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I FORECAST + ^ ^ ^ u Served By Leased Wires 5^™ umtttgunt Unrttttm mar L- — State and Nations] News VOI - 79—NO. 244. _WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1946 ESTABLISHED 1867 Beauty Strums The Keys To Set Up Your Newspaper While most beauty queens are photo graphed standing on the bow of a sailing sloop—or maybe a skiff—peering toward lost horizons, with their tresses floating in the breeze, it seemed more appropriate to picture Miss Wilmington of 1946 do ing something useful. You see, when she isn’t posing for pictures, she puts in a ♦ full day at the Atlantic Coast Line of fices here operating a comptometer ma chine. So, Miss Wilmington—who is Mary Jarman—came to The Star com posing room and tried her hand at setting type on a linotype machine. (Story on Page Four.) STAR STAFF PHOTO BY BOB HODGKIN. IANE TO NAME HOUSING GROUP Committee To Examine Veterans Application For Priorities Mayor W. Ronald Lane is ex Pec'-ed to name a Veterans’ Hoirs 'n“ committee today to serve as a "screening” agency for ajl con duction priority applications. T-.e committee, authorized yes terday at a meeting of city, county, ousiness. and civic officials and representatives of veterans’ serv er6 groups, will receive applica “ons for construction priorities, prepare them in a form acceptable 'ae Civilian Production adminis •jation, and then forward them to State Veterans’ Housing com in Greensboro, according w ’he present plan. The State agency will then pass “cm on to the CPA office for ‘"a‘ aPproval or disapproval. If approved, the applications will then iti?8aWarded regular CPA prior ^LANH On Page Two MNBGNE’S meditations By Alley r~——* MAH OU6. MOLE BE Happier me.-ME, w READ NOTHIN' RATIONIN' l ! A C (Released by The Bell Syn dicate. Inc.) Trade Mark Ret- V. S. Rat. Office) The Weather FORECAST North and South Carolina: Partly clou dy and continued hot Thursday with showers in the afternoon. (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 78; 1:30p 87; 7:30p 80. Maximum 88; Minimum 74; Mean 79; Normal 79. Humidity 1:30a 91; 7:30a 90. l:30p 74; 7 :30p 91. Precipitation Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m., 0.00 inches. Total since the first of the month, 15.22 inches. Tides For Today (From the Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey). High Low Wilmington _ 6:45a 1:46a 7:26p 1:51p Masonboro Inlet_ 4:28a 10:44a 5:10p ll:39p Sunrise 5:18; Sunset 7:18; Moonrise 2:06a; Moonset. 4:57p. Cape Fear river stage at Fayetteville at 8 a.m., Wednesday—15-3 feet. NAVY CONSTRUCTS RANGE AT DAVIS Actual construction of the sceret test range and other allied facili ties at Oamp Davis for the develop ment of new and powerful war weapons is now underway, U. S. Navy officials disclosed yesterday. $800,000 Project The $800,000 project, which in cludes the demolition of about 90 per cent of the' original camp fa cilities, is being undertaken by the George and Lynch Construction company, Wilmington, Del., with See DAVIS on Page Two MAY TO APPEAR BEFORE PROBERS Representative To Explain Friday His Part In Combine WASHINGTON, July 24— UP) — The Senate War Investigating com, mittee arranged Wednesday to hear Representative May (D.-Ky.) ex plain on Friday hiS wartime aid for a munitions combine, and si multaneously ordered public hear, ings next week on Representative Coffee’s (D.-Wash.) acknowledged receipt of $2,500 from a defense contractor. Committee Counsel George Meader said that the “arrange ments” for May’s appearance were made through the Kentucky legis lator’s counsel, and that Coffee himself had asked for a “full and complete” inquiry in his 'case. Campaign Contribution Coffee has described the $2,500 as a campaign contribution and has said that the Department of Justice has cleared him of any wrongdoing. Both committee announcements came at the close of a 90-minute session behind closed doors during which the committee agreed to ask the senate for an additional $65, 000 to expand its hunt for corrup tion in the nation’s unprecedented wartime expenditures. Asked directly whether there See MAY on Page Two Today and Tomorrow . Editor’s Note: The colum neers, Stewart and Alsop, are filling in while Mr. Lippmann is on his vacation. * ail * WASHINGTON, July 24. — Top leaders of the CIO, faced with the dangers to the labor movement in. herent in a steep riise in the cost of living, are seriously consider ing an entirely new labor strategy to deal with the situation, if prices get out of control. If this strategy now being gravely discussed by the CIO leadership, is finally de cided upon, it will certainly have ihe most profound effect on the political and economic future of the country. For the intentions of labor, as indicated in the last re port in this space, form the crux of the whole price control crisis. Labor leaders are fully conscious of the fact that the compromise price control measure now under consideration may well break down under the enormous in flationary pressure with which it will be confronted. The more thoughtful among them also fully realize that strikes on the tradi tional pattern might well degen erate into the futlie game of the dog chasing his own tail, with strikes and wage increases serving only to add fuel to the inflation ary flames. Therefore for the im mediate future the CIO leadership See ALSOP On Page Two WORLD’S FIFTH ATOMIC BOMB CHURNS mKINI LAGOON TO FLAMING CALDRON; CITY DEMANDS AIR SERVICE INCREASE CAB To Get Masterbrief From Group Three- Man Committee Seeks More Airlines For Bluethenthal DEMAND INCREASES Local Airport Now Handl ing 400 Passengers Per Week By LARRY HIRSCH A masterbrief demanding that the Civil Aeronautics board provide a “huge in crease” in air service through Bluethenthal airport by granting Wilmington air routes to new airlines will be drawn up by a special three-man committee following a meeting here Friday morning of the Wil mington-New Hanover Airport authority and members of the Wil mington Chamber of Commerce Aviation committee, John H. Far rell, city industrial agent and exe cutive secretary of the chamber, disclosed yesterday. Compile Data The purpose of Friday’s meet ing is to compile and coordinate the mass of data which will be in corporated into the masterbrief, Farrell said. See AIRPORT On Page Two HOUSE FREEZES PAYROLLS’ TAX Deductions In Employes’ Pay To Remain At One Per Cent WASHINGTON, July 24.—(AP)— The house voted Wednesday to “freeze” the Social Security Old Age Insurance tax at one percent on employes’ pay and employers’ payrolls, preventing an automatic rise to 2.5 percent against each on January 1. The measure, which now goes to the senate, makes broad revis ions in the Social Security Act, in cluding special benefits for veter ans. The house decision was taken on a voice vote in which no “nays” were heard. Gags Amendments Amid cries of “gag,” the house by a 163 to 82 ballot prohibited any amendments to the bijl, thus defeating a drive by a group of Southern members, led by Repre sentative Gore (D.-Tenn.), to in crease in poorer states the federal payments to needy aged, blind and dependent children. The same ban on amendments also blocked any attempt to tack the Townsend Old Age Pension plan to the bill The measure: 1 Freezes the old age and sur vivors insurance tax for another See PAYROLLS on Page Two Along The Cape Fear WILMINGTON NO MORE — Once again, for the nostalgic pleasure it may give you folks, we present for your scrutiny on Page Seven a picture of the Wilmington that is no more. We say “the Wilmington that is no more” with a few reservations. Notice, for example, that ornate edifice on the right hand side of the picture — the one with the Juliet balcony. In case you don’t recognize it right offhand, it's the Orton hotel, the same Orton hotel which stands in the same place today as it did back in 1885. * * * SIXTY YEARS AGO—Yes,, 1885. That’s the date when the picture was taken — over 60 years ago. Anyway, that’s what the picture donor, Mrs. Robert Scott, calcu lates. Mrs. Scott is the wife of the Mr. Scott who is the safety direc tor and the editor of the 'news paper of the Atlantic Coast Line. Sixty years is a long time, par ticularly when you’re looking at it from the new end. And this leads us to wonder what the gentlemen in the picture would say if they knew several thousand people were looking this morning at the quiet The World Stands On End Following is an eyewitness dispatch by Frank H. Bartholo mew, United Press vice president for the Pacific division, who Wednesday saw his second atom bomb explode. In the first test he represented the combined press aboard a B-29 above the ex plosion. Today he writes exclusively for the United Press from aboard a ship.