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tlmmrrlmt Mi tnttttn -p | ssss-. -v ^wmwjum ^muumy . State and National New# ESTABLISHED 1867 I Held In Slaying Mrs. Elizabeth Amos, above, 34, faces murder charge at Winfield, W. Va., following discovery of body of her husband, Pearl Martin Amos. 42, in a shallow grave at their home near Hurricane, W. Va. Authorities quoted Mrs. Amos as saying she shot husband with shot gun last Sept. 6 after he threatened to kill her. MURDER METHODS TO BY DOCTOR 80,000 Jews Put To Death In One Night At Oswiecim LUENEBURG, Germany, Oct. 1—(£)—A detailed account of the disabolically efficient mass mur der methods used at the Oswiecim concentration camp — where vic tims stood in long lines waiting to die—was given today to the British Military Court trying 45 Nazis for crimes at Oswiecim and Belsen. Dr. Sigismund Charles Bendell, slight, dark Romanian Jew arrest ed in Paris because he failed one day to wear the prescribed Star of David, testified that 80,000 Jews were put to death at the big Polish camp in one night. His ghastly story of the fright fulness he encountered when he was assigned to work in the Os wiecim death house omitted no de tail—the cries and weeping when the gas chamber doors were forc ed shut, the noise of fighting in sidei the pounding on the walls, the silence after two minutes and the hideous sight when the doors were opened. Prompted occasionally by ques tions from attorneys and members of the court, Bendell described the four crematoriums and the “bunker” supplemental arrange ments built when the gas chamb ers were overtaxed, of three vast trenches in which piles of corpses were burned on wood soaked in gasoline. “I treated one man whose feet had been burned in hot human fat,” the physician said in his tired voice. He said the fat was run off in ditches. A special detail of 900 prisoners, of whom he was one, was assigned to the death factory to carry bodies from the gas chambers to the cre matoriums, keep the place ‘‘clean” and refuel it for succes sive victims, Bendell testified. The first day he worked there, 'Continued on Page Five; Col. 4) WEATHER (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. 69; 7:30 a.m. 67; 1:30 p.m. 82; ?:30 p.m. 77. Maximum 83; Minimum 65; Mean 72; Normal 70. Humidity 1 :30 a.m. 94; 7:30 a.m. 96; 1:30 p.m. 68; *;30 p.m. 84. Precipitation Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. 0.00 inches. Total since the first of the month— 0.00 inches. Tides For Today (From the Tide Tables published bj F. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey). High Low Wilmington _ 6:44 a.m. 1:29 a.m. 7:12 p.m. 1:43 p.m Masonboro Inlet - 4:58 a.m. 10:58 a.m 5:18 p.m. 11:34 p.m Sunrise 6:07 a.m.; Sunset 5:55 p.m. Moonrise 2:36 a.m.; Moonset 4:30 %m. River Stage at Fayetteville N. C. at I — Mnnrlav. Oct. 1st, 12.2 feet. ♦ I I BIG 3 MAYFACE BALKAN ISSUE — _a, — Foreign Ministers De ^ Locked Over Peac £ . Problems a? - $ BULLETIN ^ LONDON, (Tuesday £? —(/Pi—The five-pow' o'1 ministers council, stn. to break an Impasse over . to wind up its conference, talk ed at Lancaster house until 2:50 a.m. (8:50 p.m., EST) today and decided to reconvene at 11 o’clock (5 a.m. EST). LONDON, Oct. 1.—(JP}—The possi bility that President Truman, Gen eralissimo Stalin and Prime Min ister Attlee might be called upon to tackle the knotty Balkan issue was advanced by a high Council source tonight as the Five Power Council of Fore ign Ministers threatened to end in deadlock with out achieving any of its important goals. Amid growing pessimism, the conferees postponed a meeting scheduled for 6 p. m. and announc ed that they would gather at 9 p. m. for what was generally agreed was the last attempt to break the impasse before going home. There was no immediate ex planation for the postponement. The probability of a compromise appeared remote, although the var ious delegations held conferences throughout the afternoon in an at tempt to find some new approach to the seven day argument. The crux is Russia’s insistent de mands, based on the Potsdam de cision, that only the nations which signed an armistice with the de feated Axis satellites be permitted to write peace treaties with those countries. If the ministers are unable to agree on this, their three weeks of work will have to be chalked up largely as a failure, for a majority of the Council’s decisions depend on an agreement on procedure for drafting the Balking pacts. Russia was reported standing pat on the Potsdam decisions for pro cedure in dealing with Balkan treaties. On September 11 the Sov iet delegation agreed with Britain and the United States that all is sues before the Council would be open to discussion by all five pow ers, but two weeks later Soviet Commissar V. M. Molotov objected to France and China sitting in on the discussions. A source high in conference delib erations said tonight’s session might be the last. “There’s no sense of staying on here,” he said, “if this problem