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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-01
THREE PLANS SEEN
FOR EUROPE PEACE
Big Three Expected To
Form Machinery For
Future Affairs

WASHINGTON, Jan. 81 R) -
Creation of at least three definite
types of Allied machinery to con-
duct European affairs is expected
here to result from the Big Three
meeting.
The form of this machinery will
depend on Cd the spend of
offensives against Germany in the
nextnext few days and 90 how far
Churchill and Stain are willing to
60 in accepting American princi-
pies for handling liberated coun-
tries.
The military picture Is consid-
cred of utmost importance at this
conference. Regardless of when
the Big Three met, it is possible
that before their talks are con-
Guided the nature and duration of
German resistance may be more
exactly estimated than at any time
since the conflict began. Partly
this will be shown by the force
of enemy conference.-the to the
Russian drive along the Oder river
line. Partly it will be shown by
enemy retreats in the west and
to some extent it may be reflect
ed in indications from inside the
Reich of arrangements for a re-
treat into mountainous southern
Germany and a last-ditch fight in
that area.
The more accurately Roosevelt,
and Stain can foresee
the end of the war in Germany,
the more accurately they can plan
for long range German control pol
icies, for the liberation of Austria
and for the tapering off of mill
tary activities.
The end of the European war is
expected also to mean a slow but
certain change in the European
supply picture.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-01
ALLIES TO WIDEN
PUNISHMENT PLAN
War Crime Penalties Will
Extend To Gestapo
Inside Germany

LONDON, Jan. 81 -RH Richard
Law, British minister of State, de-
clared today that the Allied nations
intended to punish Nazis respon-
sible for persecution Of Jews and
other anti-Nazis inside Germany
itself as well as to punish war
criminals.
Disclosing the most far-reaching
Allied plans yet voiced by an Of
fetal spokesman, Law said that at
tempts would be made to plug any
technical loopholes through which
some Nazis guilty of atrocities
might escape.
Grimes committed by Germans
against Germans are in different
category to war crimes and can
not be dealt with under the same
procedure, he explained. But in
spite of this, the British govern
ment will do it's very utmost to
insure that those crimes do not 90
UNPUBLISHED.
Herbert Pe1l was withdrawn as
American representative on the
war crimes commission for lack of
funds after he insisted upon punish
ing such prosecutions as Grimes
against humanity and when Sir
Cecil Hurt resigned as British rep
resentative diplomatic sources said
they understood he broke with the
British Foreign Office on the ques-
ton of bringing Nazi leaders to
trial.
Acting Secretary of State Grew
said Monday it was the policy of
the United States Government Ito
see to it that the Axis leaders and
their henchmen who have been
guilty of war crimes and atrocities
shall be brought to the bar of
JUSTICE and renewed request for
special appropriation to finance
fulltime American participation in
the commission.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-01
70 NEGRO TROOPS
FOUND GUILTY OF
MUTINY IN HAWAII

HONOLULU, T. H., Jan. 81
(UP)-The Central Pacific base
command of the U. S. Army an
nounced today that 70 Negro sol
diers had been found guilty of
mutiny and sentenced to long
terms at nard labor, following two
extensive courts martial.
1t was announced that the mu-
tiny took place the night of July
81, 1914 when the men-all mem
bers of Company E, 132Oth Engi-
neers, General Service Regiment
- refused to obey orders of their
superior officers to report to a
work formation On the company
area at an airfield on Oahu"
What caused the mutiny was
NOT told in the official announce
ment from the headquarters of
Maj. Gen. Henry T. Burgin, COM
mander of the Central Pacific
Base Command, but it was pointed
out that the trials which convict
ed the men were the first for such
charge in this area since the
outbreak of the war.
None of the names of those con-
victed was disclosed.
Five Negroes charged under the
66th Article of War as ringleaders
who melted and jointed the revolt
were tried separately after a pre-
vlous court martial convicted 60
of the SO men accuser of Joining
in the mutiny.
The 69th man was convicted but
was granted retrial after a re-
view by Burgin.
Two of the five defendants in
the second trial were convicted,
one being sentenced to 30 years
at hard labor and the others to
Is years. Both sentences called
for dlshonorable discharges and
total forfeiture of pay and allow
ances.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-01
u S: To Leave Supplies
In Europe After We Day

