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WEATHER
North Carolina—Fair and mild Sundav
and Sunday night with slightly lowor
temperatures north and east portions
Monday increasing cloudiness and slight"
ly warmer north and east portions.
Adi'dilonal Weather Data on Page Two.
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0.5. Drafts
New Plan For
Spanish Probe
Believed To Have Good
Chance For Adoption By
UN Security Council
GOING TO BYRNES
Most Delegations Awaiting
Home Instructions On
Australian Proposal
By CHARLES M. McCAWjf
United tress Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK. April 20 — CJ.R) —
United States experts are working
nut a revised plan for a United
Nations Security council investi
gation of Franco Spain, it was
understood today.
The new plan, based on Aus
tralia’s proposal that a five-man
committee study conditions and re
port May 17, was believed to have
an excellent chance of adoption.
The United States draft may take
the form of suggestive changes in
the plan of Australian Delegate
Col. W. R. Hodgson or may develop
into a complete substitute plan, it
was understood. In either event it
would naturally be subject to hew
suggestions by other delegates
and meantime it would be sub
mitted to Secretary of State James
F. Bvmes for his approval.
Await Instructions
Most delegations, including the
key ones of Great Britain and
Poland, awaited instructions they
had asked of their home govern
ments regarding the Australian
plan to investigate the Polish
charge that, the regime of Gen
eralissimo Francisco Franco con
tinues to be a Fascist one and
that Germans are active in Spaip.
It was indicated that whatever
plan for an investigation of Spain
may finally be decided upon
might be reasonably sure of eight
out of 21 council votes—United
States, Biitain, China, Australia,
Brazil, Egypt, Mexico and Nether
lands. France is tentatively In fa
vor of it, subject to instructions
from Paris.
The Poles, realizing that their
own demand for a United Nations
break with Spain was doomed to
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COLORFUL PREVUE
TO OPEN FESTIVAL
Lovely Entrants In Straw
berry ‘Queen’ Contest
To Highlight Event
WALLACE, April 20.—The Sixth
Annual North Carolina Strawberry
festival—which will be held in Wal
lace from May 1 through May Il
ls scheduled to make its public
debut with a colorful prevue Sat
urday evening April 27, at 8 o’clock
in the main exhibition building.
A beauty pageant and parade,
with dozens of Southeastern North
Carolina’s most striking beauties
competing for the coveted title of
Strawberry Queen,” will feature
the prevue.
Contest judges include repre
sentatives from Metro-Goldwyn
Mayer, United Artists and Para
mount pictures studios, who will
come here to select the ‘‘Ameri
can Beauty” from the swim suit
clad girls. Judging will be on the
basis of beauty, shape and meas
urements.
The winner will be photographed
for movie magazines in an original
costume from the M-G-M techni
color film, “Ziegfield Follies”.
She will be officially crowned
''Orth Carolina Strawberry queen
on the evening of May 7 by Gov.
K- Gregg Cherry.
Trip To Hollywood
°n May 8, she and her court will
re^n supreme over the glittering
Strawberry Queen’s ball. She also
"•ill receive a full trip to Holly
wood, breakfast at Tom Brene
r's. and will be given the op
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Temple Baptists Plan
Drive For Church Fund
, A new campaign for funds for
the erection of a modern, $200,
°°0 church on the northeast corn*
er of 38th and Market streets by
the congregation of Temple Bap
tjst church will begin April 26 with
L- B. Roeouck serving as general
chaii man of the drive, it was an
nounced yesterday.
The drive will be launched on
that dale with a kick-off supper
which will be attended by Roe
ouck workers and the following
members of his general commit
tee:
Louis 0. Fonvielle, publicity
chairman; Ira D. Ferrell, trea
I
surer of the building fund; the
Rev. W. J. Stephenson, pastor;
W. A. Walker, chairman of the
board of deacons; G. C. Gilbert,
church treasurer; C. W. Boyette,
chairman for ‘‘initial gifts”; L.
