Newspapers / Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, … / June 12, 1946, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
FORECAST Served By Leased Wires of the Wilmington and vicinity—Partly cloudy UNITED PRESS Wednesday morning with thunderifhow- *nd “6 ers probable in the afternoon. ASSOCIATED PRESS With Complete Coverage of -- State and National News vol 79_NO 207 ___—--— _'__ WILMINGTON, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1946 ESTABLISHED 1867 The Case Bill Veto (An Editorial) President Truman used 4,500 words to explain his veto of the Case Bill. He might have done it with fewer. All that v as necessary was to admit that labor exercises great er influence at the White House than the great majority of the American people, who are not affiliated with unions. There were three courses open to Mr. Truman. He could have allowed the measure to remain on his desk unsigned until midnight, when it would have become a law automatically. He could have signed it. He could veto it. In any case whatever hope he may have entertained of succeeding himself in the presidency would have faded. Having chosen the latter, he is lost. Inasmuch as his political prospects could not be im proved and he would be severely censured whatever his decision, it is difficult to understand why he turned his back on Congress and gave labor’s leaders opportunity to chalk up another victory and register—himself—another surrender. Why could not Mr. Truman be strong for once! CAPITAL STIRRED OVER COURT FEUD Senator Says Both Justice Black And Jackson Should Resign WASHINGTON, June 11.—(JP)— Talk of resignations and investiga tions in the dissension-ridden su preme court flew about the Capitol Tuesday in the wake of Justice Jackson's angry blast at Justice Black. Sena or Lucas (D.-I1L), a lawyer h .nself, demanded that both jus tices resign, “for the good of them, selves and for the good of the country.” He told a reporter that ‘■there can't be any confidence in •/: court from here on as a result oi this feud.” black Still Silent Jackson said he was issuing his statement at Nuernberg “in fair ness of my future work on the court,” however, and thus it ap peared he had no intention of leav. iica. Black spent the day at his of fice in the supreme court building, despite the close of the term Mon day. but maintained his silence, as did the other justices. Senators Eastland (D.-Miss.) and Wherry (R.-Neb.i of the Judiciary committee told newsmen they be lieve the situation calls for a con cessional investigation and East land announced he will discuss the matter in the senate Wednesday. Procedure Uncertain Wherry was uncertain just how the senate committee might pro ceed. "The House could investigate since it is the body which con siders questions of impeach ment,” he remarked. “We would have to have a resolution or some thing—I don’t know just what.” he Senate committee on Friday v.iil consider the nomination of Tied L. Vinson as chief justice but Chairman McCarran (D-Nev.) and Senator Hatch iD.-N.M.) of the committee said they did not think the Jackson-Black feud had any place in that consideration. McCar r:.n reported the committee so far has received no requests from any persons wishing to be heard on the nomination. Cable Still Missing The cable which Jackson sent to the Senate and House Judiciary committees still had not been re ceived and members of the House group were reluctant to discuss the matter. Representative Celler (D.-N. Y.) "as the only House committee member willing to comment. He told reporters that it appeared to be 'a clash of personalities” and a matter for the new chief justice to settle. Celler also took the view that the propriety of Black’s sitting in a case in which his former law part ner. Crampton Harris, was interest ed was a matter for the justice in dividually to determine, rather than the court as a whole or con gress. See COURT on Page Five HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS By Alley -- DEW'S rco MAM*W Folks proud Dt'W calls a SPADE A SRAPE^BlIT AtN/ NEVDU FOUN' OUT VNHUT A SPADE IS MADE FUVA !! , * i nj /» (Released br IbWI* dleate, lie.) Te**' “*'* f f)g u. f. P»t- Qg BRIDGES OFFERS TO STOP STRIKE Maritime Leader Wants Government To Offer New Contract WASHINGTON, June 11.