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Hgttftgrgptt Hatly Hispatrlj ^THIRTY-THIRD YEAR ''? a?wm" atkil.tvi'Yt^s<ly HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 27, 194(> ru uusikt^jinoon FIVE CENTS COPY ^CBIlAll ? ? Mrs. Diirant Is Heard At TheftTrial WAC Officer Sajrt Army Made 'Deal' To Give Frccdohi Frankfurt, Aim. 27-,?(/l'i?Wac Capt. Kathleen Nash Uifrant's story of how the $1,50(1,00(1 Ijosse crown jewels were stolen front Kromberg castle, split four ways and smug gled into the U. S. was laid today bc for a military court. The prosecution introduced two statements sinned by Mrs. Duranl, former army manager of the old castle, after the court ruled they were obtained without presurc or promises to protect her trom prosecu tion. As the Captain sat white-faced and starring before the court trying her on charges of larceny and embez zlement, the statements made in Chicago last June were read. In them, she named her husband. Col. Jack \V. Duraut, Maj. David A. Wat > ii an i ,>gl. iioy t . i .n iton as par I tii ???nuts. In response to (piestious, she re lated how the jewel, were foun buried in the basement ami brough to her room by Carlton. "There were bracelets, tiaras, an;, clips. We spread it all on the floor,' the statement quoted her as saying Col. Duranl arrived the next day and Ma Watson the day after that, she said. "All of us decided to keep the jewelry," the statement vjded. "Maj. Watson seemed to have more courage about it than we did. We were worried. We decided to dividi it four ways." She took half the jewels to Amer ica when she was redeploy!;! in February, and left the rest with Du ranl and Watson. "When we sold it, Watson was to get his share." her statement said. "We estimated all of it was worth $511,000." v apt. Nash is charged with larce ny and embezzlement. She managed an oficer's club a' the castle of the countess of 1 lessen when the fabulous theft tool; place Mrs. Duraut took the witnos. stand before a court martial to chal lenge purported confession-, present ed by the prosecution. Site assertei her statements were not voluntary She said she was arrested in th early morning of June 3 and wa. questioned without sleep or brcak iasl by Col. Ralph Pierce and a Chi cago criminologist. "They said (Secretary of War) Patterson and Kisenhower were looking for us in Washington," tin defendant, said. "They said the ar my wanted to keep everything quiet and wanted no publicity that they were interested only in gelling the jewels back and were not mterestec in prosecuting anyone." The prosecution contended that Voluntarily. Three Bi<? Leaf Firms Face Suit New York. Aug. 27. ? i/Pi ? Thi Montkello Tobacco Company. Incor porated, Monday filed suit in fedcra court against three major cigarette manufacturers, seeking damages o $12,000,000 for allegedly restrictive trade practices under provisions ot the Sherman anti-trust act. The Monticello Cmupaiy also ask ed that the damages be trebled to $3(1,000,000 in acordancc with provis ions of the act. The American Tobacco Company and its subsidiary. American Sup pliers, Incorporated: the Liggett and Myers Company: the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company rrd officers of the | companies were named defendants. Australian Delegate Delivers Blistering Attack Upon Russia CHINESE SPIES SHOT TO DEATH i " t_- ^ A VACANT FIELD in Chapel near Shanghai, China, was the last sight seen on this earth by 26 Chinese, including one woman, who were shot by a firing squad after being sentenced to death on charges of espionage and secret collaboration with the enemy during the war. At top. the con demned are marched into the execution line. Moments later, Chen Lu, 24, the woman spy (bottom), sprawls dead in the grass. (International) Old Plot To Seize Power In Russia Told At Trial ?R,?v-iU Of ! Discloses Details, Japan Would Help Moscow. An?;. 27. ?(/!*??Sreret de ads of a 30-year-old plot by anti jolshevic Russian emigres in the Orient to wrest power in the U. S. S. R. with Japanese aid were re counted in a crowded court room to day by a gi'i/./.lcd old man who has jecn notorious throughout the So viet Union for a quarter century as he "white bandit of Siberia." Gen. Gregones Emynov. eossaek counter-revoli(lioiiary leader and one-lime czarist officer who said he once plotted to kill Lennin. unfold ed the details of the plot today as his trial, along with seven co-defend ants on charges of armed struggle against the Soviet Union, went in its second day before the military col legium of the Soviet Supreme Court. Col. Gen. Vasilivo Ulrich, president ?I the court, who presided at the 1936 Moscow trials, listened impa - ivcly as his government's arch enc ny testified glibly of mass killings, nige money gifts from Japan and ecret details of espionage in the far East. The former eossaek leader told the on it that the Jiipatiese hurl agreed to make him chief of u puppet state including all of the Siberia, if the plot succeeded. Nuernberg Trial Will End Shortly Nuernberg. Aug. 27. -d/l'l?Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence an nounced today the internatin at mil itary tribunal's intention of ('includ ing by this wek -endaerdrd Itn p old trial of 22 German war leader* ond seven Nu/i organizations ac cused of crimes against humanity. The closing phases of the trial ?which started Nov. 2U. 1915- have bren marked by apparent defense ef forts to stall for time, reflected in icquests for permissim to question new wltncses and submit statements. ?> GIRL PICKER GETS PICK. San Diego. Calif.. Aug. 27.-?i/l"l? George White. 53, producer of si age ird screen girl show "Scandals." was declared physically tit for coun ty jail road camp work and it was announced he would start with a pick and shovel. The showman, sentenced to a year for the "hit and run" traffic deaths ol a newlywed couple July 20. was to be transferred to the camp in the Lagu.ia mountains. INU FEARS FOR HER Manic, ? The side car of a motorcycle hoi:! 110 fears for a recent 72-year-old visitor to Dare county, even when she | was faced with the pro.pcrt of a I 2,000-mile trip. So .Mrs. liattie Seheuler of | Alton, III., climbed aboard and j rode the distance with her I ciaue.lilcr at the controls. From j tlieir home they traveled through Cleveland. O.. Niagara Falls. X. V.. Washington, a 11 d the Shen andoah Valley to Manteo, where they were the Kiicts ol Mr. and Mcs. Krvin Midgett. While there they viewed the I local sights and took in a per formance of t lie Cost Colony. I'aul Green's symphonic drama I now itt its sixth season at the Waterside theater in Fort lia leich. Mrs. Seheuler and her daugh ter weren't half through travel ing when they left here. They returned by way of Ashevillc, the Smoky Mountains. Florida and Monroe. I.a.. w li e r e Miss Sehealer was employed i:i a parachute far lory during the war. Officials Deny China To Get U.S. War Items ISIu > chni. An;:. 27.- (/V) Assistar Secretin.v of Wai Howard I'atcrso laud Foreign l.iciuid.'ition Commission jer Thomas It McCnbc today flat! denied Chine e (.'?( 11 i 11::ri> t change III.id neitoti.dii.ns were underway f< I the secret sale of surplus tJ. s. mil ilany supplies to I lie nut .oualisl gov | ciumo 1 of China. I In ii joint sl.deintnl liic.v said dis Iitlssiohs were 111 pngiess foi (tie sal to Cliiriii < f surplus properly ill Ih western I'acilie is I inds worth $500 000.000 but added: "N? ammiu it ion. 110 weapons, ? ail plane.; of any type nor ot lie purely military items were union surplus being offered China." They said acquisition of the civi ian items "wilt be of vast benefit I China and its peace-time economy The Communist charged also tin valuable civil air right over t'liii were pari of the consideration the alleged sale, but the two off 1 cials countered: 1 "Chinese civil air rights are n 1 ber.g discussed as part of the coi Isideratlon." Delegates Hail Beasley Speech At Conference i Paris, Aug. 27. ? <.1'i ? Australian Delegate .1. A. Beasley brouglil dele gates at the Paris conference to their feet today with a blistering attack in whir!) lie accused It u s s i a of "I'c.s". "intimidation" and "power politics." Hilt the burst of hard boiled ora t' i v ended amicably and the Aus tralian and his an tag) < ist, Andrei Vishinsky. Soviet deputy foreign minister. Iclt the room smiling at one another. Before the adjournmnt of the po litical and economic commission o?t the Italian treaty, at which the clash occurred. Australia agreed to drop her proposal for a standing sub committee to "examine, collect and report" on the. farts in Italy's fron tier dispute with Yugoslavia. France and Austria, and to make recommen dations if it sccmc-l fit. But the commission adopted a sim ilar proposal from the French to or ganize a standing committee to in vestigate any point of dispute con ccrnV.g the Italian frontier. Beasley came to the defense of Col. VV. R. . Hodgs on of Australia, whose arguments before the Italian treaty economic commission, had been belittled by Vishinsky. The Australian appeared aroused especially by a remark Vishinsky had made that "Australia is the far therest point from Europe and has presented 35 per cod of the pro posals to this conference." Beat ley said: "We may be 15,000 miles away from Europe, but we fought in two wars in Europe and have lost some r.t our best men here. We refuse' to recognize that Soviet Russia has any more right than we. We are not going to be intimidated because one power feels it is big at the moment." -? 4 Woman Appointed Teacher For Jap Prince Nervous New Loudon. N. II.. Aug. 27.?