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A few hours later both Hitler and Eva are supposed to have killed themselves and left t: ■ ir bodies to be cremated. The two other documents found in the trunk were Hitler’s will and his political testament. (International Radiophoto) Jap Bubble Is Busied By Emperor Ruler Telia People He Isn’t Divine; Mac Lauds Action r iky.'. Jan. 1. (AIM —General 11" alas MacArthur t"day praised . n imperiol rescript from Emperor lliroiiito in which the Mikkado told io- subjects lie was not divine or a superrrui . Tiie emperor’s pronouncement, un |. .:.i Holed in the annals of the rulers .a Japan, told the people their tradi ; o il conception of the emperor as a divine person was a "false con ception" a d that the Japanese were imt ordained to rule the earth. "The emperor's statement pleases me very much." MacArthur said. ’'My it he undertakes a leading part in the demoncraci/.ation ol of his peo ple. He squarely takes his stand lor the future along liberal lines." "We stand by the people and we wish to share with them in their moments of joy a d sorrow." the Mikkado said in casting off his role of superman and urging that Japa nese love of family and ountry be made a fofee for the good of all man kind. Sympathy Strike Might Be Staged By Phone Workers Newark, N. J.. Jan. 1.—(AP) — Joseph Beirne, president of the Na tional Federaton of Telephone Work ers (Ind.), disclosed today that bal lots were sent out yesterday to the union’s 450.000 members asking then whether they wished to strike it sympathy with the Western Elec tric Employes Associaticn ■ (Ind.) w ho are scheduled to walkout at 11 a. m. Thursday. Beit' e said it was his opinion tha no action would be taken bv tht NFTW before January 20. The NFTW president said it would take at leas ten days to determine the results o the balloting and several more day: for the executive council to act There seemed little hope toda) that the walkout by 19,000 NFTW members in the 19 Western Electri. CM., plants in northern New Jersey and New York would be averted. Haw Haw Must Hang London. Jan. (AP)—Willian Joyce, Lord Haw Haw of the Germai airways lost his last chance to escap. the gallows today when Home Sec retary James Mhuter Elddc decline* to intervene with clemency. The Brooklyn-bom propagandis who sold his voice to Hitler will bi hanged as a traitor Thursday. I hi House of Lords previously had re fused to reverse his conviction. DEMOCRAT MAJORITY IN HOUSE IS DOWN Washington. Jan. 1.— (AIM — She Democratic majority in the onse fell to 4" today as three members stepped back into pri vate life, blaming low pay. They will soon be followed by a fourth Congressman. Today's drop to 47 resulted from resignations which became cfefctive at midnight for these three: Samuel Dickstein of New York. Robert Rampseck of Geor gia and Clifton A. Woodrum of Virginia. A fourth Democrat, Samuel A. Weiss of Pennsyl vania. has resigned effective January 7 The line-up when Congress re coincues will he: 286 Dcmocarts, 190 Republicans. two minor party members and seven va cancies. 318 Persons Dead From Accidents (By The Associated Press) Violent deaths throughout the country over the extended New Year'.- holiday totaled at least 318 today with more than one-half vic tims of traffic accidents. The death toll from motor acci dents. many of them on ice-coated roads, was 161, while 157 persers suffered violent deaths from a va riety of causes. Three included fires, explosions. drownings, shootings, stabbings, airplane crashes and Tills. In New York state, which topped the states in violent death with 32. one Fatality from alcholism was re ported. Illinois and Pennsylv;* ia were next in rep> l'ting the mns death cv.h with 27. New York, total of 32 included 12 traflic deaths. The National Safety Council, which estimated between 375 and 400 traffic deaths, from Saturday through today, also predicted the heaviest single day’s total would be | on New Year’s Day. Ervin’s Brother Is Nominated To Post In Congress Raleigh, Jan. 1.—Judge Sam J. 1 Ervin of Morganton today had been • nominated by the loth District Deni • ocratic Congressional executive com mittee to succeed his late brother, Joe W. Ervin in Congress. Judge Ervin was nominated at a meeting held in Newton yesterday. 