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liilmuutfmt Mi truing g>far VOL. 78—NO. 281. ——— --— _1__ — ____WILMINGTON, N. C„ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1945_ ESTABLISHED 1867 I j Latest Of New Civilian Planes Alluring to the eyes of some commuters, this “Rocket 185’’ is said t0 be,, "ew m design. Speed is given as 185 mph, climbing rate 2.0 feet a minute, cruising range 1,000 miles, and operating cost I-2 cent a passenger-mile. It’s for air-minded civilians. (International) Beast Of Belsen Denies All Atrocity Charges __.— - — — 1,600,000 TONS OF SUGAR FOUND WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 — — Secretary of Agriculture Anderson disclosed tonight that 1,600,000 tons of sugar have been discovered in the ports of Java since the Japa nese surrendered. Obviously pleased over the dis covery, Anderson told newsmen at a conference that this sugar should very greatly shorten the period of rationing in this country. Here tofore, it has been expected that consumer rationing might be nec essary through 1946. Discovery of this sugar was re ported to Anderson today by E. C. Zimmerman, Commissioner for the Netherlands East Indies. He held out hope, the Secretary said, ihat substantial additional amounts may be found in the interior of Java as well as on Borneo and other East Indies islands. The sugar will be* added to * a United Nation pool. Anuerson saia it squirt start moving to this county within two weeks. It will become available at a period when domestic supplies are at the lowest level of the year. Supplies recently allocated civili ans for the October-December pe riod were 28 per cent below those of any other quarter of this year. Anderson said the sugar will be apportioned among claimants to a United Nations pool by the Com bined Food Board, representing the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. He said no allocation had yet been made and he could not say yet how much this country would get. However, the United States por tion might run between 700,000 and 800,000 tons if divided on the basis of past allocations. Anderson again expressed hope that all food rationing except sug ar may be ended by January 1. In the case of sugar, he said it might be possible to end the ration ing a few months later, limiting governmental distributions controls to refineries and industrial users. He said bakers, whose quotas have been cut sharply, probably will be the first to get the benefit of the Javanese supply. Anderson said the world sugar situation is ‘much rosier’ now lhan at any time in many months. Prospects indicate, he said, a good Cuban crop in 1946, a large domes tic crop, and favorable production in Russia and other parts of Eu rope. '' , - Discovery of the sugar in the East Indies places the United States in a better position to bar gain with Cuba over purchase of that country’s 1946 crop. The Unit ed States has offered Cuba 3.45 cents a pound, raw value, but that country has asked for more. CONDUCTOR SNATCHES SIGHT-SEEING TOTS from possible death ST LOUIS, Oct. 2.—(JP)—'Two Vf,i\v young children who had gone "to see {he choo-choos*’ were sav ed from the path of an oncoming train today by an alert railroad conductor. Leo Watson, the conductor, spotted the pair in front of his incoming Illinois terminal subur ban train which he stopped in time to rescue them from the 25-foot elevated trestle along which they v,ere walking. The children, Sonny Aut, 3, and his two-year-old sister, Shirley Jtsn, were put aboard the train end brought into the St. Louis terminal where police were noti L d. They were returned to their Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Aut. ot St. Louis. The children '■To had wandered almost a mile bum their home, said they had gone to “see the choo-choos.” AND 12 MEN L’EW YORK, Oct. 2.— (U.R)— Six hundred thousand bottles of Scotch "hiskey arrived today aboard the Egidia. New Anchor Line ship, from Glasgow. It also carried 12 Passengers Joseph Kramer However, Admits Death Toll Was Abnormal LUENEBURG, Germany, Oct. 2. —(/P)—Josef Kramer, the accused “Beast of Belsen” said in* a state ment read to his British judges today that he did everything he could to “remedy conditions” at Belsen concentration camp and in sisted he knew nothing of mass murders at Oswiecim. His 15-page signed statement as cribed condition^ found at Belsen to short supplies, insufficient per sonnel and general confusion atten dant upon the collapse of Nazism. Capt. S. M. Stewart of the War Crime Department, who interview ed Kramer June 26, read the state ment. Defense counsel offered no objection. Although many witnesses had charged Kramer committed, or dered or witnessed gas chamber executions, whipping of prisoners and other brutalities at Oswiecim, the No. 1 man of the “Belsen gang” asserted: ‘‘All I Can say to all this is that it is untrue from beginning to end.” Of Belsen, he said, he had “com plete confidence” in the guards there and was “satisfied that I had done all I could .to remedy condi tions before the British arrived.” He took particular exception