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135 Wtlmitmtntt iSontituj l&tar _y- _._jjr_;_jr._ ^3TZnO. 43. ~~ WILMINGTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1946 , . ___ ESTABLISHED 1867 1946 Poses Tough Task For Truman abor strife rages President Seeks Backing Of People In Effort To Meet Legislative Program pv DOUGLAS B. CORNELL WASHINGTON, Jan. 1. — (TP) — president Truman started 1946 re solved to put across his legislative program in a new year that poses many problems. Aboard the Presidential yacht Williamsburg, Mr. Truman was 1 knitting together a speech aimed et lining up public backing behind that program. Thursday night the president goes on the air to talk d-rectly to the people. He has started, too, to draft a "state of the union’’ message for Congress, to tell it what he wants gfter it goes back to work Jan. 14. Congress so far has shown no hankering for shoving the Truman legislative plan ahead in its en tirety. One of America’s biggest prob lems in this first, full, postwar year is linked directly to a late addition to the program. To help settle strikes, Mr. Truman has ask ed Congress to say that there must be no major work stoppages while fact-finding boards look into the labor disputes threatening to bring them on. Some of his proposals are tied in also with such peacetime ques tions as spurring reconversion, (Continued on Page Two; Col. S) SAILOR BEATEN BY TWO MARINES J. C. Harwell Found In Semi-Conscious Condi tion In County J. C. Harwell, pharmacist'mate third class was taken to James Walker hospital in a critical con dition yesterday afternoon for treat ment of wounds supposedly inflict ed by two marines who gave him a lift. Hospital attaches said last night that Harwell had been taken to the Marine Hospital at Camp Le jeune. They stated that their ex amination proved that some 20 lacerations about the head were the only serious injuries, and that it did not disclose any sign of brain concussion or fracture of the skull. Harwell, sheriffs officers report ed, was found in a semi-conscious condition by three ladies yesterday afternoon near the Negro church on the old shell road at McCum bers Station in the Wrightsville Sound area. He told the officer that he had been given a ride by two marines, one whom he tentatively identified. He said that when the approached the Negro settlement of McCum bers station, they stopped the car and started beating him on the head with a heavy instrument. He said that the men took $120 cash and his identification and leave papers from him and left him for dead beside the road. Marine Pfc. Boyd A. Ressaguie, one of the men suspected of being involved in the attack on Harwell, has been arrested and is being held for identification by the wounded man, it was learned at military police headquarters here. ELECTRIC BLANKET CAUSES FATAL BURNS TO MRS. LITCHFIELD Mrs. Nell Litchfield, of Columbus, Ca.. a first cousin of R. B. Page of Wilmington, suffered fatal burns ®t 3 a. m. yesterday morning a1 Blackmon hospital in Atlanta . a-> when the electric blankel under which she was sleeping oaught fire. Authorities attributed the holi day tragedy to a short circuit ii the device. Mrs. Litchfield’s body has beer taken to Columbus, where the fun oral will be held this morning from Oaklawn Funeral Home at 1 8 Clock. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs 1nomas Buck, Jr., of Columbus “a-: a brother,Patrick Jones, o Botham Ala.; and a sister Mrs Larl Schomberg, of Atlanta. Bessie Does It Bessie did it ... at exactly ■ * ru January 1, 1946. Bessie was the proud mother o 1 “8 pound baby girl named “Susie' And who is Bessie? She is on' fhe finest cows on the Dalli 'ctoria farm which is owned b' J11'- and Mrs D. Botevsky on Wil f’r^gton Route 1. •essie and Susie are doing nice STORK PASSES CITY WITHOUT STOPPING ON NEW YEAR’S DAY The Stork passed Wilmington by on New Year’s Day. As the people in New Han over wait to hear who will be the first white baby born in the city or county the tradi tional bird hasn’t dropped any juniors, sisters, twins, triplets or quads during the first 24 hours of the new year. Local doctors were checked during the afternoon yesterday and up until late last night but none of them had been called upon to deliver New Hanover’s first 1946 white baby. “We’ll have some babies coming along before the day is out,” said Dr. William Dosher, “as I have never known the Stork to miss more than 48 hours.” (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) FULLER LARDER PROMISED U. S. Grocers’ President Pre dicts Five Percent Drop In Food Prices Soon WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.