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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-14
U. S. AGAIN HITS
ATOMIC BODY VETO
Demands Clearer Defini
ton OF Nations Power
Against Attack

NEW YORK, July 13.-U.H-The
United States tonight insisted again
that there should be no recourse 10
veto by an atomic aggressor and
asked that the rights of a nation
to strike back against atomic at
tack in self-defense be clearly de-
fined by the United Nations.
Bernard Baruch, in a memoran-
dunn submitted to the working COM
mittee of the UN atomic energy
commission, said that any treaty
for atomic control would be "whol-
ly ineffectual" if any state could
block UN action to enforce securi-
ty.
Perhaps more important, the
Baruch memorandum asked the
United Nations to rewrite the char
ter provisions for self-defense SO
that a nation could retaliate not
only against an atomic attack, but
again certain steps in themselves
preliminary to such action
Asked Qualification
The American memorandum was
submitted in response to a request
from Atomic Energy Commission
Chairman Herbert Evatt for clari-
fication of the first paragraph OF
the original atomic control plan
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-14
MARINE VETERANS
COME TO LEJEUNE
Advance Elements OF d.
vision Begin Arriving
AT Permanent Base

CAMP LEJEUNE, July 13.-Pj
Advance elements of the Second
Marine division, conquerors of Ia
rawa, Sipan and Tinian, arrived
today at Camp Lejeune. The di-
vision, which is returning from oc-
cupation duty in Japan, will make
its permanent home in North
Carolina.
Major General Thomas E.. Wat
son., USMC, will command the
newly arrived division, as well
as Camp Lejeune. This will not be
a new assignment for the general,
since he also commanded the Sc
cond division during its successful
campaign in the Mariannas.
After three long years of tire
less combat, the end of Worlc
War II saw the division in Japar
as part of the occupation forks
The majority of the Second vas a
Sasebo under control Of Genera
Douglas MacArthur's First Army
Corps. 1t helped return 100, 900 Jap
anese to their homes, destroyed
huge amounts of enemy ammuni
ton, and disarmed thousands O.
Japanese soldiers.
One regiment of the Second di
vision occupied the atom-bombee
city of Nagasaki.
Nearly $500 of the divisions of
ficers and enlisted men will b.
discharged in the near future, ant
others will be eligible for furlough
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-14
May Accused
OF x%ding
|P<Xs Facts
War Probe Com
mi.tee Makes Charge In
Letter To Scion
REJECTS HIS OFFER
Witnesses Claim He Pres
sured' Army Into Civ
ing Orders To Firm

WASHINGTON, July 13 -U@-
The Senate War Investigating COM
mittee today accused Rep. Andrew
j. May, D., Ky. of declining to
face and explain" testimony link
ing him with a midwest munitions
combine and said it found no alter
native to the conclusion that you
admit those facts to be true"
It's blunt charge was contained
in a letter to May rejecting his
offer to testify on his own terms
on his relations with the paper
empire of is firms. The committee
has informed President Truman il
has evidence that the syndicate
made "unconscionable" profits or
the S78, coo, 600 in war contracts il
handled.
May, in a letter of reply, brand
ed as "unwarralteed" the commit
tees conclusion, saying sit paral
lels other characteristics of the con
duct of your hearings to which
object
He also denied that he has de
clined to appear before the com
mittee. But he said that before &C
cepting any invitation to testify
he was simply seeking a basil
upon which such acceptance car
be made without being denied the
rights and privileges specified"
May reiterated that he Woult
willingly appear if the committee
fully and completely accord me
upon whom the brunt of the attacl
is apparently leveled" the condi
tons he previously set forth foi
testifying. These conditions il
Guided permission to have counsel
to cross-examine witnesses and K
use the committees subpoena
powers to get government records
The committee had rejected these
as special privileges. May termed
them concepts of judicial fair
ness"
Lashes At Committee
He also dashed back at the com
mittee which said he was under
obligation to give an accounting Of
his stewardship as a public ser
Continued on Page 2. Column a
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-14
NAVAL RESERVISTS
TO REGISTER SOON
1t. Bost Says He Will Be-
gin Taking Applications
In About Two Weeks

