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CPA INTERPRETS
CONTROL MEASURE
WASHINGTON, April 2—(Jf>)
- The Civilian Production Ad
ministration Tuesday set forth
these interpretations of its new
controls on construction which
went into effect last week:
Q. How long will the con
liruction control order remain
in effect?
A. CPA hopes the production
of building materials will so in
crease that the order may be
either relaxed or lifted by the
si.d of the year. However, while
building materials remain as
short as they are now, restric
tion on use is necessary.
Q. When application is made
to do work using materials
which are not critically sort for
housing, what action can be ex
pected?
A. If the materials and labor
would not have any impact on
housing the Citizens District
construction committee which
reviews the application may be
expected to take a sympathetic
attitude.
Q. What are the district con
struction committees?
A. Review committees of rep
See BUILDING on Page Two
WALKOUT CAUSES
BIG STEEL CUTS
Negotiations For Coal Set
tlement Fall Through;
Reconversion Hit
WASHINGTON, April 2—(U.P)—
A major cut in U. S. Steel corp
oration's Pittsburgh production
was ordered Tuesday as a new
split between the soft coal strike
negotiators threatened to extend
the mine shut-down beyond the
giant steel system’s twcnweek
"safety margin.”
U. S. Steel spokesmen said oper
ations in its Pittsburgh plants
would be cut to 47 per cent of
capacity by noon Wednesday be
cause of the strike, now in ita
second day. Last week, the Pitts
burgh furnaces were spilling out
steel for the national reconversion
program at almost 100 per cent
o’ capacity.
Fruitless Conference
The steel curtailment came as
United Mine Workers President
John L. Lewis and management
representatives concluded another
fruitless three-hour bargaining
conference at which each side re
jected the other’s compromise of
fers.
Lewis presented the operators
s.'iU a three-point union safety and
sanitation ultimatum which they
rejected categorically. Lewis, In
turn, vetoed a counter-proposal
from the operators on the seme
subject.
The mine chieftain told reporters
the conferences would be resum
ed Wednesday but that the union
could see no point in doing so if
the operators’ persisted in their
present attitude.
He said he wanted to recess the
negotiations and report back to
the full wage scale conference but
that the operators refused.
Bordering on Coiiapae
This aroused speculation that the
deadlocked bargaining conference
was bordering on a complete col
lapse, which might end all hope of
an early strike settlement. Ap
proximately 400,GOO soft coal
miners in 26 stares were idle and
it was feared that a breakdown in
See WALKOUT cn Page Two
BIG DECREASE SHOWN
IN BANK CLEARINGS,
POSTAL RECEIPTS
Sank clearings in Wilmington
for March show a decrease of $3,
990.053 77, as compared with March
las' year. W. H. King, secretary of
lhe Wilmington Clearing house as
sociation said yesterday.
Clearings for the month just pass
«ti totaled, $34,439,979.34.
A sharper drop was evident in
postal receipts, as announced by
Wilbur R. Dosher, postmaster. In
I March, 1945, postal receipts were
*41.905.31, while during the month
iU5‘ passed receipts were $32,517.29.
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FORECAST
North Carolina: Continued warm and
partly cloudy Wednesday.
South Carolina: Fair and continued
warm Wednesday.
(Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the 24 hours
ending 7:30 p.m. yesterday.
Temperatures
1:30 am 57; 7:30 am 61; 1:30 pm 75;
7:30 pm 67.
Maximum 77; Minimum 56; Mean 66;
Normal 58.
Humidity
1:30 am 94; 7 30 am 90; 1:30 pm 54:
7:30 pm 75.
Precipitation
Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 pm—
0.00 inches.
Total since the first of the month—
0.00 inches.
Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey)
High Low
Wilmington - 10:52 am 5:38 am
11:12 pm 5:43 pm
Masonboro Inlet 8:35 am 2:29 am
8:57 pm 2:45 pm
Sunrise 5:57 am; Sunset 6:34 pm;
Moonrise 7:09 am; Moonset 8:29 pm.
River Stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8
am Tuesday, 9.6 feet.
See THE WEATHER on Page Two
NAVY OFFICIALS
TO INSPECT DOCKS
Sixth Naval District Men
Will Fly Here Today On
Ready Reserve Plan
The first step in establishing a
XJ. S. Naval Ready Reserve train
ing center in Wilmington will be
taken today when three high-rank
ing Navy officers arrive here to
make preliminary inspections of
local armories and docks.
