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}'*'!- 18—NO. 22.__WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY MAY 19, 1946 _SECTION-A PRICE 10 CENTS
Sale Of War
Housing Units
Planned Here
Machinery Set In Motion
To Dispose Of 1,858
Permanent Dwellings
SALE BY PROJECTS
Federal Authorities Ar
ranging Sale Of Lake
Forest, Vance
Machinery has been set in mo
tion for the sale of 1,858 family
dwelling units of Federally-owned
permanent war housing at Lake
Forest and Maffitt Village, it was
di.closed yesterday.
The homing, consisting of all
Lake Forest, 1,058 units, and the
80 wooden units comprising the
Vance section of Maffitt, will be
offered first to priority holders for
3d days, and if not taken by one of
:hese. will then be offered to the
general public.
. tt. nanson, repre uirag junri
P. Broome, regional director of
the Federal Public Housing Au
thority. was in Wilmington for two
days. Tuesday to Thursday, mak
ing plans for the sale. He is the
FPHA’s assistant regional direc
tor for real state and disposition.
Hanson said none of the hous
ing will be offered for sale as in
dividual units, because it does not
lend itself structurally to such dis
position. All of the units will be
sola on their present sites, rather
than for removal, and will be of
fered in sections, or projects, rath
er than as single units. This is in
conformity '■ ith the recommenda
tion; nf the local Advisory com
mute' on Disposition of Public War
Housing, established by the city
and county government’s and head
ed by E. L. White.
Hillcrest Reserved
Hanson said the housing tc be
sold wall comprise all of the perma
nent Federally-owned war housing
in the community except Hillcrest,
216 units, Negro, which is being
reserved for sale to the Housing
Authority of the City of Wilming
ton for conversion to low-rent pub
lic housing. The remainder of
the federal houses here, consisting
of 2.962 temporary units at Maffitt
Village, is scheduled for removal
or demolition, and some it is now
ii, process of being taken down and
moved to other localities for re
erection as temporary housing for
veterans of World War II.
The first actual step in disposi
tion of the 1,81 units to be sold,
Hanson said, will be to secure an
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CHURCH ASSEMBLY
DELEGATES NAMED
Six From Wilmington Pres
bytery To Attend 86th
Session At Montreat
Six Wilmington Presbytery cotn
fcisjioners are scheduled to attend
the R6t,i session of the General
Assembly of the Presbyterian
church hi the United States, which
wi'l open Thursday night in Ander
son auditorium. Montreat.
They are the Revs. R. H. Poole,
Elizabethtown; William Crowe,
Jr Wilmington; C. C. Myers, Del
ude church, Wilmington; and!
Ruling Elders P. S. Carr, Clinton;
J M. Taylor, Pearsall Memorial
church, Wilmington; and Sari A.
Render. Myrtle Grove church, Wil
mington
Alternates to the commissioners
til Revs. C. R. Gleason, White
c’illr; J. M. Smith, Faison; John D.
MacLeod. Carolina Beach; and
Ruins Elders C L. Braddy, Coun
C. O. Bollinger, Willard; and
- L Derrick, Chadbourn.
T -e Grneral A.ssembly will be
composed ot approximately 380
elected commissioners, represent
nS R’e ministers and ruling elders
M each .of the eighty-seven Presby
cerie3. Others expected to attend
'‘■Hi be-representatives from the ex
ec'* -’-'e r-genciei of tile Assembly,
:: -err ol Assembly committees,
and mhhi visitors bringing the to
a; -u titer to about 500.
Rev. 1. K. Young. D. D.,
R"'- 1 nf idlewild Prebsyterian
t!,u~ch, Memphis, Tenn., retiring
muieiatur, will preside at the open
lnS session and deliver the opening
•’min-ii. The moderator for the
fjsicai year will be elected
:hl --rs bight, and the general
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Till Death Us Do Part
Rather than again be separated from his wife, Gertrude, Major
Hans George Hornbostel, 65-year-old survivor of .the Bataan death
march, has requested permission to be admitted to the Lepresarium
at Carville, La., where his wife must spend the rest of her life. Mrs.
Hornbostel contracted leprosy while confined in a Japanese prison
camp. The couple are shown at a San Francisco hospital where
Mrs. Hornbostel has been quarantined pending transfer to Carville.
Labor Code Changes
Agreeable To Truman
HAS LIMITATIONS
Reported Opposed To Any
Drastic Restrictions On
Unions, However
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, May 18—M5) —
President Truman was represented
on Capitol Hill today as being will
ing for Congress to make some
changes in labor disputes laws, but
opposing any drastic restrictions
on unions.
