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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-21
JAPS GUARD U. s.
OIL in SUMATRA
Interests OF British, Dutch
Also Being Watched By
Former Enemies

BATAVIA, Java, Oct. 20. -tP>-
A British spokesman acknowledge
ed Sunday that 5000 japanese sold
iers we're guarding oil installa-
tons owned by Americans, Dutch,
and British interests in the Palem-
bang area of Sumatra.
He said that the use of the Japa-
nese troops was mo secret" and
was necessitated by a shortage in
the number of allied troops avail
able. He added that the Japanese
would be repatriated soon.
Other sources said that the Japa-
nese use their own weapons and
are led by their own officers, un-
der general British supervision.
Approximately 5000 other disarm-
ed Japanese are used as laborers
in Batavia and other allied areas
in the vicinity.
At Secret Meeting
A reliable non-British source
See JAPS GUARD on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-21
PROGRESS REPORT
PLANNED TONIGHT
Community Chest Drive
Workers Will Hear New
York Speaker

The first progress report on the
city's five-day-old Community
Chest campaign will be put or rec
ord by II chest leaders at $50
o'clock tonight at St. Paul's Luth-
eran church before an assemblage
of workers in the $106, 204 drive.
James E. Gheen, Of New York,
a former businessman, journalist,
and Chamber of Commerce leader,
will deliver the chief address at
the dinner.
John Colucci, member Of the
drives arrangements committee, is
scheduled to supervise operation Of
the chest progress blackboard
uopn which individual reports of
team captains will be tabulated.
L. D.. Latta and Alan Marshall,
eo-chairmen of the chests geo.
graphical section, will open the
program by calling upon leaders of
their subdivisions for reports.
Lloyd Moore is chairman of the
downtown division; Mrs. Lester
Preston of the Women's division;;
and Mrs. Fender Durham Of the
county division.
Division Tally
A report from division leaders
Of the Employees Solicitation Sec
ton will follow the geographical
tally. H. A.. Marks and C. M. Har-
rington are co-chairmen of the sec
ton. Their top associates are:
Gardner Greer, chairman of the
industrial division; Emory Soutaer-
land, of the commercial division;
Wilbur D. Jones, of the public serv-
ice division; and N. B. Avera, of
the public employees division.
Climax of the report session will
come when E. L. White and Warren
See REPORT on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-21
New Member OF Cape Fear
Fleet Helps In Moving
Army Equipment

The old 'brains versus brawn'
controversy has been neatly re-
solved by the Wilmington district
U. S. Army Engineers.
They use both.
Whenever some difficult engin-
eering problem arises such as Sic
ing a treacherous shoal off a bend
in the Cape Fear river, the local
experts 60 to work with their slide
rules and drawing-boards and come
up with the right answer. That S
the "brains" part.
It's something else again, how
ever, to transfer the hrain-Work OF
the engineering experts from their
chronological sanctum on the third
floor of the U. S. Customshouse to
an on-the-job performance of the
engineering feat.
That's where the Drawn" part
comes in, and it's being handled in
a tough but oh so gentle and skill
full manner by the Port City engln-
GERS new fleet of three thorough
bred workhorses.
Two Of these three overriding,
See ENGINEERS IN Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-21
SENATE TO PROBE
CRASH OF COTTON
Agricultural Committee To
Open Hearing Thursday
AT Washington

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. -W.H-
The Senate Agricult ral committee
opens hearings Thursday in an eff
fort to find out why the cotton
market crashed in the face of a
worldwide crop shortage, forcing
the three major cotton exchanges
to suspend business Saturday.
Chairman Elmer Thomas, D.
Okla, announced as he left the
capital for Oklahoma City that
Agricultural commissioners from
the southern states will testify that
the nation faces one of the small
est crops on record. In addition
officials of the Department OF
agriculture and other government
agencies will be asked to dis
close their cotton purchasing and
export progress.
IT believe that the committee -
after thoroughly investigating the
situation in cotton where a con
spiracy apparently is forcing the
price down in the face of great
shortages - will demand that the
cotton exchanges be placed under
the Security and Exchange com
mission, as the stock market is,'
Thomas told the United Press.
He said he was unable to get ar
official denial from the Agriculture
department of his charges that il
soon will start buying 1000, 00(
See SENATE On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-21
By r HIRSCH

