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Evening star., 1945-11-28
Rescue Party Seeks Flyers
Who Parachuted in Storm

By the Associated Press.
COOS BAY, Greg. Nov. 28.-A
rescue party struggled on foot to-
day through rough mountain
wilderness east of here to reach
Army airmen who parachuted from
a Gas transport that disappeared
Monday in storm over the Oregon
coast
State police reported two of the
airmen reached logging camp yes
terday about 90 miles from the sea,
where most of the flyers we're be-
lieved awaiting help 1t was not
known here whether any were
killed.
One airman was reported sus-
pended in a tree by his parachute
Police said the two airmen had
reported 13 other men in the
crashed ship. This conficted with
official reports of the Army, which
listed only six men aboard the
missing transport. No other plane
has been listed as missing in this
area, and 1t was possible that the
reports relayed from the exhausted
airment to the loggers were con-
fused
Evening star., 1945-11-28
Driver Hurt as Car Knocks
Small Auto Across Street

The driver of small automibile
was injured shortly before noon to-
day when the car was knocked
across the intersection of New
Hampshire and Virginia avenues
NV. in a collision with an auto
mobile of standard size.
The injured driver was listed at
Emergency Hospital as Navy Lieut..
John Archibald. His address was
not available, nor had hospital at
tacheS determined his injuries. Po-
lice said the car was owned by
Nicole Smith, 3905 Reservoir road
NV.
The driver of the other car was
listed as F. l.. Paterson, a real
estate broker, of 3701 Massachusetts
avenue NV. He was not injured.
Evening star., 1945-11-28
Bette Davis Reported
Planning to Wed Friday
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 28.-The Los
Angeles Times said today it had
learned that Actress Bette Davis
and William Grant Sherry, 31-year-
old artist, will be married at Laguna
Beach, Calf, Friday afternoon.
Mr.. Sherry's mother Mrs. Marion
Sherry, San Diego elevator operator
recently said her son and Miss Davis
would be married soon after the
first of the year. However, Mr.
Sherry and Miss Davis have re-
mained silent regarding the reports
Evening star., 1945-11-28
Pepper Sees De GuuiIe

PARIS, Nov. % {P)-Senator Pep
per, Democrat, of Florida, en- route
home from Moscow, was received
today by Gen. Charles de Gaulle.
Evening star., 1945-11-28

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Evening star., 1945-11-28

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Evening star., 1945-11-28

Size 32x9x8 inches :. holds a 26-inch
hand saw, 24-inch pipe wrench, etc.
Heavy 22-gauge steel construction,
electrically welded. Lift-out tray;
heavy corner irons; hasp lock and key.
AT All Four Sears Stores
Evening star., 1945-11-28

An excellent "tonic" for
the sluggish motor of
your car, truck or trac-
tor. Frees sticky valves.
reduces carbon deposits.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-11-27
FIVE DIE, 40 HURT
IN APP BLAST

NEWARK, N. j., Nov. rs. -P)-
Five persons were believed killed
and 80 to 40 others injured today
in an explosion and three alarm
fire at a Great Atlantic & Pacific
Tea company warehouse here, Po-
lice Inspector Frank A. O'Neil said.
O'Neil said the fire was believ-
ed started by an explosion in the
refrigeration plant, which sprayed
LIQUID around the interior of the
building.
Police patrol cars, Red Cross
ambulance and other ambulances
took the injured to nearby hospit-
ais.
Most of the injuries were re-
ported as decorations on the face,
head and body of the victims.
The first alarm was sounded at
3:42 p. M, the second ten minutes
later. and the third at 1855 p. m.
More than 100 firemen from IL
engine companies and six fire
truck units were fighting the blaze.
O'Neil said scores of policemen
were also at the scene.
An official for the A & P company
said he did not know how many
employees were in the warehouse
and he was unable to obtain any
reports yet.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-11-27
Chang Hopes To Whip Reds Into Orderly Line;
japanese Diet To Cope With Needed "Reforms'
A m eric an Officials
Ponder Question
OF Elections

