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Evening star., 1945-10-01
Russians Reported
Refusing 10 Sign
Big Agreements
Demands of MoIotov
On BuIkuns Believed
Cause of New ToneIe
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, Oct. 1.-The Coun-
Gil of Foreign Ministers, still
seeking a foundation for Eu-
ropes peace structure, made a
last-minute effort today to reach
agreement after it was reported
that the Soviet Union had re-
fuse to sign conference docu-
ments unless her Balkan treaty
demands were met.
Delegates remained in session
until after / am, debating the
same subject which has been argued
for more than a week-Soviet For
eign Commissar v. M Molotov's s
insistence that only Britain, Russia
and the United States be allowed
to design the peace pacts with Ro-
mania, Bulgaria and Hungary. On
China's suggestion the council
agreed to meet again later in the
day.
The Russians based their insistent
demands on the Potsdam decision
that only nations which signed an
armistice with the defeated Axis
satellites be permitted to write
peace treaties with those nations.
China and France, both members
of the f1ve-power council, were not
armistice signatories.
Last nights meeting, called to dis
cuss final conference protocols and
a communique. broke up after the
delegates had spent 3h hours re-
stating their previous positions, in
formed sources said.
More Talks Due Today.
More informal talks among the
Soviet Union, the United States and
Britain seemed likely before tonight
There was speculation that the Rus
slams might agree to sign conference
documents to present an appearance
of agreement even If an accord was
not reached on the Balkans.
So far as is known, no decision has
been made on the time and place of
the next council meeting.
With the end of the conference
imminent, informed sources gave
these reasons for failure of the min
listers to agree on major peace
problems:
/. Lack of preparation and ad-
vance exchanges of views.
2. The fact that three of the min
isters-Secretary of State Byrnes,
British Foreign Secretary Ernest
Bevin and Chinese Foreign Minister
Wang Shin -chieh-are new ap-
pointees.
3. What was described as Soviet
sensitivity over publicity which pic
tured the United States in more
powerful economic and military
position.
4. Mutual suspicion.
S. The varying interpretations of
such words as democracy" among
the mowers
Evening star., 1945-10-01
DC. General Feted by japanese
In Hiroshima Atom Bomb Probe
| Russians Respectful
IOf u. S. Atomic Bomb
| At Big Five PorIey
b. the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON. Oct. 1.-The bar
gaining power which the atomic
bomb gave the United States at
the Council Of Foreign Minis
ters is underlined by this story
told by a delegate.
Soviet Foreign Commissar v.
M. Molotov, at a dinner party,
remarked that Secretary OF
State Byrnes doesn't need to
persuade anyone-he just has
to hold up a little bomb"
Mr.. Molotov never makes
jokes to be funny the delegate
added.
Evening star., 1945-10-01
Henry McLemore
IS Back

Henry McLemore, whose
humorous column was enjoyed
by thousands of Star readers
before the draft took him into
the Army, has been discharged
and has resumed writing
The first of his postwar coll
umns appears today on Page
A-9.
Evening star., 1945-10-01
| $3.50 Collect Wire
| From SchweHenboch
| Kks CIO Official
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Oct. 1.-August
Scholle, CIO director in Mich
igan, frowned today over a
fiye-page-long telegram from
Secretary of Labor Schwellen-
bach.
The telegram was in refer
ence to the oil workers strike.
"Schwellenhach sent it col
lect,. Mr.. Scholle said. ~It
cost me 1886. How would you
feel about something like that?"
Evening star., 1945-10-01

visitors three cases of Japanese beer
when he learned they had not come
to accept his Samurai sword in sur
render.
Squads of police lined the way
each joining the procession. until II
reached the Japanese hotel in tri-
umphant formation. Local digni-
taries were on hand to receive the
Americans and to invite them to the
Evening star., 1945-10-01

FIRST RACE-Purse. $1,000; 2-year-
olds: claiming 9 furlongs.
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Loudoun Boy (Wcod) 800
Time, 1.16B
Also ran-Fagranny. More Flame Ron
Light Magic Step: Gimpy Girl Jane Dale.
Sunday Knight. Chaltic and Forever At 1t
Evening star., 1945-10-01

fSenator Pepper, Democrat, OF
Florida, member OF the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee.
NON ON tour OF the Near East,
obtained an erclusiue interDieto
toith Premier Stain in tDhich
he asked the Russian leader his
Diews on domestic and foreign
nfairs.)
BY CLAUDE D. PEPPER.
CAIRO, Oct. 1.-For nearly al
hour on the evening of Septembel
IA I talked with Generalissimt
Joseph Stain in the Kremhn. Tha
is great experience, for. as vol
sit across the table from him yo,
know you are privileged to talk witt
the single, most-powerful man II
the world the man who is going II
determine In q large way what kline
Of world ours Is to be.
Stain recently was made gen.
eralissimo 50 he Is now addressed BY
Evening star., 1945-10-01

