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'i£w^O- ■!»•_ _. . .. WILMINGTON, N. C., SATOiol^IARCH 15, 1947 ESTABLISHED 18e7
F. W. Brown,
ACL Official,
Dies Friday
Vice President Succombs
At Hospital After
Short Illness
SERVICES MONDAY
Native Of Connecticut Was
Resident Here Since
March 1920
Frederick W. Brown, Vice-Presi
dent—Operations, Atlantic Coast
jjjne Railroad, died in the James
Walker Memorial Hospital, at 6:00
o'clock last night, following a short
Illness.
Born in New Canaan. Conn., on
Feb. H. 1872, he was the son of
William Lewis and Annie Minerva
Fancher Brown.
Mr Brown was a graduate of
South Norwalk, Con., high school
In 1887.
He moved to Wilmington in 1920.
He is survived by his widow, the
former Mrs. Mabel Brisson Lord,
to whom he was married January
17, 1936: a sister, Miss Bertie G.
Brown, of Wilmington, and a step
son, Joel Iverson Lord, of Nash
ville. Tenn.
He was a member of St. Johns
Episcopal Church, having served
as a member of the Vestry. Mr.
Brown was a Shriner, having been
a member of Almas Temple, Wash
ington, D. C., a member of the
Cape Fear Club. Cape Fear Coun
try Club and Carolina Yacht Club,
of Wilmington.
Mr. Brown began his railroad
career with the New York, New
Haven a,.d Hartford Railroad,
June 1. 1887, having served as
freight clerk, operator, dispatcher,
chief dispatcher, trainmaster, chief
clerk - operating department and
assistant superintendent, succes
lively, to 1906.
From 1906 to March 1920 he was
connected with the Southern Rail
way System as dispatcher, train
master, superintendent, chief of
Tonnage Bureau, assistant to Gen
eral manager and assistant to
ticepresident. successively.
In March 1920 he came wich
the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
as assistant to general manager,
ir which capacity he served until
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PROSPECTS DIM
FOR INLET WORK
Engineer Officer Tells
Dredging Advocates
Long Wait Ahead
Prospects for immediate dredg
r g of Masonboro Inlet appeared
gloomy yesterday as representa
*Jves the South Eastern North
Carolina Beach Association,
'rightsviile Beach. Harbor Is
land. New Hanover Fishing club.
>nd private and commercial boat
owners were told by Col. Beverly
' Snow, Wilmington district, U.
S Engineers, that it would take
approximately two years to get
he Project and appropriations ap
proved by Congress.
ine group arranged a conference
"'th Colonel Snow yesterday af
'f'i noor in order to secure facts
on 'he appropriations already
panted for work in Masonboro In
e‘ and what steps could be tak
p1 to get the bar of Masonboro In
1(t dredged.
^°'onel Snow told them that the
59.000 project already authorized
Provided for dredging from the
eland Waterway to a point in
Masonboro Inlet, but that an ad
ditional project and additional
•l-Pds would have to be approved
01 dredging from that point to
“0 ocean, a spokesman of the
P'oup reported.
Colonel Snow advised them to
'w the matter up with the North
arolina congressmen and ask their
*‘d in securing apropriations from
Congress, but said that usually,
fpcept in specially expedited cases,
1 takes two years to get a project
this type approved.
It was suggested at the meeting
"at groups interested in the dredg
!I1K work on the Masonboro Inlet
ar hold a meeting next week to
poik out some plan of action.
HAHBONE'S meditations
By Alley
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Defense
For Gani^^r*
Case Expected To Re&cn Jury Today; Sin
clair And Goldberg Attack State
Witness In Arguments
Tears and sweat flowed in the
New Hanover county Superior
Court room yesterday afternoon
as Defense Attorney David
Sinclair described a night of Bac
chanalian orgy through which he
said Rebecca Ganey went, while
a second defense attorney of Guy
Ganey's declared that “this
murder trial is a thing of beauty”.
