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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-28
CRISIS GRIPS
SYRIAN SECTOR
Sandbags Thrown About
Public Buildings In
Damascus


LONDON, May 27.-P)-Sand-
bags were hastily thrown up about
public buildings in Damascus to-
day while the British, as guar
antors Of the independence Of Lee
banon and Syria, strove for a So
luton to the crisis gripping French
relations in the Levant.
French forces were reported to
have sheled Aleppo, important
Levantine city, but this could not
be confirmed because Aleppo was
cut off from communications with
Damascus. It was learned, how
ever, that the French evacuated
the Citadel in the center Of Alep-
pc.
All day yeterday French in their
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Strong Yank
Patrols Sent
Behind Enemy
FORTRESS ATTACKED
Indications Show Japanese
May Be Using Inner
Defenses

GUAM, Monday, May 28.-WD-~
Heavy guns of American battle.
ships, cruisers and destroyers
have teamed with land and carrier
based planes to wipe out a ICON.
siderable" force of Japanese south
Of Shuri on embattled Okinawa it
was disclosed today as the enemy
withdrew from some of their bat
tered caves and rains and mud
continued to bog down the Amer
lean campaign.
The 77th Division, one Of four
Marine and Army divisions as
saulting formidable Shuri, sent
strong combat patrols deep into
Japanese lines surrounding the
fortress amid indications the enc
my might be withdrawing into
their inner defenses.
The patrols were able to drive
past Japanese front lines in the
north, while LIST Division Marines
attacking from the northwest OBJ
served the enemy destroying IS
to 20 caves facing the American
lines.
Maj. Gen. Archibald v. Arnold's
18th Division on eastern OkinaWa
below Yonabaru stormed the face
Of a sheer 300-foot cliff dominat.
ing Chinen Peninsula while other
troops uncovered signs that the
break-through in the east had
thoroughly shattered the Japanese
defense system. The Americans
found huge stores Of abandoned
food, ammunition and supplies in
caves.
The Sixth Marine Division on
the south bank Of the Asato river
in Naha, the islands capital, held
grimly to their positions and rec
ceived reinforcements despite
heavy mud and swollen streams
along the supply route from the
rear, Adm. Chester w. Nimitz an
nounced.
Torrential rains swept the curv.
ing seven-mile battlefront limiting
visibility to 10 feet and practical
ly stopping all fighting on the 70.
mile long doorstep island to Japan.
Six days of uninterrupted down.
pours have brought even normal
patrol activity to a standstill in
most sectors.
The 7th Division pushed slowly
south from captured Yonabaru
Saturday night, stumbling across
huge sores of food, ammunition
and supplies in caves abandoned
by the retreating Japanese in the
Ozato Mura hills.
At last reports the 7th was soma
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WAR BOND MEMORIAL.

WASHINGTON, May 27.-tM
Here Is a War Bond state,
ment from 1t. Gen. Robert T.
Elchelberger, c m m a n dinsf
general of the Eighth ARMY IN
the Philippines:
Let this Seventh War Loan
be a memorial to our late com.
mander-ln-chief; and by this
tangible expression of our
faith in his leadership and in
our own strength, let the jan
anese war lords know once and
Tor all that their choice is nm.
aiterable - unconditional sur.
render or utter destruction"
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BUILDING STRIKE
THREATENS N. Y.
LaCuardia To Declare
Emergency If No Settle
ment Is Made