Spending the weekend here with
his family, 1t. Henry c. Bost,
USNR, revealed that when he re-
turns in the next two weeks to take
up his new duties in Wilmington
as representative of the Sixth
Naval district for Naval Reserve
affairs he will begin taking appli-
cations of Reservists interested in
joining the unit here.
1t. Bost also said that the Navy
department will assign Patrol
Craft to the division in training
here. The PC type boat is a 1885,
footer and will be served by a
standby crew of Naval Reservists
recalled to full time duty for that
purpose.
He pointed out that the assign
ment q the vessel here would in
no way hinder the program calling
for two week cruises are a part
of the training program to be fol.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-14
REORGANIZATION
PLANS ADVANCED
Senate Will Not Go Along
With House Rejection
OF Proposal No. 3

WASHINGTON, July 13.-U.H-
President Truman won approval Of
one third of his government re-
organization blueprint today when
the senate refused to 60 along
with house rejection of so-called
plan No. 3.
The plan calls for consolidation
of bureaus in six cabinet depart
ments.
The senate refused to concur in
the house resolution rejecting plan
No. 3 by a vote of 81 to 80. Unless
in Mondays session it rejects the
other two phases of Mr.. Truman's
jected by the house-they auto
matically will become effective al
midnight Monday.
Under the government reorganl-
cation act, both houses of congress
must disapprove a presidential re
organization plan within 60 days
after it is submitted or it auto
matically becomes law.
The approved proposal calls for
minor changes within the war,
Navy, Commerce, Treasury, Agri-
culture and Interior departments,
chiefly transfers of some agency
functions and a shutting of au-
thority over other agencies.
A fight over plan No. 3 pre-
coded the vote, with some oppon-
fCor+;prad m Pare a. Column 5)
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-14
Air Power Defeated
Japs Before A-Bomb
Captured American
Altman Helped laps
Decide On Surrender

WASHINGTON, July 13-(R
How a captured B-29 super
fortress pilot helped the Japa-
nese to make up their minds to
to surrender last August was
disclosed today by the U. S.
strategic bombing survey.
A rumOr that an atomic bomb
was to be dropped on Tokyo
August IL got started after
questioning of the pilot, I'M
Identified in the report.
Japan's first overture toward
acceptance of the POtsdam sur
render terms was cabled to the
United States via Switzerland
August 10.
The story, made public at
the White House said:
"Indubitably the Hiroshima
bomb and the rumOr derived
from Interrogation of an Ameri-
can prisoner Obs pilot, who
stated that an atomic bomb
attack on Tokyo was scheduled
for IL August introduced urgen-
cy in the minds of the govern
ment and magnified the pres
sure behind its moves to end
the war;"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-14
A
Says Enemy Would Have
Surrendered Without In
tervention of Russia

WASHINGTON, July 13-W.H-
Japan would have surrendered late
in 1945 even without the atomic
bomb or Russia's intervention, the
U. S. strategic bombing survey
told President Truman tonight.
The 12-man civilian board sale
American air power licked the
Japanese long before the first
atomic bomb Quilted Hiroshima and
Russia entered the Pacific war.
Japan might have surrendered
before last November l and Ger
tainly" prior to December 81 "even
if the atomic bombs had not been
dropped, even if Russia had not
entered the war, and even if no in
vasion had been planned or con-
templated,' the board said.
Hoped For Invasion
1t revealed that the Japanese
military even hoped for an Ameri-
can invasion of the japanese home
land on the premise that the Japa-
nese could inflict high casualties
and thus prod the United States
into negotiating the Pacific peace.
Japan took the first fateful steps
toward unconditional surrender as
early as June, 1914, when the
cabinet of Gen. Hideki TOTO gave
up command of the war it had
started three years earlier at Pearl
Harbor.
By then the Japanese knew the
wal was essentially a war to win
air control over the Japanese home
land" the experts said. Already
American air supremacy was
being persuasively demonstrated"
over Japan, they added.
Thus. more than a year before
surrender actually came, 1.-The time
had come for positive steps to end
Continued on Page 4 Column q
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-14
SENATE APPROVED
MEASURE SLASHES
ACENCY'S POWERS
Rules Committee Recon-.
mends Legislation Be
Sent To Conference