can’t be decided.” He commented that if no decision is reached, the future work of the deputies would be seriously re stated. He said they would not be able to work on Balkan issues, since again the matter of proced ure must determine which deputies will consider these problems. No decision has been made, so far as is known, on the time and place of the next Council meeting. It was expected, however, that af ter adjournment the ministers would continue negotiations through diplomatic channels. COMMITTEEMEN VOTE TO TOSS POLL TAX INTO SENATE LAPS WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—(/P)—The Senate Judiciary committee voted today to throw the whole poll tax question in the lap of the Senate. Chairman McCarran (D-Nev.) told reporters after a closed meet ing that the committee: 1. Voted to report to the Senate the House-approved bill outlawing the collection of poll taxes as a pre quisite for voting in primary or general elections for Federal of fices. 2. Voted also to report the bill by Senator O’Mahoney (D.-Wyo.) providing for a constitutional amendment forbidding such taxes. McCarran declined to speculate on when the measures might hit the Senate floor. O’Mahoney said he would seek action on this “at an appropriate time.” The bills are aimed at require ments in some southern states f/i payment of poll taxes before a citi zen can vote. BRITISH EXPAND H( D ON BATAVIA Explosive Situation Exists As Natives Protest Dutch Rule BATAVIA, Oct. 1.— (TP) —British occupation forces moving into the Netherlands East Indies peacefully expanded their hold today on Ba tavia where independence-loving natives painted buildings with signs saying “we don’t ask freedom— we are entitled to it.” With Indonesians protesting the return of their Dutch rulers, and with 35,000 Japanese troops still on the island, the situation is “poten tially explosive” and “could lead to a horrible racial war,” said Charles O. Van Der Plas, senior representative of the Netherlands government in Java. Indonesian leaders said they would fight rather than return to colonial status. “We proclaimed our independ ence Aug. 17,” said Soe Karno, president of the ‘Republics of Indo nesia.” “We didn’t like Japaneie oppression and we don’t want Dutch oppression either.” (An official Dutch government broadcast described Soe Karno as a “full-blooded opportunist” and a Japanese puppet. The broadcast protested that Allied occupation forces were leaving him “to rule practically all the rich island of Java.”) Van Der Plas said he had invited Soe Karno and leaders of all other Indonesian political factions to meet with him to iron out current problems. Conferences between the Dutch and Indonesians were order ed by Lt. Gen. Sir Philip Chris tison, whose British forces are oc cupying key points on Java and ouiiict ix ct xui me -rvLiies. “I feel,” said Van Der Plas, “that this part of the Dutch crown should be at the very shortest time completely independent but with an independence not based on vio lence orpterrorism.” He predicted it would take sev eral years to give the islands free dom—on an equal basis with the homeland and still under the Dutch crown. “The most essential problem in the Pacific is disarming the Japa nese and getting them out of Java,” Van Der Plas insisted. Already, he explained, some Nipponese have deserted their defeated army and are “making trouble.” Indonesians, who had threatened violent resistance if armed Dutch forces landed, said the Indonesian volunteer army consisted of 35,000 men. Ten thousand men in a Mos lem army constitute volunteer re serves. Another 75,000 natives were conscripted by the Japanese. Independence leaders conceded, “we haven’t a chance to win, but we will fight for freedom just the same. We haven’t many guns, but we have knives and spears and can use them.” TANKERS UNLOAD HUGE GAS CARGO Three large tankers, the S. S. Montana, the W. W. Mills and the L. L. Abshire were in port here yesterday discharging a cargo of petroleum products totaling 9,040, 000 gallons with a fourth, the S. S. Paul Harwood, expected tomorrow with another 3,150,000 gallons. The Montana, operating under the Texas Oil company agency, is unloading 4,000,000 gallons of regu lar and premium gasolin at the Atlantic Refining company termin al, and is expected to depart today. Her captain is F. Kofler. The W. W. Mills, skippered by Captain Oscar J. Wass and the L. L. Abshire, under the command of Captain Scott are unloading 3, 360.000 gallons of gasoline, and 1.680.000 gallons of Deisel fuel for the Pure Oil company, at the Cape Fear Terminal. The Paul Harwood is expected here tomorrow with a cargo of ap proximately 3,150,000 gallons of gasoline for discharge at the Stan dard Oil Terminal.