—(U.R)— CIO Leader Harry Bridges offered Tuesday night to call off the ship ping strike set for Friday mid night if the government will negoti ate a contract with the seven mari time unions involved. Bridges, co-chairman of the CIO Maritime committee, made his of fer to a House Labor subcommit tee which called him in to testify on conditions in the shipping and waterfront industries. Negotiations Fail He declared flatly that negotia tions with the shipowners have broken down completely and that only more direct government in tervention can forestall the strike which he and other CIO leaders have threatened to extend into a world-wide tie-up of American merchant shipping. “Eighty per cent of the ships are government-owned n o w,” said Bridges. “I have in mind the gov ernment carrying on direct negotia tions, and under those conditions there would be no nded to strike.” He was asked point-blank by Representative James E. Geelann (D.-Conn.) a member of the sub committee, whether he believed the unions could work out a satisfac tory agreement with the govern ment. Lewis Comparison “Well.” Bridges retorted, “we wouldn’t expect to be treated any worse than John L. Lewis.” Bridges left the hearing rooms immediately after completing his testimony, and neither he nor his I co-chairman Joseph Curran, presi.1 dent of the National Maritime union could be reached at once to elab orate on his bid for a government settlement. But sources close to the disnute said it has been Bridges’ position all along that the government, which operates the bulk of the American merchant fleet through the War Shipping Administration, should negotiate wages, hours and working conditions with the sea men. Mum On Second Strike But in his testimony he refused to say -whether the unions — six CIO affiliates and one independent —would issue a new strike call if they called off the scheduled walk out and then were unable to rear’-' an agreement with the government. Bridges said he did not believe the men would continue working merely because the government took over operation of the ships — as President Truman has threaten ed to do if *he strike occurs. And he exnressed doubt that manning the ships with Navy and other government personnel would impel the strikers to return to work. He asserted ihat the shipowners did not offer a single concession until the strike call was issued and that their offers since that time have been unsatisfactory. Another Compromise Meanwhile, it was learned that See MARITIME on Page Five 12 M UONS KILLED IN NAPLES GUN BA TTLES A MRO-MONARCHISTS FIGHT MOBILE POLICE; S S'A TE MERCHANTS HIT OP A AND SALES TAX - I : __ Gastonia Man Elected Head As Meet Ends Convention, In Final Ses sion Here, Slaps At Cooperatives DR. GREER SPEAKS 400 Attend Annual Ban quet Closing 44th Convention By LARRY HIRSCH A few hours before they sat down to their 44th annual convention banquet in the Ocean Terrace hotel at Wrightsville Beach last night, the members of the North Carolina Merchants associa tion unanimously adopted resolu tions cracking down on the state three per cent sales tax, OPA, and “cooperative organizations.” The tax resolution asks that d>e Governor and the State assembly repeal the sales tax “in its en tirely.” The OPA resolution requests that “OPA. be required to adopt real istic incentive pricing programs.” “Tax Cooperatives” The “cooperative organizations” resolution demands that those or ganizations be made “to pay taxes on a similar basis as all other busi nesses, thus restoring tax •qual ity.” Having dispensed with their busi ness agenda, the members of the association and their guests — over 400 persons in all—joined with the North Carolina Credit Women’s Breakfast clubs in the anual fes tive banquet. The features of the evening were the installing of officers for the coming year, the award of three See MERCHANTS on Page Two JAYCEES ENDORSE COLLEGE PROPOSAL Group Hears Speakers On Future Of Local Aviation R. B. Howard, former president of the Wilmington Junior Cham ber of Commerce, new chairman of the club’s Awards committee last night promised members “more awards in 1946-47,’’ dur ing the first business session pre sided over by J. B. Sellers, new president. The club also "wholeheartedly and unanimously’’ endorsed the New Hanover County Board of Education’s plan to procure a unit of the Un'versity of North Caro lina for Wilmington, and the gen eral extension of the Greater Uni versity. • Top Ranking The club last year, under me presidency of Howard achieved top-ranking successes, and was winner of many of the nations high awards for its participation in civic affairs. Guests at the meeting were John H. Farrell, Wilmington In dustrial