FORECAST Wilmington and vicinity: Increasing cloudiness with possible light rains to day High temperature today 52 degrees, low temperature tonight 38 degrees. I— _WILMINGTON, N. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1946 ' ESTABLISHED 1867 Byrnes Asks Atom Energy Commission treaty drafts due UNO Delegates To Givi Security Council Power To Enforce Peace By R. H. SHACKFORD United Press Staff Corresponded LONDON, Jan. 14 — Secretarj of State James F. Byrnes called on the United Nations Assemblj today to create promptly a com mission on control of atomic energy and to give the Securitj Council the force it needs to main tain peace in an atomic age. Calling the creation of the com mission of atomic energy com mission, as recommended at the Moscow Foreign Ministers con ference "a task of transcending importance,” Byrnes said: -Establishment of a commission to deal with problems raised by the discovery of atomic energy is inseparably linked with the problem of security. It is a matter of primary concern to all nations. We must not fail to devise safe guards necessary to ensure that this great discovery is used for human welfare and not for more .1_3i.. n-arfare if "I hope that this Assembly will approve promptly the resolution proposed by my government, in association with the United King dom, the Soviet Union, China, France and Canada so that this commission may begin its work without delay.” Even before Byrnes spoke, the Assembly formally put the atomic energy resolution on its program under item XVII—urgent matters— which means that it will come up for early debate. Then it will be referred to com mittee No. 1 on political and security matters, with Senator Tom Connally, D., Tex., represent ing the United States. Byrnes is expected to return to Washington as soon as the atomic resolution is approved. During the Assembly session American '• officials made known that deputies of the Big Five Foreign Ministers probably would start drafting peace treaties with Italy, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Finland this week. Byrnes in his speech opening a (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) MODOC TO RETURN IN NEAR FUTURE Confirmation of the return of the U. S. Coast Guard Cutter Modoc to Wilmington in the near future came in a telephone conversation with Commodore M. J. Ryan, dis trict of.icer of the Sixth Naval dis trict, in Charleston, yesterday. The Modoc, long stationed here, comes as near being a “land mark” of the city as a ship can be, and was formerly commanded by Admiral Joseph F. Farley, now Coast Guard commandant. Subject of many war-time rumors, sunk and resunk several times by ‘ unoff cial’’ reports, the Modoc is now on her peacetime Greenland |ce patrol under Navy orders, but is scheduled to be returned to the Coast Guard by June 30, according to Commodore Ryan, at which time she will be restationed at Wil mington. Commodore Ryan disclosed that by the end of the fiscal year, June all operations of the Coast Guard will have been reduced tc peace-time proportions and Naval control withdrawn. Ano her matter, the disposition ol be Coast Guard quarter boat sta tioned here, has been recently re opened, Commodore Ryan said, and it is expected that final dis position of the 155-foot vessel will come soon. The hull of the vessel, which serv as Coast Guard barracks here . urmg the war, was constructed ■P the old shipyards here during orld War I, and is one of the sw concrete ships still afloat. WEATHER (Eastern Standard Time) Mot s> Weather Bureau) •Mino J0JoBICal data for th« 24 hour; •"fling 7:30 P.m. yesterday. Temperatures ’:30 p.mmi,36: 7:3° a m' 32: 1:30 p m' * No1maim«m 53: Minimum 81; Mean 40 .... Humidity 7:30 p.m^gf2'' ,:3° a-m- 1:80 Pm. 34 Trtt.i , „ Precipitation _fnch^s 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. .To,:'aince the first of the month “— inches. S. r._.. Jides For Today t and Geodetic Survey) S -dT^odTeatb,e! PUvbIyf *d by ^ Wilmington .... g^a.n Hasonboro ^ ™ ^ Sunrise 7 m 6:0S p.m. 12": 12 p.n Hoonrise a'm;: Sunset 5:26 p.m River m’34 p'm- Moonset 5:12 a.m. r.m MonH ge at Fayetteville, N. C. at feet'. °nday- !»