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ilmingtnn noting VOL. 79—NO. 237. WILMINGTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1946 ~ ESTABLISHED 1867^ ON TO ATLANTIC CITY yiary Jarman CrownedMiss Wiltnigf^j Before Record 4,100 Crowd gef Picture On Page Two by PHIL WRIGHT The 'orch of Venus touched the light brown hair of Miss Man-Jarman last night as she became Miss Wilmington of 1916. , . The blue-eyed, 21-year-old daughter of Mrs. Mary Jarman, 4:7 N. Third street, was ac elaimed the most beautiful of them all in the Wilmington junior Chamber’s Beauty Page ant before 4.100 delighted spec tator? in the ballroom of the Lumina, WrightsviUe Beach. jt was the largest crowd in the long history of the famous resort center, surpassing the 3 200 who attended a dance which the late Hal Kemp play ed there in 1937. WITNESS TELLS OF $1,000 ROLLS Cases Of Liquor Also Men tioned In War Profits Inquiry BY ALEX H. SINGLETON WASHINGTON, July 16.—(JP)—A description of packages addressed to generals and cases of gift liquor in the Wash ngton office of a muni tions combine, and of a contact man who habitually carried a roll of SI.000 bills, was given Tuesday to the Senate War Investigating committee. The picture, with some details lacking, came from husky, mellow voiced Louis Sarelas, a self-styled "sensitive soul” who was manager of the companies’ Washington of f ce. Phone Inquiry In connection with the monied contact man, Joseph Freeman, Sa relas related an incident that oc curred when Chairman May (D. Kv) of the House Military com mittee once telephoned to inquire about Freeman’s whereabouts. "In a facetious moment,” Sare las said, "I replied that he was in Yew York making money for us. I realized I had overstepped the bounds of propriety. I was stunned at my own term. Congressman May chastised me in no uncertain terms.” Implication Not Clear Committee members pressed tile blushing witness for an explanation as to why he was so disturbed over the remark, and the degree to which May had “chastised” him. The implication of the incident, however, was not made clear. Sarelas, saying he was ‘‘com pletely covered with embarass ment'! and “red all over” because of his reply to May, testified that the congressman retorted at the time: "That isn’t what I asked you.” As Chairman Mead (D.-N. Y.i suggested that “chastisement does not sound too severe,” Sarelas de tnered that he had not been ex posed for long “to the vagaries of Tfe.'1 and added: f am a rather sensitive soul and I must ask you not to take advantage of me.” No Advantage May I assure you that I won’t e advantage of you,” replied Mead. Sarelas, under questioning about be affairs of the office, disclosed mat Freeman made a practice of oarrymg his money around with ,rn in $1,000 bills because he had no bank account. Sarelas told of returning from a ank where he had cashed a check Freeman, flourishing some of a grand” notes before friends. and remarking: Don’t get me wrong. I have to Pay this off.” , Are you sure you didn’t say Pay-off?’ ” inquired Senator Know >and ‘R.-Calif, i I may be stupid,” Sarelas re Phed, “but not stupid enough to _See SI,000 on Page Two HMIBONE’S meditations By Alley -"- '■> °*-£ oaUM W/MT To D£ <?OUT/M' B££ EM <SoT A HE-4P O' /MEWS P4T M' MAPPEM Y»T ' (Released 'bT^hTBell Syn ---» “1 dlcate. Inc.) Trade Mark R«r U. S. Pat. OlBeel Miss Jarman, whose beauty and poise were adjudged the most nearly perfect in a bevy of 12 lovelies by a group of judges headed by Glen Gray, leader of the famous Casa Lama orchestra, will now re present Wilmington in a state wide contest to be held in Wil son later this summer. And by her entry there she will have the opportunity to go on to the famous Atlantic City beauty contest which annually, except during the war, has chosen Miss America. She was crown ed last night by Wilmington’s mayor, W. Ronald Lane. In the judging last night there were five finalists of the 12 girls entered. Runner-up to Miss Jarman was Miss Sarah - ’■ '^dP* \ ber three was Mit . Stegall. Misses Mark >odwin and Judith Johnston were the other two of the five finalists. Comptometer Operator Miss Wilmington of 1946 — who before last night, of course, was Miss Jarman—is a comptometer operator for the Atlantic Coast Line railroad in the offices here. She