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iMoruittg Ol/I^— NOjlM.--- WILMINGTON, N. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1946 ESTABLISHED 186^ Future Newspapermen See How It’s Done A Star-News linotype operator Is shown above describing the working of his machine to a group of journalism students from the New Hanover High School during their visit to the newspaper offices yes terday. The two classes, tanght by Mrs. Eliza Symmes, were taken on a tour of the various depart mesis and shown how copy is edited, set Into type and printed. (PHOTO BY PETE KNIGHT) t'JHHS Journalism Classes Pay Official Visit To Star-News COPELAND NAMED TO DIRECT CLUB Unanimously Elected New Executive Secretary For Boys Brigade By unanimous vote of the di rectors, James W. Copeland was yesterday elected executive sec retary of the Brigade Boys club to succeed W. A. Stewart, resigned, "ho has accepted a call to the Bo.'s dub of Montgomery, Ala. Copeland, who joined the brigade 8s a boy when W. H. Montgomery "as director, has served the or ganization a spart time group reader and physical director as well ss participating in the organiza tion's other activities for 18 years. He will take up his new duties on October 1. He has been in the Atlantic Coast Line employ for 25 years, Parting in the treasury department 8nd latter transfering to the tax Bee COPELAND on Page Two HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS By Alley DW SAYS YO'ACTIONS | SPEAKS puH DEY 5£'FS BUT MAH CiOOP uns kin holler an' dey's some folks won'HEAH 'em1.!! | (Released by The Bell Byn* dlcale. Inc.) Trade Mark | <y 'Tip Rf# j| ^ Pal omen Editor Of High School Paper Describes Con ducted Tour By JEANNIE STANLEY Editor-in-chief of the NHHS Wildcat The Star-News office was invad ed yesterday by 45 students of the two journalism classes of New Hanover High School. We came in search of more knowledge about the organization and work behind a commercial newspaper. We were conducted first into the teletype room where Associated Press and United Press stories were coming in over the machines. Mr. Roy Cook, sports editor of the Star, explained how the stories are separated, arranged in proper or der, and headed. After walking up a long flight of stairs, we entered the composing room, containing linotype and mat rolling machines. There the machine operators were setting type and arranging it in forms from which mats are made. Next came the press room where sterotyped plates, weighing about 48 pounds when completed, were made and trimmed to fit the Rotary press. This action completed, the plates were locked on press cylin ders and the press was started. The resulting roar was similar to that of a train, causing most of the stu dents to thrust a finger in each ear. We were spellbound,when we saw paper off a huge roll entering ond end of the press and finished newspapers appearing in a stack at the other. After everyone was promptly supplied with a souvenir edition of the Wilmington News for Friday, we trudged back up to the news room where we were instruct See JOURNALISM on Page Two BALDHEAD MAKES BID AS UN SITE Senator Bailey Urges Head quarters Commission To Accept Island United States Senator Josiah W. Bailey has urged the United Na tions to consider locating its head quarters permanently on Baldhead Island near Southport, the Star learned last night. The veteran Tar Heel solon sug gested Baldhead as a United Na tions site in a recent letter to Sir Angus Fletcher, chairman of the UN’s Headquarters -commission. “This island is in a wonderful climatic zone, midway between the north and the south,” Sen. Bailey declared in his letter. “It em braces some 17,000 acres and, while it has no buildings at the present time it would give all the foundation for whatever the United Nations could desire.” Baldhead’s bid for the UN site, supplemented by an invitation dis patched to the commission by a group of Southport residents, is one of dozens sent in by localities spaced all over the country since continued protests by residents of the New York-Connecticut area which the Headquarters commis sion first selected gave some promise that a new site might be chosen. The island is owned by Frank O. Sherrill, Charlotte restaurant man* who was not available for a I statement last night. South East To Provide Service For Commuters CHARLOTTE, Sept. 20.