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5e™1 THE SUNmk^..djEWS m L-—~ <ftvnfl(g g©isir ginrv©i? (?®©®Enig§ amib iPiuigAgyi¥Vg ^- ; aSTlL—N'Q- 51-____ _WILMINGTON, N. C„ SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1915__28 PAGES TODAY_FINAL EDITION ports Board Asks FWA For Survey Funds files Application For Ad vance of $90,000 For State-wide Study ENDORSED BY CHERRY Contract Approved Witl ' Robert Firm To Make Preliminary Survey •jjjC North Carolina State Ports Authority has made application to the Bureau of Community Facili ties of the Federal Works Agency for an advance of $90,000 to make • preliminary survey of the state’s po wtial tonnage, port economic outlook and prepare accurate cost estimates for development of its ports, K. B. Page, chairman of the Authority, announced here yester day. The action was taken under Title V of the War Mobilization and Re conversion act of 19*1. This law authorizes the FWA to advance monies to non-federal public agen ces 10 assist in the preparation of plans for worthy post-war pro ipcfS. Approved By Cherry Fully endorsed by Governor R. Gregg Cherry, the tiling of the ap plication comes after extensive work by the commission, includ ing approval of a contract with the irm of Robert and Company, .Inc., of Atlanta, Ga., consulting archi tects and engineers, to make the state-wide study. The Robert com pany. in turn, has begun negotia tions with the Frederick R. Har ris company, of New York, tc carry out details of the survey. In his recommendations of the undertaking, Governor Cherry has written Oliver T. Ray, of the FWA’s Atlanta office, that granting of the application “to cover, the cost oi mak'ng an economic survey, com pleting preliminary plans, pre paration of accurate cost estimates and other essential data will per mit this authority to take the next step in the contemplated construc tion of public port facilities at the ports ol North Carolina. The Au thority has been authorized anc directed to construct upon a self liquidating basis such facilities un der the Act of the General Assem bly of North Carolina creating the Authority.” ‘The proposed public work is ar essential and integral part of the over-all plan for the devlopmen of ports ir. North Carolina and it: resources as determined by the studies of needs of the State under my administration. "The above request for fund (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2 BEACH ASKS OPA 10 LIFT CEILINGS Wiightsville Aldermen Sai Conditions Warrant End 01 Rent Controls The Mayor nid board of Alder “an of the town of Wrightsvilli Beach yesterday petitioned the ren division o£ the Office of Price Ad ministration to consider the liftinj °f rent controls at the resort com munity. hi a letter written to Mauric Moore, head of the local rent di !‘si°n of thc OPA, on behalf of th oie mayor and aldermen and sign edby R. L. Benson, town clerk, th' tw;n officials said: At a meeting of the mayor am earcl of aldermen of the Towi “ Wrightsville Beach held Dec ’ 1 was directed to advis ■ ou that the board feels, due to th ;'e“Vy decrease in year-round li\ the situation fully justi 1PS the lifting of all rent" control rightsville Beach, and we rc ^ontiiiuecl on Page Two; Col. 4 Legion Post To Induct 500 World War II Vets of vr Gal!oway- executive director Ca Kington Post No. 10, Ameri Legion, has announced that the of some 500 candidates m be he!d in the Cape Fear Ar the^r p14 Market Street, instead of Planned^'10'1 Home as orieinany ThmeJnitiation. which will be held %dP/y night’ Dec- 20, will be L.' rn 11110 tbree Phases with a lion u-k61, ng Preceeding the initia dancoT wiU be followed by a 8 p m lllp meeting will be held at suPper, attended by candidates and members, will b® held in the Legion home from &%o 7 p. m. All festivities leading up to the dance will be brief, Galloway said with the post meeting and initiation being held to a minimum of time. There will be no speakers, although a short program has been arrang ed for the pre-initiation ceremonies which will be in the nature of a sur prise. Donald King, commander of the local post, will be in charge of the meeting with Judge John J. Burney having charge of the initiation. A (Continued on Page Six; Col, 4) Mrs. Patton Arrives To See Husbr _; sS Mrs. George S. Patton is shown as she arrived at the Heidelberg