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Aid The Disabled 4 ^ ^ ** &P u U&s umttmtim mnnttttn j^tar and mild.___ VOL. 80.—NO. 28.____WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1946 ESTABLISHED 1867 Federal Jury Indicts Fire Alarm Makers Gamewell Company Of Massachusetts, Five Offi cers Cited In Case monopolycharged Government Seeks Dissipa tion Of Effects Of Patent Rights Abuses WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.— (/P)_Attorney General Clark announced Thursday the in dictment of a Massachusetts company and five of its of ficers on charges of monopo lizing the manufacture and distribution of municipal fire alarm equipment. Clark said the indictment was returned by a federal grand jury at Boston. In a statement he listed the de fendants as: The Gamewell company of New ton Upper Falls, Mass.; and these Gamewell officials; Frederick B. Philbrick, president, W a b a n, Mass.; Vincent C. Stanley, former president and now consultant tc the President, Boston; Matthew Porosky, president of Eagle Signal corp., A Gamewell subsidiary, Mo line. 111.; Edward J. McCarthy, general sales manager, Wellesley, Mass.; and Grenfell Swim, assist ant to the general sales manager, Needham. Mass. Clark said the American District Telegraph Co. of New York city and its p;esident, Edmond A. Ward of Maplewood, N. J., also were named as defendants in the first two counts of the four-count indict ment. He said they were charged with “conspiring with the Game well Comptny to restrain and monopolize trade in both the leas ing of fire alarm equipment to pub lic and private institutions and the sale of such equipment to munici palities.” The attorney general said this See FEDERAL on Page Seven COUNTY TO AE DPT BEER ORDINANCE Recorder’s Court Holds Minutes Of Board Lack Authority The County Board of Commis sioners will pass a new ordinance forbidding the sale of beer in New Hanover county on Sundays, Addison Hewlett, Sr., its chairman, indicated yesterday. Hewlett’s statement came after Deputy Recorder George L. Peschau had ruled that no existing county law renders Sunday beer sales illegal. Judge Peschau issued his ruling to quash charges against J. M. Traywick, 36, of Seagate, on charges of selling beer illegal on Sunday. The deputy recorder allowed a motion to quash the proceedings by Addison Hewlett, Jr., Tray wick's attorney, on the grounds that "records exhibited by the state showing certain minutes of the county commissioner do not SecjjRDIXAXCE on Page Seven MBONE’S meditations By Alley Kim'u bob dom' NevuK GIT TH'oo WlP PE Sunday papuh Twell OLE 'OMAM POME. Thumk UP some fool thing Pun me T' i>oJ! _ KLM AIR TRANSPORT CRASHES KILLING ALL PASSENGERS, CREW A KLM (Dutch Airlines) trans port en route from London to Amsterdam crashed while land ing at Schiphol airport near Amsterdam at 7:50 p. m. (8:80 p. m. EST) Thursday night, killing all 26 persons — 21 pas sengers and 5 crewmen — aboard, KLM’s London office announced. ' The KLM announcement said five of the passengers and the pilot were British, while the other victims were all citizens of the Netherlands. The line spokesman said that so far as he knew, no prominent persons were aboard the plane. The names of the victims will be released after next of kin have been notified, he said. The cause of the crash had not been determined. “One KLM Dakota aircraft on a Croydon (London airport) to Amsterdam flight crashed on landing at 1950 hours (7:50 p. m.) Thursday near Schiphol airport,” the line’s announce ment said. “Twenty-one pas sengers and five members of the crew were killed. Five pas sengers and the pilot were British and the remainder were Dutch.” PLANS COMPLETED FOR SCRAP DRIVE Wrightsville And Harbor Island Added To City Campaign Sunday In response to numerous requests the Senior Fraternity has extended the scope of its scrap paper drive on Sunday to include Wrightsville Beach and Harbor Island, Elwood Dobson, chairman of the route committee, announced last night. The entire city will be canvassed during the campaign Sunday as the members of the Senior Fratern ity strive to top a set quota ol 100,000 pounds of old newspapers and magazines. Dobson pointed out that adjacent residential areas to the city, such as Winter Park, will be solicited for scrap paper donations during the "Sunday cam paign. Funds realized from the scrap paper drive will be used to pur chase a piano and additional equip ment for the kitchen of the Brigade Boys’ club. Showing their appreciation for the assistance of the Senior Fra ternity, many volunteers from the boys club will aid the members ol the fraternity in collecting the pa per Sunday. Everything is in readiness for