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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-27
Free Throw Contest
Slated Today AT Y

The basketball free throw
events will be staged today, 1t
was announced last night by
Adam w. Smith, YMCA physi-
cal director.
The Cadet class will start
the events at 10 o'clock, with
other groups following suit.
The winners in each age di-
vision will be awarded gold
basketballs. Each participant
will be given rs shots.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-27
KLuTTz TO BUGS

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 26. -WD-
The Pittsburgh Pirates Thursday
purchased catcher Clyde Kuttz
from the world champion st. Louis
Cardinals in a straight cash deal
- said to be the biggest since the
end Of the 1916 playing season.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-27

The village of Lawford, Eng
land, elected women to all Offices
IN 1881, but voted them out in
favor Of men in 1882.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-27
Aussies Confident OF Sue.
cessful Back To-The-
Wall Stand
BULLETIN!

MELBOURNE, Friday,
Dec. II. -(AP)- The
United States won the
Davis Cup from Australia
today by a sweeping
straight-set victory in the
doubles. .t.'
MELBOURNE, Friday, Dec. q
Evening star., 1946-02-15
3O-Ton EIectronic Calculator
Uses Ancient Abocus Principle

assist weather forecasters, indus
trial designers construction engi-
neers, astronomers, medical re-
search scientists and atomic phys
icists.
The machine was invented by DR.
j. w. Mauchly and ]. P. Eckert, jr
While it operates entirely by elec.
tronics and contains no moving
mechanical parts it employs the
basic principle of the "abacus"-s
counting board still in use by some
Chinese laundrymen in this country
The "abacus" utilizes beadlike
counters strung on parallel rods o.
wires. The "eniac" has thousand,
of tiny neon light bulbs, arranged
in rows Of 10 like the beads of ar
ahacus.
When punched cards containing
holes corresponding to arithmetica
numbers are fed into the "eniac'
the light bulbs flash on and of ir
proper combinations.
Fast-moving electrons, fed al
the rate of 5000 a second, activate
the machine and an arrangement
of electrical circuits determine.
whether a problem in addition, sub.
traction, division, multiplication o.
square roofing is to be done. Answer,
to problems pop out of the machine
on other punched cards.
Evening star., 1946-02-15
Victims Sill Hunted
In Algerian Quake
By tho Assoeloisd prsss

PARIS, Feb. 15.-At least 276 per-
sons were killed and 10 injured In
an earthquake that shook the noun
tainous region Of Northeastern Al
geria, and rescue workers are still
digging in debris OF fallen buildings
for additional victims, advices from
Algeria said last night.
The casualty count came from the
towns Of Setif and Batna in Con-
stantine, northeasternmost depart
ment in Algeria. Setif Is $50 miles
and Batna 200 miles southeast OF
Algiers.
The main shock in the earthquake
Wednesday was felt in an area
southwest Of Constantine, which il
30 miles southwest Of the Mediter-
ranean port Of Bone. Strong trem-
ors were felt also at Setif.
Algiers reports said doctors and
medical aid were being rushed by
muleback over landslide noun
tain trails to the stricken villages
and that the first doctors and nurses
were already-on the scene.
The quake blocked all roads across
the Atlas Mountains to the region
with masses Of earth and stone
hampering relief operations. The
first tremors occurred at 2.40 pm.
and continued for several seconds.
Evening star., 1946-02-15
Tourist Camp l.; Opposed
By Burrouqhs Citizens

Opposition to locating a new tour
ist camp in East Potomac Park in
stead of developing the area for
recreation was expressed today by
the Burroughs Citizens Associa-
ton.
The association, m a resolution,
requests that $200,000 contained in
the Interior Department appropria-
ton bill to start construction of a
new camp be stricken from the
measure.
This expression on the controver-
sial proposal came as members Of
the Recreation Board, backed by the
Commissioners, sought to induce the
House Appropriations Committee to
block the project or specify that 1t
must be located elsewhere than in
East Potomac Park.
Until the war. the park had been
scheduled for development as q
general recreation area. A part of
the plan had been to remove the
tourist camp to the Agriculture De-
partment's old experimental farm
where the Pentagon and Arlington
Farms now stand.
When this site was taken over by
the Army, Government Services
Inc, which operates the camp, the
National Park Service and the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission, sought to use the East
Potomac site for the camp.
Evening star., 1946-02-15
Auto Workers
Continued From First Page. }

