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I _ FORECAST Served By Leased Wire* _ of the UNITED PRESS Wilmington and vicinity: Fair and an6 the warmer today and Friday. ! ASSOCIATED PRESS With Complete Coverage el _ state and National News V0lT79.—No. 304. --„ —-- ESTABLISHED 186T atomic blast Baruch Says Wallace CreatingU.S.Division Aged Adviser To Presidents Lashes Out At Former Commerce Secretary For Failure To Correct “Errors” j,EW YORK, Oct. 2—OP)— Bernard M. Baruch Wednes day night charged Henry A. Wallace with creating "confu ,l0n and division among our people” by failing to correct what he said were “errors” about the United States atomic tnergy control plan in Wallace’s jnlv ieiter on foreign policy. Baruch, the United States delegate to the United Nations Atomic Energy commission, al go told a news conference that Wallace personally admitted to bim that he was in error at a meeting in Baruch’s office in Manhattan. But, Baruch added, Wallace later did not sign a statement admitting the er rors n^iich was prepared by a representative of Wallace and Barnch’s staff after their talk here last Friday. Baruch said that “in view of tile misinformation that has been spread and continuously spread and in view of the fact that Wallace admitted he was in error and despite my continued efforts to have him do so, he has refused to cor rect the errors, which he said were caused by the fact he was See BARUCH on Page Two dredge welcomes OFFICIAL GUESTS Hoffman Sails Today For Morehead City And First Job Approximately 30 representatives of tne city and county governments port interests, Chamber of Com merce. the press and others in spected the large sea-going hopper dredge. Hoffman, ai the ward of the Wilmington district of Army Engineers yesterday afternoon. This morning, the recently ar med craft will depart for More head City to begin her first assign ment, the dredging of Beaufort bar, in the district. Welcomed aboard by Captain John C. Swan, a native of South pert and master of a sister dredge, tne hyman, during the war, the points of interest aboard the 215 foot long diesel-electric vessel. They noted the American and European theater ribbons, the lat ter with a gold combat star, and the World War II ribbon painted on her stubby stack and represent ing 18 months overseas servece during the war. Details Explained All details of her operation, irom the large pipes used' to pump up dredged material into the 700-cubic yards capacity bins, to the signals rased during actual dredging, were explained to the visitors by competent members of her crew. Ah showed considerable interest in the extensive use of electrical meters in carrying out both dredg ing and propulsion operations of the vessel. During the visitation period, ar ranged by members of the district office staff and officers of the dredge, a buffet luncheon was serv ed. Also serving as hosts to the guests were members of the local en gineers’ office, including T. J. Hewitt, acting district engineer; Paul Snell, operations chief; Don ald A. Gardner, plant section chief; and Hamilton E. Hicks. The Hoffman was built for the See DREDGE On Page Two Sunday, Monday HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 2—(/?}— John Sunday came to court on Wednesday because, Prosecutor Haaman Cohen said, of hi* behavior en Monday and Tuesday. Cohen's chronological charges to the court said Sunday stole a gun Monday md gave it to his landlady to sell or, Tuesday. Sunday, not put to pl*a, was tharged with burglary, theft and tarrying a pistol without a permit, and was held for the superior court In {10,000 bail. HAMEONE’S meditations By Alley If You ?LAnTS ' /N p£ 5PRINGT/ME, in gathers ;m Vt *ALl - You kmi LoAf Thbo T>e W/ajTuh SPEM’ iT ALU! t»*>- * 9 — A M 27 STUDENTS HURT IN TESTTUBE BLAST AT MICHIGAN SCHOOL CEDAR SPRINGS, Mich., Oct. 2. —(U.R)— Twenty-seven pupils and a teacher were hurt Wednesday when a test tube exploded in a chemistry room at the Cedar Springs high school. The explosion shattered glass and tumbled debris into the chemis try room. Mrs. Fred Weaver, the teacher, was holding the tube when the ex plosion occurred. She received more than 50 small cuts and abra sions. Two of the students, Glenn Geessey and Vernon Starr, who were standing nearby, were cut about the eyes by flying glass. They were rushed to an eye special ist in Grand Rapids. The other students were not seriously injured, but most of them were treated for cuts and bruises. Mrs. Weaver said the tube con tained potassium chlorate and man ganese dioxide used in making