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IF0RECAST ♦ C2L± Served By Leased Wire. f Jffcnlngton and vicinity: Partly cloudy I UNITED PRESS 'i «B slightly colder today. Wednesday III I I I I I I I 2^^/ | | I and the I Joudy and moderately cold. J II 1 I I 1 I II 1111 ASSOCIATED PRESS ___ ™ With Complete Coverape of _______ State and National New* , nt 79.—NO. 60. _ ----- '. ----WILMINGTON, N. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1946 ESTABLISHED 1867 Extremists Slay Groups Of Hostages GREECE- IN TURMOIL Destroyer Crete Opens Fire On Royalists Forces In Kalamai I ATHENS, Jan. 21—(JP)—Fourteen hostages have been killed by mem bers °o£ an extreme right wing „roup who have barricaded them selves in a mountain village 10 miles northwest of Kalamai (Kala mata) after rejecting a surrender i ultimatum, the Greek government said tonight. The ultimatum gave the insur gents until 4 p.m., tomorrow to surrender or be attacked by gov I ernment troops. I h Kalamai itself, order was re I stored fully, the government said, I after the arrival of substantial I reinforcements, but skirmishing I was reported on the outskirts of I the city between government I forces and rebel monarchist I groups. I Minister of Public Order Stama Itis Merkouris ordered troops and [gendarmerie to rescue 150 hostages he said were held in the barricad ed mountain position by the right I wing insurgents. The bishop ar*l mayor of Kalamai appealed with out success for release of the hostages, taken in a Kalamai raid yesterday. Merkouris said earlier a state of near anarchy had engulfed the area of Kalamai and that martial law had been proclaimed in south ern Pelopponnesus. The Greek de stroyer Crete opened fire on forces of the Royalists in Kalamai. The Monarchists, reported to number about 2,200 men, were said to be well equipped. Most of them were uniformed, the minister said. Merkouris dispatched a battalion of motorized troops and 200 police to the port city after armed mem bers of the Monarchist organiza tion identified by the symbol “X” seized 200 civilians in a bloody raid yesterday. Centering their attacks on police headquarters, the raiders freed 32 suspects who had been held in the slaying of four supporters of the I left-wing EAM (National Libera tion front) last week. SLEET, SNOW, RAIN PLAGUE SEABOARD By The Associated Press Sleet, snow and chill rains plagued the Atlantic states yester day as far south as Georgia and a mass of cold air from the north ern plains brought sub-freezing weather to the midwest. A sleet storm struck New York state as a general snowfa* changed to frozen rain and traffic was snarled. Snow blanketed New England. Snow also fell in eastern Ken tucky, Ohio and the Great Lakes region. The cold air mass push ing eastward and southward from the great plains promised' a con tinuation of the cold snap. The weather was about normal on the Pacific coast, but cold in the northern Rockies, and snow a;-'o fell in west Texas and eastern New Mexico. Temperature minimums ranged from five to ten degrees below zero in northern Maine and from '0 to 25 degrees in New York. Sub-freezing temperatures also were reported in the Carolinas >nd the middle Atlantic states. , sub-zero weather tightened win ‘er s grip in the northern plains states. Thousands of subway riders in New York city were delayed by ice snarling trains on the Third Avenue elevated line and the Mushing and Astoria elevated di Tran^t °£ Int:erborough Rapid Some minimum temperatures *.ere: Boston 14, New York 25, uucago 6, Cincinnati 28, Washing 19, Charleston, S. C., 43, At itota 33, Miami 58 Little Rock 34 is n,37, Denver 14, Kansas City .r,’ gM'uth, Minn., -14, Minneapolis Seattle 42, and Burbank, Calif., WEATHER (Eastern Standard Time) Met. , L- s- Weather Bureau) tniils 7°{Tcal data for the 24 hours g 7-30 P-m., yesterday. 1-in . Temperatures tS-7°,?'m- «; 7:30 am., 39; 1:30 p.m.. May30 P'm- 4S 54; minimum, 38; mean, 51; Humidity *6; 7-3n‘m" 98: 7:50 am-> 10°1 1:30 P-m-, ’ ‘'JO P.m., 96. ’ Total < Precipitation ,17 inches1" 24 hours ending 7:30 pm., I^'trichcs06 4he £irst o£ £he month. (Tm™ .y Tiies for Today I1- S V]- Tide Tables published by oast and Geodetic Survey.) ^minBtori-X. 8^ MaS°nbora miet _uImS: Slsa! Sunrisp 7 iC ll:44p. 3:23p. rise, in.;- 1 :loa’» sunset 5:33p: moon moonset, 10:37a. J*ta*c at Fayetteville, N. C. a,m* Monday, 21.5 feet. _Food For First Steel Strikev^o0c i .......I.Ill I ... ' ***** 1 When workers at the Jones and Laughlin Steel plant in Pittsburgh staged a walk-out in advance of the national steel strike, employes arriving for varying shifts turned away—but left behind their lunches for the men and women of the picket line. (International) Reconversion Move By Japanese Halted KIMMEL CHEERED BY SPECTATORS WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. -W Admirai Husband E. Kimmel con cluded his testimony to a Senate House investigating committee to day to the applause of spectators after repeating his view that re sponsibility for the Pearl Harbor disaster lay in Washington. “I think if I had known all that was known in Washington I would have anticipated such an attack,” he said. In his sixth day as a witness, Kimmel also testified: 1. He held no ‘‘ill will” against the late President Roosevelt for removing him as Pacific Fleet commander after Japan’s attack. 