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Officials bee
Slash In U. S.
Meat Supplies
Severe Shortages Forecast
for East, South And
Far Western Areas
manyTroblems
Distribution Will Not Be
Equitable As Under
Rationing System
WASHINGTON, April 13.— (£>)—
Civilians in eastern, southern and
j3r western parts of the country
probably '’. ill run into rather severe
shortages of meat during the next
few months.
"'his prospect was indicated to
day by an Agriculture department
report on the national food situa
tion which said the absence of ra
tioning and other wartime controls
probably will raise many problems
f distribution of smaller supplies.
‘ The report said that civilian sup
plies are expected to decline dur
ing the months ahead because
of a normal seasonal drop in
livestock marketings, low com
mercial stocks of pork, and sub
stantial takings of meat for ex
port to hungry areas abroad.
Reductions in meat supplies us
ually are felt first in areas distant
from the midwest, where the bulk
of the nation's livestock is pro
duced marketed and slaughtered.
Buying Power High
With consumer buying power
continuing at a high level in the
midwest as well as elsewhere in
! the country, the tendency will be
for the former region to take “first
crack” at the supply, with distant
areas receiving what is left.
Under rationing, it was possible
to obtain a more equitable distri
bution of supplies not only among
individual consumers but among
various sections of the country.
The termination of meat ration
ing early last winter has permit
ted civilians to buy so much meat
that the government ha* had diffi
culty getting supplies to fill over
seas promises. Furthermore, this
j uncontrolled demand siphoned off
meat that normally would have
gene into storage against the sum
mer season of low production.
The department predicted that
per capita supplies of fish, poultry,
eggs, butter, fluid milk and cream,
Cheese, evaporated milk, sugar and
fresh vegetables will be larger in
the next few months than they
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CITY PUTS BAN ON
FISHER BUILDINGS
Surplus Army Structures
Declared Non-Conform
ing With Ordinances
No buildings which were pur
chased through the Fort Fisher
government surplus property sale
can be moved to Wilmington, Gil
bert F. Morton, city building in
spector, announced yesterday.
He disclosed permission to move
ihe structures to Wilmington had
been asked by local purchasers
°f the surplus barracks, mess halls
and other facilities.
Morton’s denial of such appli
cations followed an inspection tour
of the Fort Fisher property Friday
M company with Fire Chief J.
Midie Croom and City Engineer
A. Loughlin.
The structures do not meet city
building requirements and can
not be made to conform with re
quirements without complete re
building, Morton pointed out, so
owners are not being permitted
fo bring them within the city
limits.
Toe buildings will depreciate the
J'ahie of property in any neighbor
hood where the structures are al
lowed. the building inspector de
elared.
Receives Star To Navy DFC M^Jal
--*
Dexter H. Holland, 117 S. Van Buren street, Sunset Park, is shown, left foreground, receiving a
gold star in lieu of a second Navy Distinguished Flying Cross from Lt. Henry C. Best, Wilmington port
director, as other members of his family look on. The award was made in the port director’s office in
the customhouse yesterday morning for “20 flights in combat area where enemy anti-aircraft fire was •
effective and where enemy aircraft patrols occurred’’ in the Philippines area. In the background, left
to right, are Mrs. I. J. Holland, Dexter’s mother, Bill Holland, a brother, and I. J. Holland, his father.
—Star-News Photo by Knight.
Nichols Is Seeking
Daytona Beach Post
- * . _ —_
ONE OF THREE
Appears Before Florida
City’s Commission; De
cision Expected Soon
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, April:
13—A. C. Nichols, Wilmington, N.
C., city manager, is one of three
“front-runners” for the wide-open
job of city manager of this East
coast resort city of 25,000 popula
tion.
The Daytona Beach Evening
News said today that “comments
Df Mayor W. C. Perry and acting
City Manager Francis Mills indi
cate that the fieid of possibilities
for the city’s new manager has
narrowed to three applicants and
the Mayor said the post would be
filled within the next week.”
Besides Nichols, the other “prob
ables” are Lt. Col. Hershel G.
Wray, Ft. Lauderdale, and a third
applicant who requested his name
not be made public because his
present employer did not know he
had applied for the job.
All three of the men have ap
peared before the City commission
in private sessions during the
week.
In recent years this city has
employed local men in the post
of city manager but the commis
sion recently decided that in view j
of the city’s expansion program
it was advisable to bring in a
professionally trained and ex
perienced city manager.
The city recently employed a
professional planner who drew up
a “master plan” for improvement
and beautification. Last week the
freeholders of Daytona Beach vot
ed overwhelmingly for construc
tion of a $3,680,000 sewer system.
