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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-23
VETS GROUP GETS
MAP OF PROJECTS
VIII Head Announces Re.
ceipt OF Specifications
From FPHA Office

The preliminary stages of the
projected sale of Lake Forests 584
masonry units to group of New
Hanover county World War II
veterans were underway yesterday
as Ken R. Noble, president of
Veterans Homes, Inc, received
plats and diagrams of that portion
of Lake Forest subject to VIII S
negotiations.
Formal opening of negotiations
still awaits the arrival here of A..
R. Hanson. regional real estate di-
rector of the Federal Public Hous-
ing Administration, the time of
whose departure from his Atlanta
office still awaits receipt of GER
tain detailed instructions as to con-
ditions of sale from top FPHA Of
ficials in Washington.
The Lake Forest layout was re-
ceived from Hanson by Noble. yes
terday. Not included in the ma
terial was the FPHA's asking price
for the developments units. Han
son purposely delayed the price
announcement until he comes here
in order to allow VIII full two
months to negotiate the purchase.
Noble reported.
The FPHA proposes to allow vet
Grams Homes, Inc, to bid on 584
masonry units and the community
building as well as the building
now occupied by the City Library.
Not included in the negotiations
will be the developments COM
mercial building, which now houses
an Atlantic and Pacific Tea Com
pany branch and Lanes Lake For
est Drug Store. The FPHA plans to
negotiate sale of this unit separate
ly, it is understood and are not in
Guiding it in the VIII dealings.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-23
Hongay Cited
As Center OF
Next Attack
European Civilians, Euras-
ians Victims OF Mortar
Attack By Rebels
PREMIER TO SPEAK
Annamite Forces Control
Main Buildings In Busi-
ness Section OF Hanoi

PARIS, Dec. 22.-P)-The
French news agency said Sun
day that at least so French
soldiers had been killed and
fighting in Hanoi and that
$50 wounded during recent
Viet-Namese attacks had ex-
tended to the whole of North
ern Indo-China.
Premier Leon Blum was ex-
pecte dto make a statement
before the French National
assembly Monday about dis
orders in the rich French
possession of Southeast Asia. +
Continued On Page 8; Col. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-23
Leader Calls
Arabs To Arm
Against Jews
Army Najada Commander
Speaks To Over 5000 In
Name OF Grand Mufti
PAMPHLETS POSTED
Sneaker Charges Followers
Deceived By Both British,
American Promises

JERUSAL E M, Palestine,
Dec. 22.-(UP)-Mohammed
Miner Ell Hawari, command
er of the Arab army Mazda,
called upon his followers Sun
day in the name of Grand
Mufti Hal Amin Ell Husseini
to prepare themselves for q
decisive battle which will be
fought on an unprecedented
scale"
Speaking at a public meet
ing Of Mazda members in
Jaffa Oh the fourth anniversary OF
the Arab army's organization,
Hawari said that the Grand Mufti,
now in Egypt in exile, wanted
them TO organize to fight the Jews
THE Mufti will give you the
signal when the hour comes, -
Hawari said.
The Arab leaders militant
speech came as the Jewish Stern
gang posted pamphlets in Tel Aviv
denouncing the raid On the Arab
village Of Salame by the Jewish
underground army Haganah as
insane, dangerous and inimica.
to Jewish interests.
The pamphlets rejected the Ha-
ganah's explanation that the raio
was made on Arabs who had stoler
arms from Hananah arsenals ano
said that such operations serve
the British and are harmful tt
Continued On Page 8; Col. /
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-23
Jap Islands
Hard Hit By
Tidal Waves
Official Toll Of Known
Dead Reaches 781 With
Over 800 Injured
INUNDATION HEAVY
Onrushing Water Sweeps
2,O80 Vessels Out To Sea
Following Tremors

