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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-10

Although the deputies in London
appear to be discussing procedure,
they are already faced with the
question which is crucial to the
whole German, and indeed to any
European, settlement. 1t IS
whether the Allies shall begin with
the constitutional structure o. the
German state. or whether they
shall lay that problem aside until
they have struck a bargain on the
terms to be demanded of the Ger
man people.
This issue did not exist for Italy
and the satellite states. 1t does not
exist for Austria. It will not exist
for Japan. All of these states have
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-10
TALKS ON TRUCK
ROUTE FORECAST
Graham Expected To Set
Definite Date For Con-
ferences This Week

A definite date for the visit OF
State Highway Commission Chair
man A. H. Graham to Wilmington
in connection with the proposed
around-the-city truck lane is ex-
pected to be set at a meeting OF
the commission in Raleigh the lat
ter part of this week, the Star was
informed last night.
A spokesman for the highway
department said that Graham had
been occupied with affairs having
to do with actions of the state
Legislature now in session and this
caused a delay in c%onfering with
local officials about the matter.
A delegation of city officials ap-
.peared before Graham several
weeks ago in an effort to obtain
some definite promise of action by
the commission for procuring Pub
lie Roads Administration approval
for a truck route.
1t was set forth by City Manager
J. R. Benson at that time that
a route circling the city, passing
out Dawson street, through Spot
ford Mills and thence out Mercer
avenue would be acceptable to the
city and would at the same time
be satisfactory to the federal
agency since the route as suggest
ed would confine itself to the city
limits.
Little encouragement was met
on the idea of this route but a
definite promise was obtained that
an attempt to get PRA approval
would be made.
Since the meeting with Graham
several attempts have been made
by city officials to hasten relief
for the city's congested Third
street traffic lanes sbut so far the
highway commission has made no
definite move in this direcuon.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-10
NAzI SATELLITES
FACE PREPARATIONS
Pacts Are Ready For Italy,
Romania, Hungary, and
Finland

PARIS, Feb. 9 - (P - Peace
treaties will be signed tomorrow
for Italy, Romania, Bulgaria. Hun
gary and Finland, all sadly disil-
1usioned satellites of Germany in
World War II.
But even the signing in the fam
Gus clock DOR of the French For
eign ministry will not finally
bring peace to these vanquished
states. Before the l~ong-debated
treaties are brought into force,
they must be ratified by each of
the major powers-by the U. S.
senate, for instance-and instru-
ments of ratification must be de-
posted with the foreign ministry
here.
Italy. Romania, Hungary and
Finland all lose territory in the
treaties although Romania RECEIVERS
Pennsylvania from Hungary. Bull
garia survived territorially intact
and coveting a part of Greece.
A total of $3.50, 900. 900 repara-
tons were assessed of which $780,
600, 600 was granted to Russia.
Armed forces of all five states
were reduced and all were pro-
hibited from using atomic energy,
rockets, bombers, submarines or
torpedo boats.
Silent and attended by only one
advisor, the Italian plenipotentiary,
Marquis Antonio Nell Lupi Di
soranga, arrived today to affix
his signature to the Italian treaty
at II a. m. Is am. Eastern Stand
ard Time.) The treaties for Ro-
mania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Fin
land will be signed later.
The treaties first were drafted
by the Big Four foreign ministers
a year ago, disputed all last sum-
mer, in the Paris peace conference
and finished by the foreign minis
tiers in New York last fall.
They have made the rounds Oh
the capitals and bear the sigma
lures of former Secretary of State
James F. Byrnes, Russian Foreign
Minister v. M. Molotov and Brit
ish Foreign Secretary Ernest Bev-
in. French Foreign Minister Geor-
ges Bidault will sign tomorrow for
France and serve as master of
ceremonies. Jefferson Gallery, U.
S. ambassador to France, will
countersign the documents for the
United States, as will the ambas-
sailors of Great Britain and Rus
STA.
The signatories will vary accord
ing to the nations which were Of
ficially at war with the former
enemy states. The United States,
which never was at war with Fin
land, will be missing from that
treaty. France will sign only the
Italian treaty.
Georges Tatarescu, Romanian
foreign minister assailed sections
of the Romanian treaty as "exces-
sive and unjust" but said in a state
ment he would sign the document
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-10
DAHLIA SUSPECT
SEEN AT Fl. DIX
Authorities Say Confessed
"Slayer" OF Miss Short
In East AT Time