NEW YORK, May q. - R =
Mavor F. H. LaGuardia said to.
day he would declare an emergen-
CIV authorizing the Health Depart
ment to operate necessary eleva'
tors if a threatened strike by the
Building Service Employees Inter
national Union (AFL) was not set
tied immediately.
The strike, which would affect
5000 Manhattan office and loft
buildings including the Empire
State building, Woolworth building
and Graybar building, was voted
last night by elevator operators,
ianitors, maintenance workers and
superintendents.
The workers are members OF
local 32-B and 1865 OF the Building
Service Union.
The mayor said on his weekly
radio broadcast:
Il am asking the commissioner
Of health to convene the Board OF
Health tonight or early tomorrow
morning to consider the threat in
volved in this building dispute.
If the health department de-
clareS an emergency, I will is
sue proclamation and delegate
full power to the health department
and the health commissioner to
maintain elevator service which he
deems necessary"
The strike vote followed a dead
lock in negotiations between the
two locals and the Realty Advisory
Board on labor relations and the
Midtown Realty Owners Associa-
ton. The union seeks increased
wages and a shorter work week.
David Sullivan, president of To-
cal BIB which claims $4,000 mem
oers, said union representatives
would meet tomorrow with the re-
slonal war labor board. If no agree
ment is reached then, he said,
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-28
AATION'S WAR HERO
FACES NEW ORDEAL

LucEDALE, Miss, May 27.-U.p
americas sweethearts of the
rouf - Congressional Medal Of
nonof winner Jake Lindsey and
MISS Beverly Hargreaves- were
na today, climaxing ro-
nance that began on blind date
anu reached its fulfillment when he
zane zane home from the war ma.
tlonal hero.
sa lindsey, whose pretty blonde
NV England sweetheart rode be.
n r.ue MIN yesterday when he was
b ba.aaea through the streets of his
ho o,lie town during a triumphal
1rt ni.s celebration, told the
r Ia.|ed Press that they were mar.
fsr, quietly in the presence of a
IL" Of his friends.
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NO CHANGES ORDERED
IN N. f. LABOR AREAS

RALEIGH, May 81 up No
change was made in adequacy OF
labor ratings for North Carolina
areas by the War Manpower Com
mission in April. New Bern re-
mains in group l area, heavy
labor shortage, while Asheville,
Charlotte, Elizabeth City and
Greensboro Winston-Salem area
remain in Group 2, moderate labor
Mount-Wilson, Wilmington and
shortages. Durham-Rale .gh, Rocky
Reidsville and Spray, in the Dan
vile, Va, area, remain in group
3, small labor shortages, VINO
announced today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-28
Jap's Vital
Lifeline Cut
In New Blow
MANNING CAPTURED
Enemy Supplies, Communi.
cations Are Reported
Disrupted

CHUNGKING, May a. E -
Chinese troops, in their most i'm
portant victory in months, have
recaptured the big treaty port o1
Yungning Nanning) in China't
deep SOUTH and cut Japans vita.
overland highway lifeline to Indo'
China and Singapore, the high
command announced tonight.
The re-occupation of the former
American 18th Air Force fighter
base 40 miles south of Chungkine
was serious blow to the Japanese
1t disrupted the eneny's commu
nications in the supply and retreat
corridor for Japanese armies ir
Burma, Thailand, Malaga and
o-China.
Yungning lies at the southern enc
of the transcontinental avenue from
Manchuria at a point 10 miles
from the Indo-China frontier. Gen
eralissimo Chang Kai-Sheks troops
captured the former Kwangsi prov
ince capital Saturday. No details
of the battle were available i'm
mediately.
The city of 6S,110 persons was
the second treaty port to be freed
in little more than week. Eight
days ago, Chinese seaboard forces
retook the east coast port of Foo.
chow and the Chinese command
announced tonight that spearheads
had pushed Al miles northeast to
reach Ningteh-only 38 miles from
Chinese militiamen battling Jap.
anese landing parties at Siapu.
Yungning was the first major
American air base to be re-won
since the Japanese offensive of
last year rolled up the American
line of central air bases. The city
had been occupied since last No.
vember. It previously had been
Japanese-held for year in 1910.
1871.
With the new Chinese victory
boosting the tempo of China's de-
veloping general counter-offensive,
Sll1o1lS 1AoA-1uCh VCCC1 oil 4lS1AICIa
advanced toward two other Japan.
ese-he1d former U. S. air bases.
They smashed within eight and a
half miles of Shaoyang Poaching)
in Human province and were push
ing toward Liuchow in northern
Kwangsi.
Yungning is in southern Kwangsi
province at the highest navigable
point of the So (West) river flow
ing 430 miles eastward to Canton.
In peacetime, the port exported
anthony and tobacco.
By its capture the Chinese cut
the north-south highway linking
the French Indo-C China border town
of Langson with the Kwangsi rail
junction city of Liuchow. The high
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Navy Increases Fleet To Hurl Against Japs

