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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-30
PLANS ARE MADE
FOR HONOR ROLL
Arrangements c all For
Placing OF Marker On
City Hall Lawn

Arrangements for the erection OF
an honor roll to be inscribed with
the names of Wilmingtonians serv-
ing in the armed forces during
World War II are being made by
Councilman j. E. L. Wade and City
Manager A. c. Nichols.
Present plans call for the plac-
ing of a marker on the corner of
the city hall lawn at Third and
Princess streets. The city officials
are now collecting the names of
Wilmington servicemen and wom-
en- and plan to contact the county
commissioner within the near fu-
ture to see if that board is in
terested in joining with the city in
the project and including names OF
New Hanover fountains on the hon.
or roll. p.
Mr.. Wade and Mr. Nichols were
instructed to, handle arrangements
after the city council passed a
motion introduced by Mr.. Wade
Wednesday providing for the set
ting up OF the honor roll.
Comm nting on the number OF
communities who already have
taken such action, Mr.. Wade said
yesterday the city did not wish to
interfere if any other local Or
CARNATIONS had planned an honor
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-30
STUDY IS PLANNED
Time Considered Oppor.
tune For City To Press
For Use OF Field

Announcing that B1uethenthal
field has been placed on an in
active status by the Army Air
Corps for study of it's facilities for
future use, War department Off
Gals in Washington. yesterday in
Dictated that the time is opportune
for Wilmington to press application
to again use the field CONNER
cially.
During the interim period, they
added, the Army would in all prob
ability offer no objection to the
permanent use of the field by eli.
villain airlines.
The War Departments action in
pla cling the airfield on an inactive
basis does not mean that op-
erations there will be terminated,
Representative ]. Bayard Clark S
office said, but simply that the
field would be studied by the de-
partment as to its best, future uti-
liZation.
Meanwhile, with indications that
the field would be available for
commercial use, plans were pro-
crossing for the Inauguration of
airline services here at an early
date. 1t was learned yesterday that
a. d legation from Wilmington
plans to confer with officials in
Washington next Wednesday in or
der to push National Airlines APP
plication to serve the city.
Rep. Graham 4. Bardenof New
Bern, who has been comforting
with officials of the airline recent
1y in regard to an early institution
of the service through Wilmington
and New Bern, said yesterday that
NAL officials had assured him. OF
their interest in serving both cities.
To date, operations have been
delayed because of difficulties ir
operating through Norfolk, he said,
but the Norfolk situation is ex-
pected to be cleared up this week,
and he was assured by the com
painy that as soon as this matter
was settled, the airline would be-
gin negotiations to- serve Whining
ton and New Bern.
In order to begin operations
through Wilmington, the airline
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PLANES TO BATTLE
BIG FOREST FIRES
Will Lay Screen OF Sui
phuric Acid In Cali
fornia County

(. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 29.-R
The Navy announced today that
eight Avenger torpedo bombers
would be used in efforts to halt
brush and timber fires in Marin
country, north of San Francisco.
Flying by instrument through the
thick 'ouds of smoke, the Navy
planes will lay a screen of sulphur
ic acid compound to smother the
spreading flames in one of the 10
northern California counties where
forest fires are raging.
The eight planes will take off at
$3.50 PEW today from the Naval
Air Station at Alameda, and will
be radio-directed by Condr. G.. L.
Heap, USN, commander of CARR.
er air groups at the station. The
pilots will be protected by oxygen
masks.
Some 700 Army, Navy and Coast
Guard men were on the fire lines
in Marin County, just north of San
Francisco, where the flames had
burned over possibly $4,000 acres
of grazing lands.
Ashes fell over wide area and
covered porches and parked auto
Continued on Page Two; Col. g.
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Macarthur Cuts Japanese
Control Over Newspapers
In Powerful New Directive
Allied Board Formed To Carry
Out Japanese Surrender Terms

The Washington session Of the
commission will decide. Byrnes
continued, whether to hold
meetings there or in Tokyo. Tho
U. s. representative, he said.
would be instructed to vote for
meetings in Tokyo.
The American delegation to
the five-pOwer conference of
foreign ministers was in session
late tonight, and there were
reports. Soviet and British de-
legations also met privately.
Under the American plan to
deal with peace settlements in
the Balkans, the proposed con-
ference of all powers aligned
against the Axis, would be held
in London in the near future.
Continued on Page Eight; Col.
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Prominent Germans Are Seized
In Bic Raid In American Zone
RING LEADERS TAKEN
American Food And Hand.
bills With Nazi Swas-
tika Found In Cafe

