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FORECAST 4 - — I iJ LI . I . ^ ^ ^ ^ 4, Served By Leased Wires North Carolina - Clear to partly 1 fl H I I Ilf ^ ASSOCIATED PRESS cloudy and continued hot Saturday. Few B I B I B BBBBBBBIBIBBBBB Mid the widely scattered thundershowers. ^ \ \ B X %■ UNITED PRESS _ _ F ^ ~ V With Complete Coverage of -- State and National News I'm* 7S—NO. 198. --—- --- hrr:-— -,— --—n. c., _ wsrsisr^i K.J Johnson Dissents On Power Rates files his opinion Commissioner Disapproves Cheaper Power For FHA Units Here RALEIGH, June 29.—(/P)—TTtili ♦jrs Commissioner Robert Grady Johnson today filed a dissenting epinion to an order by the Com mission granting a lower rate to the Federal Public Housing Au thority on all current bought from the Tide Water Power Company. The Commission’s order, which goes into effect July 1, makes it mandatory that the power com pany adopt a power rate schedule giving an average rate to two cents per kilowatt hour. The Com mission said the schedule, work ed out by its rate expert, Edgar Womble, would mean a savings of approximately $16,822.32 a year to the FHA. Under the previous regulations, occupants of the projects con trolled by FHA at Wilmington pay a flat rental that includes light, water, and heat. In dissenting, Johnson said, •this authority has been buying from the Tide Water Power Com nanv the electric energy consum ed by families residing in these (Wilmington) apartments at $2.20 per 100 kilowatt hours for resi dential service. All other custo mers of the power company living in and around the City of Wil mington are paying $4.11 per 100 kilowatt hours. Residents of the other 13 counties served by the Tide Water Company are paying S4.53 for the same number of hours. "The Federal Housing Authori ty paid to the Tide Water Company $151,989.60 for electric energy used by the residents of these apartments during the past 12 months. If the families occupying these apartments had paid the same rate for electric energy used (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) CORONER BLAMES DEATH ON WOMAN “Texas Bombshell’ To Get Hearing At Bridge port Today BRIDGEPORT, Conn., June 29. —(A—Coroner Theodore E. Steiber held today that Imogene Stevens shot a young submarine sailor in an “aura of sex recrimination beer and window smashing repris als" created by a dispute over a neighbor’s husband in which the sailor had no part. The dispute said the Coroner in a six-page finding blaming the death of the sailor, Albert Kovacs, 19, on the “criminal act” of Mrs. Stevens occurred just before the shooting last Saturday night be tween her and Mrs. Charles A. Milton, at whose New Canaan home the slaying occurred. Meanwhile, late today, Prosecu tor Edmond L. Morrison of New Canaan said that Mrs. Stevens would be arraigned in municipal court in that town Saturday at 2 p.m. (EWT) before Judge Arba B. Marvin. The Coroner said that from state ments made to police by the Mil tons and Mrs. Stevens, 24-year-old wife of an Army major and mother ef a six ysar old daughter by a previous marriage, “it would ap pear that an illicit love affair had existed’’ between her and Milton, aircraft company executive. As a result, the finding said, feel fog between the two women be •®me “so intense” on the night of foe slaying that an altercation oc curred between them during which one flourished an icepick and the other hurled a beer glass through * window. “It must be in this aura of sex recrimination, beer and window smashing reprisals that we judge %e acts and the emotional state Mrs. Imogene Stevens just be fore the shooting,” said the coro ner. Leather" (EASTERN STANDARD TIME) (By U. S. WEATHER BUREAU) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., yesterday. TEMPERATURE a. m. 77. 7:30 a. m. 79; 1:30 p. m. *''• 7:30 p. m. 81. Maximum 83; Minimum 76, Mean 82; Normal 79. HUMIDITY 1:30 a. m. 96; 7:30 a. m. 89; 1:30 p. m. 7:30 p. m. 82. PRECIPITATION total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m.— 8.00 inches. Ttotal since the first of the month— 11.70 inches. TIDES FOR TODAY High Low Wilmington _ 1:08a.m. 8:27a.m. „ 1:31p.m. 8.38p.m. Masonboro Inlet_ 1 -21a.m. 5:16a.m. „ 11:45p.m. 5:23p.m. Sunrise 5:04; Sunset 7:27; Moonrise -27d.; Moonset 10:00a. Night In The Rain Saves Day For Dog new YORK, June 29.