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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-18
Sunset Park Home
Demonstration Club
Gives Yule Party

The Sunset Park Home Demon
stration club met on Friday for the
annual Christmas party held at
the Sunset Park Methodist educa-
tional building with an attendance
of Is members.
Mrs. Kelly, president, was in
charge of the program. Christmas
carols were sung and interesting
stories of their origin were given
by members of the club.
Miss Ann Mason, home agent,
displayed Christmas gift decora-
tons made at home which were
very useful and original. Christ
mas gifts were exchanged among
the club members and games were
enjoyed followed by a refreshment
course served by Mrs. Harrison
and Mrs. Robbins.
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TURKEY M FIXIN's

HATTIESBURG, Miss, Dec. II
Miss Marguerite Kerr and Capt.
Joel Cook Pretlow, Jr., were mar
ried on Saturday afternoon, Deem
Der Is, at o'clock in the head
quarters chapel at Camp Shelby,
Miss, with Major Robert w. Hart
ness officiating,
The bride was given in marriage
by her father, Mayburn Leslie
Kerr of Louisville, Miss, and her
maid-of-honor was her sister, Miss
Dwight Kerr of Louisville: At
tending as bridesmaids were Miss
Kathryn Kerr and Mrs. Carolyn
Pittman of Louisville and Mrs. j.
P. Pretlow of Wilmington, N. e.
The bridegroom had as his best
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-18
Hitting Tree On Highway
Costs Driver His License

= Robert Allen Edwards who lost
a tooth and simultaneously became
the owner of wrecked Packard
automobile, was convicted on
charges of reckless driving in
Recorders court yesterday. Judge
H. Winfield Smith imposed a fine
of $50 and court costs which was
RENTED on condition that Ed
wards surrendered his drivers Ii
cense for a period of one year.
Edwards riding alone when the
car hit a tree on the Masonboro
Loop Road, East of Sherman's
place had stated that binding
lights from an oncoming car was
the cause of the accident.
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DON'T JUST ASK
FOR ASPIRIN

always ask for it by name. Be sure,
..v St. Joseph Aspirin. It's genuine
s snd pure. You can't buy aspirin that
am aan do more for you. There's none
t tosfer none better, none more depend
s sh1e, Get St. Joseph Aspirin, worlds
i au,n seller at 10c. Save even more
n la,S large size-100 tablets cost only
az S5c~you get nearly 8 tablets for 1c.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-18

Mrs. Clare johnson Marley of
Cary and Chapel Hill. who will
present and direct her. own pag-
cant, Flora Macdonald" at Flora
Macdonald college on the evening
of May 7. This pageant will fitting
-ly highlight the double celebration
in 1916 at Flora Macdonald the
200th anniversary of the saving of
Prince Charles Edward Stuart by
the Scottish heroine, and the 5Oth
year since the founding of the col
lege named in her honor.
Mrs. Marley has received both
the Roland Holt Award and the
Sidney Lanier cup for her Scottish
play, which has also been favor
ably Recognized on Broadway.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-18
John B. Hill, Jr.,
Will Spend Yule
Holidays At Home

WAYNEsBORO, Va, Dec. II
John B. Hill, Jr., son of Col. and
Mrs. John B. Hill, TIA Market
street, Wilmington, vino is attend
ing Fishburne Military school in
Waynesboro, Virginia, will return
to his home this week for the
Christmas holiday season. Fish
burne cadets will be given three
weeks Christmas furlough this
year, extending from December
.Hh to January 9th.
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BY CuakLOTTE ADAMS

Associated Press Food Editor
For this, our first peaceful
Christmas in so long time, we
all want to have a really perfect
dinner. There's plenty of turkey.
All we have to do is provide the
trimmings. Here's suggested
menu.
Holiday Turkey
Pluck, wash and draw a IL to
IA pound turkey. Rub inside and
outside of bird with mixture of
salt, poultry seasoning and pep
per. Stuff lightly with prepared
stuffing (see below. Sew up open
ings or secure with skewers. Truss
the bird so that wings are held
back tightly against the body
CHRISTMAS DINNER MENU
Clear Soup
Roast Turkey
Chestnut PURGE
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of Mr.. and Mrs. r. R. Futrele OF
this city. ::
R. E. Bruce, Jr., S &c, USNR,
has returned to Camp Peary, Va,
after visiting his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. R. E. Bruce in Lake Forest.
Mrs. Mollie L. Williams is pa.
tent at James Walker Memorial
hospital. g
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-18

