FORECAST ---7——-— Served By Leased Wires --- of the Wilmington and vicinity-considerable i UNITED PRESS cloudiness with little change in tempera rains- W* ”* ' °U * With °CCasional ASSOCIATED PRESS ______J With Complete Coverage of ._-___ State and National News rtSTwi—No. 290. _^zz==zzirr^_ - T—-t- ESTABLISHED 1Rfi7 liver Floods Study, Report fill Be Made Army Engineers To Survey Facts, Figures Present ed At Hearing gillettTpresent Farm Agents, Commission ers Back $25,000,000 Cape Fear Plan The proposed $25,000,000 Upper Cape Fear river flood control project will be sub ject immediately to a detailed study and report of the facts aj(j figures submitted in sup port of it yesterday at a pub lic hearing in Fayetteville conducted by Col. George W. Gillette, Wilmington district U S, Army Engineer and act ing head of the Army Engi neers' South Atlantic division, At lanta, Ga., the district office announced last niaht. This preliminary report will seek to determine whether a thorough jjrvey and survey report should is made of the flood-ravaged area, 4e office said. If the preliminary report is favorable, it will be submitted to lie South Atlantic division and then to Washington headquarters for approval. If given these of ficial nods, the survey and survey report will be authorized with a view toward eventual congressional appropriations for the 25 million dollar project, the office said. Clark Attendsd About 125 farm agents, county commissioners, and other interest ed parties—including Congressman J Bayard Clark, of Fayetteville— attended the public hearing yes terday and unanimously upheld the . proposed project, according to an Associated Press dispatch. 1 Cumberland county farm agent J, T. Monroe estimated that the 1845 flood caused a half million dollars worth of damage in Cum berland, according to a survey he bad made for the Red Cross. J. B. Wilkins, of Linden, Cumberland commissioner, placed his group on record as favoring the project. J, A. MeGoogan, Hoke county treasurer; John M. Currie, of Carthage, Moore county commis sioner: R. B, Harper, of Elizabeth town, Bladen farm agent; and Leon Smith, of Elizabethtown, were among others giving testimony in favor of the project. Currie said that two bridges in Moore county were washed away, forcing residents to use a 20-mile “tour. He estimated total dam age of about a quarter of a mil lion dollars. Dwellings Destroyed Harper said that the flood last September destroyed 345 dwellings an dleft 1,319 persons in 345 fami lies homeless. Smith said that the flood had caused a half million dollars dam age in Bladen county, with the 'illage of Kelly most seriously hit. He said that farmers in that area a(i cut their planting by 90 per Cent this year and with the drain aSe system impaired many resid tai? had moved elsewhere. The exodus became so bad, he said, at a high school serving the vil lage was closed. Hollowing completion of testi °ny the engineers made an in j^-tion tour of the river front. HAMBONE'S meditations By Alley ^ LAK DE LAWP Ak1' PE BOLL WEEZIL WUZ OS RAI51N' Much cotton pis VEAh but PE PRICE MflUCHT'f PORW* New Chairman ! E. h. White, above, president oi the Chamber of Commerce, whc was named chairman of the ad vance gifts section for the forth coming Community Chest cam paign. Assisting Mr. White will be W. Warren Bell, who was ap pointed as co-chairman. ADVANCEDGIFTS LEADERS NAMED Drive Chairman Announces Appointment Of White And Bell E. L. White, president of the Wilmington Chamber of Com merce, was yesterday named chair man of the advance gifts section of the city’s $106,204 Community Chest campaign. W. Warren Bell, president of the Tide Water Power company, will assist White as co-chairman of the section. In releasing names of his ad vance gifts leaders, Louis E. Wood bury, general chairman of the drive, continued the rapid fire organization of the 400-worker campaign which will get under way Occ. 15. Earlier, Woodbury had designat ed Richard S. Rogers, vice-presi dent of the Wilmington Savings and Trust company, as the cam paign’s general co-chairman. As chairman of advance gifts, White will assume direction of a phase of the drive which Woodbury described as ‘‘a major task of the campaign.” Under the White-Bell team’s sup ervision, the advance gifts section will be organized into three divis ions—one dealing with corpora t i o n s, one with professional sources, and one with large in dividual donors. By tradition, the advance gifts section starts work