Ocean will make it possible to en-
ploy large bodies of troops-pre-
sumably in operations on the Ash
attic mainland-much earlier than
was anticipated six months ago.
Second, that it would be more
expedient, in view of transport
problems, to let soldiers from Eu-
rope and munitions from America
converge for the showdown assault
against Japan, than to undertake
the slower task of shipping both
from Europe.
Otherwise months of effort would
be required, the plans proponents
held, in reassembling the weapons,
vehicles and supplies from depots
and bases spread over the map of
Eruope; in preparing them for re-
and in hauling them over
Europe's battered transportation
system to ports congested with
troop movements.
It held further that the heavier
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-01
Nazis Report Russians IS Miles From Goa
Berlin Residep5 Hear Thunder OF Red Gun:
French, America Open New Alsatian Driv
Nursery Fire
Takes Lives
of Is Babies

AUBURN, Me-, Jan. UP)-
Sixteen tiny tots and a middle-age
nurse-maid died in their beds early
today when a boarding home for
babies was demolished by fire and
tonight authorities began an inves-
tigation to fix the ultimate respon-
sibility for this Downeast disaster.
In perhaps 80 horrow-filled min
utes just as the wintry dawn was
| breaking, flash fire belched
through the story-anda-half dwell
ing and only eight of the Is occu-
pants reached the safety of the
snowy dooryard.
These eight included two infants,
two nursemaids. Mrs. Eva La Cos
te, the owner, and her three young
sons. But of these none could tell
more than that the fire started in
the kitchen which contained among
other things a woodworking range.
Mrs. Blanche Tanguay, sister
of the owner, gave the first alarm
when she went to the kitchen to get
milk for one of the babies and
found the whole ceiling of the
kitchen on fire.
Mrs. La Coste said she sprang
from her bed after being aroused
by IAN explosion" But with both
arms burned and confined to bed at
at neightbor's house under opiates
she could only mutter deliriously:
The babies -. get the babies.
They're burning. They're all burn
ing up
Flames spouted from every door
and window when the first firemen
reached the scene after perilous
trip over ice-glazed roads.
1--WE carried out babies-God, I
don't know how many babies" said
Fire Chief Ralph B. Harnden. his
face stained by smoke and tears.
1t was fully 20 minutes before
the flames were quelled sufficient
ly to permit firemen to enter, said
Chief Harnden in a voice that broke
again and again as he "ecounted
the sights he saw within.
II put my hand on a baby's face
and it was plumb cold," he said.
1--WE got two babies out of the
front room and eight out OF the
next room.
Then we lost count. We kept
Juggling them out, one after an
other.
eff you had ever been through
it-lugging out dead baby after
dead baby-you wouldn't be able
to describe it,
The heads of some Of tie dead
babies had been thrust through the
Stats of the cribs, as though they
had tried to escape, Chief Harm
den said.
Some of the infants slept on the
first floor, some in the section of
the second and others in an ell that
recently was built to accommodate
the multitude.
In the shambles Of smashed cribs
water soaked bedding and other
wreckage were charred t e d d y
bears, rattles and soft woolly dolls
that peered out grotesquely. The
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-01
|Yanks Seize
Naval Bases
At0langapo
Other Forces Capture Cal
umpit, 70 Miles From
Manila
GENERAL MACARTHUR S

