Umumtmt HHnnttttn rSEr --— -- State and National New* U)L. 78.—NO. 282._ WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1945 " ESTABLISHED 1867 I I- — — ■ —-— ____ __ japan Would Barter OCCUPATION SPREADS Newsmen Shed Light On Conditions In Prisons Of Empire » TOKYO, Thursday, Oct. 4.—(JP)— Japan planned today to ask world wide aid through the barter system to dispel the black threat of winter hunger in the war-wrecked nation, and Japanese Communists said their party wants to “rid the coun try of Mikadoism.” Nipponese newsmen, taking full advantage of General MacArthur’s order freeing the Japanese press, turned light on conditions in the __:_i_i_3_ communist and liberal political thought were tortured. American forces today extended their occupation of the conquered country with first landings on Hok kaido, the northernmost home is land. A regimental compat team of the 77th Infantry Division took over at Hakodate. The remainder of the division is scheduled to enter Otaru and Sapporo tomorrow. The Domei News Agency re ported Japan would soon ask the Allies for permission to trade silk and rayon for the foodstuffs of oth er nations, acting at the request of sectional chiefs of the offices of regional superintendents-general. The Japanese already have asked Allied Occupation Headquarters for permission to receive salt and rice from Korea in exchange for about 75.000 tons of coal to be delivered monthly from Kyushu Island mines in southern Japan. Domei reporter Tay Tateishi told of visiting the Fuchu prison 13 miles west of Tokyo and interview ing Kyushi Tokuda, Shiro Ma tamura an Yoshio Shiga, Japanese Communists who said they were eager for the Allies to order their release. The Japanese prisoners and two Koreans, Lee Kung Hun and Kim Chun Hai, related how 10,000 Com munists, arrested in April, 1929, were beaten with baseball bats and tortured with burning incense sticks forced under their fingernails. Fi nally all but 1,200 were freed. _ Tateishi quoted Tokuda as saying seven Japanese Communists were hanged and more than 400 died of beatings and malnutrition. "All three Japanese Communists exnressed a desire to take an ac five role in Communist activity now,” Tateishi said, adding that the leaders listed the objective of the party in Japan was the distribution of all state imperial land to the people and riddance of the country of “Mikadoism and the Emperor system of government.” “'They said it could only be brought about through r e volution, (Continued on Page Five; Col. 5) VFW HEARS PLEA FOR ABDICATION CHICAGO, Oct. 3. —UP) — Brig Gen, Carlos Romulo, resident Com missioner of the Philippines in Washington* today demanded that Emperor Hirohito of Japan be forced to abdicate and ‘‘then be tried as a war criminal” in the interests of Pacific peace. In an oration at the Veterans of Foreign Wars 46th National En campment, Romulo said “there can be no peace in the Pacific un less every vestige of militarism in the Jap heart is effaced. "And that can only be done, if Hirohito is made to abdicate and then be tried as a war criminal. In preparation for elections to morrow, Joseph M. Stack of Pitts burgh, Pa., was nominated for Commander in Chief to succeed Jean A. Brunner of New York. Stack now is senior vice command er. For the latter office delegates nominated Louis Starr of Portland. Ore., retiring junior vice com mander. The posts are traditiongl (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. 68; 7:30 a.m. 64; 1:30 p:m. 73; P.m. 64. Maximum 73; Minimum 62; Mean boi Normal 69. Humidity 1:30 a.m. 69; 7:30 a.m. 67; 1:30 p.m. 40, 7:30 p.m. 67. Precipitation Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m.— 0.03 inches. , Total since the first of the month 017 inches. Tides For Today (From the Tide Tables published Dy.u Coast and Geodetic Survey). High High Wilmington - 8:27 a.m. 3:0a a.m 8:46 p.m. 3.22 p.m Masonboro Inlet - 6:27 a.m. 12:13 a.m 6:39 p.m. 1* Sunrise 6:09 a.m.; Sunset 5:53 p.m. Moonrise 4:32 a.m.; Moonset 5. P- • River Stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at a.m. Wednesday. Oct. 3, 12.2 feet. (Continued on Page Five; Col. 2 Gas For Detroit’s Hungry Tanks i ' niiii . ii—m wi —i mwiii 1 min ——— Turning on valves to set in motion the machinery that will pour gasoline into the Detroit area are William Osborn and James Con stable, employees of the Keystone Refineries. The company was one of the first to sign a CIO contract and resume operation. (International Soundphoto). Mass Murder Affidavits Read To Nazi Defendants -.