OFFICIALS NOT INFORMED
Mayor W. Ronald Lane, upon
being informed last night of the
Daytona Beach dispatch that City
Manager Nichols had applied for
a job there, said Wilmington city
officials had “heard nothing at all
about it.”
The mayor said Nichols had
asked for permission to be out of
the city Friday and yesterday, but
that no indication was given that
the manager was seeking another
position.
According to information from
Nichols’ office, the city manager
is scheduled to be back in Wil
mington Monday morning._
Long-Lost Spanish
Treasure Ship Found
MIAMI, Fla., April 13—(/P)—
Discovery of the long-lost
Spanish trader galleon Santa
Rosa, reputedly with $30,000,
000 in stolen Aztec gold aboard,
was announced tonight by Ir
win A. Williamson, famed sea
diver.
Williamson said he found the
coral-sealed hulk of thi Santa
Rosa at 1 o’clock this after
noon in 146 feet of watet .off
Key West.
“We removed the three iden
tification marks which we put
on the wreck in 1940-41, be
fore the war halted our further
attempts to locate the treas
ure,” Williamson said.
ATTACKS ON OPA
REACH NEW PITCH
People Urged To Let Law
makers Know How They
Feel About Control
WASHINGTON, April 13—m -
rhe congressional uprising against
DP A became so severe today that
me of the agency’s severest
;ritics. Representative Hartley
'R-N. J.) urged “moderation lest
price control be destroyed.”
Meanwhile, a committee of ^>3
douse members, organized to
light inflation,” issued a state
ment calling on the people to let
heir representatives in Congress
enow how they feel about price
control.
Hartley, a month ago, an
nounced the formation of a coali
ion of Republicans and Demo
crats to trim down OPA’s poweis.
But toda he told newsmen:
“The revolt has become so over
whelming I’ve got to _ warn that
we must not wreck price control,
[•m going to urge moderation lest
price control be destroyed. We
need OPA for the time being. Its
continuation is essential. We
should correct its abuses. Not de
51^Legislation to continue OPA for
me year beyond June 30, comes to
the House floor for debate Mon
dEpaul Porter, OPA administrator,
told Chairman Spence (D-Ky.) m
a letter that amendments already
put into the legislation by the House
Banking committee, if approved
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Ground Forces Suffer
627,869 Casualties
WASHINGTON, April 13—(U.R)—
The Army Ground Forces reported
tonight that World War II cojt
them 627,869 casualties, 81 per
cent of the Army total in that con
flGen Jacob L. Devers, command
er U S. Army Ground Forces,
said that 122,562 of his men were
killed'in action from Dec. 7, 1941,
through August 31, 1945.
The Army Ground forces raised
89 divisions and sent them all over
seas, 88 of them into combat. By
January, 1945, 47 infantry regi
ments in 19 divisions had lost from
100 to 200 per cent of their strength
In battle casualties. By May, 1945,
the five hardest hit division had
suffered 176 per cent battle casual
ties in aH.
Sorosis Club Prepared
For Cancer Fund Drive
With a goal of $4,750 to be raised
frumg le period from April 15
j® Apni 30, the North Carolina
5or°sis will launch a cancer con
'r°l campaign in New Hanover
county tomorrow.
Mrs. A. R. Willis, general chair
n’an. and Mrs. Q. B. Snipes, co
chairman, in announcing workers
th local campaign yesterday,
Pointed out that cancer killed 607,
U0f) Americans between Pearl Har
oor and V-J Day, more than twice
as hifci y as were killed or listed
lssing in action in World War II.
tancer, it Was stated, is killing
Americans at the rate of 175,000
every year—478 every day 20 ev
ery hour—one every three minutes.
Information from National
Headquarters of the American
Cancer society has revealed that
cancer is the greatest and cruelest
killer of American women between
the ages of 35 and 55. Cancer is
the second greatest killer of men,
and nearly 2,000 American boys
and girls this year will die of can
cer before reaching their 21st birth
day.
Forty per cent of the money
raised will be spent nationally on
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SEA TO NEGOTIATE
A 1PORT CONTRACT
Intra-State Airline To Sign
Formal Papers With
Local Authority
W. C. Teague, president of South
East Airlines, will arrive in Wil
mington tomorrow to negotiate a
contract with the City-county air
port authority for the use of Blue
thenthal airport, it was announced
yesterday by Albert F, Perry,
authority chairman.
The first intra-state airline in
North Carolina, S. E. A. for three
months has been operating two
flights--a day from Buethenthal un
der a tentative contract. Signing
of a formal contract tomorrow is
one more indication of the acceler
ated activity at New Hanover coun
ty’s $11,000,000 airport.
