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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-08
Six Japanes1l1Narships All Planes Destroyed
Yanks Outf z1k Hanover, Roar Toward Berlin
Soviet Troops Encircle Two Thirds OF Vienna
Six Persons Hurt
In Auto Accident

juring both its occupants. No
one in the Taylor automobile
was injured.
Two passengers in the Yer
cen car were not hurt.
About twenty-five minutes
after the accident, while the
wrecked Vereen car was in
the middle of the road, anoth-
er, operated by Lieut.. Thomas
E. Barber, USMC, Of Camp
Lejeune, approached the scene
at a high rate of speed. It
struck the Vereen car, knock
ing 1t into the automobile of
Roy Cook, of 305 South Front
street, parked nearby as he
gathered information for the
Star-News story. Misses Moore
and Coleman, passengers in
the Barber automobile, were
knocked unconscious and suf-
fered severe bruises of the
head.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vereen were
taken to James Walker Men,
orial hospital, treated for
decorations and bruises and
later dismissed.
Damages to the five auto
mobiles was estimated at ST.
900 by the investigating Off
GERS.
Charges of reckless opera
ton were lodged against Mr..
Vereen and Lieut.. Barber by
the DatrOlmen.
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CINCINNATI GROUP
SELECTS OFFICERS
Col. Bryce Metcalf, OF New
York, Speaks AT Con-
Guiding Session

Bartlett F. Johnston, of Balti-
more, was elected president of the
North Carolina society Of the Gin
cinnati yesterday morning and the
organization concluded its two
day meeting here last night with
an address by 1t. Col. Bryce Met
calf of New York, president of the
Connecticut society and president
general.
Other officers elected were:
Ernest M. Green, of Raleigh;
president emeritus; Col. Paul A.
Rockwell, of Asheville, vice presi-
dent; John G. Dawson, of Kinston.
secretary; Bryan G. Dancy, of
Baltimore, assistant secretary; Jo-
seph Blount Cheshire of Raleigh,
treasurer, and Francis o. Clark
son, OF Charlotte, assistant treas
urer.
Colonel Metcalf gave a severe
critique of the present trend in
the American form of life and gov
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Davis Becomes 7enthMun
In City Council Contest

tration will be conducted for the
last time Saturday, Aoril IA, the
books closing at 7:42 pm. The
election will be held Monday, April
%, from $3.50 am. to $3.50 pm.
In connection with his injury,
Captain Davis said the automobile
accident was due to no careless
ness of mine whatever. That was
clearly proved in court. I fully
realize that on account of my
physical condition I am unable to
do hard work, but I am confident
that if elected as a councilman
I can do that alright"
Capt. Davis pointed out that
'being retired, am in a posi-
ton to devote all the time neces-
sary to this office" The former
Continued on Page Five; Col. II
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Coal Operators And Miners May Settle
Dispute Without Federal Intervention

WASHINGTON, April T. up -
Soft coal producers and miners
agreed suddenly today that chances
are good they can settle their
wage dispute without government
intervention.
Chairman Ezra Van Horn Of the
United Mine workers told report
ers 1--WE have the belief that a
contract can be agreed to Mon
day. Van Horn is an operator.
K. C. Adams of the UNIV journ-
al said in statement on behalf
of John L. Lewis, union president:
''Mr. Lewis shares. the opti-
mistic prophecies. He feels like
Mr.. Van Horn, that the industry
should of its own accord adjudi-
cate its controversies"
The conference sent letter to
the war labor board saying much
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The number of candidates to en-
ter the primary race for seats on
the City Council was boosted to
10 yesterday with the filing Of
Capt. John H. Davis, Wilmington
policeman for 20 years who re-
tired last October due to an in
jury received in a traffic acct
dent.
Capt. Davis, who for 10 years
was in charge of the police traffic
squad, also has served as depu-
ty sheriff, as Wilmington town.
ship constable, and as jailor.
He also worked for the Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad as car in
spector fer many years.
H. G. Carney, chairman OF City
Elections board, has pointed out
that only five days remain for
candidates to file. The deadline is
6 pm. Friday, April Is. Regis
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leasing OF MEAT
| CODE CONSIDERED
Contemplated By VIA In
Effort To Improve Civil
ian Beef Supply

