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f Aid The Disabled FORECAST Wilmington and vicinity—Fair to partly cloudy with showers during morning, clearing in afternoon, cooler tonight; Sat urday fair and mild. VQL j^-NO. 22._WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1946 " t ESTABLISHED 1867 ' State Group's l our Of Ports Starts Today £ight Members Of Author ity And Others To Be Guests Of Engineers TO VISIT SHIPYARD Morehead And Elizabeth City Planning Receptions For Inspecting Party Members of the State Ports Authority will this afternoon begin a three-day inspection 0f the inland waterway from Wilmington to Elizabeth City with a tour of the city’s har bor and shipyard as guests of Col. Beverly C. Snow, U. S. District engineer here. • Col. George W. Gillette, South Atlantic Division engi neer, and Col. Snow will be hosts to the eight members of the ports authority on their trip up the waterway in the Kittyhawk, the U. S. Engi neers’ inspection boat. Port authority members who will come here for the inspection are: S. Bunn Frink, Southport; H. S. Gibbs, of Morehead City; A. G. fevers, of Gastonia; J. H. White, of Winston-Salem; T. H. Wilson, of Morganton; R. B. Page, of Wil mington. the authority’s chairman; and W. 0. Huske, of Fayetteville, its secretary. The inspection party is schedul ed to embark on the Kittyhawk at the U S. Customshouse dock here at 1 o'clock this afternoon. After a tour of the city's harbor, the au thority members will land at the N. C. Shipbuilding company’s yards for an inspection of the giant fa cility that turned out 243 ships during World War II. The Wilmington Port commission will entertain the state port lead ers at a reception and dinner in the Cape Fear club at 5:30 o’clock this afternoon. United States Representative Uraham Barden, E. L. White, See TOUR On Page Seven CITY AND COUNTY SCHEDULE HOLIDAY Schools T o Remain Open On Armistice Day, Mon day; Program Set Cit;. and county government of fices will be closed on Armistice Day. Monday, Ciiy Manager J. R. Benson and Addison Hewlett, chair man cf the county board, announc ed las* night. Schools will, however, be open. Local retail stores that belong to the Wilmington Merchants as s'Ciation will remain open during toe holiday, Paul F. Bell, secretary °f the association, said last night. Armistice Day is a federal holi day and local government Bm p'' yces will observe it. Major city celebration of the even; will be a ceremony spon £ fed by the local American Legion outside its home at Second and Dock Streets at 11 a. m., Monday. Secretary of State Thad Eure will ber!lle chief speaker. [ rie Lvoion’s three-day Armistice Pfogram will begin with a dance Jt the Legion home at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow night. IMGNE’S meditations By Alley fZ --—»> Wc YJUT. W'£M HIT '02. A PLEASURE To PO 5u^P'w FuH DE OTHUH fella — sut Klow H1T5 WHUT Yoo Kin <3it him T" Po I^H You // ^ k' Til* Bell Bn >Ti v'i .Tr*d« , l 0- «. Pet oatel 1000 EXPECTED Educational Parley> Opening Here ^ Legislative Program To Be Pres Salary Increase Of 20 Per C White To Be Named Head A legislative program that in cludes a minimum salary increase of 20 per cent for North Carolina teachers will be debated at 7:30 o’clock this evening by close to 1000 members of the southeastern district of the North Carolina Edu cational association at their annual meeting in New Hanover high school here. The program, approved by the legislative committee of the state N. C. E. A., will be presented by Claud Grigg, Albemarle superin tendent of city schools. As released yesterday by John L. Glisson, president of the New Hanover county NCEA unit, the program also includes increments for teachers with 11 or 12 years of experience and carries the warning The Weather «* FORECAST South Carolina—Fair to partly cloudy northwest portion Friday and mostly cloudy with showers south and east portions Friday forenoon followed by clearing in afternoon; little change in temperature except cooler Friday night; Saturday fair and mild. Nortn Carolina—Fair to partly cloudy west porti'on Friday and mostly cloudy with showers over east portion Friday forenoon, followed by clearing in after noon; not much change in temperature except cooler Friday night; Saturday fair and mild. (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. 54; 7:30 a.m. 55; 1:30 p.m. 75; 7:30 p.m. 71. Maximum 75; Minimum 53; Mean 63; Normal 58. Humidity 1:30 a.m. 74; 7:30 a.m. 72. 1:30 p.m. 54; 7:30 p.m. 79. Precipitation Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. — 0.00 inches. Total since the first of the month — 1.22 inches. Tides For Today (From the Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey). High Low Wilmington _ 8:51 a.m. 3:25 a m. 9:15 p.m. 4:04 p.m. Masonboro Inlet. 