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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24

Army Admits
Bad Reverse
MAKES LARGE GAIN
Soviet Marshall Urges Gov
eminent To Resume
Negotiations
BY SPENCER MOOSA
AP Staff Correspondent

CHUNGklNG, Nov. 20 (R) -
The Chinese Communists have re-
captured the highway town OF
Tsaoyang in Central China, 145
miles northwest of Hankow, the
Nationalist government acknoW-
lodged today as the civil conflict
developed a new crop OF uncon-
firmed reports on the maneuver-
ing for possession of Manchuria.
The Communists themselves Of
ficially claimed capture of Thigh
sien, 125 miles south of Peiping
on the Peiping-Hankow railway,
and Yencheng, big town near the
seacoast 100 miles northeast OF
Marking and 100 miles northwest
of Shanghai.
CA smaller town also named Yen
cheng is situated on the Peiping-
Hankow railway in a zone where
the Nationalist have said the
Communists were operatingo
A usually reliable source here
reported that Soviet Marshal Ro'
dion Y. Malinovsky, commander
of the Transbaikal front, had ask.
ed Chinese Nationalist officials tc
return to Changchun, the Man
churian capital, and resume nego'
tiations with him. The National
lists fled the city one week age
lest the expected Russian with
drawal leave them at the mercy Of
the Communists.
The Russians have not yet pull
ed out, but Chungking newspapers
alleged that Chinese Communist:
already were in Changchun II
strength. A few Nationalist Off
Gals still were in Changchun bu
presumably were prepared to leave
with the Russians as a safety mea
sure.
Chungkin's weller of rumors in
cluded a recurrent one that thu
Russians and Chinese Communist!
in Manchuria were disappointed
in each other.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24
HULL HAD NO hint
OF HARB0R ATTACK

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.-P)-
Former Secretary of State Hull
said today that the possibility the
Japanese would attack Pearl Har-
Dor had not occurred to him in
the critical last days of diplomatic
negotiations in 1871.
With a black top coat thrown
round his shoulders, Hull sat be-
fore a enate-House committee in
vestigating the naval disaster and
told members that never once
during the final months of negotia-
tons had he received any hint that
Pearl Harbor would be assaulted.
Hull said that although he had
warned the late President Roose-
welt and others that the japanese
might strike anytime, any place,
American military attention pri-
marily was directed toward the
Southwest Pacific.
The committee earlier in the day
received copies of a Nov. q, 1871
memorandum in which Gen.
George c. Marshall, Army chief
of staff, and Admiral Harold R.
Stark, chief of Naval operations,
had suggested to Mr.. Roosevelt
six possible points of japanese at
tack without mentioning Hawaii.
Under questioning of committee
counsel, Hull said that late in 1941
American officials were receiving
almost constant messages that the
japanese were moving men and
ships to the lower end of Indo-
China.
''We knew that was the jumping
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24
MACARTHUR ORDER
Ter MED ILLEGAL
Counsel For Yamashita
Saws General Takes Law
Into Own Hands

MANILA. Nov. 23-U.H-Lt. Col.
Walter C. Hendrix, Atlanta, Ga,
defense counsel for japanese Gen.
Tomoyuki Yamashita, told the
Philippines Supreme Court today
that Gen. Douglas Macarthur had
issued Illegal orders in connection
with the war crimes case against
Yamashita and that the Com
mission running the trial has
violated every law in the world"
Hendrix, seeking writ Of habeas
corpus for Yamashita, said the
defense was told that orders from
higher up" said Yamashita was
10 be executed Immediately if
convicted.
We contend that Macarthur has
taken over the law into his own
hands, disregarding the laws of the
United States and of the Constitu-
ton, and that he does not have the
authority from Congress and the
President Hendrix argued be-
fore the nine black-robed justices.
He is great soldier and Gene
raj, but not a great lawyer. Orders
from Macarthur regarding the case
are illegal"
Hendrix then criticized the con-
OF the trail by the Commission,
asserting that its members have
made MacArthur's orders law.
The Commission are not law
yerS and justices such as you and
l. yet they are trying one of the
greatest cases. Hendrix said.
Reynolds Maj. Gen. R. B. Rey-
nolds Dundee. Mich, President OF
Inc Commission) is trying to do a
sood Job, but if you would hear
me decisions of the court, you
would be shocked and amazed"
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24
Calcutta MODS Isolate u S. General Hospital
Beine To Call Nation Wide Telephone Strike
Communists RXzcapture Central China Key Cit]
Thanksgiving Bad Day
For McQuenney FAM