are 296 auxiliary vessels, 1877 pa
troll craft, 81 mine craft, SCI dis
trict craft and 2,462 small boats.
Although supply will continue to
be one of the major problems in
the Pacific, construction of mer-
chant ships has kept pace with
military craft. Starting almost
from scratch, the U. S. Maritime
Commission has put afloat a fleet
of 1903 vessels, or $4,000, 900 dead
weight tons, since January, 1912.
Unless military leaders call for
more the commission will COM
plete its building schedule this
year. Only 1000, 600 tons remain to
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Copyright, 1915, by United Press

Copyright, 1915, by United Press
WASHINGTON, May 27.-UD-
The United States Navy, which
now boasts the greatest fleet in
world history, has another 1882
warships under construction for
the war against Japan, a survey of
Naval power disclosed tonight.
Their completion will give the
Navy the staggering total of 127,-
1858 ships of all types-from bat
tleships and giant aircraft car
riers to tiny, patrol boats and land
ing barges. Included in the new
program are 271 frontline fighting
ships which will swell to slightly
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Mindanao.
During the past week of moppina
up operations, the American.
counted 8,101 Japanese dead ane
took SOB prisoners against u. S
losses of 389 killed, Is missing anc
1902 wounded. That brough
American casualties for the cam
paign which stared last October
20 with the invasion of Leyte tt
Sc, 1888.
The fighting on Luzon account
Led for most Of the Japanese cas-
ualties, with 5,026 killed there anc
298 captured, while the remainde,
were killed or taken elsewhere ir
the Philippines.
MacArthur's daily war bulletin
did not report any specific gain:
for American divisions battling
the remaining Japanese east O
Manila in the Mariana water
shed, at the entrance to the Cagay
an valley in northern Luzon ane
in the hills of Mindanao.
He said that steady advance.
were made in all sectors and thai
on Luzon alone heavy, medium
attack and fighter bombers adrop
ped 424 tons of bombs in support
of ground operations, causing
widespread damage to enemy sup
ply dumps, bivouac areas and de
fensive positions.
In northern Luzon, two veteran
American divisions were battling
from three sides at Japanese force.
holding the little town of Santa Fe
as roadblock on Highway No
5 into the rich Cagayan valley
At last reports a bitter struggle
ragged around Santa Fe, where the
main highway is joined by .
branch road running west to Imu
gan.
Dispatches reported that the
32nd Division, Tightening its grir
around Santa Fee, Saturday captur.
ed Hill SGT which is east of Imu.
gan, three miles west of Santa
Fe. The hill was taken after the
Americans had sealed off "a
Japanese caves and killed 80 out
side.
On Mindanao, elements of foul
divisions aided by Filipino gueril
las famed out in pursuit of the
enemy, supported by dive bomb
erS.
MacArthur's bulletin revealed
another series of heavy air as
saults against Japanese shipping
airfields and other targets in the
Asiatic mainland and in the Meth
erlands East Indies which resulted
in the destruction of six coasta,
vessels and a number of smaller
craft. -~. .. ,,...
Night search planes gave For
mosa its daily battering. They
hit military installations in the
northern and southern portions Of
the arsenal island, and also struck
the Chomosuia airdrome in the
Pescadoress island to the west
Wrecking several coastal craft
Day patrol planes hit through
heavy weather at industrial facili.
ties near Formosa's east coast.
Long-range patrol planes caused
extensive damage to railroad facil-
tiles around Saigon, CHR a
and sank a coastal vessel off the
lndo-China coast. Other patrol
planes sank a cargo vessel at the
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-28
Senator Asserts OPA
Outgroms Government

