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o. MAX GARDNER
PRESIDENT NAMES
NORTH CAROLINIAN
0. Max Gardner Chosen As
United States Ambassa
dor To London
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—VP)—O.
Max Gardner, who made his first
trip to England on a cattle boat
"as chambermaid to 394 Montana
steers," is going back again—this
time as United States ambassador.
President Truman Tuesday ap
pointed the former Governor of
North Carolina to the vacant Lon
don post. He said a successor had
not yet been named for the office
Gardner is leaving as undersecre
tary of the Treasury.
Gardner told reporters he would
cot leave until he was confirmed
by the Senate “uniess there is some
reason I know nothing about now.”
"You don’t represent the full
power of the office until you’ve
been confirmed,” he explained.
His initial visit to England was
in 1945. he recalled. He was cap
tain of the University of North
Carolina football team and the team
worked its way across on the tat
tle boat.
The London Post has been vacant
since W. Averell Harriman left it
to become secretary of Commerce.
Born At Shelby
In politics for almost 40 years,
the 64-year-old Gardner was born
st Shelby, N. C., the youngest oi a
family of 12 children. His country
doctor father, Oliver Harry Gara
See PRESIDENT On Page 2; Col. 7
MIT MAY QUIT
HOUSING OFFICE
Expediter Reported Ready
To Step Down Within
Next 48 Hours
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3—(IF)—An
official in close touch with the
White House said Tuesday that
Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt
Wends to resign within the next
« hours as a result of failure to
powers he had demanded from
President Truman.
Wyatt visited the President Tues
jr.y afternoon for the second time
™is week seeking an answer to
ls proposals. After the conference
n0 official statement was forth.
[°®ing from the White House and
jatt declined to say whether or
n°t he intended to resign.
uie official who reported the re
of the conference said there
tons'10 c^ance further negotia
This official, who asked that he
See WYATT On Page 2: Col. 7
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OPINION
Legal Ruling Hits
Th ree State Roads
Attorney General McMullan Says NCUC
Has Authority To Carry Out Order
Against ACL, SAL, Southern
RALEIGH, Dec. 3 — {&) —
State Attorney General Harry
McCullan Tuesday ruled in an
opinion that the North Caro
lina Utilities commission has
the authority to carry out its
order for overcharge fares
against three railroads doing
business in the state.
The opinion says the commis
sion has the right to order the
railroads — Atlantic Coast
Line, Southern Railway and
Seaboard Air Line — to refund
overcharges made by the car
riers on interstate/ passenger
fares from Dec. 1, 1944 to July
25, 1945.
During this period, McCul
lan’s opinion said, the rail
roads collected 2.2 cents per
mile on interstate passenger
fares as authorized in an order
of the Inter-State Commerce
commission.
The North Carolina Utilities
commission, contesting the ICC
order, was reversed before a
three-judge Federal District
court, but an appeal of the Util
ities commission was upheld
by the U. S. Supreme court.
McCullan said the Supreme
court held the ICC order to be
illegal, and decided that the
Utilities commission order of
1.65 per mile on interstate pas
senger fares was authorized
and valid.
A sum of $551,196, McCullan
said, was collected in over
charges by the railroads. Per
See LEGAL On Page 2; Col. 6
WEATHERMAN HOLDS
OUT PROMISES FOR
MILDER TEMPERATURE
By The Associated Press
The weatherman promised fair
skies and higher temperatures to
day on the heels of yesterday’s
tumbling mercury, which hit sea
son lows generally throughout
North Carolina.
The U. S. Weather bureau in
Charlotte, predicted minimum
temperatures would range getween
20 and 25 degrees over most of the
state today, with a 28-30 low in the
coastal areas. It was expected to
warm up considerably during the
day.
In chalking up the coldest snap
so far in the fall season, the mer
cury yesterday dropped to 15 at
Greensboro, where a high of 35
for the day was recorded.
Temperatures ranges elsewhere
included: Raleigh 16-38; Winston
Salem 18-32; Charlotte 21-37 and
Asheville 22-36.
DEPUTIES LOCATE
EXPLOSIVE CACHE
Three Youths Cited Follow
ing Recovery Of Dyna
mite Caps Here
Two New Hanover county
sheriff’s deputies yesterday re
covered 2,138 dynamite caps buried
in a wooded area close to Carr
Avenue, and reported that three
14-year.old boys had buried the
deadly cache after stealing it late
last week from a Gregg 'Brothers
explosive dump located in a se
cluded spot outside the city.
