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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-17
CHANG RECEIVES
CONFIDENCE VOTE
Congress InstructsH Him
To Begin Talks For Reds
Manchurian Withdrawal

CHUNGKING, March 16.-(P)-
Generalissimo Chang Kai-Shek'
Muomintang gave him a unani
nous vote of confidence today fol
the delicate dealings which lie
ahead with Russia over Manchur.
ia.
The party congress also adopted
resolutions which in effect instruc-
ted him to begin negotiations al
once for the prompt withdrawal Of
the last Soviet soldiers from Man
churia's soil.
The government-subsidized Cen
trail News Agency in a Peiping dis
patch said it appeared that the
Red Army in the northern city Of
Hardin was preparing to follow
the Mukden garrison in with
drawing.
General Marshall, special U. S
envoy just back from China, tolt
a WA shington news conference
that the situation in Manchuria-
where. government and Chinese
Communist troops are jockeyins
for position-was Extremely criti-
cal" He said more U.S.-tralnee
government troops were embark
ing for Manchuria0 e
The Generalissimo exerted his
leadership and headed off a Kuo
mintang resolution which woulo
fContinued nm Page 3: Column AZ
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ANSWERS RED REPORT
Gold, Silver And Jewelry
Still Under Guard In
Vaults OF Banks

TOKYO, Sunday, March 17.-(P)
General Macarthur economic
chief today fatty denied Russian
press reports that the United States
army is moving valuable metals
from Japan to America.
1.-The millions of dollars worth
of gold silver, platinum and
jewelry are still under military
guard in the vaults of the Bank
of Japan, said Maj. Gen. W. F.
Marquat, chief of the economic and
scientific section of soap (Sup-
RENE Command, Allied Powers).
Further Denial
A further denial of the Moscow
newspaper Pravda's Vladivostck
dispatch came from General Mar.
quat's civilian financial aide, c.
F. Thomas, of New York, who said
mot a single thing has been NOV
ed"
''Disposition of this wealth is not
a matter for our section and we
merely are guarding it," Thomas
explained.
'.It is up to the Allied powers
to decide what is to become OF
it-not just the United States"
Thomas estimated that the
precious metals and jewels in the
vaults are valued at $3.50, 1000, 900.
LAS rapidly as this wealth has
been turned in by the japanese or
located when it was not reported,
we have put it into the vaults for
safekeeping," said Thomas.
1T has not been moved around
but has been left right there"
Asked whether any Russian rep
resentatives participated in the
seizures, he said, They have not
even asked to see il"
Has Been Frank
Thomas added that the United
States army has been entirely
frank about every lot of gold, sill
yer, platinum, jewels and anything
else received, announcing it to both
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-17
Star-News Presents
II Pages OF Comics

The Sunday Star-News today
offers its readers an augment
ed IL pages of % comics in
two sections in full color.
Six of the new features Of
fered are combinations Of
strips published daily in either
the Morning Star or Whining
ton News. Six others are new
corners to the Star-News comics
family.
Capt. Easy, Boots and Her
Buddies, Our Boarding House
with Major Hoople, and Out
Our Way, old friends of the
Morning Star, are with us as
usual today and Alley Oop and
Freckles and His Friends from
the News are included.
Newcomers today include
This Curious World, Vic Flint,
supersleuth; Brenda Breeze,
and Babe and Horace. As in
the past, there will be Blon-
die, Little Orphan Ami }, I'm
Gle Remus, joe Palooka,
Mickey Finn, Tim Tyler, Brick
Bradford, the Gumps, Moon
Mullins and Gasoline Alley.
Yes, today, your Sunday Star
News comic sections have ~
comics in color-the pick of
the nations best features.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-17

With the 1916 Red Cross cam
paign for funds entering its last
week of actual solicitation, the
workers still face the task Of rails
Ing some $4,000 to meet the quota
At noon yesterday, when the
Red Cross campaign office clos.
cd for the weekend, a total OF
$40, 247.45 had been reported. Ihls
represents about Is per cent o.
the amount needed for the goal
to be reached by March ", when
actual solicitation is expected to
be completed. o,o.,; s..
co-chairman F. P. o'CroWley In
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-17
SERIES OF SAFE
THEFTS SOLVED
Greene County Negro Con.
fesses Getting $4,000
In Eastern N. c.

