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Reds Blocking
1 eace Parley
Flans Accord
Molotov Refuses To Let
B g Four Issue Bids For
July 29 Meeting
ANGRY SESSION
Bevin Accuses Russia Of
Trying To Dictate Own
Rules For Parley
PARIS. July 6. —(U.R)— Soviet
For, ,::n Commissar V. M. Molotov
len.-u ed obstinate today and for
four and one-naif hours blocked i
ail .tempts of the Dig four foreign i
ministers conference to reach an
agreement on a peace parley.
Molotov, apparently working onj
nee. riders from Moscow, refused!
to let the Eig Four issue invita- j
tions for the conference set for July j
29 until the rules and procedure ’
to be followed were laid down.
Time and time again throughout j
the long, frustrating and often
a _ry session, Molotov said he fear_:
ed that otherwise the treaty meet
ing would become a “shatampiru
im.'.tchaya mashina” — Russian
for rubber-stamping machine.
Try In Vain
Secretary of State James F. ByrJ
nes British foreign minister Er
nes: Bevin and French Premier
Georges Bidault tried in vain to
f.inviiiee Moioiov that exactly the
opposite was true — that only by j
deciding ihe rules now could the
peace conference become a “rub
ber-stamp' assembly.
The hot-tempered outspoken Bev
in bluntly aecussed Russia at one
poiir of trying to dictate its own
rules for the peace conference.
Eoth Byrnes and Bevin effect ac
cused Molotov ot bad faith in going
back on nis July 4th assent fd the
peace conference date.
Tonight the outlook for an ami
cable agreement on the peace con
ference was as gloomy as at any
time during ‘he series of Big Four
conferences here. The participants
were frankly depressed by the sud
den turn of events after it had ap.
peared that finally Molotov was
prepared fo be agreeable.
Bevin accused Molotov of trying
1 sabotage the decision reached
on July 4th to have the 21-nation
peace conference here on July
29. Today’s wrangle was the out-1
growth of Russia’s sudden about
face yesterday, when Molotov de
manded that the conference pro
cedure be decided now and that
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MISS WILMINGTON
TO RECEIVE $200
Second And Third Prize
Winners Will Also Re
ceive Awards
Six prizes, exceeding $200 in
‘ cl value, for the winner of “Miss
Wilmington’’ honors in the Junior
Chamber of Commerce Beauty
Pageant July 16 in Lumina balL
r'! m. Wright-sville Beach, were
announced last night by the spon
ccring organization.
Pi addition to the prizes for the
who wins the coveted title
“Miss Wilmington” and the
opportunity for further honors in
’he Miss America competition,
lour prizes have been announced
!,] Pe runner-up; three for the
um'd-place winner, and one each
for ihe nine places.
Tuesday Deadline
simultaneously with the an
r: uncement of the prize-list, the
Jaycees established a deadline of
6 P-m. Tuesday, July 9, for final
entries into the contest.
Judging and selection of “Miss
Wilmington” and her runners-up
VM highlight the Jaycee Beauty
P’m. ant ball the night of July 16
" Glen Gray and his world
Jontinned on Page Two; Col. 2)
Milk Goes Up Two Cents
/4s Subsidies Are Cut Off
* “ec-tive Monday morning the
p' d;e5 on milk and dairy products
' ■ oi economic necessity, go
;;; L. White, president of the
; :,-'s Ice Cream and Milk com
Pa: .v- said yesterday.
• jn announcing the price
O': ase of two cents on the quart
grade A milk, pointed out that
: the removal of subsidies, the
consumer would have to shoulder
‘ e Jad previously carried by the
government.
Jast returned from a general
mf'p' nE in Raleighj white said
n’.o-sbe , 0{ the North Carolina
airt roducts association and
Norah And Children Arrive
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Norah Carpenter, unwed English girl, and her three surviving
quadruplet children leave LaGuardia airport at New York after
arriving by plane from London. With them is Jack Warner of
Pittsburgh, a cousin of the babies’ father, former Staff Sgt. Wil
liam Thompson of Pittsburgh. The children, left to right, are
Madeline, Michael and Maureen. Norah hopes to marry Thomp
son as “soon as possible.’’ He was divorced from his wife
recently.
