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FORECAST .+ *4 + , + ^ * umingfom mittmj >?tcu* V01- 7!K—NO. 299. > ___WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1946_•___ESTABLISHED 1867 Shipyard To Change Hands Next Month [J. S. Maritime Commission Takes Over Local Build ing Facilities Oct. 10 STAND-BY BASIS )ne Of 4 Yards In Nation To Be Retained In Case Of Emergency The process of putting the >20,000,000 North Carolina Shipbuilding company plant in a “stand-by” basis will be an shortly after midnight ictober 9 when the United States {aritifne commission formally as umes possession of the yard, of :cis':s of both the commission and k company said yesterday. According to the commission’s iar.s. N. S. Ship will be one of :ur commission-owned yards in the ation to be maintained in a state ; near readiness for resumption ; production in an emergency. The huge yara. owned by the •emission, has been operated by ;e North Carolina company, a rb?:diarv of the Newport News rebuilding company. Its transfer to the Real Estate j Terminal divisio i of the. com • esion will follow by one day the e' very of the 243rd and last, ship -the S.S. Sanra Isabel - to the rsce Line of New York. Five of re six vessels built for this line sve been delivered. Sea trials for re ?. S. Santa Isabel have been et for October 4. In discussing the transfer, L. E. ’oss, resident plant engineer of re commission, said that a Burn er of present employes of the hipbuilding company will be hired ir t h e jobs of maintaining the lent on a“stand by” basis. A st. with war veterans being giv :r preference, is now being made See SHIPYARD On Page Two X-RAY EQUIPMENT SOUGHT BY GROUP Lanier Named To Head Special Committee; Area Meet Held Here Thomas L. Lanier was yesterday appointed chairman of a special New Hanover Tuberculosis as sociation committee which will seek to obtain chest x-ray equipment now at the North Carolina Ship building company for use in the association’s county-wide tubercu losis survey. Lanier’s appointment was an nounced last night by Miss Lucy Hash, the association’s executive secretary, after a meeting • of its 15 directors at St. Johns Parish house yesterday afternoon. ' The association also voted to earmark its recent $500 contribu tion from the local junior chamber of commerce for milk and medi cal supplies for tubercular persons now under its care. Mrs. Vera Caliihan, the associa tion's health nurse, will leave here Oct. 1 for a three weeks’ training course at the North Carolina sani torium, Miss Nash announced. Seal Campaign Earlier a stepped-up Christmas Seal campaign with $300,000 in tuberculosis control funds as its itate-wide goal was mapped here See X-RAY On Page Two HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS By Alley , » A ° Yes-mAm* Busies' TELU /h» T>E worl' TKYim' To keep UP WlP ALL. HE "PROMISES / (Released by The Belt 8r»* <>e*U. Inc ) Trade Mark Re*. U. Bf%. Pat* 0*c*> * Chest Leader Alan A. Marshall, local attorney, who was yesterday named as sistant chairman of the geogmphic section of the Wilmington Com munity Chest’s fall campaign. L. D. Latta is the section’s chairman. SECTION LEADERS NAMED FOR DRIVE Community Chest Cam paign Chairman Outlines Geographic Areas Lloyd W. Moore, local realtor, was last, night named chairman of the downtown division of the geo graphic section of the Wilmington Community chest’s fall campaign by section chairman L. D. Latta and Alan Marshall, assistant chair man. Moore, a veteran of World War II and chairman of the local Vet erans Service committee, will head a six - team division which will solicit small firms and residential areas in the region west of Third Street and between Orange and Red Cross streets. In announcing the appointment of Latta and Moore to head the geo garphic section in the $106,204 drive, which begins Oct. 15, Louie Ef. '’Woodburf' Jr., campaign chair man, outlined plans for a four-unit section. It will include Moore's downtown division; a residential division as signed to canvass city areas not covered by the downtown division; a Negro division; and a county solicitation division. Latta is treasurer of the Tide Water Power company, where he has been employed for many years, and is a member of the Lions club. He was chairman of the Budget committee in the 1945 Chest drive, and was head of the Public Service division last year. Marshall, a prominent attorney with the firm of Poisson, Camp bell and Marshall, returned re cently from