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forecast Wilmington and vicinlty: Considerable imidiness and occasional showers, fol '““d bv clearing Monday night. Little change in temperature. Tuesday fair and , little wanner. inf~79—-NO. 106~ ~~ --—■--r—• ___ ESTABLISHED 1867 f Campaign Leaders For New Hospital \ .. .. pictured above, shortly after their announce ment that Wilmington will get a modern, 100 bed, $100,000 Catholic hospital, are, left to right, Charles E. Kelly, Colonel Cliff Titus, and Henry L. Caravati, of Southern Associates, --— - ----S Richmond, Va. The three men are launching a nine-week drive here to raise $500,000 for the new St. Francis hospital, to be located at the old Catho lic cemetery.—Star Staff Photo. JVar Still On ACL And Pullman Find Trouble Supplying Cars Task Of Hauling Returning Servicemen Still Taxes Capacity Of Railroad; January, February Record Months .— ■ ■ i By PHIL WRIGHT There’s' still thousands of wan dering "cowboys” in Miami, home sick for Brooklyn, and there’s still millions of GI’s on the East coast, homesick for the Old South. So, you can readily understand why "the war is not over,” for At lantic Coast Line, and the Pull man company. This year, the Pullman com pany, and the railroads cannot, un less further instructed, reenact a sbene of some ten. months ago when special trains were dispatch ed to Florida to carry home the race track and sunshine enthusi asts.. This spring, they’ll just have to wait, if information from the railroads paints a true picture of the travel situation. 2,000 Cars During December of last year and January of this year, Atlantic Coast Line alone assigned 2,000 coach cars to return troops from the Pacific coast. This in addi tion to the regularly scheduled troop trains used for this purpose. These trains are never used for civilian transportation any more, as they have been placed by spe cial order of the government, for the express purpose of bringing troops home from the wars. Dead Headed The cars are "dead headed” on their way to the West coast for their loads of war veterans, or on the return trip to their destination, whichever the case may be. Although reliable informants say that "modest” progress has been made by ACL, and other roads in reconverting to peacetime traffic conditions, the day is obviously far, far away when you can just walk down to the station, and or der a Pullman to New York, or Miami, and get it the same day. Equipment Scarce , The Coast Line has on order tremendous equipment lists, which are in process of being filled, tut so far, only a small portion of such equipment has started to "trickle in,,” and it is unknown just when this dream may be realized. Added to the company’s inability to get new ordered equipment, is the continuation of military de mands on existing facilities, this having not lessened since the peak of the war. . Last July, the OPA ordered the railroads to furnish adequate .. See WAR STILL On Page Two 00 UNIONISTS OKAY AGREEMENT t _ h One Hundred Thousand v Electrical Workers Re- n turn To Jobs Today NEW YORK, March 17—<AF) — *! The CIO United Electrical Work- s ers said Sunday night its locals * had ratified an agreement settling e the 62-day General Electric strike r and the 100,000 workers would re- j) turn to their jobs Monday. • “In view of the action by the £ membership the strike is term!- 1 nated,” Joseph Dermody, interna tional representative of the union said in a telegram to the General a Electric management. GE plants c are in 16 states. c Under the new agreement the t 1 „ t See UNIONISTS on Page Two t FIVE SUFFOCATED : WHEN HOME BURNS i Ten-Year-Old Boy Escapts t Through Window; Dog, 1 Puppies Cremated Also ' MALDEN, Mass., March 17. —(AP) 1 -Five persons were suffocated and 1 * ten-year-old boy escaped when a 1 *e and one-half story home 100 ! jeet off the Boston-Newburyport turnpike was destroyed by fire of 1 undetermined origin early Sunday, ! The dead were identified as Ar b Uehoim 35, his wife, Marion ~™uSn venoim, 33, and their three 'hiidren, Barbara, 8, Patricia 5 and i wil, five months. A dog and her eight puppies were 1 ji found burned to death. . 1 ,.Geor?e Brough, 10, a son of Mrs. ■ a°®s by a former marriage, , !le escaped by breaking a * mdow in his bedroom. once said the blaze was dis vered bv a watchman at a near lie re,st5urailt who telephoned po 5 At the same tim°, police said, "lre alarm was turned in by a Pass»g motorist. The Weather FORECFA3T (Eastern Standard Time) ; T, S. Weather Bureau) KtUno-°Ji?glcal data for the 24 hours 6 1 aO p.m yesterday. 1:30 , „ .Temperature* 5:30 D„m' r,8U 7:30 a.m. 58; 1:30 p.m. GO; Minimum 57; Mean 80; 1:30 , Humidity *8; J-3MO;; 7:30 a.m. 100; 1:30 p.m. P m. 92. Total a Pr*®*PH*tion 8.(2 inch™r 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m.— •■‘6 inchesCS ttle £irst o£ the month~ (from Tides For Today 5 Coast „n<\ Title Tables published by U. 11 and Geodetic Survey). Wil*ington Hieh Low 8 on - 9.44 a.m. 4:17 a.m. "ssonboro mi . 10:05 p-m- 4:43 pm r° Inl“t — 7:37 a.m. 1:20 a.m. Sunrise «.,0 „ 7:59 p.m. 1:42 pin. (.It!.; ”'M; Sunset 6:22; Moonrise 7:20 ““onset 7:04 a.m. SPELLMAN CALLS WORLD SICK SPOT American Cardinal Says Blood Stream Poisoned By Militant Atheism WASHINGTON, March 17 —VP)— Francis Cardinal Spellman, arch bishop of New York, Sunday called this a world “sick unto death’’ with its bloodstream “poisoned by the plague of militant atheism.” “The fever of hate runs high, the pulse of mankind is irregular, the heart of the world is sunder ed,” he told a class of 81 graduates of Georgetown University school of medicine. “To humanity struggling with its passion and its destiny, the chaos of wretchedness threatening the life of the world today, is a challenge and opportunity. For heroic, glorious achievement espe cially for the young priests and young physicians who begin their lives of service in this world sick unto death.” Cardinal Spellman received ap honorary degree of doctors of laws from the university, before an audience which included cabinet members, diplomats and high ranking military officials. Robert Martin Spellman, of | Chestnut Hill, Mass., a nephew of the Cardinal and a member of the Georgetown graduating class, re ceived his degree from the Cardi nal. STATE OFFICIALS TO FIGHT AGENCY Agricultural Commission ers Of Nation Set For Battle On OPA Ceilings WASHINGTON, March 17. —te state Agriculture commissioners from all parts of the nation began arriving in Washington Sunday for a meeting tomorrow that is expect ed to turn into a drive against OPA ceiling on farm products. R. A. Trovatten of Minnesota heads the group, which is the edu cation and research committee of the National Association of Com missioners of Agriculture. One of the early arrivals was Tom Linder of Georgia, long active in the organization. Linder said what the committee will do will not be decided until it goes into session Monday morning. Speaking for himself, however, he told a re porter: | “My primary interest right now is against ceilings on agricultural products. See OFFICIALS On Page Two Today and Tomorrow by WALTER LIPPMANN It will be most unwise, so I venture to think, for us to raise the Iranian question in the Security Council before our new -ambassador to Bussia, General Bedell Smith, has had time to reach Moscow and enter into a full discussion on this and related matters with Stalin. Perhaps it is impossible to have such a discussion. We should make every effort to find out. We have not made the effort. The astound ing fact is that with the peace of the world hanging in the balance we now have no one in Moscow, and have not had any one during this whole most critical period, who can * - , even see Stalin, much less talk with him. The Russ. - have no one in Washington to v .m we can talk with any hope of ah important exchange of views. * * * Surely it would be better to re establish direct diplomatic contact with Moscow before we have a showdown by public debate. A showdown may be necessary and it may be inevitable. But the right time to have a showdown is after diplomatic negotiation has been See LIPPMAN on Page Two / NAMToCarry p<g?Qn OPA iietore House Manufacturers Exp e c t e d ♦To Hit Back At Bowles . In Committee Meeting ADS STATE STORY Adminis t r a t i o n Forces Seeking To Woo Back Southern Democrats WASHINGTON, March 17—(TP)— The National Association of Manu facturers will take to capitol hill Monday its demands for an end of government price controls on all manufactured goods. The NAM, attacked by Chester Bowles, economic stabilizer, as a sponsor of an “irresponsible, reck less and greedy” lobby, is expected to hit back with an accusation that OPA is strangling peacetime pro duction and encouraging black markets. Robert R. Wason, president of the organization, will present NAM’s case to the House Banking and Currency committee, which is considering legislation to continue OPA for a year. Makes Stand Known The organization has made its position known in nationwide ad vertisements that said OP A price ceilings stand in the way of sup plying peacetime goods. Bowles has told the committee that without the controls at this time the inflation boiler would burst. Significantly, over the week-end —with OPA under relentless at tack and the House already hav ing taken out what President Tru man called the “very heart” of the administration housing bill, the Democratic party scheduled a series of Congressional “unity” dinners. To Woo Strayer* The first purpose of the dinners was described by party leade'rs as wooing back straying Democrats, particularly from the South, who have joined Republicans frequent Bee NAM on Page Two BEACH RESIDENTS INJURED IN FIRE Mr. and Mrs. Ben Gray Of Wrightsville Suffer Hurts When Home Burns Mrs. Ben Gray, 823 South Lumi na avenue, Wrightsville Beach, was admitted to James Walker Me morial hospital yesterday suffering from injuries received when she and her husband and son dropped from the second story of their burn ing home. At a:lb a. m. bunaay me urays were aroused by smoke and found the lower story of the house ablaze. All first floor exits barred with flame, they were forced to leap from the upstairs window. _ Children Escape Two of the Gray sons, sleeping on the ground floor of the house, made their way out before fire had blocked the doors. Ben Gray was X-rayed Sunday morning, hut extent of his injuries is not yet known. Mrs. Gray is under treatment for a fractured vertebrae and is reported to be resting comfortably. Jimmy, who made the two story drop with his parents, was unhurt. House Destroyed The fire, having made great headway before its discovery, was beyond the control of the fire department. Of the Gray residence, only the chimney and the stair-way are standing. EVENTS IN IRAN APPROACH BOILING POINT 45 SO VIETS ISSUE WARNING TO PREMIER U.S. Vice Consul Detained For Half Hour By Sentry State Department Says No Significance In Incident WASHINGTON. March 17.—(/TV American Vice Consul Robert Ros sow was stopped by a Russian sen try in the Iranian city of Tabriz last Friday and held for half an hour at a Red Army command post before his identity was established and he was released, the State de partment reported Sunday night. The local Soviet Consul General expressed his regrets over the in cident and officials here said that the State department attache* “no significance” to it. Key Position Rossow is in a key position since Tabriz is the vital communications center through which virtually all Russian military movements south ward in Iran must pass. Meanwhile, the general Iranian situation appeared quiet on the surface but officials here believe that events were boiling up to ward a climax sometime next week with Russians putting increasing pressure of the Tehran government to give way to their demands. Warning Issued One report in official inform*, tion from the Iranian capital is that a Russian diplomat, charge d’affairs of the Soviet diplomatic mission there, delivered a warn ing to Premier Ahmed Qavam Sul taneh to refrain from pressing any charges involving Iran against Rus sia in the United Nations Security Council, meeting in New York a week from Monday. The warning—if it turns out to be as reported anA Washington officials now are generally inclined to accept it that way—puts Qavam on the spot because if he takes some action which Russia consid ers “unfriendly” it has an army with which to express it sdispleas. ure. Other Points Moreover authorities here say that unquestionably there are oth er points on which Russian pres sure is being brought to such an ex tent as to make the Iranian Premier’s position extremely dif ficult. These diplomats explain that Russia’s immediate objective pre sumably its to get an Iranian gov ernment completely on its side and one which would officially wel come the presence of Red Army troops in Iran. This, in fact, is the critical question. The Iranian problem could be solved almost in a matter of min utes, if the Russians would, per haps by some face saving formula, begin to pull their troops out of the country. The major immediate complaint against them in both Washington and London is that they failed to withdraw their forces by last March 2 in accord with a treaty and everything which has happened since is at the moment considered subordinate to that fact. Remains Mystery Why the troops are still there remains a mystery and Russia so far has offered no reply to a di rect inquiry on that point submit ted by the American government. On the Rossow case, a State de partment official, press officer Michael J. McDermott, gave this account: The United tSates Vice Consul at Tabriz was held by a Soviet sen try on the outksirts of the city on March 15. He was detained ap proximately a half hour at a near See IRAN on Page Two And So To Bed.. We can’t, vouch for this, but we imagine it’s true. Because once the movies get hold of you, you can’t be sure of who you are. Take, for example, Alexander Graham Bell Amo che. Or this: Last Friday when Marlon Targrove was in town two yongsters are said to have seen him on the street. “Hey,” said one, “there goes Private Hargrove.” “Naw,” said the other. "I saw Private Hargrove in the movies, and that ain’t him.” To settle the dispute, they stopped Hargrove and asked him point-blank who he was. “I”, said Hargrove, “am Robert Walker the famous movie actor. My next picture is entitled ‘So There, Samuel Goldwyn,’ in which I will play the part of a chorus girl and two Masines.,, Belt Tightening Due CANADIANS TO FEEL PINCH THIS SUMMER OTTAWA, March 17. — (fr) — Prime Minister MacKenzie King Sunday night announced an unprece dented nine-point program aimed at restricting the amount of food for Canadians, maintaining war increased farm production and pro viding more food for a starving world. Underlining the world food short age with the statement that the general picture is “urgent and des perate,’' the Prime Minister an nounced this program: Nine Points 1. Wheat available for domestic milling is being reduced by 10 per cent on the basis of 1945 purchases. 