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FORECAST Served By Leased Wires - UNITED PRESS Wilmington and vicinity: Increasing ASSOCIATED PRESS cloudiness, probable rains during the day f il. with clearing tonight and fair and mild OI. , Saturday. Lowest temperatures tonight an“ “,e 38 to 40 degrees. With Complete Coverage of i___ State and National News NQ~ 39,_ WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1945 ESTABLISHED 1867 BOMB KILLS 7 IN HOLY CITY JERUSALEM, Dec. 27—(jP)—Un jficial estimates tonight placed ,1,5 dead at seven and the wounded v to 10 following today’s explo sions which damaged a three-block ' ea in the heart of Jerusalem and art allv destroyed the central po L bui'd.ng. The explosions were believed to have been caused by bombs thrown from automobiles. Assistant Superintendent of Po ;:{:e Denis Flanagan was among J'tose wounded in the sporadic shooting which accompanied the blasts. He was hit by machine gun bUuets while inspecting a teller mj„e found near a movie house several blocks from the scene of the main blast. The heaviest blast was in the police building, housing the crim [u a i investigation department, which borders on Jaffa road, the main thoroughfare in the modern part of the city. Police, hospital and military removed bodies on stretchers, and quads of men still were digging through high piles of debris around the headquarters. It was reported here that one Jewish constable was killed in a similar 'demonstration, which oc cured at about the same time in the all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv, where nine Jews were killed and 75 wounded a month ago in the last serious outbreak in the Holy Land. The reports from Tel Aviv said the criminal investigation depart ment headquarters there also was attacked, and spirited bursts of gunfire, sounding like tommy guns, were heard throughout the city. In Jerusalem one entire side, several floors high, was blown completely out of the police head quarters. Chunks of concrete lit tered the streets and flying glass was scattered over the entire neighborhood. Windows of shops in a three-block area were shattered. Two of the highest ranking Pales tine police officers narrowly es caped death from the explosions. The officers were Inspector Gen eral Rymer Jones, chief of the Palestine police force, and his dep- , uty. It was believed here that J saboteurs hurled bombs at the buildings as they raced past in automobiles, firing guns in the di rection of the headquarters. British Throw Military Cordon Around Batavia COMMUNISTS LAY PLANS ON TABLE leaders Place In Writing, Proposals For Peace In China Bv SPENCER MOOSA AP Staff Correspondent CHUNGKING, Dec. 27—(IP) — Chinese Communists, meeting gov ernment leaders to arrange for full-dress peace discussing, sub mitted in writing today their plan for a truce to end China’s civil turmoil. ‘‘All we can cto is hope,” de clared Chou En-rai, head of the Communist delegation, on emerg in® from the preliminary confer ence at which the rival factions met formally for the first time since Nov. 17. Then he set off for a dinner honoring Gen. George C. Marshall at the home of Walter Robertson, lT. S. Charge D’Affaires, also at tended by representatives of the government and China’s Demo cratic League. Zchou insisted the plan—text of which was withheld—called for an ‘unconditional” truce, but the gov ernment had asserted that as made orally last week it contained some booby traps. , Chou outlined it as calling for a "cease fire” order by each side, settling all problems peacefully and dispatching non-partisan ob servers to the fronts to make a re port. . ^ The government charged the oral plan would require its troops to withdraw from the railroads and would freeze in present positions their forces now moving into Man churia. The government was represented as seeing the latter condition as a stiff barrier to acceptance of.the Communist plan. In fact, there was a report cur rent that the government would ask the Russians to postpone their Ian. 3 withdrawal from Man churia because National forces still had too far to go before being ■ready to take over the administra tion of the vast and rich territory. Associated Press correspondent Spencer Davis in a dispatch from Pciping said advanc*e units of Na tional occupation forces were sev en miles northeast of Tahusban, "hich is more than 60 miles south west of Mukden, Manchuria’s largest city. A score of high