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Mmutgimt Ulnnttttg Star HSE" • <r^'NO. 306. "" WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2> 1945 ESTABLISHED 1867 __ Top Cotton Picker - Twenty-six-year old farmer Bill Adams "of Leachville, Ark., is shown as he won the title of cham pion cotton picker at the sixth annual cotton picking contest at Blytheville, Ark. He gathered 76 pounds in one-and-a-half hours, competing against 153 pickers from twelve states. With the title goes a $1 000 prize._(International) UNION THREATENS TO WIDEN STRIKE Walkout Of Greyhound Drivers May Spread Coast To Coast By The ASSOCIATED PRESS Possible expansion of the Grey hound bus strike to cripple serv ice throughout the country wqs forecast yesterday by an AFL union official. Already the one-day strike has halted service on six lines operat ing between the Mississippi riv*r and the Atlantic seaboard. Four thousand Greyhound employes left their jobs after a breakdown of negotiation on wage demands. ‘‘If a settlement is not reached I soon, the strike may spread throughout the country>” said George E. Siff, president of Local 1202, Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Mo ! tor Coach Employes. Other major labor developments i included: conciliators tried to end the AFL-CIO machinists’ strike in the San Francisco bay area as the number off the job because of the dispute climbed to 55,000. 2. John L. Lewis, president ol the United Mine Workers, visited the White House for the first time in four years, in preparation for Monday’s labor-management con ference. 3- The number of workers on strike or indirectly inactive drop ped lo 243,000, about 6,000 fewer than on Wednesday. The drivers want 5.75 cents a mile and maintenance men a 30 Per cent raise. The drivers now receive 5 cents a mile in the east (Continued on Page Ten; Col. 11 NEW YORK DOCTOR BRINGS OWN COSTLY DISHES FOR DINNER new YORK, Nov. 1. - (/p) — A I banquet s where you put it, not "‘’■ere you find it> So believes a New York physician *"° c‘‘rcs nightly in a Times Square acomat off gold and silv-r dishes. . ou u sec the doctor walking in a little case. He unpacks the ostly dishes, has them filled with earning food and then sets up his K‘.'n lable in regal style. He ever. Af^S dainty naPkins. a rJC! P°lish'ng off the feast with th» mi iasse- the customer washes - coMiy dishes in a restaurant k-’ , packs them neatly back in !!^* and walks out. Japan Fears Hirohito May Have To Pay Piper T, . Nov. 1—(#>)—a startled] °pan earned today that America him’ ?".eCi,ri're Emperor Hirohito pri (■ !o, P»y Part of the defeat b:n113 10n'S untotalled reparations xw ^7e'tare Ministry announce • n> brought still sharper realiza C] 0! J;he cost of the war: it dis (j.., iaat American air raids had or burned nearly 2,500, buildings in Japan. Itm e tier Eirohito’s personal for sia °* $106,000,000 could be con renlea.more than a drop in the ■ rations bucket was a minoi nort er in Tokyo. Far more im ar>t to Japanese was the sud den thought that Washington’s de cision indirectly labels their Em peror as a war criminal. Heretofore his fortune has been considered involate. Even the re cent Allied demands for the Im perial bankbooks stirred silent re sentment. Another political shock to Jap anese was the abrupt announce ment by Allied headquarters today that it had not designated Prince Fumimaro Konoye to revise the Japanese constitution—a task he already had assumed. The an nouncement bedimmed his pres (Continued on Page Ten; Col. 5) British Plants Strike At Indonesian Rebels; Palestine ///always Cut In Over Fifty Places; Chinese feds Wage War With Wooden Guns . J.. X w ■■ "■ —» ^ ... . .. .. — ’ Russia Will Start Troop Move Today CHIANG’S MEN BEATEN Red Armies Now Control Most Of Shantung Pro vince Territory By SPENCER MOOSA AP Staff Correspondent CHUNGKING, Nov. 1—(/P)—Rus sians will begin their large-scale withdrawal from Manchuria to morrow and will be out by Dec. 1, a semi-official dispatch from Tientsin said today. Squarelj across the path Chinese govern mcnt troops would take to relieve them, however, are massed forces of fighting Chinese Communists. iNeverineieijs, government; soi diers wil move north this month in strength, and will take ovei from the Russians by Dec. 3, a Chinese dispatch from Changchun insisted. Scattered fighting—with wooden cannon and home-made knives, among other weapons—continued today through 11 northern prov inces. Government sourc?s here ac knowledged that" 1. Communists now control most of Shantung province, virtually isolating the U. S. Marine-held port of Tsingtao from which Cen tral China hoped to get coal. 2. Both Central government and Shansi Provincial forces which en countered Chinese Communisi troops in the north have “taken a beating.” A government source also con firmed withdrawal of the Com munists’ new Fourth Army from points south of the Yangtze river, but said it is being moved north to attack and dislocate the Peip ing-ltankow and Tientsin-Pukow (Tientsin-Nanking) railroads, thus blocking