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-' r-V'3l)B*~>ir~yry FORECAST Served By Leased Wires of the UNITED PRESS Wilmington and vicinity; Mostly cloudy, and the Vp,a temperature Wednesday, chanB* ASSOCIATED PRESS With Complete Coverage of __— .— State and National News _ _ L_ VOL. 79.—NO. 114.__ ESTABLISHED 1867 ----- __ _— _ Sp™g_ Sunset Along The Cape Fear Naturally, every season gives nature lovers the opportunity to oh! and ah! at sunsets. But it's in the springtime that those sunsets seem to be the mcst beautiful. The above picture was taken as the sun was reflecting its last rays on the Tape Fear river here in Wilmington.—STAR STAFF PHOTO BY PETE KNIGHT. HOMES FOR VETERANS Nation-Wide Agency \ Set To Speed Work CPA Order Makes Federal Approval Neces sary Before Starting Most Types Of Construction Jobs WASHINGTON, March 26.—(TP)—A nation-wide net work of 71 Federal offices was created Tuesday night to administer a sweeping new order restricting many build ing activities so scarce materials can be channelled into lower cost homes for veterans. __ A Civilian Production adminis-1 _ iration order, effective now, re quires advance federal approval for all types of construction—dwel lings, industrial and commercial building and repairs; all except small jobs. Swiftly following this move to free the materials for vetetans housing, CPA announced that all new construction field offices were expected to be opened not later than Thursday. Approval Necessary The CPA forbids the start of construction unless each new store, factory or dwelling is approved in advance by one of the CPA offices This means that factOi.es and ex pensive homes may be banned wherever the materials are needed to provide shelter for homecoming servicemen and their families. A CPA official said he expected that "not much material would be left” for luxury-type homes, in view of the expected demand for those costing $10,000 or less and renting for $80 or less—the type of dwell ing now granted priority- on ma terials. - - ■ , The clamp-down was similar in many respects to the. wartime con trols over non-essential building. Al See HOUSES On Page Two FOOD DEALERS TO MEET HERE Annual Convention Of State Association Set For September Wilmington members of the North Carolina Food Dealers as sociation were notified late yester day afternoon that the directors of association in meeting at Charlotte, voted to hold their annual conven tion in this city on September 8-10. Whether the meeting will be held in the city proper, or at Wrights ville Beach was not disclosed. During the course of the direc tors’ meeting, members voted unamiously to go on record as fav oring an advance in growers’ ceil ing prices on livestock sufficient to eliminate the black market and assure retailers of a dependable supply of fresh meats. Clyde Akers of High Point, presi dent of the association is scheduled to preside over the convention here this fall. “ONE WORLD OR NO Internationa Of Aton By WALTER Editors Note: While Mr. Eippmann is touring Europe, The Star, by special permission, is publishing installments from Mr. Lippmann’s contribution to ‘he book, “One World or None,” Published by Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book company, Inc. Herewith is the first of nine installments. Eet us now examine the problem *s it was defined by the three for Pt?r. ministers, of how to achieve ' control of atomic energy . . . f°r Peaceful purposes.” * My task is to inquire into the NE” a l Control lie Energy LIPPMANN prospects of solving this problem given our present knowledge o politics, government, and law. Fo: at the outset we have to recogmzi that our progress in the art of mas, destruction has not been accompan ied by new discoveries in politica science or in statecraft. We havi not learned how to release hither to inaccessible intellectual and mor al energies and ic direct them t constructive ends. To start with w have only the political science c the pre-atomic age. And while w m^y assume that the ternfym See LIPPMANN On Page Two PLANS COMPLETE FOR CELEBRATION National Commander Anc Governor Cherry Here Tomorrow Detailed plans for the visits o John Stelle, national commander American