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FORECAST ^ > Served By Leased Wire* ill itt*tlittrt un,te?1ress — Ml U 4114 OX w UU jffsaiMS" _— ■ ■ —— & State and National Newa V0^rNQ> ---- WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1946 ESTABLISHED 1867 PROTECTION TramanNamesGroup On People's R igh ts c. E. Wilson Heads 15-Man Committee To Recommend Legislations For More Effective Overall Safeguards WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 —(U.R) _ president Truman Thursday Jhght established a 15-man committee to recommend leg islation for more effective pro tection of the civil rights of the people He said the obligation of the federal government for protect ing individual liberties was hampered by “inadequate federal law “The protection of our aem ocratic institutions and the enjoyment by the people of their rights under the con stitution require that these weak and inadequate statues should be expanded and improv ed'- he said. “We must provide the Department of justice with the tools to do the job.” He named C. E. Wilson, pres ident of General Electric Co., chairman of the committee. Wilson during the war was ex ecutive chairman of the War Production board. Mindfu] of a breakdown of law enforcement in certain communities after the war, with the result that individuals, including ex-servicemen, were “killed, maimed or intimi dated,’’ Mr. Truman said: “It was so after the last war, when organized groups fanned hatred and intolerance, until, at times, mob action struck fear into the hearts of men and women because of their racial origins or religious beliefs.” He said the situation today was that freedom from fear, See GROUP on Page 5; Col. 3 infantry unit SEEN FOR GUARD General Manning Expects Reactivation Of Com pany Here Hope that at least one infantry company of the 30th (Old Hickory) National Guard division can be activated in Wilmington was ex pressed here yesterday by Major General John Hall Manning, the 30th’s commander. General Manning said that he has tentatively assigned Company 1 of the 119th Infantry to Wil mington and hopes that this area can raise the 188 men needed to fill its table of organization. The Old Hickory’s commander expressed pleasure at report* that local guardsmen were planning to re-organize Company I along with inti-aircraft units of the 2 5 2 nd Coast Artillery group. Plans for the Wilmington guard inits will be laid by Col. R. S. McClelland, former commander of [he 252nd, and other guard leaders in a conference this afternoon. SUGAR EXECUTIVE TO APPEAR HERE lew Yorker Will Address Protest Meeting On December 18 Glenn Bond, vice president of -amborn and Co., of New York, me of the nation’s largest sugar irokerage houses, will address a neeting of Southeastern North larolina industrial and commercial isers of sugar on the causes of the listing shortage of that commodi y here Wednesday afternoon, Dec. J' City Industrial Agent John H. 'arrell announced last night. Members of the Wilmington Re ail Grocers association and Cham-' 'er of Commerce executives woughout this area will be invited 0 attend the meeting, Farrell aid. , The sugar shortage is an em “Oyment problem which concerns lvery one of us,” the industrial 'Sent added. ‘‘Out of this meeting, fe hope to map a course of action »eliminate it.” A meeting of housewives to pro est the lack of sugar will be held :ter 'he Dec. 18th industrial ses ion, he added. MBONE’S meditations _By Alley ftkESAT H£ PON* NEED NO DlVO'Ct F'uM NE OLfc 'OMAN NO Mo'n yMuT SrtE 6IVE. '•H WlD A HPT SKlUUtTii i (Release# by The Ben fyn ***6-<fZ dicate. Ine.) Trade Mark r Reg. V. 8. P»t. Oflice) » Five Prominent Men On Capital Front Quit Federal Jobs WASHINGTON. Dec. 5—(/P)—Five prominent figures cn the Washing ton scene have quit their jobs so far this week, and there’s still one day left. Out went: Paul A. Porter, boss of the fast dwindling OPA. John D. Small, head of the like wise shrinking Civilian Production Administration. Eugene Meyer, president of the World bank who explained he liad things started and could leave now. Housing Edpediter Wilson Wyatt, who didn’t like the rebuffs lie was getting from the RFC and other agencies. Edward R. Burke, president of the Southern Coal Producers as sociation. He quit after a policy row over his proposal for owner union negotiations in the coal sit uation. VETERANS GROUP DISCUSS PROJECT C.R. McDonald Selected As Chairman Of Planning Committee The outline of a model ex-service men’s cooperative community, whose services to its tenants would include a day nursery and a per manent clinic for out-patient medi cal care, was projected here last night by members of Veterans Homes, Inc., as they met to com plete formal organization of the mutual ownership group with which they hope to purchase the Lake Forest housing development. C. R. McDonald, of Three Sum mit Walk, Lake Forest, was named chairman of the planning commit tee which will set a program for the development’s operation in an ticipation of its acquisition by Vet erans Homes, Inc. More