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FORECAST Served By Leased Wires of the Wilmington and vicinity: Clearing ! UNITED PRESS j weather in early part of day with flt„ slowly rising temperatures. Possible . nnr.no high temperature of 50 in afternoon. ASSOCIATED PRESS ♦ With Complete Coverage of State and National News _ _____ESTABLISHED 1867 PEARL HARBOR PROBE WOBBLY WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—(JP)— Joatience within the Pearl Har Ef committee over the time being ,,med in its investigation flar 'd up today in a threat by Chair S,an Barkley (D-Kyj to resign A a request by the committee’s £al staff of four to be released. Barkley said it is evident the inouiry is going to run on for months and that he wil1 have t0 the question whether his ,1 to the Senate as majority leader or his duty to the commit tee is the greater. Be told his colleagues he will think it over for the next few days L decide on a course of action. William D. Mitchell, chief coun sel and former Attorney General, had a similar complaint. Be sad he had accepted the posi tion with the understanding that hjs services would not be needed longer than early January. The resolution creating the inquiry committee directed that.it report by January 3._ “Since, the start of the hearing it has become increasingly appar ent that some members of the committee have a different view than that entertained by counsel, either as to the scope of the in quiry or as to what is perti»ent evidence,” Mitchell added in a statement read to the committee. “This has been reflected in ex tensive examination by some mem bers of the committee far beyond what the legal staff anticipated.” Mitchell pointed out that the committee began hearings _.ov. 15 and thus far has completed the examination of only eight witness es. “There remain at least sixty witnesses to “be examined,” he said. “Many of these witnesses are quite as crucial as those who have testified.” The other members of the legal staff are Gerhard Gesell, chief as sistant counsel, and Jule M. Han naford and John E. Masten, as sistant counsel. Farmers Seek POW Labor For Seeding coirnEE waits PARLEY DETAILS Conference Yesterday At Capital May Throw Light On Airbase Problem City officials and other prominent Wilmingtonians are this morning awaiting news from a conference between Representa tive J. Bayard Clark, Ex-Gov ernor J. Melville Broughton, coun selor for the local airport com mittee, and officials of Air Chief, General H. H. Arnold’s office which took place in Washington yesterday afternoon with a view to renewing Army use of the Bluethenthal Air Base, The base, on which the govern ment has spent well over $6,000, 000, boasts 7,000 foot runways which have an additional 1,000 fleet at each end of cleared ap proach, totaling three 9,000-foot 'concrete runways. Its acreage of approximately 1, 245, makes it one of the largest airports in the United States . . . one capable of handling any size land plane existing or contemplate ed, A committee of local citizens headed by R. B. Page as chair man and composed of County Commissioner Addison Hewlett, Councilman Garland S. Currin, Fred Poisson and J. Holmes Davis, conferred in Raleigh with Brough ton and Governor R. Gregg Cherry Thursday. The position held by the com mittee and other representative citizens is that the retention of Seymour Johnson field in Golds '®>i and the Myrtle Beach air fort at the South Carolina resort 'o«n, in the face of release of the facilities for quartering men and Wilmington base with its superior more advantageous location, is Questionable from a standpoint ft economics. Inquiry revealed last night “hat Seymour Johnson field does s°t have a firing range or bomb range for planes based there *fd that pilot trainees had to use , B'uethenthal firing and bomb jng ranges, the government hav o? found the purchase and clear f ran^es in the vicinity of the ®d Jo be too expensive to be un shaken. The Myrtle Beach field . housing facilities which are *° Pe inadequate, as well as -r rail connections with other Pirts of the country. W0 POLICE, Mrs START roundup of ARMY DESERTERS LONDON, Dec. 14—(U.R)—Two 'bousand London policemen and ''B'dereds of U. S., Canadian British Military Police firmed suddenly into a four ■ftur.re-mile area of Central odon tonight in a gigantic *tte®pt to round up an esti j*'a*ed 10,000 deserters from the ree Allied armies. "’th Scotland Yard aces J“aster minding the roundup, bio ,°fficers established road »av S at strategic points. Sub la, an<l railroad stations, popu ch« , aurants and pubs were Lam/4 by Mi,itary Police £ fashi°nable Mayfair dis »>id..of the west end, Soho, Jo* klnfton and Vauxhall were 1 niirhi*?