W. Moore, chairman, church-at
iarge; Mrs. C. H. Hayes, chair
man of the Women’s Missionary
union; T. T. Hamilton, chairman
of the Sunday school and Ed West,
chairman of the Baptist Training
unions.
Members of the general com
mittee plan to reach every mem
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Churches To Lead
Easter Observance
TWO-DAY HOLIDAY
Four Sunrise Services
Scheduled As Commun
ity Marks The Event
Wilmington and New Hanover
county residents, from the young
est to the oldest, today will join
in the celebration of their first
peaceful Easter since 1941.
Starting with the sunrise serv
ices scheduled this morning at 5:30
o’clock on the steps of New Han
over high school, and continuing
thr .ugh the day with special
church services, family gatherings
and egg hunts by the youngsters,
the day promises to be one to be
remembered.
Observance of Easter will take on
a two-day phase with all retail
stores to be closed tomorrow.
Federal employes will be at their
desks, although state, county and
city offices will be closed during
the day. Banks will also observe
Easter Monday by remaining
closed.
With fair and moderate weather
predicted by Weatherman Paul
Hess, many persons are expected
to take advantage of the day and
visit Carolina and Wrightsville
Beaches and scenic spots in the
_
James Longworth, publicity di
rector, Carolina Beach and Wal
ter J. Cartier, Wrightsville Beach
Chamber of Commerce secretary,
were both planning for large pre
season crowds as many conces
sions and cottages have already
been readied for the summer.
The two-day holiday will a1"'
find many persons taking advan
tage of the entertainment features
of the Cape Fear Country club and
municipal golf courses.
Fishing Parties Planned
Plans have been readied by the
owners of Lumina and Atlantic
View piers at Wrightsville Beach
and Kure’s pier at Kure beach to
care for a large holiday crowd of
fishermen.
Many parties have also been
planned by fishing groups who
will take advantage of th' oppor
tunity for deep-sea fishing parties.
Disappointed, to a small degree,
will be the youngster who has yet
to c lebrate an Easter with choco
late bunnies, eggs and baskets.
War conditions still make those
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Good Easter Weather
Seen For Carolinas
(By The Associated Press)
Fair weather ranging from
mild to continued warm was
predicted as the Carolinas pre
pared today the first peacetime
Faster in five years.
In the two-state area the
weatherman specifically prom
ised fair and continued warm
for South Carolina while in
North Carolina the prediction
was for partly cloudy and mild,
with slightly lower tempera
tures in the north and east por
tions of the state.
The forecast gave promise
of numerous outdoor services
in communities throughout the
two states, chief among them
being the traditional Moravian
sunrise service at Winston
Salem, this year marking its
174th annual observance.
GREENHILL WILL
TALK HERE SOON
Authority On Psychiatric
Problems To Address
Council Tuesday Night
Principal speaker at the sched
uled meeting of the Community
Council, Tuesday night will be Dr,
Maurice H. Greenhill, Duke uni
versity school of Medicine.
Dr. Greenhill will speak to the
gathering in the USO club, Second
and Orange streets, at 8 o’clock.
Rabbi- Samuel A. Friedman,
chairman Community Council, ir
announcing the name of the speak
er, said Dr. Greenhill is a noted
authority on psychiatric problems
and has chosen for his subject,”
‘‘The Scope and Purpose of the
Mental Hygiene or Child Guidance
Clinic.”
This subject is timely, Rabbi
Friedman explained, as the Coun
cil is currently engaged in the es
tablishment of a mental clinic here.
The council has invited the general
public to attend the meeting, the
council chairman said.
Associate Professor
Dr. Greenhill, is an associate pro
fessor of neuropsychiatry at Duke,
coming to the university in 1940.
He is a graduate of the University
of Rochester and received his M.D.
from the University of Chicago.
