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FORECAST I Wilmington and vicinity—Widely icat- ) tered thundershowers and not much change in temperatures Tuesday. V0lT79—NO. 254. WILMINGTON, N. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1946 ESTABLISHED 18^ Farrell Mum Over Council Agency Order Secretary Declines Com ment On Chamber Term ination Decision UP TO PRESIDENT Usually Reliable Source Sees Leave Of Absence As Compromise John H. Farrell, executive secretary of the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce, said he had “no personal com ment” to make last night on the city council’s resolution, adopted yesterday morning, which requires that he terminate his chamber job in order to con tinue in his position as city indus trial agent. "Any comment on the matter will have to come from E. L. Mite, chamber president,” Far rell said. Since White is reported to be "out of town on business” for the entire week, the final decision on whether Farrell will follow the council’s order or give up the in dustrial agent’s job in favor of re lating his chamber secretary post, remains up in the air. May Get Leave In the event that Farrell does accept the council’s ruling, it is possible that the chamber will grant him “a year’s leave of ab sence” from his chamber job in order that he might come back to it after the main phase of the in dustrial agent’s task is completed, according to a usually reliable source. The council came to the decision on Farrell's position at its special budget meeting yesterday morning. Acting on the recommendation of City Manager J. R. Benson, the council voted an appropriation of $10,560 to finance the industrial agency for the fiscal year 19*6-47. A sum of $5,000 was also voted to help finance the Wilmington Port Traffic association, which is con trolled by traffic manager Henry E. Boyd. To Draft Merger After granting the two appro priations, the council directed City Attorney W. B. Campbell to draft a bill which will consolidate the two organizations. This merger was re quested both by the chamber of commerce and the traffic associa tion several months ago. See FARRELL on Page Two The Weather FORECAST North and South Carolina — Partly cloudy and not much change in tempera ture Tuesday; widely scattered thun dershowers. (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. yesterday. Temperatures 1:38 a m. 74; 7:30 a.m. 74; 1:30 p.m. 78; ";30 p.m. 80 Maximum 85; Minimum 71; Mean 75; ^.ormal ?9. Humidity J:30 a.m. 91; 7:30 a.m. 95; 1:30 p.m. 87; pm. 81. Precipitation Total for 24 hours ending 7:3fl p.m.— v 08 inches. Total since the first of the month— inches. Tides For Today 'From the ide Tables published by U. 5 Coast and Geodetic Survey). High Low Wilmington _ 4:23 a.m. 11:43 a.m. . 5:07 p.m. - p.m. Masonboro Inlet 2:12 a.m. 8:28 a.m. 3:00 p.m. 9:17 p.m. Junrise 5:27; Sunset 7:08; Moonrise 2:22 P-m : Moonset 12:09 a.m. River Stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8 *m-. Monday, 9.7 feet. WEATHER on Page Two HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS By Alley f NO WONDUH PE. OAE OMAM BANTER OO TO HIT'S DE onues' PUACE SHE. Kin BE MAPPV vJiPOOT ~L ' f (Released by The Bell 8yiv q-Z % 4^ dicate. Ine ) Trade Mark ^lP . RCf. u 8. Pat pfflra) FOR BETTER SERVICE Group Seeks To Increase Traffic At Bluetheir'jxal _ AT*_ The masterbrief which the City of Wilmington a.id New Hanover county will submit to the Civil Aeronautics board in a demand for increased inter state air service through Blue thenthal airport is almost com pleted, it was disclosed yes terday by Henry E. Boyd, traffic manager of the Wil mington Port Traffic associa tion. August 12 Deadline Boyd, together with John H. Farrell, City industrial agent, and Jesse C. Parker, Jr., air port manager, will have the document finished and signed by Mayor W. Ronald Lan4 and Chief County Commissioner Addison Hewlett well in ad vance of the August 12 dead line, the traffic manager said. COMMISSION GETS BASIN FOR SHIPS USES Begins Employing Personnel To Operate Brunswick Basin The Brunswick river surplus ship shortage-b sin was officially taken over by the U. S. Maritime commission at 10 o’clock yester day morning, with Capt. Alfred G. Ford as chief of operations. Hiring Personnel The local United States Employ ment office has already started hiring personnel to operate the basin, according to Harold