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- FORECAST ^ | j ^ * Served By Leased Wires tlmuminn nrmtm mar - — State and National News flfc. 79IHN0‘ 282-l __WILMINGTON, N. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1946 ESTABLISHED 1867 India Facing Civil Strife leader Warns Fall-Scale Battle Between Hindus, Moslems Looms For Nation PROSPECTSGHASTLY Late Reports From Bombay Indicate Quiet Return ing To City BOMBAY, India, Sept. 6.-— ij-!—India faces the prospect '■ a possible ghastly full-scale idl war between Hindus and Moslems because of British action in establishing an in terim government, Premier H. < Suhrawardy, a powerful Moslem league figure, said Friday. Suhrawardy flew here from Cal ,ta Thursday and conferred last jjrtt with M. A. Jinnah, president .[the Moslem league. The Mos le0S have refused to participate jj (he Interim government because the British rejected their demands [o- parity with the Hindus and creation of a separate Moslem state. “The prospect before us is ghastly even though the very ex istence of the Moslem nation is at stake," Suhrawardy told the United Press in an exclusive interview. Suhrawardy held out hope that the league might still be offered parity in the Interim government and said: "I am certain that Jin nah and the Moslem league would be willing to participate in the Interim government in the inter ests of peace in India.” “The Congress party is drunk with power.” he said. “It thinks it has achieved a wonderful vic See INDIA on Page Two MANY 4-F CASES DUE FOR REVIEW Draft Board To Forward Four Hundred To Ra leigh Next Week About 400 New Hanover county W draft cases will be forwarded to state Selective Service head quarters in Raleigh some time next week for study, officials of the county’s consolidated draft board disclosed yesterday after a review by local Board No. one. Next week's shipment will fol low closely on the heels of the 10 4-F cases sent to Raleigh this week by Local Board No. »Two. Both boards may forward a few more of the cases on the lists at a later date, which would boost the county’s total to almost 500, the officials said. Action by State headquarters on 'be cases is expected in from four to six weeks, the officials added. Sune, all. or none may be reclass kied for induction this depending oo what decision State headquar ters makes, they said. Bulletins Received In the meantime, two bulletins have been received clarifying or modifying procedure on pre-induc ■or examination calls and defer tnente for transportation workers, fbe first read: "If your board as ordered registrants to report or induction whose pre-induction examination is over 90-days old, you will advise them that they will e forwarded on the date called See 4-F CASES On Page Two UMBONE’S MEDITATIONS By Alley 13 JIS '*> BE A HEAP MP' WoRU' EF DE^ WARS'! SO MAhW p^em'skips mape. JES' CKst VE'i BOFE ^-RATES D£ SAME polks »«! <n»lea*ed by The Bell Syn Inr.) Trade Mark »«*• V. S. Pal. Offlrc) To Speak Here KENNETH C. ROYAIX U. S. Undersecretary of War, who will be the chief speaker at Monday night’s convention banquet of the North Carolina Association of Food Dealers at the Ocean Ter race hotel, Wrightsville Beach. STATE FOOD MEN TO HEAR ROYALL Five Hundred Members Of State Association Will Meet At Wrights ville More than 500 members of the North Carolina Food Dealers asso ciation will begin arriving at the Ocean Terrace hotel here tomorrow afternoon for the three-day summer convention that will feature U. S. Undersecretary of War Kenneth C. Royall and Lt.-Gov. L. Y. Ballen tine as its chief speakers. Royall, Goldsboro lawyer and World War II brigadier general, is scheduled to address the con vention banquet Monday night. His speech will be broadcast over a number of state radio stations. Ballentine’s appearance before the state food dealers is scheduled for 2:30 p. m. Mdnday afternoon. Register Sunday Convention delegates will begin their registration at the Ocean Terrace at 4:00 Sunday. A general Community Sing led by City Post master Wilbur Dosher will high light a reception for delegates tend ered by Clyde Ayers, their presi dent, at 8:30 p. m. R. B. Roebuck, of Wilmington, a state director of the association, will call the convention to order at 10:30 Monday morning. Mayor W. Ronald Lane and Wal ter J. Cartier, secretary of the Wrightsville Beach Chamber of Commerce, will deliver speeches of welcome to the delegates. The Rev. W. J. Stephenson, pastor of the Temple Baptist church here, will pronounce the invocation. Jerry B. Wood, president of the North Carolina Poultry Dealers as sociation, and L. L. Ray, executive vice president of the North Caro lina Dairy Products association, See ROYALL On Page Two TESTIMONY ENDS IN EWING TRIAL Seventeen Witnesses De clare Defendant Always Appeared As “Sane” FAYETTEVILLE, Sept. 6.—(JP)— Taking of testimony in the trial of Wall C. Ewing, former political boss of Cumberland county, on the capital charge of murder for the slaying of his wife, was completed in Superior court here Friday. After Solicitor F. Ertel Carlyle had .placed 17 witnesses on the stand Friday morning to refute the defense contention that Ewing was insane when the socially-prominent Mrs. Douglas Sutherland Ewing was fatally injured last March 13, See EWING on Page Two DEER, DEER! “One Shot”Nimrods Set For War On Antelopes LANDER, Wyo., Sept. 6—(P) Hunters from Colorado, Wyoming and Louisiana synchronized watches Friday night for 4 A.