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BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
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.TokyoCriowd
Waves Flags.
At U. S. Hall
DEMAND BREAD
Handbills Urge Elder
Statesmen To Commit
Suicide At Once /.

TOKYO, Oct. 16.-(P)-In one OF
the largest political demonstrations
seen in Japan since the people were
liberated from strict military and
government control, more than SOC
shouting and banner waving mem
bers of the newly formed Nippon
Working Class party massed today
before General Macarthur head.
quarters seeking American aid ir
getting more bread from the gov.
eminent.
Earlier the group of demonstra.
tors passed out handbills urging
all senior statesmen in Japan tc
commit suicide.
Individual members of the par
ade, which marched beside the
Imperial palace to the American
headquarters, said they did not
like the present Japanese govern.
ment.
Other sections of Japan were in.
volved in one of the greatest mass
movements of people in history.
More than 10000 Koreans, who
have been working in Japanese war
plants, in mines and on farms
swarmed into Hakata seeking
transportation to their native land
By train and on foot the home
ward bound people, many thous
ands of forced laborers among
them, were arriving at the Kyushu
Island seaport at the rate of 500
daily.
Policing of southwestern Japan
was made harder for American
Marines by the influx of Koreans,
who are seeking shelter along the
docks, in stables and in unused
sewer pipes. The Koreans are bad.
ly in need of food and clothing.
The extent of Japanese plumber
ing of conquered countries was re.
vealed by the Tokyo newspaper AS
ahi which said printing presses
backed by japanese force deluged
China with new worthless currency
which added up to about $4,000, 900
U. S. dollars in face value.
Notes totaling 100000, 900, 00C
Yuan were issued by the Central
Reserve Bank of China, financial
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Wilmington Masons
Honored By Council
Of Scottish Rite

WASHINGTON, Oct. is - R
The Supreme Council of the Scot.
fish Rite of Free Masonry of the
southern jurisdiction today elected
348 members to receive the 33rd
degree, including General Douglas
Macarthur and Henry H. Arnold
and Secretary of Agriculture Gin.
ton P Anderson.
The council, meeting in biennial
session, announced that the formal
award of the degrees will be made
here Friday evening to those able
to be present and locally to the
others.
Others selected for the 33rd de.
gree include General Ben Lear
and Lieut.. Gen. James H. Doc
little.
At the same time the Council
elected 953 for Knight Commander
Of the Court of Honour, all recipi-
ents previously having been
elected to the 32nd degree.
Those selected for Knight Com
mander include Admiral Marc A.
Mitscher; Vice Admiral Thomas
L. Catch; Navy Captain Harold
E, Stassen, former Minnesota
Governor; Major General Shelley
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British Will Use High
Speed Cameras With Test

LONDON, Oct. 16.-R)- High
speed cameras with special ra-
dar timing device have been pre-
pared to record British effort to
set an official world air speed re-
cord of more than 600 miles per
hour next Saturday.
A three milometer d.86 miles
course for the attempt has been
laid out along the channel coast
south of the Thames estuary. II
will be marked with colored floats
offshore and balloons tethered low
along the land side to guide the
pilots as they zip along ESQ feet
above the beach.
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PRESBYTERY NAMES
KENANSVILLE PASTOR
AS NEW MODERATOR

The Rev. Joe G. Morrison,
Kenansville was elected mod
orator yesterday at the con-
vention of the Wilmington
Presbytery held in the Pres
byterian church at Elizabeth
town. The newly elected mod
orator replaces the Rev. ]. r.
Kennedy whose retirement had
been announced.
More than eighty were in at
tendance at the meeting and
heard talks by two recently re-
turned missionaries, DR.. Lee
Williamson just back from Bra
iii and the Rev. w. F. Junkin
who was prisoner Of the Jap
anese in the Philippines. L.
Waugh discharged veteran
sang several songs for the
gathering.
The Wilmington Presbytery
will wind up its two-day meet
today.
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TRUMAN DRAFTING
TRAINING MEASURE