The three officers are Capt. H.
C. Daniels, staff officer of the Sixth
Naval district, Comdr. E. A. Stroik
acting port director of the Sixth
Naval district, and a representa
tive of the Navy Civil Engineer
Corps, whose name has not yet
been disclosed.
Arrive By Plane
The trio is scheduled to arrive
from Charleston. S. C., by plane at
10 o’clock this morning at Blue
thenthal airport.
Lt. H. C. Bost, Wilmington port
director, will conduct the three of
ficers on an inspection tour of
armies and docks such as the Fed
eral armory on Market street, the
armory at the Marine barracks,
the Customshouse docks, and the
Tide Water Construction company
drydocks.
First Action
The inspection tour marks the
first local action taken by the Navy
in the proposed establishment of
a Ready Reserve training center
here. Recently, Congressman J.
Bayard Clark of North Carolina
disclosed that the Navy’s tenta
tive plans include “a modern de
stroyer” or some sort of training
shop to be stationed in Wilmington
for the Ready Reserve program.
The plans a'so include “dry
land” training. It has been esti
mated that as many as “600 en
listed men and 40 officers” will be
trained in Wilmington simultane
ously and that in a year’s time
“several thousand men” recruited
from all over the state will take
part in the program.
“ONE WORLD OR NONE”
International Control
Of Atomic Energy
BY WALTER LIPPMANN
Editor’s Note — This is the
seventh of nine articles from the
book, “One World or None’’, pub
lished by Whittlesey House, Mc
Graw-Hill Book company, inc. Mr.
Lippmann is on a trip to Europe.
His “Today and Tomorrow’’ will
be resumed in The Star M soon as
ne returns.
We shall have misunderstood the
real principles that govern the
United Nations if we do not see that
as they have rejected the principle
of collective security by adopting
the veto, they have embraced the
principle that "crimes are always
committed by persons and that
“only sanctions which reach in
dividuals can peacefully and effec
tively be enforced.’’ The commit
ments of the Nuremberg trial are
no sudden improvisation out of thin
air: they have their roots in the
history of our epoch, and they have
been evolved during the two world
wars. Though they are, like all com
mon law in its beginnings, empiric
and uncodified, they are no less au
thoritative than the Charter. The
fundamental law of the United
Nations, is not confined to the
See LIPPMANN on Page Five
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HISTORY’S GREA TEST AIR-SEA RESCUE WORK
Pr^ED IN HAWAII IN TIDAL WAVES’ WAKE;
UNO TENSION RAISES AS SHOWDOWN NEARS
Soviet-Iran
Dispute Up
For Airing
Deadline At 11 O'clock To
day For Replies From
Two Nations In Issue
MANY POSSIBILITIES
Russian Troops Reported
Already Moving Out Of
Smaller Country
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, April 2. —
Tension increased in the Unit
ed Nations Security Council
Tuesday night as the deadline
— 11 a.m. Wedneday
—neared for Russian and Ira
nian replies to a council in
quiry on the status of their dis
pute with no indication that either
country had dispatched its state
ment.
Secretary of State James F.
Byrnes, returning from Washing
ton after conferring with Presi
dent Truman on the crisis, plan
ned a series of talks with fellow
delegates Tuesday night and Wed
nesday before the council meet
ing.
It was an anxious situation as
the hours sped by.
Iranian Ambassador Hussein Ala
said that he was confident his
country’s reply would be here at
meeting time.
Uno Secretary General Trygve
Lie arranged to receive at any
hour of the night a reply from
Tehran, Moscow or both to the
Council’s request for a statement.
Tehran dispatches said definite
ly that Premier Ahmad Ghavam
See UNO on Page Two
CAPE FEAR STUDY
SET BY ENGINEERS
“Full Review” CH Reports
On 35-Foot Channel
Depth Authorized
A directive from the Chief of
Engineers, Washington, D. C.. au
thorizing a “full review” of U. S.
Engineers reports on deepening
the Cape Fear channel to 35 feet,
was received by Col. Georgs W.
Gillette, district engineer, here
yesterday.
