AM D FORCES PAY
RA] • ADVOCATED
Move Designed To Spur
Lagging Enlistments
In Services
WASHINGTON, June 1—HP)—A
sharp increase in servicemen’s pay
to encourage volunteers gathered
powerful bi-partisan support in
the Senate today. It was a reac
tion to demands from supporters
of draft extension for a peacetime
military force strong enough to
uphold this nation’s international
commitments.
Legislation compling pay pro
posals and extension of the draft on
a modified basis comes up for
Senate consideration Monday. A
plan to feke it up today was drop
ped.
How high the Senate would agree
to boost the pay of those in the
armed forces remained uncertain.
Senator Gurney (R-S. D.) said he
would advocate increases ranging
up to 30 per cent for enlisted men,
at cost of 3474,000,000 a year.
This would split the difference
between a $632,000,000 measure
passed by the House, with increases
up to 50 per cent for a private,
and recommendation of the Senate
Military committee which would
cost $275,000,000.
War Department officials report
ed today that the first week after
Congress exempted 'teen-agers
from the draft produced the lowest
number of volunteers for any
week since the army started its
recruiting campaign last fall.
A total of 10,398 signed up for
the seven days ended May 21, com
pared with 11,043 the previous
week.
Selective service advocates have
contended that existence of the
draft was a spur to recruiting.
Gurney said that he had been
informed by military chiefs that
the rate of volunteer enlistments
has been falling off about 20,000
monthly. He said that, "as an
optimistic estimate.” the most
that could be expected for the last
half of the year would be 30,000
volunteers monthly.
POPE PIUS SCATHINGLY
DECRIES COMMUNISM
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year after Germany had been
crushed, “the first and decisive
step towards a just peace has not
been taken.”
He said the grave duty of the
church to arouse the consciences of
all “to inculate rectitude, modera
tion and respect for truth and law
becomes particularly hard and dis
tasteful in times of agitation and
crisis.”
The Pope saw a long and arduous
road to peace, a road “too long
for the pent up aspirations of man
kind starving for order and calm.”
He pointed out that there have
been multiplied efforts, discus
sions, exchanges of views, and
even direct contacts between the
statesmen “in whose hands lie the
destinies of the world.”
”... But not seldom one gath
ers the impression that true peace,
peace such as answer to the needs
and yearnings of the human and
Christian conscience rather than
coming closer is moving away,
rather than gaining strength
and consistence as a trust
inspiring reality, it tends almost
to fade away and vanish,” he said.
He said the church, as a whole,
was strong and united, and there
was no reason for it to become
frightened or dejected, or fail to
take a comprehensive view of the
entire situation.
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ATOMIC CONTROLS
ASKED BY SENATE
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able ore developed for the pro
ject.
3. Require commission li
censes to manufacture fa
cilities for the production of
fissimonable materials.
Urging approval of the bill,
committee chairman Brien
McMahon, D., Conn., said it
would assure this country tVe
greatest possible security
against ‘‘a great menace” and
encouraged full peaceful use
of the new cosmic force.
The bill provides:
1. Outright government owner
ship of all materials which serve
as the source of atomic energy,
including uranium, plutonium and
thorium.
2. Exclusive government mono
ply of facilities essential to pro
duce these materials from raw
ores.
3. Source materials as deemed
by the commission essential to
production of fissionable materials
—would be acquired for the gov
ernment by purchase or condem
nation. Likewise, such materials
found on public lands would be
reserved to the commission.
4. The commission, acting un
der presidential direction, would
be the sole manufacturer of atomic
bombs. It would hold exclusive
power to engage in developmental
work on a*omic weapons and
would stoic and control the
bombs.
McMahon said the bill w'ould
assist in eventual development of
world wide, international control
of atomic power, possibly along
lines laid down in a recent
special state department study of
the problem.
Under the measure, the com
mission would take over the facili
ties of the Army's Manhattan
engineer district, which directed
development and production of
the bombs dropped on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki.
The commission would have ex
clusive ownership to patents on
discoveries useful to production
of fissionable materials and those
embracnig atomic uses for war.
Patents concerned with non-mili
tary uses of atomic energy would
be licenses to private enterprises.
Commission members would be
appointed for five-year terms at
a yearly salary of $15,000.