TOKYO, Nov. 26.-With IRE
form measures prominent on its
agenda the japanese Diet opened
its second extraordinary session
Of the occupation today, as
American officials and Japanese
liberals pondered the ACCESSIBILITY
of postponing elections to avoid
hasty balloting by a politically un-
tutored people.
Under existing electoral provi-
sions, this Diet would set the final
date for new elections. That date
would be sometime in April. I'm
der the present law calling for
convocation of a new Diet within
five months after dissolution Of
its predecessor.
There is growing belief in Amer
lean official circles, however, that
such relatively hasty balloting
might handicap rather than help
the advancement of Democracy in
Japan.
These circles suggest the Japa-
nese people obviously are I'M
prepared now for anything ap-
preaching intelligent selection Of
candidates. Moreover, urgent food
problems make promises of bet
ter living conditions a most effec-
tive campaign method,-and the
old-line political machines are
well-greased.
Such a situation, il is feared,
would permit legally elected old
line politicians. working in con-
nection with influential bureau
Gratis, to establish themselves more
firmly in control.
It would require specific in
structions from Supreme Allied
headquarters to waive the consti-
tutional provision governing the
election date, or at least instruc-
tons to prevent the anticipated
dissolution of the Diet at the end
of the current session.
Tuesdays plenary session will
be highlighted by emperor Hiro-
hito's reading of an imperial re-
script outlining the scope of the
session and ordering the Diet to
abolish repressive laws.
Premier Kijuro Shidehara was
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
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Dredges Talcott, Huston
Coming For Channel Work

Two large Government pipeline
dredges will arrive in Whining
ton shortly to undertake the work
of restoring the Cape Fear river
channel, at and below Whining
ton, to project dimensions, it was
announced at the local office of
the U. S. Engineers yesterday.
The dredges are the Talcott, now
stationed in the Washington, D. c.,
district, and the Huston, now in
the Philadelphia district.
A representative from the local
office left Sunday night for Wash
ington and Philadelphia to COM
plete arrangements for the trans
fer of the dredges at an early date.
The Government dredges are
being assigned to the work due to
the lack of satisfactory bids from
private dredging contractors. The
work, will involve the removal of
approximately 1,322,000 cubic
yards of material from the turn
ing basin and the anchorage basin
at. Wilmington and shoals at Be
tween Reach channel, Keg Island
channel, and other shoals where
they have occurred southwark.
The work, when completed, will
restore the project depth in the
channel of 80 feet and a width Of
300 feet from Wilmington to the
ocean.
The two dredges will arrive at
Wilmington with skeleton crews
and it will be necessary to re-
cruit additional personnel for full
crews after arrival of the dredges
in Wilmington.
Approximately 60 experienced
dredge employees will be needed
and applicants, may register at
the U. S. Employment Service
offices or at Room 300 in the
Custom shouse.
The dredges will be temporarily
assigned to the local district and
upon their completion of the Cape
Fear river work, will probably
be returned to their home dis
trictS.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-11-27
Weather May
Remain For One Day
More, Paul Hess Says

Weatherman Paul Hess says
that warmer weather for Whining
ton as well as the rest of the
United States is expected for at
least one more day.
High temperature for today will
be &c degrees, four degrees warm
er than yesterdays high 62 degrees.
Hess forecasts. "Wednesday will
probably be partly cloudy with
little change in temperature"
Hess says.
There were no minus tempera-
lures recorded anywhere in the
United States last night, according
to weather bureau messages. Low
est temperatures ranged around 10
to Is degrees in the Rocky Noun
tain region which normally this
time of year would be well below
zero.
A trough of low pressure extends
from western Texas to North Da-
kota, and as it moves eastward,
Hess said, it carries with it warm
er weather. Hess will not stick his
neck out and predict warmer wea-
Their after Wednesday, lest an icicle
behead him. AFTER ALL" he says,
'it'S November"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-11-27
Navy To Poll Sailors
On Compulsory Training

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26-(P -
The Navy got congressional en-
couragement today to poll it's sail
ors on what they think of peace
time compulsory military training.
Secretary Forrestral told the
House Military committee he had
wanted to conduct such poll but
feared somebody would get the
idea the answers were obtained I'M
der dress.
Chairman May D-Ky.) told the
secretary to 60 ahead. Rep. Har-
ness (R-1nd.) said he thought it
was good idea that Forrestal
indicated he would get on it right
away.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-11-27
Government S o der.
Occupy Chinhsien
In Manchuria
By SPENCER MOOSA
AP Staff Correspondent