new rules permitting them to seek
price adjustments If their wage In
creases are federally approved.
Rumors Of an early settlement Of
the long, costly strike flooded the
motor city In the wake Of the WASH
ington announcement last night.
Nearly 10000 Detroiters jammed a
mass meeting last night to aid q
campaign for help to families of
the striking GIN workers.
Representative Helen Gahagan
Douglas, Democrat, of California
announced at the meeting that Har-
old L. Ickes, who retires today as
Secretary Of the Interior, had ac-
cepted the honorary Craftsmanship
OF the National Citizens Committee
to aid families Of striking GIN
workers.
Mrs. Douglas spoke from the
platform with her husband, Movie
Actor Melvyn Douglas; Movie Actor
Frederic March, Representative
Adam Clayton Powell, Democrat
lof New York; r. j. Thomas and
Walter p. Reuther, JAW vice presi-
dent.
There is a great deal more than
! cent keeping GIN and the UAW
apart" Mr.. Reuther declared, add
ing, we're going to hold the line
until GIN folds its position"
Evening star., 1946-02-15
2 Youths Carrying $4,000
Are Held for Parents
BY tho Associated Press

CHAMPAIGN, ILL.,, Feb. 1.-two
15-year-old high school students
from Chicago, who Police Sergt.
Louis Frizzell said were stopped in
a Champaign bus station while car
rying $39, 900 in a suitcase, were
held without charge today pending
arrival of their parents.
Sergt. Frizzell, who identified the
youths as Neil Ruzic and Howard
Erdman, said they were detained
after authorities here were notified
to be on the lookout for pair of
boys carrying 10000.
Sergt. Frizzen said young Ruzic
told him they took the money from
a piano in the home of his father,
a dentist, bought an automobile for
$160 and started south from Chi
|cago with the intention OF going to
California.
Sergt. Frizzell said they told him
the car%slipped of the road and they
hitch linked into suburban Chicago
Heights, where they counted the
money, finding 1t amounted to $780,
600. They later took a bus to Cham
paign, they said.
Evening star., 1946-02-15
BruziI Honors TomIinson
For lnter-Americun Work

Edward Tomlinson, author and
radio commentator, yesterday re-
ceived the Brazilian Order of. the
Cruzeiro do Sui (Order of the
Southern Cross in the degree OF
official in ceremonies at the Brazilian
chancery here.
This award, the highest given by
Brazil to citizens of other countries
was made by Minister Fernando
Lobo, Charge d'Affairs, for Mr.
Tomlinson's service in promoting
inter-American understanding.
MIR. Tomlinson Is inter-Americau
editor Of Golfers Magazine and q
commentator for the National
Broadcasting Co.
In making the presentation, Min.
lister Lobo said 1t was a tribute tc
Mr.. Tomlinson's brilliant work as
commentator and analyst of the
lives and activities of the people or
our hemisphere"
Evening star., 1946-02-15

myelitis or nonprogressive disease
Of the periphal nerves of such de.
gree that they disqualify for gen.
eral military service, but have moi
interfered with locomotion and have
not prevented the individual from
successfully following a useful voca-
tion in civil life; suffering or STAN.
mering of degree disqualifying fol
general military service, but which
has not prevented the man from
successfully following useful voca-
tion in civil life; mild chronic neu-
roses; moderate transient psyche
neurotic reaction, and mental def
ciencies, mild in degree.
Age limits for induction will re-
main 18 to 25 years, inclusive. Men
26 years of age through IS who are
qualified for general military serv-
ice may volunteer and be used In
filling selective service calls.
In announcing the new Navy dis
charge cuts, Vice Admiral Louis
Denfeld, chief of naval personnel
said that by May 2, approximately
10 per cent of Navy personnel SUBJ
ject to demobilization would be back
in civilian life.
Points of male officers and en-
listed men will be cut one point on
April Is and one point again on May
2. Most yeomen, storekeepers and
other specialists, who have hac
higher discharge scores than the
other enlisted men, will get two.
point cuts on each of the two dates
| WAVE officers and enlisted per.
sonnel and members of the Navy
Nurse Corps will get one-point cu1
on May 2.
Male doctors will get cut in scor,
from AZ to As points on April /!
and to A on May 2.
Evening star., 1946-02-15
Tito Promises 10 Stop
Theffs Of U. 5. Vehicles
BY the Associated Press