*“““ RUSSIA DEMANDS MACARTHUR SCALP London, Oct. 3—(U.R)— Soviet Rus sia has demanded that Gen. Doug las MacArthur be replaced immed diately as the governing power of Japan by an Allied Control Council of the four major Pacific powers, Radio Moscow disclosed today. The Soviets p r e faced their de mand for an equal voice in the ad ministration of Japan with the as sertion that MacArthur’s position as Supreme Allied Commander has been outmoded by the success ful disarmament of Japanese mili tary forces. The demand was contained in a letter from Soviet Foreign Commis sar V. M. Molotov to U. S. Secre tary of State James F. Byrnes, which was broadcast by Moscow. The letter objected to Byrnes’ an nouncement that Russia had agreed to an Anglo-American proposal that the Pacific powers, including France, should set up an advisory commission to explore the neces sity of establishing a control coun cil for Japan. This,. Molotov’s letter declared, “does not exactly correspond to the present situation.” He indicated a control council should be set up immediately without prior discus sion by an advisory commission. “The Soviet government consid ers that while military conditions nrevailed, and before the (Japa nese) armed forces were disarmed, there was a basis for the concen tration of all functions of the con trolling mechanism in the hands of an Allied Commander in Chief Gen. MacArthur),” the letter went on. .... “But, since military conditions ended, a problem arose which is principally economic, political and (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) IRON LUNG “PINUP” TALKS TOFIANCE IN GENEVA, SWITZERLAND ATLANTA, Oct. 3.—W—The pin up girl in the long green cylinder the iron lung—wrinkled her nose into the telephone the nurse held fP“Jplo . . . Hello, what are you doing in Geneva?’’ The big rubber bellows—a life saving accordion—puffed in and but. j Shorn across the oceans ana mountains—from faraway Switzer land—came her fiance’s voice. The girl was- Julia York, of Ma con-21, black-eyed, vivacious Cashier at the Macon Gas Com pany, she was stricken with in fantile paralysis nine weeks ago. She was rushed'to Atlanta s Grady Hospital to occupy the iron lung Her fiance is Pvt. Ralph B. Welch, 23, of Morristown, N. J., a former student at Dartmouth. Julia’s picture was taken when she was graduated from Wesleyan College at Macon last spring. Ralph tucked it in his billfold, carried it overseas. . . . Last week she saw.it in an Army oaner. The story said she d been chosen pin-up girl of the In fantry, Second Battalion—Ralph s outfit. ... Ralph, it said, was being given a trip to Geneva for being such a 1 picker. ' , . , ,, Then came the cable saying he d i call. LUENEBERG, Germany, Oct. 3 —(/P)—A series of affidavits describ ing mass murder, torture, brutal beatings, grotesque medical exper iments, and starvation at the Bel sen and Oswiecim prison camps was read today into the record oi the court trying 45 Nazis for crimes there. Under bright floodlights, the de fendants stood one by one as their names were called in the sworn statements of internees who came alive out of the camps. They stood so that the British Military Court might compare theii present appearance with photo graphs taken last spring, when they were identified by the persons mak ing the affidavits; and they took keen interest in legal arguments over prosecutor F. M. Backhouse’s pointed references to changes in their appearances. Once Backhouse ordered plump cheeked Ilse Forster, woman guard, to take off the blue-checked handkerchief she was wearing tur ban fashion about her head. She blushed angrily and did so, dis closing that she had shaved her head. Defense Counsel C. Brown, Brit ish officer, protested, saying “hei hair was cut for medical reasons.’’ Today’s affidavits were read in (Continued on Page Five; Col. 3) RAINS, HEAD WINDS SLOW PROGRESS OF PITTSBURGH HIKER CHICAGO, Oct. 3 — W — Alvin F. Bergman, Pittsburgh’s perse vering pedestrian, plodded intc Chicago today, two days late be cause “rains and head winds’’ slowed His progress. The 58-year-old Bergman, w h c made the 500 mile hike in 10 days, arrives at the Congress Hotel up winded, carrying only a heavj stick and with his high toppec walking shoes worn through Bergman came to see the World’s Series. He admitted h e didn’t have a ticket yet, but pro mised, “I’ll be there.” He’ll trade his snail’s pace foi wings in returning to lys job in i steel pipe manufacturing plant nexl week. It will be his first airplane trip. Wearing heavy shoes, two wool en sweaters and a light jersey Bergman said today was the onlj day of the trip he wasn’t drenched He estimated