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«» u>- ‘ ‘ __ WEATHER r “ - - m5mI THE SUNBAfc _-NEWS _____ gjtfiKIE P©®? €ttTV©F^g?©(aiaEg§ &MB l5ILIgAgrUEIg>» <Y)L. 18.—NO. 37. --——-. __ ' ^ . ■■—-___WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1946 SECTION-^ --- g £$ ---- Goss Press Purchased By T//>0>ton Star-News ----& Shown a^v*ls the Goss low construction, high speed, octuple press recently acquired by the Wilmington Star-News newsDaoers Ton •artying general EPS TRAVEL PAY ;WS Chief, Member of Garsson Wedding Party, Issues Statement WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 — (IP) — jat Gen. Alder. H. Waitt has old :he Army Finance office he la- no intention of turning back o 'he government $36 he coliect j as mileage for the New York in or. which he attended the wed j'ng of Murray Garsson’s aughter. He disclosed today he has sub litted letters from war contrac ts in New York to support his (intention that the 1944 trip, which igured prominently in the Senate fead committee's inquiry into the Jarsson Munitions enterprise, was 'necessary and important” to the ■ar effort, Attending the wedding was "in idental” and the $36 collected :om the War department for the iashington-to-New York round dp by rail was “entirely proper,” len. Waitt told a reported. The chemical warfare chief and batman May (D-Ky) of the louse Military Affairs committee >ere among those who attended te wedding of Natalie Garsson to laj. Louis Klebenof at the Hotel ierre the evening of Jen. 2, 1944. ie committee has heard that the ride's father paid the hotel ex entes of General Waitt and some titer guests. Ai.er the general accounting of ce had observed that the trip ppeared to be for the general’s personal convenience,” Waitt tat the Army Finance office: 1. A letter saying the primary arpose of the trip was Army Continued on Page 2; Column 3) eyereIhortages IE MEAT FORECAST etail Meat Dealers Predict Fast Return Of U. S.' Black Markets CHICAGO, Sept. 7—(U.R)—1The na 15' housewives, harrassed dur 15 toe war by severe meat short ly were told tonight that the rst was yet to come. e-v Prepared to line up again Seat counters as livestock ex s predicted a return of the eat( hlack market and meat •'-ages on an unprecedented Cwrge Dressier, executive secre p toe National Association Meat Deaders, said the ‘‘■5" faced “the worst meat short ? weve ever had.” >pts of cattle and’hogs at i 8e,r paclting centers dropped Md lows last week, but con , J Were not expected to feel ifa/pact until next week. Kntt t?ackirighouEes closed, lay r,011 thousands of workers. Oth nr.droaated skeleton .crews. s of meat markets pre on Page 2; Column 2) Murder Trial Of Ewing Almost Did Not Happen By noel YANCEY ke yETTEVILLE. Sept. 7.—(/P)— aurder trial 0f Wall C. Ewing, Pet)t political wheelhorse, is an j|j 1*lat alr»iost didn’t happen. i»in' Was *n ^cess today fol este^tae completion of testimony londa ai' but it will be resumed in thpLWllen 0PP0sing counsel be ^olice-arguments t0 the jury, t dean, .ePorted, meanwhile, that Eminent allMarch 13 of socially, “i^ Ewin Mrs' Douglas Suther is K„; g’ *or whose slaying Ew of -r.ng tried, came within an ln8 marked down in the records as “death by heart a - Mrs. Ewing was found lying un conscious in the bedroom of h home here on the evening of March 12, and she died at a l°cal, h“Dltf? at about 1 a.m. on March 13. At about b a.m. that day the police received an anonymous telepho call and were told that Mrs Ew ing’s body was at a funeral home thlt it was literally covered with bruises, and that look. bad. Chief ol Police L. F. Worrell or dered an investgation Captain of Detectives W. G. Clark and Detec. (Contjmed on Column 4 Wilmington Star-News Launches $285,000Program Of Expansion FOOD DEALERS TO MEET HERE TODAY Undersecretary Of War Royall, Lt. Gov. Ballen tine Speakers Addresses by national and state figures will highlight the three day convention of the North Car olina Food Dealer’s association which convenes this afternoon at 4 o’clock in the Ocean Terrace Hotel, Wrightsville Beach. Scheduled to appear on the pro gram are Kenneth C. Royall. Undersecretary of War; Lt. Gov. L. Y. Ballentine, and State Sen ator George T. Penny. A dinner for state and Wilming ton directors, and their wives will be served at 6 o’clock this evening in the first event of the three-day convention. A state director’s meeting will convene at 7:30 o’clock with the president’s reception scheduled to follow at 8:30 o’clock. Entertainment will be offered during the evening with Nathan Humphrey in charge of arrange ments. A community sing, led by Wilbur Dosher, Wilmington post master, is included on the agenda. The 400 expected delegates will get down to the business of the convention tomorrow morning following a state officer’s and di rector’s breakfast at 8:30 o’clock. The