—Editor. By FRANK H. BARTHOLOMEW United Press Vice President, Pacific Division Aboard S. S. Appalachian, off Bikini, Thursday, July 25.—(U.R)— First we felt the shock. Then there came a loud rumble. That was the first underwater atomic bomb exploding. The world seemed to stand on end, and the sea was pouring through a hole in the sky. Pillar Of Water The tremendous pillar of water went up with unbelievable *• speed. If went through lazy cumulous clouds floating above the island, then spread out rapidly, turning down in a gigantic um brella-like cascade which covered the entire length of Bikini See WORLD On Page Two SENATE RETURNS BILL TO TRUMAN President Expected To Sign New OPA Measure Immediately WASHINGTON, July 24—CU.R)— The Senate approved legislation reviving OPA Wednesday night and put it directly up to President Tru man to decide whether this nation again shall operate under price controls. Paralleling the affirmative action of the House on Tuesday, the senate debated the battered OPA bill at length, passed it and sent it on to the White House. There, a few hours earlier. Presi dent Truman had met with his top economic advisers. The meeting was unannounced, but presumably it was called to examine the na. tional economy in the light of the action Mr. Truman will take on the OPA bill. Approval Expected The President is expected to ap prove the measure Thursday on an "it is this or nothing basis,” for Congress has served notice that it has neither the time nor inclination to take up a third price control bill before it finally adjourns sine die late next week. The President vetoed Congress’ first effort, and this is the second try for legislation the White House will accept. The new measure would return ceilings to most items which were de-controlled automatically when OPA passed out of existence on June 30 but would set-up a three man de-control board with au thority to lift ceilings whenever it determined the time was ripe. All indications were that the President will approve the new bill, and that before the week end the down-but-not-out OPA bill will be functioning again. Three-Man Board The favorable s;gns included a statement by White House spokes man that the President would act promptly by sending either a mes sage or a memorandum to Con gress. Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky also may have tipped the Presi dent’s hand when he said during debate that the President had as sured him he would appoint the three-man decontrol board in time for Congress to act on the nomina tions before .adiournment. The President also signed the third deficiency appropriations fill on Tuesday, which measure con See OPA on Page Two poses they struck on quiet Front street so long, long ago. * * * SLEEPY SENTINELS — Front street was quiet in those days, ac cording to the photo. Look at that street, empty of everything save a barefoot boy and a horse and carriage. Look at those huge, drowsy trees standing like sleepy sentinels in Eront of where the busy, busy post office is now situated. Where are the automobiles, where are the stoplights, where are the parking meters? Where, for that matter, are the townspeople? Except for the afore mentioned gentlemen, who evi dently turned out especially for :he cameraman, the townspeople are all home taking that wonderful physical exercise called the siesta. * * * PRIVATE RESIDENCE — Al though we think we recognize just about every building in this sleepy own picture, we are puzzled by the structure just north of the Or ■ On hotel. The picture, as you can see, was taken near the intersection oX front and Chestnut streets, look See CAPE FEAR on Page Two CHANNEL PROJECT LARGE IN SCOPE Anchorage And Turning Basins To Be Construct ed By Engineers The Cape Fear river channel project, scheduled to get under way here about September 1, in cludes more than the dredging of the channel to 32 feet deep and 400 feet wide from the highway bridge to the ocean bar, it was announced yesterday by the Wilmington dis trict office of the U. S. Army En gineers. The project also