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VOLJO—NOjS.---- WILMINGTON, N. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1946 ~ "" 7 ESTABLISHED 1867
Bomb Scientist
l K. ALVIN M. YVEINBEKG
graham to speak
AT ATOMIC PARLEY
Program For Session Here
At High School On No
vember 21 Told
Dr Frank Porter Graham, presi
dent ' of the University of North
Carolina and three scientific vet
eran* of the Oak Ridge ajgm
bomb project will be among*he
featured speakers at a conferee
or, “Facing Atomic Energy’mat
the New Hanover High Schooll|u
ditcrium the afternoon and eve
ning of November 21.
The local conference, one of seven
being held through the state un
der the sponsorship of UNC and
the North Carolina World Fed
eralists, will be concerned with
both the military and political as
pects of atomic energy.
It will be presented here by the
governmental affairs committtee
of the Junior Chamber of Com
merce. whose chairman, Robert
Dannenbaum, announced last night
that his group is sponsoring the
speeches without necessarily agree
ing with the views of the speakers.
Dr. Graham is scheduled to ad
dress the conference’s closing ses
sion at 9 o’clock Nov. 21 on “The
Case for World Government.”
The trio of scientists will speak
on the development of atomic
power, the potentialities of the
atomic bomb as a military weap
on and the results of the bomb’s
two test explosions at Bikini atoll.
Dr. Alvin Weinberg, director of
See GRAHAM on Page Two
PORT INTERESTS
CITE WORK NEED
Shippers Express Views On
Effects Of Dredging
Curtailment Here
The Cape Fear river channel
will continue to shoal up until it is
only 23 feet deep at some points
within 10 months unless early ac
tion is taken to secure the funds
the local U. S. Army engineers need
to return to dredging it, a spokes
man for one of the local port’s
largest oil terminals shippers de
clared last night.
Although the channel’s official
depth is 30 feet, tankers have en
tered the port in recent months
with mud scrapped off the river
bottom in their condensers even
though they were drawing only 26
feet, the oil company spokesman
said,
"U we wait until July - for the
loca, engineers to get funds they
won't be able to put a dredge into
the river before September," he
continued, "By that time the chan
ge PORT Or. Page Two
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Secretary Of Commerce
Harriman Urges Real Re
straint By Corporations
“SYSTEM” ATTACKED
New York Lawyer Stresses
Need For Watchful Eye
On Russian Activities
NEW YORK, Nov. 11.—(JP)
—American spokesmen told
businessmen Monday to hold
the price line at home and at
the same time keep an eye on
Russia, whose attack on our
system is a vigorous one.”
Secretary of Commerce W.
Averell Harriman, addressing
the opening session of the
three-day National Foreign
Trade convention, urged “each
corporation to adopt real restraint
in its price policies.”
Asking for bi-partisian support,
he stressed “the vital necessity of
keeping our foreign economic poli
cies out of domestic politics.”
Allen W. Dulles, New York law
yer and president of the Council
on Foreign Relations, Inc., said
Molotov’s recent speech at Lake
Success was a “vigorous attack”
on our system.
Dulles charged that Russia,
“most interested in expanding its
own political and economic sys
tem” in Europe, “|ems to be
blocking the conclusiro of peace.”
Soviet tactics in Europe, he added,
“operate to prevent American
business on a free basis from com
peting with the government control
led economy of Russia.”
Loan Warning
Curtis E. Calder, chairman of
Electric Bond and Share Co. warn
ed against the United StateJ’ lend
See BUSINESS On Page Two
LEWIS MAINTAINS
‘PARLEY’ SILENCE
Mine Leader Confers Two
Hours With Krug;
Other Developments
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First bargaining session aimed
■at forestalling a threatened walk
out of 400,000 AFL United Mine
workers recessed Monday until
2:30 p. m. EST Tuesday with John
L. Lewis maintaining silence on
whatever contract demands he may
have made.
Meanwhile, elsewhere on the
labor front, pickets were arrested
in a Hollywood movie dispute,
TWA strike settlement efforts were
stalled, and a union leader express
ed belief the 195-day old Allis
Chalmers tieup at West Allis, Wis.,
might be ended within a week.
