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nazTpow’s want
to REMAIN IN ILS.
Eig^ and Nun streets,
dont want to go back to thefr
native land. They have put their
roots into Wilmington soil, and
they don’t want to have them
torn out.
Yesterday Capt. R. H. Hazel,
commanding officer at the
camp, announced that the
camp would be closed on April
15. From now till then, the
German prisoners of war will
be sent home.
Yesterday 100 prisoners were
shipped to Camp Butner for return
to Germany.
See POW on. Page Two
COOPER, GARDNER
THROW IN HATS
Former Mayor To Seek
Senate Seat; Commis
missioner Asks Return
Former Mayor Thomas E. <Tom)
Cooper threw a “fat-lighter” stick
under the New Hanover county
political pot yesterday by announc
ing his candidacy for the Demo
cratic nomination for the State,
senate. A former member of the
North Carolina general assembly,
Cooper has pledged himself to
work for repeal of the state sales
tax.
Largely responsible for the
North Carolina Alcoholic Control
Board act which provided local
option in the state, and credited
by many with having been instru
mental in having the tolls removed
rho ctatr hiehwav bridge over
the Cape Fear river here, Cooper
jj known as an able campaigner
and expects to wage a vigorous
light right up to primary day on
May 25.
Seeks Renomination
Another development in the fast
moving political picture yesterday '
ms the announcement by Harry
B. Gardner, that he will. seek re
nomination for the seat he vacates
on December 31 on the Board of
Commissions for New Hanover
county. A member of the board
lor the past 10 years. Gardner will
no doubt base his campaign on his i
record since he was appointed to i
the board 10 years ago cn the death j
ol Frank M. Ross. He served out
the remaining two years of the
Boss term and then was reelected j
tor two full terms. ,
On Many Committee*
At present he is serving on the <
courthouse, county home and I
stadium committees of the Com- i
mission; is chairman of the <
aviation committee and was recent- <
See COOPER on Page Two
TAXMYROLLS i
AROUND AGAIN I
_i
Collector Christman Isn’t1
Worried About Last
Minute Rush i
Today is the last day for filing
*«5 income tax returns, but Ray
mond Christian, chief zone deputy
fcwe for the Department of Inter
Mi Revenue, isn’t worried about
getting swamped with people seek
lnS last-minute advice on tax head
aches.
HT ...
*■* au my n years as a deputy,
Christian said yesterday, “the
headline day has always been a
fiead day. Seems like not as many
People wait till the last minute as
;'ou might be led to believe. It’s
, day before deadline day that
» really aiive.”
To prove his point, Christian
Pointed out the dozens of people
getting next-to-the last minute aid
office yesterday.
‘But Friday,” he said. “That’s
my day of rest.”
The Weather
„ FORECAST;
”0 and South Carolina: Consider
shtn»..C oudiness with scattered light
crs and continued mild Friday.
(Eastern Standard Tima)
y,'By,®. S. Weather Buream)
„d»cal dala lor the 24 hours
s V.30 p. m. yesterday.
j Temperature*
t# 7 in'm’ 61; 7:30 a- m. 62: 1:30 p. m.
' ''™ P. m. 64.
Kormaf'jJ* ,3: Minimum 60; Mean 67;
Humidity
tl; ; Tn’ 83; 7:30 S. m. 79; 1:30 p. m.
’ '"10 p. m. 97.
Total , „ Precipitation
-o.io inches24 h°UrS ending 7:30 p- m
-O'^inches* the £irst o£ the month
(Eton, J'HS F0R TODAY
t. s Cn.'.'f Tlde Tables published by
2st and Geodetic Survey).
Wilmington Hlgh Lew
son-8:10a.m. 2:38».m.
M«sonW t„, . 8:33 P- m. 3:11 p. m.
0 Inlet -6:12 a.m. — m.
.Sunrise 6.5, 6 ;35 P- m. 12:24 P-m
Mbonrise 4.99 a' m'; Sunset 6:20 P- m.;
River o,P- m.; Moonset 5:29 a.-m.
8- m. ThmS at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8
Thursday, 9.5 feet.
THE B ETHER On Page Two
JEWS TO OBSERVE
FESTIVAL OF LOTS
Special Purim Services To
Be Conducted Here This
Week-End
Members of the Jewish faith in
Wilmington as elsewhere through
out the world this weekend will ob
serve Purim, or Festival of Lots,
:ommemorating the deliverance of
he Jews from Haman, the min
ster of Ahasuerus, as related in
he 'book of Esther.
