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FORECAST ~1 \\f\f ♦ 4 + / * rff\t * ^ Served By Leased Wire. mmm jWtltttUUuOtt fWnttttttfl S$te “tSf. — ———————_ State and National News •voTt^NoT 15. WILMINGTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1945 -ESTABLISHED 1867 NLRB Rushes Strike Vote Preparation 2,000,000 INVOLVED Violence Breaks Out At Montgomery Ward Store In Kansas City THTfAGO Nov. 27 - (U.R) The CHIC'V Labor Relations Board ' NaT, rushed plans for strike tofch mong almost 2,000,000 work; VOtt New Year's Day as the CIO itself for a long, bitter war f'rgain its 30 per cent pay boost °be automotive and steel m dUTofofficials of the CIO United Automobile Workers will confer to ZZ with Secretary of Labor tpwRB Schwellenbach and ;iis conciliation aides in connection CT the nation-wide General Motors strike. Meanwhile, more ihan 40.000 Ford Motor Co. work s were receiving notices of lay „.fS as the company prepared to close its giant River Rogue and otter plants because strikes had caused a shortage in parts receiv ed from other companies The Ford lavoffs would hike the number of strike-idled workers throughout the nation to approxi mately 517,000. Ballot boxes weie uuug ^ in 27 states as the NLRB prepared t0 poll almost 700.000 members of tl,e CIO United Steelworkers of America employed by 766 com panies on whether they wished to strike if necessary to back the unions demands for $2-a-day wage boosts. The strike vote tomorrow will be the biggest in the history of organized American labor. The steelworkers filed the strike vote petitions Oct. 29 after U. S. Steel Corp. and other companies re jected their pay demands. Other labor development* in cluded: 1. Violence broke out in Kansas City, Mo., as women employes at tempted to break through mass picket lines set up before the Mont gomery Ward & Co. store. Cloth ing was torn from several women but no injuries were reported. Two CIO members were arrested and later released. The United Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Employes (CIO) claimed the strike, which started yesterday and was to last a week, was 80 to 90 per cent effective. Company offi cials said 92 per cent of the em ployes in the 12 cities where the strike was called were on the job. 2. Optimism increased' that the two-munth strike of Pacific north west AFL lumber workers might end. In Tacoma, Was., 25 locals accepted a compromise wage settlement and all unions involved were urged by union officials to approve the agreement. 3. More than 18,000 CIO workers (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) STEEL WORKERS WILL VOTE TODAY PITTSBURGH. Nov. 27— OP) — Steel mill workers throughout the nation tomorrow will vote to de cide whether a stijjke is favored to enforce demands for a $2 a day "'age increase. . The CIO-United Steel Workers of •'menca estimated about 650,000 "’oncers will be eligible to vote, the hnion emphasized the bal oting does not necessarily mean a strike will follow. Tnion representatives were told e purp. ^f vote is to reg ■s er the feeling of the industry’s mploycj regarding a possible , 1 but whether or not such a • n e "itt be called remains sub • ,c to the future decision of the ernational wage policy commit 's. the executive board and the oternational officers. -onorrow’s poll will be the larg st strike vote yet conducted by the t7 onal Labor Relations Board. A ai of 766 plants are affected, in r^Uls of "B‘g Steel,” inrl ‘e j ee1, ant^ scores of small Ssr‘ffar°rie3; ais° iar^e ^reiatedprotu”’ ^ weather" I (Eastern Standard Time) MeteriL,!' ■ b- Weather Bureau) tttdirg °I°ng,Eal data £°r the 24 hour. u P-ni. p.m. yesterday. i. -in „ Temperatures !8; 7:3« p!mM57.1:3° a m’ 45: 1:30 pm’ NwmauT 6!’ Minbnum 44; Mean 51; j. hn Humidity a’m’ 89; 1:30 p-m’ Total for 000 inches h' urs end>ng 7:30 p.m.— 2,37 inches.05 the £irst o£ lbe month— (From r'ies F°r Today l'. S- Coaef ard erT^les pubUshed bM and Geodetic Survey). "hmlngtort ,.“,gh Low , a-m' 11:55 a.m. 'kwnboro Inlet pm' °-00 P-m mret . 3:07 a.m. 8:08 a.m. , Sunrise c-w- - 3:19 Pm. 8:45 p.n^ ^ a.m -T ' Sunset 5:03; Moonrise Kive: s’, i onset 2:07 p.m. 5 ara. Tiles’!5/1.Jnyotteville, N. C. at !f;’; °nday’ 10-7 t'1Ue<1 on Pase Two; Col. 3) Nazi Killer Climbs To His Doom convicted and sentenced to hang with four other Germans for the murder of six U. S. fliers, Johannes Seipel (arrow) approaches his end on the scaffold at Bruchsal, Germany, where the five werS executed. At left (facing camera, hands in pocket) is the hangman, Sgt. John C. Wood of San Antonio, rf"ex., who has 92 hangings on his card-_■_(International) “Sharon Valley Battle” Brings Irate Jew Charge ■■■— —- • -w CHURCHILL FIRES ON LABOR CABINET Demands Censure By Com mons Of Attlee Party Government LONDON, Nov. 27—f/P)—Winston Churchill tonight launched the Con servative party’s first major offen sive against Britains Labor gov ernment with a demand that Com mons censure the cabinet for "ne glecting” major national problems in favor of Socialist projects. Churchill