VOL. SO—NO- 17.___WILMINGTON, N. C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1946 ~ ESTABLISHED 186?
Safety Meet
For Youths
Set For Today
Kiwanis CI u b-Sponsored
Program Opens With
Downtown Parade
bicyclFraces
Stadium Demonstration
Slated To Include Full
Round Of Events
Approximately 500 W i 1
mington youngsters will form
a bicycle caravan at Hemen
way school at 10 o’clock this
morning as the Kiwanis club
junior Traffic Safety Pro
gram gets underway.
Accompanied by a police
escort, the caravan will move
through the downtown busi
ness district and to Legion
stadium, where the program
will be staged at 11 o’clock.
Highlight of the stadium activi
ties will be actual demonstrations
of automobile-bicycle collisions,
showing how and why cyclists are
so frequently injured. Davis Pol
vogt, Kiwanis club member and
much-decorated World War II vet
eran. will act as cyclist for the
demonstration. A lecture by Capt.
John Davis, retired ty traffic
officer, will accompany the ex
hibition.
To Film Movies
Following the program in the
stadium, the bicycle caravan will
re-form and, again with police es
cort, cycle around Greenfield Lake,
where VV. D. Cooke, Fox Movietone
cameraman, will take more photo
graphs showing the scenic beau
ties of the lake and the drive. The
caravan will continue to the band
stand at Greenfield Park, where
at about 1 o’clock, those who have
see SAFETY on Page Two
VA GIVEN SPACE
IN CUSTOMHOUSE
Office May Serve As Base
Of Proposed Sub
Regional Office
The United States Veterans ad
ministration has been authorized to
occupy 2000 feet of office space in
the local U. S. Customshouse — a
possible base for the projected VA
sub-regional office here — it was
announced yesterday by Harold
Porter, customshouse superinten
dent.
Robert Matthews, local VA con
tact officer, said last night that he
has received no instructions on the
use to which the newly-acquired
space will be put.
The VA has been assigned room
100 in the Customshouse, Porter
M.a.
Four months ago. Col. J. D. De
Ramus, regional manager of the
'As Winston-Salem office, an
nounced plans for establishment of
• iub-regional officer here that
would include medical facilities
a|1b an enlarged contact staff
Fast night, Matthews repeated his
recent statement that lack of avail
able physicians is cussently holding
L'P VA plans for an out-patient
clinic here.
ReRamus’s original announce
ment s id that the sub-regional of
nce would employ 25 persons.
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FAVOR PLAN
Committeemen Urge
New College Year
Steering Group On Veterans’ Education
Votes To Recommend Continuation Of
Center Program During 1947-48
RALEIGH, Nov. 1. —(IP)—
The steering committee on vet
eran’s education of the North
Carolina College conference
Friday voted here to recom
mend to the conference at its
annual two-day meeting at
Greensboro, opening Novem
ber 13, that the veterans’ col
lege center program be con
tinued in the state during the
1947-48 school year.
The committee, vested only
with policy-making powers, al
so will recommend that in
struction in the centers will
be continued on a college fresh
man level.
The committee is composed
of nine leading state educa
tors representing both the
white and Negro institutions,
the University of North Caro
lina Extension division and
the State Department of Public
instruction.
The body also voted that
other veterans’ centers should
be established in the state as
the demand arises.
Decision to recommend the
continuation of the program
of centers came after Dr.
James E. Hillman, chairman
of the steering committee, dis
closed figures showing that the
state’s colleges and universi
ties next year will be able to
accomodate only a few more
students than now are enrolled.
Dr. Hillmin said that around
28,000 white and 7,000 Negro
students are expected to grad
uate from North Carolina high
schools at the end of this school
year, and he said that many
of the graduates would seek to
begin college training next fall.
Legion And VFW Plan
Joint Meeting For Today
KOREA DIVISION
THREATENS PEACE
Democratic Council Asks
Immediate Withdrawal
Of U. S.-Soviet Troops
NEW YORK, Nov. 1—(U.R)—'The
Representative Democratic coun
cil of South Korea declared Fri
day that the “arbitrary division’’ of
Korea into two occupation zones
was a “direct threat to the peace
of the world” and demanded im
mediate withdrawal of American
and Russian troops.
The council, a coalition of all
political parties — left and right
—and non-political and religious
groups pledged to work for uni
fication of Korea, called for;
1. Immediate enforcement of the
Cairo declaration and the Pots
dam declaration which assured the
Koreans freedom and indepen
dence.
