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_ FORECAST + 4 . . rAI-^ ^ siipfl umutjjinu iwontttt0 mar VOL79.—NO. 173. __WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1946__ESTABLISHED 1867 Large Dairy Acquired By White Farm Purchase 0 f C a p « Fear Herd, Equipment An nounced Yesterday BARNS ARE LEASED p L. W h i t e Also Says Pasturage Taken Over In Large Deal One of the largest dairy transac tions in several years was elosed here late yesterday afternoon when the White Ice Cream and Milk com pany acquired the dairy herd, crates, bottles and other equipment in addition to good will, of the Cape Fear Dairy from Dirk and Helena Swart. While no definite statement was forthcoming as to the considerable involved, it was understood to represent many thousands of dollars. The purchase becomes effective May 15. Herd of Cattle In announcing the purchase, E. L. White, president and treasurer of the company, said that the deal includes a herd of 130 well bred Holstein, Guernsey and Jersey cows which will give the White company an added daily milk pro duction of some 400 to 500 gal* Ions of milk. Under terms of the deal, Mr. White said, his company leases the present barns of the Cape Fear Dairy, located on Castle Hayne road, together with all milking equipment. In addition the White Ice Cream and Milk company ac quires on lease, 150 acres of good pasturage. To Be Pasteurized Plans cal’ for continued opera tion of the Cape Fear Dairy plant for the time being at least, White said. All milk from that source, however, will be pasteurized and homogenized before delivery to White company customers. While no statement was avail See DAIRY on Page Two TOP FLIGHT JAPS READY FOR TRIAL Tojo, 23 Others Arrive In Court Under Heavy Guard TOKYO, Friday, May 3. —f/P)— Hideki Tojo and 25 other top flight Japanese war criminal sus pects were brought to the War Ministry" building under heavy guard at 8:40 a. m. <6:40 p. m. Thursday Eastern Standard Time) to be arraigned. They were driven fro n Sugamo prison in a big United States dus with shaded windows. They were followed by military police in white jeeps. Araki First Gen. Sadao Araki, with a heavy handlebar mustache, stepped out of the bus first, carrying a copy of his indictment wrapped in cloth. He was Tojo’s war minister. Entrance of the suspects into the building was delayed for 10 minutes while photographers took pictures of the former Japanese leaders. In Three Lines The 26 prisoners were marched into the somber War Ministry building in three lines. As they *ent into a reception ball ad joining the second floor court room, they encountered Lt. Col. See JAPS on Page Two HAMBOHE’S MEDITATIONS By Alley £Fn D£Y Aim’ Too much Gwin'E om im t>e worj.' liH T>EY£ vl£S* Too much* N£W^ / y £"■ '«•> Trad, Mrt Ex-Blue Baby Flora Frances Warlick (above), didn’t stand much of a chance for life until after the development of surgery to correct the unusual ' “Blue Baby’’ circulatory condition. Now, after an operation, she is progressing rapidly and has gained over three pounds since the surgery. “BLUE BABY7’ Nl V WALKING DA ,Y Flora Frances Warlick Of Whiteville Now On Recovery Road Flora Fiances Warlick, three year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James G. Warlick, Whiteville, has returned from Johns Hopkins hos pital, Baltimore, Md., where she underwent recently developed heart surgery for a “Blue Baby” condi tion. The success of the operation, performed by Dr. Alfred Biaylock over a month ago, is attested by the fact that the blue color, symp tomatic of the circulatory malfor mation has r.eariy disappeared and the little child, much of whose life has been spent in a sick bed, can walk without tiring. Other results of the operation, developed in 1945 by Dr. Blaylock and Dr. Helen B. Taussig, are shown in the little girl’s ability to eat sweets, formerly forbidden, and the disappearance of the typical See BABY on Page Two AVIATRIX MAKES FORCED LANDING Miss Ellen Croxton Forced Down When Plane Car burator Freezes Forced down by motor trouble, a Taylor-Craft airplane, operated