In the soft coal talks at Wash
ington, Lewis and 28 other mine
union officials met with Secretary
of Interior J. A. Krug for two and
one half hours, but Lewis gave no
hint later as to what terms he
submitted.
There was speculation that Lewis
demanded . a shorter work week
with little or no loss in take home
pay, and tnat Krug and the coal
operators wanted to study the re
quest.
No Announcement
So far Lewis has nor announced
details of his new formula for
more pay and shorter hours but he
has contended that the contract
made when the government seized
the mines last spring can be ter
minated legally. The UMW chief
has. laid down a timetable where
by the government would be notifi
See LEWIS On Page Two
Oldest Soldier
GEORGE D’ORANGE
__
LEGION HERE TOPS
MEMBERSHIP GOAL
Announcement Of 1,000
Enrolled Made During
Armistice Celebration
Wilmington Post 10 of the Ameri
can Legion had attained its goal
of 1,000 members enrolled for 1947
with the passing of its Armistice
Day deadline, W. K. Stewart, post
commander, reported last night.
Harry S y m m e s and Robert
Jones, Jr., co-chairmen of the
post’s membership committee, an
nounced the passing of their 1,000
member goal as the local Legion
concluded the largest Armistice
celebration in its history yester
day afternoon.
At 11 a. m. yesterday, 28 years
to the minute after the close of the
first World War, more than 1,000
persons stood with bared heads
outside the Legion home in a 30
second silent prayer in memory
of the dead of the nation’s last
two wars.
The audience included Secretary
of State Thad Eure, who a few
moment’s later urged his audience
to support efforts to bring the Unit
ed Nations to North Carolina’s
Sand Hills section as its permanent
home, and George D’Orange, 88,
the county’s oldest Legionnaire and
a veteran of three wars.
D’Orange, a former U. S. Coast
Guardsman, who saw service in
the Franco-Prussian, the Spanish
American and the first World War,
is a regular attendant at Armistice
Day celebrations.
Eure, as the Legion's program
chief speaker, urged the UN’s es
tablishment in North Carolina as
especially fitting in the state
“where the Mecklenburg declara
See LEGION on Page Two
FIREWORKS BLAST
KILLS VETERANS
Four Camden Men Lose
Lives At Filling Station
South Of Charlotte
CAMDEN,- S. C., Nov. 11—(.$>)_
Four men were killed and two
others seriously injured in an ex
plosion Monday in a filling station
19 miles north of Camden of the
Charlotte-Camden highway.
Sheriff J. H. McLeod, Jr., and
Coroner Purdy Lee identified the
bodies Monday night at those of
Stacey Griffon, Landon Faile, Ray
mond Barfield and Charles William
Connell. The officers also said that
Jack Outen and Jesse Griffon, a
brother of Stacey were seriously
injured.
Sheriff McLeod said the filling
istation earlier in the day had re
ceived a large shipment of ex
plosives, including ammunition and
firecrackers, and the explosion was
probably caused by their becoming
ignited. All the dead men are
World War II veterans, the sheriff
said.
A coroner’s inquest is scheduled
for Tuesday.
BACK IN U. S.
Man Who Waged Battle
With FDR Ends Exile
MIAMI, Fla., Nov. 11. — (&) —
Howland Spencer, of New York
and Palm Beach, who moved to
the Bahamas in 1939 because of a
feud with the late President Roose
velt, said Monday that he had re
turned to the United States for
the first time in eight years be
cause of the Republican election
victory November 5.
Spencer, who has been living at
Harbor Island, Eleuthera, Baham
as, said the election “shook me out
of my hermitage.”
‘‘These are the first words of a
returned exile,” he told reporters.
He used to live on the 500-acre
estate called “Krum Elbow,”
across the Hudson river from the
late President’s Hyde Park home.
In 1938 he turned his spacious
estate over to the Negro cult lead
er, Father Devine, for his cult
“Heaven.”
Spencer, who arrived here Mon
day, said he had kept his home on
the Hudson and was now headed
north to “air out my part of
Heaven.”
He said he would make the trip
on the schooner “Windsong.”
