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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-02
EIGHT IMPORTANT
PLANTS AFFECTED
Production Will Not Be Re.
sumed Until Survey Of
Needs Completed
By ALLEN v. BOWLING


United Press Staff Correspondent
DETROIT, Dec. 1.-UP)y
The CLIO Automobile Work.
ers union tonight accepted a
company proposal to resume
limited operat i o ms in the
strike bound General Motors
system for supply Of critical
parts to other car manufas-
turers.
R. J. Thomas, president Of the
striking United Automobile Work.
ers Union (CIO), notified General
Motors by letter that 81 feel your
proposal is a generous one" which
Il shall of course accept"
However, opposition 70 the plan
was developing among local I'M
ions who said it might lead to
''rioting and bloodshed."
| At meeting of the Flint, Mich,
industrial union council late to.
night, a resolution decrying the
move as tending to lengthen the
strike and destroying morale"
was adopted. The council has rep.
resentatives from all CLIO locals
in the city, including 10000 Of the
striking GM Auto workers.
See Longer Strike
| "Opening of the General Motors
Parts plants will not shorten the
strike but tend to lengthen it by
destroying morale" the resolu-
ton said. ut could only lead to
possible rioting and bloodshed."
The union council, putting itself
lon record as "conde1nning and
opposing acceptance of the COM
pany proposal, said "it is impera-
tive that we unity Unsteady of di-
viding our forces"
The resolution was sent by teIe-
gram to Thomas and other inter-
National union officers, who refus-
ed comment. Earlier Thomas had
received similar wire from Of
ficials Of local 651 at Flint telling
him of the units refusal to end
its strike against the AC Spark
Plug plant, one Of those affected
by the GIN offer.
The plant employs about 5000
workers.
Eight Affected
Under terms Of the company
Recommendation, eight major GIN
plants employing $500 workers
would be affected.
Production will not be resum.
ed Immediately, however. Thomas
said survey would be made of
requirements OF non-GM automo-
bile makers for supplies from
general motors parts divisions.
Thereafter, operations would be
permitted up to the level neces.
sary to fulfill needs.
j The surprise proposal SUBMIT
led to the union by C. E. Wilson,
General Motors president, and its
/. approval by Thomas indicated
that the once-feared curtailment
of 1915 automobile production out
side the GIN system may be
averted.
1--WE are certainly supremacy
desirious that the people of Amer
lea shall be able to buy automo-
biles in plentiful supply as speed
lily as possible" Thomas replied
to Wilson.
'Under the circumstances I feel
your proposal is a generous one,
and as I said it came as a well
come surprise"
Wilson's offer was considered
more surprising because it ap-
peared to abet the JAWS announ-
ced strategy of striking one maj
or company General Motors) in
its battle for 80 per cent wage
igains while permitting rival COM
panies to produce at capacity.
Half OF Supply Blocked
Despite full operation by other
producers, half the nations new
car supply still would be choked
off by the shutdown of the five
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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-02
NEED RAIL FACILITIES

rr nnN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1.-(P-
Increased rail facilities for the
tt, s Of returned veterans
h. congested west ports must
r w immediately arranged or the
t s., Of men from war theatres
co.ssed' Adm. Royal E. Ingersol,
ts ulilliahoer of the western sea
, wilt said today. The remarks
NJ i Nc made in report to the chef
u Naval Operations.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-02
SENTENCED

SHREVEPORT. La, Dec. l.
WD-Mrs. Ruby McGaha, who was
convicted on a charge of murder
i1g her husband, Jake McGaha,
40, was sentenced to life imprl-
sonment today in district Grimm
al court by Judge J. U. Galloway.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-02
KIDNAP OFFICIALS