He has served at the Massachus
etts state hospital at Worcester
the Massachusetts general hospital
and has also been a member of the
staff of the Harvard medical school
in the department of nervous and
mental diseases. He is a member
of the Rockefeller foundation ir
Neurology.
In addition to his present duties
at Duke university and the Duke
Rehabilitation clinic, Dr. Greenhil
is director of the Child Guidance
clinic in Raleigh; consultant to tb
North Carolina state board of Pub
lic Welfare; member of the Me
cal Advisory board of state hos
pitals, and advisor to the state di
vision of Vocational T ehabilitation,
In 1945 he was elected president
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(Further Slash
Bread
1
iS Indicated
Expected Unless Bonus
Brings Rush Of Stored
Wheat From The Farms
some¥illsclose
Re-Routing Of Grain Ships
To Urgent European Hun
ger Spots Planned
CHICAGO, April 20—(/P)—Amer
icans may have to cut their con
sumption of bread and other wheat
products even more than the 25 per
cent ordered by the government
unless a Federal bonus induce
ment brings a rush of stored wheat
from the farms, milling sources in
dicated today.
A survey of the government’s
program for a 25 per cent slash
in flour consumption to combat
famine in Europe brought these
reactions:
1—C. D. McKenzie, president of
the Miller’s National federation,
said unless farmers release their
stores of wher' it is “extremely
doubtful’’ sufficient grain would be
available at the mills to produce
75 per cent of the flour they turn
V-U UUI, iUOl ^ VUi,
Sees Big Reduction
2— Dr. Franklin Bing, director of
the American Institute of Baking,
the scientific and educational arm
of the American baking industry,
said the wheat slash probably
would mean a horizontal one-fourth
reduction in all products contain
ing flour. There was no prospect,
he added, that bread production
could be kept ap with a corres
ponding additional reduction in
other bakery goods.
3— Most farmer, milling and
grain trading sources said they
believed the plan for a bonus pay
ment of 30 cents a bushel would
succeed in bringing stored grain
from the farms although a “wait
and see’’ attitude was taken by
some.
4—Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of
the Journal of the American Medi
cal associatiro, said the slash in
wheat consumption would ‘‘do
more good than harm” for the
average American. Dr. Fishbein
said the nutritional value - f wheat
products was available in other
foods and that overeating was an
important contributing factor in
shortening longevity after middle
age.
‘‘Everything possible” must be
done to bring wheat from the
farms, McKenzie said, and if pre
sent. measures don’t turn the trick
“we must seek out and institute
others.”
The government is seeking to
draw off 160,000,000 bushels of
wheat from American farms dur
ing the present food crisis.
Some mills already have been
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PEACEFUL WORLD
OBSERVES EASTER
Russians Celebrate Season
For First Time Since
The Revolution
By The Associated Press
A world at peace for the first
time in nearly a de^de today cele
brated the joyous Christian festival
of Easter.
The feast fell on the same date
in both Eastern and Western
churches for the first time since
1943.
The difference in calendars used
by the two churches—the Julian in
the East and the Georgian in the
West—brought Easter to the East
ern churches on May 6 last year,
while the West celebrated on April
1. The year before the East ob
served the holiday on April 16 and
the West on April 9.
The celebration came to Rus
sians for the first time since the
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Chinese Communists Plan
To Lay Seige To Harbin
CHUNGKING, April 20.—(SJ—
Chinese communists encircling
Harbin declared today they in
tended to lay seige to that north
Manchurian metropolis, which the
government indicated it would not
even try to defend.
A government spokesman said
the situation in central Manchuria
was. “very grave” now that com
munist troops have taken Chung
chun, the capital, 150 miles south
west of Harbin.
A Communist spokesman warn
ed that the encircling troops would
seize Harbin when the Russian
army pulls out next Thursday “if I
a status of civil war still prevails
in Manchuria.”
