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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15
H0WLINC BLIZZARD
HITS BYRNES ship
Pilot Has Great Difficulty
Locating Moscow; Met
By Dekanozov
BY EDDY GILMORE
AID Staff CorresnOndent

MOSCOW, Dec. 144R-Unable
to locate the Soviet capital for
more than an hour because OF a
moving blizzard, the plane car
rying U. S. Secretary of State
James F. Byrnes to the three pow
er Foreign Ministers meeting
landed at the Central Airdrome to-
day just before dark. =.
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevln
of Great Britain had not yet arrlv'
ed for the discussions on atomic
energy and other prime subjects
which had been scheduled to be-
gin tomorrow.
"a Berlin dispatch said Bevin
had Landed at Berlin's Gatow air
port this afternoon on the first leg
of his trip. He will stay overnight
and resume his journey tomorrow
morning.)
II am very happy to be here, y
were Byrnes' first words as he
stepped from his plane, wearing
only light tan covert cloth top
coat, light gray hat, and only
a silk scarf around his neck to
combat a whirling snowstorm. He
had no gloves or rubbers.
He was greeted by Deputy For
eign Cornmissar V. G.. Dekanozov
Continued on Page Eight; Col. g.
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ARMY NAVY FIGHT
GROWING HEATED
Patterson Denies Forrestal
Statement That Officers
Are Muzzled

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.-UH-
The Army-Navy fight over propos-
ed merger of the armed forces
flared at highest levels today when
Secretary of War Robert P. Pat
terson branded as ridiculous" Ma
Wy Secretary James ForrestaPs
charge that the Army is muzzling
officers opposed to the merger.
Forrestal voiced his charge at
a Senate Military Affairs commit
tee hearing Thursday. He said that
Army officers opposed to the
Army-backed single department of
defense felt obliged to keep silent
for fear of damaging their careers.
Patterson replied at press con-
ference today.
He also said that comparing the
Nays counter-proposal to the
Army plan would be like com
pairing horses and hor doctors. !"
Instead of single defense depart
ment, the Navy proposes a nation
al security plan for perfecting liai-
son and policy-making among the
War, Navy and State Departments.
President Truman may settle the
dispute next week when he sends
Congress special message on uni
fication. He told a recent press
conference that he thought the mes
sage would solve the issue. He did
not elaborate, but he apparently
had reference to his powers as COM
mander-in-chie of both the Army
and Navy.
Referring to ForrestaTs state
ment, Patterson said:
''The charge is being repeatedly
made by the Navy that the Army
has muzzled its officers. This is
ridiculous.
II said in letter that received
wide publicity over month ago,
and I repeat it now, that all Off
GERS should freely express their
own personal convictions with
force and vigor.' I can assure you
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15
1900 POLICE, MP'S
START ROUNDUP OF
ARMY DESERTERS

LYNDON, Dec. 14-W.P)-Two
thousand London policemen and
nundereds of U. S., Canadian
'na British Military Police
'''fmed suddenly into a four
'9@re-mile area of Central
'"on tonight in a gigantic
'"e'npt to round up ar esti-
mated 10000 deserters from the
'n'ee Allied armies.
With Scotland Yard aces
~ uss'er minding the roundup,
b1e, officers established road
vs vcks at strategic points. Sub
h. ana railroad stations, popu-
choI restaurants and pubs were
h,s .Aed by Military Police
t,; me fashionable Mayfair dis
$40 t' OF the west end, Soho,
r.aadlngton and vauxhall were
oiaa aoed. Mayfair. and Soho are
'sAf life centers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15
HOUSE APPROVES
EMPLOYMENT BILL
Measure Now Goes To Con-
ference To Iron Out Diff
ferences By Senate

