*
forecast
Wilmington and vicinity: Partly cloudy
weather Friday; no important change in
temperature.
'' V .;." ESTABLISHED 1867
greater Prosperity!
j&VYA T CAMP DA VIS
MEANS MORE MONEY
^iiGreater prosperity over
Z we normally expect” was
^dieted yesterday br John H.
v»rrell, secretary of the Cham
f , Commerce and city in
r,.trial agent, when the news
S It the U. S. Navy def
tly will take over Camp
Davis*
it means that more dollars
,, \e coming into Wilming
0d that, of necessity, aU
local merchants, as weU
I' <be entire population, will
' ..fit thereby,” Farrell said.
Depends On Personnel
n0l course,” he added, “it
abends upon the number of
J Sel to be stationed at the
LmP- *reater the “um^*r
personnel, the greater the
.Lber of extra dollars com
lug into the city.
According to Army statis
tics, the average soldier spends
an average of $15 on his time
from 4:00 p.m. Saturday to
midnight Sunday. I guess that
the average sailor will do the
same.”
Off-Time Spending
A member of the local O. S.
Navy recruiting service con
firmed Farrell’s guess yester
day in the post office.
“My guess is that the average
Navy man spends even more
on his time off than the aver
age Army man does. Fifteen
dollars at the very least is my
estimate,” he said.
Confirmation of the Navy’s
See NAVY on Page Three
UAW-GM PARLEYS
NOW STALEMATED
Negotiations In Adjourn
ment While Dewey Con
fers With Schwellenbach
DETROIT, March 7. —(JP)—The
bitter General Motors strike that
has idled 175,000 production work,
ers and nearly 100 plants through
out the country dragged through
its 107th day Thursday with across,
the-table negotiations in adjourn
ment, at least until Friday.
James F. Dewey, Federal labor
mediator, who for seven weeks
had sought to bring the corpora
tion and the CIO United Auto Work
ers into a wage and contract agree,
meat, was in Washington reporting
on the stalemate to Labor Secre
tary Lewis B. Schwellenbach. He
was expected to return to Detroit
tonight.
Awaits Reply
Meanwhile the Detroit city coun
cil awaited a reply from the White
House on its appeal to President
Truman to intervene in the stub
born labor-management battle.
In Washington it was said there
were n0 indications that any Im
mediate White House action was In
prospect.
Lost Wages
fiy union estimates the strike to
date has cost General Motor* em
ployes $120,910,000 in lost wages.
The management figured the wage
loss at $137,174,000 basing its cal
culations on a 45.6 hour work week
against the union’s 40-hour week.
In supplemental charges filed by
the union Thursday with the Na
tional Labor Relations board the
UAW-CIO contended that the
workers’ idleness was due to “the
unfair labor practices committed
by the corporation,” and asked that
the strikers be compensatad for
their loss of employment.
The union action follows the re
cent rejection by the management
of a LAW proposal that the work
ers return to their jobs at an in
crease of 18 1-2 cents an hour
while an arbiter decides other is
lues, including the union demand
lor a total increase of 19 1-2 cents
in hour.
A GM counter proposal called
lor an unconditional return to work
the corporation’s latest offer in.
ciuding an 18 1-2 cent an hour wage
increase and other contract agree
ments concerning vacations and
tbe check-off of union dues.
dricadeimFcuiB
directors reelect
SOLOMON PRESIDENT
The board of directors of the
“dgade Boys’ club, at a meet
ing last night in the Brigade
armory, Second and Church
streets, re-elected three offi
: cers a»d elected one new offi
*er for the coming term.
Those re-elected are: Harry
: "“lemon, president; O. D.
Curtis, secretary, and Elliott
L-Vingston, treasurer,
p Fred Rippy is the newly
elected vice nresident of the
organization.
