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Evening star., 1946-09-30

constituents In a five-station radio
speech yesterday that the strike sit
uation had not improved. In the
harshest language he has used dur
ing nine months of mediating the
power troubles he said the striking
independent union had poor ano
|ill-advised leadership" and ito that
I must now add the word dis
honest"
He criticized the struck Duquesne
Light Co. for Invariably coming
forward too late with too little" in
the early days of the dispute. But
where the company had kept its
word and offered to arbitrate. "the
union president has not done so, y
Mr.. Lawrence added
Il have in my pocket the signed
agreement which the union presi-
dent George L. MuelleD made to
accept arbitration" he said. He
added that the union leadership had
broken its word to him three times
during the present crisis.
"The unions OF this country that
stand up. that endure. that are pow
erful are the ones that keep their
word" he said. The whole labor
(See PITTSBURGH, Page A-30
Evening star., 1946-09-30
Hess Stoggers Out;
Doctor Calls Illness
Partly Simulated
BY Sfor stoH Correspondents.

NUREMBERG, Sept. 30
Rudolf Hess, oddly-acting one
time Hitler deputy, walked out
of the courtroom here this
afternoon after apparently be-
coming i'll during reading of the
Judgment which climaXes the
10-month international trial OF
% members of the Nazi gang.
Hess stayed out for more
than 80 minutes, returning on
the arm of a guard shortly
before the session ended. A
doctor who attended him re-
ported his illness had been
partly simulated.
Hess began holding his stom-
ach and rocking in his seat
shortly after the luncheon
recess. Suddenly he got up
with the help of former Foreign
Minister Joachim Won Ribben-
trop and staggered to the ele-
vator which takes prisoners to
and from the courtroom. The
guards made no move either TO
stop or help.
Evening star., 1946-09-30
Former WAC Captain
Also Is Sentenced to
DHhonorobIe DISCHARGE
BY the Associated Press

FRANKFURT, Germany. Sept.
30.-Former WAC Capt. Kath-
leen Nash Durant was convicted
today by a military court of
stealing 81 100000 worth of Hesse
family jewels, and was sentenced
to five years imprisonment at
hard labor, with dishonorable
discharge.
Mrs. Durant's husband, Col. Jack
Durant, and Maj. David Watson,
are awaiting trial on completely
charges in the theft of the jewels
from Kronberg Castle.
Mrs Durant displayed no emotion
as the nine officer court handed
down its verdict of guilty on three
counts of larceny, erhbezzlement and
being absent without leave from her
military post.
The 43-year-old defendant had
been in charge of the Hesse fam
! lily castle, used as an American Army
officers club, last winter when the
jewels disappeared. The Durants
were married on their return to the
! United States from Germany.
Mrs. Durant's attorney pleaded
that she was being made the "scape-
goat for all the looting done by
American soldiers in occupied Ger
many.
Thousands Of others have done
the same thing" said 1t Col. John
S. Dwinnell of Brooklyn, N. Y, in his
closing appeal for mercy. 1T is un-
just to point the finger at this wom-
an and say you will now pay the
penalty for something that the
whole world knows many, many peo-
pie have done with immunity"
Mrs. Durant had refused to testify
concerning the theft and neither
admitted nor denied during the tria
that she took the jewels, some ol
which were found in the home Of
her sister in Hudson, Wis.
The court, however, accepted a,
evidence a statement she signed
upon her arrest, saying she tool
possession of the jewels secretly
when they were found buried under
a castle floor. The statement sale
she helped smuggle the gems to the
United States.
4 The prosecution opposed any
leniency in her case, stating tina
when she joined the WAC she he.
came subject to the same judg
ment as any officer"
Evening star., 1946-09-30
Navy in Europe
To Back Policy,
u. 5. SaysF|at|y
ForrestoI Reveals
Replacement PIuns
In Mediterranean
BY the Associoted Press