Split Menaces Meat
Price Control Move
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, i
SENATORS COLLIDE
Barkiey Says New OP A
Bill May Go To Presi
dent By End Of Week
WASHINGTON, July 6—(J5)- A
Democratic split threatened today
to block the revival of meat price
controls in any OPA renewal bill
the senate may pass next week.
With Republicans massing be
hind him, minority whip Wherry
(Neb.), told a reporter he is sat
isfied at least a dozen Senate
Democrats also will support his
proposal to cut meat and poultry
off the list of controlled products
if the Office of Price Administra
tion is revived.
Senator Murdock (D.-Utah), said,
however, that if any such action
finally is sustained by congress
and the bill is sent to the President
in that form, he expects that it
will be vetoed.
Challenges Estimate
Murdock, himself, a stockman,
challenged Wherry’s estimate of
majority support for the elimina
tion of meat, asserting:
‘‘I can't see how any Democrat
can go against the President’s
wishes in such a grave crisis.”
But there was ample evidence
that several Democrats intend to
support the Wherry proposal. Al
ready publicly committed to this
course are such veterans as sena
tors George of Georgia McCarran,
of Nevada, and Radcliffe, of Mary
land.
Administration lieutenants ad
mitted that an informal nose
count indicated they will have to
bring back to Washington some of
the Senators who have gone home
to patch up their political fences
if they are to have a chance of
beating down what they tabbed as
a ‘‘highly objectionable” amend
ment.
It will be (he Senate s first head
on collision with the meat is
sue. Democratic leader Barkley
(Ky), carefully avoided any such
' showdown when he was piloting
through the original extension bill
which President Truman vetoed.
In that case, a committee vote
to decontrol meat, poultry and
dairy products was allowed to
stand without a roll call challenge.
This allowed a Senate-House con
ference committee to reinstate
such controls and send back to
both houses a report that was ap
proved without a separate test on
the issue.
But Wherry said he is determin
ed to get a record Senate vote this
time. If he wins, Barkley then will
be obliged to attempt to elimi
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the Milk Producers association
thoroughly discussed and threshed
out the whole problem of price and
subsidies. Since 1943 when the
government granted subsidies to
producers in the amount of 535 mil
lions annually, the cost has been
borne by the consumer through
increased taxes.' Now that the
subsidy program has come to a
halt the cost will be borne direct
ly
May Be Temporary
When increased cost of produc
tion threatened to lower volume
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Chapel Hill Rally
Demands A New OP A
CHAPEL HILL, July 6—(/P)—
Bright yellow balloons wdth
inscriptions warning of “sky
high’’ prices floated through
the streets here this afternoon
as a group of students, ad
vocating the return of price
controls, took to the sidewalks
with their campaign.
The demonstration, led by a
group of student veterans,
came on the heels of a peti
tion, initiated by the Phi Lit
erary society, that urged the
reinstatement of a “workable
OPA.” More than 1,000 signa
tures were affixed to the
resolution which was forward
ed to North Carolina senators
and congressmen.
The resolution was drafted by
Jim Taylor, Phi president, and
was unanimously adopted.
BLACKLISTING OF
PRO-NAZIS ENDS
Britain And U. S. Agree To
Lift Ban On Trading
With Collaborators
WASHINGTON, July 6—(fP) —
The United States and Britain have
agreed to discontinue their black- •
lists of thousands of foreign firms
accused of collaborating with the '
Axis during the war, it was learn
ed today. An official announce
ment is due Monday.
The British and American lists,
covering almost exactly the same
names, total approximately 5,880
foreign firms and individuals in
Latin-America and in the former
European neutral countries. Coun
tries which will be most directly
affected by discontinuance outside
this hemisphere are Spain, Portu
gal Sweden, Switzerland, and Tur
key.
