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FORECAST jT| ♦ W |tmj * ^ ^ P Served By Leased Wire* Humttwum UUnmutn mar — 1 * ~ ""' ■ State and National New* VOl^-NO- 311 WILMINGTON, N. C„ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1945 -ESTABLISHED" 1867 I Kidnap Victim? As agents of the FBi were re ported on the scene, Sierra County Sheriff W. D. Johnson declared that he now believes three-year-old Dickie tum Suden has been kid napped. The young scion of a wealthy San Francisco Bay area family' pictured here in a recent photo, vanished from his parents’ home near Downieville, Cal., some hays ago. (International) MATE OF TANKER CHAINED 15 DAYS Master Of SS Newberg Says Officer Refused To Obey Order At Sea CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex., Nov. /._f/p)—A 10,000-ton tanker, the SS Newberg, was seized by* a U. S. Deputy Marshall today after the first mate, held in chains 15 days at sea for what his captain said was ''insubordination on the high seas,” filed a $30,800 libel action against the ship. Details were brought out at a Coast Guard hearing here today or. the petition of Capt. A. H. Miller of the Newberg asking re vocation of the license of first mate Charles L. Maes, 55, of Los Angeles. The Newberg may not leave port until the company posts bond in connection with the libel action. Capt. Miller logged Maes for Insubordination oil the high seas and therw him in chains as the tanker was approaching Balboa Oct. 18. He said Maes refused to “butterworth the tanks” at his order. This is a cleaning opera firm Maes remained in chains for 15 days, he said in his charges, "hen the ship docked here Nov. i. he was transferred to the Nueces County jail. Maes was released Monday fol lowing an investigation by the FBI, asked by Capt. Miller when Maes was placed in jail. No criminal charges have been Lied against him. In Los Angeles tonight, Martin Faerber, insurance manager of the Los Angeles Tanker Operators, Inc., said the Newberg was the property of the United States War Shipping Administration, and his company acted only as general 8gent for the vessel. "We will advise the United Mates District Court at Corpus Christi to that effect,” Faerber *aid, “and take further action 1° lift the libel.” He said the company had not ccn informed of the alleged In subordination of the mate or of his carceration aboard the Newberg. Stock Market Climb* To Eight Year High NEW YORK, Nov. 7—(JP) — eavy buying in steels, motors *nd other industrials lifted to oa5s stock market 75 cents to •■ound $4 to the best levels in * 1'2 years. WEATHER Eastern Standard Time) , n‘ Weather Bureau) 'S0r7°ingiCal d3ta for the 24 h0UrS g ’-30 p.m, yesterday. 1.,. Temperatures 1:30 pmm'644’ 7:30 a,m' 50; 1:30 pIP- 76: KVraa'jn58m 77’ Minimum *8; Mean 62; 1 Humidity ,:3i p.nT'eo2' 7:30 a-m- 89; 1:30 pm- 37; Totai , „ Precipitation 1.00 inch™ ‘■4 hours endir‘E 7:30 P-m-— •■Scinches06 the 7irs" of the month— (Frc-n , Tles for Today 1). :a T>de Tables published by Coast and Geodetic Survey). Wilmington Hi*h Low ston - -a.m. 6:44 a.m. llasonborr> r„, . 12:09 pm- 7:29 p-m' or° Inlet . 9:30 a.m. 3:10 a.m. .SiHiis, „ 9:34 p.m. 3:57 p.m. hse 9.it ' °8, Sunset 5:14 p.m.; Moon Siver c,s m-: Moonset 7:54 p.m. «.!». Weal 81’, at Payetteville, N. C., at 8 ednesday, Nov. 7, 9.5 feet. (Continued on Page Five; Col. 3) I Over Three-Score Jews Killed At Tripoli; Chinese Red /Clctitn Rout Of 70,000 Troops; Indonesia fffLeaders Submit Plan For Peace •- * _» __: Truce Would Aid British Occupation MAY ACCEPT TERMS Soekarno Proposes Divi sion Of Java Into Num ber Of Regions By RALPH MORTON AP Staff Correspondent BATAVIA, Java, Nov. 7. —(/P)— Indonesian leaders today submit ted to the British a plan to pre serve peace in strife-torn Java while British troops finish disarm ing the Japanese and rescuing thousands of European internees menaced by extreme nationalists. President Soekarno and Foreign Minister Soebardjo of the “Indo nesian Republic’’ proposed the plan during a meeting this morning with Lt. Gen. Sir Philip Christi son, Allied commander in the Dutch East Inaies. » The two Indonesian leaders were expected to confer again today with acting