The arrest of Josea Parker, 80,
year-old Greene county negro, Fri
day morning, has cleared up a
series of safe robberies that had
baffled police officers of several
Eastern North Carolina counties.
Picked up on a charge of suspi
clon following the looting of a safe
in a store owned by H. S. Taylor
in Hookerton, the Negro was
lodged in Greene county jail, Snow
Hill, and charged with vagrancy.
A comparison of footprints found
near the Hookerton store was
made with shoes worn by Parker.
Marks on the shoes of the Negro
tailed with marks in the prints.
Confronted with this evidence, the
suspect confessed to the robbery,
authorities said.
Police officers of Greene county
also found % one hundred dollar
bills in the shoes which was a
portion of the loot taken from
Taylor's store.
The arrest was made by Deputy
Sheriff Fred Carraway, of Greene
county who had been sent to in
vestigate the Hookerton robbery.
Carraway, reaching tn store, re-
membered seeing a Negro asking
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-17
COUNTY ELECTIONS
BOARD IS RENAMED
H. G. Carney, J. H. Nigel
And Robert Strange Will
Continue To Serve

The state board of elections, sit
ting at Raleigh yesterday, on
recommendation of the New Han
over Democratic executive COM
mlttee, re-appointed the entire
membership of the New Hanover
BOARD OF elections. The body is
comprised of H. G. Carney and
ROBERT Strange, Democrats. and
u Il. Nigel, Republican.
win the re-appointment to office
VI all members of the board now
Wi Of the way, official filing OF
candidates for county offices at
sake In the May Is Democrat
primary, is expected to get under
way the latter part of this week.
WINE few candidates have al.
ready announced their intention Of
lung tor a few Of the offices, the
ntae-pflmary campaign has yet to
lake on the hue and cry of the
usual political battle.
p olher appointments by the State
o Qua, Of Elections yesterday in.
Baden county: Johnnie Hem.
,,I.4IggWay, Elizabethtown, Frank
~. II Woodville, Hersey Mill
e. l. E., Colerain.
r. brunswick county. David Ross
11aeeland, Robert S. Milligan, Ash
"eS'er Babson, Freeland.
D Golumbus county: A. Elmo
'O"eIl' Jr., Whiteville, B. H. Small
l00ntlnued IN Paoa 9 CoIunon n
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Marshall Says
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Crack American trained
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En- Route To Country
CONFERENCES HELD
General Says Next Few
Months Important To Fu-
ture of China and Peace

WASHINGTON, March 16.-Up
Gen. George c. Marshan's de.
scription of the Manchurian situa.
ton as extremely critical and
his revelation that crack Ameri-
can trained Chinese Army divi-
sions are en- route there intensified
American efforts tonight to solve
mounting U. S.-Soviet controver-
sizes before they explode.
Giving up their usual Saturday
government holiday, high State de-
partment officials met in a series
of conferences on the Iranian and
Manchurian situations whi.c h
threaten big three unity and pose
critical tests for the United Nations
organization.
These officials are hoping-if not
expecting-that the Soviet Union
will make some move soon to ease
the tension. Any break in Soviet
Union silence would help. Today
return of Soviet Ambassador An.
drei A.. Gromyko to Washington is
expected to lead to an immediate
series of conferences with Secre-
tary of State James F. Byrnes.
First Statement
Marshall made his first public
statement on conditions in the Far
East at a special press confer
ence. He has returned here for con-
sultation with Byrnes and Presi
dent Truman from his mission as
the President special enissary tc
China. He expects to go back soon
Coincidentally with passage by
the Chinese Khomintang of reso-
luton calling on Russia to get out
of Manchuria and while this coun
try continued to wait. for Russia s
reply to American protests about
Soviet policy in Manchuria, Mar.
shall disclosed:
l. That the Manchurian situation
is extremely critical and thai
the United States has had little
information about what is going or
there.
2. That picked divisions from
the 80, American-trained Chinese
Army divisions which fought If
Burma "are embarking now" fol
Manchuria. Marshall did not say
so. but the battle-toughened, well
equipped divisions presumably are
sailing in American craft after ar
historic march over the HlmalayaS
8. That the night before his de-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-17
RED PAPER AYERS
OIL FIELDS VITAL
Great Britain May Propose
World Control OF Pc
troleum Resources
BY EDDY GILMORE