WASHINGTON, April 7.-RAThe
War food administration today con-
sidered relaxing federal meat in
spection requirements to help ease
the Civilian beef shortage.
By easing the regulations, yet
not affecting the meat quality, the
army could meet some of its meat
demands through local slaughter
ers, instead of having to rely en-
tirely On the larger packers VINO
have federal inspection.
The effect would be to make
m or federally inspected m e t
available in those areas which are
wholly dependent upon the prod
ucts of packers doing a nationwide
business.
War Food Administrator Marvin
Jones notified chairman Anderson
ON. M ).of special house food
Investigating committee today that
he had called government experts
together to consider slackening the
federal regulations during t h e
emergency. The suggestion came
from the committee after a long
closed conference W it h govern
ment food agency heads.
Another committee suggestion
that the army take over closed
packing plants and process its own
beef direct from ranges and feed
lots is being studied by tn e
army.
Relaxing of Federal slaughterer
inspection requirements, Anderson
said, will not affect the quality of
any meat. It will mean simply
that slaughtering plants located in
areas not now reached by federal
inspectors can qualify for sale to
the government on the strength Of
state inspection.
Most State regulations now are
as strict as those of the govern
ment, he said, but because of a
shortage of federal inspectors
many local plants forego the U.
S. stamp Of approval and confine
their sales to their home states.
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Marines Advancing On Okina1ua;
Army Strikes Stiff Resistance
PUSH TOWARD NAHA
Japs Fortified In Extended
Trenches, Blockhouses,
Pillboxes

GUAM, Sunday, April S.-R-
Marine OF the Third Amphibious
Corps advanced 5000 yards torth.
ward along both coasts of Okinawa
yesterday morning against neg
ligible resistance but Oath Corps
Army Doughboys ran into stiff re.
sistance from heavily entrenched
Japanese in their push toward
Nahu, the island capital, Adm.
Chester w. Nimitz announced to.
day.
The Doughboys in the south were
moving through hard terrain in
which the enemy is fortified in
extensive trenches, blockhouses
and pillboxes the admiral said. He
made no mention of the extent OF
the soldiers gains.
The japanese made a small scale
aerial attack on the ground troops
yesterday. Twelve attackers were
downed. Nothing was said as to
whether they inflicted any damage.
Continuing their long distance
support of the Okinawa invasion
forces, British carrier planes op-
Grating some 800 miles to the south
hit airfields and other installations
on Ishigati and Miyako in the Saki-
shima islands, southernmost of the
Ryukyus. British pilots shot down
five Japanese warplanes and de-
stroyed three more on the ground.
Nimitz said new information dis
closes that American carrier pilots
in sweeps through the Ryukyus,
sank four small cargo ships and
many small craft and destroyed
two Japanese airplanes caught on
the ground.
The Marines, against 'NegIgi-
BILE resistance" continued their
northward push on the Ishikawa
isthmus throughout yesterday
BY noon, they had ad-
vanced to the vicinity of Maya
Town on the west coast and to
Ora bay on the east coast.
There were indications that the
main battle on Okinawa may de-
velop in the 24th Army sector,
where the Japanese are resisting
strongly with artillery, mortar
and small arms fire.
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the same thing as Van Horns
statement to the press. The letter
spoke of belief that ''it may be
possible by Monday night, April
9, to reach an agreement, at least
in principle, on all controversial
points -
It promised the WLB' that the
conference would advise IN o t
later than Monday evening wheth-
er or not an agreement has been
reached"
If the controversy is not settled
soon, the WLB is prepared to move
in on the dispute. Today's develop
ments, however, took immediate
emphasis off prospects that h e
government might seize idle coal
mines. The solid fuels administra-
ton estimated that the wave of
unauthorized strikes since Sunday
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HEADED BY SUZUKI
Installed In Palace Under
Black Cloud OF Naval
Defeat

