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VOL. 80.—NO. 73. 8 . WILMINGTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1947 * ESTABLISHED 1867
Accepts TB Bond Sale Check
Seen above is Emmett Bellamy, left, president of the New Han
over County Tuberculosis and Health association, receiving a check
which represents the Wilmington Junior Chamber of Commerce ef
forts in the recent campaign, from Paul Killian, who headed the TB
Bond sale drive for the local civic organization. The presentation
was made last night during the meeting of the Junior Chamber.
(PHOTO BY CAROLINA CAMERA)_“
JUNIOR CHAMBER
LAUDED FOR WORK
Emmett Bellamy Accepts
Club’s Returns From Re
cent TB Bond Sales
The Junior Chamber of Com
merce last night presented a check
for $3,770 to the New Hanover
County Tuberculosis and Health
association, the amount realized
from the recent tuberculosis bond
sale drive.
Emmett Bellamy, president of
the county association, in accept
ing the check, and expressing ap
preciation for the work done by
the Jaycees, stated that “This
year’s goal of $10,000 was higher
than any set previously, and that
approximately $9,000 had been
raised thus far.”
He also stated that civic clubs
had raised more than one-third of
(hat amount. The goal is expected
to be reached in the near future,
he added.
Bellamy stated that it ic his
hope, that Wilmington will become
a health center. Present plans for
expansion include a tuberculosis
sanitorium, which the county as
sociation expects to build here
within a few years, he said.
Three candidates took oaft
of membership during last night s
meeting. They were Cecil Sandifer,
Donald Edmundson, and J. C.
Whedbee.
Visitors at the meeting were
Bert Hawley, Cecil Lee, Charles
Both, Richard Woods, Emmett
(Continued on Page 2, Col. 2)
AUTHORITY MAY
SEEK STATE ACT
Talk Of Enabling Law Ex
pected At Airport Board
Meeting
Discussion centering about ef
forts to have an enabling act grant
ing clearly defined power to the
Wilmington-New Hanover Airport
authority passed by the legislature
is slated for the Monday meeting
of the city-county authority, it
was learned last night.
Planning of the tentative schedule
follows closely on the heels of a
meeting of the board yesterday at
which time it was disclosed that
disagreement over powers of the
board existed between the body and
the county commissioners.
The rift became apparent when
air board members protested
against having to contact the coun
ty before raising the salary of Blue
thentha] airfield employes.
A suggestion that the air authori
(Continued on Page 2, Col. 3)
MBONE’S MEDITATIONS
By Alley
I £A!N' think o' no
NEW REDUCTIONS
TO MEK PIS SEAH
AN'ALL M/vH OLE ONES
IS pone vvo' out !!!
DONALD R. RICHBERG
FEARS “CIVIL WAR”
OVER LABOR POWERS
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 7-W
— Donald R. Richberg, former
administrator for the national
Recovery administration, de
clared Tuesday that labor
unions may throw the United
States into “a civil war for
the preservation of our free
economy and our institutions of
self government.
The onetime leading New
Dealer told The Poor Richard
club that legislation which is
“compulsory, punitive and
drastic” is needed to curb' ir
responsible labor unions.
He declared he was “sincere
ly fearful of legislation against
labor unions that will strip
them of a desirable ability to
maintain and advance the in
terests of industrial workers.
“But unless the gigantic
powers of labor laders are
cut down and the unions and
their officials compelled to sub
ordinate private interests to
the public interest we shall be
driven deeper and deeper into
a political war.”
COUNCIL PLANS
ANNUAL MEETING
Community Organization
To Elect Officers Here
Next Tuesday
The election of officers and di
rectors and the presentation of the
annual report of the Community
Council will be held next Tuesday
night at the Community Center,
Rabbi Samuel A. Freidman, presi
dent, announced last night.
The annual meeting is scheduled
to get underway at 8 p.m.
The principal address will be
delivered by Dr. Arthur E. Fink,
Director of the Division of Public
Welfare and Social Work of the
Graduate School of the University
of North Carolina.
“We are very fortunate in secur
ing Dr. Fink to address our annual
meeting,” Rabbi Friedman said,
“as he is one of the outstanding
authorities in the south in the field
of social welfare planning.”
Nominations for officers and di
rectors will be presented by a
nominating committee consisting
of Spurgeon Baxley, chairman;
Mrs. J. S. Crowley, Mrs. William
Goldburg, Miss Columbia Munds
and H. Carl Moultrie.