is 21 years old and is five feet, seven in ches in height. She has been living with her mother here in Wilmington for five years, coming here in ,1941 from Dixon from whose high school she was graduated. See BEAUTY on Page Two The Weather FORECAST North and South Carolina: Wednesday, fair to partly cloudy with moderate tem perature. (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m., yesterday. Temperatures 1:30a 73; 7:30a 73; l:30p 77; 7:30p 76. Maximum 79; Minimum 71; Mean 74; Normal 79. Humidity 1:30a 94; 7:30a 89; l:30p 72; 7:30p 70. Precipitation Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m., 0.00 inches. Total since the first of the month, 13.87 inches. Tides For Today (From the Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey) Hi^h Low Wilmington - 11:52a 6:56a 6:49p Masonboro Inlet _ 9:29a 3:41a 9:56p 3:38p Sunrise 5:13; Sunset 7:23; Moonrise 9:56p; Moonset 8:08a See THE WEATHER on Page Two OVERSEAFLIGHTS SOll T FOR PORT Bluethenthal Authority To Redouble Efforts For Service The Wilmington-New Hanover Airport authority will redouble its efforts to get Bluethenthal airport declared an official port of entry for overseas plane flights to Ber muda and the Caribbean now that the Civil Aeronautics board has reopened the case on Colonial Air lines’ ■ application for the route, Hamilton E. Hicks, authority secre tary, said yesterday. Reopened Yesterday The celebrated case was reopen ed yesterday by CAB, a little less than two months after CAB turned down Colonial’s application for the disputed route. On June 5 a “protest meeting” against CAB’s adverse decision was held in Washington, D. C., by rep resentatives of Wilmington, Charleston, New Bern, Norfolk, and other cities of the Atlantic Coastal Cities Air Service associa tion. Protest Meeting CAB’s decision to reopen the case is considered a result of this “protest meeting” and other “char ges of discrimination” thrown at CAB by the Southern Coast cities. With a final decision on the case expected in about 60 days, Hicks said the airport authority would “double and redouble” its bid to get Bluethenthal airport, an $11, 000,000 installation and one of the five largest airports in the nation, established as Colonial’s port of entry for the proposed overseas hop. Port Of Entry If Colonial is granted the route, the airline itself must make appli cation to CAB, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Justice, and the Bureau of Cus toms for the city it wishes to be declared port of entry. Such appli cation can be made only by an airline, not by the city itself. “If Colonial is given the route, there is only one way in which Wilmington can become the hop ping-off point,” Hicks continued, “and that is by ‘selling ourselves’ to Colonial.” See AIRLINES on Page Two FILLING OF POSTS BIG COUNCIL TASK Vacancies Created By Ben s o n Promotion To Feature Meet Appointments to fill the posts of city clerk, city auditor, and city purchasing agent, left vacant by J. R. Benson’s promotion 10 city manager and the further devel opment of the proposed city zoning ordinance are expected to high light the city council meeting this morning. Although final council action on the clerk - auditor - agent matter may not be taken today, Benson is expected to nominate two can didates for the three-cornered job. Candidate Mrs. Mary jutherland, Ben son’s clerical assistant for about a dozen years, is the candidate for the city clerk role. D. B. Padgett, Benson’s account ing assistant for about four years, is slated for the auditor’s job. No candidate has jet been named for the position of purchasing agent. Three-Way Split ine tnree-way spilt of his old duties has been formulated by Benson himself since he took the post of city manager last Friday. Although the council has not yet entered into formal discussion on the proposal, it is expected that Benson’s recommendations will be carried out. As Benson has pointed out. the three-way split will entail little, if any, change in the city payroll. Mrs. Southerland and Padgett are already employed in about the same capacities they would fill under the proposed plan. Purchasing Agent The employment of a new per son as purchasing agent would be balanced by the fact that the old job of administrative assistant to the city manager, vacated recent ; ly by J. Fred Rippy, Jr., has been dissolved. The other matter confronting the city council this morning centers on the proposed zoning ordinance. Zoning Committee The three-man zoning commit tee, appointed by Mayor W. Ron ald Lane to hear suggestions from private citizens for changes in the tentative ordinance, is expected to set a new proposal on garage apartments before the council. Under the resent plans, ga rage apartments may be built on ly in certain designated areas. Restriction Relaxed However, acting on suggestions See COUNCIL on Page ’Two Undercover Clash FRANKFURT, Germany, July 16.