movement of government forces in strength into North China and Manchuria. The Communists want to control Manchuria them selves, he said. The comparatively few govern (Continued on Page Ten; Col. 2) NEW CAR CEILING PRICES DUE SOON WASHINGTON, Nov. 1—IB—Re tail price ceilings for all makes oi new automobiles will be announc ed in four or five days, OPA Ad ministrator Chester Bowles said today. He refused to comment, at a news conference what the ceilings will be. But he said nothing to con tradict his earlier statements that they will be the same as, or close to, those on 1942 cars. Bowles also declined to discuss auto dealers’ statements yester day that they expect OPA to al low manufacturers price increases, and then call on dealers to absorb them. The OPA chief confirmed, how ever, that dealer representatives had been told that the agency feels they are in a position to absorb at least part of any increases granted. The purpose of absorption would be to hold prices the public pays to levels of three years ago. Bowles said OPA would give each manufacturer an opportunity to announce his own ceilings. 11 manufacturers don’t make an an nouncement within a day or so oi | receiving ceilings, OPA will dis I close them, Bowles added._ EX-SERGEANT BUCKS AT PAYING AFL FEE; REENLISTS IN ARMY SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 1.— </P)—Myron F. Oliver wasn’t “just kidding” when he said he would rather go back to the Army than pay union dues to hold his job. Oliver, who was discharged Oct. 12 after five and a half years service with the Army, 16 months of it in the Pacific, reenlisted yesterday as a Mas ter Sergeant. He said he had been offered a promotion at the sheet metal shop where he-worked but was informed he would have to pay $50 initiation fee to an AFL un ion first. “I objected to earning the job and then paying for it,” Oliver said. “I talked it over with my wife and decided I would rather go back to the Army.” BUS OVERLOAD LIMIT NOW 50 PC AH Passenger Type Ve hicles Must Carry Heater Systems RALEIGH, N. C„ Nov. 1.—(&)— An order outlawing the use of trac tor-type buses except when used in local emergency operations be came effective in North Carolina to day, the State Utilities Commission announced. The order also limits the pas senger load of regular type buses to not more than 50 per cent over the seating capacity of the bus, John T. Armstrong, supervising in spector for the Commission, said. At the same time, Armstrong said that a number of passenger buses from three different lines were withdrawn from operation in Salis bury today because of failure tc comply with a Utilities Commission order requiring the installation of heaters in all buses by November 1. The buses involved belonged to the Parkway Company, operating out of North Wilkesboro; the Caro lina Coach Company of Raleigh, and The Queen City Trailways ol Charlotte. Armstrong said the buses would be kept out of circulation until heaters were installed and approv ed by Commission inspectors. He said the overloading regula tion affecting all buses would be “rigidly enforced” in the future Overloading regulations had been relaxed during the war when more people traveled by bus. BOARD REVERSES, UPHOl S FINDING Home Supply Company Gains Permission For Warehouse Here Sitting in review of two recent rejections by the City Planning board, the City Adjustment board late yesterday afternoon upheld the planning body in one decision and reversed it in a second. Reversed was the Planning board’s denial of a buildfng peA mit to R. E, Crisp of the Home' Supply company for permission to construct a one-story wooden frame warehouse at 2001 Castle street. i Upheld was the Planning board’s refusal to grant a building permit to J. A. Smith for construction oi a one-story brick auto sales room (Continued on Page Ten; Col. 3) Henry J. Kaiser Says America Will Not Fail WASHINGTON, Nov. 1—(A“>— Henry J. Kaiser, industralist, is sued this Victory Loan state ment today: “The Victory Bond issue is a vital part of our return to the pursuits of peace. The re-orienta , tion of the American economy from a wartime to a peacetime basis will call for funds which only the American investor can supply. “Millions of our men are still under arms. Armies of occupa tion must be transported and supplied. “Grateful America will not fail in this responsibility.” Five Killed In Outburst Near Haifa JEWS ARE BLAMED Explosion Wrecks Section Of Consolidated Re fineries Plant By ELIAV SIMON United Press Staff Correspondent JERUSALEM, Nov. 1.