FORECAST ^ . Served By Leased Wires Wilmington and vicinity: Little change 4 w"+ T 44* “44* united press jn temperature today; possible scattered III | I I | I I I / I \ I | and the ill II II 111 1 ii i ASSOCIATED PRESS _ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ “▼▼▼ With Complete Coverage of —_. a/ State and National News -al from the CAB for the pro jfd route designed to weld fashington, Atlantic City, Nor tf Elizabeth City, New Bern, (Jmington, Myrtle Beach, George town , Charleston, Savannah, Brunswick, Jacksonville, Orlando and Miami into an Eastern Sea board air chain to be flung over seas to Balboa, Panama; Baran quilla, Columbia; Nassau, Baha mas; Havana, Camaguay, and San tiago, Cuba; and Cienfugos, King ston, and Montego Bay, Jamaica. To Present Heads Colonel Boyd, however, will not champion either contender for the route. Rather, he will set forth Wilmington’s need for inclusion on the proposed route and demand that the CAB grant it to the com peting company which, in the CAB’s opinion, can best provide the desired overseas service. According to advance reports See BOYD On Page Two (ff SCHEDULES HOUSING REPORT - Commander Snead Opto mistic Over Plan For Purchase He Wilmington post Of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will aeet. at 8 p. m. Wednesday to i"ear the report of a special post committee appointed to investigate njmors that managers of the Lake Forest housing project have ig sored veterans preference rules in selecting tenants for their build jjjs, E. C. Snead, post com uander, said last night. David LeRoy, chairman of the investigating committee, will de liver the report, an anticipated highlight in a special meeting called to discuss the local hous es situation for ex-servicemen. The post will also hear a new summary of progress of its efforts to acquire permanent possession of Lake Foret’s 584 masonry build. Eg as a veterans housing coopera tive. Snead last night was frankly jubiMant over week-end develop ments which, he said, indicated that the local VFW would soon enter into direct negotiations with Federal Public Housing adminis tration officials in Atlanta to pur chase the Lake Forest project. In order to buy the buildings on a cooperative basis, the vets group must present certificates of con sent from 25 per cent of Lake For ests present residents and a list of prospective cooperative mem bers to occupy an additional 35 per cent of the project’s buildings. The VFW leader said last night that s:gnatures of 25 per cent of the project’s current tenant roster are "already in the bag”, al though the full quota has not yet been secured. Snead hopes, later this week, to call a meeting of all ex-service men, whether eligible for VFW membership or not, who might be interested in entering the coopera. tive, he said last night. WALLACE MAY ISSUE STATEMENT TODAY IN DEFENSE OF SPEECH WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. — (U.R)— Secretary of Commerce Henry A. "aliace whose New York ease-up w-Russia speech shocked adminis tration democrats and caused an 1,1 ^national uproar, may issue a statement Monday touching on resident Truman’s repudiation of !ls rernarks, it was reported Sun day night. Intimates of the former vice President, who is still in New York, he might have something to >5’ about Mr. Truman renouncing :;ls sPeech, after having approved ' ln advance, but that there was pnt prospect of a Truman-Wallace reak or that Wallace might quit “e cabinet. UNBONE S MEDITATIONS By Alley } HeW5 'EM tALKlN' Soot "BABY-SETruus' But I 'spec7 aim' Many uy 'em aits r° vo much settin'H (ltele.»3"Sj Th. B.II >r» dicate, Inc.) Trade Marfc Res. U. ft. Pat. ORcel DISPUTES BREAK OUT OVER PROPERTY RIGHT AT GOLD RUSH SCENE CRESCENT CITY, Calif., Sept. 15. —(U.R)— Disputes over property rights broke out between landown ers and prospectors at the site of California's newest gold rush. One landowner guarded his sec tion line with a .30 caliber rifle and threatened gold seekers he would shoot if they didn’t keep off. Henry L. Shapiro, well-to-do lily bulb grower, walked sentry duty, carrying his rifle along the line of his 160 acres bordering Meyer’s Flat above Myrtle Creek, where the reported gold find was made by veteran prospector Tom Cronin. Cronin, a one-time sheep rancher who went broke during the depres sion, discovered a pyrite outcrop ping September 4 in the area 15 miles northeast of here. Assayer Ernest Hay reported the rock bore gold worth between $55 and $75 a ton. When the news seeped out, some 500 persons bore down on the area. TOBACCO MARKETS TO REDUCE HOURS Three Hour Sales Period Effective Today; Middle Belt Opens RALEIGH, Sept. 15— (IP) —With farmers looking forward to record high prices, tobacco sales will be gin Monday on the nine markets of North Carolina’s Middle Belt. The Middle Belt markets are at Aberdeen, Carthage, Durham, Fu quay-Varina, Henderson, Louis burg, Oxford, Sanford, and Warren ton. Higher prices are expected on belts that have already opened, the Eastern North Carolina Belt, the North and South Carolina Bord er Belt, and the Georgia-Flonda Belt. The annual opening of flue-cured tobacco markets will be completed on Monday, September 23 when sales begin on markets, of the old belt. , Meanwhile, markets of the East ern Belt and the North and South Carolina Border Belt will reduce the daily sales periods from five hours to three hours beginning Monday. Middle Belt markets wi-1 have five-hour sales days Monday See TOBACCO on Page Two Attack Station JERUSALEM, Palestine, Mon day, Sept. 16. —CU.P.)