agent, Jim Herritage, Brooks Mincy and Russell Cherry. Two new members, William Echols and Paul Killian were wel comed to the club. See JAYCEES on Page Two Today and Tomorrow By WALTER LIPPMAN The feeling that things are not working out right at home or abroad is so general that it is giv ing rise to a belief that in fact noth ing can be done about anything. But this is only a mood, like the feeling on a winter’s day that the hounds of spring are far behin . The mood, which is compounded ol inertia and low spirits, will pass away, all the sooner as men recog nize that it is only the mood which quite naturally and unavoidably foi lows a great war. * ♦ ♦ It has been the rule that the con certed effort and the exaltation of war are followed by a time of disunity, depression, flatness ana frustration. The six years which followed our own War of Inde pendence were bad enough to drive the best men to the verge of de spair before they gathered them selves together at Philadelphia and found once more the audacity, the imagination and the resolution which great difficulties demand. The Civil War was followed by ten years of the worst government, the country has ever endured. The first World War was followed by the Harding administration. The second has been followed by the Truman administration which, though it is certainly a good deal better than the Harding adminis See LIPPMANN on Page Five Liberty Sons And Daughters At Carolina Beach State officers of the Sons and Daughters of Liberty, iu con vention here, took off from business duties Monday night to attend a seafood dinner at Carolina Beach. In the picture above, left to right, Mrs. Claudia Moser, inside guard; Mrs. Annie James, associate secretary; Mrs. Fannie Calder, guide; Mrs. Pauline Causby, vice-commander; Mrs Annie McIntosh, treasurer; W. L. Sapp, secretary; Mrs. Ratha Prince, associate vice-com mander; Mrs. Thelma Hawkins, associate commander; Mrs. Mary Hardison, outside guard; Tom Whitfield, councillor; P. C. Idol, treasurer; and J. R. Pierce, past commander. STATE TO PROBE RACE EXPENSES SBI To Conduct Inquiry In Fifth District Congres sional Race WINSTON-SALEM, June 12.—VP) —Solicitor Ralph J. Scott, of Dan bury announced Tuesday night that he would investigate Thur mond Chatham’s campaign ex penditures throughout the Fifth Congressional district, with the assistance of the State Bureau of Investigation Walter F. Anderson, of Raleigh, director of the SBI said the SBI would aid in the inquiry but that he assumed it would be an in vestigation of the expenditures of all candidates and would be con fined to Mr. Scott’s solicitorial district. CASE BILL DIES House Sustains Veto By Hairline Margin Angry Tumult Touched Off In Voting To Uphold President; Proponents Plan To Revive Issue WASHINGTON, June 11.—(AP)—The Case labor bill died amid angry tumult Tuesday night as President Tru man vetoed it and an uproarious House sustained the veto by the hairline margin of five votes. Cheers and boos rose from the opposing sides as the NORTHERN STATES LASHED BY STORM Four Killed In New York And Massachusetts Towns SYRACUSE, N. Y., June 11. — (A*)— Central and southern New York state was lashed Tuesday by a series of local thunderstorms which killed two persons, one of them a high school girl in an Elmira schoolroom, the other a former speed skating champion at Amsterdam. Theodore (Ted) Ellenwood, 26, former eastern states and middle Atlantic amateur ice-skating title holder, was killed by lightening while playing golf near Amster dam. Dies At Desk Barbara Crawford, 17-year-old valedictorian of the Elmira free I academy senior class, died at her desk when a tree, uprooted during a storm, crashed against the school building. A long spiinter of flying glass pierced her lung, caus ing instantaneous death. The localized storms, striking with short-lived but destructive force, caused widespread damage and blew down telephone and power lines. Several communities were plunged into darkness and their communications disrupted. Elmira, hard hit by floods two weeks ago to the day and by a severe twister Saturday night, also felt the force of a 45-minute thund erstorm. 