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Detroit evening times., 1945-03-07
Four hIiiIe Teams
I'm Title ShOOtOff
BY DON GILLIEs

There will be hot rifle shooting Friday evening
the Detroit Edison when four junior rifle teams all tied
for the Northwestern League championship of the Southeastern
Michigan Association matches. meet for shooon
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-07
wINSIpro GRAINS

WINNIPEG March tINS Rye closed
UNCHANGED 10 i.c lower today May. 81 34as
bid. July 81 2si. bid October SLiAo4.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-07
Steel Stocks
Soar I Points

NEW YORK, March S GNS)-
Stocks staged a quick as a fash"
squirt at midday today which out
did anything seen on the trading
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-07
Or Did You Know?

In the Baltimore and Ohio
employees mag / learned that
the average locomotive head
light throws a beam of from
-S0nltoIrl0n- feet-and- has
only a 250-watt bulb.
Once a bulb has been put into
use on one locomotive. il can
never be transferred 10 another
because that weakens the fila
r,onnf
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-07

And locomotive engineers al
ways dim their headlights in
passing another train just as
does any courteous motorist-
Much of the brilliance comes
from the highly polished mirror
glass or metal reflector and
maintenance crews use only
clean. soft cloths for polishing,
with minimum of water. Su-
pervisors insist that polishing
be done in by rubbing in a
straight line toward the center
and never in a circular motion.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-07
Livestock M arket

Dividends In the foregoing table are the
= mounts paid or payable so far this year.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-07

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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-08
Daniel E. Roberts Named
~ A. L. Manager For City
First Plane North Due
At Bluethenthal At.
l:53P. M. Dec. Is e.

Simultaneous, discl osure of
schedule plans for Wilmington and
the first assignment of company
personnel to the city came from
Mcdonald Bryan, public informa-
ton director of National Air Lines,
who released a statement by R. p.
Foreman, secretary in charge OF
stations for N. A. L. in a wire
to the Star last night. -
Promoted to station manager at
Wilmington, is Daniel E. Roherts,
former N. A. f. assistant station
manager at Pensacola, Fla, Fore
man announced, adding that other
employees will be transferred to
Wilmington, or selected from Will
mington residents.
For the time being, the line will
not open a downtown ticket office,
all passenger traffic being handled
through the Bluethenthal Field Of
flee, it was said.
The schedule reveals that Will
mingtonians will be only three
hours and IL minutes from New
York city by, lair, two hours and "a
minutes from Jacksonville and
five hours and % minutes from
Miami,
Roberts will arrive here. this
weekend to complete preparations
for the inaugural flight on DEG. Is.
Schedule for the inaugural flight
is as follows: 81.
Leave Miami at 1925 a. M, leave
St. Petersburg, at.9;58 a. m, leave
Charleston at 1888 p. M, and ar
rive in Wilmington at 1853 p. M,
The flight is scheduled to leave
Wilmington at 2:08 p. M,
leave Norfolk at 1886 p. M, and
arrive in New York at 5:25 p. m.
The return flight leaves New
York at 1910 a. m. the following
day, leaving Philadelphia at 11:03
a. M, leave Norfolk 1896 p. M,
arriving in Wilmington at 1:49 p.
m.
The flight will leave Wilmington
at 2:09 p. NJ, leave Charleston at
3:17 p. M, Jacksonville 4:45 p. M,
Tampa $40 p. M, Miami p. M,
arriving at Key West at $3.50 p. M.
The company's huge Lockheed
Lodestars will be used for the serv-
ice until the new four-eng ined
Douglas. DC-4's now on order are
delivered.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-08
COMMITTEE PLANS
TO OPEN HEARING
Evidence Pro, Con On Fact
Finding Bill Gets Under
way Monday

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7-UH-The
House Labor committee decided
today to begin hearings Monday
on the bill to give President Tru-
man the authority he requested
to set up fact-finding boards in
serious labor disputes.
A committee spokesman said
the hearings will be confined tc
top spokesman of the government,
organized labor and industry. Wit.
nesses will include CLIO President
Philip Murray, AFL President
William Green, President John L.
Lewis of the United Mine Work
ers, Secretary Of Labor Lewis B.
Schwellenbach and representa-.
tives of the U. S. Chamber of Com
merce and the National Association
of Manufacturers.
Acting Committee Chairman
Robert Ramspeck, D., Ca, has in.
Dictated that he wants the commit
tee to approve the bill before the
end of next week.
The bill would give the Presi-
dent the right to set up a fact
finding board whenever labor
dispute threatens the national in
terest. Organized labor is opposed
because of the 30-day cooling off
period during which labor could
not strike.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-08
MYSTERY SURROUNDS (
DISAPPEARANCE OF
SIX NAVY AIRCRAFT

