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FORECAST * W XlIU ♦ Served By Leased Wire* iisies tlmmntnn iMnnrnm sptar -- State and National Newt _ WILMINGTON, N. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1945 ' ~ “ ESTABLISHED 1867 Butchers ‘Beef By Ballot ; * /ii m MmHNMkTtW , j A large group of packing house workers in the Chicago area are .i,riWn casting their ballots in the strike vote held under the super vision of the National Labor Relations Board. About 28,000 workers asking for a 17-cents-an-hour increase and a 40-hour week. (International) Truman Strike Appeal Gets Cool Reception $109,000 NYLON PLANT ANNOUNCED Port City Mills To Build On Greenfield Street Next Year Expected to begin operation about the middle of 1946, a hosiery mill, employing about 150 persons, has been planned for Wilmington it was learned yesterday. Announcement of plans for the early construction on Greenfield i,.eei between 7th and 8th. of a modern, air-conditioned plant to h- use the 300 Scott and Wilson, seamless nylon machines that the Port City Mills anticipates using, came from a spokesman for Indus trial Properties, Inc., a non-profit Wilmington organization which promotes new enterprises here. The Pert City Mills, a division of liojud Hosiery Mills of New York, will occupy the $100,000-plus plant about June 1, it was an nounced. Construction of the plant is expected to begin about Jan. 1; Builders will be the C. M. Guest ar.d Sons company, industrial con tractors, ot Greensboro and Ander sun, o. u Temporarily, Port City M:lls is operating on a small scale in the old shipyard employment building st Third and Marstellar streets. Its new plant will have a capaci ty lor approximately 200,000 dozen psirs of nylon hose, annually, Michael C. Brown, local office manager oi the company reported today. The number of seamless hos ery machines will be several hmes the 50 similar machines now being used in the Third and Mar stellar installation. The Mojud company, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of "omens hose, is a New York con cern with national distribution. It operates several other plants in Aorth Carolina. At the present time, its Port City uosidiary is producing nylon and -yon hose in the Third and Mar -_,.a.r plant. The plant is operated snhn" I',however- as a training “h"001 for operators who will have In 0f hose-making machines » the new plant. A. C. Gregg, a Iran*3/1 of 30 years in the hosiery manufacturing business, is plant "f mntendent her?. edbdvUwlal Pr°Perties. Inc., head - '• G. Thornton, Wilmington tC0n.Un“ed oa Tage Two; Col. 2) By ALLEN V. DOWLING United Press Staff Correspondent DETROIT, Dec. 3 — President Truman’s pe^onal appeal to end the paralyzing General Motors strike appeared headed for failure tonight, but results will not be known definitely before Saturday. R. J. Thomas, president of the United Automobile Workers Union (CIO), said 200 representatives of the 175,000 striking union mem bers will assemble in Detroit Sat urday to "answer the President” with a decision "based on the democratic vote of the strikers.” Speaking for the UAW top com mand, however, Thomas said "we do i#t like the President’s pro posal*’ and asserted that Mr. Tru man’s recommendations to Con gress "threatened the foundations of democracy.” Thomas was supported by Wal ter P. Reuther, mastermind ol the General Motors strike and vice president of the powerful UAW. "If I were a plant member,” Reuther said, "I would certainly not be willing to go back to work with only the President’s proposal as a basis for settlement. “I would vote to continue the strike.” Company officials did not com (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) ' ' ■ ! CITY MANAGERS NAME YANCEY AS HEAD OF STATE ORGANlZATIOh RALEIGH, Dec. 3—(/P)—Henry A. Yancey, City Manager cl Greensboro, was re-elected presi dent of the North Carolina Citj Managers Association at the clos ing session of a two-day meeting here today. City Manager C. H. Helms o Morganton was re-elected secre tary. Col. Wiley M. Pickens, execu tive director of the North Cardin; Veterans Commission, was th< principal speaker at the mornin; session, urging municipalities t< provide veterans’ centers, and t< generally assist veterans in re habilitating themselves once the; return home. A luncheon session was followe; by an informal discussion of prob lems in the municipal field. Thesi included the rising costs of man power and materials, retiremen plpns, taxicab operation and regu iation, and federal aid to airports Hoffman Has Way To Save Money—He Don’t Spend It! Rv \ n 'rt rvr.. _ i ... J H 14* W«mvL8ta« Writer jar0". 