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VQLj^^li5- - WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1946 -ESTABLISHErTl'867
Tar Heel Alumni Gather
j. Fred Rippy, Jr,, left, was named president of the New Hanover chapter, University of North
Carolina Alumni Association, at a meeting of the chapter here last night. He succeeds W .A. Banev,
third from left. Also pictured above, second from left, is J. Maryon Saunders, secretary of the Uni
versity Alumni association, and at right, University Chancellor Robert B. House, who delivered the
main address of the evening. (STAFF PHOTO)
CUT IN SCHEDULE
REVEALED BY ACL
Government Economy Mea
sure During Coal Strike
Forces Curtailment
C. G. Sibley, general manager,
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, an
nounced last night the reductions
in passenger train service which
will go into effect at midnight Sun
day as a result of the government’s
economy measures being exercised
during the soft coal strike.
“In order to comply with Gen
eral Order ODT No. G8, Amend
ment 1, issued by the Office of De
fense Transportation on December
3, directing that further curtail
ment be made in coal-burning pas
senger locomotives mileage, the
Atlantic Coast Line finds it nec
essary to further curtail its pas
senger service effective 11:59 p. m.,
Decejrtter 8, as follows:" the' rail
road official said.
Trains 48 and 49 between Ports
mouth, Va., and Wilmington,
N. C., and trains 58 and 59 between
Sumter and Columbia, S. C., will
be discontinued.
The following will operate every
other day in each direction: 59 and
60 between Waycross, Ga., and
Brunswick, Ga.; 57 and 58 between
Savannah, Ga., and Montgomery,
Ala.; 180 and 189 between Savan
nah and Montgomery; 3 and 4 be
tween Atlanta, Ga., and Brunswick;
1 and 2 between Atlanta and Way
cross; 22 and 23 between Manchest
er, Ga., and Birmingham, Ala.
EMBARGO, STRIKE
HITS MILLIONS
Industrial Survey Reveals
Staggering Unemploy
ment Over Nation
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 4—(>P)—In
dustrialists, large and small, sur
reyed the effect of the coal strike
°n the nation’s life Wednesday and
renfe up with figures that would
rend the number of unemployed
into the stratosphere within a com
paratively short time.
With the freight embargo, effec
tlve Sunday, striking at the heart
« such key industries as the pro
duction of automobiles, the general
Prediction was that within at least
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WILSON WYATT QUITS
AS HOUSING DIRECTOR
AFTER AGENCY TIFFS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—(Jp)—
Wilson W. Wyatt quit Wednes
day as housing administrator in
what aides described as a pro
test against “business as usual”
policies by the administration
in dealing with the housing pro
gram.
President Truman made the
resignation public and said he
did so “reluctantly.” He did not
mention the controversies be
tween Wyatt and heads of oth
er government agencies which
preceded the resignation. The
President did say thatt he re
signation does not mean “any
major modification in the ob
jective of rapidly and ade
quately housing our veterans
has occurred.”
At the same time Mr. Tru
man declared that government
controls over the building in
dustry “must be relaxed as ra
pidly ‘ as possible" without
threatening the success of the
housing program.”
Wyatt declines comment on
his regsination, which becomes
effective Thursday, telling re
porters his position in the con
troversy “should be obvious.”
T
W. H. HANCAMMON
Named leader
Activation Of 378th Anti
Aircraft Battalion Slated
Here Immediately
Lt. Col. William H. Hancammon,
veteran Wilmington army officer,
will command the 378th anti-air
craft battalion slated for immediate
activation in Wilmington, it was
announced by Lt. Col. James W.
McNeer, War Department repre
senative.
Colonel McNeer is in the city
on temporary duty relative to the
organization of the local peacetime
training unit.
Colonel Hancammon, who is sec
retary of the Wilmington branch
of the Reserve Officers Association,
is a former member of the Star
staff, was associated with WMFD
radio station for several months,
and is a former secretary to form
er Mayor Thomas E. Cooper.
