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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-11-06

march across the parade grounds
IN his queer, tight riding boots and
run up the steps toward the ad-
ministration buildings.
Beatings Begin
I went back to my room and
while sitting there I saw Boots
return, line up the Jap guard, and
saw him speak at length to his
men.
do not know what he said to
them. But l do know that i'm
mediately thereafter all of us began
to undergo indiscriminate slap
pings. beatings and clubbings.
It was on this night that I was
first struck. After the 8 p. m. roll
call. knowing I had a half hour
before I had to be in bed, I picked
nm INV towel and went to the back
Of the barracks to the vile latrine.
Just as I came out of the latrine
and started for the washing spigots
on the rear porch of the barracks,
noticed a Jap sentry standing
4 nearby. He was short, stocky,
muscular man.
turned bit and bowed to him,
with the usual sick feeling in my
stomach, and started to 60 on. But
he shouted something at me and
then motioned to me to step closer
to him. walked over.
"Yes?" 1 asked. A group of
American officers nearby stopped
to watch.
The Jap swung very quickly and
slapped me across the face. 1t was
singing blow, and in my throat
/ felt rising gorge of hate and
despair.
| I stood there. Encouraged by
what he had done he slapped me
i again, then again, and then a fourth
i time. Each time he hit me he
j shouted Japanese in America"
i The blows made my legs weaker
but I was determined not to fall
at the feet of rat like that.
| Blow Fells Him
i He saw that l was not going
down, so he took lunge at me
i and hit me on the left jaw with
) his fist. And then I fell. 1 was only
half-conscious from the blow, but
j the part of my consciousness that
was alive told me that here was
the very pit of my life.
!, shook my head clear, got up
and walked slowly over to the
:. water spigot, and after time
had strength enough to turn on
the water and wash myself:
| Gen. King was in bed and the
light was out when I got back
to my room. I told him about it,
!; and lay there awake the rest OF
! the night.
The next day was inspection day,
and it was my duty to help Gen.
King clean and dust our little
room. We were at work in there,
and I was still shaking from the
night before, when our door was
suddenly flung open and Jap
sentry jumped i'm and roared
something at us.
My back was turned to the door
at the moment, and I was busting
off the shelf that held our mess
bowls. And in my nervousness I
accidentally knocked one of the
bowls off the shelf.
1 tried to catch it before it hit
the table below, but I missed-and
it broke in many pieces.
The Jap sentry let out below
of rage, shifted his bayoneted
rifle to his left hand, and rushed
at me with his right fist drawn
back.
His bayonet went into my left
wrist, and he beat me about the
face with his right hand for what
roepoe6 lilo terrih1v long time
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confinement cells for 5sv.
next to no food. There e' VS. with
beds in any Of these cells Hs'e ~ no
placed in solitary were faS. Men
remain standing in the fri oiSe d %
rooms from 6 a. m. until 50 . little
every. day, day after day, S ?. H.
them had to be dragged o1 I4osi Of
their sentences were fir S1l When
And thus it went at KarenI Eu'
til Christmas, 1912. 'lAO ua'
(Tomorrow: Christmas ,o.,
der Jap despotism. Ui'
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-11-06
DON'T JUST ASK
FOR ASPIRIN

always ask for it by name. Be sure,
say St. Joseph Aspirin. It's genuine
and pure. You can't buy aspirin that
can do more for you. There's none
faster, none better, none more depend
able. Get St. Joseph Aspirin, worlds
largest seller at 10c. Save even more
on large size-100 tablets cost only
35c-you get nearly 8 tablets for 1c.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-03
ZHUKOV POSTPONES
VISIT TO TRUMAN:
REPORTED AS I'LL

WASHINGTON, Oct. q P -
Marshal George Zhukov, Russia S
top soldier, has postponed his visit
with President Truman.
The White House disclosed today
that it had received a message say
ing Zhukov is ill. He had planned to
arrive in New York by air Thurs
day.
The postponement was announc-
ed shortly before the windup of the
London conference of Foreign Min
listers at which Soviet Foreign Com.
missar V. M. Molotov was report
ed to have had strenuous argu.
ments with other conferees.
However, there was no word here
as to whether ZZhukov's indisposi-
ton was a diplomatic Illness"
Charles G. Ross, White House
press secretary, said President Tru-
man hopes the Marshal, who COM
mands the Russian portion of oc-
cupied Germany, will make the
trip later this month.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-03
Beast Of Belsen Denies
All Atrocity Charges
Joseph Kramer However
Admits Death Toll
Was Abnormal

