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sjy ilmtwtfmt nnttttn __ __—-— —— _ _________________________^ _• VOL. 79-~Na 234‘ WILMINGTON, N. C., SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1946 ESTABLISHED 1867 extended season Sew Hanover Beaches To Stay Open After Labor Day The hostelries and recreation centers of New Hanover county’s beaches will definitely remain vide open after Labor Day, all through September, and probably through October to accommodate .'ne thousands of vacation-starved j-ev Yorkers who were unable to \e, vacation - accommodations in the North this summer. ‘ The decision to stay open after the traditional Labor Day closing vas reached yesterday by officials and hotel-owners of the beaches after a day-long conference with H Burt McElfresh, transportation advertising manager of the New York Sun, one of Manhattan’s larges- metropolitan newspapers. Sought Accomodations McElfresh journeyed down here on a mission for the particular purpose of securing vacation-ac comodations for The Sun’s thou sands of vacation-anxious reader*. According to McElfresh, the beach resorts of the North have been booked solid since the mid dle of June, leaving thousands of New Yorkers who crave a vaca tion after four years of war with out a place to go. To Advertise Resorts Now that the local beaches will definitely remain open during Sep tember and probably October, The Sun will devote pages of advertis ing toward boosting them for fall vacations. “To my mind,” McElfresh said yesterday, “the beaches here are little short of superlative. They match, and then some, any beaches on either coast of the United States. “I’ll wager that thousands of See BEACHES on Page Two OVERSEAS PLANES NOW “GROUNDED” International Air Travel Seriously Hampered By CAA Order WASHINGTON, July 12.—(U.R)— International air travel wag seri ously disrupted Friday after the government banned from the skies all Constellation planes, but air lines made every effort to speed stranded passengers jo their desti nations. As govern ment investigators went ahead with cheir inquiry into the huge airliners’ “mechanical failures," Constellation co-designer Howard Hughes lay near death in a Beverly Hills, Calif., hospital. Seriously Injured Hughes. 40-year-old multi-mil lionaire, was seriously injured last Sunday night when his latest brairchild, an experimental photo reconnaissance plane, crashed dur ing a test flight for the army. The Civilain Aeronautics admini stration ordered the four-motored Constellations grounded pending an investigation of a crash one °* the huge planes near Reading, Pa., while on a training flight. Caught By Surprise Its action caught the airlines by surprise, but they promptly dis patched Douglas Skymasters to pickup stranded travelers. Pan American Airways had a London-bound plane with 37 pas sengers down at Stephenville, Newfoundland, and another at Roberts Field, Liberia, with 18 aboard. The second plane was headed for Leopordville, in the Belgian Congo, by tvay of Libson. nanes uispaicnea Two TWA Constellations were grounded at Gander Lake, New foundland-one bound for La Guar dia Field, New York, and the other for Paris. Other planes were dis patched to pickup all passengers. Also at Gander Lake was an American Overseas Airlines Con stellation. The company also has a plane down at Shannon, Eire. British Overseas Airways "tem porarily suspended until further notice” their bi-weekly New York London flights. Boeing flying boat service will continue there times weekly between Baltimore and Bermuda. To Halt Flights A spokesman for the CAA Said that the government will keep all Constellations grounded until me chanical faults are corrected. He said the government ordered the planes out of the skies at mid night Thursday because they had two successive crashes involving Mechanical failures. The first was at Williman+ir Conn., and the second at Reading, Pa. HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS By Alley -—— DET SATS £NNTfcOJ>T KiN MEK MONET PESE DATS AN' PAT'S SO, But Hit's &or To £E SECH §16 MONET IF To«J'5 6WIN6. SAVE SOME UV IT !’