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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-08
POLICE UNCOVER
| CRUES0ME MURDER

NEW YORK, Oct. 7.-P)-The
six-weeks-old mystery of what
happened to Scion Burt Harger,
internationally known night club
dancer who disappeared during
an engagement at the swank hotel
Biltmore, was listed today by
police as one of the most grue-
some homicide cases in the city S
history.
Police charged Harger was kill
ed with a hammer in his apart.
ment on West 18th street the night
of August 10 and that the slaye-
dismembered his body with a
razor and scattered its parts over
the Hudson river and lower New
York bay.
Walter H. Dahl, Jr., 30-year-old
freight solicitor from Philadel-
phia, was booked on a charge of
homicide in the case. Assistant
District Attorney Jacob Grumet
said Dahl, who shored Harger' S
apartment, had confessed he killed
the dancer during an argument.
Grumet quoted Rail as saying
Harger had made improper ad-
vances. to him. big
Harger, 80, was billed at the
Hotel Biltmore as 'the dancing
toast of the continent Hotel Of
ficials said he had made COM
mand performances before the
late King George V of England,
as well as the King of Sweden and
the deposed King of Spain.
His dancing partner was Char
lctte Maye, wife of Army Capt.
William Tubesing. The team,
known as Harger and Maye, was
featured in the Broadway must
cal early to Bed
Grumet quoted Dahl as saying
he dismembered Harger's body
Immediately after killing him, and
shortly afterwards dropped the
head, arms and legs into the Hud-
son river from a Weehawken
ferry.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-08
MURDER: SUSPECTS
HUSBAND SUICIDES

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 7.-R,-
DR.. John H. Mansfeldt was found
dead today and Deputy Coroner Ida
M. Lasswen said evidence showed
he took his own life, probably
with poison, within a few hours
after his wife was arrested Thurs.
day on a charge of numbering
pretty nurse.
The prominent and wealthy San
Francisco physicians body was dis.
covered in his automobile at Shell.
ter Cove, small ocean inlet near
Pedro Point, 10 miles south OF
here.
A stethoscope hung from a peck.
ct of his blue jacket.
The opened glove compartment
of the car, the deputy coroner said,
held "any amount of medicines and
sedatives-he had everything" One
bottle was open beside the body.
At the city prison, the 45-year.
old widow, Mrs. Annie Irene Mans.
feldt, walled when informed of this
new blow in the piling tragedy Of
her life:
Nothing can help me now. Hes
gone and I loved him 500
She clenched her fists, raised
them imploringly to the ceiling and
then collapsed into a faint.
Revived, she cried: ooh, what
will happen to my poor babies?"
(The couples three children). ''My
whole life is gone-rm dead in.
side"
The dininutive auburn haired
matron, member of pioneer Cali.
fornia family, is charged with slay.
ing Mrs. Vada Martin, So, regis.
tered nurse and wife of a Navy
warrant officer now overseas.
District Attorney Edmund Brown
said she at first claimed she shot
Mrs. Martin because she suspected
her of having an affair with the
48-year-old physician.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-08
100000 VETS
SEEK EDUCATION

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 - Up -
More than 100000 returning war
veterans probably will 60 back to
school.
That estimate was made today
by DR.. Francis J. Brown, con-
sultant for the American Council
on Education.
He says surveys indicate that
as many as Is per cent of all
veterans will want some kind OF
additional education. This will in.
clude everything from on-the-job
training to a postgraduate college
course.
Figuring that the war will pro-
duce Is, 900, 900 veterans, this means
2,25o,o0o will want more school
ing.
This figure is far higher than
most previous predictions.
Less than two veterans out OF
100 are going to school now. Many
observers have cited this in con-
tending that the veteran is cold
shouldering the school house.
Brown insists such conclusions
fail to consider:
/. That the early batch Of vet
Grams contained an unusually high
percentage of men who were over
age, as we'll as those mentally and
physically handicapped.
2. While the war lasted the ten
dency was to 60 into war work,
either because of high wages or
patriotism. ("I can't be messing
around in classroom while my
buddies are still fighting.')
The council has just completed
survey of 100 colleges. These
report their enrolment of veterans
is almost three times what it was
last year-from II, 200 students to
%, 900.
Another survey has shown that
the present discharge age is around
Is. Even among these men, Brown
says, about eight per cent want
more schooling. AS the discharge
rate lowers, he thinks this per.
centage will shoot up.
In general, Brown says, the col.
leges are well prepared to handle
these veterans.
Chief problem: housing. Only
eight of the 100 colleges queried
had enough housing space. CHIEF
shortage: apartments for the mar.
ried GPs.
Brown says the real trouble is
in secondary education. Twenty
three per cent of those in the arm
ed services never went to high
school. Another % per cent went,
but never finished.
This means that 100000 will
be coming back who don't own
high school diplomas. So
Such cities as Washington, De-
troit, Los Angeles and Wheeling
w. Va, have set up special schools
to handle these average high
schoolers. So far as Brown knows
only Connecticut has planned a
statewide program.
His suggestion: Fede- al aid tt
towns which get together to form
a school for their veterans.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-08
$2,000,000 Nurse Hall
Will Be Undertaken