2. Withdrawal of all American
and Russian military forcns from
Korea.
3. Immediate admission of an
interim Korean government to
membership in the United Nations.
The appeal, addressed to the
United Nations General assembly
by Miss Louise Yim, executive
member of the council, asked tnat
the American Military government
in South Korea be terminated and
a Korean civilian government sub
stitued.
“In the event of delay in the re
tirement of the Soviet authorities
from Northern Korea, we urge the
retention of the American Mili
tary forces, under the able leader
ship of Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge,
until such time as the Russian
forces withdraw,” the council’s
communication said.
It pointed out that an interim
government, as a UN member,
could negotiate directly with the
Soviet Union “regarding the elim
ination of the artificial 38th paral
lel division of our country, and
the withdrawal of Russian mili
tary forces.”
It pledged any interim govern
ment to an “immediate” and
“truly democratic national elec
tion” after which a permanent
Korean government would be set
up
“The arbitrary division of our
country with the military forces
of the United States in the South
and of the Union of Soviet Social
ist Republics in the North is
paralyzing the economy and people
of Korea.” the appeal said.
“This intolerable condition con
stitutes a direct threat not only
to the peace of the Orient but to
the peace of the whole world,”
it continued.
Proposed Hospital For Vet
erans To Be Discussed
At Called Session
A proposal that New Hanover
county ex-servicemen’s organiza
tions buy at least 100 acres of land
here and offer it to the Veterans
Administration as a site for North
Carolina’s projected $15,000,000 vet
erans’ hospital will be put before
a joint meeting of American Legion
and Veterans of Foreign Wars rep
resentatives in the Legion home at
four o’clock this afternoon, it was
learned yesterday.
Last night W. K. Stewart, Jr.,
commander of the local Legion
post named Charles Foard, Law
rence Schneider and Col. John
Bright Hill to represent his group
in drafting plans for a county in
vitation to the VA to locate its
projected 14-story, 1000-bed hospital
here.
Ken Noble, Francis Malloy, and
Lenox G Cooper had earlier been
selected to represent the James A.
Manley post of the VFW by E. C.
Snead, its commander.
John H. Farrell, city industrial
agent and a member of both the
Legion and the VFW will serve on
both committees.
Neither Snead nor btewart is so
far committed to a joint VFW
Legion purchase of the site, they
indicated last night.
In its first stages, the joint com
mittee can, however, be expected
to survey prospective hospital sites
with a view to their purchase by
the two ex-servicemen's organiza
tions.
VA rules require that the pro
posed hospital be located within 20
minutes bus ride of the postoffice
of a city wdth at least 25,000 pop
ulation, that it be placed in an
area which has such utilities as
water, gas* and electricity, and
whose economic character would
bar the mushrooming of undesir
able places of amusement near the
medical center.
See MEETING on Page Two
No Job Open
LONDON, Nov. 1 — (/P) — The
Duke of Windsor failed to get a
job Friday from Prime Minister
Attlee and he and his Duchess —
robbed of $80,000 in jewels during
their short stay in England—were
reported planning to sail on the
Queen Elizabeth next Wednesday
for the United States.
Entering through a back door at
No. 10 Downing street, the former
King conferred with Attlee almost
fen hour. He left by the same back
door. An authoritative government
source said afterw'ard that no suit
able appointment existed for the
Duke.
PARSONS POSSE
“Sky Pilots”Ask Guns
To Help Clean Up City
STEUBENVILLE, O., Nov. 1—
(yP)—irate demands for the right to
form a “posse of pistol-packing
parsons’’ Friday were hurled at
city council by 11 Protestant minis
ters in an attempt to stem what
they considered a threatening
Jefferson county crime wave.
Several city and county law en
forcement officials, including
Mayor George W. Floto and Sheriff
Robert D. Bates, declined comment
after the Stuebenville Ministerial
association filed a letter with
council demanding that they be
permitted to pack guns and select
20 World War II veterans to aid
in “cleaning out the underworld.”
In the third slaying in the coun
ty in 10 days, Mrs. Phyllis Savage,
a 17-year-old expectant mother,
Friday was charged with delin
quency in probate court in connec
tion with the fatal shooting of her
ex-sailor husband, Homer, 19.
Probate Judge Emmett M. Mor
row ordered Mrs. Savage’s case
turned over to the Ohio Board of
Juvenuile research for a “complete
investigation.”