WASHINGTON, May 27.-WD-
Chairman Elmer Thomas, D-Okla,
of the Senate Agriculture Commit
tee said tonight that OPA has
grown bigger than the government
and that he. intends to 'take it
down a peg"
He heads special subcommit-
tee which found after a three
month investigation of the food
shortage thai OPA regulations are
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-28
President Hits Snag
On Proposed Changes

disapproved by majority of both
the House and Senate.
But the Manasco Bill, in add,
ton to exenpting the % agencies
provides that any reorganization
proposal can be estopped by a ma
jority vote of either house.
It is patterned closely after the
reorganization authority granted
President Roosevelt in 1889. Among
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pWarships Team With Land Forces
To Hit Japs On Southern Okinawa;
Chinese Retake Former Yank Base
laps Suffer 3z8,427
Loses In PHILIPPINES

MANILA, Monday May 28-WD-The
Philippines campaign
great Douglas Macarthur
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WEATHER
Eastern Standard Time

eastern Standard Time
No.,By U. S. Weather Bureau
endin .e0r o data for the "a hours
G3o pm, yesterday.
Ian Temperature
75S. ,.ao OIL -; 7;30 am, ITO; 1870 pm.
n iNS armam5 1872; Minimum ss.2; Mean
l.so , Humidity
1850 pm ain So -; 7:ao am, 70: 1:so pm, 81;
To,,, Precipitation
100 inches, hours ending 1880 pm,
100 inches. 'iie iifst OF the month,
Fror, =, Tides For Today
US Coast 1ioe tables published by
ana Geodetic Survey.)
Wiminrto, High Close
----------- 10:04a SODA
Masonboro 1,,.. 10:36p 5:O8p
4'i'e' 7:41a 1:58a
Sunrise s.o,. 8:11p. lisp
1871 pm: Mo- Mo-, sunset. us; Moonrise,
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FORECAST

,.xt,v cloudy and continued warm
today.
Yesterdays temperatures:
With. 7sz-Low. 6s2
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Evening star., 1945-04-06
Kew Western Front Units Ready
For Pacific on Hours Notice

the Military Order of the World
Wars at the Mayflower Hotel. For
more than year the War Depart
ment has been working on these
plans which constitute, he said, "the
greatest problem in administration
and logistics in history"
He declared that 1T is imperative
that we start the movement through
the Suez and through the Panama
Canal of the units needed in high
est priority for acceleration OF the
campaign in the Pacific.
ANY delay" he added, "any loss
in momentum in that campaign
means the unnecessary loss or mu-
tilation of more young Americans
It Is not merely question Of how
long would be the delay in terms of
days, but rather one of how much
or reorganization or renewed resist
ance the Japanese would be able to
effect by reason of that delay
Under an Army directive to re-
strict observance of Army Day, the
anniversary Of United States entry
into the World War, posts IN the
Washington Military District and
1see ARMY DAY, Page A-3o
Evening star., 1945-04-06
BY WILLIAM H. STONEMAN,
War Correspondent of The Star
and the Chicago Daily News.