by Miss Ellen Croxton, of Dillon, yesterday made a safe emergency landing in a field a quarter of a mile from Highway 17 on the Mid dle Sound road. Flying in from Fayetteville, Miss Croxton circled Bluethentlial field hesitating to land because of ignor ance of the field’s rulings on civil ian aircraft. Altering her destina tion to Peiffer field, she was over the 7-mile mark on the Camp Davis road when the planes car burator froze, cutting off the en gine. Landing safely in the field the aviatrix and Bob Freesland of Dil lon, wh0 accompanied her, were aided in bedding the pla(^e down by residents of the neighborhood. Exits from the field are so small that the wings will have to be re moved before it can be taken to a runway and flown again. MARINES LAND ON ALCATRAZ AS ARMED MEN HOLD PF'ON OFFICERS AT BAY WITH GUNS; OD T F'P/ES EMBARGO ON FREIGHT SHIPPING Coal Strike Causes Slash In Services Passenger Car Travel Cut By 25 Per Cent In New Order EFFECTIVE MAY 10 Livestock, Food, Medicines Among Commodities Exempted WASHINGTON, May 2. — (TP) — The Office of Defense Transporta tion Thursday ordered a general embargo on railroad freight ship ments with certain exceptions, and a 25 per cent reduction in passen ger service by coal burning loco motives, effective May 10. The action was taken as a result of the coal strike. ODT Director J. Monroe Johnson told a news conference ‘‘much more severe orders will be neces sary if the strike is not settled.” 75 Per Cent The Association of American Railroads estimated that 75 per cent of total passenger mileage ic operated by coal-burning locomo tives. The general freight embargo will apply against the acceptance or forwarding of carload and less than carload traffic with these excep tions: Food Exempt 1. Livestock, live poultry and perishable freight. 2. Coal, coke, charcoal, petro leum and its products. See EMBARGO on Page Two CHICAGO PLACES BAN ON LIGHTING Thousands Of Workers Af fected By Drastic Order From Mayor CHICAGO. May 2—Wl—Chicago, proclaimed in a state of emergency, made preparations Thursday night to bolt out its booming night life business and cut much of its day time commercial and industrial ac tivity from 40 to 50 per cent. On the heels of an edict from the Illinois Commerce commission ra tioning electricity to commercial and industrial users. Mayor Ed ward J. Kelly proclaimed the state of emergency and called for wholes hearted compliance in the drastic move to conserve dwindling coal supplies. j. Limited Service . The Building Managers’ associa tion announced that elevator serv ice and electric lighting would be furnished to downtown office build ing only between 2 and 6 p. m., starting Friday. Over the loud speaker of the Mer chandise Mart, which has the larg est floor space of any cornmercial building in the nation, tenants were notified the building would be closed to all but exempted activi ties from 2 to 6 p. m., starling, Friday. Thousands Affected Some as nnn emrdoves in the Mart will be a^ected. Hundreds o* thou sands will be similarly affected in other office buildings, Onlv e'semnted activities escaoed +}■) p rf pr-rlor* r»fOVinpd See CHICAGO on Page Two LONG, LONG SHOT! Southport Has UNO Horne Site In Own Front Yard By BILL KEZIAH SOUTHPORT, May 2—It may have been a long, long shot and in the dark. But neither the vague ness of the target nor the distance was disconcerting to a Southport man who heard this week, once too often, that the United Nations Or ganization wanted an island as a site for its home. There was on# of the |>lamed things in the front yard, so to speak. If the UNO wanted an island, what was the matter with Bald Head I island at the mouth of the Cape j Fear River? It was good as ' any. With ■ no contact in several months with Frank O. Sherrill, owner of the S. & W. cafeterias and also owner of the island, no information was at hand regarding the island being available. That fact could hardly stand in the way of a suggestion being made. Ac cordingly, the following letter was written and dispatched to Senator J. W. Bailey, Tuesday: "The United