(see BURTON, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1945-10-01

tSee SHIPPEN. Page A-33
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tSee ATOMIC, Page A-23
Evening star., 1945-10-01
Laurel Results

(See OCCUPATION, Page Az
Evening star., 1945-10-01

(See TAXES, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1945-10-01

See STAIN, Page A-l4)
Evening star., 1945-10-01
Congress Rejected Plan.

(See BRADIEY Page A-2.1 !
Evening star., 1945-10-01

(See LABOR, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1945-10-01

(See SNYDER, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1945-10-01

Meanwhile, the newspaper Asahi
reported that Kenji Kodama, for
mer head of the Central China De-
velopment Co., one of the firms
ordered dosed, had been appointed
new president of the central liaison
Office, the Japanese agency that re-
ceives and passes on to the proper
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-12
Union Heads
Reject Plea
From Truman
HOUSE FIGHTS SHY
Eight Vote Majority Turns
Down Penalizing Bill
Consideration
BY The Associated Press

The giant CLIO United Steel Work.
ers Union, in the largest strike
call in the history of American
industry, rejected President Tru-
mans appeal for a work continual
ton yesterday and directed it's
100000 members to quit work jan
uary IA in support of 81 day
wage rate increase.
The unions 175-man wage policy
committee, representing locals
throughout the country, took the ac-
ton at a closed session presided
over by Philip Murray, head Of
the Steel Workers Union and the
CLIO.
If the strike is called and other
continuing disputes throughout the
country remained unsettled, the
number Of persons idle in labor
disputes-now about 400, 000-would
shoot above the 100000 mark.
The strike call was authorized
by the membership in strike vote
under NLRB supervision Nov. %,
which carried by a to l ratio. 1t
followed refusal by the steel com.
panies to grant the wage boost and
rejection by the OpA of the steel
companys request to raise prices.
In it's resolution calling the
strike, the wage policy COMMITTEES
accused the steel industry of de
termined arrogance" and ada.
mant refusal to meet its public OBJ
legations" and said it must stand
condemned as being solely respon-
sible for the present impasse.
The committee, whose action re-
jected President Truman's sugges-
ton that the men remain at work
until fact finding committee could
be named to study the steel wage
issue, said in another resolution:
"a fact-finding board for the
steel industry is unnecessary Any
such proposal is but a false trial
of fruitless delays which can serve
only to undermine labor" The re-
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-12
Russia To Permit Chang
bHy Troops To Mukden

CHUNGKING, Dec. II. - Up -
Chinese Communists intensified
their raids on Generalissimo
Chang Kai-shek's northward sup
ply lines today as Russia agreed
to permit the airborne reinforce
ment of Central government troops
in Manchuria.
The Russo-Chinese agreement
facilitating Chiang's operations in
Manchuria, reached after weeks Of
tense negotiations, was announced
by the official Central news agen-
cy. 1t said the Chungking govern
ment had won permission to plant
itself firmly in the vast northern
territory deemed vital for the re-
covery of war-ravaged China.
Chiang's troops will be permitted
to fly into Changchun, the Man.
churian capital; into Mukden, larg.
est city and vital industrial center
of the territory, and into Hardin,
the key to northern Manchuria.
Still unclarified was the status OF
the southern Manchurian port of
Dairen, slated for joint Russo.
Chinese operation as a free port,
but as yet occupied only by Rus
sian troops. n
A Chinese press dispatch said the
governments 94th Army would be
flown from North China to Chang
chun and that the 92d Army would
be air transported to Chinhsien,
advance headquarters of Chiang's
ground forces moving into Man.
churia.
The Central news agency an
nouncement said agreement also
had been reached on the procedure
for Chungking to take over local
administrations throughout Man.
churia.
Chinese Communists meanwhile
reported that their troops were
closing in on two towns on the
Tientsin-Pukow railroad north OF
Tsinan, provincial capital of Shan.
tung. The towns were identified as
Yucheng and Pingyuan.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-12
DRAFT BOARD HEADS
TO RECEIVE MEDALS
FOR PATRIOTIC WORK