-', :VIayfair and Soho are Pht We centers. 0 T- -- Owing to the fact that a dearth of agricultural labor exists at this time and with no apparent relief in sight before next summer, mem bers of the Castle Hayne Growers and Shippers, Inc., through their spokesmen, Chairman A. Sondey and executive secretary A. Schle gel, yesterday requested that the aid of city and county officials be sought in an effort to have Ger man Prisoner of War labor made available for the planting of 1946 crops in New Hanover county. POW labor, which has helped materially in the harvesting of the 1945 crop in-the Castle Hayne area, was officially withdrawn by the War Department as of Thursday, December 13, according to Mr. Schlegel, who pointed out that ab though continued use of this labor is now denied to farmers, men are still being worked at pulpwood and sawmill plants and by dairying in terests. Representations have already be made, Schlegel said, to Representa tive J. Bayard Clark, Dean Sharp of Stgtp College and Dr. Dorton regarding the urgent need for this labor in New Hanover county, but sQ far, no definite answer has been received to the many pleas other that everything possible would be done, to have the War Department grant the request. “At present there at least 75 to (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 8) BEAST UE BELSEN, TEN OTHERS HANG BRITISH HEADQUARTERS, Germany, Dec. 14.—(U.R)—Joseph Kramer, the “Beast of Belsen,” his blonde queen, Irma Grese and pine of their Nazi concentration camp cohorts were hanged yes terday in the courtyard of the lit tle red brick prison at Hamelin, it was announced today. Three women and eight men, found guilty by a British military court of committing mass murders and atrocities at the Belsen and' Oscwiecim concentration camps where thousands of Jews, Poles and other war refugees died, were put to death in executions that lasted from 9:30 a. m. to 4 p. m. They were found guilty at Luene burg after a nine-week trial. Of 44 defendants, 14 were acquitted, 11 were sentenced to death and the remainder were given prison terms ranging from life down to one year. The hangings were conducted with the greatest secrecy, presum ably to foil any last-minute at tempts at escape, or rescue from the outside. British and German police had mounted guard around the gallows of the Hamelin prison on Tuesday, several days after Field Marshal Sir Bernard L Montgomery had turned down pleas for clemency. The first to die on the gallows was Elizabeth Volkenrath, 26, for (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 8) Nazis Admit Wiping Out 6,000,000 European Jews By CLINTON B. CONGER United Press Staff Correspondent PALACE OF JUSTICE, Nuern berg Dec. 14—(U.B)—German lead ers admitted wiping out 6,000,000 Jews up to August, 1944, and plan ned to make Poland’s 35,000,000 people slaves in a “greater Ger man world empire,” the prosecu tion charged today at the war crimes trial. It was planned ulti mately to kill every Jew in Eu rope, evidence showed. At one time, the prosecution dis closed, German plans called for sending “several million” Jews to French Madagascar, off the east coast of Africa, which evidently was to be part of the “empire.” But the murder orgy of the Ger mans changed all that. An affida vit by Nazi Security Police Maj. Wilhelm Hoettl quoted Adolf Eich mann, head of the Jewish section of the Gestapo, as telling him in August, 1944: “Approximately 4,000,000 Jews have been killed in various exter mination camps and an additional 2,000,000 have met death in other ways. The major part of them were shot by perational squads and Se (Continued on Piyge Eight; Col. 4) Big Boss Not Always A Skunk, Leaders Say KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 14 —(U.R)—The boss isn’t always a skunk. The union figures President W. A. Brownlee of"Appalachian Mills is a pretty good guy. So it’s throwing a dinner and dance for him Dec. 29 in his honor. Today the International Ladies Garment Workers Union local began mailing out invita tions to city and county offi cials and to labor and business leaders. HOUSE APPROVES EMPLOYMENT BILL Measure Now Goes