than 4 0 0 World War II veterans, appearing in person or represented by proxy, gathered last night at the county courthouse to discuss plans for both the purchase and direction of Lake Forest’s 534 masonry units as a veterans’ cooperative. Ken R. Noble, president of Vet erans Homes, Inc., reported after the meeting that his group’s mem bership had passed 400. Last night, VHI began collecting the $5 in dues from each member that signified its establishment as self-sustaining unit independent of its original sponsors, the James A. Manley Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. A. R. Hanson, regional director of the Federal Public Housing ad ministration, is scheduled to Come here from Atlanta next week to open negotiations with VHI leaders for sale of the project, Noble told the group last night. Today And Tomorrow By WALTER LIPPMANN By WALTER LIPPMANN The Law Defied It is quite plain that Mr. Lewis is acting ir> the belief that the government'cannot afford and does not dare tp enforce the law. Mr. Lewis may conceivably think that he has an arguaole case m the injunction proceedings before Judge Goldshorough. But he can not possibly think that it was law ful to instigate a strike while the coal mines are in the possession of the- government. Whatever the merits of the injunction proceed ings, it is indisputable that he has defied the law as laid down by Congress in the (Smith-Connally) war labor disputes act. This law cave the President the power to take possession oi the mines in order to prevent an "in terruption" by strikes or otherwise of the operation of the mines There was a coal strike last spring, and under this law the President took possession of the mines. Mr. Lewis now pretends that he has a right to strike though the whole purpose of the law was to prevent strikes. His argument is that his contract with the government may be interpreted as giving him the right to strike. But this amounts to saying that Secretary Krug signed away in %i contract the vfery pur pose of the law which put the gov ernment in possession of the mines. See LIPPMANN on Page 3; Col. 3 FTo Wed Teacher A member of*the Columbia Uni versity Press editorial staff, Alice Elizabeth Pratt. 26, of Middletown, Conn., will become the bride of Dr. Archibald Davidson, 63, professor of music at Harvard University. The wedding is scheduled to take place in Cambridge, Mass. (In ternational) . OUTLOOK BRIGHT FOR HARBOR FUND District Engineer Reports Prospective Boosts In U. S. Grant Full confidence that funds will be here soon to maintain the Cape Fear river at its project depth of 30 feet from Wilmington to the sea was expressed last night by Rep. J. Bayard Clark in Fayetteville. ‘‘Three weeks ago I received as surances from the highest officials of the United States Army Engi neers that an appropriation for maintaining the Cape Fear was to be contained in the $15,000,000 of rivers and harbors funds later re leased by Reconversion Director Steelman,” he said. ‘‘I am standing pat on those as surances,” the veteran Seventh Dis trict representative declared. Representative Ciark issued his expression of confidence in the ear ly resumption of desperately-need ed maintenance work on the Cape Fear in fa e of reports that the Wilmington District of the U. S. Army Engineers, would not receive any new funds until next May. Meanwhile prospects for a brighter future for projects lying within the jurisdiction of the local Engineers, are in evidence today following notice to the local office that $200,000 may be made avail able in January for emergency work in the area. Col. B. C. Snow, district engi neer head, was informed of the prospective boost in allocations by the office of Col. George W. Gil lette, division officer, in Atlanta. Following closely on the news of the additional allocation came an announcement from Colonel Snow that a study and review of all pro jects lying within the district would be made in an effort to determine which is most in need of atten tion. Although $450,000 has been esti mated as the need of the local of fice for emergency repairs, and a recommendation to this effect made, a new estimate must be sub mitted in order to be eligible for the funds. The $200,000 figure is a tentative one and by no means fi nal, Colonel Snow said. The money which made be made available for emergency work in the district is part of a reserve See HARBOR on Page 5; Col. 5 Supports Raise RALEIGH, Dec. 5—Iff!—The N. C. State College Post No. 293 of the American Legion has endorsed the resolution of the South Piedmont District association of the North Carolina Education association for increases in salaries of state teach ers, William R. Parks of Lenoir, post commander, said Thursday. The post’s endorsement came fol lowing a discussion of the pro posed NCEA resolution and the South Piedmont resolution by W. N. Hicks, head of the department of religion and ethics at the col lege. TRUMAN TO ADDRESS NA TION SUNDA V NIGHT ON COAL STRIKE SITU A TION; A TTEMPT TO WELD ALL INDIA FAILS -I__ r _ _! Nehru Scores Possibilities Of Civil War Deadlock Between Moslems And Hindus May Prolong Britain’s Stay REVISION PROBABLE Experts Feel Continuing Impasses Do Not Mean Scrapping Of Plan LONDON, Dec. 5.