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7'-tR- A
campaign to raise at least 1000,
600 for nurses national memoir
ial will be undertaken, Mrs. Nor
man T. Kirk, wife of Maj. Gen.
Kirk, Army Surgeon General, an
nounced today.
Mrs. Kirk said in a statement
the memorial will constitute a
Washington headquarters for Amer
ica's nurses Of World War Two.
Under contemplated plans the
structure would be a completely
equipped social center and tenn
porary residence open to all medi.
cal women of the Army, Navy
and Air Corps.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-08
U.S.S. DASHIELL
WILL COME HERE
{Continued from Page One)

(COMtluUCu HUH Z 08O OACJ
delphia; the Monterey and the
Enterprise, to New York; the Ba'
taan to Providence, r. L.; the
Randolph, to Baltimore; the
Wasp, to Boston; and the Ranger.
to New Orleans.
The cruiser Boise is going tc
New York, the Concord to Bos'
ton, and the Richmond to Miami
Destroyers include the Johr
Rodgers, to Boston, the Harrison
to Baltimore; the Mckee te
Brunswick, Ca, the Murray tt
Philadelphia, the Ringgold tt
Newport, R. L.; the Schroeder tt
Baltimore, the Sigsbee to Cam
den, the Dashiell to Wilmington
N. c., the Charles Ansburne anc
the Claxton to Washington, D. C..
the Aulick to New York, the Dyson
and Converse to Washington, D.
c., the Foote, Gansevoort, Hobby
Welles and McCalla to New York
the Renshaw, Sigourney, Usher.
wood, Porter, Cellars and Douglas
H. Fox to New York.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-08
Gen. Wainwright Traces
Tragic Circumstances
OF Pre-War Bataan Days

ernment's CONSUMPTION Act he was
slowly putting together the army
that was to take over the defense
of the islands after the American
forces withdrew in 1916 under the
terms of the Philippines Indepen-
dence Act.
It was slow and tedious work
for Macarthur, handicapped by
lack of funds and equipment.
Macarthur was training two in
stallments of Filipinos each year
devoting five and a half months
to each group. Their training
was largely individual. There
was not much field training for
these men, nor any great deal
OF training in the use of weapons.
In fact, it was not until the
Summer of 1941 that any unit
training was attempted, and that
was only for a period of about
two weeks and was only in the
smaller units. The mass of them
so soon to fight-had none OF
the cooperative training so neces'
sary in the building of the in
fantyy-artillery team.
My chief association with Mac
Arthur during this early period
was social, plus the fact that
furnished his Philippine trainees
with drill grounds and rifle
ranges at Fort Mckinley, the post
commanded.
No Information
In my talks with Macarthur
that winter of 194O-41 the question
of war with Japan rarely arose.
He had no information at that
time to indicate the approach Of
Japan's attack, and I certainly
had none. It was not until the
spring of 1871 that I got the feel
ing in my bones that was was
inevitable.
Of course both of us had beer
schooled for years before thai
in the. theoretical problem Of
fighting Japan, just as all grad
yates Of the War College and the
Command and General Staff
Schools are instructed.
We were thoroughly familiar
with War Plan Orange, No.
Cor WPO-3, as it was condens
ed.
II WPO-3, variation of a pla1
about 20 years old, was this: II
the event Of a successful japanese
landing on the main island O.
Luzon the Philippine division ane
the Philippine Army, if unable tt
beat off the landings and sub
sequent advances of the theoreti
cal enemy, were to fight delayin!
actions and withdraw into Bataal
Peninsula. The plan envisionet
a six-month stand on Bataan, b,
which time aid from the Unites
| States would arrive.
II Macarthur and 1 agreed that j
was a defeatist plan, but ou
feeling in the matter did no
change it.
The sparkle went out of Manil
in the spring of 1941. War wa
coming and we all knew it. Maj
Gen. George Grunert, then Com
mander of the Philippines Depart
ment began making determines
efforts to pry more supplies GU
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esSait.
Ny Filipino soldiers were scouts,
fine fighters and equipped as well
Is our army was equipping any
body else at that time. Many OF
them were sons Of men who had
fought against the United States
IN the instruction, but who had
later been formed into scouts. They
were tough, hard, Well-trained, and
though there were only about hall
as many as the maximum per-
mitted by U. S. law-12, 00O-l
quickly saw that I had the nucleus
Of a good, proud, intelligent force.
In addition to that force there
were four small regiments Of har-
Dor defense troops on the four
fortified islands at the entrance
10 Manila Bay, and the Twenty
sixth Cavalry, which eventually
was to fight as few cavalry units
ever fought-and whose gallant
horses flesh was eventually 10
sustain life in those of us who
survived.
There was another force in the
Philippines at the end of 1910. This
was the Philippine Army, then be-
ing trained under the direction of
Macarthur. He had retired from
the United States Army after his
long tour of duty as Chief of Staff
under Presidents Hoover n d
Roosevelt and had accepted the
post of Commander in Chief of the
Philippine Army.
Macarthur rank then was Field
Marshal Of the Philippine Army.
With the aid of the Philippine Gov
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STEEL MILLS HIT
BY COAL STRIKE
CONTINUED from Page One)

