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tlnmtnfntt rtrtttttrt ASd§™ss W + W W+ B ^ With complete Coverage of _ TJ ' State and National News VOL. 79—NO. 214._ WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1946 . ESTABLISHED 1867 j Jaycees Invite Miss North Carolina Miss Dorothy Johnson, Winston-Salem, who went to Atlantic City in 1945 as Miss North Carolina, has been invited by the Wilmington Junior Chamber of Commerce to be present at the Lamina, Wrightsville Beach, July 19, when the Jaycees stage a beauty contest to find “Miss Wilmington.” The winner will rep resent the city later in the North Carolina contest in which Miss North Carolina of 1946 will be chosen. Miss Johnson, of course, will not compete in this year’s contest. fOUNCIL CLOSES HISTORIC HALL Plans Made For Renovation 3i Thalian Building Here Thalian Hall, historic histrionic landmark, was ordered closed yes terday by the city council pending complete renovation. A report submitted by City Engi neer J. A. Loughlin, City Building Inspector Gilbert F. Morton, Fire Chief Ludie Croom, and City Architect J. B. Lynch condemned the structure for further public use until its interior con be gut ted down to the bare walls and entirely rebuilt. Seek Federal Funds Immediately after approving 've report, the council directed Acet, ir.g City Manager J. R. Benson to proceed at once with negotiations with the federal government to ob tain funds for the restoration of t.e old building. Turning from the Thalian Hall issue, the council jumped on the heated problem of a truck-lane through the city. After viewing a map prepared by Benson and Loughlin, the coun cil voted unanimously in instruct ing Benson to invite the State Highway commission to cooperate ss soon as possible in the final selection of a route. Proposed Route The proposed route originates ?* the waterfront oil terminals, skirts the city by way of outer highways through Sunset Park and Forest Hills, and terminates on U. S. Highway 117 between Smith’s creek and the Seaboard Airline railroad yards. As outlined by Benson and Loughlin. the project’s cost would See THALIAN On Page Two HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS By Alley W'fM SRER ISOM LEP ’ HcAH /HE SAY HE <3W/M£ j WR|T£ JACK A LETTCJH Foih allthr.ee MoaJt's o' DE Y£AH JWiwA RY/>Ju!-^ Fvi Fall !! fic.df, I (Rele.cd by The Bell Syn dicate. Inc.) Trade Mark He*. U. S. Pat. Ofllca) CONGRESS BEGINS NEW OPA DRAFTS Administration Warns Of “Dizzy Round Of Inflation” WASHINGTON, June 19.—(U.R>— Senate and House conferees began drafting a compromise OPA exten sion bill Wednesday against a background of administration warnings that the legislation in its present form would spin the na tion into a dizzy round of inflation and industrial war. With the implied threat of a presidential veto hanging over their deliberations, administration whips appeared hopeful that the conferees would restore many if not all of the price controls strip ped from OPA by both the senate find house measures. f x Representative Brent Spence, (D., Ky.,) chairman of the con ference, said he would do “every thing in my power” to keep vir tually all the controls contained in the existing law, slated to expire June 30. FRATERNITY HOST AT LADIES NIGHT More Than Fifty Attend First Session In Three Years With A. A. Everett presiding and Newton J. Kelly, president, wel coming guests and members the Senior Fraternity held its first full-fledged Ladies Night in three years at the Ocean Terrace hotel, Wrightsville Beach, with fifty-odd present. Sarah Ann Eaton, who has won high honors as a promising so prano, sang three solos—“Only the Lonely Heart’’, “Lover 1 Sur render”, and “Dancing in the Dark”. Mr. Everett introduced Harry M. Solomon, president of the Bri gade Boys' Club directorate, and See FRATERNITY on Page Two MILLION DOLLAR PROJECT ON CAPE FEAR TO ■ ET UNDERWAY HERE ON SEPTEMBER 11 VO MORE KILLED IN PALESTINE REVOL T <S* _ _ Troops Seek City For Five Missing Men Tel Aviv Dead City Under Rigid British Curfew Law TANKS IN ACTION Streets Of Town Torn Up To Make Barricades In Fight JERUSALEM, Palestine, June 19.