Aid The Disabled + 4 1 tlmuujtmt Mimtuuj m)— Secretary of State Byrnes made plain Thursday that there still js only one way Argentina can estab lish friendly relations with the United States: throw the Nazis out. Byrnes went out of his way at a news conference attended by 80 odd reporters to declare emphatic ally that: 1. He and President Truman have complete confidence in Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden,, chief architect of this country’s firm stand toward Argentina. 2. Braden has no intention of resigning; Brynes has no intention of asking him to quit, and Braden will continue to administer the Latin American affairs division of the State department under j Byrnes’ direction. i 3. United States policy toward Argentina, as expressed by a Byrnes statement April 8, still re mains in force. That statement said in effect that the United States would not participate in a Pan-American military defense treaty with Argen tina until the government of Gen. Juan D. Peron expelled Nazi agents in line with its pledges. Today’s assertions by Byrnes undoubtedly were prompted by re cent press reports that Braden would resign because of opposition to his Argentine policy, particularly from the Army, certain members of Congress, and George S. Mes sersmith, U. S. ambassador in Buenos Aires. See NAZIS On Page Three GARDNER NOT ABLE TO ACCEPT JOB AT COURT OF ST. JAMES WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—(JFh-0 Max Gardner, under-secretary of the Treasury and former governor of North Carolina, Thursday squashed reports that he might be named ambassador to Great Brit tain. Gardner issued the following statement: “In view of the numerous com ments and personal inquiries that have come to me, some of which appeared in the press, concerning the consideration cff my name by the President for appointment to the Court of St. James, I desire to say that I have not been tender ed the appointment, and, if I should be so honored. I am not in a posi tion to accept. “I greatly appreciate the confid ence of those who have suggested my name to the President and Secretary Byrnes.” LOCALINDUSTRY OUTLOOK BRIGHT Maritime Commission To Use Fcilities At Ship Yard Wilmington’s industrial outlook was at its brightest point in 1946 last night as U. S. Maritime com mission officials in Washington confirmed earlier reports that the North Carolina shipbuilding com pany will be used for stripping surplus vessels for the Brunswick river lay-up basin and City In dustrial Agent John H. Farrell an nounced that he has contacted 12 heavy industries this week which he regards as excellent prospects for locating here. Farrell said that the dozen firms with which he is in contact would all employ a preponderance of male labor. They were, he de clared "the hottest” of some 25 prospects. The U. S. Maritime commission has formally approved the strip ping proposal and will begin the process locally within a week, the See INDUSTRY on Page Three To Honor Rector On Sunday afternoon, November 3, at 5 o’clock, the choir of St. John’s Episcopal church, will pre sent, as a part of the vesper serv ice, a program of special music honoring the 21st anniversary of the rectorship of the Rev. Edgar; W. Halleck at St. John’s. Mr. Halleck came to Wilming ton from Waycross, Ga., in No vember, 1925. The organist for this service wi’l be Mr. W. O. S. Suther land and the soloists—Mrs. Theo dore Hash?gen, soprano, and Mr. Cecil M. Appleberry, baritone. AIIRPORT VERDICT EXPECTED TODAY City-County Authority May Receive Surplus Prop erty From WAA Formal approval of proposals that 1,302 acres of the city’s $11 million Bluethenthal airport be transferred from federal control to New Hanover county may be an nounced by the War Assets ad ministration today, dispatches from the Star’s Washington bureau indicated last night. A Civilian Aviation Aeronautics administration report on the pro posed transfer was presented to the War Assets WAA’s surplus air ports disposal committee yester day, the bureau said. A spokesman for the Wilmington New Hanover airport authority has predicted that the county would have title to the massive instal lation by the end of this month. If the WAA approves the report recommending transfer to the county, its order would be for warded to the Charlotte WAA of fice for final action, a process re quiring only a few days. The CAA’s itemization of prop erty to be turned over to the coun ty was "very favorable,’’ the air port spokesman said. Included in the CAA's recom mendation is full county title to 32 buildings including four ware houses, several hangars, a pump house, hangars, and shops. STRIKE OF HOTEL EMPLOYES ENDED Government Brings About Settlement At Washing ton; Coal Parley Today By The Associated Press The government brought about settlement of the Washington hotel strike Thursday and expressed hope a formula could be found for ending a pilot’s strike that has grounded planes of Trans World