Legislators who have discussed
the matter recently with Mr. Tru
man said he .expressed the hope
that any action Cognress takes
will not be such as to force him
to veto the resultant legislation..
Despite the difficulties the Presi
dent has had in attempting to
bring about settlements in con
troversies' bfettvfedn' Yriahdgfertnferft
and unions in major industries,
none of his Capitol Hill friends
thinks he has altered the friendly
attitude he maintained toward or
ganized labor while in the Senate.
Would Veto Restrictions
For the reason, they say they
have no doubt that the President
would veto any restrictions he felt
would lay too heavy a hand on the
activities of unions. But they add
that thus far Mr. Truman has net
said which of pending Senate pro
posals he likes or which he dis
likes.
The matter reportedly was dis
cussed at some length at this
week’s meeting of legislative lead
ers at the White House. Mr. Tru
man was represented as having
listened attentively while Demo
cratic Leader Barkley (Ky.) ex
plained what is before the Senate,
but as having offered no sugges
tions of his own.
Remarks by Secretary of Labor
Schwellenbach at an Atlantic City
meeting of the CIO steelworkers
Friday was taken generally on
Capitol Hill as a clear-cut indica
tion that the administration is not
weakening the political ties it has
maintained with labor unions.
Schwellenbach urged the CIO
group to expand its already con
siderable political activities, de
claring that it has ‘‘a duty and
responsibility” to improve
standards for the whole
class, as well as the unions the
selves. . .
If the administration attitude is
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Large Japanese Mob
Calls For More Food
TOKYO, Sunday, May 19—
(JP)—A crowd estimated by mil
itary police at between 125,
000 and 150,000 demonstrated
before the central gate to the
Imperial Palace compound to
day, demanding immediate dis
tribution of more food.
Members ol labor unions,
the Communist party and other
left-wing political factions
sprawled over the parkway of
outer palace gorunds. Banners
and speakers called for in
creased rice rations.
Representatives of the trans
port workers organizations
were among those bearing ban
ners reading “down with Ycsh
ida”—referring to the conser
vative government being for
med by Japan’s new Premier,
Shigeru Yoshida.
CANDIDATES FILE
EXPENSE REPORTS
Pre-Primary Expenditures
of 34 Aspirants Show
$2,166 Spent To-Date
New Hanover county candidates
for nomination in next Saturday’s
Democratic primary to-date have
spent a total of $2,166.70 for cam
paign purposes, according to pre
liminary exnense reports filed with
A. L. Meyiand, clerk of superior
court, it was revealet yesterday.
Represented in the total are fil
ing fees, advertising and travel
expenditures of 34 out of a total
of 42 candidates who have sub
mitted reports to Meyiand.
The candidates, offices which
are being sought, and individual
expense reports, are as follows:
L. T. Landeh, board of education,
$5; C. V. McDaniel, sheriff, $150.20;
J. C. Roe. board of education, $5;
H. F. Hufham, meter adjuster,
$90; E. A. Laney. board of educa
tion, $5; M- M . Register, Harnett
township iustice of peace. $5; W.
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Submits
^inco Report
4 0 UN Body
Said To Deal With German
Assets In Spain And
Country’s War Power
PROBE POLISH CHARGE
Security Council Delegates
Expect Reds To Boy
cott Iranian Case
BY MAX HARRELSON
NEW YORK, May 18—UP)—The
United States today submitted to
:he United Nations a voluminous
report which an informed source
said contained information of
“great importance” to the secu
rity council sub-committee inves
tigating Franco Spain.
The contents of the report were
not disclosed, but U. S. delegation
sources said it consisted of a 62
page general document and 15
attachments, which altogether
made up an exhibit between eight
and 10 inches thick.
Much of the material previously
had been published, but an infor
mant who would not be identified
said it contained more new mate
rial on the Franco regime than
the sub-committee had received
up to now from all other sources.
oevcrai isuujccta
The main document was said
to deal with the following sub
jects: German assets in Spain,
Germans in Spain, Spanish war
potential efforts of Franco S'pain
to penetrate the American re
publics and the Franco Regime’s
reactions in relations with the
United States.
A spokesman for the U. S. dele
gation said some points on which
the sub-committee requested in
formation still were being studied
“urgently by the State depart
ment and that other documents
would be presented.
