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a^u.1 ilmimjtmt Sta ~ V0lT79.-NO.257. WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1946 ESTABLISHED 186? r MAY' ACQUIRE TITLE New Hanover May Get Property At Airport New Hanover county may ac quire official title to the 611 acres of government-owned land at Bluethenthal airport within a few months, Hamil ton E. Hicks, secretary of the Wilmington-New Hanover Air port authority, disclosed yes terday after returning here, from "a one-day conference with War Assets administration of ficials in Washington, D. C. Formal Airport Survey Hicks who made the Washing ton mission with Addison Hew lett. chairman of the New Hanover County Board of Com missioners, and Col. Royce S. McClelland, top officer of the Wilmington district of the Na tional Guard, revealed that Joe Norwood, district engineer of airports for the Civil Aero nautics administration, Char lotte, will come to Wilmington on August 15 or 22 to make the final formal survey of the $11,000,000 airport. Report To Washington After the survey is complet ed, which should take only a few days, Norwood will draw up an official report to be for warded to the WAA office in Washington. If the report is favorable, as expected, WAA will transfer title of the land to New Hanover county as soon as possible. The entire business is ex pected to be completed within See AIRPORT on Page Two 48 JOBS FILLED FOR SHIP BASIN Total Of 200 Workers To Be Hired For Project By Oct. 1 Captain A. G. Ford, superinten dent of the Brunswick river lay up basin, said yesterday that plans are indefinite for the towing of the former Coast Guard quarter boat, the General Frederick Hodg son. to the scene of contemplated berthing of approximately 500 non essential merchant vessels. Headquarters Boat Previously it had been indicated that the Hodgson, now docked at the Customs house wharf, end which will serve as headquarters ior the so-called reserve fleet, would be moved to the Brunswick river site yesterday or today. Meanwhile, Aubrey L. Bowdin, local personnel officer of the Mari time commission, said that 75 per sons es imated as necessary to con duct initial operations at the basin, 43 had been employed. Included in the 75 employes will be an adminis trative assistant, two clerk-typists, two clerk - stenographers, a cost record clerk, a fleet electrician, and a first aid assistant. Semi skilled labor will constitute the remainder, he said. Civil Service Jobs Paying a maximum hourly rate of 75 cents, Bowdin said that all jobs are subject to civil service classifications, adding that it is possible 200 workers will be em ployed by October 1, depending upon the number of ships reaching the basin by that date. Dismantling of pumps and other movable machinery will constitute a major portion of the work, Bow din said, adding that such work does not require skilled labor, but can be properly performed under supervision of competent foremen. Local Applicants A majority of the first 200 work See BASIN On Page Two The Weather forecast North and South Carolina: Fair and inoderate temperatures. (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m.. yesterday. Temperatures 1:30a 70; 7:30a 71; l:30p 83; 7:30p 78. Maximum 86; Minmum 69; Mean 74; Normal 78. Humidity 1:30a 96; 7:30a 95; 1:30p 52; 7:30p 70. Precipitation Total for 24 hours ending 7:80 p.m., 612 inches. Total since the first of the month, 2-30 inches. Tides For Today tFrom the Tide Tables published by u s Coast and Geodetic Survey). High Low Wilmington _ 7:00a 2:02a 7:40p 2:12p Masonboro Inlet_ 4:46a 11:01a 5:28p ll:50p Sunrise 5:29; Sunset 7:06; Moonrise l:°3p; Moon set 5:09a. River stage at Fayetteville at 8 a.m. Thursdav-13 9 feet. ^See the WEATHER on Page Three MBONE’S MEDITATIONS By Alley SETS Too MUCH NEWS -I 6WINE QUVT OE. PAPOHS AWHO.E AN' i U.T PE NEWS KETCH Wit) tAE \\ gft-d* Th« Bell •!?; *?