government of ncials left Peiping by plane for Changchun, the Manchurian capi tal. to assist advance groups in taking over the civil administra tion, Davis said. The presence in Chungking of Marshall, America’s special envoy •Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) By VERN HAUGLAND An' Staff Correspondent BATAVIA, Dec. 27 —(JF)— The British threw a military cordon around Batavia today as Lt. Gen. Sir Philip Christison, Allied com mander in the Netherlands East Indies, notified Indonesian leaders he was taking more active meas ures to restore order in Java and appealed for their cooperation. , (London dispatches said Prime Minister Attlee had begun talks this afternoon with Dutch officials including Premier Wilhelm Schem erhorn and Dr. H. J. Van Mook, acting Governor General in the Netherlands Indies, in an effort to settle the Indonesian crisis. (The British government was said to be pressing the Dutch to recognize the self-proclaimed Indo nesian republic,) Christison Said he had asked the aid of the Indonesian Peace Preser vation Corps (TKR) in maintain ing order, and this afternoon cer tain units were already being equipped by the British to be used as auxiliary military police. The cordon was thrown around the Java capital in order to check identity of people leaving and en tering the city and thus prevent an inflow of terrorists and bandits, the British said. The move was rep resented as preliminary to estab lishment of peaceful conditions in the city, scene of many disorders. Christison, after conferring with Premier Sutan Sjahrir and Infor mation Minister Amir Sjarifuddin of the unrecognized Indonesian re public, issued a statement reiterat ing that the British were in Java “in pursuance of an Anglo-Ameri can decision allocating the respon (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) BRITISH DRAMATIST WANTS SIMPLE FORM OF ALPHABET SET UP LONDON, Dec. 27—(/P)—George Bernard Shaw appealed today to the British government to appoint a committee to draft a new Eng lish alphabet “with which every sound in our speech can be writ ten with the grarhic and easily written symbol without even crosses or dots.” Shaw, who has campaigned' be fore for simplification of the alpha bet, said in a letter to the Times, that adoption of his proposals would soon pay the cost of the war in tjme saved. Using the word “bomb]’ as an example, Shaw said the final “B” was “entirely senseless” and rep resented “an absurd mispronun ciation, as if the word ‘gun’ were to be spelt ‘gung’.” “I can scribble the word ‘bomb’ barely legibly 18 times in one minute,” Shaw said, “and ‘bom’ 24 times, a saving of 15 per cent.” The result, he argued, is stag gering enough to justify a priority for a new alphabet, “no matter what it costs.” _ Meat Ball Returns Home But Note Mystery Remains TAMPA, Fla., Dec. 27. — (U.PJ — ive-year-old Patsy Duerling got , r. pet Dachshund, meat ball, Jack today but the mystery sur r°undiiig an anonymous "Kidnap' n°te, instead of being solved, grew even deeper. The dog disappeared yesterday and in the afternoon mail Patsy Received a penny postcard on which as scrawled in a childish hand: Just to let U know by the time L, get this, me and the little dog V'1' he a hundret miles from Tam pa- He will have a good home. Thanks.” Patsy's father, war veteran John "piling, who brought the dog from Germany in his Muisette bag, offered a $50 reward for the dog’s return and a Tampa newspaper carried the story. The dog was found on the other side of the city when a reader call, ed the newspaper saying he had seen a dog which answered Meat Ball’s description, i The people who had the dog said they found him tied to their porch. Meat Ball was mascot for the 274th Infantry in Zorn, Germany, and was known as “Bugs” by men in Duerling’s outfit. Patsy and her playmates promptly changed that to Meat Ball when the dog arrived. Foreign^Ministers Draft Blueprint For / pjmic Power Control; Unionists Threaten Electrical, Phone Walk-outs GM Agrees I To Attend Conference HOPE FOR ACCORD Labor Conciliators To Meet Jan. 2 In Last Minute Effort to Avert Strike By The Associated Press The possibility of two big strikes increased the nation’s industrial problems last night, while General Motors corporation, party to an other dispute, announced its repre sentative would .attend President Truman’s fact-finding hearing to day to present a formal statement regarding the company’s position “with respect to further