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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-20
Congress Hands Truman
Program Heavy Jolting
BRITISH CONVICT
lord HAW HAW''

LONDON, Sept. 19-tR-William
Joyce, the scarfaced little Lord
Haw Haw who broadcast Nazi pro-
paganda to the British througout
the war, was convicted of treason
in Old Bailey today and sentenced
to be hanged.
Not a flicker Of expression
crossed the ruddy face of the thin
Tipped defendant as Sir Frederick
Tucker, the presiding judge, had a
black cap placed on his wig and
pronounced the sentence.
AS he descended to his cell, how
ever, Joyce turned toward &C.
quaintances in the courtroom and
gave Nazi-type salute.
A crowd waiting outside the
bomb-scarred law courts cheered
the news. It took the jury of 10
men and two women, who had
listened for three days to argu-
ments over Joyce's nationality,
only 20 minutes to reach a YER
dict.
The blond, five-foot-four defend
ant, whose face is SCARED from
mouth to ear as the result of a
street brawl, sought to evade pun
ishment by claiming American cit
izenship on grounds that he was
born in Brooklyn, N. Y, 80 years
ago.
r Justice Tucker ruled today, how
ever, that Joyce owed allegiance
to the British Crown when he went
to Germany wrapped up in the
Union Jack"-under the protection
Of a British passport obtained by
posing as a British subject -
just before the war broke out.
Defense solicitors, whose con-
tention that Joyce was an Ameri-
can citizen won dismissal of two
other counts, said they would
appeal. The appeal probably will
be heard before the court of GRIM
inal appeal next month.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-20
Red Cross,
7 olice Aid
&
Residents
BLUETT DAM HOLDS
Highways In Eastern Sec
ton OF State Closed
By Floods

Rampaging Cape Fear river wa.
tiers which repeatedly took the lives
of two Negro youths in the Fayette.
vile area were inundating LOVELY.
ing sections of the city necessitat.
ing evacuation of several hundr, ]
persons, according to police there.
The drowned boys were Johnnie
c. Holmes, IL, and Sidney johnson,
Is. Police said Holmes was drown
ed while playing in the water on
the Cedar Creek road near Fayette.
vile and Johnson was drowned on
high water of the river road.
A third drowning had been re-
ported but police said that check
failed to yield any confirmation at
late hour last night.
The evacuation, which was .,e.
gun early yesterday morning, was
being carried on by police, the Red
Cross, soldiers from Fort Bragg
and volunteer workers.
Field kitchens have been set up
and relief workers were placing
evacuees in the armory. Of the
Fayetteville Light Infantry and in
| school buildings
People working In Fayetteville
having homes outside the city, had
already crowded hotels to capaci+y
for the last three days, officers
said, necessitating the use of the
impronptu shelters.
Authorities, predicting heavy wa.
ter damage in the flooded sections
Of the city said that the river stage
at Fayetteville had reached slight
ly over &c feet and was expected to
rise to 81 feet sometime last night
with gradually receding waters fol-
lowing.
The Atlantic Coast Line railroad
bridge leading into Fayetteville
was the setting when a bit OF his
tory repeated itself as the ACL
placed freight cars on the trestle
to hold it down. The only other time
such a drastic move had been nee.
essary was in August of 1908, when
the Cape Fear reached a record
height of over 60 feet.
School children in Fayetteville
were dismissed yesterday and no
estimate could be obtained as to
how long school activities would
be suspended.
| At Rockingham, authorities re-
ported that the Bluett Falls dam.
I which had been expected to break,
had held back the flood waters
collecting behind it and that danger
to the area appeared diminishing
with waters receding gradually.
!, Traffic has been resumed on p4Ac-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-20
ARCENTlNES DEFY
REGIME OF PER0N

