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JAYCEES TO HEAR q
REPORT ON SITE y
FOR AUDITORIUM

Paul Dannenbaun, chairman Of
the Junior Chamber Of Commerce
fact-finding committee on location
site for community building is ex-
pected to make report to that
group when it meets tonight in
the assembly rooms at the YMCA.
The time of the meeting is 7:30
O'clock.
A detailed account Of arrange.
ments for the Founders Day ban.
quet, scheduled to be held next
Friday night at the Friendly Cafe
terra, is also expected. President
Bob Howard said last night that
banquet plans are complete.
The banquet will be the kick of
for Jaycee Founders Day Week
which will be celebrated from Jan.
uary IA to 81. The observance
the 26th annivers.
airy of the founding of the Junior
Chamber.
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in their desire to get out OF Poland.
The Polish government tries to
put down anti-Semitism, ne said,
but the people are not betN'd
them. >"
Schwartz referred to a recent
statement by 1t. Gen. Sir fred e:
rick Morgan, UNRRA chief N
Germany, that Jews were leaving
Poland in an organized movement
and said that it doesn't take a
secret organization" to get them
out.
They prefer to face unsettled
conditions in Palestine rather than
remain in Poland" he. said, be
cause tragedy has strengthened
their attachment. to Palestine as
homeland.
Harrison expressed concern over
the fact that UNRRA is only a
temporary organization and said
there must be an organization after
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Russian Camp Officials Fail
To Find Crowd For
Evacuation

BERLIN, Jan. Z. - WH. - Two
thousand Jewish refugees from Pc.
lan4, whom the Russians planned
to evacuate from their sector OF
Berlin to a camp north of the city,
disappeared" during the night and
were expected to filter into the
crowded American and British
zones.
| The French, learning that the
refugees were at large, at once
closed their sector to further ar
rivals.
On the ground that a flow of ref
ugees would aggravate the acute
housing problems, the Russians
ordered two camps in their sector
closed and the occupants sent to
Prenzlau, so miles north of Berlin.
Reliable informants said that Rus
sian troops started rounding up the
refugees during the night but that
only 40 were taken.
The refugees, some of those pour
ing into Berlin with stories Of anti
Jewish atrocities in Poland, fear.
ed that the Russians after taking
them to Prenzlau planned to send
them back to Poland, informants
said.
Russian trucks arrived at the
camps this morning to take the
refugees to two special trains
awaiting them. But, informants
said, it was found that the refugees
had "gone out walking" before the
troop roundup started. The trains
were cancelled. 4
Informants said that the Russians
ordered the evacuation against the
protests of Jewish community lead
ers, who are anxious over the
situation. The community leaders
believe refugees from the Russian
zone will move into the American
Continued on Page Two; Col. A.
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director of the American Jewish
Joint Distribution committee. de-
scribed Poland as Jewish grave.
yard" He testified that anti-Semi-
tism is widespread. Nathan, form
er Deputy Director of Mobillza-
ton and Reconversion, said his
plan envisaged positive and i'm
aginative'' government in Pales-
tine He charged the present adj
ministration with lack of a con-
structive tax policy, and with not
fostering irrigation and trade.
He said his plan called for
growth of trade between Arabs and
Jews, expansion of Palestine s
markets in the middle east, and
raising the Arabs standard OF
living. He said it was based on
economic rather than political
factors.
Schwartz said that Jews are
literally sitting OH their vallses
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IS DEAD, 50 HURT
BY FLOOD WATERS
Many Towns Isolated As
Creeks, Rivers Overflow
Throughout South
By UNITED PRESS