pure oxygen. She said the sub stance had been prepared by the students according to formula. She said the explosion occurred when she shook the tube. FRANCE ATTEMPTS DEBLOCK BREAK Delegates Launch New Pro posal For Making Port Of Trieste Free PARIS, Oct. 2 — (U.PJ — France Wednesday night launched an 11th hour attempt to break the dead lock over Trieste by submitting to the Italian Political commission a new proposal containing the gen eral principles of the Anglo-Ameri can demands for a government of the free territory. Together with France, the United States and Britain will seek to over ride Soviet objections in a night meeting and obtain a two-thirds vote on the proposals which will be binding in principle upon the Big Four foreign ministers when they write the statute governing Trieste. It was understood the final points of the new French proposal were worked out Tuesday in a meeting between Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and French Premier Georges Bidault. The proposal contains what are described as 11 guiding principles coverning all major points in dis pute which the commission will be asked to approve, leaving final de tails to the Big Four. The principles in general follow the Anglo-American plan for a gov ernment designed to keep the pro posed free territory from falling under Yugoslav domination. The French proposal, circulated during the afternoon recess, calls for maintenance of the present Anglo-American military forces in Trieste until the United Nations Security council determines they shall be withdrawn. This is the point on which the See FRANCE on Page Two Today and Tomorrow By WALTER LIPPMANN The judgement of Nurenberg is not the end but a new beginning —a solemn affirmation that the sovereignty of states is subject to universal law, higher than the decisions of any government and binding upon all persons every where, whatever their titles, their rank, and their local authority. This law has been found, declared, and is being enforced, by the de liberate and conscious and un animous act of all governments to which the peoples of the world owe allegiance, and this is the law for them as it is for the Ger man criminals who have been tried and convicted under it. This law, like all law, may again Construction UnderWay On Alarm Boxes Representative Of Firm Re ceiving Contract Ex pected Here Soon BID SURETY HELD ' Performance Bond To Be Posted After Installa tion Of Utilities By MURRAY KEMPTON R. A. Dietz, a representa tive of the Horni Signal Manufacturing company, will come here within a few days to discuss details of the 111 fire boxes the Horni company has contracfed to deliver the city for installation in its newly-acquired areas, City Manager J. R. Ben son said last night. Benson reported that Dietz had hoped to reach Wilmington early this week, but was unavoidably detained. The city manager coupled his an nouncement of the Horni represen tative’s impending visit here with the statement that the company is manufacturing boxes, that the city has been well protected so far in its contract for the fire alarm ex tension, and that its interests have been and will be “diligently pur sued.” “Our contract is with the Wil mington Electrical Supply com pany, a firm whose reliability has never been called into the slight est question,” Benson said. “Charles F. Jones, the local com pany’s president, submitted his bid with what he termed, 'the double assurance of* the Horni company’s guarantee.’ “Mr. Jones gave us a bid of $700, which we are now holding. “The Wilmington Electrical Sup ply Company has at no time in dicated any unwillingness to fur nish a performance bond for the boxes after they are installed," the city manager asserted. Benson cited a clause in the city’s contract with Jones which bound the bidder “to guarantee the boxes furnished by him for a period ol one year, and to agree to make good at his own expense any de fect, fault or damage due to any carelessness, neglect, omission or use of improper methods or mater ials.” Bond Not Due The bond which would guarantee the performance of the boxes for a 12-month period is not due until they are installed in the city’s fire system, Benson pointed out. Horni has been reluctant to sign the bond so far, he admitted, be cause it is dubious of a section in the city’s specifications for the boxes. The questionable section, he said, provides that acceptable boxes “must be both insulated and grounded.” Horni has said that it cannot meet the insulation require ment and provide a grounding at tachment at the same time.. The