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VOLSO—NO_76... WILMINGTON, N. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1947 — ESTABLISHED 1867
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Nations Vote
Trieste Free
Port Status
United Nations Security
Council Approves Big
Four Agreement
TO PROTECT AREA
Australia Abstains From
Voting In Final Test;
Majority 10 To 0
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y.,
jan. 10_(UP)—The United
Nations Security council Fri
day night approved the big
Four aggreement to set up a
free territory of Trieste, and
promised to protect it against
aggression.
The council voted 10 to 0
for the plan, with Australia
refusing to vote. The action—
clinching one of the major territor
ial changes to result from World
War II—came exactly one year
af;er the first meeting of the Un
ited Nations General assembly.
Under the agreement, the Italian
chv of Trieste will become an in
dependent territory under pro
tection of the UN Security council.
The council will appoint a governor,
and in general guide the territory’s
cestiny.
The settlement compromised
Italy's desire to keep the city, and
Yugoslavia's demand to annex it.
Most of the population of the city
itself is Italian, but the surround
ing area is predominantly Slavic.
In Peace Treaty
The plan was worked out during
weeks of conferences by the for
eign ministers of the United States,
Great Britain, Russia and France.
It will be incorporated in the Ital
ian peace treaty to be signed early
next month.
N. J. 0. Makin of Australia ab
itained from voting because his
gove-nmetft did not feel the Sec
urity council had authority to ac
cept responsibility for running Tri
(Cordnued On Page Z, Col. 4)
FIRE HERE STRIKES
TEMPORARY PLANT
Firemen Bring Downtown
Blaze Quickly Under
Control
The temporary quarters of the
Garver Manufacturing company,
located on the fourth floor of the
Maffit building at Princess and
Water streets, were damaged in a
spectacular fire late yesterday
afternoon.
The blaze, which burned through
the fifth story floor of the build
ing. started in a fourth floor closet,
city fire department officials dis
closed. It was quickly brought
under control.
The movement of the firetrucks
through the center of town tem
porarily brought all traffic to a
standstill but the normal flow of
traffic was resumed shortly there
after,
Fire Chief J. Luddie Croom, was
ln Charleston at the time the ACL
station burned there, but did not
sec the blaze until after the build
'ng had been leveled, he said upon
his return here.
He declined to comment on the
damage to the Maffit building but
j attribute the cause of the blaze
to carelessness.
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former High Commissioner to
the Philippines, Francis B. Sayre
(above), 81, has been nominated
by President Truman as American
representative to the United Na
tions Trusteeship Council. The
Council will meet at Lake Success,
N. Y., in March. (International)
CITIES RECEIVE
AIRPORT FUNDS
—
Federal Government Will
Aid Communities In
Arear To Expand
Three Southeastern North Caro
lina airports, located at Clinton,
Elizabethtown and Fayetteville,
have been allocated federal funds
through the Civil Aeronautics as
sociation for great development, it
was learned here last night.
The Clinton airport, listed as
Class 2, will receive $60,000 from
the Federal government. The com
munity must add an additional
$60,000 to this amount, making the
total cost of the completed project
$120,000. According to reports,
$30,000 is to be used for the pur
chase of the land and $89,200 for
other items, which includes clean
ing the land, grubbing', grading,
drainage, turfing, fencing and the
construction of two landing strips
each 500 by 3,000 feet.
Mayor J. C. Morisey, of Clinton,
told The Star last night that an
application had been filed several
months ago with the CAA. He
stated that a bond issue will be
sought by Sampson county to fi
nance the $60,000 to match the
federal grant. He said a definate
site has not been selected for the
location of the field and expected
that the work would get underway
this spring.
Benjamin J. Greene, chairman of
the Bladen county airport commit
tee, said last night that Elizabeth
town has not selected a site for
their field. The first site proposed
was disapproved by CAA officials,
he pointed out. Efforts are now
underway to locate a suitable site,
he said last night.
The Bladen county airport to be
built at Elizabethtown was granted
$50,000 by the authority, with a
like amount to be raised by the
airport committee. $15,120 was
proposed for the cost of the land
and $84,880 for other items. Two
landing strips, 500 feet by 3,000
feet each was specified.