The trial of the 42-year-old
Seagate filling station operator,
who is charged with the first
degree slaying of Franklin Julian
Henderson, 27, last Oct. 29, will
be continued this morning at 9:30
o’clock. Solicitor Clinton Moore
will present the closing argument
to the jury, and Judge Clawson
L. Williams will then charge the
jury.
Ganey mopped tears from his
eyes as Sinclair told the jury that
the 18-year-old blue-eyed brunette
was forced to drink wine and
beer and whiskey.
After two or three minor wit
nesses had been heard when court
convened from t h t noon recess,
Sinclair opened up the first de
fense argument before the jury in
a rapid fire speech that petered
out to a mere whisper before he
had spent his 4S minutes.
He lashed out at the wall of
evidence which Solicitor Moore
and Recorder's Court Solicitor
James King had built up during
the two day’s of testimony.
King was the first to address
tlie jury. He spent less than an
hour describing the events lead
ing up to the shooting of Hender
son. He termed the alleged slay
ing as one of the “worse cases
of first degree murder I have
ever seen. It was deliberately
planned. You can’t get away from
that,” he declared, and continued
to reiterate his assertion.
Ganey’s face turned first red
and then white as King lashed out
at him in his address as being a
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TAX PAYERS GET
NOTICE TODAY IS
LAST DAY TO FILE
The local office of the Bureau
of Internal Revenue, becoming
more crowded each day as the
deadline for filing 1946 returns
draws near, will remain open all
day today, the final day, to assist
persons in making returns, Ray
mond D. Christman, chief zone
deputy, said yesterday.
The office, Room 130 in the
Customhouse, usually closes all
day on Saturday . but Christman
said that they will remain open
today until 2 p. m. Personnel of
the office will be on hand to as
sist persons in filing their returns.
Anyone filing a return after to
day will be subject to a five per
cent penalty on the tax dui,
Christman warned.
Today is also the final day for
the filing of North Carolina State
income tax returns. The local
office is located on the second
floor of the courthouse.
MASTER, CREWMEN
TAKEN OFFSHIP
Twenty - Two Others
Aboard Stern Part Of
Vessel Head Home
HONOLULU, T. H., March
14—(U.R) — An empty lifeboat
was sighted by a Navy search
plane today 60 miles Southwest
of the Fort Dearborn, the
Navy announced.
Its brief message did noi
state whether the lifeboat had
been positively identified as
the one in which 12 aban
doned the Fort Dearborn
three days ago.
HONOLULU. March 14—r/P)—The
master and nine crewmen of the
wrecked tanker Fort Dearborn
were rescued from the severed
bow section today while 22 others
aboard the stern section got the
engines going and headed that
part of the ship for Honolulu un
der its own power.
The 10,448 ton tanker broke in
half in a storm Wednesday 1,100
miles Northwest of Oahu.
The Coast guard announced that
the ten men in the bow were
taken off by the freighter St.
Johns Victory and transferred to
the liner General W. H. Gordon,
which is proceeding to San Fran
cisco.
A little later the Fourteenth Na
val district reported that the men
aboard the stern, where the en
gines are located in tankers, had
managed to start them going
smoothly and were edging the
wrecked section southward at two
and one-half knots.'
Seas Moderating
The storm was moving North
east and the seas were modera
ting.
Twelve men who put out from
the wreck yesterday in a liferaft
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WEATHEMAN SAYS
COOLER WEATHER
ON CITY’S MENU
Fair and cooler is the weather
forecast for Wilmington today as
given by the local weather bureau.
A low of 46 degrees is expected
for early morning, and a high of
58 degrees is predicted during
the day.
Wind will be moderate and from
the southwest.