MIAMI, Fla, Dec. 7.-U.p)-The
second day of a far-flung search for
q Navy airmen lost in six aircraft
Wednesday brought only mo luck"
reports tonight from all the hum
dreds of air and sea participants.
The fate of the men remained I'M
known, and the mystery of the
planes disappearance unsolved..
The Navy, however, was determin-
ed to press the hunt until every
possibility was exhausted, in hope
that survivors might be found, or
some reason for the mass disap-
pearance learned.
Five of the planes, torpedo bonn
bers, vanished in the gloom of a
windy, rainy evening. The SIKH, a
patrol bomber with 10 men aboard,
was thought to have crashed while
searching for the others. No mes
sages of disaster or trouble had
been received.
A total of 242 planes from is land
bases and an aircraft carrier rang
ed over Florida and adjacent gulf
and .250 miles over Atlantic waters
during all the daylight hours.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-08
UNIONS TO HELP
e" BOND! DRIVE

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-P)-Na-
tional sales Of E bonds in the Vic
tory Loan drive today stood at ST.
"a, 900, 000-61 per cent of the goal
as the ALL and CLIO called upon
organized labor to put over the e
bond drive.
Today, overall sales totaled $12,-
470, 900, 00O-$4, 1874, 900, 900 to indivi-
duals including the E-Bond sales.
and $8,076, 100000 in corporation
sales. The formal counting period
for corporation sales ends tomor-
row at midnight but counting of
purchases by individuals as a part
of the Victory Loan drive continues
until the end of the year.
The plea by the two major labor
organizations was made in tele-
grams sent to union organizers and
locals and called upon them to do
everything necessary to put the
drive over the top by Deem
Der 81" Although national sales
of all securities to all investors ex-
ceeded the $11, 10000 goal,
the kilograms pointed out that the
E bond goal of $4,000, 900, 900 still
must be met.
The union pleas quoted Secre-
tary of the Treasury Vinson as say
ing that success in reaching the
quota was vital to the nations
welfare and to the meeting of this
country's immediate obligations
growing directly out of the war;"
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-08
TOP JAPS TO FACE
, TRIAL IN JANUARY
PROSECUTOR STATES

TOKYO, Dec. 7-P)-War crimes
trials of top Japanese are scend-
uled to start in January, with TOR
mer premier Hideko TOTO high on
the calendar for the proceedings al
which death penalties probably
will be asked, the American CHIEF
prosecutor disclosed today.
Joseph B. Keenan,, special prose
utor newly arrived in Tokyo with
his staff, said that Allied nations
had been invited to nominate mem
bers of the court. which will be
appointed by General Macarthur
and to participate in the prosecu-
tion. but that none had yet named
such personnel. -
keenan, said previous delays IN
starting the trials were to respect
the rights of other nations and to
show that the United States was
not taking high-handed attitude.
Speaking at a Commute press
conference after lengthy session
with Macarthur, the gray-halred
keenan, said the japanese would
be tried in groups, as in Germany,
with ''the accused presumed In
nocent until proved guilty."
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-08
Wage Farley
Again Fails
Of. Decision
PLANTS STILL IDLE
Attorney General Clark
Says Antitrust Angle
Under Scrutiny

DETROIT, Dec. 7-R)-As the
factories of General Motors Cor
poration idled through 18th con.
secutive day, representatives OF
management and strikers went IN
TO another huddle today over their
wage dispute.
At the same time President +:
J. Thomas of the striking ClC
United. Auto Workers announced
the Department of Justice was IN
vestigating General Motors with a
view to determining If GIN was IN
violation Of antitrust laws.
Thomas said he had been IN
formed by Attorney General Tom
B. Clark that his department has
been investigating several anti
trust cases of the type you men
ton, among which is General Mo-
tors" The information came in a
telegram from Clark, Thomas
said.
The auto union asked the investi-
CATION last week at the time Cen
eral Motors suggested operation OF
it's parts plants during the strike
in order to supply other automobile
manufacturers. Thomas said this
was "strong corroborstory evil
dence for a union belief that Cen
eral Motors held "monopoly Pc
sition' in the industry.
Thomas said Clark expressed
himself as being glad t. receive
any further information. The
union chief said further .informa-
ton obtained by the UAW-C1O
would be immediately submit
ted"
General Motors suggestion for
parts plant operation in the strike
received a conditional approval
from the union, contained in tele-
gram signed in Thomas name but
which the union president later dis
claimed as having been written by
himself.
The letter, which Thomas said
was written by a union public
relations man, declared General
Motors offer would be studied to
determine in what instances parts
production was necessary for 9th
er manufa cturers. The matter
went no further.
Hopes for a settlement return
ing $4,000 GIN workers to the job
received no encouragement prior
to today's negotiations beyond a
report from the union leadership
that another step forward had
Continued IN Pare Three: Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-08
HUGE MAJORITY FAVORS
TRUMAN LABOR PLAN