A member of the National Guard
for 13 years prior to the war,
Colonel Hancammon went on active
duty with a seacoast artillery unit
in September, 1940. He served in
Trinidad in the British West Indes
for 32 months. After returning to
the states in March, 1945, he was
director of the personnel division
at Fort Monroe, Va. He returned
See UNIT on Page Two; Col. 4
UNC ALUMNI NAME
RIPPY AS HEAD
Chancellor Robert House
Addresses Annual
Meeting Here
Highlighting the annual meeting
of the New Hanover chapter of
the University of North Carolina
Alumni association held last night
in St. Paul’s Lutheran church par
ish house was an address by Chan
cellor Robert B. House.
J. Fred Rippy, Jr., treasurer of
Coastal Motors and former admin
istrative assistant to the Wilming
ton city manager, was named pres
ident to head the slate of officers
for the local chapter during 1947.
He succeeds W. A. Raney as pres
ident of the organization.
Other officers named by the more
Qian 100 members present for the
supper meeting were I. B. Graing
er, vice president, and Joe Holmes,
secretary-treasurer.
Chancellor House reviewed the
work of the university through the
war years and pointed to “three
specific issues which must be met
if the great period of leadership
of the university among the col
leges of country is to continue.”
“The three great issues which
face the University of North Caro
lina now is adequate housing for
an unprecedented number of ap
plicants for entrance, adequate
staffing for the departments, and
as expansion of the medical school
to a full four-year course,” he
said.
The guest speaker said the pres
ent enrollment at the Chapel Hill
institution numbered 6802 and that
over 9000 applications for entrance
were turned down this year be
cause of housing.
“Unless this problem is solved,
one whole generation of North Car
olina high school seniors will go
lacking in coi'ege training,” he as
serted.
See HIPPY on Page 2; Col. 6
Injured In Fall
E. J. Lawler, of Maffito Vil
lage, young employee of toe
Brooks Electric company, was
injured at 1:30 o’clock this
morning when he fell from a
ladder atop a panel truck on
north Front street, between
Chestnut and Grace Streets.
According to witnesses he
was standing on the six-foot
ladder, which was on top of
the truck, while replacing
bulbs in the Christmas decor
ations.
He was carried Ho the Bul
lock clinic, where toe extent of
his injuries were underter
mined, when toe Star went to
press.
National Guard Here
Seen Doubled In Size
Plans for local National Guard
units that may attain twice the
strength they had in Wilmington
before World War II were laid be
fore a group of local civic and
military leaders here last night by
State Adjutant General J. Van
Buren Metts.
Under the minimum program, as
outlined by General Metts, Wil
mington would have as National
Guard units a headquarters com
pany of for the 252nd Coast Artil
lery group, the headquarters com
pany of the 150 Anti-Aircraft batta
lion, and three 90-mm gun batter
ies of the 150th.
Coast artillery units would have
an overall strength of 348 men.
In summarizing his plans at the
Wilmington • Light Infantry armory
last night. General Metts also ad
mitted the possibility of reactivat
ing Company I of the 119th Infan
try, with a full strength otf 188
men here. »
^ull realization of this tentative
plan would give Wilmington 536 Na
tional Guardsmen as against a pre
war strength of 270.
As envisioned last night by Gen.
Metts, Wilmington’s National
complement would start slowly and
r'each full strength within two
years.
Some 50 local leaders took part
in a discussion of plans with Col.
R. S. McClelland, former comman
der of the 252nd CAA regiment, in
the chair.
General Metts will remain in Wil
mington today to study with Col.
See GUARD on Page 2; Col. 6
UMW MUST POST $3,500,000 BOND
FO^APPEAL OF FEDERAL SENTENCE;
0 HOSTILE OVER LEWIS FINE
Coai (Aggers
Shout Bitter
Denounciation
Thousands Mill In Streets
Of Pennsylvania, West
Virginia Towns
NO VIOLENCE YET
District Presidents Warn
That Anything Can Hap
pen; Hint At Plot
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 4_
(UP)—The'heavy fines im
posed upon the United Mine
workers and John L. Lewis
brought hostile reactions
from soft coal miners Wednes
day night.
Thousands of miners mill
ed in streets and taverns of
the dingy mining towns of
Western Pennsylvania and
West Virginia muttering defi
ance. But no outbreaks of vio
lence were reported.