CITY WINS FIGHT >
TO GET DRAGLINE
Mayor Lane Announces
Successful Battle
Against Red Tape
Wilmington’s three - month long
effort to secure a dragline for
emergency drainage in the city
ended successfully yesterday with
the Civilian Production Adminis
tration in Washington directing
the War Assets Administration to
make available to the city of Wil
mington a unit now stored at
Camp Davis.
Mayor W. Ronald Lane told the
Star that he. City Manager J. R.
Benson and City Purchasing Agent
Gilbert F. Morton were leaving
Washington late yesterday after
noon for Wilmington, thereby
bringing to a successful finish the
five-day sojurn in the capital
which was featured by what Lane
termed a finished fight against red
tape.
The battle against government
regulations was joined Monday
when Lane, Benson and Morton
started a round of agency offices
in an attempt to purchase a drag
line for emergency drainage pur
poses. After being passed from
office to office, the city officials
were notified that the need for the
equipment would have to be certi
fied by the U. S. Public Health
service.
The health department respond
ed and after various conferences,
according to Lane, tire following
directive was issued by the CPA:
“In view of the emergency certi
fied to by the U. S. Public Health
Service and known to exist in Wil
mington where immediate dredg
ing is urgently required to restore
adequate seu’erage disposal and
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RED CROSS DRIVE
TOPS QUOTA HERE
Yesterday’s Closing Figure
In Campaign Set
At $25,887.12
Contributions kept rolling into
the Red Cross campaign head
quarters yesterday at the average
rate of $740 per hour. The goal
of $21,253 was passed at noon, and
yesterday’s closing figure amount
ed to $25,887.12.
Tw0 more divisions went over
the top yesterday; the Railroad
division, headed by C. S. Morse
with a quota of $2100. reported $2,
628 collected; and the Public Em
ployees division, headed by H. R.
Emory with a goal of $2000, turned
in $2354.89.
Campaign headquarters. Room
231 in the Customhouse, will re
main open until noon today and
all day Monday. Tuesday and
Wednesday of next week in order
to receive late returns, J. H. Cars
well and N. A. Avera, co-chairmen,
announced.
Twenty more employee groups
were added to the honor roll yes
terday. They are as follows:
Railroad — Superintendent of
buildings, 100 per cent; police, 290
per cent; Real estate department,
195 per cent; Passenger Traffic
department, 175 per cent; Agricul
tural department, 227 per cent;
shops and storehouse, 110 per cent.
Commercial — Mill and Contract
ing Supply company, 125 per cent;
Will Rehder. Florist, 185 per cent;
J. C. Penny company, 100 per cent;
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Today And Tomorrow
By WALTER LIPPMANN
AND MARSHALL’S IN MOSCOW
While Congress anci the Ameri
! can people are faced with the
need to make decisions which are
as grave and as obscure as any
m the history of American foreign
policy, what is happening in Mos
cow? Secretary Marshall has be
corne involved with Mr. IMolotov.
just like Secretary Byrnes before
him, in a complicated wrangle
abcut the agenda and about the
details of the military occupation
of Germany.
No doubt the questions are im
portant on which the foreign min
isters are once more stubbornly
engaged—the rate and degree of
militarization, the displaced per
sons camps, the size of the
occupation forces. and the
prisoners of war. But if Secretary
Marshall must spend his time
and his energy debating questions
of this sort, if these questions
cannot be dealt with by deputies
and subordinates, when, how and
by whom are the crucial tasks of
our rapidly developing foreign
policy to be examined, to he plan
ned, to be explained, and to be
administered?
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UNITED STATES, PHILIPPINES SIGN
99-YEAR PACT ON ISLAND BASES;
WIDE POWERS FOR TRUMAN STUDIED
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Both Houses
Of Congress
Ready To Act
Lower Chamber Committee
Plans Hearings On
Greek Plan Soon
SENATEUPSWORK
Vandenberg Compiles
Questions On Historic
Diplomatic Move
WASHINGTON, March 14.—f/P)—
A plan giving President Truman
wide discretion in using the $400,
000,000 he seeks for bolstering
Greece and Turkey against Com
munism was studied today as both
branches of Congress arranged for
speedy action.