FORT DIX, N. J., Feb. 9-W.R-
Army authorities admitted tonight
that a number of soldiers at this
post have reported they saw Corp.
Joseph DUMAS here on January
10, II and II, which would have
made it virtually impossible for
him to have been in Los Angeles
when Elizabeth Short, the Black
Dahlia, was brutally slain.
The Black Dahlia's badly was
found on January Is and Los An
geles police believed she was kill
ed on January II.
DUMAS told army officers that
he went into a mental blackout
during a date with Elizabeth Short
on January 8, and that it was
possible" he had killed her.
If the reports of the soldiers
prove true, the story of the date
on the 9th would collapse.
Authorities said tonight that "all
the stories are being checked"
about DUMAS being seen here.
1t was revealed that five soldiers
assigned to the orderly room,
where a record showed that Du-
mails was in camp on January II,
will be questioned tomorrow.
Why their questioning had been
so long delayed was not explain
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-10
PASTOR MAY QUIT
IN GEORGIA ROW
Congregation Takes No Ac.
ton Following Offer OF
McRae Clergyman

MCRAE, Ga, Feb. R -
Rev. Joseph A. Rabun, former
Navy chaplain, offered today to
resign as pastor of Herman Tai
madge's church after charging
that IL of his deacons had
8" l a C e d the n a m e of Tai
madge against God" in opposing
his views on pending white
supremacy legislation.
The IL deacons wired Talmadge
yesterday that Rabun's publicly
expressed opposition to the white
primary bill now before the legis-
lature did not reflect their opin-
ions.
AT the conclusion of regular Sun
day services, Rabun read a state
ment that he would resign eff it
is the will of the majority of the
MEMBERS"
No action was taken by the con-
gregation of McRae Baptist church.
Chester Ryals, chairman Of the
board of deacons, said "It is in
the hands Of the membership
now" He added action on the prof
fered resignation could be taken
either at a called meeting or at the
regular monthly conference in
March. He declared he knew of no
plans for a called meeting and de-
clined further comment.
Rabun, who saw service with
the Marines in the Solomons, said
from the pulpit after his sermon
today: "It is a sad state when a
minister of the gospel is met by
the officers of his church with so
much deliberate misunderstand-
ing
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-10
Public Health Doctors
Probe Mystery Aging

blood vessels, and kidney group
of diseases and it is there that the
unit on CHRONOLOGY is starting its
work: The program, begun in 1910,
was delayed by the war and is just
getting into full swing.
The CHRONOLOGY unit under DR..
Nathan W. Shock, working in the
city hospitals of Baltimore, is
tackling the kidney problem as
the first project. Heart trouble
will be next. Elderly patients suf-
fering this malady are used for
tests. So far. it has been deter
mined that kidneys of all persons
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-10
MASS OF BODIES
PILED in STREET
Darkness Forces Delay In
Search For Additional
Victims

