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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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?