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FORECAST + 4 ^ ^ Served By Leased Wires fisipai umtttpttti llnrmng wint _ ■ --- - -i__ ' _ _________ ^79!—NO. 24. . WILMINGTON, N. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1945 ESTABLISHED 1867 _— ~~ • ■ 1 1 — — --— ■ _:mft ■ ■- ™ Real Estate Prices Face Restriction fpllMAN ANNOUNCES jovernment Planning Con lioli To Halt lnfla tionary Boom Bv merriman smith 7 Press staff Correspondent Washington, Dec. 7-ouo - -St Truman revealed today P he government is planning to 6 ‘Teal estate under price con halt an inflationary boom, “je also told his news conference v. nriorty controls on building that pr, nnn will be restored. *S he had hoped to make the ^cement today but arrange Were not completed in time. The move is intended to help re lieve the critical housing shortage, rmtrols will channel materials in fo fte construction of residential Whp President said the worst ,ur‘t of real estate inflation is in small dwellings. He said that no soecific plan has been worked out mt but that something will have jo be done to keep prices within The decision to take emergency measures was made by reconver sion Director John W. Snyder, who oiilv a few mon\s ago ordered the removal of all restrictions on home construction. John B. Blandford, National Housing Administrator, meanwhile proposed' a housing program to meet the immediate needs of re turning veterans and to push con struction of new homes ‘‘at double the rate this country has ever achieved.” He urged maximum of existing housing for veterans; construction 0t at least 500,000 moderately priced homes in crowded cities during 1946; and comprehensive housing legislation to help end over-crowd ing, reduce slum dwellings and rebuild cities. Housing legislation ii being con sidered by the House and Senate Banking committees. The Senate bill would increase Federal aid to home builders. The House meas ure would set up a stabilization agency with the function of chan neling materials into needful local ities. GOVERNORS MOVE * TO PROTECT GAIN NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 7—{/F) — Southern Governors moved today to protect their new freight rate schedule from a northern attempt to have it nullified. The Southern Governors’ Con ference authorized J. V. Norman, ot Louisville, Ky., chief counsel for southern states in proceedings be fore the Interstate Commerce Commission, to intervene in a court action by nine northern states seeking nullification of the ICC ruling which favored the south. The conference also continued in existence a steering committee of five governors which was or ganized in connection, with the campaign before the ICC. Looking toward the educational as well as the indusrtial advance ment of their section, the gover nors received a report recommend ing that southern states pool their ^sources for higher education in order to make the best facilities available to all students. The report urged a planned de velopment of facilities on a re gional basis, since no one state was held financially capable of caring for all types of educational news alone. The program would ■nclude various forms of mutual am whereby a student from one “operating state could go cheaply 0 another for courses not avail 's in his home state. . fue freight rate schedules which ‘ . ern states are attacking will 1 into effect January 1, barring fnr , court action. They call " reductions ot ten per cent in tl ,es for various manufactured ar es moving within southern and (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) WEATHER <**>*«" Standard Time) Uetenrni. • S' ",‘altlcr Bureau) glcal data for the 24 hours g ‘.30 p.m. yesterday. l Temperature* 7:38 p.mm5o44; 1:30 a'm- 1:30 p-m So^afg,,"1 60'• Minimum 37; Mean 45; Hn Humidity 1:30 p.mm'589; 7:30 a m' 98; 1:30 p-m- 58; Total t„ . Precipitation too inch” 24 liours ending 7:30 p.m. too inches °e the flrst o{ 4he monih— 'Prom tv, T‘des F°r Today 8 Coast and^r e Tables Published by U ana Geodetic Survey). Wilmington H‘sh Low - - a.m. 6:49 a.m Maso»boro Inlet p'm' lilp m •uel - 9:5t a.m. 3:26 a.m Jutirise 7-oc „ 10:01 p.m. 4:19-p.m "jparise Va.,, a m-i Sunset 5:03 p.m. River staro „,a'iP': Moonset 8:32 p.m C- ati Continued on Pare Seven; Col. 3; NEW SECRETARY JOHN H. FARRELL CHAMBER ELECTS NEW SECRETARY John H. Farrell Of Mus kegon To Succeed Morris On January 1 John L. Morris, secretary of the Wilmington Champer of Commerce, has resigned his position