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yOL^79.—NO._801.___WILMINGTON, N. C.. ONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30^ 1946. _ESTABLISHED 1867
De Gaulle In
Speech, Flays
Constitution
former Interim President
Condemns DocumentAs
Weakening France
REJECTION ‘URGED’
Address By General Holds
Threat Of New Political
Crisis For Nation
EPINAL, France, Sept. 29.
_ {/p) — Gen. Charles de
Gaulle Sunday condemned the
new French constitution, de
claring it would create a
France too weak to maintain
its independence in a struggle
between East and West — be
tween Russia and the United
States, as he portrayed it.
De Gaulle asked voters to re
ject the charter in the referendum
two weeks hence. His address held
the threat of another political crisis
and a possible split of President
Georges Bidault’s dominant MRP
party, made up of both pro and
anti-de Gaulle factions. If such a
split swayed enough votes to de
feat the constitution, a third Con
stituent assembly would be neces
sary. with de Gaulle's return to the
interim presidency seen as a pos
sibility in some quarters.
The three largest French politica.
parties, the Popular Republican
movement (MRP), the Communists
and Socialists, all voted for the
constitution, which was approved
440 to 106, just before dawn. An
other constitution, written when
the Communists rather than the
MRP formed the dominant political
party, was rejected earlier this
year by the French electorate.
De Gaulle in his policy address
described the world as “hard arfid
dangerous,” in which “the ambi
tious grouping of Slavs created, wil
ly nillv, under the leadership of a
boundless power, confronts auto
matically a young America replete
with resources and which has just
discovered, in its turn the perspec
tives of a warrior power. .
He said Western Europe is at
least temporarily in ruins.
Given such circumstances, he
said. France and her empire “have
no chance of safeguarding their
independence, their security, and
rights un’ess the state is capable
of exerting a heavy and continu
ous responsibility in a determined
direction.”
The speech was filled with som
bre allusions to the future and
bitter references to the past. The
See DE GAULLE on Page Two
TRIBESMEN TAKE
LARGE IRAN TOWN
House-To-House Fighting
Now Rages In Bushire
On Persian Gulf
TEHRAN, Sept. 29—(/P)—Half of
toe Persian gulf town of Bushire
was reported Sunday night in the
hands of rebellious southern tribes
men. Government forces were in
structed to employ planes to blast
them from their positions.
Heavy house-to-house fighting
rased in the port city, but the gov
ernment garrison was reported still
holding firm.
The newspaper, Etelaat, which
gave the latest report on the Bu
shire fighting, said also that the
government had decided to “mo
See IRAN on Page Two
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_Visiting Home Town
Robert C. Ruark, of New York City, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Rnark of Wilmington, is seen above turning out his syndicated
column during a visit to the Star-News news room. A graduate of
New Hanover High school, Ruark served with the Navy during
the war. (l'HOTO BY BOB HODGKIN).
Jlr ilmirigtonAreaSeen
As Hunters’ Paradise
GROUP TO DISCUSS
CPA RESTRICTIONS
Tuesday Session Here May
See Legion And VFW
Represented
Representatives of the city's two
largest veterans organizations will
meet here tomorrow with leaders
of Industrial Properties, Inc., and
John H. Farrell, City Industrial
agent, to map plans for a campaign
to unfreeze Civilian Production Ad
ministration restrictions on new
commercial building in the Wil
mington area, it w'as indicated last
night.
E. C. Snead, commander of the
local Veterans of Foreign Wars
post, has already appointed a three
man committee to confer with E.
L. White, J. Goodlet Thornton, and
Farrell at the latter’s office at
10:30 a. m. Tuesday.
W. K. Stewart, Jr., commander
of American Legion Post No. 10,
said that he will bring the matter
of representation at tomorrow’s
session with his post’s executive
committee at its meeting tonight.
The Legion commander express
ed his personal sympathy with the
aims of the Tuesday meeting but
declared that his post’s participa
tion depends upon the decision of
its executive committee.
Resolution Passed
The ex-servicemen’s intervention
in the effort to ease CPA restric
See GROUP on Page Two
“Sunday” Loot
RED BANK, N. J. Sept 29—OP)—
Burglars entered thfe Merchants
Trust company over the weekend
and made off with assets of the
bank valued at between $29,000 and
$50,000, Police Capt. Charles Erick
sen said Sunday.
