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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-14
Truman Guessed Wrong

The United States News figures
much of the responsibility for the
present economic confusion rests up
on President Truman. The News says
the President believed the country
would face depression with the ces-
sation of hostilities and encouraged
labor to go out for more pay. This, it
declares, accounts for the strikes, in
the first place, and the confusion that
led to the more confusing wage-price
policy nobody seems able to under
stand and which offers little chance
of promoting reconversion and capac-
ity production of the consumer goods
50 greatly needed by the American
people.
In appraising the view of the Unit
ed States News it is necessary first
to realize that the editor, David Law
renee, is a staunch Republican and
that national election is but two and
half years ahead and congressional
elections are scheduled for next fall
But there is good reasoning in the
opinion on the score that labor hac
been receiving larger wages durins
the war than in many year befor,
and with ordinary discretion in ex
penditures throughout that p er O,
should be well heeled" in bonds an,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-14
BY JOHN SKIES

It seems a pity that James
sprunt's book, 'Tales and Tradi-
tons of the Lower Cape Fear,"
isn't more widely circulated in
these parts. There is contained
therein storehouse of lore about
other days in these parts.
And l find myself somewhat nos
talgically thumbing through it and
finding items which take my mind
back many a year and make me
long for the earlier days when
nearly everything that happened
was an occasion for celebration.
Somehow, 1 should like to have
been here when the ships came in
and when the waterfront was the
gathering place for all of Whining
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-14
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FASTER FASTER, by Ed
ward Newman Horn lCoWafu'
Mccain; $3.50.

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An artists colony, presldeAIA
candidate, whoopee in ceins'slA
barbaric drum and pipe, a cns''
tab, a naked child, a dlrne,sno.
dance place which is spectacular
successful while it tumbles deeps.
and deeper into debt, women WI.
range from loose to tight ana ha'
ry Bachus, who is a hot TRIUMPH ~
tiger tanner, magician mystic s I'LL.
perhaps even Bachus hlnsel, 'i !,
the incongruous, crazy clemens ii
this novel. ,;,,
The real subject is the RETURNS a..
veteran and what he "aa~
Bachus comes back from warm ~;
in the Pacific to the tatnel ..' a.
the girl to whom ne had not + ",r
ten. When he hits his home '''7
all heaven breaks loose. -,
The church is slow IN recoS.1
ING the millennium, but the p'y n;
are smarter. Bachus, WA0 .s NJ,
been facing death, wants a dJ
all the feel and touch u -i !.
While the country talks job; l., o.
goes native, South Paclflc ll' .o,,.
Lovers swap mates, the '5 5,,
take to drink, the untrockeu, . ~,
up their heels, girls un a,s.i
business. practices are tns1 X.
topsy-turvy, and the differe sa55,, :.
tween quick and dead IS Is''
" This viii not represent any ,l pr
vious notion of what our sol a,s
are like and what they are l Pr,
aing to become. Horn is ingFn l..n
and, I suspect, unuaualy pc. PERI
tive in his diagnosis. Where .,;,,
sticks to the fantastic .S S@@
him, but too often ,, TaCny gr,l
a svsas an any Of the absurd but NJ \
impossible plot, I may Lp la,
aovelists Henry Morton ho" jsra
and Mackinlay Kantor nave :, b.
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much less convincing. - s,n
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been a more apt title Tor W.. ad q.
founding mixture OF 1ac' ,; 4.i III
ton. Even so, lot OF u'' :, o1.
believables add up, almost, , 70 II
believable. The whole IS # il
the opposite of the sum
parts. oor.
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ence Monthly (Grosset-DD
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picture, 1853 things TO make @I sa,y,
at home; this will keep W" wife
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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-14
QUOTATIONS.

Germany is weak now, but she will not
always be weak. We must regain our rightful
place in Europe under strong government
German veteran, student at Erlangen U.
There will be no victor and no vanquished
II there is another war. There will be only
the ruins = cities and nations.
Gen. Henry H. Arnold, -etired AAF' chief.
Evening star., 1946-05-08

WALLINGTON, N. J-HICSWAS READ WIRE FROM SENATOR
The family of Pfc. Joseph Hicswa whose sentence
imposed for the Staying japanese civilians
commuted by President Truman to 80 prison.
telegram in their home here yesterday Senator Hawkes.
New Jersey informing them Of the Presidents action
right Joseph HicsWa father Thomas
(front), William, Anne, the mother Geraldine John
Evening star., 1946-05-08
Pupils Plan Music Festival