Falling on Adlr 14 and 15, the
origin of the festival is much dis
puted; some hold that it developed
Irom a primitive spring festival
}ecause it is celebrated just before
he New Year .in Njssau and that
he preliminary fasting was actu
ally ordained in Esther 3, 7.
Later Institution
But the fasting is a later institu
;ion and the feast is secular rather
han religious; it has all the
jharacteristics of a spring carnival
ncluding the ironical crowning of
lie buffoon-king or vegetation-god
vho was put to death after mock
;ry.
During the synagogal reading of
iie book of Esther, which is part
>f the Purim commemorative ser
vice, the reader hurries over the
execution of the ten sons of Haman
[Esther 1:7-10), pronouncing them
ilmost in one breath. This accord
ng to Jewish historians, goes back
o the Talmud and is ordained to
lenote tehir simultaneous death
ind to avoid gloating over a fallen
oe.
Religious Service
Holiday will be observed
le^e by a religious service, which
vill be held Saturday night in local
rewish churches at 7:30 o’clock,
ill children of the syngogues will
>e invited to be present and will
eceive Purim gifts. According to
:ustom, gifts will be exchanged
nd presents sent to the poor and
ieedy.
Purim services will also be held
in Sunday morning at Congrega
ion B'Nai Israel at 9:00 o’clock
«th Sunday school being excused.
)n Sunday afternoon at 3:30
i’clock, the annual Purim Chil
Irens’ program and party will be
leld under sponsorship of Sister
lood B’Nai Israel. Purim play re
See FESTIVAL on Page Two
HARGROVE LECTURE
SET FOR TONIGHT;
JAYCEE AUSPICES
“There are still plenty of
seats, for the Hargrove lecture,
“I Should Have Been A sol
dier,” which will be given to
night at 8 o’clock in the audi
torium of the New Hanover
High school.’’ Luther Hodges,
chairman of the Junior Cham
ber of Commerce’s Educational
program, said last night.
Hodges said that sales of the
seats are running smoothly,
but expressed the belief there
will be plenty when the doors
are opened tonight at 7:30
o’clock.
Marion Hargrove comes here
from Charlotte at 4 o’clock,
and will be met by a delega
tion of Jaycees.
A 30-minute open forum will
follow Hargrove’s speech.
Labor Peace
Is Forecast
By Official
Note Of Optimism Sound
ed Following End Of
Big Strikes
ECONOMY LEVELING
Bowles And Wallace Also
See Better Days Ahead
For Reconversion
WASHINGTON, March 14.
—(/P)—Reconversion Director
John Snyder said Thursday
he is “confident that the coun
try can settle down and look
forward to production mov
ing ahead at high speed.”
Waw that coveral nf th* Kicfcf*«t
labor disputes have ended, Sny
der said “the one hurdle remaining
in reconversion is early, amicable
settlement of labor contracts in the
coal industry.”
He made these comments in re
ply to a question by the Associated
Press about prospects for unin
terrupted production. The same
question was asked of Chester
Bowles, the economic stabilization
director, and Secretary of Com
merce Henry Wallace.
Get on With Job
Bowles, In his answer, said he
believes the rank and file of work
ers and business men will accept
the need for the emergency wage
price policy ana “get on with our
production job.”
Wallace said wage-price settle
ments “should! help solve our cur
rent economic problems but much
remains to be done.”
Secretary of Labor Schwellen
bach, at a news conference Wednes
day, said the end of the General
Motors dispute points toward “the
end of our industrial strife.”
Wednesday’s wage agreements in
General Motors and-General Elec
tric, enabling about 275,000 workers
to get back to making cars and
electrical appliances, removed two
See HIGH SPEED on Page Two
wall line Miir
LAUNCHING TODAY
Fourth In Series To Slide
Down Ways At Shipyard
This Morning
The fourth of six Grace Line ■
cargo-passenger vessels will slide :
down the ways at the North Caro
lina Shipbuilding company at 9:15
this morning.
Mrs. Arthur Diehl, 1809 Grace
street, will break the bottle on the
ship’s prow and give her the name
of S. S. Santa Maria.
Mrs. Diehl’s daughters, Mrs.
Robert Blake and Mrs. Jackson
Balch, will be their mother’s at
tendants.
Godfrey MacDonald, passenger
traffic manager of Grace Lines,
Inc., will represent the company
at the ceremonies.