four years of service with the United States Navy. He is a former judge of the Juvenile court, and is a member of the board of directors of the Family Service society, a Red Feather service. Sugar In Drips There is sugar in the markets, but local Chamber of Commerce officials are not expecting any new supply in the near future, E. L. White, president of the chamber, said yesterday. “Although some sugar is avail able I have not heard of any ship ments due here in the near future,” White said. In the meanwhile local brokers had no information which might back up U. S. Senator Clyde Hoey’s reported statement to the W7ilson Chamber of Commerce that sugar is no its way to this area. H. F. White, Wilmington sugar broker, said that he had received a car last week. But another broker- declared that the sugar arriving here is “only a drop in the bucket.” Tanker Blast Victim Dies; 1 Probe Star 4 7th Bennington Seama*. Succumbs To Injuries At James Walker awaIt Borders Government Inspectors Visit Vessel Anchored In Southport Harbor The explosion and fire aboard the tanker Benning ton claimed its seventh vic tim yesterday when James F. F a n 1 k ner, of Jacksonville, Fla., died here at the James Walk er Memorial hospital at 9:30 a. m. Faulkner, sole remaining sur vivor of those injured in the blast, was brought ashore from the bat tered tar.ker after she anchored in the harbor at Southport on Wednes day. Six bodies were aboard the vessel. Four of the crewmen died instantly and two others succumb ed before the boat reached the mouth of the Cape Fear river. An official investigation started yesterday on board the ship, an chored in the river at Southport, to ascertain the cause of the thundering explosion which blew gaping holes in the bow of the 10, 072-ton ship at 10:30 p. m. Tues day and set the vessel afire- 180 miles due east of Charleston,. S. C. Interviews Start A. H. Pike and James H. Gal loway, inspectors for the coast guard and merchant marine ser vice, went to Southport yesterday to make a personal examination of the damages and to interview the officers and surviving crew members. The investigation is ex pected to be concluded today. Some of the crew members said they believed the blast was caus ed by a spark from an electric See VICTIM On Page Two KILGORE TO HEAD PROBE COMMITTEE Senate Group Picks West Virginian As Successor To Senator Mead WASHINGTON. Sept. 26 — UP) — The Senate War Investigating com mittee selected Senator Kilgore (D-WVa) as its chairman Thurs day and agreed on an early in quiry into conduct of American Military gove^pment in occupied territory. A subcommittee to be named later will go to Europe as part of the investigation. Committee agents already are making a preliminary inquiry. Committee members disclosed that secret testimony was received recently from an Army officer who declared that conditions in Ameri can-occupied Germany “are worse than the German occupation of France.” It was indicated that allegations received about the Military govern ment deal principally with fraterni zation by high army officers with Germans. Kilgore Takes Over Kilgore took over leadership of the committee immeditely from Senator Mead (D-NY) who has held the chairmanship for two years. Mead told reporters he would continue as a member of the com mittee “for the time being.” He resigned as chairman because he is the Democratic candidate for Governor of New York and is actively campaigning. Kilgore was elected unanimously at a closed meeting held shortly after the committee abruptly broke off a hearing on the Canol project. The hearing was called primari ly in an effort to wind up a contro | See KILGORE on Page Two LOW-COST MARK Ships Constructed Here Cost U.S.$l,508,000Each ------ - — MARY JAMES COTTRELL WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. — Thomas L. Lanier, assistant comp troller of the North Carolina Ship building company, Wilmington, N. C appearing as a witness Thurs day before the Hoyse commission on Merchant Marine and Fisheries holding hearings on profits on war time builders, testified that his company had built 126 ships for $1,508,000 each. According to Maritime Commis sion Auditor William Slattery, the North Carolina company turned out ships at the lowest average cost per vessel of any of the numerous ship yards building for the com mission during the emergency. The record of the Wilmington yard came to light as Slattery cit edthe figures in challenging an ed the figures in challenging an Kaiser that the Oregon Shipbuilding company held the war time rec ord for cheap production of Lib erty ships. The record of the North Carolina shipyard showed that the contrac tor's costs per ship. Meaning labor and so forth, exclusive of materials was $651,000 per ship. As against See SHIPS on Page Two TRUMAN DECLARES MEA T CEILINGS MHOULD NOT BE RAISED, SCRAPPED; SIX KILLED, 70 INJURED IN WRECK / -- Union Pacific Limited Piles Up On Curve All Of Dead, Three Women, Two Men, Negro Porters Were In Day Coach TRAIN RUNNING LATE Flat Cars, Trucks, Planes Rush Those Seriously Hurt To Hospitals VICTOR VILLE, Calif., Sept. 26.