WASHINGTON, Oct. is. - Up -
President Truman today was re-
ported drafting a plea to Congress
to pass a law for peacetime uni,
versal military training.
If Mr.. Truman sends this mes
sage to Capitol Hill soon, as he re-
portedly has told legislators he will
do, it probably will start one Of the
hottest controversies since he took
office.
Most leaders think Congress is
not ready yet to say that volun.
teering won't work and adopt con.
scription as its alternate.
The advent of the atomic bomb
has left lot of legislators wonder
ing whether it is worthwhile tc
maintain large armies and navies
in the future.
Their mail is largely devoted to
pleas to get constituents out Of
uniform and any mention of future
CONSUMPTION usually IS adverse. All
Of these arguments are said to
have been repeated to Mr.. Tru,
man by some of his Capitol Hill
friends.
But the President repeatedly re-
mains determined to check the is.
sue up to Congress as he gave
warning he would do in his Sept.
s message outlining his program.
At that time, Mr.. Truman said
it was his intention to commune
cate with the Congress from time
to time during the current session
with respect to comprehensive
and continuous program of nation.
al security, including a universal
training program, unification of the
armed services and the use ano
control of atomic energy"
He urged then that the Selective
Service Act be continued to take
care of this country's extensive
military commitments, declaring:
II am certain, as are the Wa1
and Navy Departments, that we
Continued on Page Two; Col. y
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CHEST DONATIONS
TOTAL $36,490.2l

Red Feather flags waved in the
breeze along Front street last
night signalling the fact that the
1945-46 War Chest drive is well on
the way-in fact $36, 490.21 nearer
the goal of S166.375 90. That amount
was totaled at headquarters in the
Tide Water building shortly befT'e
800 o'clock Tuesday, according to
general campaign chairman H. A.
Marks who reported the first total
tabulation of donations to date.
Workers were jubilant over the
initial showing and all expressed
a determination to redouble their
efforts on behalf of the drive from
now until the close of the campaign.
Division reports were as follows:
Industrial division which includes
five groups headed by Robert
Strange, chairman, raised $12,-
1861; Commercial division with
four groups headed by G. D. Greer.
chairman, raised S7,828.75; Public
Service division with four groups
headed by W. W. Bell, chairman,
raised $2.69685. The total unit di.
vision with L. A. Raney as chair.
man, raised $22,96191.
The Government division with
four groups headed by Paul A.
Allen, chairman. raised S854.80;
Special Gifts group headed by c
Van Leuven. chairman, raised
So. 80. 90; Professional division with
four groups headed by DR.. j. W.
Farthing. chairman, raised a.
so; and the General division
with four groups headed by E. A.
Continued on Page Two; Col. p
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Klein, Two Assistants
Sentenced To Die By US

WIESBADEN, Oct. 16. -tP)-Al-
fons Klein former administrative
head of the Hadamar Insane Asy-
lum land two of his assistants were
sentenced to death by an Ameri-
can military tribunal last night
for the systematic murder Of more
than 400 Russian and Polish in.
mates of the institution.
Long prison terms were imposed
on three other men and one wo.
man who were tried jointly with
the condemned trio. .-..
Sentenced to death with Klein
were Heinrich Ruoff and Karl
Willig, asylum attendants who adj
mitted administering lethal doses
of morphine to hundreds OF vic
tins. -
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THIS IS MY STORY
Gen. Wainwright Tells
of Reaction of Troops
To Macarthur Departure
Describes First Jap
Demand That He
Surrender

(Here is the eleventh in series
of articles in which General Jona-
than M. Wainwright, Hero of Ba-
taan and Corregidor, tells for the
first time the whole story of the
fall of the Philippines and his
eventful capture by the Japs. To-
days article deals with the re-
action of his men to the news that
General Douglas Macarthur had
departed for Australia, Vain.
wright's new duties as command
er in chief of forces in the hope
less war for the Philippines, and
the first Jap demand that he sur
render.)
BY GENERAL JONATHAN M.
WAINWRIGHT
Copyright 1915, King Features
Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction in
whole or in part strictly prohibit
ed.)
After saying goodbye to General
Macarthur on March 10, 1912, the
day he told me he was pulling out
for Australia, 1 walked slowly back
to the Malinta Tunnel on C0rregi'
dor and picked up my aides, Col.
Johnny Pugh and Major Tom Doc
ley. 1 would like to have told them
the news, but I had been sworn
to secrecy.
It was a quiet ride back to Ba-
taan on the little boat, and my
thoughts were filled with the
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Report Says Plane That
Crashed In Park Was CAS-

