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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-27
CLUB CLOCK

North Carolina Sorosis will
hold tn monthly business
meeting Thursday afternoon at
$3.50 o'clock in the clubhouse
on North Third street. A meet
ing of the executive commit
tee will be held at 3 o'clock.
Seminole Council, No. "a,
Degree Of Pocahontas, will
hold a special meeting this
evening at 8 o'clock in the
junior Order Hall.
The regular meeting of the
VIEW auxiliary will be held
this evening at 8 o'clock in the
Tide Water Hall.
The Woman's Missionary So
ciety Of S o u h i Baptist
church will meet this aft
ernoon at 3 o'clock at the
church. The Sunbeams and
Junior GA will meet at the
same hour.
A meeting of the T. E. L.
class Of Calv airy Baptis
church will be held at the
home of Mrs. Thomas Benton,
I'll Grace street, this eve
ming at 8 o'clock. Members are
invited.
The Ladies Auxiliary to the
brotherhood of Railroad Train
men will meet Thursday after
noon at $3.50 O'Clock in the Jun
ior Order Hall.
The Audubon Home Demon
stration club will meet Wed
nesday afternoon at 8 o'clock
with Mrs. S. Vanderwall, High
wood Park.
The Georgia Barton class OF
Temple Baptist church will
meet Thursday evening at s
o'clock with Mrs. w. r. Eakins.
20Ol Fender avenue.
The Philathea class of the
First Baptist Sunday school will
meet Friday evening at 8
o'clock with Miss Jennie Mae
Hartsfield, 7O9 Dock street.
Mrs. w. r. Zibelin will be joint
hostess.
The Dorcas Society of St.
Paul's Lutheran church will
meet Thursday afternoon at 4
o'clock in the parish house,
Sixth and Princess streets.
A meeting of the Woman's
auxiliary to the Senior Fra
ternity will be held Thursday
evening at 8 o'clock with Mrs.
N. ]. Kelly, 1923 South Jackson
street, Sunset Park. Mrs.
Thurston Davis will be joint
hostess.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-27

The planet of Mars ranges" be-
tween 234, 100000 miles and 4,60O,-
600 miles from the earth.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-27

The Philathea class of the
First Baptist Sunday school will
meet Friday evening at 8
o'clock with Miss Jennie Mae
Hartsfield, 709 Dock street.
Mrs. w. R. Zibelin will be joint
hostess.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-27

A meeting of the Woman's
auxiliary to the Senior Fra
ternity will be held Thursday
evening at o'clock with Mrs.
N. j. Kelly, 1923 South jackson
street, Sunset Park. Mrs.
Thurston Davis will be joint
hostess.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-27

The Dorcas Society of st.
PauPs Lutheran church will
meet Thursday afternoon at 4
o'clock in the parish house,
Sixth and Princess streets.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-27

The Georgia Barton class OF
Temple Baptist church will
meet Thursday evening at s
o'clock with Mrs. w. r. Eakins.
200l Fender avenue.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-27

The Audubon Home Demon
stratlon club will meet Wed
nesday afternoon at 3 o'clock
with Mrs. S. Vanderwall, High
wood Park.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-27

The Ladies Auxiliary to the
brotherhood of Railroad Train
men will meet Thursday after
noon at $3.50 o'clock in the Jun
ior Order Hall.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-27
Victory Menus
BY CHARLOTTE ADAMS
Detachable Chicken

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Julienne Snap Beans
Parkerhouse Rolls
Apples and Cheese
(Recipes Serve Four
Dreamed Chicken Deluxe
Evening star., 1945-11-24
Is on First Civilian Ship
To Arrive at Newport News