city knows, however, that Horni is manufacturing the boxes, as a result of a direct investiga tion undertaken early in August, Benson said. “A disinterested party visited See ALARM BOXES On Page Two Hall Sinking WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—CP)— The Navy department reported Wednesday night that the condi tion of Cordell Hull, previously de scribed as serious, has become "critical.” The Navy made public shortly af ter 10 P. M., E. S. T., a bulletin from the Bethesda Naval hospital which said: "Mr. Hull’s condition, which has been serious, is now considered to have become critical. Earlier, fear for the life of the former secretary of state had mounted as he failed to rally from a cerebral hemorrhage. be defied, evaded, or subverted. But to plan, prepare, and do these things is not a soverign national right but a criminal act, and any one who participates in the con spiracy is personally accountable forever after to the organized judgement of mankind. No state can repeal this law, or by the exercise of the soverign rights of veto place itself or its rulers above or beyond this law. The principal of unanimity still obtains in re spect to these matters on which there is as yet no settled and uni versal law. But in those matters, on those issues, for those acts See LIPPMANN on Page Two SHIP OWNERS UNIONS DEADLOCKED Om^ARITIME STRIKE SETTLEMENT; ,WMV BLACKS-OUT NUERNBERG ^ . / 1 —" _ . Doomed Nazis File Appeals On Sentences Tense Situation Surrounds Courthouse, Jail As if Executions Near augmented" GUARD Goering, Pals May Request Death By Firing Squad Instead Of Gallows NUERNBERG, Germany, Oct. 2.—(/P)—The U. S. Army imposed a news blackout Wednesday over the heavily guarded Nuernberg c o u rft house and jail, after a tense day during which defense at torneys pressed final pleas to save Adolf Hitler’s doomed henchmen from the ignomini ty of the gallows. A four-power commission, meet ing in the courthouse, drew up its recommendations on details of the scheduled hangings October 16 of Hermann Goering and 10 other top-ranking Nazis convicted Tues day. The recommendations, which al so dealt with the confinement of seven other Nazis sentenced to prison terms, will be rushed to Berlin for approval of the Allied Control council. The news clampdown obscured Bee NAZIS On Page Two PATROL VESSEL 5 I DUE IN 3 WEEKS Crew Selected For Boat Assigned To Reserve Unit Here The Navy PC (patrol craft) boat destined for permanent use of the local division of the U. S. Organiz ed Naval Reserve is slated to ar rive in Wilmington from the Charleston Navy yard in about three weeks, Lieut. Comdr. John Wilson, the division’s commanding officer, said yesterday. Commander Wilson yesterday forwarded to the Sixth Naval dis trict commandant in Charleston the names of five men he has se lected for shipkeepers aboard the sleek patrol boat. If the comman dant approves the selections, the five men will be ordered to Charleston shortly to become part of the craft’s permanent crew. When the boat’s overhauling job is completed in the Navy yard, the five men will sail aboard her on the voyage to her permanent Wil mington home. Meanwhile, as the craft is being readied for service here, two more men have shipped over for duty with the local reserve division. They are William Earl Harvell, Yeoman First Class, and Fein Joseph Hargraves, Jr., Coxswain. Youthful Timber-Topper Margaret Skinner shown schooling her fine bunting filly, “Lady Kraft” over practice jumps in tije, newly constructed ring at Legion Stadium in preparation for the Ninth Annual Cape Fear Horse Show, scheduled for two performances daily, Friday and Saturday of this week. Emily and Margaret Skinner aided in the laying out of the outside hunting course for the show;. STAND-BY FORCE NAMED FOR YARD Maintenance Jobs Go To 150 Shipyard Employes, All War Veterans The approximately 150 men who will take over maintenance of the $20,000,000 North Carolina Ship building company shipyard for the U. S. Maritime commission at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, October 9, have been selected for their jobs under civil service, L. E. Voss, resident plant engineer for the commission, disclosed yesterday. Voss’s disclosure came at a time when an estimated 400 to 500 World War II veterans were swamping his office for the 150 available jobs. Employs Get Nod The men who got the nod are all present or former employes of the shipyard who are veterans of World Wars I, II, or both, Voss said. They were selected over the “outside” veteran applicants by virtue, of