submitted to the house a broadly-phrased ce :sure motion accusing Prime Minister Attlee and his government (5f failing to deal effectively with reco /ersion, de mobilization and housing because of "pre-occupation” with long-term plans to nationalize industries. The motion—which, if approved, could lead to the resignation of t’._2 Labor government—was almost certainly foredoomed because of la bor’s overwhelming voting majori ty. It will serve, however, to pro voke a full-dress debate on the whole range of Britain’s postwar plans. Churchill, in the role of leader of “His Majesty’s loyal opposition,” offered the motion without com ment. He was expected to open an oral assault on the Attlee regime to 'orrow in a speech before the Central Council of Conservative As sociations, the Conservative party organization. The government, Laborite sourc es said, will set aside parliamen tary time next week or debate on the motion of censure, which was (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) All Federal Employes Get Four-Day Holiday WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. —f J.R)— Federal employes will have four days off at Christmas and a three day holiday at New Year’s. A memorandum to this effect was sent to all department and agency heads tonight by R. R. Zimmerman, administrative assis tant to the president. For the work weeks beginning Dec. 24 and Dec. 31, the working days will be Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Affected in Wilmington will be employes at the offices of the U, S. Engineers, U. S. District Attorney, Collector of Customs, civilian workers in the Port Directors of •fice, Customshouse building em ployes Postal Workers and civilian employes of other Federal agen cies in the Post Office and the Customshouse. Leaders Say British Acted Without Any Restraint By ELIAV SIMON United Press Staff Correspondent JERUSALEM Nov. 27—(U.R)—'The Jewish press angrily charged to day that British troops acted with out reason or restraint in Mon day’s “Battle of The Sharon Val ley.” British sources said the fighting incl ded a battle with "10 armed Jews who disregarded a demand to halt their march down the val ley. Speakers at funerals for the Jews killed in the fighting pledged that the Tewish community will con tinue to support illegal immigra tion into Palestine. The funerals were without incident. Official British sources denied that the “Battle of The Sharon Val ley” resulted from troops search ing for illegal immigrants. They said troops originally surrounded the v alley villages to • seek out saboteurs who blew up two Coast Guard stations Sunday in the Tel Aviv district. The clash, it was said, came aft er air reconnaissance showed a party of some 500 ar: ,ed Jews advancing down the Sharon Valley from the north, headed by a man on horseback. The British commander advanc ed to meet the Jewish band and asked the men to halt. He repeated the command four times, but the advance continued and broke the troops’ ranks, it was said. The commander then ordered his men to fire at the mounted leader. About that time, members of the Jewish band opened fire with au tomatic ■ -eapons and rifles, it was charged. British troops returned the fire, killing six and wounding luonunirea on rage iwo; uoi. a; policeInvestigate PHONE WIRE CUTTING IN BUSINESS BLOCKS Following a report by Frank Lucas of Southern Bell telephone company yesterday, city police are investigating the cutting of telephone wires in the downtown section in which 12 wires were cut during the past two days. Lucas told police someone had gone in alleys back of business places and cut telephone wires sometime Monday night. Four wires back of the Willett’s build ing on Princess street were cut out of service and four wires were putting several business phones cut back of 120 South Front street, police that between 10 a. m. and Yesterday it was reported to 1 p. it), four wires were cut in the alley back of Baxter’s pool room on Market street. Telegraphers Take Time Out To Attend Meeting NEW YORK, Nov. 27. — Iff)— A spokesman for the Western Union Telegraph company said tonight that “probably between 200 and 300” men in New York city had left their jobs at 8 p. m. to attend a meeting called by the American Communications Association (CIO). The spokesman said the immedi ate result of the walkout was to hold up all but urgent messages. He said transmission of ordinary telegrams would be held up until later in the night when the men were expected'to return to work. Emergency messages, the spokes man said, were being handled by ..— the supervisory staff. An official strike vote among the company employes in the New York and Newark, N. J., areas has been scheduled for Thursday by the National Labor Relations Board. A union official said to night’s meeting was designated to sound out" members on how the balloting would go. The company has appealed a regional War Labor Board direc tive granting 10-15 cent an hour wage increases to the employes. The union has demanded immedi ate payment of the increases by the company. Armed Crowds Drive On Tehran: U. S. Planes Fly To North China; British Lash Indonesian Camps —-- —-!