That would give General Marsh
all, special U. S. envoy to China,
only five more days to work out a
truce first between the warring
factions.
Marshall was in almost contin
uous conferences with both gov
ernment and communist officials.
He had not scheduled a meeting
of his truce committee of three,
which earlier this year worked out
an armistice for the rest of China
outside Manchuria.
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U. S. ORDERS REDUCED COST
CEILINGS FOR NEW HOUSES;
FOURTH MUST BE FOR RENT
Truman Discusses Coal Strike
With Lewis And Schwellenbach
BY NORMAN’ WALKER
WASHINGTON, April 20—OP)
—President Truman took a
hand in the 20- day soft coal
strike today in an unheralded
WTiite House talk with John
L. Lewis and Secretary of La*
bor Schwellenbach.
The two had a 15-minute con
ference with Mr. Truman and
reconversion director John W.
Snyder but the White House
said afterward the meeting had
been without any “conclusive
result.”
Nevertheless Lewis and
Schwellenbach left the meeting
in obvious good humor and
the labor secretary said he
intended to get in touch with
Ezra Van Horn, chairman of
the mine operators joi:%t' negoti
ating committee.
It was considered probable
the president had asked Lewis,
chief of the 400,000 idle United
Mine Workers, to resume joint
negotiations with the mine own
ers. However, Charles G. Ross,
White House press . secretary,
told reporters he could neitljjr
confirm nor deny whether the
president had made any prat
posal.
In response to questions
Schwellenbach declared there
would be no resumption of
strike negotiations, either with
both sides separately or to
gether, until next Tuesday at
the earliest. Lewis has a date
Wednesday at Hazelton, Pa., to
attend the meeting called to
form CMW’s new contract de
mands for 72,000 anthracite
miners. The hard coal contract
expires May 31.
The bituminous, or soft coal,
situation has been at an im
pass since April IP when Lewis
walked out of joint negotia
tions with the operators. He
said further talks were use
less. Lewis wants a settlerfent
of his demand for a union-ad
minisered health and welfare
fund for miners financed by
tonnage levy on coal produc
tion, and also, for improved
safety conditions.
The operators have insisted
on settling rvage and hour is
sues before discussing anything
else with Lewis. Schwellen
bach has been trying, without
success so far, to get both
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Spain Reported Manning ‘Little
Maginot Line On French Border
DAILY PRICE HIKE
SEEN DURING YEAR
OPA Still Holding To
Theory Of Orderly
Readjustments
WASHINGTON, April 20.—(U.R)—
Even if Congress should let the
price control act alone, daily price
boosts would be in the cards for
the rest of this year, an OPA of
ficial said tonight.
Forecasting a continuing pro
gram of steady price increases, the
official said OPA had granted more
boosts in the past two months than
ever before in a similar period
since price control has been in ex
istence.
But, he insisted, price increases
granted in an orderly manner by
OPA are far less inflationary than
the abrupt rises that would result if
congress insists on “crippling
amendments” to price extension
legislation.
In the past 10 days-the OPA has
announced about 50 price increases
on such items as automobiles,
work clothes, citrus fruits, cam
eras, furnaces, wool rugs, beans,
peas, and pet foods'.
Meanwhile, the Senate Banking
committee has been conducting
hearings on price control extension
and farm state senators have been
predicting even more drastic cur
tailments of OPA’s power than
those voted this week by the house.
The house approved a nine-month
extension of price control but at
tached so many curbing amend
ments that OPA Chief Paul Porter
said the measure, it finally enac
ted, would boost living costs 40
per cdnt.
Sen. Allen J. Ellender, D., La.,
declared that the time had come
for the administration to fix a new
wage-price stabilization line “in the
light of higher wages.” He said
it was unfair to let the line bulge
for wage increases without letting
it give also in the form of price
boosts.
In explaining the hundreds of
price increases that OPA has
granted since V-J Day, an official
of the OPA Price department
made these points.