3- m ~ soared d/-.Says his living costs that is /Wg tlle war- Everybody, Mich)*’ XCept Rep- Hoffman (R. sPeecKm,un ,sa‘d in a recent House i:me ml} “ doesn’t cost him a 1941. e t0 Rve than it did in "^UUaVfTv,6’ Rs Ris 0Pinion that fry" could 'he people in the coun >f ftey oni S6t by as cheaply man jor^,wou,d follow the Hoff "'hich is; 3' IX 11 C.wai'O uiw*v, v ~ — “Maybe I exaggerated a little - for emphasis,” Hoffman confess ed to a reporter today. “But it’: still essentially true that my per sonal living expenses are abou the same.” Hoffman said that when meal began to cost more, he simpl; switched to a less fancy diet. In stead of steaks he eats “bread am milk and good old Battle Creel cereal.” And if an apple costs j dime and a pear 15 cents, he doe (Continued on Tage Two; Col. 2 Nationalist Army Closes On Key Ci*> IN MUKDEN ' - ^ Chinese Commuh. No Opposition To L .tang In Manchuria By SPENCER MOOSA AP Press Staff Writer CHUNGKING, Dec. 3.— (£>)—Chi nese Nationalist forces advancing in Manchuria were reported with in 30 miles of the important city of Mukden today and their comman der said, “we expect to be in Har bin in a month or so.’ Chinese Central News Agency said press dispatches reporting the new gains said air transportation troops iartner into jviancnuria would start next week. An Associated Press dispatch from Peiping said that Nationalist officials, who had fled from Chang chun, Manchurian capital, in mid November for fear that Russian withdrawal would leave them at the mercy of the Chinese Communists, were preparing to return tomorrow and take over the government. Among these officials is Chiang Chung-Kuo, eldest son of General issimo Chiang Kai-Shek. He said he would discuss with the Russians the projected airborne Nationalist troop movement. Credible reports in Chungking said that the Russians already had undertaken to protect the airfields at Changchun and Mukden but that the Nationalists had appealed to them to'guarantee rail transit as well, because airborne operations could not be on a sufficiently large scale to ensure Nationalist invulnerability to Communist at tacks. The Russians, who have agreed to stay in Manchuria until Jan. 3 so that the Nationalists can consoli date in that valuable territory, ap parently have made no commit r ,ents to admit the Nationalists anywhere except Mukden and Changchun. Some Nationalist sources here alleged that the Russians still were aiding the Communists, but Lt.-Gen Tu Yu-Ming, supreme Nationalist commander in the Northeast, said he had found no evidence that any foreign power was giving his op ponents material help. Speaking to Associated Press correspondent Olen Clements at advanced headquarters in Chin hsi'en, Manchuria, General Tu said he expected the opposition to col lapse within two months because of lack of organization and sup plies. ‘‘I do not expect any large-scale fighting anywhere in Manchuria,” General Tu told elements, adding (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) policeTguards HURT AT PAMPLONA MADRID, Dec. 3 —(U.R)—Eight policemen and civil guards and many others were wounded in a turbulent monarchist demonstra tion at Pamplona and heavy forces of police are guarding streets and public buildings to prevent further outbreaks, dis patches said tonight. The demonstrators were sup porters of the tradiaiontl Carlist branch of the Bourbons. ronnvtpH a similar , monarchist demonstration, in favoi of Don Juan, heir to the throne of his father the late Alfonso XIII, at the great east coast port of Valencia Sunday. There was nc ; disorder. First reports from Pamplona, J in the Pyrenees ancient capital , of the Kingdom of Navarre and scene of a Carlist outbreak in 1936, . indicated that there was a little firing. I But tonight dispatches said tha1 at least 60, or 70 shots were ex . changed with pistols, rifles anc sub-machine guns and that cas l ualties among demonstrants, some . critically wounded, were high. WEATHER (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hour! endirtg 7:30 p.m. yesterday, i T Temperatures 1:30 a.m. 38; 7:30 a.m. 40; 1:30 p.m. 58 7:30 p.m. - Maximum 60; Minimum 36; Mean 48 Normal 51. Humidity 1:30 a.m. 92; 7 :30 a.m. 92; 1:30 p.m. 44 7 :30 p.m. 50. Precipitation Total since the first of the month - 0.00 inches. oTtal sin'ce the first of the month 0.00 inches. Tides For Today (From the Tide Tables published b: U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey) High Low Wilmington - 9:43 a.m. 4:17 a.m 9:51 p.m. 4:49 p.m Masonboro Inlet - 7:22 a.m. 1:01 a.m 7:26 p.m. 1:40 p.m Sunrise 7:02 a.m.; Sunset 5:03 p.m. Moonrise 6:49 a.m.; Moonset 5:06 p.m. River Stage at Fayetteville, N. C. a , 8 a.m. Monday, Dec. 3, 11.1 feet; ant > Sunday, Dec. 2, 11.8 ft. School Pupils Pray For Vacant Apartment NEW YORK, Dec. 3 —(U.R)— Some 600 pupils of St. Peter’s oarochial school in Brooklyn _%yed to St. Anthony today tP -Ip the Walsh family find ^ ^v^ ^-oom apartment. !* <£* Ait Theresa Carmel, the A jA;ipal, asked her pupils to v A. ay after Ann Marie Walsh x'<old how her parents, Mr. and 3 Mrs. Thomas Walsh, and nine brothers and sisters had been evicted from their flat because they were a month and a half behind in rent. The Walshes—an even doz en of them—are now squeez ed into two rooms of a neigh bor’s house. JAP DIET HE1_J HEAVY TAXES DUE Defeated Nation Must Raise Budget Of 907 Millions Of Dollars TOKYO, Dec. 3.