Governor General Hubertus J. Van Mook on the deadlocked Dutch-Indonesian dispute over long range plans for the Indies. Late in the day there was no word of such a conference. Soekarno suggested to Christison that Java be divided into a number of regions where contact bureaus would be set up consisting of In donesian local leaders and British officers. This, Soekarno said, would permit the British to carry out their task without further clashes with the Indonesian? be-! ca^se the way would be paved in advance by cooperation in the con tact bureaus. Observers believed that Christi son would readily accept the plan. Such arrangements already have oeen made at the Dutch naval base of Soerabaja and at Magelang, bul only after serious fighting between British troops and the Indonesians. Separate statements issued yes terday by Van Mook and Soerkarno showed that the Dutch and Indone sians were still far divided. Van Mjook.proposed a type of dominion (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) WOMAN, SON DIE IN HOTEL JUMP PITTSBURGH, Nov. 7—UP)— rhe dark-haired wife of a New York radio announcer and the souple’s e i g h t-year-old son alunged to their deaths from the [2th story window of the William Penn Hotel today. The bodies were found on a -oof jutting out over a court three stories above the ground. Deputy Coroner i James Hart said Mrs. Katherine Donley, wife of Rober'- Donley, an an louncer at station WINS in New York, had apparently thrown the Doy, James Patrick, out of the window and then jumped herself. Hart said Mrs. Donley left a lote describing domestic diffi culties and saying, “I can’t see my way.” The note, Hart said, was ad dressed to Mrs. Donley’s brother Edward McMullen of Denver. Colo. He said Mrs. Donley, who was about 32, wrote that she was grieved over a divorce suit filed against her by Donley. The Deputy Coroner quoted the wofhan as writing that her hus oand told her he “wanted to go on (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) SHRINE DRILL STIRS CROWD The Shriners have taken over Wilmington. Picking up where the Navy left off last week, the red fezzed Nobles of the Mystic Shrine got their two-day celebration un derway here last night with the Potentates Banquet at 7 o’clock at the Cape Fear club. Exhibiting skillful precision drill ing at whistle command, the Su dan Arab Patrol of New Bern, drew frequent applause from the 2,000 people assembled at the City Hall later in the evening. Preceding the drilling, the Sudan Temple Band, containing several Wilmington members, gave a con cert during which Shriner J. E. L. Wade addressed a welcome to visi tors to the city. Telling the audience that the Shrine supports 17 hospitals for crippled children, 16 in the United States and one in Hawaii, Noble Wade said that presentation of a cup would be made today to the Patrol in the Sudan district, hav ing made the largest contribution to the crippled children’s fund. A young lady from Wilmington, who'went to the Shrine hospital in Greenville, S. C., and has since re (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) SHRINE PROGRAM Today 9:00 a.m.—Registration of Candidates—Cape Fear Armory 10:30 a.m.—Business Meeting of Temple 11:00 a.m.—First Section Ceremonial 12:30 p.m.—Parade 1:00 p.m.—Barbecue Luncheon—City Market 2:30 p.m.—Second Section Ceremonial—Cape Fear Armory 8:00 p.m.—Out-Door Band Concert — Sudan Temple Band — Hall 9:00 p.m.—Public Drill—Sudan Temple Arab Patrol—City Hall 10:00 p.m.—Potentate’s Ball—Cape Fear Armory 11:00 p.m.—SDecial Features Including Floor Show (Courtesy Host Club) with Bob Page and Hannah Block and Highlights from “Southern Ballet” Presented by Helen Rene Dance studio LADIES’ PROGRAM Today 1:00 p.m.—Luncheon 2:00 p.m.—Theatre Party—Wilmington Theatres 3:30 p.m.—Bridge Party—American Legion Home, 100 South Third Street 10:00 p.m.