CHINWANGTAO, Dec. l.-U.f>-
Chinese Communist ''rover bands
kidnapped four Chinese National
list government officials yesterday
in a daring, behind-the-lines swoor
into the coal-mining town of Hal
yang, three miles northwest OF
here and the headquarters OF a
U. S. Marine battalion.
The rover-bands climaxlng a
week of increasing Communits &C
tivities in the areas passed by
Gen. Tu Ii Ming's troops in their
push toward Mukden, captured the
authorities left in charge OF the
town of 10000 persons by Tu, SD
preme commander of the National
list forces in northeast China.
The Communists guerrlllas have
attacked and sabotaged the rail
road line between Shihlung ano
Anshan and have been pot-shot-
ting Nationalist guards at night
along important installations ano
the great wall.
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Evening star., 1945-05-16
Newsmen With SHAEF
Demanding Access 10
Red d-0ccupied Zones
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, May 16.-The New
York Times said today supreme
headquarters dispatch that the view
was expressed at meeting of
SHAEF correspondents that Amer
lean officials have done enough
kowtowing to the Russians" on the
entry of Allied war correspondents
into Russian occupied territory.
The correspondents appointed a
committee to review with SHAEF
the whole question of the circulation
of correspondents in the Russian
zone in Germany, the dispatch said.
1t quoted Lawrence Fairhall, a cor
respondent for the British Kemsley
newspapers, as saying:
Il think we've had enough non-
sense from our Russian allies. We
are not allowed in Vienna or Prague
or Budapest. It's time something
was done about it."
Mr.. Fairhall's statement, the dis
patch said, summed up rapidly
mounting dissatisfaction of the
of the correspondents with
SHAEF'S journalistic negotiations
with the Russians.
Pointing out that SO far only nine
Allied correspondents have been al
lowed in the Russian zone on an
authorized one-day trip to Berlin,
the dispatch said that none had reg
ularly been with the Russian armies
during the whole war, although a
half dozen Russian correspondents
have been circulating in SHAEF'S
territory for months.
Evening star., 1945-05-16

mandant of the naval base at Pago
Pago. There we heard the native
choruses and watched the sword
dances of the Samoan Marines,
whose magnificent physiques and
rigid training are in strange con-
trast to their lava lava skirts, red
belts and hats and white skivies.
Some of these stalwarts, who are
trained by our Marines, wore flow
ers behind their ears as they sang
and danced. Former Gov. George
H. Earle, now Navy commander
and assistant to Capt. Hungerford,
whose family lives in Washington,
took us deep-sea fishing of Samoas s
headlands.
Our plane ducked, climbed over
and circled equatorial storms on the
long Jump north. So devious was
our route that Capt. Jones had to
take 10 fixes from the stars before
sighting Diamond Head.
But most of all I'll remember the
young flyers on Saipan, Tinian and
Guam-the lads who took me over
flaming Tokyo, where the fax and
searchlights were as thick as the
wall of smoke that rolled down on
Evening star., 1945-05-16
Samuel Russell, II, Dies;
Seafood Market Owner

Samuel West Russell. 70 proprietor
of one of the city's Oldest sea food
markets, died yesterday at his
home, 634 Rock Greek Church road
NV, after an intermittent illness
He lived in the District so years
Mr.. Russell, native of st. Marys
County, Md, studied law and was
graduated from Columbian Univer-
sity Law School, but never prac-
ticed. He first was employed by
Charles H Javins' Sons, sea food
dealers. and later opened his own
establishment at 1108 Maryland
avenue SW. more than 25 years
ago He was proprietor of this place
at the time of his death. He was a
member of the Masonic Order.
Mr.. Russell is survived by his
widow, Mrs Sarah Bohanan Russell,
and a son, Frank Bohanan Russell,
both of Washington: a sister, Mrs.
Samuel Lyon of St. Marys County,
and three brothers, Harry Russell of
Alexandria, Va; Douglas Russell
and Sol Russell, both of ST. Marys
County
Services will be held at the resi-
dence at noon tomorrow and at
Trinity Church, St. Marys City, Md,
It pm. Burial will be in the fam
y plot in the church cemetery.
Evening star., 1945-05-16
T rude
Continued From First Page)

ension to two years and to one
J'ear both were defeated.
6. An amendment to limit i'm
portations after 1916 of strategic
national defense items to encourage
the production of those materials in
the United States.
The showdown on how the COM
nittee stood came on the motion
Of Mr.. Knutson to strike out the
additional tariff cutting authority.
Chairman Doughton and Repre-
sentative Cooper, Democrat, of Ten
lessee announced that three Clarity
ing amendments were adopted as
follows:
One by representative Anderson,
Democrat, of New Mexico, providing
that emergency changes in tariff
rates made during the war to obtain
strategic materials shall not be used
as the basis for tariff changes in the
postwar period.
BY Representative Mills, Demo-
crat, of Arkansas, providing that the
trade agreement with Czechoslo-
vakia, which was suspended when
Germany seized that country, shall
not come back into existence. Some
members said this amendment might
lessen the fears of the glass and pot
terry industry over postwar foreign
competition.
A third amendment adds the war
and Navy Departments to the list
Of agencies that must be consulted,
from the standpoint of national de-
fense, before trade agreements are
made.
Evening star., 1945-05-16