The sub-committee has until
May 31 to complete its investiga
tion on Poland’s charges that the
Franco Regime is a threat to
world peace. So far it has rceived
documents from Russia, Great
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GOV. CHERRY ACTS
IN DRAINAGE ROW
Directs Winter Park Peti
tion To Highway Commis
sion For Early Study
Petition of Winter Park Gardens
residents seeking relief from dam
aging conditions has been directed
to the State Highway commission
by Gov. R. Gregg Cherry, corres
pondence received from the State
Chief Executive’s office indicated
yesterday.
An inclosure in a letter from the
governor to James S. Hall, Winter
Park sponsor of the petition, dis
closed that the governor had re
ferred the matter to J. A. Bridger,
state highway commissioner from
Bladenboro, for early investigation
and action if the problem is a
state one.
The governor’s letter to Commis
sioner Bridger said, irt part:
“Enclosed you will find a peti
tion, together with newspaper clip
pings, relating to a drainage condi
tion in New Hanover county. This
controversy seems to be of long
“I suggest that at first opportu
nity you invesigate this matter and
take your chief engineer or some
other official to see if the responsi
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Byrnes Believes Parley Advanced
Prospects For_Peace Settlement
WASHINGTON, May 18— <® —
Secretary of State Byrnes report
ed to President Truman for two
hours today on the Paris confer
ence of foreign ministers which
failed to settle the peace of Eu
rope but, in Byrnes’ view as re
ported by associates, did not fail
completely to advance the pros
pects for a settlement.
The secretary, returning by air
at 10:35 a.m., Eastern Standard
Time, today, hurried to the White
House to tell his chief about the
Paris session which had recessed
Thursday until June 15. He will
report to the nation on it by ra
dio Monday night.
Returning • with -him were his
two advisers from Capitol Hill,
Senator COnhally (D-TCx), chair
man of the foreign relations com
mittee, and Varidenber'g (R-Mlch).
leading GOP spokesman on inter
national matters.
Conn ally told a news conference
that he would report to the senate
Wednesday on the conference. Van
denberg is expected to speak to the
senate Tuesday after. Byrnes Mon
day night talk.
Connally .said in a formal state
ment that “substantial progr<i*s
had been made at Paris which,
it was believed, would “help the
next meeting on June 15 to agree
upon treaties.”
Some of Vandenberg’s friends
report that he considered the Paris
meeting pretty largely a failure,
but he declined public comment
at the airport.
The White House session was
entirely secret but some inform
ants suggested that Byrnes prob
ably told the president that things
were not as bad as they might
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-4
To Speak Here
ADM. LESLIE JOHNSON
PROPELLER CLUB
TO HEAR ADMIRAL
Address Will Feature Local
Observance Of National
Maritime Day
An address by Rear Admiral
Felix Leslie Johnson, USN, as
sistant chief of Naval personnel,
will highlight an observance of
Maritime Day here next Wednes
day by the Propeller club of the
United States, Port of Wilming
ton, Robert M. Williams, local
president, announced yesterday.
Invitations have been issued to
a small number of persons out
standing in matters of port de
velopment throughout the state tc
attend a dinner meeting at the
Cape Fear Country club at 1
o’clock Wednesday evening, al
which time Admiral Johnson will
speak.
Arriving here Wednesday morn
ing, the high-ranking Naval officer
will also speak at the Wilmington
Kiwanis club luncheon that day.
Admiral Johnson plans to leave
here Thursday morning.
Although no other local Maritime
Day celebration has been announ
ced, merchants are expected to
display American flags in the
downtown area as in past years.
May 22 was proclaimed Maritime
Day by order of President Tru
man.
A native of Aberdeen, N. C., Ad
miral Johnson attended high
school in Warrenton and the Uni
versity of North Carolina before
his appointment to the U. S. Naval
Academy in 1916.
Commissioned In 1919
Graduated and commissioned
Ensign in June, 1919, with the
class of 1920, he subsequently pro
gressed in grade until his promo
tion to Real Admiral on Oct. 10,
1943.
A veteran of campaigns and ser
vice in the Asiatic and South
American areas prior to World
War II, he was commended by
the Commander in Chief, U. S.
Pacific fleet for services during
a part of his command of the U.
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LARGE OFF-YEAR
VOTE EXPECTED
Hundreds Of N. C. Candi
dates Carry Campaigns
Into Home-Stretch
RALEIGH, May 13—(IP)—Hun
dreds of candidates for nomina
tions in next Saturday’s primary
carried their campaigns into the
homestretch today with indications
of one of the biggest off-year votes
in history.
While the absentee vote of mem
bers of the armed forces is expect
ed to be very light, according to
Secretary Raymond Maxwell -f the
State Board' of Elections, hotly
contested local and congressional
races will attract an unusually
high number of persons to the
polls. There was a possibility today
that total vote in the state would
approximate the nearly 800,000 cast
in the 1944 presidential election.