WEISBADEN, Sept. o. Up -
American troops have arrested Il
prominent German men and wom
en- in one of the biggest raids in the
American zone since the Allied &C
cupation began, it was disclosed to-
night.
A spokesman for Col. James r
Newman, of Floral Park, N. Y,
commander of the Wiesbaden mill
tary government, said those arrest
ed included leaders of a ring which
used both freemasons and Catholics
to cloak efforts to keep = ;iisn
alive.
Several former officials of ths
Nazis' Wiesbaden district military
government were caught in the
raids, carried out Friday night ir
a cafe two blocks from military
police headquarters, and sever
blocks from the AMG district head
quarters.
At least TWO and one-half tons Of
food - some of it American beef
ham and military rations - wer>
found in the cafe along with hand
bills bearing the Nazi swastika, the
military spokesman said
+ Several Germans attempted tt
escape through windows but were
caught by guards stationed outside
One of the leaders was identified
by the spokesman as a DR.. Mar
gaen, one of Germany's mos
prominent dental technicians.
The group was led by men ane
women between the ages of IS anc
70, the spokesman said, explaining
that they we're the brains" behi
what appeared to be ring to KEEP
alive the Nazi philosophy. ..-
Typical of the subtleness of the
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WEATHER

FORECAST =
North Carolina = Sunday increasing
c1ol1diness and scattered showers, little
change. in Temperature except becoming
cooler over. northwest and extreme north
portions. -
f Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather BureaD
, Meteorological data for : the "a hours
ending 80 pm. yesterday,
Temperature. .-
1:3O am. 74;47:30 a.m. rs; loo pm. 81;
1880 pm. rs.
MAXIMUM 81; Minimum u; Mean 80;
Normal TO- s
=. 80 -~@@ Humidity
1880 am. 3d.; 7:3o am. 3d. 1 80 pm. 81;
Z 80 pm. 81.
.. Precipitation
Total for, "a hours ending 1880 p.m.--
600 inches. ..
Total since the first of the MONTH
Tides For Today :
(From the Tides Tables published by
u, S, Coast and Geodetic Survey.
p -. High Low
Wilmington ------, 4:49 am. 1853 am.
5:24 pm. 600 pm.
Masonboro Inlet = 1904 am. 9:06 am.
1882 pm. $3.50 pm.
Sunrise 6:06; Sunset 5 49, Moonrise
1896 am; Moonset 1912 pm.
River Stage at Fayetteville, N c. at 8
am. Saturday, Sept 20, 1872 feet
CONTINUED on Page Eight; Col. 81
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Nation Resets Clocks,
Returns To tOld' Time

With the official turn-back of the
clock one hour at 2 O'Clock this
morning, Wilmington, with the rest
of the country, reverted to pre-war
standard time after three years
and eight months of early rising
by war" time.
For most of the city the end of
the fast time, order by Congress
on January 20, 1912, means an
hours extra sleep, and end to 60
ing to work by moonlight. For those
on the job during the night, such
as transportation workers, it means
an added hour of work in many
cases.
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PAPER COLLECTION
SET FOR OCT. q
Senior Fraternity Will Also
Pick Up Rags And Flat
tened Tin Cans

Because the time lapse between
the last waste paper collection and
the one announced by the Senior
fraternity for October Z is SO
Short, the date has been changed
to October %, according to an an
nouncement yesterday by Thurston
Davis, president of the fraternity.
In addition to waste paper, news
papers and magazines, the frater-
nifty asks the public to save rags
and tin cans (Hattened) and have
all contributions at curbside at 10
o'clock on the dsy named.
With the fighting over but the
need for these material unabated,
Mr.. Davis said the fraternity is
calling its collection Victory
drive, and hopes the public will
hoard paper, rags and tin for it
as carefully as during the height
OF the conflict.
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|Labe!2s:: S; ;spute
fakes
Is .ghter- Tone
Strike Of 1900 Building
Employees Is Ended In
New York
TOTAL OF IDLE CUT
Truman May Make Per-
sonal Appeal To Oil
Workers
TOTAL OF IDLE CUT
BY the Associated Press

