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lACARtHUR ORDER
TERMED ILLEGAL
Counsel For Yamashita
Says General Takes Law
Into Own Hands
MANILA, Nov. 23—(U.R)—Lt. Col.
Walter C. Hendrix. Atlanta, Ga..
defense counsel for Japanese Gen.
Tomoyuki Yamashita. told the
Philippines Supreme Court today
that Gen. Douglas MacArthur had
Issued illegal orders in connection
with the war crimes case against
Yamashita and that the Com
mission running the trial has
“violated every law in the world.”
Hendrix, seeking a writ of habeas
corpus for Yamashita, said the
defense was told that orders from
“higher up” said Yamashita was
to be executed immediately if
convicted.
we comend mat MacArthur has
taken over the law into his own
hands, disregarding the laws of the
United States and of the Constitu
tion, and that he does not have the
authority from Congress and the
President,” Hendrix argued be
fore the nine black-robed justices.
"He is a great soldier and Gene
ral. but not a great lawyer. Orders
from MacArthur regarding the case
are illegal.’’
Hendrix then criticized the con
ol the trail by the Commission,
asserting that its members “have
made MacArthur’s orders law.
"The Commission are not law
yers and justices such as you and
T J'et they are trying one of the
greatest cases,” Hendrix said.
"Reynolds (Maj. Gen. R. B. Rey
nolds. Dundee- Mich., President of
h'e Commission) is trying to do a
food job. but if you would hear
•he decisions of the court, you
would be shocked and amazed.”
HINSON SUSPENDED
By COMMISSION FOR
BALANCE OF YEAR
Tne City Civil Service Commis
sion. meeting last night at the city
•handed down a decision sus
pending police patrolman C. J.
Jison until January 1, 1946 without
Hmson appeared before the Com
r.1Sslon for a hearing following
ecommendations by Chief of Po
SijH' Casteen that he be dis
tH-n fl?m tlle dePartment for
», °l!egcd beating of Hosea Russ,
nesrt^v" white man, on Wed
"esday, Nov. 14.
w-!.0linC® reP°rts showed that Russ
corner ac*d lmder arrest at the
st,.e5 °f Second and Market
■p ,s shortly after 10 p.m.
and ...„ ■ icaibieu arrest
Wa; Jis struck by the officer. He
mo-4Ct ed 8t James Walker Me
ChTof p0spital for head injuries.
>na?teen suspended Hinson,
missaj pay> and recommend dis
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Harmai’™™ °0: Minimum 33; Mean 42;
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Pm 47.'; 7:30 a-m- I®: 1:30 p.m. 29;
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inched0 lile first °f the month—
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River St’^a °?Set 11:51 a-m.
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iN,ov- 23, (no report)
Calcutta Mobs Isolate U. S. General Hospital;
Beime To Call Nation- Wide Telephone Strike;
Communists Ffffiapture Central China Key City
nationalist
Army Admits
Bad Reverse
MAKES LARGE GAIN
Soviet Marshall Urges Gov
ernment To Resume
Negotiations
By SPENCER MOOSA
AP Staff Correspondent
CHUNGKING, Nov. 23— (#) —
The Chinese Communists have re
captured the highway town of
Tsaoyang in Central China, 145
miles northwest of Hankow, the
Nationalist government acknow
ledged today as the civil conflict
developed a new crop or uncon
firmed reports on the maneuver
ing for possession of Manchuria.
The Communists themselves of
ficially claimed capture of Tingh
sien, 125 miles south of Peiping
on the Peiping-Hankow railway,
and Yencheng, big town near the
seacoast 120 miles northeast of
Nanking and 160 miles northwest
of Shanghai.
(A smaller town also named Yen
cheng is situated on the Peiping
Hankow railway in a zone where
the Nationalists have said the
Communists were operating.)
A usually reliable source here
reported that Soviet Marshal Ro
dion Y. Malinovsky, commander
of the Transbaikal front, had ask
ed Chinese Nationalist officials to
return to Changchun, the Man
churian capital, and resume nego
tiations with him. The National
ists fled the city one week ago
lest the expected Russian with
drawal leave them at the mercy of
the Communists.
The Russians have not yet pull
ed out, but Chungking newspapers
alleged that Chinese Communists
already were in Changchun in
strength. A few Nationalist offi
cials still were in Changchun but
presumably were prepared to leave
with the Russians as a safety mea
sure.
Chungkin’s welter of rumors in
cluded a recurrent one that the
Russians and Chinese Communists
in Manchuria were disappointed
in each other.