__ Goering Letters Reveal Trial Out For Schacht BY CLINTON B. CONGER United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN, Oct. 1 — Hermann Goering’s personal letters reveal a running battle between the No. 2 Nazi and Finance Minister Hjal mar Schacht over the Nazi spend ing spree in preparation for war. Goering won, and his own secret records of that financial battle probably will be used at the Nuernberg war criminal trials to prove he prepared for war while preaching peace. The same files may save Schacht from the noose since they show he opposed bank 1 rupting Germany t~ build a Wehr macht. The letters reveal that Sehacht tried periodically to resign after Goering ignored his warning to go slowly in spending foreign reserve credits. Of one of Schacht’s early at tempts to resign, the late Minister of Agriculture Walter Darre, one of the finance minister’s arch ene mies, wrote Goering: "When in 1834 they recommend ed Goerdeler (Carl Goerdeler, mayor of Lepizig, ultimately exe cuted for complicity in the plot on (Continued on Page Five; 3) i U.S. Troops Hunt Japanese Loot, f Start Probe Into “Shintoism Strike Blacks Out Texas Cities - ¥___ Coal Fields Idle As More Miners Quit OIL WALKOUT GAINS Several Minor Disputes Are Settled As New Trouble Brews BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS An AFL Electrical Workers strike blacked out a portion ol Texas yesterday and work stop pages in the soft coal fields of Virginia and Pennsylvania spread to Ohio and Kentucky. Prime labor developments of the day: 1. The sudden strike of 140 em ployes in lower Colorado River Authority hydroelectric plants threatened army camps and cities with serious water shortages and food spoilage. It cut off power to 24 large towns and approximate ly 100,000 consumers. 2. The nationwide total of work were off the job at five Frigidaire troubles dipped to 352,00n, but new disputes and expansnon of old ones put it close to 372,000. 3. National bituminous coal op erators declined to discuss the dispute of supervisory employes, in which 55,000 miners are away from the pits, until work is re sumed. A union official predicted the West Virginia industry, em ploying 108,000, might shut down XIX <x XV- VY UQJ »• 4. Thirteen thousand (persons were off the joba t five Frigidaire plants of General Motors Corpora tion in Dayton, Ohio. 5. Conciliation conferences con tinued in Washington as the CIO oil strike expanded to an 11th state, New York. The union an nounced a settlement of the dis pute at two small Detroit plants, providing for wage increases. The electrical workers walkout left several central Texas cities with only a few hours’ supply of water. At Camp Swift, where 24, 000 soldiers are stationed, water was being rationed and a hospital with 1,000 soldier patients was without power. Harry Bernard, union business manager, said the Authority ‘‘re fused to recognize the right of em ployes to organize and bargain col lectively.” Authority officials said that as a state agency it could not delegate hiring and firing or other official responsibilities to an outside agency. An international board member of the United Mine Workers, un affiliated, reported 4,500 miners stopped work in the Big Sandy field of Eastern Kentucky in sympathy with strikes of West Virginia and Pennsylvania supervisory em ployes. About lt600 miners halted production at three Belmont coun ty, Ohio, pits for the same reason. (Continued on Page Five; Col. 5) TRUMAN ORDERS NAVY SHAKE-UP WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—(U.R>— President Truman todav disclosed a sweeping reorganization of the Navy, induing abolition of the post of Commander-in-Chief of the . S. fleet. Mr. Truman’s order — which streamlines the Navy on the basis of war-time experience—was sign ed on Sept. 29. It was announced today with an explanation that the changes were being accomp lished by executive order so they may be tested for a while before Mr. Truman recommends perman ent changes to Congress. While the order resulted in the formal abolition of the post of Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet, Secretary of Navy James V. Forrestal signed a depart mental order continuing. Fleet Adm. E. J. King in this post dur ing a brief period of transition King has served both as Chief of Naval Operations and Com mander-in-Chief of the Fleet. The Commander - in - Chief functions were transferred to the Naval op erations post, which King continues to hold. Mr. Truman ordered the Navy to set up an organizational struc ture falling into three basic di visions, '“military matters; gen eral and administrative matters; business and related industrial 1 — ■ —■ - 1 _Represent Union In New York Elevator Strike Nnion representatives in discussions with the W ar Labor Board in seeking settlement of New i I employes strike, are shown above. They are, left to right, Aaron Beneson, union attor *rank Nelson, president of Local 164; David S ullivan, president of Local 32-B, and Arthur Hark secretary-treasurer. Union officials agre ed not to extend further, during WLB discussions, a strike which has halted elevators in an estimated 2 ,000 Manhattan buildings. Five Billion Tax Slash Proposed; Phone Strike May Come Wednesday —- *- - _•* - r 1 . • n • 1 - - - _ _ rcuerauon r resident Says Walkout Much In Picture NEW YORK, Oct. 1.