first business session will be called to order at 10:30 o’clock by R. B. Roebuck representing the Wilmington Retail Grocers assoc iation. Invocation will be offered by the Rev. W. J. Stephenson, pastor of the Temple Baptist church of Wilmington. Mayor W. Roland Lane, of Wil mington, and Walter J. Cartier, secretary of the resort’s Chamber of Commerce, will welcome the visitors. Response will be given by Dr. S. Scarboro, of Durham. Jerry B. Wood, president of the North Carolina Processor’s associa tion and L. L. Ray, evecutive vice president of the North Carolina Dairy Product’s asociafion will de liver addresses during the morning session. After a luncheon — a special one will be held for the ladies — the group will re-convene with Clyde Ayers, state president, calling the delegates to order at 2:30 o’clock. An address by Lt. Gov. Ballen tine will spotlight the afternoon session which will be supplement ed with talks by L. V. “Bob” Well, executive vice president of Hugh A. Deadwyler Advertising agency and W. H. Goan, general manager of Radio station WAKS, of Charlotte. The first annual banquet of the Tar Heel organization will be he]£ in the hotel dining room at 8:30 o’clock following which Royall will speak. His talk will be carried oi^er WMFD, Wilmington; WPTF, Ra (Continued on Page 7; Column 5) Ground Broken For Large Addition To House Recently - Acquired 64-Page Goss Press As Papers Continue Record Growth A $285,000 expansion program of the physical plant of the Wilmington Star-News newspapers, based on installa tion of a recently-acquired 64-page Goss press, was an nounced yesterday by R, B. Page, publisher. Work on the extensive project has been started and the greater part of it should be completed early in November, he added. “The plans for expansion we are making every effort to effect as early as possible were proposed in 1941. We felt then that improvements and modernization were vital ly necessary in the advance ment of the newspapers. But the war forced their sudden postponement,” Page said. “Since then, the newspapers have enjoyed unprecedented growth. As an example, their cir culation, as certified by the Audit Bureau of Circulation, has been doubled in the past five years Now, with the war over, it is pos sible to start the physical exten sion program. Handicaps of equip ment and material shortages have been tremendous but they have been overcome to an extent that the beginning is possible. Confident Of Future "The program we are under taking can well be interpreted as the full confidence of the Star News in the future growth of Wil mington and Southeastern North Carolina. "This fine section is now on the eve of its greatest development. It is the deep obligation of the Star and News to keep step with this advancement as they continue their 24-ho"ur service as its lead ing newspapers,” Page added. Ground for the erection of a $9, 000 addition to the three-story annex of the Murchison building occupied by the newspapers was broken during the past week by the contracting firm of Gillette and Miller, of Wilmington. Located in the rear of the annex, the build ing will house the new press and the present press-room will be converted into a larger, more con venient mailing room. Shipment of the press and ac companying modern stereotyping equipment, valued at approximate ly $236,195, from St. Louis to Wil mington will be started in about three weeks. The work of erecting (Continued on Page 7; Column 2) CITY PLANS WORK IN ANNEXED AREAS Council Will Receive Bids Sept. 18 On Water And Other Pipe The City Council will receive bids on Sept. 18 on about $300,000 worth of water, sewerage and storm drainage material to be installed in the recently annexed areas with in the near future, City Manager J. R. Benson said yesterday. He added that the new equipment would be installed in the Sunset Park, Forest Hills, and other sec tions, just as soon as the materials are available. • He reported that the council had not definitely decided whether con tracts for the installation would be let or whether the city public works department would do the work. “If we can’t get contracts for the installation of these materials as cheaply as we find we can do the work ourselves, then we will have the department of public works construct the projects,” Benson said. He added, however, that he , preferred having the work done by private contractors. YUGOSLAVIA BALKS AT BOUNDARY PLAN Paris Conference Hears Veto Threat At End Of Second Week ' " PARIS, Sept. 7—<7P)—Yugoslavia served notice on the peace confer ence tonight she would refuse to sign a treaty with Italy if the delegates approved the Italo-Yu goslavia boundary recommended by the Foreign Ministers council, and the conference ended its sixth week embroiled in bitter territorial disputes. The Italian Political and