AIR SERVICE HERE
MAY START DEC. 1
Simultaneously with an an
nouncement by George Baker,
president of National Air Lines
that he expected approval by the
Civil Aeronautics Authority of a
request to commence operations
in and out of Wilmington on De
cember 1, W. R. Dosher, Wilming
ton Postmaster revealed that he
has been advised to make ready to
begin air mail service.
While Dosher’s communication
from the Post Office department
in Washington set the date at De
cember 10, it is believed that ar
rangements for service, if approv
ed by the C.A.A. would be made
to coincide by the department
with the date of the initial flight of
the air line.
Approval of a route is expected
momentarily, George Baker, presi
dent of National Air Lines inform
ed the News by telephone yester
day from Jacksonville, Fla. The
original flight route selected by the
company and approved by the
CAA was later disapproved by
the air authority, Baker said, re
ferring to .test flights made here
and at other points along the pro
posed route two weeks age.
He said his company had not
been advised to the reason for the
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 5)
Thanksgiving Bad Day
For McQuenney Fami
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.,
23.—(fP)— Thanksgiving Day in
Tulsa was bad for the McQuen
neys of Chicago.
J. H. McQuenney, father of
Pat, who played in the back
field for Akansas University,
left Mayo Clinic in Rochester,
Minn., to see the game.
But he only got to see part of
it. On his way to the stadium
from the hotel a door was slam
med on his finger, cutting off
part of it. He went to a hospital
but got back for the third quar
ter.
Arkansas was defeated 45 to
13.
McQuenney saw an injured
Arkansas player taken off the
field. It was his son, Pat, who
had a broken nose.
200 STARVED JAPS
RAID U. S. STORES
Warehouse At Sendai
Broken Open, Food and
Supplies Seized
TOKYO, Nov. 23. —<A>)— More
than 200 famished Japanese broke
into an American Army warehouse
today at Senlai, within 200 miles
of Tokyo, and seized food and oth
er stores. Sendai police reported.
The police said they arrested
180 persons, including 94 women.
No other details were available
on the outbreak, which was the
first to be reported involving Am
erican supplies, although there
have been similar raids on Jap
anese stores in the northern island
of Hokkaido.
While the food riot was in pro
gress in Sendai, Gen. Kuniaki Koi
so, one of Japan’s wartime pre
miers, surrendered at Sugamo pri
son to American occupation au
thorities who had placed him on
the “wanted” list of war criminal
suspects. *
The grayclad 65-year-old Koiso,
leaning on a heavy cane and fing
ering a close-cropped mustache,
told correspondents, “we believe
in our innocence.”
1944 to April, 1945, resigning as a
result of the American invasion
of Okinawa. He said that actual
ly, he knew the war was lost when
he took office at the time Saipan
fell but that he had hoped to re
capture that island when the Phil
ippines campaign was in progress.
Koiso said that as premier he
made a vain effort through China
to negotiate peace. He did not
elaborate.
Another member of the wanted
fraternity, former Foreign Minister
Yosuke Matsuoka, also talked
peace today.
In a statement issued from his
mountain home near Aisome vil
lage, Matsuoka contended that he
had planned to go to Washington
to seek a neutrality treaty with the
United States in 1941 but was un
able o do so because of illness.
The latest name on the wanted
list, was that of Col. Tadashi Ka
washima, formerly with the Japa
nese Sixth Army headquarters in
Hankow, China. The Japanese gov
ernment was ordered today to de
liver him to jaii.
Sugamo and Omori prisons now
house 250 Japanese and 41 non
Japanese war criminal suspects.
WILL TOUR U. S.
CHARLOTTE. Nov. 23— (tf>) —
Thomas A. Warren, British Presi
dent of Rotary International now
touring principal American cities,
will address a ladies night gather
ing of the Charlotte Rotary tonight.
Accompanied by his wife, Warren
was scheduled to arrive here from
I Greensboro, where he spoke last
I night. _
“That Girl” Pyle Dies
Mourning Death Of Ernie
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Nov. a
—(U.R)—Mrs. Geraldine Pyle, “that
girl’’ Ernie wrote about, died to
day in an hospital not far from
that little clapboard cottage where
she and her famous correspondent
lived.
Mrs. Pyle, 45, died seven months
after Ernie was killed on Ie Shima
by Japanese sniper bullets.
She was taken to St. Joseph’s
hospital ori Wednesday with acute
uremic poisoning after a prolong
ed illness. She never rallied, anc
died at 7:30 a.m. this morning
Mrs. Pyle was the former Ger
aldine Siebolds of Stillwater, Minn
bne met XT^AC All nnomu61,v.i) —•
C„ when he was managing editor
of the Washington News. They were
married July 7, 1925.