The House Foreign Affairs com
mittee set public hearings for next
week.
The Senate Republican confer
ence approved a work schedule
designed to produce a decision on
the question by March 31, al
though leaders privately expressed
doubts. that action could be com
pleted that soon.
The bill still is being drafted.
But Congressmen reported that ad
ministration officials suggested
flexible -ovisions which would
permit the President to decide
whether the money should be sent
to Greece and Turkey as loans or
as outright grants, and to parcel
it out at intervals as needed.
Provisions Discussed
Provisions for that purpose were
reported discussed by House
Foreign Affairs committeem e n
with Secretary of War Patterson,
Secretary of the Navy Forrestal
and Acting Secretary of State
Acheson in a three-hour session
behind closed doors.
Whatever form the bill takes in
committee, however,. iL.Wi'l b
subject to amendments on the
floor. By this means Congress
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CAPT. GRAY ASKS
$10,000,000 CASH
Southport Man Files Pro
test With Dutch Govern
ment For Ship Seizure
THE HAGUE, March 14——
The Dutch government replied to
United States protests against
treatment of the American freight
er Martin Behrman in Java today
by asserting Dutch responsibility
for the handling of internationally
controlled products of the Nether
lands East Indies, a government
spokesman announced.
The reply was handed to the
United States charge d’affaires
here. M. J. Webb Benton, with the
notation that it was a preliminary
answer, pending receipt of further
details on the Martin Behrman
case from the Dutch administra
tion in Batavia.
The text of the reply was not
published, but the spokesman,
summarizing its contents, said it
stressed Dutch international re
sponsibility in East Indies econom
ic affairs and asserted that by
passing Dutch economic control
would increase war-born poverty
which the United States had shown
a desire to alleviate.
Follows Seizure
The protest from the U. S. state
department followed seizure of the
Martin Behrman’s $3,000,000 cargo
at Cheribon, Indonesian controlled
Java port, by Netherlands Indies
government authorities. The Ameri
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Truman Arrives For Florida Rest
President Harry S. T rum an (left), doffs his hat from the back seat of his car as he Is driven i
from the airport at Key West, Fla., after he arriv ed for a short rest at the naval submarine base.
With the President are Capt. Henry M. Cooper (center), and Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, Presi
dential Chief of Staff. Mr. Truman left for his four dav vacation immediately following his blunt
speech to Congress asking aid to Turkey and Greece. (AP Wirephoto).
TRUMAN RELAXES
UNDER WARM SUN
Stuart Symington, Judge
Rosenman Join Presi
dent At Key West
KEY WEST, Fla., March 14—(U.R)
— President Truman, relaxing in
tropical sunshine on his brief va
cation here, was joined today by
W. Stuart Symington, assistant
secretary of war for air, and Judge
Samuel I. Rosenman, former coun
sel to the President, for "purely
social’’ visits.
Press Secretary Charles G. Ross
said there was no significance in
the* presence of either Syjnington
or Rosenman.
“Purely social” was the way
Ross described their presence.
Symington, who arrived in his
special B-17 bomber from the Ba
hamas, was in time for luncheon
with the President and the crew
of Mr. Truman’s special plane,
the “Sacred Cow”. At the lunch
were Lt. Col. Henry T. Myers, !
pilot of the plane; Maj. Elmer F. '
Smith, co-pilot and Maj. Theodore |
J. Boselli, the navigator. Neal i
Helm, an old friend of the Presi
dent from Caruthersville, Mo., also j
was at lunch.
Bunk On Yacht
Rosenman had been vacation
ing at Falm Beach and the Presi
dent mvited him to Key West. But
Mr. Truman’s quarters at the
submarine base were so crowded
that Symington and Rosenman
'‘bunked’’ on the Presidential yacht
Williamsburg which is moored
here.