The Fayetteville airport, listed as
Class 3 will receive $108,000 from
the federal government which, with
$113,000 from its sponsor, will give
it a total of $211,000 for develop
(Continued On Page 2, Col. 4)
$2,000,000 Fire
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OTTAWA, J-n. 10—UP)—A United
States Army hangar at the RCAF’s
airport at Goose Bay, Nfld., has
been destroyed in a fire with a pos
sible loss of $2,000,000, according
to reports received here Thursday.
Scant information on the fire
was available, but it was stated
the hangar was one of a number
of installations operated at Goose
Bay by a small detachment of
United States Army Air forces men.
The U. S. Embassy here said
it had received no reports on the
fire, and .any information on it
would have to come from Washing
ton. ___
‘Barney’Baruch Bows Out
Of “Political Picture ”
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. —(U.R)—
Bernard M. Baruch, super-adviser
to six U. S. Presidents, said Fri
day that he was bowing out of
public life and henceforth would
“sit by and let time pass me —
I’m not going to pass time.”
The tall, white-haired 76-year-old
elder statesman, who likes to held
court on a park bench, called on
President Truman Friday wtu*« en
route by plane from his George
town, S. C. estate to New York.
After his visit he was asked why
he recently resigned as the U. S.
representative on the United Na
tions Atomic Energy commission.
“Well,” he said, “I had come to
the end of my furrow, now I’m go
ing to sit by and let time pass me.
I’m not going to pass time.”
Baruch, who ran the nation’s pro
duction machinery in World War I,
has been called in by every Presi
dent since the late Woodrow Wilson
to advise on affairs of state.
He sat out the early days of
World War II but was then called
in to make a report on the nation’s
rubber supply. Later, he and his
assistant, John Hancock, prepared
the famed Baruch report on man
power and reconversion.
TRUMAN HANDS CONGRESS NO-TAX-SLASH,
BA/&NCED BUDGET FOR 1948 FISCAL YEAR;
;Wernor suffers defea t by salary vote
Lower House
Ups Grant To
N. C. Teachers
Chamber In Revolt, Tacks
On Amendment To Ad
ministration Bill
ADDS MOPERCENT
Measure Now Goes To Sen
ate For Concurrence:
Fight Expected
RALEIGH, Jan. 10—(>P)—
The State House of represent
atives, deeply concerned over
the effect rising costs of liv
ing have had on school teach
ers and other state employes,
voted Friday to grant emer
gency salary increases of from
25 to 30 per cent.
The House action came aft
er the Senate had met in a
brief session Friday morning and
passed an administration-sponsored
bill calling for a 20 per cent emer
gency salary increase for the pe
riod from January 1, to the end of
the current fiscial year.
The lower chamber, which had
been expected to follow the Senate’s
lead, revolted and tacked on an
amendment introduced by Rep.
Oscar Barker of Durham, and re
turned the measure to the Senate
for concurrence in the amendment.
Adoption of the amendment,
which followed about two and one
half hours of spirited debate, was
a clear-cut defeat for Governor
Cherry and his administration sup
porters.
(Continued On Page 2, Col. 4)
GREEK SHIPS GET
PORT CLEARANCE
Attorney For Vessels An
nounces Settlement Of
Pending Suits
The libel action brought against
the S. S. Anastassios-Pateras,
Greek-owned vessel, by Broadfoot
Iron Works company for $11,288.75,
and like action against the S. S.
Kalliope for $3,432.13 were* with
drawn yesterday following settle
ment for both ships, Issac Wright,
attorney for Broadfoot, said last
night.
The S. S. Anastassios-Pateras has
already sailed, Wright said, and the
S. S. Kalliopi has been moved to
the Clyde Line Wharf from the Wil
mington Terminal warehouse in
order that further repairs may be
made.
Wright refused to disclose the
amount paid in settlement for the
suits against the two ships.
The' ships were seized by the
U. S. Marshal following libel action
brought by William G. Broadfoot
against Constantinos Pateras. own
er of the Greek ships, for failure
to pay the $11,228.75 charge for
wharfage,- repairs, and materials,
as the vessel was being transferred
from the troop carrier to a cargo
ship. The second libel was lodged
for repairs and materials to the
Kalliopi.
