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^ . Served By Keased Wiie* I : nnttttn mar AState mad National New* | SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1947_ ESTABLISHED 1867 Unity Parley For Agencies Stalls Here ^Progress Reported After yw0 Hour Session On Merger Plan termedTailure Satisfaction With Port Commission Expresied At Meeting Here i meeting of the steering committee named January 7 „ ctudv the proposal that our city agencies be co llated under one central ice held its first meeting vesterday afternoon at three Mock in t^e Woodrow Wil hut and ended two hours Jat‘r without any agreement having been reached. Termed by one member of the committee as “a complete failure,” the two-hour session accomplished little other than bring to the surface drastic differences in opinion as to whether or not the four agen Z the Chamber of Com mel the Wilmington Port-Traffic Association, the Wilmington Port Commission and the office of the Industrial Agent should be unified. The disagreement centered about ,,h„.hfr or not the Port Commis lto should operate as a separate ,,ncy without being unified with th‘ other agencies under one head, Officers of the body expressed satisfaction with the present opera tion of the organization and held that if would be unwise to take steps toward unification with the other three branches. A report to the group of busi nessmen and city and county of ficial:- on the proposed coordina tion was originally set to be made January 21, but It was learned following yesterday’s meeting that chances for meeting this deadline were considered almost nil. Attending the conference wp J. G. Thornton, chairman, C. D. Hogue, E. L. White, Mayor W. Ror.ald Lane, W. G. Campbell, Fred Willetts, H. A. Marks, Peter Broun Ruffin 1*3 C. M. 'Harring ton, f FARSALL NAMES 10RE CONFEREES House Takes Steps To Seek Second Compromise On Salary Raise Bill RALEIGH, Jan. 17.— UP) —Th( Bouse took steps today to seek ? iccond compromise in a contro venial salary appropriations bil Kith the naming by Speaker Ton Pearsall of four additional con levees to a conference committee The House previously namet live members to work with three Senators in an effort to iron ou differences over proposed salan increases for state employes am feathers. However, the report of tha S'ioup was rejected yesterday b; i thumping 62 to 47 vote in th< ™se after the Senate endorsee “* rsP°rt by a vote of 44 to 2 Rep. George Uzzell of Rowan .to v m°ved that the House recon yesterday's motion whic! “Charged its conference commit «rouP and to a d d four ad . ,onal members to the conferee: f15; Tins motion was secondei r;-?P- Winfield Blackwell o a^ta- 'The motion was carriet lUHSORE’S meditations f By All«y W5S say i Kim have & OLE WALLET SiHCt. H&A/M' USE' IT MUCH 'YASSUH, I ?/M MoTlClM' ^S’ HOW LlTTli H£ IT — WHItS' !*« AROUM'// ocout Party rinds Byrd Camp Intact Members Of 1940 Party * Again To Little America, Fep^^v*j^/; Foods Left On ^ NEW YORK, Jan. 17 — Alton L. Jlakeslee, Associate "&■ Press reporter, said tonight in a broadcast from the Antarc tic heard here by NBC that an advance scouting party enter ed Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd’s Little America camp today, found the buildings in tact and feasted on frozen food left six years ago by the last American South Pole ex pedition. Speaking from the U. S. S. Mt. Olympus, Blakeslee said: “A few miles from this flag ship of the Byrd expedition Ihere is a deep,dark hole in the ice that is Little America. I went into it today with a scouting party. Twenty or so feet of snow and ice complete ly cover the 1940 camp. to the snow to a then dropped It is dark as a cbal mine and cold as a deep freeze refrigerator, perhaps 10 or 20 degrees below zero. "The tunnels,” Blakeslee continued, "are still usable as an emergency winter camfj.' Steaks, frozen, are waiting to be grilled. Chocolate and Graham crackers, some of which we ate on the spot, are there also, as well as frozen chickens and hams, blankets, gloves, shovels and great stores left from the camp that was abandoned just six years ago. “It was homecoming for three men who had spent the winter there — Dr. Paul Siple, (Continued on Page 2; Col. 2) 46 LIVES SAVED BY RADAR DEVICE l Three Ships, Controlled From Ground, Land Safely In Fog It "W YORK. Jan. 17.