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VOL]8—N9lj.76.— - WILMINGTON, N. C.. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER. 27. 1945 ESTABLISHED 1861
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Annamites
Revolting
At Saigon
FRENCH kidnaped
Indian Troops Helping
Keep Order After Natives
Burn Market
SAIGON, INDOCHINA, Sept. 26
Rebellious Annamite natives
fought wi fire and guns in Sai
gon today as the open revolt
against the return of French colo
„ • rule Went into its third day.
Nine Frenchmen and one English
officer, of 41 Europeans kidnaped
Tuesday were still missir at
nightfall. British military authori
ties expressed rear they had been
killed. .
The Annamites, wagink an ap
parently leaderless, disorganized
campaign, burned the Saigon mar
ie- ..lace last night and seized con
troi of the Saigon slaughterhouse.
This left the city meatless and it
was behoved that much of the esti
mated four-day supply of fresh
foodstuffs was destroyed in the
market place fire. There v'as an
ample supply of rice, however,
i Electric power, which h d bepn
disrupted by the Annamites, was
restored Tuesday night. The city
was stiL without water service.
American Army Air personnel
were ’ e'oing to guard hotels,
where European civilians crowded
for overnight protection.
There was some suspicion that
Japanese were tolerating if not
encouraging, the disorder. Two
Japanese civilians were held for
quer" - ng after agrenade was
thrown at a British patrol from a
house they occupied. Japanese
troops were reported . jen in the
vicinity of the market fire.
Maj. Gen. Douglas Gracey, com
n. nder of the British Saigon Con
trol Commission, summoned the
Jap 'cse General Numata and ad
vised him that return of his men to
Japan would be prejudiced if they
did it maintain order.
The British were attempting to
control the situation until suffi
cient French forces could arrive.
1 o atoons of British Indian
Iroops penet ated the northern part
of the city late Tuesday and res
cued 31 of the 40 Frenchmen who
had been kidnapped. One French
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 2)
LIMIT ON LAW
Rl _)J_ ifALID
RALEIGH, N. C., Sept. 26 — (PI
- The State Supreme Court today
upheld the State’s three-year
statute of limitations law, and
opened the way for a Williamston
firm to recover from the State Re
venue Commission $1,203.41 in
exercise taxes paid under protest
on materials used in construction.
The court, in a series of opinions
handed down today, thus ruled in
effect that the State’s Revenue De
partment cannot assess and collect
excise taxes on which no return
has been filed, after the lapse of
three years from the effective date
of liability.
The case in question, on which
Associate Justice Emory B. Denny
wrote the majority opinion, involv
ed the Standard Fertilizer Com
pany of Williamston anu Edwin
Gill” State Revenue Commissioner.
The fertilizer company in Au
gust, 1942, paid the excise tax un
der protest assessed against it on
material used in the installation of
a sprinkler system -in the com
pany’s plant in mid-June, 1937. The
case was submitted to Superi
or Court Judge Leo Carr at the
December, 1944 term of Martin Su
perior Court. The company con
tended that it was protected by
the three-year statute of limitations
law because some of the materials
on which excise taxes had been
placed were used on the same job
contract prior to the effective date
of the statute.
Gill, acting for the state, con
tended that the company was lia
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 6)
Leather
(Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the 24 hours
ending 7:30 p.m. yesterday.
Temperature
1:30 a.m. 74; 7:30 a.m. 73; 1:30 p.m. 86;
? :30 P.m. 78.
Maximum 86; Minimum 70; Mean 78;
Normal 71.
Humidity
„ 1:30 a.m. 89; 7:30 a.m. 91; 1:30 p.m. 52;
":30 p.m, 57,
Precipitation
Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m.—
0.00 inches.
Total since the first of the month—
®-96 inches.
j Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tables published by
U' s Coast and Geodetic Survey).
wn Hith Low
"bnungton _ 1;53 a.m. 9:00 a.m.
, 2:27 p.m. 9:47 p.m.
Masonboro iniet _ 0.00 a.m. 5:50 a.m.
. 12:22 p.m. 6:40 p.m.
Sunrise 6:04 a.m.; Sunset 6:02 p.m.;
Moonrise 10:42 p.m.; Moonset 12:29 p.m.
River Stage at Fayetteville. N. C. at 8
!?: Wednesday, Sept. 26, (no report).
, Klvcr Stage at Fayetteville. N. C. at 8
’'*• Tuesday. Sept 25, 34.1 ft.