( -r ——' m - (Rclcuwd-Ty Tb« WlTIm- r l-(3~+IL <!i«tOnl5e.) Trade Mark •■ 7fc> ..Rif, U. B. Pit. OfflCfJ CHANNEL APPEAL TO BE UNIFIED City’ County, Business In terests Organize For Big River Hearing The Port City’s bid for a 35-foot deep Cape Fear river channel from the highway bridge to the sea was buttressed on all four sides—city, county, civic, and commercial—in a mass meeting of about 40 prom inent public and private local fig ures in the city hall council cham ber at 10 o’clock yesterday morn ing. Headed by R. B. Page, chairman of the State Ports authority, the meeting agreed unanimously to submit a strong and united appeal for a 35-foot channel at the U. S. Army Engineer’s big public hear ing on the matter on July 30. Committee Named To assure the fullest measure of success for the united appeal. Page appointed a steering committee to receive, compile, and integrate all material in support of the 35-foot proposal in complete readiness for the hearing. The committee, led by City In dustrial Agent John H. Farrell as chairman, is composed of J. T. Hiers, executive general agent of the Wilmington Port commission; H. E. Boyd, traffic manager of the Wilmington Port Traffic as sociation; J. D. Robbins, repre senting the fertilizer industry; R. W. Williams, representing the pe troleum industry; and Alex Hoff man, representing the shipping companies and agencies. To Submit Briefs In addition to the master-brief which the committee will draw up, each interested party will submit a separate brief. Further, the proposal will also be supported by interested organi zations of Fayetteville, Wallace, and Burgaw, and Committee Chairman Farrell said he would contact other towns and cities to draw still more support to the project. In Attendance Among the many 35-foot channel boosters at yesterday’s meeting were; Mayor W. Ronald Lane; Worth D. Williams, representing the Champion Compress and Ware house company, the Wilmington Terminal Warehouse company, and See CHANNEL on Page Two Leaf Quotas Win ATLANTA, July 12.—(U.R)—Early returns Friday night indicated that southeastern tobacco-growers had voted overwhelmingly in favor of a three-year continuation of federal tobacco marketing quotas. Returns from Georgia and North Carolina both gave three-year quo tas big leads in the balloting. Reports from 35 of Georgia’s 64 tobacco raising counties showed 5,500 for three-year quotas, 263 for one-year quotas, and only 517 opposed to quotas. In North Carolina, returns from five counties gave 2,214 votes for three-year quotas, 27 for one year quotas, and 29 against quotas. _ FORFJGN MINISTERS’ COUNCIL ADJOURNS AtfgR MOLOTOV BLOCKS BYRNES MOTIONS; 4NA te op a forces win major victory Wherry Loses Move To Help Big Business Administration Beats Down Motion Guaranteeing Profits GRAIN, TOBACCO OFF GOP - Southern Democrat Coalition Musters Un expected Strength WASHINGTON, July 13.— (UP) — Senate OPA forces won two major victories to night when they succeeded in beating down the Wherry amendment to guarantee whole salers and retailers their pre-war profit margins, and another Re publican move to ban all price controls but rent ceilings. The administration rally came after the anti-OPA coalition of southern democrats and republi cans mustered enough support to push through amendments prohibit ing any revived OPA from impos ing ceilings on grains and tobac cos. Roused Truman Ire The Wherry amendment—prop osed by Senate GOP Whip Kenneth Wherry of Nebraska—was one of the two amendments specifically singled out for bitter criticism by President Truman in his veto of the original extension bill. It lost by a vote of 46 to 29. It would have outlawed OPA’s former practice of making retailers and wholesalers absorb price increases granted manufacturers. The provision would have per mitted the dealers to use their Oc tober 1941 markup in computing the prices—instead of a markup spe cified by OPA. See WHERRY on Page Two 35-YEAR-OLD MEN | MAY FACE DRAFT War Department Says Fu ture Manpower To De termine Policy WASHINGTON, July 12.—OP)— The War deartment said Friday night that in the future it “may be necessary to consider the in duction of men through age 35’’ but that it had made no recom mendation to that end to Presi dent Truman. The press memorandum was is sued as a follow-up to Thursday night’s public declaration by Col. George A. Irwin, chief of Selective Service’s demobilization division, that the Army does not want any men past 35> and word ' from another official close to draft policy that the War department had re commended that the President raise the induction age limit. Based On Changes Today that official, advised of what the War department said, told reporters that as late as Thursday afternoon he understood the letter to the President had gone forward. Asking not to be quoted by name, he said all Selective Service plans were based on the change from 29 to 35 in the top draft age. See DRAFT on Page Two MAYBE IT’S WEATHER Joe, Susie Document Love Thoughts On Big Blotter^ NEW YORK, July- 12.