provides for the following: (1) An anchorage basin ex tending from the foot of Castle street to a point just above the shipyard, 32 feet deep, 2,000 feet long, 900 feet wide at the upper end, 1,100 feet wide at the lower end, with approaches 1,500 feet long at the upper end and 4,500 feet long at the lower end. Turning Basin (2) A turning basin opposite the principal terminals at Wilming ton above Castle street, 32 feet deep, 1,000 feet long, 800 feet wide, with suitable approaches at each end. (3) A channel 12 feet deep and 100 feet wide from a point near the eastern entrance of the Inland waterway to a connection with the main river channel at a point three miles above. 25 Foot Channel (4) A channel 25 feet deep and 200 feet wide from Hilton bridge over the Northeast Cape Fear iver to a turning basin of the same depth and 600 feet wide, one and a quarter miles above. Of these four subsidiary projects, howevc-, only the first (the an chorage basin) will be undertaken this yer * along with the main task of dredging the regular ship ~nnel, the engineers’ office said. Appropriation Cut When the bill for the entire project was brought before Con gress earlier this year, the total appropriation stood at about $1. 600,000. But since the appropria tion was finally cut down to an even million dollars, the engineers will undertake only that part of the work described above. The other projects (the turning basin and thei two channels) will get underway'next year when a new appropriation is made for them, the office said. Public Hearing Meanwhile, Col. George W. Gil lette, district engineers’ chief, has announced for the second time the public hearing on the proposed 35-foot channel will be held next Tuesday. July 30, at 10 a.m. in the courtroom of the U. S. Customs house. Material in support of the pro posed project has already been drawn up by the city, the county, and many port interests both local ] and upstate. : CIGAR COUPON, EH? This Hundred-Dollar Bill Is Worth $113.18In Cash The honor of being the owijer of what is probably the oldest piece of paper currency (ex cluding Confederate money) in the Port City and perhaps the entire State of North Carolina goes to Steve Francis, an ex Pennsylvanian and a Wilming tonian since 1942, until some body turns up with an even older one. Wouldn’t Sell It Francis’ n/onetary relic, is sued by the First National Bank of Roundout, N. Y., in 1882, is a genuine national currency $100 bill which, be Ships Pitch In Blast But Fail To Go Under Battleship Arkansas May Be Sunk And Saratoga Listing Badly In First Under water Atomic Explosion Off Bikini Atoll Thursday, July 25. —(U.R)— History’* fifth atomic bomb exploded under 87 ships of a target fleet today and sank the ancient battleship Arkansas, a concrete oil barge, and a tank landing craft. Vice Admiral W. H. P. Blandy, commander of Joint Task Force One, announced this toll two hours and 55 minutcs after the bomb exploded beneath the surface of the Pacific and sent a giant column estimated to contain 1,000,000 tons of water shooting two miles into the air. By DON WHITEHEAD Associated Press Staff Writer For The Combined American Press Aboard B-29 “The Voice” Over Bikini Lagoon, Thurs day, July 25.—(AP)—The fantastic power and heat of the world’s fifth atomic bomb churned Bikini lagoon into a caldron of flame, smoke and steam today, pitched battle ships about like toy boats, but failed to sink most of the capital ships arrayed in the death circle nearest the bomb. From our press plane we were unable to locate the TOBACCO PRICES REACH 691 TS Average On Georgia- Flori da Opening Day Be tween 40 And 46 VALDOSTA. Ga., July 24—'''AR)— Buyers’ gold for the golden leaf poured into 19 markets Wednes day as the flue-cured tabocca sea son opened in the South Georgia North Florida belt. Warehouses were jammed with tobacco, and growers and buyers. Reports from all markets indicat ed an emphasis on higher quality tobacco, and a betier-than-aver age crop brought good prices &t most markets. The Department of Agriculture’s tobacco office here said sales at the 19 markets for the first hour averaged between 40 and 46 cents, with an extreme range of from seven to 69 cents. At Fitzgerald, good tobacco aver aged 40.3 cents—about two cents a pound higher