in advance of the general campaign. White, who is president of the White Ice Cream and Milk com pany, has been active in the chest since its inception in 1942. He was its president last year and chair man of the 1945 campaign. Bell was chairman of the chest drive’s public service division last year. The Weather FORECAST South Carolina — Mostly cloudy, oc casional light rain Tuesday and Wed nesday; continued rather cool. North Carolina—Consideraole cloudi ness, occasional light rain Wednesday an over south and west portions Tuesday, little change in temperature. (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 pm. yesterday. Temperatures 1:30 a.m. 60; 7:30 a.m. 64: 1:30 p.m. 74; 7:30 p m. 70. „ Maximum 77; Minimum 62; Mean 67; Normal 73. Humidity 1:30 a m. 73; 7:30 a.m. 80; 1:30 p.m. 57; 7 :30 p.m- 70. Precipitation Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m— 0.00 inches. Total since the first of the month — 2.75 inches. Tides For To^ay (From the Tide Tables published by C. S. Coast and Geodetic Suvey) High Low Wilmington - 2:00 a.m. 9.08 a.m. 2:39 p.m. 10:07 p m. Masonboro Inlet - - a.m. 6:00 a.m. 12:29 p.m. 6:51 p m Sunrise 5:57; Sunset 6:18; Moonrise 10:47 pm.; Moonset 12:38 p.m. River Stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8 a.m- Monday, (missing feet._ BRUNSWICK RIVER LAY-UP BASIN ONLY ONE IN NMfm TO ESCAPE STEELMAN MANDA TE; AEiM) LONGSHOREMEN CLASH ON DOCKS Police StanJ Aloof During Brief Melees Workman From Rival Unions Come To Grips At Side Of Liner NO CHARGES FILED Curran Summons 20,000 Men For Picket Duty On New York Piers By The Associated Press AFL longshoresmen clash ed with CIO maritime pickets on New York City’s strike bound waterfront yesterday as the CIO seamen pushed the nationwide shipping strike in to its 12th day to support their demands for pay raises equal to those won by AFL sailors. Workmen from the rival unions came to grips in midafternoon shortly after the French liner, Colombie, docked with about 1, 000 passengers. Police said 150 longshoremen crashed through the mass of NMU pickets. In the ensuing confusion one longshoreman landed a punch on a CIO picket, police reported. He was arrested. No charges were filed imme diately. Police stood by while the long shoremen unloaded the liner. The clash occured after NMU President Joseph Curran said he had summoned 20,000 men to establish triple-deep lines of pick ets around the piers, following col lapse of negotiations with ship owners. Ryan Tours Docks Joseph P. Ryan, boss of AFL longshoremen, roved the water front all day long, at times break ing through the CIO picket lines himself to tell his men: “We don’t See POLICE On Page Two SURVIVORS LAND AT N. C. PORT Captain And Wife Among Those Feared Lost On Marit II MOREHEAD CITY, Sept. 16.— UP)—A harrowing story of 48 hours adrift at sea off storm-swept Cape Hatteras was told here today by 18 survivors of the 7,417-ton Nor wegian tanker Marit H. The Marit H broke in two at 12:40 p. m. (EST) Friday during a heavy storm. On her bridge with his wife was Capt. Leif Williamson, and both of them apparently went down with the ship. One crewman, Erther Eriksen said that the ship broke in two so suddenly that the bridge was awash almost instantly, and that only members of the crew who were fore and aft had a chance for survival. The 18 survivors were picked up by the Norwegian tanker Pan Amoco. They were transferred to a coast guard boat near Cape Lookout, N. C., this afternoon and brought into Morehead City. Including the Captain’s wif i, 17 persons were aboard the stricken ship. Six other survivors in ad See SURVIVORS On Page Two President Truman Seeking Atomic Energy Conference UNITED NATIONS HEAD- j QUARTERS. LAKE SUCCESS, N. j Y Sept. 16. —(U.R)—President | Truman today laid down before ( the United Nations economic and social council a proposal that the UN call a conference of the world’s scientists to explore the peacetime possibilities of atomic energy. The proposal was filed with the 18-nation council by American Delegate John G. Winant. It sug gested the delegates study the means of conserving the world’s resources, including the major economic uses of atomic energy, with an international conference in the United States this qutumn or winter or early next year. Scientists, engineers, research technicians, economists and other experts from all the United Nations would be invited to attend. A unique part of the Truman proposal, how ever, was that the delegates would