(>P) ?Mrs. Klizabetli Gray Vining of Philadelphia, author of several children's books, awaited with some self-admitted "tropedation" today a unique asignment as tutor for the crown prince of Japan. The State Department in Washing Ion announced her appointment. Dr. George Stoddard, churman of the American education mission which visited Japan last March, asked an American woman tutor for the crown prince. During the summers of 1929 and 1930. Mrs. Vining taught library science at the University of North Carolina. Her husband, formerly as sociate director of the extension division of the North Carolina school was killed in 1933 in an auto acci dent. Mrs. Bird Named Head Of Auxiliary HalcigH, Aug. 27. ? UPi ? Mrs. Thomas Bird was elected today as president of the North Carolina De partment. America legion Auxiliary. Vice presidents named were: Mrs. John Ward of Williamston, first area; Mrs. I. M. Vann of Clinton, second area; Mrs. W. L. Wood of Warren r ton. third area: Mrs. Griffin T. Smith if Shelby, fourth area: and Mrs. Hugh Auston of Lenoir, fifth area. ; Market Pivotals Take Sharp Drop New York. Aug. 27.?(/P)?Stocks _ led by industrials and rails ran into v heavy selling today and market pivo ,'s tals dropped one to more than four ?. points. Bonds ai'tl commodities were _ uneven, - FLIGHT INSTRUCTION e IS POSSIBLE AT U.N.C. Chapel Hill. ? Flight training pro () grams as a part of the University of North Carolina curriculum for the |B coming year may he offered this fall by University officials, who are nt i tempting to feel out interest iii the l'iprojc*;l before definitely scheduling .. the courses. '. Under the present plan, a part of ' (lie expansion of the post-war unl versity. flight training would be of !.n fcrcd to students in the primary, multi-engine, commercial, instructor and instrument stages of flying. The ot i courses would be planned to give rt- , Carolina students ratings as instruc I tor; and commercial pilots. wcnniMii uinuckokuuND MACHINERY FOR MOSCOW __ I ?I? -v.-Ag/- TTI. **T.. . ;. ; I _ _ J REPARATIONS equipment allocated to the Soviet by the Coordinating Committee, these huge crates contain machinery from the Daimler-Benz underground aircraft plant at Obrigheim, Germany, and is bound for Moscow. The machinery is part of some 1,800 major items of equipment which produced approximately six hundred aircraft engines a month tor the Nazi air force during the war. (International) Advice From Meat Industry: 'Eat It While You Can Find It* Yards Are Jammed With Largest Run In Twelve Years Chicago, Aug. 27.?l/l'i?"Eat it I while you can" was the advice of j the meat industry today as packers worked at turning the largest cat- i tie run since >934 into steaks, rib roasts, and other cuts of beef. Packers predicted freely that by ! Thursday, when new OPA one j ceilings cn livestock are scheduled lo become effective, the currently I j jam-packed livestock markets would resemble the great open spaces. .] "Cattle are coming to market which should never be slaughtered," ' Norman Draper of the American Meat Institute said. He added that this winter there would be "a real famine." In their rush to get in under OPA ceiling deadline, producers were sending to market light weight hogs ' and cattle which normally would re- 1 main on ,farms for months, livestock observers said. Twenty of the nation's largest \' stockyards handled a total of 183, 1)00 cattle yesterday, including 40. 000 at the huge Chicago yards, the largest run for any one day here ; since Sept. 24, 1923. Prices of almost all classes of ' hogs and cattle dripped sharply under pressure of the bulging re ceipts. Top price of S30 a hundred weight was recorded here for two loads of prime cattle, equalling the all-time high established last Sat urday. However, most other steers slumped one to three dollars under last week's close. OPA Cracks Automobile Black Mart Lccsville. S. C.. Alls. 27.?I./P)?The ! government looked today to a raid Fxro 0:1 a reputed S75.00tl.000 black | market in automobiles In have a "salutary effect" on other si.-.l? o;i- \ crntions. Six men were arrested in a swoop. by OPA agents yesterday,.on what | !hey described as the hub of n:j automobile black market covering 14 states. U. S. District Attorney Claude N.' Sapp .;aid his oflice would prosecute I he cases and added: "These arrests will have a salu tory effect on all black markets and especially on the automobile black market." The men. ordered hel 1 for the No- j vember term of court arc under $2,-. 