6:30 a.m. 12:21 a.m. 6:50 p.m. .12:54 p.m. Sunrise 6:38; Sunset 5:14; Moonrise 5:05 p.m.; Moonset 5:40 a.m. River stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8 a.m. Thursday, 11.2 feet. BREAKPOSSME IN COAL DISPUTE Lewis Issues Call For Meet ing Of D i s t r i c t Presi dents At Washington By The Associated Press A possible early break in the soft coal . dispute was foreshadowed Thursday night when John L. Lewis summoned to Washington the 30 union district presidents who would have to approve any settlement plan. The union-government wage talks were recessed until Monday with out any report on progress, but the call to the union’s district officers indicated the negotiations had reached the stage where an im portant decision was to be made. Lewis plans to end his present contract with the government on behalf of his 400,000 United Mine workers Nov. 20, although Secre tary of Interior Krug has question ed the legality of such a move. Neither Lewis nor Krug has at tended the Washington wage talks, which have been conducted by their lieutenants, but both may be present Monday. Meanwhile, striking Trans World Airline pilots studied a new gov ernment arbitration plan for end ing their 17 day old strike and thfc CIO United Farm Equipment work ers opened new wage talks in Chicago on behalf of 30,000 Inter national Harvester Company em ployes. TWA officials in Washington have promised that airline operations would be resumed as soon as the union's 11 councils ratify the pro See BREAK On Page Seven that the association will “request proportionate increases should there be a substantial increase in the cost of living.” C. W. Phillips, state president of the NCEA will open the meeting in the New Hanover High school auditorium at 2 o’clock this after noon, with an address on the work of the association. H. M. Roland, New Hanover county superintendent of schools, will greet the assemblage of teach ers drawn from 13 southeastern counties. At the afternoon session, V. R. White, principal of Fayetteville High school, will be elected presi dent of the southeastern district, See PARLEY on Page Seven RELIGIOUS BA1 LE TAKES NEW VES Calcutta Paper Reports Es timate Death List At 13,000 To 30,000 NEW DELHI, Nov. 7. — (£>) — Death from knives and brickbats accumulated in New Delhi, Bom bay, and Bihar province Thurs day as India’s religious battle of the last two months continued to rage despite appeals of both Hindu and Moslem leaders for a stop to the slaughter. Although J awalharlal Nehru, leading minister of the Interim government, has intervened and the Congress party spiritual lead er Mohandas K. Gandhi has threat ened a death fast, murder, -arson and looting were reported con tinuing in a 4,000 square mile of the predominately Hindu province of Bihar. Gandhi’s threat was re ported to have had some effect in slowing down the disorders, how ever. Moslems and Hindus were far apart on their estimates of the casualties in Bihar. The British edited Statesman in Calcutta said Bihar officials, who are Hindus, estimated deaths at slightly more than 1,000, while the pro-Moslem News placed Moslem dead at 13, 000 and the pro-Moslem News agency estimated it at more than 30,000. Rifles Bark Several districts in Bombay re sounded with rifle fire when po lice battled crowds intent on loot ing and stabbing. At least four per sons were stabbed by noon. The Bombay government an nounced that losses in life and property by members of one com munity would be compensated for by members of the other com munity, but arrests so far have proven futile because the people of neither community will testify against the other. In New Delhi at least four per sons were killed and eight injured and rioting was broken up only af ter police opened fire. Assembly of See RELIGIOTIS On Page Seven Blames Hannegatt KANSAS CITY, Nov. 7 — UP) - Rep. Roger C. Slaughter, the Demo crat President Truman didn’t want back in' Congress, blamed Robert E. Hannegan Thursday for his party’s smarting defeats in Tues day’s election and then called upon the President to dismiss Hannegan from his cabinet as postmaster general. Slaughter also called for Hanne gan’s resignation as both national Democratic chairman and national committeeman from Missour. The Democratic Congressmaif from Missouri’s fifth district also blasted at the Pendergrast Demo cratic organization which brought about his primary defeat last August to Enos A. Axtell, who was beaten Tuesday by Republican Al bert L. Reeves, Jr. Today And Tomorrow By WALTER LIPPMANN It takes a long t;me under our system of government to change over from one party to the other. It can hardly be done in less than three