SOCK PARTY BRINGS
OUT POLICE DETAIL
NEW YORK, sept. 26.—(ff)—
lne cops were called ou on an
other sock party here today,
but 10,000 pairs of nylons later
they had the situation under
control.
William Sultan started it
when he said the hose could
be bought at his small down
town store. The word passed
from one woman to another.
Twenty policemen and three
radio patrols were needed as
long as the stockings were to be
had.
SURVEY OF FLOOD
DAMAGE STALLED
Army Engineers Must Wait
Until Water Has Fallen
For Concrete Data
An intelligent survey as to the
nature and extent of the flood
damage in the Cape Fear river
basin will be impossible until
the water has fallen, it was
learned yesterday from the office
of the Wilmington district, U. 3.
Army Engineers.
Aerial photographic reconnais
ance of the hard-hit areas has
been made, it was revealed, and
will be used in making a complete
report.
No survey for the purpose of
recommending flood control can
be made without the authorization
of Congress. Such a survey would
require extensive study and re
search, it was said.
The Cape Fear river, believed
to have reached its main crest at
high tide Sunday, probably has
begun to fall slowly, Weatherman
Paul Hess said early yesterday
afternoon.
The swollen stream, although
rising over its banks into sections
of Water street at high tide, has
caused no serious damage.
Reporting waters at high tide
about 2 p. m. Wednesday as
“possible a little bit higher’’ than
Tuesday, the weather bureau pre
dicted slightly lower water when
high tide is recorded about 3 p.
m. today.
The latest surveys showed that
yesterday’s overflow was not quite
up to that of Sunday and the worst
is thought to be over.
-Tuesday’s river stage at Fay
etteville was 34.1 feet, indicating
that waters there are receding
rapidly.
xvxuiuxxsxs steiung to cross me
causeway west of Wilmington on
U. S. 74, in Brunswick county en
countered a little difficulty, but
latest reports were that the road
was still open. Although water was
reported well over the highway in
some spots at high tide this morn
ing, cars still were able to get
through. Highway commission
trucks and state patrolmen have
been on constant guard in that
area for several days to help any
motorist who might run into dif
ficulty ' and to be ready to close
the road if it should become dan
gerous.
Meantime, damage from the
flood of the Cape Fear and Black
rivers in the vicinity of Kelly was
estimated at well over a million
dollars today with thousands of
head of cattle lost and hundreds
of acres of crops ruined.
In addition, hundreds are home
less with their dwellings badly
damaged by the high waters.
Flying over the flooded sections
yesterday, observers counted hun
dreds of buildings partly covered
with the yellow water. Livestock
could be seen standing in several
inches of water all along the
route. Residents of the area were
using hastily constructed log
rafts, row boats and many other
devices that would float in an ef
fort to save as much of their be
longings as possible.
Several of the boats were load
ed with household furniture and
one raft was occupied by a man,
two boys and a large cow.
Water was standing from sev
eral inches to several feet deep
in the lowest places.
Two army amphibious craft were
cruising along the area, hunting
for persons marooned by the high
water. The Kelly High school was
completely surrounded by water
and several automobiles were
seen with only the tops of them
above the flood. In several of the
low sections, water was standing
up to the roofs of the houses and
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 7)
Argentina
Now Under
Iron Rule
WHOLESALE ARRESTS
President Farrell, Peron
Place Capital City
Under Siege
BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 26—(JP)—
Argentina’i r ilitary regime clamp
ed an iron state of siege upon the
nation today, suspending constitu
tional guarantees r freedf of
speech, press and assembly and
placin: scores of prominent Argen
tines under arrest.
government of President -
General Edelmiro Farrell i ' Col.
Juan Peron, vice president and
“strong man of Argentina,’’ struck
just two days after the Cordoba
army g on cruc 1 a s^ort-liv
ed revolt led y Generals Arturo
Rawson and Osvaldo Martin, avow
ed opp-nents of the administration.
real revolution in this coun
try begins of w because your
newspapers x ive wanted if that
way,” Cal. FilQmeno J. Velazo,
chief of police in Buenos Aires, told
reporters as his men continv-d a
roundup which had brough more
than 5 Argentines into detention by
late afternoon.
Promln fi. i ’zed includ
ed Eustaquio Mendez Delfino, Pres
id nt of the Buenos Aires Stock and
Commodity r change; Luis Colom
bo, president of the Argentine In
dustrial Union; Raul Lamuraglia,
i'; vice-president; i.. Rodolfo Mo
reno, ranking leader of the opposi
tion conservative party, who form
i arved as Governor of Buenos
Aires Provi and Ambassador to
Japai.