LUENEBURG, Germany, Oct. 2
I-R-Josef Kramer, the accused
Beast of Belsen' said in state.
ment read to his British judges
today that he did everything he
could to remedy conditions al
Belsen concentration camp and IN.
sisted he knew nothing of mass
murders at Oswiecim.
His 15-page signed statement as
cribed conditions found at Belsen
to short supplies, insufficient per
sonnel and general confusion atten-
dant upon the collapse of Nazism.
Capt. S. M. Stewart of the War
Crime Department, who interview
ed Kramer June 26, read the state
ment. Defense counsel offered no
objection.
Although many witnesses had
charged Kramer committed, or
dered or witnessed gas chamber
executions, whipping of prisoners
and other b-utalities at Oswiecjm,
the No. l man of the "Belsen
gang asserted:
''Al, I can say to all this is
that it is untrue from beginning
to end.''
OF Belsen, he said, he had "com
p1ete confidence" in the guards
there and was satisfied that I had
done all I could to remedy condi-
tions before the British arrived"
He took particular exception to
charges that he cruelty punished
women prisoners.
Had woman deserved corporal
punishment, he said, 81 would
have pointed out to women guards
that Git could not be administer
ed to women. such thing is in
conceivable to me-"
Earlier Esther Wolgroch, 23-
year-old Polish Jewess, declared
the woman guard Juana Borman
was 'The Beastess of Oswiecim."
She testified that Borman set
dog on woman prisoner, watch
ed as the dog killed her, called
IS elite Gurad superiors a n d
gloated:
Look, see what I have done -
that is my work.
Kramer's statement said he
worked his way up from a minor
official at Dachau through Saxen-
hansen, Natzweiler, Markhausen,
and Oswiecim to become Belsen
commandant December 2, 1914.
(COntinued on Page Two. CoI 2l
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-03
CONDUCTOR SNATCHES
SIGHTSEEING TOTS
FROM POSSIBLE DEATH

ST LOUIS, Oct. 2.-R)-Two
very young children who had gone
10 see The choo-choos" were saw
eo from the path of an oncofnin3
traln today by an alert railroad
conductor.
Leo Watson, the conductor,
spotted the pair in front of his
incoming Illinois terminal subur-
pan train which he stopped in time
10 rescue them from the 25-foot
elevated trestle along which they
We're walking.
The children, Sonny Aut, 8, and
MS two-year-old sister, Shirley
Jean, were put aboard the train
END brought into the St. Louis
terminal where police were mott
lied. They were returned to their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ferdinand
Aut of St. Louis. The children
VINO had wandered almost a mile
rom their home, said they had
gone to see the choo-choos.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-03
Gen. Eisenhower Gusts
Patton As Third Head
Colorful Leader Also
Relieved OF Office
In Bavaria
FRANKFURT ON THE MAIH

FRANKFURT ON THE MAIN,
Germany, Oct. 2 - (P) - General
Eisenhower announced today he
had ousted Gen. George S. Patton,
Jr., as commander of the Third
Army and Administrator of Bava.
ria and had placed him in charge
of paper army" the 18th.
The order, effective Oct. Z, fol-
lowed compla nts that the pistol
packing, colorful Patton had kept
Bavarian Nazis in office, and was
made public just four days after
the 59-year-old armored command.
er was called on the carpet to give
a personal report to Eisenhower
on his Identification action.
1t. Gen. Lucian K. Truscott, who
commanded the Fifth Army in TIA
ly and later headed the Seventh
Army, will succeed Patton as com
mander of the Third Army and
Administrator of the Eastern Mill.
tary District.
The 18th Army at present con.
sists only of headquarters and
special troops engaged in research
work on Allied relations during the
war. It does not control any occu-
patton area.
The official announcement gave
no reason for the sh it, but disclos-
ed that Eisenhower had notified
Patton of the transfer last Satur-
day, the day after Patton had been
summoned to Frankfurt.
Patton could not be reched early
tonight for comment. He has been
unavailable to newspapermen for
the past three days since return
ing to, his headquarters at Bad To-
elz in Bavaria. His, WAC secre-
tary said she did not know where
he and his aides had gone.
Continued on Page Three; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-03
RIOTS BREAK OUT
IN RUEN0S AIRES

BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 2.-W.H-
Police reserves used tear gas to.
night in an attempt to eject several
hundred students who barricaded
themselves inside buildings o1
Buenos Aires University, after a
45-minute gun battle with pro-gov.
ernment civilians.
Three heavy explosions shook the
buildings shortly after police en-
tered. At p. m. it was estimated
that 300 students fled from the
science and engineering school
building into the National College
building.
The engineering school building,
from which electric lights had been
previously cut off, is located only
a short distance from Col. Juan D.
Peron's Department OF Labor and
Social Welfare. While the fighting
was going on at the university, Pc
ron, strong man of the government,
in an impromptu address said:
Everybody is demanding my head
but thus far no one has come to get
it. Police have not yet started to
act. When they do, there will be
plenty of blood but it will be shed
for the benefit of the workers."
Several hundred revolver shots
were fired during the melee and
eyewitl esses reported the first
shots came from the crowd outside
the building. After some ten rounds
had been fired into the building,
there was answering fire from in
side.
No casualties were reported.
No attempt was made immediate
ly to eject several hundred stud
ents barricaded in the medicine
school building.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-03
HIGHWAY PROGRAM
GETS "C0-AHEAD"

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2-lREAn
immediate start on three-year.
S., 1000, 100000 Federal-State high
way construction on program got
an okay from Congress today.
It came when the Senate without
debate and in two minutes adopted
House-approved resolution saying
there is no reason to hold up any
longer a program approved last
December as a postwar employ
ment cushion.
The resolution does not require
the Presidents signature.
The program is the first big post
war public works project to get a
90 ahead.
Worked out in detail 10 months
ago, it provides for Federal out.
lay of $500, 100000 a year for the
next three years to match, dollar.
for-dollar, state expenditures On
highways.
In addition, it provides for Fed
eral expenditure of $87, ,250,OO an
nually over the same period for
construction of roads and trails in
forest, parks and Indian lands.
The $500, 100000 of aid to states
is divided into this manner:
$225,oo0, 1000 for primary Feredal
aid highways.
$150,000,00O for secondary anc
| feeder roads.
$125, 100000 for highways in ur
ban areas.
B eaeusaol CDR
Because labor and materials
were scarce owing to wartime de-
mands, Congress provided wher
the program was framed that il
Continued On Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-03
OPENS
WAR CHEST DRIVE

WASHINGTON, Oct 2-(P-Pres-
ident Truman opened the 1945 Ma
tional War Fund campaign tonight
with an appeal for generous con-
tributions to help war fund agen-
cies finish the job they were set
up to do
''War service has not ended" "
said the President in a broadcast
from the White House. 81 don't
need to tell that to anyone whose
son is still serving with the oc-
cupat,. on forces or with the service
troops in this country. For them
the war is still going on
He. said the drive is for three
causes = for continued friendly
services for those still having a
Job to do in the armed forces, for
health and welfare services for
people at home and for relief for
war stricken persons in liberated
areas.
T. Mr.. Truman said:
MY fellow Americans:
This is the month when in cities
and towns throughout the country
the Community War Fund is max
ing it's annual appeal. Perhaps you
wonder why I am coming to you
in behalf of a War Fund Drive,
now that all our enemies have sur
rended. I shall tell you why.
First let me explain that your
Community War Fund joins in one
combined appeal the agencies. of
the National War Fund serving our
own armed forces and Merchant
Marine and those agencies helping
to rel; eve the suffering and want
Of war victims among our allies.
The same federated fund also
unites-in community chest cities
with the appeal for local agencies
guarding the health and welfare of
our own American homes and fom-
lilies.
We must support these war fund
agencies because of their support
of our armed forces. OF course we
gave our armed forces in the field
Continued on Page Three; Col. -
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D dlock
Ends Farley
InLondon
UP TO BIG THREE
Delegates Fail To Issue
Joint Communique At
Closing Meet

LONDON, Oct. 2.-(P-The five.
power conference of Foreign Min.
listers, after three weeks of discus.
sing European peace settlements
ended tonight in apparent failure.
The ministers of the United
States, Russia, Great Britain,
France and China concluded their
first peace talks in a deadlock over
procedure which authoritative cir.
cles said would have to be resolved
by President Truman, Premier
Stain and Prime Minister Attlee.
This was the first meeting of the
major powers in which no joint
communique was issued at the con-
clusion of discussions. There was
merely a brief announcement that
the Council had decided to termi-
nate it's present session"
In an authorized statement, U. S.
Secretary of State James F. Byrnes
disclosed that the issue which dead
locked the conference was Russia S
insistence on barring France and
China from discussions of Balkan
peace treaties.
"There is good reason to be-
lieve," he added, that with con-
.ssnued patiencesand understanding
on all sides agreement on essenti-
ais can be attained.
1--WE are determined upon that
outcome"
No date was set, however, for
any future meeting and, conference
circles, said, it probably would not
be until the heads of the govedn-
ments find some solution of the
Continued On Page Three; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-03
SHlPYARD STARTS
CHEST CAMPAIGN

