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Wholesale Murder Ring
Cracked By Authorities

Villalobos said evidence indicat-
ed that the victims were robbed OF
their savings, slain and dumped in
to the river.
The slayers, Villalobos said,
ranging in age from "a to 40, were
tough customers"
The gang had headquarters in
Reynosa and Mamamoros, Mexico,
Villalobos said, just across the riv-
err from Brownsville and Hidalgo,
Tex. All 20 were arrested in Reyno.
sa and Matamoros, he said, and
moved to the Jail here.
Bodies of the victims bore marks
of violence. Nineteen were recover.
ed from the river near Brownsville,
IL near Hidalgo, and six near Mis-
sion - short distance upstream
from Hidalgo.
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LATE SLEEPERS WILL
GET BONUS; CLOCKS
GO BACK ON SUNDAY

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2s.-
R-People who like to sleep
late on Sundays are getting
ready to collect an hours
bonus.
The nations clocks will be
turned back one hour Sunday,
at 2 a. m. local war time.
Some superstitutious folks,
who think clock-turning-back
is bad luck, will turn theirs
ahead II hours. Either way, it
comes out even.
One question still hasn't
been answered:
How do night workers come
out financially on what will
be, for them, the longest night
of the year?
Locally the answer seems to
boil down to this:
Overtime for those working
private plants.
More yawns, but no cash, for
such public employees as the
police and firemen.
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MOTOR SHIP CATCHES
FIRE ENROUTE FROM
CRISTOBAL TO TEXAS

MIAMI Fla, Sept. %. - UD -
The Coast Guard reported this aft
ernoon that the 7,20O-ton motor YES.
sci Peter Trimble Rowe, bound
from Cristobal, c. e., to Galveston,
Tex, was afire in the Yucatan
Channel, south of Cape San Anton
10, Cuba.
The merchant ship Joe c. S.
Blackburn was nearby, and head
ed for the scene to render assist.
ance.
The vessel sent out an S. o. S.
saying it was afire. Later it mes
saged that the fire was apparent
ly out but that crewmen were I'm.
able to enter the engine room. The
vessel was drifting westward.
The Coast Gurad sent air and
sea rescue craft to the scene, tc
stand by in case of need. A Navy
tug at Key West was also alerted.
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ARGENTINE
SEIGE GROWS

BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 2s.-R-
The ranking U. S. diplomat here of.
ficially told the Argentine military
government today that its suspen.
sion of constitut' onal guarantees
and widespread arrests would 'in.
evitably" have "deplAable eff.
feet on American. opinion.
The government, through Interior
Minister Hortensio Quijano, main
tanned the repressive measures.
which included reimposition of a
state of siege and full censorship of
press and radio, were necessary
to put down conspiracy and avert
grave happenings"
u. S. Charge D'Affaires John M.
Cabot, summoned to Foreign Min
lister Juan Cookies office to hear
the governments defense of its
course, warned of the American re-
action. Earlier, Cabot had COM
planned formally against press re-
strictions as violating inter-Ameri-
can commitments.
Cooks explanation to "a b t
pointed up the fact the Argentines,
taking the governments actions in
enforced silence, had their eyes
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Threat Of Revolt Faces
Council Of Ministers
SHELF" MINERAL
WEALTH CLAIMED