*M. over-the-top against an army of antelopes that was all set to try to make suckers of them. The hunstmen-five men from each state-will be allowed only one shot each, the occasion behig the Wyoming - promoted one-shot antelope hunt. The event had its inaugural in 1940, when Colorardo bagged three antelopes to ,Wyoming’s one. In 1941 the score was th* same but BYRNES OFFERS GERMANY AN AMERICAN PLAN FOR 0IOCRATICPROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT; Mrfs TO COME DOWN UNDER NEW CEILINGS ■s3 • Best Of Beef Cuts To Cost Dime Higher Pork Increases Are Smaller With Veal Prices Rolled Back To Old Levels SAUSAGE REDUCED New Retail Figures To Go Into Effect Over Nation Next Tuesday WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.— (&*) — OPA Friday ordered new butcher shop ceilings for meats into effect iiext Tues day jumping some of the best beef cuts as much as ten cents a pound above June 30 prices and loin lamb chops 16 cents. Pork increases generally were smaller, and prices were rolled all the way back, to the old ceiling level for all veal, several important pork cuts, and the cheaper grades of beef. This followed OPA’s policy of putting the bulk of the increase on the “luxury” cuts while holding tighter ceilings on meats usually found on the tables of low-income families. Sausage, ham, pork shoulders, pigs knuckles, and pigs <feet were squeezed down to June 30 prices. So were the choice and good grades of beef short rubs and stew meat, and virtually all the “B” and ,“C” grades of beefs. The average increase, therefore, was three and three-quarters cents a pound. This represents a sizeable rollback from the uncontrolled prices which have prevailed since meat ceilings were knocked out by Congress on July 1. Famine Predicted So great is the rollback, in fact, See BEEF on Page Two RETURN OF MODOC FURTHER DELAYED Latest Advices Say Cutter May Not Arrive Before Wednesday The return of the United States Coast Guard cutter Modoc to its old Wilmington port may be de layed until Wednesday, according to advices received here yesterday from Capt. J. P. Eskridge, chief of staff of the Fifth Naval district, Coast Guard, Norfolk, Va. Captain Eskridge said the Modoc was still standing by the stricken vessel Monomony in Chesapeake Bay waiting for bad weather to clear in order to tow the crippl ed ship into port. The Monomony broke loose from its towing tug en route from Balti more to Norfolk. The Modoc, al ready underway to Wilmington turned around and went back to aid the vessel. In Abeyance Everything possible is being done to hasten the Modoc’s return here, the captain said. The reception planned for the Modoc and her crew will continue to be held in abeyance, Louis Han See MODOC On Page Two in favor of Wyoming. The hunt was suspended during the war. This year Gov. James Davis of Louisiana, famed as a Western movie singer and author of “You Are My Sunshine,” led a Bayou state team into the hunt with the pooh-poohing remark that antelopes ought to make big targets. Deputy game wardens spotted bands of antelope in advance so that each hunter could have a fair chance of getting one shot. To make sure he gets no more than one, each hunter is searched for extra bullets before starting out. New Community Center Toasted At Opening City and state recreation leaders gather at the punch-bowl to toast the success of the new Wilmington Community center at its dedi cation ceremonies Thursday night. Shown left to right are: Mrs. Elizabeth W. May, of the City Recreation department; Dr. Harold D. Meyer, director of the North Carolina Recreation commission; City Manager J. R. Benson; Mrs. W. Ronald Lane; Mayor Lane; Mrs. F. C. Hale; City Recreation director Jesse A. Reynolds; and Lester Preston.. WINTER PARK MAN PRAISES WORKMEN Colin Lewis Says Highway Department, County Doing Good Job Yesterday’s two-inch rains were running off Winter Park at a faster rate than they have shown in sim ilar situations in the recent past even though the area is far from out of the muck. Colin Lewis, chairman of the drainage com mittee of the Winter Park Service club, said last night. Lewis, who will report on Win ter Park’s long-standing drainage controversy to a Service club meet ing here Tuesday night, credited the apparent improvement to last week’s cleaning of two canals by a county work crew. “The highway commission and the county board are doing a good job, but it takes time and patience.” The Service club’s leaders re ports on the effect of the latest two inches of rain drew loud dis sent from at least two leaders of the group of Winter Park residents who have petitioned Governor R. Gregg Cherry for drainage relief three times in the last six months. Sends New Wire Calling Friday’s tour of the area by State Highway chairman A. H. Graham an “insult to the intelli gence of the people of this com munity”, James S. Hall, one spokesman of the indignation group, last night dispatched a fresh telegram to Governor Cherrj See WINTER PARK On Page Tw< “SNUG”HARBOR World’s Biggest Port Stilled By Sea Strike The Weather FORECAST North and South Carolina — Partly cloudy to cloudy, continued mild oc casional drizzle or light rains east and central portions Saturday. (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday. Temperatures 1:30 a. m. 69. 