M. Hinkle, USES office manager. Among the first to be hired will be male stenographers and clerks, Hinkle said. Also needed soon for employ ment at the huge basin are tug boat operators, launchboat crews, a fleet engineer, and a fleet cap tain. As more ships come into the basin, more personnel will be hired accordingly, Hinkle said. Ships Here Soon The first batch of ships is sched uled to arrive here in about 10 days, according to reports from Maritime commission headquar ters in Washington, D. C. Medical Bulletin War WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—(U.R>— Representative An#ew J. May, (D Ky.) remained incommunicado in his Prestonburg, Ky., home Mon day while physicians waged a war of medical bulletins over whether his ailing heart would permit him to testify before the Senate War Investigating committee. In Washington Dr. Henry M. Lowden Mays capital physician for the past decade, told reporters he was baffled by the sudden depar ture of his celebrated patient. He said May left the capital with his knowledge and against his ad vise and that he knew of no rea son why the Kentuckian should not be able to go before the committee Friday and tell all about his con nections with the Garsson muni tions combine. Warning Issued CHERRY POINT, Aug. 5 — (Special) - A live photoflash bomb dropped dud from a marine airplane over a target area near Hog Island in Pamplico Sound, it was announced Monday b- the public relations office at the Mar ine Air station here. Warning was issued that extreme caution should be used by all persons or vessels passing in the vicinity of lati tude 34 degrees and 36 minutes and longitude 76 degrees, twenty one minutes and 30 seconds. LONG, LONG AFTERWARD LONDON, Aug. 6 (Tuesday)—UP) —The silk-clad body of Ramendra Narayan Roy, Rajah of Bhowal— who took 25 years to prove his re mains had not been burned in a similar ceremonial blaze in 1909— was cremated on a funeral pyre Sunday before an audience of 200, 000 persons, the Exchange Tele graph agency said Monday in a de layed dispatch from Calcutta. Today and Tomorrow Editor’s Note: Joseph Aisop is carrying on while Mr. EiPP mann is away on his vacation. BY JOSEPH AESOP LONDON, Aug. 5 — A second sight of London after Paris pro duces even more forcibly the im pression of violent contrast. In this dubious summer of the first post-war year Pans is like exquisitely beautiful frmt perfect in all its contours, pe<rfact in its rose and gold but with a worm within. London is like a fniit gnarled and weather-damaged but sound and of food flavor. Some time passed here before the peace conference left a conflict of impressions which return as -sS & The brief’s 'A'J~ £ *es that “the C-b? -gton an^ New ^ jA* fa are of the tb ^ V A^ cion now that th qA1 Me county great’ eserve addi tional «$* stir service." This is * ^ . by a detailed description the city and the county—the industries, the rail traffic, and the port, and it stresses the lack of adequate interstate air service for “North Carolina’s chief seaport.’ Committee To Capital Meanwhile, as the brief nears completion, a special three man delegation is scheduled to leave for Washington, D. C., tonight, on a one-day mission See FLYING On Page Two MOLOTOV CHARGES ANTI-SOVIET BLOC Red Says Anglo - Saxons Attempting To Domi nate Conference PARIS, Aug. 5.—(U.R)— Russian Foreign Minister Molotov charged angrily Monday that an “Anglo Saxon bloc” was trying to domi nate the peace conference and “certain people” were urging prep aration for World War III. Molotov attacked Secretary of State James F. Byrnes for prom ising to support any recommenda tion which the conference made by a two-thirds vote for changes in the draft treaties prepared by the “Big Four” foreign ministers for five German satellitte coun tries. _ “Proof Enough’* “The Russian chief delegate said he had “proof enough” that an Anglo-Saxon bloc existed and he said it was strong enough to com mand 12 or 13 votes out of the total of 21 in the conference. Molotov insisted that any sug gested change in treaty drafts should be approved by a two thirds vote and Byrnes was pledg ed to oppose even those sugges tions if they were contrary to prev ious Big Four decisions. Molotov made his statement at the second of three meetings of the rules committee of the confer ence. Try To Adopt Rules The third meeting, started at 8:30 p.m. (4:30 p.m. EDT) was called