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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-27
LEE NEGRO PAYS
EXTREME PENALTY

RALEIGH, N. c., Oct. 26.-R-
Burnett williams, Lee County
Negro who said he had been mis-
treated by this old world" died to-
day in the States gas chamber tor
criminal assault on a white woman
last March. He was "a years old.
Shortly before entering the gas
chamber this morning, Williams
told prison Chaplain L. A. Watts, Il
have been mistreated by this old
world, and I can't seem to forgive
those who have been bad to me. It's
hard for me to get it out Of my
heart"
He said he did not sleep at all
last night because he wanted to
stay awake to think and pray. He
told Chaplain Watts he hoped his
soul would be saved. II am trust
ing in Christ and I pray the best I
cam" he said.
Williams, who denied throughout
his trial that he assaulted a Lee
County white woman after holding
up the girl and her male compan-
ion, refused to talk to the Chaplain
about his guilt or innocence. 1--we
said all / want to say about that.
Nobody believes what I've said,
any anything I'd say wouldn't do
any good" he said. Watts said he
was crying and very nervous, but
he entered the death chamber
calmly.
The Negro isaid today he felt
there were chose who want me to
die" and that he wanted to die
$50 they will be satisfied"
Williams mother, who claimed
the body today, visited her son
yesterday after personal plea to
Governor Cherry for the Negro's
life. Cherry declined to intervene
in the case, which was upheld on
appeal by the State Supreme Court.
Evidence tended to show that
Williams held up the white girl and
her companion and locked them in
the back compartment, or trunk,
Of their car. Later, he removed
the girl, and after committing the
attack, tied the girl and her com
panion to the steering wheel
Parole officials said that on his own
admittance he had dealt a good
deal in liquor" but that he did moi
have 4 long prison record.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-27
RICHMOND LIVESTOCK

RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 2e-P-
USDA)-Hogs Sc. Market at CELL
ing 1880 61at) on good and choice
barrows and gifts 120-330 lbs. up;
10O-120 lbs. 1870; good sows under
$50 lbs. 14.15; 350-500 lbs. 14.15;
weights over 500 lbs. AIS. Good
stays 14.15.
Cattle-choice steers 15.50-16.00;
good 15.00-50; medium 11.oo-12.-
So; common 100000. Good beet
type cows 100000; good dairy
type 8.0o-50; medium 7.00-50; COM
mon 100000; shelly kinds lower.
Good beef type heifers 12.oo-13.o 90:
medium 100000; common 900
700. Good butcher bulls 10.00-50:
medium e.00-9.5O; light common
kinds 6.5O.7.50. Choice calves 49,.
so; good 14.00-5o; medium 11.00.
1900; common 100000; good ia
choice lambs 1400-50. Good sheep
5.OO-7.00.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-27
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-27
OPA Will Close Seven
Local Offices In N. {.

RALEIGH, Oct. 26.-R-Effec-
tive October 81, seven local War
Price and Rationing boards in the
state will be discontinued, the Ra-
leigh OPA office announced last
night. It indicated at the same
time a score of others would be
closed within the coming month.
probably by November 30.
The adjustment Of the boards u
in line with the policy to reduce
the number Of boards throughout
the state. The current consolida'
ton will close boards at Graham.
Chadbourn, Tabor City. Halifax,
Scotland Neck, Ellington and Red
Springs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-27
CHICAGO POTATOES

CHICAGO, Oct. -R)-USDA
Potatoes; arrivals SO, on track
356, total U. S. shipments 1868.
New Stocks: Supplies liberal. De-
mand slow. market dull. Idaho
russell burbanks, U. S. No. I, $780,
,$3.15; Colorado red me clures, U.
S. No. /, $2.65-$2.85; South Dakota
bliss triumphs, U. S. No. l, wash
ed, $3.50; Minnesota and North
Dakota bliss triumphs, commercial,
s1.7O; cobblers, commercial, $1.50-
$40; Wisconsin chippewas. COM
mercial, $1.80-$2.00.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-27

1soLegal


Having qualified as Administrator c.
7. A. Of the Estate Of Cornelia M. Wad-
dell, deceased, late Of New Hanover
County, North Carolina. this is to notify
all persons having claims against the
estate Of said deceased to exhibit them
to the undersigned on or before the 18th
day of October, 1916. or this notice will
be plead In bar Of their recovery. AZ
persons indebted to said estate will
please make immediate payment.
This the 18th day Of October, 1915.
Peoples Savings Bank & Trust Company
Administrator. c. r. A.. Of the Estate
Of CORNELlA M. WADDELL
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-27
NEW ORLEANS COTTON