their knowledge of the shipyard, he added, and their names will be announced soon. The 150-man force will consist of (1) workmen who will maintain the yard and prepare surplus mat erial and equipment for transfer to the War Assets administration and (2) a small group of watchmen. As the WAA transfer nears completion See STAND-BY on Page Two Along The Cape Fear By LARRY HIRSCH | WATERFRONT SONG — Every once in a while, despite the pro tests of voice teachers and the neighborhood’s canine population, we burst into song. This morning the song is “I Cover The Waterfront,” a Tin Pan Aley ditty inspired by the writings of a newspaper reporter who cov ered the waterfront of New York. Although we’re singing in our usual way-off-key mezzo soaprano (let that stand, proofreader), you can possibly hear that we have altered the lyric to "I Cover The Cape Fear.” Our reason for doing this Is simple but thrilling: We have some wonderful Cape Fear water front shipping news to impart to you folks. * • *•••' AND FIVE BARQUES—As you all know, Wilmington’s other name is the Port City, which, we must confess, we prefer to Wilmington. Port City, of course, derives from the fact that Wilmington is a sea port, which means that ships enter and leave its harbor. Well, here’s the shipping news this morning. In port we have a steamship from Philadelphia and five bar ques from Sweden, Shanghai, Ger many, and Norway (two). The steamship is docked at Worth & Worth and the barques are tied up at Williams & Murchison, Willard Bros., and DeRosset & Co. Some are loading cargo, and some discharging, and the port is as active as a nylon counter on Dollar Day. • » • SAD NOTE—This activity is nothing, however, compared to what’s in the wind for the next few weeks. No less than 27 ships have set their courses for the Port City, and they’re en route from such places as Cuxhaven, Guernsey, Philadelphia, Hart e pool, West Hartlepool, New York, Newcastle, Newport,- Bristol, Boston, Logdon, Liverpool, Galveston, Alexaipiria, and Fall River. There’s a sad note, though, in this shipping news song. All this port activity took place in 1872. The shipping news we just gave you was culled from the pages of the Wilmington Daily Journal of July 3, 1872. See CAPE FEAR on Page Two The Weather FORECAST North and South Carolina—Fair and slightly warmer Thursday. (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. yesterday. Temperatures 1:30 a.m. 52; 7:30 a.m. 49; 1:30 p.m. 66; 7:30 p.m. 61. Maximum 68; Minimum 48; "Mean 55; Normal 69. Humidity 1:30 a m. 68; 7:30 a.m. 79; 1:30 p.m. 32; 7:30 p.m. 81. Fret cipitation Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. — 0.00 inches. Total since the first of the month — 0.00 inches. Tides For Today (From the Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey). High Low Wilmington _ 3:07 a.m. 10:32 a.m. 3:51 p.m. 11:13 p.m. Masonboro Inlet 12:42 a.m. 6:53 a.m. 1:30 p.m. 7:57 p.m. Sunrise 6:08; Sunset 5:54; Moonrise 1 *42 p.m.; Moonset 11:32 p.m. River Stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8 a.m. Wednesday, 9.4 feet. JAPS MADE ATOM BOMB, STORY SAYS Atlanta Constitution Re* porter Tells Of Interview With Captain ATLANTA, Oct. 2 — (IP) —The Atlanta Constitution said Wednes day night in a copywrighted story that Japan developed and success fully tested and atomic bomb three days before the war ended and that “Japanese scientists who develop ed the bomb are now in Moscow, prisoners of the Russians.” The story was written by David Snell, former Constitution reporter recently returned from service with the Twenty-Fourth Criminal Inves tigation detachment operating in Korea. He gave as the basis of See JAPS On Page Two BARGAIN DAY Bell Telephone System Buys $50 WireAt$10Mile WASHINGTON,. Oct. 2—(P)—The House Surplus Property committee heard Wednesday that thousands of miles of Army telephone wire was sold at cut rates to a buyef for the Bell Telephone system, but only after bids by independent companies were filled. Moreover, Albert W. Wright, of the War Assets administration New York office, testified that the wire, which cost the govern ment $50 to $70 a mile, was market ed at $10 a mile after a public offering of 5,544 miles bought bids for only 40 miles. The committee has been seek LEAF WAREHOUSES BURN AT WALLACE — Berry City Suffers $400, 000 Fire Tuesday Night; Wind Saves Block Special To The Star WALLACE, Oct. 2. — Two large tobacco warehouses, containing thousands of pounds of leaf, were destroyed by fire here early Wed nesday morning. Town Clerk W. N. Rose, reported the estimated