“That girl” was at Ernie’s side
when he tired of desk work and
set out to see the country by auto
mobile as a columnist for Scripps
Howard. They wandered together
over 150,000 miles of the western
hemisphere. In his columns, Ernie
always called her “that girl who
rides beside me.”
Before war came the Pyles had
covered Canada, all of the United
States, Hawaii and South Ameri
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filtration
"Meet Fails
At Chicago
OFFER REJECTED
Union President Says Illi
nois Firm Refused Com
promise Offer
By BARBARA SMITH
United Press Staff Correspondent
CHICAGO, Nov- 23.—(U.R)—Joseph
A. Beirne, president of the Na
tional Federation of Telephone
Workers, said tonight he was pre
paring to set into motion “ma
chinery for calling a nation-wide
strike of telephone operators and
other workers.”
Beirne said the Illinois Bell
Telephone Co. had repected a
union offer to compromise a wage
dispute which has led to a strike
of 3,700 long lines operators in
Ilinois and in two northen Indiana
counties. As the fifth conciliation
meeting called by the U. S. con
ciliation service broke up in a
deadlock, Beirne said:
“We will now take the necessary
steps to set up nation-wide ma
chinery for ordering telephone
workers out.”
He said he was telegraphing
Secretary of Labor Lewis B.
Schwellenbacn to intervene in an
effort to reach a solution. He said
the company had offered no coun
terproposal and had rejected the
union’s offer to accept a $4 a
week increase retroactive to May
9 and an additional $2 more begin
ning immediatey.
The Illinois Telephone Traffic
Union, an affiliate of the NFTW,
struck five days ago in dissatis
faction with a War Labor Board
5rder granting long distance op
erators $4 more per week. The op
erators had demanded $6 more.
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 1)
HULL HAD NO HINT
OF HARBOR ATTACK
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—(JP)—
Former Secretary of State Hull
said today that the possibility the
Japanese would attack Pearl Har
bor had not occurred to him in
the critical last days of diplomatic
negotiations in 1941.
With a black top coat thrown
round his shoulders, Hull sat be
fore a Senate-House committee in
vestigating the naval disaster and
told members that never once
during the final months of negotia
tions had he received any hint that
Pearl Harbor would be assaulted.
Hull said that although he had
warned the lat° President Roose
velt and others that the Japanese
might strike anytime, any place,
American military attention pri
marily was directed toward the
Southwest Pacific.
The committee earlier in the day
received copies of a Nov. 27, 1941
memorandum in which Gen.
George C. Marshall, Army chief
of staff, and Admiral Harold R.
Stark, chief of Naval operations,
had suggested to Mr. Roosevelt
six possible points of Japanese at
tack without mentioning Hawaii.
Under questioning of committee
counsel, Hull said that late in 1941
American officials were receiving
almost constant messages that the
Japanese were moving men and
ships to the lower end of Indo
china.
“We knew that was the jumping
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Lindsay Warren May
Be Candidate In 1948
RALEIGH, Nov. 23—(ff)—Lind
say Warren, Comptroller General
of the United States, said here
today it was “to early” to say
whether he would be a candidate
for Governor in 1948, but his close
friends said they believed he was
I seriously considering running.
Warren was in Raleigh on a brief
vacation and planned to attend
the Duke-North Carolina football
game tomorrow.
His name has been prominently
connected in recent weeks with
the next gubernatorial election. He
is a resident of Washington, N.
[ C., and a former congressman.
. The next Governor, according to
tradition of the Democratic par
ty, will come from the east.
-— _
Ford Officials Open Negotiations With Union
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Officials of the Ford Motor Company are shown as they opened negotiations with members of
the UAW-CIO in Detroit to discuss wage changes in their contract. The negotiators are (1. to r.>; Jo
seph Eccles, Edgewater, N. J., chairman of the Ford negotiating committee, UAW; Richard T. Leon
ard, national CIO Ford director; John S. Bugas, Director of Industrial Relations, Ford Motors; and
Mel B. Lindquist, Director of Labor Relations, Ford Motors. The union is asking a 30 percent wage
increase. (International Soundphoto).
General Motors Rejects Proposal '
Of Union To Arbitrate Wage Scale
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Food Rationing Ended
With Fats Supply Short
BRITISH ADVANCE
NEAR SOERABAJA
Sherman Tanks Blast
2,000-Yard Pathway
Toward Naval Base
BATAVIA, Java, Nov. 23—(JPh
British Sherman tanks wheeling
into action for the first time blast
ed out 2,000-yard gains in Soer
abaja today, while a British re
lief force fought bloody engage
ments enroute to Ambarawa where
16 civilians were reported killed
by Indonesian attacks.