the drive, N. J. Kelly, president of the sponsoring organization, re vealed last night. Kelly reported that all prelimi nary work by the various commit tees has been completed. R. C. Shackleford, who is heading the truck committee for the ' Senior Fraternity, said that to date 18 trucks had been placed at the dis posal of the organization to colled the paper on Sunday. Kelly again reminded the public that paper still remains on the list of critical materials and that a donation to the campaign Sunday will not only aid the Brigade Boys’ club but will also help alleviate the current shortage of paper. All residents of city, Wrightsville Beach and Harbor Island were requested to have their bundles of old newspapers and magazines See SCRAP DRIVE On Page Seven Choirboys Win DIJON, France, Nov. 14 — (U.R) — A 12-day strike of choirboys here ended in victory for the strikers Thursday when church authorities agreed to a 600 per cent wage in crease and promised preferential hiring for profitable marriage cerempnies. The choirister had refuse^ to voice further paeans of praise at the prevailing rate of 1 Franc (0.84 cent) per mass, complaining that at that price it would take them six months to save up enough to buy a bar of chocolate. The churchmen agreed to their demands for a wage of 6 Francs ($5.04 cents) for each mass. Today And Tomorrow By WALTER LIPPMANN I— By WALTER LIPPMANN What Should Mr. Truman Do? It will take some doing if Con gress and the President are to honor the pledges which they have exchanged. It is easier for them to say they will cooperate than it will be for them to do it. For it will be more than a mat ter of overcoming the division be tween the two parties. Each of the parties is itself divided into factions. The Democrats are no longer united by an agreed pro gram, party discipline and recog nized leaders; the Republicans have not yet achieved a program, a discipline and leaders who unite them. The titular leaders—for the Democrats Mr. Truman, Mr. Bark ley, Mr. Rayburn, and Mr. Mc Cormack; for the Republicans Mr. Taft, Mr. Vandenberg, Mr. Martin —can agree upon joint national action only after they have come to terms with the divergent and rival factions in their own ranks. With the election of 1948 im pending, with Mr. Truman still a candidate, the Republicans will be sorely tempted to make a public spectacle of Mr. Truman’s help lessness. The best of the Republi cans will not wish to treat him as a political prisoner, trussed up and caged for torture. But all the Re publicans are not the best Repub See LIPPMANN on Page Eight SMALh NATIONS RISE IN REVOLT AGAINST vF/if/Power rights under un charter; t/f COMMITTEE FA VORS “INCOME” SLASH - • * Republicans Would Limit Presidency Steering Group Recom mending 8-Year Tenure For White House 'Boss’ CALL FOR SAVINGS Martin Dodges Issue Of Controversial Commit tee Chairmanships WASHINGTON, Nov. 14. —OP)—The House Republican steering committee Thursday agreed upon a 20 per cent individual income tax cut, an eight-year limit to the Presi dent’s tenure, and “construc tive” labor legislation. That preliminary legisla tive program was agreed to by a score of party leaders, including members of the policy-shaping steering committee and other Congressmen who sal in at the first meeting since Re publicans won control of Congress in last week’s elections. The group, presided over by Rep. Martin of Massachusetts, who will become speaker of the House when the new Congress convenes on Jan. 3, also called for: "Substantial savings x X x on a practical basis.” Elimination o f governmental See REPUBLICANS on Page Seven HIERS BACKS SHIP FIRM APPLICATION Wilmington Port Official Speaks Before Commis sion On Route 11 Case WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 — (JP) - The South Atlantic Steamship co. Savannah, Ga., tonight coupled its application for a governmental subsidy for North Atlantic opera tions, with a request for redefini tion of Essential Trade Route No 11 to include Hampton Roads ports The application was entered al the closing session of a three-da> Maritime commission hearing on petitions of four steamship com panies for government aid to oper ate in the TransAtiantic trade. The division line between U. S. Norfh and South Atlantic ports is now Cape Hatteras, and Route 11 Is confined by the present defini tion to trade between ports south of Cape Hatteras and those in the United Kingdom and in Continental Europe North of the Spanish bord er. South Atlantic is the only one oi the four companies seeking gov eminent subsidy for North At lantic trade operations interested in Route II. The other three companies, Unit ed States Lines company, Black