GEN RAL MACARTHUR s
HEADQUARTERS, Luzon, Thurs
day, Feb. 1.-tPHIn series o.
significant successes, Eighth Ar
my troops have captured Olonsape
which already is being developed
as Naval base in Subic Bay
and have landed on an island al
the bays entrance while the Sixth
Army seized Calumpit and crossed
the Pampanga river, % miles
from Manila.
The successes were announced
today by Gen. Douglas Macarthur
The surge of the Sixth into Cal
umpit, in an advance of 10 miles
southwark down Pampanga prev.
ince, carrial motorized units Of
the 14th A m Crops safely
through narrow stretch of land
compressed between two sWamps.
Beyond, the plains open wide tc
Manila with no good defenses for
the Nipponese in between.
While the Yanks cf 1t. Gen.
Robert Eichelberger thus advanc-
ed more than 20 miles from Mon
days beachheads on the Zambales
coast to win Olongapo, Sixth Ar
my columns rolled 10 miles south
west of San Fernando toward a
juncture with the Eighth which
would seal off Bataan peninsula.
The two army elements are
pushing toward each other along a
road of so miles from the
Zambales coast to San Fernando.
Other Eighth Army units land
ed on Grande Island at the en-
trance of Subic Bay, whose waters
can supply the U. S. Seventh Fleet
a find base on the very fringes
of Manila Bay.
The Yanks were on the move in
all sectors. They cleaned out enc
ny pockets at Fort Stotsenburg.
They punched closer to the sum-
mer capital of Baguio to the north.
They seized highway functions
near the foothills of the Sierra
Madre range thanking the Luzon
plains on the east, thus severing
enemy routes of retreat.
Seizure of Olongapo gave h e
drydock and ex-
tensive ship repair facilities.
At Calumpit, scene of gallant
stand by Americans and Filipinos
at the start of the war, the Amer
leans secured bridges spanning
the Pampanga river.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-01
Soviiets Take
Beyersdorf In
Fast Advance
German Report Places In.
yaders North OF Frank
fort-On-Oder

LONDON, Thursday. Feb. In
The Red Army, dashing I'm.
checked across the frozen APP
proaches to Berlin, was So miles
from the Nazi capital by its own
account today and a scant As &C.
cording to the alarmed German
radio.
The Soviet communicate late last
night announced the capture Of
Beyersdorf, 63 miles northeast Of
Berlin--a distance equal to that
from Philadelphia to Reward, N.
j. This represented 10-mile adj
vance in "a hours for Marshal
Zhukov' First White Russian Ar.
my, which took the big commune
cations center of Landsberg in
passing.
One report from the German ra-
dio placed Marshal ZhukovS men
north of Frankfurt-on-the-Oder in
the Oder river valley, not more
than As miles from the capital,
and driving on Kustrin, a rail CEN
ter Al miles east of Berlin, scarce.
ly more than the distance from
Washington to Baltimore.
The Soviet communique report.
ed continued advances along the
entire eastern front, from East
Prussia, where surrounded Ger
man divisions were squeezed in.
side less than one-fifth of the Prov
ince's territory, to beseged Buda.
pest, where $500 prisoners were
taken Tuesday.
The Moscow bulletin made no
mention of besieged Breslau and
the Silesian sector where Marshal
Ivan S. Konev's First Ukraine Ar.
my is operating, but the Berlin
radio, contending that the line
west of Ereslau had been STABILIZE
ed, acknowledged Russian cross.
ings of the Oder at many points
in that area and placed the north-
ern end of Konev's line at Sorau,
A miles inside &c many ana 30
miles west of thu Oder. Sorau Is
81 miles southeast OF Berlin.
In the First White Russian Ar.
my's sector directly east of Der.
lin, the Soviet communique an.
nounced capture of Topper, 70
miles due east of the capital and
II miles west of SchWeibus, town
which fell to Zhukov's army earAs
er in the day.
The northward spread Of the
First White Russian Army in Po-
merania brought the capture Of
Flatow, JastroW and more than so
other populated places. The thrust
to JastroW represented an adj
vance of II miles in a drive which
threatened to cut off the greater
part of Pomerania from Germany
and endangered Stettin, Berlin'y
port on the Baltic,
West and southwest Of KatoWice
in Polish Silesia, the co.nmunique
continued, OderWalde, a town on
the Oder river II miles inside Ger
man Silesia and % miles west Of
KatoWice fell to Konev's First Tx
raine Army.
A German Transocean agency
broadcast said First White Russi-
an tanks and mobile infantry were
locked in battle with German re-
serves on 40-mile front from the
vicinity of Zielenzig, 60 miles east
Of Berlin, to the area Of Soldin,
50 miles northeast of the Capital.
There was no confirmation Of
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-01
House Bans
Anti-U Mon
Am endm ent
Way Is Paved For Speedy
Passage Of National
Service Law

