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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-27
DeGAULLE ARRIVES
IN NEW YORK FOR
VISIT OF TWO DAYS

NEW YORK, Aug. 26.-(P)-Gen.
Charles De Gaulle, president of the
Provisional Government of France
arrived shortly after 4 p. m.
tEWT) today to be the guest Of
New York City through Monday.
A five car motor caravan
brought the tall General and his
party to the city after visits ear
iier in the day to Hyde Park and
West Point.
At Hyde Park De Gaulle paid
tribute to the late Franklin D.
Roosevelt by placing wreath on
the grave of the former President
in the rose garden Of the Roosevelt
Estate. The General was lunch
con guest al the U. S. Military
Academy at West Point and later
reviewed the Cadet Corps.
Arriving at the New York Yonk-
ers city line, the French leader
and his party were met by Grow
er A. Whalen, chairman of Mayor
La Guardia's reception committee,
and French officials in New York.
A squadron of 80 motorcycle police
led the party to the Waldorf
Astoria where a reception was to
follow,
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-27
10000
DIE OF
BURNS
Ine.udiary Bomb Attack
Takes Big Toll Of Life
At Tokyo

wAsH1NGToN, Aug. 26.-U.D-
,,o,a Than 100000 Japanese were
S Mu,u to death in a single super
pu incendiary bomb attack
W ~ Tokvo last March 10, former
NJ n.rish Minister to Tokyo DR.. Lars
. Tillitse reported today.
7;,,itse's account of the raid
..a first such neutral account OF
~. wv devasting bornbings of the
1,I capital-was given in a
radio address ABc).
a shall never forget the attack, "
rillitse said, "incendiaries were
.cattered all over the city and a
saJs swept the fire from house to
hoe,
From my window I looked into
4be roaring, Pickering flames that
devoured houses and trees and
everything in their way. That night
more than 100000 Japanese were
burned to death"
The raid described by the former
Danish minister was the 18th super
fortress attack of the war against
Tokyo. 1t was made by 300 Bog s
which dropped 1900 tos of incen
diary bombs, the biggest raid laun'
ched against the Japanese capita.
up TO that time.
The bombs were dropped over a
l0-square mile area of the city.
shortly after midnight, but a gale
then sweeping the japanese CAPT
tai famed the flames through the
center Of the city until II square
miles were burned out. A repor'
from the Goth Bomber Command
said that two B-29's were lost.
Utilise lived in Tokyo up to las
May Is. His country broke of
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-27

Tides Surge
On Lowlands
ONE CITY FLOODED
Port Arkansas Inundated
Planes Fly To Dallas
Haven

CORPUS CHRISTI. Tex, Aug
26.-(P)-A 11O-mile-an-hour tropi
cal hurricane struck this heavily.
populated Texas coastal area to.
night, sending mountainous tides
over lowlands and severing com
>munications lines with some towns
The Houston Weather Bureau
said the Coast Guard and State
Highway Patrol reported streets
at Port Arkansas, on Mustang
Island across the bay from Corpus
Christi were four feet under
water at 8 p. m. EWT.
At Arkansas pass, on the main
land, the surf was said to be run.
ning-board deep.
No deaths Or injuries had been
reported in the area.
The highest peak velocity SC
far reported was at the Corpus
Christi Naval Air Training Cen
ter, 10 miles South of here, where
the wind blew in gusts up to 101
miles an hour.
In Corpus Christi the maximum
velocity was IS miles. The baro.
meter reading was 1898. Shortly
before II p. m. EWT, the city
power went off for the second time
during the evening.
The Weather Bureau in its 10: 80
p. m. EWT Advisory located the
center of the storm about 80 miles
Continued on Page Three; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-27
CITY OF CANTON
PASSES TO CHINA
Bv SPENCER MOOSA