—(£>)— It was a long night for eight year-old Israel Borrero and his brother, Frank, 12, ^hud dling under shrubbery in cen tral Park for protection from the rain. B“t close beside them was their dog, Lucky. Police said the brothers ran away from home after their mother said they must find a home for Lucky, or he would go to the ASPCA this morning. Frank and Israel decided if Lucky was to be an outcast, they would too. This morning, after police broadcast a missing persons alarm, the children and Lucky were recognized and brought home, wet and bedraggled. Lucky can stay. CHARLOTTETOPS STATE HEAT WAVE Mercury Soars To 103 At Queen City Airport During Day By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS With little relief promised by the weather man before the turn of the week, North Carolina sizzled yes terday as the mercury soared to the highest mark of the season at numerous points in the state, and in some cases established new re cords. The Charlotte area, which record ed 100 degrees Thursday for tne highest temperature in the state, still was the hottest spot on the Tarheel map yesterday when the temperature zoomed to 102 degrees in the city, while the U. S. Weather Bureau at the Charlotte Airport re ported a top reading of 103. A short-lived shower late in the afternoon brought some relief 1 Charlotteans, but the best the Weather Man could promise was some moderation early during the coming week. The next hottest spot yesterday was Greensboro with 101. Durham had a top of 99 with a low reading for the day of 71. Raleigh had a top reading of 97 degrees and a low for the day of 75, while at Asheville the tempera ture hit 94. In some sectoins of the state late gardens were reported suffering to a great extent as a result of the ex cessive heat and the lack of mois ture. In many sections no help rains have fallen for a period of two weeks. The current heat wave has pre vailed for approximately two weeks with daily readings during that period in the mid-nineties in many cities and towns. One heat pros tration had been reported, that be ing at Kinston Thursday when a newly made Noble of Sudan Temple collapsed d u r i n g the shriners’ summer ceremonial. South Carolina was also feeling the effects of the heat wave, as Columbia yesterday reported a top of 100 degrees. -V OIL TRUCK PLUNGES INTO STURGEON CREEK An oil transport truck driven by Ralph Ellis, Riverside apartments, and owned by the War Emergency Cooperative Association, of Spartanburg, S. C., plunged off the highway one mile east of Leland into the waters of Sturgeon Creek according to Bert Parmenter, branch manager of the concern. Mr. Parmenter said that Ellis, who was uninjured, was proceed ing east with an empty tanker and reported that he had been crowd ed off the road. The truck went down an eight foot embankment and finally came to rest in an upright position near the Sturgeon Creek bridge in about six feet of water. Mr. Parmenter said that as far as he could tell at present, the only damage was from water. At a late hour yesterday after noon, attempts to remove the transport from the creek were un successful. Highway Patrol officers are in vestigating the accident. I American Forces Land On Kume Island Without Opposition; Plane Rescues Wac, A^then From ^Hidden Valley” Survivors Of Tra&fdy Saved By Daring Stunt Trio Had Lived Since May Near Spear-Wielding Tribesmen HOLLANDIA, New Guinea, June 8. — (Delayed) — (JW—A WAC corporal and two Army airmen were rescued today in a glider, snatched aloft by a low-flying transport plane, from the “hidden valley of Shanor iala.” They had been there since a plane crash May 13. The trio—WAC Cpl. Margaret Hastings. Swego, N. Y.; Lt. John B. McCollom, Trenton, Mo.; and Sgt. Kenneth W. Decker, Kelso, Wash.,—were the survivors of a tragedy in which 20 other Army sightseers were killed on the slope of a mountainside bordering the strange valley of spear-wielding tribesmen. The valley is 150 miles southwest of Hollandia. The tow plane skimmed 20 feet above the ground, caught the glider with a drag hook, yanked it aloft and circled for height to success fully get it over the towering, cloud-covered Oranje mountains. The three were brought to Hol landia, whence they had departed on the ill-fated trip. The rescue was the climax of daring operations which included parachuting medics to attend the trio’s slight injuries, paratroopers to build the glider strip in the valley and risky flights daily to the remote region to parachute sup plies and equipment. Crowds at Hollandia cheered as the fragile motorless plane, “fan less