WASHINGTON, July 49,
UP)-A drastically %curtail-
ed OPA extension bill today
was tossed by the senate to
the house, which delayed
action until Tuesday.
The measure, approved by
the senate in the early morn
ing hours on a e. to Is vote, would
revive OPA until June 30, 1947, but
slash its powers severely.
The House Rules committee
cleared the way for house actor
when it recommended that the
measure be sent to conference be.
tween the senate and house.
The committee gave ne greer
light for house action Monday
but the house will not vote or
the recommendation until Tues
day.
To Consider Atom
Democratic Leader John w
Mccormack announced that thu
house will consider atomic energy
control legislation Monday.
While the rules committee rec
commended that the OPA bill b,
sent to conference, the house
could reject such a move ane
vote on concurrence in the sen
ate bill.
The rules committees action
was over the opposition of some
Republican members who urget
that the senate bill be sent to thu
floor with a resolution calling TO,
an immediate vote to concur.
Rep. Charles Halleck, R.. Ind.
contended that the senate Aae
produced Just about the best bill
that we can get through con
gress."
Technically, the senate acted or
a house bill that would have mere
ly extended OPA for 20 day!
while a permanent bill vas beins
worked out.
Could Vote Tuesday
Thus the house could vote Tues.
day to override the rules com
mittee's recommendation that the
bill go to conference, and coulc
vote to concur it or reject the
senate amendments.
Price Administrator Paul A.
Porter meanwhile called fol
Continued on Page 3, Column 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-14
Decision On Shipyard
Is Expected In Week
Paper Collection
Today Will Benefit
Kennedy Home Here

Members Of the Sans Faute,
local fraternity, will collect
scrap paper today, proceeds of
which will so to the Catherine
Kennedy home.
The committee in charge of
the collection has asked that
all bundles be placed at the
curb by 9 o'clock this morn
ing. If it rains the collection
will be made but the men en-
gagged in picking up the bundles
requests the bundles be plac-
ed in a dry place.
A telephone call to 2-3211 will
result in a truck being dis
patched if a bundle is nlisseu,
1t has been announced.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-14
AIRLINES NEAR
NORMAL SERVICE
Many Travellers Stranded
After CAA Grounds
Consultations

NEW YORK, July 13-P-A re
turn to normal service on inter.
national airlanes by midweek was
indicated today as United States
airlines modified fleets of Doug
las Skyma5ters to meet the pas
senger crisis that followed asCAA
order grounding all Lockheeo
Consultations.
A sharp cut in international all
schedules and stranded travellers
on three continents resulted from
the order, issued after a Constel
lation crashed near Reading, Pa,
It was the second time within a
month one of the huge Lockheeo
airliners was involved in a crash.
Pan American World Always
said its service vas "a little bet
ter than half normal but would
be normal by the middle of next
week. Trans World Airlines can,
celled two flights today but ex-
pected to resume normal service
by Monday.
American Overseas Airlines said
it already was back to normal
service and expected to increase
it's flights by the end of the month
with additional Skymasters. Mean
time, the company said it would
maintain its present II weekly
flights to and from La Guardia
field with six Skymasters which
would make quick turnarounds be-
tween trips to the continent.
Four Skymasters have been re
ceived from Miami to replace
Consultations, Pan American
ICor no-o Ta~. NnI u
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-14
Vets War Assets Office
Seeking Location Here

employees now located in the re-
gional office.
George o. Bason, deputy region
al director of WAA, said the es-
Establishment here of a branch Of
flee for veterans ce%rtification was
in line with the master plan to
make the time and red tape factors
less irritating and to expedite the
ACQUISITION Of war surplus proper
ty bv interested veterans. Basor
added, that at present there are
similar offices in Raleigh anc
Charlotte, with Wilmington anc
Continued OIL Page 4, Column p
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-14
HEIRENS IS LINKED
TO WAVES DEATH
Print Found In Apartment
Is That OF Suzanne
Case Suspect

CHICAGO. July 13.-UP-Chie
of Detectives Walter Storms an
nounced tonight the FBI had con
firmed that a fingerprint found il
the apartment of Frances Brown
slain ex-Wave, was that Of William
Heirens. II, suspect in the Suzanne
Degnan kidnap-slaying.
Storms SAID he had received {
telegram from FB1 Director J
Edgar Hoover. only a few hours
after he had announced the dis
covery of the Degnan ransom
note of a third discernible prin.
checking with that of Heirens.
The telegram stated:
Re letter July IL latent impress
sion IN photograph Frances Brown
case identified right index finger
print William Heirens.'
Miss Brown was shot and stabbed
to death in ner apartment on Dec.
10, 1945. A message scraWled ir
lipstick on the wall warned:
For heavens sake catch NE
before 1 kill more. I cannot con
troll myself"
Six-year-old Suzanne was kid.
mapped from her home on Jan. 6
strangled and her body dismem-
bered.
First Identification of the print
found on the door of Miss Browns
apartment as that of Heircns was
made by Sgt. Thomas Laftey, fin
gerprint expert of the Chicago po-
lice Bureau Of Identification.
The finding then was forwarded
to the 'FBI for confirmation.
Earlier, Heiren's attorney indi-
Gated that the youth was begin
ming to "crack' under the strain
of constant surveillance in the
county jail aid the mounting evil
dence being produced against him.
Heirens, a University of Chicago
sophmore, was placed under a a.
hour-a-day guard as police an
Continued oil Page 4, Column s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-14
BASIC PRICE RISE
IS 22.7 PER CENT
Survey Shows Tendency
Oh Present Rates To
Level Off