TOKYO, Monday, Dec. %.
-(P)-The official toll OF
known dead and missing from
Japan's worst earthquake in
% years rose to 781 Sunday,
with more than $1,000 still
homeless.
The tidal waves and terrific
ground shock touched "a of
Japan's At prefectures Satur-
day. Unofficial estimates of
the dead ranged up to 1900.
The Home ministry's new
casualty report - $50 dead,
101 missing and 824 injured
included only 16 Of the "a pre-
lectures in which damage was re-
ported.
1t listed 1894 homes destroyed
and 11,023 damaged. Earlier re-
ports showed $4,000 homes had
been temporarily inundated, while
hundreds of thousands Of inhabi-
tants of South Central japan had
huddled unsheltered III winter $
chill.
Vessels Missing
The six powerful waves rolling
in from the sub-sea center of the
quake beached or swept out to
sea 2,080 vessels.
The new report included for the
first time official-but incomplete
figures On hard-hit Shikoku Is
land, Southwest of Honstu. Where
it said 474 died, 327 slightly hurt,
and 20 still missing. Some 5000
homes were wholly or partially
destroyed, and 600 others washed
away" Figures still were unavail-
able for a part Of Shikoku island.
On Kyushu, southernmost main
island, it listed six dead, II injur-
ed, and go houses damaged.
For Honshu, the major island
Of the empire, the death toll was
200, with 2O7 seriously injured
27 slightly injured and u missing.
The ministry toll included ct
known dead in areas of wave
lashed Wakayama peninsula Of
Southern Honshu, with part Of the
hard-hit coastline still isolated.
Serious damage and casualties
remain to be counted here, the
ministry said.
Americans Safe
No new reports were available
on two U. S. Army expeditions
proceeding by land and sea te
assist the less than 100 American
soldiers stranded at three points
of this isolated sector. They hac
signalled their safety, and radioec
that they needed only water. .
Four and six-story buildings lr
Kochi, city on Southern shikoku
collapsed and wreckage blockee
streets tightly, the ministry re
ported.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-23
Today And Tomorrow
By WALTER LIPPMANN

veto: we will not sign a treaty
which we do not think is a good
treaty.
All are agreed-particularly since
M. Molotov's recent speech-that
all who sign the treaty are bound
by what the treaty says. The Rus
SLAMS do not contend that, having
agreed to a treaty, they or anyone
else can by veto refuse to OBJ
serve or to enforce that treaty.
Yet on this point there appears
to be a difference. What is the
Continued On Page 3; Col. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-23
9O1NOO IAN
Star-Ne1us Employees
Will Share Profit.
Il. b. Page, Publisher, Makes Announcement
AT Annual Party Sunday; Son Will
Become Joint Publisher Jan.

departments effecting the econ
omy.
Rinaldo B. Page, Jr., a
World War II veteran, is a
student at the University of
Georgia.
Some 140 guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Page, including Star
News employees and their
wives, attended the dinner at
the Cape Fear Country club.
Guests were seated at an
H-shaped luncheon table set
with silver candelabra with red
tapers and red berries in sill
yer candle wine coolers.
The main table had a center
piece of poinsettas, and the
dining hall was decorated with
Christmas greens, holly berries
and poinsettas.
AS one highlight Of the lunch
con, Mr.. Page, Sr. and Mr..
Webb were presented with
travelling bags as the Christ
mas gifts of employees of the
papers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-23
No Advertising

RALEIGH, Dec. 22.-P)- The
News and Observer business office
said tonight that it will not carry
any advertising in the issues OF
Wednesday; Saturday and Sunday,
and said the no-advertising editions
were "due to the extreme shortage
of newsprint paper"
The business office Of the paper
said that all advertisements, both
classified and display; that usually
are inserted in these editions which
carry no advertisements will be
eliminated, and cannot be sche duled
to appear in other issues"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-23

WASHINGTON, Dec. o. R -
The .'Micks" will have it when the
new House convenes survey
showed Sunday-there will be ten
of them.
The Johnsons and the Smiths
number five each.
Like its predecessors, the 8otn
congress will have its share OF dup
plicate and similar 1ames to con-
fuse roll-call clerks.
The ten "Micks" are McMlllen
of Illinois. Mcmillan of South Caro-
lima. Mcmahon, McCower. yAcGre-
eor McGarvey, Mcconnell Nc
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-23
GBS Message

LONDON, Dec. 22.-R-For all
that he has beard like Santa
Claus, George Bernard Shaw is
firmly in the Scrooge camp when
It comes to Christmas.
AS his ninetieht yuletlde ap-
preached, playwright Shaw sent
this holiday message to the Rey-
nolds News:
"Christmas is for me simply a
nuisance.
"The mob supports it as a carni-
val of mendacity, gluttony and
drunknessness.
'Fifty years ago I invented a
society for the abolition of Christ
mas. So far I am the only mem
ber.
s'That is ali 1 have to say on the
subject"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-23

