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WASHINGTON, July l6.-R-
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson
declared tonight that, on the basis
of present indications, civilians
will have to wait until 1916 for
any material Improvement in the
domestic food situation.
because OF the time it takes
to produce food, not much relief
from actual shortages can be ex.
pected during 1885, he said Fix
ed by what was done a year or
more ago, just as what we do now
will determine the food supply that
will be on hand next year."
For the months ahead, he said,
meats. food fats and vegetable oils,
sugar, condensed and evaporated
milk and canned fruits and vege-
tables will continue in short sup.
ply. In addition rice and dried
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0PA SAVES WHEAT
CROP IN KANSAS

TOPEKA, Kas., July 10 N =
Husky harvest hands went to bed
hungry a night or two but now
Western Kansas restaurants have
sufficient points to serve up the
customary heaping plattels OF steak
and potatoes.
Thus threat that much Of the
grain in that area might go uncut
was averted.
State Rep. Clair Curry protested
to Gov. Andrew Schoeppel today
that for want of ration points the
restaurants could serve no more
food and that for want OF food
the combine crews were passing
cut of the area.
Action was prompt. In fact, the
OPA already had moved to IN
crease food allotments in the West
ern wheat belt.
Mrs. Helen Mays, chief raticn'
ing clerk for Greeley County, Cur
ruys home county, said tonight
mo one is going to go hungry
now"
Curry told the Governor he had
talked with Is men who went to
bed last night without supper but
said tonight some of his own har-
vest hands reported they had eaten
big dinners in Tribune.
zone of them said he had to
wait two hours to get served but
he had his choice of roast beef OF
chicken, vegetable, bread and soms
plurns. Plenty such as it was,'
Curry said.
Tribune's cafes had closed early
Sund ay after running out of food
Restaurants in Horace, another
town in the county, closed Friday
Unable to find food to supply sew
eral hundred transients.
Harvest hands have always eat
en- well in Kansas. Flapjacks, egg
and bacon and potatoes for break
fast; steak, potatoes and gravy
mounds of sweet corn, bread ant
butter, buildings, cakes and pie
for dinner and repeat for sup
per.
A sandwich or no supper at al
was not a fair substitute, Curr.
said. He told the Governor tina
only 6 of a point had been avail
able for harvest hand per da.
end that amount will not fee
a harvest hand"
Complaining Western Kansas
! harvest food situation was the fac
it is having one of its finest whea
crops in history and there ha
been an abnormal influx Of har
vest help.
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HIJGHES TAKES WRAP
OF "HERCULES" FOR
FIRST "LOOK-SEE''

CULVER CITY, Calf, July 10
-(P-The Howard Hughes Ar
n1ane Manufacturing plant TO-DAY
took the wraps off its 'Hughes
Hercules" which is to be tne
worlds largest seapiane, ana ais
+, losed that the massive cargo car
rier will weigh 425,000 pounds. Its
cost will exceed $2o,o0o,0oo.
The plane has a Widespread OF
3l0 fee. or large enough to &C
commodate a Superfortress on
each wing. It will have eight en-
gines to generate $4,000 horsepow-
or for its maiden flight some time
next year. Delivery of the engines
is expected next January.
The Hercules will be able to
carry Cotton tank, complete with
armor and crew, or three light
tanks. Used as a hospital ship, II
would accommodate $50 patients or
stretchers with doctors ard nurses
to care for the wounded. AS d
transport, it could carry $50 IN
fantrymen from Honolulu to Tokyo
,,opcton
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-17
VINSON NAMED TO
TREASURY OFFICE
President Sends Formal
Nomination.; Snyder
AS Successor
7uAcHINGTON, July 16 -W.9 :