To Con ference To Iron Out Dif ferences By Senate WASHINGTON, Dec. 14—(^P)— Legislation aimed at assuring plen ty of jobs in the future was ap proved today by the House, 254 to 126. The measure—a substitute for the so called “full employment” bill requested by President Truman— lays down a Federal policy of maintaining “a high level of em ployment, production and purchas ing power.” It provides for creation of a three man economic council to make rec ommendations toward acheiving that goal. Action on the moasure came after the House rejected, 185 to 95, the original “full employment” bill and defeated a plan for an in ventory of the nation’s assets and liabilities. The house also turned down, 245 to 136, a move to send all of the bills back to the expenditures com mittee which drafted the measure finally adopted. Final action came after two days of stormy debate and more than two months of controversy in the expenditures committee. The substitute now goes to a Sentate-House conference commit tee, which will try to iron out dif ferences between the bill and a modified version of the “full em ployment” bill passed by the'Senate in October. If the House bill finally becomes law, it would call on the economic council to study economic trends and make suggestions to the Presi dent, starting in 1947, regarding ways to keep employment and pro duction at high levels. JOSEPHUS DANIELS AWARDED MAYFLOWER CUP FOR NEW BOOK RALEIGH, Dec. 14.—(^—Jose phus Daniels, newspaper editor and author of several books, was awarded the Mayflower Cup to night for his latest book, "The Wil son Era; Years and Peace 1910 1917.” Daniels, who served as Secre tary of the Navy in President Wil son’s cabinet, later became Ambas sador to Mexico and now is edit ing his Raleigh News and Obser ver, received the cup at a meet ing of the State Literary and His torical Association. It was pre sented to him by Dr. Wallace E. Caldwell of Chapel Hill. The Mayflower Cup is an award made annually since 1930 by the Mayflower Society of Descendants in North Carolina to the resident Tar Heel author whose book is selected' by a committee as the best published during the year. There were 15 books entered in this year’s competition. BULLETIN CHELSEA, Mass., Dec. 14.— (U.R)—A young mother’s guilty secret was uncovered here to night when the body of the infant son she said was kid naped was found beneath a closet drawer—four feet from the bed she had shared with her innocent husband for 16 nights while the hunt for their child was on. FIVE KILLED MAXTON, Dec. 14.—{&)—Rural Police Officer R. L. Purcell said tonight that five persons were kill ed and a sixth injured in a two car collision six miles south of Maxton on Highway 130. Bl;0?henthal Field Approved 1 xf Contact Flight; President Loses Labor Legislation Race Committee Move Halts Legislation PARLEYS RECESSED Court Order Sets Picketing Strength of UWA Mem bers At Cleveland By The Associated Press The administration lost its race yesterday to, get passage of new labor legislation before start of a scheduled steel strike Jan. 14. The Senate Labor committee re cessed its hearings until after the Christmas holidays and Chairman Murray (D-Mont) said testimony then could continue for another month on the fact-finding bill ad vocated by President Truman. The dashing of the administra tion’s expectations that the new labor bill would become law be fore Christmas came as the courts took a hand in the General Motors ctrik-p nnr? PTO Prpsiripnt. Philir) Murray described the nation’s en tire industrial picture as explosive. The Ford Motor company and the CIO United Auto Workers recessed their contract negotiations until Monday after a session yesterday which both sides described as “brief and satisfactory.” Because of the Senate commit tee’s action, the Fact-Finding Board which President Truman has announced he will name to con sider the steel dispute will be With out legal authority, tire same; as the board he appointed to look into the General Motors strike. Both boards must rely on coop eration of the companies and unions. The new Fact-Finding bill, which may receive House consideration before Christmas, would prohibit strikes for 30-day “cooling off” periods pending study by a fact finding body. Meanwhile in the General Mo tors strike, which has accounted for 213,000 of the nation’s 410,000 idle in labor disputes,»the principal development came Cleveland where Common Pleas whdge Frank S. Day limited picketing at the GM Fisher body plant to 55 members. He acted after General Motors sought a temporary injunction against striking UAM members on charges of illegal picketing. In a similar injunction case in Chicago, a UAW lawyer told Su perior Judge Donald S. McKinlay (Continued on Page Fight; Col. 3) PATTON CONDITION TERMED EXCELLENT BY ROBERT C. MILLER United Press Staff Correspondent HEIDELBERG, Germany, Dec. 14.