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Evening star., 1946-10-16
| Andrus Insisted
| Prison Suicide
| Was Impossible
y Marion Doyle CompbeII
Sfor Stoff Correspondent

FRANKFURT, Oct. 16.-The sui
eide of Hermann Goering was some
thing the Army had gone to con-
siderable trouble to prevent.
After Robert Ley, one of the Nazi
defendants, had managed to kill
himself in his Nuremberg cell before
the trials began, Col. C. B. Andrus.
Jail commandant, ordered guards to
glance sharply at their charges
every 80 seconds night and day.
The prisoners cells, clothes and
visitors were searched daily.
At Nuremberg 10 days ago Col.
Andrus told this correspondent the
suicide Of any of his charges was
lust about impossible" Smilingly
he admitted the truth of a widely
circulated anecdote about the jail
precautions.
Reporters came to Col. Andrus re-
Gently to check a confused story
about the suicide of a minor Nazi
official in another jail near Nuern-
berg.
Denying that the suicide had oc-
Cured in his Jail, COL Andrus shook
his finger at the press. Gentle
men," he said, suicide in my jail
is against the regulations"
Evening star., 1946-10-16
Byrnes, Flying Home,
Plans Radio Report
On Farley Friday
II
Secretary and Wife Leave
Paris in Sacred Cow;
Due Here Tomorrow
By Newbold Noyes. Jr.
Sfor Stoff CORRESPONDENT

PARIS, Oct. 16.-The Peace
Conference just concluded here
fully justified the action of the
United States in insisting that
it be held, Secretary of State
Byrnes said today. He denied
that the gathering, which fea-
tured bitter clashes between the
Soviet bloc and the western
powers, had in any way damaged
| international relations.
| Mr.. Byrnes told press conference
he will report to the Nation on con-
ference results and on the world
diplomatic picture in a radio talk
tentatively scheduled for Friday
night.
The Secretary and Mrs. Byrnes left
Paris in the Sacred Cow, President
Truman's special plane, at $3.50 pm
He expected to be at work at his
desk in the State Department to-
morrow morning, he said
Denies Difficulties Increased.
Mr. Byrnes, speaking for attribu-
ton but not for direct quotation,
was emphatic as he told reporters
that differences between Russia and
the western powers and difficulties
of settling them had not been in
creased by the tough talking done
at the Luxembourg Palace during
the past two and a half months.
All that the conference had done,
he indicated, was to bring these
differences and this tough talking
out into the open, where everybody
could hear it. With varying minor
changes, the relations revealed to
Evening star., 1946-10-16
Cold Forces Wallace
To Cancel 2Speeches
BY the Associated Press

Ill with a severe cold, Henry A.
Wallace today Cancelled campaign
speaking dates in Michigan and
Indiana.
The former Commerce Secretary
still plans to go through with the
latter part of his speaking schedule,
which includes appearances in Call
ifornia, Washington, Minnesota and
Wisconsin.
A friend of Mr.. Wallace said his
doctor had ordered mo travelling or
speaking" until at least october "a.
That is the date set for speech in
Los Angeles.
Mr.. Wallace planned to leave here
by plane Friday for Detroit and to
spend three days drumming up votes
for Democratic candidates in Michi-
gan. A major speech was ticketed
for Detroit the night of October 20.
Another major address was on the
schedule for noon the next day at
Indianapolis, with speech that
night at Muncie and the next night
at Kokomo.
His itinerary called for him to fly
from indianapolis to Los Angeles.
Now he probably will fly from WASH
|ington to keep the Los Angeles date.
Other Coast appearances will be in
San Francisco, perhaps San Diego,
and in Tacoma, Wash.
Evening star., 1946-10-16