The' pastors did not mention any
specific crime but merely cited
See SKY PHOTS on Page Two
NEGOTIATORS ADJOURN AS MINERS
L U VE PITS IN SOUTHERN ST A TES;
. -SLAND ASKS BREAK WITH FRANCO
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Filed Before
UN Deadline
Nation Asks World-Wide
Diplomatic Severance
With Madrid Regime
STRONG PROPOSAJL
Rzymowski Urges Barment
Of Spanish From Any
'Membership
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y.,
Nov. 1 — (A5) — Poland Fri
day night called on the United
Nations assembly to initiate
a world-wide diplomatic break
with Franco Spain and for ac
tion barring the Madrid gov
ernment from membership or
participation in any organiza
tions connected with the Unit
ed Nations.
These were the first concrete
proposals for action against the
Franco regime to be presented to
the assembly, although the dele
gates voted unanimously yesterday
to include the Spanish question on
their agenda for a full discussion.
Poland’s proposals were sub
mitted to Secretary-General Trygve
Lie in the form of two resolutions
by Polish Foreign Minister Win
centy Rzymowski, delegation chief.
The proposals were received just
a little more than 24 hours before
the deadline at midnight Saturday
for offering new items for the
agenda.
See RESOLUTIONS on Page Two
CONCERT SEASON
OPENS FOR CITY
Grand Opera Quartet Wins
High Praise As First
Presentation
With a truly triumphant perform
ance in the Rigoletto quartet clos
ing an extraordinarily thrilling
program, the Columbia Grand
Opera Quartet opened the current
season of the Community Coneerc
Association before' a capacity audi
ence in the high school auditorium
last night. If this concert sets the
pace of the season, Wilmington
music lovers are in for such a treat
as they have never enjoyed be
fore.
Neither lime nor space permit a
full review of the evening’s enter
tainment or more than brief men
tion of the artists separately. Suf
fice to say that each member of
the quartet is quite as fine as many
vocal artists on previous programs.
On this rating auditors last nignt
may well multiply by four the sat
ifaction they have taken iji past
See CONCERT On Page Five
Advance Scouting In Wilmington
Seen above at the Community Center are a group of volunteer workers attending the training
course, which was one of the highlights of National Girl Scout week closing today. At right is Mrs.
B. M. Jones, Jr., executive director serving as instructor, while reading left to right are Mrs. Harvey
Glazier, Mrs. H. W. Winkle, Mrs. W. F. Powell, and Miss Virginia Ward. (STAFF PHOTO BY BOB
HODGKIN).
ALBANIANS FIRE
ON BRITISH SHIP
Shore Batteries Make One
Direct Hit On Super
structure Of Cruiser
TRTESTE, Saturday, Nov. 1—(U.R)
— Albanian shore batteries open
ed fire on the 7,270-ton British
cruiser Leander and damaged her
with a direct hit on the superstruc
ture, British officers reported
early today when the ship put into
Trieste for repairs.
First accounts of the attack gave
no details of the extent of the dam
age or casualties suffered. The
Leander normally carries a comple
ment of 550 officers and men.
The attack came only 11 days
after two British destroyers ran
into mines in the supposedly clear
channel between Albania and the
Island of Corfu, resulting in a cas
ualty toll of 43 dead or missing and
40 others injured
Similar Attack
A similar attack was made on the
British cruisers Orion and Su
perb last May when they were pass
•See ALBANIANS On Page TU '
RECREATION HEAD
NAMED DIRECTOR
OF U. S. SOCIETY
Jesse Reynolds, city recreation
director, has been named as one
of the southeast’s two representa
tive; on the 15-member adminis
trative council of the Society of
Recreation Workers of America,
it was learned yesterday.
The council serves as the policy,
making body of the society, a
nationwide organization of 1,200
recreation executives.
Reynolds expects to attend the
council’s annual meeting in Wash
ington, D. C., on Tuesday, No
vember 19, he said last night.
Along The Cape Fear
BACK COUNTRY — The Cape
Fear, as all residents of the Port
City know, is a center of trade
that has played, as is continuing
to play, a vital role in the economic
development of the Old North State.
While thumbing through the
files of The Morning Star, this
column was more than impressed
by a contribution of Miss Eliza
beth Janet Black, a former resi
dent here.
Before we let Miss Black retell
the story in her words, allow us
to point out the title of her article.