—An out burst of sabotage and shootings, at tributed by the British to Jewish elements, killed at least five men and cut Palestine’s railways at 50 places from Dan to Beersheba last night or early today. The British Army quickly clamped restrictions on intercity traffic in the Holy Land, testing ground of Jewish and Arab aspirations. A section of the Consolidated Re fineries installations at Haifa was left in ruins by an explosion, tele phoned reports from Haifa said. Three police launches were damag ed at Haifa and Jaffa, and trains were damaged. A heavy explosion shook the Jerusalem rail station shortly after midnight. Outbreaks came as the Middle East, whose Arab peoples were watching the Palestine situation closely, awaited an expected state ment from Britisfi'^remier Clement Attlee on Palestine. Britain holds a mandate, Over the Holy Land and has been’'pouring' in troopc for the past several weeks. An official British announcement attributed rail line explosions to a systematic attack by Jewish ter rorists attempting to disrupt rail way communications. A curfew was imposed under defense regula tions upon all intercity traffic from 10 p. m. to 6 a. m. Reports said the railways were cut from Dan (Tes-El-Kahdi) in the north to Beersheba in the south, the traditional north-to-south limits of the Holy Land. Heaviest transport attack was reported (Continued on Page Ten; Cpl. 4) HIGGINS CLOSES 3 PLANT UNITS NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 1.—(U.R>— Andrew J. Higgins, who rose to industrial fame during the war as producer of the Higgins landing craft, permanently closed three units of his reconverted plant to. night because of labor troubles. Higgins said the shutdown was brought on by provisions of the Wagner act which he felt he could not meet, but earlier he had biam ed his problems on a jurisdictional dispute between the AFL metal trades union and a CIO union. President John P. Frey of the AFL union said in Washington that he would not ask Higgins to re-open the plants which were the main cogs in a $25,000,000 reconversion program that was already into pro duction on pleasure boats, com mercial craft antra4*-', tented build ing block. % But the opposing union had other ideas. Robert W. Starnes, acting regional director of the CIO union called on Higgins to realize “that he has a responsibility to the com munity which has been very kind to him.” Starnes said that Higgins should not “merely walk off and leave those plants because of a little trouble which certainly can be settled shortly.” The plants closed by Higgins are worth in excess of $10,000,000. Truman Meets Far Eastern Group After greeting them at the White House, President Truman is pictured with members of the newly organized Far Eastern Ad visory Commission—the Allied council that will be specially active in policies for the control of Japan. Members shown with the Presi dent are (1. to r., front and second rows): Ambassador Wei Tao Ming, China; P. E. Naggiar, France; Sir Girja Shankar Bajpai, In dia; H. V. Evatt, Australia; Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, U. S.; (top row) Thomas A. Stone, Canada; Dr. A. Loudon, Neth erlands; Maj. Gen. Frank McCoy, U. S., chairman; C. A. Berendsen, New Zealand; Gen. Carlos Komulo, Philippines, and Lord Halifax, representing Gjeat Britain.(International) ■ Wallace Says 10 Per Cent Raise Possible For 1946 FOUR SUPERFORTS END LONG RIGHT Brig. Gen. Frank Arm strong Leads Non-Stop Trip From Japan WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 — (IP)— Four B-29’s, carrying 43 tired, happy men home from the war. completed tonight the first non stop flight from Japan to Wash ington in 27 hours. 29 minutes. Brig. Gen. Frank A. Armstrong. Jr., deputy commander of the 20th Air Force, led the flight home, landing at Washington National Airport at 7:38 p. m., Eastern Standard Time. The distance was figured at 6,544 miles. It was the Army’s second at tempt to make the trip non-stop. The first attempt on September 18-19 fell short of the goal because of constant adverse winds and the three-plane flight led by Lt. Gen Barney M. Giles sat down at Chi cago to refuel before coming on to Washington. Both flights followed roughly the same route, the Great Circle course across the Pacific by way of Agattu and Kodiake, in the Aleutians, Sitka, Alaska, Fort St John, Winnipeg, Detroit and thence eastward across the United States. General Armstrong smiling through grime and two days’ growth of beard, said the weather was “terrible” on this flight also, and that they did not know until they reached Kodiak, Alaska, whether they would make it. As it turned out, his plane landed with 800 gallons of fuel, enough for about three hours. General Armstrong said the planes took off from the field near Sapporo, capital of Hokkaido, northernmost of the major Japan ese islands, during a rain. They had a helping tail wind up to about 45 miles an hour part of the way, however, and made their best average ground speed of 29C (Continued on Page Ten; Col. 2) By SANDOR S. KLEIN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 — Sec retary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace tonight relteased a hereto fore confidential report holding that a general increase of 10 per cent in basic wages throughout in dustry in 1946 was possible with out raising prices. He decided to release the report, prepared by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, during ’a press conference with 16 report ers who had just returned from a 32-day, 7,500 mile tour to