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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-06
STARK CONCLUDES
DEFENSE OF PAST
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self with the inquiry. Adm. Hus-
band E. Kirnmel, Pacific fleet COM
mander at the time Of Pearl Har.
Dor, will be the next witness, and
1t. Gen. Walter c. Short, then
Hawaiian Army commander, will
follow.
Stark was questioned about his
assignment as wartime command.
er of U. S. Naval forces in Europe
by Sen. Scott w. Lucas, D., H.,
and Rep. Frank B. Keefe, R., Wis,
He was assigned to that post aft
er he was relieved as chief of ma
val operations in March, 1912.
Asked if the European assign
ment called for the exercise OF
Superior Judgment" Stark replied
that he though it did. He testified
that he first learned of ForrestaIs
ruling from the press last August.
Earlier Stark told the committee
that the late President Roosevelt
had cautioned the Navy before
Pearl Harbor not to encourage Brit
ish hopes for American partic1pa-
ton in the war against the Axis.
He also empha sized that conversa-
tons with the British, and Dutch
did not commit the United States
to war against japan.
Sen. Homer Ferguson, R., Mich.
had questioned him about plans for
military collaboration with other
nations in the event of war in the
Pacific.
1--WE had a tentative plan-but
only based on when and il we got
in," he testified.
He said he distinctly remem-
bered Mr.. Roosevelt telling him not
to do or say anything that would
lead the British to think we are
going to war"
That warning was given before
Stark's 1941 conversations with the
British on plans for joint action
in case the United States was
drawn into the war in either the
Atlantic or the Pacific.
Stark told the committee he was
aware he was not empowered to
commit the United States to any
course Of action" and that the same
condition applied to subsequent
Pacific discussions.
Ferguson asked a series Of ques-
a State Department proposal to
send part of the fleet to the Philip
pines. Stark recalled that he had
BACKED the proposal with the back
ing Of the President and that he
had quoted Joseph c. Grew, U.
S. Ambassador to Japan, who had
said that the proposal would lead
to war.
'Is this a fair estimate, that the
State Department wanted to use
the U. S. fleet as a deterrent to
Japan?" Ferguson asked.
I'm supporting diplomacy in a |
way which they thought would be
effective" Stark replied.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-06
MANY IND0NESIANS
lin BATAVIAN JAILS