The FBI and local police were
investigating.
No further details were available
from the police of the FBI.
S. K. Mckee, New Jersey FBI
chief, said only that his office was
“conducting an investigation of a
bank burglary.”
Robert Ruark, City Native,
Putting Finishing Touch
On New Article
BY GEORGE HASLAM
The fastest rising columnist in
America today has been a nightly
visitor to the news room of the
Star-News for the past week. A na
tive Wilmingtonian, Robert C.
Ruark, his column now occupies
the top spot in New Yr~k World
Telegram.
The show must go on, so while
Ruark is away from his New York
office it is still necessary to turn
out a daily article. Traveling sans
typewriter, the 30-year-old news
paperman, drops in about eleven
each night to do the final draft of
his column before filing it by wire
to New York.
Here on a visit to put the finish
ing touches on an article to ap
pear in the Saturday Evening Post,
Ruark is receiving the glad hand
from numerous friends and former
classmates at New Hanover High
school where he graduated in 1931.
His newest contrmution to me
Saturday Evening Post deals with
Wilmington and the Cape Fear area
which he describes as a sport
man’s paradise.
According to a recent article in
Newsweek, Ruark is the holder of
a six-year contract with United
Features, Inc., which lifted him
into the $50,000 a year class.
Major Changes
A friendly person, whose two ma
jor changes in appearance are a
moustache and a few extra pounds
of weight since he left Wilmington
in 1935, Ruark seems to get a big
See WILMINGTON on Page Two
First Donation
Louise E. Woodbury, Jr., chair
man of the 1947 Community Chest
jrive, last night announced that
he Atlantic and Pacific Tea com
pany has made the first contri
bution to be received in campaign
headquarters.
The A. and P. gift was presented
to campaign representatives by Al
fred Fant, manager of the grocery
chain’s Wilmington sjores.
Woodbury said that the gift was
a substantial one and of the same
size as that contributed to the
Chest campaign last year.
Today and Tomorrow
By WALTER LIPPMANN
measuring a policy
If the issue before us were
whether to oppose Soviet expan
sion or to appease it and retrea.
and surrender, the problem of our
foreign policy would at least be
easy to understand and simple to
decide. In *so far as the Wallace
rruman-Byrnes affair has made it
eem as if this were the issue, it
has been a veil herring across the
rack. For the grave and difficult
-uestion is . not whether to oppose
he Soviet expansion in Europe and
Asia but how the United States
-an best do this effectively.
We do not yet have a satisfac
tory answer to that question, and
in spite of what purport to be au
thoritative interpretations by cor
respondents who have recently
been in Paris talking to Mr. Byrnes
and his staff, American policy is
not settled but is still tentative
and in the making.
* # *
American policy is necessarily
as yet unsettled because the situa
tion to which it has to be ad
dressed is so unstable and so
changing that no government, our
own, the British, the Russian, is
able' to .iudee ;* finally. The proof
tha£ American foreign policy is
not settled but is still in the’mak
ing lies in the fact that our own
See LIPPMANN on Pare Two
U, S. TROOPS THROW SECURITY VEIL
OVER NUERNBERG ON SENTENCE EVE;
Mwime MEET AT CRITICAL STAGE
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UniwvSgree
Net To Jump
Deadline Gun
Government Concilliators
Seek More Time For
Settlement Attempts
MIDNIGHT ZERO HOUR
Merchant Marine Masters,
Mates, Pilots, Engineers
Seek Higher Wages
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.
—(/P)—The government say
ing that maritime strike nego
tiations have reached a “criti
cal stage,” Sunday night ask
ed merchant marine officers
not to quit their jobs ahead
of the Monday midnight walk
out deadline.
Edgar L. Warren, chief of the
Federal Conciliation service, said
in a statement to reporters it was
essential the officers give govern
ment conciliators all the time up
to the deadline for the settlement
attempts.
Two union*, the AFL Masters,
Mates and Pilots union and the
CIO Marine Engineers Beneficial
association, have threatened the
strike in behalf of wage demands.