—<£>)— The eleventh hour effort of Britain’s highest officials to weld India’s Moslems and Hindus into constitutional unity appeared on the brink of failure Thursday night af ter three days of intensive explorations for a possible so lution. Informed sources declared the effect of Prime Minister Attlee’s vain attempt to me diate the Hindu - Moselm dispute may be the prolongation of Brit ain’s stay in India. Frank A. King,( usually well informed political writer for the British Press association, said “un less Within the next 24 hours the deadlock between the Congress party and the Moslem league can b,e broken there must inevitably be delay in transferring power from British to Indian hands, and with political currents flowing power fully in India, the dangers of re newal of communal strife on a See NEHRU on Page 5; Col. 4 TEACHER SALARY RAISE ENDORSED American Legion Post Here Seeks Action By State Legislature Committee reports were heard and routine business transacted at last night’s meeting of Wilming ton Post No. 10, American Legion, which was well represented and presided over by W. K. Stewart, Jr., commander. The Post voted unanimously in passing a resolu tion urging the next meeting of the North Carolina General As sembly, which convenes January next, to grant increased pay to teachers in all the public schools. The resolution, as adopted, will be passed on the State Department of the American for further action. There was some discussion of a State bonus, but action on this •juestion has been postponed for an indefinite period of time. See TEACHERS on Page 5; Col. 3 Along The Cape Fear many YEARS—The U. S. Army Engineers have wrestled with the old Cape Fear for many years. They have closed one of the two outlets at the mouth of the river forcing all the waters through the other path to the sea. They have dredged and removed logs and snags, and even sunken forests. They have straightened bends and removed rock until now there exists a fine channel approximately 30 feet in depth and 300 feet wide from the ocean to the Port City. That’s a distance of approximately 30 miles. Unknown to most civilians and even some residents of the Cape Fear area is the constant battle that the Engineers must wage against nature. Keeping the river and the ocean bar channels open requires con tinual work and large, grants of money. • * * CHANGING SCENE—The shift ing sand in the river and ocean continually encroaches upon the dredged channels causing them to shoal. This danger is increased by the silt which is continually being brought down the river from up stream. This means that annual mainten ance dredging :s required to be done to restore the original depths. How expensive this work is may oe gleaned from the Engineers’ estimate that $12,000,000 has been spent on the Cape Fear, Maintenance dredging on ocean bar channels is done by what is known to the trade as seagoing hop per dredges. These dredges, which are sometimes referred to here as “sand suckers,” operate on the principle of large vacuum sweep ers. They are equipped with what is technically known as a “drag”, or a pipe with wider grating at the lower end leading from the vessel to the bottom of the channel and which actually drags along the bot tom. It is furnished with a power ful pump inducing a suction in the drag similar to that of a vacuum cleaner. As the vessel proceeds the drag pulls along the. bottom and the powerful suction draws the sand and mud into the bins of the dredge. When the bins are full, opera See CAPE FEAR on Page 5; Col. 5 Southeastern North Carolina Begins To Feel Soft Coal Pinch As the natron's coal stock pile vanished in the wake of the coal strike, residents of southeastern North Carolina be gan to feel the pinch of the paralyzing shortage in no un certain terms as embargoes were clamped tightly on almost every mode of transportation by government officials.^ Mail, freight, passenger ser vice — all tell victims to the shortage of coal, and people throughout the city yesterday rushed to get under the wifll night deadline which brings the embargoes into effect. The rules governing the ship ment of freight and mail, as laid down by government of ficials, stipulate that only es sential goods be accepted for shipment. The Wilmington post office ex perienced a very heavy re ceipt of Christinas mail, as did the local railway express agen cy. Those interested in send ing goods of any kind made a last minute rush to get under the wire before the midnight deadline on parcel size came into effect. L. M. Bellamy, assistant agent of the Wilmington office, Railway Express agency, re ported last night that for the past two days shipments of all kinds had greatly increased. He pointed out that after midnight last night only essential com modities could be accepted for I shipment by his office. One bright spot *n the other wise