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Hettitercmt Bmltl Btspatdi THIRTY-THIRD YEAR 1'thkda*™iat£v'prIm' HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 3, 1040 fi vk ( KNTS ( (M ’v CHURCH PUTS OFF THEIR WEDDING THEY'D PLANNED TO WED in Los Angeles on the last Sunday o! 1945, but instead movie actress Jeanne Crain, 20, and radio manufacturer Paul Brinkman, 27, saw the day pass while they hoped for a dispensation by the Catholic Chant elu ry. War-time provision for publication of mar riage banns on a single Sunday had expired three days before. Here the young couple are getting their license. (International Soundphoto) Former Aide To Himmler Describes Mass Murders Special Commandos Had Orders To Slay All Jews, Russian Commisars Nuernberg. Jan. 3.— (AIM—A former aide of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler ("Id the Iniernati> nal .V lit.my Tribunal that special SS commandos wire a!' .clud to the Gemini army on the eastern front with order to, kill cvcrv Jew and Russian pelilical commisar in occupied Russian regions __ n f f * . ,>f D, .1 IH*., fAli 1 #» Hemisphere Peace Plan Is Pondered Proposal Will Be Considered Soon At Rio Conference W . I; n Jail (A;' ■ t -itin-A i rican g rernmcnts except Argenti i u>d >>' Pmulure ; '! 1 ‘ ltt,^ State proposed tre «t> wnt< h au .... ,J. i.u' c. moiled mil-tary aet.m tll thv. a-' oi put down ogre s'.on any v Vwm c m ' - hemisphere. The .lor..meat, made publ.e hi dil.hm.als. will he constioiod at the lorthcominB Kto Ue .tun erio eonteiciue scheduled lot early spring. Diplomatic. anti. - nUes l'ons-i this country's suggest! n a a run ning mat to tl’.e l luguay.m piopm-al calling for coliecti\ e aeti >tt >n hemisphere against any n .lion w-htch disregards its internat.ua. .-.uua ti,,n or denies given rights to its own 1 The United State's treaty, loose nut hot ir es . ays. would take rare o! the purely military side n aggie. v nile the Ur. g m.van proposal would deal with the political Phases. rjhe Uruguayan plan, how i v et. a..' received a .old Latin reception a - though this country lias pledged its support. Fertilizer t irm Must Place Tag On Chlorine Goods Raleigh, Jan. 3.—(API—The State Board of Agriculture today di rected the Smith Douglas Fertilize! company ol Norfolk. V;i , to put vellow tag on ’ all fertilizer sold tr North Carolina containing ovet * per cent chlorine. The rule, allowing inereasec •chlorine content, is effective only lot the 1946 growing season and direct; that it be applied only to tobacet U utilizer. Other fertilizer compan ies may sell the 3A per cent hlorau fertilizer but must use yeliow tags Labor Conditions Show Up In Mart New York, Jan. 3.— (AP)—Grow ing labor strife throughout the na tion helped accentuate a turther de cline in today's stock market. On the down side were U. n Steel. Bethlehem, Paramount Pi tures RKO preferred, Great North e . . Consolidated Edison and Doug las Aircraft. Bonds were shakey. (h i f, testifying in the trial of 22 Nazi leaders, declared that the high com mand of the German army had full knowledge of the commando order. The 38-year-old witness, who had keen in the SS since his c,uly teens,, said his own Ein s.itzfir.'pp. operating with the German 11th army in the I k raine. alone had liquidated 90. 000 persons in the first year of the war with Russia. (>iitlini:tg the inner work'i gs ol •hi .-wearily police system tinder i ques!toning by C.ol. John Amen, as - tant United States prosecutor Oh I i dorf testified personally that II mmler gave liquidaton orders. "He told os that the men had • o responsibility for the a. Is and that the responsibility was his alone as well as that of the fuehrer," the wit ness said. Ohlendorf who admitted nix ing orders himself for mass exe cutions, testified that he conferred | frequently with army commanders ■ on the execution of Himmler’s or | tiers. ---- Says Jewish Conspiracy ‘Poppy Cock’ Frankfurst, Germany, Dec. 3 — ! (API—Judge Rilkind, adx isor ol Jewish affairs to General Joseph .McNnrey, United States' commit‘.del i in Europe, today described as "poppy cock" reports that a "vvorld-xvidt Jewish conspiratorial arrangement’ was behind the infiltration of Polish Jews into the American zone. Rilkind, speaking at a press con feree. e, made it clear that he was gi\- i g only his personal views or statements made yesterday by Lt Gen. Frederich Morgan, chief t> I’NRRA operations in Germany, xvht expressed the belief that a secre Jewish organization was sponsoring j the infiltration from the east. "Out of those I questioned the pro verbial 99.44 per cent are leaving Polti'd under a sense of compulsior —genuine or imagined. The predom inate factor for the flight from Po land is fear," he said. Morgan had said that the Jew: arrived from Poland "certainly d( not like persecuted people" and add ed "I believe they have got a plat to get out of Europe.” NEW WHITEVILLE BANK Richmond, Jan. 3.