Spencer said he had not been in
> See MAN On
Senate* /tyles Bridges Says
Majority Group Will Also
Ration Spending
PROCEDURE CHANGE
Appropriations Committee
Will Hear Arguments
For Against Budget
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—
(/P)—Senator Styles Bridges
(R-NH) forecast Monday that
the new Republican-organized
Congress will “ration” federal
spending and put ceilings on
government payrolls.
Bridges, in line to head the
Senate’s new streamlined Ap
propriations committee, pro
posed also a change in the
procedure under which testi
mony taken by the committee on
proposed expenditures has large
ly been limited to officials of de
partments concerned.
“This time,” he promised in a
statement, “all evidence heard
will not come from special
pleasers who want more to spend.
Those u’ho want to reduce spend
ing will have their day in court
as well.”
He said a new technical and
professional staff provided under
the Congressional Reorganization
act would be recruited and “used
to the fullest possible extent to
provide an accurate picture of our
real needs as opposed to the am
See GOP On Page Two
GENERAL MOTORS
UPS CAR PRICES
President Wilson Says
$100 Increase On All
Models Immediately
DETROIT, Nov. 11—(£>)—General
Motors announced Monday an in
crease of $100 in the list price of
all its passenger car models pro
duced and sold in the United
States.
The corporation said prices of
all Chevrolet trucks also would be
increased $100. The same increase,
General Motors said, will be ap
plied to all corresponding models
produced by the GM truck and
coach division.
President C. E. Wilson said in
the announcement that General
Motors had sought a $100 increase
in prices from OPA more than two
months ago.
GM’s adjustments, he said, now
place its prices on a “more rea
sonable relation’’ to increased costs
of production.
General Motors makes Chevrolet,
Buick, Oldsmobile, Cadillac and
Pontiac cars.
No Ford Hike
A Ford Motor company official
said no price increase was con
templated immediately. There has
been no word from Chrysler cor
poration as to its plans.
George W. Mason, president of
Nash - Kelvinator corporation, an
nounced that future prices of Nash
cars and Kelvinator electric ap
pliances will depend on labor and
material costs and volume of pro
duction. "Our main interest,” he
said, "is to keep prices as low
as possible.”
NationsDeny
Allegations
By Russians
Soviet Ambassador Critizes
Lack Of Palestine Trus
teeship Agreement
U. S. ALSO SCORED
Dulles Takes Moscow Dele
gates To Task In Off-The
Floor News Statement
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y.,
Nov. 11.—(/P)—Soviet Russia,
in a long-awaited statement,
roundly criticized Great Brit
ain Monday for not offering
a Palestine trusteeship agree
ment to the United Nations
and simultaneously blasted
the United States for holding
“contradictory” views on
trusteeships.
As Soviet Ambassador Nikolai V.
Novikov finished his hour-long
speech to the U. N. Trusteeship
committee, Great Britain, South
Africa, and the United States im
mediately countered with off-the
floor statements denying the Rus
sian allegations.
The United States flatly accused
Russia of "constantly” pif venting
formation of a trustee ship* council
for the old League of Nations man
dates.
John Foster Dulles, New York
lawyer, who was advisor on foreign
affairs to Republican nominee
Thomas E. Dewey during the 1944
presidential campaign, and is the
U. S. delegation expert on trustee
ships, volunteered this statement to
newsmen:
Constant Complaint
"The Soviet Union constantly
complains that the trusteeship
council has not been set up. Ap
parently it enjoys being able to
make that complaint and to prolong
that enjoyment for its acts con
stantly prevent the establishment
of the council.
“At the London assembly it was
See NATIONS On Page Two
Dewey Resting
SEA ISLAND, Ga., Nov. 11—(JP)—
Two of the nation’s successful
gubernatorial candidates in last
week’s election rested here Mon
day from their campaigns, and
another was expected to arrive
Monday night.
New York’s Governor Thomas E.
Dewey, successful in his reelection
campaign, arrived with Mrs.
Dewey and their two sons. They
will spend two weeks at The
Cloister.
Governor-elect Kim Sigler of
Michigan arrived Sunday. He and
Mrs. Sigler have taken a cottage.
Governor-elect William Preston
Lane, Jr., of Maryland and Mrs.
Lane were scheduled to arrive
Monday night.
Along The Cape Fear
TWO SPOKESMEN — Mr. Tru
man has spoken. So has our South
Fifteenth street correspondent. By
some strange coincidence the two
gentlemen touched on a subject in
common.