—Gen. George S. Patton’s con dition tonight was “excellent” and his doctors said he would be flown to the United States within the next four or six weeks. There still was danger, however, that the colorful former comman der of the U. S. Third Army would be partially paralyzed for the rest of his life as the result of the broken neck suffered in an auto mobile accident last Sunday. Bue he no longer is completely paralyzed from the neck down and can make some movement below the fracture and dislocation of his third and fourth cervical verte brae, said Col. Roy Glenn Spurling, Louisville, Ky., one of the Army’s leading nerve surgeons who flew the Atlan" c earlier this week with Mrs. Patton. He is Patton’s chief physician. “Barring unforseen complica tions Patton is out of danger at the moment,” he said. “The gen eral is not out of danger of partial paralysis for the rest of his life, though.” Today’s morning bulletin said: “Patton’s condition continues ex cellent. He had a comfortable night. His scalp wound is healing normally. He is cheerful. Neu rological situation unchanged. Temperature 99, down one degree; pulse 64; respiration 24.” At Spurling’s press conference, were two of his assistants on the case—Col. Paul S. Hill, Jr., Saco, Maine, and Capt. Willir,^i Duane, Jr., Philadelphia. All said Pat ton’s condition was very good; t^at the patient was fully cons %ous and alert and was taking a soft diet. The full extent of injuries to the spinal column still has not been (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 11 ENACTS PART OF BEHEADED VICTIM j On trial before a military court on Kwajalein Island for the be heading of five American B-25 crew members, Warrant Officer Tata nichi Manaka of the former Japanese Navy shows exactly how he made one of the fliers kneel to receive the sword. Manaka and five companions were found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging. ____(International) Martin H. Rawlyns To Take New Post ARMY-NAVY FIGHT GROWING HEATED Patterson Denies Forrestal Statement That Officers Are Muzzled WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—(U.R)— The Army-Navy fight over propos ed merger of the armed forces flared at highest levels today when Secretary of War Robert P. Pat terson branded as “ridiculous” Na vy Secretary James Forrestal’s charge that the Army is muzzling officers opposed to the merger. Forrestal voiced his charge at a Senate Military Affairs commit tee hearing Thursday. He said that Army officers opposed to the Army-backed single department of defense felt obliged to keep silent for fear of damaging their careers. Patterson replied at a press con ference today. He also said that comparing the Navy’s counter-proposal to the Army plan would be like '‘com paring horses and hor e doctors.” Instead of a single defense depart ment, the Navy proposes a nation al. security plan for perfecting liai son and policy-making among the War, Navy and State Departments. President Truman may settle the dispute next week when he sends Congress a special message on uni fication. He told a recent press conference that he thought the mes sage would solve the issue. He did not elaborate, but he apparently had reference to his powers as com mander-in-chief of both the Army and Navy. Referring to Forrestal’s state ment, Patterson said: “The charge is being repeatedly made by the Navy that the Army has muzzled its officers. This is ridiculous. “I said in a letter that received wide publicity over a month ago, and I repeat it now, that all offi cers should ‘freely express their own personal convictions with force and vigor.’ I can assure you (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 6) Mary Christmas Given Divorce In Cambridge CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 14— Iff)—“Your name, please?” asked probate judge Joseph W. Monahan. “Mary Christmas,” responded the divorce seeker who stood be fore him. “The same to you,” beamed the judge, “and now your name, please.” Pleasantries cncluded, Mary Christmas of West Medford, pre sented alegations of cruelty and was awarded a divorce from her husband, Edward B. Christmas, whom she married in Boston in 1925, She won custody of twjn sons. Disclosure of the appointment by the Commissioner of Customs, of Martin H. Rawlyns, acting col lector of customs for the North Carolina district in Wilmingto)} since June, 1943, as Customs lia son officer with headquarters in Washington, D. C.j came yester day. Rawlyns, who filled the post made vacant when E. C. Shead, former acting collector entered the Navy, will have among his duties, acting as the representa tive of the Commissioner of Cus toms in regulating the proceduie of field offices of Customs dis tricts in the United States, and the Alaskan, Hawaiian, Puerto (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 8) MORE COAL BEING DIVERTED SOUTH WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 — (U.R) - The Solid Fuels Administration, acting to relieve the gro'< ing fuel shortage in the southeast tonight directed producers to increase ship ments of scarce southern Appa lachian high volatile coals to retail yards in Virginia, Tennessee, Geor gia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Under the directive, yards will get 33 1-3 per cent, instead of 25 per cent, of their remaining winter quota during December. But the total quota for the winter will not be changed. It will remain at 8C per cent of the coal received by the yards during the 1943-44 fuel year. The SFA attributed the lag in shipments to the southeast to lack of mine manpower and production loss resulting from work stoppages in the southern Appalachian mines last September and October. “Many communities are hard pressed for fuel,” it said, “ and the situation has been growing steadily more critical. Their geo graphical location limits mos1 southeastern states to southern Appalachian mines as a primary source of fuel and these are the coals which now are in shortesl supply.” Coast Line Authorized To Purchase AB & CRoad WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 — (TP) — The Interstate Commerce Commis. sion today authorized the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad to purchase the Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad company. The Birmingham operates 637 miles of trackage in Alabama and Georgia. All its common stock was acquired by the Atlantic Coast Line in 1926. Under the purchase agreement the Birmingham’s preferred stock will be redeemed and cancelled as of Jan. 1, 1946, its properties transferred to the Coast Line as of Dec. 31, 1945, and the corporation dissolved. The Coast Line will provide an estimated $2,574,381 to redeem the preferred stock. The Commission said “the Coast Line expected to furnish jobs for all of the present employees of the Birmingham.” It added: "The record shows that the Coast Line proposes to operate the prop erties of the Birmingham as a part of the Coast Line system. It ex pects to effect savings in traffic solicitation costs, purchases of supplies, equipment repairs and (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 4) NAL TO START SERVICE TODAY First Plane From South Will Arrive Here About At 1:53 P.M., Bringing Greet ings To Wilmington Mayor Disclosure of the approval of Bluethenthal Field and National Air Lines facilities there for contact flight by Civil Aeronautics Auth ority inspectors came late yesterday afternoon after departure of the officials, from D. E. Roberts, National’s Wilmington station manager. Roberts said that the CAA men arrived during the afternoon in an NAL Lockheed from Jacksonville. With clearing weather all along the _a - _____t _e ii_n„i j by the CAA, the station manag er said he definitely expected the inaugural flight on schedule today. Contact flight rules, it was ex plained, provide that the captain of the flight must be at all times in visual relation to the ground at a minimum altitude, which varies with locality, considered safe by the CAA. Roberts emphasized that all flight reservations are subject to weather conditions until instal lation of airway radio facilities for instrument flight which is antici pated soon after the first of the year. Weatherman Paul Hess gave en couragement from the weather an gle wth a prediction of "fair to partly cloudy with slowly moderat ing temperatures which might reach the fifties during