— (UP)—Two more Jewish terrorists were killed in northern Palestine Wed nesday as British tanks and paratroopers launched a house - to - house search through Tel Aviv for five British officers abducted as hostages by Jewish underground forces. Other searches were under way throughout Palestine for a sixth British officer, Maj. H. B„ Chad wick, field security chief, who was kidnapped by terrorists in Jeru salem Tuesday night while on his way to a conference with his com manding general. The British announced that cur few which turned Tel Aviv into a dead city since 5 a.m. Wednesday would continue for 24 hours and be lifted at 4 q.m. Thursday. 22 Death Toll Another Jewish terrorist died! from wounds received in blowing up the HaPa railroad shops, bring ing to 22 the death toll in three days of undeclared Zionist warfare against the British. The latest casualties occurred in See PALESTINE on Page Two JUDICIARYGROUP APPROVES VINSON One Member May Assail Kentuckian On Senate Floor WASHINGTON, June 19 —(U.R)— Fred M. Vinson, President Tru man’s former Secretary of the Treasury, appeared assured Wed nesday night of quick Senate con firmation as chief jusice of the strife-torn Supreme court. The Senate judiciary committee approved his appointment. One member, Senator E. H. Moore, (R., Okla.) declined to vote “aye” because he desires to “make a statement’’ when the nomination comes before the Senate. Moore refused to say why he withheld approval of the former Kentucky congressman, but other committeemen said they believed he will attack Vinson’s qualifica tions. Outspoken Critic One of the most outspoken critics of the present Supreme court membership, Senator James O. Eastland, (D., Miss.) was not present when the vote was taken. Eastland and Senator Styles Bridges, (R., N. H.) introduced a constitutional amendment Tues. day which would, if approved force four members of the court—all appointees of the late President Roosevelt—into retirement. The proposal would prohibit any'Presi dent from appointing more than l three members to thc high tribunal. ADDRESS TO PROGRESS White Tells Kiwanians City Is On The March Wilmington citizens are carrying in their own pockets, the address to the city’s progress, E. L. White, president of the Greater Wilming ton Chamber of Commerce told members of the Kiwanis club yes terday in the course of a timely talk on prospects for the future of yje “Port City.” c,White was guest speaker at the dfgular weekly Junchecn meeting Rid was introduced by Rex Willis, club program chairman. On The March At the outset of his prepared talk, the speaker pointed out that Wilmineton now is very definitely on the march and with all segments of industrial, business and profes sional life of ihe city cooperating as never before. Commenting on the march for ward, White said that it was a good sign that we will not go back ward, because there is no middle ground for Wilmington and Wil mingtonians. But to make our for ward march the kind of success which everyone who takes pride in our city desires, our plans for progress must first of all be ambi tiuos and when finally agreed upon, See PROGRESS On Page Tw# Speakers Table At Plumbers9 Banquet Lieut.-Gov. L. Y. Ballentine of North Caro lina, seated second from the left in the above picture ,was the principal speaker at the banquet of the 36th annual convention of tne North Caro lina Association of Plumbing and Heating Con tractors at the Ocean Terrace hotel, Wrightsvidle Beach, Tuesday night. The other persons gathered about the table of honor are, standing, left to right: T. L. Blow, Goldsboro, first vice-president; Alton Lennon, State-Senator-elect of New Hanover county; Mrs. Lennon; R. M. Kermon, Wilmington, executive secretary; and a member of Paul T. lytarshburn’s orchestra which furnished music for the dance after the banquet. Seated, left to right: V. G. Moser, Asheville, president; Lieutenant-Governor Ballentine; Mrs. Ballentine; L. V. O’Callaghan, Southern Pines, retiring president; Wilbur R. Dosher, Wilmington postmaster and banquet toastmaster; Mrs. Jphn R. Edwards; and Rev. Edwards, pastor of Fifth Avenue Methodist church. STAR STAFF PHOTO BY BOB HODGKIN. __ U.S. CUSTOMSHOUSE TO BE RENOVATED Painting, Laying Of Lino leum Planned In Building The U.S Customshouse, one of the largest and most beautiful buildings in Wilmington, will soon undergo a complete face-lifting operation, inside and out, it was announced yesterday by Harold Porter, building superintendent. Large Cost Built in 1916, and practically untouched by renovating 1 mds since then, the famous landmark will be given a going-over which, according to estimates made by local authorities, will cost upwards of $20,000. The entire exterior trim—Avin dow-castings, bars, railings, etc.