— Heavily arm ed Jewish desperadoes made a surprise attack on the Sarafand El Harb police station near the Sara fand military base 28 miles south east of Jaffa, it was reported early Reports said the police station was attacked shortly before mid night and that the desperadoes, after a sharp exchange of fire, fled into an orange grove and escaped. There was no casualties, it was said. , . The gang, numbering about ten, fled. when police illuminated the area with star shells. The siege came as troops of the British sixth airborne division pa trolled the Jaffa-Tel Aviv bound ary — 30 miles away — to forestall possible renewed violence like Friday’s bank robberies and shoot ings. ___ Possibility Of Third War Remote, Spot-Check Shows Thousands of Americans are asking: “Is a Third World War in prospect?” Harry W. Frantz, veteran United Press corre spondent and foreign expert, gives the answer in the follow ing dispatch based on a care ful survey of reliable govern ment and diplomatic quarters. Bv HARRY W. FRANTZ. WASHINGTON, Sept 15— The possibility of a Third World War is remote, but a long Pen of complicated and frequent y nerve-wracking diplomacy is m prospect, according to a consensus of diplomatic opinion here. The recent trend of international events has been toward a global balance-of-power, superseding the 19th century thesis of a European balance-of-power, but powerful economic and social forces are at work to keep international rival ries upon a diplomatic rather than combat plane. These conclusions of the United Press correspondent were derived from informal conversations with 10 experts in the government and diplomatic corps whose daily work requires their routine attention to relations with Soviet Russia. See POSSIBILITY On Page Two Ready For Drive W. D. McCAIG Vice-president of the Atlantic Coast Line who announced yes terday a meeting of railroad YMCA leaders and Coast Line officials here today and tomor row for the purpose of formu lating plans for the annual YMCA membership drive. ACL MEN TO PLAN 1946 YMCA DRIVE Two-Day Meeting Here Will Be Climaxed By Luncheon Railroad YMCA leaders and At lantic Coast Line officials will gather in Wilmington today to for. mulate plans for the line’s annual YMCA membership campaign, Vice-President W. D. McCaig, sys tem chairman, announced yester day. The two-day organizational con ference will be climaxed by a luncheon meeting held at St. Paul’s Lutheran Parish house Tuesday at 1 p. m. (The Coast Line operates YMCA facilities at Rocky Mount. N. C., Florence, S. C., and Waycross, Ga., with a membership of 6,947). With the membership drive scheduled to get under way by the first of November, Monday’s plan, ning session will bring together P. M. Montgomery, railroad secre tary of the YMCA National Coun cil in Richmond, Va.: J. A. Har per, Rooky Mount YMCA general secretary; L. H. Johnson, Florence general secretary; John R. Glenn, Waycross general secretary. Others expected to attend include system and division officers, rail road YMCA presidents—Supt. R. G. Murchison, Rocky Mount, Supt. R. B. Hare, Florence, Supt. Motive Power James Grant, Waycross— and city and railroad chairman from three points. The railroad YMCA buildings were authorized by the Coast Line board of directors in 1910 and con struction was completed in 1911 All operating facilities are owned by the company and leased to the International Committee of the YMCA. Last Jump BOWLING GREEN, 0„ Sept. 15— (/P)—Gordon Lahman, 18-year-old ex-paratrooper of Eagle Rock, Calif., was killed today in a 3,000 foot drop at an air circus show after his parachute failed to open. Some 1,000 persons watched the plunge—a volunteer performance opening a show billed as the “Fly ing Tiger Circus”—and saw his tiny pilot chute open at tree-top level. Ruling the death accidental, Wood County Coroner H. W. Mann hardt said the main chute never opened. The only item in the boy’s pocket was a verse “The Paratrooper’s Prayer,” reading: “Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die, “Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die, “Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die: “This is my last jump.” thirty-seven injured MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 15. —(U.R) — Thirty-seven persons were injur ed, four seriously, when a six-car troop train collided with a freight train at Lupfer, Mont., a Great Northern railroad official announc ed today.