The Weather
\W FORECAST:
im-Ar South Carolina: Friday, ru
cloudy* chan?e *n temperature; parti;
t (East*™ Standard Time)
vr t V. S. Weather Bureau)
•Mtaz070,0ngical data for the 24 hour
8 ».30 p. m. yesterday.
Temperatures
t6- 7.4'm- e2: 7:30 a. m. 65; 1:30 p. ir
j.P. m. 65.
Normal"™ ,0; Minimum 62: Mean Of
1-3(1 „ Humidity
r- m- 79: 7:30 a. m. 76; 1:30 p. n
' '-“O P. m. 85.
Total i „ Precipitation
0.03 inches 24 houTS ending 7:30 p. m.
e,T,0;«hre the lirEt oI the month
(Fmm 4,DES F°R TODAY
0, s P4nr Tide Tables published t
oas'- and Geodetic Survey).
Witolini!ton High Low
‘ngton - 1:12 a.m. 8:37 a. i
Masorbor. T , 140 p.m. 8:43 p. r
»nboro Inlet „ 11:23 a.m. 5:15a.r
.Sunrises.,. 11:55 p.m. 5:23p. t
Morons' a' m'; S'Jnset 6:14 P- “
River Ot 50 a- Moonset 11:55 p. i
1. nv ts gS at Fayetteville, N. C. at
“>• Thursday, 9.5 feet.
RAILROAD STRIKE
THREAT FADES OUT
President To Appoint Fact
Finding Panel In Rail
Wage Dispute Shortly
WASHINGTON, March 7—(JP)—
The threat of a railroad strike on
Monday faded away Thursday as
President Truman invoked the
fact-finding machinery in that in
dustry which he proposes for
others.
The White House announced that
the President will appoint a fact
finding panel in the rail wage dis
pute “very shortly.” Under the
Railway Mediation act, this will
automatically bar a strike for 30
to 60 days.
In Committee
Mr. Truman proposed last year
that Congress set up similar ma
chinery for other industries. In
stead the House passed a more
stringent strike-control bill by Rep.
n_/tj e rt \ t« t
legislation Is still in the committee
stage.
The Brotherhoods of Railroad
Trainmen and of Locomotiye Engl,
heers had scheduled a progressive
strike against 384 railroads and ter
minals to start at 6 a.m. Monday.
Law-Abiding
After the White House announce
ment, however, A. F. Whitney,
president of the trainmen, said in
See RAILROAD on Page Three
WALLACElEADY
FOR ’BERRY FETE
Governors Of North And
South Carolina Plan To
Attend
WALLACE, March 7. —Prepara
tions are on in full swing for
North Carolina’s greatest event,
‘‘The Sixth Annual North Carolina
Strawberry Festival,” which is
being revived after victory and
will be staged here in Wallace for
10 big days, May 1 through May 11.
Festival headquarters over the
Wallace Drug store is a bee-hive
of activity as plans are being made
and executed to bring to this
section, the greatest entertainment
and largest crowd of visitors ever
assembled at any celebration.
Governor’s Day
Wallace streets and store fronts
will be gaily decorated and the
opening day will be marked by a
spectacular street parade featur
ing bands, marchers, pretty girls.
floats, clowns ana numerous eye
catching attractions. There wil
be “Governor’s Day,” when Gov
ernor R. Gregg Cherry will mee
the Governor of South Carolina
here to enjoy the Festival.
There will also be Governor;
from several other states. Then
will also be a “Mayor’s Day,” dur
ing the Festival, when Mayor;
from almost all the towns an<
cities in North Carolina will con
vene here as the guests of Mayo;
Aubrey Harrell, founder of th(
Festival which has become an in
stitution through-out the land.