7:30 a. m. 70; 1:30 p. m. 72; 7:30 p. m. 74. Maximum 74; mini mum 68; mean 72; normal 75. Humidity 1:30 a. m. 88; 7:30 a. m. 90; 1:30 p. m. 96; 7:30 p. m. 98. Precipitation Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. 2 17 inches. Total since the first of the month 2.17 inches. Tides For Today (From the Tide Tables published by U. S.. Coast and Geodetic Survey). High Low Wilmington _6:29 a.m. 1:30 a.m. 7:06 p.m. 1:41p.m. Masonboro Inlet 4:15 a. m. 10:30 a. m. 4:55 p.m. 11:19 p.m. Sunrise 5:50; sunset 6:30; moonrise 4:35p; moonset 1:45a. River Stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8 a. m. Friday 9.4 feet. _ FOUR BELIEVED DEAD BORDEAUX, France, Sept. 6.— The number of men believed dead or missing in the wreck on the American Liberty ship David Cald well in the Gironde Estuary Wed nesday was reduced to four Friday when it was learned a member of the crew was not aboard at the itime of the disaster. Along Th e Cape Fear CONFEDERATE DEFEAT—This morning we are proud to present one of the biggest scoops in news paper history. We have discovered the real reason why the South lost the Civil War. Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, could not write a legible hand. Despite the fact that vice-presi dents are famous for being less important to government functions than office boys and stenogra phers, we imagine that Vice-Presi dent Stephens must have had a pretty busy time of it since the Confederacy was brand new and he was its second ranking official. So you can probably conceive what confusion was stirred up in the Confederate government’s af fairs when Vice-President Ste phens started writing official let ters and directives and memo randa in a hand that nobody could read. We believe that this confusion led to the South’s defeat. We fur ther believe that the defeat would have been reversed if Vice-Presi dent Stephens had only had one capable stenographer with a type writer WALKING MUSEUM — We have very good evidence to back up .this theory. Yesterday afternoon Mr. R. P. Boone, the man who owns one of the little bells made from the bell of the old Methodist Episcopal church, paid us another visit. Mr. Boone is a veritable walking museum. He pulls all sorts of curios out of his pockets. It wouldn’t sur prise us overly ' much if he should pull his namesake, Daniel Boone, from those seemingly bot tomless pockets one of these days. Well what should he take from them yesterday but a letter written by .Vice-President Stephens. Last night we wore out our eyes and three magnifying glasses on this letter, but all we could decipher was “Liberty Hall” in the heading, “Col. (Unreadable)” and “My Dear Sir” in the salutation, and “Yours truly, Alexander H. Stephens” in the close. We can picture what happened to the colonel, whoever he was, when he opened the letter, He lost his eyesight and led his troops stone blind into a battery of Yankee artil See CAPE FEAR on Page Two New York Waterfront Now Resembles Dead Forest Unionists Say NEW YORK, Sept. 6—(#“)—The ebb and flow of water commerce in the world’s biggest port was still Friday and the serpentine miles of the waterfront were a quiet jungle of jutting piers, great ware houses and towering hulks of steel ships. A tour of the waterfront showed the complete effectiveness of the seamen’s strike. The huge doors of the piers were closed, the pier sheds were dark, and inbound and outbound cargo remained untouch ed. Tied up in the oily waters of the Hudson and East rivers were 344 ships by count of the U. S. Marti time commission and 534 by count of union strike leaders. “The harbor looks like a dead forest with all the booms in the air,” said one union officer. Although the piers were practical ly deserted, there was activity and even gaiety where pickets patrol led. At one pier seamen and the longshoremen supporting them were engaged in a spirited street game of softball. Employer representatives, sup porting the union position against a government order reducing a wage hike, chatted amiably with pickets. Police in prowl cats and on foot found no disorder; instead, the united stand of the employers and the various unions gave the scene at many piers a ' holiday atmos phere. See PORT on Page Two TOBACCO PRICES DROP ON MARKET Border Belt Reports Lowest Levels Of Season On Most Offerings By The Associated Press Prices for cutters, lugs and prim ings sold on the flue-cured Eastern North Carolina Tobacco Tobacco market Friday failed to hold the levels reached Thursday, and prices on the border Belt markets continued to show a drop on almost all offerings, according to the Fed eral-State Marketing News Service. The Border Belt found several grades reporting their lowest levels of the season, with the drops rang ing from $1 