CHECK ONE - First, turn to
Page Three and look at the four
column picture at the top of the
sheet.
Okay. New check the one of the
following descriptions which you
think correctly Identifies the pic
ture:
ID Second prize in the Fishing
Rodeo.
~ Five men on a rubber raft.
90 The sperm whale which
washed ashore on Wrights-
vile Beach On April 4, 1923.
"a A japanese submarine.
90 An optical illusion.
Those of you who picked (3) 60
to the head of the class. The rest
Of you sign up for our course on
how to make a Ounce cap out OF
this newspaper in one easy lesson.
LA MER MONSTER-Yes, that S
Wrightsville Beach's famous sperm
whale. We wrote several stories
about it week before last. Then,
the minute we wrote the last story,
the mailman started bringing us
pictures of the monster of la mer.
The pictures were all so good
that We had a tough time select
ing the best one. Then, after we
had winnowed out the one we
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-21
BOARD OF INQUIRY
REPORTS TODAY ON
GOERING 'FADE-OUT'

NUREMBERG, Germany, Oct. 20
-U.D-A three-man board of in
CURRY into the suicide of Rsichs
marshal Hermann Goering is ey-
pected TO report Tuesday night to
the Allied commission in charge of
the execution of the Nuremberg war
criminals, it was understood Sun
day.
The board of inquiry is now
awaiting a laboratory report on evil
dence connected with Goering's
suicide and is due to receive 1t
Tuesday morning.
The Allied Control council in Ber-
lin meets Monday and may at that
time have a preliminary report on
the means by which Goering OBJ.
iained the poison which enabled
him to kill himself and how he
did it.
1t was expected that the coun.
ell also would examine official
photographs of the 10 executed
Nazis, taken after death, and
would decide whether they should
be published
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-21
Today and TOMORROW
By WALTER LIPPMANN

and Mr.. Harry Hopkins is dead,
and so they cannot give their own
account of what they did and why
they did it. But there were others
at the conferences when the agree
ments with Russia were made, not
ably Mr.. Churchill and the British
chiefs Of staff, Admiral Leahy,
General Marshall and Admiral
King, as we'll as Mr.. Charles E.
Bohlen, who is Mr.. Byrnes's prin-
cipal adviser on Russia. None of
them has as yet suggested that
the agreements with Stain were
dictated by Mr.. Roosevelt person
ally. or that against their judg-
ment and advice he appeased Rus
STA.
See LIPPMANN on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-21

Let us take a look at the the
cry, now being strenuously cir
culated, that the Soviet expansion
into Europe could have been rpe-
into Europe could have been pre-
not "appeased" Stain. Senator
Taft has made this theory into
official Republican party dogma
by saying in his speech of Sept.
II to the Ohio State Convention
that
President Roosevelt and Presi-
dent Truman at Tehraa. at Yalta,
at Potsdam, and at Moscow pur-
sued a policy of appeasing Rus
STA which has sacrificed through
cut eastern Europe and Asia ihe
freedom of many nations and OF
millions of people.
Now President Roosevelt is dead
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-21
AlongThe Cape Fear

thought tops, we got tangled up
in the tale of Wilmington's living
Christmas tree.
In short, we had neither the time
nor the opportunity to print the
picture last week that you'll find
on Page Three today.
WHO IS WHO? - We hope you'll
agree, though, that the picture was
well worth waiting for 1t was
loaned to us by Mr.. Louis Shrier,
to whom we now offer our thanks.
Mr.. Shrier neglected to tell US
three important things, however:
Cd Who is the photographer?
CD Who are the four brave bare
footed men?
(3) Who is the sissy with shoes
on?
We're also wondering what the
whale felt like to the bottoms of
those eight bare feet, but we don't
expect Mr.. Shrier to come up with
the answer on that one He was
just a child when the whale washed
ashore, and we doubt that his
mother allowed him to use the dead
c%etacean as a playground.
TOO BAD - If his mother had
allowed him that pleasure it would
See CAPE FEAR on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-21
Demands Rejected