Though there is a difference,
as the Canadian delegate has
argued, between the U. N. resolu
ton and the American proposals,
the difference is more apparent
than it is real.
All are agreed that the treaty
must be approved by the govern
ments that sign it. Until they sign
and ratify, they have what is now
called "a veto, "a new name for
the old right of any sovereign gov
ernment to repect a treaty it does
not like. The whole policy of the
United States is based on this
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-23
BONUS PLAN

At his annual Christmas party
for all employees of the Will
mlngton Morning Star, The Will
mington News, and the Jack
sonville Record, Rinaldo B.
Page, owner and publisher, of
the papers, announced a pro-
flt-sharing and a department.
al bonus plan to become effec-
tive on New Years day, and
]. Walter Webb, business mana
ger of the papers, announced
that on the same day Mr..
Pages son, Rinaldo, Jr., is to
become joint publisher with his
father.
After January 1, 1947, Mr..
Page said, 10 per cent of the
gross earnings, before income
tax deductions, of all three
papers will be divided among
their employees. At the same
time each department Will be
given liberal budget, and 10
per cent of all savings thereon
will be divided among the en-
ployes of the department or
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-23
|<Micks" Will Hold Edge
When New House Meets

Dowell, Mccormack nd fScDon-
ough.
The Johnsons hail from Okla
homa. Texas, California, Indiana
and Illinois.
The Smith contingent comes from
Virginia, Maine, Kansas, Ohio and
Wisconsin.
There are Millers from Califor-
MIA. Nebraska, Maryland, and Con-
necticut.
There will be three Aliens, three
Coles and three Joneses.
Continued On Page 3; Col. 5
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-23
The Weather
FORECAST

FORECAST
Georgia. North and South Carolina =
Fair and somewhat warmer Monday.
Tuesday fair and mild.
Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 7:30 pm. yesterday.
TEMPERATURES
1:30 am. 43, 7 80 am. SO, 1880 pm So,
7:30 pm. 45.
Maximum 81; Minimum 81; Mean a.;
Normal 43.
PRECIPITATION
Total for "a hours ending 7:30 p. m.
none. 's-
Total since the first of the month, 2.10
inches
TIDES FOR TODAY
=. -7s, .5,;-e. " = Hi@h Low
Wilmington --------------. 9 :54a 4:26a
10:01p scoop
Masonboro Inlet --------- 7 :34a 1:09a
s.. > 1882 sop
Sunrise: tbs. Sunset: sos. Moonrise:
7:24a. Moonset: 5:14p.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-23

WI. .MINGTON and vicinity: Fair and
somewhat warmer today; Tuesday fair
ana mild.
Evening star., 1946-09-27
Shots for Diphtheria
Urged in Virginia
By the Assoeioied Press

RICHMOND, Va, Sept. 27.-Au-
thorities sought today, by extensive
immunization, to curb the spread
of virulent diphtheria in two widely
separated portions of Virginia.
DR.. B. r. Allen, director of the
State Burueau of Communicable
Diseases, issued a request for i'm
mediate immunization of children
in Franklin County, where the dis
ease already has taken Is lives, and
the Peninsula Health District has
issued similar appeal in the Mes
sick area of York County, where one
fatality was reported in the last 48
hours.
DR.. Allen conferred with Frank
lin County physicians yesterday
and afterward 1t was urged that the
county, which has no organized
health department, expedite the
immunization of school children.
DR.. T. F. McGough of the PENN
sular Health District, said his office
would make every effort to immu-
nize all children in the York County
area. He warned that unless mass
immunization is effected, an epi-
demic might result.
Evening star., 1946-09-27
Missouri Veterans
Plan Bonus March
By the Assoeioted Press