— IJP) —American and Soviet armies in Germany engaged in a strange undercover clash of in telligence services Tuesday night. The Russians were believed to be holding two American officers incommunicado in Soviet terri tory and the U. S. Army said it was releasing to the Red Army three Russians, officially describ ed as “clandestine operatives in the U. S. zone of Berlin.” PUSH SHIPYARD DECISION SPA Officials Confer With Maritime Board BY FRANK VAN DER LINDEN Washington Bureau, The Star WASHINGTON, July 16.—R. B. Page of Wilmington, chair man of the North Carolina State Ports Authority; its counsel, former Governor J. M. Broughton of Raleigh; and Congressman J. Bayard Clark of Fayetteville conferred here late Tuesday with Maritime Commission officials in an ef fort to hasten a favorable de cision on the Authority’s pro posal to take charge of the Wilmington shipyard, without cash payment, in return for operation of a drydock there. Meet Again Today Reporting no definite de velopment, Governor Brough ton said the trio hoped to ob tain a clearer picture of the situation in another confer ence Wednesday with the com mission chairman, Admiral Smith. They confirmed the fact, published in the Star yester day, that the Maritime Com mission would keep the yard See PORTS on Page Two 4 SENA TE-HOUSE BACK IN CONFERENCE IN EFFOR TS TO PERFECT OP A BILL; VANDENBERG ASKS U.S.-RED ACCORD Tells Russia All Distrust Must Cease Lasting Accord Depends On Mutual Understanding, Friendship CITES PEACE FACTORS Michigander Says U. S. Recognizes Soviet Rights In World Bv JACK BELL WASHINGTON, July 16— (AP) — Senator Vandenberg (R.-Mich.) called on Russia Tuesday to understand the “simple truth” that there can be no lasting world peace un less the Russians and Ameri cans develop a dependable friend ship instead of the distrust and suspicion he said now exist. The Michigan senator painted for his colleagues a dark picture of conflicting viewpoints at the. Paris meeting of United States, British, Soviet and French foreign minis ters, which he attended as an ad viser. Brightens Canvas But he brightened the canvas with the prediction that “patience, fair play, tenacity and firmness” —qualities which he said had been displayed by Secretary of State Byrnes—would maite it possible “for eastern communism and western democracy to find friend ly, common ground.” See VANDENBERG On Page Two RESORT SERVICE TO BE BETTERED Local Telephone Manager Promises Improvement For Beach Improvements effecting substan tially better telephone service to Wrightsville Beach, have been promised by company officials of Southern Bell Telephone and Tele graph company. No definite date as to when the better service will be available was promised by O. G. Bain, gen eral manager of the Wilmington offices of the company, but phone service to the resort will be “much improved by next season at the very latest,” he stated. Calls Numerous Eain said the company realizes the service to this resort partic ularly, is not as good as the com pany would like it, but with an unprecedented number of calls daily, 45 per cent higher than those made last year, there are times when the operators are unable to answer immediately with the cus tomary, “number please.' This condition is due to con See TELEPHONES on Page 2 OVERSEAS TRADE Large Shipping Increase Seen For State’s Ports The ports of Wilmington and Morehead City are due for a “substantial increase” in post war foreign shipping, officials of the North Carolina Naviga tion company predicted yester day. The Wilmington company, in conjunction with the South At lantic Steamship Line, Savan nah, Ga., is now outlining a shipping program which will