proceed ings.” The new strikes—notices of which have been served by two unions— would affect the electrical and tele phone industries. Officials of the CIO United Elec trical, Radio and Machine Work ers in New? York termed a walk out of 200,000 workers in plants of General Motors, Westinghouse and General Electric “inevitable” and said it might be called late next week. The government hoped a meeting set for Jan. 2 between Federal la bor conciliators, General Electric and Westinghouse might avert the strike. The executive board of the - ERMW meets Jan. 5 to arrange the walkout, authorized by the union membership in support of de-^ _ mands for a $2 a day wage rate increase. Negotiations between the union and General Motors are con tinuing. Meanwhile, independent union - spokesmen said a nationwide work stoppage by telephone employes might result from a strike set for next Thursday by Western Electric company workers in the New York New Jersey area. Henry Mayei, counsel for the Independent Western Electric Em ployes Association, affiliated with the Independent National Federa- ( tion of Telephone' Workers, said the Western Electric strikers would establish picket lines around tele phone companies in New York and New Jersey Jan. 3. The Western Electric workers are seeking a 30 per cent wage increase. Mayer said that if the strike continued and “additional pressure” was believed necessary to support the wage demand, picket lines would spread to all (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) GRAND JURY HITS LAX POLICE WORK - j MIAMI, Fla,, Dec. 27. —UP)— ' The Dade county grand jury to day charged that law enforcement 1 officers in the greater Miami area 1 were failing to prosecute gam blers because they believed the : public wants gambling. The jury 1 urged the indictment of any state i officials in derelict in their luty. In a sweeping recommendation aimed at what it called “flourish ing games of chance, the grand 1 jury urged removal of city and county officials who fail to take action against gambling, and sin gled out the Bolita lottery as a “vi cious’’ form of gambling. Emphasizing that “the public of ficial primarily responsible for en forcement of the gambling laws is the Sheriff of Dade county” the grand jury said: , “This grand jury is not impress- , ed by the suggestion that the • Sheriff cannot stop major gambling j operations because of a lack of , manpower or other technical diffi- . eulties.” The grand jury also recommend. , El: < That the telephone company, to j suppress horse race booking, “in- J crease its efforts to deny service to known violators of the gambling j laws.” 1 That Western Union, upon pres entation of proper evidence, be or- ] dered to “discontinue a leased wire $ service which it has reason to be- ; lieve is being utilized by book- 1 makers.’’ i That where a conviction for gam. i bling is obtained, the entire build- ] ing in which gambling was con- i ducted be padlocked. 1 That the act licensing coin-op erated amusement machines be re- ] vealed. : i ' 1 HERE IS AN HONEST MAN Pat J. Sullivan (left) of Chattanooga, Tenn., is an honest man— and has proved it in no uncertain manner. From time to time in the past, his landlord, R. Frank Smith, gave him money, telling him to save it for the education of Smith’s son, Frank Joseph Smith (right). Smith died Dec. 1. No one knew about the money itntil Sullivan brought out the old tin can the other day. In the presence of the Smith Eamily, he counted out $15,590, mostly in' small bills. The Smiths have Eiled a bill in Chancery court to legally make Sullivan trustee of the fund. (AP Photo). Socony Plans8,000,000 Gallon Oil Plant Here PRESIDENT PLANS TO RETURN TODAY KANSAS, City, Dec. 27. —®— ^resident Truman ordered his big D-54 readied tonight for his return ;o Washington'as his Christmas holiday came to an end with mother round of visiting and hand shaking. The “Sacred Cow’” in which he Hew to Kansas C.'ty Christmas Day, was scheduled to take off at 9:30 i. m. EST tomorrow for the capital where he will begin work on a na tion-wide speech to the people. The President’s activities today were highlighted by an informal unch where he was guest of news laper, radio and photographic rep resentatives who accompanied him in his trip to Missouri. • The Chief Executive was in a ovial mood. Earlier in the day he lad dropped by the offices of his lometown newspaper the Indepen ience Examiner, where he talked with