The directive arrives as a joint
Senate-House committee is debat
ing whether the $1,465,000 appro
priation to deepen the channel to
32 feet shall be retained in the War
department’s Civil Functions bill.
Bailey Gets Review
Senator Josiah Bailey, the man
responsible for getting the 32-foot
appropriation approved by the
Senate, is also responsible for the
directive authorizing the review of
the reports on the 35-foot channel
proposal.
Colonel GilTette said yesterday
that a public hearing on the 35-foot
proposal will be held soon, and all
interested parties will be notified
when final arrangements for the
hearing are completed.
“In the meantime,” Colonel Gil
lette added, “all interested parties
should commence collecting data to
See CHANNEL on Page Two
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_Engineers Begin Plans For State Ports Improvements
The initial survey of port facilities in North Carolina, a S90,
000 project for improvement of state ports under the auspices of
the State Ports authority, was made here yesterday.
Shown above after their tour of Wilmington’s harbor from the
Swift fertilizer plant to the new Socony-Vacuum site are, left
to right: H. C. Robert, Robert Construction Engineering corpora
tion, Atlanta; C. V. Davis, Frederick Engineering corporatigp,
New York; Col. G. W. Gillette, district chief of U. S. engineers;
A. J. Bulger, Frederick Engineering corporation; E. R. Sanner,
the same; R. B. Page, chairman of the SPA; A. G. Stanford,
Robert Engineering corporation; City Manager A. C. Nichols;
T. W. Keith, Keith Milling company; and J. T. Hiers, executive
agent, Wilmington Port commission.
The boat in the background is the Army craft “Kitty Hawk”
which Colonel Gillette furnished for the survey tour.
The surveying engineers will tour the harbor of MorehearJ
City today and confer with H. S. Gibbs, member of the Morehead
City Port commission and the SPA.—STAR STAFF PHOTO BY
PETE KNIGHT.
GUARD CALLS OFF
PLAN FOR CAMP
Adj. Gen. J. Van B. Metts
Says Unit Will Be Un
able To Use Local Field
Th» proposal to hold th# summer
encampment of the N. C. State
Guard at Bluethenthal airfield has
been called off, Adj. Gen. J. Van
B. Metts disclosed to The Star In
a long distance telephone call from
Raleigh last night.
The War department told Gen
eral Metts yesterday that the field
is “unavailable for the State Guard
encampment’’ because it is no long
er in the hands of the Army.
County Has Field
All of the field except the mili
tary barracks was recently turned
over to New Hanover county and
the Wilmington-New Hanover Air
port authority under an “interim
permit’’ which gives the county
and the authority full control of
the field pending the issuance of a
formal license.
The military barracks, however,
are still in the hands of War Assets
corporation, government surplus
properties agency, and therefore
are unavailable to the Army.
To Sell Barracks
General Metts said a well-in
formed source told him that War
Assets plans to “sell the barracks,
probably to private bidders” by
July of this year in the same way
that the surplus buildings at Fort
Fisher were disposed of.
General Metts also said the avail
ability of Bluethenthal field “still
leaves me looking for a suitable
place for this summer’s encamp
ment.” He said he was unable to
disclose as yet where the encamp
ment might be held.
Along The Cape Fear
GEOGRAPHICAL GOOFS — We
never have been any good at geog
raphy.
We were the despair of a long1
succession of grammar school
geography teachers. We sent many
of them to asylums and premature
graves.
The maps we drew for them—
whether of Asia, Africa, America,
or any other continent—all turned
out the same way. They resembled
nothing so much as a combination
of Never-never land and gerryman
der cartoons.
» * *
MOSCOW IN IRAN—We’ve al
ways had a terrible time with
countries and cities too. In fact
we’re probably partly responsible
for World War II and its after
math.
We never have caught any for
eign agents leafing through our
old geography examination papers,
but we wouldn’t be surprised if
we did.
Because our old geography exam
ination papers show, among other
things, Berlin in France and Mos
cow in Iran.
HEY, TEACHER!—No. Our tal
ents, such as they are, dc not
lie in the geographical field.
So it’s no wonder that we placed
the Old Rock Spring and the Old
Bear Winery on Chestnut street
between Water and Front streets.
The wonder is that we did get
them placed as close to their actual
locations as we did. We were, you
see, only one street off. We’re
thinking of writing to our old geog
raphy teachers (the ones who are
still alive and sane) to tell them
how much we have improved.