See FESTIVAL On Page Three
Today and Tomorrow
by WALTER LIPPMANN
Mr. Churchill believes that a set
tlement with the Soviet Union is
possible only if we deal with her
by uniting America with Britain to
form a combined power through
- out the world. There is nothing,
he says, that “our Russian friends
and allies admire so much as
strength, and there is nothing for
y which they have less respect than
for military weakness.” By com
' lining our power we would, he
} argues “possess so formidable, a
i superiority as "to impose effective
• ; deterrents” against ‘‘the indefinite
expansion of their power and doc
trines.” If we do this, this is to
say, if we hold the Russians in
check by presenting them with a
combined Anglo-American front,
the United Nations will have a
chance to develop.
This is Mr. Churchill’s thesis.
If ever there was a man who held
earned the right to be listened to
with the utmost seriousness, it is
Winston Churchill talking on thp
basic issues of war and peace. He
will be listened to, and his speech
may well mark the beginning oJ
one of the great debates of moderr
times.
See LIPPMAN on Page Three
U.S. CALLSONRUSSIA TO GET TROOPS OUT OF IRAN
I ___
Subcommittee Shows Real
Interest” In Washing
ton Hearings
$1,500,000 MEASURE
Colonel Gillette Believes
Appropriations Will
Be Approved
Wilmington’s bid to get the
Cape Fear river channel wid
ened and deepened received
new strength from two impor
tant sources yesterday.
Senator Josiah Bailey of
North Carolina, in a personal
appearance before a Senate ap
propriations subcommittee, urged
that a $1,500,000 appropriation for
the project be re-inserted into the
War department’s civil functions
biU.
He said the -subcommittee “show
ed real interest” and that the out
look on the whole is “very prom
ising”.
Recommended By Engineers
Already recommended by U. S
Army engineers and approved by
congress, the project was recently
eliminated from the civil functions
bill in a drastic “economy” slash.
The project, divided into three
sections is as follows:
(1) Deepening the cape .rear
channel to 32 feet and lengthening
the southerly approach to the an
chorage basin from 1,500 to 4,500
feet, at a cost of $790,000.
Widening Channel
(2) Widening the 3U-foot channel
between the inner end of the ocean
bar channel and Wilmington from
300 to 400 feet and the turning
basin from 600 to 800 feet, plus a
channel 12 feet, deep and 100 feel
wide from the eastern’ entrance of
the inland waterway,to connection
with the main channel three miles
above, at a cost of $075,000.
(3) Construction ot a channel 25
feet deep and 200 feet wide in the
northeast Cape Fear river, extend
ing from Hilton bridge to and in
cluding a ‘turning basin 600 fe'ef
wide one and a fourth miles above,
at a cost of $73,000.
Senator Bailey s&id the Subcom
mittee completed, .its. .hearings
Thursday afternoon and will "mark
up’’ the bid irr a few days.
Colonel Gillette Predicts
Colonel George W. Gillette, chief
of U. S. Army Engineers of this
district, provided the other source
See BAILEY on Page Three
IFIRE DESTROYS CITY
BLOCK OF BUILDINGS
AT FUQUAY SPRINGS
FUQUAY SPRINGS, March
7. —OP)— An early afternoon
blaze, fanned by strong winds,
Thursday leveled virtually an
entire city block of Fuquay
Springs’ business area, caus
ing damage tentatively estimat
ed at $150,000.
The blaze, cause of which had
not been determined, complete
| ly destroyed the main store and
adjacent warehouse of the
Proctor-Barbour company, a
general supply concern. Mayor
W. F. Rogers said the fire
apparently started in the trac
tor repair department of the
company.
I Wilmington-New Hanover AirportAuthority Gets Down To Busii
1 i
The name for the new guiding board f^r the highly promising
airport here is mouth-filling. But all portens are the airport will
live up to its rather imposing name.
Anyway, picture above is the first formal meeting of the new
board. From left to right, or clock-wise around the board table
-1 _
are Lenox Cooper, Hargrove Bellamy, Addison Hewlett, Sr., ex
officio adviser, Albert Perry, chairman, ’Harry Gardner, and
Hamilton Hicks, secretary.—STAB STAFF PHOTO BY PETE
KNIGHT.