— (U.R)—The ; first emergency use of radar i ground control approach last night enabled three planes, carrying 46 persons, to land safely at Mitchel Field. N. Y., the Army disclosed today. Army personnel at the field con tacted the planes by radio and brought them down by using radar during a dense fog. Lf. W. E. Harris, in charge of the GCA group, said the first ship —a Peruvian Airlines transport, with 15 passengers and five crew members — was spotted on the radar screen at about 6 p.m. Radio contact established that the plane had only a few minutes’ fuel i and visibility was zero. Harris plotted the plane on the i radar screen and by radio gave j the pilot instructions which guided ■ the craft safely down. Less than a half hour after radio j ! contact was made the transport I Jnade its landing. ‘ “The fog was so thick we couldn’t see the plane when she] went overhead on her approach," Harris said. Private Plane Saved A private Beechcraft with two i persons aboard was the second : plane landed by radar. Army of j ficials said the pilot was so ex j cited that he forgot to leave “his name. The last plane aided to the I ground by radar was an Army Ail Transport command C-54 with 24 persons aboard, including the crew. The C-54, flying from Frankfurt, Germany, had stopped at StephenviUe, Nfid., and was running short of gas. “That plane couldn’t have stayed up much longer.” Harris said. “It was our most successful landing.” Visibility was only about 50 feet but the GCA crew brought the ; ship down without difficulty. MARGIN TRADING WILL BE RESUMED ’ Federal Reserve Board An nounces Cut In Require ments Feb. 1 1 WASHINGTON. Jan. 17.— (U.R) — ■ The Federal Reserve board, declar ing that the danger of inflation ap pears to have been dissipated, to night authorized a resumption of margin trading on the nation’s ' securities exchanges, effective • Feb. 1. | Federal Reserve Chairman Mar : riner S. Eccles announced that margin requirements, will be cut , from 100 to 75 per cent on Feb. 1 ; and he indicated that further re c ductions may be ordered if there is no early change in economic con - ditions. “It appears now that inflation has largely run its course,’’ he said. “Accordingly, some readjustments in margin requirements is appro priate at this time.” Stock market margin require ments, which were kept at 40 per cent in pre-war years, were raised successively in the past 18 months to 50, 75 and f:nally 100 per cent in a continuing effort by the Re serve board to prevent an infla tionary expansion of credit that might wreck the government’s na tional stabilization program. LIGHTED FAG CAUSES THREE DEATHS WHEN LARGE HOTEL BURNS ■ WATERTOWN, N. Y., Jan. 17.—(IP)—A fire attributed to a lighted cigaret today swept the upper floor of the Gray stone hotel, burning three per sons to death and injuring two other guests. Fire Chief Joseph K. Dibble said the blaze may have start ed from a lighted cigaret in or near the room of Eugene E. Godfrey, 63, of Watertown, one of the victims. Others dead were identified as William Mullen, 65, of Watertown, and Samuel Poole, 65, of Harris ville. Damage was estimated unof- I ficially at about $18,000. Twenty-two guests fled to safety. Police and fire of ficials, after searching the wreckage, said they were cer tain no additional bodies were in the building. The two in jured were expected to recover. The fire apparently started on the third floor, which was completely gutted. The roof collapsed into the third floor while the blaze was at its height. CLAYTON, ACHESO! DENY ALLEGATION Undersecretaries Of Staf Say Rep. Shafer Wrong With His Facts WASHINGTON. Jan. 17— UP) - Undersecretaries of State William I. Clayton and Dean Acheson de nied today charges by Rep. Shafer (R.