b. the Associated Press
NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Nov. a.
The first civilian passenger ship to
arrive at Newport News since the
outbreak of the war brought 13 pas
sengers here yesterday, including the
Romanian Minister to Sweden, who
is on his way to Washington; Maj.
Horace E. Dodge, Detroit, and an
Austrian actress, Hildegard Julie
Peiser-Palmer.
They came in on the Swedish pas
senger ship Keristina Thorden, out
of Liverpool. The trip took 16 days.
Among others aboard was Mrs.
Beatrice May Knapp, London, who
was met at the pier by her husband,
1t. R. E. Knapp, Washington, D. c..
The Minister to Sweden is Fred
erick Pascal Nano. He was accom-
panied by his wife, Tatiana Nano,
and his 7-year-old daughter, Irinia
Clara Luciano Nano, and their maid.
Evening star., 1945-11-24
First UN0 Assembly Session
MAY Consider Atom Bomb
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Nov. 24.-British Min.
lister of State Philip John Noel.
Baker told the opening session Of
the United Nations Preparatory
Commission today that the question
Of control of atomic energy might
be placed before the first meeting
Of the United Nations Assembly.
There is no doubt" Mr.. Noel.
Baker said, that the government!
of the world owe it to their people.
to do something about science pret.
ty soon"
Mr.. Noel-Baker Is serving as tenn.
porary chairman of the commission
composed Of representatives of Al
nations.
Some urgent task may be laid or
the first assembly" Mr.. Noel Baker
continued, perhaps even the con.
troll of atomic energy"
He said it was "grotesque and
wicked" to believe that any govern
ment In the world wants or is pre-
pairing for another war. He added
mo people, without exception, woulc
allow its government to start anoth.
er war"
Evening star., 1945-11-24
Three Lease-Lend Carriers
To Be Returned Today

NORFOLK, Va, Nov. "a (P.-The
British escort carriers Searcher,
Tracker and Shah will arrive at
Newport News today to debark
1874 returning American veterans,
marking the first time British war
ships have brought United States
troops to Hampton Roads.
After the debarkation, the carriers
will proceed to the Norfolk Navy
Yard, where they will be turned over
to the United States Navy for de-
commissioning. Their British crews
will be returned to England aboard
other ships.
Acquired by the British from the
United States under lease-lend, the
three ships will be the first of their
type to be returned to the Amer
lean Navy. About 80 more of these
escort carriers will put into Nor
folk in the next few months.
The ships will be decommissioned
at the Navy Yard and then sent to
the Navy anchorage in the Kappa
hammock River.
ALI of the Army personnel arriv-
ing today are unassigned, except
the 185th General Hospital, which
Is aboard the Shah.
Evening star., 1945-11-24
Iron Rods Used 10 Beat
Women, Dachau Court Told

BY the Associated Press.
DACHAU, Nov. 24.-Riva Levy
pretty 29-year-old Lithuanian, tes.
titled at the Dachau concentration
camp atrocity trial today that SIS
guards used iron rods to beat womer
who were too weak to carry the
heavy stones they were required tc
move.
Another witness, Selman Green.
berg, said he was greeted at Dachau
with this speech by Johann Kirsch
one Of the defendants:
"You filthy Jewish swine must
know from now on you eat the
bread of Dachau. This means that
If you do not do your duty you will
go to hell before your time"
A former inmate testified yester.
day that prisoners in one compound
were executed for such a simple Of
tense as losing their shoes.
The witness, Norbert Fried Of
Prague, who SEED he was in the
Kaufering camp of Dachau, told the
American Military Court his wife
had been gassed a few days before
their baby was due, and that he had
been spared only because his SIS
guards liked to hear him sing Amer
ican songs.
Evening star., 1945-11-24
Preacher Declared Father
Of Missionary's Child

| BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Kans., Nov. a.
A Wyandotte County District Court
jury late yesterday found Lawrence
1. Goodrich, 56, retired preacher, to
be the father of the 8-month-old
daughter Of Miss Gladys Beard, So
year-old former missionary worker.
The jury of 10 men and 2 women
deliberated only Is minutes. Miss
Beard, who had testified that Good
rich was "the only man I ever
loved" smiled broadly when the jury
announced its findings.
Pending hearing on a motion for
a new trial, which defense attorneys
said would be filed within the next
three days, Judge Russell C. Hardy
issued temporary order requiring
Goodrich to pay $40 weekly toward
support of the child. Goodrich was
required to post 5000 bond insuring
compliance with the courts order.
Earlier Miss Beard had testified
that Goodrich, who is married, had
sent her more than 20 love letters
and had been intimate with her on
several occasions.
Goodrich fatty denied this from
the witness stand. He declared he
had visited her several times only
because we had a common interest
in religion and the subject of eternal
punishment" He added that he had
stopped seeing her in November,
1943.
Evening star., 1945-11-24
Willis AssaiIs Strikes
In Services 10 Public