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14-R-
Legislation aimed at assuring plen-
ty of jobs in the future was ap-
proved today by the House, 254 to
1876.
The measure-a substitute for the
so called full employment" bill
requested by President Truman
lays down a Federal policy OF
maintaining "a high level of en-
ployment, production and purchas-
ing power"
1t provides for creation of three
man economic council to make rec
concentrations toward achieving
that goal.
Action on the measure came
after the House rejected, 1875 to
IS, the original full employment"
bill and defeated plan for an in
ventory of the nations assets and
liabilities.
The house also turned down, PAS
to 1856, a move to send all of the
bills back to the expenditures com.
mittee which drafted the measure
finally adopted.
Final action CO me after two days
Of stormy debate and more than
two months of controversy in the
expenditures committee.
The substitute now goes to a
Sentate-House conference commit
tee, which will try to iron out diff
ferences between the bill and a
modified version Of the full en-
ployment" bill passed by the Senate
in October.
If the House bill finally becomes
law it would call on the economic
council to study economic trends
and make suggestions to the Presi-
dent, starting in 1947, regs riding
ways to keep employment and pro-
duction at high levels.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15
BEAST OF BELSEN,
TEN OTHERS HANG
BRITISH HEADQUARTERS,

BRITISH HEADQUARTERS,
Germany, Dec. 14.-WR-Joseph
Kramer. the Beast of Belsen,"
his blonde queen, Irna Grese and
nine of their Nazi concentration
camp cohorts were hanged yes
terday in the courtyard of the lit
tie red brick prison at Hamelln, II
was announced today.
Three women and eight men,
found guilty by British military
court Of committing mass murders
and atrocities at the Belsen and
Oscwiecim concentration camps
where thousands of Jews, Poles
and other war refugees died, were
pu+ to death in executions that
lasted from $3.50 a. m. to 4 p. m.
They were found guilty at Luene-
burg after nine-week trial. OF
A defendants, IA were acquitted,
II were sentenced to death and
the remainder were given prison
terms ranging from life down to
one year.
The hangings were conducted
with the greatest secrecy, presum-
ably to foil any last-rninute at
tempts at escape, or rescue from
the outside. British and German
police had mounted guard around
the gallows of the Hamelin prison
on Tuesday, several days after
Field Marshal Sir Bernard L.
Montgomery had turned down
pleas for clemency.
The first to die on the gallows
was Elizabeth Volkenrath, 49, for
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15
COMMITTEE WAITS
FARLEY DETAILS
Conference Yesterday At
Capital May Throw Light
On Airbase Problem

City officia Is and other
monument Wilmingtonians are
this morning awaiting news from
conference between Representa-
tive J. Bayard Clark, Ex-Gov-
enor ]. Melville Broughton, coun-
selor for the local airport COM
mitee, and officials Of Air Chief,
General H. H. Arnold's office
which took place in Washington
Yesterday afternoon with a view
10 renewing Army use Of the
Bluethenthal Air Base.
The base, on which the govern
nent has spent well over $6,000,-
MN, boasts 1000 foot runways
which have an additional 1000
fleet at each end of cleared ap-
proach totaling three 9,000-foot
Concrete runways.
Its acreage of approximately L.
AS, makes it one of the largest
alrports in the United States
one capable of handling any size
land plane existing or contemplate
ed
A committee of local citizens
headed by R. B. Page as chair
man and composed of County
Commissioner Addison Hewlett,
Councilman Garland S. Currin,
Fred Poisson and ]. Holmes Davis,
conferred in Raleigh with Brough-
ION and Governor R. Gregg Cherry
Thursday.
The position held by the COM
nlttee and other representative
citizens is that the retention of
seymour Johnson field in Colds
0fo, and the Myrtle Beach air.
port at the South Carolina resort
oVn, in the face of release of the
sellltles for quartering men and
"lmlngton base with its superior
more advantageous location, is
fashionable from standpoint
OF economics.
INQUIRY revealed last night
aal Seymour Johnson field does
avs have firing range or bomb
Jug range for planes based there
rAa mat pilot trainees had to use
Ie Bluethenthal firing and bomb
tag ranges, the government hav-
+s lound the purchase and clear
s ~, Oh ranges in the vicinity of the
ssla to be too expensive to be I'M
Ss W.. The Myrtle Beach field
10, ,,;, housing facilities which are
, ,sa 10 be inadequate, as well as
s nUE rail connections with other
E''@ OF the country.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15
OPA Approves Increase
In Cost OF Mercufies

WASHINGTON, Dec. IA up -
Basic retail price ceilings for Mer-
curry automobiles will be up an
average of per cent over those
of January 1912, and additional
increases for design changes range
from $50 to $65.
Announcing this today, the OPA
said manufacturers prices for
these Ford-built cars would be
boosted an average of 8.4 per cent
Under the cost absorption pro-
gram in effect for all makes OF
autos, Mercury dealers will be re-
quired to trim their pre-war dis.
count from manufacturer by 2.5
percentage points.
The purpose of this discount cut
is to prevent the full manufacture
ers' increase from being passed
on to the public.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15
Martin H. Rawlyns
To Take New Post