British Wanted It
Negotiations have been under
way between the State department
and British foreign office for about
two months to work out a method
of ending the list. It had been
carried on long after the war’s
end.
Both to keep some economic con
trols on questionable firms and to
give a competitive break to those
firms which had collaborated with
the Allies.
The method of abandonment
agreed upon, according to author
itative informants, is supposed to
provide for granting licenses for
American companies which from
now on wish to do business with
the listed foreign companies and
individuals. Thus a kind of con
trol will be maintained for a rela
tively short time. The treasury is
to handle the licenses.
In Effect 5 Years
Since the blacklist went into ef
fect July 17, 1941, American firms
had been forbidden to do business
with the concerns named in it.
Stiff penalties were provided for
any violation. Conversely this
was used as an inducement to for
eign firms to avoid doing business
with the Axis and thus keep off
the list.
Some months ago Ihe British be
gan demanding an end to the
blacklist. Their argument was
that they had to restore their for- i
eign trade as quickly as possible I
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rky Revealed
as Agent For
Lumber Firm
Served Firm Which Receiv
ed $48,000 For Mater
ials Never Delivered
DOCUMENTS DISCLOSED
Representative Says He Did
Not Profit From Large
War Contracts
WASHINGTON, July 6.— (U.R) —
Documents and cancelled checks
read into Senate War Investigating
committee records revealed today
that Rep. Andrew J. May. D.. Ky..
served as agent for a Kentucky
lumber company which received
$48,000 for lumber it never de
livered.
May. chairman of the House Mili
tary Affairs committee, issued a
statement saying he “did not profit
in any way or respect” from war
contracts obtained by a so-called
■paper empire” of Illinois muni
tions firms.
The combine handled more than
$78,000,000 in government war con
tracts. Previous witnesses testified
that May exerted pressure on the
Army on behalf of the firms.
Testified
May revealed that he had testi
fied before a secret session of the
Senate committee June 4. He
questioned failure of Senate com
mittee Chairman James Mead, D..
N. Y., to make his testimony pub
lic and demanded thgt Mead do so
now.
The committee deferred until
next week a decision whether to re
lease publicly a transcript of May's
secret testimony and whether to
summon May to tell publicly what
he knows about the Cumberland
(Ml Lumber Co. and 16 other firms
whose wartime profits are under
scrutiny.
Climaxing nearly a week of rapi
fly-unfolding developments which
linked May's name to the inquiry,
a general accounting office official
testified today that May personally
cashed $18,634.07 in checks paid
Cumberland lumber by two parents
concerns—Erie Basin Metal Pro
ducts Co., Elgin, 111., and the
Batavia Oil.) Metal Products Co.
The official—George Scahffer—
also introduced certificates signed
by the Kentucky secretary of state,
dated Aug. 5, 1943, permitting
Cumberland lumber to operate in
Kentucky and designating “Andrew
J. May of Prestonburg, Ky.” as
agent for the company. Committee
Counsel George Meader said “An
drew J. May’’ was Congressman
May, whose home is in Preston
burg.
Bribery Charge
A bribery charge was brought in
to the hearing by Sen. Hugh B.
Mitchell, D.. Wash., a committee
member, disclosed that a Ben
Fields, whom he identified as an
agent for Erie basin firm, had of
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ITALIANS ATTACK
ALLIED VEHICLES
Inspired By Mass Meeting
Protesting Decision By
Big Four Ministers
ROME, July 6—(JP)—A scream
ing mob of several hundred Ital
ian youths, inspired to hostile dem.
ontsrations against tbs allies by
a mass meeting protesting deci
sions of the four-power foreign
ministers in Paris, tonight attack,
ed several authomobiles bearing
allied military personnel and
civilians.
Although the mob hurled large
timbers and stones at passing
jeeps and other cars, only a few
minor casualties were reported.
