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WEATHER _ TUC Cl IMRAV -kICMfC III Ebb 4v U B b liJ'fs B,1 ll bb V V %sM 1 - -g^TlHUE IP©1ST (gliw ©If jf>H?®@lsiEg8 AM6> (PILBAgyBglte V OL. 19. NO. 17._ WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 1947 ~ PRICE-TEN CENTS SECTION-A Election Scheduled Tomorrow ]4 Candidates Seeking Posts In City’s Pri mary Election NEWMAN EXCLUDED Foils Scheduled To Be Open From 6:30 a. m. Until 6:30 p. in. •‘All persons previously lawfully registered upon the present gen eral election books for Wilming :on township and who hgve not changed their places of residence are eligible to vote in the primary election tomorrow to make nom inations for City Council,” H. G. Carney, chairman of the city board of election, said last night. Carney pointed out that this meant everyone who was regis tered for the 1946 primary and general elections would be able -.0 vote unless they had change,: their residence without notifying election officials. Registration books used during the city extension election are now obsolete, since now the city uses the city-county books. For the third consecutive elec tion, 14 candidates are listed on the (primary ballot. The polls will open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 6:30 p.m. Monday. Candidates in the race for the five council posts are Richard L. Burnett, Garland S. Currin, John W. Davis, Negro, Warren G. Hol lernan, John D. Howell, W. Ron ald Lane, Robert S. LeGwin, W. J. Parker, B. B. Phillips, Jr., Dav id F. Sandlin, Sr., J. E. L. Wade, John W. Wenberg, E. L. White and W. E. Yopp. Harriss Newman is the only in cumbent councilman not in the race for reelection, which leaves «ix councilmen vying for the five vacancies along with eight other candidates. The wards, precincts and poll ing places are the same as those designated and used by the New Hanover County Board of Elec tions. Polling places are a« follows: First ward, fire station, Fourth and Campbell streets; Second ward, first precinct; Henaenway school, 210 Fifth avenue; Sec ond ward, second precinct, county courthouse, Third and Princess streets; Third ward, first precinct, O’Crowley’s Cleaners, Eighth and Princess streets; Third ward, sec ond precinct, Isaac Bear school, 1210 Market street. Fourth ward, Tileston school, {Continued On Page 8; Column 4) CAROLINA BOND ISSUE IS CUED improvement As Sessments Will Not Affect Taxes At Resort CAKOLINA BEACH, April. 1,9— A $182,500 composite bond issue will not materially affect the re sor; resident’s taxes, officials said yesterday, 17 days before an, election on its four separate phases. All entire costs of an announced sidewalk construction proj ect is to be assesed against abutting property owners and an estimated 80 per cent of the costs of the streets. The assesments can be paid by residents within five years, Mrs. Alice Strickland, town clerk said. The four separate issues to be coted on the issue are: street and sidewalk — $126,500; sid/ewalkfc where streets are already paved $12,000; enlarging and extending the water supply system, $30,000; and completion of sewer service, $14,000. Only streets are already at least 50 per cent developed are to be included in the program. Mrs. St'irkland said. Trie water system project is aimed at an easly relief to the resort’s now hondieapped water supply, especially on the west side of Highway 421, Mrs. Strickland said. Existing facilities afiord two inch mains, and the new program »irns at increasing them to six inches. The program is aimed at mak ing sewer service availablte to (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) The Weather i-u: North Carolina — Considerable 'dmess and continued warm, showers ‘Ofiight, beginning in west this after noon. - teorological data for the 24 hours •Ming 7:3o p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURES „ I;20 a m. 55; 7:30 a.m. 57; 1:30 p.m. 75; " *0 p.m. 66. "Maximum 75; Minimum 52; Mean 63; Normal 63. HUMIDITY . 