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fllflttWtMJ Delaware's Morning Paper First with the Latest New United Press Associated Press International News Service Latest City Edition (Weather Condition Tide. Etc, on Page 4.) VOL. 128 NO. 147 WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 19, 1945 TWENTY-EIGHT PACES PRICE THREE CENTS ffli LEWES IS CALM JUDGES CAST DOUBT ON U.

5. PR OSEC UTION OF NAZI UNDERLINGS OVER MUNITION More Snow Falls in State; Cold Wave Kills 60 in U.S. Forecasters Predict Fall in Delaware Will Be Heaviest of Season; Continuance Of Low Temperature Anticipated What forecasters predicted would be the heaviest snow storm of the Jackson As si stani gained in intensity during the late New University Trustees "1 0 ydIL season struck Delaware last night, nuurs, ua, according to lorecasters. today, ending tonight. Elsewhere in to the continued cold wave.

Sussex County, where the storm arrived two hours earlier than Survivor of Death March' Barred as Jap Trial Judge U. S. Commission Heeds Plea of Defense Counsel That Col. J. H.

Ball, Prisoner Three Years, May be Prejudiced By The United Press YOKOHAMA, Dec. 18 Col. John H. Ball of Williamsport. Pa former prisoner of the Japanese and survivor of the Bataan "Death March," was removed today from the military commission hearing the first war crimes trial in Japan.

The defense challenged Ball on the grounds that he would be prejudiced. Ball was a prisoner for more than three vears after the mmK. jt.il. JL I JLr--jffi'-wrJ R. R.

M. Carpenter, Jr. U. S. RADIO GAVE JAPS FULL DATA ON PEARL HARBOR Information Gathered From War Captives Presented at Probe Memoranda From Welles Atlantic Charter Parley Also Given to Committee 82.000 fil Wa if On West Coast For Trains Home WASHINGTON, Dec.

18 fjpy The Army said tonight that GIs from the Pacific would have to spend Christmas in West Coast ports awaiting transportation home unless the rail jam cleared up. The Navy announced that many of its men scheduled for discharge or furlough will be in the same fix, too, but gave no figures. Hoping to relieve the situation some, the Office of Defense Transportation ordered all railroads west of the Mississippi to move troop trains "just as fast as they do their regular passenger trains" from now until March 1. The cruiser Augusta and the aircraft carrier Wasp have both suffered some damage in a 70-mile gale that has swept the Atlantic the British coast. The Augusta had left Le Havre on Dec.

14 with troops the exact number unknown here but on her last trip home she carried 1,096. The storm damaged her starboard side resulting in several small leaks and she turned back toward England. She tentatively plans to disembark the troops at Southampton and undergo repairs. The Wasp en route from New York to Southampton suffered some damage to her carrier deck. She was due in the British port Dec.

18 and has messaged she will be about 24 hours late. ARMY TO OBSERVE OPA RENT RULES ON FORT HOUSES Awards Will' Not Be Made to Bidders Until Ceilings are Approved Homes Open for Inspection Today With Action on Estimates Coming Tomorrow The 28 houses' and apartments at Port DuPont to be leased -to the public' will be rented in accordance with OPA regulations. This was disclosed yesterday by officials of the Army Engineers after rent control authorities declared that the announced plan to rent the homes to the highest bidders puzzled them. "The awards of the houses will be coordinated with the OPA and will be at prices approved by the OPA," an official of the engineers explained. The Army will open bids for the renting of the houses and apartments tomorrow at Port DuPont as originally announced.

