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Aid The Disabled Served By Leased Wires f of the - UNITED PRESS FORECAST and the « _ Fair ASSOdATEJl PRESS' continued cool today and tonight. With Complete Coverage of _ . ... State and National New* VOL^-“"NO. 26.___ ESTABLISHED 1867 [film Labor Czar Pictured in Los Angeles is Joseph D. Keenan who has been proposed as labor czar of the jurisdictional film strike, which has crippled production at (lie major studios in i- -iywood for weeks. At a press conference, Keenan said he would accept the port if an agreement was reached between the striking factions. (In ternational Soundpboto) PRICE OF SOAPS WILL JUMP SOON American Buisness Gen erally Bent On Holding To Cost Lines NEW YORK, Nov. 12—(JPh-One time OPA price levels were shattered Tuesday in more than half a dozen different industrial fields but a hold-the-price-line sentiment ruled at least temporar ily in many areas of American business. A cross-country check by the Associated Press underscored these among other increases since Presi dent Truman suddenly cut the shines on most prices last Saturday night: A boost of 50 percent by major soap manufacturers; and increase of $2.50 a ton in steel scrap; boosts of $100 for passenger cars by Gene ral Motors and Crosley motors; advances in varing amounts for cooper, lead, zinc and tin recover ed from scrap ;a nine percent in crease in farm equipments by In See PRICE On Page Two COUNCIL TO FACE ZONE RULE CHANGE Application To Be Present ed For Drug Store At Next Session The City Council may be faced Wednesday with a proposal for the first amendment in its two months-old zoning law — a narrow ly-confined law change involving only the four intersecting corn ers 11 Fourth and Meares Street. n On the other hand, when the council sits for the first time next Wednesday as its own Board of Adjustment under the zoning act, '! may restrict itself to approving me application of 0. G. Parker to construct a drug store at Fourth and Meares, which is located in a residential sector, from which new commercial construction is ordi See COUNCIL On Page Two BAHBONE’S meditations By Alley AnwBods Km BE toPUR £F D6'i Don' KfcER Wrto De.'i 6ITS ^OP'IAK w/ip tH S-1— as* Pit om«r NEW MOVE ^ SPA Would Purcha: Mo re Shipyard Land Committee Will Ask Maritime Commission Thursday To Sell It Larger Part Of Holdings; May Employ 3,000 Men The State Ports authority to morrow will ask the United States Maritime Commission to sell it the larger part of Wil mington’s vast North Carolina Shipbuilding company yards for a development which will in clude establishment of ship repair docks employing some 3,000 workers, it was learned yesterday. The SPA’s proposal will be presented to Maritime com mission officials in Washing ton at ten o’clock tomorrow morning by a committee con sisting of United States Sena tor Clyde R. Hoey, U. S. Rep resentative J. Bayard Clark, former Governor J. Melville Broughton, the authoriy’s coun sel, and R. B. Page, its chair man. The authority spokesman will lay before the commission a proposal that the SPA take over most of the local shipyard for industrial and drydock pur poses, the Star’s Washington Bureau reported last night. The SPA wants to use the southern end of the yard for its projected 3,000-worker ship repair docks, and as a center for expansion of Wilmington’s terminal and tobacco ware house facilities, it is understood. The Northern section of the yard would be used as the site of heavy industries con sidering location here. Two months ago, the Star’s Washington bureau recalled, the Maritime commission of See SPA On Page Two i HIRTY LOSE LIVES IN TRAIN CRASH AT BAR-LE-DUC FRANCE BAR-LE-DUC, France, Nov. 12 — (U.R) — Thirty-two persons were kill ed Monday and 50 injured — 30 critically — when a freight train, speeding through heavy fog on the Paris-Strasbourg line, slammed into the rear of a passenger local stand ing in the station at Revigny, ten miles northwest of here. Thirty of the dead, most of them from the Revigny area, have been identified. They included a num ber of students who were return ing to their classes following the armistice week-end holiday. Some 40 of the injured who had been taken to hospitals in the area were released Tuesday night after treatment of minor injuries, but others were in critical conditions and the death toll was expected