«•> ^ Trade Mark Rc« t. 8. Ht Office) <i> 1 RUSSIANS REOPEN BATTLE IN PARIS Molotov Surprises Confer ence By Bringing Up Settled Issue _ PARIS, Aug. 8 —(U.R)— Russian Foreign Minister Viacheslav M. Molotov Thursday reopened the en tire battle on Paris Peace confer ence voting procedure with a de mand that the formal plenary ses sion reverse a committee agree ment on majority rule. Molotov’s surprise move came at the very moment that Chair man Georges Bidault of France called for what w»ar expected to be a routine vote approving the majority rule agreement battled out in the past eight days of bitter debate. Erroneous Agreement Granted permission to speak be before the vote was taken, Molotov asserted the Rules commission’s agreement to accept recommenda tions by a simple majority of 11 to 10 was “erroneous.” He insisted that the plenary ses sion return to the original “Big Four” suggestion that all recom mendations of the conference must receive a two-thirds vote. The demand drew immediate forensic fireworks from Austra lia’s H. V. Evatt and Britain’s Acting Chief Delegate Alexander. Both men, fighting mad, objected and reminded Molotov that the same issue had been fought out for eight days in the Rules com mission's sessions. Session Adjourns Bidault adjourned the session until 10 a. m. Friday after three hours of hot debate. He said that three more countries — the Unit ed States, White Russia and the Ukraine — had asked to speak. U. S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes had left the meeting, he said, and the other two wished to speak Friday. The plenary session opened at 4 p. m. for what was expected to be routine approval of committee agreements and formal endorse See MOLOTOV On Page Two Adventurous Soul WILMINGTON, Del., Aug. 8.— (^—Little Jimmy Ford, an adven turous soul of two years, wander ed away from his grandmother’s home Wednesday and wound up in Washington after a highly sat isfactory 109-mile train ride. He was playing with a sand buck et and shovel at the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Sara Davis, which is two blocks from the Penn, sylvania railroad station. A little later his grandmother missed him and after a futile search notified police. Meantixne, Jimmy was seen at the station, still carrying his buck et and shovel, talking to two wom en. How Jimmy managed to board the train baffled everybody but police guessed that he followed the two women, wthout their knowl edge, and climbed aboard. Jimmy next was seen -n the ves. tibule of the train at Baltimore by Brakeman Stanley Bailey, who took hftn in tow and delivered him to station authorities in Washing ton. Fall Lvent ' Ushers Long Season Here Plan Efforts To Draw Sports Fishermen From Entire East Coast ORRELL HEADS GROUP Permanent Organization Is Founded By Beaches In Southeast Area By LARRY HIRSCH The prospects of thousands of sports fishermen from all along the East Coast of the United States making South eastern North Carolina waters their mecca during the com ing fall—ar.d every fall to come hereafter—loomed rosy to day following an organization meeting of beach representatives from New River inlet to the South Carolina line last night in the Wil mington Chamber of Commerce building. Beaches Organize These prospects came as a result of the decision at the meeting— at which the Southeastern North Carolina Beach association was formed as a permanent organiza tion—to stage a mammoth fishing Rodeo along the beaches in this area from August 30 to September 30. The details of the rodeo are in the process of being worked out, but decision has been reached to put up a grand prize of $500 for the “best” fish caught by rod and reel during the one-month Rodeo. Funds To Be Raised Funds to finance the big Rodeo already are in sight, Wrightsville Beach and Carolina Beach repre sentatives have agreed that each beach will contribute $500 and the See BEACH On Page Three NCSC COMPLETES CONTRACT OCT. 8 Santa Isabel Expected To Be Delivered To Grace Line In Fall From a peak of 25,000 during the height of the war years employ ment at the shipyard of the North Carolina Shipbuilding company here virtually will become non existent early in October when work is completed on the SS Santa Isabel, company officials said yes terday. The Santa Isabel will be the last of a six-ship contract the local yard had with the Grace Line, operators of a vast passenger cargo steamship line. Three, of the Santa ships have been delivered, and the remainder are nearing completion. Oct. 8 Completion The Santa Maria, fourth of the contractual vessels, probably will be delivered on August 23, while the Santa Luisa is scheduled for delivery on September 17, with the Santa Isabel tentatively set for completion on October 8. With only 2,000 persons now employed at the yard, officials said this number gradually will be reduced with completion of each of the three remaining ves See NCSC on Page Two Today and Tomorrow 9 - Joseph Alsop continues as | Mr. Lippmann’s Guest Con ductor while the latter is away on vacation. BY JOSEPH ALSOP LONDON, August first thing to understand about Britain under the Labor Party is that a great social revolution has occur red here, peacefully but irrevo