The Kalliopi was formerly the
Robert Dale Owen, and was built
in Wilmington and launched from
the North Carolina Shipbuilding
company May 21, 1943.
To Direct March Of Dimes Drive Here
Seen above is a group of the leaders in the forthcoming March of Dimes Campaign who attended the final organizational meeting
yesterday afternoon in the American Legion home. Seated (left to right) are Mrs. Elizabeth Emory, chairman of the girls division; Mrs.
Thomas J. Gause, chairman of the women’s division; and Mrs. Martha Bennett, chairman of the schools division. Standing (left to right)
are other division chairmen: James E. L. Wade, H. Winfield Smith, J. R. Benson, the Rev. Michael J. O’Keefe, Addison Hewlett, Sr., and
W. K. Rhodes. Jr., general chairman. (PHOTO BY CAROLINA CAMERA)
FOOD PRICES NOW
ON WAY DOWN
Nation-Wide Survey Indi
cates Drop On All
Items Except Coffee
CHICAGO, Jan. 10.— (IP) — The
American housewife’s soaring food
budget finally has started down.
For the first time since war ex
ploded over Europe in 1939, more
retail food prices are being mark
ed down than up, a coast to coast
spot survey of representative cities
showed Friday.
Butter, which broke sharply on
the Chicago wholesale market and
registered declines on the New
York, San Francisco and Los An
geles markets, was among the
list of major food items falling in
price.
The Atlantic and Pacific Tea
company announced butter prices
would be slashed five cents a pound
in its Chicago and Detroit area
stores and 3 cents in New York
Saturday. Most other cities report
ed a steady decline in butter prices
since December peaks.
Coffee Soaring
Food wholesalers in Chicago said
the only major commodity still
showing an upward price trend was
coffee. Price reductions already
have been made at the retail level
in numerous cities on lard, fresh
and canned meats, canned citrus
fruit juices and dried peaches and
dried apples, they added.
Virtually all food industry sourc
es* said flatly that ‘the day of
sharp increases in food prices is
over.” Many predicted numerous
other declines would be in evidence
when the summer pack of canned
goods comes on the market.
Along The Cape Fear
LITTLE RED SCHOOL — A kind
reader called to remind us that al
though We had had much to say
about the school system here fifty
years ago, still we had overlooked
one important fact. - .
What did the school here look
like?
Well never be it said that we were
not willing to oblige, so here we.
go:
The Union school building on
Ann Street was a model building
in every respect.
All of the rooms were well light:
ed and had ventitlation on four
sides. The rooms boasted 120
square feet of blackboard surface
and were furnished with the “very
best’’ single seats.
The building contained eight
rooms measuring 24 by 36 feet and
an assembly hall that dwafted the
regular class rooms. This particu
lar room was 56 by 80 feet.
FIRE PRECAUTION — The build
ing was double weather-boarded
and also had double floors.
There were only two recitation
rooms upstairs and as the lower
floor had five exits there was noth
ing to fear in case of fire.
So much for the building. Now
as to what went on inside.
Well the course of study was that
which was required by the state
law.
And the law contemplated giv
ing each child a careful drill in the
ordinary English branches.
Pupils who completed the course
were expected to be able to read
thoughtfully and with expression,
to write good English and plain
hand, to perform accurately and
rapidly any ordinary business ope
ration in arithmetic, and to be rea
sonably familiar with United States
and North Carolina history and
common school geography.
* * * ,
TEACHERS MEETING — The.
staff of the school met twice each
month, one newspaper account
pointed out.
During these sessions the teach
ers in the Port City studied the
latest and the best methods. These
sessions were productive of much
good to the pupils and teachers,
alike, the report explained.
“Several of our teachers are re
garded as experts and are in de
mand for work at summer institu
tions,” a newspaper published here
in the 1880’s states.
(Continued On Page 2, Col. 3)
Final Plans Drawn
For March Of Dimes
The Weather
FORECAST
North Carolina — Mostly cloudy, scat
tered light rains Saturday afternoon and
night and in east portion Sunday; little
change in temperature.
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the 24 hours
ending 7:30 p.m. yesterday.