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28-R-
President Truman t o day claimed
for the United States the oil and
other natural resources Of the $50,
Oor square miles Of continental
shelf under the high seas.
The continental shelf, generally,
is submerged land contiguous to
the continent and covered by no
more than 600 feet Of water. II
extends in most instances beyond
the three-mile limit Of ownership
recognized by international law.
The President also asserted the
right of this government to es'
tablish conservation zones TOR the
protection of its fisheries in areas
of the high seas off the coasts Of
the United States.
The action, accomplished by
proclamation, pioneered in new
field of international relations.
Chairman Summers D-Tex) o.
the House Judiciary committee
said it was equivalent to con
quest"
The Presidents proclamation
said the United States considers
"the exercise Of jurisdiction over
the natural resources of the subsoi]
and sea bed Of the continental
shelf by the contiguous nation is
reasonable and just"
s'The continental SHELF" it sale
may be regarded as an extension
of the land-mass of the coastal ma
ton and thus naturally appurte
nant to it."
Its resources Frequently from 9
seward extension of pool or de-
post lying within the territory"
''Self-protection compels the
coastal nation to keep close watch
over activities off its shores which
are of a nature necessary for uti'
lization of these resources"
The President declared that the
development and discovery of new
sources of petroleum and other
minerals should be encouraged in
view of the worldwide need, and
that experts believe portions of the
U. S. continental shelf beyond the
three-mile limit contain valuable
oil deposits.
Oil is being taken at present
from within the three-mile limit OIL
the coast Of California and there
are geological indications that rich
oil deposits extend into the Gulf OF
Mexico off the coast of Texas.
By directive order accompanying
the proclamations, the President
reserved administration of the re-
sources of the continental shelf,
pending legislative action, under
the control of the Secretary OF In
terror.
A White House statement said
the proclaimed policy "does not
touch on the question of Federal
versus state control. 1t is. con-
cerned solely with establishing the
Jurisdiction of the United States
from an international standpoint.
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BELSEN INMATES
ATE HUMAN FLESH

LOENbOhl1, CeTII1duy, SepL. 20
- Up - Hunger-crazed men at the
Belsen concentration camp ripped
vital organs from human bodies for
food, a German doctor testified at
the Belsen war crimes trial today.
DR.. Fritz Leo of Dresden, who as
prisoner in Belsen treated the in
mates, said the cannibalism start
ed in a compound where 1000 men
had been damned in single block
II have seen bodies with ivers
removed for food" said the b e
specialized doctor. II have n
many bodies with the ears cut off,
parts of cheeks, shoulders, arms.
back and even parts of sexual or.
gans cut off or food-either eaten
raw or cooked later"
The As defendants sat with bow
ed heads as they heard the doctor
say that the SIS elite Guard gave
orders that any internees guilty of
cannibalism would be hanged or
beaten to death.
But the SIS did not hesitate to
throw in thousands and thousands
Of more prisoners" he added.
DR.. Leo described the filth that
resulted at the camp when the in
mates became too weak to dig neW
latrines.
"Soon all the camp became a
latrines," he said. ''Patients refe-
Gated where they stood or where
they sprawled about too weak to
move. The weak were dragged to
the crematorium and burned, but
soon it could not handle all the
dead, so the bodies were piled on
wood and burned in big bon fires.
Then an order was given pro-
hibiting use of scarce wood for the
purpose"
He testified that corpses decay
ed on inmates in three dirty huts
absorbed in a nauseating stencil.
"Only a few days before the Bri-
fish arrived did the guards start
digging pits for mass graves" he
declared.
He said operations were perform
ed on inmates in three dirty huts
that served as hospitals. Patients
were stretched out on a crude
wooden bench.
If we had patients with appen-
dicitis we had to watch them die. -
en- by respair, they tried to get a
equipment for major operation,
although we had enough surgeons
to do the job very WELL"
He said that three or four pa.
tients were treated each week for
bullet wounds suffered when, driv-
ev by despair, they tried to get a
potato or turnip from kitchen.
The doctor asserted that third
of the men and women arriving in
the camp in transports were eigh-
er dead or dying.
Earlier Lydia M. Sonszajn, pri-
soner at the Osweicim camp for a
year and half, testified that she
was one of six Polish girls who
Continued on Page Two; Col. u
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AMERICAN CITIZEN
GETS SIX YEARS ON
ENEMY ACT CHARGE

NEW YORK, Sept. 28-(R-
Anthony Cramer, As, whose treas
on conviction was reversed las
April by the United States Su
|preme Court, pleaded guilty toda,
in Federal Court to an indictmen
charging two violations of the
trading with the enemy act ane
was sentenced by Judge Alfred
Barksdale to six years inprison
ment.
Cramer, a Germantown Ameri
can citizen, was convicted in No.
vember, 1912, of treason and sen.
fenced to As years Imprisonment
in connection with his alleged as.
ISOLATION with Werner Thiel, one
of eight saboteurs who came tc
this country by submarine to com.
NIT sabotage. =
The Supreme Court reversed
Cramer's conviction on the ground
that no evidence had been shown
to prove Cramer aided Thiel.
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Macarthur
Will Send
Many Home
PROSTATE Nation Refused
Ships To Return
Military Men