2. In the summer of 1941—months before the war—American war ships escorted a Dutch vessel from Pearl Harbor to New Guinea. As he recalled, Kimmel said, it car ried American fliers bound for China. 3. The late Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, making a personal inquiry at Pearl Harbor within a week after the attack, had insist ed that a message was sent to Kimmel and Admiral Thomas C. Hart, commander of the Asiatic fleet, the night before the Sunday morning raid. SALT LAKE SPEAKER URGES COORDINATE COMMUNITY COUNCILS INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 21— (JD — Mrs. H. C. McShane of Salt Lake City, Utah, chairman of the American Legion Auxiliary, today called for establishment of co ordinate community councils to deal with problems resulting in child delinquency. Mrs. McShane proposed the pro gram at the presidents’ and secre taries’ conference and the national executive committee session of the auxiliary. Mrs. Euga A. Campbell of Homer, La., chairman of the national child welfare committee, advocated “a return to a greater spiritual influence in the home and in the life of the people, with the hope that more children will be reached with spiritual training.” Mrs. Walter G. Craven of Char lotte, N. C., president of the auxi liary, presided at today’s session of the conference. MacArthur Puts Stop To War Machinery Profit Making Plan TOKYO, Jan. 21—(iP)—Japanese efforts to engineer an undercover reconversion of war production ■machinery to peacetime profit making were halted today by Gen eral MacArthur, who seized nearly 400 war plants and ordered the government to cease removal of equipment from their premises. The seized plants included 265 aircraft and parts factories listed by the Allied Reparations commis sion as “first priority material” for removal to other nations, and 129 other factories, navy arsenals, and war laboratories. MacArthur ordered cancellation of all previously-issued permits for reconversion of individual facto ries, except those “immediately and absolutely essential to the civil economy.” Guards were placed on the seiz ed properties and their command ers were instructed to remember that the plants probably would be taken as reparations “and conse quently should not be allowed to acquire importance in the Japan ese economy.” H. D. Maxwell of Tacoma, deputy chief of the American Reparations (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) MEDICAL CROUP MAY APPROVE BLUE CROSS PLAN AT MEETING CHARLOTTE, Jan. 21—(fP) — Favorable actiojj by the North Carolina Medical Society’s execu tive committee on a proposed out patient plan for medical treatment of war veterans is expected at its next meeting, according to Dr. Qren Moore, of Charlotte, society president. The executive group of the state organization will meet Sunday in Raleigh, he said. . If favorable action is given the ulan by the medical group, only final approval of the Veterans Administration will be needed be fore it is placed in operation. Under terms of the plan, war veterans in need of medical care and unable to enter a government hospital would be given proper attention, either in their own homes or in their community hos pitals, at government expense. Moore estimated that at least 500 North Carolina veterans in need of medical treatment are now unable to gain admission to overcrowded service men’s hos pitals. Churchill Prison Break ■t. ■ Caused Dutch No Worries MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 21—(A1)—Karel W. Booy, 82, recalled here today he was given an “awful bawling out’’ 46 years ago for lettihg Lt. Winston Churchill of the South African Light Horse, and war cor respondent, escape from a make shift prison at Pretoria, capital of the Transvaal. Booy, wMb came here six years ago from Kansas City, explained, “I was working on a railroad con struction job in the Transvaal when the war broke out and all the Dutch civilians in Africa were put under military orders. “I was loading master at Pre toria, but had to double as a guard. We had a lot of English prisoners cooped up in the race track, but the officers were held in a school house. “The night Churchill escaped we didn’t know anything about it, but the next morning we were told he had gotten away. We were given a.i awful bawling out by the com manding officer, but they couldn’t court martial us or anything be cause we weren’t really under the military. “They didn’t make much of a fuss, anyway, about recapturing Churchill. They didn’t think a war (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) THUMBING HIS WAY, Gl MAKES HONOLULU IN NEW RECORD DASH HONOLULU, Jan. 21—(JP)— Staff Sgt. Harrison Jones of Charleston, S. C., is believed to have set some sort of a record in thumbing his way from Charleston to Honolulu in