route at least 75 vessels per year between South Atlantic ports and foreign ports such as the United Kingdom, Eire, Continental Europe, Scandina via, and the Baltics, the of ficials said. “Full Share” Wilmington and Morehead City, they declared, will get their “full share of this traf fic,” with the program expect ed to get underway this fall. Both companies stand an ex cellent chance of increasing this shipping service from now on, the officials pointed out. The Savannah company, the parent firm, is a well establish ed outfit, having been founded many years ago. Fine Reputation The Wilmington company, though established only three years ago, has built up a fine reputations for its service dur ing the war. The Wilmington Shipping company is local agent for both lines. DRAFT HOLIDAY TO END SEPT. 1 25,000 Men To Be Induct ed First Month Under New Act WASHINGTON, July 16 —(U.P.)— Selective Service officials Tuesday announced drastic plans to mark the end of the current draft holi day Sept. 1 by inducting 25,000 men between the ages of 19 and 29 dur ing that month. Deferments will be held to a minimum. Simultaneously, Selective Serv ice Director Lewis B. Hershey au thorized the re-induction of veter ans in the 19-29 age group who served no time overseas and whose service in this country amounted to only six months or less. Fixes Draft Age Hershey sent telegrams to state draft directors announcing Septem ber induction plans shortly after President Truman formally fixed the minimum draft age at 19 years, according to terms of the Draft Ex tension act. No deferments for occupational reasons will be granted in Septem ber, Hershey ruled, unless the re gistrants are “indispensable and irreplaceable to the national exis tence.” Farmers Remain Free Farmers will remain free from induction under terms of the so called Tydings amendment ban ning the drafting of men essential to agriculture. Occupational deferments pre viously were granted to any regis trant “necessary to and regularly engaged in an activity in support of the national health, safety and interest.” Under the revised deferment policy, an estimated pool of 155, 000 in the 19-29 age group would be available for induction. Youths of 19 have enjoyed draft immunity since May 15, when Selective Serv ice, minus authority to induct teen agers, was extended for six weeks. The new-extension bill permitted their induction. No College Deferments Deferments previously allowed undergraduate college students for the completion of a quarter of semester no longer will be granted, See DRAFT on Page Two Along The Cape Fear VEGETABLE VERTIGO — The meritorious malady which is caus ing Woodlawnians and other Wil mingtonians to go completely gaga over Post-Victory vegetable gar dens evidently is one of the most delightfully contagious diseases ever to strike along the Cape Fear. The Lower Cape Fear country always has been a region ready and ripe for an attack of vege table-garden vertigo. But now, for the first time in history, the malady has reached epidemic proportions, because also (we believe) for the first time in history, a vegetable garden grows at Wrightsville Beach. ★ ★ ★ FROM SOUND TO OCEAN— That’s right. Wrightsville Beach, the strand which has sprouted nothing but sand, seashells, beach grass, and bathing beauties in the past, is now giving forth with the fruits of the good earth which normally grow elsewhere than right in the middle of summer re sorts. This fact, we contend, constitutes unassailable evidence that the vegetable-garden malady is raging hereabouts as it never has raged before. It wouldn’t surprise us too over whelming to find not only Wrights ville but all the other beaches of the Lower Cape Fear region cover ed from sound to ocean with rip pling wheat and waving corn some fine morning this fall. * ★ TRY IT IN SAHARA—The man who has wrought this miracle at Wrightsville Beach is too modest to reveal his name, but we will go so far as to disclose that his gar den is practically in the backyard of Lumina pavilion. Just about every day this man goes out to his garden and picks himself a basket full of butter beans, pole beans, peppers, and other vegetables to the lilting tunes of the juke boxes at the resort center. Of course his vegetables don’t grow right out of the sand. He took considerable pains in hauling some nice black dirt from the in terior onto the beach. But this doesn’t in any way take away credit from his triumph. Ii anything, ij enhances it. If you don't think so, suppose you try raising a garden in the | middle of Sahara the next time you I make a safari. 