ALLENDORF, Germany, April 6.
DIR. Walter Naumann, managing
director of the great Wasag ex-
plosives plant at Serrenweld, near
here, was bent on causing one of
the largest noises in history when
he arrived back from Berlin about a
week ago.
His mission was to blow up $500
tons of explosives before we could
get it, Fortunately for all the ear
drums, windows and china in this
part of Germany, the doctor was
nabbed by our tanks as he and his
helpers busily laid charges through
out the woodland site occupied by
the factory.
The doctors plant occupied the
forest on one side Of the main Kas-
sel-Frankfurt line. Across the rail-
way, lies the even larger explosives
Evening star., 1945-04-06
Chinese Strike Back
Al Japs' Shensi Drive
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, April 6.-Chinese
forces unleashed a large scale, three
pronged counteroffensive against
japanese troops striking toward
Shensi Province, guarding the
northern approaches to China's
capital. the high command an
nounced today.
The Chinese command said Gen.
eralissimo Chang Kai-shek's
forces pouring out of Southwestern
Honan annihilated Japanese bat
talon and encircled a number Of
strongholds west of Neisiang on the
Honan-Shensi highway.
The Chinese comteroffensive was
launched yesterday against a dou-
BILE japanese drive deep into China's
+hinterland. In fighting about 81
miles from the Shensi border, which
preceded the counteroffensive, more
than 1000 invaders were annihilated
and nine enemy tanks destroyed.
Evening star., 1945-04-06
Yonks Seize Manager, Foil Plot
To Blow Up Explosives Factory

plant of Favce, a Nobel subsidiary,
which produced INT. Like the
Wasag plant, it specialized in max
ing the explosive content in sea
mines, 1,000-pound and one-ton
bombs and the warheads of Wis
and V-2s.
Together the two plants cover
more than three square miles of
wooden country and employed TO-
600 workers, of whom half we're
foreigners. Neither plant has been
properly bombed, DR.. Naumann told
us, although our "heavies" had half
heartedly dropped or 10 bombs on
1t on 10 different occasions.
DR.. Naumann showed us through
sheds full of vi and W. warheads,
The former type accommodates 1925
pounds of explosives and the latter
ton.
An oldtime professional explosives
man. openly a Nazi party member
(See EXPLOSIVES, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1945-04-06
Eisenhower Statement
Is Tribute, Nazis Claim
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 6.-DNB, Ger
man news agency, today said Gen.
Eisenhower's prediction that There
will never be a clear-cut military
surrender" of the German Army
is a great tribute to the Reich's
war effort.
Gen Eisenhower statement by
itself shows that our unshakable
steadfastness has been worthwhile,
that it has been the decisive factor
in this war" said DNB, commenting
on letter from the Allied COM
mander to President Roosevelt
which was made public yesterday
TT manifests absolute justifica-
tion of our uncompromising fight tc
the very last" the German broad
cast added.
Evening star., 1945-04-06

Gen. George G. MarShall, Army
Chief of Staff, declared in an
Army Day speech today that the
War Department is prepared to
shift men from Europe after We
day to the Pacific literally on
an hours notice, whenever that
hour strikes"
Gen. Marshall was mindful of the
Overwhelming urge in every man.
to rejoin his wife or family after
We day, but he stressed that it will
be imperative" to start the move
ment to the Pacific as quickly as
possible.
Calling on the people on the home
front to understand and support
this move, he said:
Unless we are to accept an un-
avoidable increase in our casualties,
unless we are to leave our millions
of young men in the far Pacific
waiting for the final support they
will so urgently need, we shall be
unable to meet these very human
desires"
Gen. Marshall discussed the ques-
ton at the Army Day luncheon Of
Evening star., 1945-04-06
Main 0kinawa Battle
Believed Shaping Up
In South Of Island
Us Soldiers, Marines
Killed, 1913 Wounded
In First Four Days
BY the Associated Press.