dismal picture was the announcement by the company that express shipments not necessitating a change from one line to another could be ac cepted. Meanwhile, i n compliance with government wishes, the Atlantic Coast Cine announced reduced passenger train service effective Sunday night. Four trains have been cot from reg ular schedules so far, these being numbers 48 and 49 be tween Wilmington and Ports mouth, Va., and trains 58 anfl 59 between Sumter and Colum bia, S. C. See PINCH on Page 5; Col. 5 BARUCH APPEALS FOR SOVIET HELP Statesman Says Time Has Come To Harness Atom For Future Peace LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Dec. 5. — (JP) — Bernard M. Baruch, de claring emphatically that the "time has come for action,” appealed di rectly to Soviet Russia Thursday night to approve the United States plan for harnessing the atom for peace. Speaking at one of the most im portant meetings yet held by the United Nations Atomic Energy commission, Baruch, as the U. S. representative, urged the commis sion-including Russia — to adopt th’e American plan as its basic rec ommendation for controlling atomic energy. Baruch thus lost no time in act ing on major Russian concessions which were clearly enunciated, after some delay, only Wednesday by Vyacheslav M. Molotov, Russian foreign minister, to the U. N. Polit ical committee. Saying that the United States wel comed the support of those coun* tries which have already indicated their acceptance of the U. S. plan, Baruch added: “We seek specially the participa tion of the Soviet Union. We wel come the recent authoritative state ments of its highest representa tives. From these, we are justified in concluding that it no longer re gards the original American pro posals unacceptable, as a whole or in their separate parts, as its member of this body stated at an earlier meeting. “I repeat—we welcome coopera tion but we stand upon our basic principles even if we stand alone . . . the time for action is here.” General Limitation He said that if the nations can control the atomic weapon, they can go on from there to control other instruments of mass destruc tion. He thus agreed directly with numerous delegates who have in sisted in the disarmanent debate that there must be general arms limitation. Baruch formally presented a res olution by which the commission would report the American plan to the United Nations Security council on Dec. 31 as the commis sion’s decision on the best way to control the atom. The Weather FORECAST South Carolina—Fair and mild Friday and Saturday. North Carolina — Clear to partly with mild temperatures Friday and Saturday. (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the- 24 hours ending 7:30 p m. yesterday. Temperatures 1:30 a-m- 40; 7:30 a.m. 38; 1:30 p.m. 60; 7:30 p.m. 54. Maximum 63; Minimum 37; Mean 50. Normal 51. Humidity 1:30 a.m. 58; 7:30 a.m. 68; 1:30 p.m. 36; 7:30 p.m. 40. Precipitation Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. — 0 00 inches. Total since the first of the month — 0.01 inches. Tides For Today (From the Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey) High Low Wilmington _ 7:35 a.m. 2:09 a.m. 7:59 p.m. 2:50 p.m. Masonboro Inlet. 5:18 a.m. 11:45 a.m. 5:38 p.m. 11:55 p.m. Sunrise 7:04; Sunset 5:03; Moonrise 3:34 p.m. Moonset 4:25 a.m. River stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8 a.m. Thursday, 11.4 feet. STATE NOW SEEKS BIDS ON REPAIRS Highway Commission To Open Bridge Contracts On January 21 The State Highway commission will open bids on permanent re pairs to the Brunswick river and Alligator creek bridges on Tues day, January 21, T. T. Betts, its division highway engineer, said in Fayetteville last night. The commission will also seek bidders on a contract to repair bridges over Jackie’s creek and Bell swamp, both in Brunswick county, he declared. Betts said he _ good reason to hope that the commission would receive bids on its advertisement for repairs on the four structures. Qurtailment of material ship ments and the decline in steel pro duction because of the soft coal strike made it impossible for the commission to advertise for the repairs this month, he concluded. A. K. Mallard, district highway maintenance superintendent, r e - ported yesterday that his crews h-ad completed the installation of new two-inch boards as decking for Alligator bridge. Similar emergency repairs will be undertaken on iht* Brunswick river bridge early next week, Mal lard added. The condition of the Alligator and Brunswick bridges has been a subject of frequent criticism by local residents. State Highway En gineer Var.ce Baise last week took note of the complaints with a promise of early corrective ac tion. EDUCATION BOARD PLANS BIG FUND State Group Building Com mittee Recommends $25,000,000 For Work .RALEIGH Bee. 5 — OH —The State Board of education Thurs day adopted a report of its build ing committee recommending that the state establish a $25,000,000 fund for assisting counties, by grants - in - aid, in constructing public school buildings in a five