Haul RouI GruveI Is Miles
Gravel hauled Is to 80 miles lines
more than 100 miles of the Ledo
road to a depth of IL inches.
Evening star., 1945-05-16
Shippen
Continued From First Page.)

flag on Two Jima in silent tribute
to President Roosevelt while explo-
sions shook the hills sending Japs
to join their ancestors; or the
wounded from Okinawa being un-
loaded at Guam from an ATC plane
which had brought them from the
battlefield.
Then there were the flyers on
Two Jima pointing their Mustangs
toward Tokyo to give the Japs one
more going over: and the captured
Jap suicide planes we saw.
None of us will forget the ground
troops who broke out their precious
little delicacies and were hurt if we
would not share them. They were
too big for envy and only thought
the more of us because we were
going home-the dearest desire of
every one of them.
We were going to Sydney. a CITY
the jungle veterans remembered as
next best to home because of its
hospitality, friendly girls, bright
nights and gayety in the face of
danger.
There was the off -the-record in
terview with Gen. Macarthur at
his Manila headquarters. The de-
stroyer of Japs puffed his old corn
cob pipe and discussed the empire S
fatal flaws in a philosophical vein
that somehow did not touch on the
ingrown hatred in his heart for the
Japs and all they stand for.
No one will forget the hidden val
ley Of Shanghai in the impene-
trable heart OF New Guinea's Oranje
Mountains, a mysterious valley
whose tribesmen have created an
agricultural system of dams. dikes
and contour irrigation bitches bear
Evening star., 1945-05-16
of the Allied Expeditionary

manders of the Allied Expeditionary
Force"
Ambassador Robert Murphy, po-
litical adviser to Gen. Eisenhower,
said the use of Doenitz and others
in no way meant a recognition of
the "Flensburg group" as the gov
ernment of Germany.
Count Ludwig Schwerin Won
Krosigk, so far as the Allies are
concerned, does not exist officially
as Doenitz's foreign minister. His
recent broadcast was wholly un-
authorized and made before the
Allies seized the radio station, and
there will be no repetition of such
propaganda, the Ambassador said.
The amount of German participa-
ton in administration will be for
a long time on low levels, particu-
larly in the rural areas around
the cities.
1t was explained further that
there will be no national puppet
government for the present.
The German high command,
which they call the Oberkommando
der Wehrmach, will be dissolved.
Evening star., 1945-05-16
CLAY

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1945-05-16

ing evidence of centuries of culti-
vation. We saw the brown men,
who are totally without contact
with the outside world, scurry from
their observation towers as our
plane, which had crossed the snow
capped mountains, skinned over
their heads.
AS our big Douglas Skymaster
headed south I'll remember the fly
ers circling turbulent thunderheads
and line squalls, getting their fixes
from the stars, nursing their fuel
supply and the engines, and the
Great Barrier Reef of Australia,
league after league of surf trimmed
shadows like jade beads set in blue
water. AS we few over the white
beaches and green headlands lead
ing to Sydney Harbor, I thought of
Rio de Janeiro.
The young flyers who piloted our
plane are veterans of years of voy-
ages to South America, Africa, Eu-
rope or India and China, which
have left them scant time with their
families in Virginia.
Our skipper is Maj. William I.
Sanders, 38, who began to fly The
Hump in the early days and for 18
months shuttled between India and
China without benefit of navaga-
tional aids.
The co-pilot is Capt. Earl r.
Epperson. jr., %. of Jackson, Miss,
who has been flying special missions
out of Washington with the ATC
for three years of war. Another
pilot is 1st 1t. Charles R. Pullman,
26, another veteran of the global
service. With them, are the enlisted
men, Master Sergts. Richard ].
Barrett, jr., and Frank Sayko; Tech.
Sergt. Victor P. Minkoff and Corpl.
John Harris.
The navigator is Capt. Waldo H.
Jones, who has navigated special
missions all over the world.
Remembered, too, are the strange
exotic scenes of the Fijis and the
dignity and strength of the natives
in Samoa. We were guests of Capt.
Ralph w. Hungerford, governor of
the Samoan defense group and COM
Evening star., 1945-05-16
War Crimes
Continued From First Page.)