There committees would assist
the commission:
1. A military liaison committee,
assigned by and responsible to
the secretaries of war and navy,
to consult with the civilian group
on all matters relating to military
application in cases of disagree
ment, the military group would
be empowered to appeal to the
President for final decision
through the secretaries of war and
navy.
2. A general scientific and tech
nical committee of nine civilians
to advise on materials, produc
tion, research and development
policies.
3. A joint senate-house commit
tee to study legislative aspects
and review the commission’s
work.
Historic Thalian Hall
Closed During Survey
(Continued from Page One)
action yesterday, Mrs. Lester W.
Preston, Thalian presidei i, said
she planned to ask the Thalian
board of directors, at its meeting
next Tuesday night, to initiate ac
tion for the restoration of the hall.
The little theater directors are
expected to request that a build
ing expert from another city be
called in to furnish an estimate
of the cost of repairing the hall,
Mrs. Preston said, adding that the
Thalian board then would present
the expert’s figures to the City
council and request that the city
board make provision for the neces
sary work in its budget for the
1946-47 fiscal year.
Mrs. Preston also disclosed her
plan to ask other organizations in
the city to cooperate with the
Thalians in an effort to have Thal
ian hall restored.
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AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING $300,000
SANITARY SEWER RONDS
BE IT ORDAINED by the Cily Council of the City of
Wilmington: ,
Section 1. That the City of Wilmington issue its bonds
pursuant to The Municipal Finance Act, 1921, as amended
in an amount not exceeding $300,000 for the purchase of
extending the sanitary sewer system of said City, includ
ing the installation of sewer mains and manholes.
Section 2. That a tax sufficient to pay the principal
and interest of said bonds shall be annually levied and
collected.
Section 3. That a statement of the debt of the City has
been filed with the Clerk and is open to public inspection
Section 4. That this ordinance shall take effect when
approved by the voters of the Cily at an election as pro
vided by law.
The foregoing ordinance was passed on the 27th day
of March, 1946 and was first published on the 26th dav
of May, 1946. 1
Any action or proceeding questioning the validity of
said ordinance must be commenced within thirty days
after its first publication.
J. R. BENSON,
City Clerk,
Federal Aid Airport
Program Starts Soon
—
! WASHINGTON, June 1—(JP)—
Senator McCarran (D.-Nev.),
chairman of a Senate appropria
tions subcommittee, said today the
committee probably will recom.
mend funds fcr an early start on
the administration’s half-billion
dollar Federal aid airport con
struction program.
He revealed the budget bureau
wants $53,000,000 for a start next
month on the mammoth, seven
year plan to construct airports in
both small and large cities, in all
states.
A bill authorizing Federal parti
cipation in the plan was signed
May 13 by President Truman after
the House already had completed
action on the 1947 state, commerce
and judiciary appropriation bill.
McCarran said the funds could be
added to the bill in the Senat*.
where it now is before McCarran's
subcommittee.
ANTI-STRIKE BILL
SPECULATION TOPIC
(Continued from Page One)
enbaeh has on his desk an analy
sis of (he measure concluding
that its unfavorable aspects out
». eigh its favorable aspects.
Schwellenbach has said he would
recommend a veto if the bill ap
peared to have more disadvant
ages than advantages.
Congressional speculation cen
tered around whether the Presi
dent would veto the Case bill if
the senate and house are able to
work out differing provisions of
the emergency legislation.
There is strong indication that
supporters of the Case bill will
try to stall conference committee
action beyond the June 12 dead
line in order to force executive
approval of the Case bill.
Case said his bill as sent to tne
White House was less restrictive
than the legislation Mr. Truman
asked for as an emergency mea
sure.
The President's bill, however, is
a temporary measure while the
Case bill would go on the boolr^
as permanent law. Mr. Truman
requested a congressional investi
gation of labor relations before
enacting permanent law.
“It is my personal opinion that
President Truman wants this (the
Case) bill to become law and pro
vide him with tools that will help
to meet the problems of the day,’’
Case said.
He said the “only point” dif
fering with Mr. Truman’s sug
gestions on labor legislation was
that the Case bill would create a
mediation board, under control of
the President, as an independent
agency rather than under the la
bor department.
“The President can hardly veto
the bill on the ground that its
form places the appointive power
for the board in his own hands
rather than in those of the secre
tary of labor,’’ Case said.
Case said his bill carries fhese
provisions along with the media
tion board, all of which meet Mr.