1STANBUL, Oct. 20.-P-Turkey
las rejected Soviet demands for
joint Turkish-Russian defense of
the Dardanelles and has declared
willingness to place the question of
administration of the important
waterway before a conference of
the Big Four and other si%gnatories
of the Montreux convention, the
text of her reply to Russia's sec
{ nd note revealed Sunday night.
The Turkish reply made clear
that Turkey felt that all prelimin-
cry discussions concerning the
Dardanelles, as agreed upon at the
conference, are complet7
ed.
The Soviet note demanded, amo-g
other things, a share in the de-
tense Of the Dardanelles and the
combining of it's control to Black
Sea powers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-21
And So To Bed

Every tlark cloud has a ST.
yer lining, even those clouds
which poured so much rain on
Wilmington recently.
Well not silver, maybe but
copper--the copper of
many pennies.
Charles Sanderson, seven
year-old naturalist of Wood
lawn, made C a a l of his
scientific knowledge and the
watery pools left behind by the
heavy rains.
He safaried to the pools and
collected several gross of tad
poles.
WoodIawn homes are now
full of grown frogs.
Charles pockets are now full
of pennies--the profit from
the sale of the tadpoles to his
less-scientific playmates at one
cent per dozen.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-21
India Cabinet
Worried Over
$<$IS
Co@$ 80 /c1are May
R$$ rs FledgIing
Government
81 CRITICISM
Leaders Fear Trouble May
Incite Vengeful Retalia-
ton Over Nation

NEW DELHI, Oct. 20. -
(P- The communal warfare
in Eastern Bengal threatened
Sunday to precipitate a crisis
in midas fledgling interim
government and perhaps in
cite vengeful retaliation in
other parts of this vast sub
continent of approximately
390,000,0 600 persons.
A barrage of criticism was
directed at Viceroy Lord Wa
veil and Sir Frederick Bur
rows, governor of Bengal, assert
ing they failed to take prompt
steps to protect Hindus, outnum-
bered five to one by Moslems in
the trouble areas.
Pandit Jawahar1al Nehru, form
er president of the All-India Con-
gress party and leading minister
in the new government, meanwhile
was encountering trouble on his
tour of the Northwest frontier far
from eastern Bengal. Several hum
dred tribesmen attacked his con-
voy Sunday within a fourth mile OF
the gate of Landi Kotal fort in
strategic Khyber pass. Khyber
riflemen and the tribesmen engag-
ed in a brief battle in which be-
tween 300 and 400 shots were fir
ed, but only minor injuries occur
red in the clash, the third in Neh-
rus trip from Peshawar to the At
CHAN frontier and back.
Tours Bad Lands
J. A. Kripalani, president-elect
Of the dominantly Hindu Congress
returned to Calcutta with
other Congress leaders from a tour
of the Eastern Bengal areas. Gov
ernor Burrows and his chief minis
ter, Sir Hassan Suhrawardy, a Mos
lem, remained in Chittagong, af-
ter touring the Noakhali and Tip
pera districts, where the violence
centered. A dispatch from Chit
quoted Burrows as saying
See INDIA On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-21
Clark Speaks Tonight