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark, NJ
23.-(R- Thanksgiving Day in
Tulsa was bad for the Mcqueen
neys of Chicago.
]. H. McQuenney, father of
Pat, who played in the back
field for Arkansas University,
left Mayo Clinic in Rochester,
MIMI, to see the game.
But he only got to see part Of
it. On his way to the stadium
from the hotel a door was Slam
med on his finger, cutting off
part of it. He went to hospital
but got back for the third quar-
ter.
Arkansas was defeated As to
10.
McQuenney saw an injured
Arkansas player taken off the
field. 1t was his son, Pat, who
had a broken nose.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24

ALBUQUERQUE, N. M, Nov. rs
-W.H-Mrs. Geraldine Pyle, that
eirl'' Ernie wrote about, died TO-
day in an hospital not far from
that little clapboard cottage where
she and her famous correspondent
lived.
Mrs. Pyle, IS, died seven monlhs
after Ernie was killed on lie Shlma
by Japanese sniper bullets.
She was taken to St. Joseph,
hospital on Wednesday with acute
uremic poisoning after prolong,
ed illness. She never rallied. and
died at 7:3O am. this morning
Mrs. Pyle was the former Ger
aldine Siebolds Of Saltwater, Mimi
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24
General Motors Rejects Proposal
Of Union To ArbitrQte Wage Scale
Truman Approves Pla n
For Conferences
AT Capital
BY The Associated Press

General Motors Corporation last
night rejected a union arbitration
proposal and plans were made,
with President Humans approval,
for conferences in Washington in
an attempt to settle the GIN strike.
The Corporation announced in
Detroit, shortly after Labor Sec
rotary Schwellenbach disclosed
plans for the Washington confer
ences, that it had rejected not
only the CLIO United Automobile
Workers proposal for arbitration
of the unions demand for 30
per cent wage increase, but also
had withdrawn previous offer
of a 10 per cent wage boost.
The company statement declar-
ed that stripped of its decep-
ton" the union proposal called on
General Motors to "relinquish the
right to manage its business" and
that Generals Motors, of course,
rejects such a demand"
Schwellenbach announced Cen
eral Motors and union represen-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24
Lindsay Warren May
Be Candidate In 1913

RALEIGH, Nov. 23-P-Lind-
say Warren, Comptroller General
Of the United States, said here
today it was ito early to say
whether he would be a candidate
for Governor in 1948, but his close
friends said they believed he was
seriously considering running.
Warren was in Raleigh on brief
vacation and planned to attend
the Duke-North Carolina football
game tomorrow.
His name has been prominently
connected in recent weeks with
the next gubernatorial election. He
is a resident of Washington, N.
c., and former congressman.
The next Governor, according to
tradition of the Democratic par
ty, will come from the east.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24
BRITISH ADVANCE
NEAR S0ERABAJA
S h erman Tanks Blast
2,000-Yard Pathway
Toward Naval Base

BATAVIA. Java, Nov. 23-P)-
British Sherman tanks wheeling
into action for the first time blast
ed out 2,0OO-yard gains in Seer
abaja today, while British re-
lief force fought bloody engage
ments enroute to Ambarawa where
is civilians were reported killed
by Indonesian attacks.
Indonesian resistance melted be-
fore the tremendous fire power
of the Shermans, and by nightfal
Indian troops held two-thirds oi
Soerabaja in the swiftest advance
yet scored in the drive to occupy
entirely the great port city.
The British made the gains with
out a single reported casualty,
while at least 40 Indonesians were
killed or wounded. The British
captured the Hotel Oranje on the
city's northern limits and the
wealthy Simpang residential area
and were battling tonight for add
tional hostelries.
1t. Gen. Sir Miles c. Dempsey,
commander of Allied land forces
in the Southeast Asia Command,
and M. E. Denning, SEACs poll
teal advisor, visited the Soeraba'
ia battle area for the first time
and commented favorably on the
military progress.
Bitter fighting ragged elsewhere,
particularly along the 25-mile roac
from Semarang to Ambarawa
where the Dutch news agency Ane'
ia said 16 persons, mostly womel
and children, were killed last night
in attacks upon civilian intern
Continued on Page Seven; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24
Big Grenade
Kills Major,
Army Men
30 OTHERS STONED
Rioters Cut Water Supply
10 New Infirmary; Bomb
Rocks Dance Hall
Bv ROBERT GLURMAN
lip Staff Correspondent