—UP)—The Jap anese Diet, operating under the shadows of growing domestic un rest and New American probing into war responsibilities, was told today that heavy tax increases would be required to meet a pro posed budget of $13,600,000,000 Yen (about $907,000,000 at the official exchange rate.) Finance Minister Keizo Shibu sawa, presenting the budget to the House of Representatives, said es timated revenues would meet less than two-thirds of it. He called for increases in income taxes, luxury taxes, many indirect taxes and higher prices for sake and tobac co, which are government monop olies. The Diet, which has accomplish ed nothing in the first week of its session, scheduled a recess for to morrow so that committees could wrestle with the budget and bills for election revisions. Sharpening coal shortages and reported increases in crimes of violence posed additioinal pro blems which must be faced event uallv. The lower House session! have been marked by inconclusive wrangling over wa§ responsibility, but General MacAfthur’s new list of 59 wanted big-time operators made it clear to the members that their decisions on that subject would carry no weight. The new list included a prince of the blood, eight peers and two former premiers, leaving out oi the “wanted” category only two men who have served as govern ment leaders since 1937. They were former Prince Fumimaro Konbye and former Navy Minister Mitsu masa Yonai. The 71-year-old, white-moustach ed Prince Morimasa Nashimoto, who said he had no idea why he was on the list, declared he was a prince without influence, a Field (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) VARGAS’ CANDIDATE TAKES EARLY LEAD IN BRAZIL VOTING RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 3. — M —Army General Eurico Dutra, backed by former President Getu lio Vargas, took an early lead to day over three opponents in re turns from Sunday’s presidential elections in Brazil in which seven persons were killed. Dutra and Air General Eduardo Gomes, leader of the anti-Vargas forces, were easily outdistancing their civilian opponents on the basis of the unofficial returns. It was Rravil’c fire* ~ dent in 15 years. Returns from 10 states gave Dutra 7,484 votes; Gomes, 5,226; Yeddo Fiuza, Communist party candidate, 2,324, and Mario Rol lim Telles, Agarian party candi date, 40. Gomes held the lead in six states, which have a total of 1,564,924 re gistered voters, while Dutra led in four states with a registered vote of 3,895,613. It was estimated that from 75 to 90 per cent of all those registered in the country cast ballots. Dutra was showing early strength in small cities and rural areas where the long-established Vargas ’!’Cal machine was least affect ed by the ousting of the former p* ancient trom oflice last Oct. 29. Gold Star Mother To Get Gardenia From Army Camp CAMP WHEELER, Ga„ Dec. 3.1 — M — A gardenia bush from Georgia will soon be on its way to Kentucky to remind a Gold Star mother of her son’s farewell ges ture. It was in the spring of 1943 that Mrs. George Winn of Marion, Ky., ■ came here to visit her son Lieut. Harold E. Winn, before he went overseas. Gardenias were in full bloom. The young officer" walked over and picked one as he strolled with his mother that last day. He gently | pinned it to her coat. Then they said goodbye. He was off to the wars—St. Lo —and death in action. The saddened mother recently wrote officials at Camp Wheeler of her memories of her son—and how they were all mixed up with the fragrance of gardenias. She wrote: “If I could but have a plant of the gardenia to grow outside my house.” Military wheels started grinding. The precise spot and plant were located. Then it was packed—150 pounds —for delivery to Mrs. Winn this week. Bandoeng Reported Under Siege By British; Jews Boycott Set For New Year - -:---* - Arab League To Throttle Zion Goods PALESTINE AFFECTED Secretary Says Industry Financed By Funds From Foreign Lands CAIRO, Dec. 3.—(U.R)—The Arab League today announced that its seven member states will boycott all Jewish-produced goods from Palestine, beginning Jan. 1. The League’s secretary-general, Abdul Rahman Azzam Bey, said the boycott was ordered because Jewish Palestine industry was “based on Zionist funds, collected in foreign countries, to serve a poli tical purpose—the establishment of a Jewish national home and state in Palestine. “This political purpose is the motive behind Jewish industry and commerce in Palestine. This pur pose is not realizable except by thte exploitation of markets in Arab countries.” The boycott was the development of League meetings which began here Nov. 20, and numerous con ferences between leaders of the League and of Arab parties in Palestine. Wi+hnuf +Viait< na+itra Azzam said the League was prepar ed to take additional steps if necessary to combat Zionist aims. He said a League committee would be formed to coordinate the car rying out of the boycott and to rec ommend “any new steps neces sary for realization of the Arab purpose of repelling the danger of Zionist economics.” Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Leb anon, Yemen, Transjordan and Syria are member states of the Arab League. Arab groups in Palestine are represented in its councils. Azzam called upon non-League Arab states to join in the boycott. He specifically exempted the prod (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) RUSSIARE JECTS U. S., IRAN PLAN WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—(U.R)— The State Department announced tonight that Russia had rejected the American suggestion that Al lied troops be withdrawn from Iran, by Jan. 2. Michael J. McDermott, special assistant to Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, said, however, that the Russian rejection does not ‘‘change the fact that Russia and Britain are committed by their dual pact with Iran to evacuate troops from Iran by March 2.” The United States requested both Britain and Russia to join it in withdrawing all troops by the first of the year with the hope of end i: j unrest in Iran. Iran officials contend that the crux of the trouble there is the presence of Allied military forces. They have criticized Russia spe cifically for preventing the rein forcement of garrisons in northern Iran which are fighting insurgents. The State Department withheld the text of the Russian reply pend ing its publication in Moscow and London. The United States revealed re cently that its military forces have been reduced to some 6,000 service troops. It said these will be with drawn by Jan. 1. -—-.* Hiroshima Trolleys Run Again Keeping an eye on things, a jeepload of officers (left) from the U. S. S. Appalachian watch Jap civilians and ex-soldiers as they line up to board one of the trolleys that have just started to run again in atom-bombed Hiroshima. The devastation wrought by the bomb is still apparent in all sections of the city. (International Soundphoto) FBI Reported Trailing Russian Secret Agent _k - SCIENTIST SAYS WORLD WARS OVER WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. — UP) — Dr. Vannevar Bush expressed the cheering belief today that “the atomic bomb means the end of world war.” The scientist who directed the development of this and other weapons as head of the National Defense Research committee and the Office of Scientific Research and Development predicted it would take a long time to set up atomic controls. But he told the special Senate committee on atomic energy that all the nations now want a long peace-and this period can be used to develop the control machinery. He added that two nations armed with atomic bombs would not con sider going 'to war against each other because the consequences would be “too terrible.” Senator Johnson (D-Colo) observ ed that Dr. Bush’s optimistic testi mony was encouraging after the “Gloomy Gus witnesses” who had made the committee room a “chamber of horrors.” Dr. Bush said that his scien uses aeveiopeu me iwmcuui diaries but there was some ques tion about the use of them against cities because they would kill so many civilians in order to destroy factories. Dr. Bush said the same question of widespread civilian deaths at tached to use of the atomjc bomb but that he had no doubts about its use because “I knew it would end the war.” The scientist said the first task for the United States was to set up effective domestic controls as a pattern for possible world use of atomic energy. This would be a long and trying process, he added, requiring wisdom of the Congress and administrators placed in con trol under legislation. Progress will be slow, Dr. Bush conceded, on the international side of control but he noted that the easiest way to solve any defficult problem was to “attack at the point easiest of solution.” “There is no danger of war breaking out until we can work this out,” he said. “We can’t do it in a moment or by wishful thinking.” Newspaper Claims Man Has Many Details On Atomic Energy NEW YORK, Dec. 3.