1;20 a m. 85; 7:30 a.m. 86; 1:30 p.m. 34; ‘ :30 p.m. 66 PRECIPITATION Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. — • 00 inches. Total since the first of the month— 5 61 inches. TIDES FOR TODAY • From the Tide Tables published by S. Coast and Geodetic Survey!. High Low v- .immgton _ 9:00 a.m. 4:02 a.m. 9:35 p.m. 4:09 p.m Masc-boro Inlet __ 6:54 a.m. 12:57 a.m. 7:14 p.m. 1:10 p.m. Junrise 5:35; Sunset 6:47; Moonrise 5 a.m.; Moonset 6:26 p.m. Hiver stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8 ^ ••today, 19.2 feet. RELIEF SOUGHT FOR TEXAS CITY Donations for relief at the Texas City disaster are now being accepted by the Wil mington Red Cross chapter, Thomas R. Orrell, chairman, announced last night. Althongh this is not a na tion-wide appeal, local chap ters are accepting money for aid to the area. The national headquarters of American Red Cross has appropriated $250,000 from its disaster re lief fund. Donations will be accepted at the chapter building, 411 S. Front street, Orrell said. Checks should be made out payable to the American Red Cross and marked for dis aster. CITY ISPRAf D BY RAILROA WEN Treasury Group Of Rail road Association Ends Convention Delegates to the Association of American Railroads, Treasury divi sion, which yesterday concluded a two-day convention in Wilming ton, were unanimous in their praise of the Port City. Harry Hurst, chairman of the meeting, and a Philadelphia rail road man, said “The Advisory committee to the Treasury divi sion, American Association of Rail roads, and its guests, have found Wilmington a most attractive city wherein to conduct meetings. The business sessions in the Cape Fear club were conducted in very comfortable quarters, he continu ed, and the committee is grate ful to the club for its courtesy in providing such excellent facilities. In speaking of the host rail road, Atlantic Coast Line, the chairman said “The Committee is deejply appreciative of the many favors extended to it by the per sonnel and management of the ACL and to Pomeroy Nichols, host treasurer.” The civic organizations and re presentatives of business groups were highly respectful of the com mittee’s needs, he continued. After seeing the City of Wilming ton and its beautiful environs, and being greeted in such delightful surroundings by its charming ladies and gentlemen, there was genuine regret felt by the com mittee and guests that the stay in Wilmington was so short he concluded. Vandenberg Splits On Soviet Contracts WASHINGTON, April 19 —— Senator Vandenberg (R., Mich.) split with the state department to day on its proposal to go through with contracts to ship $17,000,000 in war-ordered goods to Russia. Vandenberg suggested waiting un til the Soviets settle their $11,000, 000,000 lend-lease contract “satis factorily.” Vandenberg, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations commit tee and a chief senate exponent of the bipartisan foreign policy, told a reporter: “I would make no further ship ments- -under this supplemental lend-lease agreement unless and .until .the Soviet. Union satisfactorily cures its long default in negotiat ing a general lend-lease settle ment.” Jews Planning New Offensive JERUSALEM, April 19— (TP) — Jewish quarters said today the un derground resistance movement was planning a spring offensive designed to “flood the Cyprus de tention camps” with irregular im migrants and embarrass the Brit ish while the Palestine case is be ing heard before the United Na tions assembly. PRF°IDENT DECLARES SHARP PRICE HIKE M?S 4INFLATED THE ENTIRE ECONOMY•’ HOEY PREDICTS TRUMAN VICTORY IN ’48 - JL _ Party Work Is Praised Many Notables Turn Out For N. C. Jefferson Day Dinner RALEIGH, April 19—(/P)—At a Jefferson Day dinner here tonight, North Carolina democratic leaders applauded a prediction by U. S. Senator Clyde R. Hoey that Presi dent Harry S. Truman will be re elected in 1948. Hoey’s prophesy was echoed by Josephus Daniels, World War I sec retary of the Navy and former ambassador to Mexico, who said that the republican defeat in the recent Chicago election was a “pre cursor of the fate in store for them in 1948.” Many of the state’s delegation in congress and other democratic par ty notables gathered here for the banquet honoring Jefferson. The “patron saint of the Democratic party.” The dinner managed by Wilkins P. Horton of Pittsboro, Democratic National committeeman, was plan ned to raise funds for the party’s campaign