— (U.R) — American civilians will eat more and better food in 1946—and prob ably will pay less for it—President Paul S. Willis of the Grocery Manufacturers of America predict ed tonight. He said in a year-end statement that a slightly better food supply in both quantity and quality is in prospect for the civilian market. There will be few important short ages although sugar, butter, fats and oils will remain scarce during most of the year, he said. Pointing out that the Agriculture department expects food prices to drop by five per cent during the coming year, he said the industry will do everything possible to give consumers “the largest volume of food possible at the lowest possible prices.” On a per capita oasis, ne said, civilians will have about 11 per cent more food than was available dur ing the five years preceeding the war. Wartime consumption was up 10 per cent on a per capita basis. Willis gave this thumbnail sketch of the food outlook for this year: “Meat supplies are expected to average 145-155 pounds per capita, and may exceed that in the latter part of the year. This compares with an average of 126 pounds in the five years before the war. “No important shortages in dairy products are looked for, with the exception of butter, and the latter will be in better supply than in 1945. “Cutbacks in requirements of the armed forces will mean that more poultry will be available to civilians than in recent months. The supply of eggs is expected to be fully (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) SCHOOL BELLS RING FOR KIDS IN COUNTY AFTER LONG HOLIDAY About 13,000 New Hanover school children won’t be wrong this morn ing as they don heavy coats, scarfs, earmuffs and mittens to answer the first call of the 1946 school bell after a two-week’s holiday vaca tion. H. M. Roland, city-county super intendent of schools, predicted last night a good enrollment for the first school day of the new year as minor flu epidemic rolls out with the old year. “Fewer changes in the faculty have taken place this year,” said Roland, "than in the last four years.” As the students return to school today they will begin to prepare themselves for the mid-term ex aminations which will take place the latter part of January, with no more vacations in sight until the Easter holidays. So its back to school and hard work for the school “set” as 1946 takes over this morning and rings the first beU at 8:30 o’clock U. S. General Holds “Sig nificant” Conference With Communist Leader By SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING, Jan. 1. — (/P) — A significant conference which con ceivably could lead to settlement of China’s internal troubles was held today by Gen. George C. Mar shall, U. S. presidential envoy, and a high communist leader while the nation awaited the Communist re ply to the government’s counter truce proposal. For two hours Marshall talked With Gen. Chou En-Lai, leader of the Communist delegation to the unity conference opening January 10. It was the first long conversa tion the two had held. It was regarded as a sign that the Communists were not opposed to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek’s proposal that Marshall serve as mediator in the attempt to settle the strife between the government and the Communists. It appeared possible that the Communist reply to Chiang’s coun ter proposal would not be made (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) DEATH RENDEZVOUS KEEPS PILOTS AWAY AT TOAST TO PEACE DETROIT, Jan. 1— (U.R) —Two fighter pilots drank a New Year toast today, keeping a rendezvous made by 50 Royal Canadian Air Force fliers in November, 1941. “The others couldn’t make it,” Seth T. Parker, 26, Richmond, Va., said. . Forty-five couldn’t make it be cause they had kept another ren dezvous—the soldier’s rendezvous with'death. All except five of the 50 who made the pact to meet in Detroil when the war was over were killed fighting. Parker and Paul G. Forcey, 27, Morrisdale, Pa., represented “the last 10 per cent” of the happy-go lucky group which trained al Windsor,. Ont. The three other sur vivors were unable to reach De troit for the toast to 1946. Medical Science Adds Powerful New Weapon 1,1 PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 1— W — ' Expanded production of Carbon 13, which recent experiments in bio chemical research indicate “gives promise of ranking in importance f with X-ray as a tool of medical science,” was announced here to day by Sun Oil Co., and Houdry Process Corp. The Isotope, so rare that current production has been at the rate of less than one-half ounce pei I year, “may be compared to a chemical microscope that makes [ it possible for the chemist to see ' and follow chemical reactions : the body not possible with the X i ray ” a joint statement declared , Carbor 13 has been described - as appearing like an ordinary car bon. It can be used to produce - any of the compounds normally composed of carbon, such as sugar. alcohol, the hydrocarbons of gaso line and thousands of others, in eluding synthetic rubber. Or, th' statement continued, Carbon 13 cai be used to grow vegetables whicl have some or all carbon atom with atomic mass equalling 13 These compounds and vegetables injected into or eaten by livini organisms, including humans, con tain the necessary “tracers’" b; which their effect on body func tions can be