72-Mile Gale See PROBE on Page Two The Weather forecast North Carolina — Wednesday, partly cloudy during morning with scattered thundershowers in the afternoon. South Carolina—Continued warm Wed nesday with thundershowers in the aft ernoon. (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. yesterday. Temperatures 1:30a 69; 7:30a 67; l:S0p 84; 7:30p 78. Maximum 87; Minimum 63; Mean 73; Normal 76. Humidity 1:30a 59; 7:30a 73; l:30p 52; 7:30p 73. Precipitation Total for 24 hours ending 7 ;30p—0.00 inches. Total since the first of the month— 0.55 inches. Tides For Today (From the Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey). High Low Wilmington - 8:06a 3:02a 8:42p 3: lip Masonboro Inlet - f:54a -a 6:29p 12:03p Sunrise 5:00a; Sunset 7:24p; Moonrise 5:42p; Moonset 3:35a. River Stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8 a.m Tuesday, (No Report) feet. PL BERS’ MEET SET FOR MONDAY Lieut.-Gov. Ballentine To Speak At Convention Banquet Lieut.-Gov. L. Y. Ballentine will distinguish the two-day convention of the North Carolina Association of Plumbing and Heating Con tractors when he appears at the closing banquet as principal speaker, it was announced here yesterday. Arrangements for the confer ence, scheduled for Wrightsville Beach June 17 and 18 are in charge of R. M. Kermon, of Wil mington, executive secretary of the state organization. The convention will open Mon day, June 17, with a meeting in the Ocean Yerrace hotel, at which L. V. Callaghan, of Southern Pines, president, will preside. Following invocation by George A. Moore, of Wilmington, Mayor W. Ronald Lane, will give an ad See PLUMBERS On Page Five Along The Cape Fear ALLEGED LEGEND — About two months ago we raised a ques tion about the old horse-drawn streetcars which, a Cape Fear legend alleges, once upon a time transported Wilmingtonians along these now trolley-trackless streets. Since we came into this world long after the electric motor had retired old Dobbin to the pasture, and since we made our debut in Wilmington several years after the bus company had made obsolete all streetcars, horse-drawn or otherwise, we naturally raised the question out of complete ignorance. We had simply “heard” that the equine-propelled vehicles once plied these streets, and we merely wanted to know CD. whether the story was true or (2) whether it was only an alleged legend which would never stand up in court. * * * ABJECT APOLOGIES — As often happens in our unskillful probings of Cape Fear legends and lore, we didn’t find out anything about the conjectural trams. In fact, af ter a fruitless search which didn’t turn as much as one horse-shoe or trolley-wheel to light, we came out and flatly denied that horse drawn streetcars ever ran so much as one city block on any street along the Cape Fear. If they ran anywhere, we de clared, they ran through the minds of elderly folks who dream ed them up in much the same fashion that Major Hoople fabri cates his fabulous fables. Well, as often happens after we make a statement about Cape Fear legends and lore, we now find ourself in a position whereby we must, with apologies of an abject and cheek-flushed nature, withdraw our previous denial of Wilming ton’s streetcars—horses included. * • • TROLLEYS TRUNDLED—This turnabout is, we feel, no shock to you faithful folks who follow our daily blunderirngs for whatever reason you do follow them. Like See CAPE FEAR on Page Two vote was announced: uo to upnoia the veto and 225 to override. This was five votes less than the two third needed to pass the bill along to the Senate over the veto. 4,500-Word Veto The dramatic vote was com pleted within 30-minutes after the clerks finished reading the Presi dent’s 4,500 word veto message to the jam-packed chamber. Mr. Truman based his veto on the argument that the permanent, long-range bill would breed rather than curb labor strife and would force men to work for private em ployers in peacetime. The Case bill would have: creat ed a federal mediation board, re stricted strikes and lockouts while the board was functioning; prohi bited secondary boycotts, and per mitted court suits against employ ers or labor organizations violtaing contracts. May Receive Measure There was talk among its sup porters of trying to revive it and tack ir onto temporary, emergency legislation asked by President Tru man. In the form it passed the House, the latter measure would permit the President to draft men who struck in industries seized by the government, but the Senate struck this provision out. The Tru man measure has been stuck in the House Rules committee, pend ing action on the Case bill. The Pres dent in his veto mes sage drew a sharp distinction Tues day between his own temporary bill and the case measure. Ox the latter, he said: See VETO on Page Two A 72-mile gale accompanied