—The Federa Reserve Bank of Richmond announc ed today the opening of the Firs National Bank of Whitexille. N. C., newly organized bank. Lee Braxtoi ■ is chairmen of the board and Btl Hooks is president, C B. Sears i ■ cashier. STATE CALL ISSUED Raleigh, Jan. 3.—(AP)—Bankin - ‘ Commissioner Gurney P. Hood to - I day called for a report of condition | o! State banks at the close of busi j ness December 31, 1945. American-born Broadcaster Executed at 9 A. M.; No Spectators London, Jan. 3.— (AP) — William Joyce, notorious “Lord Haw Haw’ of the German radio, died a traitor's death this morning on the ^allows of A andsworth Prison. The 40-year-nld American born Joyce, un. stud his vo.ee t< Adult Hiller as a radio propagandist at the outset of the war, was executed shortly alter 9 a. m. (4a. m EST). on high treason charges of which he was convicted by a Britisn court last September 19. Only a small group of prison ollicials saw Joyce plunge through the trap. I ncler Eng lish law, no spectators may wit ness an execution. Executions ol the death sentence was an nounced in two typewritten sheets which were posted out side the prison gates shortly alter the hanging. Prison officials said Jc-^'ce walked to the gallows trom his death cell, his arms pinioned behind him with the broad black strap used > count less executions. The trap was sprung by Albert Pierepont, nephew of the famed hangman who executed John Amery son of the famous cabinet member on December 19. Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbles paid Joyce $(ii) a week for his radio work which consisted of four daily broadcasts. Joyce who I came to England from America at the age of 15. became a tollower o’ Sir Oswald Mosley while a student at London university and was a member of his British fascist group until 1933, when the two parted among rumors of a quarrel. Later Joyce organized a national socialist league in Britain. Rep. Umstead Asks Education Group Study N. C. Needs Raleigh, Jan. 3. — (AP)- Ueprcn senative John W. Umstead of Orange county insisted today that the State Board ot Education appi in a committee to recommend a school building fund in North Carolina. Appoinlmu t ol toe five membei committee was authorized oy the last legislature which directed that the findings be presented to the 1947. session. Umstead slated that equitable edu cation was necessary in this state but "most members ot the legislature don’t know what the score is and I doubt if you do.” There was considerable feeling at the last legislature that more finan cial support should be /given the Slate schools. Ready for War New 5 ork, Jan. 3.— (AP)—Jose Giral, Premier of the Spanish Re publican govenimcp.t-in-cxile, said today there were resistance groups and guerrillas numbering 40,000 men in Spain ready to start a civil war "it necessary to overthrow Franco. Giral said at a news conference that Spanish Republicans would pre fer to use peaceful mer* s to oust j Generalissimo Francisco Franco Irom | the Spanish government I "We do not want another civil | war in Spain," he said, "but we will 1 resort to such, if necessary to over | throw Franco.” i Witness Says Hoinina Saw Orders For Death March —=--• Manila, Dec. 3.—(AP)— Japnese | 1 Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma must have seen orders tor the biutul "death march" of Americans and Filipinos from Bataan in 1942, but had "a very thin interest in his cap i lives,” one of his former stall otli cers testified as Homnia's war crimes 1 trail opened today, i The witness said that Homma’s headquarters on Bataan were less i th;n 500 yards from the death march 1 route, and that he traveled 20 miles | down the highway while the prison | ers were driven along it. 1 | Describing the death rate among * | captives as nearly 300 daily, at the t ! O’Donnel camp, he said that medi i cines "were not sutticicnt, and i “there was lack of foehn which I was mostly rice." s Karlior Statement His statement that Hemma’s '< - terest was very thin was quoted by ,.s froln an earlier, written i statement. - i , oc v\ it ness, Maj. Gen Takatsu s | <"-nl:>ip“d to nrosecution questioner - : Lieut. Benjamin Schwartz, Lm An I geles, that he was "honor bound" not to speak badly of Homma in the lat ter's presence. Detense counsel had objected that many of the specifications tiled against Homma ill his trial "lor viola tions of the laws ol humanity" were vague and the prosecutors introduc ed addtional details. Will Offer Proof In establishing "wide spread rap ing and brutal mistreatment ol American and Filipino women." the} said, they would oiler proof that such action, lor which they biamt Homma, included the "inhuman' treatment of an unnamed marriec American woman at the swank Rosa rio apartments two days alter the fall of Manila. As a result of hei treatment, they said, the