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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-24
RESENTS
PRESS CRITICISM
BY JOHN A PARIS, JR.
Associated Press Staff Writer

LONDON, Sept. % IN With
hope vanishing for any substantial
agreement on European peace set
Elements at this session. of the Big
Five Foreign Ministers, Russian
commentator today rebuked those
who would blame the Soviet for di-
visions in the Ministers Council.
A reviewer in Moscow's Pravda,
naming the British press in partic-
ular, said 'the pessimists not
only engage in gloomy prophesies.
but try to lay blame for a rise of
difficulties upon the Soviet Union"
The commentator declared that
the experience of collaboration
gained by the great powers during
the war gives every ground for
conviction that insurmountable diff
ficulties do not exist and at the
same time offered this rejoinder to
British editorial comment on Sow.
let interest in the future of the
Mediterranean:
mot single geography text
book indicates that the Mediter-
ranean is a British sea, or that
the Italian colonies are British ter
ritory."
The Big Five Council will begin
its third week of deliberations to-
morrow on such subjects as con-
troll Of European inland waterways,
extension of the Austrian govern
ment and removal of British and
Russian troops from Iran.
This leaves in the background
the conflicting series of major is
sues-the Balkan peace pacts, the
Italian colonial possessions and the
frontier dispute between Italy and
Yugoslavia.
The belief grew in diplomatic
quarters that the Big Five would
bring the. session to a close before
Thursday.
.ts,
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HIGH WATER HITS
MORE HIGHWAYS

1nspe ii o n of Wilmington
waterfront at midnight last night
revealed that the Cape Fear River
had risen to the extent that the
foot of Chestnut Street was cover
ed with water up to Water Street.
Paul Hess of the Weather
Bureau stated earlier in the even
ing that there were no further de-
velopments in the flood situation
here and that the crest WITS expec-
e d in Wilmington tonight or
Wednesday.
RALEIGH, Sept. 23-R)-Waters
were steadily receding today in the
upper and middle reaches of four
North Carolina rivers which, in a
week-long rampage, spread over
Eastern flat-lands in one of the
worst floods in the history of the
state.
Only the Cape Fear at Eliza
BEETHOVEN the Neuse at Goldsboro
and the Tar at Tarboro were re-
ported still rising toward their
crests. At Fayetteville, hardest hit
of any area in the flood region,
the Cape Fear was slowly falling
from it's record 68.9 foot crest.
The State Highway Patrol re-
ported conditions unchanged from
yesterday. when high waters
forced the closing of U. S. 7O1 at
Elizabethtown and U. S. III south
OF Goldsboro.
Highway Department officials
said that U. S. 1T, inundated by
the Neuse, probably will remain
closed until the middle OF the
week. A stage of 26.1 feet was
recorded at Goldsboro late last
night with the river still rising.
According to the Highway Pa
troll, the following highways were
blocked today: U. S. 3O1 to Fay
etteville; N. c. "a east of Fayette-
vile; N. c. 81 south OF Fayette-
vile and from Fayetteville TO
Acme; N. c. 217 from Erwin. to
Linden; U. S. "a and U. S. 301 at
Lumberton; N. C. IS east Of Rocky
Mount; U. S. III South Of Colds
boro and U. S. FOL at Elizabeth
town.
Highway engineers expected to
begin surveys tomorrow in an ef-
fort to determine damage done to
the states highway system, which
was virtually paralyzed east and
south of Raleigh for almost week.
They said no monetary estimate
would be available until all sur
veys have been completed, n d
added that secondary roads have
suffered untold damage.
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CRUMPLED NOTES
END EPES TRIAL
By JANE holland
nited Press Staff Correspondent

UNITED Press staff correspondent
COLUMBIA, S. c., Sept. 3D.
Two crumpled notes in an other
wise empty courtroom were all
that remained today where
Samuel, G. Epes, dashing Virginia
socialite, was sent to prison for
life Saturday on conviction OF
poisoning and burying his wife.
The notes were scrubbed in
feminine handwriting and had
been tossed from the packed gal
lery to the defendants ia BILE be-
low.
One, from "a friend, said Il
am praying for YOU"
The other quoted a verse
scripture from the book Of St.
John-"Arise, Let Us Go Hence y
Minutes later he was led away
after 12-man jury found him
guilty of murder. The Jury
recommended mercy which makes
life imprisonment mandatory.
The former Army lieutenant
was accused of giving his wife,
Mary Lee, an overdoes of Sodium
Seconal capsules and then burying
her alive so as to be free for a
romance with beautiful Southern
belle who lived in a pre- Civil War
Mississippi mansion. ~.
General Sessions Judge A. L.
CASTOR, who passed sentence. will
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Agonized Mothers Watch
Babies Caught On Blades

