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VOL. 18.—NO. 40~ " " ' SECTION-A
- - --WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1946________
Train Wreck Kills 6, Injures 30
Cars of the Union Pacific railway’s fast passenger train, The
Transcon, lie scattered over the track after derailment on a curve
near Victorville ,Calif. Six persons were killed and at least 30
were injured. (AP Wirephoto).
City Is Planning Canal
To Drain Large Section
PETITION RECEIVED
Residents Of Market Street,
Mercer And Pauline
Avenues Ask Relief
The City of Wilmington is taxing
immediate action looking to the
digging of a 1.50O-foot canal to
drain excess waters overflowing
into the series of lake's ih the 2900
blocx of Market street, City Man
ager J. R. Benson said yesterday.
The canal, he added, would con
nect directly with Burnt Mill creek.
His disclosure came after a pe
ation. signed by 106 citizens of the
Market street and Mercer and
Pauline avenues area, had been
presented at City hall. They claim
ed that an unsanitary drainage
condition exists and reported
"mosquitoes are breeding by the
millions'’ in the affected section,
seeking Ditching Machine
Benson also revealed that me
ciiy is negotiating for the purchase
of a d ag line or ditching machine.
He said it would complete the canal
within two weeks after the work
is started, but added that he could
not tell exactly when this drag lint
equipment would be available.
Benson explained that the city’s
engineering department is handi
capped by reason of the fact that
it has only one drag line, which
is presently engaged in deepening
and widening Burnt Mill creek to
relieve the flooded conditions along
i's banks. He said, however, that
he expected the Burnt Mill creek
dredging projects to be completed
within a few days.
Meanwhile, another drainage
Problem is confronting the city gov
ernment in the Sunset Park sec
tion of the city, where three fire
deparment pumpers yesterday
'*ere engaged in pumping the wa
ters trom Central boulevard. At
H o'clock Friday night, Benson
raid the water had been pumped off
the boulevard and into the
Manholes, but that the rains came
ar*d flooded the street again, with
the result that the pumpers had
to resume work.
The City Manager reported that
’ne had written to the Reclamation
department of the federal govern
Mc.it in Washington, asking for
advice and assistance in solving
"ilmington’s drainage problems.
He said also that the city engineers
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General Mark Clark
Is Treated For Ear
Ailment In Chicago
CHICAGO, Sept. 28.—(A5)—
General Mark W. Clark, com
mander of American forces in
Austria, was treated at Fort
Sheridan today for an ear ail
ment that caused the general
to cancel a plane ilight to the
Pacific Northwest.
The general’s wife, who was
accompanying him across the
country from YY'ashington, said
he would retur/i to the capital
tonight by train for treatment
at YY'alter Reed hospital.
The general and Mrs. Clark
are guests of Mr. and Mrs.
John Irwin Marshall, aunt and
uncle of General Clark, in
suburban Lake Forest, near
Fort Sheridan.
COMMONCOUNCIL
FOR LABOR ASKED
Proposal Presented By
Head Of Brotherhood Of
Railroad Trainmen
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Sept. 28.—
(jv—President A. F. Whitney of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
today proposed a common council
for labor at Washington through
which otherwise divergent labor
groups could coordinate their mu
tual issues.
Such a council would include a
staff of economists and writers,
and be headed by a "broadmind
ed” individual who need not neces
sarily be a union man, said Whit
ney, here for the railwaymen’s con
vention.
“Through the council we should
work out our legislative program
and support those issues which all
of labor favors,” he told reporters
at his weekly press conference. "I
have advocated such a council and
will continue to seek its establish
ment.”
The BRT head said the names of
at least congressmen the organiza
tion will oppose at the forthcom
ing elections will not be announced
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Missouri Chief Refuses
To Cull Solons On Bonus
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Sept.
(U.H)—With his remarks punct
ated by loud booing and hissing
fr,Jm about 300 Ozarks bonus
Marchers crowded into the state
house, Missouri’s Gov. Phil M.
Sonnely today -refused to consider
their demand that he summon the
state legislature to consider a $400
Ca-sh state bonus.
Murl E. Owen, a veteran of
Manne action in the Pacific and
leader in the movement which last
Mght produced a caravan of bonus
Marchers from sonthwest Missouri
to "invade” this state capitol, said
that “several hundred other bonus
marchers” were awaiting the Gov
ernor’s decision in a park outside
the city.
Donnelly told the bonus marchers
that he was not opposed to a state
bonus. However ,he recommend
ed that the former servicemen
abandon their plan for the present
and consult with their state sena
tors and representatives.