damage to be approximately $400, 000. The conflageration was one of the largest in this community’s history. Two members of Wallace’s volunteer fire department were in jured while battling the blaze. Twenty-five men are members of the volunteer department. Willis Boney sustained slight in juries when he fell from the side of one of the burning buildings. .Claude F. Kennedy received severe facial lacerations when thrown through the windshield of one of the fire trucks while he was mov ing the vehicle in an alley. It was reported the truck struck an obstacle throwing Kennedy for ward. Fire equipment from Wilmington, Clinton and Warsaw, joined in the fight against the stubborn blaze, discovered at 11:30 o’clock Tues day night. It required three hours to put the blaze under control. The Town Clerk said that water was played on the adjoining build ings to save them when it be came a certainty there was no chance' to save the two burning buildings. It was reported the fire started in the front office of the Hussey warehouse, which faces Railroad street. The building is owned by Joseph H. Bryant. See WAREHOUSES On Page Two ing to determine why the wire was sold at cut rates and why em ployes of the Western Electric company, suppliers for the Bell system, were allowed to Comb WAA records and recommended what materials should be offered for sale. Warren Johnson, Western Elect ric official testified that the telephone industry badly needed some of th# surplus materials and whr it was evident WAA did not have sufficient personnel he sug gested that Western Electric em See TELEPHONE On Page Two Both Parties In Accord On Union Status f Representatives Refuse To Comment On Progress \ Of Negotiations ask gc action now, - } Operators Say Organiza tions Refuse To Supply Security Watch WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.-* (UP) — Government - spon sored negotiations to settle the nationwide maritime strike recessed Wednesday with the parties still dead locked, but further efforts to settle the wage dispute will be made Thursday. The Labor department annouw ced that another conference be« tween the two striking maritime unions and East, West and Gulf coast ship operators will be held at 10:00 A. M., EST, Thursday. The untons involved are the Masters, Mates and Pilots (AFL) and the Marine Engineers Benefi cial association. Neither industry nor union rep resentatives would comment on progress of the negotiations but most of Wednesday was spent in discussing the wage issue. One source indi &tf i that the unions would order their men back to work if agreement Could be reach ed on wage increases. All parties, except Papifie coast owners, have accepted a govern ment peace formula on union se curity. The recess came as East, West and Gulf ship operators requested the Coast Guard to take action to "alleviate the extremely hazard See PARTIES on Page Two MCGIRT OFFERED ZONE BOARD JOB City Council Sets Up Five Man Adjustment Group For New Law The Wilmington City Council ye*, terday offered to William A. Mt Girt, local insurance man, th* chairmanship of the Board of Ad justment which will hear appeals arising out of administration of the new city zoning law. Positions on the board were also tendered to: Warren Johnson, president of the People’s Savings and Trust co.; N. L. Foy, of th* Foy-Roe company here; Dr. John C. Wessell; and Leonard L. Mills, of the Economy Distributing com pany. ; McGirt said last night that he would confer with Mayor . W. Ronald Lane Before announcing acceptance of the Council’s tender. Dr. Wessell, • member of th* former city board of zoning ap peals, indicated that h« will ac cept. The other three nomine** re mained non-cwnmittal. Board’a Power* The board is empowered to over rule, by the concuring vot* of four members, any decision by City Building Inspector Gilbert F. Morton which they believe involve* "practical difficulties or unneces sary hardships in carrying out th* strict letter of this ordinance.” „ See MCGIRT on Pag* Two And So To Bed A local Navy lieutenant and his wife turned in this bit od vaudeville repartee yesterday. As the man was frying oysters a big blob of grease sputtered out of the pan. He Jumped aside just in time to avoid it. “Whew,” he said. "I woulda got burnt that time if I waalt such a good dodger.** '•You’re no Dodger,” re sponded his wife. “You’re Just a Bum.” “Haw,haw,” laughed the lieutenant mirthlessly. “You’re Just a Card.” That was a Bravo retort lieutenant, to make to such i sharp-tongued Phllly.
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