Hundreds poured into the coal
center of Uniontown and gathered
in taverns and other place* to
listen to the radio.
When the miners heard the court
decision they became aroujacL
“There ' aren’t any demonstra
tions yet,” *aid William Hinea,
president of District 4, UMW, “but
anything can happen now. These
men think the government is try
ing to break their union.”
"I don’t know how the govern
ment expects to get any coal dug
with this kind of tactics. The
See DIGGERS on Page 2; Col. 5
SAFETY PROGRAM
TO ATTRACT MANY
More Than 500 Students
To Participate In Sat
urday Event
Indications are that more than
500 Wilmington school children will
participate in the .Kiwanis club
Junior Traffic Safety program and
bicycle calvacade Saturday morn
ing, Kiwanis club officers said last
night, following conversations with
school officials.
Meanwhile, arrangements for the
program were proceeding, with an
announcement yesterday afternoon
by Adam Smith, YMCA physical
director, that 10 top flight tumblers
would perform in the tumbling ex
hibition to be staged by the YMCA
Senior tumbling team during the
Safety program in Legion stadium
at 10:30 a. m. Saturday.
If the weather remains cold, the
YMCA atheletes will give the tum
See SAFETY on Page 2; Col. 3
Along The Cape Fear
WARM APPEAL—Some will say
it’s the fact that Christmas is just
around the corner. Yet, most of
us would content it’s just the in
nate human kindness so typical of
the Port City.
Well, call it what you may, but
the constant ringing of the phones
in the Star-News editorial office
last night was a sure sign that
Wilmington had really opened its
heart for a little girl.
It all started following the Star
News broadcast at 6:25 o’clock
yesterday afternoon.
“Is there room in some home
around Wilmington for our little
extra—girl” is the way the story
opened.
* * *
INTEREST GALORE—"She is 12
years old, a little girl with light
brown hair and black eyes. Little
extra-girl came to us this way:
“The Welfare department of an
other county asked the New Han
over county Welfare office to find
a home for some children.
“Bring us three,’- they told them,
for they knew of just that many
places where a daddy and mother
were waiting for a little child.
“But when the three children
Seven Carolina Mayors Meet Here I
Shown above are the Mayors of seven south eastern North Carolina cities as they met at the
City Hall here yesterday. Left to right are: Mrs. Davetta L. Steed, executive secretary of the league;
Mayor John D. Erickson, of Southport; Mayor J. M. McGougan of Tabor City; Mayor W. Ronald
Lane of Wilmington, district director of the league; Dr. Sidney W. Allen, mayor of WrightsvUle
Beach; George C. Franklin, director of the league’s information service; Jack C. Morrissey, mayor of
Clinton; Dean H. Clifton, Sampson County assemblyman; Mayor N. B. Hill, of Roseboro; and Mayor
Henry T. Powell, of Henderson, president of the league. (STAFF PHOTO)
VHI GROUP HOLDS
MEETING TONIGHT
Ex-Servicemen’s Coopera
tive Will Lay Plans To
Buy Lake Forest
Their purchase of 584 masonry
unit* of Lake Forest apparently
near completion the members of
Veterans Hordes, Inc., will meet in
closed session at the county court
house at 7:30 o’clock tonight to lay
final plans for conduct of the de
velopment under their direction,
In the meanwhile, Brookes A.
Broome, president of the Lake For
est Tenants association, chief op
ponent of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars-sponsored cooperative in its
efforts to acquire the development,
left here last night for Washington
where he will push the protest of
a number of present residents of
Lake Forest against its purchase
by the World W3r II veterans’
group.
H. R. Emory, director of the
Wilmington Housing Authority, also'
departed for Washington to seek
what he described as “purely an
effort to learn the full scope of the
order issued last week-end” by
former Housing Expeditor Wilson
W. Wyatt granting World War II
veterans top priority in the pur
chase of surplus housing units.
The James A. Manley Post of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars,
meeting here last night, took time
out to dispatch a telegram to
Wyatt expressing regrets over his
resignation, commending his fight
against “terrific odds and selfish
interests” and expressing parti
cular grattitude for his "foresight
edness” in allowing veterans prior
ity to buy surplus housing.