Poultry prices dropped 2 to 6
cents a pound today, going
counter to the soaring prices for
red meat.
Wholesale poultry dealers say peo-
pie are fed up with poultry, and the
hope of getting beef and other red
meats has led them to turn their
backs on the poultry counters.
Meanwhile, officials of packing
house branches here say the dribble
OF red meat which has been reach
ing the District should turn into a
fairly good trickle by the end of the
week. This opinion was supported
by Joseph B. Danzansky, counsel for
the meat division of the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association.
Concerning poultry prices, the
Agriculture Departments market re-
port today said roasting, frying and
broiling chickens sold at SO to SIS
cents a pound today. Yesterday the
price was So to 81 cents. Stewing
chickens, yesterday 48 to so cents
today sold generally at 48 cents
These prices are what the whole.
Evening star., 1946-10-16
Goering Suicide Probed by Army
As Bodies Of II Nazi Chieftains
Are Taken to NameIess Graves
Chaplain Believes
He Carried Poison
After His Capture
By the Associated Press

NUREMBERG, Oct. 16.-Prisor
Chaplain H. F. Gerecke said to-
day he believed that Hermann
Goering had carried the poison
with which he committed suicide
at the 18th hour last night, since
the time he was captured.
The st. Louis churchman had
talked to Goering every day for
four months. The former reichs-
marshal died in an agonized suicide
less than two hours before he was
to have died on the gallows with 10
other top Nazis.
The puzzle was: How did Goering
guarded night and day for year
and half and repeatedly searched
get the poison-and from whom?
To give an official answer to that
question an anonymous investigat-
ing board of three was appointed
today-headed by "disinterested'
United States Army officer, Col.
Richard Mcconnell of Army public
relations said.
Col. Mcconnell said no arrests
had been made and none were con-
templated Immediately.
Trained in Concealing Poison.
The chaplain's theory was backed
by members of the prison security
detail, who said senior officers had
been trained in concealing deadly
poison.
The fact remained, however, that
the principal war criminal had been
searched 100 times in the bleak
Nuremberg Jail and had, in fact,
Evening star., 1946-10-16
Police Planning to Increase
Collateral in Traffic Cases

Mr.. Wise declared that the present
practice of permitting traffic Offend
ers to forfeit collateral "for any one
of more than 100 law violations
brought no solution to the Districts
traffic problem.
James P. Economos, executive
secretary of the Traffic Court Com
mittee, American Bar Association,
of Chicago, told the conference the
National Safety Council was opposed
to permitting the forfeiture of col
lateral for any moving traffic
offenSes.
Austin F. Garfield, president Of
the District Bar Association, is pre-
siding at the one-day conference,
which is holding its sessions in the
United States Chamber of Com
merce, 1915 H street NV.
Evening star., 1946-10-16
HitIer's Top Aide GuIps Poison
As He Waits to Mount G0IIows
Corpse Is Laid Between Two ScoffoIds in
Execution Room After Revival Efforts Fail
By Knqsbuy Smith
By Kinesbury Smith


NUREMBERG, Oct. 16.-Tht
doors of a small gymnasium ir
the Nuremberg Jail courtyard
through which the living hac
come, opened early this morning
and a dead. man came ina
grotesque, self-destroyed rem
nant of a man who once hac
been destined to rule Nazi Ger
many.
1t was that of Hermann Wilhelm
Goering, who committed suicide by
taking poison a short while before
he was to have led 10 of his hench-
men to the gallows.
And it was inevitably and ines
capably a dramatic moment in the
course of history.
The execution chamber and its
handful of witnesses were waiting
for Col Gen. Alfred Jodl and
Arthur Seyss-Inquart, the last of
the 10 NaZi prisoners, to be pro-
nounced dead at the bottom end of
their tightly stretched hang-ropes.
Two Army chaplains stood half
turned toward the gallows and the
black canvas curtain at the far end
of the room, behind which rested
the remains of eight other polit-
lcal and military chieftains of the
most terrible despotism the world
has witnessed since medieval
times.
The chaplains were reading from
their prayer books.
Suddenly the doors opened and
the body of what was once the great
marshal of the Reich, chief of the
LuftWaffe and bearer of a dozen
other titles was brought in.
He had succeeded in wrecking
plans of the Allied Control Council
Evening star., 1946-10-16

