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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-20
United States Auerts
Showdown With Russia
BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
APP Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. -(P)-
The United States averted today
an immediate showdown with Rus
STA over the issue of a Control
Commission for Japan.
This gives President Truman
and other top leaders of the Big
Three powers a few more days
in which to try to iron out criti-
cal differences over postwar set
Elements, disclosed at the recent
Foreign Ministers meeting in
London.
The State Department announc-
ed that the initial meeting of a
far Eastern Advisory Commission
first set for October % had been
postponed to October 80. The Off
cial reason given was that sever
al of the participating govern
ments requested the postpone
ment because of travel difficult
ties.
The effect, however, was to de-
lay the necessity for a Moscow
decision on whether Russia would
participate in the meeting. Wash
ington officials have been appre-
hensive that the Soviet govern
ment would decline to send rep
resentative, thereby precipitat-
ing an open break between the
United States and Russia over
Japanese policy.
When Secretary of State Byrnes
first proposed creation of the Ad-
visory Commission Russia agreed.
Subsequently Foreign Commissar
Molotov took the position that q
Control Commission should be
created first. Such commission
would either replace or supplant
General Douglas Macarthur as
the Supreme Allied representative
in Japan.
Byrnes told a news conference
he believed that the Advisory
Commission should be set up first
and that it should work out rec
concentrations for whatever kind
Of machinery might be deemed
best for the long-range manage
ment of Japanese affairs.
In line with this policy Byrnes
went ahead with plans for hold
ing the organization meeting of
the Advisory Commission next
Tuesday. OF 10 governments
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BLAST INJURIES
l4SCH0OLB0YS

PORTLAND, Ore, Oct. 19-R)-
An explosion in the mess hall of a
boys boarding school today left
one youngster near death, injured
IL others, and wrecked a Hill Mill
tary Academy building.
James F. Knight, IA, son of Mr..
and Mrs. I. G. Parsons, Spokane,
Wash, was taken to a hospital
with critical head injury and
burns.
Mrs. Ben W. Hill, wife of the
headmaster, was also seriously in
]ured. She was walking through
me mess hall when the explosion
blasted through two walls Of the
room.
The explosion, first attributed to
an oil stove, was later blamed on
water boiler. The huge boiler
burst through the building walls,
fragments carrying go feet away
up hill.
The mess hall building, where a
large number of boys had been
eating only short time before the
explosion, was virtually demol'
ished.
At the time of the blast, only a
lew youngsters were in the room.
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QUIET PREVAILS
IN BUEN0S AIRES

BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 19.-P
An uneasy quiet returned to Bue.
nos Aires today as normal bust.
ness activity was resumed at the
end Of nationwide strike by
supporters of. Col. Juan Peron,
newly-restored to dominance in
Argentina's shifting political
scene.
Radical party leaders who are
anti-Peron, voiced fears of an at.
tack from unexplained quarters
and asked for a police guard. In
place of two policemen usually
stationed near the United States
Embassy, 60 patroled the area.
Street demonstrations, howev-
er, had ceased and orde- was re-
ported throughout the city as
transportation was resumed and
shops reopened after 24-hour
stoppage which saw pro-Pe-on
crowds take over the thorough
fares.
Principal newspapers published
again. An exception was the pro-
democratic lCritica,. whose build
ing was still occupied by police.
A judge investigating Wednes-
day nights gun battle, which kill
ed two persons and wounded "a in
front OF the building, turned the
case over to the Juvenile Court in
view of the number of minors in
volved.
Peron was reported to have the
Army's permission to seek the
nations presidency in elections
next April on condition that P-esi-
dent Edelniro Farrel's govern
ment remain impartial and give
Peron no direct help.
The army also was reported to
have blocked any effort to in
clude either Hortensio Quijano or
Armada Antille, Peron supporters,
in Far-ell's cabinet chosen after
the President conferred with Per-
on on his release from custody.
Both Quijano and Antille were
cabinet members when the Cam
DO De Mayo Army garrison fore
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WEATHER
eastern Standard Time)
IN. II G Wanfher Rureaul