—Potentate’s Bail—Cape Fear Armory W. J. CRAIG DIES AT FLORIDA HOME W. J. Craig, 85, long-time resi dent of Wilmington, died at his home in Lake Wales, Fla., Tues day. ■ In 1906 Mr. Craig was promoted to passenger traffic manager of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad company, and held that office, with the exception of two years, beginning March 1, 1918, during which time he was called to war duty, serving as chairman of the Southern Passenger Traffic Com mittee at Atlanta, until retiring at the age of 70 in 1930. During his residence in Wil mington he was one of the city’s jutstanding men, especially noted for his high moral character and true Christianity. He served as an elder in the First Presbyterian church and also served on the committee that supervised the present beautiful edifice. His Christian influence upon young men in need of help, advice and understanding was of great value. In addition to his duties as head of the passenger traffic de partment, Mr. Craig has super vised the work of the agricultural and industrial department from its beginning as a separate de partment. He had, therefore, been an important factor in promoting land settlement, agri cultural development and indus trial expansion in the “Nation’s Garden Spot.” Mr. Craig was elected vice president of the American Asso ciation of Passenger Traffic Of ficers at Seattle, Wash:, Septem ber 13, 1912, and was elevated to the presidency of that organ ization at Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 15, 1913, serving as such for one vear. Mr. Craig has always been greatly interested in the welfare of the company’s employes. He has helpfully served as a mem ber of the Atlantic Coast Line Re lief and Hospital Board and also of the Pension Board. RAF CAPTAIN SETS NEW WORLD SPEED MARK OF 606 MPH HERNE BAY, Eng., NoV. 7— (U.R)—RAF Group Captani Hugh Wilson shattered the official world speed record today by piloting his jet-propelled Glostei “Britannia” plane four times over a measured course at an av erage of 606 miles per hourbet ter than a mile each six seconds. The plane was only a flash of color to spectators as it whipped almost silently back and forth across the 1.86 mile course. Its speeds were so tremendous, heat from air friction caused the tern ; perature inside the cockpit to rise as much asjft|53 degrees Fahrenheit. The previous official record for a measured course Wfe 48.14 MPH set in 1939 by a Iwesserrichmitt piloted by Fritz Wendel of the German Luftwaffe. This record also was shattered by the "Yel low Meteor,” a sister ship of the “Britannia.” Wilson hit his top speed for a single run in the “Britannia”— 611 MPH—on his last run. Earl ier runs of 604, 608, and 602 cut hi. average to 606. The record? is based on the average for die four runs. Eric Greenwood, 38-year-old British test pilot, flew the "Yel low Meteor” on runs of 599, 608, 598 and 607. Earlier it had' been announced that Greenwood set the, new speed record, but this was corrected by an official revision of the figures which gave the mark to Wilson. ACL Officials Declare No Lay-Offs Expected WASHINGTON, Nov. 7—(ff)—Of ficials of Atlantic Coast Line Rail road Company declared today there would be no extensive lay-ofi of its employes or those of Florida East Coast Railway if the two lines are merged. In the second day of hearings before the Interstate Commerce Commission on the proposed merger, C. G. Sibley, general man ager, and Lewis F. Ormond, comptroller of Atlantic Coast Line, cited economics they said would result from single operation of the roads. CONTROLS TO GO CAPETOWN, Nov. 7.—GB— All paper control will be suspended in South Africa after Dec. 1, it was announced today. A government mission to Britain, Canada, the United States and Scandinavia has made arrangements for greatly in creased quantities of paper, paper board and allied products, to reach South Africa during 1946. Democrats, Republicans Comforted By Elections Democrats and Republicans ana lyzed Tuesday’s municipal elec tions yesterday and found comfort in them for both major parties. Republicans challenged demo cratic assertions that Demo crat William O’Dwyer’s election as mayor of New York by a record breaking plurality carried nation al or state political significance. Detroit’s slam - band mayoralty race shared interest among politi cians generally. Final unofficial returns showed Mayor Edward J Jeffries, Jr., to have been reelect ed by 57,518 over Richard T. Frankensteen, a CIO union official