to mount even higher. Officials of the French National railroad said that their investiga tion of the collision had been ham pered by the deaths of the engineer, fireman, and conductor of the freight. BLAKE SELECTED AS STUDENT HEAD Wilmington College Center Elects Class Officers; Meeting Called Donald Blake has been named class president of the Wilmington Center of the University of North Carolina, the student election coun cil announced last night following a tabulation of the votes cast by the student body in Monday’s elec tion. Blake won over two other can didates, Selma Coble and Dan Vick, seeking the top spot in the student government. Named vice president was Hugh Fox who defeated Sam Loftin, while Betty Duff was selected sec retary over Claude Baldwin. Jack McCready was named treasurer winning over Charles Clark. The five successful candidates for the executive council were Lyn wood Bradshaw, John Collum, Rus sell Dyches, Victor Herring and Ed Lamb. Also seeking posts on the council were Joe Glover, Bill ie Hammond, Thomas Lee, E. L. Mathews, and Homer Peterson. Approximately 111 ballots were cast by the student body number ing over 200. Voting in several of the contests was extremely close with as few as three votes differ ence deciding at least two of the races, a well-informed source stated. An orientation meeting of the new officers has been called for to morrow at the New Hanover High school where the college center classes are conducted. HAGANA TO CURB STERN ACTIVITY Jewish Underground Or ganization Seizing Arms From Terrorist Gangs JERUSALEM, Palestine, Nov. 12 — (U.R) — Police quarters said Tues day they could confirm that the big Jewish underground organiza tion Hagana had started “educa tional measures” — raids on secret arms caches — to curb the violence of the Irgun Zvai Leumi and Stern groups. An informant said that the con firmation was received “with sat isfaction.” In several instances, it was said, Hagana agents had raided Irgun ammunition and arms dumps and either had taken away or blown up the arms and explosives found. Police said they believed the cam paign, long threatened by Hagana if violence continued, was now in full swing. (However, a British broadcast re corded by CBS said that main elec tric power lines had been cut out side Jerusalem Tuesday night and that the city was in darkness.) To Admit Jews Gen Sir Alan Cunningham, the high commissioner, announced Tuesday night that 300 Jews will be admitted to Palestine from the Cyprus internment camp under the immigration quota for the month starting Nov. 15. An ad ditional 843 Jews who entered Pal estine in violation of immigration law also will be certified as legal immigrants. The remaining 357 certificates of the usual monthly total of 1,500 will be issued to rela tives of Jews now in Palestine. For the month starting Dec. 15, Cunningham said, 750 certificates will be issued for Jews interned in Cyprus. Quake Takes Toll LIMA, Peru, Nov. 12. —(#>)— More than 70 persons perished in a series of severe earthquakes which destroyed towns, wrecked roads, and dammed up rivers last Sun day in the interior of Peru. Con tinued earth tremblings were re ported. Communications with many com munities were cut off because of toppled telegraph poles, and it was feared that the known death toll would mount much higher when complete reports are received. More than 40 persons died in Sihuas, a town of 11,540 situated 250 miles north of Lima, news re ports said, and at least 30 more perished at Pomabamba. Direct communication still had not been established with Sihuas, but the information ministry said it under stood the town was a heap of ruins. Today And Tomorrow By WALTER LIPPMANN The trouble with Senator Ful bright’s suggestion is> as many have already pointed out, that it would enable Mr. Truman to by pass primaries, nominatiing con ventions, elections, and to appoint the President of the United States. No Republican could afford to ac cept the Presidency on these terms. Nor ig there any chance that the Senate would confirm the appoint ment of Mr. Truman’s nominee. But this does not dispose of the problem to which Senator Ful bright was addressing himself. The problem remains, and if Sena tor Fulbright has given the wrong answer, he has, nevertheless asiced 1 the right question. Two very serious defects in our political systems have, through