Declaring that strikes in public
services transgress the rights of in
nocent persons, Senator Willis, Re-
publican, of Indiana told the So
ciety of Mayflower Descendants last
night that some method should be
devised to settle such disputes with
out interruption of these services.
Its unthinkable," he said, that
common services which have come
to be vital part of everyday neces-
sity and safety, such as elevator
service, streetcar transportation and
telephones, should be interrupted
while grievances of infinitely less
Importance are being debated by
groups which profit from their op-
Grafton"
Senator Willis spoke at a dinner
at Hotel 2400 commemorating the
325th anniversary of the signing of
the Mayhower compact.
He cited the example of the Pill
grims in urging that the rights of
all the people be considered above
the rights of groups.
Mrs. James H. Doolittle, wife of
the general, spoke informally. Maui
rice H. Thatcher, who recently was
reelected to his seventh term as
governor of the society, presided.
Evening star., 1945-11-24
.Anti-JeWish Outbreak
Marks Rally for Peron
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 24-A por-
ton of the crowd attending a politi-
cal rally for Col. Juan Peron, Ar
gentina's strong man and presiden-
tial candidate, entered the Jewish
quarter of Buenos Aires last night
shouting anti-Jewish slogans.
Some windows were broken and
some shots were fired. No one was
reported injured.
The powerful National Democratic
Conservative party, second largest
in the country, yesterday said it
would present its own mandate In
the forthcoming presidential elec-
tions and not join a democratic
union" of parties against Peron's
candidacy.
All other major parties have joined
the front against Peron, who is
supported by at least two newly
organized labor parties and a dis
senting section of the Radical party
Evening star., 1945-11-24
Printers Strike Ties Up
Portsmouth (Ohio) Times
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio, Nov. GA
strike of union printers today halted
publication of the Portsmouth
Times.
Grover Barr, president of Local
637, International Typographical
Union, said that after several weeks
of negotiations over a new contract
the printers voted to strike in sup
port Of a demand for a wage scale
Of Slab an hour.
r. F. Fletcher, the papers busi-
ness manager, said that last Octo-
ber when the contract with the
printers expired the union requested
a scale Of $1.35 an hour for q 37h-
hour week. That request later was
raised to $l.38A an hour. The COM
pany, he said, first offered $1.30 an
hour and last night increased its Of
fer to $1.35 an hour. At that time
the union asked for the $1.43 an
hour. The present scale is SIPS an
hour.
Evening star., 1945-11-24
Raids Fail 10 Reveal
Siqns Of Nazi Revolt
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
FRANKFURT, Nov. 24-No symp-
toms of German rebellion were
found in last Sundays mass raids
in the American occupation zone
Brig. Gen. Edwin L. Sibert an
nounced today, but 5000 Germans
were arrested and large stores of
ammunition were seized.
ut is serious to find so many
weapons" Gen Sibert added.
There have been an increasing
number of instances of American
troops being attacked and number
of insulting posters Wire cuttings
are a little on the increase"
These, said Gen. Sibert, chief of
intelligence of American forces in
Europe, are the natural result" of
returning prisoners of war facing
the shock of defeat and signs of in
creasing despair among German
civilians
The Americans captured 300 small
arms weapons, $4,000 rounds of small
arms ammunition, 1000 rounds of
artillery ammunition and IS radio
transmitters. Three black market
centers were found and 200 operators
of them were Jailed.
OF the total arrested, about 750
had American property and equip
ment, 700 had faulty Identification
papers, 255 illegally possessed Ger
man army equipment and about $50
were seized as Nazi suspects.
All will face trial by military gov
ernment courts. The maximum SEN
tence is death for illegal possession
of firearms. In similar raids last
July, 10000 Germans were arrested.
Evening star., 1945-11-24
DR.. |. ". Crosby, Dentist,
Dies After Heart Attack