effective Jan. 1, according to an announce ment by C. M. Harrington, presi dent of the organization, yester day Named to succeed Morris was John H. Farrell, Muskegon, Mich. Morris did not divulge what in dustrial firm he has accepted a position with, saying the announce ment would come from the office of the firm. He did say, however, that he was leaving Chamber of Commerce work to accept a job in industry. In making the announcement, Harrington spoke highly of Morris’ work during his tenure of service here, and. stressed that it was through Morris’ offer alone that the change was being made. Farrell who is 46-years-of-age, comes to the local office of the Chamber of Commerce, highly recommended, both by his employ ers in Muskegon and by the United States Chamber of Commerce, Har rington said. The new secretary nas Deen en gaged as industrial contract rep resentative in the offices of the Muskegon Chamber of Commerce, and according to the local presi dent, has compiled a favorable record there. He has watched the city of Muskegon boom through the war years and has been in strumental in the retaining many new industries in operation at that city, his record indicates. A graduate of Lowell Textile In stitute and the Georgetown Uni versity Foreign Service school, Farrell, who was born in Troy, N. Y., was for many years in the United States Department of Com merce and in textile industries in Massachusetts and Maryland. During his service with the U. S. Department of Commerce Far rell served as commercial agent, assistant manager and manager of district offices in San Fran sisco, Wilmington, Del., Houston, Tex., New Orleans and Cleveland, O. It was while employed in Wil mington, Del., that he started his Chamber of Commerce work, be ing manager of the Foreign divi sion of that office. He was later called to Washington where he was instrumental-in the setting up of some 30 National Recovery Ad ministration agencies throughout the country. _ He was employed at one time as export manager of the Cleveland Tractor company in Cleveland, and has worked on several United States Census ennumerations. Harrington stressed the fact that Farrell “knew his way around Capitol Hill” in Washington, and was equipped to administer any Washington work that might arise within the activities of the local chamber by “going direct to^ the proper source of information. Advance information of Far (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) TOP JAPS TO FACE TRIAL IN JANUARY PROSECUTOR STATES TOKYO, Dec. 7—(A*)—War crimes trials of top Japanese ere scehd uled to start in January, with for mer Premier Hideko To jo high or the calendar for the proceedings al which death penalties probablj will be asked, the American chie; (prosecutor disclosed today. Joseph B. Keenan, special prose irtor newly arrived in Tokyo wit! his staff, said that Allied nations had been invited to nominate mem bers of the court, which will b< appointed by General MacArthur and to participate in the prosecu tion, but that none had yet namei such personnel. Keenan said previous delays 11 starting the trials were to respec the rights of other nations and ti show that the United States wa not taking a high-handed attitude. Speaking at a 30-minute pres 1 conference after a lengthy sessio; ; with MacArthur, the gray-hairei ■ Keenan said the Japanese wouli 1 be tried in groups, as in Germany with “the accused presumed in nocent until proved guilty.” PRISONERS PROTEST THEIR SHIPMENT TO RUSSIAN TERRITORY STOCKHOLM, Dec. 7 .—(#■)— One hundred and sixty-seven interned Balts today temporari ly broke a hunger strike start ed two weeks ago in protest against their scheduled extra'' tion to Russia as deserters * the German army. The prisoners, a’’ Lithu*. ans, Latvians and Estonian, who had served with, the Ger mans, were among 2,700 inter nees marked for deportation. They were too weak to be mov ed from Swedish hospitals when the Russian vessel sailed last weekend. Hundreds of German officers and men also succeeded in de laying their deportation to Rus sian-occupied Germany by sev ere self-mutilation in a mass suicide attempt on the morning of their scheduled departure. Several killed themselves. COMMITTEE PLANS TO OPEN HEARING Evidence Pro, Con On Fact Finding Bill Gets Under way Monday WASHINGTON, Dec. 7—(U.R)—The House Labor committee decided today to begin hearings Monday on the Sill to give President Tru man the authority he requested to set up fact-finding