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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-06
U.S.. TAKES OVER
GERMAN FACTORY

HOESCHT, German, July -
up - In a sudden move today the
American Army seized complete
control of the management, assets
and plants of the vast I. G.. Farven.
industrie in the United States zone
of occupied Germany and set in
motion machinery intended to wipe
out for all time the German ability
to wage war.
Acting under General Order No.
II, issued by 1t. Gen. Lucius Clay
as deputy military governor, arm
ed A m r C a n Troops marched
simultaneously into "a Farben
plants at 6 pm. and assumed con-
troll of properties which had play.
ed a great part in building up and
maintaining tn German W
machine.
The action was taken to smash
II. C. Farbenindustrie's worldwide
cartel system and practices ano
break up the industry's war max
ing power, which the United States
group control council considers .
"major threat to the peace ano
security of the postwar world SC
long as such industries remain with
| in the control of Germany"
Control of the industry's man
agement, assets and plants which
produced more than so per cent
Of. Germany's supply of chemicals
and allied products is to be helo
for ultimate disposition by a foul
power government to be establish
ed for Germany.
The seizure was made pursuant
to military government law deal
ing with the blocking and contro
of German property. The entire
management, under terms OF the
order, was removed and discharg
ed and deprived Of all authority tx
act with respect to the corporation
or its property" Shareholders
rights in the selection OF the man
agement or control of the industry
also were suspended.
The great Farben plants produc
ed about 80 per cent of Germany!
entire nitrogen output, 100 per cen
of the country's magnesium metal
100 per cent OF the tetra ethyl leat
production, 100 per cent OF the eel
|lophane, approximately 80 per cen
of the plastics, more than so pc:
cent of the exlosives and 100 pc
cent of the effective poison gas.
Clay delegated seizure authorit.
to Col. Edwin S. Pillsbury O
Berkeley, Calf, who personally di
rected the taking over Of the gian
Hoescht plant here. the largest o
those seized.
Promptly at 6 pm. jeeps mount
ing machine guns rolled through
the streets to the plant apd behin'
them marched armed troops unde
the command of Major William A
Mckee, Of Iowa City, Iowa.
1t. Col. George M. Percival, o
Richmond, Va, handed the seiz
ure order to Carl Ludwig Lauten
schlager, plant manager, who turn
Continued on Page Nine; Col. 5
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-06
Pigeons Must Make
Way For Polihcoes

BOSTON, July SW.n)-May-
or John E. Kerrigan of Bos-
ton is going to whistle his
troubles away. And his troubles
right now are pigeons who have
set up light housekeeping on
the roof of city hall.
The mayor said today he will
use electrically operated super
soprano whistles, inaudible
to human ears but supposedly
annoying to birds. Kerrigan
comedies that the whistles may
not drive all the pigeons from
their lodges but he thinks there
will be a noticeable exodus.
He admits, too, that the
pigeons may settle on some 9th
er buildings in the vicinity, but
he's determined that from now
ON "nobody will clutter up city
hall except politicians"
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-06
STATE FUNERAL
FOR CURTIN SET

CANBERRA, Australia, July s.
pa state funeral will be held
tomorrow for Australia's wartime
prime minister, John Curtin, 60.
Deputy Prime Minister Francis
M. Forde, acting as premier since
Curtin entered a hospital in April
for treatment of the heart and
lung illness that brought death
early today. continued as head
of the government.
The parliamentary Labor Party
is expected to name Curtin's regu-
lar successor at meeting set
Tor next Thursday. Likely choices
include Forde, Commonwealth
Treasurer Joseph B. Chiefley, and
Minister of External Affairs Her
bert V. Evatt. The latter repre-
sented Australia at the United Ma
tons Conference in San Francisco.
Curtin's government took office
in l94l and with the outbreak OF
the Pacific war he accepted the
United States dominating role as
an ally, declaring he did so with
out a pang." A close John and
Doug" friendship developed be-
tween him and Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur. In 1914 he visited the Unit
ed States to confer with President
Roosevelt.
Curtin, son of a police, officer
and long active in the trade union
movement, was elected to the
House of Representatives in 102o.
He became. head of the Labor
Party in 1885.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-06
NATIONS ACCEPT
new POLE REGIME
United States, Britain Both
Issue Joint Statements
OF Recognition