However, the dwelling units will not be awarded to any bidders until the OPA has indicated the maximum rents which may be charged. In the event that the highest bids are over the OPA ceiling, the Army wilLiave a problem on its hands to allocate the homes. But Army offi cials said that their previous experience indicates that there will be no great rush for the houses, and they therefore doubted the problem would arise. In any event, OPA regulations will be followed, it was emphasized. The houses are open for inspec tion today, and the bids, to be sub mitted on forms available at the fort, are to be opened tomorrow at 9 a.

in the office of Maj. Arthur E. Flood, post adjutant. A Delaware OPA official declared See OPA Page 4 Is Sharply Quizzed During Attempts To Submit Evidence Irritated Jurists Also Heckle American Over Abundance Of Documents Offered By The Associated Prest NUERNBERG, Dec. 18 Openly irritated judges on the international military tribunal heckled American prosecutors today over trie aouna-ance of documentary evidence, and cast doubts on parts of the United States case against lower-level Nazi groups which the prosecution seeks to convict along with the 21 top Nazi leaders.

Justice Robert H. Jackson's staff completed the case against the Nazi Party leadership corps. But numerous questions from the bench in dicated the judges thought knowledge of the over-all Nazi program of domination and extermination did not filter down into lower elements of the corps as. the prosecu tion charged. As assistant U.

S. Prosecutor Rob ert G. Storey took up the case against the Nazi cabinet. Lord Jus tice Geoffrey Lawrence, presiding. complained that the bulk of evidence Colonel Storey offered was cumulative.

Interrupted by Biddle When Colonel Storey started reading a list of those who participated in Nazi cabinet defense council meetings, Justice Francis J. Biddle inquired caustically: "What will that show?" The prosecution said it would show the roles of the accused in issuing decrees. Biddle queried again: "And what will that show?" Two more sharp Interruptions came from Lawrence, who said th prosecution was laboring to prove obvious facts, and that the question was: "What is the criminality of Reich cabinet acts?" Storey discarded part of his script and plunged into the process of Nazi law making, only to be Interrupted by Lawrence, who demanded: "And what does that have to do with the criminality of the Reich cabinet? I think the tribunal can take it as evidence that tho cabinet, before passing- laws, eon- suited somebody. Hottest Legal Problem The present phase of the trial that of presenting evidence against the principal Nazi organizations- has been one of the hottest legal problems of the trial, with tha Americans standing alone in an ef fort to punish a half -million or more Nazi underlings for their part in the vast party program of persecution and extermination. Storey had just started prosecution of the Brown Shirt storm troon- ers when the court adjourned for the day.

From his great wealth of documents he introduced a series of pictures of Hitler. Hermann Goering and others in SA uniforms, and brought another caustic comment from Lawrence, who asked whether there was "any doubt that Hitler and Goering were members of tho SA." Rosenberg Accused Earlier in -the dav Alfrrd nun- berg, Nazi propagandist and Goer ing were described as common thieves who had vied with each other in stealing works of art from helpless, conquered peoples. 4torey presented a letter frnm Rosenberg to Hitler, in which ths fuehrer was Dromised 2n ni-tnr- from great stocks of loot, "with th hope" said Rosenberg "that this See NAZI TRIAL Page 10 NEEDY CHILDREN'S TOY SUPPLY IS PURCHASED $250 Sought by Sponsors of Drive 10 complete Required Fund Confident, that bv tomra-mw a ftr noon the public will the $250 more needd tn moot. thir nh- jective, the "Toy for Every Needy omia sponsors have purchased toys for delivery on Friday. With its sift baz swelled hv con tribution of $450 worth of toys from a cnarltaeie city merchant, the committee ix enimt.in? An ravhiij support to finish the worthy effort.

xn aaaiuon to tne toy gut, 500 pennies were collected at one of the large downtown department stores, and $32.55 in nickels and dimes was turned in by the National Theatre. Donations to the fund may be sent tn thm Prorrvnt-inn TVr. rtnn fr of the News-Journal Company, or to any one of the city's 11 motion picture houses assisting in the cam paign to give every needy child in the city a toy lor Christmas. Index of the News fall of the Philippines. Just before Tatsuo Tsuchiya, for mer prison guard, was "arraigned.

his counsel, James Dick inson of Jacksonville, chal-j lenged Ball. Ball admitted he might be preju diced under certain circumstances. The commission then eliminated him, reducing itself to eight men. Tsuchiya, known as Little Glass Eye, pleaded not guilty at the opening of his trial on charges of brutality to prisoners. To Ask Death Penalty Maj.