CALCUTTA, Nov. % - W.H - A
rioting Indian mob today isolated
U. S. Army General Hospital 142
and cut off it's water supply after
an American major and three en-
listed men were killed by hand
grenade and 30 other Americans
were beaten and stoned in wild
demonstrations cont n u i ng
unabated for the third day.
Some Of the injured Americans
were in serious condition.
The hospital - only general hos
pital in this area had been
without water all day except for
a limited supply brought in by
jeep. Road blocks isolated the hos
pital as the sprawling city was
torn by riots.
U. S. Army officials had not
vet decided what action to take
but feared that if an emergency
developed in the hospital it might
be necessary to smash through
with armored cars.
Indian demonstrators attacked
the Americans at a Thanksgiving
dance at the American Officers
Club at the Karnani estates,
throwing a hand grenade and
bricks at the Thanks giving cele-
brants.
Women guests at the dance, in
Guiding dozens of nurses from the
Calcutta Base hospital, were ma
rooned in the club house.
At least Is American vehicles
were burned and destroyed.
An American ambulance was
found overturned and burning and
the driver was reported missing.
One of the seriously injured
Americans included a Lieutenant
who was hauled out Of his COM
mand car while en- route to hos
pital and severely beaten. He suf-
fered a skull fracture. Another Of
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24
Episcopal Bishop Bans
Roosevelt As Vestrv1an

vestry of St. James Church, Hyde
Park, that General Elliott Roose-
welt is not in good standing in
the church and therefore is not
eligible for the office of vestry-
man and cannot serve in that
office"
The bishop declined to say why
Roosevelt was not in good stand
ing and refused to elaborate on
his statement.
In Poughkeepsie, Edmund P.
Rogers, named Senior Warden to
succeed the late President. SAID
he had received no official notice
Continued ON Page Three; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24

NEW YORK, Nov. % up -
Bishop William T. Manning said
tonight Brig. Gen. Elliott Roose'
welt was not in good standing in
the Episcopal Church and was in
eligible to serve as vestryman
in the family church at Hyde
Park. Pc, .. .
Roosevelt was named Nov. 10 to
the board of st. James Church, OF
which his father, the late Frank
lin D. Roosevelt, was Senior War
den.
The Episcopal Bishop Of New
York issued a statement from his
home saying:
81 have officially notified the
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24
"7hnt Girl" Pyle Dies
Mourning Death OfErnle

She met Pyle in Washington, D..
c., when he was managing editor
of the Washington News. They were
married July 7, 1925.
"That grip was at Ernie's side
when he tired Of desk work and
set out to see the country by auto
mobile as a columnist for Scrlpps-
Howard. They wandered together
over 10000 miles of the western
hemisphere. In his columns, Ernie
always called her that girl VINO
rides beside me-
Before war came the Pyles had
covered Canada, all OF the United
States, Hawaii and South Amerl'
Continued on Page Three; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24
$y<55itration
Meet Fails
At Chicago
y OFFER REJECTED
Union President Says ILL
nois Firm Refused Com
promise Offer
By BARBARA SMITH

United Press Staff Correspondent
CHICAGO, Nov. 2s.-Wp)-Joseph
A. Beirne, president Of the Ma
tional Federation Of Telephone
Workers, said tonight he was pre-
pairing to set into motion ina
chinery for calling nationwide
strike Of telephone operators and
other workers.
Beirne said the Illinois Bell
Telephone Co. had respected a
union offer to compromise wage
dispute which has led to strike
Of $500 long lines operators in
illinois and in two northen Indiana
counties. AS the fifth cancellation
meeting called by the U. S. con-
Citation service broke up In a
deadlock, Beirne said:
I'VE will now take the necessary
steps to set up nationwide ma
chinery for ordering telephone
workers oIt''
He said he was telegraphing
Secretary of Labor Lewis B.
Schwellenbach to intervene in an
effort to reach a solution. He said
the company had offered no coun-
terproposal and had rejected the
unions offer to accept a 81 a
week increase retroactive to May
9 and an additional 81 more begin
ming Immediately.
The Illinois Telephone Traffic
Union, an affiliate of the NFTW,
struck five days ago in dissatis-
faction with a War Labor Board
order granting long distance op-
orators 81 more per week. The op-
orators had demanded Sc more.
Continued on Page Three. Col. II
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WILL TOUR U. S.