A new constitution aaoptea Dy tne
Council last June provides for a
board of 15 directors to be elected
for three year terms, five terms ex
piring each year, in place of the
present board of 11 members elect
ed for one year terms.
In addition to the president, Rab
bi Friedman, present officers of
the Council include: Mrs. William
M. Henderson, vice-president, and
chairman' of the Welfare Division;
Mrs. W. Ronald Lane, chairman of
the Health Division; and Baxley,
chairman of the Recreation Divi
sion.
Division vice-chairmen include
Dr. A. H. Elliott, health; Mrs. Em
ma D. Howell, welfare; Miss Doro
thea McDowell, recreation.
A. A. Chiemiego has been serving
as acting chairman of the Health
(Continued on Page 2, Col. 2)
Gen. Marshall
Issues BL £
On China W5
Truman Envoy Releases
Bitter Indictment Of#
Kuomintang
ADMITS “FAILURE”
Future Of Nation Lies With
Liberals Under Chiang
Kai-Shek Leadership
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—
(UP)—Gen. George C. Mar
shall Tuesday delivered a
blistering “plague o’ both your
houses” to China’s warring
factions — Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-shek’s National
government and the Chinese
Communist party _ raising
strong doubts that he would
return to Nanking as Presi
dent Truman’s peace envoy.
Never in recent diplomatic
history has an American official,
while still in his post in a foreign
country, issued such a bitter in
dictment. He blamed “extremist
elements of both sides” for frus
trating, “time and again” sincere
efforts to achieve peace, and left
no doubt that neither can expect
American help until they put their
houses in order.
His blast was issued by the
State department 15 hours after the
President had anounced his recall
for a personal report. The docu
ment was labeled “a personal
statement” and.it disclosed that
Marshall was admitting failure of
his 13-month mission.
He will leave Nanking Wednes
day by plane.
Hits Both Sides
Marshall directed his fire with
out qualification at both sides. He
said . that the “irreconcilable
groups” within the Kuomintang
party of Chiang, which is the Na
tional government, were interested
(Continued on Page 2, Cl. 8)
PRIVATE VESSELS |
SOUGHT BY GROUP
Po|ts Conference Directing
Efforts To Attract Ship
ping Lines
The decision not to request the
Interstate Commerce Commission
to expand government operation
of coastal and intercoastal steam
ship operations was voted at a
meeting of the South Atlantic and
Southern Ports conference held in
Jacksonville, Fla., Monday, ac
cording to j. T. Hiers, executive
agent of the Wilmington Port com
mission, who returned yesterday
from the meeting.
Hiers, who is chairman of the
Southern Traffic league and a
member of the conference, repre
sented Wilmington at the session.
He said that delegates to the
conference decided that rather
than ask the Interstate'Commerce
Commission for greater govern
ment service in the operation of
the steamship lines, an effort will
be made to induce expansion
through the initiative of private
operation to ports not now provid
ed with service.
Another far - reaching decision
made at the Florida session was
to refrain from taking an active
part in hearings before the Com
merce commission January 17 rel
ative to transcontinental rail rates
and intercoastal water rates, Hiers
said. The commission hearing is
scheduled to be held in Washing
ton.
A detailed written report on ac
tion taken at the meeting is sched
uled to be presented to members
of the local port commission at
an early date by Hiers.
GOP Senators Cut Work
Week To Three-Day Basis
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f dlcate, Inc.) Trade Mark
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 — (U.R)—
The Republican Leadership Tues
day night ordered a three-day work
week for the Senate, announcing
that for the next 83^days at least
the chamber will meet only Mon
days, Wednesday’s and Fridays.
Tuesday and Thursdays , the
Senate Republican steering com
mittee decided, will be devoted
to those of the Senate's 15 com
mittees which want to hold hear
ings on pending legislation.
That schedule will hold from now
until the end of March, Steering
Chairman Robert A. Taft, R., O.,
told a news conference.
The action throws tradition and
precedent to the winds. The Sen
ate normally meets on Mondays
sits through the week until its im
mediate tasks were done. Some
times it met on Saturdays when
pending legislation had to be dis
posed of.
Taft said that the split week
was agreed upon to facilitate the
work of committees so that their
activities would not compete with
regular Senate sessions.
“Sen. White (majority leader
Wallace White, R., Me.,) will an
nounce these plans Wednesday
when the Senate resumes,” Taft
said. "It will not require a Senate
resolution to make these changes;
only an announcement.”