Tornadoes left IS persons dead
more than so injured, and hund
reds homeless Monday night as
heavy rains drenched the south
land, sending rivers and creeks
pouring over their banks.
Whole towns were isolated as
flood waters covered the highways
and railroads, and more. flood
warnings for low1and areas were
issued by Weather. Bureau Off
Gals. The heavy rains were ac-
companied by cheat wave" tenn
peratures throughout the Duth.
The death toll increased to Is
as the Red Cross area headquar-
tiers in Atlanta reported that six
persons had been killed in Car
rollton, Miss, and three at Sun
flower, Miss. late Sunday night
by a tornado.
Property damage from lorna
does, electric storms and floods
left hundreds Of thousands Of dol
lars in property damage.
Swelling waters of the Duck
river, in Hickman county. Ten
nessee, burst two Tennessee Val
ley Authority dams and destroyed
the power substation as well as
two houses. Damage was esti-
minated at $25, ZOO.
Property damage resulting from
a tornado which Sunday night
struck Villa Platte, La, in Evan
geline Parish, caused more than
$4,000 damage and left nearly
so families homeless. The business
district of st. Martinsville, La,
was damaged badly by cyclonic
winds.
More than 100 families were left
homeless in Amite, Miss, as a
tornado leveled homes. Many per-
sons were reported injured in
Amite. Wilkinson, Miss, also re-
ported severe damage and many
injuries but no deaths.
Red Cross nurses were en- route
from Atlanta to Carrollton Mon
day night and a reserve of nurses
was held in New Orleans.
A cyclone struck Cola, Miss,
Monday killing Mrs. Ernest Shute
and her small child and injuring
five others. The small town OF
Seven Pines. Miss, was virtually
wiped out but no one was injured
there. An unidentified Negro and
Is other persons were hurt near
Continued on Page Two; Col. A.
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BENSON SAYS FUNDS
FOR CENSUS WOULD
CUT OTHER ITEMS

tits a matter of choosing be-
tween the lesser of two evils, and
if funds from the fiscal years bud
get are allotted for census now,
it will mean that the item for
which such funds were originally
allocated, will have to wait until
additional money can be procur-
ed,'' City Clerk ]. R.. Benson said
last night.
Definite action as to whether a
census will be forthcoming soon is
expected at Wednesdays meeting
of the city council, it was learned.
Benson who has been working
in cooperation with city manager
A. c. Nichols on consideration of
securing funds for conducting a
census, would comment neither
pro nor con on his personal ideas.
Benson had previously been
quoted ON the matter as saying,
eff some other items have to be
pared, the census will be worth
il - =
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SEAL. SEEKS
USE OF AIRPORT
Head OF Line To Fly Here
Today To Confer With
Commissioners

The first major action by the
Board of County Commissioners
after being granted control Oh
Buthenthal field by the Army. Ali
Forces may be a decision on a petit
tion by South East Air Lines to op'
crate out of the 100000 airport.
The commissioners were informed
of the AAF action in a telegram
received yesterday.
W. C. league, president Of the
lne, said in a telephone converse
ton with the Star yesterday, that
he plans to fly to Wilmington to-
Gay, weather permitting, to press
the company's case before the
commissioners.
Local representative Of the
transportation corporation pointed
out that delay in making arrange
ments for use of the field repre-
sented a financial loss to both the
county and the line.
South East, which provides an
east-west feeder service for Viii.
mington, connecting with air trans
port service to all parts Of the
country, has long sought use Of the
county airport.
Along with the air line, it is I'm
derstood that at least one local
non-scheduled flying service opera
tor is ready to begin operations at
the field as soon as permission can
be obtained.
County Commissioner Harry R.
Gardner, commenting on the status
Of the airport situation, last night
stated that he- hoped that "the
commissioners will set up a body
to accept responsibility for Blue
thenthal, with the necessary au.
thority to conduct business ar
rangements with agencies or par.
ties desiring use of the field"
Gardner, who has been in the
lore Of aeronautical advancement
In this section, said he hoped that
immediate and constructive action
by the Board could be taken on the
re Urn Of Chairman Addison Hew.
letf who was absent from yester
days board meeting due to illness,
In telegram received by the
BOARD Yesterday morning from At
lan'a via Fort Bragg, the board
was hereby granted immediate
lignt OF entry to use Bluethentha,
,neld' pending execution of forma
icense and subject to terms am
conditions thereof"
Inc notification originated in the
, OF the division engineer, At
lanta. Ga. -
Although matters pertaining tt
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MARINES REDUCE
DISCHARGE SCORE