SPRINGFIELD, Mo, Sept. 27.-
World War II veterans began as.
sembling today for a bonus march
to the State Capital at jefferson
City, threatening to stay there un.
til Eve get an answer one way OF
the other" to demands that the
State pay a $40O bonus to each ex.
seryiceman.
Led by an ex-Marine Corps cor.
poral, Murl E. Owen, the veteran!
plan to leave tonight by motor con.
voy for the Capital. Mr.. Owen sale
he expected some $4,000 from
Southwest Missouri to participate
in the trek.
A proposal for State bonus, tt
be financed by doubling the State
sales tax, was suspended in COM
mittee when the State Assembly
adjourned last week. Earlier at q
special meeting a House committee
scheduled two days of hearings on
the bill, but adjourned early because
not enough witnesses appeared.
Mr.. Owen and Harvey E. Yost
another leader of the movement
said the marchers would go pre-
pared to stay awhile.
We'll camp on the Governor
lawn if necessary"
All marchers were told to take
camping equipment and Mr.. Owen
added we're urging all the fellows
to bring along all the &C. and K
rations they've saved from the
Army
At Jefferson City Gov. Phil M
Donnelly refused to comment, say
ing only that he would deal with
the situation when the time comes.
Evening star., 1946-09-27
Ship Lands With ; in Irons
An6 Captain knitted in Fight
BY the Assoeioted Press


PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 27.-His
hands bandaged as the result of
what he said was fight with crew.
men. Capt. Charles Perez brought
the Liberty ship Joyce Kilmer into
the port of Philadelphia yesterday
with three of her crew in irons.
Dichmann, Wright g. Pugh, Inc
agents for the ship, notified the
Coast Guard there was trouble
aboard" and Federal Bureau of In
vestigation agents boarded the ves-
sci when it docked.
The agents said the ship sailed
from Baltimore August Is with a
cargo of coal for Rouen, France.
Her expected stay there was cut
short and she was ordered to re-
turn to Philadelphia in ballast.
Capt. Perez informed the agents
he Cancelled shore leave the night
of September 13, a few hours be-
fore the ship was scheduled to sail,
and shortly afterWard three crew.
men entered his cabin demanding
permission to 60 ashore
One fiourished a knife, the cap
tain's report continued. and after
some argument two of the men at
tackled him, the third remaining
at the door. Capt. Perez told the
agents he was cut while defending
himself from the knife before his
shouts brought other officers who
subdued the men.
Il was afraid of a second attack
on my life, so I put the men ir
irons for the trip" Capt. Perez's
report added.
Evening star., 1946-09-27

ed purpose of bringing to light the
story of war atrocities and instruct.
ing the German people of their
leaders guilt" AMG announced.
OF the persons interviewed 81 per
cent indicated they first learned
about concentration camps through
the trials and 80 per cent said they
first learned about humiliation of
the Jews.
Seventy per cent of the Germans
polled said all defendants were
guilty, 9 per cent named at least
one defendant they considered in
nocent, l per cent held none was
guilty and 20 per cent ventured no
opinion
Rudolf Hess was named most fire.
quently (by S per cent? as innocent.
Others mentioned by / to per cent
of the Germans interviewed were
Franz Won Papen, Constantin Won
Neurath, Erich Raeder, Karl Doe
nitz, Wilhelm Keitel, Albert Speer
and Hjalmar Schacht.
The guilt of the defendants is,
without doubt, established in the
minds of the German people" the
announcement said THE guilt of
the indicted organizations is accept
ed by a somewhat smaller majority"
Evening star., 1946-09-27