five days. The 28-year-old veteran, wuh more than eight years service in the Army, was discharged last November at Fort Bragg, N. C. He wanted to return to Pearl Harbor as a civilian Navy em ploye and join his wife in Hono lulu. But red tape was too much. So Jones re-enlisted as a staff sergeant, but before his fur lough ended he hitched a ride on a Navy plane from Charles ton to Atlanta. An ATC plane took h’m to San Antonio and a Marine plane to Los An geles. There, some fast talk ing got him aboard a C-54 bound for Honolulu. Now he’s back with his old quartermaster company, after arranging to be assigned here. PRICE CONTROLS DECLARED “MUST” Reconversion Director Sny der Says Production Levels To Increase WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—(£>) — The nation’s level of production is the “highest it has ever been in any peacetime year and there is every indication that it will go higher,” Reconversion Director John W. Snyder reported today. But this "very real progress” in reconversion has not yet shown itself in goods in stores and show rooms, Snyder notified President Truman and Congress, and this creates an inflationary pressure which will not abate through 1946. Unemployment, while only half as severe as expected, will hit its peak in early spring simultane ously with the strongest upsurge of inflationary forces, he pre dicted in a year-end report sent to capitol hill along with Mr. Tru man’s message to the Congress. The time at of rising prices while millions are jobless and without earnings, he said, makes it im perative that Congress immediate ly extend the Price Control Act which otherwise will expire on June 30. “We cannot afford1 an economic Pearl Harbor,” Snyder said in his strongest appeal to date for con tinued holding of the price line. “It would be foolhardy not to recognize that the excess of de mand over supply throughout the economic system may continue far beyond June 30.” / While production for civilian use already is at an annual rate $20, 000.000.000 preatPT’ art i-f c four months ago, he reported, the basic need to meet both the infla tion and unemployment problems is greater production. “We must race to expand our output. We must smother infla tion with a steady stream of goods. We must speed up the wheels of industry to create the jobs our workers and veterans need.” Joblessness now is estimated at 2,000,000 persons, compared with the 5,000,000 or 6,000,000 that the administration expected, the re conversion director said.’ At its highest point, unemploy ment will not reach the 8,000,000 level which was forecast official ly, he continued. Noting that the rise which followed VJ-Day cut backs was reversed within 90 days, he said “all indications point” to a continued climb in industrial employment. The report blamed labor strife for retarding mass output of some major items, but said high produc tion of automobiles, refrigerators and other durable goods for con sumers “could not have been achieved by this time, in any case.” Some manufacturers will hold back goods from the market de liberately, Snyder said, if they suspect that price control will be lifted from their products at mid year. “The belief that prices will rise gives businessmen a powerful in (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) Along The Cape Fear LOWER RATES—While the aver age Wilmingtonian knows with jus tifiable pride that this city enjoys very low freight rates compared with other cities of the state, few perhaps are aware that the city has had advantageous rates for many a year now—134 of them to be exact. Yesterday “Along The Cape Fear’’ discovered that away back in 1812, salt passed through the port of Wilmington at a rate of 10 cents per bushel less than the rate on the commodity at Ocracoke. CHANNEL W»JRK — For many yeas, residents of the lower Cape Fear had a tough task interesting authorities in the Cape Fear as a transportation outlet but in 1829, the powers be of that time, suc ceeded in getting the first Federal appropriation for channel dredging. $20,000 annually for 16 years was appropriated and by 1847, a depth of 13 feet at high tide had been obtained. In 1854, the Federal grant for Cape Fear river work had mounted to $140,000. FIRST SAILING SHIP—The first sailing ship ever built here was launched on June 5, 1833. The own er was John K. Mcllhenny and he named the fullrigged, 316-ton ship for his daughters, Eliza and Susan. After several years of river service, the “Eliza and Susan’’ ended up in the whaling trade of the Pacific and carried in her re serve tanks, Cape Fear river wa ter which was then noted for it’s purity. . ELECTRIFIED — Wilmington’s first street railway system, about which this column told you the other day, was electrified by the owners, the Wilmington Street Railway company in 1891. The com pany power house was located on the water front at Orange street. t Steel Strike Threatens ToParalyze U.S.; Truman Asks Higher Pay Program President Sees Slash In Big Debt TRADE OUTLOOK GOOD Lower Prices, Unchanged Taxes Urged In Annual Message To