__ 1K .isport Plane Tumbles To Ground, Burns In . Canadian West TWENTY^ONE KILLED Operators Had Made De livery Of Lend-Lease Equipment To U. S. ESTEVAN, Sask, Sept. 15. — (U.P.)— Twenty-one per sons were reported killed Sun day when a Royal Canadian air force transport plane carrying a group of ferry pi lots crashed and burned at Estevan airport. Estevan police said the plane, an RCAF Dakota, crashed shortly before noon. They gave no details. United States aeronautics of ficials at Minot N. D., southeast of here, said the plane left Minot at 9:30 a. m. carrying a group of pilots which had delivered a con signment of airplanes to Hector airport at Fargo, N. D. The consignment flight was said to have been part of an operation in which the Canadian government it returning lend-lease. planes to the United States for resale by the War Assets administration. Fargo officials said 200 planes had been delivered there in recent days by Canadian pilots for a sale schedul ed to start Monday. No Logs Required Minot officials said CAA rules do not require RCAF pilots to file flight logs. Therefore they did not See FERRY On Page Two (MANS PLAN YOUTH Gl DANCE Local Civic Club To Aid Juvenile Court With Counsel Service Organization of a Youth Guid ance council, which will cooperate with the local juvenile court in offering the advice and counsel of successful young business men to individual “problem” boys, was announced by the Wilmington Civi tan club yesterday through its president, Lloyd Jackson. The new council, which current ly consists of six Civitan club members, has already gone to work on the first of a series of cases which will be directed to its attention by Mrs. Sarah A. Layton, juvenile court clerk here, Jackson said. Members of the group will deal with each case on the basis of influence and guidance, and will in no sense sit as a jury on the boys who are sent to them, the Civitan leader declared. In a majority of cases a mem ber of the guidance council will be assisted to act as a big brother to a boy whose difficulties it has taken under consideration. Dr. Elbert C. Anderson, chair man of the Civitan projects com mittee, conceived the plan and will serve as chairman'of the coun cil, Jackson said. Membership in the group will be rotated among local Civitans with two councilmen to be replaced every two months. Present per sonnel of the council consists of John K. Ward, W. A. Raney, Louie E. Woodbury, Jr., Ben G. Merritt; Tom Lawther, and Dr. Anderson. Along The Cape Fear CAPE FEAR MENU — In Satur day’s paper we offered you folks some food for thought over the weekend in the form of a tasty but tough tidbit labeled “Blue Mountain Joe” on our Cape Fear menu. Well, apparently nobody has di gested the tidbit yet, so while we’re waiting for that to happen we’re going to give you some more food for thought which should really set you to pondering so hard that you’ll plumb wear out your think ing caps. Also, it should make your mouth water like Niagara Falls in the rainy season. Further, it should make you an grier than you have been before in these OPA days of no sugar, no butter, and no meat. CHRISTMAS DAY, 18?? — This food for thought has the advantage over “Blue Mountain Joe” of be ing tasty but not tough and of be ing, actually, food — the wonder ful, delectable, sumptuous food which grandfather used to eat but which, alas, seems destined never to get within molar distance of [grandfather’s children. I We shall now serve you this food j exactly as it appeared on the Pur cell House’s dinner menu for Christmas Day back in 1877. (The Purcell House, should it have slip ped your mind, was Wilmington’s first really fine hotel. It stood where the Bailey theater stands now). But we see you grow impatient in anticipation of the coming feast. So, without further delay, we shall now summon garcon to our table. REAL MOCK TURTLE — For soup, garcon, we’ll have the mock turtle—the real mock turtle, not the mock turtle of 1946. For fish, we think we’ll take the boiled sal mon with the (get this) drawn butter. Now, for the boiled delicacies, we shall have to decide between Baltimore ham, mutton with caper sauce, corned meef, tongue, and ■turkey with oyster sauce. Yes, and we’ll have some of these side dishes, too — bouchees of chicken, a la Pompadour; veal cutlets, See CAPE FEAR on Page Two 19 LOSE LIVES WHEN TANKER CRACKS OFF ELIZABETH CITY; STRIKE NEGOTIATIONS FUTILE __ I f Shipowners Refuse Terms Set By Union N.M.U. Couples Demands With Those Of Two West Coast Organizations PARLEY IS DENIED Watches Withdrawn From All Vessels At Piers In Major Eastern Cities By The Associated Press Efforts to end the strike of the CIO National