drives against the Re publicans next year. The goal was $20,000 with approximately 500 diners paying an average of $40 each for the banquet of turkey and trimmings. Horton’s office an nounced that the goal had been reached and exceeded by a small margin. Senator Hoey said: “If faced with greater domestic and international problems than any previous vice president in all of our national history, Harry Truman is measur ing up to the full stature of great ness and I predict that the people of America will give him an over whelming vote- of confidence when they reelect him president in 1948.” “Some people who did not know him well questioned whether he was a big enough man for Presi dent. No one now questions his ability, his courage of his fitness. He is the only man living or dead who has ever brought John L. Lewis to his knees and success fully asserted and maintained the sovorignty of the United States government and Its supremacy (Continued on Page Four; Col. 5) AUSTRIAN PACT SEEMS DOOMED Soviets Back Yugoslav Claims On Southern Carinthian Area MOSCOW, April 19—(A»)—Soviet support of Yugoslav claims to Southern Carinthia threw the for eign ministers into a final dead lock tonight and apparently bur ied any chance of writing an Aus trai- peace treaty at the Moscow conference. On the intiative of U. S. secre tary of state Marshall and British Foreign Secretary Bevin the min isters scheduled two Sunday ses sions in a drive to speed the con ference to a conclusion. The council ended its sixth week without a single major agreement on disputed issues in the writing of the Austrian and German peace pacts. It has been the longest (Continued On Page 4; Column 4) Split In Jaycee Support May Mean Local Victory Members of the Wilmington Junior Chamber of Com merce are hoping for a split in the vote from western North Carolina so that their candidate, Hal Love, will be elected state president at the Atlantic Beach convention next week, Jesse Sellers, local Jaycee head, said yesterday. PHONE WORKERS ASK ‘PRESSURE’ Union Asks Government To Put ‘Pressure’ On Phone Companies WASHINGTON, April 19.—(i^)— Striking telephone workers, facing a third week of idleness, asked the government today to put pres sure” on the phone companies for a vcage increase. rhe unions pointed to pay boosts recently granted in other industries and demanded that the govern ment seek matching wage increas es in the telephone industry. The strike-bound Bell system, meanwhile, stuck by its offer to arbitrate the unions’ requesied $12 weekly raise and other demands on a regional basis. Government conciliation at tempts, lapsed for three days aft ,r an arbitration proposal by Secretary of Labor Schweller.bach failed, began anew and the con ciliators said: “all avenues thai (Continued On Page 8; Column 5) Approximately 700 delegates are expected from the 60 clubs in the state. The two other candidates who will run for state president ac cording to an Associated Press release, are Bob Williams of Ashe ville and Ed Ellis of Charlotte. This 12th annual convention of North Carolina Jaycees will start Thursday and continue through Saturday, -with elections on Tri day. Wilmington’s official dele gates will be Bob Howard, Ed Godwin, Jr., Claude O’Shields, Ed Ward and Sellers. Also attending from Wilmington will be Hal Love, Bob Boyd, Eld ridge Fergus, Wallace West, L. C. LeGwin, Jr., Jimmy Sloan, Dick Rochelle, Donald Edmxrndson and Coleman Horowitz. Sellers said yesterday that the Wilmington club will submit its record for first class awards in fire prevention, aviation, public health, civic planning, sports and recreation, Americanism, youth welfare, Scouting and safety. Wilmington Jaycees will alpo try for the Giesenbier award for the best club in North Carolina. Winston-Salem, Sellers • said, will be the toughest rival since that city won the Giesenbier award for six years and was named best club in the United States for two years. VISIT GREENFIELD PARK TODAY Amid tri-color azaleas, a path leads along the edge of Green feild Lake. Today, “Dr. W. Houston Moore Day,” hundreds of Wil mingtonians and tourists will visit the beautiful park. (PHOTO Hi HUGH MORTON). LEASE, NOT SALE; SEEN ON SHIPYARD Maritime Commission Re States Position To The Proposed Sale By FRANK VAN DER LINDEN Star-News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON April 19—A lease, and not an outright sale, appear ed today as the only way the North Carolina Slate Ports authority could obtain use of the idle Wil mington, shipyards which the Maritime Commission has deter mined definitely to keep in re serve for possible emergency needs. The commission, which months ago refused the state’s offer to purchase the property for $1,200. 