Disclosure Of the appointment
by the Commissioner of Customs,
of Martin H. Rawlyns, acting col
lector of customs for the North
Carolina district in Wilmington
since June, 1913, as Customs liza
son officer with headquarters in
Washington, D. c., came yester-
day.
Rawlyns, who filled the post
made vacant when E. c. Shead,
former acting collector entered
the Navy, will have among his
duties, acting as the representa-
tive of the Commissioner of Gus
toms in regulating the procedure
of field offices of Customs dis
tricts in the United States, and
the Alaskan, Hawaiian, Puerto
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Farmers Seek POW
Labor For Seeding

Owing to the fact that dearth
of agricultural labor exists at this
time and with no apparent relief
in sight before next summer, mem.
bers of the Castle Hayne Growers
and Shippers, Inc, through their
spokesman, Chairman A. Sondey
and executive secretary A. Schle.
gel, yesterday requested that the
aid of city and county officials be
sought in an effort to have Ger.
man Prisoner of War labor made
available for the planting Of 1916
crops in New Hanover county.
POW labor, which has helped
materially in the harvesting of the
1945 crop inethe Castle Hayne area,
was officially withdrawn by the
War Department as of Thursday,
December 10, according to Mr..
Schlegel, who pointed out that al
though continued use of this labor
is now denied to farmers, men are
still being worked at pulpwood and
sawmill plants and by dairying in
terests.
Representations have already be
made, Schlegel said, to Representa-
tive J. Bayard Clark, Dean Sharp
of State College and DR.. Dorton
regarding the urgent need for this
labor in New Hanover county, but
so far, no definite. answer has been
received to the many pleas other
that everything possible would be
done. to have the War Department
grant the request.
Sat present there at least rs to
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15
Coast Line Authorized
To Purchase ALB &CRoad

WASHINGTON, Dec. IA R-
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion today authorized the Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad to purchase
the Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast
Railroad company.
The Birmingham operates 637
miles of trackage in Alabama and
Georgia. All its common stock was
acquired by the Atlantic Coast
Line in 1925.
Under the purchase agreement
the Birmingham's preferred stock
will be redeemed and cancelled
as of Jan. l, 1916, its properties
transferred to the Coast Line as Of
Dec. 81, 1915, and the corporation
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15
Nazis Admit Wipi11g Out
6.OOO,OOO European Je1us

coast of Africa, which evidently
was to be part of the empire. "
But the murder orgy of the Ger
mans changed all that. An affida-
Wit by Nazi Security Police Maj.
Wilhelm Hoettl quoted Adolf Eich-
mann, head of the Jewish section
Of the Gestapo, as telling him in
August, 1914:
approximately 100000 Jews
have been killed in various exter-
mination camps and an additional
100000 have met death in other
ways. The major part of them were
shot by perational squads and Sc
Continued on Page Eight; Col. a
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15

route anu approval OF the IIcAu
by the CAA, the station manag-
er said he definitely expected
the inaugural flight on schedule
today.
Contact flight rules, it was ex-
planned, provide that the captain
of the flight must be. at all times
in visual relation to the ground at
a minimum altitude, which varies
with locality, considered safe by
the CAA. Roberts emphasized that
all flight reservations are subject
to weather conditions until install.
lation of airway radio facilities for
instrument flight which is antici-
pated soon after the first of the
year.
Weatherman Paul Hess gave en-
couragement from the weather an
gle with a prediction of flair to
partly cloudy with slowly moderat-
ing temperatures which might
reach the fifties during the after
noon," Hess said that no precipi-
tation was in sight for this area
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15
AFTER RECORD