MOSCOW, March 16-P)
The newspaper Izvestia de-
clared today that northern
Iran oil fields were of "pri-
mary significance" to Rus
sian security, and charged
that Iran four times broke
the Soviet-Iranian treaty of
1921 by granting to United
States and British firms oil
concessions previously held by
Russia.
The government newspaper ac-
cused Iran of discriminating
against Russia in oil concessions,
of threatening Soviet security, and
Of seeking instigate conflicts be-.
tween the Soviet Union and other
great powers The latter charge
was made in another article in
Izvestia Thursday.
Izvestia asserted that when Rus
STA in 1914 (CQ) proposed renewal
of her former oil concessions in the
north, the proposal met "raving
resistance from the Iranian rul-
ing upper crusts.
'It. is not permissible" said
Izvestia, ITO forget about all these
facts which have serious meaning
in the development of relations
between the Soviet Union and
Iran"
Claims Rights Granted
The 1921 treaty, it said, stipulated
that Iran would not give conces-
sions to foreign interests in North.
lern Iran, but that Iran had granted
them to three American and enc
Dutch-British firm in this area
adjacent to the southern Soviet
frontier and close to Russian Oil
bases in Baku and Turknen. These
concessions, said Izvestia, were
threats to Russian security.
The newspaper said the violations
of the treaty were concession to
Standard Oil in November, 1921 !;
to Sinclair Oil in December, 1928;
to Delaware Oil in January, 1887,
and to the Anglo-Dutch company,
Continued on Page 3; Column y
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-17
SOVzETS* MASS TROOPS NEAR
RANZAN CAPITAL AND CLAIM
COUNTRY BROKE OIL Realty
Byrnes Rejects Idea
OF Military Accords

NEW YORK, March 16-(R
Secretary of State Byrnes re-
Jected tonight any idea Of an
alliance with Russia against
Britain or Britain against Rus
STA. He declared the United
States b a Sc its hopes for
security on the United Nations
Organization cas- the path to
enduring peace"
In speech delivered at
meeting of the "Society of the
Friendly Sons of St. Patrick"
at the Hotel Astor, Byrnes call
ed for extension of the Selec-
tive Service Act beyond the
expiration date of May Is.
Even now, he said, the load
ers Of the government "are
alarmed at the lack of physi-
cally fit men to keep the Army
up to strength and unless the
draft law is renewed "the sit
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-17
u. S. Denies Moving
Valuable Jap Metals
Contract Is Awarded
For Cooper Span Job

COLUMBIA, S. c., March 16
-P)-The Tidewater Construc-
ton company of Norfolk, Va,
received today a $44,5O0 con-
tract from the State Highway
department to build a one-way
temporary drive over the dam
aged portion of the John p.
Grace Memorial bridge at
Charleston.
A Bailey bridge" will be
obtained from the federal gov
eminent for use as the tenn
porary span, chief highway en-
gineer o. r. Mcmillan said.
The contract called for work
to be completed in 80 days,
with $60O-a-day penalty for
each day in excess of that
time and a 81, 400-a-day bonus
for each day less than that
time.
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uation will become critical"
Byrnes expressed his "whole-
hearted and unequivocal en-
dorsement Of the proposal for
universal military training" as
a long-term assurance of train
ed reserves.
He said the United States
needs military strength to sup
port if necessary the purposes
and principles of the United
Nations charter.
'T cannot emphasize too
strongly" he declared, "that
the United States looks to the
United Nations as the path to
enduring peace.
eve do not propose to seek
security in an alliance with
the Soviet Union against Great
Britain or in an alliance with
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Continued on Page 3; Column
Red Cross Workers Still
$4,000 From Drive Goal

commenting on the first report
of the campaign said returns SO
far are encouraging. Firms are
meeting their goals, but, if we
are to conclude the campaign by
March %, each and every firm
in Wilmington must get its report
into c a mpai gn headquarters
promptly
Civic Spirit
wilmington has always backed
the Red Cross and during the
war years the city contributed
promptly and generously" the
chairman said. ut is easy to main
Continued on Page IL; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-17
C0ERINC ATTEMPTS
TO AID COMRADES
Seeks To Fix Blame For
Nazi War Grimes On
Adolf Hitler Alone