— (A*) — Revised schedules to provide com muter service for Charlotte, Ra leigh, Asheville and^several other North Carolina cities were an nounced Friday by Ray Canady, traffic supervisor of South Last Air lines, which has headquarters here. A morning flilht from Charlotte will allow passengers a full day in Raleigh, Winston-Salem, Greens boro or Dufham, Passengers from Winston-Salem, Greensborp and Diirham similarly would be al lowed a full day in the state capital under the new schedules. An afternoon flight from Char lotte, under the schedules now in operation, will serve the points on the morning flight, as well as Rocky Mount, Greenville and New Bern. This schedule, Canady dis closed, allows two hours in Rocky Mount before arrival of an after noon flight toward Charlotte. Under the new schedules, direct service is provided between Char lotte and Wilmington in two daily round trips. Wilmington also is provided direct service to Raleigh. Connections can be made at See SERVICE on Page Two Hosiery Mill To Hire 350, Village Use ,000 FIRM Of Nylon Hose o Start As Soon As Possible A $750,000 hosiery mill em ploying up to 350 workers will be set up in the Maffitt Vil lage Raleigh building by the Chadbourn Hosiery Mills of Charlotte, it was announced yesterday by J. Chadbourn Bolles, a company official. About 500 machines to manufac ture full-fashioned seamless ny lon hose will be put in the building when renovation is complete, Bol les said. The City of Wilmington purchas ed the surplus building from the government for a reported $20,000. The city then turned the structure over to Industrial Properties, Inc., which made it available to the Chadbourn Mills in keeping with the local organiaztion’s policy to bring new industry into the Port City. An industrial fence will be con structed around the property be fore renovation of the building is started, Bolles said. Chadbourn Hosiery Mills, Inc., manufactures men’s hosiery in addition to women’s stockings. The product is sold under the national ly advertised Larkwood “Vamp Toe” trademark. Bolles could give no definite date for the beginning of manufac turing operations but said that several engineers and contracting experts had surveyed the property in preparation for renovation work. ENGINEERS SEE * l 590 SHIPS HERE Lay-Up Basin Assured Of At Least 390 Vessels Under Army’s Plan The U. S. Maritime commis sion’s Brunswick river surplus ship lay-up basin will store about 390 of the commission’s reserve fleet of 2,50b merchant vesels, accord ing to an announcement received here yesterday from the War de partment in Washington. The War department said this and four other basins will be com pleted under the supervision of the U. S. Army Engineers with a $10, 000,000 fund transferred to the Army by the commission. Based on the commission’s 1 1-2 persons-per-ship average, the 390 vessels should employ a total per sonnel of about 600. A spokesman for the Wilmington district engi neers said yesterday it is likely that the commission will hold to its original figure of 500 ships for the local basin, instead of only 390. Scheduled to be compieted by the end of this year, the basin is designed to hold about 500 vessels. The engineers’ spokesman also spiked local reports that the com mission will build a dry-dock at the site. The original plans for all the commission’s lay-up basins in cluded dry-docks, but the provis ions were tentative and there has been no indication that the com mission will build a dry-dock here, the spokesman said. PRESIDENT FIRES WALLACE; •KEEP QUIET PLEDGE DIES; MARITIME STRIKE SETTLED - i._._____r -- ■’ ’ Union Seamen Resume Tasks At Midnight Unanimous Vote Accepts Negotiated Agreement Granting Pay Hike CIO WINS BATTLE Curran Tells Newsmen Ships Will Sail Again In Short Time NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—(/P) — National Maritime union (CIO) seamen voted Friday to end the 15-day-old maritime strike at midnight and return to work immediately. The unanimous vote accept ed a negotiated agreement un der whlcfi they will receive $5 to $10 monthly wage increases, bring them to the same level as AFL sea men, who also won their demands by striking. Joseph M. Curran, president of the National Maritim'e union (CIO) told the strikers the agreement “means $25,000,000 in wage in creases” for NMU members. As strikers in each port of the nation ratify the agreement, they will end the strike at midnight lce-al time, it was announced. Curran told the members here: “The shipowners said when we were negotiating with them in June that they couldn’t give us a penny more without going bankrupt, but they are able to give us this raise and still they’re not bankrupt.” Curran earlier had sent telegrams to officials in ill ports telling them their locals should vote to end the strike. Telegram Text He said: “The arbitrator’s award wins for the unions the issues for which we are on strike and places the union in a position where we can call off the strike, an<j your meet ing should vote to do so as of 12 o’clock midnight, Friday, Sept. 20, local time.” Milk Still Free WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—(IP)— Milk and its by-products v/on an other parole from price ceilings Friday but the Decontrol board warned it will keep a close watch' on future price trends of butter and cheese. After three days of discussion the powerful new independent board announced briefly that it “would not return dairy products to price control at this time.” Chairman Roy L. Thompson said evidence before the three-member panel indicates that dairy “prices are approaching a critical point” but failed to “provide sufficient grounds for action by the board