TOKYO, Sept. 28.-P)-The AL
lied Command embarked today or
a two-fold program to get $780,.
600 Pacific veterans home within
seven months and to shield postrate
Japan from famine and disease.
General Macarthur granted the
japanese permission to use raw
materials for critically needed
civilian goods, including trucks fol
transportation, but banned such
luxuries as silk and passenger au
tomobiles.
He rejected a Japanese request
for use of 265, 600 tons of japanese
shipping to return disarmed I'm.
perial troops from abroad, placing
first priority on ships to get food
and raw materials to the hungry
island empire.
The Japanese government was
directed to stamp out the rising
threat of disease by restoring water
and sewer systems and reopening
all hospitals as well as laboratories
manufacturing vaccines.
Macarthur re-emphasized his
sway over Japan's complex finan-
cial structure-one source OF its
erstwhile military poverty for.
bidding the reopening Of the Japa.
nese Stock Exchange.
The Supreme Commander alsu
ordered the arrest Of "a Japanese
officers and men in the fire mas
sacre of 200 war prisoners, many
Of them American, at Palawan, in
the Philippines, Dec. II, 1914.
A new schedule Of landings was
announced which will place $685..
600 American troops on Japanese
soil by October's end.
The Japanese announced that in
an attempt at Hberalizing their
homeland a new Socialist party
Continued on Page Two; Col. II
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PAPERS SUSPENDED

NEW YORK, Sept. 28-R-
The Japanese Board of Informa'
ton today suspended publication Of
all Tokyo newspapers for having
published an interview with EN-
peror Hirohito written by two
American correspondents. the Ma
tlonal Broadcasting Company re.
ported from Tokyo tonight. The
broadcast did not identify the cor.
respondents,
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WEATHER

eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 7 30 pm. yesterday.
Temperature
/ 30 am. 70: 1880 am. IS; 100 pm. 05;
7.30 pm. 10.
Maximum "a; Minimum "a; Meaf 70;
Normal 20.
Humidity
1:30 am. 80; 1880 am. 81; 1870 pm. 81;
7:30 pm. IS.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1880 pm
Trace" inches.
Tides For Today
From the Tide Tables published by
U. S Coast and Geodetic Survey
High Low
Wilmington 3:48 am 1887 "a m.
4:25 pm. 11:42 pm.
Masonboro Inlet 1 SO am. 1853 am.
2:31 pm. 9:05 pm.
Sunrise 6:05; Sunset 500; Moonrsse
900; Monnset 2:25 pm.
River Stage at Fayetteville, NC. at
am. Friday, Sept %, ISL feet
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BULLETIN

HAMILTON, Bermuda, Sept.
28-P)-After a brief stop for
refueling, the big globe-gir-
ding United States C-54 trans
port plane, Colchester, took off
from 'Kindley Field for =
Azores tonight at 1921 p
E. w. T.
The plane landed at g.:
M, after completing the i.
leg Of its round-the-worl>
flight, the first flight of
planned weekly service.
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American League
Cleveland l; st. Louis 2 Second game
(Only games scheduled)
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BASEBALL SCORES

National League
Brooklyn S; Philadelphia 2.
(Only game scheduled).
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North Carolina: Partly cloudy and m.
much change in temperature SATURDAY.
Scattered light showers extreme West
portion in afternoon.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-05
Dr. B. j. S1ualin To Speak
AT Symphony Luncheon

DR.. B. J. Swain, director OF the
North Carolina Symphony orches.
ira will be the guest speaker to.
day at l o'clock at the local SYM
phony luncheon at the st. Johns
Tavern, and he will talk on the
North Carolina Symphony o-ches-
ira as state asset. DR.. Swain
is well known in Wilmington for
his artistry as a violinist and is
also an outstanding speaker.
The local Symphony committee
which is promoting greater coop
Grafton in New Hanover county in
the statewide campaign to put
the state orchestra on a permanent
basis, is composed Of the follow
ing: Mrs. Graham Kenan, W. G.
Robertson, E. H. Munson, Mrs.
Miriam Burns, Mrs. J. D. Ed.
wards, Mrs. Conrad VESSEL, Mrs.
@. B. Snipes, Mrs. ]. B. Fenley.
Mrs. c. D. Maffitt, MS. Rex vii,
lis, Mrs. F. c. Curtzwiler. Ms.
Charles Finkelstein, J. E. Hope, j.
E. L. Wade, A. H. YLopp, Richard
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GEN. WAINWRIGHT
CONTINUED from Page Eight

(OOutIHuSu 1TOm rage Elgnt)
of trying to leave some record of
how he felt and what he had done.
We were not permitted to write
home, so these feelings found ex.
preston in diaries, little writ
ings on scraps Of paper we were
able to find, the writing up of
awards we hoped would be re.
ceived by men whose courage
was not known to the outside
world, and in the making OF
wills. In my own jottings I also
kept an accurate record of my
weight. BY October 3, 1912, I was
down to 1872 pounds, 40 pounds
under normal and no weight for a
man who stands 6-feet-2.
Early in October the Japs, who
at the start Of the war had prom
ised to live up to the spirit and
letter of the Geneva Convention,
came to our officers in their willy
way and told us we could vol
unteer'' to work. The Geneva
Convention specifies that no Of
ficer who is a Prisoner of War
shall be required to perform
labor. Nor is any non-commis-
stoned officer, except in a super.
visory capacity.
So we refused. The Japs inn
mediately cut down on our food.
Our rice, barely enough to keep
US going, was cut and the soup
became more watery, if possible.
Tomorrow: Gen. Wainwright
gives the first official version
of the beatings he received from
the Japs at Karenko prison
camp.)
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Dobson, Robert Berman. Rev.
Mortimer Glover, Rev. Walter B.
Freed, T. T. Hamilton, Jr., Mrs.
J. B. Cranmer, secretary; Charles
F. Jones, treasurer; Mrs. Eric
Norden, chairman.
Following the luncheon the com.
mittee and workers will resume
their efforts of last summer to
make it possible through local
support to bring the orchestra to
Wilmington when it opens its sea.
son in the late winter.
Those who attend the luncheon
are requested to come early so
that there will be no delay in get
ting started on time. 1t is hoped
to conclude the address and dis.
cussion by two o'clock.
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I7o-For Sale

WE HAVE A NEW SHIPMENT OF
ironing cordB, 80 cents and extsnsion
cords. - cents. Carolina Furniture Co.,
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85-Help Wanted-Male
W.-Help Wanted Female.

SAALlEsSLADIES WANTED. MUST
LAVE SOME EXPERIENCE.
T I7,SeD SALARY TO START
VIII. APPLY B E RICE r. S
DEPT. STORE IN PERSON.
EXPERIENCED MAID FOR GENERAL
6545.
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WANTED SMALL FURNISHED
apartment with steam OF central hest
and mechanical refrigerator. prefer
ably close-in, by permanent residents
News.
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Recorder Continues Case
OF Driver Who Disrupted
Power Service Over Civ

The case of Eloe Walters, Negro,
Is, of 205-B Worth drive, Maffitt
Village, charged with reckless op-
Grafton of a motor car, driving
without an operators license, and
larceny of an auto, was continued
until Wednesday. yesterday in Re-
corder's court. The defendant was
in jail in lieu of $3.50 bond.
Walters was arrested last night
by police at Front and Marsteller
streets, after the car he was driv-
ing knocked down two Tide Water
Power Co. poles and damaged a
railroad switch. He was found I'M
conscious in the vehicle, with live
wires hanging over the car" A
Marine, identified as Cpl. AL
Haines, of Camp Lejeune, "remov.
ed the wires with a stick, and
the Negro, with four teeth miss.
ing and decorations, was dragged
free.
Tide Water Power Co. crews
were working yesterday morning
to restore the light service in the
eastern and southern sections of the
City, which had been disrupted as
result of the crash. The car was
owned by Leland Keels, of 4O4
North Ninth street, and Travelled
about IS yards after knocking down
the last pole, according to police.
Continued until today was the
case of w. Thames, charged with
perjury in Recorders court.
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mine STRIKE VOTE
TO COST 100000

WASHINGTON, March 12-(P-
The biggest strike vote ever taker
by the National Labor Relations
Board-the March % ballot among
400, 900 United Mine Workers-wil]
cost $500, 900, NLRB estimated to.
day.
The board will hire a minimum
of 1000 special agents, for at least
three days at $11.80 per day, to
handle the vote, which results from
John L. Lewis notice that a dis
pute with the Nations bituminous
coal operators existed on Febru-
airy 26.
Results of the ballot will be an
nounced here on March 20. The
bituminous contract expires March
81. Meantime the contract negotia-
tons were interrupted today while
operators formulated counter Of
fers to Lewis 10 demands. The
are due to resume to-
morrow.
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u. S. Spokesman Named
For Reparations Group
Continued from Page One)

rehabilitation needs Of France,
Belgium and the Netherlands.
Most of his years in government
service have been spent as COM
missioner of labor statistics in the
Labor Department, a job from
which he is on leave while working
on the White House staff.
Presumably the reparations COM
mission will deal only with machin-
cry and industrial production and
exclude from its considerations the
use of German labor in Russia,
France and other countries which
may ask such manpower to help
them recover from war damages.
President Roosevelt said two weeks
ago he did not think the question
Of German labor for use in Russia
would come under PREPARATIONS al
though he thought it good idea
TO have the German troops help
clean up some of the terrible de-
struction they had wrought.
The question Of what countries
will be on the commission may
turn out to be a fairly touchy one.
Small European nations which
have suffered at the hands Of the
German invaders may demand a
full voice in the consultations.
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LECRAND OFFERS
COLLEGE MEASURE
Continued from Page One)

joint session of the General As
sembly and later delivered the
concluding speech on the annual
institute of religion program, the
Associated Press reported. She
was the guest during the day of
Governor R. Gregg Cherry and
former Secretary of the Navy
Josephus Daniels.
She left tonight for Asheville
where she will deliver an address
tomorrow and visit service hospi-
tails for convalescents.
DECLARING that the veterans
problem would be entirely diff
ferent after this war han after
the first world war, the First Lady
said that business and professional
interests and educational leaders
must work directly with the COM
munities in building a sound pro-
gram of rehabilitation for the re-
turning veteran.
The G. I. Bill of Rights, and the
states through their own veterans
aid programs, will do much toward
giving the returning servicemen
a new start in life, she said, but
added that you people in the
communities and towns to which
the veteran will return must do
your part to assist him in chang
ing from the uniform to the plow."
In her travels to several battle
fronts and in visits to hospitals and
camps, she said, she found that
majority of the servicemen and
women already have formed in
their own minds their program of
existence after the war.
In many cases, these mental
programs of service men picture
a dream home and dream family.
It will be up to the people at home
to make this dream come true.
Speaking extemporaneously, the
First Lady said that the South
could well be proud of its boys and
the part they are playing in the
winning of victories on all battle
fronts. you've contributed your
share of men and materials to
help fight this war, and you've
every right to be proud of your
contribution
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Many Medic Sits Throat
OfMQ11ne To Save Life

The name of the wounded man
was withheld pending notification Of
his next of kin.
The man would have undoubt-
edly bled to death in matter OF
minutes if it had not been for
CARROTS amazing presence OF
mind" the battalion medical Of
ficer, Navy 1t. u. CD c. L. Ar
ford of Sterling, Colo, said.
II have never seen anything like
it before.
when the man was evacuated,
he had every chance of surviving"
The doctor explained that medi-
cal men often perform the same
operation in hospitals, but pointed
out that Garrett had no assistance,
poor light, and was under fire from
enemy mortars at the time.
Besides, it takes a lot Of CUTS
for a non-professional to start cut
ting on a man, even to save his
life.' he added.