During the 1944-45 season near
" 10000 rabbits were live-trapped
throughout the state Of Pennsyl'
vania in areas where they were
causing crop damage or whers
hunting is prohibited, and trans
ferred to sections where public
shooting is allowed,
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FIVE-YEAR PLAN

CHUNGKING, Dec. 17-P- A
five-year plan for development OF
civilian aviation in China was re-
ported today in the Chinese press,
which said the program would
give China 10000 miles of airlines
The plan calls for expansion of
air lines to Formosa, Hainan, Man
churia and Japan, then expansion
to Siam, Burma, the Philippines
and Australia.
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SduAACu 0WSSs =
Green Peas
Hot Rolls Cranberry Sauce
Olives and Celery
Plum Pudding
Sailed Nuts Candies
Place, breast up, in roasting pan.
Brush melted butter or margarine
over the whole surface. Roast, un-
covered, in 300 degree oven, 25
minutes to the pound for bird of
IL pounds or less, or a slightly less
time per pound for larger bird.
Stuffing
6 cups dry bread crumbs.
6 doughnuts, toasted and crumb-
ed
IL cup raisins.
l teaspoon poultry seasoning.
IL teaspoon thyme.
IL cup minced celery and leaves
IL cup minced onions.
IL cup minced parsley.
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7, D. c. Chapter
Meeting Slated

The Cspe Fear chapter, No. 8,
,,.;+ed Daughters of the Confed-
o acv will hold the regular meet
elsI m Wednesday afternoon at
". .5o o'clock in the Ladies Bible
',0e of the First Presbyter-
''' An interesting program has been
tanned with special Christmas
a,,sic being rendered by the jun
i i choir of the First Baptist
church.
Attention is called to the change
in place of meeting.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-18

In England the Harvesting of
dogs to vehicles is forbidden, but
in Belgium it is common practice
IN harness one or more to small
milk carts.
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BUY U. s. VICTORY BONDS
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Nations Meusn1en Back
A. P.'s Victory Scoop

printed or messaged comments
such as these:
''In the years to come Kennedy S
feat will be remembered as the
best scoop ever made in Amer
lean journalism. casper (Wyo.)
Tribune Herald.
The following is telegram for.
warded to Kent Cooper, genera
of the Associated Press,
by the Wilmington Star-News:
Highest praise should be giver
the Associated Press and Ed Ken
needy for scoring the scoop of the
year. 1t was great reporting by a
great reporter. Also to you fol
the prompt and vigorous manner
in which you protested the order
suspending the filing privileges Of
the Associated Press in the Eu
ropean Theater Of Operations
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
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Continued on Page Three; Col. u

ganization for the district inter-
American security system embod-
led in the act of Chapultepec at
Mexico City. 49,.
Representatives Of is of them
met last night and more meetings
were underway today. Delegates
came out of them bespeaking 8
firm determination against compro
missing on what they consider thu
right of American republics to set
tie disputes in their own hemis-
phere without waiting for worle
organization to give clearance
Even without the United States
whose delegation is split on the is
ste, they have a bloc OF twenty
votes in the conference.
Still to be settled, also is thf
question of conference voting rules
An executive committee recon-
mended that big problems be de
Continued on Page Eight; Col. s.
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Hopeful Of Early Aid,
Pacific Kanks Fight On

die East theaters and 100000 N
the United States.
There was no mention Of Rus.
sia's probable role in the Pacific
from U. S. sources but Japanese
radio and news broadcasts indi-
Gated some concern. They stress
ed .Japan's wish for continued
"strict neutrality"
Nimitz, in radio message
broadcast to the United States,
commented: IF the enemy's &C.
ton were at all times indicated
by common sense he might choose
to surrender soon.' n
There was no indication from
Tokyo or the battle fronts that
Japan would be swayed by "com.
mon sense. Some, Tokyo press
dispatches laid Germany's collapse
to large-scale troop surrenders and
declared Japanese soldiers would
continue to fight to their death. 5
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KENNEDY ACCUSED
OF CODE BREACH
Eisenhower Says Story Of
Surrender Was I'm
authorized

