports built up to huge
proportionh the air offensive lash
ing Nippon from all quarters,
with B-29 pilots bringing back &C
counts of seeing four empire cities
on fire at the same time after
yesterdays pre-dawn strike.
One B-29 flier said they looked
like all the fires of hell broke
loose"
The Mustangs, Two headquarters
reported, destroyed eight enemy
planes on the ground, damaged
"a more but shot down only one
in the air and were so disappoint'
ed over the airfield targets that
they looked around for power
houses, radio stations, freight cars
and shipping. These were rocket
ed and strafed.
At Tokyo's Imba and Nobars
airfields, hangers, control towers
ammunition sheds and gas tanks
were shot up by the low-fyline
P-51s.
Northeast of the bomb-battereo
capital city, the Mustangs tore into
the Kashima, Tsukuba, Konoike
and Kasumigaura airfields. One
Mustang was downed by ack ack
over Kasumigaura.
At three fields, the Mustangs
were unable to find single
enemy plane on the ground. The
only plane shot down was a Bi
plane.
Targets either destroyed or dam
aged included a power house, SIX
warehouses, a replacement ship, l:
freight cars and two light houses
Two small surface vessels were
hit.
Jubilant pilots on the pre-dawr
Superfortress fire raid said one
enemy city was surprised with it!
lights burning.
1T was the best Fourth of July
any of us ever had" remarked
one pilot who added excitedly:
"And what firecra ckkers we hae
this year"
In the Yellow Sea convoy at
tack, Navy and Army planes free
a patrol craft and damaged E
transport as well as hit the two
destroyers.
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Inquest In Highway
Fatality Is Slated

KINSTON, July 4.-RACoroner
F. A. Garner said today an inquest
would be held in connection with
the death OF Mrs. Annabelle Mas
sengale, 38, of Goldsboro VINO was
instantly killed early this morning
when struck by a car on highway
70 near LAGRANGE.
Mrs. Massengale, he said, had
stopped to investigate another &C
cident along the highway and was
struck by an automobile which
Garner said was driven by Walter
Dean Wells of Wallace.
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Seal Balikpapan Doom;
MustangsSShoot Up Tokyo Airdromes
Hearty Laugh Ends
Life For Dinner

PRINCE RUPERT, B c.,
July 4-(R-A coroner's jury
decided that a hearty laugh
over a dinner-table joke led to
the death of Charles Biehl, 60.
"Biehl's stomach was filled
with food and created a pres
sure on his heart, which caused
1t to stop beating when he lean
ed forward during his laugh"
Coroner R.. E. Coleman testi-
fled.
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Oil Plants
Taken Over
SEVEN PIERS HELD
Borneo Port Now Regard
ed AS Fully In AL
lied Hands

MANILA, Thursday, July r.
R-The blazing heart of Balik-
papan's central town area, in
GLIDING seven waterfront pier
installations and gasoline crack
ing plants, was captured by the
Australians Tuesday, third day
of the invas sion, headquarters
disclosed today.
For all practical purposes !
oil port is in Allied hands,"
ported Associated Press Corresl
dent Russell Brines ir a Jul
field dispatch from the inv;
scene.
He said American Army
neers on the day sailed
two small craft into Balik
Bay, the first Allied craft
since 1941, moving up to Jap
built ponton wharves.
Contrasting with the des
Of the land, the day is
an expanse OF calm water
only a few sunken ships p.
ing" Brines added.
The Dutch-installed Pands
fineries, largely in ruins
intense Allied attacks, were
steadily enveloped at the
extremity of the city.
Sir Leslie Morshead's Sc
Australian Infantry division
sharp swing around the left
in hard fighting Monday and !
day to seize Tokong, or signal
then swept down the bluffs u
the bomb and shell-wrecked tt
itself.
The central plateau was studd
with the twisted skeletons Of
storage tanks and masses OF pipe
More than 80 per cent of the tow
was destroyed before the troop
were put ashore.
Hard fighting still was under wa.
in the center of the eight-mile-loni
East Borneo beachhead. The Aus
sizes gained high ground 500 yard
northeast of Hill SO and fought OF
savage enemy counterattack.
Other ridge positions mile Eas
of Hill SO also were secured. Enem,
machinegun fire and irtermitten
Smelling of the invasion beach con
tinues on a slackening scale.
On the right flank of the beach
head, other Aussies gained tw
miles to reach a point within fou
miles of the big, two-runway Mang
gar airdrome. They met moderate
opposition from small arms ant
machinegun fire as they approach
ed the little Batakan river.
The ultimate objective Of thi
force was the Samarinda oil fields
48 miles beyond the airdrome
These wells feed the refineries o
Balikpapan.
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WEATHER

Eastern Standard Time)
By U. 5. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 7:30 o. M, yesterday.
Temperature
1:3O a. m. II; 1880 a. m. IA; 1870 p. m.
10; 7:30 p. m. 70.
Maxmum IS; Minimum 50; Mean II;
Normal IS.
Humidity
1870 a. m. 95; 7:30 a. m. 81; 80 p. m.
IS; 7:30 p. m. 80.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1880 p. NJ.
DOL inches.
Total since the first of the MONTH
z.20 inches.
Tides For Today
from the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodedtc Survey
High Low
Wilmington 5:52a.m. - Alan
6:32p.m. 12:59p.m
Masonboro Inlet 3:4Oa m. 9:57a.m.
4:2lp.m. 1O:44p.m.
sunrise $685. Sunset 7:27; Moonrlse
l:47a. Moonset 3:34p
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North Carolina Thursday partly
ed afternoon thundershowers.
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