CHARLOTTE, Nov. % R -
Thomas A. Warren, British Presi-
dent of Rotary International now
touring principal American cities,
will address a ladies night gather
ing of the Charlotte Rotary tonight.
Accompanied by his wife, Warren
was scheduled to arrive here from
Greensboro, where he spoke last
night,
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24
WEATHER

(R naS =, Standard Time)
Meeo rny Z. S. Weather Bureau)
ending gO[ z?9og data for the "a hours
''0 pm Yesterday.
LIN Temperatures
f;3O \ S d, a. AZ; 1870 am. "a; 1 80 pm. a.:
Normal =, so; Minimum 80; Mean A.;
Leo an Humidity
7:s0 n @ d., 81; 7;3O am. IS; 30 n n, %.
Total T. Precipitation
900 in ipcb lof "A hours ending 7:so pm
s35 in inc5 Stnee the first of the month
F.on q, tides For Today
!. c. cos 5ss :, Tide ID Tables published by
Wllmingto, High Low
!, 10 am. 8:14 am.
''00fo Inlet 1872 am. 5: oI am am
Ri J PM a. Moonset l1:51 am m AoonfiS<
8 sn s F at Fayetteville h'si' N. c. al
'''' ' friday Nov, %, mo report
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24
FORECAST

North Carolina Fair and continued
~ ~ Saturday. Slightly higher afternoon
tenperatures Saturday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24

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Continued on Page Seven; Col. 81
Evening star., 1945-10-29
Saigon-Chinese in Riff
With British, French

By the Associated Press.
SAIGON, French Indo- China. Oct
29--Friction developed between the
Chinese and their Anglo French
allies in Indo-China today as the
Annamite rebellion waned.
In Saigon, which was returning
to normal swiftly. Chinese residents
prepared to send a delegation to
Maj. Gen. D. D. Gracey. Allied
ground commander, protesting
criminal attacks, looting and other
crimes allegedly perpetrated by In
dian troops against the Chinese
population.
British officials said they were
investigating disturbances in "Cho-
lon," the Chinese section which
comprises about half OF Saigon
Troubles were increased over the
week end by serious fire which
destroyed many Chinese residences
despite efforts Of Indian troops II
control it.
The French, meanwhile, became
concerned over what they callec
the failure OF the Chinese in tht
north to control Annamite bands
One column of insurrectionists was
reported heading for Luang Pra-
bang Province to depose the ioca,
ruler who the French said remained
loyal throughout the Japanese oc.
cupation.
South OF Saigon, French troops
encountered only mild resistance ir
mopping-up operations against An.
tnamite Nationalists.
Evening star., 1945-10-29
j. H. Springmann, IS,
Dies al Home Here

James H. Springmann, IS, retired
wagon and carriage body builder
died Saturday at his home, 635
Maryland avenue S.W.
High requiem mass will be sung
by the Rev. Lewis Springmann, New
Haven, Conn.,, a nephew of Mr.
Springmann, at $50 am. tomorrow
at st. Dominics Church. Burial
will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Mr.. Springmann retired from
business in 1927 because Of Ill health
In the days before the automobile
he constructed custom built wagons
for business firms in Washington
his son said.
A lifelong resident of the South
west area, he joined the wagon
building firm operated by his father
John T. Springmann, at an early
age, and on the death of his father
in the early part Of the century, took
over the business. Located at Sew
enth and I streets S.W., it was
known as J. T. Springmann g. Sons
Mr.. Springmann was a member OF
the knights of Columbus.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs
May r. Springmann; son, James
H. Springmann, jr.; brother, Clar-
ence Springmann, and sister. Mrs
Margaret Carlin, all of Washington
Evening star., 1945-10-29
u. s. Invites India 10 Join
Far Eastern Commission