eastern Standard Time)
(By u. S.. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm. yesterday.
Temperature
1870 am. "a; 1880 am. s.; 1870 pm. 70;
1880 pm. GO.
Maximum rs; Minimum 50; Mean 66;
Normal 81.
Humidity
1880 am. "a; 7 80 am. 81; 1870 pm.
SO; 1880 pm. SO.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1880 p.m.-
600 inches.
Total since the first of the month
lib inches.
Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tables published by
u. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington 8:53 am $3.50 am.
800 pm. 4:01 pm
Masonbro Inlet - 6:35 am. 1928 am
700 pm. 1855 pm
Sunrise 6:21 am; Sunset 5:32 p.m.;
Moonrise 5:37 pm; Moonset 5 rs am.
River Stage at Esyetteville. N, c. at
am, Friday, Oct. ~. So feet.
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FINANCE GROUP
CUTS BILLIONS
OFF TAX Bill.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 49, @ -
Inc Senate Finance committee vot-
+ed Unexpectedly tonight to cut in
dlvldual income tax levies by an
additional 1858, 900, 900, and ap-
proved a bill slashing total
business and individual taxes for
1916 by $5,629, 900, 900.
After earlier approving a
decrease of $2,085, 1000, 900 in individ-
ual taxes, the committee increas.
ed the cut to $2,64S, 600, 900. This
was $21, 00o,0 600 more than the ST.
UT 100000 reduction approved by
the House.
The committee approved addi-
tional benefits for small businesses
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MOTHER AXPHYXIATES|
HER THREE CHILDREN,
ATT EN- PTS SUICIDE

GARFIELD, N. j., Oct. 80
"A Or year-old mother asphyxla;
ed 'he- three children and attempt
ed suicide here today, Detective
CAPTAIN Frank Aloha said, when
her husband failed to return nome
after family argument.
The husband, Charles Trip, a.
a milkman, found his wife uncon-
scious, the bodies of three chill
dren in Their gas-filled home When
he returned to make up, Alola
said.
Police and firemen revived the
mother, Rosie, and she was tax
en- to Hackensack hospital .where
she was reported in serious cond1-
ton. The children, Charles, Z,
John S, and Patricia 2, were deao
when police arrived at the home ONE
Aloha said this note, signed no
sie," was found on the kitchen
table.
s.Sorry I can't wait any more.
( waited all day for you to come
home. May God forgive me.
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GUARD OFFICERS
TO ATTEND MEET

Officers. of the First Company,
North Carolina State Guard will
represent Wilmington in a two-day
meet in Greensboro called by Gov
ernor r. Gregg Cherry with rep
resentatives of every unit in the
Guard expected, it was learned
last night.
Major Frederick Willetts, bat
talon commander of the Whining
ton, Lumberton, Kinston and New
Bern companies; Captain Leo
Sykes, commanding officer of the
Wilmington company; and First
Geutenants C. T. Farrow, Harris
Haskell, Peter Braack and Second
Lieutenant Percy Kennedy will
make up the Wilmington party.
An Associated Press dispatch
last night said that Governor
Cherry will be principal speaker at
the luncheon meeting Sunday, when
plans for the training of the State
Guard for the coming year will be
announced. .
Col. w. w. Sharp, Jr., command
ing the First Regiment, is in
charge of arrangements. Approx
mately 100 officers are expected to
attend.
Another event slated for 3 pm.
Sunday at Ord will be the presen-
tation of awards at the Officers
Club, when G.. Earl Freddy will
receive posthumous awards for his
son, Major George E. Freddy, Jr.,
who was killed in action Dec. Is,
1914. Col. Paul R. Younts, COM
manding officer of Ord will make
the presentations.
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MARYLAND Sheriff Whips
Conpicted Wife Beaten

1.-THE sheriff did it very nice. l
wish the Judge could have seen II:
The sheriff did not hit him as hard
as my dad used to hit me.
Busching, a sturdy ITS pound gas
company employe, was accused OF
knocking out two of his wife's teeth
after a beer party at their Klllon
Park, Md, home.
County Circuit Judge Charles e.
Marbury said it would deprive
Mrs. Busching and their two chill
dren of financial support If he sent
Busching to Jail, so he ordered the
beating, the first ever administered
in this county although the Mary
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| aborites
To Support
M narchy
DENOUNCE PROGRAM
Cabinet Discusses MacAr.
thur Demonstration
Directive

TOKYO, Oct. 49, H -Japan's
liberated Communist minority
long imprisoned FOR its radical
views-sought the help Of its FORM
er foe, the Socialists, today for the
bitter fight it proposes against
Premier Kijuro Shidehara's new
government.
The new National Federation Of
Toilers meanwhile drew capacity
crowd to a mass meeting which
heard open denunciation of Com
munist aims, and deaffirmed
staunch support of the throne,
which Communists propose to alb
dish. ..
Communist leaders received no
immediate reply to their bid for
Socialist support in a united front
against Shidehara's government,
which the Communists said has
no ability to cope with the present
situation"
The invitation was extended by
Communist leaders Yoshio Shiga,
Shigeo Kamiyama and Ichizo Mat
sumoto in a formal visit to the
office of the Japan Socialist Party.
Shiga said Communists were con-
WINGED that the two groups, once
bitter political foes, could cooperate
in .'unified. single trade union.
Domei NewssaAsency reported
that the cabinet met today to dis
cuss part of the democratic pro-
gram General Macarthur had laid
down for the new government, and
had decided to call a special meet
ing of the ministers whose depart
ments were involved.
One target of Allied occupation
policy-Japan's Zaibatsu, or large,
family controlled business concerns
was strongly defended by For
eign Minister Shigeru Yoshida. In
news conference he said that ia
pans peacetime prosperity had
been built through the efforts of
'"the old Zaibatsu.. whether break
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Veteran CalnlySn1okes
Beside BodyOfHis Wife.