Truman’s suggestions:
1. Authorizes creation of fact
finding boards in public utility
disputes when a substantial inter
ruption of essential service is
threatened.
2. Provides some restrictions on
sympathy and jurisdictionaj
strikes.
3. Prohibits violence of threat
of injury in picketing and in ef
forts to require an employer to
recognize one union as against
another.
4. Legalizes employer contri
butions to employe welfare funds
where there is equal management
employe control of the funds.
5. Makes unions liable on equal
basis with employers for carry
ing out collective bargaining con
tracts.
6. Admits foremen to union
membership but prohibits them
from representing unions in col
lective bargaining.
THE WEATHER
FORECAST
(Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the 24 hours
ending 7:30 p.m. yesterday.
Temperatures
1:30a 7:30a 72; l:30p 80; 7:30p 76.
Maximum_; Minimum 68; Mean 61;
Normal 75.
Humidity
1:30a —; 7:30a 80; l:30p 61; 7:30p 73.
Precipitation
Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m.
0.00 inch.
Total since the first of the month
0.00 inch.
Tides for Today
(From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey).
High Low
Wilmington - ll:57a 6:50a
, , P 6:52p
Masonboro Inlet _ 9:50a 3:42a
_ „ 10:15p 3:45p
- ?,unn?? 5:01a: Sunset 7:19p; Moonrise
i :41a; Moonset 10:38p.
River Stage at Fayetteville, N C at
8 a.m., Saturday, 13.3 feet ’
WASHINGTON, June 1—M>)_Weather
Bureau report of temperature and raw
fall for the 24 hours ending 8 p.m. i:>
the principal cotton growing areas and
elsewhere:
High Low Prec.
WILMINGTON _ 81 fg 0.00
Asheville - 75 61 0.05
Atlanta _ 72 67 0.82
Birmingham _ 78 68 0.72
Boston _ 5 1 46 0.06
Buffalo _ 52 41 0.51
Chattanooga _I. 74 67 0.54
Chicago _ 48 45 0.00
Cincinnati _ __73 65 0.06
Detroit __ 52 44 0.21
Jacksonville _ 89 73
Key West_8* 78
Knoxville _ 76 “87
Louisville _ ll •*
Memphis - 78 “ oii,1
Miami _ 84 76 U.06
MnhZ -- 80 68 0.00
Montgomery - 1! 99 , 14
New Orleans-« ,0
New York-a6 65 „„„
Norfolk -- ” 07 n op
Philadelphia -85 64 0 00
Richmond - 74 64 0 49
fit. Louis- M 70 0 O]
Savannah -_85 gg
Washington -
SUMMER SCHOOL
ENROLLMENT UP
(Continued from Page One)
' grades for students who lack sub
i jects to make them regular in
their high school work, those who
! wish to repeat work on which they
failed during the regular session,
and those who wish to take sub
jects which, because of an already
full program, cannot be taken dur
ing the regular session.
A fee of $25 will be charged for
a year’s work in a subject, while
12.50 will be charged for a se_
mester’s work.
Teachers for the summer session
will be selected from the faculty
of New Hanover High school .
A student will be expected to
spend about four hours a dav in
classroom work, from 8:30 a. m.
. until 12.50 p. m. including a 20
minute recess from 10:30 until
' 10:50 a. m.
Class members may register for
either one or two semesters’ work;
for example, a student who has
passed the first semester of a sub
ject but who failed on the second,
may earn credit for the whole
year’s work by enrolling for the
subject for the second half of sum
mer school and successfully meet
ing requirements. A student who
failed both semesters’ work o'n a
subject may earn a year’s credit
for the subject by enrolling for
the course for the entire summer
school session and successfully
meeting requirements.
A student may register for only
one subject during a summer
school semester. Summer classes
will not be conducted on Satur
days except by arrangement.
MARITIME UNION
OFFER REJECTED
(Continued from Page One)
from the 40-hour week due to its
impracticability.”
He said that the government is
now operating 80 per cent of all
shipping^ and the taxpayer will
pay any additional costs caused by
higher wages but when shipping
is returned to the owners, "costs
• Will be so prohibitive that vessels
may have to be withdrawn.”
The ship owners announced their
rejection as the government weigh
ed creation of a fact finding board
in an effort to settle the dispute
without a strike andangry unionists
expanded their walkout call to in
clude Mississippi Biver system
barge lines.