WASHINGTON, July 10 -'o'" -
nrosident Truman today formally
no;na+ed Fred M. Vinson to be
eocrstarv of the Treasury and ap-
.o;rted John W. Snyder of St. Louis
- s,cceed Vinson as War Moblll-
zation Director.
The Senate had planned to con-
.;pr, WILSON'S appointment today
Inf debate on the Breton Woods
rooretarv agreements forced post
nonement of a vote until tomorrow.
Overwhelming approval is assured.
Nor is opposition expected to sny-
der's nomination.
SNYDER, former Vice President OF
4be First National Bank of St.
7o,,;s is now Federal Loan Admin
is+rator He succeeded Vinson in
that post, too. He has been a close
personal friend of the President fol
more than Is years.
vinson a Kentuckian, Will sue
coed Henry Morgenthau Jr., who
had held the Treasury post 1ol
more than II years.
Confirmation of the appointment
will put Vinson next in line fol
the Presidency behind Secretary O
State James F, Byrnes.
Emil Schram, president of the
New York Stock Exchange n
former chairman of the Recon
strllction Finance Corporation, l!
reported in line for Snyder's job
SNYDER said his successor Will no
be selected until Mr.. Truman re
turns from Europe.
Wilson'S appointment was Mr.
Truman's sixth cabinet switch. l
leaves only four followers from tn
cabinet he inherited from the lat
President Roosevelt, and of these
Secretary of War Henry L. Slim
son is reported ready to step ou1
Of the original 1888 cabinet. onl
Secretary of the Interior Harold 1
Ickes still holds his post.
Vinson will take office with tn
public debt at some $3.50, 900, 900, 90
and expected to reach nearly $500
his major jobs will be to work OF
revised tax structure suited
postwar needs. He was a tax expel
when he was member OF Cor
gress.
Morgenthau, New York neigl
Dor of the late President who too
office Jan. /, 1884, meanwhll
sounded what is likely to be h
swan song to Congress.
In a letter to Chairman Robe
F. Wagner D., N. Y, of the Senat
Banking Committee, he asked tn
legislators to see to it that tn
government accepts the respons
bility of guaranteeing a sound an
prosperous economy. He endorse
the so-called full employment bi
which authorizes government ect
nomic planning.
Morgenthau had agreed to n
main at his post until Mr.. Truma
returned from Europe. After Vii
sons choice was announced la!
week, he wrote the President sul
costing that he step out at ono
Vinson is a former House men
Der and one-time Judge of the U.
Court of Appeals for the Distri'
Of Columbia.
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/. 500 PLANES STAGE
DEVASTATING ATTACK
ON JAPANESE CAPITAL
PIPELINE BREAK GIVES GAS-STARVED
MOTORISTS OF FRANCE BIG FIELD DAY

and British air forces operat-
ing on the continent, sprung q
leak late Friday and gasoline
flowed out onto the ground for
more than "a hours.
Frenchmen came from miles
around, bearing buckets, dish
pans and even sp0nges, and
gathered up every drop pos
sible.
When the black-market price
dropped, Allied military Off
Gals investigated on the
ground that government prop
perty was being sold, and the
sales ceased.
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ARGENTINA PAPERS
DEMANDING PROBE

BUENOS AIRES, July 16.-U.D-
A special investigation commission
of the Argentina government pro-
posed tonight that the German sub
marine which surrendered recent
ly to Argentina be turned over to
the United States and Great Bril-
tain, together with her crew and
all records of the Argentine inves-
tigation.
The report was made to the For
eign Office which transmitted ii
at once to President Gen. Edel
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. 81
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LILLE, France, July 16.-
P-A break developed near
mere over the weekend In the
Allies pipeline across the
English Channel, and gasoline
starved motorists had field
day scooping up fuel that
drained out.
The .black-market price on
gasoline dropped from $3.50 10
81 a gallon. -
The underwater line, built
from England to France about
the time of the Saint Lo break
through to service American
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CHAPLIN MUST PAY

HOLLYWOOD, July 10 WD =
Comedian Charlie Chaplin, who is
growing a mustache Of his own for
the first time for his forthc coming
role as 'Bluebeard, today was
ordered to dip into his $1,000, 900
fortune and resume payment OF
SIS a week to support red-haired
Joan Barry's daughter until a fin
al decision on whether he is the
baby's father.
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WEATHER

eastern Standard Time)
=, By U. S. Weather Bureau)
meteorological date for the "a hours
eialhs at 1880 pm. yesterday.
Temperature
5:5o am, rs; 7:3O am, 80; 1850 pm, 49,;
'.s0 pm, 70.
naAimum "a; minimum, 70; mean, ~:
normal, 10.
80, Humidity
1870 pm, IS.
Precipitation
10 inches.
el6 inches.
Tides for Today
Y rom the Tide Tables published by
y D coast and Geodetic Su1vey)
v,,u.. High Low
"'liiilheton ------ 3:19a 10 IA;
Mac. 4:02p 11:11l
'4'Sohporo Inlet ---- 1:05a 1928,
c.. 7:53p 1881
12 aHa!lSe 5:13; sunset. 1928; moonrise
0On"nued on Page Three; Col. 8,
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FORECAST

NORTH CAROLINA - Partly cloudy
skies and moderate temperatures Tues
day and Wednesday, scattered thunder
showers on the coast Tuesday afternoon
and evening.
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CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. s
Evening star., 1945-01-22
HenseI Named Navy
Assistant Secretary