NEW YORK, May 8-tRE Gen
eral Eisenhower in message sent
through War Department channels
to Kent Cooper, executive director
of the Associated Press, said that
Edward Kennedy's suspension for
filing a dispatch reporting Ger
mary's unconditional surrender
was educ (to) self-admitted dellb-
crate violation (of) SHAEF regu-
lations and breach (of) conf
dence."
Eisenhower replied to message
sent "a hours previously by Cooper,
protesting against the suspension
of Associated Press filing facilities
in the European Theater OF opera
tons, which suspension was lifted
yesterday after being in effect less
than seven hours. and adding:
Finally, if the restriction is ap-
piled because of the action OF one
Individual, please not only give
me the charges against him but
quote to me his explanation in
answer to the charges, since appar-
emily I am unable to communicate
with him myself"
The text of Eisenhower's reply
follows:
Associated Press suspended
(Continued m Page Three; Col. 81
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ALLIES APPROACH
B0RNEO AIRFIELD
Yanks Slug At Entrenched
laps On Mindanao
And Luzon

MANILA, May 8. -W.D- Ameri-
can troops were slugging away at
entrenched japanese in eastern
Mindanao and northern Luzon, and
Australian troops in Borneo Were
picking their way through mine
fields and pillboxes today whih
the folks back home celebrated
victory in another war half WoriG
away.
Reports from Borneo said that
Australian and Netherlands EaS'
Indies troops had seized hills east
of the rich Paomesian oil fields
near Tarakan and were getting IN
to position to seize the field IT,
self. Japanese troops were using
its derricks as roosts for sniping'
The advances on Borneo wers
aided by planes already operating
from the airfields captured bv
Australians, and in addition heavy
bombers were smashing at Japa-
nese harbor installations and air
fields elsewhere In Borneo.
In northern Luzon, the Japanese
were fighting as bitterly as if they
had only now embarked upon tne''
1941 plan of conquest.
On Mindanao, other American
troops were assaulting prepared
japanese defenses in the Davao
area with mortars and flan,t
throwers. Japanese forces In thu,
section were dug in on hillsldeS
where they concentrated alter thu
swift American drive from the
southwestern coast of Mindar1au
knitted through to the coast.
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Moscow News
OF Surrender
Is Released
Guns Of Europe Ordered
Silenced AT 6:0l P. NJ.
GWT) Yesterday

PARIS, Wednesday, May S6tA>
Germany bowed today to the most
crushing defeat ever inflicted upon
nation, her abject surrender pro.
claimed to the world by the United
States, Britain and Russia.
The Moscow radio in behalf Of
Premier Marshal Stain, whose
Red armies broke the armed might
OF Hitler's. Reich on the Eastern
Front, announced the unconditional
surrender to the Russian people at
ITO am. today, ten hours and ten
minutes after President Truman
and Prime Minister Churchill pro.
claimed We Day.
The announcement said the final
articles of capitulation were signed
yesterday in Berlin, the ruined cap.
ital symbolic of the fall of the
Third Reich. :
Field Marshal Wilhelm Kietel,
chief Of the German high command
signed the articles in the presence
of Marshal Gregory X. Zhukov, as.
sistant commander of the Red ar.
mics; Air Chief Marshal Sir Ar
thur Tedder, deputy supreme com.
mander in the west; Gen. Carl A.
Spaatz, chief Of the u. S. Strategic
Air Forces in Europe, and 1t. Gen.
Gean De Lattre De Tassigny, com.
mander of the French First Army.
For Germany it was a browning
ignominity-Von Kietel, whose ar.
mics all but mastered Europe,
forced to sign in the ashes of Ger.
many's first city the surrender ar.
ticles which stripped the Reich Of
its last vestige of military strength.
The guns of Europe, which
through five years, eight months
and seven days of unexampled war
inflicted possibly 10000, 600 casual.
ties, fell silent at one minute past
midnight today (6:01 pm. Tuesday,
Eastern War Time.)
Actually, guns on the Western
Front were stilled yesterday to pre-.
vent further bloodshed as the AL.
lied world celebrated VE-Day IL
months and two days after Gen.
Eisenhower armies stormed into
France to liberate a Europe In
|Nazi chains.
The last shot on. the Western
Front was fired in Czechoslovakia
by the 80th Infantry Division of
Gen. Patton's Third Army, the last
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
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Over 10000 Tanks Die
In Defeat Of Mazi Army
More Than Three Quarters Of A Million
Casualties Reported; Over A Month OF
Fighting UnaccOunted