be brought back to the scene of their
crimes. The major war criminals
whose offenses have no particular
geographical location will be
brought before the military tribunal.
These could include such individuals
as Himmler and Goering, Mr.. Ross
said.
Mr.. Ross also stressed that, while
it was decided at Yalta when
President Roosevelt met Prime Min
lister Churchill and Premier Stain,
to break up the German general
staff, it would be quite a different
thing from bringing members of
the staff to trial as war criminals. "
Justice Jackson's announcement,
issued by the War Department, re-
ferred to his three assistants as "ex-
perienced trial lawyers"
Donovan Won Highest Medal.
Gen. Donovan, Congressional
Medal of Honor winner in the
World War as leader of the famous
Fighting 69th," long was referred
to as the mystery man" of this
war. The title grew out of his ex-
tensive European travels in 1s40-41
and the hush-hush air surround
ing OSS.
Returning from one trip abroad
in the summer of 1910, he said he
had been looking into the tech
nique of the Nazi fifth column. The
following spring he visited England
the Balkans and the Near East. In
July, l94l, President Roosevelt
named Gen. Donovan co-ordinator
of information bearing on the de-
tense program. From there lie
took over OSS. Now 62, he was an
assistant attorney general in the
Coolidge administration.
Justice Jackson, in announcing
the appointments, said he was set
ting up only a small staff because
of the work already going on in
Government departments on the
subject of war crimes"
This staff includes personnel
familiar with the problems and the
available data, and the selections
were made in furtherance of JUS
tice Jackson's determination that
the trials of the leading war GRIM
inals must be held without delay"
the announcement said.
Alderman Served Overseas.
Mr.. Alderman, 52-year -old native
of Greensboro, N c., served over
seas as a captain in the World War
and spent four months after the
armistice in graduate study at Sor-
bonne University in Paris. He has
been granted leave by the Southern
Railway.
Mr.. Shea, 80, who was born at
Manchester, N. H, has been an As
sistant Attorney General since 1899,
in charge of the claims division. He
previously served as a specialist in
the legal division of the Securities
and Exchange Commission.
Justice Jackson also announced
appointment of Navy Its. James B.
Donovan and Gordon Dean, both of
Washington, as members of his staff
1t. Donovan, no relation to the
general, is OSS general counsel. 1t.
Dean was a special assistant to Jus
tice Jackson when he was Attorney
/ General.
Evening star., 1945-05-16
War Loon
Continued From First Page.

connection with the start of the
drive, sold $500 War Bond yester-
day to Mrs. Mark Clark, wife of the
general, and watched her fill out a
V-Mail certificate to mail to him.
Gen. Clark wrote me to buy him
more bonds than before in this
drive" Mrs. Clark told Mr.. Hope at
the Statler Hotel. He says this
war loan is more important than
the others because we need it to
beat the Japs"
800 Girls See Broadcast.
Later, more than 900 girl secre-
tarieS at the Treasury Department,
clutching tickets they drew by lot,
crowded into Mr.. Hopes weekly
broadcast, held in the Statler ball
room. Mr.. Hope paid tribute to their
work with the war loan drives, call
Ing them the sugar that handles
the sugar Ted R. Gamble, ma
tional director of the war loan,
also spoke on the Nation wide broad
cast, emphasizing that bond
bought today will bring an American
soldier home quicker.
A B-29 bomber, with a full crew
will be flown in to National Airport
Friday. The public may see it and
climb inside to inspect it's forward
section all day Saturday and Sun
day Purchases of War Bonds is not
necessary for admission to the ship.
but booths will be set up nearby for
anticipated sale of thousands of dol
lars worth during the exhibition.
Miracle Harbor" Draws.
Sales of War Bonds at the Hecht
Co.'S model of the portable miracle
harbor" used on D day have passed
the $50,000 mark, officials reported
Bond caravans" on the polo grounds
in West Potomac Park, where the
Here's Your Infantry show goes
on at $50 o'clock daily excepting
Friday, have reported an additional
$4,000 sales.
Theaters are now selling War
Bonds for admission to the mer-
chant marine ship American Sea-
man, Saturday. Sunday and Monday
at the Coast Guard dock, $50 Maine
avenue S.W.
In addition, private business
firms, public schools and Govern
ment offices are holding rallies
daily. The District of Columbia
Trucking Association and the Jew
ish Community Center planned
meetings today. The Chevy Chase
Elementary School and the Garnet
Patterson Junior High School have
asked for servicemen speakers to-
morrow
Meanwhile department stores are
working on their quota of $500
worth of bonds to be sold per each
employe. Gerald Grosner, clothicr
at 1925 F street NV, oversub-
scribed his quota when he sold
nothing but bonds Monday. More
than 100000 worth of bonds were
sold in II hours, he reported to-
day,
Thanking the District committee
for its fast-moving promotion of
sales, Mr.. Gamble said that this
mighty seventh" war loan had been
better organized and already was
moving more smoothly than any
previous campaign. Paying full
tribute to previous committee chair
men, he said that the experience
of drives since 1910 had now equip
ped leaders to handle any compli-
cation.
Evening star., 1945-05-16