Others taken to police headquar
ters included Carlos Saavedra La
nas, who received the Nobel prize
in 1936 for his contributions to
world peace when Foreign Minis
ter; Octavia Amadeo, former Am
bassador to Brazil and the nation’s
leading 1' -torian and biographer,
and Merio Rojas, leader of the
Unioncivica Radict Argentina’s
majority party.
Alfredo Palacios, a leading fig-,
ure i the Socialist party re
cently returned from exile in Ur
uguary, and Ramon F. Vasquez,
former judge who recently -rged
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 7)
GENERAL PATTON
TO MAKE REPORT
By JOHN B. MCDERMOTT
United Press Staff Correspondent
FRANKFURT, Sept. 26 — (U.R) —
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower today
ordered Gen. George S. Patton to
appear before him within a week
and give an accounting of his stew
ardship in Bavaria, where the
stormy General has favored keep
ing Nazis temporarily in office to
help him run the province.
Lt. Gen. Walter B. Smith, Eisen
hower’s chief of staff, said at a
press conference that he did not
know “what disciplinary action
would be taken’’ if Patton’s report
is unsatisfactory.
Smith explained Patton's recent
statements upholding the use of
Nazis in office by saying:
“His mouth does not always
carry out the functions of his brain.
George acts on the theory that it is
better to be damned than say noth
ing — that some publicity is better
than none.”
Patton’s trip to the carpet will
be the second, at least, since
Eisenhower sent him ashore a t
Casablanca nearly hree years ago.
Eisenhower personally reprimand
ed him after the two-gun General
slapped a soldies in Sicily in 1943
but none of Patton’s embarrassing
public statements or actions have
lessened Eisenhower's regard for
him as a fighting General.
Smith said Eisenhower was con
vinced Paton was attempting to
carry out the denazification pro
gram to the best of his ability but
admitted that perhaps certain
phases of his administration need
ed revamping.
Outlining a five-point policy gov
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 5)
Kiwanis Club Endorses
Extension Plan As Sound
General agreement on the desir
ability of the proposed city expan
sion was expressed by Kiwanians
attending their weekly meeting yes
terday in the Friendly Cafeteria.
Walker Taylor, vice-chairman of
the Citizens’ Committte on extend
ing the city limits, was program
chairman of the day and made the
first talk on the subject.
The extension was endorsed as
financially sound,” and it was
stated that revenue from suburbs
will pay for services to those areas.
A serious study has been made by
city eng'neers to determine what
the city can and cannot do, and
the proposals are in line with these
findings, Harry Solomon said. Mr.
Solomon, a resident of the outside
area, expressed his approval of
the present proposition, and added
that when city extension was sug
gested several years ago, he op
posed it, because no preliminary
surveys 'had been conducted at that
time.
"I don’t question the good faith
of the City Fathers (in promising
to provide water and sewerage
system in these outlying areas)
Kiwanian Isaac Solomon stated.
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 8)
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PRIZE?rn BEGGING;
FISF^gVN’T BITE
DJ /Sept. 26.—(/P)—
B' 4^ ® ‘ ,d 30 fisherman,
'£*■ £ ** Ag the most talent
V -C&' cast their Unes for
s along the banks of
OS' JOon river here last
cy ,r prizes offered by 8»e
4^ Moines Chapter of the
. Walton League—$10 for
*i longest fish and $10 for the
heaviest fish.
Fish frying equipment was
held in readiness, but nary a
fish did they catch only catch
was that the fish just weren’t
biting. And one fish would have
been worth both prizes—$20.
GRAHAM STRESSES
NEED FOR TRUTH
University President Ad
dresses Alumni Men
Following Dinner
Dr. Frank P. Graham, president
of the consolidated Greater Uni?
versity of North Cr la, address
ing a dinner meeting of over 100
al .i of the University last night,
told members of the New Hanover
County Alumni associated that the
“freedom of people to .am the
truth and tell it, was the prime
function of a university '■f the
peor’~.”
The University which had a facul
ty, students grounds and buildings
in 1795 and had graduated seniors
three years before the next oldest
state people, not just the wealth or
privil-yed but all classes of people,
he stated.
finton James, from New Han
over county, who entered the uni
versity on February 12,1795, be
came the first student at the insti
tution, Dr. Graham said.