BVBNES RESIGNS POST 45 SECRETARY
'BmTA TE; TRUMAN SELECTS MARSH ALL;
^General assembly set for opening
-— « -
Leaders Hold
Caucus, Name
New Speaker
Representative Tom Pear
sall Of Nash Unanimous
Choice Of Members
BLYTHE GETS POST
Democratic Senators Select
Mecklenburg Man As
President Pro Tem
RALEIGH, Jan. 7.—
A heavily predominate Demo
cratic party caucused Tues
day night on the eve of the
opening of the 1947 General
assembly, were aware that in
to its hands had been entrust
ed the task of spending more
money than any North Caro
lina legislature in history.
While there was an atmos
phere of party harmony, there
also was evident a feeling of
tension over controversial meas
ures sure to hit the hoppers.
Republicans—two in the Senate
and 13 in the House—took a back
seat, but were expected to pledge
their loyalty to the duly elected
officers.
Rep. Tom Pearsall Of Nish
county, whose name already is be
ing mentioned as a potential gub
ernatorial candidate, was nominat
ed unanimously as speaker. That
had been generally expected since
Rep. F. E. Wallace of Lenoir coun
ty withdrew last summer end
pledged his support to Pearsall.
Senator Joe Blythe of Mecklen
burg, whose name has been pro
jected into the governor’s race
the next time the job goes to the
west, was named president pro
tern of the Senate.
(Continued On Page 2; Col. 3)
PROJECT STARTS
TO REMOVE BARGE
Sunken Vessel In Cape
Fear Channel To Be Mov
ed Before Dredging
No work on the dredging of the
Cape Fear river channel at Lock
wood’s Folly inlet will be done until
the wrecked barge which caused
the shoaling at that point is re
moved, a spokesman for the Wil
mington district of the U. S. En
gineers said yesterday.
Operations of removing the
barge is now underway, it was
stated, and the dredging will be
held up until the barge is remov
ed, at the request of the owner.
The dredging to remove the sand
shoal will then begin, the spokes
man said, to return the channel
to its project depth of 30 feet.
Leaders At Methodist Conference
Seen above (left to right) are Dr. Fred W. Pasehall of Lumberton, district director of Evange
lism; Dr. .John C. Gienn of Wilmington, district superintendent; and Dr. Charles P. Powell of Char
lotte, who delivered the keynote address at the opening session yesterday of the church conference
here. The two-day session will conclude today. (PHOTO BY CAROLINA CAMERA)
SPEAKERS STRESS
EVANGELISM HERE
Two-Day Conference Of
Methodists To Adjourn
This Afternoon
Speaking on “Visitation Evangel
ism”, Dr. Charles P. Powell, pas
tor of the Dilworth Methodist
Church in Charlotte, opened the
two day conference of Methodists
in this area yesterday afternoon.
The conference is being held in the
Wesleyan Methodist Church in
Winter Park.
Dr. Powell, in the keynote ad
dress, emphasized the 'need for
greater consecration on the part
of church leaders.
“We must begin with ourselves,
who are entrusted to be the in
terpreters of the gospel of Christ”,
he stated. “We shall not lead
others into realms of life where
we do not live.”
The speaker also urged that be
fore entering upon the program of
visiting evangelism, every pastor
and laymen must tune their hearts
to Christ and his teachings.
Following the opening address,
Dr. Fred W. Paschal, Lumberton,
director of Evangelism, directed
an open discussion on “visiting
evangelism.”
J. C. Willis, Elizabethtown, chair
man Wilmington district of the
Crusade Council, opened last
night’s session with a talk on “The
Year of Stewardship Objectives as
seen by a Layman”.
The objectives presented in his
talk were: intensified cumilative
effort in the field of evangelism
and 95 recruits for the ministry;
new personal commitments to God
(Continued on Page 2, Col. 4)
The Weather
FORECAST
South Carolina—Cloudy and mild with
occasional rains, followed by partly
cloudy Wednesday night, and over North
west Wednesday afternoon. Thursday,
increasing cloudiness and cooler, occa
sional light rains beginning over north
west portion in afternoon.
North Carolina—Cloudy and mild with
occasional rain Wednesday, followed by
partly cloudy Wednesday night and over
west portion Wednesday afternoon.
Thursday increasing cloudiness and cool
er, occasional light rains beginning over
west portion in afternoon.
(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. 43; 7:30 a.m. 46; 1:30 p.m. 60;
7:30 p.m. 57.
Maximum 60; Minimum 42; Mean 51;
Normal 47.
Humidity
1:30 a.m. 77; 7:30 a.m. 76; 1:30 p.m. 67;
7:30 p.m. 80.