The nationwide labor disputes
picture had a Frightening tone yes
terday although there was still
trouble aplenty.
A strike of 1000 building en-
ployes which affected more people
than any. other stoppage in the
country, 100000 in New York
City, was ended by compliance OF
both sides with Governor Thomas
E. Dewey's request for arbitration.
The strikers ALL Union ordered
them back to work Immediately.
Ending of this and several small
err disputes dropped the national
total of those away from work in
labor disputes to approximately
1877, 900, from a postwar high of
more than 100000.
Other May Return
Another $4,000 idle in 20-day
stripe of Westinghouse Electric
Corp white collar" workers at
Pittsburgh, and in five other east
ern states may return to work next
week on recommendation of their
union officials who said the COM
pany had agreed, if they do SO, to
resume negotiations within "a hours
on wages, hours and working con-
ditions.
President Truman was reported
in Washington to be considering
making a personal appeal to the
CLIO oil workers International Union
and Petroleum Industry represen-
tatives to halt strikes now involv-
ing. 10000 in nine states and
threatening TO become nationwide
and affeat 258s 9ssssssSsss
But o. A. Knight, Fort Worth,
Tex, Union President, disclosed
his group would be willing to settle
for a flat IS cents an hour increase
which would be slightly less than
the 80 per cent rate increase de-
manded. Industry had offered Is
per cent.
Signs Contract
Knights statement came after
he announced that the Independent
Continued on Page Four; Col. ~
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VALUES
SHOW LARGE GAIN
New Hanover's Total Valu-
alton Increases ST.
063,815 In Year

The total valuation TO real ana
personal property in New Hanover
county has increased by $1,O63,8l5
since 1914, according to County
Auditor John A. Orrell, whose Of
flee has just made up its books
for 1945.
The. total real and personal prop
erty value for this yaar is $780,
937, including $62 6o3,9s5 in real es-
tate, and 315,204,952 OF personal
property and covered excess.
F'iruees for 1914 include SCI, &c.
100 in real, estate and Sill $780, ZOOS
of personal property, and covered
excess totaling $76,745,12.2
The 1915 total for the county in
cludes property not listed amount
ing to $1,5o8,511, Mr.. Orrell ex-
planned, and property held by the
county, value. Of which is $Sl, 20o.
(continued on Page -Four; Col. ~
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Heartiest sanction of the return
to normal time comes from the
farmers, who opposed the measure
from the start because the late
daylight meant that their morning
chores had to be postponed until
the cows and chickens were up and
around.
Shipyard workers, many of whom
have during the past three years
been well at work by sunrise, will
welcome the extra hours sleep and
the return to normalcy.
Designed as measure to add an
other daylight hour for war pro-
Continued ON Page Eight; Col. 8,
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BAVARIAN LEADER
ORDERED 0USTED
Step Announced Shortly
After Patton Reports
To Eisenhower

y; THIRD ARMY HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Germany, Sept. @.-P-
Dismissal Of Friedrich (Fritz)
Schaeffer,. much criticized conser-
vative minister president Of the
Bavarian civil administration, was
announced tonight, "a hours after
Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.,, made
a personal report to Gen. Eisen-
hover on his efforts to denazify
Bavaria.
DR.. Wilhelm Hoegner, a social
democrat as veteran opponent OF
Naziism, was named to succeed
Schaeffer.
A statement issued at Fatton's
said the resignation
of Schaeffer-offered to military
government headquarters three
weeks ago-had been accepted and
a liberal regime substituted.
Text of the statement follows:
'Dr. Schaeffer's resignation as
minister president has been accept
ed and DIR. Wilhelm Hoegner, a So
cial democrat whose long fight
against the Nazi influence is well
known, both to the German public
and world opinion, has been invit-
ed to form a new Bavarian admin
istration.
HE will be guided by our mu-
tual desire to create civilian au-
thority which will be largely repre-
sentative of liberal, responsible and
democratic elements. DR.. Hoegner
is now making, in close cooperation
with the military government, the
selection of his colleagues whose
names will be announced prompt
ly."
Schaeffer's dismissal followed
Patton's two hour and 20 minute
conference with Eisenhower yes
terday as well as an examination
of the political situations in Bav-
aria by an army Investigator and
Robert Murphy, Eisenhower's chief
political advisor. ,r.....-
After his talk with Patton, Eli
senhower made no statement ex-
cept that there was nothing I'M
usual" in his comforting with one
of his army comma nders.
Hoegner, a 58-year-old lawyer,
was described in the headquarters
announcement as an anti-Nazi who
fought national socialism since its
inception in 1924.
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ROmania, Hungary and Bull
garia.
In announcing the Pacific
commission. Byrnes said he re-
ceived from British foreign
minister Earnest Bevin the con-
sent of the British government
to the American proposal, made
Aug. q.
France, the Philippines, Aus
tralia, New Zealand, Canada
and the Netherlands will be In
vited to join the commission
on Japan, Byrnes said. He re-
ported Bevin, in agreeing to the
proposal, had asked that India
be invited to become a member.
Byrnes said he would agree
to India's, membership and
would submit the request ts
Russia and China for approval.
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Arrangements for the conse-
Grafton of DR.. Thomas H. Wright
as Bishop of the Diocese of East
Carolina t St. James Episcopal
church at 10 o'clock Friday morn
ing a nearing completion, with
important personages from all
over the United States expected to
be in Wilmington for the cere-
mony
Robert Strange, general chair
man of the committees in charge,
announced yesterday that digSl-
taries marching in the procession
would include:
Assistant Secretary Of State
Crank Mccarthy. Wilmington
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Bluethenthal Field
On Inactive Status
$50 Missing After
Ship Catches Fire