Secretary of the Navy Forrestal
declared today that United
States naval forces are in the
Mediterranean to help carry out
American foreign policy.
And they will be there for some
time to come, the cabinet officer
made plain in an unusual policy
statement.
simultaneously, it was learned
that when the aircraft carrier
Franklin D. Roosevelt is withdrawn
from the area it will be replaced
promptly by another fiat top. Previ-
Gus emphasis on the carriers Medi-
terranean cruise has been on the
good will'' theme.
Mr.. Forrestal's policy declaration
was released as the American Gov
eminent Cd indicated full backing
to Turkey in that countrys re-
slstance to Russian demands on the
DardanelleS, ~ studied means to
aid the present Greek government
In its troubles with Russian-sup-
ported neighbors and go hoped un-
certainly for peaceful settlement
with Yugoslavia over the DISPOSE
ton Of Trieste.
Drafted Week Ago.
Persons familiar with the rea-
sons behind the statement said it
was drafted about a week ago and
hence was not inspired by the fresh
Dardanelles conflict or other cur
rent controversies.
However, it gave the American
people and foreign governments one
of the simplest statements of the
reasons and purposes underlying
the presence of American warships
in the Mediterranean to be made
since the end of the war.
To-day, Mr.. Forrestal said, the
United States Navy is continuing to
maintain forces in the Eastern At
lantlc and the Mediterranean Sea
for the following specific purposes:
First, to support the Allied oc-
cupation forces and the Allied mill
tary government in the discharge
OF their responsibilities in the occu-
pied areas of Europe.
Second, to protect United States
interests and to support United
States policies in the area
Recent Comments Cited.
In the last year or so official COM
ments on the presence of American
warships in the Mediterranean have
been generally confined either to
explaining specific missions in terms
of good will trips or errands of
mercy. or to showing that naval op-
erations were helping the United
States carry out its occupation
Iproblems.
The Forrestal statement TODAY
said that at present this country
has in European waters, mostly in
the Mediterranean, a division OF
cruisers, a squadron of destroyers
and the necessary sustaining ves-
sells of auxiliary types.
Of aircraft carriers, Mr.. Forrestal
said a succession of these major
ships would be assigned on tempo
rary duty to give ships stationed
there training in carrier task group
operations and to give fleet aviators
equal opportunity to visit foreign
countries.
Evening star., 1946-09-30

tenber ], 1939-who knew what the
organization was up to or per-
sonally acted as its agent in crime
the criminality of the organization
to which he belonged will not be
subject to legal question.
With regard to three organizations
cleared, the tribunal will explain
that the SIS AAA became compare
lively unimportant after 1884; that
the Reich cabinet never really act
ed as a group after 1887, and that
members of the Reich cabinet and
the general staff can be dealth with
more properly as individuals than
as groups.
This final phase of the 10 months
trial got off to a slow and solemn
start today at the Nuremberg Palace
of Justice. Lord Justice Geoffrey
Lawrence, tribunal president, begar
the reading of the judgment in SLOW
and measured tones. The packec
and tense courtroom gave him care.
full attention.
1.-The case against the de
PENDANTS rests in a large measur,
on documents of their own making
the authenticity of which has no
been challenged except in one or tw'
cases." Justice Lawrence said.
Lord Justice Norman Birket, al
ternate British member of the eight
man bench. took over the reading
after half hour
All day the tribunals eight judge
took turns reading their conclusion
Goering Concentrates on Bench.
During the reading, Hermann
Goering subjected the press CALLER.
to thorough scrutiny before puttinI
on dark glasses Julius Streicher
Jew-baiting pornography expert o
Frankonia, industriously chewe'
gum. Karl Doenitz, former nav
chief, who spent a week as Fuehre
at the wars end, stared straigh
ahead through unblinking eyes.
What they were hearing was
1see NUREMBERG, Page A-5J
Evening star., 1946-09-30
Moose or Prison
AppurentIySure
For Defendants
By Morton Doyle Campbell and
NewboId Noyes, Jr.
Stor Stoff Correspondents