in an attempt to get the rules for the conference adopted and to get the conference itself down to the serious discussion in detail of peace treaties for Italy, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Finland. At the end of his statement, Molotov made a concession. He suggested that countries which voted for any treaty change which did not §et a two-thirds vote in the conference might refer the question to the “Big Four.” Byrnes Offers Support Before Molotov spoke, Byrnes told the rules committee that he would support in the “Big Four” foreign ministerial council any suggested treaty change which the conference approved by a two thirds vote. Byrnes also said he would vote for a British proposal that any question could referred to the council by the conference as a whole on the basis of a simple majority vote. The whole argument was a throw back to the formative days of the United Nations, at San Francisco, and the fight there over the pow er Of the “Big Five” nations to veto any Security Council decision. It was a preview also of the fight to come this fall at the annual general UN assembly. Reds Seek Veto Power Russia is fighting at this and every other international confer ence to preserve the veto power or lacking that to insure that the “Russian bloc” will have votes enough, by a two-thirds rule, to prevent any action which the Soviet Union opposes. The general situation as regards See MOLOTOV On Page Two pictures. There was the queue; oi women of all ages who had lined up early at the door of a little grocery in a badly blitzed side street to get a few tomatoes off the ration. Their clothes were dowdy; their faces a little strain ed but the weather for once was good and they gossiped cheerful ly. They seemed somehow to sum up the willingness of the British people to endure a good deal in order to do the job they conceive to be ahead. In contrast there was the lobby of Claridges which is the one place where London's pre-war atmosphere of luzury and ease has See ALSOP On Page Two MILLION DOLLAR CAPE FEAR PROJECT GETS OFFICIAL NOD IN WASHINGTON; TOBA CCO PRICES SOAR TO ’46 RECORD - i_i - All Grades Show Rises In Section Average Gains Vary From Two To 14 Cents Per Pound In Area QUALITIES INCREASE Several Markets In Belt Report Better Than 80 Cent Tobacco BY PHIL WRIGHT Tobacco auction prices on the North Carolina Border Belt markets sky - rocketed yesterday as high as $86 per hundred, following a week-end holiday, with steady gains of two to 14 cents per pound be ing paid. The $86 price, reported at Fairmont, was believed a record for 1946. Low quality orange lugs soared as much as 14 cents per pound upward on some markets, the big gest gain of the day. Other inferior quality lugs and primings, which still predominate, realized ap proximate gains. Growers Jubilant Meantime, tobacco growers throughout the belt remained jubi lant as they pocketed the “fabu lous sums” paid for their tobac co, and prepared to “settle all old ,bills,” and start tomorrow’*.-mar keting with a “clean slate.” A sharp increase in the percent ages of fair qualities was noted, but the general quality of leaf con tinued to decline as planters mar keted their tips simultaneously with their lower grades. Up To $82 At Tabor City In Tabor City. Willard G. Cole, supervisor of sales, reported 309, See TOBACCO On Page Two LEVEES AT KELLY TO BE REPAIRED Work To Begin In Septem ber On Dikes Guarding Farm Lands The Cape Fear river dikes in the vicinity of Kelly, severely damaged by last fall’s floods, will undergo a complete repair job be ginning about the middle of Sep tember and ending about the mid dle of December, the Wilmington district office of the U. S. Army Engineers announced yeserday. The project, slated to cost “many thousands of dollars,” will be done by private contractors un der the engineers’ supervision. Survey At Once The engineers Will make a sur vey and draw up plans and speci fications for the task as soon as possible in order that bids may be advertised and the contract awarded by the September start ing date. The work will center on the White Oak levee and the White Oak dam located about five miles above Lock No. One on the north side of the river. The levee runs approximately parallel with the See LEVEES On Page Two Along The Cape Fear PUBLIC AUDITORIUM — Now that the city fathers are planning to construct a $1,000,000 public