H. Struve Hensel, 2814 Dumbarton
avenue NV, general counsel Of the
Navy Department, was nominated
today by President Roosevelt to be
Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
Mr.. Hensel will move into the
position vacated when Ralph A. Bard
became undersecretary.
Mr.. Hensel has been with the
Navy Department since January,
1941, when he became chief of the
procurement legal division. He was
made general counsel last year.
Mr.. Hensel is graduate of Prince
ton University and the Columbia
Law School. He practiced law in
New York City before coming here.
He is a member of the New York
State Bar, the District Bar and the
Supreme Court bar.
He married Edith w. Wyckoff in
october, 1929. They have no chill
dren.
The President also nominated
Capt. Frank G. Fahrion to be a rear
admiral, and Commodore Thomas
p. Jeter to be a commodore. Com
modore Jeter's present rank Is tenn
porary and the nomination would
make it permanent.
Harold H. Jacobs Of Massachusetts
was nominated to be examiner in
chief, Patent Once, Board of Ap-
peals.
Evening star., 1945-01-22
Trial Of Perpetrators
.0fWar Recommends
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 22.-The United
Nations War Crimes Commission
has recommended that the prepara-
tion and launching of this war be
recognized as crime, and that
the guilty persons be treated as
criminals, responsible. sources said
today.
Three governments-New Zealand,
Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia-
were said to have approved the
recommendation, with Australia ex-
pected to do so.
No statute in present interna-
tional law covers persons respon-
sible for beginning or preparing a
war. The recommendation is con-
sidered one of the most significant
yet made, but there might we'll be
knotty problems of naming all per-
sons directly or indirectly re-
sponsible.
But it was agreed that if the pro-
posal is accepted, Hitler would be
the No. war criminal.
Baron Robert Anderson Wright,
British jurist, has been appointed
temporary chairman of the COM
mission, succeeding Sir Cecil Hurst
resigned, it was learned authorita-
lively. It was predicted that Her
bert Pell, American representative
would be invited to become the full
time active chairman on his return
from Warrington.
Evening star., 1945-01-22
Wallace Is Still Vice President
In Mrs. RooseveIt's Busy Day

Mrs. Roosevelt has not yet hit her
fourth-term stride. She still refers
to Henry A. Wallace as "the Vice
President"
Mrs. Roosevelt revealed this fond
ness for the old days when giving
her calendar of events to reporters
at her first press conference since
the Inauguration. She mentioned
planning to attend a dinner for mfr.
Wallace in New York on next
Monday.
"Who?' reported asked.
For the Vice President" Mrs.
Roosevelt said. 1.-THE dinners for
the Vice President"
Beside her, secretary muttered
unhappily, Mr.. Wallace"
Smiling, Mrs. Roosevelt corrected
her slip. "Oh yes, Mr.. Wallace"
The Presidents wife had only one
reaction to the ceremony Saturday.
her feet hurt. Out Of practice since
the wartime lull In entertainment,
she said. she discovered her feet
could not take the long hours OF re-
Evening star., 1945-01-22
Laws Elevated to Chief Justice,
MorqoId Gets Bench Vacancy
Action Organizes
District Court After
Eicher's Death
By ]. A. FOX.

President Roosevelt today nom
mated Associate Justice Bolitha
y. Laws to be Chief Justice of
District Court, succeeding the
late Chief Justice Edward C.
Eicher. He also nominated Mu-
nicipal Judge Nathan R. Margold
to be an associate justice of Dis
trict Court.
The President did not fill the va
cancy on the Court of Appeals which
was created in May, 1943, when JUS
tice Fred M. Vinson was appointed
director of economic sterilization.
Both of the new appointees are
Democrats.
The Star reported on December
9 that Judge Margold was in line
for District Court, and that the
chief justiceship would go to JUS
tice Laws or Justice James NJ Proc
tor, an associate on the District
bench.
Judge Margold is a native Of
Jassy, Romania, where he was born
on July 81, 1899. Brought to this
country by his parents at the age
of 2, he was educated in New York,
winning his bachelors degree at City
College In 1919. Graduated in law
at Harvard four years later, he
taught there and then was assistant
United States attorney for the
Southern District of New York. He
was special counsel for the New
York Transit Commission in the
scent fare fight, and from 1880 to
1888 was counsel for the National
Association for the Advancement Of
Colored People.
Appointed solicitor of the Interior
(See JUDGES, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1945-01-22
All Who Can Shoot Summoned
To Holy Battle by Nozi Radio