District police are planning to
increase the amount of collateral
now required of traffic law viola
tors, Traffic Inspector Arthur G.
Miller said today.
His statement was made at the
second annual Traffic Court con-
ference after Robert D. Wise, Dis
trict assistant corporation counsel,
condemned the practice of permit
ting traffic offenders to forfeit col
lateral rather than face court trial.
Inspector Miller did not state
how much the collateral would be
increased, or for what offenses. He
opposed a suggestion made by Mr..
Wise that the collateral should
exceed the amount of any fine
that could be imposed by q court.
Evening star., 1946-10-16
OAR Support Added
As Women Rally 10
Suffrage Plebiscite
Mrs. ToImodee Voices
Referendum Approval
At Flag Ceremony

Women are swinging to sup
port of the election day plebis-
cite for District suffrage, with
promise of turning out a tremen-
douS feminine vote on Novem-
ber S.
Latest group to urge Washing
tonians to go to the ballot boxes
| is the National Society of Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution,
with thousands of members through
out the United States.
Mrs. Julius Y. Talmadge presi-
dent-general of the OAR, voiced her
approval of the referendum in a
patriotic ceremony as she accepted
a new American Flag for Memorial
Continental Hall
Sees Wide Support.
"All who believe in our priceless
liberties, in freedom of speech and
freedom of example," she said, will
support the citizens of the District
Of Columbia in their move for a
suffrage plebiscite on election day,
November S.
1.-THE plebiscite, she asserted, sis
the proper means of reaching the
position of citizens in regard to the
vote question"
Many other women's organiza-
tions in Washington are urging
public support of the referendum,
which, on November S, will give
adults here the privilege of saying
whether or not they want local or
national suffrage or both.
Leaders at plebiscite headquarters
welcomed the support of the
women's groups and said they hope
to obtain substantial help from
them Many volunteers already
have been pledged to work for the
cause both before and on election
day.
Plans Being Pressed.
Meanwhile. plans went forward
to set up, the necessary organiza-
ton to handle the plebiscite.
Request for use of the public
schools as polling places was to be
presented to the Board of Educa-
ton this afternoon by two plebis-
cite leaders. They are Joseph c.
McGarraghy, president of the Board
of Trade, which is sponsoring the
referendum, and James E. Coli
flower, plebiscite chairman.
Tentative plans for the personnel
setup in voting precincts have been
outlined by Clifford S. Newell. chair
man of the committee on precinct
organization. He plans to lay this
tentative program before a meet
ing of $50 representatives of out
standing civic, business and pro-
fessional groups Friday night in
the Board of Trade offices in The
Star Building.
Mr.. Newell plans also to confer
shortly with Frank Waldrop, chair
man of the committee on districts
and facilities, who will direct the
important task of laying out voting
precinct boundaries and equipping
the polls.
Provisional plans for manning the
(ContinIIed on Page A-3. Column q
Evening star., 1946-10-16
Wherry Says Truman
Errs in Charging Him
With Profiteer Clause
Meat DecontroI Luid
By Nebruskon to Fear
Congress Would XIII OPA
BY theAssoeioted Press

MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 16.-Sen.
ator Wherry, Republican, of Ne
braska today challenged the
truthfulness of President Tru-
mans statement that the So
called profteering amendment
to the OPA bill passed by
Congress last summer was his
measure.
The Senator also declared Mr.
Truman had maliciously charged
him and Senator Taft, Republican
of Ohio, with maneuvering to break
down price controls.
He said the black market was re-
sponsible for failure of OPA control
of meat. and added that Mr.. Tru-
man decontrolled meat because he
feared the next Congress would
abolish the entire OPA.
The decontrol action came at this
time, he went on, because breakdown
of meat regulations was hurting
chances of Democrats running for
congressional seats.
Senator Wherry's statement, re-
plying to the Presidents radio
speech of Monday night in which
he announced lifting of meat price
controls, were made to the Associ-
ated Press when he stopped off here
while en- route from Calgary, Can
ada, to Chicago where he Is to de-
li-,er an address tomorrow morning
Il challenge the truthfulness OF
the Presidents statements that the
so-called profteering amendment
was the Wherry amendment" Sen
ator Wherry said, referring to one
he had proposed when Congress
was debating the OPA bill last
spring. ''The one which was passed
was an administration amendment
If the President didn't want it, he
didn't need to take it because II
fSee WHERRY Page A-5O
Evening star., 1946-10-16

/ to have him lead the parade Of con-
demned Nazi chieftains to death on
the gallows.
But the Councils representatives
were determined that Goering at
least would take his place as dead
man beneath the shadow of the
scaffold.
Guards carrying the stretcher that
bore his body set it down between
the first and second gallowses.
Goering's big bare feet stuck out
from under the bottom end of an
ordinary Khaki colored United States
Army blanket. One blue silk-pa-
jamaed arm was hanging over the
side.
The colonel in charge of the pro-
ceedings ordered the blanket re-
moved SO that witnesses and Allied
correspondents could see that Goe-
ring was definitely dead. The Army
did not want any legend to develop
that Goering had managed to escape.
AS the blanket came off it re-
vealed Goering clad in black silk
+ pajamas with blue jacket shirt
over them, and this was soaking wet,
apparently the result of efforts by
prison doctors to revive him.
The face of this Goth Century
freebooting political racketeer was
still contorted with the pain of his
last agcnizing moments and his
final gesture of defiance.
They covered him up quickly and
this Nazi war lord, who like char
acter out of the days of the Borgias
had walloWed in blood and beauty,
passed behind a canvas Curtain into
the black pages of history that
mark the end of the Hitler era
Joachim Won Ribbentrop took
fCoo CMJTJ DoUo Adl
Evening star., 1946-10-16
Hurley and Chavez
5pearhead Bitter
newhexicoC Campaign
Close Race Shapes Up;
COP Pokes Fun at
Payroll Veteran Ticket
By Gould Lincoln
Stor Staff Correspondent

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mex.
Oct. 16.-In one of the most
bitterly fought campaigns this
year, colorful Pat Hurley, Repub-
lican, and Senator Dennis Chavez
Democrat, are rushing about this
huge State of New Mexico whal-
ing each other.
To the intense rage of the Dem.
ocrats, the Republicans are adver.
tising their ticket as the war vet.
eran ticket" and the Democratic
ticket as the payroll veteran
ticket"
The Democrats charge this is q
cheap trick, in an effort to get the
votes of some 10000 or $4,000 New
Mexico veterans of the last war
The fact remains, however, that the
Republican candidate for Senator
Mr.. Hurley, served in both world
wars with distinction, and that the
Republican candidate for Governor
Ed Stafford, also served in both
wars with a fine record.
Records Cited.
The Republican advertisement
lists Senator Chavez as a veteran
of the payroll since 1918" with no
military service at any time. 1t
also lists the Democratic candidate
for Governor-Judge Thomas J.
Mabry, as payroll veteran since
1919 too, with no military service.
In addition, the Republicans have
on their ticket for other important
State Offices and for a member of
the House in Washington, five vet
erans of various wars, all of whom
are opposed to Democrats who have
had no military record, but who
have been on the Government pay
roll for long periods.
What effect this kind of cam
paigning will have on the large bloc
of veterans is not so clear.
The Democrats insist the veterans
are either Democrats or Republicans,
just like other citizens, and that
they will not vote as bloc. Senator
Chavez, describing this tactic as "a
new low in New Mexico in Repub-
,(See LINCOLN, Page A-10)
Evening star., 1946-10-16
Democrats Will Keep Control
Of Both Houses, Royburn Says
Speaker Sees No Danger of War With Russia
Declares No Depression Is in Sight in U. S.
By J. A. O'Leory