“Wilmington-Gn - The-Cape-Fear,”
it was. So what could be more ap
propriate.
* . .
FAYETTEVILLE —Water street,
and its wharves in Wilmington was
the starting point of that vast back
country carrying trade in the cen
tury before the War Between the
States. And Fayetteville was the
great inland mart of trade from
North Carolina, linking the port
city with the vast territory lying
Vest to the Blue Ridge, embrac
ing parts of East Tennessee and
Southwest Virginia. Before the
days of steamboats on the Cape
Fear wagoning was done by stages
or relays between Wilmington and
Fayetteville, Fayetteville and
Philadelphia.
These canvas-topped wagons as
vehicles of transportation were
drawn by two, four and even six
horses. Often times these teams
were set off by circlets of little
bells surmounting theiT collars.
These bells gave a merry musical
jingle as the horses plodded the
heavy roads.
* * *
CAMPING GROUNDS — You are
shown the spot where the team
sters preferred to camp on the
outskirts of town on the nights
they tarried in Fayetteville.
But Fayetteville to the Scot
spells one name only—Flora Mac
donald. And we brush aside pic
tures that come flooding in the
tall, stalwart teamsters and their
covered wagons. We have one on
Massachusetts. You recall the
statement in Foote's Sketch of
North Carolina: “Massachusetts
has her Lady Arabella, Virginia
her Pocahontas and North Caro
lina her Flora Macdonald.” Who
knows anything of Lady Ara
bella? The world knows our
Flora.
See CAPE FEAR on Page Two
The Weather
FORECAST
South Carolina — Partly cloudy and
continued warm Saturday. Showers along
coastal areas Saturday.
North Carolina — Partly cloudy and
continued warm Saturday except cooler
northeast portion Saturday; showers
along coast late . Saturday A
(Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. £. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the 24 hours
ending 7:30 p.m. yesterday.
Temperatures
1:30 a.m. 67; 7:30 a.m. 63; 1:30 p.m. 7£.
7:30 p.m. 71.
Maximum 80; Minimum 61; Mean 70;
Normal 60.
Humidity
1:30 a.m. 97; 7:30 a.m. 94; 1:30 p.m. 58:
7:30 p.m. S3.
Precipitation
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 _ 3:26 a.m. 10:48 a.m.
4:05 p.m. 11:29 p.m.
Masonboro Inlet _ 1:03 a.m. 7:12 a.m.
1:43 p.m. 8:14 p.m.
Sunrise 6:33; Sunset 5:19; Moonrise
1:47 p.m.; Moonset -.
River stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8
a.m. Friday, (missing) feet.
TURKISH-SOVIET
PEACE POSSIBLE
President Inonu Sees Hope
For Friendship Between
Two Nations
ANKARA, Turkey, Nov. 1—(A5) —
President Ismet Inonu told the
new National assembly Friday
that there were no obstacles to
friendship between Turkey and
Russia if relations between the
two countries were founded on the
spirit and conditions of the United
Nations.
Tile president, pale after his re
cent illness, expressed the ‘‘sin
cere hope, the serious hope, the
confident hope” that good rela
tions would prevail once more be
tween Turkey and the U.S.S.R.
Inonu declared that the greatest
problem in Turkey’s foreign rela
tions was her security. He re
peated that the Turks were willing
to revise the Montreux convention
for administration of the Darda
nelles by international conference,
adding that any remissions must
take into consideration the in
terests of all nations as well as
See TURKISH on Page Two
TRUMAN DECLINES
SPEECHES, RALLY
President Arrives At In
dependence, Mo.; Clark
Issues Warning
By The Associated Press
President Truman made four
non-speaking appearances in his
home state of Missouri yesterday
as partisans whipped up pre-elec
tion oratory and Attorney General
Clark warned against ballot box
‘stuffing.”
The President arrived by train
at Independence, Mo., where ne
will vote Tuesday. He was met
by the mayor and relatives. He
made rear platform appearances
and shook hands with greeters at
Jefferson City, St. Louis and Seda
lia.
He not only declined to make
any speeches, but passed up a
party rally last night in Independ
ence for which speaker Rayburn
was the orator.
Cites Law
Clark’s warning came in a state
ment asserting the federal lav;
‘‘clearly establishes” the right of
every qualified person to vote
Tuesday and to have the ballot
"counted honestly as cast.”