WASHINGTON, July 5.-P-
The United States and Britain
jointly recognized the reconstitut'
ed Warsaw Government Of Poland
tonight, cutting adrift the London
Exile Regime with which they
have dealt throughout the war.
In both London and Washing
ton, however, it was emphasized
in the announcements that the set
ting up of the expanded Warsaw
administration constituted only a
"step" in fulfillment of the Yalta
Big Three agreements.
President Truman, announcing
American acceptance Of the war
saw government, said it hao
"recognized'' the Yalta agreement
in full and thereby confirmed the
Crimean plan for free elections.
The President said Arthur Bliss
Lane has been named Ambassador
and will proceed to Warsaw as
soon as possible" The British an
nouncement laid stress on full
agreement with the United States
government in recognizing the
'Polish Provisional Government o.
National Unity" It said an am
bassador will be dispatched from
London shortly.
Lane was appointed last Septem
Der as Ambassador to the Londor
Polish government, but never wen
to London, apparently in expecta
ton of such shift as came TO-
day. He is in Washington. Pre-
viously he was Ambassador te
Colombia.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-06
Stamp OF Famous Flag
Raising Will Be Given

WASHINGTON, July s. Up -
The Two Jima flag raising post
age stamp to be issued July II will
be green instead Of the purple col
or usually used for three cent
stamps, the Post Office Department
has announced.
No reason was given for the
change Of colors.
The stamp, honoring the Flarine
Corps. reproduces the famous flag
raising photograph made on Two
Jima by Associated Press Photo
grapher Doe Rosenthal. The De.
partment said an initial printing
of 100000 copies of the stamp
had been ordered.
The first sales will be at Wash
ington,
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-06

There are no indications that
either side Will give in soon in the
fight that already has blocked a
planned House adjournment slated
to start next week.
Left in the bill as the House
passed it while delegations OF
FEPC supporters sat in the CALLER
les and buttonholed members in
the lobby bies were those fund:
Office of Censorship, $13, 900, 900,
Office of War Mobilization and Re
conversion, $4,000, 900; Selective
Service System, $52,00o,0oO War
Relocation Authority, $25, 900, 900. In
addition it retained authority for
the Smaller War Plants Corpora
ton and the Office of Alien Pro-
perry Custodian to operate with
finances already available.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-06
LITTLE GUY STAYS
HUNGRY IT SEEMS

ATLANTA, July @(R-Doc-
tors don't know what's the
matter with poor Pfc. Chester
]. SALVATORE.
Pfc. Salavatori has a big ap-
petite, gargantuan appetite,
an appetite that would appan
even an elephant.
A breakfast of 40 eggs, 20
pieces of toast, several quarts
of milk, eight pieces of bacon,
a quart of coffee and box
a big box-of cereal Is nothing
unusual for the soldier from
Southbridge, Mass.
And Pfc. SALVATORE isn't a big
guy. Just 40 pounds. Slightly
less than average in height.
He tells friends he once ate
an 1S-pound turkey at one meal
without any help. His favor
tie meat is pork chops and he
says he's eaten as many as 36
at a meal.
He's been in the Army four
years and four months.
In civilian life he likes to
work in a grocery store or a
bakery. Once, he said, he work.
ed for an optical company and
nearly starved to death.
Physicians who have the lit
tie guy with the big appetite
under observation at Fl. Nc
Pherson Station Hospital say
his stomach is a little larger
than average-but not much.
They say also it may be that
his craving for food is phycho-
logical, but they are not def
mite or unanimous in the mat
ter.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-06
Seven Japs Executed
In Macarthur Plot