Hospital in Germany to see her husband, Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., who was gravely injured in an auto accident. She is accompanied by Lieut. Gen. Goeffrey Keyes. A A m v ■m Air Service Inaugural Postponed Until Today WEATHER GOVERNS Ceremonies Planned Yes terday at Bluethenthal Re Scheduled to 1:49 P. M. National Airline’s inaugural flight into Wilmington, already postpon ed one day because of adverse weather conditions, was scheduled .to be completed this afternoon at 1:49 o’clock with the arrival of a south-bound Lockheed Lodestar at Bluethenthal airport. Completion of the flight, how ever, still hinges upon the smile or frown of the weatherman . MacDonald Bryan, NAL public relations representative, told the Star-News by telephone from Wash ington, D. C., last night that the outlook for favorable weather was good from that end of the route. “Captain Clyde Andrews, the : first employe of NAL more than 11 years ago, will be the pilot of the New York-Miami plane which . will land at Bluethenthal at 1:49 ■ p.m.,” Bryan said. Two NAL vice-presidents were to 3 have flown in on the first plane to land in Wilmington, under 1 schedules which called for the in augural flight yesterday, Bryan said, but bad flying weather in the eastern half of the United States intervened and will prevent them 1 from participating in the cere I mony. “1 was to have been on the first plane as a representative of the r president of NAL,” Bryan said, “but I am very sorry I will not be able to get to Wilmington Sunday. I am attending a meeting of an air transport group here in Washing ton.” Letters To Mayor : Accompanying Captain Andrews, t NAL chief pilot, to Wilmington this ■ afternoon in the event the flight is ! completed will be personal letters - of congratulation to Mayor W. Ronald Lane from mayors of New : Orleans, Miami, Tampa, Jackson - ville, Fla., and New York city, 5 Bryan said. Stewardess aboard the plane will , be Miss Margaret Watson, assist ant Chief Stewardess of NAL. . Although welcoming plans of city 1 and county officials will be some 1 what altered by the shifted date, ■ Addison Hewlett, chairman of the J board of county, commissioners, 5 and W. Ronald Lane, mayor of " Wilmington, both indicated dele - gations from the city and county s will be on hand to greet the first - commercial airliner to stop in Wil ) (Continued on Page Six; Col. 7) »*« w w First Cover Air Mail For NAL Flight Being Held For Philatelists All first cover mail—collec tor’s items—deposited with the Wilmington postoffice for yes terday’s inaugural flight, can celled by weather conditions, out of this city will be held r.nd forward today, Wilbur Dosher, postmaster, announced last night. Several hundred letters bear ing distinctive first-mailing markings were sent into the postoffice for cancellation and shipment aboard the first flight of National Afrlineu from here. Weather permitting, the flight is scheduled for this afternoon, and oboard the plane will be the first covers, the postmaster said. JAPANESE PRINCE COMMITS SUICIDE Former Premier Konoye Was. Facing U. S. Arrest As War Criminal TOKYO, Sunday, Dec. 16.—(U.R)— Prince Fumimaro Konoye, three time premier of Japan facing ar rest as a war criminal, committed suicide last might in nis Tokyo residence. The announcement was mad^Jpy Gen. Douglas MacArthur's herd quarters at 9:45 a. m. MacArthur’s officer said the prince,, who was to have surrendered today at Sugamo prison on war criminal charges, took poison. Headquarters said the informa tion came through Allied counter intelligence, which received word through the Jepanese Central Liai son office which presumably had a first hand account from KSnoye’s home. Konoye’s intimates s^id the prince, known as one, of the youhgest ft Japan’s “elder states men”; had been agitated, and de tr*nn4i>.»/wi nr..,,.. er\ WEATHER FORECAST^fcL North Carolina — Partly cloudy ^id colder Sunday; fair and colder Sunday night. Monday,* increasing cloudiness, slightly higher temperatures. (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours Hiding 7:30 p.m. yesterday. Temperatures 1:30 a.m. 43; 7:30 a.m. 4x; 1:30 p.m. 38; 7:30 p.m. 36. Maximum 41; Minimum 36; Mean 38; Normal 49. Maximum 41; Minimum7fhrdlit et et Humidity Jp?. 1:30 a.m. —; 7:30 a.m. 93; l^ p.m. 93; 7:30 p.m. 95. Precipitation 'W&! Total for 24 hours ending 7:3»^m.