CHUNGKING, Nov. 90 Up -
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek
promised today to 60 all out to
whip the Chinese Communists into
orderly line as part of new long
range program to unity and re-
construct China under his Nation
a1ist regime.
Announcing creation of a su-
preme. council to cope with China's
manifold economic woes, Chang
did not mention the Communists
by name, but made his position
concerning them clear with these
words:
"Some people in China have
placed their partisan and personal
interests above national interests
and have gone so far as to inter-
fere violently with the govern
ment's efforts to establish order
in liberated areas. The government
is acting to correct this condition.
We shall spare no effort to bring
internal order and security to the
nation"
Support for his statement came
quickly in Nationalist Army dis
patch announcing that government
troops had marched into the Man
churian railroad city of Chinhsien,
100 miles beyond the Great Wall,
and were now less than 1875 miles
southwest of the vital city of Muk-
den.
It was at Chinhsien that the
Communists last week predicted
1.-The first great battle" for Man.
churia, but the government report
said nothing about opposition en-
countered by the Sind Army, which
originally made a seaborne land
ing at Chinwangtao. On Saturday
the Communists altered their fore
cast, saying Mukden would be the
scene of critical fighting.
Communist forces control num-
erous areas of north China, but
Manchuria is the chief prize for
which they are contending with
Chiang's government.
Communists and Nationalist ORR
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-11-27
DRIVERS ESCAPE
IN FREAK WRECK
Concrete Mixer Overturns
Crushing Automobile
On Street

A freak accident, in which
drivers of both vehicles escaped
death or injury by a miracle, &C.
CURED yesterday at the intersec-
ton of 5th and Dawson streets
when a truck laden with four
tons of concrete overturned on an
automobile.
The rear of the car was smashed
beyond repair by the heavy metal
! attachments on the truck, but the
driver, Rueallo Bennerman, negro
OF Route l Wilmington, miracul-
ously escaped injury. A discharged
veteran, Bennerman said ne was
discharged from the Army five
days ago.
The truck. owned by the Tai
man Transit company of Will
mington, was operated by Frank
Talbot, police said. Talbot was
uninjured, and damage to the
truck was thought to be negll-
gible.
E. H. Hill, of Route /, Whining
ton, an eyewitness to the accident,
gave this version of the wreck:
The car had been travelling south
on Fifth street and had stopped at
the intersection, in the middle OF
Fifth street, to allow the truck 10
pass before crossing Dawson street.
Instead of continuing north on FIT
tn street, the truck attempted to
turn west and cross to Dawson. In
! the turn, the front of the truck nit
the back of the car and the heavy
metal concrete-mixer smasher in
to the rear of the car, and over
turned. p.
(COntinued nm Page Two: Col 81
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-11-27
PARAKEETS SENT
NORTHEAST NIGHT

Inc four remaining parrakeets
Of the six purchased from McLel-
laAs store in Wilmington, part
VI shipment suspected of hav-
ing pslttacosis, which may be con-
Nacted by humans, were located
Yesterday, it was reported by DR..
d: H. Elliot, city-county health
officer.
oAe pair was turned in to the
wore, which has cooperated in the
~ ssarch for the birds, by a Mrs.
a thompson, Of Maffitt Village and
promptly chlorphormed. They
were were shipped on last nights north
. . train to the National In
~ sutute Of Health, in Bethesda, Md.
'or examination
,,. aae other pair, believed by a
h hsiS OF the store to have been
wig 1vasn9 by someone in jackson
t mle' N. c., were reported to
ra. aleo BY the owners who lived
near a that community.
no wv injection has yet been re-
h i ,D by owners of the birds but
t ras ST. stated, by DR.. Elliot, that
H.. .ea-day period after last con-
nso NOV, With the birds would be
,b ou, TOR the infection to
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-11-27
Austrian Voters Defeat
Renner At Polls Sunday