Congressional contests, in every
district but the Third, Fourth,
Ninth and Eleventh, have waxed
exceedingly warm during the last
few weeks, and county and legis
lative races have added fuel to the
political fires.
Whereas labor groups have not
publicly and -nitedly endorsed un
qualifiedly any candidate, labor is
said to be in favor of Rep. John
Folger in the Fifth district, and
C. B. Deane, the nomina
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SER VICE IS DISRUPTED
BY DELA Y IN GETTING
NOTICE TO UNION MEN
ACL Schedule Upset
By Strike Confusion
Virtually all traffic operations
of the Atlantic Coast Line rail
road system came to a stand
still late yesterday afternoon
as operating trainmen ceased
work pending official notifica
tion from their brotherhoods of
the five-day postponement of
the nation-wide rail strike.
Not until after 9 p. m.—five
hours after the strike had been
called off pending further nego
tiations—did the first of the
Coast Line’s passenger trains
begin moving. By 11:05 p. m.,
passenger service had been re
sumed throughout the entire
system, although at the same
hour freight and yard traffic
was just beginning to move
with crews coming back to
work.
It was shortly after 9:30
o’clock last night before two
trains originating in Wilming
ton—mo. «s, me *;ss p. m., ™
Fayetteville, and No. 42,- the
7:15 to Rocky Mount—moved
out of the ACL depot. Mean
while, scores of passengers—
many of them servicemen
alarmed over the prospects of
being AWOL from their duty
posts—made themselves com
fortable in the station’s wait
ing room, keeping an eye out
for notice of departure.
The Wilmington yards of the
company were at a complete
shutdown for more than five
hours, despite the fact that
Brotherhood officials had
agreed at 3:34 p. m., yesterday
to postpone the strike deadline
for another five days. And it
was the same story up and
down the sprawling ACL sys
tem from Richmond to Jack
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Railway Negotiations
To Be Resumed Today
_1
TRUMAN APPEALS
President Confident Furth?
er Progress May Be
Made In Bargaining
WASHINGTON, May 18.— (U.R) —
President Truman, in an eleventh
hour appeal, today won a five-day
postponement of the nationwide
railroad strike and announced that
negotiations in the deadlock ed
wage dispute would be resumed to
morrow.
He told a hastily summoned news
come:er.ce it was hoped the nego
tiations would lead to an agree
ment that would turn the postpone
ment into a permanent settlement.
Mr. Truman’s dramatic an
nouncement of the postponement
came just two minutes before the
4 p.m deadline for the start of a
crippling walkout that was to have
spread, hour by hour, across the
nation’s vast network or rail lines.
Matter of Minutes
It adverted by a matter of min
utes what undoubtedly would have
been the worst transportation crisis
in the nation’s history.
Mr, Truman disclosed that at 3
p.m. EST—just one hour before
engineers ar.d trainmen were to
have started their walkout — he
appealed to Presidents A. F. Whit
ney cf th railway trainmen and
Alvanley Johnston of the locomotive
engineers.
At 3:34 p.m. EST, he said, he
received an affirmative reply.
He said Whitney and Johnson will
fly nere tomoirow to resume nego
tiations with railroad management
representatives. The negotiations
were broken off Thursday when the
carriers rejected a compromise
proposal by the unions and insisted
they would not go beyond settle
mem termo suggested by Mr. Tru
man’s fact-finding board.
Federal seizure of the lines was
ordered by Mr. Truman Friday.
But even as the original 4 p.m.
strike deadline approached, there,
was no evidence that the engineers
and trainmen would consent to
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Rail Service Affected
In Louisville Section
' LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 18—
(JP)—Trains began departing
from Louisville tonight after
a temporary tie-up while union
officials awaited word from na
tional headquarters to postpone
the railroad strike.
Charles J. McClain, chairman
of the Brotherhood of Rail
road Trainmen, said he was
notified nearly four hours aft
er the strike was scheduled to
start to send conductors, brake
men and other trainmen t-c".
to work. Judson N. Hatcher,
general chairman of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, previously had di
rected engineers to return to
their jobs.
The temporary stoppage
caused cancellation of a late
afternoon train to Washington
on the Baltimore and Ohio sys
tem. Other routes reported
train service was resumed, al
though several trains were late
in leaving Louisville.