Louis Geffen, Atlanta, chief prosecutor, said he would ask the death penalty after showing Tsuchiya beat an American prisoner to death and tortured others. Tsuchiya listened attentively as the chafes were read and through an interpreter told the commission I he understood. The interoreter. Australian Capt. W.

E. Clarke, said Tsuchiya was well pleased with the way the trial was starting and thanked his counsel. The defense sought to strike out the charges that Tsuchiya forced Allied prisoners to line up and slap each other, and that he misappropriated Red Cross food supplies. Beat Yank Five Days The prosecution said it will show that Tsuchiya beat a sick American prisoner of war intermittently for five dayg with a knotted rope and clubs, before the prisoner died. The victim was identified as Pfc.

Robert Gordon Teas. (His home town was. not given in the dispatch). Most of the evidence to be submitted will be in the form of affidavits from liberated American prisoners of war who had been sent home. The first evidence submitted was a photostatic copy of a letter from Cordell Hull, to the Japanese Dec.

18, 1941, asking if they would comply with the Geneva Convention, and the Japanese replied that they would. Homma Denies Guilt MANILA, Wednesday, Dec. 19 (INS) Masaharu Homma, the "Beast of Bataan," pleaded not guilty today at his arraignment before a military commission which will try him as a war criminal. Homma trial was set to begin Jan. 3, and will be conducted in English.

Agreeing he was satisfied with the American counsel appointed to defend him. the Japanese general, accused of responsibility for the Bataan "Death March." stood before the bar and said firmly: "I plead not guilty." Defense Counsel Maj. John S. Keen of Baltimore asked for a month's delay in the trial date on the ground 75 per cent of the witnesses were in Japan, Korea and China, but he was refused. After his arraignment, Homma was returned to his cell on a floor above the courtroom.

It is the same cell occupied by Tomo-yuki Yamashita during his trial at which he was sentenced to hang for war crimes. STARS, STRIPES WAVE OVER B0NIN ISLANDS Marines Take Possession of Former Jap Fortress PEARL HARBOR, Dec. 18 (Jpy For the first time in more than 100 years the Stars and Stripes waves over Chichi Jima, a former Japanese fortress and seaplane base in the Bonin Islands. Marines went ashore five days ago to occupy the island and accept the surrender of. Lieut-Gen.

Hoshio Tachioana and his garrison, fleet headquarters reported today. The American flag first flew over Chichi Jima in 1828 when Nathaniel Savory, of Massachusetts raised the Stars and Stripes as a warning to pirates. SniPSJI BAT Town Commissioner Say No Protest is Planned Although Cape May Asks Their. Removal Army Says More May Arrive To Add to Fleet Awaiting Turn for Unloading Of Cargo at Approved Port The town of Lewes is not nervous bout the presence of 15 ammunition-laden' Liberty ships at a nearby anchorage, a town official said last night aa the Army revealed that the accumulation of ships resulted from orders banning unloading of explosives at certain ports. The ships, 10 of them with full toads of ammunition and five partly loaded, are anchored six miles north of Lewes at a government anchorage.

The Army said the hips are waiting their turn for un loading at an approved port, and more may arrive to add to the fleet. The joint Army and Navy safety board discontinued ammunition-discharge facilities at Hampton Roads. New Orleans, and Mukilaeo, near Seattle, it was explained. The board has approved the following ports lor unloading: Searsport, Leonardo, N. Charleston, S.