_+ _L Thunderbolt Ships Strafe Enemy Cars INTERNEES ATTACKED Nationalists, Spearheaded By Tanks, Drive Indians Backward By RALPH MORTON AP Staff Correspondent BATAVIA, Java, Nov. 27.—(<P)— The Indonesian national commit tee voted confidence in Premier Sutan. Sjahrir’s government to day as British ground, sea and air weapons lashed at Indonesian forces and fighting intensified around the civilian internment center at Ambarawa in central Java. Four British Thunderbolt fight ers strafed Indonesian vehicles and columns at Ambarawa after reinforced Nationalists attacked a camp quartering 10,000 former Internees, including women and children, the Dutch news age*;y Aneta said. The assault forced back Allied and Japanese troops defending the camp, it added. Guns of a British destroyer standing off Semarang shelled the town of Oenganan, midway be tween Semarang and Ambarawa. Hundreds of British sailors were landed from HMS Sussex to patrol in Semarang. Indonesian reinforcements were reported marching toward Amar awa, and toward Soerabaja, where Nationalists in an attack spear headed by a small tank of Japa nese make forced British Indian troops to withdraw in one for ward sector of the naval base city. British officers said they were mopping up in Darmo, last un occupied residential suburb of Soerabaja and that other objec tives had been taken, some with little opposition. Four RAF planes bearing rock (Continued on Page Five; Col. 4) KEENAGAINWINS MONTGOMERY CUP Walter Keen, Atlantic Coast Line employe, was the recipient of the Montgomery Achievement Award for the second consecutive year at the “Boss Night” banquet of the Senior Fraternity at the Boys Brigade clubhouse last night. The award, which is given to the outstanding member of the fra ternity each year, has been award ed since 1939. Keen is the> first member to receive the award two consecutive years. The presenta tion was made by Harry W. Solo mon, chairman of the board of directors of the Brigade Boys club. In making the award, Solomon expressed it as being one of the “happy moments” of his life. He continued by stating that every organization must have a member who is the main spark plug in the group and that the recipient had proven hie right to the award by having done more than his share during te past year. Keen said, as he accepted the trophy, y‘I am happy!” Thurston C. Davis, president of the group, acted as toastmaster and following the presentation of guests by the members explained the workings of the club during the past year. “Boss Night” is the greatest night of the year to our organization. We all look forward to the get-together with employe and employer,” he stated. “During 1945, and especially during the war years, this organ ization has contributed its services to the community by taking an (Continued on Page Four; Col. 1) RAINY-DAY APPAREL WILL BE IN STYLE TODAY, HESS SAYS Better carry that raincoat or umbrella today. Weatherman Paul Hess says showers will accompany the passage of a warm air mass over this area, coming from the west. Directly following the warm front is a cold front expected to reach here sometime during tha> night bringing with it temperatures of 45 degrees ex | pected, Hess disclosed To China GEN. GEO. H. MARSHALL former Chief of Staff of the United States Army, who was appointed late yesterday afternoon by Presi dent Truman as Ambassador to China as successor to Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley, resigned. MARSHALL NAMED ENVOY TO CHINA Former Chief Of Staff Will Succeed Maj. Gen. Patrick Hurley, Resigned WASHINGTON, Nov. 27— {IP) — General of the Army George C. Marshall was . appointed special envoy to China lake today after the U. S. Ambassador, Major Gen. Patrick J. Hurley, had resigned with a bitter denunciation of career diplomats and a warning that a third world war was “in the mak ing.” j-iic t..u evexiifc, cuxxixxxg in xapiu fire order, stunned the capital. First ”~e dashing Hurley, who was Secretary of War under Her bert Hoover and global trouble shooter for Franklin D. Roosevelt, released a scathing 1,800 word statement virtually unprecedented in recent diplomatic history. It charged unnamed professional diplomats with wrecking U. S. for eign policy. Instead of backing democracy and unity in China, he said, they “sided with the Com munist armed party and the im perialistic bloc of nations whose policy it was, to keep China divided against itself.” Secretary of State Byrnes went into a quick huddle with President Truman and other officials. Then White Hou. press secretary Charles G. Ross called reporters into hi- office. After announcing that the Presi dent had accepted the Hurley resig nation, he disclosed that Mr. Tru man had named Marshall as his special envoy with the rank of Am bassador. The assignment will be temporary. As Ross related it, the President telephoned the five-star general, who only last week retired as Unit ed States chief of staff, and ask ek; “Will you go, General Marshall?” “I will, Mr. President,” Marshall replied. ' Ross explained that Marshall's issignment “is to do a particular job that needs to be done in Chi na.” Hurley’s statement charged that (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) DIOCESAN EXECUTIVE COUNCIL AUTHORIZES CAMP IMPROVEMENTS NEW BERN, Nov. 27.