BERLIN, Feb. 8. sP)
masquerade ball became a deadly
holocaust last night when an esti-
mated 100 to $50 masked merry
makers were burned or trampled to
death in a flash fire that swiftly
engulfed the Karlslust dance hall
in the British zone of Berlin.
A mass of bodies was piled before
the entrance, much as in the Cocoa
nut Grove fire in Boston four whit
ers ago where 492 persisted.
Survivors told of women being
trampled to death and of others
being stripped naked as they fought
vainly to reach the main exit. The
exact toll was not known when
darkness forced abandonment of
the search through the ruins until
tomorrow.
A British fire control officer
blamed overheated stoves. A Ger
man civilian familiar with the
structure said a short circuit was
to blame because the flames first
broke in the ceiling and the lights
went out Immediately.
1t was Berlin's worst disaster
since the war. All through the
day, people milled about the brick
ruins OF the one-story structure
seeking information about missing
relatives. Charred bodies, many
unacceptable, were taken from
the wreckage throughout the day
and the grim task will be resumed
tomorrow.
At least three British soldiers
were among the dead, the British
army said. Others were among
the 30 severely burned persons
who we're treated in hospitals. Nc
American soldier had been listed
as a casualty.
British authorities said about 80
British troops were among the
1000 persons at the ball, given by
the Spandau football club.
Those who escaped in their gar
ish costumes ran into one Of the
bitterest cold waves of the winter.
The icy winds tanning through
broken windows through which
some escaped spread the flames
faster. The hall was in Spandau
section.
Many paid with their lives in a
gamble to retrieve their coats from
the checkrooms, the positions Of
bodies showed. The British SOL
diers the Karlslust was one Of
their favorite spots - for the most
part crashed windows and escap-
ed.
Eyewitness Account
Reginald Preston, a British SOL
der, said he was one of a group
of seven sitting in a corner of the
main ballroom near the main exit.
Suddenly somebody screamed
and when I looked up I saw fire
spreading along a ledge above the
ballroom pillars" he recalled.
"Then quickly, the whole ballroom
ceiling seemed to be afire.
"T' fire now had started TO
sweep downward and I dashed to
a side door. What struck me then
was that people who had got
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-10
Seen
From Severe
Geld VIZ )
SNOW IN FLORIDA
New Mass OF Cold Air
Headed From Canada To-
ward North Central u. S.

CHICAGO, Feb. 9 - R - Mod
crate temperatures are expected
Monday and Tuesday generally
over the nation, but a new mass
of cold air accompanied by con-
siderably more snow than last
week is headed from Northwest
Canada toward North Central
states.
Quite cold and windy weather
with flurries and blowing snow
covered the eastern half Of the ma
ton Sunday, federal forecasters
said, but it was fair elsewhere and
most of the western half experience
ed moderate winter temperatures.
Florida reported some sleet and
snow
The new mass of Arctic air was
expected to move down into the
midwestern' states late Thursday
or Wednesday,. Whether it would
follow last weeks severe cold
waves to chilled Eastern and
Southeastern states still was I'm
certain.
Sundays weather included winds
of gale force in the Great Lakes
and St. Lawrence areas. with
gusts up to IS miles an hour at
DetroiH snow flurries in the Mis-
souri, Valley; general rains in Cal
ifornia; some snow and sleet IN
Florida; high winds and drifting
snow in northern New Work; and
daytime temperatures upward
from 10 above in northern states
from Montana to New England
and from 40 to so in Gulf states.
Although the midwest had some
relief from extremely cold tenn
peratures of last week, the fore
cast was for more cold and snow
in many areas Tuesday and
Wednesday
Temperatures generally during
the coming week will be below
seasonal averages, forecasters
said. Slight moderation was ex-
pected Monday from the Rocky
Mountains east and south to Flor
ida. Only extreme southern Louis
lana and southern Texas escaped
last weeks unusually cold air.
In Florida Sunday, Daytona
Beach reported 10 to Is minutes
of sleet, and there were light
traces of snow at Sanford, in en-
trail Florida. Snow flakes also
were reported farther south, in
Hillsborough and Pinellas counties,
but weather bureau had ro record
Of it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-10
And SO To Bed