* * *
MULBERRY STREET—The Old
Rock Spring was located at the foot
of Mulberry street, not Chestnut.
Mulberry street, you might not
know (we didn’t either), was the
old name for Grace street. Why
or when the name was changed we
do not know, but we’re kind of
sorry it was. Grace is a nice name,
yes, and yet Mulberry has such
a pretty sound to it.
And it has such sweet childish
connotations, too. Such as the old
See CAPE FEAR on Page Two
Senators Dog-Fight
WASHINGTON, April 2.—(U.R)—A fist-shaking verbal brawl be
tween Senators Robert A. Taft, (R., O.,) and James E. Murray,
(D., Mont.,) ended Tuesday with Taft stalking out of a meeting of
the Senate Education and Labor committee after being told to
“shut up’’ or be "thrown out.
The quarrel started when Taft, a member of the committee,
tried to register his opposition to the Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill,
a comprehensive national health measure recommended by Presi
dent Truman.
He denounced it as “socialistic,’’ a remark which brought
iu ins leei snaKing ms list
at the Ohioan.
Threatens Taft
“I’m chairman of this committee
and I want you to subside,” Mur
ray shouted. “I want you to sub
side. If you don’t shut up I’ll get
these officers in here and have
you thrown out.”
Taft jumped to his feet and start
ed for the door. He turned and
See SENATORS on Page Two
POWER RATE CASE
SET FOR MONDAY
City Officials Will Confer
With Utilities Commis
sion At Raleigh
The conference between city of
ficials and the N. C. State Utilities
commission concerning the recent
power-rate schedule adopted by the
Tide Water Powei company has
been postponed from Thursday of
this week to Monday of next week.
City officials have indicated that
the new rate-scnedule, which was
put into effect by Tide Water with
out consulting 1he city, is “not as
low as it ought to be.”
City hall estimates show that the
$106,000 rate reduction w.ll save
local customers only about “11
cents per month.”
City Manager A. C. Nichols, City
Attorney W. E. Campbell, and
Councilmen Harriss Newman and
Garland S. Currin will represent
the city at the conference in Ra
leigh.
DISPOSAL PLANT
FUNDS RECEIVED
Advance Grant Of $39,300
Is For Survey; To Cost
$1,500,000
An advance grant of $39,300 for
Wilmington’s $1,500,000 proposed
sewage disposal plant has been ap
proved by the Federal Works
agency, Congressman J. Bayard
Clark announced from Washington,
D. C., yesterday.
The total cost of the plant will
be split 50-50 by the federal gov
ernment and the city.
Smith’s Creek S;te
The most likely site for the new
system, City Engineer J. A. Lough
lin said yesterday, is at Smith’s
creek.
The $39,300 advance will be used
to finance the survey and the draw
ing up of the preliminary plans for
the project.
Survey Planned
The survey will get underway as
soon as the government makes of
ficial announcement of the ad
vance grant to the city and the gov
ernment check arrives here.
The 50-50 proposition is in line
with the government’s policy for
starting municipal improvement
projects throughout the nation.
CLINTON FUTURE
SEEN AS BRIGHT
$1,000,000 Building Boom
Forecast; Produce Mart
Expansion Set
CLINTON, April 2.—A business
survey of Clinton Tuesday disclos
ed that the city and vicinity are in
for a $1,000,000 dollar building
boom if materials for all projects
planned now are available.
The $400,000 Sampson County
Memorial hospital is the biggest oi
the propects planned for 1946. The
county has already issued $200,000
in bonds and construction is slated
to begin, unless delayed by supply
shortages, with the receipt of a
$200,000 Federal Works Agency
grant.
Tobacco Warehouses
Construction is already underway
on three large tobacco warehouses
at a combined cost in excess ol
$150,000. One is being constructed
for McWorter and Bass, another
for Charlie Warren and a third for
T. M. Bass.
Their completion is expected tc
double the poundage of tobaccc
sold on the Clinton Market last
year when 11,000,000 pounds were
moved.
Cotton Warehouse
Also in the effing, though pos
sibly delayed by new federal reg
ulations on material priorities is a
large warehouse planned by the
Bethune-Colwell company, one of
the largest cotton purchasers in
the South, as well as a tobacco re
drying plant proposed by F. L.