who had the endorsement of that organization’s Political Action Committee. Frankensteen lost his home precinct. The returns came in for brief debate in the House when Rep. Bulwinkle (D-NC;, citing election of Demo -rats in New York. Cleve land, Pittsburgh and Boston, told Republicans: “I know how you feel; it’s pretty hard on you, but you have to take your medicine and you have to sit in sackcloth and aShes for a little while.” Rep. Michener (R-Mich) count ered with the assertion that the (Continued on Page Five; Col. 1) » Government Army Forced To Retreat GENERALS CAPTURED Intensified Fighting Flares Up On Several Fronts, Report Says CHUNGKING, Thursday, Nov. 8.—{If)—Chinese Communists have captured two Central government army commanders—one reportedly committed suicide — in Southern Hopeh Province and forced the governnment armies to retreat, a military spokesman acknowledged today. The scene of this reversal in China’s undeclared civil war is the same one where the Commu nists claim they have routed 70,000 government troops. The spokesman said one of the captured generals was Ma Fa Wu. commander of the 41st Army. He is understood to have committed! suicide. The other was Kao Shu' Hsun, commander of the Eighth1 Army. The spokesman accused the Com munists of circulating unfounded rumors about the two generals “in an effort to throw dust in the eyes of the public.” The Communists had claimed a number of generals and the bulk of their troops had surrendered. The spokesman’s version was that the Eighth and 41st Armies were attacked north of Tzehsien in Hopeh by several tens of thous ands of Communists, were “taken unawares and were unable to con centrate ill time to ward off the assault.’’ He said their commanders were captured the night of Oct. 30 at different points and their armies subsequently withdrew southward to await orders from Chungking. A semi-officiai dispatch claimed government successes in clashes with Communists in southern • The dispatch said CommunistsJ attacking Tangho and Sinyeh in! Honan and the Han river towns of Siangyang and Fangshan in Hopeh were driven injo the moun tains where the Reds “say they will make a first stand.” The dispatch said about 80,000 Communists are concentrated at Tsaochow in western Shantung province, preparing to attack the Lung-Hai railroad. Intensified fighting flared on several fronts and both Chinese and foreign quarters in Chungking agreed .that the situation is nearly beyond repair and full-scale wa» is almost inevitable. The Communists claimed: 1. Decisive defeat of eight gov ernment divisions, totalling 70,000 men, during which the Reds tight ened their grip on the Peiping Hankow rail line and recaptured the Hopeh province rail junction ol: Tzehsien on Oct. 25—blocking the j (Continued on Page Five; Col. 3) I GAS TAKES LIFE OF WAR VETERAN Recently dicharged from the army, 25-year old Norman Camp bell was pronounced dead from gas fumes yesterday afternoon as doctors from James Walker Me morial hospital tried to revive hirh with a pulmotor. Miss Jane Campbell, sister, 241! Lake Forest Parkway told City Detectives Wolf and Murray that she came home at approximately 2:15 p. m., and found the house filled with gas and her brother lying in the bathroom apparently in an unconscious condition. After calling the police and Tide Water Power company, Miss Campbell said, they tried to re vive her brother but after working on him with a pulmotor, local doctors pronounced him dead. After making investigations the police found Miss Campbell left the gas stove oven burning and in some way the oven was accidently turned off and on again without lighting, according to the police report. Coroner A. W. Allen announced 5 the death as accidental. Besides Miss Jane Campbell, he is survived by two sisters, Mrs. A. T. Spencer, of Wilmington, and Miss Anne Campbell, of Charles ton, S. C., and one brother, Robert Campbell, of Wilming*"" Will You Love Me In December— All appears to be sweetness and light as William L. Green (left), AFL prexy, and John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers chief, chat amiably at the Labor-Management conference in Washington. Lewis, it will be remembered, left the AFL to form the CIO. It is now ru mored that he plans to bring his workers back into the AFL fold. (International) British Professor Says Belsen Nazis Innocent 4. - “™““““—— Witness For Defense Claims Men Acted Under “Laws” LUENEBURG, Germany, Nov. J.