NUREMBERG, March 16-U.H-
Hermann Goering, seeking to fix
the blame for Nazi war crimes on
Adolf Hitler alone, today attempted
to whitewash five of his fellow de.
PENDANTS by styling them mere
middlemen or office boys to the
Fuehrer..
He told the international tribunal
that Alfred Rosenberg, Waither
Funk, and Baldur Won Schirach
were Insignificant subordinates
frequently in hot water with Hit.
Ter, and described Wilhelm Keitel
and Alfred Gust v Joel as reluct-
ant generals VIII served only be.
(Cont;nued IN Pale 2. Column 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-17

solicitorship of the same judicial
district. Judge Henry L. Stevens
of Warsaw, former national COM
mander of the American Legion,
WILL have no opposition for the
Democratic nomination in the Sixth
district but will face a race
in the fall against Oscar B. Turn
er of Rose Hill, who filed for the
office ON the Republican ticket.
In the Seventh Congressional dis.
trlct, which embraces New Han
over county, Representative J.
Bayard Clark of Fayetteville will
be opposed at the primary in Nav
Continued on Page 3; Column 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-17
Aeronautics Commission
Against Paid Air Groups

n,o. Neither this commission nor the
MY study group has favored
S Salu aviation commissions, State
cb taa'or Roy Rowe, of Burgaw,
Aa Altman of the North Carolina
str g. commission, told the
co nv, news yesterday in a telephone
AIS us statement was in reply to an
co o1I0c1ated Press story in which
tba ' frank E. Dawson, head of
o'o4 state Civil Air patrol, was
i ;Uo as saying the North Caro-
fara 10 Aeronautics commission
REC Dreo pad control group.
COVE 1--we pointed out that the present
'4i'lnlssion, created by the last
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-17

general assembly, and appointed
by Governor R. Gregg Cherry Is
a non-paid board and has consist
emily gone on record as opposing
a paid body.
In connection with his comments
concerning the commission, Rowe "
said members of the flve-man oooy
would arrive here by plane from
Grenville in the afternoon OF Tues
day. March 2e, spend the night n
Wilmington and meet win pun, :.
officials, private pilots, ana a1rpol'
operators of Wilmington ana sur
Continued ON Page II; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-17
Judge Burney And Moore
Unopposed In May Vote

Judge John ]. Burney, of Will
mington, was last night assured of
another four year term as judge
of superior court for the Eighth
Judicial district when the 6 pm,
deadline for candidates to file with
the state board of elections for
North Cardinals off-year vote
found him without an opponent.
Judge Burney thus will automati-,
cally receive the Democratic no.
mination for the. office in the May
primary, and as there is no Repub-
lican opponent, his election is as
sured.
Clifton L. Moore, of Burgaw, was
also returned unopposed to the
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-17
MINISTER OF WAR
| DENIES STATEMENT
Various Russian Troop
Movements Noted But
Tension Is Decreasing
BY JOSEPH C. GOODWIN

TEHRAN, March 16-(B
A reliable source said to-
day 5000 Russian troops now
were concentrated at Karaj,
20 miles northwest of this
capital, but the 1ranian di-
rector of propaganda declar-
ed "there is no danger to
Tehran."
Earlier today, War Minister
Ahmed Sepehod Amir Ahmed de-
MED he told a news conference
Thursday that the Iranian army
would fight ''to the last man" if
Soviet troops moved on Tehran.
He said his remarks were "com-
pletely misinterpyeted'' by q War
department interpreter.
A dispatch to the newspaper
Meryar Melli from Maragheh, 300
miles northwest of Tehran, said
Soviet garrisons had been estab-
lished at the desert villages of
Takah and Shahindej - between
Maragheh and Mianeh 80 miles to
the east - where Soviet columns
were reported in motion several
days ago.
Moving Into Rail Points
The dispatch added that the Rus
slams were knowing back into rail-
way points recently evacuated
south of Mianeh."
Reports reaching here last night
said Russian units advancing south
around Lake Urnia near the from
tiers of Turkey and Iraq, had
reached points go miles southeast
of Saujbulagh, Seat Of the semi
autonomous sheikdom of Kurdish
chief Ghazi Mohammed.
Price Firouz, propaganda direc-
tor and political undersecretary of
state, told newsmen: There is no
danger to Tehran. The Russians
have been in the country 4 Ia
years without attacking us. There
is absolutely no threat of attack
here now.''
Tension in this capital noticeably
lessened. Residents apparently
were accepting the situation. Some
wealthy families, however, have
moved to village homes in the
south and the daily train is book
ed solioly.
War Minister Ahmed, appear
ing jointly at a news conference
with FirouZ, denied the statements
attributed to him at Thursdays
interview, given after Ahnedi had
conferred with the shah.
Firouz added that foreign radio
reports saying Tehran residents
feared Russian invasion "are
completely false" He handed out
a copy of a paper headed "war
minister's denial" which he ask
ed newsmen to distribute ''to cor
rect false impressions created
abroad"
Foreign newsmen were present
at Thursdays conference, at which
Gen. Ahmed was quoted as saying
that Iran has shown to the world
it is a peaceful nation, but If
Russia commits an overt act, not
only every soldier, but every boy
and girl in the streets will fight
tc defend their capital
He was quoted also as saying
that the shah intended to ask the
United Nations security council to
reopen the Iranian case, and that
the concentration of Russian troops
in Iran was a definite threat to
Tehran.'
The text of the denial, as given
to newsmen by Firouz, said:
"The London radio in it's daily
program, Friday, the 18th of
March, claims that I have been
responsible for the following state.
ment: q
First, that new arrivals of the
Soviet army in Iran would be
taken to the security council.
Second, that every night new
! Continued on Page IL; Col. 81
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CONTINUED ON Page 3; Column y
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North carolina-Partly cloudy and q
,,..o warmer Sunday and Monday.
additional weather Data on Page Two.
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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1946-03-28