cably, for good or ill. It seems silly to have to make such a state ment nearly a year after the Brit ish election, but the all-important fact has been obscured in Amer ican eyes. It is noticed, for ex ample, that the permanent Under Secretary of Ernest Bevin’s for eign office is the intelligent, cyni TWO AND A HALF BILLIONS IN BONDS, CASH = AWA/J GPS IN TERMINAL LEAVE PAY BILL; rj&ZH GROUP PLANS HUGE FISHING RODEO *■" ____ ^ .. i_ . -i cal and strikingly non-proletarian Sir Orme Sargent. But it is not understood that Sir Orme Sargent has been , retained simply because he has the reputation of being the best diplomatic technician since the distant days of Sir Eyre Crowe. That is the advantage of a peace ful revolution. Instead of hust ling them off to the guillotine, you can make use of the best brains of the old order to help build the new. Britain did it before, at the time of the reform bill of 1832, which transferred the power from the great land owners to the middle class. The election of the Labor Government last year was See AESOP On Pace Sixteen Wilmington Built Ship Heads Into Maritime Dispute The beginning of a court battle over historic salvage rights can be seen in the making, top, as the William J. Riddle backs away from the American Farmer, launched by the North Carolina Ship building Co., here in April, 1945, after a collision off the English coast. Abandon ed by her crew, the Farmer was taken I - * in tow by the Cardiff schooner, Elizabete. Soon after, a crew from the American Ranger came aboard and cast off the British tow and headed toward an Eng lish port, which the Farmer is shown, bottom, nearing. The ship was brought in under her own steam. INTERNA TIONAL RADIOPHOTOS. FARMER ARRIVES SAFE IN HARBOR Peace Conference Staid Gang Fight Aboard Dere lict, Britons Say LONDON, Aug. 8.—(U.PJ—The $4, 500,000 salvage prize American Farmer limped into Falmouth Har bor Thursday and was boarded im mediately by officials who will seek to determine the rights of salvage claims against the ship and her cargo. At the same time the British tramp steamer Elizabete docked at Barry, Wales. An officer said that only the thought of the Paris Peace conference kept a British crew on the Farmer from fighting for their prize against a American board ing party. Adrift In Mid-Ocean The British reached the Farmer, abandoned and drifting helplessly after a collision in mid-Atlantic, early last Sunday and put a crew and towlines on the rich derelict. A larger boarding party from the American Ranger, the Farmer’s S'ster ship foiowed, ordered the British off and cut the towlines. Second Officer B. Valders of the Elizabete related a cautious ver sion of the disute on the high seas See FARMER on Page Two Along The Cape Fear BOTTLELESS BASEBALL — “Take me out to the ballgame; Take me out to the park; Buy me some peanuts and Crack erjack; I don’t care if I never get back.” We hesitate to say whether this ditty, the theme-song of the Na tional Pastime, applies to that picture on page three of today’s paper or not. The picture was taken in 1886, but we doubt that the song, and Crackerjack, too, for that mat ter, was invented that long ago. We also doubt that pop-bottles, the favorite.ammunition of baseball fans, were in existence at that time either. Just look at those 11 smooth, calm, and unmarred faces (save for the moustaches) and you can be reasonably sure that not so much as one pop-bottle was ever thrown in their direction. * + * SHRIEK’S ATTIC — The theme song, Crackerjack, and pop-bottles are not the real mysteries sur rounding the picture, however. Sup pose we start at the beginning and unravel as much as we can before we call upon you old-time fans for help. During the war a young Army man from Wilmington named Louis Shrier was stationed in Italy. His BLOW TO PROGRESS Fayetteville Facing Market Shutdown By PHIL WRIGHT Fayetteville, once the hub of North Carolina’s commerce is today facing the possibility of having her latest comeback attempt nipped in the bud. The city’s brand new tobacco market in the shadows of the old Town Market through which flowed supplies, includ Drama Of Life DETROIT, Aug. 8.