the after noon,” Hess said that no precipi tation was in sight for this area -'T AFTER RECORD Chief Pilot Clyde Andrews, National Air Lines captain, who will be the pilot of the inaugural flight from Miami to New York, will land here today in hot pur suit of a flight record for the distance. Capt Andrews, whose time in the air will be the basis for calculation of his speed, said yesterday in Jacksonville, Fla., “If the weather is at all favor able, I’m going to shoot for a new record.” Accompanying him as flight stewardess will be Miss Margaret Watson. HOWUNG BUZZARD HITS BYRNES SHIP Pilot Has Great Difficulty Locating Moscow; Met By Dekanozov BY EDDY GILMORE AP Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Dec. 14—W—Unable to locate the Soviet capital for more than an hour because of a mowling blizzard, the plane car rying U. S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes to the three pow er Foreign Ministers’ meeting landed at the Central Airdrome to day just before dark. Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin of Great Britain had not yet arriv ed for the discussions on atomic energy' and other prime subjects which had been scheduled to be gin tomorrow. (A Berlin dispatch said Bevin had la.ided at Berlin’s Gatow air port this afternoon on the first leg of his trip. He will stay overnight and resume his journey tomorrow morning.) “I am very happy to be here,” were Byrnes’ first words as he stepped from his plane, wearing only a light tan covert cloth top coat, light gray hat, and only a silk scarf aroUnd his neck to combat a whirling snowstorm. He had no gloves or rubbers. He was greeted by Deputy For eign Commissar V. G. Dekanozov. (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 6) OPA Approves Increase In Cost Of Mercuries WASHINGTON, Dec. 14— (IP) — Basic retail price ceilings for Mer cury automobiles will be up an average of 4 per cent over those of January 1942, and additional increases for design changes range from $30 to $65. Announcing this today, the OPA said manufacturers’ prices for these Ford-built cars would be boosted anNaverage of 8.4 per cent. Under the cost absorption pro gram in effect for all makes of autos, Mercury dealers will be re quired to trim their pre-war dis count from manufacturers by 2.5 percentage points. The purpose of this 'discount cut is to prevent the full manufactur ers’ increase from being passed on to the public. Addison Hewlett, chairman of the Board of County Com- j missioner’s, suggested that citi zens attending the inaugural j ceremonies at the airport to- j day use the Market Street ! road, enteffiilg th(l field by the j east gate to avoid driving j around the perimeter of the ( field. The east gate will prov vide the closest entrance t the scene of the ceremonies, he said. during the day. Discussing future operation* at Bluethenthal on which the Army spent $5,000,000, Roberts said that it was expected that the company would put in operation around the first of February, a number of 44-passenger DC-4’s on non-stop flights between Miami, Jackson ville and New York City. Roberts said that this would re lieve the passenger load, which has been extremely heavy for the (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 1) SENIORS SELECT I EXAM CANDIDATES Thirteen New Hanover High school seniors have been select ed by classmates to take a com petitive examination for the na tional Pepsi Cola scholarship which entitles winners to four years tutiton at any acoiedited college or university. Selected Dy their fellow students were Bill Teter, Miss Sarah Ann Eaton, Harry Wellot, Jr., Miss Douglas McKoy, Francis Chad wick, Miss Pat Hardwick, Miss Elizabeth Evans, Lon Ussery, Miss Bettina Marable, Miss Jane Rey nolds, John Hearn, Miss Betty Jean Marshburn and Miss Jacque line Reynolds. The scholarship is donated by the soft drink firm to two stu dents from each state and the District of Columbia and one representative from each of the territories plus twenty addi tional awards for Negroes in Separate schools, totaling 121. Awarded on a basis of school record, recommendations and fi nancial need from the 12 highest scorers on the examination from each state, the scholarship, in i addition to tutition provides for the payment of $25 per month for the normal 36 month college pe (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 4)
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