Annual participation of the North
Carolina Shipbuilding company IN
/ the local Community War Chest
was opened yesterday afternoon
with a meeting of departmental
solicitators at which H. A. Marks,
general chairman of the campaign,
was the principal speaker.
Mr.. Marks discussed the value
of the Chest to the community and
stressed the importance OF the
work of the many agencies financ-
ed through the annual War Fund.
He called on every employee OF
the yard to give at least a days
BOY during the campaign, plans tor
which have been under way Tor
the past several days. The drive
at the shipyard is opening much
earlier than other divisions a n d
will close on October 20.
Attending yesterdays kickoff
meeting were the following depart
mental representatives:
Administrative, c. T. Lewis;
Safety, Miss Esther Gay; Comp
trollers, Miss C. L. Gordon; Audit
ing and Bookkeeping, Miss Bette
Powell; Tabulating, Mrs. Doris
Jane Ward; PieceWork Counters,
B. T. Lennon.
Treasurers Office, Mrs. Nina
Tenuta; Bond department, Miss
Mary McCrary; Timekeepers,
Office, George Beverly; Police
and Fire. r. w. Dunnaway; Jani-
tors, J. o. Brown; Infirmary. Mrs,
D. G. Hilburn; Instructing,
Mr.. T. ]. Martin; Production,
Miss Helen Lowering; Time Study,
Mrs. j. B. Carr, and Blue Print,
Mrs. Lora Wood. +
Purchasing, Frank Castee/
Warehouse, Charles T. Teach
Continued on Page Three;
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 =, B -
A House appropriations subcom-
mittee expressed "serious doubts
today that Alaska is ready to be-
come a state.
The committees report came
few days after President Truman
told a news conference he would
welcome Alaska's entry into the
union as state, whenever the
territory is ready for that step.
The committee, headed by
Rep. Jed Johnson D-Okla), visit
ed Alaska this summer. In re-
port filed with the House, 1t SAID:
Although the committee feels
that eventually the claims OF the
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-03
Macarthur
TracksDown.
ArnlsMakers
CALLS FOR REPORTS
Emperor Hirohito Report.
ed Ready To Clean
House AT Tokyo

TOKYO, Oct. 2.-(P)-The Japa-
nese press, brandishing the Ame,<-
can gift of freedom, attacked the
government today amid reports the
cabinet may fall or be overhauled
for failing to act in the food crisis.
With forthrightness impossible
under the old regime, the press de-
manded the dismissal Of ''feudalis-
tic officials" such as those who
tried to stop publication of the En-
peror's visit to General Macarthur.
With his investigators already
tracking down the spoils of war
which Japanese exploiters gather
ed in the Orient, Macarthur set out
today after the munitions industry
that armed Japan's warriors.
He told the imperial government
to submit complete report on the
production of arms, ordnance, am
munftion and automotive equip
ment from 1941 to August of this
year, when the Empire crashed in
defeat. Well-informed Japanese re-
ported Emperor Hirohito was wait
ing quietly for the Japanese Army
to finish rehabilitation, possibly
By Oct Is, before cleaning house
in the government.
AS part of that disarming, Mac
Arthur's headquarters announc-
ed the Imperial General Air Force
had been completely demobilized
and all air matters now were di-,
rectly under American control.
Some Japanese sources said Pre-
mier Higashi-kuni himself might
resign because of mounting criti-
cism of government delay in meet
ing the dire problems of food, fuel
and housing shortages.
Some quarters believed that Vice
Premier Fumimaro Konoye, p e.
mier shortly before Japan went to
war with America, might again
take the premiership should Higa-
shi-kuni' resign.
Faced with almost certai-. custer
were at least three cabine. nem-
bers who had an active hand in
the war. They were:
War Minister Gen. Sadamu Shi-
who once commanded
Continued on Page Three; Col. q
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-03
NEW TROPICAL BLOW
LOCATED BY WEATHER
BUREAU IN ATLANTIC

MIAMI, Fla, Oct. 2.-W.R)-The
Miami Weather Bureau warned
late today that a storm of near
hurricane force has been located
in the Caribbean, 100 to $50 miles
southeast of Swan Island, off the
Central American coast.
A 4:3O pm. CESD advisory said
the storm was moving west-north-
westward at between eight and ten
miles an hour.
Strongest winds near the center
are about. 70 miles per hour and
strong squalls extend consider
able distance north of CENTER, the
weather bulletin said.
All interest in the northwest
Caribbean north of latitude Is and
west of longitude 81 were warned 0
be on the lookout for the storm.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-03
100000 TONS
OF SUGAR FOUND

