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FORECAST +4 + j + > — tlmtnaiott iurtttttn >?Ktr i ________ VOL. 79.—N°. 178.__— WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1946 ESTABLISHED 1867 I Truman At 62 Press photographers snapped this picture of President Tru man on the eve of his 62nd birthday anniversary. Taken on the White House grounds, the President’s broad smile would Indicate that he is in good health and happy, despite worries over the coal strike and other emergency matters. COMMITTEE URGES USO CONTINUANCE __ Civic Leaders, Camp Le jeune Authorities Speak Before Group A resolution urging the City council to appropriate approxi mately $10,000 in additional funds to the City Recreation depart ment for the continuance of USO facilities here for servicemen was yesterday passed by the Recrea tion Committee of the Community council. The appropriation to the Recrea tion department for the current city fiscal year is $23,000. It was supplemented up until December 31 by approximately $30,000 from the federal government. To Be Closed Miss Doris Marsolais and Charles E. Robertson, USO dire • tors, said that the building would be closed . on June 16 by the National USO organization be cause Wilmington is now a “leave area.” It was explained that a USO ‘door count” showed that 10,000 servicemen were using the build See USO On Page Two MEAT SLAUGHTER CONTROL WIDENS i OPA Extends Order To Dressed Lambs, Sheep, Yearlings WASHINGTON, May 8.—(JFy— OPA Wednesday ordered an ex tension of meat slaughter con trols in another effort to curb black markets. The new order, effective May 16, applies to live and dressed lambs, yearlings and sheep. It is not as broad as the regu lation effective April 28, which restricts the slaughter of virtually *11 cattle, calves and hogs in or der to divert livestock to larger packing houses. Custom Slaughtering The new measure oovers only the custom slaughtering of lamb, yearlings and sheep. Custom slaughterers butcher fcr a fee ani mals owned by another person. See MEAT On Page Two MIME'S MEDITATIONS By Alley Pat peppity Sho' mu s' PuT A HEAP o‘ IN Mt — tv'Y TIME A CHICKEN IS SToUE. fl£ axe mb whut x iwows 'Soar i r! _f—1 tt. S. fat Cffic*) 1 CITY SUMMONSED Suburban Residents Secure Court Ord'/4 __ 05* Contract For Horni Boxes Hit In Prjf&'ts Papers Are Served; Citizens Join ' v ^ well Company In Court A' - Three residents of Sunset Park yesterday joined the Gamewell company in its order of intervention against the city’s contract with the Wilmington Electric Supply com pany for 111 Horni fire-alarm boxes. They were: Richard H. Davis, 5 Central boulevard, manager of the Coastal Service station; David H. Craig, 306 Central boulevard, timekeeper with the Atlantic Coast Line railroad; Leona Col well James, 604 Central boulevard, former teacher at Bradley’s Creek school. Burney Approves The petition for intervention, bearing the name of the Gamewell company as well as the names of the three citizens, was approved by Judge John J. Biurney, Su perior court, about noon yester day. The summons for the city to appear in court here for the case hearing on Monday, M- /as served on Mayor W. Rona _,ane shortly after five o’clock yester day afternoon. “Prevent Damage” In joining the Game well com pany in its intervention order, the three pitizens say that, as city tax-payers, they believe the city’s contract for the Horni boxes should be declared null and void “to prevent irreparable damage” to the tax-payers of Wilmington and “ta protect public funds,” and because it is “contrary to the provisions of state law” and “con trary to the specifications” drawn up by the city. The petition was drawn up by Rountree and Rountree, Wilming ton attorneys. No Comment Cal. Royce McClelland and Vaughn Allen. Gamewell attorneys, See COURT ORDER on Page Two Soap Box Derby Rules To Be Available Soon MARITIME GROUP SELECTS OFFICER Capt. A. G. Ford Appointed Chief For Brunswick River Lay-Up Basin The U. S. Maritime commission in Washington yesterday disclosed retiring commander of the cmo the selection of Capt. A. G. Ford, mission’s New London, Conn., training station, as chief officer of the Brunswick river lay-up basin for surplus merchant