“That’s the Democratic way of
government,” he added.
‘“After all, that’s the thing you
men fought for.
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Truman Sees
Lasting Peace
For Universe
President Speaks Briefly
Before Cadets In West
Point Mess Hall
_ »
“TO NEED LEADERSHIP”
Tours Part Of Academy,
Reviews Cadets And At
tends Football Game
WEST POINT, N. Y„ Sept. 28
President Truman came to
day to the U. S. Military Academy,
a symbol of the nation’s military
prestige, and told its grey-uniform
ed cadets that “we believe we- are
going to have a permanent peace.”
Washington Hall, the Cadets’
great mess building, resounded to
the cheers and yells of the coun
try’s future military leaders as the
President appeared above them
on the balcony where he was a
luncheon guest prior to atending the
Army-Oklahoma football game.
“We are looking forward now to
a permanent peace,” the Presi
dent told the Cadets. “We believe
that we are going to have a per
manent peace. That-is what we
are working for.”
Will Need Leaders
'r-arlier in his extemporaneous
talk the President said, “we are
going to need leadership now and
from now on just as badly as we
have needed it in this great emer
gency through which we have
ust been.”
Declaring that “leadership is
just naturally ingranted into some
men,” he urged the Cadets to cul
tivate that leadership as their
duty. Quality which can make
other men do what they do not
want to do and like it. Some of
our greatest civilian leaders right
now are men who have been right
ed to a military leadership.”
Aas examples of such leadership
the President singled out for praise
General George C. Marshall, now
an envoy to China; General Omar
Bradley, head of the Veterans Ad
ministration; and Admiral Ben
Moreell wno recently retired from
service after acting as the govern
administrator of the seized soft
coal mines.
Asserting that “we are facing a
situation now which every country
has faced after a terrible emer
gence,” the President said, “there
is going to come a time, now,
when people are going to be sorry
that they ever saw a soldier or a
sailor or a marine,” as he said
had been the attitude after all
previous wars.
“Give the country the best you
have and no matter what they may
say about you for wearing a uni
form in the future.” President
Truman said, “maintain that dig
nity that goes with the leadership
that has made this country great.”
Takes Holiday
Taking a brief holiday from the
cares of state, the President flew
here from Washington to tour part
of the academy, review the Ca
dets. and see in action the Army’s
newest offensive weapon—the 1946
Cadet football team.
The Army eleven was seeking its
20th straight win at the expense of
Oklahoma university in a game at
Michie Stadium. Mr. Truman set
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ACCUSED SWINDLER
ARRESTED BY FBI
Antonio Fernandez Seized
After Stepping From Air
liner In Miami
MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 28.—(U.R)—A
slight, balding Spanish citizen, who
claimed to have been shanghaied
into the United States, indignantly
denied today that he swindled a
Washington, D. C., resident of
$125,000.
Antonio Navarro Fernandez. 52,
was ordered held under $100,000
bond until the FBI finds whether
he or ah unnamed Washington vic
tim is right. Not only that, Fer
nandez claimed Venezueland po
lice robbed him of $10,000 two
weeks ago.
The allegedly notorious confi
dence man, nicknamed “The Frog
Man’- and “Kid Tiger” by FBI
Chief J. Edgar Hoover, protested
in gutteral and somewhat broken
English that “I have never even
been in Washington, so how could
I rob anybody there?”
“May I ask, ’ he added, “how
can a man carry 100, 120, how
many thousand you say it is, dol
lars from one country to another
in these times?”
Fernandez was arraigned before
U. S. Commissioner Roger Edward
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REDS RENEW DARDANELLES DEMANDS
AND TURKEY ALERTS ARMED FORCES;
VM.AND BRITAIN TO BACK ANKARA
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Sli//fALIN’S
PEAlt REMARKS
Two Major Powers Will
Also Oppose Talks Be
tween Moscow, Ankara
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28—
(JP) — Diplomatic authorities
said today that the United
States and Britain can be ex
pected to confer promptly on
Russia’s renewed Dardanelles
demands, and to back Turkey
firmly.
This is the first important
development in any major in
ternational controversy, outside the
Paris peace conference, since
Premier Stalin's statements on
world affairs last Tuesday. It fail
ed signally to bring out any
evidence of fundamentally better
relations among the powers.
Some top flight officials sug
gested that Secretary of State
Byrnes may already have held
preliminary discussions on the
Russo-Turkish issue with British
Foreign Minister Bevin at Paris.