no particu lar fault of Mr. Truman’s been sharply revealed. For more than two years the action of government will be sub ject to a constant danger of stale mate and destructive conflict. Moreover, in case Mr. Truman were unable to finish his term, his Successors would be, first, Mr. Byrnes and then Mr. Snyder, neither of whom has ever been nominated for President or elected. That Mr. Byrnes has the qualifica tions of a good President is, I be lieve, true. But he would have no See LIPPMANN on Page Two V WP LEADER ADVOCATES 20 PER CENT REDUCTION IN 1947 INCOME TAXES; BYRNES STANDS PA T ON PORT PLAN i Council Wars On Future Of Adriatic City United States Lodges Pro test On Soviet Proposal To Modify Peace Pact TRIESTEAT"STAKE Ministers Push Aside Offer By Italy To Negotiate Direct With Yugoslavs NEW YORK, Nov. 12.— (JP) — The Foreign Ministers council tangled Tuesday night on the future of troubled Trieste after the United States lodged its firm opposi tion to a Soviet proposal for modification of an Italian peace pact clause on control of the ancient Adriatic port. The council reached no final settlement on the issue, but pushed aside—temporarily at least—an apparent willingness on the part of Italy to undertake in dependent negotiations with Yugo slavia. Foreign Minister Molotov of Rus sia attempted unsuccessfully to re turn the problem of Trieste to the council’s deputies for a further study on the basis of two points which would, in effect: 1. Cut down the authority of the appointive governor of Trieste. See COUNCIL on Page Two HEAVY BOND SET FOR OPIUM CASE Arizona'Business Man’Held By Narcotics Buerau After Long Chase PHOENIX, Ariz., Nov. 12—(A>)— A year-long, 1,500-mile investiga tion reached to the curb of a side street Phoenix restaurant to grab the wily little "professor”—Robert Dudley Linville, 45—described by U. S. Narcotics Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger as the top man of international narcotics traffic. Linville was held upder $75,000 bond in the county jail Tuesday on charges of selling opium to a fed eral undercover agent. He will be arraigned Wednesday. Until a squad of federal agents seized him Saturday night as he stepped from a 1946 model auto mobile, Linville was known locally only as the reputed czar of pros titution in the city. In those circles he was referred to as “the profes sor.” In recent weeks he was able to shake off local charges of receiving the earnings of a prostitute and il See BOND on Page Two Along The Cape Fear KING COTTON — Thanks to Dr. Watts Farthing, well-known local surgeon, who was kind enough to loan Along The Cape Fear an April 24, 1812 issue of a newspaper we can report an interesting item that must have been the talk of the town a century and a third ago. This was found in a letter from the Rev. J. W. Brown, of Troy, New York. Now the Rev. Mr. Brown and Troy, New York, are quite remov ed from the Port City but the let ter is worthy of being quoted. Here’s what the good gentleman had to say: “In Baltimore, I became ac quainted with Dr. Nathaniel Pot ter, who studied under Dr. Ben jamin Rush, and whose character stands high in the line of his pro fession. Being conversing with him one day in the street, a person came by, with his hand wrapped up in a handkerchief; the doctor stop ped him and requested him to show me his hand, and informed me what was the matter with him. * * * BADLY BURNT — “He informed that on the Monday he was boiling some rosin to make up a salve for the sore back of a horse, being a farrier, the vessel being in danger of upsetting, he caught it with his hanc} and thereby scalded his fing er with the boiling rosin. “He said the pain was so exquis ite that he threw himself upon the ground in agony; but finding the rosin stuck to his fingers, he ap plied lard and melted off the rosin by the same fire. “He afterw'ards wrapped it in Cotton Wool, (or raw cotton) —the anguish moderated and the fingers soon healed. “On moving the handerchief, he noticed that there was scarcely the appearance of any scald; near the nail of the little finger was a small sore and some cotton stick ling to it; but he informed me that he intended the next day (Saturday) to lay aside the covering as it was no longer troublesome.” * * * SPREAD THE WORD — “The doctor referred me to a publication on the subject as he wished it to be universally known. On exam ining the piece, it contained a com munication from Dr. Hallam (if my memory is correct) to the editors, in which he states that a certain woman being carding cot See CAPE FEAR On Page Two Gets Preview Of Thanksgiving Day Dinner Looking over a well-fed and prize turkey .