You’ll recall when the President
announced the virtual end of the
Office of Price Administration the
exceptions were rents, sugar, and
rice. Our kind correspondent dis
cusses electricity and rice.
So Mr. Truman and one of Wil
mington’s best vfersed authorities
on doings along the Cape Fear
half a century ago are together
on one point—Rice.
* * *
LONG STORY—Just how Mr.
Truman’s and our favorite chroni
cler of Cape Fear doings paths
happened to cross is a round-about
tale.
“Since you are still in the throes
of misery about electric lighting,”
our friend writes, “I will offer
this.”
“About 60 years ago I drove in
town and saw my first electric
light. I entered Nixon street and
there it was, at the corner of
Eighth and Nixon.
“It was a cumbersome affair to
what we have now. It hung in the
middle of the street on two wires
that could be lowered at will to
near the ground for servicing.
“The light unit consisted of two
finger-sized sticks of carbon about
eight inches long, and adjusted so
the ends were about an inch apart.
The current jumping across this
space produced the lights.
“The servicing required the .daily
rounds of an electrician to adjust
the carbon sticks and replace de
fective ones. This type slowly dis
placed the gas and oil lamps, but
was finally discarded in favor of
the Edison lights.
• * *
UNUSUAL SIGHT—“The unusual
sight that impressed me was the
thousands of large night-flying
bugs circling around the carbon
light. The intense apen heat
scorched their wings and a 20
foot circle under the light was
covered with crawling or dead
buj|s. They were one and a half
inches wide and two and a half
inches long. They finally disappear
ed. I suppose the lights singed
them all. They were said to be a
product of the Rice fields.
“Another product of the Rice
fields at that time was coots and
rice birds, a delicacy many old
See CAPE FEAR on Page Two
TRUMAN BIDS FOR WORKING
COOPERATION BY CONGRESS;
NOVIKOV HITS AT BRITISH
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Christmas Decorations Going Up
Employees of the Brooks Electrical Company are shown hanging
the Christmas lights in downtown Wilmington. The thousands of
multi-colored bulbs will be turned on Nov. 21 and will remain lighted
each night until Jan. 2. (STAB STAFF PHOTO BY BOB HODGKIN)
The Weather
FORECAST
South Carolina and North Carolina
Fair and considerably cooler Tuesday,
Colder Tuesday night; Wednesday fair,
not much change in temperature.
(Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the 24 hours
ending 7:30 p. rn. yesterday.
Temperatures
1:30 a. m. 66; 7:30 a. m. 67. 1:30 p. m.
77; 7:30 p. m. 71.
Maximum 78; Minimum 64; Mean 69;
Normal 57. *
Humidity
1:30 a. m. 93: 7:30 a. m. 88; 1:30 p. m.
56; 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 2.32
inches.
Tides for Today
(From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey).
High Low
Wilmington _ a.m. 6:39 a.m.
12:16 p.m. 7 :35 p.m.
Masonboro Inlet _ 9:57 a.m. 3:30 a.m.
10:23 p.m. 4:18 p.m.
Sunrise 6:42; Sunset 5:10; Moonrise
8:26 p. m.; Moonset 10:30 a. m.
BLIZZARDTAKES
THIRTEEN LIVES
Temperature ExtremesCon
tinueAcrossNation; Cold
In West, SouthWarm
By The Associated Press
Temperature extremes continued
across the nation Monday, but
forecasters said generally fair and
rather cold weather was indicated
for the north central states Tues
day.
Temperatures dropped Monday
in the snow swept northern great
plains and unseasonal warmth con
See BLIZZARD on Page Two
ARPORT MAY BE
STATE TERMINUS
Airline Officials Express
Highest Praise For
City’s Facilities
1 State Airlines, of Charlotte, is def
initely interested in Wilmington as
its operating base when and if it re
ceives Civil Aviation board approv
al for its planes to establish an
air lines linking the city with five
states, Neil B. Berboth, the com
pany’s president, said here last
night.
Berboth made his statement
after an afternoon inspection tour
of the city’s Bluethenthal airport,
See AIRPORT On Page Two
TEACHER DEARTH
HITS 2,000,000
NEA Survey Indicates
Serious Situation Affect
ing Children Of Nation
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11—(£■)—'The
National Educational association
estimated Monday that two million
pupils have been “seriously affect
ed’’ by the teacher shortage.