-8 feet; and Sunday, 10 Continued on Page Two; Col. 2 ‘Willie’ Mourns His Master ---- MMn mmiiiwmiiih * imbihiiinmiiiiii"i^mbi imi atsaaiaM A mournful and silent vigil is kept beside a trunk and brief case that, belonged to the late Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., by his dog “Willie,” a bull terrier. The animal, pictured at Bad Nauheim, Ger many, will return to the U. S. with the General’s baggage. Port’s Authority Survey Hits Snag VILLAGE BURNING BLAMED ON “REDS” By SPENCER MOOSA AP Staff Correspondent CHUNGKING, Jan. 14.—(/P)—A Chinese government spokesman accused the Communists today of “enlarging rather than ceasing their military operations” and of putting the torch to many villages in violation of the tru'Ce which be came effective at Midnight Sun day. The Communists yesterday made similar charges against the gov ernment forces, and added today that the Communist regions of North China still were a double ring blockade strengthened by hundreds of newly-constructed government block-houses. The government has denied the specific accusation of continued advances into Jehol province, and although observers at the current political unity conference here ex pressed some misgivings about the charges and countercharges, hope persisted that all remaining clashes would cease soon. Two theories were advanced here for the alleged violations of the truce—one was that the scat tered forces had not yet received the cease-fire orders, the other that each side might be trying to secure a little extra advantage while it was still possible. It will be several days befort the three-man truce commission, including an American, is in posi tion to send inspection troops to strategic points. Today’s charge was made by the spokesman for the National Military Council. He said that this morning, after the deadline, Communists were attacking National troops in An yang, on the Peiping-Hankow rail way; were on a “rampage” in Shensi province, and were burn ing villages all along the eastern section of the Lunghai railway which crosses northern Kiangsu province to the Yellow Sea. Meanwhile the unity conference formally received the Chiang Kai shek plan to broaden the base of the government by including all parties, then adjourned until Tues a?v without acting on it. There was no immediate action on a Communist demand for re lease of the so-called “Young Marshal” Chiang Hsueh-liang and Gen. Yang Hu-cheng. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) DBAKnTOF NURSES CLOSES TWO WINGS AT JAMES WALKER James Walker Memorial Hos pital is seriously under-staffed at present, George R. Darden, superintendent said yesterday in commenting on the nurse situation here'. "Inactive nurses have not yet returned to work ta sufficient numbers to fill all of the posi tions formerly held by nurses who went into the service. Therefore, we now need full, and can use quite a number of part-time graduate nurses, Darden saidf . . “There are at present, two wings of the hospital closed by i lack of sufficient personnel for successful operation.” ’ Inactive nurses are asked to 8 go to the hospital immediately 9 and contact M ss Clara L. Wright, director of nurses, pre ) pared to, go to work. F W A Unit Recommends Disapproval Of Application WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—(Spe cial)— Disapproval of the North Carolina JState Ports Authority’s application for a $90,000 advance for a survey of the seaports in the state was recommended today by the control division of the Federal SVorks Agency here. Although previously approved in ts engineering aspects, the $207, !80 project met with disfavor on policy grounds because it. dogs not call for immediatt :eonste«6$qn which would provide employment, in FWA official explained. Also, le said, the requested advance would take nearly a third of the >290,818 allotted to North Carolina 'or all its projects in the remain ler of the fiscal year. “We think t would be better to defer this me until more money is available," le said. “It is qualified under the law, jut we feel the intent of the legisla ;ion is to get a back-log of work -eady to take up employment, and his project only calls for a sur gery which would not lead to construction in the immediate fu ture.’’ For that reason, the offi cial said a reduction in the amount requested probably would not change the recommendation, which was sent from the Washington of (Continued on Page Two; Col, 1) EPISCOPAL WOMEN TO MEET JAN. 23 The annual meeting of the Worn* en’s Auxiliary of the Episcop® diocese of East Carolina will be held January 23 in Fayetteville, it was announced last night by Mrs. W.O.S. Sutherland, of Wilmington, president of the Auxiliary. Mrs. Sutherland, who will preside over the meeting, said that Miss Mary King, of Atlanta, president of the Women’s Auxiliary in the Fourth, or Sewanee, province of the church, which includes nine south eisj, states, will be the featured Speaker on the program, The Rt. Rev. Thomas H. Wright D.D., bishop of the diocese will open the meeting at 10 a.m. with Holy Communion, a celebrant as sisted by the Rev. James S. Ferny hough, rector of St. John’s in Fayetteville. During the meeting the Auxiliary will hear the Rev. Alexander Mil ler, rector of St. Paul’s in Wilming ton, who is the chairman for the promotion department of the dio cese, speak on the subject of the “Reconstruction and Advance Fund” established by the church for rebuilding church properties in war-ravaged countries. Various committee reports, in cluding a .report from the colored convocation of the Auxiliary will be heard in the course of the meeting. At the conclusiohvof the meeting, installation ceremonies for the new officers of the Auxiliary will be conducted by Bishop Wright. A pre-meeting dinner is planned for the Bishop, members of the executive board, speakers and local parish officers at the “Cotton Bowl,” in Fayetteville the night of Jan. 22, followed by a meeting of the executive board. Beside Mrs. Sutherland, a t tending the meeting from Wilming ton will be Mrs. T. F. Darden, sec retary of the Auxiliary, Mrs. Henry MacMillan, national board mem ber, and Mrs. Louis J. Poisson, oast president of the Auxiliary. ti '■^-MONTHS-OLD BABY f'^OWNS IN FAMILY t-t WASHING MACHINE ‘ ATLANTA, GA., Jan. 14.—CU.P.) — Linda May Kimble, 18 montbs-old child, was found drowned in the soapy water of a mechanical washing machine today shortly after her mother had notified police that the baby is missing. Mrs. Henry T. Kimble, fran tic when she discovered little Linda missing this afternoon, telephoned police to get help in finding her. Police arrived as the frantic mother discovered the child in the mechanical washer. ' Police said the child appar ently had climbed into the ma chine from a chair at its side. Mrs. Kimble became hys terical and collapsed upon find ing the dead child. BUSINESS DEFIES FARRELL REGIME Argentina’s Industrialists Clamp Stranglehold On Trade, Commerce BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 14—0?5)— Argentina’s industrial and commer cial leaders clamped a strangle hold on the nation’s business activi ty today in an impressive show of civil resistance to the Argentine military government’s labor poli cies. Not a wheel turned in any factory and scarcely any store of import ance opened. Small merchants, in cluding grocers, fruiterers and bakers joined large industrial firms in the three-day lockout called to protest wage increases and year end bonuses decreed by the govern- 1 ment of Gen. Edelmiro Farrell ten . days before the end of 1945. The permanent committee of 1 businessmen, industrialists and: manufacturers who called the lock out disclosed that they first had ; asked the government to suspend for 90 days the execution of the 1 government decree. This proposal was made, a com mittee spokesman said, so that the issue could be discussed after the 1 election of Feb. 24. It has been ' charged that the government’s de cree was an outright bid for labor ‘ votes on behalf of the presidential j candidacy of Juan Domingo Peron, ) Argentine strong man and former ' vice president. The government re- J jected the businessmen’s proposal. ' Political observers said the lock- ‘ out was 90 per cent fefective ] throughout the nation of 14,000,000 people. The streets of Buenos ■ Aires, usually jammed with shop- 1 pers, were virtually deserted. * Only ice, milk and. meat deliver- 1 ies continued. Butchers said they 1 would join the lockout tomorrow. ' Open restaurants were a rarity, and ( taxi service was reduced to a mini mum. Some drugstores functioned 1 on an emergency basis. The government, which may I order some services resumed on the 1 grounds that public health is men aced, has assured the public that no one would be deprived of (Continued on Page Two; Col. 8) ' — 1 JACKIE GETS HOME— I OKAY BUT—LATE 1 ' ( Young Jack Moore was back i home this morning none the • 1 s seven, didn’t s i school yesten r uay afternoon as early as us- ( ual and his parents were wor- [ ried about him. They asked the police to help find him. < Jackie got his name on the i radio, as missing. All through t the evening people called up ( the Star and asked if Jack ; had beep found. c Jack came home, all right. i Got home about 7 o’clock. Just < didB any rea- < ■on . 