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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-07
CONNECTS ESCAPE
THROUGH TUNNEL

CANNON CITY, Colo, Sept. g.
W.H-Three convicts escaped from
Colorado Penitentiary today after
a two-hour battle with guards in
a tunnel under the prison walls
and then showed up unexpectedly
inside the walls again when roll
call was taken several hours later.
Prison officials frankly admitted
that they did not know which three
of the 1,O25 inmates in the peniten-
tiary had made the break. It was
believed that the fugi6ves, once
outside the prison walls, realized
that the odds we're against them
and decided to join a group of con-
victs working beyond the walls.
With this group, they apparently
marched back through the gates
and were present at roll call.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-07
OFFICERS POINT
SCORE LOWERED

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6-U.D-The
War Department today established
a new discharge point system for
commissioned officers which will
return some 600, 1000 Of it's 100000
Reserve Officers to civilian life by
next July l.
It estimated that 100000 officers
will be Immediately eligible for
discharge under critical point
scores to be computed on the same
basis as those for enlisted men.
The officer scores:
Colonies, Lieutenant Colonies
and Majors-100.
Captains and First and Second
Lieutenants-85.
Warrant and Flight Officers
80.
Nurses-65.
WAC officers Of all grades-44.
Physical therapists and dieti-
tians-41.
No provision was made for the
release of general officers-Brlga'
der Generals and above.
The system applies to all arms
and services within the Army but
provides that officers with lower
scores may be released for the
convenience Of the government
where there are no suitable assign
ments for them. This means that
the Army Air Forces will continue
it's recently announced special
point plan for discharge OF officers
with lower point scores.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-07
U. S. PLANES WILL
FERRY CHINESE
First Contingent OF &c..
900 Leave For Occu-
patton Duty

CHUNGK1NG, Sept. 6.1R-u.
S. transport planes, carrying out
the greatest airborne movement OF
troops in Asiatic history, swarmed
away today with additional CON-
gents of the 10000 Chinese troops
who will be flown to reoccupy Nam
king, Shanghai and other cities Of
China's coastal providences.
The entire operation OF ferrying
troops and their equipment is ex-
pected to take 40 days, American
headquarters said.
The fleet took off from Chihkiang
today with units of the crack
Chinese Sixth Army on the $50
mile flight to Marking, pre-war
capital where Japan's formal sur
render in this theater will be sign
ed, possibly on Sunday.
Some Chinese forces were flown
to Marking yesterday, but today S
operation marked the official begin
ming of what was described by ex-
perts as the most complex airborne
movement of troops ever undertak-
en-.
The Chinese Oath Army waited at
Liuchow in Kwangsi province for
the 900-mile flight to Shanghai,
China's greatest city. This move
ment is expected to start Sunday.
The bulk of Chinese forces were
deployed in the Liuchow and Chin
kiang areas for a drive against Can
ton when the Japanese suddenly
capitulated.
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PEARL HARBOR
PROBE VOTED

said the House would consider the
measure Monday or Tuesday.
Quick concurrence is expected.
Barley told the Senate that Mr..
Truman not only approved his res
olution "but urged that l not be
dissuaded by any reason"
Mr.. Truman was asked whether
he thought the Army and Navy
Pearl Harbor reports did not give
the whole story. He replied that
all he knew was what he saw in
the newspapers and that. while he
was satisfied with the reports. not
everybody felt the same way.
Barkely's maneuver was a sur
prise inasmuch as the impetus for
an inquiry had come largely from
the Republican side, with the DEM
ocratic leadership remaining COM
paratively quiet.
His measure, which would pro-
vide $4,000 for the inquiry, calls
for immediate creation Of a joint
committee consisting of five Sen
ate and five House members who
would delve into all phases of the
disaster and report their findings
to Congress- by next Jan. 8.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-07
SCHOOLBOY MURDERS
LITTLE GIRL; HEAD
CRUSHED BY ROCKS