See TRUMAN On Page Two
Atom Bomb Stock
. _ - *i" ' -
LONDON, Nov. 1 — (U.R) — The
Daily Express asserted Friday
that the United States possessed
96 atomic bombs.
A special article signed by
Chapman Pincher said that at the
time Nagasaki was attacked the
United States had eight bombs.
Since then, Pincher wrote, an
atomic bomb plant at Hanford,
Wash., had been working at its
maximum capacity of six bombs
a month.
The bombs were described as
weighing 9,000 pounds each. They
were said to be about 25 feet
long, with two parachutes.
Two bombs exploded at Bikini,
the Daily Express article said, re
duced the “potential” total of
bombs at the moment to 96.
No source for the statements
was given, but the article refer
red to “authentic details” and
“authoritative” statements.
LIVELY SERVICE
Blows, Prayer Book Passes
Interrupt Mass At Church
LONDON, Nov. 1—(JP)—A battle
of blows, thrown prayer books and
sound truck declamations against
“Popery” interrupted a Church of
England high mass at St. Co
lumb’s church Friday while the
Bishop of London, Dr. J. W. Wand,
was presiding.
During the excitement the head
of a member of the National Union
of Protestants was bloodied, and
another member was headlocked
and wrestled out of the church by
a robed Anglican clergyman.
The battle began when the Rev.
W. St. Clair Taylor rose in the
congregation and declared, “My
Lord Bishop, I protest.”
"I was then suddenly struck by
a young man.” said Taylor.
Alexander Marsh, another mem
ber of the union, had his head
wounds dressed at a nearby drug
store.
Police sped to the scene where
a truck-borne loundspeaker blar
ed “We will not have the mass in
the national church. People who
wan it can get it in the Roman
Catholic church.”
P. W. Petter, governing direc
See SERVICE On Page Two
Status Still
Delicate SFA
Leaders Say
After Four Hours Of De
bate On Wage Demands
Conference Deadlocks
COMMENT REFUSED
Operators Accuse 'Political
Minded’ Men Of Surren
. dering To Lewis
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1—
(A5)—Negotiations on John L.
Lewis’ demands for higher
coal mine pay recessed Friday
night in “delicate shape” and
the government reported 5,
700 miners already had quit
work because of “unrest.”
When government and
United Mine workers negoti
ators wound up four hours of
talk and quit until Monday,
an Interior department of
ficial told reporters:
“The situation is in such a deli
cate shape that they will not say
anything.”
The Solid Fuels administration
said 42 mines were made idle by
5,700 men staying away from work
in West Virginia, Kentucky and
Tennessee. It cited "unrest.”
This government agency said 21
West Virginia mines closed down
because of what it termed a mis
understanding, through radio broad
See STATUS On Page Two
EDUCATION BOARD
SEEKING HOSPITAL
H. M. Roland Reveals Plans
To Make Request To
Commissioners
The County Board of Education’*
plans to acquire the surplus Army
hospital at Bluethenthal field as a
site for a local junior college v/ill
be laid before the county board of
commissioners at their meeting
Monday, H. M. Roland, superinten
dent of education, said last nignt.
School authorities will seek the
county board’s support for a re
quest that the War Assets adminis
tration turn over the 45-acre tract
to the college propect, he declared.
The Board of Education decided
to seek the hospital at a special
meeting Thursday night.
The site was selected after the
board decided that none of its pres
ent facilities could be spared for
the college, Roland indicated.
Lake Forest school, frequently
mentioned as a possibility for col
lege use. has a basic grade student
body of 515 pupils drawn from its
immediate vicinity with every pros
pect that it will increase in the
future, he reported.
The 75-bed hospital group has
been army surplus since last De
cember, and has not yet been as
signed to either National Guard or
county airport authority use.
At the time of its construction in
1944, the hospital cost $210,000; with
moderate reconversion, its frame
buildings could serve the college
for many years, the Board of
Education believes.
And So To Bed
Have you lost a white rabbit?
Thursday night some Hal
loween prankster deposited
a life sized white Iron rabbit
in the lobby of the Star-News.
The image had a note attach
ed to it.
It was addressed to Ben Mac
Donald, Star-News Round-the
town reporter and said:
“Mr. MacDonald, Don't
break the heart of Miss —
Please see that this rabbit is
returned". The rnissle was
signed, ‘‘Kiliroy, Inc."
Ben says the owner may have
the rabbit if she or he will call
by the Star-News office and
identify same,
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