learn the progress of industrial reconver sion throughout the nation. “Such an average,’’ the report said, “would mean a rise of 15 per cent or a little more in the manu facturing industries. Some indus tires could afford more, some not so much. The automobile industry is in the former class — 15 per cent can be granted without adverse results in the first postwar year of restricted operations, and a further increase of 10 per cent cen be given for 1947 when production will have reached peak rates. “A much higher wage income will have to be secured if demand is to be sufficient to produce full employment by 1948.” Wallace said that if this coun try is to have full employment, full production and full prosperity for farmers, workers and all, il would be desirable to increase pro duction of consumer goods by $3, 000,000,000 to $130,000,000,000, in 1946. “And, as a part of that,’’ he con tinued, ‘‘in order to make a mar ket for those goods, it is vital that (Continued on Page Ten; Col. 3) ARMY, NAVY BULLETIN SAYS NIMITZ WILL BE NEXT NAVAL CHIEF WASHINGTON, Nov. 1—(£>)—'The Armj and Navy Bulletin, in its is sue appearing tomorrow, predicts the appointment of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz as Chief oi Naval Operations, succeeding r'leet Admiral Ernest J. King. The Navy declined any com ment on the report. Any such ap pointment, the Navy said, is a Presidential prerogative. The bulletin, an unofficial pub fication devoted to the interest ol Army and Navy personnel, both active and reserve, based its fore cast on “high Congressional Sources.” The paper said there was a concerted demand for Nim itz’s appointment because “the people want him.” The paper added, however, thal upport for Nimitz ran counter to the reported desire of Secretary Forrestal for the choice of Admiral b S- Edwards, now Deputy Chiei of Naval Operations, and againsl that of Admiral King who was re ported supporting Admiral Ray mond A. Spruance, now com mander of the Fifth Fleet. The paper said the principal argument raised against Nimit2 was the fact that he would be eligible for retirement in another two weeks. Father Of Four Figures Quints Eat Plenty Food PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 1—(#)— Papa Joseph Cirminello, father oi quadruplets and a bear for figures, came up with some amazing totals today as his offspring observed their first birthday anniversary. Cirminello, a Securities and Ex change Commission analyst, totted up his accounts and found that the quads consumed each month: 120 cans, of milk, 240 cans of vegeta bles, soup and fruit, 15 dozen or anges, 10 dozen eggs, five bottles of vitamins, eight large boxes oi cereal, two boxes of toasted bread, plus desserts, beef liver, chicken and lamb. By actual count, he added, the monthly diaper quota is about 1,000. Both Mr. and Mrs. Cirminello agree that it has been a hectic year. But a happy one. The chil ren—Eileen, Maureen, Kathleen and Michael—are thriving and Fileen and Kathleen can stand alone. After wrestling awhile with the housing problem, the family is comfortably situated in sub urban Broomal. And a $600 raise for papa helps make ends meet. The quads are hard to tell apart, but their father says he has a fool proof way: they all kiss different (Continued on Page Ten; Col. 3) i MACARTHUR FAVORS SINGLE FIGHT UNIT WITH SAME UNIFORM WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—(P) . —A suggestion by General Dou glas MacArthur that the Army, Navy and Air forces be con solidated into a single fighting agency with one uniform was made public today. MacArthur’s views were ob tained by a special Army-Navy committee which contacted Army, Navy and Marine lead ers in connection with proposals for postwar defense forces, and were made public by the Sen ate Military committee. “The experience of this war have completely and absolutely convinced me that there should be a complete amalgamation of the various fighting forces,” MacArthur said. “I believe they should wear the same uniform. I believe there should be one family instead of three.” The Senate committee, exam ining a proposed merger of U, S armed forces, received Mac Arthur’s views from the White House. TAX CUT MEASURE PASSES CONGRESS President Expected To Sign Bill Slashing Five Bil lions Off Levy WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. — UP)— Right on a deadline set two months ago, Congress completed legislative action today on ft $5, 920,000,000 tax reduction bill and sent it to the White House. The Internal Revenue Bureau has to print new tax returns rjfid withholding tables, and asked that details of the legislation be worked out by November 1. According to revenue experts who tried to figure out the effect of the bill, it would cause these reduc tions in 1946: Individual income taxpayers, $2,644,000,000. Corporations, $3,136,000,000. Repeal of use tax on cars and boats, $140,000,000. Just before the Senate approved the conference report which sent the bill to the White- House, Fin ance Committee Chairman George (D-Ga) expressed the opinion tha1 the actual reduction in Federal revenue will not be as great as $5,920,000,000, due to stimulation of business activity. senator lait (tx-unio) ei *. . » a that the actual loss during me cur rent fiscal year which ends next June 30 will not exceed $1,000, 000,000. “There has been some criticism of making any tax reduction at a time when the country is spending more than its income,” Taft ob served. “The purpose of thi* oil} is not to hand out pie to ta*.