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ON TODAY'S EDITORIAL PAGE Profits Bring Many Benefits: Editorial Norwegians Meet Needs: Morning's Mail Want a B-29 Engine? Billions in Surfliu Pan PrMem THE POST-STANDARD Weather Official Arm Fair and winner today and tomorrow. Report on Page I ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTEENTH YEAR SYRACUSE, N. THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1946 FINAL EDITION--FOUR CENTS M'Arthur Orders Ho mma cxecu ted BY RUSSELL BRINES TOKIO. (fP)--Gen. MacArthur today consigned to the firing squad Masaharu Homma, conqueror the Philippines, who had driven the surrendered remnants of MacArthur's garrison thru the tortures of the 1942 Bataan death march.

"The 1 savageries which resulted have shocked the world," MacArthur said in his official review of the case. Move than 17,000 died. His affirmation the Manila court martial condemnation of Homma leaves the convicted war criminal no recourse short of the White House. MacArthur directed Wilhelm D. Styer, commanding army forces of the Western Pacific, to carry out 'the sentence at Manila.

'date was specified. AJP Photo. Masaharu Homma Denounces Brutality MacArthur's detailed review of the Homma cnsc spoke bitterly of the brutalities of of horror," which "mark the lowest ebb of depravity of modern times" MacArthur also asserted that he had considered carefully the dissents of Supreme Court Justices Murphy and Rulledge to a court refusal to intervene for Homma. Murphy had denounced the trial ns a descent "to the level of revengeful blood purges." On the contrary, the supreme commander declared, "no trial could have been fairer. Those who would oppose such an honest method can only be a minority who cither advocate arbitrariness of process above factual realism, or who I i from capital punishment." CONVICTED IN MANILA Homma was convicted by a military commission in Manila Feb.

ot ordering the death march and condoning other atrocities by his troops in the Philippines early in the war. MacArthur said: "If this defendant docs not de- (Contlnued on Face 2, Column 5) Bumper Crop Foreseen in '46 BY OVID A. MARTIN WASHINGTON. crop, carrying with it hopes that the nation may be able to avoid a return to food rationing, was 1 indicated 'for 1946 'by an agriculture department 3w I DAN i TRIBESMEN ATTACK, (AP Wlrephoto map)--Iranian planes (symbols) were operating yesterday from Hamadan and Kermanshah i Iranian garrisons at Sardasht and Baneh Kurdistan and Saqoiz Azerbaijan which were under attack by Kurdish tribesmen. survey It showed that farmers plan 357,500,000 acres of crops, (Continued on Faife 2, Column 1) 185 Diein Brazil's Worst Rail Wreck RIO DE (-T 1 One hundred eltfhty-flve persons, were killed an dseveral hundred injured in Brazil's worst railway disaster Tuesday night.

Grief-stricken relatives rusfted to the scenn, near Aracaju, capital north of here. ot the Brazilian coastal state of I The victims were Mrs, Walker compared with 357,000,000 last 'year and 355,000,000 for the 1934-45 average. Key Acreage Down While the Indicated acreage for 18 major crnps is 3 per cent below what the government asked, food officials considered it generally favorable In the light of shortages of labor, machinery and other equipment. Final acroages may be altered, however, by weather, in the labor and machinery supply and by any pricu revisions which might be made before seeding time. Actual yields also'will depend, In large part, on weather, Crops Indicated to exceed goals Include whoat, oats, peanuts, tobacco and rice.

Those which apparently will fall short include corn, hay, sorghums, barley, soybeans, flax, white and swoet potatoes, sugar beets, dry beans and pens. BUMPKR WHEAT CROP Another bumper wheat crop appears likely. Famine-stricken areas abroad probably will need a lot of It. On the bnsls of the present condition of the winter wheat crop, which was sown last fall, and the Indicated acreage cf spring wheat, total production -should be about 1,007,000,000 bushels, the department said, compai ed with last year's roc- OPA Relaxes Price Rules on Shirts to Relieve Shortage i WASHINGTON. vcs- terday further relaxed its price regulations in a move to ease the shortage ot men's shirts.