present their own views, rather than represent their governments. The program, as outlined by Winant would consider four prob lems; 1. Renewable r- sources, such as land, forest, fish and wild life; 2. Non-renewable resources, See PRESIDENT On page two Delgado Presbyterian Church Honors Servicemen Pictured above are memfers of the Delgado Presbyterian Church who were honored Sunday night at special services for the serv icemen and ex-servicemen. A rol of the men from the church and Sunday school was called and as the members came up to the front of the church they lighted a candle n the “V”. Sixty candles were on .the “V” and all except two were lighted by the men or a member of their family. The two unlighted candles represented the two members who were killed in action, Harold Godbolt and Charles Hardison. Left to right: back row—Harold Athur, Otto Fowler, Alvia Johnson, Garland Cook, Murphy Scoggins, Roy Godbolt, Kenneth Biggs, Robert Godbolt, Ralph Fowler. Front Rev, left to right: Laurence Cook, Otis Hobbs, L. C. Jarrell, Dwight Scoggins, Richard Hobbs, R. M. Jarrell, and Joe Brwer. Those not presei) Sunday night, but whose candles were lighted by friends were: Vernon Allen, Walter Brewer, J. B. Bat ton, Junior Batton, Joe Batton, Llyd Batton, Roy Batton, Hugh BallarJ, Mrs. Ruth Ballard, Worth Bolton, Donnie Bolton, Vernon Collins, James Clemmons, Graham Clemions, Davis Clemmons, Morris Cook, Richard Cook, S. T. Diel, C. H. Diel, J. H. Diel, KJctor Farrow, Wil lie Godbolt, R. J. Hobbs, Orbert bbbs, Robert Hobbs, Herbert Hinson, Elerby Hayses, Lewis Johnson, N. H. Jordon, Thomas King, William King, George L. KeUy, Woodrow Mllican, Carl Nobles, Bill Scoggins, James Tyner ,E. C. Williamson, Alton Webb, George Webb, Glenn Webb, Homer Webb, Clayton Webb and Jmes C. Cook. Standing directly behind the cross is the Rev. C. C. Myers, pastor of the church. (PHOTO HEALTH MEN SCAN SEWER PROBLEMS Dr. Elliot May Issue Pre liminary Report On Winter Park Today Two Health department repre sentatives yesterday began an in vestigation into sewerage condi tions at Winter Park with a view to determining whether septic tank overflows there justify department action. In announcing the probe’s be ginning, Dr. A. H. Elliot, county health officer, said that a pre liminary report could be expected today. Dr. Elliot will himself do a direct inspection of any danger areas his investigators uncover be-1 fore announcing a course of action, he declared. F. P. Blanchard and Porter Wag staff, of the department’s sanita tion staff, toured the area yester day. In the meanwhile, County At torney Marsden Bellamy, in an opinion that he qualified as inform-1 al, said yesterday that, should the department’s investigators discover a health menace in Winter Park, it would be the apparent duty of property owners there to take steps to ‘‘abate the nuisance.” Earlier Ruling Bellamy had earlier ruled that county officials have no legal re sponsibility to drain inundated areas beyond the assignment of prisoners serving 60 days or less in its jail. The county attorney gave a direct “no” to County commissioner ftar ry R. Gardner’s question as to whether the county board had any legal right to levy taxes to drain a specific area at yesterday’s meet ing of the commissioners. In the meanwhile, with both coun ty Board Chairman Addison Hewlett and District Highway En gineer T. T. Betts slated to be present, Winter Park is slated for a full hearing on its drainage con troversy in the Winter Park school house at 8 p. m. tomorrow. See HEALTH on Page Two Along The Cspe Fear PARTIAL TO PRISONERS — ‘‘The judge said, ‘Stand up, boy, And dry up your tears; You’re going to Nashville, For 21 years . . . ’ ” Ever since the day, many years ago, when we heard the weeping words and tearful tune of this sad Song, we have been partial to prisoners. The psychiatrists would un doubtedly tell us that our amiable attitude toward the unfortunate folks behind bars resulted from this early “conditioning,” and we dare say he would be right. But if he harbored any notion of breaking down this "conditioning” and reversing our attitude, he would have a tough task on his hands. The other day a letter came into our office which has streng thened the effects of the old dolorous “Nashville” ditty. This is the way it reads: \ City-County Airport Group Drafting Plan To Meet Here i More than 300 members of the I'i'j’th Carolina league of Munici paitis will hold their next annual convention at a