NEW YORK, July 5.-NBC Cor
respondent Merrill Mueller report
ed from Manila tonight that seven
japanese snipers and spies recent
ly have been executed in Manila
Among them are men who nave
shown a singular interest IN the
Office, home and activities of Gen
eral Douglas A. Macarthur
Indicating that possibly an assas
sination plot was involved, Mueller
said Macarthur personities the
Japanese hate for America, AM
Tokyo is blaming him for Japans
troubles" -
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-06

them to incur obligations in antici-
patton of funds they hope to get
eventually, it does not allow them
to meet payrclls for work perform
ed during the new fiscal year. Some
of the payrolls will be due soon.
The Senate undoubtedly will re-
store all or most of the eliminated
money, thereby putting the meas
ure back on the legislative merry
go-round on which it has been
whirling since June 1.
Once before the House passed
the bill, leaving in some money
for every agency except FEPC.
The Senate added $2500O0 for the
FEPC and touched off a contro-
versy with House foes of the FEPC,
Set up by President Roosevelt to
combat job discrimination because
OF race, creed or color. K
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-06
BEN COHEN BACK
WITH MIR. BYRNES

WASHINGTON, July 5. -lRHA
routine governmental appointment
today revived memories of the New
Deal brain trust"
The new Secretary of State
James F. Byrnes, announced the
appointment of Benjamin V. Coher
of New York as special assistant
Ben Cohen not only was one OF the
early "brain trrsters," but one Of
the few originals still in govern
ment.
You remember the "brair
trust?" Many of the members, in
Guiding Raymond Moley, Rexfore
Buy Tugwel and Adolf A. Berle
were college professors. Anti-ad
ministration cartoonists invariabl,
drew them In cap and gown, plot
ting the overthrow of the American
system of free enterprise.
Two brain trusters' who ling
cred longer than most were Ber
Cohen and Thomas G.. Corcoran
who had studied under Felix Frank
frrter at Harvard Law School.
The Cohen-Corcoran team func
toned in the Department of Jus
tice. and had much to do with thu
early New Deal legislation regula
ting public utilities, stocks ant
bonds.
Tommy the Cork" assPresi
dent Roosevelt referred to Corco
ran, eventually retired from gov
eminent to practice law. The quiet
strdious Cohen, never as much il
the spotlight as his partner, re
manned.
Cohen served as a special as
sistant to four Attorneys Genera
in a row between 1888 and 1941
then went to London as legal ad
visor to United States Ambassador
John G.. Winant.
He returned to Washington If
1912 to take an active role in the
homefront side of the war effor'
alongside Byrnes. He was genera
counsel for Byrnes in the Office
of Economic Sterilization, then ir
the office of War Mobilization ane
Reconversion.
Cohen, now so years old, retired
recently as general counsel to
War Mobilizer Fred Vinson, pre-
sumably to resume his Relationship
with Byrnes in the State Depart
ment. He is expected to serve thu
new Secretary in top-level lega
role.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-06
Supreme Court Justice
Roberts, Morgenthau Out
President Truman Accepts
Resignation OF Two
Officials