faggot”, hovered over the airfield then came slowly to a stop. Out leaped the rescued trio and two of the Filipinos who help ed rescue them. The three return ed to Hollandia 47 days after they left with others in an Army trans port plane which crashed near the valley. Miss Hastings looked extraord inarily fit after the ordeal. Her hazel eyes sparkled. Her face was was tanned. Brushing back her windblown locks, she said: “I’m sure glad to be back. Hol landia never looked better.” “Send the ambulances away; we don’t need them,” said be whiskered McCollom. Decker, cleanly shaven, had deep scars on his head. He was the most seriously injured of the three. Smiling, he paid tribute to Lieutenant McCollom who took charge of the group until Capt. Cecil Walters, veteran paratroop er, arrived with his men to begin the rescue preparations. The happiest men in Hollandia were the rescue pilots who had worked long on the dangerous un dertaking. Capt. Charles J. School, Seattle, piloted the tow plane which dropped the glider into the valley. Hie glider was piloted by Lt. Henry E. Paver, Baton Rouge, La. The co-pilot was Capt. George Allen, Salem, Ore., and the crew chief was Pfc. E. F. Sims of Waco, Tex. Maj. W. S. Samuels, of Oakland, Calif., piloted the khaki-colored C-47, the jungle clipper “Louise,” which made the perfect pickup. His co-pilot was Capt. William McKenzie, of Lacrosse, Wis. During the tests prior to the ac tual rescue, Radio Operator Sgt. Harry Baron, Brooklyn, N. Y., and winch operator Sgt. Donald Gellasch, were injured. Their places were taken today by Radio Man Staff Sgt. Bert Godwin, Long Beach, Calif., and Reel Operator Tech. Sgt. Charles McHugh, Cov ington, Ky. “Would you like to have re mained as queen of the valley?” someone asked Miss Hastings. “No, I wouldn’t,” she replied with a twinkle in her eye, then confided: “The native women of fered to make me a throne but I refused.” (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) -V 15,000 ARE LANDED BY FASTEST LINER NEW YORK, June 29.—(U.R)—'The Queen Elizabeth, world’s largest and fastest liner, steamed into New York harbor and docked at a Hud son river pier at 2:13 p. m. to un load 15,000 passengers, most of them American fighting men home from Europe. Men and women swarmed over the docks of the 84,000-ton British ship as she glided past the Statue of Liberty and docked at pier 90 where hundreds of mothers and wives stood waiting. Many of the 13,658 service men aboard were members of the Eighth Air Force, but 1,202 Navy men and 442 Army nurses also were among the military personnel. r " New Stepping-Stone Lies 300 Miles Off Formosa No Japanese Encountered By Patrols, Nimitz Declares GUAM, Saturday, June 30— (A3)—American patrols have oc cupied all of little Kume Is land without resistance, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced today—extending the American invasion springboard another 50 miles Westward and adding possible airstrip sites and small-craft port facilities. Tokyo Radio, in reporting the landings last Tuesday, asserted “heavy fighting” was in progress, but today’s Fleet communique said “no enemy troops were encount ered.” There had been no confir mation of the American landings until today. Kume, within 300 miles or a or mosa and 370 from Kyushu, is about seven miles long and three miles wide at its broadest point. Sad dle-shaped, the center is flat, with a 1,070-foot peak in the North and a 961-foot height in the South. About three-fourths of the area is forested. Deep channels pierce the protective coral reef at several points and small finger piers and wharves can accommodate small steamers. Peacetime pursuits of the 13,414 civilian inhabitants included rais ing sugar cane, sweet potatoes, rice and other crops, weaving pon gee and mats and operating sugar mills. Kume is only 32 miles west of the Kerama islands, the first of the Okinawa group invaded by the Americans. HULLMSBED TO SI CHARTER Former Secretary Of State Goes To Capital For Ceremony WASHINGTON, June 29 — fJP> — Ailing Cordell Hull left his -hos pital room today to affix his sig nature to the United Nations Charter, of which he has often been called the father. The 73-year-old former Secretary of State returned to the State De partment, over which he so long presided, sat down in his former conference seat on the second floor and signed with a firm hand. The document had been flown here from San Francisco to receive his signature as senior