—(JP)—Pi;of. H. A. Smith of Lon ion University law school con ;ended today that 45 SS guards charged with killing or mistreat ing prisoners at the Belsen and Dswiecim concentration camps vere innocent of war crimes be cause it was their duty to obey he “national policy” of their muntry. Appearing for the defense, Smith declared concentration ramps were established in 1933 is a “part of the national policy 'or degradation and extermina ion of the Jewish race,” and that ;he accused were ‘‘bound by Ger man law to do their duty.” “Whenever there is a conflict letween international and domes ic law, it is the duty of a citizen o obey the law of his country,” le added. He argued there was 10 breach of international law and io war crimes because “we are lealing here with an incident vhich has no logical connection vith the war at all.” Smith acknowledged the de 'enise was asking the Military Hourt trying the guards “to take t very difficult and unpopular lecision, in view of what we all :eel about concentration camps c x x but if you take a longer new of it I feel certain the deci ;ion of this court to uphlod the aw as it governs at the time if the act will be one to go down n history as an act of courageous ipholding of the dignity of the aw. x x x.” Twelve defending officers will legin their individual summing ip of evidence tomorrow, head id by Maj. Claude Winwood, rep resenting Josef Kramer, the chiel iefendant, and Dr. Fritz Klein. DIVISION HONORED AUXERRE, France, Nov. 7.—UP) —The U. S. 101st Airborne Division, vhich fought off the German en lirclement in the Bastogne Bulge jntil relieved last January, was lecorated with the Belgian Croix ie Guerre today. BEVIN, CHURCHILL ATTACK RUSSIA By BRUCE W. MUNN United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Nov. 7. — Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and Win ston Churchill, leader of the Con servative opposition, joined in an attack on Russia today in a full dress debate in the House of Com mons. They aligned Britain even closer with the United States in foreign policy and defended Am erican secrecy regarding the atom bomb. Bevin called Russian policy “suspicious” and expressed re sentment over Moscow statements of' It. Bevin said that Britain and the United States had accepted al most every territofial demand Russia had made. Then, refer ring to Russia’s new demands for a sphere of influence in the Medi terranean on Britain’s lifetime to, the Far East, he said: ‘‘You can not help our being a little suspicious if a great power wants to right across the throat of the British Common wealth, which has done no harm to anybody but fight this war.” 1 Both Bevin and Churchill show ed the closest coordination of British foreign policy despite La bor-Conservative deferences on domestic affairs. Accepting fully the 12-point foreign policy which President Truman outlined in his Navy Day \ speech Oct. 27 Bevin and Church ill said in almost identical words 1 that had he made it, as President, before 1914 and before 1939 the two world wars might have been avoided. Churchill, a leading and bitter foe of Communism before the war threw Britain and Russia togeth- ! er, forcefully demanded that Brit ain aid the United States in keep ing the atomic bomb a close secret and urged the government to provide for a supply of bombs for storage in the British Isles against an emergency. Churchill said that if the Unit fUntitinned nn Pare Five: Col. 7) Million Soviet Citizens Celebrate Revolution MOSCOW, Nov. 7. — UP) — The mighty Red Army and Soviet workers perhaps 1,000,000 strong paraded through Red Square ih a mammoth celebration of the Red Revolution today, but Generalissi mo Stalin—hailed as the artisan of victory by cheering thousands — was unexpla.'nedly not here. In Stalin’s place on the review ing stand, dusted by snow, was Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav M. Molotov. It was