Mobile, Houston, Tex and Beaver, Ore. The 10 fully-loaded ships in Delaware Bay probably will be unloaded by Jan. 20 and the five others by the end of January, the Army said. Of the approved ports listed, the nearest to the Delaware Bay anchorage is Leonardo, N. which la on Sandy Hook Bay.

No Protest Contemplated No protest is contemplated by the town of Lewes, nearest area of concentrated population to the anchorage, although officials of shipping firms in Philadelphia yesterday charged the ammunition ships are a "menace to life. In Cape May Courthouse, N. removal of the 15 ships was requested by Percy H. Jackson director of the Cape May County Board of Freeholders in a telegram to Rep. T.

Millet Hand, Cape May Republican. Jackson also suggested that for the time being each craft be separated from the others so. that the danger element would be averted. In some quarters at Lewes the eommotion about the ships was regarded as basically an effort by crewmen, tired of waiting at anchorage," to get home by Christmas. Commissioner J.

Orton Marshall, See SHIPS Page 4 AIR OFFICER" DISCHARGED WEEK AGO DIES OF GAS Hump' Veteran Writes Nerves Got Best of Him James Walter," 30. lieutenant the Air Transport Command who received his discharge only a week go, was found dead of illuminating gas in the kitchen of his home in the Colonial Apartments, Main and Academy Streets, Newark, last night. A note explained that nerves had gotten the best of him and "this is the best way out." The Newark Fire Company's inhalator was rushed to the scene and artificial respiration given for nearly two hours before the man -was pronounced dead. Walter, a flight officer, spent 10 months and flew 750 hours on C-54 missions over "The Hump" between Burma and China. He trained air cadets in this country before going to the South Pacific.

Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Jane Walter, with whom he operated a restaurant in Newark; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Walter of Ken-nett Square; four brothers, Joseph, Thompson and Philip of Kennett Square, and Charles of Newark; three sisters, Mrs. Mary Chambers of Union viile; Mrs.

Anna Myers of Kennett Square, and Mrs. Helen Hammill of Newport Coroner James F. Hearn investigated together with Newark police. Delaware's Victory Loan Score Delaware's I bond goal bond sales today $3,335,000 Buy an Bond and attend the norit premier tonight at Loew'M Aldtne Theatre. $:30 o'clock.

Give Bonds I I For Christmas I The Gift Thai Lasts Here's How We're Doing: was scheduled to continue throughout the nation 60 deaths mm attributed Telsewhere in the state, snow flakes cloaked highways beneath a thin layer of white within an hour. The temperature rested around 30 degrees in Sussex and Kent Counties all nht. Beginning with fine, misty flakes, the snow soon became heavier and had State Highway police on the alert for automobile accidents, due to the dangerous driving conditions. The snow began falling in New Castle County shortly after 10 o'clock I and, in less than a half -hour, had This county experienced the lowest temperatures In the state with the thermometer registering 36 degrees iai last mgnt. By midnight, the weather station at the New Castle Army Air Base estimated an inch of snow had fallen.

Roads and streets became slippery and the State Highway Department and Delaware Coach Company began sanding. Shortly after 2 a. m. today, with the snow making driving dangerous, a northbound passenger train of the Pennsylvania Railroad and an automobile collided at the South Chaple Street crossing in Newark. No one was injured.

All over the state, county engineer crews, hard pressed recently with the two storms which nre- ceded last night's snowfalL were again on hand to coDe with anv situation that should arise. The new snow storm which was general throughout the eastern half of the nation last night brought some moderation but no lasting relief from one of Decembers bitterest cold spells. Snow, ranging from a depth of one to seven inches, covered eastern Kansas, Missouri, northern Arkan sas, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana and Ohio, while sleet, snow and rain spread over Georgia, Louisiana and Alabama. Five inches of snow, which later turned to rain, fell at Memphis, Tenn. In the Buffalo, N.

area where 68 inches of snow was piled up in one of the state's worst blizzards, the storm abated and workers fought to restore' normal transportation. Trains still were running as much as six hours late however and schools and most city offices in the area remained closed. The coldest spot in the nation was Ashley, N. where the temperature fell to 26 degrees below zero. The warmest spots In fact, the weather bureau said, the only warm spots in the nation were the Florida peninsula and southeastern Texas.