ASHEVILLE, Oct. 16.-P-The
Asheville Times said today that
officials Of the Great Smoky Noun
tain National Park told the paper
that the wreckage of an airplane
found in the Park yesterday had
been definitely identified as that
of a CAS- Army Transport, which
left St. Louis October for Char
Lotte, with six persons aboard.
paper reported it had receiv-
ed no information as to the con-
ditions of the wreckage or OF any
bodies found at the scene.
Searching parties set out for the
isolated spot in the straight fork
re. on of the Park after an airplane
had spotted the plane.
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BELSEN BLONDE"
ADMITS BEATINCS

LUENEBURG, Germany, Oct. 16
tR - Irma Grese, 22-year-olc
IS women's supervisor at the Bel
sen concentration camp, testified
TODAY she beat many of the 10000
IN 10000 women prisoners in her
charge with braided celophane
whip.
Mai. L. S. W. Cransfield defense
counsel, in his opening argument
quoted from a book on corporal
punishment which he said told OF
the severity of treatment which
has been accorded prisoners in the
United States, specifically mention.
ing North Carolina, Ohio and Geor.
gla
If we go to the U. S. A. -
winch cannot be disputed as lead
er Of civilization" Cranfield said,
"wbat do we find?"
He then read passage from
The Whip and The Rod by Prof
R. G. Van Yelyr, which was pub;
lished in Britain in 1941. The author
was quoted as saying that Anle:i'
can penitentiaries have been the
scenes of some particularly say.
age Whippings'' in Ohio, Georgia
and North Carolina, and citing ac'
counts from o. Henry, famous
American short-story writer, and
Al Jennings, one-time robber and
outlaw.
Taking the stand during the 26th
day Of hearings by British Mill
tary Commission trying As men and
women guards for war crimes, the
blonde, silk-stockinged Irma Grese
frankly admitted she thrasaee
women and made them kneel be
cause they behaved like animals.
She denied the pistol she carried
at the camp was loaded or thai
she took any active part in select
Continued on Page Two; Col. p
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Sound America Is Safe
Monument, Halsey States
Thir d Fleet Commando,
Speaks AT City Hall
In San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 16.-(P)-
Admiral Halsey told welcoming
crowd at the City Hall here today:
IAN America that stands whole,
untouched and ready to take the
lead in solving the immense prob
lens confronting the world is the
best monument you can erect to the
men who fought and died to keep
her that way"
The famed commander of the
Third Fleet spoke to an assemblage
afterasailors from the mighty ships
had paraded up historic Market
street. The audience included Gov
Earl Warren of California ano
Mayor Roger Lapham of San Fran
cisco.
The text of Admiral Halsey's re.
marks:
Thank you Mr.. Governor and
Mr.. Mayor-for a welcome that
gladdens the hearts of all of us,
whether we're San Franciscans
west coast men, or from the states
beyond the Rockies.
II am not going to try to make
speech, here and now, because
this isn't the time or place for it.
Those thousand young men over
there-the boys with the battle
stars on their ribbons-Wa to gel
along, and tread this good Ameri,
can earth again. It's been long
time for most of them, SO I don t
think I'll engage in any holding op-
erations' with them at this stage
of the game. 1t mightn't be
healthy
81 just want to tell you-on be-
COnfinued IN Pare Twn. Col d
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Communists Hold 'Bloc" In Berlin;
Jap W<z;kers Blast New Government;
Lon ><zi0rem1en Prolonging Walkout
Cowpuncher Gets Hurt
First Time In 40 Years

DURANGO, Colo, Oct. 16.-
up - Lon Brinkerhoff, cow
puncher and sheepherder for
40 years, was laid up today,
lamenting 1--WE had 'em throw
me and I've had 'em fall on
me-" but his first injury came
when he was in front Of, not
astride, a horse.
He had dismounted to lead
his horse over rocky ground
while he was herding sheep.
The horse-a gentle one-stum-
bed, and in the struggle to
keep his footing kicked Brink
erhoff on the ankle. The ankle
is broken, and Brinkerhoff Is
thoroughly chagrined.
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Argentine Laborers Hold
Demonstration For Peron

BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 16.-P)-
Fifteen thousand lab,rers shouting
slogans favoring the deposed Juan
Peron paraded through the CAPT.
tabs business district today as the
harrassed Argentine government
continued its attempts to form a
new cabinet.
Police .made no effort to inter-
fere with the marchers and there
were no disorders. Union leaders
said the march was not support
ed by organized labor and declared
that armed men, without union
utilization forced employees to quit
their jobs in suburban Avellaneda
and march into the city.
The government earlier announc-
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Count Bernadotte Saws
Himmler Killed Hitler

HAMBURG, Oct. 16.-R)-Count
Bernadotte, vice president of the
Swedish Red Cross, said today he
was triply convinced that Adolf
Hitler is dead and expressed a
personal opinion that Heinrich
Himmler killed him.
The nobleman, who figured prom
inently in preliminary German
peace negotiations through the
Gestapo chief, said:
Il personally am sure from what
the doctors told me, from what the
German generals told me and from
what I saw of Hitler the last time
hat he is dead"
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Eisenhower
Says Front
Is i nited
BACKED BY SOVIETS
Nation To Face Acute Food
Shortages This Winter,
Report States
By BOBERKDOLL

United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Oct. TO- WH -
Gen. Dwight d. Eisenhower reveal
ed today that German Communists
dominate Berlin political life with
the open support of the Russian
military government but without
the backing of a majority of the
German people.
In his second monthly report to
the War Department on occupa.
ton progress, he said the four
political parties in Berlin the Com
munist, Social Democratic, Liberal
Democratic and Christian Demo.
cratic have joined in a united
front at the initiative of the Com.
munistS.
He said that a similar maneuver
would be discouraged in the U. S.
Zone because political blocs run
counter ito traditional American
|c cepts of political activity and
vigorous political life in a De-
mocratic sense"
eisenhower SAID, the Communist
party holds majority OF the
strategic posts in the Berlin Magis-
trat and in the administrations of
the Berlin municipalities. But he
added:
Informal reports indicate that
a fair and inpartially supervised
election in Berlin would not sup
port the present Communist party
dominance of posts, but would re-.
veal relatively strong support 60.
ing to the Social Democrats and
the Christian-Democratic Union, in
that order
The U. S. Commander empha.
sized, however, that extremely cor.
dial relations exist among the four
powers controlling Germany. He
said the cooperative and friendly.
spirit" of the Russian delegation
is particularly marked"
Eisenhower revealed that the
four political parties each publish
a newspaper, subject to Russian
censorship because the editorial
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Banker Confesses Theft
of $4,000 In Is Yrs.

returned to find them at work on
the books, he stepped to the desk
of M. F. Braun, bank president,
hung his head and said:
ST guess the jig is up. They'll lind
the accounts short.
Stuckenberg then dug up list
of 1875 accounts from which ne SAID
he had stolen since 1880. Accord
ing to Braun, he accomplished the
thefts by withdrawing ledger cards
from the file to block cheek
against ledger sheets.
In his signed confession he admit
ted much of the money had gone
over the dam" in "all kinds OF
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WEATHER

Eastern Standard Time)
(By u. s. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm. yesterday.
Temperature
30 am. 43; 1880 am. AZ; 1870 pm. SO;
1880 pm. S.
Maximum 60; Minimum 40; Mean 81
Normal IS.
Humidity
1870 am SO; 1880 am. SO; 1870 pm. So
1870 pm. 81.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1880 pm
600 inches.
Total since the first of the month
1.13 inches.
Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tables published BY
u. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington -- sos am. 1:05 am
Gas pm. 1:23 pm
Masonboro Inlet 1854 am. 1918 am
4:28 pm. 1858 pm
Sunrise 6:19 am. Sunset 5:36 pm.
Moonrise 3:48 pm.; Moonset 1854 am.
River Stage at Fayetteville, N. c. at
am. Tuesday, October Is. 1913 feet.
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y
I Total Idle
Estim ated
At 100000
COAL GROW SCARCE
Bus Drivers Return To
Old Jobs Under Govern
ment Management
By The ASSOCIATED PRESS