1. Most of the increases were
not on major cost-of-living items—
rents, food, clothing, fuel.
2. It is OPA policy to grant, in
creases to correct inequities and
to spur production of certain items.
NEWSMAN SEES FORTS
Republicans Claim Nazi
Refugees Helping Train
Franco’s Armies
By EDWARD V. ROBERTS
United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, April 20.—(U.R)—Fron
tier dispatches from the Pyrenees
said today that Spain was build
ing a “little” Maginot line along
ihe French border and was man
ling it with as many troops as
.vould be required to hold a front
.ine. in wartime.
These reports, -redited too Span
sh republican fighters in southern
France, were relayed by corres
pondent Colin Wills of the London
Mew Chronicle. Wills declared he
rad toured the French side of the
lorder with Spanish maquisards
)nd had seen the new fortifications.
Great Strength
Wills said the Maquisards told
lim that on parts of the border the
‘strength of Spanish troops was as
jreat as would be deployed in hold
ng a front line in war.”
He said the republicans reitera
,ed charges that Nazi refugees
were helping train the Spanish
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JAPANESE CRISIS
NEARS SHOWDOWN
Premier May Step Down
To Become Foreign Mini
ster In New Cabinet
TOKYO, April 20 —(£>)—. Japan’s
.atest political crisis moved to
ward a showdown tonight as a
spokesman hinted that Premier
Kijuro. Shidehara might resign to
oecopie. foreign minister in a new
cabinet.
Heretofore the 73-year-old baron
has steadfastly rejected demands
that he step down, and recently
let it . be known he would try to'
Eorm a coalition government from
among Conservatives elected to
the new diet.
Tonight, however, his principal
spokesman^-cabinet secretary Wa
;aru Narahashi—intimated the pos
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Did The Census Man
Miss Your Household?
If you have a son or daugh
ter away at school who was not
enumerated in the special cen
sus which is being completed
here, it is still possible to have
the student included in the
population total.
Unofficial estimates indicate
a population of 46,882 persons
living in Wilmington on April
1, official census date.
Through a! misunderstanding
of instructions, some enumera
tors failed to list students at
tending school away from
home. If a member of your
family was missed, you are
urged to telephone 2-8736 Im
mediately, or clip and mail the
census coupon which- appears
on Page Five, Section A in to
day’s Star-: Jews.
POLITICIANS AIM
AT MAJOR STATES
Expect Issue Of House
Control To Be Settled In
November Elections
WASHINGTON, April 20.—(TP)—
Both political parties are aiming
their biggest guns today on a half
dozen states where they expect
the issue of House of Representa
tives control to be settled in the
November elections.
Although there will be hot con
tests in many other areas, Demo
cratic and Republican leaders ap
parently are in one of their rare
agreements that the results in New
York, Pennsylvania, California, Il
linois, Ohio and Missouri will pret
ty well tell the tale of who is go
ing to control the next congress.
Repuplicans say they think they
can gain in these aieas a major
portion of the 27- seats ' they1 now
need for numerical control of the
House. Democrats counter this
with, the assertion .that .they, will
more than hold their own on these
main batlegrounds.
Democrats further contend that
they are almost certain to retain
control of the Senate, where with
35 members running for reelection
the Republicans must make a net
gain of ten seats to organize that
body. Republicans are hopeful, ra
ther than convinced, that they can
turn the trick because only five
of the posts at stake are to be
filled in the solid south.
New York, with the biggest
■number of House places to be fill
ed, 45, offers the best prize for
either party. Now representation is
split equally with 22 Democrats,
22 Republicans and one American
labor. New York elects a Senator
also.
Chairman Sidney Hillman has
said the CIO political action com
mittee will support a “progressive
Democratic ticket” in New York.
The Republicans immediately took
up that challenge with an assertion
by National chairman Carroll
Reece that the CIO group is “a
spearhead of reactionism” against
which the Repi^byc.an “party of
liberalism” is fighting.