CHUNGKING, Aug. 26.-(P)-
Canton, great Japanese-held com.
mercial metropolis of South China,
has passed peacefully into Chinese
hands, reliable reports said today
as 159 Chinese military and govern.
ment officials flew to Marking to
prepare for Japan's formal surren-
der in China.
The reports did not state whether
Canton has been occupied by under:
ground forces or by Generalissimo
Chang Kai-shek's troops, last re.
ported so miles away, but Of the
branches of the National govern.
ment were said to have reopened
there under the new mayor, one.
legged vice-admiral Chan Chak.
The Chinese High Command
meanwhile announced that at least
eight key towns throughout China
lad been added to the list Of re.
occupied japanese strongholds, and
the threat of civil war between
government and Communist forces
lessened.
Unofficial Chungking expressed
relief at Chungking World News
report that Communist leader Mao
Tze-tung had agreed to come to
Chungklng for conferences to settle
differences w it h Generalissimo
Chang Kai-shek.
The 30-yearRusso-Chinese treaty
by which Russia agreed to aid
the Chinese National government
only also appeared to be heavy
blow to the Communist government
at Yenan.
The big group of Chinese military
and government men left for Nank-
ing in seven transport planes from
Chihkiang, $50 miles Southeast OF
Chungking.
The mission will set up forward
headquarters for Gen. Ho Yingchin,
commander of Chinese field forces.
The Chungking newspaper Ia Kung
Pao said the formal surrender OF
ia 4nese forces in China will take
place in the pre-War Chinese capital
Sept. 3.
The mission was headed by Gen.
Leng Hsin, deputy chief of staff to
Gen. Ho, who will fly on later and
will accept the capituiation of Japa-
nese commander-in-chie Gen. Yasu
Okamura, had a long conference
Continued on Page Three; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-27
FIELD CONDITION
PROHIBITS FLIGHT

Because of the meteorological
Turkish bath which has hoveree
over the vicinity of Wilmington
recently, as well as the entire
East, flights of South East Air
lines, Inc, scheduled to be in
augurated at Wilmington at 9:5s
a. m. today, have been cancelled
because of the condition of the
field, w. c. league, of Gastonia
vice president of the airline, Sale
last night.
Although equipment and labor.
ers were rushed to the field Sat.
urday in an effort to complete the
field, conditions were beyond such
swift rapir, Mr.. league said, ex.
planning that the field would be
in top condition in the next two
days.
Mr.. league disclosed that one
of the airline's twin-engine Cessna
planes circled the landing field
yesterday, but ne was refused
landing, and returned to Char
lotte.
Commenting on the airlines pos
sibilities, Mr.. league said that
the Wilmington passenger list for
the first departure today had been
filled. Although flights were can
celled here, the schedule will be
maintained throughout the rest
of the State where the airline will
serve, Mr.. league said.
Departures from the Penning-
ton Flying Service airfield, on the
Carolina Beach road, of which
Warren Pennington is owner and
manager, are scheduled at 1852
a. m. and 1928 p. m. Arrivals are
scheduled at 9:37 a. m. and 1913
p. m. daily. ..
Mr.. league said that city off.
cials of Wilmington, town officials
OF Carolina Beach, the Army and
business officials within the area
have been cooperating 100 per
cent with the newly-organized air.
line.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-27
RED ARMIES TAKE
KURILES ISLANDS

LONDON, Aug. 26-R-Soviet
amphibious forces occupied three
more islands in the Japanese
Kuriles West of the Aleutians to-
day while other Red Army units
pushed along the rugged beaches
of Sakhalin island North of Japan
and secured the port of Rutaka,
Moscow's 18th communique OF
the Russe-Japanese war, announc-
ing these gains said also that 49,
900 additional Japanese troops, in
Guiding six generals, had been
taken prisoner yesterday. More
than 100000 enemy troops have
been rounded up in the past eight
days.
For the fifth straight day, the
war bulletin concluded: 1.-THE re.
ception of surrendering japanese
units and formations continues"
Islands in the Kurile group occu-
pied by Airborne troops of Gen.
Maxim Purkaev's Second Far East
ern Army, assisted by Pacific
Fleet landing parties, were on Onne.
kotan Jima, Shashikotan Jima and
Matsuwa Jima at the Northern end
of the chain.
In their 250-nile overwater jump
to Matsuwa Jima from the power.
full japanese naval base at Para
mushiro, the Russians by-passed
the islands of Harimukotan, Much
iretsu and Raikoke.
On Sakhalin Island, lying 26
miles North of the Japanese home
island of Hokkaido, the Russians
were hopping up the last pockets
of surrendering Japanese and
Rutaka was occupied Eastward
from the captured port of Otomari.
Moscow's brief communique
made no mention of operations
in Korea, where Soviet forces took
the big East coast port of Gensan,
or in Southwestern Manchuria
where Red Army soldiers were
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-27