—(£>) Joseph Beirne, president of the National Federation of Telephone Workers, said today the possibility of work stoppages by telephone employes “is very much in the picture” as a result of an NLRE trial examiner’s report recom mending dissolution of the West ern Electric Employes Association an AFTW affiliate but added nc action would be taken “before Wednesday.” The W’EEA is an affiliate of the Federation. Beirne said possibility of the stoppages depended on the out come of a collective bargaining election tomorrow in Baltimore, in which the Western Electric group and the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers (CIO) are competitors. Charles W. Whittemore, National Labor Relations Board trial ex aminer, has recommended dis solution of the Western Electric Union on the ground that it is company dominated. Beirne said the AFTW executive board was investigating whether ‘‘undue influence was exercised by the UE-CIO” on Whittemore “causing the report to be issued in the manner and at the time it was issued.” He said it had been determined "the UE-CIO was anxious to have Mr. Whittemore present a colored report on the eve of the election which is to be held in Baltimore, Md. . . .” The telephone workers, he said, "feel very strongly about the possibility of the government . . . assisting in spreading the influ ence of Communistic thinkers” and “are prepared and will resist any encroachment by the UE-CIO or any other Communist-dominat (Continued on Page Five; Col. 5) NHHS COUNCIL SEEKS ACCOMODATIONS FOR CONGRESS DELEGATES Citizens of Wilmington are being urged to open their homes to aid in taking care of 200 delegates to the North Carolina State Student Council Congress which convenes here Thursday, October 11. One hundred and fifty students and fifty advisers, representing fifty North Carolina High schools are expected here for the meeting which begins at 4:15 o’clock Thurs day afternoon. Persons interested in keeping delegates were asked to get in touch with high school authorities here. Lodging for Thursday night and breakfast Friday morning is all that will be required. The program of the meet includes a weiner roast Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m., a dance at the Cape Fear Country club Thursday night begin ning at 9 o’clock with the conven tion reconvening from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday. \ ; Airliner Passengers Help In Rescue Work MIAMI, Fla., Oct. 1.—(JP)—It wasn’t as thrilling as first promised, but 20 Miami-to-New York passengers took part in a "rescue” effort off Daytona Beach today. It came about when the pilot of an Eastern Air Lines plane saw several parachutes on the ground, circled the spot and notified the Navy by radio. The Navy swung into action while the big Silverliner with its passengers aboard circled to mark the spot. Later the Navy reported that the parachutes were attached to flares, not to naval airmen., The rescue effort took place 10 miles inland from Daytona Beach. CG WILL RESUME AUXILIARY WORK Organization To Be Re Activated Soon; Modoc Coming Back Commodore M .J. Ryan, com mandant of the Sixth Naval Dis trict, revealed last night that the Coast Guard plans to maintain a ‘‘pretty healthy organization” in the Coast Guard Auxiliary. The. pre-war program will be resumed as soon as possible, Com modore Ryan said, with a broaden ing of activities to include training cruises, radio instruction and co ordinated, air-sea rescue work. He said that he believed the continuance of the .Auxiliary Wf Id foster good seamanship and afford training for inexperienced boatmen through personal participation in the work. Base of operations will probably be the Coast Guard docks in Wil (Continued on Page Five; Col. 3) Vinson Places Program Before Ways Group Of House WASHINGTON, Oct. 1. —(A5)— A $5,000,000,000 tax cutting pro gram, which would relieve 12,000, 000 persons of all income taxes starting in 1946, and ease the bur dens of other individual and cor porations, was proposed to Con gress today by the Truman admin istration. Fred M. Vinson, secretary of the Taeasury, carried before the House Ways and Means committee, the first revenue reduction plan an administration has sent to Capitol Hill in 16 years. It drew immediate fire from Re publicans, whose House leader, Rep. Martin of Massachusetts, said: “It doesn’t go far enough. It won’t open up purchasing power to stimulate business and create :!obs. We want at least a 20 per cent reduction all along, the board.” After a $5,000,000,000 reduction, according to Vinson’s estimates, revenues in calendar 1946 are ex pected to approximate $27,500,000, (Conkinued on Page Five; Col. 6) CHICAGO RESIDENTS HAVE TIME ON HANDS AS CLOCKS CONFUSE CHICAGO, Oct. 1.