The pupils of Suitland School,
Suitland, Md, will told their an
nual music festival at pm. Friday.
Evening star., 1946-05-08
Youth Who Survived Chair
Loses Habeas Corpus Plea
BY the Assoeioisd Press

ST. MARTINVILLE, La, May 8.
Willie Francis, IT, colored slayer,
who escaped death last Friday
when the electric chair mechanism
failed, lost a court round yesterday
in an attempt of defense counsel
to save him from a second electro
cution attempt.
The second try is scheduled to-
morrow under a six-day reprieve
granted by Gov. James H. Davis.
A petition for writ of habeas
corpus on behalf of the condemned
man was filed by Bertrand De
Blanc, attorney, of st. Martinsville.
1t was denied by District Judge
James D. Simon.
Mr.. De Blanc claimed 1t was H.
legal for the State to attempt a
second time to electrocute a man
when the first attempt had been
carried out on the appointed day.
Acting Gov. j. Emile Verret, serv-
ing as chief executive while Gov.
Davis is out of the State, yesterday
requested a formal ruling of the
second electrocution" point from
Attorney General Fred S. Leblanc.
Sheriff Leonard Resweber of St.
Martin parish said he would carry
out the sentence tomorrow unless
I am enjoined by the courts or
other legal means"
Francis was sentenced to die for
the murder Of Andrew I. Thomas,
white druggist of st. Martinville,
Evening star., 1946-05-08
Army Reorganizes
Education System
By the Associotsd Press

The War Department has an
nounced a far-reaching reorganiza-
ton of its education system that will
keep an officer studying as he rises
in rank
He'll be in the classroom much of
his first 20 years of active duty with
periods of practical field experience,
a statement last night said.
At top level" the War College
will be the highest educational in
stitution of the Army, Navy and the
State Department.
National Guard and Reserve Off
GERS may attend three months asso-
ciate courses offered at all schools
except at the top colleges. They may
take regular courses if they have
time.
Instruction in the highest cate
CORY will be on a joint Army, Navy
and air basis under direction of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff. A committee
of Army and Navy officers is plan
ming the curriculum of the armed
forces college to which selected Off
GERS will be sent to study theater
operations and joint Army, Navy
and air overseas undertakings.
Above this are the National War
College and the industrial college of
the armed forces. Americas best
Army and Navy brains of 10 to 20
years military service will attend
to study problems of national plan
ming and strategy.
Evening star., 1946-05-08
Alienation Suit
Filed in Behalf
OF 2-Yeor.OId
By the A.socioted Press

CHICAGO, May 8.-Mrs. Millicent
Baughman, %, asked damages OF
$25 900 on behalf of her 2-year-old
daughter, in one item of a separate
maintenance suit filed in Superior
Court yesterday against her hus-
band, Richard, a.
The damages are asked from Mrs
Rose Baughman, 81, mother of Rich.
ard, on the ground that she alien
ated her sons affection for his owr
daughter, Lynn. Mrs. Millicent
Baughman also asked $4,000 dam
ages on the same ground from hel
mother -in-laW.
Attorneys who filed the suit saio
it was the first time in the history
of Illinois courts that damages fol
alienation of affections have beer
asked on behalf of a person as young
as the Baughman child. The
Baughmans were married July II
1943, and the suit said Mr. Baugh-
man deserted his wife last Friday.
Evening star., 1946-05-08
Defeated Candidate Pleads
Guilty 10 Shooting Boy
ey the Asxocioted Prex<

CHICAGO, May 8.-Charles
Anderson. jr., 38, unsuccessful candi-
date for the Republican nomination
for the House last month, yester-
day pleaded guilty to a charge of
assault with deadly weapon result
ing from the shooting of a boy
prankster on election eve.
Judge William v. DAILY of Felony
Court ordered that Anderson be
examined in the Cook County be-
havior clinic and continued a hear
ing on motion for proba ton until
May II.
Grover Mclean, Is, said Ander-
son shot him after the candidate S
father had caught him roping to-
gether two automobiles in front of
the Anderson home as a joke. The
boy, who said he still carried the
pistol bullet between his heart and
lung, denied he intended to steal
either car.
This shooting is absolutely un-
Justified" Judge DAILY said.
Anderson's attorney, Albert w.
Dilling, argued that the boy had a
police record and that any private
citizen had right to make an arrest.
Evening star., 1946-05-08
Five Navy Men 10 Face
Charge Of 5abotaging
jap A-bomb Cruiser
By the Associofed Press