The VFW, in a meeting largely
devoted to celebration of its Lake
Forest victory, also passed a
formal motion commending Ken
Noble, acting president of VHI, and
Wesley Pearce, national housing
director of the VFW, for their lead
ership in a four-months campaign
to win the right to buy the de
velopment.
came, little extra-girl was with
them.
"She is such a nice child we
brought her along, hoping you
would place her,” the Welfare de
partment here was told.
* * •
ARRIVAL HERE—The children
were quite excited as they arrived
in the Port City. They transfer
red their meager little possessions
from the car. They had come
seeking a home amongst us.
“I am going to call the lady you
give me to Mama,” said one of the
group who is seven-years-old.
"I’m going to get me a Daddy, ’
a little bpy of four spoke up.
But the objject of our special at
tention, little extra-girl, then said:
"I’m going to say Mother, it
sounds nicer.”
• • •
SAD MOMENT — You can im
agine how the local welfare work
ers felt when it became necessary
to tell her that they had no mother'
for her.
“You see,” they explained as ‘
gently as they could, for they knew '
it would be sad news to little extra- 1
girl, “we did not expect you.”
See CAPE FEAR on Page 2; Col. 3t
The Weather
FORECAST
South and North Carolina: Fair and
warmer Thursday and Thursday night.
Friday fair and continued warm.
(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. 41; 7:30 a.m. 38; 1:30 p.m. 54;
7:30 p.m. 47.
Maximum 55; Minimum 37; Mean 46;
Normal 51.
Humidity
1:30 a.m. 72; 7:30 a.m. 65; 1:30 p.m. 29.
7:30 p.m. 69.
Precipitation
Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. _
0.01 Inches.
Total since the first of the month —
0.01 Inches.
Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tallies published1 by tf.
S. Coast and Geodetic Survey).
High Low
Wilmington _ 6:39 a.m. 1:19 a.m.
7:04 p.m. 1:59 p.m.
Masonboro Inlet _ 4:23 a.m. 10:50 a.m.
4:44 p.m. 11:05 p.m.
Sunrise 7:03; Sunset 5:03; Moonrise 2:58
p.m.; Moonset 3:15 a.m.
River stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8
a.m.—Wednesday, 11.6 feet.
AIRLINES READY
TO DOUBLE LOADS
Heavy Passenger, Freight
Business expected Due
To Rail Embargo
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 — (U.R) _
The Airlines geared their opera
tions Wednesday night for an ex
pected deluge of demands from
shippers and passengers result
ing from the coinciding coal strike
rail embargoes and pre-Christmas
rush.
Preparations thus far were be
ing made on an individual airline
basis. An Office of Defense trans
portation spokesman said it ap
peared unlikely at present that a
priority system would be invoked
for emergency cargoes as was the
case in last spring's railroad strike.
Some airlines reported they had
been beseiged with shippers’ orders
since the government cut out all
but essential freight and express
movements by rail effective Fri
day. Some said they would add ex
tra sections to handle as many
stranded rail passengers as pos
sible since regular schedules al
ready are practically filled with
Christmas travellers. Rail move
ment of passengers has been cut
50 per cent effective Monday.
TWA promised to deliver service
men’s packages to any point in
See AIRLINES on Page 2; Col. 2
CITIES SEEKING
CAS TAX SHARE
District Session Of Munici
pal League Held At
City Hall
twenty top officials of South
eastern North Carolina towns yes
terday laid plans here for secur
ing adoption of a 1947 legislative
program whose key plank would
provide for allocation of one-sixth
of the state’s gasoline tax revenues
to the use of municipalities.
Mayor Henry W. Powell, of Hend
erson, president of the league of
North Carolina municipalities
the group that, unless some di
version of highway funds can be
made for the use of cities, many
municipalities will find themselves
in “desperate financial condition”.
Mayor Powell was the chief
speaker at a gathering of the
Third district of the league in the
Wilmington City council chamber
here yesterday.
Mayor W. Ronald Lane, district
director, presided over the session.
Division of highway taxes to
municipal purposes would, Mayor
Powell declared, result in the re
duction of some city taxes by as
much as 25 per cent.
