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1^—N0‘-9"--—--- __ WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1946 " ESTABLISHED 186*
Hoover dees
U.Si Citizen
Eating Less
Former President In Wash
ington To Map Out World
Wide Food Plan
VOLUNTARY RATION
tells Reporters Americans
Must Eat Substitutes To
Help Other Nations
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28_
(/P)—Herbert Hoover arrived
Thursday night to participate
in President Truman’s food
conference expressing firm
conviction that Americans
should voluntarily eat less to
help feed the starving abroad.
The former president, who won
a world wide reputation for his
work as food administrator in the
last war, emphasized that the pro
gram should be voluntary.
1 believe less food was consum
ed per capita during the last war
when we had voluntary rationing,”
he told reporters, ‘‘than during
this war when we had compulsory
rationing.” ...
Must Act Soon
Hoover said the problem was to
find some way to feed starving
Europeans between now and June.
“Per the next harvest,” he re
marked, ‘‘they will be out of the
woods.”
Hoover said he saw .two phases
to the problem as far as this.coun
| try was concerned:
1. To eliminate waste.
2. To get Americans to use sub
stitutes.
Bread Substitutes
In this connection he declared,
ior illustration, that Europeans
could use only wheat for bread
while Americans often ate corn
bread and could eat more, thus
Iaking more wheat available for
. Port.
See HOOVER on Page Two
COMMISSIONERS
TO MEET HERE
North Carolina Group To
, Hold Convention At
Wrightsville Beach
The county commissioner* of
North Carolina will hold their con
vention at the Ocean Terrace hotel,
Wrightsville Beach, on September
3, 4, and 5, Mrs. John Snyder, the
hotel’s owner, disclosed last right
through Walter J. Cartier, secre
tary of the Wrightsville Beach
Chamber of Commerce.
L. H. Skinner, secretary of the
commissioners group, has been
informed of the hotel’s readiness
for the convention, Cartier said.
! Cartier also said that the hotel’s
plans for the North Carolina So
ciety of Engineers convention,
•cheduled for Juna 7 and 8, are
complete.
The State Elks convention is also
f slated to be held at the hotel on
June 27 and 23.
Cartier said Mrs. Snyder in
formed him that there will prob
ably be space in the hotel for oth
er conventions after September 5.
‘ RAIL LASHESOUT
AGAINST UNIONS’
‘IRRESPONSIBILITY’
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2|. — CR—
enator Ball (R-Minn) fleclared
bursday that Congress must quit
appearing “minority groups in the
a or movement” and enact legis
i -a mn placing responsibility of un
i? and their members.
-1 fit ?”.s cornments came in' a series
ij e^Cl ar>ges with Chairman Paul
-n , ,etz°g °f the National Labor
T,!atlc'ns board as the Senate
hear°:* cornmittee completed public
in nuto nSs on a §rouP of labor dis
r les measures.
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Surprise
■- . . . _ ____
wnen President Truman
picked Julius A. Krug, above,
to be Secretary of the Interior,
succeeding Harold Ickes, he
surprised even his inner circle
of advisors. If confirmed by
the senate, which is expected,
Krug will become one of the
youngest cabinet 'members in
the United States history.—In
ternational-photo.
GRACE LINE SHIP
TO BE LAUNCHED
Santa Margarita Qoes
Down Ways Here This
Morning At Yard
Miss Helen McGann of New York,
an employe of the Grace Line Ing.,
will sponsor the S. S. Santa Mar
garita,. third of six passenger cargo
ships being built by the North Caro
lina Shipbuilding company for the
Grace Line, when the ship is
launched at 8:15 o’clock this morn
ing at the yards. Miss McGann
was. chosen by lot for the honor
among women employes who had
been with the company five years
or more.
Following the launching core
monies, the S. S. Santa Margarita
will go to an outfitting pier here fDi
installation of the elaborate pass
enger accomodations she will
carry. These include a tiled out
door swimming pool, the deck ver
anda with its game tables, lounge
chairs, dining salon, cocktail
lounge and comfortable suites of
room?.
. Grace Line, expfects to accept
delivery of the ship in June and
she will be immediately placed on
the New York to South America
run. ' . ,
The ship is the 240th to near
completion at • the North Carolina
yard. j;K!
EPITHETS FLUNG
IN PAULEY ROW
Witness Accuses Nominee
Of Paying Fines For
Oil Thefts
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 — (£>) —
Edwin W. Pauley rose to the full
height of his jix feet four in a
Sena'e hearing Thursday and
shouted “that’s a dirty lie” at testi
mony that he had paid a fine to
the State of California for "stealing
state oil.”