NEW YORK, Dec. 7-President
Truman's plan for fact-finding
boards and a thirty day cooling
off period before a major strike
can begin, has overwhelming sup
port from the general public.
A Gallup Poll conducted during
the last forty-eight hours with the
aid of the telegraph, finds more
than eight in every ten persons
questioned favoring Truman's pro-
posal. However, the proportion be-
ieving that the proposal will neces-
sarily reduce strikes is smaller.
The vote on the Truman propos-
al showed:
Favor, IS per cent; oppose, II
per cent; no opinion, 4 per cent.
AS to whether the law would
operate to reduce strikes, the vote
is: yes, 70 per cent; no, Is per
cent; no opinion, 8 per cent.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-08
WOMAN dies FROM
ACCIDENT INJURY

Mrs. Theodore M. Solomon, "a,
of 100 1vey Drive, Sunset Park,
died last night at 7:30 o'clock at
James Walker Memorial hospital
shortly after she was struck by an
automobile said to have been
driven by Joseph E. Adams, "a, Of
SOC Church st. Officers of the state
highway patrol who investigated
the accident said that Mrs. Solo
mon suffered a fractured skull and
internal injuries. Hospital attaches
said that their diagnosis was not
complete
The accident occurred about seven
o'clock on the Carolina Beach road
at Central Boulevard. Patrolmen
stated that several eye witnesses
told him that Mrs Solomon, ac-
companied by her young daughter,
attempted to cross the highway
and walked from behind parked
automobile into the path Of the
Adams car. They also reported
that Mrs. Solomon is said to have
pushed her daughter out of the
path of the approaching vehicle
but failed to get across the road
herself.
Eyewitness also stated that the
car driven by Adams was not
travelling at an excessive rate of
speed when Mrs. Solomon was
struck. No arrest was made.
A coroners inquest is scheduled
for Wednesday afternoon, Dec. IL
at 800 o'clock.
Surviving are her husband, M.
T.. Solomon; one daughter, Janice
Kay Solomon; parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. C. Morton, of Aberdeen;
two sisters, Mrs. J. M. Weaver,
of Durham, and Mrs. R J. Cook,
of Kannapolis; and one brother,
Capt. r. E. Morton, of Fort Bel
voir, Va.
Funeral arrangement will be an
nounced later by Ward Funeral
Home.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-08
GOVERNORS MOVE.
TO PROTECT GAIN

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 7N(R -
Southern Governors moved today
to protect their new freight rate
schedule from a northern attempt
to have it nullified.
The Southern Governors Con-
ference authorized ]. V. Norman,
Of Louisville, KY, chief counsel for
southern states in proceedings be-
fore the Interstate Commerce
Commission, to intervene in a
court action by nine northern
states seeking notification of the
ice ruling which favored the
south.
The conference also continued
in existence a steering committee
Of five governors which was Or
sanlzed in connection with the
campaign before the ICC.
Looking toward the educational
as well as the industrial advance
ment Of their section, the COVER
aors received report recommend
ing that southern states pool their
resources for higher education in
ofoel to make the best facilities
available to all students.
me report urged a planned de-
Velopment of facilities on a re-
s0Aal basis, since no one state
was held financially capable OF
saflhg for all types of educational
aet W alone. The program would
include various forms of mutual
sa Whereby a student from one
generating state could 60 cheaply
~ ", another for courses not avail
'u NJ IN MS home state.
Inc freight rate schedules which
,o'! NJ states are attacking will
" sS,. INTO effect January /, barring
wv court action. They cal
w. ~. Ieuuctlons of ten per cent ir
t Wv lor various manufactured ar
N''eS moving within southern anc
"0n'lhued on Page Three: Col. II
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-08
YAMASHlTA DEATH
DATE NOT SET YET
Condemned Jap General
Thanks Court For Fair
Trial, Courtesy