SAN FRANCISCO, April 7.-R-
Japan Third war cabinet, head
ed by Baron Kantaro Suzuki as
premier, was formed today in a
shower of American airbombs
and installed in imperial palace
ceremonies held under a black
cloud of naval defeat.
The war ministry straightaway
announced reshuffle of the Japa-
nese army high command, said
Tokyo radio in FCC-monitored
broadcasts, and Suzuki warned his
countrymen the very basis OF our
empires existence will be threat
ened if the situation is allowed to
pass as it has been"
Domei, Japanese news agency,
announced that Suzuki, successor
to Premier Gen. Kuniah Koiso
whose cabinet fell Thursday, per-
sonally took the portfolios OF for
eign minister and greater East Asia
minister, two top rank posts.
A shakeup in the Japanese ar
my high command was announced
by the war ministry even while
the cabinet was being installed in
the presence of Emperor Hlrohlto
at the imperial palace.
Tokyo radio said Field Marshal
Gen. Sugiyama War minister In
the Koiso cabinet, and Field Mar
shall Shunroku Hata were appoint
ed commanders of the army COM
mand and Gen. Masakuzu KaWabe
commander of the air force.
Koiso's cabinet resigned as the
result of the war situation" Tokyo
said, and to make way for a
stronger" government. But Suzu'
XII was internationally known as
~
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has cost the country more than
a million tons of coal in Pennsyl-
vania alone.
The old contract expired a week
ago tonight but Lewis agreed to a
30-day extension. For more than
five weeks the operators and
miners have been negotiating for
new one.
Interior Secretary Ickes, as solid
fuels administrator, called in mid
week for immediate seizure of the
mines, without waiting to see
whether the disputants can get to-
gether. He said the cost to the
war effort permitted not one days
delay.
Today's developments followed
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in the mine. This would mean
200 tons Of gold, but the Ger
man bankers insisted that
something over 100 tons was
the correct amount.
The gold still is under seal in
huge subterranean vault, and
Third Army officers said its
value would not be known un-
til American finance officers
break the seals and audit the
hoard. They expressed belief,
however, that the German
bankers undoubtedly were tell
ing the truth.
Going down into the mine in
a big double-decker elevator,
officers of the 90tR Infantry
Division, which made the find,
Continued nm Pape Six. Co1 6
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Japs Form Cabinet,
Reshume Command
New Jap Premier Says
War In Critical State

SAN FRANCISCO, April l.
- P) Premier Adm. Baron
Kantaro Suzuki following the
formation and installation of
the new Japanese cabinet to-
day, told his countrymen the
war had reached a "crucial
state" and expressed "deep-
est humilitation'' over Ameri-
can victories.
'"The very basis Of our en-
pire's existence will be threat
ened if the situation is allowed
to pass as it has been," Su-
zuki was quoted in a Tokyo
broadcast recorded by the FEC.
The 77-year-old premier said
he felt the deepest humilia-
ton and regret at the develop
ment of the situation that has
allowed the enemy to take pos
sion of an integral portion Of
the empire"
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GERMANS PLOTTING
THIRD WORLD WAR
Allies Map Detailed Plans
For Destroying Long
Prepared Program

WASHINGTON, April 7.-W.H-
The Allies have mapped detailed
plans fo-: destroying long-pre-
pared Nazi program to achieve
world domination through a third
world war; the State department
disclosed tonight.
Assistant Secretary of State Jul
Illus c. Holmes said the United
Nations had collected "ample 'evi-
dence" that Hitler and his bench
men already were working on
plans for strong, worldwide
Nazi organization after this war.
Holmes, Assistant Secretary
Archibald Macleish and State De-
partment Press Chief Michael j.
McDermott dug into confidential
reports from U. S. Foreign Serv-
ice experts abroad to tell the pub
lie of Nazi plot which sounds
like E. Phillips Oppenheim.
1--WE Americans are too ready to
believe things like this don't real
ly happen Holmes commented.
But they do. There are villains
in the plot"
Here are some of the ways Ger
many is preparing for third
world war:
A Nazi agent is trying assidu-
ously to liquidate valuable stolen
property and place the proceeds
at the disposal of Heinric Hmm
Ter, Hitler's gestapo chief.
Another undercover agent has
valuable art objects which have
been smuggled out of Germany to
be invested ION the best possible
terms" for the benefit of portly
Marshal Hermann Goering.
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Reich's Golden Treasure Seized
In Mine BY Yanks In Unexpected
Haul That May Shorten The War