BUENOS AIRES. Sept. 19-R-
Thousands of Argentines marching
through this capitals streets today
in a gigantic demonstration for
constitution and liberty shouted
defiance of Col. Juan Peron's mill
tary government.
Shouts of down with Peron,"
down with despotism' and
death to dictatorship arose fire.
quently from the crowd but, up to
mid-afternoon, the disorders and
perhaps a struggle" Peron h d
predicted last night had not oc-
Cured. Peron is vice-president and
strong man of the government.
A threat of trouble was averted
when armed police, acting on the
complaint Of two anti-Peron law
yers, raided headquarters OF the
procurement Nationalist Youth
Alliance Just before the parade
started and emerged with rifles.
hand-grenades and powder.
Heavy detac hments Of police and
shock troops stood ready with
trucks, rifles and tear gas bombs
to control any outbreak, and bust.
ness houses ran down their heavy
iron shutters. -,
However, the multitudes which
began pouring from offices, fac,
tories and shops soon after noon
seemed in good humor.
The assembly was called for 2:30
pm. local time d:30 EWT). Fit.
teen minutes later the four wide
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-20
PILOT LIGHT CAUSES
FATAL. BLAST DURING
SUICIDE ATTEMPT

-
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 19-lRE
A pilot light on a gas refrigerator
ignited fumes escaping from a
stove and blew out the side Of a
house while a Tilted sutton was
committing suicide by gas, detec-
tive George Marker said today.
Charles G. Littleton, %, was
found dead on the floor of his two
room apartment by Marker. who
was called to investigate the blast
last night. The detective said an
autopsy will be made to determine
whether death was caused by gas
or the explosion.
Marker said Littleton's cir l
friend had broken off their engage
ment a short time before.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-20
STRICKEN YOUTHS
PLAN FOR FUTURE

SALISBURY, N. c., Sept. 49,
R-Three young brothers ate
heartily today, Of chocolate cake
and ice cream and, like boys all
over the world, talked of what they
intend to do when they grow up
But these boys won't grow up.
All are totally disabled from, in
durable Muscular Dystrophy and
their widowed mother, Mrs. D.
E. Pinion, said today that-con.
trary to earlier reports-the boys
do not know that medical science
is unable to help their plight and
they are doomed to an early death.
Today, the boys = David, 10,
Billy, IS, and Lloyd, 10 shared
the bewildered delight of their
mother in the words Of cheer aid
gifts which flooded their home here.
The family misfortunes were known
in this section, general knowledge
Of their plight became known to
the world only. with a story and
photograph circulated by news
services early this week.
First response-and, from the
boys standpoint, one Of the most
appreciated - was a mammoth
homemade chocolate cake, with
ice cream, brought to their home
early today.
Since then, a constant flow Of
gifts and messages has been re
ceived. The Salisbury Lions Club
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dragon Lady,, Policeman Clear
Hundred Miles Of China Coast

SHANGHAI Sept. 19.-LF9-One hundred miles Chin
coast ana many fshore islands cleared Of japanese
patroed mainly by seagong unks preparatory expe
American landingthrough the efforts Of Chinese
rhla leader and former Shanghai policeman. o. a
The identity OF the still today - -
is known Familiarity Dragon Lady" >. Is
The man is Army It. Phillip Bradfeld of Nashvj a
from 1925 to 1929. g
The Dragon Lady decided years ago couo >
I'VE peace with the Japanese in her native section
Provlnce She had did strength
intelligence. -
. With two friends she entered japanese
knitted the entrie to obtain their When she had
weapons she acquired friends
Soon she had guerras operating wide Kiang
plain 800
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-20

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19-R-
Price Administrator Chester
Bowles said today he will ask Con-
gress for authority to control the
price of new homes Ito avoid a
serious inflationary boom in this
Bowles also announced in a
statement, which he amplified at
news conference. that he in
tended to put into effect a pro-
gram sharply Tightening OPA's
control over b u i din 6 material
prices. These controls also will
cover most of the fixtures and
household equipment which go in
to a new home, and construction
services.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-20
Votes To Turn USES Back
To States; Hits Job
Aid