— will be given a coat of paint. Linoleum To Be Laid The interior — walls, ceilings, and woodwork—will also be paint ed; and all the office floors, com prising approximately 400,000 square feet, will be covered with linoleum. There will also be minor repairs on the roof and elsewhere in the building. Flagpoles Removed Further, the two flagpoles now atop the roof will be removed and installed in the riverside court yard. Porter said he also plans to put the ’courtyard fountain into opera tion. According to a canvass made at the Customshouse yesterday, the fountain hasn’t been operating since some time early in the 1930’s. Fountain To Play If sufficient pressure can be ob tained to run the fountain, it will operate during the daytime, Port er said. He had it running tem porarily yesterday as his building The Weather FORECAST North Carolina:— Thursday, cooler in north portion, continued warm in south and west. South Carolina:— Partly cloudy Thurs day with scattered afiernoon thunder showers, mostly over :»orth portion. (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. yesterday. Temperatures 1:30a 76; 7:?Ja 77; l:30p 90; 7:3Cp 85. Maximum 93; Minimum 75; Mean 81; Normal 77. Humidity 1:30a 91; 7:30a 96; l:30p 63; 7:30p 81. Precipitation Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. 0.00 inch. Total since the first of the month 3.20 inches. Tides for Today (From the Tide Tables published < by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey). ' High Low Wilmington - 1:31a 8:53a , 1:52p 8:51p Masonboro Inlet -11:29a 5:35a „ ll:52p 5:35p Sunrise 5:00a: Sunset 7:26p; Moonrise 11:54p; Moonset 10:14a. River Stage at Fayetteville, N. C., at 8 a.m., Wednesday, 9.7 feet. MERCURYCUMBS TO YEAR’S PEAK City Swelters Under Broil ing Sun; Temperature At 93 If you rolled up your sleeves yes terday and soiled an inordinate amount of handkerchiefs mopping your brow, you did so for a logical meteorological reason. Yesterday was the hottest day so far this year in Wilmington. Soars To 93 Jet-propelled by over-enthusiastic , solar rays, the mercury in the U. S. Weather bureau’s thermometer zoomed to 93 degrees, only seven and one-tenth degrees short of Wil mington’s all-time June high of 100 and one-tenth degrees, recorded on June 18, 1944. See CUSTOMHOUSE on Page Two 'See TEMPERATURE On Page Two Along The Cape Fear CAPE FEAR MYSTERY—This j morning we present for your scrutiny ALONG THE CAPE FEAR’s “Mystery of the Year”— that huge and puzzling picture on Page Two of today’s paper. We call it our “Mystery of the Year” for two simple and obvious reasons: (1) It is a mystery to us, and (2) we hope that you folks may be able to solve it. But before we delve into the Sher lock Holmes questions of what, where, when, why, who, and who done-it, suppose we give you what the detective-fiction writers call the “build-up”—or, to be more literary, the “exposition”— on how we got hold of the mystery picture in the first place. • * » DIFFICULT POINT — It was given to us by Mr. Glenn M. Tuck er, the Carolina Beach realtor. Mr. Tucker says he unearthed it in an ancient Wilmington building a few weeks ago. Knowing our penchant for prob ina ‘into the past, Mr. Tucker rush ed’to our oft ice with the picture and asked us excitedly: “What is it?” To which we replied: “A pic ture.” Having settled that difficult point, it developed tljat neither he nor we could throw- any further definite light of clarification on the subject. So, as we always do in time of crisis, we now turn the problem over to you folks. * * * HANDSOME TWOSOME — First, though, we would like to make a few conjectures. To begin with, the handsome building all those handsome gentle men are standing in front of looks suspiciously like the Customshouse. Since the Customshouse was built in 1916, according to the corner stone, we must assume that the picture was taken in 1916 or later. But not much later, judging from the costumes the gentlemen are wearing. There is enough celluloid in the collars around those gentlemen’s necks to make a pre-talkie Cecil