spilled the secret to military
police.
Reichsbank officials on the
spot said the bullion represent
ed "all the gold in Germany"
and the German army gave
some confirmation by trying
desperately to get back into
Merkers today with a heavy
counterattack in the Muhlhau-
Sen area 30 miles north, in
which the U. S. Sixth armor-
ed and 65th Infantry Divisions
knocked out 40 enemy tanks
and smashed the attack.
Some 200 British prisoners
Of war who had been employ
ed In the mine, which is call
ed the Werks Kaiseroda. said
they had seen 20 ten ton
truckloaods of gold unloaded
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Six persons were injured, two
seriously enough to require hos
pitalization, in a two-phase
automobile accident involving
five cars at the intersection of
the Wrightsville Beach high
way and Audubon Boulevard
early this morning.
Most seriously injured were
Mr.. and Mrs. Artie Putt Vereen,
of 318 Queen street.
Others hurt were Sgt. Ed Ii
ton, a knee injury; Sgt Ted
Kak0loris, both of Camp Lee
jeune, and Misses Myrtle
Moore, GIL Ann street, and
Sarah Coleman, 100 Henry
street.
According to the investigating
state highway patrolmen the
accident occurred in the follow
ing manner:
An automobile driven by Ray
Taylor, with five occupants,
halted in rear of a Wrightsville
Beach bus, as it stopped to al
low some passengers to disem-
bark at Audubon Boulevard.
The automobile driven by Elton
also halted, in near of the
Taylor vehicle. The bus and
cars were enroute to Whining
ton from Wrightsville Beach.
The Vereen car then approach
ed, striking the Taylor We
hicIe in the rear and knock
ing it into the Elton car, i'm
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STATE AND NAN
OFFICES DIVIDED
Action Enables Top-Flight
Leaders To Move Into
Werewolf War

LONDON, April 7.-(RHAdolf
Hitler decreed the splitting of
state and Nazi party offices today
IN a drastic move enabling top
Ought Nazi leaders to abandon
their posts in the path of Allied
armies crushing Germany and
TAKE up underground stations in
Inc werewolf war"
Inc action apparently is intend
GU 10 leave non-Nazi party "sur.
render stooges'' in the areas over.
run by the Allies and it was in
tefpreted here as another indica.
tlon that the Reich was in its
death throes
"A decree by Hitler and an or
uef by the party chancellor. Mar.
[rI bormann, as quoted by the
herman News Agency DNB, said
.l' move was made to facilitate
'he freedom of movement oil
4uneuonarles in ''these difficult
ufnes' There have been previous
teporls that Nazi party leaders
naa been executed fcr fleeing Their
Inns reversed an opposite trenc
curing u years of Nazi histor,
NJ which province after province
len , under the rule of Nazi party
sauleiters
Inc move also occurred amie
mounting reports of chaos and ter
r In erumbling Germany ant
sports OF many Germans fleeins
49, ~ neutral countries. Only yester
nay German military planes land
ca at Lisbon and Barcelona, thei,
eAe"men asking to be internet
4st they no longer wanted t,
light.
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Russian Guns
CoyerCerman
Escape Roads
Street Fighting Breaks Out
In SheIl-Shaken Aus
trian Capital
Bv ROBERT MUSEL