BELGRADE, Feb. is. = Marshal
Tito has assured American Ambas-
sador Richard C. Patterson, jr., that
he will take immediate action to
prevent repetition of Mondays in
cident when Yugoslav militiamen
broke into and seized American We
hicles in the Embassy parking lot.
William Fraleigh, Embassy second
secretary, who delivered the Ambas-
sador's note of protest to Marshal
Tito yesterday, said he had received
the assurances informally. A formal
reply was expected later.
Contents of MIR. Patterson's note
were not disclosed officially, but IL
was understood to contain pro-
test against what 1t termed the
anti-American attitude Of Yugoslay
officials. The seriousness with which
the Embassy regarded the situation
was indicated by the fact the pro-
test was delivered direct to Marshal
Tito and not through the Foreign
Office.
Evening star., 1946-02-15
| Secret Patrols
Find japanese
IAwoitinq Them

HAKODATE. Japan - (NANA)-
Something is wrong somewhere, say
soldiers who 90 on patrols into the
countryside here.
The patrols are supposed to be
highly secret, for 1t is their job to
find hidden arms and other contra
band.
"But wherever we CO." says 1t
Thomas w. Alton Of Kansas City
I'VE find an official reception COM
mittee awaiting us.
Wearing frock coats, they always
invite us to tea. They try to defeat
us with kindness. What want to
know Is how they learn we're
coming"
Evening star., 1946-02-15
By the Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 15.-By
combining the centuries abacus
with the latest in electronics, the
Army came up today with a 30-ton
monster it calls "the worlds fast
est calculating machine"
1t cost 100000, including re-
search and development work, but
future models can be built much
more cheaply," the Army said.
Known as the "eniac"-for "elec-
tronic numerical integrator and
computer was designed and con-
structed for the Army by scientists
of the University of Pennsylvania &
Moore School of Electrical Engi-
neering. 1t will be formally dedi-
Gated tonight.
Military and university engineers
said the contraption, which virtually
fills large-size room, can solve in
hours problems that would take
years" on any other machine.
1t can compute in one second the
sum of a five-digit number added
to itself 5000 times. 1t subtracts
divides, multiplies, extracts square
roots and does complex equations.
The machine originally was in
tended to furnish faster means OF
computing complicated problems in
ballistics, the mathematics OF
weapons.
But the scientists said it might
Evening star., 1946-02-15
Truman Renews Curd
In Penderqust Club
Dy HE Assoeicssd Press


KANSAS CITY, Feb. 15.-Presi-
dent Truman has renewed his menu
bership in the Jackson County
Democratic Club, q Pendergast or
ganization.
A framed photostat Of q So check
from Mr.. Truman and an accom-
lpanying letter on White House sta
tionery explaining the money is ''in
payment Of my Jackson Democratic
Club dues" hang on the wall at club
headquarters here.
The President has been a member
OF the club "a years and has served
as vice president 20 years. His note
concludes with the hope that "the
outfit Is still going good"
Evening star., 1946-02-15
Bank Of England Bill
lis Signed BY King
By me Asse<Ieted p,e,

LONDON. Feb. 15.-The first
major step In the Labor govern
ment's socialization program was
completed today with the afiixing
of King Georges signature to 4 bill
bringing the 250-year-old Bank Of
England under public ownership.
The measure, described by the
Labor party "as q great charter OF
freedom for the English people, =
provides that the bank shall be ad-
ministered by q governor, deputy
governor and court Of 10 directors
appointed by the King. Owners OF
shares In the bank which had paid
dividends Of u per cent annually
since 1923-will be compensated
with government stocks bearing
per cent interest.
Evening star., 1946-02-15
Truman Signs Measure
Giving Half Billion 10 VA
BY the Associated Press


President Truman yesterday signed
legislation making Immediately avail
able to the Veterans Administra-
ton an additional $500, ,00O, 600 for
benefits under the CT Bill Of Rights
The extra half-billion originally
had been provided in a separate
omnibus appropriation bill still be-
fore Congress, but was earmarked
in that measure for use during the
fiscal year starting next July /.
The bill signed yesterday reduces
the 1946-47 fund by $500, ,00o, 900 and
gives the administration access te
that amount at once.
Evening star., 1946-02-15
Court Offered Proof
That Frank Ordered
100000 Jews Killed
py the Assoeiossd prsss