—(JP)— One of life’s little dramas, played against a metropolitan backdrop, wrought panic Thursday on the Woodmere trolley line. The characters were Motorman Walter Williams, his near-capacity load of female passengers, Tom Woodishec and an unidentified rat. Williams stopped his car to pick up Woodishec. At that moment a rat ran at Woodishec. The latter kicked the rat which sailed into the air and through the trolley’s front window. The rat landed beside a woman in front of the car. She promptly took off for the rear of the car. So did the rat. mother, fearful that he might be come overly homesick for the old home town, sent him daily copies of the Wilmington Morning Star. Some months ago when the base ball season was starting we asked about some old pre-professional versions of the game of baseball as she is played today. We asked specifically about One - Old - Cat, Three-Old-Cat, and Long-Base. We got no answers, but Mr. Shrier, perusing the story in far-away Italy, remembered an old picture he once found in the attic of the I. Shrier store on Front street. * * * SEASIDE CLUB — When he ar rived home a few weeks ago he dug the old picture out of the attic and brought it in to us. "I don’t know a thing about it,” he said, "how it got in the attic or who the men are. All I can tell you about it is what’s printed on it. Mr. Shrier was referring to some words printed on it which do not show in the photo in the paper. At the top of the original are these words: “Seaside Baseball Club of 1886, Wilmington, North Carolina.” At the bottom are these words, which identify the 11 ball-playing See CAFE FEAR On Page Two mg tobacco, which early natives bartered for their daily bread, maj have to be shut down unless almost immediate aid is forthcoming in the form of company tobacco buy ers. Private Buyers The market operated the first six days of the season with private buyers. However, F. E. Crawford, supervisor of sales for the market said yesterday’s sales were fine. The market more than doubled previous days’ poundage with prices comparable to mos£ other Border Belt markets. The new market, boasting three warehouses with a combined floor space of more than 250,000 feet was built in 30 days, a product of a petition by more than i.OOO Cumberland county growers. Mass Meeting Held Mass meetings were held among leading citizens and tobacco grow ers from the area yesterday, and additional meetings are planned for today when concrete action on some plan to get company buyers on the market is expected to be taken, Crawford said. Thousands of telegrams to to bacco companies and congressmen went out of the city yesterday, and organized attempts to secure See TOBACCO on Page Two BUILDING FOR SALE Maffitt Structure Pul On Block By Uncle Sam The old Raleigh Community building in Maffitt Village, vacant for the last year or more, has been advertised for sale by the Federal Public Housing authority, according to information received from Washington last night. Hope For Industry H. R. Emory, executive director of the Wilmington Housing authority, said when informed of the report that local officials hope the struc ture can be converted t° in dustrial usage. Emory said that the building contains approxi Measure Will Benefit 16,000,000 Servicemen w_ President Expected To Sign Deficiency Ap propriation Measure Today To Pro vide Funds For Huge Project WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. —(UP)— President Truman Thursday signed legislation carrying $2,431,708,000 (b) in bonds and cash to pay some 16,000,000 GI’s their terminal leave pay. The funds were included in the final deficiency appro priation bill approved by Congress just before it adjourned Aug. 2. Mr. Truman is expected to sign Friday a separate PLANTS TO HIRE ; 1,200 WORKERS Five New Manufacturing Firms Have Already Leased Sites Here Five manufacturing firms, slat ed to employ a grand total of 1, 200 persons, have already purchas ed or leased sites for new factories in Wilmington and vicinity, John H. Farrell, city industrial agent, said yesterday. Although the names of the com panies were not disclosed, Farrell revealed that they will manufac ture the following products: Paper and pulp, ladies underwear, nylon stockings, fertilizer, and woodwork items. Permits Granted The Civilian Production adminis tration has granted building per mits to two of the iirms and per mits for two others are pending, Farrell said. The fifth company has leased a building. Farrell pointed out that three other new industries are already located here — the France Neck wear company, the Port City Hosiery mills, and the Alberta Knitting mills. These plants cur rently employ a total of 700 per sons. Further, about 25 more manufac turing firms have shown a “decid ed interest” in locating here, Far rell continued. These firms, locat ed in the North and Middlewest, have sent representatives for in terviews with the industrial agent, and all of them are ready to com mit themselves to establishing fac tories here as soon as land sites and building materials are avail able, Farrell added. Hazards Of Bathing NEW YORK, Aug. 8.