The bast information here is
that the United States and Britain
will stand absolutely firm in op
position, first, to any Russian
military expansion into the Dar
danelles and, second, to any direct
negotiations between Moscow and
Ankara.
In the opinion of American of
ficials such direct Russo-Turkish
dealings would amount to throwing
Turkey to the Russians without
a chance of resisting Soviet de
mands.
Rejected Month Ago
Renewed Russian, insistence on
sharing jointly with Turkey the
defense of the'straits came in the
face of flat rejection of that idea
a month ago by the British, Amer
ican and Turkish governments.
The American decision was
made only after President Truman
had conferred with army and navy
leaders and had agreed with his
State department advisers that the
issue of the Dard.-nelles is so im
portant that once the American
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COLLEGE CENTER
TO BE INSPECTED
Representatives Of VA And
Extension Division Will
Call This Week
The facilities at the off-campus
center of the University of North
Carolina at New Hanover High
school will be inspected this week
by representatives of the Veterans’
Administration and the Extension
Division of the University of North
Carolna, is was learned yesterday.
Included in the visiting group
will be C. E. McIntosh, assistant
director of the college center; for
the extension divison, and W. P.
Harrell, education specialist with
the VA regional office at Winston
Salem.
Harrell, in addition to his inspec
tion work, will answer questions
of GI students pertaning to govern
ment financial aid and VA require
ments which students must meet.
The off-campus college, spon
sored by the State committee on
Veterans’ Education, the Veterans
Administration and the North Car
olina College conference, are pro
viding work at Freshman level for
students, both veteran and non-vet
eran, who were unable to gain ad
mission to colleges and univer
sities.
OPA Official Forecasts
More Meat In Few Weeks
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—W—
The prespect of more meat with
in two to four weeks was foreseen
today by Geoffrey Baker, OPA
deputy administrator, as Republi
cans promised their own investi
gation to find out what has be
come of the natior’s steaks and
chops. ;
“There is good reason to expect
improved supplies in both beef
and pork beginning with the lat
ter part of October,'’ Baker said
*n a radio talk.
But the Republican congression
al food study committee, headed
by Rep. Thomas A. Jenkins of
Ohio, took a less optimistic view.
“There is a growing suspicion
in the minds of many consumers,”
Jenkins said in a statement here,
“that Socialist government inter
ference with the livestock and
meat industry has so demoralized
this great source of food that we
are on the verge of an actual meat
scarcity, which wouid provide an
excuse for government operation.”
Baker said he based his belief
that the meat shortage will ease
up in the next two to four weeks
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Yugoslavia Bluntly Threatens
Not To Sign New Peace Accord
PARIS, Sept. 28— (U.R) —Yu
goslavia bluntly threatened
not to sign the peace treaty
with Italy today and to keep
her army in northwest Istria in
a flaming verbal outburst
against a conference compro
mise on the Yugoslav-Ital
ian frontier.
The United States immediate
ly retaliated with a threat to
bar Yugoslavia from any repa
rations or any other benefits of
the Italian treaty unless she
agreed to sign it and live up
to all its provisions.
The American resolution was
aproved by the Italian poli
tical commission but failed to
get the two-third vote neces
sary to make it a recommenda
tion to the Big Four. The vote
was 11 to 8 with Greece ab
staining. France and Ethiopia
joined the Soviet Bloc in op
posing the American plan.
The row in the commission
produced the angriest words
yet spoken in Luxembourg Pal
ace since the statement of 21
nations met six weeks ago to
try to make peace treaties for
Italy and four Nazi satellites.
The Yugoslav outburst failed
to sway the delegates, how
ever, and they proceeded to
approve the so-called “French
Line” compromise for the Italo
Yugoslav frontier by a vote of
12 to 5 with Russia, abiding by
her Big Four pledge, voting
against her satellites. Brazil,
Belgium and Ethiopia abstain
ed.
Today’s row is merely pre
liminary to what may be the
biggest shindig of the confer
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Pittsburgh Walkout Continues;
Maritime Dispute Talks Opened
-i
STREET CAR MEN
RESPECT PICKETS
Power Strike Cripples In
dustry And Paralyzes
Public Transport
By WALTER BERKOV
iJJnited Press Staff Correspondent
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 28— (U.R) —
Striking power workers voted to
night to reject a company wage
and pension offer and continue
♦heir five-day walkout which has
crippled industry and paralyzed
public transportation in Pittsburgh.