hennas walked 200, 000 miles on such hikes. Bergman, youthful in appearance for his age, said he never suffers from colds, rheumatism or aches Thirty Thousand Striking Students Defy Order By Argentina President To Get Out Of Politics BULLETIN BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 3—jJf) —Police began withdrawing tonight from positions around B'u e n o s Aires universities, where, hundreds of students and professors had barricad ed themselves in a protest against reimposition of a na tional state of seige by Ar gentina’s military regime. BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 3—(AO Thirty thousand striking students at Argentina’s six universities to day defied President Edelmiro Far rell’s orders to get out of politics r-. and back to class, and Buenos Aires students barricaded themselves in side school buildings against be seiging police. The students were protesting the military governments reimposition of a state of siege last week after an abortive military uprising at Cordoba, and its subsequent arrest of hundreds of leading Argentine^ including university officials and teachers. Tonight, the Buenos Aires stu dents stood firm in their refusal to yield the buildings, even though the heavy police forces surround ing them cut off water, lights and food delivery. Strict censorship was slapped on Argentine newspapers and agen cies, which received written orders — issued under the State of Siege — to publish no word of the stu dent strike. An authoritative source said the U. S. Embassy had formally pro tested to the Argentine Foreign Of fice against restrictions imposed on press communications abroad. Ernesto Carreras, business man ager of the big Buenos Aires after noon newspaper Critica, told the authorities his newspaper would take no notice of the orders to the Argentine papers. But norning papers, cautioned by telephone yesterday afternoon, appeared without word of the new est passive resistance movement against the government. At Parana, capital of Entre Los Rios province, the Diario De Para na published full accounts of the student movement, and promptly had i,ts entire edition seized by po lice. The owner of Dario De Parana is Eduardo Laurencena, prominent radical leader who was arrested in (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) Cubs Smother Tigers In First Series Game; Truman Will Seize Strike-Bound Oil Firms Today GM Rejects Demand For Wage Raise DOCK WORKERS OUT Over 10,000 Coal Miners Now Idle In Four States BULLETIN PITTSBURGH, Oct. 3.—VP) —Emergency coal rationing was put into effect in Pitts burgh tonight. A survey showed less than 1,000 tons in retail yards. \ WASHINGTON, Oct. 3— (JP) — The White House announced to night the government will seize strike-hound oil companies tomor morrow. ^ This move came fast after Labor Secretary Schwellenbach told re porters he had recommended seiz ure because his efforts to settle the wage dispute between workers and me companies nau eunapseu. The strike of CIO oil workers— because the companies have not met their demands—has spread to 15 states. Schwellenbach said 10 of the JkJ. oil companies involved had rejected his proposal for a temporary settle ment. The union had accepted. Union President O. A. Knight said he did not know whether the strikers will return to their jobs once the government takes over the properties, - President Truman’s press secre tary, Charles C. Ross, said at 8:30 p. m. that the ‘necessary orders” for the seizure were being drawn. The hour of seizure was not speci fied but Ross said the President will have a statement on the prob lem tomorrow. Schwellenbach’s seizure recom mendation was made directly to Reconversion Director Snyder. President Truman himself enter ed the steaming labor picture — shortly before Schwellenbach’s recommendation was made—by telling a news conference his ad ministration has a definite wage (Continued on Page Five; Col. 1) LEGION APPEALS FOR HOSPITAL USE Wilmington Post No. 10, of the American Legion is sponsoring a proposal now being circulated that the Army hospital at Fort Fisher be turned over immediately to the Veteran’s Administration for use by returning servicemen. In the first issue of the newly founded Post publication, ‘‘The Wilmington Legionnaire,” the Le gion is urging prompt action to molrn +Via irmw Virtcni+al avail a WIp for use as soon as possible. The subject will come before the executive board of the Legion for approval Thursday night, it is stated, and formal endorsement is expected to be forthcoming at that time. At present, only two Veteran Administration