^u^rs but to encourage business ac i ty.” The Ohioan said he believes no 1 further business tax reductions will be possible for at least three years, but that there should be an other cut in individual income tax . es next year and a reduction in excise taxes. Capiiol Hill understood the bill just approved is satisfactory to the president and will be signed, although Secretary of the Treas ury Vinson recommenced cuts not ' to exceed $5,000,000,000. The most important corporate tax change eliminates the wartime excess profits levy, effective Jan. 1. All corporations also get reduc tions ranging from 2 to 4 per c^nt in their combined normal and sur tax. The individual income tax reduc (Continued on Page Ten; Col 2) Extremists Spurn Order By Soekarno MAGELANG RETAKEN With Situation Bordering On War, Tanks Arrive AtSoerahaja By RALPH MORTON AP Staff Correspondent BATAVIA, Java, Nov. 1. — (/P>— British planes struck at Indonesian extremists stepping up their at tacks tonight against British for ces in central and western Java despite orders from their own “President” Soekarno to lay down arms. With fighter-plane aid, the thin spread Indian troops recaptured most of Magelang, 260 miles south west of Batavia. At least three Thunderbolts went into action, shooting up three staff cars and as many trucks, after the Indone sians opened fire with mortars. A British spokesman described the situation as “close to war.” A squadron of tanks arrived at still-tense Soerabaja, naval base where Brig. A. W. F. Mallaby waa slain Tuesday night. Soerkarno, head of the “Indone sian Republic,” met with Dutch leaders last night, and flew today into the interior in a yet unsuc cessful mission to make his fol lowers halt the fighting. Soerkarno tonight was believed' to be at Jogjakarta, headquarters of youthful extremists who were said to be sending reinforcements to Indonesians near Magelang, 30 miles to the north. Soekarno conferred last night with acting Lt. C-ov. Hubertus Van Mook. The Dutch Information Service here said Van Mook urged cooperation as serving the best in terests of all concerned, and that Soekarno presented arguments for recognition of a De Facto govern ment headed by himself. (The Dutch Information Service at The Hague announced that if Van Mook had conferred with Soekarno, he had ‘acted against the express wish and instructions of (Continued on Page Ten; Col. 11 ICG AUXILIARY WILL REORGANIZE A reorganization meeting of the U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, Cape Fear Division No. 4, which will be attended by Commodore M. J. Ryan, Sixth Naval District, will be held here in the Federal courl room of the Customshouse Mon day, November 5, at 1 p. no., il was' announced last night by Com mander T. E. Murrell. Commander Murrell said offi cers would be elected to fill the posts of Division - Commaruiing Officer, Division Executive tlffi cer, Division Train Officer, two Flotilla Commanding Officers, two Flotilla Executive Officers and two Flotilla Training Officers. These officers will be entirely responsible for the success of the future work and organization ol the Auxiliary, Commander Mur rell emphasized. Immediately following the elec tion, discharges from the U. S Coast Guard Reserve (Temporary) and citations will be presented by Commodore Ryan. Organized in 1940, the Auxiliary played an important part in pd (Continued on Page Ten; Col. 2) Teacher-Bus Drivers May Punish “Bad” Children HALEIGH, N. C., Nov. 1—(JP)— Attorney General Harry McMul lan ruled today that a school teacher may inflict corporal pun ishment on a school child for mis behavior while riding on a school bus. The same provision applies to combination school teacher-school bus drivers, of which there are several in North Carolina, McMul lan said. McMullan said the opinion was requested by T. T. Murphy, super intendent of schools in Pender county. Murphy wrote that one of his teachers, a combination teacher-bus driver, recently dis ♦ ciplined an eight-year-old boy for alleged misbehavior on a school bus the teacher was driving to a Burgaw school. The child mis behaved, Murphy said, and the teacher stopped the bus beside the road and “spanked” the child. “The law provides school mas ters and teachers discretionary power in the infliction of punish ment on their pupils, and will not hold them responsible criminally unless the punishment causes per. manent injury,” McMullan said. “This discretionary authority of a teacher over the pupils extends (Continued on Pago Ten; Col. 11, t
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