Wilmington's first casualty
of the current song craze
sweeping the nation was re-
ported last night.
He's a bus boy in a down.
town restaurant who gave
this version of it.
Going home to his boarding
house Saturday night after a
hard days work, he was dis
turbed from his slumber sew
eral times with a plea to let
someone in.
After emerging from = warm
bed, travelling through a cold
hall, just to obiige, he found
no one awaiting entry.
The third such trip was too
much and upon investigation
found that a next door neigh
Dor was so engrossed over the
new song that he was playing
it over and over again.
You've guessed the name:
"Open the Door Richard" And
you should know the bus boys
given name. 8,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-10
COP Doubletalk

WASHINGTON, Feb. s.-R,-
Republican ranks broke wide apart
or the tax reduction issue today
with Rep. Knutson (R-Minn) de-
clarlng that the stand of Senator
Taft (R-Ohio) against a full years
cut won't make a particle of
difference"
Chairman Allen (R-IlD of the
house rules committee simultane-
ously renewed his insistence that
the largest tax reductions go to
the low income groups instead
of granting everyone a 20 per cent
cut across the board as planned
by Knutson, chairman of the tax
framing ways and means commit
tee.
Taft announced yesterday he
would oppose making any tax re-
Guction effective until July l, thus
throwing overheard Knutson's
house bill No. l to make the cut
retroactive to Jan /.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-10
Columbus C~ountyLauded
In Local Radio PROGRAM
OF N~eighboring
County Cited During
Star-News Show

The origin, development, indus.
ties and life of the people and land
|a Columbus county was presented
On The Sunday Star-News-reel yes
srday afternoon as the first in
|, series of Sunday radio visits to
uunties in Southeastern North
Carolina served by the Star and
te News.
The narrative dramatiZation, di-
ncted and produced by Ben Nc
Donald, Round-the-Town reporter
hi the Star-News, told the follow
hs story of Columbus county.
The origin of Columbus county
Mates back to the old Bath pre-
lncts originated under the English
r0Wn Of 1896. The Precincts ex-
ended from Albemarle to the Cape
Fear river and beyond and by an
lt Of the Assembly in July, 1929,
he southern part of Bladen county
precinct was brought into the pre-
|dnct Of New Hanover county,
Baden was formed from New Han
Nsr, and Brunswick was formed
from Baden and New Hanover. In
1868, Columbus county was formed
from Baden and Brunswick.
Columbus county today consists
ri almost 800, 900 acres bordered
Nv the South Carolina line, three
Flvers, and four counties, and was
falned for the discoverer of Amer
|s.
With eight different types of
poll adaptable to growing any type
produce that can be grown in
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-10

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9-W.D-
One of man oldest quests, how
TO live longer and have more tun
out. of old age, is under study BY
the national institute of health, part
of the U. S. public health service.
The institute doesn't promise a
Fountain of Youth" but it is
getting underway with research
in CHRONOLOGY, the science of ag-
ing, in the hope that ways can be
found to fart the diseases that
XII older people and rob them
of heath and vigor in declining
years.
The great killer" Of the aged
is the cardiovascular-renal {heart,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-10
Today And Tomorrow
By WALTER. LPPMANN

governments with which treaties
Of peace can be made. But Ger
many is unique. There is no Ger
man state and there is no German
government. They were destroyed,
and there exists Only the Allied
military government in Berlin.
There can now be no peace treaty
with Germany because there is
now no such thing as a German
government which a speak for
Germany, or sign anything which
is legally, much less morally. bind
ing upon the German nation. The
essence of the German problem
Continued on Page 2, Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-10
Over 100 Burn To Death
In Berlin At Dance Hall:
Treaty Signing Set Today
BERLIN HOLOCAUST
REMINDS AMERICA
OF LOSSES HERE