SOUTH FORK, PA, Sept. g.
R-Bright-eyed three-year-old Phil
lis Jean Epperson is dead, and a
nine-year-old schoolboy has calm
ly admitted, authorities said to-
day, that he pounded her with
rocks, but that he did not mean
to kill her.
The little girl-her daddy is a
soldier in the Philippines - was
found on an embankment along
the rocky bed of the Little Cone
maugh river last night. Her head
had been crushed.
Sgt. Vincent Bunch Of the State
Police, said the boy signed stem
ographic statement of his story
and that murder charge will be
filed against him.
Firemen, searching for Phyllis
when she failed to come home aft
er dark, discovered her body near
the rocky creek bed.
State Police and sheriff's Off
GERS went to the home of the boy,
neighbor, and found him Sleep
ing peacefully with his brother.
Assistant district attorney Jack
Bennett described it as apparently
"sex case"
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later will be sWarmlng over HON.
shuts west coast and northernmost
shores.
Combat patrols yesterday began
poking through the rubble that air
onslaughts left of once-great Tokyo,
which only a few weeks ago the
Japanese were prepared to defend
to the death with 20 divisions.
They were from the vanguards
of the proud First Cavalry Divi-
sions, veterans of the Southwest
Pacific, first to enter Manila, and
now to be granted the honor Of be.
ing the first into Tokyo-MacASth-
ur's goal.
The Allied Supreme Commander
will raise over his new quarters in
Tokyo the American flag that flew
ever Washington's capitol that day
of Pearl Harbor and which has
flown in triumph over Rome and
Berlin, those other Axis capitals
that set the world aflame with the
fires of war.
All over Japan's now-exploded
'co-prosperity sphere" her arrog'
ant armies were surrendering and
nv mid October. Macarthur est.
mated, 100000 Japanese soldiers
will be disarmed.
| At least 100000 Of these were
in the home islands, now marked
for occupation by 100000 to AGO.
900 American troops as swift as
conveys of sea and air can get
them ashore. The Fifth Air Force
and units of the Strategic Air
Forces also will be based in ia
pan.
A Japanese naval party was due
to board a waiting American war;
ship today off the northern coast
of tho main island of Honshu to
arrange for the surrender Sunday
of the nearby Ominato naval base
to Vice Adm. Frank Fletchers US.
Ninth Fleet.
A big convoy of American troops
was ready to land in southern
Korea, where preliminary airborne
attachments were preparing the
way on the coast Is miles west OF
Seoul Keijo), the capital.
Tokyo newspapers reported that
the ng-subdued Koreans were p
revolt, and the estimated 800, 900
Japanese troops garrisoning the
country were pictured as eagerly
awaiting the arrival of the Ameri-
cans.
An estimated 10000 Japanese
iSolomons an dother nearby islsNsas
in New Guinea, New Ireland, the
surrendered yesterday to the Aus
tralians and arrangements were be.
icg made for an early capitula.
tion in the Celebes, Timor and
British and Dutch Borneo. =,
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Franco Bo1us To Allies;
Soldiers Leave 7angiers

TANGIERS, Sept. c. WD The
last Spanish troops left this Inter-
national Zone in 40 trucks today
as Gen. Francisco Franco yielded
to an Allied demand that Spanish
occupation end. Most Of the Span
ish troops had been withdrawn
gradually over a period of several
months.
This little city on the northeast
coast of Africa was in a complete
state of confusion as result of the
decisions taken at the Tangier con-
ference in Paris and there were
several protests at the Allied de-
cision to take over the Information
al Zone.
Some circles point out that Span
ish rights here have nothing to do
with who governs Spain but said
these rights are those of the Span
ish people.
Moors who form large percen-
tage of the population are equally
upset at the Paris decisions and
say the city forms an integral part
of the Moroccan empire. No agree
ments should be reached concern
ing it without participation OF
Moorish representatives, they said.
In this connection it was re-
called that the Musulman Nation
alist party telegraphed the Ameri'
can and British governments,
clearly expressing Mussulman OPP
position to the return of the old
regime with its clear French pre-
ponderance.
The general impression was that
no important changes would occur
Immediately but the Moorish ele-
ment was particularly outspoken
in its criticism of the presence OF
Russia at the conference. They ex-
pressed fear that the presence OF
Russia in Tangiers would make 1t
a center of Communist propagan-
da with consequent harm to Mus
sulman religion.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-07
KUHN DEPORTATION
ORDERED BY FEDERAL
BOARD OF INQUIRY

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6-U.D-At-
torney General Tom Clark today
ordered the deportation to Ger
many of Fritz Julius Kuhn, former
leader of the German American
Bund.
Kuhn is now at Ellis Island,
N. Y, and will probably be placed
aboard the S. S. Antioch Victory,
which sails next week, the an
nouncement said.
Clark said Kuhnsis being deport-
ed because ne is dangerous to
the public peace and safety of the
United States because he has ad-
hered to the government of Ger
many and to the National socialist
principles thereof"
Kuhn was brought from an alien
enemy camp at Fort Stanton,
N. M, last week where he had
been interned. He was given a
hearing on Tuesday by special
three-man board appointed by the
Attorney General. The board rec
commended repatriation
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-07
TRUMAN NOMINATES
PAUL Y. McNUTT FOR
PHILIPPINES POST