WASHINGTON, Dec. II - IN
F.fty-four members of local draft
boards in each state and territory
will receive M lals from Presi-
dent Truman on Jan. 81.
National Selective Service today
disclosed plans for the ceremony
and said those to receive the
medals at the White House will be
chosen through drawings. The
awards to volunteer board work
Xers were authorized by Congress
in recognition of their patriotic
service.
Arrangements for the drawings
will be made by state and terri
torial governors and selective serv-
ice directors.
The White House presentation
will be prelude to similar, cere-
monies in the states and terri
tories. At these, medals will be
awarded to other selective service
personnel. 49,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-12
Go m mittee
Drops Probe
0fDiplonnats
MATTER "CLOSED"
Chairman Connally Refuses
Further Hearing To
General Hurley

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.-U.H-
The Senate Foreign Relations com
mittee today gave the State De-
partment a vote Of confidence by
dropping its investigation of Pat
rick ]. Hurley's fight with career
diplomats and declaring the mat.
ter closed.
Hurley, resigned Ambassador to
China, thus received a direct re-
buff in his attempt to show that
U. S. foreign policy all over the
world has been wrecked by double
dealing, pro-Communist foreign
service personnel. The fiery SOL
dier-diplomat does not intend to
give up the fight, however. He
hopes to document his charges and
carry them to the public.
The committee decided to make
no recommendations or conclu-
sions. In effect, it agreed with
of State James F. Byrnes
and Undersecretary Dean Acheson
that Hurley's accusations are
groundleSs.
The committee spent three hours
behind closed doors today examin-
ing secret State Department re-
cords on Iran and China which
Hurley said would prove his
charges. Acheson, whom the form
er Ambassador ale cused Of
dynamiting U. S. policy in Iran,
was present to answer questions.
After the session, Chairman Tom
D., Tex, announced that
no further hearings will be held.
He said he had turned down a d.
tect appeal by Hurley for permits
sion to testify at another open ses-
sion. Connally also served notice
that as far as his committee is
concerned there will be no action
Continued on Page Two; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-12
NAZI MURDERER
STILL AT LARGE

PALACE OF JUSTICE, NUERN,
BERG, Dec. 11.-W.p-Eric Koch,
Nazi overload fsthe Ukraine and
perhaps the greatest mass murder
er in world history, is still at large
after a hunt of % months by the
Allies, it was disclosed today at
the war crimes trial.
The fact that Kock, charged by
Russia with responsibility for MUIR
dering 100000 Ukrainians, has
never been found was brought Oh:
when United States Prosecutor
Thomas opened the charges against
the 81 German defendants in court
concerning slave labor.
Dodd introduced in evidence an
order to defendant Hans Frank,
former overload of Poland, to sup
ply transport for at least 100000
male and female Polish workers,
three-fourths agricultural and one
fourth industrial, to be sent to Ger
many as slaves.
When the Russians swept into
Rowne (Rovno Feb. S, 1914, they
hoped to capture Koch in his mar
bic palace, filled with the loot from
a hundred Ukrainian towns. He had
escaped. For 20 months the Rus
SLAMS to whom he is probably the
most hated man in the world, even
above Hitler and other Allied
troops have been hunting him vain
!y.
Il will draw the last out of this
country" Koch once said in a
speech as overload. 1--WE are the
master race. We must remember
that the lowest German worker
racially and biologically is thou
sand times more valuable than the
population here.''
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-12
ROTC BAND MEMBERS
NOW TAKING REGULAR
COURSE OF TRAINING

This year, for the first time,
members of the New Hanover High
school ROTC band are taking the
ROTC training courses including
instruction in rifle craftsmanship,
according to Captain James w.
Jenkins, head of the Department
of Military Science and Tactics at
the school.
Capt. jenkins said that the band
will receive range practice this
week. The group is commanded by
Bill Peters with Dwain Everhardt
having charge of musical arrange
ments.
Captain jenkins also disclosed
yesterday number of appoint
ments of non-commissioned Off
GERS in the organization.
They were:
Warrant Officer Bill Peters; Mas
ter Sergeant Dwain Everhardt;
First Sergeant Franklin Jones';
Staff Sergeants Bill Greasy and Pa.
tricia Kelly, sergeants John Bull
lard, Dan Kelly, Ann Jordan, Kath-
crime Piner and Bonnie Smith;
Corporals Bradford Cantwen, Billy
German, Herman Hayden, John
Nuckton, Milton Sanford, Charles
Smith and Tommie Vaught.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-12
FEL0N
ARRESTED HERE
Wilmington D espera d o
Captured In Downtown
Hotel After Tip