—(TP)— Many residents of Chicago and suburbs— which stayed on “fast” time while the nation changed to Standard Time—were operating on a double schedule today. Commuters who utilize railroads flooded information desks with calls for correct schedules. Before the nationwide changeover, railroads announced transcontinental trains would operate on Standard Time, while suburban trains would run on “Chicago” time. Workers who customarily timed their departure from home by their favorite radio shows heard network (Continued on Page Five; Col. 2) Polish Girl Kills Nazis But Gun Has No Notches By CHARLES ARNOT United Press Staff Correspondent WARSAW, Oct. i. — Friends of 21-year-old Xenia Witczak say that she has killed four Germans, but there are no notches on her gun. For Xenia, an attractive brunette, does not consider Germans as peo ple. Xenia is a typical Warsaw girl. Her secretarial job pays her a salary equal to $20 a month, her wardrobe includes but one dress— a suit; her father and brother were killed in the war, her sweetheart was crippled for life. Her opinion of the Russians is succinct: “The war’s over. Why don’t they go home.” Xenia and her mother live in one shabbily-furnished room of their bombed out apartment. Once War saw fashionable residential’ dis trict, their neighborhood now is ar. ugly pile of ruins. Before the German invasion her family was wealthy. Now she and her mother depend on Xenia’s in come from her job with the Po lish Air Lines, supplemented by special government supplies. Xenia likes to smoke but ciga (Continued on Page Five; Col. 7) r 1 ■■ Japan Bank Yields Siam Gold Cache P E 0 P LE REASSURED MacArthur’s Officers Say No Religion Ban Intended TOKYO, Oct. 1.—(JP)—American investigators set out today on the trail of the treasure which Japan loted from conquered lands, and also delved into the state religion of Shintoism which was used t» foster Fanaticism and wars. In Tokyo’s “Wall Street” the great bank of Japan was closed. Army authorities declared it could reopen tomorrow if its official* quit stalling and helped track down the stolen riches of Asia. The little people of Japan, who crowded about the bank, fearful that their savings would be taken away, dispersed after the Ameri cans assured them their money was safe. In the vaults of this bank, fin ancial keystone of the Japanese government comparable to the U. S. Federal Reserve System, troops fund gold and gold stocks earmark- " ed for Siam and Indo-China. (It was not immediately clear whether this gold belonged to the Japanese or had been seized from those formerly Japanese-controlled countries.) American troops Stood guard over 21 financial institutions, which were closed at General MacArthur’s order Sunday. Hiese 21 were the big combines which had exploited in a business way Japan’s military conquests. All will be liquidated. The Yokohama Specie Bank and the Hypotec Bank, which also were closed in MacArthur’s swift economic coup Sunday, reopened today. No trace was found in their rec ords of the wealth removed by the Japanese from the Philippines and the East Indies. Simultaneously, General Mac Arthur’s civil information and ed ucation section prepared to deal ‘ a death blow to the Japanese gov ernment’s control over Shintoism, which was artfully turned from the field of religion to war. Col. Ken R. Dyke, head of the section,^ emphasized that no at tempt would be made to interfere with the freedom of religion, but, “we are going to be certain it (Shintoism) isn’t used as a tool of the militarists.” Closely linked to this inquiry, he said, was a second one into the Japanese educational system, de signed to discover just how history now is being taught. Closely linked to this inquiry, he said, was a second one into the Japanese educational system, de signed to discover just how history now is being taught. “It’s all tied up in the Sun God dess and the Deity of the God Em peror,’’ he said. “I don’t say we are going to eliminate all this. . . le“s say we desire to get history on a more factual basis.” (Continued on Page Five; Col. 5) SHEFFIELD HEADS LOCAL WAR DADS, Walter L. Sheffield, manager ol the Wilmington Cocoa-Cola Bottling Works, Inc., “was the unanimoui choice of Wilmington War Dads for the office of president when th« group met for organization Iasi night at the American Legion Home Third and Dock street. J. D. Edwards, was named vice-presi dent, C. L- Myers, treasurer and L. C. Robertson, sergeant-at-arms. War Dads is a national organi zation formed for the purpose ol giving aid to all veterans in their problems of reajustment to civil life. Assisting in the organization ol the local chapter were; B. F. Ingle, Chairman of the State War Dads; W. C. Stewart, vice president of the Raleigh chapter; T. J. Briggs, of the publicity committee from Raleigh and Thomas Creekmore president of the Raleigh chapter. Aaron Goldberg acted as tern porary chairman of last nights - meeting, explaining that Wilbur Dosher, who had performed the spade work for the local organiza (Continued on Page Five; Col. 4) - i
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