CAIRO, Sept. up One
hundred fifty persons were re-
ported missing tonight after the
10,000-ton ship Empire PATROL
caught fire off port said W lie
repatriating Gre e k refugees
from Abyssinia and east Africa.
Four hundred fifty-six pas
sengers were reported to have
been rescued by the British
navy. Destroyers and air craft
carriers were sent out after the
navy picked up the ships SOS.
First reports said that survi-
vors were being taken to port
said.
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LONDON, Sept. 29-R)eU. S.
Secretary Of State Byrnes to-
night announced the formation
Of an Allied commission in the
Pacific to formulate policies
for carrying out Japanese sur
render terms, The commission
agreed to by Great Britain, Rus
STA and China, will meet in
Washington Sin the near fu-
ture."
Byrnes' announcement came
at time that the American
representatives we're disclosed
to be attempting to break a
deadlock in. the. five-power
council of the foreign ministers
through a proposal for a con-
ference of all active belligerent<
against the Axis to discuss
drafts of peace treaties with
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Two Wilmington boys, James
Corbett, 20, and Daniel w. Will
FAINT, II, were rescued from the
waters of New York bay yesterday
when the launch on which they
were being transported collided
with a tug and later sank. drowning
the ships master, Capt. Melmer
Hurts, of New York, and sea-
man, Thomas Right, 10, of Angus
ia, Ga. ~t.
The launch, carrying a crew to
the Army hospital ship, Wisteria,
collided with the tug in the fog
wrapped bay about 5 o'clock in
the morning. The six surviving
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Report Says. That Condi-
tons Little Better Than
Under Nazi Rule
TRUMAN GIVES ORDER
Calls On Eisenhower To
Clean Up Situation And
Provide Housing
By r. H. SHACKFORD
Tinted Press Staff COrrespOndeu

United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.-W.H
President Truman tonight made
public a report on the condition of
Jews in Germany and Austria
which charged that American Mi
litary government forces appear
to be treating the Jews as the Ma
zis treated them"
simultaneously, he released a
letter to Gen. Dwight. Eisenhower
ordering him to- "clean up the re-
ported conditions and to turn Ger
mans out of their homes, if neces-
sary, to get the Jewish survivors
of Nazism out of filthy concentra-
ton camps.
The letter and the report re-
vealed that Mr.. Truman has ap-
pealed t o British Prime Minister
Clement Attlee to open up Pales-
tine for the emigration of the re-
naming estimated 100000 Jews in
Germany and Austria.
Will Release Letter
The White House said the Pres
ident's letter to Aalee would be
released as soon as an answer is
received. Reports From London in
dicated that the British govern
ment will reject the American re-
quest and suggest the United Ma
tons Organization cope with the
Palestine-Jewish problem.
The startling disclosures - in
GLIDING a damning indictment
of Allied handling of the estimated
100000 Jews who survived the Ma
zis - were made in report by
Earl G. Harrison who was sent to
Europe by the President on a
special mission to investigate the
conditions of displaced persons -
The Harrison report was a re-
cital of horrid conditions under
which Germany's Jews have been
subjected ever since liberation. T"
They are still confined to con-
centration camps - including the
notorious Berger Belsen camp -
ard according to Harrison are still
treated much as they were under
the Germans.
Harrison said that the Germans,
by comparison, are better fed, bet
ter clothed and better housed than
the Jews who presumably were
liberated"
Harrison's report, made in
August but withheld from publica-
ton until now, warned of trouble
ahead unless immediate steps are
taken to evacuate from Germany
Continued on Page Two; Col. p
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Plans For Conservation
OfDr Wright Advanced