at this time.” The decision was another set back for OPA Administrator Paul Porter who had told the board that immediate recontrol of all dairy products “is essential to the stabili zation program.” Along The Cape Fear By LARRY HIRSCH CONTEST ENLARGED — At lantic City can have its "Miss America" contest. We have one which, though perhaps not quite so interesting to look at, has promise of becoming far more famous. Considering that we started this contest on Friday, September 13, a very poor day to start anything except a jinx on one’s enemies, we are indeed amazed and gratified at the way the contest is growing. It all began when we nominated Mrs. Jane Best, of Colmbus coun ty, the champion grandmother of Southeastern North Carolina by virtue of her 38 grandchildren. Then, .1 this past Thursday’s paper, we disclosed that Mrs. Le norah Long, also of Columbus coun ty, had outdone Mrs. Best with the staggering total of 74 grandchil dren. Well, Mrs. Long still has a firm hold on the grandchild honors, but it seems that we must now en large the contest to include the great - grandchild, great - great grand-child and great great-great grandchild fields. Witness the letters we got yester day: “AUNT HESTER” — “Dear Sir: This letter is not one which can beat the grandmother record set by Mrs. Long, but it is one which I believe will be extremely hard to top. “It has to do with a very good frien'1 of my family, ‘Aunt Hester’ Pearsall, of Duplin county. ‘Aunt Hester,’ as she is known to all, was 101 years old this past August and is the mother of nine children, all of whom are still living. She has 41 grandchildren, 80 great-grand children, and two great-great grandchildren. This is fquite a rec ord, don’t you think? Her greatest joy in life is doing good deeds for others. 1 “She has been through four wars —the Civil War, Spanish-American War, and World Wars I and II — and still tells vivid stories of them all. She has been a friend °f my family for over 65 years and in her lifetime has worked with many doctors, including Drs. Caldwell, Graham, Johnson, and Wessell. “I might add that she is still in good health, does not wear glass es,,and her hearing is perfect. See CAPE FEAR on Page Two Wallace Under Barrage Surrounded by reporters, Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace answers a barrage of questions as he leaves the White House following a conference with President Truman. Wallace lost his cabinet post yesterday despite a promise to the President that he would make no further speeches on American foreign policy 'until the Paris Peace Conference had ended. (International Soundphoto) The Weather FORECAST South Carolina—Partly cloudy with little change in temperature Saturday, scattered showers in mountains. North Carolina — Saturday, partly cloudy and warmer, showers extreme west portion in afternoon. (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday: Temperatures 1:30 a. m. 72; 7:30 a m. 72; 1:30 p. m. 76; 7:30 p. m. 73. Maximum 78; min imum 71; mean 72. normal 72. Humidity 1:30 a. m. 94; 7:30 a. m. 96; 1:30 p. m. 81; 7:30 p. m. 98. Precipitation Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. 0.16 inches. Total since the first of the month, 10.77 inches. Tides For Today (From the Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey): High Low Wilmington _ 6:12 a.m. 1:05 a.m. 6:48 p.m. 1:16 p.m. Masonboro Inlet. 4:17 a.m. 10:23 a.m. 4:47 p.m. 11:09 p.m. Sunrise 5:59; sunset 6:11; moonrise 1:51 a. m.; moonset 4:25 p. m. River stage at Fayetteville, N. C., at 8 a. m. Friday, 9.4 feet. Found Dead WASHINGTON, Sept 20—(U.R)— Mrs. Evalyn McLean Reynolds, 25-year old socialite wife of former Sen. Robert Reynolds, D., N. C., and daughter of the owner of the ill-fated “Hope Diamond,” was found dead Friday at “Friend ship” the nationally known fam ily home. Doctors attributed the socialite’s death to an accidental overdose of sleeping tablets. Mrs. Reynolds had been ill for some time and the tablets were prescribed by her physician, who discovered the body on a routine visit. Hit By Typhoon GUAM, Sept. 20—!U.R)—A typhoon slashed through the Marianas islands Thursday sending 100 mile-an-hour gusts of wind across Guam and Saipan and causing damage estimated in the millions of dollars on the two islands. There were no casualties report ed immediately. Navy aerologists had advance knowledge of the ty phoon and civilians and service men moved to special shelters be fore the storm struck. GARDNER BOOSTED FOR CABINET JOB Friends of Former N. C. Governor Urge Him For Commerce Post Wilmington Morninr Star Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, Sept 20, — O. Max Gardner, of Shelby, N. C., Undersecretary of the Treasury, was recommended Friday to Presi dent Truman to assume the post of Secretary of Commerce short ly after it was vacated by Henry A. Wallace at the President’s re quest.. Gardner, a former governor of North Carolina, has played an important role in national affairs since the day President Roosevelt took office, and his counsel in the Democratic party has been “high ly regarded,” it was argued by Gardner’s supporters. Storm Damage Carolina Beach, still inundated last night by a two-and-a-half mile lake that stretched from the Break ers Hotel to the yacht basin, suf fered damage from Wednesday night’s storm approaching $75,000, Mayor W. G. Fountain estimated last night. 