000 has re-stated its opposition to the proposed sale. The statement was made in a letter to President Truman’s as sistant, Dr. John R. Steelman, who has been trying for weeks to help the state and the commission reach an agreement. Steelman’s investigation of the case was or dered by the President at the re quest of the North Carolina Con gressional delegation and Gover nor Cherry. In view of the commission’s re (Continued On Page 4; Column 4) Bridge Tonnage Cut On Cape Fear Span The North Carolina Highway Commission has lowered the ton nage on the bridge over the Cape Fear river between ElizabethtoWn and White Lake to six tons, Capt. J. R. Smith, of the highway patrol, reported last night. He said that the bridge is being watched at each end by patrolmen who will stop and check cars and trucks for weight. The span was recently cracked and has been reported not able to support over six tons for fear it would fall, he said. A detour has been set up for cars and trucks weighing over six tons. ore Bodies round In Razed Texas City By The Associated Press TEXAS CITY, Tex., April 19.—(AP)—Sullen fires casting smoke shadows over tired Texas City still burned today as rescue crews combed beaches and probed haunted ruins of huge plants for more bodies—and found them. -— GREENFIELD PARK TO BE FEATURED Featuring Greenfield Lake and Park The Star and the News will also salute Dr. W. Houston Moore on the Sunday Star-Newsreel over WMFD at 1:30 p. m., today. The regular Sunday broad cast of the Star and News, written and directed by Ben McDonald, Star-News Round The Town reporter, will high light songs and music of the days when Greenfield was first developed. The cast of today’s program will include, Ruth Davis Mc Donald, Frank Emmert and W. O. Page, Jr., soloists with R. Patt Cowan at the organ. airlie extends TOURIST PERIOD Beautiful Wrightsville Sound Gardens Open For Entire Season For the first time Airlie Gardens on Wrightsville sound will be kept open during this year’s entire sea son, it was announced yesterday. The gardens, private property of the heirs of the late Harry Walters have been opened annually here tofore, usually fo ra short period each spring, it was pointed out, and John H. Farrell, Wilmington industrial agent acclaimed the (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) Agreement Is Hinted In U.S. Steel Discord By The Associated Press Reports were circulated yester day (Saturday) that a wage agree ment had been reached between the CIO United Steelworkers and the U. S. Steel corporation. At the same time, the threat of a nationwide strike of Western Union employes was averted, but no break was evident in another communications dispute, the na tionwide telephone walkout. Although reports of the steel wage agreement lacked official confirmation, the business news agency Dow Jones & Co., said the agreement had been reported by “usually authoritative circles.” The reports stemmed from the discussions between Philip Murray, CIO president, and John A. Steph ens, vice president of the Steel Corporation. The talks were begun Friday, and, catching the union by sur prise, caused a one-day postpone ment of a union board meeting, now reset for 10:30 a. m. Sunday. Dow Jones said the settlement generally fits the pattern of the increases granted CIO United Electrical workers by General Motors Corp. and Westinghouse Electric • Corp.,. on the equivalent of 15 cents an hour. Neither the union nor the cor poration would comment on the re ported settlement. Meanwhile, Western Union of ficials announced they had reach ed an agreement with the AFL commercial telegraphers union, granting employes a five-cent hourly wage boost and other bene