At the same time, the National
Maritime union strike committee
of the Port of New York appealed
to the CIO maritime unity com
mittee here to advance the strike
date to next Wednesday.
The request was made on the
basis of President Truman’s an
nouncement that he would use the
Navy, Coast Guard and War Ship
ping administration to keep ves
sels sailing in event of a walkout.
The Unity committee acknow
ledged receipt of the telegram but
withheld comment.
_ Government mediators met
union and employer representa
tives in further informal confer
ences to determine whether there
is a readiness to accept a fact find
ing board in lieu of the June 15
walkout for settlement of the dis
pute over wages and a 40-hour
week.
A fact finding board already
has made recommendations for
settlement of the dispute between
the Waterfront Employers Associa
tion cf the Pacific Coast and the
Longshoremen and Warehouse
men’s Union (CIO), headed by
Harry Bridges, one of the seven
unions threatening to call the na
tion-wide strike.
The employers were understood
to have accepted the findings with
reservations. The union has not
indicated its position.
PERON SEEKS ARMS
FOR DEFENSE USES
(Continued from Page One)
ly determined to participate in
hemisphere defense plans and to
adhere fully to the good neighbor
policy.
Reliable sources here described
his trip as of great importance in
future Argentine-United States re
lations.
President Truman’s continental
defense plan, recently submitted
to the U. S. Congress, was describ
ed here as “possibly the best vehi
cle for an understanding between
Argentina and the United States.
Von Der Becke, these sources
said, carried a memorandum out
ling this country’s points of view
and general ideas on its full in
corporation to hemisphere unity
and good neighbor policies. Such
memorandum, they said, would be
the starting point for the conversa
tions which the Argentine general
would undertake in Washington,
unofficially, at first.
He has been authorized by Peron
to make suggestions to open a new
Argentine-United States policy 0f
mutual respect, reciprocal and cor
dial relations, they said.
Tax Inequities Are
Removed By Treaties
WASHINGTON, JunT l-m_Thp
Senate ratified today two trJat
as.;
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mutee u would'" Relations c°“
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City Briefs
BIBLE SCHOOL
The annual daily vacation
Bible school of Calvary Bap
tist church will begin tomorrow
morning at 9 o'clock and will
continue for two weeks each
morning from 9 to 12 o’clock.
There will be classes for all
children from four through 16
years of age.
BIRTH ANNOUNCED
Mr. and Mrs. John Verzaal,
Jr., have aimouneed the birth
of a daughter, Dorothy Ann.
Betty Bright Cook of Wilming
ton.
GRADUATES
Tech. Sgt. Charles H. Hegis
ter graduated Friday from Ed
wards Military academy at
Salemburg and has returned
to the home of his parents,
Capt. and Mrs. Charles H.
Register, 1012 S. Fourth street.
TWO FIRES
Carelessness was the reported
cause of two fires extinguished
by the City fire department
yesterday. A cigarette care
lessly left, set fire to a settee
at 2719 Michigan avenue, while
wood piled against a stove was
cause of a fire at 512 1-2 Nixon
alley.
FOUND NOT GUILTY
J. F. Kissner was found not
guilty yesterday wl.en he ap
peared in Recorder’s court to
answer charges of larceny of a
gun. Kissner had told authori
ties he had sent the gun off to
be repaired which was proven
when he was tried. Kissner
was arrested by city police and
Immediately released under
$300.
RED CROSS COURSE
Miss Dorothy Shearin, physi
cal education teacher in New
Hanover High school, will rep
resent the local Red Cross
chapter at Camp Carolina, Bre
vard. She will take courses in
first aid and accident preven
tion this month.
CALLS FROM TOKYO
Mrs. Harry D. Griffin, 2321
Princess street, received a tele
phone call Thursday night from
her husband, Major Harry D.
Griffin who is stationed near
Yokohama. The call came
from Tokyo. The major told
his wife he expects to return
to the states before the end of
the summer.
ATTORNEYS TO MEET
The regular quarterly session
of the New Hanover county
Bar association will be held
Tuesday evening, June 4 at 7
o’clock in the banquet room
of the Crystal restaurant. Mem
bers should contact Clayton C.
Holmes for reservations.