Congress By The Associated Press The state of the union: Truman proposes higher pay, lower prices. No tax cuts. Asks Congress to approve 21 former, 5 new legislative meas ured. Voices concern over strikes. _ Names inflation as chief domestic problem. Sees good business outlook but possible pitfalls. Warns against disunity. Pledges U. S. to help build peace based on justice as much as power. THE BUDGET: Foresees $7,000,000,000 cut in national debt in next 18 months. Expenditures for next fiscal year estimated at $35,800,000, 000. Receipts $31,500,000,000. Deficit, and debt reduction, to be paid from cash in the treasury, WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 — (AP) — President' Truman submitted to ■Congress today "a program calling for higher pay, lower prices and unchanged taxes, backed by a bud get forecasting the first cut in the national debt since 1930. The President informed Congress in a message that within the next 18 months $7,000,000,000 will be sliced from the $278,000,000,000 debt, even though the budget won’t be balanced. The outlook for business is good, he said. But he warned of “pit falls” ahead. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) COUNTY TO AID BEACH PUBLICITY Deeming the development of New Hanover beaches a definite way in which to increase the tax able values for the county, Addi son Hewlett Sr., chairman of the Board of County commissioners yesterday told members—the op portunity for development sur passes anything he had ever seen. The board yesterday voted ad vertising appropriations for Caro lina and Wrightsville beaches at a meeting devoted to considera tion of a state request for title to the county stockade and favorable action on petitions for county road improvements. In answer to requests from Caro lina Beach’s preparation for the spokesmen, the board voted each appropriations of $250 for adver tising in bulletins, newspapers, radio and billboards. It also grant ed Carolina Beach another police officer for the summer season, to conform with the law enforcement arrangement at Wrightsville. J. Relmon Robinson, Wrights ville Beach, appeared in behalf of that resort, and Carolina Beach was represented by Walter Blair and other town officials. In an effort to further aid Caro lina each’s preparation for the coming season, the commissioners (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) Boston’s Mayor Guilty Of Fraud Found guilty on nine counts by a Federal District Court jury, James M. Curley, Boston’s new Mayor, is pictured (left) with his son Leo Curley as they left the court house in Washington, D. C., after hearing the verdict. Curley and two co-defendants, Donald W. Smith and James G. Fuller, were charged with mail fraud and conspiracy._ (International Funds Will Provide New Home For Family -----JL ._ SECURITY COUNCIL FACES NEW! 'S LONDON, Jan, 21—(A>)-Russia asked the United Nations Security Council tonight to consider the troubled situation in Greece, and the Soviet Ukraine requested that the Indonesian situation also be placed before the council. Thus two fresh international disputes, in addition to the com plaint lodged earlier by Iran against Russia, confronted the Security Council—set up only last week as the United Nation’s organ em powered to keep the world’s peace by force, if necessary. Earlier, the Political and Securi ty committee of the United Nations Assembly approved establishment of a special commission to devise controls for atomic energy, shortly after a United States delegate (Continued on Pagre Two;' Col. 6) FREIGHTER FLASHES DISTRESS SIGNALS AFTER BOILER FAILS NEW YORK, Jan. 21—(£>)—The Coast Guard Air-Sea Rescue Com mand said tonight distress signals were received at 6 p.m. (ESTl from the 7,939-ton freighter Mor macmoon, bound for New York from Istanbul. Its position was given as approximately 300 miles north of Bermuda. The Mormacimoon reported that during a fairly heavy- south gale, boiler trouble developed and the ship was pounded by high waves. No casualties were reported, the Coast Guard said: The ship was carrying 99 civilian passengers but no soldiers. Star - News Receives $89 0.9 5 In Cash For Brewer’s Spantaneous response to a Star News sponsored plea for aid to Hu bert Brewer, his wife and, five children who were made homeless when their cottage burned to the ground last week, had resulted in raising the cash donation total to $890.95 at 6 o’clock last night. As a result the Brewers will have a new home replac ng the one which was destroyed by fire. They plan to build on the same site and the money will help pay for ma terials. Neighbors will furnish labor to construct their new home, this having been promised by those who first came to the aid of the unfor tunate family. * A temporary home for the Brew ers has been furnished by the Wil mington Housing authority, through the courtesy of R. B. Page, publisher of the Star-News. H. R. Emory, director of the au thority, made available the house in Maffitt Village and Mr. Page pa d the rent for one month. This will serve until the family’s