Maritime union failed yesterday when east coast ship operators termed negotiations “futile” so long as the NMU coupled its demands with those of two west coast unions and refused to continue discussions until security watches withdrawn by the NMU were restored. The NMU has announced that it will not return to work until the west coast Marine Cooks and Stewards union (CIO) and the in dependent Marine Firemen’s union obtain wage increases equal ling those made possible for the AFL Seamen’s unions under Stab ilization Director John R. Steel man’s ruling last week. West soast ship owners have refused to negotiate with these two unions. The east operators also broke off negotiations, besause their spokes men, Frank J. Taylor said, the NMU withdrew security watches from ships against which they are striking, leaving them unguarded from "fire and other potential perils.” To Stay Out NMU President Joseph M. Cur ran said, "we are going to stay on strike until every seamen gets the same wage deal as was given to AFL men. We call on the gov ernment to come in and show its impartiality by insisting that every get the same wages.” NEW YORK, Sept. 15 - (JP) — Operator-union negotiations in New York City’s two week strike of 15,000 truckers today brought the dispute no closer to settle ment and an operator skopesman said "there seems to be little hope for a negotiated settlement.” Mayor WilliamO ‘Dwyer said that his six-man advisory commit tee was unable to bring about suc cessful conclusion of its alks with unionmanagement representa tives. Joseph M. Adellizi, operator spokesman, said employers stood by their proposal to refer the wage dispute to arbitration, and added in a statement: “We will take the man back to work, paying them retroactively in conformity with arbitration, or they may stay on the streets if they choose. Getting Ready For A Cat-Nap Things are pretty quiet around Harry Peter’s meat store in New York, so he’s settled himself in a comfortable chair with his pet cat and is going to take things easy for a while. That sign in his display case tells the story. The meat industry blamed the shortage on the recently restored* OP A ceilings and the city’s trucking strike. (International). Chest Drive Budget Wins Full Approval As the Wilmington Community chest oiled machinery for the Oct. 15 starting dale of its campaign to raise $106,204 towards 1947 opera tions of its 12 Red Feather serv ices and the USO, prospective «*n tributors had the assurance of E. L. White, president of the local Chamber of Commerce, that the budget under which the chest will operate had passed the minute scrutiny of a 12-man committee that included four bankers, four businessmen, three leaders of lo cal social agencies, and himself. In releasing details of the $113,257 budget which a special chest com mittee under his chairmanship spent three days in perfecting, White cited Saturday’s statement by Ranald Stewart chest president, that, despite recent living cost rises, this year’s agency budgets averaged only four per cent in crease over 1946. Rise Necessary ‘‘That rise was deemed vitally necessary to permit Red Feather agencies to maintain their present level of service,” a spokesman for the chest said yesterday. "Our studies indicate that rent costs alone are already up 13.1 per cent, food up 27.59 per cent and increas ed salaries to retain present per sonnel are up 10.6 per cent.” In releasing the individual bud gets of the Red Feather agencies and the USO, White’s committee appended explanations of each See CHEST On Page Two PASTOR RESIGNS AT ST. MATTHEW’S Rev. Carl H. Fisher Will Accept Mount Holly Pastorate Nov. 1 The Rev. Carl H. Fisher, for seven years minister of St. Mat thews Luthern church at 17th and Ann streets, here, yesterday ten dered his resignation to assume the pastorate of the Luthern church of the Good Shepard, in Mount Holly, effective Nov. 1. In announcing his regrets at the Rev. Mr. Fisher’s impending de parture, Albert G. Seitter, lay president of the St. Matthew’s con gregation, reported that efforts to secure a successor were already underway. The Rev. Mr. Fisher offered his resignation at a special meeting of the congregation shortly after yesterday’s morning service in an address which expressed his "sor row at leaving St. Matthew’s” but the belief that “the first duty of a minister is to go where he is needed most.” Carolina Graduate A graduate of the University of North Carolina and the Southern Luthern Seminary, the Rev. Mr. Fisher has been at St. Matthew’s since March 1, 1939. He is a native See PASTOR On Page Two The Weather FORECAST i South Carolina — Considerable cloudi* ! ness, occasional light rain over south and west portions, little change in tem- j perature Monday, scattered showers ex North Carolina — Little change in tem ptrature Monday, scattered showers ex treme west