BATAVIA, Jan. 5.-P)-A British
Army spokesman said tonight that
704 Indonesians are in Jail in Ba-
tavia awaiting trial on charges
ranging from 1ooting to kidnap-
ping and murder.
Most of the Indonesians were ar
rested in a roundup during the
past week of elements suspected
Of responsibility in violence which
has plagued the Java capital fer
weeks.
The unrecognized Indonesian
government announced that Ad-
miral Sjarifuddin had resigned as
minister of information and moved
to Jogjakarta in central Java in
order to be near Army headquar-
tiers. He retained his portfolio as
minister of security, and was sue
ceeded as minister of information
by Mohammed Matsir, former
member of the Indonesian national
committee at Bandoeng.
Meanwhile Premier Sultan Sjahrir
said that the port of Cheribon, 100
miles southeast of Batavia, had
been selected as a site for concen-
tration of Japanese troops for
their removal by the British.
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"a KILLED, 100 HURT
IN TEXAS TORNADOES
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view, near Palestine; Clawson,
near Lufkin; and Nacodoches com.
munity.
There were 10 known dead in
Southview, near Palestine, in
Clawson, Z in Nacogdoches and
in Shilo, Leon county, near Pals.
tine.
Appelby, near Nacogdoches, was
in the pat hof the storm and it is
feared some bodies may be buried
in the wreckage there.
Many persons were taken to hos.
pitfalls and hastily improvised aid
centers. There were Is badly in,
jured in Palestine hospital, IS at
Nacogdoches, 8 at Lufkin. Hun
dreds Of others were given medical
aid.
Damage to property was high,
but no official estimates have been
possible today. Thirty home were
demolished and rs buildings dam
aged at Clawson. Damage there
was expected to be at 5000, 900, ac-
according to a survey by the Luf-
kin News.
One man, a grocer whose home
was destroyed at Clawson, is re-
ported missing.
The known dead: at Southview-
E. H. Hendrick, As, league Wylie,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. c. Morrison and
son Charles Ray, 2, Mr.. and Mrs.
Sam Ray, Mary Sue Ray, 10, Rich
ard Lipscomb, 8, Mary and Merle
Axum, a man whose last name is
Jones, and a Negro named Nix
on.
At Nacogdoches - Mrs. Roscoe
Till, Mrs. William Kirk, Mrs. Oran
Fore. Bonnie Reagen, Martha AL
bridge, Eugene Schoggins, Will
Dixon.
At Lufkin-Mrs. Will Dunn, IS,
Mrs. Ed Smith, 81, and Coy Dunn.
At Shilo-One unidentified Negro
boy.
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NINE-STATE RAIL
WALK0UT DELAYED
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axe OuCJ
st. Louis, San Francisco and Texas
Railway companies by creating an
emergency fact-finding board.
The President interviewed in the
dispute OF the. Brotherhood Of
Railroad trainmen by formation of
the board, but delayed appoint
ment of its three members proba-
bly, until next week.
The board will make its report
within the next 80 days.
The railway mediation board
said neither the railways, known
as the Frisco Lines, nor the
brotherhood had agreed to arbitra-
ton OF the dispute and thus the
appointment Of an emergency
board was the next move. The
dispute began over cancellation of
a special agreement covering the
handling of yard work by road
crews, the mediation board said.
After the strike ballot was is
sued, however, additional griev-
ances covering the application OF
rules and working conditions were
added, a board spokesman said.
These latter issues should have
gone to the railway adjustment
board but the brotherhood by
passed that panel and now puts
those grievances before the en-
Urgency board, the spokesman for
the mediation board explained.
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PRICES OF COTTON
T0BE CONTROLLED
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er to avoid the necessity of RATS
ing the prices Of these important
commodities ~ ::
Bowles said OPA has been '.'in-
creasingly disturbed over recent
advances in raw cotton prices
because of their possible effect
on speculative in nature, due to
traders, who are betting on infla-
tion," the OPA chief declared.
He added that with additional
supplies to become available
through CCC offerings, 81 believe
cotton prices will be steadied at
a level which should permit tex
tile ceilings to be held without
change"
The Agriculture department re-
Gently announced that about ESQ.,
900 bales of cotton scheduled to
be added soon to CCC catalogue
stocks would Immediately be sold
on a bid. basis, and that an addi-
tional $4,000 bales would be
placed in the catalogue within the
next 80 days.
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NICHOLS CLARIFIES
CITY TANK STAND
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water and sewer services are fin
anced entirely by water charges
and sewer fees and not from taxes
The water and sewer department
operates within its own income
from these charges"
The statement continued:
''In connection with the bills
that have been sent out for water
as of Jan. l to the eastern section
there seems to have developed
some question in the minds Of
some of those who have received
these bills as to why the bill is
not half Of the customary billing
in the past. The answer to this
lies in the manner in which bill.
ings are made each quarter, fol-
they include ID the advance
charge for the minimum bill for
the succeeding quarter, and ~
the excess of the bill for the wa.
ter consumed above this minimum
for the past quarter.
'In line with this it will there.
fore be found that this Jan. l
billing covers an advance pay
ment of $500 Gnstead of the $500
as heretofore) plus the excess wa
ter above the minimum amount
that was consumed in the quar-
ter prior to Jan. 1, which of course
continues to be billed at the double
rate since the rate on this water
does not change until Jan. 1. There
fore the earliest time it can be
reflected, in the water billing is in
the billing Of April l when both
minimum and excess will be con-
sumed at the general city rate.
"Of course, those who do not
have anything more than a mini
mum bill will find that they are
being billed $500 at this time in
stead Of $500 so that their bills
will be cut in half, but no bill
will be found to be cut in half when
an excess amount water is used
in the last quarter of 1945 over
and above the 1,500-cubic feet
which are allowed for the mini
mum payment of $500"
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new CT EUROPEAN
RELEASE PLAN SET
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be employed efficiently and will
be assisted by a maximum of non
military personnel.
"To this end I have created a
liquidation and manpower board to
check into every activity. Its objec-
tive is to recommend personnel
reductions by eliminating tasks or
speeding their end"
He said it had not been decided
what divisions would compose the
newly planned occupation force,
but that all would be infantry.
There will be no armored divi-
slons as such but the constabulary
Will be entirely armored.
Infantry divisions will be COM
posed of about $4,000 men each.
The armored constabulary will
have $4,000 men and the airforce
oz,ooO. The rest of the occupation
force will be made up of head
quarters, supply, engineers and 9TH
er supporting troops, he explained.
McNarney estimated that a cut
OF 1o'ooo men, or 10 percent, would
be made in the original occupation
force estimate Of $40, 900 by July 1.
In releasing charts of figures on
troop requirements, the general
disclosed there are $4,000 troops
LETT in the European theater, Of
whom 100000 will comprise the &C.
cupation force and $4,000 the
close OUT troops.
10 bring the total down to 3oo,-
oOO, equal shipments of soldiers
will be made each month between
January and July.
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QUESTION

