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1 * FORECAST Served By Leased Wires | -- of the | Wilmington and vicinity: Partly cloudy UNITED PRESS I , W! oudy today with occasional - light and the £i«C Highest “nipe^ture during th. ASSOCIATED PRESS fl’ conthSed* warm, cloudy with poi- With Complete Coverage of occasional light rains. State and National News j ~ " WILMINGTON, N. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1946 ESTABLISHED 1867 ______ ^yJAP BOARlT] MOSCOW reports that Andre! A. Gromyko, Soviet ambassador to X ‘ u S„ will represent Russia in the four-power Far Eastern Commission which will super vise the administration of Japan. JAPS TO DISCUSS macarthur order Shidehara Summons Cab inet To Emergency Ses sion late Today TOKYO, Jan. 4.— (ff) —Premier Shidehara today summoned his cabinet to an emergency session tomorrow to consider General Mac Ar-hur's orders to purge the gov ernment of all who helped lead Japan to war. , Kyodo news agency, quoting in formed quarters,” declared the orders would affect all members of the cabinet save Shidehara, Foreign Minister Shigeru Yoshida —once jailed for criticizing the war —and Dr. Chuzo Iwata, Minister of Justice. "This practically means al mem bers of the present Diet will not be able to run in the coming election,” the agency quoted a member of the influential Progressive party as asserting. Tokyo newspapers in the main in terpreted the drastic order as a move to give Japan new leaders. Yomiuri-Hochi editorialized that Supreme headquarters had found it necessary to act because the cabinet had done nothing on its own initiative. The newspaper added that Em peror Hirohito himself would have to give attention to the problem of new leadership for Japan and 1 initiate remedial steps. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) FLOATING KIT BAG PROVIDES MYSTERY Finding of a soldier’s duffle bag floating in Cape Fear river yester day led military police and offi cers of the highway patrol on a search of this area to exhaust ev ery possibility that the soldier to whom the bag belonged might have met with tragedy. Investigating police reported yesterday that the duffle bag con tained identification papers and a billfold bearing the name of Pvt. Jesse Johnson, Negro, whose ad dress was given as Wade. The bag was fished from the waters of the river at. a point just south of Market street. Russell Eorden took the bag from the river. The soldier was a member of the U. S. Army as late as August, 1245, according to information re ceived by members of the Marine MP offices here. There was some indication that he had been dis charged from theservices prior to Jan. 1. but nothing definite could be found. Investigating officers of the Mili tary police and Highway depart ment stated last night that a thorough search of all military installations of this area disclosed nothing to tell at what camp John son was last stationed. The investigation continued last jnght with inquiries being made of ’he adjutant general’s offices in 'Washington. A report from Wash mgton was expected early today. WEATHER (Eastern Standard Tima) . (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours t lding 7 ;3q p m yesterday. Temperatures l-oi) a.m. 44; 7:30 a.m. 43; 1:30 p.m. 59; p.m. 54. Maximum 59; Minimum 42; Mean 48 formal 47. . Humidity J.oO a m. 72; 7:30 a.m/76; 1:30 p.m. 71 "•30 p.m. 96. Precipitation 1 °tfl for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m.— — -- 1 -hes. Total since the first of the month —inches. Tides For Today 'tron, the Tide Tables published b; • Losst and Geodetic Survey) *xm High Low Wilmington - 11:20 a.m. 5:47 a.m . 11:22 P-m. 6:31 p.m Masonboro Inlet . 8:49 a.m. 2:28 a.m . „ , 8:57 p.m. 3:14 p.m lu™nri!!e 7:18 a.m.: Sunset 5:17 p.m. Moonrise 9:04 a.m.: Moonset 7:27 p.m. a jtage at Fayetteville, N. C, at ■ tnday. Jan. 4, (no report) feet. ,fv"Mlnued on Paste Three: Col. 2 BRITAIN URGES MONTHLY RATE4 OF 1500 JE W'i WASHINGTON, Jan. 4- (U.PJ — Britain has urged in a note to the Middle East Arab states that they agree to allow entry into Palestine of 1500 Jews a month, a reliable diplomatic source revealed tonight. The source said the note was in answer to refusal by the Arab nations of' an earlier British re quest that Jewish immigration into Palestine be permitted to continue during hearings by the Anglo American Commission on Pales tine. It was pointed out that Arab consent for further immigration is necessary since the quota of 75,000 Jews has been filled and the British white paper stipulated that im migration in excess of that number must be carried out in agreement with the Arabs. The disclosure came on the eve of the first meeting of the Anglo American Commission. It also coincided with a protest by Sen. Robert F. Wagner, D., N. Y., that suspension of Jewish im migration into Palestine “consti tutes a contemptuous disX of the agreements between the Wited States and Great Britain.” He said in a telegram to Secre tary of State James F. Byrnes that “the British government specifi cally promised to maintain the pitifully inadequate 1500 a month rate of immigration, pending