NUREMBERG, Feb. 15.--The Rus
sian prosecution presented docu-
mentary evidence to the Interna-
tional Military Tribunal today stat
ing that Hans Frank was respon-
sible for butchering 5000, 900 Jews
while he was governor general of
Poland.
Soviet prosecutor said Frank en-
tered in his diary his declaration
in q 1910 newspaper interview that
there would not be enough forests
in Poland" to supply paper for the
lists Of Poles he had slaughtered
II he tried to emulate colleagues
In Czechoslovakia by issuing posters
announcing the execution of a mere
seven victims.
The document said Frank pledged
that the campaign of annihilation
would be intensified with the end
Of the war.
Conference Recalled.
peace will mean that we will have
to conduct colonization on an even
grander scale than today" he told
Nazi police conference May 80,
1910, the document said, in course
OF description of his vast pro-
gram for killing every Pole except
those needed as slaves for the new
German landlords taking over Polish
lands.
Frank sat impassively in the pris-
oners' box staring at the floor as
Prosecutor L. N. Smirnov read to the
tribunal extracts from Franks diary,
relating his declaration to the police
conference that the great extermina-
ton should be pressed relentlessly
$50 that the Polish Army may no
longer rise"
The tribunal overruled a protest
by Kirt Kaufman, attorney for
Ernst Kaltenbrunner, against read
ing Of reports by the Soviet War
Crimes Investigation Committee.
Defense Cautioned.
Lord Justice Sir Geoffrey Law
renee, presiding, reminded defense
attorneys they would have ample op-
portunity later to challenge or ex-
plain any prosecution evidence.
Mr.. Snirnov declared yesterday
that mass murder of Russians and
Poles to create living space for Ger
mans became such a huge industry
that the Nazis set up special train
Ing courses In wholesale cremation.
Describing cremation college" !"
Mr.. Smirnov said instructions on
how to dispose of bodies by the
thousands were given at Nazi mur-
der camp in the Lisentitz woods of
the Lvov district. He quoted pris-
oners who had been forced to work
in crematoriums.
Mr.. Smirnov cited an affidavit of
one former prisoner who said Ger
man officers were brought from
Lublin, Warsaw and other places for
Today study courses at Lisentitz.
The affidavit said German colonel
explained how bodies were burned in
a practical way, how machinery for
crushing bones was set up, how pits
should be leyeled over, trees planted,
and how ashes of human corpses
should be scattered and concealed" !"
Evening star., 1946-02-15
George J. McDermott, II.
Retired U.S.. Worker, Dies

George J. McDermott, 70, who
spent 40 years In Government serv-
ice here until his retirement in May,
1912, died February in a veterans
hospital In Bay Pines, Fla, friends
here have been advised. Burial was
In Tampa.
He resided at the Chastleton Hotel
before going to Florida. His last Job
IN Government service was in the
Once Of the Solicitor, Agriculture
Department.
AT one time Mr.. McDermott was
active in District Elk affairs. He
was a native Of Oklahoma and a
Spanish-American War veteran.
Evening star., 1946-02-15
Government Workers
In Tokyo Parade in
| Wage Boost Demand
BY tho A.soeio,ed Press

TOKYO, Feb. 15.-Several
thousand government railroad
workers marched through To-
kyo's streets today demanding
a five-fold wage boost, special
food allowances and shakeup
OF Japanese executive per-
sonnel.
Speakers at a rally demanded
q reply by Wednesday. Kyodo
news agency said the orderly
demonstration - the first by
govern m e mt employes-was
sponsored by government rail-
way unions and supported by
those OF the Tokyo Express Co.
and communications system.
Evening star., 1946-02-15
.UNO
Continued From First Page.)

curity arrangements have been
worked out"
"It is clear there is no threat to
international peace" in the Levant,
he concluded.
Speaking for Britain, Sir Alexan-
der Cadogan said Britain desired to
withdraw her troops "at the earliest
possible moment"
The British and French had to
move armies into the Levant dur
ing the war, he said, and before the
end Of the war with Japan diff
culties between French troops and
Syrians forced the British to inter-
vene In order to protect their COM
munications.
The British then asked France
to sign an agreement to withdraw,
he said.
81 do not pretend it is 100 per
cent satisfactory, but it is an at
tempt to provide for withdrawal" /"
he concluded.
The Council then adjourned until
pm. I'll am, EST today.
Economic Group Stays.
The 18-nation Economic and So
cial Council, remaining behind with
the Security Council, also was
scheduled to meet today to complete
its organizational tasks for tackling
what world statesmen have de-
scribed as the 'basic ills" leading to
war.
The Assembly adjourned last
night on q note of optimism, with
delegates expressing belief that a
firm foundation had been laid for
world peace and security agreed that
the new organization had made
tremendous strides toward the sue
cess which the League Of Nations
failed to attain in its turbulent
career.
It will stand in adjournment until
September, when it convenes in New
York City, which was approved by
the final session of the Assembly as
the temporary home Of the UNO
The Assembly also approved the
Westchester-Fairfield area of New
York and Connecticut as the perma-
nent seat.
Other questions disposed of last
night included the hotly debated
issue of admitting labor organiza-
tions into the UNO in consultative
capacity. The Assembly adopted an
American resolution by vote of 81
to 6 giving advisory status to three
organizations-the World Fedora
ton Of Trade Unions, the Interna-
tional Cooperative Alliance and the
American Federation of Labor.
Lie Lauds Session.
One, of the last actions of the
Assembly delegates was approval o1
resolution calling on member ma.
tions for immediate and drastic
action to head off starvation In the
world by conserving food supplies
and increasing grain production.
Secretary General Trygve Lie OF
Norway brought the first Assembly
to a close, declaring that although
"a parliament of man" may well be
dream, I'VE have established 8
truly democratic forum for the free
and open discussion of the great in
ternational political and economic
problems Of our time"
In similar vein, other top-rankine
world diplomats echoed Mr., Lies
sentiments from the rostrum of the
great blue, gold and cream assembly
hall and in the corridors of UNC
headquarters.
Evening star., 1946-02-15
Druft
Continued From First Page J

