Site Ed. Note: The front page states that General Eisenhower reported increasing unrest among young Germans and returning soldiers, including attacks individually on occupation troops, though not yet reaching the stage of organized resistance. The unrest was attributed to the numbers of displaced persons in the country, most of whom were 250,000 Poles, 60 to 70 percent of whom were to be repatriated by December 1, and resentment of them by the Germans for thefts of food and property. Murder and looting were not uncommon. Bremen had been a hotspot for such activity.

British warships were headed to Soerabaja in Java after British Brigadier General A. F. W. Mallaby was killed during his attempted arrangements of a truce with the Nationalists under Soekarno. The natives were warned that any further violence of the type would be crushed with overpowering force. Meanwhile, talks continued between the Nationalists and Dutch to end Dutch rule in the Dutch East Indies. Soekarno now was said to be acting under British orders.

In Northern China, the Governor of Shansi Province stated that 100,000 Red Chinese troops were attacking the railroad junction of Tatung. He believed they were under the direction of General Chu Teh, the Communist commander in chief. Yenan Communists contended that Chiang, while discussing with Communist leaders at Chungking how to avoid warfare, had amassed eight of his best armies against the Communists in Northern Honan Province deliberately to provoke a civil war.

The brain of Nazi Robert Ley, who had committed suicide in his cell while awaiting trial at Nuremberg, was going to be examined for damage to the frontal lobe, supposedly suffered when Ley was in aerial service during World War I as an observer at the front.

It was reported that Adolf Hitler and some of the other top Nazis were given a pass on payment of income taxes during Hitler's 12-year rule.

Ed Pauley, headed to Japan to examine reparations, stated that the Emperor's 106 million dollar fortune would be pooled with other Japanese Imperial assets for the purpose of establishing a reparations fund.

Secretary of State Byrnes announced that 38 Japanese destroyers and small defense ships would be divided equally between the United States, Russia, China, and Britain. Other ships, including four aircraft carriers and several battleships, were to be scuttled, possibly as part of a Navy test of the effectiveness of the atomic bomb on ships—that which the following summer would become the test on Bikini Atoll known as Operation Crossroads.

Disposition of the German fleet had not yet been determined.

As expected, former Secretary of the Navy under President Wilson, Josephus Daniels of North Carolina, told the Senate Military Affairs Committee that he recommended joinder of the Army and Navy under a Defense Department.

President Truman in his address on radio the previous evening had advocated, as expected, reasonable wage increases without major increases in prices. He did not indicate a percentage of wage increase, as predicted at 20 percent, but informed labor that they would not be able to have the same take-home pay as during the war, the basis for the demanded 30 percent increase based on a 48-hour week inclusive of overtime pay. He also stated that price increases might come in six months.

The entire program attendant the President's originally scheduled trip to Statesville, which had been cancelled two days earlier, had now also been cancelled, including the planned visits of Secretary of the Treasury Fred Vinson and Secretary of War Robert Patterson.

In the twenty-first entry of the series of articles by General Jonathan Wainwright on the fall of Corregidor and Bataan, he tells of meeting with Japanese General Masaharu Homma on May 6, 1942 to try to conclude the surrender announced at 10:30 a.m. for noon of that day. General Wainwright was left waiting for several hours for General Homma's arrival, which he performed in a Cadillac and full dress uniform replete with sword. "How they worship those damned swords!" added General Wainwright.

After gathering with General Wainwright and the interpreters at a table, General Homma, as had his junior officers already, refused to accept surrender unless it included all U.S. and Filipino troops in the Philippines. General Wainwright told him through the interpreter that he commanded no troops other than those on Corregidor, the other islands at the mouth of Manila Bay, and some on Northern Luzon, that he did not have command authority over the troops on Mindanao or in the Visayan Islands, under the command of Maj. General William Sharp.

General Homma refused to believe General Wainwright and continued to insist on total surrender, short of which, the hostilities against the contingent on Corregidor, now nearly completely disarmed, save for small arms, would continue. General Wainwright nevertheless reiterated that he had no authority to make the full surrender and no means by which to contact General Sharp in any event, as all of his radio equipment had been destroyed that morning. General Homma ordered General Sharp summoned to him and then departed in a huff.

With the certain fate of the death of all survivors on Corregidor before him should hostilities be resumed, General Wainwright made arrangements finally for the surrender of the entirety of the Philippines.

And, the October 31, 1937 edition of The News, not previously added, is now available.

On the editorial page, "The President's Program" comments on the variance between the President's radio address of the previous evening and the report preceding it, that he would recommend 48 hours of pay for 40 hours of work, effectively a 20 percent wage increase. He did not in fact make any specific proposal, only that wages should be increased, while prices would be maintained. His warning to unions that they could not expect the same take-home pay, however, as during the war was a compromise for industry.

"Why Not Abolish Bilbo?" suggests to the Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax, which claimed support by 50 Senators and hoped to have action on a bill before Christmas, that it instead focus its energies on eliminating the rules of the Senate which permitted filibuster. Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi had already assured that if the legislation were brought to the floor, he would filibuster it to death. Thus, to keep from tying up the machinery of the Senate, it was unlikely the bill would see soon the light of day.

"Happy Hallowe'en" finds the prospect of pranksters on the streets of the city to be of possible benefit. For there were so many signs reversed from previous Halloweens, which had not be redirected or straightened, that the tricksters might actually correct a few unwittingly.

The excerpt from the Congressional Record has Representative Chet Holifield of California, with early generational roots in North Carolina, commenting on the fact that many Americans had a tendency to look down upon foreigners in the country, while virtually all of the country was made up of foreigners within just a few generations removed.

W.J. Cash, nearly five years earlier, had wholeheartedly agreed with the sentiment expressed by Congressman Holifield.

Drew Pearson provides an inside look at the recent meeting of the Big Four economic advisers in Berlin re determination of agricultural and industrial policy, and the distribution of coal and building materials to the Germans. Generally, the British favored providing coal and building materials while the French balked for their own want, and the Russians were non-committal to any aid in getting coal to the Germans in the East from Poland.

Marquis Childs comments on the appointment of Senator Brien McMahon of Connecticut, a freshman Senator, to chair the special Senate committee to investigate atomic energy and recommend legislation thereon. Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan would be the ranking Republican member on the eleven-member committee.

A letter writer thinks that America was repeating the mistake made after World War I, that of feeding the defeated enemy at the expense of America's own food reserves. She felt frustrated at having been forced for two years to undergo rationing.

Another letter writer, a perennial correspondent, finds the concept of having a four-million man Army supplied by a million young men per year for one year of compulsory military service to be inconsistent with the destructive power of the atomic bomb, capable, according to the scientists, of wiping out forty million people in a single attack. It did not suggest the desire to concentrate the Army in specific locations.

An Army private writes a letter imparting a new song sung by the men, wanting to be discharged and come home.

Perhaps, given the reports of increased bullying in schools in recent years, the Dorman Smith of the day ought be cut out, blown up, and posted at the doorway to every school in the country. Also, restore stress on physical education so that the bullies will be reluctant to act. They are always little weaklings with big, bad mouths. Moreover, the bullying might then die aborning for the inculcation again in schools of a sense of fair play, hard to instill when cops have to police the hallways.