10 Dictate
Jap Orders
100000 IN AREA
Meeting With Enemy En-
voys Gets Underway AT
Government House
BY CHARLES A. GRIMJcH

RANGOON, Burma, Aug. &c.
R-Japanese peace ENJOYS arriv-
ed in Rangoon today and began
talks with Adm. Lord Louis Mount
batten's officers to arratge the
formal total surrender of 200, 900
or more enemy troops in Southern
Asia.
The enemy negotiators landed in
two green-crossed white planes,
escorted by seven Allied fighters
The emissaries were headed by
1t. Gen. Takazo Numata, chief Of
staff to Field Marshal Count
Juichi Terachi, commander OF
Japan's Southern armies. They
were met at Mingaladon Airfield
by 1t. Gen. F. S. Tucker, acting
commander of the Fifth Corps;
LIE. Gen. Sir Montagu Stopford
British 18th Army commander; Air
Vive-Marshal Boucher and Maj.
Gen. G. w. Symes, commander
of the Southern Burma District.
The Japanese saluted and the
British officers responded. The
enemy ENJOYS were loaded in a
field station-wagon and made a
sweat-box ride over bumpy roads
to their quarters.
Shortly after, they were sum.
moned to Government House and
talks on a chief-of-staff level be
gan between Numata and 1t. Gen.
F. A. M. Browning, representing
Mountbatten, Supreme Allied
Commander in Southern Asia.
Mountbatten, it was reported,
was making four initial demands.
They were Cd Guaranteed safety
for reconnaissance flights over
Japanese-held territory ca Ar
rangements for mine-sweeping;
60 Unmolested entry of Allied
ships into enemy-controlled waters,
and "a The dropping Of
supplies to prisoners of war.
The negotiations are expected
to continue at least until tomor-
row and the final signing of the
surrender terms of Terauchi's
forces is expected to take place in
Singapore.
French and Dutch missions, il
Continued on Page Three; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-27
ROOSEVELT LOANS
WILL GET AIRING

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.-WD-
The Treasury which has com
pleted its investigation of Elliot
Roosevelt's financial transactions
is expected to present the full
story to the House Ways ano
Means committee tomorrow.
Secretary of the Treasury Free
M. Vinson last week advised Com
mittee Chairman Robert L. Dough
ton, D., N. c., that the six-week
inquiry, undertaken at the com
mittee'S reuest,is finished.
Principal items investigated ir
Texas, New York, Chicago, snd
elsewhere include:
l. A 100000 loan from John A.
Hartford, president of The Great
Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., made
y 1899 and repeatedly settled for
$4,000 in 1912 by former Secretary
OF Commerce Jesse H. Jones at
the request Of the Roosevelt family.
hartford, in turn, is said to have
written off the loss as bad deft'
on his income tax return.
T. A $4,000 loan from David G..
baird, New York insurance man,
made in 1899 and repeatedly set.
ued in l94l for about $4,000.
3. A $4,000 loan from Maxwell
M Bllofsky, New Jersey radio
equipment manufacturer, made in
as5s and repeatedly settled for
$4,000 in 1941.
Young Roosevelt was part owner
Oh the Transcontinental Broad
casting System at the time the
loans were made. The corpora
uon, formed in October, 1899, went
,hlo receivership less than a year
later.
Roosevelt recently made a state.
naent IN which he charged that
pupllclty given his financial trans.
scuohs was aimed to discredit his
ID nef, the late President. He
'aia ne welcomed the inquiry and
asserted that he had nothing to
lear He alleged that certain seq,
nlehts of the press were trying
" malgn his father.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-27
Men Who Fish For Shrimp
Recieue Church BLESSING

MORGAN CITY, La, Aug. 2e.-
U.n)-The clerical boat putt-putted
up and down Berwick Bay today,
with priests of the Roman Catho.
lie church bestowing blessing
upon the men and ships who fish
the Gulf Of Mexico for jumbo
shrimp. ~.
Nearly 300 lavishly decorated
deep sea trawlers and numerous
other fishing boats were on hand
for the solemn religious ceremony
which was brought to this country
from France in the 18th century.
The colorful sight was witnessed
by hundreds of visitors from all
ever Louisiana and several sur:
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-27
Mighty Missouri Enters Sagami Bay;
Typical Hurricane Hits Texas Coast;
Aap ENJOYS Arrive For Rangoon Talks
HiubiNy Registers
After laps Surrender

LOS ANGELES, Aug. &c.
R-Ernest Denks, 2s-year-old
Kentucky mountaineer, has
found out that the United States
was at war with Germany and
Japan, but Japan had sur
surrendered before he made the
startling discovery and regis
tered for the draft.
Denks told his Draft Board
that there weren't newspapers
or radios in the hills near
Moorhead, KY, where he has
spent his life. A friend told
him he might get a job in Los
Angeles. He has found out
''more burned things" here.
81 never went to school,"
Denks said at a night club
where he is working as q por-
ter. Il can't read or write.
I worked all the time on my
farm"
On his draft registration he
made an 'X" in lieu of a sig
nature.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-27
EBERHARD FADE R
BROWNS In OCEAN