At the outbreak of the Malayan
campaign, four wealthy Chinese
merchants with their families fled
to well-prepared house near
village of Chinese in a valley sur
rounded by high hills. They stayed
there throughout the campaign.
After the equalization Of Singapore,
Malay natives, knowing the house
contained much wealth and food,
led Japanese soldiers to the refuge
and reported that everyone there
was anti-Jap and Communist.
Several trucks full of japanese
soldiers arrived and threw a cor
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Major Mine
Firms Must
Tile Report
TRIALS START SOON
Manila Advices Say First.
Cases May Go On !.
Next Week

TOKYO, Sept. 23..R-Japan's
top field general was jazz today
and with former Dictator Hideki
TOTO and other suspected war
criminals faced speedy trial, pos
sibly within a month.
simultaneously the Nippon Times
said the Commerce Ministry would
order all major mining and manu-
featuring companies to make fin-
ancial reports in the first step to-
ward stripping Japan OF war In
dustriers.
Close behind the announcement
yesterday of Washington's direc.
tive for the roundup of all the war.
makers of Japan, General Mac
Arthur declared that tAials by mill.
tary tribunal would begin soon.
That was interpreted here az
meaning some would begin in Octo-
Der. A dispatch from Manila said
it was possible some of the first
cases there might be started with
in week.
Latest to join the swelling popu.
lation of top suspects in the Yoko-
hama prison was Gen. Kenji Dol
hara,' sinister figure in Japanese
military intelligence, who sur
rendered today. $500.
Doihara only recently had been
placed in command of the Japanese
First Army despite his record as
leader in the conquests on the
Asiatic continent, where he was
known as the Lawrence Of Man
churia."
Doihara arrived with some of his
staff at the city hall and was I'm.
tremendously escorted to the pris.
on. where "a other suspects are
confined.
It also was announced that
Wathakan WIGHT, Slams Ambas'
sador to Japan. was taken into
custody at Miyanoshita, near
Tokyo. He is another on Mac
Arthur's "wanted" list.
Preliminary plans for the trial
of all persons charged with war
crimes call for dividing the defen-
dants into three categories:
/. Those who planned the war
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Strike Vote
At Chrysler
KELSEY PEACE NEAR
Oil Workers Walkout
Futher Cripples Gasoline
Supplies In Area

DETROIT, Sept. 23-P)-Settle'
ment Of the pivotal Kelsey-Hayes
strike appeared nearer today but
otherwise the strike picture in
heavily industrialized Detroit grew
darker.
Threat of a strike against Gen
eral Motors to back up demands Of
the United Automobile Workers
(C1O) for an industry-wide 30 per
cent wage increase took tangible
form not far ahead of probably
similar action against the remain
ing two of autos big three-Fore
and Chrysler.
Developments on the labor from
included:
1-Percy Llewellyn, union ap
pointed administrator striving te
get 4,50o Kelsey-Hayes workers
back on the job, said II expect
success the first of the week."
2-Ten Chrysler locals Of the
CLIO met throughout Detroit today
and tomorrow, voting on whether
to seek a Federal strike vote
Early returns showed one loca.
unanimously for the strike ballot
a second almost so, said Joe Ru
bin, CLIO spokesman. Similar meet
ings are being held nationally
among Chrysler's approximately
100000 workers.
3-Local 800 of the UAW CLIO,
covering $4,000 Ford workers in
the Detroit area, met yesterday
with 1900 attending and voted
unanimously to petition strike
vote. Ford has about 10000 EN-.
ployes over the United States.
1.-The National Labor Relations
Board began preparations to pol
1926, 1000 General Motors workers
throughout the nation on Oct. "a
as result of the petition filed
yesterday by the union under the
War Labor Disputes Act. II the
NLRB vote shows a majority ir
favor of strike, the Union car
then do so legally.
5cThe strike of International Oil
Workers (CIO) slowed down the
sprawling city's hard beset trans
portation system but Fred Fell
business agent for local 389, de-
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Generals Get House;
CTS Haze Last Word