beach near Wil mington sometime next fall, City Councilman James E. L. Wade reveled yesterday. Thimunicipal leaders voted unan imouly to accept Wade’s invita tion o hold their 1947 convention in thi vicinity late Saturday morn ing, e said. Wae, a past president of the leagui will choose the convention site h said last night. Meitners of the league convened .here 1st in 1938. PRIlES IRREGULAR ONLEAF MARKETS LargeVolume Of Sales Re poied From Middle felt Warehouses ]y UNITED PRESS Farms on the flue-cured mar kets ofthe Middle Belt sold ap proxirmely 4,800,000 pounds of the wel at the opening of sales Mondajand received an average of $49 3 $51 per 100 pounds, an increas of $6 to $8 over the prices eceived for opening day in 1945. Agridture officials said the pounda; figure for Monday was unoffici and was only a rough estimati of the amount of tobacco that wa sold but they added that "at lea!’ 500,000 pounds more to bacco ere marketed this year than la, when 4,423,960 pounds were sd . Pricesranged from $24 to $52 per lOOpounds /for leaf grades, i See TBACCO On Page Two I FORTUE OF WAR — “Dear Mother: t is with regret that I now takey pen to paper to inform you of y unpleasant situation. But hoprthat the day is not far distant nen I shall have the pleasured seeing you again. “When was in America last it was myntention to have come and pay: you a visit, but there happened: good chance and one that I tiught to have made a good vojge to France. But it is all owingo the fortune of war of my bein captured, or else 1 should ive most undoubtedly done wel But I hope that our confinemit will not be of long duration. U present there is no prospect f a release. But God only knov when I shall again be restored my liberty, and you may rest ssured on my arrival See CAP1FEAR On Page Two The Wilmington-New Hanover Airport authority is planning an extensive improvement program for Bluethenthal airport which cost about $50,000 provided that the funds can be raised, it was disclos ed yesterday. In preparation now, the plans will probably be put into final or semi-final form at an authority meeting this week, after which the authority will petition the city coun cil and the New Hanover county board of commissioners for at least part of the money, it was said. The improvement program is ur gent since the eleven million dollar airport is “on the verge’’ of be coming a “main line terminal” for at least three major Atlantic Coast routes, the authority said. These are as follows: (1) / National Airlines, which al ready has two flights daily stopping at the airport between New York and Miami, will increase the load to six flights daily as soon as the VHF (very high frequency) radio range, now under construction about five miles north of the field, is completed within the next few weeks. (2) The Caribbean-Latin Ameri can air route case, now being heard before the Civil Aeronautics board in Washington, is almost certain to result in a CAB decision, ex pected this year, which will put Wilmington on the route. Wilming ton may also be declared an alter nate port of entry for the overseas hop when it is established. (3) The Southeastern States case, already past the hearing stage and slated for a decision by the CAB this year, is also almost certain to place the Port City on the main line connecting it with many major andj minor cities in North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Vir ginia, and Ohio. A total of 16 daily flights in and out of Bfuethenthal airport is ex pected to come from these factors alone—six from National Airlines, sir from the Southeastern States <:ase winner, and four from the Caribbean case victor. In addition to these regular flights, the authority anticipates an increase in charter flights at the airport, such as ihose staged by Col. Roscoe Turner who on two See CITY-COUNTY On Page Two New Yorkers Grow Locks 1 As City Barbers Strike NEW YORK, Sept. 16.— (U.R) — Little old New York was in a sor ry state Monday. A man couldn’t get a haircut, hop a ship for Europe, go to his favorite chain store for the family groceries, dance in a hotel, buy a newspaper that took more than five to read, or hold hands with a manicurist. The trucking, maritime, music ians’ and—Monday — the barber and maniurists’ strike touched some phase or other of the daily lives of each of this city’s millions. The paralysis, creeping at first, was beginning to gallop. Ships, silent and still, chocked CITY LL MAKE LINE BID TODAY Lieut.