1 Along The Cape Fear SHIPYARD RUMORS— An item in the current, MARITIME RE PORTS, quasi-official publication of U. S. Shipping, may or may not be misleading. With rumors around the North Carolin Shipbuilding company here rifer than rivets, most any item is pounced upon as a possible fore cast of what is to happen to the shipyard. The general answer to all such rumors seems to be that the yard will close. Most forecasts place the termination time around June 1, this year. But, if anybody official knows anything official there has been no official announcement. Thus the item. FOUR MORE SHIPS?— The item published under a general heading about a large shipbuilding program or the United States in 1946, is as follows: “The North Carolina Shipbuilding company at Wilmington will build six C2—SI—AJ4’s and four C2—b— AJ5’s next year. Although there are those not of ficials—at the shipyard who, in dulging ir^ a little wishful thinl - t ing, interpret this item as meaning the yard will get contracts to i build four MORE ships, the con- : census—still unofficial—is this fi- ; gure represents ships already j built and now at the outfitting : piers. ■ Certainly there seems to be no reason for believing at this time ! any new contracts for the yard are . presently forthcoming. _ i 216 YEARS YOUNG—New Liver- j pool, thriving hamlet on the Cape ^ Fear, is 216 years old now and, ^ like Johnny Walker, stiU going 1 strong. 1 Born in 1730, New Liverpool , had its face lifted, so to speak, two • years later when it became known as Newton and was a major trad- j ing post for commodities such as ] rum, cotton, and naval stores. Seven years later, in 1739, the name of the town was again chang ed, this time to (you guessed it, perhaps) Wilmington, in honor , of Spencer Compton, Earl of Wil- : mington. In 1762 the population was 1,000 ' .now, minus official census . figures, it is 50,000 or more. 200,000Electric Workers Will Strike Today; Millions Face Death In Indochina -- *r Cold, Hunger Taking Toll Cver Nation LANDS ARE FLOODED French Nationalists Fear Chinese Will Withdraw Before Troops Arrive BY STANLEY M. SWINTON AP Staff Correspondent HANOI, French Indochina, Jan. A - —(API—French and Annamite sources in this politically tense japital said today they believed jetween 600,000 and 2,000,000 per sons in northern Indochina were loomed to die of starvation with n the year. Cold and hunger already are aking a heavy toll, and the situa ;ion in this plagued capital was iggravated by the explosive atmos jhere engendered by the bitter eeling between the French and the inrecognized republic of Viet Nam. Chinese occupation forces have 'orbidden 20,000 Frenchmen to sarry any weapons, although fully irmed Annamite soldiers of the /iet Nam republic circulate freely, t French spokesman has claimed 'anarchy prevails throughout the lorth, with no police in this city, so coal, no railroads in opera ion.” It has been estimated that there ire about 15,000 armed men in the innamite army, about 3,000 of hem in the Hanoi area. The i'rench here have 5,000 troops un armed since the Japanese seized heir weapons last March, and here are some 15,000 French civi ians here. he Japanese seized their weapons ast March, and there are some 5,000 French civilians here. This will be the second succes ive year of hunger for northern ndochina. Estimates of the dead ast year range between 600,000 nd 2,000,000 and the French and Lnnafnites both fear this year /ill be no better. In two days this orrespondent counted 400 dead Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) •IVE-YEAR-OLD BOY TURNS UP IN COURT FOR DUTY ON JURY NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—<#>—Five ear-old Freddy Fisbach trudged bediently into Supreme court to 'ay in answer to a summons call ng him for jury duty. James McGurrin, commissioner f jurors, took one look at the irown-eyed “prospective juror,’ nd immediately vacated the sum nons, while Freddy amused him elf by sailing a paper airplane. :he lad’s wavering “X” on the locument officially relieved him of is jury call. How did it happen? McGurrin s xplanation was that the names yere chosen from a list of regis ered voters issued by the Board f Elections and nothing is known bout the person summoned. Fred [y’s father.,Allen hold no exple lation. A 15th Airforce flyer, he aid he hadn’t registered as a vot t since he joined the Army in 942.