-Mich.) that they had made big profits in private business “by reason of their high places.” “Whatever h i s intention," said Clayton in a statement, “Mr. Shafer’s statement is clearly wrong on its facts.” Shafer told the House yesterday that Clayton was the prime mover behind the $3,750,000,000 loan to Great Britain and that he and members of his family received more than $5,500,000 from the cot ton brokerage firm of Anderson Clayton and company in the year in which the loan was granted. No Affect “The British loan was approved on July 13. 1946 by lhe House,” said Clayton, “the fiscal year of Anderson. Clayton and company ended July 31. 1946 so that obvi ously the law could not affect the profits to which Mr. Shafer refers. “I have no connection with An derson, Clayton and company ex cept as a stockholder but I have ascertained that during that year Anderson, Clayton and company sold only 3,500 bales of American cotton to Great Britain. “This was less than one fourth of one percent of its total sales of 1,979,023 bales of American cot ton for the season.” Shafer told the House of reports he said he had received to the effect that Acheson’s law firm stood to receive a $1,000,000 fee if a $500,000,000 U. S. loan to Poland goes through. No Connection “He implies.” - said Acheson. “that since I have held a public office I have profited from the business of the law firm in which I was formerly a partner.” The undersecretary said he had resigned from the firm six years ago when he entered the State de partment and “I have had no con nection with or financial interest in the business of the firm since ’hat time." Pieces Of Plane Fabric Match That OfArmy C- 78 WAYNESVILLE, Jan. 17.—(£>)— Pieces of airplane fabric found in Rattlesnake Cove last August ap parently match wing fabric of a plane which crashed on Campbell Knob Several miles away, in 1943, Maj. T. J. Hieatt of Greenville, S. C., Army Air base said here to night after returning from the scene of the Campbell Knob crash. The officer, who is heading a searching party seeking & C-78 plane which disappeared in Jan uary, 1944, with four persons aboard, said the discovery ruled cut the theory that the fabric found in Rattlesnake Cove had come from the missing plane. As a result of the find and in terviews with a number of persons living in the Cataloochee section, Major Hieatt said the search for the C-78 is being shifted to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the Caldwell Creek section north of Little Bald and along the Cataloochee divide. He said that five or six persons had been interviewed by members of the party who saw a r’ -> in that area in th» snow st:: -h was going on a: the time t M wu Jcct. TRUMAN ASKS CONGRESS TO REPEAL APPROPRIATIONS OF $563,888,579; TALMADGE FORCES ROUT GOVERNOR Arnall Quits Capitol Desk By Pressure Ousted Executive Delivers Radio Appeal To People To Save Georgia W1LLSERVE ON Three Attorneys Working On Court Defense Of Elected Governor ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. Vi.— (UP) — Herman Talmadge completed his lightning cap ture of the governorship to day by dislodging Ellis Arnall from his last foothold in the statehouse but the banished Arnall made an impassioned oledge to fight on “to preserve democracy in Georgia.” “I continue to serve,” Arn all said in a broadcast from his downtown law office, to which he turned after the Talmadge camp wrested from him his crude emergency desk in the capitol lobby. But Arnall’s last hope of saving the office of governor for Lt. Gov.-Elect M .E. Thompson, whom he considers the man entitled to it, rested with the courts. Arnall suffered his final frustr? lion at .the capitol against a bapl: (Continued on Page 2; Col. 7) NIGNEERS FILE CHANNEL REP0R1 'xial Action On Project Awaits Approval By Congress A favorable decision on the pro ceed construction of a channel from Pamlico Sound to Stumpy Point has been given by both the district and division engineer, U. S. Army, according to information released yesterday by the office of the Division Engineer. South Atlantic division, in Atlanta. At the same time, the division engineer. Colonel George \V. Gil lette. requested that persons in terested in presenting information concerning the project contact the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, room 1336. Bldg. T-7, Gravelly Point, Washington. D. C. The division engineer recom mended that a channel seven feet deep at mean low water. 