4 AUTO UNION ASKS STRIKE ON BUYING 40.000 To 50,000 Crowd Hears Reuther Plug For OPA By The Associated -’ress The CIO United Auto workers, sponsoring a national "people’s rally” against the upswing in liv ing costs, called Tuesday night for a week-long meat buying “strike” by the American public. Before a cheering, shirt-sleeved Detroit crowd, President Walter P. Reuther of the big union urged a meat buying strike as a means to “terrorize profiteers” and to restore “reasonable prices.” The proposed strike would start Wed nesday. Protests OPA End The auto union, marshalling its forces in a protest against the expiration of OPA, also had or ganized demonstrations in other cities in which it invited the parti cipation of all organized labor and civic and veterans groups. Reuther’s proposal for the meat strike was made first at Flint, Mich., where he addressed another rally before flying to Detroit. Production Upset Leaders of the UAW-CIO had called on workers to leave their jobs if necessary to attend rallies. In Detroit production was upset in at least one major auto compa ny—Chrysler—when an estimated 20.000 to 30,000 men left their jobs. On the other hand General Mot ors spokesmen said “as far as we know none of our workers walked out.” Ford reported its 70.000-man force at the Rouge plant virtually intact although 2,500 quit an hour early at the Lincoln factory, halt ting its production. Just First Target Declaring “reactionary ele ments” were “Hell-bent for the good old days,” Reuther said the auto union would make meat prices only its first target. Next, he said, the union will concentrate on rents and other items to “drive them into line.” Richard T. Leonard, a vice president of the UAW-CIO, charg ed the government has “broken it3 promise to control prices.” He also charged industry has “worked feverishly” to break price levels which were “an im plied provision in every wage con tract signed by labor.” Contracts must be open for re negotiation if price control is opened for destruction,” Leonard said. See BUYING on Page Two Truman Reported Ready To Sign Revised Measure Rumors Indicate President Will Approve Bill If Ceilings Are Placed On Meats, Poultry, Dairy Products WASHINGTON, July 16.—UP)—Reports circulated on capitol hill late Tuesday that President Truman has advised he will sign the new senate-approved OPA bill if Congress will remove its bans on price controls for meat, eggs, butter, milk and other living cost items. This word went around, although not immediately confirmed by Democratic leaders, shortly after the house, by a 211 to 64 vote, declined to accept the senate’s bill and directed that a senate-house committee write a compromise measure. By SANDOR S. KLEIN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 16.—The house sent the OPA revival bill to conference Tuesday, while the senate pared $50,000,000 (m) from the agency’s operating funds and ordered it not to spend any money for price control “prop aganda.” Wheeler Trailing In Early Returns HELENA, Mont., July 16.— (A5) — Youngish, New Dealing Leif Erickson ran powerfully in his rival’s home city to win a lead of more than 2,000 votes in early returns from Tues day’s primary in which Tru man-backed Burton K. Wheel er sought Democratic renom ination as U. S. Senator. The first of the state’s 1, 156 recincts gave Erickson 6, 922, Wheeler 4,798. Forty of these were in Butte and Silver Bow country and represented about two thirds of the heavy vote from that copper-mining area. SAN FRANCISCO VOTING TO KEEP LAPHAM AS MAYOR SAN FRANCISCO, July 16— (U.R)—Complete returns from exactly half of the city’s 1194 precincts Tuesday night showed San Franciscans by a heavy majority favored keeping Mayor Roger Lapham in of fice. Returns from 597 precincts in the city’s special recall election gave: For the recall: 36,556. Against 51,924. POSTAULERKS’ CHECKS DELAYED Congressional Action Is Held Up On Postoffice Bill Checks for payment of postal clerks for the period just ended, held