page of back-to-work movements
are carried out today at two
strlke-bound automobile and car
parts-producing plants. The stop.
pages made approximately $1,000
persons idle.
After management and union
Representatives at the Hudson Mo-
tor Car Company had agreed to a
temporary adjustment of wages,
government conciliators announced
yesterday that the company would
recall its 5000 production workers
as soon as possible. Details of
the plan which ended the strike
of 500 Hudson foremen were not
announced.
The Hudson Company had been
closed since Aug. 81 because of
the strike of members of the Fore
mems Association of America
Qnd.).
Also in Detroit yesterday, the
Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co. unit OF
the United Automobile Workers
(CIO) assured international. officers
its members would report for work
in full force today. AS the Kelsey
Hayes strike appeared about to
end, the Ford Motor Company
which receives parts from Kelsey
Hayes, announced it was recall
thousands of it's workers and ex.
pressed hope that all $4,000 could
be called back in another week.
The Kelsey-Hayes strike was a
principal factor in the 1ayoff OIL
SC, 900 at Fords.
Shipping-some 10000 1ongshore.
men were due to return to work
today ending week long strike
which tied up shipping in New
York harbor after the major AFL
local union voted to end the strike.
Commune atoms - Following las
Fridays four hour work stoppage
by telephone employees in a dem.
onstration of union strength, the
Federation of Long Line Telephone
Workers (InO announced notice Of
a strike vote among some 200, 00(
telephone workers throughout the
nation to be filed within Is days
Henry Mayer, counsel for the Fed
Grafton, said the workers prob
ably would demand an average in
crease of 30 per cent.
Lumber-In the Pacific northwest
the Sailors Union threw its sup
port to some $1,000 striking AFI
lumber workers, refusing to move
by water what they termed 'hot
lumber
Motion pictures-Peaceful picket
ing continued at Warner Brothers
studios in Hollywood under a court
injunction preventing studio police
from interference with picketing
the studio likewise had a restrain
ing order forbidding illegal acts
in connection with picketing. The
jurisdictional dispute among AFI
movie workers unions now is ir
it's seventh month.
Transportation - Deadlock ove1
wage demands by 1900 ALL bus
drivers continues to tie up bu.
transportation over Pacific Grey
hound Lines in seven northwes
states.
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lover 400 CASES
| ON COURT DOCKET
CONTINUED from Page one\