75 feet wide and about 1,000 feet long be provided by the government. The length of the channel, ac cording to the division engineer, will, if approved by Congress, ex tend from the seven-foot contour in Pamlico Sound through Stumpy Point bay to Lake Worth It was further recommended that a basin at Lake Worth of the same depth. 50 feet wide and around 600 feet long be provided in addition to the channel. The cost of the project was set at $32,500, with an estimated an nual cost of $3,000 for maintenance costs. The recommendation by Col. Gil lette provided that interests in the area furnish, free of cost, all necessary right-of-ways and suit able areas for the disposal of dredged material as well and as surance that adequate public term inal facilities will be provided at the site. Along The Cape Fear HEAR NOT, HEAR NOT—The same, one Jack Jackson Lee Ay cock Zebulon Vance Cowie, who not so long ago Along The Caj>e Fear reported was named an honorary TarfHeel, has approach ed us again. This time he informs us that the exclusive club, in which he holds membership by viriure <f( a special proclamation signed by his honor, Governor R. Gregg Cherry, will hold a meeting of all its country cousins. Once, but never again, so we immediately sent one Jack Jack son Lee Aycock Zebulon Vance Cowie, popular director of the South Eastern North Carolina Fishing Rodeo, heading for the society department to report the doings of the honorary organiza tion of country cousins. Such do ings must be social so stand by for further developments. * * • SCHOOL AGAIN — Mr Henry Sternberger, of 109 North. Fifth Street, was kind enough to lend us a picture of Professor Catlett’s clash of 1917. Since Along The Cape Fear has recently delved into the history of schools in ■" - "ert City, Mr. Stern berger rightfully thought that many might be interested in seeing the photograph of a typical class of Wilmington school boys about 30 years ago. As soon as space allows, we will bring you this picture and in ad vance we will warn all alumni of Professor Catlett’s class that they will have to identify themselves in the photograph. For those whom Professor Cat lett -does not strike a familiar note let us recall: In October 1843, more than a century ago, the Odd Fellows lodge established a school under the principalship of Robert McLaugh lin of Baltimore. The Odd Fellows’ school con tinued for many years. Mr. Mc Laughlin being succeeded by Levin Meginney, who purchased the building, located at Fourth and Dock streets, in 1856. There he conducted a school of his own. m * * LONG SERVICE—The old schoo building was at a later date oc cupied by the Cape Fear Academy, of which Professor Washingtoi Catlett was the principal. The building remained in sucl ise until it was torn down in 1927 (Continued on Page Z; Col. 3) __Arriving For Air Show Here Seen above are two . of the Navy fliers who will participate in the air show Snnday at Blue thenthal airport. A vanguard of the 26 planes, which will highlight the air event, landed at the !t>cai field yesterday. S3RICE OF BUTTER HEADS FOOD DROP government Officials Fore cast General Reduction In Milk By Feb. 1 WASHINGTON, Jan 17. — </P) - Further drops in food prices che ered house-wives in many sections of the nation today. Butter again headed the list, fal ling as low as 65 cents a pound in New York compared with the $l-a-pound peak for the golden com modity last winter. OPA's old ceiling price was 67 cents a pound. In Washington, government of ficials forecast a fairly general re duction in the price of milk by Feb. 1. Cuts of about one cent a (Continued on Page 2; Col. 7) VETERAN DOCTORS WILL BE HONORED Medical Society To Fete Five Physicians For Long Service Dr. Robert M. Fales, president of the New Hanover County Medical Society, yesterday announced that at its next meeting, on Wednesday night, the society will do special honor to five Wilmington physicians who have lived here for 50 or more years and all but two of whom are still in practice. The physicians are: Dr. Andrew Harriss (retired), Dr. John C. Wes sell, (retired), Dr. R. Harlee Bellamy, Dr. S. E. Koonce and Dr. John Cranmer. The meeting will be at the Cape Fear club, and guests of honor are expected to tell their early experi ences. _ The Weather ' / g'. ' FORECAST SoUth Carolina—Intermittent rain Sat urday and Sunday; cooler, south portion ! 