B, DeMille six reeler. The cut of the coats, the shape of the strawhats, and, above all. the predominance of handle-bar mous taches on the gentlemen on the left hand side of the picture spell Wil See CAPE FEAR on Page Two 4 HOUSE TO PROBE WAA’S DISPOSAL “Full-Blown Inquiry” To Be Launched Within Two Weeks WASHINGTON, June 19—(U.R)— The House committee on Surplus War Property disposal will begin a “full-blown inquiry” into such sales within two weeks, Chairman Roger C. Slaughter (D.,Mo.,) said Wed nesday night. All that remains before the com mittee can join other congressional groups in an investigation of the War Assets corporation and its ac tivities is the selection of a chief counsel, and he will be picked Thursday from two outstanding candidates. The inquiry is expected to be the major one to date, since it will delve into every aspect of war sur plus. Other committees have turn ed their inquiries into WAA chan nels only when their investigations have touched upon disposal ques tions. Lots Of Complainis “This inquiry,” Slaughter told the United Press, “will be a full-blown investigation of surplus in all its aspects. For the past two weeks we have been screening lots of com plaints and have a number of excel lent leads. “We will go right on through the congressional recess with this in vestigation. The staff wil be func tioning at all times. And I antici pate that we’ll have hearings in various sections of the country.” As Slaughter revealed that the committee will choose as its chief counsel one of two service officers —Army and Navy men who served with distinction in the investiga tive arms of the two services dur ing the war—other congressional groups were inquiring into the ad ministrative set-up of WAA, Disposals Bog Down The War Assets administration, headed by Lieut. Gen E. B. Gregory former Army quartermaster gener al, currently is under fire from sev eral quarters because its disposal program appears to have bogged down. Emphasis is being placed on the reported failure of ex-service men and educational institutions to re ceive electronics and communica tions equipment now declared sur plus. Channel To Be Dredged To 32-Foot Depth To Sea River Also To Be Widened To 400 Feet, Starting At Foot Of Castle Street,' Survey Completed By LA3RY HIRSCH The $1,000,000 job of widening and deepening the Cape Fear river channel from Wilmington to the sea will begin about September 1, it was disclosed yesterday by T. J. Hewitt, engineering chief of the U. S. Army Engineers. In making his prediction, Hewitt revealed that the field survey for the project has been completed and that the drawing up of specifications and plotting of maps is ___dwell underway. Joe Louis Retains Heavyweight Title Joe Louis knocked out Billy Conn in the eighth round of a scheduled 15-round bout for the heavyweight championship of the world in Yankee stadium, New York, last night. A crowd of 70,000 fans wit nessed the first heavyweight spectacle sinca before the wrar. For complete details see Sports Page. HOOVERREPORTS BET R OUTLOOK Former President Finds Latin-America Relieving Food Shortage WASHINGTON, June 19 — <U.R) _Ex-President Herbert Hoover re turned from a 25-day food survey of Latin-America Wednesday with word that the countries below the Rio Grande have pledged an un expectedly high contribution of more than 2,000,000 tons of food to fight famine overseas this sum mer. The 71-year-old relief authority gave reporters a glowing account of the willingness expressed by all Latin-America — to cut down its own food consumption in order to share with the hungry millions of Europe and the Orient. Praises Argentine And he singled out for particular praise the Argentines who, he said, volunteered to take on the main burden of South American Relief deliveries. He said the Latin states would export about £§20,000 tons of food stuffs a month between June 1 and Sept. 30 — the critical four months of the emergency abroad — or 200,000 tons a month more than they had been expected to contri bute. Meets Truman Mr. Hoover said he would meet President Truman at 10:15 a.m., EST., Thursday to deliver a pre liminary report on his 15,000-mile aerial swing during which he won ungrudging support from all Sou+h America for the war, on starvation spearheaded by the United States and the British empire. By