A few minutes later Pauley, Cali
fornia oil operator and former.
Democratic treasurer, read to the
Senate Nayal committee a formal
statement saying “I cannot now
consider” withdrawing as Presi
dent Truman’s nominee for Under
secretary of the Navy.
To Vindicate Character
“I intend to stay in thif and vin
dicate my character—because I
know I am right,” he concluded
The committee then adjourned un
til Friday after a whole day of
verbal collisions. The clashes oc
curred between committee mem
. bers and- between them, and the
lone witness of the day—John A.
Smith, California independent oil
operator.
It was testimony by Smith to
which Pauley gave the lie
Smith, who had been summoned
by Senator Tobey (R-N.H.) in an
effort to refute earlier Pauley
See EPITHETS on Page Two
iODAY and TOMORROW
by WALTER LIPPMANN ,
j 111 our concern for the present,”
Said the New York Herald Tribune
°n Tuesday, ‘'let no one overlook
! ! basic contest”—that “the real
Ue; it there is one, between
Russia and the United States . . .
' • - in the relative adequacy
.‘,h which these two great systems
kt organization—the capital
t.democratic and the statist-to
f 1 arian~actually operate to satisr
y the needs and aspirations of the
>*rv0as who Jive under them.”
i says the Herald Tribune,
is the real contest,”" more than the
Maneuvers in central European,
: lddle Eastern, and Chinese power
Politics urbiofc
| ®oxiet.v.
There is little doubt, I think, that
Stalin and those who rule the Soiriet
Union today regard themselvef as
engaged in a contest of the two sys
tems—that there has been a change
in the assumptions of the pre-Yalta
period which were that there is
,room for both systems—that each
can live and let live. Nevertheless,
we shall, I think, misunderstand
this enormous problem if we think
of this contest as an exclusive
choice between Communism and
democratic capitalism.
* • •
For our own greatest difficulty in
the contest is that it is being waged
See LIPPMANN on Pare Two
Plans Laid
In
J. Fred ^py Heads Pub
licity Committee For
Drive This Year
SPEAKERS LISTED
Rabbi Friedman Offers
Speakers’ Service To
Any Group
As Harry Solomon and F. P.
O’Crowley, co-chairmen for
the local drive of the Ameri
can Red Cross fund campaign
are formulating campaign
procedure, two new commit
tees were announced yester
day afternoon as follows:
Publicity: J. Fred Hippy, Jr.,
chairman; Thomas J.. Gause, ra
dio; C. L. Harris, display; Emory
Southerland, newspaper; and Rabbi
Samuel A. Friedman, speakers’
bureau.
Meets Next Week
This group will meet next week
to complete final plans for the
campaign.
Speakers’ bureau: Rabbi Fried
man, chairman: 'the Revs. Walter
B. Freed, Dr. William Crowe, Jr.,
Mortimer Glover, H. J. Wilson,
Monsignour Cornelius Murphy, A.
Jackson Ryans, Negro, Dr. G. R.
C. Thompson, E. B. Papazisis, and
Captain Lattie Henderson, Salva
tion army.
Other Speakers
William' Block, Alan Marshall,
Gardner D. Greer, Warren S. John
son, W. Elliott O’Neal, William L.
Mclntire, Mrs. Emma Howell,
Aaron Goldberg, Mrs. Nancy Hen
derson, and Mrs. B'. D. Applewhite.
“What Red Cross Means to Me”,
will be a talk given by Marion F.
Barnhill of his personal experiences
while in a German prison camp
for over 18 months, to the members
of the Business and Professional
Women’s club meting in the Friend
ly cafeteria Friday night. Barnhill
will be the first campaign speaker
to appear on a program.
LOCAL CABMEN '
FOUND GUILTY
15 Of 16 Arrested Convict
ed Of Overcharging
Fares In City
Fifteen .of the 16 taxidrivers tak
en in Chief Charles H. Casteen’s
Saturday night roundup, were con
victed of overcharging and non
display of licenses yesterday.
Charles W. C ilbreath, Negro,
tried' on both these counts, was
found not guilty by Judge C. Win
field Smith of Recorder’s court.
Permits Suspended
Convicted cabbies were fined the
costs and had their permits sus
See CABMEN on Page Two
ICEBERG CARRIER
PLANNED TO WAR
AGAINST NAZIS
WASHINGTON, Feb: 28. —Iff)
—Out of the super-secret files
of the war Thursday came a
project for a 2,000,000 ton air
craft carrier—built of reinforc
ed ice.