Nations Organiza tion is still without a home location and it has recently been stated I See SOUTHPORT on Page Two After Explosion On Warship At Munitions Pier Here is a closeup view of the wrecked bow and bridge of the destroyer escort Solar after two explosions ripped the vessel apart at the Navy Ammunition Depot in Earle, N. J. One officer and four sailors are reported missing. About sixty of the ships crew were injured. The explosion happened as the Solar’s crew was unloading the ship’s ammunition supply in preparation for a general overhauling. (International) 1 I --- A survivor of the destroyer escort Solar, EM 3-c Henry Bromelkamp, his head band aged, puts through a call to his family in Ohio, telling them that he is alive. The ship, un loading ammunition at Earle, N. J., was wrecked in a series of explosions. (International Soundphoto) PRESIDENT WILL EAT N. C. BERRIES Columbus County Fruit Flown To Washington To Mr. Truman WHITEV1LLE, May 1—President Harry S. Truman, Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson and REA Administrator Claude jWickard will probably eat North Carolina strawberries with their pareakfasts Friday morning. Demonstrating the limitless pos sibilities of produce marketing by air, E. D. Bishop, manager of the Brunswick Electric Membership corporation, and Pilot A. L. Duke, of the Duke Flying Service, Chad bourn, left Chadbourn airport at 7 a. m. Thursday, arriving in Wash ington, D. C , at 11 a. m. with the berries just out of the fields. The luscious Klondikes came from the farms of T. T. Ward, See BERRIES on Page Two BANDS WILL STAGE ENDURANCE TEST AT WALLACE FESTIVAL WALLACE, May 2.—As the sixth annual Strawberry Festival swings into its third day Friday, Trudy Russell and her well-known troupe will present three showings of “Broadway on Parade” in the main auditorium at 3 p m., 7:30 p. m., and 9:30 p. m. Friday night’s feature will be the “endurance contest” between two bands which will play continuously from 11 p.Jm. to 7 a. m. Saturday morning. On Saturday and Sunday, Max Terhune, the famous movie cow boy, and a complete cast will put on a “cowboy revue” in the audi torium. Saturday’s shows are set for 3 p. m., 7 p. m., and 9 p. m. Sunday’s shows are at 1:30 p. m., 4 p. m., and 8:30 p. m. COMING FOR VISIT Powerful Destroyer Due In City May 10 U. S. S. John W. Weeks To Be Here Three Days To Stimulate Interest In Navy Organized Reserve The John W. Weeks, No. DD701, one of the largest and most modern destroyers in the U. S. Navy, will be docked in Wilmington for public inspection from May 10 to May 13. The purpose of the visit is to stimulate local interest in the Navy’s Organized Reserve program, tentatively The Weather FORECAST North and South Carolina — Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms Friday and Friday night; Saturday partly cloudy with a tew scat tered afternoon thundershowers; continu ed warm. (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 pm yesterday. Temperatures 1:30 am 64; 7:30 am 66; 1:30 pm 74; 7:30 pm 65. Maximum 76; Minimum 62; Mean 69; Normal 67. Humidity Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 pm— 1:30 am 91; 7:30 am 94: 1:30 pm 71; 7:30 pm 97. Precipitation 0.15 inch. Total since the first of the month— 0.15 inch. Tides for Today (From the Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey). IIi*jh Low Wilmington _11:22 am 6:15 am 11:49 pm 6:14 pm Masonboro Inlet_ 9:08 am 3:04 am 9:35 pm 3:10 pm Sunrise 5:21 am; Sunset 6:57 pm; Moonrise 7:04 am; Moonset 9-45pm. River Stage at Fayetteville, N. C., at 8 am Thursday, 27.0 fee.t. MAY BLIZZARD CHEYENNE, Wyo., May 2—(A1)— Wyoming dug out today from its first May blizzard in years. Along The Cape Fear MUSEUM-PIECES—There are a few things Concerning our recent visit to the home of the three Moore sisters which we were too inarticulate to tell you about yes terday. So we’re going to tell you about them today. The Moore home. 1506 Market street, is the nearest thing to a museum without a museum sign on it that we have ever been for tunate enough to see. In fact, it’s better