Congressman j. Bayard Clark,
will deliver the principal address
tonight at a mas meeting of vot-
ers in the New Hanover court house
at 8 o'clock, according to Nathan
Haskell, chairman of the New Han
ove- county democratic executive
committee.
Congressman Clark will speak
in behalf of the Democratic ticket
in the November election.
The meeting will be open to the
public and a large turnout is urged
as the committee in charge has
been informed that Congressman
Clark will bring a message of vital
Importance to the Democrats of
New Hanover County.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-21
XIV ANLANS BACK
SAFETY PROGRAM
Traffic Precautions To Be
Stressed AT Stadium
Events Saturday

Sponsored by the Kiwanis club,
a sizeab7e portion of Wilmington's
b.cvcle-riding school children, boys
and girls alike, will converge on
or Legion stadium Saturday morn
ing. November 2, for an instructive
program on traffic safety prob
lens.
The instruction side of the pro-
gram. according to sponsoring
Kiwanians, will be in the hands Of
John Davis. retired Wilmington city
police traffic captain whose hobby
in retirement is lecturing young
sterS on traffic safety. The stadium
program will include actual de-
m|onstrations of the right and wrong
ways to handle a bicycle in congest-
ed traffic. To lend emphasis to the
visual side of the instruction, Cap
tain Davis will use an automobile
See SAFETY on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-21
Talmadge Better

McRAE, Ca, Oct. 2O.-R-Mrs.
Eugene Talmadge said Sunday that
her husband, Governor Nominate
Eugene Talmadge, was "doing
fine" and was expected to return
to his McRae home either Sunday
night Or in a day or SO.
Talmadge was stricken with an
abdominal hemorrhage in Jackson
vile, Fla, and has been confined
to a hospital there for the past two
weeks.
Mrs. Talmadge said she did not
know what her husbands plans
would be upon his return home.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-21
U.s.. Military
Jail Rocked
ByExplosion
Investigators Link Blasts
To Protest Over Proceed
ings Against Schacht
SOLDIERS UNINJURED
General Clay Expresses
Opinion Nazis Hoped TO
Destroy Records

Germany,
Oct. 20. -(P)- Three bombs
exploded Saturday n i g h t
against government buildings
in the Stuttgart area in what
U. S. Army Investigators call
ed an apparent protest of fur
Their proceedings against HAL
mar Schacht, German finan-
cier acquitted at Nuremberg,
One bomb exploded against
the American military Jail, ap-
parently in the belief that
Schacht was there. Actually he
was in a German Jail some dis
lance away awaiting a hearing be-
fore a German Disqualification
board.
The first bomb exploded on the
w~indoWsill of the records office of
the German Disqualification board
at Backnang, IS miles northeast Of
here, where the Germans arrested
Schacht. Another exploded on the
windowsill of a similar office il
Stuttgart. No n was injured, al
though ten American military po-
lice at the jail we're shaken up.
The Observation-Disclosures dis
trict headquarters of the regional
military government said records
were not destroyed.
Clay Theory
1t. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, deputy
American military governor, said
in Berlin ne believed the bombiags
were done by "Nazis who hoped to
destroy records in the German De-
notification courts because they
feared trial"
He declined to comment on mi
See U. S. MILITARY on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-21

Mayor William O'Dwyef, who
called upon "our citizens to
extend all courtesies and their
warmest and most cordial hos
pitality to these distinguished
guests from many lands"
Approximately 1000 o%rganiza-
tions throughout the United
States were helping in observ-
ance of United Nations week in
this country. The week began
Sunday with special prayers
said for the United Nations and
the General assembly in the
churches Of America.
This was the last breathing
spell for the delegations before
the gavel sounds in the Gem
eral assembly hall at Flushing
Meadows to open the first meet
See DIPLOMATS o n Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-21
QUEER huff
MeatShortage Was Wacky
Business In Many Places

phia woman conked a leg of lamb
on the head of a gent who had
grabbed for it, too.
Thieves took So 900 out Of the
safe at Leonard's market, Chester,
N. Y, but the dopes .
passed up the steaks and roasts
and in Russellville, Ark, FL
mer Henderson's calf swallowed a
wallet containing $50 and soon
was helping relieve the beef short
age.
Henry Cohen, who runs the City
Market in Superior, Wis, adver-
tised: "Bear meat wanted" A
See MEAT on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-21
HIGH-HAT CITY
HIGH-HAT CITY
OF World
Flock To New York
Manhattan, Once Owned By Indians, Bids
Welcome To Delegates To Historic
UN General Assembly Session