CHICAGO, July 13-UD- In two
weeks without OPA controls, prices
of % basic commodities, have IN
creased 22.7. per cent. the Bureau
of Labor Statistics said tonight
and consumers in many cities
demonstrated against the higher
cost of living.
Prices generally appeared to be
leveling off at new, higher rates
set since price control expired, but
in some instances, they remained
at old OPA ceilings.
Buyers strikes began in several
cities last week ana were reported
in additional communities as the
nation awaited decisive congress
sional action on controls.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
announced at Washington that the
price index for % basic commodl-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-14

PARIS, July 13.-P)-Secretary
of State James F. Byrnes said
today he would report to his nation
Monday night on results of the
month long foreign ministers con-
ference in which he said the Unit
ed States accepted some compro-
misses on Europe IN treaty propo-
sails to avoid a ''clash that nobody
wants"
Byrnes, last of the three visiting
foreign ministers to leave France,
flew from Orly field on the presi-
Dental plane, The Sacred Cow,
at 1:55 pm. CESS am. EST
bound for Iceland and Washington.
Those accompanying him included
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-14

"A Veterans Certification office
" ne War Assets administration
VIII be opened in Wilmington as
soon as sufficient space is found,
SeVofolhg to a WAA announce
VI nS't received from the Star-NeWs
"gSh-ngtoa bureau yesterday.
1ne new office. intended to make
surplus property more readily
o.'1aole 10 war veterans, will op-
we under the regional office of
"AA IN Charlotte.
Ullclals OF the Charlotte office
SAID that the selection of local
manager had not been made, but
would probably be one of the cAA
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-14
Bulletin To Soapboxers:
You Can Get Wheels Nou

shipment Of 40 sets of wheels and
axles together with steering cable,
and they will be offered to prospec-
tive Derby entrants at absolute
cost by the firm.
This announcement not only took
a load off the minds and shoulders
of Derby officials who have been
burning up the wires in an attempt
to secure wheels, but also made
possible, the entry of a lot more
boys who have been holding off
signing up until such time as they
could be assured that they would
be able t. wheels. All wheel
'c0ntinr DiPase Ten; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-14
CONGRESS- APPROVES RECORD
LOAN TO GREATBRITAM AND
DELAYS ACTION ON OPA BILL
British See Big Loan
As Cooperation Sign

LONDON, July Is. - up =
Great Britain's labor govern
ment tonight officially welcom-
ed the $3.50, OO0, 900 United
States loan "as a sign our
American friends want to work
with us just as we want to
work with them"
In a statement rejecting ma
tiOnwide relief at the house of
representatives approval of
the long-awaited grant, Chan
cellOr Of the EXchequer Hugh
Dalton said on behalf of his
government:
THE American congress has
approved the loan. This does
not mean that we can now e
lax our efforts, but it will hast
en- the time when we can once
more play our full part in a
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-14
Byrnes To Report Monday
On Paris Meet s Results

U. S. Senators Tom Connally, d.
Tex and Arthur H. Vandenber9
r. Mich and their wives.
British Foreign Secretary Ernest
Bevin departed two hours earlier.
The Soviet Foreign Minister V. NJ.
Molotov, took off for Moscow early
in the morning.
Byrnes told a news conference
before leaving that he would press
for a new meeting of the foreign
ministers of the four powers after
the forthcoming European place
conference here July 20, and be-
fore the meeting of the United Ma
Continued on Page 3, Column y
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-14
CREDIT RECEIVES
zig TO l55 VOTE
IN LOWER HOUSE
Action On $3,75O,OOO,OOO
Loan Gives President
Legislative Triumph