3 ■ turdfty, continued.jeobl Sunday North Carolina -^Intermittent rain, i continued rather cold Saturday and Sun day. (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. 62; 7:30 a.m. 61; 1:30 p.m. 55; i ;:30 p.m. 48. Maximum 62; Minimum 47; Mean 55; | formal 46. Humidity 1:30 a.m. 94; 7:30 a.m. 83: 1:30 p.m. 38; ' . :20 p.m. 66 Precipitation Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. — 0.00 inches. Total since the first of the month — 2.59 inches. Tides For Today (From the Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey). High Low Wilmington _ 7:01 a.m. 1:32 a.m. 7:15 p.m. 2:09 p.m. Masonboro Inlet - 5:00 a.m. 11:18 a.m. 5:02 p.m. 11:18 p.m. Sunrise 7:17; Sunset 5:29; Moonrise 4:23 a.m.; Moonset 2:26 p.m. River stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8 a.m. Friday, (no report) feet. CRIMINAL COURT ADJOURNS HERE Judge J. Paul Frizelle Pass es Sentences On 9 Defendants Sentences were meted out to nine defendants by Judge J. Paul Frizzelle at the final session fo the January term of New Hanover county Superior court yesterday prior to adjourning. Elias Mack, charged with larc ency and receiving, was sentenc I ed to nine months in the. county jail. Frank Thomas was lound inno cent of a housebreaking charge. Spencer and Eugene Grice, charged with breaking and enter ing, drew prison terms but. were remanded to the custody of the probations officer. Spencer drew a two year sentence, suspended for three years on payment of court costs while Eugene drew a twelve months term suspended for five years. Rowland Turner, pleading guilty to passing a bad check, was sen tenced to 12 months in the county i jail. Henry Lee Mills drew a 12 (Continued on Page 2; Col. 2) PLANES ARRIVING FOR SUNDAY SHOW x ■ ~ •• Public Invited To Bluethen thal Field Today For Pre view Of Event* ’ Twenty-six Navy planes and ap proximately 50 privately owned planes are expected to arrive at Bluethenthal airport today to parti cipate in the Wilmington Air Show which gets underway Sunday after noon at 1 o’clock, Jesse Parker, airport manager, said last night. Two of the Navy planes will be fully rigged for combat, Parker re ported, and will be used only for display purposes. The first civilian pilot arriving at Bluethenthal' yesterday after noon was Bill Turner, brother of the famous Roscoe Turner, who flew in from Baltimore in his Vul iee Valiant. A1 Wootten, president of the Carolina Aero club, stated last night that the Sunday show will be (Continued on Page 2; Col. 5) SEVEN DIE WHEN SP OWL PILES UP Broken Rail Causes Injury To Over Seventy Others On West Coast LERDO, Cal., Jan. 17 —[If)— A broken rail on the Southern Pa cific tracks near this flag stqp early today wrecked t he Los Angeles-bound Owl passenger train. Seven persons were killed. More \ than 70 persons were injured. The identified dead were James Leroy Hall, Kansas City, Mo., Bes sie piles, Richmond, Cal., and Pic. Joseph Bernavich, Richmond, Cal. Eivp cars were overturned and seYep, Others were derailed. Pas senfjffi were hurtled through winders and pinned under the wrecjii|ge. ‘‘Wottien were screaming and men ran around confused and daz ed,” a- passenger, Theodore Kane, 37, of Los Angeles, reported. ‘‘It was pitch dark. That added to the fright. But within a few minutes we organized a rescue team and began removing the injured from the overturned cars.” Cup Of Happiness Proves Too Full For Immigrant -- i MILWAUKEE, Jan. 17.