Temperatures
1:30 a.m. 39; 7:30 a m. 33; 1:30 p.m. 44;
7 :30 p.m. 43.
Maximum 59; Minimum 32; Mean 45;
Normal 46.
Humidity
1:30 a.m. 50; 7:30 a.m. 58; 1:30 p.m. 26;
7:30 p.m. 73.
Frecipitation
Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. —
0.00 inches.
Total since the first of the month —
1:03 inches.
Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey)
High Low
Wilmington -12:52 a.m. 7:56 a.m.
1:23 p.m. 8 :31 p.m.
Masonboro Inlet _ 11:15 a.m. 4:51 a.m.
11:48 p m. 5:27 p.m.
Sunirse 7:18; Sunset 5:22; Moonrise 10:34
p.m.; Moonset 11:18 a.m.
River stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8
a.m. Friday, (no report) feet.
Shipyard Parley
A meeting of the North Carolina
congressional delegation for the
purpose of discussing efforts of the
North Carolina State Ports au
thority to purchase the local ship
yards from the Maritime commis
sion has been scheduled for Janu
ary 16, the Wilmington Star’s Wash
ington Bureau reported yesterday.
Senator Clyde R. Hoey agreed to
call the conference as a means to
ward effecting the purchase of the
yard for conversion into state port
terminals, industrial sites* and a
ship repair installation.
Organization Meeting Held
Yesterday At Ameri
can Legion Home
The final organizational meeting
for the purpose of a detailed check
over of all assignments of the full
New Hanover county committee for
the March of Dimes campaign,
which starts next Wednesday, was
held yesterday in the American
Legion Home with W. K. Rhodes,
Jr., county chairman, presiding.
Rhodes pointed out that while the
quota set for New Hanover county
was $8200 he felt sure that its citi
zens, realizing the desperate need
for money to replenish the fund
which has been reduced during the
epidemic of last year, would re
spond generously and over-sub
scribe the quota.
In developing the committee
movements, Rhodes assigned the
over-all direction of the Women’s
division to Mrs. Thomas J. Gause
who will also contact all the Wom
en’s clubs throughout the county.
Mrs. Elizabeth Emory, chairman
of the girls’ division; Russell H.
Caudill, heading the boys division,
and Father Michael J. O’Keefe,
chairman St. Mary’s church divis
ion, were assigned the duties of
coordinating the younger peoples’
efforts, particularly on tag * day
and at the theaters. The three
man committee is to work togeth
er in developing such activities.
Mrs. Martha Bennett will be in
complete charge of all schools dur
ing the drive, Rhodes said. Assist
ed by the school children, she will
direct the detailed plan which will
take in all the county schools.
Addison Hewlett, Sr., chairman
of the board of county commission
ers, and J. R. Benson, city man
(Continued On Page 2, Col. 6)
CPA Permits
A permit allowing construction in
the amount of $35,000 was issued to
Swift and Company, Wilmington,
yesterday, according to an official
of the Greensboro branch office
of the Civilian production adminis
tration.
Other applications for the erec
tion of buildings receiving approv
al included the Carolina Motors,
Whiteville, $30,000 and the Bladen
county board of Education, Tar
Heel, $30,000.
APPLIANCE GROUP
ELECTS OFFICERS
Robert Dannenbaum Will
Head Newly-Organ
ized Association
Robert Dannenbaum, manager of
the Thrift-T-Stores, was selected as
president of the Wilmington Elec
trical Appliance Dealers associa
tion at a meeting held in the Wood
row Wilson hut yesterday after
noon for the purpose of electing the
first permanent slate of officials.
Other officers chosen were
George D. Conant, Tide Water Pow
er company, vice-president, and
Gardner D. Greer, MacMillan and
Cameron, secretary-treasurer.
The chief decision reached at
the meeting was that the officers,
together with four other members
to be appointed by the president,
should draw up a constitution as a
guide for the work of the group.
Phases of the proposed constitu
tion figuring in the discussion are
slated' to be included when the
committee presents the first draft
of the by-laws on a date not yet
set.
Day In Congress
SENATE
Bills padded:
SB11—Barber of Chatham, to pro
vide for a 20-per cent pay increase
for teachers and state employees.