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 - R -
Secretary of Agriculture Andersen
disclosed tonight that 100000 ton
of sugar have been discovered il
the ports of Java since the Japa
nese surrendered.
Obviously pleased over the dis
covery, Anderson told newsmen a
a conference that this sugar shoule
very greatly shorten the perioe
of rationing in this country. Here
tofore, it has been expected tina
consumer rationing might be nee
essary through 1916.
Discovery of this sugar was re
ported to Anderson today by E. C
Zimmerman, Commissioner for the
Netherlands East Indies. He helo
out hope, the Secretary said, that
substantial additional amounts
may be found in the interior oil
Java as well as on Borneo and
other East Indies islands.
The sugar will be- added to a
United Nation pool.
Anderson said it should start
moving to this country within two
weeks. 1t will become available al
period when domestic supplies
are at the lowest level of the year.
Supplies recently allocated civil.
ans for the October-December pc.
riod were % per cent below those
OF any other quarter of this year
Anderson said the sugar will be
apportioned among claimants to a
United Nations pool by the Com
bined Food Board, representing the
United States, Great Britain, and
Canada. He said no ALLEGATION had
yet been made and he could not
say yet how much this country
would get.
However, the United States por-
tion might run between 100000 and
100000 tons if divided on the basis
Of past ALLEGATIONS.
Anderson again expressed hope
mat all food ratlonlng except Sug-
ar may be ended by January l.
In the case of sugar, he said it
might be possible to end the ration
ing few months later, limiting
governmental distributions controls
to refineries and industrial users.
He said bakers, whose quotas
nave been cut sharply, probably
will be the first to get the benefit
OF the Javanese supply.
Anderson said the world sugar
situation is much roster now
than at any time in many months.
Prospects indicate, he said, a good
Cuban crop in 1916, large domes-
nc crop, and favorable production
IN Russia and other parts of Eu-
rope -
Discovery of the sugar in the
East Indies places the United
States in a better position to bar
gam with Cuba over purchase Of
mat country's 1916. crop. The Unit
ed States has offered Cuba 3.4
cents pound, raw value, but that
country has asked for more.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-03
Phonn>Workers Quit 4 Hours Friday
Jap </ese Press Attacks Cabinet Work;
Foreign Ministers Conference Folds Up
SEPTEMBER RAINFALL
AS INCHES ABOVE
NORMAL FOR MONTH

September followed the pat
tern of other summer months in
1945. The total rainfall, 8.96
inches being 4.45 above normal,
according to Weatherman Paul
Hess.
The highest temperature dur
ing the past month occurred on
the 2lst of the month when "a
degrees was registered, h said.
The lowest recorded tempera-
ture was 68 degrees on the 23rd
of the month.
Mr. Hess said that the mean
temperature for the month, 1873
degrees, had exceeded the nor
NAL for September by 5.7 de-
grees.
Making the weather less hear
able, humidity here has aver
aged 81 per cent, four per cent
above normal.
During the month, rain fell
on 13 days, with the greatest
rainfall, 1857 inches, occua ring
on the 4th and 5th of Septem-
ber.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-03
ENGINE TROUBLE
HITS CL0BESTER
Bv PAUL MILLER
Associated Press Staff Writer

GUAM, Wednesday,, Oct. g.
B-The Colchester developed en-
gine trouble today on the home
stretch and was forced to return
to Guam after it had sped 315 miles
along the road to Kwajalein.
This was but temporary inter-
ruption of the first around-the-world
flight of the Army Transport Com
mand, and passengers were quick
ly transferred to another plane for
the resumed flight.
The four-engined world traveller
developed magnetic trouble and the
No. 2 engine cut out.
With 1926 miles still to be flown
to Kwajalein, Capt. Marion a..
Click of Denver, Colo, made the
decision to turn back to Guam.
(The Army Transport Command
at Honolulu said the globe-girdling
plane was scheduled to arrive there
at 9 am. Wednesday, instead of II
am, as first announced. The plane
picks up day by crossing the in
ternational dateline.)
The Colchester, scheduled to be
in Washington by Thursday, had
left Guam at. 3:15--a.m Q2:15 pm.
Tuesday, Eastern Standard Timel
an dreturned at 7:05 am.
The delay cane after full day
in which the Globesters' eight
roundthe-world passengers:
1. Ate breakfast in Running,
China, after flying at 14,5oo feet
across the Himalayas;
. g.. Had lunch at Manila and
were taken on tour of the broken
and ruined city; :
3. Welcomed aboard % home
ward-bound Americans who had
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