listed as unqualified for military
service:
Lateral deviation of the spine
from the middle of more than one
inch and less than two inches; his
tory of thyroidectomy for toxic
goiter with complete absence of
active manifestations for two years:
hernia, inguinal. which has not de-
scended into the scrotum; hernia,
fennoral; individuals with local par
alyses such as those due to polio
Evening star., 1946-11-02
Denver's Food Outlets Cut
80 Per Cent by Strike
By the Associo,ed Press

DENVER, Nov. 2.-Denver resi-
dents found themselves cut off from
80 per cent of the citys normal food
outlets today as 1,500 retail food
clerks and meat cutters continued a
strike for higher wages.
Approximately 150 food stores,
with attached butcher shops, were
involved in the strike, which began
yesterday after negotiations between
management and labor broke down
The Mountain States Employers
Council, representing the grocers
and meat dealers, said original wage
demands by the Retail Food Clerks,
AFL, Local No. z, and the Amalga-
mated Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workers of North America, AFL, Lo-
cal 634, were As per cent above pre-
vious contracts.
A council statement said final
wage offers varied from 20 to 80 per
cent raises. For example. the state
ment said, apprentice meat cutters
were offered raise from so cents an
hour to IS cents and food store
managers from 81 an hour to $120
Principal stores involved in the
strike include the Safeway, operat-
ing 48 retail stores. Parts of Other
chains remained open through the
day along with all independent gro
GERS. Wholesalers said they would
divert their stocks to those other
stores remaining open in order to
maintain a flow of food to Denver
residents.
Evening star., 1946-11-02
Slain Detectives Widow Seeks
Better Care for Police Families

"They always try to put this
policeman leaves family in dire
distress. she said adding aggressive
ly, at isn't SO. He always did every
thing he could for his family.
The parlor of her pleasant COM
Portable home attested that. A
photograph of Pvt. Hamilton in
policemans uniform and cap looked
down from the mantel. He also
was much younger looking than
his 80 years. There was Goya re-
production on one wall, two flower
prints on another. the right maga-
zines on the reading table.
She met Mr.. Hamilton In New
York 20 years ago when she was
employed by the New York and
Queens Power Co. and he was work.
ing on the George Washington
Bridge. then being built. Both were
from the South, he from Demorest,
Ga, she from Winston-Salem, NC.
Shortly after their marriage they
came to Washington where he was
appointed to the police force.
Frances, the older daughter who
was overcome by the tragedy, did
not want her picture taken. Her
mother quietly ordered her to.
Thomas stood behind his mother.
Then Anne, who is 10 and so full
of bounce that laughter had not left
her even for a day, came in from
PLAYING and the picture vas to'-er1.
"Can I have the flash bulb?" said
Anne,
Evening star., 1946-11-02

The question of who has jurlsdlc-
ton over the suspension of political
banners over state roads in Mary
land was in doubt today.
The question arose after Demo-
cratic banners were hung across
three highways in Chevy Chase,
Bethesda and Silver Spring.
The banners, suspended across
Connecticut avenue just north OF
Chevy Chase Circle, Wisconsin ave-
nue. at Old Georgetown road and
at Georgia avenue and Colesville
road, bear the inscription, Demo-
Gratis Helped Your County-Vote
Tuesday"
E. Brooke Lee, Montgomery County
Democratic leader, said permission
to hang the signs was granted last
week by the County Board of zoning
Appeals. He added the action was
taekn in response to a request by
the county Democratic organization.
He emphasized the permit pro-
vides that similar action may be