The youths — constituting the
overflow from a mass demonstra
tion in People’s square against
decisions by the foreign minis
ters which they considered against
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Truman Expresses Hope
For World Unity, Peace
By ERI’EST B. VACCAR
GETTYSBURG, Pa., July 6.—(A5)
—President Truman, filled with
optimism over prospects for agree
ment on the European peace treat
ies, expressed a hope today for a
united world pursuing the paths of
eternal peace.
Conditions in the world as the
aftermath of history’s greatest ai
are much like those which beset
this nation after the war between
the states, he declared, and this
knowledge can be tremendous help
ir guiding the forces of peace.
The chief executive, lo-.iing
solemnly at the Gettysburg p- ce
RUSSIANS TAKE MAJOR PART
OF INDUSTRIES IN A USTRIA f
AS GERMAN REPARA TIONS
. *
Soviet Maneuver To Keep Armies
Spread Over Eastern Europe Seen
BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, July 6—(TP)—
A Russian maneuver to keep
Soviet armies spread over
Eastern Europe as long as pos
sible is being predicted private
ly by diplomatic authorities
here despite the progress on
peace-making at Paris.
Failure of the Russians to
follow such a line, it is said
would mark a major change in
Kremlin foreign policy, air.,
would ease tensions among
the great powers far more than
is expected as things norv stand.
The withdrawal of occupation
armies as early as possible is
known to be one of the ob
Storm Danger Passes;
Damage Here Is Slight
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RAIN RECORD SET
Gale Reaches 50 - Miles -
Per - Hour Before It
Blows Out To Sea
Heavy winds and rains which
lashed the eastern Carolina coastal
area had subsided last night, and
local Weatherman Paul Hess said
that all danger of a reptiaon of
the 1944 storm was past.
A 50-mile-an-hour gale which had
threatened to increase to a near
hurricane proportions began to
move out to sea about day-break
yesterday and joy mid-afternoon
was raging about 60 miles at sea
as it moved up the coast.
The third consecutive day of rain
also set an all-time record for
July 3-4-5 with a reported rainfall
of 4.78 inches. High totals for
those days since 1871, when the
local weather bureau was estab
lished, were 3.5 inches in 1874; 3.8
inches in 1887, and 2.56 inches in
1933.
Back from the coast little dam
age was reported as a check was
made with farm agents and law
enforcement officers in other
counties.
At Wrightsville Beach slight
property damage was reported
from the wind although several
sail boats and small craft slipped
their moorings and were lost.
Some Water Damage
Many residents reported water j
damage to furnishings as the •• uid'j
blew water into cottages and
homes.
Carolina Beach police officers
reported no damage to private
property although telephone and
electric lines were blown down by
the wind. Tidewater Power com
pany workers were on the iob
early yesterday to repair damage
to their lines.
Many pond? remained ir, yards
of private homes yesterday fol- j
lowing a night of heavy rains and
winds. Dirt streets were badly
damaged according to city officials
who declared immediate steps
would be taken for their repair.
Streets on which there were
washouts were either blockaded
or given immediate repair as all
street crews were put on main
tainance work to do emergency
work.
There wa ? little damage through
out the city although several large
trees were blown over by the
winds. State highway engineers
were on the j"b all day yesterday
repairing and estimating damage
done to state roads.
The rain also caused a cancella
| tion of the Wilmington-Whiteville
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monument dedicated by former
President Franklin D. Roosevelt in
1938, read the inscription at t' 5
base:
“Peace eternal in a nation
united.’’
If you changed “nation,” to
“world,” . said, you would really
have something.
As reporters met him at the
monument during a brief vacation
tour of this historic national
shrine, thL President expressed the
wish he could make an announce
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jectivcs of Secretary of State
Byrnes. One of the reasons Byr
nes has been in haste to lay
down peace treaties with Ro
mania, Hungary, Bulgaria and
Finland (his summer is his
expresses belief that this would
be the first step toward get
ting Russian armies out of
those countries.
The logical next steps in
Byrnes program would be con
clusion of a peace treaty with
Austria and review of German
occupation problems which
have a bearing on the number
of Russian troops in Poland.