Legion, tomorrow after noon at 4 o’clock, have beei mapped, officials said yeterdaj afternoon. Stelle, with Gov. and Mr*. R Gregg Cherry, and a number o Company C, 115th Machine Gui battalion members, are expectet to arrive at Bluethenthal fielc simultaneously. From Bluethenthal, he will go t the Cape Fear hotel, and later t the American Legion home fo a short reception, J. R. Hollis, i charge'of arrangements for Stelle’ visit said last night. He said that a breakfast at th Legion home will be held at 9:3 Friday . morning, at which tim Legionnaires will be given chance to see their commander. At 9:45, the national commandf will go on the air from the Sta: news room, after which he will t guest of honor at a reception i the home of Mrs. Thomas < Gauze, widow of the former con mander of Company C, Following the reception, a bai quet honoring Stelle’s and the Go’ ernor’s party will be given at tl Famous club, where Stelle wi ' deliver an address to the membei of the party. Finally the party is expected ’ be shown 'many points of intere in the city, and county, followir the breakfast Friday morning i the Legion home. The Weather FORECAST North Carolina — Wednesday, most cloudy, scattered showers and not mu, change in temperatures becoming part cloudy over extreme west portion in ai ernoon. South Carolina—Cloudy skies, scatte ed showers and not much change in ter perature. (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hou ending 7:30 p.m. yesterday. Temperatures 1:30 a.m. 61; 7:30 a.m. 64;; 1:30 p.m. 7 7 :30 p.m. 68. Maximum 77; Minimum 60; Mean ( Normal 56. Humidity 1:30 a.m. 79; 7 :30 a.m. 92; 1:30 p.m. f ! 7:30 p.m. 85. Precipitation : Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m, ! 0.00 inches. ’ Total since the first of the month ' 1.23 inches. [ Tides For Today , (From the Tide Tables published by ' S. Coast and Geodetic Survey). High Low - Wilmington _ 5:00 a.m. 0.00 a. , 5:22 p.m. 12:24 p. Masonboro Inlet _ 2.32 a.m. 9:09 a. 2:54 p.m. 9:14 p. f Sunrise 6:06 a.m.; Sunset C:29 p.r > Moonrise 2:41 a.m.; Moonset 12:42 p. ' River Stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at s a.m. Tuesday, 9.7 feet. See THE WEATHER on Page T* o I' RUSSIA THREA TENS TO LEA VE MEETING a'HEN UNO VOTES TO HEAR IRAN CASE; *<400,000 COAL MINERS SET TO STRIKE _ _ i __ _ _i -- Lewis Spurns Owners Offer Of Increases Operators Say Walkout Would Stop Steel Pro duction At Once INTERCESSION SEEN Government May Step In To Halt Threatened Strike Of Workers WASHINGTON, March 26. —(TP)—John L. Lewis Tues d a y signaled the- 400,000 members of his United Mine Workers union to lay down their tools next Monday. Spurning the mine opera tors’ offer of wage increases, he moved to shut off the nation’s bituminous fuel supply for the sec ond successive year in a bargain ing showdown. The only d ances of averting a mine shutdown at a time when the country’s production prospects were the brightest in months lay in the thin hope of an agreement in the few days left for negotia tion, or in possible government in Affect Steel At Once Operators said steel production only recently resumed after a leng hthy strike—would be affected ‘'Im mediately” by a coal stoppage. ■ Some steel mills would be forced, to close within 10 days, the coal men *aid. The union estimated, however, that upwards of 49,000, !000 tons of coal would be above ■ ground by Monday and that an av erage 28-day supply would be available to industry. Lewis said retail coal dealers’ stocks aver See LEWIS on Page Two TB DIRECTORS t ) MEMBERS ! _ 1 Deaths From Disease In County In 1945 Re > ported As Six r The New Hanover County Health 1 and Tuberculosis association direc 5 tors, with the association president, Emmett H. Bellamy, presiding, s yesterday adopted a budget of 0 $8,150, and after adding the names e of City Councilman James E. L. a Wade and County Commission Chairman Addison Hewlett to the r sanatorium committee, authorized '- increasing the total membership to e 10. n The Rev. Mortimer Glover, • chairman, now out of the city, is to be asked upon his return to select the five members still to be added. Smaller Budget e The budget compares with $8, U 875 last year,, the difference being