It was Donald Conaway, 14-year
old Maffitt Village youth, who final
ly informed deputies of the,location
of the hoard which included 2000
plain and 138 electric dynamite
caps, Sheriff C. David Jones said
yesterday afternoon.
Young Conaway, along with Bob
by King, of Audubon, and Walter
Lane, of Winter Park, his alleged
associates in the theft, will be
turned over to Juvenile Court au
thorities, Jones declared.
Deputies S. W. Sneeden and G.
R. Koonce uncovered the dynamite
store shortly after two o’clock yes
terday morning.
The Conaway boy returned to his
home at 217 Davies Drive at mid
night Monday after a 36-hour bi
cycle jaunt to Myrtle Beach, S. C.,
that had made him the object of
a sheriff’s office search.
In announcing -solution of the
case, Sheriff Jones paid especial
tribute to C. T. Conaway, young
Donald’s father, who is reported to
have brought the boy to the
sheriff’s office to reveal the
cache’s location,
“The stolen caps were all ex
tremely dangerous,” the sheriff
said, “and we are very lucky that
See CACHE On Page 2; Col 2
AIRPORT GROUP
SCHEDULES MEET
Further Development Of
Facilities To Be Discuss-*
ed By Authority
The Wilmington-New Hanover
airport authority will meet late
this month with the county board
of commissioners to present in
full detail its plans for the future
development of Bluethenthal Field
here, Hamilton E. Hicks, authority
secretary, said yesterday.
The five-member airport board
will gather Dec. 16 to discuss a de
tailed program for the field’s ex
pansion and to set the date for its
meeting with the county commis
sioners, Hicks said.
The authority’s meeting with the
commissioners will ring some set
tlement to widespread reports of
dissension between the two bodies
over the airports future.
Kumors of dissension reacned
their high point yesterday after H.
R. Gardner, a member of both the
commission and the authority, of
fered a few informal objections to
proposals that the county spend
some $40,000 to build an adminis
tration building and other facili
ties at Bluethenthal Field.
Gardner made his comments at
a meeting of the authority in the
county courthouse yesterday. Addi
son Hewlett, Sr., chairman of the
county board, who is an ex-office
member of the authority gave no
indication whether he agreed or
disagreed with Gardner’s observa
tions.
As secretary of the authority,
Hicks presented plans for a $40,
000 expenditure to improve the
field, which he declared would put
Wilmington in a better position for
commercial aviation than any other
city on the eastern seaboard.
City Industrial Agent John H.
Farrell and H. E. Boyd, of the
Wilmington Port Traffic associa
tion, who both attended the meet
ing, expressed agreement with
Hicks’ plans for expansion.
Much of Hicks’ case for the new
See AIRPORT On Page 2; Col. 3
Windsor Host Fined
LONDON, Dec. 3.—flP)—1The Ear]
of Dudley, host to the Duke and
Duchess of Windsor on their re
cent visit to England, was fined
$20 Tuesday for throwing a brick
through the windshield of 'a car
owned by Baron Graves.
The wealthy, 52-year-old Earl al
so was ordered to pay $9.80 to the
69-year-old Irish peer for the
■windshield and to pay $42 costs.
Lord Dudley, immaculately
dressed iri a black coat and strip
ed trousers, said he" broke the
windshield because the car was
parked in front of his Mayfair
driveway and there was no other
way he could release the brake
an mov th car.
Today And Tomorrow
By WALTER LIPPMANN
Nothing is to be gained by
an endurance contest as to
who can stand the coal strike the
longer. This is no way to assert
the authority of the government,
and it will be much better to ad
mit frank# and promptly that the
laws as they now stand, and the
government as now administered,
are insufficient to deal with a labor
leader like Mr. John L. Lewis and
a strategic monopoly like the
United Mine Workers, The next
Congress will then know what it
has to deal with and in the mean
time a settlement, though it means
a defeat for the government will
avert incalculable suffering' and
economic ruin.
• • •
The government has refused.
for reasons that are not clear, to
use all of its powers in an effort to
enforce the law. It has failed by
the action it has taken to obtain
from Mr. Lewis either the observ
ance of the contract, or even a
recognition that the meaning of
the contract should be impartially
adjudicated. The law has been de
fied successfully. That being the
situation, the authority of the gov
ernment is not being preserved by
subjecting the people and the
miners to a gruelling contest which
is causing irreparable damage to
this country and to the world.