: -
ban Aurora, Detective Sgt. Leslie
Sawyer said the young prisoner
cried bitterly:
{ II would have been dead, too, It
my gun hadn't refused to work
again. Sawyer said the black
haired Army Sergeant apparent
ly attempted to shoot himself while
the possemen closed in under the
direction of the young woman who
said he raped her twice, but his
.32 caliber automatic missed fire.
Partially disrobed and crying
Historically. Marie Woidill, IS,
TAXED to Denver police headqlaar-
Confined ON Page Two; Coll y
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DENVER, Oct. 10 = P) Cap
tured while calmly smoking a Gig
arctic beside his wife's body, a
young, discharged soldier was held
without charge late today in the
Staying which police were told was
preceded and followed by his rap
ing Of a chance acquaintance.
Joseph Desrosiers, 26-year old
Texas, was taken without re-
sistance as he sat still armed in
the mired automobile. which was
the reported scene Of raping and
killing.
When he submitted to handouts
while ringed by large posse in a
brightly rnoonlit field near subur-
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-20

UPPER MARLBORO, Md, Oct.
ls.-(P]-The Prince Georges Coun'
W Sheriff stepped up to a nude
prisoner today, and lashed him ten
times with whip.
twenty witnesses watched con-
Vlcted wife-beater, Lloyd 0. Busch
ing, 80, take his licking.
The blows were delivered so
slowly that it took ten minutes to
deliver the ten strokes.
reporters, barred from the jail,
could hear the whack, whack,
Whack as the four-foot rawh1de
Whip hit Busching's bory.
The jailer, Ellis Middleton, who
saw the whipping, observed:
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today, bringing total corpo-
auctions, as compared *
years levies to $2,841, 900, 000.
Expected repeal of the Use taS4
on automobiles and boats, with
a saving of $40, 900, 900 to, owners
in the last half of 1916, would bring
the total reductions to $500, 000,-
600. Repeal has been voted by the
House and approved by the Senate
Finance committee.
The total reduction was $279, 900, :
coo more than the $3.50, 900, 900 cut
approved by the house.
The committee also voted special
treatment for veterans,
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membership tomorrow.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Removal Of the 30-day strike
notice clause from the War Labor
Disputes Act was urged yester-
day by the Labor Department be-
cause it is "hurting rather than
helping" industrial peace.
The proposal was made at a
Congressional hearing in Washing
ton by Daniel w. Tracy, assistant
Secretary of Labor, as labor dis
putes over the nation kept about
100000 workers from their jobs.
Other high spots in the labor pic
ture included:
l. The two-day Michigan utility
strike cut off heat to some build
ings in two cities as the Governor
warned CLIO leaders the state would
man plants if necessary to main
tain service for 2,000,0 900 residents.
2. New York's AFL longshore-
mems strike ended and the union
reported all $1,000 participants
back on the docks after 10 days.
A factional movement to Gust the
union president continued.
8. An independent union that
sponsored the nationwide telephone
stoppage fixed Monday deadline
for action on wage demands at
the Kearny, N. j., Western Elec-
trio plant.
4. The ALL executive board
called labor's demand for more
pay the key to sound and lasting
prosperity in the postwar era.
President William Green said the
AFL would support wage demands
of affiliates.
Appearing before the House Mil
itary committee at hearings on a
bill to repeal the Smith Connally
War Labor Disputes Act, Tracy
declared the strike notice section
serves to increase friction be-
tween management and labor"
The law binds the government to
conduct strike votes among work
ers if unions give 80 days notice
of intention to strike. This So
called "cooling-off" period, Tracy
told the committee. Frequently
becomes the white heat point Of
the dispute.''
President T u m a. n discussed
Wage-price policies with his cabi-
net but made no immediate an
nouncement on the results. His
Continued on Page Two; Col. ~
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u. S. Forces Outnumbered
Is To l By Japanese
Invaders
THIS IS MY STORY