man military SpOkeSmen as ad-
mitting the Russians had succeeded
in bringing masses of infantry for
ward faster than expected" and
that reserves thrown into the battle
are mainly Volkssturm (home
guard formations"
Indicating the confusion caused
by the rapid Red Army advance, a
German commentator said: Ger
man listeners, cannot tell you
where the front runs, where our
reserves are, or where the VolkS-
sturm are thrown in"
The commentator description of
scenes inside Berlin indicated ru-
mors were sweeping the capital and
hysteria growing.
Everybody in Berlin talks of news
from the eastern front, he said, and
told of workers concern for their
families evacuated to East Prussia.
Anxiety in Home Broadcasts.
Appealing for patience, he urged
Germans to listen only to the off,
cial communique couched in careful
terms in these critical times" say
ing this was the most reliable"
source Of news and was ISSUED by
the Fuehrer himself"
In the past Nad broadcasts
(see GERMANS. Page A-5J
Evening star., 1945-01-22
Idohoun IsFHst
Butuun Survivor
To Rejoin Yonks
Corporal Tells How
He Lived on Rice
After Death March
By SPENCER DAVIS,

Associated Press War Correspondent.
UNITED STATES BOMBER
WING HEADQUARTERS, North.
iern Luzon, Jan. %. Haggard
footsore and hungry for Amer.
ican chow, the first survivor from
the Bataan death march" tc
join his invading fellow country
men on Luzon rested today after
hiding from japanese and living
on rice for nearly three years.
He was Corpl. Gerald G. Wade OF
Lewiston, Idaho, an Army Air
Forces mechanic. He passed through
the American lines at an undis-
closed point and was brought here
by plane.
Its too good to be true" Corpl
Wade declared; as he stamped his
feet, in borrowed shoes, on the steel
mating of the airstrip.
The shoes and bad stone bruise
made him limp. He was chalky-
faced from malnutrition. He looked
Is years older than his Is years
But he was happy-and hungry.
Corpl. Wade told how he and
other prisoners who were surrend-
cred to the Japanese at Bataan, on
Southern Luzon, April 9, 1912. were
mistreated and made to march IS
miles north to prison camp.
They laughed and jeered at us, 8
he said. Some of them Dashed us
(See DEATH MARCH. Page A-40
Evening star., 1945-01-22

ceiving inaugural guests. Her feet
hurt all Saturday night, but her
right hand came through the ordeal
in fine shape.
Guests at the press conference
were two women from the State De-
partment who have been explaining
the Dumbarton Oaks peace proposal
to groups requesting speakers.
They were Miss Dorothy Fosdick
and Mrs. Esther Brunauer of the
departments Division of Interna-
tional Organization Affairs, which
has sent about as of these experts
to clubs ana organizations over the
country since last October.
Another guest was Miss Charl Or
mond Williams, who has sponsored
the compilation Of q list Of 260
women qualified to serve on COM
missions representing the country
In postwar planning. The names,
sent In by women's groups over the
country, have been sent to the Pres
ident and to the State Department,
Miss williams said, but win not be
made public.
Evening star., 1945-01-22
BY the Associated Press,

=
LONDON. Jan. ga call went
out over the German armed
forces radio today for every one
in the nation to join this 'holy
battle for liberty" as Russian
forces sweeping into Silesia drove
to a point approximately six
hours by fast express from Berlin.
Damned be our enemies. This
soulless, bestial, overwhelming mass
onslaught must be held at all costs,
the announcer shouted. He de-
manded that every man who can
carry any kind of weapon, in fact
anybody who can shoot" join in
defense of the Reich.
The Nazis themselves in home
broadcasts did not try to conceal
that 'the hour of greatest peril to
the fatherland had struck" and for
the first time admitted that Berlin
itself is threatened by the Russian
offensive.
''If the Russians capture Poznan
Tin Western Poland) then the threat
to Berlin enters the acute stage"
said Berlin dispatch to the Stock
holm Aftonbladet passed by Na1
censorship.
This correspondent quoted Ger
Evening star., 1945-01-22
Republicans Accept
Year-Round PROGRAM
Offered by BrowneII
New Yorker, Staying On
As Chairman, Promises
To Give Necessary Time
BY GOULD LINCOLN,

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 22.-An
eight-point program for an all
year-around Republican national
organization submitted by Ma
tional Chairman Herbert Brown
ell, jr., was adopted by the Re-
publican National Committee,
meeting here today.
Mr.. Brownen gave assurances that
he would, as national chairman, give
all the time necessary to carry out
this program. He will remain as
chairman.
One dissenting voice was raised
in the closed committee meeting.
Arthur E. Nelson, former Mayor OF
st. Paul and once Senator for a
brief period, urged the committee
to elect a man from the Middle
West. Mr.. Nelson attended the
meeting with a proxy of the Min
nesota national committeeman, Roy
E. Dunn.
mo man with a law practice can
Evening star., 1945-01-22
Enforced Loafing'
Is Found al Norfolk
Navy Yard, Mead Says
Similar Establishments
Have Worse Records,
Senute Is Informed