“There are more living alumni
from the p:.st 15 years than there
are fi n the rest of the history of
Carolina and if Hinton James and
the founders of the University had
the fai'i and courage to go into the
frontier wilderness of North Caro
l;na and establish a university, we
can match their faith and we will
fail if we do not see to it that thisj
university of the people is second to
none.
Dr.. Graham termed the Greater
Univt.sity C. State...; 1 Wo-,
ma-’s College of the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro and
the University of North Carolina)
not just a collection of liberal arts,
scien-e and professional schools,
but a part of the forward move
ment of the South as a whole in
economic and financial develop
ment
Introduced by State Representa
tive J. Q. LeGrand, a trustee of the
University, Dr. Graham cited the
service of ‘he University during
the war time period. The trustees
by vote, decided 18 months before
Peirl Harbor to offer tl full, re
sources at its command to the
government and after December 7,
1941, plung.a into the preparation
' ' the youth of the country for war,
.ini- some 17,000 Naval Air
C- ’ets along with 2750 V- stu
dents and 410 Army students.
Dr. Graham discussed the value
of the consolidation move which
had been hotly contested stressing
saving of duplication of depart
ments.
He termed the greatest present
need of the University the expan
sion of the two year medical school
to four years, adding that figures
showed that the majority of North
Carolina doctors attend the school
the school and he feared its clos
ing.
After stating that the first two
great crises in the human race
were the invention of the compass
and the invention of the steam en
gine, he said we are now faced
with a third great crisis, the dis
covery of atomic power: the ability
to destroy the world or bring to it
the Kingdom of God.
“1 believe that the men from
Wilmington who have died and
given their all in this struggle
would want and exzpect us to use
this power for the ennoblement of
mankind”, he concluded.
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 4)
DOCK WORKERS GET
FIRST-HAND VIEW
OF BIG BULL FIGHT
DETROIT, Sept. 26.- <#) — .
t ich of old Spain was added to
Detroit’s waterfront today when a
bull calf successfully met the ’ al
lenge of a would be matador.
The black and white beast—age
ut ine months and owi rship
uncertain—was cavorting at the
river' t.
A group of dock workers ;. ' pro
d e house hands cornered him
with his back to the river, but the
bull eluded their trap by executing
l dive into the water.
The mail boat O. F, Mook uk
o' in pursuit. At midstream the
craft caught up with the fast-pedal
ing bull and drove him beck to
shore. O' r his protest he was
’ oisted up on la'
There Jordan Beaumont, an ice
1 n who said he ‘always wanted to
be a bull fighter,” doffed ’ :s red
jacket an< waved it like a cape.
The bull lunged and Beaumont
landed on his back.
Only in victory did the animal
submit to tieing to await a claim.
Hirohito-MacArthur Meet
Today At Tokyo; Strikes
A ffect 1,850,000 People
- *_ _
Nationwide
Oil Workers
Walkout Due
GARMENT MEN HIT
Elevator Operators Threat
en Unemployment
Spread
By The Associated Press
Labor disputes from coast to
coast put an enormous force of
more than 1,350,000 on the post-war
production sidelines yesterday.
In addition there was a threat
of a nationwide oil workers strike
which might affect 250,000 employ
es.
New York and Chicago were key
points in the troubled scene.
Although a strike of New York
city elevator operators and build
ing service employes actually in
volved about 15,000 workers, police
estimated that a grand total of 1,
500,000 or more were off the job or
otherwise affected.
The walkout practically closed
down the metropolis’ billon dollar
fur and garment industry. These
workers either would not climb
long flights of steps to skyscraper
loftg or cross picket line; A spokes
man estimated the strike cost the
garment industry $15,000,000 in win
ter orders and $3,500,000 in wages.
Thousands of office workers in
innumerable other enterprises were
unable to get to work, and AFL
union leaders threatened to extend
tl:6 stoppage to some 1.20Q apart
ment buildings and from Man
hattan into Brooklyn, Queens and
Staten Island, although the Region
al War Labor Board ordered a
hearing for tomorrow in an effort
to end the strike.
The 15,000 actual strikers in New
York were included in an unoffi-,
cial tabulation showing some 367,
000 idle-by-strikes across the nation
in addition to the great mass af
fected in New York.
In Chicago the CIO Oil Workers
International Union announced it
has authorized a nationwide strike
if government-sponsored concilia
tion conferences fail to bring set
tlement of a stoppage which al
ready has taken 35,000 off the job
of producing gasoline in seven
states. A union spokesman, al
though declining to reveal the num
ber of union members, said a na
tional walkout would affect 250,000
workers in the industry.