The Williamsburg came South
[when the President originally plan
ned to make a Caribbean cruise.
The cruise was cancelled, how
ever, when Mr. Truman was held
in Washington by the Greek crisis.
Ross told newsmen that if Sec
retary of State George C. Marshall
wants to talk with the President
by telephone from Moscow, the
call would be placed through a
“scrambling” device which would
protect the secrecy of their con
versation.
There was no indication, how
ever, that Mr. Truman would make
any effort to reach Marshall,
operating on the theory that when
Marshall has something to report
he will get in touch with him.
Mr. Truman has yet to take his
first swim of the trip. He has been
on the beach two straight days,
but did not go in the water. The
President has picked up a notice
able suntan and seems to be en
joying the rest thoroughly.
Along The Cape Fear
- — —
MANY THANKS — The Rev.
Andrew J. Howell, eminent local
historian and author of ‘The
Book of Wilmington,” was kind
enough to mail us a whole list
of suggestions for future columns.
As he is, in all probability the
best informed person in Wilming
ton on the doings of the Port City,
both past and present, we are in
deed grateful to Mr. Howell for
his interest in and aid to ‘.‘Along
The Cape Fear.”
To those few who have never
read Mr. Howell’s book, a treat
is in store. And for those
fortunate enough to own a copy
of ‘‘The Book of Wilmington,”
they can always reread it at
random and always find much to
enlighten and entertain.
RAILROAD TOWN — As Mr.
Howell points out in his message
to us, the Port City has always
been keenly interested in rail
roads and railroading.
The Atlantic Coast Line rail
road is now our major industry,
yet long before that vast railroad
system came into being Wilming
ton was the varitable center of
much activity in the then rapidly
expanding Iron Hors# mode of
transportation.
Read what one former news
paper scribe has to say of the
value of railroads to the Port
City, keeping in mind that the
following appeared in t h e daily
press of Wilmington during the
year, 1889:
“The importance that our deep
water facilities lend to the port
of Wilmington as a prosperous
and profitable railway center can
not be over-estimated, any more
than we can now calculate the
value to the State of investments
outside capitalists have made in
the Carolina Central, the
Wilmington and Weldon, and the
Wilmington, Columbia and Augu
sta Railroad.
* * *
ENDING NOWHERE — ‘The !
old and almost useless fragmen
tary system, under the name of
Wilmington, Charlotte and
Rutherford Railroad, beginning at
nothing and ending nowhere, was
taken hold of and with foreign
money was made a continuous
line from Wilmington to'Ruther
ford, as designed by our early
projectors of these works of in
terna] improvement.
“And not only does this insure
I (Continued on Page Two; £ol. •)
The Weather
FORECAST:
North Carolina and South Carolina —
Partly cloudy and slightly colder Satur
day and Saturday night. Sunday partly
cloudy and cool.
(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. 63; 7:30 a. m. 62; 1:30 p. m.
65; 7:30 p. m. 58; Maximum 67; Mini
mum 57; Mean 62; Normal 53.
HUMIDITY
1:30 a. m. 78: 7:30 a. m. 96: 1:30 p. m.
75. 7:30 p. m. 85.
PRECIPITATION
Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m.
2.13 inches.
Total,since the first of the month 4.37
inches.
TIDES l'OR TODAY
^ (From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey).
High Low
Wilmington 4:00 a. m. 11:22 a. m.
4:22 p. m. 11:37 p. m.
Masoabort) 1:48 a. m. 8:14'a. m.
1:59 p. m. 8:17 p. m.
Sunrise 6:22: Sunset 6:20; Moonrise
1:57a; Moonset 11:44a.
River stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8
a. m. Friday 15.2 feet.
MAN BEING HELD
IN BANK ROBBERY
Sheriff Says Indian Has
Confessed To Pem
broke Holdup
PEMBROKE. March 14. — A
Robeson county Indian identified as
Bill Locklear, about 30. confessed
tonight. Sheriff W. C. Britt said,
that he robbed the Scottish bank
here early today of an audited to
tal of $9,200 taken at gunpoint from
three bank employes who were
herded into a closet.