The agency also liberalized pi'ice provisions covering such apparel as shorts, pajnmas, lies, gloves, girdles, corsets and women's and girls' play suits and sun suits. The changes were made in Ihe "maximum average price regulation," which required manufacturers to produce the same ratio of low priced merchandise to high priced apparel that they did during RUSSIANS ASK DELAY OF COUNCIL MANHUNTER. (AP Wlrephoto) Mrs. Betty Elrod Dobry, 35, policewoman, yesterday began a for her former husband, Dudley Dobry, 43, Mrs, Dobry's attorney explained in court that Dobry was $200 In arrears on a $1,000 divorce settlement and the judge accepted Mrs. Dobry's suggestion that she him.

Four Persons Die In Farmhouse Fire FAIRFAX, persons burned to death and another was burned critically Tuesday night in a fire which destroyed a farm Kurds Attacking! i Iranian Outposts Officer Reports Youths, 19, Are Called to Army; Deputy 'Arrested BY JOSEPH C. GOODWIN TEHRAN. (fF)-- Fighting between Kurdish tribesmen and the I a i a army was reported by a general a officer yesterday as the government called 19-year-olds to the colors and arrested Rightist Deputy 'Said Zia Ed-din often described by political writers as anti-Russian. The officer said 3,000 tribesmen had been attacking three isolated army garrisons for a week and that Iranian planes were trying to prevent the garrisons from being cut off from their headquarters. Defers Older Youths In announcing the conscription of 19-year-olds, the army said it was deferring those in the 22-25 year bracket, (The Iranian embassy in Washington said that 19-year-olds normally are not given training in the Iranian army.

They said the army normally consists of men 20 to 22 years old in training and that those above 22 move automatically into reserve classes after training.) Zia Ed-din was taken from his home by two men In the i ot Iranian army colonels. As he sat in 1he automobile of his captors he told newsmen "I think they are arresting me because I am not liked by the Russians." Prince Firouz, political undersecretary of state and director of propaganda, said the rightist leader was artcstcd on orders of Premier Ahmed Qavam es Saltaneh and was being "put under preventive de- change existing ceilings for In- tonlion ding investigation of cer. dividual garments, bul allows man- a ufacturcrs to produce a larger pro-' portion of somewhat more expensive lines In the case ot shirts this is being done because a a turcrs are having difficulty obtaining low priced cotton fabrics, said. i Under the revised order agency added producers will be! a'ble to make full use of manufacturing facilities for carded cotton shorts to sell at retail for up lo $1,95, and for combed cotton shirts 1943. The revised order makes no to sell up to In figuring maximum average prices, manufacturers npw may exempt carded cotton shirts costing less than $16 a dozen, and combed cotton shirts costing less than S23 Zia Ed-din, generally known as a (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) Britain to Disband Exiled Pole Army BY JOHN A.

PARRIS LONDON. )-- Britain will dis- UN LEADER VISITS PRESIDENT. (AP Wlrephoto)--Trygve Lie (right), secretary-general of the United Nations, conferred yesterday willx President Truman and Secretary of Stale Byrnes at the While House. Taber Asks Probe Of Radio Setup from Capital to Moscow WASHINGTON. congressional investigation of continued operation oi a war-time radio setup between the war deparlment build- Ing here and Moscow was asked in the house yeslerday by Hep, Taber (R), N.

Y. same time, a house military sub-committee set a spe'cial' meeting lo plan ils next step in an I i I the state department intelligence i The committee, which asserted that the department employed personnel i "strong Soviet leanings," was lold yesterday that it had been listening to "a tissue of lies." A war department spokesman band the exiled Polish army, navy and air force of 200,000 men under British command as soon as practicable, Foreign Secretary Ernest. Bcvin snid yesterday. His statement, i i to all Polish nrmcd forces In- Italy, Ger- said that arrangements had been mnde for private commercial companies to take over the radio channel between the Pentagon building and Moscow, probably about May 1, when the sUtion would be moved to New York Taber told the house that Dean Acheson, undersecretary of slate, "is supposed to insisted" on extending oporalion of the setup for three months. It i.s sending thousands of words of coded a out of the country, Tnber said.