boards in serious labor disputes. A committee spokesman said the hearings will be confined to top spokesmen of the government, organized labor and industry. Wit nesses will include CIO President Philip Murray, AFL President William Green, President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Work ers, Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach and representa tives of the U. S. Chamber of Com merce and the National Association of Manufacturers. Acting Committee Chairman Robert Ramspeck, D., Ga., has in dicated that he wants the commit tee to approve the bill before the end of next week. The bill would give the Presi dent the right to set up a fact finding board whenever a labor dispute threatens the national in terest. Organized labor is opposed because of the 30-day cooling off period during which labor could not strike. HUGE MAJORITY FAVORS TRUMAN LABOR PLAN NEW YORK, Dec. 7—President Truman’s plan for fact-finding boards and a thirty day cooling off period before a major strike can begin, has overwhelming sup port from the general public. A Gallup Poll conducted during the last forty-eight hours with the aid of the telegraph, finds more than eight in every ten persons questioned favoring Truman’s pro posal. However, the proportion be lieving that the proposal will neces sarily reduce strikes is smaller. The vote on the Truman propos al showed: Favor, 85 per cent; oppose, 11 per cent; no opinion, 4 per cent. As to whether the law would operate to reduce strikes, the vote is: yes, 70 per cent; “no, 15 per cent; no opinion, 8 per cent. MYSTERY SURROUNDS DISAPPEARANCE OF SIX NAVY AIRCRAFT MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 7.— (U.R)—'The second day of a far-flung search for 27 Navy airmen lost in six aircraft Wednesday brought only “no luck” reports tonight from all the hun dreds of air and sea participants. The fate of the men remained un known, and the mystery of the planes* disappearance unsolved. The Navy, however, was determin ed to press the hunt until every possibility was exhausted, in hope that survivors might be found, or some reason for the mass disap pearance learned. Five of the planes, torpedo bom bers, vanished in the gloom of a windy, rainy evening. The six h, a patrol bomber with 13 men aboard, was thought to have crashed while searching for the others. No mes sages of disaster or trouble had been received. A total of 242 planes from 16 land bases and an aircraft carrier rang ed over Florida and adjacent gulf and*250 miles over Atlantic waters during all the daylight hours. College Girl Survey Shows Educated Miss Thinks That Finances Are Mere Man's Affair , COLUMBIA, Mo., Dec. 7.—W— i Bachelors! Here’s a tip on what I the well-educated miss thinks about ; running a home. A survey among 672 college girls s showed that you can be the definite i ruler of the family budget if you l hook up with one of the 503 girls 1 who voted that finances were a , man’s affair. They said they’d ■ leave it to hubby to manage the family’s money matters. Of course, you may have to do a bit of the sewing around the house, as only 183 of the girls thought lhat ability to sew was essentia? to homemaking. The majority of the girls, all stu dents at Stephens College, believed that success in marriage had to be “worked for.” Only 97 thought marital happines came naturally to those in love. $ - In the matter of the patter of lit tie feet, only 28 per cent of the girls felt they did not have suffi cient knowledge of children to rear a family of their own. Only ten in dicated that they wanted no chil dren, three wanted one child, and the rest hoped for from two to four. But as a means of getting the low down on marriage and the prob lems of housekeeping beforehand, the students recommended: (1) A systematic, well-organizec college course; (2) free discussior with parents; (3) good reference books; (4) discussion with teachers, (5 discussion with friends of their own age. Three girls objected to “studying about marriage” on -the ground il might ‘‘kill romance.” Nope, sorry, men, no names and phone numbers are available. w “Big Three” Foreign Ministers I Meet In Moscow; G-M Corp. f Reported Under “Investigation” - * Wage Parley Again Fails Of Decision PLANTS STILL IDLE Attorney General Clark Say* Anti-Trust Angle Under Scrutiny DETROIT, Dec. 7—(A5)—As the factories of General Motors Cor poration idled through a 17th con secutive day, representatives of management and