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 -lR -
Congress handed President Tru-
mans peacetime legislative pro-
gram a couple of heavy jolts to-
day-and one big boost.
The jolts still aren't permanent.
But the Senate:
Voted Sc to % for putting the
U. S. Employment Service back
under state. management, as be-
fore the war. Mr.. Truman didn't
want that. He said it would slow
reconversion and handicap veter-
ans and workers.
Voted 81 to 20 against giving
states enough Federal money to
pay the jobless up to $25 week.
The, President wanted the $25.
But from the House Expendi-
lures committee he got something
he favored-approval of a bill to
let him merge and abolish govern
ment bureaus and commissions in
the interests of economy and ef-
ficiency.
House and Senate still have to
act on that measure.
And the Senate. didn't take a
final vote on the jobless pay bill.
It may Thursday. Then it will be
up to the House. .
The key provision still in the
measure would let the government
gives the states cash toEBxtefla
their present jobless payments
through 26 weeks. State rates vary
from SIS to $28. The duration also
varies.
Other top topics, on the busiest
day of this first-post-war Congress
sional sessions, were:
l. Reconversion. Full employ
ment" and minimum wage bills
moved forward.
2. Decentralization. Congressman
still want faster service discharg-
| es.
3. The Navy's peacetime size.
The Admirals want big, power
full fleet.
This happened:
Reconversion-
Six hundred banner-bearing New
York CLIO members stormed Capt.
tol Hill demanding action, about
like the President asked, on job
less pay, full employment" and
higher minimum wage.
Chairman Norton D-ND of the
House Labor Committee saw Mr.
Truman. She said she left with
the impression he favors raising
from 40 to IS cents an hour the
minimum wage required of firms
in interstate commerce. She re-
turned to the capitol, dropped II
bill to do that.
Chairman Wagner tD-NY) pre-
dicted the Senate Banking commit
tee would approve Tuesday a full
employment bill.
The committee changed the bill
today to say all Americans able
and desiring to work "are entitled
(instead Of ''have the right") to
an opportunity for renunerative,
regular, full : time employment.
Senator Taft (R-Ohio) said this
removes the fraud Of fooling the
people" about job guarantees.
Demobilization-
The House Republican steering
committee-it shapes partly policy
in the House-backed the immedi'
ate release of fathers and two-yea1
veterans from the armed forces
The Senate Military committe
learned the Marines plan to cu1
their discharge point score below
the present 10 as soon as possible
The Navy
Secretary Forrestal plunked be
fore the House Naval committee
bill to authorize a peacetime
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-20
Jap Leaders
Clean House
Of Suspects
MACARTHUR SILENT
Occupation Work Moving
Smoothly Headquarters
Reports

TOKYO Thursday, Sept. 20
- up The Japanese cabinet
will soon clean out more Of
its war time leaders, reliable
informants predicted, in keep
ing with the hard listed Allied
occupation controls which tenn
porarily shut down another
Tokyo newspaper.
American headquarters mean
while announced that a new and
longer list of Japanese to be ques-
toned on war guilt charges would
be issued soon, supplementing the
first list which contained Al names.
Good news to American service
men in the Pacific with sufficient
discharge points came in Pearl
Harbor Navy Headquarters an
nouncement that huge Carrier Di-
vision a." composed of the Navy's
biggest flattop, the Saratoga. and
Is escort carriers, is being formed
to transport 10000 or more men
home each month.
Reliable Nipponese sources
which forecast more designations
from Premier Prince Higashi-
s1Eaasi.s cabinet placed Vice Pre-
mier Prince Fumimaro Konoye's
name at the head Of the list Of
those to go out. Konoye, twice Pre-
mier Of Japan, headed the govern
ment when Japan invaded China in
1887.
Others mentioned were 1t. Gen.
Toshishiro Obata and Taketora
Ogata, ministers without protfolio.
Ogata, also chief cabinet sec
rotary, whose name was among
members of the Jingoist Black
Dragon Society listed among Gen.
eral MacArthur's selection of sus-
pected war criminals.
Mamoru Shigenitsu Foreign
Minister in two Of Japan's war
cabinets, resigned from that same
post on Premier Higashi-Kuni' S
government two days ago, his
place being taken by Shigeru Yo-
shida, a peace advocate.
ashi-Kuni, who told a recent
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-20