discovered. Research with the isotope, th companies said, already has le< to discovery of how fats are brofc en down in the animal organisri to create energy necessary to carr; on the life process. In contradic tion of a long-established theory Drs. C. H. Werkman of Iowa Stat (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5 % As Plane-Crash Victim Lay Dying Tense and somber is this scene at LaGuardia Field, New York, as doctors and aides were losing the fight to save Mrs. Grace Teichholtz Scully, 49, of New York City, after her rescue from the plane crash in Flushing Bay, half a mile from the field. Note Mayor LaGuardia in upper background. Of fourteen persons aboard the incoming liner from Miami, Mrs. Scully was the only TTiaVit vjptp ininrpri. (International) Marshall's Mediation May Solve Chinese Differences MARCH OF DIMES COAL HERE $8200 William K. Rhodes, Jr., Chairman For Appeal In New Hanover New Hanover county’s quota for the 1946 March of Dimes has been fixed at $8,200 it was announced last night. ■« Plans for the March of Dimes in the fight against infantile paralysis moved forward with the announcement of the appointment of William K. Khodes, Jr., local attorney, as Chairman for theAp peal in New Hanover county. The local campaign, which opens on January 14 and closes on Janu ary 31, is part of the nation-wide appeal of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis for funds to coptinue the fight against polio myelitis. I The new chairman will announce his aides and chairmen of com mittees within the next few days. As in the past, March of Dimes coin collection boxes will be plac ed at convenient spots throughout the county and coin cards will be distributed. In the light of wide spread public knowledge of the National Foundation’s tremendous achievements in recent epidemic years, Mr. Rhodes said, the local appeal committee is expecting a greater response this year than ever before. “Poliomyelitis,” he pointed out, “is one of the most expensive di seases known to medicine. Hos (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) CITIZENS TO “SEE” TRUMAN’S MESSAGE TO U. S. LAWMAKERS NEW YORK, Jan. 1—(ff)—Presi dent Truman’s delivery of the an nual message to Congress Jan. 15 wiil be telecast over three New York television stations and one in Washington. The images and sounds will be transmitted to the New York stations from Washington by way of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company’s coaxial cable. It will be the first time a session . of Congress has been televised, . the A. T. & T. said, and it will ; mark the start of regularly sche i duled intercity television programs i from Washington to New York over s the 225-mile cable. Television cameras will be sta . tioned at both the White House ! and the Capitol building to record the entire event. r New York stations which will carry the program are WABD (Dumont), WNBT (NBC) and 5 WCBW (CBS). The Washington 1 station is W3XWT (Dumont). Hereafter, the A. T. & T. said, 1 the Columbia Broadcasting System, r National Broadcasting Company and Allen B. Dumont laboratories , will have experimental use of the coaxial cable for two days a week ) each. 400 Violent Deaths Stalk Wild U. S. New YearSpree; Shipyard Pay Hike Studied - *---* -. * Compromise Plan Sought In Industry LEADERS CONFER Stabilization Director Sug gest Some “Adjustment ment May Be Made” WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 — — Government, industry and union representatives will meet again to norrow in an effort to compromise AFL and CIO wage demands in ;he shipbuilding industry. Stabilization Administrator John 2. Collet suggested that “some’’ vage adjustment might be approv ;d under a section of the Adminis rration wage-price regulations deal ng with industries predominantly inder government contract. Most of the nation’s shipyards still are under contract with the Navy, Army or other government procurement. Collet told a confer ence of representatives of all in terested parties today that if other cost factors were reduced, it might be possible to approve a wage boost. Collet implied that a reduction in the over-all labor payroll re sulting from the change from a 48 to a 40-hour work week therefore might be partly offset by a hike in wage rates. He emphasized that his appear ance before the group, arranged by the working committee set up at conclusion of the Colorado Springs National Shipbuilding conference last month, did not mean any wage adustments would be approved by him, or that he was prejudging the issues. More than a half-million ship yard workers throughout the nation are involved. The CIO-International Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America is asking for a 17 1-2 cent hourly wage increase immedi ately as an “equity” arising from pay sacrifices assertedly made dur ing the war, and a 30 per cent increase on top of that to main tain wartime levels. The AFL metal trades depart ment, representing 16 AFL unions (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) BOARD TO SEEK TO STOPSTRIKE WASHINGTON, Jan. 1— (U.R) —A member of President Truman’s steel fact-finding panel said tonight that it probably will ask the U. S. Steel Corp. and the CIO’s United Steel Workers to resume collective bargaining. The union has scheduled a na tionwide strike of its 700,000 mem bers for Jan. 14 to enforce its de mands for a $2-a-day wage in crease. Direct negotiations col lapsed last October. The company has refused to renew them until guaranteed a price increase to compensate for any pay boost. Mr. Truman instructed OPA to investigate whether a price increase would be “proper” but did not require a report on its findings until Feb. 10—almost a month after the scheduled walkout. Nathan P. Feinsinger, former War Labor Board member who was named to the special fact-finding panel, said it would meet to select a chairman and decide on pro cedure as soon as the other two members reach Washington. They are Associate Justice Roger I. Mc Donough of the Utah State Supreme (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) WfcAinfcK. (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. 41; 7:30 a.m. 36; 1:30 p.m. 44; 7:30 p.r%. 38. „ .n Maximum 45, Minimum 34; Mean su, Normal 47. Humidity 1:30 a.m. 90; 7:30 a.m. 80; 1:30 p.m. 3b, 7:30 p.m. 62. Precipitation Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. —— inches. Total since the first of the month -. inches. Tides For Today (i?’rom the Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey) High Low Wilmington_9:12 a.m. 3:45 a.m, 9:20 p.m. 4:21 p.m. Masonboro Inlet _ 6:55 a.m. 12:32 a.m, 7:00 p.m. 1:15 p.m. Sunrise 7:18; Sunset 5:14; Moonrise k:43 a.m.; Moonset 4:35 p.m. * PART OF HITLER’S “JIGSAW PUZZLE” The marriage document which legalized Hitler’s union with Eva Braun, discovered in a Bavarian village by Allied agents, was typed in haste on plain,-white heavy bond paper. Water smeared, ink-splotched signatures and scrawled alterations are shown on these copies of pages of the document. Army intelli gence officers said the license, together with Hitler’s personal and political testaments, form part of “a large jigsaw puzzle from which we already have an entire picture.” (NEA Telephoto) 1945’s Bull Stock Market Nears Record For Trading “LITTLE FLOWER” FINISHES REGIME NEW YORK, Jan. 1.— (U.R) — Puckish, volatile Fiorello H. La guardia handed over the world’s greatest city to an Irish immigrant today and began devoting his lim itless energy to earning an esti mated $150,000 a year as radio com mentator, newspaper columnist and autobiographer. “The Hat” stepped down official ly as mayor of New York City in a brief and unceremonious meet ing with his successor, brawny Wil liam O’Dwyer, at City Hall this morning. He handed O'Dwyer a few papers in the ofi.ce he has oc cupied for 12 turbulent years and walked out smiling, leaving the new mayor with only one memento of his three-term reign—a large poster on the mantel bearing the word “Hope.” LaGuardin, 63-year-old “Little Flower” is succeeded by a former hod-carrier and policeman who worked an studied his way from peqniiess immigrant to mayor. O’Dwyer came to this country from Ireland in 1910 with $25. Hi$ first home in this metropolis was in the slums which he has told the voters he will replace with confort able homes. He worked as hod carrier, longshoreman, and odd-job man, beame a policeman and stud ied law while on the force. After graduation from law school, he studied for 18 months at the Univer sity of Salamanca in Spain, came back to becomey, Brooklyn district attorney and prosecutor of the “Murder, Inc.” ring of slayers. He was sworn in afe mayor of (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7] 2,000,000-Share Days Fre quent In Widest Upswing Since “Era Of Nonsense” By VICTOR EUBANK NEW YORK, Jan. l.—ifi*, The past year’s bull stock market re corded the widest upswing since the “Era of Wonderful No- sense” in the late ’20’s although turning somewhat hesitant during the final month. For 1945 the Associated Press 60 stock average rose 16.9 points to 75.2, largest advance since the 33.5 points scored in the boom stretch of 1928. The composite in De cember reached the highest mark since April 13, 1931. The industrials in the last year gained 20.6 points, the rails 12.9 and the utilities 12. For the first six months activity frequently tapered but pubilc de mand, particularly for low-quoted utilities, expanded briskly in the final half and 2,000,000-sl. .u’e days were frequent. Largest turnover of the year was 2,940,000 shares ol June 28, when the average dropped 1.5 points. Blamed for the stumble was an overbought condition and rumors that margins, which had been lifted to 75 per cent and elim inated for stocks selling for $1C or under earlier in the year, would be raised to 100 per cent. Smallest aggregate for a full session was 490,000 shares on August 6 when reconversion caution revived. For the entire 12 months volume totalled 376,029,713 shares, a top since the 