Precipitation
Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. —
0.00 inches.
Total since the first of the month —
•0.9i inches.
Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey).
High Low
Wilmington _10:54 a.m. 5:17 a.m.
11:09 p.m. 6:00 p.m.
Masonboro Inlet _ 8:39 a.m. 2:14 a.m.
9:05 p.m. 2:59 p.m.
Sunrise 7:19. Sunset 5:19; Moonrise 7:10
p.m.; Moonset 9:36 a.m.
River stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8
a.m. Tuesday, 15.0 feet.
THAWS REMOVING
SNOWS FROM WEST
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A widespread January thaw be
gan removing a snow cover from
a number of mid-continent states
Tuesday.
Weather forecasters said a warm
air mass was melting snow in
North and South Dakota, Montana,
Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas.
Temperatures slightly above
freezing were melting snow patches
on roads in Illinois, Michigan, and
Indiana.
Seasonal to mild temperatures
were recorded in most of the na
tion except west of the Rocky
Mountains, along the Western Gulf
coast and in Northern New Eng
land. However, rising temperatures
were in prospect for New England
and the Western Gulf coast.
GROUP TO STUDY
CONSOLIDATION
—
Committee Appointed To
Report On Combining 4
City Agencies
The fate of a proposal made at
a meeting of Wilmington business
men yesterday that the Wilming
ton Port-Traffic Association, the
Chamber of Commerce, the office
of the City Industrial Agent and
the Wilmington Port Commission
be consolidated under one head
rested today in the hands of a
special committee.
Appointed to the committee to
draft the report were T. D. Love
and Peter B. Ruffin, Port Traffic
Association; E. L. White and C.
L. Harrington, Chamber of Com
merce; Mayor W. Ronald Lane,
city; Addison Hewlett, county;
Fred Willetts and C. D. Hogue, Port
Commission; and City Industrial
Agent John H. Farrell, H. A.
Marks and R. B. Page, members
at large.
The committee, composed of two
representatives of each organiza
tion, one each from the city and
county and three from the com
munity at large, was directed to
make an investigation into the pro
posal and submit a report by Jan.
21.
The call for unity, which came
in the form of a proposal by Har
riss Newman was sounded at a
meeting held yesterday morning
in the Woodrow Wilson hut for the
purpose of discussing the city’s
chances for further development
through the efforts of the four de
partments.
Sentiment favoring the consoli
dation of the agencies was strong
throughout the session, but was not
unanimous. Fred Willetts, a mem
ber of the port commission, came
out against the proposal, suggest
ing instead the floating of a million
dollar bond issue to be used for
promotion of industry in the city.
Newman spoke in favor of a
single board of trade for Wilming
ton, with the four agencies to
operate with separate secretaries
under one head. Under this plan,
(Continued on Page 2, Col. 4)
Along The Cape Fear
OUTLOOK BRIGHT — The fact
that the Port City faces a bright
future as far as the Cape Fear
river is concerned is nothing new
to residents of Wilmington.
More than fifty years ago scribes
found the port’s outlook a major
topic for conjecture as seen by the
following account:
Wilmington early took rank as
a leading South Atlantic port. Thus
we find that, fifty years ago, be
fore the establishment of our rail
day systems and the construction
of the Albermarle and Chesapeake
Canal, systems designed to drain
the State of her commerce, all
tendering to the ports of other
states, to the prejudice and disad
vantage of our own, Wilmington
outranked Norfolk, Petersburg and
Richmond.
According to the report of Sec
retary of the Treasurer Levi Wood
bury, for the fiscal year ending
October 1837, the tonnage enter
ed and cleaded in the foreign
trade at the port of Wilmington ex
ceeded that of Norfolk 6,384 tons;
that of Richmond and Petersburg
together 17,694 tons. This of the
foreign trade.
* • •
HOME FRONT — In respect of
the domestic coasting trade at|
the port of Wilmington, we quote
from the “Memorial of the North
Carolina Improvement Convention’
of December 1838:
“We are informed on high au
thority that the coasting trade of
Wilmington employs a greater ton
nage than her foreign trade. If
this be true, and we believe it to
be so, not only on the high author
ity from which we recieved it, but
because we know the maritime
trade of North Carolina is princi
pally a coasting trade, it would
follow that the tonnage employed
in the trade of the port of Wilming
ton is greater than that of the three
great ports of Virginia, Norfolk,
Richmond and Petersburg.’’