- --
GOVERNMENT GETS
PHONE SETTLEMENT
Walk-Out Averted After
Agreement Reached On
Wage Pattern
WASHINGTON, March 7—(IP)—
The long-threatened nationwide
telephone strike definitely was
called off Thursday.
Operators already were leaving
their switchboards and picket lines
were forming at scattered points
when the union ordered the walk
out cancelled 25 minutes befors
the 6. a. m. deadline. An agree
ment on a new wage formula grant
ing $5 to $8 increases to some 250,
000 phone workers had been reach
ed shortly under all-night pressure
by the U. S. Conciliation Service.
Pattern Contract
The executive board of the Na
tional Federation of Telephone
Workers, independent, ordered the
strike cancelled five minutes aftei
a “pattern” contract had beer
signed with the American Tele
phone and Telegraph company by
its long lines affiliate.
The walkout had been called by
the long lines unit and 16 other
affiliated unions. Thirty-four oth
er NFTW units had been instruct
ed to observe picket lines.
Lines Form
Delayed receipt of the union’s
notice, or premature walkouts,
caused -service interruptions in
Washington, Philadelphia, Cleve
land, Oklahoma City and parts oi
Maryland, Texas and Michigan.
Picket lines were set up in several
cities.
A. T. & T. officials in New York
said a survey showed that service
was normal throughout the coun
try by 9 a. m.
To February 1
Edgar L. Warren, chief of the
U. S. Conciliation Service, called
the new wage rates a national
pattern in his announcement ol
the settlement. The increases will
dcte back to February 1, 1946,
and the rates will remain in effect
until March 6, 1947.
The long lines wage agreement,
providing some $6,800,000 a year in
pay increases to more than 19,000
See GOVERNMENT on Page Three
AGE OF SPEED!
Airport Authority Sets
Fast Opening Pace Here
I Bluethenthal Field, In “Good Condition”,
Expected To Be Turned Over To
Group Early Next Week
The Wilmington-New Hanover Airport authority open
ed full throttle yesterday in its campaign to make Bluethen
thal airfield the outstanding airport of the South.
In its second meeting since its creation by the New
Hanover County Board of Commissioners on Wednesday,
--— i the authority telephoned hieh Arnrv
CHURCHES WARNED
AGAINST HOLY WAR
Bishop Oxnan Sounds Key
note At Closing Session
Of Council
COLUMBUS, O., March 7.—(&)—
A special post-war policy meeting
of the Federal Council of Churches
of Christ in America closed Thurs
day on a keynote warning against
churches being led into a “holy
war” against either capitalism or
communism.
Bishop O. Bromley Oxnam, coun
cil president and head of the New
York area of the Methodist church,
told the. final session of the three
day gathering of 500 delegates from
the 25 Protestant churches com
posing the council:
Clash of Arms
“Men who would lead the church
into ‘holy war’ are blind to the fact
that the massing of force for the
destruction of a movement may be
planned as the force of idea, but
such effort soon descends to force
that is physical, and the castigation
of words becomes the clash of
arms.”
Bishop Oxnam’s plea came after
three days which included a speech
by President Truman urging a
See CHURCHES on Page Three
--—
Along The Cape Fear
NO TABOO TODAY—Despite ar
old newspaper taboo against the
practice, we are whistling while
we work today. We’re whistling
because'swe’re happy. And we hope
our notes are in unison with some
other whistling, that’s been going
on- in Wilmington for 68 y®ar®
Yes, we’ve found out all about the
Old ACL Whistle, and from whal
we have found out the old gentle
man should win the presidency oi
the BLEW (Blow Loud, Emancipat
ed Whistles) society without s
hitch.
THE FULL STORY — The Ole
ACL Whistle has been blowing se
ven times per day «Jx d-M P«
week since 1878 — anc* ^
of breath yet.