rec ommendations of the Anglo-Ameri can Committee of Inquiry.” The committee is to investigate the plight of Jews in Europe and the political, economic and social conditions in Palestine and related questons on proposals to open the Holy Land to further Jewish im migrants. President Truman and Prime Minister Clement Attlee have asked the committee to com plete its work within 120 days. The group is expected to decide tomorrow how much time will be allotted for hearings here in which interested parties will outline their views on the Palestine problem. It also must decide whether the hearings will be opened to the public. _ Big, Little Inch Projects To Be Sold By Government _w STATUS OF DAVIS STILL UNCERTAIN The status of Camp Davis re mained uncertain last night when headquarters at Camp Lejeune an nounced emphatically that “we do not know whether the present ar rangement at Camp Davis is on a permanent or temporary basis.” Hie fact that about 400 Marines from Camp Lejeune now are gar risoned at Camp Davis to guard Army, Marine, and Dutch Marine materiel stored there ‘‘should not be constructed as a permanent ar rangement,” the headquarters an nouncement stated. “We do not know whether the present arrangement at Camp Da vis is permanent or temporary,” the headquarters announcement stated. “We want to be emphatic about this fact. All we know is that we have had directives from to take over Camp Da vis, but there is no indication *roni these directives as to whether we’ll be there for 30 days, six months, or six years.’* The statement was made to off set any inferences that have been made that Camp Davis is to be permanently garrisoned by the Ma rines. Headquarters said there have been no statements issued from Camp Lejeune intende to leave the impression that Camp Davis would become a permanent post manned by the Marines. NATION OVER-BUYS VICTORY BONDS BY $10,144,000,000 WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—IB—’The Victory Loan brought $21,144,000,000 into the Treasury’s tills, Secre tary Vinson announced tonight. In announcing the final figures for the eighth and last war loan, Vinson disclosed that every, state made its E-bond quota and that the national sales, in all categories, were far above quotas. Vinson announced these final figures: Total sales: $21,144,000,000 or 192 per cent of the $11,000,000,000 goal. Sales to individuals: $6,776,000,000 or 169 per cent of the $4,000,000, quota. Sales of E-bonds: $2’2°4’n°°£o°o00 110 per cent of the $2,000,00 , quota. __ Private Industry Will Get Chance To Buy Two Pipelines WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—{^—Dis posal of the government-owned Big and Little Inch petroleum pipelines to private industry was recom mended by the Surplus Property Administration today. But the agency said In a report to Congress that if efforts to sen or lease the wartime emergency lines to industry should fail “public op eration on a full cost basis may have to be considered.” First preference in disposal oi the lines will be given to continu ing them in petroleum service, SPA said. It added that if the lines can not be disposed of for shipment ol crude oil and petroleum products from the southwest to the eastern seaboard, they should be used for service to interior points. The two lines and four smaller ones were built by the government at a total cost of $161,000,000 to help offset the wartime shortage of tank ships. The Big Inch is a 24-Inch line ex tending 1,340 miles from the east Texas oil fields to the New York (Continued on Page Three, Col. 3) RHODES OUTLINES DRIVE FOR DIMES The "March of Dimes" campaign was outlined last night as W. K. Rhodes, Jr., chairman of the New Hanover Infantile Paralysis drive, appointed a publicity committee composed of Solomon Sternberger, Harry L. Dosher, and H. Winfield Smith. During the meeting plans were made to place coin boxes and wishing wells around town. The chairman of the women’s commit tees will be appointed today. The local permanent chapter members, H. Edmund Rodgers, chairman; Robert E. Tapp, trea surer; and Rev. J. D. McQuere, secretary, along with Rhodes, are expecting to make this drive the largest,'' since the drives were in troduced. A. F. Grist, manager of Bailej theater, told Rhodes last night tha1 he would cooperate with the com mittee in every way and tha1 solicitations during the drive coulc be arranged at his theater. Quota for the county is $8,200. South Ranks High In U. S. In Educational Facilities In discussing a recent article in “The State” regarding college ana university facilities in the south and further information abcut the s e of state appropriations for elemen tary and secondary education, . J. T. Hoggard, chairman of the New Hanover School Board, last night described the figures disclos ed as “good news”. , Dr. Hoggard further stated, in connection with figures on institutions of higher learning and ; the state appropriations for the • school system, that We m Wil • mington are spending more pro portionatsly on elementary and 1 secondary school facilities for Negroes than on faculties for white