Super-modern, with air-cond'i
tioned staterooms, sun deck, out
door swimming pool, and library,
the Santa Maria will be placed in
service between the East and Gulf
coasts of the United States and the
West Coast of South America.
SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES
Cigar et Smokers Can’t
See Well After Dark
ATLANTIC CITY, March 14.
—Dr. Charles Sheard, of
thl Mayo clinic, told biologists
here Thursday that smoking
two standard cigarettes inter
feres with seeing well in the
dark.
The cigarettes cause a 15 to
30 minute delay in the time
eyes require to adjust them
selves to see well in dim light,
such as a darkened theater or
starlight, the doctor explained.
Inhaling Doesn’t Matter
He said it made no difference
whether the cigarette smoke
was inhaled or not. When fil
ters were- used that extracted
the nicotine from the smoke,
there was no effect on night
vision. Smoking cubbers and
corn-silk cigarettes did not af
fect the eyes.
Dr. Sheard concluded that
the nicotine, rather than any
thing else in smoke, has the
bad effect on eyes for night see
ing.
Hard To Overcome
Breathing pure oxygen, a
practice of aviators flying at
night, did not overcome the ef
fect of the nicotine.
Before the war the late Ray
See CIGARET on Page Two
_It’s The Season Of The Year When Such Things Happen
The Mad March Hare is here and Alice-in-Wonderland may be
Just around the corner. Because, you see, it’s coming on spring
and/ the pyxies are with us.
In the picture above the young Marine from Camp Lejeune is
all smiles as he greets the live Easter bunny, Miss Mildred Hune,
who sponsored a round-the-building trip of the Mad March Hare
at the March Hare party and tea, held at the Second and Orange
17SO club. Incidentally, the Easter bunny and the Mad Hare are
first cousins. In the background, you see Miss Mary Humphrey
with a Marine, Mrs. Charles E. Robertson, the live Easter bunny,
Miss Hune, another Marine, Miss Dorothy Price, and Miss Marian
Byrd, who was chairman of the party.
175,000 BEGIN
RETURN TO JOB
New GM Units Expected
To Be Rolling By April
1, Leaders Say
DETROIT, March The
175,000 General Motor* production
employe* will begin, returning to
their job* next week, according to
C1IO United Auto Workers’ officials,
to bring an actual end to the long
est and costliest strike in automo
tive history.
Top union executives, who,
Wednesday, completed.' negotiation
uf a settlement of the strike that
ras stopped GM car production for
more than 16 weeks. Dredicted
juick ratification of the agreement
jy the UAW-CIO GM council meet
ng here Friday and by the rank
md file of the strikers in their
/arious locals over the week-end.
Units Start April 1
Newly assembled units are ex
acted to start rolling by April 1.
Highlights of the settlement
igreement included:
An 181-2 cents an hour wage in
irease; increased vacation pay;
tqual pay for women; higher over
time rates and reinstatement of
he former contract, cancelled dur
ng the strike by the corporation,
:xcepting for a clause dealing with
naintenance of union member
ship. 1
In lieu of the membership main
tenance clause, objected to by the
nanagement, the union accepted a
plan for company collection of
anion dues, commonly called the
‘check-off.”
Other Issues
While UAW plans went forward
tor striker ratification meetings
luring the week-end, union locals
See GM on Page Two
CHARGES REDUCED
First Degree Charge
In Trial Dropped
Mrs. Coreen Collins, Accused Of Knife Slay
ing, Being Tried On Second Degree
Or Manslaughter Killing
Mrs. Coreen Graham Collins, accused knife slayer, went
on trial under reduced charges yesterday with the state
altering its accusation of first degree murder to charges
of second degree murder, or manslaughter.
District Solicitor Clifton L. Moore announced to Judge
NAVY TOPS LIST
FOR RED CROSS
Other Industrial Groups
Show Spirit In Annual
Campaign Here
The U. S. Navy led the nine
:ommercial and industrial groups
•eporting their collections for the
Jed Cross campaign yesterday,
rhey did not necessarily excel in
iollars and cents, but per capita,
md the amount they raised above
he quota set for their offices.
The Navy had a quota of $10, set
it the meeting of the men’s divi
sion Monday. Yesterday when the
ifficer turned in the collections to
leadquarters, they had collected,
lot $10 but $30.
Other Groups
Other commercial and' industrial
See RED CROSS on Page Two
xv. ixunx x-ariter max iiiixiai in
vestigation showed insufficient
cause for a first degree charge.
The jury, with the responsibility
of a life or death decision removed
from its shoulders, was selected
during the morning session. Twen
ty-four veniremen were called be
fore 12 were finally installed in the
jury box.