John D. Pennekamp, from
Florida Supreme Court ruling
That court upheld the action
of two Florida judges who cited
the paper for contempt OF court,
The tribunal also may decide
tomorrow whether it will recon.
slider it's. June ruling holding The
Associated Press in violation of
Federal antitrust laws because of
EXCLUSIVELY features of it mem.
berhip bylaw. The APP, joined by
the Chicago Tribune, a co-defen.
dant, has asked fo~ the rehear.
ing.
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of Washington and to bring my
complement of Philippine Scouts
up to the full statutory strength
Of $4,000.
Another sign of uneasiness came
late in the winter when the War
Department directed that the de-
pendents of all military person
in the Philippines be evacua-
ted. This followed on the heels of
a similar order by the Navy.
Like most of the other wives,
Mrs. Wainwright did not want to
go. Like most Of the other hus-
bands, I guess, lied to her and
told her it would be just a short
separation; that the trouble
would blow over soon and We
would 60 on living again as people
should live.
She did not believe me any more
than the other wives believed what
their men were telling them. Nor
did her mother, Mrs. D. E. Hol-
ley, who was going home with her.
But we all made 8 pretense at
treating the matter as lightly as
other discomforts of Army life
are treated. There were farewell
parties-despedidas we called
them in our uncertain Spanish
with much false enthusiasm. I re-
member especially one big one for
the ladies at the Army-Navy
Club.
But when the last ship, the Wacr.
ington, pulled cut from Manila on
May IA, 1871, there were sudden
tears along the rails of the ship
and all of us on the dock, wav-
ing with frozen smiles, felt mighty
bad.
I went to work then in what ]
guess was opposition to the philo.
sophy of WPO-3. A defense must
be active, damn it. not passive!
It must involve counter-attacks,
to be the kind of defense I wanted
So during the last days Of May,
through June and most Of July
we worked at perfecting the of.
fensive combat training Of the
Philippine Division.
Receives Orders
Around the end of July, 1941
General Grunert sent word to me
and to other senior officers In the
Department to report to him the
following Sunday morning at his
headquarters in Manila. drove
down from nearby Fort McKin
ley that morning and found hi:
headquarters filled with lost o.
restless old friends: Generals King
Moore, Holderness and others.
General Grunert stood up aftel
bit, cleared his throat, anc
read from the paper in his hand
still remember the approximate
words:
major General Douglas Mac
Arthur, retired, is placed upor
active duty in the grade Of lieu
tenant general and is assigned
command of all United States Army
Forces in the Far East. The in
duction of the Philippine Army into
the service of the United State.
is authorized.
Tomorrow: Macarthur tell,
Wainwright that there will be NJ
Jap attack before April, 49,
and the Japs hit Wainwright's Ill
equipped forces the first Of ira
gic procession of blows.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-08
Eisenhower Says Nation
To Guide DUN Economy

when peace comes said Ba-
ruch, cit must be a peace by CO.
operation and not by appease-
Other speakers included Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt, Sumner Welles,
former under-secretary Of state,
and w. w. Waymack, editor OF
the Des MONIES Register-Tribune.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-08
Portugal Will Hold
Election November IS