fits. The wags question will be subject to renegotiation in six months. Scores were round at tne Mon santo Chemical Corp. plant, searched for the second day as it smoldered. Eight, more, were . recovered from the water where the Grand Camp' exploded- four days ago and set off the chain of blasts that killed an'estimated' 580 and injured 3,000 others. Among the burning oil flrei to day were two benzoil tanks at the Monsanto plant and two crude'oil' storage tanks at the Humble Tank farm. But officials - said-they be lieved danger from explosions was gone. They concentrated on relief wionk( recovei’y of bodies, . and plans’ for burial and later re habilitation. . Eleven miles away, in Gal veston, the coast guard continued its investigation into the cause of the initial explosion that eventual ly resulted in the sinking of the Grand Camp. The Wilson B. Keene and the High Flyer: in the de struction of the multimillion dol lar Monsanto plant; in damage I and destruction to other indus tries and stores and homes. Memorial services for the dead were set for 6 p.m. (CST) tonight. The Texas florists association sent $10,000 worth of flowers, massed choirs were to sing, and ministers from all denominations were to speak. Actual funeral plans have not been completed. The death estimate mounted to day. The Red Cross said 580 were dead. Roy Wade, administrative assistant to Col. Homer Garrison, head of the State Department of (Continued on Page Four; Col. 5) Streamliner Wrecked, Two Crewmen Are Dead CHAMPION, 111., April 19.—(/P)— The Illinois Central’s City of Miami streamliner was wrecked near here today killing two crew members and injuring 24 passen gers and trainmen. The all-steel, seven-car, diesel powered train, bound from Chicago to Miami, Fla., was traveling at a 60 mile an hour speed when it left the rails at a switch three and one half miles norfh of Champaign, where it makes a scheduled stop. The diesel locomtive twisted sideways, tearing up rails and ties in a shower of sparks, and all the cars left the rails. The baggage car flipped over on its side and the five coaches bumped over the ties and rails but remained up right. The road bed was torn up for a quarter of a mile. Killed were Charles Redus, 70. Centralia, 111., the conductor, and C. W. Woods, Champaign, 111., the baggageman. Rescue workers said an examination of the baggage car disproved an earlier report that the body of a third victim was trap ped in the wreckage. GRISSETT TRIAL FEATURES COURT Former Wilmington Police man Faces Four Store breaking Charges New Hanover county Superior court will coneven tomorrow morning, with Judge Clawson L. Williams presiding, and will fea ture the case of Roy Grissett, who is 'charged with four counts of storebreaking, larceny and receiv ing/ Grissett will be defended by El bert A. Brown, Wilmington at torney, and S. Bunn Frink, South port, . who. gained an acquittal for their client on a similiar charge during the last term of criminal court.. Also to be tried during this term is' the 'charge of highway robbery against Mr. and Mrs. llhomas Rich, New York couple, charged with robbing the Standard Phar macy, December 9th, of a quantity of morphine, at gun point. On the docket also are Lavina Nelson and George Porter, Wil mington Negroes, who are accused of starving their illegitimate, seven-weeks old child to death, charged with murder. Booked on a forgery charge is Mrs. Florence Mildred Hanes, 20 year old bride of a Camp Lejeune Marine, charged with forging four checks on a local dentist, totaling $180. U.S. Surplus Is Resounded Surplus Of Receipts Over Expenditures Of $1, 250,00,000 Seen WASHINGTON, April 19. — (IP) — President Truman declared to night that a “sharp increase in prices’’ has “inflated the entire economy’’ and took a new stand against any income tax cuts new. He issued a statement predicting a surplus of government receipts over expenditures of $1,250,000,000 for the present fiscal year which ends June 30. Mr. Truman has an nounced in a Jefferson Day speech April 5 that a surplus was in sight, but did not disclose the amount until tonight. The President attributed the re vision in estimates since his budget message went to Congress n January