—(U.R)—The night was humid, so Mrs. Bertha Singer, 62, climbed into her bath tub for a cooling rinse. The tub was three feet wide and five feet long. But so was 280-pound Mrs. Sing, er. She stuck. She shouted for help. No one was at home. Mrs. Singer strug gled heroically and vainly. Mrs. Singer sat there for 17 hours until her son, Harry, who works nights, came home at 9:30 a.m. Thursday. He labored and failed. Harry called police. An emergen cy squad worked several hours. They pulled and tugged and even tried to pry the tub apart. Nothing worked until a cop thought of filling the tub with oil. Mrs. Singer slipped out like a banana out of its skin. Harry said his mother had been stuck in the tub before, but al ways when he was at home and could help her out. Mrs. Singer said she would never again take a bath when Harry wasn’t home. mately 13,000 square feet, and is of cement block construction. 13 Acres Of Land The Washington report said that roughly 13 acres of land were included in advertise ments for sale of the building. Anybody Need A Diner? The federal authority also advertised for sale yesterday a “trailer type’’ diner in Nor folk county, Va. The diner measures 12 feet by 28 feet, model 1942, and built by the LaSalle coach com 8ee MAFFITT on Page Two bill authorizing expenditure ol me funds. The deficiency bill provides that enlisted personnel will be paid cash if they have $50 or less com ing to them. If they have more, they will get $50 in cash and the rest in five-year bonds bearing two-and-one-half per cent interest. Automobiles For GI’s The bill also provides $30,000,000 to buy automobiles for GI’s who lost one or both legs in service. There is a $1,600 limit which can be paid for each veteran’s car. Mr. Truman also signed two bills that will increase pension benefits to veterans by $300,000,000 in the next year. One calls for a 20 per cent in crease in pension benefits to vet erans disabled in World Wars I or II. The increase payments also will be paid to dependents of deceased veterans. Full Payment The bill also calls for full pay ment of pension compensation or retirement benefits to hospitalized veterans without dependents. Such veterans would get the full amount of their pensions for six months, $30 a month thereafter and the balance due upon their dis charge. A hospitalized veteran without dependents now gets a maximum pension of $20 a month if he has service-connected dis abilities, and only $18 a month if he has non-service connected dis abilities. gee BILLIONS On Page Two TEMBLORS AGAIN ROCK CARIBBEAN Panic Spreads Throughout Porto Rico, Dominican Republic _j. MIAMI, Fla., Aug. 8—(U.R)—'Two “very heavy” earthquakes rumbled from the disturbed floor of th* Caribbean sea Thursday, spread ing panic through Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, where seismologists described the shocks as the “second major slippage of the earth this week.” Breaks Galvanometer Geophysicist Marion H. Gilmore said that the “terrific intensity” of the quake, as recorded at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Navy weather station, broke the galvano meter and "it has stayed inopera tive since 9:34 a. m. (EDT).” “The quake was the second W jor slippage of the earth this wtflk and was as great in intensity as that which struck the Dominican Republic Sunday,” Gilmore said. The Navy central hurricane ser vice said their instruments still were recording shocks in the same area late Thursday, tfr.e last “of any intensity’' coming at 2:36 p.m. (EDT). "Scared To Death” Pan American Pilot William Karraker, Louisville, Ky., who landed in Ciudad Trujillo nine minutes after the first shock, re See QUAKE On Page Two And So To Bed A Wrightsville Beach couple, parents of an almost brand new baby, have been arguing for several weeks over whether or not their offspring is cutting his first tooth. The child is mewling in true Shakespearian tradition, and the mother says it is caused by a tooth coming through and the father says it isn’t. Last night, as the child put his silver spoon into his mouth, a distinct crunching n o i s • sounded in the room. The mother turned around from the stove and exclaimed to her husband: “There, I told you so. Did you hear the tooth crunch on that spoon?” Countered the father: "Have you observed that I am eating paper-shell pecan
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