BERLIN, Sept. 23-P)-The
Generals got the house but the
CTS had the last word..
A 42-r0om mansion formerly
occupied by Walther Funk Of
the Nazi cabinet was ready for
opening as a rendezvous club
for 1900 American enlisted
men. Then it was requisition-
ed for the exclusive use OF
Generals and Colonels.
Commented a nOn-cOmmis-
stoned officer, writing in "The
Grooper," weekly newspaper
of the U. S. Group Control
Council: 't0
"Any more of that and we
won't give 'em their jobs back
when this is all over.
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MURRAY DAY
PROGRAM

Parade-Leaves Third and
Red Cross streets at $3.50 p.
m. via Red Cross, Front,
Market, Third street to City
Hall.
6 p. m.-Presentati0n of
Colors by color guard from
BluenthenthaI Air Base.
sos p. Observation-Disclosures.
]. F. Herbert, pastor Grace
Methodist church.
Introduction of Capt. Muir.
ray-Mayor Ronald w. Lane.
Address - "Capt. Murray's
High School Career" T. T.
Hamilton, principal, New Han
over High school.
"Prayer of Thanks"-Bishop
Thomas C. Darst.
Retiring Of C?lors.
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WOMEN MAY WAGE
FREE FOR ALL"

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23-R-
Women who want nylon hose as
soon as they are available will have
to take their store-to-store chances
on getting them.
There will be no government Or
der for simultaneous first-day sale
throughout the nation.
This was learned today, with the
War Production Board firmly de-
clining to get embroiled in hot
sales competition, women's wrath
and antitrust law tentacles.
So, it looks like scrimmage
among the women is in order when
the gossamer hose again hit the
market, with sellers hoping they
can avoid having their plate glass
counters shattered.
In declining to stipulate that all
sellers of nylon hosiery should
undertake to release them on a
specific date, the WPB pointer out
it hadn't done that with more es'
sential scarcities, like refrigerators
What's more, says WPB, such
an order could make the agency
guilty of abetting a growing short
age of all kinds of women's hose.
Possibility that retailers might
agree voluntarily on the same date
for the first sale of nylons is dis
counted as too much Like restraint
of trade, about which the laws are
very strict.
It looks now as though each
store will decide for itself wher
and how to let the women ge1
their eager hands on the gam
glamorizers.
A few pairs may get around by
Thanksgiving, government
trade sources say. The first big
batch probably will be around II
time for Santa Claus to hang then
on the Christmas tree-if Santa
cares to brave the sales riots
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CITY GREETS
HERO TODAY

Today a grateful citizenry will
pay tribute to it's No. / hero OF
World War II, Captain Charles P.
Murray, Jr., with a parade and
program at City Hall. Arrange
ments for the Homecoming" OF
Wilmington's Congressional Medal
of Honor man were completed late
yesterday and the affair is expect
ed to be attended by thousands,
both old and young, all of whom
will not only line the streets along
the route of the parade, but will
tax the capacity of Third street in
an effort to catch at least a
glimpse of our own Charlie Muir
ray"
The New Hanover High School
R.O.T.C., band, under direction of
1t. E. J. Lacock, and 240 R.O.T.C.,
boys will head the parade from the
corner of Third and Red Cross
streets. Back of the band will be
color guard and detail of Is men
under Capt. Hardwicke from Blue
enthenthal Air Base. In the line of
march will also be the Boy Scouts
of the Wilmington area, with Capt.
Murray's old Troop No. II having
place Of honor. Service men on
leave, veterans of World Wars /
and II, will also take part, while
the committee in charge, stated
last night that units Of the State
Guard from Lumberton, New Bern
and Kinston as well as the Will
mington company of the Guard are
expected to take part in the parade.
Store managers throughout the
business district have been asked
to dismiss their employees for the
day in time for them to see the
parade and if they care to fall in
with the parade, they will be well
come to do so, Walter. Cartier,
secretary of the Wilmington Cham
Der of Commerce said. Everyone
will be invited to take pal. in order
that a real spontaneous welcome
may be accorded Captain Murray.
The parade will move off at $3.50
p. m. and proceed to the city hall
by way of Red Cross street to
Front STREET; south on Front street
to Market; east on Market to
Third street and north on Third
street to the city hall. Prior to
start of the parade, all recently dis
charged veterans, service men on
leave and Legionnaires, Veteran of
Foreign Wars, Spanish American
War Veterans and others will meet
at the Legion Home, Third and
Dock streets at 4:30 p. M, and
March to the starting point.
The program at City Hall will
follow right after the parade dis
bands and as the crowd gathers,
Boys Scouts will distribute SOU
venir programs of the event. City
Commission J. E. L. Wade, will
preside over the exercises as mas
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Operation On Seaman
Without Anaesthetic