strikers went in to another huddle today over their wage dispute. At the same tinre President K. J. Thomas of the striking CIO United- Auto Workers announced the Department of Justice was in vestigating General Motors with a view to determining if GM was m violation of anti-trust laws. Thomas said he had' been in formed by Attorney General Tom B. Clark that his department has been investigating “several anti trust cases of the type you men tion, among which is General Mo tors.” The information came in a telegram from Clark, Thomas said. The auto union asked the investi gation last week at the time Gen eral Motors suggested operation of its parts plants during the strike in order to supply other automobile manufacturers. Thomas said this was “strong corroboratory evi dence for a union belief that Gen eral Motors held a “monopoly po sition” in the industry. Thomas said Clark expressed himself as being “glad tj receive any further information.” The union chief said' further .informa tion obtained by the UAW-CIO would be “immediately submit ted.” General Motors’ suggestion for parts plant operation in the strike received a conditional approval from the union, contained in a tele gram signed in Thomas’ name but which the union president later dis claimed as having been written by himself. The letter, which Thomas said was written by a union public relations man, declared General Motors’ offer would be studied to determine in what instances parts production was necessary for oth er manufacturers. The matter went no further. Hopes for a settlement return ing 213,000 GM workers to the job received no encouragement prior to today’s negotiations beyond a report from the union leadership that "another step forward” had (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) MOTHER OF KIDNAPED CHILD RECEIVES NEW DEMAND FOR RANSOM CHELSEA. Mass , Dec. 7—(U.R)— A second telephone call demand ing ransom money was received today by the mother of 6-month old Ronald Carlan who was kid naped from a carriage near his home nine days ago. The call came from a Bowdoin Square cafe and was believed to have been made by the same man who telephoned a similar demand last night. Police rushed to the scene, but the man and his red haired woman companion had left. A widespread search for the pair was begun. Persons in the cafe said the man had called a Chelsea number. Mrs. Rose Carlan, the baby’s mother, told police the man had advised her to go to a certain Back Bay theater at a certain time wearing a white dress, white hat and black coat. However, Police Lt. John J, Kirby said he believed both calls were made by a crank, and he attached little significance to them. -'_A Signs Pay For Old Travel Costs Spanish-American war veterans who paid their own fares home after being discharged in the Philippines more than 40 years ago will get the money back under the bill shown b^ing signed by President Truman (above). Looking on are Rep. Engle, Calif.,* Capt. Tony Siminoff of Los Angeles, Sen. Ellender, La., and Rep. Phillips, Calif. (International) Daniel £ Roberts Named N. A. L. Manager For City LABORTFES GIVE OKAY ON CREDITS LONDON, Dec. 7 — UP) — Labor government leaders whole-hearted ly approved the proposed $4,400, 000,000 United States loan to Brit ain today, but a small Conserva tive opposition in Commons moved that the financial agreement be rejected. Backed by their overwhelming majority, and motivated by Brit ain’s almost desperate need for dollar credits, Laborite leaders planned for Parliamentary approv al of the loan next week along with passage of the Bretton Woods bill, A government spokesman de scribed the loan as “an agree ment which will work,’’ and ad mitted that Britain’s only alterna tive would be an immediate austere fuuire “far worse than during the darkest periods of the war ” Opposition came from two Con servative members within an hour after the Bretton Woods bill was introduced for Parliamentary rati fication, as proposed by the Wash ington conferees on the loan agree ment. Moving that both the Bretton Woods measure and the loan agree ment be rejected, Conservative Robert Boothby, a wealthy manu facturer, declared that acceptance of the loan would abolish the sterl ing area; restore an international gold standard, and force Britain to (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 7) FIRST CARGO VESSEL SINCE 1942, DUE TO REACH PORT TODAY Arrival of the S. S. Pampero, a C-2 type freighter operated by the