the first time in any Mus covite’s memory that Stalin, who has been vacationing in the south, bad missed this important celebra tion of the anniversary of the 1917 Socialist revolution. No explana tion was offered officially. But Stalin was honored in his absence by a 21-gun salute, thund erous cheers and bands when Gen. Alexei Antonov, Red Army chief Df staff, shouted, “long live our commander-in-chief, Generalissimo of the Soviet Union Stalin!” Orders of the day from Army and Navy chieftains called on Rus sian soldiers and sailors to tcon tinue their training to guard against the “giddiness of success,” and to work for friendship. Atop Lenin’s tomb with Molotov [Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) t K — Arab Crowds Loot Libyan Port City CASUALTIES HEAVY Two-Days Disorders Revive Anti-Zionist Demon strations By WALTER COLLINS United Press Staff Correspondent CAIRO, Nov. 7. — At least 74 Jews were killed and 183 injures ii Tripoli during violent anti Zionist demonstrations, blamed on irresponsible” Arab elements who looted and burned the Jewish quarter of the big western Lib yan port city, the British Ministry of Information said today. The riots began Sunday night, two days after the disorders in Egypt, and total casualties through Tuesday night were an nounced as: one Arab and 74 Jews killed; 183 Jews and 36 Arabs injured and two Italians injured. An undisclosed additional num inflicted during rioting in other inflicted uring rioting in other 'parts of Tripolitania, the western province of Libya across which some of the fiercest 'fighting ol World War II had swirled. Riot ing was reported in Cussarat and Zliten in eastern Tripolitania and Zanzur and Zavia west of Tri poli, capital of the province. The outbreak in Tripoli increas ed tension in the Middle East. British troops, who have been garrisoning the former Italian stronghold since its capture on Jan. 24, 1943, arrested a number of Arabs and, along with police, were under orders to shoot all looters and fire, if necessary, to disperse groups of more than five persons. Dispatches from Jerusalem said the British were building up their strength in Palestine as a pre caution against further trouble. The Jewish underground radio continued broadcasting anti-Brit ish propaganda. The Egyptian Premier, Mahmour Fahmy Nokrashy Pasha, in an ex clusive interview, said all persons involved in the week-end riots in Cairo and Alexandria, would be tried and punished. Ten persons were killed and more than 750 in jured in the Egyptian riots which (Continued on Page Five; Col. 4) CAPITAL THRONGS RIDE CARS AGAIN WASHINGTON, Nov. 7—(A>)— Washington’s homeward bound throngs found bus and street car service partly restored tonight after 4,000 Capital Transit Com pany employes voted to end their walkout. The carriers, completely idle for more than 30 hours, began lumbering back into operation be fore midafternoon under a back to-work agreement that provides a 14-day trirce for negotiation of union demands for a 30 cents an hour pay increase. Company officials said it would take several hours to restore full serveie. The agreement called for im mediate return to the status quo of Monday, prior to the AFL Amalgamated Street Railway Union’s dawn decision to stay in “continuous meeting” and leave their buses and trolleys unman ned. Speakers made it clear at a union rally that failure *o reach accord within the next fortnight might prompt another vote on whether to walk out again. The truce came after interven t on by Rep. Jennings Randolph (D-W. Va.,) who as chairman oi the House District of Columbia committee is Washington’s unof ficial “mayor.” Randolph also met with offi cials of two taxicab unions which had threatened to join the transit workers walkout, and announced he had gained from them a com mitment not to strike at this time. At the meeting of bus and car drivers, union leaders pleaded for approval of the back-to-work oact. There was opp<->. itior at first, but local president Wil liam F. Simms and his negotiat ing committee told the meeting that Army intervention was im minent if the stoppage continued* i f
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