—(fP)—Six persons —three women and two men passengers and a Negro porter—were killed Thursday and over 70 injured when Union Pacific Train No. 3, the Transcontinental Limited, pil ed up on a curve two and a half miles east of Victorville as it was running an hour late. All the dead were in two day coaches immediately be hind a baggage car. The three women victims were In a dressing room. The porter apparently was standing just outside the dressing room. It took more than three hours to extricate the bodies from the wreckage of the lightweight steel cars. Deputy Coroner Edward P. Doyle said he was not positive no more bodies would be found in the crumpled coaches. These two cars were piled up in a narrow cut approaching the Mo jave river and telescoped into its sides. Another day coach and two dining cars left the rails but did not overturn. None of the passengers in the following Pull man cars was injured. To Quiz Engineer Doyle said the train left the track at 7:03 a. m., on a slight curve, possibly because of high speed. He said that Engineer Pearl S. See UNION PACIFIC on Page Two STEEL CITY STILL IN STRIKE THROES Street Railway Employes Walk Off Jobs At Pittsburgh Thursday PITTSBURGH, Sept. 26.—This in dustrial city’s crippling power strike was still on Thursday night, its effects sharpened by a shut down of the street railway system, despite dissolution of an anti-strike injunction which had been a major obstacle in the path of settlement. Initial efforts to find a mutual understanding in the power dis pute failed late Thursday afternoon when a two and one half hour conference between officials of the Duquesne Light company and an independent union of employes end ed with no agreement. A union spokesman said, however, the con See STEEL On Page Two Along The Cape Fear While Larry Hirsch, whose daily column—Along The Cape Fear—remains on the sick list, Roy Cook, Star staff member, brings Along The Cape Fear readers an eye-witness account of the damage wrought by t|ie explosion aboard the' tanker Bennington. Along with Chick Hosch, As sociated Press staff writer, and Dudy Faircloth, AP photog rapher, Cook was the first newspaperman to board the stricken vessel 40 miles off the coast. By ROY COOK “GOOD MORNING, gentlemen’’, these were the words that greeted Dr. Thomas M. Hall, James Walker Hospital Interne, and I when we boarded the tanker Ben nington, about 40 miles at sea at 9:45 o’clock Wednesday morning. These words were spoken by the gentleman pictured on page three, Henry B. Wilson, 49-year-old able seaman from Cumberland, Md. Wilson, dirty with soot and grime I on his hands and several week’s growth of beard, carried us to the bunk in which lay James F. Faulk ner, sole survivor of the seven men injured when a terrific explo sion rocked the tanker at 10:30 the night before. Dr. Hall administer ed aid to the stricken man and Seaman Wilson began to show me around the ill-fated vessel. We went to the bow and he point ed out the section that was report ed to have escaping gas fumes. He told me that this was the third tanker exploded he has seen. “Of the coast of Florida in 1927 the tanker, I was on, exploded. We don’t know what caused it, but the ship blew sky high, 17 men were killed and I was lucky. I did not get hurt.” This reporter stood by in amazement as he told of his many adventures since he first went to sea 29 years ago. "That’s nothing, the blast in ’27 compared to the time the Japs strafed our ship off Manila, short See CAPE FEAR on Page Two _______! Some That Didn't Get Away The above group of anglers brought home id ore fish than fish yarns when they returned from an excursion aboard Capt. Billy DeCover’s “Jim Jam” Tuesday evening. In fact, the 38-pound bar racuda chalked up a new record in the Southeaste rn North Carolina Beach Association’s $2,000 fishing