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 26-A-
Cotton futures opened steady IS
cents a bale lower to 5 cents
higher.
Evening star., 1945-09-24
Capt. Bias Awarded DSC
For Leadership in Action

Capt. Ebert l.. Bias, 26, of Wash
ington, recently was awarded the
Distinguished Service Cross for ex-
traordinary heroism in action in
Germany last April with the 45th
Division.
During the divisions fight for
Nuremberg, Capt. Bias, then a lieu
tenant, mounted a tank to direct
fire on enemy troops which had
pinned, down the leading elements
of his company. Despite face and
hand wound received while he held
the position, Capt. Bias continued
the attack.
Later, he crossed street under
small arms fire to see a dying pla-
toon leader about information on
neutralizing enemy fire. Repeatedly
exposing himself to encourage the
advance of his company, the cita-
ton states. 1t. Bias inspired his
men to overcome resistance.
Capt. Bias Is now on leave.a at his
home, 1888 Q street NV. He re-
turned to the United States two
weeks ago after Is months overseas.
In addition to the DSM, he wears
the Purple Heart with Cluster, the
Silver Star Medal, the Presidential
Unit Citation and the European
Theater Ribbon with i've battle
stars. sesa-ss-,9s' .44s,e
Evening star., 1945-09-24
Nine Vessels Picked
|For Exhibit Here on
Navy Day, October II

Nine naval vessels have been or
defed to Washington for display on
Navy Day, october n. the Navy an. !.
nounced today.
Assignments of naval craft also
have been made to Alexandria, Va:
Annapolis, Baltimore and Cam Z
bridge, Md.
Names of the ships were disclosed.
when the Navy made public list Of
375 to be assigned to ports on the
Atlantic, Gulf Of Mexico and in
land points throughout the East
and Middle West for its annual cele-f
bration.
Assigned to Washington are the
2,l00-ton, fiush-deck type destroyers
Converse, Charles Ausburn, Claxton
and Dyson, all sister ships; the de-
stroyer-escort Lowe, three 1.525-ton
f1eet-type submarines Atule, Tyrone
and Cobia and the landing ship
(tank) LIST $50.
Alexandria is to have on display
the frigate named after the city. At
Annapolis will be the destroyer
Furse, the high-speed transport
Hayter and the submarine Bang.
The Essex-class carrier Randolph
has been assigned to Baltimore,
which also will have the heavy
cruiser Canberra, the destroyers
Schroeder. Herbert ]. Thomas and
Cyatt. the destroyer escort Solar,
the high-speed transport Hubbard
and the submarines Tirante, Requin,
Burrfish and Flying Fish.
Evening star., 1945-09-24
Popen's sSon, OnceStudentHere,
Seeks to Plead Fathers Case

secret and nobody ever came out Of
the camps to tell about them.
He hopes to clear up the belief
that his father brought Hitler into
power. Hitler came in according to
the Weimar constitution because the
Nazis were the strongest party, he
explains. The eden Won Papen,
then Chancellor, proposed a tempo
rary abandonment of the Reichstag
to break the deadlock which pre-
vented its functionlng. But his idea
was to put many brakes on the
Nazi government When aging Pres
ident Won Hindenburg turned over
the veto power by resigning the
greatest of these brakes was removed
and the Hitler dictatorship launched
Capt. Won Papen was captured in
the Ruhr pocket, has been at this
camp since June and will return
eventually to his parents home at
Saarlautern, where he hopes to find
his mother from whom he has not
heard for many months.
Evening star., 1945-09-24
Experts 10 Discuss
Full Work Issue

A discussion of full employment
will be held at 8 pm. Thursday in
the New Interior Department audi
torium, sponsored Jointly by the
Washington Board of Trade, the
National Planning Association and
the Society for the Advancement of
Management.
Speakers will be DR.. Robert Lamb,
legislative representative of the
United Steel Workers; DR.. George
Terborgh, research director of the
Machinery and Allied Products In
stitute, and DR.. John Corson, re-
search director of The Washington
Post. The speakers will attempt to
define full employment, tell what it
would be like to have it and what
must be done to get it.
DR.. Lamb has served previously
on the staffs of the Senate Civil
Liberties Committee, the House
Committee on Migration and the
Senate Small Business Committee.
DR.. Terborgh formerly taught eco
nomics at the University of Illinois,
the University of Chicago and Ohio
State University Later he served
as an economist for the Federal Re-
serve Board and the Brookings In
stitution.
DR.. Corson has served as assistant
executive director of the Social Sc.
curity Board, director of the Bureau
of Employment Security, director ot
the Bureau of Old Age and Sur
vivors' Insurance, director of the
United States Employment Service
and deputy director general OF
/ UNRRA.
E. j. Coil, executive director of the
National Planning Association, will
act as chairman of the meeting
The public is invited.
Evening star., 1945-09-24
Big Five
Continued From First Page.)