Secretary of Labor Schewellenbach
spoke to the AFL union leaders
Sunday night asking their full co
operation in the negotiations. He
had had a similar talk last night
with the CIO unions’ representa
tives.
“Attempts to work out a peaceful
settlement of the dispute between
ship owners and unions represent
ing licensed officers of the U. S.
Merchant marine have reached a
critical stage,” Warren’s statement
said.
Need More Time
“We need a full 24 hours of ne
gotiations if we are to hope to
avert another tragic maritime
strike.
“I have assurance of leaders of
See UNIONS on Page Two
FAVORED NATION
PLANS APPROVED
Peace Conference Dele
gates Override Russian
Slav Opposition
PARIS, Sept. 29.—Overrid
ing Russian-Slav opposition, the
European Peace conference ap
proved Sunday the principle of
“the most favored nation’’ for the
Italian and Romanian treaties.
Such a provision guarantees that
Italy and Romania would grant
equal trade privileges to all na
tions regardless of their geograph
ic location.
The Italian Economic commis
sion rejected by a 12 to 6 vote with
two abstentions a Russian proposal
to exempt state monopolies from
See FAVORED on Page Two
Ups And Downs Of Nation s Meat Supply
WK. ENDING JUNE 29 WK. ENDING JULY 20 WK. ENDING AUG. 3 WK. ENDING SEPT. 7 '
OPA Controls Lifted June 30 OPA Sets New Meat Ceilings Aug. 20
With the butcher shops and refrigerators bare because of the scarcity of meat while a record
herd is reported on the western ranges, this chart shows the rise and fall of the amount of live
stock received at twelve of the nation‘s largest packing centers in the mid-West. The highest num
ber was recorded between the lifting of the OPA and re-imposition of ceilings. Figures are from the
Department of Agriculture. • (International).
PHOTO CONTEST
CLOSING TODAY
Over 130 Entries Vie For
Prizes Offered By Mer
chants Association
The Wilmington Chamber of
Commerce's big photographic con
test of the Port City and vicinity
ends today.
Paul Franklin Bell, assistant
secretary of the Chamber, urged
yesterday that all local amateur
and professional cameramen dip
their last minute shots into the
hypo this morning and submit the
finished product to him at the
Chamber building, Fourth and
Princess streets, before 5 o’clock
this afternoon, the Chamber build
ing’s closing hour.
With over 130 photos, “all of
them excellent,” already entered
in the contest, the competition has
promise of being so keen that the
judges will have a difficult time
selecting the 10 winners, Bell said.
See PHOTO on Page Two
Two Kings Meet
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt., Sept.
29—OP)—Two kings bereft of their
thrones met here Sunday in exile
—as grandfather and grandson.
Former King Vittorio Emanuele
III of Italy greeted former King
Simeon II of Bulgaria when the
latter arrived on the Turkish
steamer Aksu.
Vittorio Emanuele, 76, has been
in exile here since he turned over
his throne to his son Umberto,
himself later repudiated by the
people and now an exile in Portu
gal. Simeon, 9, was voted off his
throng recently by the Bulgars’
decision to have a republic. Simeon
is the son of the late King Boris
and Vittorio Emanuele's daughter
Giovanna, who accompanied him
from Bulgaria.
Along The Cape Fear
SOME SYMPATHY!—Like any
public servant we get our share of
adverse critism from time to time.
Folks call us dumb, stupid, igno
rant, and pathologically inane, and
we take it in our stide for the
obvious reasons that the folks are
probably right.
But there’s one thing that can
never be held against us. It can
never be truthfully said that we
lack that top attribute of the milk
of human kindness—sympathy.
Sympathy pours from us like milk
from an overturned pail. It 'soars
from us like grand music from
the Philadelphia Philharmonic.
And when we really pull out all
the stops it resounds with all the
fine fervor of an overjoyed Brook
lyn Dodgers fan.
* * *
TARGET FOR TODAY—So over
whelming is this sympathy of ours
that we really pity the poor per
sons who find themselves engulf
ed in it. They must feel like Edgar
Allen Poe in his own Maelstrom.
Such an unfortunate nerson is
Mr. L. C.. McClammy, who lives
on the Carolina Beach road.