Diamond Steamship Corporation and the Arnold Bernstein Steam ship corporation are contesting over rights to serve ports in the Antwerp-Hamburg range from U. S. North Atlantic ports. United States lines, however, has See HIERS on Page Seven North Carolina Symphony Orchestra The North Carolina Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Benjamin Swalin conductor, which is,to visit Wilmington next April. When the orchestra played here last year the high school auditorium was filled by a capacity audience. The Wilmington committee In charge of the return engagement is engaged in a preliminary campaign especially to obtain donor memberships. The general drive will be held in February. See Story on Page Sixteen.___ HOPES MOUNTING FOR PORT FUNDS Early Go-Ahead Signal On Maintenance Work Is Expected Rep. J. Bayard Clark emerged from a two-hour conference with Washington officials of the U. S. Army Engineers yesterday “high ly optimistic” that funds will soon be released for maintenance work on the lower Cape Fear, he told the Star by telephone last night. Representative Clark laid before the engineers a plea that restora tion of the Cape Fear to its au thorized 30-foot depth below Wil mington should be treated as an emergency measure in their re stricted rivers and harbors main tenance program. The engineers’ officials assured Clark at the same time that some $55,000 of frozen funds will be re leased for replacement of Cape Fear river dikes in the Kelly sec tion of Bladen county, the Star’s Washington Bureau reported last night. The engineers were ready to let the contract for the project when President Truman’s executive ord er last summer froze public works funds, the bureau recalled. In the meantime Wilmington City Attorney William B. Camp bell, and Cyrus D. Hogue, chair man of the city’s Port Commis sion, yesterday completed prepa ration of a resolution targing re lease of necessary funds for re storing the Cape Fear’s 30-foot See FUNDS on Page Seven New Youth Draft MOSCOW, Nov. 14 — (U.R) —The Soviet Council of ministers Thurs day decreed a new draft of 200,000 younths, including girls, to enter factory, industrial and railway labor training schools from Nov. 15 to Dec. 15. This was the second draft for labor reserves under the new five year plan which by 1950 is schedul ed to produce 4,500,000 newly trained workers. The first mobilization call was for 250,000 youths early last sum mer, when some 200,000 volunteer ed. Pravda said it expected the forthcoming draft would be filled entirely by volunteers. Along The Cape Fear INVITATION — “The pleasant city of Wilmington invites enter prising People and Capitalists from all parts ofthe civilized world. “The city has recently appro priated, by popular vote, $150,000 for the purpose of encouraging manufacturing and there are splen did openings here for men of push and energy." When we read these lines we could just see John H. Farrell, the city’s industrial ajent, swelling with pride. Our revelry was cut short how ever when we pictured what alarm must come to the heart of J. R. Benson, our cautious city manager who continually cautions against any extraordinary appropriation that might throw the Port City’s balanced budget out of balance. So before Mr. Farrell dreams too many dreams or Mr. BendP de mands when “by popular vote" the city appropriated $150,00, we should point out that the above startling news was gleaned from a July 17th, 1889 edition of a Port Citl news paper. FAR FRt>M ALL—Now that our city manager and our city in dustrial agent are placed at ease let us continue with a few of the advantages pointed out to “peo ple from all parts of the civilized world.” "This city offers extraordinary advantages for manufacturing. Our climate is healthy and favors work the entire year. Labor is abundant and cheap; living economical; freight rates are low by rail to interior points; shipping rates by steamships and vessels, low to all parts of the world. No better point for profitable investment,” so ex pounded the 1889 publicist for Wil mington. And don’t think for one moment that our resort area was neglect ed. Indeed not SENCBA take note: “Wrightsville, The Hammocks, Ocean View, Carolina Beach. Wil mington’s Summer and Winter re sorts, are essentialy North Caro lina institutions, and they are in every respect enjoyable and offer See CAPE FEAR on Page Seven State’s Delegation Backs SPA Proposal The Weather FORECAST Wilmington and vicinity — Fair and slightly warmer today and tonight; Sat urday partly cloudy and mild (Eastern Standard Time) (By V. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. yesterday. Temperatures 1:30 a.m. 45; 7:30 a.m. 39; 1:30 p.m. 59. 