The Democrats will retain
control of both branches of Con-
gress, Speaker Rayburn pre-
dicted today.
They will hold the House, over
which he presides, by a majority
somewhere between Is and SO, he
told news conference in his Office
at the Capitol
The Texan added these two pre-
dictions to his picture of the future:
l. He sees no danger of war with
Russia.
2. There is no depression in sight
in this country.
Mr.. Rayburns confidence of WIN
ming the congressional offyear elec-
tions, in the face of signs of a
Republican trend from other quar-
ters, appeared to rest on his hope
for heavy turnout on election day.
THE question now is whether
Evening star., 1946-10-16
White House May Aci
To Lift Control Of
Wages by Week End
Removal Of Ceilings
On All Foods Reported
Seriously Considered
fTert of Reece speech on Page As
By Joseph A. Fox

The Government moved today
to lift wage and price controls
generally in line with the course
mapped by President Truman in
Scrapping meat ceilings.
Word that the White House may
act by the end of the week to speed
removal of wage curbs came from
a member of the ReconYersion Ad-
visory Board, which conferred yes
terday with Mr.. Truman on the
Wage-price situation.
At the same time, it was reported
the OPA and Agriculture Depart
ment seriously considered' aban-
donment of ceilings on all food items
still under control.
Rent Control Studied.
With food and wage curbs on the
way out, Capitol Hill speculation
turned on the likelihood of easing
rent controls also, although Presi-
dent Truman stood pat on the rent
question when going on record for
the acceleration of decontrol at a
rate "compat tible with economic Sc
curity of the Nation"
Senator Russell, Democrat, of
Georgia predicted a move then
would be made to wipe out OPA.
How far it will get, he said, depends
on the speed with which the admin
istration lifts controls.
The end of meat control yesterday
saw livestock prices skyrocketing
once more. but Secretary of Agri-
culture Anderson predicted there
will be more meat in butcher shops
lin about 10 days" Heavier sup
plies are expected to help the price
situation. Mr.. Anderson said the
shortage, however, will last through
1916.
The Republicans continued to
make political capital out of the ad-
ministration's handling of the meat
problem, contending it demon
strated need for returning the party
to power in the congressional elec-
tions next month.
Reece Blames Radical Fringe"
Carroll Reece, Republican ma
tional chairman, said in a radio
address last night that if the ad-
ministration had listened to the
advice of the Republican members
of Congress instead of the advice
of the radical fringe" the meat
crisis would not have developed and
would never have become politi-
cal issue"
Replying to President Truman's
assertion that a few selfish" poll
ticians forced removal of meat con-
trolls. Mr.. Reece said.
"The (price controD bill was
passed by Democrats"
The prospective White House Or
der eliminating wage controls re-
portedly is in the draft stage, and
is understood to outline the pat
tern to be followed.
It probably will clarity too the
(See MEAT, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1946-10-16

