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I FORECAST Served By Leased Wires of the UNITED PRESS Wilmington and vicinity — Thursday «nd the fraIly becomln* miId ln a,ter- ASSOCIATED PRESS With Complete Coverage of i——-- State and National News ___ WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1946 ESTABLISHED 1867 Russia Bows To U.S. Plea Over Greece Critical Soviet-British Dis pute On Triops Smooth ed Out By Council BEVINS IN ACCORD Principals Shake Hands, While Stettinias Draws Meditation Applause LONDON, Feb. 6.—Iff)—The Unit ed Nations Security Council to r;ght ended the critical Soviet Lri,ish dispute over the presence 0; British troops in Greece after jussia yielded on every major chaVge made against British pol icy in Greece. Soviet Vice Commissar Andrei Vishinsky declared in a statement to the Council that he would not jn;ist on a declaration that British troops in Greece were a menace to world peace, as he had originally charged, nor that those troops should be withdrawn immediately. Bevin Accepts ; foreign Secretary Ernest Be vin Lion announced Britain would accept a formula for settling the dispute which was drafted orig inally by the United States and introduced tonight by Russia. It provided for having the council drop the case with a statement by President Norman J. O. Makin of Australia, and pass on to the next business. Bevin and Vishinsky immediate ly shook hands amidst applause from members of the council and the audience. The Russian and British loaders, who had battled through many tense hours of four council debates on Greece, stood up, their hands clasped for all to to see, Stettinus Cheered Edward R. Stettinus, Jr., of the United States delegation, who drafted the compromise formula last night and who mediated the dispute over several days in the hope of a unity settlement, was brought into the group by Bevin and fSa three stood together as the members of the General Assembly applauded. j Both Vishinsky and Bevin as I sured members of the council that their main aim was for unity In the interest of world peace and stated individually their willing ness to make concessions to that I end. Plan Rejected Vishinsky put forward the Amer ican-drawn formula after he had flatly rejected a compromise ad I vanced by Makin. WATER PROJECTS MAY GET BOOST $1,199,500 ~Aliotted By Committee To 22 N. C. River Jobs Wilmington Star Washington, D. C., Bureau WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 6.— River and harbor projects in the Mmington area received promise ol financial aid when the House Appropriations committee, in re porting out the War department Clv:l functions bill for the fiscal Jear 1946-47, yesterday recom mended allotments amounting to 4,199,500 for the maintenance of 22 su<* Projects in North Carolina. The recommend grants are as follows: unape Fear r!ver- at and below Ailmmgton, $185,000, maintenance; tape Fear river above Wilming 'on, $19,000, maintenance, $20,000 operation and care; Northeast 'tape Fear river); $5,000; Lock wood's Folly river, $5,000. Examinations, surveys and con ingencies: Wilmington, $15,000; “orehead City harbor, $75,000. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) Weather Table FORECAST lair 7 and South Carolina — Thursday ’ becoming mild in afternoon. [Eastern Standard Time) Mat ' y C. S. Weather Bureau) «bS°7 tngiCal data for 0“ 24 »*<>V* e ' 30 p.m. yesterday, ... Temperatures ’•3« pamm'5499; 7:30 a'm- 57: 1:30 P'm- 885 NorS”4™ 70’ Miniraum «; Mean 58; i... Humidity ,:3“ P.mm's94: 7;3° a,m‘ 981 1:30 P'm- 7S: r. . . Precipitation 0.29 inches 24 hours endinE 7:30 p.m_ °5 Ute month— iFrnm ... Tid'» For Today U. s p "re Tide Tables published by uoast and Geodetic Survey) "’Umington .... nao^m. 8:7a.m. ^lasonboro Inlet 1?$ ££ Simr-u „ -p.m. 5:55 p.m. Moonri^ ,7:04 a-m-: Sunset 5:48 p.m.; Hivp^°c/0 37 am » Moor*set 11:47 p.m. am w rsge at Fayetteville, N .C. at i Wednesday, 10.6 feet. | ,^on*i*iued on Page Two; Col. 4) Pauley Critic _ Former State Department oil adviser Max Thornburg (above), testifying before the Senate Naval Affairs Com mittee in Washington, accus ed Edwin W. Pauley, nominee for undersecretary of the navy, of seeking transfer of an American oil tanker to Mexico in 1941 for which he would receive a $6,000 com mission that would go to the Democratic campaign fund. Pauley leaped to his feet and shouted, “That is a deliberate, premeditated lie.’’ (International Soundphoto) CHOICE OF PAULEY MAY BE RECALLED Hearings On Naval Nomi nee Postponed After Bitter Fight WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—UO—A top-flight Democratic leader in Congress hinted today that the ap pointment of Edwin W. Pauley to be undersecretary of the Navy might be withdrawn to escape rejection. But Democrats on the Senate Naval committee split over wheth er the nomination should be can celled or fought through to a show down against heavy Republican op position. The party leader, who declined use of his name, told a reporter that confirmation might be impos sible as a result of' testimony of Secretary of the Interior Ickes before the Naval committee. He would not be surprised, he said, should President Truman ask Pau ley to come in and talk things over. Further committee hearings on (Continued on Tage Two; Col. 5) , FIRE RAVAGES CHERAW SECTOR CHERAW, S. C„ Feb. 6.—(A>)— Fire ravaged Cheraw’s chief bus iness block tonight, the flames ap parently originating in the Ingram hotel and spreading to other bus iness buildings, with the loss ex pected to run into several hundred thousand dollars. Firemen were still fighting the flames in an effort to keep the blaze from spreading to other blocks shortly before 9 o’clock. Included in the burned buildings in addition to the hotel, were the Western Union office, reported “burned out,” a drug store, a dry cleaning shop, a barber shop and a cafe. No one had been reported hurt. Clouds of smoke enveloped the block, hampering the work of the firemen, who fought to control the flames. Walls of buildings col lapsed and lurid flares from the blaze lit the sky. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) Advent Of Atomic Power Needs ''Spiritual Reform ’ CHAPEL HILL, Feb. 6—Iff}—It took mankind SCO years to adjust itself to the invention of the com pass and 150 years to become adapted to the steam engine, but the adjustment to the atomic bomb must be much faster or civiliza tion “will be destroyed,” President Frank P. Graham of the Universi ty of North Carolina, said in an address today at a general convo cation of faculty and students in Memorial hall. “A program of cooperation is im perative in such an age in which social mastery lags behind sci entific knowledge and the social conscience lags behind technolog cial adjustments, has, with much said. “Mankind, with its swift scien tific inventions and his slow so cial adjustments, has, wfh much economic progress and much hu man misery, muddled through to this fateful hour.” The atomic revolution, he as serted, “demands an intellectual and spiritual revolution. As the home of the atomic bomb .... America has a great moral re sponsibility. America, for the sake of her own sou), must take the lead in putting the atomic bomb under the ban and control of world government. “America must, with wise safe guards, share the knowledge and use of atomic power with all the peoples, for full production and fair distribution within the nations, and for justice and peace among the nations.” TRU^mA CTS TO STOP ‘STAR VA TION’ABROAD; YaS HERE MA Y BE USED FOR ‘ANY NEW WORK’ NCSC Heads East Coast Selections Outstanding Record 0 i Local Facilities Cited In Recommendations 20 SHIPS “TALKED” SPA Report On Maritime Commission Yards Studied By Congress (Special to the Star) WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.— Because of the outstanding record established by the North Carolina Shipbuilding company, it was learned on good authority here today that the Wilmington facility will be allotted contracts to build its share of any new work which may be contem plated by the U. S. Maritime commission. Prediction of a continuation of activity at the Wilming ton yard was based on the forecast that the commission will build more ships with the figure of “at least 20” being given. Report Studied Meantime, the official report of the Surplus Property administra tion on the disposal of war-time shipyards was being studied by congressional leaders interested in the American Merchant marine. This report listed three Mari time commission yards as recom mended for retention on a perma nent basis for shipbuilding, stor age and repair work. These yards are North Carolina, the only one on the East coast so designated, Bethlehem at Aiemeda, California, and Kaiser, at Vancouver, Wash (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) STATE TO IMPROVE OLD SHELL ROAD Commission To Widen Wrightsville Beach High way, Betts Says Among the state highway de partment’s program of road build ing and improvement for the Wil mington area is that of making im provements to the Old Shell road which leads from Bradley’s creek to the Baby hospital at Wrightsville sound. The disclosure was made yesterday in an announcement by T. T. Betts, district highway en gineer who visited Wilmington yes terday. Replacement of several bridges in this area will probably be