up yesterday for lack of Congressional approval, are ex pected to be presented Wilmington employes some time today. Local postmaster Wilbur R. Dosher received official notifica tion yesterday to stop payment of all checks until further notice was received from Washington. Checks Delayed Meanwhile pay checks of the em ployes at Wilmington and else where in the nation are being de layed, except at smaller offices where payment was made yester day morning prior to the receipt of the notice from the capitol. The delay is due in main by a dispute between the House and Senate over a silver-price increase See CLERKS on Page T^vo THEY’RE ON AGAIN! Teen-Agers Solve Woes, Jamboree To Be Staged BY MABEL ROGERS Wilmington’s Teen - Agers were happy again tnis morning. Their on-again, off-again jamboree was on-again and definitely scheduled to be held at the Lumina, WrightsviUe Beach, tonight. Panic Spreads Here’s the story: Due to judicial difficulties the jambo ree was called off yesterday morning causing panic to spread in the teen-agers' king dom . . . telephones started ringing . • . groups started meeting . . . “What-to-do” was the roar of young voices. Then it happened, the judi cial difficulties disappeared, and at 6:25 last evening, seven excited youths, grinning from ear to ear stormed the Morning Star office to spread the glad tidings . . . “The Teen-Age Jamboree is on.” For And By Teen-Agers So for the first time in the South and as far as can be determined in the country — that is if it isn’t called off See TEEN-AGE on Page Two ■I A lew hours alter the nouse had overridden, 211 to 64, Republican attempts to keep the price control bill out of conference, the senate decided that a $106,650,000 (m) ap propriation for a non-existent agency was too much. The house previously approved that amount. Review In 30 Days Members who trimmed the grant to $56,650,000 (m) provided for a review of OPA's financial position within 30 days after passage of legislation reviving the agency, but specified that not a cent of this money should go to “preparing or disseminating general propa ganda in support of price control or any price control program." Senator Joseph H. Ball (R.-Minn) said the no “propaganda" amend ment would prevent a repetition of what he described as a propaganda campaign recently waged to in fluence Senate action on the price control bill. See OPA On Page Two ’ ■? CORNWELL SPEECH SET FOR BANQUET Wilmington Chrkcgi T o Fete Brogden, High Baseballers Highlighting the banquet honor ing the Eastern Conference cham pion New Hanover High baseball ' team to be giveq by five local civic clubs, Tuesday, July 23, will be the appearance of Oliver K. Cornwell, professor of physical education at the University of North Carolina, it was announced last night. The Wildcats, who lost a tilt for the state crown to Gastonia, will share honors with Coach Leon 1 Brogden and his assistants, when Rotary, Kiwanis, Exchange, Lions and Civitans jointly honor the local athletes. One Of Best One of the best teams to be fielded by the High school in its history, the ’Cats’ success has been attributed in no small part to excellent coaching. Professor Cornwell comes to Wilmington representing the Uni versity of North Carolina Athletic department where he has attained nationwide recognition. Returns From Europe He only recently reutrned from Europe where he served the Unit ed States by setting up a recrea tional program for veterans there after the war. Holding A. B., M. A. and doc torate degrees, his career in the field of physical education was topped in 1941 when he became president of the Physical Educa tion Association of America. He was later named to head tne phy sical fitness program for the Of See CORNWELL on Page Two And So To Bed Evidently World War II Is not over yet or World War III is just around the corner, ac cording to a sign prominently displayed over the door of a local lft-cent store. The sign is fairly large and is framed under heavy glass. Us message consists of two words printed in solid red type and a black arrow pointing to a pull-chain located within handy reach of anybody over four feet tall. The two words designate the function of the pull-chain as follows: “Blackout Switch.’
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