WASHINGTON, May 8-lR-War
against Germany, ending today,
cost this nation over three-quarters
of million casualties. some $780,
600 of them dead.
Actually reported losses, cover
ing action only up to about April
! for the Army and up to April rs
for the other services, number 747,-
1854, including 148,385 killed. While
recent action in most European
areas has not been of the sort that
makes long casualty lists, more
than a month of fighting is yet to
be accounted for.
The Army's list, covering fight
ing in the Mediterranean area in
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By The Associated Press

Edward Keanedy's Associated
Press story Of the German capt.
ulation was acclaimed. by the ma
tons newspapers and their staff
members yesterday as one OF the
great news cheats of all time.
And Kennedy's suspension by
Supreme Allied Headquarters for
flashing the news full day before
We was proclaimed, along with
ISHAEF's six-hour embargo on A.
P. dispatches from the European
theater, were denounced as vlgor-
ously as the A. P. Western Front
chief was praised.
Even as Gen. Dwight D. Elsen-
hover was rejecting a request from
Kennedy's Paris competitors that
additional filing privileges be de-
MED the Associated Press, editors
and publishers in this country
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RESIDENTS GIVE
THANKS VE-DAY
Wilmingtonians Join Ma
ton In Observance OF
German Defeat

Approximately 200 people gath
cred in front of City Hall at
pm. yesterday to partake IN .
THANKSGIVING" service, called b5
Mayor W. Ronald Lane TOR ex
preston of thanks. for We Day
The Rev. William Grove, pastor
of the First Presbyterian church.
told the gathering that this was ne
time for speech-naking, but time
for people to show recognition te
"our God for what he has done Tor
u.s." It is not just a force OF arms
that has won this victory, he SAID,
but a force of arms directed by
God.
"We in America have not been
sufficiently aware of what is hap.
pening to the rest Of the world,
he added. "In recent years we have
been disturbed, but did not believe
the foe could come here in force,
and they have not. Only by SUI
preme sacrifice have we been able
to stem the tide"
We will need moral courage Tor
the future, he said. Today is day
to 20 to the churches and tomor-
row will be days to go to schools
churches and community instltu
tons that give us wholesome ideas
Be well assured, he said, that only
if you and make our ideals global
can we make this country secure,
he said.
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THREE JAP SHIPS
ARE SUNK BY U. S.
Thirteen Small Ships And
Fishing Vessels Are
Damaged

GUAM, Wednesday, May 9-UD-
Ranging to Korea and Hoonshu,
Naval aircraft sank six Jap.
anese ships, including small
freighter-transport, and damaged
IS small ships and fishing vessels
yesterday and Monday.
Meantime, battleships and cruis-
ers turned their heavy guns, rang
ing from 5-inchers to IA and prob
baly 16-inch rifles, on Japanese
positions guarding the southern Oki-
nawa defense line. They destroyed
gun emplacements, some artillery
weapons and mortars, Fleet Adm.
Chester w. Nimitz reported in to-
days communique.
Adverse weather limited ground
operations yesterday and there
were mo substantial changes" in
either the Marine or Army lines.
Nimitz said $4,000 tons of ship
ping were sunk and $500 tons dam
aged by search planes of fleet air
wing one which discovered con-
centrations of shipping in coastal
waters of Korea.
The fact that the fleets heaviest
bombardment ships, battle-wagons
and cruisers with their heavy, long
range guns were used second sue
cessive day to pour their devastat-
ing shells into Japanese positions
on southern Okinawa. American
ground forces have been held at a
virtual standstill there for several
days although two of the three ar
my divisions which originally be-
gan the southwark push on D-Day,
April l., have been relieved by rel
atively fresh outfits.
Ninitz said the Navy's surface
craft fired several hundred rounds
of illumination shells over the front
throughout Monday night (which
effectively reduced the enemy's at
te1npts at infiltration."
This would indicate that the jap
anese, convinced of their eventual
defeat despite the strength of their
Notifications, had determined TO
attempt suicidal infiltrations in
great number to kill or cripple as
many Yanks as possible rather
than surrender. This has been their
policy on every Central and Far
Western Pacific island when trap
ped.
Ninaitz also reported pilots of the
Second Marine Aircraft Wing have
shot down total Of 209 Japanese
aircraft since they began operat-
ing from captured Okinawa air.
fields (about April y through Mon
day.
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WHITEYlLLE VOTE
REPORTED AT 302
F. L. Fuller Defeats H. V.
Sasser With Total
OF 423 Votes