—The Rt. Rev. Thomas H. Wright, of Wil mington, new bishop of the Epis copal diocese of East Carolina met here today for the first time with the diocesan executive council to make plans for the next year’s work. Improvements at Camp Leach for summer conferences were au thorized and preparations were made to launch programs in be half of the General Church Re construction and Advance Fund to rebuild church property de stroyed or damaged by bomb shells in foreign mission fields. An optimistic note was appar ent through the days discussions and the Bishop reported that work is progressing satisfactorily throughout the diocese. Lunch was served by the women of Christ church to the 15 members of the council. During the afternoon Bishop Wright confirmed a Marine Lieut enant in Christ church. AP Man Says Pilots Hate Assignments 700 SHIPS INVOLVED Nationalist Forces Advance 40 Miles Into Man churia Unopposed CHUNGKING, Nov. 27. — <iP>— A reported mass movement of United States planes into North China from Burma and India and the sudden resignation of Ameri can Ambassador Patrick J. Hur ley brought into sharp focus today the fateful question of United States policy in this country’s un declared civil war. Hurley quit his post with the blunt statement that American policy had failed in Asia and that the effect of it now was to “under mine democracy and bolster Im perialism and Communism.” In Shanghai, meanwhile, Asso ciated Press correspondent Rich ard Cushing found American Air Force pilots “debating angrily” their postwar assignment to the perilous job of flying planes whole sale over “the hump” from India and Burma for ■ delivery to Gener alissimo Chiang Kai-shek’s forces. Ranking officers told Cushing that virtually every flyable plane in India and Burma was being sent to China in an operation which al ready has cost several American lives. About 700 aircraft were be ing flown to airfields in the great er Shanghai area, he was told, with the 10th Air Force bringing transports and the 14th Air Force fighters. The Chinese preps said a few weeks ago that the United States had decided to hand over 1,300 planes to the Central government, but in Washington the War Depart ment at that time countered that no such number had been decided on. Just how Generalissimo Chiang planned to use the planes in his (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) LUMBERTON YOUTH KILLED IN CRASH LUMBERTON, Nov. 27—One of Lumberton’s most tragic acci dents involving three sons of Mr. and Mrs. Prentiss R. Barker took place Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock when a 1941 Pontiac driven by Jack Barker 16-year old student in the 11th grade of Lumberton high school collided with a car driven by W. O. Edmund at a stret intersection on the eastern edge of town and then turned over sever al times. Ernest Barker, 11, died within a short time after reaching a local hospital and Jack Barker is in a critical condition. Their younger brother Prentiss, Jr., 10, the only other passenger in the car was less seriously hurt. The Pontiac was a complete wreck. None of the passengers in the Edmund car were injured. The three brothers Ttfere return ing from school to their home on Seventh street road on Route 5 about 4 miles east of the scene at the time of the accident. Both Ernest and Prentiss, Jr., are stu dents in the fifth grade of the city schools. Surviving Ernest are his parents; three brothers, Prentiss, Jr., Jack and Pittman Barker; two sisters, Miss Helen Reid and Miss Kathleen Barker, both students at Coker college in Hartsville, S. C. ■M T Turned Down VITTORIO ORLANDO last surviving member of the "Big Four" of World War I, who yes terday was rejected by Italian Left ist party leaders as Premier of Italy. His efforts to form a cabi net satisfactory to all parties fail ed. GENERAL SCORES DELAY OF MERGER Arnold Says Taxpayers Continuing To Pay For Bars To Plan NEW YORK, Nov. 27.