Fourteenth of a series by Cen
eral Jonathan M. Wainwright which
gives hitherto unrevealed glimpses
of the most ,humiliating defeat ever
suffered by the United States. To-
day the Hero of Bataan and Cor
regidor tells of the beginning Of the
Battle of Corregidor, by which time
the Japs outnumbered our forces
nearly rs to ~
BY GENERAL JONATHAN M.
WAINWRIGHT
Copyright, 1915, King Featurs
Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction in
whole or in part strictly pro-
hibited.) IT,
At the start of the 27-day Battle
of Corregidor we had in the neigh
borhood of 11,000 men, opposed to
a force of about 100000 whose for
ward elements were a, little less
than two miles to the north Of us,
ON Bataan, and six miles to the
south of us, at Cavite. e.
Corregidor is a sloping, polly
wog-shaped rock covering I less
than two square miles and is little
over a half a mile wide at its wild
est point.
At the start it was armed with
two modern 12-ir1ch rifles; about
a dozen 12-inch mortars,, few
1o-inch disappearing guns (Which
could fire only out to sea-; some
8-inch disappearing guns (also un-
able to be turned either toward
Bataan Or, cavite);;, several 155mm.
guns similarly handle apped; four
batteries Of mobile 155 nm: guns;
several small Batteries IF, 3-inch
guns able only to protect 0slf IN: mine
fields, and 48 fis1d guns ofs q pm.
calibre which were strung along
the beaches. 4pf, the R. guns, 46
were knocked out; BY the time: the
J APPS finally began their landings.
slContinued. on Page Seven; Col. y
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Bloody 24-Hour Revolt
IN Gusts President Medina

Caracas, gove-nment-controlled
station, had announced that Me-
dina remained in control Of the
government. But almost stimuli
taneously the rebel-controlled ra-
dio said, according to Bogota lis
teners, that venezuela is free.'D
Medina's surrender came after
seven Army planes from the air.
base at Maracay, 60 miles west
Of Caracas, dropped bombs on
San Carlos barracks and flew
menacingly over resisting police
headquarters in the center of the
city.
The police soon surr-hde-ed.
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Shriners Invite Truman
{ To- Fall Ceremonial

President Harry Truman, a
Noble Of the Shrine, has been in
vited to attend the convocation Of
some 5000 members of the
Shrine here. November 7 and 8,
IL was revealed yesterday by. Don
M: Hyatt; president of Arab
Shrine club of Wilmington.
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BULLETIN

4 CARACAS, Venezuela, Oct. 10.
-1F,-More than so persons were
reported killed and 100 wounded
today in revolt by young Army
officers that ,unseated President
Isaias Medina Angarita and ap-
parently left the revolutionaries in
control Of Venezuela.
CARACAS, Venezuela, Oct. 10.
-(R-Youthful Venezuelan Army
officers apparently staged a sue
cessful but bloody 24-hour revolt
which, eliminated today in the
surrender Of President Medina.
Tour hours after his dispatch
Bogota, Colombia, said that Radio
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-20
Java Coast
Town Scene
Of Cunfire
CHINESE IN RIOT
Three Japanese Killed
In Bitter Peiping
Street Attacks

BATAVIA, Java, Oct. 19.-N
British Ghurka troops occupied
Semarang, a port midway along
the north coast of Java, today aft
er a three-hour skirmish In which
two Ghurkas were killed and four
wounded, an ANETA dispatch
said.
1t quoted a spokesman for the
23rd Indivian Division as saying
that the soldiers were fired upon
as they approached government
buildings.
The landings occurred at am.
At noon an Indonesian official ap-
peared under flag of truce and
stated that the British troops had
been fired upon by Japanese and
rot Indonesians.
The British spokesman said an
Allied officer who addressed the
forces in the government building
ir. Japanese was fired upon, but
added he believed it was unlike
ly that Japanese were fighting AL
lied troops, the dispatch said.
Imprisoned workers of Rapwi,
the organization for relief of Al.
lied prisoners of war and inter.
nees. were rescued unframed lat,
the Pavilion Hotel.
The spokesman said one Ghurka
was wounded and three Japanese
killed in a clash between Japa-
nese soldiers and another Ghurka
company approaching Semarang
by a different route, but declar-
ed that encounter was the result
of "definite misunderstanding -
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INDONESIANS REQUEST
BRITISH DELEGATION

LONDON, Oct. 49, up - A
spokesman for Indonesian ell
ements demanding independence
from the Netherlands has asked
Britain to send a parliamentary
committee to the East Indies "to
investigate the real situation" the
Free Indonesian Radio an
nounced tonight.
British troops are helping the
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Secretary
Asks Strike
Notice Ban
BUILDINGS COLD
Coal Miners Returning
To Pits; Dock
WarEnds
BULLETIN