PEARL HARBOR, May S.-Court-
martial specifications were prepared
today against five United States
Navy creWmen accused of sabotag-
ing the japanese cruiser SakaWa en-
route to Bikini, and thereby en-
dangering lives of their shipmates.
Comdr. L. w. McConnaughay, di-
rector of discipline for the 18th
Naval District, announced the prep
aration Of charges but said he was
not yet ready to report their exact
nature. The five men were held
meanwhile as prisoners Large.
Sabotage at Eniwetok.
1t David Merrill of Hartford,
Conn, chief engineer aboard the
SakaWa as she made her hazardous
40-day cruise to Bikini to become an
atomic bomb target, said the Sabo-
tage occurred on April S, and at
Eniwetok.
Crewmen, he said, knocked out
the ships fuel system, smashed in
struments and valves and cut high
pressure steam lines, SO that IF
any one had walked in front of the
leak, it could have cut them in two. -
Comdr. McConnaughay said the
accused men had hoped to be re-
lieved of duty aboard the filthy war
ship. He named the five as Fireman
&c Larry w. Lajoie, Chicago; Fire
man 1/c Stanley j. Berrent, Balti-
more: Fireman &c Robert J. Eby
LansdoWne, Pa: Seaman &c Lloyd
E. Faulkner, Baltimore, and Seaman
I2/c William N. Lambright, jr., East
Palestine, Ohio.
If the SakaWa could legally be
termed an American ship, Comdr
McConnaughay said, damaging it
Wilfully could be punishable by
death.
40-Day Tale of Woe.
The SakaWa's voyage from Japan
was 40-day tale of woe, Pearl Har-
Dor officers related. They termed it
"a remarkable exhibition Of seaman
ship" that she reached Bikini.
1t. Merrill said the odor aboard
the filthy ship was horrible; that
failing refrigeration afforded only a
12-days' supply of perishable foods
for the trip; that the cruiser ex-
hausted her fuel before reaching
Eniwetok, and that, after being
towed in. the crew had only one
small boat for bringing fresh sup
plies aboard as we'll as affording the
crew recreation ashore.
The Japanese battleship Nagato
making the same trip, took A days
to reach Bikini; she. too, ran out of
fuel, her electric power failed, and
eight of her boilers blew out.
Evening star., 1946-05-08
Variety of Excuses Offered
Court to Escape Jury Duty

Not all the excuses pleaded in
Municipal Court yesterday were
from persons charged with crimes
or fighting civil actions.
Judges selecting 42 jurors for the
criminal division and IS for the
civil division heard a wide variety
of reasons why some of those who
had received jury summonses felt
they could not serve
Three who said they are being
married nexE- week were excused
promptly ana wished happiness in
the bargain by Judge George D
Nelson.
Several pleaded they conduct
one-man businesses, some had let
ters from their Government agen-
cies attesting their indispensability
and others had doctors certificates
indicating they were physically un-
able to serve.
A butcher was reluctant to leave
his business in the hands of en-
ployes, in view of the strict sur.
veillance of Office of Price Admin
istration inspectors over prices ii
Evening star., 1946-05-08
British MPs Hear Address
By Exi|ed Spanish Premier
BY the Associoted Press

LONDON, May 8.-Premier Jose
Giral of the Spanish Republican
government-in-eXile, addressing lao
members of Britain's two houses
Of Parliament in a closed meeting
last night, urged world wide break
in diplomatic relations with the
government of Generalissimo Fran
cisco Franco.
Mr.. Giral, who later said he was
pledged not to reveal details of
the session, was understood to have
presented the main points of a
voluminous report he will deliver
next Monday to the United Nations
Security Council in New York.
Mr.. Giral said the report supports
his contention that Gen. Frances
regime is a menace to peace and
tends to dispel the idea that the
Spanish situation is a domestic
instead of an international affair.
Evening star., 1946-05-08

meat sales. A graphic artist in the
Veterans Administration public re-
lations office said he was the only
employe engaged in the specialized
work.
A National Housing Administra-
ton official was busy supervising
construction of housing units for
veterans enrolling this fall at
Maryland University. A writer was
getting out an article about Russia
for publication in tactical maga-
zine this month.
One man had no one to take care
Of his 80-year-old blind mother ex-
cept a 63-year-old relative, who
was i'll.
A man suffering from deafness
approached the bench to learn if
his name had been called. He was
quickly excused.
OF the 81 persons who answered
the summonSes in the criminal divi-
sion, 81 were dismissed and IL who
did not ask to be excused were not
needed. In the civil division, rs
were qualified out of approximately
| lis who reported.
Evening star., 1946-05-08
"Greut GiIdersIeeve"
To Wed Radio Pianist
BY the Assoeiated Press