WASHINGTON, June 3 R -
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary
of the Treasury, and Justice Owen
j. Roberts of the Supreme Court
resigned today.
They told President Truman they
wanted to quit public life and 90
home. The President accepted the
designations with regret.
Morgenthau, in his letter, said:
when Franklin D. Roosevelt came
to Washington, he asked me to
come with him, stating that when
he was through, we would 60 back
to Duchess County On. " to-
gether."
Morgenthau said he would leave
after Mr.. Truman returns from
his forthcoming Big Three meet.
ing with Marshal Stain and Prime
Minister Churchill in Berlin.
The President told of the resig-
nations at his news conference,
said he had a successor in mind
for the Treasury post but wasn't
saying anything about it now.
Names mentioned in speculation
included Fred M Vinson, War Mo.
Utilization director; John W. Sny.
der, Federal Loan Administrator;
Senator George (D-Ga), chairman
of the Senate Finance Committee;
and Walter J. Cummings of Chi
cago, chairman of the board Of
the Continental-1llinois Nationa
Bank and Trust Company.
The President said he hadn'1
thought of a successor to Justice
Roberts, a court "dissenter" ane
a Republican, who showed his love
for his farm land of Eastern Penn
sylvania by datelining his resig
nation from that place-Chestel
Farms.
Before the news conference, thu
President announced another ma
jor resignation, that of Judge
Thurman Arnold from the United
States Court of Appeals, Distric
of Columbia. Arnold, former Jus
tice Department "trust-buster, >
said he wanted to enter private
law practice and work for a truly
competitive" economy after the
war.
Mr.. Truman, in white and black
seersucker suit and green necktie
opened the news conference will
a wave Of Reichs-Marshal Goer
ing's ivory baton, encrusted will
gold and diamonds. It was pre-
sented to the President by Lieut.
Gen. Alexander Paot, commando,
Of the 7th Army, who took Goer
ing into custody.
Mr.. Truman said the baton wa.
worth perhaps $4,000, that Goer
ing wept when it was taken from
him, and that it would be pre-
sented to the U. S. Military Mu
scum at West Point, N. Y.
Mr.. Truman has given his per
mission to Mayor. Fiorello H. L;
Guardia of New York to visi
France but not as an agent of tn
government. He will not be in uni
form.
The President is not expecting
to accept the resignation of In
terror Secretary Harold L. Ickes
question asked so often it ha
become routine. In fact, Mr.. Tru
man said, he is sending Ickes t.
England soon to renegotiate a,
Anglo-American oil treaty, design
. ed to resolve the problems of Of
, domains and reserves, principaL
/ in the Middle East, which hav
lsprng up in wartime. 4.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-06
WEATHER
Eastern Standard Time)

Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 7:3o p. M, yesterday.
Temperature
1870 a. m. rs; 1880 a. m. II; 1880 p. m
%: 7:3o p. m. 80.
Maximum IS; Minimum IA; Mean 60
Normal 10.
Humidity
1870 a. m. 90, 1880 a. m. 81: 1870 p. m
Is; 7:30 p. m. go
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1870 p. NJ
tl3 inches.
Total since the first of the month
2.38 inches
Tides For Today
from the Tide Tables published by U
s. Coast ard Geodedtc Survey.
High Low
Wilmington $3.50 6:51 a. m. I AS a. m
7:30 p. m 1854 p. m
Masonboro Inlet 4 SO a. m. 1882 a. m
5:18 p. m. 11:42 p. m
Sunrise sos: Sunset 1927; Moonrise 2:2i
a. M; Moonset 4.42 p. m.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-06
AUSSIES CAPTURE MANGGAR
ALREELD; FOUR AIR GROUPS
NOW H4kAaIMl|NERLNG JAPANESE
City Counv1la1 m Lenue For Capital
To lutercede FOR Continuation Of
Camp Davis As Conualescent Center