years. During this period the ins break up and lose their ability to govern before the outs, who are going to replace them, can organize themselves, choose their leaders, and sort out their views. We are now in such a period The decay of the Democratic ad ministration, which began at least eighteen months ago, is far ad vanced. But the Republican party is far from being ready to take over. The change-over begins, of course in Congress when the ad ministration can no longer com mand a working majority. Presi dent Truman since he took office, like Hoover after 1929-’30, like Wilson afteT 1918-T9, like Taft after 19u9-’10, has had no support and has faced a growing opposition in congress. But this opposition in Congress is not necessarily, or even probably, as it would be in Britain, for example, the core of the next administration. For the new national party control comes out of the states. * * * That is where political power is generated, and that is where most [ See LIPPMANN on Page Five t. UNITED STATES ASKS TEN NATIONS oO _ m HELP PREPARE JAP DIRECTIVES; * TRIESTE DEADLOCK BREAK LOOMING -**__ _ I ___ Marshal Tito Now Willing To Cede Port Premier Togliatti Says Yu goslav Leader So Ex pressed Himself BARTER PROPOSAL New Suggestion Raises Lit tle Enthusiasm Among American, British NEW YORK, Nov. 7—(/P) *—A series of developments in the East-West dispute over the Adriatic port of Trieste raised speculation among diplomats here Thursday on the possibility of breaking the long-deadlocked issue, main bar to completing an Italian peace treaty. 1. Yugoslav Foreign Minister Stanoje Simic and his envoy to Washington, Ambassador Sava Kosanovic, called on Secretary of State Byrnes at their own request tor a conference. The nature of the meeting was not announced but diplomatic talk ran to the idea that perhaps they took up Trieste. 2. In Italy Palmiro Togliatti, Communist leader, was quoted by a See TITO On Page Seven supmcourt . JOURNS TERM Presiding Jurist Passes Sen tences During Final Session Judge Henry L. Stevens, of War saw, adjourned a November mixed term of New Hanover Superior court here yesterday afternoon after a crowded day which saw him castigate women and girls who pick up servicemen and oth er strangers on the streets and in beer parlors.” The "pick up” practice, Judge Stevens asserted, leads to loose morals. He made his remarks while pass ing a six months suspended sent ence on John M. Jones, U. S. S. Modoc seaman 1/c, for assault on a female at Eight and Princess streets. Judge Stevens suspended Jones' sentence in view of a war record which included wounds received at the Anzio beach-head. In other cases tried yesterday in the court’s closing hours: Wilbur J. Wilson, charged with assault and robbery, was found innocent of the charge. Nick Frederick, charged with as See COURT on Page Seven Along The Cape Fear FRIEND INDEED — Thanks to the fine memory, which should be a prized possession of Mr. Paul Cantwell, Along The Cape Fear can report real progress on culling the early history of the telephone here in the Port City. Mr. Cantwell, who is connected with the Atlantic Coast Line rail road here, added these interesting facts to our meager knowledge of Wilmington’s first telephone. Just of hand, Mr. Cantwell re calls the numbers of many of the earliest phones installed in the city. For example if you were anxi ous to get in touch with Western Union prior to the turn of the century all you had to do was ask the operator to connect you with number 2. Double that number and you would be talking to a predecessor of Police Chief Charles Casteen as number 4 was the Wil mington Police department’s phone number in those days. * * * MORE TO COME — But that is far from all that Mr. Centwell can recall from memory concerning the early telephones here. Hall and Pearsall was listed as No. 6 while Robinson and King could be reach es by calling No. 9. The Patterson and Downing com pany could be contacted by phoning No. 16. We almost said by dial ing. Now, that would have been quite a blunder. The Wilmington Produce Ex change had for its telephone ntim ber, 19. Twenty-two was the number you called if you wished to contact Elex Sprunt and Son or No. 26 would get you in touch with Worth and Worth. £ Two other early phone numbers are recalled by Mr. Cantwell. They and Boney and Harper, No. 31, and Sasser Drug store was listed as No. 135. With all these clues to work on, certainly some kind reader should be able to fill in the real $64 dollar question. Which phone in the Port City was listed as No. 1?. The above numbers were those in use about 1899, according to Mr. Cantwell. • * • SWEET HELLO — Here’s one other interesting item that has come to light about the early days See