Yesterday the Pennington Flying
service completed the transfer of
equipment from Carolina Beach
road airport. For Warren F. and
James C. Pennington, owners, the
move to Buethenthal is a return to
their former base of operators.
In 1929, the Penningtons estab
lished the first flying service in
the Wilmington area at the present
site of Bluethenthal. Their first
planes took off from a small, home
made runway. Later the county
constructed another runway which
was supplemented by a third run
way, built with Works Progress Ad
ministration funds. When war came
and the Army Air Forces took over
the airport, Bluethenthal was
transformed into the modern air
port it is today.
The Penningtons have seven
planes based at Bluethenthal—three
trainers, one passenger plane, and
three advanced trainers — as well
as facilities for servicing aircraft.
The flying service will operate an
advanced fly'ng school, approved
by the Civil Aeronautics authority,
and rep air and maintenance
schools.
Also provided are facilities for
the storage, repair and fueling of
transient aircraft with 80 and 81
octane gasoline.
All of the employes of Penning
ton Flying service are CAA-licen
sed pilots with a total of more than
14,000 flying hours. James C. Pen
nington, ex-Major in the AAF, flew
“the hump” in China during his
overseas service. Assisting him in
instructing fledging pilots are Berk
Rehder, former AAF instructor,
Albert L. Wooten, another AAF in
structor, Jack Bennett, former B-17
Army pilot, Kenneth G. Wooten,
former ground instructor for Dal
las Aviation corportaion, and O. L.
Malpass,
Malpass is in charge of ground
training. During the war, he serv
ed in the Navy as a member of a
ground crew. He also holds a CAA
pilot's license.
First student to solo at Blueth
(Continued On Page 11, Column 5)
Move Pushed
To Avert Big
Sugar Strike
AFL And CIO Workers At
East Coast Refineries
Scheduled To Quit
STOCKS LIMITED
Both Sides Stiffen At
titudes In 13-Day-Old
Soft Coal Walkout
WASHINGTON, April 13— UP) —
Government conciliators in an
eleventh hour move worked to
night to avert a strike at East
coast sugar refineries.
The strike was set for midnight.
Conciliation Chief Edgar L. War
ren summoned representatives of
labor and management to a nighi
conference in an effort to prevent
shutdown of the refineries which
process about 70 per cent of the
nation's cane sugar supply.
Involved are AFL longshoremen
and CIO local industrial unions,
whose 8,000 members called the
strike in support of demands for
an 18 i-2-cent hourly wage boost,
and the American, National and
Revere Refining companies with
plants in Boston, New York, Phila
delphia and Baltimore.
No Word
Tonight’s session was late start
ing and an hour and a half before
the deadline, there was no word
from the meeting as to progress.
Louis H. Wilderman, attorney
representing the AFL union, said
that present hourly pay rates
range from 68 cents an hour at
Baltimore to 86 cents an hour at
New York city.
The Agriculture department said
that for several weeks while the
strike has been threatening it has
curtailed liftings of raw sugar from
Cuba in order to avoid a pile-up
at refinery warehouses.
Any prolonged stoppage could
cause a reduction in amonls of
sugar rationed to housewives be
cause present stocks are limited.
Plants affected are those of the
Revere and American Sugar Re
fining companies at Boston; one of
the National Sugar Refining com
pany at New York; one of the
National Sugar Refining company
and two American subsidiary
plants (McCann and Franklin) at
(Continued On Page 11, Column 6)
CHANGCHUN’S FATE
NEARING DECISION
Bitter Battle Raging Be
tween Chinese National
ists And Communists
MUKDEN, April 13.— (U.R) —The
fate of Changchun, capital of Man
churia, may be decided within the
the next seven days by a battle
between Chinese Nationalist and
Chinese Communist armies raging
today around the railway hub of
Szepingkai, 70 miles to the south.
The last Russian forces in Chang
chun were reported to have with
drawn to Harbin by train, leaving
Changchun a prize of battle for
the opposing Chinese armies.
Nationalist forces were reported
holding the capital with only 7,000
troops brought in before the Rus
sians left, 5,000 of them former
puppet forces whose loyalty to the
central government is uncertain.
The Nationalists are sure of the
loyalty of only 2,000 militiamen
flown to Changchun from Peiping
recently. Striking toward the city
are strong Communist forces, be
lieved equal to or outnumbering
the Nationalists.
Latest reports available here said
the Communists were converging
on Changchun airfield, but it was
uncertain which side held the field.