ship*. Capt. Ford, officials said, will arrive in Wilmington to assume active control of the 500-ship pro ject about June 20, by which time ships are expected to be routed into the basin. Heaquarters at NCSC The basin chief’s headquarters may be located in the northern end of the North Carolina Shipbuilding company yards, said officials. Dredging operations in the basin, it was said, will continue to be carried on the U. S. engineers, but Capt. Ford will have charge of the basin, the storing of ships in it, and operations concerned there with. See OFFICER on Page Two GOVERNMENT PUTS GRAIN CEILING UP Raise On Corn Amounts To 25 Cents; Effective At Midnight, May 13 WASHINGTON, May 8. — The government announced Wed nesday increases of 25 cents a bushel in the ceilng price of corn, 15 cents for wheat, 5 cents for oats, 9 cents for barley, 10 cents for rye, and 18 cents per hundred pounds for grain sorghums. The increases become effective at 12:01 a. rn., May 13 and will ap ply to grain now in the hands of producers and grain to be har vested this year. Joint Statement The increases were announced in a joint statement by the Office of Economic Stabilization, the Agri culture department and the Office of Price Administration. The purposes of the price hikes were listed as: See GRAIN on Page Two DOING WELL Siamese Twins, Mother Now In Good Condition PORTAND, Ore., May 8.—(#) Siamese twins, joined near th< base of their spines, were borr here Tuesday and are “m no lm mediate danger,” Dr. Joseph V Springer, who delivered them, re vealed Wednesday. He said the mother, Mrs. Mar; Hurse, 26, Deep River, Wash., 1 in good condition and the twins both girls, are taking nourish ment. Reserve* Comment Dr. Springer would not com vival, saying only that their pres ment on the twins chance for sur lent condition is good but that thi Information Booths Will Be Opened Tomorrow At Three Places Preliminary organization plans were mapped out late yesterday afternoon at a meeting at the Wil mington Star-News office for the 1946 Soap Box Derby races which will be staged here during the lat ter part of July under joint spon sorship of the Raney Chevrolet company and the Star-News. Rules of the Derby competition, entry blanks and other information will be available early Friday to all prospective race pilots at the Raney show-rooms on .Princess street, the Brigade Beys’ club and the Star-News office. Owing to the drastic paper shortage, National Soap Box Derby headquarters at Akron, Ohio informed the co sponsors this week that the supply of books containing rules and regu lations governing conduct of the race, car construction, etc., will be inadequate to meet the demand See SOAP BOX on Page Two COMMANDERSARE TO TELL PUB C “Operation Crossroads” Date To Be Placed Face Up On Tabh SAN DIEGO, Calif., May 8—(/Pi Orders to Bikini atomic bomb com manders “are to lay our cards on the table” for the American people, Rear Adm. R. A. F. Sprague told a news conference aboard his flag ship carrier, the USS Shangri-La, here Wednesday. The commander of Navy Air fa cilities assigned to “Operation Crossroads” added: “For the sake of public safety, hte people must be fully informed.” Press on Board Some of the means to be employ ed in gathering data for evaluation of the bombing will be i.emonstrat ed Thursday when the Shangri-La makes a test run off the coast from here with press and radio represen tatives aboard. The operation will include the first public launching from any carrier of pilotless “Hellcat” figh ter planes, controlled entirely by radio. Army Drones These planes and Army “drone” B-17 bombers will be sent through See COMMANDERS on Page Twc ■ mortality rate in such cases i: high. Their combined weight at birtl ■ was 9 pounds 4 ounces. Twins were expected, the phy sician said, but until delivery h< had no intimation of any unusua circumstances. > Two Brothers The father, A. Hurse, is a logge: at Deep River, a small community near the mouth of the Columbi; river. There are two other chil ' dren, boys of about 3 and 2, Dr ' Springer said. • See SIAMESE On Page Two GOVERNMENT EMERGENCY COAL STOCK DWINDLES TO MERE 12-HOUR SUPPLY; "BYRNES RECOGNIZES MEETING FAILURE Peace Treaty Task May Go To Nations j Secretary Of State Pro poses Conference For June 15 Or Earlier MOLOTOV OPPOSED American Delegation Re calls Peace Pledges Made At Moscow PARIS, May 8.