LONDON, Sunday, April q
80 (UP) - The Red army
stormed 8 miles to the Dan
ube northwest of Vienne yes
terday, encircling two-thirds
of the Austrian capital and
putting the last German es-
cape roads under short-range
artillery fire while other Rus
sian troops battled into the
city streets from the south.
Marshal Feodor I. Tolbuk-
hin's Third Ukrainian army
captured the riverside suburb of
Kosterneuberg, one mile from the
Vienna limits and left only a g.
mile gap between its spearheads
at the Danube on both sides OF
Vienna, which lies almost entirely
on the south bank.
Street fighting broke out in the
shell shaken Austrian capital as
other Third Ukrainian army units
entered the main city from the
south, Moscow comnunique an
nounced. Berlin admitted a pene-
tration of two miles inside Vienna
to the edge of Simmering, the
city's gas and electric power sta
ton four miles southeast Of St.
Stephens cathedral in the city's
center.
Establish Bridgeheads
Berlin also reported that the
Russians threw several bridge
heads across the Morava-Danube
confluence 9 miles east of Vienna
in drive to cut across the Ger
man garrison's last escape lines
and complete the enlightenment.
The battle for Vienna, metro
polls of almost 10000 population
and one of the most famous CAPT.
tails in the world, entered the eli
matte phase as German common
tators vowed that it would be de-
tended street by street.
Driving around the west side of
the city, Tolbukhin's troops first
swung out four miles to Bress-
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British Units
But 20 Miles
From Bremen
First Army Crosses Weser
At Several Points On
South Flank
By EDWARD KENNEDY

PARIS. April 7-P)-U
S. Ninth Army tanks out
thanked Hanover today in an
18-mile drive that swept
across the Leine river 10 miles
southeast of the city and
roared down the direct road
to Berlin-140 miles ahead.
On their south flank the U.
S. First Army crossed the
Weser river at numerous points
against light resistance and west
of the stream was locked in a
raging battle with German troops
held in their battle positions by
their pistol-pointing officers.
On the north flank the British
Second Army drove on east Of
the Weser to a point 20 miles west
OF Hanover as its tanks speared
northward to within 20 miles OF
the big port Of Bremen.
Take Port Knox
The U. S. Third Army struck
the lettering Reich a resounding
economic blow by capturing Ger
many's Fort knox," an under
ground storehouse in Thuringia
containing 100 tons of bullion-said
to be all the nations gold reserve
and billions in currency and art
treasures.
At the same time, the Third
Army shattered the first big coun-
terblow aimed at its spearheads
thrust within 100 miles of Berlin
by knocking out 40 tanks in me-
lee west of Muelhausen.
Sled white by disasters east and
west OF the Rhine, the once-mighty
German army seemed powerless
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new CLUES FOUND
IN HICHAM CASE
Leaves, Wood Shavings
Were Piled Around Body
Before The Fire

RALEIGH, April 7.-RCPolice
said today they had uncovered evil
dence to show that the slayer OF
wealthy Mrs. John v. Higham ear
ly Easter Monday morning piled
dried leaves and wood shavings
around her body before setting
fire to her home.
W. P. Whitley, chief Of the city
county Identification bureau, re-
ported he had found a small guam
tity of leaves and shavings on the
spot where the charred and blud-
geoned body of Mrs. Higham lay
when firemen battled their way in
to her Hayes Barton home on
the morning of the fire.
He said the leaves and shavings
apparently had been protected by
being under the body during the
fire.
''This, in my opinion, furnishes
definite proof that the fire was
of incendiary origin" Whitley said.
Continued on Page Eight; Col. 81
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WEATHER

FORECAST
Sunday fair and slightly warmer: mod.
crate northeast winds.
eastern Standard Time,
(By U. s. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm, yesterday.
Temperature
1870 am, 46: 1880 am, ga; 1880 DIN, a:
1880 pm, 81.
Maximum ST; Minimum 43; Mean Is:
Normal So.
Humidity
l:30 am, 70; 7:3o am, 50; 1880 pm, q:
1880 pm, II.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 1880 nm.
OLA inches.
Total since the first Of the month,
DAT inches.
Tides For Today
from the Tide Tables published by
U. s. Coast and Geodetic Suryeyl
High Low
wilmington ------- elisa 12:55a
6:36p 1:27p
Inlet --------- 3:53a 10:24a
4:19p 1o:41p
Sunrise, $50 am; Sunset, s:3a pm:
Moonrise. 1881 am; Moonset, 2:19 pm.
Cape Fear River stage at Fayetteville
at 8 am. on April 7, 1880 feet.