MANILA, Dec. 7-(R-Death on
the gallows was decreed for 1t
Gen. .Tomoyuki Yamashita today
by a five-General U. S. Military
Commission which found him guilty
of permitting monstrous atrocities
by Japanese troops in the Philip
pines.
b No date was set for the execu-
ton, which in accordance with
American military law must await
review of the Commissions find
ings by the Commander of Army
forces in the western Pacific and
confirmation by General Mac
Arthur.
Yamashita' shoulders sagged as
he heard the death sentence, but
he Strengthened quickly and made
a curt bow to the Commission. He
listened stony-faced but his fling
ers drummed the table as Maj.
Gen. Russell B. Reynolds slowly
read the findings of the Commits
sion, with the defendants interpre-
ter translating word by word into
japanese.
Before hearing the verdict, the
conqueror of Malaga and one-tlme
japanese commander in the Philip
pines stood, visibly nervous, while
the interpreter read this stateme q
tn the court.
II wish to stand here today with
clear conscience and swear to
God I am innocent of these
charges. wish to take this oppor-
tunity to express gratitude to the
United States officers of the de-
tense, brilliant and upright offic-
ers. I want to thank the commits
sion for fair trial"
Later he emphasized his graft
tude toward his American at
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-08
Real Estate
Prices Face
Restriction
TRUMAN ANNOUNCES
.,,erpment Planning Cor
t,ol, To Halt lnfla-
tionary Boom
nv MERR1MAN SMITH

--uod Press stall COAAoSpvAA
l1 ml'ssssHINGToN, Dec. 7-W.D -
Mn ;aan+ truman revealed today
pfeSi ssa Government is planning to
mat nat D real estate under price con-
br 11 - halt an infiationary boom.
Hp o.. ~ also told his news conference
n. ne n ar controls on building
tna .or r. soon will be restored.
mae M said he had hoped to make the
de ss nru today but arrange
siapts we're not completed in time.
mems gls MOVE ~ is intended to help re-
IL, lae 4h he. critical housing shortage.
ee eSt will channel materials in
I0il .s0 construction of residential
u', Tho President said the worst
.r a of real estate initiation is In
a .,asr dwellings. He said that no
snecific plan has been worked out
s spt hut that something will have
!. w. h. done to keep prices within
bounds. o.v
no.c,res was made by reconver-
, 1;on Director John W. Snyder, who
snIr few monNs ago ordered the
v yaroval of all restrictions on home
'' Iohn B. Blandford, National
Housing Administrator, meanwhile
nronosed a housing program to
meet the immediate needs OF re-
turning veterans and to push con-
s+rrtion of new homes "at double
tbe rate this country has ever
achieved"
He urged maximum Of existing
housing for veterans; construction
# at least 500, 1000 moderately priced
homes in crowded cities during
1915; and comprehensive housing
legislation to help end over-crowd-
Ing reduce slun dwellings and
rebuild cities.
Housing legislation Is being con-
sidered by the House and Senate
Banking committees. The Senate
bill would increase Federal aid to
home builders. The House meas
me would set UP a Sterilization
agency with the function OF chan
neling materials into needfll local
tiles,
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-08
MOTHER OF KIDNAPPED
CHILD RECEIVES NEW
DEMAND FOR RANSOM

CHELSEA, Mass Dec. 7-W.D-
A second telephone call demand
ing ransom money was received
today by the mother of 6-month-
old Ronald Carlan who was kid
mapped from a carriage near his
home nine days ago. =
The call came from BoWdoln
Square cafe and was believed to
have been made by the same man
who telephoned similar demand
last night. Police rushed to the
scene, but the man and his red
haired woman companion h d
left. A widespread search for the
pair was begun.
Persons in the cafe said the man
had called a Chelsea number. Mrs.
Rose Carlan, the baby's mother,
told police the man had advised
her to go to a certain Back Bay
theater at a certain time wearing
white dress, white hat and black
coat.
However, Police 1t. John j.
Kirby said he believed both calls
were made by a crank, and he
attached little significance to
them.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-08
PRISONERS PROTEST
THEIR SHIPMENT TO
RUSSIAN TERRITORY