bly, met in Vienna today in an at
tempt to form a government ac-
ceptable to the powers occupying
Austria.
Rebukes Critics of Russia.
A Russian commentator yesterday
rebuked those who would blame the
Soviet for divisions in the minister's
council.
A reviewer in Moscow's Pravda,
naming the British press in par
ticular, said "the pessimists not only
engage in gloomy prophesies, but
try to lay blame for rise of diff
culties upon the Soviet Union
The commentator declared that
the experience of collaboration
gained by the great powers during
the war gives every ground for
conviction that insurmountable
difficulties do not. exist" and at
the same time offered this rejoinder
to British editorial comment on
Soviet interest in the future of the
Mediterranean:
Not single geography text
book indicates that the Mediter-
.ranean is d British sea, or that the
Italian colonies are British terri
tory"
Evening star., 1945-09-24
Three Veterans Hired
|By uses Here 10 Act
las Job CounseIors

Three veterans have been hired to
give job counseling to fellow vet
Grams visiting local Offices of the
United States Employment Service
and three more will be added in the
near future, Ernest v. Connolly,
area War Manpower director, an
nounced today.
Mr.. Connolly was under fire sew
eral months ago from veterans
organizations for failing to employ
veterans for job counseling, but at
the time, he pointed out that the
national regulations on employment
counseling did not specify veterans
and he had been unable to locate
any qualified for the work.
The six nonveterans now doing
job counseling will continue, but
their main counseling work will be
with displaced war workers while
the veterans will aid fellow service
men, it was explained.
Will Take Short Course.
The veteran counselors include
Taylor Malone, jr., 25-year-old for
mer captain in the Army Air Forces,
who was discharged in July; Arthur
L. Howley, who served in the tank
corps under George S. Patton (then
a coloneD in the first World War,
and Lynn Simpson, an infantry
captain in the first World War.
Mr.. Connolly said the veterans
would go to work late this month
after a training course in USES
procedures for job counseling.
Mr.. Malone was fighter pilot
who served for 18 months in the
European and Mediterranean thea
ters. He gained counseling expert
ence when he served on the Aviation
Cadet Board, advising applicants for
flight training. He Is native of
Memphis, Tenn, attended South
western University and graduated
from the Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania in 194l.
Served Veterans Agency.
Mr.. Howley served through the
last war and for year thereafter
in the Army of Occupation. He was
employed for three years by the Vet
Grams Administration and for Is
years by the War Department as
personnel assistant. For the past
two years he has been preparing
fishing and hunting guide. He is a
native of Vermont.
Mr.. Simpson. colored. has served
since the beginning of selective serv-
ice as chief clerk of District Draft
Board No. IL. In the First World
War he spent II months overseas
as commander of an infantry COM
pany. Between wars he was on the
administrative and teacher roster
of several colored institutions, in
Guiding the Bethune- Goodman Col
lege at Daytona Beach, Fla.
Evening star., 1945-09-24
Woman Who Survived
Gas Chamber Tells Of
YuIe Death Parade
~ the Associated P-ess.