Col. William Southern its own ;r since 1898, and members of the itaff. From there he went to his offices n the Federal building to shake lands with upwards of 200 callers, ncluding Eddie Jacobson, his form :r haberdashery store partner. Others who stopped to see the Continued on Page Two; Col. t) Addition Will Boost Local Facilities To 92,000,000 The combined capacity of Wil mington’s oil terminals will be in creased to more than 90,000,000 gallons with the completion here of the Socony-Vacuum company’s 8,000,000-gallon plant in late 1946, it was disclosed from a check ol existing terminal facilities here. Construction work on the Socony terminal has just been Started here on the east bank of the Cape Fear river south of Wilmington. News of the construction of the plant was confirmed yesterday in Philadelphia and Baltimore by of ficials of Socony's southeastern di vision. The Chicago Bridge and Iron Works are contractors in charge and it is expected that the terminal will be operating late in 1946. Location of the terminal will be on a 30-acre site adjoining the At lantic Refining company’s termi nal on the south. Socony officials said some of the property had been acquired from Atlantic. xhe plant will be known as the Wilmington terminal ar.d will serve most of North Carolina and some parts of South Carolina, George Walker, southeastern division man ager of Socony said yesterday. A similar terminal is now un'der con struction ir Charleston, S. C., and (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) ACL Operating Income Drops Over $5.000,000 - The net railway operating in come of the Atlantic Coast Line Iropped more than $5,000,000 for 1 montths ending Nov.- 30, 1945, rom the same period in 1944, the lompany’s statement of revenues ind expenses showed today. For the period in 1945 this income ras $6,809,685 as compared with 11",984,783 in 1944. For the same iericd in 1943 the net income was 14,164,029. The income also showed a drop rom $933,279 for November, 1944, o $820,825 in November, 1945. The company’s total operating evenues for November 1945 were 10,702,662? For the same period in 944 these were $12,962,390, slightly ligher than 1943’s $12,398,137. Total evenues for the first 11 months n 1945 were $128,040,141 as com lared with $142,655,850 for the same eriod in 1944 and $140,342,637 in 943. In November, 1945, operating ex lenses were $9,143,645 and for the ame month in 1944, $7,946,045, and $7,289,574 for November, 1943, in dicating a greater operating ex pense with lowered revenues as compared with the two previous years for the same period. Operating expenses also were higher for the first 11 months of this year as compared with 1944 and 1945. They were $97,075,809 for the period in 1945, $84,611 606 in 1944 and $73,463,286 in 1943. Net operating revenues for Nov ember, 1945, were $1,559,017 as compared with $5,016,345 for the month in 1944 and $5,108,563 in 1943.' Net operating revenues for the first 11 months of this year were $30, 964,332, $58 044,244 in 1944, and $66,879,351 in 1943. Amount set aside for taxes in November, 1945, was $600,000 as compared with $3,750,000 for the month in 1944 and $4,000,000 in 1943. This amount for the first 11 months in 1945 was $20,750,000, $42,000 000 in 1944, and $48,250,000 in 1943. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) i r-¥ STORK ON STRIKE AT SEA HORSE TANK; SITUATION IN HAND CHARLESTON, S. C:, Dec. 27—(A1)—No stork is hovering over the Sea Horse tank at the Charleston Museum, G. Robert Lunz, Jr., curator of Crustacea and Sea Horse fanc'er, decided today. Mr. Lunz reluctantly de cided that no youngsters could be expected before next spring. Sea Horses have been known to have 700 offspring at one birth, and expectations of a blessed event in their tank had caused worry about the hous ing shortage, however, a re check of the situation has been made, with the result that no additions to the family are contemplated before the vernai season. FATE OF VALMORE REMAINS MYSTERY The fate of the Valmore, two masted schooner cast adrift by her towboat, Dunworkin, near Frying Pan shoals about dawn Christmas morning, appeared early today to be another of the countless mys teries of the sea. Coast Guard and Army planes at dusk last night had completed the third straight day of searching for the 65-foot yacht that had set out from Morehead City Monday morn ing in tow for southern waters. No trace of the yacht, its wreck age, or its