— (JP)—The New York Journal-American said today in a copyrighted story that for the last two years the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been trailing a Russian secret service agent “who, it is believed, may have obtained atomic bomb sec rets.” The New York FBI office said it had no comment on the story. The paper said FBI agents found a package in the agent’s room in Chicago in 1943 that “was found to contain highly confidential de tails of atomic development.” The paper said the agent was living now in a midtown hotel and was surrounded by a squad of FBI men, operating on a 24-hour basis. It did not give his name. The Journal-American said the agent entered the United States from Canada in 1938 and carried (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) NEW ORLEANS UNION LEADERS SEND FORTH SOS TO MEMBERSHIP NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 3— (£>) - All American Federation of Laboi workers were summoned today tc a mass meeting Thursday night by a notice which said that “a state of emergency now exists in New Orleans.” A spokesman explained that the session was called in connection with the situation at the Higgins Industries, Inc., boat-building plants. Andrew .T/Higgins, Sr., company president, has announced that the company would be liquidated as the result of labor difficulties with the AFL. But Higgins has been hiring workers again at one of the plants with the explanation that they will be used to complete existing con tracts. The mass meeting was called by the New Orleans AFL councils. Eisenhower Steals Show At Big White House Tea WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—(U.R)— Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, stole the show tonight at Mrs. Harry Truman’s first White House tea of the season. The new Chief of Staff, looking ruddy and fit, chose a secluded corner in the big state dining room —but soon most of the guests found an excuse to greet him. Beribboned and Gold-braided Ad mirals and Generals and Congress men all turned in his direction with their families. Smiling his big smile and stand ing arms akimbo, the General held court. He talked antelope hunting with \ Rep. and Mrs. Frank A. Barrett, of Wyoming, who promptly invit ed him to this year’s rodeo at Lusk, Wyo. Asked how he liked his new job as Chief of Staff, Eisenhower re plied: “Remember, this is ray first day.” Mrs. Truman, standing in the oval red room, received her guests in two sets of 200 each. She wore a black frock with a draped skirt, caught at the hip by a large gold buckle. Margaret Truman,, wearing a blue-green velvet dress an.', a black (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) Indonesians Under Shell Bombardment FROM WARSHIPS Reports Say High Allied Officials To Decide Fu ture Measures Of War By JOHN BOWER United Press Staff Correspondent BATAVIA, Java, Dec. 3 — Re ports circulated today that high Allied officials, headed by Adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten, would meet in Singapore Wednesday to decide on “practical measures” needed to quell revolting Indone sian Extremists in the Netherlands East Indies. As British warships again shell ed Extremist positions in the Serna rang area of central Java, and the summer capital of Bandoeng, 75 miles southeast of Batavia, was reported under a virtual state of siege, the Aneta news agency said that during the past 48 hours the British army had been operating under a “peacetime news black out,” similar to those known only riurintr vital wartime camnaivns. Aneta said that according to un ences aimed at ending the trouble precipitated by Indonesian de mands for independence would be held, possibly both the middle of this week. Aneta said -that according to un confirmed reports Mountbatten, Al lied supreme commander in South east Asia, was arranging the Singa pore meeting and had invited Lt. Gen. Sir Philip Christison, Brit ish commander of Allied forces in the NEI and British Rear Adm. R. W. Patterson, Allied naval com mander. It was also reported that the acting Governor General of the NEI, Dr. Hubertus J. Van Mook, might attend. The agenoy said the meeting would “deal with the practical measures the Java situation now requires.” It also reported that repesentatives of the Netherlands Indies government and the self (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) ■\irnr nir man > aaa bUKLbl IVbAllU SELLS AT $53.60 ASHEVILLE, Dec. 3—(^—Unof ficial prices were $53.60 per hun dred as the Asheville Burley to bacco market opened its 16th sea son today. Sales Supervisor R. A. Wither ington estimated that the sale, ex pected to last into February, would total a record 10 million pounds and put five million dollars in the pockets of tobacco farmers in this' western North Carolina area. Miss Cleo Hope Whitson, 17, Ramseytown, Yancey county, queen of the sale, was on hand to officially open the event, Mrs. Francis Rogers Williams of Haywood county, last year’s queen, auctioned the first basket which brought $1.05. Largest individual lot of the day, weighing 700-pounds was owned by R. Z. Reeves. It brought $406. J. W. Duckett, Leicester, Route 1, received the first check, his gross amounting to $463.50. Addition of two new warehouses brings to six the total to be used during the sales. Sales will be conducted daily from Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to noon and from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. The 14th Annual Tobacco Jubilee luncheon will be held Wednesday i i (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1)
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