The number of strike idle climb
ed close to last weeks level Of
100000 yesterday under the impe.
tus of new disputes, more mine
walkouts and resulting steel fur
mace shutdowns.
Another factor that kept the total
up was failure of a back-to-work
call among ALL Longshoremen in
New York, with only a fraction Of
the 1000 strikers returning to the
wharves.
Major developments included:
/. Soft coal operators met again
in Washington despite the break.
down of government negotiations
to settle a dispute over union rec.
ognition that has $4,000 off the
job in six states.
2. Carnegie Illinois Steel Cor
poration announced the coal strike
had compelled it to lay off $4,000
steel workers instead of the 10000
previously estimated.
8. Buses rolled again under state
operation in eastern Massachusetts
after strike of 1900 AF'L EN-
ployes cut off service to 1000. 00C
daily riders for three days. -s---
4. The CLIO threatened a general
strike of $4,000 members in New
Castle County wilmington, Della.
ware.
Meeting in Washington, btu.
minous coal operators chung to a
faint hope that a settlement might
be reached to get miners back in.
to the pits where about half the
normal output of coal is being lost
daily.
Secretary Ickes said after q
White House call the coal situation
lis bad and it's getting worse" but
that he did not think it advisable
for the government to seize h {
mines.
After ten days of sessions, con
ferences between the operators ane
John L. Lewis, United Mine Work
ers under the guidance of Score
tary Schwellenbach collapsed Mon
day night.
The Secretary of Labor is con
sidering a War Labor Board pro
posal to set up tri-partite com
mission for handling reconversior
wage price problems by panel:
making advisory findings similar tt
those of special emergency board:
used in railroad labor relations.
AS new thousands were added t.
the list of inactive miners, stee
production suffered and the Sole
Fuels Administration predicted tina
if the strikes continued until thu
end of this week cotton mills il
the southeast would be forced t.
shut down.
Carnegie-1llinois Steel said t h I
furloughing of $4,000 steel workers
as result of the coal dispute in
cluded employees of its Youngstown
Ohio, plant in addition to plants il
Pennsylvania.
The company's operating rate il
the Pittsburgh area this week wa
% per cent of capacity, lowest il
more than decade. The compan,
had only three-day supply of Goa
on hand.
In the Chicago Gary, Ind.
district, site of the worlds larges
steel mills, Carnegie-lllinol'
spokesman said only four of 2
blast furnaces were expected to b.
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tnued.
Il only hope you will stop grow
ing somewhere east OF Lumber
TOM he added.
Mr.. Henry commended Rotar-
ians for their endorsement OF the
extension plan and for their efforts
in its behalf saying that he felt
that the spirit of the planning was
the spirit of the Rotary.
Stating that he thought of Rotary
as great reservoir of manpower
he said that he was greatly pleas
ed at the interest of the Whining
Continued on Page Two; Col. u
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ed that Peron, former Vice Presi.
dent, Minister of War, and Secre
tary of Labor who was forced by
army leaders to quit last week, was
mot being detained" but was in
protective custody. No details were
given.
While leaders of labor unions are
almost all anti-Peron because Per-
on, while in power, named his own
candidates for choice union jobs,
the rank and file of labor remem-
bers the wage increases and reduce
ed hours which the cabinet member
established for them by decree.
The overthrow of Peron, however,
Continued on Page Two; Col. y
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Rotary Governor Lauds
Extension Endorsement

Stressing to Rotarians at their
regular meeting yesterday that
Lumberton and the people in the
hinterlands of this section of the
state look to Wilmington CONNER
cially and industrially, Ozmer L.
Henry, of Lumberton, governor OF
the 18Th District of Rotary, told
members that he took great pride
in the forward-looking planning to-
wards the growth of the city
through extension of the city linn
its.
Growth and betterment of Will
mington will ultimately react to
the prosperity of the hinterlands,"
he said. whatever you do here
will help the tainterlands," he con-
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Officers Searching
Road Gang Escapee

RALEIGH, Oct. 16-LP-Officers
were searching tonight for Win,
fred Stinson White, II, who escap-
ed from a Durham county road
gang this afternoon.
White, sentenced in Alamance
in May, 1915, was serving six
months for larceny and an addi-
tional go days for an attempted
escape on June /.