Pennsylvania promises to be a
tough battleground, with the Repub
licans more hopeful of House gains
there than in New York. As it
stand* -now Republicans fill 18 of
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MATERIALS GOING
TO HOMES UNDER
$10,000 DIVISION
Government Set To With
hold Priorities On Scarce
Lumber, Materials
Bv STERLING F. GREEN
WASHINGTON, April 20—
(fP)—The government tonight
ordered new, reduced cost
ceilings for the bulk of new
dwellings and directed t*bat
one-fourth of them be built
for rental.
The National Housing ad
ministration order will steer,
by priority action, most of the
country's residemial building ma
terials into homes 'veil under th«
present $10,MO sales and ?80 rental
limit.
rinnuuiu,tu kjj liuuoiug
Wilson W. Wyatt, the order directs
that:
One fourth of the dwellings
henceforth authorized in any eity
must be built for rental; and of
these, at least half must rent at
or below ceilings which range from
$40 monthly in New Orleans to
$65 in New York.
Half of all homes built to be
sold must come below a new price
line which also varies from city
to city; $4,600 in New Orleans,
for instance, and $9,000 in New
York.
Lots Not Included
Ceilings on construction are for
the buildings alone and do not In
clude the price of lots.
It will be the job of Federal
Housing officials over the country
to induce builders to undertake the
low-cost and rental housing pro
jects. These are disliked by some
builders; now they must account
Eor over 60 per cent of authorized
dwellings.
The government’s whip is the
withholding of priorities on scarce
lumber, materials and supplies.
Other houses may range in price
up to the $10,000 sales and $80
a-month rental limits already fix
ed for the veterans’ housing pro
gram. But Wyatt said that the
new “channeling” order will im
mediately “increase by 50 per cent
the.homes, built under $6,500” in
April, May and June.
Veterans who apply to build
thsii; . own homes will get first
preference in the issuance of pri
orities, the order specifies. Next
preference will go to builders who
agree to sell or rent under the
new uiviuiiig jinic.
Order Praised
The order wag immediately laud
ed by the National Association of
Home Builders, which called it a
“reasonable method of assuring
the construction of a maximum
number of houses in the lowest
price classes possible under ex
isting building conditions.’’
“The builders of this country,”
said a statement by Joseph Mey
erhoff of Baltimore, associate
president, “all recognize that the
lower the price the wider the mar
ket and the greater is the demand
over a long period of time.”
The new program drew from
Richard Walton Onslow, director
of public'relations for the Nation
al Association of Real Estate
Board, the comment that “Wyatt
had better get after OPA to make
housing construction and rental
property profitable.”
“Rental housing is most neces
sary and the best way to stimu
late it is to make it profitable,”
ae told a reporter. “OPA must
oe more realistic about ceilings."
He said OPA should abandon it*
‘blockade,” and allow increase*
>n building materials. This, he
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New Hanover Democrats
Name Parley Delegates
A total of 395 delegates to the
New Hanover county Democratic
convention Saturday in the county
courthouse were selected yesterday
at noon precinct meetings in the 22
polling places in the county.
The chairman of each of the 22
delegations automatically joins the
county’s executive committee.
Nathan S. Haskett, present execu
tive committee chairman, said yes
terday that the new executive com
mittee members will convene im
mediately prior to the convention
to select a chairman. Both the
committee meeting and the con
vention will be held in the Superior
courtroom of the courthouse, with
the convention scheduled to get un
derway at 12 noon.
Judge John J. Burney will be the
keynote speaker at the convention.
Chairman of the precinct com.
mittees and executive committee
men picked at yesterday’* meet,
ings were:
Wilmington township: First ward,
Charles Lee; Second ward, first
precinct, Aaron Goldberg, second
precinct, Norwood S. Westbrook;
Third war.:, first precinct, Robert
Strange, second precinct, Roger W.
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