on the improvement program, Betts said w'hile discussing the program mapped by the commission as it will affect this area. Betts said he expected the Brunswick river bridge, two miles west of Wilmington on U. S. high way 17, and the Jackies creek, Bell swamp and Town creek bridges, all on U. S. 17, would be included in the March contracts. The commission last week re jected bids for replacement of the Brunswick river bridge on the grounds that the quoted prices were too high. Bids for replacement of the Al (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) Plot Increased Air Facilities For Wilmington Wilmington leaders met yes terday afternoon at the Cham ber of Commerce headquar ters in the Woodrow Wilson hut to discuss with John Morris, special assistant to the presi dent of the National Airlines, plans for increasing facilities for air service from Bluethen thal field. Shown in the confer ence above, reading clockwise, are John H. Farrell, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce; Morris; County Commissioner Harry Gardner; Chamber Pres ...'in i'.. ident C. M. Harrington; E. L. White, member of the Citizens’ Aviation committee; and Ad dison Hewlett, Sr., chairman county Board of Commission ers.—Star photo by Pete Knight CAMP DAVIS USE * BASED ON BILL Old Status Seen If Congress Passes Selective Serv ice Measure - •??- - Wilmington Star Washington, D. C., Bureau WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 6— When the Army’s reorganization plan for peace-time operations is appioved by the high command, Camp Davis, North Carolina’s famous war-time anti-aircraft training center, the largest in the nation, now being used as a sup ply storage base by the Marine corps, max. revert to its former status. An officer In the Pentagon said today that a strong possibility ex ists of the camp’s becoming again a training ground for anti-aircraft personnel, if Congress adopts the administration’s plan of perman ent compulsory military training. Should Congress fail to adopt (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) 26 CHARGES FACE 2 ‘DESPERADOES’ George Millis and Dennis Forbes have been charged with two sepa rate warrants each stating they are “suspected’’ of having broken into, entered and stolen one single barreled shotgun and one .22 caliber rifle from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Jones, Topsail resi dents. The warrant also charges them with having been connected with stealing other personal prop erty which with the gun and rifle have a total value of $150. The other two warrants charge the men with willfully and feloni ously assaulting the Joneses with firearms and robbing them of $40.31 cash, Sheriff J. T. Brown, Burgaw, said last night. The four warrants are the first of 26 collective papers which are expected to be served on the two (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) More Facilii To Enlarge. MOST PAPAS TO GO HOME BY JULY 1, PATTERSON SAYS WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—(U.R) —The Army revealed today that all but 120,000 of the presb ent 700,000 soldier-fathers will be discharged by July 1, but that it cannot meet congres sional recommendations for re ■leasing all of them by that date unless assured sufficient re placements. Secretary of War Patterson said the War department can not consider releasing all draft ed fathers unless the rate of replacements exceeds present expectations. The Army will need 400,000 replacements be fore July 1 to achieve the 1,500, 000-man Army planned for then. ACL PLANS TWO i NEW SLEEPERS Through sleeper service to Wash ington, New York and immediate points will be provided February 15 when Atlantic Coast Line rail way adds two new sleepers on its north-south trains, officials said yesterday. With one New York sleeper add ed to a hitherto all coach train leaving at 3:35 p.m., it will be pos sible to obtain through service con necting with the railroad’s Havana Special in Rocky Mount with an arrival time of 7:25 a.m. in New York, it was stated. On the night departure at 7:15 p.m., the addition of a Washing ton sleeper and the present New York- sleeper makes possible an arrival time in Washington of 8:45 a.m. and New York of 1:30 p.m. It was emphasized by officials that space would be sold when neces sary to all points on the New York car short of that city when the Washington car was sold out. Along The Cape Fear RIGHT NEIGHBORLY — Folks around here are generally right neighborly and homey. A reader called in to say he went into a local grill night before last real late and had ordered his ham burger, or whatever it was. While he was waiting for his order a gentleman came