than a mu seum. A museum is usually a dull, place where a dull, dead guide shows you around and tels you about the exhibitions by rote in a dull, dead voice. But it’s not that way at the Moore house. The three elderly ladies, spry as elves, take you around the old home and, with a commentary which newsreel nar rators would envy, bring their museum-pieces to life. * * * “CHOPSTICKS” TO CHOPIN — These pieces would bring an ac quisitive gleam into ihe eye of many a book and art collector. Because among them are an 1810 j edition of Sir Walter Scott’s ‘‘Mar-! mion”; an 1817 copy of “Murray’s English Grammar”, bound in wood; and an 1825 folio of Virgil’s “Aeneis”. Also, a splendid collection of oil paintings by the late Thomas Brown, the well-known Wilmington artist who made a name for him self not only in this country but in England as well. What attracted us most, how ever, was a beautiful 18th century piano, custom-built at No. 6 Milk street, Boston, somewhere around the Revolutionary War, and owned by the sisters’ great-great-grand father, Maj. Gen. Thomas Brown. If anyone hereabouts has a pi ano older than this one, we shall offer to play on it, free of charge, a private concert with numbers ranging from "Chopsticks” to Chopin. • • * TOLL-HOUSE OF JOY—In back of the home (built, by the way, See CAPE FEAR on Page Two scheduled to start here about July 1, which will train at least 13 of ficers and 200 enlisted men in all phases of Navy operations both ashore and at sea. Sumner Class The Weeks is a destroyer of the Sumner Class, the heaviest and newest "tin can’’ type in the world. A 2,200-ton twc-stacker, with a streamlined overall length oi 376 feet, she is heavily armed with several twin-gun mounts, torpedo tubes, and anti-aircraft machine guns. Commissioned July 21, 1944, the Weeks built herself up a commen dable war record in the Pacific theatre. She took an outstanding part in the Luzon and Iwo Jima campaigns, during which she was a member of the destroyer force screening Adm. William Halsey’s fleet. At Okinawa Later she was engaged in.' the Okinawa operations under Adm. Marc Mitscher. But the greatest honor to befall her happened on the day when she headed the entire carrier task force into Tokyo bay. After 14 months of continuous and strenuous service, she return ed to the States. She has now been assigned tc the Fourth Fleet for training of reserves of the Sixth JTaval district. $ Tackney Flagship She is also the flagship of Capt. Stephen Tackney, USN, command er of the Destroyer Division No. See DESTROYER on Page Two SINCLAIR PLEASED WITH WILMINGTON President Of Oil Company Makes Inspection Trip Over Property “We have a very good opinion of Wilmington or we wouldn’t be here,” Harry Sinclair, president of the Sinclair Oil company, stated yesterday after touring the prop erty on the Wilmington riverfront where the company will construct a $750,000 oil terminal. Modern Terminal ‘The terminal will be modem in every respect,” he said, ‘‘and we expect good business in this fine section of the country.” Sinclair, accompanied by E. L. Hughes, his assistant, and A. E. Watts, J. E. Dyer, and T. E. Frank, company officials, arrived here yes terday from New York by private plane. They returned to New York ; last night. W. A. Hall, local Sinclair termi nal manager, was host to the in spection party. See SINCLAIR On Page Two BAYARDCLARK WILL VISIT CITY MONDAY FOR RADIO ADDRESS Representative J. Bayard Clark will visit Wilmington and New Han over county next week, and will speak over station WMFD Monday evening 'at 7 o’clock, it has been announced. The representative from the Sev enth district is now completing his ninth term in office, having served in Washington for the past 17 years. In i presenting his candidacy for a tenth term, Representative Clark has taken a definite stand favoring development of Wilmington and New Hanover county as port cen ters for the state. He recently played a vital part in causing the retention of appro priations necessary for dredging the Cape Fear channel to a depth of 32 feet. The candidate is