to charges that he cruelly punished ■ women prisoners. Had a woman deserved corporal punishment, he said, ‘‘I would have pointed out to women guards that (it could not be administer ed to women....such a thing is in conceivable to me.” Earlier' Esther Wolgroch, 23 year-old Polish Jewess, declared the woman guard Juana Borman was “The Beastess of Oswieciro.” She testified that Borman set a dog on a woman prisoner, watch ed as the dog killed her, called SS (Elite Gurad) superiors and gloated; “Look, see what I have done — that is my work.” Kramer’s statement said he worked his way up from a minor official at Dachau through Saxen hausen, Natzweiler, Markhausen, : and Oswiecim to become Belsen commandant December 2, 1944. I (Continued on Page Two; Ool. 2)1 NEW TROPICAL BLOW LOCATED BY WEATHER BUREAU IN ATLANTIC MIAMI, Fla., Oct. 2.—(U.R)—The Miami Weather Bureau warned late today that a storm of near hurricane force has been located in the Caribbean, 100 to 150 mites southeast of Swan Island, off the Central American coast. A 4:30 p.m. (EST) a'dvisory said the storm was moving west-north westward at between eight and ten miles an hour. Strongest winds near the center are about 70 miles per hour and strong squalls extend a consider able distance north of center, the weather bulletin said. All interest in the northwest Caribbean north of latitude 15 and west of longitude 81 were warned o be on the lookout for the storm. Committe Says Alaska Un-Ready For Statehood WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 — {IP) - A House appropriations subcom mittee expressed “serious doubts” today that Alaska is ready to be come a state. The committee’s report came a few days after President Truman told a news conference he Would welcome Alaska’s entry into the union as a state, whenever th<| territory is ready for that step. The committee, headed by Rep. Jed Johnson (D-Okla), visit ed Alaska this summer. In a re port filed with the House, it said: “Although the committee feels that eventually the claims of the territory must be given serious consideration^ it appears that up to the present time, the territory has not developed to a point where it is ready for statehood, that it has not enacted tax laws and other legislation, including in many in stances social laws, which would place it on a par with most of the 48 states of the union and the com mittee has serious doubts that it is ready to assume the role of a sovereign state now or in the near future.” The committee said it was (Continued on Page Three; Col. 6) Phonp^Vorkers Quit 4 Hours Friday; Jap&ese Press Attacks Cabinet Work; Foreign Ministers Conference Folds Up “ ±__' m Deadlock Ends Parley In London UP TO BIG THREE Delegates Fail To Issue Joint Communique At Closing Meet LONDON, Oct. 2.—(/P>—The five power conference of Foreign Min isters, after three weeks of discus sing European peace settlements, ended tonight in apparent failure. The ministers of the United States, Russia, Great Britain, France and China concluded their first peace talks in a deadlock over procedure which authoritative, cir cles said would have to be resolved by President Truman, Premier Stalin and Prime Minister Attlee. This was the first meeting of the major powers in which no joint communique was issued at the con clusion of discussions. There was merely a brief announcement that the Council had ‘decided to termi nate its present session.” In an authorized statement, U. S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes disclosed that the issue which dead locked the conference was Russia’s insistence on barring France and China from discussions of Balkan peace treaties. “There is good reason to be lieve,” he added, ‘‘that with con Jnued patience*apd understanding on all sides agreement on essenti als can be attained. “We are determined upon that outcome.” No date was set, however, for any future meeting and, conference circles, said, it probably would not oe until the heads of the govedn ments find some solution of the (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) HIGHWAY PROGRAM GETS “GO-AHEAD” WASHINGTON, Oct. 2—(tf)—An immediate start on a three-year. J3,000,000,000 Federal-State high way construction on program got in okay from Congress today. It came when the Senate without lebate and in two minutes adopted i House-approved resolution saying here is no reason to hold up any onger a program approved last December as a postwar employ ment cushion. The resolution does not require he President’s signature. The program is the first big post war public works project to get a *o ahead. Worked out in detail 10 months igo, it provides for a Federal out lay of $500,000,000 a year for the lext three years to match, dollar ;or-dollar, state expenditures on lighways. In addition, it provides for Fed eral expenditure of $87,250,000 an lually over the same period for construction of roads and trails in iorestf, parks and Indian lands. The $500,000,000 of aid to states is divided into this manner: $225,000,000 for primary Feredal aid highways. $150,000,000 for secondary and feeder