s chiefly accounted for by the pur chase of office equipment which will not have to be duplicated. , The association’s financial break ’a down shows a cash balance on ° April 1, 1945 of $8,780.50, receipts 1 through 1945 and to date in 1946, $9,065.87; total $17,846.37. Disburse See MEMBERS on Page Two Wake Forest May Move TRUSTEES “LOOK WITH FAVOR” ON CONDITIONAL GIFT FUND . WAKE FOREST, March 26. —[JP)—The board of trustees of Wake Forest college in closed session Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution saying it “looked with favor” upon a conditional Sift of the Z. Smith Reynolds foundation which would mean $235,000 for the college annually. The condition is that the col college be moved to Winston Salem, where its medical school and the Baptist hospital are already situated. The board’s resolution, stat ing that “more definite infor mation is essential before any DEMOCRATS HERE PUN CONVENTION Enthusiasm Marks Meeting Of Executive Committee; New Precincts Slated 1 If enthusiasm is any criterion., Isew Hanover county Democrats W.ll enter the forth-coming cam pagn not only brim-full of comid eibe but backed by a closely knit orjanization that will embrace ev en block in every precinct thnughout the county, according to lathan S. Hasket, chairman of the county committee. Hiskett’s prediction of a well oilej party machine for the May 25 primary and November election, folia wed on the heels of an enthusi c stK meeting of the executive com mitWe last night in the grand jury room at the courthouse. With the excefeion of three members, Aaron Goldterg, who was absent from the city, Haurice Emmart and W. Ard ell Lag who were unavoidably pre ventei from attending, the meeting roll ell showed 97 percent pre sent. Plan Perfected Dumg the course of a full hour of aclve work, the committee per fectec plans for the precinct meet ings >n Saturday. April n, aim the prty’s county convention on the Slowing week. Acording to Chairman Haskett, the cunty convention this year will be bck on pre-war standards and arragements are underway for one c the best programs ever dish ed uj for delegates in many years. The lonevntion will be called to orde promptly at 12 o’clock noon Se DEMOCRATS on Page 2 THtEE DIVISIONS )F NAVY RESERVES MAY TRAIN HERE Three full divisions of U. S. Aval Ready Reserve, consist iy of 39 officers and 600 en lted men, may soon begin feining aboard a modern U. S. bvy destroyer stationed in 'ilmington, an anthoritative jokesman announced in Wash lgton, D. C. yesterday. Yesterday’s announcement onfirms the announcement nade by Congressman ,T. Jayard Clark of North Caro ina on March 12 that “in all probability’’ such a Navy train ing program would be launch ed here. (See RESERVES on Page 2 Along TheCape Fear , — - jy TOO THRILLING—This is really too thrilling for words! Adjectives r- elude us and descriptive phrases 1_ melt before our eyes. Our type writer for the first time in its life since its birth nobody knows rs how long ago in Woodstock Illinois, is emotionally tongue-tied. 7. This hi^hlv inarticulate itate of affairs results from our FLONG 9: THE CAPE FEAR of yeiterday wherein we printed a story about 3; the old Wilmington custom of gentlemen bringing bouquet; to the ladies aboard the in-comingtrains. - We thought that business trilling - enough. I But this new developmenireally if- stuns us. ( n. THE WREN—Another ol.Cape n Fear swain has revealed ;o us t £ that among the ladies who reived the welcoming bouquets <s no ; a personage than tha toast of two continents, that dang of now-dead decades, that sup-sing-j - of super-sweet songs—the Swed h nightingale. Jenny Lind, herself, in person! Jenny was THE wren of her day. le was a female Sinatra. We can member our great-grandfather vooning at the mere mention of sr name, long after she was dead id gone. Great-grandfather even installed iwren house in the backyard and tied to teach its occupant the Svedish tongue from a Swedish hglish dictionary. LIVING PARAGON—And that’s it all. Women all over the country im tvted her dress, her hair-do, and :v?rything else that women love o imitate from a living paragon. Gothing, food, cafes, beer-gar iers, carriages, and what-not-all -eie named after the famous eniy. She had a greater following and See CAPE FEAR on Page-Two i snecific recommendation can be made,” provided for the ap pointment of a committee ‘‘to investigate more fully this pro posal and related matters.” Meet April 11 This committee will meet in Wake Forest on April 11 with the general board of the Bap tist State convention and its educational council. It was announced that the college’s annual income would represent a “present endow ment” of more than $10,000,000. C. J. Jackson, director of Wake Forest's enlargement pro gram, said it was provided that 20 per cent of earnings and all gifts from other sources would return to the principal until it had reached a total of $50,000,000. $6,000,000 Sought He said the enlargement pro gram was seeking $6,000,000, which would be used to build a plant at the new location should the proposal be adopt ed by the Baptists of the state, now totaling about 600,000. This program, which began in July, 1943, has already rea lized one and one-quarter mil lion dollars, he said'. See WAKE FOREST On Page Eight PYROTECHNICAL SESSION He a ted Issues Loom Questions Of Final Approval Of Fire Alarm Boxes And Sunday Closing Facing City Fathers The City council’s session at 10 o’clock this morning has all the latent possibilities of bursting into a pyrotechni cal display. First, the contract between the city and the Wilming ton Electric Supply company of 111 Horni fire-alarm boxes _ . xxrill ■nrnHa'hlv V>p. ciihmittpH tn thp PLUTONIUM! * S * Atomic Power Possible Through Its Dena turation PHILADELPHIA, March 26—(^>) —The denaturation of plutonium and of uranium-235 is the great dis covery that scientists have been hoping for to make it possible to produce atomic power. This discovery may mean that a piece of metai the size of a water, melon will produce as much heat as hundreds of tons of the uranium now used to make atomic fires. Electric Power The huge atomic piles in Wash ington state, each about the bulk of a small pyramid, produced enough heat to nearly equal peak electric power expected from the Grand Coulee dam. But this atomic heat was useless for power because it was spread over such a large area. Heat that makes power, such as boiler fires, is concentrated in a small area. It was not possible, when the war ended, to use a small amount of uranium 235 or of putonium to make an atomic fire because such concentrated pieces of either metal would in stantly explode. Unable to Explode Denaturing is described as ren. dering the metals unable to ex plode, but without stripping their ability to produce heat by the ex plosion of their atoms. If that is true efficient atomic fires can be made to create steam, either for producing electricity, or for operat. ing turbines, or for heating gases to operate the gas turbine engines that are just beginning to come into industrial use. It is not clear yet from the Wash ington reports whether pure uran ium 235 or plutonium will produce the heat, or whether some other chemical elements will have to be See PLUTONIUM on Page Two And So To Bed.. The other afternoon a lady noticed a young boy, seven years old or thereabouts, searching through garbage pails at Maffitt village. The lad went from one pail to another, lifted the lids, replaced them, and so on down the line. “Son,” asked the curious lady, “what are you looking for?” “My house,” answered the boy. “All the houses look alike. The only way I can find my way home is to find our gar bage pail first.” “But how can you tell which garbage pail is which?” “When I come to the right one my mama yells out the window, ‘Johnny, get your hands out of that garbage pail.’ ” council for final approval. And it is entirely possible that Col. Royce McClelland arid Vaughan Allen, at torneys for the Gamewell company, whose alarm box lost a close de cision two weeks ago to the Horni box, may appear at the session to protest the approval of the con tract. May Issue Challenge There have been recurrent re ports that the Gamewell company may challenge the validity of the contract-award on the grounds that the Horni box does not meet speci fications. Councilmen Harris Newsman Garland S. Currin, and J. E. L. Wade, and Mayor W. Ronald Lane, the beginning of “a return to Puri the contract to Horni, have said they will stick fast to their deci sion. Charles Jones, owner of Wil mington Electric Supply company, has said he will produce “plenty of legal talent” if Gamewell should start an injunction to stall the Horni award. May Work Late If the Gamewell attorneys do ap pear at the meeting today, the councilmen may have to work on late into the afternoon as at the last council session. The second issue over which fireworks may explode is the “Sun day-closing” controversy. Ever since last council session when the Wilmington Ministerial association asked the council to enforce a “Sun day store-closing ordinance,” local See COUNCIL On Page Two SOUTHPORT VIEWS PICTURED BY STAR ON PAGE 8 TODAY Southport has long been one of the State’s most interesting towns; since before it was Southport, when it was Smithville. Today, on page eight, The Star is presenting several photographs taken in interesting Southport by Star Staff Photographer Pete Knight. MONTEZUMA’S CURSE Man Again Tries To Cast Off Ancient Aztec Spell MIAMI, FLA, March 2G— (JP)— Deep in the green waters off Key West, the ancient “Curse of Montezuma” awaited the challenge of modern science Tuesday night in a quest for $30,000,000 in gold reputedly cached aboard the long-lost Spanish treasure gal leon Santa Rosa. Locked in a coral tomb—and guarded, according to super stition, by Montezuma’s terri ble oath of vengeance—the Santa Rosa has four times re sisted the efforts of man to recover its board of sunken loot. Now a fleet of salvage craft, guided by Irwin A. Williamson, explorer, inventor and deep sea diver, is ready to try again. Legend tells how Montezuma, king of the Aztecs, cried out in bitterness and rage when he learned that he had been double-crossed by the Spanish conqueror, Cortez. betrays word The story goes that Monte See AZTEC on Page Two > Hot Question Turned Over To Sub Group Secretary Byrnes Leads Fight For Immediate Action On Issue MAJORITYFAVORABLE Subcommittee To Report To Council Today On Method Of Disposal NEW YORK, March 26.^ (IP)—The United Nations Se curity council voted Tuesday to hear the Iranian-Russian case at its current meeting. Then, faced by an implied threat from Russia to walk out of the meeting, it turned over to a subcommittee the hot question of just when and how the Iranian government would be heard here. U, S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, Soviet Ambassador Andrei A. Gromyko and French Ambassador Henri Bonnet were named to the group, which was ordered to report to the security council at 3 p.m. Wednesday. The decision to name a sub committee to consider at least three proposals affecting procedure in the Iranian case climaxed hours of argument over Russia’s propo sal that the hearing be postponed until April 1U. Byrnes Leads Argument It came noon after Gromyko flatly declared that he would be unable to participate in any dis cussion of the substance of the Iranian situation before April 10. This was believed by some ob servers to be a threat to refuse to attend any session at which Hussein Ala, the Iranian ambassa dor to the United States, might be asked to speak. Byrnes led the argument for See RUSSIA on Page Two liOSPITALDRIVE MEMBERS CHOSEN Robert Strange Heads Committee To Organize Executive Group With the opening on April 14 of the $500,000 Catholic hospital cam paign drive fast approaching, Har- . riss Newman, drive chairman, yes terday selected members of A general committee. Newman also appointed Robert Strange head of a nominating com mittee to organize a special “ex ecutive group” which will govern the nine-week campaign. The general committee, to which additional names will be added, includes: Alan Marshall, Walker Taylor, W. E. Stanley, Sol B. Sternberger, Sam Berger, Miss Marion Frink, J. Murray Kempton, Dr. J. Watts Farthing, Mrs. Beulah Meier, C. E. White, Thomas W. Davis. J. E. L. Wade, Thomas H. Wright, Robert H. Tate, E. A. Laney, Robert Strange, Ranald Stewart, Addison Stewart, R. A. Dunlea, Dr. Ramsey Weathersbee, Sr. and Dr. Ramsey Weathersbee, Jr., Harry L. Dosher, William Block, J. J. Allen. See HOSPITAL on Page Two