Plead Not Guilty
Aaron Goldberg and William K.
Rhodes, Jr., representing Mrs.
Collins, entered a plea of not guilty
while the courtroom spectators
bent interested scrutiny on the de
fendant. '
Mrs. Collins is accused of the
fatal stabbing of Mrs. Edward F.
Bordeaux on Feb. 10 during' an
argument concerning the behavior
of the Bordeaux children.
The alleged quarrel is said to
haye occurred on the playgrounds
of the Riverside apartments after
the defendant’s niece complained
of the Bordeaux children’s stone
throwing, ,
Says Self-Defense
In statements to the police, Mrs.
Collins has described the stabbing
as an action of self-defense taken
after Mrs. Bordeaux struck at her
with a pair of home-made lead
knuckles.
She has maintained that she was
unware that the knife had cut Mrs.
Bordeaux until she returned to her
See CHARGES on Page Two
GOERING ADMITS
MASTER MINDINt
Tells Court He was Brain
Behind Hitler’s Biggest
NUERNBERG, Germany, Marc]
14. — (£)— Hermann Goering de
dared Thursday that he master
minded Hitler’s biggest coups, bu
that he saved Sweden from Ger
man attack and argued against thi
occupation of Czechoslovakia.
He portrayed himself as a self
righteous nationalist and not as i
war criminal, as he stands chargee
before the international militar;
tribunal with 21 of his fellows.
Reichmarshal Testifies
In the second day of his histor;
of Nazism, the former Reichmar
shal testified to these points: -
Swedish neutrality—“We knew o
a British and French plan not onl;
to occupy Norway, but to interrup
Swedish ore supplies to German;
and interfere in the Soviet-Finnisl
conflict at that time on the side o
Finland. The Fuehrer feared Swe
den would give in to British troop;
and permit them to march througl
under the guise of helping Fin
land.
"I assured Hitler I knew tb
Swedish people and king so we]
x x x I personally pledged my won
See GOERING On Page Two
CATHOLIC HOSPITAL
CAMPAIGN SLATED
TO BEGIN MONDA)
Following a brief conference
with high '- ranking Catholic
church officials yesterday
morning, Mayor W. Ronald
Lane announced that a cam
paign for funds to erect a 100
bed Catholic hospital “some
where on Market street” is
slated to start Monday.
No further details concerning
the proposed institution have
been disclosed yet.
1 Backs Byrnes
In Dealings
With Russia
Discounts Report Of Cross*
Purpose With Secretary
Of State
SKIRTSIOVIET ROW
Refuses To Take Part In
Skirmish Between Stalin
And Churchill
WASHINGTON, March 14
—(A5)—At a critical point in
Russo - American relations.
President Truman Thnrsdnv
threw his unqualified support
to his foreign policy chief,
Secretary of State Byrnes.
and simultaneously predicted that
the world will work out of Its pres,
ent predicament successfully.
At his news conference the pres!,
dent authorized the following dl.
rect quotation about the world sit.
uation: “I am not alarmed about
it. I’m sure we will work out of
it.”
Not In “Reality"
About the same time, Russia ap«
parently laid the groundwork for
a reply to the American inquiry as
to what Soviet troops are up to in
l Iran by authorizing the Tass news
■ agency to say that American re
' ports on troop movements there do
not accord with the “reality.”
The latest reports at the State de*
f partment, however, continued to
show three Soviet columns in Iran,
in position to menace Tehran and
the Turkish frontier.
Highly placed diplomatic officials
t predicted that the Soviets may stir
up a revolt of the Kurdish tribes
occupying a region around the
junction of Turkey, Iraq and Iran
and possibly sponsor the creation
of a new Kurdish republic. By
claiming territory from Iran, Iraq
See TRUMAN on Page Two
: PUBLIC MEETINGS
BANNED IN IRAN
, Premier Hopes To Quell
Demonstrations Agains$
Russian Movements j
_ t
| TEHRAN, March 14. — i/P) —
' Premier Ahmed Qavam ea SaV
, taneh Thursday banned all publio
| political meetings and demonstra
tions as the Russians continued to
move troops across northern Iran
toward the Turkish border.
: A Russian column which left
J Tabriz, capital of Azerbaijan prov*
1 ince moving northward, was re
ported to have swung toward the
west at Marand and to be moving
toward Khoi, north of Lake Urmia
and near the Turkish border.