The thermometer was staying below the zero mark in parts of Montana, Wyoming, northern Illinois, Indiana, Michigan. Ohio. North Dakota. South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and New York. WUGE COPPER PENNY' IS REPORT ON ECLIPSE Wilmington's View of Moon Is Blocked by Clouds HARVARD, Dec.

18 (U.R) The moon appeared as a huge copper penny as its first total eclipse in the nation since Aug. 26, 1942, was observed tonight by two youthful scientists at Harvard Observatory. (Clouds blocked Wilmington's view of the eclipse.) At 9:20 p. the halfway mark in the period of totality, the Har vard- observers described the eclipse as "relatively brighter than the one in 1942." The so-called seas on the moon were visible to the naked eye al though the moon craters, easily seen with binoculars on normal nights, were not noticeable during the eclipse. $2,183 SUBSCRIBED FOR NEEDY FAMILIES Fund is Slightly Less Than Total At Same Time Last Year Wilmington's "Twenty-five Neediest Families" Fund, slightly behind the corresponding total for this time last year, stood at $2,183.50 as it goes into its final phase this morning.

Among new contributors are two friends, one of whom gave $10 and another who donated a collection of 500 pennies. The Ladies Auxiliary See NEEDY FAMILIES Page 12 form, Christmas will be ruined in thousands of American homes by accidents. "These the mayor added, "are especially tragic and ironic at the Christmas season in any year. This year they are doubly so. This year, of all years, we want no tragedy that can be avoided." Mayor Herlihy recognized that with thousands of relatives returned home from the war, some of them observing their first Christmas with their families in three or four years, See MAYOR ASKS Page If Joseph L.

Marshall FORD'S PROPOSAL OF 12.4 PCT. RAISE REJECTED BY Firm Asserts Its Offer Would Have Boosted Outlay $33,000,000 GM to Appear Before Fact Finders Today; Oil Parley Stalled on Issue of Prices By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 The general committee of the West ern Union Commercial Telegraphers Union tonight ordered a strike for Jan. 7 to begin at 8 a. m.

in each time (one. The CIO United Automobile Workers yesterday rejected a 12.4 per cent wage Increase offer by the Ford Motor Co. The rejection came less than an hour after the Ford Company announced the offer while representa tives of management and union were meeting on the TJAW-CIO demand for a 30 per cent wage rate increase. Ford estimated its increase offer at 15 cents an hour to all production workers. "The Ford proposal is completely unacceptable to the union." said Richard T.

Leonard, UAW-CIO Ford director as he came out of the negotiating conference. Conferences between union and Ford will resume tomorrow. TTH TPrtrrf nffe-r itul i Mnn no ,3 comment from General Motors officials. Most of them were en route to Washington for the opening of hearings today by a fact-finding commission appointed by President Truman to study the GM dispute. The Ford offer was coupled with a condition that it become enective for a period of two years at the be ginning of the calendar month dur ing which production of all Ford vehicles, cars and trucks reached or exceeded 80,000 units monthly.

The Ford normal peace-time output is in excess of 120,000 units a month. The proposal also stipulated elim- See LABOR Page 10 FLORIST CAPTURES MAN BELIEVED TRYING THEFT Carlisle Simon Outruns Suspect After Shot Misses Bernardo Fioravinti, 46, of Wilmington, was being questioned by State pilice early today after he was seizes during an alleged attempt to rob the Carlisle Simon green house at Faulk and Wilson Roads. According to police, Fioravinti and a companion drove up in an automobile to the greenhouse shortly after midnight. While the companion remained in the car Fioravinti, it is said, entered a shed and took a box of wreaths. Mr.