Some information reaching
Washington is that the issue of
Cape Charles-Hatteras
Storm Warnings Raised
WASHINGTON, July 6—(JP)
—Storm warnings were order
ed at 1 p.m. from Cape
Charles, Va., to Cape Hat
teras, N. C., by the weather
bureau.
Small craft warnings were
ordered displayed from Cape
Charles to Cape Hatteras. It
said a small tropical storm
was centered 80 miles west
southwest of Cape Hatteras at
2:30 p.m., EST.
It added the storm would
continue to move northeast
ward at about 10 to 15 miles
an hour, passing out to sea 50
miles south southeast of Nor.
folk, Va., early tonight.
Shifting winds of 35 to 40
miles an hour over a small
area near the center of the
disturbance were reported.
CRASH IOTt I;
INQUEST PLAN 9
Kannapolis Couple Die;
George Bordeaux Free
Under $2,000 Bond
George Bordeaux, Carolina j
Beach, was freed under $2,000 bond
yesterday awaiting a coroner’s in
quest Tuesday night in the death
of two Kannapolis residents in an
automobile accident Friday night
on the Carolina Beach road.
Dead were Miss Patsy Ruth Rob
erts and VV. L. Nance. Miss Rob
erts was killed instantly. Nance
died early yesterday morning in
James Walker Memorial hospital.
Bordeaux was arrested on a
charge of "reckless operation of a
motor vehicle resulting in death’’
by R. E. Sherrill of the State
Highway Patrol.
According to Sherrill, the car
driven by Bordeaux rammed an
automobile in wh'ch Miss Roberts,
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COUNCIL TO WEIGH
CITY MANGERSHIP
Mayor Hopes Matter Can
Be Settled At Session
Next Thursday
Mayor W. Ronald Lane said yes
terday he hopes the City council
session called for 10 a. m. next
Thursday will succeed in naming a
city manager to succeed A. C.
Nichols.
Acting City Manager J. R. Ben
son, who is generally conceded to
have the inside track with a major
ity of the councilmen, has insisted
that he wants the position only if
there is complete harmony and a
unanimous council vote.
Mayor Lane told the Star-News
last night that there are already
seven or eight applicants for the
post and that there will undoubted
ly be more applicants between now
and next Thursday.
Mayor Lane was prepared to
present the list of applicants for the
position last Friday but the council
remained occupied with prelimi
nary budget hearings until ad
journment and the city manager
question did not come up.
occupation armies already is
taking form. Byrnes is report
ed by some informants to fav
or an agreement among the
big powers that occupation
troops would be withdrawn
from a country about three
months after the peace treaty
had been signed.
Foreign Commissar Molotov^
on the other hand, reportedly
favors making ratification of
the treaty the critical f)oint
by which to fix the deadline for
troop removals. Since months
or even years may elapse be
tween the time that a treaty
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HOLIDAY DEATHS '
NOW SET AT 330
Toll Is Lower Than Expect
ed But Real Test Will
Come Today
By The Associated Press
Fourth of July holiday deaths
rose to 330 yesterday.
Compared with advance predic
tions, however, the toll of death
from violent causes indicated that
safety-conscious Americans were
keeping their celebration of the
long Independence Day week end
on a comparatively safe and sane
level.
Safety experts predicted the real
test would come today when mil
lions of motorists who left their
homes for the holiday period re
turn over the traffic-clogged roads.
A survey showed that since 6
p. m. (local time) Wednesday, 157
persons were killed in traffic ac
cidents, 97 drowned and 76 met
death from miscellaneous acciden
tal causes.
The national safety council had
predicted the four-day holiday
would cause 1,300 deaths from
violent causes including 450 traf
fic accident victims and that of the
800 probably killed outright, 275
would be traffic fatalities.
New York led the states with
26 violent deaths. Six states. Ar
kansas, Delaware, Georgia, Maine, j
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COLLEGE COURSE
FORMS EXPECTED
Application Blanks Will
Be Here Next Week,
Says Roland
—
University of North Carolina au
thorities yesterday notified H. M.