The man who ma^eT-the.,^1S“e
was Captain Richard Bradley Re
gister who, in his early years, wa.
I machinist at the ACL shop plant
a. made it by hand — surely on*
S thTgreatesf“by hand” creation,
in this country.
And we doubt that even he real
ized what an amazing, enduring
creature he was creating.
Captain Register died in 1942, at
the age of 85, and he left behind
him a small but durable monument
which will bear testimony to his
manual skill for years and years
to come.
OUR HEROES—The men we’re
; indebted to for the full information
about our “champ” are Alan B.
Love, assistant editor of the Atlan
tic Coast Line News, and Captain
Charles Register who is, you might
guess, the son of old Captain Dick
Register.
Mr. Love dug through his oldest
files and finally came upon the full
story, and Captain Charles verified
it by memory.
We want to thank all you other
folks for the bits of data you sent
in about the old whistle, too. It
always gives us a warm feeling to
See CAPE FEAR on Page Three
U1C auuiuilbj
officials in Atlanta, Ga., in an effort
to get Bluethenthal field put int<
first class condition and turneo
over to the county and the authori
ty by March 13.
“Early Next Week"
The high Army officials promised
the authority “highest priority’’ in
the matter and said they would
come to Wilmington “early next
week’’ to get the project moving.
“We want the field okayed by
the Civil Aeronautics Administra
tjon and turned over to us by
March 13,” Hamilton Hicks, U. S
Army engineer and secretary of the
Authority, said yesterday, ‘if al
all possible.
$11,000,000 Airport
“Because then, when we go to
the CAA meeting in Raleigh on
March 13 to discuss airport opera
tion and maintenance, we’ll have
a complete $11,000,000 airport to
lay on the discussion table.”
The entire airport authority,
consisting of Albert Perry, chair
man, Hicks, Harry Gardner, Lenox
Cooper, and Hargrove Bellamy,
will attend the Raleigh meeting.
John H. Farrell, secretary of
the Chamber of Commerce and city
industrial agent, plans to go with
the group.
In their meeting yesterday, the
Authority members talked over the
matters of a manager and a
“name” with Addison Hewlett,
chairman of the county commis
sioners and ex-officio advisor to the
authority.
Discuss Manager
The group said, it had already re
ceived a number of inquiries con
cerning the manager’s job.
“We don’t want to be too hasty,
however, about hiring one,” chair
man Perry said. “We want a
thoroughly experienced man whe
not only knows the airport business
See AIRPORT On Page Three
WAIT, The Age-Old Problem
And It Tries Patience
Of Job-Seekers At USES
“How long do I have to
wait?” is a common question of
applicants for new and con
tinued claims, and those seek
ing jobs at the United States
Employment Service, Harold
M. Hinkle, manager said yes
terday.
“Time required to answer
some of these questions is from
five to 15 minutes, depending
upon whether the applicant is
new or continued,” Hinkle said.
Applicant Irritated
"The irritated applicant often
f
has to be referred to about 25
different people, before his
question is satisfactorily an
swered,” the manager said.
*‘I have waited here all day,”
is an example of some plug
lines the office gets, and when
the applicant goes out and re
turns for further information,
he often dashe^up with ‘‘about
that job, will I get it here, or
do you want the man to see
me?”.
See WAIT On Page Three
CITY CONSIDERING
SUNSET PURCHASE
Nichols Says No Definite
Conclusions Reached On
Water Proposal
The City of Wilmington’s pro
posal to purchase the Sunset com
pany, which supplies Water to
Sunset park, is “still under con
sideration,” City Manager A. C.
Nichols revealed last night.
Nichols and W. F. Evans, Jr.,
head of the city’s Water depart
ment, who have been studying the
proposal for some time, have not
reached “any definite conclu
sions,” Nichols said.