try may give the committee lead
for an investigation of housing
shortcomings as national defense
problem, a committee official said
The committee closely questioned
Mr.. Stein, War Assets Administrator
Robert M. Littlejohn and Army and
Navy representative on reports
that much house construction ma
terial has not been returned to the
United States.
Mr.. Stein testified the Office of the
director of war mobilization and re-
conversion last June % halted the
shipment of civilian surplus items
from the Pacific to this country for
80 days to make possible the COM
pletion of general surplus property
sale to the Chinese government.
1--WE were advised" he said, that
such action would lend great sup
port to the foreign policy of the
United States"
When he explained that the re-
conversion Office had acted on the
recommendation of the State De-
partment, which we regard as the
official spokesman on foreign pol
ICY" Senator Ferguson retorted
That's just recently
Reporting that IS per cent of sur
plus goods in the area west of Hawaii
had been disposed of to the Chinese
and Philippine governments, Mr..
Cfnir, fncfi6nI rio1 ;o;
nally costing 100000, 900 was sold to
China for $175,000. He explained
that more than two-thirds of the
latter amount represented cancella-
ton of accounts under which the
United States obtained Chinese cur
rency to pay its troops in that
country.
Another reason for the June %
stoppage, Mr.. Stein said, was failure
Of Congress to provide adequate
appropriations for return of such
property. He agreed. however, with
Committee Counsel George Meader
that the reconversion Office had
been Influenced by the Foreign
Liquidation Commission in the pol
icy of selling much critical material
abroad.
Littlejohn Testifies.
Testifying yesterday on the disposal
of surplus property returned from
the Pacific, Mr.. Littlejohn said he will
ask Reconversion Director John r
Steelman to call together the heads
of all owning agencies "in order
that we may reach an amicable
agreement and establish policies to-
ward selling at the earliest possible
date" He said that until he became
administrator two months ago WAA
had no inventory of surplus prop
erty actually declared. Much ma
terial moved slowly from overseas
because it could not be readily sold
IN this country, he said.
Progress is being made in dispos-
ing of large quantities of toothpaste
cigarette lighters and twine which
accumulated in California after
having been returned from the Pa
clflc, he said, but some 1000 tubes
of toothpaste, $4,000 lighters and
100000 pounds of twine still remain
unsold.
Brig. Gen. T. M. Osborne and
Rear Admiral Carl E. Cotter told
OF Army and Navy shipments of
surplus goods under the discretion
ary order in effect prior to the Jun
Evening star., 1946-09-27
World Press, Radio
will Flash News Of
Nuremberg Verdicts
BY the kssociofed Press

NUREMBERG, Germany, Sept.
27.-More than 200 correspondents
from 10 countries are expected to
file and broadcast more than mil
lion words during the two days
when war crime verdicts and
sentences are handed down by the
international Military Tribunal
next week.
For the first time since the capitu-
lation, all German radio stations
and at least some of those in
Austria will be hooked up to carry
four daily broadcasts.
In addition the American Armed
Forces Network will broadcast to
troops in the occupation zone and
four American and one British
systems have scheduled bulletins and
direct broadcasts from the court.
Three commercial concerns
Press wireless, RCA and Mackay
Radio-will be open "a hours daily
as will the American Army Signal
Center and British Army signals.
Photos to Be Pooled.
Photographers will take pictures
from four shooting positions, which
will be drawn by lot. All photo
graphs, both still and motion, will
be pooled. The tribunal has an
nounced, however, that there will be
no photographers allowed in court
while sentences are being passed.
Fifteen seats have been set aside
in the press gallery for representa-
tives of DANA, American-controlled
German news agency. Some of these
seats will be rotated between Ger
man editors from all zones. who will
attend at the invitation of the in
formation control division.
Special passes for newspapermen
will be issued Sunday. Passes which
have been in effect since trials
opened will no longer be valid.
Copies OF the judgment will be
handed reporters in the courtroom
when the session opens at 10 am.
a am. EST Monday, but reporters
will be able to file only what actually
has been delivered in court at. the
time.
A list of % Americans invited to
attend the closing session of the
Nuremberg trials was released yester-
day with the announcement that,
although the. number tops the l6
allotted for each delegation, extra
seats would be made available in
the back rows of the visitors gallery.
Secretary of State Byrnes was one
Of those invited, but he has not yet
accepted. Three of his associates
at the Paris Peace Conference, Sen
ator Vandenberg, Republican, of
Senator Connally, Demo-
crat, of Texas and Ben Cohen, State
Department counsellor, have &C
cepted, however.
Others invited include Gen. Jo-
seph B. McNarney, American COM
mander in the European theater,
and 1t. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, director
Of the military government.
Evening star., 1946-09-27

% suspension. Only about 20 pei
cent Of the materials returned by
the Army and 40 per cent shipped
back by the Navy were items classi-
fled previously by the reconversior
office as goods critically needed here
they said.
Witnesses waiting to be heard
on the cost and military impor-
tance Of the Inter-American high.
way include Maj Gen. C. T. Gross
former head of the Army Transpor-
tation Corps; 1t. Gen. Eugene Rey-
bold, former head of the Army Corps
Of Engineers, and William Cochran
chief Of the Caribbean and Central
American Division of the State De-
partment.