adviser to the American Delegation at the Conference. Hull, whom illness has confined to the Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Md., since he resigned as Secre tary of State last October, appear ed in fairly good health, although he walked slowly. He signed first the original copy of the Charter, printed in Chinese, French, English, Russian and Span, ish, using his own pen to write his name immediately below the signature of former Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., who acted as chairman of the Con ference. Hull then signed a certified copy with photographs of the other sig natures, which will be sent to tb* Senate for ratification. The origi nal will be retained in the Depart ment of State. Hull also signed the original and certified copy of the Interim Agreement. Alger Hiss, State Department of ficial who acted as secretary to the Conference, arrived here only this morning by plane with the doc uments. He said they were taken to tbie San Francisco airport last night under armed guard, and flown here in a 75-pound fireproof safe so that if anything happened to the plane the Charter would be preserved. The safe was equipped with a parachute and bore a label which directed any finder not to attempt to open it but to return it to the Department of State at once. Hiss said the idea was that if the plane developed any trouble the safe could be thrown out and be picked up no matter what happened to the plane. Upon arrival in Washington the safe was brought to the DepartmiOit by two secret service men who also witnessed Mr. Hull’s signing ceremony. Balikpapan Oil Plants Bombed Out 281 TONS DROPPED Neutralization Raids On Enemy Refineries Continue MANILA, Saturday, June 30 —(/P)—The once-great Japanese oil cracking plants and refin ery center at Balikpapan on Borneo’s Southeast coast were being consumed by flames to day from 281 additional tons of bombs dropped by airmen of the American Far Eastern Air Force. In announcing this latest and heaviest of a series of neutraliza tion raids, a spokesman at Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s headquarters said that more than 130 Libera tor and Mitchell bombers flew over the target Thursday at low and medium altitudes and encount ered only slight to moderate ground fire. The port’s barracks, warehouses and installations of an adjacent airfield already were blazing from more than 2,300 tons of bombs unloaded in the past two weeks by Gen. George C. Kenney’s Fifth and 13th Air Forces, which make up the Far Eastern Air Force, along with portions of the Royal Australian Air Force. utner Domoers oi uiuse iurce:j hit Kindai and Makassar air dromes, in the Southern Celebes across the Makassar straits from Balikpapan. Light Allied naval units shot up the Borneo Eastern coastal area at night. MacArthur’s communique gave no further word concerning Amer ican warships which he disclosed yesterday were on the prowl m Makassar Straits, but attention fo cussed on Japenese reports that Balikpapan had been under naval bombardment for ten days past. There still was no American con | firmation of the Japanese reports, which also have claimed that Al lied landing attempts at Balikpa pan were repulsed and that Al lied minesweepers were busy clear ing the way for a new invasion move. MacArthur’s communique today announced that ashore on British North Borneo, Australian Ninth di vision troops completed capture of Beaufort, on the narrow-gauge (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) TRUMAN URGES SWIFT ACTION ON CHARTER KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 29 — (U.R)—President Truman gave the finishing touches today to a 600 word Congressional message in which he will urge speedy Senate ratification of the United Nations Charter for world peace Mr. Truman, who last night re ferred to the charter as a world constitution and said he hoped the United States would be the first nation to ratify it, has not vet de cided whether he personally will read his appeal Monday for swift Senate action, his press secretary, Charles Ross, said. _ Moslem League Leader Refused To Comprom ise SIMLA, India, June 29.