'It js about i we found out whether those who are looking after our foreign affairs have their first loyalty lo the interest of tfie United Stales," Taber said. He suggested lhat the foreign affairs committee make Ihe inquiry. The radio channel is manned by (Continued on Pace Column 6) Special Conference Asked To Restore Unity in Big 3 BY WILLIAM R. SPEAR WASHINGTON. Pepper (D), declared yesterday that "the United Nations Organization is not the way out of this web of fear" that the Big Three must in-establish unity outside it thru an unprecedented conference of their generals, workers, businessmen and statesmen.

He sharply assailed Sen. Vandenberg as loader ot the "newest form of isolationism" exclusive American possession of the atomic bomb and military control of. atomic energy. Destroy A-Bombs 1 Pepper asserted that before entering the conference the United States with Britain and Canada, "should destroy every atomic bomb we have and smash every facility we possess 1 for making it. The conference he outlined to ihe senate would deal with all matters which would wipe out distrust among the United States, Russia and Britain and assure their security.

Specifically he urged: 1. That all knowledge ot atomic energy "be freely poured into the international channels of science." 2 That Russia have "fair ac- ccis" to the oil of the Middle East and other "territories outside her own homeland, as do the other Big Two." He said this would implement the A a i charter's promise of equal access by the nations to raw materials. 3. That all "strategic bases and areas ot the world" be under joint occupation thru the security council. 4.

That the United Slates grant' the loans which he said other n.i- I U. S. Requests Prompt Action On Iran's Plea Moscow Wants Session Put Off Until April 10 BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, (ff) United States and Russia split last night on the question of whether the United Security council shall give an early hearing to Iran's charges against the Soviets. Russia asked for a postponement of the scheduled opening of the council in New York from next Monday until April 10.

Ambassador Andrei Gromyko wrote UN Secretary-Gen- ieral Trygve Lie that the Soviet government needed time to prepare its case. Wants Quick Action Almost simultaneously Edward R. SlettiniuB, American member of the council, tiled with Lie a request that the Iranian ease'be placed "flt the head of the other words, be given the quickest possible consideration. American officials said that when Stettinius made his request on instructions of Secretary of State Byrnes and presumably President Truman as 'well, he had not known of the Soviet delay proposition. He expected and hoped that the council would- plunge into Iranian ease Monda'y, Stettinius also proposed that both Russia and Iran be requested to report to the council on their direct negotiations for settlement of their differences.

While the Russian note last night said that negotiations still were going on, informed American officials said that parleys which were held in Moscow evidently ended in failure ten days or two weeks ago. APPEALED FOR HELP Iran has appealed to the security 6 Age Classes Of Red Army To Be Released LONDON. The Moscow radio, in a broadcast heard by the Soviet Monitor, reported last nigh't that' the Russiar government had announced the next six age classes 'of Red army enlu ted men. both land and air forces, would be demobilized between May and September, council to help get Russian troops (Continued on Pace 2, Column 3) dozen, Previous exemption levels a Britain, and the Middle East, were $14.50 and $17.46, respectively. lhcm lo i promptly to OPA said the new exemption prices aie higher than those announced last month because Iho shortage of low priced shirt fnbrics is "more acute than earlier studios indicated." Nazi Ideas Grip Europe, Jewish Prober Declares Sergipc, where a suburban train said to be c.irrying 1,000 passengers derailed and piled up while scending a a i incline.

de- DispatchcK said the engineer Phillips, 25; a daughter, Iluby Jane, two-and-a-half years old, and Larry suicide. Desert Pyre Death Declared Suicide BAKERSFIELD, Calif, (A 1 )-- The bizarre death of Gerald D. Curtis, stepson of Rear Adm. William Purnell, whose charred body was found chained in a burned automo- i in the Mojave desert wastes March 10, was written off yesterday by Coroner Norman C. House as their a i I Bcvin included a statement ot the Polish promising thill 'no i i mojisurct, or reprisals" 1 would be Invoked except in specific! by Thr New Voile Tlmej udses, including those i i men NEW YORK.