REVIVAL TO END
The revival at the Church of
God, South Fourth and Mar
steliar streets, will end tonight
after a three-week unbroken
session. The Rev. C. D. Henry
of Boswell, Pa., will preach
his final messages this morn
ing at 11 o’clock and tonight
at 7:30 o’clock. There will be
baptisimal services at 3 o’clock
this afternoon at the east side
boat landing in Greenfield
Park.
BROTHERHOOD MEETS
The Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen will meet at 2 p. m.
today in the Junior Order hall,
according to an announoowent
by E. F. Pittman, secretary
treasurer.
VITAL EUROPEAN
ELECTIONS HELD
(Continued from Page One)
Political observers have reported
than an early swing to the left
in the sentiment of Italian voters
ended with the abdiction of the old
King Victor Emmanuel and the
astute campaigning of the new
King Humbert.
But the issue between Royalist
and Republic remained so close
that no one would predict the out
come.
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Chief Executive Declares
America Facing A
Great Age
CHESTERTOWN, Md., June 1.
—UP)—President Truman, relish
ing the role of a small towner
sold on small institutions that
produce “big shots’’ declared to
day that America “is facing the
greatest age in its history.”
Its government, greatest ih the
world’s history, he said, never
will come under the absolute con
trol of “any one man or any one
group of men.” *
Without establishing any iden
tifications, Mr. Truman added:
“Sometimes they think they
have control, but it has never
turned out that way—and it never
will.”
A diffussion of powers prevents
it, the chief executive asserted.
As he accepted an honorary de
gree from Little Washington col
lege in this little town on Mary
land’s eastern shore, the Presi
dent declared that “this country
is great on account of its small
educational institutions, more
than anything else.”
In a homey, chatty talk omit
ting any reference to big issues,
Mr. Truman recalled that he was
born and raised in a small town.
Home to him, he said, still is a
Jackson county, Missouri, farm.
“You know,” he said, “1 am
rather an advocate of small busi
ness, and small educational in
stitutions, and small communi
ties,
“I have said time and again
that I would much rather see a
th o u s a n d insurance companies
with four million dollars in assets
than one insurance company with
four billion. I would rather see
a hundred steel companies than
one U. S. Steel corporation. I
would rather see a thousand banks
than one national city bank.”
FINAL OPA ACTION
URGED BY WAGNER
(Continued from Page One)
historic discounts and mark-ups
for wholesalers and retailers.
Approved Extensions
The Senate committee has ap
proved a full year’s extension of
OPA past June 30. The House
voted only a nine months exten
sion. The Senate group, however,
has voted to end subsidies May
1, 1947, and allow only $1,100,000
000 for them over the 10 months.
The senators also voted to give
the Secretary of Agriculture the
power to decide what agricultural
products shall be kept under price
control.
Meanwhile, Senator Willis (R.
Ind.) announced in a Senate speech
that he will press legislation to
abolish the offtce of price control
altogether, effective June 30. He
said the agriculture department
could be given control over food
stuffs, with rents and building
material prices handled by the
National Housing administration.
A three-year project, initiated
by Congress to solve the problem
of all-weather flying, will be con
ducted by the United States Army,
Navy, Weather Bureau and the
National Advisory Commitee for
Aeronautics.
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ISLAND SHIPYARD
SOLD FOR $50,000
(Continued from Page One)
many years its yard foreman.
Wooten will continue in that capa
city, Pretlow said.
The new owner, identified with
his family in ownership and man.
agement of the Friendly cafeteria,
was recently separated from the
Army Air corps in which he served
over two an done-half years as
skipper of an 85-foot air-sea rescue
boat in the state and in Philip
pine waters.
In announcing the purchase, Pret
low disclosed that he planned im.
mediate expansion of the property,
including enlargement of the two
storage ships, and the addition of
more personnel to provide a great
er variety of services to boat
ers both pleasure and com"?
cial. An immediate step Pr,7'
said would be the installati*tZ
modern wood-working equip *
and machine tools in the "
shops. r,'°
He also anr.cunced the retention
of an experienced marine engineer
Robert K. Langley of New York
City. Langley chief engineer 'in
the rescue boat squadron \Vrn
which Pretlow served oversea^
will assume duties as chief
gineer of the Hamme co'mpa,"'
about June 10 He is an exper
ienced diesel machinist, hav-'
been employed by the Cumrrti;
Diesel Engineering companv ^
New York for three years 'Pri0‘r
to his military service.
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