—VP)—Want to know what Joe and Susie think about just before taking that dizzy plunge into matrimony? City marriage license bureaus car. tell you—it’s all fully docu mented ... on a score of blotters. Thousands jf June betrothed left their doodled impressions of the great leap while waiting for their licenses. They rejoiced, lamented, warned of approaching doom. Dottie “Sucker” “Mother-in-law,” they acribbled, with sketches. “Dottie is a sucker,” wrote Dottie. “Incompatibility, cruelty, infide lity and mental torture,” predicted one gloomy swain. ‘‘1 can hardly wait” wrote an other suitor, adding row after row of ecstatic Chinese characters. The blotters revealed an abun dance of terrible artistry. Marital love nests were sketched as elong ated quonset huts with smoking chimneys. Weeping Clem There w'ere scrawny little men in sackcloth, with ball and chain. There was Clem the Gook u’eeping bitter tears down to the margin of the blotter. See JOE, SUSIE on Page Two _New City Manager Reads Appointment \ James R. Benson, left, scans with evident approval, the document containing the announcement of his appointment as City Manager of the City of Wilmington which was made unanimously a few hours before by members of the City Council. Holding a corner of the paper and smiling happily too is his secretary, Miss Daisy Lee Woodbury, right. COLUMBUS GIRL HURT IN CRASH Miss Doris Smith In Criti cal Condition From Accident Doris Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Smith of the Western Prong section of Columbus County, is in a critical condition in the Columbus county hospital as a result of injuries sustained Thurs day night about 10 o’clock when the car in which she was riding crashed into a tractor-pulled wagon loaded with tobacco sticks. The im oact of the crash drove the to oacco sticks through the wind, shield into Miss Smith’s face caus ing, according to attending doc tors, severe intra-cranial damage and many and extensive lacera tions of the face and scalp. Driver Injured Also injured in the accident was Pink Bright, driver of the tractor] which was pulling the wagon. Bright, who sustained a head con- j cussion, a fracture of the left leg. and bruises, was reported in a satisfactory condition Friday. Two children riding in the wagon es caped with minor bruises and shock. On Clarkton Road In the car with Miss Smith was , Don Sheffield of Whiteville, son of I Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Sheffield, who was uninjured. The accident occur See GIRL on Page Two , he Weather FORECAST South Carolina and North Carolina— Mostly fair and , continued rather hot Saturday and Sunday. Scattered thun dershowers coastal areas Saturday and Sunday. Eastern Standard Time (By U. S. ’Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m.. yesterday. Temperatures 1:30a 76; 7:30a 76; l:30p 86; 7:30p 80. Maximum 88; Minimum 73; Mean 78; Normal 79. Humidity 1:30a 96; 7:30a 89; l:30p 61; 7:30p 85. Precipitation Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. 0.00 inches. Total since the first of the month. 12.15 inches. Tides For Today (From the Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey) High Law Wilmington_ 9:06a 4:07a 9 :40p 4 :1 lp Masonboro Inlet _ 6:44a 1:02a 7:19p 12:52p Sunrise 5:10; Sunset 7:25; Moonrise 7:14p; Moonset 4:16a. River stage at Fayetteville, N. C., at 8 a.m. Friday—19 feet. COBLE DAIRIES TO PAY $5.80 HUNDRED FOR GRADE-A MILK LEXINGTON, July 12. — UP) — George Coble, proprietor of Coble Dairies, one of the south's largest milk purchasing cremeries, said Friday night that Coble Dairies would pay <5.80 per 100 pounds for Grade-A milk. This increase, Coble explained, is five per cent more than was asked by the state milk producers at a See COBLE on Page Two Along The Cape Fear EXTRAORDINARY SIDE—Yes terday we said we needed a rest Erom telling those tall but true tales of biological oddities. Today, therefore, it is with a good deal of pleasure and relief that we tell you about a tomato plant grown by Mr. Neal Holder of Woodlawn, because Mr. Holder's tomato plant (thank heavens) is growing not potatoes but tomatoes, as all well-behaved tomato plants aught to. In a way, though, Mr. Holder’s tomato plant is a bit on the extra ordinary side. Its branches bear no less than 37 tomatoes. If that isn’t a record for Cape Fear tomato plants or any other plants of the species anywhere in the U. S. A., we’d like to hear about it * * * ELM TREE TREMOKS — You never saw such a tomato plant in your life, nor we in ours. When Mr. and Mrs. Carl Rehder, Mr. Hold er’s neighbors, showed it to us, we thought it was an elm tree. On second glance, howecer, we noticed those 37 tomatoes, and Mr. and Mrs. Rehder reassured us that it was, beyond any doubt, a bona fide tomato plant. Their reassurance came just in time, too. We were ready to burst out screaming