‘n New York City, Roger Philip Berg, 2, Union City, N. J., points to the drumstick he wants for Thanksgiving Day. “Tommy Twiddle” (The Turk), who was raised at Louisville, Ky., on a high-protein die. is on exhibit at National Hotel Exposition (Interna tional) KRUG CALLS COAL OPERATOR PARLEY F e d e r al Representatives Still Dickering With /' John L. Lewis By The Associated Press Secretary of Interior Krug, seek ing to avert a threatened new soft coal strike and to restore the mines to private ownership, invited coal operators to meet with him Wednesday. The operators have been absent from current conferences between representatives of the government and the United Mine workers seek ing to avert a threatened walkout of 400,000 soft coal diggers Nov. 20. Edward R. Burke, head of the Southern Coal Producers associa tion, termed Krug’s move the “only sensible thing to do.” He add See KRUG On Page Two To World Bottom WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 — (JP) — The Navy is sending 4,000 men with Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd to the bottom of the world this winter to train under harsh Polar condi tions. The expedition includes repre sentatives of the Army Air and ground forces, branches of defense which have had stiff tests in the Erozen north, together wth scient ists. Navy officials said at a news con ference Tuesday 13 snips will carry the force leaving next month with ane of its specific objectives to ‘‘consolidate and develop” the re sults of the Byrd expedition of 1938-41. The Weather FORECAST South Carolina — Wednesday fair and continued cool; scattered frost in north west and north central portion Tuesday night. North Carolina — Wednesday fair, and continued cool; scattered frost in West and Central portions night. (Eastern Standard Time) .:v (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. yesterday. Temperatures 1:30 a.m. 70; 7:30 a m. 61; 1:30 p.m. 68; 7:30 p.m. 60. Maximum 70; Minimum 60; Mean 61; Normal 57. Humidity 1:30 a m. 96; 7:30 a.m. 72. 1:30 p.m. 60; 7:30 p.m.-. 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 _12:35 a.m. 7:37 a.m. 1:11 p.m. 8:30 p.m. Masonboro Inlet 10:56 a.m. 4:25 a m. 11:26 p.m. 5:16 p.m. Sunrise 6:43 a.m.; Suniet 5:10 p.m. Moonrise 9:32 p.m. Moonset 11:32 a.m. River stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8 | a.m. Tuesday, 10.9 feet. MERCY MISSIONS SWEEP COLORADO Planes Drop Food, Medi cine To Man, Beast Iso lated By Snowstorms DENVER, Nov. 12. — [IP)— The greatest series of mercy missions in Colorado’s history winged over eastern and southern parts of the state Tuesday in a struggle against mountainous snowdrifts to save both human beings and livestock. Success climaxed many of the trips, but darkness found the pro vision-carrying work still unfinish ed and the mercy tasks will con tinue Wednesday. Sub-freezing temperatures pre vented the thawing of the drifts — some of them 10 to 18 feet high — piled up by snowstorms which have whipped the area since early last week. Clear skies aided the rescue efforts. Fifteen deaths have been attrib See MISSIONS On Page Two PORT GROUP WILL BACK BARGE LINE Colonel Boyd To Testify At ICC Hearing On Waterway Carrier Lt.-Col. Henry E. Boyd, executive general manager of the Wilmington Port-Traffic Association will ap pear before an Interstate Com merce commission panel hearing in Richmond on Nov. 26 to back the request of the Baltimore, Norfolk and Carolina line to operate barges on the inland waterway, he said yesterday. The B. N. and C- is already pre paring to operate a steam-propell ed freight service on the waterway between Baltimore, Wilmington and Charleston with its first craft scheduled to leave Baltimore on Friday. Col. Boyd said yesterday that he will go before the I. C. C. to back the B. N. and C. line’s application for permission to operate barges on the waterway as a “’public con venience and necessity”. See BARGE LINE On Page Two ~“NoYoajF RALEIGH, Nov. 12 — (fP) — An amendment to the State constitu tion authorizing the payment of $10 a day expenses to members of the General