students. Southerners, long the object o: ridicule in the field of highter edu cation, actually can boast a large) number of institutions of highei learning than any other section o: the country and only 156. college; and universities less than the wholi rest of the country put together. Figures given by Fred F. Myricl in “The State”, Carl Goerch’; magazine, show that the south ha; 220 colleges and universities a; against 376 in the remainder of thi U. S., or approximately 37 per cen of the country’s institutions o higher learning. In the matter of junior colleges this' section has an even stronge: (Continued on Page Three; Col. 8; | REORGANIZER | Donald Russell, above, as sistant secretary of state in charge of administration, is di recting the drafting of plans for extensive reorganization and ex pansion of the State Department. He formerly was a junior law partner of Secretary Byrnes in Spartanburg, S. C. TAFT TERMS TALK “LEFT W1NGISH” Republican Senator Also Labels Truman Legis lation Communistic By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL AP Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.— (fP) — Senator Taft, R-Ohio), termed some of President Truman’s legis lative program "Communist” and "left w;ng” tonight and said "Con gress ought to get credit for little delay.” That was part of his answer to the President’s bid last night foi more action and less talk in Con gress on measures Mr. Trumar recommended. Taft, chairman of the Senate Re publican “steering” committee, broadcast over the NBC from Cin cinnati. “To summarize,” he said, “the Truman program has been delay ed because it is superficial anc1 il. considered, because it is a CIO PAC program and not a Demo cratic program, because it adopts a philosophy with which the peo ple do not agree.” The President and Taft apparent ly had struck in advance some oi the sparks that would fly in this year’s Congressional election cam paigns. The Senator’s address was released here by the Republican National committee. The President had appealed to the people to spur Congress on strike control and other legislation. He contended Congress had fallen down on the job of passing laws to handle domestic problems that threaten economic disaster. Not all the reaction was as criti cal as Taft’s. A number of Demo: cratic lawmakers voiced approval of what he had said. A Republican Senator, Young of North Dakota, said the Chief Executive was justi fied in criticizing Congress. The Presidential speech also pro duced a forecast from Senator El lender (D.-La.) that strike-control (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) READING YOUR OWN OBITUARY HAS ITS POINTS—FOR LAUGHS GALESBURG, IU., Jan. 4.— (IP) —Charles Duncan, 65, not only failed to appear at his own funeral today but recover ed fully from his own death and enjoyed reading his obituary. He’ll be leaving St. Mary’s hos ital shortly. David Duncan, 88, a retired farmer of Oneida, 111., who was. a patient in the same hospital and died New Year’s Day, will be burled tomorrow. When David Duncan died some on.s mistakenly notified Charles Duncan’s brother, Melvin, that Charles had died. Melvin, without seeing the body, made arrangements with an undertaker for a funeral to day. Hours later Charles Duncan read his own obituary in a local newspaper, and said he en joyed it no end. He got out of bed and telephoned his sister in-law, Mrs. Melvin Duncan. •‘This is Charley,” he said. “Who” she gasped. Charley, your brother-in law.” "Wait ‘til I get a chair,” she said, ‘I don’t feel like standing up.” ‘Did you read my obituary in the paper?” Charley asked.. Th ngs went from confusion to chaos and it was nearly two days before David Duncan’s family was notified of his death. His obituary is in to : day's papers. Everything thus is straight ened out except that the under taker doesn’t know what to do w:th Charley Duncan’s funeral floral offerings. Army Slows Down Return Of G/’s From Overseas; Rail Union Orders Strike 4 w * White House Action Only Peace Hope MEAT CUTTERS BUSY Secretary Anderson Rec ommends Price Boost To Avert Walkout By The Associated Press Another union threatened yes terday to join the planned meat packing strike, a move that might completely tie up the industry and add 135,000 workers to the approxi mately 1,500,000 who may be idle soon in proposed work stoppages. Also announced was a call for a railroad strike which a National Mediation Board spokesman said only White House intervention might avert. The St. Louis-San Francisco Rail road (Frisco) said switchmen, brakemen and conductors had call . ed a strike for 6 p. m. (CST) Sun day. A railroad spokesman said tne siriKe wouia involve v.uou em ployes in nine midwestern states. The new meat industry strike threat came from international of ficers of Sn AFL Meat Cutters un ion who said they would recom mend that their 135,000 members join with 200,000 CIO workers in a general strike in the meat packing industry unless a substantial wage increase is offered before Jan. 11. The CIO United Packinghouse Workers union has called a strike in 147 plants across the nation for Jan. 16 to