7:30 p.m. 54. Maximum 62; Minimum 38; Mean 50; Normal 56. Humidity 1:30 a.m. 73; 7:30 a.m. 82; 1:30 p.m. 36; 7:30 p m. 65. 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 _ 2:29 a.m. 9:38 a.m. 3:03 p.m. 10:23 p.m. Masonboro Inlet _ 12:33 a.m. 6:30 a.m. 1:02 p.m. 7:24 p.m. Sunrise 6:45; Sunset 5:08; Moonrise 11:47 p.m.; Moonset 1:07 p.m. River stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8 a.m. Thursday, 10.7 feet. CITY WILL ISSUE $1,003,000 BONDS State Commission To Put Issue On Market In Near Future The North Carolina Local Gov ernment Commission will put Wil mington’s $1,003,000 city extensior bond issue on the market shortl> before Christmas, City Manager J. R. Benson reported last night. Mayor W. Ronald Bane and Ben son secured the commission’s ap proval for early issuance of the bonds at a conference in Raleigh yesterday. The local delegation requested a quick issue on the grounds that the city had already contracted to spend 1400,000 of the funds ii will provide for extension of water, sewer, fire alarm, and pavement facilities into the new city areas The city council, Mayor Lane and Benson pointed out, has al ready spent $50,000 for the Sunset Park water system, and has con See BONDS on Page Seven Offer Of $1,200,000 For Shipyard Here Made To Commission North Carolina’s entire Congres sional delegation has thrown its weight behind the State Ports au thority’s proposal to take over the North Carolina Shipbuilding com pany’s vast Wilmington yards as a site for future industrial and port development, according to an As sociated Press dispatch from Washington received here last night... — Rep. J. Bayard Clark told the United States Maritime commis sion yesterday that Tar Heel Con gressmen are ready to return to Washington if their presence would expediate state acquisition of the yards, the dispatch said. R. B. Page, of Wilmington, the authority’s chairman, yesterday put before the commission a pro posal that the state purchase the yard for $1,200,000. The State wants the local yard in order to develop Wilmington as an efficient state port, Page and Clark told the commission. Former North Carolina Gover nor J- Melville Broughton, counsel for the Ports authority, told a re porter he anticipated favorable consideration of yesterday’s pro posal, the Associated Press said. He pointed out the eastern sec tion of the state particularly needs shipping to lower freight rates for tobacco, lumber, cotton and ferti lizer. Broughton told the commission the states produces 70 percent of the country’s flue-cured tobacco, 45 percent of which is exported and much of which is produced in the eastern section of the state. The state is third in lumber pro duction and the biggest user oi commercial fertilizer, he added. Broughton said the Wilmington area has had “serious unemploy ment impact since the shipyards closed sometime ago.” Clark explained that Wilmington and the rest of the state suffered during the war because the port was “practically throttled when no convoys were allowed between Norfolk, Va. and Charleston, S. C.” The state now is entitled to special consideration, therefore, he insist ed. W. N. Parks, formerly with the shipbuilding company, expressed the opinion state use of the yards would keep them in better condi tion than “stand-by” retention, See DELEGATION on Page Seven AGE SCORES Ancient Abacus Wins Tilt With Best Adding Gadget! NEW YORK, Nov. 14 — UP) — I Twentieth century mechanical genius and the centuries-old Abacus battled it out here Thursday. The winner: a • smiling little Chinese student and a bunch of wooden beads in a wooden frame. The contest was believed to be the first public demonstration in this country after a Japanese in Tokyo showed that modern calcu lating methods aren’t so modem after all. The results left onlookers shak ing their heads. P. T .So, who is studying at Columbia university to be a banker, sat at a small table In a radio studio (MBS) beside Miss Dorothy Boudreau, pretty 22-year-old pay roll office employe. A large calculating machine was brought in and put before Miss Boudreau. Precise Mr. So self consciously reached into a brief case and brought out the toy like Abacus.' Then, while figures were called out to him in Chinese, his fingers flew over the board. He pushed two wooden beads up here, pulled down three there, flipped another bead See ABACUS on Page Seven i WYATT POSTPONES HOUSING DECISION Federal Housing Expediter Expected To Rule Soon On Lake Forest Federal Housing Expeditor Wil son W. Wyatt yesterday postponed until early next week his crucial decision on the eligibility of Vet erans Homes, Inc., an ex-service men’s cooperative, to purchase the