—<£■>—U. S. Sec retary of State James F. Byrnes proposed abruptly Wednesday night that the conference of Foreign Ministers recognize its failure to agree on terms for Eu rope’s peace treaties and refer their differences to a 21-nation peace conference June 15. The ministers’ conference ap peared to be breaking up in dis cord between the Soviet Union and the western powers, and a member of the American delegation said that while it probably would last into next week, there seemed little hope of resolving the major dif ferences. Molotov Demurs Byrnes’ proposal won prompt support from both Foreign Secre tary Ernest Bevin of Britain and Foreign Minister Georges Bidault of France. But Soviet Foreign minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov demurred. “At Moscow,” Byrnes was quot ed by an American source as say ing, “There was a promise to the world that we will have a peace conference. We must carry out that promise. mat w\n dc xne best celebration the world ean have on V-E Day.” Fledges Made American sources said Byrnes cited as the American position a pledge by the Moscow conference last December by the Big Three to the French — that the European peace conference would be no “rubber stamp” but would have the real purpose of advising the major powers. Thus, Byrnes was said to have pointed out, there was no real need for the Foreign Ministers to achieve complete ac cord. Listing the points of dis Sec PEACE On Page Two MILLS AT ROANOKE RAPIDS MAY CLOSE OVER COAL STRIKE ROANOKE RAPIDS, May 8—(A>) —Eight textile mills here, employ ing more than 5,000 persons are making plans to close within three weeks unless the coal crisis is alle viated, Mill officials said Wednes day. L. S. Neal, purchasing agent for mills, reported that the coal supply now on hand is sufficient for only slightly more than two weeks op eration. He said that the coal strike was also affecting operation of the mills because he had been notified that several commodities used in textile manufacturing would not be obtainable because of curtailed railroad operations. Along The Cape Fear RARE EVENT—It’s always a source of great joy to us to write about something along the Cape Fear of yesteryear, and then have somebody tell us that we told the story correctly. Because it happens so seldom. One of these rare events happen ed this week, and we are jumping up and down with joy hard enough to bust through that sturdy old Cape Fear wooden sidewalk on Red Cross street. Of course if we were standing on ’ that venerable thoroughfare right now we would tread lightly and 1 politely and do our jumping out in the sand-and-sawdust street. But even if we were standing on ! it now we probably really couldn’t bust through it anyway, not even with soccer shoes on our feet. ♦ * * STUB A SAMPLE—No, we prob ably couldn’t even make a small 1 dent in it- because it was made of long-leaf hard pine planks, 12 inches wide and 2 inches thick. If you don’t know how hard that species of wood is, you just stub Heads Loyal Order Here W. Paul Sammons (left), who was recently installed as govoriigr of the Loyal Order of Moose, Wilmington Lodge No. ads'. L. O. Goodyear, past governor of the Lodge shakes hands during the oeremonies. The Wilmington lodge has a member ship of over 604. _ CITY MAKES BID Shipyard Transfer Viewed *Favorably’ Cherry Says State Prepared To Spend $1, 000,000 On Project; Drydock Con-* struction Also Proposed _ :_„ Star Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, D. C., May 8.