BOSTON, Feb. 9.-(P)-The
National Fire Protection asso--
citation today listed. five other
dance hall and night club fires
which took a large toll in hui
man lives.
The largest was the Cocoa
nut Grove night club fire in
Boston on Nov. 20, 1912, where
1872 died.
Others We're:
A dance hall in Vile Platte,
La, Nov. %, 1919, 25 killed.
A dance hall in West Plains,
Mo-, April IL, 1928, SO killed.
The Study Club night club in
Detroit, Sept. 20, 1929, ~ killed.
A dance hall in Natchez,
Miss. April %, 1910, 207 killed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-10
LOS ANGELES, Feb. s.-R

Los ANGELES, Feb. 9.-R
Capt. Jack Donahoe Of the
police homicide department
said tonight he had not receiv-
ed a reply from Fort Dix Of
ficers to a list of questions sent
yesterday for the grilling of
Corp. Joseph DUMAS, in the
Back Dahlia" murder case.
While Donahce declined COM
ment, other off, ers specialized
that DUMAS "must have done
some awful fast flying" They
pointed out that the bisec.ed
body of Elizabeth BLACK
Dahlia) Short was found Jan.
Is and that DUMAS was report
ed at Fort Dix Jan. IL, IL, 10
and II.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-10
CHIEF U CASES
TO RESUME TODAY

ATLANTA, Feb. 9 - up - The
principal court action in Georgia's
governorship dispute - involving
the claimants themselves, 1t.
Gov. M. E. Thompson VS.. legis-
lature-elected Herman Talmadge
- will be resumed tomorrow morn
ing in Henry Superior (circuit)
court at McDonough.
A decision, however, likely will
get second place on the supreme
courts calendar of several cases
involving the office of chief execu-
tive.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-10
The Weather

North Carolina - Fair with slowly
rising Temperatures Monday and Tues
day; lowest Monday night 1920 north
and west portions and 20-24 southeast
portion.
eastern Standard Time1 ---
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday. .
Temperatures:
1870 a. m. "a; 1880 p. M. 10; 1870 p. m.
30; 1880 p. m. 80.
Maximum 80; Minimum 10; Mean IS;
Normal AZ.
Humidity
1870 a. m. Al; 1880 a. m. 40; 100 p. m.
80; 1880 p. M. SO.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 7:30 p. m.
- 0 inches.
Total since the first of the month -
1872 inches.
Tides For Today
NFrom the Tide Tables published
by U. S. Coast End Geodetic Survey.
HIGH Low
Wilmington lis am. 1924 am.
1:41 pm. SAT pm.
Masonboro Inlet 1925 am. STA am.
- pm. 5:36 pm.
Sunrise TOP; Sunset 5:51; Moonrise
11:20p: MoonSet 10 :13a.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-10
CHERRY
r OVER DEATH

RALEIGH, Feb. s-{P-Gover-
nor Cherry said today upon receiv-
ing word of State Auditor George
Ross Pou's death:
1.-THE entirely unexpected news
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-10
FORECAST:

wilmington and Vicinity Fair with
VIZ rising temperatures Monday and
tuesday.
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CONTINUED on Page 2; Col. g.
Evening star., 1947-10-19
Phillip Schneider, 78,
Dies After Long Illness

Funeral services for Phillip
Schneider, 78, who died Friday night
at Washington Sanitarium. will be
held at 2 pm. Tuesday at the S. H
Hines funeral home, 290l Fourteenth
street NV Burial will be in Cedar
Hill Cemetery.
Mr.. Schneider, who lived at 1907
Forty-first place Sc, was a re-
tired stationary engineer. For Is
years he was chief engineer at
Golden & Co., commission mer-
chants. Later he was chief engineer
at Lansburgh & Bro. retiring IN
1889 after % years service. During
the war he worked for the Folger
Shakespeare Library as an engineer.
Mr.. Schneider, native of WASH
ington, was one of the organizers
and played the drums in the old
Kallapolis Grotto band. He was also
a member of George c. Whiting
Masonic Lodge No. %.
Survivors are a son. James Philip
Schneider, 1887 Macarthur boule-
ward NV, Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone Co. employe; a daughter,
Mrs. Mary T. Munroe, three grand
children and two great-grandchil :
dren. His wife, Mrs Sallie Wilson
Schneider, died in 1884.
Evening star., 1947-10-19
Ralph Steinhardt Dies;
Variety Store Owner