— 0.50 inches. oTtal since the first of the Month— 3.87 inches. Tides For Today (From the Tide Tables puolished by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Slirvey) High High Wilmington _ 7:16 a.m. 1:49 a.m. 7:40 p.m. 2:30 p.m. Masonboro Inlet - 5:06 a.m. 11:30 a.m. 5*:28 p£m. 11:41 p.m. Sunrise 7:11; Sunset 5:0o; Moonrise 3:17 p.m.; Moonset 4:10 a.m. River Stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, 12.2 feet and Fri day, Dec. 14, 12.3 feet. \ United States Is Named Site Of UNO Office * Preparator Commission De cides To Meet Monday To Select City UNANIMOUS VOTE Vote Follows Bitter Battle Marked By Arguments Over Procedure By FLORA LEWIS LONDON, Dec. 15.— <£>> —The United States was chosen today as the permanent home of the United Nations organization after a long, lard-fought battle, and the prepara tory commission decided to me#t^ Monday to select the city in which the world peace agency will be located. The selection becomes final with the stamp of approval of the Gen eral Assembly, and Belgian and French delegates, who with Brit ish delegates led the fight for a European site, said the choice would not be challenged again. The United States won out on a roll call vote of 30 to 14, with six nations, including the United States, abstaining. Previously the delegates voted down a motion fav oring a European site by a tally of 25 to 23. Unanimous Motion Canada, which cast its ballot for Europe, moved successfully to make the vote for the United States unanimous. The motion was sec onded by British minister of state Philip J. Noel Baker, who had fought throughout for a European site. > Baker said "his Majesty’s gov ernment will do everything in their power to make the organization a great success.’’ Addressing the delegates, -Adlai Stevensen, U. S. representative, asked them not tov harbor any feel ing over the vote?. He told tto«p} “the United States is iil for keeps this time.” Voting for the United. States of the roll call were Argentina, Aus tralia, Bolivia, Brazil, Byelo-Rus sia, Chile, China, Cuba, Czechoslo vakia, the Dominican republic, Egyfit, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, . Iran, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philip pines, Poland, the Soviet Union, Turkey, the Ukrainian Republic, Urguay, Venezuela and Yugoslavia. Voting p gainst the United States were Bei^ um, Canada, Denmark, France, Greece, Iraq, Lebanon, Liberia, Luxembourg, the Nether lands, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Un nion of South Africa and the United Kingdom. Abstaining were Colombia, Ecuador, Ethiopia, New Zealand, Syria and the United States. The vote was preceded by a (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) HESS’ PROPOSALS WERE ULTIMATUM Nazi Offered British Choice Between Surrender Or Destruction NUERNERG, Dec. 15. —(U.R)— The ’’peace proposal” which Rudolf Hess brought to Britain in May 1941 actually was an arrogant ultima tum offering the British a choice betveen immediate surrender or destruction and permanent enslave ment to Germany, the United Press learned today. An authoritative source disclosed fn detail for the first time the six point ‘‘peace bargain” offered by Adolf Hitler’s right-hand man in a last maneuver to clear Germa ny's western flank for the war against Russia. Hess’ proposals were made oral ly and in writing to both the Duke of Hamilton, on whose estate in Scotland he landed after a drama (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) ----- SNOW, SLEET FALL THRO! (HJTN.C-. White Mantle Covers Most Of Western Section; - Little Relief Seen • By The Associated Press North Carolinians yesterday dug ofl't from under their second gen eral snowfall in three days, but the weatherman last night pre dicted little likelihood' of another snow today. Continued cold, however, is fore cast, along with the prospect of clearing skies. Like the snow of Thursday, yes terday’s mantle of white appeared general throughout the central and western portion of the state. Un like that ■ of earlier in the , week, however, the Saturday snow was not accompanied by sleet. Little, if any, transportation difr ficulties were noted in the state during yesterday's snowfall, which began early in the morning and continued until mid-afternoon. Asheville reported some