HONOLULU, Jan. s. R)-
The Navy News, a service
newspaper on Guam, reported
today that the Guam chapter of
the American veterans COM
mite, a new organization of
veterans of the recent war,
voted unanimously last night to
ask Secretary of War Patter-
son the following question:
''Sir, Doesn't the Secretary of
War know that discharge points
in the Army were frozen as of
VI Day? Is this an example
of War Department eff
ciency?"
When Patterson passed
through Guam recently, the
Army paper Stars and Stripes
reported that he was t'com-
pleteiy surprised" upon learn
ing that discharge points had
stopped accommodating on Sept.
2. day Of Japan's surrender.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-06
Laurens Taxi Driuer
Kills Textile Worker
And Commits Suicide

T LAURENS, S. c., Jan. 5. Up
James Gwinn, 30-year-old taxi
driver, today shot and killed Earle
Williams, 33-year-old textile work
er, wounded Miss Corrie Davis
and then ended his own life with
his pistol, Sheriff c. W. Weir re-
ported after an investigation.
Weir said Miss Davis, a 22-year-
old employe of Watts Mill, told
him Gwinn did the shooting be-
cause of jealousy. She had been
going with him, she said, until
recently when Williams was re-
turned from Army service, after
which she began accepting the lat
ter's attentions.
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JAPS TO CONSIDER
MACARTHUR ORDER
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within the next few days. The
first trial proceedings will begin
in February, this informant said.
There was a strong possibility
that at least three members Of the
Shidehara cabinet might join the
list of accused war criminals, add
ing to the pressure for the resig-
nation of his government.
The three were Keno Marsu-
mura, minister of agriculture and
forestry; Sunkuro Ogasawara, COM
merce and industry, and Sotaro
Ishiwata, imperial household mini
ster. All were former members
of the notorious imperial rule as
sistance society and Ishiwata serv-
ed as finance minister in Tojo's
war government.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-06
Veteran Wake County
Deputy Sheriff Retires

RALEIGH, Jan. 5.@R-Deputy
Sheriff Robert M. Sanders, 63 re-
tired today after serving Wake
county as a law enforcement Of
ficer for nearly "a years..
He first became an officer of the
law in 1911, when he was named
deputy sheriff and constable for
House Creek township. Five years
later, he joined the Raleigh police
department as patrolman and
worked up to the position OF cap
tain of detectives. He resigned
this office in 1888 and returned to
the sheriff's office as a deputy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-06
MOVE CAUTIOUSLY

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. - up -
Government agencies moved eau
tiously tonight to ease the threat
of nationwide walkouts in steel
and meat packing industries.
= The, Presidents fact-finding panel
for the steel wage dispute, as its
first act, appealed to the U. S.
Steel. corporation and CIO-steel-
workers to resume collective bar
gaining at once
CIO president Philip Murray told
a reporter he will be in Pitts
burgh Monday and Tuesday and
will be available for conferences
with the steel company II they
are convened"
A strike over the steel union
demand for a 81 a day wage in
crease is scheduled for January
IA. The board said it will call the
parties to Washington next week
for preliminary discussions. to be
completed by February 10.
Cancellation director Edgar L:
Warren, at the same time, said
every effort is being made to clarl-
fly government policy on wages
and prices for the meat packing
industry in time for the hree-day
Cancellation conference he is call
ing in Chicago, January .. Inc
Government hopes to suggest
compromise at that time.
"A strike of 100000 CLIO packing
house workers, demanding a 25c
hours increase, is set for January
16. The ALL Amalgamated Meat
Cutters are threatening to join In
the walkout if the four major pack
ing firms fail to make substan-
tial offer by January II.
LOOK TO CAPITAL
DETROIT, Jan. 5.-RECIO Unit
ed Automobile Workers looked
hopefully to Washington tonight in
the belief that developments in
the labor strife may follow the re.
port of the Presidents fact-fnding
board.
1--WE expect the board will recon-.
mend wage increase comparable
to our demands" union spokes-
men said. Sat least, its recon-
mendations will provide a basis
for further bargaining"
The JAWS walkout of 175,GoO
production workers in plants OF
General Motors corporation follow.
ed demands for 30 per cent wage
rate increase. The strike began
46 days ago.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-06
"READY TO EXPLODE"

NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-lREThe
three-day-old Western Electric
strike is 'just about ready to ex
plcde, into a walkout by the ma
tons telephone workers, a .unior
leader said today.
Frank j. Fitzsimmons president
of the Western Electric Employees
Association, whose 17,0O0-odd mem
bers are striking in New Jersey
and Manhattan, said he believed
after comforting with Joseph A.
Beirne that ''by Monday or Wed
nesday something will be ready to
break. :"
Beirne, president Of the Nation.
al Federation of Telephone Work.
ers, parent Organization for 48 in.
dependent unions in operating com
panies Of the American Telephone
and Telegraph company, asked
$50. 900, members Of the federation
to authorize a sympathy strike at
the outset of the Western Electric
walkout. He. said poll of the
members would take another seven
or eight days.
Fitzsimrnons, however, based his
t'break". on negotiations today be-
tween Beirne, the association OF
communications equipment work
ers. a NFTW union,, and Western
Electric officials. Leaders Of the
communications workers, W h o
number about Sc, 600, were at wit S
enR' today, Fitzsimrnons said. in
their wage dispute with the COM
pany. They seek a. 80 per cent
Increase the company offered Is
per cent.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-06
HOSPITAL GROUP
FAV0RS VET PLAN
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dent of the North Carolina Modio,
society; Wiley Pickens, director
of the State Veterans commissian.
a representative of the Stale !
Egion; E. B. Crawford, elective Al.
rector of the Hospital SAVINGS =,
ISOLATION, and DR.. I. H. Ma1r;ng
chairman of the board and medics,
director of the association who's.
offices are in Chapel Hill.
A request will be made Of VA
officials for the adoption of ~
plan STIMULATING that 'Wilmington
be used as trial center" Will.
plans are being formulated for IN.
establishment of the program On
statewide basis.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-06
CIO ORDERS STRIKE
AT ELECTRIC PLANTS
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Electrical division Of General Mot.
ors, the union leader said. The
union also has rejected Is 1-2-
cent-an hour increase offered by
General Motors.
The UEW officials said setting Of
the Jan. Is for the strike followed
a strategy conference Of leaders
Of the big Three" with CLIO presi-
dent Philip Murray in ashington
Friday. The JEW is the third
largest CLIO union, representing
700, 900 workers in % states.
Fitzgerald said the General Elec-
trio offer was a miserable pack
age thrown to GE employees to take
it, and the General Motors offer
fails to meet the urgent economic
needs of their employees" ,'S
GE president Wilson said his new
offer was made Gin an effort to
prevent threatened strike in the
company's plants and to malt the
rising production paralysis in the
critical conversion period"
He said the company offer would
mean an increase of more than
$28, DOC, 600 year for GE workers.
Wilson was not Immediately
available for comment on the
union rejection of his offer and
subsequent naming of the strike
date.
In Pittsburgh, however, a spokes-
man for Westinghouse said the
company stills was ready to ne
gotiate with the union but is pre-.
pared for a '1ong strike"
w. G. Marshall, Westinghouse
vice president in charge OF indus.
rial relations, said the company
already pays better than the av-
erage of its competitors and had
that a five and a half day
week "be installed wherever pos
;ible." The increased work week,
re said. Would mean a IS per
cent increase in wages for a 10
ser cent increase in hours"
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CHINESE AGREE ON
PLAN OST0P WAR
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the communist party, to confer
Immediately and carry out the
procedure"
Main Theaters
The announcement gave no mint
of what areas would be affected
first. The main theaters OF con-
flict have been in Manchuria, in
the Popping Tientsin area and on
all main north-south railways
north of the Yellow river, which
communists have cut to prevent
nationalist troops and supplies
from moving into the contested
northern areas.
The swift success. Of MarshalPs
special mission to China as Prsel-
dent Truman personal envoy
raised high hopes in American cir
cles that the agreement may per-
nit Chinese troops to take over
the duties of the American Ma
rine CARR sons in north China.
Gen. Chou told Chinese report
ers that the agreement on restor-
ing communica included the
opening of railways, highways,
waterways, Always, and postal
service.
The Chinese democratic league.
which called the consultative
council into being, urged Marshall
to see to it that hostilities had
ceased in all areas before the
council holds its first session Jan.
10.
"Practical Man"
The league said it was very
happy to note his sincerity and
good will. He is typical, opeN-
minded practical mantle type
that will get things done. He is
easy to talk to the very under
STANDING. The league is confident
he will be a great help to the
Chinese people"
Reliable reports raid the consul
tat;ve council secretariat would
begin functioning Sunday and
Monday in preparation for the
first meeting Jan. 10. Informal
meetings will be held over tea i
cups to agree to an agenda and
decide the system OF voting, 1t
was said.
Meanwhile, these other develop
ments marked tbs situation:
l. Central news agency said the
first units of airborne nationalist
troops left Peiping and landed In
the Manchurian capital OF Chang
chun today.
2. 1t. Gen. Albert c. Wedemey-
err announced in Shanghai that
26. 1000 nat onalist troops OF the
Chinese 9Th army will be moved
in American ships from Shanghai
to southern Manchuria, starting
within 10 days.
8. The nationalist army news
paper, Peace Daily, said nation
alist troops In southern Man
churia have captured three more
railway towns in eastern Jehol
province-Chaoyang, Pehpiao and
Koupe yingtse-in drive from
Fusin to the privincia1 capital OF
Chengteh.
4. The Chinese central govern
ment announced officially that
China has recognized the indie
pendence of Outer Mongolia-the
Moneolian peoples republic - as
the result of plebescite in Qcto-
Der in which Mongolians voted 100
per cent for independence. Mon
golia has been noninaN indie
pendent of the central government
since it began accepting Soviet
aid in 1920.
S. The central news agency re-
ported that peace has been signed
In Chira's Far Eastern Sinkiang
province between Chinese troops
and Khazak tribesmen. The place.
negotiated during the past 80
days, granted the Khazaks high
degree OF autonomy, including
election Of Khazak magistrates,
reorganization of the Khazak in
army into a local mil
tia, and granting the Khazak Ian
guage equality with Chinese for
official purposes.
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MORGAN REFUSES
TO RESIGN POST
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saw no reason why he should re-
sign.
UNRRA regional headquarters
said Morgan was expected to fly
from Germany to London las
soon as the weather is clear
enough. Probably tomorrow or
Monday"
Morgan's deputy, Brigadler
William Arthur Macdonald Sta
well, will succeed to the post tenn
porarily, the spokesman said.
(In Frankfurt, Gen. Joseph T.
McNarney, U. S. commander IN
the European theater, asked to
comment on the controversy, re-
piled that "Gen. Morgan IS an
honest, conscientious and efficient
administrator and he Will be ex.
tremely hard to replace" He said
he did not care to comment fur
Their, because the matter was the
sole responsibility Of UNRRA.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-06
MARINES RETTJRN