That will merely prolong the
demonstration that the govern
ment is unable to assert its au
See LIPPMANN On Page 2; Col. 1
Foreign Mht7 / Note Say*
Nation Offended At
Connally Remark*
REGIME DEFENDED
Generalissimo’s Cabinet
Member Offers Seven
Point Explanation
MADRID. Dec. 3.—(£*)—
The Spanish Foreign minis
try, in a note handed to U.S.
Charge D’Affaires Philip W.
Bonsai, declared Tuesday that
the Spanish nation was of
fended by an American re
quest to the United Nations
asking for a change in the
Spanish government.
The note denied that Gen
eralissimo Francisco Franco’s
regime was -Fascist, that it
had been imposed by force otf the
Spanish people or that it owed its
existence to the Axis.
A resolution introduced Monday
at Lake Success, N. Y„ by Sen.
Tom Connelly (D-Tex.) prompted
the Foreign ministry’s note. Con
nally, U. S. representative on the
54-Nation United Nations political
committee, proposed that the Span
ish people see that Franco sur
render his powers, that an interim
regime succeed the Generalissimo
and that free elections be held in
Spain as soon as possible.
Connally’s proposal for a provi
sional Spanish government was
heard here on foreign radios and
was the subject of wide comment
in cafes.
Seven Counts
In its note the foreign ministry
rejected Connally’s proposal on
these seven counts:
Spain is not Fascist because it
has a "regime which respects the
See SPAIN On Page 2; Col. 6
COUNCIL TO OPEN
BIDS AT SESSION
Mayor Indicates Postpone
ment Of Appointments
To Zoning Board
The Wilmington city council will
hold its regular meeting at 10
o’clock this morning with the open
ing of bids on four trucks and one
passenger car for city use the only
scheduled item on their agenda.
Mayor W. Ronald Lane said last
night that he does not expect the
final appointment of a board ot
adjustment to handle appeals under
the city zoning ordinance at today’s
fneeting. The Mayor said, how
ever, that he hopes to announce
the personnel of the board when
the council meets two weeks from
today.
There was no official word last
night on reports that the council
may be asked to pass formal opin
ion on the week-end order by Wil
son E. Wyatt, U. S. housing expedi
tor, allowing a group of local ex
servicemen top priority on the
purchase of the Lake Forest hous
ing development. -~
City Manager J. R. Benson, who
has been ill with a cold since
Saturday, will attend the meeting.
Along The Cape Fear
MAKE WAY — The proposal yes
terday at the regular luncheon ses
sion of the Wilmington Rotary club
that the Port City embark upon
its first football bowl game ven
ture meets instant approval here.
To such an extent does the sug
gestion that the New Hanover Wild
cats meet a worthy foe here on the
gridiron January 1 with the pro
ceeds going to the TB association
that we will forgo putting in a plug
for our pet project the revival of
the Feast of the Pirates, for today
at least.
The Azalea Bowl was the name
already picked out for Wilmington's
football classic.
In addition to promoting one of
the city’s chief tourist attractions,
the Azalea Bowl was in all prob
ability a happy choice.
You should not overlook the fact
that practically every bowl con
ceivable has already been claimed
by some other community.
Most of us are familiar with
such post-season games as the
Sugar Bowl, the Rose Bowl, the
Orange Bowl, the Sun Bowl, the Oil
Bowl, and the Cotton Bowl. More
recent additions to the ever-mount
ing list of bowls include the Gator
Bowl, the Cigar Bowl, the Vulcan
Bowl, the Lilly Bowl, the Alamo
Bowl. *he Will Rogers Bowl, and
the Russian Bowl.
• * •
BIG JOB — So many of us just
take 'the Cape Fear River for
granted that we never consider
the tremendous amount of both
money and work that is required
to keep our port in tip-top shape.
Back in December 1938, the Chief
of the Army Engineers recom
mended to Congress that the width
of the channel from the ocean to
Wilmington be increased from 300
to 400 feet. He also suggested that
the width of the turning basin here
be increased from 600 to 800 feet.
Then in May two years later the
chief recommended to Congress a
modification of the existing project
to provide for an increase in the
length of the southernly approach
to the anchorage basin from 1500
to 4500 fee.t and for a depth of 32
feet in the channel between the
outer end of the ocean Dar chan
nel and the Port City, and in the
turning basin. The work of widening
and deepening the channel and turn
ing basin has been approved and
funds in the amount of $1,000,000
are now available.
See CAPE FEAR On Page 2; Col 1
FREIGHT, PASSENGER TRAIN,
PARCEL POST EMBARGOES ON;
LEWIS SENTENCE DUE TODAY
-- I -O
Union Leader
Found Guilty
Of Contempt
UMW Boss Unleashes
Bitteiv Diatrab Against
Goldsborough Findings
MAY FIGHT RULINGS
Observers Believe Heavy
Fines Await Head Of
400,000 Miners
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—
(/P)—John L. Lewis Tuesday
was found guilty of criminal
contempt of court—with a
possible heavy sentence—but
the coal strike went on and the
government took drastic
emergency action to save fuel.
Lewis responded to the
guilty verdict by rising in the
federal courtroom and mak
ing a bitterly defiant speech.
He accused the judge of de
priving the coal miners of their
constitutional rights. He said he
would “firmly stand” on his posi
tion.
After this dramatic scene the
judge, T. Alan Goldsborough* sat
pondering for four minutes then
put off sentencing Lewis unti\
Wednesday morning.
The language of his conclusions,
that Lewis and his union “wilfully,
wrongfully, and deliberately” dis
sobeyed a court order, suggested
See UNION On Page 2; Col. 3
—
DAYTONA ELECTION
RESULT MAY OUST
NICHOLS FROM JOB
Special to The Star
DAYTONA BEATH, Dec. 3 —
The wheels of political fortune in
a city election today, were inter
preted here as having the effect
of impending ouster for city Mana
ger A. C. Nichols who came here
from Wilmington, N. C., June 1.
An anti-adjninistration state of
candidates Went in to office by
a better than two-to-one majority
today, with one almost certain re
sult — dismissal of Nichols on Jan.
7 the date of the organization meet
ing of the new commission, unless
Nichols should find a new job and
resign before that time.
He was brought to Daytona
Beach at $10,000 a year when the
city administration determined it
wanted more competent manager
ship than it had been getting.
Nichols approached his new job
with business-like efficiency and
handled a transaction of two large
military establishments here from
federal to local control. One was a
Naval air station and the other .a
large army convalescent hospital.
A broad program of street im
provements also has been accom
plished under Nichols regime.
Safety Program Director
Shown above is Capt. John Davis, retired city traffic officer, who
has been chosen by the Klwanis club to direct the Junior Traffic
Safety Program which that organization is sponsoring Saturday morn
ing in Legion stadium. Since his retirement approximately a year
ago, Captain Davis has devoted considerable time to promoting
greater safety for school children. (STAFF PHOTO)
The Weather
FOKESAST
South and North Carolina: Fair to
partly cloudy and warmer Wednesday.
Thursday, 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. SO; 7:30 a m. 26; 1:30 p.m. 43;
7:30 p.m. 43.
Maximum 45; Minimum 29; Mean 35;
Normal 51.
Humidity
1:30 a m. 44; 7:30 a.m. 40; 1:30 p.m. 52;
7:30 p.m. 63.
Precipitation
Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m.—
0.00 inches.
Total since the first of the month —
0.00 inches. I
Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geoaetio Survey).
High Low
Wilmington - 5:42 a.m. 12:29 a.m.
6:11 p.m. 1:01 p.m.
Masonboro Inlet . 3:27 a.m. 9:51 a.m.
3:50 p.m. 10:15 p.m.
Sunrise 7:02; Sunset 5:03; Moonrise 2:25
p.m.; Moonset 2:08 a.m.
River stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8
a.m. Tuesday, (missing) feet.
TENANTS’GROUP
TO FILE PROTEST
Representatives Leave For
Capital Today To Fight
Directive
Brookes A. Broome, president of
the Lake Forest Tenants associa
tion, will leave for Washington this
afternobn to lay before the highest
federal quarters possible the pro
test of a majority of residents oi
that development against Housing
Expeditor Wilson W. Wyatt’s week
end directive assigning priority for
purchase of Lake Forest’s 584
masonry units to a cooperative of
local World War H veterans.
Broome said last night that he
will be accompanied by two other
residents of the project who have
not yet been selected.
H. R. Emory, executive director
of the Wilmington Housing authori
See PROTEST On Page Two, Col. 5
SAFETY PROGRAM
PLANS CHANGED
Police Chief Casteen Re
veals Itnerary Altered
For Saturday Event
A change in arrangements for
the Kiwanis club Junior Traffic
Safety program on Saturday morn
ing was announced last night by
Police Chief C. H. Casteen.
Instead of the youthful cyclists
assembling in their own school
yards, as was previously planned,
children in outlying districts will
meet at either Chestnut Heights,
Tileston, or Sunset Park schools at
9 a.m., where they will receive
police escorts to Hemenway school,
the central assembly spot.
Youngsters who attend more cen
trally located schools have been
requested to go directly to Hemen
way, where the bicycle caravan
will be formed at 10 a.m.
At the conclusion of the pro
gram, which will get underway
in Legion stadium at 10:30 a.m.,
the autumnal beauties of Green
field Lake and Park will be photo
See SAFETY On Page 2; Col. 6
Denny Gets Post
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.— (JP) —
Charles Denny Wednesday will be
named chairman of the Federal
Communications commission.
Presidential Press' Secretary
Charles G. Ross told reporters of
President Truman’s decision to ap
point Denny after Tuesday news
conference at which the president,
misunderstanding a question, indi
cated he was still looking for a
man for the post.
Denny, who is from Baltimore,
Md., has been acting FCC chair
man since the appointment of Paul
A. Porter last February as OPA
administrator.
The FCC chairmanship had been
left open for Porter, but he decid
ed in quitting OPA last week not
to continue in government service.
SEA RESCUE
Flashlight Beams Guide
Coast Guard Mercy Race
BOSTON, Dec. 3. —(U.R)— Traced
through the beams of their flash
lights, a man and woman were
brought safely to port Tuesday af
ter struggling in wind-swept seas
that apparently claimed the lives
of two other crewmen of an ill
fated coal barge.
Saved were Mrs. Lillian Wash
burn, 44, of Palmer, N. Y., wife
of the barge captain, and Walter
S. Hodgdon, 56, of New York.
The couple were hospitalized but
their condition was not serious.
As an ice-coated Coast Guard
cutter landed the survivors, two
other vessels continued searching
Cape Cod Bay for Mrs. Wash
burn’s husband, Oscar, 48, and a
fourth member of the crew, Frank
Jensen of New York. However,
little hope was held for their res
cue.
Lt. Comdr. George V. Stephan
off, who supervised the rescue of
Hodgdon and Mrs. Washburn, said
the Coast Guard cutter first was
attracted by the flashlights attach
ed to their lifebelts.
“We saw these tiny points of
light on the water,” he said, “and
shot life lines toward them as they
See BEAMS On Page 3; Col 3
V
Railways Hit
By New Order
To Save Coal
Half Of Nations Coal Burn
ing Engines To Be Idle
Sunday Midnight
FOOD, FUEL TO MOVE
Post Office Department Di
rective Exempts Goods
For Service Men „
WASHINGTON^ Dec. 3.—
(/P) — The government, dig
ging in against the strangl
ing soft coal strike Tuesday
night placed embargoes on all
but essential freight and cut
railroad passenger mileage by
coal-burning locomotives by
another 25 per cent—down
to half the pre-strike level.
The Office of Defense
Transportation previously had
cut coal-power passenger mile
age by 25 per cent to conserve
the railroads’ stocks of soft coal.
Tuesday these additional orders
were issued in transportation:
1 ODT directed the further 25
per cent passenger service re
duction, effective at 11:59 p. m.
Sunday.
z. The Interstate Commerce com
mission put a general embargo on
freight shipments, with exceptions
for vital needs, effective at 12:01
A. M. Friday, Dec. 6.
8. The Post Office department
applied drastic new rules on parcel
post effective at 12:01 A. M. Fri
day. The size and weight of pack
agen was limited and a complete
ban clamped on overseas parcel
See KAIL WAYS On Page 2; Col, 5
RESORT OFFICIAL
TO RESIGN POST
Wrightsville Beach Police
Chief To Enter Business
Next January
M. S. Faircloth, chief of police
of Wrightsville Beach for the past
three years, will resign from that
post effective January 1, 1947,
he announced last night.
Prior to accepting the position
in 1944, he was superintendent of
public works at Carolina Beach.
Faircloth said that his present
plans include the purchase of a
dry cleaning plant at Carolina
Beach, which he and his brother,
Chevis, will operate.
The Faircloth brothers original
ly were residents of Sampson coun
ty. _ ^
And So To Bed
Lost one Birthday. At least
that’s the sad plight of En
sign Ray Galloway, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ray Galloway, of
Orleander Court apartments.
It all happened while Ensign
Galloway was on duty In the
Pacific with the Navy.
Last November 26 would have
been the officers 20th birth
day. However in going west
across the Pacific you lose a
day in crossing the Internation
al Date line.
You guessed It. Young Gal
loway crossed on November g
and once across the dividing
line it was November 27.