ministers Walter B. Freed, A. S.
Parker, H. J. Wilson and VIM.
Grove, Jr., Mayor W. Ronald
Lane, Chairman of County Com
missioners Addison Hewlett, Alex
ander B. Andrews of Raleigh,
Chancellor of the Diocese of North
Carolina, Graham Andrews, May
or of the City of Raleigh, Former
Governor J. c. B. Eringhaus, and
Mai. Gen. John Marston, COM
handing officer of Camp Lejeune.
Order of the procession, as re-
leased yesterday, is as follows:
Crucifier, flag bearers, choir,
Continued on Page Eight; Col. y
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Wiln,i1,gtonians Rescued
After Sinking OfLaunch

were taken to Fort Ham,
llton Army hospital. Young Corbett,
who was treated there for shock
and submersion, was later released
and returned to his ship.
New York police said the taxi
launch, owned and operated by
the Harbor Launch Service, was
transporting the crew from Man.
haitian to its ship, anchored in the
upper bay, when it struck a tug
towing barge. All the men aboard
the launch were thrown into the
water, but aside from the, two
casualties. the others were res
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
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REMOVES MYSTERY
FROM THE THRONE
Government Seeks To Sup
press Publication Of
Pictures OF Ruler

TOKYO, Sept. 29.-(AP)-
General Macarthur, stripping
the mystery from JapaIl's
throne, abolished today the
powers of the Imperial gov
eminent had invoked a few
hours earlier in suppressing
publication of the Emperor's
pictures and interviews.
The Japanese home minis
try had seized all copies Of
five Tokyo and Osaka news
papers and suspended the
papers.
Its excuse was that the stories.
in which the emperor had express
ed to American correspondents his
hopes for a more Democratic ia
pan, were "too aWesome and would
have bad effect on the Japanese
people,"
MacArthur's press headquar..
tiers, however, bluntly declared
that the Japanese government act
ually suspended the papers "for
publishing accounts of the Emper-
or's call on Macarthur" humble
and unprecedented visit which
many japanese felt had caused
their Emperor to lose much face.
Distribute Editors
MacArthur's censor told the
newspapers to resume publication
and to 60 ahead and distribute the
forbidden editions, which prorni.
nently displayed the interviews
along side picture Of the en-
peror and the Supreme Allied
Commander, and to continue pub
LEGATION.
The papers affected were Asahi,
Mainichi and Yomiuri Hochi of
Tokyo and Asahi and Mainichi of
Osaka.
MacArthur's order was the
strongest he had issued since the
occupation began. It cut off the
Japanese government from any
control Of newspapers. radios, the
mails, telephones, telegraph lines
and cables.
He also forbade retaliation
against the japanese press, direct
ly or indirectly.
Press headquarters said the Ia
test move completed a program
designed to encourage freedom Of
of the press and radio in Japan,
and to rid the people of the jun.
goistic propaganda on whice they
have been fed since before the
war.
Final Lo0ph0le
Previously Macarthur had is
sued censorship code and div
vorced the Japanese government
from press operations. yet
the government had found a loop
hole in old laws, some dating back
to 1906.
At the same time, MacArthur's
chief economic aide declared that
the assets of the imperial house.
hold would come under ''increas.
ingly close scrutiny" some.
thing else new in the life of ia
pans emperors.
1--WE will be very curious about
the imperial assets" said Col.
Raymond Kramer, head of the
economic and scientific section
which is digging into all financial
resources of the empire, public
and private.
The wealth of the great houses
of Japan contracted with the pro-
spect of actual starvation among
the nations millions, which
Kramer declared was every reaP'
In the oncoming bitter months of
winter.
Kramer. said the supply of rice
fell 100000 tons short of esti-
mated needs. The granaries of
Continued on Page Two; Col. A.