Seriously considered by the
combined chiefs of staff, btt
abandoned due to the progress
of the war, the proposed “ice
berg” was to be more than one
third of a mile long with torpe
do-proof walls 50 feet thick
and keep itself from melting
away to a puddle by self-con
tained refrigerating machinery.
A 1,000 - ton model was built
on a Canadian lake and escaped
the hazards of ice picks, cigar
ette butts and blow torches
for six months before being
scrapped.
The Weather
forecast
North and South Carolina: Friday,
fair and vfarmer.
(Eastern Standard Time)
(By li- S. Weather Bureau)
Meteeorological data for the 24 flours
ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday.
Temperatures
1:30 a. m. 81; 7:30 a. m. 58; 1:30 p. m.
54; 7:30 p. m. 44.
Maximum 61; Minimum 43.
Mean temperature in Wilmington yes
terday, 52 degrees. Normal, 50 degrees.
Precipitation
Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m.—
.43 inches.
Total since the first of the month—
2.91 inches.
Humidity
1:30 a. m. 96; 7:30 a. m. 100; 1 :30 p. m.
62; 7:30 p. m. 96.
Tides Tomorrow
High Low
Wilmington _8:12 a.m. 2:49 a.m.
8:26 p..n, 3:21 p. m
Masortboro Inlet_6:02 a. n. 6:11 a. m.
-p. .a. 12:22 p. m.
Tomorrow's sunrise 6:41 a. m. Sun
set 6:08 p m.
Tomorrow’s moonrise 5:35 a. m. Moon
set 4:01 p. m.
Cape Fear Kiver stage at Fayetteville
at 8 a. m. today 9.6 feet.
BYRNES TELLS WORLD U.S. WILL FIGHT
TO STOP AGGRESSION AMONG NA TIONS;
FRANCE ASKS OUSTER OF FRANCO RULE
U.S. Asked
To Support
Spain Plan
State Department Silent On
Proposal By French
Government
MENACE TO WORLD
UNO Security Council Will
Probably Review Situa
tion In March
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.
— (UP) — France proposed
Thursday that the United Na
tions Security council, at its
meeting in New York next
month, declare Spanish Gen
eralissimo Francisco Franco a
menace to world peace and seek
his overthrow.
It asked the United States, Bri
tain and Russia to support its Pro
posal.
The request was revealed by the
State department shortly after it
announced that Paris has approv
ed in principle a U. S. proposal
mat wic umicu oiaics, omcun all
France issue a joint statemer
urging ouster of the Franco regim
in favor of a “caretaker” goverr
ment.
a
Britain Reported Favorable
Britain also was understood t
have accepted the U. tS. suggestio:
in principle, but its official pogi
tion has not been transmitted to tb
State department.
The department said the Frencl
request was being studied. It ha<
no other comment.
The Security council convenes ii
New York March 26. Diplomats
sources said that under the Frencl
See U. S. ASKED on Page Two
PERON ASSUMES
LEAD IN RACE
Increases Margin Ovei
Tamborini In Argentine
Presidential Drive
BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 28. —(U.R
—Col. Juan D. Peron, the powe;
behind the present military govern
ment and Nationalist - Laboritc
presidential candidate, increasec
his lead Thursday over his DemO'
man, Cordoba and Corrientes prov
borini, as the first incomplete
election returns from the all-im
portant city of Buenos Aires were
tabulated.
Tamborini, however, picked ui
10 official electorial votes Thursday
in San Luis province, where the
final tabulation gave him 17,80:
popular votes to 14,378 for Peron
Peron was also leading in three
provinces having an aggregate o:
32 electorial votes; Santiago De
Estero, Jujuy and La Rioja, while
Tamborini was leading in San Juar
province with 10 electorial votes.
The important Santa Fe province
with 42 electorial votes, and Salta
with 10, may also start tabulating
the returns Friday. Entre Rios anc
Catamarca are expected to be
gin Friday,
In Buenos Aires. Mendoza, Tucu
man, Cordoba and Corrientes pro
inces, the returns of some pre
cincts have been placed "undei
observation," meaning that com
plementary elections may have tc
be held there.
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TTiis Is No Horse On \ Wilmington
J mo, mis isnt we sports page,
t It’s simply a picture shot of J. Wiley Parker’s !
b four-cornered trotter, Glitter Princess, in training I
at American Legion stadium for the North
Carolina Grand Circuit; And it has a story behind
it.
Parker, who with A1 Simon, Wilmington^ op
t erateslthe Carolina Stables here, says many trOt
i ting hjr|les would be trained here each year from
all over the country if facilities were improved.