__ ( Key Figures In Phone Tie-Up Discussing the country-wide telephone tie-up at the Labor Depart ment in Washington over the week-end were: (1. to r.): Ernest Weaver, President of the Association of Communications Equipment Workers; Howard T. Colvin, Associate Director of the U. S. Concilia tion Service; and James P. Lafferty, labor manager of W. E. Installa tion Department. ' (International) South East lo-Use Bluethenthal Field { r MAYORLANE ASKS FUND COOPERATION Chief Magistrate Issues “March Of Dim|}” Pro clamation Monday Featured by a proclamation from Mayor W. Ronald Lane, the 13th annual “March of Dimes,” conducted by the National Founda tion for Infantile Paralysis, got under way in Wilmington, yester day, with the New Hanover county goal set at $8,200. Mayor Lane’s proclamation: “WHEREAS the disease of in fantile paralysis rages in many cities of our nation every year, leaving in its Wake hundreds, even thousands, of stricken men, women and children, m*hy of them crip pled for life, anjj “WHEREAS the National Foun dation for Infantile Paralysis, by assuring care and treatment for all victims of poliomyelitis and by carrying on its great program of research for the prevention and possible cure of this virulent dis ease, has earned the overwhelm ing gratitude of the American peo ple, and “WHEREAS the March of Dimes conducted annually by the Nation al Foundation will be held Janu ary 14 to 31. “THEREFORE be it resolved that all citizens are urged to co operate with the March of Dimes (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) ASHEBORO CITIZENS ARE BUSY RIGHT NOW “PAGING ANN BROWN” ASHEBORO, Tan.' 14.—(£>)—Pag ng Ann Brown! Search for Ann began here yes terday with the arrival of a Canadian Army Sergeant, who said je met an Asheborb girl of that lame in service overseas and that le came south with the Intention of inding her and, if possible, per vading'her to mafry him. The Sergeant, Gerrard “Jerry” >. Reed, of the Canadian Army’s dedical Corps, said he met Ann ast May while he “Was being treat id for wounds in an Amercian hos pital at Meppen, Germany. Later, le was transferred to a hospital in Cngland and was prevented from illing an engagement with her irhan he was moved again to a lospital in Canada. He was dis harged from service three weeks igo. Reed said he had not been in di ed communication with Ann since eaving England. He’s sure, he aid, that her home is in or near isheboro, but a diligent search by led Cross workers and other vould-be cupids has failed to lo :ate Ann and further the cause of ■omance. . But Reed, determined, said he ntends to remain here until his learch is successful. So: Paging Vnn Brown! County Commissioners Grant Conditional Landing Rights ---- The New Hanover Board Of County Commissioners, in their first official action on airport af fairs since the granting of control of Bluethenthal Field to the board by the Army, yesterday granted conditional landing rights to South East Airlines. A North Carolina company, the line is currently operating from the Pennington Flying service field at Carolina Beach, as an in tra-state air service, furnishing connections with other domestic lines for inter-state travel. South East’s application, submit ted to the commission last week, by W. C. Teague, SEA president during course of a business trip here, was the highlight of a reg ular board session which found commissioners accept cooperation of the Wilmington Board of Real tors in efforts to re - interest the Army in use of the $7,000,000 air base. Also discussed by the realtors with the commissioners were pos sible means by which private inter ests might be induced to maintain the shipyard as an active industry Members of both boards, were agreed that continued operation of the shipyard was essential to the community, but no workable sug gestions as to how it might De ac complished were forthcoming. One spokesman said he considered the matter “primarily a Chamber of Commerce responsibility.” Reverting to the Bluethenthal question, W. H. Hill, real estate board president, said “Individual ly, I’m here for information. It has heen talked around that some of the county commissioners want the county to take Bluethenthal back and operate it.” The county’s position was clari fied by Addison Hewlett, chairman, who explained there was “no sem blance of truth in reports that the Arpny was pushed out because t Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) RALEIGH WOMAN KILLED ON STREET RALEIGH, Jan. 14.