NEW YORK, Oct. 2o-Re
The City of New York became
the diplomatic capital of the
world Sunday night as delegates
from all sections of the globe
flocked to Manhattan for the
historic session of the United
Nations General assembly be-
ginning next Wednesday.
Delegates, advisers and Sec
retaries were coming by the
hundreds and one harried clerk
at the hotel bureau of the Unit
ed Nations summed the situa-
ton up this way: They're just
falling from the sky"
The city's hotels, however,
were prepared to handle the
rush and it was expected that
all newcomers would be housed
expeditiously.
New York itself put out the
welcome mat at the urging of
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-21
QUEER 'NUFF'


NEW YORK, Oct. 2o.-R-The
meat shortage is over (they say
now - but it was wacky while it
| asted.
The politicians blamed the Great
Meat Drought on each other and
the lady next door blamed it on
the butcher Butcher Johnny Kline
of Chicago retaliated on women in
general his wife in particular
e. wouldn't sell her any meat
$3.50. promptly was divorced.
In Brooklyn a lady standing in
line at a butcher shop that gave
priority to mothers-to-be hastily re-
treated when a pillow fell from
beneath her coat a Phlladel-
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-21
Combine
"Brains AndBrawn "
The Weather
c


South Carolina-Clear to partly cloudy
skies and mild temperatures Monday and
Tuesday.
North Carolina-Considerable cloudi-
ness Monday, some occasional light rain
in east portion, followed by partly cloudy
weather Tuesday; not much change in
temperature.
eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau1
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 p M, yesterday:
Temperatures
1870 a. M. g.; 7:30 a. m. 81; 1880 p. m.
"A; 1880 p. m. 50; maximum "a; min
mum go; mean. IS; normal 81.
1870 a. m. SO; 1880 a. m. 80: l:30 p. m.
10; 1880 p. m. 90.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1880 p. m.
600 inches.
Total since the first of the month,
Psi inches.
TIDES FOR TO-DAY
(From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey:
High Low
Wilmington - $751; am. 1881 am.
.7:17 pm. 1850 pm.
Masonboro Inlet 500 am. HOS am.
$40 pm. 1882 pm.
Sunrise 6:22; sunset 5:31. moonrise
2:57a; moonset Alp.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-21
Orders
WorkersBack
Sunday Night
Men Vote Heavily In Favor
OF Accepting Arbitra-
ton OF Grievances
HORIZON CLEARING
Government Spo k n
See Early End To Crippl-
ing Strike OF Seamen
Bv The Associated Press

By The Associated Press
The nations labor picture
frightened considerably last
night as one of the country's
most Gripping strikes, the 27-
day old Pittsburgh power
walkout - was called off and
prospects of ending the 20
day old maritime strike struck
an optimistic note.
The Independent Power
Workers union of the Du-
quesne Light co. voted Sun
day in Pittsburgh to accept
arbitration of their collective bar
gaining dispute with the company.
Union President George L. Mueller
told Gewsmen after the balloting,
''the strike is over"
The vote was announced as 1877
to 1877 in favor of the arbitration
proposal. Ballots were cast by l.
944 members out of a total 5000.
The union twice previously had
voted against arbitration.
Mueller said pickets were being
withdrawn Immediately and that
first shifts would report for duty
Sunday night. He said normal cleo
trical service would be flowing
early Monday. The strike which
gripped the city for almost a month
curtailed electrical service and
crippled business in an 817-square
mile area.
See UNION On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-21
COMMISSIONERS
MAY BACK PLEA
Attorney To Ask
Board To Support Firms
CPA Application

