FORECAST: + \ + 4 + /"V urnmninn nntttut £?>itur ^;z_ t ~~_^_^ VOLJO. - NO. 209.___WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1947 ESTABLISHED 1867 Bevin Holds Cabinet Post Attlee Administration Shakeup Retires Lord Pethic - Lawrence LONDON, Friday, April 18—(U.R) —prime Minister Clement R. Att lee, in a cabinet shake-up. retired Lord Pethick-Lawrence as secre tary for India today and took Lord Inman, financier and chair man of the British Broadcasting corporation into his inner cabinet. As part of the shake-up the for eign office instead of the war of fice was given jurisdiction over the British occupation zones in Ger many anJ Austria. The long-expected cabinet shift was an anti-climax in that aside irom the voluntary retirement of 75-year-old Lord Pethick-Lawrence arid the entrance of Lord Inman direct to the inner cabinet from private life, only minor changes were involved. There had long been rumor* that Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin woulud be replaced in the shake-i^) and woulud become a auperplanner for economic recon struction. The new secretary for India is Lord Listoval, who will have the unpleasant job of administering the turnover of power in India by the deadline of June, 1948, set by the 'abor government, and of ar ranging independence for India. Listowel, 40, was a labor member of commons before he succeeded to the peerage and undersecretary for India for a while in the war time coalition cabinet. New Ministers New ministers are: India—The Earl of Listowel. Postmaster General — Wilfred Paling. Pensions—John Burns Hynd. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan caster—Lord Pakenham. Lord Privy Seal—Lord Inman. Minister without portfolio—Ar thur Greenwood. Paling succeeds Listowel as post master general. Hynd succeeds Paling. Pakenham succeeds Hynd as chancellor of the Duchy. Lord Inman succeeds Greenwood as Lord Privy seal. Lord Pakenham has been serv ing as undersecretary for war. He will not be replaced. His duties will be taken over by John Dreeman. financial secretary to the war of fice. The inner cabinet now numbers (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) 22 BUSINESSMEN TO AID T DRIVE Hayden Names Personnel For Army-Type Mem bership Campaign Wilmington’s Young Mens Christian Association’s Annual membership and renewal drive has selected 22 prominent Wil mington citizens to act as cap tains in the fortified drive, it was announced yesterday by Herman Hayden, chairman of the cam paign. The drive will try to obtain 300 memberships, and renewals from Wilmington citizens from April 2i-25. The campaign is designed as an army unit. It has Colonels. Majors, Captains, Lieutenants and privates. The captains in the different regiments will select four lieu tenants from the prospective lieu tr.ants list and try to attain more memberships ad renewals as pos« sible for the local YMCA. Heading the drive are; Her man Hayden, chairman of the campaign; J. R. Benson, and C F. Hent, majors of the first and second divisions respectively; Jack LeGrand, first regiment; Rev. J. B. McQuere, second reg iment; L. E. Woodbury, third regiment; and A. S. Trundle, fourth regiment. Majors of the campaign are M E. Bullard, D. H. Howe, E. A. Laney, W. A. Fonvielle, Spurgeon Baxley, and H. M. Roland. Col onels are E. L. White, W. E. Ed wards, W. J, Stephenson, and £. Morse. Captains are: Claude O’Shields, William Hansley, C. S. Morse. W. C. Stanley, Jesse Reynolds, Dan Cameron, Bunny Hines, Louis Shrier, Gene Farris, H. R. Emory, Cicero Yow, A. S. Trundle, Hy (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) The Weather FORECAST: North Carolina—Fair to partly cloudy *nd mild Friday, becoming warmer in west portion Friday afternoon; fair and warmer Friday night, Saturday partly eloudy and warmer. | South Carolina—Fair and mild Friday,' becoming warmer in northwest portion Friday afternoon; fair and warmer Fri day, Saturday partly cloudy and warm er. (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 houjj? ending 7:30 p. m. yesterda}' TEMPERATURES 1:30 a m. 67; 7:30 a- m. 63; 1:30 pr m. 70; 7:30 p. m. 67; Maximum 79; Mini mum 60; Mean 69; Normrl 62. HUMIDITY 1:30 a. m. 80; 7:30 a. m. 94; 1:30 p. m. 40, 7:30 p. m. 71. PRECIPITATION Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p- m. 