the Associated Press The American-British-Canaidan combined food board will meet Thursday to organize a new world famine agency to guide allocation of food supplies to needy areas during the remainder of 1946 and throughout 1947. The new agency, to be called the international emergency food council, will take over work of the war-created com bined food board. SUGAR SHORTAGE Merchants’ Meeting Slated This Morning An indignation meeting of citi zens of the city, has been called for 9:30 o’clock this morning in the Woodrow Wilson Hut, home of the Wilmington Chamber of Com merce, John H. Farrell Chamber secretary, said yesterday. All commercial and industrial users, as well as sugar brokers and wholesalers are invited to at tend the gathering. Officials of the Port Commission and the Port Traffic association will also be present at the meeting, at which an attempt will be made to gather all pertinent facts bearing on the sugar shortage and its effect on the commurlity, Farrell said. Clark Informed Rep. A. Bayard Clark, represen tative of the Seventh Congression al district has been informed of the meeting, by Farrell. J. T. Hiers, of the Port Commission also talked to Clark, asking him to get all data possible from the War Ship ping administration as to whether ships have been directed to bring sugar to this port. Clark agreed to notify Hiers as See SUGAR on Pftgjfc. Two The complete plan should be ap proved by Washington, D. C., head quarters by about July 1, he said, at which time advertisements for bids on the $1,000,000 contract will be made. Starts At Castle Street The huge task of dredging the channel to 32 feet deep and 400 feet widfe will start at the foot of Castle street and be carried out in one long sweep to the sea, Hewitt said. In all probability, he said, one dredge will be assigned to the job since the entire $1,000,000 contract will be let to one contractor. “It must be remembered,’* Hewitt explained, “that the $1,000, 000 appropriation we now have will not actually cover th, expense of the entire project. By using one dredge, and doing a thorough workmanlika job, the $1,000,000 should carry us through the entire fiscal year of 194647. Then, by July 1, 1947, we hope to have an other congressional appropriation on hand—perhaps another $1,000, 000—to carry th* project through to completion.” Accelerate Shipping When completed, die enlarged channel will greatly accelerate shipping in and out of Wilming ton’s port. With the present 30-foot depth, modem deep-draft tankers and cargo vessels have to wait for high tide to get in and out of port. The 32-foot depth is expected to See CHANNEL on Page Two CHETNIKLEADER 1 DENIES CHARGES Tito Court Refuses Plea To Hear American^ Fliers’ Telegram BELGRADE, June 19.—(JP)—Gen. Draja Mihailovic Wednesday de nied the testimony of one of his lieutenants that he had personally ordered the first Chetnik JTtack against Marshal Tito’s Partisan troops, and had ordered coopera tion with enemy occupation forces. Mihailovic made the denial in a face-to-face encounter with the lieutenant, Milos Glisic, alter the defense attorney had again ap pealed for permission for Ameri can fliers to testify on behalf of the Chetnik leader. The court, however, interrupted the attorney's reading of a tele gram from New York from the Committee for the Defense of Mihailovic. The Attorney, Dragic Joksimovic, also asked that all evidence and reports on the trial be made available for the defense, but the court did not rule immed iately on this motion. The court ordered Mihailovic to face Glisic while Glisic repeated testimony that Mihailovic had or dered cooperation by Glisic’s unit in Sandjak with the Germans through the Yugoslav puppet gov ernment and had ordered the first Chetnik attack against Tito's forces. And So To Bed There is at least one man In Wilmington who doesn’t own a radio. He came running into a local eat shop last night and asked: “Who won the fight? Conn’* “No,” said the counter-man. "Louis, huh?” the man sur mised. "No,” repeated the counter man. “Oh, a draw, huh?” the man said. “No,” iterated the counter man. “Come on, wise guy,” said the man, sensing a run-around. “Who won the fight?” “Mike Jacobs,” said the counter-man as he rang up $190 on the cash register. ■»,
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