LUENEBERG, Germany, Sept. "a.
A Polish Jewess today told how
5000 women at Oswiecim concentra-
ton camp were lined up naked by
the camp commandant and selected
for Christmas Day parade to the
gas chamber.
Testifying at the trial of As Nazis
charged with prison camp atrocities,
Mrs Sophia Litwinska, %. of Lubin
said she lived through the horrors
of the lethal chamber because she
was mysteriously pulled out at the
last moment on Christmas, 194l.
Who was in charge of that pa
rade?" the prosecutor asked.
"Commandant Hessler," the wit
ness shouted, pointing to one of the
defendants HE is a murderer re-
sponsible for the death of thou
sands"
While Hessler lowered his head,
the witness continued: " >6%
I'VE were lined up quite naked
while Hessler and two doctors made
selections for the gas chamber. The
victims were then loaded into trucks
and hauled to the crematorium
where they were dumped out like
potatoes"
Saw Yellow Fumes.
/ The victims filed into the gas
chamber, which looked like shower
room.
Inside the chamber there were
cries, tears-people were shaking
and striking each other Then !
noticed yellow fumes entering the
room. I had a violent coughing
spell. My name was called. I raised
my arm, for my voice would not
answer. Then some one pulled me
out of the chamber. l don't know
who. Later Hessler covered me in
blanket and took me on a motor
cycle to the hospital"
Were you given an explanation
of why you were taken from the
chamber" the prosecutor asked.
Il arrived in camp in transport
that had come from prison, which
apparently made a difference. Also
I was the wife of Polish army
officer"
What effect has the gas had on
you?"
II have frequent headaches, heart
trouble and tears fill my eyes In
fresh air"
Is Are Identified.
Then the overhead floodlights
were flashed on and the witness was
led in front Of the prisoners cage
She identi fed 16 of them, as guilty
Of atrocities at the camp, including
the Belsen camp commandant, JOSEF
Kramer, Hessler and Irma Grese.
Number 80 elise Forster) beat te
death a young girl" she testified.
Mrs. Litwinska, testified that tht
Forster woman caught a teen-age
girl stealing a potato, dragged hel
into the kitchen. beat her unmerci.
fully and forced her to eat her owr
excrement.
II could not watch and turned
away. Later she dragged the gir
outside and beat her until she died
She has beaten so many persons
there must be a thousand who have
seen her"
Ilse Forster, a short blonde OF
about 25, remained tight-lipped ano
defiant during the accusations.
Evening star., 1945-09-24
Wife Of Capt. B. Y. Meade
To Be Buried Tomorrow

Funeral services for Mrs. Anne
H. Meade, who died Saturday at
the Naval Medical Center after a
brief Illness, will be held at 3 pm.
tomorrow at Fort Myer Chapel.
Burial will be in Arlington Cemetery.
Mrs. Meade was the wife of Capt.
Bolivar Vaughan Meade, U. S. NJ,
who has been stationed here in the
Once of Chief of Naval Operations,
fleet maintenance branch, for the
last three years. He lives at the
Westchester Apartments.
Mrs. Meade was an accomplished
pianist. She had travelled widely
with her husband and lived from
1925 to 1928 in China. She worked
for the Red Cross here. A native
OF Athens, Ohio, she was the daugh-
ter Of the late Gen. and Mrs. Will
liam Douglas Hamilton.
Besides her husband, she is sur
yived by son by a former mar
riage. Col. Douglas Gillett, U. S. A..
stationed in Greece, and a daugh-
ter, Mrs. Edith G. Brown, Phila-
delphia.
Evening star., 1945-09-24
Lumber Strike
Continued From First Page. }

ingness to negotiate the wage de-
mand on separate contracts. He
said several companies had entered
into negotiations with locals in
volving their mills, but proceedings
halted when the unions demanded
the operators establish a negotia- :
ton committee to contract for all
types of numbering industries.
More than $4,000, Texas Cult
Coast oil workers were idle as un-
ion officials travelled to Chicago for
a mediation conference designed to
break a paralyzing strike.
~ Conference Tomorrow.
Oficials of the Oil Workers In
ternational Union (CIO), from
Texas will meet with oil company
officials tomorrow to discuss wage
scales and other points of difference.
In Texas IA oil refineries and affili-
ated industries were strike bound or
in the process of closing, leaving
% 100 workers idle.
Three refneries began closing yes
WI aoy 40 VIC uliiOIl pl CSSco ut-
mands for 50 hours pay for a 40
hour work week, union closed shop
and other concessions. They were
the Shell Oil refinery at Deer Park
near Houston, which employs l.9Ot
persons; Magnolia Petroleum Co
refinery at Beaumont, Tex, with
$500 employees, and the Pan Ameri.
can refinery at Texas city, 1900 EN-.
ployes.
Four officials of the union, headed
by President o. A. Knight, left For
Worth yesterday en- route t.
Chicago.
I'VE are leaving with the hop,
that we will come back with an un
derstanding which will permit OF
workers to continue to work with n,
reduction in wages" Knight said.
In formal statement, P. J
Sweeney, vice president and man
ager of the Pan American Co., sal,
the strike there violated a contrac
which "obligates the union not t.
strike before the contract expire
March %, 1916.
Evening star., 1945-09-24
Fort Meade Releases
Al District Area Men,;
Five More Leave Dix