woman tra sent to an asylum as insane. Homma. the prosecution said, uae 1 directly in charge of all Japanesi forces m the Philippines ai the time As the trial opened, prosecutors tol( | the United States military commis sion heau lg the case that Homm. has no right under the Americat : constitute • and is being tried to ' violations ol the laws oi humanity. Western Electric Employes Start Strike Which Might Affect U. S. Phone Service F.D.R. HOME MENTIONED AS UNO HEADQUARTERS HERE IS A FRONT VIEW OF THE ANCESTRAL HOME of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Hyde Park, N. Y„ which is mentioned as being the possible permanent headquarters of the United Nations Organization. A UNO interim committee stated that the site must not be nearer than 25 miles nor farther than SO miles from New Y’ork City, thus making Hyde Park the logical location of UNO headquarters. (International) Communists And Chinese Meet Again Yersan Dispatches Claim Peace Plan Answer Is Sent Chungking, Dec. 3-3—(AP) Cen tra] gave.i'ment and Chinese Com munist delegates met officially to night to seek a truce in China's civil war. (Ycnan dispatches a few hours earlier said the Communists had replied formally to a govern ment new year peace plan, wel coming Generol George ('. Mar shall as mediator, and promising to discuss favorably any sugges tion.) liie meeting was the third foimai session between the two delegations - nice December 27. General C hull Kn-lai. leader of the Communis! delegation, attended after conler ring a half-hour with Gu eral Mar shall. He also had eon I erred with the United States envoy on New Year's Day, shortly after the Na tural government's counter-pro posal for a truce had been an nounecd. Reports of lighting meanwhile thickened. No Room Ik » -more, laai. 3. t AIM K\ 0» racci ons are having a tough thru tiuding a place to live in Maryland this year, the State's chief game war den reports. He says lumbermen, destroying large numbers ot "den trees , the hollow trunks ot which ordinarily house the animals, have drive rac coons into ‘tie open marshes. When they can find them, the 'coons an moving into the upper stories o' double-decker muskrat houses. Truman Address To Deal With Whole Labor Issue Half-Hour Talk Set For 10 P. M.; Appeal Planned Washington, Jan. 3.— (AD—Pits- I ident Harry Truman's report to th- | nation tonight toy ra'.lio will deal i with the whole labor -dilation, a J White House aide said, today. The President had, practically fin ished the half-hour talk to be de livered at lo ip. m. EST when he be .gan receiving his first ca'Uers thi morning. He saw no visitors yester day alter his return from a four-day river cruise on the Presidential yacht Williamsburg. The speech has been describ ed bv party leaders as an over all report on the President's leg islative program and an effort j by the Chief Executive to slim- j ulate interest by a direct appeal to the people in the hope this will be reflected in Congress, w here bis program lias bogged dow n. One of his most recent proposals was a recommendation to place the force ol law behind fact finding boards to permit them to weigh dis putes affecting important i.ation widc industries. Both strikes and walkouts would be barred while the fact finding commissions were in op en, t ion. Mr. Truman's championship of this and other legislation tonight may well figure m next summer's Con gressional campaigns. With the CIO United Auto Work ers out at General Motors plants, the CIO United Steel Workers set to strike January 14 and other indus trial strifes looming large, attention was focused u the labor aspects of the address. Mr. Truman had said, however, that it will cover his over all legislative program and the State of the Nation One White House offi- ial said the tone of the speech will be "firm" in its adherence to the legislative ramework the President sketched for Congress last September, but that it will be conciliatory in its presen tation. Mr. Truman the official said, wants to be persuasive without be ing "dictatorial." Lint Futures Drop 40 Cents At Noon New York. Jan. 3— tAP)- Cot ton futures opened unchanged to la rents a bale higher. Noon prices were 20 to 40 cents a bale lower. March 24 57, May 2).49. July 24.32 Pv. Close Open March. 24.01 24.01 May. 24.54 24.57 July. 24.37 24.38 October. 23 00 23.66 December .... 23.5(1 23.59 March (1946) . . . 23.43 23.45 CHURCHILLS PLAN TO SAIL JAN. 9 London, Jan. 3.— (AP) — Eurmei Ptime Minister Winston Chur hill md his wife will leave January 9 ■ board the Queen Elizabeth lor their American vacation, it was announced torts'v. Their daughter, Sara, will join them later Telegraph Firm Faces IS. \. Strike A.F.L. Wants to 0. K. Wage Increase But C.I.O. Says It Won’t X A Y ,.