heavy rain at Auburn, uprooting trees and cutting off electric power. The Auburn Citizen-Advertiser, an afternoon newspaper, was un able to publish because of lack of power. The storm blew down a 200-foot tower of radio station WM BO forcing it off the air. Trees blown across highways blocked traffic at Syracuse where the storm also brought down com munications lines. Wind velocity reached 45 miles an hour during a half hour electrical storm. Amonk other communities hit by storms were Ithaca, Oneonta and Binghamtom. ' See STORMS On Page Two DOESN’T FEET, GUILTY Draja Says Defense Material Disappears BELGRADE, June 11. — (jP) — Gen. Draja Mihailovlc admitted Tuesday that he had contact with the Germans and with the Yugo slav puppet government in 1941, but insisted he was trying to lure quislings to join his forces. The Chetnik leader said “I do not feel guilty” when asked how he would plead to charges of trea son and collaboration, and later complained that the court had deprived him of much of his de fense material. Attacked Tito The spare, bushy-bearded gueril la leader testified that in 1941 he t led an attack on a unit of Marshal Tito’s Partisans, but he declared he attacked because “here was a group unknown to me and it be gan to plunder.” Mihailovic said he defended quisling gendarmes in clashes with Tito’s partisans because “I was preparing them to come over to me.” He testified his relations with Milan Nedic, puppet premier who committed suicide while await ing trial, were maintained in an effort to lure quisling troops into See DEFENSE on Page Five Rome Battle Over Kingdom Forestalled 100,000 Republicans Demand Expulsion CM Umberto NEW FIGHTING LOOMS Anti-Monarchist Demon stration Scheduled For Today ROME, Wednesday, June 12. —(U.R)—At least 12 persons were killed and more than 100 wounded in Naples Tues day night when armed pro monarchists engaged police in gun-batttes and stormed com munist headquarters, the naval barracks and a provincial government building. ROME, Wednesday, June 12.— (AP)—The blazing gun and bomb battle in Naples died to an occasional ex change of gunfire today as the casualty toll rose in Tues day’s clash among monarchist demonstrators, troops and oppos ing police factions. A similar demonstration of violence was averted in Rome when almost 100,000 angry pro Republicans, who marched on Viminale palace demanding cabi net action to force King Umberto II into exile, dispersed after thundering their aentiments. Urges Caution Giuseppe Romita, Socialist minister of the interior, who in spired the march on Viminale palace, cautioned the Republican sympathizers against bloodshed and warned them not to attack a See BATTLE on Page Two $100,000 NEEDED FOR WORK CHANGE 40 New Firemen Necessary If New Schedule Is Approved Here Working schedule changes re quested by city fire department would involve an increase of $100, 000 a year in municipal expendi tures if accepted by the city gov ernment, Fire Chief Ludie Croom disclosed yesterday. Firemen, under the present ar rangement. are working on a schedule of 11 hours for day and 13 hours for night shifts with no days off other than 10 day’s vacation per year. They have submitted a request for a full day off each week, in addition to two week vaca tions annually, with pay. 40 More Men The firemen’s demands, as out lined by Chief Croom, would en tail the addition of 40 more men to the present personnel in order to maintain the department at its current level, or rating under standards of the Fire Underwriters’ board. Forty additional men, at See FIREMAN on Page And So To Bed Of all the jokes Dr. I. G. Greer told his audience at the merchants banquet at Wrights ville Beach last night, this is the one which put the most peo ple in the aisles: * * * A man, observing a group of boys playing baseball with very poor equipment, gave them $5 to purchase new gloves and bats. A few days later he saw the same boys playing a regular game—and still using the same old equipment. “Didn’t you buy new equip ment with that $5?” he asked them. “You’d stand a much better chance of winning this game if you had.” “We have a better way of winning,” the boys replied. “We gave the $5 to the um pire.” “I assure you,’* said Dr. Greer, “that the merchants as sociation has very fine equip ment and that your president did not give me $5 to tell you how good you are. \
Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
June 12, 1946, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75