than last year. Some two million pounds at Live Oak, Fla., brought 45 to 50 cents in opening sales, while at Vidalia. where two million pounds were offered, the average was 45 cents. Top Of 69 Cents One auctioneer at Vidalia report, ed a top of 69 cents for best grade cigarette leaf. Hazelhurst reported a 46-cent average with about one million pounds for sale in four warehouses. Five warehouses were crowded at Tifton, where the average rang ed from 40 to 42 cents a pound. Bidding was fast and spirited, and observers predicted that sales would top last year’s opening day. At Adel, the opening range was 10 to 48 cents. One million pounds of bright leaf was ready for buyers at Way cross, with prices ranging from See TOBACCO on Page Two Bonds For Vets WASHINGTON, July 24. — (TP)— Anticipating congressional passage of the terminal leave pay bill, President Truman acted Wednes day to place the estimated $2,679, 193,000 of cash or bonds in the renterans’ hands without delay. He requested an appropriation )f that amount in a special mes sage to Congress, indicating that te hopes it may be provided be ore Congress adjourns. cause of its extreme age, could fetch $113.18 in the crisp new specie of today, if Francis were foolish enough to sell it, which he isn't. Even if it isn’t the oldest piece of paper currency here abouts, Francis will give tre mendous odds that it is the oldest such which was in cir culation as recently as Novem ber of last year—and thereby hangs a tale. There Was A Panic According to Francis, the bill See $100 BILL on Page Two )* ArKansas. u iooks as mougn me venerable old battleship is at the bottom of Bikini lagoon. There is no trace of it at its mooring spot near the Nevada and Nagota, both of which are still standing. Others Listing The queen of the carriers, the Saratoga, appeared to be listing but she was still afloat, along with the light carrier Independ ence, the battleship New York, and the cruisers Pensacola and Sait Lake City. Crew members aboard our plane gave great cheers when the mists cleared and showed the ships still standing. Ten minutes after the mighty blast sent a vast column of watef and smoke shooting into the hea vens, the lagoon was completely enveloped the area was impene trable in a misty cloud. What happened to the ships we cannot say yet, but before the smoke and vapor completely shrouded the fleet I could see the silhouette of one battleship which looked like the Nevada. See ATOMIC On Page Two TAR HEELS FALL FOR ORDER CAME Glib - Tongued Salesman Fleeces Thousands In Two Carolinas RALEIGH, July 24—OI.R)—A glib tongued, 32-year-old mail order salesman, W. T. Wingate, of Kings tree, S. C., was being held Wednes day on a charge of fleecing “hun dreds of North Carolinians out of thousands of dollars’’ on phoney orders for clothing. Director Walter F. Anderson, of the State Bureau of Investigation, said that Wingate was picked up Tuesday by Sheriff S. T. Latta, Jr., of Orange county and is being held in the Hillsboro, N. C., jail. An derson said Wingate had admitted writing “hundreds” of fake order* for shirts, pants, coveralls and caps on non-existent companies. Began Last November The racket, which was worked widespread throughout North and South Carolina, began, Anderson said, last November. A half dozM order books, which were found OB Wingate, showed that he had is sued phoney orders in dozens of cities and collected his fee of 25 per cent deposit. Wingate, described as a smooth talker, about 32, weighing about 145 and having dark hair and ruddy complexion, was arested by Sheriff See SALESMAN on Page Two And So To Bed An out-of-town visitor rush ed into a local store yesterday morning and asked the clerk for a coat-hanger. “How about this?” said the clerk, showing him a war-time cardboard style. "No,” answered the man. "I want a regular coat-hanger.” The clerk picked up a new fangled plastic type. "How does this strike you?” she ask ed brightly. "No, no, no,” exploded the man. "I want a regular old fashioned wire coat-hanger.” "What’s the matter with the cardboard and plastic ones?” demanded the clerk, her sales manship ire aroused. “How can I lift the keys out of my locked automobile with them?” the man moaned. • j
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