Regional and district OPA Of
fees throughout the country will
prepare specific dollars-and-cents
prices on as many items as pos
ible, Bowles said.
Describing the whole field of
home building, home ownership
and rent control as "a highly ex-
plosive situation" Bowles said:
''Unless the real estate interests,
the home building industry and the
public join with the government
to meet the issue head-on, the dan
ger of initiation in this an-1m-
portant field will grow rapidly.
If we fail to handle this pro-
blem with courage and good judg-
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-20
Boules To Ask Congress For Po1uer To Control
Price OF Neu Homes To Auoid Lnfzationary Boon,

timated that their cost has risen
3 percent since 1899, and called
many of the 1889 prices too high
for large volume home construc-
ton.
New dollars-and-cents prices will
cover lumber. insulation, brick,
soil pipe, millwork items, such as
doors windows and cabinets, as
well as bathtubs, septic tanks and
wash basins. '-.'
There will also be ceilings for
painting and papering, renewing OF
roof, installing plumbing, dig
ing cellars, etc.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-20
Forts Complete Japan-C Capital Hop;
IT, S. AirLines Plan 800 MPH Flights
Navy To Close N. c.
Pre-Fight School
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1s.-R

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.-H
The Navy announced today
the early closing of pre-f1ight
training schools for prosrec-
tive Naval aviators at the Uni
versity of Georgia and the Uni
versity of North Carolina.
The school at the University
of Georgia will close with the
termination of the present
class October l, and the Uni
versity of North Carolina school
will close with the present class
on October Is.
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ment, we're inviting repetition
of the real estate and home build
ing BOOM and bust" expert
ence which helped to bring on the
collapse of 1922
Bowles said the OPA program
would include elimination of rent
controls only when the Danger OF
a general increase in an area has
been eliminated-when the normal
bargaining situation between land
lord and tenant has been restored.
He said rent controls would be nee
essary through June, 1916 in most
OF the medium and large industrial
areas.
AS for building materials, he Ell
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-20
Detroit Oil
Strike Ties
Up Stations
1JAW FURTHER PLANS
Motor City Bus S ervice
Faces Stoppage Over
Gasoline Supplies

DETROIT, Sept. 10 up -
The labor troubles Of the ma
tion's automotive capital
mounted today as the United
Automobile Workers (CIO)
continued preparations for a
bead-on collision with the Car
industry over 30 per cent
wage increase demand.
threatening to add to the 10000
already idled in the area by work
stonpages and shutdowns was
snreading strike in the oil indus
+rv bv the Oil Workers Union
lcIO, and a curtailment of cleo
trcal equipment to three divisions
NJ General Motors Corporation.
william S. Bullock, general man
ager of Detroit's municipality own
ed public transportation system,
said only a four days supply o.
gasoline remained for the city
approximately 1,40O buses in daily
operation.
The oil strike began with a stop
page by truckers, later spread te
workers in the Socony Vacuum
Company plant in suburban Tren'
ton, and was reported affecting
nearby refineries supplying the
Detroit area. A 30 per cent wage
increase demand was involved II
the dispute.
Industry circles heard reports
that as many as $4,000 workers
in the Chevrolet, Buick and Olds'
mobile divisions of General Motors
might be forced into idleness this
weekend by a strike at the War.
rem, Ohio, plant of the Packard
Electrical Co. The company sup
plies wiring systems for the three
General Motors divisions.
General Motors officials here
would not comment.
The new threats to the aItoIno'
bile industry's recenversicn eftarf
came as Richard T. Frankensteen
LAW vice president and candidate
for Mayor of Detroit at the No
yenber election, reported prog
ress in personal efforts to get 4,50(
Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co. employe:
back at work. The Kelsey-Haye!
strike, begun August %, precipi
tated the closing of the Ford plant:
and the laying off Of $4,000 work
ers.
The Ford company listed thu
Socony-Vacuum Co. oil tr k
among Is other labor disturbance:
in supplying plants that impedee
car production. The gasoline short
age also was reflected in the emp
ty tanks of many gasoline service
stations. Many o. them postet
signs, mo gasoline.
While management maintained
its policy of silence concerning thu
30 per cent wage demands, wore
came from the UAW-CIO that thu
first petitions to the National La
Dor Relations Board for a strike
vote-that among the 325, 900 EN-
ployes in General Motors ID
plants-might be filed this week
1t previously had been annoCnc
ed similar petition would be FLEE
on behalf of upwards OF ~, O0'
Chrysler Corporation employees b.
September Is, and that the UAV
National Ford Council would con
slider like action on behalf of 10Y.
600 Ford workers at meeting
here September 20 and 30.
Frankensteen stepped into tn
Kelsey-Hayes strike controversy a
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North Carolina-Partly clouds with
moderate temperatures Thursday. Scat
tered showers and thunderstorms in west
portion.
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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-12-28
Miss Brundt WEEDS
tonnes Slater At
St. Johns Church