enforce demands for 25 cents an hour wage boosts. Secretary of Agriculture Ander son disclosed at Raleigh, mean while, that he had recommended increased retail prices for meats in an effort to avert a strike in the meat packing industry. The Secretary said workers in some packing plants had received wage increases but not in others. Price increases could be determin ed, he said, after a study of cases in which employes deserved wages. In Washington, top level Presi dential advisers conferred on meth ods of preventing a strike in the packing industry. It was under stood they discussed the effect of higher wages on prices, appoint ment of a fact-finding board and presumably the possibility of gov ernment seizure. The AFL union involved in the packinghouse strike threat, the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North Amer ica, sent a telegram to President Truman asking him to call a pack ing industry conference "to pre vent a complete tieup of the en tire meat packing industry.” Refering to the threatened CIO walkout, the telegram said "we will not at such a critical time per mit a condition to arise, if the (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) 4 KILLED, 88 HURT IN TEXAS “BLOWS” PALESTINE, Tex., Jan. 4.—UP)— Four persons wen killed and 31 injured tonight vuen a tornado struck the Palestine area. First reports said the tornado was only 100 yards wide and that it hit in an area 3 to 4 miles south of Pal estine. Dead and injured were not im mediately identified, A store was reported to have been blown down in Southview. Telephone and power lines in the residential areas of Palestine were reported down, but those in the business district were still in ser vice. A small tornado that injured seven persons, derailed three cars of a freight train and damaged two farm houses struck near Deca tur, 135 miles northwest of Pal estine late this afternoon. At least 50 persons were injured tonight when a tornado struck the Nacogdoches, Texas, area. The one Nacogodoches hospital was full of injured and the city hall was used as an emergency first aid station. The tornai^o passed through a * Negro settlement west of the city, flattening nearly all of . the houses. Power was out over the- city. The Texas State Guard unit at Nacogodoches was mobilized. Boy Scoots and groups of citizens turned out to aid in relief work. Meanwhile, the community was lashed by a heavy rain which to talled more than two and one half inches. GOVERNOR TAKES IN ROOMERS | Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. White unpack,their baggage in Ohio’s executive mansion at Columbus after accepting Gov. Frank J. Lausche’s. offer to take in roomers during -the housing shortage. White, 21-year-old war veteran, is enrolled at Ohio State Univer sity under the GI Bill of Rights. (AP Wirephoto). RayRecommendsApproval Of Ports Survey Advance -. ■ t State Authority Request Now Being Studied By Chief Engineer WILMINGTON STAR-NEWS Washington Bureau WASHINGTON. Jan. 4—Approval of the North Carolina State Ports Authority’s application to the Fed eral Works Agency for a $90,000 advance for preliminary survey of the state’s potential water-borne tonnage and revenue and to pre pare accurate cost estimates oh development of its: ports has been recommended by O. T. Ray, At lanta, division engineer of the FWA, it was learned today. The application is now being re viewed here by George Rounds, chief engineer of the FWA. He is expected to make a report on it soon. Officials of the FWA said the unusually large size of the project is requiring longer than average study by the engineers. Application for the advance was filed by R. B. Page, chairman of the Authority, about Dec. 15. This action was taken under Title V of the War Mobilization and Re conversion act of 1944, which au thorizes the FWA to advance funds to non-federal public agencies to assist in the preparation of plans for worthy post-war projects. Fully endorsed by Governor R. Gregg Cherry, the application was filled after extensive work by the Authority. This included the suc cessful negotiation of a contract with the firm of Robert and com pany, Inc., Atlanta, Ga., consult ing architects and engineers, to make the state-wide survey. The (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) —.—— -——•— - T MAN ACCEPTS I ND RESIGNATION WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. — (U.R) - Presid'.