500 bond each and are subject to a maximum penalty ot $5,000 fine and ine year 'n prison. Special agents, posing a.s dealers. ; bought li ve automobiles at an open j air Tnarkct jammed with an esti mated 80 dealers and .500 cars. They forked over $12,000 in payment. They said the prices they paid were double the OPA ceiling and that if they had had enough funds they \ould have bought scores of cars at such prices. Those arrested were all from South I Carolina. Industries Rushing To Get Out From Under Price Rules WasnVgton, Aug. 27. ? CP) ? Industries' rush to get out from un der OPA ceilings gained momentum today. John Baulkcy chief of the new meat control division set up within :hc price agency, told a reporter he has had nearly 1.000 inquiries and ?omc 300 ? formal applications front various manufacturing groups. No formal petitions have been filed ?is yet. however, lor two reasons: 1. OPA made public only last week-end the specific steps cacti in dustry must take and the date it must provide in order to comply with the decontrol provisions of the new OPA act. 2. Two-week notice must be giv en industry advisory ? ommittecs be fore the actual petition can be filed. Meanwhile. OPA moved along on its own decontrol front by ripping a) price lids from canned and frozen comb ? sed soups. The .agency found ample supplies indicated. In. reverse direction, other OPA officials hurried their effort to re establish ceilings in livestock, meats and fats, .and nils. These actions rc Miltcd from the first decision of the independent decontrol board. C IIKVSI.I K SHUTS l?OVVN. Detroit. Aug. 27.?</Pi?Efforts of the nation's motorcar makers to push into higher level production received another setback today as Chrysler Corporation closed down all its as scincly lines because of parts ;.i:cl malt rials shortages. Weather FOR NORTH CAROLINA Clear to partly cloudy tonight anil Wednesday. Warmer Wed nesday. Cherry Will Back Attempt To Have U. N. Home In N. C. Kaleigh. Aug. 27.?</Vi~A Moore County delegation loo i>y Colin G Spencer of Carthage asked Gover nor Cherry today for his support in their efforts *to have the perma nent home of the TInitcfl Nation located in the Sii'dhills area. The governor said lie gladly would cooperate in Ihe move and promised t" invite the U. N. to locate in N. C. (A new item fr.i X.ak? Sue e-*s. N. Y., however, qroterl a spokes man for the headquarters comnriiltee of l'. N. as saying the organization was limited by mandate of the Gen eral Assembly to locate with'r. the Westchester-Fairfield counties ot New York and Connecticut). Spencer said he had been in con t<>;t with A. .T. Hazes, a member of the delegation in i'large of housing, and that apparently sites out of the prescribed zone were u'dcr conid eration. Selection Of Jury Is Begun In Trial Of Wall C. Ewing Fayelteville. Aug. 27.?</!*>?Sclce lion of a jury from the regular panel was scheduled to begin at 4 p. hi. today in the trial of Wall C. F.wing. t prominent politician who is charged with first degree murder in the death last March 13 of his wife, the former Douglas Southerlnnd. A special venire of 200 men was ordered to report to Cumberland Su perior Court lomorow. The task of selecting a iury Is expected to require rrtost of the first two days of the trial. Judge It. Hunt ?Parker who will preside has Indi cated he may call several night ses sions. Hope Dies That Flier Still Alive Parts Of 5 Bodies Found By Officers In Area Of Bled Belgrade, Aug. 27.?</V)?Hope that at least one crew member of a shot down American transport plane might still be found alive was abandoned today by U. S. Graves Registration Commision officers who said evi dence had been found to Vdirate that all five crew men had died in the crash. The finding of four left feet and Tarts of another left foot convinced them, the officers said, that the five men perished when their plane was shot dov.n on August 19 by two Vugoslav fighter craft near Hied, in northwest Yugoslavia close to the Austrian frontier. The report was made after the commission had re-examined the scene of the crash and a common grave in the church cemetery in the village of Koprivnik. Ll. ('. O. fro vow Hi* the Graves Registration Commiss'ot said IhnI the suiiad had been' assisted in its examination by two Yugoslav doc tors. The commission's announcement apparently eliminated the chance that any of Hie fliers parachuted from the stricken ship. DENTISTS WANTED. Washington. Aug. 27. ? lA't? The Veterans Administration said today it would appoint all "ethjoally and professionally qualified" dentists who wish to render dental service on a fee bo-i- to veteiuns, FLOOD OF NEWSPRINT PULP TIMBER r ???zzymw~~~ "?? ???? DURING THE WAR, newsprint became a scarce item as loggers went olT to war and pulp and paper mills provided nitro-ccllutose for explosives, nylon for parachutes and other war essentials. With the resumption by Canada of its number one manufacturing industry, lumberjacks all dur ing the winter cut trees and sines the Spring have been sending down e flood of the pulp logs. These loggers are shown (above) on the prow fS h boat at Hull. Quebec, dewing, a tat Jam.. ' UnUraottonoU
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