India has been added to the ma
tions which will participate in the
Far Eastern Advisory Commission,
holding its first meeting here to-
morrow, the State Department an
nounced today.
Great Britain had requested In
dia's inclusion on the commission,
and the United States submitted
the request to China and Russia.
1t then invited India on Chinese
agreement without waiting for in
dication of the Russian attitude.
Onicials said the Soviet govern
ment had not signified either its
attitude on Indias part in the COM
mission or whether a Russian rep
resentative would be present for the
first meeting tomorrow. Moscow
has insisted that agreement on a
control council in Tokyo should be
reached before the advisory COM
mission starts functioning.
The State Department said that
Sir Girja Shankar Bajpai will rep
resent India on the commission.
The department also announced
that Earle r. Dickover, former CHIEF
of the japanese Affairs Division ir
the State Department, and Col. c
Stanton Babcock will act as advisers
to Maj. Gen. Frank r. Mccoy
American representative on thu
commission.
Evening star., 1945-10-29
Foreign Policy
Continued From First Page.)

side interference. The defense treaty
is expected to reflect that view.
British May Not Agree.
British loan - Negotiations have
reached the crucial stage in Britain s
request for multi-million dollar A.
nancial assistance from the United
States. American negotiators who
formerly talked of a 5000, 900 900
loan recently decided that Congress
would balk at that much and now
talk of $4,000, 900 900. 1t is a ques-
ton whether the British will con-
slider the total and the terms accep-
table.
Atomic bomb-Mr. Truman an
nounced that talks with Britain and
Canada and then with other ma
tions would be undertaken in the
near future to decide on q free ex-
change OF scientific information
without any disclosure of industrial
secrets of the bombs manufacture
Mr.. Truman built his foreign
policy statement around the prin-
ciple that the United States intends
to remain powerful for its own de-
tense and cooperate in the United
Nations efforts to maintain peace.
Evening star., 1945-10-29
Dr.. WiIIingham 10 Open
Church Leadership School

The Rev. Edward B. Willingham,
pastor of National Baptist Memo
rial Church, will speak at the open
ing convocation of the School OF
Leadership Development" at 7:45
O'Clock tonight at Calvary Baptist
Church.
The school, in session today
through Friday, is an annual city
wide Sunday church school study
course sponsored by the department
of Christian Education of the Dis
trict Baptist convention. Sessions
will begin at 7:45 o'clock each
night. Glasses for each depart
,nent in the Sunday church school
with two classes for general work.
ers will be held.
Convocation speakers each night
in addition to Monday, will be the
Rev. Clarence w. Crawford, pastor
of Calvary Baptist Church, Tues
day; Dewey Moore, missionary tt
Italy. Wednesday,; the Rev. E. H
Pruden, pastor of First Baptist
Church, Thursday, and Robert F
Caverlee of Richmond, Va, Friday
Evening star., 1945-10-29

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SchweIIenbach Reveals
He Favors Equal Pay Bill

BY the Associated Press.
Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach
said today that women who turn
out the same quantity and quality
of work as men should receive the
same pay.
He told a Senate Labor Subcom-
mittee he favors the so-called equal
pay bill.
This measure, introduced by Sen
ators Pepper, Democrat, of Florida
and Morse. Republican, of Oregon
would make it unlawful for an en-
ployer to pay woman at a lower
rate than he pays man for COM
parable work.
1t also would make It unlawful
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employment rights of returned vet.
Grams.
Mr.. Schwellenbach said the legis.
lation was desirable mot only as 6
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also from the standpoint of pre-.
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sumner purchasing power"
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Food Conference Sees Hope
OF Ending World Hunger
By the Associated Press

QUEBEC, Oct. 29-A commission
of the United Nations Food and
Agriculture Organization declared
today that hopes of eliminating
much of the worlds hunger within
a few years is mo longer Utopian
but is practicable.
The world, it said, has the knowl-
edge to go far in wiping out MANU-
triton and its physical and social
diseases. All it needs to do, the
commission explained, is to put
that knowledge to use.
This view of the possibility of
early success in a United Nations
attack on hunger and rural poverty
was expressed by the commission in
a report prepared for the full con-
ference of the Food and Agriculture
Organization, which is expected to
wind up nearly three weeks study
of world food and farm problems
Thursday.
The FAO's Marketing Committee
said the problem of making pur-
chasing power match nutritional
needs of consumers must be found
in national and international poll
cies aimed at "minimization of re-
striction, the maintenance OF full
employment and a progressively ex-
panding world economy"