-nt. Truman today accepted the resignation of Vice Adm. Em ory S. Land as chairman of the Maritime Commission and War Shipping Administrator, effective January 15. Land, who has been chairman of the Commission since 1938, will be come president of the Air Trans port Association, which represents domestic and international air lines. A retired Navy man, he has strongly advocated that steam ship companies be permitted to enter air transport. Numerous successors have been mentioned for the Commission chairmanship, including Adm. wil liam F. (Bull) Halsey, retired. The post of vice chairman is also vacant as Vice Adm. Howard L. Vickery resigned as of December 31. Land joined the commission in 1937. More than 50,000,000 dead weight tons of mercnant shipping were constructed under his leader ship. Mr. Truman called this “an achievement without parallel in maritime history.” The President praised Land’s "superb accomplishments” in the job of creating and maintaining ‘‘the largest merchant fleet ever built by one nation.” “You have indeed done your bit and I am glad to accord to you the thanks of the nation which -you have served with such fidelity and efficiency,”’ Mr. Truman wrote. Enlistments Fail To Fill Needed Quota THREE-MONTH DELAY Hundreds Of Men Eligible For Discharge Must Wait Return Home WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—(fl*)—The Army today slowed down the re turn of soldiers from overseas. The action may cause a delay up to three months in the home coming of a soldier on foreign service eligible for discharge. The priority in which troops will be returned, however, is unchanged. Lt. Gen. Joseph Lawton Collins explained that voluntary enlist ments and the draft had failed to supply enough replacements. “Our overseas forces would be dangerously under-strength ■ in oc cupying hostile countries If all eligible men were to be returned before sufficient replacements had arrived,” he told a news confer ence. Under the revised program, ap proximately 1,553,000 men will be shipped home during the next six months, whereas three months would suffice were all available shipping used. The rate will be cut from the current 800,000 or more monthly to about 300,000 a month. Collins, Army Director of In formation, said' that in no case “should this delay any man in the theaters more than three months beyond the time he became eligible for discharge.” Collins also disclosed that the planned strength of the Army for next July 1, now was 1,550,000, a reduction of about 400,000 from estimates made last September. Its distribution would be as foh lows: Overesas— Europe (including Italy,) 335,000; Pacific (including Japan,) 375,000; other areas, 87, 000; Filipino troop* undergoing training, 50,000. Continental United States—Sup ply, hospital and other operating personnel, 360,000; troops in train ing and in transit, and “a small strategic reserve,” 343,000. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) RESORTTOWN’S i FINANCES SOUND The Town of Wrightsville Beach has finished the first six months in the fiscal year 1945-46 in an ex tremely sound financial condition and with a record of tax collec tions that would be the envy of many larger towns. With a net cash balance of 19, 249.45 as of Jan. 1, the town has collected 76 per cent of a net tax levy for 1945 of $31,730.20, or $23. 846.20, according to a report yes terday by R. L. Benson, town clerk. With no delinquent ad valorem taxes outstanding prior to 1943, only $140.80 is still uncollected for that year, and $650.16 left from 1944, Benson said. The water and sewer department has expended during the period from July 1, $10,365.43 of its an nual budget of $20,394. Total col lectigns against the budget are $11,135.74. The cash balance for the department as of Jan. 1 is $10, 929. 34, he stated. The town, which has never de faulted on any obligations, met all interest and bond payments promptly. Current bills are paid monthly with all town business be ing conducted from offices at 400 Waynick boulevard, Benson said. WILL STAND PAT Star-News Bureau Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. — (Special) — Representative J. Bayard Clark, of Fayetteville, one of six southern Democrats who blocked FEPc legislation in the Rules committee last summer, said today the group would "more adamant” against the bill as the result of Presi dent Truman's speech. Clark left this afternoon for home as the Pearl Harbor In vesgtiating committee of which he is a member, recessed Until Jan. 15. - I Greeks Will Celebrate j Age-Old Epiphany Rites TARPON SPRINGS, Fla., Jan. 4 —(iP)—-Doffing war worries, sponge fishermen and their families who compromise the Greek Orthodox community here will celebrate the age-old' rites of the Eastern church in observance of Epiphany Sun day. Archbishop Athenagoras, the titular head of the church in North and South America, will lead the historic sanctification ceremony, together with a retinue of priests, deacons and acolytes. For the Grecian spongers here, however, Epiphany this year, is more than a joyous occasion for it : has brought peace to their home land. Early in the war they saw Greece and the islands of their I birth, the Dodecanese, overrun by Nazi and Fascists. And during their service they will offer spe cial prayers for the victory that came last year and for divine guidance to the present Greek re gent, the Archbishop Damascinos, who once was chief celebrant at an Epiphany ceremony here. The feast of Epiphany is one of the most colorful and romantic of all Florida winter celebrations. As a separate church festival it dates irom the yeaf 813 and com memorates the baptism of the saviour. During the centuries there las grown up a wealth of impres sive ceremony now climaxed with Continued on Page Three; Col. 8)
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