Five American war correspond
ents are scheduled to take off for
Changchun today to report bn the
situation within the city and the
struggle for its possession.
Sunset Park Residents
To Seek Council Voice
A resolution endorsing their
choice for a successor to the late
Ray Pollock, Sunset Park repre
sentative on the City council, is
slated to be passed by Sunset Park
citizens in a mass meeting at 8
p. m., Tuesday.
According to Otto K. Pridgen,
member of a Sunset Park citizens
committee, the resolution will be
submitted to the City council at
its next regular meeting, April 24.
Both W. K. Rhodes, attorney and
anti-city limits extension leader,
and W. J. Wilson, contractor, have
been mentioned as likely selections
of the Sunset Park group
All residents of Sunset Park are
being invited to attend the gath
ering and 2,000 handbills announce
ing the meeting were being dis
tributed yesterday afternoon.
A group spokesman yesterday
expressed the hope that ‘‘the coun
cil will go along with us” in nam
ing a successor to Pollock, who
died April 6, after only three
months on the City council.
A Sunset Park council repre
sentative was provided for in the
legislative enabling act which au
thorized the holding of a city limits
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HOUSE VOTES DRAFT
HOLIDAY BUT DELAYS
FINAL OKEH OF BILL
___* - 1
ALSO ENDS CAr
FOR TEEN - A .
Demand For R
Measure By
Postpone 11 S
WASHING")
— (A?)—The
a five-months
day and an e1
ing of teei
selective servi
bill today but
action on the
whole until Mono
A decisive vote tL
sent the legislation
was blocked when R
Ga.) demanded a reaa
formally engrossed bill .
amendments. Speaker E.
told the house such a copy c6u
not be ready before Monday.
So the house quit and put off the
vote until then.
Little Left To Do
There is nothing left to do now
except pass on a motion to re
commit, which is conceded practi
cally no chance and take final
action. There will be no roll call
on the amendments.
The Senate still has a say com
ing, however, in a committee-ap
proved bill lacking the restrictions
the House voted today. The House
had been all set to pass the bill
today. It had decided by a three
vote margin to prohibit any in
ductions between May 15 and Octo
ber 15 of this year, although ex
tending the draft law itself until
February 15, 1947, or nine months
from its present expiration date.
There was no record vote on the
“holiday” proposal, which went
into the measure by a teller count
of 156 to 153 after charges it was
inspired by “politics.” The mem
bers turned down a request for a
roll call vote on which the mem
bers would be recorded individual
ly. An earlier tentative vote on
the “holiday” was 149 to 127.
There was no record vote, either,
on the amendment raising the pres
ent minimum draft age from 18 to
20. It went into the measure by
a non-recorded vote of 195 to 96,
the same as the earlier tentative
ballot.
Weakened
As it neared formal passage,
the bill was so sharply changed
from the form in which it was
written by the House military
committee that Georgia’s new
woman representative, Mrs. Helen
Mankin, told the House “the guts
have been cut out of this bill.”
The House left unchanged its
I committee’s recommendations for
a maximum service liability of
18 months for all drafted men; for
an outright ban against the Induct
ion of fathers; for authority fo>>
local draft boards to defer farm
workers, and for these ceilings on
the July 1, 1947, strength of tbs
armed forces: Army 1,070,000 of«
ficers and men; Navy 558,000;
Marine Corps 108,000.
Turned down were proposals to
raise the pay of all service per
sonnel; to give enlisted men the
same terminal pay now granted to
officers; to force the Immediate
discharge of all fathers now in
service, and to count service <<*
the merchant marine as part of
the 18 months maximum required
of inducted men.
The admini s t r a t i o n fought
against the teen-age ban and the
draft “holiday” amendments,
Democratic leader McCormac of
Massachusetts accusing the House
of resorting to “legislative”’
(Continued On Page 11, Column 1)
Without Opposition
The only county officials to come up with no opposition for the
forthcoming primary and general elections as filing time closed
yesterday afternoon were August Meyland, left, clerk of the Superior
court, ^and H. Winfield Smith, right, recorder. By virtue of their un
opposed candidacies, both men were assured of re-election.
—Star-News Staff Photos.
Meyland And Smith
Unopposed In Vote
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MANY CONTESTS
Filing Closes For Elect
ions; Four Seek Two
Commission Places
Forty-three New Hanover county
candidates, including two Republi
cans, filed for the offices at stake
in the May 25 primary before the
filing deadline was reached at 6
p. m. yesterday.
The Republican entrants are both
seeking the seat in the state house
of representatives.
August L. Meyland, clerk of su
perior court, and Recorder H.