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31-LP-The
House took its longest and most
important stride toward passage OF
limited National Service bill to-
day. Two amendments some mem
hers had feared would jeopardize
the whole bill were firmly rejected.
In succession, the membership
turned down the proposals that a
man compelled to go to work in a
closed shop war plant need not
ioin he union; and that race, creed
or color should not be a condition
Of employment.
Disposition of the two explosive
issues left nothing in the way of
final approval except a host of less
controversial amendments, gener-
ally considered as minor.
There was a likelihood, though,
that record vote would be forced
on the anti-closed shop proposal
when the bill comes up for final
action probably tomorrow. But in
dcationS were that the 178 to 142
teller vote that rejected the pro-
posal today would be sustained.
As it neared the end Of its run
in the House. the legislation pro-
vides that local draft boards may
freeze" men between the ages of
10 through As in essential Jobs Or
direct them to move into jobs de-
clared essential by the Director
If War Mobilization. A registrant
disregarding board order would
be subject to immediate induction
into the armed forces or to five
years imprisonment and a fine Of
$4,000.
The two amendments that had
threatened to kill the bill were turn
ed down in rapid order after Speak
er Rayburn warned the House that
either Of them would ALLEVIATE suf-
hcient votes to jeopardize the plan
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which President Roosevelt reques-
ted as a means of stepping up war
production.
Amajority Of Republicans and
large group Of Democrats backed
me amendment Of Rep. WadsWorth
'R-NYl to provide that no man
taxing job in accordance with the
Dill should be required, as con-
oton Of employment, to join a
union. But sufficient Republicans
joined a majority Of Democrats
10 defeat the amendment.
Inc vote on the so-called FEPC
amendment, intended to give stat
u'oIy backing to the program OF
me Far Employment Practices
committee set up to prevent en-
N0yment discrimination because of
race, creed or color. followed party
Ines fairly closely. Most Republi-
'snS supported it, with Democrats
''noSt unanimously against it.
through parliamentary steps, a
,eCOro vote may be obtained on
ue labor amendment, although
HOne was likely for the FEPC pro-
sGSsl' offered by Rep. Clason R-
Mass.
New York's new Negro mem
=. vi, KEEP, Powell, Democrat, call
w 'ne amendment a deep parti-
.an lIlck to play on racial nrei11-
0'ee IN order to defeat the bill.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-01
FORECAST

Clear and partly cloudy and slightly
warmer today with northwest to north
winds.
Yesterdays temperatures:
High Allow, 81.
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Minis EXERCISES
TOCLOSE FRIDAY

Graduation week exercises fol
the Senior Class of New Hanover
High school will close with the
commencement program tomorrow
night at $3.50 o'clock at the Ameri
can Legion stadium.
The graduating class number.
222 seniors. twenty of which have
already gone into the armed serv
ices. OF these twenty in the serv
ice, only a few will be on hand te
receive their diplomas from T. T
Hamilton, principal of the High
school.
The Senior class. with the Glee
club and the band, is presenting as
their final program "America
Singing - history of America
through the songs its people have
sung.
Speakers at the commencement
exercise will be: Max Goodwin, Vir-
ginia Franks, Walter Goldburg,
Helen Hicks, Lucille Comfy, Elsie
Corbett, John Walker, Jimmie
Wells, Catherine Russell. Frances
Thompson, Bill Lassite-, Betty Sue
Westbrook, Jean Bostian, Judith
Johnston, Robert Strickland + and
Wilton Rankin.
The Amy Bradley Medal, award
ed to the student with the highest
scholastic average during his four
years OF High school, will be pre-
sented by Gloria Nichols.
Class Day exercises will be held
at $3.50 o'clock tonight in the High
school auditorium. Using a theme
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Supper Party
Given AT Club