—(SPECIAL TO THE STAR)—Wilmington’s bid to become one of the outstand ing seaports of hte Atlantic Seaboard was considerably strengthened on Wednesday when the U. S. Maritime com mission reacted “very favorably” to a proposal that the commission transfer the North Carolina Shipbuilding com pany’s property and facilities to the North Carolina State The Weather FORECASTS South Carolina and North Carolina:— Thursday, fair and slightly warmer. (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bures, v) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m., yesterday. TEMPERATURES 1:30 am, 68; 7:30 am, 62; 1:30 pm, 68; 7:30 pm, 64. Maximum 71; Minimum 61; Mean 66; Norfnal 69. HUMIDITY 1:30 am, 90; 7:30 am, 37; 1:30 pm, 37; 7:30 pm, 57. PRECIPITATION Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 pm, 0.00 inches. See WEATHER on Page Two I your big toe against a sample some time. Or ask Mr. J. N. Bry ant about it. Mr. Bryant is the owner Of the Bryant Lumber company at Hil ton, and he is the man who in spected those huge, hard planks of which the sidewalk was built. Yes, it is Mr. Bryant’ who makes us jump with joy today, because he is also the man who told us that everything we said about the old wooden sidewalk was right. * • * PRIME PINE—Mr. Bryant al so added a few chapters to the] sidewalk-story that we didn’t know, j For example: The sidewalk was built in 1894 or 1895—Mr. Bryant isn’t quite sure which. But we won’t dispute about one year one way or the other. No doubt the project lapped both years anyway. Another thing: The planks were bought from a lumber company in Cerro Gordo by the Fore and Fost er Lumber company, located in See CAPE FEAR on Page Two Forts authority tor development into a port terminal. The proposal was submitted to the commission by Congressman J. Bayard Clark; Governor R. Gregg Cherry; J. Melville Brough ton, the SPA's counsel; R. B. Page, SPA chairman; J. T. Hiers, executive general agent of the Wil mington Port commission; and W. C. Park, the shipbuilding com pany's production superintendent. Show Interest “The commission showed a great deal of interest in the proposal,” Broughton said, “and we feel very much encouraged about the pros pect of its fulfillment.” Under the proposal the commis sion would turn the shipyard over to the State of North Carolina upon completion of present Maritime contracts' this fall. The SPA would then act as agent for developing See SHIPYARD on Page Two YOUTH WHIRLS Soviet Writer Complains About New Dancing Craze MOSCOW, May 8. —'ffl—A letter complaining that a dancing craze from hot fox trots to gliding waltzes—is sweeping Kazan was published prominently today in the Soviet youth newspaper, Komsomol skaya Pravda. The writer, Y. Timofeyev, de clared that sometimes the dancers did not even wait to take off their overcoats, and also smoked ciga rettes while whirling about tightly packed dance floors. Posters Galore He said he was not against danc ing, but asserted he could find 50 posters daily in Kazan announc Over 400,000 Idled By Miner Walkouts CPA Urges Utility Companies To Ration Electricity; Congressional Group Moves To Control Strikes WASHINGTON, May 8.— (AP)—The coal strike crisis moved rapidly Wednesday night toward perhaps the most momentous showdown in the country’s peacetime history as the government warned that its emergency coal stocks available for public distribution are less than the nation normally would consume in 12 hours. Simultaneously, the Association of American Railroads announced that 400,000 men employed in industries served COAL STRIKE MAPS GIVE THIS READING AS OF WEDNESDAY By The Associated Press The 39-day-old bituminous coal strike chart gave these readings Thursday: Idle: Unemployment figures soar past 800,000 with work ers in related industries join ing 418,000 idle soft coal min ers at accelerated pace. Settlement: None in sight. Miners: Quiet returns to strike front after flare - up which killed one and wounded six Tuesday in Harlan County, Ky. Automobiles: Chrysler and General Motors watch situation See MAPS on Page Two SEAFOOD BY AIR SLATED BY SEA 2,500 Pound Cargo Of Iced Fish To Be Flown To Charlotte Today Two thousand five hundred pounds of fish, freshly caught from North Carolina ocean waters, will be flown from Wilmington to Char lotte this morning in Wilmington’s first reach into the “fresh fish by air” commercial market. The shipment, consisting of flounder, trout, and mullet packed with ice in 20-pound metal contain ers, is being sent to Charlotte At lantic and Pacific Tea company stores by R. C. Fergus and Sons, local fish merchants. Short Trip A giant Douglas South East Air lines plane will pick up the ship ment at Bluethenthal airport at 9:30 this morning and land it ir Charlotte only two