WHzTEVILLE, May 8-With {
vote of 423, F. L. Fuller today de-
feated H. v. Sasser for the mayor
atty of Whiteville. Sasser, the only
other candidate, drew 258 votes
The total number of ballots cast
was 302, according to the unoffl-
cial count.
From field of IA candidates
for the board of town commission.
ers, C. L. Jackson, polled the high
est number of votes with 526.
Others elected to the board anc
their number Of votes, were Law
renee Sellers, 273; DR.. S. A.
Smith, 1894; w. R. Fletcher, 285;
and D. L. Love, 478.
Love and Smith were both In
cumbents, and Smith had beer
serving as mayor protein, since
the death of Mayor Jackson Greer,
1r,
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Reds Seize Dresden, Olmuetz
Molotou Will Return
To Red Capital Today
u. S. And British Ambassadors To Moscow
Also Plan To Leave San Francisco
Conference

SAN FRANCISCO, May s-R)-
Soviet Foreign Commissar MoIo.
TOW will leave San Francisco to-
morrow for Moscow, it was learn
ed today, leaving the Big Three
deadlock over Poland unbroken
Molotov is turning the chairman
ship of the Soviet delegation at
the United Nations conference over
to Ambassador Andrea Gromyko.
Several days ago it was disclosed
that Molotov planned to leave
shortly. Gromyko was the previous
Russian choice for the delegation
craftsmanship, before President
Truman suggested to Marshal Sta
lin that he send his top foreign
affairs man here.
The United States and British
ambassadors to Moscow, w. Aver
ell Hartman and Sir Archibald
Clark Kerr, members of the three
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watchword still must be "work,
work, work" because the job ahead
is no less difficult, no less urgent.
He delivered his historic state
ment on this-his 61st birthday an
niversary-first to a news con-
ference in his oval office in the
White House. Then he broadcast
it to the nation while surrounded
by his family, members of the
cabinet, congressional leaders and
other high officials.
In measured phrases, the Pres
idenet spelled out the task that lies
ahead in crushing Japan and in
repaying the sacrifices Of those
who made victory possible by build.
ing a lasting peace.
We must work to finish the
war;" he said. "Our victory is but
half-won. The west is free, but tbs
east is still in bondage to the
treacherous tyranny of the Japa.
nese. When the last Japanese divi.
sion has surrendered uncondi
tionally, then only will our fight
ing job be done.
eve must work to bind up the
wounds of a suffering world-tc
build an abiding peace, peace
rooted in justice and in law. We
can build such peace only by
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GUAM, Wednesday, May 90R
The war against Japan went on
today-in mud and blood on Okl-
nawa and other farflung fronts
as United States forces accepted
Germany's defeat without cele-
bration but hoped for early rein
forcements from Europe.
1--WE don't count on quick end
to our war with JAPAN" said Fleet
Adm. Chester w. Nimitz, COM
mander of the U. S. Pacific Fleet
and Pacific ocean areas.
An immediate and increasing
flow of men and material to the
Pacific war fronts was looked for
by Nimitz and other commanders.
About 1,5O0, 900 U. S. troops now
are distributed through the Paci-
fic and on the Asiatic mainland,
Washington reported. There are
approximately 100000 in the Eu-
ropean, Mediterranean and Mid
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NORWAY BEGINS.
GERMAN ARRESTS
Quislings Scheduled To Be
Tried By New Nerve
qian Government

LONDON, May g. WH Norway
shook off, the shackles of more
than five years of Nazi bondage
today and underground leaders,
taking control pending the arrival
of Allied forces, began arrestlng
the country's estimated 10000
"quislings.'
Uncensored dispatches from Os-
la said concentr camps had
been emptied of Norwegian patri-
OTIS and were being filled with fol
lowers of Vidkun quisling, who will
be tried by a re-established Nor
wegian government and sentenced
to death if convicted.
(NBC heard the American
Broadcasting Station in Europe
report that Quisling had escaped
from his Oslo headquarters:)
Representatives Of the Norwegl
an government already had start
ed for Oslo by plane and Stock
holm dispatches said they had ar
rived. British units of the home
fleet were proceeding to Oslo
Trondheim, Bergen n d othel
ports to enforce the German sur
render.
The exchange telegraph report
ed from Stockholm that a Nava
squadron already had arrived al
Trondheim and that 48 other YES
sells, mostly trawlers, had pulled
into Oslo ford.
The Kalundborg Norway radio
said the Crown Prince Olav hae
returned to his homeland by all
along with a British delegation, al
though he made a broadcast t.
Norway today announcing the
CONTINUED on Page Eight; Col. B.