NUREMBERG. Sept. 30.-The
international Military Tribunal
trying % members of the Hitler
gang ruled for the first time in
history today that conspiracy to
commit aggressive war ''is a su-
preme crime"
The reading of the courts judg-
ment, which took all day today and
will be continued tomorrow, indi-
Gated Imprisonment or the gallows
for the former high leaders of the
Nazis. Implicit in the verdict was
the rejection of the defense doctrine
that individuals cannot be punished
for violations of international law.
The judgment, it has been an
nounced, establishes the criminality
of certain groups within four of the
seven Nazi organizations indicted
along with the individual defend
ants in the dock. The tribunal,
however, will clear three, the Reich
cabinet and the combined general
staff and high command organiza-
(SSS AAA)-although this does not
mean that members of these Or
CARNATIONS may not be prosecuted
successfully as individuals.
Gestapo Is Convicted.
Representations convicted were
the Political Leadership Corps, the
Elite Guard (SSS SSS), the Security
Police (SSS DDD) and the Gestapo
The judgment, however, establishes
the criminality of these organiza-
tions only insofar as members are
concerned who Joined in full aware
ness Of the purposes of the organ
lzations or who were personally
implicated in the commission of
crimes.
No one who severed his connec-
ton with one of these organizations
before the outbreak of the European
war is to be considered legally
compromised by his membership
These provisions of the decision
were revealed as the session opened
this morning in summary of the
flrst part of the judgment provided
by the tribunal secretariat for the
guidance of reporters. They have
not yet been read from the bench
and may not be reached until to-
morrow morning.
When they are officially an
nounced, they will bo of more in
terest to over one million members
of the organization involved than
to the defendants in the court
room.
Landmark for the Future.
In the future trial of any man
who belonged to one of the four
criminal organizations after Sep
Evening star., 1946-09-30
Record d-SeekingP Plane
Roars Past Midway
On Way 10 Capital
Wives of Crew Members
Are Assembled Here
| By Navy OfficioIs
The Navy's new patrol bomber,

The Navy's new patrol bomber,
the Truculent Turtle, with a
crew of four and a baby kanga-
roo today was streaking across
the Pacific from Australia to the
United States in quest of a new
nonstop distance record of ap-
proximately 10000 miles.
AS the plane roared past Midway
Island, west of Hawaii, and headed
toward Seattle, it was indicated, that
on the basis of its present speed. it
would reach here about 2 pm to-
morroW-if the crew sets Washing
ton as its nonstop goal.
Although no destination other
than the United States" has been
announced by the Navy, there were
reasons to believe that Washington
is the hoped-for nonstop goal ir
view of the fact that wives of three
of the four crew members have as.
sembled here
Kangaroo Riding Comfortable
The plane, two-engined Lock.
heed P2V, took off late yesterday
from Pearce in Western Australia
early this afternoon had passed Mid
way and was expected to pass over
George weather ship 1,700 miles
off the West Coast, about pm
Washington time today.
Checks maintained by radio indi-
Gated the ship was averaging 21C
miles an hour and in one report
early this morning the Turtle ad-
vised: Everything going fine. Kan
garoo riding comfortably
Included in the crew of the plane
now trying to make aviation history
is Comdr Walter S. Reid, formerly
of Washington, whose mother lives
at 100 Maryland avenue Sc, ano
who formerly attended Eastern
High School here before entering
the Naval Academy in 1888.
The ultimate destination of the
(See TTTRTE Page A-20
Evening star., 1946-09-30

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 30.-Or-
ganized labor, a half million
strong in this cradle OF unionism
was pledged today to help Mayor
David L. Lawrence break the
back of the week-old power
strike.
This latest inconsistency in the
deadlock that is costing Pittsburgh
SIS 900 900 daily was all the more
inexplicable because Mayor Law
renee only week ago had incurred
the wrath of these same unions by
invoking an antistrike injunction.
Stirred by a deadlock to which
there appeared no solution. the
Mayor called in Anthony J. Federoff
FCIO Steel City Industrial Union
Council leader; John Dorsey, AFI
Central Labor Union chieftain, and
other leaders.
Mayor Lawrence said the union
leaders offered no definite panacea
He said labor wants to work 1t out
in its own way"
Bluntly, the Mayor had told his
Evening star., 1946-09-30
), 600 Pounds of Ham
Stolen From Plant
Of Briggs Co. Here

Thieves solved their own meat
shortage, at least on ham, by
breaking into the Briggs Pack
ing plant, 1921 Benning road
NE. over the week end, Will
liam F. Dubias, manager, told
police today.
Loot consisted of $50 hams
weighing 5000 pounds and VAL
ued at 1,500, Mr.. Dubias re-
ported. The hams bore the
Briggs plant stamp. he added.
Glass in a rear window was
broken to gain entrance.
Evening star., 1946-09-30