| Kern christianity and the
Cultural Crisis" Social and eco
|nomic theories which have
dominated our thought for two
centuries have piled up our
troubles and shortened our Wis
ion-even our religion has been
affected by their virus. But
only through Christianity,
maintains the author, do we
get a long view of life and a
sense of our place in the world.
Lewis - "Cass Timberlane."
Fiction.
London - Best Short Stories
of Jack London"
Macdonald - The Egg and
l." Two years on a chicken
farm in the Olympic mountains
were rough initiation into rural
life for a bride who was I'M
prepared for the primitive
Woodworking existence imposed
by chickens, the climate and
isolation. Bears and cougars
were only slightly more I'M
couth than some of the farm
ers in the region. The wry hu-
NOR is a woman's, but the
language is masculine, outdoing
realistic farm novels in calling
a spade a spade-and there
were plenty of spades.
Price - Memories of Old
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MORE
AT HATCHERIES

Commercial hatcheries in the
state of Montana Matched u.s.
900 chicks during February Of
this year, reports the Bureau
of Agricultural Economics.
This is more than double the
$4,000 Matched during February,
1945, and is also well above the
1940-44 average for the month,
los 900.
Hatcheries had 70 per cent
more eggs in their incubators
on March l than on the same
date a year earlier and book
ings of chicks for later delivery
we're so per cent larger.
It was pointed out that these
figures show a much stronger
early-season demand for chicks
than in 1945. Availability of
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1946-03-28
d TO SHOW CAUSE

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF
THE THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL
DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF
MONTANA, IN AND FOR THE
COUNTY OF BIG HORN
IN THE MATTER OF THE
CHANGE OF NAME OF ELL
WYNN LAVERNE SAPP.
WHEREAS, ELWYN La
VERNE SAPP has filed his Pc
tition with the Clerk of this
Court for permission to change
his name from ELWYN La
VERNE SAPP to ELWYN LA
VERNE THAWLEY;
NOW, THEREFORE, 1T IS
HEREBY ORDERED, That all
persons interested in the mat
ter aforesaid appear at the
Court Room of the Court House
of Big Horn County, Montana,
in the city of Hardin, County
of Big Horn, State of Montana,
on Thursday, the 25th day of
April. 1916, at the hour of HOO
o'clock A. M, of said day, then
and there to show cause, if any
they may have, why said APP
plication for Change of Name
should not be granted;
1T IS FURTHER ORDERED,
That a copy of this Order to
Show Cause be published in the
Hardin Tribune Herald, a news
paper printed and published in
the city of Hardin, County of
Big Horn, State of Montana,
for four successive weeks next
preceding the date set for the
hearing thereof.
DONE by the Clerk of this
Court in the absence of the
Judge from this County this
9th day of March, A. D. 1916.
R. P. ROSS,
Clerk of Court.
Bert w. Kronmiller,
Hardin, Montana,
Attorney for Petitioner.
Pub. Mar. %, Apr. 4, II, 10.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1946-03-28
JUSTICE COURT

Charges against two persons
were filed in the justice court
of Charles A.. CorknS this
week.
Anton Teller paid a S. fine
for improper clearance lights
on March Is. The complaining
witness was the state highway
patrol.
Also on March Is, John Rice
was charged with moving an
animal into the state of Mon
tana AFFECTED with and carry
ing an infectious and communi-
cable disease" DR.. N. B. Smith
is listed as complaining witness.
MI. Rice has not yet appeared.