c,,rf club at Wrightsville
,. sr was the scene last evening
~, ;, The midweek supper party to-
.smbers and guests
p-, .r,one those attending were:
AinUM NJ. Williams, Raymond H.
lE oys, Ben Parmele, MIR. and
i.l ? F. Halsey, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ms, { Mcmahon, Mr.. and Ms. J.
, ", ~ sprunt, Mr.. and Mrs.
L Law snrunt. Mr.. and Mrs. R. NJ
SS ,sa mn Mr.. and Mrs. F. E.
,Tses Of Asheville, F: E. Lykes'
I :. # New orleans, Mr.. and Mrs:
". w., u Lanier and guests, Mr.. and
, ,la. l. Paul Campbell, Mrs. A. K.
Nj, Jr., Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie
, Co. lh,,rv. Mr.. and Mrs: J. Holmes
n Nd, Y Jr., DR.. and Mrs. R: B.
ya.a' Mrs. George Snyder of Char
1 h@l'' Miss Fannie Crow. Louis Hin
.on Mr.. and Mrs. Dick Parker and
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COURSES PLANNED
FOR STATE GUARD

All officers and an undetermin.
ed number of non-commissioned
officers Of the Wilmington COM
pany of the N. c. State Guard will
attend a school for officers and
non-commissioned officers to be
held at Fort Bragg on July II, II
and 10.
The annual encampment, under
the auspices of the Fourth Service
Command, will be held at Fort
Bragg, July 10 through %, although
the enlisted men and those nom
commissioned officers not attend
ing school will not arrive until
July 10.
Aside from the regular routine
Army instruction to be offered at
the encampment, specific sched-
ufe has not yet been received, but
orders are expected within the
next few days.
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Georgia Mae Edens
Of Hampstead, WEEDS
John Burruss Pool, Jr.

Mr.. and Mrs. Sherman r. Edens
of Hampstead announce the marri
age of their daughter, Georgia Mae
to John BGrruss Pool, Jr., serge
ant United States Army, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. John B. Pool Of
Brookneal, Pa. The wedding took
ployed by the civil service depart
Mrs. Poole received her educa.
ton at Topsail High school and
Pineland Junior college, Salemburg
Before her marriage she was en-
ployed by the civil wervice depart
ment at Camp Davis.
Sgt. Pool, who was student
at Marina High school, recently re-
turned from 80 months in the Pa
cific. He was one of the first 500
to be given a discharge from the
Army. He received the bronze star
for participation in the invasion
of the Marshall Island.
After a wedding trip they will
be at home in Brookneal.
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Carolina Beach Girl
Scouts Give Banquit