highways in a semi-cold condition after a day—long coating of snow, but buses and other public vehicles were reported operating1 on sched ule—or near schedule. The same section of the. state reported the lowest temperatures of the day, with a high of 27 re ported late in the afternoon, shorj ly before the snow stopped fall ing. a Low of 30 in Kaieign Raleigh reported a day’s h}gh of 40 and a low of 30, with snow which continued until 6 o’clock last night. Traffic was not hindered to any real degree, however. In Charlotte, more than an infh of snow added another layer to a ground still white^gom Thursday’s snowfall. A low temperature of 20 degrees was expected betore the night was over. High for the day, recorded at 1 >30 p. m., yes terday, was -35, but the tempera ture hovered around 32 during most of the day. Meanwhile, intensely cold weath er pushed down from the North Pole knd threatened last night to overspread virtually the entire con tinent to the Gulf of Mexico and eastward from the Rockies to the Atlantic coast. Forecasters in . Chiqagos said there was “nothing in sight to break” the cold spell at least un til Wednesday. New temperature records for today through Wednes day might be set-' TRUMAN TELLS CHINA TO END CIVIL STRIFE AND COOPERA TE IF IT WANTS HELP FROM U. S. ----+ - 'in MARSHALL GIVEN. LONG DIRECTIVE President Says U. S. Peac$ Hopes Based On Collec tive Security j By EDWIN H. NEWMAN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-* (UP)—President Truman to night bluntly told the Chinese to stop fighting each other and get together at once i£ they want U. S. help in their economic crisis. The President announced this country’s policy toward China in a tightly-packed 1, 200-word statement as his newest diplomatic envoy, Gen George C. Marshall, flew toward Chungking in a four-engined C-54 Skymaster. Marshall, replacing Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley, carried with, him a detailed directive from the President based on the policy statement made public by the White House. The five-star former Army Chief of Staff is scheduled to arrive in Chungking next Thurs day. Mr. Truman prefaced his state ment with the declaration that this country is staking its hopes for world peace and prosperity upon “the ability of the Soverign Nations to combine for collective security in the United Nations or ganization.” stop 10 rigiuuig With that as his text, he called upon China to cease internal hos tilities immediately and arrange a National conferenjoe of all major political e!*mento to unify the country democratically. One of Marshall’s first tasks presum ably will be to bring these two things to pass. A strong, united and Democratic China, the President said, is es sential to the success of the “Unit ed Nations and for world peace.” China therefore has “a clear Nations, he said, “to eliminate responsibility to the other United armed conflict within its territory as constituting a threat to world stability and peace.” “The government of the United States,” the President said, “Be lieves it essential: 1. That a cessation of hostilities be arranged between the armies of the National government and the Chinese Communists and other dissident Chinese armed forces for the purose of completing the re turn Of all China to effective Chi nese control, including the imme diate evacuation of the Japanese xorces. ‘‘2. That a National conference of representatives of major poli tical elements be arranged to de velop an early solution to the pre sent internal striffe—a solution which will bring' about the uni fication of China.” Dealing' With National Mr. Truman repeated'this coun try’s intention of dealing solely with the present National govern ment of China, the only one re cognized by any of the United Na tions. He declared that the con tinued existence of the Communist army in China makes Chinese political unity impossible. All armed force in the country, he declared, must be “integarated effectively into the Chinese Na tional army.” But, the President said, tljp present one-party government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek must be ‘‘broadened to include other political elements.” And at the proposed National conference, he added, these other elements must be given “a fair and effec tive representation in the Chinese National government.” The