He says several inquiries have come in from
f stable 'Owners. He says the track is “grand for
training purposes, but no good for racing’’.
At the last meeting the New Hanover County
Board of Commissioners decided to look over the
stadium and property with a view toward making
improvenfents in the whole set-up.—Star Staff
Photo by f*ete Knight, f
' FOUND BY POUCE
I
1 Four-Year-Old Terry Tay
lor Discovered Safe In
Annapolis, Md.
ANNAPOLIS, Md., Feb. 28.—UP)
! -Four-year old Terry Taylor- who
disappeared - Tuesday from Char
s lotte, was found in Annapolis
Thursday night and is safe and
well, Police Commissioner Thomas
’ G. Bas.l announced.
Basil said the girl and har nurse,
Rosemary Johnson, 19, were found
i| a Navat officer’s home' where
Ifiss Johnson was working as a
i maid. •
Naval Intelligence. Aids
Basil said Naval Intelligence
: gave the information which led
police to the home where they
found ihe nurse and the child,
. daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Andrew
Taylor of Charlotte.
The little gir^ was identified, the
See CHARLOTTE GIRL on Page 2
USN PLANE SMACKS
CATHEDRAL CROSS
IN MOBILE CRASH
MOBILE, Ala., Feb. 28.—W
—A two-eng:ne Navy training
plane went out of control over
downtown Mobile Thursday (
night, struck the cross atop a (
Catholic cathedral and ripped (
through the roofs of two houses
before crashing through, a gar
age.
The pilot, lone occupant of 1
the plane, was taken to the 1
Marine hospital in a serious •
condition. He told newsmen
that his name was Ens. Robert *
(Shorty) Grammer. 23, of Ben- <
ton, 111! He was unable to ex
plain how the accident happen
ed. 1
Along The Cape Fear
MIRACLE-MAN, ALMOST—Yes
terday a miracle almost happened.
We bumped into Louis T. Moore
in the city hall. Mr. Moore, as you
all know, is the man who knows
just about all there is to know
about the Lower Cape Fear.
“Look, here,” said Mr. Moore.
“Yes?” we answered behind our
black veil.
“About that Dram Tree. I think
it’s still there.”
We threw off the veil and col
lapsed on Mr. Moores startled
shoulders.
• * *
SUSPENSE— After disentangling
himself, Mr. Moore hied himself
off to the river-front. Crouched at
the telephone, with a pile of fing
ernails rising about our ankles like
peanut shells at a Hoot Gibson
Saturday matinee, we waited for
Mr. Moore’s final decision.
Just as the fingernails reached
our trembling chin, the phone-bell
jangled into our nerves. As from
a great distance, we heard Mr.
Moore’s voice float through our
ears.
“Sorry. It’s not there after all.”
We awoke in a white room, with
white-clothed people saying "Tsk,
tsk, tsk.”
• • •
BITTER STORY — There’s no
doubt about it in What’s left of our
minds. The Dram Tree is gone.
We even know now what hap
pened to it. A man in the Army
See CAPE FEAR on Page Two
CLASHES MAR SCENE
Strife Flares Again
Among Union Pickets
Police Rout 3,000 CIO Sympathizers In Phila
delphia; GM-UAW Closeted For Late
Thursday N i ght Session
DETROIT, Feb. 28.—(AP)—General Motors and CIO
United Auto Workers representatives, seeking a for
mula for settlement of the 100-day old GM strike went
into their third session of the day shortly before 10
o’clock, Wilmington time, Thursday night.
Ah hour later there was no word from the parley
to indicate what progress was being made. Expectancy
had surrounded the proceedings throughout the day.
By The Associated Press
A violent free-for-all clash involving thousands of pick
ets and policemen in Philadelphia and a disclosure the gov
ernment had failed so far to avert a threatened nationwide
telephone strike applied new shadows to the somber labor
uicture Thursdav.
The brightest news was that Fed- ■
:ral conciliators had succSded in
arranging for resumption iof nega- 1
iations in New York Sunday be
;ween the American Telephone and
relegraph company and the Fed
:ration of Long Lines Telephone
workers. When negotiations were
broken off earlier in the day, the
inion, whose members handle long
listance calls, said it was "finish
id.”
One of the most violent out
>reaks in postwar labor disputes
lared up at Philadelphia when
>olice on horseback, motorcycles
md in patrol cars routed 3,000
1IO pickets and sympathizers from
he strikebound General Electric
ompany plant.