— (U.R) — American taxpayers are continu ing to pay for delay in unifying the country’s armed strength un der a single command, General of the Army H. H. Arnold de clared tonight. i Appearing before a distinguish ed group of publishers,' broadcast ers and Airforce officers at the Waldorf Astoria, the chief of the Army Airforces said that because of limited funds available for peacetime armament “we must receive a dollar’s worth of se curity for every hundreds cents in vested by the American people.” General Arnold spoke at a din ner which Gen. Carl A. Spaatz gave in honor of Hugh Baillie, president of the United Press, who has just returned from a tour of the Pacific area. The delay in unifying America’s fighting forces is not only expen sive, General Arnold declared, but is causing thousands of able Americans to leave the service. (Continued bn Page Two; Col. 4) ITALIAN LEFTISTS REJECT ORLANDO AS GOVERNMENT LEADER ROME, Nov. 27— (JP) — Crcwn Prince Umberto, lieutenant gener al of the Realm, invited leaders of the six- main parties to new conferences this afternoon on the Italian political crisis, still un resolved after the Leftists reject ed 85-year-old Vittorio Emanuele Orlando as premier. Political leaders met this morn ing without result. A royal communique said Or lande—former premier and col league of Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George and Georges Clemenceau in writing the peace which ended World War I—reported to Umber to today that his efforts to form a unified government had produc ed "no concrete results" after he had sounded out party leaders yesterday. The communique said Umberto had invited Orlando to attempt to form a government of "unity and harmony" with "a precise program”. Curran Plans One-Day Strike Of Union Seamen WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—(U.R)— Joseph Curran, president of the National Maritime Union, CIO, an nounced tonight that he has “rec ommended” a nationwide 24-hour strike of seamen in all U. S. ports next Monday as a protest against government delay and “bungling” in the return of overseas veterans. Curran said the stoppage would apply to all ships except troop transorts and relief vessels and that four unions reresenting Allied workers would join with NMU in the strike. Speaking on a national network.! broadcast, (Mutual), Curran nam-; ed the supporting unions as the In ternational Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union, CIO; The Marine, Firemen Oilers and Water tenders, Ind.; The Marine Cooks and Stewards Association, CIO; and the Inland Boatman Union, etc. He said pressure already exert ed by NMU had resulted in the reassignment of six ships on the west coast, with a total capacity of 35,000 passengers, to troap trans portation. Separatist Forces Take Zenjan City CAPITAL OCCUPIED Youthful Patriots Appeal To Shah To Form Na tional Guard Units TEHRAN, Iran, Nov. 27.—(/P)— Armed insurgents, driving south ward along the main railway line from Azerbaijan province, have occupied Zenjan, 174 miles north west of Tehran, a traveler from northern Iran reported today. This would represent an advance of 56 miles from Mianeh, which the government announced last week had been occupied by what it called Separatist forces. The traveler said all government buildings in Zenjan, capital of Khamseh province, were in the insurgents’ hands and that tele graph lines were cut. ■in renran, youthful patriots ap pealed to the Shah for authoriza tion to form a National Guard to fight the insurgents. Other groups, protesting against “subversive reb el activities,”- offered to fight to preserve the unity of the nation. The government still was block ed in efforts to send troops to the trouble zone, occupied by Rus sian forces under the 1942 British Russian-Iraninn treaty. Iranian reinforcements dispatched north ward last week were halted at Kazvin, 90 miles southeast of Zen jan, by a Soviet commander. There was no official confirma tion that the insurgents had oc cupied Zenjan, but the govern ment previously had sajd that sep aratists were operating in Khamseh province, armed with weapons distributed by “unknown people.” The insurgents, after a meeting in Tabriz, capital of Azerbaijan, late last week, issued a declara tion that they wanted autonomy (Continued on Page Two; Col. 8) bondWesales NEARER TO QUOTA J. G. Thornton, co-chairman of the Victory War Loan drive an nounced today that New Hanover county has reached a sales total of approximately 65 per cent of its quota with added sales during the remaining 11 days of the drive of $1,071,069.50 needed to put the drive over the top. Individual sales total $2,700, 930.75 since the opening of the sale on October 29, he explained. $430,481,25 of this total are in “E” bond sales. These figures include sales as Gf October 24. The county has been assigned a total quota of $3,772,000 which should be reached, Thornton stat ed, with a drive on industrial plant* and corporations planned for Dec. 3 to Dec. 8. In explaining that New Hanover county had always supported the drives by reaching or over-selling its quota, he asked that all citi zens concentrate on bond purchas es sufficient to assure a continua tion of this record. E. R. Blakeslee, who is in charge of the drive in New Hanover coun ty schools during the week, has an nounced that only E bond sale* will count for various competing school totals. For every $3,000 worth of bonds sold in variou* schools, name of the school tyill be put on the cot of some wounded soldier in a veteran hospital he added. Blakeslee says that county schools have sold more than $3, 000,000 worth of bonds and stamp* (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3)