' WASHINGTON, Sept. g. Wp) -
President Truman sent to the SEN
ate today the nomination of Paul
". McNutt to serve again as High
Commissioner to the PHILIPPINES
and that his job would be to speed
recovery Of the islands so that in
dependence may be restored as
rapidly as possible.
McNutt, whose political pronin-
ence has faded since he was an
aspirant for the presidency in 1910,
will go to Manila as soon as he
is confirmed for the $18,0o0-a-year
post. Mr.. Truman said that the
United States intends to do what
ever is necessary to put the Philip.
pines back on their feet, and that
legislation in that direction is an.
ticipated. ~sa1
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-07
American Intelligence Agents Frustfate Plot
of German Saboteurs To Blou Up T. S. Quarters


American intelligence agents
had the baker in Weimar under
observation for suspicion of being
in secret contact with other Ger
mans early last June, but they
lacked evidence. Then the blonde
and her girl friend were arrested,
and in panic they confessed that
a large underground organization
was being made ready to strike
against the Americans.
They disclosed that the leader,
whose name was withheld by the
counter intelligence corps, was
formerly the commander Of secret
police in a large German province.
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The gang was betrayed by the
19-year-old blonde mistress Of the
leader and another girl who was
the mistress of another of the sa-
boteurs. The girls led the leader
to a rendezvous. ostensibly for
love, and he was captured there.
The gang had planned to dyna-
mite vital installations over hum
dreds of square miles simultan-
eously. The members were cap
trred before they could set off
one blast, and now they are await
ing trial as war criminals. Mill
tary law makes them subject to
the death penalty if convicted.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-07
lions TO HONOR
Minis WILDCATS
ls45 Squad Will Be Ban
ouet Guests OF Club
On October 3

The annual banquet for mem
hors of the New Hanover High
SCHOOL football team will be held
Monday night, October 3, sponsor
ed by the Lions club at the hlgh
school cafeteria, according to an
announcement at the clubs week
" meeting yesterday.
Following an informal discussion
recently between Lion Walter =.
Ycpp. in charge of arrangements
for the occasion, and Coaches Leon
progden and Tom Davis, it was
decided that the banquet would be
more timely in the beginning OF
the season rather than at the close
of the season. The high school
coaches appeared before t h e
Lions club and pressed members
for their support of the team this
year. and sought the encourage
ment of the entire community Tor
the football team.
A vote of thanks for cooperation
in the Lions club program to alo
tae blind and usually handicapped
in New Hanover county was ex-
tended to Wilmington merchants
at Yesterdays meeting.
Many merchants have placed
chewing gum machines in their
places of business, which bring the
Lions club an average OF $l0o a
month, according TO the report OF
the Major Activities Committee
yesterday. This fund is turned over
to the aid-to-the-blind program.
MKeen Maffitt, chairman OF the
special committee, reported that
the Lions club had furnished ten
pairs of glasses to usually handl-
capped children within the county
last month.
The Major Activities Committee
reported yesterday that plans were
underway for the Wilmington CLUB
10 sponsor a new club at Leland.
Wilmington Lions paid their re-
spects to the Rev. James Lawson
fellow member, who is planning
10 leave the City.
The Rev. Sanky Lee Blantor
was welcomed back to the clue
after a long period of inactivity
caused by illness.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-07
By JOHN L. CUTTER

United press o1"h M
W. WAsHINGToN. Sept. 6 The
c"a+a today voted unanimously
esn' searching" Congressional
11uulrestigation of the Pearl Harbor
i l;saster and President Truman
a said he supported the administra-
ss;dn ,a proposal in order to
o .I0 the whole truth and nothing
W. Mr. Truman told a news confer
.nce q few hours after the Senate
e eation that Congress would have
AZ" rioht to all testimony avail
'l Slo This was in reply to a ques-
. ao,' whether he thought Congress
u slc get portions of the Army
M S reports which were deleted
WIFI, when they were made public last
" Tho Senate vote came on a reso-
ntion by Democratic leader Alben
W Barley of Kentucky who,
stealing a march on the RepuDll-
sons formally proposed a non-po-
, ra non-partisan inquiry by a
s snecial 1o-man senate-House COM
creaker Sam Rayburn OF Texas
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All other leaders of the gang were
former members Of the German
intelligence.
With the ringleader in custody,
the Americans began tracking
down other members of. the, gang.
They watched a prominent Ger
man chocolate manufacturer hand
one of the men large bundle of
dynamite. A raid on the manufac-
turer's warehouse disclosed more
than 1 200 pounds of dynamite COM
plete with decorators and fuses.
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Sends Long
Staten ent
2l-POINT PROGRAM
Directive Covers Wide
Range OF Subjects
For Consideration
Bx JAMES C. AUSTIN