The public, caught in the midst
of the bitter struggle between the
3500 - member independent union
and the giant utility, wondered
when and how the strike would end,
and if there wuld be a power
breakdown soon.
The Vote
The vote to reject the Duquesne’
Light company’s 5 per cent wage
increase offer and revised holiday
and pension plans was 1170 to 553.
The union demands a 20 per cent
wage increase, a union shop, profit
sharing plan and some 30 other
contract revisions, and has re
fused to arbitrate.
Earlier today AFL street car
operators and bus drivers voted
to respect picket lines of the Du
quesne union, even though mem
bers were not in sympathy with
the aims of George L. Mueller and
his power workers.
As a result not a trolley car was
running tonight. The downtown
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LUMBER PRIORITY
TO BE EXTENDED
Despite Vigorous Opposi
tion, New Action Will
Cover Sawmills
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—(if)—
Housing expeditor Wilson Wyatt
announced tonight that lumber
priorities will be extended to cover
sawmills, despite vigorous opposi
tion from lumber producers.
T)ie action, effective November
1, will enable lumber yards and
other dealers to serve upon the
sawmills the “HH” or housing
priority which is handed to them
by the builder of a veteran’s home.
Agreement that such action is
’
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Pittsburgh Walkout
Affects Water Supply
Of Several Boroughs
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 28.—(IP)
—City officials disclosed tonight
that because of the power
strike the city has stopped sup
plying water to a half dozen
boroughs and townships from
Pittsburgh’s water reserve,
which involves the use of elect
rically-operated pumps.
One of the communities, Shal
er township, may exhaust its
water supply by noon Sunday,
township commissioner H. W.
Bray of Shaler said.
Bray reported there would
be some water available from
the township’s own reserve
supply, but not enough for all
homes and that if fire broke
out in the community, “'there
would be nothing to do but let
it burn.”
James S. Devlin, Pittsburgh
works director, reported water
supplies also were stopped to
B 1 a w n o x, Sharpsburg, Fox
Chapel, MiUvale, and Reserve
township.
DANUBIAN TRAFFIC
DECISION DELAYED
Russia Implies That She
Has No Intention Of
Opening The River
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Sept.
28. — (JP) — The United Nations
Economic and Social council post
poned a decision today on the con
troversial issue of Danubian free
dom of navigation after Russia had
implied that she had no immediate
intention of opening the Danube
to free navigation between the
Soviet and American occupatior
zones.
In closing a two-day debate,
chairman Andrija Stampar of
Yugoslavia announced that a de
cision would be postponed until
next week. This action was inter
preted as a move designed to give
some delegates an opportunity to
obtain new instructions from their
governments.
A few minutes earlier Pejru sub
mitted a proposal to toss out of
the council the bitter fight between
the United States and Russia which
saw the Soviet accuse the U. S. of
direct interference in the internal
affairs of countries involved in
traffic on the Danube.
Previously the Soviet served no
tice on the U. S. that military
measures in the Danubian area
were of primary importance and
asserted that changes of measures
taken by Soviet military authori
ties in the Russian occupation zone
are not possible.
The Soviet declaration was made
as a big split in the council de
veloped over a U. S. proposal to
convoke an international confer
ence at Vienna to resolve prob
lems now obstructing the resump
tion of international traffic on the
Danube.
Britain, Belgian and Lebanon
lined up in support of the U. S.
proposal but Peru and Chile came
out in strong opposition, declaring
that the council does not have the
competence to take up the question
of the conference on Tugoslav and
Czech demands for restriction of
vessels held by American occupa
tion authorities.
U. S. IS SEEKING
TO BLOCK TIEUP
Secretary Of Labor Asserts
Another Walkout Will
Be A ‘Tragedy’
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—<•£■>—
Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach,
opening negotiations aimed at
averting a new maritime strike
Monday night, told union and ship
owner respresentatives tonight that
another shipworker walkout would
be a "tragedy.”
Schwellenbach told the negotia
tors they had an important job to
reach agreements before the strike
deadline and said both ship opera
tors and unions should be prepared
to make sacrifices.
Operator spokesmen from both
coasts conferred for an hour with
representatives of the CIO marine
engineers’ beneficial association.
Plan Recess
Edgar L. Warren, head of the
federal concilation service, told
reporters the negotiations would be
recessed until 10 a. m. (EST) to
morrow after a brief session to
night between AFL Masters, Mates
and Pilots union and operator
spokesmen from both coasts.