in with a package. The gentleman opened .up the package and revealed some coun try-made liver pudding, or liver mush. He asked the lady behind the counter if she’d mind warm ing up a few chunks of it for him. She wouldn’t mind. Then the gentleman turned to the reader and asked him if he wouldn’t have a chunk, . He would. They sat there eating liver mush together and became right neigh borly. The reader said he didn’t get the gentleman's name, but that he worked the night shift at MacMillan and Cameron s place. JUST TWO SIRENS, THERE— Ray Barwick, the State Drivers license examiner, said he was ex amining a colored applicant who wanted to drive a car. Barwick asked him the routine question, “What three motor ve hicles are permitted to use sirens?” The colored boy got along all right with two. One, he said, was the po-iice car and the other was the ambulance. But he couldn’t think of the third. Barwick kept prodding him, but the boy couldn’t answer. Finally, Barwick said the third one was a'fire truck. ‘‘Yassir,” said the boy. “But I’se from Chinquapin. We doesn’t have no fire truck there.” WRONG ANSWER — Barwick examines quite a few would-be drivers. He has a few trick ques tions. One of them usually stumps a lot of the applicants. It is: If you’re driving down the road at 70-miles-per-hour and a child ran out into the road and the only way you could keep from hitting the child would be to turn your automobile off the road and hit a tree, which would you hit, the child or the tree.? (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) ies Needed Plane Service Official Tells Group NAL Will Add Five More Planes To Route In an effort to bring Wilmington within close range of Richmond, Washington and New York, John L. Morris, assistant to the presi dent of the National Airlines, met with city and county officials yes terday afternoon in—the Chamber of Commerce office, Woodrow Wil son hut. ■ Morris, who stopped hfere enroute to Philadelphia where he plans to meet with Civil Aeronautics au thority and to ask permission to include Baltimore, Richmond and Washington on NAL’s Route 31, now operating as a Miami to New York flight, with a Wilmington stop, said the addition of those cities would mean increased plane service to the community. Seek Better Service During a round table discussion, E. L. White raised the question, “people here say they can’t get service, isn’t it possible to get some form of reservations?” In answering this question, Mor ris said, “That’s what we want to do but circumstances at present are against us, our hands are tied. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) KIWANIS LEASES BOY’S CAMP LAND Kiwanis Club members were in formed at their noon luncheon meeting at the Friendly yesterday that the committee on Boys’ Brigade work has successfully negotiated a 25-year lease on 10 acres of the Nicholson N. Nixon estate at Porter’s Neck at the very nominal figure of $1.00 per year for use as a Boy’s Brigade camp site. Wilbur R. Dosher, reporting for the committee, said that under terms of the lease, the club has the option of an additional 25 years at the same rental, provided the site is continued as a Boy’s Brigade summer camp. Following announcement of the (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) VIOLENCE MARKS LABOR’S UNREST Two Killed In Illinois; Tug boat Workers Defy Government • By The Associated Press Two fatal shootings in an Illi nois railroad strike fracas and a call from the Office of Defense Transportation for Army and Navy authorities to man New York harbor’s strikebound tugboats marked the nation’s postwar la bor picture yesterday. Lawrence C. Turner, Federal manager of the struck tugboat facilities, sent out a request for Army and Nayy help to restore shipping after representatives of 3,500 striking AFL longshoremen voted against returning to work on government-seized boats. The strikebound Toledo, Peoria and Western railroad—one of the first properties seized by the gov (Continued on Page Two; Col. 8) HIGHWAY PATROL NEEDS MEN HERE Members Before War Not Returning To Old Jobs In Unit The New Hanoyer unit of the State Highway patrol is in need of more patrolmen, officials indicated yesterday. Sergeant J. R. Smith, who is in charge of the local unit, said that a number of men employed here and at other points in the state be fore they were drafted or volun teered for service with the armed forces are not coming back to their old jobs. “Some of the me nare finding better jobs and some of them are still in service, the sergeant ex plained, “throughout the state, the need for more patrolmen is in evi dence.’’ Although there had been previous indications by some officials that the unit operating in New Hanover is well staffed, Sergeant Smith’s statement is borne out in the fact that two former patrolmen who have been discharged from the ser (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) ————-i Today and Tomorrow by WALTER LIPPMANN If Mr. Edwin W. Pauley wishes to show that he is fit to hold high office, the best way for him to be gin will be to ask the President to withdraw his nomination for Un der Secretary of the Navy. That would be a sign that he could learn to understand the elementary prin ciples in the ethical code of a public servant. For having been until recently a collector of cam paign contributions as treasurer f the Democratic party, being still heavily interested p<. sonally in oil properties at home id abroad, he ought to know, and indeed the President ought to know, that he is disqualified for any high post in the Navy Department. For not only is the Navy greatly concerned with our domestic oil supplies; it is also concerned with, and is bound to play an influential role in shaping our policy about, oil supplies in other parts of the world. Where oil is involved the high officials of the Navy Depart ment should be above all suspicion, political or personal, warranted or unwarranted. Mr. Pauley would always be suspect, and every ac tion of the United States govern ment in critical areas like the Middle East and Indonesia, where oil is so important, would be laid open to suspicion. Since he has no other experience right quick, the tree. Most of the applicants jot down which makes nim indispensable in the Navy Department, it is the (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) U.S. Citizens To Sacrifice On Foodstuffs - i Most Rations To Be Affect ed In President’s Effort , To Aid Stricken ~ WHISKEY, BEER HIT - Darker Bread To Appear On American Tables Un der New Wheat Plan* Full text of President Tru man’s message will be found on Page 11. WASHINGTON, Feb. 6— (TP)—Darker bread, less tasty pastries, and far less whiskey and beer were decreed for Americans today as President Truman moved to share this country’s short wheat supply to avert what he called “mass starvation” abroad. Further, a reduction in the nation’s high level of meat and poultry production was requested as an additional means of making more wheat available for bread for the hungry in other lands. Informal Rationing '' The President, in a state ment declaring the world faces a serious food crisis, called upon storekeepers and other distributors to institute informal rationing of foods that may be scarce for the months immediately ahead. Although he did not list foods expected to be short, he undoubtedly referred to bread, (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) YAMASfflTA MUST > DIE ON GALLOWS MacArthur Refuses To Stay Execution Of Jap General -- •■-■Hi TOKYO, Thursday, Feb. 6.-JUP)— General MacArthur today affirm* ed death on the gallows for Jap anese Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yam* ashita—the man who sought futile ly to block MacArthur’s triumph ant return to the Philippines. Date of the execution will be fixed by Lt. Gen. Wilhelm D. Styer, at Manda, commander of Army forces in the Western Paci fic. MacArthur delivered a chill, scathing denunciation with his decision, asserting that Yamashita “failed his duty to his troops, to his country, to his enemy, and to mankind; has failed utterly his soldier’s faith.” He directed that Yamashita be executed "stripped of uniform, decorations and other ' appurtenances signifying member ship in the military profession.’* “Peculiarly callous and pur poseless,” among Yamashita’s of fenses, he said, was the sack of Manila—when fleeing Japanese burned' and plundered as Mae* Arthur’s forces drew near. The historic city had been spared “with campaign conditions revers ed,” he noted—when his own troops withdrew early in the war before the advancing hordes of Japanese. MacArthur asserted that ho passed judgment upon an ad versary “reluctantly,” but that ho was unable to find mitgating cir cumstances. i-1 AND SO TO BED... The recent extension of city , limits added a lot to Wilming- I ton police beats, but not as ; much as some people think, -j Sgt. L. B. Rourk of the police department said a man in Warsaw called the department and wanted the local force ts come to his aid. The fellow told Sergeant Rourk that he had been in s fight and his opponent pulled a gun on him. “Sorry,” wa». the sergeant’s reply,” city limits have not been extended that far.” May be next year we can help you, if you still want our police pro tection.”
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