Terri torial commission overwhelmingly rejected a Brazilian proposal to defer decision on establishing the Yugoslav-Italian frontier after Yu goslav Vice Premier Edvard Kar delj denounced the proposal as one aimed at giving Italy all she wanted. The vote was 18 to 1, with Belgium abstaining and only Brazil voting in favor. The Soviet Ukrainian republic lined up with the other states of the Russian - influenced Slavic group in supporting Yugoslavia’s claims to Venezia Giulia before today’s lest word was spoken by Kardelj. The Yugoslav vice premier de manded a major portion of the disputed area and an economic link between Yugoslavia and the projected free territory of Trieste. Replying to U. S. Senator Tom Connally (D-Tex), who had warn ed that territorial disputes were the road to war, Kardelj said: “We agree with Senator Con nally that territorial claims lead to war but what were its impli cations? To whom was his appeal addressed? We think it was not necessary for him to address • it to us—we were the victims. We never waged a war of aggres sion. We have a claim to our land, wrenched from us by the invader. Senator Conhally should have ad dressed his appeal to Italy.” Kardelj said Yugoslavia was willing to agree to the establish ment of a free territory of Trieste only on condition that “from an economic point of view Trieste is sufficiently linked to Yugoslavia and to other countries of her Hin terland which she serves as an .in ternational port.” Royall Praises Airport; Approves Byrnes * Policy “You folks have a fine airfield here,” Kenneth C. Royall, under secretary of war, saad to Mayor W. Ronald Lane as he stepped from a DC-3 plane at Bluethenthal Air port yesterday afternoon. He was accompanied by Mrs. Royall, the former Martha Best, of Warsaw, and Charles Parker, former Raleigh newspaperman and now Royall’s director of publicity. When asked by a reporter for his views on the possibility of Bluethenthal becoming a National Guard base, Royall replied “there is nothing new on that score.” He pointed out that the National VETERANS MOVE TO HALT TERROR ACTS Tenn. GI Faction Pledges Prosecution Of Mc Minn Terrorists ATHENS, Tenn., Sept. 7 —(£>)— Knox Henry, McMinn county sheriff and members of a veterans’ slate that took over county affairs in an August uprising, declared today he would use the “full power of my office” to halt terror izing of city oficials. Sheriff Henry said the organiza tion of ex-GI’s would not condone acts of voilence which led to resig nation of the mayor and board of Aldermen of ,the city. He said veterans were not involved in a reign of terror against the aider men “as far as we have been able to find out.” City Recorder Herman Lee Moses, World War Two veteran, left with administration of this battle-scared city's affairs after the resignation of Mayor Paul Walker and the aldermen, said the city wov^d be in a financial jam unless hew officials were named soon. Walker and the aldermen said today they would advance the date on their resignations "if it gets to the point where the city does not have the necessary funds to operate.” Walker said the resignations were not official be cause "we had no one to resign to.” Lester Dooley, president of the McMinn county Good Government league, announced he had asked the mayor and board to remain in office. Affairs of the city were turned over to the recorder by the mayor and four aldermen after a fusill ade of shots was fired into the home of Alderman Hugh Higgs about 1 a. m. Thursday from a speeding car. Recorder Moses said today the city’s 1946 tax levy had not been made, the 1946-47 financial budget had not been prepared and the city school budget had not been approved. Provisions was made for (Continued on Page 7; Column 1) PERON EXPEDITES HEMISPHERE PLAN Next Move May Be To Na tionalize German Firms In Argentina BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 7.—(U.R)— An authoritative sources close to the Argentine government said to night that the government intends to implement swiftly its recent ra tification of the Chapultepec Act for hemispheric defense and plans a number of steps, including the introduction of a bill in congress for the nationalization of all Ger man firms seized after the de clara. tion of war. The informant sdid it was evident that since the arrival of U. S. Am bassador George S. Messersmith (Continued on Page 2; Column 2) Guard will be comprised of 27 di visions and' 27 air groups which will be distributed throughout the country. The locations of these units have not been established, he said. “I approve of everything Secre tary Byrnes has done to the pres ent,” Royall said when queried regarding the Secretary’s Stuttgart speech Friday when he warned against making Germany a “pawn or a partner” in a military pow er struggle between the East and the West. (Continued