rodeo. Pictured, left to right, are Capt. DeCover, H. L. Barden, Wilmington Edward T. Noel, Fayet teville, who hooked the barracuda, and Thomas B. Williams, Wilmington, holder of the only sailfish entry to date in the rodeo. The rodeo closes at su nset Monday, Sept. SO. (CAPE FEAK STUDIO PHOTO) PROPOSED ROUTE SCOR AT MEET City Manager Voices Oppo sition To Use Of Third Street By Trucks City Manager J. R. Benson is personally opposed to continued use of Third Street as a truck route because its present conges tion constitutes a “traffic danger and a fire hazard,’’ he told a group of 20 citizens who appeared be fore the City Planning Board to urge a round-the-town truck lane, last night. Benson spoke to a group drawn from all sections of the city, whose criticism directed chiefly agains; reported State Highway commission plans to widen Third Street and continue its use for trucks. ' The city manager gave no in dication of his personal attitude towards the round-the-town route* a project which has won small favor with State Highway officials. “I’d be against Third Street if there wasn’t an oil truck on it today,” Benson declared, “be cause there’s simply too much traffic on it.” Heavy Traffic “Third Street has the heaviest traffic of any street in North Car olina except Trade and Tryon in Charlotte, and that congestion is the strongest argument I know against it,” he said. Arguments based on such “cold business propositions as the pres ent congestion of Third Streets” would bear more weight with the highway commission than those based on neighborhood traditions, Benson said. He made no direct al lusion to proposals that Seventh street be made the truck route’s base. Wallace Murchison, local at See ROUTE on Page Two The Weather FORECAST South Carolina and North Carolina — Fair, little change in temperatures Fri day. (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. yesterday. Temperaturfg 1:30 a.m. 72; 7:30 a.m. 67; 1:30 p.m. 82; 7:30 p.m. 75. -vw-tm Maximum 84. Minimum 66; Mean 71; Normal 71. Humidity 1:30 a.m. 88; 7 :30 a m. 84; 1:30 p.m. 35; 7:30 p m. 86. Precipitation Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m.— 0.00 inches. Total since the first of the month — 11.27 inches. Tides For To<lay (From the Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey). High Low Wilmington _10:30 a.m. 5:08 a.m. 10:46 p.m. 5:29 p.m. Masonboro Inlet 8:13 o.m. 1:57 o.m. 8:26 p.m. 2:19 p.m. Sunrise 6:03; Sunset 6:04; Moonrise 7:08 a.m.; Moonset 7:06 p.m. River Stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8 a.m. Thursday, 13.1 feet. USES TRANSFER SET OCTOBER 15 Local Manager Sees Little Change In Personnel Under State Wilmington’s United States Em ployment office will be transferred from federal to state control on November 15 with no noticeable change in its procedures or person nel, Harold M. HinKle, local man ager, indicated yesterday. The office will retain its present address at 24 N. 2nd street, its present telephone number, and probably its USES initials, Hinkle said. Office personnel from Hinkle down, will probably be required to take state merit system exams in order o retain their present posi tions, however. The local USES has 18 em ployes. Mrs. Harry Watters, senior interviewer, who has been 12 years with the employment serv ice, Miss Lillian Dodd and Mrs. MoBtee Sweetster already have merit system status. All other members of the staff See USES on Page Two NO LAW FORBIDS HORSE MEAT SALE New Hanover Health Offi cer Reports Sale Here Would Be Legal Horse-flesh for human consump tion, a commodity reported to be booming on Northeastern sea board markets, had not shown it self yet on New Hanover county’s meatless butcher shelves, but there were apparently no bars yesterday to any enterprising butcher who might set up a horse meat shop. Dr. A. H. Elliot, county health officer, could think of no health board regulation that might bar the sale of horseflesh for the table here yesterday. “After all,” Dr. Elliott said, “a horse is a more attractive animal than a cow or a pig. Most of us think, however, that a tender young horse would be worth much more as a work animal than he would be in the slaughterhouse, and that fact alone would make us cautious of horsemeat.” No Dealers Local meat processors agreed last night that they know of no dealers in horse meat either in Wilmington or its surrounding counties. Choice cuts of horseflesh were See NO LAW on Page Two Plea Fails FRANKFURT, Germany, Sept. 