Chief Pilot Clyde Andrews,
National Air Lines captain, who
will be the pilot of the inaugural
flight from Miami to New York,
will land here today in hot pur-
suit of a flight record for the
distance.
Capt Andrews, whose time in
the air will be the basis for
calculation of his speed, said
yesterday in Jacksonville, Fla,
eff the weather is at all favor
able, Pm going to shoot for a
new record" Accompanying
him as flight stewardess will be
Miss Margaret Watson.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15

during the day.
Discussing future operations at
on which the Army
spent $4,000, 900, Roberts said that
it was expected that the company
would put in operation around the
first of February, a number of
44-passenger DC-4's on nonstop
flights between Miami, Jackson
vile and New York City.
Roberts said that this would re-
ieve the passenger load, which
has been extremely heavy for the
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15
Mary Christmas Given
Divorce In Cambridge

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Dec. IA
M-"Your name, please?" asked
probate judge Joseph w. Monahan.
"Mary Christmas, responded
the divorce seeker who stood be-
fore him.
1.-THE same to you," beamed the
judge, land now your name,
please"
Pleasantries excluded, M r y
Christmas of West Medford, pre-
sented allegations of cruelty and
was awarded a divorce from her
husband, Edward B. Christmas,
whom she married in Boston in
1925. She won custody of twin
sons.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15

dissolved.
The Coast Line will provide an
estimated $2,574,381 to redeem the
preferred stock.
The Commission said 1.-THE Coast
Line expected to furnish jobs for
all of the present employees of the
Birmingham" It added:
1.-THE record shows that the Coast
Line proposes to operate the prop.
critics of the Birmingham as a part
Of the Coast Line system. It ex-
poets to effect savings in traffic
solicitation costs, purchases OF
supplies, equipment repairs and
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15
Big Boss Not Always
A Skunk, Leaders Say

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Dec. IA
-Wp)-The boss isn't always q
skunk.
The union figures President
w. A. Brownlee ofsAppalachian
Mills is pretty good guy. So
it's throwing a dinner and
dance for him Dec. 20 in his
honor.
day the International
Ladies Garment Workers Union
local began mailing out invita-
tions to city and county Off
Gals and to labor and business
leaders.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15

Addison Hewlett, chairman
of the Board of County Com
missioner's, suggested that citi-
zens attending the inaugural
ceremonies at the airport to-
day use the Market Street
road, entering tho field by the
east gate TO avoid driving
around the perimeter of the
field. The east gate will prov
vide the closest entrance t, the
scene of the ceremonies, he
said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15
Nv CLINTON B. CONGER

United Press Staff Correspondent
PALACE OF JUSTICE, Nuern-
berg Dec. 4-UT-German lead
ers admitted wiping out 5000, 600
Jews up to August, 1914, and plan
ned to make Poland's $4,000, 600
people slaves in greater Ger
man world empire" the prosecu-
ton charged today at the war
crimes trial. It was planned ultl-
mately to kill every Jew in Eu-
rope. evidence showed.
At one time, the prosecution dis
closed. German plans called for
sending several million" Jews to
French Madagascar, off the east
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15
BULLETIN

CHELSEA, Mass, Dec. a.
W.p)-A young mothers guilty
secret was uncovered here to-
night when the body of the
infant son she said was kid
mapped was found beneath
closet drawer-four feet from
the bed she had shared with
her innocent husband for 16
nights while the hunt for their
child was on.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15
Blz<thenthal Field Approved
81 Contact Flight; President
Loses Labor Legislation Race
NAL TO START
SERVICE TODAY
First Plane From South Will Arrive Here
About At 1:53 P M, Bringing Greet
ings To Wilmington Mayor

Disclosure Of the approval of Bluehentha Field National
ory late afternoon after Of the
officials E.
Roberts
NAL clearing along
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-15
FIVE KILLED

MAXTON, . Dec. 14.-P-Rural
Police Officer R. L. Purcell said
tonight that five persons were kill
ed and a sixth injured in a two
car collision six miles south OF
Maxton on Highway 100.
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| Wilmington and vicinity: Clearing
weather in early part of day with
slowly rising temperatures. Possible
| high temperature of so in afternoon.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-15
Scientists Aid
Atomic Farley

WASHINGTON, Nov. IA (lNS)
President Truman and Prime
Ministers Attlee and King began
a new phase Of their atomic bomb
policy discussions today, armed
with top secret scientific in
formation 10 aid them in their
final decisions.
Today's session and perhaps an
other tomorrow are expected 10
wind up the talks.
A Joint communique detailing
the policy for international con-
troll Of the atomic bomb or what
ever decision is arrived at will be
issued either tomorrow or Friday.
Attlee and King plan 10 leave
Washington Friday for Canada
where Attlee will spend a couple
of days before flying back to
London.
President Truman brought into
yesterdays session DR.. Vannevar
Bush, head of the office of scien-
tihc research and development,
under whose guidance the atomic
bomb was produced.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-15
How Troops
Come Home