Simon heard a noise and upon investigating saw Fioravinti. He fired a shot at the man but missed, then gave chase as Fiora vinti started to run, capturing him a short distance away. The companion in the car drove rapidly away when he heard Simon shoot. Fioravinti was held until police arrived. No charge has been placed against him, pending completion of the questioning.

$75,000 FIRE WRECKS BUILDING AT SALISBURY Explosion Precedes Odd Fellows Hall Blaze Special to The Morning News SALISBURY. Dec. 18 A $75,000 fire, believed caused by a soft coal explosion in the boiler room, wrecked the Odd Fellows' three-story building, housinz the New Theatre, the Continental American Life Insurance Co. and the lodge hall, early today. The building is located on Main Street.

The roof of the -ntire structure was destroyed "by flames. The flames swept along the top of ground floor auditorium, but a metal ceiling saved the second floor from fire damage, although the water and smoke loss there was heavy. The first floor lodge hall was damaged by both Are and water. With, the temperature at "11 degrees, fire fighting was made hazardous. 1 UAWON R.

R. CARPENTER RESIGNS HIS POST U. BOARD His Son is Elected To Succeed Him for New Term of Six Years Joseph L. Marshall, Lewes Banker and Delaware Alumnus, Also Chosen The resignation of R. M.

Carpenter as a member of the board of trustees of the University of Delaware and the election of R. R. M. Carpenter, and of Joseph L. Marshall to membership on the board were announced yesterday by Dr.

W. Owen Sypherd, acting president of the university. The board accepted Mr. Carpenter's resignation with regret at the meeting last Saturday, Dr. Sypherd said.

The election of the two new members for six-year' terms beginning Dec. 15 is subject to confirmation by the State Senate at its next session. Mr. Carpenter, who is vice-president of the DuPont Company, was elected to membership on the board June 1, 1940 succeeding the late Judge Charles M. Curtis who had resigned.

He was to have served a six-year term. During his service on the board Mr. Carpenter has taken an active interest in the university and pro vided the funds for the construction of the new field house. Announcement of the gift of an additional $92,000 for expansion of the field house was made at Saturday's meeting. His son, who succeeds him on the board, is now a sergeant in the U.

S. Army engaged in rehabilitation work at Camp Upton, N. Y. A graduate of Tower Hill School, he attended Duke University where he played varsity football. He is presi dent of the Phillies baseball team in the National League and of the Wilmington Blue Rocks In the In ter-State League.

Mr. Carpenter is married and has two children, R. R. M. Carpenter III and Mary Kaye Carpenter.

Mr. Marshall, who is an official See V. OF Page 10 C.C.GER0W FETED BEFORE RETIRING Explosive Sales Director Of Hercules Ends 47 Years Service Dec. 31, Honored C. C.

Gerow, first director of sales for Hercules Powder Company, will retire Dec. 31, after more than 47 years in the explosive industry. A dinner in his honor was held last night at the Wilmington Country Club. Friends in the company attended and presented him with a gold, watch and wrist band. Mr.

Gerow was one of the first three men employed by Hercules when the company was formed in October, 1912. He started his career in the explosive industry in 1898, when at the age of 18. he joined the Laflin Rand Powder Company as a clerk in the New York office. He became a salesman for the company several years later, and covered the territory around New York City, including parts of Pennsylvania, "New Jersey, Connecticut, and New York State. When Laflin Rand was purchased by the DuPont Company in 1903, Mr.

Gerow transferred to the general sales department of DuPont. He served as chief clerk of the contractors' division from 1906 through 1912. Upon Joining Hercules Powder Company, Mr. Gerow was appointed assistant to J. T.

Skelly, vice-president in charge of sales. Late in 1918, he was made sales manager of the company, and for the next 10 years supervised all sales, including explosives, naval and cellulose products. When the company was divided into operating Se GEROW Page 4 By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 Test i mony that the Japanese learned on Dec. 6, 1941 through Intercepted U.