portion. (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday. emperatures 1:30 a. m. 63; 7:30 a. m. 60; 1:30 p. m. 75; 7:30 p. m. 70. Maximum 77; Min imum 59; Mean 65. Normal 73. Humidity 1:30 a. m. 84; 7:30 a. m. 87; 1:30 p. m. 53; 7:30 p. m. 79. Precipitatiin Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. .0 inches. Total since the first of the month, 2.75 inches. ides For Today High Low Wilming on -1:05 a.m. 8:06 a.m. 1:40 p.m. 9:05 p.m. Masonboro Inlet ..11:26 a.m. 5:02 a.m. 11:48 p.m. 5:45 p.m. Sunrise 5:56; Sunset 6:18; Moonrise 9:58 p. m.; Moonset 11:28 a. m. River stage at Fayetteville. N. C., at 8 a. m. (missing) ieet. UNITY PARTY LEADS BERLIN, Monday, Sept. 16. —(IP) — Early returns Sunday gave the Soviet-backed, communist-dominat ed Socialist Unity Party (SED- a two-to-one plurality over its two major opponents in Saturday’s concluding elections in the Rus sian occupation zone of Germany, held in. the predominantly agricult ural province of Brandenburg and the state of Mecklenburg. Today and Tomorrow By WALTER LIPPMANN Mr. Molotov does not disagree with Mr. Byrnes that in principle Germany should be administered as an economic unit under a cen tral German government which can work out ‘‘a balanced economy’ to provide the necessary means to pay for approved im ports.” A central, government which is located in Berlin and is sovereign over the whole of Ger many is exactly what the Russian policy calls for. It is the kind of government which suits the cen tralized Communist party, and the German militarists and bureau crats who will be no more squea mish than were Hitler and Rib bentrop in making a deal with Mr. Molotov. That is why Mr. Molotov is so vehemently opposed to the feder alization of Germany. It would make it so much more difficult to control Germany from Berlin. He must be very much pleased to find that Mr. Byrnes has now in fact, though not in name, aban doned the federal solution which had such a promising start in the American zone. For it was against the federal solution that Mr. Molo See LIPPMANN On Page Two SS Pan Amoco Saves 18 From SeaDisaster Marit II, 7,417-Ton Ship Breaks In Two During Storm On Friday PLANES SPOT RAFTS Two Halves Of Vessel Still Afloat Yesterday, Coast Guard Reports NEW YORK, Sept. 15 —(U.R) The Gulf tanker Gulf Hawk reported Sunday nigM that it had taken aboard six survivors from a floating life raft and phia, the Coast Guard report was proceeding to Phlladel ed here. The Gulf Hawk messaged the Coast Guard here that it has the life raft alongside, and at 8:50 reported to a PBY plane from Elizabeth City that the survivors were aboard. ELIZABETH CITY, Sept 15. —(U.P.)— The Marit II, 7,417-ton tanker out of Aren day, Norway, broke in half at noon Friday 145 miles east southeast of here during a tropical hurricane and 18 or 19 persons of a crew of 40 were lost, the U. S. Coast Guard reported Sunday night. Eighteen survivors had been picked up by the S. S. Pan Amoco, an American Oil tanker, and one of nine searching planes reported that it had spotted a life raft 90 miles due east of Manteo, N. C., and that three or four per sons were aboard it. It was not re ported whether they appeared to be alive or dead. The Pan Amoco was headed in the direction of the life raft. The survivors aboard the Pan See AMOCO On Page Two BLADEN WRECKS CLAIM TWO LIVES State Weekend Death Toll Mounting; Plane Crashes (Special to The Star) ELIZABETHTOWN, Sept. 15. — Two fatal accidents late Saturday night and early Sunday morning brought Bladen county’s accident death toll to four for the week. Ransom Pope, 60, was killed in stantly late Saturday night when a car driven by Edward Sessoms, 32, struck Pope in the back as he walked along the highway one mile from Elizabethtown. Pope was thrown approximately 48 feet by the impact. Sessoms is being held under $2, 000 bond pending a grand jury in vestigation of the accident. Early Sunday morning Mrs. L. V. Jackson, 55, of Greensboro, was fatally injured when the automob ile in which she was riding collid ed with a car within the city limits of Elizabethtown. W. N. Martin, ’See BLADEN on Page Two. And So To Bed Frederic Wakeman’s sensa tional new novel, “The Huck sters,’’ is sensational in more ways than one. It provides us with one of the most sensational And So To Beds it has ever been our fortune to lie down and laugh on. During the course of Mr. Wakeman’s saga a gentleman named Victor Norman—the hero of the year, no less—is traveling to California by train. Two youngsters and their moth er are on the train too, and Mr. Norman attracts the kids’ at tention with wonderful stories about this and that. One of the stories centers on the first plane flight by the Wright brothers, and Mr. Nor man (and, hence, Mr. Wake man) makes the story very wonderful indeed when he tells the kids that “. . . these two brothers finally moved to a little town called Klttyhawk, in South Carolina. . .”