Lake Forest development as war surplus from the Federal Public Housing administration. Wyatt’s decision is not expected before next w'eek, according to Wesley Pearce, National Housing director of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, which is pushing the local ex-servicemen’s application. The federal housing administra tor requested postponement of a scheduled conference with Nation al VFW Commander Louis E. Starr and Pearce yesterday on the grounds that he is still assembling facts for his decision, Pearce in formed E. C. Snead, local VFW commander, by telephone last night. In the meanwhile, Starr and Pearce were scheduled to leave Washington this morning to attend a meeting of the VFW’s national legislative committee in Chicago over the week-end. Starr said yesterday that he ex pects to take up the Lake Forest case with Wyatt upon his return to Washington Tuesday, according to word received here last night from the Star’s Washington bu reau. Nearly a score of veterans co operatives like the group which seeks Lake Forest are awaiting Wyatt’s decision on the local ap plication. See HOUSING on Page Seven UN Hunt Narrows LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y„ Nov. 14 — (JP) — The United Nations Head quarters committee Thursday voted 39-2 to limit the hunt for a perma nent site to the New York, Phil adelphia, San Francisco and Boston areas. The New York location would in clude the Westchester-Fairfield area on the New York-Conneticut line where the General Assembly originally voted to settle. A snb-committee now will be set up to investigate and report on the four areas and it was believed likely that at least part of the group would make early tours of the prospective sites near San Francis co, Boston and Philadelphia. Walkout May Be Ace Card Arce States Cuba,Philippines Delegates Charge “Dictatorship” Against Big Five polandFagainst Russia Again Blocks Final Peace Pact For Italy By Trieste Demand LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Nov. 14.— (JP) —Small coun tries of the United Nations rose in revolt against the veto Thursday with cries of big power “dictatorship” and a warning from Argentina that the little nations could exer cise a veto of their own by walking out of the assembly. Cuba and the Philippines made the “dictator ship” charge against the live major powers holding the veto right in the Security council on all vital decisions. Cuba charged specifically that retention of the veto would make small countries “vassals and satel lites” subject to five-power “dic tatorship.” Seven nations sounded off against the veto in a three-hour meeting of the 51-nation Political commit tee. Poland, tho eighth country See WALKOUT on Page Seven EIGHTY-FIVE VETS RECEIVE DIPLOMAS Roland Lists Successful Candidates For High School Graduation New Hanover High school has granted diplomas to 85 World War H ex-servicemen since it launched its accelerated courses for veterans last April, County School Superin tendent H. M. Roland reported yes terday. Out of the 200 veterans who un« dersook the stepped-up NHHS course last April, 60 are still in school, Roland declared. "This means that, for one reason or another, only one quarter oi those undertaking the course have so far failed to complete it. When you consider that all . of them un dertook it voluntarily and are stay ing through by their own volition, that is a record to be proud of," he asserted. A list of diploma recipients in the course so far follows: Robert P. Bender, William H. Bennett, Earl Leo Bowen, James R. Branch, Jr., James E. Brown, Dennis W. Bush, Carson B. Carlton, Heister C. Cease, William L. Chad wick, Thomas A. Conway. Robert L. Cowan, Jr., James R. Danion, Douglas A. Daughtry, Carl N. Davis, George F. Dew, Jr., Rus sell D. Dyehes, Constantine T. Fokakis, Edward D. Fox, Charles R. Garrett, Jr., Robert H. Gilbert. Frenchy W. Greer, William X. Grimstead, Alton L. Groves, Lloyd E. Hales, Wiley S. A. Hall, Charles M. Harrell, Earl Hilbum, Clarence B. Holden, Jr., James B. Holder, Jr., Charles D. Holland. Walter T. Hughes, David C. James, Otis L. Jeffords, George W, Jeffrey, m, James T. Johnson See DIPLOMAS on Page BevtB And So To Bed The hustle and bustle of the news room sometimes results in some item being overlooked. This is what almost happen ed to “And So To Bed” this morning. It was nearing press time, the forms were ready to be re leased to the press room when it was discovered there was no “And So To Bed". Every member of the com posing, news, mailing and press crews were quickly can vassed and no one knew a good “And So To Bed”. So . . . “And So To Bed".
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