The Girl Scouts of Troop No. 7,
c,rolina Beach, entertained at a
Mot5er and Daughter banquet, Fl.
d,v evening, at the Baptist church.
Mothers gathered in the social hall
and we're entertained by the Scouts
before being called into the dining
room for a delicious supper which
was planned and prepared by the
Scouts and the following committee
members: Mrs. L. ]. Jordan, Mrs.
G R. Poole, Mrs. D. M. Greer.
Places were laid for SO guests,
marked by original place cards.
The traditional Scout colors OF
green and yellow was carried out
in the decorations.
After supper, Mrs. E. K. Camp
BELL Scout leader, presided over a
Court Of Awards and the following
tendertoots were invested: Dorothy
Randall, Billie Mae Carter, Bar
bara Floyd, Billie Marie Shearon,
Ann Greer, Arkansas Lion, Kay
Smith. Clau Id i a HollingsWorth'
Badges were presented to the fol
loving End class: Mary Poole and
Beth White. Interior Decoration:
Wanda Aman, Vernel Lewis, Mary
Poole Beth White, Dorothy Ran
dali, Billie Mae Carter, Ann Greer,
b lie Marie Shearon, First Aid:
Wanda Aman, Vernell Lewis, Mary
Poole, Beth White, Anita Rowan,
Dorothy Randall, Billie Mae Car
Ter, Billie Marie Shearon, Ann
Greer, Athanasia Lizon. Fresh
Water Life: Mary Poole, Beth
White.
In conclusion the Scouts sang the
Hiking Song, Golden Sun and Taps.
All present repeated the Girl Scout
PRAYER
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The officer smiled and left. Ger
mans posing as Americans were
nothing new. After ten days in
France, the prisoners, including
Beamesderfer, were transferred
to a POW camp. in England. Fl.
nally he managed to nab an in
terrogator.
III tell you things about Penn
sylvania that no one could tell you
unless he's actually been there"
Beamesderfer said desperately.
They called in a Philadelphia
nurse. He told her about the
Unique customs of the Amish, de-
scendants of German settlers OF
eastern Pennsylvania. The nurse
was impressed.
Camp officials cabled Washing
ton for his fingerprints. They es-
tablished Beamesderfer as Beam
esderfer. On the Both day of his
imprisonment, an officer burst in.
to his tent and announced:
1 am happy to inform you that
you're an American at last!"
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Miss Smoot Is New
Director Of Music,
Youth Work AT Grace

Miss Margaret Virginia Smoot of
Goldsboro, has arrived here to take
over the position of director Of
music and youth activities at
Grace Methodist church.
Miss Smoot is a graduate of the
Westminster Choir college at
Princeton, N. ]. Upon graduation
she became director of music at
French Camp academy at French
Camp, Mississippi, in 1941 director
of music at the First Christian
church in Charleston, W. Va, and
in 1914 she held the position as
director of music and youth &C.
tivities at Reaford, and is a teacher
Of voice and piano.
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from Alice IN Wonderland" as a

from Alice IN Wonderland" as a
frame for tho program, the Mad
Tea Party will be the scene of the
introduction of the class history,
prophecy, will, and announcement
OF the supe-latives.
The High School Glee club, under
the direction of Miss Sara Robin.
son, is collaborating with the Sen,
ior class in the play and will inter
sperse nursery rhymes in the ap.
propriate places. The High school
orchestra, directed by Mrs. Laura
Howell Norden, will play the pro
cessional and occasional and the
opening number on the program.
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u. S. Soldier Captured,
And Held By DUN Troops

BIRMINGHAM, Mass, June Z
-RNA 27-year-old American sol
dier spent the go most narrowing
days" of his life when he was
captured by his own troops and
held as wounded German
prisoner Of war.
Corporal Gilbert j. Beamesder-
fer of Ephrata, Penn, Gushing
General hospital patient recently
granted a 90-day work furlougn,
was squad leader in the 35th
division of the Third army before
events became to confused for
comfort.
He remembered leading his men
against German machine gun
nest in France and being hit III
the left arm.
Then apparently he got mixed
up with some captured Germans
and when he awoke he was in a
hospital.
Just before they gave him ether,
a surgeon spoke to him reassur-
ingly-in German. Beamesderfer,
who speaks German, grinned and
answered in the enemy language.
Hours later an American lieu
tenant passed by, and Beamsder-
fer S k d: What happened?"
Have we been captured?"
Be quiet" the lieutenant said.
YOU'RE all right. You're with
your buddies.'
''Buddies, He'll" Beamsderfer
screamed. Get me out of here.
I'm an Americana"