0 00 inches. .. Total since the first of the month 3-61 inches. TIDES FOR TODAY' (From the Tide Tables published by U. S Coast and Geodetic Survey). High Low Wilmington _ 7:37,a.m. 2:27 a m. 8:03 p.m. 2:47 p m. Mosoboro _ 5:26 a.m. 11:47 a m. 5:45 p.m. - Pf Sunrise 5:37. Sunset 6:45; Moonnse 4:30a; Moonset 4:18p. River*stage at Fayetteville. N. C. at 8 s. m. Thursday no report feet. More Weather On Pag* Tw Strikers Will Take $6.00 Wage Payment Union Leader Puts Out First Settlement Feeler To Bell System; Heirne Sees Lit tle Hope Of Immediate Peace WASHINGTON, April 17 —(U.R)— The first definite peace feeler put out by the striking telephone work ers came today from a top union officer who offered to call off the 11-day strike if the Bell Telephone companies would grant an im mediate wage increase of $6 a week. That proposal was put forward at a mass meeting of strikers in Atlanta, Ga., by Henry Mayer, counsel for the National Federa tion of Telephone workers and head of 18 of the 40-odd unions affiliated or cooperating with the NFTW in the strike. The strikers, estimated v ly at 325,000 to 350,000, demanded a $12 week’ ^ other contract ben, Moyers said they v to work for a $6 “dovv and leave the final wage ^ and the other union de, be decided by arbitration. Mayers said they would go back would a>cce)—Anticipat ing Henry Wallace’s forthcoming visit to France, the newspaper Le Monde which frequently reflects French official opinion, today cau tioned Frenchmen against attach ing too much weight to his words. The newspaper in a column-long editoriol declared the Former Vice President represents only a seg ment of the Democratic party's left wing. “The quarrel which divides the world,” said the paper, "is not so much if one wishes or does not wish good relations with Russia— who would not want such rela tions?—as by what means to ob tain them. “Those of Mr. Truman may be bad but at least they have the merit of being definite. If Mr. Wallace has better ones to pro pose we would like to know them other than through speeches as vague as they are eloquent. Good intentions are never enougn in politics.” Visiting Ladies Will Also Be Entertained During Two-Day Meeting Wilmington’s welcome mat will be out today when the Atlantic Coast plays host to treasury offi cials of the Association of Ameri can Railroads and member lines throughout the United States. The visiting officials are expect ed to arrive here this morning for the two-day meeting which will extend through Saturday. Some of the members, here to attend the regular business ses sion of the advisory committee, treasury division, of the railroad organization, will be accompanied by their wives. With P. Nichols, treasurer of the ACL, as official host, the dele gates will be quartered at the Cape Fear hotel and all business meetings during t h e session are scheduled for the Cape Fear club. As it is the first visit to south eastern North Carolina for most of the delegates, a special itiner ary has been planned to acquaint them with the attractions of this section. To Tour Gardens The ladies will be luncheon guests of Mrs. P. Nichols at her residence a t 102 North Fifteenth street. During the afternoon, through the courtesy of Mrs. John R. Pope, the entire delegation will visit Airlie gardens. Also included during their tour of the area are Wrightsville beach and Greenfield park. The complete schedule for to day’s meeting includes: 10 a. m.—Committee convenes at Cape Fear club. 12:30 p.m.—Luncheon for ladies, guests of Mrs. Nichols. 1 p.m.—Committee adjourns. 1:30 p.m.—Stag luncheon, Cape Fear club. 3:15 p.m.—Leave Cape Fear ho tel by automobile for tour of Greenfield park, Airlie gardens, and Wrightsville beach. 7 p.m. — Refreshments, Cape Fear club. 7:30 p.m. — Informal dinner. Cape Fear club. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 21 CRIME DECREASES IN WILMINGTON FBI Reports Shows Im provements Of 203 Of fenses For 1946 Wilmington police, who record ed a total of 1861 offenses in 1945, were called upon to handle only 1, 65? crimes in 1946, an improve ment of 203 for the year, according to a Federal Bureau of Investiga tion report. The FBI in its uniform crime reports compared this with the na tional crime rate increase of 7.6 per cent during 1946 over the pre vious year. Assaults led in the number of crimes reported in Wilmington with 642. The other totals were burglary, 306, auto theft, 111, lar ceny, 553, robbery, 40 and murder, 6. In the report FBI Chief J. Ed gar Hoover noted that lawlessness in 1946 reached a 10-year national peak. He said the indications were that juvenile delinquents of the war years were graduating into the field of more serious crime. Court Ruling Scores One Against Winchell ALBANY, N. Y., April 17. —(A*) — The New York Court of appeals held unanimously today that de famatory remarks read over the radio constituted libel, rather than slander, and that a former olum bia university professor had a cause of action against Walter Winchell, radio reporter and col umnist. . . , The state’s highest court reject ed Winchell’s appeal from lower court decisions which denied his motion ror dismissal of an action brought by George W. _Hartmann. Hnrtmann, described in the court record as a professor of education al psychology, had charged Winch ell libeled him in commenting on a “peace now” movement. He had sought $50,000 in damaegs. Associate Judge Thomas D. Thacher, in the prevailing opinion, referred to a previous court opinion which said “what gives stmg to the writing is its permanence m form.” “This is true,” Thacher observed, “whether or not the writing is seen.” Fuld Opinion Associate Judge Stanley H. Fuld, concurring, wrote in a separate opinion: “The primary reason assigned by the courts from time to time to justify the imposition of broader liability for libel than for slander has been the greater capacity for harm that a writing is assumed to have because of its wider range of dissemination consequent upon its permanence in form. “When account is taken of the vast and far-flung audience reach ed by radio today — often far greater than in number than the readers of the largest metropolitan newspaper — it is evident that the broadcast of scandalous utterances is in general as potentially harm ful to the defamed person’s reputa tion as a publication by writing.” EVA CUA TION OF LOWER TEXAS CITY AREA ORDERD 45 NEW FIRES FLARE; *61OUSE PASSES DRASTIC LABOR BILL es Curb Main Feature Final Vot7oF308 To 107 Indicates GOP Strength To Overide Veto WASHINGTON, April 17. — WP)— A bill to curb strikes, restrict un ion activities and make some sweeping changes in new deal la bor law was passed overwhelming ly today by the Republican-control led house. But even as it went to the Senate, the Labor committee there com pleted a milder measure of its own. Stripped of some of the ma jor House provisions, and sent it to the floor for debate to start next Wednesday. The house vote on final passage was 308 to 107. This would be mar gin enough to override any veto by President Truman, if the lineup on such a test should remain the same. While the Senate Labor commit tee’s vote was 11 to 2 for its legis lation, Senator Taft (R.-Ohio), com mittee chairman, aonounced he will lead a fight on the floor to restore some of the stricken provisions through amendments. Taft meanwhile voted for the bill to get it out to the floor, along with Senators Aiken (R.-Vt.l, Ball (R.-Minn.), Smith (R.-N.J.), Morse (R.-Ore.), Donnell (R.-Mo.), Jen ner (R.-Ind.), Ives (R.-N.Y.), Li bert Thomas (D.-Utah), Ellendei (D.-La.) and Hill (D.-Ala.). That list includes Senators of both views — some favoring a stronger bill, others favoring an even mild er one. Voting against the bill in the Senate committee were Senators Murray (D.-Mont.) and Pepper (D.-Fla.), both opposing any re strictive labor proposals. The major difference between the two measures is that the House bill curbs industry-wide bargain ing, and outlaws jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts. The Senate labor committee’s bill does not. Both measures would authorize (Continued On Page Two; Col. 5) LIONS HEAR PLEA FOR CANCER FUND State Senator John D. Lar kin Addresses Club; Member Presented State Sen. John D. Larkin, in a speech before the Lions club yes terday afternoon, stressed the ne cessity for business and ciyic groups to get behind the current .pational cancer drive. “Backing this drive 100 per cent is the duty of every citizen in the Lions club and other civic clubs,” he said, "because it is the duty of every citizen who has proven him self capable of taking civic re sponsibility.” Coming down to straight figures to prove the need for universal bucking of tl - drive, Senator Lr'~ kin pointed out that there are only 400 approved cancer hospitals in theUnited States to handle the more than 700,000 cases of the di sease. The senator said that 80 per cent of the cancer cases in this coun try today can be cured if the pub lic is educated about the causes and effects of cancer. Bringing to tfye attention of his Lions club audience that 60 per cent of the funds raised in North Carolina will stay in the state. Sen ator Larkin said that around three quarters of the money taken in by (Continued on, Page Two; Col. 1) CHEMICAL PLANT in ruins after Texas disaster b last.—This spectacular air photo shows the ruins of the $9,500,000 plant of the Monsanto Chemical C ompany, which was destroyed in the explosion and fire that virtually razzed Texas City, Tex., and b rought a death toll estimated at more than 1000 persons. A chain of explosions began on the French ship, Grand Camp, which was being loaded with nitrates., Several thousand residents of Texas City had gathered at the waterfront to watch a fire on the vessel when the explosion occurred. 11 spread to the huge chemical plant and most of Texas City was soon in flames.—(International Soundphoto)._ Lewis Accuses Krug Of Lying To Dodge Death Responsibility LEGION ENDORSES PARKER FOR POST Local Organization Still Leads State In Total Of Members The Wilmington American Legion Post No. 10 went on record last night during its regular meeting to unanimously endorse Com mander Louis Parker cf Post No. 135, Elizabethtown, for the office of Seventh district commander. The visiting Legion official ad dressed the local post during the meeting held in the Legion home. William K. Rhodes, Jr., chairman of the ways and means commit tee, reported on the thrill show and rides, held recently at Legion stadium under the auspices of the local organization. Also revealed by Rhodes was that Peter Grant Hell Drivers show is scheduled at the stadium the week starting May 18 for the benefit of the drum and bugle corps and the Forty and Eight society. The outstanding boy and girl oi New Hanover High school already have been selected by a vote of the faculty and members of the senior class, according to Jaimes E. Holton, chairman of the post’s school award committee. The win ners will be announced at an early date by T. T. Hamilton, Jr., principal. During the coming month medals will be presented to the two win ners at appropriate ceremonies. A national organization, known as the National Hoot Owl club, has been formed, according to Com mander W. K. Stewart, Jr., and membership in the group may be won by securing five new mem bers or renewals for the Legion during the period March 17 through May \ An honorary card signed by the national commander of the (Continued On Page Two; Col. 81 Along The Cape Fear HELP ARRIVES — Whether it is a humanitarian motive to halt the untimely death of Southerners due to eating only fried fish or whether it was just innate kind ness on the part of Charlie Roberts of Wrightsville Beach, we cannot say. But be that as it may, Roberts wins the honor of sending us the first recipe by which fish may be prepared without frying. And you can take his word for it that the process, slightly in volved for one not familar with t h e finer points of the culinary arts, that it is sure to please the most discerning palate. * * * HERE WE START — First, and perhaps most important, you have to have a fish to subject to the followi n g treatment. Roberts, an early supporter of the trout as the best eating fish in these waters, says a trout, drum, mackrel, or blue fish will do the trick. You place the fish in a dry pan after salting and applying pepper to suit your own taste. Presuming that the fish has been split in halves, you should place a slice of bacon on each half, now in the pan, we hope. And just for added flavor, you should sprinkle a tew pieces of . I sliced lemon on the fish in,, ad dition to the bacon. START BAKING — Now don’t think for one moment that your chores are nearing an end. While the fish is baking for 40 minutes, you must busy yourself in making a very special sauce. And this sauce we have learned is one of the b i g factors in the delicious taste of the end product. The sauce, a Spanish type, is concocted with chopped celery, green peppers, and onion. These ingredients are blanched or browned slightly in a pan by themselves. So far so good, so you add a can of tomatoes to the sauce and you’re already to return to the original job of baking the fish. * * * MORE BAKING — You’ll recall that the fish had a 40 minute head start on the sauce. Well, that’s how it should be according to Mr. Roberts. After the fish has baked for the initial 40 minutes you then cover it with the Spanish sauce and allow the whole fish to bake for another 20 minutes. Then, and then only, are you ready to serve fish in a manner that’s fit for a king. NO RIVAL NOW ENDICOTT, N. Y., April 17. —P}— Evacuation of the lower Texas City area was ordered tonight as fresh*blazes and a shifting wind posed new threats to this gulf port, ravaged by deadly explosions and fires that have killed an ei timated 650 persons and injured at least 3,000 in two days. The wind was swinging to the South, blowing heavy smoke across the city and threatening the spread of flames. The latest outbreak of fire was in the Hum ble refinery area. A Houston Post reporter was refused admittance at 7 p. m. SEE PICTURES ON PAGE FOURTEEN (EST) to the Texas City High school gymnasium where bodies had L-en taken, a deputy sheriff said: “We are expecting another (oil tank) explosion any moment and we want everyone to get as far away as possible.” The Humble Oh and Refining company announced that it has abandoned all hope of saving any portion of its oil storage tank farm, scene of the principal fire raging tonight. John H. Hill, spokesman for Mayor Curtis J. Thahan, made the announcement shortly after an other tank exploded at 6:53 p. m. Hill said that danger of more serious explosions in the area is dependent on the contents of a large spheroid and a small sphe roid on property adjacent to the (Continued On Page Two; Col. 5) SYMPHONYMAKES HIT WITH CROWD Dr. Benjamin S w a 1 i n Conducts Orchestra At Auditorium Next to his musicianship what this reporter admires most about Dr. Benjamin Swalin, conductor of the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra, is his orthodoxy. He is willing to think that the com poser knew what he wanted to *ay and is content to let him say it in his own way. Docor Swalin’s reading of the Brahms’ First Symphony lust night, which highlighted the or chestra’s concert in the New Han over High school auditorium, was a most excellent illustration of this fine attribute. And in addition to a faithful reading, he is further to be com mended for the performance of the orchestra, over which he held (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) N. C. SHIPBUILDING COMPANY REELECTS DIRECTORATE BOARD All directors of the North Caro lina Shipbuilding company were re-elected for the ensuing year at the annual meeting of stockhold ers here yesterday. Renamed were: W. E. Blewett, Jr., P. F. Hal sey, Homer L. Ferguson, Robert I. Fletcher, E. F. Heard, E. J. Robeson, Jr., Roger Williams, J. B. Woodward, Jr., all of Newport News, Va., and J. Laurence Sprunt, Wilmington. Officers of the company will be re-elected by the directors at a later date, it was said. During the war, the concern built 243 ships. It ceased opera tions with completion of its con tracts. The shipyard has been re turned to the Maritime commis - sion and the company is now in process of liquidation. And So To Bed A continuous roar of ringing bells filled the office of the Morning Star last night as base ball fans from Wilmington and vicinity called the office to learn the scores of the Wil mington-Fayetteville baseball game in Fayetteville. As the staff answered the six phones, which were ringing simultaneously, coughing from the floating dust in the remodel ing of the office, and folk call ing to learn the exact time, they would hear the harsh re marks and the sighs coming from the loving fans as they would say, “the score was 3-2, Fayetteville’s favor.” The roving sports writer from The Star, Skinny Warren, called the sports editor to an nounce the score, and he sound ed as if he were near the At lantic Ocean. But no, he was only disheartened over the de feat and said it was too much for his poor heart to Mtk. *■