—UP)—Mo hammed Ali Jinnah, president of the Moslem League, said flatly to night that the League alone “is entitled’’ to nominate Moslems for membership in the proposed new Interim Government of India. Jinnah’s statement suggested that the League would not com promise in the principal dispute threatening the success of Viceroy Lord Wavell’s conference to set up an almost completely Indian gov ernment. The Moslem League’s major po litical rival, th'e Congress Party, has insisted that it too might nom inate Moslems for government posts. The League has said that it will not accept or take part in any government which has non-league Moslems as members. Wavell’s conference adjourned today for two weeks after delegates had approved proposed machinery for setting up an India Executive Council. Approval by Moslem dele gates, however, is subject to rat ification by the Moslem working committee at a meeting next week and a Moslem sokesman said this ratification might be withheld. Lord Wavell had proposed that he select Executive Council mem bers from among panels of eight to 12 nominees to be submitted by the League and Congress Party and panels of three submitted by mi nority groups. Under the plan, his choices would be subject to final ratification by the League and Con gress. A 4 -—_ Takes Command On Okinawa New commander of the U. S. 10th Army on Okinawa, Gen. Joseph W. ( Vinegar Joe”) Stilwell checks a map with Col. William C Bent ley, air officer who piloted him, just before they hopped off for the General s first inspection of his battleground. Air Force photo. Davis Issues Drastic Order To Stop Strikes ■-— r --— By THE ASSOCIATED PRES The government invoked “work or tight” action against 16,700 Akron, O., strikers last night as the nation’s total of strike idle stood near 50,000. In Detroit thousands of workers were returning to their jobs under an agreement settling an AFL-CIO jurisdictional dispute. No new disturbances of im portance developed yesterday but a strike of 30,000 Western Elecric Company employes in the East was threatened after workers voted overwhelmingly in a National Lab Relations Board election in favor of a walkout. The strike picture by cities or areas: ) AKRON W i 11 i a m H. Davis, Economic tabilization Director, stepped into the two-week strike of 16,700 CIO United Rubber Workers at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Akron, O., and directed cancellat ion of occupational deferments for draft registrants participating in the walkout. “Immediate steps” to carry out the Davis request were promised by Maj. Gen. Lewis V. Hershey, Selective Service Director. Davis declared effective prose cu ion of the war “will be unduly impeded or delayed” by the inter ruption of production and draft re gistrants participating "are ad versely affecting the war effort.” Union leaders previously refused to end the stoppage which began June 17 despite urgent appeals from Army, Navy and War Labor Board. The five plants produce rubber tires- for combat planes. Issues involved in the con troversy included wages, hours and overtime pay. On June 24, Union leaders said they could not recom mend that the workers return to their jobs “under present condi tions.” They insisted the company provoked the strike by failing to adhere strictly to WLB directives for adjustment of grievances. DETROIT Workers by the thousands went back to their posts in the big auto mobile plants after settlement of a protracted union jurisdictional (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) Newspapers Report Potsdam As Site LONDON, June 29.-News papers reported today that the Big Three conference next month would be almost cer ■ tainly held at Potsdam, out side Berlin, where the Sans Sousi palace and the marble palace of the Hohcnzollerns would give ample room. The Star also reported that the first United Nations war crimes court for trying Ger man war criminals probably would meet in Berlin some time in August. houseTpproves SUCCESSION BILL Noisy Voice Vote Follows Cheers For Speaker Rayburn WASHINGTON, June 29. —UPI With cheers for Speaker Sam Ray burn, the House today shouted its approval of a bill to place him next in line tor the Presidenc.. The bill—urgently requested by President Truman in a message two weeks ago—passed the House on a noisy voice vote and headed for the senate where trouble awaits it. Before the House passed the measure it deleted a provision for holding a special presidential elect ion in case the country is left with out a president or vice president. That section also was asked by Mr. Truman but the House decid ed it would violate a Constitutional requirement that a president be elected for four years. The Presidential Succession Bill —removing the Secretary oi State from the immediate line of suc cession—went through the House with a speed seldom equalled for major legislation. With an eye to his approaching absence from the country for a Big Three meeting in Germany, Mr. Truman sent his recommen dations to Congress June 19. The bill emerged from the House Ju diciary committee Wednesday by a vote of 10 to 9 after a 45 minute Session. bulle™7_ NEW YORK, June 29.