Indonesian resistance melted be
fore the tremendous fire power
of the Shermans, and by nightfall
Indian troops held two-thirds of
Soerabaja in the swiftest advance
yet scored in the drive to occupy
entirely the great port city.
The British made the gains with
out a single reported casualty,
while at least 40 Indonesians were
killed or wounded. The British
captured the Hotel Oranje on tne
city’s northern limits and the
wealthy Simpang residential area,
and were battling tonight for addi
I tional hostelries.
Lt. Gen. Sir Miles C. Dempsey,
commander of Allied land forces
in the Southeast Asia Command,
and M. E. Denning. SEAC’s .poli
tical advisor, visited the Soeraba
ja battle area for the first time
and commented favorably on the
military progress.
Bitter fighting raged elsewhere,
particularly along the 25-mile road
from Semarang to Ambarawa,
where the Dutch news agency Ane
ta said 16 persons, mostly women
and children, were killed last night
in attacks upon a civilian intern
(Continued on Page Seven; Col. 8)
STAR-NEWS COMPANY
GRANTED FREQUENCY
MODULATION PERMIT
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23— (ff) —
The Federal Communications Com
mission today announced 45 con
ditional grants for frequency modu
lation (FM) radio stations.
This brings the number of con
ditional grants to 174, leaving o22
applications pending.
The effect °f tnese grants is
to announce that the Commission
has examined the qualifications of
the applicants and has made avail
able a channel for each. The Com
mission now will examine each ap
plication for its engineering data
This permits each of the 45 ap
plicants to proceed with prelimi
nary plans for obtaining equip
ment.
The list, by state, city, applicant,
interest in standard station, if any,
and type of FM station included:
North Carolina
Wilmington, Wilmington Star
News Co.,—Metropolitan.
South Carolina
Greenwood, Grenco, Inc., WCRS.
Metropolitan.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—(U.R)—
Housewives, restaurants and oth
er ration beleagured souls heaved
a collective sigh of relief through
aut the nation today as the gov
ernment announced the end of all
food rationing, excepting sugar,
effective at midnight.
Red point no longer will be re
quired for beef, pork, veal, mut
ton, canned fish, butter, lard .short
ening, margarine or related o.ils.
Sugar rationing will cotninue in
definitely.
The announcement was made by
Secretary of Agriculture Clinton
P. Anderson with the concurrence
of Price Administrator Chester
Bowles.
OPA immediately said that red
ration tokens may be placed among
wartime mementos but warned
consumers to hang onto Ration
Book No. 4 to cover sugar pur
chases.
The order gave a new lease on
life to thousands of restaurants
which have been banned from
serving meat and butter because
of ration violations. OPA an
nounced that these privileges are
automatically reinstated. But
criminal prosecutions already un
derway or scheduled will be car
ried out.
Anderson said that only reason
rationing on butter, fats and oils
s being ended is that a con
tinuation “would require a com
pletely new rationing system,”
with the re-registration of 500,
000 industrial users and the pos
sible issuance of new civilian ra
tion books.
Those items remain in very
short suppy. During January, Feb
bruary and March the suppy will
be 10 per cent smaller than pre
war. Grocers will be asked to
adopt their own ration system for
butter and shortening. A public
buying spree is believed likely.
Anderson emphasized that the
lifting of ration controls will not
affect plans for shipping meat and
fats to liberated areas.
“We intend to carry out the
President’s promise to ship the
maximum amount of food to help
relieve distress and prevent star
vation in devastated countries,”
he said.
Truman Approves Plan
For Conferences
At Capital
By The Associated Press
General Motors Corporation last
night rejected a union arbitration
proposal and plans were made,
with President Truman’s approval,
for conferences in Washington in
an attempt to settle the G-M strike.
The Corporation announced in
Detroit, shortly after Labor Sec
retary Schwellenbach disclosed
plans for the Washington confer
ences, that it had rejected not
only the CIO United Automobile
Workers’ proposal for arbitration
of the union’s demand for a 30
per cent wage increase, but also
had withdrawn a previous offer
of a 10 per cent wage boost.
The company statement declar
ed that “stripped of its decep
tion” the union proposal called on
General Motors to “relinquish the
right to manage its business” and
that “Generals Motors, of course,
rejects such a demand.”
Schwellenbach announced Gen
eral Motors and union represen
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HUNGARIAN COURT
CONDEMNS IMREDY
TO HANG BY NECK
BUDAPEST, Nov. 23.-UP)—Bela
Imredy, former premier of Hun
gary, was sentenced today to be
hanged for treason.