us from height Of 10000 feet.
They and hundreds of their COM
panions are making similar tricks
across the Pacific day in and day
out On the long haul.
More power to them and may the
aircraft workers of America never
send them a single ship unworthy
OF the air and ground crews now
pointing them toward the dwin-
ding empire that was Japan.
Evening star., 1945-05-16


there would be an announcement
on this in a few days
Gen. Clay said the hope was to
start the trial of war criminals as
soon as possible.
In explaining what is to be done
about assigning prisoners to help
rebuild War-damaged areas, Gen.
Clay said the policy would be laid
down by the Tripower Preparations
Commission in Moscow and execut-
ed in the American-oc occupied zone
by the reparations department un-
der his command.
Doenitz Status Explained.
The formal Allied headquarters
announcement concerning the status
of Doenitz and his staff at FlenS-
burg follows:
Admiral Doenitz and certain
other selected Germans are being
used temporarily to carry out duties
in connection with the feeding, dis
armament and medical care of Ger
man armed forces.
These German officers are fully
controlled and are there solely to
carry out instructions of the COM
Evening star., 1945-05-16
Allied Ships Off Trieste
In Normal Duties

ROME, May Is [P).-A statement
from the Allied naval command said
today Allied naval units were oper-
ating in the Trieste area in the
course of their normal duties and
for the opening of the heavily mined
port
The statement was issued with
the explanation that it was intended
to make plain the situation regard
ing the naval role at the Adriatic
shipping center.
1t came following publication of
reports that several Allied war
ships had arrived at Trieste as a
tense situation arose over Yugosla-
Was announced aim to take control
of the city and adjacent areas of the
Venezia Giuda region.
Evening star., 1945-05-16
YugosIav Demands
In Austria Create
Delicate Situation
BY LYNN HEINZERLING.

Associated Press War Correspondent.
KLAGENFURT, Austria, May
16.-Yugoslav demands in the
Austrian Province of Carinthia
presented the Allied powers to-
day with a confused and ex-
tremely delicate situation.
Two distinct military administra-
tions are functioning in this provin-
cial capital, with Yugoslav military
authorities operating seemingly as
if the British 9th Army did not
exist, although British military po-
lice patrol the streets and the mill
tary strength in the area is pre-
dominantly British.
The situation in Klagenfurt has
not reached the tenseness of that
in Trieste, but obviously some
agreement must be reached so the
9th Army either will turn its job
over to Marshal Tito's Partisans or
carry out the task it entered Aus
tria to do after the bloody trek
through Italy.
(The territorial question of the
Trieste area should be discussed
by Italians and Yugoslavs when
the passions of war are spent"
and the issue must not "be preju-
diced by acts of force" Italian
Premier Ivanoe Bonomi declared
yesterday in Romeo
Yugoslav proclamations are past
nS hnciln pr-i{icb &c
many walls throughout Klagenfurt,
including one issued by the Parti-
sans demanding that every Austrian
worker here report his former job
to them, under pain of penalties.
Another, issued yesterday, an
nounced Yugoslav entry of Carin-
thia Ito guarantee for the entire
Slovene Austrian population true
and popular democracy, freedom
and prosperity, in a new, victorious
and strong greater Yugoslavia."
The scope of Yugoslav claims in
Carinthia is not known, since the
Partisans have not announced how
much of Austria they hope to in
clude in greater Yugoslavia." Ca
rlntnla nad populatlon OF AUD ,119
IN 1888, and it embraces an area of
$3.50 square miles, with definitely
Slovene fringe in the southeastern
rural areas.
After the First World War these
Slovenes in a plebiscite voted to re-
main part of defeated Austria ra-
ther than join the Slovenes in Yugo-
slavia.
The population in this part of
Austria now is in such state of con-
fusion that it is impossible to OBJ
tain accurate figures on the per-
centage of Slovenes and Austrians
in Carinthian and Syrian areas to
which Tito lays claim. Klagenfurt' S
population seems mostly Austrian,
but there is large proportion of
Slovenian farmers in the rural
areas nearby.
Evening star., 1945-05-16
Old Shoes Yield Gems

KETCHIKAN, Alaska P.-Mrs.
A. H. Siegler reclaimed two dia-
mond rings-worth several thou
sand dollars-from the toe Of one
shoe and wrist watch from an
other. She had donated the shoes
to the clothing drive, then remem-
bered about using them as a de-
pository for her jewelry.