Incite To 'Riot
Enforcing a court injunction
igainsbmass picketing, the police '
See STRIFE on Page Two
knd So To Bed..
—— -T~
"What’s in a name” Will
Shakespeare asked.
Bill Farrow, ~Wrlghtsville
Beach, has the gcBbamlng ans
wer.
The first time Bill’s name
appeared in the newspaper it
wag spelled "Farrow.”
When he was inducted into the
Wrightsville Beach Lions club
he was introduced ns "Far
row.” t
The otherday his name was
again in the newspaper as
—“Farrow”.
But "Farrow”, you see, isn’t
right.
It’s “Farrar”.
Okay, Farrar. Fluff that full
furrow from your fair fore
head. *
FORMER FIRE CHIEF
HURT IN AUTO JAM
ON BEACH HIGHWAY
■ ' ■ •
J. F. Zellers, former Wil
mington fire chief, was in the
James Walker Memorial hos
ital last night under examTna
tion for chest injuries received
in a Carolina Beach road motor
mishap.
The accident occurred one
mile south of the Carolina
Beach-Wrightsville Beach high
way intersection about 2p. m,
State Highway Patrolman R.
E. Sherril, invest'gating the
See* FIRE CHIEF on Page Two
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Secretary’s
Peace Plea
Talk Tough
Cabinet Officer Can’t Fore*
see Serious Conflict
With Russia
SUPPORTS CHARTER
Force Must Be Used To
Prevent Territorial En
croachment In World
NEW YORK, Feb. 28.—(ff)
—Secretary of State Byrnes
served notice on the world
Thursday night that the Unit
ed States must stand ready
to use force, if necessary, to
prevent aggression.
Only an “inexcusable tragedy of
errors could cause serious con
flict” between this country and
Russia,” he said at one point, and
at another: “I am convinced that
there is no reason for war be
tween any of the great powers.”
But, Byrnes asserted flatly that
"we must, make plain that the
United States intends to defend the
United Nations charter, which out
laws aggression.
"Stop Maneuvering
He called for a "stop to this
maneuvering for strategic advan
tages all over the world and to the
use of one adjustment as an enter
ing wedge for further and undis
closed pentrations of power”'
He said that the "status quo’*
of world affairs is not sacred and
unchangeable but "we cannot over
look a unilateral gnawing away at
the status quo.”
"The charter forbids and we can
not allow aggression to be accom
plished by coercion or pressure or
by subterfuges such as political
infiltrations.”
Only Use of Force
"We must make it clear in ad
See SECRETARY on Page Two
CHARLESTON SPAN
CHARGES BROUGHT
Coast Guard Marine in
spector States Negligence
Cause Of Crash
A charge of negligence has been
lcdged by Lieut. Cmdr. Russell O.
Foster ;r. the case of the Nicaragua
Victory-Cooper River bridge trage
dy whicn. took five lives, it was
revealed yesterday by the U. S.
Coast Guard Office of Public In
formation in a telephone conver
sation with the Star.
The charge was the result of an
investigation of the accident Sun
day when the 10,000 ton freighter*
apparently dragging anchor in a
high wind, crashed into the Cooper
bridge, downing a 100-yard section
of one span.
In a formal statement to the Star,
Commander Foster, Sixth Naval
District Marine inspector, stated
that ‘failure to exercise due care
and camion has resulted In a
charge of negligence.”
He continued, ‘‘there wa» no
evidence of drunkeness aboard and
there were a sufficient number of
crew members aboard at the time
to comply . with the maritime
laws.”
See SPAN on Page Twa
MARCH COMES IN
And Weatherman Hess
Says: ‘Like Black Sheep *
Today, you may have noticed,
is March 1.
There’s an old adage that
says: If March comes in like
a lion, it goes out like a lamb.
Or vice versa.
But Paul Hess, head ot the
XJ. S. Weather Bureau here,
has thrown his adages, like his
almanacs, on the trash pile.
“March,” Hess predicted last
night, ‘Ts coming in like a
black sheep.”
This morning, he said, will be
raw and damp, but this after
noon the sun will come out. and
it’ll be a lovely day.
"Just contrary, like a blade
sheep,” he added.
Or like a leopard that does
change its spots.
Hess, however, wouldn’t put
the other end on his new adage.
‘‘How will _ March go out?
Gosh, that’s 31 days away.,,
He headed for the trash pile
and those discarded almanacs,
then thought better of it.
"All I can say,” he hedged
“is that March will go out like
any black sheep—dragging Its
tail behind it.”
Looks like the weather busi
ness has had the wool nulled
over its eyes. •