HOLLYWOOD, Nay 8.-Harold
(The Great Gildersleeve) Peary
radio snd screen actor, said yester-
day he planned to marry Gloria Hol-
liday, young radio actress-pianist
currently employed as receptions,
for a rival network.
The event, Mr.. Peary said, will
take place "as soon as my wife OBJ
tains her divorce" The present Mrs
Peary is in Las Vegas. They sepa-
rated last January.
Evening star., 1946-05-08
Grain Price Increases
To Speed Sales for
Relief Reported Near
BY the kssoeioisd Pres,

With the Nations default in
famine relief shipments soaring
toward the million-ton mark,
the administration was reported
today to have decided on a new
price formula for getting more
grain from livestock feed bins
for human food.
Announcement of the new program
was expected soon, possibly before
nightfall, and officials at the Agri-
culture Department said it probably
will involve an upward readjustment
in the ceiling prices of grain and
livestock feeds.
One of the major causes of the
current shortage of wheat for food
has been heavy use of the grain for
livestock feed. Many farmers have
reported they could make more
money feeding grain to livestock at
present ceiling prices than by selling
1t as grain.
20-Cent Increase Predicted.
Agriculture Department officials
predicted an increase of between 20
and Is cents a bushel in the ceiling
price of corn, to 10 cents a bushel
for wheat, and increases of several
cents" for oats, barley and grain
sorghums.
A decision to discourage "exces-
sive" feeding of grain to livestock by
raising prices was said to have been
made after 1t became apparent that
this country may not be able to
meet its wheat export goal for the
first six months of 1916.
Heretofore optimistic, Secretary of
Agriculture Anderson told a news
conference late yesterday that it
now looks as though the target may
not be reached. This change of mind
reflected department reports that
exports of wheat for the period Janu-
ary to May fell 881 900 tons-or
33038,000 bushels-behind the goal
for the period.
Famine Areas to Feel Lag.
The wheat export goal for the
January-June period is 100000
tons, or 100000 bushels.
The lag in American exports will
be reflected, Mr.. Anderson said, by
a particularly acute" shortage of
food in many famine areas during
May, especially China and India.
Reporting on meeting of the Brit
ish-Canadian-American Combined
Food Board, which met to canvass
May cereal requirements, the Sec
retary said 40 way has been found
to meet minimum requirements of
hungry areas.
UNRRA countries will get only
about go per cent of what UNRRA
Director General La Guardia de-
scribed as minimum needs" Mr..
La Guardia, who attended the meet
ing, said he could not complain be-
cause he realized supplies were not
available and that he believed the
board was making as equitable dis
tribution of the short stocks as pos
sible.
Evening star., 1946-05-08
Admiral Powna|I Is Named
Guam Naval Governor
BY the Associoied Pres,

President Truman yesterday ap-
pointed Rear Admiral Charles Alan
Pownall as Governor of Guam.
Secretary of the Navy Forrestal
announced the establishment of
naval government in Guam and
recommended Admiral Pownall to
the President.
Since recapture of the island from
the japanese military government
administered by the commander in
chief of the United States Pacific
Fleet and Pacific Ocean areas, has
been administering civilian affairs.
Evening star., 1946-05-08
School Association to Meet

The annual meeting of the Poto-
mac School Association will be held
in the auditorium of the school at
Potomac tomorrow night. Officers
will be chosen and report of the
associations activities during the
past year will be submitted.
Evening star., 1946-09-30
| Writers for Each
|OfPowersinR Reich
| ToSee Executions
By tho Associoied Press

BERLIN, Sept. 30.-The Allied
Control Council for Germany de-
cided today that two newspaper cor
respondents from each of four oc-
cupying powers would be admitted
to witness the executions of such
Nazi defendants as are sentenced
to death by the international mill
tary tribunal at Nuremberg.
Details of the Councils decisions
we're lacking at present. The Coun-
Gil is charged with carrying out the
courts judgments.
1t was learned that the proposal
to admit correspondents to the exc
cutions was made by the Councils
American member, Gen. Joseph T.
McNarney.
Evening star., 1946-09-30
Communications Fail
As Nuremberg Trial
Summary Begins
BY the Associated Press