Troopships arriving in U. S.
home ports today included the
following;
AT NEWPORT NEWS-Tuscu'
lum Victory, zoos troops incl
18th div. no. and hq special
troops, 18th inf. NJ. p. plat, 576th
sig. CO.. 730th F. A. bn.. 275th
engr. bn. Gauntlet, Il troops.
AT NEW YORK-WesterIy Vic
tory, from Marseille. 1852 troops
John Brown, from Marseille, Gas
troops. Alexander Bell, from lie
Havre, STA. John Harvard, from
lie Havre, STD. Wisteria, from
Cherbourg, $50 army patients. An
tinous, from lie Havre, 80 troops
Cape Elizabeth, from MayagueZ
5. Robert Stockton, from Lt
Havre, $50.
AT BOSTON - FitZhugh Lee
from Antwerp, 592. Bret Hsrte
from Marseille, 573 troops incl
80 members 565th motor amb
corps. Eugene Hale, 669 troops
AT SAN DIEGo-USS Colo
RADIO.
AT SEATTLE-USS Arlington
AT TACoMA-west Moreland
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-15
Vets Get
I3 Clinics
I'm State

Special state clinics for veterans
with mental disturbances have
been set up in IL cities. Gov Kelly
announced today.
Released veterans, many suffer
ine with mslsdjustments because
Of battle fatigue. will be treated
al these clinics, Kelly said.
The clinics are located al The
following places Detroit Psy.
chiatric Clinic, Harper Hospital;
University Hospital Ann Arbor;
Flint, Grand Rapids, Ionia, Kala-
mazoo, Lansing, Newberry, Pom
tiac. Saulte Ste Marie. Saginaw,
Traverse City and Coldwater
Kelly declared there was great
need of the clinics and work for
them was increasing rapidly be-
cause OF the war department S
policy of accelerating discharge
Of veterans 10 give home environ
ment 10 those needing medical
care for mental disturbances.
Twenty-four clinic aides, who
have been taking a special course
at the University OF Michigan,
will be graduated Saturday Gov.
Kelly announced pSychiatriSts IN
charge are being released by the
army.
The state selected the aides
from civil service. Successful ap-
plicants had al least two years
college work and either hospital
or nursing training.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-15
BY DIR. KURT SCHUSCHNIGG

Written Exeusivsly for Nsws Special Service
World Copyright, y International News Service
tRepoduuon strictly prOhOrd
LII efforts to relieve the plight influence the fate
of German political prsoners-it made difference
whether these efforts from organizations within
Germany powerful institutions abroad-were doomed
to failure unless based willingness to pay heavily for
questionable freedom.
With great deal of money, industrial
shares could in the antipluocrac third Reich always
arrange things somehow.
But any one who had no extraordinary wealth other
at his disposal could look forward only to besetg
ung-lqudation- particularly if his has been placed
o Hitler's black list.
Such "black list" really existed Perhaps Naz Chiefs
now facing trial shed considerable light on 1t.
The liquidation routine followed strictly established
lines First you lost your and became "a number
mostly of many fgures-Or else given fake
as" cover"
A PERIOD of solitary confinement which might last for
"A years, routine No. g." And during this period
contact with the outer world permitted excepting through
the SIS guards And sometimes this contact with the SIS
agents of the unpleasant physical type like whipping
sound punching
Gestapo agents also had fake names-most of those
called Muller Most Of them wouldn't tell their
Names commit anything to writing make any promisesand
they made promises they rarely kept them because
there higher authority at times not very well de-
fined which stepped in when least expected.
No trusted the other man. Al gents niistrusted
the prsoners-of course-and they n,istrusted
each other
There rivary-ofen open hate-between the SIS and
gestapo agents The prisoners eaped the fruits of this rivalry
in the form of verbal abuse and body punishment.
DUT when punished physically German political
ID prisoner free from anguish. Up the
of his confinement absolute
to his ultimate fate and STILL completely ignorant