racial who had served in the German forces (l incs i as tllc i egacy or who wei i ot high treason. Thousands ot the exiled Poles hjjvc dcCcaled a armies, still resisted to Poland i a i ot once-conqueied Eu- assurances by the Warsaw govern- 1 Federal Judge Simon H. RIs- In 120,000 alone I here are more Polish soldiers under the declared public report five months of adviser on Jewish affairs to the his return from special Ray, 13-day-old son, and 'There has been no evidence, to son Virgil 10 indicate the 34-year-old Arcndia turned himself into authorities in Walker PhilUps, 33 was taken to 6 Vi the town of Lanmjeiras after flee-1 a Maryville hospital, where his con-! ictAttornev Tom Scott nid ing enraged passengers. He was ition was reported critical. he had i i i invest iga- sald lo have told authorities a Fairfax firemen said the top of TM the case bill SheriM John the passengers wanted to lynch the kitchen stove had been jOUS 0 declared ho would pro- after wreck, lotf.

him Dave Boone Says: Thero must be terrific conferences in the Pravda and Izvcstia offices to find out what the white ant is and how his life and habits. Winston Churchill at Columbia snid a study of this ant would give Communists a fair indication of their future, and he's got most everybody trying to dope out what he means. Ants in the international pants would be pretty tough. Somii authorities say white ants arc better known as termites, those little things that get into the foundations of a house, bore from within, wreck the place and then just look for another log or beam. Maybe that's what Winnie meant but Joe Ktalin don't look like any ant to Turkey or Iran.

I see'whore Ford announces that there will be no 1947 model brought out late this year because of the delays in production. Gosh, things arc so fur bcbind that we may go to the 1949 auto show to get look at 1946 curs! cecd i his inquiry. Curtis' widow, Maxine, testified at a coroner's Inquest March 12 that her husband disappeared from his Arcadia, filling station Jan. 5. She testified she knew of no enemies of her husband and knew no renson why he should commit suicide.

A Los Angeles dentist i i i a dental plate, found near the car, as belonging lo Curtis, and the coroner said he was satisfied of the victim's identity. DEVELOP NEW ANESTHETIC BALTIMORE. 1 )--Development ot a new anesthetic agent known as "metopryl," with greater power and a higher safety factor a c-ther, was announced yesterday by Ihe pharmacology department of the University of Maryland medical school. command of Gen. Wladyslaw An-'American army of occupation, dcrs, outspoken- foe of the Warsaw The Hitlerite racial theories, said regime He has been accused by.

Judge Riskind, have become part Moscow of i of the European way of i i a mlcgialcd into the vo- N.Y. Boys Jump Gun on Spring, Take to Hudson in Raft Cruise IIMI'ROVK BRKADED FISH AND CHOPS IiiBtcnri of Jlnur, use Ivanhor Cfjlon for brcarilnn fish, chops mid i Much Tenspoonftil-- On', Onion, AL stores nrxl better NEW YORK. Sunny skies and i temperatures arc expected lo i suitable for (he first day of spring today, but some of New York youngsters used similar weather yesterday to get a on the season. Spring's official arrival time is 12.33 a. today.

One group of live youngsters set sail on the Hudson on a partly burned raft; their odysscy ended quickly with a rescue by a coast guard boat after the a had been swirled to midstream by a sharp Three other ten-age boys who had been i i happily on a barge in the Hudson since March 4 were picked up by New Jersey police and relumed lo lhe routine ol their homes. Bright skies and temperatures in the high the last day of winter provided the setting for the adventures, The five children on the raft, three girls and two boys, were by a pedestrian near the George Washington bridge after they had started to drift to midstream. Policemen look charge of i i Ihe coast guard had i them to land. An a i a in New York city yesterday was the mayor of North Pole, Alaska, Sam Styles, Styles lecently joined a group of friends in establishing the town of North Pole, five miles from Fairbanks, so lhat "all those letters addressed to a a Claus each year now have a place to go, where they w.ll be an- sweied." "We have oslablibhed a Santa Claus trust at the a of. Fairbanks lo oc used for i toys and sending loiters," he said.

While sprms's i i a a i i a in the cas'. is today, 'he rest of the welcomed it last night. 11 WHS due at 11.33 p. a Slnndard Time; 10.83 a i Time; and 933 p. Pacific Standard Time.

KINOS HAD NO nnTTER TJvrn roynl brewers rriunllrri Old JSngllsh Hi Al? Cost" niorr, At all Kood storch And reslEUi. raits--Adv. ciibulaiy. They have spread themselves so deep, he went on, that even their Jewish i i have come to speak in those terms. The entire psychology of Europe, i i 1'nciiil ill-feelinK, hud made it impossible for Jewish displaced persons to expect to rebuild normal lives on the continent, Judge Riskind said.