to $10 per hundred, The News Service said. The inferior quality leaf and lugs showed the heaviest losses. Only good lemon cutters showed an advance of $1. Declines on the Eastern North Carolina belt ranged from $1 to $8, with the majority dropping from $2 to $5. Some cutters, for the first time, reported losses. Decreases in lugs and primings were not as great as the gains reported Thursday. Most grades are selling over prices paid before the five-day sales holi day. average frices Average prices, per hundred pounds, on a limited number of representative grades on the East ern North Carolina markets: Leaf—$65, unchanged; fair lemon $60, down $3; good orange $62, up $1; fair orange $57, up $1; low or ange 48. up $1; common orange $39, up $1; common red $33, up $3. Cutters—fair lemon $64, down $2; low lemon $61, down $4; low orange $59, down $5. Lugs—$65, down $1; good lemon $62, down $2; fair lemon $56, down $1; good orange $59, down 3; fair See TOBACCO on Page Two PRESSES HALT U. S. Army Suspends TTi ree South Korea Newspapers SEOUL, Korea, Sept. 6 — (#)— U. S. Army headquarters Friday announced the suspension of three leftist newspapers from ‘‘en dangering the security of United States Army forces in Korea.” The statement did not elaborate on the security angle. An undetermined number of employes of the newspapers were taken into custody. The announcement said the three publications had been more critical than ever of American oc cupation policies since the Aug. 31 statement of Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge who charged that ‘‘vicious propaganda was coming from the mouths of the press arid from pamphlets and posters of some political groups in South Korea.1' South Korea is occupied by the United States, North Korea by Russia. One Korean press authority said that ‘‘any one political article in any of these papers in the past week could have been the cause for suspension.” Army Counter Intelligence agents entered the newspapers simultaneously with lists of names, taking only those listed. The Army statement said those detained probably would be prose cuted in military courts French Claim To Rhineland Given Rehuff Secretary Of State Warns Against Making Nation “Pawn” Partner j FORCES WILL STAY Five-Point Program To Re habilitate Defeated People Outlined STUTTGART, Sept. 6.—(ff) —Secretary of State Byrnes, bluntly warning against mak ing Germany a “pawn or part ner” in a military power struggle between the East and West, laid before the German people today an American pro posal for speedy establish ment of a democratic provis ional government to unify the defeated nation. In a forthright statement to U. S. policy, Byrnes reject ed any idea that Germany’s eastern borders were permanently fixed on the Oder river, and said France was entitled to the Saar but not to the Ruhr and the Rhineland. Byrnes travelled to this seat of local German government in the U. S. zone in the elaborate private train once used by Adolf Hitler. With him were Senators Arthur H. Vandenberg (R-Mich) and Tom Connally (D-Tex). Hundreds of crack U. S. soldier-constabulary, with tanks and armored cars lined the streets to the old State opera house, where 2,000 persons listened to Byrnes’ address delivered from the flower-decked stage. Byrnes declared the United Stat es wanted neither a hard nor soft peace for Germany, offered the Germans the chance to rise again as a nation through hard work and frugality, and said the United States would not “shirk our duty” See BYRNES On Page Two TURNERCOMES IN ON LOW CEILING Famous Flying Colonel Sets Party Down Safely At Bluethenthil Field i _-I? Col. Roscoe Turner’s converted B-23 luxury air liner sneaked in through Wilmington’s heavy cur tain of rain at about 7 o’clock last night and set its cargo of 15 holi daying Hoosiers down safely on Bluethenthal airport’s runway aft er a stormy three-hour flight from Indianapolis, Indiana. The sky-tossed travelers were met at the airport by a delegation of city and Wrightsville Beach of ficials who escorted them to the beach resort’s Edgewater hotel for a week-end of surf-side recreation, weather permitting. Included on the recreational agenda are today’s Outboard Motorboat races and the Fishing Rodeo. Colonel Turner and his party are scheduled to take off for the re turn trip to Indianapolis on Sunday afternoon. The week-end flight marks the second the famous fly ing colonel has made here this year. The inaugural flight took place in July, when he flew five Indianapolis residents to Wilming ton in a scant two hours. And So To Bed In case yon didn’t notice, It rained yesterday afternoon and last night, the first real rain of the month. When the 7 p. m. weather f%> port came into The Star’s new* room the editor exclaimed “Listen to this boys. It rained 2.17 inches so far today.” One reporter who had Just come in off his beat rose to his feet and said, "I deny that report. It has rained 22% inches.” He placed a yardstick along his leg beginning at his shoe. He was right. The high-water mark on his tronser leg meas ured 22% inches. What do you say to that, Mr. Weather Bureau?
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