Burlington.
Real estate men predict the erec
tion of at least 100 new homes and
revealed that at least a dozen were
already being built in and near
Clinton.
Zoning Ordinance
A city, zoning and planning ordin
ance will be up for consideration
soon. Prepared v/ith the assistance
of George Frankl'n of 'the North
Carolina League of Municipalities,
it is expected to control the growth
See CLINTON on Page Two
WORKIN* ON DE RAILROAD
27,090Engines And Cars
Roll Along ACL’s Tracks
Over the total 5,569 miles of
Atlantic Coast Line track to
day runs 27,090 company-own
ed and controlled engines and
cars.
This information as listed in
railroad officials journals, the
‘‘Pocket List of Railroad Of
ficials”, and “The Railway Of
ficial Guide,’’ just off the press
for March, also discloses that
all company passenger coach
es in use now, are air-condition
ed.
The company today, follow
ing the war, during which time
practically no equipment of this
type to be used exclusively at
ACL’s directive could be pro
cured, is equipped with over
27,000 cars and engines.
Two hundred and twenty
eight miles of the total 5,569
miles, which does not include
track used for sidings, would
be necessary to place all roll
ing equipment of the line.
The equipment list does not
include the company's private
cars, of which there are not '
many, or cars operated by the
See RAILROAD on Page Two
Death Toll
In Disaster
Set At 167
However, Scores More Are
Reported Missing In
Wide Range Of Pacific
MILLIONS IN DAMAGES
I -
Relief Supplies Rushed By
Air To 5,000 Homeless;
Ships Search Sea
By DON WHITEHEAD
HONOLULU, April 2.—(#p)
i —The greatest peacetime air
jsea rescue operation in the
; history of the mid-Pacific was
pressed around Hawaii Tues
day for survivors of Monday’s
disastrous tidal wave.
While planes and ships search
ed the sea? for scores of missing
persons, disaster relief supplies
were rushed by air and sea to 4,
OhO to 5,000 homeless.
Howard Ellis, executive director
of the Hawaii Red Cross, said re
lief work was “well under con
trol’’ and it would be unnecessary
to send disaster workers from
Washington.
30 Craft Safe
Thirty small craft missing after
the tidal wave struck were report
ed safe by the Navy. Still other
small boats remained unaccounted
for.
The search went on Monday
night with the aid of flares off
Hilo harbor and Laupahoehoe point
two of the hardest hit areas. An
undetermined number of persons
were missing.
The greatest concentration of
homeless were in emergency
camps at Hilo and the abandoned
See TIDAL WAVE On Page Two
BULWINKLE BILL
VETO FORECAST
Newspaper Reports Presi
dent Will Not Accept
Railroad Measure
ATLANTA. April 2—(U.R)—Presi
dent Truman will veto the Bul
winkle bill, which would exclude
railroads from provisions of the
Sherman anti-trust laws, if sub
mitted to him in its present form,
the Atlanta Constitution said Tues
day night in a copyright story.
The Constitution, in a story by
Gladstone Williams, its Washing
ton correspondent, said President
Truman has sent word to influen
tial Senate leaders that he would
not approve the bill.
Arnall Opposes
The controversial measure, al
ready passed by the House and
now subject to hearings by the
Senate Interstate Commerce com
mittee, had been opposed strongly
by Gov. Ellis Arnall of Georgia and
other Southerners who protested
against “discriminatory freight
rates.”
Arnall had spent the past two
days testifying against the Bu’.Win
kle bill. He conferred with Mr.
Truman Monday. Arnall did not
disclose whether the President had
told him at that time he would
veto the bill. However, the Con
stitution story said, “it is learned
on the highest authority that repre
sentations to this end have been
See BL'LWIN'KLE on Page Two
And So To Bed..
The other day a diminutive
Austin automobile put-putted
into a local service station and
the driver stepped out and ask
ed the car-washer for a car
wash.
The car - washer walked
around the Austin in three
strides, looked at it from all
angles, and then started
scratching his head doubtfully.
“I don’t know,” he said to
the owner.
‘‘What do you mean?” aaked
the owner.
“I don’t know whether t.
wash it myself here or send it
home and have my wife do it
in her washing machine.
Wash it with a water-gun is
what he outer (’one.