A posse of city and county police
and city detect YES last night sur
prised William Thomas Benson, Al,
Wilmington desperate, in his room
at the European hotel, Front and
Dock, in the climax of three-day
hunt for the felon on charge of
escaping from the South Carolina
State penitentiary, according to
Harry Fales, head of the city
county bureau of identif' cation.
Benson, who was serving a
three-year sentence in the Column
bia, S. c., penal institution for
house breaking, was thwarted by
officers who appeared so sudden
ly that he was unable to reach a
.38 caliber pistol he had concealed
under the pillow on his bed, off:c-
ers said.
Radio patrolman H. M. Jeffords
reported that Benson threatened
that, IF I could have got that gun,
you would have been dead cop"
Being held in the Courty Jail
without pr;vilege of bail on an
escape charge pending arrival Of
South Carolina invest gators, Ben
son may face other charges under
warrents now held by the sheriff's
office.
In addition to the Smith and
Wesson revolver, the officers, who
arrested him at 1882 p. M, ten
minutes after a tip had been re-
ceived, found medium size
blackjack in the room, it was said.
Officers said Benson was nearly
seized several nights previously
but eluded patrolmen, who were
hot on his trail, by leaping from
an automobile at point near
Lingo city, and old hangout, and,
using a gravel pile as cover, lost
his pursuers in the darkness. The
ownership of the automobile is
Continued on Pare Two: Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-12
SLEET STORM HITS
TEXAS, GULF COAST
Several South Cities
Get Snow Trace
No Let-Up Due

A wedge Of cold air pressing
outward from the Dakotas and
Minnesota brought sub-freezing
weather to most of the United
States east of the Rockies yester.
day.
The Gulf coast witnessed the
rare spectacle of sleet, and snow
fell in central Texas, southern
Louisiana and Mississippi.
The Weather Bureau forecast the
snow and sleet would spread east
ward into Georgia and the Caro-
linas, and that little or no relief
from the cold wave was in sight
for today. -..~ ID
In the south the temperatures es-
tablished new lows for the winter
The Weather Bureau said that
the cold wave has extended about
as far south as it is going to, and
is drifting eastward. Florida will
not feel the cold weather much.
Hattiesburg, Miss, reported a
heavy fall of snow after two hours
of sleet. Snow fell for four hours
at Alexandria, La, but melted.
New Orleans and the resort towns
of Gulfport and Biloxi, Miss, had
sleet.
Most of Tennessee reported new
low mercury readings for the sea-
son. Nashville had a low of To-
the coolest Dec. II since 1887
Chattanooga had 20, as did Knox
vile. Snow was forecast for east
Tennessee today.
Atlanta registered a low Of 81
and Charleston, S. c., 80.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-12
PATTON CONDITION
NOW SATISFACTORY

HEIDELBERG, Germany, Dec.
11.-(P-Gen. George S. Patton,
Jr., paralyzed by a broken neck,
was improved tonight after a hall
an hour talk with his wife and his
condition was described officially
as very satisfactory "
The colorful U. S. Army General
was fully conscious, rational and
taking nourishment.
Nurses attending the former
Third Army commander described
him as lone of their best PATIENTS
and said Patton was accepting his
condition like true soldier"
A further neurological examina.
ton of the injured commander
showed normally active" tendon
reflexes.
A medical bulletin issued at g
pm. omitted the phrase "prognosis
guarded for the first time since
the general arrived at the 130th
Station hospital at Heidelberg on
Sunday, after an auto crash near
Mannheim. "a prognosis is pre-.
diction or conclusion in regard to
the course and termination of a
disease.)
Mrs. Patton arrived at her 60.
year-old husbands bedside, con.
fident that his fighting heart would
carry him through. She appealed
to Maj. Gen. Albert w. Kenner.
who has been with the general
since the accident, to tell me all
about it,'' and added:
II have seen George in these
scrapes before, and he always
comes out all right"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-12
Seals I'VE II Sell Our
Share For 7lu0-Bits Cash .