HONOLULU, Jan. 5.-P)-More
than 100000 Marines have been re-
turned to the United States in a
Rehabilitation program that Is
three months ahead Of schedule, the
fleet marine. force announced to-
day. This number is more than half
those who were overseas on vi
Day
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CITY Building Permits
In Sharp Upward Swing
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during the first six months of 1915.
Morton's report =lrther showed
that he issued 785 permits during
the year. His department caused to
be repaired 80 condemned struc-
lures and SO other substandard
structures were demolished.
The construction figure for the
yer includes the erection of the fol-
lowing structures:
'ght dwellings, one recreation
building, one service station, nine
factories. and work shops, five pub
licsgarages, four office buildings, "a
stores, one churcl. and two utili-
ties.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-06
CELEBRATE

TARPON SPRINGS, Fla, Jan. 5.
-Wg-The Greek sponge-fishing
COLONY at Tarpon Springs tomorrow
will celebrate the feast of the
F,niphany-the coming of the three
kings to Bethlehem-for the 43rd
consecutive year here.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-06

In ancient times, it was believed
that a iacinth or hyacinth worn in
a ring on the finger had the facul-
ty of producing sleep.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-06
Bronchial
COUGHS
Bronchial Irritati0ns
Due to Colds

Spend As cents today at any good
drug store for bottle of Buckley,
CANADIOL Mixture. Take a con1s
of sips at bedtime. Feel its instant
powerful effective action spread thru
throat, head and bronchial tubes-stsrts
at once to loosen up thick, chokino
phlegm. soothe raw membranes-make
breathing easier.
Sufferers from those persistent nasty
irritating coughs or bronchial irritation,
due to colds find Buckley's brings quick
and effective relief. Don't wait-pet
Buckley's Canadiol today. You get relief
Futrelle's Pharmacy
Lanes Brooklyn Pharmacy
II. J.. Green Co.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-06
WEATHER
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-R-weather
bureau report of temperature and RAIN
fall for the "a hours ending pm. in the
principal cotton growing areas and else
why're: