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FORECAST + ^ ^ ^ Served By Leased Wires tltttt 00^00 ixi0rtttit^ V0I^7^—NO.^IOS.__ WILMINGTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1946 __ESTABLISHED 186) New right Looms Over Alarm Box Attorneys Deny Knowledge of Committee to Block Council Decision SOLONS"STANDING BY Contracts For Successful Bidder For 111 Boxes Not Yet Signed I n dications are that “there’ll be a hot time in the old town tonight” and several nights to come over the heat ed' issue of Wilmington’s con tract with the Wilmington Electric Supply company for 111 Horni fire alarm boxes. Last Wednesday the city council awarded the contract to the Horni box in a 4-3 split decision. L. T. Garren. city electrician and cham pion of the competing Gamewell box. immediately resigned, saying, ■I cannot accept the responsibility which the inferior’ Horni box would place upon me, because 1 know the Horni box will not fit into our present system of 108 Gamewell boxes.” Attorneys Confer Two days ago two attorneys, Vaughan Allen and Colonel Royce L McClelland, held private con ferences with City Manager A. C. Michels and City Clerk J. R. Benson about the Horni a-ward. Allen and McClelland represent the Gamewell company. It was reported yesterday that : a "citizens’ committee” was be- . ing banded to ask the council to rescind the Horni award and that, should the council fail to do so, an injunction to block the contract might be made. Last night Allen said he knew nothing about any ‘‘citizens’ com- ■ mittee" and denied that the Game- i well company has any injunction , pending against the Horni contract. Discussion Only "Colonel McClelland and I mere- . ]v discussed the matter with Mr. , Nichols,” Vaughan said. ‘‘We also asked for, and got, a copy of the resolution which awarded the eon tract to Horni from Mr. Benson.” Reports from civic circles indi- ' See ALARMS On Page Two LEHMAN ASKS U. S. TO RATION FOODS: i Retiring UNRRA Director > Outlines Steps to Aid i Hungry Nations j ATLANTIC CITY, March 19— ! to—Herbert H. Lehman, retiring director general of UNRRA, Tues nay called for a return to wartime ■ food rationing and drastic reduct ion of the use of cereals in making ' beverages as necessary steps to save some of the famine stricken "’orM from starvation. Outlining seven measures to help Set food to hungry nations, Leh man emphasized that his program might reduce, but could not pre vent, world famine. Half Enough Food "There will be barely half enough food to go around next year,” he said. “Many millions must go i hungry; many will starve.” He urged the slaughter of < livestock to save grains for human consumption, extension of the . Anglo - Canadian . American com. ™ed food board to include Russia 'nd continuance of the board after '’eJan. l deadline for U. S. parti cipation in TJNRRA. Assistant Secretary of State * illiam Clayton, chief of the Am irican delegation, underlined Leh Jian’s statement with a warning everyone must be prepared to '•_ake greater sacrifices.” hariiey he had told the 47 dele fations that the United States See HUNGRY On Page Two Educator Dr. L. E. Spikes, superintend ent of city schools in Burling ton, has been offered the pres idency of East Carolina Teach ers college at Greenville. He is expected to make his deci sion regarding acceptance this week. Dr. Spikes, a native of Durham, is a graduate of Duke university, Columbia univer sity and Peabody college where he received his Ph.D. degree.— AP PHOTO. HALF RED CROSS QUOTA REPORTED Many Firms Here Listed In “100 Per Cent” Group In Campaign "The money we have received so :ar, is pure gold, and just what we vant, and need,” local American Red Cross campaign officials said ast night,” but only about half of ;he $41,000 quota for Wilmington md New Hanover county has been reported.” Co-chairmen Harry Solomon, and r. P. O’Crowley said last night hat over-all collections of about >20,000 as reported yesterday, shows an all-out effort on the part >f some groups, while indicating hatr others are lagging in making heir collection reports. ACL Oversubscribes At closing time yesterday Atlan ic Coast Linue had oversubscrib :d its quota “easily,” according to darion Westbrook, chairman for he ACL campaign. It’s quota of 3,500 had been oversubscribed by 1112, when the report was made. The chairman said that his work :rs were pointing to an over-sub cription of $1,000. On the campaign honor roll foi; ndustrial groups, and business and >rofessional groups are: S. and B. iolomon company, American Mol iolomon company, American Mo asses company, Jones Furniture lompany, I. Shrier and Sons, Pear all and company, and Colonial tores. See RED CROSS on Page Two KORNEGAY NAMED UNION PRESIDENT Wilmington Labor Group Holds Annual Election of Officers C. B. Kornegay was elected ^resident of the Wilmington Central _,abor union, American Federation >f Labor, at the union’s annual ‘lection of officers last night in l,abor Temple, 107% N. Third street. Other officers installed for the joining year are: V. L. Smith, vice-president, J. Paul Horton, recording secretary, S. M. Bordeaux, financial secre ary A. W. Burriss, sergeant-at jrms, L. H. Rouse, J. L. Evans ind B. R. Drynan, trustees, and iV. M. Hewlett and P. J. Whitman, Dublicity. L H Rouse was elected vice oresident of the State Federation 3f Labor from the Wilmington dis trict. SNAFU ODYSSEY Long Voyage Of Army Ship Not Ended At Boston Port BOSTON. March 19.—(JP)— ,, five-month, 20,000 mile snalu' odyssey of the steam ...!p Bowling Green Victory 'as nt>i 'luite ended Tuesday s longshoremen began unload ba l!he.VeSSel and' a P°rt °f em' r*ation spokesman admitted still did not know the ulti t'“te destination of its 10,657 ' t? ^ ,'war orphan” cargo. «. eclinmg to be identified, e spokesman said: ( ..T, Confusion nere seems to be some con ion about what will be done h stuff. Frankly, I don’t know, and I’m staying as far away from it as possi ble.”' , , It would take at least a week for handlers to clear the vessel’s holds and deck, he added. , ,, He said the lower hold con tained ‘‘many tons” of asphalt, presumably for use on newly constructed military roads on ‘‘some Pacific island. Potatoes To Clocks Her central hold, he con tinued, carried several tons of See SNAFU On Page Two IRAN DEMS RUSSIAN WARNING TO APPEAL TO UN *piO RID COUNTRY OF RED TROOPS; 26 DIl IN ARMY C-47 TRANSPORT CRASH Plane Bursts InMountians In California Disaster Described As One Of Worst In Peace time History WRECKAGE~CATTERED Rescue Parties On Snow shoes Find Parts Over Half-Mile Area TRUCKEE, Cal., March 19. — (UP)—Twenty-three Army priority passengers and three crewmen were killed Tues day when an Army C-47 transport exploded like a “puff of fire’’ and crashed in fragments along a snow-covered mountain canyon 11 miles north of this Sierra Nevada town. A sparehins nartv nn skis and snowshoes found the wreckage and the dead scattered over a half-mile area along Proffer creek, a half mile northeast of Hobart Mills, a lumbering community nine miles, north of Truckee. One of Worst Disasters It was one of the worst peacetime disasters in American aeronau tical history. Constable N. F. Dowley, who reached the scene, said victims “heads and arms were scattered all over the place.” *T just can’t talk about it,” Dow ley said. ‘‘It’s awful.” “We found the main fuselage broken and horribly tattered. The ivings were broken up in two other pieces. See PLANE on Page Two RAILROADS PLAN THROUGH SERVICE Coast-to-Coast Trip to Be Possible Without Change March 31 CHICAGO, March 19—(U.R)—The :irst coast-to-coast sleeping car service will be inaugurated March 11, joint announcements by six major railroads said Tuesday light. The first through sleepers for ;he West coast will leave New fork attached to New York Cen tal and Pennsylvania railroad ;ralns on March 31. On the same lay trains will leave Los Angeles md San Francisco with sleepers lestined for the Atlantic seaboard. Ends Controversy The announcements ended a con xoversy started several months igo by the Chesapeake & Ohio and Pere Marquette railroads, ine two, n nation-w i d e advertisements, showed pigs going from coast to -oast in freight cars although auman passengers have to make at lease one change. Current train service from the East to the West must be broken by layovers in New Orleans, Mem phis, St. Louis or Chicago. Under the new services the trav eler can leave New York aboard the Broadway Liriaited at 6 p. m. EST or the 20th Century Limited at See RAILROADS on Page Two The Weather FORECAST: North Carolina: Occasional light rains Wednesday morning and mostly cloudy and mild. South Carolina: Wednesday partly cloudy and mild. (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hour* ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday. Temperatures 1*30 a. m. 60; 7:30 a. m. 51; 1:30 p, m 51; 7:30 p. m. 52. Maximum 60; Minimum 49; Mean 54; Normal 54. H>mjtey 1*30 a rn. 96; 7:30 a. m. 99; 1:30 p. m. '87; 7:30 p. m. 100 precipitation Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m.— 0.03 inches. Total since the first of the month— 0.79 inches. TIDES FOR TODAY (From the Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey). High Low Wilmington -11:45 a.m. 6:34 a.m. -p. m. 6:52 p. m. Masonboro Inlet _ 9:22 a.m. 3:17 si. m. 9:44 p.m. 3:28 p.m. Sunrise 6:16 a. m.; Sunset 6:23 p. m.; Moonrise 9:13 p. m,; Moonset 8:00 a. m. River Stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8 a. m. Tuesday 9.7 feet. I See THE WEATHER On Page Two 4 That Old Cry Of “Chang Kwo Wan Sui” The old defiant cry of “Chung Kwo Wan Sui’’ (China for 10,000 years) rings through the streets of Shanghai once again as 4,000 students carry ing posters written in Chinese, Russian, and Eng lish parade in protest against the slow withdrawal of Soviet troops from Manchuria. All placards carry the message: “Soviet troops should be withdrawn from Manchuria,” and “looted material should be returned”. This is an exclusive NEA Telephoto. WORKER SCARCITY | REVEALED BY USES Survey in Section Shows 25,000 Needed With 14,000 Employed During final preparation* for employer contracts by the local U. S. Employment Service, survey figures for New Hanover, Pender, Brunswick and Columbus counties show that approximately 14,000 people listed with USES, are em ployed in nonagrieultural jobs. The above figure is a little more than half of the total of approxi mately 25,000 employes reportedly needed to man the number of jobs in the counties, Manager Harold M. Hinkle said. 199 Firms A total of 199 firms in the four counties, employing 25 or more per sons each, is responsible for 19,198 of the 25.000. This figure includes firms em ploying seasonal help, and substan tial lay off by other industries, has also been taken into consideration. Large Businesses According to reports made by firms of the four counties, there are two firms employing 1,000 or more persons. There are six firms employing a total of 250 or more, 16 firms employ 150 or more, and 11 firms require the service of 100 or more persons. In the less - than-100-employ« group, are 18 firms employing 75 or more, 25 firms employing over 50 people, and 121 employing more than 25. Intensive Drive The USES office plans to begin an intensified campaign among the firms who have listed their total number of employes, Hinkle said. Contacted first, will be employers of the 25 employe group, of which there are 199 listed. All non-agri cultural employers will be con tdct6(i “We are after the employer who offers the type job wanted by the persons seeking work,” the man ager said. Applications Filed He also revealed that the office has on file the applications of more See EMPLOYMENT on Page Two DEEP CHANNEL NEARER Senate Passes Bill For Cape Fear Work Bill For Appropriations For Work In Improv ing River For Ocean Traffic Now Goes Back To House The $1,465,000 appropriation to widen and deepen the Cape Fear river channel was passed by the United States senate yesterday. The senate’s okay climaxed a sustained effort by Sens. Josiah W. Bailey and Clyde R. Hoey to get the appropriation TAX COLLECTIONS IN STATE BEHIND LAST YEAR’S TAKE RALEIGH, March 19.—(£•)— Tabulations through Monday show that income tax col lections are lagging $805,600 be hind collections for the cor responding period last year, but Commissioner of Revenue Edwin Gill said Tuesday it would probably be 10 to 30 days before the trend of income tax collections could be determin ed. Gill pointed out that about 10,000 fewer returns had been processed through Monday than at the same time last year. Returns processed through Monday provided the state with a total take of $23,330,830, as compared with $24,126,430 dur ing the same period last year. BOND ELECTION SET FOR MAY 29 * The city bond election to raise 5700,000 for extension of city facili ties to newly-annexed city areas is tentatively scheduled for May 29, City Attorney W. B. Campbell an nounced yesterday. See BOND On Page Two wmicii Udllh HU.U LilC ucjjai L merit’s civil functions bill after the budget bureau had cut it out in an “economy” move. The bill now must go back be fore the House of Representatives for final approval. $73,000 Missing There is some doubt that the $1,465,000 appropriation covers the original Cape Fear proposal. Be fore the Budget Bureau cut out the appropriation, Congress had already approved the project at a cost of $1,538,000. split into three sections—$70,000 for deepening the channel, $675,000 Tor widening, and $73,000 for construction of a turn ing basin and widening and deepen ing of the channel In the Northeast Cape Fear river. ; Since the $790,000 and $675,000 projects total $1,465,000, it appears See DEEP on Page Two FARRELL REVEALS INDUSTRIES SEEK LOCATION IN CITY ‘‘More than a dozen big-time in iustries” have already started ne gotiations to locate branch firms and factories in Wilmington, John K. Farrell, secretary of the Cham aer of Commerce and city indus trial agent, disclosed at a Chamber neeting yesterday. Farrell also revealed “a large increase” in persons seeking in formation about Wilmington, its stores, its factories, and its entire economic set-up. ‘‘Tourist inquiries” are also on ;he up-grade, Farrell said, partic ilarly inquiries concerning the :ity’s recreational facilities and the reaches. All roads, Farrell predicts, will soon lead not to Rome but to Wil nington. ' * -- And So To Bed.. The most zealous cow in the country is owned by J. C. Wil liams, Audubon. Four years ago this cow gave birth to a calf on Thanksgiv ing. Three years ago she pro duced another on New Year’s Day. Two years ago she did it again on Christmas. And this year she calves a bovine George Washington on that gentleman’s birthday. Do you have a calendar in your barn, Mr. Williams? Along The Cape Fear GREENFIELD GOODS—W h o should we bump into yesterday but our good friend Mr.. Louis T. Moore, of the New Hanover histori cal Commission. We have bumped into Mr. Moore so much lately we | fear he is covered with-bruises. But we’re going tp .continue to bump into him as -long as he can give us the goods we re looking f0r • Yes he gave us the goods_again yesterday—-the goods on Green Held And what follows is the sum and substance^ what he .old us. OLD DOC GREEN - Theterigi fields Planta ion Samuel the origin* °^erwhere along the march of time between then and now the «nal "s’' was dropped. Too bad, too, because'that final 4‘l” has a liquid sound to it siggestive of the lake lisping on the shores. . • . Or don’t you think so? Anyway, Greenfields was the original name ar.d we have old D>c Green to thank for it. » * * SACK TO 1750 — What we really w:nted to know about Greenfield —»r Greenfields, take your choice —vas its age. If you remember, we hare already agreed that Green fied(s) is the best garden in the U. S. A. What we wanted to prove is that it’s also the oldest. Does anybody know of any gar dei in the whole country that dates balk beyond 1750? Se CAPE FEAR on Page Two Action Shoves Disputes To Fore Of Coining Meet Iranian Move Comes In Face Of Warning From Russia That Such Action Would Be Considered “Unfriendly Act” WASHINGTON, March 19.—(fP)—Oil-rich Iran defied a Russian warning Tuesday and appealed to the United TEXT OF IRAN APPEAL ON PAGE THREE Nations Security Council for help in getting Soviet troops out of its territory. It asked UNO for a “just determination" of the case, JUNIOR CHAMBER TO FRONT CIRCUS W. West Namer Chairman Of Committee For An nual Boy Scout Event Carroll Tinsley, chairman of the Youth Welfare committee, a Juni or Chamber of Commerce project, announced last night that the club will sponsor the annual Boy Scout circus. The circus will be held May 10, and about 36 Jaycees have been named on a committee to arrange for its being, with Wallace West, chairman. Although the circus was not sponsored by the group last year, the Jaycees helped with arrange ments, the entire sponsorship be ing under the management of the Scouts. Golf Tourney Ed Ward, chairman of the athle tic committee for the group, an nounced plans for the club’s golf tournament this year. Cyrus Johnston, chairman of the Jaycee Minstrel committee, an nounced that try-outs 'for the min st.rpl will bp hplrl fnnicrht nt 7 o’clock at the Boy’s Brigade head quarters. Pres. R. B. Howard made the