The southeastern city officials
also heard a general presentation
of the league s six-point legislative
program by George C. Franklin,
the director of its municipal infor
mation service.
Mrs. Davetta L. Steed, execu
tive secretary of the league, spoke
on its general work.
Delegates to the meetings were
guests of the city administration
at an oyster roast here last night.
Heaviest Fine
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 — (JP)
That $3,500,000 fine must look
mighty big to the united Mine
Workers, but its small compared
to a $29,240,000 fine slapped on the
Standard Oil company in 1907.
In the 1907 case, the late Kene
saw M. Landis fined the company
$20,000 on each of 1,426 counts in
a freight rebate case.
However, Standard Oil never
had to pay it off. The Supreme
court reversed Landis.
Army Experts To Devise
Bomb Defense For Cities
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—(IP)—The
armed forces, alarmed at the
frightful lessons learned in the
atom shattered cities of Japan and
in the Bikini tests, have set^i ex
perts to work on defense plans for
American cities and fighting men.
The Army disclosed in a cryptic
announcement Wednesday creation
af a board of five generals, with
an advisory group of other officers,
“to study the question of civil de
fense for the United Stataes insofar
as it pertains to War department
aarticipation. in this essential part
>f national defense planning.” The
>oard will work with outstanding
:ivilian authorities.
The b.oard’s president is Maj.
Jen. Harold R. Bull, chief of opera
ions for General Dwight D. Eisen
hower when he commanded the
European theater.
The Navy meanwhile has ap
pointed a “Director of Atomic De
fense,” Rear Admiral William S.
Parsons, physicist and technical
chief for the joint Army-Navy task
force at the Bikini atomic bomb
experiments.
The studies of the Army board,
it is understood, are directed not
only at anti-atom bomb measures
but any other methods of modern
mass destruction including bacteri
ological warfare. One official ex
plained that procedure must be
perfected to prevent chaotic con.
iitions, such as occurred in Hiro
shima, from arising out of any
form of enemy attack. Such condi
;ions could be exploited militarily
oy an attacker.
Union Leader
Fined$ 10,000
For Contempt
Lewis Challenges Judge In
Roaring Courtroom Scene
At Capital
HEAVY PENALTIES
Mine Organization Assess
ed On Basis Of $250,000
Per Strike Day
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-^
(UP) — If the United Min*
Workers of America (AFL)
carries out its plan to appeal
the $3,500,000 fine levied
against it, the union must
post a bond in that amount
with the chief clerk of the
U. S. District court here.
Court attaches said that if
the UMW posts the bond by
3 p. m. (EST) Thursday
there will be an automatic
stay of execution of Judge T. Alan
Goldsborough’s sentence which wa*
handed down Thursday afternoon.
Should the union decide against
posting bond, or be unable to meet
it by the deadline Thursday the
next move would be up to the
See UNION on Page t; Col. (
PLANNING BOARD
TO MEET FRIDAY
Simons Will Arrive Here
Today To Discuss
Master Plan J
George W. Simons, Jr., oi
Jacksonville, Fla., city planning
consultant, will arrive here this
afternoon for a two-day visit, in the
course of which he is expected to
lay before city officials new phases
of his master plan for Wilmington’s
development.
The City Planning Board will
meet with Simons in the council
chamber at City Hall tomorrow
evening, according to J. Fred Rip*
py, its secretary.
Chief business on the planning
board"s agenda will be discus*
sion of draft regulations for resi»
dential sub-divisions.
Simons is also expected to put
forward for general discussion such
long-range aspects of the master
plan as the Burnt Mill Creek park
and a cultural center built around
New Hanover High School.
R. R. Emory, the planning
board's chairman, who left for
Washington last night, is expected
to return here in time for the meet*
ing.
And So To Bed
What to tip often proves a
real problem.
Take for example this little
episode witnessed here last
night.
Two gentlemen, obviously
pleased with their meal in a
local restaurant and impress
ed with the service, each left a
half a dollar at their place as
they got up to depart.
Their lady companions, eco
nomy-minded no doubt, noted
the size of the tips. Carefully
they extracted a dime from
their purses and substituted
them for the half dollar.
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