-Col. H. E. Boyd To Take Stand At CAB Case Hearing By FRANK VAN DER LINDEN Wilmington Morning Star Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. — Wil mington will present a strong de mand for direct, one carrier air service to the Caribbean when the Civil Aeronautics board hears re arguments in the Latin American case Tuesday for the second and probably last day. Lieut. Col. H. E. Boyd, traffic manager of the Wilmington Port Traffic association, will speak ten minutes. He is accompanied here by R. B. Page, Star-News publish er. Mayor Herbert Baxter, of Char lotte, the first spokesman for any 'intervening city to be heard in the re-argument urged extension of Eastern Airlines which would give Charlotte direct connections to the Caribbean and the' Canal Zone. He said Charlotte is “bottled up” both westward and southward. Op posing the Eastern proposal, Wil mington seeks direct routes which would touch Eastern Carolina points. Colonial Airlines would serve Wilmington, New Bern, Eliza beth City, N. C., and Georgetown, Myrtle Beach, and Charleston, S. C., with Charleston as a major base and Bluethenthal field, Wil mington, as an alternate. Referring to the board’s original decision in favor of Brainiff Air ways from Houston, Texas, to Bal boa, Canal Zone, via Havana, May or Baxter declared that 75 per cent of the nation’s population is located east of the Mississippi, and 46 per cent of the manufactured prod ucts, by value, are made in the eastern and sdUth eastern states. He asked: “Why did you give con sideration to cities west of the Mississippi with much less popula and far less value in manufactured goods? I think that is discrimina tion.” ORNITHOLOGIST DIES DARIEN, Conn., Sept. 16. —(/P)— George Dudley Tilley, 64, orintho logist and collector of rare birds died suddenly today here at the Tilley bird farm which he owned. A family physician said death was caused by a heart attack. j the harbor. They stretched from the lower bay far up into the Hud son, spread out in anchored array like the invasion fleet on the evp of D-Day. Unlike the invasion fleet, they weren’t going anywhere. The Cunard White line radioed the Queen Mary at sea and told her to come no farther than Hali fax on her current trip. Then the line told the 1,400 passengers sup posed to sail for Europe aboard the Mary next Sunday that they would have to go to Nova Scotia to catch the ship. In the miles and miles of ware See LOCKS on Page Two I Dredging May Get Underway September 20 Pennsylvania Now Enroute Here To Continue Work On Ship Project TEXAS JOB STYMIED Washington Report Says Mobile To Use Only Existing Facilities The U. S. Maritime com mission’s Brunswick river surplus merchant ship lay-up basin is the only new basin of its kind in the United States which has not been stricken by the Federal Public works moratorium ordered last month by President Truman and Reconversion Director John Steelman, the Wilming ton district office of the U. S. Army Engineers revealed yes I fcerday. I Confirmation of the engineers’ ! statement was made last night by the Star’s Washington bureau in a dispatch which said: “Wilmington's project is the only lay-up basin In the nation not stopped by Steelman’s order since the work there was contract ed for before the order was issu ed. “The order stopped negotiations for the new lay-up basin on Neches river, Texas. A lay-up ba sin at Mobile, Ala., will use large ly existing facilities, and one of several temporary basins on the Pacific Coast will become a per manent basin if approved by Steelman.” Resumes Next Week Work on the Brunswick basin, halted on August 24 when the turbine of the dredge Pennsylvan ia exploded, will resume about September 20, the local engineers’ office said yesterday. The dredge has been repaired at a cost of ap proximately $200,000 at Newport News, Va., and is now reported an route to Wilmington via the inland waterway. About 4,000,000 cubic yards are still to be dredged from the basin, with completion scheduled for late December. When finished, the basin will hold about 500 ships for the Maritime commission’s re serve fleet. Asks For Loan WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 —od on a local street corner with a civil ian friend. As they stood there chatting a small shoeshine boy ap proached them and asked the civilian the familiar question of the shoeshine trade: "Shine, mister?’’ The civilian declined. So the boy turned to the Coast Guard officer and said: "How abont you, bus driver?” 1