hours and ter minutes later. This inaugural commercial ship ment occurs a scant two weeks anc one day after another South East Airlines plane flew the first fresh fish ever to take to the air to Gov ernor R. Gregg Cherry in Raleigh on April 24. On that day, E. W. Clemmons, commercial fisherman of Wrights ville Beach, and representatives oi The Star presented Governor Cherry with about 10 pounds of fish newly netted from the ocean. Speaks for Cherry Speaking for Governor Cherry, absent from Raleigh yesterday, John Hardin, his secretary, said that today’s shipment “bears out the predictions made by the gover nor that a new, important, and valuable industry is being added tc North Carolina’s already long list of commercial enterprises.” Eldridge Fergus, the man respon sible for today’s shipment, said See SEAFOOD on Page Two ing dances and not one announcing lectuies, literary or musical eve nings. Kazan is by the Volga, 45C miles east of Moscow Criticizing the youth organization for not turning attention to the dancing craze, Timofeyev gave this report: Until They Drop At every step there are posters advertising dances—in movie house foyers, in halls, in theaters and in the circus arena—with notations that dancing will continue until 2 or 4 a. m. or "until you drop.” See CRAZE On Page Two > by tne rauroaas nave been iaia on as a result of the strike. The Civilian Production admin istration. seeking to prevent “col lapse of essential services,” urged utility companies to ration electri city drastically in states east oi the Mississippi river and in Minne sota> Iowa and Missouri. In Two Stages CPA proposed that the rationing system be put into effect in two stages: 1. Prohibition of electricity for advertising, display lighting, car heating, air conditioning, places of amusement and progressive cur tailment of commercial and indus trial usage on a percentage or hours-of-use basis. 2. Prohibition against all uses except for public health and safety, hospitals, food processing and other essential community serv ices. Break Now Du* With the paralysing effects of the fuel shortag* spreading rapidly throughout the economic system, it became apparent that some sort of “break” would have to come soon. But there was yet no change in the stalemate negotiations between John L. Lewis and mine operators. “No progress” was the report on the day’s talks. Senators Busy A group of Congress members moved for quick action on strike control legislation. Senator East land (D-Miss) announced to the Senate that he and others would See COAL On Page Two COAST LINE WILL WITHDRAW TRAINS Sixteen Passenger Units Serving Branch Lines To Be Taken Off Sixteen passenger trains will be withdrawn from operation by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in accordance with General Order 60, issued by the Office of Defense Transportation, in order to con serve coal on account of the de clining supply incident to the coal strike, according to an announce ment issued here late yesterday afternoon by James B. Sharpton, Assistant Passenger Traffic Manag er of the road. The trains to be discontinued provide branch line passenger service. It is not contemplated tha+ there will be any service in terruption to mainline through (passenger trains. Diesel’s Employed The relatively small number of trains to be discontinued by the i Coast Line, and consequent minor I inconvenience to its patrons, is due (solely to the fact that the elastic ity of its fleet of oil-burning die ! sel electric locomotives should be See COAST LINE on Page Two And So To Bed Two elderly, well-dressed citi zens stood in front of a Front Street haberdashery the other afternoon. “I’ll bet you,” said the first, “that I can.’’ “Two-to-one says you can’t,’’ replied the second, j “Two-to-one?” said the first. “Very well, sir. I’ll take that.” They sealed the bet by shak i ing hands. / Then the first elderly man took a pitcher's stance, reared back in his sober blue serge suit, and threw the cardboard ring from a hat box across Front street. It missed ringing the radiator ornament on a parked car by inches. “Pshaw,” said the first man. I “Pay me, sir,” said the sec I ond. V
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