8. radio messages what warships were at Pearl Harbor was laid before the congressional investigating committee today. This information came from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's staff in Tokyo along with other word that: 1. The enemy had alternate plans to smash the U.

S. fleet if it was anchored outside the harbor. 2. Orders went to the Japanese navy to prepare for the attack as early as Nov. assuming war with Britain, the United States and The Netherlands was "inevitable" and would come "the first part of December." Information From Captives This information was obtained by MacArthur's staff in questioning Japanese prisoners after the fall of Japan.

Much of it came from Com mander Tomo Tachioana of the Japanese naval intelligence staff. reconstructed from memory. Whether the Japanese actually nad cracked a U. S. radio code as their's had been cracked was not made clear.

However, it was brought out that Tokyo spent years in analyzing "bits of information ob tained from naval officers at Washington, newspapers and magazines published in America, American radio broadcasts, signal Intelligence, passengers and crews of ships stop ping at Honolulu. The joint Senate-House committee received at the same time memoranda of Sumner Welles, for mer Undersecretary of State, de scribing the Roosevelt-Churchill meeting at sea when the Atlantic Charter was drawn in August, 1941 Agreed to Occupy Axores Welles revealed that: (A) Mr. Roosevelt was reluctant to agree right then on a post-war organization to disarm aggressor nations, urging that this wait until a U. S. -British "police force was established.

(B) The President agreed to occupation of the Azores. (C) Prime Minister Churchill said he could not subscribe immediately to a promise that all peoples would have access to world markets and raw materials. He raised the point that this collided with the empire preference system and that he would have to consult the dominions. (D) The British sought to have the Americans and Dutch join in a statement to the Japanese that fur ther "encroachments" in the Southwest Pacific would lead to counter- measures even though the result might be war. The President, other witnesses have said, did make a See PEARL HARBOR Page 7 crease over 1945 production of field corn, nine per cent in barley, 30 per cent in rye grain and 60 per cent in crimson clover seed.

An eight per cent increase in processed vegetables is suggested, and a similar decrease in fresh vegetables not to be processed. The other decreases suggested is 7.5 per cent in soy beans grown for beans. Other items remain the same as this year's production. "The end of the war has not brought an end to the almost un limited need for- American See FARMS Fa MAYOR ASKS FOR EXTRA CAUTION OVER HOLIDAYS Want No Tragic Accidents to Blight Homes In Observance of Peace Christmas, He, Says in Safety Appeal FOOD. PRODUCTION GOALS TO STAY HIGH IN STATE Increases Asked for Field Corn, Barley, Rye, Clover Seed, Processed Vegetables, Decrease for Soy Beans Page Amusements IS Bill Cunningham Births 4 Classified M- Comics Deaths 4 Editorials Financial 35 Marquis Childs Obituaries 4 Radio 24 Society News 18, and 21 Sports 22-23 State News 14-15 Westbrook Pegler With the Service Hea Woman's Paf Mayor Thomas Herlihy, yesterday issued a personal appeal to all residents of Wilmington to use the "extra caution needed during the holidays to prevent accidents of all kinds." The mayor expressed the hope that "our citizens will hold down their speed on the streets and highways to a reasonable rate, especially since cars are far below prewar standards.

"This is the Christmas that we have been awaiting," he said. "This is the Christmas when the spirit of peace should permeate every heart. Yet, if things run truz. to Continued high production on Delaware farms, with increases in five items and decreases in only two, has been suggested by Delaware agricultural leaders. Suggested goals for 20 products were listed and submitted to the secretary of agriculture by the Goals Conference, composed of all agencies and agricultural leaders in the state, it was announced by C.

E. Ocheltree, state director of the Production and Marketing Administration of the Department of Agriculture, who was chairman of the conference. The 1946 goals listed by the con ference show a three per oetit In 7.