BY JAMES G. AUSTIN
United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Sept. e.-WD-I
President Truman today submitted
to the first peacetime Congress In
four years a postwar economic
charter designed to ease the bur-
den Of reconversion for govern
ment, industry, labor, agriculture.
The returning war veteran and the
ordinary citizen.
His first major postwar mes
sage was document of $4,000
words. It placed squarely in the
laps of the House and Senate 81
point directive to legislate i'm
provements or changes in the tax
set-up, selective service, congress
sional salaries, unemployment
compensation, full employment,
and other problems Intimately con-
cerned with the transition from war
TO peace.
The message was read to sparse
ly-occupied chambers in both hous-
es by clerks, and first reaction to it
was mixed. Mr.. Truman made only
one reference to the far-reaching
document lin his afternoon press
conference. That was in response to
question whether he would care
to make budget estimate based
upon his new program. He replied
that no, he could not make such an
estimate.
THE process of reconversion will
be a complicated and difficult one"
he said. The general line Of APP
proach is to achieve as full peace
time production and employment as
possible in the most efficient man.
ner."
Continued on Page ?; Col. y
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FRANKFURT, Sept. g. W.D -
American counter intelligence
agents have smashed Germany's
first underground resistance ring,
arresting the ringleader and 40
other saboteurs and capturing
1000 pounds of dynamite, it was
disclosed today.
Led by a notorious Gestapo Off
Ger from Cologne who worked as
a baker in Weimar, the gang of
Nazi saboteurs planned to blow up
all United States installations in
Thuringia. Thuringia since then
has been taken over by the Rus
SLAMS.
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Pullman Reservations
Now Possible II Days

MEMPHIS, Sept. 6.-R)- Pull
man reservations may be made
IA days in advance beginning Mon
Gay, Assistant General Passenger
Agent John c. Bland of the South
ern Railway system said tonight.
Bland said he had been inform
ed by a Southern Railway spokes'
man at Washington that the office
of Defense Transportation would
lengthen the present five-day PEI
iod to IA for Pullman reservations
after Sunday.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-07
Czech's Hang First War
Criminal In Fast Time

PRAGUE, CZECHOSLOVAKIA,
Sept. 6-W.H-Dr. Joseph Pfitzner,
deputy mayor OF Prague during
the German occupation, was hang
ed today, 2 IL hours after he was
convicted of treason in Czechoslo-
vakia's first War Criminal trial.
The two-day trial and the prompt
execution of the death sentence
were expected to set the precedent
for similar justice in the case Of
Karl Herman Frank, Nazi over
lord of Czechoslovakia, who is No.
l on this country's War Criminal
list.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-07
Rorshippers To Handle
Snakes At Funeral

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Sept. 8.
-Wp Five rattlesnakes, incluo'
Ing the one which caused the
death Of Preacher Lewis F. Fora
will be handled at his funeral Sat.
urday at the Dolly Pond Church OF
God, it was learned today.
The snake, which killed Ford al
meeting of the faith healers
Monday, has been kept in his fam
nys home since then, members
refusing to kill it because it was a
good snake.
1t was not known whether Mrs.
FORD would handle the snake at
the funeral.
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West P oint, Annapolis
To Get Japanese Swords

y YOKOHAMA, Sept. g. W.D =
zen. Douglas Macarthur announ-
ceo today that the sword which
japanese 1t. Gen. Tomoyuki
:, r.amaShlta surrendered in the Phi
Applnes would be sent to the Unit
e ea States Military Academy at
west Point and that the sword OF
vice Adm. Denshichi Okuchi, COM
handing Japanese Naval forces
m the Philippines, would be sent
W 'he United States Naval Acade-
my at Annapolis.
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Vice Admiral Mccain o.
Dies In Cal - 8