had vial of poison taken from q
can of powdered coffee in his pos
session shortly after his surrender
Another prison source advanced
the theory that the poison had been
passed from some one on the out
side through brief contact, despite
the rigid 24-hour watch under
lights. Only a tiny amount OF
potassium cyanide is required to
kill, and it acts swiftly.
A special investigating beard for
the Allied Control Council rs con-
sidering all possibilities that Goer-
ing might have obtained the lethal
dose from the outside, or even the
inside of the Jail. There was nc
indication that a tenable clue had
been discovered.
Guards insisted that Goerine
during his last hours had never
placed his hands near his mouth.
Neither Goering nor his doomed
companions knew the exact hour
they were scheduled to mount the
gallows, but the sentence of the
court had specified they were to die
October 16.
Timing Was Good.
Goering's timing as his last hours
of life licked away appeared good,
for his deed was discovered just
before a colonel was to have read
him his death warrant.
: Goering, once second only to Hit
Ter in the Nazi hierarchy, swal-
lowed potassium cyanide and died
in his Jail cell here last night less
than two hours before he was to
hang with the others, condemned
october l by the International Mill
tary Tribunal.
Amateur detectives joined in the
hunt for clues. And one, lawyer,
claimed evidence that Goering had
poison last July or knew where he
could get some.
The lawyer was DR.. Frederick Ber-
gold, counsel in the war crimes trial
for Martin Bormann, who was tried
in absentia and sentenced to hand.
DR.. Bergold said that after he
made his final plea for Bormann
last July %, Goering called him to
Evening star., 1946-10-16
District Poultry Prices Drop
20 Cents as Meat Is Expected
Decline in Costs of Cheese, Butter and Eggs
Also Seen When More Beef Arrives in City

salers pays for dressed poultry. He
gets to cents more from the re-
taller and the retailer gets an addi-
tional 7 or 8 cents a pound.
One wholesaler said he was stay
ing out of the poultry market en-
tirely in the belief the market will
continue to drop. Some dealers
predicted a decrease of as much as
20 cents pound on some poultry
grades within the next month il
red meat arrives in good supply.
One poultry house spokesman sale
he expected eggs to sell much lower
in a week or two. The present re-
tail price is as much as 80 cents &
dozen. Today's Agriculture De.
partments market report, however
noted little change in price anc
said the egg market was steady ane
firm
Slackening in the demand fol
poultry market will benefit the egg
supply. Laying f1ocks have been de-
| pleted by the sale of hens in the
poultry market, wholesalers say.
Max Bresler, chairman of the
Evening star., 1946-10-16
Eisenhower Arrives
In Trieste on our
By the Associated Press

TRIESTE, Oct. 16.-Gen. Eisen-
hover arrived here by plane today
on an inspection tour of American
forces in the Allied occupied Vene-
zia-Giulia region.
The United States Army chief of
staff spent the morning inspecting
United States Army installations.
The major American occupation
unit here is the 88th Division, COM
manded by Maj Gen. Bryant c..
Moore.
Gen. Eisenhower was accompanied
by Mrs. Eisenhower, his son and
aide, Capt John Eisenhower, and
staff officers.
Evening star., 1946-10-16

the people VOTE" the Speaker said
What we are hoping is that we
have the biggest vote we have ever
had in an off year."
To illustrate his point that a
large vote would be helpful to the
Democrats he recalled the recent
history of one district in Akron
Ohio In the 1910 presidential year
121, 900 voted in that district and
the Democratic candidate for Con-
gress won by $4,000. In 1942 the
same district polled only $4,000
votes and the Democrat lost by
5000, Mr.. Rayburn said.
II think by election time we will
see the registration is going to be
pretty high, especially in industrial
sections" Mr.. Rayburn said.
Would you put it the other way,
and say that light vote would
(See RAYBURN, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1946-10-16

ROME, Oct. 16 R.-Pope Plus is
expected soon to publish an en-
cyclical on the situation of the
Catholic church in Yugoslavia
Rome press reports said today. No
confirmation could be obtained at
the Vatican. Prelates pointed out
that encyclicals are prepared in
the greatest secrecy and their ap-
pearance rarely preannounced.
Evening star., 1946-10-16
Mrs. Goering Denies
Smuggling Poison
To Husband in JoiI
By the Associofed p,exs

NEW YORK, Oct. 16.-Emmy
Goering broke down and sobbed
today when she was told how
her husband, Hermann Goer-
ing. cheated the gallows by
swallowing poison, Ed Haaker
OF NBC said in a Nuremberg
broadcast.
Mr.. Haaker said Mrs. Goering
denied she had smuggled the
deadly capsule to her husband
during her last visit to the
prison.