-Four members OF the City COun-
Gil left Wilmington at 9 p. m. yes
terday to attend a conference in
Washington with the Army Air
Forces, at which time the status
of Camp Davis will be brought up,
it was disclosed last night.
A. Hand James, secretary to
Senator Josiah W. Bailey, disclos-
ed that headquarters Of the Army
Air Forces had advised him that
the status of the camp would be
brought up at the session today.
Senator Bailey said the meeting
was scheduled at 10:30 a. m. He
was unable to say If it would be
in the form of a committee hear
ing or if it would be a special
meeting to discuss the reported
closing of the convalescent center.
City Manager A. c. Nichols an
nounced last night that "in view
of the scheduled conference in
Washington, the Council feels that
they should make every effort to
be represented"
Representing the City of Will
mington at the conference will be
Mayor Ronald Lane, Councilmen
Garland S. Currin, James E. L.
Wade and Walter Yopp.
Mr.. Nichols said the group left
the City at 9 p. m. by automobile,
shortly after it was learned here
that the meeting would be held
and planned to board a train al
Rocky Mount for Washington.
The possibility that Camp Davis
may be closed as a Personnel Dis
britution center : for Army All
Force returnees was disclosed
Wednesday night by Brig. Genera
George L. Usher, commanding Of
ficer of the camp. He revealed yes
terday that construction work or
facilities, undertaken to reconvert
it for convalescent purpose, woulc
be halted.
Although the War Department
denied at noon yesterday any
order closing down operations a
the camp, it was previously re
ported that any announcement K
this affect would have to come
from the commanding officer Al
the convalescent center.
For Some time, General Usher
said, the flow Of returnees into
Camp Davis had not lived up tt
original expectations. At one time
it was estimated that the number
of men returned weekly woule
reach the 10000 mark, but at thu
camp now there are approximate
ly 1000 convalescents and not NOR
than 600 returnees.
1t was unofficially reported las
night that many of the GONZALES
cents and returnees at the CAM
had complained of the transporta
ton difficulties in getting to ant
d from Wilmington. However, Their
was no official confirmation on thi
phase of the controversy.
In expressing Wilmington inter
est in the future Of Camp Davis
the City Council took immediat
action yesterday morning ant
wired Senator Bailey, Clyde R
Hoey and Congressman Graham
A.. Barden and J. Bayard Clark a
follows:
"Press reports today indicate
Camp Davis may be soon cloed
This camp was recently reacti
waited by the Air Corps for rehabil
itation, disqualification and re
distribution, with large additional
sums spent for these purpose:
and services. A large hospital ant
other facilities are available there
Continued nm Pare Nine. Col. q
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-06
Balikpapan
Now Secure
ALLIES TAKE TOWN
Six More Jap Ships Sunk
By Yank Navy Plane
Squadrons
BALIKPAPAN, BoRNEo, FRI

BALIKPAPAN, BORNEo, FRI
day, July 6-R)-A swift fivc-mile
advance gave Australian troops
possession Of the Manggar air field
10 air miles Northeast Of here
Wednesday.
The thrust came after American
planes eliminated strong last-ditch
Japanese positions with some Of
the most spectacular bombing Of
this campaign.
Other Aussie units captured the
remainder of the town Of Balikpa-
pan as a five-mile-wide front on
the left flank was advanced through
one strong enemy line and over
ran delaying positions n the direc-
ton Of Batochampar, which is
about four miles Northeast Of
Baikpapan.
One squadron of 18th Air Force
Liberators piloted by Americans
blew sky-high an entire dominant
ing ridge packed with Japanese
guns and troops. The pombers,
operating under Australian COM
mand in the drive for Manggar
airfields, dropped more than
score of 1,000-pound bombs on the
important stronghold.
1--WE could see Jap arms, legs,
torsos and light artillery flying
into the sky" said one returning
bombardier.
The Heavily-fortified ridge was
one Of series Of Japanese posi-
lions which steadily shelled the
Australians as they made thel..
way acoss and around a wrecked
bridge over the 4OO-yard-wide shall
low Manggar-Besar river at the
Southeastern end Of the field.
Australian Engineers cleared
away numerous BOBBY traps and
mines and guided the assault col.
umns past 100-foot hole that had
been burned in the bridge.
Across the stream, the Austral-
ians ran into heavy japanese fire
from light field guns and mortars
and a few heavier coastal batter
les. The first troops to reach the
airfield were driven off by this
shell-fire, but Australian artillery
and air support eliminated the
gun positions.
The advance up the shell-creater-
ed coastal road was paraueled by
strong thanking patrols that prob
led two miles inland without find
ing the enemy.
On the left flank Of the whole
front, the Australians blasted their
way into the ruins of the Pandan-
sari refinery zone and the native
Quarters after crossing the swampy
Pandanshari river mouth at the
North end Of Balikpapan town.
Other units took and held posi-
tons a little more than two miles
north of the town.
Less than two miles eastward,
Parallel columns broke a Japa-
nese defense line in the hills op-
posite Pandansari, where the
enemy had field guns positions
overlooking the only highway. An
out thanking movement combined
with a frontal assault took the po-
sitions, and one officer declared,
our casualties were remarkably
light for the results achieved"
U. S. Seventh Fleet artillery con-
tlnued to blast Penadjim point,
| (COnfinuad m, pa m N{ro. ri ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-06