“This estimated total does not
take into account the quality losses
resulting from overcrowded classes
and lower teacher morale brought
See TEACHER on Page Two
SOVIET VIEW
Russian News Reporter
Describes Atlanta Case
LONDON, Nov. 11—m—If the
people of Atlanta, Ga., want to
know, how one recent Atlanta in
cident was pictured in Russia,
Monday’s report by the Russian
news agency Tass will tell them.
The following dispatch was sent
by Tass for publication in Tues
day’s Russian newspapers, and was
distributed in London by the news
agency under the headlines “Brown
Shirts in U.S.A.—New Pro-Fascist
Group Beats up Negroes.”
"Soon after the reactionary Tal
madge, known for his anti-Negro
campaign, won the Democratic
party nomination as Governor of
Georgia, a new pro-Fascist group,
the 'Columbian,’ began organizing
in Atlanta. It was organized by a
certain Loomis, who arrived in
Georgia after the election of Tal
madge. The ‘Columbians’ have
adopted a brown shirt as uniform,
with insignia somewhat resembling
the swastika.
“In October the ‘Columbians’
raided a residential block. They
posted ‘guards’ before the homes
of the white people, fired shots
and threw stones into Negro homes.
The police did not act until one
See RUSSIAN on Page Two
Republicans
Promise Aid
For Progress
President Breaks Election
Silence With Armistice
Day Policy Statements
STRESSES HARMONY
Senator Brooks Says Ma
jority Will Follow ‘Real
American’ Programs
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 —
(JP)—President Truman de
livered a conciliatory bid Mon
day for cooperation of the
new GOP Congress and Re
publicans responded cordially
although with qualifications.
Breaking his election sil
ence with a policy statement
to an Armistice Day news
conference, Mr. Truman
candidly acknowledged that
the present situation—the legis
lative branch Republican and the
executive branch Democratic for
at least two years—“threatens
serious difficulties”.
But he said both are equally de
voted “to the welfare of our na
tion” and when differences arise
there must be no attempt on either
side “to tamper with the public
interest in order to achieve per
; sonal of partisan advantage.”
I shall cooperate ip every prop
er manner with members of the
Congress,” he added, "and my
hope and prayer is that this spirit
of cooperation will be reciprocat
ed.”
Republican Congressional leaders
promptly and unanimously said
they will cooperate — "cooperate
to secure progress and security
in the American way,’’ added Rep.
Martin (R.-Mass.), slated to be
speaker of the House. Rep. Taber
(R.-N.Y.), prospective chairman
See REPUBLICANS On Page Two
POLICE MOBILIZE
TO PROTECT KING
Scotland Yard Takes Every
Precaution Against Pos
sible Attack On Ruler
LONDON, Nov. 11—(IP)—Military
and civilian police mobilized Mon
day night to guard King George
VI from any conceivable terrorist
attacks when he rides in pre-war
pomp and splendour Tuesday to
open the second session of parlia
ment since the Labor party eame
to power.
Th. precautions overshadowed
the traditional King’s .speech
drafted by the T ibor government
and expected to blaze new trails
of nationalization and endorse what
the labor party has heretofore op
posed—peacetime conscription.
From the time the King leaves
Buckingham palace at 10:30 a. m.
(5:30 a. m. Eastern Standard
time) in the state coach until he
reaches the Houses of Parliament
as the center of attraction In a
procession of pre-war pageantry,
guards in and out of uniform will
patrol the crowds with more than
wartime viligance.
Scotland yard, oommenting of
reports that the Stem gang or
See POLICE On Page Two ,j
And So To Bed
- *
The long arm of the law
stretches Into many places, but
last night when a local gend
arme was walking his beat he
was confronted by a man wear
in a night shirt underneath his
three-quarter length coat.
“Say buddy,” he asked the
officer, “where is the back
door to the hospital?” where
upon the officer asked the man
what he was doing on the
street at night in such attire.
“I am a patient over at the
hospital and I just went for
a walk and they locked me
out.”
The officer obllngiy called the
hospital and the man was re
admitted i