hospitals exist in the State of North Carolina, and both are fully-occupied by World War I veteran-patients, the Le gion has declared. Of these, one is located at Fayetteville, and a second at Oteen, near Asheville, where an addition has been au thorized. However, the additional nuild ing space is ir.ethe blueprint stage at the present time when veterans are pouring back to this country, and can not possibly be ready for (Continued on Page Five; Col. 3) SERVICE PERSONNEL SOON TO BE WITHOUT PX-STORE DETAILS With the closing of Bluethen thal Army Air Field and the cutting down of the Coast Guard Captain of the Port de tail, service men and women stationed in Wilmington ar- to be without the facilities of a Ship Service store or a Post Exchange. Heretofore, Army, Coast Guard, Navy and Marine per sonnel have been able to pur chase tobacco products, toilet articles, stationary, soaps, cleansing tissues, gum and can dy and other “hard to get” items at a reduced service man’s rate either at Bluethen thal Army Air Field or at the Coast Guard Quarterboat at the foot of Princess St. Although the number of serv ice personnel now stationed in Wilmington is small they will now be forced to purchase these items from civilian mar kets at a considerable higher price. NATIONS SELECT U.S. FOR ISO HOME LONDON, Oct. 3. —<-P>— The United States should be the per manent seat of the new Interna tional Security Organization, the United Nations preparatory execu tive committee recommended to night. The announcement did not state whether a definite city or locale had been selected. Committee planners rejected a suggestion that the United Nations organization have its home in Eu rope. Only Great Britain, France and the Netherlands opposed having the headquarters in America. Ru. sia voted for the L'nited States and against Europe. The recommendation first will be offered to the Preparatory Com mission itself, which is expected to meet soon. If the commission ap proves, the recommendation then will be put before the entire as sembly for final action. Canada and America abstained from the voting, which have a nine to three margin for the United States site. Those favoring the sel lection of the United States were Australia, Brazil, China, Chile, Czechoslovakia, Iran, Mexico, Rus sia and Yugoslavia. American sites mentioned fre quently as a possible home for the United Nations Assembly include San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Hyde Park, President Roosevelt’s home. / _ TROPICAL HUKKILANL TO HIT HONDURAS AT EARLY HOUR TODAY MIAMI, Fla., Oct. 3.—{JP)—The tropical hurricane in the western Carribbean is expected to strike the coast of British Honduras to morrow. Its 90-mile winds caused Grady Norton, chief of the Federal Storm Warning Service here, to urge every precaution against danger ous winds and high tides in British Honduras and the southern part of the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. The 4 p. m., E. S, T., advisory said: “The hurricane is central about 80 miles southwest of Swan Island in latitude 16.8 north, longitude 84.8 west, moving west-northwest ward 8 to 10 miles an hour. FIRST STRIKE IN 114 YEARS WHITINSVILLE, Mass. — (U.R) — The Whitin Machine Works recent ly experienced the first strike in its 114-year history. GRIMM ARTILLERYMEN SHELL MR. NEWHOUSER FROM HILL IN THIRD I —----—_—★ II m m ft . 11T • . 1 World Series Box Score DETROIT, Oct. 3.—)—The Globester winged its way across the wide Pacific today with excellent indications it would beat the announced time of 131 scheduled hours on the Army Transport Command’s first world girdling flight. Hawaii gave a typical welcome when the big plane arrived at Hickam Field at 9 a.m. Honolulu time (2:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time) after a fast flight from tiny Kwajalein island. Pilot First Lt. Joe Peckarovich, 30, of Cleveland, O., gunned The Globester over the 2,448 miles from Kwajalein in 11 hours and 55 min utes. Peckarovich could have sat the ship down an hour and a half ear lier, but Hickman wasn’t ready for it and the C-54 had to stay up (Continued on Page Two; Cal. 1) Speaking before the Wilmington Engineer’s club at the Friendly cafeteria last night. Gordon S. Maynard, Charlotte, district en gineer of the Portland Cement association for North Carolina and Virginia called upon the members of the engineer’s profession to have plans and blueprints in readi ness for post-war construction and employment. Continuing, Mr. Maynard stated that this country is “looking down the throat of another WPA’’ it exe cutives and