Associated Press dispatches
from London late last night in
dictated that no results Of the
British parliamentary election
will be announced until July
rs. Delay in announcement of
the result of yesterdays vot-
ing will be occasioned by re-
turn and counting of the votes
of servicemen now on duties
outside of England.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-06
BLAZE OF PATRIOTISM

NORTH ADAMS, Mich, July 5.
-W.D-The Knowles school north
OF here ended it's rs years of pub
lie education in a blaze of patrio-
tism. The school sold 5000 in war
bonds during the Seventh War
Loan drive. The total represents
isales by each student of 1854
more than his quota.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-06
Capt, Murray
Handed Hi
Honor N
AT SALZBUk.
Wilmington's No. l Here
Decorated By Corps
Commander Keyes

SALZBURG, July S - up -
Honors have been showered on
the U. s. Third Infantry d.
vision, the outfit that suffered
the most casualties In the Eu-
ropean war.
1t. Gen. Godfrey Keyes, Sec
ond Corps Commander, award
ed a Presidential Unit Citation
for the entire division in cere-
monies at the Salzburg Airport
today.
Then he handed out the Con-
gressional Medal Of Honor to
Capt. Charles Murray of Will
mington, N. c., the 31st winner
Of that award in the division.
The award was for fighting
in the Colmark pocket campaign
which won the division its unit
citation.
Capt. Murray, who also was
awarded the Croix de Guerre
by the French government for
outstanding bravery In the
same action, won the Congress
sional Medal of Honor for law
a group of 200 Germans. armed
ing single-handedly dispersed
with mortars, bazookas, ma
chine guns and small arms,
and broke up a counter-attack
they had planned near Kayser-
berg, France, last December
1e.
With rifle fire, Captain MUIR
ray. then a first lieutenant
company commander in the
30th Regiment. Third Infantry
Division, killed 20 of the Elite
SIS troops, captured ten others
Continued on Page Nine; Col,
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-06
FORECAST

North Carolina-Considerable cloudi-
ness and moderately warm with scat
tered showers and thunderstorms Fri
day. Saturday clearing and cooler north
and west portion; partly cloudy and
warm with scattered showers and thun-
derstorms in southeast portion.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-06

Continued on Page Nine; Col.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-06
BULLETIN

Continued on Page Nine; Col. s.
Evening star., 1945-03-05
Mrs. Luce Flies 10 London
10 Study Women In War
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Representative Glare Boothe Luce,
Republican, OF Connecticut, has
flown to London on invitation Of
the British Embassy to report on
the part British women have played
In the war. Il
Her office, disclosing this today.
said Mrs. Luce considers the sub
ject very important to fuller
understanding between the women
lot our two nations and (one) on
which she intends to bring back con-
siderable data"
Albert P. Morano, her secretary,
said she probably will remain over
seas three or four weeks, depend
ing on transportation" He said her
plane took of from Baltimore, but
that he didn't know when. Mrs.
Luce was present for House
quorum call last Friday. !
She recently toured the European
war fronts with the House Military
Affairs Committee, returning to this
country December 81, some time
after the rest Of the group.