Ralph Steinhardt,, 10, Washington
merchant, died unexpectedly yester-
day at his home, 56O1 Colorado
avenue NV, few minutes after he
was taken i'll In his store at SSH
Colorado avenue NV.
Mr.. Steinhardt had been proprie-
tor of the Neighborhood Variety
Store on the avenue for the last IS
years and was known as Pop" to
his many customers.
He was born in Newark. N. j.. but
had lived here since his early child
hood. He attended the old Webster
School.
For about 10 years, Mr.. Stein
hardt owned and operated a res
taurant in the 400 block of Eleventh
street NV. Later he worked in the
steward department of the Raleigh
Hotel for about u years.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs. Hal
dee Cohen Steinhardt; a daughter,
Mrs. Moritz Cohen, ST., 4843 Illinois
avenue NV; a sister, Mrs. Rose
Mayer, Wildwood, N. j., and two
grandchildren, Virginia Louise and
Moritz Cohen, jr.
Funeral services will be held at
2:30 pm. tomorrow at the home of
Mrs. Cohen. Burial will be iii Wash
ington Hebrew Congregation Gene
terry,
Evening star., 1947-10-19
George H. Peters, "a,
Solar Photographer
For Navy, Dies Here

George H. Peters, "a, photog-
rapher at the Naval Observatory
who is credited with discovering
several asteroids, died yesterday at
the Park View Rest Home, 4103 Con-
necticut avenue NV, after an ILL
ness of month.
Mr.. Peters, who was with the
Naval Observatory from 1898 until
he retired in 1880, lived at the Bur-
lington Hotel.
A native of Hartford, Conn, he
attended public school there. His
career began when he joined the
observatory 40 years ago.
Mr.. Peters specially was photo
graphing >total eclipses. He made
six trips to various parts of the
globe to take the pictures.
His first trip was with the Naval
Observ tory eclipse group to
Georgia in 1900. He took pictures
of solar eclipses in Sumatra in
1901; in Spain in 1905; in Oregon in
1918; from the airship Los Angeles
in 1925; and in Sumatra again in
1926.
He made daily photographs of sun
spots and observed the asteroids OF
small planets. He is said to- have
discovered about five asteroids. one
of which. he named Washing
tonian."
Mr., Peters only survivor is niece,
Mrs. T. w. Isfeld of Taunton, MINI.
Funeral arrangements had not
been announced yesterday. Burial
will be in Hartford.
Evening star., 1947-10-19
Ex-senator Lonerqan
Rites Will Be Held at
Hartford Wednesday

The body of former Senator Au-
gustine Lonergan, 73, is being re-
turned to Connecticut, which four
times elected him to the House and
once to the Senate on Democratic
tickets.
Requiem high mass for Mr.. Loner-
gan, who died early yesterday at his
home in the Cordova Apartments
Twentieth street and Florida avenue
NV. will be sung at 10 am. Wednes-
DAY in st. Joseph's Cathedral, Hart
ford. Burial will follow in Mount
St Benedict's Cemetery there.
Expressing deep sense of per-
sonal loss in Mr.. Lonergan's passing,
Senator Mcmahon, Democrat, of
Connecticut, said "his long political
career gave him an opportunity to
serve Connecticut and the Nation
in high Office with fidelity and dis
tinction"
Senator Lonergan broke the solid
Republican front in the Bull Moose
year of 1912. Connecticut, normally
Republican, elected him again as
Representative and later as Senator
He was known in Congress as a
champion of labor and veterans
Elected to the Senate
in 1882, he supported New Deal
measures for the most part, but later
departed from some of the Roosevelt
policies.