on Page 7; Column 3) AFL Truckers Strike NumbsNew York City NEW YORK, Sept. 7—(U.R)— ffhe nation’s largest city faced the worst food and industrial crisis of its recent history to night as a week-old strike of more than 32,000 truck drivers continued with no signs of set tlement. Food supplies for the city’s 7,500,000 residents were dwindl ing rapidly and wholesale lay offs were threatened in indus tries unabe to get raw ma terials or to deliver finished goods. The situation was aggravat ed by a walkout of tugboat men in New York harbor—paralyz ing the nation’s dargest port and threatening a fuel shortage such as caused almost a com plete halt to the city’s business activity for a day last January. As milk deliveries were cur Atomic Test Halted; A tom Age Navy Begun _ -ir _ Truman Postpones Deep Water Atomic Test Sched uled In Spring BY ERNEST BARCEELA WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 — (U.R) — President Truman, in a sur prise move, today put off indef initely — and perhaps permantly — the deep-water atomic bomb test scheduled at Bikini next Spring. His unexpected decision was based on recommendations of the joint Chiefs of Staff, the Secretar ies of War and Navy and the Presi dent’s commission to eavaluate the tests. The announced reason for the postponement was that informa tion obtained from last July’s two teste and the three wartime ex plosions was such that the third or deep-water test was not justi fied. “in the near future.” But there was prompt specula tion that the postponement was dictated by more compelling sea sons, such as the international tension which has intensified since the first two tests. A possible hint in this connec tion was a statement by Dr. J. H. Bush of the Federation of Amer ican Scientists, an organization of scientists who played a vital role in developing the terrifying weapon. “Such an operation at this time,” Bush said, “seemed to ap pear to other nations like a flex ing of our military muscles and tended to increase international distrust.” It was recalled in this connec tion that, prior to the first two (Continued on Page 2; Column 2) ALBANIA PREPARES TO AIR GREEK TIFF UN Council Scheduled To Hear Bitter Charges Made Tomorrow LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Sept. 7. —OP)— Albania today drafted a series of bitter charges against Greece which its representative hopes to present personally Mon day when the Security Council again takes up the Soviet Ukraine’s complaint against Greece and Great Britain. Col. Tuk Jakova, Albanian mini ster without portfolio, has demand ed a seat at the table to offer his side of the case, and this Soviet supported move was expected to touch off another sharp debate. Persons close to Jakova said the charges would center around these points: 1. A new list of Greek-Albanian border incidents which Jakova holds are being provoked by the Greeks. 2. Contentions that the Greeks are persecuting Albanian minori ties in Chamuria in northern Greece. 3. A detailed rebuttal to Greek claims on northern Epirus (South ern Albania). It was understood that the United States would not oppose Jakova’s bid for a seat, a precedent-setting (Continued on Page 2; Column 6) tailed and supplies of butter, eggs, cigarettes and other com modities were fast disappear ing from store shelves, Mayor William O’Dwyer renewed his threat to use policemen and other city employes to man trucks gnd deliver essential supplies. The mayor’s threat came af ter failure of another attempt to break the deadlock between the striking AFL Teamsters union and the owners of some B5.000 idle trucks. “No progress’’ was reported by O’Dwyer after a meeting of city officials, representatives of the carriers and union offi cials. He said another meeting (Continued on Page 2; Column 4) Construction Of Vessels Carrying Guided Mis sies Now Underway By ELTON C. FAY WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—(/P)— The United States, racing to main tain its naval supremacy, already is building the world’s first atomic age capital ships armed with main batteries of robot rockets instead of guns. The Navy disclosed this tonight in a somewhat terse announcement that the 45,000-ton battleship Ken tucky and the 27,000-ton battlecruis er Hawaii would be “guided missile warships.” .Both ships were start ed as conventional design vessels, but construction was arrested when the rockets and atomic bombs of the final phases of World War II marked the arrival of a new day in warfare. The announcement by Vice Ad miral E. L. Cochrane, chief of the Navy’s Bureau of Ships, was spar ing of detail but left broad implica tions. Said he: “The Navy’s experiments with guided missiles have always con templated eventual shipboard in stallation, although design studies were handicapped until the Navy had made more progress