MANTOLOKIN, N. J. Aug. 10
W.H-Eberhard Lother Faber, 81,
Of the pioneer pencil manufactur.
ing family, and his brother-in-law,
Col. Brock Putnam, So, drowned
near here yesterday in their at
tempt to rescue Faber's eight.
year-old son who was pulled
ashore by another swimmer.
Eyewitnesses said the boy, Eber-
hard L. (Jimmy) Faber, Nv, was
wading in the surf up to his waist
near the farily's South Manitoba
kin summer home when waves
swept him so yards out from the
shore.
Answering the boys screams for
help, Faber and Putnam, a retir.
ed Army officer and husband Of
Faber's sister, plunged into tbs
water and in turn went down in the
undertoW.
Capt. Duncan Taylor, brother Of
Mrs. Faber, also went into the
water and succeeded in reaching
the boy. He towed him to shore
and also brought in Faber, while
Lifeguard Walter P. Krichliug
brought Putnam to shore.
A lifesaving squad and physician
were unable to revive the men. The
boy, who had remained conscious,
was wrapped in blankets and tax.
en- home.
Mrs. Faber and Mrs. Putnam,
who were in the beach party, wit
messed the drownings.
Taylor, member Of the United
States Marine Corps Reserve, was
visiting the Fabers after his re,
cent return from duty in the Pa.
cific.
Faber was Vice-president of the
Eberhard Faber Pencil Co., and 4
grandson of the founder. His father
is Lothar Faber, president of the
firm.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-27
CLOUDS LOWERING
| ON REC0NVERSI0N
PLANS OF NATION
Bv MARVIN L. ARROWsMITH

DV MAN lin h1eNO w o1Nxx n
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-P)-
Storm clouds blackened today ovel
the government ironclad price
policies for new consumer goods.
Business doesn't like them, bu
OPA-backed up by President Tru
man-says they will stick.
Retailers and wholesalers be
gan converging on Washington TO:
what may be a showdown meeting
with OPA on Tuesday. Their com
plant is: That OPA is Unfair tt
them in its rule that new washing
machines, autos and such must re
enter the retail market at-or very
near-1942 price levels.
Meanwhile:
l. The Office of War Informa.
ton asked to be closed up in &c
days-or less. The State Depart
ment might take over official U.
S. Information services i'll foreign
lands. -'7s~a'
2. High stacks of women's and
children's clothing were predict
ed as early as November. Men S
clothes: little slower, because
millions of veterans will be buy
ing "civvies."
3. The rush to junk federal con-
trolls stirred a protest from the
watchdogs of little business. A
Senate committee said small plants
will need priority help into 1916
Or else bigger and richer firms
will grab off the materials.
The price dispute has explosive
possibilities. OPA has laid down
two firm policies on the price OF
goods re-entering production after
IL years.
1. The manufa curers whose cost
of labor and material rose signifi-
cantly during the war gets a high
er price, to compensate him.
2. But the price to consumers
must stand at or near 1925 level.
In between are the wholesaler
and retailer. So the wholesaler
must cut down the profit he makes
in selling to the retail store, and
the retail store must cut down his
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-27
Emiissariies
Board Ship
On Arrival
AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
Macarthur Announces u.
S. Troops To Occupy
South Korea
By The Associated Press

MANILA, Monday, Aug. 27.-tF1
+ Correspondents with Admiral
Halsey's Third Fleet broadcast to.
day that the fleet, led by mighty
Missouri, entered Sagami Bay, 80
miles South of Tokyo, at 1924 =.
m. today (9:34 p. m. Sunday, East
crn War Time).
Halsey's entry was one day be-
hind General Macarthur original
occupation schedule, but a full
day ahead of his revised program
after the Supreme Allied Com.
mander postponed occupation
plans 48 hours.
Halsey's entry into Sagami Bay
followed by only two hours the
arrival aboard his flagship, the
Dattleship Missouri, of Japanese
emissaries, who came out to
receive instructions for welcom.
ing Marine and Naval parties who
will land at Yokosuka naval base,
in other Tokyo bay, Thursday.
Broadcasters said Halsey did
not speak to the Japanese ennis
saries, reported to be two officers,
10 pilots presumably to direct the
ships into the bay) and six inter-
prefers.
The Japanese, said these reports,
were searched although they said
they were not carrying arms. They
We're stripped of their Samurai
swords for the duration Of the con-
ference, which was with Rear
Adm. Robert B. Carney, Halsey's
chief of staff.
Meanwhile, more than 1000 car
rier planes flew over all Of South
ern Japan, dropping food and
medicine for Allied prisoners of
war.
The Japanese boarded the Mis-
souri, As to so miles off the Jap
Fanese coast, out of sight of the
mainland. They went to the fleet
in a small Nipponese destroyer,
weretransferred to the U. S. des-
troyer Nicholas and then taken to
the Missouri.
General Macarthur. ready to
land Thursday in the first wave of
an occupation army expected to
swell to half million men inside
six months, announced for the
first time that U. S. troops also
would occupy the Southern half Of
Continued on Page Three; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-27
Hitler Planned Death
For All Je1us In Europe