GUAM, April 6.-The main
battle for Okinawa appeared to-
day to be shaping up on the
southern end of the island, where
the japanese were putting up
increasing resistance among
fixed positions in caves, gullies
and ridges 4 miles north of the
capital city of Naha.
Admiral Chester W. Nimitzs COM
munique today. announcing con-
tinued American gains on all Oki-
nawa fronts, reported remarkably
low American casualties for the first
four days of a campaign only 325
miles from Japan itself-l75 soldiers
and Marines killed, 1913 wounded.
No figures were given for naval
casualties. Nor we're Japanese cas-
ualties listed, although they are
known to be considerably higher.
5000 Yards Gained.
On the south end of the American
line, Maj Gen. John r. Hodges
Oath Corps infantrymen ran into
sitter fighting as they moved ahead
5000 yards.
Field officers said the japanese
commander evidently had pulled the
bulk of his estimated at
more than $4,000 troops-into the
southern end of Okinawa around
Naha. The capital airdrome is the
largest in the Ryukyu chain.
In the north, however, Maj Gen.
Roy S. Geiger's Sd Marine Amphib-
iouS Corps swept ahead AZ miles to
overrun the islands narrowest 18TH
mus and invade tiny Yabuchi Island
off the east coast.
Associated Press Correspondent
James Lindsey reported in a field
dispatch that the Marines had ad-
vanced 5000 yards northeast of the
isthmus. He said they were captur-
ing and, if necessary, killing Oki-
nawans organized by the Japanese
into home guardsmen and equipped
with sticks, knives tied to poles and
similar makeshift weapons.
The Marines still were finding
only scattered resistance. If the
japanese had chosen to stand on the
3-mile-wide neck of Ishikawa 18TH
mus they could have made the
Americans fight on short lines, but
the Yanks drove well beyond that
stretch of ground into the town of
Kin through terrain growing in
creasingly rough and difficult.
Advance Slowed.
Their advance was slowed only be-
cause of the necessity of establishing
supply and communications lines
behind them.
In five days the Yanks have over
run more than 100 square miles, or
about one-flfth of Okinawa.
Observers suggested that the Jap
Evening star., 1945-04-06
Heavy Fighting Flares
As 5th Army Attacks
On |ta|y's West Coast
Americans Goin Nearly
Z Miles in Advance
North of Azzunu
Sy the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
ROME, April 6.-American 5th
Army troops, attacking through
the mountains near the Italian
west coast, have gained nearly 2
miles in an advance north of
Azzana, Allied headquarters an
nounced today.
The announcement said the drive
began yesterday and heavy fighting
was continuing as the Germans met
the onslaught with strong mortar
fire.
Near Porta, American elements
which thrust forward from Strettoia
were driven back by Nazi counter
attack.
(The German radio reported
the launching of the American
attack last night, saying it was
preceded by an artillery barrage
lasting several hours)
Important Terrain Captured.
Initial official accounts failed to
indicate whether the American
attack was on major scale The
surprise advance enabled the Ameri-
cans to capture some important ter
rain features.
From Strettoia, 212 miles inland
and 19 miles southeast of La Spezia,
one American stab made limited
initial gains until it ran into the
German counterthrust near Porta,
a mile beyond Strettoia. From Az
zana, 6 miles inland in the same
neighborhood, 3,000-yard gain
northwestward outf1anked 3,000-foot
Monte Folgorito.
American heavy bombers pounded
Northern Italy's communications for
the second consecutive day today,
bombing the Verona rail yards,
crowded with military traffic. and
the Verona-Parona rail bridge and
other objectives.
The bridge is on the lower end Of
the Brenner Pass route.
Thunderbolts Attack.
Thunderbolts of the 18th Air Force
shot up enemy troop areas and
dumps near La Spezia, ahead of the
5th Army's forces attacking along
the Ligurian coast.
On the opposite end of the Italian
front British 9th Army troops swept
enemy remnants off the narrow spit
of land separating the Valli di
Comacchio lagoon from the Adriatic
as far north as the Valetta Canal
adjacent to Porto Garibaldi, the
seaport for Ferrara.
In night landings 9th Army units
also seized four small islands near
the center of the lagoon. Official
reports said buildings on these dots
of land-Casone Fossa di Porto, Ca
some Caldirolo, Casone de Fosse and
Casone Agosta-had been valuable
observation points for the NaZiS.