1 His brother took his own life by gas 1 in his Washington home on Christ ■ mas Eve. Chairman Wade Lei'ler. making 1 the announcement of Ervin’s selec tion. said the former superior court 1 judge had been nominated with the > understanding he would not be a ? candidate to succeed himself at the ■ ! corrmletion of the unfinished term | in January 1947. Communists AndMarshall Hold Talks General Expected To Accept Role As Chinese Referee Chungking, Jan. i. -(AP)— Gen ial Go wge C. Marshall conferred lm two hours today \ i a Conmmii. t General Gliou En-i.u amid indica tions the American war-time chief of slat! would accept die role o! peace maker in C InnaG turbulo t civil af fairs. President Harry Truman's speckil envoy and m- staff declined to dis cuss the nature of the discussions but it was believed the conversations covered a wide range < I subjects re lative to the internal strife. Although the Communists had pieviouslv presented their side in broad outline to Marshall, it was the first 1 eg talk between the two. The meetipg was considered an in dication of Communist approval of the apopintment of Marshall as a referee between them and the Cen tral government. It was indicated earlier by a member nl Marshall's staff that he would accept the role of peace-maker. GI’s Claim War Brides Get Ships Liverpool, Eng., Jan. 1. (AP)—A group ci< miing to represo t 4,000 United States air force troops sta tioned at Warrington charged today they are being detained unnecessar ily in England, even after their eli gibility for discharge had been es tablished. They protested that war brides were being sent to the States ahead of soldiers who have been overseas for 30 mci.ths or longer. They sent telegrams to Congress and some United States newspapers, one of which read: “In spite of the glowing belief among the- people at home that the only troops remaining overseas are those in the occupational forces or those infected with venereal disease the sole disease among us is acute homesickness." Me; i while, the last American troops stationed in northern Ireland have embarked for the United [ States. _■* M.K: Gen. DeGauiie Facing Crisis Threatens to Quit If Fund For Army Cut By Assembly Paris. Jan. 1.— (AP)—Presi dent Charles PeGaulle threat ened today to resign with hi ■ cabinet in protest against a So cialist-Ci rami nist attempt in the Ci nsnltative Assembly to slash national defense credits JO per ci nt.. The action plunged France into another serious governmen tal crisis. The Socialist party, second most numerous in the assembly, proposed i/ist night a eat of one-filth in the lo'tv n want's request for 125,000, 000,000 francs ($1,049,450,088 U. S. . uireney) for the army during tlie lirst auarter of 1946. The found immediate support from the Communists, largest group in Ike assembly. The annulment to reduce tlie ap pi opriatii • ■ was offered during an all night session while the assembly was votino. the regular budget in which ordinary expense estimates were placed at 487,000,000,000 frames, and receipts estimated at 31 1,000,000,000 francs. By morning Minister of State Vincent Auriol told the assem bly General DeGauIle “would consider his task impossible" if the gmcndricnt were voted. The Socialists then proposed to DeGauIle a 10 per cent decrease. DeGauIle appeared before the as sembly this morning and stated "the goveinnui t will resign if the 20 per cent reduction in defense credits'’ wore \ oted He cud til" pinnosed 125,000,000, 000 Ir an v a.-, needed for the army during the in ■< quarter of 1946 "for the change from a system of war to a system ot peace.” He promised that be'ft re the three months ends, the government would present the legis lature proposals for a reduction in army spending. • •> Optimistic OnProblems Washington, Jan. 1. — (AP)—Sec retary of State Byrnes held cet.Iid ently today to a New Year's belief that General MacArthur will make the Allied plan for Japan a success and that 1946 will bring the major powers into accord on other prob lems related to world peace. In a news-packed hour long meet ing with reporters after a second meeting in three days with Presi dent Trunin . lie told newsmen he: 1 Sent the United States plan for Allied control machinery for Japan to MacArthur through the War De partment in October and revised it later in line with suggestions made by the general. 2— Went to Moscow foreign minis ters conference believing MacArthur — what ever his objections—regarded the plan as workable. 3— Did not keep MacArthur in lormed ot Moscow developments as the General is an administrator, not a policy-maker -t Was delighted to learn that MacArthur, despite iiis objections to the plan, was determined to do his utmost to make it work. Byrnes said Thomas D. Blake, press officer for the Far Eastern commission, was not authorized by any State department official to say that MacArthur had not objected to the plan for Japan and had been ad vised during the Moscow discussions on the subject. ROBBERS JOIN IN NEW YEAR’S PARTY South Boston, Va., Jan. 1.—(AP) An early morning re.option to the new year cost a handful of guests in tlie lobby of tile John Randolph hotel between $65 and $75. Three you g men, armed with re volvers, held up the cashier and the guests, collected their money, and after telling the victims “not to poke their heads out in the next live min utes." drove away. Police Capt. J. 11 Collie sum moned state police to join the search tor the un-masked bandits. /J ‘ y AND THE SAME TO YOU-AND YOU--AND ,YOU «* 4 <■' 152? v » M tviXM jr w ft f m i i, « --a &i ii m i MONA FREEMAN, film actress, in festive surroundings, gaily welcomes the new year. (International) Steel Industry Looking To Truman For Appeal To Avert Big Walkout Steel Situation Issues Pittsburgh, Jan. 1.