shown any disposition to put up
battle. But the burly Mayer,
taken by surprise, grabbed the
first weapons at hand-slabs OF
firewood-and flung them around
wildly until be found himself look
ing at a flock of pistols.
With the good doctor, agents
made another catch almost as
important, his wife Liselotte
Observation-Disclosures. She has
been identified as the source Of
many rumors sweeping Bavaria.
Among these were the canard
that the Americans stole the atom
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-27

rounding states. 1t. Gov. Emile
Verrett, of Louisiana, was guest
of honor, substituting for Gov.
Jimmie Davis who could not at
tend.
The wharves were damned with
barrels of boiled shrimp, the sea-
food which provides the livelihood
for those who received the bless
ing of the church today. The
Louisiana delicacy went for the
asking to those present.
The trawler Reckless, first all
steel boat in the local fleet, was
reserved for distinguished visitors
Continued on Page Three: Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-27
Parboiled Pair Pops
One On Popcorn Man

SPOKANE, Wash, Aug. &c.
RGTwo slightly inebriated
customers argued 10 minutes at
Harry Towards popcorn stand
last night. Each insisting that
he should treat the other to a
bottle of pop.
'sThey kept showing their
dimes back and FORTH" How
ard said, until finally one
asked me, do you care who
pays for it?' 1 told them no,
it made no difference to me.
''The he said, %. X, you
pay for it, and they lurched
out"
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-27
LEGION AUXILIARY
OF STATE WILL HOLD
CONVENTION TODAY

RALEIGH, Aug. 26.-(P)-Ap.
proximately $50 delegates are ex-
pected here tomorrow for one.
day business convention of the
North Carolina Department of the
American Legion Auxiliary.
Mrs. Euga A. Campbell OF
Homer, La, vice president of the
Southern Division of the Auxiliary,
will be the principal speaker. Of
ficers for the coming year will
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-27
BY ROBERT MUSEL

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
WITH THE U. S. THIRD ARMY
IN EUROPE, (Via London, Aug.
26.-U.D-Dr. Hans George Mayer,
SIS major and former commander
of German-ruled Ghetto-and
the first high-ranking Nazi to
physically resist arrest-told a
story today of high Maxi con-
ference at Berlin in 1910 which
produced a plan to exterminate
European Jewry.
Until counter-intelligence agents
called at Mayors home near OBJ
sersalzburg,no Nazi standing high
on the mandatory arrest list had
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-27
STEELWORKERS WILL
SEEK WAGE HIKES.
CLIO CHIEF STATES

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 2e.-R-
lifting of the Little Steel" for
mula to permit immediate wage
increases in the steel industry
will be sought when the United
Steelworkers of America National
Policy committee meets here Sep
TENDER IL, President Philip Muir
ray declared today.
Murray told a mass meeting of
1000 USWA members that he had
"been bowling, not for revision of
Continued on Pare Three: Col. AZ
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-27
Nursery School Funds
Will Cease October 81
BY EILEEN SHANAHAN
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

| WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.-WH-
The government has no plans at
present for continuing Federal
financing of the nations child
care centers and nursery schools
when Lanham Act funds become
unavailable Oct. 81, it was reveal
ed tonight.
The program of Federal aid for
child care and nursery school
facilities, which began in August,
1912, and allowed the mothers of
more than 100000 children in all
states and the District of Column
bia to hold jobs in war industries,
will come to an end on that date.
The expiring law provides that
only conditions under which a
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-27
FORECAST

North Carolina: Fair Weather with
mild temperatures Monday. Tuesday
clear to partly cluody and not much
change in temperature.
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