NUREMBERG, Sept. 30
After 10 months of good be-
havior, all radio communica-
tions failed today. just as the
international Military Tribunal
began announcement of its
findings in a 5,000-word sum-
mary and a 100000 word judg-
ment.
Hundreds of thousands of
words of press copy piled up
in telegraph Offices as sunspots
halted reception abroad. At
the height of the confusion
British military teletype lines
from Frankfurt to London went
down for As minutes.
Special Associated Press tele-
phone lines also broke down for
a short period during the morn
ing session, but these facilities
were able to carry the bulk of
the copy.
Evening star., 1946-09-30

izations and those who were drafted
by the state for membership.
The tribunal found certain groups
Of the leadership corps. the IS, the
SD and the Gestapo to be criminal
groups within the meaning of the
Charter. The groups thus declared
criminal were those members who
became or remained members of the
organization with knowledge of the
fact that it was being used for the
commission of acts declared GRIM
inal by article of the Charter, or
who were personally implicated as
members of the organizations in the
commission of such crimes.
The declaration did not include
persons who ceased to be members
prior to the beginning of the war
on September :, 1899. The tribunal
declined 70 make a declaration of
criminality as to the SA, saying that
after the purge of 1884 the SA had
become comparatively unimportant.
The tribunal said:
Although in specific instances
some units of the SA were used for
the commission of war crimes and
crimes against humanity, it cannot
be said that its members generally
participated in or even knew of the
criminal acts"
The tribunal did not hold the
Reich cabinet or the General Staff
and High Command to be criminal
saying as to the Reich
cabinet that after 1887 it never
really acted as group or organiza-
tion. and that that groupxpf per-
sons charged is so small that mem
bers could be conveniently tried In
proper cases without resort to a
declaration of criminality against
the organization.
With respect to the general staff,
the tribunal declined to make a
declaration for similar reason, but
added that the evidence of criminal
ity against many members of the
general STAG and high command
as individuals Is clear and con-
vincing. The tribunal said:
They have been responsible in
large measure for the miseries and
suffering that have fallen on mil
lions of men, women and children.
They have been a disgrace to the
honorable profession of arms. With
out their military guidance, the ag-
gressive ambitions of Hitler and his
fellow Nazis would have been aca-
demic and sterile. Although they
were not group falling within the
words of the Charter, they were GER
tainly ruthless military caste. The
contemporary German militarism
flourished briefly with its recent
ally, National Socialism, as we'll as
or better than it had in the genera
| tions of the past"
Evening star., 1946-09-30

tration camp at Auschwitz (Oswie-
CHM gave evidence that in that camp
alone between the 1st of May, 1910,
and the 1st of December, 1943, q
SOC, 900 persons were exterminated,
and further 500 900 died from dis
ease and starvation. He described
the actual killings in these words:
"It took from three to Is minutes
to kill people in the death chamber,
depending upon the climatic con-
ditions. We knew when the people
were dead, because their screaming
stopped. We usually waited about
half an hour before we opened the
doors and removed the bodies. After
the bodies were removed our special
commandos took off the rings and
extracted the gold from the teeth of
the corpses."
Beating, starvation, torture and
killing were general in the 250 con-
centration camps. The inmates were
subjected to cruel experiments.
At Dachau in August of 1912 vic
tins were immersed in cold water
until their body temperature was re-
duced to % centigrade, when they
died Immediately. Other experiments
included high altitude experiments
in pressure chambers, experiments
with poisoned bullets, experiments
with contagious diseases and ex-
periments dealing with the steriliza-
tion of men and women by X-rays
and other methods.
The hair of the women victims
was cut off before they were killed
to be used in the production of mat
tresses. The clothes, money and
valuables were sent to the appro-
pirate agencies for disposition The
gold teeth and filings were taken
from the heads of the corpses and
sent to the Reichsbank. After Gre
nation the ashes were used for
fertilizer and in some instances at
tempts were made to utilize the fat
from the bodies of the victims in
the commercial manufacture OF
soap. Adolf Eichmann, who had
been put in charge of the program
to exterminate the Jews, has esti-
mated that the policy pursued re-
suited in the killing of 5000, ,00C
Jews, of whom 100000 were killed
in the concentration camps and
100000 were killed by the einsatz
groups.
The tribunal then turned to the
question of the accused organiza-
tions.
The tribunal said that since the
declaration with respect to the Or
ganizations and groups will Ak the
criminality Of its members, the
definition should exclude persons
who had no knowledge of the GRIM
: inal purposes or acts of the organ