26. —(A3)— Kathleen Nash Durant failed to convince a U. S. Military court Thursday it should not try her on charges of stealing the Kronberg Castle jewels, and that the $1,500,000 array of gems should not be introduced as evidence. The eight-man military court denied her plea that she had been discharged from the army before she was arrested in Chicago last June and that the army had nc legal right to bring her back tc Germany for trial. A certificate of military service showing she was on “terminal leave”.was introduced by her at torneys, who argued that it amounted to a release from the army. SURGERY SCORES Science Enables Child To See By Others ’ Eyes CHICAGO, Sept. 26—(U.R)—Betty Goudy, 14, a farmer’s child, saw the world for the first time Thurs day, using the eyes of a still-born baby. The nervous lips of the physician removing her head bandage was the first thing she saw. “What’s that?” she asked, touch ing them. “You are looking at my mouth,” said Dr. Richard Peritt. i “I’ve always wondered what a mouth looked like,” she said. The corneas from a stillborn child were transplanted into her sight less eyes three weeks ago. She has been blind from birth. Dr. A. Triolo, director of the crippled children’s division of the South Dakota State Board of Health, ar ranged the operation. Today Dr. Peritt removed the bandages as Betty’s parents, Ed mund and Gertrude Goudy, Arte sian, S. D., stood by, tears in theii eyes. “ I hope she recognizes us,” Mrs. Goudy said, trembling. She didn’t know that Betty’s sight would come gradually, as does a new born child’s. See SCIENCE on Page Two President In Disagreement With Leaders Chief Executive Sees No Reason For Special Congress Session TERMS PRICES FAIR Reporters Hear Hope Ex pressed That Farmers Will Sell Livestock WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.— (JP)—President Truman, tak ing a stand in disagreement with some of his own party leaders, declared emphatically today price ceilings on meat should not be raised or scrap ped. With the meat shortage producing grave new compli cations, the President issued a statement saying: 1. The shortage is not due to price control but to an “extraordi narily large slaughter” in July and August when price controls were temporarily off. 2. There will be a "greater quantity and better quality of meat in the near future.” 3. Present livestock ceilings are “fair and equitable.” In addition to this statement, is need for a special session of Con President told reporters he saw no need for a special session of con gress to remedy the situation. He also expressed firm hope that any growers withholding cattle and hogs will now release them for market. With that statement, issued at his news conference, the President expressed firm hope that any growers withholding cattle and hogs will now release them for market. Even as the President was tak See PRESIDENT on Page Two FARM COMMITTEE OUTLINES PI NS Chamber 0 f Commerce Group Call For Soil Study And Livestock Market Re-establishment of a soil lab oratory in New Hanover county and development of a livestock market in Wilmington were recom mended here yesterday as key points in a six-part program to be pushed by the agricultural com mittee of the local Chamber of Commerce. J. Kyle Bannerman, Herman N. Hayden, John Nuckton, County Farm Agent R. W Galphin, and P. Franklin Bell, the Chamber’s assistant secretary, met yester day to draft the program through which their committee aims to Im prove both county agricultural facilities and general relations be See COMMITTEE on Page Two And So To Bed Mrs. Mattie Andrews, of 3103 Market street, was busily engaged about her home yester day when she heard the phone ring. Dropping her broom, she hurriedly answered. “Oh, my goodness, yes please put him on,” she told tho operator ... Her son, Pfe Jack W, Andrews, now station, ed at Udine, Italy was calling his mother from his post across the Atlantic. This was the first time her son, who entered the service 16 months ago, has called her. Re cently he made several efforts to get a call through but failed. “I was so excited, that I could not think of anything to say, so we mostly talked about the weather during the three minutes,” Mrs. Andrews said last night. “He did tell me that he hopes to come home next month,” she added. Young Andrews, who attended local schools, has a brother, S'-gt. Linwood Andrews, Jr., in the army, stationed at For* Bragg.
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