An oil industry . spokesman in
Chicago asserted that “nothing has
been accomplished” in two days
of conciliation meetings which Sec
retary of Labor Schwellenbach said
“must not be permitted to fail.”
Union spokesmen agreed that
little, if any, progress had been
made toward resolving the labor
management dispute over a union
rl J _ on .
a pci ccill w dgC in
crease. Management has offered
15 per cent.. Justice William L.
Knous of the Colorado Supreme
Court, presiding, gave' no indica
tion of how long the meetings
would continue.
Elsewhere on the labor front
were the following developments:
Detroit — 3,100 Murray Corp.,
workers, on strike since Sept, 10’
(Continued on Page Two; Cel. 5)
FEPC OPPONENTS
BLOCK BILL MOVE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 - (U.R) _
Opponents of a permanent Fair
Employment Practices Commis
sion today blocked possible House
action on a bill to create such an
agency by forcing the chamber to
adjourn after a 16-minute session.
The action came when Chairman
Mary T. Norton, D.. N. J„ of the
House Labor committee, author of
the bill, sought to bring the meas
ure directly to the floor under a
rarely-used parliamentary device—
rules governing “calendar Wednes
day.”
The measu, e has been bottled up
in the rules committee, and Mrs.
Norton attempted the parliamen
tary maneuver in an effort to by
pass the rules group.
But Rep. William M. Whitting
ton, D. Miss., blocked the effort
by moving for adjournment. The
motion carried by a standing vote
of 74 to 31.
Mrs. Norton conceded that no ef
fort now will be made to bring up
the controversial bill “for a couple
of months’’ — until after st\g re
turns from an international labor
meeting in Europe.
Army, Navy
Ordered To
Cut Rations
WILL SCRAP ARMS
Nippon Nobleman Demands
Ouster Of Emperor
From Politics
BULLETIN
TOKYO, Thursday, Sept. 26.—
Emperor Hirohito, in formal morn
ing clothes and high top silk hat.
broke all precedent today by leav
ing his palace for a 38-minute 11
on General MacArthur—tieless and
wearing army khakis.
The Mikado motored to the U.
S. Embassy building to pay the
first visit ever made by a Japanese
ruler to the foreign ruler of his
own nation. MacArthur’s attire
was his campaign uniform—without
medals.
The call obviously was a social
one. A headquarters spokesman
said Hirohito a few days ago “ex
pressed a desire to call on Mac
Arthur.” Today’s meeting resulted.
The Emperor definitely was not
issued a “summons,” the spokes
man emphasized.
The Emperor’s five car convoy,
preceded by motorcycles, arrived
at the U. S. Embassy about 10 a.
m. (9 p. m. Wednesday Eastern
War Time).
The Japanese Army and Navy
were ordered to yield up food,
clothing and arms. Food and
clothing Will go to civiilians, im
proverished by eight years of
sacrificing eerything to Nippon’s
war machine. Arms will be turn
ed oer to. occupation forces for
use as memorials, study, training
or to be conerted into scrap.
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 2)
CONGRESS STARTS
ON TAX MEASURE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 — «| _
Congress got started — just barely
— on tax cuts today and nearly
finished a bill to get more volun
teer soldiers and sailors.
It also did something about:
Full employment, a Pearl Harbor
inquiry, using atomic energy.
And members snapped and snarl
ed a bit over Communists, how
to approve treaties, raising the
minimum wage.
The House Ways and Means com
mittee — it starts all tax bills
through Congress — decided:
There won’t be any public hear
ings to de)ay . trimming levies on
incomes of individuals and busi
ness.
It won’t tackle right now reduc
tions in special taxes on such
things as furs, jewelry and whis
key. That will hurry things up, too.
You’ll find out later how much
your 1946 tax bill will be sliced.
Some committee members talk of
10 to 20 per cent. Congress intends
to settle it by Nov. 1.
The Senate passed a bill to make
military enlistments more attrac
tive. It offers such inducements as
bonuses, furlough travel pay, earli
er retirement.
But the Senate said “no’' to a
$25 a month pay raise for every
body from the brass hats down to
buck privates.
Now the House — it passed the
original bill — has to decide wheth
er it likes Senate changes.
President Truman made motions
toward reviving a bill to pay more
cash to the unemployed. Ways
and Means all but throttled it yes
terday. Mr. Truman invited all the
Democratic members to the White
House Thursday to talk things over.
Now about:
1. Full Employment. The Senate
fired another salvo of debate —
but made no decision — on a bill
proposing that the government do
something to make jobs when there
aren’t enough to go around.