—(U.R)— • Salvatore Giallanza, 57, died to i day—from happiness. Nearly 17 years ago Giallanza left Sicity to make a new home in America. He planned to work hard for a few months to earn the money to bring over his wife and three children. He hoped thej could get here before a new babj was born. He arrived in the midst of th( depression. After a year’s work a: ; a laborer he knew it would be somi time before the family could joii him. The-new baby, had been bon and his wife, Grazia, wrote tha she had named him Conno. Giallanza tried to smile. “I'm sorry Conno missed his chance to become President of the United States,” he .said. They arrived yesterday, his wife Grazia, whom he hadn’t seen in 17 years, and Antonia and Conno. Everyone was happy. "I’ll show you the sights of Mil waukee tomorow,” Giallanza told i his wife. He was happy and excited. Toe , excited. t He died at 4.A. M. ttds morning t of a heart attack. ■ (. ., t: Unspent Fund Total May Go To Treasury Main Savings Of $325, 000,000 Available From Maritime Commission FURNISHESREPORT President Cuts Emergency Budget For Own Use In Half To Meet Needs WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. (fP)—President Truman asked Congress today to repeal ap propriations of $563,888,579, i n c 1 u ding $132,000,000 of spending authorizations. Announcement of his re quest followed by several days a demand from Chairman Taber (R-NY) of the House Appropriations committee for a detailed report on the cur rent status of all appropria tions for the fiscal year ending June 30. Taber said he believed "untold millions” could be recaptured from unspent funds. A White House statement said the $563,888,578 figure was in ad dition to five previous recommend ations for reductions in appropria tions made but found not to be needed. It said these others, which included great slashes in Army and Navy appropriations, reduced the net authorized federal program by more than $64,000,000,000. "The President’s action,” the statement said, "is in accord with objectives expressed by the Con- < gress—to maintain a continueue review or unrequired appropria tion balances with a view to their recovery.” Main Saving The main saving he asked ie $325,000,000 which was made avail able to the Maritime commission and is not now required be cam* (Continued on Page 2; Col. f) WRIGHT PRAISES AIRLINES RECORD CAA Head Say& Companies Did Great Job In Work ing Toward Safety WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—(£>)—Th. nation’s airlines did a “magnif icent” job last year, T. P. Wright, civil aeronautics administrator, told a n e w s conference today in explaining that he believed a Con gressional inquiry into air acci dents would be a good thing. The H o use Commerce commit tee t o day ordered an immediate investigation of airplane crashes. The Senate Commerce committee already has undertaken one. Wright said that the public did not always separate the accident* of scheduled airlines from non scheduled and non-carrier accid ents. Public understanding of ‘he different problems “i s absolutely vital.” he said. A study of airline accident rec ords, made on the basis of three year periods toobiaina better picture of the trend, he said, shows a steady increase in safety averaging about 10 percent a year. Wright outlined this picture of developments for flying: Thirty-two airports now have in strument landing systems operat ing, and the number will rise to 70 by April 1. Most of the air liners have the necessary receiv ing equipment installed. The ‘‘ul timate payoff” with that system will be landings by the automatic pilot, with the pilot merely watch ing it. At the same time, the lend ing will be monitored by radar equipment On the ground. The probable limit on landing* under instrument c o n d itions will be one every 90 seconds, which is several times faster than is being done now but only one-third as fast as top speed under clear weather conditions. And So To Bed Those who have a yen (no pun intended) for writing loir ters please note: Dear And So To Bed: I ant a member of the Aus tralian Occupation in Japan and I would be pleased indeed if 1 could make some new friends by pen, as mail is far and few between over her*. Tours Sincerely, George S. Withers. Interested persons: th* Ad dress. Aust. 1*1441. Cpl. Withers, G. I, 77 Squadron ! Royal Australian Air Fore*, B. C. O. F. Japan.