also sponsoring a bill for the control f flood wa ters along the Cape Fear river in Bladen and Pender counties. RECORDS STATE Juvenile Delinquency Here Rated Second In All State Juvenile court records compiled and tabulated by Dr. Wiley B. San ders, associate professor of social work, University of North Caro lina, show Wilmington holding sec ond place in juvenile delenquency during the 30-mor.th period follow ing the United State’s entry into World Wai 11, according to As sociated Press dispatches receiv ed last night. Reporting a state-wide increase of 18.6 percent for the period. Dr. Sanders said that delinquency reached its peak in High Point City which had an increase of 42.4 per cent. Wilmington follows with 41.4 percent. Wilmington Juvenile Court Judge Allan Marshall, comment ing on the report, said that he would like to inspect the doctor’s figures before he made a state ment as to the accuracy or inac curacy of Wilmington’s delin quency. He pointed out that the report was probably based on the fi gures of the 1940 census in which case Wilmington’s wartime popu See DELINQUENCY on Page Two 1 Warden Sends Riot Call As Firing Starts Inmates Send Stream Of Tracer Bullets From Cell Windows WORST IN HISTORY Coast Guard Boats E n - circle Island; Planes Fly Overhead SAN FRANCISCO, May 2-W— Desperate convicts, in the most reckless bid for freedom in the history of Alcatraz island prison, fought a vicious gun battle, Thurs day night while they held most of the “rock’s” guards hostages. As night fell, more than three hours after Warden James A. Johnston sent out a riot call, a de tachment of 20 Marines landed, armed with automatic rifle* to take part in the battle to subdue the desperate men. Tracer Bullets An Associated Press photograph er who came within 50 yards of the island in a boat, saw tracer bullets streaming from the windows of the cell house where the convicts were barricaded, and answering shots from guards. Two men were reported wounded. Details were seanty but it was evi dent that a riot of major propor tions was underway. Controls Shellroom In Washington a Department of Justice spokesman said he under stood that only one prisoner was involved and that he had got con trol of the shellroom. However, eyewitness reports of gunfire from the cell block in dicated that more than one convict was involved in the fight on the grim island prison, located at the entrance of San Francisco bay just east of Golden Gate bridge. See ALCATRAZ on Page Two DONATIONS REACH $111,143.40 TOTAL Hospital Campaign Direct or Well Pleased With Results Todate With audited collections to date at $111,143.40 and other contribu tions not yet tabulated, the Holy Family hospital campaign enters its next-to-last day today. In addition to the counted and uncounted amounts, several thou sands of dollars in pledged dona tions remain to be turned in. Although the high goal of $500, 000 may not be reached, Col Cliff Titus, campaign director, said yes terday that the drive is going along “wonderfully well” and that the hospital will be built even though the campaign may fall short of the $500,000 mark. One of the largest single dona tions came from Mrs. E. K. Bryan 11 N. Fifth street, who gave $5,r 000 for the endowment of a room in the name nf her late husband, Egbert Kedar Bryan, and her parents, the late Maj. and Mrs. Daniel O’Connor. And So To Bed About eight o'clock last night a staid, soberly-dressed man was walking in the rain down Chestnut street toward Front. He held an umbrella and under it, protected from the rain, a huge inflated bal loon. Two passers-by stopped and stared at the peculiar com bination. “I wish,” said one softly to the other, "that I had a pin.” But not softly enough. The man with the balloon stopped, turned to the speak er, said something quietly, and thei. marched on down to Front street and disappeared around the corner. “What was that he said to you?” ashed the other passer by. “He said,” gulped the first, “that he’d give me a pin if I had nerve enough to use It.” -f
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