By the Associated Press.
Chairman Mead of the Senate
War Investigating Committee
told the Senate today that "ex-
cess manpower, wasted labor,
boarded labor and enforced loaf
ing" were found in an investiga-
tion last week of the Norfolk
Navy Yard by committee men,
bers.
While excoriasing practices which
he said were found at Norfolk, Sem
ator Mead said he was informed its
record was excellent" in compari-
son with other navy yards. He
added that there also was much
wasted manpower in uniform anc
called on the armed forces to "clear
their houses" ...
In making his report, Senator
Mead threw his influence against
national service legislation. urging
instead that wasted" manpower be
squeezed out of war plants. Pull
national service at this stage" he
added, with inefnciencies in utiliza-
ton (of manpower) would result
only In chaos"
The Norfolk yard employees 81, 900
and Senator Mead told the Senate
that it was said to be short more
than 1000 workers for essential pur-
poses. He added:
Here is what we found:
Each of the members of our sub
committee personally saw idleness
and loaflng on big scale. Men
stood and sat around in groups
smoking and talking right on the
decks of vital fighting ships. Their
bosses were not to be seen. The
men themselves think there are too
many of them on the job. They say
they are unable to do an honest
days work.
$50 many men are assigned to
some jobs that they cannot even all
squeeze into the place. Most OF
them stand around outside while a
few work.
Senator Mead said it might be
that legislation is needed to keep
war workers on their jobs, but not
overall regimentation of 00,00o. .00o
Americans"
Production Controls Urged.
"If we need further manpower
controls, we certainly need addi-
tional production controls" he
added.
Senator Mead said the War Man.
power Commission surveyed one
shipbuilding company which In
August said it needed 1900 work
Evening star., 1945-01-22
Radiator Thowing Sets
Off 3 Munitions Trucks,
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, Jan. 22.-A French SOL
dier's idea for thawing a frozen
radiator pouring gasoline on the
hood and then lighting it-back-
fired this morning.
Three munitions-laden trucks on
the left bank of the Seine exploded
in the resulting fire.
Police said there were no casual
ties, but civilian and military fire.
men struggled two hours to arrest
the flames and prevent their spread
while munitions continued to ex-
plode In the midst Of the blaze.
Evening star., 1945-01-22
HanseII Is Recalled;
lie May Made Chief Of
21st Bomber Unit
Gen. Romey Also Given
New Post in Shifts in
Super Fort Leadership

Brig. Gen. Haywood S. Hansell,
who has commanded the Saipan-
based 21st Bomber Command of
B-29s, has been replaced by Maj.
Gen. Curtis E. LIE May, formerly
commander of the Goth Bomber
Command, based in India and
China, and recalled to the United
States for an undisclosed assign
ment.
This was announced today by
Gen. H. H. Arnold, Army Air Forces
chief. There was no explanation Of
the transfers.
Brig. Gen. H. M. Ramey, former
chief of staff for the 21st Bomber
Command, has been named to sue
ceed Gen. LIE May as commander
of the Goth Command.
lie May Is Tactical Expert.
Gen. LIE May, who will conduct fu-
ture operations from the Saipan
base, established his reputation as
tactical expert on heavy lombard
ment while heading the 3rd Bonn
bardment Division of the 9th Air
Force in Europe. He was busy
bombing the Nazis while Brig. Gen.
Kenneth B. Wolfe was organizing
the Goth Bomber Command and
moving it to India and China bases
to open the attack on Japan's inner
defenSes.
Shortly after the Super Fortresses
were committed to combat, Gen.
Wolfe was recalled to the United
States, where he has since applied
his ability as an engineering expert
to the Material Command of the
AAF, which he now heads. He was
succeeded as commanding general
of the Goth Bomber Command by
Gen. LIE May.
Headed 5th Bomber Command.
Prior to his assignment to BIS
operations, Gen. Ramey distin-
guished himself as commanding
officer OF the 5th Bomber Com
mand. Gen. Arnold announced.
Gen. Ramey contributed heavily, .
Gen. Arnold said, to the defeat
Iof the Japanese thrusts at Port
Moresby, expulsion of the enemy
from Papua, which brought the
defeat of the japanese in the Bis
marck Sea, and directed bombing
Operations In New Guinea, the Bis
marck Archipelago and other sec
tions of the South Pacific. He also
conducted the aerial assaults against
the japanese base at Wewak.