2. Wheat for distilling purposes is being reduced by 50 per cent on the basis of amount used in 1945. 3. A campaign is being under taken to encourage saving by con sumers in the use of wheat and wheat products and to encourage home gardens. Wheat For Export 4. Increased quantities of oats and No. 4 wheat are to be made avail able for export if possible. 5. Farmers are being urged to plan their production to obtain the maximum yield of foodstuffs ever the next four years. 6. Special arrangements are be ing made to encourage immediate marketing of wheat stored on farms. 7. Reduction of inventories of wheat and wheat products is to be encouraged. 8. Priorities for rail transport of See BELT TIGHTENING On Page 2 Returns To Action Historic Jap Volcano Sprays Dust On Homes Two Thousand Families Prepare To Flee As “Violent Eruptions” Follow Two Explosions; Marines On Alert TOKYO, March 17.—(#)—Minami Dake, historic Japanese volcano which created the Isle of Sakura Jima and then joined it to South ern Kyushu, has returned to action and is spraying the surrounding countryside with dust and ashes. Japanese newspaper accounts from the scene, three miles across Kagoshima bay from the city of Kagoshima, describe the new activity as ‘‘a violent eruption” and report that some 2,000 families are preparing to flee the vicinity. Strong Explosions The Tokyo paper Mainichi said there were two strong explosions Friday night and that lava was pouring from the crater amid bursts of flame. Lt. John Sadonian, of Philadel phia, duty officer of the First Bat talion, Eighth U. S. Marine Regi ment, stationed at Kagoshima, re ported by telephone Sunday that he did not yet regard the present activity as an "eruption,” and that the marines had received no calls for assistance. He said the vol cano had been blowing smoke and rumbling since mid-February to the accompaniment of small ex plosions. Ashes Dissolved Frequently rains dissolve the ashes, which fall as mud in Kago shima, he said. The start of the activity coin cides with the first observation, Feb. 14 of a new volcanic islet which has been rising from the sea some 200 miles South of Honshu. Sakura Jima has a long history, with 26 recorded eruptions since 1468. Jima (island) has been a misnomer since 1914 when a violent eruption linked it with the main land, forming a peninsula. Beauty Spot The 3,752-foot double cone, ris ing from the bay is a natural beauty spot, famed before the war as a health resort. More than 10. 000 persons live in hamlets which dot the gentle slopes. Oranges and tobacco thrive in the volcanic soil. Kagoshima, due west across the bay, is a bomb-ruined naval base and port now occupied by a small detachment of the marines. LEON BLUM TO SEE TRUMAN, BYRNES ON SUBJECT OF LOANS WASHINGTON, March 17. —MB— State department officials said Sunday that appointments are be ing arranged for French Embassa dor extraordinary Leon Blum to confer with President Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes. It is understood that Blum desires to meet the U. S. Chief Executive and Secretary of State before the start of the economic negotiations, for which' he came here. These discussions, centering on a loan to France, probably will start toward the end of the week, short ly after the expected arrival from Paris of Jean Monnet, economic advisor to Blum. 9,(mOOOTONS SUPPLIES TO GO Lehman Announces Ar rangements For Shipment To Needy Nations Soon ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., March 17. —(/p)— Approximately 9,000,000 tons of desperately needed sup plies are scheduled to be delivered to 16 countries by UNRRA between March 1 and June 30, Director General Herbert H. Lehman said Sunday. In making public the relief organization’s program, Lehman warned that acute food shortages made shipments uncertain and cautioned that the program was subject to “substantial modifica tions.” “It is necessary that all contrib uting countries make available See 9,000,000 On Page Two UNION OFFICIALS ASK SOVIET HELP CIO Group Reports On Rec ent Trip To Moscow, Len ingrad; Were Impressed WASHINGTON. March 17.