— (API —Facts about the threatened steel strike set' by the C.i-O. United Steel Workers to begin January la: The issue—A $2-a-day < crease in pay for an eight-hour work day. ’ 1'rcseiit wages lor common labor the base p yais '■.0.24 a day. tor the average steel wairkcr it is estimated at $8.96 a clay. Workers—Union estimates place the number of members in the sice!, aluminum, and iron-ore industries who would be idle at above 700,UOU. Plants—Seven hundreds and s xty-six from coast to const. Number of Slates with producing steei plants Twenty-scvu . as fol lows: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, New York, Maryland. Alabam . Michigan, West Virginia, California, Utah, Colorado, Kentucky. Minnesota, Texas, New Jersey, Delaware, Missouri. Washing!-i . Massachusetts, Con-, necticut, Georgia, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Vir ginia. Government Revenues In Washingtcn, Jan. 1.—(AP)— A contention that government revenues may prove disappointing under new reduced taxes came today lrom Sen ator Edwin C. Johnson, Colorado Democrat as the lower rates went into effect. "Tax revenues are liable to be dis appointing because of the many tie lays in reconversion,” Johnson, a member of the Senate iinanco com mittee said. Fiscal experts estimated that the treasury will colle.1 $26,500,000,000 this year under the general tax re duction measure which became op erative with the new year. But Johi son said these estimates may fall short because the shill lr< m war to peace time production has no! i kept pace with expectations On the other hands, s> me govern ! ment authorities have said that be : cause the national income is continu ! ing to run higher than expected, both [ the amounts of revenue ;• d the total cuts in the nation's tax bill may ex ■ ceed previous estimates. The amount [ of the tax redu tion has been placed at $6,000,000,000, Koreans Ask F reedom Seni Korea, Jan. 1.—(AD —Be tween 200,000 and 300,000 Koreans j demanding "independence now , pa- ! raded this capital city's ice .overed . streets i ew year's eye in a mass' ' protest against the five year trus- 1 teeship set up by the Moscow pact to govern their country. The demonstrations were orderly, in contrast to knife lighting which broke out two days ago. Then some j Koreans hurled stones at Yanks. Americans were conspicuous by their absence from the set* e o! the j latest demonstration. However, halt tracks and three tank destroyers I were placed near Lt. Gen. John R Hodge's occupation headquarters i just in case. Troops were alerted. SUGAR NOW ONLY RATIONED ARTICLE Washington, Jan. 1 (AD Tire went off the ration list today. Any motorist who has the money, i iiiav buy a tire without a govern ment certificate. However, the supply is scarce, and OPA Chief Chester Bowles has said that mu motorists will have to wait for their tires Removal of tires from rationing, .••ft,, four rears of controls, left only i sugar on the ration list. Board Appointed To Make Inquiry Into Wage Demand Washington. Jan. 1. -CAP)—The stool industry looked to President Truman h day for a new plea that llie scheduled strike of 700,(100 CTO s'eel workers two weeks hence be positioned while a new tact finding board explores the dispute. A decision to defer the walkout would kep the nation’s basic indus try running while the fact find'ng board, named last night, delves into the union's SJ daily wage increase demand tout while OPA reconsiders the industry's request for a price in crease Such a move would be in line w ith White House labor policy. When he announced a mouth ago that a fact finding hoard would ho set up. .Mr. Truman requested that the industry and steel workers stay on the job. Later the union set the strike date for January 14 in i early 8011 steel, iron ore and aluminum plants. Ques tioned whether the slay at work ap peal would be renewed, Eben Ayers, While House press aide, said he "had no information now ." There were hints in other govern mci.t quarters that it might be forthvomnig. t j OI)\\ yer Becomes J New York .Mayor: New York. Jan. 1 (AI1)—Wil liam O'Dwyer, who came from Ire land in 1910 to work as a day labor er, took over today as mayor of Die ration's largest city. Inauguration ceremonies woie held at no ai at City Hall. The 55 vear old ayn 's predecessor, K. H. Leonard'... who fold the of I ice fop 1 :* > •• irs •!' d WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA 1 Fair this afternoon, tonight ! and tomorrow, except snow in I mountains. Continued cold to* j nieht. Slow rise in temperature ! Wednesday. j
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