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7-tHEThe
Marine Corps announced today its
critical discharge score for all Of
ficers and men would be cut from
so to As, effective Februar.- 1.
About $4,000 additional persons
will be made eligible for release by
the reduction, the service esti-
mated.
There was no change in the
critical score for women Marines,
reduced to 10 on January l.
September /, 1915, is the control
date for release of male Marine
personnel, and September IS for
women Marines.
Since VI Day. the Marine Corps
has released $4,000 personnel of
all categories, or approximately So
percent of the total reduction from
it's maximum wartime strength to
it's planned peacetine strength.
During the same period, 5,104 men
have been indicted under Selec-
tive Service.
Three divisions and supporting
troops or approximately half of the
former combat strength of the
Marine Corps, are still on occupa-
tional duty in Japan and China.
Reductions, the Corps said, reflect
chiefly the curtailment of train
ing and logistical facilities and the
reduction of wartime activities to
normal peacetime basis.
The announcement said it was
expected that the majority of the
remaining so point men would be
released during January.
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Communists Ii
Government
Men Agree
MEET THREE HOURS
Red Leaders Entertain 400
Diplomats Following -
Conference Recess
BY GEORGE WANG

United Press Staff Correspondent
CHUNGKING, Jan. 7. = Gen
George c. Marshall held his first
formal conference today with rep.
resentatives of both the Chinese
Central government and the Com
munists on ways to stop hostilities
in China's civil war, and announced
after a three-hour session that they
had made "good progress"
Gen. Oh Cminhin, Szechwan pro-
vince governor and government
representative at the conference,
said things are going quite well. "
Gen. Chou En-lai, Communist rep
resentative, said things are going
very we'll"
While the principals confined
themselves to general statements,
authoritative sources said they
discussed the cease-fire order and
related matters, but that no con-
crete decision was reached. Cen
trail News agency said the repa-
triation of japanese was among the
matters talked over.
The days start on efforts to halt
China s.. civil war was marked adj
ditionally by the Communists
of their biggest social
affair since the government came
to Chungking. 1t was cocktail
party attended by 400 diplomats,
government and Communist Off
Gals and correspondents.
Marshall began his conference
with Chou and Chang at 10 a. m.
at his residence, and the meeting
lasted until / p. M, when the
principals emerged for pictures
by cameramen who waited outside.
Eve are making good progress
and meeting again tomorrow" said
Marshall. The meeting will begin
at II a. m.
Authoritative sources said that
the leading topic of today's dis
cussions was the mechanics of the
cease-fire order, and three related
subjects: restoration of communi-
cations disrupted by the civil war,
lifting of the blockade by either
party against territories held by
the other, and the dispatch Of neu
Continued on Page Two; Col. g.
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TODAY IS AUGUST
IN JANUARY SAYS
old WIVES TALE

Today, Jan. 8, is August in
January, according to an old
wives tale.
Patrolman Roy Duncan,
State Highway patrol, recalls
the legend. 1t seems the first
IL days of January - the.
weather on each of these days
are supposed to represent
the IL months Of the year.
Here's the score 50 far, to-
gether with the forecast for
today. See how these days
compare with the usual wealth
err for the months they repre-
sent:
Jan. Gold and gray-(Jan-
uary) ~, -.
Jan. Chilly, cloudy-(Feb-
ruary)
Jan. 3EWindstorm-(March)
Continued. on Page Two; Col. 5
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SOFT COAL OUTPUT
IN 1916 DROPS OVER
7PER CENT FOR YEAR

WASHINGTON, Jan. T. up =
Soft coal production in 1915 drop
ped about 7.3 per cent below 1914.
Anthracite output declined even
more sharply, approximately 14.4
per cent. e..
The Solid Fuels Administration
reported today that bituminous
production last year approximate
ed SIS, 900, 1000 tons. This compares
with $40, 600, 900 produced in 1914.
Anthracite production was about
81, 476, 0oO tons, compared with g.
FOL 900 tons in 1914.
STA also reported continued
decline in retail dealers stocks.
AS Of Dec. 1, these stocks aver
aged 10 days supply compared
with IS days Nov. l.
Total stocks of soft coal approx
mated 48, 922, 1000 tons Dec. l COM
pared with "a, 100000 tons Dec. !,
1914.
The Agency said this dipping in
70 the reserves was necessitated by
oss of production due largely to
he miners strike last spring and
he foremen's strike early in the |
all. !
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PLANNING BOARD
TO REVIEW CASE
OF SHOP CENTER