year program. No suggestion was made as to the source of the fund, but the com mittee hinted broadly that it be set aside from a general surplus fund, which totaled about $48,000,000 last July 1, when a post-war reserve fund of $20,000,000 was included. The committee, headed by Dr. Hiden Ramsey of Asheville, point ed out in its report that a survey disclosed the need for at least $100,000,000 worth of new building in the state. However, it was pointed but that “the majority of the counties in the state find themselves financi ally or legally incapable of meet ing their building needs.” It was proposed to use the $25 - 000,000 as an equilization fund, to be distribute^ on a basis of need, which would mean that the porer counties would get the biggest shares. However, it was emphasiz ed that all counties would share in the fund. The board of education, in ac cepting the report in principle, agreed with the committee’s con tention that the time has come for the state to assist the counties in school plant construction through direct aid, rather than by loans. The loan method has been the sole means employed in the past. It was directed, however, that the committee make further rec ommendations on a formula for distributing the proposed fund. See BOARD on Page 5; Col. 5 Dr. Rowe Killed WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. — (A>) Dr. Leo S. Rowe, director general of the Pan-American union, was killed apparently instantly Thurs day night when struck by an auto mobile as he was crossing the street in front of the Bolivian em bassy. Police said Dr. Rowe, was hit as he was crossing Massachusetts ave nue and had evidently darted across the street to attend a re ception at the embassy. The automobile was driven by Corp. Elmer I. Klavon, a member of the Bolling Field Army Motor pool. NEW MARK V-2 Rocket Makes Speed Of3,409 Miles Per Hour WHITE SAND, N. M., Dec. 5— (/P)—Army Ordnance specialists fired a German V-2 rocket 95 miles above the earth Thursday achiev ing with it a new world record velocity of 5,000 feet per second. Lt. Col. Howard R. Turner, White Sand Proving ground com-' mandant, said the missle’s tqp speed was achieved at the end of the 65.5 seconds required to con sume its 11-ton load of alcohol and liquid oxygen fuel. The altitude fell nine miles short of a 104-mile mark posted last July but the rocket may have ranged 80 miles to the north, an other new .mark. The point of impact was not immediately located in the 5,000 square mile White Sand reserva tion pending reports from outlying observation stations. Radio controls "ruptured” the rocket on its downward trajectory, blasting free a nose section laden with instruments prepared by the Naval research laboratory in Washington, D. C. Col. Turner said, initial reports indicated that the firing, sixteenth in a series with reassembled Ger man rockets, "may be classed highly successful " CampOfUMW Extends Soft Peace Feeler President Expected To Ap peal To Miners On Pa triotic Grounds MURRAY OFFERS AID Attorneys, File Notice Of Appeal From Civil And Criminal Contempt WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.— (/P)—-John L. Lewis’ camp put out a peace feeler in the soft coal strike Thursday even as the CIO rushed to join him in his appeal against his con tempt conviction. Meanwhile, President Tru man went to work on a major Sunday night broadcast, in which he is expected to ap peal to the 400,000 striking miners over the heads of their leader. William Green, president of the AFL, with which Lewis’ United Mine workers is affiliated, urged the government to arrange for negotiations between the union and the private owners for a set tlement which would end the walk out. His overture was delivered amid these prime developements: See CAMP on Page 5; Col. 4 FULL ATTENDANCE URGED BY DAVIS Safety Program Saturday Sponsored By Kiwanis An appeal to Wilmington parents to assure the attendance of their children at the Kiwanis Club spon sored Junior Traffic safety pro gram in Legion Stadium at 10:SO o’clock Saturday morning was is sued last night by Capt. John Davis, retired city police traffic officer and director of the pro gram. More than 500 local school chil dren are expected to participate in the safety program and the Dicycle cavalcade to Legioft stadium that will proceed it, Capt. Davis said. The program includes a tumb ling exhibition by a ten-man team from the local Young Men’s CSiris tian Association under direction of Adam Smith, the YMCA’s physical director. And So To Bed We would not have believed It unless we heard it. Last night we were . stand ing at the counter of the West ern Union when the man on duty phoned a telegram to a customer. It struck us quite odd when we heard him say “The message reads as fel lows . . . 'Nothing’ "... Yes, gentle readers, that was the whole message. “NOTH ING.’’ The clerk had quite a time explaining to the puzzled re cipient that was the total con tent of the message. After awhile he finally convinced the party the message was "Noth ing.’’ SHOPPING PAYS LEFT