that we could stand ' omato-potatoes, . shell-less eggs, and multi-eared corn but that a tomato-bearing elm tree was far and away too much for our shat tered nerves. That’s as close as we ever want to get to having the elm tree tre mors. * * * WOODLAWN SEED-CATALOG- j We also discovered something else remarkable during our pilgrimage to the giant Woodlawn tomato plant. Woodlawn, like most of the south ern section of the city, is built on top of extremely sandy soil. Off hand you wouldn’t 'if you’re as inexpert farmers as we are) sus pect that soil of such a gritty na ture would grow anything but sand spurs and sandhills. On the contrary, however, Wood lawn is almost overrun with lush Post-Victory gardens. The Wood lawn folks have charmed that soil into sprouting butter beans, squash, pole beans, cucumbers, cantloupes. watermelons, onions, and just about everything else you can find in the seed-catalog. See CAPE TEAR bn Page Two THOUSANDS MOURN AT HILLMAN BIER Final Rites For Labor Lead er Held In Aging Car negie Hall NEW YORK. July 12 — (fPl—1Thou sands of mourners—from labor’s rank and file to high government officials—overflowed Carnegie hall Friday as funeral services were held for Sidney Hillman, 59-year old labor and political leader. More than 3,0G9 persons crowded into the famous auditorium. Police estimated another 20,000 stood about adjacent streets. First In History It was the first time in Carnegie hall’s 55-year history that a reli gious funeral service was held in the building. Part of the service was broadcast (WMCA). Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace represented President Philip Murray, CIO president, in a eulogy, pledged his high resolve “to carry forward toward the at tainment of our political emancipa tion and our true political .veedom, both in the CIO and in all matters pertaining to the activities of the Political Action committee.” Wise In Charge Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, president of the World and American Jewish congresses who conducted the ser vice, said Hillman “gave his life for his country and for the winning of the war against the would-be enslavers of mankind.” “America gave him much,” Wise said, “he gave America all of the great and creative life, dedicated to the hopes and ideals of demo cracy.” After the service a cortege of between 250 and 300 automobiles drove through the garment district where workers—whose machines See HILLMAN on Page Two Soviet Stands Pat Against Peace Move Russian Representative Takes Position That Displaced Nazis Must Be Deported; Secretary May Stay PARIS, July 12. — (AP) — The Four-Power Foreign Ministers’ council adjourned its 28-day session Monday night after Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov stood firm against any moves that would have led to immediate settlement of Austrian or German problems, A British source said. The Soviet minister blocked an American proposal that BENSON IS NAMED TO MANAGER POST Former City Clerk Is Unan imous Choice Of City Council J. R. Benson, acting city manag er of Wilmington since May 1, was appointed to the permanent post yesterday afternoon by unanimous vote of the seven-man city council meeting in special session. Benson, accepting the position immediately after the council’s ap pointment, issued the following statement: Grateful "I am very grateful to the mem. bers of the city council for the confidence which they have shown me by their action in tendering me the position of city manager. I shall in due course address an official communication to the may or accepting this position. “In accepting the position I fully realize the many problems that I will be called upon to solve and shall always welcome sug gestions from anyone interested in bettering the city. Vitally Concerned “In addition to my material in vestment in the city I have practic ally my entire mature life invested in the city government and am therefore vitally interested in giving the city a sound, progressive, and popular administration, and with God’s help I shall strive to ac complish this end. “If and when I become convinc ed that this is not being accomp lished it is my vowed purpose then to ask the city council to trans fer me back to my former posi tion as city clerk and appoint an other manager. Appreciation n-xpressea “I wish to take this opportunity to express my sincere appreciation to our citizens for the many ex pressions of confidence in me. It is such expressions of a willingness to cooperate that make it pos. sible for me to accept the posi tion.” Benson’s appointment, predict ed by The Star last Thursday, caps his 27-year career as an em ploye of the city