auditorium, we find ourself ask ing some questions which may or may not have any answers: Did Wilmington once have a public auditorium (other than Thalian Hall, of course)? Or did it not? And if it did, where was it? And what happened to it? And why? And if it didn’t, why not? MEMORY ARCHITECTS — We raise these questions because we have an idea that (1) Wilming ton once did nave a public audi torium and (2) you folks will be able to fill in the details on the lost plans, even though you may not be architects. We mean “architects” in the professional sense of the word. What we are relying on is your wonderful architectural prowess in reconstructing things out of the past from your equally wonder ful memory. Having flattered you (and you deserve it), let’s explain why we think a public auditorium once existed. THE WIGWAM — The other day an old Wilmingtonian came into our office and asked, right out of a blue sky (one of the few blue skies we’ve had lately): “Have you ever heard of the Wigwam?” The sky clouded up immediate ly. We had never heard of the “Wigwam,” arid we knew instinc tively that it had nothing to do with Indians. Well, according to our inform ant,, the Wigwam was a public au ditorium located at Seventh and Castle streets. He can’t remember when it was there or what it look ed like. So, how about it. folks? And did it cost $1,000,000? I HIGH CASUALTIES FEARED Four Reported Killed In Tidal Wave’s Wake BY LOUIS MIURA United Press Staff Correspondent CIUDAD TRUJILLO, Do minican Republic, Aug. 5 — (U.R)— Four persons Monday were reported killed and heavy damage inflicted along the northern shore of Santo Domingo in Sunday’s earth quake which launched a tidal wave virtually destroying two small seacoast towns. Total Fatailities Unknown An American official here said that four were believed dead up to 5 p. m. EDT but that total fatalities were un known because communica tions still were broken from the hard-hit Escocesa Bay area. The earthshocks were most severe in the Cibao valley and along Santo Domingo’s north east coast, he said. Damage in Ciudad Trujillo itself was slight he said. Houses collap sed and other damage was in flicted at Santiago, Moca and San Francisco de Macoris, he said. Tidal Wave Hits It was feared there may have been high casualties and severe damage in the area inundated by the tidal wave. EARTHQUAKE CENTERED IN ATLANTIC OCEAN BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The earthquake apparently was centered in the deepest point in the Atlantic ocean, ap proximately 50 miles off the northeastern coast of the Do minican Republic, and was so intense it knocked out a seis mograph in St. Louis, Mo., more than 2,000 miles away. (In New York the Fordham university observatory said the shock was the most severe See WAVE On Page Two VOTERS TO TEST TRUMAN’S POWER Question Of ‘Purge’ Comes Up Today In Missouri Race WASHINGTON, Aug. 5— (U.R>— Missouri voters go to the polls Tuesday to decide one of the most important issues in the 1946 off year congressional campaign—is President Truman strong enough within his own party to “purge” a Democrat from Congress? The late President Roosevelt tried a “purge” in 1938—directed against conservative Democratic senators who balked his Supreme Court re organization plan—and failed dis mally. The Question Is The question Tuesday is: Does the President have a sufficient fol lowing among Democrats in his own state to oust Representative Roger C. Slaughter, outspoken op ponent of Mr. Truman’s legisla tive program, and swing the Demo crat nomination to Enos Axtell, who is backed also by the powernn Kansas City Pendergast machine and the CIO’s political action com mittee? On election eve, Slaughter has reiterated his claim that “com munists and fellow travelers from the East” are seeking to remove him from the house. Results Count Slaughter renewed his acceptance of the President’s challenge, made at a recent White House press con ference at which Mr. Truman en dorsed Axtell and commented that if Slaughter is right, then I’m wrong.” The youthful Missourian said the country would be guided by the results in judging the fu ture course of the Democratic party. Since arriving at his Independ ence, Mo., home to vote in the primary—he can not vote against Slaughter because his residence is in an adjoining district — the Chief Executive has carefully re frained from