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Hogue Reviews History Of Port Terminal Fight (Continued from Page One) work of the Port Commission. Com ing of the war halted all shipping, because there was a great deal of submarine activity directly out of Wilmington, he said, and also at that time this port had no standing nationally. Through Port Commis sion solicitation however, lend lease war shipping was obtained, and toward the end of the war the port handled as much as facilities permitted. Now that lend-lease shipping is cancelled, the Port Commission has ,-esumed its batle for financial sup port to develop terminals here, Hogue said, pointing out that it is to the economic advantage of North Carolina manufactueres and ex porters in the Piedmont area to use this port, rather than to pay for goods imported through New York. ‘ Steamship agents prefer to fun nel all their goods through one port, because each added port of call increases their expenses,” he stat ed. However, he declared that North Carolina merchants should back this project to have Wilming ton established as a port of call, and thereby save themselves this expense. Originally, these men fought a plan to have Wilmington designated as the official state port, he said, but have since given their support to the idea. Latest development in the search (or state or federal funds for this port is the application to the Re construction Finance Corpora tion for a $635,000 grant, which is, ■open’ at the present time, pending such time as this city is able to guarantee interest payments on the loan. A bill was passed during the 1945 session of North Carolina I1*1® Legislature, creating a State Port Authority, but no money was appropriated for operating ex penses, Hogue related. At present a ®u™ey of the needs of the Port of Wilmington is being conducted by the State Works Administration, and Gov. Cherry has indicated that funds may be forthcoming from a surplus funds account of the state government. Fred Willetts, program commit tee chairman, introduced Hogue, as a representative of the Port Commission. He revealed that J. T. Hiers, executive secretary of the Port Commission, is in Savan nah, Ga., at the present time, con ferring with War Shipping Admin istration men. Herman E. Smith of Port Hope, Ontario, Canada, a guest at yes terday’s meeting, told members that uranium oxide, raw material for the atomic bomb, was manu factured at a factory in his home town. Smith, who is vice-president of Rotary in Port Hope, said no one knew the future use of the material when it was being pro duced there. . Rotarians were urged by their president, to attend the orthopedic clinic Saturday morning at James Walker Memorial Hospital. Fred Willetts, Tom Hamilton and Gene Edwards were announced as mem Other guests included John Cod ington, U. S. Army; Bill Lassiter, U. S. Navy; and John Hobbs and bers already signed up to attend, and others were asked to go also. David Bannerman, co-captains of New Hanover High School football team. The former two boys also attended N. H. H., and Lassiter was a Junior Rotarian last year. Buck Schiwetz of Charlotte also was a visitor. PRESIDENT OPENS WAR CHEST DRIVE (Continued from Page One) lie best equipment and supplies that we could provide. We gave our men the best training and leader ship we cduld secure. We gave them everything we could. But there was one thing that we had lo depend on the member agencies of the National War Fund to supply. That was the plain, human friend ship, the good-neighborliness, the little bit of home, that they pro vided our service men and women through every USO club and unit. I am speaking to you tonight be cause it is important, because it is imperative, that these war fund agencies finish the job they were set up to do. War service has not ended. I don’t need to tell that to anyone whose son is still serving with the occupation forces or with the service troops in this country. For them, the war is still going on. That’s why USO and USO-camp shows must go on with the fine work they’ve been doing—until all our service men and women are back home with us again. Our returning veterans are lock ing forward to happy homes in which their children can grow up the way they should. They are looking forward to living in a com munity which is concerned with the w’elfare of its citizens. They may not think of this in terms oi a child welfare program, a family’ service society, a scout troop, a recreation program, a visiting nurse or a clinic. But these serv ices. which in most of our cities are performed by agencies of the local Community Chest, help to de