'The water receded about six inches this afternoon, but it’s still stand ng five or six feet deep in some houses on the beach,” he de clared. Earlier R. M. Kermon, state assemblyman-elect, had announced that he will begin an immediate campaign to provide a state-county program to drain the resort town. State Highway supervisor A. R. Mallard reported last night that route 421 to Carolina Beach is still blocked by resurgent tides but that commission work crews had suc ceeded in opening the Ethyl-Dow road to Kure’s Beach at 8 p. m. last night. Curriculum And Faculty For Junior College Set Wilmington’s new college center will have no less than ten fresh men courses to offer the 260 stu dents who will register for the center’s first quarter at 4 p. m. Monday, Dale Spencer, its director, said yesterday. With three courses constituting a students load, all students will be required to take five hours of English and five hours of social science for the first two quarters of this college year, Spencer said. The college will also offer intro ductory mathematics or the more advanced subject of college alge bra, depending on the individual student’s present level of knowl edge. Intermediate or advanced Latin is listed as an alternative to mathematics, although Spencer de clared it unlikely that demand would be sufficient to justify insti tution of the course. Courses In Science In the sciences, a student may take either three weekly hours of lectures and four of laboratory work in descriptive chemistry, five hours of lectures and two of labora tory in general physics; or four lecture hours and two lab hours See CURRICULUM on Page Two 0 New Dealers Policy Views Ouster Cause Former Secretary Launches “Win-The-Peace” Drive In Radio Speech BYRNES WINS | * Y “More Important Than Any Consideration Of Party Politics” WASHINGTON, Sept. 20— (UP) — President Truman fired Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace Friday, and the 57-year-old New Dealer promptly tossed overboard his pledge to keep quiet about U. S. foreign policy until after the end of the Paris Peace confer ence. “Winning the peace is more im portant than high public office,” Wallace said in a nationwide broad cast nine hours after the world heard that he had been removed from the cabinet for publicly op posing Secretary of State James F. Byrnes' get - tough . with - Russia policy. “It is more important than any consideration of party politics.” The President told a startled, packed press conference Friday morning that he had fired Wallace because his foreign policy views threatened to “jeopardize our position in relation to other coun tries.” Wallace calmly accepted his fate throughout the day, but Fri day night, in a five-minute broad, cast, he snapped back at the ad ministration's international poli cies and said: “ I feel that our present foreign policy does not recognize the basic realities which led to two world wars and which now threatens an other war—this time an atomic war.” But he added that he didn’t want to say anything in his radio talk, which might “abuse the freedom granted me by the President,” to upset the work of Byrnes and his associates in Paris. AMERICAN FALLS HAS LAND SLIDE Large Section Of Rock Tumbles From Brim . Into Gorge NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., Sept. 20— (U.R) —Erosion bit another chunk from the brim of the Honey moon city’s famed cataract Friday when a large section of rock from the American falls slid into the mist-filled Niagara gorge with a concussion that rocked buildings and cracked plaster in homes. No appreciable damage was re ported although the shock was felt as far north as Lewiston, N. Y., seven miles away, and south to LaSalle, six miles distant. Prof. Austin McTigue reported that the Canisius college seismograph in Buffalo recorded a "very weak shock, lasting about six seconds." Residents from as far away as St. Catherines, Ont., 15 miles from the scene, reported that dishes were rattled. And So To Bed The six-year-old niece of Mrs. J. E. Jones offers further proof of the contention that the young are the most literal minded persons in the world. The .little girl, a resident of South Carolina, was* visiting her aunt here lately, and as the days went by sbe assumed a look of sombre reflection which borderen on fright. “Auntie," she finally broke out one day, "what is it that everybody’s afraid of in this town?" “Whatever do yon mean, dear?” asked Mrs. 'ones. “Well, there’s the river, and the hotel, and the real estate office, and lots of other Places ...” “Yes, dear, what about them?" They’re all named Cape Fear." F . . J
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