President stated and re stated that this government is op posed to interference in the inter (Continued on Page Two; Col. I) CIO Calls On British Regime To Intervene In GM Walkout DETROIT, Dec. 15—(£>)—The CIO United Auto Workers, des cribing the British govern ment as a holder ,of General Motors corporation common stock, today asked Prime Mini ster Clement Attlee’s labor gov ernment to intervene in the 25 day-old GM strike. R. J. Thomas, UAW presi dent, disclosed that he had made a direct appeal in a let ter to the prime minister, but Attlee said at London, “I have not seen the letter.” Thomas suggested that the prime minister “make known” to the corporation his (Attlee’s feelings that “profits are in deed the concern of the workers and the owners of any com pany.” The UAW president said he was “reliably informed’’ that ‘as of October, 1945, the British government was the owner of 434,000 shares of General Mo tors common stocks, 36,000 shares of the common stock of Chrysler corporation and 34, 800 shares of common stock of the Briggs Manufacturing com pany.” A General Motors spokesman said Thomas’ disclosure was ‘news to me” and that any comment on the reported Brit ish interest in GM would “have to come from the companys stock transfer division at New York.” The GM official said the com pany has 40,000,000 shares of common stock and 3,500,000 shares of preferred. stock out standing. At Washington, Charles Campbell, chief of the British information service, said today that the British government owns a block of GM stock out right and controls the stock’s voting rights. Campbell said no official re port had been released on the extent of the British holdings and he added he was unable to (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) AAF Unable To Give Possible Future Plans At Bluethenthal HOLD CONFERENCE Explain Why Myrtle Beach Field Selected For Per manent Status WASHINGTON, Dec. 15—Repre sentatives of the Army Air Forces could not say what activities “may be possible at Bluethenthal field when the size of the Air corps has been fixed by Congress,” Repre sentative J. Bayard Clark, of the Seventh congressional district, said here this afternoon after a con ference with officers from the of fice'of General H. H. Arnold, com manding general of the USAAF. “These gfentlemen,” Rep. Clark added, “have a fine opinion of the airport established (at Bluenthen thal) originally to safeguard a gainst submarine warfare off the coast.” • > . . The AAF officers, General Mc Intyre and Col. E. V. Schuyler, told Rep. Clark that Bluethenthal field IS considered one of two or three best airports in the nation and that if the activities were to be the same at both points no consideration would be given to any proposal to remove to Myrtle Beach. The Myrtle Beach airport has been placed on a permanent basis* AAF Selected Sites Rep. Clark said he saw no rea son to doubt that the report given him by thp AAF officers “that no one outside the Air corps knew anything at all . about the selection and location of airports to be used by the Air corps during the intenim until ' congress definitely fixes the post-war size of the Army and the Air corps until the same had been completely finished and an nounced and such selections were made with ap eye single to the future defense of the country. “The necessity was explained of having areas over which crews may have actual practice in drop ping bombs on ground targets and firing their guns at ground targets. Of these there are only two in the (Continued on Page Six; Cdl. 7) CHRISTMAS SEAL SALES ARE SLOW Tuberculosis Campaign Chairman Reports Delay In Receipts of Stamps Receplents of Christmas Seal stamp letters have been asked to reply to them by Christmas, Dr. John C. Wessell, said yesterday, disclosing that the returns indicate a lag in the 1945 campaign. “The response to the appeal and the messages enclosed With contri butions gives evidence of a wide spread interest in the tuberculosis program in .New Hanover county,” Dr. Wessell stated. “However, some seals are unac counted for,” he continued. “We feels spme of these may have been mislaid or forgotten,” the Doctor said. ‘We can forget Christmas seals, but we cannot forget tuber culosis,” he stressed. The tuberculosis association re ports the sale of Christmas Seals has tripled the number of