Mr. McClammy is our sympathe
tic target for today for a reason
which should arouse the sympathy
of anybody who happens .to read
this.
Mr. McClammy owns $100,000 in
bonds, and he can’t cash them in
for so much as one penny. Of
course this is perfectly under
standable, considering that they
are confederate bonds.
• * *
AT EIGHT PER CENT—We have
a $1,000 bond of Mr. McClammy’s
worthless holdings before us as
we write this. And as we soak our
tears off of it with a large-sized
spong’a its printed words become
visible:
“The Confederate States of Ame
rica Loan, authorized by the Act
of (/ongress, C. S. A., February
20, 1863.
“On the first day of July, 1868,
the Confederate States of Ameri
See CAPE FEAR on Paee Two
The Weather
FORECAST
South Carolina—Considerable cloudi
ness with scattered showers Monday, not
much change in temperature except be
coming colder in northwest portion in
afternoon.
North Carolina — Considerable cloudi
ness with scattered showers Monday, not
much change in temperature except be
coming cooler in west portion in after
noon.
(Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the 24 hours
ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday.
Temperatures1
1:30 a. m. 70; 7:30 a. m. 69; 1:30 p. m.
74; 7:30 p. m. '72; maximum 79; min
imum 68; mean 70; normal 70.
Humidity
1:30 a. m. 100; 7:30 a. m. 95; 1:30 p. m.
82; 7:30 p. m. 95.
Precipitation
Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m.,
0.73 inches.
Total since the first of the month,
12 :25 inches.
TIDES FOR TODAY
(From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey):
— High Low
Wilmington - 12:48 a.m. 8:03 a.m.
1:24 p.m. 8:37 p.m.
Masonboro Inlet 10:52 a.m. 4:26 a.m.
10:58 p.m. 5:07 p.m.
Sunrise 6:06; sunset 5:58. moonrise
10:59 a. m.; moonset 9:13 p. m.
FISHING ENTRIES
CLOSE WITH SUN
SENCBA 1st Annual Rodeo
Big Success; To Dis
cuss 1947 Plans
The sun will set tonight on the
first annual Southeastern North
Carolina fishing rodeo with the in
fant angler’s derby already on the
books as a huge success.
And, with the night barely cold
on their initial rodeo, directors of
the Southeastern North Carolina
Beach association will meet to
night at 7:30 o’clock in the Wood
row Wilson hut to begin planning
for next year’s renewal of the
event.
The $2,000-contest will not make
its closing entry into the records
until noon Wednesday when the
winners both of the rodeo’s final
week awards and grand prizes for
the entire month’s competition will
be named by a committee of
judges.
Jack Cowie, rodeo director, last
See FISHING on page two.
CULTURAL CENTER
SUGG ED HERE
City Planning Consultant
Proposes High School
As Focal Point
Blueprints for a 4000-foot-wide,
eight-block-long Wilmington cultur
al center that would include a city
library, the New Hanover High
School, and possibly the proposed
municipal auditorium, make up the
most ambitious sedtion of the
“master city plan” projected by
George W. Simons, city planning
consultant.
A keystone of the cultural center
project would be the rehabilitation
of a surrounding residential area
running from Seventh to Fifteenth
streets with James Walker and
Community hospitals at its flanks.
Simons’ release of the plans ten
tatively outline carried the reserva
tion that it has not yet been form
ally submitted to the City Planning
Board and that it is a long-range
project for which the support of
property owners in the district
would be a vital necessity.
we Deneve tne mgn scnoot
would provide the ideal focal point
for the center,” Simons declared.
‘‘It is near three churches and
the Pembroke Jones park.”
See CENTER On Page Two
Survives Trip
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 29— (/P)
—The ‘‘Coma Mother”, after a
cross country flight, entered a
San Francisco hospital Sunday close
by her soldier husband’s station
and still apparently unaware she
is the mother of a four months old
daughter.
The mother, Mrs. Rhoda Wenger,
22, who has been unconscious since
an automobile crash 10 months ago,
arrived with her husband, Sgt. Le
land Wanger, 23, and their daugh
ter, Karen Beth, at Hamilton field
shortly before midnight Saturday.
An army hospital plane brought
them from Allentown,Pa.
Mrs. Wenger was taken to the
University of California hospital.