Three years after the Oust1ng Of
the Vichy regime that made it the
question mark of wartime hemi-
sphere defense, it has gone Com
munistic. The creed that has taken
over here isn't just the pink label
that rightwing viewers with alarm
pin on all leftwing movements. This
is the real, imported from Europe
stuff, complete with the Red flag and
hammer and sickle.
A local ingredient has been added
Evening star., 1946-09-30

to increase the explosiveness of the
mixture and the danger of its spread
to the other islands of the Carib-
bean-the racial issue, the pitting
of Negro majorities against white
minorities.
The swing started more than
year ago in the first free election to
be held after the ousting of the
Vichy dictator, Admiral Georges
(See MARTINIQUE, Page A-50
Evening star., 1946-09-30

and forms no part OF the o1fctal
record, but presents in q con-
denSed form the tert OF the
judgment.
HISTORY OF THE PROSECUTION.
The judgment pegins by dealing
with the making of the agreement
and charter of August 8, 1945, be-
tween Great Britain, the United
States, France and the Soviet Union
The governments of 19 of the
United Nations have expressed their
adherence to the agreement.
The provisions of the charter deal
ing with the constitution, jurisdic-
ton and functions of the tribunal
are discussed. The indictment
against the accused defendants and
organizations was lodged in Berlin
on the 18th of October, 1945. A
copy of the Indictment in the Ger
man Language was served upon each
defendant in custody at least 80
days before the trial opened and
the charges are there set out in
great detail
One of the defendants, Robert
Ley. committed suicide on October
25, 1945. Another defendant, Gustav
Krupp Won Bohlen und Halbach,
was found unable to stand his trial
because of his physical and mental
condition, and the charges against
him were retained for trial here
after, If his physical and mental
condition should permit. The de-
fendant Martini Bormann was ab-
sent, but the trial proceeded against
him in his absence under a relevant
provision of the charter.
All the defendants were repre-
sented by counsel, for the most part
chosen by themselves but in few
cases counsel were appointed by the
tribunal at the request of the de-
PENDANTS. The tribunal also ap-
pointed counsel for the absent de-
fendant Bormann and for all the
named groups of organizations
which the prosecution asked the
tribunal to declare criminal.
403 Sessions Held.
The trial began on November 20
1945, and ended on August 81, 1916
during which time 403 open ses-
sions of the tribunal were held, 3;
witnesses were heard for the prose
cution against the individual de-
fendents, and 81 witnesses were
heard for the defense in addition tc
10 of the defendants. A further 14a
witnesses gave evidence for the de-
fense by means of written answers
to interrogatories.
In order to hear the cases against
the organizations more expedftiously
the tribunal appointed commission
ers before whom 101 witnesses were
heard for the defense, and 1909 af-
f1davits from other witnesses were
submitted. In addition to these af-
fldavits, very large number OF
further afiidavits were submitted
and their contents presented to the
commission in a summarized form
Continued on Page A-4, Column II
Evening star., 1946-09-30
By Stephen TrumbuII

Forsn Corsp of The Chicago lily
MARTINIQUE French West Indies Sept 3O-Ths island
intrigue of World War II has stirred batch
national dynamite the American doorstep
Evening star., 1946-09-30
Vichyite Martinique Now Red,
First Report Since War Reveals
Pttng Of Negroes Against Whites Is Fuse
To International Dynamite on u s. Doorstep

Hon Communism has made inroads in Martinique, Which
noorously Vichye through World War H.
dispatch Stephen TrubuH
the Chicago Daily Neus just
penetrated produce first
eyeuttness report emerge before war
Evening star., 1946-09-30
Pittsburgh Mayor Has CIO, AFL
Pledge to Fight Power Strike
Labor Wants to Work 1t Out in Own Woy,'
He Says, Afte~ 9enouncng Independent Union
b. Hermon Schoden
Stor StoH Corrsspondspt

FEDERAL CONCILIATORS as
signed to seek end of power strike
Page AS
Evening star., 1946-09-30

(See TURTLE. Page A-3.
Evening star., 1946-09-30
% Nazi Leaders Are Convicted
Of Plotting War; Court Indicates;
Gestapo> SIS Guilty as Groups
Summary of Nuremberg Trial Verdict
BY the Associated Press