Americans has 72-cent stake in
the business.
Furthermore, business is boom
ing. Last year the U. S. Treas
ury stuffed $1.750, 900 in its sock
it's cut from the seal industry.
Things haven't always been SC
rosy, Fouke told a reporter today.
Back in 1911 the seal was in fair
way of becoming extinct.
The seal population sagged tc
124, 1000, but the Department of In
terror pitched in with conserva'
ton program. The 100000 seals
today probably are only a million
Continued on Page Two; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-12
PALESTINE ARABS
REJECT INQUIRY

CAIRO, Dec. 11-WD-The Pales-
tine Arab Council today fatty re-
jected cooperation with the Anglo
American inquiry into Palestine
and demanded that the British
government withdraw Foreign
Secretary Ernest Bevins' policy
which established the commission.
The way was left open, however.
for backdoor cooperation through
the Arab League of six mideast
states which had adopted more
moderate view towards the, in
quiry commission.
A member of the high commit
tee of the Council said the rejec-
ton was final but the Council will
deliberate further on it's practical
attitude toward the commission.
The Council, which represents
all major Arab parties in the Holy
Land, said in it's announcement
that the Bevins policy statement
"violates official British policy and
overlooks Arab national rights and
interests" The British government
was urged to cancel the state
ment.
The Council also rejected pro-
posals for continued Jewish i'm
migration and for a change of
Palestines status from a United
of Nations mandate to United
Nations trusteeship, demanding in
stead that it be made AN independ-
ent country.
This stand was opposed to the
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-12
By ARTHUR EDISON
APP. Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11-Greet-
ings, fellow seal owners! You may
not know it, but each and every
one of you owns u cents worth OF
seal. =
This statistic is supplied by Col.
P. B. Fouke, whose St. Louis plant
processes more than 9 per cent OF
the worlds seal furs.
Fouke points out that the ~ 5.
owns the entire herd Of 5000. O0O
seals which hang around the Prl-
bilof islands, up in the Boering
Sea.
These seals are valued at $780,
600, 900, so each of us $4,000, 600
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-12
Gourmet Gives Advice
On How To Eat Oysters

BALTIMORE, Dec. 11-tREAny
person who eats an oyster in any
way but in the raw 81 I'D be
ashamed of himself or his osyters.
That's Baltimore gourmet,
Frederick P. Stieff, talking. He's
discussing today, or any other day
for that matter, the foibles of New
Orleans eaters who heated this
"oyster stew not so long ago by
claiming that their deliberately
cooked oysters are superior to
Maryland's famous Chincoteagues.
Fiddlesticks, grumbled Stieff, as
he camfe to the rescue, 1.-The Mary
land oyster is eaten as it comes,
on the shell.
in Maryland, we think our sue.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-12
Indonesians Threaten
Mass Poisoning MDutch
BY VERN. HAUGLAND
AP Staff Writer

BATAVIA, Java, Dec. II. up
Defiant: Indonesian Nationalist
leaders called upon 70,00O,0 900 Jaw.
anase today to resist with arms
and even poison any attempt to
reinstate Dutch sovereignty, and
demanded international recogni-
ton of their republic as a prere-
quisite of peace negotiations.
Prime Minister Sultan Sjahrir OF
the unrecognized republic declar-
ed Indonesians would fight further
landings of British troops, and a
Nationalist leader broadcasting
from a radio station near Soeraba-
ia threatened mass poisoning for
Dutch troops.
1.-THE Dutch are boasting they
soon will bring in thousands of
soldiers,' said this leader, Soc
tomo. what of it? We are deter
mined to annil1ilate them, even
if we have to poison them to
death.
I'VE have 100000 behind us.
1t is an easy task for us to get
rid of 100000 or 100000 enemies
by poison"
Sjahrir, referring to British Of
fers of discussion of the dispute
after elimination of extremist
clements declared:
There can hardly. be such a
thing as at war against Extremists
alone. We never have understood
who were termed extremists.
eve tell the whole world we
have won independence and ask
Sjahrir told a news
conference. after international
recognition we are ready to nego-
tiate a fair Settlement of all out
standing problems. If, however,
our independence is attacked, we
are compelled to resist
1t. Gen. Sir Miles c. Dempsey,
cornmander-in-chief of land forces
of the Southeast Asia Command,
arrived from Singapore for con-
ference with 1t. Gen. Sir Philip
Christison, commander of Allied
forces in the Netherlands East In
dies, on measures for the restora-
ton of peace in Java.
Christison apparently had been
empowered at an Allied confer
ence in Singapore last week to
take all steps necessary to end
fighting in Java and to requisition
all reinforcements the Southeast
Asia command could provide.