following additional appointments for the club’s Military Affairs com mittee: Frances and Aubrey See JAYCEES on Page Two VETERANS TOGET SPECIAL TESTING Those Passing Will Bee Eligible For High School Diplomas, Roland Says Veterans pa&ing special tests are eligible for High school di plomas in North Carolina regard less of the length of time they have spent in school, H. M. goland, superintendent of New Hanover county schools said last night. Advices to this effect are ex pected to be received here today, following a conference held at Raleigh yesterday of school and veterans administration officials, and which was attended by T. T. Hamilton, Jr., principal of New Hanover High school, Roland said. Testing Centers Under the plan, which was pre sented to the Raleigh conference by Dr. J. Henry Highsmith, di rector of the division of instruc tional service in the state depart ment of public instruction, test ing centers are to be established throughout the state so that the See VETERANS on Page Two emphasizing that Russia was vio lating a written agreement, and that Moscow agents were inter fering in Iran’s affairs. The action, taken here by Am bassador Hussein Ala on orders from Premier Qavam es Sultaneh, shoved Iran’s dispute with her big neighbor toward a climax at the Council’s meeting in New York next week. “Unfriendly Act” The appeal threw into doubt the continued existence of Qavam’s government since the Soviet charge d’affaires in Moscow had warned him last week that any such move to take the case before the Security Council would be con sidered as an "unfriendly act.” The Russian warning was re ported in official dispatches to Washington. However, some diplo mats believe that the full publicity given Iran’s action may be a strong protection to Qavam. After the appeal was made to the Security Council Ambassador Ala declared that his government’s ac tion "should not be interpreted as an act of unfriendliness by the other party,” meaning Russia. His government was compelled to take this action, he said in a statement, See IRAN On Page Two TRUMAN RESTATES UNO CONFIDENCE President Says Nations Must Abide By Charter For World Peace WASHINGTON, March 19.—(U.R) —President Truman and Secretary of States James F. Byrnes Tues day reaffirmed full United States support of the United Nations Or ganization as the best means for achieving lasting peace and secu rity. They invited other member nations to give the UNO similar backing. Their words, coming virtually on the eve of the security council meeting in New York, carried pointed significance in view of the current Russian-Iranian crisis. They were construed as an indirect appeal to Russia to work out her Iranian and other problems within the framework of the UNO. Full Support Mr. T'ruman said the United States supports the United Nations char ter and “the fullest implementa tion” of its principles. #He made the statement in a message trans mitting to congress a report by Byrnes on the UNO general assem bly in London early this year. He said the United States seeks to achieve the purposes of the charter and to perfect it “as experi ence lights the way.” “To do less than our utmost In this essential effort of peace-lov ing nations, whatever may be the obstacles and difficulties, would be a great betrayal of the trust ®f See TRUMAN on Page Two GLOVE FROM THE HEART And Sad Little Boy Here Can Be Happy Once More Baseball, the “national past time,” is deeply rooted in the hearts of most Americans. Just how deeply rooted, and in what large hearts, was re vealed in Wilmington yester day. Sad Little Boy For yesterday an anonymous letter came to the office of the Morning Star telling a pathetic little story about a sad little boy. This little boy worked hard last summer. He did a big job selling kndling wood all over town, and he did it for | a. one shining purpose—to save enough money to buy a base ball glove. This little boy, like thousand* of other little boys, want* to be a big league player some day. He finally saved enough money from his labors to buy the thing he dreamed about_ a regular $8 glove that Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb would be proud to own themselves. And it was the little buy’s pride and joy, just as it would bo See HAPPY on P»ge Two L.
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