Locklear, who gave his home
address as near Maxton, was ar
rested at the Maxton bus station at
11:30 a. m. today by Rural Police
man Ralph Purcell and turned over
to Sheriff Britt and FBI special
agents who had been detailed to
the robbery.
The young Indian, still under
questioning tonight by the FBI and
county officers in the banking
quarters here, was seized by Pur
cell an hour after he had paid a
Laurinburg automobile dealer $900
on an automobile purchased by
Locklear from the dealer a week
ago.
The car, a lH4b model wash, is
said to have been the machine in
which the bandit fled from the
bank.
Sheriff Britt quoted Locklear as
saying that he alone had engineer
ed and committed the robbery.
A young man, identified as an
Indian but not by name, who had
been riding with Locklear shortly
before the latter’s arrest, was re
leased after questioning. No charge
had been lodged against the young
man, who was absolved of any
participation by Locklear.
Locklear, who was standing be
side the newly purchased car when
arrested by Purcell, was quoted by
Sheriff Britt as saying he threw into
the Lumber river all of the stolen
$9,500 except the $900 used in pay
ing on the automobile.
The robbery took place a few
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NEW YORK STATE
HAS TOUGH BILL
Measure Now Before
Dewey, Makes It Eco
nomic Suicide To Strike
ALBANY, N.Y., March 14—(U.R)—
;New York state was prepared to
night to write into law the nation’s
most drastic ban on strikes
against government.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, who
personally engineered i t s stormy
passage through the legislature,
had before him for signature the
stringent Condon-Wadlin bill to j
make it “economic suicide" for |
public employes to strike. i
As Dewey received the anti
strike bill, organized labor warn
ed that it would make a last-ditch
fight against the measure. Offici
als of the State Federation of La
bor and the CIO said they had
demanded that the governor hoid!
a public hearing on the bill. |
Specifically the bill would
! decree automatic dismissal for
[ teachers and other public servants
who take part in a walkout. They
would be eligible for re-hiring but
their salaries would be frozen at
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TODAY IS FINAL
FORREGISTE NG
_
Books Open Last Time For
Sanatorium - College
Referendum
Today is the final day for quali
fied citizens to register in order to
vote in the March 25 referendum
on the question of whether a tuber
culosis sanatorium and a junior
college shall be established in New
Hanover county.
Today the registration books will I
be open from 9 a. m. until sunset, I
6;20 p. m., at the regular polling
places throughout the county.
.Next Saturday, iviarcn nas
been designated as challenge day, j
and on this day, between 9 a. m.
and 3 p. m., the registration books
will be open at the polling places
tor inspection, and for objection, if
desired, to the names appearing
on the books.
The vote in the special election
will be ‘'against the registration.”
That is, voters who are properly
registered and who do not vote
for one or both of the twin issues
will, in effect, vote against them.
In the matter of the proposed
junior college, the question for
determination by the voters is
whether or not there shall be levi
ed and collected annually a special
tax not exceedi: g five cents on the
S100 of real and personal property
valuation, such proceeds to be used
for the maintaining and equipping
of the school.
In the matter of the proposed
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irline Purser Admits
$24,235 Diamond Theft
MIAMI, Fla., March 14. —(U.R)— |
An airline purser today confessed
to customs authorities the theft of
$24,235 worth of diamonds while his
plane rode thousands of feet above
the Caribbean.
The purser, John E. Maddux, Jr..
25, of Philadelphia, had pleaded
guilty to smuggling and was will
ing to take a four-year prison term,
before authorities learned that the
gems he brought into this country
had been stolen from an air ex
press shipment.
The larceny charge, they said,
would make him liable to heavier
punishment.