Maybe 60,000 Troops
r Foreign military observers said
the Russian occupation army in
Azerbaijan, estimated at 801000
two months ago, was now estimated
to be “much greater — probably
double.”
IWaTcVinT Ttrart Pa errnmf on Pua.
sian expert on tank warfare, ha.
been at Tabriz two or three weeks,
it was disclosed Wednesday, Bag,
ramian made his reputation as
commander on the Baltic front
in the war with Germany,
(Sovfoto in New York said .
picture taken, probably Monday, of
the registry of delegates to th.
Supreme Soviet in Moscow show
See IRAN On Page Twe
And So To Bed..
The other night a man, haw
tog dined In a local restaurant,
called for his t>Bl and th.
waitress laid It on the table.
As he got up to leave he noticed
something Strang about th.
bill.
It was blank.
He summoned the waitress
again, “How silly of me,” she
said, picked up the blank bil£
wrote the items and the cost
on it, put it in her pocket, and
laid another blank one on the
table.
"I don’t know what I waa
thinking about,’’ she said.
The man was thinking what
this city needs is a good 5-cent
automat
mje good earth, from which
spring, to which we owe our
V.m,, bread, and upon which
0 have spilled so much of our
Low's blood, may some day
“r“ng about a brotherhood of
the soil.
"Yd from that, the oft-shat
t.red dream of universal broth
Lood among mankind may
mother day be cemented to
.ether for all time.
Yd trees from little acorns
jY-and an acorn has been
planted in Wilmington.
' D0n’t Want to Leave
The German prisoners of war
|tationed at the old Marine hos
PRESENT EXPRESSES CONFIDENCE WORLD
W T SHAKE OFF BELLIGERENT THRU TS;
SNYDER SEES PRODUCTION A T HIGH SPEED
Along The Cape Fear
NYMPH’S RETURN—Echo, that
Lovely nymph of Greek mythology
who pined away for love of Narcis
sus until nothing was left of her
but her voice, has come back from
h. .• grave in the Elysian fields to
haunt of all things, ALONG THE
CAPE FEAR.
We are aware — and we’re proud
of it — that we are becoming cos
mopolitan.
But we never expected to get as
far afield as the Elysian fields. We
never expected to mount as high
as Mount Olympus. (Conversely,
we hope never to get stuck in the
Styx-) . ...
In a word, we are disquieted.
PUBLICITY AGENT—The news
of Echo’s unexpected and disturb- .
tag return has been announced by ,
R. L. Benson, her publicity agent. ,
Ln his spare time, when he isn t
boosting Echo’s cause, Mr Ben- .
son functions as Town Clerk and (
Treasurer of Wrightsville Beach In .
the role of publicity aSeot Mr. ,
Benson writes us the following let- ,
ter*
“I have noted with interest your
writing on the rise and fall of the
whistles and bells in and around
Wilmington and along the Cape
Fear.
“Since these material things
nust perish as time goes by, 1
world like to know what becomes
if the ECHO from these bells and
whistles, as the ECHO will ring
iown the ages long after the bells
ind whistles have been lost and
iorgotten.
“I am very much disturbed
ibout this ECHO. It should be pre
served in substantial form.
“Yours for the preservation' of
ill historical things along our be
oved Cape Fear.”
WORTHY CAUSE, BUT—It’s a
vorthy cause, Mr. Benson, but you
lave us behind not one, but several
light-balls.
First, we could record the bells
md whistles on phonograph re
:ords. But records, like the bells
ind whistles, are also subject to
lerishment—in fact, more so. For
ixample, our Aunt Fannie sat down
See CApe FEAR on Page Two
ANOTHER NAVY PROBLEM
What To Do With Caswell
Southport Question Mark
By BILL KEZIAH
Star Correspondent
SOUTHPORT, March 14—The
biggest local question mark
now visible is regarding what
the Navy intends to do with
Fort Caswell at the mouth of
the Cape Fear river?
Statements made from high of
ficial sources several months
ago were to the effect that Fort
Caswell would never be de
clared surplus property. This
statement left room for a
roundabout interpretation that
it could be disposed of at pri
vate sale. With the Navy own
ing both land - and' the physical
improvements all would be
held intact for use or sale.
The inference got around that
the Navy had no use for the
place and would consider pri
vate sale of everything in a
lump.
Knew Nothing
An inquiry of the Sixth Naval
district, which owns it, at
Charleston, asking if the place
was for sale, brought the in
formation that Charleston had
no information of either plans
See CASWELL on Page Two