assembly apparently was defeated in the November 5 general election by the narrow mar gin of 916 votes, an unofficial com plication of election returns show ed Tuesday. Returns from all of the 1929 pre cincts in the state showed that a total of 143,014 voters favored the amendment and 143,930 opposed it. Voters in 46 of the 100 counties ap proved the amendment and voters in the 54 other counties were against it. Tlie proposed amendment would have provided $10 a day in ex penses to each member of the Gen eral assembly for the first 60 days of any legislative session. GOOD NEWS Mother Recognizes Voice Of Son Reported Missing QUINCY, Mass., Nov. 12 — UP) — Tears of joy streamed down the face of Mrs. Joseph De Bartolo Tuesday as she identified over the trans-Atlantic telephons the 24-year-old GI who stumbled into UNRRA headquarters in Rome as her long-missing son. “Oh, thank'God Mikey, it’s you,” the happy mother sighed as she talked with her son over a hook-up arranged by the Boston Evening American. Micheal De Bartolo’s whereabouts since his strange disappearance in March, 1944, provided a mystery for the Army. Clad in tattered clothes and weak, he arrived at the UNRRA office in Rome Satur day to ask how the battle of Cas sino was going. De Bartolo recognized his mother’s voice immediately over the telephone, even though the re ception was faint. He told his mother that his mind was a blank during the 32 months he was missing. The Army report ed him first as missing fn action and later AWOL. “I’m kind of weak mom, but I’m all right,’’ he said. See MOTHER On Page Two Martin Will BackAcross Board Slash Heir-Apparent To House Speakership Favors Streamlining HOLDS CONFERENCE Steering Group To Meet Thursday To Lay Plans For Policy Program WASHINGTON, Nov. 12— (!P) — Rep. Joseph W. Martin, Jr., of Massachusetts, heir apparent to the speakership of the House of Representa tives, came out flatly Tuesday for a 20 per cent income tax reduction “straight across the board. He advocated also (1) close adherence to the Congression al “streamlining” plan approv ed last summer, (2) an indefinite reduction in government spending, and (3) legislation putting the speaker of the House in line for the Presidency in the event of vacancies in both the Presidency and the Vice Presidency. And, at his first news conference since Republicans won control of the House in the Novemoer 5 elec tion, the 62-year-old bachelor pub lisher indicated he will follow a See MARTIN On Page Two COMMISSIONERS STUDY PAY HIKE Opposition Voiced To Sug gested Increases For Air port Personnel A n economy-minded County Board of Commissioners took un der consideration a request for pay raises for two employes of Bluethenthal airport after a dis cussion in which two commission ers indicated that they would op pose any increase in the airport’s budget. Jesse Parker, the airport’s man ager, had written the board asking its approval for pay increases for George Mattox and Alton Wrench, two airport employes. The raises, he declared, had been approved by the Wilmington-New Hanover Airport authority at a meeting last week. The authority requested an in crease to $200 from $174 for Mattox and to $220 from $200.50 for Wrench. Commissioner Louis T. Coleman told the board that a man—using Wrench as an instance—"should be able to get along on $50 a week.’’ and expressed opposition to any change in salary schedules approved by the county board last summer. Commissioner Harry R. Gardner, who is also a member of the air port authority, expressed agree m e n t with Coleman in part and said that “we should study the budget further and see if ■ can stand the added expenditure. Commissioner George W. Trask declared that there "is no reason See COMMISSIONERS on Page 2 And So To Bed With a salute to some unsung and budding humorist whose labors grace the pages of the current issue of the school pub lication at Bradley Creek, And So To Bed W*U try to recall one gem which would do credit to many a humor magazine. The tale goes along these lines: Said Ant No. 1 to Ant No. 2 — “Say fellow, what’s the hurry,’’ as the first species of the family Formicidae to an other memer of the same clan racing by him atop a cracker box. Said Ant No. 2 to Ant No. 1 — “Can’t you read? It says ‘Tear Along This Line,” was the snappy reply. ; r
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