participating openly in the Slaughter-Axtell fight. He conferred briefly on his arrival with Jim Pendergast, present head of the Kansas City machine once controlled by his uncle, the late Tom Pendergast, but made no statements on the election. See TRUMAN On Page Two SQUABBLE BREWS OVER SALVAGING Admiralty Case Looms In Claiming: “Prize” Of American Farmer LONDON, Aug. 5— (U.R)—Amer ican action in cutting a British tow line aboard the $4,500,000 derelict prize ship American Farmer w^s | described as “High-handed” Mon day by representatives of the Brit ish ship which first reached the fabulous prize drifting helplessly on the high seas southwest of Britain. With the American prize crew still aboard, the American Farm er was steaming slowly under her own power for a British port Mon. day night, heading directly into what may be the most complicated salvage dispute the British Ad miralty courts have seen in recent years. Took Over Anyway The Americans took the derelict with a crew heavily outnumbering the Britons dedspite a signal from the British crew already aboard saying “hands off, this prize is mine,” according to the British version of the battle. This version said the 2,000-ton British tramp steamer Elizabete, commanded by Capt. E. Millers, 65, won the race to the derelict Sunday night, sent a crew aboard with a line and took, the 8,000-ton American Farmer In Tow. The Elizabette, with a cargo of pitprops 'mine timbers) from New. foundland for the United Kingdom, is owned by the British transport ministry and managed by the Hudson Steamship Co. Ranger Races t)p Soon after the sister ship of the American Farmer, the American Ranger—both owned by the United States Lines—raced up accom panied by the U. S. destroyer Per ry. i men, according to radio mes sages from Captain Millers disclos ed by a spokesman for the Hudson company, the American Ranger put a superior crew aboard the Farmer, cut the British towline, hauled down the British flag and ordered the British crew off the ship. The British crew left, Cap tain Millers said. “Highhanded Action’’ “There seems to be little doubt that the derelict is our prize and we have reported all the facts of the high-handed action to the ad miralty and to treasury solicitors,’’ See SALVAGE on Page Two WISH YOU WERE HERE Newsies Have Wonderful Time In Nation’s Capital j Mr. Smitn went to Washing ton, according to the Holly, wood version but the odds are that he didn’t have nearly as good a time as Master Phil Crowder and Master Dicky Paschall, according to the Wilmington version. Reward For Efforts Master Crowder and Master Paschall, Star-News newspaper carriers No. 27 and No. 57, followed in Mr. Smith’s cele brated footsteps last week as a reward for (1) drumming up the largest amount of new newspaper subscribers an<j (2) keeping the largest amount of old newspaper sub. scribers satisfied with their services, in the Star-News Circulation department’s con test. Accompanied by an older member of the circulation de. partment, Phil and Dicky (let’s not be so formal) tour ed the Capital city all the way from the Washington monument to the Capitol build ing itself. See NEWSIES On Page Two Work On 32-Foot Channel May Start In September Minor Details Remain To Be “Straightened Out”, Engineer’s Office Reports; In cludes 400 Feet Width BY LARRY HIRSCH The million dollar project of dredging the Cape Fear river channel to 32 feet deep and 400 feet wide got the nod of official approval yesterday from the Washington, D. C., headquarters o the U. S. Army Engineers, the Wilmington district engineers’ office disclosed last night. Although a few “very minor details” remained to be straightened out, the plans and specifications are expected SHIP DESTROYED IN LIGHTNING HIT Eight Crewmen Unaccount ed For After Fire In Jacksonville JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Aug. 5. —(JP)— Twenty-two crewmen were reported injured and eight unac counted for Monday when fire swept the 10,000 ton tanker Home stead after it was struck by light ning while unloading gasoline at the Standard Oil company docks here. Most of the injured received min or hurts, some six requiring hos pital treatment. Four hours after the blaze eight of the 54 crewmen were unaccounted for. Ship’s of ficers said some of the crew had gone ashore soon after the vessel docked Monday, hampering efforts to determine whether any were