VIENNA, Nov. %. - Up - The
Rightist Volkspartie appeared to-
day on the basis of incomplete re-
turns to have won a clearcut but
narrow majority over Chancellor
Karl Renner's Socialist party in
Austria's National Assembly cleo
tons yesterday.
The vote means that under Aus
trian constitutional law the Volks-
partie, made up of conservative
elements opposed to state socializa-
ton, will assume the Chancellor
ship with 43-year-old Leopold Figl,
party chief, replacing Renner as
head of the government.
1t was expected, however, that
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-11-27
GREW SAYS ARMY
BOARD IN ERROR
Former Ambassador tt
Japan Testifies At
"Harbor" Inquiry

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26-P -
Former Ambassador Joseph c.
Grew denied today he had said
as an Army inquiry board quoted
him-that Secretary Of State Hull S
Nov. 26, 1871 note touched the
button that started the war" with
Japan.
Grew told the Senate House
Pearl Harbor investigating COM
mittee he had testified before the
Army board that the ''button was
touched about the time the Hull
note was delivered, but never re-
garded the 10-point American
statement as having been the
cause for the Japanese military
move.
Grew followed Cordell Hull to
the witness chair after the former
Secretary of State asserted that the
japanese were ''hell-bent" for war
in November 1941 and hence had
rejected 10-point U. S. note
which any peace seeking nation
would have been delighted to
accept"
Referring to this U. S. note,
Grew asserted firmly, 'it was in
no respect an ultimatum either in
tone or substance"
Senator ucas D-nl.) said he
thought the Army inquiry board,
consisting of 1t. Gen. George
Grunert, Maj. Gen. Henry D. Rus.
sell and Maj Gen. Walter H.
Frank, had put a strained con-
struction on Crews testimony.
: "And it's difficult for me to I'M
derstand why the Army board said
nothing about the ultimatum is
used by the Japanese" Lucas add
ed.
In its report, the Army board
had said that the Hull note was
the document that touched the
button that started he war, as Am
bassador Grew so aptly said"
Grew told the committee he
couldn't understand how the Army
board had reached that conclusion.
for he had never had it himself.
He said the Japanese militarists
and the civilian officials who were
influenced by them had character
lied the note at the time as an
ultimatum but he had testified in
the Army inquiry it was his per-
sona1 opinion the Japanese attitude
was Totally unsound."
In this view, Grew echoed the
opinion of Hull who earlier had
testified that he considered the note
in question had been "ignorantly
misrepresentation
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-11-27
LONDON GAS WORKERS
RETURN TO JOBS AS
WAGE FARLEY CLICKS

LONDON, Nov. 26-P)-The
three-day strike of gas company
workers, which forced most Lon
doners to eat cold food in unheated
houses, ended tonight in what was
described as an "amicable agree
ment."
About 400 night shift workers
agreed to return to their jobs at
10 p. m.
The decision to return to work
followed a day-long mediation dis
cussion, after which it was an
nounced that workers grievances
would be brought before the joint
industrial council for the gas in
dustry when that body meets this
week.
The strike followed posting by
the company of notice that il
would not tolerate a showdown by
night workers, who had said that
until they were paid time and third
they would function at only 60 per
cent of strength. The workers
make from $40 to $24 a week.
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The secretary said he had made
sort of one-man poll and he be-
lieved the men "preponderantly"
are in favor of such training.
Forrestal filed with the COM
mittee a duplicate of his testimony
before the woodrum postwar mill
tary policy group in which he de-
clared:
International agreements, treat
les, documents of world order are
empty and meaningless unless this
country is ready to back them up.
Peace without the means to en-
force it must remain a dream"
Peacetime training is part Of
that means. Forrestal said.
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GIN Refuses
To Renter
Wage Talks
Way pR0L0NC STRIKE
co,poration Says Union
W st, Must Reduce Pay
Demands First
w., THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