MORE IMPROVEMENTS — It
is an interesting coincidence, that
newspapers of the 1880’s pointed
out, that the memorial just quot
ed from, and signed by Romulus
M. Saunders, John H.Bryan, Louis
D. Henry, L. H. Marstellar, Hugh
McQueen, James Allen and
Thomas L. Clingman, as a com
mittee, should have been, wherein
we have quoted them, then urging
upon the Legislature a scheme of
internal improvements that prac
(Continued on Page 2, Col. 4)
Grandma’s Bone Corset
Comes Back; Now Stylis h
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.— (iP) —
Grandma’s bone corset is coming
back into fashion, but the new style
would make the dear little old
lady color up like a red, red rose.
For that intimate Victorian gar
ment, in sleek golden satin and
laced up the back in black, was
worn in full view Tuesday as the
basis for one of the outstanding
gowns of the Trans-World Style
show, sponosred by the Women’s
National Press club. The golden
rib-hugger had a full skirt of black
tulle, and was edged on top with
the same material and pet bead
ing.
It was designed by Jacques Fath
of Paris, and is one of the latest
Parisienne strapless gown styles.
Margaret Truman, daughter of
the President and Mrs. Truman;
Mrs. O. Max Gardner, wife of the
Ambassador-designate to Britain;
the wives of British, French, Ca
nadian, Australian and New Zea
land diplomats and Seorita Elena
De Ivanissevich, daughter of the
Argentine ambassador, were honor
guests at the premiere. The new
fashions were flown here by de
signers in London, Paris, New
York, California and South Amer
ica.
The “rounded silhouette’’ was
stressed by the commentator, Viv
ian Donner of Hollywood. She call
ed attention also to the “padded
hips’’ of a trim grey suit designed
by Hardy Ames of London.
“Slow Down"
Order Causes
Resignation
Top-Ranking Cabinet Mem
ber To Step Down Fri
day Of This Week
PRESIDENT ACCEPTS
American World War Lead
er Now Enroute Home
With China Report
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7_
(ff“)—James F. Byrnes resign
ed Tuesday night as secretary
of state and President Truman
chose as his successor the
man who guided America’s
military fortunes in the war
_ General George C. Mar
shall.
Byrnes declared the doctors
had warned him he must “slow
down” and that he couldn’t
slow down in the job of Sec
retary of state.
Marshall, Army chief of staff in
the war, is presently ending a
Presidential mission to China.
The announcement of his selection
to the cabinet came at almost the
exact hour, 7 p. m., Eastern Stand
ard time, at which he was due to
leave Shanghai, enroute home.
The Pennsylvania-born, Virginia
educated Marshall takes over the
job of helping make peace secure
at a time when Republicans have
taken over Congress. In the Army
(Continued on Page •; Col. 5)
TROOPS RELIEVE
EUROPEAN COLONY
French Parachute Force
Rescues Group Surround
ed By Viet-Namese
PARIS, Jan. 7.— (&) —French
parachute troops, dropping by
bright moonlight in the canal-split
terrian at Namdinh, 50 miles South
east of Hanoi, have relieved the
European colony barricaded in a
cotton mill and are mopping up
Viet-Namese in the town, the
French general staff reported Tues
day.
Other French troops fighting to
break the virtual siege of Hanoi
advanced eastward toward a junc
tion with other forces battling West
of Haiduong, mid-way point be
tween the Tonkin capital and the
coast.
The parachute drops on Sunday
night was “completely successful,”
the French said, and the para
chute detachments quickly estab
lished a bridgehead across a canal,
opening a path for water-borne
troops which captured a cotton
mill where the European civilian
population had been fighting off
Viet-Namese attacks since Dec. 19,
The troops then battled on into
Namdinh, important cotton mill
town, where they met stiff resist
ance from the Viet-Namese en»
trenched behind breastworks.
In Hanoi, itselr, artillery duals
continued while the column advan*>
ing on Haiduong captured the vil
lage of Banyennhan. The force
from Haiduong captured the village
of Ch:-khe, but the general staff
did not say how far the two forces
were apart.
And So To Bed
Our local chief of police,
Charles H. Casteen, is not ft
doubting man.
However, he contends that
the law of average would not
allow so many over-time park
ing notices to fall from wind
shields as some motorists have
reported here in recent days.
And just to prove that he was
not depending solely on the law
of averages in squelching the
No. 1 alibi of many, Chief Cas
teen pointed out that in addi
tion to that little red ticket,
Uncle Sam, through the mails,
delivers a handy reminder to
those who are tagged by the
local guardians of the law.