DR.. Lewis w. Crosby. 81, a dentist
here for AZ years, died yesterday al
his home, 1904 Fourteenth street
NV, after a heart attack.
A native of Fall River, Mass, he
came to Washington in 1903, the
year of his graduation from the
Baltimore College of Dental Surgery
His Office was at his residence.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs
Laura Warfield Crosby; a daughter
Mrs. Louise E. Roberts, and a son
George w. Crosby of Washington;
another son, Electricians Mate 1/c
Lewis w. Crosby, jr., with the Navy
in Alaska; a brother, Charles I.
Crosby, and sister, Mrs. Nellie
Holmes, both of Bridgeport, Conn. ;
two other sisters, Mrs. Ida Wells, in
Connecticut, and Miss Jennie Crosby
New York, and five grandchildren
Funeral arrangements are incom-
plete, pending the arrival of the son
from Alaska. The body is at Hines
funeral home, 2901 Fourteenth street
NV.
Evening star., 1945-11-24
Three Held in tennessee
In Baby Burning Mystery
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MANCHESTER. Tenn, Nov. "a
Authorities awaited a laboratory
report today to determine if human
ashes were found at a tourist camp
near here, while three persons were
held on murder charges in connec-
ton with the alleged burning alive
of one infant and the cremation
of four others.
The trio being held were identi-
fed by Sheriff Sim Banks as H. H
Peters, SIS; his wife, 46, and her SON
Harry F. Carraway, %.
Sheriff Banks said he placed the
trio in Jail at nearby Fayette-
vile, Tenn, after two Negro en-
ployes of Peters, who operated the
tourist camp, had told him five
babies had been cremated in an
ash heap at the camp between Oc-
tober. 10 and November 10.
He quoted the Negroes, Willie and
Mary Ramsey, as saying one of the
infants, white child, was still
alive when brought to the camp.
Peters and his family explained
that the findings of bone ane
some flesh in the ash heap were
the remains of hogs and chickens
| given the Negroes for disposal.
Evening star., 1945-11-24
Truman Sign Bills Enabling
Heroes Sons 10 Be Officers
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
President Truman today signed
bills providing for Military or Nava.
Academy appointments for the sons
of servicemen who were awarded the
Congressional Medal of Honor OF
who died in action.
Such appointments will be subject
to the applicants ability to meet the
West Point or Annapolis require
ments. Youths entering the acad-
emies under provisions of the legis-
lation would not be charged against
existing admission quotas of the
various States, which are based on
congressional representation.
Evening star., 1945-11-24
III. ). Official Predicts
Prussia Partitioninq
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Nov. pa State
Department official predicted today
that German Prussia, home of the
militaristic Junkers, will be parti-
toned.
Present developments indicate
clearly that Prussia is to be broken
into a number of autonomous states
and that most of the other states
will probably survive in modified
form as constituent units of a new
federal union," said James w. Rid
delberger, chief of the Division of
Central European Affairs.
In an address before the Kansas
City Council of World Affairs, he
stressed that Germany itself lis to
be maintained for the present as an
entity but the administration of
affairs Is to be directed toward the
decentralization of the political
structure and the development of
local responsibility"
Allied occupation of Germany will
last "as long as may be necessary
to carry out Allied objectives, he
said, while Germany's economy is
being systematically decentralized. :"
Evening star., 1945-11-24
Bombay Police Fire
On Demonstrators;
Calcutta Is Quiet
q
By the Associated Press.


NEW DELHI, India, Nov. a.
New violence marked by police gun
fire f1ared in Bombay today and
American Army headquarters an
nounced that 80 American soldiers
had been injured at Calcutta In
anti-British rioting.
American headquarters said no
Americans had been reported killed,
however, and Calcutta dispatches
said that United States major and
soldiers had been killed there were
without foundation. One American
soldier was missing. however.
Calcutta Back to Normal.
While Calcutta gradually returned
to normal, with no new outbreaks
today, police in Bombay, India's Sec
ond largest city, opened fire on
demonstrators who threw stones and
injured one police officer and four
constables. No gunshot casualties
were reported.
Troops had taken over the polio
ing in Calcutta, starting point of
the demonstrations which were
touched off by the British trial of
Indian Army officers who had Joined
the Japanese-sponsored Indian Ma
tional Army in Burma during the
war.
Improvement in the Calcutta situ-
alton developed after members of
the al-India Congress party, as
well as Hindus and Mahasabha
party leaders toured the city and
appealed to crowds to be peaceful.
Casualties at Calcutta totaled
nearly $50. Gunfire yesterday took
the lives of five more persons,
bringing fatalities in Calcutta to SO.
Left Camp in Ambulance.
The missing American, whose name
has not been disclosed, has not been
seen since he left Camp Howrah,
across the Hooghley River from CAL
cutta, in an ambulance Wednesday
night. The ambulance was found
overturned and burned yesterday
morning.
In Calcutta steel helmets and sub
machine guns were issued to Amer
ican military police on duty at the
base headquarters there.
Evening star., 1945-11-24
Trumon's Woge-Price Policy
AssoiIed by Taft as Reckless