American-Hawaiian line, early to day, inaugurates the resumption of service between west coast ports and Wilmington, suspended since early 1942. The vessel, which docks at the Wilmington Terminal Warehouse Co., carries a general cargo for Wilmington, and is scheduled to leave for Norfolk sometime today. Originally scheduled to arrive in port here on December 12, the vessel is four days early. First Plane North Du< At Bluethenthal At 1:53 P. M. Dec. 15 Simultaneous disclosure o schedule plans for Wilmington ant the first assignment of company personnel to the city came fron McDonald Bryan, public informa lion director of National Air Lines who released a statement by R. P Foreman, secretary in charge o: stations for N. A. L. in a wirt to the Star last night. ,, Promoted to station manager a Wilmington, is Daniel E. Roberts former N. A. t. assistant statior manager at Pensacola, Fla., Fore man announced, adding that othe3 employees will be transferred t( Wilmington, or selected from Wil mington residents. For the time being, the line wil not open a downtown ticket office all passenger traffic being handlec through the Bluethenthal Field of fice, it was said. The schedule reveals that Wil mingtonians will be only three hours and 17 minutes from Nev York city by,;air, two hours and 21 minutes from Jacksonville am five hours and 28 minutes fron Miami, Roberts will arrive nere mu weekend to complete preparation; for the inaugural flight on Dec. 15 Schedule for the inaugural fligh is as follows: Leave Miami at 8:25 a. m., leav< St. Petersburg at-9;58 a. m., leavi Charleston at 12:53 p. m., and ar rive in Wilmington at 1:53 p. m. The flight is scheduled to leavi Wilmington at 2:08 p. m. leave Norfolk at 3:36 p. m., an< arrive in New York at 5:25 p. m The return flight leaves Nev York at 10:10 a. m. the followin; day, leaving Philadelphia at 11:0! a. m., leave Norfolk 12:36 p. m. arriving in Wilmington at 1:49 p m. The flight will leave Wilmingtoi at 2:09 p. m., leave Charleston a 3:17 p. m., Jacksonville 4:45 p. m. Tampa 6:10 p. m., Miami 8 p. m. arriving at Key West at 8:50 p. m The company’s huge Lockheet Lodestars will be used for the serv ice until the new four-enginet Douglas DC-4’s now on order art delivered. WINTRY WIND SENDS BLUENOSED BERLIN ON HUNT FOR WOOD BERLIN, Dec. 7. — VP) — Bluenosed Berliners bundled up and shivered today in the city’s first wintry blast. Temperatures dropped to 28 degrees Fahren heit. There was no coal for civilian heating. Men, women and children with saws and axes in increas ed numbers cut wood in Gruen ewald forest and the Tiergarten. Scores of them were still packing bundles of wood along once fashionable streets long after dark. In business offices clerks worked in heavy overcoats and pushed pencils with gloved hands. YAMASHITA DEATH DATE NOT SET YE1 Condemned Jap Genera Thanks Court For Fair Trial, Courtesy MANILA, Dec. 7—m—Death 01 the gallows was decreed for Lt Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita toda by a five-General U. S. Militar Commission which found him guilt of permitting monstrous atrocitie by Japanese troops in the Philip pines. No date was set for the execu tion, which in accordance wit! American military law must awai review of the Commission’s find ings by the Commander of Arm; forces in the western Pacific am : confirmation by General Mac Arthur. Yamashita s shoulders sagged a he heard the death sentence, bu he straightened quickly and mad t a curt bow to the Commission. H listened stony-faced but his fing ers drummed the table as Maj Gen. Russell B. Reynolds slowl; ; read the findings of the Commis . sion, With the defendant’s interpre ter translating word by word int Japanese. Before hearing the verdict, th ! conqueror of Malaya and one-tirm Japanese commander in the Philip pines stood, visibly nervous, whit the interpreter read this stateme i to the court: “I wish to stand here today wit! a clear conscience and swear t God I am innocent of thes' charges. I wish to take this oppor ' tunity to express gratitude to th i United States officers of the de . fense, brilliant and upright offic ers. I want to thank the commis sion for a fair trial.” Later he emphasized his grati tude toward his American a1 . ■ (Continued on Page Three: Col. 3 WOMAN DIES FROM : ACCIDENT INJURE _ : Mrs. Theodore M. Solomon, 3' ; of 109 Ivey Drive, Sunset Pari . died last night -at 7:30 o’clock a ; James Walker Memorial hospita shortly after she was struck