—(fl1)— Eleven union officials who visited Russia appealed in a report made public by the CIO Sunday for “clos er understandings and cooperation” between the American and Russian peoples. The delegation spent eight days in Moscow and Leningrad last Oc tober. It was headed by James B. Carey, CIO secretary - treasurer. The Americans were guests of the Soviet trade unions, which previ ously had sent a delegation to this country as guests of the CIO. The CIO groups’ report said they were “impressed” by the Soviet trade unions and their “excellent activities” in the interest of the workers. Living Standards They said living standards in the USSR are “low compared with American standards.” But they re ported “substantial progress in re construction.” They also saw much evidence that the Russian people are determin ed to raise their living standards by developing peacetime industries to produce more consumer goods. Worker Exchange The delegation said the United States can help by supplying ma chines, industrial techniques and goods of all sorts. They also ex pressed hope that arrangements for exchanging workers between the two countries can be worked out. The’ report includes quotations from speeches by two of the CIO men at a union meeting in Lenin grad Addresses Union Albert Fitzgerald, president of the CIO Electrical Workers Union, told the Soviet workers: ‘You have gained friends who are going to insist that our govern ment do everything in its power to aid you. We’ve seen the price you have paid to establish free dom for all peoples of the world. We in America are determined that no force within or without is ever going to turn us against your people again.” Pays Tribute The delegation’s report says that Reid Robinson, president of the CIO Mine, Mill and Smelter Work ers. ‘‘paid high tribute to the democratic ideal” in his speech. It quotes Robinson as saying: ‘‘We must break down the prop aganda that you have no demo cracy as we have.” Besides Carey, Fitzgerald and Robinson, the. CIO visitors were Allan S. Haywood, Joseph Curran, John Green, Emil Rieve, Lee Pressman, John Abt, Len De Caux, and Vincent Sweeney. Warmly Received They said they were warmly received throughout their trip, and given ovations when attending ballet performances. They remark ed on ‘‘the universal prestige ac corded labor leaders in the Soviet Union.” Visiting the Stalin automobile plant in Moscow, the Americans were told that despite a reduction in working hours, tne “take-hoime pay” of the workers remained about the same as during the war. The Russians explained that the workers are paid by the piece, ra ther than by the hour, and they are See HELP on Page Two Along The Cape Fear GARDEN - MINDED — Having spent the week-end in March show ers which, we hope, will bring April flowers, we suddenly find ourselves garden-minded. Understand, we are not garden experts. Our closest association with horticulture and floriculture consists of 'll a high school course in botany, (2) passing glances into florist shops, and i3) a hostile acquaintance with goldenrod. On the other hand, we do like flowers, even though we can t tell a dahlia from a zinnia, and we love to see them growing in a pretty garden. « * • PREJUDICED — Just to prove that we do know something about gardens, allow us to point out that we are familiar with some of the famous ones, such as, the Garden of Eden, the Garden of Allah, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and Madison Square Garden Since we live along the Cape Fear, however, we naturally are prejudiced in favor of one parti cular garden. And we hope you have the same prejudice, too. * » * GREENFIELD RAINBOW — There’s an old song which goes something like this: “When the white azaleas are blooming, I’ll be coming back to you.” “You,” we believe, can mean only one thing to a Wilmingtonian as far as this song is concerned. Greenfield Garden. The azaleas are blooming in Greenfield Garden again, folks, and they’re not just white, either. They have everything a rainbow has except a pot of gold—and, by the way, we don’t think that pot of-gold story holds much water anyway, let alone gold. ♦ * * NO SWAP, ALLAH—As far as we’re concerned, we think Green field Garden is THE garden. We won’t stop to describe to you, be cause you know all about it al ready. All we want to say is that we are See CAPE FEAR On Page Two Big Business County School Cafeterias Do $235,000 Yearly Trade By JACK C. LUNAN Providing hot and cold lunches at noon each day for approximately 6,700 students of New Hanover county who patronize the school cafeterias is a big task—and big business, too. When Mrs. Brown, or Mrs. Jones start Nellie or Billie off to school each morning during the school year with change for their lunch at noon, they likely do not realize that they are contributing just that many more nickels, dimes'or quar ters to the gross take of the largest non-profit business enterprise in the county. For the school cafeteria enter-1 prises of the county are just that —a smooth-running non-profit ac cruing business that gross up wards of $235,000 during the nine month school year, which is quite a *um that comes out of the pock et* of New Hanover dads and mamas in order that their children may get a hot, well balanced lunch, or an equally nourishing cold plate at noon on five days each week. $7,100 Weekly School officials, in setting an average figure of 6,700 as the num ber of children in the county pa See CAFETERIAS On Page Two r
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