409,464,570 of 1937. The broadest session in stock ex change history was on Novembei 9 when 1,061 individual issues changed hands. The biggest day’s upturn was August 9 when the average climbed 1.3 points, best (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) New Year Box Score Here: Lot Of Fun, No Violence A box score, today, of the Wil mington police department on the city’s New Year’s eve celebration would look something like this. Violent deaths—None. Arrests—Eight. Fires—One. An alarm was ans wered at 28 Spofford Mills. Fire men found that the call was caused by a chimney burning oi$, Shootings—One. Stabbings—None. Injuered in Falls—None. In serious condition fi;om alco holism—None reported. Property damage—None. False alarms—None. Chief Charles H. Casteen said last night that up to that time the New Years celebration had been one of the quietest Wilmington has had in many years. “Of course there was a lot of horn blowing and merry making, but generally it was done in an orderly manner.” He said that the worst casualty of the day and night, in the city, was the traffic accident which oc cured at Seventh and Chestnut streets in Which Mrs. Reggie L. Welch received painful injuries. Latest reports on her condition were favorable. Among occurences noted by the city police are those of stolen trailers, lost boys, robbed juke boxes, shootings. L. C. Mitchell, 33 Tyler street, reported that someone entered his back yard and carried off an auto mobile trailer of the two wheel (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) k ■ ¥ Traffic Toll Reaches319 Celebrants NEW YORK LEADS New Year’s Eve One Of Most Expensive In Nation’s History , By BICKNELL EUBANKS CHICAGO, Jan. 1.— (U.R) —The death toll of the nation's noisiest, most expensive and most exuber ant New Year’s celebration in years pushed beyond 400 tonight and millions were recuperating. At least 319 were killed in traf fic accidents or met death through other violent means. Safety offi cials said the toll would be higher if the pre-holiday accidental deaths of persons traveling to other towns for celebrations were counted, they counted holiday deaths start ing Saturday at midnight. . • New York- led the staies with 44 violent deaths. Califronia, with 30, was second. Illinois reported 18, Pennsylvania 22, Indiana 15, Massachusetts 13, Texas 11, and Connecticut 11. Probably the most colorful cele bration was Pasadena’s tourna ment of Roses parade, the first since 1941, preceding the west coast’s traditional Rose Bowl foot ball game. Many cities and foreign countries were entered in the parade. In Philadelphia, an estimated one million persons watched the an nual New Year Day Mumpxers’ parade. Some 5,000 members com peted for $12,000 in prize money. New Year Day was quiet in com parison with the nation-wide noise making and roistering that saw 1945 out and 1946 in last night. The quiet was due to what must have been the biggest collective hang over ever experienced by this country. Thousands upon thousands of gallons of spirits were downed. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) LONELYPOLICEMAN KILLS WIFE, SELF OKLAHOMA, City, Jan. 1.—(U.R) —A New Year without his family so depressed William Neuffer, 42, a lieutenant of police that he set cut to kill all members of it— himself, his divorced wife, their 22-year-old daughter and the lat ter’s bridegroom of a week. Three hours after midnight the lonely police official walked into his former wife’s apartment, pis tol in hand. He killed Mrs. Nciiffer. He grave ly wounded his son-in-law, Neal Beard, 27. The daughter, Beverly, wasn’t shot because her father’s pistol misfired when he aimed at her. She collapsed from fright and evidently thinking he had shot her, killed himself. Neuffer left the police depart ment in 1942 and joined the Coast Guard. He returned to his job of traffic lieutenant in March, 1944, having received a medical dis charge. * The Neuffers separated last Feb ruary and were subsequently di vorced. He made numerous at tempts at a reconciliation. Grac# Neuffer rejected them all and h« was increasingly melancholy. As last night’s revelry mounted to its midnight peak, Neuffer sat in his office in the traffic bureau. He attempted to borrow a pistol (Continued on Page Two; Col, 4) DARE COUNTY GROWS WHEN OIL COMPANIES LEASE WATER ‘LAND9 MANTEO, Jan. 1. — CP> — Dar* county is pretty good sized so far as acreage is concerned, but it didn’t know just how large it wal until the oil companies began leas ing oil rights in the county. The tax books had listed 268,425 acres, but the 558 documents filed with Register of Deeds Melvin R. Daniels by three large oil firm* are for leases on a total of 290,000 acres, not including the submerged lands leased to Standard Oil by the State of North Carolina. New pieces of property disclosed by the leases are being entered daily on the tax books, and Tax Supervisor W. A. Drinkwater pre dicts a healthy upward trend in receipt® 1|
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