Winfield Smith were automatic
ally re-elected when no opposition
to either was recorded.
Judge John J. Burney, Wilming
ton, and Clifton L. Moore, Bur
gaw, district solicitor, also are un
opposed.
Last-minute filers included two
aspirants to the membership on the
board of county commissioners now
held by George Trask and Harry
R. Gardner. The surprise announce
ments came from John Verzaal,
a political newcomer, and Claude
O’Shields, radio station WMFD
advertising manager. Trask and
Gardner had filed earlier.
Other offices and candidates
are:
State Senate, Ninth senatorial
district, Thomas E. Cooper and
Alton Lennon.
State House of Representatives,
R. M. Kermon and Edgar L. Yow,
Democrats, and J. A. Bodine and
B. C. Fussell, Republicans.
Coroner, Luther F. Congleton, J.
Edwin Bunting, W. Gordon Doran,
Asa W. Allen, Incumbent, and K. L.
Blizzard, all Democrats.
County auditor, Charles F. Smitn,
J. A. Orrell, incumbent, and
Robert S. LeGwin, Democrats.
Clerk of superior court, A. L.
Meyland, Democrat.
Sherriff, C. David Jones, incum
(Continued On Page 11, Column 4)
AIRING OF POLISH
CHARGES FAVORED
UN Council Hopes Talk
Will Encourage Spanish
People To Oust Franco
NEW YORK, April 13. — (U.PJ -
United Nations Security Council
members hoped tonight on the eve
of the council’s reconvening that
a full airing of Poland’s charges
against Spain would encourage the
Spanish people to get rid of Gen
eralissimo Francisco Franco.
Council members who do not
think the UN should take action
against Spain nevertheless sup
port full discussion of the Spanish
situation in the hope that it will:
1. Strengthen anti-Franco senti
ment inside Spain.
2. Weaken Franco’s position
among the Spanish people ad es
pecially within the Spanish army.
This view was held especially by
council members who do not agree
with Poland and Russia that the
Spanish regime now menaces world
peace and consider it an internal
matter. Notable among these are
the United States and Britain.
Youth Killed During
Anti-Semetic Riot
VIENNA, April 13 — (U.R) —A
16-year-old Jewish refugee
from Hungary was killed and
other Jews were beaten and
jailed tonight in Viensa’s first
anti-semetic riot since the arm
istice.
Twenty-three were arrested—
22 young Jews, including three
girls, and a state-less Foie who
was charged with shooting the
youth.
Bioting broke out between
civilians and refugees from a
displaced persons’ camp after
hundreds of Jews marched on
a Vienna police station and
stoned it, demanding the re
lease of two youths who were
interned earlier in the day.
IRANIAN PARTIES’
RIOTS SPREADING
South - Central Industrial
Area Reported Center
Of New Skirmishes
TEHRAN, April 13— (U.R)—Re
ports from both north and south
Iran tonight said that skirmishes
and rioting between adherents of
the pro-Russian Tudeh party and
right-wing elements are spread
ing.
Focal point of the most serious
outbreak was said to be ancient
Isfahan, the south-central indus
trial center of Iran, where repeat
ed clashes were reported between
the Freedom party, a local version
of the Tirdeh group, and right
wing political supporters.
Other outbreaks were reported
in the northern provinces Guilan,
Mazanderan and Khorassan where
the Tudeh group charged that re
actionary bands were attacking
them.
A report on the Isfahan outbreak
was given by Prince Sarem El
Doulem who arrived in Tehran
today from Isfahan to confer with
Prime Minister Ahmed Ghavam.
He said that Tudeh Deputy Fid
akar had arrived in Isfahan Thurs
day at the request of the Freedom
party to launch a campaign among
local trade unions not affiliated
with Tudeh or any of its branches.
Educators Warn World
Must Master New Gams
CHAPEL HILL, April 13—(U.R)—
Two of the nation’s foremost edu
cator's sounded a warning here to
day that the world is headed for
disaster unless the rapid scientific
and technological advances of the
modern age are mastered by a
combination of social, political and
economic devices.
Speaking at the birthplace of
state universities at ceremonies
celebrating the sesouicentennial of
the University of North Carolina,
President Edmund E. Dav of Cor
nell university and President
Frank P. Graham of UNC. declar
ed that the future of mankind lies
in humane and intelligent control
of scientific mechanism in an atom
ic world.
More than 253 representatives of
college and universities from this
and other nations plus 130 delegates
from learned societies and founda
tions, as well as 62 college presi
dents were on hand for the historic
exercises.
The occasion also marked the
170th anniversary of the first offi
cial declaration of independence by
one of the new states — Halifax
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