WASHINGTON, July 13.-
(UP)-The house today put
the final stamp of approval
on So, 750, 900, 900 loan to
Great Britain, largest peace
time credit ever extended by
one nation to another.
The vote was PIG to 1856.
The measure, which squeezed
through the senate by a 46 to "a
vote on May 10, and now goes to
the White House for Presidents
Truman's signature.
Congressional approval of the
loan gave Mr.. Truman one of his
biggest legislative triumphs.
House approval came after it
rejected, 219 to 154, a committee
Rep. Everett M. Dirksen, R., H.,
to send the bill back to committee.
All amendments were beaten,
Lineup Of Vote
Sixty-one Republicans and u,
American Laborite joined 157
Democrats in approving the meas
ure. Thirty-tWo Democrats, 122
Republicans and a Progressive OPP
posed it.
Chairman Adolph J. SABBATH of
the house rules voted for the loan
despite his earlier announcement
he would oppose it because of
past British actions"
The house brought a quick ex-
preston of pleasure from Secre-
tary of Treasury John w. Snyder,
who said congress has now ex-
pressed to the world the firm de-
termination of the United States to
seek international cooperation"
Secretary of Commerce Henry A.
Wallace and Assistant Secretary
of State William A. Clayton indi-
Gated in a state department rad
broadcast CNBC) that approval of
the loan now would spur plans for
the long projected international
trade conference.
The administration scored its
victory, probably the most crucial
in the United States disapproval of
pre-war economic isolation, with
the imprisoned support of many
house Republicans.
Soviet foreign policy vas a
greater factor in the outcome than
either the British economy or the
administrators world trade pro-
gram. Deciding segments of
Democratic and Republican sup
port came from those who envisag-
ed the loan as the way to strength
en- Britain as a buffer against
communism.
House speaker Sam Rayburn, D..
Tex, and Rep. Jesse P. W~olcott,
R., Mich, prodding their colleagues
into final action, bluntly charac-
terized the loan as the key to
whether Britain stands with the
United States or turns to the Soviet
sphere.
Opponents fred a steady stream
of amendments at the house in an
e~leventh-hoUr drive to kill OF weak
en- the measure
Proposal Downed
The first-a proposal by Rep.
Emanuel Celler. R., N, Y. to kill
the legislation by returning it to
the House Renking committee
was overwhelmed, 100 to 10, and
the final outcome seemed certain
thereafter.
With Acting Secretary of State
Dean Acheson and William L.
Clayton, assistant secretary o.
state for economic affairs, look
ing on, the house also brushed
aside two amendments dealing
with Britain's Atlantic and Pa
cific bases.
1t voted down the proposal Of
Rep. W. Sterling Cole, R.. N. Y,
to require Britain to give the
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-14
By JACK LUNAN
Staff Writer

Success of the Wilmington ALL
American Soap Box Derby on July
81 from a standpoint of entries is
concerned was assured Friday with
the long = awaited announcement
that another shipment of regula-
ton wheel-and-axle sets had reach
ed the city.
R. W. Montgomery, a former
Wilmingtonian who has recently
returned to the city as manager
of the B. F. Goodrich company,
notified Soap Box Derby head
quarters that he had received a
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-14
PROPOSAL FILED
Recon- n dation That
Yard Be Permanently Re-
tanned Before Board
Bv FRANK VAN DER LINDEN
Wilmington Star-NewS
Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, July ia rec
ommendation that the Wilmington,
N, C. shipyard be permanently re-
tanned is before the United States
Maritime commission for a formal
decision, which is expected within
week, a commission spokesman
disclosed today.
He emphasized, however, that
the yard is by no means certain
10 be kept although it is one of
four tentatively designated for
standby status in recent hear
ings on thte Navy department S
appropriations bill for the new ifs
cal year.
The spokesman indicated that
the commission is seriously con-
sidering the advisability of trans
terring the property to the War
Assets administration for sale as
surplus. The director of the Ter
minals and Real Estate division
commended that the Wilmington
yard be made permanent. After
voting his suggestion up or down,
the commission will act upon a
proposal by the North Carolina
States Ports authority, which is
seeking 10 acquire the shipyard
in exchange for an agreement to
operate a drydocl for both govern
ment-oWned and commercial ships.
This proposal contemplated the
payment of little or no cash should
the yard be transferred to the
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-14
CHURCHES ASSIST
FOOD DRIVE HERE
Members Asked Ia Give AT
Least One Can OF Food
For World Relief

Today has been designated by
me Junior Chamber of Commerce
as Family Food day and Whining
ION churches are cooperating by
encouraging donations of canned
goods TO the Jaycee food collec-
ton drive.
Ilfl Scouts, Girl Reserves and
tn5lelAoers of the Young Women's
EAI-Stlan association are urging
alelf friends and associates to GO
" me church this morning and to
IKE at least one can of food for
'e relief of International hunger.
Junior Chamber Committeema an
-0m Davis disclosed that collec-
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