N, inc city planning board tonight,
". MN near John Weinberg talk on
ene proposed construction of a
commercial center for Market
street road.
"enberg's plan, as originally
phe:;Ste.hted, was to construct the
, puliolng on the north side Of Mar
AeI street road between 23rd street
ana ana Kenwood ave. The plan was
, apandoned by Weinberg several
geeks ago when protests were reg
pn seleo by residents of nearby
norwood ,i The plan has been re-
i've .neo since the area was made a
ps IT. OF the city proper.
She ane center, would furnish ample
cal facilities for all practi-
"a 4. i'ems, according to Weinberg.
c;r AZ me last meeting of the plan
ling board, members voted to
t,o.o a meeting for the purpose Of
tt, os Wenberg's second appeal
,Ul permission. A decision as TO
.iner he will be allowed to con-
., niue the plan is expected at to-
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Nathan Tells Anglo-American Committeeman
That Palestine Can Absorb 100000 Jews Nou

1916 to handle the resettlement
problem. He also urged immediate
action for. 100, 600 Jews in Ger.
many and Austria. ae. ~.
mo matter how much condi.
tons have improved in the camps, .
he said, there is "a. most import
ant piece OF unfini shed business
liberation
President !, Truman said in a
statement that he hoped the COM
mittee would complete its assign
ment successfully. He took as levi
dence of the spirit Of cooperation"
an agreement by British members
that the inquiry should begin in
Washington.
Meanwhile, BARLEY C. Crum,
San Francisco lawyer, became
the sixth member Of the commit
tee. He was named to replace o.
Max Gardner, former Governor
of North Carolina, who was unable
to serve.
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HEAD / OF CHILD
FOUND IN DRAIN

CHICAGO, Jan. 7.-UD-A fiend-
ish kidnaper who snatched six
year-old Suzanne Degnan from her
bed early today decapitated the
child and tossed her head into
the filth of Chicago sewer, police
reported tonight.
The head of the golden-haired,
blue-eyed daughter of James Deg
nan, 36-year-old OPA official, was
found in a cess-pool a few hundred
feet from her home only a short
time after the distraught father
had offered to pay the $50, 600 de-
manded for her safe return.
The gruesome find touched OH
one of the greatest manhunts IN
Chicago history and sent police
men combing the dank sewers in
search of the torso. Neighbors who
gathered at the, Degnan home to
offer their aid in the search reacted
angrily when the head was found.
Three suspects, all janitors, were
under surveillance, police admit
ted.
Police expressed the belief tna'
Suzanne had recognized her KID
naper and he had killed her 1oi
fear. that she would disclose MS
identity
The head, floating in sewage
filth in a tunnel between two
apartment buildings; was identlneo
by two friends Of the family
The head was found by squao
of police searching the nelghoor'
hood.
Detectives Leo O'Rourke ane
Harry Benoit were the first te
come upon the gruesome hnd
The head was about four feet belo"
the manhole cover, floating race
up in the sewage filth.
Storm tried to remove the heac
with a rake and other implements
but failed. The coroner and sewer
department were called in to re
move the head. Final ldentlflca
ton had to await their arrival.
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COUNCIL TO HEAR
CITIZENS ON SITE

Citizens of Wilmington will have
an opportunity to express them
selves regarding the location of the
proposal community building,
Thursday night at 8 o'clock in the
county court house.
After an act by the enlarged city
council, Jan. 2, it was. decided tina,
the date would be set for open
forum discussions on the matter
The move is for the purpose OF
getting the opinions Of Whining
tonians on the subject, so that swift
action in getting the building start
ed can be taken.
Prevailing opinion. among
councilmen was that the audi
torium should be erected . on the
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. y
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1000 Jewish Refugees Disappear
Court Decision Fauors =<<Witnesses'
High Tribunal Balances
Ownership Rights In
Test Case

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7-(R -
The Supreme Court balanced own
ership rights against freedom OF
religion today and held five to
three that Jehovah's Witnesses
may pass out literature in COM
pany towns and Federal villages
just as in ordinary municipalities.
A blunt-spoken minority opinion
by Justice Reed called it novel
constitutional doctrine.
4'This is the first case to extend
by law the privilege of religious
exercise beyond public places or
to private places without the as
sent of the owner," Reed asserted.
He was joined by. Chief Justice
Continued on Page Two; Col. "
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20 900 AHaican CTS Boo Down Commander
Marsha <Reports Progress In China PeQc
'MEANEST MAN. PUTS
NO. GOOD JAP BILL
IN CHURCH PLATE