lost. Gasoline Catches Fire Witnesses said lightning struck the 550-foot ship less than two hours after it arrived here from Savannah. Gasoline spilled into the St. Johns river and caught fire and the flames soon spread to the dock. A dense flame of smoke bil lowed hundreds of feet into the air and was visible for more than 20 miles. Eleven city fire companies re sponded to a three-alarm signal and were joined by two fire boats. The ship listed to port an hour after the blaze began and its stern later settled. Terrific Explosion “There was a terrific explosion during the height of the blaze that shook all buildings around us,” said B. S. Grantham, an engineer with the Texas Oil company whose offices adjoin the Standard docks. Unloading of the Homestead’s cargo was approximately 30,000 barrels of gasoline had begun about See SHIP On Page Two Uncle Sam Economizes WASHINGTON, Aug. 5—(U.PJ—'The White House Monday night order ed a $700,000,000 cut in federal construction projects to help head off a ‘‘strong inflationary threat to the stability of American econ omy.” Reconversion Director John R. Steelman, at the request of Presi dent Truman, instructed executive agencies to reduce their combined $1,600,000,000 federal works pro gram to $900,000,000 in line with the chief executive’s revised budget estimates made public over the week end. Steelman ordered immediate stoppage of proposed construction under the huge program, and spec ified that no contracts for new building could be awarded for the next 56 days without express per mission from his office. to be returned to the local onic* from Washington this week, the office said. Advertise For Bids Upon receipt, the plans and specifications will be printed in preparation for advertising of bids for the $1,000,000 task by about August 15. A 30-day waiting period will ensue, during which prospec tive contractors for the job will submit sealed bids. The bids will then be opened about September 15, with actual work on the project tentatively slated to commence as soon there* after as possible. Continuous Sweep Work will begin at the foot of Castle street and be carried on in one continuous sweep to the ocean bar. According to office estimates, this is as much of the total project as can be accomplished in one year with the million dollar appro, priation. It will not only deepen the chan nel to 32 feet and widen it to 400 feet but also construct a huge anchorage basin, extending from Castle street to a point just above the shipyard, with the following dimensions: 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. After this major part of the total Bee CHANNEL, on Page Two PLANE PILOT DIES OF CRASH INJURY Columbus Accident Takes Second Life; Death Unexpected Special to The Star WHITEVILLE, Aug. 5. — The plane crash which took the life of Dozier Norris, 30-year-old tobacco farmer of near Tabor City, late Sunday afternoon at the Dulah air field, claimed another \yctim at 12:30 a.m. Monday morning when F. J. Petrik, the death plane'* pilot, died unexpectedly In the Whiteville hospital. Petrik, sustaining a broken hip and leg in the accident, was term ed “very much alive” and “rest ing comfortably” by the attending physician shortly before death came. Death Unexpected The cause of the sudden reversal was not revealed. Norris’ five-year-old daughter, Shirley Anne, the third occupant of the plane which crashed “for unknown reasons” into the pin* tree at the airfield, was reported in “fair condition” at the White* ville hospital last night. Petrik, a native of New Jersey, came to Whiteville in September of 1945 as flying instructor at th* city’s Sledge airfield. Thereafter he joined Harry Barclay, a White ville World War IX veteran, as co* See PILOT on Page Two And So To Bed The classic remark of a harrowing evening was made last night shortly after the blaze on a burning oil truck was ex tinguished. (The story is record ed elsewhere in this morning’s paper.) Although the truck came near to exploding, and despite the fact that some $1,000 worth of damage was sustained by the truck’s cab, and even though the driver’s hand was burned by flaming oil, the driver himself was angry about something else. He borrowed a cigarette from the reporter covering the accident and then said: “I lost a brand new pack of cigarettes in that doggone fire.” 4
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