NUREMBERG, Sept. 30.-The
teTt OF the summary OF the
Derdict OF the International Mill
tary Tribunal delipered here
today tolIo,Os. 1t ,DaS prepared
for the convenience OF the press
and forms no part OF the OFFICIAL
record, but presents in con-
denSed form the tert OF the
judgment.
Evening star., 1946-09-30

tSee CONFERENCE, Pag
Evening star., 1946-09-30

(See MARTINIQUE, Page A-5D
Evening star., 1946-09-30

Partly cloudy cool, windy this afternoon
Clear, cooler tonight, lowest around 48. To-
morrow sunny, cool.
Temperatures today-High 68, at 1901 am;
low. SO. at 7:12 am. Yesterday-High, "a,
at 2:04 pm: low, CT, at $40 am.
dull Report Page Ale,
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1946-05-30
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ing the years playing.
Evening star., 1946-12-15
Montgomery-BIoir PTA
To Hear Student Program

Pupils OF Montgomery Blair High
School, Silver Spring, will be in
charge Of the program at the De-
Evening star., 1946-12-15

side OF his cab and jumped. The
trucks Of the tender passed over
him.
The spokesman added no passen-
gers were injured.
The Salisbury train was crossing
over switches when the New York
local, on an adjoining track coll
lided with the tender and first car
Of the bound train, the
spokesman said.
Roilrood Will Hold Hearing
On Golden Triongie' Wreck
MANSFIELD, Ohio, Dec. IA (P.-
The Pennsylvania Railroad today
announced a hearing to Ak respon-
sibility for the wreck of three
trains near here in which Is young
soldiers and four trainmen were
killed.
j. w. Leonard. superintendent of
the roads Pittsburgh division, said
Louis Petoskey, SIS, Of Toledo, en-
gineer on a freight train which
knocked another into the path of
the speeding Pittsburgh Chicago
flyer Golden Triangle yesterday
morning, probably would be given a
hearing before general mana
gers committee"
A railroad spokesman said shortly
after the crash that the engineer
ignored a signal to slow down. Mr..
Petroskey asserted at his home that
he had clear signals until his fire.
man, Robert E. Keith, 81, also Of
Toledo, yelled that he saw red flares
seconds before the crash. MIR. Keith
was killed.
Most of the $50 soldiers in the
first two cars of the Golden Tri-
angle were on their way from Fort
Dix, N. j., to Chicago for Christmas
furloughs before shipping to Japan
for occupation duty.
The latest victim of the crash
was Edwin Gene Krautblatt. 10,
Evening star., 1946-12-15
Shotgun Charge Wounds
Silver Spring Hunter

Melvin Stuart Bergman, ~,
former sailor, of 9414 Georgia ave-
nue., Silver Spring, was seriously
injured yesterday when accidentally
shot in the leg by his brother-in-
law while hunting near Silver
Spring.
Montgomery County police re-
ported the 12-gauge shot gun was
fired by Richard Glading, Is, Of 9410
Georgia avenue, while the two were
attempting to break up fight be-
tween their dogs near Grubb road
and East-West highway.
The young man was taken to
the Naval Medical Center, Bethesda
where he was reported in good con-
rIition last night.
Evening star., 1946-12-15

Curry Of Assumption, H.; Siegfried
lEberhardt, 10, Of Madison, WIS.,, and
Ivan NJ. Umphress, 20, Of Wenova.
Evening star., 1946-12-15
Green Meadows Area
PIuns YuIe Celebration

Plans for a community celebration
of Christmas in the Green Meadows
Brookside Manor area were an
nounced yesterday.
On Friday pupils attending the
Ager Road Elementary School will
be given a party, under the sponsor
ship of the Green Meadows Brook
side Manor Citizens Association.
At dusk next Sunday community
Christmas carol service will be held
around an evergreen tree planted
last week on the grounds Of the
Ager Road Methodist Church. The
tree, a gift of James A. Lyons, will
be lighted at Christmas.
Evening star., 1946-12-15
Foirfox Community Chest:
To Elect Officers Friday

Election Of officers, trustees and
the Executive Committee OF the
Fairfax County Community Chest
will be held at the annual meeting
at 8 pm. Friday In the Fairfax
County Court House, the Rev.
Horace G. Lukens, director Of the
Community Chest, announced today.
Members Of the executive board
and trustees representing each
magisterial district are to attend
and Mr.. Lukens said all members of
the Chest are invited. A person be-
comes a member when he con-
tribute to the Chest campaign.
Evening star., 1946-12-15

under the direction Of the Student
Council, PTA President John Reno
announced.
Boost United States Savings
Bonds. One out Of every three
Americans has to be told today that
Savings Bonds are still being sold.
Evening star., 1946-12-15
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