end for nearly all wartime controls
Mentioning the recent streetcar
and bus tieups here, Senator Taft
said these workers could not be
blamed for demanding an increase
when the White House openly ad-
vocated substantial increases over
prewar levels for Federal civil serv-
ice workers, and 100 per cent in
crease for top Government officials
and members of Congress.
The Senator said wages and prices
should be held in balance, that some
changes should take place in both,
but these should be determined by
free enterprise and collective bar
gaining rather than Government
order.
Senator Taft said he would in
troduce legislation to carry out his
ideas for encouraging postwar pro-
duction and prosperity.
Evening star., 1945-11-24
Nimitz Flying TO Hawaii
To Yield Fleet Command
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated freSS.
OAKLAND, Calf, Nov. a.
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz, en- route
by plane to Honolulu to relinquish
his command of the Pacific Fleet
"either today or tomorrow" said he
would return to San Francisco Mon
day to further affirm his stand
against unifcation of the Nations
armed forces.
Admiral Nimitz,s four-engined
craft took off from the Oakland
Airport last night. He said on his
arrival here from Washington, that
he probably would pass over his
command to Admiral Raymond
Spruance aboard a submarine. 1t
was on an undersea boat that he
hoisted his flag when he became
Pacific commander in chief.
The admiral, newly-appointed
chief of naval operations, is sched-
uled to speak Monday before the
San Francisco Commonwealth Club
on '"The Navy's Part in World War
II-and Unif1cation."
He pleaded yesterday, don't let
the Army swallow the Navy-that
would be fatal to our sea power"
Evening star., 1945-11-24
Police Seeking Clues
In SIoying Of Girl, g
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press,
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 24.-Detective
Capt. Martin Cliffe is directing a
search for missing pieces of cloth
ing of 9-year-old Shirley Jean
Coxey in efforts to find the person
who he said attacked the child,
battered her head and face and
left her to die in a refuse Uttered
alley in subfreezing temperature.
The girls partly clothed body was
found at daybreak several hours
after her parents reported she was
missing on Thanksgiving night.
Her shoes were found near her
home and Capt. Cliffe said she prob
ably was assaulted and her body
carried in an automobile to the
secluded alley in distant part of
the city.
Evening star., 1945-11-24
Bishop Dun TO Undergo
Minor Operation in Boston

The Right Rev. Angus Dun, Bishop
OF Washington, who went with Mrs
Dun to Boston for Thanksgiving
has been advised to undergo a minor
operation there next week and is
not expected to return to Washing
ton for about two weeks, his Office
announced today. 1t may be neces-
sary for him to cancel engagements
for the next month, 1t was said.
Bishop and Mrs Dun are visiting
their daughter-in-law, Mrs. Angus
Dun, jr., in Boston. Their son is an
Army chaplain, stationed in Col
orado
Evening star., 1945-11-24
By the Associated Press

by lue ASSOClateQ fTeSa.
Senator Taft, Republican, of Ohio,
described President Truman's policy
on wages and prices yesterday as
ridiculous, dangerous and ulti-
mately impossible"
The Ohio Republican told the
Senate that the President had an
nounced he would try to freeze
prices and at the same time allow
wages to rise.
"It is about as reckless and ire
sponsible policy as any admins
tration has ever proposed" Senator
Taft said, asserting such a policy
would cause a boom" to be followed
by depression.
The Ohioan, declaring the Presi-
dent and OPA Administrator
Bowles were engaged in planned
policy of imitation" advocated an
Evening star., 1945-11-24
Herbert Hoover Gives
Home to Stanford u.
By the Associated rrsss.

~ Gut ASsociHteo Ff6Se.
PALO ALTO, Calf, Nov. 24.-The
Herbert Hoover home on Stanford
University campus has been given
to the university by the former
President, In memory of his late
wife.
DR.. Donald Tresidder, Stanford
president, who made the announce
ment, said 1t would be known as the
Lou Henry Hoover house.