2. Atomic bombs. The Senate
Foreign Relations committee
(Continued on Page Two; Col. J)
BASEBALL RESULTS
National League
St. Louis, 11; Chicago, 6 (Pro
tested) .
Brooklyn, 8; New York, 1.
Cincinnati, 4-1; Pittsburgh, M
American League
Detroit 11-2; Cleveland, 0-S.
Chicago-St. Louis (rain.)
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! Marines Rescue Kelly Families
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me varies jvincneu iamny oi iveuy iupper picturej wno were
marooned on the top floor of their home in the heart of the village
during the redgnt flood, discuss their evacuation with a Marine from
Camp Lejeune who-is standing in one of the amphibious ducks which
went to the rescue of marooned .persons in eastern- North Carolina
last week-end. Another duck (bottom photo) operated by the Marines
proceeds down the center of State Highway No. 53 from Kelly to
Moore’s Cieek Battleground National Park. (Marine Corps Photos).
City Council Approves
Extension Finances Data
.... — - . . — -—M. -——
City Manager A. C. Nichols yes
terday received Council approval
of his report covering the financial
data for the proposed extension oi
the city limits south and east of the
city, which will be voted upon 1
citizens at a special election set
for November 6.
Under the head of General Infor
mation, the report as submitted
by the City Manager, estimated
that the extension of the city boun
daries will add 11.000 population 1
Wilmington and 4.3 square miles of
land on which are located 1,858
buildings. The real property valpa
tion of the proposed extension acre
age was estimated at $7,555,300 and
the personal property valuation at
$954,165, for a grand total of $8,
509,465.
Estimated cost of capital im
provements which the city would
obligate to carry out if the exten
sion vote carries, was placed at
$666,139 and includes, according to
the report, the installation of water
mains _for industrial and domestic
services and fire protection. This
would require approximately 100.
000 feet of 6” to 12” mains and 10
fire hydrants. The cost of these
mains, etc., was estimated at $298,
434 while installation of sanitary
sewers, terra cotta pipe, manholes,
etc., was estimated at $297,705.
Fire equipment, $20,000; fire
alarm systems, $22,500; drainage,
$25,000 and street signs, $2,500
make up the additional estimated
amount for capital improvements.
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 1)
HOTEL PROPOSAL
GAINS MOMENTUM
Interest in the proposal to con
struct a large modern hotel at
Wrightsville Beach has gained
considerable momentum with
in the past few weeks, Floyd Cox,
resort property owner and promi
nent. member of the beach’s Lions
club, said yesterday.
_Lack of accommodations at the
resort When the anticipated post
war era of greater prosperity
moves into its own, was cited by
Mr. Cox in. discussing the pro
posal.
"It should not be overly rifficult
beach on the Atlantic coast but un
less we plan for the future, with
the hotel having a most important
part in these plans, we are going
to miss a great opportunity,” he
declared. He pointed out that at
tendance at the resort is expected
to be doubled within the next few
years but, unless greater accom
modations are provided, this trade
will go to other resorts in the
South Atlantic section.
‘‘I should not be overly difficul'
to obtain a site for a large hotel,”
he continued. Such a structure.
Mr. Cox added, could be operated,
either wholly or in part, on a vear
around basis. This suggestion was
in keeping with the proposal dis
cussed recently by the newly or
ganized Wrightsville Beach Cham
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Youth Says His Brother
Was Beaten With Whips
LUENEBURG, Germany, Sept.
26—(JPI—A Polish youth who said
his brother was beaten t odeath
at Oswiecim and a Polish Jewess
who described atrocities at Oswie
cim and Belsen added their evi
dence today to the case against
45 Nazis on trial here for crimes
at the two c ncentration camps.
Lanky Abraham Glinbwiecki,-24,
who identified five of the accused]
testified that his brother was bent
over a chair and given 75 lashes
after being caught in the woman’s
compound trying to trade ciga
rettes for good. Asked if his broth
er died, he buried his face in his
).
hands and said:
“Yes, he died in thee hospital
and 1 never got to see him.”
Earlier, the Polish Jewess, Lena
Stein, 21, pointed out Josef Kram
er, Belsen commandant, and eight
others in the dock, and testified
that they helped select victims for
the Oswiecim gas chamber and
savagely beat other prisoners.
Today’s session also brought the
presentation of the first defense
witness — Maj. Geofferey A. J.
Smallwood, former officer of the
Judge Advocate General’s Depart
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