government. He started on Sept. 19, 1919, as easier of the city water department In October, 1927, he was made city tax collector. Made City Clerk Then, in October, 1930, he was promoted to the post of city clerk the position he held until yester day. “Nobody knows the workings of the city government so well as Benson does,” Mayor W. Ronald Lane, speaking for the council, said yesterday. "I don t believe we could find a better or more logical man for the position ” Benson’s promotion to the perm anent post comes at a time when the Port City is facing the most difficult, yet most promising, See BENSON on Page Two KEEDOOZLE KLICKS Piggly-Wiggly Producer Has New Sales Wrinkler MEMPHIS, Term., July 12.—(U.R) _An automatic grocery which will do everything but warm your cof fee or eat your beans is the prom ise of the Automatic Systems, Inc., chartered Friday by Clarence Saunders. Saunders, who knows something about making promises to house wives and getting rich in the deal _only to go bioke—says his new venture will be ‘'the biggest busi ness in the world." To Sit Tight And he aims to hold on to his | money this time, assuming he cleans up on his machines—called '‘Keedoozle." Middle-aged ladies probably re call Saunders’ first venture in the national grocery business, when in 1916 he conceived the idea of self service stores and thought up the screwball name ‘'Piggly-Wiggly.” Saunders amassed a fortune on Piggly-Wiggly (Now Krogers) and started building a tremendous home known as the “Pink Palace” in Memphis. Irks Wrong Crowd While trying to make a $43,000, See PIGGLY-WIGGLY on Page 2 V0U.1C1 nave tuauuaiicu n apcuicii :ommission to draft a peace treaty vith Austria and declined to permit he authorization of a commission ;o draw up 3 definition of German assets in Austria, the British in formant said. Refuse Support Molotov further refused to sup. port a plan to set up a central ad ministration for all Germany ex cept the Saar basin. British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin presided at the night session which wound up the current meet ing of the ministers of the United States, Great Britian, France and Russia. His gavel dropped at 8:10 p. m. (3:10 p. m. Eastern Standard time) and he commented: “Well, we shall meet again at the peace conference.” Asks Deportation American sources said Molotov’s opposition to making any immedi ate decision on the Austrian situ ation was closely allied to his charge that several hundred thou sand displaced persons who have Fascist and pro-Hitler backgrounds still are in Austria. These persons must be deported Molotov has reiterated. The other ministers previously indicated they would support such a deportation move. To Demand Voice At the close of the discussion on Germany, President Georges Bi dault of France said he would bring up the question of the next meet ing of the ministers — a special one in the fall — and would demand the right of other nations interest ed in the problem to sit in with the four-power ministers. Bidault named Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Denmark as the interested nations. U. S. Secre. tary of State James F. Byrnes said he would support Bidault’s pro posal. The French government earlier See SOVIET on Page Two STATE AIRLINES ASKS FOR ROUTE Wilmington-Louisville, Ky. Connection Proposed By Line ■#> State Airlines, Inc., of Charlotte, one of the many new airlines seek, ing routes through Wilmington, has applied to the Civil Aeronautic* board for extensive east-west inter state routes, according to a list of tentative plans received yesterday by John H. Farrell, city industrial agent. Routes Sought Among the routes now up for CAB approval are: Wilmington Roanoke, Va.: Wilmington-Louis ville, Ky.; New Bern-Chattanooga, Tenri.; and Cincinnati-Charleston, S. C. Liners Ordered With a favorable CAE decision expected by the end of this year. State Airlines has several modern Boeing and Lockheed airliners on order. Converted Douglas DC-3’s will also be used: In addition to carrying passeng ers, the line plans to haul air mail, express, and heavy cargo. And So To Bed Yesterday afternoon a lady and a little girl started to get into their car parked on Prin cess street between Second and Third, Suddenly they backed out of the car, waved their arms, and did a dance on the sidewalk. A passer-by, observing their gyrations, approached them to see what was the matter. Then suddenly he, too, joined them, in the wild, arm-waving dance. A few seconds later a huge bumblebee stopped its aerial gymnastics around the trio and zoomed off due east toward Third street. ^ A
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