STOCKHOLM, Dec. 7.-R)-
One hundred and sixty-seven
interned Bats today Temperate
ly broke a hunger strike start
ed two weeks ago in protest
against their scheduled extra1
ton to Russia as deserters
the German army.
The prisoners, a" Lithua
ans, Latvians and Estonian.
who had served with the Ger
mans, were among 2,700 inter-
nees marked for deportation.
They were too weak to be NOV
ed from Swedish hospitals when
the Russian vessel sailed last
weekend.
Hundreds of German officers
and men also succeeded in de-
laying their deportation to Rus
sian-occupied Germany by sew
ere self-mutilatiOn in a mass
suicide attempt on the morning
of their scheduled departure.
Several killed themselves.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-08
LAB0RITES GIVE
0KAY ON CREDITS

LONDON, Dec. 7-R) - Labor
government leaders whole-hearted-
ly approved the proposed 81, AGO.
900, 900 United States loan to Brit
ain today, but a small Conserva-
tive opposition in Commons moved
that the financial agreement be
rejected.
Backed by their overwhelming
majority, and motivated by Brit
aims almost desperate need for
dollar credits, Laborite leaders
planned for Parliamentary approx
al of the loan next week along with
passage of the Breton Woods bill,
A government spokesman de-
scribed the loan as IAN agree
ment which will work. and ad-
mitted that Britain's only alterna-
tive would be an immediate
austere future ''far worse than
during the darkest periods of the
war
Opposition came from two Con-
servative members within an hour
after the Breton Woods bill was
introduced for Parliamentary rati-
fication, as proposed by the Wash
ington conferees on the loan agree
ment.
Moving that both the Breton
Woods measure and the loan agree
ment be rejected, Conservative
Robert Boothby, a wealthy manu-
facturer, declared that acceptance
of the loan would abolish the sterl-
ing area: restore an international
gold standard, and force Britain to
Continued on Page Seven; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-08
FIRST CARGO VESSEL
SINCE 1912, DUE TO
REACH PORT TODAY

Arrival of the S. S. Pampero, a
CO type freighter operated by the
American-Hawaiian line, early to-
day, inaugurates the resumption
of service between west coast
ports and Wilmington, suspended
since early 1912.
The vessel, which docks at the
Wilmington Terminal Warehouse
Co., carries a general cargo for
Wilmington, and is scheduled to
leave for Norfolk sometime today.
Originally scheduled to arrive
in port here on December IL, the
vessel is four days early.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-08
ELECTS
new SECRETARY
John H. Farrell OF Mus
kegon To Succeed Morris
On January l

John L. Morris, secretary of the
Wilmington Champer of Commerce,
has resigned his position effective
Jan. l, according to an announce
ment by c. M. Harrington, presi-
dent of the organization, yester-
day 4..<
Named to succeed Morris was
John H. Farrell, Muskegon, Mich.
Morris did not divulge what in
dustrial firm he has accepted a
position with, saying the announce
ment would come from the office
of the firm. He did say, however,
that he was leaving Chamber Of
Commerce work to accept a job
in industry. D..
In making the announcement,
Harrington spoke highly of Morris
work during his tenure of service
here, and stressed that it was
through Morris offer alone that
the change was being made.
Farrell who is 46-years-of-age,
comes to the local office of the
Chamber of Commerce, highly
recommended, both by his employ
ers in Muskegon and by the United
States Chamber Of Commerce, Har-
rington said.
The new secretary has been en-
gagged as industrial contract rep
resentative in the offices Of the
Muskegon Chamber of Commerce,
and according to the local presi-
dent, has compiled a favorable
record there. He has watched the
city of Muskegon boom through
the war years and has been in
strumental in the retaining many
new industries in operation at that
city, his record indicates.
A graduate of Lowell Textile In
stitute and the Georgetown Uni
versity Foreign Service school,
Farrell, who was born in Troy,
N. Y, was for many years in the
United States Department of Com
merce and in textile industries in
Massachusetts, and Maryland.
During his service with the u.
S. Department of Commerce Far
re1l served as commercial agent,
assistant manager and manager
of district offices in San Fran
sisco, Wilmington, Del, Houston,
Tex, New Orleans and Cleveland,
o.
It was while employed in Will
mington, Del, that he started his
Chamber of Commerce work, be-
ing manager of the Foreign divi-
sion of that office. He was later
called to. Washington where he was
instrumental in the setting up OF
some. 80 National Recovery Ad-
ainistration agencies throughout
the country. 80
He was employed at. one time as
export manager of the Cleveland
Tractor company in Cleveland, and
has worked on several United
States Census ennumerations.
Harrington stressed the fact that
Farrell ''knew his way around
Capitol Hip in Washington, and
was equipped to administer any
Wa shington work that might arise
within the activities Of the local
chamber by going direct to the
proper source of information"
Advance information OF Far
Continued on Page Three; Col. u