Imredy immediately appealed
the death sentence to the National
Council of People’s Courts.
As a minister in the Fascist
Sztojay cabinet, Imredy was found
responsible in part for severe anti
Semitic policies which resulted in
the death of several hundred thou
sand Jews. He was convicted in
a 10-day trial of high treason for
his part in forcing regent Horthy
to carry out Hitler’s demands for
resistance to the Russian armies.
Imredy was premier in 1938-39.
Imredy, internationally-known in
financial circles, was accused of
sacrificing his country for per
sonal ambitions. Among the pro
secution witnesses was SS Gen
eral Winckelmann.
Laszlo Bardossy, onetime pre
mier and foreign minister, was
sentenced to death ' in Hungary’s
first war crimes trial earlier this
month.
Episcopal Bishop Bans
Roosevelt As Vestryman
NEW YORK, Nov. 23— (ff) —
Bishop William T. Manning said
tonight Brig. Gen. Elliott Roose
velt was not good standing in
the Episcopal Church and was in
eligible to serve as a vestryman
in the family church at Hyde
Park.
Roosevelt was named Nov. 13 to
the board of St. James Church, of
which his father, the late Frank
lin D. Roosevelt, was Senior War
den.
The Episcopal Bishop of New
York issued a statement from his
home saying:
“I have officially notified the
*
vestry of St. James Church, Hyde
Park, that General Elliott Roose
velt is not in good standing in
the church and therefore is not
eligible for the office of vestry
man and cannot serve in that
office.”
The bishop declined to say why
Roosevelt was not in good stand
ing and refused to elaborate on
his statement.
In Poughkeepsie, Edmund P.
Rogers, named Senior Warden to
succeed the late President, said
he had received no official notice
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 4)
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Big Grenade
Kills Major,
3 Army Men
30 OTHERS STONED
Rioters Cut Water Supply
To New Infirmary; Bomb
Rocks Dance Hall
By ROBERT GLURMAN
UP Staff Correspondent
CALCUTTA, Nov. 23 — (U.R) — A
rioting Indian mob today isolated
a. S. Army General Hospital 142
and cut off its water supply after
an American major and three en
listed men were killed by a hand
grenade and 30 other Americans
were beaten and stoned in wild
demonstrations continuing
unabated for the third day.
Some of the injured Americans
were in serious condition.
The hosiptal — only general hos
pital in this area — had been
without water all day except for
a limited supply brought in by
jeep. Road blocks isolated the hos
pital as the sprawling city was
torn by riots.
U . r\L my UiUtiaio wau
yet decided what action to take
but feared that if an emergency
developed in the hospital it might
be necessary to smash through
with armored cars.
Indian demonstrators attacked
the Americans at a Thanksgiving
dance at the American Officers’
Club at the Karnani estates,
throwing a hand grenade and
bricks at the Thanksgiving cele
brants.
Women guests at the dance, in
cluding dozens of nurses from the
Calcutta Base hospital, were ma
rooned in the club house.
At least 15 American vehicles
were burned and destroyed.
An American ambulance was
found overturned and burning and
the driver was reported missing.
One of the seriously injured
Americans included a Lieutenant
who was hauled out of his com
mand car while en route to a hos
pital and severely beaten. He suf
fered a skull fracture- Another of
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BANDSMEN GUILTY
ON “WEED” COUNT
SHREVEPORT, La., Nov. 23.—
CU.R)—An Army court martial found
four members of the Barksdale
Field band guilty of possessing and
using Marijuana cigarets which the
! musicians claimed they smoked to
■ give them “rhythm’’, it was dis
closed today.
The men were sentenced to six
months in the guard house.
Officers said the men admitted a
part in a ring extending from
Barksdale Field into Oklahoma,
Washington, D. C., and New York
City. They said a fifth man whose
identify was not disclosed was be
ing held on similar charges in
Washington.
Three of the men here said iney
had used the weed before entering
the Army, authorities said, claim
ing that use of the narcotic gave
them “better rhythm and enabled
us to play hot swing music.
The four were listed as Pvt.
William F. Walters, Sgt. William
R. Grace, Pvt. Irving Heard and
Sgt. Veryl W. Scott. Home ad
dresses were not given. The wife
of one of them was also arrested
and questioned but later released.
The Provost Marshal of Barks
dale, Maj. H. C. West, and Detec
tive Captain E. G Huckabay seis
ed about 100 rolled cigarets and
enough weed to make 500 more.
Additional caches were found in
other parts of the barracks and in
a rooming house here.
i