TOKYO, Sept. 23.-R-An ap-
pendectomy without snaesthetlc
may not be an atrocity, but IT.
right on the edge, Edward Cudd,
mberchant seaman from Whitney,
S. c., said today. He Graves no
more of it.
The operation on Cudd was per.
formed by japanese Major at a
Hokkaido Interment camp where ne
was held for "a months. He said 8
fellow prisoners held him down
during the operation after the ia
panese surgeon refused him either.
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u. S. Sailors Jam Shops
For Filn1y Underthings

shirS in eight years. The sailors
made it noteworthy event.
Silk stockings and filny black
lace panties and such were the
first things the sailors sought to
buy, storekeepers reported. Next
in popularity were silk hand en-
broidered slips, night gowns, bed
jackets and Chinese pajamas and
slippers, extremely rare in the
United States during the war.
Storekeepers for the most part
had kept these articles hidden
from the japanese during the &C.
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WEATHER

Eastern Standard Time)
by U. S. Weather Bureaul
Meteorological data for the "a hours
Sing 1880 pm. yesterday.
Temperature
1880 am II; 1880 am. So; 100 pm. s5;
"{s pm. 70.
Maximum 50; Minimum So: Mean IT;
Normal rs.
Humidity
l:3o am. 80; Z 80 am. 80; 1870 pm. %;
130 pm. 90. --t -
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1880 pm
UP inches.
Total since the first of the month
S.95 inches.
Tides For Today
>, from the Tide Tables published by
u. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington - 11:45 am. GIT am
600 pm. 6:55 pm
Masonboro Inlet -. 9:28 am. 1913 am
e:53 pm. 3.52 pm
sunrise 6:02; Sunset sos; Moonr1se
o'25 pm; Moonset 9:03 am.
River Stage at Fayetteville, N. G. at
d. m. report rising.
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
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BY KIM WEE

United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT
SINGAPORE, Sept, 23-W.D-The
lone survivor Of a japanese mas
sacre Of more than 800 Chinese
men, women and children in Ma.
laya in 1912 told today how mad
dened Chinese mothers screamed
in agony as Japanese soldiers
threw their babies into the air and
caught them on bayonets.
The middle agod woman. who
suffered 10 bayonet wounds but
lived to crawl from the scene, has
arrived in Singapore with the
story of the massacre, which &C.
,,;rred IS miles from Batupahat.
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ASHES OF ALLIED
PRISONERS FOUND

TOKYO, Sept. o. Up -Urns
containing the ashes of at least
1900 Allied prisoners of war who
died during imprisonment have
been turned over by the japanese
government.
Col. Morris Marcus, of San Fran
cisco, of General Headquarters re-
covered personnel division, an
nounced the figure today and said
the urns of Americans will be sent
to relatives, if desired. I left in
Japan, they will be buried with
full military honors.
Eighth Army CHG, YoAo-
hama, in charge of the work, went
to prison camps and collected
small urns containing the ashes, :"
Colonel Marcus said.
''We found 700 in camp be-
tween Tokyo and Yokohama, 1000
in temple near Osaka being taken
care of by a priest and Letween
700 and 800 a Nagasaki, collected
from Is camps.
He said he understood at least
one group of prisoners of war had
left requests that their ashes be
sent home and not buried in Japan.
''It was Japanese policy to ere.
mate prisoners of war who died, y
the Colonel said.
$50 far, we have located nc
graves"
The Eighth Army graves regis
tration division will have charge
of preparing urns for shipment te
the United States.
A British destroyer already has
taken the ashes of British prison
ers of war who died in Japar
aboard for return to England.
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BASEBALL SCORES

American xAag0o
st. Louis S; Detroit 0.
Washington ga; Philadelphia IS.
Chicago 2; Cleveland 8.
New York So; Boston 81.
National League
Boston At; New York 1-3.
Philadelphia o.: Brooklyn -.
Cincinnati 6; st. Louis 9.
Pittsburgh 8; Chicago Second game
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Quick Witted Driver
Leads Thief To-
NEW YORK, Sept. !,
Taxi driver Herman =