HB1—McClung of Graham, joint
resolution memorializing late U.
S. Senator Josiah William Bailey,
setting aside Sunday, January 12,
as a day of mourning, and express
ing confidence in newly-chosen
Senator William B. Umstead.
HOUSE
New Bills:
HB16—Whitfield of Pender, set
ting the fees of the coroner of Pen
der County, Committee on salaries
and fees.
HBl7—Barker of Durham, and
others, to change the name of the
North Carolina College for Negroes
to the North Carolina college, of
Education.
Bills Passed:
SB11—Barber of Chatham, pro
viding emergency salary increases
for all state employes. Amended
and returned to the Senate for con
currence.
‘Book Of Knowledge ’ Will
Run Serially In The Star
Readers of the Star will have
access daily to one of the world’s
greatest storehouses of informa
tion, The Book Of Knowledge, be
ginning on Monday.
Unlocked from its encyclopaedic
bindings, the book which has
achieved eminence in its all-em
bracing field of education, will be
presented in a new and different
series for newspaper readers.
No mere collection of dates and
tables, The Book Of Knowledge
presents the newest advances in I
science, the change in govern
ments, the plans for future peace,
new industries and new .careers,
new developments in art, music,
and education.'All the articles are
by experts in their fields, are
written clearly, interestingly, ab
sorbingly, and are so rich with
information as to provide a wealth
of cultural knowledge for every
business and professional man,
every student, every parent.
(Continued On Page 2, Col. 5)
Republicans
Hurl Charges
Of Trickery
President Declares War On
GOP Tax Reduction
Advocates
WOULD REDUCE DEBT
Chief Executive Says He
Can Bring Government !
Out Of Red Soon f!
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10—
(UP) _ President Truman
Friday handed Congress a no
tax-reduction, balanced bud
get for the 1948 fiscal year,
and was challenged immedi
ately by charges of waste and
trickery from a Republican
majority bent on slashing
taxes and government spend
ing.
In a forthright budget
mesage that added up to a declara
tion of war against the GOP tax
cutters, the President said he can
bring the government out of the
red in fiscal 1948 for the first time
since 1930 — if the tax rates are
not reduced.
His budget called for expendi
tures of $37,500,000,000 and revenues
of more than $37,700,000,000. enabl
ing a slight reduction in the $259,*
000,000,000 national deht.
(Continued on Page S, Col. 1)
FORMER WORKERS
BEING CONTACTED
Bureau Mailing Letters To
Former Civilian De
fense Members
In connection with the drive of
the volunteer Bureau of the Social
Service League, which begins on
Monday morning, 500 letters are
being sent out to people over the
community whose names were giv
en to the League as those who did
volunteer work during the war for
civilian defense.
The League is sponsoring the
drive in answer to a city-wide
need for volunteer workers in the
12 “Red Feather” agencies operat
ing here. It is hoped that all who
are willing to give part of their
time to any of these agencies, will
register with the Bureau in room
414, Tide Water Building, from
the hours of 10 until 5 o'clock,
Monday through Friday.
Members of the Social Service
League stated that the need for vol
unteers in these agencies, while
perhaps not as great as during the
war, is still pressing.
Persons now engaged in volunteer
work are asked to register also, so
that further demand will be made
of their time, it was stated.
The purpose of organizing such
a Bureau is to place volunteers in
the work in which they are most
interested and to give them an
opportunity to discover and de
velop their own special aptitude*.
To prevent duplication of ser
vices, to keep the same few will
ing volunteers from being over
worked, to channel volunteer ser
vice into the agencies where they
are most needed, and to tie up all
agencies and volunteer work were
listed as advantages to be derived
from the board.
And So To Bed
WANTED: One home for a
cute puppy.
One cold rainy night a white
short-haired puppy was found
in the yard of Mrs. Vernon G.
Slater at 225 Williams Street.
That was several weeks ago
and today the puppy is just
“ripe” for adoption by some
lucky boy or girl.
With two dogs of her own,
Mrs. Slater says space will not
permit keeping the stray puppy
much longer.
So if you wnat a cute puppy,
white except for black ears,
then contact Mrs. Slater.