four-man crew had been sighted. Two Coast Guard planes from the Charleston base, two Army planes-feam- the dfarleston Army airfield, and two Coast Guard planes from the Elizabeth City base had scanned the watery wastes from Charleston almost as far north as Norfolk, Va., ranging as far out as 200 miles to sea—still without a trace of the luckless vessel. Capt. S. C. Linholm, of the Elizabeth City Coast Guard station, told the Star last night that his planes had yesterday twice covered the area between Cape Lookout and Cape Hatteras and that the other planes had covered the ocean areas south io <~nanesion. Coast Guard headquarters in Charleston last night said the search would go on through today—and long as there was any hope of find ing the craft or its crew. But vete ran watermen were doubtful that any trace of the vessel would ever be found. Aboafd the schooner when she was the crew composed of four were the crew composed of four Morehead City men: J. V. Wat ters, 46, Dick Williams, 17, Paris Willis, 38, and his son, J. T. Willis, 17. The Valmore was cut adrift when the Dunworkin’s engines became disabled in heavy seas Christmas morning. The Dunworkin attempted to rescue the Valmore crew but the two' craft were blown away from each other by the 50-mile-an hour gale and the heavy seas. The Dunworkin was blown northeast ward from the point where the craft parted and late Christmas afternoon was beached at Wrights ville Beach where she broke to pieces. Aboard the Dunworkin was the father, Paul Williams, of Dick Williams, who was aboard the Val more.Others. in the Dunworkin’s crew were Capt. J. E. Howland and his brother, W. A. Howland, all of Morehead City. None of these men was injured when the Dun workin was beached although all of them suffered from exposure after their day-long battle, with the heavy Christmas day seas which, Capt. Howland reported, mounted “as high as a house.” WEATHER (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. yesterday Temperatures 1:30 a.m. 46; 7:30 a.m. 38; 1:30 p.m. 57; 7:30 p.m. 49. Maximum 59; Minimum 36; Mean 46; Normal 48. Humidity 1:30 a.m. 74; 7:30 a.m. 90; 1:30 p.m. 49; 7:30 p.m. 83. Precipitation Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m.— - Inches. Total since the first of the month— - inches. Tides for Today (From the Tide Tables published by Ui, S. Coast and Geodetic Survey) HIGH LOW Wilmington_5:09 a.m. a.m. 5:23 p.m. 12:16 p.m. Masonboro Inlet 3:15 a m. 9:24 a.m. 3:22 p.m. 9:42 p.m. Sunrise 7:17 a.m.; Sunset 5:11 p.m»; Moonrise 1:53 a.m.; Moonset 1:32 p.m. River Stage at Fayetteville, N. C., at; 8 ^.m. Thursday - feet. BOARD TO FIX JAP POLICIES Gen. MacArthur To Remain In Charge Of Far East Direction Under 11-Nation, Unit; U. S.-Russia To Withdraw Troops By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL v AP Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—(iP>—As agreement on drafting the blue print for machinery to control atomic power, and accord on other problems ranging the globe, was announced tonight by the Foreign Secretaries of the U. S., Russia and Britain. Russia concurred in the plan proposal by the U. S. and Britain, RESCUE WORKERS REDOUBLE EFFORT Hope However, Fades Hourly That Pineville Miners May Be Alive By CLAY WADE BAILEY United Press Staff Correspondent PINEVILLE, Ky., Dec. 27.—(U.R) —Hope was gone but desperately weary men choking on smoke and gas fumes fought on against fire and rock slides in the dank depths of a coal mine tonight. Not one believed any longer that he was battling to reach and save human lives; each one believed his goal was a collection of corps es, those of the 31 or more min ers who were caught in the two mile long tunnel of t e Straight Creek Coal mine by an explosion at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday—the day after Christmas. The 100 would-be rescuers were so near to dropping from physical exhaustion that mine inspector James Bryson sent out an appeal through all the Kentucky soft coal region for trained mine rescue workers. But the men themselves, who had no more than four hours rest in the last 30 hours, would not even listen to suggestions of giving up. .ucuiiciiu eApic&acu uic emotion of all the workers. “I’ll keep right on working until we get those men dug out of there,” he said. Mills’ father, Frank, w.as one of the men. There was no chance whatever, mining experts said, that the en tombed men could be Reached be fore noon tomorrow and the pos (Contlnued on Page Two; Col. 3) COMMUNISTVOTERS STORM POLICE BOOTH IN ATHENS, GREECE ATHENS, Dec. 27 — (JP)- Com munist rioters stormed a police station in a suburb of Piraeus to day, as Minister of the Interior Constantine Rentis warned that the release of between 8,000 and 10,000 left-wing political prisoners might result in a wave of vengance kill ings throughout Greece. The Communists sought the re lease of two members of the KKE, Communist organization, who had been arrested for allegedly disarm ing a police officer. The Commu nists fought their way to the cell where the men were held, but were dispersed after arrival of reinforcements from Piraeus, Port of Athens. Rentis said that three members of the KKE, released recently from political imprisonment, were killed and one wounded in the Corinth district of Athens by relatives of victims slain in last winter’s dis turbances. W1U1 UUiiCUU, 111 Cl L U1C VU1VV.U 1’U’ tions should handle controls over atomic energy to “ensure its use only for peaceful purposes.” In a communique outlining re sults of their 11-day conference in Moscow, the three Foreign Minis ters announced agreement also on problems arising from Japan, Korea, China and Romania and Bulgaria. Thus, in a contrast to a non-pro ductive conference in London last September, Secretary of State Byrnes, Foreign Secretary Bevin of Britain and Foreign Commissar Molotov of Russia reached accord on troublesome questions world wide in scope and importance. They proposed in effect that the United Nations Security Council take on the job of atomic control, of eliminating fearsome atomic weapons and “all other major weapons adaptable to mass de struction” ■ from the arsenal* of all nations. They said the guestion of es tablishing « control commission would be laid Ijetore the United Nations General Assembly at its first meeting in London next month. Russia agreed to go along with a control formula that was jusl about what Britain and the United States, along with Canada, stig gested in November. But Russia got a louder voice in running conquered Japan. She had been hammering for months for an Allied Control Council. The three Foreign Ministers agreed on one. Russia will sit in (Continued on Page Two; Col. 9) SERVICE IN NEW ANNEX PLANNEL Garbage facilities for the newl> annexed areas of the city of Will mington will be ready Jan. 1, th< day the actual work of acquiring the new areas is begun. J. Fred Rippy. administratlvi assistant for’the city said yestei day ’afternoon that last minute d tailed plans are being whippo into shape for the collection of garbage in the newly acquired sections. Routes are being arranged and although the present planned routes are not exactly what the management had hoped, they will insure satisfactory collection. The days for collection will necessarily be divided among the various sec tions of the new areas as it has been necessary in the city proper for the past several months. The lack of trucks was given as the reason for garbage collection practices of this type. The hope has been expressed that new trucks will be available soon to take care of this situation. In a new bulletin which will ap pear soon, residents are being in structed as to the exact dates gar bage collection will be made. The bulletin also asks that residents co operate in the matter by arrang ing their garbage containers for delivery on days when the collec tion will be made. Cop Knows An Honest Man But Can ’tRememberFaces ROME, Ga., Dec. 27. — (2P> — Officer George Strayer can tell an honest man when he sees one but he can’t remember what they look like very long. With tne holiday spirit in the dir, a man approached Strayer and ask ed: “Do you remember me?” “You look familiar,” said the policeman, “but I don’t remember ever having arrested you. 'V'You didn’t,” said the stranger. “You bought my dinner, when I was hungry and gave me bus fare back to Michigan. i “Here's $12 for the fare, and an other $5 for your trouble.’’ Strayer accepted the $12 but re fused any interest. He said the man did not give his name. The man came through here in May last year, en route from Brunswick where he was a ship yard worker to his home in Michi gan. His health had failed. From Michigan he went to Arizona. He told Strayer he was on his way back to Michigan to spend tlie holidays with his family and came by this way to repay the officer. "It sort of revives, your faith in human nature,’’ Strayer said. }?!