engineers do not co operate in all lines of endeavor to bring about a smooth and con structive post-war period. He added that wishful thinking and vague, planning must go if we intend to avoid a period of dis tress like that which followed the end of World War I. Mr. Maynard said that great period of construction is ahead for thi. vicinity such as manufactur ing plants, quick freeze storage plants, warehouses refineries, air puns, DUUUuig cUiu uuinc tunau uu tioh, railroad repair and public works such as highways and that it is the duty of the eng beers to have the plans on their shelves now, ready for use when the war veterans come home and ma terials are available. He closed by stating that the association he represented is in terested in cement highway con struction throughout the country and showed a movie entitled “Limited Ways” illustrating some of tl\e most modern Highways in the country. Chairman of the meeting was M. Kean Maffitt while C. H. McCallis ter president of the Engineer’s club introduced the speaker. Guests attending the dinner meet ing were: William Lassister of the U. S. Navy and winner of the Pepsi Cola scholarship contest, and C. S. Sanderson recently discharged from the Army and now with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. lavarrena o i a r s nun Homer, Best Stop Of Game BOWORY HOLDS EDGE Record Crowd Shivers As National Champs Hit At Will By GAYLE TALBOT Associated Press Staff Writer ..DETROIT, Oct. 3 — The Chicago Cubs whaled the living daylights out of Hal Newhouser at the very outset of the World Series today and defeated the Detroit Tigers, 9 to 0, behind the smooth six-hit pi.ching of Hank Borowy as 54, 837 chilled American League fans died by degrees in Briggs Stadium. A stroke of lightning out of th clear, sun-filled sky scarcely could have shocked them more than the ease with which the Cubs tore into Newhouser, greatest hurler of the American League, for eight hits and seven runs in the first three innings and drove him from the hill. It was never a ball game — the opener. The National League champs.. underdogs i« the pre-se ries betting, looked so far superior for the day that it scarcely seem ed necessary to play off the classic. They hammered the ball almost at will, piling up 13 hits, including a homerun by Phil Cavarretta, a triple and two doubles, while only one Detroit player reached third base. Borowy, who came to the Cubs from the Yankees for $11)0,060 two months before the season ended, had his former American League rivals handcuffed. All the six hits the Tigers managed off his sharp curving were singles, and they didn’t look like they could have scored off him if they had played another nine frames. Borowy, the thin, serious young righthander from Fordham Univer sity, signed his application for the World Series Hall of Fame by hi3 smoothly-pitched victory. He be came the second pitcher in World Series history to pitch a vicotry both in the American and National Leagues. He hurled the Yankees a win over the St. Lou:s Cardinals in the 1943 classic. Jack Coombs last completed the trick in 1916 for the Brooklyn Dodgers, having pre viously won in 1910 and 1911 for the Philadelphia Athletics. I Continued on Page Nine Col. 7) MISSIONARY TELLS OF JAP PRISONS The Rev. William F. Junkin, Jr., Presbyterian missionary, who with his wife spent three years and six weeks in a Japanese prison camp in the Philippine Islands, has ar rived in Wilmington and will speak to several audiences while here. Following a congregational din ner at Gilmour Hall, at the First Presbyterian church, Mr. Junkin will speak at the Hall to the con gregation and it is understood, to others not registered for the din ner who wish to attend, at 7:30 o’clock tonight. The Rev. Junkin, born in China to missionary parents from Rock bridge county in Virginia who spent 40 years in that country, was at tending a language school in Pek ing, China, in 1940 when warned to evacuate. Moved to Baguio, in the Philip, pine Islands, Mr. Junkin was sub- * jected to an air raid there on the same a ay as the Pearl Harbor at tack, which was directed at Camp John Hay and taken prisoner on the 27th of December when the ad- - vancing Nipponese over an Baguio. Describing his lot as better than that of military prisoners, Mr. Junkin said that the chief privation in the prison camp at Baguio was lack of sufficient food. Athletic games were impossible because the prisoners were too weak from lack of nourishment to participate, he revealed. Some men in the camp, which I (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6)! i s