—(/Pi Members of the newspaper and mail deliverers union (unaffil iated) , distributors of 11 metro politan dailies with a combin ed week-day circulation of more than 5,000,000, voted 1, 648 to 41 tonight to strike. The union claims 2,000 ’ • embers. Affected would be the New York Times, Herald-Trihune, Journal-American, Daily News, Dally Mirror, Post, Sun, World Telegram, Wall Street Journal, Brooklyn Citizen and Long Island Star-Journal. Yendenberg Appeals For Charter O.K. MAKES STRONG SPEECH Republican Senator Cheer ed By Colleagues In Chamber Oval WASHINGTON, June 29.—UP) —Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg, R., Mich., who once espoused isolationism, fervently appeal ed to his Senate colleagues to day for early ratification of the United Nations Security Charter because it may be the world’s last chance to co operate for peace. “We must have collective se curity to stop the next war, if pos sible, before it starts; and to crush it swiftly if it starts in spite of our organized precautions,” he told a rapt Senate chamber. The Charter which he helped draft at San Francisco is not per fect, he conceded, but it would be a start toward the collective se curity which is necessary to pre vent World War III. “I doubt if there could be another or a better start,” he said grave ly. rnereiore, ne saia, ne would support ratification of this Char ter “with all the resources at my command.’’ "J shall do this in the deep con viction that the alternations is ohysical and moral chaos in many weary places of the earth ... I shall do it because this plan, re gardless of infirmities, holds great promise that the United Nations may collaborate for peace as ef fectively as they have made com mon cause for war. I shall do it because peace must not be cheat ed out of its only collective chance.” Vandenberg, the Republican party's No. 1 foreign policy spokes man in Congress, said the Charter can be “a new emancipation pro clamation for the world.” “It is laden with promise and with hope. It deserves a faithful trial.” (Continued on Page Three; Col. 6) SOUTHERNERS BACK BILBO FILIBUSTER WASHINGTON, June 29— (U.PJ — Southern colleagues today went to bat for raw-throated Sen. Theo dore G. Bilbo, D., Miss., in fill bustering against the Fair tJm ployment Practices Committee, but the weary Senate was spared another nocturnal talkathon. The chamber, in session until after midnight Thursday, adjourn ed today at 5:13 p.m., E.W.T., after Sen. Olin D. Johnston, D., S. C., was authorized to take the floor when it reconvenes at noon to morrow. Bilbo, who talked Wednesday and Thursday with the objective of presiding over “FEPC’s fu neral,” didn’t talk today. But he kept the filibuster alive by reject ing a compromise on the amount of funds to be given the agency. And southern colleagues backed him up. Three Russians End Life As War Prisoners Riot FORT DIX, N. J. June 29—, Three Russian citizens among 154| prisoners of war captured wnile; fighting with the German Army hanged themselves today while the group rioted in protest against an order which would return them to! Europe, Major George B. Paul, camp public relations officer, said tonight. Seven of the group, wounded by rifle fire when they rushed from their barricaded barracks under a tear-gas assault, are being treated in the camp hospital. Major Paul said the remainder of the group were started on their re turn voyage this afternoon. The Russian prisoners barricad ed themselves in their barracks this morning after receiving an order from Lt. Gen. George M. Freisch camp commander, to prepare for their return to Europe. When smoke was seen emerging from windows, a tear-gas attach was ordered. The prisoners then charged out of the barracks and seven were wounded when guards were ordered to fire. Lt. Clifton Freeland was cut on the hand and Lt. Tra Frieder suffer ed a head wound while leading guards in an effort to stem the rush. The fire in the barracks, which had been started among piled-up clothes and personal belonging:: was brought under control quickly