airlines. On another labor front, govern ment representatives girded for a showdown today on John L. Lewis’ new demands for his 400,000 soft coal miners'. These were the major develop ments: 1—The three weeks strike of 5, 000 AFL service employes in 13 major Washington hotels ended when Reconversion Director John R. Steelman brought the disputants together on a compromise. Em ployes receiving no tips got pay raises of six cents an hour with the others receiving three cents. Presidential Secretary Charles G. Ross said the White House stepped See STRIKE on Page Three Today And Tomorrow By WALTER LIPPMANN 1. The chickens have come home to roost. Mr. Molotov’s address is the powerful counter-attack to which we have exposed ourselves because the strategical plan and the tactict of our peace-making have been based on a deep mis calculation of the situation. Our strategical plan has been to concentrate our diplomatic effort on an attempt by neg-iiations to reduce the power of the Soviet Union in eastern Europe—in the sphere of influence where the Red Army ii dominant. Wi have not succeeded because cne cannot by argument compel an army to go home. But in devoting a year to this argument we could have lost a year which could have been devoted to constructive efforts in the sphere where the British and Americans have influence and power—in western Germany and western Europe, in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, and in the colo nial areas of Africa and Asia. When our diplomatic campaign against the Russian orbit had failed, as it did in Paris, the Soviet counter-offensive began. Once it had been proved that we could not compel the Red Army to retire from eastern Europe, when the small states in the Russian orbit had been compelled to commit See LIPPMAN On Page Eleven Russia Turns Danuk River /* ^/rSia, Yugoslavia . ^ k'Jtuse To Take To . In Conference FRANCE HESITANT International Traffic Parley Had Been Recommended By Economic Council NEW YORK, Oct. 31.—(JP) —Russia, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia Thursday turned down a request by the United Nations that they attend a special conference on interna tional traffic on the Danube river. The other nations invited —the United States, Great Britain, Greece and France— agreed to join the parley but France made its acceptance con ditional. In announcing the replies, Secre tary-General Trygve Lie said he has asked the threo “agreeing” governments if they wished to con vene the conference in the light of the refusal of the three Eastern nations to join. The conference was recommend ed recently by the Economic and Social council as an outgrowth of Yugoslavia’s charges that the al lied military authorities had re fused to release 167 of her vessels. All the ships are being held in the United States zone of occupation. See NATIONS on Page Three STATE ENGINEERS PREPARING STUDY City Council Awaits New Proposals For Truck Route Here The State Highway commission will shortly forward to Wilmington a detailed report by its engineers, comparing Third and Seventh Street as prospective city truck routes, T. T. Betts, its division engineer, said in Fayetteville yes terday. Should the Wilmington City Coun cil reject both the reports, Betts expressed himself as confident that the commission would stand ready to survey other possible routes. He emphasized, however, his continued belief that Federal pub lic roads administration funds would not be available for any route which would pass outside the city limits, and indicated that this difficulty would bar state approv al for any of the various “round the-town” truck lanes that have been proposed. The city administration is al ready committed against continu ed use of Third Street for heavy traffic and its members have in dicated that they would not ap prove any plan to widen the pre sent route by taking out the plazas that now bisect it in the downtown areas. A. H. Graham, chairman of the highway commission, was quoted in Raleigh two months ago as de claring that the Third Street route is a menace to the city’s safety. See ENGINEERS on Page Three 1,642 OP A PRICE BOARDS TO CLOSE ON NOVEMBER 4; UN TO AIR SPANISH REGIME f Russian Plan For Non-Arms On Calendar Unanimous Approval Given To Motion For Debate On Important Issues AGENDA APPROVED Expected Floor Fight Over India Complaint On South Africa “Fades” NEW YORK, Oct. 31—(/P) — The United Nations assem bly in a surprising burst of speed unanimously decided Thursday night to give Rus sia’s armaments limitation proposals and the Spanish question a thorough airing and cleared the way for con sideration of a long list of other problems facing the dele gates of 51 nations. The assembly adopted the 56 item agenda presented by the steer ing committee with little debate in a 61-minute session which ended at 5:15 p. m. EST. It thus made up for some of the time lost by the week’s speeches in general debate which were completed Thursday