ST. Johns Episcopal church in
Pascagoula was the setting for a
quietly beautiful wedding De
eember 26 at l o'clock in the af-
ternoon, when Miss Valpory Cen
evieve Brandt, daughter of Rich
ard c. Brandt OF Bayou LaBatre
became the bride Of James NAL
coin Slater, son of Mrs. Robert
Waring of 101 Live Oak avenue,
Pascagoula.
The altar was exceptionally
beautiful with an arrangement of
chrysanthemums and holly ana
other Yuletide evergreens. Sim
liar decorations were used in
other parts of the church.
The officiating clergyman was
the Reverend Friedrich Resch,
rector OF the church who conduct
ed the single ring ceremony.
A suit in a fashionable shade
of blue with matching a%ecessor-
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the Arctic night, around Mem
phis, from whence he came. But
he lived on in the popular speech
o. the townspeople, as those
things happen, for any doting
grandfather or young uncle who
thereafter bought a camera and
began to snap pictures was called
Mr.. Skeeles'', and the longer that
the custom lasted the more nat
uraI it seemed, FOR folks probab-
.lv began to forget that there had
been a real little man by that
name. If YOU snapped pictures
at reunions and picnics you were
Mr.. Skeeles : the : photographer
and that was that.
Then one year the family for
some reason all made a trip UP
to Chattanooga, where thetv oe-
cupied themselves pleasantly one
way or another, and one bright
day in the summer they all went
up on Lookout Mountain where
the Battle of Chickamauga was
fought and one Of the young UNI
eles got out the inevitable cam
era and began to pose the family
against the interesting back
ground. 1t was a cool summer
dav and quite a few people were
in the park. The family group
got mixed up and finally when
they were all together the un-
Gle had wandered off with his
camera. "Mr. Skeelesl" they be-
gan to call. "Yoo-hoo, Mr.. Skeeles.
Where are you, Mr.. Skeeles?
Come back and take our picture
The little fellow came running
back up the hill with his cam
era, eager and smiling, and set
his tripod in the earth and be-
gan posing the family with the
air Of long familiarity. But it
was not the uncle.
How are you, Mrs? Very fine,
| hope he said brightly. How
the children have grown. "Ill
pose you as we did before"
1t was Mr.. Skeeles the photog-
rapher. Out of the countless
thousands of people who were
sWarming the parks and tourists
trails of the South on that sum
mer day, he had heard the fam
iliar summons, and had responded
to an old commission.
NEEDLESS TO SAY. there
can hardly be any reason behind
small and inconsequential events
like this, which happen a few
times in every life, and which
always amaze one by the mathe-
NAUTICAL odds against their hap
pening. And vet, from another
point Of view, considering all
the countless events that happen
in a lifetime, all the countless
things that are said, all of the
n~umberless scenes that + visit
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Crisis In Teochinq

We wonder how many OF our readers could
guess anyways near the exact percentage of
public school teachers who have been forced
to quit and find other work since the 1914
session of the legislature. Probably a very
small proportion of the public has any idea
OF the real crisis in teaching personnel that
confronts Mississippi because of the starva-
ton wages that are paid to the teachers and
trainers of its young people and future citi-
zens.
In cold facts and figures, more than half
of our teachers have had to quit during the
brief two-year period now ending. The exact
figure is 30 percent. Some were drafted, or
retired for age or illness, but by far the ma
jority simply could not afford to 90 on with
their small liked salaries, during a period
when the butcher, the baker and the candle
stick maker were charging higher prices. and
the wage rates in other industries had gone
up as a result of the war activity. 1t is not
that they did not like teaching. 1t was their
chosen profession, and most of them would
have preferred to remain in it rather han
take jobs as carpenters, electricians. clerks
and statesmen to which many of them mi
grated.
Our public schools simply do not pay
enough to compete for competent people
with other businesses. 1t has gotten to the
point where a man or woman simply
cannot afford to spend the time and