termine the quality of living in their community. These are serv ices from which everyone in the community benefits. The appeal of the National War Fund and your local Community War Fund is a human appeal for three causes—for continued friend ly services for the men and wom en who still have a job to do in the armed forces; for health and welfare services for our own peo ple at home; and for relief and assistance for the war stricken people of liberated countries - - - our Allies who fought by our side. We have won the victory of arms; now let us push on to greater con quests - - to the total victory of human justice and decency and faith to mankind. Let us be generous, and let us give abundant thanks to God in victory. H. W. Marks, Community War Chest Campaign chairman for Wil mington, said last night after hear ing President Truman open the Na tional War Fund Drive, and Gov ernor Cherry’s address over the radio, that he felt Wilmington would go way over its quota to« wards the War Chest goal. “Our people in Wilmington will continue to do their full share”, said Marks, “in providing the serv ices for our boys until the last sol dier returns home. “Our people will further continue to provide the community in serv ices in keeping'with the ideals that our boys have fought for,” and i conclusion, Marks said, “We will not let them down.” CORRESPONDENT BURIED TOKYO, Oct. 2.—(JP)—Robert Bellaire, Colliers correspondent killed in a jeep accident near Tokyo September 29, was buried With a simple military service a1 the Yokohama Army cemetery to day. His body, draped with ar American flag, was interrec ainong 39 other Americans whc have died since occupation forces landed here. Hr U. s. VICTORY BONDS German Atom Authority May Get A Nobel Award STOCKHOLM, Oct. 2. —<A>>—'The newspaper Aftonbladet said today that Otto Hahn, German authority on radio-activity and the atom, probably would receive one of this year’s nobel prizes. Without giving the source of its information, the newspaper said Hahn was now in England. It sug gested that he might have been tak en there after being found in Ger many by Allied occupation authori ties. JAPANESEPRESS FLAYS CABINET (Continued from Page One) forces in North China; Navy Min ister Adm. Mitsumasa Yonai, a hold-over from Kantaro Suzuki s war - time cabinet, and Commerce Minister Shikuhei Nankajima, head of one of Japan’s largest aircraft factories; The newspaper Yomiuri-Hochi, welcoming the new press freedom granted by MacArthur Sept. 29, said it should be used to tell the truth and to destroy the policy oi government authorities who tried “to veil their activities from the public.” “Such feudalists and narrow minded officials who tried to ban the story (of the Emperor’s visit) from publication are evidently not fit to carry on their duties in the face of the new situation.” Yomi ure asserted. Mainichi called lor repeal ox an suppressive laws that kept the press from telling the people of the losses at Midway, at Saipan, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Asahi again belabored the gov ernment for holding political pris oners lamented the death in person Sept. 26 of the social philosopher Kyioshi Miki, and demanded re forms in the police system that made such things possible. Mainichi' also took up Miki’s case, reported a “proletarian par ty” was forming to make “strong demands” for the release of poli tical prisoners and declared the government “should resign imme diately” if it could not wipe out militarism and encourage demo cratic tendencies. While MacArthur gave the press lots of rope, he hauled up short the English language magazine Yo yo Keizai Shimpo. He confiscated its September edition for printing ‘‘objectionable material writter anonymously which concerned Jap anese reaction to American oc cupation.” Domei reported that a Japanese Navy committee investigating the mistreatment of Allied prisoners o: war had held its first meeting. The Japanese government mean while allocated 31 ships to bring home its overseas service mer from Southern Korea, North Chins and the islands of the southwesi Pacific. Municipality Loans Are Planned By RFC WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. — W - The Reconstruction Finance Cor poration announced tonight 1 stands ready to make loans to muni cipalities and other public bod ies to help finance construction pro ^It said such loans would aid re conversion by stimulating employ ment and would “increase the rea wealth of the nation.’ Water and sewer systems, an ports, bridges, highways, hospital and schools are among the project eligible for loans. In 183u the seed of an unusua variety of morning glory sold fo twenty dollars. British Troops Entering Liberated Singapore Trucks loaded with troops of the Fifth .Indian Army of the British Empire forces are shown being greeted by cheering crowds on entering Singapore alter the Japanese garrison had surrendered the port city. Enemy forces had been in control of the greal British naval base in the Straits Settlements singe they captured it, along with Malaya and Java and S umatra, in 1942, soon after Japan attacked. I Alumni Head Speaks At 56th Anniversary Of N. C. State College RALEIGH, N. C„ Oct. 2.—(£>) John W. Clark of Greensboro, tex tile industrialist, newspaper exec utive, and president of the col lege’s general alumni association, will be the speaker tomorrow at the observance of N. C. State Col lege 56th Anniversary. Clark, an honor graduate of the class of 1906 and a director of the Greensboro News company, will be introduced by Chancellor J. W. Harrelson. His subject will be, “A State college alumnus looks at edu cation.” The program, which will be held in Pullen Hall beginning at 12 noon, will include a musical program and an academic procession. Col. Dou glas McMillin, commanding the college department of military science and tactics, will lead the| procession. The college band will furnish music. MINISTERS MEET ENDS IN FAILURE (Continued from Page One) procedure issue. Until such an agreement is reached, the deputies, who have been instructed to remain in Lon don, will be unable to deal with the major problems awaiting set tlement. The discussions Began Sept. 11 with the assignment to forge the framework of the Italian peace treaty and to write the basic clauses of similar treaties for the beaten Axis satellites, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. No agreement apparently was reached on any major issue. The adjournment capped a week end of bitter personal debate during which Russian Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov at one point was said to have threatened, after a tiff with British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, to leave the conference and return to Mos cow. Diplomatic quarters considered a meeting of the Big Three unlikely in the immediate future. They be lieved there would be a series oi communications between them tc work out the procedural deadlock rather than a personal conference. The Big Three Foreign Ministers, they pointed out, undoubtedly acted all along on instructions from their heads of government and, without an exchange of views or a basic agreement, a personal meeting nmiild ■frrnfTpss. It was authirotatively disclosed that the Foreign Ministers packed up their brief cases without sign ing protocols. They did, howffver, agree on minutes covering the dis cussions. The big issue which threw the conference into the deadlock was the Soviet demand for strict ad herence to the Potsdam formula in discussions of Balkan peace trea ties. This formula would restrict the discussions to Russia, Great Britain and the United States. Byrnes’ statement stressed that the United States took the position it would be “reluctant to see such a narrow participation in the pend ing work on the European treaty and the elimination therefrom of two permanent members (France and China) of the United Nations Security Council.” HIGHWAY PROGRAM GETS “GO-AHEAD” (Continued from Page One) ' should not get underway until the President or Congress proclaimed that the war had ended, or until Congress found that the construc tion could start. The resolution giving the go ahead fell under the third provi sion. Senators were advised that the Treasury probably will not have tc I pay out more than $25,000,000 un 1 der the program in the first year’s operations although commitments 3 may mount to $500,000,000. 3 Under the plan, states whicli have the money will go ahead with construction, paying their own way, ] then come to the Federal govern r ment for repayment of half the cost of approved projects PATTON RELIEVED OF HIS COMMAND (Continued from Page One) Patton, known to his men as ‘‘blood and guts,” has been one of the most controversial figures in the American army. His com mands in Sicily and France moved with great skill and speed unequall ed by any American General and his fighting ability has been re spected by friend and foe alike. His slapping of a shell-shocked soldier in Sicily, and his knack of making blood and thunder state ments that aroused indignation in England and America at various times made him Eisenhower’s No. 1 problem child. Only his superla. tive military ability saved him on several occasions. During his