LISBON, Oct. z -tR)- Premier
Antonio De Oiveira Salazar t. y
dissolved the National Assembly
and ordered parliamentary general
elections to be held November 10.
Later, addressing leaders of the
party of National Union in the
library of the National Assembly,
Salazar declared:
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-08
PRESS OF FRANCE
GIVE LAVAL EDGE
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neys or defense witnesses. A few
statements by prosecution witness
ses will be heard, verdict deliv.
cred, sentence passed and referred
to Gen. Charles DeGaulle for COM
mutation if he so desires.
Many Frenchmen believe Laval
deliberately engineered his election
from the courtroom in order to
shout that he was condemned with
out fair trial. Judge Pierre Mon
gibeaux was the victim of Lavaps
craftiness and as a result has he-
come the target of savage denunci-
alton in the press.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-08
MACARTHUR AFTER
NARCOTICS RING
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tine measures in all japanese ports
and will examine returning Japa-
nese soldiers and civilians to pre-
vent the importation of disease.
The Japanese government itself
asked the Allied command for per-
mission to abolish the bureaucratic
Regional Governments-Ge General, set
up last June to meet the threat of
an American invasion.
The Domei agency reported that
all senior staff members over IS
had been retired by the vast Nit
subishi interests, one of the great
industrial houses marked for disso-
luton by occupation authorities.
While this removed from office
the presidents of the major SUBJ
salaries, including Chairman XII
yoshi Goko of the Mitsubishi heavy
industry control, it left the rich
Iwasaki family firmly in control.
Baron Koyata Iwasaki, president
of Mitsubisai, became chairman of
the board of directors, Domei said
while his son, Hikoyata Iwasaki,
succeeded to the presidency.
New cabinet secretary Daizaburo
Tsugita, simplifying Premier Shide-
bara's own statement that he want
ed only liberals in his cabinet, said
the newly-invested premier would
have mo man who was responsible
for war during the past 10 years.,
Sources close to the premier said
he had made no appointments ex-
cept those of Tsugita and Foreign
Minister Shigeru Yoshida, who like
Shidehara had bucked the militia.
rists.
Tokyo newspapers said two men,
bers OF former Premier Higashi-
Kuni's cabinet had consented to re-
main - 1t. Gen. Sadamu Shi1no-
mura, War Minister, and Tamon
Mazda, Minister of Education.
They reported Adm. Mitsumasa
Yonai had been asked to stays on
as Navy Minister but declined be-
cause of "ill health
Retention of the War and NAVY
, ministers would not mean a weak.
ening of Shidehara's resolve to
purge the government of war max.
ers because their job is to complete
rehabilitation by Oct. Is. after
which the posts probably will be
abolished.
The newspaper Asahi said the
general staff would dissolve on Oct
IS in compliance with Macarthur
orders.
Domei reported the Navy Minis.
try was being offered to Adm. Soc.
mu Toyoda, chief of the Navy Gen.
eral Staff and former commander.
ln-chief of the combined fleets. but
he had yet to accept.
Domei also reported the Finance
Ministry had been offered to Wis
count Keizo Shibusawa, governor o,
the powerful Bank of Japan, anc
the Home Ministry to Zenjiro Hor.
kiri, member of the House of Peer.
and both still were considering,
Domei said the League of Mer
Of Culture at its organization
meeting had decided to ask former
proletarian leader Prof. Ikuo Oy
anna, now in self exile at North
western University, Evanston, ILL.,
to return and help lead the new
liberal movement.
i Sixteen japanese Communist.
freed from the Fuchu detention
house near Tokyo at American or
ders, published statement in Asa
nj declaring I'VE support actively
the peace policies" of the Allias bu
without the elimination of the En-
peror the people won't be demo
cratically liberated and worlc
peace cannot be established.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-08
MARTIAL Law LIFTED

CHUNGKING, Oct. T. R) -
Martial law has been lifted at
Running, recent scene of Chinese
civil strife during which three
American soldiers were wounded.
the Central News Agency said to-
day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-08

submit this treaty to the Latin
American countries.
That, they complain, is too much
like the old methods that won the
United States the label of "colos-
sus OF the north in bygone years
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-08

seize and hold is rightfully their
own"
Bernard Baruch, presidential ad-
wiser, told the diners in another
broadcast speech that this is no
time to disarm' because there
is no peace yet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-08
TWENTY-SIX KILLED

RENNES, France, Oct. 7-IR-
Twenty-six British military per-
sonnet, including a number of ATS
girls, were killed today when a
four-engine Raj transport plane
from London to Cairo crashed and
burned along railroad tracks near
here.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-08
WEATHER

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.-4R9-Weathe1
bureau report of temperature and rain
fall for the "a hours ending 8 pm. in
the principal cotton growing areas and
| elsewhere:
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-08

BUY U. S. VICTORY BONDS
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-08

(Tomorrow: Macarthur tells
Wainwright that there will be no
Jap attack before April, 1e'@
and the Japs hit Wainwright's ILL
equipped forces the first Of ira
gic procession of blOWs.)
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-22

WtunL4 .uttinE COu.I ON their doses and virtually
are curing themselves. Believing they getting
the real stuff they fancy relief after taking it.
But there is dark side TO the question. The
disruption and scarcity Of narcotic supplies have
thrown large part OF the American addict popu-
lation into a panic And addict in panic will
90 to extremes in obtaining the stuff
dramatic report of the l.. S. Bureau of Mar
cotCs states terScly:
Pharmacists are being deuged with forged
narcotic prescriptions. Blank pads stolen
from doctors desks by addicts. Several times the
Bureau has called attention TO numerous thefts
of physicians bags containing narcotics a doc.
tors bag left in parked automobile near hos
pital is invariably stolen by a drug addict.
physicians being imposed on in various
ways with increased frequency by addicts."
Many doctor has been held up in his office
by addict while the ntruder'S girl rifled cabi-
nets seeking drugs prescription blanks.
The Narcotics Bureau files are filled with weird
cases showing the great lengths hop heads re-
sort TO in effort 10 get relief
Illustrated by Carl Mueller