The Fourth and Campbell
PentecOstal Holiness congrega-
tfona is looking for the mean
est man in town.
He passed off a worthless five
pesos Japanese note in the col
lection plate there and got for
good American dollars in
change.
The five pesos note-the kind
the laps used for money when
they occupied the Philippines
when folded looks like a S.
bill. When Deacon Arthur
Garfield passed the collection
plate at his church last night
a stranger in one of the pews
said he wanted to contribute
a dollar. He put what Deacon
Garfield thought was a. S. bill
in the plate. The deacon count
ed him out four 81 bills In
change.
Continued on Page Two; Col. 7,
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U. S. Troops
Renew Drive
To Go Home
GIANT MEETINGS
Soldiers Demand Congress
ional Probes OF Foreign
Policy. Evacuation
BY WILLIAM C. WILSON
nited Press Staff Correspondent

Oy vy1AAxAN1 VI vvAA6O4N
United Press Staff Correspondent
MANILA, Jan. More than TO-
600 American soldiers in new de-
mand to go home, tonight booed
down a speech by their Command
ing General and asked for Con-
gressional investigation of Ameri-
can foreign policy as related to the
War Department. rehabilitation
program.
They refused TO accept an ex-
PLANTATION by 1t. Gen. w. D.. Styer
that the War Department contem-
plated a total garrison strength
of 375,O00 men in the entire Pa
cific area-2OO,00 in Japan and
Korea, 10000 in the Philippines
and the remainder in other out
posts.
In a giant mass meeting pro-
testing continued overseas duty
the third in two days-the sol
diers demanded immediate evacu-
alton of China, the Philippines and
all other overseas garrisons ex-
cept those in defeated Germany
and Japan.
CT speakers scored the use Of
American ships as transports in
China and Indonesia and declared:
I'VE are confused and bewildered.
We want to know the truth" They
demanded that the rehabilitation
program be taken out of the hands
of "vested interests" in the War
Department and placed under
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To Win Over
Firm, Unions
IL A. M. TIME SET
Communica tons Walkout
Threatens To Spread To
Long Phone Lines
By DELOS SMITH

United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Jan. THE Ma
tion's largest city will be cut off
from telegraphic communication
with the rest OF the country at II
am. tomorrow, Mayor William o..
Dwyer announced tonight by admit
ting the complete failure Of his
effort to head off the schedule
strike of 1000 local employees Of
Western Union.
1t appeared probable that 40 per
cent of Americans overseas COM
munications with the the rest OF
the world would cease at the
same hour-due to the same strike.
And the possibility Of it spreading
through the Western union system
across the country was advanced
by CLIO union leaders as they left
an afternoon-long conference with
New York's chief executive.
A parallel peril to the nations
vital communications was boiling
furiously and the telephone system
may be disrupted on nationwide
basis by the end Of the week.
President Truman and Secretary Of
Labor Lewis Schwellenbach wers
importuned by the union leaders OF
265, 900 telephone workers to in
tervene on the plea that only gov.
eminent action could prevent .
critical tie-up.
''There will be strike at a. m
tomorrow, O'Dwyer announced
after an afternoon long conference
with officials of Western Union and
the American Communications AS.
sociation, CLIO, union OF local WI
workers.
He asked company and union ID
submit the main issue of their dis
pute' to arbitration. He said thi
union agreed and the company re
fused.
Joseph Scully, president Of thu
union, emerged from the confer.
ence to announce that "the Mayor
has found the unions case fair ano
equitable" He appealed to the So
600 Western Union operative EN-.
ployes in the rest Of the country,
who belong to the commercial Tele.
graphers Union (AFL) to refuse
to handle "struck copy"
Repercussions Of the strike upon
American business seemed meal
cuable. AGA has a modified closed
shop-when it's members walk out
of Western Union offices here the
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
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OMtCu 1ICSS 0tdAl Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. - Robert
Nathan, who recently completed
an. economic survey of Palestine.
said today that the Holy Land
could absorb 100000 Jews i'm
mediately. He also outlined a 10
year plan whereby maximum of
1,125,0 900 could move there.
Testifying before the Anglo :
American committee investigating
Jewish immigration into Pales-
tines, he charged that the British
government had failed to push
economic development in the area
Earl G. Harriuon, who surveyed
the condition of Jews in Europe at
President Truman's request, told
the committee that Jews refused
to stay in Poland and were leav-
ing as early as last July to escape
persecution.
Joseph ]. Schwartz, European