morning when the Soviet Ukrain ian foreign minister Dmitri Manu ilsky, unleashed a heated attack on Cuba and Australia for advocating changes in the veto system. The time that the Soviet arms plan and Spain will be taken up remains indefinite but it is ex pected that the assembly’s politi cal committee, to which they were referred, will lose little time in sending them to the floor. See RUSSIAN On Page Three NOBEL AWARD WON BY PROF. MULLER Indiana University Genetic ist Receives Annual Prize For Medicine STOCKHOLM, Oct. 31 — (JP) — Prof. Herman J. Muller, world famed geneticist of Indiana univer sity, was announced Thursday night as the winner of the 1946 Nobel prize for medicine and physiology The 55-year-old scholar, author and lecture was awarded the prize for his work in discovering that mutations, or biological changes in a species, may be pro duced by X-rays. The prize this year amounts to about 130,000 Swedish Krona ($36, 205). The award was made at a formal session of a committee of profes sors of Caroline Institute, Univer See NOBEL On Page Three Along The Cape Fear A NEW MONTH — Last month Along The Cape Fear expressed its preferance for October. It all start ed over that one line of poetry which ran: “October’s bright blue weather.” That was enough for us, so we cast our vote for the past 31 days as the most desirable of the 365. But look at the precarious position it leaves us in. Here it is November, so not to slight the new month, we’ll do our best to say some kind words for our constant companion for the next 29 days. To begin with November is a month of receptions along the Cape Fear. So with little ado, we’ll re call for you one great reception party that was staged on the very banks of the Cape Fear. * * • NO STAMP TAX _ AH of us learned in grade school that taxes were no more popular in the Eighteenth Century than they are today. But we must doff our hats to the residents of the Cape Fear for the business-like manner in which they went about “reducing” taxes, stamp tax that is. It seems that in November of 1765. a gentleman by the name of William Houston has been appoint ed to sell stamped paper This title, most fittingly was stamp master. The same gentleman was visiting at the home of Governor Tryon. There he was paid a visit and in no uncertain terms he was told that the good folks in Wilmington did not intend to purchase any of the new stamps. The stamps, by the way, were enroute here from England. * * * SHIP SIGHTED — When news that His Majesty’s vessel, the Dili gence, was sighted off Fort John ston, which was located below Brunswick, the city immediately planned a warm reception The captain of the vessel expect ed a welcoming party, but he felt more than flattered when he spied two whole companies of the militia under the command of Col. John Ashe of New Hanover county and Col. Hugh Waddell of Columbus county. A ,rude awakening dawned on the surprised captain. He was told that he could take his stamped paper back with him, as not one bit of it could be landed. See CAPE FEAR On Page Three Push Plans For College Seen at last night’s citizens’ meeting in New Hanover High School talking over the possibilities for a junior college here are Dr. John T. Hoggard (left), chairman of the City-County Board of Education, and Representative J. Bavard Clark, the main speaker for the oc casion. (STAFF PHOTO BY BOB HODGKIN) Legislators Pledge \ Support To College The Weather FORECAST North Carolina—Clear to partly cloudy Friday and Saturday, little change in temperature except not so warm in north portion Saturday. (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteoroogical duta for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. yesterday. Temperatures 1:30 a.m. 65. 7:30 a.m. 61; 1:30 p.m. 81; 7:30 p.m. 70. Maximum 81; Minimum 60; Mean 65; Normal 61. Humidity 1:30 a.m. 95; 7:30 a.m. 100; 1:30 p.m. 46; 7:30 p.m. 93. Precipitation Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. — 0.00 inches. .Total since the first of the month — 4 :52 inches. Tides For Today (From the Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic SuVvey). High Low Wilmington _ 2:32 a.m. 9:54 a.m. 3:12 p.m. 10:38 p.m. Masonboro Inlet _ a.m. 6:09 a.m. 12:41 p.m. 7:14. p.m Sunrise 6:32; Sunset 5:20; Moonrise 1:08 p.m.; Moonset 11:14 p.m. River stage at Fayetteville, N.' C at 3 a.m. Thursday (missing) feet. . ' TREES BUD, BULBS SPROUT IN NORTH New England States Report Warmest HaEoween On Record; Snow In West By The Associated Press Buds burst into bloom in the Northeastern United States yester day as temperatures shot into the 80’s, making it one of the warmest Halloween’s on record, but rescue parties had to battle waist-deep snow to reach isolated persons in the Rocky Mountain area. The un seasonable warmth brought new marks for the date in See TREES on Page Three Representative Clark Offers Aid In Procuring Sur plus Buildings All three of New Hanover coun ty's state and federal representa tives joined last night in appealing for the early establishment of a junior college here as something, in the words of Rep. J. Bayard Clark, of Fayetteville, that “Wil mington cannot long afford to be without.’’ Congressman Clark, as chief speaker at a New Hanover high school rally for the junior college project, told an audience of 250 persons that “you can go into every city in North Carolina comparable in size, wealth and population to See LEGISLATORS On Page Three CITY COMMITTEE EYES SEWER BIDS Five Firms Submit Propo sals Ranging From $54, 000 To $75,000 A three-man city administration committee is today studying bids submitted by five contractors on the installation of sewer mains on Central Boulevard i. Sunset Park and on Chestnut street, with the quoted bids so uniformly high that there is a good possibility the city council may be forced to reject all five. City Manager J. R. Benson, Purchasing Agent Gilbert F. Mor ton and City Engineer J. A. Lough lin, the bid committee, were not See COMMITTEE On Page Three CALLING CARDS You Need More Than One For White House Visits WASHINGTON, Oct. 31—(S1)— Question: How many calling cards do you leave for a social visit at the White House? Answer: One to three, depending upon who you are. And if a mar ried couple calls, tlje number mounts up to four or five. With the White House resuming its prewar social activities, Mrs. James Helm, its social secretary, explained the calling card protocol at a news conference Thursday in reply to queries. It goes like this: When a man and his wife call, he leaves three cards - one eaoh for the President, Mrs. Truman and Margaret. It seems a woman never calls on a man. S o t h e wife leaves two cards -- for Mrs. Truman and Mar gaert only. Or she might skip Mar garet and just leave one for the First Lady. In some European eoun tries it is not customary for a married woman to call formally op an un married woman. However, Ameri can married women incline to recognition of the unmarried wo mai in the household. See WHITE HOUSE On Page Three 10,000 Field WorkersWill Get Paid Off Paul Porter Announces Lat est Move By Fast-Vanish ing Control Agency 43,000 RELEASED Last Of Vast Army Of Un paid Volunteers To Be Released From Duties WASHINGTON, Oct. 81 (7P) — Fast-vanishing OP A Thursday ordered 10,000 field workers cut off the payroll, and directed that its 1,642 local price controls boards close up on Nov. 4. The order, besides cutting the paid field staff by nearly one-third, terminates the ser vice of some 43,000 unpaid vol unteers. Paul Porter, harried price con trol chief, had some nice words prepared for both his volunteer and. paid workers. He had planned to release them Friday noon but when subordinates sent out confidential alvance notices on the slash, the news soon leaked out. Porter said that the 1,642 local boards had 8,613 paid clerks. Oth er paid supervisory field workers brought the total to 10,000. All of these will get a 30-day dismissal notice to wind up their work and transfer records. Porter added tnat 33.556 boari members and 10,177 other volun teers were serving without pay. This compared with a wartimo peak of 5,661 local boards with nearly 235,000 volunteers.. The OPA chief said so few price ceilings had survived that the ex See FIIELD on Page Thre# JURY HOLDS GANF.Y ON MURDER CHARGE Seagate Man HeM Without Bail In Death Oi Frank Henderson “Frank Julius Henderson came to his death as a result of pistol shot wound inflicted by the hand of Guy Ganey,” according to the verdict of the Coroner’s jury, im paneled by Coroner Asa W. AN len last night to hear the evidence in the case of Guy Stacy Ganey, 42 year-old Seagate service station operator, charged with the fatal shooting of Henderson on Tuesday night. Immediately following the ver dict, Coroner Allen ordered the Seagate man held without bail on a murder charge for trial in the January term of New Hanover county superior court, which con* venes next January 13. Dr. A. H. Elliott, City-county health officer, the first to testify, said he examined the body of the 24 year-old Jacksonville man and found he came to his death as the result of a pistol wound in his right side. He said the bullet en* tered the right side of Henderson, breaking five ribs and nicking the left lung. His heart was punctured by the missie. See JURY On Page Nine 1 __ ( And So To Bed - i Hunters polish their weapons and trek through the woods for hours in search of game. Bnt not this hunter ... He drives his car along the highway and runs down rabbits and then gets out and knocks them In the head with a black jack. The night before last, a local deputy sheriff, on his regular patrol of the county, happened to run over a cotton-tail. The Impact of the car was insuf ficent to kill the animal and it started to hop away. Feeling sorry for Brer Rabbit, he hop ped out of the ear and put an end to the animals suffering with a well placed lick from his black Jack. .