Wenger, also injured in the car
accident, entered Army’s Letter
man hospital.
“SET-BACK”
.
Wallace Speech Destroyed
U.S. Influence, Welles Says
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29—VP)—
Sumner Welles, former undersec
retary of state, said Sunday the
controversial foreign policy speech
preceding Henry A. Wallace’s
ouster from the cabinet ‘‘alr»*03t
entirely destroyed” this country’s
influence abroad.
Because of Wallace's official
position as Secretary of Commerce,
his opinions, at sharp variance
with the line this government is
following indicated to other natons
that this country might reverse
itself as it had in pajt years,
Welles said in a talk recorded
for an MBS broadcast.
“No matter how many state
ments may have subsequently been
issued by the White House ... it
is going to be a long time before
there is any certainity on the part
of foreign governments that that
policy is, in fact, going to be the
policy to which this country will
stick,” he said.
Welles termed the Wallace re
signation “one of the greatest
losses which this government could
suffer.”
Whether one agreed completely
with him, Wallace represented in
See WALLACE on Pare Two
A
k 11 Vehicles
Searched For
Nazi Fanatics
Wives, Families See De
fendants For Last Time
On Sunday, Leavs- City
HEAVY GUARD POSTED
Thousand Soldiers Keep
Watchful Eye On Goer
ing, Hess, Associates
NUERNBERG, Germany.
Sept. 29.—(IP)—United States
troops threw a grim blanket
of security around Nuernberg
Sunday night on the eve of
verdicts and sentences for the
21 German leaders who have
been tried for ten months as
war criminals.
Vehicles in and out of the ancient
shrine city of the Nazi party were
flagged and searched for any sub
versive elements seeking to get
near the old courthouse and jail
where Hermann Goering and as
sociates awaited their fate from the
four-power International Military
tribunal. The security measures
were ordered by the court.
Most defendants spent the day
with religious devotions. A thousand
soldiers watched them, the strong
est security guard yet maintained
in the old jail.
Wives of the defendants were
forced to leave the city at noon.
Ernest Kaltenbrunner sulked alone
in his cell because he was un
able to see his mistress, who was
reported to have borne twins re
cently.
The Russians demanded and re
ceived approval of the German
refugee committee in Bavaria for
custody of Mrs. Fritz Sauckel, wife
of the German labor leader on
trial, and their nine children. The
committee made arrangements to
send Mrs. Sauckel and her children
from Berchtesgaden to Weimar in
Thuringia in the Russian zone.
See VEHICLES on Page Two
FBI HAS NO CLUE
IN KIDNAP CASE
Eleven-State Search On For
Abductor Of Army
Sergeant’s Wife
LITTLE SILVER, N. J., Sept. 29
—(/P)—The three - day 11 - state
search for pretty Mrs. Mary Pyle
Kimmey, wife of an Army ser
geant, and tfie ex-convict the FBI
said kidnaped her, still had turn
ed up no clues Sunday.
Samuel K. McKee, New Jersey
FBI chief, said in Newark the in
vestigation was going forward but
there had been no developments.
Mrs. Kimmey was last seen at 8
a.m. Friday when she and Charles
H. Laubaugh left from in front
of a boarding house here in a
black sedan.
Meanwhile, Sgt. Glynn F. Kim
mey of Huntsville, Tex., reported
by his landlady, Mrs. Lolo Muth,
as being “nervous and upset” by
the ordeal, had heard nothing from
the wife he married nine months
ago on his return from overseas.
Met With Blow
McKee said Laubaugh had burst
into the bedroom the Kimmeys
occupied in the boarding house
Friday and branishing a gun had
ordered Mrs. Kimmey to dress and
acompany him. Kimmey’s protest
Sec FBI on Page Two
And So To Bed
Yesterday morning a Lake
Forest lady and her little girl
started out to Sunday school.
By the time they reached
the bus stop it was beginning
to rain. They waited about It
minutes for a bus, which didn’t
show up, and waved to passing
automobiles, which didn’t stop.
Thoroughly soaked and sub
dued, they turned around and
went back home.
“Mama,” observed the little
girl thoughtfully, “it looks at
though the Lord could arrange
things better than this when
we’re trying so hard.”