Forty-Seven additional District
area men were granted honorable
discharges from the Army at Fort
Meade over the week end, and four
men and a woman were released
at the Fort Dix IN. j. separation
center.
Discharged at Fort Meade were:
Tlserst. Cedric E. Barnes, -52l8 East
Capitol street Pfc. Everette l. Berry. 1910
eSn ssr'ey M ss sse Street sS rs psss ss1s
Howard f. Sullivan, SABA A street # Sc;
NE; corpl. John E; Wise, Washington.
yania avenue wv. corpl. Gustav H
5trssI Jams, ss,.t w.m SS.s,a SSs Sssh
2e15 Connecticut avenue NV; Tz5 Theo-
so,a sore Il Tupai w;,,i. l4s5 SH street Me- sergt
corp James aaii E' 1915 sitsha Taentisth stEsa
oo srse .tr..t NW SerF ssfaa sohn ons
Pitte ipSa i tenth Street M NV Apfsee Pfe Ea. q
ward L. Morris. 449 Fifteenth street N. E.
and corpI Francis J. sheehy, 1884 Ritchie
serst. Albert P. King. slla Third street
W; Pfc: William s. Tayenner. 30 E
street NV; s/sergt. Emmet w Bunyea,
stssst ESQ sE cshsdrs ssrs syenss DUnas
Corpl. Hersehel Parham. ellis ? street
NV: Pfc. Samuel C. Clark. , Portorica
avenue N E.: Sergt Leonard c. Miller, 2lS
Ascot place NE; Corpl Earl P. Wiley.
1920 Clydesdale place NV: Pfc Sigmund
Danzansky. 1901 Fourteenth street NM;
Sergt. Arthur H. Davis. 22l6 Thirty eighth
street NV; Pfc William H. Donneliy.
1918 Fourteenth street Sc: M/Sergt.
Samuel w. Maloney, 206 Main. street,
Laurel; Seret. Harry E. Hovermiil. l0603
Dunmoor drive, Silver Spring; Pfc. George
H. Schmidt. 1913 N. Buchanan street,
Arlington; Pfc. Robert J. Kilby. 20 W.
Custis avenue, Alexandria; Sergt. James E.
Foley. 4327 s. Thirty-sixth St. Arlington:
Pfc. Ralph c. Palmer, 1899 N Glebe road,
Arlington: T/Sergt. John A. Murnane. jr..
420 E. Windsor avenue, Alexand Sergt.
John j. Curling, 1912 N. Randolph street,
Arlington, and Corpl. James w. Humphries,
sos King street. Alexandria.
Adefs AlexsndTia rd PFC Joseph rns,an Erwin aDs
Leslie Y. Dameron. jr. 6812 Forty fourth
avenue, HyattsVille: It. Conwell F. Dirick-
son. ir.. 1928 Connecticut avenue NV;
L L hssT b.an aplsE benny s ~ ssTsfa AVE ave;
nue. NE; 1t. David Costa, 800 Eden
street. Herndon: I'd It. Thomas I. Martin,
jr., 901 8. East street, 0ulpepeI. and ID
1t. Charles M. Motif, RID 3. Alexandria.
Released at Fort Dix were:
street Me- ssrFt. sGaf0eesnD ssshsf 8! Downs. s sBsss
Adams Mill road NV: TIA Hapnis D. NC
Coy. 1910 Nicholson street NV: Corpl.
Lawrence w. Palmer, 43I Tennessee ave-
nue. NE, and WAC T /Seret. Martha E
Johnson, 1922 Glover driveway NV.
Evening star., 1945-09-24
Acheson
Continued From First Page }

ship of the means of production and
trade"
Long Occupation Necessary.
The far-reaching program for
such changes, coupled with liberali-
zation of the "feudal and authori-
zation tendencies" OF Japan's system
of government-by permitting civil
war If that is necessary-makes it
clear that occupation of Japan will
be necessary for years to come.
Disclosure of this Government S
determination to carry out its pro-
gram regardless of possible dis
agreement by other Allied powers
brought to light what probably is
the key to why Mr.. Acheson and
other officials here were disturbed
by Gen. MacArthur's occupation
force estimate.
1t is emphasized here that the
United States should not give the
rest of the world any reason to
believe that it is unwilling to carry
through on the job of converting
Japan to peaceful nation, or that
its occupation forces might be re-
duced to the point of giving a domi-
nant position to troops Of other
Allies.
Reason for Using Emperor.
The Truman approved policy
statement said 1t was the. desire
of this Government to attain its
objectives in Japan with mini
mum commitment of its forces and
resources" citing this as a principal
reason for using the Emperor and
existing japanese governmental
machinery under Gen. Macarthur S
instructions.
1t made 1t clear, however, that
American forces should be prepared
for greater commitments If this
system did not satisfactorily
further United States objectives."
The policy of using the present
japanese government will be SUBJ
ject to the right and duty Of the
supreme commander to require
changes in governmental machinery
|or personnel or to act directly Il
the Emperor or other Japanese au.
| thority does not satisfactorily NEE,
the requirements Of the supreme
commander III circulating the sur.
render terms. the statement de.
clared.