Speaking of the special camps for Jewish DP's, he declared that at best they were a tempoiary expedient, and that it was allogethcr out of Ihe question to try to conduct any i of normal life in them. The Jewish DP camps, he added, must be closed as soon as possible, but warned a lo throw their occupants back into the German population would be "lhe greatest of crimes." "It is evident that the inescapable remedy is immediate miumlion resettlement of displaced persons," said Judge Riskind. "By immediate, I mean today. Every day's delay is a with danger. This only factor, which is sustaining morale in the displaced persons centers, is the expectation of migration and resettlement," "Six i i Jews have been mass.icred by the Germans," he as- serled, Inside Today Comic Page Death Record Editorial Markets Radio Pape 12 2 0 fi 1 1 5 7 Sports 14-15 Syracuse News Theaters 13 Women's Page COLUMNISTS F.

P. A Drew Pcurson H. 1, i i George E. Sokolsky 4-3 3 11 details were announced. (The presidium of lhe Supreme Soviet on June- 23, 1945, ordered demobilization of IS older classes all over 42 rving in the west, and on Sept.

7 i ordered the demobilization of 13 older-age groups all over 42 in the Far (On last Sept, 26 the presidium announced a demobilization program which foreign military observers said -vould affect several million Russian soldiers. It provided for a i from (he army all privates and non-commissioned offn-ers within the 32-42 age group Russians Desire Democratic Korea SEOUL. 01')- i i a off Iranian soil. The appeal charged a the troops were in Iran in violation of a written agreement and that Soviet agents were interfering in Iran's affairs. Both American officials and aides on Lie's staff said that under the United Nations charter it would take unanimous agreement of 11 members of the council to postpone the meeting.

They pointed out that the charter specifies that any member may request a meeting and have it held at any time. One UN official said flatly that (Continued on Pace Column i) Wage Issue Stalled For Compromise WASHINGTON. Adminis- a friendl. "democratic and a i called a recess yes -ndependent" Korea which will not become a base for an attack i.eni, on a proposed amendment la Union," Col -Gen, the BS-cent per hour minimum Tcrenty Shtykov declared yester- legislation. Their strategy was to delay all Shlykov, commander in Russian-' Pending further off-the-floor occupied Northern Korea, stated his ef orts to reach a compromise.

A. country's aims al the opening of the joint American-Russian commission convened to discuss creation of a provisional Korean government. In a reply lo the welcoming address of John R. Hodge. American commander in Southern Korea Shtykov declared his championed "self-deter- i a i and five 1 but thai "serious difficulties" obstructed ifhlizcilion of deriocracy- in Korea.

"These i i i he ascribed to "furious resistance of reactionary and ic groups, and certain elements' whose object is lo possible drop to 60 cents was reported under consideration. Sen, Aiken (R). a backer ol the administration measure, told reporters he thought there was chance for an off-the-floor com pro. mise. "It looks like things will just to be fought out on the floor," said.

The leadership's nose-counting has indicated it lacks'the votes to put over the administration program i change. This for increasing the statutory i i wage from 40 to 6S i the work of creating cents immediately and eventually to and firmly establishing a democratic 75 cents, together with taking in system in Korea i more workers. Syracuse Headlines: Syracuse is golnc le have between 20 and ZZ new firemen Mayor Costcllo announced yesterday In disclosing a check of the department budget had shown money wan available for that many appointments, and It was indicated about as many new patrolmen will be 8. Plans for 51,000,000 in further expansion of the Thompson rd. penicillin plant of Bristol Laboratories, were revealed yesterday by a i N.

Bivins. vice-president and general manager, who added Ihf also will be a smaller addition to Ihe company's W. Taylor st. 2ft. i rcltilions between Syracuse and the county's towns were On own wide open for discussion again yesterday, when city hall source's disclosed town of Dcwitt has applied to create a sewer system ils own and hook it into the municipal sewage- treatment a on the east 9.

Efforts of n. mother, a fireman and utale to revive a dylnf child wrrc In yesterday, when five-month-old John Wullllez, MB of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Wuillicz, of South Bay failed to respond to artificial respiration attempts after he had been found 8..