Roland, superintendent of New
Hanover schools, that registration
blanks for the freshman college
courses to be conducted at the local
high school next fall would be sent
here within the next 10 days.
Judging from verbal inquiries re
ceived to date. Roland said that
more than 75 Wilmington veterans
and non-veterans already have in
dicated that they will enroll in the
University extension here.
Registration will be held on July
22 and 23 in the New Hanover High
school and will be open to both men
and women, veterans and non-vet
erans.
Although only freshman subjects
will be taught during the coming
year, the local extension is sched
uled to be expanded to include
sophomore work in 1947-48.
Terror Wave Starts New
Exodus Of Poland9s Jews
WARSAW, July 6-UP)—The flight
of Jews from Poland was report
ed today to*have increased in the
wake of the bloody pogrom at
Kielce and many were said to be
trying to cross the frontier into
Czechoslovakia or stow^away on
ships in Baltic ports bound for
Scandinavian countries.
In Warsaw frightened Jews
crowded the corridors of the Hotel
Polonia seeking military permits
from the American military at
tache for transit through Ger
many en route to France. Others
sought visas from Czech authori
CABINET SUMMONS
PARLIAMENT MEET;
ALLIES NOT TOLD
Soviets Claiming 75 Per
Cent Of Republic’s In
dustrial Capacity
Bv LYNN HEINZERLING
VIENNA, July 6— (/P) —
The Russians announced to
day they had taken owner
ship of a major part of Aus
tria's industrial capacity and
other property as German re
[parations, and the Austrian
cabinet summoned a special
meeting of parliament.
The Russians acted without in
forming their allies. Austrian of.
ficials declared the Soviets were
claiming 75 per cent of the repub
lic s industrial capacity.
The Soviet order took over $22,
000,000 worth of industry in east
ern Austria along with other
“German external assets.” The
Russians insist property taken by
the Germans after annexing Aus
tria in 1938 is subject to seizure
as German reparations under the
Potsdam agreement—a view pro
tested by the United States and
by Austria.
Clark Urges Care
Gen. Mark Clark, American
commander in Austria, immedi
ately sent a message to Soviet
Commander Col. Gen. L. V. Kur
rasov urging great care in the
carrying out of his order, and
one to the Austrian government
declaring it was not necessary to
turn over property which was not
a German asset.
Chancellor Leopold Figl’s cabi
net after a special meeting call
ed an extraordinary session of
parliament for next Wednesday. A
communique declared Socialist
and Communist members of the
government joined With other
members in the view that
properties which were Aus
trian before the annexation
should still be regarded as Aus
trian and.not as German assets.
For months the Russians have
been taking control of properties
in eastern Austria which they
classify as German assets. The
United States has objected that
properties taken forcibly by the
Germans should not be classified
as German-owned.
The Russians have refused to
discuss the question in the allied
council for Austria, but last May
15 agreed they would not seize
any more properties without in
forming the council.
Needs Authorization
The government communique
said the cabinet did not have the
right to comply with the Soviet
order without authorization by the
allied council. It said the Russian
claimed properties had decisive
significance for Austrian recon
struction and economy, and that
the Potsdam agreement under
which the Russians acted never
had been disclosed officially to
the Austrian government.
“It is likewise known that the
extent of the concept of ‘German
property’ even by these Potsdam
decisions is not completely clear.
The Austrian parliament as well
as the federal government has al
ways asserted that it is of vital
importance to interpret this con
cept so that it does not include
property which belonged to Aus
tria before 1938," the communique
said.
"The Austrian government must
reject every act which seeks to
solve this question in any other
than from a legal standpoint. It
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ties which would permit them to
leave Poland bound for France,
America or Palestine via Czecho
lovakia.
Despite the governmen 's efforts
to afford protection to the Jews,
their fears of additional anti
Jewish violence seemed to have
been crystallized by the Kielce
Pogrom.
The newspaper Rezecpolita
charged that agents of Gen. Wlady
slaw Anders, who commanded the
Polish troops fighting in Italy,
took advantage of weariness of
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