by a : automobile said to have bee i driven by Joseph E. Adams, 34, c ■ 506 Church st. Officers of the stat , highway patrol who investigate ; the accident said that Mrs. Sole , mon suffered a fractured skull an 1 internal injuries. Hospital attache , said that their diagnosis was no ' complete ; The accident occured abodt sevei I o’clock on the Carolina Beach roai at Central Boulevard. Patrolmei stated that several eye witnesse told him that Mrs Solomon, ac i companied by her young daughter ; attempted to cross the highwa; and walked from behind a parkei , automobile into the path of th Adams car. They also reportei [ that Mrs. Solomon is said to haw ■ pushed her daughter out of th< [ path of the approaching vehicl i but failed to get across the roai herself. Eye-witness also stated that th car driven by Adams was no traveling at an excessive rate o “speed when Mrs. Solomon wa struck. No arrest was made. A coroners inquest is schedulei for Wednesday afternoon, Dec. I at 3:00 o’clock. Surviving are her husband, M T. Solomon; one daughter, Janie Kay Solomon; parents, Mr. am Mrs. W. C. Morton, of Aberdeen two sisters, Mrs. J. M. Weaver of Durham, and Mrs. R J. Cook of Kannapolis; and one brother ’Capt. R. E. Morton, of Fort Bel voir, Va-. Funeral arrangement will be an nounced later by Ward Funera Homs. December 15 Date Set For New Meeting INFORMAL^ TALKS Future Control Of Atomic Energy Main Subject ForDiscussion By ERNEST BARCEIXA United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. — (/P) — The Foreign Secretaries of Great Britain, Russia and the United States will meet in Moscow Dec. 15, to discuss future control of atomic energy, the State Department an ■ nounced tonight. [ The department said the three ministers also will sit down to "in formal and exploratory discussions on a number of other matters of current concern to the three coun tries.” | The meeting was announced , I simultaneously in Washington, Lon don and Moscow. 't The State Department emphasiz ed that it would not be a meeting ’ of Foreign Ministers Council, but rather a meeting of the three Foreign Ministers as provided ■ in the Yalta Conference decision 1 calling for quarterly sessions of the t three oficials. • The announcement came three ’ hours after President Truman told l a news conference i#iat he was not ' familiar with a London report of such a meeting and that he did not ■ know about it. t France and China, who have re s presentatives on the Council of For : eign ministers, were informed - through their ambassadors here of . the meeting. r A State Department spokesman - said that Secretary of State James - F. Byrnes would fly to Moscow. i He did not know when the secre tary would leave or who will ac : company him. ; The three ministers are expected - to deal not only with atomic ener 1 gy, about which the Russians will i now have a chance to express their views to Britain and the United i States, but such matters as: i 1. The Balkan governments. : 2. The control of Japan, particu - larly with reference to the Ameri ' (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 6) UNIONS TO HELP “E” BOND DRIVE i ,_ ' WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—OT—Na tional sales of E bonds in the Vic tory Loan drive today stood at $1, j 214,000,000—61 per cent of the goal ' —as the AFL and CIO called upon • organized labor to put over the E bond drive. Today, overall sales totaled $12, ’ 470,000,000—$4,394,000,000 to indivi t duals including the E-Bond sales, 1 and $8,076,000,000 in corporation i sales. The formal counting period i for corporation sales ends tomor f row at midnight but counting of » purchases by individuals as a part 1 of the Victory Loan drive continue* - until the end of the year. 1 The plea by the two major labor 5 organizations was made in tele t grams sent to union organizers and locals and called upon them to “do i everything necessary to put the 1 drive over the top by Decem i ber 31.” Although national sale* 5 of all securities to all investors ex - ceeded the $11,000,000,000 goal, , the telegrams pointed out that'the r E bond goal of $2,000,000,000 still l must be met. ; The union pleas quoted Secre 1 tary of the Treasury Vinson as say i ing that success in reaching the : quota jvas “vital to the nation’* ; welfare and to the meeting of thi* I country’s immediate obligation* growing directly out of the war.” SHOPPING OKfS^C i l
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