roads. $125,000,000 for highways in ur ban areas. B eaeusaol ebr Because labor and materials were scarce owing to wartime de mands, Congress provided when the program was framed that it (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) SEPTEMBER RAINFALL 4.4S INCHES ABOVE NORMAL FOR MONTH September followed the pat tern of other summer months in 1945. The total rainfall, 8.96 inches being 4.45 above normal, according to Weatherman Paul Hess. The highest temperature dur ing the past month occurred on the 21st of the month when 94 degrees was registered, h said. The lowest recorded tempera ture was 68 degrees on the 23rd of the month. Mr. Hess said that the mean temperature for the month, 78.8 degerees, had exceeded the nor mal for September by 5.7 de grees. Making the weather less hear able, humidity here has aver aged 82 per cent, four per cent above normal. During the month, rain fell on 13'days, with the greatest rainfall, 3.57 inches, occurring on the 4th' and 5th of Septem ber. . _ . I RIOTS BREAK OUT IN BUENOS AIRES BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 2.—(U.R)— Police reserves used tear gas to night in am attempt to eject several hundred students who barricaded themselves inside buildings of Buenos Aires University, after a 45-minute gun battle with pro-gov ernment civilians. Three heavy explosions shook the buildings shortly 'after police en :ered. At 8 p. m. it was estimated that 800 students fled from the science and engineering school building into the National College building. The engineering school building, from which electric lights had been previously cut off, is located only i short distance from Col. Juan D. Per on’s Department of Labor and Social Welfare. While the fighting was going on at the university, Pe ron, strong man of the government, in an impromptu address said: “Everybody is demanding my head aut thus far no one has come to get t. Police have not yet started to ict. When they do, there will be plenty of blood but it will be shed ior the benefit of the workers.” Several hundred revolver shots were fired during the melee and lyewiti esses reported the first shots came from the crowd outside ;he building. Aftet some ten rounds lad been fired into the building, ;here was answering fire from in side. No casualties were reported No attempt was made immediat.e y to eject several hundred stud ents barricaded in the medicine school building. ZHUKOV POSTPONES VISIT TO TRUMAN; REPORTED AS ILL WASHINGTON,. Oct. 2.— (JP) — Marshal George Zhukov, Russia’s ;op soldier, has postponed his visit vith President Truman. The White House disclosed today hat it had received a message say ng Zhukov is ill. He had planned to arrive in New York by air Thurs iay. .The postponement was announc ad shortly before the windup of the London conference of Foreign Min isters at which Soviet Foreign Com nissar V. M. Molotov was report ad to have had strenuous argu» ments with other conferees. However, there was no word here as to whether ZZhukov’s indisposi tion was a “diplomatic illness.” Charles G. Ross, White House press secretary, said President Tru man hopes the Marshal, who com mands the Russian portion of oc aupied Germany, will make the :rip later this month. Fresh Cucumbers Off OPA Price Control WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. —(£>)— Fresh cucumbers have been re newed from price control. In announcing this today, OPA said the current crop of cucum bers now is expected to be about 23 per cent above normal and thus discourage unusually high prices. ITURBI STRICKEN * HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 2. — <fP) — Pianist Jose Iturbi, preparing to leave on a concert tour, was strick en suddenly today and underwent an operation for removal of gall stones. His condition was reported satisfactory. ■ ~T MacArthur Tracks Down ArmsMakers CALLS FOR REPORTS Emperor Hirohito Report ed Ready To Clean House At Tokyo TOKYO, Oct. 2.—(JP)—'The Japa nese press, brandishing the Ameit can gift of freedom, attacked the government today amid reports .the cabinet may fall or be overhauled for failing to act in the food crisfk. With a forthrightness impossible under the old regime, the press de manded the dismissal of “feudalis ts officials” such as those who tried to stop publication of the Em peror’s visit to General MacArthur. With his investigators already tracking down the spoils of war which Japanese exploiters gather ed in the Orient, MacArthur set out today after the munitions industry that armed Janan’s warriors He told the imperial government to submit a complete report on the production of arms, ordnance, am munition and automotive equip ment from 1941 to August of this year, when the Empire crashed in defeat. Well-informed Japanese re ported Emperor Hirohito was wait ing quietly for the Japanese Army to finish demobilization, possibly b$t Oct* 15, before cleaning house in the government. As part of that disarming, Mac Arthur’s headquarters announc ed the Imperial General Air Force had been completely demobilized and all air' matters now were di rectly under American