The government worked to avert
a new maritime strike with some
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JAYCEES ATTEND
DISTRICT PARLEY
Goldsboro Scene Of Two
Day Event; P!?n Fire
Prevention Pregram
Eleven members m ; Wilming
ton Junior Chamber pi . ommerce
are attending the two-day district
meeting of Eastern North Carolina
Jaycees organization in Goldsboro,
Jesse Sellers, president of the local
chamber, said yesterday.
A banquet held last night, fol
lowed by'the “Jaycee Follies,-’ will
give way to a business session to
day, it was reported.
Before leaving, Sellers said that
$500 received from the September
Guy Lombardo dance and boat
races, would be presented to the
New Hanover County Tuberculosis
association at a meeting Tuesday
night.
The Jaycees are already laying
plans for their Fire Prevention
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 2)
King George II Returns
To Greece, Urges Unity
ATHENS, Greece, Sept. 28.—(U.R)
—King George II, .back in Greece
for the first time since the Ger
man invasion in the spring of
1941, appealed to his people in a
radio broadcast tonight to unite
for the struggle against “new
harsh problems which international
realities impose upon us.”
In an address to the Greek peo
ple who voted him back to his
throne, the king said he would
exercise his powers only "within
the limits of the Democratic and
parliamentary institutions of our
country.”
A few hours before he spoke,
Premier Constantine Tsaldaris and
his cabinet resigned and the king
immediately asked Tsaldaris to
form a new cabinet. The monarch’s
return came as dissident left-wing
elements were clssing with Greek
army units in the north and north
west.
“United we sha'l face, with the
same firm determination which we
showed during the supreme mo
ments of our struggle, the new
harsh problems which internation
al realities impose upon us,’’ he
said.
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SOVIETS REQUEST
EQUAL SHARE IN
PASSAGE CONTROL
Responsible Turks Say Gov
ernment Ready For
‘Any Eventuality’
LONDON, Sept. 28.—(UP)
—A seemingly final Russian
demand that Turkey cut the
Soviet in for an equal share
in control and defense of the
Dardanelles was followed to
day by a reliable report from
Istanbul that Turkey’s armed
forces were on the alert and
“ready to fight in five min
utes” to defend the nation’s
rights.
Responsible Turkish quar
ters said the government has
taken “extraordinary measures and
is ready for any eventuality.”
These quarters doubted that war
would be the alternative to a re
jection of Russia’s most recent
note, but believed it portends an
"abnormal occurrence.” This re
ference was not furthc r explained.
Turkish official quarters were
described as “depressed” by he
Soviet note, and there seemed
little chance that they intended to
change their stand that the defense
of the Strait snould be interna
tionalized, and not be made a pure
ly bilateral mater between Turkey
and Russia.
“In Direct Contradiction”
“If Turkey, w'hile rejecting the
Soviet Union’s proposal, should
create military establishments in
the strait together with non-Black
Sea powers, then this would be in
direct contradiction to the interests
and security of the Black Sea
powers,” the Russ’.an note warned.
"It would not be correct to for
get that the Soviet’s Black Sea
coastline, stretching 2,100 kilomet
ers (about 1,260 miles), opens ac
cess to the most important eco
nomic regions of the country, there
fore the necessity of preserving
the security of these regions with
the direct participation of the So
viet Union in the defense of the
strait arises from the Soviet Un
ion’s vital interests,” the not con
tinued.
A British foreign office spokes
man said the Russian demand waf
'an attempt to bypass the Mon*
treaux convention.”
Russia insisted that the Big
Three agreed at Potsdam for di
rect negotiations between Russia
and Turkey over the straits, and
until such talks are held, there
is no question of any internaional
conference, which Turkey, with
with British and American support,
demands.
A Whitehall spokesman said, in
this connection, that the Big Three
had agreed to preliminary discus
sionh, not negotiations, and that
the Potsdam agreement could not
supercede the Montreaux conven
tion.
Timeu With Stalin Talk
The Soviet’s newest demands
were served upon Turkey in a
more than 2,000-word note delivered
to the Turkish foreign office in
Ankara Sept. 24, tne same day that
Premier Josef Stalin issudeW his
pronouncement that he anticipated
no new war.
The note was a reply to a Turkish
note of Aug. 22, rejecting Soviet
demands of Aug. 7 for joint con
trol of the Dardanelles, the easily
defended bottleneck between the
Black and Agean seas. The Soviet
note followed Russian propaganda
charges that Britain had estab
lished bases along the Dardanelles.
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