—m—Detec tive Captain R. E. Goodwin said tonight that a formal charge of murder would be made against Robert L. Nash, 42-year-old former moving picture projectionist, in connection with the slaying of Mrs. Margie L. Parker, comely young Weitern Union clerk who was fa tally shot on Raleigh’s main busi desk and told Desk Lt. O. C. Jor Goodwin said that Nash ran into the police station, a block away from where the shooting occurred, threw a .32 caliber pistol on the desk and told Lesk Lt. O. C. Jor dan, ‘‘I want to give myself up. I iave just shojfite woman.” The 23-year-Sd girl, wife of a war veteran who recently returned from werseas, died after she was struck 'Continued oh Page Two; Col. 3) b Unions Will Quit Plants In 16 States MEAT FIGHT HANGS UAW Lay Aside Industry Wide 3 0 P e r Cent Wage Demands By DELOS SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—The “Big Three’ of the electrica? appliance industry and the third largest union of the CIO begin a test of strength at 5 a. m. (local time) tomorrow when 200,000 workers start strik ing 78 plants in 16 states from coast to coast. Any possibility that the new, ma jor disturbance in the nation’* industrial reconversion to peace might be averted at the last mo ment seemed to evaporate tonight while the national telephone net work returned to normal, with the exceotion of Washington, aftor three days of strike disruption. And there was no word from a corps of government, labor media tors working in Chicago to avert a strike of 325,000 slaughter and packing workers scheduled for Wednesday which would reduce the nation’s already short civilian meat supply to a fraction of de mand within a week. Additionally, a strike of 700, LjQ steel- workers-impended. Originally ,scheduled for today, it had been J postponed one week at the request of President Truman to permit more time far negotiation. Both sides- in the electrical in dustry dispute reported tonighl that so far as they were concerned, “the strike was on." It was un derstood that the labor concilia tion service of the Department oi Labor contacted officials of the companies and of the union this morning, wanting to know if there was “anything" it could do. The answer of each side was that it knew of nothing. The United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America, whose 750,000 members makes it the third largest CIO affiliate, said it had made every effort to avoid (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) GI’S ASK MEETING WITH PATTERSON SHANGHAI, Jan. 14 — (JP) — A thousand army enlisted men met Secretary of War Patterson at the airport today and petitioned, an op portunity to discuss demands for a more clear-cut policy on dis charges. There were indications that such a meeting might be held tomorrow as Lt. Gen Aibert C. Wedemeyer, China thferter commander, met a G.I. committee earlier in the day and helped them draft questions to submit to Patterson. He promised to help obtain an interview with the touring cabinet member. Patterson plans to leave in about two days for Manila scene of enlisted men’s demonstrations for faster demobili zation. When Patterson landed here, the petitioning soldiers were massed behind a rope barrier. They were notably quiet and orderly, the only visible indication of dissatisfaction being placards on a few army ve hicles reading “Uncle Sam’s For gotten Men Welcome You.” Pfc. David M. Miller, former school teacher of Gulfport, Miss., (Continued on Page Two; Col, 3) And So To Bed There is something new “under the sun”. T. H. Sprouse, Jacksonville, who was arrested in the city ( recently for speeding sent hie regrets, felicitations and his check for $9.05 to city police department “to settle charges.” In the letter, D. M. Hall, motorcycle patrolman, was commended by Sprouse who wrote “He was mighty nice in every respect—the depart ment should be proud to have a man of his type on the force.” Both the regrets and felicita tions together with the check were gracefully received by the department. t

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