LEWIsls-FACING
MAJOR DECISION
Must Decide Whether To
Shut Down Mines When
Truce Ends Saturday
WASHINGTON, May 18—(£>) —
With contract negotiations at a
standstill John L. Lewis faces next
week one of the major decisions
of his career on the question wheth
er again to shut the nation’s coal
mines when the strike truce ends
next Saturday.
His move is bound to affect the
lives of 140,000,000 persons.
The threatened railroad strike,
postponed Saturday for five days,
may influence his determination to
prolong or turn back. A rail tie-up
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District Rotary Meeting
Preparations Completed
Program plans for the ninth an
nual conference of the 188th dis
trict of Rotary International at
Wrightsville beach May 22 to May
24 were announced yesterday by
the Wilmington Rotary club, host
to the eastern North Carolina
clubs of the district.
Approximately 450 persons are
expected to attend.
Registration for the conference
will open at 5:30 p. m. Wednes
day in Ocean Terrace hotel, con
ference headquarters, and two
hours later the first event of the
conference — a fellowship dinner
for the Rotarians and Rotary
Anns—will be held with District
Governor Ozmer L. Henry presid
ing.
After Henry opens the first ses
sion, Bishop Thomas H. Wright
will give the invocation. Follow
ing the dinner will be a program
of entertainment featuring J. B.
Kittrell, Greenville, N. C., enter
tainment committee chairman and
harpist; Miss Patsy Harper, Wash
ington, N. C., conference pianist;
Thomas R. Hood, Dunn, magician,
and Edmund Harding, Washington,
N. C., conference song leader.
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M B CONFUSION
REPORTED AT BIG
TRAFFIC CENTERS
Brotherhood Leaders Agree
To Delay Walkout Af
ter Talk With Truman
(By The Associated Press)
A tieup of the nation’s
vast railroad system was post
poned for at least five days
yesterday following a request
by President Truman to
brotherhood leaders, but de
lay in getting the word to
rank and file union men who
run the trains disrupted serv
ice generally for several
hours.
Widespread confusion was
reported in practically all ma
jor rail centers because the walk
out of 250,000 railroad trainmen
and engineers—called for 4 p.m.
local time yesterday — was can
celled only a few minutes before
the deadline in the eastern time
zone.
The time lag in dispatching no
tices to brotherhood locals caused
thousands of travelers to be in
convenienced as many train crew
members declined to work until of
ficial notice had been received
from brotherhood headquarters in
Cleveland,
Many Trains Affected
A New York Central office said
that 90 trains had been affected
in New York’s Grand Central sta
tion alone and train movements
halted in Boston, Houston, Tex.,
Louisville, Ky., Omaha and other
cities.
Some localities, however, report
ed little or no interruption in serv
ice.
The widespread disruption in nor
mal traffic occurred after the fed
eral government Friday seized the
$27,000,000,000 rail system and pre
pared to operate it under the Office
of Defense Transportation.
Brotherhood representatives in
many areas declared the strike was
on until they received word from
union headquarters.
In Cincinnati J. A. Zanger, repre
senting the trainmen in that area,
asserted the strike was on at 4 p.
m. for 7,500 railroad workers be
cause no official message had been
received from union leaders. Two
hours later, after receiving official
notice, he said “I’m ordering the
men back to their jobs.’’
The Cincinnati situation was
duplicated in many other citie*.
Stoppage Ended
In New York, official announce
ment of the postponement came
shortly after 6 p. m. (EST), thus
ending a stoppage of train service
which for two hours left thousands
stranded in stations.
A. F. Whitney, president of th«
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen,
and Alvanley Johnston, head oi
the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers agreed to reset the
strike call for 4 p. m. (local Stand
ard Time) Thursday after a tele
phone conversation with Preside'*
Truman.
They wired special code mt%
sages to their members to stay on
the job, even as pre-strike pre
parations had begun to slow th«
pulse of the nation’s $27,000,000,000
rail system and government agen
cies shaped hurried plans to meet
the crisis.
The President, in his telephorfr?
conversation with Whitney and
Johnston, had asked they delay the
strike for five days and come to
Washington today for' further ne
gotiations with the carriers. He
felt, he said, further talks might
be rewarded with an agreement.
A spokesman at the office of the
Trainmen’s union in Cleveland said
Whitney had made a proposition to
delay the strike if Mr. Truman
could assure the Brotherhoods of
further concessions and that the
postponement would not be a vio
lation of the Smith-Connally act.
Mr. Truman gave these assur
ances, the spokesman added.
The postponement was made
public almost simultaneously in
Washington and Cleveland a few
minutes before 4 p. m. EST.
The development caused consid
erable conftniion in the Eastern
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