=, TpE ASSOCIATED PRESS
General Motors Corporation last
w. J refused to resume wage ne
ms aations with the United Auto
s sD. (CIo) and declared that
wv S. nation's strike picketing was
"o-sstins a situation Of lawless-
ness" s+a+arnan+
,.tast DEVELOPMENT in the labor
,Ssr which has halted General
, ,rofors automobile production and
;ilsd some 225,0O0 workers, was
ss,,ed in reply to the unions new
,ronosal for renewed discussions
m its demand for a 30 per cent
wage increase.
"ITn]ess you are prepared to
modify your unreasonable wage
dsmand we do not think that any,
tbins can be gained by further dis
customs" General Motors said.
The union Immediately replied
that it knew of no illegal picket
insp accused GIN of further vio-
1,tions of the National Labor Re-
1ations Act and said it was still
nrepared to negotiate settlement
"anv time and at any place."
Neither the company nor the
union had yet received an invita-
ton from Secretary Of Labor
schwellenbach to confer in Wash
ington this week.
Another labor development yes
terday was the beginning of dem
onstration" work stoppages affect
ing operations Of Montgomery
Ward & Company in six cities.
A union estimate said more than
10000 CLIO workers at Wards left
their jobs for week-long work
stoppage but the company assert
ed 81 per cent of Wards $4,000 en-
ployes were working.
Samuel Wolchok, president Of the
Clio United, Retail Wholesale and
Department Store Employees Of Am
erica, said the stoppage was design
ed to impress the average man
with Mr.. (SewelD Avery's labor
policy" Avery, Wards board chair
man, has rejected the unions pro-
posal for arbitration Of the wage
demands and other issues.
Wolchok said the work stoppage
was s. to 90 per cent effective in
Chicago, Kansas City, Albany, N.
y, Trenton, N. j., and Barre, vt.
Similar stoppages are scheduled,
he said, for today at Wards stores
In Detroit, Dearborn and Royal
Oak, Mich.
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Force Loses
At Bandoeng
ARSENAL OCCUPIED
Shipping, Looting Continues
In Semarang As
Tenion Mounts
By JOHN BOWER

United Press Staff Correspondent
BATAVIA, Java, Nov. 26-UR)-
Reinforced British troops occupied
an Indonesian Nationalist arsena
in Bandoeng today and were re
ported to have the situation there
in hand, but British warplane:
went into action against Nation
alist forces besieging the centra
Java town of AmbaraWa.
In Soerabaja, British Indian
troops advanced two miles in one
part of the city but were forced
to withdraw in another when In
donesian reinforcements arrived
Shipping and looting continued ir
Semarang, in Central Java, and the
situation there was described as
tense. In Batavia, two Indonesians
were killed and two wounded wher
group of extremists attacked q
Netherlands patrol east of Tjilili
tan airfield. There were no Ne
therlands casualties, the Aneta
news agency reported.
Hopes for an immediate settle.
ment faded as M. E. Denning, poll.
teal adviser to Adm. Lord Louis
Mountbatten, Allied Southeast Asia
commander, left for Singapore to
wait until the 1ndonesians meet
with the British and Dutch again.
No date for another meeting has
been set. Denning said his depar-
ture did not mean hopes for a
settlement had been abandoned.
The Allied commander in the
Indies, 1t. Gen. Sir Philip Christi
SOM left Java for a tour of Suma-
ira. Aneta reported that at Palem-
gang in Sumatra, Indonesians at
tackled japanese guards and seiz-
ed five rifles.
In Bandoeng, rs miles southeast
of Batavia, fighting which had
hared Sunday died down as Brit
ish Gurkhas occupied the quinine
factory, an important Nationalist
arsenal. Two Indonesians were
killed in skirmishes preceding the
occupation. A convoy of Gurkhas
fought their way into Bandoeng
after being halted temporarily by
roadblock at Tjimahi, four miles
to the northwest.
British Mosquito bombers went
into action with cannon and ma
chine-guns against Indonesian fore
es around Ambarawa, in Central
Java 20 miles south of Semarang
The Nationalist have been besieg-
ing the town since last Tuesday,
imperiling 5000 to 10000 European
and Eurasian refugees in camps
in that area.
The planes attacked after the
Indonesians had attacked the Brit
ish. They shot up transport col
umns, roadblocks and warehouses.
Seven Allied Dakota transport
planes dropped food and supplies
to British forces in and near Am
baraWa.
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Figl would form a coalition cabi-
net with all three major parties
Volkspartie, Socialists and Com
munists-represented. The cleo
tons were the first free baloting
in Austria in Is years.
Returns from SO provinces gave
the Volkespartie 1,50o,467 votes,
the Socialists 1,353,047 and the
Communists 1886. Under the
Austrian system of proportional
representation, this indicated the
Volksparte would get between &c
and 88 of the National Assembly
165 seats and the Socialists would
win between IA and II, depending
on whether the Communists win.