in the development of guided missiles. The design stodies now being made for the Kentucky and Hawaii to gether with the development of missiles guided by carrier-based in the striking power of naval war aircraft, will lead to a revolution ships. It is still too early to make any forecast of the ultimate design characteristics of these ships ex cept that they will be guided missile warships.” It was patent, however, that the announcement marked the end of an era—the age of the rifled gun in the main batteries of American naval ships. That gun came into general use by the Navy soon aftey the close of the civil war. Naval design men, talking in formally, pointed out that the de structive power of capital ships can be increased enormously by use of far-reaching missiles homed to the target by electronic beams or drawn there by the attraction of the steel or heat in the target itself. And, designers say, the ad vent of the rocket with atomic blast warhead is just around the labora tory corner. Although the main weapons of the two big fighters will be a dras tic departure from tradition, there (Continued on Page 2; Column 1) Martial Law Is Imposed On Divided Greek Nation ATHENS, Greece, Sept. 7.—(A5)— The leftist coalition party EAM an nounced tonight that it would not support the present Greek govern ment in case of invasion. This formal statement by EAM leaders followed by a few hours a government edict putting the whole nation under martial law. The EAM leaders said they would help fight off an invader only if the present government—Greeks re turned a majority for a return of the monarchy in last Sunday’s plebiscite—were overthrown The government announced that a second mysterious rocket had been sighted.at 5 p. m. local time today over Servia Nea Kozani in western Macedonia by local Gen darmerie. The rocket was travel ing south at a height of 1,800 feet. The first rocket was reported Thursday. (Mysterious rockets have flashed over Scandinavia since May 24, re portedly from Russian experiments with guided missiles along the Baltic coast of Germany and Lat vian state.) “If Greece is attacked, the only (Continned on Page 1j Column 4) RUMOR OF GENERAL STRIKE UNFOUNDED Maritime Strike Looming As Greatest Shipping Crisis In History J ___ ' ’337 By The Associated Press A spokesman for the Amer ican Federation of Labor last night termed “ridiculous” an AFL maritime leader’s threat to seek a general strike, as the greatest shipping shut down in American history slowed the industrial pulse ©f the nation. The general strike threat earn* from Paul Hall, New York port agent of the Seafareres Interna tional union (AFL). Hall declared that if the govern ment attempted to move any of the hundreds of strike-bound ships in U. S. ports “we will call #n all organized labor to come out with us.” Philip Pearl, director of the in formation of the AFL headquarters in Washington, said he had been assured the government did not contemplate using troops to man ships and declared: “This scarenead of a general strike is rediculous on its face and has no basis in fact.” Pearl pointed out that the gen eral strike strike idea had been voiced only by 9 local union of ficial. Williiam Green, head of the AFL, who previously expressed support of the seamen, was not available for comment immediately, but the CIO’s Philiy Murray told a report er in Chicago “I wouldn’t have any comment on a thing like that.” In Washington an official in close touch with the situation said there had been discussions of what steps the government could take to sup ply U. S. troops abroad, in the event of a prolonged strike. But he said that up until now no specific plan had been drawn up. UNRRA Director F. H. LaGuard ia was in New York to appeal personally to strike leaders to free 125 ships with 250,000 tons of re lief cargo for Europe and Asia. But Joseph P. Ryan, head of the International Longshoreman’s as sociation (AFL) said the former (Continued on Page 2; Column » ONE TANKER DOCKS HERE AFTER STRIKE Maritime Tie-Up Will Be Felt When Present Sup plies Fail * A lone tanker—the Sinclair Super Flame—unloaded at the Wilmington docks yesterday as a nationwide American Federation of Labor Maritime union strike tied up water shipments in porte at all over the United States. The tanker—manned by a CIO crew—carried both, oil and pack age goods. The cargo was unloaded at the Cape Fear Terminal by an AFL stevedore crew without incident, according to a spokesm»v on duty during the unloading process. Although the strike docs not af fect tankers and passenger vessels, terminal superintendents yesterday expressed concern over their now full supplies of pertolieum pro ducts. The Shell Oil company tanks are full with a 30-day plus supply but, (Continued on Page 2; Column 1)
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