No Obligation
Nor is the city under any obliga.
tion to purchase the company and
its facilities. According t0 a bul
letin received from Ha'rry Me
Mullan, attorney general of North
Carolina, there is no North Carolina
statute which requires a munici
pality to purchase a privately own
ed water system operating within
the city limits, buf it would have
authority to do so if it were found
proper .to make such a purchase.
City Attorney W. B. Campbell
confirmed MoMullan’s statement
last night.
No Predictions
Nichols said he cannot make any
predictions as to when the negotia
tions with the Sunset company
will be completed or as to whether
the city ever will make the pur
chase.
TOBACCO BOARD
BACKS PROPOSED
BRITISH WANS
RICHMOND, Va., March 7—
(IP)—The board of governors of
the Tobacco Association of the
United States, in mid-winter
session here, Thursday night
unanimously adopted recom
mendations that the United
States loan Great Britain the
proposed $3,750,000,000 and that
the Office of Price Administra
tion raise the ceiling price on
cigarettes.
Resolutions asking the fed
eral government to negotiate
for the removal of trade bar
riers and tariff discrimination
now in force in several foreign
countries affecting the export
of American tobacco, also were
adopted by the board.
Soviet Action
Held Contrary
To Agreement
Note On Red Activities In
Manchuria Not Ready
For Publication
ASK QUICK REPLY '
State Department “Trusts’*
Russia Will Abide By
Tehran Accgrd
WASHINGTON, March 7^
(IP)—The United State*
Thursday night called upon
Russia to live up to its agree
ments and get out of Iran
immediately.
The State department made
public the note delivered to !®>s
cow Wednesday. It said that the
United States "can not remain in
different”' to the Soviet decisioc
to keep troops in Iran, And it ask
ed an answer "promptly."
In the 1,000-word document, the
United States declared that the
RUssian action was contrary to th*
assurances of the American-British
Soviet declaration of Tehran in
1943, and expressed "earnest hope”
that the Soviet Union would with
draw all forces immediately from
Iran.
“Promote Confidence”
Such a withdrawal, the U. S. note
said, would “promote the internat
ional confidence which is necessary
for peaceful progress among the
peoples of all nations.”
It closed with a request that the
Soviet Union notify the U. S.
promptly of its decision on the mat
ter and said this country hoped
that verdict would “be in accord
See SOVIET on Page Three
WAGE“PATTERNS”
NOT “CEILINGS”
Stabilization Board Says
Such Agreements Are
Not Raise Rates
WASHINGTON, March 7—W—
The National Wage Stabilization
board ruled Thursday' that wage
increase “patterns,” established
under the administration’s new
wage-price policy, represented
neither a "floor’’ nor a “ceiling”
on pay raises.
At the same time, in a "guiding
statement of policy” issued: over
protests from Labor members, the
board announced that, although no
i patterns technically could be set
1 after Feb. 14, it would stress indus
try relationships in setting the
equivalent of patterns after that
date.
Wage Pattern
(A “wage pattern,” under term*
of the wage-price policy, is general
application within an industry or a
locality of wage increases made
between V-J Day and Feb. 14,
1948—either voluntarily or as a re
...it awards, fact
finding recommendations, or other
governmental proposals.)
Today’s policy statement wa«
made to assist labor and manage
ment in the “completion of collec
tive bargaining and in the filing of
wage increase applications." It
sets up eight major principle!
which the beard will follow in ap.
See PATTERNS on Page Three
And So Tq Bed..
Yesterday an out-of-town
resident, unfamiliar with the
city’s parking meters, stopped
a local citizen on Front street.
"Would you show me how to
work this thing?" he asked.
"Certainly,” said the prac
ticed in-towuer.
He showed the man the slot
to drop the nickel in and ex
plained at length the inner
workings of the meter.
The out-of-towner thanked
him profusely, dropped in the
nickel, watched the time-scale
pop up, got into his car, and
drove away.
"Be back in an hour," he
shouted through the open win
dow.