CAPE FEAR On Page Seven Firemen Treated At Banquet Meeting Shown above are the honored guests at the banquet of the Wilmington Fire Department Athletic club held Wednesday night at the Marina. Left to right: Gilbert F. Morton, city purchasing agent; Robert LeGwin, city councilman; City Manager J. R. Benson; Chief J. Luddie Croom, Councilman •James E. L. Wade, Bill Glisson, chairman of the arrangements committee and Sonny Knowles, of the committee. The first shift held their meeting Wednesday night and the second shift was treated Thurs day night. (STAR STAFF PHOTO BY BOB HODGKIN) HOSPITAL PLANS TALKED AT MEET World War II Veteran Nam ed Junior Vice Com mander Of Post 10 Wilmington Pest 10 of the Ameri can Legion last night heard a re port on the city’s projected cam paign to bring rfln 1000-bed veterans hospital here, but deferred formal action pending recommendations of its executive committee. Charles H. Foard, a member of the joint Legion-Veterans of For eign Wars committee investigating the project told the group that Col. John Bright Hill, Legion represent ative, is currently conferring with U. S. Veterans Administration of ficials at Richmond and Washing ton on the VA's requirements as to hospital sites. It is understood that Hill will re port to the executive Committee upon his return. The James A. Manley post of the VFW is al ready on record to donate its share of the hospital land to the VA.. See HOSPITAL on Page Seven Fast Flight MIAMI, Fla., Nov. 7.—The globe girdling "Pacusan Dreamboat” landed here at 3:51 P.M. (EST) Thursday after making the first non-stop flight from Seattle, Wash., to Miami in an elapsed time of exactly eight and one-half hours. Colonel Clarence S. Irvine, pilot of the famed B-29 which recently flew non-stop from Hawaii to Cairo, Egypt, to establish a world’s rec ord, described the trans-continental flight as a "breeze.” “I spent most of the time with my feet on the panel, and one of the navigators slept most of the way,” Irvine said. Navigator Major Norman P. Hays of Seneca, Mo., said the "Dreamboat” flew a ‘crows-flight” route from Seattle to Miami. FORECAST CLICKS Election returns to date again ilemonstrate the accuracy of the Gallup Poll. It correctly forecast the full extent of the Republican sweep and came within one per cent of the precise division of the total popular vote in Congressional races—the best national predic tion in the history of the poll. The forecast was 58 per cent for Republican candidates for the House and 42 per cent for the Democrats. Election returns to dale indicate a vote of 57 per cent Republican 43 per cent Democratic. The Gallup Poll also forecast the victories by substantial ma jorities of Martin in Pennsyl vania, Vanderberg in Michigan, Lodge in Massachusetts, Brick er in Ohio anjl Dewey in New York. Its figures on Dewey were right within four per cent and on Bricker right within three per cent. CHRISTMAS SEAL DRIVE QUOTA SET Ten Thousand Dollar Goal Announced Following Planning Meet The New Hanover County Health and Tuberculosis association last night set $10,000 as the goal of its 1946 Christmas Seal drive, slated to run from Nov. 25 to Dec. 25. The campaign goal has been put at $2,000 higher this year in order to suppbrt the association's expanded X-ray clinic, according to a joint statement released after last night’s campaign planning meeting in the Health Department offices by Dr. John C. Wessell, campaign chairman, and Emmett H. Bellamy, association president. Members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, under the leader ship of Paul Killian, will handle sale of "T. B. Bonds” to sub stantial supporters-. of the cam paign. Their phase of the drive will get underway next Wednes day Dr. Wessell said. E. L. White was named chair man of the campaign’s industrial workers sale committee; Miss See QUOTA On Page Seven LINE ON LEFT Senate Seeking Swearer So Swearees Shall Swear WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 — (/.’) — Know anybody who has had ex perience swearing in U. S. Sena tors?. There’s a job open for the right man, come January 3. Always before some dignitary has been ready, eager and qualified. But now—. Well, it’s usually the vice-presi dent’s job. But you know what hap pened to our vice-president. When there’s no vice-president, the president pro tempore of the Senate inherits the chore. Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee it “ is the Senate’s president pro tem. But his present term will be over when the 80th Congress meets. He has been re-elected, but he must be sworn in too, just like beginning Senators. Obviously he can’t be the swear er, and the swearee, too. Who, then, will swear them in? Leslie L. Biffle, secretary of the Senate, was consulted as a possible authority. But this was enough to baffle Biffle. . “We like to follow precedent here,” he told a reporter, “and See SErfATE on Page Seven S' THREE CONTESTS STILL UNDECIDED Kilgore Maintaining Lead In West Virginia; O’Con nor Still Hopeful By The Associated Press Winners of contests for one House and two Senate seats re mained uncertain last night. Dem ocrats held narrow leads in the unofficial returns. It appeared that the official can vass might be required, however, to determine who W'on in the con tests between: Senator Harley J. Kilgore (D) and Thomas Sweeney (R) for Sen ator from West Virginia. Herbert O’Conor (Bi and D. John Markey (R) in the Maryland Sen ate race. Rep. Walter K. Granger (D) and David J. Wilson (R) for the House seat from the first Utah district. With these races still to be settl ed, the party line-ups in Congress stood: Present Line-Up Senate — Republicans 51, Dem ocrats 44. » House — Republicans 246, Dem ocrats 187, American-Labor one. Unofficial returns gave Kilgore a 3,000 lead over Sweeney with 13 precincts uncounted. Chairman Jay Ferguson of the Logan county Re publican Executive committee noti fied the county court his party would contest the election if the of ficial count showed Kilgore the winner. Ferguson charged there were direct violations of many reg ulations in the balloting. See CONTESTS On Page Seven Amendments Favored -» RALEIGH, Nov. 7—(TP)—'With ap proximately two-thirds of the state’s 1928 precincts reported, North Carolina voters favor both of the amendments balloted on Tuesday’s general election. The women’s right to serve on juries amendment apparently was carried but the fate of the amend ment increasing the per day ex pense allowance for legislators was still in doubt. In 1131 precincts, the vote for women to serve on juries was: for 100,070, against 63,559. In 1161 precincts, the vote in favor of the legislative expense pay increase was: for 77,229, against 74,216. Reparations Division To BeDiscussed Russia Deadlock Status May Be Broken Under New Proposal BIG FIVE INCLUDED Soviet Reported Claiming Removed Manchurian As Lawful War Booty WASHINGTON, Nov. 7— (AP)—In a move to break a deadlock with Russia, the United States has asked ten nations if they will assist in preparing a directive for Gen eral MacArthur on how to divide reparations from Japan. Diplomatic officials dis closed Thursday night that the State department had ad vanced this proposal to the countries represented or. the Far East commission after noting Russia’s unwillingness to attend a conference devoted solely to reparations. The American suggestion was that the nations on the commission, which include all the big five countries, “consult” with the Amer ican government in drawing up interim orders to General Mac Arthur for: 1. Immediate division among claimant countries of from 15 to 20 percent of the Japanese assets 1 selected for reparations. 2. Later determination of how j See REPARATIONS On Page 7 RAIL PRESIDENT RECEIVES AWARD Seaboard Air Line Official Lauded For Service To Navy Legh R. Powell, Jr., president of the Seaboard Air Line railroad, has received from the United States Navy the highest award that can be given by the Bureau of Navy Personnel to an individual or or ganization not affiliated with the Navy, according to an announce ment by a spokesman for the line made here yesterday. The certificate of achievement v/hich was presented by Admiral Louis Denfeld, chief of Navy Per sonnel, and who will assume com mand of the Pacific fleet next Jan uary, reads as follows: “As president of the Seaboard Railroad during the critical war years, Mr. Powell mustered the resources of his organization and with complete disregard of the cost to himself in time and effort con tributed to the greatest manpower movement in our country’s history. Through his unflagging endeavors and great wisdom, Mr. Powell was able to assist in the transportation of more than seven million Naval personnel to points within the Unit ed States. “Approximately 25,000 persons See AWARD on Page Seven And So To Bed It’s a woman’s privilege. She raced to enter the bus a second before it pulled away from the station. Asked for her ticket, she replied “I forgot it.” The driver waited until she purchased a ticket and then drove off. A couple of blocks from the station the woman yelled, J “Please, go back, I forgot my baggage.” The driver turned around and went back for the luggage. Armed with two s utcases the lady came back to the bus and said to the driver, “1 changed my mind, I have decid ed to stay home.” It’s a woman’s privilege . . . But try to convince that parti cular bus driver. j *
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