NEW YORK, Sept. 81 e.
Taxi driver Herman Z $
was eating in 3 rest -
to the window TOT -
saw a man get I q a
cab and drive -
kabin0Witz ran lock
down the street al. yelled
Taxi"
Drive me to Bathgate and
remont Avenues" he barked.
When the cab reached there 1t
was in front of the Bronx Police
Headquarters. Rabinowitz said
walt a minute" and brought
out two policemen who arrest
ed the accommodating thief.
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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-03-22
Begole News
LARGE AUDIENCE

Begole. Mich.-Despite inclem-
ent weather a large audience gath
cred Tuesday evening in the social
hall OF the Baptist Church 10 hear
the Musical Benefit program given
by the combined Junior and High
school Choir OF the Begole School
The Westcott Class Of the church
sponsored the group.
Mrs. Crawford Wynn. their direc-
tor. opened the program by briefly
describing the origin OF the choir,
after which everyone Joined In sing
ing The Star Spangled Banner"
The first part OF the program
was devoted TO the Junior Group
Helen Fast and her sister. Mary
Alice. were delightful little so
loists in the second number, aided
by Leigh Wynn Solo parts in the
third number were taken by Leigh
Wynn and his sister Brenda. who
is the youngest member OF the
choir. They were a lovely little
couple
The high school group carried
the second part Of the program and
did very nicely.
Much credit is due Miss Mary
June Fortney and Donald Noon
chester who were soloists. Guest
soloists OF the evening were Mrs.
Ralph Mcdonald. soprano, and
James II. Bell. bass. and so unusu-
al. they were both very pleasing.
Mrs. Wynn accompanied the en-
tire program.
Proceeds OF the Musical will pur
chase choral music for the choir
for the coming year
Preceding the Musical the high
school members presented Mrs,
Wynn with an orchid corsage.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-03-22

NEW YORK-INS-Rear Adm.
Dewitt Clinton Ramsey, chief Of
the Navy Aeronautics Bureau, he
fore leaving New York TO testify
Wednesday in WASHINGTON on nav.
al appropriations. said new.type
planes would be hurled against the
enemy soon.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-03-22

Twenty thousand adolescents
leave orphanages in search Of en-
ployment each year. These young
sters have reached an age when
thew are no longer eligible for sup.
port by their respective communi.
ties or social agencies.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-03-22

in senate proceedings was on the
fast or slow time standard pointed
70 the slow-time clock I'm tho senate
and said. there is no other time"
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ia pairs Of khaki trousers. ss2s3i
khaki shirts. 271,6S3 green twill
work jackets. and S0sO27 pairs ot
green twill pants.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-03-22

Each village IN Bali. Dutch In
dies island. has its own game
'au" orchestra and trains its Owl
dancers
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-03-22

.y an clocks in the capitol are kept
on slow time by order Of the legis-
lature In the Senate yesterday.
L. Gov. Vernon J. Brown. when
asked whether an hour mentioned
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-03-22

tive leaders are amouE is viola
tors Speaker Howard Nuceut, a
slow time advocate. aChuow lodged
today thar hls watch is set on fast
t.me go Lansing. although virtual
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-03-22
ONE LEGAL TIME

Lansing Slow time may be the
only legal time standard in Mighi-
gan under a new act Of the state
legislature, lat even some legisla.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-03-22

Cotton clothing repaired month
ly under the Quartermaster recla-
nation program In the United
States furnishes troops with 400
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-03-22

Total damage in the San Fran
cisco FIRE OF 1906 amounted TO ap-
proximately $500, 10000
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1945-09-15
By MURRAY FRANK

Independent Jewish Press Service
Washington (JPS) - Hitler
would have needed six more
months to have exterminated the
Jewish race in Europe" Allied
military liaison officers estimated,
correspondent Thomas S. Henry
of the Washington Evening Star
says in a dispatch to his newspa-
per from Germany. MIR. Henry
states that this estimate was made
on the basis of repatriation of
Jews to Western European coun-
tries from the British and Amer
lean occupation zones, but the
same presumably holds true for
Eastern Europe. Mr.. Henry quotes
figures to show that only 5 per-
cent of the Jews of Western Eu-
rope are still alive. There are no
children under IL years of age,
since a Jewish child under IL