to administration sconomies as well as to a sharp increase in prices “since the re moval of controls.” He declares that ncr.v, when a blanced budget is being achieved, he wants to emphasize the need for reducing the public debt “while times are good.” “It is natural for taxpayers to wish to see taxes reduced,” the President’s statement continued. “But to do this now would promote inflation, so that the benefits of any reduction would be largely dissipated.” Mr. Truman promised on April 10 that he would soon have the statement he issued tonight. On April 9 John W. Hanes, for mer undersecretary of the Trea sury, said the government would have a $3,000,000,000 or $4,000,000, surplus on the current fiscal year. Hanes, now a New York busi ness man, offered his estimate in saying that debt reduction and tax reduction “both become feasible and practicable.” The next day Mr. Truman told a news conference that whatever Hanes’ source wai, it was not a reliable one. The President’s statement came amid renewed activity over the income tax reduction pending in Congress: 1. Senator Lucus (111), demo cratic whip, put forward a bill to cut income taxes next Jan. 1, instead of this year as the re publicans propose. It would ac complish the reductions by dif ferent means than the 30 and 20 (Continued on Page Four; Col. 2) PRESIDENT’S NEW BUDGET IN BRIEF WASHINGTON, April 19.— —Here ig how President Tru man’s revised estimates to night on the government’s fi nancial position for this fiscal year ending June 80 compars with his previous estimates. Message to Congress !■ January, 1946: Receipts—$31,500,000,000. Expenditures—$35,800,000,000. Deficit—$4,800,000,000. Message to Congress h» January, 1947: Receipts—$40,200,000,000. Expenditures—$42,500,000,000. Deficit—$2,300,000,000. Statement tonight: / Receipts—$42,500,000,000. Expenditures—$41,250,000,000. Surplus—$1,250,000,000._ Police-Sponsored Show Loses ‘Gambling’ Stands - *>.---» By BOB KLINE Star-News Staff Writer When is a policeman’s face red? When he has to close the gam bling devices at a police-sponsored carnival. That's what happened when the newly appointed Police Chief Hu bert Hayes and Sheriff Porter Davis flashed their badges at the Endy Brothers Show at 17th and Dawson streets last night. “I’ll give you one minute to close,” Davis told 20 alleged gam bling operators, and as quick as the flash of a policeman’s badge, all 20 folded up their tents and stole away like the Arabs. Davis said he hesitated to act in face of the situation, the police were sponsoring the show, “but last night, he said, “we stepped in.” Complaints streaming in from indignant citizens, who indicated they had been fleeced at the bet ting tables of the show, forcing Chief Hayes and Sheriff Davis, in office less than a month, to make the difficult decision. Thus, one of the first official acts of the leaders of Wilmington law enforcement bodies, put suspected violators of the lav out of 'business in New Hanover coun ty. Part of the proceeds from the show were earmarked for the police recreation fund. Visitor’s at the show reported the gambling devices ranged all i (Continued or. Page Four; Col. *) ASNE EMPHASIZES FREE PRESS NEED Editors Say Attainment Of Free Press Would Pro mote Peace WASHINGTON, April 19.—(Pi— The American Society of News paper Editors today avowed its intent to pursue “with full vigor” the goal of a free flow of Informa tion among nations. If the United Nations fails to produce guarantees of a world wide free press “in reasonable time,” said a resolution adopted unanimously, the society urges that the government “make a be ginning through the negotiation of a bi-lateral (two-way) treaties with individual nations.” The editors, holding their 25th anniversary convention, declared that attainment of a “free flow of information and opinion among nations” would promote peace. Another resolution, adopted 87 to 53 after long debate, took note of the recent report of the commis sion on freedom of the press is sued, through the University of Chicago, without referring speci fically to that document. The re port suggested that reforms are (Continued On Page 8; Column 4)
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