According to James R. Offutt.
assistant supervising customs agent
here, 'Maddux took the diamonds i
from their package and stuffed ■
them into a seltzer powder bot
tle. When the plane switched crews
at Belem, Brazil, he gave the new
purser a package of tissue paper
and the theft was discovered when
it was delivered to the consignee
in Rio De Janeiro.
Maddux sold one of the 43 dia
monds in Argentine, hid eight
others, misplaced two and return
ed to Miami with the others, ac
cording to Offutt. Customs agents
began checking when he ali erupted
to sell them to a Miami dealer, and
Ion Tuesday accused the purser of
' smuggling.
McNutt Winds
Up Duties At
Manila Post
Agreement Calls For Se
curity Council Us*» In
Security Interests
NAVY GETS LOCATIONS
Roxas Government Retains
Certain Rights Of Juris
dictional Nature
MANILA, March 14. —(TP)— in
he festive atmosphere of a fare
well ball for Ambassador Paul V.
McNutt, the United States and th*
Philippines tonight made a 99-year
agreement for American military
and naval bases in these islands.
McNutt signed for the United
States and President Manuel A.
Roxas for the Philippines in the
council- of-state hall in Malacanan
palace. Concluding months of ne
gotiations, McNutt is due to leave
by air Saturday morning, via India
and Paris, for Washington, where
he will resign the ambassadorship.
A provision in the agreement
states that in the interests of inter
national security any of the base*
may be made available to the
Security council of the United
Nations.
The Philippine government issued
a statement saying the Americans
had met "in every respect, the re
quest of the Philippine government
that no permanent bases, and
especially no operating bases, be
established in centers of popula
tion. There will be no bases in the
city of Manila or its immediate
environs.”
McNutt read a statement from
Acting Secretary of State Dean
Acheson that "the United States
proposes to retain in the Philip
pines only such armed forces as
required to man bases and to con
stitute a small military mission.
Troops now in the Philippines not
required for these purposes will be
shifted to other areas to continue
support of the occupation of Ja
pan.”
The Philippines retain the right
to exercise jurisdiction over all
offenses committed outside base*
unless in the performance of specif
ic military duty or in cases involv
ing only Americans.
The government announced that
the principal American military
establishment would be at Fort
Stotsenberg Military reservation in
Pampanga province, Central Lu
zon. with Clark Field practically
contiguous.
The Navy gets four operating
areas, centered at Guiuan In Oie
Leyte-Samar area; Subic Bey;
Tawitawi; and Sangley Point. Ca
vite.
Ten other areas of Knoited ai«e,
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DRY DOCK ASSURED
FOR LAY-UP BASIN
18,000-Ton Floating Facil
ity To Be Available
For Use Here
Wilmington Star
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, March 14 — An
18,000 ton floating steel drydook
for the Wilmington Reserve fleet
ship storage basin was virtually
assured the United States Mari
time commission last night.
The drydock, now the property
of the navy, will employ about
SO men, who will come from the
Wilmington area. The drydock is
expected to be delivered in Wil
mington in about six months, it
was said.
Meantime, it was reported that
300 vessels would be stored at the
Wilmingto basin by midsummer.
At the present time about 50 ships
are docked there.
The personnel for the drv dock,
it was said, would engage only
in maintenance of the ships. This
was understood to mean that there
would be no interference by this
additional crew of men in the
work of the regular repair yards.
It was stressed that the drydock.
would in no way affect the future
development of the North Caro
lina shipyard. It will be used ex
clusively for the reserve fleet, H
was added.
And So To Bed
“VVe trim you every chance
we get,’’ says one upstate busi
ness firm, stating its position
very frankly indeed.
That particular firm has a
just right to its chosen form
of candor, for it is a barber
shojr.
In the same category is a
Wilmington firm, also a bar
ber shop.
Situated on Princess street,
it employs an entrance-way in
scription which reads:
“We need your hen4 in our
I business.”
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