drive across France and until the lifting of censorship after V-E Day none of Patton’s utterances was allow ed to be published. It was thought that Patton, who is independently wealthy, would re tire at the end of the war, but he stayed on to command the Third Army which was assigned to occu pation duties. SHIPYARD STARTS CHEST CAMPAIGN (Continued from Page One) Lumber Yard, C. H. Smith; Steel Storage, V. W. Greene; Transportation, Frank Ferguson; Plant Engineers, J. O. Brown, Tool Room, Mrs. B. C. Sinthell; Hull Construction, C. B. Maynard; Welding, L. S. Everette; Riveters, J. T. Lovelace; Drillers, Gradey Noland; Fitters, John B. Fisher; and Day Off, Mrs. Eleanor Riven bark. Ship Shed, J. R. Patterson; Anglesmiths, Mrs. Marie S. Hay wood; Shipwrights, R. H. Merritt; Erectors, L. C. LeGwin and W. A. Morgan; Scrap and Salvage, C. M. Montgomery; Hull Outfit ting, Gertrude Egerton; Yard Rig gers, J. P.« Gray; Joiners, R. L. Simmons.; Pipe Coverers, Mrs. A. A. Fredere; Electrical, J. B. Ro beson; Pipe Shop, N. W. Watson; C. White, and Ship, Carpenters Sheet Metal, Jack Atkinson; Boil er and Blacksmith, B. E.' Watson; Painters, C. H. Acree; Steam En gineers, S. I. Burriss; Plumbers, N. W. Neblett; Machine Ship, D. C. White, and Shi pCarpenters, o. N. Gunner son. ALASKA RUN SHIP CARRIES “CARGO’' SEATTLE, Oct. 2-UP)_A cargo that might seem strange on %ny except the Alaska run was stowed snugly and fairly quietly aboard the S. S. Denali today awaiting to morrow morning’s sailing time. It included four goats, three horses, a covered wagon and Mrs. Miriam Mathers, 62. Mrs. Mathers is going to Alaska aboard ship because authorities wouldn’t let her make the trip over land with her caravan. She has been trying to cross into Canada, she said, ever since she left her home at Big Piney,, Wyo., back in 1940. A sorta restlessness, she said, kept pushing her. She ran out oi money occasionally and had to take* time out to earn a new grubstake. Once she farmed a year on an In dian reservation near Wapato, Wash., building her cabin with her own hands. She approached the border at many spots from Montana to the Pacific. Always the officials turn ed her away because, she said, they couldn’t believe a woman could get safely through the Canadian wilder ness to Alaska. Alaska Steamship Co., officials said die crew had fallen in love with the smiling, ruddy faced pio neer and “is waiting on her hand and foot.” Mrs. Mathers thinks some of the restlessness will disappear wiren she gets to Seward, hitches her team to the wagon and strikes in land to “find me a home.” BUY U. S. VICTORY BONDS District Tire Quota Lowered For October RALEIGH, Oct. 2.—U£)— The Oc ;ober tire quota for the 54 counties 3f the Raleigh District Office of Price Administration has been set atj 29,689, or about 800 less than the September allotment, District Director T. S. Johnson, said today. The October quota, Johnson said will not be large enough to jr '3t unprecedented demands that have followed the lifting of gasoline ra tioning. Truck and bus tire quotas for the current month represent a slight increase over last month. BUY U. S. VICTORY BONDS ALASKA UNREADY I FOR STATEHOOD i (Continued from Page One) ‘‘shocked” to learn that while fish ing interests have taken $50,000, 900 to $60,000,000 annually from Alaskan waters, the return to the territory is “only about $1,000,000, 000 a year.” Other findings: 1. Gold mines have yielded some $380,000,000 since they began op erations, but have returned “ex tremely negligible sums” to the: territory. 2. The liquor tax in “ngligible.” 3. The territory ‘has no basic tax laws, no gas tax, no property or land tax outside of incorporated towns and no territorial income tax.” 4. Roads are urgently needed but the territory should accept a full share in construction costs which heretofore have been borne by the Federal government. 5. The Alaskan Railroad should be permitted to use its $6,000,000 surplus to improve the railroad bed and purchase modern equ p ment. 6. Activities other than improve ment of parks and monuments and involving the health, education and general welfare of the natives in Alaska should have first call on any fimds which are to be expend ed :'n the territory. 7. Many Army and Navy instal lations might now be found avail able for schools and hospitals. 8. The Indian Service is “lacking pitifully” n service to natives. The committee cautioned war veterans against homesteading in the territory without careful per sonal'investigat'on of the oppor tunities and the conditions under which they would have to live. 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