own’s residence has been ie?built. Donations of cash which have been received by the Star-News in compl ance with Brewer’s request will be deposited in a local bank and will be drawn against to fi nance lumber and builder’s sup plies costs. Also at Brewer's re quest an executive of the Star News and another ind vidual to be named by Brewer will have cus tody of the account. As the cash continued to come into the newspaper office, other contributors brought in clothing ind bedding for the hard-hit fam ly. All the clothing—for five chil (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) Community Chest Starts 1946 With $204,405.59 Funds available in the Communi ty Chest fund as of Dec. 31, 1945 total $204,405.59 it was announced at the joint meeting of the Com munity Chest and Community Council held last night in the Parish House of St. Paul’s Lutheran church. •’ . This figure, E. L. White, presi dent of the Chest, explained, in cludes $4,405.59, dash in bank; and $100,000 each in invested funds and trust funds. The organization is holding in trust $137,972.47, less $40,169.95 ad vanced to tht National war fund which operates on a Jan. 1 to Jan. 1 fiscal year, leaving $97,352.52. i Also included in the total are $100,000 reserve for contingencies and $7,053.07 unappropriated re serve funds. Total pledges for 1945 reached $189,971.31, which, allowing $7,550 for shrinkage gave an expected collection of $182,415.31. Collections to the first of the year actually totalled $183,150.31 or 96.5 per cent of the total amount pledged. The 1946 budget appropriation called for an expenditure of $175, 346 of which $172,249.19 was ex pended with $3,096.81 being turned over to the surplus fund. (Continued on Pare Twot Col. <) * ---mbs Meat Plants Seizure May Be Ordered 1,680,000 MEN OUT General Motors Passes Up UAW Demand For Agree ment On Truman Plan NEW YORK, Jan. 21.— (U.R) — The nation was in the depths <f the greatest management - labor crisis of its history tonight with 1,. 680,000 workers on strike and a slow paralysis loose-in its industry which threatened to culminate in 10 days to three weeks in a debility affecting the jobs of millions. An industrial authority said it was “impossible” to exaggerate the result upon the national econo my if the strike of 750,000 steel workers which began today is pro longed. The strike virtually shut down the basic industry upon which 40 per cent of all industry is dependent for raw materials. But no less pressing was the strike of almost 300,000 packing house workers that was bringing the country closer to a meat fam ine each day it continued. In financial and industrial circles here, it was believed that the gov ernment could not and would not permit the economic processes of disintegration set in motion by the steel wage deadlock to run its course and wreck the reconversion program. Nor could the govern ment permit any such vital ind'rs try as meat packing to remSi crippled for long, it was said, with the eventual result of physical suf fering for most of the population. In Washington, the White House said President Truman was can vassing the strike situation on a day-by-day basis. Reports that the government was about to seize the struck packing plants had appar ent authenticity. But the reports that it would also seize the struck steel plants seemed based upon (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) GROUP TO DISCUSS RIGHTS ON RIVE Right of way for federal im provements to the Cape Fear river channel, to be furnished free of cost to the U. S. government was discussed at the meeting of the New Hanover Board of County Commissioners yesterday morning. Attention was called to this reso. lution which was made Dec. 13, 1945, by a letter from Col. George W. Gillette, Wilmington district Army engineer. A committee was appointed, con sisting of Addison Hewlett and Marsden Bellamy to confer with Colonel Gillette and return its find ings to a later meeting. The ‘‘certain improvement” re ferred to is the widening of the channel from 300 to 400 feet and increasing iis depth from 30 to 32 feet from Wilmington to the South port bar. Lands referred to specifically in the letter properties owned by the Atlantic Coast Line, T. M. Sumner, T. E. Murrell and the J. Herbert Bate company. (Continued on Page Two; Co!. S) i-1 And So To Bed Compliments and felicitations as are seldom happened upon were forthcoming yesterday from jovial Charles H. Casteen, Wilmington’s chief of police. A fellow was heckling Lt. Coy Etheridge and Desk Sgt. Rourk about the part they play In providing law and order for ths city. Chief Casteen said, “we have nothing to worry about on this shift” and he included the Lieutenant and Sergeant in the sweep of his arm as he spoke. “Yes, of course,” the fellow said, "except for maybe a jewelery window broken on Front street between Chest nutt and Princess street,” still heckling. Moon and Stars! Moral: Never heckle an officer of the law about the business of a robbery or s broken store window. *'
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