cases which are being treated. “Many of those <jjjs.es would have been neglected if it had been for the sale of seals,” Dr. Wessell de clared. SOISE NOT NEAR JAPANESE FORCE Investigators Told Cruiser Could Not Have Seen Its Approach WASHINGTON, Dec. _15—«)— Pearl Harbor investigators re ceived a Navy report today that the U. S. cruiser Boise was never closer than 1400 miles to the Japa nese task force which struck Ha waii Dec. 7, 1941,- and thus could not have seen its approach. This reply to a question raised early in the hearings—whether the Boise sighted the Japanese force but did not report it because of orders for radio silence—came dur ing a session marked by continued bickering among Republicans and Democrats. At its close, Senator Lucas (D-Ill) told reporters the committee should find out how and where Gov. Thomas E. Dewey learned this country had “broken” Japan’s codes. Lucas had drawn from Lt. Gen. Leonard T. Gerow, the day’s wit ness, an expression of opinion earlier that any military officer who deliberately disclosed the secret in wartime would deserve the death penalty. From Gen. George C. Marshall, the committee had heard last week that he learned during the 1944 presidential campaign that Dewey apparently had learned of the code-cracking. Marshall gave the committee copies of letters in which he appealed to the Republi can nominee not to disclose the secret. Marshall testified that Dewey, in addition to keeping the secret, offered to help quiet agitation in Congress for an investigation of Pearl Harbor. He said some mili tary men feared the Japanese might deduce from the Congress ional talk that their codes were being read. Rep. Gearhart (R-Calif) origin ally raised the Boise issue. He said early in the hearings that he was informed the ship’s crew had seen the Japanese force. He de manded that the Boise’s log be produced. Gerhard Gesell, cheif assistant counsel, announcing he had the log, read it into the record. It recorded that in late evening of Nov. 27, 1941, while convoying merchant ships to the Philippines, the Boise (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) Mother Is Charged With Murder In Kidnap Hoax *y LEWIS MARCY United Press Staff Correspontent CHELSEA, Mass., Dec. 15.—(A*) —Sobbing and alone, pretty Rose Carlan, inventor of a kidnap hoax that enlisted the nation’s sympathy for 16 days, today was formally ac cused of murdering her six-month old baby and. committed to a psy chopathic hospital for a 10-clay test of her sanity. Machinist’s Mate Second Class James J. Carlan, her youthful sail or husband, never saw the baby Ronald who, according to the moth er, died unattended in his crib al most three weeks ago. Its body was under a cupboard in his mother’s bedroom while police were search ing for a kidnaper. A physician had ministered to Carlan’s tortur ing emotional shock with a power ful sedative and he was deep in a merciful drug-induced sleep. Last night, when he learned that his baby had been dead all along and his 23-year-old wife had been lying and was to be charged with murde he leaped at her, shrieking he would kill her. But later he hug ged and kissed her and said he would be faithful in her trouble. (Continued on Page Six; Col. 6) v Conference Of Big Three Foreign Ministers Ooens MOSCOW, Dec. 15.— (U.R) —The momentous big three foreign min isters conference began today. U. S. Secretary of State James F, Byrnes went to the Kremlin tc see Soviet Foreign Commissar Vya cheslav M. Molotov. British For eign Secretary Ernest Bevin ar rived-by plane at Moscow airpori in the early morning hours, after a storm-tossed flight from Berlin. He was to confer with Molotov this afternoon.' There was no immediate official wohd on the first formal get to gether of the three principals which was opening of the big three for eign ministers conference slated for this evening: A two-day snow* i storms prevented some of the An glo-American parties from reach ing Moscow on schedule. Bevin’s plane drilled through the storm to a safe landing in Moscow at 1:30 a. m., but three accom panying planes bearing his advis ers and a group of British embassy personnel were forced to tui., back. Soviet Foreign Vice-Commissar Andrei Vishinsky headed the offic ial Russian welcoming committee for Bevin, and he stood by, smiling (Continued on Page Six; Col. 7)j *■ i