The New Hanover county board
will today be asked to pass a
resolution supporting the Carver
Manufacturing company's applica-
ton for a Civilian Production ad-
ministration priority On the ma
terials it needs to construct a
$3.50, 900 shirt factory at 18th and
Kidder streets.
. City Attorney Wl1liam B. Camp
bell announced last night that he
will appear before the county com
missioners this morning to ask
that they pass a resolution sub
stantially like one approved by the
city council last Wednesday urg-
See COMMISSIONERS On Page 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-21
0PA MAY REMOVE
BREAD CEILINGS
OF Flour, Break
fast Cereals Likely This
Week, Official Says

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20-R-
The government is considering re-
moval of price ceilings from flour,
bread, other bakery products and
breakfast cereals within a day or
so.
A high agriculture official who
asked that he not be quoted said
Sunday the OPA and the depart
ment had Gust about come to the
conclusion" that these products
should be decontro oiled.
However, present restrictions On
the use of wheat will be continued
See OPA On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-21
DISTRICT COURT
CONVENES TODAY
Federal Judge Don Gillian
To Preside AT Fall
Term Here

A moderately heavy docket OF
criminal cases is expected to face
Federal Judge Don Gillian, of Tar
boro, when the fall term of U. S.
District court convene5 at 10 am.
today in the Wilmington custom
house.
Slated for disposal are a few
criminal cases left over from the
spring term and a new crop which
me grand jury is slated to return
rue bills on this morning.
Inc grand jury will be picked
See COURT on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-21

wilmington. and vicinity: Consider
able cloudiness today with probable &C.
c~asional rains; Tuesday partly CLOUDY
with not much change in temperature.
Evening star., 1946-09-07
Direction. TO Reach Riverside Shores

From Pennsylvania Ape 18th St. SION EIepenth
N1py Yard Brtd0e-on AUe. South
Capitol xena Sts-bear left mile to D. c. ne-On Indian
Head Road l3 mileson old State Road fRte 22 % miles
turn left Indian Head road again. Go me-turn
Bryan Road to Marshall Hail. rs miles At Park
turn lett sharply miles Shores
Evening star., 1946-09-07
Lower Graded Duties
Given 100 10 200 in
GAO Peacetime Shift

Readjustment Of personnel to a
peacetime basis and to the Budget
Bureaus program for agencies to
absorb the burden of increased Fed
eral workers pay was felt yesterday
when from 100 to 200 General Ac-
counting Office workers were as
signed temporarily to duties of lower
grades.
The reassignments created some
thing Of a stir among many of the
1900 employees in the audit division
of GAO, where the changes took
place. Many thought they were be-
ing abruptly reduced also in pay,
but E. r. Ballinger, GAO director
of personnel, said pay will continue
unchanged for the time being.
May Appeal.
BY September 20, however, Mr..
Ballinger said a number of the
workers will necessarily have to be
notified that their grades have been
reduced. All will be given ample
opportunity, he said, to appeal and
each case will be given individual
consideration.
1t was pointed out that since the
Evening star., 1946-09-07
D. {. Buying Increase
Shown in Trade Data

Despite the fact that retail prices
are higher now than at any time
since 1920, Washington residents are
spending in increasing amounts, &C
cording to figures released today by
the Federal Reserve System.
The Richmond Federal Reserve
district, of which Washington is a
member, reported today that de-
partment store sales here increased
% per cent during the week ending
August 81 compared to the corre-
spending week last year.
For the week ended August "a,
sales here were % per cent greater
than for the same period a year ago,
the report showed.
For the same two-week periods,
the figures showed department store
sales in Baltimore increased by So
per cent and 20 per cent respectively.
The figure for the entire Rich
mond reserve district for the week
ending August 81 showed an increase
Of 81 per cent over the final week
Of August last year.
Data showing that retail prices in
rose to slightly above"
1920 figures from mid-July to mid