SAN DIEGO, Ca, q - 81
-R}-vice Admb - 3 q
ney Mccain, g. - Is
of the famous n Y e
No. 80, died as 4ck
at his HON - Joro-
nado tonight. 81
Admiral Met Ad five
members of his sta. lew here
yesterday after taking part in
surrender ceremonies in Tokyo
Bay.
Early today a Navy physi-
clan reported the Admiral was
worn out from the strain of
the past four months ac-
tivities directing his task force,
and that he was suffering from
a slight cold.
McCain's wife and the physi-
clan were at the AdmiraPs
side when he died.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-07
FARRAR ATTENDING

w. p. Farrar of the Farrar
Tranfser and Warehouse 20.
will be one of the delegates
from Wilmington attending the
Motor Carriers Association
annual convention to be held at
E-yrtle Beach, S. G. today.
Governor r. Gregg Cherry OF
North Carolina and Ransom j.
Williams Governor OF South
Carolina will speak at the an
nual affair.
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Truman Speech Highlights
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.-Wp)
-Highlights of President Tru-
mans message to congress on
the problems Of rec0nversion
to peace-time:

Congress reconvenes at a
time of great emergency. 1t
is an emergency about which,
however, we need have no
undue fear if we exercise the
same energy, foresight and
wisdom as we did in carry
in on the war and winning
this victory.
The process of rec0nversion
will be complicated and diff
cult. The general line of ap-
proach is to achieve as full
peace-time production and en-
ployment as possible in the
most efficient and speedy
manner.
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Displaced war workers cam
not find jobs until industry
has been regeared and made
ready to produce peace-time
goods. During this lag the
government must provide help.

During the months that lie
ahead some groups in
business may be tempted to
substitute a short-range
policy designed to secure
prices high enough to provide
immediate profits over and
above their temporarily high
costs These pressures
must be resisted.
During tn e reconversion
period and as long as short
ages in certain materials
other than food continue, the
Continued on Page Eight; Col. 6,
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Macarthur To Unfurl u. s. Flag
Over Japanese Capital Today;
Truman Submits Postwar Plans
$1,000 TROOPS
TO TAKE OVER
First Cavalry Division Will Follow Supreme
Commander Into Tokyo; 100000
Japs To Be Disarmed By Oct.

YOKOHAMA, Friday, Sept 7P-Genera Macarthur at the
friday signalling swift occupation Of
a U. will guard in the
capital week
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FORECAST

North Carolina - Partly cloudy and
and continued warm. Widely scattered
afternoon and evening thundershowers
friday and Saturday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-04

p. R. MILLS, GROCERY
COL Red Cross st.
MooNEYHAM's CASH GROCERY
3001 Princess ST. Rd.
PICKARD's SPORTING GOODS
2o9 Market St.
L. M POLLOCK ESQ SERVICE
1902 Castle St.
E. S. P1vER
800 S. 18th St.
PRINCESS BILLIARD PARLoR
119 Princess st.
D. G. RA1NES, AUTO REPAIRS
E. Wilmington Rd. to Airport
RIDLEY TAILORING co.
81 S. Front St.
RuB1Ms s. SHOE 295 REPAIR
M. sALEEBY's FRUITS & PRODUCE
lis Dock St.
SANITARY FISH MARKET
118 So. Front St.
SERVICE FUEL OIL co.
1107 Mercer Ave.
SEVEN UP BOTTLING co.
521 S. 18th ST.
SHARPE ROOFING co.
Winter Park-Dial 2-8807
SNOW WHITE LAUNDRY & CLEANERS
SOL Wright St.
SOUTHSIDE PRODUCE CENTER
H. J. Henson - D. G. Granger
G. w. TALMAN, CONTRACTOR
Grading and EXcavating
TALMAN'S READY MIXED CONCRETE
Dial SOB
TAYLOR'S FISH & OYSTER MARKET
113 Dock St.
R. H. 40 10" GROVE
TEXACO SERVICE
Front and Ann SITS.
W. M. TODD, GROCERY
613 Castle st.
U. s. A. RESTAURANT
119 Market st.
WILMINGTON FEED STORE
112 N. 10th St.
WILMINGTON JEWELRY SHOP
127 NJ Front ST.
WILMINGTON MILL WORKS
HOS S. 9Th St.
WILMINGTON WELL AND PUMP co.
Well Drilling - Water Systems
1924 Market St.
YELLOW CAB CO.
Dial 1892