control. Some Japanese sources said Pre mier Higashi-kuni himself might resign because of mounting criti cism of government delay in meet ing the dire problems of food, fuel and housing shortages. Some quarters believed that Vice Premier Fumimaro Konoye, pre mier shortly before Japan went to war with America, might again take the premiership should Higa shi-kuni resign. Faced with almost certair -Ulster were at least three cabinfc, nem bers who had an active hand in the war. They were: War Minister Gen. Sadamu Shi momura, who once commanded (Continued on Page Three; Col. 21 -- .1 PRESIDENT OPENS WAR CHEST DRIVE WASHINGTON, Oct 2—(A5)—Pres ident Truman opened the 1945 Na tional War Fund campaign tonight ivith an appeal for generous con iributions’ to help war fund agen ;ies “f'nish the job they were set ip to do.” ‘‘War service has not ended,” said the President in a broadcast irom the White House. ‘‘I don’t leed to tell that to anyone whose son is still serving with the oc ;upat'Qn forces or with the service ; iroops in this country. For them 1 ;he war is still going on.’’ He said the drive is for three ;auses'— for continued ‘friendly services” for those still having a lob to do in the armed forces, for lealth and welfare services for 1 people at home and for relief for var stricken persons in liberated Mr. Truman said: ‘My fellow Americans: This is the month when in cities and towns throughout the country ;he Community War Fund is mak ng its annual appeal. Perhaps you vonder why I am coming to you n behalf of a War Fund Drive, low that all our enemies have sur -ended. I shall tell you why. First let me explain that your Community War Fund joins in one lombined appeal the agencies of the National War Fund serving our own armed forces and Merchant Marine and those agencies helping :o rel'eve the suffering and want if war victims among our allies, rhe same federated, fund also mites—in community chest cities .vith the appeal for local agencies guarding the health and welfare of our own American homes and fom lies. We must support these war fund agencies because of their support if our armed forces. Of course we lave our armed forces in the field (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) ; y ■■■■ _____- 1 Eisenhower, Patton Confer % ' • mHKQSWmmmmimg&z. .JSHW m£W ' Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower (left) and Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., leave Eisenhower’s headquarters at Frankfurt-on-the-Main, Ger many, after their conference on the de-Nazification program in Ba varia. Gen. Eisenhower announced yesterday that he had relieved Gen. Patton of his Third Army command and administrator in Baxaria. Gen. Eisenhower Ousts Patton As Third Head ENGINE TROUBLE HITS GLOBESTER By PAUL MILLER Associated Press Staff Writer GUAM, (Wednesday), Oct. 3.— fP)—The Globester developed en gine trouble today on the home stretch and was forced to return ;o Guam after it had sped 315 miles along the road to Kwajalein. This was but a temporary inter ruption of the first around-the-world slight of the Army Transport Com -nand, and passengers were quick y transferred to another plane for he resumed flight. The four-engined world . traveler ieveloped magneto trouble and the Mo. 2 engine cut out. With 1,236 miles still to be flown ;o Kwajalein, Capt. Marion fl. Dlick of Denver, Colo., made the iecision to turn back to Guam. (The Army Transport Command at Honolulu said the globe-girdling alane was scheduled to arrive there at 9 a.m. Wednesday, instead of 11 a.m., as first announced. The plane aicks up a day by crossing the in ;ernational dateline.) ,The Globester, .scheduled to be n Washington by Thursday, had eft Guam at 3:15 a.m (12:15 p.m. ruesday, Eastern Standard Time> an dreturned at 7:05 a.m. The delay came after a full day n which the Globesters’ eight •ound-the-world passengers: 1. Ate breakfast in Kunming, Hhina, after flying at 14,500 feet across the Himalayas; 2. Had lunch at Manila and vere taken on a toijr of the broken and ruined city ; 3. Welcomed aboard 22 home-, vard-bound Americans who had ■ (Continued on Page Two; Col, 3) | Colorful Leader Also Relieved Of Office In Bavaria FRANKFURT ON' THE MAIN, Germany, Oct. 2 — (IP) — General Eisenhower announced today he had ousted Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., as commander of the Third Army and Administrator of Bava ria and had placed him in charge of a “paper army,’’ the 15th. The order, effective Oct. 7, fol lowed compla'nts thal the pistol packing, colorful Patton had kept Bavarian Nazis in office, and was made public just four days after the 59-year-old armored command er was called on the carpet to give a personal report to Eisenhower on his denazification action. Lt. Gen. Lucian K. Truscott, who commanded the Fifth Army in Ita ly and later headed the Seventh Army, will succeed Patton as com mander of the Third Army and Administrator of the Eastern Mili tary District. The 15th Army at present con sists only of headquarters and special troops engaged in research work on Allied relations during the war. It does not control any occu pation area. The official announcement gave no reason for the sh'ft, but disclos ed that Eisenhower had notified Patton of the transfer last Satur day, the day afterPafton had been summoned to Frankfurt. Patton could not be reched early tonight for comment. He has been unavailable to newspapermen for the past three days since return ing to his headquarters at Bad To elz in Bavaria, His. WAC secre tary said she did not know where he ai)d his aides had gone. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) Hogue Reviews History Of Port Terminal Fight The fight to get public terminals built in the port of Wilmington, and the untiring crusade waged by the Port Commission to waken recog nition of this port’s possibilities were described by Cyrus D. Hogue, chairman, at a Rotary Club meet ing Tuesday in the Friendly Caf eteria. Hogue painted a general outline pf the Commission’s efforts to es tablish cargoes, regular sailings and adequate facilities here, and »ain standing for Wilmington as a "reasonably important port - im portant enough to be a state pro ect rather than a Wilmington one,” he said. Terming the Cape Fear River probably this locale’s greatest as set - "God - given, and man - im proved,” Hogue declared that from 1733, when Wilmington was found ed, until 1935, when the Port Com mission was formed, absolutely no concerted effort was made to build up this port’s facilities. From 1935 to 1941, between 1, 388,000 and 2,819,000 tons of cargo were handled through this port, he said, due partly to natural advan tages, and in some measure to the (Continued on Page Thre^; Coi. 1) t FSA Clamps Embargo On Coal Hauls DEADLINE EXTENDED New York City Hit By Teamster, Longshoremen Walkout BULLETIN O. G. Bain, manager of the Southern Bell Telephone com pany in Wilmington, said last night that the company’s ser vice would be affected here by the four-hour walkout scheduled for Friday. Mr. .Bain promised a full statement on the situation this morning. NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—41P)— J. J. Moran, vice-president of the Na tional Federation of Telephone Workers, said tonight members of the union would leave their jobs all over the country Friday after noon from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., East ern Standard Time to “vote on strike action on a nation-wide ba sis."’ we said zuu.uuu persons would be affected, including all telephone op erators, both long distance and lo cal, and some teletype and broad cast operations. Dial telephones, which operate automatically, would not be affected, he added. Employes of the Western Electric Company who are members of the Western Electric Employes Asso ciation, also will not work durr the four hour stoppage period, Mor an added. The demonstration Friday, Mor an said, and the strike vote, were called in protest against a riling by Charles W. Whittemore, Nation al Labor Relations Board trial ex aminer, recommending dissolution of the Federation’s Western Elec tric Employes Association at Kear ny, N. J. He said the NLRB election at the Western Electric Company’s Point Breeze plant in Baltimore today to determine a bargaining agent for the company had no bearing on the decision to stage the work stop page and take a strike vote. “The real issue here is not the result of the Point Breeze election but the policy of the NLRB grant ing immunity to a union which joins the AFL or the CIO,” Moran said. At the Point Breeze plarit the employes voted tonight for the Western Electric Employes Asso ciation as their bargaining agent. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) SHIPYARD STARTS CHEST CAMPAIGN Annual participation of the North Carol na Shipbuilding company in the local Community War Chest was opened yesterday afternoon with a meeting of departmental solicitators at which H. A. Marks, general chairman of the campaign, was the principal speaker. Mr. Marks discussed the value of the Chest to the community and stressed the importance of the work of the many agencies financ ed through the annual War Fund. He called on every employee of the yard to give at least a day’s [ioy during the campaign, plans for which have been under way for the past several days. The drive at the shipyard is opening much earlier than other divisions and will close on October 20. Attending yesterday’s kick-off meeting were the following depart mental representatives: Administrative, C. T. Lewis; Safety, Miss Esther Gay; Comp trollers, Miss C. L. Gordon; Audit ing and Bookkeepingi Miss Bettie Powell; Tabulating, Mrs. Doris Jane Ward; Piecework Counters, B. T. Lennon. Treasurers Office, Mrs. Nina Tenuta; Bond department, Miss Mary McCrary; Timekeepers, Office, George Beverly; Police and Fire. R. W. Dunnaway; Jani tors, J. O. Brown; Infirmary, Mrs. D. G. H i 1 b u r n ; Instructing, VIr. T. J. Martin; Production,, Miss Helen Lovering; Time Study, Mrs. J. B. Carr, and Blue Print, Mrs. Lora Wood. / Purchasing, Frank Caster Warehouse, Charles T. Teach (Continued on Page Three; /
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