LANSING, Mich, Oct. 19-(R-
Gov. Kelly announced at 1872
nm. that the Consumers Power
Company strike had been settled
subject to ratification by the union
membership tomorrow.
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FORECAST

North carolina-Partly cloudy sat,,,-
day; little chance in temperature. AZ
cept becoming cooler in mountains seq
ton Saturday. 'es-
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Detroit evening times., 1945-03-20
Detroit Hero
In New Post

Once a newspaper copy boy and
now an outstanding hero Of the
South Pacific, Detroits own Brig.
Gen. Paul b Squeeze" Wurt-
smith, 38, is now the new COM
mander Of the 18th Air Force.
Born and reared in Detroit,
Gen. WurtsmithS 49th fighter
group is credited with destroying
more than 800 Jap planes, most
of which were brought down in
the heroic defense Of Darwin dur
ing the early days Of the war.
ONE or THE YOUNGEST
Highest ranking officer in COM
bat duty from this area, Gen.
WurtSmith also is one Of the
youngest in the service. During
the nine months in 1912 that his
group was knocking the Japs out
OF the skies in the Australian thea
ter, he rose from captain 20 briga-
dicr general
He was a lieutenant stationed
at Sclfridge Field when the war
-bFe4+e- CIT eGieff n. At44tift " ftsf4iti4 IA * the
son Of Mrs. Fred Wurtsmith Of
1415 Campbell whose husband. a
Perc Marquette railroad en-
gineer, died several years ago.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-20
Safety Pioneer S
Rites Thursday

Funeral services for Alexander
X. Gage, Detroit attorney and
traffic fiie safety pioneer who died
yesterday of a heart attack. Will
be held in the Hamilton Chapel.
Cass and Alexandrine. at IL a. m.
Thursday. He was 10.
Born in Lawrence, Kan, in 1874.
He was graduated from Trinity
College and the Detroit College Of
Law.
He was president OF the Detroit
Lawyers Club and secretary Of the
Detroit Bar Association.
Mr. Gage was president and
owner Of a number Of casket manu-
featuring companies.
Surviving are his widow, Ger
trude. three sons and a daughter.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-20

"Your Own Horoscope" ny
Frances Drake, is one of many
famous features in The Detroit
Times.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-20
Couple Accused
Of Store Thefts

A man and his wife were ar
rested today charged with steal
ing merchandise from other stores
to sell in their own, dry goods es-
tablishment at 8537 Twelfth.
They are Max Stein, II, and
his wife, Sofia, 6S, who will be
charged with larceny.
Police Sgt. CletuS Carleton Of
the holdup squad said the two
were arrested on the tip of
Charles F. Mann, manager of a
Kresge store at 9010 Grand River.
Mann. police said, charged the
two took a parasol from his store
and six shirts from an adjoining
store.
Carleton said about $50 worth
Of stolen merchandise was found
in STEMS store being offered for
sale.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-20
.RedCrossGiff
LIST S75,898

A total Of SIS, ,S9S79 in gifts.
largest Of which was S4,5O0 from
the Motor Products Co. marked
the beginning of the third week
in the Red Cross War Fund drive
here.
Among more than a thousand
other gifts was one of $4.053.2 %
from employees Of Awrey Bakeries.
Inc; $1,000 from the Awrey con-
cern; $4,000 from the Goebel
Brewing Co.; Federal Mogul
Corp, $1,000; Detroit Trust Co,
$1,000; Standard Oil Co., S2,4o0;
United Air Lines, $500, and
Time, Inc, $l400.
The Lithuanian American Red
Cross unit sent in Sl,551.35. The
campaign total now stands at So
904, 1885, close TO the halfway
mark The drive was sPaFFed by
a general Red Cross rally at noon
in the Masonic Temple. The De-
troit Civic Opera Chorus and the
Ford Naval Station Band pre-
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-20
ACTIVE IN PACIFIC

The young general is a graduate
Of Holv Redeemer and Cass Tech
nical High School and was a Uni
veTSity Of Detroit student when
he Joined the air forces. Within
a year after getting his wings he
won the Mitchell Trophy Race at
Selfriige Field.
Early in 1914 he was the first
fier 10 land a plane on newly won
airticlds in New Guinea. He
landed on an air strip al Aitape
Just Is hours after the pitted run
ways had been aptured d by
Yankee infan .rymcn.
Even the war epartm Q NJ
couldn't keep track of Squeeze"
during those days. Although al
ready promoted 10 brigadier gen.
cral. he was cited as a colonel
when awarded the DSM.