-k. .1 1:1. • AP) — Tie.' Webern Union Telegraph Co., put 1 :»;>_£ lib i elTcet higher wages order ed by the War Labm Board today found its AFL employe.' prep;.red to accept the increases and its CIU workers ready for a1 strike that w'o.p.l cut service between New York and the re.-l of the nation. Three thousand men-, mrs of the CIO's American Con nunications As sociation. which represents New York employes it the company, vot ed unanimously last night to strike at 11 a. m. next Tue.-day in protest against the WLB directive. The walkout would affect 7,000 workers in the metropolitan area. Halsey Is Best Man San PedriC'a i u .. ■I. u It. — ( AP Adm William F. Halsey was best man today at the wedding ni Cmdr Gene Markov ,< d Actress Myrna Loy. Man Killed At Wise By SAL Train A man said to have been How ard Capps, of near Drewry. was killed when northbound Sea board Air Line freight No. SO struek the car in which he was riding at a grossing in Wise shortly after two o'clock this afternoon. Another man whose name was not immediately learned leaped from the auto mobile before the train struek it. and was reported not to have been injured. Few details were learned, hut the car was said to have been virtually destroyed. Capps was reported to be home on leave from the Navy. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Considerable clou iiness and I warmer with oceasinral light I rain in west and north tonight: | Friday partly cloudy and mild j with light rain. Workers In Score Plants W alkout; 17,000 Are Idle Now York, .Jan. •">.— (Al’J — \ strike at'i'ecting 17. loo W'ost •m Electric company employes in :21 plants in New York City aid New .Jersey began today as .nousands of men and women 4uit work in a wage dispute that may also bring a shutdown in national telephone service. Henry Mayer, :■ : re! for the Western Electric Employes Associa tion, one of six unions operating \ plants of the American Telephone aid Telegraph Company's subsid iary said the strike was "one hun dred per cent effective at the Kearn ey. N. J. plant" where between 11 - 000 and 12,000 are employed. Employes in six New York City plants walked out at 11 a. m. Some Not Affected The strike did not affect employes in Western Electric- plants >n the west coast. Hawthorne, 111.. Balti more and Haverhill, Mass., when? workers belong to the other l-vt* unions. Weste.i; Electric manufacturers telephone switchboards for use by the Bell Telephone System, another A T. & T. subsidiary. The v. a . stoppage had no immediate effect ui telephone service throughout the na tion but Joseph Beirne. president ■ f the- National Federation of Telephone workers said members of 48 unions in the l'oderaliii; had been asked t-> authorize a national sympathy strike. The federation has about 26,000 pay ing members. Beirne said a strike by them would affect some 450,000 Bell System em ployes. GOVERNMENT ASKS BANK STATEMENTS Washington, .Jan. 3. (AIM The comptroller of the urrcncy today is ; sued ,s call for a .-totem i t ol the condition of all national bonks at the | ( lose of busine-s Decerniiei 31, HJtn. The Federal Reserve Board issued a fall to its nember banks ho simi lior mndtion reports, aid the Fed eral Deposit Insurance Corp. .-.sued ' a call to till insured b;« ks not cov ered by the other two rolls to repot t on their condition us. of the same date. New Paper Sought By Committee Document of State Department Wanted By War Probe Body Washington, Dec. 3.—(AIM— T ; Congressional committee investigat ing Pearl Harbor took steps today to get a look at documents whi i Hep. Keefe of Wi-eon.-in asserted te > State Department refused to sho.v him. Keefe compk'.'ined in open sessi in that information he knew was revo! ont to the inquiry had been dubbe l irrevalent bv Undersecretary ol State Dean Achcson. He said, specifically, he wanted '.» see a memorandum which he so' 1. was prepared by Lawrence Soli.-bu y about three months prior to Sal. ■ burv's resignation from the State De partment. Chairmin Basklev of Kentuc y agseed tho'i Keefe had a pent He asked committee Counsel William Mitchell to get il and - ibmit it to the committee in executive session. "It has been the understanding all along that the committee, and not the Secretary of State or any other secrek.'ry shall determine what's re valent,” Barkley said. The committee resumed q x shott ing of Adm. Harold Stark, chief of naval operations at the lime of the Japanese attack December 7. 1941. The committee heard from Stork theft he was not concerned in late 1941 about the ability and wisdom ol Adm Husband Kimmel. fleet commander at Pearl Harboi to pre pare against a possible air attack. Since the siuation has been sur veyed and "machinery put in mo tion" at least by the summer of 1941, Stark said, "I felt it no longer nec essary to emphasize air attack in my letters. 1 ws sure that the comman der in chief of the Pacific fleet would continue efforts to meet an air at tack.”
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